Izuku stepped away from the three as they finally teleported into the city.
The image of the land before him was unrecognizable, but enough for him to be shocked, remembering what it used to be.
Where the busy city streets once stood, the ground was cracked and empty. Most windows were shattered, whether by direct force or tremors of some kind.
He was so caught up in looking at the current state of the world he left behind, he didn't see Hansuke walk up beside him and pat his arm.
"...What have I done?" Izuku asked.
"You did everything you could, Deku." Hansuke said.
"I-I tried to use one hundred percent of my power but Promethys was faster..."
"Which is why we should try my idea." Hansuke said.
Izuku dropped his head. "Hansuke."
"Please just trust me! What have we got to lose?" The boy asked.
"My daughter! And you!" Izuku shouted and jabbed his finger at his intern.
Yuko and Koda looked at each other with concern. "What are you guys talking about?" Yuko asked.
"My Quirk lets me freeze time. Deku has a daughter that can reverse things back to an earlier state. Together, we can travel back in time!" Hansuke said.
"That's just a theory, and a dangerous one." Izuku added. "I will not allow it."
"So what is the plan then, Deku?" Yuko asked. "You just challenge Promethys to a rematch? Maybe a friendly arm wrestle?"
"I'm going to use everything I have. Push myself beyond. Truly go plus ultra." Izuku declared.
"I'm about to plus ultra my confidence in you." Yuko sighed.
"If you want to help, help." Izuku told her. He turned to Hansuke beside him. "Warpi."
"Y-Yes?" Hansuke asked.
"I need you to scout out the city and find where Promethys is, and where any civilians are." He said.
"What about you?" The boy asked.
"I'll do the same." As Izuku spoke, his veins glowed brightly and green lightning cracked across his body.
"Me and Anima will also look around for civilians." Yuko volunteered, looking at Koda for an answer of agreement. He replied silently with a fast nod.
They all nodded to each other for good luck, then Izuku blasted off without another word.
"Go team?" Yuko asked with a shrug.
"Go team." Hansuke smiled.
Koda smiled at her as well.
Hansuke was the next one to warp off. Then, Yuko and Koda grabbed hands and teleported away.
Hansuke didn't get very far before resuming time and appeared a block south. He rested on his knees for a moment and looked at his left and his right.
Completely barren. No signs of life. Very...alien for Tokyo. It grew worse than Hansuke imagined. He had spent a large portion of the past few months searching up north for Izuku.
Even the air smelled different. More of those Loyalists in the city than there were people. Promethys was tearing this world up, leaving it unrecognizable.
It wasn't long before Yuko suddenly appeared right beside the boy and immediately reached out, gripping his hoodie's sleeve.
"Dammit, come with me!" She said rather impatiently, as if she'd spent the last few minutes calling to him.
Pulling the mixed-race hero in training in close to her, she teleported the two of them away. Now standing on a balcony overlooking the city from one of the high-rise apartments.
Koda, who had been there the whole time, jumped at their sudden reappearance.
The scene looked worse from far away. Nothing but quiet, dusty, broken sections of city for kilometers around. But to the west where she began to point was UA.
Hansuke barely realized what it was due to the large purple energy bubble doming the entire speck of land and buildings.
"UA's defenses are up. They must still be operational." Yuko said.
"B-But not for long..." Koda added. "The birds told me an army of monsters is swarming it..."
"You can understand animals?" Hansuke asked.
"I-It's an extension of my Quirk... Developed from spending more time with animals than with people..." He admitted with a light blush.
"No shame there." Yuko smiled. "We need to get Deku's attention and direct him there."
"We want him to go out there alone? What if he needs us?" Hansuke asked.
"He'll be fine. There's nothing we can do against an army." Yuko informed him. "Waves of those things together toppled society. Even with Deku, we wouldn't do much damage before dying as well..."
"We have to try! That's what being a hero is! Throwing yourself between the enemy and those you are protecting, even if it costs you your life!" The boy shouted.
"I'll send the birds to guide Deku to UA." Koda volunteered, choosing to act now rather than decide later.
He called out and pleaded for the flock of birds perched above them to fly down and do just that.
Hansuke stomped his foot. "I'm going with him. He needs me! I'm his sidekick."
"I can't let you do that." Yuko shook her head and stood in front of him.
The young hero nodded, lowering his head. Then he quickly raised his hands and snapped his fingers over his ears.
"Wait, no!" Yuko tried to grab him.
She activated her Quirk and teleported away.
Koda called for more birds to carry him down the apartment building to UA.
Hundreds upon hundreds of birds gathered together and carried him off in a large cloud of beating wings like thunder.
As he was slowly carried down from the building, he continued to call out, and more and more animals from all over the cities heard his cries and rushed his direction.
Yuko frantically teleported through the city streets, catching glimpses of Hansuke through a small pocket of reality just before she warped. He was running toward UA.
Just ahead of the trio's race, Izuku stopped to wave his arms as birds swarmed around his head and cawed for his attention. One by one they began to caw at him as they flew down one larger road.
"Koda... They found him." Izuku thought to himself.
Using a large portion of his power, lightning flashed across his legs and he exploded down the street following the birds as Hansuke, Yuko, and Koda followed behind in their own ways.
