-Then There Were Ten (Ben 10/WORM Greg SI)-
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-CHAPTER 1-
-Unknown POV-
Life has a way of playing jokes on you.
Cause' just when your luck is getting around and you're finally on the cusp of achieving all your dreams…
It is cruelly snatched away from you.
And now suddenly rather than being the six foot tall man of middle eastern descent with rock hard muscles that I had made with hard work mining day and night, I was a pudgy overweight American boy with a blonde bowl cut that probably hasn't even ran a lap in his life.
Who the hell keeps a bowl cut with blonde hair? Heck, who keeps a bowl cut nowadays?
And it being 2011 was not an excuse. I'm pretty sure goth was in fashion right now
Letting the affront to humanity that was my current look aside, this situation was quite…peculiar.
The only reason I wasn't panicking right now was because I was inherently a very calm and observant person.
I was the type of person who leveled up his character over level before fighting the boss.
Also I had seen and read about this current situation hundreds of times. Isekai was after all a concept that had become very popular in the last few years of my previous "life". And I had found out about it through osmosis (a friend told his friend who told me).
Though I personally never really got into all anime and stuff. Didn't really have the time. But when I was younger? I was a huge cartoon fan (because that's what us 1990s and 2000s kids used to watch).
Nowadays though, I loved how convenient it was to read because of smartphones. And had binged a lot of books and webnovels during the free time I got between work.
So I of course knew about isekai. And it was just my luck that I was now reincarnated (because I distinctly remember the ceiling collapsing on me when I and my work buddies were mining) in the very world that I had finished reading just last night.
Worm was part of the Parahuman Series written by the author Wildbow. It was widely popular online because of the storytelling, world building and characters that you can't help but root for.
This small review is probably not doing the series justice but if I started I talking we'll be here for a while.
So the heart of the matter was that I died. And now I was here. In the body of a mob extra character that barely got any lines in the original work.
As I said, life loves to play jokes on you.
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Even my calm demeanor couldn't handle the terror I felt when I realised that this was real the next morning.
That I was dead. And was reborn.
Should I cry because I died? Or should I laugh because I got another chance? I don't know…
And my whole "calm" was shattered to pieces.
I still couldn't stop shaking from terror when I remembered what sheer fucked up death world this was.
I liked reading it, it did not mean I wanted to live in it!
But then I forcefully shook my head and slapped myself.What the fuck am I thinking?! Whatever's happened has happened! I can't do anything to change that!
I remembered of the tough times in my childhood. Of when I had to work in mines to let my younger siblings get good education.
I hadn't backed off then, when our parents had died and left us with nothing. I had picked up the pieces and sacrificed my future for my siblings and it had paid off. Almost every one of them was now educated, had jobs and some were even married with children on the way.
I could trust them with the responsibility now.I sighed remembering Katrina my youngest sister who was just in her second year of college right now.
I have fulfilled my duty.I smiled remembering them. They wouldn't want me to mope around like a coward after all.
So I wouldn't back off now.
So what if there were kaijus, supervillains, corrupt heroes and aliens roaming around the world?
Here I stand! Let them come! So what if I didn't have any powers as of yet? I didn't need powers to make a difference.
Though they would make a ton of things easier.
Sitting back and letting things play out was not one of the options when I know that the world was going to end in 2 years.
I had to be on the offensive if I wanted to change things.
Ting!
And it seems that God is on my side.I smiled as I looked up at the floating screen in my vision.
[Power Gacha is Online!]
I knew about Gacha. Once again, because of my friends as I wasn't the type to waste money of those things.
But from what I can guess, this was my… golden finger? Or superpower? Though I remember that in Worm, all Capes got power after going through a highly emotional event called "Trigger Events" which created a connection with a Shard.
I honestly didn't know if this would be different or the same. Though if I had to choose, I would prefer not to get Shard based power, simply because of what happens in the sequel series "Wards" where Shards begin changing their users into Kaijus too? I'm not sure I only know about it because of some posts I read online.
[World- WORM]
[Rolling Type…].
[Type Selected! Tinker!]
[Rolling Specialisation!]
"Tinker's not bad." I said appreciatively. It was honestly one of the best options as it provided a lot of versatility and creativeness. But of course all of this was limited by the specializations.
I didn't have any problem with what type of specializations I got because I hadn't expected getting powers in the first place.
I shook my head.Though there's no way I'm getting a good one.My luck is too bad.
[Specialization Selected!]
At that moment despite myself, I could not help but mutter a curse in awe and shock as I read what was written on the floating screen of light.
[Specialization: Omnitrix]
"What the fuck!?"
And so began my next great adventure in the world of Capes, Endbringers and Entities with the power to destroy the balance that held this world together.
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