Once upon a time, in a tumultuous world, two brothers sat together with a warm snack between the two of them and many books scattered around them. They exchanged words about a peculiar idea of super power. Super powers would continue to mix together and deepen in the future, growing in both strength and complexity with every new generation. Eventually, it would develop to a point where no one would be able to control it anymore. A point that passed singularity. A point that would defy time itself. A deep resonation of colorful light and darkness, overlapping and blending into each other until a perfect balance was born out of them.
The brothers laughed at that peculiar idea, not believing at the possibility of going against the flow of time, dismissing it from their mind. Then, the world fell into chaos and the two brothers went on their separate ways. It won't be until much later that the brothers remembered that peculiar idea and took it seriously.
The vestige of the First One For All User appeared before Deku. He looked like he was trying to urgently convey a message but Izuku could barely hear him.
"All For One... One For All... quirk singularity... defying time..."
The vestige faded away and Izuku snapped open his eyes.
Izuku blinked once. Did he lose to Shigaraki? Did someone rescue him? How long did he stay unconscious?
The bed that he laid on wasn't just any other bed. It was his own bed.
Izuku blinked again and he turned his head to the right side before he turned it to the left side. He was lying on his bed inside his own room. The room inside his mom's apartment and not the one in U.A. dorms.
Izuku blinked again for the third time since he woke up. No, something wasn't right. Why wasn't he in a hospital? What about his injuries? Why didn't he feel any pain? Did Recovery Girl heal all his wounds already? That's too amazing to be true, he was really injured in his last fight with Shigaraki.
Was he dreaming? Izuku pinched his arm. Hurt. No, this wasn't a dream. He wasn't dreaming.
He closed his eyes and tried to remember what happened in his fight with the villain.
Shattered earth. Grey dust in the air. Black ashes. Shigaraki was gaining an upper hand.
It was raining. The sky was crying. There was so much destruction. So many people died. Too many people that he failed to save from the madness of it all.
Then, there was the doctor. He came with the Noumu.
The doctor started rambling and he called Shigaraki with the title of the greatest villain in the criminal empire of the underworld. He called him All For One.
Shigaraki said that he wasn't All For one. He said that Deku wasn't All Might. Shigaraki didn't wish to kill him.
Shigaraki wanted him to join his cause. Just like how All For One wanted his younger brother to join his cause by any mean necessary, years ago in the past.
Then, Shigaraki killed the doctor and his creation. They were no longer necessary in his eyes.
It was back to just the two of them again.
He got up once more and clashed with Shigaraki again.
Then, a thread suddenly manifested itself. A thread that multiplied itself in different colors. What was that thread?
Quirk singularity. Defying time.
Izuku looked around for his calendar.
Today was the day before his first day at U.A.
Izuku clenched his fingers. Panic went inside his mind.
What should he do now? Did he time travel alone or did Shigaraki also come to the past with him? How did it happen? Should he find a way to return to his own time or should he try to make a change in the past? Should he consider this a chance to prevent all the upcoming misfortunes that would befall the world?
One accidental look to his computer answered almost all his questions right that instant. He watched it with a gape before bolting to sit infront of his computer, rapidly turning the volume on high.
The computer was turned on and running on internet when he looked at it. He remembered that he used to have a bad habit of forgetting to turn off the computer before going to bed.
It was a live Youtube, starring a reporter standing infront of a destroyed compound.
Shie Hassaikai's compound.
Moreover, Izuku could recognize Shigaraki's work when he saw one, alright.
The old boss was still in a coma. He was carried outside with a stretcher.
Overhaul was screaming, missing arms, and eyes full of fear. He was also carried with a stretcher into a waiting ambulance with a various medical workers trying to calm him down.
The heroes and polices were still counting the dead and investigating the reasons behind it.
He could see Bubble Girl there but no Togata Mirio or Sir Nighteye in sight.
Most of the dead couldn't be identified since only a pile of dust was left of them.
It was probably a piece of cake for Shigaraki too. A warp gate to drop him in the middle of compound and he could go rampant inside without anyone knowing until everything was already too late.
He should go and inform the polices about Shigaraki and his league. He should tell All Might about this. He should do something about All For One and put him back in Tartarus. He should stop the doctor and the Noumu.
Put a stop to the Meta Liberation Army. Put a stop to Stain. Put a stop to Wolfram. Put a stop to Nine.
Help Todoroki. Help Kouta. Help Eri.
Eri.
The reporter said that a little girl was still missing.
Did Shigaraki kidnap Eri? For what? The quirk-destroying drug?
Izuku gritted his teeth. He contemplated for a moment before he made up his mind.
He grabbed up his hoodie and his wallet before he went outside. He knew what he should do first.
A few talks in a shady alley and money that exchanged hands, Izuku found himself standing behind a man with a black jacket.
Izuku took a deep breath.
"I wish to talk to you, Todoroki Touya." Izuku said in a calm tone.
Dabi turned his head so fast that he almost gave himself a whiplash.
"Who the hell are you? How the fuck do you know that name?" Dabi growled menacingly, hot blue fires licking his palms.
Izuku only smiled mysteriously in answer to the older man's question. If Shigaraki purposely kidnapped Eri, then, in exchange, Izuku would kidnap his future second-in-command.
Two can play this game.