1 The Beginning

I don't really know how to explain this but life can sometimes place things you are completely unprepared for directly on your path.

Of course, these things when surpassed can either destroy you or make you even better but I don't think I can ever surpass mine.

It isn't exactly something that I can think of as a means to defeat my own obstacle… well it isn't exactly an obstacle as it's more of a cage I need to escape soon.

In fact I think that in order to better explain my current predicament to you all, I would have to start from the very beginning.

My name is Maxwell Page and I am your average 23 year old, I had nothing extraordinary going on in my life.

I worked as a freelancer in order to put money on the table and feed myself, I didn't make so much money that I could afford some of the well known luxuries in life but I could get by though I was planning to make enough money in preparation for my eventual marriage despite being as single as Amoeba.

Anyway in my freetime, I was one of those who sat and either read comics or watched movies to pass time and recently, I have been doing it a lot.

Of course, there was nothing wrong with that after all, many people spend several hours on social media without even realising how much time they had wasted but things got way out of hand when it happened.

I was sitting in my living room watching Marvel's Endgame for the nth time this year, I liked the movie and all but as a fan, theories and several opinions would always form in your mind as you rewatch it over and over again

My opinion was simple, Tony could have done better. Yes, I understand that at that particular moment, he wasn't really thinking calmly.

He had a near 7 foot titan with impossible strength and stamina standing above him so he would do the first thing that came to mind.

However, he could have either de-aged them by several million years in an instant thus turning them into nothingness or he could have wiped them out of reality using the reality stone.

That way, you can be sure that no one can actually revive him like they had done to the people of Earth and the universe.

Even better, he could have imprisoned Thanos and his entire army inside a pocket dimension of his own creation where they would live out their lives in complete void.

There was many ways he could have used the gauntlet without killing himself but I understand why he had optioned to snap his fingers instead.

He was in a situation similar to when you are a timid guy and you have a lanky guy with an abnormally perfect gun, telling you to hand over your wallet, you would hand it over because of desperation and stuff but if you had calmed down, you have have realised that said guy was holding a toy replica.

Of course, my opinion was just a personal thing and something that even I didn't take that seriously but then it happened.

A massive holographic board appeared directly in my living room and on the board were the words;

[Do you think you can do better]

Of course, at this moment, I was already freaking out because I knew it wasn't a prank, I was an introvert and so were most of my friends so we only met face to face when necessary.

I didn't have any sort of hologram projectors in my apartment in fact I don't even think the technology had reached this level so almost instinctively I knew something out of the ordinary in fact something extraordinary was about to happen but no matter how much I tried to calm down and think, I couldn't.

As a webnovel and self-insert fanfiction reader, scenes like this always lead to one thing and I was extremely ready for it.

Looking at the question, my mind ran through a couple of necessary questions, "who is behind this?",

"Is the being behind this, on my side or just pissed about my opinion?",

"Is this for real?".

All these were running through my mind at speeds even I didn't know was possible.

At the end of it all, I answered yes after all, I was your average Otaku. I could swear that at some point that all Otaku had thought about such things.

At this moment though, saying that I was ready wasn't really too far fetched.

As soon as I answered, the question on the holographic board changed.

[If you were ever thrown into said Universe, what would you want to be your superpower?]

Okay, after reading this, everyone already knows how I felt. I was already beyond excited at this point.

This was beyond what I initially hoped for, I envisioned being dropped into the universe as a powerless schmuck but even then I knew my way to becoming incredibly powerful.

There were many ways of doing so in the Marvel Universe, many of them difficult but at the end of the day, I will achieve my goal.

However despite my excitement, the once lost common sense slowly began to surface. By agreeing to this, I would be leaving all this behind.

Normally I didn't have any family that would miss me and my friends will probably never even know I was gone but even then I had worked hard for all I had now.

Was it all really worth it... Was what I should have thought but that thought only lasted at most a second before the long list of superpowers I had concocted for such a situation appeared in my mind.

"Grant me the ability to learn and Master anything at unparalleled speeds... Make me a God of Learning" I answered as I struck an exaggerated pose.

Soon after all I saw was black as I was taken from my world