A.N.: Hi there! This is the first fan fiction in a (hopefully) long series of fics telling the story of a certain mysterious character that appeared briefly in the previous one shot.

Warning: this is a quasi-SIOC fic, and there will be IzuOcha moments in this story. With this out of the way, let's get started!

Chapter 1: Reborn in a new world

I had just woken up in a dark... room? I think Gaster had called this a void. The name wasn't important though. I was in unknown territory with basically no information other than its name. I calmed down, and tried to think until I got interrupted by a familiar voice.

"So, how do you like this place? Cosy, right?" a mysterious figure said while grinning.

"General Legrand," I replied, "If I remember correctly, you said that you barely had enough energy to activate the time stone! How are you even standing?"

"Oh, please, have I ever told you the whole truth?" He asked, seeming exasperated. "Not like a bloody stupid hero like you would understand," He muttered.

Silence filled the void. I finally had enough time to think for a bit, and I remembered what Gaster had told me about voids. There are only three ways to get into one: either a) you broke laws of the universe, b) someone sealed you in it or c) someone attacked with a time spell, you will be born again in an other timeline, and this is just a temporary place where you will wait. It was definitely not a) nor b), so that left me with the fact that the general had used a pretty powerful time travel attack.

How did I get there, you must wonder? A good question, though I'm not quite sure about where I should start... Well, one day, my school was attacked by the Order, an organisation of people who have supernatural abilities. They were trying to recruit a friend of mine as well as myself. But thanks to the help of a 'monster' named Gaster, I was able to unlock my abilities and protect my school and the other students from the attack, and I also was able to recruit a kid that had helped his master in the attack.

When I learned that the Order forcefully recruited kids that had some kind of supernatural abilities, separating them from their families, I really didn't want to join them. In fact, ever since then, I've been their number one enemy. I'm trying to take them down, or at least show them the error of their ways.

This is why I have fought against general Legrand. My friends had won the last fight against him, but at the end of it, he managed to teleport me in this timeline. However, I knew that rebirth spells were very complex, and that he had basically just channelled his magic through the time stone he had. Because of that, the spell he was using must have been incomplete, which meant that there was a way to break through it and get back to my timeline.

Now of course, I was really happy, but know I needed to know what kind of conditions the general had put in to make the spell work. Problem being, I'm not exactly known for my poker face, so teh general saw right through me. He cursed under his breath, and sighed.

"It looks like you've realised this is an incomplete version of a rebirth." He looked extremely angry right now, but he quickly calmed down. "Now, because I'm so nice, I'm actually going to tell you what conditions you must fulfil to get back to our timeline." He stopped talking to put emphasis on his next sentence. "There are none!"

"What? Excuse me? That's not possible." I said, not believing him. "You must have put someway out of this timeline, since you had no time to prepare the spell. So how did you do it?"

"Hahaha, this is so funny." I got angry, because I knew that he was toying with me. "Hey, you know what? It turns out that if you give the person you sent to another timeline time-manipulating powers, you don't need to put conditions! Now, of course, I didn't know it until I actually used the time stone. That was my last resort. But because of the way this timeline's supernatural abilities work, I won't have to worry about you getting out. Oh, by the way, I think that it's beginning."

"What is beginning?" I asked, glaring at him.

"Your new life in a world where you have no friends! Have a terrible life, my dearest enemy!" As he said that, a light began to fill the void, and I couldn't feel anything for a while.

When I finally could control my body again, I thought aloud: "What a terrible day." But there was a problem. Actually, it was more like two problems: Firstly, the voice I heard was way too high-pitched to be me. Secondly, I didn't hear any words, but only an ear-piercing scream. It almost sounded like a... baby?

No, that's ridiculous, of course I'm not a baby, it might be a rebirth spell, but he wouldn't... Just to make sure, let's try again in french, maybe that'll work.

"JE SUIS UN PYRO-BARBARE!" is what I wanted to say but another ear-piercing scream came out instead.

Another scream came out a few seconds later. But this time it was voluntary. I don't think I could've expressed what I felt at that very instant in any other way. I slowly realised that I was, indeed, a baby. My arms and legs were too short, my whole body was too short, and everyone around me looked like giants. Or at least that's what I thought, because I couldn't see anything. It felt like I wasn't wearing my glasses, but ten times worse - and I already have a pretty bad eyesight.

The doctor said "It's a boy!", and that managed to calm me down. Oh, what would I have done if I were reborn into a girl? Honestly, I didn't want to think about it, so I tried to get the thought out of my head. My mom and dad took me in their arms, but I couldn't get a good look at them. I thought that I could see they had nice looks on their faces, but it was really hard to tell. It was also very hard to tell what they were saying, as I had to focus immensely to understand what they were saying.

Now that I think about it, this doesn't sound like English at all! How am I understanding this? I wondered. And the surprises didn't stop, as a nurse took me in her arms to examine me perhaps? She set me down on a table, and after talking with my parents, she took her glasses off. Laser beams fired from her eyes, and after covering all of my body, she talked to the doctor while doing a thumbs up with her hand.

This timeline... I had only been there for less than an hour, and it was already crazy. If the general wanted to confuse me, he had succeeded. I decided to sleep, because I really needed to think about this calmly.

Why did this happen to me?

A.N.: Thanks for reading this chapter! I hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to leave a review if you have any suggestions. The french sentence meant "I AM A FIRE BARBARIAN!", which is a reference to a french youtuber named Bob Lenon. With this out of the way, see you next time for a new chapter of The Quirky Adventures!

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