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Master Control
Chapter 47
This was the worst, most annoying day of his life.
Not only did he get paired to fight one of the lowest ranked heroes, who specialized in rescue work, but he was paired with one of the biggest idiots in his class.
"Dudes." A Denki said to his other counterparts, and Bakugo who were camped out within one of the rooms of a large, unstable underground structure. "If we want to free the rest of the hostages Thirteen is guarding, let's just move through the wires and take the hostages with us."
"No way!" Denki two protested. "We can't move people through the cables with us!"
"Obviously we weren't going to do that." Denki three flicked two. "Some of us will grab the robots while the others keep her occupied."
"If one of us gets captured." Denki four thought aloud. "Does that mean all of us are out instead of Bakugo?"
The only reason he was here is because Bakugo thought the duplicating stooges would be somewhat useful, but all they've done is avoid Thirteen this whole time. Screw this.
Getting off his ass, Bakugo would take on the hero/villain by himself.
All the Denkis watched him, the original calling out to him. "You got a plan?"
"Yeah, attack."
Kicking open the door, Bakugo blasted himself down the pit and straight towards where the hero was.
"Shit!" The Denkis said in unison as they rushed to follow, zipping through the air or along cables. "Doesn't he know electricity isn't immune to a black hole?!"
"I think he forgot his quirk doesn't work against a black hole!" Denki two followed.
"I'll back him up!" Denki three zipped right behind the ferocious blond. "You guys get the robot civi's out!"
"Roger roger!" The three other Denkis zipped faster as they found an elevator shaft, just as Bakugo was blasting the walls around to let Thirteen suck the ruble up.
"I hope this place doesn't collapse." Denki two worriedly glanced around, seeing how unstable the place was.
"I hope Bakugo doesn't make it collapse."
"Hey guys." One of the Denkis landed next to the group of hostages. "Would it be messed up if we took control of the civilian hostages. I mean, they are robots."
"Not sure."
"I mean." The other Denki gave a so so motion with his hand. "I don't feel bad about it, but since we're supposed to be treating this test as realistically as possible we shouldn't take over the hostages bodies."
"Yeah." Another chuckled. "We're not Reiko."
Himiko sat atop the pile of twitching bodies, kicking her legs as she kept trying to get a signal on her phone. What she wanted was a distraction, either memes, or beating up these guys some more. She would even accept some chores to do.
"Geez I'm bored." Himiko put her phone away, giving up on trying to contact anyone.
"Himiko!" The russian accent yelled from afar.
Sometimes she was jealous of how Izuku is never bored.
Giving a rough kick to one of the faces under her, Himiko leapt off the pile to see there was some guy walking beside Izuku's alien form.
"Whose this guy?" The girl nudged her head over to the man draped in the lab coat. "And where did the big monster guy go?"
"I stored him inside for now." NRG tapped the dial on his chest. "He won't be causing any more trouble."
"I'm Professor Paradox." The man greeted simply.
“While I have visited your family on occasion, our encounter was brief so I’m not surprised you don’t remember me.”
“Vaguely.”
“Perhaps video games do rot the mind to a degree.” The man suspected.
"He's a time traveler from another universe who gave me the omnitrix when I was ten." NRG rose his hand to cut off Himiko's immediate line of questioning. "I can explain things later, but from my experience when he shows up it's really important."
"Indeed." Paradox stepped forward as he held up his pocket watch. "As you are aware, your adopted sister is in possession of a quirk that can harness the power of time itself. Now while most iterations of Eri do not delve deeper into her quirk out of fear, your sister has had years of thorough training from Izuku and even some short teachings from myself."
"So where is she now?" Himiko got to the point, Paradox more hesitant on approaching the subject.
"That is a more difficult subject to summarize." The expert then glanced to the pile of defeated Shie Hassaikai. "Before that, would you mind?"
"Of course." NRG stepped forward, dialing the omnitrix on his chest. "Scan subjects and send to internal storage save point Omega three."
"Confirmed."
With the flash of light, the downed villains were gone.
"Where did you send them?" Himiko asked Izuku as he turned back to human.
"A water planet with no land." Izuku explained as he looked over to Paradox. "So what's wrong with time?"
"There's something wrong with time?!" His sister immediately slapped her face as she stretched it out until it snapped back to its position. "You know what, between aliens eating burritos on our couch and a brother who went to another universe this isn't too far of a jump."
"Luckily the flow of time is not in danger." The Professor explained. "Merely, there has been a temporal disruption around the immediate area that has temporarily offset the synchronous-"
"Excuse me." Raising her hand like a student, Himiko's interruption paused the man's lecture. "Please use less words."
"She's kind of an idiot." Izuku sighed, which Himiko wanted to immediately protest but couldn't really argue against Izuku's brain.
"In short." Professor Paradox began to rephrase. "Attempting to use her quirk to escape, Eri accidentally caused the surrounding area around her to 'lag' with normal time."
"I'm following." Himiko motioned for him to keep going.
"So." The man resumed. "In doing so she accidentally became out of phase with the vortex flow and is thrown outside the realm of cause and effect."
"Now I'm lost."
"How do we get her?" Izuku asked, but was still lost in regards to the true meaning behind Paradox's explanation.
"That will be a little tricky I'll admit." Paradox confessed as he showed his pocket watch. "Even though I have spent eternities through learning of time and its pathways Eri is technically outside of my normal reach. Imagine that reality and all the temporal energies are kept within a bubble. Right now she is outside of it while slipping along its surface. While she may still be touching reality she does not exist within it."
As impressive as it was that Eri had that power, both of her siblings grew frightened over just how lost Eri really was.
"So, you don't even know where she is?" Himiko asked for confirmation.
"Yes I'm afraid." Paradox admitted. "Nor do I know where she will be or has been. She is outside of our means of standard travel, but she can still be found."
Pointing to their destroyed home, Professor Paradox walked through the broken walls and picked up one of her shredded stuffed fish. "Since she has practiced many times with her quirk here, traces of her individual artron energy are present and can be familiarized."
"Like a scent?" Izuku questioned, Paradox tapping his nose with a smirk.
"If it's easier to think of it like that then yes. I have the experience needed to pick up on it myself, but if you two want to assist you will need to make a quick change."
"Hold on." Himiko rose her hands to pause this ride. "I do want to help, I really do but I'm not exactly in a position to do time stuff. I'm squishy."
"Yes." The man agreed. "But the more help the better. I have already reached out to some others to assist in searching."
"Hello?!" Waving towards her body of mud, Himiko began to be more agitated. "Walking spa treatment here! I can't travel through time!"
"I believe the solution lies with your brother." Professor Paradox gestured to Izuku. "Now let's not waste another moment, for Eri could find herself adrift at any moment and be lost forever. We can deal with the anomaly afterwards."
Then he vanished, a sudden shock for Himiko but a frequent occurrence for Izuku.
"Do you know what he meant?" The sister pointed towards the empty spot.
"I think I do." Holding up the omnitrix, Izuku dialed in the alien to use for any time trouble. "I won't force you, but I really do-"
"You don't have to beg." With complete conviction, Himiko accepted this responsibility. "Whatever it is, I'll do it if it means getting Eri home safe."
Nodding in resolution, Izuku slapped the omnitrix dial and transformed into the humanoid clockman form. "Thank you Himiko."
"..So is there a reason this alien has a german accent, and your last one had a russian one? Why not alien accents that are completely foreign to Earth."
"Honestly, I think it's a translation thing." Izuku responded in his clockwork form as he cracked his brass knuckles. "Now, here's the plan."
"ATTENTION! EVACUATE THE FACILITY IMMEDIATELY!"
Heroes all stood by as several employees began rushing out of the nuclear power plant, either directed by local officers or other low ranking heroes. Positioned all around the building were water based heroes, all ranks and reputations. Even the JSDF was called upon with a perimeter and a potential evacuation.
"Washa!" The number nine hero commanded to Mrs. Waterhose and Manual to get into defensive positions.
Endeavor swept his eyes across the activity, not having seen an operation on this scale in a very long time. "Colonel Rozum." He addressed the local leader of the military force.
"Endeavor." The uniformed man with the rather large mustache set his radio to his belt. "Did the HPSC place you in charge of the hero force?"
"I am the highest ranking hero present, and so I will be taking charge of this operation."
"I would have assumed All Might would be here." The Colonel watched as his men set up several positions as others pulled aside employees that specialized in the tools needed to track and detain forms of radiation.
"He wouldn't be of any help." Endeavor was incredibly quick to remind the man of that fact. "There aren't many whose quirks can even work against the villain."
A blur quickly found its way to the leaders of the operation, Ingenium setting Backdraft down to address the two. "Endeavor, sorry to say but we lost track of him."
Holding back the flames of frustration, Endeavor focused on the important information. "Where?"
"Three miles south."
This was getting dangerous, if that villain managed to breach Japan's largest source of nuclear power then he could cause more damage than the last nuclear bomb that hit the country. On top of how useless so many quirks are along with several standard tactics to a villain that is resistant to most matter, Endeavor was aware of how dangerous an untouchable villain was. "The fact that we currently are unaware of this villain's location is too problematic. We need to begin remotely shutting down the reactor and-"
"Negative." The Colonel interrupted. "Too much of Japan is dependent on this plant. We shut it down, then-"
"Then we keep a villain from causing a potential meltdown and kill everyone in range." Endeavor stood over the man, making his opinion very well known.
"Not my orders, but I will follow them. Besides, the plant can't be shut down remotely."
"That villain could already be making his way inside now! Shut it down!"
"That would put too many lives at risk! My men are already loading themselves up with heavy lead bullets. Whatever mutant quirk he has carries similar properties to a nuclear reaction so-"
"It won't matter if he gets inside!"
"Excuse me." Backdraft stepped up to the challenge. "We know water works, and we need to protect the plant right? I can go inside, that way we have a last line of defense."
The two leaders of their respective groups did not have any issues with that, so the Colonel pulled up his radio. "I need someone to bring me our heaviest lead uniform."
"Make that two Colonel." Endeavor had to say with a tone of warning. "You will need tons of radiation protection if you plan on being in close combat with this villain. I will also be sending you in with back up. Get Mrs. Waterhose."
The hero nodded, ready to fulfill his duty until Endeavor pulled him in for a short word. "If you cannot successfully defeat him, you will shut down that reactor."
"Can't say I'm well versed in nuclear engineering but I'm sure I can find a manual."
"All nuclear reactors are equipped with a SCRAM button. This one will seal off the reactor behind several tons of lead and force control rods into the core to shut it down."
"Got it, big red button."
Amidst the long narrow canyon, multiple civilian robots hovered in a slow controlled orbit around Ochaco, with Mineta below her cowering behind a rock.
"How are we supposed to go up against bullets?!" The small boy cried as his ears still rang from the gunshots earlier.
"Snipe wouldn't really shoot us." Ochaco reasoned, but part of her mind still doubted. "At least, not anywhere important."
In another grassy field in the middle of the day, Aoyama was struggling to stay on his knees with cracks running all along his body. "s'il te plaît, take out that beast."
"COME OOOON!" The distant booming voice of Present Mic yelled out through the land. "I'M WAIIIITING!"
Reiko's form flickered between the visible and invisible, holding the sides of her head. "Too loud."
Across the field of crops and grass, A muscular and fairly hairy man wearing a thick leather jacket and rad headphones sat on the stump of a log. His leg jittered in place, the man wanting to experience some more action firsthand with his new gigs.
"Ugh." Present Mic, with a body filled with powerful muscles and thick blond hair that takes way more product to shape than he first predicted. "Fine, guess I need to track them down myself."
Taking in a deep whiff through his nose, he grinned with his canine's noticeably larger. "Man I love my new bod."
The worst part about time travel, is keeping what you find a secret. Learning that the Titanic was actually a different older ship that was intentionally planned to sink, finding out that the Earth gets recognized as part of the Galactic Federation in roughly five years, there was a lot Izuku learned fast that was better left unspoken to for the present.
Right now, he was watching the construction of Mt Rushmore from afar in his clockwork form, learning of another secret behind the construction of another national monument. Seriously, can't a country just make a big thing without having a massive secret behind it?
The gears in his body ticked when a nearby temporal disruption occurred, and when he glanced back he saw Himiko covered in theme park merchandise.
"Let me guess." Izuku asked his sister who was currently sipping on a tiki room pineapple smoothie. "You found several traces around Disney World?"
"A few different ones. Including an actual Disney world, like a whole planet. One of their countries is Universal Studios, guess the greedy cheese muncher got his grubby gloved hands on it."
"But no Eri?"
"I checked everything that counted as a beach, aquarium, underwater resort or restaurant." The girl sighed as she started to hand off her collection of trinkets to Izuku for him to store away. "We've checked around anywhere she could have gone in time and found traces all over world across billions of years including a bunch of other planets! Where could she even be?!"
Clockwork groaned as he tried to think of other places she could have gone. Trouble was, that was anywhere in time and space. "At least, there's no way she could have gotten to all these places in the time she was around us. They have to be remnants from her future self."
"So if we can't tamper with her past, then can't we go find her future self after we rescue her?"
"The future Eri leaving all these trails is just a theory." Clockwork reached down, feeling the hint of a whisper within the flow of time. "For all we know, she could have made a series of sporadic trips when she got caught in some kind of current that pulled her through anywhere her mind might have reached towards for peace."
His sister sat next to him, sighing as she tried to feel deeper than just the surface with her new time abilities. "You just made that up."
"Give me a break."
*BWOOSH*
Turning back to his human self, Izuku kept trying to think of where or how they could find their sister. "I'm sorry."
Raising a brow, Himiko wasn't sure where this was coming from. "You mean about my computer getting rekt?"
"No, well yeah but I'll fix that. I put everyone at risk and I-"
"Dude, stop." Himiko grabbed his curly head and shook it about. "I know I'm a bitch about somethings but it's not your fault these things keep happening. Honestly I thought those guys had given up trying to find Eri but I could be blamed about not being proactive in hunting them down."
"I could have looked too, I could be doing more."
"Ugh." Pulling her brother into a hug, Himiko started rocking back and forth as her gut started feeling heavy. Without the fine control she had mastered with a body of muck, her eyes betrayed her as they pooled with moisture. "You're too hard on yourself, even to the point of throwing yourself to find every problem you can."
Izuku, quickly squeezed her before pulling out of the moment. Himiko, emotional, was something he never saw and never wanted to see again. "Come on, there's got to be someplace we haven't checked yet?"
"We checked everywhere and everywhen we're allowed to." The blond stood back up, stretching as she reenergized herself with her new quirk. "So I'm going to check our personal timelines."
"We can't do that!" Izuku immediately interjected, shooting up off the ground. "We could cause a massive paradox and end up erasing ourselves, or worse!"
"Isn't that guy named Paradox? I'm sure he does it."
"He knows when he can and can't, with who knows how many billions to trillions of years of experience."
Folding her arms, Himiko impatiently tried to think of some other loophole she could abuse. "Well what about other nearby universes?"
"She's tied to this one still, we both felt that." Izuku paced back and forth, grabbing one of his notebooks and flipping over to a complicated picture of several lines interconnecting like a ball of scribbles. "Let's see, we checked then, she's not in now or will be."
"What did the British guy say again?" Himiko came behind him, placing her chin on his shoulder and looking over his time notes. "You wrote it down right?"
"'She was thrown outside of cause and effect, slipping along the surface of reality."
"She's on the bubble." Himiko grabbed his pencil and circled around his mess of scribbles. "So we go to points that are around the edge?"
On the edge, outside of reality!
"Himiko you figured it out!" Izuku turned to the next page. "She's not in our current reality, she's on the outside of our existence!"
"So where do we look?!" Himiko matched his excitement, filling back up with hope.
"We've looked over everywhere from what was, is, or will be, aka everything that is already a sure part of our universe. But we haven't looked into what could be."
Starting to get a little lost, Himiko tried to feel out for all of those possible timelines that exist in the current universe before separating into new ones. "That's, wow that's confusing."
"I know." Izuku put his notebook away, mentally activating the omnitrix and pressing down the dial to turn back into clockwork. "They only exist briefly, and we can't be there long before it either dissipates or splits off. The further we get to the edge the more dangerous it will be, but-"
"It could be closer to where Eri is." Himiko understood, ready to go off into the furthest reaches of the unknown. "We'll find her."
"Right."
Himiko vanished, leaving Izuku to look in his own direction. But Izuku wasn't planning on searching the other parts of the what could be, there was somewhere else that was arguably more dangerous that was fixed along the farthest reaches of the horizon of existence.
What must not.
It was the struggle between two incredible forces, one that could cause hurricanes with a punch and another that could grip a hold of space itself.
"HaHA!" All Might came down from the clouds, priming another fist towards the levitating Itsuka below.
Holding out her hands, Itsuka was enveloped in a pink light as she took hold of All Might's body. She could slow him down, but he was too strong to keep contained. He powered through, seventy percent of the force of his blow plowing through her telekinetic grip and smashing against her defenses.
She was sent crashing into the ground below, then it all rose around her as Itsuka gripped all the matter around herself and hurled it back at All Might.
"You've really grown young Kendo!" Kicking off of the improvised projectiles, All Might expertly dodged the debris and came down to the Earth. "You'll make a fine hero one day, that's if you survive the strongest villain you've ever faced!"
"There are worse things than a shoplifter." Itsuka charged her body with One for All at forty percent, reenforcing her cells with the abilities gifted by her father. Creating another hold around All Might, she immediately expanded it creating a vacuum bubble around her mentor. The wider she created it, the more the pressure in his body built up as his skin became bright red.
Clever, All Might would have said if there was any air in his lungs.
Punching against the ground, the force of his hit shattered her bubble. As soon as he got air, he took in a short breath and held back a coughing fit. Damn, even with control his pupil was getting some dangerous ideas on how to apply her abilities.
"Thank you All Might." Looking above, he could see the air swirling around her with her eyes starting to glow a vibrant pink. All forms of matter were bending to her will as she confidently faced off against the number one hero. "But you haven't even seen half of the things I've learned yet."
"This test is designed to see what you've learned." Flexing his muscles, All Might felt that he could let himself go a little. "But we are limited on time, so let's keep this as a pop quiz!"
Pink lightning channeled through Kendo into several orbs that spawned around her, until All Might saw he was surrounded by them. Throwing her hands towards him, all the collective energy was thrown towards him from all directions, creating an explosion that could level any building.
Truly, Itsuka was strong.
"Wonderful effort!" All Might said right behind her about to throw another punch. Against his will, his arm stopped, the very bones gripped by an unseen force with Itsuka slowly turning around with an oh so confident smirk.
But perhaps a little overconfident in her abilities.
With a mere flick, he sent Itsuka hurdling away to crash into the distance.
"Ah." Giving a content sigh, the number one hero went to give chase. No wonder Gran Torino taught so hard, it was fun to have a pupil that could handle a hit or two!
Patrolling the empty hallways, red lights circling in place as their way was illuminated in waves, Backdraft was left in only the company of one other hero as they kept their eyes peeled. Both had their costumes filled with layers of protection in case they would come face to face with the villain.
"You think he'll really try coming in here?" Mrs. Waterhose made idle conversation, something to fill the choking silence of anticipation.
"That's the last we predicted, but hopefully he'll rethink taking on an army of heroes, soldiers, and a whole lot of cops loaded with lead." The walking firehose mentioned in a false sense of confidence, double checking his geiger counter to make sure they were in the clear.
"I just don't understand it personally." The woman fidgeted her leg slightly, adjusting the brace around her leg. "I've faced a lot of villains, some more twisted than others, but this guy doesn't seem to realize just how dangerous his body is to others."
"Maybe he really doesn't know." Backdraft mused as they came over towards a walkway overlooking the reactor room. "He could just be thinking about eating, like that blue moth villain."
"This guy seems different." Mrs. Waterhose tried to still piece it together while thinking of the risks. "He's not just eating, he's gorging himself and now we might have to evacuate part of the country."
"It won't come to that." Backdraft stopped, just above the protected reactor. "We'll stop him and keep everyone here safe."
With both of them pausing, listening for anything disturbances, the ambient warning lights along with the power thrumming below almost made things peaceful in its own nuclear way.
"Is there someone in particular you're trying to keep safe?" The woman asked her current coworker.
"I don't have anyone." Backdraft quickly replied.
"Really? Not even a crush?"
"I tried dating, but something always went wrong. I don't know why, but it felt like once things were just right it all goes down hill. Accusations of cheating, being cheated on, turning a story about a bad kiss spreading and spiraling down into people saying I forced myself on her. So yeah I've given up trying to find someone. No matter how good it is, it always goes wrong."
"Yeah, I get that in a way." The woman frowned as the brace holding her upright felt like it was weighing her down.
"Sorry about your partner. He was a good man."
"Thanks, but what about family?"
"Haven't spoken to them in years. They're not bad people, but they always wanted to keep their distance from one another. But from what I understand, you have one?"
"Yeah." Finally thinking about something uplifting, she smiled. "Kota. Things are a little hard right now for him but he's a tough kid."
"How old?"
"Ten, and I hope once he starts hitting puberty he'll open up."
Scratching the awkward itch on his neck, Backdraft gave a short chuckle. "Sorry, but I think we both know it's only gonna get harder."
Sirens began blaring, the heroes now on full alert as the lights flashed brighter and faster. The thrumming under them growing louder as it began to shake.
"Is this all they left inside?"
They spun around, seeing P'andor floating up to them as Backdraft's geiger counter began to go wild.
"Surrender!" They rose their hands towards them with their quirks at the ready. "We're only giving you this one-"
*PEW*
P'andor did not care for their warning, blasting them off the walkway and sending them crashing along the roof of the reactor room. "I don't know how your species has lived for so long, but I'm glad you stall long enough to create such wonderful food for me. I just had to go adjust some things to let it cook a little hotter."
"ALERT! REACTOR IN CRITICAL CONDITION! AUTOMATIC SAFETY PROCEDURES DISABLED! EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY!"
"You." Backdraft growled up towards the alien. "You set it to overload?"
"Ha!" He laughed at their terminology, each chuckle making the geiger counter spike even higher. "You call it an overload, but all I am doing is letting the meal cook all the way."
"That could kill everyone!" Mrs. Waterhose shouted back.
"Not my problem, so if you would kindly get out of the way." He rose his hands as he charged his palms, body glowing brighter as their radiation monitors ticked until they burnt out.
"Calling anyone!" Backdraft yelled into his communicator. "He's in here, we need backup!"
No response, the density of the ions so intense not even their technology was working.
Japan was in more danger than it ever has been and it wasn't even aware of it.
Forcing past the boundaries of the land of the living and the nightmares of the non existent, Clockwork did his best to stay out of sight. The landscape of fire and brimstone constantly spat out smoke into the darkened sky, as beasts of all shapes and sizes prowled through the shadows.
He was beyond the charted course, treading as carefully as he could to not alert any unwanted attention.
Everything about this place felt wrong to his gears, from the lives that were cut too soon to the tangled mess of temporal disruptions. There was obviously powers at work scrambling the normal flow here, and it was overwhelmed with traces of Eri's quirk.
She wouldn't do this, any of this, but why was her power tied so closely to this awful place?
The rotating piece atop of his head came to a halt, his instincts screaming as something powerful, the source of all wrong in this place was reaching into the space near him. It could sense him and his arrival, and he needed to avoid it at all costs.
Speeding up his own time, he made a run for it to get as far as he could.
As he ran through the destruction, he started noticing patterns, remnants of roads, and familiar pieces of buildings. His body took the route it had followed everyday, just as if he was on autopilot. He made it to a half broken building, one that made him realize where he was.
Home.
A flicker caught his attention, something that was teetered between reality and the void. It was barely noticeable unless you were already on edge.
Stepping through the broken doorway, Izuku approached the hazy figure of someone that was sitting in the center of the living room.
He cautiously approached, feeling something crinkle under his foot. Lifting it out of the way, he was halted by a shredded, blue spotted wing staring up at him.
I z u Ku
The soft broken whisper made him look back up to the blur, the image stabilizing enough for him to make out who it was.
"Eri!"
His skin was started to sting, Backdraft thrown against the floor as his back was assaulted by another ray from P'andor. "Ah AHHHHH!"
*PSSHH*
"Gah!" The alien recoiled from a splash of water immediately turning to steam.
Mrs. Waterhose ran towards the other hero to try and get him away, only for a beam to carve itself in front of her and forcing her to back off. Backdraft pushed himself onto his knees, holding up his hose hands and shooting out a stream to try and trap the villain.
P'andor saw the cage of water surround himself, so bracing himself for the pain he pushed through the trap. "You are too weak to stop me!"
Government be damned, they were getting their asses kicked and this place was going to blow.
"Waterhose!" He called out to the woman behind cover. "Hit the SCRAM!"
"Like I'd let you!" P'andor immediately melted through the beam she was behind, picking her up by her protective clothing that started to smoke. "You humans and your primitive constructs."
He threw her against the side of the reactor, the woman gasping as the air was ejected out of her lungs. P'andor saw her pitiful state, and elected to ignore her in favor of the trembling reactor, grinning widely. "Dinner time."
He grabbed the lever, ignoring all of the warning labels and opening the door to the core. Heat washed out as Backdraft began to feel incredibly nauseous with specks of green glowing in the corner of his vision. Rolling himself back onto his feet, he wobbled in place as he saw how dangerously close Mrs. Waterhose was to the doorway. He could barely make out P'andor's glowing form the power of the core. Reaching out with what little strength he had, he sent out a small stream of water to pull the woman away from the opened doorway and the other to try and close it. Damn it, of course it was broken.
"How do we stop him?" The heroine was regaining her bearings, able to stand back up on her two feet.
"He's already in the reactor room." Backdraft explained. "If we hit the scram, it will trap him in there and the reaction will be cut."
"What if he leaves as soon as we hit the button?"
"I'll take care of that." Despite the burning sensation around his body, Backdraft started making his way towards the doorway of the reactor core itself. "Now hurry up!"
Mrs. Waterhose quickly complied, knowing there was no time to waste and ran into the control room overlooking the area. The firefighter themed hero went up to the door, seeing P'andor pulling out rods and slipping them down his mouth.
"Oh this is a feast!" The alien shouted in glee as he pulled out another, seeing the hero in the corner of his eye stepping in the way of his exit. "You think you could stop me now, after all the power I've taken into myself?"
"HIT IT!" Backdraft yelled, Mrs. Waterhose slamming her hand on the big red button. The door started to lag as it descended, P'andor seeing several rods slamming themselves into his foodsource.
"No!" The alien shouted, torn between wanting to stay free or saving his diminishing food source. He could always find more food, but he refused to be imprisoned again!
Darting to the closing doorway, Backdraft summoned the rest of the water inside himself and rammed P'andor with all of his strength. He hardly pushed the man a foot, but it bought him enough time for the door to get unstuck and begin closing itself down to the ground.
"NOOOO!" P'andor tried to reach for the quickly closing opening that was hardly bigger than a foot, but water rushed to block his exit. His hands hissed in pain when he touched it, making him recoil as the lead door finally closed and sealed itself. "YOU MONSTERS! I HAVE ALREADY SPENT TOO MUCH OF MY LIFE TRAPPED AND STARVING! I DEMAND TO BE RELEASED!"
The alien banged against the door, trying to burn his way through while releasing even more radiation that found its way through Backdraft's clothing. His mind began to swim as his blood felt like it was boiling.
"Backdraft! Do not tell me that was your plan!" The intercom rang out, bouncing in his head.
"It was, gah, a back up plan." Breathing became harder, his lungs unable to process enough oxygen as their cells began to dissolve. "But it was the only one that worked, right?"
"Hang on! We'll get you out of there!"
"Don't." His body quivered, trying to suck in more air but couldn't find it. "Otherwise, this will start all over again."
"Your life isn't over! I know you have trouble but that's life! It can get better if you give it a chance!"
Right now, he didn't really want to. It sounded so tiring, and when he thought back to his life, he couldn't think of anyone that wanted to share it with him. He always enjoyed helping people, too bad none of them liked him enough to stick around. "Maybe another time, but…for now….I'm….just gonna sleep."
Being a hero, was probably the one good part of life. Was he a good hero though? Would everyone be alright? There were plenty of other heroes, ones much better than himself.
He was never good enough to actually make a difference.
"Backdraft." The woman's voice cracked the words out, his mind barely hanging onto consciousness as P'andor continued to bang against the metal. "Thank you for letting me see my son again."
Well, maybe he did enough for one person. Glad the kid would grow up with a mother.
"Eri." Clockwork knelt down to the glitching form of his sister, who was looking in his general direction. "I'm so sorry that-"
T u r N B a C k
The words were cutting themselves apart as their impact of reality was barely touching.
"What?"
H e C A n F e E l I t, H E I s c O m i N g
It did exist, whatever he felt was after him Eri could feel as well. "Not without you."
Gripping onto the traces of the footprint, Izuku's gears began to rapidly spin and grind as he pulled at everything to bring her back. The flow of his power grew stronger, the key piece atop his head spinning rapidly, and his presence becoming more knowing to the oncoming predator.
RUN
Gripping onto her shoulders, Izuku reached beyond existence and latched onto his sister, reconnecting her timeline to his own and yanking her into the flow of the universe. As soon as her body finally became present, Eri slammed herself into his arms.
Before Izuku could rejoice, Eri instantly made her panicked demands. "CHANGE RIGHT NOW!"
Something had found their disturbance, Izuku instantly switching to the reptilian speedster XLR8 and taking her far away from this twisted version of his home. As his speed carried them past all of the dangers lurking around every corner, when there was some instead of craters the size of entire districts.
Stopping a good distance away from what would be cities, XLR8 set Eri down behind a large fallen burnt tree. "Are you ok Eri? When we couldn't find you, we panicked but…I'm glad you're ok."
She didn't act like it though, Eri turning back around and stuck staring at this torn world. Izuku turned back to human, feeling Eri grip tightly around his hand as he looked over the remnants of civilization.
Wait, was that Might tower?
Half of the building had chunks taken out, being reconstructed with dim ominous red lights filling the inside and illuminating the army of monsters around it building a crude collection of buildings.
"What, even is this place?"
"...Two.." Eri uttered out.
"Two what?" Izuku gently probed, unable to take his eyes off what this place was.
"Two months."
The horror dawned on him, Izuku seeing a world gone wrong in only three months from the home he knew. "This isn't what will be though, I saw the future and this is something that can't be."
"What must not." Eri corrected. "But it still exists, because it's still possible."
Seeing this first hand, awakened Izuku to just how much danger the Earth was in, reminded of the pieces Esta's world was in. He couldn't risk trying to take care of this himself, he needed everyone he can to help prevent this. "Let's go home Eri, we don't belong here."
Eri, more experienced and desiring the same brought them out of this twisted timeline.
They never wanted to return, but the future was still approaching and it could be this one.
Underneath the tower being erected, a man returned back from his search of the strange disturbance he had felt recently. He was crowned with a large horn atop his head, a fine suit fitting his youthful frame, and a twisted smile as he enjoyed seeing his creations bow before himself.
"I thought maybe you had something to do with this." He passed by the ever still figure that was never affected by his various collection of powers, patting his hand against the black shoulder littered with stars. "But alas, you never do anything do you?"
He left it behind, the never moving man made of stars with the hourglass symbol on his chest, needing to oversee the rebuilding of this planet to turn it into his own personal utopia.
The perfect turn of events, that he would prevent anyone from altering.
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List of Hybrids (In order of splicing):
Eijiro Kirishima & Petrosapien/Diamondhead
Himiko Midoriya & Lenopan/Sludgepuppy (TEMPORARILY Chronosapien/Clockwork)
Kyoka Jiro & Sonorosian/Echo Echo
Reiko Yanagi & Ectonurite/Ghostfreak
Shota Aizawa/Eraserhead & Thep Khufan/Snare-oh
Denki Kaminari & Nosedeenian/Buzzshock
Tensei Ida & Citrakayah/Fasttrack
Ochaco Uraraka & Galilean/Gravattack (Alien Generated Quirk)
Yuga Aoyama & Crystalsapien/Chromastone
Mashirao Ojiro & Arachnichimp/Spidermonkey
Higari Maijima/Power Loader & Talpaedan/Armodrillo
Nemuri Kayama/Midnight & Nemuina/Pesky Dust (Alien Generated Quirk)
Hizashi Yamada/Present Mic & Loboan/Blitzwolfer/Benwolf
Any grammar errors please point it out.
Credit for helping me make this story goes to Animeguy1101