Three weeks after the incident with 'Joseph', John smiled as he left the testing facility where he completed the evaluations for his GED and his French Language certificate. He felt extremely confident about himself and how he had done in the tests, feelings as if he aced them easily. He

However, much to his disappointed he was only able to book the morning at work off, so he now had to rush back to the Hammer industries facility to work another day whilst getting paid as little as possible. Until he had a new job, he didn't have enough financial security to quit, even with his pickpocketing money.

He reached the Hammer facility within half an hour and got to work slowly, not actually putting any work in. No-one ever noticed anyway so there wasn't much point.

As he worked his way through the conference rooms on the 7th floor, John was a little surprised when the door shot open and he witnessed Justin Hammer himself walk into the room, a furious look plastered on his face. Instantly, John began to pack his cleaning supplies up.

"You!" Hammer called out. "Janitor. Get out of here now. Speed up."

John rolled his eyes and hurried along, packing his stuff up. Hammer was as annoying and conceited as he'd heard.

Moments after Hammer walked in, a trail of board members and assistants followed behind him. Hammer's face just turned redder.

"You know what, your fired, leave the shit one of the assistants can sort it out, get out of the building." Hammer spoke, having absolutely no patience for anything. John stood there in shock for a second, not knowing how to react. "Move it dumbass." Hammer turned to the board members " Kids these days don't know what work ethic means." He commented.

Just as he realised what had just happened, a deep feeling of anger and fury rose from his stomach through his chest. It took all his self-control to stop himself from launching himself at Hammer at that very moment.

Instead, he took three deep breaths and dropping his equipment on the table, walking past Hammer and his associates calmly, ignoring the raging storm in his stomach.

It wasn't like he was a fan of his job at the facility, but it was still his job and he needed it in order to survive. To have it taken away by a man who had never known what that was like, he was furious.

In that moment, John swore something to himself. He would get revenge on Hammer; he would get more off Hammer than he ever would have been paid from the man's company.

When he'd gotten home, John had had no idea what to do so he had attempted to calm himself down by doing some studying. After teaching himself French he had been learning Spanish every day. It had been a lot easier than he had expected thanks to his knowledge of French, a similar language, Language Comprehension and Increased Cognition.

+2 Intelligence for Mastering a language.

Congratulations! You've levelled up a skill:

Spanish – Level 80

Congratulations! You've levelled up a skill:

Language Comprehension – Level 2

Congratulations! A title has improved.

Bilingual has evolved into Trilingual.

He rolled his eyes and decided that he could no longer concentrate. It had taken him three hours to increase a level when it usually took significantly less than that.

Beginning to pace throughout the room, John began to plot about the kind of revenge that he would get on Hammer.

He went to his computer and logged onto one of the private forums that he had been browsing recently. It was one that he had found completely by accident, one for those who had careers in less than legal areas.

For a week or so he had been following the movement of someone named 'The Tinkerer' on the forum. They created technology and sold it to people for much cheaper than they would get it on the black market. John had a good idea who the man was, 'Phineas Mason', also known as the tinkerer in the marvel comics of the other John's world. Therefore, John knew that he might be safe to makes deals with. With that in mind, John sent him a private message.

'Tinkerer, I'm interested in doing business'. He sent the criminal genius.

'What type of business?' Was the reply he'd received.

'I need a device that can crack the security of Hammer Industries.' John told him.

'Easy, but I can't trust you. You're going to have to jump through some hoops.'

'How do I know you'll deliver what I want?' John sighed; he knew he'd likely get that response.

'You came to me; you know my reputation.'

'Fine, what kind of hoops.' John gave in, knowing that the Tinkerer's business model was run off people trusting him, and if that trust was broken, he wouldn't have a career anymore.

They carried on their conversation until all the details had been sorted. It turned out the main reason why the Tinkerer had considered his request was that he had been wanting to get into Hammer's systems for a while, but he hadn't been able to due to lack of access, but now he had someone willing to take all the risk.

In their first meet John would drop off $5,000 and in return he would be sent the location of the device he needed and then in the second meet John would give him the device with Hammer data on and in return the Tinkerer would pay him $50,000 in coin and $50,000 over transfer. The man had been confused when he had requested that, but he acquiesced when John explained that he believed coin would increase in value immensely in the future.

Finally, John planned the rest of the heist that he was going to carry out. He needed to gather a few items. $5,000, a Hammer Industries key card and a janitor's uniform. Luckily for him, he already had the janitor's uniform. Additionally, he could easily follow one of the other janitors home and steal their key card.

John Smith – Level 5 (545/625)

Title – Trilingual

HP – 110/110

AP – 594/594

Str – 17

Con – 22

Dex – 19

Int – 27

Wis - 16

Skill Point: 596

Skills:

English – Level MAX

Cooking – Level 19

Cleaning – Level 43

French – Level 80

Increased Cognition (S) – Level 3

Stalking – Level 24

Stealth – Level 38

Pickpocketing – Level 25

Running – Level 33

Language Comprehension (S) – Level 2

Enhanced Listening (S) – Level 2

Spanish – Level 80

Abilities:

Blessed Soul (Passive)

Danger Intuition (Passive)

Paralysis Touch (Active)