Chapter 1: A Glitch in Time

Time is somthing special we use,

its not somthing to fuckin abuse,

life is limited, so start the show,

its not the time to be taking things slow.

Time is a precious thing,

im tired of living through the same old thing,

if only once i can try somthing new,

maybe this time ill do better than whats overdue.

"You can become a hero."

Those were the words Allmight had told me 10 months ago. I have certainly come a long way sense then, I have worked my hardest trying to clean Dagobah beach. I finally obtained what i have only dreamed of sense i was 4, a chance to become a hero. With a quirk as great as Allmights, i can work my way up to the top, just like Allmight. Today is the entrance exam, and with Allmights quirk i feel like i can become the greatest hero. I forgot to introduce myself, here lemme start over.

Izuku Midoriya

Age- 15

Occupation- High school Student

Quirk- One For All

As i started to walk up to the entrance of UA i ran into my "childhood friend" Katsuki Bakugo. Hes not really my friend anymore. There isn't any "friend" alive who would tell someone to jump off a building and kill themselves. but its all in the past, holding grudges are unhealthy for you.

"Stay outta my way, Shitty Deku." the explosive teen said, with a small bit of disgust in his tone.

"AH sorry kaachan!" the freckled teen exclaimed with a very nervous tone.

The tension was thick, but quickly vanished as bakugo simply kept walking past the quirkless boy. Izuku had a moment to himself where he could calm himself down a little. He started to hype himself up a little bit. "Alright time to begin my ascent to become a HE-" he was interrupted from finishing his thought has he started to fall. "or ill just die" he closed his eyes to try and brace for the fall. "... any second now, and my life will end..." he finally opened his eyes to see that he was floating in mid air. "AHHHHH" the young teen started to flail around in panic. but his attention was pulled by the sound of a girls voice.

"Sorry i used my quirk on you" izuku heard the voice coming from his left as he looks over to see a young burnette teen with a rounded face and wide eyes, and what seemed to be very rosy cheeks. "it would be bad luck if you fell just before the exam." in izuku's eyes, she was really cute. he didnt even notice that she had put him back on his feet and left wishing him good luck.

"I JUST TALKED TO A GIRL!" he thought, though it was clearly one sided. Izuku gave his head a quick shake and left to the entrance exam, hopefully he could do well enough to pass.

"IM NOT GOING TO PASS" Izuku shouted in panic. It was close to the end of the exam, and izuku had yet to get a single faux villain point. He heard a mighty crash as he glaced up to see the zero pointer. "why is it so massive." izuku said under his breath as he fell on his back in shock. people started to run away from the faux villain but izuku stood there stunned. he started to crawl away from it, his legs didn't seem to have any strength in them to run.

"ow" came the small voice of a girl, one that sounded slightly familiar. izuku looked over to see the same brunette at the entrance with the floating quirk.

It would be bad luck if you fell just before the exam." he remembered her say. without giving it a time a second longer, he reacted. he ran over to where she was, power coursing through his body. he swiped at the large piece of concrete on top of her to free her, but her leg was turned at an odd angle. with no futher hesitation he filled the energy of One For All in hes legs and soared into the air.

"SMAAAAASH" izuku shouted, and a vast gust of wind made the crumpled zero pointer fly through the air. izuku felt power, beyond his comprehension in that one moment. In that one moment, he felt like a hero...

and in the next moment he was falling down to the ground.

Pain hit him hard as he realized all 4 limbs where broken and flailing in the wind. There was no way to save himself. 50 feet, his death was coming closer. 25 feet, the ground was looking very welcoming. 10 feet, death was at the front door. 1 foot, he ran through his memories in a split second.

"believe that you will be born with a quirk in the next life, and take a last chance dive off the roof."

"If only i could go back and redo this all over again."

Darkness.

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*clang*

"what is that metal chain sound?"

*clang*

"Do you want to start over again" a voice spoke. it was unearthly, yet very human. It sounded like a voice of multiple people, yet only one spoke. It had a spine shaking chill, yet an unknown warmth.

Izuku couldn't open his eyes, he couldn't feel his limbs, he couldn't move or talk, his body felt like it was heavy, yet light. It was as if he could feel his body but couldn't control his body at all. all he could do was think of a reply.

"of course i do, i want to go back and do everything better, i want to save people, and put a smile on peoples faces. I just wish i wasn't so... useless."

"hmm..." the voice spoke, as though in thought, yet it felt like he knew what he was going to say next. "i'll let you have your time again young one, but in turn you shall give your time to me as well" the voice was chilling, yet warming. Frightening, yet calming. twisted, yet holy, and together, yet so far apart.

"Anything. I just don't want to die when i can still do good."

"Very well young one" the voice said in what seemed to be a very normal voice this time. "this may sting a bit, but please bare with it. I'll see you when the time is right, young one" the voice vanished, and instead a searing pain broke through his chest, yet he couldn't feel it. he started to feel strange like he was going backwards, yet still stayed the same. In a single moment, it all stopped. Izuku opened his eyes to see a very familiar home. He felt off, like he was missing strength.

"why do i feel so weak?" his confused voice broke through the air. He opened his eyes. He was in his room, he looked around his room to see if anything was out of place. "Where are my weights?" He looked at his hands, they seemed so much smaller then they should, like his muscle mass was missing, almost as if he never had it before.

*knock knock* "honey? Are you okay? You gotta get to school, you don't want to miss the last day." Came the sweet voice of izuku's mother.

"last day? But i just started the entrance exam" izuku thought to himself. He thought about his dream. "Hey mom, did i pass the entrance exam?" He questioned his mother through the door. A simple reply changed his world.

"Im not sure what you mean, the entrance exam is still over a year away." The words were laced with confusion and worry. "Are you okay?" She asked through the wood between them, but izuku heard none of it. He started to think of the possibility that what had transpired may actually have been true or if it was just a dream.

"No i am alright, ill be ready soon." He said. His voice was slightly shaken. Fortunately his mother didn't notice through the door.

"Alright hurry up then, you have 15 minutes." She stated before walking off.

"15 minutes! I gotta hurry!" Once he moved to get his clothes, in about a second and a half the color around him burst into a golden hue, before turning green. He glanced around himself, he noticed that everything but himself was covered in this green hue. he started to move around a bit, but he felt odd. his head felt like it just flipped a switch. it was uncomfortable, yet somewhat satisfying. he glanced over at his clock as he felt like he stood there for a few minutes. He saw that it has only been about 3 seconds. until he notices his clock a little more closely. his analog clock had never stopped working. he kept it in prefect condition at all times, batteries new and everything to make sure he doesn't lose track of his schedule. but that small second hand refused to move. He flipped the switch in his head. and the green hue grew dark for a moment, before it turned back into the golden hue from the start and color was returned to everything. but once that gold hue came back he felt as if he was driving really fast and abruptly stopped, but still kept going.

*tick tick tick* his clock resumed its job of counting the time. he felt a little odd but he decided to try and flip that switch again. the gold hue from before returned and turned into a green hue shortly after. the clock stopped, specifically when the hue turned green. "This has got to be a dream." he thought.

almost immediately after, for the next minute, he started to experiment with this switch. he started to touch his clothes, and dress himself, and after discarding his pajamas, he saw that the clothes fell a short distance before becoming gold and then green and stopped its movement. He deduced that everything that was green froze in place. he flipped the switch and the hue went from green to gold, then back to normal. he then went out to greet his mother. who had yet to reach the end of the hall. she jumped when to door opened.

"oh izuku don't scare me like that, why didn't you tell me you were already up and dressed?" she questioned, seeming to recover from her surprise rather quickly.

izuku was a little confused. he had been in his room for about 3 minutes, but his mother had acted as though it had only been a few seconds. almost as if she had moved when his clock moved. He was confused indeed and would investigate this switch further throughout the day, but chose not to dwindle on it now.

After 10 minutes he was on his way to school. while he was walking memories about One for All came to him. He had tried to find the feeling of it but could not feel it at all. as if it never was with him before. While he was trying to activate it he had thought that the feeling of One for All and this switch in his head felt rather similar in its activation. He decided to flip the switch again, the same gold to green hue taking place of everything. He decided to walk for a bit, and everything seemed to stop moving. he looked at, then away, then at objects again to see if they moved depending on if the switch was based off of his vision. But it didn't seem to work like that. he started to run to see if it affected stamina, but it didn't. After about 5 minutes he finally reached the school. he decided to flip the switch. From green hue to gold he felt that sudden stopping feeling. from gold hue to normal, his view was suddenly obstructed by his hair. Izuku looked at his hair in confusion.

"Did my hair just grow?" he decided to run to the nurses office, grabbed some scissors, and trimmed his bangs. but as he looked in the mirror he saw that his hair grew about an inch. Which was very confusing, and slightly unsettling. He chose to ignore this for now, and went to his classroom.

The celebrations filled the class as the teacher threw some of his papers around stating that the whole of the class wanted to be heroes.

"deja-vu much." Izuku thought to himself and as if on cue he also looked to Katsuki. "and he stands on his desk and shouts about his quirk..." as that thought came to izukus mind, it happened according to how izuku remembered it. But he stopped listening. a thought came to his head. "quirk..." he thought back to the odd voice he heard before. "i'll let you have your time again young one, but in turn you shall give your time to me as well" could he have been given a quirk? It is possible seeming as how One for All works. A sudden explosion on his desk shocked him and knocked him off his seat.

"DEKU! YOU THINK YOUR BETTER THAN ME, I'LL KILL YOU!" Kaachan shouted at izuku.

"Welp, a great time to see if this works." izuku said in a slight panic. The explosive teens hand was coming to grab izuku's shirt. A gold hue started to cover everything izuku could see. Katsuki's hand started to slow, almost reaching izuku's shirt. Izuku's vision then turned green, and suddenly everyone stopped moving. Izuku stood up and observed, everyone appeared as though they stopped moving. He couldn't make out anyone moving at all. He glanced up to the classroom analog clock. it stopped moving as well. Suspicion confirmed. Izuku proceeded to dust himself off, grabbed his bag and walked out of the class, only peeking to see the result. Green turned gold, and the stopping feeling hit izuku again. The people started to move again. gold to normal and katsuki grabbed at the air. suddenly looking around with great shock and confusion on his face. Izuku felt a small pride in himself and walked away from class.

Izuku started to retrace his steps, thinking about his life. "is this my quirk? What does it do? How does it work? what are the limits?" he started to write down theories of this 'Quirk' in his book. Unfortunately this green haired teen has a tendency to lose track of his surroundings when he is in deep thought and writing down notes. otherwise he would have realized that he was under a very familiar bridge. Sludge started to surround him and enter his body. "of all things to forget why was it this moment?" the currently drowning teen thought to himself in a worried tone. He flipped the switch and the familiar colors came to him, But the sludge was still moving.

"What the hell?" oh well ill figure out what your quirk is once i take your body don't worry." the sludge like watered voice spoke. izuku started to struggle even more.

"Why is he not stopping?" izuku asked himself in worry. He flipped the switch once more has colors returned, he knew what would come next.

The flip of a sewer lid was heard, and a very familiar voice was also heard.

"its alright now, young man. I AM HERE!" the voice of Allmight rang through the tunnel. With a quick dodge Allmight lunged forward and threw a punch. "TEXAS SMASH!"

Izuku got sent back a little bit. "all... might." he spoke in a relived tone, before blacking out.

"Oi... wake up" Allmight said while repeatedly smacking izuku in the face. lightly of course. Izuku decided to do what he did last time, but with a different approach. a minute later he was clinging to dear life as he was soaring into the air on Allmight's leg.

They landed on the rooftop and izuku asked his question.

"Can i become a hero, even though i have a quirk i don't understand?" izuku was looking into the puff of smoke that Allmight was in reverted to his true form. Allmight was surprised that the kid wasn't freaking out about his appearance.

"are you not surprised about my true form?" Allmight asked skeptically.

Izuku answered with wise words, almost like they were from Allmight himself. "Its not the appearance that makes the hero, its the heart." Allmight thought about the words. he felt like this kid was vastly more wise than anyone would think at first glance. But he then thought about the question.

"No, many heroes risk their lives to save people, and other heroes too. and if you don't understand your quirk, then you may end up hurting them and others, even if you want to save them. If you cant use your quirk properly, then couldn't you run the risk of injuring someone you want to save?" Allmight spoke harshly, but necessary.

Izuku was slightly disturbed about the answer. he felt dejected. and started to walk away from Allmight. "i will not waste this second chance." he spoke, determination in his eyes.

Izuku came to the familiar crowd, he knew what was happening, he knew why. But earlier his 'quirk' if he could even call it that, didn't work on the sludge villain, so why would it now? he glanced over and saw Allmight standing there with a hand clutching his wound. The green haired teen knew what would happen. But it was those eyes from his childhood friend that he had seen before that made him do what he did once more.

His feet started to move, and his brain started to think, and gold started to cover his vision. and from gold to green. His vision had narrowed and it felt like time around him froze. He started to move faster, he started to think faster, he could see clearer. All his experiments this morning, would pay off. With a single movement he threw his bag as it started to change to green, suspended in the air. he ran up to a part where the blonde teen still had exposed. Green turned gold, gold turned normal. Izuku was suddenly in front of the villain reaching out to Katsuki. the sludge villain was surprised at the abrupt appearance of the boy. Then with no time to recover from the shock books and pencils hit his eyes. The sludge receded from the explosive quirk user. just enough for katsuki's hands and mouth to be exposed. izuku grabbed the exposed hand, and his vision turned gold, then green. and with a great pull over his head he pulled katsuki out of the sludge and onto the ground. Green then turned to gold, then back to normal. Just in time for a hand to grab both their arms and pull them back. A great wind followed and the sludge villain was defeated.

What followed was as such... Allmight was praised, Katsuki was also Praised, Izuku was scolded, but then praised for being able to save the boy from the villain, and izuku slipping away when everyone was distracted.

Izuku chose to run from everyone for some time to think about this 'quirk' of his. After much considerable thought and experiences he concluded that it was time based. He was thinking about how it affected time, and came to the conclusion that this quirk shortens his perspective of time. With that he also thought of the perfect name, which he calls...

"I AM HERE" Allmight rushes out from the side which scared izuku. Then Allmight proceeded to make izuku jump again by spitting out blood and reverting to his original form.

"Izuku." the calm voice of Allmight entered his ears. "I would like to apologize for my words were harsh. You showed me that you have what it takes to succeed in learning how to use your quirk correctly." Allmight said as he stood with disappointment in his voice, thought is sounded like he was disappointed in himself. "and i would like to correct a previous statement." he paused for a bit to look at izuku, who had calmed from his surprise from earlier.

"Izuku, You can become a hero."

Those are the words that made izuku realize that this was no dream, this was reality. which means his quirk was also real. he was hit by a swarm of memories and emotions of this moment. Yes he can become a hero, and he will. with the help of his new quirk...

Temporal Constriction.