Justice Across Space and Time

Chapter 4

Yeah so, these will be fast uploads as you might have noticed. Like I said in the previous I had this planned for a long time since I've had my own comic characters and universe made for a long time but never had the confidence to pitch it. And now that I've started, I don't plan on stopping. At least not anytime soon. Well, here's hoping that you all enjoy. Let's start the show.

(Izuku POV)

As I walked up the slope towards UA, I couldn't help but feel a swell of happiness and pride that I had the chance to do this. It was made even more possible thanks to my two newest friends 'Jotaro' and 'Saphentite'. I know their actual names now, but even though I knew their true names I'll probably stick to calling them by that. Habits die hard after all.

"Move your ass over Deku!" Speaking of which Kaa- No Katsuki is still the same. Yeah, those extra months helped with a few other things. Including realizing that I can't keep using him as a yardstick especially with what Jotaro showed and told me about heroism. He helped me to realize that the idea of winning isn't as straightforward as Katsuki likes to think it is. "Plenty of room to go around you know." After saying that he has this shocked and of course angry look on his face. "Why you worthless!" He readies to strike me, but I'm ready for it.

Or I would be. If Jotaro hadn't grabbed the hand he was going to strike with and says "Hey dumbass how about you save it for later. Not like you deserve to be here anyway." He turns around to lash out at whoever grabbed him but is a bit intimidated by this 6 ft tall brickhouse who stopped him. As such, he does the only thing his short-fused self can think of: he lashes out at Jotaro. Dumbass moment if I ever saw it.

"Who the Hell do you think you are!" He lets off an explosion point blank at Jotaro and it does…. Nothing. He doesn't even flinch and there's not even a singe on his clothes. To which he just responds, "Are you finished with your temper tantrum little baby?" And of course, Katsuki is dumbstruck that his 'almighty' quirk was completely useless. With that done, Jotaro lightly (especially for him) tosses Katsuki away.

"Remember what I said fool: save it for later. Otherwise, you'll find you have different issues to deal with." With that Katsuki huffs and basically stomps away like a kid told to go to his room.

"Whoa that was kinda intense." We both look behind and see a cute girl with brown hair, a permanent blush to her cheeks, and brown eyes who had apparently seen the whole thing. I was a bit dumbstruck that a girl would talk to me. I may have gotten used to Saphentite, but she is a bit more different given what we've been through. Jotaro takes a moment and elbows me back to earth. "Yeah we have a history. He's strong no doubt, and his drive to be a hero isn't bad. His big problem though comes from letting way too much praise spoil him."

"Well he'll probably get a wake-up call about it sooner or later." Jotaro says first then looking to the girl "so what's your name?" The girl is a bit surprised by the bluntness of the question and answers "Uraraka Ochaco. What about you two?" I'm stumbling a bit, but I manage to get out "M-M-Midoriya Izuku." And of course, Jotaro has no problem saying "Jotaro Svoboda. Just fyi I used my given name first. And good luck trying to pronounce my family name. It's Czech not German or English."

Uraraka seems a bit off put at his statement not to mention his way of referring to himself. Or maybe she's just a bit unsure how to go about it given not only what he just said but also how to pronounce his last name with a Japanese accent. Jotaro may speak fairly fluently but he still peppers a lot of other languages in when he talks. "Ok… um Jotaro-kun and Deku-kun?" I'm a bit surprised by what she said so I correct her gently, "Izuku, please or just Midoriya. That guy only calls me that as an insult. Because my name can also be read as useless."

"OH! I'm sorry I thought it was like Dekiru or I can do instead." She backpedals and gives a decent reasoning, so I take a bit to calm her down saying "Its ok. Not too many would find a positive spin for an insult so thank you." We both blush a bit and I'm honestly hoping the conversation can go bit longer but Jotaro brings us back to reality, "If you two want to get to know each other more, maybe save it for after the exam? Come on!" And with that we both realize he has walked off and follow his lead.

The exam itself isn't too hard. Saphentite made sure I could keep up my other studies. She seemed to appreciation my more analytical approach to things. Jotaro can figure out what a villain's plan is and can come up with a few ways to stop it, but he doesn't often think of a whole strategy. Though I think most of that is due to the generally overwhelming physical advantage he has. Not too unlike All Might.

But once that was over, we all went to the auditorium for the overview of the mock battle exam for the hero course. Part of me wanted to geek out about Present Mic giving the explanation, but I kept it in. Once the base explanation was done a tall student with glasses stood up with the question of what the fourth villain type was. But he couldn't just ask and started in on a spiel about duty and a few other things. Before saying to Jotaro, "and you! Why do you have your feet on desk? Are you disrespecting with exam and what it stands for?"

While I was afraid Jotaro would go off on the guy he kept his cool a retorted back, "And do you realize you're and obnoxious blowhard? In case you hadn't noticed, Mic was getting ready to talk more once everyone had absorbed the base 'rules' for the exam. And second did you even notice how big of a scene you've made? Between that ridiculous rant earlier and calling me out you've literally dragged all the attention to you. You doing this just to be famous or say you're gonna be the number one hero? Cause if so, I think you've got the wrong idea about a lot of things."

Before the bespectacled student could respond Mic spoke up, "All right that's enough listeners. Now you do both bring up a point, because yes, I was just waiting before continuing my explanation. However, neither of you needed to call each other out. The fourth type of villain is just an obstacle, like a thwomp in those old Nintendo games. It is worth zero points so its often better to just avoid it."

With that explanation done we each looked to our numbers for the battle fields. "Now all you listeners go to the busses to take you to your battlefields. Break a leg out there!" I was heading to site two while Katsuki was headed to site one. Before we headed out, I could see Jotaro smiling a bit, and I had a very bad feeling a lot of people were gonna be upset. But I couldn't worry about that now. I had my own exam to get ready for.

At battleground beta I saw Uraraka there as well, but I also saw the glasses wearing guy too. Given the engines in his calves I guessed he was probably a speed type of hero. As I passed Uraraka I told her good luck and just as the exam was about to start, I calmed my mind and thought back to those moments in the time bubble.

(Flashback)

Izuku laid crumpled on the ground with two broken legs and a broken arm barely conscious. "Well, that isn't entirely surprising" All Might said. Though his explanation at how to use it had been helpful to a point and Izuku had bulked up enough to not blow up his body, it still wasn't overly helpful for the long term. "And that is precisely why I wanted to give him a bit more time. Also, would this have happened to anybody who you transferred this power to?"

"Well probably not you given your capabilities but yeah. All of the previous holders of One For All had to dial in the amount of force the used or they'd break their bodies." Even through the sunglasses you all but see the annoyed look on Jotaro's face. "Ahhhh, all the more reason to question why all those idiots think quirks are a good thing. Ok, I'll help with healing as well and then we'll work on figuring out how to dial in the power. I'll admit I'm used to limiting myself on how much force I unleash but not for that reason."

As Izuku was being healed by the Jotaro and Saphentite, All Might saw his eyebrows raise at point during the treatment. At a meal the three had later a few (by their experience) days he questioned what surprised him. "Oh that. Yeah, he's more like you than you'd think All Might. I'll explain more later but both of you have much more potential than you believe. For now, we need to fully help you figure out how to use this quirk power of yours."

He set down his spoon and had me come to a different spot than where we usually spar. "During the few times you've been sparing with me, Saphee and All Might it seemed like you had managed to find the limit you can unleash at once without hurting yourself. Though it seems like you are only using it in parts of your body."

"Wait how can you tell?" Izuku asked. "I can sense energy, and it feels like you are just opening the flood gates in parts of your body. You're trying to release all the flood at once from a single gate, which is where the recoil comes in (or breaking the dam in want to continue the analogy). Luckily, you've figured out your limit, but you still keep using just parts of the dam."

"Then what do I…. Wait parts of the dam…. Flood gates…" Izuku started into a shorter mumble spree that ended with "That's IT!" Saphentite looked at him confused and asked, "what's it?"

"You're right. I'm only using parts of the dam to hold back a river. Instead of opening just one floodgate I need to open them all with the same small amount." With the explanation done Izuku did just that spreading the power he felt before across his body. There was a crackling of energy all around him. "Well now, I knew you figure it out, but I wasn't expecting this. Can you hold it?"

"I don't know how long." Jotaro smiled and said, "We'll work on extending later for now just get used to the feeling." Over time Izuku figured out how to hold the state longer and took to calling it Full Cowling. All Might gave him a thumbs up at the name but the other two rolled their eyes. Jotaro later had Izuku focus on meditating while holding the power. He later revealed he meditated to better limit and feel out his power and how much he could use. This would help Izuku in various ways later.

(Flashback End)

Izuku started gently breathing and started the power of OFA running throughout him. A few other examinees thought he looked stupid standing like that. But others noticed a calm focus that had appeared on his face. The second the doors opened, he rushed forward engaging a few one-point bots. While the others were still processing things, Present Mic shouted over the intercom, "There's no countdowns in real life! Get moving! The green kid is already racking up the points!"

As Izuku was running through the battlefield looking for targets he noticed a few of the other examinees' quirks. The first that caught his eye was a boy who fired a laser from his stomach. And just as he had figured the glasses boy was sprinting around at high speed with his engines. Uraraka surprised him somewhat, as she seemed to be lifting the robots and making them crash down. All the while Izuku was racking up point after point.

'Ok that's around sixty or so. I'll get a few more then- '. Suddenly he felt a rumbling throughout the battlefield and saw a huge robot rushing through. 'Are you kidding me?! That is supposed to just be an obstacle?! I better get clear before- '.

"Ow!" Izuku turned and heard a girl cry out. It was Uraraka. Her leg was pinned beneath some rubble and she was right in the path of the zero pointer. That's when Izuku's legs just started moving on their own again. He rushed past the glasses guy with a determined look. When he got to Uraraka he got the rubble off, but there wasn't time to run away. So, he did the next best thing he thought of he pushed most of his power throughout his whole body and punched the zero pointer so hard it fell over backwards. Even though he had used most of his power the recoil wasn't as bad as it had been the first time he used it.

In fact, he felt some of the damage healing a bit, but he wasn't sure how. Didn't change the fact he was falling faster than he could heal. He was about to throw a punch that could soften his impact when… SLAP! Uraraka slapped him across the face and removed his gravity. As he got closer to the ground, she released the weightlessness she had been maintaining. And promptly threw up.

Once that was done the Youthful Heroine Recovery Girl showed up and healed Uraraka's ankle and was about to help Izuku when she noticed who he was and that he had started to heal a bit. "Hmmm interesting dearie. You're healing yourself without having to think about it?"

"Yeah… I don't know what's going on." Izuku stated while he laid on the ground. He couldn't stand but he was at least conscious. "Well I'll help you finish what your quirk had already started." She proceeded to kiss Izuku's cheek and his limbs healed. But he wasn't exhausted. Tired or winded might be better to describe it. Which surprised Recovery Girl. She was not however surprised by what he said next: "Is Uraraka okay?" Recovery Girl smiled and said, "she'll be fine. Now how about a gummie for you."

It would be about a week or so before the results of the exam came back but Izuku felt proud of his achievements. Both in facing the villains and in saving even if it wouldn't net him any points.

I'm leaving it there for this chapter, but I'll be adding what Jotaro and Saphentite did during their exams next chapter. It'll probably add it in tomorrow or so. Now that I'm actually getting down to writing all of this.