I opened my eyes, and found myself in some strange… ethereal room.
The walls, floor, and roof were all some strange ghostly blue. And there was a… humanoid figure, androgynous in nature seemingly staring at me.
"Ah, you've finally awoken" The figure said, a flighty tone to its voce, as a pair of
sharp teeth were revealed as it spoke, before it tilted its head towards me, "Good. Now, we can get
STARTED!"
With that, a massive gameshow-esque roulette wheel appeared beside it.
"You may have passed before your prime, but now… you get a one time offer. To have your very own isekai adventure!" The figure said as it extended its hand towards me, "What do you say, pal?"
"I-... okay?" I said instinctively, "Wait. I'm dead? How did I die?"
"Oh, the roof caved in on you while you were sleeping. You died instantly" The figure said with a toothy grin, "You're lucky. If you slept a few inches to the left, you would have had a slow, painful death… though, a few inches to the right and you would have survived with some pretty bad injuries. But would have eventually healed, and even found the love of your life in that hospital bed… but alas, you didn't, and will never meet them. But hey, them's the breaks, kid… life's not always fun and games"
"Love of my life? What… alright, fuck it. Let's do this" I said, not wanting to wallow on what could have been… I'm getting isekai'd after all.
"Alright! First things first… the wheel of worlds!" The figure said, as it began to spin the wheel, "This will be the world you shall be isekai'd into! It could be Fictional or entirely Original… who knows?"
The wheel spun, and spun…
Before it began to slow down, and I saw a few of the options…
My Hero Academia. Could be fun to get a Quirk and be a Hero…
RWBY. Which could be neat, even if it
is an absolute death world.
Ben 10. That could have honestly been
really interesting.
But, it finally ended on…
DC.
"Oh…" I said, as the words 'DC' lit up, and the wheel disappeared, "Well… at least I know the setting?"
"That you do! Now… let's see exactly
who you will be isekai'd into!" The figure said, causing me to frown in confusion, as another wheel appeared, "Oh. Did you think you were going in your original body? I may be a bastard… but I'm not
sadistic. You wouldn't survive a week with that body"
Okay, that was just mean…
The figure's grin somehow managed to grow wider, as it spun the wheel.
It spun, and spun, and… spun.
Until it began to slow down, and I saw some of the options.
Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze.
Dick Grayson/Nightwing.
…But it eventually ended on…
Michael Maxwell/B'Wana Beast.
"Wait, B'Wana Beast? The animal fusing guy?" I asked in shock.
"Yup" The figure said before waving, "Bye~"
"What do you mean, 'byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!" I said, before I started to… fall.
And fall… and fall…
I spent what felt like eternity just falling.
Until I ended up in some… cave. With a strange gorilla handing a helmet towards me.
I recognized the helmet as the one that B'Wana Beast wore…
"Mike... his attitude. It's docile... no, humble. And what's that he's got? A strange looking helmet?" My... friend of many years, Rupert Zambesi Kenboya said.
I... remembered all of Michael Maxwell's… no,
my life, all at once.
I remembered my father, a millionaire who was always... pressuring me into the family business, meeting and befriending Ken in college. Where we tied in everything... football, the classroom, always matching each other both physically and mentally.
I was getting a degree in Zoology, wanting to work with animals...
...And I remembered Ken's offer of me becoming a ranger after we graduated, I accepted. I was to become a ranger for Zambesi's new national animal preserves.
Then I remembered our plane getting hit over the Atlantic, struck by lightning of all things, as we crashed into Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in all of Africa.
There was a red ape... that had stalked us into the mountain. As I was delirious from damage sustained during the crash.
Ken had given me some water, from a strange… grail, mentioning that it was probably rainwater that was dripping from the cave walls. Which I drank around… half of, before the gorilla attacked him.
While Ken was trying to fight the gorilla, I groaned as I felt myself gaining immense strength, the feeling of it being somewhat… euphoric, even as my shirt was destroyed from the gained mass.
I then regained my senses, and tried to pay attention to the fight, and watched in horror as the gorilla went to snap him in half... I got back up and rushed in to help Ken, knocking the gorilla, and Ken to the ground before descending onto the ape.
After a few moments of wrestling with the gorilla, and elbowing it in the face, I managed to overpower the gorilla, my newfound super strength enhancing me greatly.
I was strengthened to the point that I managed to defeat the gorilla in hand to hand combat... and now, it was acting all... docile.
The gorilla then... placed the helmet onto my head, and I felt a strange connection to it.
I could feel the gorilla's mind... its feelings.
I even learned its name... Djuba.
"Hello there... Djuba" I said, as I looked at the newly subservient red gorilla. It simply looked at the two of us, "Bow"
It took a moment, before bowing to me in a subservient manner.
"Michael... is this some sort of animal controlling device? It's brilliant" Ken said, as he looked at the gorilla, "Mike. You can control animals with your mind... what a marvelous power"
"Yes it is, Ken... but I just
know that this isn't the full extent of its power... I can't find a way to explain it. But I can just tell that there's something... more to it" I said, as I looked around, to see a few small insects scattering the walls, and even a lizard.
I looked to the lizard, a Mabuya varia, or Variable Skink, and one of the insects, an ant, specifically a Lepisiota incisa, an African Sugar Ant... and mentally ordered them to... fuse together.
What it resulted in, was a three foot tall lizard with six legs, hexagonal insectoid eyes, along with a pair of antennae, and it was covered head to claw in the chitin of the Lepisiota incisa. Making for
quite an intimidating sight.
"Michael... you just... my goodness" Ken said, as he looked at the creature I had made, "You created some sort of chimera. Just what is this helmet?"
Leaning down, I extended my arm, and it... climbed onto it, eventually perching itself on my shoulder.
"I don't know, Ken. But... the powers of this helmet are incredibly fascinating. And it can't fall into the wrong hands" I said, as I thought of just
what I wanted to do with this helmet.
I mean… I've always wanted to be a superhero.
"Perhaps you could become a Superhero, Mike. Maybe even a member of the Justice League?" Ken said with an excited tone of voice, he'd always loved superheroes.
I distinctly remember him having books about the Justice Society, and obsessively following mentions of other new superheroes, like The Batman, and Superman, whenever they came out.
He was especially a fan of the Green Lantern, apparently the superhero had saved his life during his commute to college.
"I don't know, Ken… could I
really be a hero?" I said, feeling a sense of doubt well up within me.
"Of course you can Mike! Look at you, you managed to overwhelm a gorilla with sheer strength alone… I still don't know how you managed to do that" Ken said, "And the powers of that helmet. You could really help people"
"Alright, Ken… I'll do it" I said, as I looked at the half-drunk grail full of the water that seemed to have enhanced me, as I extended it out to him, "Only if you'll join me"
"What?" Ken asked, sounding honestly confused.
"Well, it has to be the water, right? That's the only thing that could have enhanced me to such levels of strength… and I only had half. And there's nobody I'd trust more to have my back, than you Ken" I said with a smile, as I handed the grail to him.
"I… thank you, Mike" Ken said with a smile, knowing not to argue with me about something like this, as he drank the water.
I watched as his muscles swelled up, and his clothes ripped from the sheer
strength he had gained.
"That was… that was…" Ken said, as if lost for words.
"Exhilarating, right?... I mean, what a rush!" I said with a grin, knowing exactly what he had just gone through.
"If we have these powers now… what are we going to call ourselves?" Ken said, "I mean… every superhero has some sort of name they go by"
"I was thinking B'Wana Beast, due to the bestial nature of my abilities" I said, as I honestly liked the campy name of the hero.
"B'Wana Beast, huh?... Definitely an interesting name, Michael. Hmm… how about I become… The Huntsman?" Ken said with a grin, "For I shall hunt down the
villains that plague this world"
"Nice!" I said, as I gave my best friend a high five, knowing that he'd had that name tucked away on the off chance that he'd ever gained superpowers, "Now… how do we get out of this mountain?"
At that, Djuba, the gorilla grabbed my arm, and led the two of us to a staircase, hidden within the mountain… Apparently, this was the only way out of the mountain.
It had taken quite a few hours of walking, which was made a lot easier due to our enhanced bodies, but eventually, we managed to get out of Mount Kilimanjaro.
And now… well, the world was our oyster. I wonder what sort of hijinks we'd get up to…
Hey, maybe I could meet Vixen? That could be pretty neat.
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Hello all, and welcome to my new SI.
B'Wana Be A Hero!
An SI into B'Wana Beast. One of my favorite, underrated DC Heroes.
Now, I'm going to mention some limits to the SI's Bio-Fusion Power.
It can only fuse three things at once. Hard Limit.
Tardigrades cannot be fused into other animals. This is due to the SI being unable to see them.
The SI cannot fuse animals into himself, but he can easily fuse animals with humans.
Only Living beings can be fused into a Chimera.
The Chimeras are loyal to the SI, unless there is prior mind control to one of the creatures fused. There is the exception of Humans being fused, where they retain the human's mind, and loyalties.
And this is specifically to AnonTheWEEB on Discord. No. B'Wana Beast cannot fuse a pregnant woman with her fetus. What the actual fuck is wrong with you?