As if one could kill time without wounding eternity
- Henry David Thoreau
With a hand out, reaching for the white haired child, glowing white and blue.
A tear falling from her eye, as her quirk begins to rewind everything.
Her mouth opens with a black tongue and he hears, "Save them, hero."
Jolting in his bed and grasping his chest, he looks out his window into the concrete jungle "Th-that didn't feel like a dream." He grasps his chest harder trying to calm himself down
"I-I got to go and . . ." Looking down at his hand covering his heart "there's something I got to do but. . ."
Looking towards his drawer where he keeps his gun
"Can I do it?"
He looks to his alarm clock and it reads 4:28 am. " At least I woke up around the usual time today." He taps the top of the alarm to make sure it doesn't go off later.
Walking out of his room he begins to organize the fridge to have the stuff he's going to cook with at the front so he won't have to later.
Crreeeak
Turning around towards the sound and goes into a crouching stance immediately, he notices it's his little sisters room and drops his stance "Hey kid, what are you doing up so early."
Rubbing her eyes and looking up to him "You're so loud."
Clicking his tongue "My apologies, but you have enhanced senses, everything is loud to you, why don't you wear the cancelling headphones we got you?"
"It's encumbersome"
It's cute that she thinks that big words makes her an adult "well yeah but you're going to be woken up otherwise, I'll ask around and see if there's a more comfortable brand okay?"
"Thank you Izzy." Smiling innocently she went to the fridge and grabbed some of the food to help him cook.
"It's only 4:30 something along lil' one, go back to sleep."
"I thought I told you, I'm training for UA." Oh right, Izuku forgot his sister was going to join him in UA.
"Well you better train hard, that way I can pester my mentor to let you join up on the internships and we can talk more often."
"Ugh, that old fart?" That alone gave izuku an aghast expression "I wanna intern with Mirko."
After being offended like that Izuku had to retort "Yeah well Mirko does not exactly match up with some of these other heroes, like gang orca could easily beat her."
If looks could kill Izuku would've died as soon as he was half way through that sentence "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that."
"Seriously, I could probably go toe to toe with her and still win."
That got on her nerves "how dare you! Mirko would destroy you faster than you could call uncle."
He of course knew this to be true but he liked to annoy his sister, so clicking his tongue he continued "Nahh, she'd lose to me." But he'd still like to keep her from killing him so he decided to lace his tone with sarcasm.
Looking at her elder brother incredulously "You know, sometimes I want to kill you."
Bellowing out laughter he looks to his shorter sister "You could try but neither you nor Mirko could beat me."
"I hate you."
"You love me almost as much as you love Mirko."
"Key word there is almost Izzy."
Glancing at the clock, Izuku looks back at his little sister "Oi, time to start training shortie."
Infuriated she looks up at her brother "I'm not that SHORT!"
"Please, in my class you'd be bottom 3, with Tokoyami being barely taller than you."
Groaning in anger she stomps off to start her training regiment.
Heh, more like a lot taller, he's 5'8 now, didn't think he had another growth spurt in him. Shame I can't train much more before getting a better reaction time.
But...
I should have the reaction time of my memories from the future, right?
Tossing up 9 dedicated miniature weights, what should be his limit at the time, he punches them all before they even begun to drop, sending them flying and thudding into the wall.
"Huh, I'm much faster than I should be, that means I might not have to resort to extreme measures."
That means I should be almost 4 times faster than usual, so now I can physically train again.
Getting his phone out of his pocket he goes to his contact list to call Ilda,
Ring, Ring
"Hello? Midoriya?" Midoriya can already tell he barely woke up, kinda feeling bad about calling at what some may call 'an ungodly hour'.
"Yeah I wanted to ask if you wanted to try something out at school during gym."
"Uh, yeah sure Midoriya, you could've just asked me during school hours instead but I respect your diligence and forethought."
Oh right, it's Ilda, he was still somewhat stricter at the time. He kinda misses older Ilda, a lot less strict, more generally friendly.
"Thanks, I guess? Anyways I'm pretty sure you're going to be surprised by... the surprise?" He didn't really choose the best word choices for that sentence but he got his point across "Anyways, I gotta go, start training you know?"
"Yes Midoriya, I should probably follow suit too."
Maybe I can save them all this time?
Ignoring the underlying thoughts he has been frequently making since waking up, he hangs up after giving his farewells.
And then he disassembles his basic store bought gun and puts it back into the drawer at a slightly higher new record speed of 1.7 seconds compared to 1.78.
Putting his clothes on in even less, and his shoes on even faster.
It is more of an after thought than anything that his quirk, Limitless Adaptation, allows him to do this, since he can't stop bettering his positive attributes.
He's already invulnerable to heat, shockwaves, and largely resistant to blunt forces too.
He can already spot something 750 feet away with ease and hear the maniacal principal maniacally laughing in his maniacal room while in class.
Although his quirk is only turned on by will, but an equal amount of will to that as blinking, unlike his sister that has a mutants version and can't turn it off, poor lass will be suffering greatly in a few years, at least with her basic senses, most else will degrade given time, unlike his quirk.
None of that matters to Izuku right now though.
Because he needs to go kill a hero.
Author Notes: Ah, a trope of dramatic irony in reverse! Something the character knows but we don't, lovely lil thing isn't it?
