And here we are. The idea that inspired me to begin this little collection of what-ifs and what-could-be stories to begin with. It's amazing that it took me this long to get to it.

So here we are, at what inspired me to begin this all. Don't think that this will be where this collection ends: knowing me, there'll be a lot more ideas to come in the future. But this is the concept that got all the gears in my head spinning.

A boy and a girl, a hero and a villain, and a story split apart by time itself...

The Time Traveller's Hero

(Inspired by Doctor Who, Transformers, The Time Traveller's Wife, Utopia, The Division 2: Warlords of New York, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, FNAF, Destiny 2: Lightfall, BNHA movies, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)

In the distant past, a young girl in a war zone, surrounded by death and destruction, cries to herself in fear. Suddenly, a boy with verdant hair greets her, and tells her to be brave...

The Hero Convention is a wonderful place to visit. Izuku can attest to this as he and the rest of Class 1-A visit the massive convention on a school trip out of U.A. as part of their education. At the Hero Convention, hundreds of heroes from across the world, as well as representatives from support and technology companies gather together to meet and greet each other in a spectacular fashion.

Here, Class 1-A can learn of the heroes that came before them and know what is expected of them in turn. They can meet and learn from the different heroes from all around the world, begin to build their connections and network with them, make contacts within the many support companies that had gathered for the convention, and even gain potential experience in the Hero Games, small combat and rescue simulations that have been constructed within the convention halls themselves.

Over the course of the convention, the students meet various heroes from across the globe, from Salaam and Big Red Dot to Cow Lady and Elec Plant and dozens of other heroes as well.

However, soon enough, they come across a group of heroes that have come from Japan and other parts of Asia like them, meeting and greeting each other before Izuku comes across a certain hero in particular. A woman dressed in a red, maroon, and gold suit/dress (think himugatok's drawings of human Lefty from FNAF 6), who spins threads from her fingertips. A pro hero that goes by the name of Weaver, the Spinneret Hero...

And out of nowhere, she calls Izuku's name out in jubilation and hugs him for dear life.

Weaver knows Izuku. Somehow she knows Izuku, and she knows him deeply. Intimately, even. She knows about his past, about his family, about his school, about everything as if, as she claims, she has told him before...

But he hasn't. He has never met her before, even when she claims he has, even if she doesn't know why he seems younger or why he doesn't remember her at all. She quotes the Wrath Wars from a decade before, when she had been just a student in U.A.'s halls, and how he had saved her life during the Korean Strife, but he doesn't remember taking part in any of those events.

Weaver drags Izuku away to speak with him, leaving Class 1-A alone with her fellow heroes and friends in Axis (a hero revolving around the theme of compasses and clocks), and Steeljaw (inspired by Steeljaw from Transformers: Robots in Disguise. He's a man with a steel jaw. Go figure). Outside the room that they go into, a pro hero by the name of Vanguard (a hero in military garb and with friends in the local private security guarding the convention), radios his men.

With Weaver, Izuku is shown the diary that she wrote when she first met him, revealing that he had apparently been there in the past with her and had been there to help her through the Wrath Wars. However, he still has no memory about those events, and is thoroughly confused by what she is saying to him.

And then, Weaver reveals something to him that shakes him to her core.

She knows about One for All.

Izuku panics, asking her where she had heard that name, and Weaver states that he had told her, showing her the diary entry where she wrote down about One for All and when Izuku had apparently told her about it. Izuku is almost frightened by the revelations laid out before him and how much Weaver actually knows, but she implores that he listen to her and calms him down, reciting an old story of his that he had once told her when she was younger, a story that he knew very well, as it was the tale of All Might's first outing as a hero, one which he had recited to others before word for word.

As Weaver and Izuku continue to talk, Class 1-A try to join them to begin their own conversations with the mysterious woman, but the like of Steeljaw and Vanguard keep them out of the room. Meanwhile, Axis slinks away, a headache overcoming the young hero.

In the adjacent room to them, Weaver and Izuku continue to talk, with Weaver regaling the tale of how she had supposedly first met Izuku when she was younger, when the HPSC had sent her class, as well as the rest of U.A., All Might, and the heroes of Japan against the parasitic Wrathful hordes plaguing the United Korean States during the brief Wrath War, and how most of her class had died at the hands of a corrupt hero and she had been left alone to fend for herself. However, it had been Izuku - good, seemingly quirkless Izuku - who had found her in the madness and saved her from her own demise.

At the same time, Izuku suffers from a brief headache.

But then something stirs in the background. The private security forces at the Hero Convention have begun to turn against the heroes and other guests and round them up, seizing whatever technology they can get their hands on. Izuku and Class 1-A are sent off to safety by the heroes, and the likes of Weaver, Axis, and Steeljaw quickly move in to help the heroes fend off the rogue guards.

However, after the battle, many of the rogue guards are able to escape (with much of the technology at the convention, including an experimental biological 3D printer), including Vanguard, who has betrayed the heroes and organised the whole thing. Weaver, Axis, and Steeljaw are sent to work with the police in the investigation after the event.

That night, Izuku dreams of being in a world from years in the past. He dreamt of seeing a girl in front of him, and he knew he needed to save her. He offered her his hand, and she took it.

The next day, Weaver would do her best to keep in contact with Izuku, but U.A. would begin to filter her communications with her and try to block her out. Despite that, Weaver still managed to talk to Izuku, managing to get herself invited into U.A. with the police to take witness accounts of what happened the previous day. Despite his feelings about Weaver, Izuku feels an obligation to track down and bring in Vanguard for what he has done, and when Weaver offers to giver him an internship at her agency, known as New Light Agency, he accepts.

The next night, he dreams about leading the girl away from the horrible place, and he asks her for her name. She is Kumo Amino, and she was sent here to die.

Soon, Izuku arrives at New Light with Weaver and is greeted by the pensive, constantly tired Axis, and the crass Steeljaw, as well as the surprising number of quirkless people employed by her. The other heroes and sidekicks there are quick to say hello as well. Apparently Weaver had spoken highly of him. He is unsure how to feel about that.

They bring him into the investigation with their contacts in the police, and they work together to analyse the Hero Convention crime scene and apprehend any of the technology left behind at the crime scene for safe keeping. Using the evidence that they find, they track the last location that Vanguard and his men had been to a warehouse in lower Kamino, the last hiding place of the League of Villains. Deducing that Vanguard and his goons had been on the contract of the League of Villains, Weaver and Izuku forward this new information to the HPSC and raid the warehouse, finding information on the League of Villains and allowing the agency to conclude that Vanguard and his guys had been paid off by the League and sent the stolen tech to Shigaraki. The investigation finishes as such, and the HPSC is placed in charge of finding the League once more and pinning the blame for the convention attack on them.

The New Light Agency allows the investigation into the League to be taken away from them, and Weaver and Izuku begin to go out on patrols with each other, with Weaver continuing to talk to Izuku about the time that they shared together in the past. However, soon Izuku notices Axis wandering off and asks about him. When Weaver reports that Axis is mainly a data pusher and even she doesn't know what his quirk is, Izuku suspects that something more is going on and begins his own secret information.

However, the teachers at U.A. are not satisfied by this conclusion, and they suspect that something more is going on. Seeking their own contacts within the police, Aizawa and Detective Tsukauchi return to the convention sight to try and dig up more evidence, only to find that the crime scene may have potentially been tampered with. Heading to the warehouse that had been raided, the two of them discover that a lot of the evidence at the entire crime scene doesn't make sense, almost as if it was planted. They suspect that someone in the police department is corrupt.

Meanwhile, the students of Class 1-A would begin to spy on the ULA themselves, their own suspicions about Weaver mixing with worry for Izuku. However, Weaver would realise what they are doing and send Steeljaw to dismiss and scatter them.

At the same time, Aizawa and Tsukauchi would try to look into the evidence garnered by the NLA and police, but find that elements within the HPSC, police, and even their fellow heroes are intent on impeding them. Nevertheless, they would discover evidence of Vanguard being in the area, and would witness one of his men meeting with the leader of a notorious villain gang.

Elements of Class 1-A would witness another one of these meetings as well, but they would be noticed as well before the villains attempted to silence them. Coming to the conclusion that something more is going on and suspecting that Weaver has something to do with it, they go to try and warn the heroes of what is happening, but would find their calls constantly being rebuffed.

Soon enough, Izuku would continue his own investigation into the NLA, and would forward a buried sighting of Vanguard meeting with a larger group of villains meeting downtown to Aizawa.

And then, Izuku witnesses Weaver and Steeljaw contacting Weaver, telling him to move onto the next stage of their plan and that the rest of the technology from the convention will be heading his way.

Weaver catches sight of Izuku spying on them and catches him in her web (her semblance is Strand, and it allows her to weave strands of web and wires from her fingertips), asking why he was watching them with genuine confusion and hurt in her voice. Izuku demands to know why she was in contact with Vanguard, and Weaver simply replies that he wasn't meant to be brought into their plans until much later, when he was more familiar with them. Izuku tries to worm his way out of her grasp, but then, after a display of power and a few choice words from Weaver, he makes a horrifying discovery:

Weaver has One for All as well.

Izuku brings his quirk to full burst and manages to break from her web, trying to warn the rest of the NLA of Weaver and Steeljaw's betrayal, only to realise that everyone in the agency is in on her conspiracy as they try to attack him. Fleeing the agency, Izuku soon finds himself coming into contact with the members of Class 1-A that had been spying on the NLA, and together they flee back to U.A..

But then the city around them begins to fall into chaos as Vanguard and both his men and the many villains and criminal gangs that he had conscripted into their cause were beginning to riot and rise up, spreading chaos wherever they went, drawing the attention of both the police and the majority of the heroes to this sudden villainous uprising. U.A.'s teachers would raid the NLA building in the midst of the chaos, but would find that the building has been cleared out, and Weaver and her goons have gone underground.

Realising that Weaver and the NLA had framed the League for their actions and had been covering their tracks until now, Aizawa and Tsukauchi would attempt to present this new evidence to the HPSC but would be rebuffed by them, both because of the sudden rise in violence from the villain gangs and because of possible internal corruption within their ranks. They realise that the NLA must have contacts in each of the rungs of law enforcement.

Meanwhile, U.A. would find itself too busy dealing with the sudden uptake of villains on the streets to properly look into Weaver and the NLA's movements- which was probably their plan to begin with - so Izuku and the students decide to do it themselves, eventually coming across Steeljaw and Axis taking a surplus of trigger and the ingredients needed to make it from one of their conscripted gangs. Steeljaw escapes the confrontation with his new stock, but the class are able to subdue and capture Axis. However, when Izuku tries to interrogate the rogue hero, that's when he becomes a victim of Axis' hidden quirk:

Time travel.

Lost in an old battlefield with no understanding of what is going on, Izuku comes across a girl his age sheltering from the violence and decides to save her. Leading her away from the carnage, he learns her name and discovers that she was sent here by the heroes to die, so he promises to save her and defeat the people who had sent her there. However, when he is badly wounded and believes that he is going to die when fighting the corrupt hero, he gives her One for All, believing that his time has come, only to finally be told what her hero name is:

Weaver.

Izuku, in his weakened state, is drawn back to the present, and as they treat him for his wounds, they realise that Axis never had good control over his quirk, hence the headaches and migraines, and that something like this was just too much for him. Axis has died from quirk overload.

However, even after being treated for his wounds, Izuku still has headaches and strange dreams of his time spent with Weaver, and he and All Might come to the conclusion that they are a result of the unique circumstances behind his giving Weaver One for All in the past. They decide to use this to their advantage, and try to use his connection to her to try and contact her through One for All, focusing himself to speak to her through his dreams.

It works, and both Weaver and Izuku speak through their dreams. Izuku tries to get Weaver to stand down but she refuses, confessing that she loves Izuku for what she had done for her in the past, and Izuku discovers that she had figured out that he was quirkless before getting One for All and that she regards the quirkless as a superior being to those with quirks, even to the point of fetishizing them. However, Izuku is able to glean that trigger has something to do with her plans.

The next day, U.A. receives reports that Vanguard's men have been handing out trigger to the villain gangs under their command, amplifying the threat that the gangs pose and furthering the theory that Weaver is only using them to cause chaos and draw attention away from her and her plans. At the same time, Izuku would try to figure out her plans, taking her admiration of the quirkless into account as well.

Soon, he and his classmates, under the protection of several heroes that they know they can trust, raid a warehouse that Steeljaw had been sighted in, and see him protecting the evacuation of what seemed like some kind of laboratory, finding much of the technology that had been stolen from the Hero Convention, including several makeshift copies of the biological 3D printers. Capturing Steeljaw, the heroes discover that Weaver is reverse engineering some kind of virus with trigger in mind, and that many in the HPSC and hero ranks are supportive of her plans. However, they soon discover that Steeljaw had wanted to be captured, as he escapes from their custody with a dozen of the quirk-destroying bullets that they had seized from Overhaul back during the raid on their base.

Soon enough, Izuku has another conversation with Weaver during their dreams, in which he is able to figure out that Vanguard has more contacts on him than just those at the convention, and that he has people in the almost defunct JSDF in his pocket as well.

Meanwhile, the Japanese government are forced to call upon the JSDF - not deployed in a century and wanting of glory - to help contain the villain gangs spreading chaos across their cities.

Realising that Weaver wishes to use the JSDF as a key component in her plans, U.A. try to stop the JSDF's deployment, but elements within the HPSC continue to impede them. It is only after another dream that Izuku and Weaver share with each other do they realise Weaver's true plans:

She wishes to use the missiles in the JSDF's possession to deploy an airborne virus of her own making known as the QL Strand, one that combines trigger and the quirk-destroying drug to create a disease that targets and destroys quirks themselves, rendering the entire global population quirkless and destroying hero society as they know it.

However, upon raiding another laboratory and battling both Steeljaw and Vanguard once more, the heroes discover that Weaver has made a severe miscalculation in her virus: not only will it destroy the quirks in their bodies, but it will also destroy their immune systems, rendering the people infected by the virus vulnerable to every other disease out there. Her QL Strand could kill untold millions of people.

Now it is a race against time to stop Weaver and the NLA before they can launch their virus. However, they find themselves stopped and confronted by an army of heroes loyal to Weaver's ideals, causing a pitched battle to break out in the streets as Izuku rushes off to face Weaver head on.

When he does, she once more tries to convince him to join her cause, only for him to try and convince her to stop her plan before she kills millions. Realising that neither of them are willing to back down from this fight, Izuku and Weaver battle against each other, One for All versus One for All in a crazed fight that pushes them both to their limits, only made worse when Izuku is forced to inform her of Axis' death and the truth behind what happened that day all those years ago, and worser still when both Steeljaw and Vanguard join the fight as well.

Eventually though, Izuku is able to turn the tide of the battle and defeat both Steeljaw and Vanguard, as well as destroy the QL Strand and stop the missile's launch, but this only sends Weaver into a rage as the two go head to head. However, in the middle of the fight, Ochako tries to intervene to protect Izuku...

And Weaver maims her.

Thrown into a blind rage of his own, Izuku attacks Weaver with everything that he has, the two opponents throwing all of their powers against each other before they exhaust their quirks and begin to duel with improvised bats and swords and their own fists. The fight between them is long and exhausting and leaves them both bloody and broken.

However, it is Izuku who lands the final blow as he impales her, finding the strength within him to calm down and then realise just what he has done.

As Weaver dies, Izuku stays by her side to try and comfort her, and discovers that on that day, way back when Izuku had given her One for All, she had beaten down the corrupt hero who had sent her and her classmates to die, only for it to be covered up and for her to be dismissed and paid off in an attempt to cover up the corruption. From there she had worked her way up the ranks and eventually formed her own agency in the NLA, only to be disillusioned and disenfranchised by hero society and its dismissal of the weak and fetishization of the strong, how it treated the quirkless like trash whilst it upheld those with the strongest quirks like gods. No matter how much she tried to change the system from within, it never worked.

So she had decided to force the change.

In the end, all she had ever wanted to do was make her hero, him, proud of her, and had sincerely thought that she was really doing the right thing. As she dies, she finally realises that what she had done was evil, and dies crying in Izuku's arms, One for All leaving her body and returning from the Tenth to the Ninth.

In the aftermath of the battle, the late Weaver's manipulations are revealed to the world, leading to the mass arrests of hundreds of heroes, police officers, and HPSC members. Many of the NLA and Vanguard's men and villain goons are arrested as well, but the rest, including Steeljaw and Vanguard himself, escape and go on the run. Hero society is shaken by the violence carried out by a single group of heroes, and the JSDF is dismissed entirely (explaining why it was the heroes who attacked the PLF during the war arc and not the armed forces).

Ochako is treated for her injuries and Izuku's involvement in Weaver's death is covered up, but the latter is still shaken by what he has done, and despite Weaver's status as a rogue hero and a villain, he still mourns her death and laments that she had only ever wanted to do what she thought was right.

However, later that night, he dreams once more, of all the inheritors of One for All gathered around...

Right as the Tenth Wielder, Weaver, joins them at the table as wires protrude from his fingertips.

This idea has been in my head for so long, but for the life of me I just couldn't find it in myself to write it down anywhere.

Oh well, now I have. Hooray for me, eh?

This one didn't come out exactly like I had pictured it, but I still like it. Still seems like a fun idea in my mind, barring a few changes of course.

But, as you all know, that's not up to me. That's for all you to decide, isn't it?

So, as always, if you want to use this idea, then by all means, please send me a PM or a comment tell me you're going to use this idea, and I'll let you get to it.

And so, with all of that said and done, please share your thoughts with a kind review, and I shall see you all next time!

Titanmaster 117 out!