Chapter 1: The past, the present and the destination.
On the morning of January 1st 2030, the world as we know it changes forever. 9% of the total human population awakens with random power on a global scale; the media call it the Great Awakening.
My name is Alex Stonemason, well that was my name. But, since most of the people who know the old me die in the initial chaos of the awakening. Nowadays the world mostly knows of me as the Palico speedster, the immortal juggernaut, Omega…
I’m one of my world first generation of superhuman and was the second most powerful being on that earth for a long time before recent events.
You see, if you are one of the lucky 9% of the world population to be able to have a power in the first wave of awakening, then after a night full of lucid dreaming where you get to know and explore your unique power in all kind of scenarios. You’ll wake up in the morning the next day and just know that you’re different, know that you are more and that you will be one of the luckiest people in the world.
This is the reason why most people with a working brain think that this mass empowering event is intentionally cause by something out of this world, either some hyper advance aliens tech or multi-dimensional beings...because it just couldn’t be something accidental.
Well unfortunately for us, we human aren’t a bunch of special snowflake in this life changing event, because we aren’t the only species with the ability to acquire power.
Apparently, while human only have 9% of their population awaken with power.
All of the other mammal species on Earth gain power at nearly the same time for roughly 60-90% of their entire population depending on the species.
Furthermore each power that manifest doesn’t really depend on the species, personality or traits of the recipient.
What it’s really depends on is luck. As for the powers themselves, most would only range from some general utility stuff like feather fall, water walking… to the rare but powerful stuff like invincibility, super-speed, super-intelligent, flight, teleportation,…
And some of the extremely rare, lucky few animals or humans even wake up with some high tier, highly destructive and versatile powers like energy manipulation, gravity manipulation, psychokinesis…
The world as we know it, collapse within hours because of the chaos from the panicking animal in the zoos, houses and sewers gaining power.
In the midst of all that chaos, luckily for me the power that I have gain is one of the really high potential one and it’s really useful for keeping me alive, for a definition of alive anyway. Yet not gonna lie, I sometime both really love and a little bit hateful toward my own power when it are really needed to activate sometimes.In short, I hated the state I’m forces to be in every time it about to be activated but really love it when it’s successfully used.
‘What is it? What is this, potentially awesome power you have?’ you might be wonder.
Well, my awesome power is, wait for it… That’s upon being killed, as a final fuck you to something that manage to do that to me. I will take over the mind and merge my body with the body of the being that kill me, no matter the gender or species or even distance.
Therefore, erase that being consciousness while I simultaneously merge all my trait, stats, skill, knowledge's and any powers I might have collected before with my own killer, therefore coming out of the exchange a vastly more powerful being.
A new me that’s better than before, as the sum of my ex killer and past me combined. I’m effectively immortal and have an unlimited potential for growth as long as there’re being on this world that could kill me.
I give this wonderful power an appropriate name for its main purpose, and it name is [Fuck You! I Still Win].
But! Let me tell you something, don’t let the prospect of unlimited powers fools you. Death is still a terrible thing to experience multiple times. Because of that, after having my ninth death force on me by The Wandering Cannibal, after multiple days of fighting her with the entire mountain and nearby areas littering massively glassed or magma hole.
I have just had it enough. I had to scream out loud my stress from the bitch own body “Fuck it! Fuck this shit! Fuck everything! I have had enough! This is it; I had been doing this for far too long without a good break. It’s time to leave this terrible, horrible fuck up death world behind for some me time and move to a new pasture. Some new Worlds, for a good and hopefully mentally healing vacation”
So I activate my number eighth power which I call [The Postman] capable of sending anything or anyone anywhere, combine with my third power [Math Influence] to multiply it range, efficiency and strength by twenty times again. Just enough for me to jump to any universe or dimension cluster in the multiverse.
‘Because dying multiple times, despite having nine different major powers and luckily at least a couple dozen of medium and hundred of minor one from my latest body disgusting eating habit, it’s still a really fucking horrible thing to experience over and over!‘ I scream again, this time in my mind, as one of mine multiple mind thread decided on my first destination and time of arrival.
‘Now, where should I go to? I know! A world that similar to an anime I had watched, somewhere near the main character to derail everything, before all the major events happened. A world with most of the general threats I could easily curb stomp while a bunch of top tier one could be a good challenge if I’m bored’ I decided.
Now this might seem like I’m running away from this earth, but let’s me tell you this I’m not a saint. I still have my needs, desirers; hidden sinful want and everyone simply deserve a good vacation after working hard for a long time. And from my first death till now I hadn’t have a good vacation without interrupt by something big like an eighty nine kilometers asteroid or a massive tsunami create by a super dolphin or a cannibal gunning for super meat…
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Ok, first, take a step back and lets me tell you a little bit about my past and why I needed a vacation. I have my first death right after I just had my power. This one, fortunately are something at least surprisingly fast and really painless. And it’s happened right on the morning of my very first day of awakening.
You see, what happen was. On the sunrise of my first day in this new and chaotic world, a small rat inside my kitchen is awakens with a surprisingly high tier packet of powers with sensing as well as energy absorption, convert and release on touch (I shall name this rat power to be [Dynamo]), what are the odd!
And moment after it awaken with it power, because it’s still a rat so it decided to chew on my kitchen wire to feast on the electricity inside.
The little beast was oh so hungry in having it meal in the early morning, unluckily right next to my kitchen wall, in which my bedroom is unfortunately on the other side.
So after a while, that little rat will do what a rat naturally does best in order to make room for more meal. It shit all the energy it has been eating from the early morning in a violent, deathly release.
And by deathly, what I really mean is, it instinctively converted all the electricity in it body into kinetic and thermal energy then release everything it have in a massive explosion. In order to eat some more electricity from my house wire. I DIE INSTANTLY! Which‘s a really lucky thing for me now that I think back. As it’s still one of if not my best and most gentle death, much unlike the other eight.
By the time that I had fully integrated myself in my new body, it was almost noon and one third of my house is a smoking crater while the rest burn.
And in order to adapt to suddenly having the stats and traits of a 173 cm (or 5 foot 8) adult male with regular exercises into a tiny female rat body, the rat tiny body goes from a smaller than normal size rat to a still smaller than normal size rats but with extremely dense and durable everything, and an extremely stronger, more efficient musculature compare to a normal rat.
It throat change from squeaky to still squeaky but capable of complicated squeaky human word, eyes that’s now capable of seeing more of the visual spectrum and detail, grew a opposable thumb on each of its front paw and finally it joint change enough that I could walk on my new hind legs for long period of time without any complication as I unconsciously apply my human trait on it body.
Now that form is both adorable and great for stealth in my early day as a hero. And [Dynamo] is a good deterrent against looter and dangerous strays animal.
But the world is still a dangerous place. My second death happen some days later by a stray cat in the neighboring area while I was trying to help a few of my new friends with ridiculous amount of medium level energy blast on a wild rampaging bear that have enhance durability. The nearby stray cat, with the ability to multiply or divide anything it see or senses by the number from 1 to 10, an extremely powerful and versatile ability since it could multiply its own speed, strength, durability and it claw sharpness by ten time compare to a normal cat. Decided that I would be it next meal.
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That fucking cat cut off all of my limb and tail before I even knew what happened, and despite my attempt to concentrate through my pain to blast it with some concentrated kinetic beam from my little rat eyes.
It just leisurely dodges the near point blank blast. From its own memory after I take over, It sees my eyes light up with concentrated energy a fraction of a second right before the blast. So, the cat wisely decided to quickly decapitate me with it claws, because I was a little too dangerous to play with like it usual food.
Second After I die from decapitation, I immediately take over that stray cat body and begin to combine my own human rat hybrid stats, traits and powers with its own ten time boosted little cat body.
My cat form after I take over and then applying a ten time boost to everything again looks surprisingly like a Palico from the Monster Hunter game but with a tail that six time longer and a body fifty time stronger and more durable than before thanks to the stray own power.
Apparently after merging my entire human, rat, and the cat already ten times boosted body stats together the cat power (which I name [Math Influence]) count the new body as, well… Something new, so everything could be multiply by ten once more.
With the cat power added to my meager collection of powers, me and mine friend are able to quickly kill the bear. Thanks to [Math Influence] boosting [Dynamo] energy blast.
This cat one power alone is my most favorite in my entire collection. Because not only it’s extremely versatile on its own, as show above, it’s could also influent my other other power. Boosting them beyond their normal capacity, accelerate theirs growth speed and reduce their limitation. And later on it grow, it could even change anything or anyone that I could perceive by any of my own senses, be it my natural five sense or a powers provided senses.
Four of my most useful tricks I that learn with [Math Influents] are to multiply my body concept of leverage, so I don’t break the ground I run on and to instantly accelerate to my max speed or turn tight corner without slowing down, using it to multiply the speed of my own time by ten, multiply of my mass second before punching and while at the same time multiply the kinetic energy generate from the punch as well. These four tricks combine allow me to turn into a weak version of comic book speedster with all the horrible potential of one without a writer nerfing me, unless I get cocky.
Oh, and with [Math Influence] I could also increase my size to become a 9 meter tall giant Palico or nine centimeters little kitten, very good trick for spying or for intimidation.
Those tricks, in combination with my Super everything little cat body and Palico look alike, I quickly grew to be the most famous and adorable hero in my city after the initial chaos from The Awakening dies down.
I may had also accidentally discover negentropy when I combine [Dynamo] and [Math Influence] but aside from making a big enough of an explosion to blow up an asteroid 89 km in diameter as it came flying toward Earth, or make a beam that could go from cut to vaporize mountain. There just isn’t much use for something that dangerous on the Earth surface.
Oh right, sorry about go off on a tangent in the middle of thing. Anyway, where was I?
My third death is by the leader of some stupid small time gang with a power I name [Alchemist], a matter transmutation power within a radius of fifteen meter. He had constantly transmutes the air into multiple type of neurotoxin gases in the hall way that lead to the room he where was keeping a bunch of sleeping hostages, because he knew I would arrive to take him out at mach speed and that hall way is the only way.
Despite running through a cloud of deadly poison, some even get into my mouth, It not enough to kill me right away, in fact I would definitely heal all the damage in a few second. But it’s confuse and slow down my body reaction speed enough that, considering I was traveling at nearly mach two. Causing me to trip on one of the wire trap he prepare beforehand just as I about to reach him and punch his head off, he then turn me into a gold statue on live broadcasts to announce his gang as the new warlords of city New Hope, laughs hysterically for a while, before turning off the live broadcasts.
Of course a few second later his consciousness was erased. His body rapidly shifted as it become more ME, eye becoming more catlike, growing a long tail... Only this times my [Fuck You! I still Win] power actually grow a little from my first death so I could chose to look exactly like my old Palico form, instead of an even more human cat hybrid form, it’s a form I have come to like for some time now, being adorable give me so much advantage and love from my fan that it hard to deny the benefit.
With the gang leader stats, knowledge and skill merge with me, giving my new body a little increase in every aspect. Once again [Math Influence] was use to multiply everything by, surprisingly 11 times instead of 10 like before, making my everything 11 time even more super than before, easily pushing me into the realm of top ten most powerful super on the continent.
The growth of [Math Influent] do confirm one of my earlier theory, it seem like power actually do growth with time and uses. With [Alchemist] range going from fifteen meter to one hundred sixty meter it’s merely a child play to locate every gang member’s in the studio seconds later, then it only took me a fraction of that time to tie them all up and ready for jail.
Later on, when my government liaison ask me how I survive the gang leader trap. I just give a bullshit answer along the line of my speedster power have one of its secondary function of protecting me as I run, it probably stop the effect from reaching any more than skin deep, and gold is a soft metal so I just rip it off of me like a piece of latex suit.
My fourth death, happened some years later by a rampaging moose gone crazy because a car crash into it head, normally a person with a gun or baring that mad engineer tech weapon, could easily took it out with good shot. But this moose unfortunately had an extremely fast adaptive regeneration (I call it [High Evolution]).
By the time the government decided call me and other top tier supers in to take it out. It’s no longer look like a moose but something extremely big, have lot of big and fast chitinous armored limbs, tentacles… It also capable of shooting multiple types of rocket spikes, acid bomb and even release E.M.P shockwave every few second.
It instinctively turns invisible to break line of sight with the local heroes responds when it sense me running toward it from dozen of kilometers away, because somewhere in the middle of the fight with other local super it somehow develop enough of a primitive precognitive danger sense that it knew it will die if it fall within my [Alchemist] range.
So it decided to turn tail, shit a pile of brown highly explosive acid with millions of tiny neurotoxin needle inside, slap a local heroine in it way with a tentacle that was once it genital into a nearby barber shop, then fly away from me at mach speed with the help of a bunch of organic rocked port under and along it side.
I ignore the pile as I run after it, trying to get it in my transmute range, a fucking big mistake that was. The brown pile explodes as I was near it, I absorb most of the energy from the explosion pretty easily, but the super acid weakens my skin extreme durability enough for the tiny needles to stab through a little and release their payload.
Falling and bouncing at high speed for a couple kilometers into a nearby forest. Too disorient from the multiple type of toxin to transmute the high pressure stream of super acid from the flying monster into air; I die to a painful acidic death.
Of course second later I erase it mind in revenge with a bit of pleasure, took over it body and immediately run the fuck always from the area with mine new bio rocket port, because by using the multiple super electromagnetic and gravity senses the mutated moose have. I could barely feel the arriving outline of one of the government super advance stealth drone, the Mad Super Engineer variant to make matter worse.
Unfortunate for me, my fifth death happen only weeks later by a government hit squad. A three person team with a long range clairvoyance, a continent scale teleporter and Omega, the second most powerful super in the world and daughter of the current president, a telekinetic and telepathic powerful enough to precisely control both matter and energy with a radius range in kilometers (2.6 km to be precise).
The clairvoyance to locate my where about, the teleporter to teleport Omega two hundred meter above my location base on the provide coordinates and finally Omega, the moment the teleport end she will instantly tear everything below her apart with her mind, atoms from atoms. Sadly this was something my super reaction time allows me to feel an excruciating amount of pain before I die this time.Sure, I could had run away again but her power is really too tempting for me.
Sixth death happen three year later and my new telekinetic/telepathic power (aptly name [Mega Mental Might]) range naturally reach three kilometers; something which I deliberately did not upgraded further with [Math Influence], beside it control and power which I multiply by fifteen, because I don’t want to read every single mind in the entire capital if I push the range further. I was already preparing for my fourth year of pretending to be the president daughter when I was assassinated in my own room by the assassin of a rival big country on the other side of the glove.
The assassin has the ability to turn anything he touch intangible, be it intangible to light for invisibility, soiled matter for going through wall and not only that, he could telekinetically control himself or any object he turn intangible, an inbuilt safety for the power so the user don’t fall into the center of the earth or in the case of turning intangible to the planet gravity, fly out of the atmosphere.
This inbuilt safety allows him to turn his power into a versatile killing tool. By simply turn and levitate a canister some unknown Mad Engineer made full of a liquid hydrogen, oxygen mix into the target body then turn the intangible cold liquid mix inside the intangible container, tangible and whoa la instant death for most super, me included if I didn’t [High Evolution] rapidly repair the sudden damage.
Well unfortunately he was really cautious and throughout in his attempt, because he throws a burning match through my skin immediately after to ignite the explosive mixture inside my body, therefor killing me before I could adapt to the cold liquid using [High Evolution] or be able to use [Dynamo] to absorb the energy of the explosion.
World war three happen after that and I luckily even manage to keep my current cover by using [Alchemist] combine with [Mega Mental Might] to recreate his body. Puppeting it around and give a bullshit excuse of reading his intention and order from his mind and then having the puppet pretend to suicide by biting a cyanide pill in his tooth, while I was also pretend to be distracted.
After that I name my new power as [Ghostly Touch] and when it combine with [Math Influence] and [Mega Mental Might], it allow me to fly across the world in seconds to systematically destroy an entire country starting from those who gave the assassination order to the enemy vital infrastructures by my fake father general under the excuse of lowering the civilian casualty. Which, they the enemy, then retaliate by teleporting troops and high explosive into multiple cities of ours.
Seventh death is by a biokinetic from the enemy faction with the use of invisible but deathly mind control spore. The spores in effect kill the mind of the infected and put their corpse and power under the control of the mad man biokinetic influent from beyond his normal one hundred and ten meter range.
I took over his body, destroy the airborne spore by using his [Life Shaper] with it range boosted seventeen times by [Math Influent] to 1.87 kilometers, then uses the body of those that unfortunately die already to attack their headquarter.
Eighth death is by a powerful teleporter that could teleport anything, anyone she senses to anywhere she had been to before or anywhere she could imagine clearly enough(I call this power [The Postman]). That bitch is the one that had been teleporting bomb inside multiple of cities under my protection and killed one of my friend.
One on the enemy general that I kill during the war was her husband so she wants to extract her revenge on me and the people I protect.
So with the help of a long range sniper scope, I was teleported in public next to my fake father, into the center of the sun. The heat of the sun I could absorb and survive for a while but the pressure of the sun have instantly crush me into a pebble before [High Evolution] could adapt to it.
Well, she succeeds in her endeavor and now her power is mine. The sad thing is she blows my cover as the president daughter because when she teleported me away in public, she appear to shout on about where she sent me before she kill a lot of peoples with bomb then teleporting back to her home country.
So I replace her form with my rat form. Blow up her country, track down their arsenals of ballistic missile and nuclear weapon then go back to being a little rat for a while, trying to enjoy the simple rat live, while mine old country trying to recover from the war.
Unfortunately, a month later news of a rather dangerous serial killer reaches my ear, someone been going around the world and killing anyone with power. Doesn’t matter their age or gender, thousands of people began to go missing.
They call her the wandering cannibal because few of the earlier faster hero responses found half eaten body of the victim.
The cannibal power name is [Omnivore] it gives the properties, traits of anything she eat to her. Then she discovers that she could gain other being super power from eating them. She got powerful enough that she no longer need hides her activity from anyone and started to target powerful super. I step in to fight her before she become truly unstoppable or if I’m unlucky then I will have all her power. And you know how the encounter ends.
Long story short, I’m out of this dimension. Because the truth is, while I do need a vacation from this lifestyle for a while, multiple information gathering powers the murderous bitch had collected warn me that the world is now aware of my true ability and multiple Mad Engineer are sending each other calculations, schematic and resources on the extra-net for building a pocket dimension prison with one of those cloned brain of a power nullifier pig install under the order of their superior.
I just don’t want to kill them all like the last time in the war or have to watch my back for the rest of my life, even with the title of the most powerful on the planet, who know what those Mad Engineer would build with their government unlimited resource to capture me beside those pocket dimension prison. So peace out world, I’m going on a vacation.
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Author note: As you could see English is not my first language, so while I do have a large portion of the story note down in my native language. translating it into English will took time, and if you happen to found any grammar or spelling errors in the chapter then please point it out and explain to me why it's wrong so I could avoid a repeat of it in the future and improve my writing for you, my reader.