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.

Right, so you might remember this little idea from a while back where I changed the world the Travellers came from to the MHA world. Well, this is basically the same idea, but more fleshed out and with plenty more things to make you go WTF. Just remember that this really isn't meant to be taken seriously. ONWARDS!

Chapter 1

My name is Oliver Queen. No, I'm not a rich brat destined to be trapped on an island or anything, the names just a coincidence. That said, I do live in a world of Superheroes, where Heroes and Villains are the norm and our streets look like something out of a comic book. I admit, I had a bit of a terrified moment when I came to after my birth (which I thankfully don't remember) and figured out what happened after I overheard my new Parents talking with my Aunts and realized that I was apparently in Brockton Bay...then My new Mum put the TV on and I was met by an image of a man with bulging muscles and blond hair doing an interview and talking about Quirks.

It took me a couple of months to figure out what was going on. Apparently, I had been reborn as the son of Lightstar and Fleur from New Wave...only the world wasn't Worm, it was My Hero Academia. In short, powers came from Quirks, most of the population had them, there were no Endbringers, no Scion and the PRT was the Government's office of Quirk Affairs and was run, not by Alexandria, but instead by Rebecca Costa-Brown, who wasn't a Hero in her off time, despite her powerful Quirk.

Naturally, the combination resulted in a few glaring differences. For one, the S9 wasn't as much of a threat because even Jack wasn't dumb enough to cause explicit trouble when doing so would get him dogpiled or worse, get All Might to show up. He'd already proven his stripes by helping take out the original incarnation of the S9. Another big difference was the fact that Brockton wasn't going to hell. A mix of the lack of need for an experiment in Cape feudalism and the fact that powers didn't have the conflict drive meant that the gangs just didn't have the ability to do anywhere close to enough damage. It helped that Lung was still in Japan, leaving what would have been the ABB as little more than a number of small, squabbling gangs that tended to get smacked down whenever they made to much noise.

As for the E88, well, they were an issue, but again, much less so. It probably helped that Purity never got suckered by Kaiser, likely due to her connections with New Wave. Oh yeah, I probably should have mentioned that, but she was actually my Mums sister. Wrap your head around that one. In short, the world was more dangerous than my last one, but infinitely less fucked than Worm.

That said, there were still a few similarities. For one, all of the BB Heros were still present, although instead of being, well, heroes, they were teachers at Wards Academy, which was America's answer to UA. Not that similar at all now that I think about it...

Anyway, one of the main differences was caused by the simple fact that Quirks are different from Shards. Oh, virtually everyone had powers similar to their Worm counterparts, including the Tinkers (although they weren't actually tech based), but there were still differences. The main ones were Eidolon, Crawler, Siberian, Vicky and Burnscar. Crawler was big, strong and hard to put down, but wasn't a bullshit adapter, the Siberian was actually a Hero and Mantons Daughter rather than a projection and had the Quirk 'White Tiger' that granted her the attributes of a Tiger, Vicky's powers lacked the aura, but were otherwise identical and Burnscar wasn't driven insane by her own power which, again, meant she wasn't part of the Nine. In fact, the only reason I knew her powers were different was that she was a famous Quirk psychologist of all things. As for Eidolon, well, he had the distinction of being the one and only Hero to graduate from any Hero Academy and become a successful Hero, despite not having a Quirk of his own. Needless to say, he was quite the celebrity.

Speaking of Quirks, mine was...interesting. As you can probably guess, it was Light based like the rest of my family, taking the form of the ability to absorb certain types of energy and convert it into the same type of kinetically charged light as the rest of my family used I could then use to either boost my strength or fire as energy bolts. I couldn't fly, which was a shame, but I could generate a decent amount of thrust with my light. On a side note, when I used my power, I gained a glowing patten over my body that seemed to follow whatever channels my power flowed through and resembled swirling tattoos. All in all, a very powerful and useful Quirk that would serve me well in the future.

But first, I had to get through my childhood which kept throwing curve balls my way so damn fast I could barely keep up. The first thing that went horribly wrong was when my Uncle Mark was killed in action. Hookwolf (who was still a complete psycho and even worse without Kaiser and the Unwritten Rules to reign him in) tore him to shreds during an escape attempt after the murderous loon attempted to take a group of schoolchildren hostage. He died a hero, not that that was much comfort for Aunt Carol and Vicky. Fortunately, the psycho was summerarly torn apart by the combined efforts of an enraged Brandish and an equally enraged Marques whos wife got caught in the carnage and whos daughter had been among the kids Hookwolf had attempted to use as leverage.

Oh yeah, Marquis isn't a Villain in this world.

Anyway, Hookwolf was thrown in prison where he was sentenced to death for his crimes, although his trial had to be delayed so he could heal enough that he no longer needed a full body cast. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy if you ask me.

Despite the tragedy, there was one good thing that came out of it. Thanks to bonding over pounding a murderer into mush and suddenly finding themselves single Parents to young Daughters, Carol and Jean (thats Marquis if your not keeping up) ended up becoming friends and, after a couple of years to move on and dancing around the issue so much that the other New Wave women got sick of it and got the two drunk and locked them in a room together, ended up dating and getting married.

Thats right, Brandish and Marquis got married. I think I might have scared some of my classmates for life with my slightly unhinged laughter when I found that out. I don't think I deserved the punch in the stomach though.

Still, that had nothing on the man Kayden was dating and later married. If you think Brandish and Marquis is an unlikely couple, how about Purity and Oni Lee? Admittedly, Lee wasn't a gangster, or even an active Cape. No, he was a baker. It was at that point that I stopped caring that this world apparently loves to make me go WTF and just rolling with the punches.

Probably wise since a number of other changes popped up on occasion, but I think I'll leave this bit here. I can always come back to ranting about confusing changes at a later date after all.

Anyway, getting back to the actual relevant things to my story. Despite the change in scenery and the fact I was pretty damn popular in school (mostly as a result of being from a family of Heroes), I was still just as much of a nerd as ever and thus, my method of winding down after a hard day of getting the stuffing beaten out of me by my Uncles and/or Cousin Vicky was to log into my PSN account and spend some time blowing up aliens. It was through my hobby that I met a group of similar geeky folks who were planning to head to Wards Academy. Considering who they were, I probably should have smelt a rat, but I honestly didn't see it coming.

The day the story really begins saw me getting off the train in Madison with a mostly empty rucksack on my back containing nothing but a bulging wallet and my lunch. I was in the city to attend a gaming event for the MMO I played with my friends, Elder Tale, which was fun but I was a little weary of having it on during an update since it was the same game as from Log Horizon.

"Alright, lets see, Noelle said to meet under the clock," I muttered as I pulled out my phone, "I think its...that way."

OLIVER QUEEN

Quirk: Light Energy! He can absorb energy like light and heat and convert it into attack power for either physical boost or energy blasts! He can also live off the energy if needs be, but its not exactly healthy!

I paused and glanced around with a frown.

"Thats weird, I could have sworn…"

I shook my head and shrugged.

"Nah, I'm probably imagining it."

I looked around again and quickly spotted someone stood under a rather large clock in the entryway to the station. She was...not hard to miss, mainly due to the fact that her lower body was that of a snake with bright green scales that extended up over her back, down her arms and up to her face. Her eyes were bright yellow and her hair was the same green as her scales. All in all, not someone you can miss.

NOELLE MEINHARDT

Quirk: Echidna! She can take in the DNA of other people and create chibified clones of them from her Biomass with the same powers as their originator! However, the DNA sample is used up by the process, requiring her to acquire more and the creation requires energy and biomass to use! Also, the clones are...EVIL!

Stood next to her and looking rather bored was an attractive blonde girl with green eyes and fluffy fox ears and tail that made the often vulpine comparisons to her infamous grin all the more appropriate.

SARAH LIVSEY

Quirk: Communications Hub! She can create a connection between a maximum of 20 people and allow them to communicate telepathically between themselves!

The final member of the small group looked surprisingly normal compared to a green lamia and a living star. She was a small girl who looked about nine with bright green, curly hair (yes, that is considered normal in this world) and yellow eyes. She was wearing a blue sundress and flats and was reading a book that looked thick enough to beat seals to death with on what looked like human biology.

RILEY MEINHARDT

Quirk: Surgery! Allows her to basically perform surgery without any tools, up to and including turning off nerve impulses, pain receptors and even keeping her patient alive for a short time without vital organs! Also comes with a handy instinctive knowledge of the Human body, although she does require practice and hard work to master it!

I stopped again and looked around with a frown. What the hell was going on? I kept getting a really weird feeling out of nowhere. Was someone using some kind of weird Quirk somewhere close by?

"Um, is something wrong Ollie?"

I blinked and turned to the girl who had been traveling with me, my best and oldest friend, one Marissa Newland. She was shorter than me and wearing a full body suit made of exceedingly tough, dark green material under normal clothes.

MARISSA NEWLAND

Quirk: Solar Body! Shes basically a living star! She can control her body temperature, but a combination of being a teenager and naturally emotional means that she has to wear a special suit to keep from burning everything around her!

Her Dad was one of my dads old friends and former sidekicks before he retired from Hero work, so we'd spent a good deal of our childhood as friends and, old mind or not, I still appreciated being friends with such a genuinely nice person and I didn't have the normal little boys reaction of 'EW GIRL!'. I think she liked having me around as well since she was pretty passive and kids can be cruel, even to what amounts to living stars.

"No, nothing at all," I said, "Come on, lets go.

I hefted my bag back onto my shoulder and headed over to where the three girls were waiting. As we approched, Sarah's ear twitched and she looked up. At the sight of us, she smiled.

"Hey guys," said Sarah as we approached the three girls.

"Ah, Marissa and Oliver, right?" asked Noelle.

"Thats right," I said, "Nice to meet you in person Echidna."

Noelle twitched.

"Please don't call me that," she said, "I really should have chosen a better screen name…"

"Heh, sorry Noelle," I said, "Whos the shrimp?"

Said shrimp looked up and fixed me with a glare as she puffed her cheeks up in annoyance. It...didn't really work since she was way too adorable to be intimidating.

"I'm not a shrimp!" she yelled, stomping her foot which really didn't help the adorableness.

"This is my cousin, Riley," said Noelle with a sigh, "She wanted to come along, so my aunt decided to dump her on me for the day."

Now, you might be wondering why someone would do that considering that Noelle was only 14, or even why two teenagers would be able to go to an entirely different city, but there were a couple of reasons for that. To start with, my Parents were actually attending a Hero training course the next town over, so I hadn't come all the way from Brockton, but there was also the fact that, despite the advent of Quirks making crazy people that much more dangerous, Heroes also had the effect of cutting random violence down dramatically. Plus, when you have no idea if the little old lady you just robbed could shoot lasers out of her eyes or turn into a bear and maul you, it made petty crime much less attractive.

"Nice to meet you Riley," I said, smiling at the kid while mentally sighing over the addition of someone like her to the group, "I'm Oliver."

Riley turned her cute glare from a rather amused looking Sarah and frowned at me. Then, her eyes widened and she beamed.

"Ah, your part of New Wave!" she gasped.

I snorted.

"Wellll, kinda," I said, "I'm not really a Hero yet after all."

"Thats so cool!" she gasped.

"Hey, what about me?" asked Sarah, "My brothers a Pro too!"

"Yeah, but he ain't as cool as New Wave!"

"Anyway, we should get going," said Noelle, ignoring the two girls behind her as they started bickering, "The others are waiting for us at the event center."

"Sounds good," I said, "Lead the way."

It didn't take long to reach the event hall where a large crowd was milling around outside. The snake-girl led us over to a small seating area under some trees where a couple of boys were waiting.

One of the two looked about 14, with dark skin and hair and yellow eyes that stood out rather starkly against his dark complexion. He was wearing torn jeans, a leather jacket and had a pair of sunglasses perched on his forehead. His fingers had a few rings on each hand and he was holding a cigarette. In short, he looked more like he should be out getting drunk with his friends in a back alley than waiting for a gaming event.

FRANCIS KROUSE

Quirk: Trickswap! He can swap two objects of similar mass within his line of sight!

The other boy was younger, probably my age, and also looked a bit out of place. He was well built and handsome in that footballer kind of way that attracted cheerleaders and was generally found in Jocks in bad teen TV shows. He was wearing jeans, sneakers and an All Might themed hoodie

LUKE BRITO

Quirk: Ballistic! He can imbue any object that weighs less than himself with kinetic energy by touching them and launch them at high velocity!

"Hey guys!" said Luke as we approached, "'Bout time you got here!"

"Sorry, the train was running late," I said.

"Eh, shit happens," said Luke, "Its nice to meet you two in person."

"Likewise," I said.

"Same," said Marissa, tilting her head in a smile.

Its kinda hard to see her expressions when the only part of her face visible is her eyes and even then, her visor is basically impossible to see through thanks to the glow of her body.

"Its a shame Jess couldn't come though," said Luke.

"Your just upset because you've got a thing for her," I said with a smirk.

Luke's face immediately went bright red and he started spluttering denials, much to our amusement.

"Alright guys, we all got our tickets?" asked Noelle, putting a stop to our poking fun.

"Yep," said Luke.

"Got mine," I said.

Marissa and Francis both nodded and held up their tickets.

"Great, then lets go!"

I followed my friends as they headed towards the event hall, but before I'd gone more than a few steps, I felt...something. For a brief moment, I could have sworn I smelled smoke. I paused and looked around, frowning slightly as I took in the clear blue skies.

"Hey Ollie, is something wrong?" called Marissa.

I took one more look around, before shaking my head.

"Must have been my imagination," I muttered as I continued after my friends.

There are many things that can change the future. Some are large, others are tiny. The thing about the latter is that it can be incredibly hard to predict them, such is the nature of chaos theory. Mathematicians and physicists are well aware of this truth and the limitations it put on truly being able to predict the future. Even Precog's cannot be completely accurate, with many suffering from horrific hit-and-miss predictions based on countless factors or seeing a mosaic of possible futures. Not even the Simurgh, feared as she was for her seemingly flawless precognition that allowed her to dodge attacks and even use them to her advantage, was immune to this fact about the universe.

Generally, chaos theory didn't matter to the Mighty Mindfucker since she could carefully watch her schemes unfold, even when 'inactive' and keep them on the path to her desired results. However, when the change happens right at the start as she is setting up her Rube Goldburg machine, that is an entirely different kettle of fish.

In this case, it was a simple change, an attack from Eidolon thrown more in frustration than anything as another Hero went boom due to remaining within her screams area of effect for to long. The attack was dodged of course and a car was hit instead, causing it to unravel and various parts of the engine to be pulled loose to join the spinning mass of parts that was her latest creation of doom. However, unseen to everyone, including the Simurgh, a few specks of dust and small stones were also pulled into the mass of parts. They were quickly removed, but not before they caused tiny scratches to a number of components that were incredibly sensitive. Those tiny scratches were enough that the devices intended destination was thrown off. Not that anyone noticed, not even the Simurgh.

Shortly after the damage was done, the statue-like Endbringer brought the parts together with the disassembled Tinkertech that had been kept under the PRT HQ, creating a twisted spire of metal that immediately started humming and pulsing. With every pulse, the already massive halo of rubble surrounding the Endbringer to increased as broken buildings seemed to appear out of thin air.

"Damn it, what the hell is she doing?!" snarled Eidolon as he vaporized one such chunk as it was thrown at him.

"Hell if I know," said Legend, shooting a freezing ray to up out a large fire that had just erupted close to some ground bound Capes, "But that things probably some kind of teleporter."

He and Eidolon zipped out of the way as a chunk of building was flung their way and crashed into the community center, utterly crushing the building.

"Well, wherever its coming from, we need to stop it," said Eidolon, "Shes enough of a problem without having infinite amounts of large scale ammunition."

"Got it," said Legend.

The two men charged up their powers and unleashed beams, one bright blue that twisted and split unnaturally and the other purple and strangely hard to look at. Neither beam found their mark, instead striking more pieces of rubble that got into position at just the right time. The Simurgh's slow rotation brought her around to look towards the two at that moment and Legend was certain that he could see a faint smirk on her face as she looked at them.

Then, her head shifted slightly and her sereen expression shifted slightly. Despite himself, Legend glanced in the direction she seemed to be looking in, just in time to see a flash of light erupt from the ruined community center, followed by a blast of golden yellow light the size of a semi-truck. The sheer force behind the blast nearly pulled him off balance in mid air as it shot past, carving right through the Simugh's hastily raised defences, blowing the delicate device to pieces, before it arched up and carved a surprisingly deep furrow into her body before it cut out. The Endbringer rocked back in the air, shedding feathers and ichor from the gaping wound, before she seemed to regain her balance, shoot one last look in the direction of the community center and then shot straight up fast enough to release a shockwave that shattered whatever windows were left intact in the city and knock the gathered Capes back.

"What...what was that?!" gasped Eidolon.

Legend ignored his friends question as he turned in the direction the attack had come from. He narrowed his eyes and focused his supernatural vision on the hole in the wall caused by the blast. What he saw surprised him.

It was a group of kids, all gathered around one of their number who seemed to be bleeding heavily and had horrific looking burns on his hands, which were still steaming slightly. Other than him, none of them appeared badly injured, but three caught his attention. One was an obvious Case 53 who appeared to be part snake, another was a small girl with bright green hair, the same shade as the snake-girl, and the third was a girl who was wearing some kind of heavy duty suit under her regular clothes.

"There are some kids down there," he said.

"What?"

Legend turned and shot down towards the kids with Eidolon on his heels. Something strange was going on here and he intended to get to the bottom of it.

The day had been going great, with plenty of cool events, memorabilia on sale for me to blow my savings on and some frankly amazing cosplay from the truly dedicated fans. Finally, the part we'd been waiting for had come just after lunch, the tournament we had practiced for so long to compete in. We had all met up in one of the side rooms for a last minute planning session to help us psych ourselves up.

Then things went wrong.

The first indication 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. Then we were put through the spin cycle as something grabbed the building and threw it, hard.

At this point it would probably be prudent to point something out. Everyone in the world of MHA is insanely tough. By that I mean that the evolution did more than just remove the useless extra bone in the little toe, it also boosted the bodies strength and limits that could be reached naturally. However, since everyone had that increase gradually over time, it meant that it hadn't been noticed. As such, despite the fact we were bounced around like crazy, none of us suffered more than a few bruises and scrapes, even when the building slammed into another.

"Owww, what was that?" groaned Luke as he pushed himself up, "Did a Villain attack?"

"I somehow doubt that," I said as I shoved a desk of my chest and stood, "Any Quirk capable of that would require one hell of a windup and I guarantee we would have noticed something."

"Well, your the expert," said Luke, "Is everyone alright?"

"I think so," said Francis as he freed himself from a pile of rubble by switching with a desk, "Noelle?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," said the snake-girl, "Riley?"

The little girl in Noelles arms nodded, although she didn't let go of her cousins shirt.

"That was NOT fun," growled Sarah, "Get off me Mars."

"Oops, sorry," said the star-girl, hopping off the blonde.

Sarah got to her feet and stretched out her back. As she did, she glanced out the window and froze.

"Um, guys?" she said, "You might want to take a look at this."

"Whats up?" asked Francis, walking over to join her.

The moment he looked, he froze as well, his jaw dropping in shock. The rest of us exchanged looks and joined them at the window. The moment I saw what was going on outside, I felt my gut drop down to somewhere around my shoes.

We were still in Madison, I could tell that much from some of the still standing landmarks, but it definitely wasn't the Madison we'd been in moments before. For one, a few of the landmarks I'd seen on the way to the event venue were missing and for another, the 15 foot tall Angel Kaiju beating the tar out of an army of Parahumans was another.

"W-what the hell is that thing!?" yelped Riley.

"Bad news," I said, "This isnt good…"

Sarah took a step back from the window and put a hand on her head. Then she frowned.

"Thats strange, I can't get in touch with my Brother," she said.

I pulled out my phone and checked the signal bar. Sure enough, it was empty, which was basically impossible. By this point back home, the only place you couldn't get a phone/Wifi signal was right out in the boonies. I gritted my teeth as I tried desperately to figure out how to get us out of this mess before we got Zizzed. After a few moments, I decided to fuck it and just wing it.

"Alright guys, pull it together," I said, drawing everyones attention to me, "I think we can be sure that we're not exactly in Kansas anymore, right?"

"Considering I can't connect to anyone other than whos here, thats pretty much a given," said Sarah, rubbing her temples.

"Alright then, in that case, we should probably see about getting some help, right?" I asked.

I...wasn't entirely pleased with the idea of throwing ourselves at the mercy of the PRT, but I had no intention of letting us become anything close to the Travelers in canon. Well, where we could at least. Its not like we needed to take any Cauldron Viles.

"What do you have in mind?" asked Francis.

"Well, if we help deal with the monster, it should help us make friends with the Heroes, right?" asked Luke.

"Yeah, but we don't exactly have much that can hurt that thing," said Sarah, staring out the window at the fight, "From what I can see, its evading every attack sent its way. Some kind of precog maybe?"

"Possibly," I said, "But we don't have much of a choice. As for a way to hurt it...well, I might have something…"

"No, absolutely not!" snapped Marissa, cutting me off by sticking her finger in my face, "Last time we did that, you were in the hospital for a week! And that was after Amelia fixed you up!"

"That was years ago!" I protested, "My Quirk and bodies gotten a lot stronger since then and I have better control."

"No, its still too dangerous!" protested Marissa.

I frowned.

"Mars, we don't have a choice," I said, "We need to do something and thats our best chance."

Marissa clenched her fists in frustration, before letting out a yell and throwing up her arms.

"Fine, but if you end up in hospital again, I won't be visiting you!"

I snorted.

"Fine by me," I said, "Alright, lets do this."

Marissa deflated and sighed.

"I can't believe I'm doing this, but fine," she muttered.

"Um, what are you two talking about?" asked Luke as Marissa brought up her hands and retracted her gloves, revealing the rolling orange flames that made up her body.

"My Quirk works by absorbing certain types of energy and converting it into power," I said as I rolled up my sleeves, "Sunlight works best for it, but theres a limit to how much I can get from just the sun. Marissa's body produces the exact same radiation as the sun, so if I come into direct contact with her…"

I trailed off as I took Marissa's hands and my entire body lit up with energy. Literally, the swirling markings that covered my body all lit up with golden light as my reserves of power rapidly filled to max and overflowed, lighting me up from within. I gritted my teeth as the obscene amount of energy I currently held began to burn, causing my hands to start smoking.

Marissa immediately noticed and paled.

"Oliver, you said you could handle it!" she shouted, snatching her hands back.

"I can," I said through gritted teeth, "This time it didn't explode."

"Thats hardly an improvement!" yelled Marissa.

I just grinned painfully.

"Bit late for second thoughts now," I said, "All I can do is let it all go!"

I turned on my heel and pointed my hands in the direction of the Endbringer.

"SUPERNOVA!"

My vision went white.

Annnd thats where I'm ending it. Maybe its a bit much to have him pull out such a powerful attack right from the start, but its a good way to get the Bet Capes to pay attention. He won't be using it again anytime soon though, mainly because he needs Marissa's help to pull it off and shes not likely to help if she knows it'll destroy his body to use it.

Don't worry, its only MHA world characters who'll get introduced like that.

I actually originally intended to include Sophia and Taylor in the Travelers instead of Riley and Sarah, but I decided that this lot would work better. I always intended to give Cody the boot, but Jess will be putting in an appearance. How? You'll see.

So, what do you think of the Quirks I came up with? I'd be happy to take suggestions for how I could Quirkyfie other Worm characters powers, especially the Tinkers. Currently the only one I have is Armsmaster and Dragon, who have a Miniaturization Quirk (making anything he touches shrink) and Digitization, the power to project into electronic objects respectively. They don't have to be direct copies either since I plan for Sophia's alternate to have a Mutation type Quirk ala Hound Dog.

Anyway, thats enough gabbing, I'm going to sign off. Don't forget to leave a review!