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Waifu Catalog Nightmare Mode by BatRou-Dawg

Misc » Book X-overs Rated: M, English, Supernatural, Words: 294k+, Favs: 159, Follows: 172, Published: Jun 27, 2023 Updated: Jun 29, 2023

16Chapter 2

Axel Pherry POV

"I'm dead!? What do you mean by that? And what is this place?" Axel asked, feeling more than a bit confused and apprehensive as he looked at the strange place he'd suddenly found himself in.

He was in an office room of some sort. And in front of him was a large mahogany desk that was filled with multiple large stacks of paper as well as an old blocky computer. Behind that desk was a middle aged man with the eternally bored and apathetic look on his face that reminded him of someone who has spent years if not decades of his/her life sitting in an office cubicle.

"Do I need to tell you what being dead means now?" The office worker asked, giving him an irritated look. "Have the humans of Earth-10228L really grown so dumb that they fail to comprehend such a simple concept?"

"No. I mean… hey, what do you mean by humans of Earth-and all those numbers." He said as he looked around the office and tried to spot any hidden cameras. "Is this a prank of some sort. Did my friends put you up to this?"

The office worker gave him a disgust filled look and then sniffed haughtily before muttering something under his breath like 'wasting my fucking time' before he typed something in his computer. "Alex Pherry was it. By the Seers, what a dumb fucking name. What was the last thing you remember boy?"

There were so many things he wanted to protest about that statement. Like how his name wasn't dumb. And that he wasn't a boy but a man.

But then he remembered the last thing that happened to him.

Blaring horns. Sudden light. Then an explosion of pain. Red. So much Red. People taking photos with their phones instead of helping. The sirens of an ambulance. Then everything fading to black.

And he suddenly found his throat too dry to speak.

"Oh…" He said in suddenly realisation before he said something that he never thought he'd say in his life. "I was… Truck-kun'ed."

The office worker gave a derisive snort at his words. "If that's what you want to call it. Doesn't matter really. The thing is, you're dead. Gone. Forever. You're not ever going to go back to that planet. Get that through your skull you dumb nitwit."

A deluge of emotions overcame him at those words. Grief at never seeing his family ever again. Regret for all the things he always wanted to do but couldn't find the time for. Guilt for leaving his parents all alone in their old age. Terror at what they'll find in his Internet History.

He took a deep breath and tried to calm his emotions. He could break down later. Right now, he had deal with something important.

He cleared his throat and looked at the office worker, or Agent-11NB, as his nameplate read.

"So, is this the afterlife?" He asked and got another 'look' from the Agent that told him what the man thought of his intelligence.

"Does this look like afterlife to you?"

"Well, I've never died before so forgive me if I have no fucking clue about what the afterlife looks like!" He snapped back, getting a bit angry at all the snide remarks from this bastard.

The agent snorted "That's what you say. But no. This is not afterlife. This is your chance. To your next adventure. And all that crap that you humans believe in."

"You mean, like reincarnation?"

"Yes. And no. It will depend on your choices, really." The agent said and before he could ask anymore questions, the agent took out a smartphone from a drawer in his desk and threw it at him.

He barely managed to catch the phone and then glanced at it in confusion before looking at the agent to ask what he was supposed to do with it but the agent had already gone back to his paperwork and was now steadfastly ignoring his existence.

Not wanting to receive another insult from the cantankerous bastard, he pushed the button on the side, making the screen light it. And he blinked at the words that suddenly appeared on the smartphone's screen.

"Welcome to Waifu Catalog!"

He gave the phone a skeptical look before he looked around at the office once again, looking for any sign of a hidden camera.

But either those cameras were extremely well hidden or -gulp-, this was real.

He did not know if this was real or not but before he could ask the Agent about it, the screen changed and a new page appeared in front of him.

-Rules Index.

And below that were a list of rules regarding Waifu Catalog and everything that he needed to know about it.

Despite it being a long and lengthy document, he went through it three whole times and memorised the rules by heart before he was finally ready to move on to the next page.

-World

And in front of him opened a plethora of options regrading the worlds that he could go to. 'Provided of course, that this was all real and not some elaborate joke.'

In this page, he saw thousands if not tens of thousands of world options.

From famous worlds like Pokemon, Scooby Doo, Naruto, Fairy Tail, One Punch Man, One Piece, etc. To worlds that he had never even heard about.

From simple, non-dangerous worlds that were given the rating of 1 to extremely dangerous do-not-go-to-in-any-circumstance worlds that were given the rating of 9 or 10.

After deliberating with himself for what seemed like hours, he finally made his decision and choose 'A Song of Ice and Fire' world.

A medieval fantasy world where the most dangerous things were humans vs humans medieval wars (until the Ice zombies and fire breathing lizards make their entrance at least).

But with the 140 points he'll gain from selecting this world, he should have than enough points to buy the options that'll make him powerful enough to stomp those Ice zombies and bitchslap those fire lizards (and then slap their mother from the back).

Except… he didn't get 140 points that he should've gained when selecting a Tier 4 world.

He only gained 14 points.

He looked up at the Agent who had been working non-stop in the past few hours and coughed into his hands politely to get his attention.

When the agent continued to ignore him after a few polite attempts to get his attention, his anger finally got the better of him and he shouted. "Hey! I have something I want to ask!"

The Agent frowned and looked at him with slight confusion. "You're still here?"

"What? Of course I'm still here. I've not filled the Catalog yet."

"Then fill it up. What the hell are you waiting for. Or are you so dimwitted that you cannot even read fine text?"

He took a deep breath to calm himself down and clenched and unclenched his fists in an effort to let go of his anger.

Once that was done, he turned the device to the agent asked politely. "Why do I only have 14 points. Shouldn't I get 140 as was stated in the rules for selecting a Tier 4 world?"

The Agent looked at the device for a moment and then nodded. "You would, if you filled the standard Waifu Catalog. At easy difficulty."

He felt something heavy settle at the bottom of his stomach at those words and at the sudden grin that came upon the Agent's face.

"What do you mean by that?"

"It means that this is not the standard Catalog. In fact…" At those words, the Agent's grin grew bigger as he brought his fingers together in a villainous manner and said "This is the Nightmare difficulty."

"Oh…" He said, feeling the colour drain from his face. His mouth was a bit dry as he asked. "I take it that this is a bad thing?"

"For you, definitely."

"I see…" He licked his lips. "Can you at least tell me the difference between a Catalog at Easy and Nightmare Difficulty."

"Yes! Yes, I can definitely do that." The agent said, maintaining the large smile on his face before he told him the major differences in those two difficulties.

And the Nightmare difficulty went something like this:-

1. You only get 1/10th the amount of given points upon World Selection. Hence why he gained 14 points instead of 140.

2. Instead of the normal Stamp that you can use again and again and again to capture as many waifus as possible, you get a One-time use Stamp. That you can only use once, in a given world. Use it wisely.

3. You cannot buy any other Binding Methods. So no Tempest Jewelery, Shroud, Tantric Arts, or Hypnosis App for you.

4. You cannot buy any lures either. So no Faerie Feast, Sticky Fingers, Alluring Whisper, or Love Spot for you.

5. You cannot buy any Waifus from the Catalog either. So there's no Waifu Catalog in this Waifu Catalog. Heh!

6. You cannot stamp a husbando. Only waifus.

7. Waifus who confess their love to you will still be captured in the standard way. But for that, you'll have to make them genuinely fall in love with you and then confess that love to you. Good luck with that buddy.

After digesting those words and mulling over them for a moment he finally let out a tired sigh. "This is going to be hard, isn't it?"

"Hard, yes. Very very hard. But I'm sure you'll be able to take it." The agent snarked with a huge grin.

He ignored the Agent and turned to the Waifu Catalog Device once again.

Having only 14 points limited his options by a lot. But that doesn't mean that he was completely out of options.

So after thinking on it for a moment, he started to make plans on how he'll deal with this new world he going into.

First of all, he'll have to find and stamp Melisandre. Mostly because she was the only 5th tier waifu in this world aside from Daenerys Targaryen and Arya Stark (in the 300 AC timeline). And it was very likely that his presence might create a butterfly effect that would stop both of the them from reaching Tier 5. (Dany might not hatch her dragons and Arya might never get to the House of Black and White).

So he'll either have to transmigrate into Stannis Baratheon. Or reincarnate as one of his sons who died in Selyse's womb in the Canon timeline. Because that'll give him direct access to Melisandre.

So that's what he did.

He went to the Origin Options and chose Substitute as the child who died before being born.

1 point spent to Substitute as Stannis Baratheon's eldest son.

That cost him 1 point. Leaving him with 13 more.

Now, he was an avid reader of fanfics in his past world and thus knew about the Waifu Catalog in advance. He had also filled it more times that he could count. So he knew of a singular option in the Talent Section that could give him the 'potential' power of a tier 9 character for only 20 points.

He just needed to make sure that the option was present in this Nightmare mode as well.

And lo and behold 'Template Stacking' option was still present in the Catalog and still worth only 20 points.

Which meant that he needed 7 more points in order to get to the 20 points required to buy that.

But, once he Stamps Melisandre, he'll received 12 points 'for capturing her', which'll give him a total of 25 points.

Meaning that he'll have 5 more points that he could now use in order to buy another power for himself.

And he knew just what he could do with those 5 points.

He went to the Talent section and bought 'Added Potential'.

Added Potential was worth 5 points and it basically gives you the potential to have any particular power from the vast multiverse.

With it, you can have the potential to unlock and use Chakra, Haki, Ki, Magic, or basically any other power you can think of. Even the powers from ASOIAF world like the Greenseer ability of Bloodraven or the abilities of the White Walkers to bring the cold and raise armies of wights.

The only problem is that it only gives you the potential to have that power.

Like, the people in One Piece all have the potential to unlock Haki, but only a few ever manage to use it. The people from Dragon Ball Z Earth are all capable of using Ki but only a few ever do it. And the people of Naruto world all have Chakra, but only some of them ever learn how to harness and use it.

So, even if you buy a particular power with the 'Added Potential' and learn how to use that power, it'll be extremely weak at the start. And will need a lot of time and effort to make it worth something.

This was the main reason why 'Added Potential' was only worth 5 points.

After thinking on it for a moment, he finally made his decision and gave him the potential power of Shaper.

5 points spent for Added Potential(Shaper).

Shaper:- This power makes you the master of Biology and life in all its forms and functions. You are capable of complete control and manipulation of all organic material within a massive area, and also sense and understand every detail about it down to the atomic level.

Your power is able to generate biomass to fuel its uses, meaning you are not limited to whatever material is on hand. Shifting the nature and function of biomass takes only a thought, with it automatically conforming to what you desire and what you will it to be and do.

This power extends to your own body as well. You and special creatures you design can function as nexuses of a hive mind. This allows you to function consciously even if you lose your entire nervous system, and as long as some organisms and biomass remain a part of this, you are capable of reassembling yourself.

Even on tier 8 or higher worlds, you are a threat of a global nature. The only limit to the range of your hive mind is that organisms must be within reach of a nexus. Otherwise distance is meaningless. You are incapable of being severed from it and always retain absolute control.

So yeah, Shaper was an absolute beast of a power. And any power that relies of someone's biology can be copied with this power.

Meaning that if he ever goes to the DC world, then he will easily be able to copy the Kryptonian physique, Martian Physique, or other biological related powers for himself.

Even in ASOIAF, if the powers of Daenerys and Bloodraven rely on their blood (as is stated time and time again) then he might be able to copy their powers for himself (if his Shaper power becomes advanced in enough to do that by the time he meets them at least).

So with that decision made, he looked at the Agent and said "I'm done."

The Agent took the Company Device from him and then frown. "You still have 8 points left."

"I plan to use them later."

The Agent huffed at that and typed for a moment in his computer before he threw the phone back at him.

"It is done. Are you ready to reincarnate as a baby and suckle on your mama's tits?"

He ignored the agent's words and nodded. "As ready as I'll ever be."

"Good. Now get the fuck out of my sight."

With those words, he found himself being pulled away from the office. And for a moment, he felt as if he was being squeezed through a pencil thin tube and saw a Kaleidoscope of colours changing all around him until everything went black.

The next thing he knew, he being pushed out of the dark confines of what he could only assume was his new mother's vagina -shudders-.

Once he was out in the 'cold' world, he was picked up by large hands, and presented to who he could only assume were his new mom and dad.

And though his eyes were too blurry to see their facial features properly, his ears were developed enough for him to hear what they were saying.

"My son." He heard a male voice filled with pride. "His name will be Stephen Baratheon." A pause. "Maester Cressen, why is he silent? Aren't newborn babies supposed to cry."

"A moment my Lord." And then he felt his bottom being slapped by a giant hand, and a moment later, crying ensued in the birthing chamber.