The following fight saw a version of Shoto fight against a version of Present Mic. To no one's surprise, it proved fairly one-sided, and that Todoroki passed the round. Izuku wondered briefly if he could be interested into joining the effort against All for Deku, and promised himself to ask afterward, but he also knew that now word was spreading. If anyone else wanted to join, they were probably going to come and ask.

Not that it was the time to think about that. He stepped out of the room, heading for the Arena entrance. He had trained for this of course, but it was… hard to judge how prepared he was.

Kaijuzo Sato, also called Eleph. In his world, Rikido Sato was a classmate, but here he was a fighter for the Fighters Factory, a group that specialized in medical strengthening of fighters. And that was also, apparently, what the League of Villains morphed into when put in a world of sports competition.

They made Noumu, in a sense, but rather than them being horrible abominations against humanity they were just… people that agreed to get work done on them to become stronger, faster, and even have additional Quirks implanted, though that was considered a dangerous choice. It was frankly almost tempting. The option of becoming stronger that way was a good extra weapon, but… Well, he had already gone through one invasive technological modification, he didn't feel like another, even worse one, was a good idea. Not to mention, it took time for that.

From what Epsi had told him, this year the Fighters Factory was probably extremely anxious. Most of their fighters had been taken out in the qualifiers, and with their champion, Number Six, also out in the Preliminaries, this 'Eleph' was the only fighter left. For a business that thrived on guaranteeing higher success rates, losing every fighter in the preliminaries was a terrible hit.

'Which means this guy probably won't go down easy.' Revenant had pointed out, 'Hit him hard, Deku, he won't be holding back.'

Izuku nodded. He knew that, he thought as he marched through the tunnel to enter the Arena. "One last time, Izuku Midoriya!" The Announcer finished, the crowd cheering. Right, he was the last Izuku fighting in the Preliminaries.

And all the others had passed. No pressure there.

He looked around quickly. He honestly had no particular request in mind at first, but then he had realized this was for training, and he still wanted to get better at using both Blackwhip and Danger Sense, and was still trying to unlock Float.

So he had made the obvious choice of asking for various flat pillars to climb and use as a landing point. Perfect to move with Blackwhip, and if Float finally started working, he could test those two. Moreover, those pillars would give cover to his opponent too, hopefully forcing Izuku to use Danger Sense.

Kaijuzo Sato entered immediately afterwards. Epsi's findings said Rikido had changed his name in Kaijuzo to represent better his new appearance, and frankly he had been absolutely correct. He was about three meters tall, with elephant tusks and a trunk covered in glowing lines.

"Ready Epsi?" Deku asked.

"Ready." The AI replied, transforming in her magical girl outfit.

"Begin!"

Izuku shot up to thirty-five percent, his new maximum, and shot forward, extending his leg in a kick. Kaijuzo blocked using his trunk and arms to soften the blow, but it still blew him back against a wall. The crowd shouted as the large man slammed against the wall, but immediately charged forward again at a surprisingly high speed for his bulk.

Izuku extended Blackwhip, grabbing onto the closest pillar, and pulled himself out of the way, swinging around the pillar, pushing himself at full strength before circling the pillar completely and letting go, shooting himself like a projectile from a rudimental trebuchet toward his target.

The enemy saw him coming, and in response punched forward. The fist slammed on Izuku's Iron Soles, the two powered kicks and the arm sending both opponents recoiling back, and Izuku had to grit his teeth as he landed back, his knees aching slightly. Thirty-five percent was still a bit of an uncertain territory, but Izuku knew he had to push himself. If he didn't do it here, in a somewhat secure environment, he would pay for it later.

'This would be a great time to unlock Float.' He thought, launching another Blackwhip to get himself out of the way of another charge. This time, however, the opponent turned around and extended his arm, using some muscle enhancing power to enlarge and elongate his right to try and grab Izuku.

If he hadn't had Danger Sense, that would have been it for Izuku, but he had his Quirk. He let go Blackwhip and launched an Air Force, dodging out of the way of the arm, before using Blackwhip again to slow his own fall and hitting the side of another of the pillars. The moment he hit, he kicked it, launching himself forward once again.

Turning to kick would have costed him speed, but that was why he had decided to try something else.

Back on I-Island, Izuku had been given the Full Gauntlet. Melissa Shield's creation was a unique item that could channel One for All strength and withstand it, protecting the user's arm from the recoil in Izuku's case.

Izuku wasn't capable of recreating the Full Gauntlet. He didn't know how it was made.

But he wasn't in a technologically advanced universe for nothing, nor was he dumb enough or proud enough to not do the obvious thing: ask for help.

-x-

"Hi!" Izuku said, knocking at the door.

"Uh? Sorry, I don't think I know you!" Hatsume Mei, a woman technician for the JTO, asked, "I mean, I don't think I know your version of you."

"No, we don't know each other, but uhm, I asked my bodyguards, who told me you are the best engineer in the JTO's pay roll, and that you collect Multiversal tech, is that right?"

"Of course it is! I like to examine all the babies that come through!" She said proudly, "Do you need something? I'm afraid I don't have much time, with the Tournament going on."

"I need to ask if you know of an item called Full Gauntlet, and if you happen to have the blueprints." He replied, "Those would be enough."

"Mh… Full Gauntlet…" She tapped her chin, "I can think of a few items, help me run it down. Magical?"

"No, it's tech."

"A piece of armor?"

"I suppose they would count as one."

"Red, similar to boxer bandages."

"Yes!"

She grinned, inviting him in, and opening her PC, rushing through the project. 'I always make it a point to look through the tech that passes through our universe, and Full Gauntlet isn't an uncommon name. Let's see… Full All, Full Bomb, Full Cross of the South, Full Drones, Full Ectoplasm-Denier, Full… Full Gauntlet, here it is. Uh, there are four of them actually?"

"Four?"

"Let's see… This one is magitech, so not yours. This one is made from a unique material obtained from some African meteorite, so out of your reach… This one is part of a pair, the Full Gauntlet of Hell and the Full Gauntlet of Heaven, forged in the pits of hell by a fallen angel and bla bla bla, magic mumbojumbo… Oh here it is, Full Gauntlet, built by Melissa Yagi, used by… Also Melissa Yagi."

"Uh… Is that Mel from the League?"

"Just right!"

He glanced at Epsi, "Uhm, I didn't know, I assure you."

"You don't have the data?"

"My memory data only contains the essential information on the Multiverse." She replied, "A detail like that is something I could research on my own in miss Yagi's world, so it's deemed unnecessary."

Izuku nodded, "Could I see the blue print?"

Mei smiled, "Well, I have a rule of thumb to ask to see tech in exchange for tech. Support Gear is fine. Got anything?"

Izuku frowned. "Uhm, I guess my gloves." He said, pulling them out and showing them to her "They are to allow me to-"

"Aim air gusts, I can see that. And the openings are for your other Quirk, I presume. Pretty good stuff. I built this?"

"The you from my world, yes."

"How old is she?"

"Sixteen." Izuku said, and Mei chuckled.

"Well, for a work I made at sixteen it's remarkable. She will make far better stuff for you eventually, so keep it in mind." She put them on some sort of scanning machine, and Izuku watched in fascination as it scanned them, a folder opening on the screen with a blueprint of his gloves. "A deal is a deal, look for your heart content." She added, moving aside, "But I don't know how much you will need it, unless you are an engineer."

Izuku just smiled.

-x-

The theory had already been tested by Revenant, when he presented the blueprints for the Spear Gun. The requirement for the nanomachines in Izuku's body to create an object wasn't having seen the object, it was having seen the blueprints.

Izuku punched forward, and the nanomachine activated at his command. It was still a bit clunky, but they did their job. As Izuku unleashed a sixty percent fist, he ordered them to build the Full Gauntlet around his arm.

And they did. A black cloud of nanomachines emerged from his arm and coalesced into a black stripe of metal as it enveloped his arm, covering it with a dark colored copy of the Red Gauntlet. As Izuku had found out, the nanomachines had a hard time replicating colors, they would simply maintain a dark gray, almost black coloration.

But still, that was a version of Melissa's Full Gauntlet.

Of course, it wasn't exactly the same. Melissa Yagi, Mel, was a wielder of One for All and a founder of the League for All. She was a woman of action and, as Epsi put it, she knew how to be scary. Her Full Gauntlet was designed to have edges, making it appear slightly more blocky than the one Izuku knew, but it still fell perfectly around his fist.

He punched.

Eleph blocked.

The enemy's arms cracked.

And Izuku shot forward, his protected fist slamming the enemy into one of the pillars, that collapsed when the massive body impacted it.

Since this was sort of training, Izuku normally would have stopped, to make sure the opponent wasn't too hurt, but Revenant and Zombie had both been insistent that all that would accomplish would be giving the opponent a chance to stand back up, so he charged forward.

'You can always abort an attack at the last moment with enough practice, at least for the kind of hand-to-hand combat you use.' Zombie had said, 'So don't feel sorry about double tapping.'

'Also, think about it like this, if All Might double tapped, we would have saved ourselves a lot of headaches.' Argali had surprisingly provided with an amused look, 'What you need to remember is that Heroes can get into big trouble if an enemy they have defeated stands back up and start to lash out. That's why you need to not lower your guard. You are very kind, Izuku, but unless you are sure your opponent is out, you have to keep attacking, even while training, until the fight is over.'

Izuku knew what they were talking about. In his fight with Muscular, back during the Summer Camp, Izuku had made a mistake and almost gotten killed because he had underestimated how strong his opponent was. Of course, since then he had gotten better, but in this Tournament, where he was already holding back, he had to make sure to follow the train of thought that this was serious.

He brought down a Manchester Smash on the felled opponent, the back of his foot slamming on the enemy's gut, and he proved to have made the right choice when the trunk rushed forward to grab him. If it wasn't for Danger Sense, between the dust and the size of his opponent, he might have missed it, but using Blackwhip Izuku brought himself out of the way.

He then moved forward, using once again his Full Gauntlet to punch the opponent, using once more sixty percent. The Full Gauntlet trembled but held, allowing him to unleash another powerful impact that sent his enemy flying backward and slam through two other pillars, before he slowly landed against the walls.

Then he opened his hand. A sphere made of some sort of granulose substance appeared in his hand, and Izuku reflexively dodged out of the way.

Then Eleph ate it.

'Was that sugar?' He realized, a second too late, 'Oh, of course he has a sugar generating power. It was a no brainer…'

Sato rushed forward, his strength having grown prodigiously thanks to the sugar he had ingested. Really, he should have guessed that his friend would just waste his Quirk.

However, it seemed his Quirk also had the same drawback, as Izuku dodged away using Blackwhip, before turning in mid air and launching an Air Force at full strength. The opponent smashed through it, and Izuku decided to use a different trick.

In his travel across the Multiverse, Izuku had collected a lot of stuff after all. The Nanomachines, the knowledge from the people here at the Tournament… And a few spells.

He really hadn't used them much, but as Sato charged he created a series of small orbs of light, that coalesced into a human form.

A smart opponent would have instantly recognized the difference, but Sato's Quirk made him a lot dumber in exchange of boosting his strength. When a figure made of light appeared to Izuku's left, the now far less intelligent Quirk user rushed toward it, smashing through the figure and into the column behind. That dazed him for an instant, but it was enough for Izuku, who was already moving.

A final Sixty Percent Detroit Smash slammed into Kaijuzo's head and the enemy slumped down, unconscious. The Full Gauntlet crumbled, and Izuku frowned. He had to wonder if the problem was the material or the fact it was built of Nanomachines. "Epsi, that's not…"

"They are completely inert, mister Izuku." Epsi replied, "It seems that once they build something, they stop working completely."

Izuku sighed in relief, but still bowed to pick up the pieces. Better safe than sorry.

Only then the fact he had just won registered fully, when the crowd exploded in a loud cheer, almost making him drop one of the pieces of the Full Gauntlet.

-x-

"He really took to heart our words." Argali said, "Well, until the end. I get that was a strong enough shot it was clear his opponent was down, but he really let his guard down."

"He can't be blamed, this feels a lot like training for him." Fuyumi replied with a shrug.

Captain Kamino looked at the screen for a while longer, curious. "What is it?" Argali asked.

"Nothing, I just… Well, it's dumb, but I feel like me and Deku are the closest in terms of overall skills, you know?"

"Yeah, you are pretty much right." Argali nodded, "In terms of raw power he probably has you beat, but your skill does make up for some of the difference."

"And Revenant?" Fuyumi asked, "He is also around the same age."

"Revenant is totally different." Argali replied, "As far as physical strength goes, he has less than you – yes, that's still more than me, but I'm a sheep, don't count me in that – but his skill is unparalleled. He is definitely the strongest of the teenagers Izukus here, no offense."

"None taken, but it doesn't mean I'm giving up." Cap replied, with a nod, "I accept that Revenant is more skilled than me. I still intend to win tomorrow."

"That's the spirit!" Argali said, "Do you have a plan?"

"Maybe…" Cap frowned, "But I will have to test it on the field."

-x-

"She is Royalty of the Rabbit Kingdom, Princess Usagi!" Announcer finished, watching the great-great-great-some more great-granddaughter of an alternate version of himself walk on the battlefield.

She was a humanoid rabbit, her body covered in white fur. The purple shirt she was wearing, adorned with a skull, was accompanied by a red-and-black skirt and red boots. If Izuku had to guess, she was mainly a kicker, and he doubted she had any magic or super tech hidden.

So she would have a hard time against Tetsutetsu. The man grinned, slamming his iron fists together. He was exactly the kind of guy that would have the privilege of picking the terrain and leave it completely empty. No changes at all, just the same boring arena, the definition of plain field.

He sighed, making sure to not transmit that to the mic. With this and the next handful of matches, the Preliminaries would finally be over and the real fun would begin. From the Top 32 forward, the Tournament not only proceeded quickly, but most matches were a sight to behold. That was where the cream of the crop fighters truly started to show off.

As he repeated the "Begin!" of the referee, he watched the rabbit girl spring forward. The Rabbit Princess jumped forward, kicking against the opponents chest. He actually showed a reaction to the attack, which was a lot considering Izuku had seen Tetsutetsu shrug off explosions. Still, the wince in the Princess' expression proved this hadn't been nearly as one sided. She skipped back a few steps, dodging a series of attacks from her opponent. Tetsutetsu was a boxer at heart, and that showed as he kept closing the distance while Usagi tried to gain.

Or was she? The Announcer noticed she wasn't actually trying to move too far off. With the speed she had showed earlier, she should have been able to run circles around Tetsutetsu, but for some reason instead she was just keeping slightly out of range. The few kicks she was throwing kept poking at Tetsutetsu's iron defense, but weren't making enough of a break.

She kept moving back, until she hit the walls of the Arena, and Tetsutetsu charged forward.

And that was when she jumped, vaulting above her opponent and landing behind him before kicking his back at full strength. That, and the strength Tetsutetsu had put in his own attack, sent him flying toward the wall and crash into it, and that was when she started to attack at full strength.

Her kicks rained on Tetsutetsu's iron body, pushing him more and more against- no, into the wall, the Announcer corrected himself. He was getting slowly pushed further and further back, each hit the sound of flesh hitting iron.

But that was when cracks started to open, and Announcer realized all at once what she was doing.

She was beating the iron until it cracked, and wanted Tetsutetsu in a position where he couldn't step away and recover. That was why she had forced him to the wall, where he would have no room to maneuver.

Of course, it wasn't an easy thing to do. Tetsutetsu's body was still covered entirely in iron, the material harder than the bones of the rabbit kicking it. But the Princess kept attacking and attacking, until Tetsutetsu's armor gave way completely. That was when she hit his head at full strength with a single kick, and her opponent slumped down.

Panting and limping, Princess Usagi of the Rabbit Kingdom raised her fist in victory, with Announcer and the referee declaring her victorious a moment later.

"Well, that was definitely a bone-crushing way to get through this round." He shouted, noticing her evident limp. The referee asked her something – probably if she needed to be carried out – and she shook her head and walked out.

She wasn't unscathed, of course. Tetsutetsu hadn't gone down quietly, leaving her with several bruises, but she was definitely the better fighter in that match up.

Though, who taught her a martial art that was so callous about breaking bones?

-x-

The Green Scar sneezed loudly, the horse snorting in return at the sudden sound. He patted it on the neck, calming it down.

"Don't get a cold now Green Scar." Canary commented.

"Nah, doesn't feel like it. I guess someone is talking about me." He replied with a shrug.

"Aren't you, like, a boogeyman back in your home universe? People talk about you all the time." Ojiro commented.

"I sneeze a lot." The Green Scar replied, chuckling lightly. Truth be told, he had to wonder how his very extended family was doing.

Being the great-great-great… the ancestor of a royal family – maybe two, but that was a can of worm he was trying to not open in hope no one else figured out what he suspected – meant he had a rather big family. And while he had become the poster child of absentee fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers and so on, at least he could claim there was a proper reason for it, on the ground of having spent the last three hundred Mewnie years stuck in a giant crystal after his ex-wife had shot him in the chest with a butterfly of doom.

It still sucked to know he had missed most of his children's lives… with one exception, but that was just another can of worm he was trying to not open.

Really, why was being a believed dead revolutionary Hero that led decades of armed resistance against a genocidal regime led by a magical warrior princess that was also your ex so complicated?

"Kid, you are mumbling." Daigoro warned him. He almost jumped off his horse.

'Wait, you guys are still around?!' He asked.

"Nineth, where did you expect us to go exactly?" Nana asked.

'I don't know! I just thought magic had ruined the connection or something! You have been silent since we arrived!'

"To be fair, it did get harder to talk to you." En replied, "We spent the last ten days rebuilding the connection."

'Uh. Guess the difference between my twenty-one years old self and my forty-five years old self is the cause.'

"And imagine our surprise when we come back in full force and see you on a horse. Guess it's back to the old campaign."

"It's not a unicorn at least. Or a dragon-bike." The Third shivered.

"I still don't get why you are so scared of dragon-bikes…" En said.

'Oh joy, I forgot why having you guys back is a curse. The chatter is going to be insufferable…'

"Pfft, you love us!" Daigoro replied, "Who was there to help the Green Scar strategize the war all the time?"

"That would be me." The Second pointed out, "If I remember correctly, you were too busy being terrified of Solaria."

"That woman was a devil!"

'That devil was my ex-wife.'

"Your ex-wife was a genocider!" All seven of them said at once.

'… Point taken.' Izuku sighed, 'Uh, changing subject, how is the All Might Vestige doing?'

"Still fog."

'Hopefully that means All Might is still alive…' He sighed, 'Well, I got my immortal war council back. I take you know what we are doing?'

"We got the gist. Sounds like the Green Scar has one more war to fight." Yoichi commented.

'… Let's hope is just one battle.' The Green Scar replied. He could really do without getting thrust in another war.

"What's up?" Itsuka suddenly asked, making Izuku almost jump.

Again.

"The Vestiges are back, and they are feeling chatty." He replied, tuning off their answers, a skill he was always very happy to have learned.

"Ah. Well, I suppose you are at full strength now."

"No, no, I could still use their Quirks even before. What is back is their actual presence in my mind." He clarified, before shrugging, "So, are we on the right path?"

"Yep. Spidey says that the signal remains stable, so in two days we will be there. After that, we will take a day to scout and then we will strike."

"Works for me." Izuku replied, "What about the kids?"

"Itsumi and Dekiru?"

"Not that we have any other with us." The Green Scar replied, before frowning, "Unless you want to call Canary and Spidey kids."

"I can hear you." Canary replied, moving his own horse closer, "And I'm older here technically."

"I'm over three hundred, depending how you count." The Green Scar replied.

"Well I'm around two hundred in canary years." Canary replied with a smirk.

"You… What?"

"A twenty-seven years old canary is 196 years old by their perspective. Which also means there usually aren't twenty-seven years old canaries." Canary replied.

"Why do you know that?"

"Random facts stick in my mind." Canary said, "It's a sub-effect of my Quirk, I think. Since my Quirk is made to make me remember lyrics, I guess short blurbs of text end up falling in a similar category and get stored in my mind."

"Sounds annoying." The Green Scar replied.

"Eh, it's not like they are always in the forefront of my brain. I just recall them more easily." He smiled, "Anyway, if you want to know, I think Dekiru is doing well. We still haven't nailed landing in his home world, but the new exercise we are doing seems promising. I think it won't take long for him to make it."

"That's great." Itsuka replied with a nod, "As for Itsumi, she is learning. Her new weapon works well, her fighting style is adapting to her new gadgets, and she is doing her best. Actually… She has even asked to learn Zhandou Quan."

"You said no." The Green Scar said.

"I did. Not because I'm offended or anything. I'm actually flattered she would be interested. But the fact is, it would take a long time to teach her, time she doesn't have. That we both don't have. The only alternative would be having some sort of exceptional, superhuman intellect and adaptability, to speedrun through the process, but she acknowledged she doesn't have that. She is working with Ojiro now though. He is teaching her some more magic, I think."

The Green Scar smiled, "She is keeping herself busy."

"Yeah. I think it's a way to feel useful." She sighed, "Considering her situation, I don't blame her."

"It's pretty bad. I really think we should help her."

"Oh, we will. I'm not giving up the chance to punch another All for One in the face." Itsuka grinned, "Well, back to formation, we need to make sure we don't get ambushed." She added, "Dekirn is scouting as always, but…"

"But it's better safe than sorry. I agree." Canary replied, moving to the side, his pet canary landing on his head.

"I'm going back too." Itsuka added, and she drifted away. The Green Scar watched her go and shrugged.

"Izuku, you aren't-"

'Two marriages are enough Daigoro.' Izuku cut off that line of questioning. He wasn't interested. He had been married twice, once mostly happily – until it ended with her accusing him of treason and slamming him in a dungeon, and not the funny kind – and once happily to the end, though he never got to enjoy the peaceful part of his life with her.

"I wouldn't judge…"

"I absolutely would." Nana replied, "But I think he is honest."

"Is she, though?" En asked.

"En!"

"I'm just saying, just because he is off the market, it doesn't mean she would know…"

He sighed as the Vestiges descended once more in a discussion about his personal life.

Sometimes he really hated One for All.

-x-

My name is Izuku Midoriya. I go by Clockwork lately, but not by choice.

I was born Quirkless in Musutafu, Japan. At fourteen, I met All Might, the Symbol of Peace, who passed his Quirk to me after ten months of harsh training. I joined UA, survived the USJ, took part in the Sports Festival, fought Stain, saw my Hero lose his Quirk at Kamino, and a lot of other stuff like that, until I was sixteen.

Then one day I woke up in a clearing in the middle of the woods, in a different timeline where Izuku had vanished the same day he- I- we were supposed to receive One for All. And suddenly, I was just there, a few months later, essentially taking his place for some weird, inexplicable event.

I've decided to try to find a way home, of course, but I also want to give closure to the people from that world.

I will find that Izuku, alive or dead.

I will give my mother and Kacchan the closure they need, if my fears are proven right.

I'm Clockwork. And while I hadn't planned to be that, I will accept it.

Clockwork panted, his body surrounded by the energy of One for All, as it had been for the last few hours. "Never though I'd say this, but I really, really hate having One for All." He commented. Izmird hummed, not giving any response.

"So you say you can only access this… Blackwhip, you called it." He said instead after a moment.

"You are sure Teleport is not among your powers."

"I'm sure. Unless the Second or Third had it, but I just can't know that." He replied again, grimacing. The order to 'not lie to me or Izmird about your abilities' that Arkin had given him was forcing him to blurt out everything.

"And so far only this… Blackwhip has come out."

"Yes!"

"Good to know, good to know." He paused, then nodded, "I think I have everything. You are dismissed."

Izuku sighed in relief, stopping One for All and stashing it away. Turning to leave, he saw a waterskin pressed centimeters from his face, held up by Piper. Well, held up was a weird comment, considering that the kid, despite being at least a year younger than Clockwork was, was almost the same height. Either Izuku had overestimated his own growth, or he was just naturally taller than he was at his age.

Of course, he had already asked everyone of the Izuku there if one of them came from his same world. Many of them came from similar worlds, but all of them had gone back home to see mom again after… whatever happened to the Izuku he was looking for that day.

A part of him was relieved, admittedly. It would have been pretty weird if the answer to 'what happened to the other me?' was 'Oh, he landed somewhere in the Multiverse, like, he was isekai'd."

The rest of him was just sad, because it meant there was potential to near infinite hiding spots, if somehow his other self got involved with the Multiverse. Unlikely, but in a universe of Quirks, anything could be.

He sat down as soon as he reached a chair, and found Paladin lean against a wall, his face covered in sweat and his armor didn't seem to be comfortable. "Pretty harsh, isn't he?" Paladin asked, breaking his train of thought.

"Definitely. And in love with the subject." Paladin replied with a tired smirk of his own.

"Guess he has to be a fan of something if he is an Izuku." Clockwork replied, and Paladin laughed genuinely. Izuku let go a tired sigh, "So. Isekaid twice?"

"That one was a joke. I counted this Summon as the second time."

"Right, because getting Isekaid once is much more normal. Happens to everyone once in a while."

"Didn't you get sent to a different timeline?" Paladin asked.

"That's not Isekai. It's time travel."

"I'm actually not sure…" Paladin frowned, "Anyway, yes, I was sent to a fantasy world."

"How did that happen?" Clockwork asked, genuinely curious.

"Got run over by a truck." Paladin deadpanned.

"… You are joking. I refuse to believe Truck-kun did us in."

Paladin this time grinned, "Got me. No, but seriously, it happened during my fight with Overhaul. I remember fighting with Eri on my back, beating Overhaul, her power going berserk, and then, a while later, I woke up in another world."

"Are you telling me if Eri resets you to zero you actually get sent to another world?" Clockwork asked.

"I wouldn't try." Paladin replied, "I might be special, or maybe it's just the Eri of my world."

"I really don't plan to." Clockwork said, deciding to shelve the 'alternate reality' theory. Assuming the other Izuku wasn't dead, there was no point in investigating the option of him having ended up in another world, if it required for him to essentially get killed by Eri's Quirk or a random other event.

No, he had to hope Izuku was still somewhere out there, dead or alive.

And he would find him.

He promised he would.

(XX)

Guests:
Captain Kamino from Kamino's Ward by tunafishprincess
Argali from Sheep go to Heaven by Dramatic_Spoon
The Green Scar and Princess Usagi from The Green Scar worldbuilding thread by Quantum01 and The Green Scar by Pro-man
Canary from Canary by cloud_nine_and_three_quarters
Clockwork from A Spanner in the Clockworks by All_five_pieces_of_Exodia
We also have mentions of Revenant from Locked in Digital, Spider-Man based on Amazing Fantasy, and Dekiru from Dekiru: The Fusion Hero.

Man, we always have a lot of guests lately. I suppose it's a sign of how many people have been nice enough to allow me to use their fics as crossovers.
Or of the fact I just like to have people interact. Whichever you believe.

So, Deku won, Usagi won, and that means we are now going into the Top 32 almost at full force (alas, we lost Shinomori, but against the Battlemaster that was probably unavoidable).

Which means, next up, a certain match is coming, one that has been eagerly awaited. It's the match of supersoldiers, one created by medicine, the other by torture.
Captain Kamino v Revenant is coming, start to place your bets.

Meanwhile, we also look more into the Fantasyverse. With that conflict reaching the boiling point soon, I believe it's only right to look at the people involved, so expect similar looks into them as we continue. There are still some surprises there, some I'm sure you will greatly enjoy. Stay tuned for more DitM and see you all next week!