SoaringxDragon has decided to take up this challenge.
Hey there. This is a challenge from Dragonblaze9173 for a High School DxD fanfic. I think this particular plotline has never been done before, and it would be really interesting.
Challenge: The fic is a time travel fic, but one which is highly different from the clichéd Issei goes back to time. This would also be a Powerful or Overpowered Issei, Well, depends on your point of view. Also, it would have Issei/Harem, with Rias and Akeno as a must.
The fic starts from the time, where the whole Occult Research club members learn that Issei died in the dimensional gap, where he had went to rescue Ophis. Hearing this news, all the women, especially Rias and Akeno, are utterly despaired and heartbroken. They react just in the same way as canon.
Meanwhile, in the dimensional gap, Ophis, even with help of Great Red, is unable to save Issei, and is extremely saddened, as he was the first one to call himself her friend. She views this as unfairness of life, and decides to do something to bring Issei back to life, one way or the other. It's with this thought, that she approaches Rias and the other women, who were in love with Issei, and present them the idea of time travel.
Hearing that there was a chance for them to once again reunite with the man they love, they jump on the chance without any hesitation. And thus, all the Occult Research Club members, even including Kiba, go back to time, in order to reunite with Issei.
The sad point of the whole ordeal, Issei doesn't remember them. His memory is still the one, that's not from the future. So, all the women, especially Rias and Akeno, try to openly win his affection once again, much to the dismay of the whole Kuoh Academy.
But there is a twist to the tale in this fic. That twist being the power within Issei. Somehow, when all the people had time traveled from future, it also happens by some coincidence, that the flesh and power of both Great Red and Ophis, that they were using to revive him back, also somehow time travels back to the past in a much more potent form. Also, somehow, the memories of all the sempai and even that of Albion sempai within the boosted gear also regain their memories from the future, and decide to help prepare Issei for the future at the cost of their spirit, so that something like Issei once again dying in the future would never happen again. At the cost of their existence, they merge the powers of Great Red and Ophis into Issei's body.
If you want, thought this option is not necessary, you could also provide him the power of divine dividing from Albion sempai as the sub species sacred gear.
So, how is this challenge. Interesting, isn't it?
Well, If someone is interested in taking up this challenge, then please PM me, so that, if you want, I could discuss even about the plot about this fic, and also, enjoy your fic.
Someone hurry, and take up this challenge