I sat eating my breakfast in a chair that hadn't belonged to me three days ago.
That was in a high rise apartment that I certainly hadn't been mine three days.
That was located in a city that hadn't existed in my World.
Oh, Gotham, you genuinely are a shit hole. I thought as I looked out of my window and saw Arkham Asylum out in the distance. "Why did even accept to do this?" I asked myself.
"Because Lord Zelretch asked you nicely to do it, my Lord," Answered my new companion here in the World of DC.
I turned my head around and saw Silver tap away at a tablet in front of him. Silver was the Kaleidostick or rather KaleidoStaff, as that was his primary weapon form.
And yes, by Zelretch, I meant Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, The Master of the Second True Magic, The Kaleidoscope. The man people to be a troll, but was more like Jotaru than anything. As I had quickly learned when he had come to me and asked me to do something for him. Yes, came to me? Cause apparently, he had used other versions of me before and had found me to be a competent individual who could do what was asked of him.
Which I agreed with, as I did finish what people told me to do. I was a person that worked very well with orders and checklists of the things I needed to do. Unlike some other people Zelretch knew.
*Cough*Rin and Luvia*Cough*
I had, of course, asked him what he needed me to do before I accepted any deal with him. I wasn't an idiot, of course.
He went on to explain that in some versions of Prisma Illya. The end fight with the Ainsworth, along with the fuckery Goetia, had done. Had resulted in a great deal of Class Cards being flung out of that Universe. And scattered across the Omniverse.
And some had ended up here in this Universe.
And I had, of course, asked why he just didn't go get them himself and he, to my surprise, had a good reason for why. As a version of him no longer existed in this world, and because of his power level. He was basically blacklisted from it, along with most Multiverses that existed outside the Nasuverse cluster. He would have sent Miyu and Illya, but they were busy in other Worlds finding other Class Cards.
And so, Zelretch proposed his deal to me. I would go and collect the Class Cards and hang out in that Universe for some years, which then, I didn't know was DC.
And not like an idiot I asked, what he meant by being there for a few years. Zelretch explained to me in GTA terms that the moment he threw me in, he would get a five-star wanted level, and he would have to stay out until it was gone.
I accepted the explanation, and after thinking for a few seconds, I took the deal, and after doing so, I blacked out.
And when I woke up, I was in the DC universe, in my brand new apartment.
I quickly learned that Zelretch wasn't a dick, unlike other so-called ROB's. In that, he didn't dump me in the middle of nowhere, with nothing on my person. He actually gave me someplace to live and enough money so that I didn't need to work. Heck, he hadn't even turned me into a girl like I had thought he would do. Which killed every fannon conception I had of him, heck the only thing he had done to my body, was make me not fat.
I greatly appreciated that.
I left my thoughts and looked at Silver again, who was still tapping away at the tablet. "Why are you even using that, you can check the net yourself?" I asked Silver.
"I like to press the screen, my Lord." Came Silver's blunt and honest answer. And that was one reason I liked him, as he was the polar opposite of his "Siblings." And that was he didn't annoy the crap out of me and make me want to strangle him like I would Ruby. I would probably be able to handle Sapphire. "My Lord, how are your Circuits?" He asked me.
I lifted my arm up, and I focused on my mental trigger. A chain being cut by a sword. "Tænd," I said my activation phrase and lines of blue light appeared on my right arm. "They are feeling fine Silver, I'm not feeling anything beyond the standard heat they generate," I answered.
"I shall be the Judge of that, my Lord." Silver said as his head floated over to me and proceeded to scan my body. "Your Magic Circuits are functioning correctly, there is no damage to them. And as shown, you can now open them all on your own."
And that was the second gift that Zelretch had given me, the ability to use Magecraft in the form of two Magic Crests that Zelretch had grafted onto my body. I wasn't going to question who they had belonged to previously as there was no spell knowledge in them or how I could perform Magecraft without being connected to Goetia's Foundation. Silver was probably involved.
And that was what I had spent the last three days trying to learn to use. Though I had spent most of my first day here unconscious after Silver had opened up the Crests for me to use, fuck that hurt like a bitch. And the next two days I spent walking around Gotham and trying to open my Magic Circuits so that I could do it on reflex. And I had yet to learn any spells to use from Silver. But I had figured out a language to make Arias with. And that was my mother tongue of Danish. As with them, when I try to open my Circuits manually, they did so with ease.
"That's great Silver, does that mean we can go hunt the Cards now?" I asked
"That we can, my Lord, which one do you want to collect first?" The Kaleidostaff asked.
"Let's just go get the one here in Gotham first," I said. And that was a bit of problem for, of course, the Class Cards couldn't have landed in the same city. Nooo, they were spread out all across America in various other cities. So, my gathering of the Cards was going to take a bit longer.
"Of course, my Lord, a course has been plotted to the entrance of the Mirror World." Silver said as he floated over to me and went into my pocket.
"Alright, let's go," I said. I stood up and took my bowl to the sink, washed it, and placed it into the dishwasher.
After doing that, I walked out of my apartment after turning off, light. I didn't want to waste energy, that was a dick move to nature, especially then Mother Earth was alive in this Universe.
I swiped my Keycard to lock my door and left towards the elevator. I entered and pressed the button to the ground floor.
"Wait!" I heard a female voice shout. I quickly stopped the elevator doors from closing, a few seconds later, a woman stepped into the elevator with me. A woman I had been getting to know over the last few days.
"Good morning Selina, off to work?" I greeted the sexy woman.
"Good Morning, to you too, Anders. And yes, I am. And what about you? Are you off to explore the city again, you Scandinavian rich boy?" Said Selina Kyle AKA Catwoman, extraordinary thief, and my neighbor, in this very expensive apartment complex. And I checked to see if she had become Catwoman yet while researching which DC Universe I was in, and she was. As Catwoman had been active for almost eight years. And for which DC universe I was in, going by the founding of The Justice League and its roster, I was on Earth-14 the Young Justice Universe.
Did I mention she was fucking sexy?
"I'm, this is a city with a rich history, and since I'm going to live here for the foreseeable future, so I best get to know it. And don't worry about me getting hurt, I'm able to defend myself."
"Alright, alright, you're a big boy that can take care of yourself, aren't you?"
"I would have you know that I'm going to turn twenty soon."
The elevator came to a stop, and its doors opened. And we walked out of it and out into the street. "Well, see you later, Anders. Have a nice walk."
"Yeah, have a nice day at work."
When we walked the opposite directions, she went right, and I walked left.
"So, Silver which way to the Class Card." I accessed the telepathic link he had established between us so that we could communicate without talking out loud.
"Go, 500 meters forward, my Lord, then turn left and continue to walk for ten minutes." Silver gave the directions, and I walked through what could be called the good part of Gotham.
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A/N: The Earth number is a deliberate mistake.
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