Hansuke suddenly found himself on the roof of a tall skyscraper overlooking Tokyo with a giant cell tower ahead, and several villains as well.
He looked down at his feet where Izuku Midoriya was meeting eyes with him. "Hansuke?! I told you to get-"
"Backup?" Ochako butted in, standing at the roof access door with Tenya Iida, Tsuyu Asui, Mezo Shoji, and Fumikage Tokoyami.
Hansuke looked around in a daze as the young professional heroes charged into battle against the villains.
Izuku stood up quickly and patted the boy's back. "C'mon, Hansuke. Let's finish this."
"Wh-Wha..." The time-stopping Quirk user stuttered.
A minute ago, he was infused with One For All, taking Promethys with him to the past. But One For All was gone. He felt tired, but only the amount of tired from using his Quirk for a few minutes.
Nucleon appeared before them with an energy web strapped to his back. "Followers, kill them all!"
"Hey, now's not the time to black out on me, Hansuke!" Izuku shouted. "I need your help too!"
"W-Wait, Deku!" Hansuke grabbed his shoulder. "Nucleon's about to open a portal into space!"
"I know that but he's doing it wrong. It could become a black hole!" The hero said.
"No! He's going to succeed! And when he does... Please... Please go all out on it. Don't hold back your power..." Hansuke pleaded.
"Wha- Why?" Izuku asked.
"Please just trust me! We don't have time for me to explain but I know what happens. I used...my Quirk." He said.
Izuku's eyes grew bigger in bewilderment. "I don't have time to doubt you. If that portal does open, I'll see what I can do."
"Please don't hold back. For the love of God, don't hold back!" Hansuke begged.
Izuku nodded and began fighting the villains on the ground as Ochako and Tsuyu started climbing after the spider-villain on the cell tower harnessing energy for the experiment with Nucleon.
That same villain, saw the girls and started to climb after them.
Izuku leapt after the villain.
After a struggle on the tower itself, Nucleon began sucking power from Izuku's body and blasting it up to the spider villain Arach-Niq.
Power surged and electrified the entire tower as Nucleon then let go of Izuku and blasted a hole in the sky.
Hansuke rushed to his hero's aid as the tower exploded, dropping Tsuyu, Ochako, and Nucleon to the ground.
The portal quickly opened up.
"Deku! It's time! Please!" Hansuke patted the hero to keep him conscious.
"R-Right. Right..." Izuku stood up tall and looked up at the portal. "...Nothing's happening..."
"That's because he's probably invisible or something!" Hansuke shouted. "Go!"
"Who?"
SLAM
All eyes darted to the center of the tower, directly below the portal.
A large, muscular, pink humanoid landed with his legs bent and his fist in the ground. Then his head raised as his body stood tall. His nine eyes stared at the group of heroes and defeated villains.
"NOW DEKU!" Hansuke shouted.
"You..." The being hissed. "You brought me back here?! You dare?!"
Nucleon raised his head half-consciously to see as his back was flat on the roof.
Izuku had no idea who this was, but he powered himself up. "One For All... Full Cowling... 100%!"
"I don't think so!" The monster roared and charged the hero.
Izuku charged him with his fist raised to strike.
Hansuke realized what was happening and snapped his fingers over his ears.
In as must of his time as he could, he threw everyone off the tower right to the city streets below.
Then he ran down the skyscraper as fast as he could and gathered everything he could to cushion their fall. The boy searched the city around him for mattresses or anything, but he was quickly running out of energy.
He remembered that he was back in the body of his younger, untrained self with bigger limitations.
"I have...to...f-find...something to...protect my friends..." As he fell to his knees there on the street around a gathered crowd, he began to tear up. "I'm so...so stupid..." He looked up to see the ant-sized group of heroes and villains he tossed over the ledge without thinking a whole plan through.
"I-If I snap my fingers and start time again...they'll all die...b-because of me..." Hansuke sobbed.
He fell to his side and laid on the ground, hugging his knees in painful defeat of ideas. The longer he was holding his Quirk, the more pain and exhaustion he felt.
"I can't...let them die..." He continued to mutter.
"Hey."
The boy weakly looked up.
From the crowd, nine shadowy figures walked up to the young hero.
One of them, was Izuku Midoriya, specifically the one from a year and a half in the future, or hopefully the future that won't come to pass.
He reached out to Hansuke.
"You have made each of us proud using One For All like this." He said.
"No I didn't... All I did was reverse time and potentially start an even worse future..." The boy sniffed as he was pulled on his feet. Surprisingly, the pain of his Quirk felt numb in this moment.
He wasn't even sure if he was in any plane of existence or time with this vision.
"Wh-What's happened?" Hansuke asked.
"The future you know is no more... Don't worry, it ended on a hopeful note." Izuku explained.
"All that matters is finishing this now." Izuku said.
"B-But I don't feel One For All anymore. We're in a time where you have it again, not me." Hansuke said.
"Well... There is one more thing you could do. See, currently, you're not in any time." Izuku said.
"...There seems to be a lot of loopholes with your power, Deku-sensei." Hansuke said.
Izuku chuckled with a small smile. "Yeah I guess there is." He turned his head and looked back at the figures behind them. The previous owners of One For All.
"You get one more shot with the power here." He instructed. "Use this power wisely."
Hansuke nodded. Then he quickly jumped up and hugged the hero tightly.
Izuku smiled and hugged him back. "Although you may not have One For All with you after this, know that I will always be here for you."
"Just don't die fighting Promethys one last time." Hansuke sniffed.
They pulled away. "Like I said, it's your power one more time. Use it wisely." Izuku said before fading away with the rest of the inheritors.
Hansuke felt the power return to his veins.
With another snap of his fingers, time resumed, then snapped again, time froze.
The heroes and villains in that second now knew they were falling.
Ochako looked around. Suddenly Hansuke leapt off the tower after them, snapping his fingers to start time once more.
"Hansuke?!" Ochako shouted.
He grabbed her hand as they fell, then he snapped his free fingers and froze time, only keeping Ochako with him.
Instinctively, she tapped herself and him with her Quirk, leaving them to remain floating.
"Listen to me, I'm going to push you to everyone falling, I need you to keep them close enough to tap them, but let them fall for a bit longer until we reach the ground." He said.
"Understood! Wow... I feel weird..." She said.
"Oh sorry! I bet using my Quirk and yours is a lot of energy together, so we have to make it count, alright?"
She nodded, covering her mouth. "Do it, I'm ready."
Hansuke snapped again, she tapped her fingers. And everyone fell again.
They drifted toward Tsuyu. "Froppy, tongue!" Ochako shouted.
Tsuyu wrapped her tongue around them, pulling her in until Ochako grabbed her hand.
"Use your tongue to grab the others!" Hansuke shouted.
Tsuyu quickly started grabbing the other heroes, pulling them all around Hansuke and Ochako like a shield.
"Now the villains!" Hansuke shouted.
Tenya blasted his engines pushing them all forward. Any villains who were conscious again were quickly knocked back out by a swing from his leg. Tsuyu then pulled them all in to the circle.
The ground was getting closer and closer with each second.
"NOW URAVITY!" Hansuke shouted.
With everyone holding on, Hansuke snapping his fingers, and Ochako tapping each of them in just a few hits, time slowed down as they drifted to the ground gently, landing on the concrete slowly enough to climb off of each other to safety.
Hansuke and Ochako deactivated their Quirks and Tsuyu then wrapped up the villains together with her tongue.
"Look!" Police officers shouted and rushed to the group.
Hansuke sighed in relief before resting on his knees.
Ochako swallowed and patted his back. "I didn't know you could slow time down..." She said.
"I...can't...usually." He chuckled.
For some reason, the stress of the situation and the sudden relief, she let out a laugh.
"You did it, kid." She smiled.
"Yeah... I guess-DEKU!" He quickly looked up at the skyscraper above their heads.
Izuku, in the few seconds the others were gone, had clashed with the mysterious villain, unleashing a shockwave that leveled the building's top floors and rooftop.
"You don't know me yet, but you took everything from me..." Promethys hissed.
"You're right, I don't know who you are." Izuku coughed as he stood back up from another blow that sent them both off their feet and to opposite ends of what was left of the building.
"But you and Hansuke seem acquainted." He said.
"You have no idea. It's a shame you never will." Promethys hissed. He had on far less tattoos than he ever did now, but the ones he did have glowed brightly.
Izuku felt his hair floating upwards. Quickly leaving his sight of the villain, he looked up to see that the portal was still open.
"Are you doing that?" He asked.
"It's one of my Quirks, being able to send myself and my forces across the universe. But only when this side is already opened. A door takes two entryways." Promethys explained.
"You may not know it, but I came here before... In a situation like this... I was very near successful in conquering your planet... And yet I failed... And now here we are..." He hissed. "I know what I must do differently. I will tear this planet apart stone by stone. I will kill all who inhabit it... And I will start with you, and that brat Hansuke."
Izuku powered up One For All again. "Bring it! I am Deku, and I will defeat you!"
