Let's Start at the Rainbow

Chapter 1

~X~

"Wahh!" a girl shouted as she woke up with a start. "What... Where am I?"

I looked around and seemed to be in some sort of cabin room. Not my room.

There was a broken mirror in the corner so I got off the dirty mattress I was asleep on. I used the biggest piece I could find to look at myself and I looked completely different.

I had scarlet red hair and green eyes. I was wearing an orange and black short-sleeved hoodie, distressed jeans, and orange and black sneakers.

There was a window with the early morning sun coming through. I went to it and looked out.

Outside were ships.

A bunch of rusted ships.

Some of them were beached, like the one she was in was, and some were partly sunken a short distance from the shoreline.

It was a veritable boat graveyard.

"What the fuck?"

*PING*

I pulled out the smartphone that was in my jeans pocket. It was a text message.

Hey there, my favorite mortal.

If you're getting this that means you got your memories back.

Yay! (≧∇≦)/

So, I'm sure you're confused. Do you remember the Worm CYOA you built last night?

Yeah, I used that to send you here. I need you to deal with Zion. I don't care how, just make sure he doesn't destroy the local multiverse.

Good luck~

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And that was it.

So, I got ROB'd?

And Worm CYOA? The build I made last night was not optimized. I just simply threw a bunch of stuff together. And then there are all those drawbacks I chose. Of course, the ones with the most detriment right now are...

Wanted (Local) and Wanted (Global).

I chose both of those four times.

With Wanted (Local), the three major gangs plus Coil would be after me. And with Global, I'll even be wanted by PRT, Gesellschaft, CUI, and worst of all, Cauldron. I don't even know if I'm on their radar right now.

Haah.

Whatever, it means I need to be careful in the beginning until I hit a point where I have enough power that no one can challenge me.

Considering the powers I took...

The first one to mention was Inspired Inventor. It was very powerful but it's not the broken thing it was in v1.

In v1, you could put the charges to any knowledge field.

In v17, I can only put those charges toward technological fields of knowledge. I could've spent more SP to make the one I had more like the one in V1 but it seemed pointless, and I didn't mind the downgrade because gaining knowledge on any technological field is broken enough.

At least I don't have to spend points on Cyberpunk technology because that's another power I took. Knowledge to create any technology from the Cyberpunk Universe.

The first thing I want to create right now is a cyberdeck, not the one I have to install in my head because I have no way of doing that. Instead, I want to make the more external ones that were more used in the tabletop games.