Justice Across Time and Space
Chapter 2
To those who may be questioning my aggressive put down of quirks from my OC lead, it is honestly from a point of seeing major problems with too many people having far too many powers. For anybody who has seen the Incredibles, Syndrome's speech about the fact that when "everyone is super no one is" is a very good point and a problem that most of that world deals with more than they even care to look at. And it seems like their powers warp their minds as well, in contrast to the world of like the X-Men where the mental problems or anger or similar are from experiences rather than the effect of their power. Two good examples are from the villains where you get Toga who is clearly influenced by her blood-based quirk, and Tabe from the Yakuza who has been warped by his Food quirk drove him insane. And I personally dislike the whole cheapening what it means to be a hero. I may get more into that for a later chapter but that is not why you came here. You're here to read about a hero.
(Izuku POV)
After I accepted the chance to gain All Might's power and to train under him, I began a painstaking path to improving my body. Because as All Might put it: if I gained the power and tried to use it now, I'd probably blast my arms off and die. So, I began my training to build up the power to inherit the greatest hero's quirk.
During the ten months to build up my strength I noticed an unusual pattern with reports and the news. Every so often as a big bust was being reported, both in country and a few overseas, often by the time the heroes showed up some other witnesses reported that someone had already taken down the criminal group that was the focus. There were a few heroes who tried to profit or take the credit for this but later some of the same heroes were later arrested for other various charges.
While many were disturbed and frankly terrified by this strange vigilante who was targeting all sides (who apparently had enough strength to take down large and imposing villains with little effort), many more were praising the fact that crime rates in certain areas were going down. On the flip side there was a boost to heroes who had shown not just great compassion on patrols and such but also in more quiet moments doing simple things like what I was doing for my training: cleaning up a location or even just helping in small ways.
Another strange point for those heroes was how some of the villains were restrained or captured. A few of them appeared to be just tied up with ropes, string or (strangest of all) rings or bands of light. And the more curious part is the same thing tying the villains up disappeared when the police had them in the maiden (yes that is what it was called when they arrested AFO). I kept thinking back to that strange guy who not only told All Might off, but also pulled off an attack identical to one All Might himself would use.
But I had no time to mull over these thoughts much. I had to improve fast enough to prove I was worthy of All Might's trust in me. He may have said otherwise and told me I needed to rest so I wouldn't burn myself out, but I needed to prove it to myself. More than anything. And on the day of the entrance exam to UA I had done it.
With a shout as I finished with the last pile of garbage to be loaded on the truck, I heard All Might exclaim "holy. Stinking. SUPER CRAP!" and once he came up to me, he told me "Look at you. This was you ten months ago and now look what you've accomplished and built for yourself. You are more than ready to inherit my power." When I told I felt so lucky for this chance, he responded with a simple statement:
"There is a difference between being lucky and deserving. One is an accident, the other is because you have earned it." As I was crying at this, he proceeded to pluck one of his hairs and then said, "Now eat this!".
And thus, all my expectations and frankly everything I was expecting for gaining the greatest power ground to a halt. While this was happening, and All Might explained that you needed to have the previous holder's DNA to mix with a new holder by eating it to transfer, a pair were watching over both of us from the tree line. Once I had eaten the hair and All Might said it would take a few hours to digest and gain it that was when they called out.
(no POV)
"So, you're just gonna send him in kinda blind to try and figure out how this works and haven't considered how he can fight at all have you?" Izuku and All Might hear from the tree line and see the young dark-haired man that talked to them about the problems of quirks and the society they built over ten months ago. As All Might is freaking out about the prospect of someone else knowing more about One For All, the young man calms him down saying "Relax dude I've got my own set of secrets. And as dumb as the general population usually is, do you really think they'd even believe me if I said anything?"
With this statement given All Might asks the big question that has been on his a few other heroes minds: "Why haven't we been able to find you or your accomplice down?" "Seriously? Look at me. I'm not that overly descript to begin with. I may be a bit tall compared to most from Asian regions but even then, I'm not overly flashy with how I do things like you. Hardly anyone would look twice at a tall guy with dark hair." Izuku pipes up next saying that "he has a point. Even when he unleashed that big punch like you would do he didn't call out a name of an attack or anything like that. And it wasn't like too many people got good footage of that whole incident. He could just hide easily in the crowd."
All Might shakes his head in resignation and leads with "Fine but what are you doing here? And with what you said it isn't like I really have enough time to teach him enough to use my power properly. The exam is this afternoon and he still has to wait to digest and gain the power."
Even with his sunglasses on, they can just feel the withering 'Really? Really?' look coming from the teen. He lets out a sigh and says "what if we could give you a little more time to get a feel for what you can do?" "We?" says All Might but Izuku says "wait do you mean that woman that appeared with you?"
Right he asks this they all hear a spectral "well I'm not really a woman right now." And appearing out of smoke is an attractive teenage girl with blue skin floating in the air. She appears in what looks akin to a belly dancing get up, which makes Izuku blush like mad and All Might turns away out of trying to not look like a creep.
The young man just sighs and says "you're wearing that belly dancer get-up to screw with them aren't you?" The girl laughs and says "I couldn't resist messing with them! They're both just so serious!"
"While I don't disagree, and frankly their reactions are hilarious, let's tone it down so we don't seem totally crazy." He says with an eyebrow raised and playful smirk. "Oh, all right." The girl changes into a what appears to be a red tank top with a black long-sleeved button up shirt over it. Her lower half though looks as if she is wearing harem pants, with sneakers strangely enough.
It is once she is done changing All Might finally asks the big question: "Who are you two?!" With that the young man has a look that basically says 'oh yeah we never got that far'. "Well ladies first; my name is Sahii… I mean Saphentite," the young man snorts and retorts "Really?"
"And your name young man?" All might pointedly asks. To which he says "My name is Jo-Joh… sunvabitch. You can call me Jotaro" To which 'Saphentite' gives him and even more withering look saying, "and you laughed at my allias". All Might wants to keep pushing them, but he knows they may not have the time and he wants to know what they are after.
"So why is it you want to help Izuku, let alone me? You seem to have a serious dislike for quirks and our hero society. So, what is in this for you?" All Might questions, to which the pair look at each other and the young man leads off. "The kid has what is in his heart to really be a hero. Not just a fool who is chasing fame or glory. Or like some of the dumb animals who want to play with their little tricks. He's not in it for himself but to help and save lives for the simple fact of saving lives." 'Jotaro' says with a straight face one radiating confidence and a straightforward mindset.
While All Might has more questions, he does acknowledge the fact that they could both be here to help. "Then how do you intend to give Young Midoriya the time he needs to grow into this? It's not like you can just stop time for just us." To this he sees Saphentite smile while Jotaro raises and eyebrow and grins saying, "who says we can't?" While All Might is processing this Izuku starts of a crazy mumble spree trying to figure out all he has seen and heard both unusual figures say. To which Jotaro gets in from of his eyes and claps to snap him out of it.
Once that is done, he says to Saphentite "so think you can do it?" She looks to him saying "well the question is for how long and what are you expecting me to pull energy from to do use this spell? I can't just plop a temporal field down willy nilly and expect everything to work out."
Jotaro responds matter of fact "you can pull from my energy to make the field. And lets' give him another six to eight months to train. That way there isn't too much strain on me, and we can get in the training he definitely needs."
Saphentite looks at him with worry saying "are you sure? It'll take even longer for you to recover if we do that." "I'm sure. I trust you and I know I'll be fine." He says with a small smile. Once this little moment has passed between the two All Might calls out "WHOA WAIT A MINUTE?! Did she just say spell and taking energy from you? How is any of that possible?!"
Jotaro just smiles looking at All Might and says, "remember what I told you before? 'There are greater things than are dreamt of in your philosophy and in your sciences.' There is more out there than you know." With that said Saphentite places her hand on Jotaro's shoulder, waves her hand creating a circle in the air and snaps her fingers making a white flash surround all of them.
And that is where I will leave it for now. I know what some of you may be thinking on giving Izuku an extra six months means that he could unlock some more of his potential sooner. And that is the point. The fact is due to All Might not really understanding much more the symbolism and transmission of OFA he doesn't have a clue on how to instruct in a lot of ways. My OC's will be helping in a few ways with that. But, even though I have very few readers since it is my first story, I'm gonna leave a question for anybody who is reading this: Do you want to see the whole eight months of training before the exam or should I just go with a little sprinkled in at the start and toss in a few flashbacks during some of the later chapters. Reviews are very welcome. Oh and don't worry. I will get around to explaining the OC's a bit more later.
