(Little Author Blurble, don't mind me. I've changed a lot of things since my 1st attempt at writing this. From character name to ultimate goal and such. I advise just forgetting the original Eternal Entertainment all together. Now. My quick word on ChatGPT. It has the potential to be useful. But overall... It's about as smart as my 2 orange kittens. One of which is making this VERY HARD to write. Little bastard has claimed my left arm as a pillow. Seriously it gave me 3 ways to get Soul reaper power. I figured fine. I'll just use that list as a reference and steal the things I do want. Though some of the blame does go to me. I said give 54 superpowers and it couldn't handle it. Anyway. That's about all the use I'll get out of it besides a Character sheet I had it summarize for me.)
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"Eh?" Mateo spins on the now suddenly cracked concrete floor... the one he is pretty sure was hardwood and partly on fire about 3 seconds ago. Beyond the stone floor he sees, nothing. True nothing. The empty void of a starless sky. "... This is new."
{As it should be.} Mateo whipped around again looking for the voice. Only to still see a whole lot of nothing. {If you had recognized this space I'd be having a very different conversation.} Mateo began to wonder just what was in the apartment for him to be tripping this hard... and just how much he was going to get yelled at for not noticing his mask had a fault. {There was no fault in the mask. Your gear just wasn't rated for the above apartment falling on top of you... Well, a 72 inch flatscreen and 140 lb. entertainment center to be precise.}
"...Wait is that why I saw-" {Yes, that's why you saw Captain Jack Sparrow falling toward you. Specifically, that scene where he was running from the island of cannibals.} "-OI! spoilers! I haven't seen it yet!" {It's been 20 years! Ya had your chance.} "...Alright... fair."
Still halfway between thinking he was on one hell of a bad trip, or that the afterlife was way off from what he had assumed. He looked at the gentle slopes of the concrete floor around him. It triggered some part of his primal lizard brain way back in his head. He didn't know why, but it unsettled him. Familiar and wrong at the same time. "Sooo, is there a gate? An elevator? Some kind of escalator?"
{Well usually I wait until you're fully aware of your death, but someone had to have their little experimental year with magic mushrooms and weed, hm? Anything I say you'll just contribute it to some kind of trip, As you are right now... Seeing is believing and all that good nonsense. Catch.} "Catch wha-" Before he could finish, a deck of card bound in a fancy leather case caught him full on the back of his head before tumbling down into his surprised hands. {While I'm at it, Hold still.}
Mateo's so far pretty neutral trip, took a hard turn for bad as a colossal stone hand appeared from the void, whipping the air around him as it passed over. He now realized why standing on this floor gave him that primal bad place vibe... It's not a floor. It's a hand. He's standing on a hand Floating in the void. Sick album cover, for sure. Still not a situation he'd ever want to be in. {There we go, Hope you don't mind I copied a template, had to adjust your clothes a bit too.}
"What are you-" Mateo looked to his clothes, gone was the usual firefighter attire. he was now stuck with something closer to Cyberpunk Military-chic. Dark colors interrupted by gently glowing blue neon... Over a drastically thinner frame than he was used to. Hard-earned muscle, broad shoulders, anything that would make a gym rat proud were gone. What remained was thin, wiry, akin to an endurance runner or swimmers physique. "MY GAINS!- MY VOICE!" His panic revealed his next change. If he was vain about two things it was his body and his voice! One chiseled like a herculean statue, the other was a deep smooth bass. Now replaced by the pitch of a squeaky teenager whose voice hadn't settled yet. "WHY!?"
{It's all part of the basic package, youthful body, couple of powers and then off you pop to another world for our entertainment.}
"Our? But my body! Entertainment? Give me back my-"
{I could make you a woman.}
"This body is completely fine, In fact. Thank you for the dreadlocks, I've always wanted to grow out my hair."
{You sure? You may be surprised by the number of souls wanting to 'walk on the other side' if you will. Though I do tire of the Jumping jacks and the helicoptering.}
"I've always been good just being me, but rewind a bit? Our entertainment?"
{Dear me, Is someone finally realizing they aren't high on someone's hidden stash?}
"I never said that. Odds are I'm tripping balls on a gurney outside the burn zone, but if I'm gonna hallucinate, I wanna at least know the lore."
{Hm. Well then. You have been selected to be a new spark of stories. Many souls in the afterlife get bored of eternal bliss apparently. Sort of nothing to do, when everything is done. Now and then souls get to shoot off into stories for us to keep the entertainment fresh. My boss himself says if he has to watch fast and furious 26 again, he may as well start over from scratch. So this program was made. You'll go live another life until you want to call it quits.}
{All for our Eternal Entertainment.}
"... So no pressure, I guess."
{Correct! It's not like you're the only one after all. Now hurry and draw your cards so I can adjust as Needed.}
Confused as he was Mateo opened the deck of cards and began drawing, Only to be even more confused as some of them just became straight up items. He kept pulling until he just couldn't grip the next card.
{It would appear your soul is full, kind of hard to overeat a metaphysical concept, but just understand you can draw no more cards.}
Inventory Ring- A 5mX5mX5m space to store items safely.
Devil Fruit- Hai Hai no Mi (Ash-ash Fruit)
Multilingual Comprehension- The Duolingo Owl shall never darken your doorstep, hearing a few sentences will let you decipher the root of a language until you can speak, read and write it fluently.
Time Perception Slow (Bullet time)- In times of immediate danger you'll get an immediate mental warning in the form of the world slowing down, giving you time to analyze and react to the situation. Overuse causes temporary ability loss.
Cursed Energy Control (JJK)- The ability to Manipulate and convert Negative emotions into energy, with time and practice user will gain a technique and Domain Expansion.
Rocker Boy Extraordinaire- Music and all that encompasses it comes naturally to you. Who needs guitar lessons? or other band members? Now get out there and steal the stage at karaoke night.
Alchemy Without Circles (FMA)- The scientific art of equivalent exchange.
Curse Mark (Draw 1 extra card.)- Poison in the form of strength, every use brings you closer to the mark corrupting you.
Zanpakutō (Sealed)- Your innermost self, forged into a blade. Sealed into your soul, earn this edge.
Haki Seed- The potential to manifest your will into distinct abilities.
Wild Evolution- Fundamentally alter one of your drawn cards, It may strengthen or it may become worse. A risk is a risk.
Fate Breaker (Optional)- A self-imposed duty. Become a summonable being to those who need you. Allows rejection of summoned duties depending on situation.
Oddly enough out of all that only two things changed into a physical form, the ring which appeared on his finger and the Devil fruit. It was rather menacing. Like a pineapple that was roasted over a volcano for several decades. Cracks in the rind showed glowing embers within. "Hey, not to sound ungrateful but can I reject the Devil fruit? I'm not really a fan of drowning."
{Ah, common misconception. While you will be unable to use your powers while submerged in any world, the draining of strength relates to a particular element within the One Piece world. You can still swim anywhere else.}
"Wait seriously? Is that a free perk or how it actually works?"
{Make of it what you will. All I'll say is that you don't have to worry too much about that so long as you aren't in Luffy's crew anyway. Seriously, major crackhead energy.} (Yes, that is a Mugiwara no Goofy reference.)
"Huh... Well, I'd still rather not eat this one. Last thing I need is to sneeze in my sleep and accidently start a fire."
{Use the Wild evolution, it will still be Logia but maybe you'll get another element.}
"You know what? Sure. Seems like the safest bet to use it on. I don't even know what kind of nonsense Evolving a soul sword would do... Maybe it'd turn into a gun?"
{...Americans... And no, within the limits of Bleach it's likely fast track you to Hollowfication or Quincy powers.}
"No wait, I remember one of the Shinigami had like a missile launcher Bankai."
{That's a Bankai, not the sword itself. Your Bankai may be entirely different.}
"Meeeh, semantics." -{It's not though?}- "Anyway, so do I just like tap the Wild evo card to the fruit and-" The answer was yes. Leaving him with a now startingly blue and Hairy? Mango. Hairy isn't the right word, but it's not wrong either. Soft strands encircled the peel in spirals, that while beautiful, made eating it an unsavory thought. "... So what is it now? Because I have guesses, but a fur-fur fruit doesn't seem to fit in the logia category and if it does, I want a refund."
{Saigai Saigai no mi- Model: Tornado.}
"Oh, I don't like the implications behind that. Disaster-Disaster fruit? Are there more like these just rattling around?"
{Eh, just think of it as an overpowered wind-wind fruit. I suppose you could call Kuzans fruit Saigai Saigai no mi- Model: Blizzard but he really just uses Ice in general. More importantly, are you using the Fate Breaker?}
"It seems like shenanigans, purely for the sake of shenanigans. What, is some kid gonna wish really hard and I pop up like a fairy odd parent?"
{Yes, I suppose, if you want to put it like that. Simply put you can be dragged across the multiverse to key moments in certain stories to maybe change the outcome, depending on your ability. Or maybe even just casually. At your current state I highly doubt you could fight more than two thugs at a time, let alone save Minato and Kushina. Just be careful if you answer a call... Now eat the fruit and please... Be descriptive. Personally, watching you lot eat those vile things is hilarious.}
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How does one describe the worst thing beyond imagination? Mateo assumed that describing it as close as he could, it'll just have to do. Even then, coming up with the words was a challenge all on it's own. In those spare moments where he could even think about the how, what and why, between the chews, the gags, and the full body shudders. "Well... the texture alone has taught me that even if hell exists, I'd sooner vacation there than take another bite. It's somewhere between stale wedding cake and plaster, that was then soaked in Honey. Until it all became one goopy, crunchy mess. As for the flavor? The flavor taught me that even if I were to go to heaven right now. My eternal bliss would be forever tainted by the memory. Take the scent of a moldy gym bag and Mothballs... And a dash of TV static. Somehow solidify that in an ancient cauldron that was used to wash clothes and make hot sauce at the same time, and we can ballpark it somewhere around there."
"All-in-all. -1000/10 You can keep the powers if you can scrub the memory of the memory out of my mind."
{Sorry, no Taksies Backsies. But you can keep the rest of the fruit. I'm sure your devious mind can think of someway to use it. Next on the agenda. Integrating the rest of your cards.} A quick literal giant stone hand wave later and the rest of the cards dissolved into motes of light that sank into Mateo's chest. {You can figure out how to use all of that later. You have a world to go to. RWBY! Any preference on the where and when?}
"...Yeah, Actually. I'd like to invoke Fate Breaker and save a certain cookie loving Mother."
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Well, that's it for this chapter. Sorry it took so long to get out. but thing 1 and thing 2 over here hear the Clickity-clack of my keyboard and think it's some interesting cat toy. I'll leave an Image of them here if I can.
Yeah, I'll be going with my proposed example of saving Summer Rose. A big ole wrench in the face of Canon and leaves me way out of age range to join the team at their school... which means I don't have to figure out team dynamics with Mateo involved. I hope y'all enjoy. Also, please comment. Shoot fate breaker recommendations if ya want. Interaction with my readers is a driving force in me writing. I want to make sure as many of us have a good time as possible and I can't do that if you don't tell me what you do and don't like. Ciao!~