AN( This was a very spur of the moment thing so I'm just winging it for the most part, if you have any ideas or suggestions please feel free to say them. constructive criticism is very welcomed I know im not the best writer but I'm trying to get better so any advice helps. anyways enjoy the story i hope you like it)
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Waking up surrounded by an opaque blackness when moments ago I had just closed my eyes moments ago to sleep didn't really cause the panic one would expect. I had figured if anything I was just having a lucid dream, that and I always had a general sense of apathy for pretty much everything that didn't cause problems for me. Selfish i know, but I didn't really care all too much what others cared, that came with the apathy. Since I had decided this was probably just some strange dream I tried walking around to see if I could find anything. Though after ten minutes of trying and not seeing anything I gave up and sat down criss cross applesauce style and waited for pretty much anything to happen.
Waiting like this didn't bother me to much, in fact I quite liked it, gave me time to think and relax and not be bothered by any tedious things such as work and social interactions. Soon though I heard something shifting in the darkness, when suddenly a pair of great red eyes and a wide maniac like smile could be seen in the dark kind of like the cheshire cat but much more menacing.
"Well well aren't you an interesting one" it spoke as its grin grew even larger if that was even possible. Surprising me and though I wouldn't admit it spooked me for a moment, though that went away after a moment. This was just a dream and being spooked required too much effort on my part.
"How so smiles, I ain't done anything" I spoke in a mostly monotone but slightly sarcastic tone, this was a strange dream.
"Exactly" it grinned "most of you fleshy mortals would be running around hyperventilating by now" Smiles as I decided to label him, spoke as he chuckled slightly sadistically .
" ehh too much work, I'd much rather chill right here" I drawled lazily " 'sides why would I, you're just a dream anyway, you can't touch me". However just to prove me wrong something reached out of the darkness shoved me to the ground, that's when I started to grow a bit more concerned, that definitely never happened in any dream I've had.
" Oh can't I? Small fleshy one, You'll find that there's not much I can't do" he spoke in an amused tone. "You're lucky most would be dead now, the others were oh so boring. No amusement at all except from their deaths" he chuckled sadistically. " you though, you are amusing. Just sitting there without a care. Therefore I'll give you a…. Shall we say deal" he whispered as if he was telling me some great big secret.
"I have a feeling i don't have much of a choice, but sure let's hear this offer of yours " I sighed, I had a feeling this was going to become quite troublesome.
"Good..Good you're learning" he laughed. "But first let me give you some context, you know all those fanfics I know you love to read? All the ones about some poor schmuck getting pulled out of their life to amuse some random great and powerful being? This is one of those" he explained with amusement in his deep voice.
"....well.fuck a duck.." I face palmed, I enjoyed those stories greatly, but I very much would prefer it happening to someone else,it would simply require way too much effort to want to do. Though at this point if my situation was anything like most of those stories I didn't have much of a choice. "Ughh fine what's the deal" I mumbled.
"In return for me dropping you off on a random world somewhere in the multiverse and you amusing me, I'll grant you three wishes to help you wherever you land" Smiles said.
"Alright alright… wait a minute so you'll give three wishes? anything ?" I asked becoming intrigued.
"Yup, that's what I said didn't I? Can't have you dying to quickly, that would defeat the purpose of you amusing me" said Smiles impatiently.
" Alright sure whatever deal" I agreed knowing I didn't have much of a choice anyway, though the wishes were definitely a bonus.
"No no no, have you no sense of theatrics, you must make the deal properly repeat after me, I, state your name, accept this deal and all that it entails and promise to fulfill my half of the bargain as long as you hold to yours" Smiles grumbled.
"Fine" rolling my eyes at him. " I, Benjamin ******, Accept this deal and all that it entails and promise to fulfil my half of the bargain as long as you hold to yours" I spoke, and i swear I could hear what sounded like those huge church bells ring from somewhere in the dark.
"Excellent .. EXCELLENT… THE DEAL HAS BEEN STRUCK" He laughed like a maniac. " now for my portion of the deal, your wishes. be quick about it I grow more bored of talking by the minute"He said, grumbling a bit at the end.
Now was the hard part, I didn't know where I'd end up so I should probably pick something that would help me in most situations that I could think of me ending up in. After a bit of thinking I came to a decision on what my first wish would be.
" For my first wish I want the ability to think of, understand and build any machine or piece of technology " I declared, I had decided to go this route instead of something like magical because I've always loved sci-fi stuff over magical stories. Plus with this ability if I landed anywhere from a medieval age to sci-fi future age I'd always hold an advantage.
"Hmmm strange wish but granted" Smiles intoned, and suddenly my brain was filled with the ideas, plans and blueprints for machines for every conceivable situation , I held my head tightly as the strongest headache I've ever had came and bashed my brain for a few minutes till it subsided.
Standing up after recovering from my headache. " whew that hurt, alright for next wish I want to redesign my body to anyway I want" I asked.
"Granted" smiles spoke. As soon as he spoke my vision blacked out and when I came back I realized I was staring at myself from third person view. There I stood all of the 5'5 native american male that was me, my height had always been a sore point for me. Compared to most people I was pretty small. As if reading my mind my body shot up to 6'2 in height "badass" I grinned. After that I decided to go nuts a little and keep the height but change my body into that of a lizard man. The body looked like a Saurus from warhammer fantasy but not quite as thick and muscled and a wreath of brightly colored feathers coming from the back of my head like some Argonians from elder scrolls. The feathers looked like a native american ceremonial chief headdress as homage to my original body.
why a 6 foot 2 emerald green, feathered lizard man you may ask? Lizardmen are badass that's why. Though the real reason I chose to design my body as lizard man was because since I was little I've always loved reptiles and would dream of being a lizardman. Though I knew that this body was not exactly discreet so I added the ability to shift into a human like body, it wasn't a perfect disguise but it would pass if it wasn't scrutinized to heavily. I wasn't expecting some kind of advantage to being a lizard man I just wanted to be one and I had the ability to so hey why not? Might as well take advantage of the fact I get three wishes.
"If you're done admiring yourself can we get a move on your next wish?" Smiles impatiently said.
"Yea yea hold your damn horses" I grumbled back at him. For my last wish I wanted something to remind of home, so I wished to take along my pet green iguana, Mort. Even though he was a vicious little beastie that was incredibly spoiled. He was still my favorite thing in life since I didn't have much family around he was the next best thing. He got an upgrade as well, I wanted to be able to ride on him like the mongoose lizards from Avatar the last air bender, so he ended up around 20 feet long.
"Screeeee?" "I know Mort this is crazy huh?". "screech hiss hiss?" "yup you got it right we're in one of those situations" "SCREEEEE!!!" " well screw you too! How is this my fault?" "HISSS!" "yes yes I'll get you some mangoes, is that enough to get you to forgive me you spoiled little bastard?" "SCREEEEE" Mort nodded smugly. Did I mention we could understand each other? So yea that's a thing that we could do.
"Finally you're done! god you're as slow as a 90 year old woman arthritis!" shouted a frustrated smiles " now begone! And remember to entertain me!" and with that I promptly passed out and when I woke up I saw that I was surrounded by dense jungle. Though very soon after mort and I had to hide in the foliage as a group of men with gold symbols in their foreheads and staffs in their hands passed by not noticing us as we were perfectly camouflaged.
"Well shit" I recognized what those soldiers were, Jaffa. Which meant I was somewhere in the stargate universe, Which is good because it could've been somewhere much worse, and bad because all the information I had about stargate was from fanfics.
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AN( so what are your thoughts? any advice or ideas? if the this feels a little wish fufilly well that's cause it is to an extent but not to worry the MC is not gonna be all powerful for awhile and there are indeed consequences for the the specific wishes he chose)