As he walked home, he avoided using his borrowed power, which Jake thought was a waste, as each Marble provided an hour of continuous use of the power, and he only used it for about ten minutes. And he couldn't just eject the Marble, because it wasn't a Marble anymore, it was now a Pseudo-Bud, which had embedded itself into his brain and was slowly dissolving away into nothingness.

'What to do? What to do? Can't exactly be a Hero, I would have to be on a timer and need everybody to be cool with me stealing their shtick, and I don't exactly think it's a good profession in this world. I guess I could be a Villain, like Teacher, or any other villain that offered powers for work.'

As Jake considered his career, he arrived home, his house was pretty average, bland colors and a simple design, only now it had a strange feeling since he had remembered his past life, like he was visiting a new house, but it had the same layout as the old one. He started making himself lunch, and continued thinking about his path.

'So, I have to start a gang or join a gang. There's the Empire, but I'm not a Nazi. The ABB, but Bakuda's head bombs. Coil, but he'll definitely torture me in timeline B. Merchants, but I don't think I could handle their personalities. Über and Leet, but they aren't exactly my speed. I guess I'll just make my own group, and branch out to the others.'

Jake ate his lunch, a big sandwich, then he took his bag full of Marbles to his room. He grabbed an old shoe box and dumped some Shadow Marbles into it and changed into his most homeless looking clothes, he even wore layers. He needed a moment to digest the family photo that hung on his wall. He had two parents and an older brother. He waited for emotions to swell up, but none did. "Oh well."

A trip to the kitchen let Jake retrieve a box of small ziplock bags, he used a pair as gloves as he washed the Marbles of his prints and sorted them into bags. Each bag had three Shadow Marbles, and he had twenty bags. All the bags went into three grocery bags, so there wouldn't be any spillage. A separate ziplock bag was filled with 11 Shadow Marbles, these were for him to use, he put this bag inside pocket on his sweater.

Using the computer in his room, he checked the map of Brockton Bay with the gang territories marked, then he wasted time until his first Marble wore off. Jake browsed the PHO boards, looking up things and reading about events that he didn't know occurred.

The Marble wore off, but Jake was too engrossed with reading fan theories about popular capes. He eventually stopped when he read a twenty page long theory about how Scion used to be a nuclear physicist who was studying extra-dimensional energy when he accidentally locked himself in a test chamber. The theory had provided more than enough proof to convince anyone reading it that this was all true, but Jake knew what Zion really was.

The small clock in the bottom corner of the screen displayed the time, and it was well past when Jake was supposed to leave. He turned off his computer, left his phone on his nightstand, and popped another Shadow Marble in his head. He slipped through the floor of his house, sank into the ground, where he swam through the earth, and then popped up in an E88 gathering area.

Jake looked around and spotted an arm with a swastika inked on. He followed the bald man it belonged to from the shadows. When the man entered a side-alley, Jake jumped on him from above. his feet landed on the man's shoulders, and then he jumped off while breaking into shadows as the man fell over, Jake waited until the man rolled over to see what had pushed him. When he saw nothing he picked himself up and dusted off his shirt, then Jake appeared behind him.

Before Jake could do anything, the man spun around with a knife in his hand, but the slash went straight through a shadowy body. Jake grabbed the knife and broke it into shadows then he pulled it out of the Nazi's grip. Instead of attacking, Jake held out a Shadow Marble on his palm.

The Nazi looked confusedly at what the living shadow was offering him, but eventually he picked it up. "What the fuck do I do with this?" He asked as he inspected the small crystal ball with a wispy black filling.

Jake mimed holding it, and then pushing it against his forehead.

The Nazi gave him a deadpan stare, before looking at the Marble and shrugging. He pressed it against his skin, he didn't look like he expected anything to happen. His face broke into panic when it sank into his skull. "W-what the fuck!"

Jake held up the shadowy hand, and waved it, then he pointed it at the Nazi. Who looked at his hands, and watched them break. After miming the one hour limit, he handed the Nazi a small bag with two more Marbles in it, then he disappeared.

Jake went around and found four more Nazis, then he found five members of the ABB, and five Merchants, he repeated the show for all of them. For the final five bags, he dropped them around town. His adventure had taken him a total of around three hours, so he had to use two more Shadow Marbles.

Since he was done dispersing his product, but his Shadow Bud still had some juice in the tank, he searched through empty warehouses for the one the Undersiders were hiding out in. He knew he found the place as his brain started to buzz when he grew near.

Two new types of Marbles were being grown in his mind, he stayed outside as they slowly built up. After an hour, he produced two new Marbles. In his left hand the Marble had bulging red blobs inside, and in his right hand the inside of the Marble were thin red branches.

'Mutanting and a Nervous System.' He thought about what they represented. 'Bitch and Regent.' He also thought about how they belonged to. He pocketed the two new Marbles and settled down for a nap.

School had ended while he was out, and his family would be home soon, but Jake wasn't worried about them. He had just gone running around town, and this body wasn't used to this level of activity. In his memories, he mostly played outside for about an hour a day, and then he played video games for about five hours.

As Jake took a refresher course of his new life, he quickly fell asleep. And as he napped on the roof of a warehouse, word of his Shadow Marbles reached the ears of those listening.

Did the word reach your ears? Did you hear about a shady man handing out powers?

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