Underdog Rise

When Caleb Gonzales woke up in the video game he last played, he expected things to go down like they did in those webnovels he read in his spare time. However, there was one hitch. Instead of being the hero, he woke up as a demon rat, one of the lowest ranks a demon could get. Now, with the help of a sketchy system, he needs to rise to the top if he wants to survive this new world and possibly return home. Mega Writing Prompt #001/MWP#001

"You think you can stop me, Aiden? You're nothing but a pawn in this game." Malrik's voice echoed through the cold, sterile darkness of the virtual world, laced with malice. "In The Abyss, I am the ruler. And you will fall, just like everyone else." Aiden Cross never wanted to return to The Abyss. But when his sister’s mysterious death resurfaces in the form of a cryptic message, he’s pulled back into the deadly virtual world he tried to escape. Now, he must navigate shifting alliances, face dangerous enemies, and confront a hidden AI that holds the key to everything. But with every step, the line between reality and illusion blurs—each move he makes seems to play into the hands of the malevolent forces that control it all. In the fight to uncover the truth and save humanity, Aiden will have to decide: is he a hero, or is he just another pawn in a game he doesn’t understand? But when the virtual world begins to merge with reality... Will Aiden be able to stop Malrik before it’s too late? Or will the game consume him entirely? The countdown has begun. The question is... who will survive the game?

Silence. Like a nice bucket of shhhhhhhhh. Everyone shut the effing fudge UP! That's all I've ever wanted. *Sigh.* But silence comes in different flavors. There's mint - the peaceful kind that wraps around you like a blanket. The kind I chase at 2 AM. I've cried once. Just once. With a bucket beside me, watching heroes with super suits and impossible strength tear each other apart. Somehow that feels less broken than my reality. Then there's the suffocating silence at school. Not an ice cream flavor. This one tastes like metal and shame. High school is my personal hell. Empty wallet, empty lunch tray, empty seat beside me like I'm radioactive. Empty soul on Wednesdays because middles are always the worst. *The usual.* But Emily made the silence bearable. Mint-flavored again. Until she broke something between us. *Snap.* One moment she's whispering secrets with me, the next she's weaponizing them. She scattered my private thoughts, added her own twisted lies. The betrayal burns hotter than the stares drilling into my back. I went from invisible to spectacle. Being a ghost feels like luxury when you're dodging spit balls and "accidental" lunch trays. But somewhere between my third panic attack and contemplating switching schools... *Something shifted.* Like in those games you play, when your character suddenly glows and the screen flashes: "New Skill Unlocked" And it wasn't just in my head. I tested it. Small things at first – a pencil moving across my desk when I focused hard enough. Then books. Then someone's lunch tray right as they walked past Emily. *tap tap tap* I used to think rock bottom was the end. *Well ladies and gentlemen,* it's just a really messed up spawn point. And now? I don't stumble from cliffs anymore. I swim in gravity, and dive head first.

Declan spent his whole life being treated like he didn’t belong. Adopted into the Reyes family, he worked hard, stayed loyal, and gave everything to the people who never saw him as one of their own. The night he planned to surprise his girlfriend, he found her in the arms of his younger brother. He tried to confront them, but they reminded him that he was just a piece of shit. He walked out on them a broken man. Just when he thought his life was over, a stranger called and told him the truth. Declan was not an orphan. He was the missing heir of the powerful Steele family, one of the richest families in the country. Overnight, he went from a rejected son to a man worth billions. Now Declan is back in a world that once crushed him. The people who mocked him will face the man they never saw coming. He has the money, the name, and the power to take everything back—and make them all pay.

Johnny Burns, a lowly, homeless commoner whose girlfriend had been cheating on him with a hotshot, was unprepared to be nearly killed on the way to deliver a package. Luckily, the Divine Power System awakened in his body, making him one of the rare people with superpowers. Now part of the elite, he discovered that he's the long lost heir to the Burns family, known for their fire power, but what they don't know is that he can do more than just use fire. With his unlimited power, he was going to take the world by storm. Mega Writing Prompt #002/MWP#002

"You!" She yelled, her eyes bulging from thier sockets and continued, "You still have the audacity to come here after all you did? What a ridiculous, shameless man." All eyes were on him and he lowered his head in shame, this was what he passed through every day. "Grandmother!" The familiar voice he knew and always cherished said amidst the many eyes that were on him. She walked towards him and held his hands sweetly. "You are not getting acquainted with him, Never! Not on my watch." She replied angrily and left. ~~~~ Elliot's life was a typical sham if that's the correct word for it, he has been shamed and bullied for every single mistake he did. But worser times, when he realised his Nana was sick and needed urgent money, he approached his in-laws, but he was shamed as usual. And just then, his life surprisingly took a turn. "Every single person who mocked me will live to bow down before me."

Lucas, a live-in son-in-law is mistreated and despised by his in-laws and wife. After he tries to question his wife's engagement to another man, he is beaten, forced to sign the divorce papers, and shot dead. But instead of being dead, a strange twist of fate lands him in the body of Nathaniel Hayes, the wealthiest man in the country, who has been in a coma for ten years. He wakes up to fortune and is fueled by a desire for revenge on the Ross family and everyone who had despised and shunned him. He vows to make them all regret. However, Lucas faces a dilemma when he discovers a threat to his new identity. Can he get even with his enemies while keeping his new life safe?

Imagine finding yourself within the four walls of the toughest prison in all of Washington City for a crime you know nothing about. Lucas Ross, once the shining star of the prestigious Washington City University and its overall best student, found himself framed and unjustly sentenced to a year behind bars. Adding to his misery, life had dealt him harsh blows before. Twenty-five years earlier, he lost his parents in a tragic plane crash. As if his wrongful imprisonment wasn't enough, Lucas was fired from his job, and the final betrayal came when his girlfriend left him for his best friend. The cumulative effect of these tragedies pushes him to the edge, and he attempts to end his dear life the day he was released from prison. Fortunately for him, he's saved by a mysterious old man who reveals a shocking truth: Lucas Ross is the only heir of a powerful and influential businessman who was brutally murdered by his competitor. Now resolute in his mission to avenge his parents' death and bring justice to those who betrayed and framed him, Lucas Ross's quest for revenge takes him down a dark, dangerous and treacherous path. Will Lucas Ross emerge victorious in his quest for justice, or will the darkness he has unleashed consume him completely?

Rheon Vael a weak Healer joins a team of mercenaries to search for divine relics, they fought low rank monsters on the way but Rheon Vael being the weakest of the lot didn’t fight much and was mocked. In the end they decided that they didn’t want to share the lot with him so they ganged up against him and killed him , leaving him in the tomb to die but a system intervened and resurrected him. In his quest for power he battles Beats and mystic Monsters. With a band of two friends he rise to battle the gods and becoming the most powerful of them all.

Donald Carter never expected to see a colleague turn into a zombie and bite another co-worker on the first day of his first job. What he also didn't expect was stepping on an exposed cable and getting electrocuted trying to escape the zombies and obtaining lightning powers along with a system. With these new found powers and system, he was determined to survive the apocalypse no matter what. Mega Writing Prompt #003/MWP#003