You are Jason, an 18-year-old who recently graduated from high school, and now you have also applied for an IT course. In the meantime, you've got a few months of freedom before you have to go. Although, this could lead to potential boredom.
But, one afternoon, you come home from gym and find the hilt of what looks like a one-handed katana on your bed. There's also a note attached. You pick up the hilt, and find a red button, as well as a rotary dial on the hilt. Strange, you thought. You picked it up, and out of impulse, pressed the red button. It's a good thing you were pointing the hilt away from you, because no sooner had you pressed the button than a white, glowing blade appeared to spring out of the hilt. You looked out the window to see a flock of birds, frozen in mid-air. Confused, you look at the note that came with the sword.
"Congratulations! You have been chosen to be the master of a unique object - the Reality Altering Laser Katana, or RALK. It is a sword that has several settings, but all follow a similar premise of cutting any body part but without repercussions of death or serious injury. What makes this sword special is that it allows the wielder to alter reality itself by stopping time and then making changes within the frozen time.
To enter reality-altering mode, press the red button. Time will freeze, and any changes made with the katana will become reality once you press the red button again. Bear in mind that merely cutting in any setting will not cause the parts to detach - if you want the parts to detach, you will have to move them. Moving a detached part will cause, in the new reality, the part to be treated as a separate part of the subject.
When a cut is made in reality-change mode, a glow, corresponding to the setting of the katana, will be visible on the cuts made. This glow will disappear once time has started again.
These are the following settings...
White - Standard detachment mode. If a cut made by the blade isn't separated, the new reality will have the person be able to detach at that point (ie, if you slice through someone's neck, but don't separate the head from the body, the person will gain the ability to remove and reattach their head at will).
Green - Sentience mode. Any cuts will give a part not attached to the brain a mind and personality of their own. The affected part's personality will be similar, if not identical to the person it has been detached from. If it is not moved, the part will remain attached to the person, still with its own mind and personality, but will be able to communicate psychically with the person it's attached to.
Purple - Vanishing mode. One side of the blade will glow a deep purple in this mode, and when time is started again, the side which the glow was pointing towards will disappear (ie, if you were to cut off someone's arm and the glowing side of the blade was pointing towards their hand, the arm would disappear once time has restarted). This setting can also be used to make separate parts disappear by merely stabbing them.
Blue - Duplication mode. Moving an affected part will cause a duplicate to appear, which can be reattached to the person you used the katana on, or to something else. Stabbing someone in this mode will give them the ability to create duplicates of themselves. If a cut made by the blade is not separated, the person will gain the ability to split into whole duplicates taking up the mass of the separated part (ie, if you cut someone's arm off, but don't separate the part, the person will split into a slightly smaller clone, and a clone around the same size as the arm)
Yellow - Replacement mode. One side of the blade will glow yellow in this mode, and the part it is pointing towards will be able to be replaced by another object, or even another body part. When you start time again, everything will return to normal, except the body part you replaced will take on the traits of the object or body part you replaced it with (ie, if you replace someone's feet with hands, their feet will become as dextrous as their hands).
Pink - Stretch mode. Moving an affected part will not detach them from the body, but instead create a new patch of flesh connecting them to the original owner, which can be as long as desired for the user, which will remain at that fixed length in the new reality. If a part is not moved, the person will be able to elongate that part at will. Stabbing someone in this mode will give them full-on stretching powers.
Red - Gore mode. Functions similarly to standard detachment mode, except all cuts will be open wounds, and will give the wielder of the katana the ability to pull out internal muscles, bones, organs, etc. Any natural blood that comes out whilst time is stopped will be cleaned up once you start time again. Don't worry, removal of vital organs, or detaching them to something else will not cause death or serious injury.
Enjoy your new gift. Use it wisely."
You press the red button on the hilt. The blade retracts into the hilt, and the frozen flock of birds resume motion. The hilt is also compact enough to fit into your pocket.
This could be fun, you thought. But where can I use this?
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