The Allure of Magic (Fan Fiction)

John, a teenaged high schooler, has always felt since the moment that he gained self-awareness that he didn't belong in the world, that there was something missing that was crucial to his identity. Even now, 17 years after being born, he has not found that crucial component that could fulfil that void that he feels. This void was never because his parents didn't love him or give him enough attention, or because he wanted to know his real parents, or even because there is something wrong with his life. John's 17 years of life have been nothing but happy moments, great successes, and amazing adventures. However, even with all these things, he could still feel something missing, something crucial.

Fortunately, he found a way to alleviate the void in his heart, fantasy, magic, aliens, comics, movies, and other fantastical things that would entertain him from the feeling and even somethings even make it disappear for a few seconds. And in those few seconds that it disappeared, everything felt right, everything felt like it was in its rightful place, where it was supposed to be, and then the feeling of void comes back in full force. Or at least, that was the case, but now... now its finally gone for good. Now that he was taken from that world with a mystical portal that just felt right, now that he had woken up in a world that he know much about, now that the fantastical element that he so desired and craved is right in front of his eyes... now is when he feels *almost* whole. He feels *almost* right, like a few more pushes will break down this wall that held his true self. The feeling of void gone... now only the feeling of something missing remains, and he has made it his life's mission to get rid of this feeling and become with true and complete self.

But to understand what John is missing and what and where he is, we must look to beyond the stars, behind the Universal wall, outside the space/time continuum, in a Universe where great adventures call upon a great hero with a watch. Here, in a dimension safe from the horrors of this timeline, sits Professor Paradox and an Anodite couple in their Human forms. They had just tried to bring back their son, the one they sent out a couple of decades ago, after finally finding the Universe that he occupied. However, the horror outside of their realm interfered with the portal, sending their son someplace where even they could not enter lightly.

## Ideas

* The Batman Who Laughs after gaining the powers of Perpetua went on to leave the Multiverse of DC and began wondering the infiniteness that is the Megaverse. On his journey it came upon many Multiverses and Universe that he devoured whole, until finally he came upon the Ben 10 Universe and found a Celestialsapien. He was about to continue his journey while absorbing the Universe, but then found that there were more Celestialsapiens, a whole species of them. He knew the moment that he laid his eyes on the one in the Universe that it was on the same level of Perpetua or even stronger, but a whole species of them, then that would surely boost his prowess even more. So, he tried to possess the Celestialsapien he found but was slowly pushed back with its full might, so he continued while also destroying the Universe. He succeeded in destroying the Universe, but a few Anodites and Professor Paradox carried a few million species into a private dimension safe from Batman Who Laughs gaze. They proceeded to fight it until they could no more, as even while he was distracted with not only trying to break into the Forge of Creation but also slowly possessing the lone Celestialsapien, Batman Who Laughs could still absolutely decimate their forces.
* John's Anodite parents wanted to send him to someplace far far away from the Batman Who Laughs and their war, as they noticed that John had even greater potential in reality warping that he could reach the level of power of the Celestialsapiens. However, when they tried to bring him to a place where he could train, Batman Who Laughs interfered with the portal and he was sent to a random mortal world without magic. They tried to find him multiple times, but it took multiple decades for them to successfully locate John. But when they were about to bring him back to train him, Batman Who Laughs again interfered and he was sent to the DC Multiverse's closest neighbor, the Marvel Multiverse.