Outsider Chronicles: Have Quirk, Will Travel

People often wonder whether there is a heaven or hell. I don't really know the answer, but I do know that being reborn can be a lot of fun. I should know. Born into a world of heroes during a golden age of powers, I thought I was in for a life not so different from my last one. Then I attended a gaming event in Madison and things got...strange.

...I regret nothing. This idea is basically going to be pure insanity from the first moment and will basically throw the entire Worm plot out the window. Why? You'll see. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

I bet few people think about what happens after death. I certainly didn't. Not until I died at least. After that, well, I sort of knew. See, I was reborn, and not into a boring, normal world either. No, my new world is one where fantasy is reality, where exceptional is the norm. It is a world where 80% of the population has some kind of supernatural ability, where the streets look like something out of a comic book. It is a world where, on the other side of the world, an apparently useless kid with no power of his own would one day become the world's greatest hero and carry a torch to the future.

However, this isn't the story of Izuku Midoriya, its mine. My name is Oliver Queen (Yes, I've heard all the jokes) and I never intended on becoming a hero. Oh, I had plenty of people suggesting it considering how showy and potentially useful my Quirk is, as well as the fact that my family were a rather famous hero team, but the idea of being a hero never really appealed to me. At least, not as my main career. Like many members of my family, I wanted to have another skill that didn't involve kicking people in the face. Unfortunately, that option was taken away from me in what had to be the strangest twist I'd ever heard of.

I was 15 at the time and a member of a professional team of gamers that had been formed by an old friend of mine from Middle school. I admit, I never thought I'd end up in a situation like that, but I couldn't pass up the chance when offered, if only because she teamed up with another friend and blasted me with double team puppy-dog eyes.

Still, it was a ton of fun and I got some new friends out of the bargain! True, Francis was a bit of a dick, but I usually just ignored him and Noelle, the team captain and founder, usually kept him under control.

Incidentally, you might be able to guess what happened by this point. No? Then let me fill you in on the Team as a whole.

The leader was Noelle Meinhardt, a cute, brown haired girl with incredible tactical skills and an equally horrible taste in men considering she was dating Francis. Her Quirk was Panacea, a form of Biokinesis that was, quite frankly, terrifying. She could do just about anything with biology, although it did require her to actually have some idea what she was doing. Generally, she just used it for healing obvious issues like cuts, broken bones and had once completely regrown a mans arm during a power testing event. She also had a Mutation Quirk in the form of turning her into what was essentially a Lamia. Basically, she had scales and was a snake from the waist down.

Next up was Francis Krouse, a teleporter who could switch the locations of two items of similar mass. Like I said, he was a dick and rather annoying, although to be fair to him, it wasn't intentional. He was just an annoying person by nature. He called his Quirk Trick Room.

Next up was Marissa Newland, more commonly known as Mars, who had the Quirk Sundancer, a Mutant type Quirk that essentially turned her body into living plasma she could control at will. The temperature could range from normal Human temperature to hotter than the sun and she usually wore a specially designed suit to help keep her form consistent and the temperature fluxuations that accompanied her mood in check. Despite the incredible strength of her Quirk, she hated the idea of being a Hero and generally avoided conflict wherever possible. Ironically enough, her favorite game was COD.

Jessica Manton is up next, a wheelchair bound red-head with the Quirk Genesis, the ability to create all kinds of twisted abominations out of her imagination. She could even possess her creations, putting her real body to sleep in the process. I'm still not entirely sure why she never asked Noelle to fix her legs, although I had a feeling it had something to do with the latters lack of actual knowledge of how to actually do it.

The backbone of the team was Luke Brito, a kid with the Quirk Gunshot, the power to imbue anything he touched with kinetic energy and send it flying at speeds faster than sound. Out of all of us, he was the only one out to become a Hero and was even gunning for UA.

Then there's Cody Oxton and I'll just say it, I can't stand the guy. I have no idea why Noelle thought it was a good idea to recruit him considering hes prideful, short tempered and arrogant, in addition to being a massive coward when it came to actual confrontation. His Quirk was called Snapback and allowed him to revert just about anything to the state and location it had been in three seconds ago. He liked using it to get a leg up in fights, but by this point, most people were expecting it and generally knew how to counter it.

Finally, there's me, Oliver and my Quirk, Illumination. It allowed me to manipulate photons, creating laser blasts, hard light shields and other constructs. I could also surround myself in an aura of light and fly at high speeds. I could even change the colours of my light, which was pretty neat, even if it did lead to nicknames like Disco Ball and Flashlight.

So yeah, in case you haven't figured out what happened to us during the last meeting of the year on the 21 of December, 2009, I don't think I can help you.

The first indication that things were going wrong was when the power went out. We barely had time to react to that before everything went white and started shaking. Once we could see again, it took a moment to register the fact that we were apparently plummeting out of the sky, despite the fact we were in a two story building.

"OLIVER, SHIELD!" screamed Noelle.

I didn't bother arguing, instead generating a bubble shaped barrier around us.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" shreaked Mars, clinging to the desk that was attached to the floor as the computer gear started lifting off.

I quickly surrounded it all with additional barriers and tossed them out before they could hurt anyone. As I did, I managed to glance out the window and saw what looked like a 15 foot tall angel flinging rocks at the crowd of barely visible people attacking her. I blinked.

"Wha…"

Then, we hit the ground.

I groaned as consciousness slowly returned to me. I opened my eyes and found myself looking up at Noelles concerned face.

"Are you OK?" she asked.

"I'll be fine," I said as I wiped away the trickle of blood from my nose, "But my shields aren't really meant to take an impact that big."

Noelle wince slightly.

"Sorry," she said.

"No need to apologize," I said, "Unless your responsible for somehow teleporting us into the skybox?"

The snake girl smacked me over the head and, well, she didn't stand up since her body didn't have the capability, but you know what I mean. I sat up and looked around, taking in the ruins and the loud explosions and sounds of fighting coming from a good distance away.

"Is everyone alright?" I asked.

"Yeah, mostly," said Francis, "Just a bit banged up."

"What in the world happened?" asked Mars, looking around nervously.

The fact a living star could become nervous was something I'd long become used to, although when I actually thought about it, it still seemed odd. I grunted as I got to my feet and lit up, my body radiating a rainbow of light as I lifted myself up far enough to see the fight that was going on. Sure enough, I found myself looking at the Simurgh busy kicking the snot out of the forces arrayed against her.

"See anything?" called Noelle.

"Yeah, a whole lot of stuff that tells me we're a long way from home!" I called back.

I floated back down and looked around.

"Hey, where are the others?" I asked.

Francis, Luke and Cody were conspicuously absent.

"They went to have a look around," said Jess.

"Fair enough," I said.

"Hey guys, look what we found!" called Luke as the other blokes came jogging back up.

Frances was holding a rather heavy duty looking case that, upon opening it, revealed that it was full of glass vials and paperwork. I took one look at it and groaned. Still, at least it wasn't needed. Our Quirks made powers unneeded and no one was hurt.

"What are they?" asked Jess, leaning over for a closer look.

"Apparently they can give powers," said Luke, who was reading the paperwork, "How does something like that even work? You can't transfer Quirks."

"I don't think these have anything to do with Quirks," I said, rubbing my eyes.

"Whats that supposed to mean?" asked Cody.

"Because we're not home anymore," I said.

Everyone stared at me.

"This is Madison," I said, "But unless I missed a report of a new Hero who can out muscle Almight and fly, I don't think its ours."

Cody snorted.

"So what, we've jumped dimensions?" he sneered, "Thats so unbelievably…"

He was cut off as a portion of wall suddenly shot up, revealing the pitched battle going on in the distance as Ziz used said chunk of wall to smack Eidolon away with incredible force.

"...oh," finished Cody weakly.

"Yes, oh," I said, "Now, lets get going."

"Wait, where are we going?" asked Luke.

"Anywhere but here," I said, "We need to find somewhere safe to figure out exactly where we are and if we can get home. Plus, I don't fancy getting caught up in that."

I jabbed a finger at the ongoing brawl.

"Fair enough."

Noelle cleared her throat and took charge.

"Olivers right," she said, "Jess, can you make something big enough to carry you and the others?"

"Leave it to me!" said the redhead with a salute and closed her eyes.

"What do we do with these?" asked Francis, indicating to the Vials.

"Well, anything that sounds too good to be true, probably is," I said, charging up a bolt in my hand, "Plus, we really don't need them."

I blasted the case to bits, sending bits of metal, glass and liquified Entity splattering into the barrier I formed around it.

"Little more warning next time," growled Cody as he uncovered his face.

I ignored him.

"Done!" said Jess.

Her latest creation looked a lot like what might happen if the Catbus somehow had a baby with a giant dragonfly and the resulting monstrosity was covered in tank armour. It would easily be able to carry all of us away and, hopefully, not get shot down.

"You don't do things by half, do you?" said Luke, sounding amused.

Cody scoffed and muttered something about weebs, but followed the others onboard, Francis carrying Jess as her body went limp and her construct started up.

"Not coming with us Oliver?" asked Noelle, pausing in the 'door'.

"Nah, I'll fly," I said, lighting up again and lifting off, "Come on, we should go before the fighting stops."

Noelle nodded and slithered onto the construct as Jess started flapping her wings until she lifted off and started following me as I banked away from the fight, making sure to keep out of sight as best we could with a glowing teen and a giant flying monster. Apparently, Ziz kept most of the attention on her because no one seemed to notice us as we left.

As we flew away from Madison, I started thinking. It was blatantly obvious that Canon had taken a running jump considering that Echidna would never be a thing, but I had to wonder just why Ziz had chosen to grab us, rather than the Canon Travelers. What was she planning? Or had something nudged her slightly so she grabbed us by accident? I don't think that'd be possible for her, but it was worth considering.

What was also worth considering was if Ziz had done anything to us. I didn't feel any different, but I'm pretty sure that was the point when it came to creating time bombs. We wouldn't know until it was to late. I'd just have to hope that the differences caused by us being dragged through would mean that her plans would fail.

I shook my head and focused on flying. I couldn't do anything about it for now, so I should focus on finding somewhere to set up shop for a while. I refocused on flying, speeding up now we were away from Madison, but making sure I didn't go so fast that Jess couldn't keep up. I could plan once we had a base.

Eesh, I do not like that ending, but it works well enough.

Well, this is certainly going to have some...odd results. Between Echidna not being a thing and three of the Travelers having completely different powers, things are going to be interesting later down the line.

I replaced Oliver because I couldn't be bothered to come up with an alternate power for him that would work as a Quirk. Plus, hes pretty useless as anything but a distraction from what I can tell. Now his powers work as a combination of Photon Mom's and Puritys.

Other than that, the other Travelers powers are functionally the same, other than Noelle who is now Panacea without the ability to scan those she touches.. And I suppose you could say the same for Sundancer because shes now a literal walking sun.

I gave those two Mutation Quirks because why the hell not?

Incidentally, the fact they arent technically Parahumans will play a role in the future and not just because its already completely changed everything.

Anyway, now thats done, I'm gonna sign out. Don't forget to leave a review!

EDIT: Due to some ideas I've had, I've made some slight modifications to this chapter. Nothing major, but it will have a rather impressive baring in the future.