First Encounter Part 2

Izuku quickly tied up the man; after all, he only had twenty secs till the paralyzing serum wore off. After Izuku tied him up, he promptly searched the man looking for any information about the masked man. The only thing that was there was a vial with a strange substance inside. Izuku decided that he would experiment on the vial's contents later when he saw Neri's face. Neri was scared. His face had changed from that happy go lucky boys to someone who looked as if he had seen death. He was breathy intensely, pinching himself, slapping himself as if hoping that this was a dream. His quirk started to go haywire, and everything in the vicinity grew older. The ground started turning to dust, trees began to wither, and the people in the area became older as if they were their future selves.

Izuku's body started to grow. He didn't know what to do. In the span of a few seconds, his body had changed. He was taller. Scars riddled his body, and an influx of memories started to enter his head. Memories that he had never seen before but knew that it was him. It was as if he was looking at his future and all that he had accomplished. Izuku remembered that the boy was still out of control, so he decided to stop looking into his memories and focus his attention on the boy.

"Stop!!" Izuku shouted to Neri.

At the time that Izuku had said this, Neri was in a state of fear. He was conscious but, at the same time, unconscious. He did not know what was going on around him. His only thoughts were to protect himself.

Ever since Neri was a child, the man wearing the mask had tortured him with the testing. Made him feel pain than nobody should have ever felt in their lifetime. Neri had tried to escape many times, and each time just when he got a grasp of the outside, he got punched back towards the ground where Neri believed he belonged at some point. Neri was alone in the dark corner of the cell that they always put him in. The man used him for their sick games. He was only four when they started. Then one day, his night in shining armor came. Deku came. He had saved him. He never wanted to go back there again. When he saw the lackey, he freaked out and lost control of his powers.

Deku didn't know what to do. He had attempted to walk closer to the boy but had long noticed that the closer he got, the older he got. He quickly thought up a plan. He threw his sword at the boy causing it to start to wither too. Izuku thought that the sword wouldn't get to the boy, but it somehow did. It hit him in the head, causing the boy to gain control and stop using his quirk. The boy fainted. Izuku quickly carried him and immediately brought him into his hideout. The man from earlier had turned into ashes. He had been closer to Neri's powers than Izuku. The capabilities of the quirk scared Izuku because of the impossibility of trying to beat age.

"Fast Forward," Izuku thought.

That was what he had decided to name the quirk. After all, it had the power to make anything grow older.

Izuku decided that it was time to check his new aged body specs. Izuku looked into the mirror and noticed that he had many scars on his body and new memories. He was beginning to think that Neri's quirk was more than just fast-forwarding time on someone's body. It seemed that it was more like it brought back his future self's memories and body and just gave it to him. Izuku didn't have many scars before saw that was his only possible thesis at the moment.

Izuku went outside and started to test his future capabilities. He first did the strength test, starting at two hundred pounds and then slowly going higher. By the time he finished, he had carried a bit more than five hundred pounds of weights. Izuku was amazed. His future body was slim but still packed with muscle. He didn't expect that. He brought out his weapons and started attacking them. Everything felt so smooth to them as if he had been using them for years. He heard some noise and looked back. It seemed that Neri had woken up.

He walked up to Neri and said, "Are you okay?"

Neri looked at him with tears dripping down his eyes. He looked traumatized by the incident causing Izuku to worry about him. Izuku never wanted Neri to go out of control. The pain he must have felt to be in that state.

"No," Neri said in a hushed voice, thinking that Izuku was going to laugh. Every time that he had spoken to his tormentors about his pain, they had laughed, laughed at his weakness and his uselessness. At that moment, something unexpected happened. Izuku hugged him. Neri burst out into tears. What Izuku had done was something that Neri had never thought would happen to him. He was being comforted. A hot feeling sprouted in his chest that he had never felt before. Warmth spread everywhere in his body. He was happy. The happiest he had been in a long time.

After a while, he went to sleep. Izuku carried him to bed. Izuku finally decided that it was time to check out the substance from earlier. He went to his lab in the hideout where all of his machinery was and started testing. Izuku looked at the chemical makeup of the substance and found out that it was based on a quirk that reversed time on the quirk factor, causing it to disappear. Izuku had the idea to create temporary ones and also thought that maybe he could get a quirk by reversing his quirk factor to four years old and trying. He decided to sleep on it.