Chapter 6

Interlude 1: Mark

If some had asked Mark Kelly how his life was he would answer with "pretty normal"

A nice family and good friends, was relativity healthy both physically and mentally. Was everything perfect? No, but it didn't need to be. Overall Mark's life was normal, until something very abnormal happened.

Namely, a friend of his developed Superpowers or was given superpowers he wasn't a hundred percent on how he got them and Mark wasn't entirely trusting the 'Random Omnipotent Being' excuse.

But yeah. His friend got superpowers like the ones you see in comics, apparently Korean comics for his powers. Specifically, two Korean comics: The Gamer and DICE The Cube That Changed Everything.

Mark rubbed his eyes as he checks the clock on his computer, 02:00am August 16th 2015.

He went to his bed but was unable to sleep at all, if what his friend was saying about this powers coming from these comics then he was very worried.

Especially if these 'Dice' are anything like they were in the comic. Granted X, or whatever his name is, was an instigator in most of the conflicts that didn't mean someone or something else might do the same.

Whatever is sending he's friend those Quests might use the Dice to try and take over the world, or something worse. If his friend was the one controlling the Quests for the Dice it might be different, but still…

What's happened, happened. Nothing to do now but try and minimise the effects.

First thing was to check if the Dice worked for other people, because while his friend had control over the gamer powers it didn't mean someone else couldn't steal a dice and start causing havoc.

When in doubt prepare for the worse possible situations.

Mark drifted off to sleep thinking 'maybe I'll have a clearer head after a few hours of sleep'

As soon as Mark awoke the next morning, he decided to go over to his friend's house to see what exactly he's dealing with and perhaps set up a few restrictions so as not to cause chaos through irresponsible use of these powers.

When Mark he went over to his friend's house at around noon and went to his friend's room.

When Mark opened the door, and saw his friend he expected many things. One of those things wasn't watching his friend drawing on a sketch pad surrounded by sheets of papers.

Looking down at the pages revealed sketches of characters and locations. The styles were extremely varied with one looking somewhat realistic while some were straight up cartoony, looking further down the piles revealed drawings of lower quality.

"Yo, Mark. Didn't hear you come in" Mark looked up to see his friend looking at him "I see you found my drawings"

Mark nodded "yeah, hard to miss them actually"

That was an understatement, the number of pictures around the floor was beyond a joke. Not all the pages looked like they came from a sketch pad, some looked like the ones you would find in notes books and the pile of sticky notes were clearly drawn on.

"I've been thinking about what you said to be at the park yesterday, about what I wanted to do" Mark looked over at his friend as he continued to draw on the sketch pad "then, it hit me. I could use the rapid skill mastery of this power to learn all the skills I want and use them to be a content creator. Though I still got a long way to go before I can begin earnestly"

Mark blinked as he looked at his friend, his friend planned to use his supernatural powers to be a content creator.

Well, Mark supposed there were worse things to do with supernatural powers from Korea.

"oh Mark. I need your advice on something" putting down the sketch pad and pencil, Mark's friend turned to look at him as he took something out of his pocket, a dice "it's in regards to this…"

Mark looked at the Dice for a moment before looking back up "what about it?"

Holding up the Dice his friend continued "well, I'm thinking of doing an experiment, you know how the Dice can enhance the abilities of whoever use them in the Webcomic" he stopped for a moment "how much do you know about the Webcomic?"

Mark nodded "I'm up to the current chapter on Webtoon"

"Great. I was planning to test and see if anyone else can use the Dice to enhance their abilities"

"WHAT!?" Mark quickly grabbed his friend "Why!? Why the hell would you spread these things?!" Mark asked as he held his friend, the Dice were dangerous and if they spread…

"because they're going to get out eventually" Mark blinked at his friend's answer "I'm not delusional enough to believe I can keep the Dice from anyone forever, all it takes is one slip up and suddenly someone has a Dice with the possibility to get more running around doing who knows what. If I do this then I'll know what to expect"

Mark opened and closed his mouth several times "but, but who are you going to help you test it?"

Mark looked down at the Dice as his friend held it out.

Realization hit Mark like a truck "me? Why?"

A smile was Mark's answer "there's no one else I'd trust more, besides. You've always be the responsible one"

Mark took a deep breath as he picked up the Dice and stared at it.

As he stared at the Dice, Mark couldn't help but wonder where the light was coming from or why it was there.

"nothing ventured nothing gained…" Mark said hoping his friend knew what he was doing "you owe me for this Nat" Mark said to his friend as he tossed the Dice.

The Dice rolled for a moment then it stopped…

Author's Note:

A Little short I know, but I figured I'd tried to give a little more variety in the story by including an interlude.