Kuroji

Chain 175: Heroes

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  1. Chain 175: Heroes
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  3. Location: Haiti
  4. Age: 16
  5. Identity: Drop-In
  6. Drawbacks: [-1500] Apocalypse Now, Notorious B.I.G., The Company, Displaced In Time
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  8. [Free] The Best Truth Is No Truth
  9. [Free] Omnilingualism
  10. [100/2500] Person Finding
  11. [1100/2500] Spacetime Manipulation
  12. [Free] More Waffles Please!
  13. [1250/2500] Transport Watch
  14. [1850/2500] The Catalyst
  15. [2450/2500] Ability Negation Drugs
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  17. Finding oneself unhinged in time is very distracting. Especially when you've long since been accustomed to knowing everything that is going to happen over what is roughly a six-hundred-and-thirty minute window of time, because early on, my movements through time felt almost completely random. Modern-day Haiti wasn't pleasant, and seeing a PARTICULARLY well-laid trap sprung upon me by what I found out to be the Company was enough to cause me to disappear and reappear in Japan, where some modern-seeming Japanese kid tried to engage me in combat with a sword. It was unexpected, and though I avoided injury at that point in time, he seemed to have already known me and was trying to kill me with furious anger, even if he only seemed to have local resources.
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  19. Wait, no, that wasn't right - another version of him appeared near the battlefield, a much older one, who was far better equipped. Bullets tore through my body as I disappeared from there, reappearing in an era that was very clearly the future from the point of time I'd arrived. A future in which things had gone horribly wrong, because of COURSE they had. A future where Demona and the Conspiracy were nowhere to be found, and indeed who knows whether they even showed up at all? The future here had known of me and cast me as some sort of grand villain - calling myself Sovereign, apparently? - and the destruction of a city was apparently my fault, which itself led to paranoia, persecution, and a pogrom of anyone with unusual abilities. And left handed people in some locations.
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  21. At which point I realized, palmed my face and muttered, "Great, so I have to save the cheerleader." Which, of course, was the cue for another time-shifted version of the Japanese guy to come out of nowhere with a high frequency blade and go for my neck. I hadn't had to deal with any other sorts of time travel in a very long time... but it's like riding a bicycle when you get used to it. And though I was displaced back to a rather distant past mid-fight, I'd managed to steal his watch.
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  23. Once I'd narrowly avoided dying due to some sort of quake trying to knock me into a crevasse and crush me in a glacier, I began to try to use this ability consciously. Of course, the watch telling me that I was somewhere in the middle of a distant past ice age didn't help my mood, but it gave me motivation. I couldn't assume that anything was as I knew it, as I was surely disrupting the timeline by existing, but being able to push myself forward... was not easy, but it was possible. And then it became a matter of pausing as I shifted forward a few tens of thousands of years at a time to get oriented and test my Apocalypse Sense before giving it another shot further forward. And in so doing, arguably shifted the course of history from what was known to what it was when I arrived.
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  25. (And gave rise to the mythical Sovereign.)
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  27. Oh, the things I did would seem horrible when taken at face value. The Roanoke colony's population all disappeared. Amelia Earhart's plane crashed at sea and washed up on a desert island. Plagues and mass deaths, witch burnings. But had Roanoke been left along, it should have been the source of a slow-burning plague that would have killed three fifths of the North American population, carried by insects and infecting wildlife as carriers. Amelia Earhart's flight would have set off a series of events that would have resulted in a second Great War, one far more devastating than what was later seen. A German leader's suicide was staged to prevent the deployment of the three atomic V-2 rockets. The Mary Celeste was a fine ship, but... the less said about that the better. And with every tragedy that prevented a greater disaster, my control grew, even as outside forces kept trying to displace me again.
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  29. Closer to the modern era... well, New York. A serial killer stalked people of unusual abilities, but when I gave him the chance to saw open my head, all he found was nothing that made any sense to him. Add to it the fact that my "death" was caught right under a security camera that got a GREAT view of Sylar's face and me-as-a-civilian dying... and well, it's hard for the FBI to look for a dead man, even if his corpse can reanimate because he doesn't need a heart to live. And when Sylar went to New York and confronted others, his intention clear, he abruptly and tragically found himself Nailed To The Sky, screaming as he ascended.
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  31. The damn Japanese kid - Hiro - suddenly appeared and stabbed into thin air, where Sylar should have been. Then realizing his "yatta!" was empty and that I'd stolen his victory from him, he started saying something about how I was damaging the timeline and somehow used his abilities to displace me again. By now, though, I'd gained enough control to bring myself back. This time, I returned from my brief exile in proper armor, with the Unreal Crown above my head. Two more of him appeared, future versions, and I displaced myself behind the local version. "You don't like it when others can choose things that you don't like, do you?" I asked him. "Too used to having power for yourself, not knowing what to do when faced with challenges, and so instead of talking you try to kill me." I laughed. "You have no conception of what I've done to keep the world on track. I am what you've chosen to make me, Hiro... Hiros?.. and now I will unmake you, for I am a merciful Sovereign. But first."
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  33. I raised a pneumatic pistol and fired a shot into a glowing Peter Petrelli, who looked mighty confused, before the glow that had begun suffucing his body began to fade away. All three of Hiro looked at me quite confusedly, before I opened a portal and pulled a petrified version of a particular girl who worked as a diner through it. She was restored, while the crowd of would-be capes were all arguing and trying to figure out what the devil was going on.
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  35. I tilted my head to the side and murmured, "Huh," when Hiro's future versions didn't disappear. "Chronoclones. Okay, well, in that case Hiros, I'm sorry that I didn't bring enough Charlie for all three of you but at least you've got your health. Anyways, I snagged her, cured her, and replaced her with a mindless clone because the timeline is a fickle mistress. Now then, if you'd kindly stop trying to change time murder me, I've got a plague to stop."
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  37. Huh. Sovereign isn't really a fitting name, when you stop to think about it, I think it should be more like Deus Ex Machina. With this sort of ability, paired with Judgment Day and Doomsday Clock... it's basically EXACTLY what I am here.
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  39. (The employees of the Company woke up one day not long after this happened and everyone went to work, only to find that their workplace was suddenly an ordinary paper mill. They panicked, and found that all of their shiny toys had disappeared with no indication that anything was different.)
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  41. (It was a pain in the ass, but I feel like they all deserved to be pranked like that.)
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