It was just an ordinary night in the dojo as Ranma went about doing... whatever he usually does. Just an ordinary boring night. But, currently unknown to him, that was soon to change now.
As he was in the dojo practing katas, there was a poof of smoke. Then he heard a voice that sounded like it belonged to a demonic evil villain. "Where in the multiverse am I at now?" He looked over to where the voice was coming from and he saw... Something that made him think his guess was spot on... cause it looked big, red, and mean. And it had black horns. It looked kinda like Darkness from the "Legend" movie.
"What the hell are you?" he asked. This proved to be a mistake as he drew it's attention. He stood firm under the cold demonic gaze of his uninvited guest.
It looked at him and said "I'm having a particularly bad day, you're the first mortal I've come across, and I'm going to screw your life over."
"Fine, I'll beat you up." he said while getting himself ready.
"You force me to take precautions." said the red demon waving it's hand.
Suddenly he could not move any.
"I'm going to put you in a Worm CYOA, and I'm going to make your choices for you." He said.
Ranma paled then, that sounded very bad. He, contrary to what some people might think, actually knew how to use a computer. He had read Worm.
"You will be reincarnated as a normal human of my choice and will have no lesser, greater, or world breaking powers. You will be starting out fresh in an untrained body. And you will have to train all over again. I'll be nice about it. I'll even let you keep your memories and their memories too." he said with glee.
Ranma wasn't feeling very gleeful at the moment though.
"Due to you not being allowed powers the Cauldron Vials will not work for you and the Item of Power will instead produce an item or spell of your choice." he proclaimed.
Ranma was frantically trying to find a way out of this but didn't find one.
"You can only choose an 'Advantages' once. No choosing it more than once allowed. Same goes for 'A Brighter World?'." he explained while smiling.
He puts some papers in front of Ranma's face and says "Fill out your 'Advantages' and 'A Brighter World?' and I'll handle the rest. Just think what you want. The paper responds to telepathy. Oh, I've already set your difficulty. Well, come on and fill them... or do I have to use this?" he asked while brandishing what looked like a demonic scythe at Ranma.
With a feeling of resignation Ranma looked at the papers and then chose...
Ranma looked at the papers and saw that "Difficulty" was set at "Standard" for five points. Ok that was good. He could work with that.
Looking at the "Powers" section he saw that all "Powers" were greyed out. He flipped over to "Advantages" and tried to decide what to choose. He saw some pretty good ones there and made his choices.
He chose "Badass Normal" for two points, "Charles Atlas Superpowers" for one point, "Comic Book Pretty" for one point, "Companion" for two points and he then chose a skilled Chuck Norse, "Item of Power" for one point and he then chose a spell that would give him Captain America's vibranium/uru shield and a version of his uniform made of unstable molecules, "Man of Mystery" for one point, "Plot Armor" for two points, and "Resources" for two points.
He then looked at the "A Brighter World?" section and chose for that.
He chose "For Want of a Nail" for one point that shards do not cause conflict, and "Crossover" for two points choosing "Friendship is Magic".
He then indicated he was through with the papers and the Darkness look-a-like took them back.
He then looked at them and read over Ranma's choices. "Hmmm... interesting choices you've made. You are in debt by ten points. Well, let's see what kind of 'Disadvantages' I can choose for you. Let's see... I'll give you 'Enemy' for one point and I'm making her Saffron's illegitimate daughter who hates you, 'Reincarnation' for one point and I'm going to make it someone you wouldn't expect or like because well... screw you, 'Geas' for one point and I'll stick you with a compulsion to be a nudist whenever you can... like it describes in the 'Shameless Fanservice Girl' Trope on TV Tropes, 'Wanted' three times for three points with the ABB/E88/Merchants, and 'Without A Map' for two points with you stumbling across a three-way fight between the E88/ABB/Merchants. As for 'Things Get Worse' I choose 'Disastrous' for two points and give you a Fourth Endbringer."
Ranma paled at some the choices he had just listed. And paled some more too. Those did not sound like much fun.
"Well, that takes care of that." he said. "You now owe zero points. Your point debt is cleared. As for who you are getting reincarnated as, I'll let that be a surprise. As for the Fourth Endbringer... Well you have Behemoth controlling Earth, Simurgh controlling Air, and Leviathan controlling Water. Now you will have Incinerator and she will control Fire."
Something must have showed on Ranma's face because he chuckled and laughed.
"Be grateful I did not stick you with some of the worse options." he said.
Ranma shuddered at the thought of that.
He waved his hand.
Ranma could move again.
"Right." he said. "So... Bye bye now, have fun!"
There is a sudden disorientation, and Ranma was gone.
Darkness was all Ranma could see. He could not move and it had been so for a long time. He occupied his time by playing back the few memories of his previous life. 'Perhaps this is what heaven is.' he thought. He felt very warm and secure. Then everything changed; behind him he felt something give.
He felt something push him forward and crush him. He tried to breathe but no air could be found, he writhed as he felt the world shift forward, in a panic he began to struggle. The wall around him began to close together.
'The gods have screwed me over and sent me to hell!' he thought desperately. He felt something grip his head hard and pull. He felt cool air on the top of his head and tried to open his eyes, but they seemed sealed shut. He felt himself being lifted into the air by his feet and bright lights surrounded him.
A sudden pain came across his back and he saw a large colorful blur move towards him. He registered speech in the air and he realized what had happened. He had just been born. He began to scream.
The only sound he could make.
A few months later he lay in his crib. He listened to the voices coo and coddle him and the shapes that started to focus around him became clearer, soon he was beginning to recognize them but they were still blurry and his instinct was lessening so he was no longer so attracted to mere movement. Then one day he woke up and saw two faces clearly as his eyes finally began to focus clearly. He looked up at the faces looking down on him, one was calm and loving and the other was jovial and loving as well.
His mother looked at him and said "Aren't you the sweetest thing my dear little girl."
'Girl?' he thought. 'Girl??? Girl! Oh no now! Not that again!'
His father looked at him and said "You're the most perfect little angel of a girl there ever was my dear Madison."
'Madison?' he thought in shock. 'Madison! MADISON! Well now it's official. The gods hate me.'
He just lay there in shock at the fact that he'd been reincarnated as Madison. As Madison Clements. A cruel bully.
He did the only thing he could do.
He opened his mouth.
And he screamed.
(Posted Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:26)
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