52 Story 4 Hero Within, Monster Without Chapter 1

A series of loud tapping rang out. I squirmed uncomfortably as my sponsor to being isekaied and reincarnated looked disturbed looking after my data. Not like I had many life options at the moment after my most unfortunate death of drowning in Pepsi after chugging a two-liter and eating some pop rocks afterward.

Finally, my alternate exhaled and released my file, and dropped it on the desk in front of him as he eyed me with a wry smile. "Dude, if I didn't know you were most assuredly a Jake Barriss and thus not someone mentally unwell in their base form, I would have thought I picked up a defective alternate." He muttered as his hands returned to loudly tapping the desk and I had to digest his words before I spoke frankly.

"So what's the verdict doc, do I have soul cancer or something?" I asked and my alternate snorted rolling his eyes and then he refocused on me and I couldn't help the shiver at the sheer age, power, and experience within those eyes as he took in my form before chuckled.

"Nah... We ain't the Company or The Guild, we don't do clones and the Jake's are literal parrell Earth equivalents but most of the time more alternate universe variants from mundane versions of Earth." My alternate coughed and refocused as his finger instead loudly tapped the file as he spoke. "So either way. You are literally the fucking example of mundane life." He finished frankly with a frown before continuing and explaining.

"You yourself are like almost a completely natural Imagine Breaker just far weaker in potency or for example in Warhammer terms you would have been born a powerful Null if you were born in that universe... The issue is that your inborn nature excludes you from most the Clan's methods of gaining powers... After all magic, cultivation, and psychic powers which form the base of our powers at least will clash with that effect." He mused before shrugging.

"So look, I wanna help you but almost all the powers I can give you for the universe you got slotted to go to... Are ass in comparison to the world and its natural changes, so you got only one option really now." He began and then explained that in order for my body to naturally bond with supernatural powers I needed to change the core of my body itself.

Then came the reality of the powers I was given... "I am becoming an inhuman monster..." I said dryly as I eyed my alternate with a twitching brow as I looked over the catalog of the monsters I had the option of my first base form to become.

My alternate shrugged and said dryly. "Once you get to a certain level of power appearances matter little... But it's not like you are locked into that form permanently, as your soul grows more powerful piggybacking off the monstrous essence of the monster, you will gain more control over your body and will be able to take on preset monster forms and even your human form... And of course form chimeric monsters of various monsters put together." He explained helpfully and at the news that I wouldn't be stuck in a monster form... That was a relief.

I looked through the 'monster's and I frowned as I realized that they weren't really. Cool, or even nice looking. They were monstrous forms through and through. "So can't I get turned into an Eevee or really any Pokemon? Just something to fit into this world more easily?" I asked frowning at how my options were things like Final Fantasy monsters, an Arc monster dinosaur thing called a Shadowmane, and there were options like a base Genestealer or others that were meh.

I mean imagine having superpowers and you run into something looking like a Xenomorph in a dark alley... That's a punch first ask questions later situation. But if you were to find a Vulpx or Eevee in that alley instead, the only outcome to that situation is snuggling those cuties without mercy!

At my question, my alternate shrugged as he said evenly. "You can take on those forms should wish, but your growth within such 'cute' monstrous forms will be slow. After all, you will be taking on the essence of monsterhood, if you are a snuggly pet that doesn't really conform to that ideal but it's up to you." He said giving some sound advice and I bit my lip in thought before I sighed.

"Alright, I will do the Bahura as my base form," I spoke with finality.

The Bashura was a five-meter tall, four-armed, bipedal humanoid being, with a sort of ape or gorilla-like face and purple fur covering most of its form. Each hand of it also had five fingers ending in a brutal golden almost metallic claw.

So not only was the Bashura, somewhat human shaped but I didn't need to worry about being a four-legged being and learning how to run and walk like that. But I would also have fucking opposable thumbs! To say nothing of how a Bashura being from Final Fantasy would have access to learning their world's magic through the bodies naturally producing magical energy.

And finally, a Bashura was strong. Its attack stats didn't mean much without context but they were perfectly capable of breaking dense mountain boulders and beating the other dangerous monsters that lived in their territory to death with their bare hands to say nothing of its weird 'counter' ability that the file didn't get into.

"Bashura huh... Well although the Genestealer has the highest potential in becoming a new Hive Mind, you probably don't want to strip entire galaxies of life. But either way here you go and good luck dude." My alternate said as he formed a purple light in his hand and then he was beside me and pushing the purple light into my chest.

I couldn't even see his form blur over to me, just one second he was sitting at his desk, the next he was standing beside me, and the purple light was within my chest and then I started to grow. Purple hair covered my skin and I felt a weird stretching feeling on my side and back as my new two arms formed. But it didn't hurt like I expected it to.

And my alternate seemed to realize that as he scoffed. "Yeah having your body screaming in agony with your constant growth is just torture dude, you will feel no pain from your growth and changes to your form until you take actual harm, and if you do feel pain while trying to change yourself... That's a sign to stop what you are doing." Then he snapped his fingers and he flicked my thickening chest and I was sent flying backward with a sort of dense energy feeling filling my chest as rainbow light surrounded me and the last thing I heard was my alternate say cheerfully. "Have fun dude, and it mid-January so don't worry about Taylor she is already triggered!"

All I could think of in response as I was stunned into silence as I was yanked through reality and to my next destination was rather simple. 'Fuck I got Worm in my draw!'