Prologue:

"You can no longer tempt me!" the Martian Mahunter declared as he shattered the philosopher's stone. Morgan Lafey, having failed to obtain the stone for herself, retreated and let her illusion of a castle disappear. She assumed that after it was shattered there was nothing left of the stone's power. However, she was wrong: even the dust of the stone still contained strong magical potential.

Weeks later, a costume maker who also happened to be apprenticing in magic received an order for a costume of an original character who was an anthropomorphic kitsune. After starting work on the costume and taking a short lunch break she returned from the shop's break room to find the half complete costume had started to glisten a little since she had left. She decided it must be a trick of the light and continued working on the costume. She'd just finished embroidering her personal insignia onto the inside, when she accidently pricked herself with the needle. A small blood stain appeared on the fabric. She moved to stop the bleeding and dripped blood on the finished part of the costume by mistake. She worried at first, since she was really proud of the costume and didn't want to waste her hard work, then thought of a solution. The costume maker looked around to make sure no one was looking, then recited a spell for enhancing fabric, fueling it with her hopes for whoever wore the product of her work. There was a glow, and the blood and sparkles disappeared. She thought her insignia had glowed brighter then was normal for this spell, like it had in the dream where she's first seen it a year ago, but she dismissed it as another trick of the light. However, more had transpired there then she knew.

Chapter 1:

I walked through a forest without worry for where I was going. As I walked I felt the presence of my tails behind me and swished them happily. I just reached a pool of water and looked down at my reflection. An anthropomorphic kitsune stared back, purple fur with yellow highlights showing in the reflection. I heard a strange noise, and then everything started to fade away.

I woke to sunlight streaming in through the window of my room and reflecting off a holographic poster that read, "The Avengers, Earth's Mightiest Heroes" which had been signed by the voice actor who'd portrayed Thor. I heard my mom call, "Josh, breakfast!" I yelled back, "Coming Mom!" I quickly got dressed and came down stairs. As I approached the table I saw several boxes that were a glaring reminder of the fact that I'd just moved to Dakota. My Dad was offered a Job at Alva Industries and relations with our old Landlord were deteriorating fast so we decided to get our own house. The only issue was that naturally none of my friends had moved with me so I felt lonely. My Mom offered me plate with sausages on it and upon noticing my downcast look said, "I know it's hard to move but I'm sure you'll make new friend soon."

I left the house a little later, this would be my first day at Dakota Union high, since it had taken a few days after we'd moved in to clear all the paperwork, so I could enroll. Luckily the school wasn't hard to find. I put my stuff in my locker and went to find my first class. I set down at my desk and noticed that next to me was a dark-haired teen. I turned and said to him, "This is first period math right?" He replied, "Yup" after a pause he added "You must be new here." I replied, "Yes, I just moved in a few days ago, I'm Josh Stein" He replied, "Virgil Hawkins". Further conversation was cut off when the teacher walked in.

At lunch time I got my food and looked for a table to eat at. I saw Virgil and walked over to him. He was talking to another teen with glasses, presumably his friend. As I walked closer I heard a bit of their conversation "Its way cool that your Pops agreed to let you host a Halloween party, he's really changed." Virgil said. His friend replied, "I just hope there's some good competition for the super smash bros tournament." That piqued my interest so I said, "Super Smash Bros tournament?" Virgil turned around and said, "Hi Josh, I'd like you to meet my friend Richie." I shook hands with Riche and he said, "Are you any good at smash bros?" I replied, "Yeah, I've played since Smash 64." Richie replied, "You wouldn't happen to be doing anything tonight after school would you? I replied, "No, why?" Richie responded, "How about coming to my Halloween party then. I could use the smash competition." I was surprised he'd invite me after we'd only just met, but decided to not look a gift horse in the mouth so I said, "Sure, I'd love to" and then added, "Should I bring a costume?" Riche replied, "If you have one feel free, but it's not required."

As I approached my house on my way home from school, a delivery truck stopped and dropped off a package at my doorstep. I looked at the label and saw that it was addressed to me. I wondered if it was the costume of my OC that I'd ordered. I brought the package inside and opened it. Looking at the costume reminded me of my dream last night. I'd dreamed that I was my OC, Chaos Kitsune. His design was derived visually from a retexture of a model of Miles "Tail" Prower that I'd added a few extra tails to represent a mythical kitsune. His powers were inspired by a buffy the vampire slayer fan fiction called "Omnipotence", particularly the part where Xander summons the Incredible Hulk to fight for him. Chaos Kitsune could bring fiction to life, though not in a way that was against that fiction's nature. "Always a fun dream to have" I thought to myself, "but really being him would be ever more fun" I couldn't help but add silently.

After finishing my homework for the day, I had an early dinner and changed into my costume. It wasn't uncomfortable as I'd feared it might be, but it was a bit hard to see out of. I walked a few blocks to Riche's house and rang the doorbell. Riche answered it and said, "Come on in". I walked in and saw various people, some were in costume and some weren't. I wasn't sure who to talk to or what to say, since I didn't really know anyone. After a few minutes of walking around, Riche announced that it was time to sign up for the Smash Bros tournament. I walked up stairs to the game room and waited for my turn to enter my name and choose a character. The game room was well lit, but the TV wasn't very bright. While I waited, I saw a few sci-fi collectables and toys on shelves on the walls. Once it was my turn I entered my name as "C Kitsu", since "Chaos Kitsune" wouldn't fit and picked Ike as my character.

My first match was against a girl dressed as Sailor Moon playing as Zelda. She wasn't the most skilled player, but I almost lost since it was harder than I would have liked to see the screen through my costume, given how we were playing on Shadow Moses Island, which isn't well lit. I stood back while the rest of round 1 completed, I noticed that Riche had chosen Snake and Virgil had chosen Pikachu. Round 2 put me against another unskilled player, this time playing Mario. However, the brawl took place on Rainbow Cruise, so I fared much better in its open daytime sky. I watched the rest of round 2, including Riche facing Virgil and defeating him, then the final round came. It was me versus Richie and the random stage was Shadow Moses Island again. I worried slightly and focused hard on the game. After being KOed once, I was lucky enough to grab a smash ball and hit Snake with Ike's final smash. As I watched it play out (The rest of Ike's final smash is automatic if the first part hits) I noticed that the screen seemed somehow easier to see then before, but I couldn't dwell on this since after Snake went flying into the distance for another KO, we each had 1 life left. I brawled as hard as I could, but Riche knew how to play Snake effectively against characters without ranged attacks, so he got a lot of damage in with Snake's ranged weapons. Finally, I tried to hit Snake with Ike's side smash, but missed when he dodged behind me. Snake used his side smash and sent Ike flying off the side of the stage for the final KO.

"From the way you played against Alicia I'd never had guessed that we'd have such a close game. Nice job" Richie said warmly. "Thanks, I've been playing since Smash 64 after all" I replied. Riche paused for a moment and then added, "Wow that costume looks ever better up close. So realistic." I was about to reply when I heard a crash from downstairs. Riche must have heard it too since he abruptly got up and rushed downstairs with Virgil close behind. I wasn't sure if I should follow them, so I waited. I heard a scuffle from downstairs followed by a threatening and somewhat unhinged sounding voice, "Hand over all your valuables, or this one gets a sharp blade makeover!"

I came down and saw a purple haired teen holding a girl hostage with a blade to her throat. Strangely, the blade came out of his sleeve like it was his arm or something. I backed up against the wall, thinking, "If only someone were here to help." Suddenly I felt a feeling I'd never felt before, then a shape in a red cape blurred past me. The criminal barely had time to bring his other blade hand up to parry before he locked swords with Ike. He swung at Ike, but Ike countered the blow and on the return swing cut the top of his foe's purple hair off. The criminal looked surprised and said, "Hey, I just got that styled!" However, in that moment of distraction Ike kicked him into a wall, the impact disturbed a trophy on the wall above him, which fell and hit him in the head. Ike turned to me and said, "I fight for my friends" before fading away.

Then it hit me, "What in the world did I just do and how in the world did I just do it?" I noticed my tails swishing agitatedly behind me and at that realization I thought "Wait What!?"I felt confused and scared, so I ran through the open front door. I didn't stop running until I got to my house, thankfully I didn't meet anyone on the way there. I ran up to my room, shut the door, barely remembering not to slam it, before collapsing on my bed. Suddenly I felt very tired. Thankfully sleep came mercifully fast.

Meanwhile at Riche's house, Static and Gear flew in through the front door to find Shiv out cold. "Looks like someone beat us here" Gear said, "Would someone mind filling us in on what we missed?" Static asked. Daisy stated to speak animatedly about what had happened.

Author's note: Omnipotence is a real fanfic. Check it out if you want.