That day I woke up exactly as any other day. The dawn was about to break and I went for a jog as usual. I did a casual workout with some bodyweight exercises like push ups, squats and some sit ups. Moving on, I proceeded with the day as usual with my bath, fresh up and breakfast followed by my walk to school.
My school is pretty popular in the world because of 1 franchise, Marvel. Midtown High is a school anybody would recognize as the school all famous superheroes attended to in the comics. Except this world isn't another part of Marvel Multiverse, or maybe it is? Who knows... but there is no Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy or Captain America in this world. The New York city is as real as it can get. No supervillans, no superheroes and definitely no J. Jonah Jameson. Well to be fair everybody has a bit triple J in them, just a trigger to awaken and you will have your own version of triple J.
Anyway coming back to the events of this life changing day of my life. I had reached the school like any other day. The school I was paying with the scholarship, so gotta keep the grades up and suck up to the teachers. Sigh... The things I do to survive in this school.
The usual cliche is there. Bullies, with no superhero or girl to fight for me I have to devise my own methods to deal with them, which usually are unsuccessful. But I am a positive guy, one of the traits you have to gain to survive with my circumstances, I believe if ever by some unordinary miracle that has been drilled into my brain through my webnovel reading habit, I awaken some fighting power, I can proudly say that I have the ability to take a beating for a long long time. Well you see, I am the perfect target for these bullies, I cannot complain to my parents cause I have none alive, not to my teachers cause they will deny it and make me take the blame as a way to revoke my scholarship and save their money, nor to my friends cause I have none of those either. Pretty tragic huh. I don't know who the fuck this author who is writing me is, I am gonna kill him one day, definitely can't you create a simpleton, no problem, ordinary Joe with normal life and friends MC?!! Curse his hands.
Sigh.... What can I say, I am the writing this as the future self cause what happened is real. Well all I can tell past Alex is that things are going to get way better from now on... How? Obviously cause this story needs a plot, duh. Jokes aside, I'll show you how it will get better.
As the usual dose of beatings started after the school, I made sure to properly set up the pads stuck on my body under the clothing to make sure the impact lessens, a very useful thing to do when you are prone to getting beat up every single working day.
But today something special happened. As i was being beat up, one of the guys by mistake, actually by mistake hit me too hard and knocked me out. Blood was pouring out of my nose as I lay in the alley unconscious, and they obviously ran away as their traces got erased with the storm that started.
Then after I woke up. YES! I woke up! Insane right? I never thought I would wake up. I felt something was different. I checked my body, everything was damp, i thought Aah shit this is going to get me a cold and be annoying isn't it. Fuck!
I then proceeded to run back home and change and make sure to dry myself up along with a proper check up for my wounds by myself. A skill you pick up after getting beat up everyday to make sure you are functional. But then, I found everything, hah! What did you think? I would find all my wounds healed up? Nah, I am telling you this world isn't marvel or a webnovel, this really happened.
I tend to my wounds as I think about the fact that I missed school today without any leave, this is gonna need me to suck up to a lot of teachers now. Fuck John Hardy and his lackeys!
Well, I then soon move on to study. And obviously a severe cold hits me and I visit a doctor blowing a hole in my money, Haah... More part-times to stack up. Fuck!
He gives me a certificate so that I can apply my leave and gives me medication. I move on with life tending to myself for the rest off the day. But then something amazing happens.
I can see a projected screen in front of me. I freaking augmented screen. It was a normal desktop using some OS I did not know of. It was completely retro style. I could make the mouse move with my thoughts and interact with the desktop. A keyboard was also projected in front of me to type. Probably because typing in thoughts directly would definitely create a clutter that is impossible to fix.
Is this is it? My novel's first chapter? I thought.
I interacted with it to find the basic and usual functions. A notepad, calculator, very old and basic browser that IS NOT up to the standards of this new world. A very old and vulnerable network system, and it all worked!! I had a freaking recorder too, this recorder actually can record a full immersive experience. With all senses including pain and awareness of the body position and stuff, I could choose the level of immersion when viewing the video too!!
It worked, even if this was a hallucination, I could use this as a way to interact with my brain then, or else maybe I have some computer embedded in me or something.
Anyway, I then decide to learn programming and everything related to tech so that I can completely control this machine in my head and know if this is a machine or a construct of my brain. I can access the internet if I improve the software here I thought, hopefully there won't be any hardware requirements I thought, there isn't any cable to connect to if this was an actual brain chip.
After writing all my plans, I just give the files a check to ensure I did not miss anything and it turned out I did!
I opened a md file. It was full of details.
This is a brain chip embedded into test subject #002 on the test #202
If this is the user reading please follow the following data to understand the functions of this chip.
1) This chip is made of nano particles and is able to reconstruct itself based on the commands you give. It is capable of travelling throughout your body and alter or change your body based on your commands.
2) These commands are to be given using the built-in API interface that directly communicates to the hardware using the Assembly Language. The documentation and the specifics are mentioned below.
And blah blah... all the stuff I already showed in the text before opening this.
I read the documentation and did not understand shit. So I decided I need to completely master my systems programming and do a lot of coding. I abandon all other subjects because I can always ace exams with the help of this baby.
And thus starts the training montage.