Quentin tired to open his eyes as he felt a round of colossal pain rack his body for what seemed the thousandth time. He could feel his body stretch and compress.
His eyes opened ever so slightly amidst the pain and he could he himself surrounded by a gel like substance that seemed to have air inside because he had no trouble breathing through the gel, which was a very weird sensation.
But at this moment, Quentin began to feel his skin tear over and over on random spots of his body and saw blotches of blood.
He tried to stretch out a hand to inspect, but he started to black out. This body was exhausted from both inside and out and the pain was too much. As he became unconscious, the pain seemed to fade away.
He woke up in a dark room that was 12 wide in a circle and seemed to have no ceiling and the ground had some pitch black blades of grass.
'Activate!' Quentin said in his mind.
'Ding!' a small noise sounded as a wide interface appeared in front of him.
The system was a pure white surface and the texture of the interface was a bit smooth and glossy, like glass.
'Ding! You have earned a starting package! You may ope-- Wait, your body is in the middle of mutating! System Functions limited to Looking through the System shop. Starting package is currently locked until end if mutation.'
'System can interfere, but the mutation has already taken root inside the original newborn's body and it has a 25% chance of harming or killing host.'
After hearing two bad things in succession, Quentin was in a bad mood.
'No thank you system. I will look through the shop.'
He decisively rejected because one, he was a firm believer of the Murphy's law.
Things that can go wrong will go wrong.
And two, the least he could do was respect the previous owner of this body and not let it go through harm. Well, as best he could, because he was too weak to protect this body.
'Activate the system shop.'
The original interface disappeared as a new interface popped up.
'What Items are you looking for, host?'
'Nothing. can you show me anything I can currently buy with my points? And can you answer me something? Why did I get points for killing a newborn's soul?'
'Ok host. As for you question, the host got points for relieving the pain of an innocent being that was unjustly tortured and experimented on. on another note, here are the items you can currently buy.'
Quentin let go of the guilt he held as he looked at the items.
Affordable Items
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Beskar Emitter- 500 AP
Beskar Sleeve- 500 AP
Beskar Switch-500 AP
Beskar Pommel- 500 AP
RELATED ITEMS
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Kyber Crystal- 1000 AP
Pre-built Lightsaber (Random) - 10,000 AP
Force Manual- 50000 AP
Memory of Anakin Skywalker- 100000 AP
(Not recommended! Memories of other people can cause mental problems and loss of personality or gaining a split personality!)
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Quentin was extremely excited when he saw the materials to make a Lightsaber. But one thing was bugging him. Why were the materials so cheap?
'The reason the materials are cheap is that The main part- the Kyber Crystal chooses the person it will bond with. Young jedi go to caves to find a crystal that bonds with them, and they have a cave full crystals, and you only have a singular crystal. The chances of the crystal bonding is negligible. And for the host, the prices are halved for the first time you buy them. Also, to make a lightsaber properly, you need to use the force.'
Quentin deflated almost instantly.
'Right.'
'It is time for your body to wake up, host.'
'Is the mutation over? What was the effect?'
'The price to to identify the mutation effects is 10000 AP.'
'Why so expensive?'
'Because the genes that have modified the body will continue to effect your body as you grow.'
'Will the price continue to rise?'
'Yes.'
The interface disappeared as Quentin woke up in his new body.
The level of pain had dropped greatly compared to before. He lifted his tiny hands to see them and saw black lines crisscrossing on his small forearm down to his hands and his skin began to darken until at the tips of fingers his skin and nails were pitch black and his fingernails were sharp.
As he looked over his body, he noticed that his limbs all had the same small black lines leading down to the hands and feet whom skin had gradually become pitch black.
Despite that, he felt huge power running through his body, and it kept building, and he felt like he needed something to release some power into before it became too much to handle.
'Activate!'
'Ding! What does the host need?'
'I need something to dampen my powers!'
'Here are the options of powers dampene--'
'It doesn't matter! just pick the strongest one I can buy!'
'Bought Mutant Gene dampener Collar from the X-MEN universe for 1000 AP '
'Equip? Yes or No'
'Yes!'
'You can change levels of dampening when you look at your equipment in the system and choose whether equipment is visible or not. Current status of MGDC is 'Not Visible'
Quentin sighed a breath of relief as it felt like he was going to explode! He brought his hands up to inspect them. the black lines began to recede and the skin brightened, but there was still a hint or darkness at his fingertips and toes and his nails had a small point to them.
He had to do something about this small body and figure out away to leave this enclosure gel like substance.
"No! Why was it a failure! The simulation showed that it would be a success! This was our last chance! Damn! Throw him away with the other failures!" An enraged deep voice sounded out, carrying a hint of fear.
"But sir, 012 is still alive. The ministry of magic does not allow us to 'Throw him away.' instead, let's try once more in secret and when that is a success, we show it to the ministry of magic instead of 012 so we can get more funding and more volunteers!" a feminine voice said.
"Ok, but what do we do with the failure?" The deep voice that sounded out before spoke again, noticeably more calmly.
"That's easy. Let us get someone to send him to an orphanage, and then soon after, we attack the orphanage under the guise of muggle terrorists so 012 dies! And if he is adopted, then he will grow up not knowing his origins! It is a win-win situation, as muggles like to say."
"You have a point. Get one of your men to send him to a orphanage, preferably a poor one, so he lives a awful life." The deep voice spoke out again, this time his tone relaxed as if everything was under control.
"Also, if the ministry finds out that we replaced 012, say that one of your men grew a conscience and ran away with 012. And be sure to kill the person you get to bring 012 to the orphanage. So if the ministry finds out and want to question the person who 'grew a conscience' we can say they died when they ran away with 012."
"Why go through the trouble? Why not just kill the failure?" the deep voice said
"Um, because, the Ministry won't like it if we do. And we can shift the blame if they find out, but if we kill 012 directly, they will find out, and they people in the Ministry who were against us from the beginning would use that to directly cut us off and stop the experimentations!"
"Alright. I will get the person we will send out ready." the deep voice said.
"Ok Jamel. I hope our next experiment will succeed."
"As do I Dime." The deep voice- or rather Jamel- said.
Soon after came the sounds of shuffling, as one of the people left the room, presumably to get the unfortunate person ready.
Quentin was floating in the gel, as he felt a pair of hands reach through the gel and grab him.
As his small head broke through the surface of the gel, he began breathing deeply. Although the gel had air inside, after he had breathed a certain amount, the gel started losing air, so these past few minutes the Jamel and Dime were speaking, he felt as if he was suffocating slowly, so the fresh air was a godsend.
"Hey. I'm sorry. This is the most I can do for you. I hope one day you can be happy, little brother." Dime whispered as she hugged me tightly and let me go quickly, looking around as if paranoid someone might hear her.
'Congratulations! Host gained 2500 AP for gaining 'Motherly Affection' from Dime Black, an affection class that can only be gained by female relatives!'