A few minutes later
"Holy shit he actually did the whole spiel, song and dance (literally).... I think my jaw might have actually been on the ground at that point. The casual display of reality warping power didn't help even if I was expecting it and I was having trouble remembering my lines now, good thing I have already wrote it down."
"I feel bad that my next words will make him feel the whole thing was pointless though, maybe anyways. Look at me doing things like this just to make him put his guard down." (I skipped the song, I mean it's just a way to increase word counts anyways.)
Max: So how does this all work exactly?
Genie: You're... kidding, right? The whole song... was the instructions!, Obviously you can't dance and listen at the same time. So here's the basics: Step one. Rub the lamp. Step two. Say what you want. Step three. There is no step three. See? It's that easy. You get three wishes. They must begin with rubbing the lamp and saying "I wish". Got it?
Max: O-ok! Yeah makes sense Genie!
"Ok so as he said I actually had to rub the lamp for it to be a wish like in the movie, that's good I hope as long as I can fluster him slightly, and get the wish on the technicality, I mean Aladdin had Plot armour, I don't."
Genie: A couple other rules. You can't wish for more wishes. Three is enough. Now, I can't make anybody love anybody. Or bring anybody back from the dead. Feel free to interrupt me anytime you don't understand. I'm kidding. Don't ever interrupt me, no matter what. Now, I usually don't have to go through all this because by the time the guy gets to me, he pretty much knows what he wants and it generally has to do with tons of money and power! Do me a favour, do not drink from that cup. I promise you, there's not enough money and power on Earth for you to be satisfied. Good? So, what's your first wish?
Max: Mm, well... I have to think about it. I mean, if there are only three. Why are there only three, anyway?
Genie: I don't know! Who cares?
Max: You don't. I thought you were all-knowing?
"Man, this act is tough, but hey unlimited power so do what has to be done."
Genie: That's 'cause you don't listen. I never said I was all-knowing, I said I was all-powerful. The most powerful being in the universe. Look, whatever I don't know, I know I can learn it. Outside in the sun. Why you playin' hard to wish? I know you can't tell, but I'm very pale. This is sky blue. My natural pigmentation is navy.
Max: Hmm ok how about this?
I grabbed the lamp and sat down to think for a second with the lamp in hand, canting my body sideways slightly before putting it down while the Genie began to look excited.
Max: I wish to be able to get powers, abilities, skills and knowledge from different interactive CYOA's and catalogues (like Waifu catalogue), and in these CYOA's and Catalogue I will have all the currency I need to take any power or ability from it.
"When I got my powers from the Cyoa, I had a thought. What if just like this Cyoa I could get powers from other Cyoa's, how strong would I become, I would have used my Abilities to create such a power myself but I don't know how many charges it's going to take for something of this calibre, and hey I have an all-powerful genie, let see and hope it works."
Genie: Huh, that's an interesting wish but whatever let's do thiiis!" He said while throwing around his crazy cosmic power and making me glow for a moment.
And I felt it, a change occurred in my power space where my powers are, another power resided there now just like all the other powers I had, this give me all the info I needed for what my next wish is going to be. Cause if genie could affect my power space and give me powers what if he could take it back whenever he wants as well. I mean he may not take it himself, but what if someone like Jafar make a wish for him to take my powers away. Even If not genie, there are other cosmic being out there, in marvel, DC and hundred other worlds. Also I'm not sure how exactly the Genie knows what Cyoa and catalogues are but I will simply assume he used my memories to grant what I wanted to make it happen or something along that line of thought.
Genie: Your first wish is granted, you have two more to go! The genie cheered.
I looked at him curiously for a second. "Are you sure I was charged a wish? I thought I had to be rubbing the lamp to get a wish?" His jaw dropped for a second before he looked at me with a wtf expression.
After a few seconds he replayed the entire scene on a projector and looked like he was having a midlife crisis or was the an aneurism before sighing.
Genie; Ok fool me once shame on me, no more freebies for you mister!
"Ahh he is being a champ about it, that's good"
Max: Ok Genie, since I teased you, how about i use the last wish for you, if you have something you desire I would grant it using my third wish. You do have something you desire right? " He looked at me for a full minute. Then spoke
Genie: huh, well no one has ever asked me that before… well… in my case it would be....freedom.
Max: Can't you just set yourself free, I mean if you can grant wishes, why don't you just grant yourself freedom? I ask making genie sigh.