Chapter 5 - [AT] Starting To Use My Brain

[After Transition]

After Selina jumped out the window I took some time to review my recent actions. Overall I have been seriously slacking. The drugged lipstick and the whip to the face I should have avoided especially with my spider sense but for some reason it's being quite particular. My spider sense is on the fritz and it's probably due to the residual temporal energy from the transition. Since I got my spider powers I have been relying on my spider sense too much, this just proves that it is a crutch and I have to train myself to react to things with my other senses as well.

Sitting up on the bed I flex my arms and legs and the ropes snap, I then get to my feet and try to locate my clothes. Why didn't I do this earlier and snatch the memory stick off of Catwoman? Selina tricks the Batman regularly and I am not as diligent as the Batman. Plus there was no guarantee that that was actually my memory stick and I don't doubt that someone who evaded the Batman on the regular wouldn't have contingency plans. Who knows what she did to me while I was asleep, a slow acting poison to which only she had the antidote or a tiny bomb at the base of my skull, they did it to the Suicide Squad so I know it's possible. It was too much of a risk to confront her and it's better to make allies than enemies.

Finding my clothes I begin to put them on. A red t-shirt, blue jeans, brown boots and a brown leather jacket. What to do now? I guess I should check the computer, it's pretty b.a.r.e and there's not much on it, I guess she doesn't really need to keep a database or something when all she does is steal things. Now that there's nothing urgent I need to attend to I can start to do a deep search and hacking to find more information about my new reality.

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The search proved to be very fruitful, it turns out there wasn't much superhero influence in World War Two from what I can see, there were superheroes that helped out but Wonder Woman was not one of them. She should still be in Themyscira and the upcoming event that will bring the Justice League together should be what brings her to Man's World. But to draw Wonder Woman from that far away, it must be something big, Darkseid Big. Hope for the best, Prepare for the worst...

Anyway my research finds me a lot of interesting information but there's not much I can act on right now and I have nothing else to do. I should have prepared better, but my decision to come here was an impulse out of rage and confusion and I only had the memory card and the memory stick with me. This will teach me to control my emotions better in the future.

Anyway with not much else to do I've been watching the television in Selina's condo and I've also been playing with her cat who I believe is called Isis. It seems that all the entertainment from my original earth still exists here with some changes here and there. I found that this is a constant in every universe that I've been to. In the Marvel universe there were all the entertainment I was used to with some changes here and there, even DC comics existed there, only Marvel comics didn't exist there. The same applies in this DC universe, there are no DC comics but there is Marvel comics.

This actually makes me wonder if my original universe wasn't as mundane as it appeared to be, if there was a secret society or something in my world and it has been written as a form of fiction in this world. Of course I will never know, there are too many fictions with secret society's to check if one of them might have been my original world and I suppose in the long run it doesn't really matter, I won't be going back there anyway.

Suddenly the door to Selina's bedroom bursts open and out she comes still in uniform. She immediately questions "HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET OUT HERE!" Rudely interrupting the very enjoyable episode of 'Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia' that I was watching.

"I told you that I was stronger than the average human, I snapped the ropes." I say with no small amount of smug.

"If you could snap them why didn't you do that earlier and try to take the memory stick off of me?" She questions but I really think that she's just fishing for information on my abilities or my personality.

"I didn't know if that was actually my memory stick you had in your hand and I didn't know how long I was unconscious. During that time you could have done any number of things to me including poisoning me or implanting an explosive in me." I tell her.

She looks at me amused. "Where would I get a bomb small enough and have the time to cut you open?" I shrug. "It doesn't hurt to be cautious. Anyway, did you bring the stuff I asked for?"

She turns around and goes back into her room before coming back out with a full plastic bag and a box of old watches which she dumps on the coffee table where I was resting my legs. "So, what do you need all this stuff for anyway?"

Beginning to get to work using the equipment to break apart the watches and start welding them together. "I am going to make a device that will go on my wrist which will be able to eject various different things at a high intensity of speed, I am also going to be using the chemicals to make a super adhesive polymer which is has a higher durability and tensile strength than steel. I am capable of making it dissolve after varying lengths of time and this fluid will be what the device I am making will eject." I then proceed to go into more detail for a few minutes.

"Right..." I guess that was too much for her. "It's basically a device that will allow me to shoot an incredibly strong and sticky rope that will improve my mobility and allow me to bring things to me or drag myself to places, it is also quite useful in combat."

"So it's basically a complicated grapple gun." What, does she not get it, whatever. "Yes, at its most basic state I guess that is an ample description though it's a lot more than that."

She turns towards her room. "Whatever, I'm going to bed now, you can sleep on the couch. DON'T try to come into my room, I can assure you that you will regret it!"

"I wouldn't dare. Cross my heart and hope to die." I reply while continuing my work, my only response is the slam of her door. Well I guess it's time to buckle down and get to work, I'm glad I told her to bring me more then I needed. With this I should be able to create a variety of different webs and be prepared for whatever comes my way...