The night sky never felt so clouded by the smoke of the city.
Dashing past the collapse buildings felt endless. Even when most of the people had evacuated. The once now bustling and populated city was now an empty shell of what it used to be.
That aside even at the state of the situation, he knew what he was looking for. He just had to trail the stream of corrosive liquid.
His energy crackling purple while sprinting through the many streets his mind worrying.
"Where are you?" He spent several minutes following the acidic trail. Luckily he did not look further.
The supposed corrosive liquid had stopped before a building. It was rather a small shop, a general store. While it's size seemed shorter than the others standing tall next to it, the shop carried a significant feeling of sentimental value.
Walking, he opens the door which caused a chime to ring. He noticed the lights were off. Looking around, the door to the main house was slightly open. Taking that door nob and turning it. It opened to a hallway of further darkness. His footsteps were casual knocks against the wood floor.
Upon reaching the living room, he was met with a pair of yellow eyes. They glowed brightly in the darkness staring at him.
"Mina."
His voice was soft and patient. As much he was happy to say that name it was painful when it left his tongue. The pair of eyes approached a bit closer and the figure became apparent underneath the moonlight.
Her blue skin was first to appear, then her same-colored hair that was as curly as his, and finally the two horns protruding on top of her head.
She carried a stoic expression before looking away from him.
"Izuku."
Both of the adults said their greetings.
"Have you made your choice?"
Yes, that was the whole purpose of this meeting, to conclude the choice. A choice to live forever together and repopulate the empty planet they stood on. Continuing the human race to be even stronger and better than before. With the powers that only two of them held, no one else from this world stood a chance. Those who did not accept their unknown powers where terminated by Mina herself. As a result, one termination became two, then three, and so on so forth. She couldn't bare to live in a world where everyone viewed her as an alien, a creature to be tested on. So she fought back and the man that stood in front of her understood her reasons.
Yet...at what cost did that bring them both. All of their once mutual friends died by the hands of the government or the people who hated their powers. Family members turned their backs on the powered pair. There was no one to trust but each other.
Both of them understood each other's pain. Deception, anguish, betrayal, abandonment, and heartbreak. That's why Mina pushed for the idea of starting anew with Izuku. Since when they were kids, they understood the pain of living feeling ostracized and labeled as a freak of nature. Powers that no one could explain, yet even when the pair tried to do right by society, they were hit once more that the old human race could not move forward.
That was the first and only option that Mina could ever side with.
Izuku's plan was to send them back into another dimension where most people were just like them, unexplainably "quirky". He wanted Mina and him to have a fresh start and relive the best experiences of trying again. Giving humanity one more shot.
Izuku nodded before answering the question. Looking forward into those amber orbs surround by darkness, he settled this decision.
"I want us to be reborn."
His statement caused Mina's eyes fall down in sadness. As much as they held similar circumstances, the ideologies of their future were so much more different.
Mina in her nude form, secrete acid to form a dress. Her acid formed a dark blue dress that reaches down to her feet.
She looked upwards at the man she grew to love over the years. Sure they had their differences but the chemistry and anatomy would be even more strong than some pointless argument. This time, however, this was a fate that determines their livelihood.
"If that's what you wish for..." Mina kicked towards the face but the man blocked it. Attack had enough kinetic force to push Izuku through the wall and outside the store "then so be it."
She walked outside with fires in the distance of her hometown she had destroyed. On her backyard, stumbled a recovering man. He gave the woman a determination glare as did she.
"You really want to give humanity a chance? We are gods Izuku. We can live forever and dominate who ever stands before us."
"Don't you see Mina, we are human! We have always been the stronger person but our gifts made us learn our responsibility. Our powers aren't meant to dictate the world! Right now, the last few remaining alive will die in another few minutes if you don't stop now!"
Mina charged at Izuku. She swiped her hand creating a flood of acid, to which Izuku jumped up to evade. Following him, Mina leaped up in the air and started to throw multiple punches at the man.
"You can't honestly believe that the old world is worth saving! Besides your words right now mean nothing to those who have passed. And those last of the human race before us, will perish."
"We don't have to kill them, Mina! How many innocents have we murdered because of our anger?"
Izuku grabbed the blue skin women by the arm and tossed her down to the ground. Landing on her back, the small crater of the backyard was the result.
Izuku landed on his feet. He kept his eyes at the stumbling woman. There was not a scratch on her, but with a snap of a finger, the dirt and debris came off her and floated in the air.
"Does it matter how many we have killed? There is nothing else left in this world but us Izuku. When are your going to see that there is no point in this argument? You should know by now who your dealing with."
The man shook his head the cocked his arms, he brought them back and pushed forward a massive gust of wind.
The debris once in the air floating about, now gone with the fearsome breeze. Mina looked unimpressed, she smirked in response to that gesture.
Seeing how Izuku was dashing toward her, she went on the offensive. Clashing their arms against one another. The force around them destroyed the nearby the buildings.
"Why are you holding back? You know you can't win if you try." Mina questioned grabbing Izuku by the collar and head butting him. He stumbled back as Mina drives toward him. Releasing a barrage of acid covered attacks. Each block or hit damaged the clothes the man was wearing but it did not harm him all that much.
The final kick, Izuku ducked down and performed a sweep to knock Mina off her feet. She caught herself with an arm supporting her balance. Then she was met with an elbow to the gut before coughing out some saliva.
She gritted her teeth then pushed herself away from Izuku. The distance was enough to let her assume her stance and release a dark liquid that manifested from her acid.
Izuku saw this and reacted. Powering up with purple lightning racing and crackling all around him. He felt the excitement that came with the danger of this dispute.
Getting into a stance of his own, both Mina and Izuku stared for a moment before Izuku made the first move. He drew his finger into a flicking motion towards the blue skinned woman. Mina shot at him the dark liquid when Izuku release the flick.
A power gust of wind and pressure was engulfed by the black liquid, merging along with it. Izuku crosses his arms to block the now massive wave before he was send off with the tide along with it. As the dark liquid traveled its mass and density became stronger and bigger. Soon a wave that was the size of a normal alley way, soon became a tsunami that engulfed the rest of the heavily destructed city.
Izuku eventually landed on a beach just before the water. The black liquid retreated and condensed to a little dropped as Mina stood with an amused expression on her face.
Walking as the sand covered each of her step. Her blue skin under the sandy particles. She stood over a heavily breathing Izuku. His skin covered in bruises and some parts of his body bleeding internally and externally.
He got up. Hands on the sands helping the rest of his body stand up.
Looking up, he could see that Mina had still held that amused expression on her face.
"Well? Are your going to start trying or do I have to make you surrender? It's not fair that I am the one putting the most effort for our future Izuku."
Izuku chuckled at the sick humor she gave. He couldn't help but feel the same way about himself. The adult knew Mina did not like these disputes as much as fun and passionate it can be.
"No, your doing good, just let me catch up a bit, after all you have always been the athletic one of us."
Mina laughed at that comment. "We are not those seven year old kids playing tag ya'know? We're over a century, and yet we still bicker as if we argue back into our first few years of marriage."
"Maybe so, but isn't it good to keep some youth in us, I mean we were kids at some point and the adolescent keeps coming out one way or another."
Mina loved how reminiscent Izuku could be, it's one of the reasons why after several decades she never got bored of him. Aside from the fact he was eternal youth plus immortal like her, they still held the minds of a teenagers. As sign that they still held onto the past.
"Well then, I shouldn't keep my wife waiting on me. So allow me get on your level."
The man stood up, his eyes looking down at his wife's, in terms of height she was a few inches shorter than him but that didn't mean a lot.
Once again the purple lightning crackled and raced around him, soon it became a black current of electricity, violently racing rapidly.
Izuku's skin started to become scalely, his eyes becoming slits, and soon wings engulfed in black flames appeared on his back.
As a response to that, the weather has changed drastically, from a clear night sky to a storm, it's thunder roared and lightning strikes a purple color. Cyclones and tornados formed as the hurricane brushed across the lands and sea.
Mina smiled brightly. "This is what I have been waiting for." Slowly her body was changing as well. Her horns once not so apparent became the longer and wider. Soon her feet and hands became claws. Her eyes became a cross-slit causing the amber eyes to glow. Soon enough she started to develop a tail, a fuzzy tail.
"Well you still look stunning as always." Izuku states while clapping slowly for the change in appearance.
"Oh come of it handsome. Once this is all over then we can have our fun." Mina suggested crossing her arms under breast to get Izuku under a tab bit of temptation.
"Yes, but we should settle this argument first, I for one like to be in a world where it isn't so bleak and empty. Even when it's just the two of us."
"But even so, the two of us and a couple-several younglings wouldn't hurt now?"
"I am not letting us continue in a world full of disaster."
"Very well, but I still beg to differ."
"Of course you do."
The two transformed adults clashed once again. Storms raged, earthquakes conquered, and tsunamis swallowed the earth as the pair duke it out.
Their selfish desires made them act this far, now they will see it both to the end for a new journey to begin.
Once dawn arrived, in the middle of a once open sea, two pairs heavily breathing while laying opposite from each other.
Izuku was the first get up, his form was gone and now in his normal state, he walked towards his wife.
Mina soon followed after Izuku and began to feel exhausted. Her knees giving way causing her to fall forward. Luckily a pair of hand caught her. She knew that she couldn't argue anymore and decided to lay into Izuku. Both of them fell back, with Izuku on the ground and Mina on top.
"So...you win."
"Yeah...it took longer than expected."
"Well...since the bet was made, you explain how are well going to live in a populated world."
"I have the ability...to jump to another universe."
Mina woke up at that. It was already enough that Izuku could manipulate time and her space itself. But jumping to another universe. That was entirely knew.
"Though there is an issue..."
"What issue?"
"We will lose our physical forms and reincarnate into our counterparts."
"Do well still retain our memories?"
"Yes, I as far as I tested, we can keep our memories, experiences, but we will have to start from birth once again."
"Ahh, well that's another decade of absolute boredom. Sigh. School again."
"Plus I don't know if we can keep our powers once we jump."
"I thought you said there was only one issue?"
"Of course, but I mean our powers will reset. Until we of the age we went into that world."
"Jeez starting from the bottom again, some so much fun."
"I mean didn't it got boring for you after a certain amount of time?"
"Well sure...but..."
"Then it's no issue then."
Mina sighed.
"Okay so when are we going."
"We are going right now."
Suddenly, the world around them blackened. Just them visible in the void. Then one little orb floated within their sight.
"So? What's this?"
"That's my dear, is the universe I picked out."
"Okay what's so special about this universe?"
"Well specifically the planet Earth in this universe, has this new power developing called 'quirks'. It's a good cover up when ever our more exotic powers return during our early and mid twenties."
"Hmm. Alright I will take your word for it. So why don't we just get it settled then."
With a nod, Izuku snapped his fingers. The little orb expanded to an endless galaxy, stars and planets all around it, both Mina and Izuku saw the orb zoom in on the galaxy, passing multiple astronomical objects before reaching a planet similar to their own.
Even that was zoom in, both Mina and Izuku started to glow and floated into the atmosphere of this different Earth.
Now floating about in the night sky, both of the. Look to each other.
"Mina, I don't know how long we will be separated but in case of something happens..." Izuku grasp Mina's hand and drew a circle upon the woman's palm."We will be able to sense each other." Mina chuckled before doing the same in return to Izuku's hand.
"I only have one question before we follow through with this."
"Ask me."
"How long do I have to wait to remember you?"
"Not long, the day when our powers start to emerge."
"So only a couple of years."
"Yes."
The two were silent, before Izuku spoke up once more. "It's time we go. Our souls will reawaken once the 'quirks' are active."
Soon both of them became nothing more than a tiny flame with electric sparking around it and blue droplet of acid carrying a dark aura. Both said their good byes and parted ways.
Until the day they meet again.
PS: Let me know how was this one-shot. I am open criticism and reviews.
