Spacetime Anomaly: MHA Fanfic

Chapter 4.3: Encountering All Might

As expected, the manhole cover suddenly blew up and a pile of anthropomorphic goop creeped out and lunged at Izuku like a predator that had been stalking its prey. Unfortunately, the roles were reversed in this timeline as Izuku's eyes had turned a vibrant purple, his pupils now forming a cross. His perception of time became faster by ten times and a field of ten meters in diameter became his personal domain, wherein he could almost freely manipulate gravity.

Not wanting his clothes to be tainted as he still intended to visit his local university, Izuku enshrouded the presumed villain with gravitational power before he could even touch the hem of his clothes. As the villain was formed of viscous liquid, he was easier to apprehend than most. After taking a couple of steps away from the villain, only then did Izuku turn back to see his helpless foe. It took an immense amount of mental strength to precisely hold the semi-liquid villain, but since Izuku had been training for literally a decade now, he could hold this position in relative comfort for several minutes; though he already expected not needing to as…

Pop! "Fear not for I am her-" As Izuku had expected, All Might arrived within seconds of the villain's — this time, attempt at an — attack. He came out from the same manhole as the villain, ready to apprehend the slippery criminal, only to be stunned by the sight before him. The villain seemed frozen in space as all the sludge that made up its body was already collected and kept midair by what the pro could only assume to by the boy before him's power.

Audibly, Izuku sighed as he looked at the uncomposed hero. He said, "Do you plan to collect him any time soon? I need to be somewhere soon." To anyone who knew his past, it was night-inconceivable for Izuku to behave this way before any hero; nevermind the pro who was once his idol. Alas, he had started seeing life in a different light since returning ten years to the past with an ability of his own, and when the horrors he sometimes had to face while working at the clinic were added into to his already cynical views, Izuku naturally became a changed boy.

He already knew the number one pro hero's weakness thanks to his life previous lifetime's experience from this day. He knew the man known as All Might was only human in the end, so now he wouldn't bother to treat him any different. He didn't even feel the d.e.s.i.r.e to get revenge; at least not in any malicious way. If anything, looking at the shocked pro before him now relit the fire in his heart to become a pro hero. Only, instead of becoming a titan that seemingly propped up society itself, Izuku wanted to be a pro hero that he could confidently look back on and claim he did everything in his power to help everyone he possibly could; even the Quirkless who were shunned…

"R-right," All Might chirped as he magically produced two two-liter empty bottles from god knows where. After he opened them, the villain's body, guided by Izuku exquisite manipulation of gravity, seemed to flow into the bottles of its own volition and in ten seconds flat, the villain was sealed away; as best a seal could be when formed out of thin common plastic…

Izuku gave the pro a nod and left without another word. However, before he got very far, All Might called out to him in a panic. "Young man! Have we met before?" His question genuinely surprised Izuku.

"No," he spoke, only to further think, 'not in this lifetime, we haven't.'

"Strange, you have this look in your eyes of simmering hate? Melancholy? I just can't explain exactly what I see in those pure eyes of yours, but they shouldn't have that much emotion if we've never met before… We should at least share some sort of connection."

Sighing yet again, Izuku had to admit the hulking man was sharper than he looked. However, if this was to play out as it did his first time around… Izuku humorlessly smiled as he said, "What does it matter if there's a connection between us? Shouldn't you be worried about wasting so much time with me?"

'This boy… Does he know about my time limit?' All Might instantly understood the underlying message. Though to be sure, he carefully eyed the boy as he feigned feeling hurt as he went to reach for the left side of his torso. "You… know?" Though he asked it as a question going by the slightly surprised look on the boy's eyes, All Might already knew the answer to his query.

"Heh," Izuku chuckled before letting his eyes transform before the pro. He said, "I could tell you a half-truth and say I saw through your shirt with one of my powers as it wouldn't count as lying. But the truth of the matter goes far beyond that."

He saw the pro about to speak but before he could get a word in, Izuku waved his hands indifferently to say, "Don't worry, your secret's safe with me. It's not like I'd gain anything from running my mouth, anyway..."

He continued walking away and the pro could do nothing to stop him as he truly was starting to feel his transformation wear dangerously thin. He had to leave immediately. As Izuku made it past the tunnel, he could see on the opposite side, the silhouette of a hulking blond-haired man fly across the skies. 'It's just like the first time around,' he was just about to turn his head away and carry on with his day when his borderline superhuman vision came across the sight of a small bottle-shaped object fall from the pro's shorts.

"Are you f.u.c.k.i.n.g serious?" It had been a long time since he cursed, but now he was truly irked. The first time this happened the cause should have been his interference with the pro's flight path, but this time he wasn't clinging on to All Might's leg for dear life; the pro shouldn't have made this sort of accident.

'Unless...' Izuku quickly thought about what else was different this time around and he couldn't help but feel responsible once more. 'Damn it!' he cursed internally, 'Holding him back for some long probably caused him to have to focus every ounce of his concentration on not unraveling his transformation.' He could still remember the coughing fit All Might sustained after reverting to his true form, if his transformation were to start unraveling and his concentration broke because of a cough… Izuku couldn't help but feel responsible since this would be fate once more completing a circle of destiny.

The now sullen-looking boy quickly dialed his university and apologetically canceled his tests for the day. If he went over to correct what he perceived to be his mistake, he certainly wouldn't be able to make it on time to take his tests for the day. The university staff was rather understanding as he had already come several times and successfully passed more than enough credits to earn himself an Associate's Degree; they knew he wasn't playing a prank.

Izuku let Spatial Awareness take precedence as he wouldn't assume the bottle would land in the same place it did in his first life. By now with even his normal eyes augmented by his superfluous mental power, his Spatial Awareness had unlocked telescopic view. Buildings were reduced to little more than suggestions and since he already knew the general direction where the bottle landed, he found little trouble locating it. Sadly, it would seem it did land around the same place it did when he was originally a Quirkless. Needless to say, it was depressingly far away.

Izuku made his way over, hoping to stop the potential disaster from developing, but alas, before he was even in hearing distance, he could already see the smoke from a certain ash-blond-haired boy's explosions. "Tch," cl.i.c.k.i.n.g his tongue, Izuku did something he normally forbid himself from doing. Though it was technically legal as he didn't have a Quirk, he started using his powers to arrive as fast as possible.

Unfortunately, Izuku still hadn't grasped the concept of Self Teleportation as well as he did Remote Teleportation, meaning while he could teleport both himself and other objections, it wasn't very accurate unless it was teleporting an object to him. However, it couldn't be stressed how fast he could be when he went all out with his relatively mastered low-tier powers. By using Gravitational Manipulation to telekinetically lift himself into the air and Spatial Contraction to shorten the straight path to the raging sludge villain, Izuku further added Spatial Warping to conceal his flying figure and arrived at the scene within the minute of using his Esper powers.