Derick stood frozen for a good 2 minutes on the outside. On the inside, his mind ran through a thousand possibilities. The truth is Derick had always been the type of person to try to think of every possible outcome before acting, life under his Devil Wears Prada of a boss tends to do that to you.
Right now he could not help but think about the D.C universe and the veritable smorgasbord of random bullshit just waiting to kill you. The Joker lunches laughing gas in your neighborhood, dead.
Doomsday decides that today is a good day to invade Earth and boom dead again. And that's just the villains what if Superman flies over your city and just so happens to knock over an AC unit that hits you while you walk down the street, dead?
Granted the last one might seem a bit paranoid but, you're only paranoid if no one's out to get you, and in a world where a light spar between superpowered beings is enough to level a city block, someone is always out to get you.
Just then the system screen that Derick had been ignoring this whole time changed and displayed something that seemed like the answer to his problems.
[would the host like to spin for persona][Y: N]
'persona? As in the video game' he doubted it but then again anything could be possible at this point.
[the host's future appearance would be based on his first persona]
Derick started to think about it a little bit more closely. If the person dictated what he would eventually look like and it's asking him to spin like he did for his home world was it like a character selection then if he is lucky this could be the key to his survival in the Young justice world. He excitedly selected yes.
[Error due to host excessive karma host is rewarded with an additional persona spin would the host like to do so][Y: N]
At this point, Derick was about to lose his mind. He had just been borderline panicking about the thought of living in this world as a civilian and now he had the possibility of gaining not just one but two different superpowers. The whole thing just felt slightly overwhelming, none the less he knew what he had to do. Saying yes to both system prompts Derick watched as two giant spinning roulette wheels appeared.
To say he was excited would not do the feeling welling up in his heart justice. Fictional characters like Gojo, blade, and even Eidolon could be seen on the golden wheel but that thought quickly fizzled out when he noticed the likes of Azmith appear. The thought of turning into a little green man kind of grossed him out, if he was being honest, and he wondered if that made him racist.
The wheels began to slow down and he noticed Hiccup's name on the board, sure the guy was smart but unless his name was Bruce Wayne in the D.C. world he would be fucked, scratch that he would be mega-fucked at least Bruce Wayne was rich.
Derick began to sweat as he realized that some of the characters on the wheel were just, for lack of a better word, muggles ordinary people who would get absolutely owned should any random villain decide he wanted to throw a hissy fit that Tuesday. Let's just say that he was glad that he now had two chances at powers.
The wheels suddenly slowed to a crawl and Derrick, slightly scared of the outcome, closed one eye as he watched. The first wheel stopped on 5 and it barely took a moment before Derick realized it was five from the Umbrella Academy. ' Holy shit, as in teleportation wisecracking five' he broke out into a little celebratory dance at the revelation only stopping when he remembered the other wheel and he was shocked when he did. 'Who the fuck is sideways'
[Congragulations host on selecting the host's beginning Persona's. It appears that both persona are in almost perfect synergy would the host like to combine them for a chance at greater potential] [Y: N]
Derick looked at the screen and asked, " How close of a match are we talking about here"
[ 99.9999999087% of a match]
"What?" 'who the hell is this sideways guy' Derick paced around just a minute ago he was powerless now he had the choice to be even more powerful he accepted.
[Error merge failed to recalculate. Error higher access required merge failed]
Derick had just now thought about the system's use of the word chance.
[Access granted to high karma. Recalculating. Merge is almost successful, uses part of the host's original body. Merge successful. Error random vice will be chosen to balance merge vice chosen]
[Congratulation Merge successful host has become a multiverse singularity. Due to issues with balance host body has been given a vice however due to karma vice has been limited to smoking]
Derick released the breath he didn't know he was holding. This whole time he was a the edge of his seat wondering exactly what he had done scared that he might have screwed himself over. Now he was amazed and confused, his gamble seemed to have pain off but if he wasn't mistaken a multiverse singularity wasn't something to scuff at. That was like Galactus from Marvel right, that shouldn't be possible. in his mind fuck of a situation Derick had failed to notice the system screen that was counting down.
[Host will be transported to home world in 10 second
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good luck.]
Derick body faded away in a cloud of dust and the place he once stood was left there silent.
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Derick woke up in his new body to the smell of smoke and a tight feeling around his chest. upon further investigation he was upside-down held up bye a seatbelt. he heard the distant sound of sirens as well as the distinct murmur of a crowd of people in the distance.
"Hello is anyone out there!" Derick shouted trying to get anyone's attention
" i think there someone in there!" someone i the crowd shouted seemingly trying to get the attention of the firemen that had just put out the distant fire. Derick kept shouting as the sounds of footsteps grew closer.
[Hello host the system will now bind to the host current body]
just like that the world went dark.