Friday 21, March of 2008.
One month has passed.
Many things have changed.
Drake's grandmother arrived one day later of her expected arrival, and Drake took her to the Ark Dimension, but not before giving her a FOY, he didn't want her to have a heart attack when she met her deceased daughter again.
His grandmother, Vivian Mendez, who was now younger and looked a lot like his mother, cried for a long time while hugging his auntie. She is the one who suffered the most after she saw her daughter passed away. She never expected to meet her daughter again.
For a few days, there were many parties to celebrate his aunt return, his grandmother arrival and everyone's good fortune.
The demons dominated the art of celebration perfectly.
Drake didn't forget to feed everyone the fruit of might and everyone's strength has increased considerably.
The businesses have been going uphill for the whole month and Drake was curious why no one was looking for troubles with him.
According to the novels he read on his old world, by now there should be many other companies looking to sabotage his business.
Drake was aware of Kingpin declaring war to whoever mess with his business and Shield sending warnings to other companies of overstepping boundaries. But he didn't expect their deterrence to be so high.
How was he supposed to face slap young masters if everyone looked at him with admiration and respect?
Drake decided to forget about it, if there ever was a chance to face slap someone, he won't miss it.
In the last month, Drake's apps have grown exponentially. With the nonstop advertising, the apps already had hundreds of millions of users.
The most famous one continued to be ChatGPT, followed by TikTok, Snapchat and Tinder.
Tinder have been causing chaos among young couples when girls and boy would find the app in their partners phones. Drake had nothing to say about it since everyone was responsible for their actions.
The app that took longer to grow but was now very popular was Crunchyroll. Drake would expend time with Echo every day explaining his ideas for movies and animes.
Drake also bought rights to stream famous animes, cartoons and movies on his app and then added his originals.
It's safe to say that the originals were a hit, the animation, the effects, the graphics, the music and sound effects, everything was perfect. The short video trailers were very famous on the media apps.
The novels online already had a fan base, and they weren't disappointed with the animation. Many praised Ark Entertainment as the lead on animation.
Now instead of Drake looking for people to publish their works, people came to him and hope to have their works animated by Ark Entertainment.
The most famous animes from Ark Entertainment were, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Solo Leveling and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
Drake's mind wasn't that good, so he didn't remember much of the anime, but thanks to Echo's virtual simulation. The results were even better than what Drake remembered from the animes.
The demons who interpreted the anime voices were becoming famous too, they were even invited on a live show, Drake allowed them to assist and they demonstrated their incredible talent by changing their voices and even singing.
The oil company and the perishable company were finally up and running. Hundreds of oil and food trucks passed through Oasis Town daily.
The population on the desert had also increased to 20 thousand. The town was famous for his beautiful flowers and cherry blossoms.
Drake tried expanding the desert he owned but something unexpected happened, people were buying desert land like crazy. The called it the desert rush, since they thought they could find oil and get rich just like Drake. But after one month of no results, the rush had died down and people were now looking to sell their land.
Drake had tried to buy the land but people tried to take advantage by increasing the price tenfold. He inwardly coursed these people and still bought them. Not to be petty but he sent his demons after the people who took advantage of him and have them beaten up.
He wasn't petty though.
After another round of buying desert. Drake had expanded to 400 miles square. The demons already knew what to do and the land was easily leveled and new greenhouses and oil pumps were built.
Drake hadn't neglect his training and had learned Agera's sword style. He also continued unlocking new ark maps.
After The Island, the next map was Valguero, then Aberration. He was currently on Aberration and had the demons collect all the necessary resources for the boss fight.
The ones enjoying Ark were the demons since after aberration, many went there to catch pets, now it was normal to see the demons with bulldogs, geckos and shinehorns on their shoulders.
After one month of working with Drake, Felicia and Jessica seemed to be competing for his attention. When he was talking with one the other would join the conversation and distract Drake with random questions.
Drake wasn't blind by their interest in him but he didn't want to be a scumbag so one day he told them he was dating three girls and he even introduced them to the demon girls.
Drake thought they would forget about him after telling them the truth but he was completely wrong. They became even more proactive, even asking if he could walk them home. They both lived in apartments buildings next to each other.
Drake would walk them to their apartment entrance and they would happily give him a kiss on the cheek as goodnight.
It's been a week since he started walking them home and their kisses had moved from the cheek to a peck on the lips.
Another girl who didn't seem to give up was Gwen Stacy, she would approach him and try to make conversation with him but he would ignore her. After two weeks of being ignored, she asked him why was he being so cold towards her. What had she done wrong and if she had done something she will apologize.
Seeing the small tears on her eyes, Drake didn't know how to explain himself. In the end, he asked her why was she so fixated on talking to him.
She confessed that she had feelings for him and wanted to be with him.
Drake was very straightforward and told her that he was already dating some girls which surprised Gwen. She saw how Drake rejected all the girls who approached him and thought he just wasn't interested in them but now she understood it was because he was in various relationships already.
Drake thought she would give up too but he didn't know Gwen would be so stubborn as to boldly ask if she can be in a relationship with him too.
He had no choice but to introduce the demon girls to her and let them decide. It's no that he didn't find Gwen attractive, it's just that he didn't want vain relationships.
The demon girls were very good at emotions, so they asked many questions. In the end they even became good friends which puzzled Drake.
The demon girls asked him to give Gwen a chance since they judged her feelings sincere and she was a good and beautiful girl. Drake decided to wait and see but he no longer ignored her.
At the end, Drake would take a taxi with Gwen, his aunt and Esprit to Pegasus Tower and they would hang out for a few hours.
Gwen also met Felicia and Jessica and knew they were also trying to win over Drake's feelings. But unlike her, they were already taking small steps. Gwen hadn't even hold Drake's hand.
**
Drake was currently on his office after a long school day. He was checking his apps statistics, checking his income and also making sure that everything was ready for the release of his technology.
He had been advertising his phones, laptops, smartwatches, tablets and VR headsets to the public.
He had already bought 10 stores in New York and hired people to manage them. He sent one demon with enough stock for a few years of all his technology. Tomorrow was the day all the stores would be open and there were people camping outside the stores already, afraid the store will run out of stock if they are late.
*knock knock*
"It's open."
Felicia entered his office in her professional suit.
"Someone is here to see you."
Drake kept checking his documents and replied nonchalantly:
"I don't think I have appointments today. Who is it?"
"His name is Nick Fury and also Phil Coulson from that government agency with a long name."
Drake stopped reading and looked at Felicia with a raised eyebrow.
It's been more than a month since he had shown his tek and Nick Fury and the government had been silent on the surface. But the UN had many meetings and have been debating how to handle Drake's alien technology.
All the representatives had different opinions, some voted for confiscating Drake's technology and arresting him for keeping something so valuable for himself. Other were more racional and voted for supporting Drake and helping him develop.
In the end, the group who wanted to have Drake arrested didn't have a plant or contingency in case he was too powerful to handle.
In the end, they decided to give in to Drake demands. They even allowed him to claim the solar system since they couldn't stop him. They were also curious to see what he would do.
They allowed him to sell his elixirs but with the condition that only hospitals would be allowed to sell it to the public.
The teleportations would only be placed in airports and be managed by the government.
All the governments also wanted their police officers with tek suits. Drake didn't state a price but they knew they would be expensive so they thought having small squads wearing tek suits wouldn't be bad.
Drake knew of all their decisions even before Fury, so he knew what Fury would say.
"Let them in, then."
Felicia smiled, winked at him and turned around swaying her hips as she walked out.
Drake only shook his head.
Soon, Nick Fury walked in along with Coulson. He was wearing his iconic black trench coat. Drake noticed he wasn't wearing his eyepatch, his eye was fine and he didn't even had the scratch marks. He wondered if he had taken the elixir of life or was it different in this dimension.
Fury had indeed taken the elixir and it cured his blind eye and restored his body to perfection.
Coulson was the first to speak.
"Mr. Martinez, we meet again. Let me introduce you to my boss. He is the director of Shield, Nick Fury"
Drake stood up and shook hands with both of them and said:
"It's a pleasure to meet you. Have a seat and let's get to business."
**
A/N:
Yes, I completely forgot about the grandmother but meh. I still added her.
See any mistakes? Let me know.
Have a nice day.