American Comics: The Matrix

Chapter 9 Felicia Hardy
Bant returned to his seat and sat down.

In a place like America, teachers would never punish a student for arriving in class late. In fact, they should be thankful that these students are willing to come to school.

At this time, a blonde girl poked her head out when the teacher's back was turned and asked in a low voice:
"Hey, Bant, why are you late today?"

"One second late is not late, Hardy." Bant replied to her while taking out homework from his schoolbag.

Felicia Hardy.

She is a famous rich girl in the school and she is very beautiful. But what Bant cares more about is her other secret identity - Black Cat.

Of course, Felicia doesn’t know yet that her father is the famous civet cat, and she herself has not become a civet cat.

"You always have something to say to make excuses." Felicia straightened her body. She saw the homework book that Bant had placed on the table, but she didn't find it strange.

Bant was quite serious about his studies at school. Felicia had never seen Bant not do his homework, or do it perfunctorily. Bant was quite hardworking in his studies, but unfortunately, in this Marvel world full of geniuses, hard work alone was of little use.

Bant can handle ordinary academics, but for some competition-related knowledge, Bant’s brain is not enough.

For many people in this world, genius is just a ticket. Even with Peter's intelligence, Connors or Otto would criticize him for not working hard enough, not to mention ordinary people.

Felicia could totally relate to this because she was like that: hardworking, but not that talented.

Felicia looked at Bant taking out his textbook with a worried look on his face, and felt that the two of them were in the same boat!
'Maybe I should hold a study session and invite Bant to join. ' She thought, and just as she was about to stick her neck out to tell Bant about this, the head teacher had already turned around, and Felicia quickly retracted her head in fear.

As for Bant, he didn't notice any of this.

He had been thinking about the Iron Man suit since the moment he sat down. Few boys could refuse a set of Iron Man suit, especially when that suit was an original and authentic one, taken directly from Tony Stark!

'I can turn into a little wizard, then take it apart and study it! ' Bant thought.

Even though he had dismantled the suit once, Flash Star's dismantling was only to remove parts, while Little Warrior was able to thoroughly study the structure and technology of the suit.

"It's a pity that the most critical Ark reactor cannot be dismantled." He sighed in his heart.

The Ark Reactor is actually the most core technology of Iron Man's suit, and its essence should be cold nuclear fusion.

Cold nuclear fusion was a technology that was almost impossible to achieve in Bant's previous life, but here, Tony achieved it. Not to mention that Tony could shrink such a huge energy source to the size of a heart.

In addition to energy, other parts of the armor are also full of difficult-to-achieve technologies.

Bant actually doesn't have much interest in science, and he studies hard just to not disappoint Aunt May and Uncle Ben.

However, he was very interested in researching armor and building his own armor. If he could fully understand the technology of the Iron Armor, he could research his own armor or build a group of mechanical monsters.

While Bant was still distracted, a slight tingling sensation came from his brain. Bant subconsciously reached out and received a note.

[I am planning to hold a study session and would like to invite Gwen. Do you want to come to my house? ]

Signed by Felicia.

Study session?
Bant was stunned for a moment, then looked to the side and found that Felicia was blinking at him and opening her mouth to make the following gesture:
"You can bring your cousin, Peter Parker."

Sounds good.

Bant thought.

Gwen and Peter are arguably the two people with the best grades in the school, and their grades always rank first or second all year round.

More importantly, Felicia and Gwen were both beautiful girls, and if Peter was taken to the study session, maybe he could get to know Gwen instead of him talking about Liz Toomes all day long.

But...what does this have to do with me?

I don't have time to attend any study sessions. I have to study the Iron Man suit after school!

Bant thought.

He can turn into a little warrior and study it thoroughly, or he can turn into a shapeshifter and possess the armor to see what changes he can bring to it. Perhaps he can use the characteristics of Gavin's shapeshifter, that is, the ability of the shapeshifter, to upgrade the armor, or create a spider suit for Peter.

You can't just let him go around fighting crime in his baby pajamas, can you?
He has so many things to do, which one would not be more interesting than studying?
So Bant crumpled the note into a ball and shook his head at Felicia.

"Sorry Felicia, I have something to do after school. As for Peter, I don't think he has much time recently." Bant was speaking the truth. These days, Peter's mind was almost always thinking about Spider, Osborn, Dr. Connors and his parents. He probably didn't have the heart to attend the study session.

What's more, if Bant remembered correctly, Gwen also had to participate in club activities after school. She, Mary Jane and a few other people formed a small band.

"Okay, forget it!" Felicia spoke in a cold and a little angry tone. She obviously didn't expect that she would be rejected by Bant. She turned her head and forced herself not to look at Bant.

She clearly remembered that Bant hardly participated in club activities and went home right after school every day, saying that he didn't have time. She knew it was an excuse right away!

If you don’t want to study with me, just say so. Humph!

Damn you, Bant, wait until I invite Gwen and form a study group, and your grades improve dramatically, then you'll have time to regret it! By then, it won't be that easy for you to join my study group!

She gritted her teeth thinking.

'Unless he holds my thigh and begs me!'

Not only that, Felicia also decided not to pay any attention to Bant at least until after school today, so that he would know how powerful she is!

As for Bant, he actually ignored her after rejecting Felicia and focused his attention on the class.

He didn't know if it was his illusion, but during class today he felt that his mind seemed to have become a little clearer. Knowledge that used to take some time and practice to understand now seemed to be understood easily.

"Have I become smarter?" He was a little surprised.

"Is it because the spider ability stimulated my brain? Or was it because after I became a little warrior, I was influenced by the little warrior?"

Bant suspected it was a bit of both.

The spider ability almost completely strengthened his body, so it was not impossible for his brain to become more agile. Although becoming a little warrior did not permanently change Bant's genes, at least some physics knowledge remained in his brain.

In addition, the little warrior’s way of thinking may also affect him.

Of course, no matter which one it is, it is impossible to turn Bant into a genius in an instant.

For the first time, Bant felt that class time passed so quickly.

The feeling of devoting himself to learning made him feel very good. For a moment, he even thought he had really become a genius.

But in fact, if he is really a genius, he doesn't need to spend energy to study the content in class seriously.

For a genius, that knowledge is not even the basics. Take Peter for example, when he was in middle school, he was able to develop spider silk materials that were impossible to achieve with the technology in Bant's original world.

In fact, let alone Peter, even Dr. Connorson's intelligence is far beyond the reach of ordinary people. Although his research has failed in every world, and sometimes he is more like a foil for Peter or Peter's parents, the technology that can transform people into lizard people is beyond reality.

Compared to them, Bant's intelligence level is still at the level of ordinary people.

But he wasn't unhappy about it.

After all, he was originally an ordinary person. Moreover, now that he had successfully activated the Omnitrix, among the millions of alien genes, there were some extremely intelligent races that could allow him to transform. The Gavins were just one of them. In addition, the Crab Masterminds, the Spirit Monsters, etc. were all races that were very good at technology.

Of course, the omnipotent X-Man naturally also means omniscience and unparalleled wisdom.

After a whole day of study, Bant felt refreshed, and Felicia was both happy and sad. On the one hand, Bant was sitting next to her, making it difficult for her to ignore him all day. The feeling of forcing herself not to talk to him was like a cat scratching her heart with its claws.

on the other hand--

'I ignored him all day, he must be so upset! ' Felicia thought proudly. Now that school was over, she couldn't wait to see Bant's reaction. She guessed that Bant must be as upset as she was.

But when he turned around, he found that Bant's seat was empty.

Looking up again into the distance, Felicia only saw Bant's back as he rushed out of the classroom without looking back.

"Xiaoban!"

She stamped her feet in anger.

(End of this chapter)