*Leon blinks into a colorless expanse. Everything is quiet except for a faint hum, like the air itself is breathing. He looks down at his hands — translucent, almost fading.*
**Leon:** What… happened to me? I was walking home… then the lights… the driver—
*(He looks around; there's no sky, no ground. Just endless nothing.)*
**Leon:** Great. I'm dead. Figures that my afterlife would look like a screensaver.
*(A soft voice answers, calm yet huge, echoing from every direction.)*
**TOAA:** Death is not an end, Leon. It is only a door.
**Leon:** (flinching) Whoa, okay—who said that? Where are you?
*(A warm, shifting radiance begins to form ahead of him, like a figure made of sunlight and stars.)*
**TOAA:** I am what you might call God. Or perhaps what your stories once called the One Above All.
**Leon:** So… Marvel's god? You're telling me I died and met a comic book deity?
**TOAA:** The names are human attempts to frame the infinite. But yes, you can call me that.
**Leon:** (laughs shakily) Right. Of course. Makes total sense. I die and meet the boss of the multiverse. Do I get a pamphlet or something?
**TOAA:** You still cling to humor, even here. That is good. It means your soul still remembers how to live.
**Leon:** (pauses, uneasy) Live? That's kind of ironic coming from someone telling me I'm dead.
**TOAA:** Not dead. Not alive. Changing. Creation is a circle, not a line.
**Leon:** So what happens now? You send me off to heaven, Hell or… a reboot?
**TOAA:** Rebirth. You will awaken elsewhere, in a world you already know—the one your stories dreamed of.
**Leon:** Wait, what world?
**TOAA:** A place of heroes and heartbreak. A thread already weaves there, one marked by great power and greater loss.
**Leon:** (realizing) * Gasps* You mean Marvel. Spider-Man's world. You can't be serious. Do I atleast get a power, a system? A cheat?
**TOAA:** The pattern fits. A world of struggle, courage, and consequence. You will find meaning there if you seek it...
And, Power you shall receive when you reach the age of 15 till then, Gaze upon the wonders of that world and gain your resolution for it shall pave a new future than the one you knew.
**Leon:** So no System? Jeez ... Your gonna make me grind aren't you *Huffs* Ofcourse I have to grind. But why me? There are billions of people—better people. I didn't change the world, I barely changed my own.
**TOAA:** Those who believe they are unworthy are often the ones who deserve another chance.
**Leon:** You talk like this is some plan. There's no reason behind it, is there? Can I ask questions ? Like when I will be sent there what time period in whose body or a new one? What's my role in this reincarnation do I have a duty? A responsibility. ( He rapid fires questions gaining a quiet chuckle from TOAA)
**TOAA:** Maybe, Maybe not what I can tell you is that. Even I find beauty in mystery.
**Leon:** (sighs) You're not gonna give me a straight answer, are you?
**TOAA:** If all truth could be handed freely, faith would have no purpose.
**Leon:** (Facepalms) Guess that's your way of saying "good luck."
**TOAA:** Precisely. Walk your new path, Leon. Remember what it cost to stand here.
*(Light fractures around him, the gray fading into endless white. Leon closes his eyes, feeling a tug deep inside, a heartbeat returning.)*
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*In a sunlit bedroom in Queens, 13-year-old Leon gasps awake. His heart pounds. He rushes to the window.*
**Leon:** No way..... I'm in Marvel,
THE Marvel world( Rubs his face abit ) Whoa this is trippy *Heh* But not gonna lie this felt all abit too rushed ... He kicked me out pretty fast and with almost no explanation no wonder dudes a God.
*(He runs a hand through his hair, staring at his reflection — younger, unfamiliar, yet his own.)*
**Leon:** I remember it all. Him. The light. Everything.
As the past 13 years of the new body he possesses envelop his mind, The friends the memories the relationships he formed though crudely since this body mimicked his personality pretty well before he came, Leon murmers that atleast he won't have any problems blending in. Though, realising he's Spider-Man's neighbour from across the road is pretty cool.
*(A long breath escapes him, half fear, half awe.)*
**Leon:** Alright, Leon. Round two. Don't mess it up this time. New World, No powers yet but I will. 2 Years, I have 2 years to prepare ( Hardening his gaze ) *Game On*.
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