Marvel: Randomly load a protagonist template

Chapter 43 Deceiving Professor X

At midnight, after a two-hour bonfire dance party, Hawking returned to his room with a satisfied expression.

The bonfire dance at the mutant school is actually quite fun.

All the students are mutants with all sorts of bizarre abilities. At the ball, they cooperate to showcase their abilities, making it feel like attending a magical feast.

As for the dancing segment, Wanda basically led him through the entire process.

After all, he hadn't attended a single class in the past three years, including dance, music, and art classes.

Of course, the most satisfying thing was the food.

For the annual bonfire party, Professor X spent a lot of money buying a lot of very good ingredients, which were much better than what he usually ate in the cafeteria.

Although the food in the cafeteria is actually quite good.

"Now that we've eaten and drunk our fill, we can go and try to fool some people, oh no, I mean, have a chat with Professor X."

He's going to downtown New York City to earn Justice Points, so he'll definitely need to say hello to Professor X, the principal.

If we can get the principal's support, the subsequent actions will be much simpler, and we can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

As for how to persuade Professor X, he had already come up with a set of arguments.

Although he couldn't take the plots from his previous life as a standard, he could still learn from them, especially since the personalities and habits of each character were basically the same and could be used as a reference.

His IQ may not be very high, but with this intelligence, his success rate should still be quite high if he makes a plan.

Even if he fails, it's not a big deal. With his current value, if he really goes to New York to fight crime and earn justice points, Professor X, even if he's unhappy, won't do anything to him.

Because he knew that Professor X's biggest fear was that he would be like Pyro, unable to resist Magneto's temptations and tricked into joining the Brotherhood of Mutants.

"Good evening, Professor!"

In the principal's office, Hawking waved to Professor X with a broad smile.

Professor X smiled gently when he saw Hawking appear:

"How was dinner? Did you enjoy it?"

Because of Hawking's enormous appetite, he specially asked Yug to prepare more than ten times the amount of food that was used in previous balls.

"Of course, I'm quite satisfied."

Hawking gave Professor X a thumbs up.

He felt a certain amount of gratitude towards Professor X.

As someone who traveled from another world, he didn't have any particular stance on things like mutants or humans.

Because, in a sense, he doesn't even belong to Marvel.

All he cared about were the four people who brought him the warmth of family: Oleg, Alina, Wanda, and Pietro.

Professor X helped Oleg and Elena find stable jobs, provided Wanda and Pietro with a peaceful school environment, and allowed him to develop steadily for the past three years.

He kept all of this in mind.

Therefore, he is willing to give back in any way he can.

Like this time, his main purpose was to earn justice points to unlock a new protagonist template, to find a way to improve his strength, and incidentally, to help mutants as a way of giving back to Professor X.

He believes that while it's acceptable to be self-serving, one should also know how to give back and have a bottom line.

"Hawking, you came all this way to see me, there must be something you want to tell me, right?"

After a few casual words, Professor X immediately got to the point.

Based on his understanding of Hawking over the past three years, he knew that unless something was wrong, Hawking, this self-destructive maniac, wouldn't come to chat with him.

Hawking didn't waste any words upon hearing this:

"Professor, after three years of hard work, I have now fully mastered my abilities."

"Oh, that's good news! Congratulations!"

Professor X's face immediately lit up with surprise.

Hawking was very strong, even without transforming into a giant ape, as proven in the battle three years ago.

However, at that time, Hawking could not fully control his abilities and could only use them for an hour. After using them, he would faint. In his normal state, he was only slightly stronger than normal children.

Now that Hawking has fully mastered his abilities, the mutant school has gained another great leader, which naturally makes him very happy.

"So, Professor, there's something I'd like to discuss with you."

"What is it?"

Professor X looked curious.

Instead of revealing his own plan, Hawking asked:

"Professor, as far as I know, we have been working with S.H.I.E.L.D. for three years now."

Currently, it seems that the government is indeed much friendlier to mutants, but ordinary humans still feel very resistant and fearful towards them.

Why is that?

"Hawking, this is normal. You should know that just as humans are naturally afraid of the dark and the unknown, they always think that all of us mutants are dangerous and may endanger their lives because they don't understand mutants."

Therefore, their fear of mutants is more of an instinct and does not mean that humans are inherently evil.

Let's not rush things, and let's not hate them like Magneto did. Time will tell, and one day humans and mutants will live in harmony.

Professor X patiently explained to Hawking with earnest words.

He took Hawking very seriously, fearing that Hawking might succumb to Magneto's temptations like the Man of Fire and step into the abyss.

Fortunately, Hawking had his own ideas and was never influenced by Magneto, which made him very gratified.

"Professor, I think you make a good point, and that's what I think too."

What humans don't know is that most mutants have very weak abilities and pose little danger, not even as much of a threat as a knife or a gun.

They simply don't understand; it is the unknown that breeds fear.

But if they had the opportunity to understand mutants, to know about mutants, and even to come to like mutants, wouldn't humanity's fear of mutants be greatly reduced?

Hawking slowly revealed his thoughts:

"What I mean is, why don't we try to become superheroes and use our special abilities to help those in need? That way, people will understand that mutants aren't all that scary."

"Then we'll do it through the media."

What he said wasn't entirely to fool Professor X. In the timeline of Days of Future Past, Professor X did indeed make the X-Men superheroes of the entire world, helping humanity solve some problems that were otherwise unsolvable.

At that time, many humans idolized the X-Men mutants, which greatly eased the tension between humans and mutants.

Professor X is just too idealistic. He actually sends the X-Men to deal with any danger to humanity, even if it's beyond their capabilities.

Ultimately, this led to Qin losing control and unfortunately encountering the Apocalypse, returning her to square one.

But that wasn't the result Hawking wanted.

What he wanted was to eventually establish something similar to Vought International in The Boys, where those who could be saved would be saved, and those who couldn't would achieve the same effect through public relations.

It's not just about mutants; all sorts of Inhumans and superhumans can be included.

Of course, we can't tell Professor X that now.

(End of this chapter)