She still wanted proof? Fine. The expression on his face was almost devilish.
So maybe he still doubted himself sometimes, in his deepest, darkest moments. Sometimes he worried that what he did wasn't enough. Sometimes he grieved when he wasn't fast enough, didn't answer those 8x8's quick enough to save everyone.
When it came to proving things to himself, he sometimes had his doubts.
When it came to having confidence in the face of other people wanting proof, well. He was more than happy to flaunt what he could do in their faces.
After all, that's why he was so good at the hero thing. Sometimes that's what you had to be to get the job done -- the cockiest son of a schlag this side of the Zeta Reticuli.
"Computer, can you make a separate, little private room for Kid Quantum and I here?" he asked the computer in charge of the Simroom. A door appeared and he walked through it, gesturing for her to follow him into the empty white room beyond with the arm hand that was holding his beer. "Any self-respecting leader runs battle sims and war sims to keep their brain sharp. I want you to call up the hardest scenario you've got. The one you can never beat."
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So maybe he still doubted himself sometimes, in his deepest, darkest moments. Sometimes he worried that what he did wasn't enough. Sometimes he grieved when he wasn't fast enough, didn't answer those 8x8's quick enough to save everyone.
When it came to proving things to himself, he sometimes had his doubts.
When it came to having confidence in the face of other people wanting proof, well. He was more than happy to flaunt what he could do in their faces.
After all, that's why he was so good at the hero thing. Sometimes that's what you had to be to get the job done -- the cockiest son of a schlag this side of the Zeta Reticuli.
"Computer, can you make a separate, little private room for Kid Quantum and I here?" he asked the computer in charge of the Simroom. A door appeared and he walked through it, gesturing for her to follow him into the empty white room beyond with the arm hand that was holding his beer. "Any self-respecting leader runs battle sims and war sims to keep their brain sharp. I want you to call up the hardest scenario you've got. The one you can never beat."