"hey bro if you could alter a mutant power from marvel and have it in worm what would you choose" I looked at my little brother like he was crazy mainly cause it was so random. he continued "I mean mutants have some cool powers and worm would be different if any number of mutants because they don't have telepathy or anything on that level" he had a really good point they canonically state that the only telepath is the Simurgh and only because she is an Endbringer. "ok so I can alter the power however I want right" he nodded "alright I would take Leon Nunez's' power of power bestowal through iconic imagery and change it to pretty much ink magic and manipulation, so I can give power through tattoos or create objects and life through drawing" he seemed to think that though then he nodded "yeah I can do that for you doesn't seem too hard"
"what" was the only semi-intelligent thing I could say. he turned back to me "oh yeah I'm not your brother he's in the other room playing his ps4 getting dog washed on overwatch, but anyway you're about to die from a stroke that wasn't supposed to kill you. so instead ill sent you to live another life for shits and gigs"
"wha"
"yeah so I'm gonna transport your soul into a new body in Brockton bay now" with those final words he was gone, no flash or anything just wasn't there anymore. "wait what do you mean . . . . and I'm in a different room?" I looked around at the room I was in confused. after looking around the living room of a random 1 story house and moving to the kitchen I found a note.
you are probably really confused about what's happening
so any way you're in your new home on the docks
oh yeah as soon as you finish this letter you will get the necessary knowledge of the world and your powers
PS have fun
with the final letter, read agony ripped through my skull echoing through the rest of my body as well. after 30 minutes of searing pain I started to settle, sitting there after the pain was gone I went over what I now know 'ok so my name is James walker I've just turned 18. 2 months ago my parents passed away from getting caught in the crossfire of an ABB and E88 shootout, they left $15000 in my name as well as the house I was in now.' dragging myself from the floor I moved over to the couch but accidentally bumped an old ink well my dad used for his calligraphy hobby, throwing out my hand to try and catch it all I managed to do was cover my hand in ink, remembering I had ink magic and searching my head for how to use it I pushed the image of a basic rose into the ink and moved it to my palm. turning my hand over I saw a magnificently done rose, moving my hand to my face I took a sniff after remembering how Leon figured out his powers, I could smell fresh roses coming from the tattoo.
getting over the excitement of having powers was harder than comics and movies made it out to be because even after 30 minutes of celebrating I still couldn't calm down to think about what I was gonna do though, but I eventually managed it. think what my new powers could do I decided to test one of the things Leon did to ink and changed the rose to colossus's skin over my whole hand. as soon as the ink settled I felt a wave of power wash over me, grinning I got off the couch bent down, and grabbed the edge of it effortlessly picking it up I felt my grin get even bigger.
trying to figure out if I could use imagery from other universes than marvel I changed the colossus tattoo into the flash's lightning on my chest and the world came to a stop, it didn't slow done or anything it just stopped altogether. moving is flash time was weird I learned because I still had superspeed in it so I ran into a few walls before I decided to remove ink completely off my body and back onto the floor to try a little experiment. watching the ink move into the correct form on the floor was interesting but not as much as the result if this worked, moving the ink to the shape of a basic alchemy circle was easy as I seemingly had enhanced memory. snapping the leg of a chair I placed it and the chair in the circle, clapping my hands I slowly place them on the alchemic circle with a flash I was in a white void facing a large gate. meeting truth and seeing the gate is supposed to be scary and all but all I could do was laugh "I mean really I can't believe that actually worked I was waiting to be disappointed as I shouldn't have the ability to use alchemy but here I am" turning to face the only other being here I questioned him "hey truth how is this working we aren't in the fma universe right now you shouldn't have any authority here" the only answer I received was laughter
"you know I really don't know and don't care all that much" then his smile fell "but what I do care about is the rules and I don't think what's giving these people powers is following the aforementioned rules so I'm going to give you a task and a reword" he held up 2 fingers and continued "ill let you use circle less alchemy" he put down one finger "if you remove the rule breaker in the future" he put down his other finger and smiled "so will you do it". thinking through truths answer I finally gave him a nod "alright but I want to be able to use gloveless flame alchemy" truth nodded and his grin widened "alright have fun in the gate" I turned at the sound of a creaking gate and swore "fuck"
"ugh fuck my head hurts" looking around I saw I was back and the chair was fixed "ok so that happened" getting up and moving to the kitchen I find my phone and check the date "huh April 8th so I have 2 days until skitter fights lung . . neat" moving over to the ink on the floor I change it to gunmetal grey and move it up my arms to cover my forearms, rearranging the ink into wolverines claws I pop them. "aggh fuck that hurts I forgot I don't have a healing factor, but at least they work" I gave a weak grin and retracted them
changing the tattoo into a first aid symbol on the back of my neck the claw marks started healing rapidly "oh fuck that feels better. I'm so keeping that tattoo" thinking things though I changed the first aid symbol into wolverine's mask in the same spot and immediately felt the difference in the healing-rate, if the first aid symbol was fast then wolverine was lightspeed as the wounds immediately closed and I could feel the claws were back. popping the claws I grinned "ok this will be fun" having a closer look I couldn't tell if they were really adamantium or just looked it but they felt good. putting away my new claws I decided I was going to always keep this tattoo specifically as it gave me regen, strength, senses, and the claws.
deciding that was enough testing for now I grabbed my phone, wallet, and keys I left for downtown to explore.
