AN: Hope you all enjoy, this really blew up. I added all the suggestions from the first chapter onto my list of things to do (some were already on the list so will be getting done earlier) bringing it up to 19, give or take. I've listened to feedback and I hope I've improved. I'll be updating Mistakes soon, but since this is new I decided to get one more chapter out before the next update. If you all enjoy my writing style, please check out that story and let me know what you think!
Chapter 3:
"Thanks, Yaomomo!" Toru cheered as she hugged the raven haired girl, as the vice-president finished making a set of folding chairs, one for each person.
"It's no problem." The taller girls reassured as she sat down, slightly winded.
"Your control over your quirk has gotten better." Aizawa stated as he sat calmly in his own seat "Good job."
"Aw, you made Dadvawa proud!" Mina laughed, leaning back in her chair while grinning widely.
"Stop calling me that." Shota growled, activating his quirk to glare at his pink skinned student.
"Now, now" Nezu said with a smile, standing on his chair "Let's just move forward, no sense in wasting time arguing."
"Nezu's right!" Midnight giggled as she covered her mouth "So let's just get this show going."
"Right!" Mei loudly proclaimed, rocking in her seat "Play universe!"
'Realm display function engaged, prepare universe MCU15458DS-IM-VS-D. Visual loading… Audio loading…' replaced the static as the group looked at the screen.
"I wonder what those letters and numbers mean…" Ectoplasm asked with a slight head tilt.
"Prolly just some kinda organization method or somethin'." Snipe answered, leaning back as well.
"Shh, it's starting." Hizashi ironically silenced the two while bouncing in excitement.
Izuku gazed around, marveling as the sky danced with a mysterious energy as planets seemed to float around above. The green haired man steeled his goatee face as he looked down at his wrist, drawing attention to his outfit: blue robes with three gray belts and a crimson cloak, all held together by a golden amulet. The man waved his hand gently over his wrist, watching a trail of mystic, green energy formed around it with the motion.
"Where, in the fuck, is he?" Bakugou shouted with a raised eyebrow.
"It looks like space on drugs!" Sero laughed only to stop, abruptly, as Iida and Aizawa glared at him.
"Maybe it's some cool over dimension or something!" Uraraka gushed, staring with sparkling eyes at the cosmic scene.
"But what is that light?" Yaoyorozu mumbled with a calculating look "His quirk?"
"Maybe, or maybe not." Nezu giggled "This is an entirely different world, it could be a quirk, or it could be something completely different."
"Well, it does not sparkle like moi!" Yuga Aoyama praised, striking an overly eccentric pose.
The world behind Izuku suddenly ignited into light as the man turned around. Midoriya looked up at the light, his amulet glowing green, as the energy moved back, revealing the light to be a single eye of an enormous humanoid being. The colossal entity towered over the comet that Izuku stood on and scowled down at the man, magical flames engulfing its head.
"What mad banquet of darkness is this?!" Fumikage Tokoyami gasped as he watched the creature reveal itself.
"I think that's Tokoyami for 'Holy fuck'!" Mina translated, no one commenting as they looked on with a mixture of horror and worry.
"And I thought Mount Lady was big!" Mineta screeched, trembling in his seat.
"Is Deku going to fight that?" Eri squeaked as she leaned into Mirio, whom protectively put his hand around her.
Izuku leapt from one asteroid to another, approaching the massive being with a quick glance at the green ring around his wrist, before shouting "Dormammu, I've come to bargain!"
"You've come to die! Your world is now my world! Like all worlds!" Dormammu roared in a tone of ancient power, leaning forward. Izuku quickly formed two orange disks as large, purple spikes rained from above, forcing the green eyed man to dodge and block the barrage. Dormammu opened his mouth and fired an enormous, purple beam at the man. Midoriya barely had time to bring a disk to block it, the force of the attack forcing him down to his knees.
"Gah!" Izuku screamed as he struggled against the energy as sparks raining past his shoulder, only to be overwhelmed and for the purple power to vaporize him as it plowed through everything in its path.
"Midoriya!" the majority of the class yelled out in horror, Bakugou and Todoroki staring slack jawed at the screen.
"D-Deku…" Uraraka gasped as her eyes swelled with tears, matching the rest of her classmates.
"Wh-what kind of power does that thing have…" Kaminari stuttered in fright.
"That's… so not manly…" Kirishima mumbled, as he stared horrified.
"Some opponents just can't be reasoned with…" Mirio sighed as he hugged a now sobbing Eri.
Purple particles filled the air around the crevice left from the attack before everything seemed to freeze in place. Then, the world itself seemed to move in reverse, the attack reappeared, followed by Izuku. The prior events replayed in reverse order, all the way to the moment Izuku waved his hand over his wrist and created the green ring.
"Wait, what?" Toru croaked as everyone stared at the screen in confusion.
"Um, was that supposed to happen?" the normally silent, Mezo Shoji spoke up as the group tried to figure out what just happened.
Izuku leapt from one asteroid to another, approaching the massive being with a quick glance at the green ring around his wrist, before shouting "Dormammu, I've come to bargain!"
"Who, the fuck, hit replay on this shit!?" Bakugou roared as he jumped from his seat "What kind of sadistic bastard even installs a rewind feature like this!?"
"Midoriya, just run, we already know how this ends!" Yaoyorozu pleaded with the screen, tears fresh in her eyes.
"You've come to die! Your world is now my-…" Dormammu began to growled, cutting himself off with a look of confusion before glaring at the green haired man "What is this? Illusion?"
"No, this is real." Izuku replied with no hesitation.
"Good!" the massive entity announced before two spikes shot out of the darkness and pierce Midoriya through the chest, his final breath quickly leaving him.
"Oh, god!" Mina shouted, her pink face going pale.
"This is… messed up…" Jirou breathed as several students looked ready to vomit, herself included.
"Why… Why are we even watching this?" Shino Sosaki, the Pro Hero: Mandalay asked as she felt sick, rubbing Kota's back as he buried his face into her side.
"Should we try turning it off?" Hizashi questioned, a pained frown scarring his face.
"No." Aizawa replied sharply, watching the screen with barely hidden rage "Something is happening…"
"I agree." Nezu replied solemnly, his usual cheery tones gone "Not everything is how they appear."
The screen rotated until Izuku's corpse disappeared from view before Izuku leapt from one asteroid to another. The green haired man approached the massive being with a quick glance at the green ring around his wrist, before shouting "Dormammu, I've come to bargain!"
"Okay, what, the fuck, is happening!" Bakugou yelled as they watched the scene begin again.
"Deku, please just leave!" Uraraka begged, unable to stand the sight of her friend dying.
"You-…" Dormammu growled before looking around in confusion "What is happening?!"
"That's what we wanna know!" Toru shouted, earning nods of agreement from everyone present.
"Just as you gave Kaecillius powers from your dimension, I've brought a little power from mine!" Izuku answered while motioning to the world around them before gesturing to the green ring floating around his wrist "This is time; endless, looped, time!"
"You dare!" Dormammu roared as he raised his arm above his head and brought it down on the human.
"Oh, f-" Izuku began to sigh before being crushed.
"S-so they are in a different dimension…" Uraraka choked out, struggling to understand what was happening.
"And that ring is time from Earth." Nezu confirmed with a nod "Midoriya was able to; somehow, create a loop where every time he dies it restarts him at a set point."
"Like a save point?" Sero asked in confusion "Like from a video game?"
"Accentually." The principal nodded, his smile returning with grim undertones.
"But, wait, if that were the case, then…" Yaoyorozu began, her watery, onyx eyes widening with realization.
"He'd remember every time this happened." Nezu continued with sadness "He remembers and feels every time he dies…"
"Dormammu, I've come to bargain!" Izuku announced as he checked the ring around his wrist.
"You cannot do this forever!" Dormammu proclaimed, glaring at the human.
"Actually I can." Midoriya countered, gesturing around "This is how things are now! You and me, trapped in this moment endlessly!"
"Wh-why would he do this?" Todoroki finally spoke, shaken from watching his friend be killed twice.
"He had to of known this would happen…" Ojiro sighed, his voice trembling as the adults dropped their heads.
"Sometimes… Heroes have to make sacrifices…" Toshinori mumbled, rubbing the injury on his side that had ended his career.
"Then you will spend an eternity dying!" Dormammu growled, lowering his face to the mortal.
"Yes…" Izuku said with his head down before looking at the giant "But, everyone on Earth will live!"
"Deku, there has to be another way!" Uraraka cried, hoping to help this version of her friend.
"Yeah, man, you've never given up before, why start now!?" Kirishima roared, barring his sharp teeth at the screen.
"But, you will suffer!" Dormammu stated, pulling away slightly.
Izuku looked into the distance before looking at the monster once more, with tears in his eyes and croaking "Pain's an old friend…"
"Why… did he sound so… sad?" Mina whispered, her heart breaking at the sound and confession.
"We… don't know what these versions have been through…" Yaoyorozu sighed, making a silent vow to protect their Izuku from such agony.
"… They said something about that in the last world… 'What terrible wrong was done to you to set you on this path?'…" Iida quoted as he dropped his head in shame "… We were all too concerned about the bomb to even realize what that meant..."
Dormammu unleashed another beam without hesitation, disintegrating Izuku instantly.
"Dormammu!" Midoriya shouted before the screen showed him being impaled once again.
"I've come to bargain!" Izuku finished as he walked forward again.
"Stop, please, just stop…!" Toru gasped as she turned away from the screen, her fellow students doing the same.
"Mirio… can't you help him?" Eri asked as tear ran down her cheeks and onto the ex-student's shirt.
"Eri…" Togata began, trying to find the right words before sighing "… I'm sorry…"
"End this!" Dormammu growled, flinging another asteroid at the man as he walked forward.
"Dormammu!" Izuku said as he marched forward again.
"Dormammu!" and again.
"Dormammu!" and again.
The screen showed the ground beneath Midoriya's feet morph into spike and pierce through him. Then, the screen flashed to green tentacles springing from nearby cracks and ripped Izuku apart. Then, the display showed red chains quickly wrapping around the man's neck, snapping it. Finally, the screen showed Izuku blocking miniature, purple beams with the same orange disks before one broke through, vaporizing him. Midoriya gasped as he collapsed in his reset location.
"How… how many times did this happen…" Jirou shuttered, hands clasped over her mouth as her face turned deathly pale.
"Shota… Don't you think this is going a bit too far?" Present Mic asked in a hushed tone as he looked at the man seriously.
"…" the black haired teacher said nothing as he stared at the large being with pure rage, he knew there was a chance they'd end up seeing much worse, but there was nothing they could do.
"You will never win." Dormammu stated as he watched Izuku gasp and struggle to get up.
"No… but I can lose… again… and again… and again… and again forever…" Midoriya gasped as he pushed himself to his feet, his voice gaining power with each movement "And that makes you my prisoner."
"What, the hell, is the point of a prisoner if you're the one getting tortured, Dumbass!" Katsuki roared as sparks flew from his palms.
"He's already said why." Nezu answered calmly, earning a mass of confused looks "He said he's 'come to bargain'."
"No!" Dormammu growled as he sent a wave of spikes piercing through Izuku.
"Stop! Make this stop!" the large entity demanded as Midoriya leapt back onto the asteroid floating before him "Set me free!"
"No!" the human declared as he calmly walked up to the colossus "I've come to bargain!"
"You were right." Aizawa said as he relaxed in his seat, scarf covering his mouth.
"But what is he bargaining for?" Sato said as he scratched the side of his head, a deep frown on his face from watching his classmate suffer.
"What do you want?" Dormammu growled as he threw his head dangerously close to the human.
"Take your zealots from the Earth, end your assault on my world and never come back!" Izuku declared as he made a sign with his hands "Do it and I'll break the loop!"
"… He did it… Even after d-dying so many times… He never gave up… he won…" Mineta gasped, awed by Izuku's willingness to self sacrifice, even across worlds.
"… Huh… Hell of a kid you got there…" Tiger said in shock, not bothering to hide the fact he was impressed.
"His recklessness seems to expand space and time…" Aizawa grumbled, hiding his smile behind his scarf "… Fantastic…"
"Deku's the best…" Eri whispered with a small smile as she dried her tears on Mirio's sleeve.
The world was frozen. The screen showed people frozen mid step to food held in the air. The first sign of motion came as a man in dark combat robes pushed himself onto his feet, while turning to another man struggling to get up and shouting "…Get up, Midoriya… Get up and fight… We will finish this…"
The other man looked at him in confusion, Izuku missing from the picture, as he sprung to his feet and faced a man, flanked by two dark robed subordinates, with black markings around their eyes and the man wearing yellow robes.
"Why is he telling Midori to get up when he's not even there…?" Mina asked with a head tilt, her eyes still slightly damp.
"They were messing with time…" Shoji said as his tentacle morphed into a mouth.
"Isn't it beautiful…? A world beyond time… Beyond death…" the dark eyed man stated dramatically as he walked forward, only for Izuku to float down behind him, prompting the man to turn and face him "… What have you done?"
"I made a bargain." Izuku said, seriously as the screen remained on the man, just before he looked down at his hand.
"… What is this?" The yellow robed man demanded as the display revealed his hand beginning to turn to ash.
"Well… It's everything you ever wanted… Eternal life as part of the One…" Izuku answered before shaking his head with a chuckle "You're not going to like it…"
"'Part of the One'? What does that mean?" Kaminari groaned as he scratched the side of his head, frowning at the screen.
"Well, Midoriya did say that Dormammu had to remove his zealots…" Nezu sighed, shaking his head "… I believe… We've just discovered who those zealots are…"
"Gah!" Kaecillius and his minions screamed as their bodies rapidly turned to dust and flew into the sky, entering the cosmic world where Izuku died so many times.
"You know… he really should have stolen the whole book, because the warnings…" Izuku sighed as he watched the villains disappear "… come after the spells…"
"'Spells', so those powers were magic?" Momo gasped, realizing just what this version's powers were.
"Dude, he's a wizard! That's so manly!" Kirishima roared in excitement.
"… Are we just going to ignore Izuku just sent those guys to the place where he died a bunch…?" Ojiro asked, dropping his head in realization.
"… They were zealots of that being, meaning they were probably responsible for it coming there and the reason he had to sacrifice himself…" Aizawa assured his class as many began to deflate at the news "They brought this upon themselves…"
The heavier set man began to chuckle before it quickly evolved into full blown laughter as Midoriya gave him a questioning look, before the laughing man sighed "Oh, that's funny!"
Izuku shrugged at that before he raised his arm to the sky, a green magic circle appearing before his hand. Twisting his arm to the side with great effort, the space around them began flowing in reverse. Rubble flew back into place as the crack in the sky shrunk before disappearing. Time seemed to begin again as people began to move as the screen turned to static.
"So, that's it, then?" Sato asked as he leaned into his seat, smiling as he watched the static, happy his classmates gamble paid off.
"Guess so…" Tsuyu said as she frowned at the screen, worried that her friend was forced to sacrifice himself repeatedly.
"… What a mad banquet of darkness…" Tokoyami sighed as he closed his eyes, shaking his head.
"So… who's ready for the next one?" Kirishima grinned, eager to see more.
