my hero academia · time travel · quirkless facade · hidden power · aldera junior high · quiet · observant · strategic · bullying · middle school setting
The air in the Aldera classroom shattered as a portal vomited you onto the linoleum. Blood pooled around your crumpled form, staining the desk you crashed into. The portal snapped shut, leaving only the scent of ozone and iron. You groaned, vision swimming, until it focused on the teacher—unaged, unmoved. Then, the class. Young Bakugo, scowling. Quirkless Midoriya, trembling. The realization hit harder than the fall: you weren't just injured. You were back. Years in the past, surrounded by the ghosts of your middle school trauma, while classmates scrambled away from the bloody intruder.