(A.N.: No really exciting chapter, more so a preparation chapter for what is about to come. The powers have to be explained a bit at least; and yeah, they are totally overpowered! Don't even question how one can stem the weight of whole galaxies, it's just how it is! Hehehe XD

Enjoy this chapter and please leave a comment below, it REALLY helps my motivation! :D )

Back at home I sat down nervously on my chair. Shifting around on the uncomfortable seat as anxiousness welled up inside my heart.

My hands reached carefully for my phone before I stopped myself.

"What the hell was that today?!", I asked myself aloud and gripped my head with both hands, running my fingers through my hair.

With a weight capping at around 882 pounds, or 400 kg, I bench pressed half a car and that without breaking a sweat or any kind of special gear. It was an unprecedented display of physical strength of a person my age, a prior unseen or heard act.

After the somewhat bizarre workout session I literally fled the gym, my friend Aiden left in the dust as I drove my bike with a speed rivaling that of a sportscar. Poor bike was completely broken after I arrived at home.

But back to the present.

My fingers trembled, tapped on the desk with trepidation, as my sights lingered on the small phone.

What would you do in my situation?

Imagine this: Just yesterday you sat on your lazy ass and played some indiegame or whatever the fuck you want, and then: 'Boom!'. Somebody unknown sends you a message and after perusing it for a while you can crisply resume it into: 

Of course you are a rational and somewhat reasonable young man and think: 'What is this psycho talking about?'. But because you are equipped with a decent amount of youthly curiosity and are a tad bit gullible you agree, if by any off chance this offer is real you could do whatever the fuck you want afterwards. But such an obvious scam couldn't be real, right? Well, you are wrong and it is indeed the truth.

Congratz you are now in possession of divine powers! Yay!

Realizing that you look back on how you treated this being that has most likely granted you true divinity and think: 'Man, I insulted a God. GG WP. It was a good life.', that's how I feel.

Naturally you could say: 'But mate, you could have just, I don't know, lifted so much because of a sudden rush of adrenaline! Flight or fight reaction, you know?'. Whereas I would say: 'Yeah, maybe.'

But being able to lift a certain weight and being able to do so without even exerting any strength at all are two different things. And the weights weren't fake either, Aiden testified for that.

So here I am. Sitting at my desk, facing my smartphone on which I was messaged by a God and rudely cut him off. Nicely done Leo. You outdid yourself like never before!

Though it was easy to lift the weights that were over 5 times my weight, right now, I was sweating bullets. My breathing was haggard and my skin felt cold; I was afraid, anxious, paralyzed by horror as realisation dawned onto me.

'Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Goddamn! I am so stupid!', I cursed myself and didn't dare to open my eyes for quite a while.

I laid my head onto my white desk, onto the cool laminated wood to calm myself down.

Whatever it was, a hacker equipped with some kind of biological weaponry who had injected me with some kind of superhuman serum, a lone alien that augmented my body with sci-fi technology or a honest to goodness God, I had to pay my respects and express my thanks at the very least.

I pulled myself together, collected my wits and courage and flipped my phone onto its upside with the utmost care.

The dark screen reflected my palid face as I awaited some kind of reaction. A maddened God smiting me with heavenly fury into utter oblivion or some madman banishing me into the 'Shadowrealm' with his freakish cardgame. I expected it all, but none of that happened.

Instead the screen just leisurely lit up without a care in the world, lampooning my doomed fate.

'Oh damn, it was a good time....', I said goodbye to my life, expressed my love to my family and anticipated a flurry of insults and actual, real, curses by the Godlike being whereafter I will be reduced to ash. Feelsbadman.

As expected messenger opened up, without any movement on my side of course, and a screen filled with messages was highlighted.

'How.Was.Your.First.Experience?'

'Do.You.Want.Me.To.Explain.Now.That.I.Have.Your.Attention?'

Those two questions stood out the most, emphasized by a crimson glimmer that could impossibly be achieved through the programm itself.

"Yes of course!", I shouted before any other coherent thought formed. I actually feared the worst but on the contrary I got a calm and relaxed response, a helpful one at that that. 'What a good guy.', I mused before I regained my composure.

Now I won't plague you with exactly the same words written in their obnoxious format and instead I will give you a rough overview of what 'God' -still don't fully believe that part- told me.

First off, I have super strength. No, stop your train of thoughts, right now! I don't mean just simple super strength, I mean, godly strength. 'God' did not define any weight where my powers would cap but roughly stated that bench pressing the mass of an entire galaxy would still be a breeze to me. So yeah, if I wanted to a clap, or whatever other motion, I could tear apart the fabric of space-time; indominus strength that defied any logic. I didn't actually believe that part just for you to note down.

Second off, my body is impervious to any kind of sickness or damage as long as I don't will it otherwise. Under sickness falls pain and also -yeah, you guessed it- aging. Ergo, I am immortal and indistructible. Man of steel revamped. Neither did I think that was true.

Third off, my powers encompass anything and everything. It is the ability to make my wishes and desires come true.

Now I will give you a scenario, the same God explained to me, to shed light onto how this ability works. Let's say, you want a dragon as a pet, who wouldn't, like, serious. You could not only make it appear out of thin air just like that, tamed and already vaccinated against all draconic -or reptilian?- deseases, you could just make yourself a whole world full with dragons of your choosing! In other words, you could make countless of your own edens and have whatever power you want. 

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The first two abilities that were listed were just mandatory so that I don't die before using my actual power.

Yeah, that's the gist of it. And just like you would I gave the phone a suspicious glare.

"You seriously want me to believe that?", I asked with my lips pressed into a line. 'God' just couldn't be serious, right?

'Try.It.Then.', 'God' responded back.

"How do you think I should do that? On the off chance that I now, give me a sec..., wish for a meteor to crash onto Earth and it actually happens what should I do then?", it was a ridiculous thought but a plausible one.

'Then.Think.On.A.Smaller.Scale.' 

'Yeah, that makes sense....', I executed an inner face palm, an answer to my own stupidity.

"Let's see, let's see...", I mumbled and let my eyes wander around my room, not trying to spot anything in particular.

Although 'God' told me to think small I was already drifting off with my thoughts into the metaphysical. If I was to test this 'omnipotent' power to its cire I had to think up something extreme. Something that would not destroy the earth if things went awry.

"Let's reverse time!", I exclaimed and raised a finger into the air.

With a cheeky smile sported on my face I waited only to see that nothing had changed.

"Hah! Got you! Nothing happened.", I accused 'God'.

'Of.Course.Not.You.Idiot.Things.Like.Time.Travel.Are.Complex.You.Have.To.Actually.Think.The.Process.Through!If.You.Want.To.Travel.Back.Or.Forward.In.Time.Imagine.Yourself.Literally.Going.Through.Time.,.Your.Mind.Needs.A.Concrete.Picture.To.Work.With.'

"Of course...". 'Yeah, as if.'

Debating whether or not I should continue with this ploy I ended up doing exactly as 'God' said.

'Huh... Imagine myself going through time... How can I accomplish that?'

Luckily I had a wild enough imagination that enabled me to come up with some stupid-ass ideas but also some enlightening ones.

'If I go just like that back in time wouldn't I risk creating a paradox? Is there even any possible way to do that?', I began pondering and realized any logical answer would need decades of careful consideration.

In the end I concluded that such a task is impossible in itself.

'Think.Simpler.', my phone answered. 'Time.And.Space.Are.Closely.Connected.,.That.Hint.Should.Suffice.I.Will.Face.The.Consequences.Anyway.', I was reassured by 'God'.

'If I have this allmighty power, why not make time into space. That would mean if I take a step back...', I slowly rose from my chair and backstepped. 'I should travel through time. As long as I equalize back as in 'behind me' into back as in 'going back in time'.'.

My foot tapped into the ground and the unbelievable happened.

The room rippled, the scenery changed, everything began to shake. 'Oh man... Did I make a mistake?'.

Fortunately I was not to deeply lost in my thoughts to miss the copy of myself that began wandering around the room, in reverse of course until it -or I?- was back inside my bed. As the last scene took place I felt my body being pulled forward, one hand reaching for my other sleeping self and closing the gap in excruciating tension. As our bodies came in contact I did not feel the sensation of touch and instead was drawn into my other self. I literally merged with my clone!

I grit my teeth and pressed my feet onto the bedframe but the pull didn't lessen in the slightest. 'For someone that can lift a galaxy I am pretty weak.', I thought half laughing and half crying as my arm was now elbow deep in my other self.

'Oh man, I am being eaten by my Slime-self. God why?', my thoughts, and appropriate panic, subsided as my vision blacked out.

"HAAAAAAH!", I inhaled deeply and shot straight out of my bed with a sweaty back.

"*Haaaah! Haaaah!* All.... *Haah!*... Just a dream...", I cupped my hands over my knees and broke out into a hysterical conniption. "Hahahahahah! What the fuck was that all about?!", I screamed and rocked my body to and fro. My heart beating like crazy from the wicked nightmare.

It was a harrowing experience, like being drowned in sludge, and I would never want to experience that again.

I smeared the snot from my nose and the pained tears from my eyes before I turned my eyes onto my buzzer.

8:34

'Ha. Haha. Hahaha. HAHAHAHAHA!!!', I closed my eyes, openned them again and repeated and so on and so forth until my mind finally accepted the situation, my inner cachinnation a burst of mixed emotions.

'No, wait. This can all be a simple coincidence.', I shrugged the glaring proof of my time travel away and relaxed inside my somewhat dampened sheets although my mind was on the verge of breaking.

And as if it all wasn't enough it was then that I heard her.

"Leo don't forget to vacuum the house and take out the trash, when I am back I want the floor to be spotless, you hear me?!"

The shrill voice of my mother never shook me so deeply as it did now. 'No, no, that can't be.', I trampled out of my bed, tripping over my own feet in the process and hitting the hardboard floor hard with my head. I might have gotten a light concussion wouldn't my body prevent any serious harm so I just dusted myself off and reached up.

I scrambled onto my knees in a total panic and fumbled with the phone placed on my desk. My shuddering fingers making the screen light up softly.

'Bro, you awake?'

'Wanna kill some weights?'

'Brooooooooooo!!!!??? Come on man...'

Those three messages grasped my sanity and pulverized it into smithereens.

'You.Believe.Me.Now?', my phone burred, the screen changed and I fell onto my behind, my limbs trembling like thin leaves in the wind and a fit about to happen.

'No...No... This can't be real.', I gave a crooked smile as tears rushed down my face. At that moment I was simply unable to cope with my emotions as the absolute truth peered from the abyss coloured smartphone. It was at that moment where my sanity began to crumple and crack, a moment that was painful mentally and physically.

I gasped for air, coughed and sobbed as spittle shot from my mouth. Turning into a God felt painful and left one to think what it means, and meant, to be human.

I felt my life was changing, rapidly, and too quick for my own good and that of others.

"Holy hell...", I pulled on my hairs and collapsed in on myself. 'I don't like this...'