It been a long time coming i thought as i layed there bleeding. I was 16 but already a criminal hunted by the law. I was greed lust and pride that did me in. You see my name will never be seen in the papers it will never go down in history but I was, at 16, the greatest criminal to ever live. An emancipated asshole who was really good with computers. I wrote code so profound that most governments wanted my head. You see I made a code that tracked every penny traded in the world. I saw and had proof of every piece of corruption and back room deals. This alone would have gotten me on every major country's hit list the code also stole money. It stole .001 USD from every purchase around the world. Now that doesn't sound like much, but there are 7 billion people, that 3 billion adults at least, say half of them spent $1 one time dearing the day. That's 1.5 million dollars. Every day of half the adults population made one purchase. Usually my day to day earnings was actually closer to 187.8 billion a day, cause again it tracked every penny traded in every shady deal around the world.
Between government organized crimes and stock markets around the world I made 100 of billions a day. This of corse would never go unnoticed. Especially when I have near zero self control I was a genius driven by greed pride and lust. I bought what I wanted spent millions on girls and of course traveled. All very stupid decisions when you are destroying the worlds economy causally stealing secrets from everyone and just all around a pretty unlikable kid. Yet the Name Mad Hatter was on every powerful man's lips.
That was my downfall like all man filled with greed and driven by pride I was to good be caught. Multiple servers multiple IPs multiple information leaks and attacks for the highest bidders. That's how i ended up laying dying on a 5 star hotel bathroom floor three tiny bullets in my chest. Not a huge gun guy but I did love playing and collecting so I knew it was a subsonic .22 that poked holes in my chest. The lack of ringing in my ears means a someone that could make something that fired quieter then the action. America Japan South Korea China or maybe EU?
Standing over me was the girl I had been shacked up with for a couple weeks. She loved spending my money she loved watching me work. Yet I'm still laying her bleeding out so it was definitely a honey pot operation.
"Wh—-" I coughed up blood adding to the pool forming under me.
"Why? You want to know why? Do you remember last year when you shut down power in France and held the power grid for ransom? My mother died in a hospital while she was on life support because the hospital generators where faulty. So when NATO needed someone to be you handler and Excutioner if you ever worked against them again I jumped at the chance. Luckily from me you have a things for red heads." The girl I had started to fall for stood up raising the small pistol.
"I turned the power back on when that hospital's generators failed." I tired to tell her but there was more blood in my lungs then air. It didn't matter either as she fired three more times into my head.
I floated there in an endless void. I could feel nothing. Even as I tried to touch my self i couldn't feel anything. I couldn't turn I couldn't feel and it was an endless white I couldn't escape from. I had no idea how long I sat there with only my thoughts. I felt rage and despair I felt manic panic and hopelessness as what felt like infinity of drifting unable to sleep or feel ended as soon as it began.
I shot out of the cheap motel bed. My body sinking into a martial arts stance. My eyes saw everything. From the cracking and peeling paint the ants crawling across the windows seal and the Seoul Skyline. My head swarmed as memories filled me. My life was an anime I was the hero and villain. My actions caused pain and despair. Yet this excited me even now! I was a master criminal named the Hatter know for my madness and lack of care for anyone. Why was I two people? I had alway been Markus Smith the Mad Hatter and I had always Been Kiyotaka Ayanokoji.
My mind slowly simmered down as the memories of this world and the memories of the world where I had been in manga and anime settled in. I knew i couldn't be eather because I was both and one was dead and the other was being hunted. But i wouldn't go back to that place. I also wouldn't change me plans.
I left the crap hotel heading out with the meager funds I had. I passed a mirror in the hall where I could see my hair which was brown that became a more orange the further down it went. I sighed as I looked at my anime ass hair it would be the first thing i changed. Black hair dye. Maybe green contacts to cover up my brownish eyes. No id embrace my new appearance. Orange was an amazing color and there where people in the streets with purple and pink hair that was apparently natural.
I would be changing my name. I wasn't Ayanokoji and i wasn't Markus. I had a few minutes to decide on a name as I headed to the computer caffe. I would use the caffe to make my identity and some quick cash. The Koji part of me made it easy to want to slide under the radar. He had escaped Japan and the white room but still had plans to attend ANHS. Interesting that the School wasn't a Japanese solo school in this strange world.
ANHS of Advanced Nurturing High School was a United Nations project. The biggest Donors where Japan, America, South Korea, Russia, EU, and China but most nations sent money teachers and students. It was the most advanced school in the world and was treated as almost its own government made up the bored of directors that included the Principal and representatives from the top 10 donors. The four remaining donors with seats that I didn't list from the Governments that contributed the most are the British Royal Family, Wayne Technology Solutions a technology conglomerate that ate Microsoft, Arasaka a Japanese weapons and medical company [ Arthur NoteThis Arasaka is like Cyberpunks but just started making Cybernetics and is mostly a weapons company], and finally a Russian company named Vlafof pretty sure it's a front for the Russian mofia but they are also a weapon manufacturer. If you can't see the pattern each major player has tried to out as many favorable pieces on the board. Japan America Russia and Europe each have 2 votes out of 11 total votes. China and South Korea are the odd ones out.
The world I was in was dangerous more then Koji new. He thought Arasaka who helped Run the White Room experiment was dangerous but they seemed to fallow the same time line as the Arasaka from cyberpunk with out the advanced technology. Do to that the Arasaka family actually isn't so few it's a massive corporation with all the power being held by the Arasaka Family. The current head was Michiko a woman in her 70s. Her Grandson was used as an experiment in the White room. Not that's she cared much since I was the third son of her Second Daughter. I was so far from her priorities that even if she did care about family she definitely wouldn't care about me.
Then there's Vlafof which was a weapons company from borderlands. They also seemed to have a strange seem to have several highly skilled orphans working for them as secretary's and Field agents. I guess what I'm beating around the bush about is the fact that they have Both Scarlet Johansson Black widow from the mcu and Natasha Rominof from the comics as workers. Which means Hydra and the Red room exists. Luckily or unlucky there's no superhero's with superpowers but there is a Wayne Technology and Inovations.
I let go of the last of my money and sat down at the computer. I first hacked and scrubbed the building. For the next 3 hours they would find it impossible to see anything the computers here looked up or did along with the cameras are no longer working and the film for the last 2 days has been deleted. That scrubbed the only records since the system had been downloaded 2 hours ago. I then ran a ping system and bounced the IP address of every computer into a multiple sink bouncing the IPs randomly everywhere.
I quickly started forming my new identity and I think I had finally come to my decision on a name settling on Koji Kyoki. I went a head and used the Kanji for Good Fortune and Madness. I thought it be a nice call back to both of my pasts. I made a multiple records for this identity hacking into the Japanese government and medical industry along with making a background that would stand up to scrutiny. I was now an orphan who has live in Korea for the last several years. I was a dual citizen being half Japanese and half American or at least that what I made it when I gave my self a American citizenship. I smiled as i created bank records that went back years and paid tax's on this identity well made it look like I had. I then made sure to give me an Inheritance from my rich American Father of 2 million.
I made sure to get all the information set up so I could go to the bank accos the street to get my card and cash. I needed to do a lot before i actually went to that school. I need to know who the players where. I need to know how much of my knowledge of Marvel DC and classroom of the Elite actually went.
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Arthur's Note- Please Review I know this a short chapter but it was just some prologue. This story will be different from my other stories. This will focus less on fights and being over powered and more on politics and dealing with living in a world that has so many none Super powered threats.
PS. Batman will be in the story but he will be evil crime lord think king Pin but Batman. Most of his rouges will be members of his organization. I'm doing this because this world doesn't have hero's it has organizations that wage shadow wars between countries and companies in the shadows and Koji is stepping into the main battlefield with all the skills of both of his lives. He will be sought after by the three main Factions