SKIN DETAILS
Alias: Kevin Moskowitz / The Deep
Real Name: Kevin Kohler.
Type: Human
Classification: Genetically Evolved
Abilities:
• Aquatic Telepathy
• Amphibious Physiology
• Superhuman Strength & Durability
• Enhanced Swimming Speed
• Superhuman Senses
Ben stared at the panel for a moment as he drove away from the Utonium household.
Meanwhile, his symbiote continued puppeteering the Professor from inside the lab.
"…Now feels like the perfect time to test my luck."
"System—I want to spin for accessories."
Ding!
The slot machine materialized from its camouflaged state, becoming more solid as glowing images from The Boys spread across its surface.
Scenes of The Deep, Homelander, and Billy Butcher flickered rapidly across the spinning panels.
Ben grabbed the handle—
And pulled.
[-1 Accessory Token]
[Remaining Accessory Tokens: 16 ↓]
SPIN.
SPIN.
SPIN.
The wheel slowed—
Then stopped.
[Accessory Acquired]
Name: Billy Butcher's Crowbar
Origin: The Boys
Rarity: Common
[-1 Accessory Token]
[Remaining Accessory Tokens: 15 ↓]
"I'm off to a bad start…"
"But there's still more I can spin."
The wheel spun again—
[Accessory Acquired]
Name: Hughie's Tech Store Name Tag
Origin: The Boys
Rarity: Common
The items flickered into existence within his character's empty equipment slots.
Ben let out a low whistle.
"…Yeah, I definitely jinxed myself."
SYSTEM NOTIFICATION
[Congratulations!]
You have successfully obtained two assets from the same Multiversal Theme.
Condition Met:
✔ Equipped Accessory Slot
✔ Acquired Skin from Matching Universe
Bonus Unlocked
[The Boys World Key] (Fragment: 1/4)
Next Fragment Requirements:
• 5 Accessories
• 7 Accessories
• 9 Accessories
Ben paused.
"…Is this a consolation prize?"
"If I don't get what I want, the system's basically telling me to go to that world and find it myself, huh?"
He stared at the notification for a moment before continuing.
At the very least, there was still a chance he could pull Compound V directly.
[Remaining Accessory Tokens: 14 ↓]
[Accessory Acquired]
Name: Homelander Flag Cape
Origin: The Boys
Rarity: Rare
Spin.
Spin.
Spin.
[(A-Train's Racing Goggles)] (Accessory Acquired)
[(Black Noir's Mask)] (Accessory Acquired)
[(Soldier Boy's Shield)] (Accessory Acquired)
[(Starlight's Earrings)] (Accessory Acquired)
[Remaining Accessory Tokens: 10 ↓]
[The Boys World Key] (Fragment: 2/4)
[(Queen Maeve's Bracers)] (Accessory Acquired)
[(Billy Butcher's Trench Coat)] (Accessory Acquired)
[Remaining Accessory Tokens: 8 ↓]
[The Boys World Key] (Fragment: 3/4)
[(The Deep's Gloves)] (Accessory Acquired)
[Remaining Accessory Tokens: 7 ↓]
[The Boys World Key] (Fragment: 4/4) [Complete]
[The Boys World Access Available]
You may now use this fully completed Key to instantly enter the narrative world through the Sparking Zero menu.
Ben leaned back slightly.
"…How poetic."
"I almost got what I wanted on the exact same spin that completed the key."
[(Temp V)] (Accessory Acquired)
"It's not the V I wanted…"
"Though… Temp V is still V."
"Even if it gives people super-cancer, it's still a perfect baseline for understanding how artificial superpowers are manufactured."
Ben tapped the item panel.
A tiny vial of glowing green liquid materialized before him.
Temp V.
An unstable experimental compound capable of granting temporary superpowers for twenty-four hours.
+7 Accessory Tokens
+6 Skin Tokens (+3 Powerpuff Girls Tokens)
+1 Special Summon
+1 Daily Spin
Ben glanced at his remaining spins, wondering if he should continue.
Then shook his head.
"No."
"I already got the key."
"Once I'm strong enough—or desperate enough—I can just go to The Boys universe and take Compound V directly from Vought."
Better to save the rest.
Especially if he rolled another valuable skin later.
He looked out toward the street as the hospital finally came into view.
The car slowly descended into the central parking structure before coming to a stop.
Carl's body was already waiting nearby, making sure Sandra had been transferred safely without complications.
As for the Temp V—
Ben had already discovered something game-changing.
By opening the Anti-Venom skin menu, he realized that items placed inside a skin's equipment slot could be remotely accessed by connected hive bodies.
Which meant—
His clone inside Professor Utonium could use system inventory functions independently.
The perspective shifted back to the Professor's laboratory.
Professor Utonium—now controlled by Ben through the symbiote hive mind—stood beneath the lab lights in freshly changed clothes.
The bloodstained outfit from earlier had already been disposed of.
Every visible trace of the murder had been meticulously cleaned.
Even the floor had been sterilized twice.
The Professor calmly adjusted his tie before opening the system inventory.
A glowing vial materialized in his hand.
Temp V.
His glasses reflected the eerie green liquid as scientific curiosity surfaced through both Ben's personality and the Professor's inherited instincts.
"…Fascinating."
The Professor moved toward the laboratory table.
He carefully opened the vial before extracting a single microscopic drop with a testing pipette.
The liquid hissed faintly as it touched the glass sample tray.
Immediately, he began running scans.
Chemical composition.
Energy reactions.
Protein instability.
Artificial mutagenic pathways.
The Professor's fingers moved rapidly across the keyboard while machines hummed around him.
Graphs appeared across multiple monitors.
Cellular degeneration.
Neurological stimulation.
Foreign gene activation.
"Temporary cellular evolution…" he muttered softly.
"But horribly unstable."
The Anti-Venom hive mind processed the information at terrifying speed.
Professor Utonium's scientific genius.
Frank's Ghost Tech knowledge.
Ben's growing understanding of systems and mutations.
All of it began overlapping into new theories.
New possibilities.
The Professor slowly stopped the machine before removing his glasses and wiping his forehead with a handkerchief.
To anyone watching, it looked like a normal gesture.
But as the cloth brushed across his skin—
a tiny white tendril slipped from his pores.
A microscopic strand of Anti-Venom attached itself to the surface of the handkerchief before retracting again.
The Professor stepped toward the testing machine.
The device resembled a heavily reinforced microwave chamber surrounded by scanners, injectors, and biohazard sensors designed to analyze unstable substances in sealed conditions.
He opened the chamber carefully.
Inside sat the isolated drop of Temp V suspended within a transparent testing dish.
Without hesitation, he placed the symbiote sample inside.
The tiny strand immediately began moving.
Ben watched closely through the Professor's eyes.
He had already seen what happened when his symbiotes merged with Quirk users.
He had seen them reanimate corpses.
Seen them absorb knowledge.
But this—
This was different.
Temp V wasn't natural.
It was an artificial mutagen designed to forcibly overwrite human biology.
Which meant the interaction itself could reveal something entirely new.
The chamber sealed shut.
Warning lights flickered across the machine.
Then the test began.
Inside the container, the white strand slowly crawled toward the glowing green droplet.
The moment contact was made—
The symbiote convulsed violently.
SKRRRTT!!
The strand instantly expanded.
Not gradually.
Explosively.
White biomass erupted outward like a living tumor as dark green veins spread across its surface.
The machine alarms immediately started screaming.
WARNING: CELLULAR INSTABILITY DETECTED
WARNING: FOREIGN MUTATION CASCADE
WARNING: RAPID ORGANIC EXPANSION
Ben's eyes narrowed.
The symbiote kept growing.
But something was wrong.
Very wrong.
Its movements became erratic.
Violent.
Unstable.
The clean white coloration rapidly darkened into a sickly black-green mass that pulsed like infected flesh.
Then Ben felt it.
A disconnect.
The symbiote strand—
was slipping from his control.
His expression changed instantly.
"…Interesting."
The hive connection distorted violently for a brief second.
The mutated strand no longer behaved like Anti-Venom.
It behaved almost rabid.
The thing slammed itself against the glass walls repeatedly, expanding faster and faster as the Temp V forced accelerated mutations throughout its structure.
The biomass doubled in size again.
Then again.
Its surface bubbled grotesquely before jagged mouths and malformed appendages briefly started emerging from the unstable mass.
But the growth wasn't sustainable.
The cells were burning themselves apart.
The mutation was too unstable.
Too aggressive.
The green-black flesh began rotting almost as quickly as it evolved.
Chunks of the organism melted into sludge while the remaining tissue spasmed uncontrollably.
The machine's scanners struggled to even categorize what they were seeing.
Ben felt the connection weakening further.
Like the strand itself was becoming a separate organism.
An independent lifeform.
One that no longer recognized being a part of him.
SPLAT.
The entire mutated sample collapsed inward.
The biomass rapidly decayed into smoking black-green residue.
Dead.
The laboratory slowly fell silent again.
Only the warning alarms continued flashing red.
Professor Utonium stared quietly at the remains through the reinforced glass.
Then his eyes slowly lowered toward the remaining Temp V inside the vial.
A faint smile formed across his face.
"…Compound V."
"…Chemical X."
"…Symbiote biology."
His eyes narrowed thoughtfully behind the glasses.
"I think I'm beginning to understand how gods are manufactured."