Tell me about In Other Worlds, both versions! (Or if you prefer one over the other, that works too!)
Iām so glad you asked about this one @sonderquill, cuz I love it, thanks for the ask!! <3
So this is one of the My Hero Academia headfics, and it takes place in the future where everyone are pro-heroes now. This will get a little complicated because it involves parallel worlds. Okay this got really long so I apologize but there are some Long story shorts that are bolded if you want to skip to those. Anyway hereās a really crappy overall plot line of it:
Takes place in the future (the students are all in their mid20ās now I guess)
Deku, Todoroki, and Bakugo are the top 3 heroes
Thereās been a string of strange robberies by someone with an unknown quirk
they happen to be nearby when she strikes again
they all get hit by her quirk at the same time
Todoroki and Bakugo end up halfway across town with Iida, Uraraka, andKirishima and a bunch of other heroes fighting a completely differentvillainĀ
everyone is very confused, even the villain dude
Iida is supposed to be working on a case 3 cities away,
they caught thisvillain two weeks ago,
the other heroescostumes all have a lot green on them??? which is just weird, because thatāsnot what their costumes look like.
Todoroki and Bakugo catch the villain easily, cause they knowthe weakness that Deku figured out
The other heroes are confused too,Ā
whyād their suits change
when did they start working well together again?Ā
why did they seem so confused?
Todoroki and Bakugo decide, screw this we need to get back to where they werefighting earlier, because whereās deku
get to the alley and, itās perfectly fine
none of the damage they did earlier is there
ask where the heck deku is
Iida tells them heās been dead for a year
Bakugo kinda shuts down (heād picked up on the clues; all their outfits havingDekuās green on them, the faces they made anytime they mentioned him⦠doesnāt want to believe it though)
Todoroki gets UPSET because thatās not possible. āWe were with him half an hourago!!!ā
finally Baku tells him to shut up, and reminds him that they got hit by the femalevillainās quirk, and this probably isnāt real anyway
Iida doesnāt know what to do. brings them all to the policestation/agencyĀ
they try to figure out whatās going on
eventually someone makes the frustrated comment of āitāslike theyāre not even from the same universe!ā
Uraraka realizes she knows a way to check
said friend is the female villain they were fighting earlier
Bakugo nearly attacks her, barely restrained TodorkiĀ
She explains that her quirk is āParallelāĀ
sheās not a villain here
she can send people from one universe to another for a short period of timeĀ
Thereās a whole quantum physics there where atoms from different universe spin/vibrate/or something at different frequencies, so eventually things want to go back to where they belong)
people can only switch over if there is someone to switch with (so if someonewas never born or is dead in that other universe, they canāt be switched over)canāt have two of the same person in the same universe
she can alsoĀ āseeā into another universe (by connecting with one of her parallel selfās), and can pinpoint a specific universe if she touches something from that universe (the whole frequency thing again)
Meanwhile in original universe:Ā
Todoroki and Bakugo show up and Deku is concerned obviously for his friends
Todoroki and Bakugo are shocked, because YOUāRE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD
villain uses this time to escapeĀ
deku has to deal with them dealing with him
none of them know whatās going on
Bakugo actually attacks him thinking itās a trick (they were fighting avillain, so this is probably some weird illusion)Ā
deku tells him to knock it off and goes after female villainĀ
He has to go back to dealing with them
Deku is concerned she messed with their memories (he doesnāt know why he wasnāt affected by the quirk)
Bakugo and Todoroki think itās some weird dreamĀ
then thereās just maybe some fluff and angst of Todoroki and Bakugo talkingabout how deku is dead(in their world, not that they know how to say it thatway) and thatās itās their fault
deku has to tell theitās not their fault and they need to get their act together
Other pro-heores show up to their location, and they talkabout whatās happened, and go after her
they eventually catch her and learn the truth and put her injail
After a while Todoroki and Bakugo switch backĀ
Bakugo punches deku for being weak enough to die in another universe
Long story Short of version A:
Ā Todoroki and Bakugo get switched into a parallel universe where Deku is dead, and see what a world with out him would look like. And a different Todoroki and Bakugo get to spend some time in a world where he isnāt.Ā
Thatās version A. Version B is pretty much the same but I hate killing off characters (even in parallel worlds):
so it starts out the same way with Deku, Todoroki, and Bakugo all fighting the villain, and they all get hit with her quirk,
except when Todoroki and Bakugo show up in the otheruniverse they say that Deku is believed to be dead, because heās been MIA for 6 months, and most evidence points to his death
again: anger and confusion
meet up with the good version female villainĀ
tells them that ādeku did cross over and the switched deku is in really poorshapeā, which means this Todoroki and Bakugoās Deku is somewhere in thisuniverse and in probably not good condition
Deku gets transported into some underground facility which is filled withvillainsĀ
breaks out of the weird containment tube thing heās inĀ
starts running around trying to find the way out, but he has absolutely no ideawhere he is right now (and really has no idea at all that heās in a differentuniverse)Ā
his cellphone doesnāt work
somehow managed to find a landline phoneĀ
tries calling T or B doesnāt work (their cellphones wonāt take calls from thisuniverse due to the weird frequency thing)
(though he could call T and B with his cell phone but canātbecause of the interference from the facility)
uses landline to call Iida or someone
said someone thinks itās a prank until Todoroki and Bakugo and company showup with the newfound information that Dekuās alive somewhere
then it becomes chaos ofĀ
TRACK WHERE THAT CALL CAME FROM. CALL THE NUMBER BACK.WHY THE F$#* DIDNT YOU LISTEN TO HIM (that last one was kaachan)
then it becomes a scramble to find Deku/Deku trying toescape before everyone switches back over
Meanwhile in the other universe:
Todoroki, Bakugo and Deku all end up in the alley wayĀ
Todoroki and Bakugo freak at seeing the weakened state of deku
(He washeavily drugged to keep him comatosed, and has been kept in one of those stereotypicalscifi experiment tube things filled with water, for 6 months, so heās not ingreat shape here)
(female villain disappears as they are all way too busy withDeku to even really notice her)
other heroes from that world show up
wonder what in the heck happened to deku
again everyone is confused
finally figure that it must have been the villainās quirk again, but they stilldonāt understand what it does
shortly after some other heroes manage to catch her and they all find out thetruthĀ
then itās just trying to get Deku stable before they get switched back over
I havenāt decided how far the normal Deku gets, but I think heād make it out/the others would find him before they switch back
Long story short of Version B:
Todoroki, Bakugo and Deku all get switched into a parallel universe, but Dekuās been missing for six months, because heās actually held captive by villains. Todoroki and Bakugo have to find him, while Deku is working his own way out.
In the other universe, Todoroki and Bakugo have to deal with a Very Hurt Deku, while alsoĀ having no idea how they got where they are.Ā
So this version mostly deals with the rescue of Deku/Dekuās escape and the relief andfear at finding an alive Deku.
(the villain is actually the only reason that theyāre able to find deku in the other world)
And there you have it, the summary to In Other Worlds. :)
THere also may or may not be a thing where Todoroki and Bakugo have a tracker on Deku, causing heās always running off to help people with out telling them right away so they had to put a tracker on him in order to find him.