Barry was hoping today would be easy, enroll in school, see the sights, stop some badguys, but no! The world just had to go and mess with him. He looked at the person in front of him. It would seem to be definetely a fallen judging by the the black feathered wings supporting her in the air. Looks like Draig has some use after all.
"My name is Raynare and I'm here to end your pathetic existance!"
"Oh come on! I haven't even been here long enough to make enemies. Now I have to deal with this crap! What's your beef with me anyway? Do you work for Zoom?" Barry narrowed his eyes.
"Who? Doesn't matter, I'm here to kill you because that sacred gear inside of you is too dangerous for you live."
Raynare threw her light spear and Barry jumped out of the way.
Guess I'll have to get serious here huh.
Barry ran toward Raynare and using the fountain as a boost, lanched himself into the air. He hit Raynare across the face launching her into the ground.
"It's no supersonic punch, but its good enough."
Raynare got back up with a scowl prominetn on her face.
"What the hell are you freak!"
"Me? Well that's simple, I'm The Flash, the fastest man alive!"
Barry started running toward her when he suddenly stopped cold and looked at her with an uncomfortable twitch in his eye.
"What, just now realizing how outclassed you are?"
"No... it just... What the hell are you wearing!"
Barry had noticed the fact that she was wearing a rather revealing outfit that looked as if it came out of some twisted bdsm dungeon.
"H-hey shut up, it's supposed to distract men before I gut them!"
Raynare threw a light spear at him trying to kill him again. Barry focused again and dodged easily. He started to circle around Raynare causing the lightning around where he was to manifest stronger. Raynare screamed and threw a light spear that completely missed. Barry suddenly stopped and tilited his body using his arm as a focus, he launched a bolt of lightning that hit Raynare dead center in the chest.
"AH!" Raynare screamed as she flew back and hit a tree.
Raynare lifted her head weakly before passing out. Barry sighed.
(How come you didn't use me?)
"I didn't really see the point, she was really slow and predictable."
(Ah, I see. You know back when-)
"Draig?"
(Partner move!)
Barry turned to his side just in time to get hit by a glowing ball of light. Everything went black.
Line Break
A man with extremely tanned skin and pure white hair who looked in his fourties who was sitting next to a blonde european woman was relaxing. The blonde woman looked at him.
"Its time isn't it?"
He opened his eyes, "Yeah, my succesor has finally appeared."
Time Skip
Barry opened his eyes to the bright light of the early morning. He rubbed his eyes and heard a ping noise. He stopped and looked in front of him.
Welcome to the game Barry Allen, you have been selected by some god somewhere to hold the abilities of The Gamer! You can now live life just like a video game! Don't let it go to your head and have fun being a cheat character!
~The Author
"Draig! What the hell is going on!"
(Huh, what's happening I was napping?)
"I get knocked out and you take a freaking nap!"
(Well what else could I do, you didn't enter your mindscape, so its not like I could have talked to you!)
"Jerk, so whats with the weird message."
(What message?)
"The one right in front of me!"
(There's nothing there-, oh wait a second, I need to view this through your eyes.)
Barry waited while Draig tapped into his eyes. He heard a sharp intake of breath.
(This doesn't make sense. It's not a hallucination, or else even through your eyes, I wouldn't see it, but it is keyed to your specific body frequency. That's why I can see it.)
"So what does that mean?"
(Well, for one, you're not crazy. This is real. I'm just not sure what god would give a power like this.)
Barry sighed. He looked over at the spot where Raynare was before. She was gone. Yeah, that won't be a problem later. He stood up and swiped the message, making it dissapear. Guess that's how that works. But if this was essentially a video game, then he should be able to pull up things like status and inventory, right?
He thought status.When that didn't work, he spoke out loud.
"Status!"
Right in front of him, a large blue screen appeared.
Barry Allen
L.3
Race: Metahuman
HP-300/300
MP-600/600
Sp-0/100
Str-5
Vit-6
Dex-5
Int-12
Wis-11
Luc-3
Stat Points-0
Money-$50
"Why the hell are my stats so low! My dexterity should be way higher with the speedforce."
A thought suddenly struck Barry, "Perks!"
Perks:
Gamer Body: Allows Barry Allen to use the power of the Gamer, turning his life into a videogame.
Gamer Mind: Allows Barry Allen greater control over his emotions and a high resistance to mental based attacks.
Original Speedster (L. 5): As the creator of the speedforce, Barry Allen can harness it, enter it, and create it with every run. Can be improved with training
Active effect: Adds 250 dexterity
Passive: Regenerates HP at 50 per minute
"Wait a minute, I created the speedforce? How? I had my accident in 2016, the speedforce has been around since the beginning of time. Ugh, this is hurting my head."
Barry started running back home to clear his head. He suddenly stopped.
"Oh dear, I don't actually have a place to live. Draig!"
(What! I was napping!)
Barry muttered something about lazy dragons, "I don't have anywhere to live, don't suppose you could help?"
(Well, my memories kind of fuzzy, but I believe one of my old nests was a few miles from here. I'll give you directions.)
Barry started running while following Draig's directions. Then he came face to face with the opening of a cave covered by flowered covered vines. He walked through and whistled. The cave was unnaturally smooth. The walls and ceiling were made of some sort of mostly transparent quartz. Inside the quartz was a dull flame.
(Those flames are my eternal fire, as my host, you just focus your will on making them brighter or dimmer and they'll respond)
Barry did that and the room became fully illuminated.
New household unlocked: Draig's Cave
Surprised at the notification he swiped it away. Now that he could see better, he could tell that the room was almost like a very large half sphere. He was kind of reminded of the capsule houses from dragonball, but made of quartz and less futuristic. He walked through the rooms and found one to be some sort of nesting area, and in the other was a giant square pool of some sort clearly meant for a large creature.
(Ah the old magical bath. Going in there will clean you and your teeth, its also self sustaining, so its very useful.)
"Well, guess that means this place is livable after all."
(Yes, but you should really go and rest, your first school day starts tomorrow after all.)
"Yeah yeah, whatever mom."
Barry walked into the nesting area and layed down on one of the weird blue gel beds. It was 30 times his side, but hey, its just dragon size. Barry closed his eyes and drifted into his dreams.
In his mindscape
Barry stood up outside some sort of giant red mansion.
"Red? Real subtle Draig, real subtle."
The front door opened and what appeared to be a normal aged Barry Allen, but with green eyes and red hair stepped out.
"Oh good, I've been waiting for you to come here. We should talk."
Barry nodded and walked inside, the door shutting behind him. They sat at a table in one of the siderooms. The manor was quite fancy and vast.
"Where are we Draig?"
"Your mindscape of course. This place was surprisingly foul when I entered, it actually seeped into the sacred gear space. When you got hit with that ball of light, your mind became quite maleable, which is when I made all... this." He said gesturing to the mansion.
Barry rubbed his temples in frustation, "I really don't like this world."
"Well better suck it up since you'll probably be here awhile. Now enough of that, let's talk about your new 'ability'."
"What about it?"
"How about the fact we know nothing about it. For all we know, someone gave you this power to make you indebted to them."
"I've thought about that, but so far there we've had no contact with the being that gave me them. I think its more likely they want entertainment and who better than an interdimensional traveler."
"That's- a fair theory I suppose. But who'd be that much of a prankster or troll, whatever it is these days."
Elsewhere
An elderly slightly troll-like man sneezed. He grinned devilishly at the sky, "Better get to work EMIYA."
Back with our hero
"Yeah that would be ridiculous, but not impossible."
Draig opened his mouth to retort but wisely stopped, "So what do you plan on doing now?"
"I don't know, probably just go to highschool, maybe do my old hero thing. I'm definetely abusing this gamer power though."
"Smart move," The manor shook for a brief second, "I think you're about to wake up."
Barry nodded at Draig, "See ya later Draig."
In Reality
Barry woke up to two things. The first was a message that read-
You have slept on a moderately comfortable surface.
HP and MP have been restored by 75%. All status effects removed.
The second was 2 black and white swords pointed at his neck. Barry looked up to see a tanned man with white hair and a red jacket. Barry's reflexes shot into action and he used his speed to slap one of the swords out of the way and sprang out of bed summoning his boosted gear.
"Who are you?"
The man smirked, "My name? I am Shirou Emiya."
