[Third Person POV, Year 2001, Third Loop, 19th of February]
"AHA! I'm a genius! Hahahaha! YEAH! This could work!"
Adrian is currently laughing maniacally while looking at his laptop. The reason for this? He believes that he finally found a way to get closer to Stark or people close to him.
"Let's call this operation Get away from the snake, I just need to find a way to combine music with technology or at least find a way to make it so that it's technically related to music, like sound-related technology.... obviously it needs to be useful to the government and be advanced enough so that Stark Industries feels it's worth putting their hands in, if noticed by Tony or Obadiah then even better."
With this in mind, our protagonist started brainstorming. Thankfully, his accelerated thinking and perfect memory made it a kinda short session of brainstorming.
"There is not much to work with, that being honest. I think in a couple of loops I could make this. The only issue is the learning time and let's just say time is on my side!"
As for what was Adrian thinking of doing? LRAD—Long Range Acoustic Weapons. Some think of them as sonic cannons. They can technically be considered military-grade weapons if one goes to that side of things, but they are mainly used for crowd control.
"Let's just say I know every single bit and grain of how to make an LRAD. I need to calculate the time I'll use to make it with the materials collection, assembly and testing... this would take roughly 5 weeks if not more, a reasonable timeframe of a month or two. I think I can work with that."
Now fully convinced of his idea, our protagonist brought his SaveFile screen and loaded again—one of the many loops that he will have to repeat to achieve his goal.
{SaveFile1 Loaded}
[Third Person POV, Year 2001, Fourth Loop, 1st of January, daytime]
Finding himself suddenly back in his old bed with rain pouring outside the window, Adrian stood up with a completely neutral face and looked at the paper on the table where he first made the Anti-Terror plan. However, this time, he decided to not waste time monologuing and walked directly out of his room to his parents' room. The plan on this next loop was solely for knowledge gathering, so no need to bother with details or things like that.
'Right now, I only need money and knowledge, wasting my time making music again or putting in practice the Anti-Terror plan will only make me do more loops.'
And with this, our protagonist starts his knowledge hunt.
{SaveFile1 Loaded}
[Year 2001, Fifth Loop, 1st of January, daytime]
"Alright, this is some process, figuring where to get the materials and the time I would use for it is a valid step. However, acquiring deeper knowledge about physics by being a five-year-old than what I already know from The Egg really took away a lot of my time. Not only that, but Bucky attacked me this time sooner than before, as I didn't ask my parents to change houses to safer areas, so a month less of time.... welp, it's not like it matters that much."
Time passed again and our protagonist lived his fifth loop.
[Year 2001, Sixth Loop, 1st of January, daytime]
"Fuck you, Bucky, what is that about attacking me while I'm sleeping? At least do it while I'm awake, asshole."
Time passed again and our protagonist lived his sixth loop.
{SaveFile1 Loaded}
[Year 2001, Seventh Loop, 1st of January, daytime]
"Alright, alright, that's some progress for that timeline. I learned a lot this time. I'll only need to learn just some things more before I start trying to build a prototype."
Y'all already know the drill—Adrian lived until Bucky attacked again and loaded.
{SaveFile1 Loaded}
[Year 2001, Seventh Loop, January 1st, daytime]
"This motherfucker is getting creative with his surprise attacks. Now while I get up for a glass of water in the middle of the night? I swear to God, if one of those is while I am in the bathroom, I'm killing him in the next loop."
This time, we stop our fast-forwarding of time to witness our protagonist making the prototype of the LRAD. However, just as he tries to test if everything is running correctly and working as intended, the prototype malfunctions and starts producing a great quantity of noise—so much that our protagonist's eardrums rupture seconds after the failure, which prompts him, with great pain and difficulty to think, to load his SaveFile earlier than usual.
{SaveFile1 Loaded}
[Year 2001, Eighth Loop, 1st of January, daytime]
Taking his hand to the side of his ear, our protagonist touches it and even feels as if blood is trickling from his ear. However, when he brings his hand back in front of his eye, there is no blood in it.
"Fuck! I need to get more careful with that. I need a proper area for testing and not do it on myself... I don't need Subaru-type PTSD just yet."
And just like that, more time passed. Our protagonist kept looping until he decided that the next loop would be the one where he actually will try to make the definite timeline and start again the Anti-Terror plan.
{SaveFile1 Loaded}
{SaveFile1 Loaded}
{SaveFile1 Loaded}
[Year 2001, Eleventh Loop, 1st of January, daytime]
"Alright, this is the run, completely optimized to get the most benefits. The objectives are: making money, start the Anti-Terror plan again, make myself famous and make the LRAD, patent it and try to get myself closer to Obadiah and Tony."
Standing up from his bed, Adrian looked at his SaveFile screen one more time.
{SaveFile 1}
{Adrian, 13 Years}
{Home, Earth}
{Save, Load, Reset, Erase}
"I already spent 13 years of life in total? And I'm only a five-year-old physically... hope this doesn't keep happening and I'm able to fucking grow up physically already."
Sighing, our protagonist decided to start his day, hoping that this plan succeeds.
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Author Note: Tomorrow i probably won't be able to write a chapter as i'll be outside, but monday i'll try to make a double chapter in exchange...
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I tried hard to think of a reasonable way to make mc contact important characters, i'll lean more into the why i decided to show that the mc is a genius to the outside world in the next chapter even though he is not a genius. it took him like 3 to 4 years of looping to learn how to LRAD and obviously other things and optimize the definitive run.