Terrific Time Travel Fics
Good fanfiction involving time travel as a major plot point
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when at first you don't succeed by LunaLucrea for Catlady5001
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
21 Dec 2021
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He wants to wave the younger hero off, assure him that it’s fine, but for some reason his heart is jackrabbiting against his ribcage and something is poking and tugging at the edge of his thoughts, insisting that ‘this is wrong.’“Yagi?” Aizawa has evidently taken several steps towards him, and he hadn’t even noticed, “Are you alright?”
Toshinori tries to assure his colleague that he’s fine, he’d just been caught off guard, but the words get caught in his throat, and he’s forced to swallow them back. This is… familiar, isn’t it? This has happened before, hasn’t it?
Déjà vu. It must be. |
“Yagi?”
Even if it’s the strongest sense of déjà vu Toshinori has ever experienced, “I… I’m alright, Aizawa. Sorry. I didn’t sleep well, and I think I must have been half-dreaming when you walked in. I suppose my instincts just aren’t what they used to be.”
At that, Aizawa raises a brow and shakes his head, “I don’t know about that. I don’t think I’d trust anyone’s instincts more than yours.”
Toshinori finds himself in a race against time to save his successor. Over and over and over again.
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maestoso by novalotypo
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
23 Jan 2020
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Edward Elric is about eleven when he stands up, makes an extended effort to knock as many books off the old bastard’s shelves as he can, and says, “Fuck the military. Al, you interested in music at all?”
Everybody's got their own ideas of retirement.
The Elrics don't even do retirement, what with the world trying to blow itself up every other month, but this shit has got to take the fucking cake.
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It happens on the day that his father is supposed to leave for a mission. It’s an important one, because Sakumo has been distant lately, and he is only distant when he is about to go on a dangerous, and by extension important, mission.
And now, Kakashi is stuck with an old geezer in his head who claims to be him—but that's not possible, because Kakashi is Kakashi, and there cannot be two of him.
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- Part 2 of kakashi, big and small
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Time travel, the ultimate hoax to cheat in life and turn bad odds to your advantage. Or, it would be if Naruto had any idea what he was doing. Trying to save lives he holds dear, he somehow ended up as an international S-class criminal with a flee-on-sight order. Oops.
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“Is that a body,” Tim blurts before he can stop himself, rising to his feet. Martin looks, if possible, even more scared.
“He’s alive!” he hisses, almost defensively. “It’s not - it’s not Gertrude again, I didn’t kill him, he just – I don’t know what happened to him, I just found him in the stacks like this.”
“And you dragged him up here?” Tim says, and then registers several things at once – the build, the hair texture; the little round scars peppering a pair of thin hands and an awfully familiar face. “Wait, is that Jon?”
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Jon stumbles back into an earlier Archive, looking for a way to fix the world. (Or, mom says it's my turn for the obligatory time travel au)
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Weeping Angel by impossibleleaf
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
17 Sep 2023
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The fiasco at the Department of Mysteries had many consequences. One accident with a time-turner sent Harry to a faraway past. But who can really he rely on in this farce of home? And should he really trust Albus Dumbledore to have his best interests at heart?
Harry was going to go back to his time. Back to 1996. He was going to go back to the Department of Mysteries. He was going to save his friends, and everybody in his time whose existence is being threatened.
But how? At what price?
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Aizawa Shouta was tired.
Crouched on the edge of the roof as he was, he observed the streets below him silently. He was coming to the end of his patrol, and if everything remained as it was, he'd be able to catch a decent nap before having to report in to the school for another round of proctoring.
Which, of course, is when he saw the kid being chased down the alley.
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Or Izuku is your average 21st-century kid. Being sucked through a time-traveling portal and dropped in the middle of a fantasy world with supervillains was not his idea for a good start to the new school year. Good thing he has everyone's favorite underground hero keeping an eye on him. With a hero by his side, how much trouble could he possibly get into while trying to find his way back home?
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Bookmarked by Mayhap_Mishap
14 Jan 2021
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“Midoriya-kun,” Tsukauchi leaned in, his tone gentling further, “we’ve been able to confirm that a time-warping quirk was used to transport you from the 21st century -- the time that you were living in -- into the current 23rd century. The investigation is still open, and at this point, we are left with more questions than answers. But if there is anything I can clear up for you, please don’t hesitate to ask me.”
Izuku blinked. And blinked again. “Are...are you telling me that I was actually kidnapped to the future? ”
The detective met Izuku’s disbelieving stare with an unwavering one of his own. “That is exactly what I’m telling you, Midoriya-kun.”
A laugh bubbled up through Izuku’s chest and escaped; first one, and then another. And suddenly he couldn’t stop. Leaning over, his hands gripped his hair as he stared wide-eyed and unseeing at his lap. The future? What even was his life anymore?
Abruptly, his laughter cut off as he came to a realization. “My mom is going to be so mad.”
I am so glad I got around to reading this because it’s excellent. It features a Midoriya from the 21st century getting through life in a time so different that it may as well be a different universe. He’s in gen ed but keeps stumbling into heroic situations and Bakugo and All Might are hilariously both convinced that Izuku MUST be a hero student while Dadzawa grumbles and glares in the background. Izuku has no idea what he’s doing and is incredibly out of his depth but he has a backbone because he didn’t have it all beaten out of him like in canon.
“It’s ok, Midoriya-chan,” Tsuyu soothed with a hand to his shoulder as the mountain of a man took off with a burst of air to face the Nomu. “It’s only All Might, kero .”
“You know that guy?” Izuku demanded.
“YOU DON’T ?!” Mineta shrieked.
9.5/10
(Skip by GrumpySunshine)
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Roronoa Zoro, sixteen years old and Definitely Not, In Any Sense, Lost, has a chance encounter with the crew of the Thousand Sunny as it makes its way through the New World. Shenanigans, inevitably, ensue.
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03 Mar 2019
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“That’s definitely me,” added Zoro’s older counterpart. “I remember that shirt, I wore it for like half a year straight.”
An interesting little fic featuring the battle of wills between Zoro and Zoro. Good character interactions and fun characterization all around.
7/10
(Cool! Two Zoros! by grainjew)
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There is something going on with Kakashi, but Minato can’t figure out what. All he has are distressing deductions, each one progressively worse than the last. It’s no wonder Minato can’t help but fear and fear and fear…
(To be fair though, it really wasn’t his fault he never considered the possibility of time-travel) -
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The rational part of Tsunade had rejected the idea because it didn’t make any sense. Naruto was a thirteen year old genin who was currently traveling with Jiraiya, not some twenty-something year old man who had been in a coma for three months.
She felt a thrill of excitement shoot through her when one of the gashes on the man’s chest slowly, so very slowly, knitted itself back together. She allowed herself a small smile before she went back to work with renewed vigor. She would heal the brat till he was as good as new and then she was going to beat him up until he gave her a good explanation for what the hell was going on.