I am screwed , am I not ? Yes , I very much am. Now when I first woke up in a random alley instead of my very comfortable bed you can understand I was distressed.
I am forever going to deny that I had a not insignificant breakdown where I thought that I finally lost it and my mind has finally broken from the frustration of my incompetence.
Now I wish that were the case because hey the next thing I did was slap myself real hard and it did hurt and from what I have seen in movies.
Now I was panicking real hard but eventually after hours of cursing out all the gods and somewhat celebrating the fact that my family does not have to deal with me being a failure, I calmed down.
I took a deep breath and remembering all the mindfulness articles that I had read in an attempt at self improvement which by the way failed miserably I started focusing on my breath in and out then again in and out
After I was sufficiently calm I started evaluating my situation which from a scale of lazy bear to oh god kill me , I am somewhere in the middle
You know this situation does remind me of all the self insert stories I have read so do I have any of the powers and suddenly their is a golden portal in front of me and while at first I just stare at it.
Now it is only after a while that I have a realization of what this means and let me just say that I am pissed.
Now you see before all this bull hickory I had filled up a CYOA which consisted of me trying to make an op character that can be interesting.
Now their exists a non zero chance that I am in a really shitty fanfic written by yours truly. I mean this is the most cliche thing in all of fanfic history .
Really interesting author writes a fanfic and in a twist of Karma they get inserted into it . Now knowing this sadly changes nothing however it does mean that I have to be entertaining.
Now take a deep breath and I guess calm the ever loving lasagne down. Mmm I love lasagne , not loving lasagne is heresy I tell you . Huh? That was an unexpected rant but never mind.
It seems that whatever I do , I have to make this entertaining and I guess I have to be a PG
version of dead pool at this point.
Now to shoot the elephant in the room with a super bazooka, I do very very smart thing of using mad talent to learn an ability to maintain my humanity at least as long as I am focusing but the more drastic my changes the more focus I will require.
Now normally learning to use these powers would have taken me days but I have fortunately or rather unfortunately have practice with a certain something called emotion magnification.
Now you may ask what in the world is emotion magnification well it is a technique where I make my mind go through certain scenarios to invoke certain emotions which are magnified by focusing on them a lot .
Now this technique is wonderful but it comes with the low and I mean very low price of being super addictive while making you look like a cocaine user. It also can accidentally heighten certain negative emotions which may lead to ungodly amounts of stress and sometimes your emotions may paralyze you due their sheer intensity.
Let me tell you for a year or two I had an addiction to it which was not fun because really that technique is just taking drugs with a lot of extra steps.
Now that all that is done, what am I going to do?
Oh well let's see here I am what is essentially an illegal immigrant with only the clothes on my back and without any money. Now their are not many options I have.
I can not join any gangs because I am half Indian and half American which is not even getting into the shady stuff they do .
Now I can join the undersides but that right their is a very bad idea because really they are in coils pocket plus I was raised by a policeman so I do not in any way see myself committing crime at least not robbing a bank
It seems that the only choice I have is to go the hero route but going independent is just asking to die .
I mean really it is a no brainer that if I choose to go independent then I risk myself far more then if I was in a team
Now this leaves either New Wave , PRT or Taylor Hebert. I can get rid of the Taylor Hebert because really while I do admire her she already has a ton of things on her plate plus she has trust issues a mile wide.
I am not joining New Wave because the drama is too much and they already have Panacea so that just leaves the PRT.
Now let's see hmm that just has only the PRT which really for all intents and purposes perfect even if they are a little corrupt. Now being in the Protectorate is like being a super powered cop and I am familiar with the concept after all so yeah that is what I am picking plus they get paid more then New Wave and can give me all the things I need to live.
Now well that settles it I am joining the Wards because I had to pick pint sized . Now that I think about it , this probably going to be creepy after all I am a 19 year old trapped in what is my best approximation a 8-10 year old but hey as long as I do not do anything creepy I should be fine. I am definitely not looking forward to second puberty.
This does come with an advantage however which is that with a younger body it allows me to gain more from working out which added with my healing ability should lead to maximum muscle growth plus with my brain physically being more flexible practices such as meditation should show far more results which when added with my lack of need to sleep should allow me ample time to devote myself to self improvement. I am after all dedicated to my self improvement above all else which is partially the reason I had picked the powers I did.
Now speaking of unexpected benefits from drawbacks due to me somewhat being able to maintain my humanity when I concentrate I can utilize my nightmare form as an intimidation tactic . That should provide entertainment value to my inter dimensional watchers so they do not snuff my existence.
Now to use the power of Phir Se to go to the rig because I have absolutely no idea where the PRT office is so here we go and thankfully I still have my anti COVID surgeon mask .
With that I stepped into the portal which for better or worse changed the world