Marionette, Am I?

"Hello"

I jumped the moment I heard something right beside my ear.

"Wh-What the fuck?!"

I turned around to face that guy.

"Ahahaha! That was so funny!! Look at your dumb face!"

A child wearing an extravagant outfit is laughing at me.

I feel like this is the day for me to commit a crime.

"Alright-alright. I am sorry. I can't help it. It is a tradition you know."

Sigh

"So, let's get right into it, you died."

Is this another prank? I feel like I really want to kill this child.

"It is not a prank, you know. Look around you. Where do you think we are?"

"What do you me-"

I look around and sure is nothing here. I mean, there is literally nothing. No floors, walls, skies, only white.

"Where the heck am I ?"

I look at him.

"Don't you remember what had happened before?"

I then try remembering that.

I remember I was walking down the street and then...

A memory of a bright light coming from my right side.

"Oh wow... I really died huh."

"Yup, you are."

"Well, at least there was not any pain."

I look at him while he stares at me with a weird look.

"You are a weird one huh? Normally the others would be going crazy and hoping this is just a dream or something."

"I don't want to hear that from someone who has an outfit like yours."

"What! I'll let you know that this Outfit is the trend in Cyberpunk 2077 alright!"

He sighs.

"So, what's next? Am I going to hell ?"

"If you want to. But I will give you another option."

I look at him curiously.

"I will transmigrate you to another world of my choosing and in that world, I will give you a couple of tasks."

"What would happen if I don't do it? "

He looks at me.

"Hmm. If you don't do it..."

*Cough*

!!!

I begin coughing blood after he says that.

I look down at my chest and it seems like a spike stabs through me.

I look at him again, panic and confusion are the only things in my head. And suddenly everything is return to normal.

I touch my chest. Everything is normal. It was like a dream.

"Pfft- Ahahahah" he laughs.

"I am sorry. I won't do it again."

I just stare at him with cold sweat.

"Nothing like that gonna happen to you. Thinking of it like a quest in a game, if you succeed you get a reward but if you fail you don't get the reward."

It still sounds shady somehow.

"Well, to convince you I am giving you this. Look at your left arm."

I then look at my left arm. There is a big watch.

It looks familiar.

Oh I know what it is, I saw this before, it is the Omnitrix.

"Yeah!! I am glad you know that. A really good device you know."

"It allows people to change themself to something that suits their needs. Well, it doesn't work the same way as in the series, of course."

"What are the differences?" you ask.

"Not that much actually, rather than changing you to different species, it changes you into a different character. Like Goku or even Superman. Pretty cool right?!?!"

He looks at me with a big smile.

I look back at the Omnitrix. It definitely sounds tempting.

His smile is getting bigger now, huh?

"If you agree with my offer. I'm going to give you a total of 10 Option-Characters in your Omnitrix, 5 of them would be random and the rest you can choose whoever you want to."

Being able to choose what characters are definitely good, but I gotta need to know what kind of world he is going to send me off.

He sighs.

"I won't tell you which world I am going to send you, but I would let you guess it yourself."

He pulls up his and shows me 3 fingers.

"MCU, One Piece or Naruto."

Okay, I know all those things.

All those worlds are violent, especially the MCU. I need really strong characters.

"Why are you doing this?" I ask.

"Look, I know it doesn't make any sense to you. But you see, we, Gods, don't have a lot of things to do other than make, balance, and destroy the universe" he answers.

He summons a chair and sits down on it.

"So for entertainment, I come up with an Idea like this."

"Like this? Kidnapping people and sending them off to do your bidding? Sounds more of Devil than God."

"Oh come on, Gods, Devils, Deities, Ghosts are all the same. You, humans, are the ones that like to make sense of things. Well, you do you I guess."

He summons a cup of tea in his hand.

"So, what are your 5 chosen characters? "

I sigh.

"Can you give me some time to think about it? "

He nods.

"Yeah, of course. We got all the times in my all universes."

He summons another chair for me.

"Feel free."

I sit down on the chair.

I am not sure what I really need actually. If I am talking about power, I would definitely go for Madara Uchiha, Tony Stark, or even Doctor Stran-

"Wait, Can I choose characters from the same Universe?"

"Man, that sucks. I thought I could surprise you when you are already there with 'Oops, you can't choose the character from the same universe, you know ."

I almost forgot that this guy does things just because he wants some fun.

So what now?

I definitely need Madara Uchiha, there is no way, I am not going to choose him.

I of course need Tony Stark too, so I am going to shoot my shot.

Now I need an alternative for these guys.

Gojo Satoru.

Yeah, that would be the alternative to Madara Uchiha. With his power, I don't think I need to be afraid to fight Madara Uchiha too.

For genius-level intellect, I think, I come up with a better Idea, I will switch out Tony Stark and choose Tatsuya Shiba.

Now, I have 3. Which covers power and intelligence.

This is hard. I am not smart enough for this to be honest.

Alright, 2 more. Let's go.

I need something that covers speeds too. My options would be Flash, Quicksilver, or Kizaru.

The safest option would be Flash.

I look at him again, he is still drinking his tea.

1 more.

I need something to make me survive no matter what.

Hm... This might be a good choice.

The last character would be Camilla Hui Gou Rou.

"Oh wow... I didn't expect the last one at all."

"Yeah, I figure, if the world is so dangerous, I need something that prevents me from dying or at least brings me back to life. And her name comes to my mind."

He nods several times.

"Cool-cool. I like that. Are you done? Wanna think about it some more?"

I shake my head.

"No, I think I am done. I got Madara and Gojo with me. I think it is more than enough."

He smiles.

"Alright, boy, I hope you have fun down there. And don't forget about the tasks that I will give you. You will get rewarded definitely. Goodbye. Before I forgot, let me introduce myself. My name is **Nyarlathotep** ."

He waves his hands at me and suddenly I feel like, I am falling.

I look down.

"Fuck!!!"

I panic.

I move around and suddenly I catch a glimpse of my left arm.

Oh yeah, the Omnitrix.

I pull it and start turning the switch. The current situation is too dire that I don't bother with what I am looking at. When the watch pops up, I immediately slam it down.

I then feel something in me changing so rapidly. I close my eyes. The moment I open it back, everything looks so clear, wide, and slow and I feel way so strong.

I don't know who I choose, but it allows me to think about the situation more clearly. I look straight down and it is still quite far away, like 1 km or less.

I feel like I should just land like normal. Falling from this far high up won't hurt me. It is a weird feeling that I could just think like that while a moment ago I was panicking like a lil child.

*Boom*

Superhero landing.

That was easy.

I stand up and shrug the dust from my shirts and pants.

I look around.

"Now, where am I ?"