Madness
Viktor opened his eyes as he returned to minutes ago.
Viktor didn't say anything and pushed the air in front of him, disappearing into an airdoor, shocking the class instantly.
Viktor traveled across the world extremely fast, passing through air doors and teleporting.
His expression, frantic.
Viktor appeared over the battlefield in Wakanda.
He teleported over to a huge purple guy on one knee.
Viktor's eyes were red and he shouted "NO!" as he thrust his hand forward, his hand turning black and an invisible destructive power on it.
Everyone looked at him in shock, as Thanos snapped and disappeared instantly. Viktor went through him and smashed into a tree, blasting a trench as deep and long as the grand canyon.
He looked at the spot Thanos just was in a daze as people turned to ashes around him.
He pulled the Rewinding device in front of him and twisted the handle, disappearing instantly.
He opened his eyes back in the class and disappeared instantly.
Only one more second!
Viktor got to the battlefield and his finger was a millimeter in front of Thanos' eyeball before he snapped and disappeared.
Viktor muttered to himself crazily and twisted the handle again.
This time his finger pressed in Thano's eye before he snapped and disappeared.
The next time, he didn't even touch his eye.
The time after that, his hand touched Thano's skull.
The time after that, he destroyed his eye…
The time after that…
The time after that…
The time after that…
Over and over again.
He could never change time.
He could only blind Thano's eye at best, maybe fracture his eye socket.
Thanos himself was very strong, not to mention he was strengthened by the infinity stones, just crushing his eyeball was very strong already!
Viktor kepr rewinding over and over again, just needing an extra second of time!
It was only a second!
Or even half!
Sometimes he rewinded and just stared at Lilith in a daze, never getting to hear her finish the word 'Daddy'...
Then he rewinded again and again and again…
A hundred times…
A thousand times…
Ten thousand times…
A hundred thousand times…
A million times…
Every single time…
Only millimeters away, not even…
Maybe only a fraction of a second away from succeeding…
His madness seemed like it would never end, however the system couldn't take it anymore.
[You can't change this, Host.]
Viktor ignored it and rewinded again!
[Host! This is madness! You can't change time! No matter how much you rewind it'll be useless! You can't rewind your mistakes away, the owner of the Z-Drive understood that! Somethings just happen!]
Viktor shouted crazily while running to Thanos, not even taking a minute from the school to Wakanda. He blasted off the ground, blowing a crater in the battlefield and teleporting simultaneously, stretching out his arm, holding kikoku at the tips of his fingers.
The tip of the sword touched Thano's head and he turned slightly. Kikoku slid off and he snapped before disappearing again, leaving a nasty gash on his head.
Viktor slammed into the ground and plowed a trench in the dirt…
He twisted the handle and disappeared again!
[If you keep doing this, you'll tear this universe in half. Then forget about saving your daughter. You won't even be able to protect your wife. Look around you!]
Viktor looked around him, there was fractured glass everywhere around him, slowly healing.
[You're creating a lot of attention. If this universe shatters I won't be able to hide you anymore. Every being above time will notice you! You can't keep rewinding and hoping for a miracle!]
[You've rewinded 1,001,235 times! The stress on the Universal barrier from your constant rewinding is getting more and more!]
Viktor looked crazed and replied "I can do it! I just need another second! Just one second! Don't you see?!"
[Host… You'll never get that one second. Can't you understand? Even if you create a new device to travel back to the past, it still won't change your future! Time may not be linear, but YOUR time is!]
[The Z-Drive Rewinds YOUR time on the timeline, but you're too late! You can't gain time, it doesn't exist!]
[Even Ekko can't save everyone!]
Viktor looked at Lilith turning to ashes and twisted the device again.
He sat on the ground and held Lilith in his arms, hugging her silently. She had a cute expression on her face, asking "What's wrong, Daddy?" Viktor's lips trembled and tears dripped from his eyes as he replied "Nothing baby… Daddy really loves you, you know?"
Lilith smiled happily and clapped her hands, saying "I love you too, Daddy~! I love you the most!" as she clapped her hands smashed to ashes. She looked at them in shock, saying "Eh? What happened?"
She slowly started turning to ashes and looked at Viktor, who was crying as he looked at her. She smiled and said "Don't be sad… I love you, Dadd-" before disappearing.
Viktor looked at the ashes in his hands in a daze.
How many times had he seen this happen?
Probably hundreds of thousands, right?
[204,725 times.]
Viktor felt the ashes in his hands and rewinded again.
He stared at Lilith's happy smile and held the Z-Drive in his hand, pushing down slowly.
Time started slowing down in a bubble as he watched her movements in slow motion. Her every little micro-expression. The little subconscious movements she made every now and them, the small changes in expression, the lights in her eyes... Every angle, curve, dimension, pore…
Every detail of her entire being was captured by Viktor's eyes.
He just sat there and watched.
He already took the Super Soldier Serum and used the 40 years of training on himself during a rewind.
Even these boosts didn't help. At most he got a single nanosecond of time.
He already had the Overhaul Quirk, so the quirk inducing serum had no effect if he were to use it…
There was nothing left to use.
No more powers to abuse.
No more tickets to draw.
His biggest advantage couldn't help him.
He had nothing left to give.
He would give everything back just for an extra half-second.
He would even give up the system for an extra second.
There was nothing he could do anymore.
No matter how many times he rewinded the future never changed.
He was so close but this distance was infinite…
"What if I just kept rewinding?"
[At best you'll be trapped in time forever, reliving these moments for the rest of eternity. At worst, tear the universe in half, inviting other universes to invade.]
[Please understand that what you're doing isn't normally so dangerous. Rewinding every now and then won't cause this. You've rewinded over a million times. There's only so much the Dimensional Wall can take!]
As Viktor watched Lilith's cute face in slowed time, a being with a huge head peered through the crystal walls. He looked at the shattered glass before turning to Viktor.