Chapitre 1 : I finally meet him

I really don't know what to do, Diana was unconscious in the beach, was she sick because she went out of Themyscira and she has no defence against virus or she was just tired ?

I don't know and to be fair I have to act right now because it's never good when someone is like this for a long time, I remember of the classes I had in middle school on how to help someone in this case : first thing was to turn her on her back.

My hand was on her shoulder but when I turned her, Diana's beautiful eyes opened! Focus Zack, focus!

"What are you doing ?" it was a dull question and I know what anyone in her position would think.

"Sorry but you just fainted so I wanted to turn on your back because it's never good for someone to stay unconscious for long and I was taught it was the first thing to do in this case." I answered frankly but I felt … warm, no hot, so hot it was uncomfortable.

"I know this technique" she looked at me confused " .. Why is your face red ?"

Maybe because I have never been so close to a hot woman like you before, .I'm a male teenager in front of an amazon princess so of course I would be blushing, I try to regain composure and immediately got up.

"It's summer, the air is so hot that it reddened me." I lied as she got up, I'm not good when it come to talking to women.

"Thanks Apollo, I thought you were ill."

"It's normal … so, do you want me to show you around Metropolis ? it's a good introduction to man's world

talking about a lame way to ask a girl out. I was torn between staying or leaving from how stressful the situation was.

"I would be glad to." she smiled and it was a pretty smile.


After she accepted, we followed back the trip I took before coming to the beach, when I left the house it was eight a.m so I'm barely surprised to find an ice-cream truck near the road.

"A monster !" Diana shouted before she pulled out her sword, I should have talked about vehicules before leaving the beach.

I hurried to stop her before she scare the poor vendor, maybe it was because Diana was off-guard or because of my gamer's speed but I managed to grab her shoulder before her sword touche the truck.

"It's a chariot ! a chariot !" I was practically yelling it, I really don't want thing to start this bad for her in Metropolis.

She stopped her attack to stare at me confused. "Why does it not have horses ?" she asked me.

"It sells food to refresh people, you give money to the vendor in order to get ice cream." I explained to her while I regained my composure, it realise it will be hard to talk to he about the culture of this world, I don't even know if they have any concept of money at Thermyscira !

"What is ice cream ?" She was more confused than before since she has yet to get one.

"Wait a minute." I asked her as I walked to the truck, I had ten dollars on me so it was enough for two, or more considering Diana's love for ice cream.

"Two Italian ice cream, the double please." I asked the vendor, the thing is that I died in April but the last time I had this ice-cream was in August, it was too long and I wanted it.

"Two soft-serves with double dose." the vendor handed them to me after I presented the money on the counter. "Be careful she doesn't want just free ice cream, you would be surprised to see how many time it happened." he averted me.

I just shrugged at his remark before I went to Diana and presented her the food, "here" I was smiling after that.

She looked at the soft-serve with curiosity but she didn't taste it, maybe it was because she never saw an ice-cream before. "I usually drink it because it's leaking." I did it to prove what I was telling and damn I really missed it.

Diana just stared at her dessert before she finally tasted it, her eyes widened and I could see sparkles in them after the first lick, it was like a cartoon reaction; when this state was over she started to devour it, she was like an animal, she finished it in seconds while I barely started mine.

"You sure like Ice-cream." I chuckled because of how fun it was to see her change from a serious warrior to a hardcore ice-cream eater.

"More, I must have more of this magical concoction." she looked determinate to find have another ice cream, it seemed like my wallet was going to suffer.


After Diana ate so many ice cream that all my money was gone, we walked in the streets of Metropolis in order to show her how this new world was.

"everyone without a 'vehicule' walk on the sidewalk when they can so the chariots can pass without risking to hurt anyone" I told her as she nodded, I thought it was important start with that.

"How those 'fires' can exist without any flammes ?" the amazon asked me while pointing at a one of them.

"we use electricity." I answered her before we pass in front of TVs.

Diana seemed to be intrigued at their view, "You also have magicals mirror to see across the world ?" She asked, it's weird to know the amazons had the same relic as the evil queen from my favorite fairy tail.

"No, we call that a TV … " she was still perplexed, i had to explain it in her own words. "Imagine a glass who is connected to other glasses so you can see through them but you can't see across the whole world and most of the things it shows are false or just for entertainment so it's not the absolute truth and no one is trapped inside of it." I explained to her before she asked.

"Fascinating, is there more I need to know about your culture ?" The princess asked me while I hesitated about what to tell her.

"Well, it's important for a beautiful girl to always, always be careful around stanger, even more if they gave you something for free … something it's for nasty things." I can't even look at her while trying to avert her about drugs.

"I … I already know that, my mother and sister told me the intentions of most of these people." She responded, I felt like trash seeing the look on her face, all joy and excitement seemed to have left her.

"Sorry to tell you that humanity didn't really improved where it matter the most." I tried to comfort her but it was a bit hard for me to do that since I wasn't accustomed to be around a superheroine.

"No, it is fine; you are just helping to understand your world." She told me even if I could see she would have prefered to not heard that.

"How is at Thermyscira ?" I tried to change of subject and her smile was back.

"It is quite pleasant, there is not of this 'concrete' but just grass, earth or stone for our temples and we have more trees although we don't have those 'cars' and 'trucks' you described we also have technologie." she was really proud of her home.

"Do you discovered a ray who can heal people ?" I joked about the movie 'Wonder Woman : blood war.', it was way better than the DC cinematic universe.

"Yes, the purple healing ray." I paused after she told me that, it seemed to be the sort of things they had in olds comics like the jokercopter or bat anti-antidote, things who have no sense even in comics.

"This purple healing ray … is it purple ?" I had a blank face while asking that.

"Yes it is, why are you asking that ?" She was puzzled at why I would ask that.

"Because it's a lazy name, they couldn't find better like just 'the healing ray' or just not said another color for a joke ?" I was a bit amused to be able to make fun of such a name.

"I admit it is pretty bad." she chuckled

"we kept walking in the city although I remarked that most of pedestrian I met were wearing goggles in the middle of the road, just who does that ?

"Sir …" I talked to a man, with one of those device, near a bus stop, he wasn't reacting, "Sir, you should get thoses goggles off …" still no answer.

"Is there something wrong?" Diana asked me.

"Those goggles are supposed to be used in a house, not in the middle of the road." I responded while I was getting more and more frustrated at the view of so many people wearing VR goggles.

"How do you react in man's world at this?"

"Nothing if no one is endangered." I was true, this guy was going to miss the bus because he was too focused on virtual reality while most of the others were standing in the middle of the sidewalk, maybe free entertainment is the best brainwashing and Luthor or any supervillain should try that, in fact it's the last point in the evil overlord list. .

I kept walking alongside Diana while I explained to her some things about man's world; "You have to know that money changed since the antiquity, now people are using a special paper to pay or coins made of simple metal instead of bronze, silver or gold." I realised that Diana may not have money. "Did you think about that ?" I asked her.

"Is there a way to convert my gold coins ?" she asked me after showing a handful of gold, okay money wasn't going to be a problem for her right now, in fact she may be really rich.

"There's banks but I'm not an expert about money." I frankly answered, I wanted to go to go to the library and sorted my phone, it just needed my fingerprint to be unlocked so it was fine.

"What is this ?" Diana was looking at the phone.

"Another magic mirror that we call 'phone' you have to write your questions and time to time it answer what you need or complete bullcrap." I answered before I wrote 'going to Metropolis Library' and it showed an itenary.

"You have your personal Oracle ?" she seemed in awe at this discovery.

"Not really, you give money and it will help you given the amount of money you gave."

"Like any Oracle." She looked at me like if I told her 1 + 1 = 3, yes I knew a lot about mythologie because of percy jackson and Disney but I wasn't interested about the oracle.

"Good to know."

We went to the library but Diana seemed to see it too alien for her, not that I blame her with everyone looking at her, you would expect people from Metropolis to not care about an Amazon warrior but they did, I talked about the main use of a phone to Diana and we even took a photo with it.

"I thinks it's all I can tell you for the moment, I mean there is a lot of stuff about this world but you can't learn them from someone, you have to live it." I told her as we left the library It's true, I had nothing more in mind to tell her about the DC world since I was new there.

"I understand, it was a nice walk around your world, Zack Walkers, how may I contact you ?" She asked me.

"Well, we could meet there in seven days or I could visit you at the drakkar later." then her eyes widened and I just realised one important thing We left the drakar at the beach juste like that.

"I have to go." shouted Diana before running to her ship

After she was out of my view, in seconds because of her Amazon speed, I was thinking was it a date or just an outing with friends ?


The sun was setting when Diana finished to set up her camp in a tree of 'Metropolis' Park' as it was a tradition for an amazon's quest to sleep where the day rise, it took her a long time to hide her boat and to prepare her house of fortune, when it was over, she laid on her improvised bed made of leaves, she looked at the ceiling while she rested her head on her arms; She officially started her quest to bring prosperity to man's world and it started well with her new friend.

Zack Walker was the first boy she saw, he didn't looked like the pictures of men from Thermyscira's books, he didn't have the traditional beard so he vas too young to be one of their soldiers, his clothings were odd but after so many centuries it was expected from this world to change this much; also Zack was far from behaving like the greek her mom warned her about, he did not seek to get any big secret of her home like the weapons from Hephaestus nor any items from the gods, in fact he was obviously surprised to learn about the purple healing ray and his reaction to the name was genuine.

Although he admitted that the evil from the heart of his people wasn't entirely gone when he warned her about accepting gifts from strangers, it was one of the firsts things her mother wanted her to learn, but his honesty was welcome; It was nice to have a guide to this new world, she had almost hurt someone because she mistook his chariot for a monster and knowing where to find their Oracle would be precious in the future.

Speaking of Oracle, she remembered how her quest started, she walking late at night in the woods where she saw a mysterious fire in the temple of Aphrodite, she came to the temple and the fire took the form of a woman and told her 'Diana, the world of men is in danger, come to this world and give them the Amazon way of peace and prosperity."

Those words light something in her, she always dreamed to be a great hero like the stories her mother told her about, it was her chance.

Then a thought came to her mind, was it a coincidence she met Zack just after she landed in this world? what were the odds of such a meeting and with a living contradiction of the monsters described by her sisters, was he supposed to help her in her quest or even an envoy of the gods (although she hoped he wasn't from Ares or Heris, both of them could use him as a trick and the the idea of such a betrayal was horrible), maybe she could use some help for her quest.

-0-

I came home at midday but no one was angry toward me since I texted them about Diana, given that other me was a loner they were glad that I tried to have friends.

"One, two …. three ." I heard someone when I passed near the garage, it was probably Doris, since she was so focused on her exercises I decided to not distract her and head to my room, it was good to sat on my bed after such a long walk.

[Quest Accomplished]
Explore The City of Tomorrow!
You are in the city of your childhood's hero, Superman. Don't waste anymore time overthinking things and get your ass out of the sofa. Explore Metropolis and fulfill the dream any fan of the Man of Steel have ever dreamt
{Objective}:
· Explore Metropolis City and get more culturized! (done)
{Reward}:

· Free EXP
· Fulfillment a dream of every Superman's fans
· You have met Wonder Woman
· Diana is now interested in you

Did my system organised a blind date?

[Not really, it was just a question of timing]

that angel really love to mess with me; I sighed before sitting on my bed, I didn't know what to do until lunch but trying to create a portal wouldn't be so bad, first I extended my arm before opening my hand but nothing happened so I tried again but this time I had in my mind 'create a portal', a small one appeared in front of me, I stared in awe at the blue circle, I can created a portal, I can use wakfu, I can accomplish my old childhood dream of becoming spider-man (he was the first superhero I discovered.) although the responsibilities were going to crush me but it still beat Hell or the Void, just the possibility of going there was enough to make me shiver in fear and feeling sick.

I tried to forget what was scaring me so much by using a portal for the first time, I plunged my right hand inside of it with a precise idea of where I wanted to go, I stared at my closet while my hand went through the portal, another one suddenly manifested in front of it, I couldn't see more than a blue and white circle from where I was but I felt something in my hand, probably the handle so I pulled back and the door opened while the portal closed completely since my right hand left it.

[Wakfu : 3099.5]

Apparently, using a portal costed 0.5 points of wakfu, so I could use it 6199 time if I want to let one point to survive and that's without counting the Wakfu regeneration that WIS give me, I could probably use the road of portals to gain super speed like yugo did but the problem of how many portals I needed to create by distance could be troublesome.
I recreated a portal but I imagined it bigger than me, it was just half of my size but I could pass through it, I always wanted to know how teleportation feels, It feels weird after I crossed it I was just at the other side of my door, it wasn't different of walking from one point to another, I thought that it was the house who moved while I stayed in place.

"Awesome." I whispered because of how excited I was, in fact I could feel that I had a big smile on my face right now.

Too bad I didn't know where I could try the laser ray or the portals super speed, they were cools but I had no idea where I could use them without attracting attention.

"Lunch is ready." I heard my foster mother, Baetrice.

"I'm coming." I answered her before we ate together, Doris was chewing loudly while her parents weren't disturbed by the noise.

"So, how was your walk?" Francis asked me.

"Good, I saw Lexcorp tower, although after seeing how big it was I'm starting to think it is to compensate for something." I joked as I remembered that Luthor had superiority and inferiority complex at the same time! He refuse the possibility he could be wrong and want to kill Superman just because the man of steel is stronger than him, if it doesn't explain his problems then nothing will
Just after that, a commercial was on TV, one from Lexcorp with a bald teenager on the screen, wait…

"Oh, Hello, Metropolis. I'm Lex Luthor." the bald guy said.

And the biggest hypocrite on earth, seriously in the animated serie he hated Superman and told everyone that Clark had too much superpower for one person but he had no problem if it's him who have powers; and Young Justice didn't improved my opinion about him.

"When I first started Lexcorp, I didn't set out to create an international corporate empire that would make me the youngest mega billionaire in the world. I did it for you."

Well, I'm sure you started it to make jealous all your formers bullies and to become the richest man in the world but I can believe you also did it for humanity, humanity that you want at your feet you pompous jerk.
The ad showed a child and his dog wearing the same goggles that everyone had in the road, did he even care about the endangered lives (that was rhetorical, I know he care less than Rick Sanchez)

"Our researchers continue to make breakthroughs in everything from virtual reality to the genetically enhanced thanksgiving table" An old lady put a turkey on a tabe, I lowered my glance at my plate, I was eating turkey … is it possible that this Lex put drugs in the food he sells?
I just rewatched the commercial, this time a blond girl was next to him, she was frowning. "Lexcorp is a family company." Wait,he has a daughter? Who is the writter who came up with that? it's dumb

"Are you alright Zack ?" Baetrice asked me, I must had a weird face if she was worried about me.

"I'm fine but I was thinking … did you buy the turkey from Lexcorp … please don't tell me yes." I didn't wanted to waste food but I also couldn't believe that Luthor was selling something without hurting anyone.

"It come from the butcher." she declared, "Also, you need to by a new jacket since you will start high school in two days."

"What's wrong with my jacket ?" it had an hood and was comfortable with pockets.

"the right elbow is patched and there is a hole at where you right rib is supposed to be, in fact I think you have been wearing it for three years." She declared, well that was a thing me and DC-Zack have in common. "Do you want us to come along or you want to go alone ?"

"Alone, please." I have always been uncomfortable with others and even if I had knowledges of the life of the other me, I didn't lived them, it was like if I read a book or watched a movie, too much information in a small time to adapt to them, in fact I almost know nothing about the other Zack except basic things like what he liked about his parents even if he was often alone and what he hated in Gotham but I just forgot the rest, I hope it won't cause me problems,

"Okay." She seemed a bit sad and that's why I will never tell them about who I am, I went to the mall at two p.m, it was just to buy a new jacket with a hood and pockets nothing more so I asked no more than fifty dollars, I just entered a sport shop to find a durable one.

I walked through the store shelves in order to find a hoodie, one with velvet … pass, a green one with no zipper pass …
then I saw one hoodie with batman's ears and as a good dc fanboy I wanted it, It was grey with two blue circles at each biceps, It also had a lot of pockets with zipper like a batbelt you could store a lot of stuff inside, a cool theme check, pockets with zippers check, a reasonable price ? I watched the tag and it said forty five dollars considering the discount; of course I will take it.
I went to a dressing room and the batman hoodie was perfect, the sleeves were a bit too long but it didn't bothered me.

BOOOM!

My ears, it really hurted because of the sound, it was followed by a loud noise from people outside, I thinks I have to get used to it considering I was now living in Metropolis well at least superman was there, I quietly came out of the room even if everyone panicked by just creating a portal not too far away from the exit of the mall, I wanted to go further but for an unknown reason I just fell from my portal there; Worst, thanks to my luck I saw what caused this explosion.

" Superman, show yourself !" screamed a blond man with a good part of an escalator in his hands, yes I said escalator because he apparently ripped it off and probably intended to use it as a weapon, a giant improvised club,

I didn't know what to do, this metahuman didn't noticed me for now but moving or even creating a portal could warn him about my presence, would he kill me considering I wasn't superman and that he wanted to go after him ? I didn't know the answer, right now my legs felt weak while I stared at his back; Was my second life going to be this short .
Three seconds later, the man of steel was in front of him and fear left me, I looked at him in awe, Superman was in front of me and I was immobilised by admiration and my legs were no more trembling, I was just watching the 'S' on the red cape.

"Corben, what happened to you ?" Asked Clark to his adversary.

My eyes widened when I heard this name because I was one of those hardcore fans of the animated seri who remembered even smalls details and this guy was really dangerous

.[Quest Alert!]
Steel vs Metallo
You know how dangerous is Metallo but right now Superman doesn't, the fight isn't fair but you can help him, your karmic count will never miss events as critic
{Objective}:

· Help Superman against Corben/Metallo

{Reward}:

- Superman needs help
· Free EXP
· you always thought that someone who ignore a person in danger deserved hell.

I couldn't decide what to do, I wasn't as strong as a kryptonian, not as fast as Flash, not even Spider-man personality but if I don't act, if I fail then it will be the Void and that was worse than anything … why … just why.

[You don't have to answer the quest, just to act]

I couldn't argue with that … I just watched and tried to see my childhood cartoon.
Metallo threw the escalator at Superman who passed through it and went to the robot, Metallo stopped Superman, his metal hands against the kryptonian' s; it seemed they were struggling to have domination but I knew better.

"I'm as strong as you now" I heard the merc as both of them were to busy to paid attention to me.

"No" responded the man of steel before he pushed forward, I knew that Superman was holding back since the beginning but deep inside of me I was aware of what was going to happen even if I don't wanted to.

"You're wrong." Declared Metallo before he opened his chest and exposed Superman to the kryptonite, it took just a second for the latter to fell on his knee and his adversary profited of it to kneel him.

After that, I just acted on instinct as I created a portal in front of me and plunged my hand in it then a second portal was created just in front of the chest of Metallo where his kryptonite heart was exposed.

"What the hell !" Corbin exclaimed when he saw i, I ignored his reaction and just tried to grab his power source, I felt it on my hand and it was warn

vlam!

unfortunately he closed his compartment on my hand; It really hurted ! I knew I could still reach the kryptonite, I was in pain from the and tears were in my eyes I tried to move my hand inside in hope to move the green stone away, the pain prevented me to feel fear at least, but the villain had the idea to pull my visible arm out from the portal and I was front of him.

"Kid you took the worst decision of your life." He tried to punch me with his left arm; I was panicked, afraid of the idea of what was going to happen so I didn't cared about him and I quickly tried to use my left hand to create two portals to combine them and just like in Wakfu it created a laser beam.
I just lasted for one second, when it was over, I could smell burned plastic as I stared at the robot arm in front of me and the grip on my wrist loosened up and Metallo was staring in shock at what was under his fake skin, he was not a man but a machine and I made him realise that.

"What … " the villain started before we both fell down and I felt someone on my back.

"Now !" Superman screamed while he was immobilising Metallo, I didn't wasted any time as I used my free hand to open the door and pulled out the one holding the kryptonite.

"No." It was a whisper coming out of Corben's mouth as light went out of his eyes, he was immobile like a real robot …. or a corpse, did I killed him ?

I just threw the kryptonite far from Superman while I was panting from the intense stress I felt during this adventure, I sat next the robot and superman got up, I looked at my hero and I was quite surprised, I expected to see an adult man, old enough to pass as my dad but when I looked at his face I didn't saw any signs of adulthood, he looked … so young that he could be my brother and to be fair I felt like I was in front of a the character from Smallville… it was weird but acceptable as a meeting with my superhero and I would lie if i said that I was perfectly calm (I felt like Izuku)

"Cl… KL… Superman !" I was practically yelling his name as I couldn't even know what name I had to use, the freaking superman was in front of me, I could get his autograph.

"Are you a fan ?" he asked with a raised eyebrow, Clark was still a bit weak from his exposure to kryptonite but I felt like he was joking.

"Yes !" I was noisy but meeting superman put me in such a state that I could barely speak.

He stared at Metallo empty eyes and I saw regret in his the kryptonian, he cared for everyone even his enemies "I don't think he is dead, he probably just ran out of juice without the kryptonite." I reassured Clark. "Do you think my hand is broken ?" Someone with an X-ray vision could surely tell me if it was the case

"It isn't but you should get bandages and medical treatment." Well, the fact it was blue with a bit of red where the door closed confirmed what he said. "Also, it was quite the powers you got there."

"I have them since yesterday so I'm still not an expert." In fact, I couldn't believe I have just been able to burn Metallo's skin away, wasn't my laser supposed to be stronger than that ?

[You are level one, it's not enough to seriously harm Metallo]

That made sense, "I will help you with the kryptonite." I declared as I walked to it, I took tissues from a packet I had in order to cover because I was afraid that it could give cancer.

"Thank you, just give it to Star Labs" My hero asked me.

We walked to the exit and I saw an ambulance with civilians outside, policemen were there with guys dressed as 'men in black' I thought it was men in black because of their suits and the fact they were in front of a camion where it was written 'Star Lab"; I just took my old jacket and wrapped it around my jaw as the hood covered my hair, I didn't wanted to get attention on my identity.

"Excuse me." I talked to the guys as the looked at me and the kryptonite I presented them. " It's kryptonite, be careful it gives cancer." I told them as I hoped it would prevent the problem that a Luthor dying from it could cause, I remembered the DCAU and I don't want that in my life.

"thank you." One of the guy answered while the other put it in a plastic bag, I walked away after that to get medical attention, it took a long time before the medics were helping me then I saw a figure flying away, it was Superman with Metallo, as he flied away I remembered the important things I forgot : - I forget to erase my fingerprints on the kryptonite, - most important, I didn't get Superman autograph.
It wasn't hard to get back home but it was surprised to met the car of my foster family in the way back home

"Are you okay Zack ?" Asked Baetrice as she walked toward me to hug me.

"Yes, my hand still hurts me but I will survive." I answered her, it was a bit weird for me to have foster parents but it could have been worst, at least I did not steal the parents of an innocent, I even hoped the other me had a better life now
She smiled and I felt warm in my heart after that.

When we got back home we just talked for a bit, prepared my bag for school before eating dinner then I Went to my room as I wanted privacy.

.[Quest Finished!]
Steel vs Metallo
You know how dangerous is Metallo but right now Superman doesn't, the fight isn't fair but you can help him, your karmic count will never miss events as critic

{Objective}:
· Help Superman against Corben/Metallo (finished)

{Reward}:

Exp
title 'apprentice hero"

After that, my EXP bar raised, it was crazy because it filled itself four times ! I guess it was because Metallo is way stronger than a level one

level up!
level up!
level up!
level up!

"title : apprentice hero" gained

Well, that was good news, I felt more like a DC comic character now but it was good to gain a title of hero. "Stats" I said to see what I gained

Name: Zacharias "Zack" Walkers
Species: Human/Eliatrope Hybrid
Level: 5| EXP: 05.00%
Title: The [Apprentice hero]
HP: 1300/1300
WAKFU: 3350/3350
STR: 16
VIT: 13
DEX: 14
INT: 27
WIS: 35
CHA: -5
LUK: 0
Attribute Points: 3
Money: $0

I got more wakfu and that was really good, for the attribute point I will just wait for latter because I had no urges.
On the same day, I met Wonder Woman and Superman, I helped to beat Metallo, I had my favorite ice cream and I got a batman Hoodie so it was a really good day.


Note : Zack only succeded in his quest because he knew Metallo's weakness while he just had his robot body, without superman Hhelp and if Corben was serious, Metallo would have murdered Zack

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