Marvel: Stories

"You don't make a name as a cyberpunk by how you live, you're remembered by how you die."

-Cyberpunk 2077

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"Come on, keep it going. Don't back down now. We need you to break into every possible security system you can find." Edward stands behind a man dressed in all black with a headset that's connected to a computer using various cables. "Make it worth my money baby."

[+500 SP]

[+100 SP]

[+300 SP]

This man is a netrunner he brought from a system store currently being used by Edward to create an artificial crisis of cybersecurity. He needed to find S.H.I.E.L.D's networking system or catch their full attention.

[And why exactly are you trying to infiltrate to S.H.I.E.L.D? ]

'So I can know when and where are the stories taking place of course.'

[Host please don't try to lie to me and tell me your full reason.]

'I need some BBEGs to cover incoming plot holes and constantly blamed or as Chinese novels say I need a pot king!'

[So you are planning to turn the whole S.H.I.E.L.D. into a completely corrupted cold-blooded and evil government secret organization?]

'Until Furry notices something and separates Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. then I will use Hydra.'

[As long it increases your influence over the stories I guess.]

'Eh, don't be like that system. If my plan succeeds then perhaps I can earn SP start Project: Nier early.'

[That's even more worrying! The heroes haven't been able to grow yet! We are in the origin story stage of the one who is supposed to save the universe!]

'Oh calm down, it's okay as long I accelerated his growth a little bit right? Besides speaking of Tony let's check on him.' Edward then picks up a silver plate and an apple then makes it roll on the plate. "Magical plate show me your magic and reveal what Tony Stark doing." Soon in the middle of the plate ripple-like effect is created before showing him a scene of Tony Stark laying on the operating table unconscious while an electromagnetic that's charged by a car battery is on his chest.

[Story Prop: King's Magical Plate

Rank: F

Price: 1000

Effect: Put an apple on the plate then make it roll on the plate. Then you can use it to spy on things that aren't protected by supernatural powers.

Summary: It's a magical plate used by the king from [How To Catch The Firebird's Feather] world to spy on his kingdom. Before activating it you must chant the magical chant: "Magical plate show me your magic and reveal [Whatever You Are Seeking]"

Note: For you the chant is optimal.]

(AN: Well, that's how I remember that plate is used at least.)

[Why did you even bother to chant? You could have skipped that part.]

'Because system, it won't feel the same without chanting it. If I skip it then that's like skipping the songs on the classic Disney animations.'

[The way of human thinking works is truly the work of mystery.]

'Shh, I think Tony is waking up.'

…

Tony slowly wakes up under an unfamiliar roof, feeling disoriented, everything in his memory is blurry one moment he was in a military vehicle telling jokes now. He was in somewhere that wasn't his home with a tube going deep into his body through his nose. The disgusting feeling of something long and thin coming through his nose and reaching his throat quickly made him pull it out.

Perhaps after the effect of the shock his consciousness is still a little blurry, he tries to reach for the cup on the table beside him but pushes it off.

Yinsen calmly shaves his beard while looking at the mirror, his gentle humming echoes through the room. Tony then stretches towards the jug of water but something stops him, something that's connected to his chest, a wire.

It goes under the bandage on his chest, he has a bad feeling about this so he quickly tears the bandage over his chest area to check what's under it. Yinsen saw this through the mirror and said calmly. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

To Tony's horror, he saw there was some kind of big metal disk installed into his chest at the end of the wire he then saw at the other end of the wire there was a car battery. Tony tries to speak but the shock seems like numbed down his vocal ability.

After a while, both of them sit around the bonfire now calmed down Tony looking at the fire dazedly and ever calm Yinsen cooking some kind of stew. "What the hell did you do to me?" Tony said still in a dazed expression.

"What I did do? What I did is to save your life. I removed all the shrapnel I could, but there's a lot left, and it's headed into your atrial septum. Here, want to see?" He then pulls out a bottle of shrapnel from his pocket. "I have a souvenir. Take a look." He tosses it towards Tony who quickly catches it, his eyes land on the small bottle no bigger than his thumb inside of it few small shrapnels roll around. "I've seen many wounds like that in my village. We call them the walking dead because it takes about a week for the barbs to reach the vital organs."

"What is this?" Tony points at the metal disk on his chest.

"That is an electromagnet, hooked up to a car battery, and it's keeping the shrapnel from entering your heart. Hmm?" Tony then notices a camera on the ceiling observing them. "That's right. Smile." Yinsen smiles at him and the red light on the camera blinks. "We met once, you know, at a technical conference in Bern"

"I don't remember."

"No, you wouldn't. If I had been that drunk, I wouldn't have been able to stand, much less give a lecture on integrated circuits." Suddenly they heard someone speaking behind the metal door and coming of the people. Only then did it click in Tony's head that he forgot to ask one of the most important questions. "Where are we?" Sadly answer and question time is already over.

"Come on, stand up. Stand up! Just do as I do. Come on, put your hands up." He forces Tony to stand up and take his hands behind his head. Soon metal door opens revealing about a dozen armed men led by a man with a large build. He looked happy and started speaking in Arabic.

"Those are my guns. How did they get my guns?" Tony whispers to himself.

"Do you understand me? Do as I do."

…

Suddenly with a loud thud, Edward comes back to reality in annoyance he places the plate on the table and looks back at the course of the sound. Netrunner was lying on the floor bleeding from all facial nodes it could find. "Shit, I think I overheated his brain or something."

[You wanna revive him?]

'No need, I think I already squeezed out whatever worth he had as a netrunner.' He pulls off the cables from his headset. 'You think if I throw it outside Kingpin's doorsteps he will able to get some worth out of it?'

[You jumped from big corporations to criminal mastermind real quick or are you trying to throw the blame for all this hacking to Kingpin?]

'Nah, I'm just trying to influence incoming stories related to Big Apple being street heroes.'

[Isn't it better if we made him work under Kingpin as an undercover or something? He has criminal records now.]

He looks at the corpse that's still bleeding on his apartment's floor for a few seconds before going to the kitchen and coming back with a knife.

[Whatcha doing?]

'Destroying his memory chip so he won't reveal anything about me.'

[Won't that damage basically the most important cyberware he possesses? Besides you could do that with some really cheap props you know that right?]

He directly stabs the knife deep into where the chip is located. 'Yep and say the truth I just thought this would be more dramatic.'

'Just turning off your rationality and acting like an idiot is sometimes just fun.'

[Host you are a real creep.]

'Teehee.'

[Don't "Teehee" me.]

Edward gets up and he pulls out the knife with a smirk. 'Fine, fine, get me [Simple Cleaning Pack].'

[-5 SP]

Suddenly small white card box filled with dozens of cards appears on his palm. Edward takes out a card from it which has a black broom logo, it glows brightly before shooting a beam of light toward the pool of blood and netrunner corpse. Light envelopes them for a second before disappearing leaving only the corpse that's as clean as it can get with the shining floor. 'I love this card.'

[You won't continue to check on Tony?]

'My viewing session is disturbed now I won't be able to focus on it for a while. Besides I already know what will happen.'

[Host, please don't underestimate the butterfly effect.]

Edward just shrugs his shoulder not caring much about the system's concerns. 'The moment I arrived here I already decided to completely rewrite whatever future this world was supposed to go through.'

…

"Anything new on our mysterious hacker?" Maria asks one of the agents who works on cybersecurity. "No ma'am, it's unbelievable but I don't think it's a simple matter as superior software and hardware… the problem is more fundamental."

"You mean?"

"Our tech isn't on the same level at all." The agent then shows her some kind of algorithm first it was shaped like a sphere then it changes into the shape of octahedron, spiked sphere, cube, etc "Language that the code is written on is unknown, it can't be translated or fully processed by our computer systems, we can't even get the full picture on the coding, whatever this hacker hit us with it is only can be described as ever-changing. It's hard to describe… it's simply unbelievable."

(AN: I do not possess any knowledge on how to code so please forgive this pure bullshit I wrote.)

"So what you are saying is the person behind this hacking incident possesses tech way more advanced than ours."

"And fundamentally different I should say almost-Alien." Maria cuts the agent off making him realize what she meant. "Ohh, I will place the report on your desk by the end of the day."

"You better." With that, Maria leaves the cybersecurity office. Like without even Edward's knowledge what he did is classified under extraterrestrial's influence classification.