Rebirth

Chapter 1

In an office sat two men. Between them stood a beautiful mahogany desk covered with black folders. Sitting behind the desk was an immaculately dressed man in a grey three-piece suit. He looked at the man opposite him and then down at his watch, "anytime now" he said drumming his fingers on the arm of his chair.

The other occupant startled awake and fell back on the chair. "Ow" he moaned standing up and holding his lower back. He then looked around, "wha-where the hell am I!" he shouted in confusion.

"Please, calm down Hassan, may I call you Hassan?" asked the man in grey. The other man, Hassan, nodded. "Fantastic!" he said reaching out his hand which Hassan grasped, "it is a pleasure to meet you."

"Yea, whatever you say mate" Hassan responded while picking up his chair and setting it in front of the desk. He smoothened the lapel of his navy coat and sat down while adjusting his tie. "Sorry, I didn't get your name."

"That's because I didn't tell you. Now, I happen to be a firm believer in equality between business partners-that is what we are now. So I am powerful, higher dimensional being. I've been called a multitude of names over the many millennia I've live, but my favourite would have to be Archeon. What you see here before you," he said gesturing to his body "is merely a meat sack that I have donned in order to prevent you from falling into the abyss of insanity. Also, I've kidnapped you."

Hassan massaged his temples "look, you have obviously got some problems and I'm sure I can help you find some mental health support. So why don't-"

"I am not mentally unstable. I was telling you the truth. I can see that you do not believe me when I say that, so may this will help," he said raising his hand. "Look at the palm of my hand carefully." There was a green spark above his hand which slowly grew into a flame. It twisted into a tornado and then morphed into a tiger and then a unicorn. The unicorn pranced around the office before coming to a rest on Archeon's shoulder. "Have I proved myself sufficiently?"

"Uh...yea, I mean yes, yes you have. Just one question, one teeny tiny question," he said almost pinching his fingers. "Why have you kidnapped me?"

"Well as I understand, you have read fan-fiction before, correct?" he asked and Hassan nodded. "And have you read fan-fictions with self-inserts?" again, Hassan nodded. "Well so have I and I adore all the amazing ideas that your little minds conjure up. In fact I've recently read through many with a focus on the self-inserts and I decided that I wanted to have a go at it. I want to be a ROB(Randomly Omnipotent Being). Now, I do admit that I'm not omnipotent, but I am nigh omnipotent. Now seeing as I'm going to be the ROB, would you like to hazard a guess to what you will be?"

Hassan sucked air through his teeth, "Please say that you kidnapped me to be your personal assistant and to help you keep on top of all the idiots you throw into different fandoms."

Archeon laughed revealing his brilliant, white teeth. "Nice try, but no. You will be the idiot I'm throwing into random universes. However do not fear, I will provide you with some support in the form of a superpower. Now if you'd look at these documents," he said gesturing to the 12 black folders on his desk, "these are your options. You may only pick one and I will expect your reasoning." He folded his arms and allowed Hassan to peruse the folders.

The folders were each about a different power and were labelled in large and bold, white letters. They were: called Chi, Liquification, Healing, Animal Imitation, Precognition, Phasing, Power Absorption, Force-Field Generation, Shapeshifting, Telepathy and Phoenix Mimicry.

The ability of Chi would grant Hassan enhanced physical attributes, energy blasts and manipulation of the elements. Liquification, as the name implied allowed the user to self-liquefy themselves into water. Healing was the ability to heal others from diseases to re-growing limbs and also allowed for cellular activation. Animal Imitation granted one the ability to imitate the characteristics of an animal (without transforming into the animal), which at the higher levels made it possible to imitate multiple animals simultaneously.