(Ash Oliver POV)
Everything after the truck hit me was a blur of white and silence.
At first, I thought maybe this was what dying felt like just drifting in nothing.
But then the white faded, and something else appeared around me.
A sky made of neon energy.
Symbols shifting like morph particles.
Light bending in ways light shouldn't bend.
I floated in the center of it all, weightless, bodyless, mind barely holding together.
Then a voice spoke.
"Ash Oliver."
It came from everywhere and nowhere at once like someone had plugged a cosmic echo into my brain.
I spun around even though I didn't have a real body. "Who who's there?!"
The light twisted, folded, and shaped itself into a humanoid figure.
Their face flickered through dozens of colors like a morphing sequence stuck mid animation.
"I am TGOB," the being said calmly. "The Grid Omnipotent Being."
My mouth dropped open.
"O-omnipo—what—wait—ARE YOU A GOD?"
TGOB nodded like this was the most boring part of his job.
"A god. A CEO. A manager. Whatever term helps you process this."
"A CEO?" I repeated. "Of… what? Heaven?!"
"Of reincarnation companies," he said.
"Your universe, Marvel's universe, several anime worlds, certain fictional timelines… all managed by different departments."
I blinked slowly.
My first after-death experience… and I wake up in a celestial HR office.
TGOB sighed heavily, rubbing the bridge of his energy-swirling nose.
"Unfortunately, Ash… your death was not scheduled."
"You mean I wasn't supposed to die!?"
"Correct. You weren't meant to die today. Or this year. Or this decade."
The god coughed. "It seems one of our
delivery trucks… struck you."
My jaw hit the metaphysical floor.
"YOU MEAN I GOT ISEKAI'D BY A LITERAL TRUCK… BECAUSE OF A CELESTIAL EMPLOYEE?!"
"We prefer the term 'vehicular reincarnation error,'" TGOB muttered.
I groaned. "That makes it worse!"
TGOB raised both hands defensively.
"I understand your frustration.
Truly.
Which is why company policy states: whoever kills you must reincarnate you.
We take responsibility."
I paused.
Then sighed.
"So… I'm getting reincarnated?"
"Yes."
Then TGOB winced. "But… there is a complication."
Of course there was.
"A complication?" I repeated.
A glowing scroll popped into existence beside him.
"Your soul," TGOB said, tapping the scroll, "was already claimed by the Marvel Universe God. They filed the paperwork two months ago."
"Marvel?" I squeaked. "Like—Marvel Marvel?? Spider-Man? Avengers? Galactus? THOSE guys?"
"Yes."
"And I was supposed to go THERE!?"
"Yes."
"And now I can't because your truck hit me!?"
"No, no you will still go to Marvel," TGOB said quickly. "But with Ranger powers, because our company caused the… incident."
My heart did a weird flip.
"So I'm going to Marvel… with Ranger abilities?"
"You will be a hybrid," TGOB confirmed. "A soul claimed by Marvel, powered by the Grid. And because of our mistake…"
He raised three fingers.
"You receive three wishes."
My mind exploded.
My Three Wishes I didn't hesitate.
Wish 1: Three Zords.I named them confidently:
Snow Leopard Zord pure white, glowing red eyes, slicing through the air like ice.
Dire Wolf Zord golden armor with silver streaks, majestic and terrifying.
Crocodile Zord black as night, red cracks glowing across its body.
TGOB nodded.
"They will combine into one Megazord.
The Wolf forms the head and arms.
The Crocodile forms the torso and legs.
The Snow Leopard becomes the primary weapon."
A chill ran up my spine.
Wish 2: Perfect Recall.
Because Marvel was too dangerous to enter blind.
"Useful," TGOB said. "Granted."
Wish 3: Make my custom morpher real.I described everything:
Super Megaforce style
Turns me into ANY Ranger ever
Automatic keys for future Rangers
A spear with a shifting forward/back blade
Suit design: gold where Red SMF is red,
silver where gold was, black unchanged, emblem glowing red
TGOB accepted each detail with a nod.
"Granted."
Light wrapped around me.
"We will send you to Marvel now."
"Wait!" I shouted. "My past—what about my identity?"
"You will be an orphan… secretly related to Tommy Oliver. Unknown to everyone,
My breath caught.
Then light swallowed me.
Everything disappeared.
FLASH-FORWARD: Arrival in MarvelI landed face-first in grass.
Pain shot through my nose.
"OW—okay—still not used to being alive again."
Students murmured around me.
Backpacks. Laughter. Footsteps.
I rolled over and saw:
MIDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL.
Peter Parker walked toward me.
Jake and Noah were behind him.
TGOB's voice echoed faintly, like a memory dissolving:
"Your new life begins now…"
And for the first time, I felt it
The Grid.
Marvel.
Both inside me at once.
This was real.
This was happening.
And my story as the Marvel Ranger…
had officially begun.