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A Nerd Reborn
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I own nothing except for God Morgan Freeman and all events and people of my own design.
Warning it gets a little dark in the beginning.
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Chapter 1: A Nerd Reborn
Clouds. That was the first thing his mind recognized as his eyes opened. Surrounding him was nothing but a vast sky where he looked up there was the sky, when he looked down all he could see was the sky, this sight appeared at every angle he turned to. The pure vastness astounded and captivated him, he truly felt that he could stay there for all eternity, until a polite cough from behind him brought him from his daze.
"Well I am sure glad that the accommodations are to your liking, however if it's not to much trouble let's see if we can't get to business." The man spoke with an eloquence that was unmatched, his voice refined yet authoritative, he also looked an awful lot like Morgan Freeman.
Wait, was it Morgan Freeman?
"Are you Morgan Freeman?" As the words escaped his mouth he couldn't help but feel that the voice that carried them was not his own, a stranger's voice.
He chuckled at the question, "Believe it or not that's the first time anyone has bothered to ask instead of simply assuming, but no Morgan Freeman is not a god, simply an immortal resting on your planet." The elder primordial spoke as if the concept of gods and immortals was a common occurrence.
"Can you please tell me why I'm here and who am I, please!?" he yelled confused. Wait as a matter of fact who was he, the young man could remember everything about his life, all the movies and tv he watched and how much he loved dreaming about being apart of the characters lives. His first boyhood scuffle to his first crush and all the important moments in between.
Yet he couldn't put a face to any of these events or the people that he knew personally in his life.
Not giving his shouting any mind the God began his explanation. "Well I believe that what you are asking is who you were before you died."
Wait. What.
Died?
As in he was dead.
As much as he wanted to deny it, after thinking for a moment he realized that he had died. It wasn't a special death or even a surprise really, he had a heart attack while he was binge watching his favorite superhero tv shows.
It's not like it was a big surprise, he led a life of hedonism, he ate what he wanted to and drank what he wanted to, dying a virgin was a little disheartening though. Turning towards the man who probably held his fate in his hand he spoke.
"So why'd you bring me here if I'm dead." If he was dead he just wanted to know where he was gonna end up, would he be flirting with angels or be getting into fist fights with demons, either way he had no say in the matter.
"I was wondering when you were gonna ask," sitting down at the mysterious oak wood table that suddenly appeared he motioned for him to sit as well "you see whenever someone dies they are allowed two options."
At this the young man perked up eager to hear his choices.
"First, you can be taken to your own personal heaven where you can stay until a time you want to be reincarnated." The first option sounded pretty damn good, option two must be just as good. "Second, you can choose to be immediately reincarnated, however with this choice you gain the additional benefit of going to a dimension of your choosing and can be gifted with three blessings of my own choosing, dependant on the universe you appear in."
"Second choice!" He excitedly said. He had the opportunity to go to a new dimension and live there with his own abilities, there was no way he was going to pass that up.
"No need to tell, I already knew your answer, omniscience is a great cheat." Standing up as the table and chairs disappeared the god gave the young man his attention.
Standing up ramrod straight in front of the god the young man also gave him his full attention.
"Are you ready my child?" Not giving him a chance to answer the elderly primordial places a finger open his forehead and he was transported away in a burst of light.
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National City/Earth-38
Inside an average sized apartment on one of National City's many streets, there blared an alarm clock the sound seemed deafening when compared to the absolute silence which encompassed the room.
The only other piece of the apartment that was out of place was the corpse hanging in the middle of the room with a rope around its neck, a chair lying underneath it.
For a full five minutes the scene went on unchanging until the corpse was seemingly shocked back to life.
Gasping and thrashing around, the rope that had been tied around his throat unraveled, almost by magic, and he fell roughly to the floor with a thud.
Lifting himself up slowly the man grabbed his couch for support and lifted himself onto his feet. Touching his face and running his hands through his hair, he steadied himself before slowly walking towards the bathroom instinctively as if he had done a hundred times before.
Turning on the bathroom light and looking into the mirror the face he found looking back was not his own.
But that of one Winn Schott Jr.
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After getting over the not so moderate shock of being one of the less useful characters of the Arrowverse, the young m-no, Winn quickly took a shower and cleaned up the apartment to make it not look like someone tried to commit suicide.
As he put everything back in order he noticed that his laptop had been recording in his direction.
Stopping the recording he moved to delete it, but then paused himself.
These were the last words of the old Winn, as his successor so to speak he should probably listen to it.
Sitting down at his island he pressed play and was met with his own handsome mug, only pale and covered in what looked like tears and a little bit of snot.
*sniff* "To anyone who finds this, if somehow you didn't find my body first you should know that I've decided to commit suicide. Now there is an absolute mountain of reasons why I'm doing this, my father, my job,...Kara, but the worst of it all is the fact that my mother, m-my dear sweet mother who helped me through so much, was snatched away from me BY THE HANDS OF A FILTHY NO GOOD PIECE OF SHIT THIEF!" He yelled at the screen with nothing but vile disgust in his voice that seeped out like venom.
"So as I sit here in my last moments, to anyone who ever cared about me and to anyone whoever tried to reach out to me, I'm sorry you wasted your time on me, this is goodbye." After that he walked across the room and climbed onto the chair.
At this point Winn paused the video, he knew what happened after that point. However he decided not to delete it, if there ever came a moment where he doubted himself, where he questioned his beliefs, his reasons for doing whatever the future held he would sit down and watch this video.
Closing his laptop he noticed an envelope on the table.
To Winn, From Morgan Freeman
The strange part was that his voice resounded in his head as he read the words, opening it up he unfolded the letter.
Why hello Winn I see you've discovered where you were reincarnated, this letter is the last piece of information you will receive from me. It's purpose is to explain the blessings you received, simply stated the three are as follows.
Power
Freedom
Charisma
When you are at a point when you receive the effects of any one blessing, an explanation of those effects will appear in your mind.
Though because you are a interesting subject I decide to give you one freebie to help you on your journey, though I suppose you've already noticed it.
Until next time as you humans say.
Putting the letter down he definitely understood the freebie that he got.
He had taken a good look at himself after his shower and was very thankful of the new body, unlike the old Winns thin and weak frame, the new Winn looked like he was given the goddamn super soldier serum.
He had everything his old body didn't and more, abs,biceps and triceps along with all the other various muscle groups that he didn't know the names of, even with all that he was only slightly larger than beforehand, just with all the noticeable muscle.
He wouldn't mention anything about his downstairs business except for one thing.
Nice
Welp since he's fresh and new to the world he might as well start at a place that should be recognizable in any of the Earths in this universe.
Grabbing his wallet and keys he went through one final look at himself before setting out.
"To Big Belly Burger!"
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Winn had many a sandwich before, but Big Belly Burger was on another level entirely. Walking out of the restaurant with his leftovers Winn checked his phone to see that he had a bunch of missed calls from Kara, fortunately they were all only from a couple hours ago as opposed to days.
Waiting at a crosswalk Winn had a bit of time to think of all the things he wanted to do with his new life.
First and foremost discover his blessings, most importantly his superpower and train to use it. Second, he wanted to find a way to gain his own base, he'd already decided he was going to become a vigilante or superhero or whatever, but he wanted to do it right and get a team to help him out. Third, he needed to find a way to travel through dimensions, the most obvious reason being to visit Earth-1.
He had been in deep thought as he was walking across the street so he had fallen behind the crowd of pedestrians just as a car sped towards him.
Seeing his predicament and reacting reflexively he pointed his hands towards the car and felt as if he was being pushed away by an invisible force, landing and rolling about 10 feet away he heard a familiar voice sound off. Not even bothering to stand up Winn could do nothing but stare at his hands.
Ah I see you've discovered one of your blessings, for the blessing of Power I gave you the ability of Aerokinesis or more simply put Air Manipulation. I may have also tweaked with your dna and turned you into a metahuman. Well until your next blessing, Ciao.
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So as of late I've spent a bunch of time binge watching Superhero shows and I wanted to make a story all my own, and to answer one question Winn is probably going to be in a polygamist relationship with multiple females, not to many though.
Warning it gets a little dark in the beginning.
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Chapter 1: A Nerd Reborn
Clouds. That was the first thing his mind recognized as his eyes opened. Surrounding him was nothing but a vast sky where he looked up there was the sky, when he looked down all he could see was the sky, this sight appeared at every angle he turned to. The pure vastness astounded and captivated him, he truly felt that he could stay there for all eternity, until a polite cough from behind him brought him from his daze.
"Well I am sure glad that the accommodations are to your liking, however if it's not to much trouble let's see if we can't get to business." The man spoke with an eloquence that was unmatched, his voice refined yet authoritative, he also looked an awful lot like Morgan Freeman.
Wait, was it Morgan Freeman?
"Are you Morgan Freeman?" As the words escaped his mouth he couldn't help but feel that the voice that carried them was not his own, a stranger's voice.
He chuckled at the question, "Believe it or not that's the first time anyone has bothered to ask instead of simply assuming, but no Morgan Freeman is not a god, simply an immortal resting on your planet." The elder primordial spoke as if the concept of gods and immortals was a common occurrence.
"Can you please tell me why I'm here and who am I, please!?" he yelled confused. Wait as a matter of fact who was he, the young man could remember everything about his life, all the movies and tv he watched and how much he loved dreaming about being apart of the characters lives. His first boyhood scuffle to his first crush and all the important moments in between.
Yet he couldn't put a face to any of these events or the people that he knew personally in his life.
Not giving his shouting any mind the God began his explanation. "Well I believe that what you are asking is who you were before you died."
Wait. What.
Died?
As in he was dead.
As much as he wanted to deny it, after thinking for a moment he realized that he had died. It wasn't a special death or even a surprise really, he had a heart attack while he was binge watching his favorite superhero tv shows.
It's not like it was a big surprise, he led a life of hedonism, he ate what he wanted to and drank what he wanted to, dying a virgin was a little disheartening though. Turning towards the man who probably held his fate in his hand he spoke.
"So why'd you bring me here if I'm dead." If he was dead he just wanted to know where he was gonna end up, would he be flirting with angels or be getting into fist fights with demons, either way he had no say in the matter.
"I was wondering when you were gonna ask," sitting down at the mysterious oak wood table that suddenly appeared he motioned for him to sit as well "you see whenever someone dies they are allowed two options."
At this the young man perked up eager to hear his choices.
"First, you can be taken to your own personal heaven where you can stay until a time you want to be reincarnated." The first option sounded pretty damn good, option two must be just as good. "Second, you can choose to be immediately reincarnated, however with this choice you gain the additional benefit of going to a dimension of your choosing and can be gifted with three blessings of my own choosing, dependant on the universe you appear in."
"Second choice!" He excitedly said. He had the opportunity to go to a new dimension and live there with his own abilities, there was no way he was going to pass that up.
"No need to tell, I already knew your answer, omniscience is a great cheat." Standing up as the table and chairs disappeared the god gave the young man his attention.
Standing up ramrod straight in front of the god the young man also gave him his full attention.
"Are you ready my child?" Not giving him a chance to answer the elderly primordial places a finger open his forehead and he was transported away in a burst of light.
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National City/Earth-38
Inside an average sized apartment on one of National City's many streets, there blared an alarm clock the sound seemed deafening when compared to the absolute silence which encompassed the room.
The only other piece of the apartment that was out of place was the corpse hanging in the middle of the room with a rope around its neck, a chair lying underneath it.
For a full five minutes the scene went on unchanging until the corpse was seemingly shocked back to life.
Gasping and thrashing around, the rope that had been tied around his throat unraveled, almost by magic, and he fell roughly to the floor with a thud.
Lifting himself up slowly the man grabbed his couch for support and lifted himself onto his feet. Touching his face and running his hands through his hair, he steadied himself before slowly walking towards the bathroom instinctively as if he had done a hundred times before.
Turning on the bathroom light and looking into the mirror the face he found looking back was not his own.
But that of one Winn Schott Jr.
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After getting over the not so moderate shock of being one of the less useful characters of the Arrowverse, the young m-no, Winn quickly took a shower and cleaned up the apartment to make it not look like someone tried to commit suicide.
As he put everything back in order he noticed that his laptop had been recording in his direction.
Stopping the recording he moved to delete it, but then paused himself.
These were the last words of the old Winn, as his successor so to speak he should probably listen to it.
Sitting down at his island he pressed play and was met with his own handsome mug, only pale and covered in what looked like tears and a little bit of snot.
*sniff* "To anyone who finds this, if somehow you didn't find my body first you should know that I've decided to commit suicide. Now there is an absolute mountain of reasons why I'm doing this, my father, my job,...Kara, but the worst of it all is the fact that my mother, m-my dear sweet mother who helped me through so much, was snatched away from me BY THE HANDS OF A FILTHY NO GOOD PIECE OF SHIT THIEF!" He yelled at the screen with nothing but vile disgust in his voice that seeped out like venom.
"So as I sit here in my last moments, to anyone who ever cared about me and to anyone whoever tried to reach out to me, I'm sorry you wasted your time on me, this is goodbye." After that he walked across the room and climbed onto the chair.
At this point Winn paused the video, he knew what happened after that point. However he decided not to delete it, if there ever came a moment where he doubted himself, where he questioned his beliefs, his reasons for doing whatever the future held he would sit down and watch this video.
Closing his laptop he noticed an envelope on the table.
To Winn, From Morgan Freeman
The strange part was that his voice resounded in his head as he read the words, opening it up he unfolded the letter.
Why hello Winn I see you've discovered where you were reincarnated, this letter is the last piece of information you will receive from me. It's purpose is to explain the blessings you received, simply stated the three are as follows.
Power
Freedom
Charisma
When you are at a point when you receive the effects of any one blessing, an explanation of those effects will appear in your mind.
Though because you are a interesting subject I decide to give you one freebie to help you on your journey, though I suppose you've already noticed it.
Until next time as you humans say.
Putting the letter down he definitely understood the freebie that he got.
He had taken a good look at himself after his shower and was very thankful of the new body, unlike the old Winns thin and weak frame, the new Winn looked like he was given the goddamn super soldier serum.
He had everything his old body didn't and more, abs,biceps and triceps along with all the other various muscle groups that he didn't know the names of, even with all that he was only slightly larger than beforehand, just with all the noticeable muscle.
He wouldn't mention anything about his downstairs business except for one thing.
Nice
Welp since he's fresh and new to the world he might as well start at a place that should be recognizable in any of the Earths in this universe.
Grabbing his wallet and keys he went through one final look at himself before setting out.
"To Big Belly Burger!"
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Winn had many a sandwich before, but Big Belly Burger was on another level entirely. Walking out of the restaurant with his leftovers Winn checked his phone to see that he had a bunch of missed calls from Kara, fortunately they were all only from a couple hours ago as opposed to days.
Waiting at a crosswalk Winn had a bit of time to think of all the things he wanted to do with his new life.
First and foremost discover his blessings, most importantly his superpower and train to use it. Second, he wanted to find a way to gain his own base, he'd already decided he was going to become a vigilante or superhero or whatever, but he wanted to do it right and get a team to help him out. Third, he needed to find a way to travel through dimensions, the most obvious reason being to visit Earth-1.
He had been in deep thought as he was walking across the street so he had fallen behind the crowd of pedestrians just as a car sped towards him.
Seeing his predicament and reacting reflexively he pointed his hands towards the car and felt as if he was being pushed away by an invisible force, landing and rolling about 10 feet away he heard a familiar voice sound off. Not even bothering to stand up Winn could do nothing but stare at his hands.
Ah I see you've discovered one of your blessings, for the blessing of Power I gave you the ability of Aerokinesis or more simply put Air Manipulation. I may have also tweaked with your dna and turned you into a metahuman. Well until your next blessing, Ciao.
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So as of late I've spent a bunch of time binge watching Superhero shows and I wanted to make a story all my own, and to answer one question Winn is probably going to be in a polygamist relationship with multiple females, not to many though.
- Location
- New Jersey
No he just has an enhanced body, but his power is basically like air ending only he'll find a lot more techniques for it. Also he arrived just before episode one takes place.
- Location
- Puerto Rico
Okay.
Though the enhanced body, at what level are we talking about?
Cap level or Arrow 'Chinese drug- can't remember the name' level?
- Location
- New Jersey
The name your looking for is Mirakuru and his level physical ability is below the mirakuru soldiers strength but still well above normal human parameters, he can still train to get stronger and grows stronger faster than others.
Stormbringer117
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- Location
- Australia
I'd recommend a Synopsis at the top, it'll help draw readers' interest.
So Superhuman Physiology and Aerokinesis, leveraged correctly a powerful combo. Still wouldn't make a dent in Supergirl's everyday enemies.
Also are these powers mystical, psychic, genetic, or technological?
I'd also recommend putting a clarification that this is set in Arrowverse on Earth 38. I wasn't sure until I read about Win.
So Superhuman Physiology and Aerokinesis, leveraged correctly a powerful combo. Still wouldn't make a dent in Supergirl's everyday enemies.
Also are these powers mystical, psychic, genetic, or technological?
I'd also recommend putting a clarification that this is set in Arrowverse on Earth 38. I wasn't sure until I read about Win.
- Location
- New Jersey
They're genetic powers and be sure to do that on the next post.
Stormbringer117
Soulless
- Location
- Australia
Make sure to include fancy xeno-organic babble. It's always fun trying to include as many long words as you ca...
Does the Morgan Freeman god thing actually have a defined future role in your story? Reading through this chapter it seems like it takes away a whole lot more than it adds and makes it seem a whole lot more like crack than a serious story. If that was the goal, great, but I just figured I'd share my opinion.
- Location
- New Jersey
You'll have to wait and see :3
I Feel Blessed
- Location
- New Jersey
I hope whoever read it liked my first chapter, I'm gonna try to put out as many chapters out as fast as possible but I am in college so some weeks may be a little slow.
Once again, I own only that which I have created.
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Chapter 2: I Feel Blessed
Winn couldn't believe he had discovered his ability so quickly, before he knew it he was up on his feet, just as the driver was opening his car door Winn had already took off running across the street into the crowd of people running faster than he ever had before.
He could've sworn he had heard someone shout out towards him in concern, probably the driver of the car, but at the moment he really couldn't give a damn. As quickly as he could he rushed through the crowd of civilians before stopping next to an abandoned alleyway and walking inside.
Where he proceeded to dance and celebrate as if it was his birthday, Christmas and the McRib has been brought back all on the same day.
"FUCK YEAH!" Before he knew what he was doing he had already let his excitement out in the form of a shout. Quickly covering up and looking around he was relieved to find no one was nearby.
Which was extremely convenient since he was about to test out his powers in the alley.
Stacking a few empty food cans up and walking back about five feet he tried to remember how he had used ability before. Closing his eyes he remembered the experience.
The feeling of the power spreading throughout his being without any apparent source.
As well as the way it flowed through every single cell.
Taking control of the flow he began directing towards his arms.
Cupping his hands together he watched in amazement as a sphere of barely visible air coalesced in his hand.
Looking towards the stacked cans Winn brought his hands next to himself before thrusting them towards his target.
With a whoosh his attacked flew forward and struck the stack bursting and sending them flying,
With a huge grin on his face Winn fist bumped the air before restacking another pile to start repeated this same process a few more times to get a hang of it and to determine how long it took.
It took him about 10 seconds to form and fire his attack, he'd definitely have to work on that. Deciding that he had done enough testing for now he discreetly made his way out of the alleyway.
After walking down the street for a minute he passed by a newsstand, quickly backpedaling Winn stopped to grab the latest article of Catco Magazine
"Hey buddy, this ain't a library you gonna buy that?" Looking towards the heavy set store owner he pulled out his wallet to pay for the magazine when it was snatched from his hand.
"Hey!" Dropping the magazine Winn took off to catch the short hooded culprit. If anyone had been watching them it would've looked like two track stars had taken to racing on the streets.
Though the thief had gotten a head start Winn quickly closed the distance, he was almost on top of him until his target took a sharp turn into an alley. Skidding to a stop, Winn quickly followed into the alley, as the thief believed they'd escaped they slowed down allowing Winn to grab the back of their hood and pull causing them to fall to the ground.
"How about I get my wallet back and we both go our separate ways?" Standing above the wallet snatcher Winn finally got a look at them without their hood on them.
"The fuck."
He had known that he would encounter aliens on his journey but definitely not the first day. Looking him in the face was a green scaled yellow eyed lizardperson.
He was so astonished by the sight he was caught unaware by the slithering tail that had found itself wrapped around his ankle until he was pulled to the ground as well.
Falling with a thud he watched as the reptilian robber jumped up and emptied his wallet of all his cash, "Thanks for the money pal." The thief sneered in a notably male and juvenile voice.
Turning away he ran towards one of the adjacent walls and climbed it all the way to the top.
Laying his head down defeated, Winn continued to look up at the sky for a few minutes before he stood up and walked over to pick up his-now empty-wallet.
Opening it up he found that only his actual money was gone and everything else was still left.
Walking out of the alley slightly dejected he took his phone out of his pocket to check the messages he had received from Kara.
Kara, 4 Messages
"Aw shit." He muttered contemplating for a second he decided to bite the bullet and open them.
Hey Winn are you ok I didn't see you this morning.
That one was from about 9:00 am, he absentmindedly noted that was when he was supposed to come in for work.
Winn are you still coming to work today I'm getting a little worried, if this is about the new IT guy don't worry.
New IT guy? Well the video did say something about problems at work, alright on to the next one.
Can you please call me Winn I'm getting scared.
Aww crap now he feels bad.
Alright that's it Winn I'm about to leave work, I'll be there in a minute, if you get this please call me!
That last text was 5 minutes, so if he wanted to catch Kara he had to do it before she left the building.
"Legs don't fail me now!" He quickly muttered before rushing in the direction he knew the Catco building was in.
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Catco. WorldWide Media
Kara was really worried right about now, Winn Schott Jr. had never, and she meant never missed work in the two years they'd known each other.
She had been trying to get in touch with him for the last five hours but there was no response and she couldn't tell Cat that one of her employees hadn't shown up to work for multiple reasons.
The most important two being that she doesn't know who he is and telling her would probably get Winn fired.
Although with everything that had been going on in his life she didn't blame him.
First, Cat had hired a new IT crew member, and she would be lying if she said she didn't find him attractive, but that wouldn't affect Winn's mood at all.
Would it?
Then there was also the fact that his dad was being transferred to a mental facility, so there was a possibility that he could get out in the future, walking on the street like a regular person.
And that terrified Winn to no end. He had confided in for hours about how his father should never be able to set foot outside. Ever.
But the reason she thinks hit Winn the hardest by far was his mother's death. It wasn't a murder, at least that's what was determined by the police, someone had broken into her house and apparently when she tried to hide she was found and shot.
It was a heavy burden and it visibly showed in his figure wherever he was.
As the elevator door opened Kara tried to make it in as quick as possible but ended up bumping into the man who had been exiting it at the time. She also ended up dropping the papers she had been holding in the process.
"Oh my god I am so sorry," seeing the man kneel to help her she began panicking "oh no no, I've got this." Looking up to face the man she was met with the face of the man who she was just about to meet with.
"Winn?"
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After helping her collect herself Winn walked Kara back to her desk, while carefully avoiding the barrage of questions that he was met with about his disappearance.
"Kara."
"Where have you been."
"Kara."
"If you were ok you should of let me know."
"Kara!" Placing his hands on her shoulders he turned to look her in the face. "Listen, I am just fine, I... I just needed some time by myself." He ended his sentence speaking quietly to mimic grief.
He had all of the former Winn's memories, but the blow of his mother's death was severely blunted by the fact that he had never experienced it.
"Kerrah! Where are yo- oh, nevermind I can see your busy." Somehow they had Winn had decided to have this moment right outside of Cat Grants office, however with them staring into each other's eyes with Winn hands on her it could easily be misconstrued by anyone watching.
The 'anyone' in this situation being their boss, Cat Grant.
"Well I'll be honest Kerrah I didn't think you had it in you, now where did you get such a strapping young man, I may have to get one for myself." Cat said sauntering up to them.
Taking his hands off of Kara turning towards his boss, Winn tried to correct the mistake. "Oh no Miss Grant we're not like that." He said pointing between himself and Kara.
Kara seemed to be dazed for a second before turning to face Cat as well. "Yes, that is right absolutely nothing going on." She hoped that neither would note the light blush she had on her face.
Not looking at all concerned with whatever they were, Cat presses on."Kerrah I need you back at your station, those phones won't answer themselves and I certainly don't plan on doing it." Nodding Kara began walking back to her desk as Cat faced Winn.
"Alright then who are you and why should I care." She may have sounded dismissive but that was probably because she was already walking back to office as she asked the question. Hurrying behind her he began his explanation. "Uh my name is Winn Schott and I work in the IT department."
Sitting down in her chair and glancing condescendingly at her watch she spoke to him, "Well, Winn from IT can you please tell me why you showed up to work five hours late and why I shouldn't have security very roughly escort you out of the building."
"I was in mourning for a little while." Suddenly looking a little less dismissive she gave him a glance before returning to her work, "What happened, did you have to flush a dead goldfish."
Not missing a beat he responded "Uh no, my mother was murdered a couple days ago." The way he said it may have sounded a bit nonchalant seeing as how Cat was so caught off guard by his answer that she stopped writing and gave him her full attention.
"I see, I'm sorry to hear that." Oddly enough she sounded actually genuine in her apology, "Although I'm curious about one thing, why would you come into work only a few days after such a horrible incident, most people would be curled up in their rooms bawling like babies."
At the question Winn had to contemplate his answer for a minute before answering " With everything that's going on in my life right now, I just wanted to keep at least one thing that was constant."
Nodding to herself she began waving him away "Well if that's all then you can go get back to work."
"Ah there's that old Cat Grant charm." He muttered as he made his way back to his desk. Sitting down at his desk he began typing away at his computer his main job as part of the IT department was to create the software for all of CostCo's media outlets and repair them when needed, in this department Winn had reigned supreme until Cat hired a new employee.
Hearing a bubbly giggle he turned to see Kara chatting with the prodigal asshole himself.
Keith.
To all the women that he met he was a perfect scion of chivalry and according to most of the guys in the building he was a good dude , however anyone that could see through that facade would see that he is a manipulative two faced son of a bitch.
Ok, maybe old Winn's feelings are rising up a little.
Looking away from the two Winn went back to work, he noticed that even though he only had Winn's memories of coding and computer know how, he was comprehending and processing all of it at more than thrice the rate Past Winn ever could.
Now that he thought about it his mental faculties were all showing extreme efficiency, before he knew it his work for the day was done after a mere 30 minutes. He had gotten smart, like scary smart.
Little did Winn know this was not the first instance of his increased intelligence nor would it be the last.
Then in his mind echoed a familiar voice.
Congratulations , I see you've had an interesting day so far, discovering two of your blessings in less than six hours, truly astonishing.
Anywho let's get on to the second blessing, Freedom.
Now the meaning may be confusing so I'll have to give you a short history lesson. When I first created the human race I made a mistake with your souls, your species had no limitations on its mental or physical abilities, at the time I believed that if they continued as is, it would lead to the eventual extinction of your race.
Therefore I imposed a lock on the souls of the first generation of humans and ingrained it into your DNA. Haven't you ever wondered why certain people can comprehend things at a much faster rate or how some individuals start out the same way physically and do all the same activities yet one ends up physically superior to the other?
I have taken the liberty to remove that lock from you, now you and anyone who has your blood running through their veins shall be untethered by the mortal coil.
Enjoy Winslow.
Well guess that settles that. Definitely something to look into later though, he'd need to do some tests and catalogue all the benefits of his new dna but that could wait for later.
Looking at his computer he contemplated, "Well as long as I have the time, might as well finish work for the week." He quietly said as he began typing even more rapidly than before.
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Underground DEO HeadQuarters
Inside the secret home for extra normal agents there was the normal hustle and bustle of the building. The only thing that seemed out of place was the footage that was playing on the security monitor of Winn's thief chase through the streets.
In front of the screen stood DEO director Hank Henshaw or at least someone that looked like him , next to him was agent Alex the control desk sat Agent Vasquez.
"Vasquez, would you mind explaining what we're watching." Henshaw said gruffly
"It's exactly as it looks sir, a civilian had his wallet stolen by a Seraptoid and began to chase him down for three blocks, almost caught him too."
"Are we sure that it was a human being, maybe it was a humanoid." Alex inquired to her fellow agent.
Vasquez enhanced the video onto the civilian as closely as possible but it was too blurry to make out his face. "We were able to determine that the subject is male with black hair but we aren't able to make out any facial features so we've been unable to determine his species."
Grunting, Henshaw addressed her,"Well be sure to keep an eye on it and let me know if anything pops up."
Nodding an affirmative Vasquez turned back to her work. "Yes sir."
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To everyone who checks these out know, that I'm going to try starting a number of stories with the same basis as this one just with different characters in the other shows.
I'm already know what characters will be used in each universe, and all of these reborn one will all be separate from one another, as in none of them exist in the others story.
The name of these series of stories will be Heroes Reborn.
Supergirl- Winn Schott Jr.
Legends of Tomorrow- Jefferson "Jax" Jackson
Flash- Wally West
Arrow- Tommy Merlyn
Be sure to watch out for more stories to come.
Once again, I own only that which I have created.
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Chapter 2: I Feel Blessed
Winn couldn't believe he had discovered his ability so quickly, before he knew it he was up on his feet, just as the driver was opening his car door Winn had already took off running across the street into the crowd of people running faster than he ever had before.
He could've sworn he had heard someone shout out towards him in concern, probably the driver of the car, but at the moment he really couldn't give a damn. As quickly as he could he rushed through the crowd of civilians before stopping next to an abandoned alleyway and walking inside.
Where he proceeded to dance and celebrate as if it was his birthday, Christmas and the McRib has been brought back all on the same day.
"FUCK YEAH!" Before he knew what he was doing he had already let his excitement out in the form of a shout. Quickly covering up and looking around he was relieved to find no one was nearby.
Which was extremely convenient since he was about to test out his powers in the alley.
Stacking a few empty food cans up and walking back about five feet he tried to remember how he had used ability before. Closing his eyes he remembered the experience.
The feeling of the power spreading throughout his being without any apparent source.
As well as the way it flowed through every single cell.
Taking control of the flow he began directing towards his arms.
Cupping his hands together he watched in amazement as a sphere of barely visible air coalesced in his hand.
Looking towards the stacked cans Winn brought his hands next to himself before thrusting them towards his target.
With a whoosh his attacked flew forward and struck the stack bursting and sending them flying,
With a huge grin on his face Winn fist bumped the air before restacking another pile to start repeated this same process a few more times to get a hang of it and to determine how long it took.
It took him about 10 seconds to form and fire his attack, he'd definitely have to work on that. Deciding that he had done enough testing for now he discreetly made his way out of the alleyway.
After walking down the street for a minute he passed by a newsstand, quickly backpedaling Winn stopped to grab the latest article of Catco Magazine
"Hey buddy, this ain't a library you gonna buy that?" Looking towards the heavy set store owner he pulled out his wallet to pay for the magazine when it was snatched from his hand.
"Hey!" Dropping the magazine Winn took off to catch the short hooded culprit. If anyone had been watching them it would've looked like two track stars had taken to racing on the streets.
Though the thief had gotten a head start Winn quickly closed the distance, he was almost on top of him until his target took a sharp turn into an alley. Skidding to a stop, Winn quickly followed into the alley, as the thief believed they'd escaped they slowed down allowing Winn to grab the back of their hood and pull causing them to fall to the ground.
"How about I get my wallet back and we both go our separate ways?" Standing above the wallet snatcher Winn finally got a look at them without their hood on them.
"The fuck."
He had known that he would encounter aliens on his journey but definitely not the first day. Looking him in the face was a green scaled yellow eyed lizardperson.
He was so astonished by the sight he was caught unaware by the slithering tail that had found itself wrapped around his ankle until he was pulled to the ground as well.
Falling with a thud he watched as the reptilian robber jumped up and emptied his wallet of all his cash, "Thanks for the money pal." The thief sneered in a notably male and juvenile voice.
Turning away he ran towards one of the adjacent walls and climbed it all the way to the top.
Laying his head down defeated, Winn continued to look up at the sky for a few minutes before he stood up and walked over to pick up his-now empty-wallet.
Opening it up he found that only his actual money was gone and everything else was still left.
Walking out of the alley slightly dejected he took his phone out of his pocket to check the messages he had received from Kara.
Kara, 4 Messages
"Aw shit." He muttered contemplating for a second he decided to bite the bullet and open them.
Hey Winn are you ok I didn't see you this morning.
That one was from about 9:00 am, he absentmindedly noted that was when he was supposed to come in for work.
Winn are you still coming to work today I'm getting a little worried, if this is about the new IT guy don't worry.
New IT guy? Well the video did say something about problems at work, alright on to the next one.
Can you please call me Winn I'm getting scared.
Aww crap now he feels bad.
Alright that's it Winn I'm about to leave work, I'll be there in a minute, if you get this please call me!
That last text was 5 minutes, so if he wanted to catch Kara he had to do it before she left the building.
"Legs don't fail me now!" He quickly muttered before rushing in the direction he knew the Catco building was in.
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Catco. WorldWide Media
Kara was really worried right about now, Winn Schott Jr. had never, and she meant never missed work in the two years they'd known each other.
She had been trying to get in touch with him for the last five hours but there was no response and she couldn't tell Cat that one of her employees hadn't shown up to work for multiple reasons.
The most important two being that she doesn't know who he is and telling her would probably get Winn fired.
Although with everything that had been going on in his life she didn't blame him.
First, Cat had hired a new IT crew member, and she would be lying if she said she didn't find him attractive, but that wouldn't affect Winn's mood at all.
Would it?
Then there was also the fact that his dad was being transferred to a mental facility, so there was a possibility that he could get out in the future, walking on the street like a regular person.
And that terrified Winn to no end. He had confided in for hours about how his father should never be able to set foot outside. Ever.
But the reason she thinks hit Winn the hardest by far was his mother's death. It wasn't a murder, at least that's what was determined by the police, someone had broken into her house and apparently when she tried to hide she was found and shot.
It was a heavy burden and it visibly showed in his figure wherever he was.
As the elevator door opened Kara tried to make it in as quick as possible but ended up bumping into the man who had been exiting it at the time. She also ended up dropping the papers she had been holding in the process.
"Oh my god I am so sorry," seeing the man kneel to help her she began panicking "oh no no, I've got this." Looking up to face the man she was met with the face of the man who she was just about to meet with.
"Winn?"
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After helping her collect herself Winn walked Kara back to her desk, while carefully avoiding the barrage of questions that he was met with about his disappearance.
"Kara."
"Where have you been."
"Kara."
"If you were ok you should of let me know."
"Kara!" Placing his hands on her shoulders he turned to look her in the face. "Listen, I am just fine, I... I just needed some time by myself." He ended his sentence speaking quietly to mimic grief.
He had all of the former Winn's memories, but the blow of his mother's death was severely blunted by the fact that he had never experienced it.
"Kerrah! Where are yo- oh, nevermind I can see your busy." Somehow they had Winn had decided to have this moment right outside of Cat Grants office, however with them staring into each other's eyes with Winn hands on her it could easily be misconstrued by anyone watching.
The 'anyone' in this situation being their boss, Cat Grant.
"Well I'll be honest Kerrah I didn't think you had it in you, now where did you get such a strapping young man, I may have to get one for myself." Cat said sauntering up to them.
Taking his hands off of Kara turning towards his boss, Winn tried to correct the mistake. "Oh no Miss Grant we're not like that." He said pointing between himself and Kara.
Kara seemed to be dazed for a second before turning to face Cat as well. "Yes, that is right absolutely nothing going on." She hoped that neither would note the light blush she had on her face.
Not looking at all concerned with whatever they were, Cat presses on."Kerrah I need you back at your station, those phones won't answer themselves and I certainly don't plan on doing it." Nodding Kara began walking back to her desk as Cat faced Winn.
"Alright then who are you and why should I care." She may have sounded dismissive but that was probably because she was already walking back to office as she asked the question. Hurrying behind her he began his explanation. "Uh my name is Winn Schott and I work in the IT department."
Sitting down in her chair and glancing condescendingly at her watch she spoke to him, "Well, Winn from IT can you please tell me why you showed up to work five hours late and why I shouldn't have security very roughly escort you out of the building."
"I was in mourning for a little while." Suddenly looking a little less dismissive she gave him a glance before returning to her work, "What happened, did you have to flush a dead goldfish."
Not missing a beat he responded "Uh no, my mother was murdered a couple days ago." The way he said it may have sounded a bit nonchalant seeing as how Cat was so caught off guard by his answer that she stopped writing and gave him her full attention.
"I see, I'm sorry to hear that." Oddly enough she sounded actually genuine in her apology, "Although I'm curious about one thing, why would you come into work only a few days after such a horrible incident, most people would be curled up in their rooms bawling like babies."
At the question Winn had to contemplate his answer for a minute before answering " With everything that's going on in my life right now, I just wanted to keep at least one thing that was constant."
Nodding to herself she began waving him away "Well if that's all then you can go get back to work."
"Ah there's that old Cat Grant charm." He muttered as he made his way back to his desk. Sitting down at his desk he began typing away at his computer his main job as part of the IT department was to create the software for all of CostCo's media outlets and repair them when needed, in this department Winn had reigned supreme until Cat hired a new employee.
Hearing a bubbly giggle he turned to see Kara chatting with the prodigal asshole himself.
Keith.
To all the women that he met he was a perfect scion of chivalry and according to most of the guys in the building he was a good dude , however anyone that could see through that facade would see that he is a manipulative two faced son of a bitch.
Ok, maybe old Winn's feelings are rising up a little.
Looking away from the two Winn went back to work, he noticed that even though he only had Winn's memories of coding and computer know how, he was comprehending and processing all of it at more than thrice the rate Past Winn ever could.
Now that he thought about it his mental faculties were all showing extreme efficiency, before he knew it his work for the day was done after a mere 30 minutes. He had gotten smart, like scary smart.
Little did Winn know this was not the first instance of his increased intelligence nor would it be the last.
Then in his mind echoed a familiar voice.
Congratulations , I see you've had an interesting day so far, discovering two of your blessings in less than six hours, truly astonishing.
Anywho let's get on to the second blessing, Freedom.
Now the meaning may be confusing so I'll have to give you a short history lesson. When I first created the human race I made a mistake with your souls, your species had no limitations on its mental or physical abilities, at the time I believed that if they continued as is, it would lead to the eventual extinction of your race.
Therefore I imposed a lock on the souls of the first generation of humans and ingrained it into your DNA. Haven't you ever wondered why certain people can comprehend things at a much faster rate or how some individuals start out the same way physically and do all the same activities yet one ends up physically superior to the other?
I have taken the liberty to remove that lock from you, now you and anyone who has your blood running through their veins shall be untethered by the mortal coil.
Enjoy Winslow.
Well guess that settles that. Definitely something to look into later though, he'd need to do some tests and catalogue all the benefits of his new dna but that could wait for later.
Looking at his computer he contemplated, "Well as long as I have the time, might as well finish work for the week." He quietly said as he began typing even more rapidly than before.
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Underground DEO HeadQuarters
Inside the secret home for extra normal agents there was the normal hustle and bustle of the building. The only thing that seemed out of place was the footage that was playing on the security monitor of Winn's thief chase through the streets.
In front of the screen stood DEO director Hank Henshaw or at least someone that looked like him , next to him was agent Alex the control desk sat Agent Vasquez.
"Vasquez, would you mind explaining what we're watching." Henshaw said gruffly
"It's exactly as it looks sir, a civilian had his wallet stolen by a Seraptoid and began to chase him down for three blocks, almost caught him too."
"Are we sure that it was a human being, maybe it was a humanoid." Alex inquired to her fellow agent.
Vasquez enhanced the video onto the civilian as closely as possible but it was too blurry to make out his face. "We were able to determine that the subject is male with black hair but we aren't able to make out any facial features so we've been unable to determine his species."
Grunting, Henshaw addressed her,"Well be sure to keep an eye on it and let me know if anything pops up."
Nodding an affirmative Vasquez turned back to her work. "Yes sir."
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To everyone who checks these out know, that I'm going to try starting a number of stories with the same basis as this one just with different characters in the other shows.
I'm already know what characters will be used in each universe, and all of these reborn one will all be separate from one another, as in none of them exist in the others story.
The name of these series of stories will be Heroes Reborn.
Supergirl- Winn Schott Jr.
Legends of Tomorrow- Jefferson "Jax" Jackson
Flash- Wally West
Arrow- Tommy Merlyn
Be sure to watch out for more stories to come.
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Awesome chapter.
By the way, in regards to his air bending, how will he learn flight?
Please tell me that he does not need to see Kara die in order to fly (it took P'Li's death for Zaheer to finally able to fly).
Also, this:
Also, from your future list of stories, I will admit that the only story that seems interesting to me is the Arrow one with Tommy Merlyn. I have not see a single episode of Legends and only seen completely the first season of Flash.
But it's your stories, you decide what to write.
By the way, in regards to his air bending, how will he learn flight?
Please tell me that he does not need to see Kara die in order to fly (it took P'Li's death for Zaheer to finally able to fly).
Also, this:
By anybody with his blood, are we talking about children he fathers or blood transfusion like Slade Wilson did to the army of prisoners to give them Mirakuru?
Also, from your future list of stories, I will admit that the only story that seems interesting to me is the Arrow one with Tommy Merlyn. I have not see a single episode of Legends and only seen completely the first season of Flash.
But it's your stories, you decide what to write.
Jordisk
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Your first chapter is not threadmarked. You may want to fix that.
My big complaint, other than the required "More Chapters! More Content!", is that his "Freedom ability is not well explained. With Power, we get Aerokinesis. Anyone who knows superheroes or languages will know what that means. He may have certain limitations, but we know He controls Air and Wind.
With Winslow's "Freedom" ability, we get "limits are removed from his DNA" and "removed from the mortal coil". Does this mean he is immortal? How does it transfer, only kids/clones or would blood transfusions work? Does that Freedom remove ALL limitations, such as the Babel Limiter that is responsible for there being multiple languages (think the Language ability from HS DxD)? He can now train in the same way as The Gamer, with ridiculous bonuses?
My big complaint, other than the required "More Chapters! More Content!", is that his "Freedom ability is not well explained. With Power, we get Aerokinesis. Anyone who knows superheroes or languages will know what that means. He may have certain limitations, but we know He controls Air and Wind.
With Winslow's "Freedom" ability, we get "limits are removed from his DNA" and "removed from the mortal coil". Does this mean he is immortal? How does it transfer, only kids/clones or would blood transfusions work? Does that Freedom remove ALL limitations, such as the Babel Limiter that is responsible for there being multiple languages (think the Language ability from HS DxD)? He can now train in the same way as The Gamer, with ridiculous bonuses?
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Both Children and Blood transfusions although the transfusion is a special case that will be explained later.
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I see that I may have explained that poorly, basically he doesn't get immortality but his lifespan is significantly increased. I answered the other question above but clones can't inherit the unlocked dna, kinda like how superboy couldn't use all of Superman's powers. He will learn things at a very accelerated rate but nothing ludicrous like the gamer ability.
Jordisk
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Thank you for responding. Though you still have not Threadmarked "A Nerd Reborn".
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what wrong with your threads they in the wrong order
Jordisk
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It is because he threadmarked the first chapter after the second. It takes some effort to fix, or the calling of experts/moderators.
A Meeting With The Sister Danvers
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Chapter 3: A Meeting With The Sister Danvers
Catco has always been and still is the top purveyor of Media content in the world, to gain a good position in the company was like being given a mile head start in the race for success.
So understandably the workload was exponentially more arduous at this company than any other, some employees would have to stay full days in the building or bring their work home just to keep up, it kept everyone busy with little time for rest.
Everyone but one black haired man that was leaning back in chair balancing a pencil under his nose. Being smarter was great and he would never take it for granted, but when it wasn't put to the test and only used on menial labor it got boring.
He'd already finished a weeks worth of work so he was good on that front but he still had two hours of his shift left, he wanted to get started on the multiple projects he'd had in mind but he only had access to his Catco computer and he couldn't very well have secret projects on a system that someone else can access.
Leaning up he decided that he would have to find something lying around to keep him from being bored.
Turning towards his desk he began looking through all the drawers and found some word puzzles, a rubix cube and a book on learning Spanish.
Goddamn he was boring!
Sighing he took the items out "Well guess I gotta work with this." Taking out the miscellaneous items he began completing them, unfortunately this did little to ward off his boredom, the puzzles took him a good minute each and the rubix cube took about five, so he continued on to the only really interesting item of the bunch.
Winn had apparently taken up learning Spanish, not surprising seeing as how he learns alien languages later on but still interesting. Deciding to start from scratch he cracked open the book and began learning another language.
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One hour later
Eidetic Memory. The ability to vividly recall images from memory after only a few instances of exposure with high precision without the need for a mnemonic.
An ability that Winn had happily discovered he was in possession of. He had tried to learn other languages in his previous life however he could never remember all the words and phrases necessary. Now though he knew all the basics to the Spanish language, he just wished he'd had this shit in high school.
He'd already read the book cover to cover but he wanted to make double sure he knew how to converse with anyone who had it as their first language.
Finishing up his second read he decided to get a move on, he may not of been done his shift but no one is going to tell the guy who finished all his work and then some that he can't go home early.
That is if he was going home.
Entering the elevator he pressed the button for the top floor, arriving with a ding Winn followed the stairs up to the roof of the Catco building. Stepping out into the open he walked to the center of the helipad and allowed himself to be wrapped up by the rushing breeze that met his form.
While he was free at his desk he had some time to think about future, namely the growth of his powers, he had thought of multiple different applications of his ability to manipulate the air. He'd also thought of the difference between first time he used his power and when he practiced using it. A mistake he had made when using his powers was that he tried to contain it.
His essence was the wind, if he tried force it to have form when he had just started using his powers it would be detrimental to his growth. Another thought that passed through his mind was how he would have to train his powers from then on, although he could produce air from his body to use, it wasn't his main power his ability in its simplicity was to manipulate the air in his surroundings.
So the best way to understand and improve on his power was to be constantly surrounded by it. The Catco building was tall, like one of National City's biggest towers so it was a no brainer that when he got up there he'd be buffeted by wind on all sides.
And that's just what he wanted. Taking a seat on the ground in a lotus position he simply did nothing, he didn't meditate, he didn't contemplate he didn't even think. The only thing he focused on was the air shifting around him, some moment he would try to reach out and control the direction moved or just swirl it around himself. He continued his practice in quiet bliss.
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Six Hours Later
Opening his eyes Winn felt a sense of calm from his practice, his control had improved considerably he noted as he slowly bended the air to glide through his fingers and around his arm. His body had gotten stiff from staying in the same position for so long. He made note to begin doing some flexibility exercise at a later point.
Making his way to the elevator he decided to go back for that Spanish book, so he'd have something to read on his walk back to his apartment. Exiting the elevator and walking towards his desk he was confused to see somebody already at his computer typing away.
It was Keith.
Walking up to him he spoke out loud "So should I ask why you're on my computer or should I just go immediately to Cat."
Surprised at his sudden appearance Keith jumped up and Winn got s good look at him, he was nothing special just a generic brown haired blue eyed white guy, also they were around the same age but everyone said he looked young.
As Keith stood there Winn made his way over to the computer and grabbed the book off his desk, only pausing slightly to glance at what he suspected was a malware program Keith was trying to to put on his equipment.
Turning towards the bit- Keith, Winn simply stared at him for a moment. Keith put up a face of confidence and bravado and moved to speak up, only to be smacked right across the face. Hard.
Holding his cheek he stepped towards Winn with an affronted look on his face only to catch a backhand to the other side of his face.
"Those were bitch slaps, slaps meant for a bitch, I.E. you" Winn spoke calmly and slowly but he had an irritated look on his face "now you listen and you listen good, I've put up with you waltzing in here like you own the place and flirting with my best friend, but I've had enough of your shit! Now I'm going to come back tomorrow at my regular time and if this bullshit is on my computer, I will knock you the fuck OUT, do we have an understanding?" He made sure that he uttered every word precisely so that Keith could hear him.
By the end of the rant Keith was shaking in his shoes and could only nod. "Good." Gathering his items together he patted Keith on the shoulder-taking a certain amount of joy from him flinching- before walking towards the elevator and leaving the building.
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"Shit shit shit!" Alex Danvers prided herself on being on time and never messing around when something serious was involved, especially her DEO work, which was why was kicking herself for taking so long helping her younger sister prepare for an obviously fruitless blind date.
Don't get her wrong she loved Kara and wanted her to have all the happiness in the world but she just wasn't a blind date type of girl. She was a sweet mushy love at first sight type of girl that you see in cheesy romcoms.
That was where Alex differed, sure when she was younger she had liked to party but she would never go on blind dates, she had to know the guy for a while before she would consider going out with them. She wouldn't deny the fact that she wanted to experience being infatuated with someone as soon as she met them, every woman wanted that at least once? It's just that she didn't believe that relationships like that could last for long.
Deciding to focus on more important things she checked her watch to see how long she has to catch her flight, she didn't have a car, so she had called an Uber, the driver was an alien that owed her a favor so he went as fast as possible. Luckily almost no one was outside and everyone who was had been on the sidewalk. As the car turned the last corner towards the airport, a figure came into view.
Catching sight of them the driver tried to stop as fast as possible but it didn't seem like the pedestrian would be able to escape. Time seemed to slow down as she saw kept her eyes on the person, she recognized he was a male with black hair who seemed to be preoccupied in his book.
At least he wouldn't see it coming, that was the small positive Alex could dig up from the unfortunate strong of events, however even this hope was dashed when the man turned towards the speeding vehicle.
For a brief moment his face was grim before he hardened into a resolute form and began moving towards the car.
She watched astounded as the man jumped so that his back faced the car and clipped the top half of the windshield, cracking it. The car skidded to a stop and she immediately turned to open the door and check on the fallen man who had landed several feet behind the car.
He was turned away from her so she couldn't get a good read on his injuries but from the slight shuffling she saw he was still alive. Telling the Uber to wait for her she quickly walked out to the fallen man.
"Oh my god, sir don't worry I'm going to get you to a hospital!" She said taking her phone out of her coat pocket and dialing 911, only for the injured man to grab onto her wrist with a surprisingly tight grip. "N-no, no… hospital." The man spoke almost desperately as he urged her to not call an ambulance. He had somehow turned towards her and she was able to see he was bleeding from his head and mouth.
She hesitated for a moment before trying to pry his hand off her wrist," I'm sorry but you need medical attention right now." Finally managing to get free of his hand she pressed call and waited for someone to answer.
"Alex...please." She paused at that moment, just as she heard a dispatcher answer on the other end and ended the call. "Oh my god I'm a fucking idiot." She says this as she hauls the man up and helps walk him to the car, depositing him in the backseat and taking place next to him she found herself glad once again she was glad that there was a drastic lack of people in the streets at the time.
Not paying any attention to the drivers yelling about 'this being a bad idea' she yelled at him to drive her to her house while trying to keep the man's head elevated.
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Alex's Apartment
With a groan Winn wearily opened his eyes and began to raise his arm to wipe he grogginess out of his eyes. He barely lifted it halfway up before the appendage exploded in pain, causing him to hold it with his other arm, further observation found that it was in a sling and he had bandages on his head and back.
Also he had somehow ended up shirtless.
"What the fuck happened to me?" He was thankfully able to slide himself up on the couch slightly so he could better collect his thought. Alright he remembered putting Keith in his place and then making his way out of the building then heading in the direction of his apartment, he wanted time to reread his Spanish book so he took the long way back.
Everything had been calm and peaceful, he was walking across the street caught in his thoughts when he had seen the car rushing at him out of his peripheral.
He wanted to try and dodge it but decided he wasn't fast enough so he went with a different solution."Jumping back first into a speeding car, not one of my best moments." Remembering his stunt quite vividly he groaned holding his injured appendage.
"I think I can agree with you on that one." Winn slowly turned his head towards a voice that sounded off from across the room. Alex Danvers was standing there with her arms crossed looking at him with an irritated face. He wasn't gonna lie he actually found it cute, "You gonna just stare at me or are you gonna tell me why you're staring at me?"
"Who are you? Why do you know my name? And why aren't you dead?" She shot off these questions in rapid succession without pause while at the same time taking a seat in the chair next to Winn.
Getting comfortable, or as comfortable as one can get with a- fractured? Let's say fractured, arm- "Well to answer your questions in order, my name is Winn Schott Jr., I know who you are because I'm best friends with Kara Danvers your sister" putting his good hand up at her surprised face he continued "And as for why I'm not dead, I actually don't have an answer to that."
Reaching over to the remote Winn turned the tv on and switched to late night news. The screen showed a burning plane that had landed in the river, the camera made a close up onto one of the wings of the plane which showed a young woman.
"Atta girl Kara." Winn muttered as he watched her commit her first act of heroism in a long line to come. He hadn't expected to be dropped on the exact day that she revealed herself but it worked for him either way.
Alex found herself worried on whether she should stare at the screen showing Kara or at Winn for knowing what Kara was and what she could do. If he knew classified information who knows what else he had information on, the escapees, Fort Rozz, The DEO. This man was too big of a factor to be left unchecked, she didn't give a shit if he was injured she had to bring him in.
Reaching into the cushion of her chair she took out one of the many guns she had hidden in the apartment, this one being a 9mm Glock 19. She pointed the weapon steadily in Winn's face but he didn't look away from the tv even as he began to speak to her.
"You know It'd be a little redundant to shoot me after patching me up at your place, unless you're like one of those serial killers that likes to lull their victims into a false sense of security." Winn spoke trying to break the obvious tension in the room, Alex was not amused by his attempt at a joke.
"Get up you're under arrest." Winn scoffed at her attempt to intimidate him.
"Arrest, by who? What are you an agent of today Alex, is it the CIA? FBI? Or are you gonna change it up and say you're MI6?" As his questions ran on he slowly raised himself to face her, her gun never leaving his face.
Flicking the safety off on her pistol she stared resolutely into his face her finger resting on the trigger of her firearm. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't pull the trigger you son of a bitch."
Seeing that she was extremely serious on ending his life he played his final trump card.
"Jeremiah Danvers is alive."
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Annnnnnnd that's how we'll be wrapping up this chapter folks!
Hope that you guys enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it has been a pleasure and you will be hearing from me in a short while, maybe even with a new story in the works.
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Chapter 3: A Meeting With The Sister Danvers
Catco has always been and still is the top purveyor of Media content in the world, to gain a good position in the company was like being given a mile head start in the race for success.
So understandably the workload was exponentially more arduous at this company than any other, some employees would have to stay full days in the building or bring their work home just to keep up, it kept everyone busy with little time for rest.
Everyone but one black haired man that was leaning back in chair balancing a pencil under his nose. Being smarter was great and he would never take it for granted, but when it wasn't put to the test and only used on menial labor it got boring.
He'd already finished a weeks worth of work so he was good on that front but he still had two hours of his shift left, he wanted to get started on the multiple projects he'd had in mind but he only had access to his Catco computer and he couldn't very well have secret projects on a system that someone else can access.
Leaning up he decided that he would have to find something lying around to keep him from being bored.
Turning towards his desk he began looking through all the drawers and found some word puzzles, a rubix cube and a book on learning Spanish.
Goddamn he was boring!
Sighing he took the items out "Well guess I gotta work with this." Taking out the miscellaneous items he began completing them, unfortunately this did little to ward off his boredom, the puzzles took him a good minute each and the rubix cube took about five, so he continued on to the only really interesting item of the bunch.
Winn had apparently taken up learning Spanish, not surprising seeing as how he learns alien languages later on but still interesting. Deciding to start from scratch he cracked open the book and began learning another language.
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One hour later
Eidetic Memory. The ability to vividly recall images from memory after only a few instances of exposure with high precision without the need for a mnemonic.
An ability that Winn had happily discovered he was in possession of. He had tried to learn other languages in his previous life however he could never remember all the words and phrases necessary. Now though he knew all the basics to the Spanish language, he just wished he'd had this shit in high school.
He'd already read the book cover to cover but he wanted to make double sure he knew how to converse with anyone who had it as their first language.
Finishing up his second read he decided to get a move on, he may not of been done his shift but no one is going to tell the guy who finished all his work and then some that he can't go home early.
That is if he was going home.
Entering the elevator he pressed the button for the top floor, arriving with a ding Winn followed the stairs up to the roof of the Catco building. Stepping out into the open he walked to the center of the helipad and allowed himself to be wrapped up by the rushing breeze that met his form.
While he was free at his desk he had some time to think about future, namely the growth of his powers, he had thought of multiple different applications of his ability to manipulate the air. He'd also thought of the difference between first time he used his power and when he practiced using it. A mistake he had made when using his powers was that he tried to contain it.
His essence was the wind, if he tried force it to have form when he had just started using his powers it would be detrimental to his growth. Another thought that passed through his mind was how he would have to train his powers from then on, although he could produce air from his body to use, it wasn't his main power his ability in its simplicity was to manipulate the air in his surroundings.
So the best way to understand and improve on his power was to be constantly surrounded by it. The Catco building was tall, like one of National City's biggest towers so it was a no brainer that when he got up there he'd be buffeted by wind on all sides.
And that's just what he wanted. Taking a seat on the ground in a lotus position he simply did nothing, he didn't meditate, he didn't contemplate he didn't even think. The only thing he focused on was the air shifting around him, some moment he would try to reach out and control the direction moved or just swirl it around himself. He continued his practice in quiet bliss.
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Six Hours Later
Opening his eyes Winn felt a sense of calm from his practice, his control had improved considerably he noted as he slowly bended the air to glide through his fingers and around his arm. His body had gotten stiff from staying in the same position for so long. He made note to begin doing some flexibility exercise at a later point.
Making his way to the elevator he decided to go back for that Spanish book, so he'd have something to read on his walk back to his apartment. Exiting the elevator and walking towards his desk he was confused to see somebody already at his computer typing away.
It was Keith.
Walking up to him he spoke out loud "So should I ask why you're on my computer or should I just go immediately to Cat."
Surprised at his sudden appearance Keith jumped up and Winn got s good look at him, he was nothing special just a generic brown haired blue eyed white guy, also they were around the same age but everyone said he looked young.
As Keith stood there Winn made his way over to the computer and grabbed the book off his desk, only pausing slightly to glance at what he suspected was a malware program Keith was trying to to put on his equipment.
Turning towards the bit- Keith, Winn simply stared at him for a moment. Keith put up a face of confidence and bravado and moved to speak up, only to be smacked right across the face. Hard.
Holding his cheek he stepped towards Winn with an affronted look on his face only to catch a backhand to the other side of his face.
"Those were bitch slaps, slaps meant for a bitch, I.E. you" Winn spoke calmly and slowly but he had an irritated look on his face "now you listen and you listen good, I've put up with you waltzing in here like you own the place and flirting with my best friend, but I've had enough of your shit! Now I'm going to come back tomorrow at my regular time and if this bullshit is on my computer, I will knock you the fuck OUT, do we have an understanding?" He made sure that he uttered every word precisely so that Keith could hear him.
By the end of the rant Keith was shaking in his shoes and could only nod. "Good." Gathering his items together he patted Keith on the shoulder-taking a certain amount of joy from him flinching- before walking towards the elevator and leaving the building.
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"Shit shit shit!" Alex Danvers prided herself on being on time and never messing around when something serious was involved, especially her DEO work, which was why was kicking herself for taking so long helping her younger sister prepare for an obviously fruitless blind date.
Don't get her wrong she loved Kara and wanted her to have all the happiness in the world but she just wasn't a blind date type of girl. She was a sweet mushy love at first sight type of girl that you see in cheesy romcoms.
That was where Alex differed, sure when she was younger she had liked to party but she would never go on blind dates, she had to know the guy for a while before she would consider going out with them. She wouldn't deny the fact that she wanted to experience being infatuated with someone as soon as she met them, every woman wanted that at least once? It's just that she didn't believe that relationships like that could last for long.
Deciding to focus on more important things she checked her watch to see how long she has to catch her flight, she didn't have a car, so she had called an Uber, the driver was an alien that owed her a favor so he went as fast as possible. Luckily almost no one was outside and everyone who was had been on the sidewalk. As the car turned the last corner towards the airport, a figure came into view.
Catching sight of them the driver tried to stop as fast as possible but it didn't seem like the pedestrian would be able to escape. Time seemed to slow down as she saw kept her eyes on the person, she recognized he was a male with black hair who seemed to be preoccupied in his book.
At least he wouldn't see it coming, that was the small positive Alex could dig up from the unfortunate strong of events, however even this hope was dashed when the man turned towards the speeding vehicle.
For a brief moment his face was grim before he hardened into a resolute form and began moving towards the car.
She watched astounded as the man jumped so that his back faced the car and clipped the top half of the windshield, cracking it. The car skidded to a stop and she immediately turned to open the door and check on the fallen man who had landed several feet behind the car.
He was turned away from her so she couldn't get a good read on his injuries but from the slight shuffling she saw he was still alive. Telling the Uber to wait for her she quickly walked out to the fallen man.
"Oh my god, sir don't worry I'm going to get you to a hospital!" She said taking her phone out of her coat pocket and dialing 911, only for the injured man to grab onto her wrist with a surprisingly tight grip. "N-no, no… hospital." The man spoke almost desperately as he urged her to not call an ambulance. He had somehow turned towards her and she was able to see he was bleeding from his head and mouth.
She hesitated for a moment before trying to pry his hand off her wrist," I'm sorry but you need medical attention right now." Finally managing to get free of his hand she pressed call and waited for someone to answer.
"Alex...please." She paused at that moment, just as she heard a dispatcher answer on the other end and ended the call. "Oh my god I'm a fucking idiot." She says this as she hauls the man up and helps walk him to the car, depositing him in the backseat and taking place next to him she found herself glad once again she was glad that there was a drastic lack of people in the streets at the time.
Not paying any attention to the drivers yelling about 'this being a bad idea' she yelled at him to drive her to her house while trying to keep the man's head elevated.
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Alex's Apartment
With a groan Winn wearily opened his eyes and began to raise his arm to wipe he grogginess out of his eyes. He barely lifted it halfway up before the appendage exploded in pain, causing him to hold it with his other arm, further observation found that it was in a sling and he had bandages on his head and back.
Also he had somehow ended up shirtless.
"What the fuck happened to me?" He was thankfully able to slide himself up on the couch slightly so he could better collect his thought. Alright he remembered putting Keith in his place and then making his way out of the building then heading in the direction of his apartment, he wanted time to reread his Spanish book so he took the long way back.
Everything had been calm and peaceful, he was walking across the street caught in his thoughts when he had seen the car rushing at him out of his peripheral.
He wanted to try and dodge it but decided he wasn't fast enough so he went with a different solution."Jumping back first into a speeding car, not one of my best moments." Remembering his stunt quite vividly he groaned holding his injured appendage.
"I think I can agree with you on that one." Winn slowly turned his head towards a voice that sounded off from across the room. Alex Danvers was standing there with her arms crossed looking at him with an irritated face. He wasn't gonna lie he actually found it cute, "You gonna just stare at me or are you gonna tell me why you're staring at me?"
"Who are you? Why do you know my name? And why aren't you dead?" She shot off these questions in rapid succession without pause while at the same time taking a seat in the chair next to Winn.
Getting comfortable, or as comfortable as one can get with a- fractured? Let's say fractured, arm- "Well to answer your questions in order, my name is Winn Schott Jr., I know who you are because I'm best friends with Kara Danvers your sister" putting his good hand up at her surprised face he continued "And as for why I'm not dead, I actually don't have an answer to that."
Reaching over to the remote Winn turned the tv on and switched to late night news. The screen showed a burning plane that had landed in the river, the camera made a close up onto one of the wings of the plane which showed a young woman.
"Atta girl Kara." Winn muttered as he watched her commit her first act of heroism in a long line to come. He hadn't expected to be dropped on the exact day that she revealed herself but it worked for him either way.
Alex found herself worried on whether she should stare at the screen showing Kara or at Winn for knowing what Kara was and what she could do. If he knew classified information who knows what else he had information on, the escapees, Fort Rozz, The DEO. This man was too big of a factor to be left unchecked, she didn't give a shit if he was injured she had to bring him in.
Reaching into the cushion of her chair she took out one of the many guns she had hidden in the apartment, this one being a 9mm Glock 19. She pointed the weapon steadily in Winn's face but he didn't look away from the tv even as he began to speak to her.
"You know It'd be a little redundant to shoot me after patching me up at your place, unless you're like one of those serial killers that likes to lull their victims into a false sense of security." Winn spoke trying to break the obvious tension in the room, Alex was not amused by his attempt at a joke.
"Get up you're under arrest." Winn scoffed at her attempt to intimidate him.
"Arrest, by who? What are you an agent of today Alex, is it the CIA? FBI? Or are you gonna change it up and say you're MI6?" As his questions ran on he slowly raised himself to face her, her gun never leaving his face.
Flicking the safety off on her pistol she stared resolutely into his face her finger resting on the trigger of her firearm. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't pull the trigger you son of a bitch."
Seeing that she was extremely serious on ending his life he played his final trump card.
"Jeremiah Danvers is alive."
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Annnnnnnd that's how we'll be wrapping up this chapter folks!
Hope that you guys enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it has been a pleasure and you will be hearing from me in a short while, maybe even with a new story in the works.
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- New Jersey
It did, I also considered making him a white Martian somehow born on earth, but I found a Winn becomes a reincarnated badass to be a more interesting story plot.
No Pain No Gain
- Location
- New Jersey
Alright guys before we get into this chapter I just wanted to thank all of you beautiful people that read my story, now there's something that I've been meaning to mention for this story.
Winn will be in a polyamorous relationship in this story, meaning he will be involved with multiple women, now I'm still trying to decide on something. I've already chosen two of the girls he will be with, however I wanna know if I should have him be with Alex,Kara or both, now if it's both there's definitely going to be some pre existing tension brought up between the Danver sisters, that is all I wanted to address at the moment.
Now then let's jump on in!
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Chapter 4: No Pain No Gain
National City
It was about eight in the morning when Winn groaned himself awake. After the whole scene with Alex, which ended with her dropping her gun extremely shockedand perturbed then walking slowly into her bedroom, he had promptly gathered his shit and let himself out.
Seeing as how he had woken up shirtless with a slingon his arm he'd surmised that he'd been stripped then patched up, at the time his arm still hurt like hell so he hadn't put it back on and just walked home shirtless.
He found himself very satisfied with the whistles and catcalls he'd received from female pedestrians.
Getting out of bed and reaching up to touch his arm he winced slightly, he had read that a humeral fracture takes about three months to heal, while still broken, his upper arm felt a lot better than when he woke upat Alex's place.
He had went straight to sleep from from Alex's house but that was still only about ten hours of sleep, his body really astonished him sometimes, hell if he got itto a doctor for some proper surgery he might be able to heal up even faster.
With just a bunch of wincing and a curse or two he successfully got ready for work with about 20 minutes to spare. Using them wisely he went to get somebreakfast from Big Belly Burger and then dropping by a bookstore for some reading material, by the time he was on his floor he was still 10 minutes early to clockin for work.
Humming to himself he made his way over to his desk."Today's gonna be a good day." What he stumbled upon next would show him that no matterwhat Universe or Time the only thing that remained absolute…
is Murphy's Law.
The sight of Keith Richford with a neck brace and a gauze pad on his cheek sitting in Cat's office with what looked like a lawyer shouting in Cat's undisturbed face was a great reminder of this fact.
He tried to avoid the situation as best as he could but Cat caught him looking before he could turn away so he just relented and proceeded to walk slowly into her office, closing the door behind himself everyone in the room turned to him.
"Is there anything you need of me Ms. Grant?" He said as impassively as possible. He glanced at Keith causing him to look straight forward, a movement both Cat and the lawyer type man caught.
Looking towards Winn Cat spoke,"Well apparently Keith here filed a report saying that you tried to put a virus on his computer," She was cut off by the balding suited white man's yelling," And when my client tried to stop him, he was viciously beaten by your thug of an employee!"
Cat seemed more annoyed by the entire situation than anything else, turning towards she rubbed her head and spoke,"Mr. Schott is there any truth to these allegations?"
Winn really wanted to lie and say that Keith was a lying douchebag and that he was obviously faking his injuries so he could get Winn in trouble. Howeverthere was a certain degree of truth to it,besides he respected Cat too much to lie to her like that.
And if there were any tapes she knew that he was already kinda guilty.
Sighing, he spoke up "Yes there is a certain degree of truth to what he said." Cat didn't look all that surprised so she probably already knew about it."Well I'm afraidthat's too bad, effective immediately you'll be suspended without pay for leeet's say, a month." Winn was genuinely surprised, he thought that he would get fired, at the very least.
The lawyer was probably expecting that too given how frustrated he looked, but he didn't bring up anyopposition as he and Keith both left and bumping him as they passed.
In his fucking broken arm!
It took a whole lot of willpower not to swing on either of them, he'd have to work off this irritation later.Turning towards his boss he gave her a look of complete confusion. He'd been more than a littleirritated when he found out he was being framed for assaulting someone but It dissipated when Cat didn't fire him and he didn't know why.
As if his question was written on his face she answered him slowly as if talking to a child,"I have hidden cameras recording this floor at all times, and while it would have been easy to dismiss hisaccusations, I'm afraid that his parents are major shareholders in the company so this is the best I could do."
Winn nodded his head slowly, "I'm just kinda surprised they didn't try to push harder and try to get me fired."
"If they wanted to press the issue and set up a case they'd need certain documentation that can't be faked, like a full doctors report on his injuries."
'Oh Cat you little minx, I swear if I wasn't sure you'd knee me in the groin I would so kiss you right now.'"Any work that you have for the next month will be sent to you by courier, remember this isn't a vacation, simply a change of location."
Nodding his head Winn began walking out of her office, oblivious to Cat checking out his posterior on his way out. Walking back to his desk he picked up the items he'd bought on his way there and promptly left the building.
Luckily he was done with his work from Catco, so he was in no rush for time so he made his way home slowly, whistling along the way.
Strange, he felt like he was forgetting something.
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Kara was really nervous, just yesterday she had revealed her existence to the world, after that things had gone differently than what she expected. She'd been expecting her sister to be waiting for her back at her apartment with a lecture ready about howirresponsible she was, when she got there she found her sister but she had just stared at her for a full five minutes before hugging her tightly and saying they'd talk later.
Now she found herself at her desk glaring at the the chair just 10 feet away from her. Another day went by without Winn being there, she understood that he was in mourning but after his conversation with Cat she thought that he'd start coming to work as if nothing happened again.
She really needed someone to talk about her powers, Alex was out of it, her mom was being surprisingly quiet about the situation, and while James may have some insight she had only met him yesterday.
Suddenly a packet dropped on her desk causing her to jump in surprise. In front of her stood her boss with her trademark look of irritation on her face.
"Keera I'll need you to drop these off at at Went'shome, he'll be working from there for a little while."
She said before she walked away with no explanation.
'Went, does she mean Winn!? Why is he working from home?' Deciding that the best way to get answers was to go to the source she briskly made her way out of the building, only to run into the unsettling sight of Keith and his injuries.
The smile on his face and his enthusiasm betrayed his appearance. "Hey Kara, so I was wondering if you wanted to go on a date."
Any other time she'd be swooning at that smile, but she was in a rush to see how Winn was doing. "SorryKeith I'm kinda in a rush, I need to get to Winn."
As she brushed past him he grabbed her arm and stopped, she barely stopped herself from ripping her arm from his grip-it wouldn't do any good to tear theman's arm out of his socket so she tried to avoid him with her words.
"Keith let go I need to get to Winn!" It seemed that he didn't like this because as soon as he heard the name Winn his grip tightened, it didn't hurt her but she had to fake a wince for appearances.
"What's is with you and him, it's like you two go crazy whenever comes to the other?" He was clearly very irritated for a reason unknown to Kara. Winn was her best friend, and she hadn't really been acting like it for a while, his mother was murdered, and she didn't even try to see how he'd been doing. "He's my bestfriend."
"Oh is that all, cause he seemed a little angry when hesaw me with you, look at what he did to to me!" As hesaid this he gestured to his neck and face thinking that his 'injuries' might get him some sympathy.
Kara knew better though, she knew that Winn wouldnever do something so violent over what she thought was nothing to be worried about. She used her x-ray vision to look at the bones and muscles around his neck and face, only to find that he had no injuries besides some bruising on his cheeks.
Keith, none the wiser kept speaking, "I should've called the cops on that asshole friend of yours, he's lucky he only got suspended from work."
At this Kara felt anger rise in her chest, anger about Winn being unjustly accused and punished, anger at Keith for being petty enough to lie to Kat, but most of all anger at herself for not seeing that her friend was so obviously craving her companionship.
Using a bit of her sun powered strength she ripped her hand from his grip so violently he took a few steps back and walked off without even taking a glance at his shocked face.
Soon enough Kara found herself outside of Winn's apartment, as she raised her fist to knock she hesitated.
What if he didn't want to talk to her? Yesterday he did his best to leave as soon as possible, had she neglected him to the point where he wanted nothing to do with her.
"I'll just come back tomorrow." She murmured this toherself and kneeled down to slide the folder under the door. Before she could stand up the door swung open and she became face to face with a rock hard six pack.
'My God you could grind meat on those-' "Kara?"
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After going back to his apartment Winn decided thathe should start to prepare for what was to come, namely all the different new aliens.
He wasn't stupid, this isn't the universe that he had watched so many times and even if it was he only knew of what Kara and her main allies dealt with it.For all he knew Brainiac could be there in a month with an army of red lanterns at his side.
That's why he was probing the deep web looking forany and all sights where superhuman battles took place. He'd taken the liberty of also setting up an alert program on his laptop that connected to his phone,sending him any article,story or gossip that he would find pertinent.
There weren't enough heroes, and since it seemed that the Justice League wouldn't be formed unless it went inter dimensional he'd have to start pointing individuals with abilities and potential in the right direction.
After he finished setting up the notification system he looked into procuring a few weapons for himself, things that would benefit from his powers but something he could rely on if he was ever withoutthem.
"Now let's see what instruments of violence I can findtoday." Scrolling down the page he saw a vast list of items that didn't seem like they were meant for the21st century.
Spear,Long Axes,Machetes,Katanas,Bow and Arrows.
The last one he chuckled at, he'd have to consider all the options he had, and there sure as hell were a lot. Closing his laptop Winn decided that he could wait to get his equipment and wanted to work on himself first.
When it came to his abilities and his new body he hadn't even skimmed the surface so he decided to wade into the pool a bit deeper.
He took up a lotus position in the center of his apartment and then began to slowly and carefully strip himself of his shirt and arm brace.
Ever since he had broken his arm his new body had been reacting… strangely. He didn't mean the obvious pain and discomfort either, it's like his injury had kickstarted a part of his ability and increased his self sensitivity to astronomical levels.
As he sunk deeper into his meditation he found something incredibly disturbing about himself.
Winn could feel his own cells.
Not every single one but the cells that were damaged and the ones that were focused on regeneration were the most obvious.
He could feel them as they moved around his body, working to reconstruct his shattered bone.
"Let's try something different." He muttered bringing his hand up to his injured arm, it did nothing but help him concentrate and he would need all of it for what he was attempting.
It was a weird feeling, he admitted, connecting to his body and shifting his cells towards his broken bone, but after a solid hour of sweat and tears he had healed the injury significantly.
He still had a solid degree of discomfort and wouldn't be doing any strenuous work for a little while but it's a lot better than it being broken.
Luckily the only people to see him with it on were Cat, Keith and that douchebag lawyer of his.
He stood up so he could go rest when he noticed someone had slipped a folder under his door, walking over he opened the door.
"Kara?" Kneeling at waist level to him was the energetic blond. She seemed to be in a daze and was staring at his stomach, he looked down and chuckled realizing that he was shirtless.
Despite himself he felt the odd need to tease her.
"You know if you wanted a peek all you had to do was ask." He could feel that the huge grin on his face as he spoke.
"Winn!" Standing up much quicker than a human should, she yelled at him although there was much more embarrassment than there was anger in hervoice, her face had also taken on a bright red.
Chuckling to himself he welcomed her in and bent down to pick up the packet and reading it over.
"So basically Cat decided to send me a care packageof all my work for the next month?" He turned to Kara only to see her looking around the apartment as if it were foreign territory.
That's right he'd done a little spring cleaning, most notably he'd taken down all the Superman posters he had, it wouldn't do good to be a superfan and a superhero.
He'd give the Man of Steel the respect he deserved but he wasn't going to fanboy all over him.
Pause, Phrasing.
Shaking his head he turned his attention back to Kara who was fighting to keep her eyes on his face. They stood across from each other for a moment before surprisingly Kara broke the silence.
"Winn I-I just wanted to say that I am so sorry that I haven't been with you these last couple of days, I know that with everything that's been going on Ishould of been with you."
Her voice shook with raw emotion as she spoke, unshed tears glistening in her eyes. Winn moved forward to engulf her in a hug letting her cry into his shoulder.
Winn wanted so much to be mad at her and resent her but he couldn't, he just couldn't. The girl who would eat late night dinner with him when he had to stay nights at Catco. Who would be the first smile he saw for the last two years when the entire world seemed dull. Some nights she would be the last voice he heard and would listen to the nightmares he hadabout his father.
Was he still irritated, of fucking course but he wasn't going to let that tear a rift in their friendship. Kara wasn't someone who could lie and she wore all her emotions on her sleeves so he could tell that she was being completely honest.
Lifting her face from his shoulder Kara looked into Winn's eyes as he did hers, they still had their armswrapped around each other so she could feel his muscles pressed up on her chest. As they stood there Kara thought about Winn and how he seemed like acompletely different man, he was still the Winn she knew but he had a different air about him. He seemed to have all the qualities she cared for but heightened and a few he didn't have before, he was caring,confident,flirty.
And of course she happily noted the muscles he hadbeen hiding from everyone.
"Why Me?"
At her words his eyes widened in surprise, of course she knew about his feelings it was pretty damn obvious. Kara Danvers might be naive, even a little bit air headed but she was in no way stupid.
At her questioning Winn had to ask himself if the same question. Did he still have feelings for Kara?
Yes, without question.
He found himself kind of surprised with himself, he was still Winn and yet he wasn't, yesterday he may have been different but when he woke up this morning it seemed as if his previous life and this one had melded together perfectly.
He remembered all of Winn's life as if he lived it and technically he did. If he had been asked the same question yesterday maybe his answer would have been different, but the past didn't matter. He didn't have different memories or experiences anymore, he was just one person.
He was one Winn.
As for his feelings for Kara he wanted her, he wanted more than anything to be with her, but he felt like they both needed to move forward slowly if they wanted anything to sprout into something real.
But that didn't mean he couldn't lead them off with alittle something.
Bringing his hands up he gently lifted her glasses off and laid them on his counter. He then grasped her left cheek and stroked it with his thumb, he leaned forward and captured her lips into a kiss.
It began tender and delicate but it didn't last that way for long, as their lips met it felt like an explosion went off. They instantly began to make out even morepassionately their hands trailing each other's bodies.
Kara found herself tracing Winn's bare muscles andgliding over them with her fingers, she felt him probe her mouth as if asking for permission to enter, which she gladly gave.
Winn had one arm around her waist to pull her flush against him with his other roughly grabbing the back of her head pushing her even deeper into their lip lock. Kara lightly bit his lip as she felt the hand on her waist slowly moving up her stomach to grasp her breast.
And in a single movement he pulled away he hand leaving her chest and his lips leaving hers. Unconsciously Kara let out a small whimper at the loss of contact which brought a smirk to Winn's face.
Planting a small peck on her nose Winn spoke softly,"I want so much to be with you, but I want us to take this slowly, I want to enjoy every moment and not rush into anything."
She nodded though she could tell she was quite frustrated "I understand, I feel the exact same" she tried to look mad but simply ended up pouting cutely "If you want to take it so slow what was that kiss for?"
Chuckling he brought her close and huskily spoke into her ear. "Think of that as a taste of what's to come."
He pretended to ignore her blush and how she pushed herself further into him as she buried her face into his shoulder in embarrassment.
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Man I was waiting to be able to write this scene, some people may think that this was a little premature but as it says in the chapter Kara isn't stupid and Winn didn't seem to be hiding his feelings all too well.
The only reason it happened so early was because of the SI and the different people and events involved.
Till next time, see ya.
Winn will be in a polyamorous relationship in this story, meaning he will be involved with multiple women, now I'm still trying to decide on something. I've already chosen two of the girls he will be with, however I wanna know if I should have him be with Alex,Kara or both, now if it's both there's definitely going to be some pre existing tension brought up between the Danver sisters, that is all I wanted to address at the moment.
Now then let's jump on in!
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Chapter 4: No Pain No Gain
National City
It was about eight in the morning when Winn groaned himself awake. After the whole scene with Alex, which ended with her dropping her gun extremely shockedand perturbed then walking slowly into her bedroom, he had promptly gathered his shit and let himself out.
Seeing as how he had woken up shirtless with a slingon his arm he'd surmised that he'd been stripped then patched up, at the time his arm still hurt like hell so he hadn't put it back on and just walked home shirtless.
He found himself very satisfied with the whistles and catcalls he'd received from female pedestrians.
Getting out of bed and reaching up to touch his arm he winced slightly, he had read that a humeral fracture takes about three months to heal, while still broken, his upper arm felt a lot better than when he woke upat Alex's place.
He had went straight to sleep from from Alex's house but that was still only about ten hours of sleep, his body really astonished him sometimes, hell if he got itto a doctor for some proper surgery he might be able to heal up even faster.
With just a bunch of wincing and a curse or two he successfully got ready for work with about 20 minutes to spare. Using them wisely he went to get somebreakfast from Big Belly Burger and then dropping by a bookstore for some reading material, by the time he was on his floor he was still 10 minutes early to clockin for work.
Humming to himself he made his way over to his desk."Today's gonna be a good day." What he stumbled upon next would show him that no matterwhat Universe or Time the only thing that remained absolute…
is Murphy's Law.
The sight of Keith Richford with a neck brace and a gauze pad on his cheek sitting in Cat's office with what looked like a lawyer shouting in Cat's undisturbed face was a great reminder of this fact.
He tried to avoid the situation as best as he could but Cat caught him looking before he could turn away so he just relented and proceeded to walk slowly into her office, closing the door behind himself everyone in the room turned to him.
"Is there anything you need of me Ms. Grant?" He said as impassively as possible. He glanced at Keith causing him to look straight forward, a movement both Cat and the lawyer type man caught.
Looking towards Winn Cat spoke,"Well apparently Keith here filed a report saying that you tried to put a virus on his computer," She was cut off by the balding suited white man's yelling," And when my client tried to stop him, he was viciously beaten by your thug of an employee!"
Cat seemed more annoyed by the entire situation than anything else, turning towards she rubbed her head and spoke,"Mr. Schott is there any truth to these allegations?"
Winn really wanted to lie and say that Keith was a lying douchebag and that he was obviously faking his injuries so he could get Winn in trouble. Howeverthere was a certain degree of truth to it,besides he respected Cat too much to lie to her like that.
And if there were any tapes she knew that he was already kinda guilty.
Sighing, he spoke up "Yes there is a certain degree of truth to what he said." Cat didn't look all that surprised so she probably already knew about it."Well I'm afraidthat's too bad, effective immediately you'll be suspended without pay for leeet's say, a month." Winn was genuinely surprised, he thought that he would get fired, at the very least.
The lawyer was probably expecting that too given how frustrated he looked, but he didn't bring up anyopposition as he and Keith both left and bumping him as they passed.
In his fucking broken arm!
It took a whole lot of willpower not to swing on either of them, he'd have to work off this irritation later.Turning towards his boss he gave her a look of complete confusion. He'd been more than a littleirritated when he found out he was being framed for assaulting someone but It dissipated when Cat didn't fire him and he didn't know why.
As if his question was written on his face she answered him slowly as if talking to a child,"I have hidden cameras recording this floor at all times, and while it would have been easy to dismiss hisaccusations, I'm afraid that his parents are major shareholders in the company so this is the best I could do."
Winn nodded his head slowly, "I'm just kinda surprised they didn't try to push harder and try to get me fired."
"If they wanted to press the issue and set up a case they'd need certain documentation that can't be faked, like a full doctors report on his injuries."
'Oh Cat you little minx, I swear if I wasn't sure you'd knee me in the groin I would so kiss you right now.'"Any work that you have for the next month will be sent to you by courier, remember this isn't a vacation, simply a change of location."
Nodding his head Winn began walking out of her office, oblivious to Cat checking out his posterior on his way out. Walking back to his desk he picked up the items he'd bought on his way there and promptly left the building.
Luckily he was done with his work from Catco, so he was in no rush for time so he made his way home slowly, whistling along the way.
Strange, he felt like he was forgetting something.
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Kara was really nervous, just yesterday she had revealed her existence to the world, after that things had gone differently than what she expected. She'd been expecting her sister to be waiting for her back at her apartment with a lecture ready about howirresponsible she was, when she got there she found her sister but she had just stared at her for a full five minutes before hugging her tightly and saying they'd talk later.
Now she found herself at her desk glaring at the the chair just 10 feet away from her. Another day went by without Winn being there, she understood that he was in mourning but after his conversation with Cat she thought that he'd start coming to work as if nothing happened again.
She really needed someone to talk about her powers, Alex was out of it, her mom was being surprisingly quiet about the situation, and while James may have some insight she had only met him yesterday.
Suddenly a packet dropped on her desk causing her to jump in surprise. In front of her stood her boss with her trademark look of irritation on her face.
"Keera I'll need you to drop these off at at Went'shome, he'll be working from there for a little while."
She said before she walked away with no explanation.
'Went, does she mean Winn!? Why is he working from home?' Deciding that the best way to get answers was to go to the source she briskly made her way out of the building, only to run into the unsettling sight of Keith and his injuries.
The smile on his face and his enthusiasm betrayed his appearance. "Hey Kara, so I was wondering if you wanted to go on a date."
Any other time she'd be swooning at that smile, but she was in a rush to see how Winn was doing. "SorryKeith I'm kinda in a rush, I need to get to Winn."
As she brushed past him he grabbed her arm and stopped, she barely stopped herself from ripping her arm from his grip-it wouldn't do any good to tear theman's arm out of his socket so she tried to avoid him with her words.
"Keith let go I need to get to Winn!" It seemed that he didn't like this because as soon as he heard the name Winn his grip tightened, it didn't hurt her but she had to fake a wince for appearances.
"What's is with you and him, it's like you two go crazy whenever comes to the other?" He was clearly very irritated for a reason unknown to Kara. Winn was her best friend, and she hadn't really been acting like it for a while, his mother was murdered, and she didn't even try to see how he'd been doing. "He's my bestfriend."
"Oh is that all, cause he seemed a little angry when hesaw me with you, look at what he did to to me!" As hesaid this he gestured to his neck and face thinking that his 'injuries' might get him some sympathy.
Kara knew better though, she knew that Winn wouldnever do something so violent over what she thought was nothing to be worried about. She used her x-ray vision to look at the bones and muscles around his neck and face, only to find that he had no injuries besides some bruising on his cheeks.
Keith, none the wiser kept speaking, "I should've called the cops on that asshole friend of yours, he's lucky he only got suspended from work."
At this Kara felt anger rise in her chest, anger about Winn being unjustly accused and punished, anger at Keith for being petty enough to lie to Kat, but most of all anger at herself for not seeing that her friend was so obviously craving her companionship.
Using a bit of her sun powered strength she ripped her hand from his grip so violently he took a few steps back and walked off without even taking a glance at his shocked face.
Soon enough Kara found herself outside of Winn's apartment, as she raised her fist to knock she hesitated.
What if he didn't want to talk to her? Yesterday he did his best to leave as soon as possible, had she neglected him to the point where he wanted nothing to do with her.
"I'll just come back tomorrow." She murmured this toherself and kneeled down to slide the folder under the door. Before she could stand up the door swung open and she became face to face with a rock hard six pack.
'My God you could grind meat on those-' "Kara?"
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After going back to his apartment Winn decided thathe should start to prepare for what was to come, namely all the different new aliens.
He wasn't stupid, this isn't the universe that he had watched so many times and even if it was he only knew of what Kara and her main allies dealt with it.For all he knew Brainiac could be there in a month with an army of red lanterns at his side.
That's why he was probing the deep web looking forany and all sights where superhuman battles took place. He'd taken the liberty of also setting up an alert program on his laptop that connected to his phone,sending him any article,story or gossip that he would find pertinent.
There weren't enough heroes, and since it seemed that the Justice League wouldn't be formed unless it went inter dimensional he'd have to start pointing individuals with abilities and potential in the right direction.
After he finished setting up the notification system he looked into procuring a few weapons for himself, things that would benefit from his powers but something he could rely on if he was ever withoutthem.
"Now let's see what instruments of violence I can findtoday." Scrolling down the page he saw a vast list of items that didn't seem like they were meant for the21st century.
Spear,Long Axes,Machetes,Katanas,Bow and Arrows.
The last one he chuckled at, he'd have to consider all the options he had, and there sure as hell were a lot. Closing his laptop Winn decided that he could wait to get his equipment and wanted to work on himself first.
When it came to his abilities and his new body he hadn't even skimmed the surface so he decided to wade into the pool a bit deeper.
He took up a lotus position in the center of his apartment and then began to slowly and carefully strip himself of his shirt and arm brace.
Ever since he had broken his arm his new body had been reacting… strangely. He didn't mean the obvious pain and discomfort either, it's like his injury had kickstarted a part of his ability and increased his self sensitivity to astronomical levels.
As he sunk deeper into his meditation he found something incredibly disturbing about himself.
Winn could feel his own cells.
Not every single one but the cells that were damaged and the ones that were focused on regeneration were the most obvious.
He could feel them as they moved around his body, working to reconstruct his shattered bone.
"Let's try something different." He muttered bringing his hand up to his injured arm, it did nothing but help him concentrate and he would need all of it for what he was attempting.
It was a weird feeling, he admitted, connecting to his body and shifting his cells towards his broken bone, but after a solid hour of sweat and tears he had healed the injury significantly.
He still had a solid degree of discomfort and wouldn't be doing any strenuous work for a little while but it's a lot better than it being broken.
Luckily the only people to see him with it on were Cat, Keith and that douchebag lawyer of his.
He stood up so he could go rest when he noticed someone had slipped a folder under his door, walking over he opened the door.
"Kara?" Kneeling at waist level to him was the energetic blond. She seemed to be in a daze and was staring at his stomach, he looked down and chuckled realizing that he was shirtless.
Despite himself he felt the odd need to tease her.
"You know if you wanted a peek all you had to do was ask." He could feel that the huge grin on his face as he spoke.
"Winn!" Standing up much quicker than a human should, she yelled at him although there was much more embarrassment than there was anger in hervoice, her face had also taken on a bright red.
Chuckling to himself he welcomed her in and bent down to pick up the packet and reading it over.
"So basically Cat decided to send me a care packageof all my work for the next month?" He turned to Kara only to see her looking around the apartment as if it were foreign territory.
That's right he'd done a little spring cleaning, most notably he'd taken down all the Superman posters he had, it wouldn't do good to be a superfan and a superhero.
He'd give the Man of Steel the respect he deserved but he wasn't going to fanboy all over him.
Pause, Phrasing.
Shaking his head he turned his attention back to Kara who was fighting to keep her eyes on his face. They stood across from each other for a moment before surprisingly Kara broke the silence.
"Winn I-I just wanted to say that I am so sorry that I haven't been with you these last couple of days, I know that with everything that's been going on Ishould of been with you."
Her voice shook with raw emotion as she spoke, unshed tears glistening in her eyes. Winn moved forward to engulf her in a hug letting her cry into his shoulder.
Winn wanted so much to be mad at her and resent her but he couldn't, he just couldn't. The girl who would eat late night dinner with him when he had to stay nights at Catco. Who would be the first smile he saw for the last two years when the entire world seemed dull. Some nights she would be the last voice he heard and would listen to the nightmares he hadabout his father.
Was he still irritated, of fucking course but he wasn't going to let that tear a rift in their friendship. Kara wasn't someone who could lie and she wore all her emotions on her sleeves so he could tell that she was being completely honest.
Lifting her face from his shoulder Kara looked into Winn's eyes as he did hers, they still had their armswrapped around each other so she could feel his muscles pressed up on her chest. As they stood there Kara thought about Winn and how he seemed like acompletely different man, he was still the Winn she knew but he had a different air about him. He seemed to have all the qualities she cared for but heightened and a few he didn't have before, he was caring,confident,flirty.
And of course she happily noted the muscles he hadbeen hiding from everyone.
"Why Me?"
At her words his eyes widened in surprise, of course she knew about his feelings it was pretty damn obvious. Kara Danvers might be naive, even a little bit air headed but she was in no way stupid.
At her questioning Winn had to ask himself if the same question. Did he still have feelings for Kara?
Yes, without question.
He found himself kind of surprised with himself, he was still Winn and yet he wasn't, yesterday he may have been different but when he woke up this morning it seemed as if his previous life and this one had melded together perfectly.
He remembered all of Winn's life as if he lived it and technically he did. If he had been asked the same question yesterday maybe his answer would have been different, but the past didn't matter. He didn't have different memories or experiences anymore, he was just one person.
He was one Winn.
As for his feelings for Kara he wanted her, he wanted more than anything to be with her, but he felt like they both needed to move forward slowly if they wanted anything to sprout into something real.
But that didn't mean he couldn't lead them off with alittle something.
Bringing his hands up he gently lifted her glasses off and laid them on his counter. He then grasped her left cheek and stroked it with his thumb, he leaned forward and captured her lips into a kiss.
It began tender and delicate but it didn't last that way for long, as their lips met it felt like an explosion went off. They instantly began to make out even morepassionately their hands trailing each other's bodies.
Kara found herself tracing Winn's bare muscles andgliding over them with her fingers, she felt him probe her mouth as if asking for permission to enter, which she gladly gave.
Winn had one arm around her waist to pull her flush against him with his other roughly grabbing the back of her head pushing her even deeper into their lip lock. Kara lightly bit his lip as she felt the hand on her waist slowly moving up her stomach to grasp her breast.
And in a single movement he pulled away he hand leaving her chest and his lips leaving hers. Unconsciously Kara let out a small whimper at the loss of contact which brought a smirk to Winn's face.
Planting a small peck on her nose Winn spoke softly,"I want so much to be with you, but I want us to take this slowly, I want to enjoy every moment and not rush into anything."
She nodded though she could tell she was quite frustrated "I understand, I feel the exact same" she tried to look mad but simply ended up pouting cutely "If you want to take it so slow what was that kiss for?"
Chuckling he brought her close and huskily spoke into her ear. "Think of that as a taste of what's to come."
He pretended to ignore her blush and how she pushed herself further into him as she buried her face into his shoulder in embarrassment.
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Man I was waiting to be able to write this scene, some people may think that this was a little premature but as it says in the chapter Kara isn't stupid and Winn didn't seem to be hiding his feelings all too well.
The only reason it happened so early was because of the SI and the different people and events involved.
Till next time, see ya.
Setting Up Shop
- Location
- New Jersey
Hey peeps, I know how much you missed this story so I made sure to get you a new chapter out quick.
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Chapter 5: Setting Up Shop
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Downtown NC
All of National City could be considered to be at the height of architectural splendor, it was probably one of the reasons people stayed after all the bullshit that happens in the future. The downtown area had remained the least populated section due to the factthat it was pretty primitive compared to the rest of the modernized city.
The reason behind it's old looks is the fact that it is made up of mostly old factories and warehouses that the city is too lazy to knock down. This made it theperfect spot for under the counter deals to go down and secret projects to be hidden.
For example gang fights,drug dens, mob meetings...
And the base of operations for a vigilante on the come up. This is why Winn found himself in an abandoned warehouse carrying out various pieces of furniture and wreckage to make room for his equipment.
Well, future equipment.
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"One downside of going solo, major grunt work." Winn muttered as he lifted a truck tire over his shoulder with a grunt.
Dusting off his hands he turned to the area of the building he had cleaned out so far, he had really just moved all the big stuff the the edges of the room. If he had one regret about not telling Kara about his activities it was that he couldn't ask her to help him set up his base. On the bright side it helped him learn the limits of his strength a bit.
He was pretty damn strong compared to the average human, not Mirakuru soldier pushing away a car with a single kick strong but he'd get there.
It's been three days since he had kissed Kara-just the thought of it made him smile- however it had also been three days since he'd seen her. It's not like he was avoiding her or anything he was just...
Busy.
A bad excuse but it was true, Winn had quickly gotten himself into a routine in order to get started on his rode to heroism.
Everyday he'd wake up do some stretching and jog ten miles, then he'd go to the park to practice tai chi. Afterwards he would head to the dance studio nearby to watch the break dancing class, this had a twofold purpose, he would finally learn how to breakdance and the groundwork moves could be incorporated into his air bending.
Yes, he was calling it Airbending.
Anyway he'd spend a good amount of time observing and then he would go to find an abandoned lot to practice in, he hadn't gotten the hang of it just yet but he'd get it sooner or later. From then on he had settled into a few normal activities to keep himself from falling into a spiral of constant training and repetitive work.
The usual things that people without superpowers or an alien best friend did, he went shopping for newclothes, lazed on his couch for a while, he caught a movie -another benefit of living in the DC universe is the lack of DC movies-*cough* BMvsSM *cough*- oh, he also beat up a couple muggers on a nightly patrol.
...Ok maybe he wasn't trying that hard at the whole normal thing. It hadn't been anything too dangerous, one of them had a pocket knife but both of them were clumsy and inexperienced enough that he had beaten both their asses and left them in the alleyway he dropped them in.
It's not his fault that his life is now more interestingthan anything on tv! He had done plenty normal things before he died, with this new life he decided that he would spend his time doing things that he never could before!
Other than his nightly patrols he had taken to gather a cornucopia of electronics that he had begun to fiddle with. He also bought books that concernedinformation about Physics, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Engineering and Robotics. Just the basics of each subject, he didn't want to bite off more than he could chew but hopefully within the next few months he could make some use out of it.
He would've gotten books concerning more hands on skills like martial arts but he would either practice that himself or try to find himself a teacher.
Looking back around his new base he had to pathimself on the back, he'd only found it about a day ago but he'd cleaned it out pretty well, though he still has to figure out how to get his equipment there. There were a few pieces of equipment among thewreckage that were still salvageable, a few metal tables, a couple punching bags and a hunting knife.
The stuff that people will throw away.
Taking out his laptop from the satchel resting against the wall he opened it up and got to web surfing. Since he didn't have support or resources of the DEO-nor would he anytime soon with that stunt with Alex-he would have to look at other means to acquire his weapons.
Any disposables he could make himself, if Oliver Queen can make arrowheads how hard should it be to make some throwing knives all he'd need is a how to book on Welding. The problem would be acquiring bigger weapons, for example a katana or two. You know for, reasons. Anyway currently he was setting up some code that would prevent anyone from being able to trace his purchases back to his laptop, this worked by creating several clones of his computer's IP address and mimicking them all across the state.
It was a relatively small range but his processing unit wasn't able to handle much more than that, he felt a large amount of pride as he finished and applied it. Now he was safe from all but the best hackers and the government, though he doubted the latter would try to track home down.
Finishing up he glanced at the tabs that rested on his browser, all of them were from different news sources but their subjects were all the same. 'Supergirl Saves the Day.' As he gazed upon the multitude of pictures of his best friend/kind of girlfriend he felt a pang of regret in his chest. After the fateful kiss three days ago they had spoken about how they would go forward, they would try and go on a few dates to see if they could make the relationship work.
This would've been all well and good if Winn had the balls to call and ask her out. Even superhumans got nervous when asking out girls, when you factor in a superhuman who is the fusion of two awkward men who had been single their whole lives it doesn't boggle the mind on why he'd be a little apprehensive.
Winn Schott is an absolutely great friend with a two year record to show for it, but as a boyfriend he just has some confidence issues that he'll have to overcome.
"The best time is the present." He muttered before grabbing his phone and sending a quick text to Kara.
'Meet me on the Catco building roof, I need to talk to you.
Blunt and a bit Morbid but it would have to do, gathering up his laptop he left the warehouse and made sure that it was properly locked, wouldn't want anyone to set up camp in there while he was gone. He then decided to make his way to the building straight from downtown ,hopefully he'd get back by the time Kara got off work.
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Catco. Rooftop
Kara Danvers is feeling extremely nervous right about now, three days ago she and her best friend of two years decided to try and start a relationship with one another.
After their kiss and the conversation about how they would go about things she had left and waited for him to call her, when he didn't she hadn't gotten worried, he was going through a difficult time and she would give him as much time as he needed.
Then she got a text from him saying that they needed to talk.
'Is this really happening? Am I going to be dumped by my best friend before the first date?'
She shook her head in denial as she rubbed her misty eyes, she may not show it but ever since she had first come to earth she had low self esteem, she knew that some people would kill to have the abilities that she has but sometimes she just wanted to be seen as normal, have friends as a normal girl and be loved as a normal girl.
And with Winn she felt like she could have all of that, but if she were to lose him she didn't know what she would have left. She had Alex,Eliza and Clark but it was a different situation with Winn they were bonded by something more than blood or circumstance.
Choice.
She would always be grateful of all that had been given to her, but at the same time there were some parts of her life that she had managed to obtain all by herself.
When she thought about how far she's come from that scared little girl who had lost everything she realized that a large part of her happiness as Kara Danvers could be attributed to Winn.
From behind her she heard the door to roof access open, she took a deep breath and prepared herself for a conversation that would decide if she would lose her best friend or not. What she was not prepared for was a slightly sweaty and panting man in a muscle shirt holding an arm behind his back.
She was a little stunned by it to be completely honest. "Uh, I-"
"Wait Kara before you say anything" he interrupted her while walking closer to her. "I just wanted to say how sorry I am about not calling you for the last three days." He sighed before continuing, "Lately I've been trying to find out who I am, I've grown from the guy that you've known for the last two years and I was scared that you wouldn't want to be with me, and the thought of not having you in my life isn't something that I could bear."
Raising his arm he showed her the bouquet of pink Camellias he was holding. Kara took them into her hands and smiled as she lightly sniffed them. "Winn, these are beautiful." She said her voice slightly choking up from his speech.
"Yeah they are." He said his eyes set on Kara's face, he coughed and dropped his gaze to the flowers as she met his eyes and caught him staring.
"Every flower has a meaning based on its color and type" he spoke in a soft voice as Kara caressed the petals of one of the flowers. "The pink camellia is the flower of longing, I've been beside you almost everyday for the last two years but I haven't really felt like I was with you until three days ago, like all this time I've just been peering into your world while being completely separate from you. I know that that might not make sense, that from now on we'll have to get to know each other all over again and I know that we haven't even been on a date but I have to say this." He paused to step up to her so he could grasp her cheek in his hand.
"I love you Kara Danvers." He said this with an incredible amount of affection in his eyes.
Kara kissed him so fast that he wouldn't be surprised if she had used her super speed to close the distance between their lips. And there they stood atop the building where they had met, the sun setting behind them as they locked lips.
And Kara wouldn't change a thing about it.
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Kara's Apartment
As the young couple made their way into Kara's apartment and moved to the couch there was only one logical way the night could go.
"Ramsey Bolton you fucking asshole!"
With a Game of Thrones marathon and potstickers, they stayed up for hours laughing, talking and simply relaxing in each other's presence.
Winn looked towards the woman resting her head on his shoulder and barked out a laugh at her outburst. "You really like this show don't you?"
She turned her head up to look at him as if he had two heads. "Babe...it has dragons." He had to hold himself back from laughing, an alien with frost breath, laser vision and invulnerability is astounded by dragons.
Actually, nevermind dragons are pretty badass.
'Wait don't dragons exist in the DC universe? I must research this!'
They sat for a few moments before there was a knock at the door, Winn slid out from underneath the covers to answer causing Kara to flop down the couch as she yelled for him. "Winn, wait!"
He waved her off as he grabbed the doorknob,"Don't worry I got it." He opened the door with a smile and went to greet the visitor when he found himself knocked on his back by who ever was on the other side, before he could register what happened a boot was planted in his chest and he found a gun pointed at his face.
"Alex what are you doing!"
'Oh shit.'
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Chapter 5: Setting Up Shop
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Downtown NC
All of National City could be considered to be at the height of architectural splendor, it was probably one of the reasons people stayed after all the bullshit that happens in the future. The downtown area had remained the least populated section due to the factthat it was pretty primitive compared to the rest of the modernized city.
The reason behind it's old looks is the fact that it is made up of mostly old factories and warehouses that the city is too lazy to knock down. This made it theperfect spot for under the counter deals to go down and secret projects to be hidden.
For example gang fights,drug dens, mob meetings...
And the base of operations for a vigilante on the come up. This is why Winn found himself in an abandoned warehouse carrying out various pieces of furniture and wreckage to make room for his equipment.
Well, future equipment.
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"One downside of going solo, major grunt work." Winn muttered as he lifted a truck tire over his shoulder with a grunt.
Dusting off his hands he turned to the area of the building he had cleaned out so far, he had really just moved all the big stuff the the edges of the room. If he had one regret about not telling Kara about his activities it was that he couldn't ask her to help him set up his base. On the bright side it helped him learn the limits of his strength a bit.
He was pretty damn strong compared to the average human, not Mirakuru soldier pushing away a car with a single kick strong but he'd get there.
It's been three days since he had kissed Kara-just the thought of it made him smile- however it had also been three days since he'd seen her. It's not like he was avoiding her or anything he was just...
Busy.
A bad excuse but it was true, Winn had quickly gotten himself into a routine in order to get started on his rode to heroism.
Everyday he'd wake up do some stretching and jog ten miles, then he'd go to the park to practice tai chi. Afterwards he would head to the dance studio nearby to watch the break dancing class, this had a twofold purpose, he would finally learn how to breakdance and the groundwork moves could be incorporated into his air bending.
Yes, he was calling it Airbending.
Anyway he'd spend a good amount of time observing and then he would go to find an abandoned lot to practice in, he hadn't gotten the hang of it just yet but he'd get it sooner or later. From then on he had settled into a few normal activities to keep himself from falling into a spiral of constant training and repetitive work.
The usual things that people without superpowers or an alien best friend did, he went shopping for newclothes, lazed on his couch for a while, he caught a movie -another benefit of living in the DC universe is the lack of DC movies-*cough* BMvsSM *cough*- oh, he also beat up a couple muggers on a nightly patrol.
...Ok maybe he wasn't trying that hard at the whole normal thing. It hadn't been anything too dangerous, one of them had a pocket knife but both of them were clumsy and inexperienced enough that he had beaten both their asses and left them in the alleyway he dropped them in.
It's not his fault that his life is now more interestingthan anything on tv! He had done plenty normal things before he died, with this new life he decided that he would spend his time doing things that he never could before!
Other than his nightly patrols he had taken to gather a cornucopia of electronics that he had begun to fiddle with. He also bought books that concernedinformation about Physics, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Engineering and Robotics. Just the basics of each subject, he didn't want to bite off more than he could chew but hopefully within the next few months he could make some use out of it.
He would've gotten books concerning more hands on skills like martial arts but he would either practice that himself or try to find himself a teacher.
Looking back around his new base he had to pathimself on the back, he'd only found it about a day ago but he'd cleaned it out pretty well, though he still has to figure out how to get his equipment there. There were a few pieces of equipment among thewreckage that were still salvageable, a few metal tables, a couple punching bags and a hunting knife.
The stuff that people will throw away.
Taking out his laptop from the satchel resting against the wall he opened it up and got to web surfing. Since he didn't have support or resources of the DEO-nor would he anytime soon with that stunt with Alex-he would have to look at other means to acquire his weapons.
Any disposables he could make himself, if Oliver Queen can make arrowheads how hard should it be to make some throwing knives all he'd need is a how to book on Welding. The problem would be acquiring bigger weapons, for example a katana or two. You know for, reasons. Anyway currently he was setting up some code that would prevent anyone from being able to trace his purchases back to his laptop, this worked by creating several clones of his computer's IP address and mimicking them all across the state.
It was a relatively small range but his processing unit wasn't able to handle much more than that, he felt a large amount of pride as he finished and applied it. Now he was safe from all but the best hackers and the government, though he doubted the latter would try to track home down.
Finishing up he glanced at the tabs that rested on his browser, all of them were from different news sources but their subjects were all the same. 'Supergirl Saves the Day.' As he gazed upon the multitude of pictures of his best friend/kind of girlfriend he felt a pang of regret in his chest. After the fateful kiss three days ago they had spoken about how they would go forward, they would try and go on a few dates to see if they could make the relationship work.
This would've been all well and good if Winn had the balls to call and ask her out. Even superhumans got nervous when asking out girls, when you factor in a superhuman who is the fusion of two awkward men who had been single their whole lives it doesn't boggle the mind on why he'd be a little apprehensive.
Winn Schott is an absolutely great friend with a two year record to show for it, but as a boyfriend he just has some confidence issues that he'll have to overcome.
"The best time is the present." He muttered before grabbing his phone and sending a quick text to Kara.
'Meet me on the Catco building roof, I need to talk to you.
Blunt and a bit Morbid but it would have to do, gathering up his laptop he left the warehouse and made sure that it was properly locked, wouldn't want anyone to set up camp in there while he was gone. He then decided to make his way to the building straight from downtown ,hopefully he'd get back by the time Kara got off work.
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Catco. Rooftop
Kara Danvers is feeling extremely nervous right about now, three days ago she and her best friend of two years decided to try and start a relationship with one another.
After their kiss and the conversation about how they would go about things she had left and waited for him to call her, when he didn't she hadn't gotten worried, he was going through a difficult time and she would give him as much time as he needed.
Then she got a text from him saying that they needed to talk.
'Is this really happening? Am I going to be dumped by my best friend before the first date?'
She shook her head in denial as she rubbed her misty eyes, she may not show it but ever since she had first come to earth she had low self esteem, she knew that some people would kill to have the abilities that she has but sometimes she just wanted to be seen as normal, have friends as a normal girl and be loved as a normal girl.
And with Winn she felt like she could have all of that, but if she were to lose him she didn't know what she would have left. She had Alex,Eliza and Clark but it was a different situation with Winn they were bonded by something more than blood or circumstance.
Choice.
She would always be grateful of all that had been given to her, but at the same time there were some parts of her life that she had managed to obtain all by herself.
When she thought about how far she's come from that scared little girl who had lost everything she realized that a large part of her happiness as Kara Danvers could be attributed to Winn.
From behind her she heard the door to roof access open, she took a deep breath and prepared herself for a conversation that would decide if she would lose her best friend or not. What she was not prepared for was a slightly sweaty and panting man in a muscle shirt holding an arm behind his back.
She was a little stunned by it to be completely honest. "Uh, I-"
"Wait Kara before you say anything" he interrupted her while walking closer to her. "I just wanted to say how sorry I am about not calling you for the last three days." He sighed before continuing, "Lately I've been trying to find out who I am, I've grown from the guy that you've known for the last two years and I was scared that you wouldn't want to be with me, and the thought of not having you in my life isn't something that I could bear."
Raising his arm he showed her the bouquet of pink Camellias he was holding. Kara took them into her hands and smiled as she lightly sniffed them. "Winn, these are beautiful." She said her voice slightly choking up from his speech.
"Yeah they are." He said his eyes set on Kara's face, he coughed and dropped his gaze to the flowers as she met his eyes and caught him staring.
"Every flower has a meaning based on its color and type" he spoke in a soft voice as Kara caressed the petals of one of the flowers. "The pink camellia is the flower of longing, I've been beside you almost everyday for the last two years but I haven't really felt like I was with you until three days ago, like all this time I've just been peering into your world while being completely separate from you. I know that that might not make sense, that from now on we'll have to get to know each other all over again and I know that we haven't even been on a date but I have to say this." He paused to step up to her so he could grasp her cheek in his hand.
"I love you Kara Danvers." He said this with an incredible amount of affection in his eyes.
Kara kissed him so fast that he wouldn't be surprised if she had used her super speed to close the distance between their lips. And there they stood atop the building where they had met, the sun setting behind them as they locked lips.
And Kara wouldn't change a thing about it.
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Kara's Apartment
As the young couple made their way into Kara's apartment and moved to the couch there was only one logical way the night could go.
"Ramsey Bolton you fucking asshole!"
With a Game of Thrones marathon and potstickers, they stayed up for hours laughing, talking and simply relaxing in each other's presence.
Winn looked towards the woman resting her head on his shoulder and barked out a laugh at her outburst. "You really like this show don't you?"
She turned her head up to look at him as if he had two heads. "Babe...it has dragons." He had to hold himself back from laughing, an alien with frost breath, laser vision and invulnerability is astounded by dragons.
Actually, nevermind dragons are pretty badass.
'Wait don't dragons exist in the DC universe? I must research this!'
They sat for a few moments before there was a knock at the door, Winn slid out from underneath the covers to answer causing Kara to flop down the couch as she yelled for him. "Winn, wait!"
He waved her off as he grabbed the doorknob,"Don't worry I got it." He opened the door with a smile and went to greet the visitor when he found himself knocked on his back by who ever was on the other side, before he could register what happened a boot was planted in his chest and he found a gun pointed at his face.
"Alex what are you doing!"
'Oh shit.'