209 Unlimited Power!

I woke up as if from a deep sleep, muscles twitching with excitement and adrenaline coursing through my veins.

I couldn't wait to move, run, rush out of here. Just do anything.

Reaching out I touched the boundary, the sort silken threads parting like buttery, cooked noodles as my fingers cleaved through them with ease.

A soft squelch sounded out like someone sloppily eating chilli in the dark as I tore out more and more of the cocoon covering me until I reached the hard, outer shell, stony in complexion, tough as clay.

It felt taut, bulging to my touch, like a balloon made of stone.

Running my hands across the inner surface I rapped my finger on the shell, and found a thin spot.

There we go.

I reared back my hands, as much as I could, squeezed in a tight cocoon like this, and rammed them into the shell, like chisels to marble.

The shell cracked, amd the cocoon hissed like pressure cooker, whistling away, gas flitting out of it.

I pushed my hands out, grabbing the shell with clawed fists and pulled it apart.

With a crackle and crunch the shell broke, and I crawled out from the crumbling wreck, all goey and dusty, some thread still sticking to me.

"Computer..." I yawned, cracking my knucles as I stretched, " Instant Sterilization."

A yellow-green beam of light shot out from a portal, and instantly I felt cleaner.

Another replicator beam later, I was clothed and armed back.

"Scan me. Note any anomalies. And get me a mirror." I ordered a droid.

"Yes sir. Right away."

While the droid worked it's magic, I pondered on the next steps to take.

Now that I have this power, I need to deal with Bast and the herbs, and the celestial power first before I evolve myself to the next level.

But after that.....I have plans. Plans I have left hanging, gathering dust on the shelf for a long while now.

I grinned with excitement.

This might just be more fun than I imagined.

"No anomalies detected sir." The medical droid reported, while another placed a mirror before me.

Looking at myself, I found quite a few changes in my appearance. Nothing significant, sure. But it was subtly different.

For one, my skin tone got noticably lighter. Where earlier I had bronze skin, like a greek god or a buff bodybuilder, now it was more George Clooney than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

My looks got better too. Sharper, piercing eyes, slightly better jawline and coiled taut musculature. My muscles had shrunk from the transformation but I could feel even more power in them now. Only slightly more but still. I think I even had better control of them now.

And finally there was that. A slight itch in my stomach.

My new power.

Devouring.

Reaching into it, I could feel a deep, primordial hunger bubble up within me, an urge to consume. Consume it all. Like a black hole sucking away at everything else, all thoughts, all emotions and desires other than gluttony. It even overpowered my greed, my most prominent driving desire.

But will it hold to the test?

I snapped my fingers and a portal opened up, dropping me outside into space, and with a thought a forcefield popped up around me, a quarter the size of the moon, creating an artificial atmosphere inside.

Time to find out.

Pulling out a handful of purple heart herbs, I summoned the Soul Stone to my hand, gripped tight, and popped them into my mouth and swallowed them whole.

Hmm....crunchy, earthy and just a pinch tart.

Delicious!

And the divine energy inside it, even more so.

Suddenly the world disappeared, and I found myself standing in an open glen, glades of savannah grass as far as the eyes could see, an twilight sky hanging up above high, stars shimmering ever so shy.

What's with all these gods and evening skies, sheesh! This is like the third god I've seen that keep the twilight sky aesthetic as their background. Why can't some of them be a nice and sunny spring day by the river, flowers in full bloom, trees laden richly with fruit, a beautiful bird song playing in the background....

No. They all have to follow that same emo kid trend.

Oooh, look at me, I'm so dark and shady~

Isn't that cool my dudes? Isn't that like super cool?

I scoffed.

"You dare make a mockery of my domain, planeswalker?" A voice boomed from behind me.

"Oh I dare to do more than that kitten." I smirked.

"You are an arrogant one. Perhaps you need to be shown your pla-"

A halo of orange light burst from within me, turning into flames that ravaged through Bast's domain in a instant, sending her tumbling back like a barrel down a hill.

"You! First you steal my gift to my children and now this?!

How dare defile my lands with an infinity stone?!" She roared, charging me, her claws and teeth glowing the same harrowing purple as her starry eyes.

"Oh it's quite simple little kitty cat. Like this!" I raised a palm at her, and an orange light of immense power burst from within, showering her like a hose to a wet cat, the energy taking the form of a massive spray bottle.

I quite like the irony in that.

She hissed and tried to dodge it to no avail, scalding herself in the process.

Jumping back, she glared at me with indignation as she healed up.

"Now are you ready to negotiate?" I asked, smiling evilly.

"I do not negotiate with insolent wretches like-"

I sprayed her again, burning her whiskers off.

"Bad kitty." I teased.

"Die!" She roared, swiping at me again, onky to be sprayed and scalded for the third time in a row.

"Tch tch tch!" I wagged my finger.

You don't seem to understand the position you are in, kitty. I dictate the terms and you say, yes master, nyaa~" I chuckled.

She narrowed her eyes and her pupils dilated before she disappeared.

Instantly, I clad myself in the Soul Stone's power and whirled around, grabbing her paws inches from decapitating me.

"How?!" She exclaimed, shocked.

"What a naughty kitten you are~" I pushed her back, not letting go of her paws, clutching them with an iron grip as she howled in pain.

Her toe beans were surprisingly soft.

And very squishy.

"And bad little kittens need to be punished."

With a sickening squelch and crack, I twisted her forearms, her fur wrinkling at the shoulders, breaking them.

"Rhyaaaargh!" She screamed, her throes of pain destabilizing the realm she ruled.

I walked over to her her prone form, lying on the ground, right up to her face.

"Now here's what's going to happen. You will let go of your divine power in that herb and let me consume it. And I will wake up, fine but enhanced. There will be no side effects. No secret curses. No hidden conditions. And in return, I won't brutally destroy you and your Ennead, right here, right now. Capische?" I said.

She looked up at me in fear and resignation, and boiling, seething hatred, before she relented.

"Yes."

"Ha?" I said, leaning in, ripping out a whisker, as she winced.

"Please don't make me say-"

I ripped out another whisker.

"Yes master, nyaa~" She said, her face twisted like she had just bit into shit.

"That's a good kitty." I stroked her head and she let out silent tears, solling down her cheeks.

Inside me, I felt something detach as her hold on the divine power slipped and my power consumed it, integrating it into me.

Hmm...so I can consume divine power too, eh?

I smiled evilly.

Ferb, I think I know what we're going to do today.

I chuckled.

"Will you let me go now, master, nyaa~" She asked, amidst choked sobs.

I looked her in the eyes and stroked her head one last time.

"No." I grinned, opening my mouth wide as a massive suction force appeared inside it, sucking away her divinity whole.

"No! No! Noooo! You promised! You made a pact!" She cried, pleading for her life.

"Oh I made a deal alright. I promised to not 'brutally' destroy you. And I'm not. This is a quick and easy death. A mercy." I replied, as the last of her divinity entered my stomach, and my power began to digest it.

Delicious!

Like honeyed nectar! Hot chocolate and garlic bread and all things delicious rolled into one. It was like the richest, thickest soup I had ever tasted. And it was addictive as all hell.

I licked my lips.

I want more!

More!

And I knew just where to find some.

With a snap, I returned to the mortal realm, entering one of my microverses for safety.

Opening up a portal above me, a giant needle the size of the Empire State building emerged right within my reach.

I unhinged my jaw and opened wide, my devouring power awakened once more as a black hole appeared inside my mouth.

In the ship, I flipped the switch on the Exorcist and the needle began to let out the celestial essence stored inside it, straight into my mouth. Greedily ,I swallowed it, one and all, every last drop of it, falling into an almost trance like state.

It tasted faintly like my mother's risotto. Warm, loving, delicious. Tasted like....home.

And with every drop I consumed I could feel myself grow, not just in power but in stature too. My body cracked and reformed, over and over and over again, growing each time as the hours passed in the shadow of the dark side of the moon.

Then, as if no time had passed I awoke with a jolt, conciousness returning to me like a coursing river in monsoon, washing over me, and washing me away with a newfound clarity, the like of which I had never experienced before.

My senses though only grew and I could see, feel, sense everything. Colours I had never seen before, spectrums of light unseen and sounds of stars unheard. The puddle of dark matter soaking the universe, the thick gravity of black holes like clay to my hands. Suns like large candies, ready to be devoured. I saw the moon looming over me and almost didn't recognise it given it's new relative size to me. Where before it was a planeetoid, now the moon looked like one of those hamster balls to me, like I was a child looking at an adult sized hamster ball.

Looking down at my hands, I found not skin but a thick, nigh impenetrable membrane, armor like and pulsing yellow gold. And as sensation returned to my body, I could feel a new level of power far beyond any I had felt before. Like I could shape the world with a casual swipe of my hands, like the universe was one big playground, all just for me.

Is this what it feels like to be a celestial?

Though now I was a Celestial-God hybrid. Not quite as powerful as either individually but stronger than both combined.

And as a plus, I had access to minor reality warping now!

Yup. I like this new power. I like it a lot.

But there's still one more thing left to do.

And I can't do that in this form. I need something more... manageable.

Concentrating on my power, I shrunk myself, back to my human form and returned to my workshop.

Lying on my desk, just as it was when I left it. A vial of pitch black tar. The Asgardian Ichor.

Picking it up, I downed it in one go, and felt a small shiver run through my body as my powers twisted and turned, evolving instantly into something greater and I could feel something else. Something new inside me.

Reaching out to it, I pulled it out of me and suddenly the world went still.

And I realised what it was.

My godly domain.

The realm of time and space!

The godly domain of Quantum Possibility!

A power comparable to the second magic of the Fate franchise.

And in an instant, I knew instinctively, feeling all the other possibilities of me collapse and reform around me, remade in my image.

There were no more variants of me out there. No alternative versions. No dark reflections. No timelines where I eat poop. Nothing.

I was it now.

The one and only, true Jay Walker!

Well in this multiversal cluster anyways.

Great power up regardless.

Mentally running some calculations, I could now proudly say that I was stronger than the entities of Worm. Far stronger than Scion.

If Scion was a child, I was a woolly mammoth.

If he was a construction worker, I was Mount Rushmore.

Not invulnerable but, pretty confident in my chances of one shotting almost any regular entity.

If I went back in time to Worm now, I could flick Scion to death.

Hehehehhahahaha!

Yes! Finally!

Ultimate power!

And it's all mine. Internal. Meaning it will work in all worlds so long as the laws of physics aren't too screwed up.

Now, time for my final project in this world. One last thing to do, to build before I leave this world.

But before that, I had a student to test.

And to tease about her date.

I smiled and disappeared, back to Earth to pester Wanda once more.

I can't be blamed. Her reactions are just so cute, I can't help myself!

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MC becomes almost god like.

God-ish but not quite.

And gets reality warping!

Next time, finally, the Wanda part of the arc begins with an interlude. I'll see at least.

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