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What=spells, incantations summoning etc.

"What"= Ancient/ powerful/ supernatural entities

What=Divine/full power form/ Mr White

''=The guy at centre stage/ protagonist

""=Other characters

What= distorted voice

WHAT=Yelling

() = Telepathic dialogue

[] = Authors Note

Chapter 8: Training Time 2 Magic boogaloo

The scene opens upon White walking down a hall with a ghost of Merlin and the Ghost of Nabu holding his helmet with both hands. They entered a courtyard and turned to White "Ok White today I thought we would focus on what me and Nabu have agreed is the most useful in both variety and tactics your Kryptonian abilities". 'Why those powers' "quite simply put these powers have the best mix of variety and power which will ensure that you will have the power necessary to face foes while we expand your mystical knowledge and help you gain control over your other powers". 'Ok what's first' "first we shall test your flight capabilities so fly straight up". With a confused look he crouched down palms down on the ground while remembering how he thought when he first flew. White began to look up into the sky and suddenly the ground began to gently shake and White shot up into the air. He continued flying straight up not stopping until he reached the highest point in this realm where he floated around the artificial yellow sun basking in the power it granted him.

White looked down at the realm his was technically the owner and master of he looked at the fortress where this had all began. He looked at the mountain the fortress was built into and as he looked he began to have ideas on how he could use the mountain alongside the new technologies that the realm of magic opened to the world. Taking his eyes off of the future project he envisioned his eyes drifted towards the vast forest that filled the majority of the realm and he wondered what creatures lived there already and what creatures he would introduce in times to come. And finally the blue sapphire in the green the Great Lake that was filled with fresh water kept cool and fresh by mystical means while also holding several species of mystical creature. Satisfied by his look at the realm he know ruled over if only technically he began his descent back down to the courtyard where a smiling Merlin and Nabu were waiting.

"You've been watching man of steel haven't you" 'ok I admit I did take inspiration from that movie but come on he's the most badass movie version of superman ever'. 'Ok what's next' "the next thing you need to work on is your heat vision which will essentially make your very eyes weapons against the forces of darkness. With that Nabu forms energy around his hands and fires them to one corner of the courtyard where they formed the traditional targets used for archery and similar things. "Ok try to hit that with heat vision" 'but I've never even used heat vision before I don't even know how'. To this Merlin and Nabu looked at him "remember how were finally able to figure out how to fly by taking inspiration from that Dragon ball Z show you like". 'Yeah I took that flying advice Gohan gave Goten and used it as inspiration for how I fly' "well try to use that here. White after hearing that advice began to take that advice and began to imagine a pool of energy inside himself like he did when he was figuring out flying. However instead of using it to lift himself up and move himself like with flying he imagined the energy moving up through his body into his eyes, with that he takes aim and imagines firing the energy out of his eyes. To the outside observer however they would see White's eyes turn read before red beams of energy shoot from his eyes and hit the outside of the target before continuing and hitting the wall. Realising his mistake White shuts his eyes for a few seconds cutting of the heat vision and when he opened his eyes they had returned to his black eyes and yellow slits for pupils.

'Uh sorry about that' "that's fine you did ok for your first attempt at a new superpower unrelated to the ones you have previous experience". "All you have to do is practice and you'll get it" meanwhile during this conversation Nabu was using his magic to repair both the targets and the wall. And so train they did and like Merlin claimed White slowly improved in his skills and his aim which was shown by him slowly getting closer to the centre of the target. Until several days later White was able to hit a bullseye almost every time to which Merlin congratulated him on both his skill and his rapid rate of gaining control over a power so quickly. To this White responded 'it's strange how fast I'm able to master these skills maybe it's tied to the mental blocks and by learning to control them the blocks around these powers are fading' to which Merlin and Nabu had no answer.

"Ok White we're done with heat vision let's move onto" 'no we're not done yet' "what do you mean you've got heat vision down". 'Maybe so but there's two other kinds of vision where these targets will be useful' and in his mind White began the same process he had done prior to unlock heat vision. However this time in his mind he thought about wanting to freeze the target instead of blasting it with heat vision. And once again beams shot out of his eyes and struck a target however this time the beams emanating from his eyes were ice blue. Instead of blasting through the target and hitting the wall like with heat vision this time the target upon being struck began to be covered with ice emanating from the point of impact. When the target was covered with ice White turned back to a shocked Nabu and an impressed merlin 'freeze vision a little gift from a version of Bizarro'. To this Merlin smirked "I get it now with each power once you've gotten the original powers down the variations are easier to figure out and control am I right"? At this declaration White took aim at another target and this time shot green beams out of his eyes which upon hitting the target began to encase it in a glowing green crystal. Once it was completely covered he turned back to his mentors 'correct and now that I've got kryptonite vision down I think that's all the variants of heat vision down, excluding omega beams which I don't think I'll be able to do yet let's move onto something else I'm thinking freeze breath'.

Merlin turned to Nabu "a think that freeze breath would be a good idea next" and as such Nabu hit the targets again with a spell. This time it set about repairing any damage done by heat vision and removing the ice and kryptonite from the targets hit by what would later be classified as variant visions. Soon enough they were repaired and once again ready for use in training, however White wasn't even paying attention to this. He was looking at the mountain an idea forming in his mind, and suddenly he pushed of the ground to float in the air briefly before rising up into the air despite Merlin's protests. Once he had reached a certain height he moved forward towards the mountain which he was floating at the halfway point and began looking at the mountain while muttering under his breath. 'Ok this will have to hold some large things so I think three stories will do alright for chat I plan to pick up and I'll have to make it wide but it seems doable'. And with that his eyes glowed red and his heat vision began to be fired into the mountain in a rectangular shape that matched the height and width White had envisioned previously with one side that he'd enlarged to fit a person. After he'd finished White moved into the mountain through this side and for a few seconds there was silence while red light shone out from the edges of the rectangular shapes.

Then suddenly the rectangle began to move out of the mountain slowly but shortly until it was halfway out of the mountain. Then a read beam of energy shoots through the middle of this rectangular stone before it moves up and down cutting it cleanly in half. Then another beam shoots through one of the halves moving up and down cleaning cutting this half into quarters. Then the process is repeated on the other half meaning there are now four quarters of rock. Then White moves out of the side and begins to lift out one of the quarters and began to descend toward the bottom of the fortress where he placed it down on the floor. White quickly repeated this three more times and once he was done he returned to a clearly confused Merlin and Nabu. 'What's wrong was that mountain sacred or something' "no it's just confusing, why would you cut out a huge chunk of the mountain" 'oh that's for my new hanger'. This shocked Merlin and Nabu "what hanger" 'the one I just built into the mountain' "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ON ABOUT". 'You see since I've discovered that all fiction is real somewhere in those realms and I have a device that can duplicate everything I realised I was going to duplicates some space ships'.

'Anyway back to work' "no you're seriously having the idea of making yourself a fleet" 'you never know when they'll be necessary I mean things have changed since your time'. "Whatever anyway let's move back onto your training were now moving onto your super breath and the variants". And with that he motioned towards the targets, White turned towards the targets taking a deep breath and unleashing gale force winds knocking over the targets. After the targets had been put up the right way up he takes a deep breath again but this time he envisions himself as a dragon breathing fire and when the breath leaves his body it was on fire enveloping the targets and the area behind them. After everything had been repaired White took a deep breath but this time envisioned the breath he was holding turning to ice and with that he exhaled covering the targets in a thin layer of ice.

Next they moved onto tactical telekinesis which they tested by asking white to levitate the targets which he soon accomplished. 'Ok now check this out' he claimed while using his telekinesis to essentially juggle them "alright show off that enough of that let's move on". White began to move through the various kryptonian powers with varying levels of difficulties (he still couldn't do the microscopic vision, the looking at souls or the wall rebuilding power from superman IV the Quest for Peace). This came to its peak of problems with the latest power he was training in which Merlin had left for good reason. "Ok the final thing we shall be getting under control is your super hearing, I saved this one till last since according to some sources I looked at it can be the most problematic to deal with".

"Ok White I want you to imagine having earmuffs over your ears blocking of your super hearing and imagine them falling off allowing you to fully access your super hearing". White attempted this process which failed to happen again and again but nothing happened 'this isn't working at all' "ok I don't know try something else in your mind". With that White tried imagining something that could be used to access his hearing then suddenly the world began to fade away until he was alone in a black void with only one other thing. This was what appeared to be a fallout vault door but on the door is the circle on White's ring and inside that there is a number 1. Meanwhile in the real world Mr White's eyes had begun to glow pure white and Merlin and Nabu were trying to awaken him ignoring the sound that the portable storage device was making "ping". Back with White he was approaching the door reaching out when suddenly there is a flash of light and he was looking at himself. "IF YOU DO THIS THERE'S NO TURNING BACK AND WHILE YOU'LL GAIN FURTHER POWERS THERE WILL BE PROBLEMS SO I ASK ARE YOU SURE" to which the duplicate smiled disappearing while the vault door opened. White suddenly found himself back with Nabu and Merlin and was reassured for about a second before the super hearing kicked in.

In White's point of view everything suddenly became absolutely deafening the leaves of the forest moving, ripples in the lake, his own breathing. Merlin began to run towards White but was blasted back by wave after wave of telekinetic power knocking the two spectres back. All the while White is screaming at the top of his lungs 'MAKE THE NOISE GO AWAY PLEASE I CAN'T EVEN THINK I CAN'T EVEN CONTROL MY SELF ANYMORE' while the device once again goes "ping". White opens his eyes for the first time since everything becomes deafening. Immediately beams of red, blue and green blast out cutting, freezing and covering in crystal the courtyard and ever striking a nearby tower before he's able to shut them again. "PING" and suddenly there is silence and White opens his eyes to see himself in a large see through bubble through which he could clearly see a concerned Merlin and Nabu. 'What happened, who did this' "that would be me" and White looked down to see the portable storage device glowing and floating in the air. 'Since when can you do that' "since always I just never bothered to tell you" this confused White further 'what are you? did I actually make you'?

"To answer your questions I have to ask you a question how long do you think you blacked out for when you made me the helmet and the portal". 'A few hours' "try two weeks Merlin thought it was that long due to the fact that after you made me you had me freeze him in time". 'Ok but what are you how did I make you' "I'm a Daughter box the fusion of a mother box of New genesis, a father box of apocalypse and a few other bits and pieces from around the realm of magic and of course a fraction of your own soul". 'WHAT' White asks looking at himself almost expecting his body to fall apart"calm down your souls already healed itself you're not going to die or something" 'Ok so what can you do'? "let's see I can open portals like that big device you build to replace the older method of transport" 'like a boom tube' "you essentially took that portal opening mechanism my predecessors had and upgraded it beyond recognition". 'Nice what else can you do' "kind of omniscience but I can't see as much as you can at full potential, telepathy, energy manipulation, energy transference, time travel, digitization and a few other things". 'I also read somewhere that mother boxes ties themselves to users and are loyal that true with you…. I'm sorry do you have a name I can't believe I forgot to ask'.

The device was silent for a minute or two before responding "I've decided to take the name Nikki and I will be loyal to you as long as you remain to act in the benefit of the innocent". 'Fair enough so what next' "now I disable the sound proofing in the bubble" and with that the onslaught of sounds returned. However one sound he heard gained his attention "focus on my voice, let everything else drift out of hearing and just listen to me" she repeated over and over. And while White began to listen to her mantra everything else began to fade away until his hearing was back to normal. "good work now I want you to focus on the rustle of leaves" and as he began to focus on this sound everything else began to fade way until he heard this sound. "Now focus on the water" and they repeated this process on various sounds and gained greater control over as time went on until he managed to control it. "Congrats on managing to get a handle on super hearing as a way of showing your progress here's a gift" and with that a spark shot out of Nikki and hit White on the head and with that the bubble fades.

As the bubble fades Merlin and Nabu rush towards White before checking him over 'I'm fine, in fact I've got a hold over my hearing'. However this discussion was interrupted by pieces of the tower that had been hit by his forms of vision breaking off the tower and falling to the courtyard.Merlin looked up and seeing the falling debris "I think me should move right now" however while Nabu and Merlin moved White just stood there looking at the debris. Then without warning red beams of energy shot from his eyes hitting one of the larger pieces of debris obliterating it. However unexpectedly the beam of energy then moved at a 90 degrees angle the tell-tale sign of omega beams to hit another, then another and another till the larger rocks had been reduced to dust and smaller rocks. After this White smirked 'thanks for the knowledge of how to do that Nikki, so I think that's all for today don't you'? To this Merlin had no response which only served to annoy White 'so are we done for the day or not I just learned some interesting new things and keep in mind I am doing this for free so my patience is shorter than usual'. This confused the guardians "what do you mean" 'what I mean is that it turns out I created a sentient new god device and let's not forget the fact that I'm supposed to fight the forces of darkness for no money'. "Well while we don't have a set income for our guardians we do have wealth that can be used" 'huh' " we have vaults filled with riches for if Guardians have to support loved ones but you also have a duty to add to those riches as you take from them. 'I have been here for almost TWO MONTHS AND YOU CHOOSE NOW TO BRING THIS UP' "I brought it up four times before this mostly during your flight training but you were more focused on the fact you could fly than what I had to say".

At this White had nothing to say 'sorry my bad' "that's fine by the way what do you mean new god device"? 'Huh oh right I meant Nikki' White claimed holding up Nikki "hey Merlin nice to meet you", "huh so that device you built is sentient". "So what's your future plans with this new information" 'well I'll probably buy a few things here and there but I think I'll mostly leave it be and just add to it for the next guy in this job'. At this Merlin smirked "and how do you plan to do that" 'simple I'll check the rest of the solar system for resources since humans only have access to earth's resources I'll have sole access to this wealth'. "That is very logical of you to think of and in light of the situation and the new information I think we're done with your training" to which White smiles 'good because there's a few things that I wish to investigate with the Realm of Magic'.

NEXT TIME

Mr White, Merlin and Nabu turn their attention back to the portal White constructed during his "incident" and it's potential. Although Nabu researched countless reality bubbles countless more need to be explore and found out what fiction they're inspired by. As such it's time for White and Nikki to explore these strange new worlds and maybe pick a few things up along the way. The story continues next time in Into the Realm of Magic Once more

CHARACTERS

Mr White (Jonathan Black)-Newest Guardian of Humanity believes himself to be over his head, discovered to have blocked off most of his power due to reasons vaguely known

Merlin- Previous Guardian currently dead spirit and acting essentially like a Jedi Ghost

Sparky – Mr White's newly born familiar, believed to have electric powers

Nabu-The 3rd latest Guardian of Humanity, currently dead and anchored to the Helmet of Nabu eager to catch up on history he missed

Nikki-The first daughter box in existence (the result of fusing a mother box, a father box, a piece of White's soul and other stuff to make something new) can do almost as much as her maker in terms of kind of omniscience can open portals and other stuff