Author's Note:
Before I begin, I want to thank DesertChocolate for inspiring me with his works. You are a great fanfic writer, one of the best in my humble opinion.
I almost forgot, Writer with bad Grammar TT with his story, Nier: Automata Stranded Shard, also deserves great recognition.
Ps. If anyone noticed, yes I updated this story by changing some things and adding some more scenes.
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Story Title: Kaleidoscope Adventure (JLU): The Sorcerer Sarkaz of Gotham City
Plot: A normal 25 year old without knowing why, ends up in Gotham City. The good part is that he has received powers and knowledge from his favorite franchises. The bad part will unwittingly end up getting involved in Batman's crusade and the founding of Justice. SI-OC.
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Story Arc: A New Bat in Town
Prologue: The Friendly Vampire of the Underground
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POV Narrator
Gotham City, or simply Gotham, is an American city rife with corruption and crime, the home of its iconic protector Batman.
In this place crime and corruption reached such a high level, that it became immortally characterized as a dark and disturbing metropolis.
The only four people who have kept the city from falling into ruin for several years are Batman, Nightwing, Robin and Batgirl, four superheroes against a dark metropolis filled with crime and decadence.
Secretly, under the noses of all of Gotham City, another person is preparing to join this crusade.
This person is a lonely introvert who woke up months ago in Gotham City, completely alone, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a few items in his pockets, a nightmare scenario.
He would have been chewed up and spat out of Gotham City in a single day, but the entity that brought him to the most dangerous city in HIS history, in return, gifted him with great powers and knowledge.
Gaining superpowers and being able to make science fiction come true is a dream come true for him.
Being stuck in Gotham City with nothing but superpowers and high-level knowledge, a perfect union of his greatest dreams and nightmares.
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The sun has risen in the sky, Gotham City and its inhabitants have managed to survive another night.
With the coming of the light, the heroes of Gotham City are forced to take off their masks and return to their civilian clothes.
Bruce Wayne is on his way to work at Wayne Enterprises in his limousine, on the way back the butler drops Tim Drake off at school; Barbara Gordon arrives at the university just in time; Dick Grayson returns to Blüdhaven on his motorcycle.
Meanwhile, as these heroes take a break from their duties, something is happening underground.
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In an old abandoned subway tunnel that hasn't been used for over a century, a person is walking calmly in the middle of the railway.
This person is definitely not normal, no sane person would find themselves in such a dark, cold and damp place.
Despite the pitch darkness, this individual moves as if the place were illuminated by the sun.
The person with night vision is 180 centimeters tall, broad shoulders, long arms and legs.
He wears clothing that hides any trace of his skin or physical features.
Black winter boots with the soles dirty with half-melted snow, bulky gray trousers with dirt stains on the knees, a black sweatshirt with the Batman symbol on the chest, black woolen gloves, and finally, an old leather coat with a fur hood.
The only piece of color she wears is a red scarf, wrapped so as to hide the lower half of her face.
It doesn't take a PhD to figure out that this guy isn't a sociable person or that he has something to hide.
"Leonardo, don't stop to rest, you'll be home soon, then everything will be easier." The individual mutters to himself, revealing his name and an Eastern European accent.
The hooded individual continues walking in the middle of the old railway line.
Even though his voice sounds tired, he manages to walk without stumbling, despite there being plenty of opportunities for a small accident.
Every now and then, Leonardo shifts his gaze towards the walls, the floor and the ceiling of the subway tunnel.
Leonardo is observing what appear to be runic symbols written in chalk on the walls, numerous strange-looking mushrooms growing on the floor, and labels with Kanji-style scribbles stuck to the ceiling.
'My security system is crude and primitive, I must surely improve it, add more layers of protection, but so far it works no person or bad rat thinks of approaching this tunnel.' Leonardo thinks, observing for a second during his walk the dozens of runes drawn on the walls.
The further Leonardo goes into the gallery, the more the quality and quantity of the runes drawn on the walls degrades.
Leonardo built his defenses starting from the entrance to his hiding place then expanded, gaining experience from practice.
So, the further you get from its secret lair, the stronger its defenses become.
Walking here is practically an exhibition of how Leonardo started practicing Runecraft from the absolute basics, up to the level of a beginner with a slight talent.
'Even if a person had the will or the means to not be influenced by the Bounded Fields. My mushrooms with their special spores should give them a run for their money.
Ironically, synthetic beings would be a problem for my defenses at the moment, but in that case I have one last explosive card to play.' Leonardo thinks, casting a brief glance at the tags, which are actually Fūinjutsu-based Explosive Tags.
Continuing walking, Leonardo reached the end of the tunnel.
"I finally arrived at my destination." Leonardo says in a tired tone, lowering his head, looking very tired.
"The only good thing that's happened to me since they ended up here is the Wayne Foundation charity and getting extraordinary powers." Leonardo mutters with a small smile on his lips.
After these words, Leonardo approaches the brick wall, covered in toxic moss, cracks that hide motion sensors and dust.
Leonardo takes off his black wool gloves, revealing milky white hands, a white impossible for a normal human to achieve.
On all ten fingers there are ten obsidian black rings that must never be removed.
"As you have done hundreds of times, concentrate, clear your mind and imagine the pieces of the puzzle coming together." Leonardo murmurs in a serious voice and his eyes focus on his hands, as the image of the two pieces of the puzzle together appears, something sparks in his mind and in Leonard's body.
And in this way he felt pain and numbness, but he was used to it.
Neon blue symbols that resembled circuit boards appeared on Leonard's hands.
"Magic circuits are beautiful, but they are painful, they are worth it." Leonardo mutters, appreciating the light show with all his nerd heart.
Stopping wasting time, Leonardo begins to move the fingers of his right hand according to a precise pattern and rhythm that he has practiced at least a hundred times in the last few months.
Leonardo's movements created thin, luminous lines that stopped in mid-air. These lines joined together to create a simple sequence of magical runes.
The wall in front of Leonardo opened slowly, as if it were the door of an elevator.
The sequence of Runes used by Leonardo was less a spell and more the equivalent of inserting a key and opening a door.
When the hidden entrance opened revealing a long, narrow corridor, just wide enough for one person to walk through.
The corridor is exactly 100 meters long, all its surfaces are made of smoothly cut stone.
This entrance is not empty, every ten meters there is what looks like a neon blue energy barrier straight out of a science fiction video game.
At the end of the corridor there is a reinforced door, well, actually, a refrigerator door with four bumpers on top and lots of runes drawn on them.
'My last desperate line of defense, better than a wooden door with a lock. But should I do better, maybe add a turret with a laser gun on the ceiling or a plasma cannon that comes out of the floor?' Leonardo thinks, imagining adding a defense system or two to the corridor.
Leonardo kept his gaze fixed on the energy barriers, without saying a password or pressing a button, they deactivated
"Technopathy is useful, better than any remote control with a thousand buttons." Leonardo murmurs, pleased with this ability that has made his life much easier.
Walking down the corridor with a quicker pace than before, Leonardo arrives in front of the door that separates him from a comfortable sofa.
Repeating the previous trick with technopathy and drawing the runes in mid-air, Leonardo opens the "armored" door.
"Covo, sweet covo." Leonardo declares, as if he were a man who has been working abroad for months and finally comes home.
Once Leonardo closes the "armored" door, the entrance to the corridor closes automatically, erasing any trace of this secret passage.
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At first glance, Leonardo's residence might seem like a bunker transformed into a strange combination of a living room, a mechanic's workshop, and an amateur detective's office.
The place is illuminated by light bulbs installed on the ceiling.
The stone floor is covered with a myriad of carpets of every shape and color imaginable, if there was a Frankenstein's monster in the world of carpets, then it is here.
The room can be divided into a T.
Downstairs, as you enter the bunker is the living area, consisting of a coat rack, a refrigerator, a sofa that can be extended to become a bed and a small TV wall.
At the top left, there is the workshop area, consisting of an L-shaped table, positioned in the corner, half filled with computers and the other half filled with tools and gadgets in various stages of construction.
Not far from the L-shaped table is what appears to be an operating table covered in white cloth, flanked by smaller, multi-tiered, wheeled tables packed with tools and construction materials.
At the top right, there is the Investigation area, consisting of a wooden desk full of books and papers, a wheelchair and a sliding blackboard.
The walls of that area are filled with maps and photographs of Gotham City, newspaper clippings, notepads, and identified photos.
In the center of the room installed on the floor is what appears to be a one meter high metal cylinder from which metal cables extend throughout the room.
These metal cables connect to advanced equipment and the power outlets of ordinary household appliances.
Leonardo didn't immediately throw himself on the sofa, he remained standing for a moment, looking at this place as if it were the most beautiful place in the world.
"I can finally wear something lighter." Leonardo mutters, making a screen appear in front of him, as if he were a character in a video game.
Leonardo pressed a couple of buttons and the clothes on him disappeared, being replaced by a set of dark blue pajamas.
This change revealed Leonardo's unusual appearance.
His entire skin is snow white, his eyes are blood red, he has fangs, long pointed ears, and short, shaggy white hair.
Leonardo looks a lot like a vampire and in a way he is, but not in the traditional Count Dracula way.
Once in his pajamas, Leonardo leaps forward and jumps onto the couch. He then throws his head on a pillow and screams, emptying a lot of frustration and more from his system.
"I hate my life, I hate Gotham, I hate mafia families, I hate being dependent on the Wayne Foundation's charity, I hate stealing, I hate scavenging, I hate being a Vampire Sarkaz, I hate living in the DC Universe!" Leonardo shouts, voicing his resentments aloud.
Once finished, Leonardo turns so that he is looking at the ceiling.
"How many times I end up in this position I should hang a poster or paint something on the ceiling." Leonardo mutters, raising his arm and pointing to a specific spot on the ceiling.
"Let's recap my life drama, two months ago I was a normal 25-year-old, a university student from Bucharest who was doing his first year of a Master's degree in Pediatrics." Leonardo murmurs, remembering the simpler times of his life.
"Then, one day like any other, I completed a CYOA, which I do every now and then for fun. But once I finished making all the CYOA choices, I had a first-hand experience of Shiro and Sora's Isekai from No Game No Life." Leonardo said, reaching out to grab a pillow and hugging it tightly.
The experience of being taken over by a higher force, presumably a ROB, then altered to the core, and then literally thrown into the DC Universe is a traumatic experience.
"I fell from the sky into a Gotham City landfill at night, next to a dead body. Worst night of my life." Leonardo said, trying not to tremble at the memories of his first day in Gotham City.
Let's say Leonardo had a [Bad Day] which involved a minor nervous breakdown, getting lost on the wrong side of the road, getting into a fight with bad people, interrupting a meeting between three gangs, using his newly acquired powers recklessly, and finally escaping into the sewers.
"The only good thing about all this is the powers." Leonardo said with a small smile, raising both hands and holding them out in plain sight.
The video game-like screen appeared again in front of Leonardo, he is used to this comfortable mechanism, he calmly presses the buttons of this video game screen, opening the food section of his inventory.
A metal bucket filled with ice cubes and a blood bag with a long straw appeared near Leonardo's head.
"Physically I gained: The body of a Sarkaz Pure-blood of the Vampire Tribe from Arknights. Drinking cold blood has become my end-of-the-day drink, better than any juice." Leonardo said, using the straw to take a sip of the red liquid.
"If blood were just a luxury for my new physiology, I could get by without all the effort required to procure it. But for me it is a necessity, I must refill the tank." Leonardo said, stopping to drink the red liquid.
As if by second nature, drops of blood oozed out of Leonardo's skin, forming a perfect globe of blood floating between his hands.
"The second major physiological alteration I gained comes from the Deadman's Wonderland franchise: A Nameless Worm infection that makes me a Deadman, a person who can manipulate their blood to do extraordinary things." Leonardo mutters, as he changes the shape of the blood globe into various geometric shapes.
"The third and final body modification worth mentioning comes from the world of Tokyo Ghou: The attributes of a Ghoul, Kakugan, Kakuhou, Chimera Kagune and Kakuja. Put together with the rest I have everything I need to be a cannibalistic monster of blood and death." Leonardo said with black humor, turning so that his belly is on the sofa.
In an instant, Leonardo's iris turns a brighter shade of red, while the sclera becomes pitch black with crimson veins, which extend across the eye and into the surrounding skin.
Around Leonardo's waist protrudes his Rinkaku-type Kagune, which appears as two bright red scaly tentacles.
Leonardo began playing with the blood ball using his Rinkaku, creating a sort of volleyball game, all while drinking a bunch of his crimson drink through a straw.
This is a rather strange scene that combines laziness and playful peace.
When the left tentacle made a throw that eluded the right tentacle, Leonardo dissolved the blood sphere, bringing it back inside his body, then did the same with his Rinkaku Kagune.
Turning to his starting position, returning to stare at the ceiling, Leonardo thinks of his favorite powers, those of a magical nature.
"Though a nightmare body certainly comes in handy for walking around Gotham City at night without fear. I love my magical abilities more, with the right time and resources I can do anything." Leonardo said with a joy he hadn't shown since his adolescence.
"Magic Circuits to perform Type-Moon's Magecraft; the Chakra Circulatory System to practice Naruto's Ninjutsu; an artificial organ to use Arknights' Originium Arts." Leonardo declares with a huge smile, which erases his tiredness for a moment.
Leonardo's left hand becomes covered in neon blue circuit-like symbols, and a small red ball of light appears on the tip of his index finger. This is a German curse used by a certain Tsundere.
Leonardo's right hand is surrounded by a light blue aura similar to fire, from which strings of the same energy start. This is a Chakra control technique used by puppeteers.
Leonardo claps his hands, interrupting his use of magic, slowly separates his hands and sparks of black energy appear between them.
"This is a real light show at your fingertips." Leonardo mutters, making a bad pun.
"The only other important thing is mental abilities. My intellect has evolved to the level of Leonardo Da Vinci (Type-Moon) and I have gained the skills of a Tinker Worm.
If that wasn't enough, in my brain there is the scientific and/or magical knowledge of Chaldea, Rhodes Island, G&K, three of my favorite gacha games.
It wouldn't be ridiculous to call myself the greatest robotics and AI expert on the planet." Leonardo said proudly, moving his gaze around the workshop area, especially towards the operating table covered by a cloth.
"If I had Bruce Wayne's money and resources, I'd already have my own little army of Robot-Girls." Leonardo said with an ambitious tone, having specific goals when it comes to robotics.
In Leonardo's mind, one of the things he absolutely must do, besides developing Chaldea's technology to summon a Servant, preferably Medusa, is to create the legendary Maid Robot-Girl.
A nerd remains a nerd he may get a new body, extraordinary skills and knowledge, but his dreams and primary tastes will remain the same.
"The rest of my abilities are of little consequence at the moment." Leonardo mutters in a sleepy tone, surely not far from a nap.
"Changing physiology is more problematic than one might think. My psyche is that of a human who hates walking in the dark, but I have the body of a race that evolved to live at night. Reason versus instinct, a contradiction." Leonardo murmurs softly, half awake and half asleep.
"A short nap, then a snack and work, maybe it will be a good night for a debut?" Leonardo murmurs, closing one eye.
Leonardo in the last week has been expressing a desire to come out and not just stay in his lair doing just three things: working on his inventions, studying Gotham City, and mastering his skills.
Leonardo closes his second eye and falls asleep, his begins to rest.
He'd better rest now, because he's going to have a pretty long and stressful night ahead of him.
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Eight hours later, Leonardo opened his eyes, his expression not that of a rested man, but of an irritated man.
"Jiraiya, you're a pervert who should be castrated, I'm not going to make a Tsunade-like robot nurse girl." Leonardo states, continuing his argument that was taking place in his dreams, not realizing he was in the real world.
Blinking a couple of times, Leonardo realizes he is staring at a familiar ceiling.
"Looks like today's Ninjutsu class is over." Leonardo mutters in a voice filled with relief, having his limits when it comes to Dream Mentors and their bizarre teachings.
Remaining on the edge of the couch for a moment, Leonardo can't help but think about one of his choices.
'When I was completing that CYOA, I could have gotten the powers of Gilgamesh or the skills of Noctis Lucis Caelum or Clive Rosfield.' Leonardo thinks, fantasizing about what his life would have been like if he had chosen OP power over knowledge.
'Instead, I took (Thinker) Simulacrum Advisor, followed by Archive, all to get [Mentor], then I took (Thinker) Super Dream and its evolution Hands On Learning.
This has transformed all my dreams into a fast-paced simulated space where I am trained by a dedicated mentor.
An extremely useful and fantastic thing, but I miss having real dreams and not receiving cooking lessons from EMIYA or a training session and whippings from Doberman or listening to all of Jiraiya's nonsense.' Leonardo thinks, having found some negative traits in this ability.
Leonardo hits his own cheeks, something he needs to stop thinking about useless and depressing things.
"I've had enough sleep, it's time to get back to work." Leonardo said, standing up and starting to look around to choose what to start his work session with today.
"Let's see if Jiraiya's lesson paid off." Leonardo said, before clasping his hands together like a certain orange-clad ninja.
Leonardo's body is covered in a blue aura similar to fire, a sign that he is drawing out his Chakra in large quantities to use a single technique.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Leonardo shouts, performing his first high-level Jutsu.
A puff of smoke appears next to Leonardo, revealing his flawlessly emerged clone.
Leonardo doesn't even have time to celebrate before he feels a certain tiredness and is forced to sit on the sofa to catch his breath.
"Naruto is certainly a monster when it comes to the amount of Chakra he can produce, he can use a hundred clones without breaking a sweat, meanwhile you/I/we... one clone tires us out, creating two clones would be our limit." Leonardo's clone states, not even wanting to talk about what might happen if the original tried to create three or more clones.
"This is very strange, as if I were looking at myself in a mirror, but without a mirror." Leonardo said, knowing he was taking the whole thing of conversing alone to a new level.
"A little bit, but the real weirdness would be if one of us used Oiroke no Jutsu." The clone replies, coming up with a method to make everything much more bizarre and disturbing.
"I often have too much time with Jiraiya, when I can I should change Mentor, maybe Tsunade or Orochimaru." Leonardo said, blaming the Toad Sage for his clone's strange words.
"Maybe you should try more Type-Moon and less Naruto, you could learn a thing or two from Rin Tohsaka or Touko Aozaki?" The clone suggests, knowing the original's interests.
"I'll think about it later. I'm going to work on the robot girl, you can prepare something to eat, I haven't eaten anything since last night." Leonardo said, placing a hand over his stomach, which contains nothing but cold blood.
"Go work on our future female assistant. I'll make some cheese and ham toast, I know you can't work well on an empty stomach." The clone replies, going to get everything he needs from the refrigerator.
"Thanks for your cooperation, you can prepare something for yourself too, I don't know where the food eaten by a clone goes, but it wouldn't be fair to be the only one who eats." Bruce said, before walking towards the workshop of the room.
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Leonardo is in the workshop area, sitting on a wheeled stool, near the operating table.
He is working on his special project, which has taken up practically 1/3 of his time and resources.
"Lily, let's see how you are today." Leonardo mutters, before removing the white cloth, revealing his most ambitious project yet.
Lying on the operating table is a female body made of steel and iron, modeled after Lily Artemis II from Stellar Blade.
The body of this female android is not yet completed, at first glance it would seem that it is half finished.
Her upper body resembles that of a young adult with brown hair tied in a short bob, multi-colored eyes, and freckles.
The lower body, consisting of the stomach area, thighs, legs and feet are a mix of steel bones, wires, tubes and other components.
"Stellar Blade is the Korean cousin of Nier Automata. I personally would have liked to build 2B, 9S, A2, and Commander White. But the creations of the great Yoko Taro and the rest of the works of the Taroverse are inaccessible to me." Leonardo comments, while putting on his protective glasses, not wanting to damage his new eyes.
"As my grandfather used to say, if you can't have fried chicken, get a baked duck. In my case, if I can't have a female Japanese android warrior, I'll get a female Korean android engineer." Leonardo comments, starting to work on Lily's mechanical body.
Soon, the clone arrived, bringing with him a plate of four toasts with cheese and ham.
"You know I wonder why you chose to create or create Lily Artemis II, there are so many Robot-Girls you can create. For example: Lacia from Beatless; Vivy from Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song; RyuZU from Clockwork Planet, Aigis from Persona 3." Clone said, passing one of the toasts to the original who stops for a quick snack.
Leonardo doesn't eat right away, he turns around so that the crumbs don't fall on Lily's body.
"True, there are many cute Robot Girls and I will try to create them with my own hands. But I decided to start with Lily, because an extra pair of hands would be more useful to me than any female bodyguard." Leonardo said, preferring for the moment a valid help in the workshop.
"The character of Lily is a cute and intelligent girl, who was thrown into a hostile world that wants her dead, being forced to live alone among monsters, at least until she was saved by the protagonist, EVE.
In some ways, you're in the same situation as Lily, though I doubt a Korean beauty in tight clothes and a real sword will save you." The clone comments, bringing up a topic the original doesn't want to talk about.
"I don't need to be saved, I saved myself. I don't even need a cute sci-fi heroine, I need a cute female sidekick." Leonardo replies in a more irritated tone, not liking what he hears from his clone.
"True, you don't need help. You've always been a loner who made it on your own. All you needed was a good motivation and the right resources. And, without a doubt, you got both of them. Live or die is the best motivation of being human, and high knowledge is the best resource for someone like you." The clone said, continuing to speak.
"I understand, you are a clone of myself, you know me as I know myself, you know what I love and hate about myself. And you are probably right about some things. But I want to work on my own projects. I don't want to play psychologist and patient." Leonardo said, wanting only to make progress means with the construction of Lily.
The clone sets the plate down somewhere, grabs a spare pair of safety glasses and a couple of tools.
"You work on the robot girl, I'll work on the drone that will help you in battle and other business." The clone said, sitting down in another corner of the workshop, starting to work on a secondary project.
"Thanks, but you got the easy job. You with the drone and I with the android woman.
You know, I don't know what's the hardest thing about building Lily: Working from scratch on the programming? Creating the artificial skin to hide her artificial nature? Building a miniature rechargeable energy reactor?" Leonardo laments what he finds the most challenging tasks in building Lily.
Finishing his meal, Leonardo takes his trusty tools in his hands and returns to work on Lily's center of gravity.
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For a couple of hours, Leonardo and his clone worked on their respective projects, while talking to each other, exchanging ideas and suggestions.
But in the end, the peace of the hideout was interrupted by an alarm.
The shop's computers began displaying a flashing image of a red bat, followed by a sound similar to a police siren.
"Here's a tip you absolutely must follow, in the future you must change the volume of the alarm." The clone mutters, covering his ears with his hands, not supporting the noise.
"I definitely will. I had the alarm programmed to be this loud in case I was asleep, but I definitely overdid it." Leonardo replies, keeping his ears covered by his hands.
Apparently, the long, pointed ears are more sensitive to noise than the round ears of humans.
Unable to stand the noise for long, Leonardo runs to the computers.
Sitting down on what looks like a futuristic-style gamer chair, Leonardo began working on the keyboard.
The very first thing he did was turn off the alarm.
Once his ears were saved from that deafening noise, Leonardo began to read the information he received.
"The digital virus I inserted into the police station's computer system is working fine," Leonardo mutters, getting updates directly from the Gotham Police Department without their knowledge.
The clone stands behind Leonardo's gaming chair, so he can see what's written on the screen.
"The silent alarm at a bank in the financial district went off less than a minute ago, the police are preparing to take action." The clone mutters with a smile on his lips.
"So what do you want to do with this opportunity Leo?" asks the clone, seeing a golden opportunity for the original.
Leonardo swivels his gaming chair toward the gadget-filled side of the table and assumes a thoughtful expression.
"I don't know, should I intervene or not?" Leonardo mutters, not too sure of himself.
The clone runs a hand through his hair, aware that the original might have some "stage" or "performance" anxiety.
"If the robbers are just regular people armed to the teeth, I think the Gotham Police Department can handle it on their own.
If it were something serious, Batman or one of his associates would appear on the scene. Plus, I'm not prepared to handle a hostage situation." Leonardo said, bringing up arguments against the idea of playing the hero.
"But from what it reminds me of the newspapers I/you/we have read. Intergang, criminals with advanced weapons are trying to expand their business beyond Metropolis which is protected by Superman. The Gotham Police are not ready to deal with laser weapons." The clone said, trying to get the original to do something more direct.
"Plus, wouldn't it be nice to finally come out and put all this theory into practice?" The clone continues talking, bringing up the pros of being a hero.
Leonardo puts his head in his hands, not knowing what to decide.
A more timid voice is suggesting that Leonardo should stay in the background and continue to prepare. Saying things like a few months are not enough time to understand how to best use his new skills or build something truly advanced.
Another, more aggressive voice is screaming to stop being a Hikikomori and start acting like a Vampire Sarkaz.
"Once again logic and instinct are at odds." Leonardo said, hating his indecision.
Closing his eyes, Leonardo slaps his cheeks, a gesture that helps to crush useless thoughts and concentrate.
"I am you and you are me." Said the clone, standing in front of the original, placing his hands on Leonardo's shoulders.
Leonardo opens his eyes and looks at his clone who for some reason, perhaps his temporary existence, makes him more determined than his original self.
"This situation is like the final exams at university. You can study for weeks or a whole month for the last end-of-semester exam, but your anxiety will never go away. But once you have the test in front of you and fight it, you will feel good and lighter." Said the clone, knowing how Leonardo's mind works.
"A bank being ruined is not a biology test." Leonardo replies, aware that there are lives at stake and unlike video games there is no second chance to redo a "mission."
"Doing nothing can be worse than doing something and making a mistake." The clone said, still insisting.
"If things get ugly, I can seem to summon a giant toad to escape." Leonardo mutters, pondering a possible escape plan.
"Instead of thinking the worst, imagine a landslide victory and you have money that you can get. And if you're quick, no one will find out if a dozen $500 bills disappear from the bank." The clone said using a combination of positive thinking and greed.
A glimmer of something appeared in Leonardo's eyes.
"I believe it's time for Gotham City to meet Bloodfallen." Leonardo declares, standing up with a determined expression.
"It's finally time to become a main character and no longer be a background character." The clone declares with a happy expression, embracing his original self.
"Good luck, Leo the hero." The clone said before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.
"One of the strangest, yet most productive discussions of my life." Leonardo said, looking at Lily's incomplete form.
"I definitely need a friend who isn't myself or a ghost mentor. Lily, I promise that after tonight I will do everything to complete you as soon as possible." Leonardo promises, stroking Lily's head affectionately.
"To quote Ben 10: It's hero time." Leonardo said, moving one of the room's rugs, revealing a trapdoor.
"To the room of dangerous toys!" Leonardo declares, throwing himself through the trapdoor.
Continues ...
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Chapter updated on 12/1/2025
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CYOA Interactive build for the MC (Leonardo, alias Bloodfallen):
Meta*
You, CYOA, Entities, what are those Entities you speak of?
Difficulty*
Standard, Higher (Tier 3)
Scenario & Setting*
January 3rd, 2011, AU Alternate Earth, Comic Origin, Comic Book Pretty, VFX On, Clusters, Second Trigger, Not So Impossible, Huh, isn't that... [Colorful Crowd, Shard Variant, Nanometers, Son!, Anime Logic, Guilds, DC Animated Universe, Gotham
Character*
Drop-In
Skills*
Ambidextrous, Teaching, Learning, Idiot Proofing, Pickpocketing, Polyglot
Perks*
Rapid Learning [Excellent Education, Blank, Mental Barrier, Sanctity of The Mind, Trumped the Trump, 'Plot' Armor, Manton Protected, Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative, Comic Book Physics, Peaceful Life, Countdown, Serendipitous Luck, I Don't Get It
Drawbacks*
Conscious Geas x 1, Unconscious Geas x 3, Wanted (Local) x 3, Wanted (Global) x 3, Bound By Blood, Monologue, Slaughterhouse 8, Saintly Purge, Lightweight, Rogues Gallery, Trouble Magnet, Fated Journey, Child of Fate, Stalker, Villain Target, Acclimation, Jet Lag, Quarter Pounder, Hard Reboot, Arbitrary Limitations (One Power) x 2, Nemesis, Worst Day Ever, Second Wave Parahumans, Native Awakening, Neutral Good x 1, Chaotic Neutral x 1, Neutral Evil x 1, Yandere x 3, Weaker than You x 3, Bad Day, Royal, Rank 1, High-Tier, Rank 1
Shard*
Shardless, Essence of a Shard (Vital)
Powers*
Tinker (Handyman) [True Tinker, (Master) Technopathy, (Tinker) Jack of All Trades, (Tinker) Ruggedization, (Tinker) Bloody Tinker, (Tinker) Symbiote, (Tinker) Construction [Passive Production, (Tinker) Reproduction, (Thinker) Super Dream, (Changer) Self-Biokinesis, (Striker) Panacea, (Thinker) Simulacrum Advisor, The Wretched One (Deadman's Wonderland), Ghoul (Tokyo Ghoul), Teekaz (Arknights), Panzer Kunst (Battle Angel Alita), Natural-Born Genius (Type-Moon), Archive [Mentor, Magecraft (Type-Moon) [Magecraft Network, Formal Craft, Old Magic (Type-Moon) [Old Master, Occult, Household Magic, Originium Arts (Arknights) [At the Cutting-edge, Chakra (Naruto) [Ninja Tools, Magitech, Fifth Corporate War (Cyberpunk), Doctor M.D. (Arknights), Necronomicon (Cthulhu Tech), Envoy (Altered Carbon), Quinque (Tokyo Ghoul), Make Us Whole (Dead Space), Relic Technology (Girls Frontline) [The Silica Animus Dilemma (Detroit, NIKKE, I, Robot, Chappie, Alita, Vivy), Item Construction (Type-Moon), Inventory, The Mark Of A King (Guilty Crown), Territory Creation (Type-Moon), The Chad Grindset Enjoyer, Researcher's Madness [Archive of Research, The Scholar of the Grind]
Objects of Power*
Civilight Eterna (Arknights) [Lord of Fiends, Magic for Dummies, Basic Supernatural Guide [Basic Magical Compendium, An Occultists Guide, Evolving Guide, Journal
Fusions & Upgrades*
Loyalty Insurance, Techno Brain, Salvage, Invasive Species, Biobringer, Biotech, Hands On Learning, Kakuja (Tokyo Ghoul), Chimera Kagune (Tokyo Ghoul) x 3, Sarkaz Pure-blood (Arknights), Pioneer of the Stars (Type-Moon), Lawbreaker, High-Speed Incantation (Type Moon), Divine Protection of Sorcery (Re:Zero), Factor of the Dragon (Type-Moon), Oripathy (Arknights) [Prototype Containment, Crown of the Fallen, Sage Mode (Naruto), Successor to the Sannin (Naruto) x 3, Paging Dr. Kabuto (Naruto) [White Snake Sage, Singularity; Notes (Type-Moon), Emergency Backup (Type-Moon), Stand Alone Complex (Mamoru Oshii & Masamune Shirow), Code Caster, Punishing Virus (Punishing Gray Raven), Essential, Preternatural Artifact, Unfinished Athenaeum
Equipment & Items*
Smartphone, Media, You're The Star of This Show!
Point Conversion*
50 SP -100 CP x 3, 20 SP -40 CP x 1
Code for CYOA:
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