Chapter 2: Reality One Through Six

They stood together in the tightly packed hallway with a gun pointed toward them both. The sun had disappeared as the late afternoon had passed. This was Gotham City after all, you aren't truly a resident here until you've been at gunpoint at least three times.

"So... Wallets, right?" Scott asked the skinny tattooed man currently holding him and his friend up. He and Spencer knew the routine, they had been mugged more times than they could count.

"Yeah! And whatever else you have on you!" The mugger quickly stammered.

Scott sighed at the thought of handing over everything else, but more importantly he had purchased the last copy of Omega Girl. "Come on man, do you really want to read "Omega Girl" mid arc? You're gonna be pretty confused" He attempted to bargain. Spencer nodded in agreement, "Yeah man, honestly it's pretty confusing. It goes into this whole 'Sixth Reality' thing and I'm not going to lie to you, I didn't even know there was reality two through five."

The mugger looked genuinely confused.

Scott furrowed his brow and turned to his friend, "Seriously? There was an entire summer event on Reality Four and Reality Five. Mighty-Man was the main character of the story!" he questioned, confused how Spencer, of all people, was confused with comic books.

Spencer scratched his head, "Shit, man... That still doesn't explain Reality Two and Reality Three. Like, honestly how are there Six Realities, was it ever explained? You know what? I'm calling it now, there is for sure a Seventh Reality."

The mugger was now scratched his head with the end of his pistol as he tried to follow along with the argument going on in front of him. Scott moved his attention from Spencer and towards the third party of the conversation, "Hey, I'm really sorry about this dude but can you give us five minutes? If he doesn't wrap his head around this then I'm seriously gonna cry."

The mugger slowly nodded, "Uh... sure?"

"Thanks man, we'll be with you in a second" Spencer smiled.

Scott turned back to Spencer and started to help him make sense of the whole 'Reality One through Six' thing. "Right. Now imagine our reality. There are six of them, they are all different. For example you have ours which is Reality One, the original-" Scott began but was interrupted mid way through by the mugger.

"How do you know ours is the original?" The mugger asked. Scott and Spencer slowly turned to the mugger with tilted heads and confused expressions. They had never thought of that question before.

"Well... It just is?" Scott pondered.

The mugger placed his gun into the spacious pocket of his jacket and took a few steps forward, "Do you know what I mean though? If there are Six Realities then surely each 'Reality' would think they are the original, Right?" he questioned to the both of them.

"Damn dude... You blowing my mind." Spencer mumbled as he thought about the muggers hypothesis.

Scott nodded has he also thought about what the mugger was saying. He then reached out a hand for the mugger to shake, "Honestly that is some pretty smart thinking, what's your name?" he asked him, trying to keep his attention away from the fact that he was supposed to be robbing the two teenagers right now.

The skinny tattooed man smiled and happily shook Scott's hand, "Mick. Mick Koppar."

"Nice to meet you Mick. What are you even doing here? You should be out there sharing that wonderful mind of yours!" Scott smiled. Spencer stepped forward and patted one of Mick's shoulders, "For sure man, you got that Steven Hawking level mind!"

Mick's smiled widened even more has he hear the first positive words he had heard in years, "D'you guys really think so?"

"Definitely." Scott affirmed.

"You should work to go to college. I'm talking Ivy League level." Spencer complimented.

Mick was enthusiastically nodding his head at the thought of what these two teenagers saw in him, "You know what? You're right! I can do it if I want. I can go to an Ivy League College!" he cheered. He then took the gun from his jacket pocket and handed it over to Scott who took it carefully with both hands. "Get rid of it or somethin', I have College to prep for!" He grinned as he turned and briskly walked away.

"You can do it champ!" Scott called out.

"Yeah man you got this!" Spencer cheered along with the clap of his hands.

Once the mugger exited the alleyway and out of sight the two teenagers looked at each other, neither had a clue as to what had just happened.

"What the shit just happened?" Scott mumbled to his friend. Spencer shook his head, "I dunno man but I'm pretty sure I almost shat myself when I heard the gun."

"Did we just make a criminal re-evaluate his life through... arguing over a comic premise?" Scott said, questioning everything that had just happened.

The two of them now stared at the other with blank expressions. They suddenly burst out into laughter. They had never laughed so hard in their lives, Spencer had to support himself with his hand on Scott's shoulder. Although, they never stopped laughing so quickly as they did when the pistol went off, firing a bullet into the dumpster beside Scott.

Spencer froze in shock, "You should throw that away."

"I should throw this away." Scott agreed. He then wiped the gun and dropped it into the dumpster. Scott then turned back to Spencer and nodded his head towards the opposite end of the Alleyway, "Come on. Let's find a toilet for you and then a phone-booth so we can tell the Police about the gun."

Spencer ran past Scott, "We better hurry. The gun going off definitely didn't help!"


Authors Note: Hey guys thank you so much for the all the reviews! Thank you for the review GUEST and reading the chapter back I realize I have some grammar issues that I am working on. I've just finished Stephanie's Batgirl run so I'll have more of a handle on her character. Thank you for the criticism my man.

This is a short chapter but I wanted to get past this part so I can move to Scott going out at night. Next chapter will be much longer and you'll get more of a feel of Scott as a character and why he wants to be a vigilante/hero.

Thanks again guys, I really appreciate all of you reading this!