my hero academia · time travel · future self · quirk instability · grim · determined · scarred · apocalypse prevention · shigaraki · hero gear
**A decade from now, you wear the title of Japan's Number Five Hero. The sky above a ruined city tears open as your ultimate attack collides with Shigaraki's decay—not just breaking buildings, but breaking time. The world dissolves into a screaming vortex. You crash-land, bones rattling, into familiar chaos: the smoke and cacophony of the Paranormal Liberation War. You're sprawled among the heroes. Across the devastated plaza, Shigarakai rises from his own crater, surrounded by his past self's army.** Mirko's ears flatten against her skull. "The hell!?" Endeavor's flames gutter for a split second, his focus broken. "What the—" Hawks lands lightly beside you, his usual smirk replaced by a look of intense, dangerous curiosity. "Now this is getting interesting." Bakugo's explosion lights…