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"So do I think you could become a hero without power?... No, no I do not, if I, the symbol of peace can get injured to this extent then what chance do you stand. It's good to dream but make sure your realistic about it and if you still want to help people then become a police officer or a paramedic, sure they get overshadowed by the heroes but at least you will be able to do something in those jobs" and with that the scraggly looking blonde opened the door on the roof and left

But the greenette he left behind barely noticed as he crumpled to the floor and started to cry

And he cried harder than he has ever cried before because this wasn't happy, sad, or angry tears no they were the tears that fall from someone who just had their last shred of hope ripped out of them and crushed to dust

All the crying was causing his chest to constrict and he might have been yelling but he couldn't tell because all he could hear was what everyone has been trying to beat into him for years.

Useless! Quirkless! Worthless! Deku! Why would UA want a quirkless freak like you!? Be realistic. Why don't you take a swan dive off the roof and hope for a quirk in your next life!

And the thoughts just won't stop!

His brain just keeps playing his worst memories over and over and he just wants it to stop!!!

you should probably give up kid since you have the extra toe joint the chances of you developing a quirk are basically zero.

Izuku, I'm so sorry, So so sorry!

Just make it FUCKING STOP!

By the time izuku calmed down enough to take in his surroundings he expected for it to be nearing sundown but no it was only about two hours since he had gotten out of school and if he was guessing correctly only about 50 minutes after All might crushed hi- left, 50 minutes since All might left

So Izuku grabbed his stuff and walked down the stairs, It was completely silent and no one even looked at him as he exited the building but his mind was still to fizzled to care so he just let his body run on automatic as he tried to clear his head

And it was working until he ran right into someone

He was quick to apologize but it seems like the man didn't even noticed so Izuku finally looked up and observed his surroundings

There was a big crowd and since he could see multiple heroes it must be a villain fight

But why was it so quiet? He couldn't hear any fighting going on so he pushed his way through the crowd since none of them seem to be reacting to his presence

And when he finally got to the front he saw two people he really wished he hadn't

The sludge villain and Kachan

The sludge villain was currently trying to pry Kachan's mouth open and Kachan was about to set a explosion off at his face 

But both were just frozen there like action figures or something

Actually now that izuku looked at the crowd and the heroes they were frozen as well

Was this the work of a quirk? But who's? And why is it affecting everyone but Izuku?

Actually none of that matters right now Kachan is most likely drowning! unless this quirk stops the need for air as well but he has no way to prove that so he rushes pass the barrier made by Backdraft and throws his bag at the villain's eye to hopefully make him slip up and allow kachan the chance to escape but a few seconds after it leaves his hand it just pauses in mid air

But Izuku doesn't have time to question it, he has to save Kachan!

So he runs up to the villain and grabs starts to tear through the sludge but unlike the first time the sludge actually gets ripped out by his hands and so soon enough Kachan is free but still not moving just like everything else

So he just grabs him by the arm and pulls him all the way over to the heroes and despite his lack of muscle it's surprisingly easily to drag him, most likely because he simply floating through the air as he pulls his arm but he will take what he can get

After placing the arm that is about to explode away from the crowd he turns back to the villain 

Well he can't just leave him like this so izuku hops in the air to grab his backpack from where it was floating and after searching around he finally found his water bottle that he barley uses but keeps just in case

And so after that izuku just started collecting the villain

He made sure to be very careful with the eyes as he shoved them in the bottle but eventually he had most of the sludge in the bottle and whatever was left was quickly thrown in one of the surrounding fires since most likely he can just regrow what is lost and if he can't… well who is Izuku to care after almost dying because of this guy

And so he then sealed the bottle and learned from all might's mistakes he used some tape (also in his backpack in case he needed it) to seal the top securely

He grabbed one of his markers (yes also from his backpack) and wrote [alive sludge villain, do not drink] before placing it on the ground and walking back into the crowd 

But then came a new problem, how does he get out of this?

He really wants to make sure everything goes well but he doesn't know how to make the world re-START

And just like that everything exploded at once!

All the people he had bumped into or shoved suddenly felt all of it at once causing most to stumble and a few to fall

Kachan set off his explosion but all it did was send him into the arms of deatharms (heh)

The bottle tipped over and it was obvious that the villain was screaming whether it was pain or rage was impossible to tell but at least he couldn't escape 

But izuku had it the worst because all of his senses came rushing back to him at once and god it was so loud compared to the silence he was already getting used to, his eyes hurt like he had stared into the sun for too long and his lungs were full of stale air but there was one upside, his entire body felt like it was on fire, but in a good way(?) It was as if he had finally tapped into something that was bursting at the seams with power and even though he only used it for a little bit the strain in his head he hadn't even realized was there was finally relaxing 

After he blinked out the blurry spots in his vision and got some fresh air in his lungs he finally looked up and looked at the scene

Most of the crowd had dissipated Kachan was being checked over by a paramedic and the heroes checked that the villain really was in the bottle (later when interviewed all MT lady would have to say is "I don't know why I expected anything else"

Soon it was just a few reporters, the police, some left over civilians and all might in his deflated form staring directly at him… WAIT WHAT WAS THAT LAST PART izuku quickly locked eyes with the number 1 and he seemed, was that sadness? Or maybe guilt? Izuku couldn't tell but he gave his best attempt at a glare when the hero took a step towards him, which was nowhere near successful with how flushed his face was from all the crying and screaming he did earlier, but it got the message across since he stopped and after that izuku just wiped the few tears his burning eyes let out before turning around and walking home

And it wasn't until he got home that he really thought about what he did

He was able to save Kachan and stop a villain with no one even realizing he was there

Technically he did a act of vigilantism but it's not like anyone can prove it since the only evidence is a water bottle with fingerprints that aren't even in the system

But more importantly he STOPPED FUCKING TIME!!!

suffice to say Izuku was kinda freaking out inside his room 

So to calm down he grabs a notebook that has been sitting on his shelf since he was 5

[Quirk analysis for myself! -Izuku Midoriya]

He skips fast the pages all about telekinesis, fire breathing, and the possible pyromancy that could come from the two until he finds the first empty page and then he just lets his mind drift through all his questions and theories.

it makes so much sense that his eyes would burn and his lungs would feel stale, his eyes would have to find a way to see light photons without absorbing them so he doesn't go blind and his lungs would have to be using air that is frozen in time and while not noticeable at first the second he switches back to the normal method he would feel the difference

And seeing as how that's the only side effect he must presume that there is another source

He's not tired or hungry so it's not a stamina thing

He had time paused for about a hour but he doesn't feel any mental strain over it

In fact it feels like the opposite as if there was a rock on his head for the past 10 years and he finally chipped a piece of the weight off

Wait a minute, 10 years! Meaning he was 4! Most people get their quirks at 4 but maybe he couldn't use his because it's a stockpiler!

Meaning when he was 4 he had nothing saved up and so no one could tell if he paused time because it would barely last a few minutes

But at some point he must have forgotten the activation requirement because everyone kept calling him quirkless

But that still leaves the question of what he has been stockpiling all these years…

After he wrote down all his theories he hoped on his phone and searched up things about stockpiler quirks

Most of the results say stuff like mediation and focusing can make it easier to 'feel out the quirk' so that's what he was doing

Sitting on his bed criss-cross-applesauce with his eyes closed and trying to focus on the feeling of his quirk

After about 10 minutes he was about to give up but eventually he could feel his body absorbing something…

…

No wait, it couldn't be that simple right?

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[Quirk analysis for myself!]

Quirk: Time Absorption 

Description: a stockpiler quirk that automatically absorbs time itself. In its passive stage it has no effect on the world, think of it like a timer that ticks upwards forever. In its active mode instead of the timer ticking up it starts to tick down because the user is using up their saved time to stop the time of the rest of the world which allows the user to essentially stop time for everything that isn't him and because of how long it took the user to discover their quirk they have about ten years saved up, meaning they could use this power for multiple years straight with basically no downsides besides maybe a major headache

Downsides: eyes burn slightly because they have to use frozen photons to see in the frozen world.

Lungs feel dry from having to use frozen oxygen.

Possibility of other side effects that are just less noticeable until at a later date.

Potential uses: because only the user can move in the frozen world there is no need to fight, all they need to do move the enemy's body enough to immobilize them

They could easily infiltrate any place they want with no one being the wiser which is great for underground hero work

If a enemy can't be immobilized user could potentially hit hard enough to make people think they have a strength enhancer since if they punch something multiple times the kinetic energy won't be able to go anywhere because time is paused and once time is unpaused all of those small hits will combine and be released at the same time causing the strength behind the hits to multiply like crazy

Because this is a stockpiler there is a chance that there is other ways to use it besides pausing time and only pausing time for the user but none have been discovered yet and the other challenge requires another person so nothing can be tested right now 

Needs more testing…

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"Ok I think that's everything I know so far so now I need to actually test it out" izuku said before grabbing his phone and starting a timer

"Ok now just imagine it stopping I guess" and he did but nothing happened

"How did I activate it last time?" he said while walking in a circle but then grimaced when he actually remembered how "damn I really hope there is another way to activate it besides devastation… oh wait I just need to do the opposite of the meditation thing!" And with that thought he went back to focusing on the feeling of his body absorbing time

Once he could feel it again he just imagined pushing it out instead, and while it took him a second to actually get his body to listen he eventually felt a click

[5:23]

"5 minutes… that's way too long, but I guess it makes sense when you consider I've only used it once and it wasn't even consciously" he said before grabbing his phone and pressing the reset button… and nothing happened. "oh right! Man getting used to being able to pause time is gonna take so long" but before he tried to unpause he first tried to focus on just the phone

After a minute it did unpause and reset but just to make sure izuku ran to the front room and sure enough the timer on the stove was still frozen

"Ok so I can unpause certain objects and leave everything else frozen… that opens up the door to so many possibilities!!! Oh shoot but now I'm gonna have to manually fix the time on my phone anytime I do this. Wait why am I complaining I can literally pause fucking time!!!"

And with that he then spent the rest of the day trying out all types of theories and/or getting the activation time under 10 seconds

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By the time the weekend came to a end izuku had developed a big understanding of his quirk (pretty easy when you can literally spend a month in frozen time doing nothing but quirk practice

For one he can unpause objects and people (Inko will never figure out why none of her clocks were working for like 30 seconds) so they can move in the frozen world but he can't do anything in the normal world 

Also when he pauses time his body is partially frozen as well seeing as how he once spent 24 hours doing nothing but experimenting and not once did he feel tired, hungry or anything else

And after he turned a normal Sunday into a month long adventure he's pretty sure he doesn't age either

But that's not to say he is immortal in paused time because after he unpaused that 24 hours he was much hungrier than when he went in the pause

So while he doesn't need any of those things in paused time he shouldn't neglect them entirely or he will suffer when he goes back to normal time

But after he realized how much he can accomplish in just a day(of normal time) he started a plan to prove everyone wrong and that started with working out!

You see while he doesn't need to fight because of paused time he might still need to carry people or rubble and stuff and if he really needs to fight then the stronger his punches the less he will need to hit them in frozen time

And before you say anything about why he didn't try working out earlier well his mom can only afford so much and even if they could afford a gym membership most of them won't accept quirkless

But now that no one can even see him he can get a lot of 5 finger discounts at gyms

But he doesn't steal! Because that would be unheroic but over the Sunday he turned into a month he has been going to the gym and using the equipment a lot

But after a month of working out he decided to let the weekend actually end

And while he doesn't age in the paused time he certainly put on some muscle

Which is probably why everyone was staring at him at school 

Because even though izuku hasn't seen any of them in a month, they saw him last Friday, which makes the slight muscle he has gained very noticeable

"DEKU! the fuck happened to you!? What did you pay someone for some steroids or something!?" Yelled Kachan the second he entered the room but when he went to go slam his hand on Izuku's desk so he couldn't ignore the question he instead found his hands slamming down on his own desk

"Kachan, should you really be here after getting attacked by a villain?" Izuku asked while pulling out his notebook so he's ready when class starts

"Is that you trying to look down on me! Because I fucking beat that villain before even the heroes could do anything! So don't any of you try to look down on me when I'm the only one who has beaten a villain!" Now this response was expected from aldera's golden student but was not expected was the response from aldera's punching bag

Because he was laughing "actually Kachan I've beaten a villain as well so we're even" but now everyone was laughing and calling bullshit but before Bakugo could give his own response the teacher had arrived and told everyone to sit down

Izuku then paused time and stood up just to yell "why the hell did I say that!? Now everyone is just gonna be more confused or maybe they will lash out! Wait should I tell anyone I have a quirk!? Or should I just let them believe I'm still quirkless… god why is this so confusing!?" he then looked at Kachan's frozen face and did something very stupid…

because he punched him.

"God dammit that actually hurt! But it also had the intended effect. Thanks Kachan I feel so much better and I know what I'm gonna do now" after saying that he sat back down in his chair, opened up his notebook to an empty page and then let the feeling of time wash over him until…

The classroom exploded into shouting when Kachan suddenly went tumbling out of his chair in a shout of pain and shock 

But because Kachan is Kachan he's not gonna admit it felt like someone hit him really fucking hard so he just told everyone to shut up and got back in his chair

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Like a repeat of Friday Kachan waited until it was just him and Izuku in the class so he could finally get his answers but when he turned around to glare at Izuku he was already walking out of the school gates 

"Man, I wish I discovered this before middle school started, I would have avoided so many injuries" Izuku then paused time again and walked home. (he might be slightly paranoid about running into another villain but he's not gonna admit that to anyone and especially not to himself)

But as he was walking home he actually did come across another villain "see! It's not paranoia if they're actually out to get you" he pointed both hands at the man holding a knife to a scared looking women's neck as if anyone would be able to actually enjoy his joke before he walked up and effortlessly took the knife from the man

After putting the knife in his backpack just because he could (it's not stealing if you are taking something from someone who steals) he proceeded to tie the man up with a ripped hose he found in the trash and only then did he unpauses time

"Oh my goodness ma'am are you ok!?" By playing up the innocent act he proceeded to help the woman calm down and eventually call the cops at which point he went home knowing the woman would be fine

It took until he was about to open up the door to his house for him to realize that he just committed vigilantism… for the second time!

He stared off into space for about a minute just contemplating how many times he has illegally used his quirk simply because he's never had to worry about that law. But now that he has one it's as if he is trying to make up for the past 14 years by using wherever it seems convenient "Izuku please stop staring at the door as if it holds all the secrets to the universe and get inside" called his mom from the front room window before she shimmied back over to the kitchen 

And while he did feel like he found something that held all the answers, it wasn't the door "okay seriously sweetie people are starting to stare" at that he finally walked inside and after exchanging pleasantries he quietly walked off to his room and locked the door.

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He was probably burning a hole in the floor with all his walking back and forth but he barely noticed as he was pulled deeper into his mumble storm

"I mean it makes sense, you take a kid who has never had to listen to a law because it doesn't apply to them and suddenly give them the properties that apply for the law and they are gonna subconsciously ignore the law as they explore that new part of themselves and after they have gotten used to the new things they would have basically forgotten that this law now works on them as well. 

And honestly now that I think about it why should I care! I have 14 years of enjoying a quirk to catch up on and unlike if I had developed something flashy like explosions or pyromancy this quirk is basically completely undetectable and can only hurt someone if I hit them with it over and over again which I would never do!

So yeah it might be slightly illegal but I plan to fully enjoy my quirk since I never got to as a child and quite literally no one can stop me" Izuku then pulled off a slightly evil laugh before stopping and staring at the mirror he had set up in the corner of his room

"Man, it's a good thing I'm not a villain or something" he then turned his head to stare at the city just outside his window and he let a mischievous grin spread across his face as he said "actually scratch that I think I will become that "or something" "

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Shouta Aizawa didn't know that the cold shiver he felt run up his spine as he stepped on to the roof of his building to start his patrol wasn't just a chilly wind hitting him,

but he would later point it out as the moment he felt his problem child had just awakened as, well, a problem child.

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That weekend he turned into a month was so he could figure out and master the basics 

But as he tried to climb out the window and quickly realized he had zero parkour skills and ultimately had to pause time and walk out the front door, he gained a new plan alongside just having fun while saving lives 

He now wanted to figure out the advanced stuff 

And so he began his first patrol.

…

It was very boring since he did it though the time pause meaning he couldn't hear any criminals and thanks to how still they are in the dark he can't see them either

So he heads for a random part of town and unpauses

After he readjusted to normal time again he started his patrol once again and after about 10 minutes of walking he heard something

He immediately ran after the noise which led him to an alleyway where two drunkards had obviously got in a fight and forgotten all about the illegal quirk usage laws (twinning! Or well I guess tripleting in this case)

But all it took was one simple time pause and dumb and dumber were tied up and on opposite sides of the alleyway so they could no longer argue

After that he called the police and just when the operator was about to pick up did he remember that he was doing something illegal and couldn't just talk in his normal voice

He panicked trying to come up with a plan but the operator had already started talking so as a last ditch effort he decided to raise the pitch of his voice and say "hello? Yes! Thank you for picking up! I-I think two drunk guys were getting into a fight b-but right as I was about to call you guys so you could break it up b-before it got t-too bad suddenly I blinked and they were both tied up and there was a tall and skinny m-man just standing there! But when I blinked again he was just gone!"

"N-no I couldn't recognize anything about the man he was wearing all black and had a hood on"

"Yes the two drunks are still tied up and they don't seemed injured"

"M-Ma'am!? Oh yes that's me and sure I'll try to wait for the cops but if I don't get home soon then the ice cream I bought for tomorrow's party will melt so i can't promise anything"

"I'd like to see you find time to go grocery shopping when your job takes up most of the hours in the day. I'm sorry that was a little snappy but I am getting kinda tired" he then hung up even as the officer asked for the lady's name

"Wow! I think my improv skills have improved a lot. What do you two think?" He turned to stare at the two drunks but they were completely passed out after the adrenaline had left their system 

"Tough crowd, It seems" he had a little chuckle before he 'teleported' halfway back home to continue his patrol

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When eraserhead arrived on the scene he expected that whoever took out these two had beat them both into unconscious but neither of them had a single injury and the only reason they were asleep was because they had tired themselves out while drunk

The lady who called it in was gone and didn't even give a name but from her story it doesn't seem like there was much more to add anyway

Two guys got drunk and got pissed at each other but before they could fight or use their quirks a third gentlemen showed up, tied both men up, placed them on opposite sides of the alleyway and disappeared all within a second and all without causing a single injury

A long sigh came from behind him and when he turned around he was met by detective Tsukauchi entering the alley "seeing as how they were both caught before they could actually do anything illegal we can't arrest them but they will both get a large warning about alcohol abuse and knowing when to quit so there isn't a second time" 

he stepped right up next to eraserhead as he said "now look I'm not the biggest fan of vigilanties" Eraserhead interjected with some dry sarcasm "really? I hadn't noticed" the detective chuckled and said "but if this guy keeps up with the zero damage thing, I might have to make a exception" Eraserhead raised a eyebrow but it wasn't judging only genuine curiosity "I want you to look me straight in the face and tell me that you could have stopped a fight between" he looked at a file he was holding "extendable dragon scales and brown bear transformation without either hurting yourself or the criminals" he looked up from the file to scan the empty alleyway and said "but in comes this guy and now we can't even put anything on these guys files because of how cleanly they stopped the fight"

Eraserhead nodded and said "I'll admit their technique is clean but seeing as how they are still doing it illegally they will eventually mess something up, I'll catch them, and then hopefully we can set them on the right path to help people the legal way, and if not, they will at least get a short sentence with how clean they are with it" the detective sighed again and just said "yeah hopefully"

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It would actually take about a month before any hero actually caught this guy in action thanks to how quickly he can resolve just about anything

Hostage situation in the middle of the day?

In a second the hostage is free and the villain is detained without anyone catching sight of who did it

Mugging?

The criminal has all their weapons taken away and tied up while the victim doesn't have a scratch on them

Drug deal?

Everyone involved is tied up while the actual drugs are safely placed out of sight of all the criminals

I think you get the gist.

They are always tied up and completely detained without anyone catching sight of the vigilante besides just a simple description of wearing all black

It's actually why people started calling the Vigilante Ghost or Yõkai 

But it seems like such a good track record has actually made them cocky and they started experimenting with what they can get away with 

It started out simple, instead of just tying them up they would write a note and leave it at the scene for the police or heroes to see and what was written could be anything from in depth analysis on the criminals to just saying a joke/stating a fun fact related to the crime 

But about 2 weeks after starting that they got bored and now every now and then there would be a note with a hint to where the Vigilante was right now

Sometimes the police could figure it out in time and catch a glimpse of the illegal hero running across the rooftops before they disappeared a few seconds later

But even if they couldn't there would still be another note with encouragement to try harder next time

But as he was saying earlier today a hero almost caught the vigilante

And it was all because they decided to step their game up once again 

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So as it turns out being a all powerful time god gets boring quickly

Now don't get Izuku wrong he loves that he is saving people with no casualties and he isn't about to start fighting criminals just for the fun of it

But who says that he can't have some fun with the aftermath

And so he tried to get some of his excitement out by writing stuff down and just slapping it to the criminals head for the police to enjoy (he stayed close by to a couple of the scenes just so he could hear them enjoying his jokes and fun facts)

But that eventually got boring as well and he was running out of jokes and fun facts related to these simple crimes

So instead he started writing riddles that gave funny answers or would point the police to the next area of his patrol so they could maybe catch him but the police took a lot longer to solve them then Batman ever did and that got boring as well (he still left notes encouraging them to improve since he didn't want them to feel bad)

And so currently he was sitting on a roof (ever since he started the vigilante gig he has been learning about parkour just so he could run and sit on roofs) reading one of the Batman comics on his phone to give himself ideas

"Police are bad at complicated riddles so I can't effectively pull off any really funny pranks unless I decide to hide some all over the town to make them believe I'm up to something terrible only to reveal something harmless meaning I can't really steal any ideas from riddler unless I want to try pranking Nezu or something" there was a non committed hum behind him but he was too loss inside his own mind to notice "while the satanic rat would enjoy the riddles he wouldn't be affected by the pranks because he has a one track mind like that which therefore means it wouldn't be funny for the person pranking him"

Izuku agreed as he looked at some of the other villains and vigilanties so he could get a idea for what would be funny to pull off in the real world

"Joker and Harley are insane and so most of their 'pranks' involve hostages and while I'm looking for something to cure boredom while saving lives I still want to save lives so they're out. Scarecrow's fear toxin has a lot of potential for hilarious pranks but I'm not a chemist so he is out as well." There was a huff but Izuku couldn't tell if it was annoyance or humor "wait you've been handing out notes and riddles because you are bored? While illegally breaking the law and saving people?"

Izuku agreed again while scrolling down to a picture of Mr freeze "well unless my enemy is untouchable for whatever reason or is too strong to contain for long periods of time I'm basically unbeatable! but after you never get challenged in a fight for multiple months straight you end up craving one, but I don't want to endanger anybody meaning I can't change my fighting style" he flicked passed Mr freeze and Bane but stopped on a picture of Clay face halfway transformed into Batman "but if I can bring some harmless/Minor inconvenience fun into how I do things after the fight then no one gets hurt and I still get to challenge myself" izuku was slowly coming out of his mutter storm and only now realizing that someone has been over his shoulder almost the entire time 

And it seems that whoever was behind him noticed this change as well because izuku could hear their feet shift as they stood back up but izuku was faster

Once he was sure time was paused he put his phone into his pocket and slipped his cheap dollar store goggles back over his eyes until it was flesh with the black face mask he had on

He then stood up and turned to look at his adversary

Only to be met with the piercing eyes of Eraserhead!!! (Luckily it wasn't literally piercing or his quirk wouldn't have activated)

So after fanboying a little bit he quickly dug his phone back out to take a selfie with his favorite underground hero but when he looked at the still frozen image of Clay face wearing half the face of Batman he got a even better idea 

He still took a few photos with the frozen hero but after that he slipped the golden goggles off his neck and placed them on his own face

They immediately fell off but after readjusting them they fitted perfectly and just to add to the joke he took his own cheap goggles and after making the strap a lot longer he placed them around the man's head until they were firmly placed atop his wavy black hair (imagine eraserhead but just having obnoxious green swimming goggles tugging at his hair)

He definitely spent way to long laughing at his first real prank but he was perfectly fine with it seeing as how pulling these pranks were literally just to help with his own boredom

But eventually izuku walked behind the man and while still wearing the goggles over his eyes he unpaused and watched as Eraserhead's eyes flashed red and he threw his scarf at nothing 

"So as I was explaining I'm literally suffering from success but can't afford to do anything less" he said while adjusting the goggles again so they fit better

Eraserhead basically growled as he demanded for his hero gear to be returned but Izuku simply chuckled as he explained how he gave him a replacement 

Now izuku was full on belly laughing as he watched such an esteemed hero rip the swimming goggles off his head and proceeded to stomp them into nothing "oh come on I thought they looked kinda cute on you!" Eraserhead grabbed him with the capture scarf and pulled him into his fist which connected thanks to Izuku being caught by his quirk but the second he blinked Izuku was standing on the next roof over rubbing his cheek 

"Geez man if you get this upset about being called cute then I think I'm gonna reconsider my idea of starting up a social media profile to show off all my awesome pics" as eraserhead jumped the gap and was about to activate his quirk izuku simply just walked back over to the original roof and continued talking "actually scratch that I'm still gonna do it, I just think I'll keep the underground hero ones to myself"

Eraserhead was ticked off at not being able to keep up with the teleporter or speedster or whatever they are but he didn't show any of it as he asked a question since it was obvious that fighting would take too long "from the way you talk about it this sounds like a recent development so how come you could enjoy fights earlier but are apparently to strong now?"

Izuku rolled his eyes (Eraserhead couldn't see since the whole purpose of those goggles was to hide where his eyes were looking) before saying "I'm not making it that easy to find me because then it wouldn't be fun but I will give you a hint!"

He 'teleported' behind Eraserhead and said "the thing about stockpiling quirks is that usually their only downside is running out of whatever they stockpile" he then 'teleported' in front of Eraserhead before the man had a chance to try to turn around "but if your only weakness is running out of whatever you stockpile then how powerful do you think someone would be if they had a near infinite supply that replenishes faster than you can deplete it?"

After 'teleporting' back to the original roof he said "well then they'd probably find themselves with enough power to best all might, which means low level thugs and villains stand no chance and leave you with a lot of free time to annoy people'' he rubbed his still sore cheek as he turned away from eraserhead "but like I said that's low level guys and thanks to you i realized two things!" Eraserhead tried to wrap up the teleporter even as they monologued through it all but was unsuccessful every time so he just said "oh yeah!? And what are those!?"

But izuku continued to stay out of his grasp as he said "well for 1 I should be trying to find and defeat bigger villains seeing as how the first time I've been actually hurt as a vigilante was because I pissed off the Eraserhead, meaning bigger villains might be more creative like you but I can also prank them way harder because they are actual villains!"

After saying that Eraserhead lost sight of the vigilante for multiple seconds but when he asked what the second thing was a voice called out from multiple roofs over "the second thing is that my costume sucks ass!"

And only after saying that did Eraserhead realize that he never got his goggles back 

And that he potentially just gave the kid with a almost unlimited stockpile quirk the idea to 

(A) fight worse villains because they must be more challenging 

but most likely the worse one (B) he gave him the idea for a new prank to satiate his boredom

And all he could do was sigh and prepare for the future

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The first time it happened was a week after Shouta had officially met Ghost

He had already filled all the new information he had on the vigilante at the police station and had even got his goggles replaced (actual replacements and not cheap and terrible swim goggles) but as he was finishing up some papers in the teacher lounge at UA suddenly the loud blonde that calls itself his best friend bursts into the lounge on the verge of either crying or laughing (it's a lot harder to tell the difference with him then you would think)

"Guys!! I just got FUCKING ROBbed!" Even with Shouta canceling his quirk he finds a way to be loud, but his shout did catch the attention of all the teachers in the room (which was basically all of them except cementoss, Lunchrush, Nedzu, and Vlad king)

Immediately there were shouts of concern and people asking for the story but Shouta was still intently staring at the limelight hero

Nothing looks missing so maybe he was wrong about Ghost picking up a new habit

He still had his directional speakers

He still had his iconic glasses

He still had his headphones that double as hearing aids 

He still had way too much leather on

Even his socks kinda look like leather!

Wait a minute

"Why the hell are you walking around with no shoes!?" It seems like Nemuri beat him to the realization 

But Hizashi just bursted out laughing "that's the thing! One second I'm talking to this little listener who had a great cosplay of you shou!" Shouta already knew where this was going and so he simply just slumped into his chair until his forehead hit the desk "so anyways I'm doing my patrol and the little cosplayer shows up and asks for an autograph! Obviously as the beloved hero I am I sign some stuff with my face on it and even this cute little hand drawn picture of me in a notebook" he stops talking as if trying to collect the story in his head

"Next thing I know I feel about four inches shorter and when I look down wouldn't you know it my boots are gone!" He laughs again as he stares down at his shoeless feet

Thirteen is the one who speaks up this time "if that's the case then why do you seem so happy?"

Hizashi finally moved from in front of the door to grab a shoe box from under his own desk

"Well 1 those boots were starting to get worn down and would probably only last another month before they became no longer combat worthy so I had already had a back up pair set up" he said this while pulling the second boot on and walking around a little while the boots made loud clacking noises from the new soles 

After that he sat down and said "but the reason I'm laughing is because the little listener who wanted my autograph is the one who stole them and if the way he stumbled down the street was anything to go by he had never worn any shoes with raised soles" he immediately started bursting out laughing at the mental image "he was probably put up to it by a friend as a dare but seeing the kid try to run in the boots made it all worth it"

After hearing the explanation he knew beyond a doubt who did this so he sighed and finally sat up to stare Hizashi down "that wasn't a kid trying to succeed at a dare, that was a vigilante trying to prank you by stealing a part of your costume"

Everyone was silent for a long time before Hizashi started laughing even harder. "Wait, so does that mean I actually watched a trained vigilante who fights crime on the regular, ask for my autograph just so he could steal my boots and stumble down the street in them as he tried to run from me!?"

Everyone was chuckling after that until Ectoplasm asked if that was why he wasn't wearing his goggles last Friday 

It was dead silent as everyone let it sink in that a child successfully stole something from eraserhead and he hadn't been able to catch them

Or well it was silent until Hizashi got done with processing that information

"You got robbed by a child?...

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HAAAAAHAHAHAHA *COUGH* Shou please it wasn't actually that funny I'm sorry so please stop choking me with the scarf!"

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Eraserhead was running through his patrol like normal until suddenly ghost was stumbling next to him while laughing "it was so worth taking the boots I knew he was gonna throw away soon" after he said that Shouta actually looked down at his feet and where the boots ended halfway up Hizashi's leg the boots on the vigilante were almost drowning the knees in fabric 

"So why did you take them anyways" he asked while sending the scarf at ghost since his whole mission was to try and catch him

Ghost stumbled and actually fell before teleporting to the next rooftop "originally I just took them because my running shoes were falling apart, but they also make everything so much funnier!" He once again stumbled but he seemed to be getting better at adjusting to the new center of gravity 

Once Shouta was on the same roof as the vigilante he could actually tell that he definitely gained a good few inches and if he had a lower pitch voice he might actually believe that this wasn't a young teen "so is that your master plan?" He asked mockingly as he once again tried to attack Ghost, but instead of teleporting he was halfway successful at running and jumping to the next roof while avoiding his kick

"I mean kinda!?" He yelled before running away from the underground hero by jumping and teleporting from one roof to the next, Eraserhead gave chase but tried to stay away from using his scarf since either he teleports out of the way and he has to pull the scarf back to him or he catches him but the second he blinks the scarf is empty and he has to catch back up to him

After teleporting on top of a small water tower he stopped running to say "I don't really have a reason for becoming a vigilante besides being petty and wanting to help people, so as you can see my first costume was made solely from cheap things that were kinda bad at hiding my identity" Eraserhead used his scarf to get a top the water tower but the kid had already teleported to the next roof and was continuing his story

"So anyways I took your goggles to hide my eyes better and then Present Mic's platform boots to hide my height" after that he did a little spin "but now that I'm wearing them I kinda like the extra height" he mumbled something about buying his own pair but Shouta could barely hear anything beyond that

As Eraserhead's eyes flashed red he jumped down and landed on top of them, he immediately set to putting cuffs on the vigilante but something that felt like a block of metal hit his back and caused him to blink

He cursed as he searched for the kid but it was obvious that they ran away after that close encounter

He was about to call in the sighting and get back to his patrol when he felt something sticking to his back. It was a sticky note that said [turns out I also like having a fancy block of metal stuck to the bottom of my shoes! Give my thanks to PM for my escape this night.] PM was obviously Present Mic and for the first time Shouta hates that Hizashi wears combat made boots

And now that he thinks about it he still didn't get his original goggles back!

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The third victim was snipe and no he wasn't missing any guns

But when one day he walked into the teacher lounge wearing a black version of his usual red cape everyone was confused including Nezu who was actually here this time around

But Hizashi just started laughing again "the little cosplayer strikes again!" Almost everyone was laughing now but it seemed like Nemuri was laughing the hardest "isn't that the backup cape you tried to dye green for St Patrick's Day!?" Snipe just sighed and said "I didn't bleach it first so the red and green mixed and became a ugly brown' he grabbed a piece of the cloak that had a little bit of forest green shining through and said "I then tried to dye it black but I still didn't bleach it so now there are little patches of green and brown" 

"And the reason why you are wearing it today?" That question came from Nezu who had been silently observing this entire interaction.

If the way he dipped his head a little it must be embarrassing

Which is precisely why Hizashi and Nemuri started egging him on for details

"Alright, fine! Last night I was on a mission, it was a simple drug bust and they wanted someone with range to be on the team, so I was set up on the adjacent roof and was taking down criminals left and right until suddenly someone is tapping on my shoulder

I turn around getting ready for a fight only to be met with open air

But when I turned back around to face the building there was just some guy standing in front of me and he starts fuc *watch your language* he starts monologuing like some cartoon villain!

He goes on about how he loves my costume but that it clashes to much with his own vibe or whatever 

From the way he is talking I'm guessing he was a villain so I shoot him with one of the non piercing rounds but he just straight up teleports behind me and for whatever reason my quirk can't lock on to him so the bullets just fly like normal bullets 

But here's the annoying part! He takes my hat just to throw it back at me, but when I go to catch it suddenly all my buttons are clicked off and he just rips my cloak off and starts bragging about how the cloak will go much better with his hoodie look

And he has the gall to insult the red color of it!" With that he finishes his rant and starts walking into the room while saying something along the lines of "those bright ass goggles don't match the rest of your outfit either but I don't see you insulting those!"

He was about to sit at his desk but was stopped by Hizashi "ok but I've got to know!" He paused as if to add drama before saying "did he look fabulous in my boots?"

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It only took 3 days before Eraserhead saw the vigilante again and it was only because they had both apparently decided to bust a gang called the watchdogs 

Eraserhead was in the middle of erasing the quirk of a man who could shoot red hot lasers out of his eyes when suddenly the man fell face first and was tied up and knocked out "hey Eraser, do you know any places that sell dyes that would be strong enough to dye a fire and slashing resistant cloak?"

Shouta still had adrenaline going through him so when someone had snuck up behind him and started talking he just reacted 

He spun around and sent a roundhouse kick in the direction of the voice but when he hit nothing he stopped and took a few deep breaths while observing his surroundings

And once he had calmed down he took a second to remember what the voice said and quickly put the pieces together, the Vigilante was back and was asking for dye advice.

But by this point the adrenaline had left his system and he was 90% sure Ghost (wherever he was) wouldn't attack him so he went around and made sure that all the criminals were safely contained

So when everything was double checked and he had called in everything that happened (including the unwanted help of a prankster ghost) he finally gave a response, "not even Snipe knows that answer seeing as how the closest he got was an amalgamation of green, brown and black" and while he doesn't crack jokes often he didn't expect the stunned silence he got in return. when he finally turned to look at the now mostly red, yellow, and black vigilante, Ghost started picking at the red cloak and simply said "really? How interesting" before disappearing for about 30 seconds 

In that time Shouta had left the building and got on top of it to wait for the police when he heard a voice call out from behind him again "honestly this fits my vibe of being a mismatched jester way better anyways" and yep as he turns around he finds Ghost now dawning the ugly mismatched cloak that Snipe has been wearing for the past few days and while he doesn't want to agree with the illegal hero damn was he right about it looking better on him than it ever would on Snipe 

He did a little spin to show off his new piece of gear before looking at Eraserhead and saying "ok look before you try to attack me for stealing from the same hero twice you should know I returned the red one in almost perfect condition" Eraserhead raised a eyebrow at the almost part but he either didn't see it or ignored it as he started walking over to the air conditioner and sat down on it

Eraserhead contemplated trying to capture him again but it seems like it would be almost impossible unless he had multiple people and snuck up on him

But seeing as how Ghost keeps finding him while he is alone he doesn't see an actual capture happening unless they get more info.

Speaking of which "why do you always track down the one guy who actually has a shot at beating your instantaneous teleportation?" The vigilante either wasn't expecting that question or wasn't expecting a conversation at all but after a little bit of stumbling he said "well it's like technically my only way of getting stronger, like I said I don't want to endanger innocents by not using my quirk in a fight but i don't have that problem if I'm just using it for the bare minimum against you, meaning I get stronger at evading without my quirk which will therefore also make what I can do with my quirk better! It's like a win win situation for everybody but you, wait no it's a win, win, win situation for everybody but you because talking and fighting you is a lot more fun than anything else I've done" Shouta sighed at how childish they were acting before asking their next question

"Ok that explains why you purposely run up to and then away from heroes but that still doesn't explain why you try to find me every single time" their answer came a lot more quick this time "well for one the whole training thing I'm doing becomes even more effective if there are actual stakes like with your quirk, but also I'm kinda lonely and all the other heroes are either too hard to talk to or are to serious" now while he would never admit it Shouta felt kinda insulted 

but before he could say anything about it Ghost started sputtering before saying "wait no! That's not what I meant! You are serious about saving people and doing things efficiently! The guys I'm talking about are too serious about their jobs! Like snipe wouldn't even say one word to me until I threw his hat, and Endeavor despises vigilantes but I think he especially hates me for that one time I stopped a convenience store robbery in the middle of the afternoon but disappeared before he could even try to chase me down" and damn that was a lot of information to absorb but he thinks he understands the main part

"So a lonely, uncatchable teenager can't find any friends closer to his own age besides a hobo looking underground hero that doesn't completely hate vigilantes?" They simply nodded once and laid down against the air conditioner while lightly kicking their feet before stopping to say "well I guess I could go hang out with present mic seeing as how he seemed to be the only one that enjoyed my prank but then we get to the opposite problem! People like Present Mic or midnight are too loud and draw attention and as you said yourself I'm uncatchable which would just look bad for everyone"

"Really? The vigilante who loves to prank heroes and villains alike doesn't want anyone to see?" Ghost then sat up and scoffed "I prank heroes and villains so my life isn't boring, I couldn't care less if other people find my humor funny… ok well I do find it a little funny if the people I'm pranking also enjoy the jokes but for the most part it's all for my own sakes!" Shouta just rolled his eyes as he turned back around when he heard the police sirens approaching "whatever you say Ghost." 

He missed the "holy fucking shit I have a vigilante name!" Since it was done in paused time but he still got a feeling that was the first he had actually heard what people were calling him if the stunned silence was anything to go by.

Oh wait no, he just teleported away when he heard the sirens.

"You see this is how you end up with a name like ghost, by literally ghosting people instead of saying goodbye.

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And I still forgot to get my goggles back!"

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As expected the next day snipe busted in the lounge and basically yelled "that bastard returned my red cloak" but this information didn't seem to bring him any joy.

And they found out why when Vlad king walked into the door behind the seething cowboy and just stopped and stared at his back "Snipe-Sempai uh… why did you bedazzle your cape thing?" Once he heard the voice he turned around to say something to Vlad but stopped when he realized his back was now to the rest of the staff

And they could all see the shiny green gems that made up a cute bunny on the back

And because Shouta was busy trying to hide his own creeping smile he wasn't fast enough to look at Hizashi and stop his quite literal explosive laughter.

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None of the students would learn why half the windows in the building needed to be replaced 

Nor would they learn why afterwards Snipe sensei refused to turn his back to any of them for the next 2 days.

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Izuku's vigilante career only really kicked off after he stole Eraserhead's goggles  

Because after that izuku stopped just going through alleys and looking for small time guys

He still did it because what kinda hero would he be if he started ignoring the small stuff but after that fight he started going through the worse looking areas both in real and paused time

And thanks to that sometimes he would stop a drug deal or end a gang war

But about a week later he noticed that the black running shoes he bought specifically for this were starting to wear and tear and making it really uncomfortable to run

Well he got these awesome goggles from a hero so maybe another one will have some good replacement options for shoes

Wait, is it morally ok to steal shoes?

Like Eraserhead doesn't use his goggles in every fight so he will be ok but what hero doesn't need shoes?

Thirteen has had multiple shoe designs but who's to say they keep all of them on hand

Hawks can fly but that could also make it hard to prank him by stealing them

Izuku palmed his fist into the other hand as he figured out the perfect hero "oh, right! Present Mic's shoes always look cleaner after about 5 months but I bet he probably buys them about a month in advance meaning if I do the prank right at the end of his patrol in Hosu then there will basically be no downsides!" He was getting excited about messing with another hero but flinched when the one of the guys wearing a bird mask that he tied up yelled "Why the fuck have you been mumbling about shoes for the last 3 minutes!? Do you have some kind of foot fetish!?"

Now izuku was astonished and a little disgusted so he turned to look at the downed criminal and said "I'll have you know that my shoes are starting to break down from fighting guys like you so I'm mumbling about shoes because I need to replace mine soon" he then sent a kick into the man's head and waited until he passed out to pause time and walk home.

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He woke up that Saturday feeling both tired from how long he stayed out but also energized from how excited he feels about not only tracking down and meeting present mic but also how funny it will be to steal his shoes 

As he walked into the kitchen to make some cereal his mother either didn't notice his contradictory mood or was simply not bringing it up

After eating breakfast he watched a little bit of vampire diaries with his mom since she wanted to do something together (they watch it in dub even tho everybody says it's better in sub) but they only got through like half a episode before she needed to head to work which left izuku alone for a couple of hours

After setting a alarm for 10:00 he made his way to the beach and started to clean it up some more (he stopped trying to clean the beach in paused time since he found out it's a good way to actually pass the time, something kind of difficult to do when your whole power is about stopping time)

But eventually his alarm went off and he made his way home, showered, and put on the vigilante gear he keeps stuffed in the corner of his closet

Well he says vigilante gear but it's really just a black jacket with a hood, some black gloves and black cargo pants

The only real gear is the yellow goggles

But today he would also be wearing something else yellow

His backpack, which he stuffed with some Present Mic merch and his analysis notebook #11 which just so happens to hold the one all about Present Mic

After all of that he put on his falling apart black running shoes and a few markers and pens before pausing time and making his way to Hosu but more specifically where Present Mic ends his patrol of that place on Saturdays 

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When he got off the subway he took for free (he didn't want to do it but he also didn't want to have to lie to his mom about why his subway card pinged for a ride to Hosu) he walked around the city for a while until he saw the giant slicked up hair of one Presentation Michael and just as Izuku had predicted he was currently walking towards his car to go home

So Izuku slipped his mask and goggles on and ran over while bringing out some of the things he wanted signed 

"Oh my gosh it's Present Mic! I love your radio show and if you're not busy could you sign this?" He definitely looked surprised at being found right before he left but quickly put his hero persona on while saying "well little listener I usually don't like when people interrupt my patrol… but seeing as how mine is basically over and I'm very interested in your cosplay sure!" After saying that he immediately set to signing some posters and was even very careful to sign his name while not obscuring the drawing or notes in his notebook (unlike a certain number 1 who used up 2 whole pages with a marker that bleeds through)

He seemed so genuine in his excitement over what he thought was a Eraserhead cosplayer wanting a autograph that Izuku was second guessing about pranking him 

He shook his head and decided to compromise "um Present Mic sir?" He immediately had the undivided attention of the hero but it was feeling way too similar to how it was with All might and he almost asked that question again out of instinct but he stopped himself by looking down at the ground and instead said "um I was kinda dared into pranking you but I-" he was cut off as Present Mic interrupted with "Do it."

Now that confused him greatly and so he whipped his head up with wide eyes at the hero (not that he could see the wide eyes since once again that was the whole point of the goggles) but what he saw instead was a hero that was absolutely buzzing with excitement "I said do it. I haven't been pranked ever since Oboro d- ever since my old friend left, so little cosplayer I triple dog dare yo as- yo butt to prank the number 38 hero presentational Mic and if you don't make me laugh I will track you down and prank you just as as hard!" And despite how much he was bouncing with excitement Izuku could tell that he was serious about getting revenge so he immediately set to work

"O-Ok you've been warned" he immediately pointed a finger upwards and Mic fell for it perfectly as he looked up, probably thinking he was gonna dump something on him but nope instead he paused time and immediately swapped their shoes

Well he says swapped but it's more like place his runners on top of his sock covered feet since they would never actually fit on him

But now he had a new problem, you see he chose Present Mic because he knew they were gonna replace their combat boots soon,

But he forgot one specific thing,

Present Mic wears 4 inch platform boots with metallic soles

Meaning when Izuku the 14 year old put them on those boots were almost reaching his knees and he was suddenly 5,9

Safe to say his center of gravity was all messed up and he was finding it a little difficult to walk straight 

After putting them on and standing up straight he could just about meet the man's chin with the top of his head

He stumbled around for a little as he took some selfies with the hero (he was definitely gonna start up a vigilante social media account now because he could already see that his photography skills were improving)

But all that stumbling is probably why he accidentally unpaused time and got to watch as the hero slowly realized and looked down at their feet before staring directly at him and yelling a quick "Hey!" 

But it scared izuku into moving and he quickly started stumbling/running away from the hero who half heartedly ran after him

But the more he stumbled in the boots the more Present Mic laughed and so therefore the worse he could run after him

And after about a minute he lost sight of the hero and all he could hear was him laughing about how funny he looked trying to run away

And all izuku could do was agree and laugh as well because he seriously felt ridiculous while trying to run

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After wearing the boots for a few days he was getting a lot better at walking around in them

He still stumbled while running but it was still leagues better then when he tried to run from Present Mic 

He also fought Eraserhead again and spat this whole lie about actually planning planing what he did and while it definitely was true it was not the reason why he did any of that

He took the goggles because Eraserhead became his new number 1 favorite after all might tried to crush his dreams

He took the boots because they looked like they wouldn't fall apart so easily and Present Mic has always been in his top ten favorite heroes

He didn't even think about the whole height thing until after he had taken the boots

But after he said it to eraserhead he really started to think about it and realized there was something he has wanted for a long time but gave up on ever having, since it would just get in the way if he didn't have a pyromancy quirk to keep people away

But now that he has a quirk that makes it impossible for almost anyone to catch him he is gonna get it

That's right he is gonna get a big ass cape and he is gonna look fabulous in it!

Izuku then put all the criminals he caught in circle and unpaused time, there were screams of anger and terror at being suddenly moved and detained but Izuku ignored it as he stayed around to make sure he tied all of them well enough that they won't escape "anyways as I was saying I want to get a cape and I want it to be hero level materials in case I need to run though a fire or wrap it around scared children but which hero's cape would work best with my look?" He mumbled all this while readjusting some of rope

"I bet All Might keeps his bronze costume somewhere in MightTower but that man is a 7 foot giant and I don't think I even have anything strong enough to cut up a David shield level cape to fit my proportions.

Slide N, go also has a cape but that guy is basically a walking ad for the commission so it wouldn't even be funny to take his.

Ectoplasm has the coat thing going for him but then I would have to cut arm holes and dye it black and would the dye even stick to such a thick fabric but man I'm also kinda running out of o-" "Snipe!" Yelled one of the criminals and Izuku immediately started looking around for the gun slinging hero but when he didn't see anything he looked at the criminal with a raised eyebrow 

The guy looked plain if you ignored his slightly glowing orange hair and eyes but once he had the attention of every single person who broke one law or another he shook his head and said "no not the actual hero but his cape!" "I thought it was a cloak?" "idiot, it's obviously a cowl!" They all started to argue but the orange haired one shut them up by saying "all of you shut up! It's a cloak with a button up cowl instead of a hood but it also looks a lot like a cape, only probably a lot easier to dye!"

All of this arguing was caused by Izuku's mumbling habit and him being childish about wanting a cape which caused him to burst out laughing "man! I didn't realize a bunch of house robbers had this much to say about fashion but thanks for the ideas I'll definitely have to think about pranking Snipe now" he pretended to wipe away a tear before walking up to the orange haired man and shaking his tied up hand "I'll always remember the random 4 man crew I met that decided to help me with my fashion problems"

Now they were all arguing again because they remembered that they were criminals and he was a vigilante but the moment was nice while it lasted

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So as it turns out it's a lot harder to find the gunslinger then Eraserhead or Present Mic ever was

Eraserhead at least on Sundays patrols near his house so it's easy to catch up with him on those days 

Present Mic patrols a lot of places but it's always easy to spot him

But wherever Snipe is it's far away from him and therefore very hard to find

But hearing some things through the grapevine he found the mission Snipe was on tonight

Meaning it was easy to show up right after all the fighting was done and tap him on the shoulder

The hero whipped around and tried to hit him but he just 'teleported' to be in front of him when he eventually turned back around 

And when he did that he started asking about his costume "so Mr. Cowboy, does your cape, cloak, thing come in multiple colors?" He pointed at the item of clothing before saying "don't get me wrong I love the red on you it fits your whole vibe incredibly well buuut" he picked up the corners of his jacket while saying "you see so far I have stuck to black, green, and yellow. So would you just happen to have one?" Snipe stayed silent for a minute before fast drawing his gun and firing off 3 bullets

Izuku paused time just before any of them hit him and immediately screamed "OH MY GOD THEY'RE JUST BRUISING ROUNDS NOT PIERCING!" he took deep breaths before saying "I thought I was about to die!" He sent a dark look at the hero but he obviously couldn't see it since he was paused

After he regained his composure he smacked all 3 bullets with a pole to mess with Snipe's quirk before walking behind him and unclicking all the buttons on the cape thing after that he took his hat as revenge 

He unpaused time and said "I was trying to talk fashion man but if you want to just fight then I'll just do this" behind the mask snipes eyes went wide as he watched the vigilante throw the hat like a frisbee near the edge of the roof

And the second Snipe extended his hands to grab the hat he ran up and yanked the cloak off and immediately set to clicking it around his own neck

"Well would you look at that I was right! the cloak goes perfectly with the hood" he grabbed the edges of the cloak that only just avoided the floor before sighing "but I was also right about how the red does not look good on me" he looked up at the hero who was getting ready to try to shoot him again so he 'teleported' just out of his sight and said "if you had just told me whether or not you had this cloak in any other colors this could have been a much more fun conversion"

And finally Snipe said something "I'm not giving anything to your thieving ass" so Izuku left him high and dry by 'teleporting' to a convenience store and bought a bunch of fake green gems so he could fix the color scheme problem until he found a appropriate dye

Right as he was about to buy the gems (yes in full costume minus the mask) he was stopped by a gun being extended over his shoulder

Internally izuku was freaking out thinking that Snipe somehow found where he was and caught up to him but then noticed that this gun wasn't a revolver so flicked his new cape upwards to cover everyone's vision before pausing time and letting the cape fall back around his figure 

He did a little fist pump while saying how cool that was before looking at his surroundings

Two guys with guns and one guy with a rock manipulation quirk outside trying to fight Endeavor.

Wait.

A.

Fucking.

Minute.

"What the hell is Endeavor doing in such a low crime level area? Plus I thought he only stopped big stuff since his fire is too strong for smaller things" he then actually looked at Endeavor and saw what he was about to do to the rock guy "well I was right about being too strong for smaller things but it seems like he doesn't care as long as he beats the bad guys" izuku immediately set to disarming the two men and placing the guns on the counter before using a jump rope he found in the toy section to tie both of them together

After that he headed outside and did the same to the rock guy but slammed his fist into head seeing as how it doesn't look like he needs his hands to use his quirk

And finally he turned to look at the hell flame hero and after using all his might he managed to turn the giant of a man to face the mostly empty street so he wouldn't break all the windows at the convenience store 

And then he unpaused

The two men inside screamed in anger at being tied up and the store clerk screamed when they saw the two guns suddenly appear in front of them

Finally the rock guy screamed in pain as all the rocks he was controlling fell to the ground and Endeavor screamed the name of one of his lower scale moves

"Man that's a lot of yelling but I paid for what I came here for and so I'm out" just before he paused time again he heard Endeavor yell some profanity at the idea of vigilanties all together but disappeared before he could hear the rest

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So apparently Snipe lied about having a cloak in multiple colors

And he just had to learn this information after he spent 3 hours making a intricate looking bunny out of the gems he bought

"A waste of money and a waste of time… Ha! I wasted time! That's. That's funny" he clapped a frozen Eraserhead on the shoulder in a way of saying thanks before running over to where he thinks Snipe was taking care of a huge villain break out at a prison

Once he was there he walked around the place avoiding the ten foot elephant mutant guy but placing some stuff in his way to hopefully help out the heroes before finally spotting Mr Cowboy in a bad tye dyed black cloak 

He made the swap without unpausing and then after that he made his way to a villain who looked like they were made of giant green crystals and looked at his reflection

Now the mirror might have a green tint to it but he thought he looked really good now that he only had three colors in his costume 

As he walked out he tied up a few more villains or if he couldn't tie them up he would hit them to disorient them and then drag them over to a hero

He did have to unpause for about half a minute so he could catch Snipe's reaction when he noticed the change and the update to his costume and it was very worth it as he watched all the police get a chuckle and even some of the villains stopped fighting to laugh at the emerald bunny, which immediately led to them being defeated so it was a win win situation for everybody but Snipe

After that he paused time so he could give the good news to Eraserhead

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While the UA students may not have known why half the windows blew out he knew for a fact that it was Present Mic laughing since he set up a lawn chair on the adjacent roof so he could enjoy the free comedy he calls "The Staff Lounge TV show" it may not have much sound besides Mic but the visuals are great if you have some binoculars

(And if Nezu saw the vigilante that's been causing chaos to his staff sitting on the adjacent roof to UA with some binoculars well then no one would know why certain hours of footage get saved into a folder and then are deleted everywhere else since he doesn't want the chaos to stop)

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Katsuki doesn't know what is happening and it pisses him off!

Ever since the sludge villain incident Deku has been able to avoid him at every turn!

The second the bell goes off Deku is nowhere to be seen until lunchtime ends,

When school is over he is always the first walking through the gates even though no one saw him stand up or even start packing ,

If he tries to follow him outside so they can talk then he just disappears after taking a turn down a alleyway,

The nerd is looking so far down on him that he won't even look in his direction and Katsuki is tired of it so he goes with the nuclear option to finally get his answers

Meaning on a peaceful Saturday he knocked on a slightly run down door and watched as Deku opened it with a smile, watched that smile fall apart and then had the door slammed shut.

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"YOU SHITTY DEKU OPEN THIS FUCKING DOOR RIGHT NOW!" The scream was slightly muffled but Izuku knew exactly who it was

So he slowly opened the door back up and with a much meeker smile he said "hey Kachan is something wrong? The last time you came to my house willingly was because… huh now that I actually think about it did you ever come to my house willingly? Well I guess there was that one time you-" "I don't need a reason to see your shitty ass now let me-" Kachan tried to push the door open but izuku stayed firm "actually I was enjoying some home alone time so if you want to talk now instead of waiting for school or wherever is the next time you get forced to be in my useless presence then you might want to actually have a reason" something akin to shock passed on Kachan face before the anger returned and he said "I've been trying to track you down at school but you keep avoiding me Deku."

Now it was Izuku's turn to be shocked "Oh really!? I hadn't even noticed I started seeing you less after the whole notebook, swandive, sludge villain thing" and while he was talking about how after that day he started having the fun he never got to experience when he was 4 Kachan must have took the avoidance in a different direction if the slight flinch of pain was anything to go by

But he did feel a little bad for his ex best friend turned slight bully so he opened the door and started walking back to his room to turn off the game he was playing on his laptop to get ready for whatever conversation Kachan felt was important enough that he had to come over to his house "sorry dustyboy17 but it appears i've hit a unskippable cutscene" and with those words he closed out of the game and put the laptop back on his desk.

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He tried to push the door open but deku successfully pushed back and kept it almost closed "actually I was enjoying some home alone time so if you want to talk now instead of waiting for school or wherever is the next time you get forced to be in my useless presence then you might want to actually have a reason" and while Katsuki was shocked at how easily Deku can talk down about himself he quickly switched to anger at him telling him to do what he has been doing for months "I've been trying to track you down at school but you keep avoiding me Deku." Katsuki hated how needy that sounded but if it gets this conversation rolling then whatever

"Oh really!? I hadn't even noticed I started seeing you less after the whole notebook, swandive, sludge villain thing" and while it stung to admit that even he knew he went to far with the suicide baiting thing, to have it thrown back into his face so nonchalantly stung a lot more, especially since it was probably the reason for the whole avoidance all together,

And then without a word Deku opens the door and just starts walking back to his room

The way he is acting is so different from the Deku he has known since before they even had quirks and it was only pissing him off more!

But he reluctantly entered the house and placed his shoes next to the black, red, and white metal platform boots,

He then quickly took a double take at the sight of them since he couldn't find Deku's normal red and white shoes anywhere meaning the boots must belong to him.

But it was just another annoying change he hadn't noticed so he closed the door and started his walk towards the shitty nerd's room that was probably still covered head to toe in All might merch

Except it wasn't. In fact besides the matching action figures they both got for their 4th birthday and a poster of the man in his prime the room was devoid of the number 1 hero!

Now that's not to say it was empty, the walls were covered in the merch of multiple heroes like Present Mic, Snipe, Ingenium, Ms. Joke, Hawks, and even a highly detailed drawing of a man in all black with a gray scarf twirling around them but only 1% of it belonged to Deku's favorite hero which was more confusing than anything else he has seen so far,

Which is why he decided to start the conversation right there "ok what the fuck is wrong with you Deku" he didn't mean it to come out so harsh but it was already too late to take it back so he just pushed through "you lost some of your annoying nerdiness but you replaced it with this fake ass confidence! Then you replace the brand of shoes you've worn since you were 8 with fucking platform boots! What did you need a higher stage to look down on everyone from? And now you aren't even an All Might fanatic!? So I'll ask again Deku, what. The fuck. Is. Wrong. With. You?"

But Deku just sighed before looking him in the eyes and saying "I'm being realistic." He stood up from where he was sitting on the bed and grabbed a burnt and waterlogged notebook Katsuki immediately knew what it was but stayed quiet as Deku flipped through the pages before finally stopping on one that just had two words in huge text,

He didn't get to see what those words were before he shut the notebook and placed it back on the shelf.

He chuckled and said "Oh how ironic" before finally turning to face him, and once he knew Katsuki was listening he said "you see after I fished my notebook out of the koi pond I found about uh… let's just say talent, yeah I discovered a new talent of mine and started to have a lot of fun with it but while messing with it I thought about my dream of wanting to become a hero and realized that this new talent could make my dream that much easier to achieve and then one thing led to another and i started examining what else i could develop for becoming a hero,

So like I said I was being realistic, a hero needs to be confident in their own decisions so I started to try acting more confident, and let me tell you at first it felt like trying to wear a very uncomfortable mask but the longer I "faked it" as you said the more the mask grew more comfortable until one day it wasn't a mask and I actually felt more confident, but don't worry I'm still plenty nerdy" he said while pointing to a 14th notebook on his bookshelf "I just finally figured out how to silence the muttering"

"As for the boots, they have many purposes and while one of them is that I feel more confident with the extra height, the actual main reason is that they are good combat boots. In fact they are almost the exact same ones that present mic wears so once again I was being realistic about my dream."

He then extended his hands to point at the walls of his room "I removed All Might because 1 people can grow and acquire new favorites but 2 All Might is unrealistic for a quirkless kid, sure I can save lives with a smile like him but a quirkless kid can't compete with a man who can break the sound barrier with just a single jump, but if you look at my walls now we have a man with a powerful scream but also good martial art skills, a man with perfect aim and a gun, a man with engines in his arms but also uses quirk powered martial arts, a woman with a quirk that just makes it easier to fall into hysterical laughter and yet she uses it so well with her fighting style that most of her battles barely last 5 minutes, a man who can fly but his main melee weapon is something that any quirkless person could pick up. swordsmanship. and finally a man who can simply even a fight out and yet he uses a support item AKA something any quirkless person could use to fight and even win battles against people who aren't even affected by his quirk!"

He picked up the All Might action figure and then said "which definitely fills me with more confidence for quirkless people then the man who solves all his problems with just his fist ever has in the past few months."

He then looked back at Katsuki and said "so I truly haven't been trying to avoid you I was just being realistic like everyone has been telling me.

I'm just sorry that being realistic also means cutting out people who try to burn your dreams at every turn" he wiped away a tear before walking over to his closet and grabbing a few things and stuffing them into his yellow backpack

"The fuck does that me-" but he was interrupted "Even if that person was your best friend that you admired for years! The guy you thought had everything! The guy you stuck around with even after he started insulting you and burning your things all because you thought that this guy had a better chance of becoming a hero than you did in a million years!

But for the first time in a long time I feel like my dream of saving people with a smile is actually possible, actually realistic!"

He then zipped the backpack up and put it on before stiff arming Katsuki out of the way of the door and saying "and I plan to smash fate itself before I let that chance slip away, and I don't care anymore if it ruins your plans of being the only hero from aldera, or hell even your plans to be number 1!

I'm sick and tired of letting my time waste away while making no progress!"

Katsuki tried to stop him from walking away but he was the one stumbling over his words now "Wait De- no wait Izu-" but he was cut off by the last words he would hear from Izuku Midoriya until they met again in 1A "just make sure you lock the door when you leave Bakugo." And then with a final door slam he was left alone with only his racing thoughts to fill the silence of this empty home.

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The second the door was closed Izuku paused time and changed clothes

After that he tried to calm down by taking a walk 

Right through all the worst parts of town in normal time

He almost got mugged 7 times (which is a surprising number with how high the sun is still in the sky) and he stopped 2 different store robberies. but after he almost sent a fist right into the face of the 8th mugger without even pausing time he knew that this wasn't helping,

So he hopped on a roof to look around

"Ok so if fighting crime isn't calming me down then I need something more relaxing" he looked over to UA but immediately looked away "I don't even want to think about hero schools right now!" He then looked over to Might tower but decided against it "I'm definitely gonna get back at him but I'm gonna need more supplies then I have access to right now to really show my pettiness" but just as he was about to start looking in the opposite direction he caught sight of a very orange fire blazing into the heavens a few miles away from Might Tower

"Man that is a bright orange! Probably Endeavor since most flames are more of a red to yellow while his are basically pure orange… oh… oh!"

Izuku immediately stood up and started running towards the one hardware store around this area "I wonder how Endeavor would react to a redesign" he started to cackle and could already feel some of his stress leaving him

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Shouto sits on his bed with his notebook open in front of him as he works on his homework. As usual, he’s locked into a deadly battle with English, it's definitely his least favorite language but the prodigal son of Endeavor needs to know it, so here he is trying to understand how Y and W can become vowels. But, at least the day is peaceful. A rare occurrence in the Todoroki household.

Well it was peaceful until he heard the sound of something smacking into the backyard sliding glass door, a few seconds later it was opened and now he could hear a voice but couldn't make anything out

He calmly closed his notebook and stood up, and once he had opened the door he could actually hear the voice "I mean what right does he have to barge into my life just as it starts to turn around? He asked me to leave him alone ever since we were 5 but as the good friend I was trying to be I stayed anyway, but after he burns my notebook and tells me to take a swan dive he doesn't understand why I started removing myself!"

And while Shouto loves the free gossip he is gaining on the intruder he needs to find out what this guy is here for, so he leaves his room and starts to walk towards the sounds of intense ranting,

"I was half tempted to just reveal the whole story right there maybe he wouldn't feel so angry if he knew that I almost died, got my dreams crushed by a hero, started contemplating the swan dive thing only to have all my dreams reawakened by a quirk I never even knew i had! Yeah I'd like to see you act so high and mighty after knowing that the reason I was avoiding you had nothing to do with looking down or looking up to him but was mainly just wanting to enjoy something I never got to experience before." And wow just wow, this might only be the second time someone has spilled the tea to Shouto but damn was this way better than the first time.

He finally made it to where the sounds were coming from and wouldn't you know it, it was father's bedroom. So he creeped up to the half open door and looked in

And going through the closest was a young looking man in a black and green cloak pulling out all of Endeavor's hero costumes and dumping them into 4 different buckets before starting to take the lid off of a few different colored bottles and walking back over to the buckets

And while Shouto was tempted to keep listening in on the intruder's one sided conversation he couldn't just let the man sabotage Endeavor and maybe kill him so he quickly made ice spread across the floor and encase the man's lower half in ice. He screamed before locking eyes with Shouto, or well he thinks they locked eyes since those goggles make it hard to tell,

When he opened his mouth Shouto was expecting shouts of anger or confusion but what he got instead was a chuckle "ah man I forgot to check the whole house" then the man simply shattered the ice by teleporting next to him "huh weird, how does a child born from Endeavor end up with a ice quirk? Are you like, adopted?" And while he was still on guard around the intruder he did crack a miniscule smile as he said "I wish that was the case but we are definitely related."

And the man just nodded like that made complete since before teleporting back over to bottles of liquid and pulling the cap off once again "well I hope you and your siblings are ok, I've read articles about how if two opposing quirk's come into contact it can either be very volatile or just cancel out to almost nothing."

"Thanks for the concern but what you are dowsing Endeavor's costumes with seems like the more prominent problem." the man just tilted his head in confusion before looking at the bottles in his hand and then slowly back up to Shouto

"Oh right I forgot to actually explain why I was here because I got too interested in how your quirk works" "but you barely said like 10 words about it?" "Well as far as you know I used up 10 words, but that's besides the point, the reason why I'm here is to blow off steam, well technically I'm stroking the fire but it's blowing off steam for me" he then raised a bottle with a slightly white liquid but with a pink ring of tape on it "this is lithium chloride mixed with some water, it's completely harmless but it does have a funny effect on fire" the man then teleported and dumped a small amount of the liquid on the back of his left hand "go ahead make a flame!" "How did you know I can make fire?" 

The intruder probably rolled his eyes before pointing to his hair "at first I thought you only had ice but after looking at your hair for a while I realized that it's natural and not dyed meaning if you're hair is naturally red and white there's probably a reason for the split and it probably has to do with your quirk, add that to the fact that ice only came out of your right foot and it's not that hard to realize you have fire and ice, now please just make a small flame so I can prove I'm not trying to kill your dad and only make his life a little more bright" and while Shouto hates his left side he is intrigued, so he makes a small flame 

but it's not the ugly orange and red of Endeavor,

No, it's a quite beautiful pink instead. "See completely harmless but is gonna look hilarious on the stern face of Mr. burning 24/7" the man started to laugh again even as he poured the entire pink bottle into a bucket with two costumes while Shouto was still distracted with the dancing pink flame on his hand

"Now I don't know if you were listening in but basically someone was mad that I was avoiding them even though they hate it when I don't leave them alone either, and after he finally got me to talk he tries to act like he's the victim! So I get mad and then he gets mad which only makes me more mad until I decide to storm out and cool off by doing something I enjoy, but I was too angry to enjoy that either so I decided if I'm not gonna be able to enjoy anything today then I'll just set up something funny for me to enjoy when I wake up in the morning!"

He then uncapped a bottle with a green ring of tape and started to pour that one into the second bucket "and so after picking up some supplies from a Home Depot here I am giving some flavor to all of the number 2 hero's costumes that will definitely be hitting the headlines for like a week!"

"I can already see the headlines! Breaking news! Endeavor changes name from hell flame hero to the painbow hero!" He laughed and wiped away a fake tear before he went to grab the blue bottle but Shouto beat him to it and after dumping a little bit on his left hand he poured the rest into the third bucket, he lit a bright blue flame with some pink residue and said "it will probably be something more along the lines of breaking news. Endeavor is trying to subtilty confess his feelings for All might by fighting crime with colors of the pride flag" the young man stared slack jawed watching the youngest Todoroki help a stranger prank his father but eventually shook his head while laughing "ah man this definitely helped me relax but now I don't know if I'll be able to sleep until I see tomorrow's news articles" he finished pouring the purple bottle into the forth bucket and sat on Endeavor's massive bed

Once Shouto had dipped one finger into each bucket he too sat on the and then watched as the green, blue, purple, and pink flames danced across his fingers, he was completely mesmerized by how simply changing the color made it look so beautiful and as if it never belonged to Endeavor in the first place,

He was interrupted by a hand starting to shake his right hand which brought him back to reality meaning he quickly extinguished the fire "the name is Ghost! Your friendly neighborhoo- city? Or would country be better? Ah, it doesn't matter, all you need to know is that I'm a vigilante that travels to a lot of different places in Japan and I sometimes prank heroes out of boredom or as you can see here, to relax and have fun!"

Shouto contemplated not returning the introduction but decided to since this guy could have already tried to attack him a few times "my name is Shouto Todoroki, my father despises vigilantes but so far you haven't given me a reason to feel the same"

Ghost tilted his head in confusion and then started counting on his fingers "1: breaking of the quirk restriction laws. 2: breaking into your house. 3: while it was short we had a fight, I mean the ice is still right there! 4: I'm planning to humiliate your dad by turning him into the personification of toy chica's sentient rainbow!" Shouto nodded as he thought it over before saying "I see where you are coming from and while I don't understand the reference you are making I still feel like that last one actually makes up for the fact that the first 3 happened"

This caused the vigilante to start to cackle but once he calmed down he said "while I am appalled that you've never seen the early 2000s hit classic Five nights at Freddy's 1 through 58 this is still the greatest conversation I've had with someone my own age and that's… actually not that hard of a accomplishment when you consider the whole reason I'm here is because of a conversation with someone my own age. Still I wouldn't say no to being able to have more conversations like this" Shouto agreed with that statement but before he could take his phone out it was already in the hands of the vigilante who was typing away,

When he got it back he had a new number with the name just being the characters for green or in other words Midori, Shouto raised an eyebrow but Ghost simply pulled his hood down to reveal his very curly and very green hair "I think the name fits perfectly!" Shouto hummed in agreement and then looked at the time 

It seems like Ghost or should he call him Midori now? Also checked the time "actually now that I think about it why are you home alone? I mean I specifically chose Endeavor to prank because I knew he was on patrol right now and therefore wouldn't be here but what about you?"

Shouto simply stated "my older sister is an after school tutor, my older brother moved out to live closer to the medical school he goes to, and my mother is in a mental hospital for spilling boiling water on my face."

Even with the mask and goggles Shouto could feel the shock and confusion on their face. They eventually shook it off and said "while I appreciate the openness I feel like I just learned something that belongs to like a level 3 friendship when we barely apply for level 1!"

Now it was Shouto's turn to tilt their head in confusion "tragic backstories shouldn't be unlocked until a level 3 friendship?" They once again stared in shock before saying "uh, yeah! It's a good thing you didn't try to reveal anything else to me or it might have taken over my brain until I was so focused on it that I ended up permanently harming my body just to help with your problems!"

"Ok now I'm really confused." They jumped off the bed and walked over to the buckets "so am I! But that's usually what happens in anime and that stuff has to be at least a little accurate right?" Shouto also got off the bed to watch as Ghost carefully took all of the costumes out and patted them dry before hanging them back up "i don't know what anime is either but i'll have to agree with your statement."

"No video games, no anime" they seemed to glitch out a little bit before saying "and you were in there studying so no fictional reading either! Careful there Todoroki or you might make me think you have a terrible dad… actually now that I think about it why did your mother pour- no wait! That's too much information!" They teleported again and only now did he notice that all the supplies were gone and the closest didn't look out of place at all "ok the second this prank is no longer trending I'm gonna send you some things and we are gonna give you a hobby that has nothing to do with the development of your future" and then with a long extended byeeeee the vigilante was gone

As he walked through the house there was no evidence that he was ever there in the first place

In fact if his hand didn't shoot up in multicolored flames as he scrolled through his phone contacts just to look at the prankster viganalte's phone number he might have really believed that it was just a ghost.

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When Enji got home that night the house was devoid of noise

Shouto was in bed already asleep and ready for the next day,

And while his daughter would have only arrived home shortly before him on a normal day she decided to spend the night at her girlfriend's house instead,

He still hadn't met this girlfriend (something about stopping a bugs bunny rip off from getting grilled) but he trusted her enough to protect his daughter so he was ok with it,

And so with a quite house he quickly got out of his costume and fell asleep (he never noticed the slight chemical smell his whole room had.)

And he still didn't notice it as he put on a fresh costume to start a early shift so he could spend the rest of the day checking up on Shouto's training,

No he only noticed it when he walked into his agency and people started to laugh.

Then and only then did he pay attention to the smell of his costume and really look at the color of the fire he keeps on at all times while in costume,

And it was purple!

He was immediately outraged but that only made people laugh harder as his flames expanded and became a even deeper purple color,

And now he either had to stick with it or run all the way back home to change

But only one of those options would waste a good amount of hero time, and seeing as how evil never sleeps he can't stop fighting just because of a wardrobe malfunction.

And so he stuck it out and used the purple flames to fight for the day,

Except it wasn't just purple,

And it wasn't for just one day,

He chased down a woman who could fly by controlling lead, all while covered in hot pink flames,

He defeated a man who could control shadows with neon green flames,

And he took out a entire trigger enhanced gang with bright blue flames (he didn't really mind that one no matter how much he tried to deny it)

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The next morning 2 Todorokis woke up to a amusing notification

For Shouto it was a text that simply read 

Midori

OMFG LOOK AT YO BOY GO!!!!!

I knew this prank would end up going viral!!

The Painbow hero: Endeavor fecking called it!

Is this Endeavor's way of coming out?

Endeavor gets a colorful prank from the Ghost of Japan 

This is definitely the most amusing articles I've read about Endeavor

I'm famous! (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)

How?

How did you just do that?

you don't know what a kaomoji is ( ・◇・)？

No.

No I do not

Oh you sweet summer child

There are so many things I have to teach you!

Whatever you say

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But in a dim wearhouse a black haired man peeled himself off the dirty couch he dragged in about a week ago and after double checking that none of his staples fell out he pulled his phone out of his coat pocket and opened it up

He dragged his finger across the multiple cracks as he read his newest message

ForgotMeNot

The Prankster Ghost of Japan

What the hell is that?

It barely took a minute for Giran to reply 

You told me to send you anything interesting about Endeavor

Yeah but this is just about the newest vigilante with the most unoriginal name I've ever heard

Like who the hell calls themselves Ghost?

Just read it and I think you will be much more interested in this specific one

Dabi rolls his eyes but clicks on the link

It takes a minute for it to load because of the terrible Internet here but once it does the first thing he is met with is a low quality photo of a figure in a cloak with glowing yellow eyes

And all of it was on some news site he had never heard of

Which basically means that this vigilante hasn't done anything big enough to be known world wide

Like sure Endeavor got pranked but only a few people have connected it to the teleporting Ghost that likes to steal costume pieces from heroes

Wait a minute

Dabi scrolled back up to look at the image of that flaming trash bag covered in purple flames, obviously enraged at what was done to his outfit

He then scrolled further to see him shooting pink fireballs

And even further to watch him create a pillar of neon green flames to break out of a bubble of shadows. By this point Dabi was chuckling even as some of his stables ripped from the wide grin he had 

But he quickly went back to his mask of indifference as he looked at Endeavor covered in blue flames while taking out a gang

After that he quickly scrolled past all the Endeavor stuff to get to the origin of this Ghost 

[But that is only the most recent (pardon my pun) endeavor of this Ghost, he is also known for chasing heroes. That's right not being chased by heroes but actually chasing heroes down just to mess with them or in the case of present mic, snipe, and a currently unnamed underground hero literally stealing parts of their costume just to add it to their own

It is currently unknown what their quirk is or what limits there are but this vigilante has been known to appear randomly around all of Japan and stopping crimes within seconds before disappearing

And this way of acting is what got him the name ghost in the first place

But it seems like prankster might get added to their name if they keep up with messing with all the heroes they come across]

…

Ok I'm kinda interested in the vigilante if he can successfully do all of this without ever even being worried about getting caught

I knew you would, which is why I'm already trying to track the man down so you guys can talk business.

"Fucking weirdo" he said before closing his phone and finally standing up

He did a little stretch and enjoyed the sensation that came with popping his back before finally stepping outside.

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But in a decent apartment on the other half of the city a different black haired man was slumping against his kitchen counter as he waited for his coffee to brew 

Once it was done he sighed and leaned back as if to ask God what he did to deserve this

But there was no answer so he pinched his nose in annoyance and closed out of the article labeled Endeavor gets a sprinkling of pretty and then made his coffee exactly how he likes it before dumping the entire pot into his thermos and heading for his car to start the day.

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And finally we see the POV of the culprit 

For Izuku he woke up with a billion different notifications since he set up a filter to catch key words related to Ghost

And so as he went through breakfast he read though article after article

Some of them made him laugh while others made him feel embarrassed or confused

"Ghost is like a kid friendly version of stain only instead of culling bad heroes he just pranks them into oblivion. I literally chose what heroes to prank at random so definitely not like stain, oh well the rumors will probably go away after I figure out exactly what I'm gonna do to All Might as revenge."

"Theories on Ghost's quirk, eyesight based teleportation, coordinate based teleportation, FTL speed quirk? That would cause sound barrier breaking with every movement! like that doesn't even make sense with the name Ghost!"

He scrolled through a few more articles and eventually sent his favorites to Todoroki, but after he sent them he thought about how he gained that friend and chuckled while cleaning his bowl

"What's got you so cheerful?" His mom asked while cleaning her own bowl of food, izuku thought about how to word it before he said "well there's this vigilante who loves to prank people" she raised a eyebrow and he could already feel the stern talking coming so he quickly back pettled and said "not that I would endanger myself like that or anything but you got to admit seeing Endeavor use pink fire was kinda funny but completely harmless, well to Endeavor at least."

His mom just shook her head in amusement. "I don't know what changed recently but I'm glad you seem so much happier." She then poked him with her elbow "even if it did involve some drastic fashion changes"

Izuku's face tinted red as he spluttered and tried to explain how he wasn't going through an emo phase but really did just like the boots "whatever you say honey! You know I actually dyed my hair black once and I remember trying to have this exact conversation with your grandmother" she then walked over to the closet and started looking around "you know I think I still have a picture of it ooh maybe I can bring it back and we can be "not emos" together!"

And this just caused izuku to laugh harder, and man did he need this day to just hang out with his mom, Her presence could just drain all his anxiety and let him truly relax and recover,

He truly wouldn't know what he would do without her, he said mentally as he continued to laugh with her over how bad Mitsuki looked with dark purple hair back in highschool.

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Izuku has been a vigilante for exactly 2 months and 1 week

That's right it only took him 9 weeks to find his second real villain 

Or well he thinks he's a villain "wait, how do you even tell the difference?" He asked nobody as he approached the frozen figure currently spewing fire from his mouth

That actually kinda concerned izuku so he walked up and while carefully avoiding the flames he took the man's mask off "oh thank God! Could you imagine how awkward this would have been if my first real villain was my dad!?" He decided to leave the man's mask off as he walked a little bit away to cool down from the frozen flames

"So thanks for being a face I've never seen before! But back to my first question: what really is the difference? Is it the outfit? The tragic backstory? Doing something illegal just for fun instead of just out of necessity? The illegal quirk use? A genuine hate for the world?" He then stopped and counted on his fingers "shit, I hope not because I completed 4 out of 5!"

"Oh well I'll just ask Todoroki or Eraserhead later" but while he was debating between asking the son of a hero or the actual hero he was slowly wrapping the villain up but suddenly came to a problem "wait how am I gonna stop the fire breath once I unpause? He will just burn through the rope!" He quickly tied the rope and then looked around the construction site he found the guy fighting Manual at

Izuku proceeded to smack his head "oh yeah! How did I forget that I have a literal water hero here!" He quickly pulled Manual right behind Dragon and then wrapped Dragon in a second layer of metal chains he found on the construction site

And then he unpaused and watched as fire bursted out of Dragon's throat as he tried to burn everything around him but Manual adjusted faster to his new position and quickly got to work extinguishing the fire at the source 

And once Dragon ran out of juice Manual manipulated the water to cover his entire body except his nose and eyes so he could carry him more easily "thanks for the save Ghost, I couldn't get close enough to stop his fire spewing." But that only made izuku izuku tilt his head in confusion "why are you thanking a vigilante? And not even trying to catch me?"

"Well one I have precious cargo that I can't put down until I get some quirk suppressant cuffs, two you did just save me a lot of pointless fighting, and finally third I don't see any new pieces on your costume and I'm not covered in glitter or anything which means I didn't get pranked. So once again thanks" while they talked he was slowly approaching the exit to the construction site

But Izuku just chuckled and said "you know for someone called the normal hero that was probably the most interesting response I've heard about vigilanties yet!" And now everyone was chuckling (besides the villain of course) "thanks, I try, But also I do really owe you one, I was starting to run low on water to manipulate since he kept turning it all to steam" 

Izuku just waved it off saying it's fine before he stopped and pulled his phone out excitedly "selfie!"

"W-What?"

Izuku ran up and opened up the camera and then said "if you want to pay me back for saving you then take a picture with me so I can add it to my list!"

Manual stopped and stared "1 you have a list of selfies with heroes? And 2 you want the normal hero Manual to be a part of that?" Izuku nodded excitedly so Manual just sighed and got in pose

Which is how izuku gained a photo of him posing with Manual with a waterlogged dragon scowling behind them 

After that he changed back into his school clothes and arrived to class 3 minutes before the bell went off

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Todoroki

I have officially beaten 2 villains!

Like usually I only find criminals doing criminal things

But today I helped Manual stop a Dragon :3

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I keep forgetting that the guy who sends me 200 year old HeroTube videos about the history of a abandoned pizzeria, all while using the most complicated emojis I've ever seen,

Is the same guy who takes down a villain before first period of class even starts.

I'm a man of many talents (◕ᴗ◕✿)

How do you even type those so fast?

Obviously I'm a 5th dimensional being that can manipulate time as easily as you breath air

I'm actually starting to believe that

W-What? o_O

Maybe it's these theory videos you keep bombarding me with but I'm starting to connect dots that I never noticed before

Dear God, I've created a monster!

I just wanted to show you FNAF, but I didn't think you would choose conspiracy theories as your hobby because of it!

If I had known that would happen I would have never sent you that link to the game theory channel!

But nevertheless I thank you for exposing me to it

Not only was the history of this video game very interesting but you were also right, I did need a hobby unrelated to heroics.

So, thanks :)

Izuku felt a chill run down his spine as he watched the rich, sophisticated, calm faced Todoroki use an emoticon instead of a period "oh. God. If Endeavor hated Ghost before then he is gonna be wishing death upon me for turning his son into a theory loving, emoticon using, teenager!"

"Yep I can see it now, he is gonna set up a post board and buy a bunch of red string before trying to figure out how I am related to All Might or something!" he felt another chill run through his body but this one was of disgust instead of fear.

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Shouto sneezed right before he pinned a picture of All Might to his new post board, he then thought about it before ripping the picture in half 

"Yeah that was kinda dumb, there's no way Midori could be related to All Might" he then looked around his room before grabbing a different photo

He pinned it to the wall and said "now that definitely makes more sense, I just need to gather evidence." and as he walked away that photo of Ms. Joke would stay on his post board until the day he met Inko (it would actually stay up a few days past that while he dealt with his denial)

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On one very boring day Izuku decided to do something dumb,

You see he forgot to take a selfie with Snipe before disappearing and he wants to fix that,

The only problem is that the only place he knows for sure he will be is UA during school hours.

Meaning Izuku will be at school at the same time

But luckily the teacher was teaching them something Izuku already knew (or unluckily since it was boring him to hell)

So it was easy to slip out, walk home, change into the vigilante clothing, and then make his way to UA

Now usually it's impossible to just walk in even if you are a teleporter because Nezu set up this intricate system that is always scanning for human DNA,

Yeah that system isn't just at the door, it's everywhere!

But the one thing this intricate system isn't made to scan is people frozen in time.

Meaning as long as he doesn't unpause while inside he basically has free reign thanks to the open door policy

And the open door thing has always confused him

Like he gets the show of power that they're so confident in their security that they can leave the door open but still never get attacked but if someone with a strong enough speed quirk or someone who can slow/pause objects wanted to attack then that giant hole in the wall isn't gonna stop them.

But that's besides the point, Izuku says as he walks past the gate (he will never tell anyone but he did flinch a little, somewhat expecting Nezu had already unlocked the secrets to time travel)

But once he was sure nothing was gonna happen he walked into the school and looked for a map

And while he did find one, this place was built like a rat maze! He then chuckled as he realized that Nezu probably made it that way

But nevertheless he began his walk through the building while looking at the photo of the map he took

But even with the map it was impossible!

He wound up at the infirmary 3 times! (Meaning he got a selfie with the youthful hero: Recovery Girl)

Then he somehow ended up on the opposite side of the building from the shooting range, which meant he somehow ended up in Midnight's Modern Hero Art History class, Electoplasm's math class, and Present Mic's English class! (he took a selfie with all three while dramatically posing)

But the biggest jumpscare was when he accidentally tripped over a yellow lump on the floor and when he turned to look at it he was face to face with Eraserhead! (He knew he worked there; he just didn't expect him to be a tripping hazard!) He quickly scrambled away and finally, finally! He found the gun range.

So he walked inside and sure enough Snipe was overlooking a bunch of students while they practiced their ranged attacks 

And so after he got a selfie with some finger guns to keep up the cowboy theme he had a new problem, "now I just need to find Cement-Toss, Lunch-Rush, Hound-Dog, Thirteen, Vlad-King, and Nezu. But first!" Izuku then looked through the employee only area of the shooting range and sure enough he found a hero worthy cloak in the trash

After retrieving it and making sure none of the gems fell off he tucked it under his arm and was on his way.

It took him 10 minutes to find the lunchroom and after he took that selfie he collapsed on the nearest table and sighed "it was funny at first Nezu, but this is ridiculous!" Once he had calmed down he surveyed the half filled lunch room and then nudged the shoulder of someone who looked like a 2nd or 3rd year. They seemed to have a full body chill as they were unfrozen before looking up at who was nudging them 

Their eyes went wide, and at first izuku was scared they thought he was a villain but then they pointed to his face "did you steal Aizawa-sensei's goggles!?"

And man, how does Izuku keep forgetting that he has those on? But he just nodded and said "yeah, don't tell anyone, but I like to prank people" he then pointed to his boots and said "Present Mic's boots" and then he pointed to his cloak "Snipe's backup cloak that he tried to dye green and then black" the student was dumbfounded that this first year could get away with stealing from 3 teachers, let alone heroes!

But Izuku just continued to talk "so anyways I've managed to pull some type of trick on everybody but these guys" he pointed to the teachers he hadn't had a selfie with yet, the student nodded dumbfounded encouraging him to go on

"But even with all the time I've been here, I still can't find the staff room or Nezu's office" Izuku slumped into the chair next to the student even as said student started to laugh "I know that feeling! But don't worry I can help you…" he slowly dragged off so Izuku looked up and saw that he had extended a hand "oh uh you're not gonna turn me into the teachers right?" But he just shook his head "nah, my mentor has taught me how important humor is to a job like heroics so as long as what you're doing is harmless then I'll help!"

Izuku just nodded and shook his hand "uh, the name is Midori." But the student was much more energetic in his hand shake as he said,

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"Mirio Togata, At your service!" He then stood up and started to walk towards the closest stairs but right before he exited the cafeteria he stopped and really thought about it "hey uh, how come it's so quiet? And how come no one is moving?"

Midori hummed and then said "well uh, how do you think I was able to steal the goggles? My quirk basically makes me so fast that everyone is frozen, see watch this!" he then watched the student pull his phone out and casually throw it right at Mirio

He freaked out and tried to catch it but then it just slowed and eventually stopped mid air. The student then grabbed it from the air and put it back in his pocket "but the longer I move at such speeds the quicker I'll get fatigued so let's get to that staff room quickly!"

And while there were some things Mirio was still confused about (like how was Mirio moving that fast? How come he has never heard of such a strong speed quirk before? And why did it not feel like they were moving that fast?) he did speed up his tour around the school

But it still took them a while so he decided to fill the silence "so Midori… no first name?" "Huh? oh! Uh, yeah. while you seem like a nice guy Togata I can't just give you all my secrets! I thought the second years got like, classes about how to be observant or something?"

"Well we do, but that's no fun!" He frowned

"I actually think it's hilarious, but if you can find out my real name I'll make it worth your wild, I promise!" Even though he couldn't see pass the mask he could just tell Midori was smiling wide

"Well you have yourself a deal! I'll find out who you are, little kohai! And when I do I'm gonna find a way to get back at you!"

He laughed and said "I look forward to it!" But their conversation ended there because they were in front of the staff room 

"Welp here's the staff room and upstairs you will find Nezu's office. Now just make sure you keep it harmless" he tried to act stern as he pointed at his kohai but they both just ended up laughing

"Don't worry I will, but I make no promises on being able to stop Present Mic from bursting all the windows with his laughter."

They laughed again but then Mirio stopped "wait is that how they got broke-

-In the first place!?" He asked but Midori didn't respond. No, who responded was Nejire "in the first place of what!? Also why did you just glitch out like that!? Did you accidentally use your quirk for like a second?!" And yep as he observed his surroundings he was back in the cafeteria as if none of that had even happened.

"Mirio? Are you ok? You look like you saw a ghost." Asked Tamaki but that just made him laugh as he scratched his neck and said "I think I did!"

They both sorta just stared at him but Mirio didn't care he was definitely gonna find out who Midori is, even if he is a ghost!

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Once Izuku had returned Togata to his table he walked back to the staff room and opened the door

"Damn, Everyone but Thirteen!" He sighed but got to work taking cool pictures with all the heroes before he grabbed a marker and wrote on the bottom of the their coffee table [I wonder how long it will take you guys to realize Ghost broke in just to graffiti your table on 06/9/2224] before leaving and heading upstairs 

"And now we have the rat-god himself" he opened the door and Nezu was at his desk working on his computer, but Izuku wasn't interested in messing with that no, instead he grabbed a empty piece of paper and started writing something in a simple code since he remembered Eraserhead saying something about him loving puzzles 

After that he sat in the chair in front of the desk and took the last selfie for the day "ok this has definitely helped with the boredom! Ooh maybe I can set up that vigilante social media account to pass the rest of the time in class" he closed the door and started his descent out of UA

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But back with Nezu he immediately got a notification that someone was in his office since both the button on the inside of the sliding door and the button inside of the chair he sets out for appointments were pushed in.

He reset them and then checked the cameras of the entire school but nothing showed evidence of a break in,

He then checked his office and that's when he noticed that his stack of files was 0.05mm taller then it was a few seconds ago,

He immediately went through them and that's when he found a page covered in numbers.

He didn't even need to translate it to understand what it said since it was just a simple number cipher, but it at least made it more interesting to read.

[Dear Nezu, if you are as observant as I've been warned then you probably noticed what I did the second I left,

So I would just like to say that you have been in my top 10 favorites for a while and that you are like half the reason I prank heroes to deal with boredom in the first place,

And don't try to deny it. I know you redesigned this place to feel like a maze the second you took over.

So I just wanted to thank you for taking care of my boredom when I couldn't,

And for inspiring me when I could.

P.s: leave the coffee table alone, I want to see how long it takes them to notice what I did.

Your's truly, @Laughing_Spector]

"What a peculiar boy, ending a coded message with a bar handle" Nezu typed the bar handle into a popular media app but nothing popped up

He then hit reload and 1 account appeared

It didn't even have an icon "meaning he broke into UA, escaped it, went home, and made a new email and a new account with that email all in the span of about 30 seconds!" Nezu stood up and pinned the paper on a post board he keeps for interesting things he finds before starting to laugh "It's so spectacular it's impossible!" Now he was full on cackling even as he hit the follow button.

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A full body chill went through every staff member of UA, and they all knew exactly why, something or someone just gained the interest of Nezu.

But the one who had the worst chill was Izuku all the way back at Aldera middle school.

Because you see he had just got done setting up his profile picture up as a cropped version of the photo he took with Manual when he got a notification.

[Mr. Stoat followed you]

He didn't know why this notification filled him with so much fear until he remembered that he only handed out this handlebar to one person- or well he guesses one mammal.

Meaning that Nezu discovered his note, decoded it, and read it all within about 30 seconds.

"Is- is this him asking for a prank war? I mean why else would the principal follow some random account with his only evidence being one paper covered in numbers?" His thoughts were interrupted by the teacher "De- I mean Midoriya please pay more attention."

And while izuku has mostly gotten rid of that habit of mumbling he did mumble a little

Which allowed Katsuki to hear a few words

Most of it was complete nonsense but he clearly heard two words, Prank and War.

Now most people wouldn't freak out about it, but Katsuki remembers how Deku used to act before he got the quirkless diagnosis and became more timid,

And while he was still getting used to this new Deku that is more confident he never expected no, he never wanted the jokester phase to return.

You see when they were about 3 Deku discovered this hero who could shape shift into different people 

Now this hero usually did underground things but when they did end up in public they used this weird ass fighting style to trick and joke with their enemies before using the distractions to finish them off

And that activated something in little 3 year old Deku's brain, as he suddenly became obsessed with jokes and pranking people in any way he could.

He was a straight up menace, and that's coming from the guy who was the biggest brat at 3 and 4 years old

You couldn't walk into another room without getting a face full of clear wrapping plastic and if you ask where he got it or how he got it so high he will just smirk and run off while laughing.

And it only amped up as he grew older, hand buzzers, fart spray, silly string, if you could name it he probably tried to pull it off at least once.

All until around his 5th birthday and then he just stopped.

No more pranks,

No more jokes,

No more laughter.

After that he just tried to blend into the background, only showing up if he thought someone needed help.

So while Katsuki is glad he has regained some of the confidence he lost as a child he really could have done without ever even hearing about the jokester phase again

But if a 14 year old Deku has decided to bring it back then Katsuki needs to be extra vigilant,

Because while Deku doesn't hold a grudge he can be very, very petty and Katsuki is probably number 1 on his long list of petty revenge.

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But speaking of the number 1, Izuku has finally figured out how he's gonna get back at the guy and it's all thanks to Nezu!

You see he kept trying to figure out a way to get all his frustrations out in one go, but just like a prank war you have to start out small and build up!

Which is why he was currently unscrewing the vent that connects the public and the employee only areas together inside of Might Tower

It took him 9 different types of screwdrivers but he was now in and could freely explore most of the floors,

So the offices on level 1, 2, 14, 21, 38, 51, 73, and 86 had small alterations, he moved everything by five inches, swapped the sugar and salt packets at random, and after finding a breaker box he turned the power off for every odd numbered floor

And while that might sound like a lot all of that really only effected his employees not the number 1 himself

Which is why he started his climb to the top of Might Tower (he can't use the elevator because it's connected to the entirety of the tower and while he can unpause big things like giant humans or complex machinery, Might tower is definitely outside of his size limitation.) He took a few breaks but eventually he did arrive on the 200th floor

Meaning he could get into the meat of his first prank of the many to come for the man who almost crushed him.

You see the 200th floor is basically one massive condo apartment that only All Might can access, well only All Might and his personal secretary.

And wouldn't you know it, the secretary was not here today! Meaning even if Izuku couldn't pause time he would have been able to search through this Yagi Toshinori guy's desk and easily find the VIP golden security badge that unlocks the door to anything belonging to All Might "and this guy just leaves such a incredible card laying inside the bottom of his desk! Like what, is this his spare or something? I swear if I had one of these I'd never let it out of my sight!" Izuku then paused and thought about it "actually that's a wonderful idea!" He quickly snatched the badge and clipped it to his jacket.

He looked at the photo of the scrawny man with shaggy blonde hair and piercing blue eyes and immediately expelled all the air from his lungs,

"HOLY SHIT! ALL MIGHT IS HIS OWN SECRETARY!!!!" he then flinched from how loud he was being even though he was still in paused time,

He quickly unclipped the badge so he could get a better look at the photo "yep that is definitely the man who told me that quirkless people would just get in the way if they tried to be heroes!" He then looked around until he found a sharpie and proceeded to scribble out the man's entire picture "much better!" He clipped it back on and was about to leave before he turned back to look at Yagi/All Might's desk

"Well I didn't want to be rude to clueless employees but now that I know that All Might is just employing himself" he proceeded to lay his hand on the right side of the desk before swiping it all the way to the left,

Papers, pens, nicknacks, and so much more all went cascading into the air where they immediately froze and only then did Izuku head towards the locked door

He scanned his new badge but then lightly slapped his head while chuckling "oh right! Duh doy" he quickly unpaused time, uncaring if any cameras caught him and after scanning the badge once again the door clicked open and he could freely enter All Might's or should he say Yagi's home.

Once inside he closed the door and paused time again, now when you walk into the number 1 hero's home you expect it to be bright and colorful like him, now don't get him wrong it was bright and colorful but it wasn't overly so, add that to all the western things he obviously brought back from America and the place felt very lived in.

Which is why Izuku immediately shook every carbonated drink in his fridge before going to the bathroom and writing something slightly ominous on the mirror "now that would be something to write home about, hey Todoroki! Oh what did I do over the weekend? Nothing much just scared All Might by writing a note on his mirror" once he was done laughing he exited the bathroom and after unpausing his frankly massive TV he went into the settings and changed everything to Spanish, after that he made his way to the master bedroom

"Huh, I expected him to have a bigger bed" he said as climbed on top of the still slightly massive bed before starting to jump,

After he had thoroughly ruffled the bed with a few flips and high jumps he hopped off and set the bedroom TV to negative mode which inverts all colors

He then walked into the man's closet and while he couldn't find any hero costumes he did find a yellow striped suit which he immediately covered the insides in little bits of glitter "you know I never understood why someone would carry around pocket sand until I discovered pocket glitter! Easy to secure until you need it and then with a simple push of air you can permanently ruin a entire closet" with that said he threw the rest of his glitter at the other outfits before walking back to the front room to stare at a display case

He let out a low whistle as he grabbed the circle shaped shield with a star in the middle "someone's a fan of marvel, and this thing is made of real metal!" A smirk spread across his face as he stared at the closest wall "I wonder if it bounces like the real thing!" He immediately unpaused it so it wouldn't stop midair before spinning the shield and after 5 complete turns he let go and watched it soar through the sky,

Only for It to slam into the wall and immediately fall to the ground "damn so regular metal" after that he grabbed the next item on the shelf which just so happened to be a war hammer with a too short handle, also known as Mjolnir.

But he immediately dropped it because whatever it was made with must weigh at least a ton! And that was him trying to grab it while in frozen time! He doesn't want to find out how much it actually weighs, "I wonder how much he paid for a collector's item like that?"

After that he took a quick photo with the shield before throwing it on the couch and sitting next to it "ok I messed up his home, his clothes, his TVs, his food and drinks, I left him a creepy message to try and scare him… huh, I can't really think of anything else to try and mess with him… oh well I'll just save it for the next round of pranks." He hopped off the couch and made his way out of Might Tower

Once outside he unpaused and posted the picture of him with the shield while listening to the sounds of Might Tower activating all their emergency signals and programs,

And of course it barely took a minute before Mr. stoat liked his first post,

"So, creepy!" He muttered while standing up.

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After that Izuku fell into a little bit of a pattern

Stop villains and criminals, 

joke and mess with any heroes that come after him, 

talk to Todoroki or Eraserhead about anything interesting going on, 

do something to mess with All Might at least once every 2 days 

Post his favorite pictures to his account and get the heebie-jeebies every time he sees that Nezu was the first to like the post,

And then mess with Nezu back by breaking into UA without setting off a single alarm all over again and leaving another coded message that is more complicated then the one before it.

And he's got to say it was the funniest month he had had so far,

He TP Hawk's agency after the man had stuck him to the wall with his feathers right in the middle of a Seiyu store (it was kind of Izuku's fault for shopping in his costume but he finds the employees reactions too funny to stop)

He then taped a QR code on the back of the hero Wash after the guy soaked Izuku in sudsy water right after he got done getting everyone out of a burning building, (The QR code sends you straight to a HeroTube video that used to be a really popular meme back in the day.)

And lately he has been "teleporting" carrots into Miriko's hand right after she gets done with a fight,

At first she would freak out and throw it away but after about the 5th time she just started looking around the crowd trying to figure out who was doing it,

Once she hit the 20th time she gave up and just started eating them,

And after about the 30th time she came to expect it and would sometimes just raise her hand into the air in the middle of a conversation just to see if one would appear.

Izuku had a lot of fun with those and if it wouldn't ruin the magic of trick he would definitely hang out with someone like Miriko all the time 

But right after he got done "teleporting" a carrot to her in the middle of a interview Eraserhead somehow found him and demanded he gets some new goggles if he is gonna continue being in news articles because people are starting to associate the goggles with Ghost and it's just making Eraserhead's job harder,

So in response Izuku tracked him down the next day to show off his now neon green Eraserhead goggles "check it out Eraser! I found this tough to remove green paint that sticks to metals really well! And now I've gone from being green, black, and yellow to just green and black!" And Eraserhead just sighed as he turned around to look at what Ghost did to his original goggles

Only to crack a small grin as he saw the multiple drops of green on the vigilanties forehead, mask and hood "did you paint it in full costume? Because it seems like you added more green to your… everything." Izuku rolled his eyes but stopped as he looked at his gloves "oh damn I guess I did get it all over the place, and for your information I did in fact do it in full costume but only because I wasn't exactly... Uh... allowed in the place I was painting in'' Izuku looked away sheepishly even as Eraserhead's once again sighed "if I find out that you covered a police station in paint I will br-" "what! No, why would you think that!? I was just painting in the same room All Might keeps his Allmobile!"

"You realize that's not much better right? Also I've been meaning to ask but what did All Might even do to you for you to go this hard on messing with him while everyone else only gets one joke?" But Ghost simply laughed as he said "actually I've been having an ongoing war with Nezu for like the past month!" Eraserhead jaw slightly dropped as he processed that information "wait a minute you're the reason that satanic rat has been implementing so many new security systems at U-" "ANYWAYS! To answer your question tho, All Might kinda almost mentally destroyed me once… so I think I'll keep ramping up how I mess with him until either he breaks or I save up enough money to go to therapy!"

Izuku then stood up and said "and I don't know about you but I feel like the first option is a lot closer than that second." And with that he disappeared and left Eraserhead alone to think everything over.

After that the next place he visited was the Todoroki estate,

Only in the middle of the night,

While Endeavor was home.

But he didn't care as he sat down on Todoroki's bed and unpaused,

Now the first few times around this freaked Todoroki out but after having this happen for about a month and half Todoroki just associates a sudden dent in bed with the friendly vigilante known as Ghost.

Meaning he doesn't even look up from his book as he says "you do realize my father is home right?" Izuku just chuckled as he took his freshly painted goggles and plopped them into Todoroki's lap "oh I know, but I thought my dearest friend would like to see that I updated my costume! Again…" but now Todoroki stared dumbfounded at what was in his lap because in the month and a half they have known each other Midori has never taken any part of his costume off 

So he slowly put his book down before grabbing the now green goggles and looked up, but of course Ghost was now staring at the wall so he couldn't even see his face "wow! Just wow! The last time I was here all you had was a picture of Ms. Joke and a low quality photo of me" he carefully took one of the photos off the post board before turning to face Todoroki "did you print out my picture with Manual?" And now Todoroki couldn't even enjoy being able to see half his friend's face as he rushed to stand up and put the picture back where it belongs. "it has the best lighting which makes it easier to see the resemblance with your mother."

But just like every single time Izuku sees this post board he burst out laughing "I don't know how you come up with these theories but my personal favorite will always be the one you made about how Wash is actually a sentient washing machine robot" he then stared at the photo of Ms joke and said "although the prankster mother theory is definitely a close second" Izuku smiled behind the mask but quickly had to blink multiple times as a large flash went off,

He looked at todoroki but he was busy looking at his phone "you both have green eyes and a face mask on your costume" Izuku laughed again "ok you got me on the green eyes and green hair thing but I don't think putting a face mask on a costume is a genetic thing" Todoroki continued to stare at his phone and then the board before walking back to his bed while saying "you don't believe it's a genetic connection right now, but don't worry I'll prove it."

Just then Endeavor opened the door and surveyed the room "huh I could have sworn I heard a teenager laughing in here."

Todoroki scowled while saying "I'm a teenager, what if I was just laughing?" Endeavor raised a eyebrow before just shaking his head and closing the door,

Seconds later Izuku plopped back into existence right on top of the bed "now that is just a theory!" He immediately got slapped with a book but that just made him chuckle "hey come on I'm serious! I didn't even believe your face could do a positive emotion until I saw how passionate you got over explaining to me how you think Kumai woods is actually a plant with a quirk."

Todoroki just exhaled loudly before handing Izuku his goggles back and reopening his book, deciding to settle in as well Izuku shoved his gloves into his pockets and then opened up his phone

The silence would then be broken a few minutes later by a notification "oh hey did I ever tell you that Nezu follows me because I snuck into UA just to take a picture with him?" He then showed the multiple pictures of him breaking into UA he just got done posting and how all of them had a like from Nezu "I swear he set up an algorithm that literally just likes my post cause there's no way he is always awake!"

Todoroki took the phone and scrolled through the account for a few minutes before asking "why do you post all of this anyways? Won't that just make it easier for them to catch you?" Izuku took the phone back and did a so-so gesture "I post this stuff because I think it's funny, like look I posted a picture with hawk's and yet it only has 4 likes because they think I photoshopped it! 

But because it barely gets any traction that means the police and heroes have no clue that they could easily use this to find out where I am on basically any night! So yes I am making it easier to catch me, it's just that no one knows about it." After that he looked at the time and stood up

"Well it's been fun hanging with you Todo but I've got to go-go" and with a quick peace sign he was gone

A few seconds later endeavor walked in again and said "Shouto are you ok? I thought I heard teenager slang being used."

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Once Izuku was back home and changed he unpaused time and laid down on his own bed

He then started to scroll through the pictures just to look at how much he has changed,

From the scrawny kid in a hoodie whose smile didn't quite reach his eyes,

All the way to the slightly built teen with a decked out costume and a carefree smile.

He smiled at the new him before putting his phone on the charger and falling asleep,

Life was great right now for Izuku Midoriya.

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Life was terrible right now for Izuku Midoriya, he thought as he tried to find a way to get the quirk suppressant cuffs off.

You see he might have live, laugh, loved a little bit too close to the sun this time around,

What happened was that about a week after he made the most recent costume change he decided to mess with the police since he's been mostly leaving them alone lately because of all his hijinks with the heroes

So he wanted to fix that by walking into a police station in full costume before dropping a glitter bomb and running away

And you see that last part is where his plan went to shit

Because he was able to easily walk in,

Freak every cop out,

Throw down the glitter bomb,

But right before he could start running he caught the sight of two figures

One was in a trench coat like some black and white detective movie,

But the other was a scrawny blonde man in a oversized white shirt and dark green pants,

The second he locked eyes with those bright blue eyes hidden in the shadows of the man's face he gasped and pointed while saying "BITCH-MIGHT!?" a moment later the bomb went off and the place was filled with pink and purple glitter clouds 

Izuku took that moment to start running 

He got about 10 feet away before he heard something approaching quickly "SMAAAAAAASH!!" only then did Izuku pause time and look behind him 

Just to see that a glitter covered All Might was only a few inches away from caving his skull in!

He immediately screamed and quickly took his mask off as he vomited out of fear "HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THAT WOULD HAVE KILLED ME!!!" he yelled at the frozen number 1 but something tells Izuku he didn't hear it.

Once he calmed down he put his mask back on he jogged about two blocks away in the opposite direction 

After that he walked into an alley and sat down and unpaused "damn that was scary! I mean I knew my pranks annoyed him, that's like the whole point! But I didn't think it was to the point he would try to Detroit smash me right in the head!" Just as Izuku stood up he felt something stab right into his shoulder

He screamed out in pain since this was his first time getting stabbed before looking at what made the wound

"A feather… hawks!" he immediately stood and started to run even as more feathers flew down with immense force

He tried to pause time but the wound in his arm was making it really difficult to focus,

He just about had it when he heard hawks yell from above "he's over here All Might!"

And now Izuku was really trying to focus on the feel of his quirk even as he heard All Might approaching 

He could see all might falling from the sky just as he got his quirk working through the pain

And once time was paused he fell to his knees and sighed "thank fuck."

He then looked at the number 1 and number 3 and stood up while holding his shoulder "so as it turns out pain can make it more difficult to pause, meaning I'm not completely uncatchable, ahh dammit I'm gonna have to find a way to fix that" he then started to slowly walk away from the battle

He was about halfway home when he collapsed to his knees and sat down in a alleyway "fuck! I didn't know he hit me in the leg!" He looked at the small slash in his pants and just sighed in pain

"Damn that stings, maybe I should just sleep it off…" his eyes started to droop and he could barely pay attention to the sounds around him as he fell asleep

Meaning he didn't notice that he unpaused in his haze

Which meant he also didn't notice the cop who was looking at him suspiciously.

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When Izuku woke up he was laying down in the back of a cop car with a pair of quirk suppressant cuffs

Which brings us back to presence as he tries to find a way to get the cuffs off while simultaneously arguing with the cop.

"Did you really have to take my cloak! It was keeping pressure on the wound!"

"Yeah sure it was, Just like how you said the goggles helped keep the sun out of your eyes and the mask was a ventilator because you have asthma" the cop said while rolling his eyes 

"What can you even arrest me on!? Technically I've never been in a fight! I only capture and evade!"

"Illegal quirk use and you broke into multiple All Might owned properties just to deface them!"

"Illegal quirk use is a super common crime that children break all the time by accident! And actually that's not true. I had a access card for all those places."

"Yeah, sure you did."

"No I'm serious, I had a security badge that gives me access to everything! including the janitor closet that holds everything I used to make the places pop more! Not deface it as you said."

"Oh yeah? Is it actually yours?"

"Yep! it has my picture and everything on it" (the second he got home with that card he took the actual security chip part and put it into a card with his picture and vigilante name, so technically not a lie.)

But this cop obviously didn't believe him as he turned to focus more on the road

But that just gave Izuku more time to figure a way out of this before All Might and Hawks show up to escort him themselves.

He could dislocate his thumb, and it probably wouldn't even hurt that much compared to the wound in his arm.

Maybe he could break the door, nah he's only that strong if he can layer his punches in paused time.

What about crying out in pain until the cop stops to fix the light bandages he applied and then escape, a good back up but there's a huge chance of it failing.

Maybe he really could just get off with nothing but illegal quirk use since he's only told truths about how he has avoided most of the laws in some way or another, actually maybe he could get off with nothing once they realize that his file says quirkless.

Or he could just watch the man in a red and orange suit with a theater mask jump from street pole to street pole until he could land on top of the car and cover it all in blue light.

There was a bright flash and then the cop car and everything inside was suddenly floating through a endless void of swirling dark and light blues

It actually felt kinda similar to how it feels to pause time only more condensed, 

Or should he say compressed…

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He doesn't know how long he was in there but eventually there was another bright flash and a few seconds later the car was plopping down into a dimly lit garage 

Immediately the cop was confused and and freaking out until a hand grabbed him by the head and he turned into a little blue marble "my, my what a loud mouth on that one" the masked man picked up the marble and slipped it into his pocket before grabbing all of Izuku's gear and throwing it into the back without looking

"Come now little phantom! A showman must always look his best!" And while Izuku was greatly confused he did put all his gear back on and then step out of the car

And now that he was out he could better see the man who looked like a old style magician with a intracit white and black mask looking at him.

"So who are you and why did you save me?" The man did a little bow before saying "the name is Mr. Compress! And the reason for my little escapade on your dramatic exit was because I didn't want such a bright flair dying out so soon"

Izuku tilted his head in confusion "I still don't understand" but the newly named Mr. Compress simply started walking towards a door while saying "no matter! All can be explained in due time but we need to deal with that shoulder" he opened the door to a much cleaner and brightly lit house

But izuku stopped right at the exit to the garage and said "you do know this is technically a kidnapping right? Like how do I know you're not trying to just lure me into your house with the promise of medical treatment just to do something freaky once I'm trapped? I mean he'll I'm still wearing the handcuffs so I can't even fight back!" He then turned around and Izuku could only imagine a shocked expression as he said "1 ew that's disgusting, 2 I have a much more refined preferred palette thank you very much, and 3 why didn't you just say so! I thought they were a fashion statement!" He then walked up and placed his ungloved hand on the center of the handcuffs

The chain and half of the actual cuffs on both sides glowed blue before compressing into a marble, which allowed the other halves to freely fall to the ground "there problem solved! if you get too spooked you can just pull your disappearing act! Now will you please let me help with your shoulder before it becomes a career ending tragedy!?" Just to test it out Izuku paused time and quickly gathered the other stuff from inside the car (his phone, little dollar store gadgets he keeps on hand, the zip ties he keeps in one of his cargo pockets, and obviously the pocket glitter) before returning to his original position and unpausing time

It seems like the magician noticed cause he said "done with your little test drive?" Before continue his walk inside

Feeling a little more confident about his chances of survival he followed Mr. Compress into the living room where he told him to sit down at the table before he walked into a unseen room and came back with a first aid kit

He took the cloak off and started to undo the bandages done over his jacket and then asked izuku to take off the jacket and shirt "i thought you said you weren't into that" and while Izuku couldn't see past the mask he could tell the man was getting frustrated "either take the jacket and shirt off or I let you start walking home where it will most definitely get infected!"

Izuku rolled his eyes but complied "fine, fine, but don't make fun of my shirt! I usually just wear whatever since no one sees it" he unzipped the jacket and carefully took it off as to not aggravate the stab wound 

Which left his plain white shirt that just said tuxedo in English in complete view for everyone, he could hear a grin on the man's face as he said "well, at least we match, but this shirt is completely ruined, I mean with some simple sewing you could fix the jacket and cowl but this shirt is way to thin!" Izuku finished carefully taking off the shirt while the man criticized his clothing and then there was a comfortable silence as Mr. Compress checked over the wound and said it wouldn't need stitching before applying all the necessities and wrapping it up in bandages.

Once he returned from putting the first aid back up he said "Bravo on keeping a straight face throughout it all but now I shall try to find something that fits you while you throw away the scraps of cloth that used to make up a hilarious shirt." He pointed in the direction of the kitchen and then he was off again 

So Izuku grabbed the shirt and inspected the hole himself, and while the cut on himself wasn't small if you looked at this shirt you would have thought someone slashed him with a great-sword "huh, I guess all my running caused it to rip more"

So he once again followed his instructions and threw it into the trash before sitting on the couch

A few minutes later the magician came back with a black and white shirt "the smallest size I could find!" He handed the long sleeved shirt to Izuku and he put it on before pulling the jacket and cloak back on as well "so are you a villain?" Mr. Compress simply chuckled as he sat down on the reclining chair next to the couch 

"My dear boy, while I don't really care about labels, the most villainous thing I've done so far is steal from heroes I think are corrupt." He then flipped a card into his hand that wasn't there a second ago and said "just like the phantom jester sitting in front of me" Izuku looked closer at the card and realized that it was the one he keeps to be able to access any place owned by All Might "hey give that back!" Mr. Compress flicked the card towards him and said "well I've also fought some heroes but for the most part I would be closer to a vigilante like you."

Izuku stumbled to catch the card with only one hand and once he had it he stuffed it back into his pocket and then turned to look at the man in what he thinks are the eyes "so why did you save me?"

Mr. Compress rolled a marble around his fingers as he said "simply because I love your flair of dramatics! I mean you start out with just some riddles, then you steal from three heroes to create your outfit, and after that you start taking out all these big criminals while still making time to constantly mess with heroes! Not to mention that you are basically blasting it all to social media without anyone even realizing, I mean I tracked the news and you don't go over 3 days without finding a new way to mess with this country's number 1! 

So when my comm system picked up Hawks talking to All Might about where the little vigilante could have gone I just had to rush over and introduce myself! Which then lead to your impromptu rescue."

Izuku took a minute to just process it all and then said "wait so you like a fan or something" Mr compress did a so-so gesture with his head and then said "while you could say I'm a fan it would be more accurate to call me an investor!" Izuku asked him to explain so he said "well don't get me wrong you are doing fantastic on your own but you're practical jokes could be a little more creative! I mean you can only cover a hero in glitter so many ways before it loses its charm." He then stood up and walked in front of him

"So prankster Ghost, will you let the fabulous Mr. Compress help you become the greatest showman you can?" Izuku thought it over but decided to say yes since even if something goes wrong Izuku still would have learnt some new tricks.

He then started to walk towards the garage while pulling out the marble that holds the cop "fantastic! Now your first lesson is all about getting the right connections! Like let's say you have a nosey cop that knows your face, what do you do?"

"Whoa! I'm not a murder or someone who threatens people!" But Mr compress didn't even slow his pace as he pulled his phone out and said "well it's a good thing I'm not trying to teach you that! The correct answer little apprentice, is to find someone with the non lethal option, like a man with an amnesia quirk!" He then put the phone up to his ear and talked to someone named Giran 

A few minutes later a car pulled into the garage and out stepped a gray haired middle aged man in a unbuttoned purple suit

After he closed the door he grabbed a cigarette and lit it "ah my dear customer Mr. Compress, imagine my surprise when I found out that you of all people was staying at a safe house."

Izuku then whipped around to look at the magician and said "wait a minute this isn't your house" now both men were chuckling "no, no while I intended to show you the ways of a true magician, I would never have just showed some stranger my base of operations! Actually this is just another point in your first lesson, if you had connections like me then you would have been aware of a safe house like this, but anyways back to why you are here Giran" he threw the marble into the air and Giran caught it

"You see I have just acquired a apprentice for the foreseeable future but the man in there de-masked him in the middle of a performance!"

"Well we can't be having that, now can we. So how much do you need me to muddle?"

He snapped his fingers and the cop reformed from the marble and immediately fell into the hands of Giran "let's just go with the safe options and say hmmm, 12 hours!" 

After that a clouded look overcame the cops eyes and then he was woozy as he asked where he was

Giran helped him into the cop car and a few minutes later the cop was driving away "so what was that?" Asked Izuku 

Giran put his hand inches away from his face and said "it's my quirk muddle, that guy will barely be able to remember the last 12 hours, let alone the face of the kid in his back seat."

Mr. Compress clapped his hands to get everyone's attention as he said "Well now that that is out of the way, Giran this is the Prankster Ghost, little apprentice this is Giran a great-" he was interrupted by Giran "a great looking guy? Oh Compress you flatterer! but really the name is Giran and I'm the greatest broker in Japan whether its information, weapons, hireable cannon fodder, or illegal support items!" He took a big puff after his introduction and blew it right at Izuku 

He quickly paused time and blew it all away before flicking the cigarette with his finger 

He unpaused time and watched as the cigarette was flung out of his mouth before falling to the ground "well as Mr. Compress said I'm Ghost but please don't take that to mean that smoke just flies right through me or next time I won't just flick a cigarette out of your mouth" he said it in a cheerful voice but everyone could still hear the threat, which only made Giran laugh "I like this guy! He's got spunk!"

Mr. Compress agreed and said "yes I do believe this world will be more fun once I teach him the ways of a showman!"

After that Giran took off and they went back into the safe house "so for your second lesson I'm thinking we try some….

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Over the next two weeks Izuku took it easy on the vigilantism, at first it was because of the injury but then it was because he was focusing on all the things he was learning from the slightly criminal magician. 

Whether it was information gathering,

Sleight of hand,

Expanding his connections,

Confidence boosting exercises,

Parkour and stealth exercises,

Being more creative with pranks,

Simple hand to hand/melee weapon practice,

Or some unholy combination of them kept him constantly busy.

He probably told his mom that he was having a sleepover at a friend's house more in those two weeks than he has in the last ten years!

But there were also results,

His hand to eye coordination was better than ever,

He sometimes found himself accidentally spooking people with how quite he was even with him wearing iron soled boots,

He no longer felt any fear as he ran and jumped from roof to light pole to street sign to another roof,

he has never felt as confident in a quirkless fight as he did now,

But the greatest part was the pranks!

Seriously he doesn't know how he got a title like prankster when Mr. Compress was right there!

With the help of Mr. Compress he led Deatharms on a wild goose chase all around Musutafu with the only prize at the end being a confetti and paint cannon that made the hero have to do a walk of shame back to his agency while only just being able to hear the laughter of two vigilanties.

They also got back at hawks for stabbing him by pelting him with marbles that kept turning into water with red food coloring mixed in and while Izuku thought doing that for a week straight was punishment enough Compress didn't agree so he edited a picture of Izuku laying on the ground of a alleyway to look like a murder scene and then made Izuku sneak into his agency and change hawk's personal computer to that image,

After that they sat close by and watched through a pair of binoculars how hawks brought someone into his office, but in the middle of their conversation hawks goes to check something on his computer and screams in horror, once they were done laughing they they threw a few more water filled marbles at his window and then they were gone.

Mr. Compress taught him a few more ways of how to mess with someone even if you have limited supplies but eventually there was nothing left to teach except repetition to get better (and he had been doing that throughout the two weeks in paused time, which is probably why Mr. Compress thought he was born for the showman biss but in reality he probably spent about a month working on all the things he was taught throughout the two weeks)

But back to what he was saying Mr. Compress said there wasn't much more for him to teach until Izuku had all the basics down meaning he was now allowed to go full swinging back into the vigilantism if he just made sure to practice in his spare time (which is super easy to accomplish when you're quirk gives you all the spare time you could ever need.)

So after his mom fell asleep he suited up with one destination in mind.

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The last two weeks have been stressful, Shouta thinks as he suits up for tonight's patrol.

It all started with an intriguing call out from his hero comms "this is the number 3 hero hawks! I'm here with All Might and we almost had the vigilante Ghost after he defaced a police station with a non lethal bomb!

I managed to wound him with a feather to the shoulder and that seemed to interrupt his quirk, which is why I believe he is still in the area, if you find him immediately call for backup! His quirk works best when he can see all his targets!" When Shouta heard this he freaked out, Ghost was injured! And being hunted by h- wait a minute why should he care? He's not one of his students, he's just some vigilante that taunts Shouta all the time. He should be happy that the kid is getting caught and could finally be put on the right path.

He thought about it a little more before changing his course and heading over to that area "stupid problem child better not bleed out on me."

He was about halfway there when a new message came over the comms "this is officer Tanaka. I found the suspect passed out in an alleyway. I did some basic first aid before cuffing them and putting them into the back of my car, we are currently heading towards the nearest police station but I would prefer to have some backup before the vigilante wakes up from their adrenaline crash" so Eraserhead changed course again but when he got to where the car should have been there was nothing.

No Shouta wouldn't get a update until about 4 hours later "officer Tanaka has been found but he can barely remember anything that happened today, we must presume that Ghost got away and used a different quirk to make sure no one knows his true face" Shouta ran a hand through his hair as he said "So besides adding escaping custody to the kids list of crimes nothing happened."

Or he thought nothing had happened but no one has seen Ghost in a week, there are still reports of criminals being tied up in seconds but no one has actually seen the vigilante in that week.

Shouta only let this go on for a few more days before he barged right into Hawk's agency (he would have gone to All Might to figure out why the vigilante had beef with the number 1 but that guy was too busy to meet with the most feared underground hero, so hawks it was) and once he found the bird brain he basically dragged the guy into his office

He stole a technique from Nezu by just staring the man down without explaining why he was here,

hawks only lasted a few moments before he tried to fill the ungodly silence "s-so Eraserhead right? Can you explain why you dragged me into my own office?"

Shouta broke the intense stare and said "I am the original hero on the Ghost case but why I'm here is to figure out why you immediately tried to Impale a kid."

Hawks walked behind his desk and said "hey! That wasn't my fault! I thought his quirk was automatic so I only sent that many feathers because I thought all it would do is force him out of his hiding spot! And honestly I didn't even want to hunt the little guy! I enjoyed his jokes! But the commission started hounding me over it so I was basically forced!"

Shouta just pinched his nose and said "it doesn't matter if you intended to hurt them or not you still did and then lost them which could have lead to them bleeding out or someth-" "AHHH WHAT THE FUCK!!" he was interrupted by hawks screaming at his computer but before he could ask what it was two water balloons hit the window and exploded into a red syrup like mixture 

Hawks looked out the window and then immediately started opening it "it's that fucking magician again!" He jumped out to chase the criminals but that left Shouta to walk around and look at hawks new home screen

And it was a overly dramatic picture of the Prankster Ghost lying in a puddle of convincing looking fake blood.

He sighed as he took a picture and sent it to the UA staff chat but internally he was smiling at knowing the kid was still up to his normal tricks and wasn't hurt over his closest capture yet.

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UA Staff

Good news.

Ghost isn't dead.

FGposingGhost

PG13-hero: you say that and then send a picture of him laying in blood.

Loud-AF: NOOOOOO! Save the little cosplayer shou!!!!

It's fake blood.

RG: It's obviously fake blood.

Satanic rat: oh, I keep forgetting you humans don't notice his weekly visits. 

But congrats on finally figuring it out!

Apollo: I'm just gonna ignore that slightly creepy message from our boss and instead ask how you got that picture?

I came to interrogate hawks since he was the one who stabbed Ghost.

But it seems like the vigilante wasn't that hurt over it if he could change hawk's computer home screen.

PG13-hero: that's great and all but when am I gonna get pranked!?

He got the perpetually tired hobo.

He got the living speaker.

He got the rootin tootin cowboy.

And I'm like 90% sure he is in a prank war with the Rat God!

So I'm just wondering when he will get the rest of UA.

I actually wouldn't recommend it.

I think after getting attacked by the number one and the number three he has actually upped his game.

So if he sets his sights on you now it's gonna be way worse than just a missing piece of a costume.

PG13-hero: BRING IT ON!

Apollo: BRING IT ON!!

Loud-AF: BRING IT ON!!!

Lunch-rush: I thought you already got pranked Mic?

Loud-AF: I did but I need more pranks in my life!

Satanic rat: understandable and I'll make sure to inform him of your wants the next time I meet with him!

I'm honestly not even surprised you are in contact with him.

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After that Shouta went on with his day until the inevitable happened

He was right in the middle of his patrol when he heard a second pair of footsteps join his, Only it was a lot more intense than usual, Ghost appeared from his right and proceeded to swing his fist right at him, Shouta went to block but Ghost teleported away before he could even make contact.

He then teleported to his right and yelled "hey Eraserhead!" While launching a roundhouse kick to his chest, but once again he teleported away before he could actually make contact.

This went on for about 30 seconds before Eraserhead managed to catch the gremlin in his scarf "what happened to not fighting heroes?" Ghost just laughed and said "none of my hits were ever meant to connect! I just made you think they were because I'm an up and coming illusion master!"

"What the hell does that mean?" He was forced to blink and Ghost teleported away "it means that after my glitter bomb metaphorically blew up in my face I realized i was being too simplistic! Why just stay in the general area of a hero to mess with them when I can make them think I chased them down to fight!

Why cover heroes in glitter and color changing chemicals when I can cause them to do a whole costume change!

why sneak into a secure location just to prove I can when I could make them think the place is haunted!

And to think I had to be told by someone else that I could pull anime references in real life!

I swear Eraser I have barely been scratching the surface of my potential!" Shouta turned to face the teleporting vigilante and looked him over "did you completely heal from your fight with hawks?"

Ghost stopped spinning while talking and tilted his head "uhh, I didn't expect that conversation change. But don't worry I'm completely healed! In fact I even sewed up the hole in my jacket with neon green rope so I'll always be able to tell it was there!" He moved his cloak off of his shoulder and on his left shoulder was a small sewing of bright green sewing yarn in a straight line

Eraserhead just nodded and said "good, now go bother some other heroes, or better yet go bother someone who isn't a hero."

Ghost nodded and turned to face the opposite way "Yeah you're right I've got a couple more stops to make!" And then he was gone 

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Shouto was in the backyard practicing his ice when he heard a voice come from above him "damn Todoroki you've got some powerful ice but have you tried adding any precision yet?" he looked up and Ghost was sitting on top of his tallest iceberg

He exhaled with a small smile as he said "Midori, I haven't seen you in two weeks. I was starting to believe you forgot about me." Ghost tried to slide down the iceberg but tripped on a jagged piece and went tumbling down the rest of the way

He landed flat on his face right next to Shouto and sorta just laid there in defeat, but he eventually did get to his feet and said "you didn't see that. Pretend I perfectly slid down like a pro!" So Shouto put on his best acting skills and said "wow, incredible. I wish I could be as fluent as you on ice." But that just caused Ghost to laugh "hey come on you don't gotta be so sarcastic about it!"

Shouto stopped his evenly paced clapping and said "I wasn't being sarcastic. I really was trying to act surprised." "Ohhhhh. Well, uh A+ for effort! But anyways I just wanted to tell you that I'm officially back as a vigilante and that I took two weeks off to practice magic!" He did jazz hands at the last words but Shouto was just confused "how would optical illusions and sleight of hand make you a better hero?"

Ghost let his hands flop to his side and said "uhhhh there's plenty of ways! Like this!" He proceeded to pull a coin out of Shouto's ear flip it into the air and then slap it between his hands, when he pulled his hands apart he was holding a flashcard that said [look down]

Shouto did and only now noticed that he was wearing two shirts, he pulled the first one off and rotated it to see what was on the front "I survived the Prankster Ghost." With a picture of Shouto and Ghost without his goggles or hood on 

"When did you put this on me?" "Oh uh right after I pulled a coin out of your ear, but the real question is what do you think?" Shouto turned the dark blue shirt around and examined the photo closer "I think that I'll never be allowed to wear this unless you have your identity exposed."

"Yeah I know which is why I also made this!" He pulled another dark blue shirt out of a backpack he hadn't even realized he was wearing and handed it over,

It had the same text but in this photo Shouto was wearing a small smile while Ghost was wearing his entire getup "much better and I'll cherish both."

Izuku then pulled out a third shirt that was much bigger "great now I need your help for my next idea!" he unrolled the shirt and while it had the same text, this time the photo was of Endeavor covered in green flames while Ghost stood in front flexing his arms "you see I have a photo with every color and I want to put one on him in the middle of a patrol but I know that whatever one I do will just end up getting burned by the end of it, so which one do you think I should sacrifice for the joke?"

Shouto looked over the 4 massive shirts before finally pointing to the pink one "the pink because it simultaneously has the best photo but also the one most likely to go viral before he burns it completely." Ghost thanked him and then started putting the shirts back up

Shouto peeked into the backpack and asked how he got so many shirts printed so quickly. Ghost just laughed and said "I may be new at the whole magician thing but even I know that they don't reveal their secrets so easily!"

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Omake:

Giran pinched his nose as he sighed in disappointment before saying "so let me get this straight, Mr. Compress risks his life to save you and show you the ways of the underworld"

"Yep!"

"And the first thing you do with those contacts he showed you, is come ask me to find someone to print off… 37 photos! On to 37 shirts! With the price being that you owe me one."

"Yep!"

He took a big drag and made sure to blow it away from the vigilante before saying "You know what fine! But find a way to make it an even 40 and you owe me two favors!"

"Ok!"

Chapter Text

Izuku has now been a vigilante for 4 months and he was in the middle of stopping his 3rd villain, 

of that day!

It all started on an early Thursday. He woke up that day feeling great, he made himself some jam on toast and started to eat it on his way to school 

He was watching the news on his phone when he came across a live battle between Native and a woman who could manipulate plants. "That's kinda funny, the guy who can turn into animals is fighting against plants… And he just got captured.

And now he's being used as a hostage against the other heroes." Izuku sighed as he paused time and let his toast and phone float while he changed into the clothes he keeps in his backpack

He then snatched the two items out of the air and continued to eat his toast even as he now headed in the direction of the fight

Once he got there he walked up to Native and unpaused him "I'm not mad I'm just disappointed." Izuku joked while ripping the wolf man out of his tree cage, Native was confused and turned back into a human "who are you at what the hell just happened?"

But Izuku ignored him and just grabbed the totem pole that fell to the ground "I mean how does the guy with access to animals of all sizes not just transform when he gets caught as something huge like a wolf or bear" Native snatched the pole out of Izuku's hand and started inspecting it before saying "because I don't have access to the entire animal kingdom! I need animal DNA to transform, which is why I have a feather in my bandana, a cape made from wolf fur, and an outfit made from a bear pelt! The reason why everyone thinks I can just turn into any animal is because the totem pole was partially made from a bunch of animal bones

And that causes my count to go from three to about 70."

Izuku stared in shock for about 10 seconds before pulling a notebook out of nowhere and starting to write stuff down "how did I not know that was how his quirk works!? Mumble, mumble, mumble, all this time I thought it was beast boy! Mumble, mumble, mumble, when in reality it was wild krats! Mumble, mumble, mumble, The bone totem is a good idea. Mumble, mumble, mumble, what if you tried extracting the DNA from normal cloth? Mumble, mumble, mumble, Sheep!?!? Mumble, mumble, mumble-" "kid please shut up and explain why no one is moving."

Izuku said a quick sorry and put the notebook up (Native watched him do it but he still couldn't figure out where it came from) he then walked over to the villain and picked her up like she was a cardboard cutout

Once she was safely away from all plants he cuffed her with some handcuffs he took from the police on scene and proceeded to kick her right in the back of her knees after that he grabbed native and dragged him over to the villain "the hell are you doing?" "Huh? Oh right I forgot you were unpaused" he cleared his throat and bowed while saying "please, right this way sir." Native made his way over to the downed villain and then Izuku booped him on the nose just as he was in the middle of asking how this was happening, bringing him back to frozen.

After that he smashed some of the plants that were getting too close to hurting anyone and then made his way back and changed back into his school clothes.

He unpaused and finished his walk to school.

Which is why the second save of the day occurred during math class, they were filling out a worksheet when a explosion rocked the building

Everyone immediately turned to look at Bakugo, but the explosive student in question was still filling out the paper like he hadn't even noticed.

Izuku took that moment to pause time and head up stairs, once on the roof he could see that Mt lady had grown to full size and had fallen over in a fight taking place a couple of blocks away

So he went downstairs, changed into his costume, finished the paper, and then made his way over

Once there he was not met with a Kaiju fight but instead a red skinned man with 6 arms who was actually shorter than Izuku without the boots on

Izuku thought about how to subdue the man who could push a giant around before deciding to ask the giant herself

So he quickly bopped her on the leg and watched as she slowly unfroze before whining "hey! That was rude and it hurt! I'm so gonna beat you into the ground!" She stood to her full gargantuan height and was about to stomp on the villain when she noticed how quite it was, she then focused on the only sound she could hear "EXCUSE ME MT LADY, BUT I KINDA FROZE YOUR VILLAIN!" She looked down at the tiny kid wearing mostly black and then back at the red skinned villain who was in fact not moving.

So she shrunk back down to her normal size and approached the kid "what do you mean froze him?"

The kid scratched the back of his head and said "well I saw that you got hurt and my quirk kinda just slipped out because of it" he pointed over to the villain before saying "so basically he is frozen but that's it! Meaning the second I let go of my quirk he will be back to rampaging! And while I know that it's illegal, the activation was technically in self defense and therefore I wouldn't be in trouble for keeping it on for as long as it takes for me to no longer be in danger."

Mt lady nodded along to the explanation before patting the kid on the back and saying "it's cool kid, I know how sucky accidental quirk activation can be, just let me handle the rest!" She grew back to her full size and proceeded to wrap the frozen villain up in some steel beams that she easily bent around him, she shrunk back down and gave the kid a fist bump "ok the danger is gone so get rid of your quirk before I have to arrest you as well." But the kid was no longer in sight and the villain had started raging against his confinements,

She looked around for him but now she was starting to get surrounded by news crews asking how she teleported?

She tried to explain that she didn't teleport but they weren't listening so she just grew back to full size and picked up the villain "ok no more confusing questions! I've got to get this guy to a more secure location."

And back at Aldera everyone was still too busy staring at Bakugo to notice that Izuku glitched a little in his seat "the fuck are you extras staring at!? Just because something rumbles doesn't automatically mean it's me! So fucking finish the paper and stop staring you bunch of extras! Hell, even Deku finished the paper before you freaks!" And with that he sat back down in his chair and got back to work

But now Izuku was the only one staring at Bakugo, because while it might have been said in bakugo-nese that was still the nicest thing Kachan has said in his general direction in years!

Now granted it was only one slightly positive comment but maybe Izuku wasn't the only one who has been trying to be more heroic lately.

And that brings you back to the present where Izuku was in the middle of brushing his teeth and getting ready for bed because he didn't plan to go out tonight,

Well that was until his phone went off.

[Breaking News!! Live battle between the water-hose duo and the wanted A-class criminal Muscular!!] Immediately he paused time, not even caring about how he left his toothbrush floating as he quickly changed into his vigilante outfit

He jumped out the window and quickly made his way to the roof and only then did he unpause time so his phone would be able to properly play the live video

"The fight broke out only a couple of minutes ago but it is quickly becoming one-sided as the villain continues to use civilian hostages to get in close and deal serious damage to the heroes and the surrounding village of Tsumago!" Once he heard that he was off "no offense to the water-hose duo but I think they're gonna need some backup for an A-tier villain!" And even though he was in paused time he still pushed himself to his limits to reach the village as quick as possible 

Once he actually made it he sat down on one of the surrounding roofs and took a breather to plan this out

"Ok, from what I've seen of Muscular online, he can take a lot of damage and still go on to fight, meaning any old rope or hell even chains aren't gonna restrict him

Which basically goes my usual fighting style but it's cool, I've got this, I just gotta think about his weaknesses!

in the battle that led to his first arrest he could barely move, what was the difference? Well he was about 6 years younger and he was fighting a vigilante called Stendhal, I think that was actually one of that guy's last big arrest, I wonder what he's up to now… Wait, no, that's not important! What is important is what did Stendhal have?

Well the vigilante mostly used a katana and other bladed weapons…" Izuku eyes shot open and he launched himself from the rooftop 

He quickly started to gather all the civilians and get them far away from the fight "if this works then I need to make sure no one is close by" while he did this he rummage through their pockets for anything sharp

But besides a couple of box knives he didn't find much, but once he was done he positioned the musclebound giant to be facing right at the water hose heroes and slammed a metal pipe he found on any places that wasn't covered in muscle fibers,

After that he grabbed both heroes by the shoulders and unpaused, immediately they worked together to send a powerful splash of water but once he got up from where he was launched he said "ok that was deserved for spooking you but please calm down! I'm trying to help you!"

They still observed him carefully while also checking on the frozen villain "you don't have to worry about him moving!" "Oh yeah and why's that!" Yelled a feminine voice, he turned to look at the one who spoke and said "because my quirk allows me to freeze people, but that's it! which makes it really difficult to safely take down people who can't be easily captured or knocked out, and wouldn't you know it this guy is both! Now I could waste a couple of hours hitting him with a metal bat but then you run the risk of overdoing it and killing him!

You see! This is why I stick to capture techniques! But anyways I think I have the solution, instead of hitting him with something with a powerful knock back you need to hit him with something sharp!

Because while those powerful hits will take out most, this guy's quirk makes him barely feel it, but those muscle fibers are still muscle fibers meaning a good knife will cut right through!" The duo lit up and said in sync "or a super pressurized water gun!"

Immediately they started setting up a super move while Izuku tied the man's arms behind his back even though they probably wouldn't do much

After that he started just randomly throwing all the sharp things he found at any areas that looked less protected 

Once he had turned the air around the villain into his own personal shredder he walked up to the heroes and asked if they were ready

They were struggling against holding a very condensed ball of water between their combined 4 hands so the male water hose just nodded "ok cool, to give us the best chance at taking him down in one move I'm gonna have to unfreeze him to make sure you can actually cut him up, so on my mark!" He quickly climbed on top of the closet roof and with his metal pipe in hand he screamed "3, 2, 1, ZA WARDO-MOTHERFUCKER!" before unpausing just as the pole slammed into Muscular's head.

And all at once everything hit the man 

His arms had been contorted behind him and tied up and it was not pleasant,

He was bombarded with layered kinetic energy in any part of his body that wasn't covered by his quirk,

At the same time 5 different knives spawned into existence and immediately bedded themselves into the layers of his muscle fibers but he could feel that at least two had made it past his skin and into his actual muscle,

Not to mention how he got bombarded with bits of sharp glass that would take weeks to completely get out of his face, legs, and hands,

He also had a searing headache from whoever just jumped on top of him,

But the worst part was the sight right before his very eyes,

The two useless watersports heroes or whatever had worked together to condense a giant ball of water into a super thin laser and they were about to release it against him, but thanks to everything else happening at the same time he didn't even have time to block or dodge as they unleashed it

And boy did they, with a powerful scream of "POSEIDON'S BEACON" they shot their ultimate attack.

In seconds he felt that super pressurized laser cut straight through all his layers of muscles in his chest until they hit the actual muscle and then with that they quickly moved the laser upwards,

And from the right side of his stomach it moved to the center of his chest to his left pec and then straight through the the left side of his face until it hit his eye.

Shortly after that the pressure was completely used up and was gone, but the same could be said for Muscular's left eye 

And with the terrible injuries he now had on every part of his body he fell to his knees unconscious.

Izuku leaned on his own knees while trying to catch his breath "oh man, I did not sign up for taking down three villains on a Thursday!" He looked over to the water-hose duo but they didn't seem to be in better spirits over the whole thing either

He started to add more rope to the behemoth of a man while saying stuff about how glad he was that it was over when Muscular slowly shifted his head to look right at Izuku, it allowed him to see the gruesome remains of the left side of his face but he was more focused on his words "it's… n-not… ov-ver… un-till… you. sh- show.. me…... SHOW ME YOUR BLOOD!!!!" And with that he bursted from his confines while applying new layers of muscle to make up for all that was lost, which caused Izuku to be sent flying into the wall of a building,

But he didn't stop there no he got back to his feet and launched himself straight at the duo

He landed right on top of the male water hose's right leg before turning and grabbing the female water hose's left forearm with enough force you could hear every individual bone snap within, he then cocked his fist back but before he could actually launch it, the fist was restrained with tentacles of water

He looked down at the hero he was still standing on but all the man did was grit his teeth and say "get your hands off my wife! You bastard!" Muscular laughed and said "I think my hearing on my left side is going out, did you say get her hands off her? because that's definitely a better idea than I had!" He ripped his hand free from the water but instead of throwing it he grabbed her left hand and started to slowly bring his hands apart

Everyone's collective screams were incredible but Muscular's favorites was how agonizing it sounded for the female hero

But that where it came to a end as Izuku finally managed to dig himself out of the wall and pause time

He immediately fell to his knees and started to cry "NO DAMMIT! I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CAREFUL! OR FASTER! OR ANYTHING!!

I could have prevented all of this if I had just prepared more!" He slammed his fist into the ground and then stood up

He took deep breaths and observed his surroundings until something caught his eye,

"That will work."

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"The fight broke out only a couple of minutes ago but it is quickly becoming one-sided as the villain continues to use civilian hostages to get in close and deal serious damage to the heroes and the surrounding village of Tsumago!" Shouta sighed as he watched the news, knowing that even if he had Tensei's quirk he would never be able to reach the duo in time 

That doesn't mean he was doing nothing, he was calling every hero he knew, hoping that one of them would be fast enough to give the duo some backup 

And just as he was about to try calling hawks over the hero comms the broadcast suddenly glitched out

When it came back into focus the first words he heard were "ZA WARDO-MOTHERFUCKER!" And Shouta immediately knew who had arrived on scene but the concerning part was that at the same time that Ghost teleported in so did a bunch of knives and shards of glass that quickly embedded themselves into the villain 

Said villain barely had a chance to scream before he was hit with the Water hose duo's deadliest move "POSEIDON'S BEACON!!!"

"Ladies and gentlemen! A new figure takes the stage and has somehow teleported not only himself but a plethora of knives right on top of the villain while simultaneously helping all the civilians escape and letting the Water hose heroes scrape enough time together to pull off one of their combined super moves!!" Muscular was almost immediately blurred out "sorry guys but this villain capture is a little too gruesome for live television!" Yeah Shouta has seen what that particular ultimate move can do to thick metal doors so he would definitely call it too gory for TV

"We still don't have confirmation on who our third hero is but look at him immediately set to checking up on the other heroes while simultaneously locking up the criminal! Truly a professional everybody!" Shouta rolled his eyes thinking about what they would say to contradict this once they figured it out but stopped when Muscular suddenly ripped free from Ghost and launched him into a wall before lunging at the duo "OH MY GOD! quickly! cut the live before the delay is up! Yes, do it no-" the TV then went to static

Shouta immediately tried to tap into the Water hose's comms but once he connected all he heard was agonizing screaming and pleading

But even with all the screaming it was quite easy to hear Ghost utter one word from the very depths of his soul.

"CRUCIFY" 

There was then a terrible crunch followed by screaming but this time the screaming was coming from Muscular, it quickly faded out and then it was dead silent for multiple seconds until the comm was disconnected.

Shouta slowly turned to look at the TV and sure enough on screen was a completely blurred out and unconscious Muscular that was only standing because of the two metal poles rammed right through both his arms and into the ground,

And not a hero or vigilante in sight.

Shouta just stared in shock for multiple seconds before shutting his TV off and only saying one thing before starting to suit up 

"What the hell, problem child."

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After Izuku was sure that Muscular wasn't gonna get up again he carefully moved both heroes in paused time to a hospital

He then unpaused the person at front and said "I have two heroes in critical condition, I need you to gather all the people you need so you can fix these two before I let my quirk up"

he stared in horror at the condition of the two heroes but a quick shout of "NOW!" and he started moving 

Only when the man had brought two moveable beds that he could lay the heroes on did he unpause

But the second the adrenaline had left his system his legs started to wobble and he had to sit down "sir, do you need medicine attention as well?" Izuku just shook them off "nah I'll be perfectly fine once I make sure that two real heroes didn't die from my idiocy." He tried to laugh but that just caused a searing pain to form right where muscular had struck him in the chest 

More staff would try to coax him into taking care of his own health but he refused to move until he got a update

He had almost dozed off by the time he got one "you're the one who brought in the Water hose duo right?" the voice sounded female but izuku was too out of it to pick up anything else so he just nodded

Eventually a paper was forced into his hand "we should only be allowing family into the rooms but this guy has already woken up and demands to see you." She then walked off while Izuku scanned the paper "Room number-"

"-545." read the door plate as he entered but while the Patient Ward was all sterile smelling and blinding white walls and lights the Hero Ward had a more homey feel to it all

The sterile smell was much less noticeable,

The walls were a inviting light gray,

And the lights were still a blinding white.

But Izuku didn't care as he approached the man still in half his costume with a elevated leg brace and couple of bandages around the rest of his body, Izuku immediately went to bow and say sorry but Water hose just lightly tapped his forehead until he was full standing again "none of that young man! You have nothing to apologize for."

Izuku disagreed and started to list everything he did wrong but Water hose just shot back with all the things he did right.

Izuku pulled his goggles onto his forehead and wiped away his tears, uncaring if the man saw the upper half of his face "ok sure, I did help but if I had been a better hero I could have avoided anybody getting hurt!"

He wiped away the last of his tears and mumbled something about how "Maybe everyone was right about me not being cut out to be a her- OW!" he rubbed his forehead where Water hose just flicked him 

"Hey now none of that! Sure maybe you could have found a way to stop Muscular without anyone getting hurt,

maybe you could have found a less lethal way take out his quirk as well,

And maybe just maybe you could have not let your rage and sadness take over and pull off the sickest ultimate move I've ever seen!" Izuku embarrassingly scratched the back of his head "oh, you uh, saw that."

Water hose poked him in the arm "hell yeah I did! But that's not the point! What is the point is that we can come up with hypotheticals all day long,

But the difference between a scientist and a theorist is action!" He pumped his fist into the air but immediately hissed in pain

"Well there's probably a few doctorates along the way but that's the main difference and as many people will realize when they take action is that it doesn't go as perfect as their theories made it sound."

He then pointed right at Izuku and said "so let's test your theory,

I have a speed/slowing people down quirk and probably like what 2 months of training?" "It's actually 4" "ok 4 months.

So yeah let me team up with the Water hose duo and peacefully take out an A-class villain by combining two ultimate moves,

Boom! Day saved." He tried to fold his arms like a cool guy but just ended up hissing in pain he then pointed at himself "now let's look at what happened when we took our theory and applied action!

And wouldn't you know it we couldn't do it peacefully,

Our two ultimate moves combined just made him pass out for a minute, and then he got back up and continued to fight with only one eye until you stuck his arms to the ground. So you see how theory and action overlap and fight?" "Uh, yeah I think so." He then pulled a thumbs up and said "that's great now apply it to your 'friends' hypotheticals!"

Izuku thought about it before taking a deep breath and saying "uh everyone thinks I'd just be useless as a hero which is why they tell me to give up"

"Hah! Says the guy who harmoniously worked together with two heroes to take down a terrifying villain."

"Y-yeah, so to prove them wrong I applied to UA and started working out."

"Always good to learn from the professionals."

"But just working out wouldn't get a quirkless kid into UA so I wanted to gain actual experience!"

"You lost me a little bit but I do understand wanting to prove yourself as early as possible but now here comes the difference between theory and action

You became a vigilante to help you on your way to become a hero

And after about 4 months I'd say you've definitely got experience so why are you thinking of giving up?

Is it Just because one operation didn't have zero casualties like your plan had shown? Because let me tell ya, only two hurt but alive victims in 4 months of service!? You might as well just become the new number 1 hero!

Now I'm not saying you should be lazy about letting a few get hurt every now and then but there's a difference between constructive criticism and self hate!"

Water hose then poked Izuku in his side with his elbow and said "and I would very much appreciate it if you stopped hating on the guy who saved me and wife thank you very much!" And that caused Izuku to chuckle which In turn caused water hose to laugh until both their sides hurt from it

Once they had calmed down he said "and if you still don't believe me think about what would have happened if you never tried to test and disprove what everyone said about you"

"What do you mean? Like how if I hadn't become a vigilante I would have never met yo-"

"Death" water hose interrupted with 

Izuku stared in shock "huh? W-What!?"

Now the hero had a grim look on his face as he said "I'm saying that if you believed all those haters I would be dead, my wife would be dead, and our son would grow up all alone except for his aunt 

But it goes further than that, how many lives do you think you've saved in your 4 months?"

"I don't kn-"

"Doesn't matter it could have only been 1 little girl and it all would have been worth it because that 1 little girl would have died without you.

So seriously don't give up, I'd much rather risk my life to try and save a single person than be sitting comfortably on my couch at home worrying about hypotheticals all day, and I'd give the same effort no matter if I was quirkless, or hell even had All Might's quirk." He cracked a smile and then slowly fell asleep,

And Izuku also cracked a smile because even though he still felt miserable over what happened he could at least feel better at knowing that no one died

And that was thanks to him, he thought as he put his goggles back on and made his way to the exit.

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But Shouta would miss the vigilante by about 2 hours 

But that doesn't really matter right now as he enters the male water hose hero's room "yo! Aizawa! my favorite underground hero." Yelled the hero as Shouta approached "how's it going Izumi" he replied back

But Izumi looked embarrassed "uh, you wouldn't have happened to see a green and black vigilante out there would you?" Shouta shook his head "no I was hoping to catch him before he vanished myself." "Do you mean that literally or figuratively?" Asked Izumi but Shouta just replied, "depends on what answers I got, but why were you looking for him?"

"Um I think I bothered a nurse until he was brought in and then proceeded to give him a pep talk over his first failure that involved victims."

"And how did that go?" Asked Shouta "That's the thing, I don't know! I just hope I didn't say anything embarrassing or too confusing in my drug filled painkiller high! I'm supposed to be the surfer bro while Koharu is the wise woman." he sighed in defeat 

While whatever he said sounded humorous Shouta decided that they should get off the Ghost topic for a while "speaking of the other Izumis, how come you are alone in here?" The man came out of his slump at the mention of his family "Koharu is actually just a few rooms over! Kota and my sister in-law visited me first but I eventually had to tell them to run off and check up on her. According to the doctors she had to go into surgery for what that murderer did to her arm but I haven't been told much else since I'm in the middle of recovering myself." Shouta could hear his plea from a mile away so he smirked as he stood up from his chair and said "well I need to leave soon but I think I'll do a little check on her as well."

And with that Aizawa left the room to check up on the other water hose hero

So Kaimen Izumi waited

And waited

And waited

And waited

And waited 

But when Aizawa returned he had a much more grim look in his eyes

And that grim look stayed as he sat back down in his chair and slowly exhaled

Kaimen was starting to get worried so he said "hey come on cheer up! It ca- it can't be that bad right!"

Aizawa finally looked up and said "she's not dead." Immediately Kaimen was filled with joy as he relaxed into his bed but that's when he noticed that Aizawa had more to say so he sighed and said "there's a but, to that isn't there?"

Aizawa grimly nodded and said "Yeah I'm sorry but you are gonna be the only hero named Water hose for awhile."

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When Izuku woke up the next day he felt better mentally but he felt so much worse physically

He tried to sit up but his ribs protested the movement.

He was getting ready to ask his mom to stay home from school when he remembered "oh yeah, I can just pause time. Man even after 4 months I keep forgetting how many uses this quirk has." which is exactly what he did, he paused time and went right back to bed.

He doesn't know how long he stayed asleep since all the clocks were frozen but when he tried to sit up now it hurt much less,

That's not to say it was zero or a small amount just that now it was something Izuku could handle, so he slowly sat up and got dressed for school and only then did he unpause.

It's also only then that he remembered that he did not wake up voluntarily today. no, he was woken up by his mother because he slept through all his alarms,

Meaning that because of his pain filled and then sleep filled mind he mumbled something about having a quirk for 4 months and then proceeded to teleport into a sitting up position fully dressed,

Right in front of his mother who had not left the room yet.

It's safe to say she started freaking out "Izuku!!! Honey! What did you just do!!?!?" And man did Izuku wish his quirk was rewind instead of pausing right now,

But since it wasn't he awkwardly rubbed the back of his head and said "um, would you believe me if I said that I just got dressed when you weren't looking?"

And now she had a scolding look as she crossed her arms and said "explain, now!"

So Izuku sighed knowing she wouldn't drop this and said "um, well you know the sludge villain incident? About 4 months ago? Yeah, well um, Kachan wasn't the first um… the first victim!" He contemplated telling her the whole truth but decided to blank out how he got saved by all might or that he can pause time until he can get her reaction to just the basics

"So uh yeah! I was walking home and just found myself suddenly engulfed in living sludge, but don't worry mom I wasn't hurt! because while I was um… drowning. I think my quirk got forcefully activated because next thing I know I was sitting on the roof of an office building!" By this point his mom was close to breaking down in tears so he decided to end it there 

"After that I tried doing it again and again until I figured out how to tele-

-port!" He said from now on the other side of the room "and over the last 4 months I've been experimenting with it every day! Isn't it great mom I can finally be a hero!" At those words the Midoriya waterfall tears had officially opened for business as he was forced into a crushing hug "Izuku! Did- did you think the only reason I didn't want you to be a hero was because you were quirkless!? 

Oh my god I've been a terrible mother! 

No honey you could have had the strongest quirk in the world and I still wouldn't have wanted you to go out into the world and get hurt!

But I also never meant to make you think I wasn't proud of your dream! I was just a scared mother!"

And with that said now they were both crying (the surrounding block would think that they had a miniature flood hit them)

But once they had calmed down Inko grabbed him by the shoulders and looked him right in the eyes "Izuku Midoriya! I promise that from now on I won't try to discourage your dream of being a hero and that would have gone for you if you were still quirkless as well! but just know that being scared for you is my job as a mother, So please cut me some slack if I don't exactly enjoy watching you get hurt, ok!?" 

Izuku wiped his teary face and pulled his mom into another hug "don't worry I already forgive you!" The both laughed at that but since this was going so well he decided he could show a little more of the truth

"Hey mom?"

"Yes honey?"

"Um you know how I said that I teleported out of the sludge…"

"Yes…?"

"I uh, kinda lied since I was actually saved by All Might and he signed my notebook but I wanted to ask him a question so I kinda, maybe, sorta, grabbed on to his leg and got flown into the air where he then landed on a roof and told me that becoming a quirkless hero was pointless… and the thing that actually awakened by quirk was the devastation I felt after he left me alone on that roof… alone."

"..."

"..."

"He- he said what!?!?!"

"I think his exact words were that if you still want to help people then become a police officer or a paramedic, sure they get overshadowed by the heroes but at least you will be able to do something in those jobs."

"HE!!

SAID!!!

WHAT!?!!?!!!!" 

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Toshinori Yagi was in the middle of trying to get all the green paint off his car when he simultaneously felt a dead cold chill run down his spine but also the heat of a million scolding suns locking their sight on him,

He looked around but couldn't find the source of such a powerful spike of rage,

So he just slowly put the sponge down before exiting the room to hopefully lose the dark feeling he was now getting from his non-existent gut.

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By the time he got to school he was in much better spirits over the whole thing,

Now if only his body would get the memo.

So he slowly walked through the halls to make sure he didn't aggravate his wounds but all that did was gain the attention of 2 people he hadn't seen in a long time

He never really did catch their names since Kachan just calls the guy with shoulder length hair and a finger extending quirk fingers and the guy with rocks in his hair rock head (I know real original nicknames) but both of them were approaching Izuku now

"Would you look at that! Deku couldn't pull off his disappearing act again!" Said fingers as he slung a arm around Izuku's shoulder

Rock head approached from the other side and started slowly collecting rocks around his fist "I know right! Who does he think he is avoiding his friends like this!"

But all this did was piss Izuku off so he just started walking forward while ignoring them

That's when rock head grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him back "hey Deku! Who said you could leave!? Hah!?"

"Please let go of me or I will make you." He mumbled out while grabbing the rock covered hand

They both just laughed and said "oh yeah! I'd like to see your quirkless ass try!" Now it was Izuku's turn to laugh "actually I'm heading downtown to get that fixed after school!" That stopped their laughing and now they were just staring at him in confusion and maybe fear

So Izuku simply teleported behind them and leaned close to their ears and said "which means I no longer have to hide from you guys." He then stood back up and clapped them both on the shoulders while saying "so would you kindly move out of the way or do you want to test the limits of my trauma induced teleportation quirk?"

They made the right choice and quickly walked away, which allowed Izuku to peacefully walk the rest of the way to class where besides a couple of whispers about Deku getting a quirk he wasn't bothered and was allowed to peacefully do his work.

But these whispers also allowed Katsuki to finally connect all the dots 

Deku said something about beating a villain on the day after the sludge villain,

He started being able to avoid everyone but no one could figure out how,

When he went over to his house he said he had been training a new talent,

He has been slowly gaining the confidence he lost as a quirkless child back,

And now people is saying something about a trauma induced teleportation quirk.

It all makes complete sense and Katsuki is pissed off that it took him 4 months to realize it,

Deku gained a quirk after almost dying.

He contemplated telling Deku exactly what he thought about him hiding his real power for 4 months but decided against it after thinking about how their last conversation went

Yeah if he knew someone like Katsuki he probably wouldn't want to talk to them about anything either.

"Whatever, if Deku's shitty teleportation is as good as fingers and rock head said then I'll just make sure to destroy his useless ass at UA."

No one heard this proclamation except Katsuki,

And Katsuki didn't even realize he said at UA instead of before UA.

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Once the school day was over Izuku didn't even bother waiting for everyone to turn away as he 'teleported' him and his stuff to the exit and started walking home 

After that he watched a TV show until his mom got home "ok Izuku, let me put this stuff up and then we can head downtown to get that quirk you hid for 4 months registered!" Izuku had to get his petty streak from somewhere and she was definitely still mad at him for hiding something like this 

Once they were both ready they started their drive to the hospital "sooo got any other secrets you've been hiding from me over the last 4 months?" The question was asked jokingly but he could also tell she was fishing for information

He thought about what to say but settled on "I made a new friend about two months ago."

She turned down a small street while saying "the one you spent almost two weeks straight hanging out with?"

"Uh, yep! that's the one!" He said white turning to look out the window 

"am I gonna get a name for the friend you've been hiding?"

"His name is Shouto."

"Is there a last name?"

"Yes but you have to promise not to freak out!"

"Fine, fine, now tell me! I'm getting excited!"

"His full name is Shouto Todoroki"

"...Todoroki..."

"..."

"as in the family name that I only recognize because of my hero obsessed son, Todoroki?"

"The very one."

"And my son, the one who recently gained teleportation and has apparently been experimenting with it all this time just so happens to run into the son of the number 2 hero. Do you see where my mind is going sweetie?"

"Does it make it better if I say that I was just testing if I could use my quirk through looking at pictures and that I didn't expect for it to actually teleport me inside of the Todoroki estate?" He made the teleportation quirk lie up on the spot when she found out but with all the time he has had at school he has thought of how to explain basically everything as a powerful teleportation quirk 

"Only if you invite the young Todoroki over so I can hear this hilarious story from his side."

He nodded and said "I can live with that"

Shortly after that they arrived and were called for their appointment

There were multiple test

Teleport here.

Close your eyes and teleport there.

Try to teleport an item.

Try teleporting back home.

Try to teleport something from your house to here.

Look at this photo and try to teleport to this location.

There were a few more odd tests and questions but eventually they were done.

They actually asked if he wanted to do an interview for the news since he was the second oldest late bloomer in recorded history but they said no and were eventually walking out with a stack of papers.

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Pathfinder Teleportation

As long as the user can imagine a pathway from point A to point B then they can instantly transfer themselves to that location.

This quirk doesn't have any type of limiter except large bodies of water that interfere with the pathfinding, and very heavy objects (more testing is needed to figure out the exact limit but anything over 500 pounds seems to be very difficult to teleport)

That means they can teleport themselves, people or objects anywhere in Japan.

Downsides

Because this quirk is connecting one location to another the user has stated that their legs can feel tired as if they actually walked that distance

But this effect only seems to affect the user and not anyone else teleported 

That means that a case of quirk exhaustion could look like if you overexert your muscles 

Recommendations

We recommend that the user makes sure to exercise and stretch their legs since that seems to be the most affected area 

We also recommend that they work out the rest of their muscles since that seems to increase the weight limit.

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And so they went home and enjoyed each other's company for the rest of the day

And they did the same the next day 

and the day after that until Izuku was fully healed 

And once he was fully healed he got back into his costume and headed out

"It feels nice to just run across building rooftops and deal with the small criminals after almost dying because of a super dangerous villain." he thought just as he got done jumping from a street lamp to the building on the other side of the road

He then unpaused and sat down on the roof. "Is it weird for a patrol around Japan to be relaxing?"

He shrugged and said "probably!" Before hearing the sounds of someone screaming and standing up

He was just about to start running in that direction when instead a dark smoke like portal opened up beneath his feat,

"OH! SHIIIIT!"

Chapter Text

"OH! SHIIIIT!" Izuku yelled as he fell into the portal and quickly found his face acquainted with the hardwood floors of a dimly lit bar

And his less than stellar entrance was met with laughter that sounded like it was coming from someone who tried to eat a desert, he turned to face the voice and found a blue haired teen who was covered in hands was laughing while taking a sip of what he could only assume was alcohol

He slowly stood up while mumbling something about "how can you be drinking something and still sound like your vocal cords were thrown into a blender?" "What was that?" Asked the teen but Izuku just replied with a "nothing." while he dusted himself off

Once he was free of a surprising amount of dust bunnies and could get a better look at the hands on the guys costume he noticed how much detail they all had,

He 'teleported' the one on the guy's face into his own hands and started to examine it closer "wow are these real? Oh hey look at that, they even have articulation so you can pose them!" He quickly moved the fingers to look like a middle finger,

But that seemed to be the wrong move as the teen lunged at him with a shout of "FATHER!" having that shouted at him freaked him out so he threw the hand at the teen before 'teleporting' onto the stool he was just sitting on "I don't know if you were talking to me or that hand but both options are creepy!" 

The teen carefully put the hand back on his face and then scowled as he said "you cheat! How dare you try to pickpocket father!" He then lunged again with a hand outstretched but before Izuku could pause time to avoid it another dark smoke like portal appeared and engulfed his hand

Izuku then turned his head to look at where the hand was now just floating in the middle of the room before a deep voice called out behind him "my apologies, young master Shigaraki can be very… touchy about his family."

Izuku swiveled in his stool to face the bartender that had suddenly appeared "nah it's cool I just think it's weird you kidnap the guy who was known for making his costume from other heroes and didn't expect him to try and do it to you." He went to pick up the abandoned drink but it quickly fell through a portal "ah, no fun!"

The misty bartender then pulled a clean glass out from behind him before filling it with apple juice and sliding it over to Izuku "you know for being brought here against your will you are surprisingly calm."

Izuku took a sip in frozen time so they wouldn't see his face and once the mask was back on he slid the drink and himself one barstool over so the Shigaraki guy could have his seat back

"Would you believe me If I said this was my second time getting kidnapped by a villain that's not really a villain all because they wanted to recruit or train me?" He said while Shigaraki took his seat

They both stared at him confused but Shigaraki was the one to speak up "what do you mean not real villains? And why would we be trying to recruit a hack like you? We already have a teleporter, and from what I've seen Kurogiri has the better build." He pointed at the bartender so he assumed that he was Kurogiri 

Izuku laughed as he stood up "but that's the thing, I don't have a"teleportation build" as you said I'm literally running from place to place so I would actually be classified as a rogue with a maxed out speed stat."

He could hear the newly named Kurogiri mumble something about "oh God not another one." But he ignored it as he continued "and as for the not really villains thing it was sorta an educated guess."

"Based on what exactly?" Asked Kurogiri while he started to clean out the now empty apple juice glass

Izuku started to count something on his fingers and then said "well for starters I was kidnapped by this guy called Mr. Compress and he teeters on the edge of villain often but I haven't tried to stop him since no one is getting hurt, anyways! you wanna know how I learned his name? Because he introduced himself, compare that to you guys whose names I only learned because of each other and were off to a bad start Shigaraki and Kurogiri!"

Shigaraki scowled and adjusted the hand on his face before saying "well we had an introductory cutscene but you skipped past it with your glitches!"

"I bet Mr. Compress would have found a way to activate the cutscene even if he had been dealing with a glitchy character." He mumbled

Which in turn caused Kurogiri to sigh and say "well we are the League Of Villains *COUGH-LAME-COUGH* and we plan to kill All Might!"

"..."

"Is- is that it?"

"Yes. Why the hell would we need anything beyond that!?" Yelled Shigaraki 

"No, no, it's certainly an ambitious goal for a league of only two-" he then examined the TV in the corner with a red light on and said "ok a league of only three members, but that doesn't explain why you are trying to recruit a vigilante who regularly helps heroes and saves people."

"But don't you hate All Might? I mean we've seen some of the ways you have ruined his day multiple times a week! Not to mention what you did to that Muscular guy." said Shigaraki but Izuku just chuckled "hate is a strong word. Do I have a distaste for the man? Yes. Do I enjoy messing his day up in the same way he messed up mine? Definitely! But would I wish death upon him? Nah, the only one who can do that is my mother!" And with that said he plopped himself down on the couch in the corner and opened up his phone but stopped and thought about it "also that Muscular thing was a one time, I like to stick to capture but that guy just really got under my skin...Huh, kinda funny when you think about his quirk."

Shigaraki stood up and stretched his arms "so this was all a complete waste of time huh?"

"Yep!"

"Good because you were really starting to piss me off and do you know what I do to stuff that pisses me off?" He asked while slowly approaching 

"I don't know, probably ask the retired supervillain that's been watching this entire thing." he pointed up at the TV on the wall and then went back to playing on his phone 

"No I turn them to dus- wait what did you say?"

"You know! The supervillain that probably saved your life or something and then tried to fight All Might to the death which led to your hatred for the number one!

And no offense shiggy, can I call you shiggy? Doesn't matter, I'm already doing it! But the only way you would end up as leader, if it was just the two of you, is if Kurogiri submitted his entire being to serve you and even then he probably only did it because his boss made him." And as Shigaraki and Kurogiri had absolute gobsmacked expressions, Izuku took that moment to take a selfie with both of them.

He then put his phone up and hopped off the couch "well it's been lovely hanging with you all but I think I've overstayed my welcome." he made his way to the door but Shigaraki told Kurogiri to cover all the exits 

Izuku turned back around to face them and said "hey now, even though you have openly admitted to wanting to kill All Might I was gonna let you off with a warning until I caught you in the act of committing a crime. But if you guys are seriously trying to attack me then I will have no choice but to bring vigilante justice! So remove the portal barrier before I start removing how many walls hold this place up!"

Shigaraki got into a battle stance and said "you already told us your quirk is super speed so don't try to bluff your way out!"

Izuku also got into a battle stance and said "I'm not bluffing, don't you know what happens to immense inertia when it hits an obstacle?"

But before Izuku could pause time a powerful voice called out and demanded everyone's attention "I think your show has gone far enough little Ghost.'' The one least affected was Shigaraki as he whined out "but Sensei! You said I could destroy everything I hate and I hate this cocky mouthed cheat of an NPC!"

"All in due time Tomora, but you heard the boy, he will come chase you down the second he hears about your league causing trouble! So why don't you let him leave before Kurogiri's bar becomes more dust than building." Shigaraki scowled but eventually sighed and told Kurogiri to make the warp gate lead to where they picked him up

Izuku made sure the portal led to the right place and then bid his farewell, but not before the powerful voice called out one last time "oh and little Ghost? I just want you to know that when we cross paths again, All For One will be your downfall instead of your savior." 

And then the smoky warp gate faded out and Izuku was left alone "well… that was creepy!" He then pulled out his phone and texted two different people

Todoroki didn't respond but Giran did

Do you remember?

Hey from now on make sure that any invites don't include the League Of Villains :(

Oh wow I didn't know I was allowed to control your meetups and opportunities.

Wasn't it one of the things Mr. Compress advertised about you?

It is but it usually takes a couple of months before anyone trust me enough with that type of stuff

You've had like 10 invites ever since I gained your contact information.

I was just waiting for a good opportunity to show you them.

Oh wow ( ・◇・) 

How considerate.

But maybe save them for tomorrow, as you can probably tell I just got out of a forced meeting and it did not go well!

Completely understandable and don't worry I make sure the invites fit my customers before sending it to them, so I think you will enjoy the ones I picked out a lot more.

Sounds good to me!

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Done with that he paused time and walked all the way home,

He wasn't sure how they found him the first time around but he was gonna make damn sure they couldn't do it again.

And so once he was changed and was ready for bed he laid down and checked his phone

"Hey, what's Todoroki doing up so late?"

Shouto Todoroki

Guess who got kidnapped again? (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Smokeanddustsurpise

Only you would be able to scare the people who kidnap you. (1 hour later)

Hey! It's the middle of the night, why are you awake!?

But you are the one who texted me…

Don't try to change the subject mister! I have the excuse of being a vigilante!

Late night training session.

Well once you get done admiring my skills at spooking villains go to sleep! No dear friend of mine will be sleep deprived!

Once again you texted me and you need sleep as well :(

"It still freaks me out when he uses those" Izuku said before replying

I thought we already established that I am a 5th dimensional being!

Sleep is a concept that only applies to you mortals,

Which is why you should be doing it right now!

You are ridiculous.

Sometimes I question why I am friends with you.

Awww I love you too Todo!

Izuku chuckled at his own message and then closed his phone and went to sleep.

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And just as Giran promised when he woke up he was met with 10 new messages from the man

And seeing as how it was a Sunday and his mom would be at work for most of it he decided that he would just spend the entire day in costume

So he ate a quick breakfast suited up and then finally looked through what Giran sent him

About 8 of them were people wishing to join forces with him so he ignored those 

He thought the 9th one was the same but as he read closer he realized that they just wanted to do a HeroTube video with him

It sounded interesting but he moved on to the last one

This guy simply wanted to meet and talk about how he could mess with Endeavor more, 

he always loves a good prank, so he texted Giran that he wants to do the 10th one today and then the 9th one another day

But he knew setting up meetings would probably take a while so he decided to mess with his favorite people while he waited.

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It was a Sunday so there were no students on campus, it was exactly how Shouta would like it but it just bored the hell out of Nemuri.

She was in the middle of printing some stuff out for Monday when the door to the room slammed open 

She whipped her head over to look at who was being so noisy, but no one was there

Which was weird but Nemuri just turned back around and got to printing

Except when she did turn around there was now a note that wasn't there before, it read [I heard you like pranks.] with a massive G on the back

She instantly knew this was the work of Shouta's little vigilante friend and so she pumped her fist in excitement and then slipped into her Midnight persona “Ok, little boy! Let's see what you got!” She said while carefully observing her surroundings,

She wasn't gonna make it easy to mess with her, she couldn't call herself a dominatrix if she did.

Which is exactly why she caught how one of the desk in the rooms suddenly shifted a few inches,

she slowly walked over and on the desk was another note 

[Do you like scary movies?] 

Midnight immediately responded with “nope! I dislike pretty much all of them, in fact the only list I could make about horror movies are my least favorites!”

She started listing a few horror movies in order of how much she dislikes them but by the time she got to number 7 which just consisted of the entire Alien franchise something else changed about the room 

The door to the closest in this room suddenly swung open with a loud bang but Midnight didn't flinch, then the light in the closet flickered on all by itself and that did creep her out a little

But with the light on she could now see that another note was sitting on a shelf inside

She swayed her hips as she slowly walked over “naughty naughty boy, trying to get a woman to walk into such a small box.” But she did end up walking in and reading the note

[Boo!] The door to the closet slammed shut and the light flickered off, but Midnight just rolled her eyes and said “I'll give you points for style Ghost but this is pretty lackluster so far.” she then tried open the door but it wouldn't budge “ok now that's more like it, what's next?”

After that she tried the light but that didn't work either “wait, wait, let me guess! Next you are gonna use a plastic spider to scare me! well you should know that it's gonna take more than that to spook a woman of my caliber!” 

suddenly the light was back on and the card in her hand read something new [don't worry I know that plastic spiders would never scare you.] Midnight chuckled but then she felt something crawling on her back 

And while she doesn't want to admit it she did screech like a little girl while trying to smack it off

A few seconds later the door swung open and she tumbled out, but just as she stood up a glitter cannon exploded right in front of her, which covered her entire outfit in multicolored glitter

But now it was Midnight’s turn to laugh “hah! I'm the R-rated hero boy! Glitter only makes me stronger!” She laughed a little more before a note gracefully fell from the ceiling, she snatched it out of the air and read it

[The glitter is actually very tiny outlines of spiders.] she immediately looked closer at the glitter on her arm and sure enough they were all tiny spiders.

She crumpled to her knees and yelled to the heavens above.

“NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

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Present Mic continued following the cards scattered across the school with little positive messages like [getting warmer] or [just 100 more steps] until he found himself in front of gym gamma

Also known as Cementoss’s sandbox 

Speaking of Cementoss “yo! Ishiyama! Did you set this up? Because that was definitely the most creative way to make sure I still got my steps in for the day!” said Present Mic while he approached the cement hero who was currently just standing in the middle of the gym, “huh? Oh no, sorry to disappoint Yamada but I'm just as confused as you about who set this up.” said Cementoss 

A few seconds later Eraserhead walked in while Nezu rode atop his shoulder and as they approached they could hear what they were talking about “after looking at the cards and the notes he has written me I'm certain that this is Ghost, but I wonder why he would change it up now… what made him switch from just proving he could break in to setting up a scavenger hunt for my employees?” “Doesn't all it prove is that he's getting cockier? He broke into UA to deliver a note and now he is breaking in to deliver a bunch of notes.” said Eraserhead But Nezu disagreed and said there must be more to it then just too much confidence

the last to arrive was Snipe and Ectoplasm and shortly after they entered 6 note cards cascaded from somewhere in the ceiling

Most of them were able to catch the card midair but Ectoplasm and Present Mic’s made it all the way to the floor due to clumsiness

But it didn't matter since they all said the same thing

[SHAMBLES]

Shortly after they read it the lights went out for a few seconds, but when they came back on everyone had switched places with one another and their outfits had been mixed up

The only one not in someone else's spot was Nezu who was now sitting next to the wall with a few more cards and a cup of tea

But back to the outfit swapping!

Eraserhead was wearing Present Mic's shades,

Present Mic was wearing Ectoplasm's coat that had no arm holes,

Ectoplasm had Snipe's hat and cloak on,

Cementoss was wearing Present Mic's leather jacket

And even though Ectoplasm was currently wearing Snipes cloak that only thing that looked missing was his hat

For whatever reason he was wearing a identical cloak,

Present Mic immediately started to laugh but thankfully it was at a safe volume “Ok this is pretty funny but how come nothing happened to you Miyano?” snipe was staring at Ectoplasm but just shrugged and said “I guess the little varmint found where I now keep extras in case of anything similar happening to how I lost my original.''

Present Mic’s eyes then shot wide open when Snipe turned around but it was Nezu who responded “actually Snipe I believe Ghost returned your original cloak… again.” He then took a sip of the tea and mumbled something along the lines of “huh, who knew teleporting vigilanties could make such a splendid cup of tea.”

But at that first comment Snipe pulled the cloak as far as it would go so he could see the back

Only to be once again met with that horrible cloak that was bedazzled with green gems to make a bunny 

He immediately unclipped it and threw it to the ground in anger but the cloak simply disappeared while a faint cackling played in the background 

Once all that was done Cementoss slowly turned to face Present Mic and said “Yamada-san, um, I fear that if I move too much I will rip your jacket right in half, so please help me take this off!” Present Mic chuckled while he walked over “yeah sure, I'll help right after I get my arms back… ummm, uh… yo! Ecto, my man… how the HECK do you put this on with no arm holes?” He asked while trying to find a way to get the coat off that did not involve throwing it over his head

But Ectoplasm just adjusted the cowboy hat and cloak before saying “Clones that are not wearing my costume.” Eraserhead then chimed in by taking the shades off and folding them to hang off his shirt before asking “actually now that we are bringing it up why does your coat have no arm holes? It seems very illogical to lock off two limbs even if you only use your legs and clones” 

But Ectoplasm just shrugged before showing off his arms that were now fully exposed thanks to the cloak “the villain that took my legs was actually aiming to take all my limbs, the doctors were able to save my arms obviously but there was still some permanent damage.” he then brought them back under the shadow casted by the clock “so in simple terms my arms are decent at everything you need out of a teacher, which is why I keep the coat mostly unclipped at UA” he then walked over to Present Mic and undid every button except the top two while saying “but you try to use them to lift a heavy object or throw a good punch and you will find yourself more useless than a fly with no wings.” 

They all nodded at the explanation while Mic carefully got the jacket off of Cementoss’s thick arms “yeah, then it would just be called a walk.”

Everyone got a good chuckle out of that before Snipe turned to Nezu and said “so how did he mess with you?”

Nezu looked up from where he was reading a few cards and said “actually I was never supposed to be apart of this joke, it says it right here.” he held up a piece of paper and then read it out loud “dear Nezu, I know that you hate most human contact, which is why when I found you riding on the shoulder of my favorite underground hero I simply moved you over to the wall. P.s I hope you enjoy the tea as compensation.” He then took another sip of said tea and said “and I must say that they are fantastic at it as well.”

Eraserhead then walked over and grabbed some of the other notes “Snipe should really stop trying to throw away my masterpiece.” “Is it just me or does Ectoplasm's shiny helmet just look like the perfect place to put a cowboy hat?” “don’t tell Eraserhead that I swapped something else on his outfit, I want to see how long it takes him to notice.”

He dropped the other cards and started inspecting his outfit while saying “why the hell is a vigilante passing notes to you like it's fucking middle school?”

But Nezu just collected the scattered cards and said “language Aizawa, but to answer your question i believe it mostly has to do with my intelligence, he is known as the prankster vigilante for a reason, but how do you go about messing with someone who is smarter than almost all humans?

Simple! You give them a puzzle that can only be solved after you solve some smaller puzzles, I mean just this card alone has given me more puzzle pieces! 

He said that the reason he didn't shuffle my costume like the rest of you was because he knew that I dislike most human contact, but if he had a teleportation quirk why would he need to worry about human contact?” By this point Nezu was absolutely buzzing with energy so Eraserhead just slowly backed away. 

Shortly after that he pulled his goggles out of the folds of his scarf and discovered that he was holding the green ones that Ghost wears,

he simply sighed and chucked them behind his head knowing that they would never actually meet the ground “ok so that means we are still missing one item from this hilarious prank.” and as if Ghost was listening in the entire time a new note fell from the sky which Eraserhead immediately snatched.

[If you wish to end this strife then look for the beans of life.]

Everyone else was confused why Aizawa immediately took off without even telling them what it said but Nezu simply climbed up Snipe and said “well? What are we waiting for? Catch up to the man my minio- I mean my staff!”

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As Nemuri made her way back to the staff room still covered in sparkly little spiders she was passed by a practically sprinting Shouta, and shortly after that she got passed by almost the entire staff

Hizashi did stay behind a little and ask about the glitter but Nemuri just played it off on wanting to be extra shiny today “you got pranked didn't you?” of course since Hizashi was recently pranked himself he could easily see through her lie

At that comment she brought a hand over her heart and said “he covered me in spider glitter! Even though it's the middle of August! Why couldn't he have done this just two months later!” Hizashi tried to pat her shoulder in comfort but just ended up covering his hand in glitter “yeesh! That's a lot of glitter! Sorry Nem but I can't comfort you through your fashion fiasco until I fix my own!” 

At that comment she stopped being overly dramatic for laughs and actually looked at what he was wearing. “Is that Ectoplasm's coat?” “yep! Which is why I need to catch up to them!” He started to run off but Nemuri wasn't far behind because she now needed to see how everyone else's outfits got messed up.

Which is why she slammed the staff door open uncaring of how the force caused a bunch of the glitter to fall to the ground because she was too focused on laughing at how Ectoplasm was in the full cowboy get up while Snipe just looked like a ticked off male stripper thanks to all the form fitting clothes he keeps hidden under that cloak 

Cementoss simply had a leather jacket over his shoulder but she could see how it was ripped in certain parts meaning that he probably had it on earlier 

The only difference on Nezu was that he was drinking out of a teacup that didn't belong to his fine china set but she didn't question it since that's probably as far as she would have gone against Nezu as well.

But the funniest part was watching Shouta Aizawa the fearsome underground hero rummage through the coffee pot until he eventually pulled out his goggles and then proceeded to chuck some triangle shaped shades at Hizashi 

“What is so funny over there Ms living sparkles?” Asked Shouta once he was done wiping off his goggles that were definitely gonna smell like coffee for at least a week (not that he was complaining or anything.)

But Nemuri simply brushed her hair back dramatically and said “you're just jealous that Ghost gave me something that I can pull off!” She then completely ignored how her dramatic hair flip caused even more glitter to fall to the ground as she made her way inside the room and sat down at her desk

Over the next few minutes everyone would chat as they fixed their costumes until Thirteen walked in with an exhausted look displayed across their emotive helmet “the hell happened to you?” Nemuri asked while trying to wipe some of the glitter onto Hizashi,

But all Thirteen said was “I think I got sucked into a time vortex.” as they made their way over to the coffee machine that by this point had been fixed after Shouta ripped it apart looking for his goggles

Now everyone was staring at them but it was Nezu who spoke up “do you care to explain?” 

Thirteen simply laughed and said “nope!” Before pouring the entire coffee pot right into a little gap that they opened up on their mask.

After fixing their helmet they turned to face everyone, pointed and laughed at Nemuri and Hizashi who by this point had about a quarter of what covered her, and then proceeded to leave the room without another word.

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But whatever happened to Thirteen won't be discovered today seeing as how Izuku left UA before they even showed up,

His next stop was to mess with All Might 

He hadn't done that since Mr Compress saved him but now he had a bunch of new material

And a theory that he wanted to test.

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That murderous feeling Toshinori got in the garage did not go away, it only simmered and hid underneath the surface, like a coiled snake ready to pounce the second its prey comes into sight.

And so Toshinori just went about his life like normal, eat breakfast, fight villains for a few hours, ignore Mirai’s calls about finding a successor, eat lunch, do some work around Might Tower, cry in the shower over all the things he has lost, eat dinner, go to bed, and repeat!

Yep it was great being All Might, so great in fact that he almost forgot about that vigilante that seems to hate him for no apparent reason.

Well that is until he was in the middle of lunch (it was Miso soup since what's left of his stomach can't handle much beyond that) and a brick with a note fell right on the desk he uses when he can't be All Might “huh… i thought that only happened in the movies.” he said to himself as he picked the brick up and turned it around so he could read the note

[Sorry I haven't messed with you in awhile. I got kidnapped by the gamer boy son of AFO. But don't worry I'm back and ready to kick your ass!]

“Ah so that's what happened to him, well I'm glad he's not dead at least! I just wish he would spend his time better than just wasting it on messing with he-” he reread the note but the text didn't change 

Even if he was lying about being kidnapped this meant that Ghost both knew he had a injury and who gave him that injury

There was also the chance that he wasn't lying and that meant that his greatest enemy had a child! Just the thought alone had him thinking about regurgitating the messily amount of soup he just ate.

He managed to keep it down but he no longer felt hungry so he wrapped the bowl up and placed it inside the fridge of his apartment

After that he picked the brick up and proceeded to take the elevator to the roof of Might Tower 

Once up there he buffed up into All Might and proceeded to launch the brick into the stratosphere

And if the sound barrier breaking wasn't so deafening he might have been able to hear the sounds of laughter coming from a few buildings over.

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Izuku had originally planned to mess with All Might more but since he basically proved his theory about the All For One guy being the one to almost kill him he decided to leave it at that.

Plus he also got a text from Giran saying that the guy who wants to mess with Endeavor was good to meet up now, so with that he ‘teleported’ away from Might Tower and instead found himself in front of an abandoned warehouse “wow, fancy place for a first meet up.” he said sarcastically as he opened the door

“Thanks I just got done renovating it.” called out a just as sarcastic voice, Izuku made his way completely inside and eventually found the man who was currently sitting on a dark green couch looking at something on his phone

There wasn't many windows or lights in this place but from what he could make out the man had dark hair, was wearing a black or gray coat that had massive stitches running through its entirety, a white tank top, and some loose fitting parts that also had massive stitches covering most of them 

“So is there any reason why you chose this place to strategize over how to mess with Endeavor over something a little more well lit like a cafe or maybe a random roof? I heard that last one has been doing numbers with heroes and vigilanties lately.”

The man then stood up and lit a bright blue flame from the palm of his hand and brought it up to his face, and with the new light source he could now see the badly scarred skin that covered most of his body “let's just say I can't exactly go incognito like you.” Izuku backed away from the heat and said “fine, fine, I get it. So is there any specific reason you want to mess with Endeavor Mr…?”

“Dabi. And that's all you're getting.” he said while extinguishing the flame and walking over to a table with some chairs 

“That's fine by me seeing as how you are only getting Ghost.” Izuku said before sitting down in the chair on the opposite side of the table 

“Sooo back to my other question-”

“He ruined my life and I plan to ruin his, the only problem is that I don't feel like I can take him head on right now.” Dabi interrupted with as he finally sat down in his own chair 

“Right, right, that tends to happen when your target is in the top ten.” Izuku said while nodding his head

“So that's where you come in, I might not be able to fight him yet but that doesn't mean I have been sitting on my ass all this time. you see I don't want to just beat him, I want to humiliate him! and what better way to do that then work with the guy who messes with heroes constantly.” said Dabi as he played with a small flame that seemed to dance around his fingers 

It kinda reminded Izuku of the first time he met Todoroki but that was probably just because Todoroki had been using multicolored flames which included blue in that moment (definitely no other similarities.)

“So what's in it for me? Obviously you get some petty revenge on a hero that wronged you, which I completely respect by the way. But what do I get out of helping you?”

Dabi sorta just stared for a minute before saying “uh, access codes to a bunch of places that you probably never would have been able to access before, blackmail that you will probably never find anywhere else, and did you miss the part about how I said that I don't feel strong enough yet? meaning one day you could hold the favor of someone strong enough to beat Endeavor! And trust me there is no favor that I wouldn't be able to achieve, especially if it's illegal.”

“Wow, that's actually more than I expected! I just wanted to say the “what's in it for me” line like all those movies do.” Izuku said while chuckling 

“So we got a deal?” Asked Dabi as he extended his hand across the table

Izuku met that hand with his own and said “definitely! In fact I know just how to celebrate this successful meeting!” He chuckled as he stood up and started to explain some of his more eccentric ideas for the number two hero. 

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Breaking news!!! Two masked individuals broke into Endeavor’s agency and covered most of the upper floors in melted marshmallows!”

Sidekick Burnin had this to say: 

“it actually wasn't that bad until the boss showed up… or so I've heard, I wasn't actually allowed to see the upper floors thanks to my quirk being permanently on.” 

We now take you to a intern that actually got to see the mess in person: 

“Sure everything was still sticky but it was pretty easy to remove, but when Endeavor showed up and refused to turn his flames off that's when things got bad. The stuff became so melted thanks to his flames I'm pretty sure that like half of the marshmallows actually chemically bonded to whatever they were on.”

Back to Burnin for more news on the criminals: 

“they were both wearing all black but one had green highlights while the other had blue. they never got too close to the cameras but even in low detail you could see how they were just running around with marshmallow bags and throwing handfuls all willy nilly.

From their height were guessing they are both teenagers, one had some type of superspeed or teleportation quirk while the other could emit blue flames, obviously how the marshmallows got melted in the first place.”

Endeavor himself had this to say: 

“I believe that-

After that Shouto shut the TV off since he knew that he would just hear whatever Endeavor thinks when dinner or the next training day rolls around “hey! I was watching that!” Yelled Ghost from the other side of the couch 

Shouto just turned to look at him and said “why can't you watch it at your house?” Ghost took his goggles off to make sure Shouto saw his eye roll and responded with “I mean I could do that, but what's the point if I can't see your reaction to my first breaking news story! the fact that it was your father was just a cherry on top.” 

Shouto nodded and said “I guess that makes sense but what about your companion? I thought you did everything by yourself.”

At that ghost stood up and walked in front of the TV “oh Dabi? Yeah that guy has some major beef with Endeavor! For the most part we just teamed up because if I helped him ruin Endeavor's day he would give me a bunch of access codes that belong to Endeavor.” He said all this while rummaging through his jacket pockets until he eventually pulled out a slightly burnt and crumpled up paper

He handed it over and after unfolding it Shouto could see that the paper was covered in codes just like he said, the weird part was that he recognized all these codes. Except for maybe three of them these were all the codes that Endeavor made specifically for the Todoroki family 

It made Shouto tilt his head in confusion but he guesses that this Dabi guy simply found the Todoroki codes by accident and probably doesn't even know that they aren't the normal codes since they all work

So in response to this hypothesis he said “if that's all you got out of it why not just simply ask me? Endeavor makes sure that all his children remember these types of codes just in case of emergencies.”

But Ghost just scoffed “that would be abusing our friendship! I don't want you thinking I'm only friends with you because you are related to Endeavor!”

Shouto once again nodded to the sound logic and then said “ah, I see, well do not hesitate in the future. I've already been assured that you are not just looking for connections.”

This caused Ghost to laugh as he took the paper before sitting back down on the couch “ok enough talk about your dad and my partnerships with people who teeter on the edge of being villains.”

“Agreed but what does that leave us with to talk about?”

Ghost thought about it for a while before saying “oh! I got it! What highschool are you thinking of going to?”

Shouto dislikes that his father must be relevant even when they are not talking about him but to answer that question he must “My father already decided that I am going to UA highschool since he went there as well.”

“Oh hey, I plan to go to UA highschool as well! At first it was because All Might went there but now it's more about just how many successful heroes come out of that place. Maybe we will be classmates!” Ghost said with stars in his eyes and what was probably a blinding smile behind that mask

“Is it wise to tell me that? What about your secret identity?”

“eh, I trust you, plus my mom has been pestering me to bring you over so I planned to reveal who I was anyways.” 

“I hadn't known that Ms. Joke knew about me.”

“yeah it was this whole ordeal and I kinda had to drop your name so she wouldn't start questioning things… hey! I thought we already went over how Ms. Joke is not my mother!”

He then sighed knowing he wouldn't be able to change todoroki's mind that easily and said ”but back to UA do you want to make a game out of it?”

“A game out of what?”

“My identity of course! I mean think about it you have ice and fire while I have one of the strongest super speed quirks that I've ever seen. So we are both definitely getting into UA, now if I remember correctly there are only two hero courses 1A and 1B”

“You are starting to ramble.”

“Ah right! Thanks for reminding me. The point is if we both get into UA our chances of crossing paths is very likely, so what if we make it a game of clue!”

“that does sound interesting but what happens if we don't cross paths or I can't find anyone to connect to Ghost?”

But Ghost just chuckled and said “trust me, you have all the clues needed to figure out who I am

You have seen my green hair, you have seen my green eyes, you know what my quirk looks like in action, and you even have a piece of my real name, Midori!

But in the incredibly unlikely event that you can't figure it out then I'll just say it to your face at let's say hmmm, oh I know! The first year sports festival. It usually takes place about a month into the school year which should give you plenty of time to find me.”

“That sounds good to me.”

Ghost then looked at the time and stood up “ok, it's about 30 minutes before my mom gets home and about an hour before Endeavor gets done with that conference meeting.” He made his way to the front door of the house before stopping and turning to face Shouto “if it actually takes you more than a month to figure out who I am then I am going to make you eat Snipe's hat while I laugh.”

But barely fazed by that comment Shouto just fired back with “does that mean I get to make you do something if I win?”

“With all the hints I have given you already I shouldn't.” Ghost then thought about it before shrugging and saying “but why the hell not? sure, go wild!” he then disappeared and left Shouto alone to think 

Except Shouto didn't even need to think about what he would do if he won this game since he had this request eversince he met the vigilante 

“Once I find you at UA I'll finally get you to admit that your mother is Ms. Joke.”

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Today is the first day of October. Now I know what you are saying “Why the hell did you skip over September!?” Well the fact of the matter is that nothing interesting happened there,

Sure Izuku did end up running into this guy called Gentle in that month and later on the guy's assistant La Brava but besides making an accidental cameo in their HeroTube video nothing really happened I promise.

But back to the point! it's the first day of October and Izuku was currently looking over his vigilante costume thinking of how he can make it more Halloweenish

With it just being him and his mom they haven't had much reason to buy intricate costumes and go out on the town

Instead they usually just wear some themed onesies and watch scary movies together 

But since he is a vigilante he decided that he would dress up this time around 

Sure no one but the criminals and villains will end up seeing it but who knows maybe they will get a kick out of it

“Well I could replace the cloak with one of those capes with a high collar and then all I would really need is some fake teeth to pull off being a vampire… but is that too unoriginal? I mean I'm pretty sure everyone has dressed up as a vampire at least once.

What if I just change the whole costume? I could go as that old comic book character Flash. He's pretty fast plus couldn't he affect time as well? So it would be like an inside joke that no one would understand but me… nah nevermind too much red.

Would it be too on the nose to dress up as Dio? Hmmm on second thought those pants look embarrassing to wear, plus Dio is a vampire so we're just back to my original problem!” Izuku groaned as he let his head hit the desk in his room 

His mother chose that exact moment to enter his room “hey you doing ok in here? I could hear your mumble storm from all the way in the front room?

Izuku sat up and pushed his viganalte clothes into a pile before turning around and saying “I'm ok mom, just having trouble picking a costume for Halloween.”

At that she fully entered the room and sat down on the bed “first you get a quirk and now you want an actual costume instead of our usual matching pajamas. Who are you and what did you do with my son!” She said jokingly

Izuku chuckled and then rubbed the back of his neck as he said “actually those two are connected since the only hero themed pajamas I have that fit is uhhh.” He teetered off as he pointed over to his open closet which held the All Might themed full body zip up pajamas he got last year

His mom's eyes held an almost invisible fury as she stood and said “right! I completely understand, well I'll just go throw out this trash and then we can brainstorm ok!?” she then took the clothes off the hanger uncaring if her fast movements caused small rips to form 

“Sounds good to me” he said as he watched her leave the room

Once she was completely gone he turned back to his vigilante costume and quickly got to work putting it back in his hiding spot

A few minutes later his mom returned and just like she said they brainstormed some costume ideas.

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By the time she left they had some solid ideas for what they were gonna do for this Halloween 

But now it was late and Izuku just got done suiting up, now granted he was going out earlier than he normally does but he has a reason.

You see a couple of days ago he overheard some thugs talking about this big shipment of the drug called trigger

It amps up quirks but it also leaves the user highly addicted which is why it's illegal 

And as the illegal hero that he is, Izuku wants to stop it.

So once he was sure that his mom wouldn't try checking up on him for the rest of the night he made his way over to the warehouse that the shipment is apparently coming from 

With the use of paused time he was able to effortlessly make his way past all the guards and men moving stuff on trucks. Once he was comfortably sitting on the metal structure beams near the ceiling above the guy who looked in charge (if you are wondering how he figured that out just imagine a guy wearing an all white suit with a black plague doctor mask) he unpaused time just to make sure he had the right place 

“Why the hell are you asking me!? Look, the boss sent me here to make sure none of you guys try to smuggle away some of our products. So just move the stuff to where it needs to go, get paid, then get the fuck out of here because I don't know nothing ‘bout any trigger with no downsides.” 

Izuku then cheered, uncaring if anyone heard him “now that was confirmation! You see the last time I did a drug bust I took out everybody first and then asked questions and let me tell ya it is very embarrassing to find out you accidentally arrested 5 cake bakers all because they were carrying around bags of flower!”

There were many shouts and it seemed about half of them recognized Izuku as Ghost but still uncaring he started to walk across the structure beams while saying “so nowadays I like to make sure that you guys are actually dealing with drugs before I take you out. So thanks!” He said all cherry while getting ready to pause time and be done with these guys

But instead the man in all white just shouted something about killing Ghost while pointing his arms at Izuku, and in seconds hundreds of blades ripped out of his arms and shot towards Izuku 

But like he said he was on the verge of pausing so that spook just sent him over the edge and paused the blades before they could actually reach him 

Although they did get pretty close to hitting him “damn! Those blades were fast! Also why wear an expensive suit if you're just going to shred it?” He asked to the frozen man but obviously he didn't answer 

Izuku then turned from the man back to the blades a couple of inches away from his face “I wonder how sharp these things are…” he then brought his hand up and poked one 

He yelped out in pain as the blade effortlessly cut through his gloves and pin pricked his finger “welp, my curiosity has been satiated. And all it cost me was one cheap glove instead of an entire pristine white suit!” he yelled to the still frozen man

A few drops of blood made their way to the ground as Izuku carefully climbed down from his hiding spot, he then looked at his ruined glove before taking it off and putting a bandaid over his finger (he started carrying bandaids and bandage rolls after Hawks stabbed him which is why he just has some on standby)

And so with the price of his curiosity now dealt with he started to tie up all the criminals before trying to find some way of tying up the man who currently had about 10 feet of sharp steel protruding from his arms

Eventually he just decided to kick the guy where the sun don't shine and then unpause

As always there were shouts of alarm as they all found themselves tied up and then he watched as the man in charge screamed in a high pitch voice, but it did the trick of getting him to retract the blades and so he simply tied the man in metal chains to make sure he wouldn't be able to cut his restraints “wow I expected this to last longer… I guess I didn't need to come out so early. Now what am I gonna do for the rest of the night?” He asked while opening up the emergency call button on one of the thugs phones

Once the call went through he said “how's it going officer Sansa? 

Yep it's yo boy, 

oh nothing much just taking down a massive drug transfer sight.

Trigger is what they say but I haven't personally checked.

Yep! Ok I'll see you in ten, bye!”

He then placed the phone in front of the scowling man in the bird mask “you don't know who you are messing with brat!” He yelled while trying to get his quirk to cut through the chains

Izuku was about to leave but then turned around and started walking back over “oh yeah, you did say something about a boss.” He then crouched in front of him and pulled the plague doctor mask off him “so is this mask just a you thing or does your scary boss make you guys wear them?” the man shouted profanities about him taking the mask off so he paused time and put it back on before stretching it a little

Once he unpaused the mask slammed into the man's face which made him stop shouting “if you aren't gonna tell me about your boss then please be quiet.”

Izuku once again started leaving but at the last second the man shouted out “OVERHAUL!” Izuku turned back just in time to witness the man finish chopping through the chains and stand up while saying “OVERHAUL WILL DESTROY YOU FOR MESSING WITH HIS PLANS!!!” he started to sprout blades again but Izuku simply chained him up again before kicking him in the back of his legs

The man fell onto his stomach as Izuku said “might want to make sure you can beat someone before pulling a move like that, almost gave me chills thinking you were gonna do something cool. but thanks, I'll make sure to be on the lookout for an Overhaul.”

And so after checking the other tied up thugs he ‘teleported’ to the roof and once he saw the police cars come into sight he ‘teleported' away 

“Ok, I took down a drug transfer site, so let's see what else I can do tonight.” he then pulled out a notebook from somewhere and opened it up

“Patrol around Japan. I do that every time I go out.

Mess with Mr. Compress. Can't because I'm pretty sure he is currently not in Japan.

Mess with Dabi. It could be fun but I don't really feel like messing with what is basically Endeavor but much more murderous.

Hang out with Todoroki. Nah I'm pretty sure he is asleep already.

Dinner with me. I really need to stop pushing that back…

Oh! How could I forget about my favorite hero! Yep, that should definitely fill some of my time!” with that he closed the book and put it away (once again I can't tell where he put it. Does he have hammerspace but specifically for notebooks!?!?)

He then looked around his general vicinity before ‘teleporting' in the direction that felt the most saturated with tired vibes.

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Shouta doesn't know how Ghost keeps finding him but he is getting really tired of it.

Is what he thought as he watched said vigilante run, jump, and teleport from one roof to the next until he was standing in front of Eraserhead, he waited a few seconds and then said “what? No more of your “attacking heroes but not really just to trick people”?”

Ghost shook his head and said “nah, it lost its humor after you stopped reacting.”

“Ah, I see, completely logical then.” Eraserhead said while rolling his eyes 

Ghost then waited a few seconds himself before saying “so you aren't gonna try capturing me tonight? I thought you got pretty close last time.”

Eraserhead slowly shook his head and then said “I have important stuff to do tonight and I don't need to be distracted by the kid who purposely searches out heroes for fun.” Eraserhead then turned away to get back on track but what Ghost said next stopped him 

“Hmm, yeah I guess that is… completely logical.” Eraserhead whipped around and just stared at the vigilante who was obviously smirking behind his mask 

He slowly blinked and then said “please never say those words in my presence again.”

“What!? You said it!” Ghost yelled while pointing at Eraserhead 

Eraserhead pointed back and said “Yes, but it just sounds wrong when you say it.”

Ghost then crossed his arms and turned around before saying “Well that's not very logical.”

He let out a long sigh before turning back around and saying “gross, just gross.” he then started back up on his run to the place he wanted to investigate tonight 

There was about a minute of silence before Ghost showed back up at his side “Fine I won't say it anymore but you didn't have to ditch me!”

Eraserhead started using his scarf to move faster as he said “you do remember you are a vigilante right? I have every reason to ditch you.”

Ghost simply added some teleportations to his run to keep up while saying “so where are you heading?”

Eraserhead didn't answer immediately as he swung across a lamp post to get to the buildings on the other side of the road “Once again you are a vigilante so I'm not going to give that information.” he said once he was completely over 

“Fine, then I'll just keep following you!” Ghost yelled before expertly jumping from one lamp post to another to also get across the road 

“Don't you have anything else to do?” he yelled knowing he was getting close to the location 

“Nope! All I had planned for tonight was taking down a trigger wearhouse, and I already did that!” Ghost stopped to dramatically brush off his shoulders just to make sure Eraserhead knew he was bragging before laughing and teleporting right next to him

“Great just my luck.” he mumbled under his breath as he came to a stop 

But somehow Ghost must have heard him because as he approached he said “I know right! Now what are we working with!?” at a much too high volume for Eraserhead’s tastes 

And so even though he knew it was pointless Eraserhead launched his scarf at Ghost and while Ghost’s quirk wasn't working he used the scarf to throw him behind him

There was a scream of protest before Ghost quietly made his way back over and let out a “not cool bro.” But luckily it was much quieter so Eraserhead didn't regret the dry eye he would get later.

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Kai Chisaki quietly scratched at his arm while putting his right glove back on

He hates most contact thanks to his quirk making him so sensitive to touch (even to microscopic things) but he needed to get rid of that cop completely if he wanted access to the crime scene, 

so his comfort was a worthy sacrifice.

Once he was actually in the building where Ghost messed up his plan he took his left glove off

“Doesn't matter how fast you are, everyone leaves a trace.” He said before putting his palm to the floor

The only upside to his sensitivity to touch is that if he focuses on his quirk while touching something then he can actually transfer the sensitivity to the object

He hates using this move because it's connecting his sensitive senses to something with much more surface area than his body.

He can already feel himself breaking out in hives from focusing like this for so long but he pushes through until he feels something that isn't dust

Once he locates where it is he turns his quirk off and quickly puts the glove back on

He then makes his way over until he spots it “blood? The reports didn't mention anything about injuries, which means this must belong to the vigilante.” the blood dried awhile ago so Overhaul simply picked it up with some tweezers and then stored it in a clear bag

So with everything he needed to hopefully get rid of this annoying flaw in his plan he made his way out of the wearhouse and walked over to where he made Chronostasis park the car.

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While it was fun seeing how Eraserhead reacted to his fighting style against someone who isn't a hero or a giant villain Izuku had to leave so with a quick audios to the man he just left alone with a bunch of tied up criminals he ‘teleported' all the way back home and went to bed

Once he woke up feeling well rested he and his mom went shopping at the mall nearby 

She got some necessities, Izuku got some posters to finally finish removing all the blank spots left behind by All Might 

After that they just started looking around for anything interesting 

At the end of their trip they had picked up a few interesting looking movies, some Halloween themed clothing, and they even found a All Might themed trash can that they both got a good laugh from

And so with all their goodies in hand they headed over to the food court where both him and his mom got katsudon and started talking about whatever came to mind

It was a good day of just relaxing and hanging out with his mom and he loved it.

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Kai Chisaki didn't sleep that night

Instead he used his quirk to separate all the dirt from the dried blood before putting it into the microvolume spectrophotometer that he uses to test Eri’s DNA whenever he thinks something might be wrong with her

And while it can be used to test blood work it can also be used for DNA profiling

The police might get zero results from using this method on any DNA left behind by Ghost. But Kai has access to a lot more not so legal systems, so if anyone is gonna get a result from this, it's gonna be him.

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About a week after Izuku and his mom went to the mall they went out again but this time it was to a costume store since Halloween was ever approaching

They looked at many costumes “oh Izuku! What if I dressed up as that hero Ms. Joke! We both have long flowing green hair and I can be pretty funny at times, and then you could be- Wait, why are you making that face?... Ok fine I'll think of something else, spoilsport.”

“Hey mom what if-” “if I turn around and see 2 costumes from a video game I will drive home right now without you.” “...” “Should I turn around?” “Nah, you're good. On an unrelated note I'm gonna go put some costumes back on their hangers.”

This went on and on, one would come up with an idea the other disliked and then the other would do the same.

In the end they decided to just have unrelated costumes instead of a mother and son costume

Which then led to Inko getting a simple vampire costume with a flowing cape.

Izuku chose the headless horseman which was basically a typical colonial outfit consisting of a black jacket, black cloak, and gold cuffs, really the only reason you could tell it was the headless horseman and not just a british history reenactment was because of the jack-o'-lantern that would go over his head.

So with their costumes in hand they then headed home.

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Over the next week Kai Chisaki would clean and disassemble the entire machine before putting it back together and testing the DNA again

But the results didn't change.

Even with the hundreds of criminals systems he has access to Ghost’s DNA only matched up with one other person

The only reason Kai couldn't understand the results was because the profile that showed up belonged to a 5 year old

A 5 year old that Kai has been using to complete his goals

A 5 year old that Kai was hoping was only showing showing up because the machine wasn't completely clean from the last time he tested her blood 

A 5 year old that up to this point Kai thought only had a deadbeat mother and a comatose grandfather

Overhaul slammed his hand against the machine and disassembled it once again while saying “So how the hell does Ghost share 25% of his DNA with Eri!?”

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It was now just a few days until Halloween was here and Izuku decided to help Nezu decorate his school

So with a bunch of cheap decoration supplies stuffed into his backpack he paused time and made his way over to UA

Once he was actually there he decided to unpause and walk up to the camera on the front gate

“Happy Halloween Nezu!” it barely took a few seconds before Izuku could hear footsteps so he looked away from the camera and instead at the area inside the gate

He was then met with Eraserhead himself “the hell are you doing here problem child?”

Izuku slipped the backpack off his shoulders and held it up for Eraserhead to see “I'm here to help you guys decorate-”

“Not gonna happen. And the only reason why I'm not trying to catch you is because I haven't had my coffee yet, so leave before you see what I'm like when I'm really tired.” Eraserhead interrupted with while crossing his arms 

But Izuku simply smiled behind his mask before pausing time and making his way past Eraserhead

Once inside he immediately set to hanging up the fake spiders and bats throughout most of the hallways

After that he placed some fake little jack-o'-lantern in the teacher lounge, lunchroom, and Nezu's office 

He placed some other things like fake spiderwebs, skeletons, ghosts, tombstones with funny sayings on them, and more in little areas here and there

And finally his magnum opus was finding some Christmas lights but with orange and purple bulbs, which made them perfect for the spooky month.

So with some intricate wiring done he was able to used the the one arm thick roll of Halloween lights he had to cover most of the school’s main building

He plugged them in but they didn't turn on since he was still in paused time

And so after adding some additional decorations to some of the heroes outfits he walked back to the front gate, got back in the pose he was in before he paused, and then unpaused

He put the backpack back on and said “ok, if that's what you want Eraserhead.”

Eraserhead rolled his eyes and said “that's exactly what I want.”

Izuku then smirked as he started to walk away and said “just make sure you don't throw away the Halloween lights! Those were a bit more expensive than everything else.”

Eraserhead looked gobsmacked as he said “Halloween lights? everything else!? Ghost what did you do!?”

But instead of answering Ghost teleported away, leaving Shouta to turn around and see that the main building of UA was now covered in orange and purple flashing lights.

And as he made his way inside he saw that Ghost had covered almost every single hallway and room in Halloween decorations

And once he found power loader trying to remove a few bat stickers from his mech he realized that Ghost didn't just stop at decorating the building 

So he made his way to the teacher lounge and found Hizashi and Nemuri admiring their badaziling of spider glitter once again “yes! I was half expecting to get covered in Christmas glitter just to keep the prank up. But now I can fully enjoy my glitter!” Nemuri halfway yelled before putting her hands on her hips and laughing.

Hizashi was just enjoying the decorations, not even caring about how Nemuri was slowly covering his outfit in glitter as well. “You do realize Nezu is gonna make you two clean all that up just like last time right?“

Nemuri turned to Shouta and started approaching “and just like last time it will be completely worth it!” She then started to walk faster until Shouta said “Take one more step towards me and we find out how resistant your heels are to a blender.” She stopped and started backing away while saying “sheesh I get it! You don't like glitter.”

After that Shouta headed over to Nezu's office to see if Ghost did anything to him

Just like always when he tried to knock on the door it slammed open automatically, so he entered and found Nezu sitting on the couch while holding a mirror up to his face

“Did Ghost get you as well?”

“In a sorts, yes.” Nezu then turned away from the mirror to look at Shouta, which allowed him to see how Nezu’s normal tie was replaced with a orange clip on tie that was covered in all black bats, spiders, and even some rats

“Have you seen the rest of the school?”

“Oh yes. And despite how cheap they are, Ghost is an A-tier decorator! I don't think I could have done much better if I was stuck with such a limited budget.”

Shouta sighed and said “of course you would like it. So let me guess they aren't being taken down?”

“Hmm, I believe I will keep them up! And I might just have to hire Ghost when Christmas rolls around!” he said while hopping off the couch and making his way over to his desk

Shouta was about to leave but Nezu called out “oh one moment Aizawa!”

“What now?” He said while walking back into the room

Nezu pointed up and said “Could you please return my tie from the confines of the ceiling? Ghost has appeared to use my lack of height against me.” Shouta looked up and sure enough Nezu’s normal tie was stuck to the ceiling with some tape 

Shouta just sighed again and said “Yeah, give me one second.”

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Once Kai Chisaki came to accept the reality of Eri having family he didn't know about he quickly started to research the family he did know about.

He started with man he owes everything to, but the boss only had two blood related children, Eri’s mother and a son that died long before Kai came along

Eri’s mother never remarried and doesn't have any children currently

The son died as a child so no children there either

After that he moved on to the man that Eri rewinded out of existence, also known as her father 

It took a little while to find him but eventually he had his name “Hisashi Chisaki. Why is your past covered in mystery?”

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It was now one day until Halloween and Izuku was currently at the Todorokis hanging out in Shouto's room.

“So what costume are you going for?” Asked Izuku while he played his card

Todoroki hummed as he thought before replying “father has a distaste for things he deems unnecessary. So I intend to watch a horror movie while enjoying some cold soba.” he then placed his last card down and said “I win.”

Izuku let his hand of cards fall onto the table before groaning and laying down onto the floor “well that's 5 to 3… wanna play something else?”

“No thank you, I believe I am done for now.” He said before standing up from the table 

“Ok if you are done playing why don't I help you make a costume?” Izuku said while sitting up and starting to put the cards back into their box

“I thought I just said that I don't go out for Halloween.” Todoroki said while putting the table, cushions, and cards back in their appropriate spots

Izuku pointed at Todoroki and said “No you said that Endeavor doesn't go out for Halloween. I never heard any mention about what Shouto Todoroki wants to do!”

And Todoroki couldn't deny that logic so instead he said “What would I even dress up as?”

“My vote is for Zuko!” he almost yelled while sending his hand straight up as if he was in class 

“Who is that?” Todoroki asked confused 

“I'm gonna pretend like you didn't just wound me with those words.” Izuku then hopped up and started explaining “in simple terms he comes from a world with only 4 quirks, water, earth, fire, and air. He is the son of the fire lord, the fire lord scared the left side of his face and then told him to catch the avatar who was a kid who inherited his multiple quirk abilities from a bunch of people from the past but eventually he became a good guy and had to fight his sibling who could use blue fire.”

Todoroki sorta just stared at Izuku as if he insulted everyone in his family and then complemented Endeavor 

“What? I thought it would be an easy costume since you wouldn't even need to put on makeup!”

“When did this show come out?”

“Like 15 years before quirks started popping up.”

Todoroki then looked at his hands and quietly asked himself “am I a knockoff?”

“What was that?”

“N-nothing, you have just given me a lot to think about.”

“Ok… well text me if you change your mind!” Izuku then ‘teleported’ away, leaving Todoroki to think just like he said.

Once he was home he changed out of his costume and then unpaused “mom, I'm back from Todoroki’s!”

“Oh Izuku! Could you come here for a moment!?” yelled his mother from her room 

“Uh sure what's up?” he asked as he walked into her room

She was searching through her closet and then said “so uh, Mitsuki invited me to a Halloween party.”

“That sounds fun. So what's the problem?” asked Izuku while walking over to the closet 

She stopped searching through the closest and sat down on the bed “Well the party is on Halloween obviously and it's only for adults. now I know we had this whole plan for how we would spend this year and I'd hate to ruin it bu-”

“Mom, you should go.” izuku said while sitting on the bed to join her

“But what about you!? I don't want to be selfish!” she said while throwing her hands into the air

But Izuku just hugged her and said “You have been everything but selfish to me so I believe you should go hang out with aunt Mitsuki and uncle Masura at this party and have your own fun! And don't worry about me, I can just hang out with Todoroki… or Kachan I guess.”

His mom pulled him back from the hug and asked if he was sure about this

But Izuku just nodded and said “yes! Go enjoy Halloween however you want and I'll do the same.”

By this point the Midoriya tears™ were close to overflowing from both parties so Inko just brought her son into another hug while saying thanks over and over again.

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It took a while but Kai Chisaki figured it out

He thought it was weird that a man with a fire breathing quirk could bring two powerful quirks completely unrelated to fire into existence twice in a row

So he started theorizing and searching for evidence and he definitely found it

Hisashi Chisaki didn't have a fire breathing quirk, it was simply a quirk that could be used to replicate fire breathing by speeding up the air molecules in his mouth 

His true quirk was called limited vibro-kinesis 

It allowed him to absorb the energy from vibrating molecules so when he used this on a object he could in a sense pause the object or make it move very slowly

And once he had that energy stored away he could use it to speed up molecules and if he pushed them far enough he could make the object fall apart or combust into flames by making the molecules that hold the object together unstable 

The only downside was that he couldn't use it on himself or anything bigger than a 3 by 3 foot cube

Hisashi Chisaki’s real name was Kaji Hiyama and he was a villain known for making buildings fall by speeding up the columns that held the building up

But something or someone had it out for him because one day he faked his death and stole the identity of another man 

A man whose name was Hisashi Boccarossa who had a real fire breathing quirk (and that seemed to be that man’s breaking point because he shortly became a villain after his identity was destroyed.)

And with his new name and a way to make people believe he had a fire breathing quirk he started living a new life

But the part Kai cares about is that he eventually married a woman named Inko Midoriya and took her last name

They had a child named Izuku Midoriya but after the child was thought to be quirkless Hisashi picked up a job in america 

And while in america he met a woman who could make plants grow exponentially quick and had a horn mutation left over from her grandmother

She was visiting America but the two really hit it off,

Eventually they dated and even got married back in Japan 

And just like before when they married, Hisashi took the woman’s last name,

And her last name was Chisaki.

They then had a child and at the age of 4 that child’s quirk manifested as a mix between the growth of plants and the speeding up of molecules

Only they were both working in reverse and turned into a quirk that could rewind living matter

And the first thing this quirk was used for was to rewind Hisashi Chisaki, Hisashi Midoriya, and Kaji Hiyama all out of existence.

“Good riddance. How dare he defile the surname of the boss!” He then pointed to a passing yakuza member and said “you! Go get Eri an expensive looking toy. Call it my reward for the only time her quirk wasn't a curse on this world.” The man shouted a quick “yes sir” and then was off

Back to the point though, Eri’s father was a cheating bastard with a fake quirk and multiple families 

But as far as Kai could find he only has one other child and that was the quirkless kid. sure he was around the same age as Ghost but that was it

So he looked deeper into this Midoriya family and wouldn't you know it, a few months ago the 14 year old updated his records to now say Pathfinder teleportation 

But like father like son Kai has a feeling that they aren't being 100% truthful about what all this quirk can do 

And seeing as how this is Eri’s half sibling he’s pretty sure it actually has something to do with time 

so with it being very likely that this Midoriya kid is Ghost all Kai had to do now was test his theory

If he is wrong and Ghost is not Midoriya then all he has to do is kill some nobody and problem solved 

But if Midoriya is Ghost then not only will he be able to get rid of that annoyance but he will also gain a new test subject,

Imagine all the advances he could make if he had Eri’s blood and was able to combine it with her half sibling who can also alter time!

Most likely it would allow him to jump far ahead of schedule and that was something he very much wanted,

So tonight he would test his theory by making Izuku Midoriya come to him.

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Halloween was officially here!

Izuku was already dressed up in his headless horseman costume as he ate breakfast and then watched some TV

A few minutes later his mom joined him but she was not in costume yet “do you seriously plan to wear that all day?”

“Yep!” He said while grabbing the pumpkin mask and shoving it onto his head, he stuck his tongue out at her but then realized she wouldn't be able to see it because of the mask

But he was undeterred as he went back to watching his show only now through the lenses of a jack-o'-lantern.

She chuckled and shook her head and stood up “fine, fine. I guess I'll join you then.” she then walked back into her room and came out a few minutes later now all dressed up as a vampire

“Hey Izuku check out what I got.” He turned to look at her and she was holding two white little triangles in her hand

She then picked one up and stuck it into her mouth “their teeth covers! To give you that real vampire edge but without making it impossible to talk! I found them at the costume store but forgot to show them to you.” “Those are pretty cool just make sure you don't accidentally bite yourself.”

Once she had both in she sat back down on the couch and said “oh please, I'm a natural sweetie, there's no way I'm gonna accidently-OW!” Izuku started to laugh until his mom threw a pillow at him and said “oh shut up you!” But that just lead to both of them laughing 

A few hours later his mom left with Aunt Mitsuki who was dressed up as either Mirko or a playboy bunny

Honestly the lines are blurry between the two and Izuku didn't really feel like questioning it.

But with the house all alone Izuku decided he should head out as well.

So he stuffed his goggles and mask into his pocket just in case of a emergency and then left the house normally instead of like a vigilante 

After that he sorta just wandered in the direction of of the Todoroki estate while checking his phone 

He sent a happy Halloween to most of his contacts and got a happy Halloween from everyone except Dabi who instead told him to stop texting him for useless stuff 

“Man, that guy is really starting to remind me of Endeavor and Todoroki.”

He then got a text from Todoroki that simply said one thing

How much do you think a Halloween party would piss off my father?

In an instant Izuku ‘teleported' the rest of the way to his house and once he found Todoroki in his room he unpaused and grabbed him by the shoulders to say “i’m gonna make this your best Halloween yet!”

Todoroki removed Izuku's hands from his shoulders and said “what are you dressed as?”

“The headless horseman obviously!”

“But you have a head.”

“No, I have a pumpkin replacing my head.” Izuku said while knocking his finger against the jack-o'-lantern mask

He then clapped and rubbed his fingers together and said “now! Let's get you a costume! To the store!” He yelled while slowly dragging Todoroki out of the house 

Luckily Todoroki went along willing and eventually they were walking down the road towards the closest store

“Are you wearing your mask under that?” Todoroki asked once Izuku stopped dragging him 

“Nope!” he immediately replied while keeping pace with Todoroki by skipping 

“Meaning all I would have to do is knock that pumpkin off if I wanted to see your face?”

Izuku hummed in agreement and then said “Well technically you could have done the same with the mask but yeah pretty much. Why? You want a round two of our first meeting?” he said while holding his fists up in front of him

Todoroki pushed Izuku's arms back down and said “No, just curious.”

“Well today you get to hang out with Midori and not Ghost, I plan to do no vigilantism today!” He called out as they finished crossing the street 

“Really? I didn't notice there was a difference.” said Todoroki completely serious as he was genuinely confused 

“Well there's not right now but that's mostly thanks to the mask.” he said while knocking on the mask with his finger once again 

“How does that work?” he asked while tilting his head 

“You ever get stage fright? Wait no you're rich of course not. Ok better example! So you know how there are things you are willing to say on the Internet but not in real life?” as he said this they turned down another street

He thought about it before eventually saying “Hmm, yes. I have experienced something akin to that whenever I end up on websites which have negative views on heroes like Endeavor.”

“Ok great! Then just imagine that but with me!” He exclaimed while pointing at himself ”Yeah I can be more timid when people are observing my face but you hand me something that makes me anonymous and it just makes it so much easier to not care about what people think of me because they aren't actually thinking about me!” he exclaimed while throwing his arms out uncaring about it how it catches the attention of everyone around them 

“I do that most of the time anyways.” Todoroki said once they had gotten a little away from the crowd 

Izuku patted him on the shoulder as they turned another corner and said “And that's great for you Todoroki but some people need to have a little buffer to not care, now I have found that a completely exhausted me or a overly caffeinated me can have similar effects on how much I care about people’s opinions but some goggles and a cloth mask seems to be the option with the least downsides for when I want to do something crazy or funny.”

“I see, and how different are you when you do care about people's opinion of you?”

Izuku chuckled awkwardly while rubbing the back of his neck before eventually saying “Um, I've gotten better at it but the best way to describe how I was before I became Ghost is like if you had a little deer who wants to take over the world.”

“Please elaborate.” was Todoroki’s immediate response 

Izuku nodded as they crossed another street and then said “Sure thing! The deer is plenty smart and definitely has plans for taking over the world, but the second they see a powerful machine barreling towards them or hear a hunter step on a branch all those plans disappear and they freeze up or run away.

But that same deer might run towards a hunter or break out of their frozen fear if its emotions are running high or it wants to protect something.”

Todoroki thought about Izuku's analogy before humming and saying “and if you strap a mask to the same deer that would usually freeze up or run away then suddenly they would lose all that fear as they start running around like a chaotic little demon trying to get the mask off.”

“Exactly! Now you're getting it!” while saying this Izuku accidentally slammed into a glass door which caused the mask to get turned an almost full 180

Once he spun the mask back around he looked up and said “oh hey look! We're here!” He pulled the door open to the costume shop and called out to the cashier who was currently watching them “sorry about that! This mask kinda locks off my peripheral.”

“Then maybe you should take it off.” Was their lackluster response, Izuku chuckled and said “I'll take it into consideration.” While dragging Todoroki deeper into the store

After that they looked at a bunch of costumes for Todoroki

He denied the Zuko idea simply because Zuko is a firebender which Izuku thought was weird but he moved on from it

After that they looked at some of the more genetic costumes 

Todoroki denied the werewolf costume since he was more of a cat person 

Izuku denied the blanket sheet ghost costume because he didn't want it to get confusing if there were two guys running around as Ghost

After that Izuku made a joke about how Todoroki should dress up as a skeleton since he only has one blue eye but that was shot down after Todoroki didn't understand the joke

Finally Todoroki grabbed a vampire costume but Izuku complained about how his mom was going as one as well which made Todoroki put it back.

They then moved over to the hero costumes where Izuku immediately said “look I know that it would be hilarious to see Endeavor's son wearing a costume based on the man he despises but I just want you to know that if you chose the All Might costume I will disown you.”

“But we're not related?”

“I don't care! I will still find a way to do it if you go as All Might for your first Halloween in years!”

“... 

…

…

Noted.”

For obvious reasons they skipped over the costumes based off All Might, Endeavor, and Hawks. After that they skipped the number 4 hero because Todoroki didn't want to have to wear so much denim, number 5 is Edgeshot who also got skipped but this time because Todoroki didn't want to be a ninja. 6 is Mirko and while Izuku thought he could pull the outfit off Todoroki did not so they moved on.

This went on for a little while longer until eventually they ended up in the video game section and settled on getting a Mono costume from little nightmares

Izuku tried to explain that Mono comes from a horror survival game that came out before quirks but it must have been going in one ear and out the other seeing as how the only thing Todoroki had to say was that he thought the paper bag mask and the comically large flashlight was cute

Eventually Izuku gave up and they started their walk towards the counter

But along the way they bumped into a teen a few years older than them that had light blue hair he yelled a quick “watch it! You fucking Halloween update looking NPC.” That last part was mumbled but Izuku heard it and whipped his head around to stare and watch as who could only be Tomura Shigaraki stalked off into the video game area

He then slowly turned back around and started walking forward, once he caught up with Todoroki he asked “wasn't that the guy who kidnapped you? Shouldn't you be taking him down?”

Izuku shook his head and said “like I said no vigilantism unless absolutely necessary on Halloween. And seeing as how that guy is currently looking at the fake weapons in the video game area I'm gonna say that it's not necessary. Now hurry up and use your father's credit card before it becomes necessary!” Izuku said while putting all the things they intended to buy on the counter 

Todoroki sighed before saying “Fine I will leave it for now, but if that villain causes any damages later down the line I reserve the right to punch you.” he handed over the credit card of one Enji Todoroki and one swipe later they had all their stuff purchased 

Izuku started to collect the stuff into a bag while saying “I accept that deal now let's go get you changed and leave the villain on his day off alone so I can stick to my day off!” And as he said that he dragged Todoroki out of the store

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Endeavor dislikes Halloween

There's multiple reasons but one of the big reasons is that some people like to dress up as villains, murderers, and psychos. which only makes more trouble for the heroes who have to figure out who is an actual threat and who is dressed up as a emo with a big blue head

It's all so pointless and wasteful which is why it pisses him off so much

So imagine his surprise when in the middle of the day he got a notification on his phone saying someone used his credit card to purchase a pale gray jacket, some dark gray shirt and pants, a comically large flashlight, and 20 cans of silly string

He shouted in anger as he realized someone stole his credit card and was using it for senseless stuff

He stood up from his desk and was getting ready to storm out of the building to find who did this when suddenly there was a can of silly string under his foot and as he took a step the can exploded all over his left leg

He tried to take a step back from the mess of silly string that now covered his floor but another can appeared and he stepped on that one as well

Now with both feet covered in silly string Endeavor was literally burning with rage but before he could do anything two more cans of silly string were placed on his shoulders where the sudden heat from his fire caused those cans to explode as well 

By this point he was thoroughly covered in silly string and had a pretty good guess on who was using his card

And so as 6 more cans were stuck to his body and then exploded all he could do was burn hotter and scream his frustrations to the sky

“GHOOOOOOOST!!!!”

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as Izuku waited for Todoroki to finish getting changed into his costume he enjoyed the light show that was taking place at Endeavor's agency which was just about a mile away

But as Todoroki awkwardly shuffled out of the bathroom Izuku put his ten remaining cans back in the bag and then looked his costume over

“Wow. Pretty good, but where's the paper bag?”

He held the bag up in his left hand as he said “It's right here but now that I'm wearing it, it feels very… silly.”

Izuku brought him into a side hug and extended his arm in an arc while saying “that's the point of Halloween my friend! Silliness and kookiness! Now you must proudly wear that paper bag as I do the same with this pumpkin!” Todoroki then pushed Izuku's arm off him and brought the paperbag up to his head

Slowly and a little awkwardly Todoroki put the bag on and once he adjusted the bag so he could see properly he said “there, happy?”

Izuku clapped like a mad man before saying “very much so! But now it's time to party! I looked around online for where most teens will be heading this year and it seems like the most popular ones is this one and this one.” He explained while showing his phone to Todoroki and pointing at two different spots that he marked on the map

After a little bit of thinking Todoroki pointed to the one that was closest and then they were off once again.

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But back with Inko.

after Mitsuki dragged her out of the house she helped her fix up her makeup and then they headed over to the party

After that they had a lot of fun with dancing, drinking, playing games, and so much more

She was in the middle of thinking about what her Izuku must be doing when Mitsuki dragged her out of the booth and said “hey! None of that at my party ma'am! Now if you are bored enough to be thinking about how your kid is doing then maybe try playing the field a little!” She said that last part while wiggling her eyebrows

But it caused Inko to over dramatically choke on her own breath, she then flipped her head to stare at her friend and yelled out “MITSUKI! I haven't dated in over 10 years! In fact the last time I put on this much makeup was about 3 years ago!” She yelled at her friend but Mitsuki just laughed and said “that's exactly my point! Come on Inko I haven't had any single friends in years! Let me help you!”

“Well technically I'm not single since it was never confirmed that Hisashi died.”

Mitsuki rolled her eyes and said “Hisashi was an asshole who's only upside was a decent sense of humor! It doesn't matter if he is dead or not! You are single and I'm gonna help you find a real man!” Mitsuki then stared at Inko’s face a little before saying “or maybe I should help you find a real woman.”

Inko squawked in protest before quickly yelling “that was one time in college! I was experimenting!”

Mitsuki then grabbed Inko's shoulders and started pushing her forward while saying “then I say it's time to experiment again! HEY MASARU! COME HELP ME GET INKO LAID!” she yelled very loudly into the crowd of dancing people 

And over where Masaru was currently talking to a older looking gentleman about the intricacies of older style fashion he could see his wife dragging a deep blushing Inko over to the bar even at her protest

He sighed and said “I enjoyed our conversation Tobita but I should go help my friend before my wife turns her into a blushing puddle.”

Danjuro Tobita laughed before saying “I completely understand! I should actually go check up on the misses myself.” The older gentleman observed the crowd before starting to walk in the direction of where a short looking woman with long red hair was dancing on a table

After that he sighed and got ready to experience whatever crazy plan his wife came up with this time.

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It was officially starting to get dark as Izuku and Todoroki arrived to the party 

There was no cost to get in so they simply walked through the door and once they had gotten a little away from the crowd of teens dancing in the center to the loud music he turned to Todoroki and said “ok, you came here because you knew it would piss your dad off so what is the most outrageous thing you want to do!?”

He thought about it before saying “I didn't really plan what I was gonna do at this party but I suppose we should start with getting something to drink.”

Izuku could agree with that so they started walking that way but got stopped by someone holding on to both of their shoulders

Todoroki smacked it off before turning around and Izuku did the same but much more gentle

The teen in front of them had purple hair and was dressed up as a zombie and either he had really good makeup or this kid doesn't get much sleep with how dark those eye bags were looking 

He raised both hands surrenderingly and said “sorry, I didn't mean to violate any personal bubbles, I just saw that you both just got here so I wanted to tell you that if you don't like the punch do not try to spike it. My dad and some of his friends are acting as chaperones so seriously don't try it.” And with that vague warning said the teen walked off

“Why would he think we would bring alcohol to an underage party?” asked Todoroki while tilting his head since the bag made it impossible to see his face 

But Izuku just shrugged and said “I hear it's a popular thing to do and the ones that do it are usually hiding their identities with a mask, which both of us are currently wearing.” he said while pointing at his mask and then Todoroki’s 

“Ah, I see.” was all he said Before they continued over to where the drinks were,

once they both had a cup they walked back over to where they were originally

Todoroki lifted the mask off and took a sip before looking at Izuku and asking how he was gonna drink without taking his mask off

Izuku simply let Todoroki look at how filled his drink was before pausing time and taking a sip

But for Todoroki he simply watched a small bit of the drink disappear while Izuku said “like this! Sorry Todoroki but you will have to try a little harder than that to get me to remove the mask.”

But Todoroki just nodded and then moved on to another topic.

It would take about another 30 minutes before they would find out what that teen meant with his warning about the chaperones 

They were looking at the punch bowl as a teen with purple balls for hair and was short enough you would think he's a kid approached it with something concealed in his left hand

But just before he could actually pour what was most likely alcohol into the bowl white tendrils descended from the ceiling at rapid speeds and wrapped the kid up, he tried to scream or escape but it was too late as he was quickly dragged into the ceiling where no lights shined and no sounds were made

Both of them sorta just stared at where the kid used to be standing but Todoroki was the first to respond “That was… interesting.”

“Creepy is the word I would use.” Replied Izuku a few seconds later 

Todoroki then nodded and said “yes that word works as well.”

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With the help of Masura, Inko was able to make Mitsuki stop being so loud about her plans to get her laid

But she was still burning with embarrassment so she decided to order some cold water instead of another drink like Mitsuki suggested

And she was left alone for about 3 minutes before someone sat next to her and asked if she was having a rough night

Inko lifted her head and said “no I'm good dear, just my friends trying to embarrass me.” She then turned to look at the woman who asked her the question and was met with a sea green haired woman who was probably a few inches taller than her

Her outfit was a mismatched colored suit and she had a red ball over her nose, she released a big smile as she said “nah I get that! I do that all the time to my friends!” She laughed very loudly at some memory that probably popped into her head

Inko jokingly groaned and said “oh no, not another jokester.”

The woman chuckled and then said “please, jokester is just my title. Call me Emi Fukukado!” she then raised her hand which Inko shook before saying “well my name is Inko Midoriya, and I wouldn't mind some jokes while I try to ignore what my friend said.”

Fukukado smiled and rubbed her hands together before saying “well you have found the perfect woman for the job! Ok so one time I invited my friend to a party but jokingly phrased it like a date and he said “if you are going to be there then I think I'll just stay home.” Inko chuckled before taking a sip of her water she then said “that's terrible!” 

But Fukukado interrupted and said “no no, it's fine, that's just how he jokes! The real reason he couldn't go was because he had already agreed to chaperone a party that his nephew was going to.” She then brought her hand up to her chin before snapping her fingers and saying “I got it! So this next joke needs a little set up but basically…

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Throughout the night Izuku and Todoroki would enjoy some conversations with other party goers, watch 2 more people get dragged into the ceiling when they tried to spike the punch, and near the end Izuku even got Todoroki to play a few games with everyone else

He did not manage to get Todoroki on the dance floor but Izuku still called it progress

And so once Izuku ‘teleported' Todoroki home to make sure he had plausible deniability against his father he started his own walk home

And as he checked his phone he saw that his mom had gotten home from her own party a few hours ago 

This Halloween felt like a true restart for himself is what Izuku thought as he walked home

No longer was he the weak and useless Deku

He had a friend that didn't dislike him for simply existing, his mom was being more supportive of his dreams then she had been in a long time, and he was saving people almost every night!

He felt very happy about how his life was going and he couldn't wait to see what tomorrow would bring

And so with that he walked into his house, changed out of his costume, pulled on the jacket he usually uses for vigilantism since it was starting to get colder and got ready for bed 

He called out to his mom but she must have been asleep or something since she didn't answer

And so once he was done brushing his teeth he walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water before bed. 

but stopped when he saw a note laying on the counter

He took a sip of his water and then read the note

[To Ghost, 

I hope you had a good Halloween Midoriya because you see after you interfered with my plans one too many times I finally figured you out,

The uncatchable Ghost that chases heroes for fun is just a 14 year old with far to much time on his hands,

So much time one might even say it's damn near infinite.

But you know who doesn't have nearly as much time? 

Inko Midoriya.

In fact I would say that she has about 5 hours before I kill her.

So let's make a deal Ghost

Come to this location which belongs to the Shie Hassaikai, give up your vigilantism, and I will let your mother return unharmed.

better yet, if you don't fight b ack I'll even let you meet your sister that your cheating bastard of a father left behind before he was erased from existence.

-Overhaul.]

The glass Izuku was holding shattered, he couldn't tell if he dropped it or crushed it because all he could hear was the blood flowing under his skin

The only thing he knew about Overhaul was that he dealt with drugs and the Yakuza, but it seems Overhaul had figured out a lot more about him seeing as how he kidnapped his mother!

Izuku was simultaneously filled with rage, fear, guilt, and much more but as he threw on his cloak he knew one thing for certain

This Overhaul guy was going to regret ever messing with his family! especially now that he knew he had to save two people.

They already knew who he was, so with nothing covering his face he teleported right to the door of the Shie Hassaikai compound and not so politely knocked on the door.

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Today the above ground floor of the Shie Hassaikai was filled to the brim with members, all in preparation for acquiring a new test subject to help Overhaul in his mission to rid this world of the disease called quirks,

Most of the members were playing around because they didn't think they needed to act that serious while trying to stop one 14 year old vigilante

Yeah every member had seen a picture of the guy unmasked and how could they act serious when their about to fight such a sweet looking kid

Overhaul said that his quirk was called pause and that it was very dangerous but they weren't worried, no matter how dangerous there's no way he can get through the hundreds and hundreds of yakuza members right?

Suddenly there was someone pounding at the door which was weird since there was notification from the men at the front gate 

a man with a strength enhancer walked over and grabbed the doorknob but before he could actually open it, at that exact moment the huge front door shattered and exploded, it sent the man and splinters from the door flying everywhere but most of the men were barely affected as they raised their guns or their quirks and got ready to attack

Once the dust had cleared Ghost with no mask or goggles slowly walked into the room with a murderous look in his eyes

The Yakuza members were having a hard time connecting this boy who just sent a grown man flying to the innocent and sweet little boy they saw in a picture, even as he yelled into the room demanding to know where his mother is.

“WHERE IS MY MOTHER!!?”

Everyone could sense the rage that soaked every word of his question but eventually someone built up the courage to talk back to the vigilante and yelled “she is with the boss on the bottom floor! So if you want her unharmed you better come along pea- GHUK!” no one even realized Ghost had moved until they saw that the one who shouted out was now being held in the air by his neck. Ghost then laughed and said “the only way I'm coming along peacefully is when I'm being escorted out of this compound by the police!” He slammed the man into the ground leaving a miniature crater and slowly stood up while staring them all down “and the only reason they will be escorting me out is for the mass murder of every single member of the Shie Hassaikai!” his eyes seemed to glow with power as he said this

But the men had had enough by this point and proceeded to open fire on the vigilante. bullets, fire, throwing knives, and so much more filled the air for multiple seconds but when it came to a pause Ghost was still just standing there completely unharmed.

Ghost then smiled and even chuckled as he said “Overhaul gave me a time limit of five hours, and I plan to spend all of it making you regret ever even thinking of messing with my family!” He yelled to the crowd, and then he spun around to face the other half of the room while saying “But since I've decided not to just immediately rip through all of you and this entire building in one second, I only have one thing to say to you all!” he said over cheerfully before turning to face a camera which most likely Overhaul was watching him through,

He then let his smile fall back to the grimace that had settled there ever since he read that note and as his eyes once again seemed to glow from the pure power of his rage he said two words which would instill fear into anyone brave enough to watch the recordings later

“my turn!” 

he then lunged with enough power to crack the ground and used that speed to slam two men into the ground simultaneously, before teleporting to avoid the gun fire which started to once again kick up after his impromptu speech 

But this time he didn't even wait for the gun fire to die down as he used the chaos to take out 3 more men

“He's just one guy! Fucking get him already!” shouted a man who could make himself invisible for as long he could hold his breath, but before he could activate his quirk again he had all the air forced out of his lungs as he felt Ghost slam their fist into his gut and utter one word “IMPACT” it then felt as if that punch to his gut got multiplied by 10 and was spread across his entire chest, 

That powerful hit sent him flying into the wall where he quickly lost consciousness.

the men were undeterred by their dropping numbers as they tried to focus their fire on Ghost, but it was too late as he once again teleported away 

He used that Impact move to slam two more men into the wall before teleporting to a location where he could see everyone

He then raised both hands and yelled two words “IMPACT BARRAGE!” His hands seemed to blur out of existence for a few seconds before solidifying once again

The men were confused and were about to open fire again when suddenly as if a bomb made purely of air went off over a dozen men were sent flying, some hit the wall and stopped but those closer to Ghost were launched through the wall and ended up laying in the lawn. They realized far too late exactly who they messed with and could now do nothing but feel remorse for those that would dare fight him next as they slowly lost consciousness.

Once the only sound to be heard in the room was the labored breathing of all the unconscious men Ghost scoured the ground floor before stopping to stare at the right wall in the first room

He put his left hand on the wall before cocking his other hand into a fist

And then with all his might he slammed that fist into the wall and just as it made contact he once again yelled “IMPACT!” the wall cracked open like lightning before crumbling to the floor to reveal a hidden staircase.

He teleported to the bottom and then teleported throughout the floor looking for the next staircase 

The place was like a labyrinth out of hell, but Ghost didn't care, he would still make sure to tear through every single floor no matter how long it took him.

Along the way he would continue to take out any Yakuza men he came across.

But when he found the room that held the staircase to the next floor it was being guarded by a man that was easily 11 feet tall and was also wearing a bird mask 

He was currently distracted with sucking the energy out of the Yakuza member in his massive hands but once he was done with that he threw the unconscious man into a pile that held at least 30 other men in similar conditions

The giant man then swung his fists around at speeds incomprehensible to normal humans before turning to face Ghost 

The giant man bellowed out a laugh while saying “I just drained the energy of 50 of my men!” He swung his fists around even faster and said “I feel strong enough to fight All Might! So come at me, little ghost! Let's see what ya got!”

With that he slammed his fists into the ground before using them to launch his entire body at Ghost at superhuman speeds

But Ghost didn't even stop his walk towards the stairs as he raised a hand towards the energy sucking quirk user and yelled “BREAK!” 

Rikiya Katsukame’s rampage ended a second later with the 4 horrifying in sync sounds of crushed arm and leg bones 

He fell to the ground in what should have been agony but it seems that his energy absorption didn't just improve his strength as he laughed and slowly stood up “I like your style! No holding back! But it's gonna take more than just breaking my legs to stop me moving!” and so once again he started swinging and barreling towards Ghost

It made Ghost have to dodge out of the way for a little bit but the second the man took a break from throwing his haymakers he teleported above the man and slammed his fist into the man's head as he fell

And that seemed to be the final straw as he fell and did not get back up again.

And so with the second floor cleared out and one of the 8 bullets of death down Ghost made his way to the 3rd floor

But unlike the first and second floor the third floor was completely vacant except for one man 

That man’s name is Joi Irinaka but he was also known as Mimic, the general manager of the Shie Hassaikai.

And he just got done injecting himself with enough trigger to control this entire floor.

Once he was completely fused into the building, the walls and floors started to slam and close around Ghost, but all this did was slow him down.

Even as the floor moved under him like a liquid Ghost ran and teleported down the hallway, not even caring as the staircase backup was blocked off by a moving wall

And so Ghost continued just like and if he got stuck he would simply Impact through whatever wall was closest, even if said wall was lunging straight at him.

And even though Mimic tried his best Ghost was ever so slowly approaching the stairs to the 4th floor so with one last ditch effort Mimic turned the entire 3rd floor into one massive room and then used all the extra supplies that gave him to make each wall about 30 feet thick (which is almost as long as your average school bus!)

Ghost tried to break through those walls and while they did crack open just like all the other walls he's destroyed, before he could do anything else they would heal themselves or Mimic would just use the opportunity to attack

And so he teleported to the center of the room and started observing the walls hoping to catch even a glimpse of the man doing all this

But he didn't have to wait long as in his arrogance Mimic yelled from inside one of the walls “Hah! You might as well give up cause there's no way you are escaping now!” Ghost then turned to where the yelling was coming from and after teleporting out of the way of another shifting wall a huge impact was felt just a few feet away from where Mimic was, but mimic quickly moved away and fixed the wall up before launching three hand like walls at Ghost

He dodged and teleported out of the way of the first two but the third one was just able to snag his cloak and launch him into the wall, Mimic laughed at his misfortune until Ghost stood up and tore his cloak in half from where it was snagged and then once again approached the center of the room 

A few seconds later another impact was felt just a few feet away from where Mimic was, after that he once again sent a barrage of attacks but with his now shortened cloak he was able to effortlessly evade every single attack,

This went on for about a minute.

Ghost world attack a small distance away from where he actually was, mimic would fix the wall before sending a bunch of attacks at the vigilante and then repeat

But Ghost wasn't just hitting randomly, he was figuring out Mimics patterns before he called upon another super move, he crouched close to the floor and then yelled “MIRAGE TEMPO” 

first he teleported a few feet away but he barely stayed there a second before he teleported a few feet away again 

He did this over and over again, decreasing how long he stayed still in one spot everytime

Eventually he was teleporting so fast and often that Mimic couldn't figure out where he actually was, all he could see were the mirages of his after image

He tried to attack but the second he stopped paying close attention a powerful fist would launch into the wall a few feet from where he was

But the worst part is that they were becoming more and more accurate, at first it was a few feet away, then it was less than a foot, and now Ghost is teleporting 3 times a second while only being a few inches away from hitting him in the chest every time!

Eventually Mimic got desperate and tried to completely destroy the room with ghost inside by filling it, but as there became less and less room Ghost sped up his tempo more and more until he was teleporting 5 times a second.

By this point Mimic was pissed off and halfway exited the wall to scream “quit fucking moving!!!” while simultaneously launching ten walls at Ghost.

But that was Mimic’s worst mistake because in the next second ghost had dodged all ten and was now right above him with his fist cocked and a sinister smile on his face 

Mimic scrambled to get back in the wall but it was too late. Ghost was right on top of him and only had one thing to say “OBLITERATE!!!”

And as his fist slammed into Mimic's uncovered face you would have thought that Thor the god of thunder himself had arrived as the wall behind Mimic exploded with an ear piercing crack and boom.

Mimic's barely conscious body then went tumbling through the hole until he landed on his back in the next room over

Ghost slowly made his way through the 30 foot long man sized hole until he was in the same room as Mimic once again.

Mimic tried to sit up or get his body to possess the floor but all that did was make him aware of the severe damage and multiple broken bones that now covered his entire body

Even just talking took massive amounts of effort but as Ghost stepped over his battered body as if he was nothing but trash in his way he yelled out “g-get! Ba-back! her-e!” But obviously Ghost did not stop nor even take a second glance at the man before teleporting away to continue his hunt for Overhaul 

Shortly thereafter Joi Irinaka lost consciousness which also marked the end of the general manager of the Shie Hassaikai: Mimic.

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down on the 8th floor in a lab Kai Chisaki also known as Overhaul, barely reacted to the sounds of destruction that plagued the upper floors, he simply sighed and said “I wanted to do this peacefully so I wouldn't have to worry about any messes but it seems Midoriya has other plans.” He then stood up from his chair and tugged off his left glove

He placed his hand on the small horn that stuck out of the amalgamation on his table

Within a second of his quirk activating the only noise to be heard was the large intake of breath that always follows the reanimation process

After that the room was filled with the almost silent crying of a child “Chronostasis. take Eri to her room and then bring Ms. Midoriya please. If I'll be forced to get my hands dirty then I want to make sure that the rash I'll get later will be worth it.”

Chronostasis said a quick “yes Overhaul.” before moving from where he was learning on the wall to grab Eri’s gown and some bandages 

Once he had said gown and bandages back over the crying little girl he picked her up and left the room

After that he pointed over to where Shin Nemoto and Deisui were standing and said “Deisui go join Rappa and Tengai on the 6th floor, your quirk is giving me a headache. Shin you go grab the temporary quirk erasing bullets, I will need those as well in case somehow the Shie Hassaikai is so incompetent that they can't stop one kid from reaching the 8th floor.” 

“I'm on-*hic* it bosss!”

“I understand Overhaul.”

After that the room was empty but Overhaul didn't feel concerned, no all he felt was joy at seeing a plan come together as he slipped his glove back on 

Once he had Eri’s only living relative he just knew he would finally unlock the secrets of how to erase this disgusting disease from society permanently!

And that would make any amount of damage to his base completely inconsequential. 

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Ghost slammed his fist into Yu Hojo’s crystal covered chest and watched as the Impact caused the crystals to be covered in a bunch of spider web fractures which then shattered into a million pieces

But before Ghost could take out the crystal man permanently a man with a burlap sack over his head lunged at him and tried to bite his head off

But with a quick dodge downwards followed by a uppercut to the man’s massive jaw he was sent flying upwards before tumbling to the ground a few feet away 

A man in a black colored plague mask equipped with a katana tried to use that moment where Ghost was distracted to cut him down, but in a instant Ghost teleported to be above him on his left side and then sent a roundhouse kick right into his jaw

Toya Setsuno definitely felt something in his jaw crack but he wasn't even given a second to adjust before Ghost teleported to his right this time and held his hands together to slam him into the ground 

The two other men tried to do a combined attack but Ghost simply broke the cascade of crystals that were coming his way and then grabbed a long piece that broke off to use it as a bat against the burlap sack man who was trying to bite his head off again.

He was sent flying from the swing before Ghost then aimed the crystal like a spear and launched it straight at the crystal man

And even though he had fixed his crystal armor and was blocking, that crystal must have been thrown hard enough to win in a race against a sniper rifle bullet as it effortlessly pierced his armor and sent him flying into the wall hard enough to leave a imprint

And with Soramitsu Tabe now being the only one not defeated he threw the burlap sack off before laughing maniacally and launching himself at Ghost much faster than he had ever moved before 

But it wasn't enough as Ghost effortlessly caught him by the neck, threw him into the air, and then as he fell Ghost raised both of his hands to Soramitsu’s chest and yelled “ROKUOGAN!” launching a devastating shock wave straight through his body for multiple seconds until he fell to the floor unconscious 

After that Ghost lowered his arms and then teleported out of the room.

It would barely take him 10 more seconds to clear out the rest of the 4th floor while he tried to find the 5th staircase

And once he did find it he took out the few guards that were trying to guard it and then made his way down 

But as if the 5th floor was the opposite of the 3rd floor, this place was packed full of yakuza members, they all started to approach the staircase he just teleported down, most likely trying to overwhelm him with numbers.

But Ghost didn't even falter in his mannerisms as he walked towards the approaching mob with a smile and a pair of glowing green eyes, but just as they got a couple of feet away Ghost lost his smile and uttered one word that seemed to cause the very air itself to quake in fear.

it only held one command but Ghost made sure they all followed it.

“FALL”

and as if they were all synced together every single man in the room clutched their head and started to scream out in agony

A few seconds later and the screaming would die down as they all lost the will to stand anymore.

And with that room cleared Ghost teleported away

When he reappeared he was in a completely different room and was in the middle of slamming another Yakuza member into the wall

Everyone screamed out in fear as they opened fire on Ghost but just like always it wasn't enough, he proceeded to take out 5 more men by launching them into walls before teleporting to the middle of the room and calmly saying “Implode” but unlike the bomb that was barrage Impact they instead all got pulled and launched straight at Ghost who at the last second teleported out of the room causing them all to go flying into each other before once again going flying only in the opposite direction thanks to the mass collision.

Most of them were too injured to continue fighting and those that could, were quickly knocked out as well, allowing Ghost to enter the 6th floor Knowing that 3 more of the 8 bullets of death would never commit another crime.

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When Inko woke up she wasn't in the comfort of her own bed

At first she was scared that she let her love for people with a good sense of humor overcome her again but as she looked around the shabby and dark room the memories of what happened when she got home came back to her

She gasped out in horror as she tried the door which did not budge “I was kidnapped! They used something to knock me out and then dragged me here! But why?” She thought as she sat back down on the very cheap bed

“I'm just a nurse! I don't think I know any heroes or villains…” she thought about it a little longer before saying “Well actually I did suspect Hisashi was a villain for a little bit, but I gave up after I couldn't discover anything proving it… although I didn't discover anything to disprove it either.” she was on the verge of going into her own mumble storm but thankfully stopped herself and got back on track

She suddenly gasped and ran back up to the door and tried to open it once again “what about Izuku!? They better not have done anything to my little boy or I swear I'll-” she was interrupted as the door suddenly swung open and in walked a man in a all white hooded cloak and a full face covering plague doctor mask

“Or you will do what?” He asked as he continued into the room, Inko stayed quiet and once the man was only a few feet away she tried to swing a punch into his face

Only for something to stab her in the thigh and make her entire body lock up, when she managed to look she found that it was a bunch of hair in the shape of a arrow

The hair obviously came from the man as he chuckled and said “hmm, just like your son, striking at the first opportunity.”

That sentence filled her with horror but the man obviously didn't care as he started to drag her locked up body out of the room

It was difficult to talk while this man’s quirk was making her freeze up but she eventually managed “w-where are you tak-ing me?”

And even though she would find out soon enough Chronostasis decided to answer just to fill the silence if anything else “you are a very lucky woman Inko Midoriya, the new boss of the Shie Hassaikai wants to see you, he thinks you can help with our Ghost problem.”

“Gh-ost? Isn't that some vig-ilante? How am I sup-posed to help with that?” Asked Inko as she was dragged down a hallway, Chronostasis then chuckled and said “well were hoping you could talk some sense into him, tell him to give up this vigilante stuff, now obviously he isn't gonna listen to us but something tells me that if his mother asked him…” he let the revelation sink in as he turned the final hallway which would lead them straight to the labs

“B-but I only have one son! And Izuku would never do that!” She managed to yell out as the man dragged her through a door that seemed to belong to a lab

She then heard a new voice which sighed before saying “these are the problem with parents nowadays, never being hard enough on their kids and allowing them too much privacy. But don't worry I'll fix your mistakes” she never got to see who was speaking as suddenly there was a hand on her face 

The next thing she felt was true agony that seemed to burn and explode through her entire body, 

and then nothing as she blacked out.

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Ghost sent a flying high kick into the head of a man with a box turtle mutation and caused his head to get slammed into his shell which immediately closed up 

Ghost then teleported behind the turtle man and kicked the shell with enough force to cause him to go spinning down the hall where he slammed into 3 men who were distracted with trying to shoot at the vigilante 

With that Ghost teleported the rest of the way down the hall and entered the next room

But he immediately teleported out of the way to avoid a fist which completely obliterated the door he was just standing in front of

The fist was connected to a man known as Kendo Rappa and who’s quirk: strongarm allows him to not just punch with the force of a freight train but also move his arms fast enough to punch almost 50 times in just 5 seconds “hah! You dodged that!” He yelled out while obviously smirking under his full face covering mask

Ghost scoffed and got ready to take him out but instead a massive orange barrier incased the man and as it shrunk it dragged him to the center of the room where two other men were standing 

The one wearing a traditional dark-colored yukata and a brown plague mask strapped to his face sighed and said “we are supposed to incapacitate him, not kill him.”

Rappa tried to push back against the barrier but eventually gave up and said “oh calm down you stick in the mud! Overhaul can just bring him back!”

“Do not call the boss his chosen name without permission! And you and I both know he can't bring anything back to life if it's been dead for longer than 15 minutes.”

But Rappa just laughed and said “ok fine! Then I better make this quick!” He then tried to punch his way out of the barrier but Tengai once again stopped him “Rappa have you not been paying attention? This vigilante preys on people who are out in the open, no matter the distance.” As if to accent this point Ghost broke the barrier with a single Impact which Tengai quickly fixed before Ghost could do anything else 

“Let's allow are new companion to help loosen that one's temper” he said while pointing to the final man in the room who was currently nursing a a massive beer bottle, the man laughed before sitting down and finishing the bottle “you *hic* got it my *hic* man!” he set the bottle down and then focused on Ghost who just got done breaking the barrier again

Tengai’s head was hurting a little as he once again fixed it to stop Ghost from laying them all out

Ghost was getting ready to use a move he knew would allow him to break the barrier and attack the men inside at the same time but suddenly he found himself barely being able to stand much less pull off a move like Za Wardo

“Hahaha! What's the matter *hic* brat!? Don't tell me it's your first time being *hic* Sloshed!!” the man completely laid down and started hysterically laughing 

Ghost teleported a few times and that somehow seemed to lessen the effects of the man’s quirk as he was back to confidently standing in front of them 

He immediately sat up and yelled in protest “hey! The hell did you *hic* Just do!? You should have been absolutely wasted for fucking hours!!”

Ghost teleported to be right in front of the barrier and said “oh don't worry, I was” his eyes once again started to glow right before he yelled “DOUBLE IMPACT!” he then slammed his fist into the orange barrier of Hekiji Tengai for the last time 

It shattered just like every other time he used Impact but before Tengai could repair it a second impact was slammed directly into all three of their chest

Tengai and Deisui were sent flying and eventually slammed into the wall next to the stairs but Rappa barely skidded a few feet and simply laughed it off “oh finally! It's my turn again!” He slammed his fist together a few times before throwing his fist around about as fast as what Rikiya had achieved after draining the energy of 50 men but it makes sense if you think about the fact that his energy absorption mostly improves his strength/durability and not his speed

Ghost was forced to dodge the first few before teleporting behind him and hitting him in the back with a roundhouse kick which caused him to go flying into and then through the wall

But Rappa shrugged it off and made another hole in the wall to make his way back into the original room

He smirked before trying to attack Ghost once again, but it seems like Deisui’s quirk had completely worn off as Ghost shook his head before placing his hand on the ground and saying “SEISMIC CLEAVE!”

Before Rappa could move the ground around him exploded and created a fine line of destruction around him

He laughed and asked “was that supposed to do something?” when suddenly Ghost teleported above him and brought his leg down on his shoulder while yelling “SEISMIC IMPACT!” and as all that force hit him at once the ground gave out below them and caused him to go cascading down to the floor below the 6th one

But Ghost decided that him falling a good 10 feet thanks to a powerful kick wasn't enough as somehow before he hit the ground Ghost stole the piece of floor he was standing on and proceeded to launch it right at him when he found the strength to stand up

But after a minute where Rappa just laid under the rubble Ghost decided that he was down for the count and made his way further into the 7th floor knowing that there was only one 8 bullet left and then it was just the right hand man and Overhaul himself.

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The 7th and 8th floor were very similar and both could be described in one word: decimated 

And so Izuku, not Ghost, now stood in front of the lab door that belonged to Overhaul

he slammed the door open and while he did find a young man in a green coat and a purple neck of feathers who was currently looking over a gross amalgamation of meat and bones he didn't see his mom so he repeated the question he asked all the way back on the first floor “where is my mother!?”

The man moved away from the table and smiled behind his mask “I'm disappointed Midoriya. You came here to find two people and yet you don't celebrate when you find them both in the same room.” Izuku quickly realized that this man was Overhaul but was confused by that other bit

That was until he looked closer at what was on the table and saw bits of green hair and two green eyes sticking out

He felt sick to his stomach as he realized what happened to his mother and Overhaul reveled in it “don't worry, unlike you I haven't broken the conditions of our meeting yet.” He said before placing a hand on the amalgamati his mom! And with a sickening snap and a massive intake of air his mother was back but she almost immediately started to cry out in agony until Overhaul grabbed her by the back of the neck to shut her up

Once she was able to calm her tears from the pain, she looked at Izuku and gasped before quietly saying “r-run! Iz-uku! *cough* *cough* now!”

And even though he was still reeling at watching his mom die and then come back he got in a stance and got ready to pause time 

But Overhaul raised a hand and said “don't even think about using your disgusting quirk! your mother will die if you do.”

Izuku gritted his teeth before saying “if you know how my quirk actually works then you know I could stop you before you could even blink”

Overhaul smirked and said “yes you could, but you see that's why I waited for you to arrive before reviving your mother.” he then threw Inko off the table where Izuku immediately caught her

“What are you doing?” Izuku asked while checking his mom over even while she tried to do the same 

“Letting you feel her heart of course.” Overhaul encouraged

And so cautiously Izuku did so and listened

*Beat*

*Beat*

*Beat*

*Beat*

*Beat*

*Beat*

“It's out of sync! What did you do!?” Izuku yelled out in anger 

Overhaul chuckled before saying “maybe try asking the certified nurse.”

Izuku turned to his mother who groaned out in pain before saying “in most cases it's harmless… but-”

Overhaul interrupted by saying “but depending on what caused it could very quickly lead to your heart beating too slow or too fast until it just stops. It's actually quite a peaceful way to go, something the mother of a vigilante probably doesn't deserve but I decided to be nice.”

His mom nodded to that explanation before once again trying to encourage him to leave, But Izuku didn't, instead he stood up and asked if Overhaul could reverse it “I could definitely arrange something like that but you are gonna have to stop all this pointless hero and vigilante stuff!”

Izuku slowly nodded even at his mother's protest/questions about what he meant by vigilante.

Overhaul then smirked before adding on “oh also you will be ‘donating’ your DNA to help me finish my plans or else we can just watch her die together.”

Izuku gritted his teeth in anger but once again accepted to make sure his mom would be ok

Overhaul smiled wide behind his mask knowing that he had completely crushed the uncatchable Ghost’s spirits and now he would be able to do anything he wanted

Including signaling Nemoto to put the final nail in this vigilante’s coffin

And so the man with the confession quirk slowly approached behind the broken boy and raised his gun which was loaded with the quirk suppressors once he was only a few feet away.

Except there was two things Overhaul didn't account for 

1: just because Midoriya relies on his time pausing quirk to dodge does not mean he has horrible reflexes without them

And 2: even though Inko’s heart was slowly giving out she still had enough cognitive function to be aware of her surroundings, and enough energy to attempt to save her son’s life

Inko shouted out a warning from where she was collapsed on the floor just before Nemoto fired the gun, 

which in turn allowed Izuku to just move enough out of the way that the bullet flew harmlessly passed his arm

Where it then sank straight into Overhaul’s gut.

Along with all his confidence and fearlessness as well.

It was so quiet you could hear a pin down as Izuku stared at Overhaul and his mother in horror while Overhaul did the same but with Nemoto and Izuku 

Overhaul then growled out in anger and yelled “you absolute idiot! Shoot him all ready!”

Nemoto broke out of his stupor and raised his gun again only for the gun and his hand to be broken by a wordless impact which was then followed up with another one straight to his head causing him to be slammed into the wall

Izuku then slowly looked down at his mother and on the verge of tears said “hey mom? How long do you think you have before your heart gives out?”

Inko hated the question but eventually answered “if I'm reading the symptoms right probably only a few minutes. I'm so sorry Izuku.” she said with her own tears

Izuku then turned back to Overhaul and asked “and how long do those quirk suppressors last?” With a dark glint in his eye

And for the first time since he started this mission Overha- no, Kai Chisaki felt true fear as he looked at Ghost 

So when Ghost repeated his question and took a step closer Kai quickly said how the beta versions only last 30 minutes and how he wanted to get it above an hour before releasing it into the city 

Izuku stopped his approach and finally let the tears cascade down his face “ah, I see. So you have nothing to hold against me now.”

Kai quickly started to back away while saying that it wasn't true or that he could still save his mother if he just submitted to him but it was too late

Izuku, Ghost, Midori, or whatever else you want to call him raised his hand towards Kai Chisaki and then let all his feelings out in the form of words 

“Impact barrage + implode + break + obliterate² = Omnidirectional destruction.” As he started the chant Kai tried to use his quirk hoping that maybe he had gotten the formula wrong but nope, he was completely quirkless as he stared into the eyes of a boy who just had his last bit of hope to save his mother literally shot down

He made a last ditch effort of trying to just attack him quirkless but he didn't even get to take a step towards him before it happened 

First he was launched into the wall by a torrent of punches to his chest, then he was pulled back to where he was originally standing by some punches to his back, after that there was 4 sticking cracks that came from his limbs but he barely fell a few inches before everything that just happened was slammed into him again causing him to be launched so hard into the ground that even if every bone in his body didn't feel broken he was sure he would not be able to stand 

With the last of Izuku's anger now gone he sat next to his mother and pulled her into a hug while crying profusely “I'm so sorry mom! This is all my fault!”

And even though Inko was feeling a little sluggish she sat up and hugged her son back “Izuku, none of this is your fault! It was that maniac!” She then pulled back so she could look into his eyes and said “and I say that knowing that you decided to go vigilante.” She tried to make it sound like a joke but her attempt at a chuckle just caused searing pain to sting through her chest

Izuku pulled her back into a hug before saying “well I should probably explain that.”

“Hah, you better little boy!”

He pulled back from the hug once again and said “I can't teleport, I can pause time. I just didn't tell you cause I wanted to make sure you were supporting me and not just a quirk which basically makes me untouchable. But after about a month I sorta forgot you didn't know.” he said while awkwardly rubbing the back of his head

“I'll accept that for now but please get to what made you think fighting criminals without any training was a good idea?” Replied Inko with another hiss of pain

“Well mostly I just wanted to test the full potential of time pausing but also technically this was only my second real fight, seeing as how usually I just capture the criminals in paused time so I haven't really been fighting anyone, well except for Muscular and these guys obviously.”

Inko rolled her eyes and said “semantics Izuku. But I'm glad you were being as safe as possible.” She let out a deep breath and her eyes fluttered shut for a few seconds until Izuku shook her back awake, “sorry, turns out an out of sync heart makes you very tired.”

Izuku squawked in protest “mom! Don't make jokes like that!”

Inko just chuckled and said “ah, yep sorry I've always been bad at jokes, one of the few things I'm glad you didn't get from me.”

Izuku's eyes then slammed open as he gasped “oh right! Speaking of dad, did you know his real quirk was vibration absorption and redirection? Apparently that's how we got time pausing and…” Izuku sorta gave up on the sentence last second as he got lost in his own thoughts

Inko was a little worried so eventually she said “I did not know he was hiding his real quirk but what's got you lost in your thoughts?”

Izuku then stood up and said “I just forgot that dad cheated on you and had another kid.”

Inko then shot up from where she was laying and yelled “WHAT!?” but it was stopped half way as Izuku paused time and quickly ran out of the room 

He started searching the parts of the 8th floor he didn't go through until eventually he stopped at a door with a foggy window

It was locked but Izuku didn't care as he proceeded to slam his fist into the doorknob 10 times and uttered a quick “Impact” as he unpaused time

The doorknob was completely destroyed which allowed Izuku to open the door and then pause time again since he had no time to waste with his mom

After that he opened the door completely and walked into the room that obviously belonged to a little girl

He started searching around for his half sister until eventually he found a little girl hiding under the bed

He didn't want to spook her so Instead of dragging her out he stretched himself under the bed until he could tap her arm and unfreeze her

after unpausing her he could have sworn he saw golden sparks of energy flow between them but he couldn't really focus on it as once she was unpaused she flinched away from him and crawled further under the bed

“Oh! I'm sorry! I just needed to tap your arm to activate my quirk, are you ok?” Izuku asked in a much calmer voice then how he really felt

But it had the intended effect as slowly but surely the little girl with white hair turned to face him, where he then gasped and said “you have dad’s eyes.” 

Those red eyes blew open full force at that before she slowly and quietly said “n-no I don't, Ov-erhaul has gold eyes. and wh-who are you?”

Izuku calmly sat crisscrossed on the ground and said “well it's a good thing I wasn't talking about him. And My name is Izuku Midoriya, what's yours?”

She crawled a little closer and said “Er-Eri my name is Eri.” She seemed to stare at him before slowly asking “why are you here?”

Izuku hummed and said “well that's a beautiful name Eri, but as to why I'm here, it's kinda a mix between a personal vendetta and the fact that I'm a vigilante”

Eri didn't really know what a vendetta was so she decided to focus on the words she did know “vig-ilante is like ano-ther word for hero right?” She asked while crawling out a little further which allowed Izuku to see how her arms and legs were completely wrapped up in bandages

But he kept his anger off his face as he said “you're like 80% right, my hero name is Ghost, but I would prefer if you just called me Izuku seeing as how you and I have the same dad, which makes us siblings.” he meant it to be a happy thing but for whatever reason that seemed to make her pull more back into her shell

But then he remembered how the ransom note ended and connected the dots about how Overhaul planned to remove quirks from people

So he happily smiled and said “it's ok, our dad wasn't the nicest guy so I honestly preferred it when he left, so seriously Eri I'm not mad, quirk accidents happen all the time and I'm guessing that was the first time yours activated?”

Eri nodded and whispered “my curse made Daddy disappear.”

“Eri your quirk isn't a curse, and I bet if you told me how it works I could come up with at least 100 ways that it could be used to save people!” She seemed skeptical but she finally exited from under the bed and after sitting in front of Izuku she said “um, O-overhaul c-called my curse r-rewind. And it makes things grow… but back-wards.” She refused to look at Izuku and seemed more focused on looking at her hands so Izuku placed his hand on top of hers and said “well I think your quirk is incredible, if you decided to be a doctor you could probably heal people even better then Recovery Girl can!”

She still refused to look up but she didn't push his hand away so he called it progress, “wh-whos Re-covery Girl?” She eventually asked while holding Izuku's hand with both of her's

Izuku chuckled before saying “Well Recovery Girl is a hero with a quirk which allows people to heal super quickly! But then it makes you tired because it sucks out your energy to do so. But guess what, Eri?”

“What?”

“Recovery Girl can't heal everything she can only speed up the healing by like a lot, but do you wanna know who could probably fix a missing arm or make someone completely recover without making them super sleepy?”

“W-who?”

Izuku then dragged Eri into his lap and said “why the amazing Dr. Eri of course! If you can rewind living things then you could save so many people! no matter if they had a foot cut off, lost a tooth, or hell even fix someone's heart and brain if any damage occurred to it, which is much stronger then Recovery Girl, and she probably has one of the strongest healing quirks on the planet!” Izuku said with a bright smile that was supposed to be encouraging but after finally looking up at the boy who was apparently her brother she noticed something else on his face

Izuku was confused when Eri cupped his cheeks but then she asked “why are you crying?” And so after removing Eri’s hands he checked himself and yep he was crying “oh, I didn't even notice. But don't worry Eri this isn't your fault it's just that Overhaul hurt my mom really badly.”

Eri gasped before asking if Overhaul put him in this room but Izuku wiped his face before saying “you don't have to worry about him anymore, I took him out before he could hurt anyone else! Just like a hero would.”

She had stars in her eyes as she asked how so Izuku smiled once again and said “well just like how your quirk can mess with time so can mine! But I can freeze it instead of rewinding it.” He said while booping her nose

And then to prove it he grabbed a doll which was laying on her bed and threw it into the air

Eri gasped out in amazement as the doll stopped falling midair but Izuku just chuckled and said “but that's not all, when I freeze time I can punch something a bunch of times and when I unpause all my punches will get fused together into one big mega punch!” Eri nodded along and then asked “is that how you beated Overhaul?”

Izuku hummed while adjusting how he was sitting “yep! He messed with my mom so I just wham! blam! and slammed him a bunch! and then unpaused.”

Izuku then thought about it a little before turning to Eri who was currently poking the floating doll and asked “hey Eri? Do you wanna meet my mom?”

Eri turned away from the doll and cautiously nodded her head “do you want me to bring her here or you to her?”

She thought about it before saying “you said she was injur-ed, you should-n't move peop-le who are hurt.”

Izuku nodded before saying “see, look at that! You already are a phenomenal doctor!” and so he stood up with Eri on his hip and left the room 

He continued to talk to her while walking through the halls and quickly averted her attention while walking past the unconscious man with a broken arm but finally they had arrived

Internally Izuku was freaking out while realizing just how far he went on Overhaul and his men in his rage filled state ‘i can not be acting like this! I got to be a role model for my sister now!’ but luckily said sister was too preoccupied looking at his mom so he sat her down before sitting down as well “why isn't she moving?”

Izuku chuckled before saying “remember? My quirk allows me to pause time. The reason why you can move is because I used my quirk on you when you were hiding under the bed.”

Eri nodded but then was confused as Izuku covered her ears “Sometimes when I unpause it can get a little loud, so I just got to protect your little ears.” Eri once again nodded and then Izuku let the feeling of time wash over him

“Ok I'm back mom.” Izuku said when he saw his mom looking around for him, she immediately snapped to look at him but gasped when she saw Eri “who's this sweet little girl Izuku!?” She tried to act excited but it was obvious that her energy was really starting to drain

So Izuku slipped on a small smile and said “this is my sister, Eri!.” Inko nodded and raised her hand to shake Eri’s who accepted the hand shake. She then smiled and said “well I'm Inko Midoriya but you can just call me Inko sense you are related to Izuku.” Inko then let out a slow and shaky breath which Eri immediately caught on to since she's had to experience a lot of different types of injuries ever since she met Overhaul.

“You're hurt!”

Inko sadly nodded before explaining how a maniac used his quirk to mess up her heart

Eri gasped out in horror before saying “you were Over-hauled!?”

“I guess I was.” Inko said sadly before laying back down 

Izuku then interjected with “and you're sure that there's no way to save you or stop this?”

“Izuku sweetie. Who is the nurse here? A condition like this is only curable in the early stages, but since that man pushed me straight to the final stage the only thing that could fix it now is the one who caused it or a quirk similar to it." She then discreetly looked over to where Overhaul was still logged into the floor with all his broken bones and said “and something tells me I'm not gonna last long enough to see that.”

They were all on the verge of tears once again knowing that soon they would have to say goodbye but then Eri wiped her tears and said “my curs- my quirk is similar to Overhaul!”

Izuku and Inko told her not to push herself just for them but it was too late, Eri’s mind was made up as she grabbed Inko's arm and for once in her life let her quirk flow willingly. 

In the next second the room was lit up with the gold sparks flowing out of the horn on her head and then that golden glow invaded Inko's body as well and they watched as the color quickly returned to her skin but they didn't celebrate until Inko could feel her heartbeat finally return back to a even rhythm

“Ok Eri you can stop now! You saved me!” Called his mom but then Eri grunted and said “I can't stop! I never learned how!”

They started to panic as they watched some of the years fall from Inko's face so as a last ditch effort Izuku grabbed Eri’s arm and paused time 

Izuku let out a breath of relief seeing that his mom stopped de-aging but then he heard something that sounded like a crack in glass

That already freaked him out since usually the only sounds to be heard in paused time was himself but when he looked back over at Eri he realized that the crack was real and was literally on the air itself surrounding Eri

He quickly moved his mom away from her and then put her hands into his own, the cracks continued to increase until eventually a hole around Eri’s body shattered open 

And as Izuku looked around he realized that 

1: Eri’s quirk had shut off seeing as how she was no longer glowing 

And 2: his quirk had also shut off as his mom quickly made her way over and asked what happened.

Izuku and Eri sorta just stared at each other before eventually Izuku laughed out loud “oh! That makes perfect sense.” he flopped onto his back and started to laugh even louder

Inko and Eri were confused about everything that just happened until Izuku sat up and said “time cancels out time! When you lost control of your quirk I tried to pause it to help you! But since rewind was still in the middle of being activated during the pause it started to rewind my quirk to before it was activated!”

Inko and Eri tilted their head in confusion so Izuku tried to think of a simpler way of explaining it

“Rewind makes time go backwards, my quirk makes time stop.

So my quirk paused her time rewinding and her quirk rewinded my time pausing, which effectively made them both cancel out and stop working.” he mimicked the time cracking by bumping his hands together before opening them wide like a explosion 

Inko and Eri then in sync went “ohhhhh.” They all chuckled at that and Izuku started to go into a mumble storm about all the potential quirks which could have a similar effect on his “Sir Nighteye can see the future which is a vector of time so I wonder if you could break his predictions if you can just alter time in some way. Speaking of time it's interconnected with space so I wonder if access to one allows access to both and if that's the case then I should really check up on Th-” his mom started to laugh and interrupted him by saying “Izuku, you are scaring your sister with all that mumbling.”

But then Eri shook her head and said “no, I liked Nii-chan’s mumbles.” Inko laughed again while muttering “oh no, now there's two of them.” But she stopped as Izuku and herself finished processing what she said

In the next second Izuku had 'teleported' right in front of Eri and proceeded to pick her up and spin her around while saying “you called me Nii-chan! This totally makes up for everything else that happened today!... No offense mom.” He tacked on once he was done spinning Eri

But Inko just shook her head and proceeded to bring izuku and his sis- both of her children into a big hug.

A few minutes later and Izuku would eventually teleport his mom and sister to the exit of the compound and while Eri seemed to enjoy the quick trip his mom sent a knowing look at him so he just uttered out a quick “sorry mom, I just don't really want you seeing exactly how angry I would get if someone ever threatened you… or my adorable sister!” He yelled out louder as he snatched said girl from his mother's arms and proceeded to spin with her again 

She rolled her eyes but eventually said “just make sure you didn't kill any of them and I guess will call it even.” Izuku handed Eri back over and said a quick “will do!” Before disappearing for almost half a minute

Once he had reappeared he slipped a USB drive into his pocket and said “no one's dead, and no one's gonna bother us about the vigilantism either. Now let's skedaddle before Eraserhead or any other hero shows up!” with that he grabbed his mom and Eri’s shoulders and ‘teleported' them all the way home.

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Once there izuku immediately started collecting things for a shower until he was stopped by Inko “and where do you think you're going mister? You still have a lot of explaining to do since we're no longer on a time limit.” But Izuku sighed and said “mom, I kinda just destroyed an entire Yakuza compound and a drug creation center in a single night.” Inko scoffed and said “I don't care if you rid the whole world of crime in a single night, I am still your mother!”

Izuku looked shocked before saying “no! That's not what I meant! I just meant that I'm kinda sweaty and want to change clothes!”

Inko slowly nodded before finally saying “fine, you go do that while I look over Eri’s bandages.”

And so as Izuku entered the bathroom and turned the shower on he muttered something along the lines of “how come I felt more ready to confront an entire Yakuza then I do my own mother?” He started to strip out of his vigilante costume before saying “yep, my mom is definitely scarier.” and then hopped into the shower 

Back with Inko she just got done checking over Eri's condition and rebandaging her arms and legs before looking through her closet for anything that would fit the 5 year old

She sighed as she found something that would fit for now but also knew that she would need to set up a whole bunch of appointments for Eri to officially join their family tomorrow “I died and came back to life and yet I don't even get to have a break. What a world.” she said with a eye roll 

So with Izuku's 5 year old All Might onesie in hand she returned to the living room and helped Eri change into it “sorry I don't really have much else. Does it fit well?” She asked while once again checking her new daughter over. But Eri just hummed and said “yes, it's very fluf-fy.”

Inko chuckled and said she was glad before heading into the kitchen to make some tea

Despite the fact that she was dying only a few minutes ago she was now bustling with energy she hadn't felt in years! so she continued to busy herself while waiting for Izuku to finish cleaning up

Only when the water was done boiling did she actually notice the time “wait a minute, I got home at 11:58 pm and it's now 1:25 am!” and if she was doing the math right that meant that her son didn't just take down all those terrifying men in one night, no, he did that in under an hour!

After that she sorta made the tea on autopilot and only really came out of her thoughts once the bathroom door swung open and Izuku reentered the living room looking much fresher and clean.

He then sorta just stared at his sister who was currently messing with the bunny like ears on

the onesie before sighing and saying “I'm just gonna ignore my slight hate for All Might so I can enjoy how cute you are.” Eri was confused but Izuku didn't explain so she just went back to what she was doing as Izuku sat next to her on the couch

Inko then brought the tea over and took a small sip before saying “ok, now I want the full story!”

Izuku nodded before taking a sip of his own tea, he then sighed and said “since Eri is here I'm just gonna start from the beginning.”

And after Inko had helped cool her drink off Eri also took a sip of her tea (with added milk since she was a kid) before focusing on her brother so she could listen to the story of the Prankster Hero: Ghost.

Chapter Text

A lot of changes would happen through November for the Midoriyas

And that all began with cleaning out their supply room which became slightly cluttered after Izuku's father went to America and therefore no longer needed an office at home.

So they cleaned it out while Eri would occasionally try to help and once that was done Inko got out her laptop and sat it in front of Eri

“What's this Inko-san?” asked Eri while carefully pulling it into her lap

Inko then opened it up while Izuku sat next to them so he could see as well “well Eri you can't just own one gown and a 10 year old onesie so I need to get you some more clothes!” Inko said while opening up the website for a store nearby “but something tells me you wouldn't enjoy crowds so I'm gonna let you look through this and then I'll go get them for you.”

Eri tried to say that she was ok with what she had, but when she started talking about how she was fine when Chisaki only gave her a single outfit Inko stopped that line of thought immediately by interrupting with “well that guy was insane, so maybe don't listen to anything he said, and besides i want to help you Eri so please let me.”

She still didn't look very open to the idea but with the help of Izuku-nii they started to slowly look through the options while Inko got ready for the day

Once they had about 10 outfits picked out they switched over to looking for room necessities and decorations,

And after Eri got confused by the purpose of decorations for the 5th time Izuku picked her up and the computer and brought her to his room which she didn't get to see yet because Izuku, Inko, and Eri all had a sleepover in the front room the night they escaped Overhaul.

once he sat her down on his bed she looked around in amazement at all the hero posters, which then turned into very quiet gasp when she found the only piece of All Might merch which survived the purge,

Izuku chuckled as he handed the All Might action figure he got on his 4th birthday to the little girl and she started comparing the doll to the onesie she was still wearing,

She then pouted as she poked the two puffs of up standing hair on the doll and said “he isn't a bunny.”

Izuku rolled his eyes and chuckled as he put the doll back up and said “I know right? That's one of the reasons he's no longer my favorite hero.” After that he sat down next to her and reopened the laptop “but you see how cool my room looks? That's because I have a bunch of decorations! So let's get you some for your room Eri!” After that the process went a lot quicker and eventually they had 10 of those as well.

Which is when Inko finally walked in, smiled and said “I was wondering where you two went, sooo how'd the search go?” She asked as she walked further in and sat down on the bed as well

Izuku carefully ripped a page out of his notebook and handed it to Eri who then handed it Inko

She looked over the list and chuckled before saying “I count at least 7 things on this list that are either bunny related or unicorn related, so are those your favorite animals Eri?”

Eri cautiously nodded before saying “Izu-nii helped me pick them out, he said I looked like a uni-corn.” Izuku laughed before saying “and she thought All Might and my original costume design looked like a bunny, which I think influenced her taste.”

Inko also chuckled as she stood up and said “well you'll definitely have to show me that drawing when I get back so you can get a second opinion on what animal it looks like.” With that she left the room and a few minutes later they would hear her shout a quick “love you, bye!” And then the door closing 

Izuku's was trying to figure out what he and Eri should do in the meantime before Eri poked his cheek and asked who his favorite hero was “what brought this on?” Asked Izuku in return and she replied with “you said that the… not really a bunny guy used to be your favorite, so who's your favorite hero now?” Izuku chuckled and wished he could have caught that on camera but eventually he replied with “well my number one favorite is obviously you Eri.” He then pulled the onesie hood over her head which cited a small huff from the girl, but once she had put the hood back down and fixed her hair she said “no, I want to know your real favorite!”

Izuku pulled her into a hug and said “but you are my real favorite! You saved my mom and everything! But if I had to choose a second favorite… hmmm.” he then looked over to the drawing of Eraserhead in his open notebook and said “that would have to be this kinda grumpy guy called Eraserhead, he has this awesome quirk called erasure which can make any quirk that's not a mutation unusable when he looks at you.” he started going into some of his theories about how his quirk works and Eri listened intently even if she got lost at some bits,

Eri then also looked at the notebook and saw the drawing before turning back to Izuku and asking if he could tell her more about heroes and their quirks since she didn't really get to know any thanks to Chisaki.

And those magic words could have made Izuku cry from joy as he jumped up and said “You're asking me to teach you about heroes!? I've waited years for someone to ask me to do that! Hang on, I have 14 notebooks to show you!” He ran over to his bookshelf and grabbed all 14 before dumping them on the bed and asking Eri which one she wanted to start with

She chose the 13th one because she thought the burnt cover looked cool and so he opened it up and started telling her all about a bunch of different heroes while trying to keep at a pace that she could understand. (Which was pretty difficult since he was so excited that his sister enjoyed his rambles and theories about heroes and their quirks.)

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By the time Inko returned with Eri’s new clothes and decorations Izuku had worked his way through almost every single notebook and Eri now probably had more knowledge about heroes than someone twice her age.

Which obviously meant that she recited all the interesting things she learned back to Inko as she helped her change out of the onesie and into this adorable red dress she found.

“And that's why Nii-chan believes that the man covered in jeans could actually turn your hair into a weapon!”

“Ooh wow, that's pretty cool Eri, now let me just fix your sleeves and… done!” She then brought Eri over to the mirror and allowed her to see the outfit “ta da!” She said with pizzazz as Eri stared at her new clothing 

She was worried when Eri started to tear up, but then she hugged her and quietly said “tha-ank you!” So Inko just wrapped her arms around her and shook her head as she thought ‘yep she's definitely a Midoriya, she even has the over activate water works’

Later Izuku would get a hug as well and another tearful thank you but unlike Inko, Izuku almost bursted into tears when he got that hug.

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After that the Midoriyas started to find a new rhythm, Inko got all the legal things settled to get Eri officially in her care (which was a very funny conversation to have with the police seeing as how when they asked how she got away from the Yakuza massacre she just said that her favorite hero saved her and brought her to Inko, which almost made Izuku tear up again but he stopped himself.)

After that Inko was given the number of some detective seeing as how Eri was somehow connected to the Ghost case and the Shie Hassaikai case even though they still couldn't figure out what caused the two to fight or why Ghost disappeared after it.

Oh that's another thing, Izuku was going to officially retire Ghost. 

Once his mom knew she made him promise to stop when the new year starts, which gave him two months to get anything left settled. and while it might have sucked if it was earlier in the year seeing as how he was only about 4 months away from UA he had planned to retire the vigilante thing anyways, so really his mom was just making him do what he was gonna do only two months in advance.

After that Inko set up some hospital appointments for herself and Eri since they didn't know what all being Overhauled does to someone 

Inko went first but the only thing they found wrong was that she was biologically 36 instead of 40, which meant that Eri removed anything wrong with the Overhaul process and even took 4 years off her, or well I guess it's more accurate to say Eri gave her 4 years back.

After that Eri was up next and Inko ended up calling that detective to ask if there were any hospitals for children with trauma related to doctors and medical supplies

Which is how after some negotiations Eri ended up getting a day pass to UA so she could get checked over by Recovery girl herself!

Which also meant that Inko and Izuku got one too.

So all three walked through the gate on a Saturday afternoon where they met up with someone that was either a bear, a mouse, or a dog.

“It doesn't matter, because I am the principal of UA!” Shouted Nezu once they were close enough

He immediately made his way over and shook the hand of the 5 year old that was taller than him “hello Eri-chan, I'm Nezu and it's wonderful to meet you.” After that he shook Inko's hand and Izuku’s hand as well “and you must be the Midoriyas! Splendid! Now let's get going! Don't want to make Recovery Girl wait!” he then hopped and turned a full 180 midair before making his way inside the building,

Eri then grabbed Izuku’s long sleeve to get his attention and whispered “he said Recovery Girl!” in a slightly excited tone 

But Izuku easily met her small excitement and smiled as he leaned down and whispered back “I know!”

After that they quickly caught up with the stoat and followed him through the rat-like maze that was UA. (Izuku knows exactly how to get to Recovery girl’s office, or really anywhere else in UA but he was content with just acting confused and letting Nezu guide the way.)

It didn't take much longer for them to arrive but when Nezu knocked on the door Izuku could have sworn he heard a old female like voice mumble something behind the door along the lines of “I swear Toshinori if that is you coming to complain about going over your limit again I'm gonna bust your knee caps.” A second later the door opened and Recovery Girl in all her glory immediately switched up her attitude at the sight of a little girl.

“Why hello there sweetie, and who might you be?” she asked in a sweet motherly-like voice, Eri looked concerned about the giant needle she was using as a cane but eventually answered with “I'm Eri… Mi-Midoriya.”

The elderly woman nodded and explained how she was both a hero and a doctor before inviting the family and Nezu into her office which had almost everything you could find in an actual hospital 

And as Eri was placed down on one of the beds it was obvious that she was nervous/slightly panicking so Izuku tried to help get her attention off the impending check up “hey Eri, Why don't you tell Recovery Girl how you learned about her?” he said while discreetly looking at Nezu to see his reaction

But it had the intended effect as Eri focused less on the surroundings that reminded her of Overhaul's lab and instead focused on retelling the story of how she met Ghost 

“It was Ghost-nii! he told me all about how he didn't think my quirk was a curse and that it could be used to save people even better than recovery girl!” besides the fact that she called Ghost an older brother she was doing pretty good at talking about Ghost without revealing anything about Izuku, and while his mom sent him a small glare Izuku thought it was all worth the bafflement on Recovery Girl's face 

But sadly Nezu didn't really have a reaction seeing as how he really only agreed for this private appointment because of Eri’s connection to Ghost.

“my my! That's a pretty big accusation! Should we run some quirk tests while we're at it?” Asked RG but Inko shook her head and said “that won't be necessary, her quirk is called Rewind and we're already well aware of its effects and how to safely turn it off should it get out of control.” RG simply nodded her head and went back to the check up while Eri continued to talk about really anything that came to mind to keep her focus off the medical equipment.

“and that's why Izu-nii thinks that the really loud guy could take out fires just by yelling at the right freq-quen-c--cy-”

“It's frequency Eri, but that was a pretty good attempt for a 5 year old.” Izuku encouraged while RG finished up the last test

Nezu clapped his paws and said “splendid theory! And you said that your brother came up with it?” Before slowly turning to face Izuku 

But Izuku didn't falter from being watched by the rodent and simply responded with “yeah, heroes and quirk theory have kinda been big hobbies of mine since I was basically Eri’s age. I even have 14 notebooks on the stuff.”

Nezu slowly nodded and mumbled something along the lines of “interesting, very interesting.” But whatever else he could have said was shut down by Recovery Girl who lightly tapped Nezu with her cane and said “stop that!” before turning to face Inko who just got done pulling Eri into her lap since the tests were all done.

“Well in simple terms she is completely healthy and will most likely only experience very minor setbacks later in life. That being the scar tissue that riddles all 4 of her limbs and a small case of anemia which can be easily fixed with some supplements.” Recovery Girl said before grabbing a clip board that most likely held more information,

She read over it and then said “Really the only concerning part is how those scars healed, it's almost as if her body tried to stitch itself back together but because it was lacking the materials it left scared indents in her skin.” and at that Izuku gripped his hands so hard he was close to breaking the skin. Because he knew exactly how that happened and why it healed that way, and now wished he could have ripped through that compound with even more force.

Had he known the kinda experiments they were doing on his adorable sister he would have made sure that Overhaul would have never been able to use his quirk aga- his thoughts were interrupted by his mom grabbing his arm to make it relax and saying “well we thank you for your invaluable help and I'll make sure that Eri grows up healthy now that she's away from that terrible place.” She then stood up and once Izuku stood up Eri was transferred to his arms which caused him to lose the rest of his steam since he obviously couldn't be angry while holding his sister.

After that Nezu escorted then back to the front and bid them farewell,

But once the principal was out of ear shot he leaned over to his mom and asked if ‘Ghost’ could help cheer up Eri after her first doctor appointment

Inko rolled her eyes before saying “fine, but don't do anything too crazy, and make it quick!”

Izuku chuckled before saying “mom did you forget?” His eyes gained a slight glow effect before he turned to look at Eri and said “we have all the time in the world.” With that he paused time before immediately unpausing Eri

She removed her head from the crevice of his neck when she noticed how quiet it was, she then looked around the frozen campus of UA before asking Izuku why he was using his quirk.

But Izuku simply did a 180 and continued walking before saying “well I need to thank UA for being so nice to my sister! Now Eri do you remember what title I got when I was Ghost?” He asked once he was inside

Eri thought about it before shaking her head no, Izuku chuckled and said “nah that's fine, it's a long title anyways, but I'm the Prankster Hero!” he said while smiling down at his sister

But instead of trying to return a smile Eri simply nodded (something Izuku was starting to notice was that Eri never really smiled or laughed, something he planned to help her with.)

He made the last final turns and started his ascent up the stairs to the teacher lounge before saying “well as you know to gain a title like prankster you have to pull off a lot of pranks and jokes on people, so what do you say Eri, want to help me prank these teachers?” He asked while pushing the door to the teacher lounge open

And Eri thought about it before slowly nodding along, so Izuku placed her on the ground before grabbing her hand and starting to go through all the heroes in the room.

First he brought her over to a man with a helmet and a yellow mech and said “This is Power-Loader, his quirk is called iron claws! frankly I feel like it should be changed to something like diamond or titanium claws with how easily they can go through ground but that's besides the point.” After that he did something similar for Cementoss, Present Mic, Midnight, and even Eraserhead who for some reason was laying on the couch in the same yellow sleeping bag Izuku caught him rolling on the floor in all those months ago

“I know he doesn't look like it right now but trust me, this guy is pretty cool if you ever get to see him in action.” after that he moved back to the door and asked Eri what she would do if she wanted to prank someone 

And while Eri was still not feeling very excited or happy after the doctor appointment her mood did jump up a little bit getting to meet all these heroes in person so she thought about it a lot before putting her arms up

The universal sign for uppies and Izuku obliged, so once she was settled back on his hip she cupped her hands around Izuku's ear and did her best to whisper “we should make them all cards since you won't be Ghost anymore and they'll miss your jokes.” And while he hadn't expected that answer he simply chuckled and said “well it's not exactly a prank but I love your idea Eri, Let's do it!” but then Eri shook her head and once again whispered “but we should make all the cards covered in glitter so when they open it will make all their outfits really pretty!” Eri said excitedly 

Which then caused Izuku to full on laugh out loud “now that's a good prank! I might just have to pass my title on to you if ya keep coming up with ideas like that!” and while he couldn't be sure because he was still trying to stop his own laughter, he could have sworn that for just a few seconds Eri had a sliver of a smile on her face as she watched her brother complement her idea.

And so they got to work, 

Izuku made the cards while Eri bedazzled them with all the glitter they got from Midnight’s class which teaches the history of art,

They both had a lot of fun and Izuku was sure now that he caught Eri slightly smiling at times, but he didn't bring it up since she didn't seem to be aware she was doing it and just let her have her fun.

The last card Izuku made was for Midnight, but when Eri went to cover it in glitter Izuku stopped her before pulling out a very special almost empty bottle of glitter. Eri gasped when she saw it before quickly getting to work on using the last of the bottle to completely cover the card.

Shortly after that they went around delivering all the cards. 

for some they simply placed it in front of them,

For others they swapped whatever was in their hands for the card,

But some very special few got the premium package.

Izuku slipped Eraserhead’s card into the folds of his scarf, 

with the help of her brother Eri placed Cementoss’s card on top of his block shaped head,

Recovery Girl would find a special thank you card stuck to her clipboard,

Present Mic might find something very interesting the next time he took down his up sticking hair,

Snipe can pull his out of his hat like a magician,

And Nezu will find Ghost’s final coded message covered in glitter that doesn't stick to fur and hidden in the drawer where he keeps all his other notes from Ghost.

And so with the cards delivered and Eri in a much better mood he made his way back to his mom, picked Eri up so they were in a similar position to when he started all this and then unpaused

His mom sorta just stared at them for a minute before saying “well? I thought you were gonna go off and mess with some people.” Izuku laughed and said that they did while Eri nodded excitedly in agreement but that just seemed to confuse her more “but you didn't move or anything!”

Which then caused Izuku to jokingly roll his eyes and say “time pausing, not super speed or teleportation mom.”

She seemed to huff out a big breath before saying “well all right. I'm just glad you two seem to be in better moods” she directed that comment at both of them and only now did he realize that he had been in a foul mood as well, so yeah he was glad that cheered both of them up.

“Now let's get home so I can start on dinner!” his mom announced as they continued to walk away from UA, unaware of the chaos they just caused inside.

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When Shouta woke up from his nap it was to the sound of Nemuri slamming her fist into the wall and saying “god dammit! He got me with the same prank three times in a row!” He peeled one eye open and yep the R-rated hero was once again covered in spider glitter

He then let his eyes wander around the room only to discover that Ghost didn't just stop at spider glitter

Almost everything and everyone in the room was sparkling and while holding some home made cards that were obviously the cause of the glitter-pocalypse.

But he was lacking way to much sleep to care so he simply closed his eyes and tried to go back to sleep,

Well that was until he heard Hizashi starting to straight up ball his eyes out and something painfully poked him in the neck.

So with all chances of getting some extra shut eye out the window he unzipped himself from his sleeping bag and stood up.

After that he saw that Hizashi was simply crying over a card and when he unraveled his capture scarf he found a very similar card had been hidden away in there

So after trying his best to remove all the excess glitter from his scarf (it's said that for the next few weeks any criminal caught by the underground hero would find themselves with a light coating of pink and yellow glitter wherever the scarf had touched them) once done with that he carefully walked over to the trash can and then slowly opened the card,

Once most of the glitter had been safely disposed of he turned the card to face him and read the note that was obviously from Ghost.

[Dear Eraserhead,

Sorry about all the trouble I probably caused you with the whole Yakuza thing but I promise I had a very good reason for why I had to beat all those bastards up instead of my normal capture style.

In fact you probably met her since I saw her and her new family leaving UA when I walked in to deliver my retirement cards.

Shouta had heard that the person Ghost saved from the Shie Hassaikai and then returned to her only non comatose family members would be coming here today but it seems the vigilante didn't know that he hadn't gone down to meet them. What he was more interested in was the part about retiring so he continued to read

Now I know what you are saying. Why would such a cool and awesome guy be retiring at such a young age?

And while I thank you for the compliments Eraserhead, the truth is that I'm simply moving on to better things. better things that are not illegal! Might I add.

But before you most certainly burst into tears over this beautiful note I will allow us to have one last meet up so you can bid farewell in person, come to XXXX location tomorrow night.

P.S, I'm never returning those goggles.

-Ghost]

He sighed before chucking the note onto the coffee table and walking over to Hizashi who was still crying over his note

He took the note from his shaking hands and placed that one on the table as well, but that only seemed to make Hizashi switch his focus to Shouta as he gripped his shoulders and started to shake him while saying “h-he's leav-ing us shou! *Sniff* l-like a ba-by bird le-leaping from the nest!” He started to sob once again but Shouta interrupted with 

“Hizashi, you're acting as if he is dying, all he is doing is giving up the vigilante thing, and while I'm peeved that i could never catch him it should be a good thing that he is going to stop breaking the law. Which is illegal.” He stressed the last words to make sure Hizashi heard him though all his crying 

And it seemed he did because with much less tears he replied with “i guess you are right *sniff* but what if this is the last time I ever get pranked!?” he exclaimed while swinging his hands into the air to emphasize his point

Shouta rolled his eyes before saying “don't you have a son? Just wait for him to prank you.” But that made Hizashi decide it was his turn to roll his eyes as he said “that's different shou, Hitoshi is my sweet pea of a son and you are the cool uncle, but Ghost was like your kid which allowed me to be the cool uncle!”

“Ghost isn't my son and you only met him in person like twice.” Shouta replied but Hizashi just scoffed and said “please, you were absolutely smitten with Hitoshi when I asked you to come with me to the adoption center for moral support, I basically had to adopt him after that one interaction or else you would have beat me to it! And come on Shouta, it's so obvious that Ghost is your son! Why else would you stay on an uncatchable case?” he asked while shaking his shoulders once again

But Shouta broke his grasp before saying “Ghost and I act nothing alike, and the reason I stay on that case is because I'm the only person who could possibly catch him.”

That's when Nemuri decided to swing her spider glitter covered arm around his shoulder and say “what is a logical ruse except a really sophisticated prank? And if you are the only one able to catch him, how come you haven't?” She then fist bumped Hizashi and said “boom, 2 points for team Dadzawa, 0 points for team grumpy pants.”

“Actually make that 3 points, Eraserhead over here is the only one who gets to say goodbye in person.” Said Power loader who was currently reading Shouta’s and Hizashi’s cards

When Nemuri and Hizashi started oohing over that info he used his scarf to lightly slam their heads together then snatched his card and left the room to go take a shower.

Once he had been gone for about a minute, Power Loader said “Present Mic's card states that he thought Eraserhead and him were dating, so technically that's 4 points.” And while Hizashi started to stutter and blush bright red about that part of his card being revealed Nemuri gasped out in delight and snatched the card for herself

Once she was done reading it she laughed and said “see! Even Ghost ships you two! So you should just man up and ask him out already!” Hizashi continued to blush before snatching his card and saying he was gonna go back to crying about losing his cool uncle status

While that was happening Power Loader tried to quietly take Nemuri’s card but she smacked his hand away and said “nope! All you get to know is that he used up the last of his spider glitter, everything else stays between Ghost and me!” She hid the note in the same place she hides her whip and then left the room leaving a trail of spider glitter along the way

Which just left Power Loader alone in the room so he shrugged before pulling a small remote out of his pocket and pushing one of the buttons

A few seconds later and 3 hero level roombas came out of the walls and started cleaning up the glitter, after that he walked out of the room while mumbling “I just wanted to see if everyone else's cards said something about how Ghost planned to do one last prank before actually giving up the vigilante thing… Eh, I'm sure he put it on someone else's card so it should be fine.” (And that right there was exactly why Izuku only put it on his card.)

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For once Nezu did not immediately discover Ghost’s coded message, in fact he wouldn't find it until he had looked everywhere else for it

“Hidden in plain sight, very clever Ghost.” After that he used a handheld vacuum to clean up the glitter and then picked the card up

Although it seemed he worried for nothing seeing as how the gold and white glitter was animal safe and didn't stick to fur “and thoughtful.” He chuckled to himself and then opened it up

The code was definitely Ghost’s best work yet but a few minutes later and he had worked it out

[Dear Nezu,

I hope this card finds you well, seeing as how you just helped one of the last few people I will ever save as a vigilante.

But don't worry I'm not gonna stop saving people, I'm just going legit!

And before you get any crazy ideas, no I'm not going to UA, I may break the law for fun but I'm not an idiot! (Says Izuku who signed up for the UA entrance exam months ago. He is definitely an idiot, just an uncatchable idiot.)

So all I can say is watch out for any speedsters in the hero schools of Japan, And that I greatly enjoyed our back and forth conversations.

P.S, if you ever do anything to hurt that sweet angel I saved from such a horrible place I will eviscerate UA :)

-Ghost]

And even though it was on paper Nezu could almost taste the malus coming off that last part, it certainly made his fur stand on end but he couldn't help but smile at it.

Except it wasn't the smile he puts on for humans, no this was his completely animalistic smile reserved only for when he was alone and could cackle to his heart's content,

Because only Ghost and maybe himself would threaten someone so seriously while simultaneously playing it off as a joke by smiling, and he loved it!

It was a pity that this would be his last card but he was content to wait until he could spot Ghost at whatever school he decided to go to, because then he could start the in person meetings with who was now probably his second favorite human.

(And just like the first time Nezu got a card, every staff member shook in fear as they heard their boss cackle loudly in joy as he read the last card.)

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Back with the Midoriyas, they had just arrived home and Eri was starting to tire out from all these contradicting emotions but she stayed awake long enough to eat something and then Inko turned on her nightlight and laid her down in her room so she could sleep.

And it stayed like that until it was time for Izuku and Inko to go to bed, he had brushed his teeth and just got under the covers of his bed when a knock came from his door

He said come in and a few seconds later Eri cracked the door open and walked in while rubbing her eyes and almost silent crying 

Immediately he lost all his tiredness as he sat up and asked what was wrong

“I had a nightmare… about Overhaul.” She quietly admitted, so Izuku moved the blankets and allowed her to climb into his bed

Once she was settled in he asked if she wanted to talk about it but all she said was “I thought you lost.” so Izuku nodded and wrapped her into a hug

“Don't worry Eri, I'd never lose. Especially when I have you and mom to protect! Now do you wanna hear a story?” Izuku asked once he had adjusted himself and Eri to be more comfortable

She laid her ear on his chest and then nodded “well is there any specific story you want to hear?” Izuku asked expecting the answer to be something normal like the 3 little pigs or Cinderella but then Eri exclaimed she wanted to hear the story of how Ghost used marshmallows to beat the flaming guy.

Which caused Izuku to laugh but after that he settled in and started the story “well it all started when I met this guy called Dabi and he had a quirk which let him make blue fire but he also really didn't like…..”

By the time he was halfway done with the story Eri had fallen back asleep listening to the rumbles of his chest and shortly after that Izuku fell asleep as well.

And Eri’s dreams weren't plagued with any more nightmares that night, All thanks to her Nii-chan.

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And just as Izuku promised the next night he put on his vigilante costume (minus the black cloak obviously since that was still ripped.) And headed over to where he told Eraserhead only he went an hour earlier than he wrote on the card

And just as he thought, when he arrived Eraserhead was already there scouting the place out in advance like any self respecting underground hero would 

So he walked up right behind him and then unpaused 

“You know for such a tired guy I expected you to show up late, not early.” He said before ‘teleporting' to dodge the scarf that shot out right as he finished his comment.

Eraserhead then turned to face Izuku and sighed before saying “I'm tired because I go early to stuff. Now why did you ask me to come here? And what happened to the cloak you stole from Snipe?”

Izuku ‘teleported' to the left of Eraserhead and said “well I wasn't lying in my note, I seriously plan to stop being Ghost when the new year rolls around so expect to slowly see less and less of me.” Eraserhead continued to stare so Izuku put the back of his hand on his head dramatically and said “I know, very tragic. But to answer your second question it kinda got destroyed in my last fight.”

Eraserhead finally participated in the conversation again by asking “How'd that happen?”

“Ah you know how it is, get trapped in a box with a bunch of moving walls, one eventually snags on your cape so you tear it off to make sure you won't get caught by surprise again.” Izuku said nonchalantly before ‘teleporting' to be in front of the hero again

“What!?” Izuku could have sworn he heard a tone of worry in his voice but he ignored and just said “I don't really want to talk about the past when we should be looking to the future! Don't you have anything to say to your favorite vigilante before he signs up for an official hero school and then the next time you see me will be when you can't confirm nor deny which hero I might be?” Izuku had already signed up for UA but he had to keep up the illusion that he's not going to UA so the lie slipped off his tongue easily.

Eraserhead eventually rubbed his face before saying “I don't have a favorite hero so why would I have a favorite illegal one? Also if you wanted some emotional good bye you should have gone to Present Mic, he was Literally crying over his note, either that or some of the glitter got in his eye.” he mumbled that last part but Izuku heard him and laughed “yeah sorry we definitely went too hard on the glitter.”

Eraserhead was about to say something about how it was all cleaned up within 30 minutes but then stopped after he processed what Izuku said

“We?” He emphasized the words which made Izuku realize exactly what he said as well

So after a little bit of panic in paused time he said “yep! We! As in I needed help to get all my cards ready! I might be fast but I won't say no to some help. And you do realize I have friends outside of Ghost. Right?” Technically a lie since he met Todoroki and Eri as Ghost but it worked to make Eraserhead stop thinking he had an accomplice in his illegal acts

After that they talked about some other miniscule things before Eraserhead asked what school convinced him to stop breaking the law “eh, I'm still deciding but I'm leaning towards Shiketsu. I heard that Ms. Joke works there and could you imagine if us pranksters joined forces?” He asked excitedly but Eraserhead got a look of disgust on his face and said “if you two ever meet I'm moving to a cabin in the woods.”

Izuku laughed at how serious he sounded when he said it before ‘teleporting' right in front of Eraserhead and giving the hero a quick hug

But after that he quickly ‘teleported' away and said “thanks for keeping me company Eraserhead, I'll see when I'm an official hero!” After that Eraserhead was left alone on the roof

In fact he was planning to leave after he got over the shock of that hug but then suddenly Ghost was back at his side giving him another hug which lasted a few seconds later

After that he teleported to the next roof and said “sorry! I'm just gonna really miss being a vigilante! Bye!” He teleported away again but returned a few seconds later to say 

“Also you might want to call off those cops and heroes since I intentionally set the time for the meeting one hour late just to make sure it would only be us! Ok now for real goodbye!”

And when he teleported away that time he did not return, which allowed Eraserhead to process everything that happened

So a few minutes later he would mutter something about “problem child.” And then open his phone to call Tsukauchi because Ghost was right on the money that he had to turn that note into evidence and that a bunch of heroes and police were about to arrive to try and finally take the vigilante down.

So yep his nickname was still 100% accurate,

A problem child.

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And so that started Izuku’s slow descent back to normalcy 

In fact by the time December rolled around Izuku probably only spent 5 hours out as Ghost a week.

But December also brought Christmas and the Midoriyas planned to go all out for Eri’s first,

Another thing was that Eri’s birthday was December 21st so they planned to celebrate that as well 

The first thing they did was take Eri to the mall and while she stuck very close to them it was obvious that she was getting better so they continued searching while making a mental list of the things Eri looked interested in

After they stopped to get a snack and that's when they made the discovery that Eri loves apples and especially carmel apples 

After that they went home where later Inko made some excuse to get out of the house and went back and bought a bunch of the stuff Eri liked 

In the meantime Izuku ‘teleported' Eri around Japan to look at the Christmas decorations which while there weren't many up yet she obviously enjoyed them all

After that he even took Eri to meet Todoroki

Here's how that went

Living candy cane

Do you wanna meet my sister?

You have a sister?

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you since I've been kinda busy.

But I only found out she existed after Halloween, 

oh speaking of that when UA starts I'm gonna stop being a vigilante.

I suspected as much, but I am still surprised that Ms. Joke would have a secret love child.

Were actually related by our father.

Also stop calling my mom Ms. joke!

You will never silence the truth.

That made Izuku chuckle but after that he asked Eri if she wanted to meet by friend

She obviously said yes so he told Todoroki her answer and his response was

Is that a good idea? I know my face isn't exactly the nicest to look at. I wouldn't want to scare your sister.

But Izuku didn't even dignify that question with a response as he ‘teleported' him and Eri right into his room once he had slipped his goggles and mask on

After that he placed Eri down before grabbing Todoroki by the shoulders and saying “hey! No one insults my friends! Not even themselves! Now you take that back and admit how handsome you are!” And even though Todoroki couldn't see past the goggles he could tell Midori was serious, so he sighed and said “I'm handsome.” In a quiet and slightly embarrassed voice 

Which caused Eri to let out a very quiet giggle so Izuku switched back to holding her and then said “now look how adorable my sister is!” which once again caused her to giggle when Todoroki quietly agreed

“Great! With that out of the way, Eri this is Shouto Todoroki, Todoroki this is Eri, and just so y'all don't forget about me, I'm Ghost/Midori since Todoroki can't see my identity until he can figure it out at UA.” he said all in one breath before placing Eri down once again and sitting on Todoroki's bed

He then watched as Todoroki crouched down to her level and extended his hand “your brother already introduced us but I'm Shouto Todoroki and it's nice to meet you.”

Eri accepted the hand before saying “I’m Eri, but how come you can't know Iz- Nii-chan’s name?”

Todoroki thought about how to answer before turning to Izuku and asking if girls her age know what a bet is,

But Izuku never got to answer as Eri beat him to it “I know what a bet is! it's when you say something is gonna happen and then if you got it right you win something!” 

He nodded then said “well that's why I can't know your brothers name yet, we made a bet that I'd be able to figure it out on my own when we go to highschool.” That's when Izuku decided to interrupt by saying “he basically has everything necessary to already figure it out but for whatever reason he has been really adamant about winning.”

Eri then walked over and sat in Izuku’s lap which left Todoroki being the last person to sit on his own bed

After that they switched to more mundane conversation topics and even taught Eri how to play some card games before Izuku got a message saying it was safe to come home now

So they bid farewell to the fire and ice boy and then Izuku ‘teleported' him and Eri home where their mother had just got done hiding all of Eri’s presents.

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A few days later and the Midoriyas had finished decorating their house for Christmas,

They had a lot of fun decorating the Christmas tree and with the help of her brother Eri got to put the star on the top, and if her small smile throughout it all was anything to go by then she very much enjoyed it.

And so as the days passed more and more of the presents would be added under the tree, on one day his sister and his mom decided to have a girl's day which allowed him to take his saved up allowance to the mall and get some presents of his own for his mom and Eri. (Unbeknownst to him, his mom had similar ideas and took Eri to find gifts for him.)

The rest of December would continue in a similar fashion of family fun until eventually it was December 21st.

[Eri’s birthday] 

is what the calendar said and Izuku and his mom had already set aside some of the Christmas presents to be opened today.

So when Eri did eventually wake up it was to the smell of pancakes, she sleepily climbed out of her bed and after fixing her scrunched up unicorn pajamas she walked out of her room, but she barely got 5 steps out before her brother picked her up and planted a bunch of kisses to her cheek

It caused her to giggle while Nii-chan said “happy birthday Eri!” And while she was a little confused by those words she didn't protest as she was carried into the kitchen and was plopped down into one of table seats

A few seconds later, Inko-san would place some already cut up pancakes in front of her before kissing her other cheek and saying “happy birthday Eri!” as well

She was still confused by what a birthday was but she couldn't help but smile (something she found that was becoming easier and easier to do) and say thank you 

And so after getting some syrup they all sat down and started to eat while talking about really anything that came to mind

Once Eri felt full she finally got around to asking what a birthday was but that seemed to be the wrong thing to say as both her brother and Inko-san got a dreadful look on their faces

She tried to say sorry when she noticed but then Inko-san scooped her up and held her close while saying “there's nothing to say sorry for Eri, we just weren't thinking properly and forgot you might not know.” Her brother then joined the hug and said “but to answer your question a birthday is the day someone was born and we celebrate it because we're so glad that you're here! My birthday is July 15th, mom’s birthday is July 8th, and your’s is December 21!”

She thought it through before asking “and that's today?” Her brother then took her from Inko-san’s arms and brought her over to the calendar, where in big red kanji it said [Eri’s birthday] her brother pointed to it and then said “yep! Today is your birthday! Meaning you're six years old now!”

After that she was once again taken into Inko-san's arms where she was brought back over to the table

Once everyone had sat down Inko-san said “so since you are the birthday girl is there anything specific you want to do or go to?”

“Can we get caramel apples? And then watch a movie?” And of course Inko-san agreed so after checking the oven for whatever reason they got their winter coats on and left to go get the caramel apple as promised.

And once they had them they started to eat them on the way back but about halfway home her brother tapped her shoulder and told her to look up, so she did and saw that it had started snowing!

Something she only had vague memories of, safe to say she loved it but once it had really started to snow Nii-chan activated his quirk on her and Inko-san and got to watch as the falling snow became frozen around them,

It was beautiful and once again Eri found a smile creeping up on her face as she got to hold the time frozen snowflakes without them melting or deforming, and while Inko-san enjoyed this very unique way of looking at snow she eventually told Nii-chan to stop, and even though the snow was no longer floating around them, watching it fall was almost just as fun.

And so once they had made it home they started looking around for movies until eventually settling on a very old Disney movie called Frozen.

(Izuku and Inko freaked out a little when they realized that the movie was about a white haired girl who was scared of her own powers because she accidentally hurt a family member with them, but it seems Eri either didn't notice the similarities or was inspired by them seeing as how she never got upset watching it and even went on to say she wanted to watch it again.)

But before they turned the movie on again Inko-san went into the kitchen and when she returned her brother was recording on his phone while singing a song.

The reason why was because Inko-san was carrying a frosted chocolate cake with 6 candles burning away,

So they sang happy birthday and then told her to make a wish for whatever she wanted when she blew the candles out,

And she did so but seeing as how she already had a loving family and never had to worry about Overhaul again she just wished for life to stay this happy.

After that they ate some cake while watching another movie and then they said it was time for presents.

She looked over to the tree they set up for Christmas (another holiday they had to explain to her.) But then they brought presents out from Inko-san's room and said “those are for Christmas, but these are for your birthday!”

And so after some encouragement she said thank you and then started to open up the presents all while her Nii-chan recorded her every reaction.

From Inko-san she got multiple toys she recognized from the mall like a unicorn plushie almost half her height and a bunch of other toys but her absolute favorite was a bunny plushie with green fur because it reminded her of Izu-nii.

Speaking of her brother he only had one present but promised her he got more for Christmas, but she didn't care about that and would have been perfectly fine with only one present and she even told him that but he just said “I know you would have been, but I wanted to get you more than one, also technically this present is a two partner but that's spoiling things.” So with that encouragement she tore open the packaging until she could pull out what looked like a outfit,

An outfit which consisted of a black jacket made to fit someone her age, black pants to go along with it, some green goggles, and a long flowing red cape covered in green gems which made up a bunny.

She was confused until she turned back to her brother and found him in his hero outfit, after that she turned back to the clothes and then back to her brother a few times until she was sure.

Her brother had made her a hero outfit based off his own! The only thing that didn't match was the cape but then he explained how that was actually his cape before he got the black one, but when she asked why he wasn't wearing the black one he awkwardly rubbed his neck before pulling out a cape which barely reached his elbows and saying “well mine kinda got ripped.” She offered to trade but Izu-nii declined before clipping the shortened cloak on “nah, the shortened length is starting to grow on me, plus you're gonna need that long cape for the second part of my gift!” and because he had his mom's permission in advance he helped her suit up and then ‘teleported' all 3 of them to a roof which had a good view of Might Tower,

Eri immediately wrapped the cloak around herself to stay warm before asking what they were doing up here, but Izuku just laughed and said “well since Ghost will be going away soon I thought I should do my biggest prank yet!” He ‘teleported' to the next roof over, turned to look at them, raised his hands into the air, and then yelled “and how much bigger can I get then turning the number one hero’s entire skyscraper into one big Christmas tree!?!?”

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Yagi Toshinori had just got done stopping his final criminal for the day, so as he stared out the window of the apartment inside his agency, he took a sigh of relief before taking a small sip of the hot chocolate he had made for himself,

Christmas had become one of his favorite holidays after his trip to America and he was so glad that December had been so peaceful as if to reflect that love.

He let a small smile grace his lips as he continued to stare into the darkly lit city just taking the peace of it all in.

But out of nowhere he was completely blinded by giant flashing green and red lights “AHHHHHHHH” He screamed out and tried to back away from the overwhelming lights, but that's when he realized someone had tied him up in Christmas lights and now he was tumbling towards the floor “WHAT THE!? SHIT!!”

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A second later and just as promised the entire skyscraper lit up in Christmas colors, it was so bright in fact that it lit up the surrounding buildings as well, Eri and Inko couldn't help but be amazed by the pretty colors and after Inko put Eri on her shoulders so she could have a better view she couldn't stop a full blown smile from breaking out on her face,

It was the widest smile her face would allow and the Midoriyas couldn't be happier that they finally got Eri to completely smile at something.

And so after some mandatory pictures of such a great moment Izuku took them home and after Eri had got distracted playing with her new toys Inko walked over and asked how he did that

So he leaned over and said “surprisingly I didn't have to steal anything, Might Tower has all the supplies necessary. It's just that with such a huge building setting everything up takes forever, which is why they usually only go all out for big occasions. But as someone with literally too much time on his hands it was definitely worth doing just to see her smile.” and all Inko could do was agree before they were both called over to join in on Eri’s game of pretend.

And so later that night Eri would fall asleep in her homemade hero costume while surrounded by her new toys and plushies.

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Four days later and Christmas had officially arrived, everyone was excited for it even if it would just be them three (the Bakugos got invited to a party at their fashion company, and Todoroki still refused to come over so he could still win the bet fair and square.)

So the day was mostly spent in each other's company while playing games or watching movies, but when they did decide to open presents Eri went first where she got multiple new outfits, some day to day while others were super sparkly for special occasions, she also got even more toys like a plushie of a Saint Bernard and a purple robot cat that lit up and made noises.

She also got some cards which Inko had to help her read (the Bakugos may not know the whole story but they did know that the Midoriya family now included a little girl.)

But Izuku’s favorite card for Eri had to be the one from Todoroki which had 500 dollars inside and basically said [Endeavor is too rich to notice so I hope you enjoy using it instead.] But luckily the outrageous amount of money for a 6 year old made more sense when she opened Todoroki's present and found a Fatgum piggy bank which was apparently also bought with Endeavor's money.

But even after all that her favorite present had to be a pendant necklace which held a bright green silhouette of a rabbit that had her name on the back

The reason why was because as her brother helped her put it on he said “after I gave you the cloak I realized that you wouldn't be able to take it everywhere you go, and I didn't want you to have to go anywhere without anything to remind you of me, which is why I got this necklace with a similar design to the one on the cape.” and after she got a good look at it in the mirror she gave her brother a hug and said how much she loved it

Inko playfully scoffed and said “you had to out do me on her birthday and Christmas?” And even though she intended it as a joke Eri ended up giving her a hug as well and saying “no! I loved your gifts just as much Ink-... mom!” the deliberate attempt at calling her mom caused Inko to immediately start crying in pure joy which at first made Eri worry until Inko could get across that they were happy tears.

After that Inko and Izuku went, but unlike Eri they got more practical things for each other.

There were still a few things just for fun but it was obvious that a majority of the presents were for Eri.

Izuku almost teared up as well when he opened a gift and found a outfit very similar to the hero one in his notebook, really the biggest difference was that the ears on top were shortened and resembled something closer to a fox than a bunny, but his mom explained it as “well when I saw the drawing I knew you must have drawn it when All Might was still your favorite so when I made my own version to support you i shortened them since i didn't want you to think of All Might everytime you suit up for heroics. Had I known that Eri would have just made you think of a bunny instead I would have just left them how they wer-” her ramble was ended by receiving another hug as Izuku said “no mom, it's perfect. And even if Eri hadn't thought of a bunny it still would have been perfect because I would have been reminded of you! Not All Might.”

Once they had separated from the hug they heard a giggle from Eri, when they turned to face her she said “Izu-nii and In- mom had the same idea!” At first they were confused but then she brought out her own home made costume and they realized.

Izuku had made a vigilante costume for Eri,

And Inko had made a hero costume for Izuku.

They all got a good laugh from that and then both Izuku and Eri got into their home made costumes to play hero vs villains (Eri was the hero and Izuku acted more like a funny criminal then an actual villain since he didn't want to risk reminding her of anything.) Many pictures were taken and then they settled in to watch some more Christmas movies.

Truly it was a fantastic first birthday and Christmas for Eri and they couldn't wait to celebrate more in the future.

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After that new year's eve rolled around with not a lot of fanfare, Christmas break had ended so Izuku had to go back to school and Inko had to start finding a school for Eri. Eventually they chose one nearby but Izuku gave Eri a pager connected to his phone in case of emergencies (he did the same for his mom since with literally one beep and he could be there the next second.)

And with a way to contact her brother at any time and a few toys from home Eri went to school for the first time.

But it seems their worries were for nothing as within a week Eri had made a few friends despite the fact that she refused to show off her quirk to anybody, something Izuku was very glad about looking back on his own school years. (Although the difference might have something to do with the teachers knowing there is trauma connected to her quirk unlike Izuku who just didn't have a quirk. But a win is a win and if Eri ever does get bullied about it Ghost will come out of retirement just to scare those teachers.)

But with a new rhythm established in the Midoriya household, January passed and February arrived.

Which meant the UA entrance exam was fast approaching.

He had been slacking on his training a little bit but with the help of some time pausing he finished cleaning up the beach and worked extra hard in any gym he could go into for free.

Which meant by the time February 26th had arrived Izuku felt stronger than ever and was ready to demolish these tests!

So he woke up early that day, jogged to the beach to marvel at his handy work, jogged to the train station, rode the train all the way to UA and then stopped in front of the gates.

Sure he had been inside multiple times and even once that wasn't in paused time but thinking about how he could be a student next time he walked through these gates still filled him with awe.

But after he got over that awe he finally started walking inside still feeling ready to take on the world!

Well that was until he somehow tripped on an up turned brick and was now heading straight for the ground.

And all he could think as the ground approached closer was ‘damn, uncatchable vigilante that can dodge gun fire on the regular, caught lacking by a motionless brick on the ground.’

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Izuku was in the middle of thinking self deprecating thoughts while waiting for his face to meet the pavement but it never came,

When he finally realized that he had stopped falling and was now floating he looked around until he spotted a girl with short brown hair and a permanent blush on her round face.

She slowly fixed his floating posture while apologizing for using her quirk without permission but Izuku just agreed with what she said “yeah, it would have been bad luck to faceplant right before a test, so thanks!” He said while beaming her a smile

She returned a smile and a “your welcome” while putting her hands together (which caused him to stop floating.) before looking at the time and saying that they should really get moving.

So with that they both sped off inside (really Izuku didn't need to worry about being late but since he stopped being a vigilante he needs to worry about quirk restriction laws at least a little.) Shortly after entering the building they had to separate so he shouted good luck to her and then entered the room he would be testing in.

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Quirk usage is forbidden on the written test so after Ectoplasm and his clones passed it out he got straight to work. (That's a lie, he paused time and poked one of the clones since even as a vigilante he never caught the man’s quirk in action.) But after he had satisfied his love for quirks (and found out that the clones feel less solid than the real one.) He got straight to work.

By the time the test had ended Izuku had been able to go over all his answers twice and was sure he got most if not all correct.

And so after a mandatory brain break for all the students a loud voice yelled out from the stage,

A very loud voice.

"HELLLLLO LISTENERS!!!! CAN I GET A YEAAAH!?" yelled the voice hero Present Mic while holding a hand to his ear,

And even though most of the students had somehow psychically agreed to stay quiet two students didn't get the memo.

Izuku being the literal prankster vigilante pumped his fist into the air and yelled a quick “yeah!” uncaring of those who turned to face him with scrutiny,

And the other was a purple haired kid near the front who nonchalantly raised his fist and let out a sarcastic “ye’p” while popping the P

And even though those were the only two responses, Present Mic seemed to literally glow as his smile got wider and he said “now that's more like it!” A spot light then appeared above Izuku at the same time the hero pointed a finger gun his way,

After that he said “you green bean, have officially become my third favorite little listener!” but before Izuku could respond the light turned back off and Present Mic went back to his introduction.

"As for the rest of you who are keeping it mellow, welcome to the practical part of the exam! 

I'm your proctor Presentational Mic! And the way this is gonna go down is that there are 3 practice villains played by robots, so all you little listeners gots to do is take down enough of them to pass!" 

it made since to Izuku but this kind of test has to suck for mental quirks, actually now that he thinks about it he knows that heroes like Mandalay, Sir Nighteye, and Eraserhead went to UA so how did they pass this test? Oh wait! He said there are 3 villains but there are 4 robots on the page, so the 4th must be some type of rescue bot put in place for people who have trouble with the villain bots! "and you! the boy with green hair! You have been mumbling this entire time! If you are not going to take this seriously then you should just leave now!" Yelled a tall boy with natural blue hair but Izuku barely noticed because his main thought was 'oh shit I was mumbling again!?' 

"alright examiner #7111 calm down, and the 4th robot is worth zero villain points!” Present Mic said before playing a little video behind him to emphasize his next point ”It's more of an obstacle that goes crazy in small spaces!” he chuckled at something he must have been imagining before turning back to face everyone and saying,

“my advice!? just try to avoid it. Now, If no one else has any questions I'll sign off with a sample of our school motto! As General Napoleon Bonaparte once laid down. "A true hero is one who overcomes life's misfortunes." Mmh, now that's a mean soundbite, Now! Are you ready to go beyond? Let's hear a Plus Ultra!" But unlike his messily two responses from before that got the whole room shouting in cheer.

After that Izuku changed into some more comfortable clothes and then immediately hopped on the bus to take them to the practical test, it didn't take much longer for the bus to completely fill and then they were off.

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As he looked around the crowded door to the fake city he saw many interesting people,

Most looked excited but some like that guy with purple gravity defying hair, the invisible girl who appears to be shaking if her clothes have anything to say about it, and the girl that stopped him from falling all looked very nervous.

Especially the girl who saved him, she looked like she was gonna throw up if she didn't relax!

So seeing that he walked on over and after effortlessly avoiding the hand swipe from that blue haired boy he walked in front of the girl and said hello, 

“Oh, hey! It's you again!” She said Izuku agreed that it was in fact him before saying “yeah you looked kinda nervous so I came over here to wish you good luck.”

She thanked him for that before deciding to introduce herself “I'm Ochaco Uraraka!” She said while extending her hand

Izuku accepted the hand shake before introducing himself as well “Izuku Midoriya!”

They talked a little bit more before Izuku thought they were getting off topic and said “but seriously, you have nothing to worry about! You are for sure gonna get in so don't let your nervous energy mess you up!” And that seemed to put a fire under her as she focused up and said “right! I've got this! Thanks for your help Midoriya but now I need to focus!” And seeing that focus Izuku let out a quick “no problem.” Before backing away to focus up as well,

He then turned to see that blue haired guy with a gobsmacked expression but he didn't get to look into it since Present Mic shouted “GO!” 

At those words he paused time and made his way past the frozen crowd and through the barely opened massive doors,

Thanks to time pausing what should have been a 10 minute smash and grab for points just turned into an all you can eat buffet!

But he doesn't want to ruin the chances of any of the other students so he decided he would stop at 40,

And so after remembering how he was able to smash through giant cement walls by collecting the kinetic energy of almost 20 punches he decided that he would start with 10 as he walked up to a frozen 1-pointer,

And he almost did just start wailing away but then remembered how bruised up his hands were after all the Yakuza stuff.

So he stopped and instead looked around until he found a few metal pipes laying in a fake alleyway,

After he took two he swung at the frozen robot’s head 10 times, and so with all the kinetic energy saved up he backed away and unpaused to check the damage,

But the robots head didn't simply crumble, no it straight up exploded from the force, along with the pipe since kinetic energy goes both ways.

"There are no countdowns in real life! Run, run, run, listeners!... Hey! how'd that guy get all the way over there!?" Yelled Present Mic but Izuku would never learn the response because he had paused time again and grabbed his second pipe,

After looking at the exploded pipe he decided that he would unpause this one so it would last longer.

He continued looking at the exploded robot until he figured it out “oh! I usually just hit with my fist when I need to destroy stuff, which made me forget that you can swing weapons around with a lot more force!”

He walked over to another 1-pointer while saying “more force means more kinetic energy” he aimed the pipe at the robot's head and swung while saying “more kinetic energy, means the less I have to hit it to break!”

This time he unpaused after only 3 full force swings and just as planned the robots head cracked open and made it shut off but it did not violently explode like last time.

"Ok so 3 combined hits to take down a one pointer so just to be safe I'll double it for two pointers and triple it for 3 pointers!" and then he was off smashing in the heads of multiple robots in paused time,

and after doing the math he had about 42 points after only the first 10 seconds into the exam!

He spent way too long laughing at how absurd his life had become since the sludge villain attack before walking into the center of the city and unpausing.

A canopy of destruction could be heard going off all at once and it was music to Izuku’s ears, after that he walked over to what he thinks was a camera for the teachers and said “I know I might have been teleporting too fast for your cameras to keep up but those eight 1-pointers, eleven 2-pointers, and four 3-pointers that just got destroyed were all me.”

By this point multiple students had passed him and started collecting their own points and now Izuku had to find a way to actually spend the next 10 minutes “damn, suffering from success… eh, might as well make Recovery Girl’s job easier, that should keep me preoccupied.” Before ‘teleporting' off to do just that.

Meaning by the time the 8 minute mark rolled around many people were confused and wondering why they were suddenly in a different location and why where they were standing previously just got attacked by either a robot or falling rocks,

While those with less physical quirks kept wondering why there were makeshift weapons surrounding them every time they were in a situation where they couldn't use their quirk.

But everyone else was wondering "HOW THE FUCK IS THAT WORTH ZERO POINTS!" Izuku was wondering this as well as he stared at the slowly approaching robot that was at least 20 stories tall but the second he heard a scream for help he had paused time again and started searching,

And just his luck it was Uraraka who was pinned under a massive rock that she couldn't seem to use her quirk on for whatever reason.

But thanks to the paused time the rock weighed a lot less then it probably should (that's not to say it was a walk in the park but it was certainly easier than it would have been in real time.) and after throwing it to the side he lifted her up and walked towards the entrance and then he went back and did that over and over again until everyone who would have been in the path of that thing was gone,

Then he stole the pole in the invisible girl’s hands (or well he assumes it's her since all he can see is a floating pipe.) and crawled up the stationary zero pointer until he was standing on it's shoulder.

He thought about unpausing the pole so it wouldn't explode from kinetic overload but then realized that was exactly what he needed!

so leaving the pipe frozen in time he proceeded to just wail on the thing's 'eyes' but only after sticking the kinetically charged pole inside it's exposed neck wires did he get down.

And just like always the second time started up his senses exploded!

But it was a lot more literal this time as many pieces of rubble finally hit the ground, the zero pointer's cameras all ruptured and the pole in its neck exploded from the kinetic energy but instead of exploding harmlessly like last time this time the shrapnel all went flying inside the robot at breakneck speeds, and that must have cut some important wires as the thing stopped moving.

A second later and Present Mic called time, so he turned to face the people he saved, put his hands on his hips and smiled as he said “well, I think our first day at UA was a complete success!” his smile was bright and reassuring but the illusion was completely broken when the 0-pointer’s head exploded and the light from it made him look a lot more deranged, just standing there smiling while a massive explosion goes off.

But after everyone had calmed down from that last minute dash Izuku made his way back to the entrance and after Recovery Girl stated he had no injuries he was allowed to go home,

He did try looking for Uraraka to check up on her, but gave up after about 3 minutes and left.

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But in a room full of screens for the teachers to watch it was absolute chaos!

“The kid just disappeared and didn't even hesitate after I said go!” screamed Present Mic 

“I'm confused, is his quirk teleportation, super strength, or making things explode?” Asked Midnight 

"Very interesting, Even after I set the cameras to their maximum slowmo I still can't catch him on the cameras! so it is indeed teleportation and not super speed." Said the principle as he tried to keep track of a certain teleporting greenette 

But if a student catches the eye of the principal then that means that most likely they will end up in 1A so the Eraser hero Shouta Aizawa pulls up his file as he to tries to keep track of him as well,

“Izuku Midoriya, his quirk is called Pathfinder teleportation. It's a teleportation quirk but instead of needing coordinates or focusing on a place in their mind they have to imagine a path from point A to point B, distance doesn't really seem to be a factor, nor is there a people limit, unless we're talking leaving the country or teleporting enough people to fill the sports festival stadium. 

Other than that the only info is that the kid realized that teleporting over long distances seems to build up energy which he can then use to empower his punches, or as you saw with the pipes, can turn everyday objects into kinetic energy bombs.” Shouta then noticed the note at the bottom and while he personally didn't care whether the kid used to be quirkless or not he knew some of his fellow staff would have a more… intense reaction.

“Also apparently the kid was thought to be quirkless until about 10 months ago. forced manifestation after a villain attack.” He was barely able to finish what he was saying before the room exploded into noise, some horror at how strong his quirk was for only 10 months of development, others amazement at how much progress he has made from just 10 months of use.

But surprisingly one teacher was silent,

'Ten months ago' All Might thought to himself,

He then looked at the screen again and watched as the clip of Midoriya saving everyone surrounding the zero pointer replayed (more like everyone teleported away and the zero pointer exploded while young Midoriya simply stood there and smiled.)

And then All Might had a terrible thought 'don't tell me that me trying to save his life by telling him the truth actually devastated him enough to cause a forced manifestation!' And if he was feeling bad before now he truly hated himself 'it might have been the truth but I shouldn't have said it in such a terrible way just because the question brought up the memories of my own youth!'

He shook his head to dispel those thoughts, he then mumbled to himself "I just hope he will forgive me if that was the cause." before getting back to the main problem of this meeting by standing up in his hero form to get everyone's attention.

"While we can't prove everything young Midoriya did, we can prove that he stopped the zero pointer and moved everyone near it away, so I say we give him si…

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The next week or so was a massive waiting game, which sucks when you're quirk does nothing but make time last longer.

Izuku wasn't worried about getting in, he was simply anxious to get the results, but finally after a week of waiting his mom told him he had something special in the mail, so he quickly ran from his room and after finding the one with UA on the front he didn't even wait to go back to his room, he simply sat next to Eri on the couch and ripped the note open.

Which caused a metal disk to fall out and slam into the table, all three of them were confused until the disk created a holographic screen with a recorded message.

“I AM HERE AS A PROJECTION!”

“ALL MIGHT!?!!”

“ALL MIGHT!?”

“BUNNY MAN!!”

all three of them yelled at the same time but then quickly shut up as the message continued.

“I actually came to this town to work at U.A! Hahaha!”

“Oh great, he's gonna be a teacher there.” Said Izuku sarcastically, his mother agreed with his opinion, and while Eri didn't know the full story she did know that All Might was mean to her brother one time so she crossed her arms and and himphed at this information.

“Now then! Shall we get to your results!?” Projection Might asked while flexing 

“You passed the written part of the exam with flying colors! Only three people were able to beat your score and two of them were recommendation students! So great job Young Midoriya!”

“As for the practical exam you got 42 points within just the first 10 seconds of being allowed at those robots! Which beats my own UA score of 40 points within the first 15 seconds! But after gaining those 42 points which is enough to pass, you stopped focusing on the robots and instead focused on the safety of your fellow test takers! And what kind of hero school would this be if we didn't reward those who save others!?” projection Might then pulled a remote out and pointed at a screen while saying “but before i reveal just how many rescue points you earned, I have a video to show you!” He pressed play and then the screen took over the entirety of the hologram so they could see better.

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After Ochaco got teleported away from where she was stuck she got to watch as Midoriya teleported everyone else away and then did something to the 0-pointer to make it explode.

Shortly after that Present Mic called time and a elderly woman dressed up as a nurse kissed her on the forehead to fixed her sprained ankle, she then gave Ochaco some candy before asking who else was hurt.

She seemed greatly confused after learning that she only had to heal like 3 people and muttered something along the lines of “someone's gonna be getting a lot of rescue points for making my job easier.” After that she dismissed everyone to go home.

But before Ochaco hopped on the bus she climbed all the stairs to where Present Mic sits and knocked on the door.

He opened it and asked how he could help her and then she explained how she met this kid with green curly hair and freckles and that his name was Midoriya.

Present Mic nodded along so she continued “well I saw how he was mostly focusing on saving people and I was worried that he wouldn't get enough points to pass, so I was just wondering if I could transfer any of my points to him? I mean at least the points he would have got had he not worried about saving me!”

But Present Mic simply chuckled before saying “woah, calm down lil listener. I know who you are talking about and don't worry even if he hadn't gotten any villain points I'm pretty sure he still would have passed with all the people he went out of his way to save, so while I appreciate you worrying about your fellow test mates just hang on to your points for now. Cool?”

Ochaco nodded before thanking the hero and leaving.

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Izuku was very surprised to learn that Uraraka tried to give him points after only knowing him for one day but still greatly appreciated it even if he didn't need it.

“And my fellow staff member was right! You certainly could have passed on rescue points alone seeing as how you gained 60 of them!

And for young Uraraka’s attempt to help someone she thought needed it even at the extent of her own points she was awarded 35 rescue points!

And so with you having a total of 102 points, and young Uraraka having 35 villain points and 35 rescue points you have gained 1st place and 4th place respectively!” Projection Might then smiled even wider as he said “which means I get to say, Welcome! Izuku Midoriya, To your hero academia!” And with that the projection deactivated and Izuku was scooped up into a hug by his mother which Eri quickly joined,

She screamed in excitement “first place! You got first place!” Izuku easily matched her excitement while he said “I know! I know! I can't believe I got first place!”

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“On the practical exam you got 77 villain points! Which is more than enough to pass but I'd thought you'd like to know there were rescue points as well, which you got zero… *cough* anyways! That puts you in second place! So welcome! Katsuki Bakugo, To your hero academia!” At that Katsuki exploded into insults and confusion before grabbing the stupid projector and rewinding the video.

“Anyways! That puts you in second plac-” he paused the video because that's when All Might showed the rankings.

[Izuku Midoriya - 42.V - 60.R = 102

Katsuki Bakugo - 77.V - 0.R = 77

Eijiro Kirishima - 39.V - 35.R = 74

Ochaco Uraraka - 35.V -35.R = 70]

And at that the device exploded in his hand, because that fucking Deku actually went and did it.

He was serious about going to UA and even got the number one spot on the test through some bogus shit like rescue points!

So as he crushed the projector even further he only had one thought running through his head “I’m gonna fucking destroy your cheating ass face Deku! Then everyone will realize that I'm the best because I had the highest amount of combat points!”

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When Monday finally arrived Shouto quickly put on the new school outfit and expertly tied the red tie after fiddling with it for a few seconds.

After that he made his way out of the house before anyone could try to talk to him and then patiently waited on the train for over a hour.

Once he had arrived he spent about a minute reading the map posted in the front lobby before quickly walking to the 1A class.

And just how he liked it he was the first to make it to class, so after a quick glance at the seating chart he found that he was in the top right corner.

Shortly after he arrived the daughter of the Yaoyorozu family sat next to him and tried to strike up a conversation.

And thanks to his talks with Ghost he wasn't as awkward as he probably would have been but the conversation still ended shortly after that.

Over the next few minutes he would see more people enter but none of them really stood out as Ghost’s secret identity.

Sure there was the girl with green hair and green eyes but she had a frog mutation instead of a speed quirk.

A boy with a speed quirk but his personality was so stiff that placing the word prankster anywhere near him just felt wrong.

And then there was the student sitting in front of him, he had green hair, green eyes, his quirk looked like teleportation but so did Ghost’s quirk at times. His personality was that laid back calmness just like Ghost as well. In fact Shouto would have already asked if he was Ghost if it was for one thing.

If Shouto was remembering correctly the student that was supposed to be sitting in front of him was Hitoshi Yamada and Ghost said that the word Midori was hidden somewhere in his name. Man, if only this kid had the name of the guy sitting in front of him, Izuku Midoriya.

If that had been the case then he would have already solved this, but it seems like he is gonna have some detective work cut out for himself instead.

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Over the next few days UA would send all the necessary supplies, which meant when Monday arrived Izuku changed into his school outfit and tried his best to make the red tie that comes with the outfit look presentable, but after 30 minutes of him just making the tie look like a dog tongue he threw it off before just using a red clip on tie which looked similar enough to the official thing.

And so after that he grabbed his backpack, said goodbye to his mom and gave Eri a hug, he was off towards the train station.

Which meant that about an hour later he had arrived in front of UA once again but now as an official student!

And so after pretending to look at the map posted in the entrance area for a minute to make sure Nezu didn't get suspicious he easily made his way through the maze that was UA before arriving at the massive door of 1A,

“Even with how many times I've seen it I'm still not sure if Nezu installed them because of mutation quirks that affect height or simply installed them to instill fear in whoever sees them and then just made up the mutation thing so he could get away with it.” Izuku mumbled to himself before opening the door excited to become a hero.

Only to see Kachan getting into a verbal fight with the blue haired dude "I must implore you to take your feet off that desk! It's a disgrace to all the UA students that have sat in that desk before you!"

“You’re kidding me, right?” Kachan challenges, keeping his feet where they are, but leaning forward a bit. “Your old school put a stick up your ass, or were you born with it?” 

“Let’s start over,” Glasses says, sounding exasperated. “I’m Iida Tenya from the Somei Private Academy.” 'ah so that's his name' Izuku thought before focusing back on the conversation, 

“Somei, huh? So, private school boy thinks he’s in charge? I’m gonna have fun tearing you a new one!” Kachan says, smirking dangerously.

“You would threaten me? Your own classmate?” Iida says, sounding scandalized. “Are you sure you’re in the right place?”

Kachan rolls his eyes and looks like he is about to say something else, but the words fizzle out when his eyes settle on Izuku standing in the doorway.

"DEKU!/IT'S YOU!" is said simultaneously but as they both try to run over to the door Izuku yells “nope!” before slamming the door in their faces.

Everyone sorta just stared in confusion at that but Izuku used it to his advantage by pausing time and then walking back inside the classroom.

And after closing the door he walked over to the seating chart and tried to connect names to faces.

“Uraraka is here in the top left corner! The iida guy is in front of her. Oh! And Todoroki is in the opposite corner! Just my luck.” said Izuku before turning to face the two toned boy in question

After that he looked past the empty spot in front of Todoroki and found his desk, which was right behind Kachan…

“Nope! Not happening! Sorry Hitoshi Yamada but I am not gonna end up sitting behind that guy for another year in a row!” So with that he swapped name tags with the guy who wasn't here yet and then placed himself directly in front of Todoroki.”

He did feel a little bad for this Yamada guy but decided that since he would never know that his seat was swapped everything should be fine, and this would never have any consequences.

And so now knowing most of the names of the 1A students he sat down in his new seat and let time start back up.

he then watched as about a quarter of the class notice his presence (including but not limited Todoroki sitting behind him, the girl with a black ponytail who is right next to Todoroki, the boy with a bird head who sits in front of the girl and therefore to the side of Izuku, and most likely the other two up near the front only noticed him because their quirks give them enhanced hearing.) but he doesn't care because almost everyone else including Kachan and Iida are still staring at the door in confusion. And they were even more confused when the door opened up a few seconds later and in walked a purple haired boy who looked like he could really use a nap and Uraraka who was excitedly talking to the boy.

“Did- did he seriously run off?” Asked Iida while looking back and forth through the hallway

The purple haired boy then pushed past Iida while saying “no clue what you are talking about but please move so I can get to my seat before the teacher shows up.”

Iida apologized profusely but the boy just waved it off before looking at the seating chart and then sitting in front of Izuku

‘yep, exactly as planned. Yamada is none the wiser and I get to be a little bit farther away from Kachan this year.’ Izuku thought mentally before looking over to where Uraraka was now talking to Iida.

He then let his eyes wander a little lower and made direct eye contact with a giant yellow caterpillar on the floor, said caterpillar raised a eyebrow at him before putting his finger in front of his mouth as if to tell him “don't tell the rest of the class I'm here.”

He then quickly nodded before looking away and quietly muttering “oh fuck! I'm in Eraserhead’s class! I thought I wouldn't have to worry about him until second year!”

After that Uraraka noticed him which made everyone else realize he had been there the entire time, but luckily before anyone (aka Kachan and the Iida kid) could try to talk to him everyone's attention was brought to the giant yellow caterpillar on the floor telling them "If you're just here to make friends then they can pack up your stuff now.” he then pulled a jelly pack from somewhere and started to sip on it while waiting for everyone to get back to their seats

Once they had, he said “Welcome to UA’s hero course,” with the least amount of enthusiasm possible. He then unzipped the sleeping bag and stood up. “It took you eight seconds before you all shutted up. And only four of you noticed me. That’s not going to work. Time is precious. Rational students would understand that.” he rolled up his sleeping bag and stepped further into the classroom. once he was standing at the teacher's podium, he said “hello, I'm Shouta Aizawa. Your teacher.”

There was an air of disbelief that swept over the room since Mr. Aizawa isn’t exactly what any of them expected to have as a hero teacher at UA but they didn't get much time to dwell on it before he continued speaking “Alright, let’s get to it,” he pulled a PE uniform out from under the desk before saying “Put these on and head outside.” 

After that He doesn’t give anyone a chance to respond before he tosses the uniform into a cart just outside the doorway and walks off.

Surprisingly the first one up is the Yamada kid who looks dead on his feet but shortly after he grabbed one everyone started moving.

And Izuku wanting to avoid the crowd paused time and grabbed the one with his name on it and then walked next to where Yamada was frozen,

But surprisingly when he unpaused the purple haired boy didn't react, he simply looked Izuku up and down before saying “did you just use your quirk to avoid a social interaction?”

Izuku easily kept pace with the boy as he said “uh, yeah. I guess I did. Sorry I just don't really like big crowds.” he was in the middle of thinking about the last time he was in the middle of a crowd (letting loose with his quirk while being surrounded by hundreds of yakuza.) but all the boy said was “relatable.” Before entering the boys locker room.

Only then did he realize that they had arrived but thought it was weird that Yamada knew exactly where to go first try “I couldn't find the boys locker room until after I accidentally discovered it on my 4th time around. Weird, but maybe he's just really good at maps.”

And so the two boys got done changing by about the time the rest of class found where to go, after that they walked in comfortable silence until Eraserhead- no wait, Mr. Aizawa came into view.

“Midoriya. Yamada.” Is all Aizawa said in greeting so after returning the greeting they waited around for everyone else to get here.

Aizawa stands with his hands tucked into his pockets until the rest of the class makes it there, gathering in a loose cluster in front of him. “Today, we will be doing a quirk assessment test,” Aizawa announces, looking over the students before turning to face the field.

“What? A quirk assessment test?” A chorus of voices shout,

“But orientation! We’re gonna miss it!” Uraraka shouts while sounding concerned.

“If you really want to make the big leagues, you can’t waste time on pointless ceremonies,” Aizawa says with his back to them. “Here at UA, we’re not tethered to traditions. That means that I get to run my class however I see fit.” He turns back to them, keeping his hands in his pockets. “You’ve been taking standardized tests most of your lives, but you never got to use your quirks in physical exams before. The country is still trying to pretend we’re all created equal by not letting those with the most power excel. It’s not rational."

“Midoriya” Aizawa continues, turning to the greenette in question. “You managed to get the most points on the entrance exam this year. What was your farthest distance throw with a softball when you were in junior high?”

Izuku didn't expect to get called out on the first day but at least it's for a good reason this time "fifty-three meters, I think…" Izuku answers honestly while stepping forward 

Aizawa nods, holding out a ball before throwing it to him “Right. Try doing it with your quirk, Anything goes, just stay in the circle”

Izuku looked at the ball before asking if these needed to be returned, Aizawa rolled his eyes before repeating himself “anything goes as long as you stay in the circle.”

So Izuku said “cool, cool just wanted to make sure.” Before cocking his arm back with the ball,

And then with the best pitch he could manage he threw the ball, but before it could completely leave his hand he paused time.

After that he grabbed the ball and left UA, he turned on some music and then started walking all the way back home (which is about 20 miles away, but he didn't care since he literally had all the time in the world.)

And so once he was home he placed the ball in his room before sitting down on his bed and sighing. “Man, that was dumb. I should install skates in my boots or something. Most people would think it's useless since they think I can teleport but damn would it save up a good chunk of all this walking.”

And so after a little break he heaved himself off the bed and started the walk back.

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Midoriya walked up to the plate and asked him if these balls had to be returned, Shouta rolled his eyes since the kid obviously wasn't listening the first time and now he had to say it again “anything goes as long as you stay in the circle.”

"cool, cool just wanted to make sure.” Before cocking his arm back with the ball, he then got into a pretty good pitcher pose and threw the ball but as he looked around he never actually saw the ball leave his hand,

At first Shouta was confused but when he looked down at the device in his hand he realized what happened.

“All of you need to know your maximum capabilities. It’s the most rational way of figuring out your potential as a pro hero,” Shouta says before turning and holding up the screen displaying Midoriya’s distance of 32,191.7 meters. (Or in other words, about 20 miles.) 

There are some various comments of excitement like 'so manly!, such power!, but everything went downhill when the girl with pink hair and skin said it looked like so much fun.

because Shouta immediately had a scowl on his face and said “So this looks fun, huh? You have three years here to become a hero. You think it’s all gonna be games and play time? Today, you’ll compete in eight physical tests to gauge your potential. Whoever comes in last, will be deemed to have none, and will be expelled immediately.”

There were cries of unfairness but a comment about natural disasters, and villain attacks had them shutting up and getting ready for the test.

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Izuku did think it was unfair but he also understood how unfair the world could be so he wasn't exactly complaining, 

But because the universe hates him he was paired up with Kachan for the next test which was the 50 meter dash "I don't care how fast you are now Deku! just know I'm still gonna beat your ass!" And then the signal was pulled and Kachan was blasting off.

only to find Izuku was already at the end goal and was now walking away after hearing his score of .76 (that's how long it took him to react.)

And it continues like that, because everyone thinks he can teleport. It's not really cheating if he pauses time and simply walks around the sandbox before taking off until he will only just be visible to Eraserhead. (Which gives him the highest score on that test.)

Izuku also takes the number one spot on the repeated side steps test since he can just ‘teleport’ back and forth over and over again multiple times a second. (The super move mirage tempo that he used to defeat Mimic works very similarly.)

by continuously applying pressure in paused time he gets a good score of 272.4 kilograms on the grip test (he wasn't even sure if that would work, but the combined pressure spiked up to that score for about a second before resetting, but it still counted!)

He couldn't use time pausing to enhance his flexibility, or toe crunching so he did those ones normally.

push ups and sit ups on the other hand could be pushed way farther than normal since Izuku can take rest breaks in paused time unlike everyone else And so that's how he gets about 200 in each (he could have gone farther but Mr. Aizawa stopped him after realizing he wasn't getting tired.)

When the ball throw comes back around, Izuku gets to sit this one out and gets to watch as two different people get scores of infinity! (Uraraka and Yamada with Uraraka’s help.)

he's pretty sure that if you asked anyone normally Aizawa would have said no, meaning Yamada must have infused his quirk in the question for help, but is it persuasion? maybe mind jacking? no wait it's probably mind control since if it was the other two her movements wouldn't have been so stiff when she walked to touch the ball. Oh hey those two with quirk enhanced hearing are staring at me, meaning I'm probably "DEKU! SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR WEIRD ASS MUMBLING!”

After that was the final test which was the endurance run, and just like before because he could take breaks while no one was looking he could basically go on forever, the only difference was that now he had a companion riding a electric scooter who could also basically go on forever.

So by the time everyone else had dropped dead Izuku and Yaoyorozu had gotten through a very pleasant discussion about the intricacies of her quirk creation.

In fact the only reason it was stopped was because eventually Mr. Aizawa walked over and asked how much longer they thought they could go

“Well since this scooter has a solar panel I could go until it starts to get dark.” Said Yaoyorozu

Izuku then said “one of the downsides of my quirk is that my legs can feel sore as if I actually walked the distance I teleported. So to help with that I trained my legs to handle very long walks.”

Aizawa then sighed before saying “so what you are saying is that you could probably jog all the way into the night as well.” 

After that he told them it was a tie and that they could stop.

And so with that, they were done for the day. “All right, time to give you your results,” Aizawa announced to the group "I’ll just pull up the whole list. It’s not worth going over each individual score.” and with a press of a button a projection of the list came into existence above the device in his hand.

And wouldn't you know it he had second place! Right below Yaoyorozu, followed by Todoroki and Katsuki. (Who was fuming over being below Izuku for the second time in a row.)

Sure most of his scores were out of this world but even on the tests where he couldn't use time pausing Yaoyorozu could still use creation in some way to improve her score.

And he guesses that those few tests where she did better than him or tied with him really helped out her overall score.

So he was completely happy to take second place and even congratulate Yaoyorozu on getting number 1.

But someone who was getting the complete opposite reaction was Toru Hagakure in 20th.

if the way her outfit was shaking was anything to go by she was on the verge of tears when Aizawa spoke up “oh by the way, no one is going home. That was just a logical ruse to make sure you gave it your all in these tests.” Aizawa said with a shit eating grin pointed at the class, and as a retired vigilante who has met and fought Eraserhead, Izuku could say for sure that It was very unsettling.

Most of the class was shocked, the invisible girl was now actually crying but it was happy tears, and then Yaoyorozu spoke up and created even more chaos. “I’m surprised the rest of you didn’t figure that out. I’m sorry, I guess I should have said something,” She says casually

“Alright, that’s it. We’re done for the day. Pick up a syllabus from the homeroom before you leave and read it before class tomorrow morning,” Aizawa announces tiredly, tucking his hands back in his pockets and then walking off.

And instead of ‘teleporting' away like last time Izuku walks over to Yamada and says “hello my name is Izuku Midoriya" he extended a hand but it wasn't reciprocated beyond a simple "Hitoshi Yamada" he starts walking off but Izuku catches up and says "oh yeah, 7th place, highest spot a non-physical quirk got so I'm glad you're doing the quirkless and mental quirk users proud!" He meant it as a compliment but something in the way he said it must have pissed him off because he started walking faster and said "I'm not here to make friends" before turning the corner.

"Ah man I didn't even get to ask about his quirk" he wines but before he can step forward he is grappled into a hug "oh my god! I've been trying to talk to you all day Midoriya! But you kept disappearing and reappearing out of nowhere! I wanted to thank you for saving me back at the entrance exam!" It was Uraraka and if her walking next to Iida says anything they probably talked about the entrance exam and therefore talked about the zero pointer getting shut down by a green blur.

Speaking of Iida "Yes I tried to talk to you earlier and now that I can, I wanted to say sorry for how I acted. You were obviously the better hero since you didn't even waste a second thinking about saving everyone." and damn did he just pull off a 90° angle apology?

"Oh, r-really guys it was n-nothing! you don't need to thank or ap-apologize to me." curse his stutter when it comes to compliments!

Iida then interrupted with “oh, forgive me. I forgot to introduce myself!”

“It's fine Iida, I heard your introduction when you were scolding Kacha- er, I mean Katsuki.”

“Ah, I see, very good then.”

After that they talked more about the entrance exam until they were back at the locker room “well this is our stop! We shall meet you outside Uraraka!” Said Iida enthusiastically before stepping into the locker room.

Once she was sure he wouldn't hear she said "I don't know about you but the way he talks reminds me of a rich person." Uraraka stage whispered to him before walking down the hall to get to the girls changing room.

"Huh, I just thought he sounded inspirational." Izuku murmured before making his way into the locker rooms as well. Which brought an end to his very successful first day at UA.

Chapter Text

Despite the main appeal of UA being the hero course, it is a normal school as well, Present Mic is English, Ectoplasm is math, Midnight is the history of art and heroics, Cementoss is literature, but the teacher for the class everyone is most excited for wasn't revealed on their schedule.

Izuku has a theory of who it is but he's really hoping he is wrong as he talks to Uraraka, Iida, and Yaoyorozu. (They invited Todoroki but he declined saying that he didn't need friends, or well he said that but immediately corrected himself by saying “I already have a friend and I don't want anymore.”) which everyone but Izuku thought was weird but they simply moved on and got to know each other better until the girl who's name he thinks is Jiro gasped before standing up and stared at the door while saying “is that who I think it is!?”

They didn't have to wait long to get the answer as the door swung open and a voice yelled “I AM HERE!” All Might slid into view while leaning over before saying “COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!” everyone but Izuku and Todoroki cheered in excitement as the man came through the door and stood in front of the class while his cape bellowed in his self made wind.

Izuku heard the girl sitting in front of Iida say “is that his silver age costume?” And after looking closer it was! Which caused Izuku to mumble “you see, that's why I wore a cape! Look how cool it looks in the wind!”

But after that, they all calmed down and got back in their seats, which allowed All Might to say what he needed to “It’s time for your foundational hero studies!” All Might said with a blinding smile, hands on his hips. He then said “it's basically heroics 101. But let's get right to it!” He pulled a card out from somewhere and then showed it off to the class.

It said battle which All Might repeated out loud “we’re gonna get right into the thick of it with a battle trial!”

Once again the class exploded into cheer (Kachan was the loudest) but once they calmed down All Might said “but we can't have you fighting in your school outfits! Which is why you're gonna need these!” He pressed a button on a remote and the left wall (the one closest to Izuku’s row) opened up to reveal 20 metal suitcases

He grabbed the one which said 19 but before leaving the class he opened it up and just as he feared it was not his costume!

But luckily Yamada hadn't grabbed his case yet so he paused time and quickly swapped the insides of the cases, once that was done he picked his back up and said “man had I known that the seating wasn't just for show I would have stayed sitting behind Kachan. But oh well! I've already committed to the bit.”

He then unpaused and proceeded to walk towards the locker rooms while avoiding looking at the number one (he's not going to be rude to All Might, but just like when he was Ghost he is gonna be extremely petty!)

Once in the locker room he watched as Iida pulled out multiple pieces of what looked like white armor,

Kachan is grinning madly while holding up what looks like a grenade themed gauntlet,

Yamada is staring somewhat absent minded at a mouthguard with dials while rubbing at his face but seems to cheer up some as he pulls out a purple tinted scarf,

And then Izuku opens up his own case,

The main costume consists of a brightly colored green jumpsuit with a hood and a metal mouth guard in the shape of a smile.

His mom had made the costume for him as a sort of apology but she altered the ears of the original design after she heard about how All Might acted,

Even if she hadn't altered it he would have still loved it and thanked his mom profusely but the extra effort was appreciated.

But when he took his shirt off the red haired boy gasped and asked “where'd you get that manly scar?” Izuku looked down and realized his scar from the time he got stabbed by hawks was out in the open,

When he looked back up he had the attention of almost everyone in the locker room so he just quickly said “it was from a red tailed hawk.” (which technically isn't a lie since if Hawks did have a tail the feathers would probably be red.) While quickly putting the jumpsuit on,

But that caused Iida to stop putting his own costume on as he asked “do those type of birds even live in Japan?” Izuku quickly flipped his hood up before shrugging and saying “well the one that got me definitely does.” After that he got a few more “so manly!” From Kirishima and then everyone was back to focusing on their costumes,

Which also allowed Izuku to think about how everything he was wearing currently was requested before he really figured out his quirk,

Everything else In the case was requested because of his quirk!

First was the gloves, aesthetic wise they looked just like elbow long black gloves with some red accents that flow from the fingertips and the knuckles until they pool into the elbows but those lines actually serve a purpose since they collect kinetic energy and then allow the user to hit with almost 2x the force in any of the areas where the lines pool together (meaning all his punches, palm, and elbow strikes will hit with extra force and that extra force will only multiply more when in paused time.)

His boots have the same tech and aesthetic (red lines on black) only instead the lines pool at the knees, the front, the back, and the bottom of his shoes.

And he knew it was super risky but he also included the shortened version of his cape from the Ghost costume so he had something to remember it.

After that the only thing left is the multitude of capture related items hidden on his person

Thinking back to the sludge villain and how he took down criminals as Ghost he realized that he doesn't really need to fight to save lives,

With time pausing he can just capture every enemy before they can even think of throwing a punch!

Which is why he is carrying a multitude of handcuffs, capture tape, chains, normal tape, rope, and anything else that could possibly be used to apprehend someone.

Once he has everything situated he joins back up with the class and immediately gets flagged down by Uraraka “Woah! Your costume looks so cool!” her cheery voice exclaimed. She was practically bouncing toward him in her new outfit.

"Ah, do you think so? The main jumpsuit and hood was made by my mom and everything else is made up of support items so I didn't know if it would actually flow together well." he said while unclipping the metal guard and pulling his face covering hood off,

"Nah you look like a green fox covered in red lightning!" This caused Izuku to chuckle "well as long as it isn't a bunny I'll take it, but speaking of aesthetics were you going for a space theme?"

she nodded her head while looking down at her own costume and smiled at the boots, the helmet, and the arm brace things but as her sight settled on the black part of her costume she huffed, “I just wish my costume wasn’t so tight!"

But before Izuku could say anything a literal knight in (not so shining) armor showed up behind him and said "if that's the only problem then I believe all you have to do is head down to the support course and ask for a refitting." A long sigh took place as Iida removed his helmet with a little umpth "something I will have to do myself to fix this tight helmet. so we can just walk there together after class if you like?"

Uraraka easily agreed but any further conversation was cut off as All might started to explain the exercise.

He explained the indoor battles, then showed them their randomly selected teams. Team C was Uraraka and Izuku! That was going to be fun! Team D, who they’d be facing, consisted of Kachan and Yamada, not as fun. Uraraka and him would be playing the ‘Villains’ in this scenario, while Kachan and Yamada would be attempting to secure a missile from their base. 

Izuku and Uraraka were sent inside first and were given five minutes to formulate a plan. They stood alone in a room on the top floor with their fake nuclear missile. Izuku was already mumbling a million miles a minute under his breath. Uraraka thought It was cute so she let him go on for a moment before speaking up “Wanna share your brilliant plan?” she asked. 

Izuku jumped, turning a bit red. “Oh! Sorry, Uraraka-san. Uh yes-” he shook his head, clearing his mind. “Kacchan and Yamada both have pretty strong quirks if I understand how his works correctly… actually you and the guy with the multiple arms are the only ones who experienced Yamada’s quirk!” he turned towards her expectedly and she stutter a little trying to think before eventually saying “oh, uh well he asked if my quirk was control over gravity and I responded that it's just zero gravity and then next thing I knew my mind felt as if it was full of static and the only thing I could hear was his voice telling me to use my quirk on the ball.”

Izuku nodded before saying “that’s similar to what i imagined, mind control, and didn't he ask the other student a question too?”

Uraraka could kinda remember seeing that during the grip test so she nodded.

Izuku then nodded and said “great! So that probably means it's verbal response based! Plus it would explain the dial mask he was wearing.”

“Wow you are pretty smart, I would have never thought about that!” she said encouragingly

Izuku rubbed the back of neck while nervously chuckling “most people call it creepy, but a large attention to detail sorta just comes naturally when you have a lot of time on your hands.” once he was done chuckling at his inside joke he got back to the plan.

“Anyways! We are villains who can make things weightless with a single touch and teleport to almost anywhere in Japan! We are protecting a bomb and the enemy can create explosions and ensnare our minds if we respond to him.” Izuku said, trying to think like a villain.

“Right! So what's the plan, my fellow villain!?” She said trying to get into character as well.

“Well I believe the hero with explosions will come after me, our tragic backstories are intertwined so obviously he will hunt down his arch-nemesis!” Izuku said while holding his arms behind his back and walking back and forth,

Uraraka nodded before saying “it's only logical.”

“Now! obviously we don't want explosions anywhere near our own explosive.” He dramatically extended a hand towards the fake bomb before saying “so I believe our best course of action my dear partner in crime is for me to draw him away, but do you believe you can handle the hypno hero alone?” he asked before tilting his head in her direction since all Uraraka would be able to see is his glowing eyes which can't convey much emotion.

And Uraraka thought about it before responding with “verbal response right? And a mask which can probably alter his voice?” She too started to walk back and forth in a villainous manner while thinking before saying “that hero could render our earpieces completely useless. Which means even if I don't respond to him he could potentially trick me by making it sound like you're talking through the earpiece.”

Izuku hummed before saying “well then we need a code word! Something only us villains would know!” They both continued to think before Izuku turned to her excitedly and said “have you ever watched JoJo's bizarre adventure!?”

At first she was confused at the change in subject but when she connected the dots they both proceeded to do their best villain laughs knowing exactly what code words they would use!

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But over with the heroes, Hitoshi was not having nearly as much fun with his partner, Bakugo.

“Shouldn't we strategize even a little instead of simply waiting for All Might to say begin?” He asked tiredly while examining the map of the building, but Bakugo simply scoffed in his direction before saying “I'll go in, beat Deku's ass, then beat round-cheek’s ass and take that fucking bomb.”

Hitoshi rolled his eyes before saying “that's not a plan, that's an agenda. How about we start with something simple? What are their quirks?”

Bakugo scoffed again but eventually said “Deku used to be quirkless but some punk ass villain forced his quirk to manifest and now he can teleport. Round-cheek’s can turn gravity off by touching shit. There, happy eye-bags!?”

Hitoshi had to take a minute to decipher bakugo-nese and then another minute to realize Midoriya’s actions yesterday made a lot more sense with a quirkless background.

But he shook his head and refocused on the current mission “see, was that so hard Bakugo? Now the next step to forming a plan is our own strengths and weaknesses. You can make explosions, and I can well, um.”

“Just spit it the fuck out, or shut the fuck up!” Eventually yelled Bakugo after he took too long to answer

So Hitoshi looked away before saying “my quirk is called mind control, it used to be brainwashing but my pops realized the name wasn't accurate.” But instead of the normal response of calling him a villain all Bakugo said was “big whoop, I bet Deku already figured that shit out and told round-cheeks, so you're probably gonna be useless.”

And while he appreciated Bakugo not caring about his quirk this was taking it a little far. “Well unlike you I'm not a one trick pony, that's why I have the mask and this capture weapon dumbass.”

Bakugo then grabbed him by the shirt and let some miniature explosions go off in his other hand while saying “you want to say that again eye-bags!? I'll blow Deku and you sky high if you keep talking like that!!”

Hitoshi just rolled his eyes and was about to retort but then they heard some cartoon villain-like laughs come from the top floor.

They both sorta just stared at that until All Might yelled into the earpieces to “START”

which caused Bakugo to make a “tch” noise with his tongue before dropping Hitoshi and telling him “I'm going after Deku! We have some things to talk about. If you want to make yourself useful go talk to Round-cheeks!” and with that he entered the building.

Hitoshi dusted himself off and mumbled “great, I got teamed up with someone who has a childhood rival. Let's hope Uraraka is more reasonable.” He then clipped the mask into place and entered the building as well.

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Once All Might yelled “START” Izuku and Uraraka ended their evil laughing sesh and got straight to work.

Izuku handed over some of his capture tools and Uraraka used them and her quirk to set up some rudimentary traps, after that he bid farewell and disappeared.

When he did reappear he strutted on over until he stood at the top of the stairs to the 3rd floor, Kachan was on the 2nd so he didn't have to wait long until the explosive boy in question stood at the bottom of the stairs.

And when they locked eyes Izuku cut off whatever Kachan was gonna say by slow clapping in a villainous manner and saying “Congratulations, Katsuki. After all these months we can finally pick our conversation back up from where it ended.” It felt weird using his name instead of the nickname but villains don't use cutesy nicknames!

And he was glad he did because the use of the first name immediately set Kachan on edge and actually stopped him from just exploding up the stairs, eventually he said instead “so what Deku!? Are you here to just gloat about you winning against me!?” He yelled while taking a few steps forward

But Izuku didn't want to get straight into a fight since they would win by simply wasting time so he once again tried to act villainous while saying “No, I'm actually here to give you a chance Katsuki.”

And while still acting like a villain he smiled and said “go down two steps and just as promised we can continue our conversation, I'll tell you all you want to know.” obviously Kachan didn't move so he then let his smile turn a little more sinister (even though Kachan couldn't see it) and said “but if you’d rather die, then climb those stairs.” he said confidently while his eyes glowed toxic green. 

Katsuki did stutter a little in his movements at hearing sweet innocent Deku say shit like that but he quickly fixed his posture before yelling “you think you can scare me Deku!? Well tough shit since I don't feel any fear at all!”

He then prepared to lunge up the stairs before yelling “NOW FUCKING FIGHT ME DEKU!!!”

But all that bastard did was chuckle and say “is that so Katsuki? Then climb those stairs.” And so Katsuki did exactly that, he slammed his foot onto the next step and prepared to blast himself up the stairs to beat the shit out of Deku, but then that bastard had the gall to full on laugh before saying “I see Katsuki. You've gone down the stairs, which means you wish to continue talking to me, Deku.”

“Hah!? The fuck you mean-” he yelled while looking down, but stopped when he realized that he was in fact back at the bottom of the stairs,

He then looked around and questioned how the fuck Deku did that, he thought that bastard could only teleport things he was touching!

And once again he continued to laugh before saying “what's the matter? You're losing your composure, Katsuki.” he then leaned forward and stared deep into Katsuki's eyes while saying “doesn't one lose their composure when they are afraid or confused?” After that he laughed once again before standing back to his full height and extending his arms while saying “so what's it gonna be Katsuki? Are you afraid of the unknown?” He then brought his arms in and pointed at himself “Or are you afraid of me?”

By this point Katsuki had enough with Deku talking and yelled “you're a lousy fucking villain, Deku! So stop fucking monologuing and stop trying to trick me with your lame ass quirk!” And with that he ran up the stairs, only to once again find himself at the bottom.

He did this once again but he still just ended back up at the bottom without even noticing, Deku then smiled wide behind his mask before saying “well since you don't seem to be moving let's chat!”

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Back in the viewing room most of the students and All Might himself had chills run down their spine watching Midoriya go full villain mode on Bakugo, just completely disregarding his attempts at fighting as easily as one would breathe.

“Man, Midoriya is terrifying! Did you hear that speech!?” Asked Mina while hugging onto Kirishima for support,

Denki, who was close by, shuttered in fear before saying “yeah! I can't believe he just straight up said “but if you wish to die, climb the stairs.” Just simply restating the words caused a good few people to once again shake in fear

Yaoyorozu, Iida, Tokoyami, and Todoroki on the other hand were calmly talking about it “wouldn't it better to simply capture him? Why play with him like this?” Asked Yaoyorozu but Tokoyami is the one who answered “Villains work off a different mindset, why simply kill your enemies if you have the power to break them.” he said while pulling his hand into a fist to emphasize his point.

Iida reluctantly agreed before saying “yes, Midoriya has truly adopted a villain like persona, but also you must think about Uraraka. If he simply captured Bakugo and then helped her capture Yamada we would have no idea about her potential on her own, so instead by wasting time with Bakugo he is allowing Uraraka and Yamada to show us their plus ultra!” And at that Yaoyorozu nodded before turning to Todoroki and asking his opinion,

But Todoroki simply continued to stare at the screens before muttering “was that… a JoJo reference?” (The only reason he knows about it is because Ghost introduced him to it and then forced him to watch all 9 parts.)

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After he dragged Kachan down the stairs for the 8th time he was literally on the floor laughing at the absurdity of it all,

But once he calmed down he got back into his villain pose and unpaused once again.

Only to watch as Kachan immediately shot some explosions off and rocketed himself past the stairs in a single leap, now Izuku could send him back down but he decided to reward his ex-best friend's efforts.

So he adjusted his face covering mouth guard before saying “C-moon. How is operation Anubis going?” Kachan stared at him confused but eventually Uraraka responded with “Dio! I've managed to avoid all his taunts but man, this guy is really good at using that scarf! I don't know how much longer I can avoid him while still protecting the bomb.”

Izuku hummed before effortlessly ‘teleporting' out of the way of Kachan’s right hook, he then said “do you need me to intervene Pucci?”

It took a few seconds but eventually Uraraka responded with “don’t worry about me, The World! you just focus on Kira!” (this is their system to avoid getting caught by Yamada, just absolutely flooding their conversation with JoJo references and only calling each other by the names of characters and their stands.)

After that Izuku shut his earpiece back off and focused back on Kachan “well then. Care to try again, hero?” He asked while smirking,

But Kachan had his own smirk while he adjusted his right gauntlet, “nah, I'm sick and tired of you wasting my time. But I got to say, all that running really worked up a sweat!” His gauntlet proceeded to ominously glow orange and Izuku realized the purpose of those gauntlets almost immediately.

Which was good seeing as he how he ripped the pin out straight after,

But Izuku quickly paused time and moved behind Kachan, after that he slammed his fist into the right gauntlet a few times before unpausing.

Which meant when the explosion ripped through the building his gauntlet fell apart a few seconds later, he clicked his tongue in anger over the explosion breaking the gauntlet before looking around trying to find Deku.

It eventually led him to the 4th floor where he found Deku standing at the top of the staircase again, Deku chuckled and asked if he wanted to play this game again but Katsuki simply raised his other gauntlet and yelled “HELL NO!”

All Might’s voice crackled to life “Bakugo no! You'll kill him!” But that didn't stop him so he gripped the pin and yelled “he dodged the first one! So I'm willing to bet he can dodge this one too!”

And then at the same time he pulled the pin he watched Deku grab his phone to check something, shout “Eri!” And then disappear at the same time the explosion finally caught up to him.

After that everyone sorta just stared in confusion, (including Uraraka and Yamada since Izuku purposely got Katsuki to aim the explosion right at the room above them so Uraraka had more stuff to use with her quirk, but that also meant they could see Izuku and Katsuki.)

But thankfully before All Might had to call an emergency search for Midoriya/question Bakugo about why he killed the boy, he reappeared in front of them about 30 seconds later and looked completely unharmed besides the bits of his costume that were smoking. The boy then chuckled and said “crisis averted!”

He looked around in confusion at why they were still staring at him instead of going back to fighting so he eventually just asked “what? Did I miss something important?”

Surprisingly it was Yamada who spoke up “uh, yeah! We thought Bakugo killed you!” He yelled while moving away from all the floating debris

But Izuku simply laughed it off and said “what!? I was only gone for 30 seconds at the most! Come on guys, have a little more faith in me!” after yelling that he ‘teleported' to over where Uraraka was currently holding a giant cement pillar like a baseball bat and asked if he could end this.

Uraraka sighed before releasing her quirk and watching as all the floating things in the room finally came crashing down “go for it.” She said calmly before sitting in front of the fake bomb.

Izuku hummed before pulling out his capture tape, The heroes immediately got into a battle stance and he watched as Yamada flung his scarf at him almost exactly like Eraserhead. But it was slower than Eraserhead’s so he easily paused time and wrapped both Yamada and Kachan up.

After that he dragged everyone and the bomb to the exit and then unpaused time.

Obviously Yamada and Kachan started freaking out (read: Hitoshi was spooked, Katsuki was yelling profanities.)

Uraraka simply stood up and hugged Izuku while saying how much fun that was.

And only then did All Might realize what happened and said “uh… Villains win! I guess.”

After that Izuku and Uraraka helped un-tie the two but Kachan refused his help when he extended his hand to pull him up “even if you won that doesn't mean I suddenly need your help Deku.”

With that he walked off ahead of them, so Izuku turned his attention to the other two “so, since I was on Kira duty how'd it go with Anubis?” He said while pointing his thumb at Yamada

But that caused Yamada to grown in annoyance “that right there is why I couldn't use my quirk! You two were talking in some coded language the entire time! The hell does it mean anyways!?” He asked while giving them a annoyed look.

But it just caused Izuku and Uraraka to dramatically gasp before in sync saying “you don't know about JoJo references!?”

Yamada then looked at them bewildered and said “the hell is a JoJo!?”

Izuku then shook Uraraka by the shoulders and said “you have to tell me what I missed!”

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About 20 minutes earlier:

“Ok, you've got some chains, rope, tape and all the fake supplies in this room, to help you stop Yamada since I'm pretty sure he doesn't just rely on his quirk.” Said Midoriya while helping Ochaco set up something akin to traps,

“Right! So I should be good to go!” Shouted Ochako excitedly, Midoriya was getting ready to go distract that Bakugo guy so she said “oh wait! What's our codenames!? I know we said that just changing up how we speak should be enough to throw off his quirk but I feel like we should have codenames!”

Midoriya thought about it before saying “Dio and Pucci. They are both villains, Dio’s stand looks like teleportation to everyone else, and Pucci can manipulate gravity.”

Ochako thought about it before nodding, “I can work with that, and so Yamada can't learn what we are doing will switch back and forth between names and stands.”

Midoriya nodded “oh! That's really smart! Good job Urar- or should I say, great idea Pucci!” Midoriya did another evil laugh to get back into character and then said goodbye before disappearing.

And so with that Ochaco went straight back to work, preparing for the worst.

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Which meant when Hitoshi finally made it to the 5th floor by taking another staircase far away from whatever Bakugo is doing on the second, he easily found Uraraka surveying the room while the bomb was behind her,

After that he messed with the fake vocal cord dials until his voice sounded pretty similar to Midoriya’s

“Uraraka! Katsuki is fighting me on the second floor! Have you found Yamada yet!?” But instead of Uraraka touching her earpiece like he wanted she simply spun around to face him before shaking her head

So he came out of his hiding spot and entered the room “alright what gives? How did you know it was me?” He was genuinely asking but forgot that Uraraka wasn't gonna respond to him since they were fighting.

So he instead grabbed the scarf he got from Uncle Shouta and flung it towards her, but before it could reach her she pressed her hands together and quietly said “release.”

After that about 4 massive crates fell from the ceiling and while he avoided getting stuck under one the end of his scarf did not. “Really Uraraka? Resorting to traps? All though I guess it makes sense seeing as how you are a villain.” But Uraraka stayed quiet 

He tried a few other taunts in the time it took him to free his scarf but almost right after that Uraraka ran up on him and threw a palm strike into his chest, he managed to block it with his arm but It didn't matter seeing as how it still allowed her to press all 5 of her fingers onto him and take away his gravity.

He tried to use it to his advantage by launching himself at the bomb but he overshot it and ended up crashing into the opposite wall.

While he was distracted trying to right himself in the air, Uraraka grabbed the bomb and ran out of the room, he then proceeded to float around the room a little until he finally managed to get his scarf to hook onto something and allow him to make it out of the room, but it was all for naught as a second later his gravity was returned and he face planted into the ground.

He sighed but eventually stood up and ran off while muttering “stupid Midoriya and his good ass deduction skills! I could have already taken a nap if Uraraka had just fallen for my quirk!”

When he found Uraraka she was talking to herself “Dio! I've managed to avoid all his taunts but man, this guy is really good at using that scarf! I don't know how much longer I can avoid him while still protecting the bomb.” she then adjusted the floating bomb before saying “don’t worry about me, The World! you just focus on Kira!” she chuckled at whatever joke she was making before turning to face Hitoshi “ah, welcome, Yamada.” She straight up cackled before saying “to your doom!” She said while placing her hands together.

He looked around the room trying to find whatever she used her quirk on but it was simply a ploy to allow her to get another quirk infused palm strike

But learning from his mistakes he blocked this one with his scarf, but by removing the gravity of the scarf she was able to manipulate it enough to break free from his hold, he cursed under his breath before saying “you know, your costume is way too bubbly for a villain. You sure you don't want to just give up?”

It's obvious she had a retort in mind but she kept her cool and stayed silent, she instead ran over to the other side of the room and slapped a box full of metal pipes, and then she threw it straight at him with all her might.

He managed to use his scarf just the way Uncle Shouta showed him to grab the box with the scarf and deflect it but it seems she didn't just slap the box as even though he deflected the box a bunch of the pipes still went flying in his direction.

With some complicated dodging he managed to avoid the worst of it but a few pipes still hit him in his leg and his chest.

He made a few more insults and questions but she didn't answer, instead she flung herself at the bomb before pressing her earpiece and saying “hey Dio! I'm running out of objects to throw at Anubis!” Again with those ridiculous nicknames!

“Why the hell am I Anubis? And who is Dio?” He asked but she didn't answer, instead she nodded before mumbling something into the Earpiece.

A few seconds later they heard Midoriya shout in distress and then a massive explosion ripped through the floor and allowed them to see to the 4th floor.

Uraraka didn't waste a second collecting a bunch of the debris and grabbing a massive pillar like a baseball bat, but then stopped when she realized that Midoriya’s earpiece was only playing static (meaning he was either out of range or the earpiece was destroyed.)

So Uraraka and Yamada looked down in horror at the spot Bakugo was currently just staring at and both of them came to the same conclusion.

Midoriya was dead!?

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Back to the present:

The Midoriya in question of being dead was currently laughing his ass off “I pop out for 30 seconds to go deal with something and you immediately presume that Kachan killed me!? Sure he might be pretty rude but even he wouldn't go that far!” He yelled before laughing again at the absurdity of it

Yamada eventually got fed up and asked “well where were you for those 30 seconds then, oh great unkillable one?” he said sarcastically but Izuku responded with “it's uncatchable, and i was just helping my sister.”

Now Uraraka and Yamada both stared in confusion “what does that mean?”

But Izuku simply just chuckled before walking ahead of them.

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Eri’s first grade classroom:

She hadn't enjoyed the idea of school at first but with a way to contact the one person who was able to protect her from Overhaul all by themselves and much encouragement from her mom, Inko-san (she still sometimes had trouble remembering to call her mom but she was getting better at it.) She decided to try it.

But it seemed like her worries were for nothing, Eri enjoyed learning a lot! And she had even made some friends with the other 1st graders! The best part was that no one forced her to show off her cur- quirk! so she didn't have to worry about that either!

Well, that's not entirely accurate… no one in her class tries to force her to use her quirk. But the 3rd graders on the other hand ask her to use her quirk anytime they find her on the playground.

She's done a pretty good job at avoiding them and they usually back off after a simple no but something must have made them mad today as the second they were allowed on the playground they cornered her and kept pestering her to use Rewind “come on! Just show us your quirk! Or were the teachers lying and all you have is a useless horn!?” Yelled one of the 3rd graders while grabbing said horn and pulling on it.

But that horn was sensitive and the boy tugging on it really hurt! But even as she started to tear up (more so of the memories of being in pain rather than the pain itself.) They didn't care and continued to push her around.

So when she realized no one was going to stop and she really didn't want to use her quirk she gripped the device her Nii-chan gave her and pressed the button.

And just like he promised, within the next second her brother was right in front of her, he might have been wearing a costume with some burns on it but she knew for a fact it was him as when he pulled her into his arms the world around them became silent.

So she proceeded to quietly cry into his shoulder while trying her best to explain what happened.

And just like always her Nii-chan just listened and comforted her, and once she calmed down he sat her down and said “Ok, here's what we are gonna do Eri! I'm gonna scare off these mean 3rd graders and then we are gonna go tell the teachers so these guys get in trouble and hopefully leave you alone in the future. And if they don't!?”

Eri wiped her tears before letting a small smile from and saying “Nii-chan will go back to being Ghost and scare away anyone who messes with me!” Her brother nodded and patted her on the back before standing up and unpaused.

And so to the little boys all they saw was the little girl press a button on some device and then a scary looking monster! who had black smoke coming off him appeared and those glowing green eyes appeared to see into their very souls!

They all backed away in fear as the monster said “If I catch you boys messing with my sister again I will destroy all your toys!” But then the little girl who they were just messing with gasped and said “no Nii-chan! That's too mean!”

The monster turned to her, chuckled and patted her head before saying “ah your right!”

So when the monster turned back to them it instead said “I will tell your parents!” And at that the boys all backed away before running away.

Izuku then turned back to his sister, lowered his metal mouth guard so she could see his smile and said “ok Eri! I've got to head back to school! But don't hesitate to use the pager if you think you need help!” Eri smiled and nodded and then watched her brother ‘teleport’ away.

And when she saw the 3rd graders later they all had chills run down their spine before running away from her. Which meant no one else tried to force her to use her quirk from that day forward!

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It was obvious Kachan was sulking as he walked about 30 feet in front of them but Izuku knew if he tried to cheer him about the loss he would just get angry again so he left him to his sulking as they re-entered the viewing room,

"Well, that was certainly an interesting match but who do you think the MVP was?" Said All Might after he had everyone's attention,

Many hands shot up and some just shouted it out but All Might eventually chose young Yaoyorozu "the MVP is Yamada, while he may have lost he stuck to his goal for this match the most. Bakugo completely forgot about the bomb so he could fight and then proceeded to let off two lethal explosions near the bomb, Uraraka protected the bomb but could have easily hit it with all her moving around, and while Midoriya made sure that bakugou couldn't get close to the bomb for the most part if his performance at the end is anything to go by then he could have probably apprehended the heroes right at the beginning, so why he didn't do that is a mystery.”

All Might was left stumbling over his words since Young yaoyorozu basically left nothing to explain himself but he eventually just asked if there were any objections but even Uraraka and Midoriya agreed that Yamada should be the MVP and that the reason why they didn't capture the heroes was simply because this was not a real situation. 

So after telling all 4 of them to head to Recovery Girl to check for any injuries that the adrenaline might be hiding, he started the next round.

Uraraka came back about a minutes later chewing on some gummies,

Bakugo showed up next about 3 minutes later and while he was missing both gauntlets he was also just chomping on some gummies.

And about halfway through the second match Midoriya and Yamada returned together, both missing their costumes and both looking a little tired but no worse for wear. (Apparently it was not just his costume that got burned due to his late reaction. And Yamada definitely had some bruises from Uraraka's few attacks that she did pull off.)

And so the matches continued!

Some were action packed like the first one and others were quick and done after about a minute,

In fact the only team who won by running the time out was Yaoyorozu and Iida who just worked together to seal the room with heavy metal.

The quickest one by far had to be Todoroki and Shoji vs Ojiro and Hagakure but there was one upside to this match and that's Izuku got to practice his social humor skills after Todoroki froze the building.

"Y-y-you s-see! T-this is w-why I didn't go w-with pl-an A s-straight from t-the beginning! Lo-ok how s-sad ev-everyone looks abo-ut n-not even getting a ch-chance to fight!" He muttered out through chattering teeth, and Uraraka nodded her head while also shaking from the cold. When the temperature shot back up she said "yeah, even Todoroki looks sad about it! so I'm definitely glad we went with plan B!"

And if everyone in earshot realized that these two cinnamon rolls had a plan that could rival the power move that Todoroki, the son of Endeavor! just did causally then they had the decency to disguise their shutter of fear as just shaking off the last bits of frost.

All Might then gave some last minute pointers before saying “Now! This is how a hero leaves to go do more heroic things!” And with that he ran fast enough that all the students felt was the gist of wind left behind by him leaving.

Izuku stayed staring for a little longer before saying “oh yeah! I forgot All Might has a time limit.” He then shrugged before walking with Uraraka and Iida to the support course rooms.

“Ah, Midoriya! Is there a reason you are joining us? Does your costume not fit properly either?” Asked Iida but Izuku just shook his head before saying “no, my costume fits pretty well actually. I'm just here because I want to make some alterations while they repair the burnt parts.”

Iida nodded and said some stuff about “it's always good to make improvements!” Before returning to more mundane topics with Uraraka and him.

And that's how it was the rest of the way until Uraraka and Iida went into the area for refitting and Izuku stopped in front of the class which makes the actual support items.

He knocked on the door but a second later the door was blown off its hinges.

He paused time and moved down the hallway before letting time start back up.

*Slam!* Is the sound the door made as it crashed into the wall, there were shouts from the inside before a girl with shoulder length pink hair and a complicated pair of red goggles on top poked her head out and then stared at him with a massive smile.

As Izuku approached she completely left the confines of the room and said “nice reflexes greenie! Are you here to try out some of my babies!?” She asked excitedly.

“Y-your what!?” He yelled in confusion! But she was already dragging him into the room while saying “of course you're here to try some of my babies!! Now get in here and tell me what you want!” but before she could completely drag him into her madness Power Loader appeared and made her let go “Hatsume. What have I said about lab safety and kidnapping hero students?”

The pink headed girl in question nodded before turning back to face him and extending her hand “I'm Mei Hatsume! Future CEO of Hatsume industries! Now will you please let me show you my babies!?” He shook her hand and introduced himself before turning to Power loader who just sighed and said “inventions = babies, because Hatsume likes to call herself-” but he was interrupted by Hatsume who yelled “the mother of my creations! Now get over here green-bean!”

“Oh, wait! no-” he tried to refuse but before he knew it Hatsume had him sat down and was staring at him excitedly with a open notebook

He awkwardly laughed before saying “uh, well my quirk is pathfinder teleportation, but I'd like to get retractable skates installed so I can be faster when my quirk isn't available, in a similar vein I was wondering if could get spikes on the bottom of my shoes for slippery terrain? Kinda like cleats, but for ice.”

Hatsume nodded along while writing it all down, she then slammed the book closed and looked at him excitedly “you want to be faster without your quirk!? What if I install rockets onto the retractable skates!? No wait better yet! I'll invent shoes that have negative traction! So you'll be sliding along the ground like an ice skater!” She said excitedly already grabbing pieces of tech off her workbench

But Izuku had to sadly end her ideas with “those sound really cool! But I can barely skate, let alone ice skate! So really all I want is just some shoes with wheels that can fold into or out of them at a moment's notice. But if you do invent hover boots please keep me informed!” He added onto the end since that did sound really cool

But his words had an unexpected effect, “hover boots… that's way better than tractionless shoes! Why didn't I think of that! And don't worry I'll definitely keep you informed Greenie! And sure I guess really advanced wheelie shoes are possible but it's gonna make the souls of the shoes a little big.” But Izuku said that was no problem before raising the platform boots he currently had on. (He doesn't usually wear them to school since UA has a strict dress code but he put his back on once school was over.)

Hatsume laughed before saying “oh I like you green-bean!! I can tell you are gonna be one of my most fun customers!” And after that she got lost in her world of inventing so Izuku left it to her and went home to explain to his mom how Kachan blew up all her hard work.

Safe to say a very fun conversation took place between his mom and aunt Mitsuki after that.

In other news Izuku is now the local cryptid at Eri’s School, and Eri sometimes gets offerings for the cryptid seeing as how the monster protected her and called her family.

Izuku finds it cute, but his mom is a little worried about Eri accidentally starting a cult where they make offerings to this Emerald Lightning Fox-man Monster.

But what neither of them realize is that Eri started rumors about the ‘monster’ liking apples just so the ‘offerings to the cryptid’ would be mostly apple themed, AKA, Eri played them all to get free apples for herself.

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It was now Wednesday and while the front gate was surrounded by news reporters asking about All Might, Izuku easily avoided them by just pausing time and then dragging all the students he saw stuck in the crowd though the gate (he left Aoyama since even while paused he could tell that the boy loved all the attention.)

And while Iida, Uraraka, Kirishima, Kaminari, and Sero were confused by why they just teleported, they still thanked him for getting them out (Iida was a little mad that he used his quirk without permission but still thanked him in the end.) So after that they quickly made it to class.

When Aizawa-sensei had returned from dealing with the vultures as he called them, he looked like the energy was drained from him even more than usual,

But after draining an entire coffee thermos in front of them he told them some feedback on their performances yesterday,

"Todoroki and Bakugo. you had decent strategies but neither of you depended on your teammates or cared for the protection of the weapon that could have gone off from the change in temperature or tremors caused by your more powerful explosions." Todoroki did a simple nod and Bakugo gave a grunt that hopefully sounded like a yes,

"Iida, while Yaoyorozu's plan was well made I could tell you had your own ideas to add but decided not to. Learn to speak your mind more, who knows maybe you could have made her plan better." Yaoyorozu looked constipated about the idea as if it was somehow her fault that Iida didn't speak up but Iida just nodded his head and said "yes, sir! Aizawa-sensei."

"And finally Midoriya, while you're plan and teamwork was decent you need to work on your situational awareness since the only time you got hurt was when you lost focus, and while I know you did your plan the way you did because it was a exercise i hope you don't try to hold back in a real fight." Izuku already knew that last part but he still appreciates the advice,

"As for the rest of you. you did decent considering your circumstances but those papers on all your desks have criticism and advice on how to improve." after hearing that Izuku immediately started looking through the one on his desk and being so entranced on it is probably what caused him to miss the class going silent and then exploding into noise,

He quickly put his packet into his backpack and zoned back just in time to hear Iida shout about how they should do this democracy style and take a vote to decide the class president

Izuku thought about it for a while before just deciding to vote for Iida since he was the one who organized the chaos in the first place,

And when the votes were tallied, Izuku was happy to see that Yaoyorozu had 3 votes and Iida got 2. Izuku had got a point even though he didn't vote for himself but he already has a theory on who that was seeing as how Iida only had 2 and not 3,

The only people with zero votes were Uraraka, Todoroki, and Yamada.

Everyone else had 1 so they either voted for themselves or vote swapped with someone like Izuku did,

Iida did another 90° bow and said "I vow to use the full extent of my abilities to be a great vice-president." Yaoyorozu achieved a much less intense bow as she said "I vow to do the same but as the class president!"

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It was completely by accident that Izuku ended up sitting right next to Yamada at lunch but what better time to try and fix whatever mistake he made the first time around so he looked him in the eyes and said "before you say anything I would just like you to know that what I said to you last time was intended as high praise because it made me feel hopeful for people with less physical quirks." that sentence seemed to shut off whatever retort he had prepared and a few moments later he asked "why would you care about the dreams of people with less heroic quirks when yours seems basically made for it" and now everything made a lot more sense

Yamada was in a similar situation to Izuku except instead of quirklessness it was a weak or villainus quirk, so trying to break the tense atmosphere he cracked a beaming smile and said "well you are looking at one of oldest cases of late bloomers to ever exist, in fact I would have ended up in a records book if it wasn't for some random 15 year old who was quirkless for about a year longer than me." this information obviously broke Yamada's understanding of Izuku but all he got out was a whispered "you were quirkless for 14 years? Bakugo made it sound like you were just quirkless for like a couple of years, Wait you've only had your quirk for a YEA-" but he shut himself up as Uraraka and Iida found their table and sat down,

"Hey! We were looking for you! We need to celebrate Iida becoming the vice-prez!" That immediately made Yamada shut back down but seeing as how he didn't run away Izuku would call it progress!

"I don't know if we need to throw a party over it but it is rather incredible that I got two votes when I didn't even vote for myself!" Iida exclaimed as he started to eat his rice, Uraraka also took a bite of her rice before saying "buddy don't you realize your two votes are right in front of you? Oh well not cotton-candy hair here, but I think it's pretty obvious who voted for you" Yamada tried to hide the uptick of his mouth from the nickname by stuffing his mouth with his own food,

"Uraraka is right, I did vote for you but seeing as how I still had a vote I'm guessing it was from you?" Iida nodded his head and then said "while I enjoy the trust you two have put in me I thought Midoriya would be a good candidate seeing as how quickly he put together a plan and all his other achievements. but what's done is done and now I shall try my hardest to be a good vice to yaoyorozu!"

All 4 hummed in agreement but then Uraraka spoke up by clapping her hands together "oh what if instead of just being a helper to the president you guys strike a deal to be more like partners and to split the burdens! I bet you two could figure it out really easy since you both got that rich people talk." Iida agreed excitedly already planning what he was gonna talk to yaoyorozu about before he stopped and stared at Uraraka like she had grown a second head,

He stammered a little before just saying "rich people talk?" He slumped into his seat a little as he said "was it that obvious that I come from a well off family?" Uraraka agreed excitedly like this wasn't putting Iida in a bad mood and even Yamada did a so-so movement with his hand as he continued to eat with the other. Izuku just shrugged cause he doesn't really pay attention to that kinda stuff.

Iida eventually stopped slumping and said "well while I don't like to brag or flaunt it I guess there's no point in hiding it now! So have any of you heard of the Turbo Hero: Ingenium?" Oh great, it was Izuku's specialty, Hero trivia! "Oh yeah, he is known for helping all of his sidekicks go mainstream and even helped reform some vigilanties! He mainly works in Hosu because his agency, the Iida…ten… is there." Those last few words were mumbled as Izuku finally made the frankly obvious connection, Iida seemed to read his mind because he cracked a beaming smile and said "as Midoriya probably just figured out, yes Ingenium's agency is called the Iidaten, and yes he is my older brother, Iida Tensei!" If his smile was beaming before then it was absolutely blinding now!

It was already obvious that Iida loves his brother but his next words just cemented that fact "he is also my inspiration to become a hero! I wish to work with my family to protect and save people." and those words started a trend of them all explaining their reasons to be a hero.

Ochaco was mainly in it for the money but it was obvious that it came from a place of love and not greed.

Yamada joined the conversation to say it was mostly spite, to prove people wrong that he could in fact be a hero.

And then it was just Izuku and well… "ever since I was young I wanted to save people with a smile, like All Might, but for a long time I thought it was impossible to achieve that, but after I figured out my quirk I gained a new goal! I still want to save people with a smile but now I want to do it by stopping the fight before people even need to be saved!" And that had Iida out of his seat clapping "truly an inspirational goal Midoriya! A symbol of integrity!" And while Izuku loved that Iida believed he could be a symbol for something he really wish he wouldn't scream it out for the whole cafeteria to hear!

Or well he guess no one heard Iida over the blaring alarm telling everyone that it's a level 3 so that's a bonus!

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Wait a minute!

Izuku immediately jumped up to his feet and grabbed a passing 3rd year "what's a level 3!?" They screamed about how it meant someone got past the barrier and how it hasn't happened in his 3 years of being here before he shoved Izuku's hand off and continued to run,

And as Izuku ran off to catch up with Iida and Uraraka he saw how crowded the exit to the cafeteria became and decided to pause time. 

First thing he did was move through the frozen crowd to collect all his classmates,

Kaminari, Mina, and Kirishima were shoved against the wall next to each other just trying to avoid the huge mob of scared students so he quickly moved all 3 back to the cafeteria,

Yaoyorozu was near the middle of the mob trying to get away from a very short and purple haired general student who was bunched up against her ass, he kicked that student lightly in the nuts since it was obvious he was enjoying the position he was stuck in before grabbing yaoyorozu by the bicep of her arm and pulling her over to the other three,

Ojiro had his tail wrapped around floating clothes protectively (most likely trying to stop people from just walking all over Hagakure) so he got those two out as well,

Shoji and Sato were easy to spot since not only were they very tall and bulky but they were both also next to Todoroki who has such strong "don't fuck with me" vibes that even in their panic everyone was giving him a wide birth and so it was also pretty easy to move them over to everyone else (he was very glad he did because if the way todoroki was freezing to the touch was anything to go by then he was probably getting ready to just freeze everyone to make them shut up.)

He couldn't find Yamada, Kachan, or Aoyama but everyone else was easily pulled out and made safe so he walked over to where he placed iida and Uraraka and unpaused.

There was a high pitch scream that sounded like a kicked Chihuahua but it was quickly lost to the sound of the alarm,

Uraraka was the first to turn to him "is it bad that I'm getting used to being randomly teleported?" Izuku chuckled but then said "I pulled you all out because it's just the press but I don't know how to calm everyone else down!"

Iida stared at the panicking crowd for a moment before he asked Uraraka to make him float and proceeded to propel himself forward until he was above the doorway and could yell over all the noise to tell them to act like proper UA students because it's just the reporters.

Everything calmed down after that but he still went around checking on everyone.

For a minute he thought Todoroki realized it was him but then the boy turned away after he asked if he was ok so it must have just been a fluke.

And that was it.

When they returned to class Aizawa-sensei explained that it was just the reporters and after Iida’s successful stunt Yaoyorozu was contemplating stepping down as class president but then Iida brought up Uraraka’s idea about them just splitting the responsibilities and working as a team instead of a hierarchy.

Which meant by the time they got some more quirk training with All Might class 1A had two class presidents that everyone was happy about and that was the end of the day.

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Today was Thursday! Izuku went to sleep early yesterday since Eraserhead said that they would be going somewhere off the main campus for heroics training today.

He also heard it was rescue training so he was very excited as he and his classmates walked towards the bus. 

“Hey Midoriya-kun!” Uraraka called, coming up to his side in her hero outfit. He fought off the blush from the nickname as she walked in stride with him. He noted her costume was different. No more heels, and it was a lot less skin tight. “How come you’re in your gym clothes?” she asked while looking at his shirt.

“Kachan burned my top during our foundational hero training, remember? It was made of normal sewing fabric so instead of just repairing the burnt stuff they decided to replace it entirely with stronger fabrics that won't burn or tear as easily.” He then flexed his arms, “at least the gloves, the boots, and the mouth guard survived,” he said. “Give me some protection ya know?” 

Uraraka nodded at that but whatever she could say next was shut down by Iida “Classmates! Please get on the bus in an orderly fashion!” he yelled, chopping his arms in the air. 

“Man, Iida-kun is really getting into it!” Uraraka said, pumping her arm upwards “Great work class prez!” she called to him as the two of them piled onto the bus. They made their way to the back, where the last of the empty seats were. Sitting next to each other, Uraraka, Izuku, Yamada, and Iida. Across from them, Ashido, Kaminari, Asui and Kirishima all sat. 

Kachan and Todoroki sat just a couple of seats away.

And with that they all settled into their own conversation as the bus pulled away from the main school building, heading toward their next location. Izuku eventually glanced at Asui for what had to have been the tenth time since they got on the bus and decided to ask “Something wrong, Asui-san?” 

“Call me Tsuyu-chan,” she said, “Sorry Midoriya-chan. I’m the type of person who says what’s on my mind and I’ve been thinking-” she paused, holding a finger to her mouth. It was rather cute. “Your quirk is kind of weird.”

Izuku chuckled before saying “you're gonna have to be a little more specific if you want an answer to that.”

Asui nodded before saying “you say your quirk is teleportation and yet you also smashed a bunch of robots with your bare fists, not to mention what you did to the zero pointer.”

Luckily Izuku had already found the perfect way to explain this “it actually just really complicated quirk fusion. My mom’s quirk allows her to pull objects towards herself, while my dad could absorb and redirect energy from the very atoms themselves.”

By this point He could feel everyone’s eyes on him. He haphazarded a glance around the bus and found that- yep he was correct. Everyone was staring at him. Most notably a pair of red explosive looking eyes.

So he quickly continued “now for the simple part my quirk is just the opposite of my mom's, she can pull stuff to her, I can pull myself towards places. But while I'm getting dragged through space, I can gather kinetic energy just like my father and then release it to cause destruction. But I mostly focus on capture instead of battle, so I don't use it often.”

Was it all complete and utter bullshit so he didn't have to admit that he can pause time itself? Yes, very much so. But did the explanation work to make them stop questioning his quirk? Also yes!

But with Asu- Tsuyu-chan’s questions answered apparently that meant the floor was now open to everyone “man! Your quirk is powerful Midoriya! I wish my quirk was as flashy, all I can do is harden.” Said Kirishima while demonstrating said hardening quirk.

So he answered with “Thank you, Kirishima. But did you forget the part where I said I focus on capture? Meaning I barely use the ‘flashy’ part of my quirk? But I think your quirk is cool too! You’re like an unbreakable shield! Who needs to be flashy when you have that?” 

“This is what I mean Midoriya you’re so freaking manly!” Kirishima said excitedly. “Though if we’re talking about powerful and flashy quirks I gotta bring up Todoroki and Bakugou too,” he said while pointing at said boys who were closer to the front.

“Yeah but-” Kaminari started, “Todoroki’s a complete ice prince and Bakugo here has a sucky personality. Midoriya has that cool confidence in a fight while still being down to earth.”

Mina decided to interject with a quick “and don't forget he can scare the shit out of any villain!” A few people nodded and a few others shook in fear at the reminder 

And even though they couldn't be friends right now (due to a stupid bet.) Izuku still had to defend the honor of the first friend he made after Kachan. (And he guess he can do the same for Kachan while he is at it.)

“Let's not be too hasty, Todoroki might take a while to warm up to (pun not intended.) but I'm certain he could be a cool guy (pun, also not intended.) once you got to know him. Kachan is… well, improving. And while I have been working on my confidence and stuff, I am not scary! I simply stole one-liners from animes so old barely anyone watches them anymore!”

A few people stared at him at that revelation but any further conversation was cut off by Aizawa. 

“We’re here. Get out,” he said while standing up.

When did the bus stop? Izuku only shook his head to focus up before following behind everyone as they made their way off the bus.

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The USJ was massive! Izuku smiled brightly as his eyes cataloged the entire building. Shipwrecks, massive fires, landslides, torrential downpours, and earthquakes! He rocked back and forth on his feet, the slight metal clang under his foot getting louder as he got more and more pumped! Not only by the USJ, but by Thirteen! 

Uraraka was fangirling about as hard as he normally did. It was nice to have someone else appreciate pro heroes. (Even if the reason why he was most excited was because Thirteen was the only staff member he could never find as Ghost.) “I’ve always liked Thirteen! A kind hearted hero who specializes in rescue operations! I wanna be a hero just like them!” She said to Izuku. 

“Thirteen, where’s All Might?” Aizawa asked them quietly. “I thought he was supposed to be here with you?” 

“Ah,” Thirteen held up three fingers. “He was a little busy this morning. So we gave him the rest of the day off,” Three fingers meant all three hours were up. Izuku had read the news that morning and had a feeling that All Might’s injury was gonna catch up with him.

“Man, he's irresponsible.” Aizawa sighed, and Izuku could agree, there were plenty of heroes around to stop those attacks but he wasted his time finishing them personally and now left no time for his job as a teacher.

Thirteen nodded before turning back to face the class “Ok kids before we begin I wanna go over a few things!” Thirteen said, getting the entire class's attention. “If you didn’t already know, my quirk is called Blackhole. It can suck up anything and turn it into dust. While it’s a perfect quirk for search and rescue missions, it’s also a very dangerous power. I could kill someone easily. In that way, it’s the same as all of yours.” 

Izuku looked down at his own hands thinking about how he dealt with Overhaul and his men due to his anger. So he already knew it was a power he’d have to use wisely. 

“In our super human society,” Thirteen continued, “our quirks are heavily regulated, and for good reason. During Aizawa-sensei’s test on your first day you’ve each got an idea of what you and your classmates can do. And with All Might’s foundational hero battle training you have an idea of what it’s like to use those powers against another person. One wrong move and you could all seriously hurt, or even kill someone.” 

Izuku frowned. With his powers, not only could he kill he could easily ruin lives. If he were a weaker man... he could rob and destroy anyone in the world before they could even react! Hell, with enough time you could destroy their futures, and Izuku seemingly has an infinite amount of that.

“But today, we’re making a fresh start. I’m going to show you how to use your quirk to save lives. Your quirks do not exist to hurt others. I want you to go home today with the understanding that your powers are meant to help people. That’s what’s going to make you all heroes.” Thirteen finished. 

And not a moment too late seeing as how a dark mist like portal formed in front of the fountain right after.

"Thirteen protect the students." Aizawa commanded once he saw it.

"Whoa, has the exercise started already?" Kirishima asks and went to step forward. Everyone flinched when Aizawa yelled.

"Stay back! This is real, those are villains." The erasure hero said grimly.

Everyone felt fear as they watched multiple villains come out of the warp gate. All of them dangerous looking. All of them had the look of pure evil.

"We heard All Might will be here with his class." A pale blue villain with hands all over him says.

And while everyone looks on in confusion two people recognize the teen and the mist like man next to him.

Todoroki is realizing that these are the villains that tried to recruit Ghost, and Izuku is realizing he left some loose threads before he retired. “Damnit, I knew I was forgetting something.” He said in annoyance before pausing time.

After that he stretched a little bit before walking over to the door and forcing it open, he then spent a while taking every student and putting them back on the bus.

He contemplated unpausing Todoroki to help him but decided not to since he probably wouldn't be happy about him breaking their bet, even if it was to stop literal villains!

So he sighed before unpausing the bus and carefully driving it all the way back to the UA main building, and even though they were technically in a state of crisis thanks to villains breaking in, Izuku decided to relax while driving the bus.

Which meant he dug his phone out and turned on some music.

“Man I should think about doing this to my costume, I bet Hatsume would have a lot of fun turning the fake ears on my costume into actual working ears which can enhance hearing, work as coms, or… play music in paused time!” With that he started to jam out while his frozen classmates floated around in the back of the bus.

“Give me a shot to remember!” he sang/yelled while making a turn,

“And you can take all the pain away from me!” he yelled while bringing the bus to a stop,

“Your kiss and I will surrender!- oh damn, we're here everybody!” He shouted to his frozen audience, obviously they didn't answer.

After that he got all the students off the bus and then walked inside the building while now blasting the music in his headphones.

He entered the class where Snipe was currently teaching the 3rd years about gun safety, so he walked over to the teacher and picked him up as if he was a lightweight box, after that he turned to Mirio who seemed to be in a deep conversation with a blue haired girl and asked “hey you mind if I borrow him?” He waited a few seconds but since he didn't get a response he laughed before saying “I'm not hearing a no!” So he walked all the way back to the bus and placed the hero on it.

After that he proceeded to do the same thing to a bunch of other heroes, but obviously left a few behind to protect the other students.

So after placing Small Might next to Nezu on the bus he carefully turned it around and started the drive back.

“It's tough to be a God! Tread where mortals have not trod! Be deified when really you're a sham.” Izuku continued to sing along to the song as he stopped the bus In front of the USJ and started to pull all the teachers out.

Once he had them all except All Might inside (so he could buff up without being seen by the villains below.) He walked over to where he was originally, put his headphones up and finally let time start back up.

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"Thirteen protect the students." Shouta commanded of his fellow hero once he saw the villains down below,

"Whoa, has the exercise started already?" Kirishima asked and went to step forward, but luckily he and everyone else stopped when Shouta yelled "Stay back! This is real, those are villains." He said while stepping in front of the students.

"We heard All Might will be here with his class." A villain with pale blue hair and hands all over him said.

He thinks he heard some of his students mumble something at seeing the villain but he ignored it as he got ready to jump down to protect the students and hoped that Thirteen could get them safely outside.

But then he heard tons of shouting and when he turned back around to quiet his students he was instead met with almost the entire faculty of UA +Midoriya.

He raised an eyebrow at the kid and shortly after he answered “I can teleport myself, people, or objects.” He raised his arms to point at all the heroes who were now staring at him before saying “so I teleported my classmates out and teleported all the nearby heroes in!” He eventually just nodded before turning to face Nezu and saying “villains managed to break into UA.” After that he turned back to Midoriya and told him to get himself out.

But before his student could respond the dark mist down below appeared in front of them all

“Sorry to barge in but we are the League Of Villains. And we have come here today to kill All Mi-” the villain paused upon becoming face to face with the power of 13 heroes plus All Might himself.

His mist-like body seemed to flicker in worry before he cleared his throat and said “pardon me.” His body started to shrink but Shouta activated his quirk at the same time Thirteen activated theirs.

The villain yelled as his body was pulled in helplessly but he was forced to blink as the villains down below started to fire off their quirks at him.

He avoided getting hurt and his fellow heroes started taking care of the villains down below but it was enough for the mist villain to strike back.

Even as he was still being pulled into Thirteen's quirk he opened a warp gate behind the space hero,

they were horrified as they watched Thirteen's body completely disappear due to the power of their own quirk,

Or well they were until they looked over and found that Midoriya had used his quirk again and Thirteen was completely unharmed.

The villain looked on in confusion before looking right at Midoriya and yelling “ah, so it's your fault! I'll scatter you all!” Shouta tried to use his quirk again but the villains down below were still gunning for him and before he knew it all the heroes except him and All Might had been dropped through portals.

And shortly after that All Might descended down the steps to fight all the villains in the plaza, so Shouta sighed in annoyance before putting his goggles on and jumping down the stairs to help the hero not waste all his energy on the small fries.

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Thirteen opened the cap of one of their fingers and started to suck in Kurogiri while Eraserhead canceled his quirk.

And for about 10 seconds Izuku thought he wouldn't have to do any more vigilantism.

But then he watched as Eraserhead was distracted and a portal formed behind the rescue hero, the second he saw that Kurogiri was planning to turn Thirteen’s quirk back on them he paused time and moved them out of the way.

But then something really weird happened, something that so far he had only seen Eri do.

The hole in Thirteen’s finger started to create cracks on the air, those cracks quickly enveloped their form until they broke through. And as they looked around their first words were “what in the JoJo's bizarre adventure bullshit is this?” Their eyes eventually settled on Izuku who was obviously the only other thing moving “Midoriya!? What is going on?”

And that made Izuku remember a theory he had come up with on the night he saved Eri.

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Flashback to chapter 8:

Inko and Eri were confused about everything that just happened until Izuku sat up and said “time cancels out time! When you lost control of your quirk I tried to pause it to help you! But since rewind was still in the middle of being activated during the pause it started to rewind my quirk to before it was activated!”

 Inko and Eri tilted their head in confusion so Izuku tried to think of a simpler way of explaining it

“Rewind makes time go backwards, my quirk makes time stop.

So my quirk paused her time rewinding and her quirk rewinded my time pausing, which effectively made them both cancel out and stop working.” he mimicked the time cracking by bumping his hands together before opening them wide like a explosion,

Inko and Eri then in sync went “ohhhhh.” They all chuckled at that and Izuku started to go into a mumble storm about all the potential quirks which could have a similar effect on his “Sir Nighteye can see the future which is a vector of time so I wonder if you could break his predictions if you can just alter time in some way. Speaking of time it's interconnected with space so I wonder if access to one allows access to both and if that's the case then I should really check up on Th-” his mom started to laugh and interrupted him by saying “Izuku, you are scaring your sister with all that mumbling.”

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“Of course!” He shouted while pointing at Thirteen

They tilted their helmet in confusion and since they would already know something is wrong with his quirk he decided to explain.

“My mom distracted me and made me forget but basically I had a theory that time related quirks can cancel out other time related quirks.”

He then once again pointed at Thirteen before saying “which also made me believe that since time and space are interconnected so too should their quirk counterparts.”

Thirteen understood most of that and so instead asked how that is important to their situation. 

Izuku awkwardly rubbed that back of his neck before saying “oh, it's just because I can't teleport. I actually have a time pausing quirk but I tell everyone it's teleporting because could you imagine how the HPSC or villains who can hack into the quirk registry would react if they knew the truth!?”

Thankfully Thirteen just nodded before saying “no, no, I get ya. I actually have my quirk registered similarly due to that.”

Izuku looked up in excitement before asking “really!?”

They then went on to say “yep, on paper my quirk is described as holes on my fingers which disintegrate whatever gets pulled in. Certainly still powerful but no one is trying to kidnap me to learn the secrets of how to safely contain a blackhole.” They said while examining their gloves(?) Or hands maybe? Now that he is up close and personal with the hero he can see how the white gloves seem to meld into the bits of skin he can see underneath the sleeves of their costume… Wait hold up!

“Your quirk is an actual blackhole? I mean I guess it makes sense seeing as how blackholes can even suck in light and time and therefore allow you to break into my quirk but to think your hands are literal black holes! That's crazy!” Thirteen nodded and laughed before saying “says the boy who can pause time! Were both liars!”

They continued to chuckle before they shook hands “I'll promise not to tell any scientists about your hands being actual blackholes if you promise to let me continue being just a kid who can teleport.”

Thirteen shook back while saying “and I promise to do the same as long as you promise to be more careful with your quirk. I thought I was going insane the few times I was using my quirk and all of a sudden everything stopped!”

Izuku awkwardly laughed realizing why he was probably never able to find Thirteen as Ghost.

But whatever else they could have said was shut down as he realized a mistake he had made.

If Thirteen could break into the frozen world because they're basically always in contact with a blackhole, then it makes sense that anyone touching a blackhole could also break in.

They both turned back to the warp gate which Kurogiri had used to turn the heroes quirk back on themselves and yep! That was starting to create cracks as well.

And not wanting the villain to learn the secrets of his quirk as well he immediately let time start back up.

Everyone looked on in confusion at the ‘teleporting' Thirteen but Kurogiri reacted first (probably because he had seen a glimpse into the frozen world, even if he couldn't move and it was only for a second.)

“ah, so it's your fault!” He yelled at Izuku. “I'll scatter you all!” Eraserhead tried to use his quirk again but the villains down below were still gunning for him and before he knew it a warp gate had formed under almost everyone, Including Izuku.

“OH! SHIT! NOT AGAIIIIN!!”

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When Izuku came out the other end of the warp gate he was met with a giant body of water, he immediately paused time on instinct but it didn't do much to actually slow his decent or make his slam into the water less painfully, but what it did do was stop him from sinking, it was like falling face first into jello.

So after slipping on the water a bunch he managed to stand up and carefully make his way over to the boat that was in the middle of the lake.

Once on solid ground he sighed and said “I did not expect the water to act like jello, but I guess it makes sense when you consider buoyancy and paused time.” After that he turned back to the lake and could see a bunch of villains in the water, he then looked around the rest of the USJ and could see that All Might was fighting that giant bird monster while Eraserhead was taking out the other criminals.

He continued looking around, spotting the other heroes taking care of the criminals and villains like nothing until he found Ectoplasm in the mountain zone fighting a criminal who could use red lightning, “perfect!” He shouted before jumping off the boat (and immediately slipping on the jello like water again.) But he made his way over and grabbed that villain, after that he placed the electricity villain right in the middle of the lake and then made his way over to the plaza,

He then walked up behind Shigaraki who was frozen while in the middle of talking to Kurogiri and unpaused.

Immediately there were screams as the lake became electrified and took out everybody in it but Izuku was more focused on the conversation going on between the villains

“My apologies master Shigaraki but one of the students appears to be a warper as well, they replaced all of the students with heroes, I managed to catch them off guard because they didn't seem to expect to be warped here but are current numbers are not sufficient to deal with these many heroes for long, I feel we should take our Nomu and retreat for now.” Said Kurogiri, Shigaraki then scowled in anger before saying “so what you are saying is that you got out classed? I swear if you weren't our ticket out of here I'd dust you right now, Kurogiri. And I don't care how many heroes there are, the cannon fodder will last long for Nomu to kill All Might!” Izuku decided to make his presence known after that by saying “wow, either you are underestimating the UA heroes, or seriously overestimating your guy’s ability to fight heroes.” he immediately ‘teleported' to avoid Shigaraki’s open hand and then when he reappeared in front of them he said “I mean I can already see Cementoss, Power Loader, and Ectoplasm approaching.” he said while pointing at said heroes who were running over.

But Shigaraki just laughed and said “Nomu can easily handle all three of them, he has shock absorption, super strength, regeneration, and has no need for sleep.” but it was Izuku's turn to laugh as he asked “did you seriously just give away your secret weapon’s weaknesses?” he then ‘teleported’ to be standing right next to All Might and said “how's it going my second least favorite hero!?” All Might avoided a punch from the monster before turning to him and shouting “young Midoriya!? What are you doing here!? And second least favorite? Who's your- you know what it doesn't matter. Quickly my boy! Use your quirk to escape! I'll handle this!” the hero shouted before blasting forward to continue fighting the monster, Izuku sighed before ‘teleporting' to his side again and saying “I will, I just thought you'd like to know that the Nomu has multiple quirks apparently. Shock absorption, super strength/speed, and hyper regeneration.” All Might looked a little sheepish at the response before coughing and saying “oh, well, uh, thank you for the information. Now please run away before you get hurt.” Izuku sent a quick thumbs up before pausing time and wrapping up a few criminals while walking back over to Shigaraki who was currently trying to attack Eraserhead.

So he just shouted a quick nope before separating the two, for good measure he pulled out his capture tape and wrapped the villains hands up in multiple strips of it.

He then unpaused and watched as both the hero and the villain stumbled around a little before looking at him, but before either could say anything he just said “his quirk allows him to decay things.” At that Eraserhead just nodded while his hair fell before saying “while I thank you, please listen to your teachers and get out of here.” Izuku just gave him a thumbs up before saying “and I will! As soon as I'm sure none of you are gonna get hurt!” He then ignored the shout of “we are the heroes here kid!” As he watched Kurogiri help Shigaraki free his hands since he couldn't decay it.

“I implore that we retreat now, young master Shigaraki.” But once Shigaraki had his hands free he scratched at his neck while yelling “not until All Might and this fucking cheat is dead!” He then launched himself at Izuku but he just paused time and wrapped him up in tape again before punching him lightly in the head to disorient him, after that he took his hand and basically just went back and forth through Kurogiri's body until he hit something solid, he grabbed the metal neck brace and pulled Kurogiri over to the lake that was still slightly buzzing with electricity and pushed Kurogiri straight into it “I honestly don't know how to contain living smoke that can teleport, so knocking you out it is!” After that he walked back over to his original position and turned to face Eraserhead who was currently trying to get back over to them but kept getting distracted by all the criminals in his way.

But still he unpaused and gave the hero another thumbs up “see! I can take care of myself!” He said with a big smile right before the Nomu appeared right behind him with a raised fist.

He definitely did NOT scream at that, because before he could pause time All Might zoomed over and grabbed the Nomu by his waist, he then german suplexed the monster straight into the ground. (And thanks to a certain warp gate villain currently being electrified into unconsciousness there was no one to interrupt it.)

So with the biggest threats captured, unconscious, or stuck All Might took out the rest of the criminals around the same time all the heroes returned, Izuku immediately said sorry about teleporting them with no warning but most of them just said it was fine before getting to work cuffing and capturing the rest of the criminals. (He had to cover up his laugh watching a tape covered Shigaraki shout in anger until he was put to sleep by Midnight.)

With his work done he was about to ‘teleport' back to his class but before he could the feeling of his quirk disappeared and a very strong grip was applied to his shoulder, a voice behind him then said “Problem child.” so he awkwardly chuckled before saying “A-Aizawa-sensei! Fancy meeting you here, but I was just about to leave so if you'll kindly turn your quirk off I'll be going just like you wanted.” He said while turning his head to face the pissed off teacher with red glowing eyes.

But of course it couldn't be that easy as Eraserhead started to direct him towards the stairs while saying “oh, no. You lost that privilege after you ignored your teachers three times in a row. Now you get to travel back with us while we discuss your “reward” for ignoring me to be stupidly brave and fight villains.” Izuku tried to argue back that he didn't have a choice or that he technically never fought but another deadly glare shut him up.

So he just sighed inwardly before mumbling “I preferred it when I didn't have to listen to you and could just escape whenever things got awkward.” “What was that?” “NOTHING!” “That's what I thought.”

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After the police had arrived and all the criminals had been safely contained (for whatever reason the Nomu wouldn't attack anything if it couldn't see Shigaraki or All Might so it too was safely contained after it was pulled out of the ground.)

Izuku and the heroes climbed onto the bus and were just waiting for All Might but we're surprised when All Might debuffed right in front of a student, but what surprised them more was Midoriya didn't freak out, he simply pointed at the deflated hero and laughed before saying “so you do remember me! I would have thought with how easily you tried to destroy my dreams that I was barely a blip on your radar!” The heroes were more and more shocked at whatever was unfolding in front of them and Nemuri and Hizashi just wished they had popcorn.

Yagi then hung his head low as he climbed onto the bus and said “I guess that is the appropriate response, but I remember you young Midoriya, and I am deeply sorry for what I said, I've seen the error of my ways and I certainly believe now that you would have made a great hero even without your quirk. But since you did get one, all I can do is apologize for my past actions.” The heroes once again gasped as they watched the number one hero bow to the student in apology.

But the moment was broken by Aizawa sighing and asking for someone to explain what the hell is happening. But before All Might could say anything Izuku interrupted with ”I’m sure most of, if not all of you have seen my file so I'll just say it. Back when I was quirkless, All Might was my favorite hero! So when he saved me from a villain about ten months ago I asked him the question I've wanted to hear the answer to, ever since I was 5 years old. Can a quirkless person be a hero?” Izuku then turned to face the still bowing hero before saying “and All Might said no. I was devastated obviously, my one and only dream was thought to be impossible by the strongest man in the world.” He then looked away from the hero while saying “so imagine my surprise when soon after that I gained a quirk, as if the world itself was saying it was impossible so it fixed it.”

He pulled the hero up to stop his bowing while saying “at first I was confused, angry, excited, and a bunch of other things. But over the past 10 months I've learned everything I could about this quirk and came to accept it as a part of me.”

He then sat back down and said “so I might not be able to be a quirkless hero anymore but I still accept the apology from my third least favorite hero.” All Might then quietly gasped and muttered “I went up one!” which got him some weird looks from Cementoss since he was next to the number one.

Eraserhead then rolled his eyes and said “very inspiring and I'll definitely be having a talk with All Might about saying illogical things to children, but a tragic backstory isn't gonna allow you to weasel your way out of your punishment for ignoring my orders in a dangerous situation.” Izuku just shrugged and said “worth a try.”

After that Present Mic spoke up and said “ok I've got to know! Who is below All Might!? Like seriously how much worse can you get then dream crushing!?” Izuku chuckled before simply saying “number one is hawks for reasons I won't disclose, and number two is Endeavor because he was very rude to my best friend.”

Midnight then muttered to the voice hero “damn, can't even make it to the number one spot on a hate list.” Which caused Present Mic to burst out in laughter.

After that Nezu actually spoke up asking who his favorite was if he apparently had a distaste for all three top heroes. So Izuku looked away a little embarrassed before saying “I'd say it but I feel like if I do my punishment from Aizawa-sensei will just get worse.” Everyone but Aizawa himself immediately realized what Izuku meant and started to laugh, so he eventually spoke up asking what was so funny? And why would he care what problem child’s favorite hero is?

So Present Mic eventually calmed down his laughter and said “Shouta! My buddy, it's obviously you!” Aizawa then stared at Izuku for a good five seconds in confusion before turning away in his own embarrassment and barring his head in his scarf while muttering “well that's just illogical.” which caused another bout of laughter until they had finally arrived back at UA.

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Shouto had been ready to fight the criminals but suddenly he and everyone else in his class found themselves back at UA’s main building, had he dreamed the entire thing? No, everyone else remembered it as well and it appears that one of them was missing. “Where's Midoriya!?” Shouted the Uraraka girl, he looked around in confusion before pointing at the boy with purple hair and saying “isn't he Midoriya?” But that caused everyone to turn to him and confusion until the purple haired boy in question said “no, I'm Hitoshi Yamada. Midoriya is the teleportation guy with green hair. How did you mix us up?” he then blinked in confusion before saying “on the first day it said that Yamada sits in front of me, and Midoriya is in front of him.” he said while nonchalantly pointing at the purple haired boy.

The boy continued to stare at him before saying “well someone must have switched it because when I went to class Midoriya was in front of you.” Shouto thought about it before realizing,

That is exactly the type of shit that Ghost would pull!

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They had been given the rest of the week off while they buffed up security but when Monday rolled around Shouto was up and at 'em extra early, he had finished a plane breakfast and was out of the house before his father had even woken up.

So obviously he was the first in class and as he waited for everyone to arrive he texted Ghost and told him that he found him. 

But he got no response…

Still he waited for Midoriya to arrive but he only appeared(literally) right before the bell rang, he tried to call out to him but was stopped because homeroom had began, a few seconds later Aizawa pulled himself into the classroom, looking tired but no worse for ware, which was good since no one but Midoriya had seen their teacher since the USJ incident.

"The UA Sports Festival," he said as the class calmed down from his arrival, "is in two weeks." 

"Is... is it a good idea to have that right after the break-in?" Kaminari asked. 

Aizawa shrugged while sipping on his giant thermos before saying "The villains were captured and dealt with before they could seriously injure anyone, and because of that the school is insisting on going through with it. They’ll be beefing up security considerably just in case but they believe the threat is over. Other than that you don’t want to miss your shot." 

"Yeah, the Sport’s Festival can make or break your hero career," Midoriya said tiredly, "Pros will be watching to scout us." He mumbled before placing his head down on his desk.

"Midoriya is right," Aizawa said, drawing the class's eyes back to him, "After the Sports Festival, you’ll be doing your first hero internships. You want to make sure you’re attracting the right kind of attention from the right pros. That's why for the next two weeks you will all be doing training to improve your form, whether that's your quirk or your body is up to you but I expect you all to be trying to improve yourselves in some way.” After that the classed broke off into small groups to discuss what they planned to do to prepare and Shouto stood up and got ready to get Midoriya’s attention but Aizawa beat him to it “Midoriya. Yamada. You two are with me, we still haven't gone over your punishment for not listening to your teachers.” At that Midoriya shot up looking a lot more awake and said “yes, Aizawa-sensei!” And with that, those two and the teacher left while Midnight replaced them to explain what kinda things they had access to on campus.

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After defeating the league of villains Izuku went home and told his mom and Eri everything that had happened, they were worried for him but he explained how he didn't get a single scratch on him and how he used his quirk to bring a bunch of heroes so he didn't have to fight, after that he told them about how All Might apologized and besides a few shouts in cheer things went back to normal after that.

He spent the weekend hanging out with his family and getting vague text from Todoroki about “prepare for Monday” which he thought was weird but brushed off.

But when Monday did roll around he forgot to plug his phone in and only woke up a few minutes before class was supposed to start, so in his half awake state he paused time and got ready.

After that he walked to school in paused time and once in class he unpaused and half asleep mumbled something about the sports festival to the class, after that he put his head down and paused time.

He doesn't know how long he slept in paused time but when he did unpause Aizawa told him “we still haven't gone over your punishment for not listening to your teachers.” so feeling more awake he shot up and followed the teacher out along with Yamada.

He tried asking why he was here but Yamada just shrugged because he had no clue either.

They eventually came to a stop in front of gym gamma, the one made entirely of concrete so Cementoss could manipulate it.

They walked inside and then Aizawa immediately got to stretching while telling them to do the same, so they reluctantly did so while Aizawa said “All Might was wrong by the way, I know he already apologized but I want to really drill the point in. quirks are simply a tool, so if you are lacking one then all you need to do is get other tools and tricks to make up for it.” Izuku and Yamada nodded as they continued to stretch and once they were done Izuku stood up and said “I appreciate the support Aizawa sensei but what does that have to do with my punishment or why Yamada is here?” Yamada agreed before repeating that “yeah why am I here?”

Aizawa adjusted his scarf before saying “for the next two weeks you two will be coming here after classes where I will help you two train for the sports festival. Only there will be no support items,” he then let a shit eating grin fall onto his face as he said “and no quirks either.” Izuku and Yamada immediately looked on in horror as their teacher approached.

And once he was only a few feet away he leaned in and said “since you two love to rely on your quirks so much, let's see if I would have been able to make either of you a at least decent quirkless hero.” Izuku and Yamada tried to back away but it was too late, Aizawa had already started their first lesson.

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When Izuku and Yamada had returned from their torture- training they were sore all over and looked like death, so obviously they both almost immediately collapsed into their seats and ignored everyone to instead sleep until the next class had started.

Everyone was concerned but trusted that their teacher had a reason for doing this so it continued.

As did Todoroki’s attempts to talk to Izuku (completely unbeknownst to the boy in question.)

The second time Todoroki tried to talk to Izuku he was pulled away by Thirteen, “yo Midoriya! I'd like to ask some questions about your quirk. You mind eating lunch with a teacher?” Izuku agreed easily enough so he said goodbye to his friends and followed Thirteen to their personal office which looked like a supernova of paint and cute stuffed animals went off inside.

So he sat down at the desk and pulled a plush unicorn into his lap before asking what they wanted to know about. “Well I just wanted to talk about setting up a system. Since our true quirks seem to interfere with each other I'd thought we could work something out to fix that.” They said while opening their lunch.

Izuku did the same with his lunch before asking “like trading numbers and then texting each other so we know when to be careful?” Thirteen nodded while eating their sandwich through a gap in their helmet, once they were done they said “yeah, exactly like that! We can work out the other details but something like that should definitely stop us from accidently messing each other up.” They continued to talk and eat and by the end of lunch Izuku had a new number in his phone and a plan to stop himself from accidently trapping Thirteen in his quirk.

After that there was heroics and then Izuku and Yamada were once again back at gym gamma training with Aizawa Sensei.

Where they were once again beaten to exhaustion by the underground hero with a sadistic streak a mile wide.

A few days after that Todoroki was once again interrupted in his plans to reveal he had found Ghost by none other than All Might himself!

Izuku, Uraraka, Yamada, Iida, and Todoroki who was trying to speed walk to catch up with them had been on their way to lunch when they heard “YOUNG MIDORIYA!” All Might’s grand voice came from around the bend of the hall. He poked his head around the corner, holding up a homemade bento wrapped in an All Might branded handkerchief. “Will you eat lunch with me?” he asked and batted his eyelashes. 

Izuku and Uraraka both erupted into laughter. “He sounds like a schoolgirl!” she cried.

Once they had calmed down Izuku answered, “Yeah, sure. Can't be any worse than our last solo conversation.” Izuku said while once again saying goodbye to his friends. And once again leaving Todoroki to do nothing but sit in his own overly dramatic anger.

“I’ll see you guys for afternoon classes.” He waved to them as they kept going towards the lunchroom before following All Might to his office. 

Once inside, the hero deflated (both literally and metaphorically). “I’ll admit that insult was a given, but I just had a few things I wanted to talk about with you,” he said. “Sit, I’ll pour you tea.” so Izuku sat across from the hero and once the tea was done he said “Things were so hectic after the USJ I never got a chance to thank you,” which surprised Izuku but he quickly covered it up before saying “for what? I literally used my quirk to put you in danger.” The man chuckled before saying “no I was talking about how you took care of the two final villains, after taking down that monster I didn't have much strength left, so by taking care of those few villains left you saved me from having to go over my limit.” Izuku then hummed before saying “I honestly keep forgetting you have a limit. So I was really just protecting myself and my friends.” Small Might nodded before saying “well I thank you anyways since you didn't hesitate to do so.”

Izuku just nodded before asking if that was it “I know I forgave you and everything but I'm not exactly enthralled about being in your company, so if that was it I'll be going.” Small Might nodded before saying “don't worry I understand, I only have one other thing to talk about.”

He then stood up and asked what Izuku knew of his quirk. “Well that's a big switch in topics but it enhances your entire body, mostly as super strength but you can also move and think way faster than a normal human.” Small Might nodded before saying “that's a good theory and pretty accurate too but the truth is my quirk is called One For All.” Izuku accidentally snorted some of his tea into nose as he gasped in shock.

So while he coughed like a chain smoker his thoughts were going crazy “I knew that All For One guy was the one who managed to almost kill him, but why the hell are there quirk names so similar!?!?” once he had calmed down he put his tea down and said “you can not just drop a massive secret like that on someone in the middle of a conversation!” Small Might rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly while saying sorry before continuing “but the reason why I'm telling you this is because I was not born with my quirk, in fact One For All has been around since the dawn of quirks. Gaining power as it was passed from generation to generation all so it could potentially one day take down its brother quirk.” Once again Izuku was freaking out internally “OFA and AFO are both 200 years old!? All Might was quirkless!?... ALL MIGHT WAS QUIRKLESS!!”

But before he could explode into rage Small Might seemed to beat him to it “yes I was quirkless, and yes I didn't think you could do it simply because i couldn't have. But I've already said that I learned from my mistakes and now believe you could have done it even if I couldn't. But you see the reason why I'm telling you this is because as you already know I can only use One for All for a few hours thanks to my injury.” Izuku nodded before saying “so you are looking for a successor? Someone to inherit your quirk and your title? But why tell me? If it got out that your quirk could be passed along there'd be so many villains trying to steal it from you.” Small Might sat back down before saying “well I had kinda hoped to give it to you. And this isn't me trying to get back in your good graces or anything, I had you in mind ever since I watched you rush in to save everyone from the zero pointer with no hesitation.” Once again Izuku was shocked, but he already had an answer.

Maybe if All Might had said these words to him ten months ago he would have accepted, he would have happily taken both his new found quirk and happily combined it with One for All so he could be the next symbol of peace.

But it wasn't ten months ago, with just his quirk he's been able to save so many people and now that he knows the potential of his own quirk he doesn't want to sully it with another powerful quirk.

Which meant his answer was “no. Even if we ignore our terrible first interaction I have my own quirk that I'm still trying to figure out, so once again no thanks.” He said before standing up, Small Might simply nodded before saying “I had a feeling that would be your answer young Midoriya, but I still had to ask just in case. Thank you for hearing your third least favorite hero out.” He said with a smile before drinking the rest of his tea.

Izuku nodded and told him he would keep this secret as well before leaving and eating his sandwich as he walked back to class.

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And it continued like that for the next two weeks, every SINGLE TIME!! 

Shouto was blocked again and again every time he tried to talk to Midoriya about Ghost, and with how often he was being pulled away from teachers he was starting to believe that the teachers were working with Ghost just to mess with him.

By the time it was only a few days away from the sports festival he was getting desperate and was contemplating just texting this information to Ghost or yelling it out loud.

But he finally got his perfect opportunity right before the sports festival actually started, so he walked up to Midoriya in the locker room, looked him right in the eyes and said “Midori-” “CAN I GET A YEAAAAAH!?” only to be interrupted once again,

God damnit.

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The last two weeks had been hectic but the day was finally here, the sports festival!

Izuku and the rest of his class were currently changing into their gym clothes and just as he got done he heard a voice call out from behind him “Midori-” “CAN I GET A YEAAAAAH!?” only for whoever was talking to be interrupted by Present Mic hyping up the crowd.

But still he turned around and found Todoroki staring at him, only then did he remember that bet thing so he smiled and played dumb “oh hey! Todoroki right? Sorry you got cut off, what were you going to say?” Todoroki seemed to fix his posture before saying “I just wanted to say that if you look at us objectively as we stand, I think I’m stronger than you.” he said before smirking and saying “but you have speed, so you better bring your all if you plan to even have a Ghost of a chance at winning against me.” and while everyone else might have thought that this was just Todoroki being Todoroki and making a declaration of war, Izuku knew better.

So he chuckled before muttering “about time.” Which he knew Todoroki heard, he then spoke up to say “but you are forgetting one thing my dear friend.” He smiled wide and his eyes subtly glowed before he said “I'm not just fast, I'm uncatchable.” 

He then turned to his class and said “And everyone is going to be going at this with everything they have. Not just me. Not just this room, I mean everyone. The kids from all of the other departments are going to be coming at us full throttle. So this goes for all of you, not just candy cane over here, if you want to win you all better bring your plus ultra!” And as the class exploded into cheer (except for Kachan who was also making declarations of war to everybody.) Izuku turned back to Todoroki and extended his hand.

Todoroki easily accepted the hand shake and then Izuku said “cutting it close there aren't we? I definitely thought you would have figured it out after a week.” Todoroki nodded before saying “I actually did figure it out after the USJ incident. But you've been so occupied the last two weeks with Aizawa Sensei’s “punishment” that I never got a chance.” Izuku hummed before thinking back and yeah, Todoroki had been a lot closer after the USJ, he just didn't notice.

So Izuku chuckled before saying “well then, I guess you won the bet, what's your demands?” Todoroki broke the handshake and started walking away while saying “you'll find out after I win.” So before he completely left Izuku shouted back “I think you mean when I win!”

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“-FRESHMEN CLASS OF THE HEROICS DEPARTMENT... 1-A!” Present Mic’s voice boomed through the entire stadium, and Izuku walked toward the front of the pack. He looked around the field- and damn was it packed. There were just so many people in the stadiums. “CLASS 1-B!” Not to mention all the students he was surrounded by. Present Mic kept naming off the classes as they made it to the center of the field, near the small stage they prepared. 

“Hey there kiddos!” Midnight waved from the stage, her voice amplified by the microphone. “You’re all looking so young and fresh and just hyped up to go. Gets me excited!” She smiled at them, “I’m going to be your chief referee this year, freshmen,” she explained. “So let’s get this thing started with a speech from your year’s representative!” oh yeah, Izuku forgot that there's always a UA representative for the first years, he wonders if the one chosen will be in his class. He could already imagine how funny it'd be if Kachan was chosen. He probably say something short like “nah, I'd win.” Izuku was chuckling at the mental image until he heard Midnight shout “Izuku Midoriya!” 

“WHAT!?” He shouted in shock but before he could back out almost half his class worked together to push him up the stage “traitors!!” He mentally shouted before walking the rest of the way to the microphone, his eyes wide as he stared into the massive crowd.

Feeling a little bit of stage fright he paused time and tried to calm down, he found his mom and his sister in the crowd and smiled before turning to look at his classmates and friends. After that he looked at all the other classes and all the heroes in the crowd, so he took one last big breath of air to calm down and then focused up as he let time start back up.

“Heroes are everywhere. The world relies on them, maybe a little bit too much at times.” He chuckled at that before continuing “but heroes are also human, they can get hurt, killed or simply get old and retire. It's tragic, yes but the world can't be perfect or fair for everyone.”

He took another deep breath before saying “but that's why the world needs us. the ones who will grow and take their place. And I don't just mean the hero courses either. Business courses keep our economy strong in the future. General education provides us with future teachers, police, caretakers, and more. Support course will provide future heroes with everything they need to protect us. Everyone is important. No one is insignificant. No one is lesser than anyone. We are all needed to make this world just a little bit more fair.” Falling into a rhythm he got a little louder and said “and that's why we are here! To make our mark! So I want to hear it! I want to hear your voice! Your conviction! Will you give it your all!? Will you do your best!? Will you make your mark!? And GO BEYOND!?”

Izuku raises a fist in the air with a smirk. "PLUS...!?”

"ULTRA!!!" The class and the entire stadium cheered loudly.

Izuku smiled brightly and proudly at everyone before walking off the stage, feeling a lot better than when he first walked on it.

“Amazing speech by our representative, and with those glowing words, let's get right to our first event!” Midnight yelled, pointing to the large screen in the field. It lit up showing a wheel of various events. It spun round and round before it stopped. “It looks like it's going to be the Obstacle race!” she cheered. “All 11 classes will partake in a race around the stadium, Stretching nearly four kilometers! Anything goes so long as you stay on the track that starts…” She points to a gate. “There! When the light turns green, you can go!”

Izuku takes a breath before smiling at his friends and saying"Good luck.” Most of them give him a good luck back but Todoroki and Yamada almost roll their eyes in sync “while I appreciate the support Midoriya you and I both know that thanks to you and your quirk the highest anyone could score on an obstacle course is number two.” Said Yamada before walking off into the crowd, Todoroki nodded as well before saying “I agree with our classmate, but I plan to win the next two challenges.” Izuku laughed before saying “geeze just giving up on first place like that guys? Don't say there's no chance at all!” Iida then walked past him while saying “sorry but I must agree, with your teleportation quirk it is very heavily skewed in your favor.” Izuku laughed again before saying “ok fine, if you think my quirk is gonna be that much of a problem then I'll prove you all wrong.” His friends turned back to him so he let a Aizawa like smile fall onto his face as he said “I'll show you that my quirk is dangerous because of me! not the other way around!” He said while his eyes glowed dangerously.

His friends were confused and tried to ask him what exactly he meant but he simply rolled his shoulders as all of the contestants got in line at the beginning of the race. Izuku continued to stretch until Mic started to count down from the announcement booth.

And when he yelled "START!” Izuku used his combined training from Mr. Compress and Eraserhead to run on top of the crowd “Sorry!” he called out as he ran over people, bouncing from shoulder to shoulder until he was near the front and could see how Todoroki cleared the gates first by using his ice to hold people in place and slide through them. 

“OH NO YOU DON’T ICYHOT!” Kachan’s voice rang out. Followed by a series of explosions,

But Izuku wasn’t about to let them get ahead. So he sped up his parkour, he could see the befuddlement on his friends faces but he continued until He landed right in front of the crowd and broke out into a sprint, 

“WHAT'S THIS!? Todoroki, Bakugo, and Midoriya are the first three to escape the entrance! But Midoriya isn't even using his quirk!!” Present Mic so helpfully pointed out. But Izuku focused back on his mission,

And with all his running around Japan he quickly caught up to Kachan and was able to see Todoroki a bit ahead of him. He had stopped, and Izuku could also see why from here. 

Zero pointers from the entrance exam. Tons of them. Kachan shouted something at him, probably asking if he was looking down on him but Izuku ignored it in favor of focusing up as cold air hit his face and Todoroki iced over the robots, stopping them in place Todoroki then proceeded to ran under it. 

“He made a path!” someone yelled. That sweet summer child, Todoroki didn’t make a path, he just changed the obstacle. 

“Careful now,” Todoroki yelled back, “they might not be that sturdy.” Izuku laughed at that before deciding to use up the one time pause he would allow himself for this challenge. So he let the feeling of time wash over and then started counting every second as he ran past the frozen one pointers, “ten seconds.” He jumped over a second pointer before turning back around to pick up a giant sheet of metal that fell off one of the robots, “30 seconds.” he ran past the unstable zero pointers, and then past Todoroki, he kept running until “60 seconds.” He came to a stop right in front of a giant trench in the ground and lets time start back up.

“TODOROKI USES HIS QUIRK TO WIPE OUT THE ZERO POINTERS! BUT WHAT'S THIS!? MIDORIYA FINALLY SHOWS OFF HIS QUIRK! AND HE'S GOT A SHIELD?!” shouted Present Mic 

Todoroki immediately turned from facing the others to Izuku but all he got in return is getting to watch as Izuku adjusted the shield on his back before sprinting forward and using some incredible balance to jump across the rope.

“AND MIDORIYA IS NOT HESITATING! HE'S JUMPING ACROSS LIKE A SPRING LOADED RABBIT! HE'S QUICKLY CROSSING THE OBSTACLE! LOOKS LIKE TODOROKI IS HOT ON HIS TRAIL, CATCHING UP TO HIM. BAKUGO, ASUI, AND IIDA ARE ALL GAINING SPEED!”

Being the first across Izuku runs ahead and stops when he reaches a large stretch of earth with noticeable bumps. Landmines.

He smiles, already having an explosive idea! “I knew it was a good idea to grab you.” He said as he grabbed the shield and started to use it to dig up mines and stack them into one spot, because of this Todoroki was able to catch up and while he gave Izuku some weird looks he ignored it and started to carefully walk through the field,

“THESE FUCKING MINES DON’T MEAN JACK SHIT TO ME!” Kachan screamed from behind him, using his explosions to propel himself past Izuku right to where Todoroki was. “Half and Half you gave your declaration to the wrong fucking rival! I’m the one you’re gonna wanna beat, not fucking Deku.” Never change Katsuki. The two of them were neck and neck. Kachan took a swipe at Todoroki, trying to pull him back. 

Once a few more people had passed Izuku he smiled wide before taking a few steps back, right before he launched himself onto the pile of mines he could see the horrified look on Yamada’s face, and the absolutely ecstatic look on Hatsume’s face who was using… huh, wouldn't you know it she was using hover boots to float over the mines!

But still he gave his most chaotic gremlin smile he could manage towards them as he fell directly on top of all the mines.

There was a massive click and a beat of silence before…

BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

Izuku was launched through the pink dust covered air at incredible speeds, laughing all the way. And as he got closer and closer to Todoroki and Kachan who were still butting heads he adjusted how he was holding the shield until he landed right on top of them. They both turned to look at him in confusion or anger but he just yelled “thanks for the boost!” Before once again giving a chaotic smile and using the two boys as a springboard as he slammed the shield into the ground.

The mines under them exploded. Izuku jumped from their shoulders, using that and the explosion to propel himself into first place. He hit the ground far beyond the minefield and he ran, still laughing all the way. 

“GET BACK HERE DEKU!” 

“I won't lose to you!”

Sounds of explosions and Ice could be heard behind him but it was too late. The cheers of the crowd had already met his ears. He had passed through the gate. Izuku was first.

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Inko and Eri cheered together as Izuku passed the gate and won first place, “Nii-chan flew! I want to do that too!” So once Inko got that terrifying image out of her head she patted her daughter's head and said “let's uh, wait until you are older. And your brother is gonna get a stern talking to for jumping on top of explosives, instead of just using his quirk.” Eri chuckled at that before turning back to look at the other students who were still running.

Inko too went back to that but was pulled out of her watching when the woman sitting next to her asked “would you mind me asking what your son's quirk is? I think he only used it once but I didn't catch a good glimpse of it.” When She then turned to look at the woman who asked her the question she was met with a sea green haired woman whose hair was pulled back by an orange bandana, her outfit was actually a plethora of oranges and green, and her smile could light up a room!

Inko coughed embarrassingly at her own thoughts before asking who she was “huh? Oh! Sorry I forgot not everyone knows me. I'm Ms. joke! A her- wait a minute! Midoriya-san!?” Inko and Eri were very confused until it finally clicked “Fukukado-san!? I haven't seen you since that Halloween party!” She said in cheer, the hero nodded back before saying “man! You look a lot younger, and even more pretty than I remembered.” That last part was mumbled but Inko heard her, so after dealing with her blush she was about to respond but then Eri interrupted them both by saying “shuush! The second event is about to start and I can't find Nii-chan!” So the two women chuckled at the little girl’s antics before focusing back on the festival.

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Immediately his friends (+Kachan) descended upon him “Midoriya, I thought you said you weren't going to hold back.” “THE FUCK WAS THAT DEKU!? WHY DID YOU ONLY USE YOUR QUIRK ONCE!? AND NOT EVEN TO FUCKING WIN!” “Midoriya! While I appreciate your sportsmanship, why would you limit yourself like this?” “Midoriya-kun! That explosion was awesome! But how come you barely used your quirk?” All his other friends and acquaintances had similar things to say or ask but once they were all around he smiled and said “ok ok! I know I got a little serious in my speech but you have to remember that the sports festival is supposed to also be fun! So when I saw how depressed you all were getting over having no chance at getting first place I decided to limit myself, only getting one teleport! And look how much fun you all had after realizing that first place was still possible!” They all nodded or walked off at that but Yamada spoke up to say “but you still ended up winning first place.”

Izuku chuckled before saying “well that's just an example of the indomitable human spirit!” After that they continued to talk until Midnight started announcements for the second event.

So as his friends (+Kachan) started to spread out he smiled dangerously at them while saying “that first event was just me having fun testing myself, you know? thinking outside the box instead of just solving everything with one use of my quirk, but I don't plan to hold back any longer.” And as if Midnight had perfect dramatic timing the big screen behind her changed to say [Human Calvary Battle: Ten Million Points] with a massive picture of Izuku's smiling face.

Which meant when everyone turned to look at him like a piece of meat all they were met with was his chaotically dangerous smile that seemed to scream “go ahead, I dare you.”

Safe to say a lot of them lost their conviction in that moment as well.

“You have 15 minutes to start your negotiations,” Midnight said, “starting now!”

He looked around before mentally saying “well with my quirk we will be basically untouchable, and even if the headband is stolen I can just get it back. So I might as well just grab my friends instead of worrying about a strategy.”

His smile fell back to a more normal sunshine looking smile and then he ‘teleported' right in front of Hatsume, she didn't even flinch at his sudden appearance, if anything she was expecting him, “Green-bean! Just the ten million point man I was looking for! With your help my babies will be for sure seen by all the correct people!!” Izuku nodded before looking at her boots and saying “you finished them!?” Hatsume smiled wide before saying “yep! Completely unsupported hovering! And by combining them with my lovely jetpack we can reach FLIGHT!!” she said while grinning wide and shoving the thing on her back into his hands, he examined it before saying “is this based off the Buster Hero: Airjet?” She nodded fast enough he thought her head was gonna fall off but after that the duo ran off to collect more people.

In the end they got Uraraka and Yamada

He originally wanted Iida or Todoroki but those two decided to make their own team instead. 

Uraraka easily accepted but Yamada took some convincing “my quirk would work better for capture instead of defense, why would you want me?” But Izuku just shrugged before saying “you are my friend, plus this way you won't even have to use your quirk! Imagine the advantage you will have if no one knows what your quirk is, even in the final event!” Yamada rolled his eyes before saying “but you, Uraraka, Bakugo, and their teams will. So why should I risk that instead of just trying to take you all out right now?” But Izuku didn't really have an answer so he just smiled and said “because… if… uh… Oh! If you want to be an underground hero you'll have to figure out ways to use your quirk even if it is known by some! So just call this training! And do you, someone wanting to be an underground hero, really want the fame of winning the sports festival?” Yamada seemed to go through a reboot process before saying “fair point. I'm already in the hero course, so I might as well have some fun.” 

Izuku and his team cheered at getting their final member and then walked up and got their headband.

“Hot damn! We got a full party for the team Midoriya.” Midnight said excitedly before Hatsume snatched the newly printed headband out of her hand and said “I think you mean team Hatsume and Co.” And while she got to work tying it around her head Izuku walked up and explained to the confused hero “my quirk is best used if I'm on the ground, while Yamada wants to be an underground hero and since that only leaves Uraraka and Hatsume they just flipped a coin to see who gets to be the leader.” Midnight nodded at that and then it was almost time for this whole thing to start.

“Right! Gravity girl, how long can you make things float?” Hatsume asked, taking her role as leader surprisingly serious.

Uraraka quickly explained how as long it isn't herself she could make a person or an object of similar weight have zero gravity for something close to 40 minutes but as she adds more objective that time would obviously get cut down.

Hatsume and Izuku listened intently before in sync handing over a pair of the hover boots and saying “don't make yourself float, just make everyone weightless and then use these.” Uraraka was a little freaked out about how these two seemed to be communicating telepathically but she nodded and put the boots that somewhat resembled the ones on her costume on.

After that Izuku was given the other pair Hatsume brought since he was their main movement strategy.

Yamada was given some smaller gadgets that Hatsume wanted him to show off and then she was climbing on top of everyone and sitting on Uraraka and Yamada's shoulders while holding onto Izuku who was in front.

And then the countdown started 

“Three!!

Two!!

One!!!

GOOO!!!!!!!!”

In the next second everyone but Uraraka felt their gravity disappear, Izuku smiled back at them even as multiple teams came launching at them before saying “hold on tight! I've never teleported upwards!” Yamada and Uraraka seemed a little fearful but Hatsume just smiled and yelled “well now's a good time to test! Let's get moving green-bean!!” And with that Izuku and Uraraka activated the boots and then he paused time.

He looked around and saw that Todoroki, Kachan, and a team that seemed to be made up of class 1-B were the ones targeting them.

So he activated the full thruster power of the boots and just like he hoped he and the entire team went upwards “it's so weird to be weightless, and that weirdness only increases because of the feeling of frozen time.” But by being careful he adjusted how he and his team were floating and then unpaused.

They had a little shout after their ‘instantaneous’ transport but it was quickly replaced by laughter when they realized their plan was gonna work.

Back down on the field Shouto and his team of Iida, Yaoyorozu, and Kaminari watched as the ten million point team simply disappeared in the blink of an eye, they looked around until Present Mic shouted “Team Hatsume is way up in the air! How'd they achieve that!?” he clicked his tongue in annoyance realizing he underestimated how much the inventor girl would be able to help Uraraka and her quirk but before he could do anything an explosion rocked the stadium.

“GET THE FUCK DOWN HERE DEKU!!!” shouted Bakugo as he used his explosions to reach the floating team but just as he got up there team Hatsume disappeared again and reappeared on the opposite side of the field.

Bakugo fell but was caught by his team before they were off once again in the hunt for points, Todoroki and his team were then off to do the same.

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After 10 minutes had passed the ten million point team had to land because Uraraka was getting tired “sorry guys! I thought we would have been able to at least make it to the halfway point before I got tired but for whatever reason it feels like I'm losing energy way quicker than normal.” 

The team said it was ok and that she should rest but internally Izuku was freaking out “Uraraka has a space quirk too! I should have known her quirk would have some unintended effects when interacting with my quirk!” so he sent a silent sorry her way before focusing back up on the battle.

He had to ‘teleport' them to avoid Hatsume getting hit by a very long tongue but quickly had to ‘teleport’ again to avoid a plethora of small purple balls that seemed to stick to whatever they hit.

After that Hatsume used her enhanced eyesight to warn Izuku of a few other teams before they came face to face with Todoroki and his team.

Todoroki used a pole made by Yaoyorozu to shoot ice towards them but Izuku just laughed and raised his foot while saying “get some new material Todo-kun! We've already seen how this goes!” And just as the ice tried to wrap around his foot he slammed it down on the ice while yelling “IMPACT!” in a instant all the ice around team Hatsume fractured and crumpled away.

Hatsume then took that chance where the team was distracted to tell Yamada to use that gadget she gave him, so he aimed it at team Todoroki and pressed the trigger.

The gadget launched a net directly at them and in Todoroki's panic of his plan failing so miserably he broke his promise.

Fire swirled to life around his left arm and burned a hole directly through the net, his team cheered and celebrated his fast acting but Todoroki was left reeling at what just happened.

But unknowing of Todoroki's troubles Team Hatsume went off into the air again since Uraraka had rested up enough. “I covered the weighted ball bearings with rubber so it wouldn't conduct electricity but that seemed to have the unintended effect of making it extra flammable.” Muttered Hatsume as they floated above the field.

Up in the air they had to avoid more frog tongues, purple balls, earphone jacks, tape, vines, and the occasional Bakugo but with Izuku being a bit more sparing with how much he used time pausing while under the effects of zero gravity they were able to make it to the last 5 minutes before they had to land again.

Upon landing they were immediately attacked by Kachan but luckily a blonde that seemed to also have an explosive quirk took their attention away from them,

They then watched Kaminari electrify a bunch of people while his team hid under an electricity proof blanket before Izuku and his team had to move out of the way to dodge some plant like vines that had erupted from the ground.

The chaos continued, but with Izuku’s time pausing they managed to continually avoid having their headband stolen.

There were a couple of close calls like dark shadow sneaking up on them or Iida using a super move called recipro burst but just as easily as Izuku had avoided people he could also very easily just walk up to them in paused time and take the headband back.

Which is how in the end the results came out like this.

[Team Hatsume: 10000225 points]

[Team Todoroki: 925]

[Team Bakugo: 880]

[Team Monoma: 595]

[Team Tokoyami: 595]

The top three teams (except Todoroki and Kachan since they were pouting over not getting first) cheered in victory over the fact that they would get to go to the third round but the two teams that currently shared 4th place looked on in confusion.

“WHAT'S THIS!? TEAM MONOMA AND TEAM TOKOYAMI HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF POINTS! HOW ARE WE GONNA DECIDE WHO GETS 4TH PLACE NOW!?” shouted Present Mic, seeming to have the same confusion.

A few seconds west by before principal Nezu's voice came over the speakers and said “oh goodie! It's been far too long since I've seen a tie in the second round!” And that's all the chaotic mammal said before the empty 16 people bracket on the screen shrunk to make room for 4 more spots.

There were outcries of unfairness from the crowd and the students before Nezu took over the speakers once again to say “do not worry! The students that have to partake in an extra fight will be given extra time to collect their energy. Now, please take it away, Present Mic!” “gotcha boss man! So with those technical difficulties out of the way let's see who the unlucky first 8 contestants will be!”

The boxes near the first 20 lines spun through a plethora of names before eventually stopping.

“Wow, your guys luck sucks!” Shouted Hatsume excitedly. Then to really rub it in she decided to explain, despite the fact that the two boys and one girl definitely did not need it.

“I mean you two have to have an extra fight.” She said while pointing at Izuku and Uraraka. “And you have to fight the uncatchable green bean!” She said while pointing at Yamada.

Yamada tried to retort with the fact that Izuku could lose in his two fights or he himself could lose against Kendo but Hatsume just hummed before saying “nah, it's definitely gonna be you vs Mido. So have fun!” She shouted before grabbing her inventions and escaping off the field.

Uraraka and Yamada talked about how weird but cool the inventor girl was and Izuku talked with them for a little bit as well before Todoroki approached him and asked if they could talk in private.

Fearing this had something to do with Ghost he easily agreed and told his other friends that he would meet back up with them later.

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Shouto walked quickly, only glancing behind him to make sure Midoriya was still following. He eventually found an empty hall on the ground floor of the stadium, far enough away from all the commotion so they wouldn’t be interrupted. He leaned on the wall across from Midoriya, staring at him. 

Midoriya stared back for a little before he finally said “You and your team took me by surprise. So much so that I broke my promise to myself,” Shouto said, lifting his own left hand up. He hated this side of himself. He hated everything about it. “I’ve been thinking about something...” 

“What?” he asked, “You can talk to me, we’re friends.” said Midoriya, noticing his negative mood.

“good enough friends to have finally unlocked my tragic backstory?” He asked as a joke but his tone showed how sincere the question was.

So Midoriya grabbed his arm and he felt the world around him stutter to a stop, Midoriya then put a small smile on his face as he said “take all the time you need.”

And that got Todoroki to also crack a small smile, but it fell apart at his next words. “Endeavor, my father. He's a devious man. He’s been after the number-one spot for years. But I think he realized soon after that he’d never get there on his own. So he made a plan. Midoriya, do you know what a quirk marriage is?” 

He watched his reaction. Midoriya’s eyes widened. “I do. Oh, Todoroki I-” 

Shouto put a hand up, stopping Midoriya in his tracks. “He’s a bastard of the worst kind. He picked my mother out of her happy life and forced her to marry him. Four times he made her have a child, until he made me. Half hot, Half cold,” he said. “Then he trained me my entire life, and forged me into his ‘tool’ so that I’d be the next number one hero and usurp that title from All Might, I only grew my own interests and hobbies after meeting you.” he growled out. “In my memories, my mom is always crying.” He brought his hand up to the scar on his face. “She said my left side was unbearable, and then she poured boiling water over it. That's why she is in a mental hospital.” 

Midoriya was quiet. He didn’t move. His wide green eyes stayed glued to Shouto’s face. He watched as they grew dark with many contradicting emotions before he blurted out “I'm gonna kill him.” Such a strong reaction surprised Shouto but it didn't stop there. “I'm gonna bring Ghost out of retirement and it's gonna be specifically just to kill Endeavor.” He started to walk off but Shouto stopped him and said “Midoriya, while I appreciate that you would do something like that for me I think it's best if Ghost stays retired and Endeavor doesn't die, no matter how much it saddens me to say so.” And that seemed to make his friends rage seep out of him as he walked back to his original spot.

“You're right, you're right. But I can't promise anything if I find him out in the wild.” And that seemed like the most Shouto would be able to do to curb his friend's new found hatred so he continued “I’m going to do it. I’m going to be the greatest hero anyone has ever seen and no child will ever suffer the way I did,” he snarled. “But I’m going to do it without using my left side. His side.” but this declaration made Midoriya’s understandingness stutter to a complete stop “whoa, whoa, whoa! That is the complete wrong way to go about it Todoroki!”

If it had been anyone else to say that Shouto might have immediately shut them down but he trusted his friend so with only a look of annoyance he let him continue “i knew you favored your ice but I didn't realize it ran that deep, don't you realize you are handicapping yourself?” Before Shouto could reply Midoriya continued ”I get why you want to reject your fire, but what if there’s an emergency that your fire could fix? Would you simply ignore it out of pride?” 

Pride? Pride?? “It’s not about pride-” 

“But it kind of is though,” Midoriya said, shaking his head. “Listen, I get where you’re coming from. Remember when I said my Dad's quirk was kinda just a smaller version of my own? Well that wasn't a lie, but the part I left out was that my dad used his quirk to be a villain.” Shouto’s eyes flew open in shock but Midoriya just continued. “he used his quirk to destroy buildings and plenty of lives too. So when my quirk, a far more powerful version of his quirk came in, do you think I just gave up on it the second I learned of it's history?” he asked. “No! I kept using it because I knew I could do good with the version I was born with. And you can do good with the version you were born with.”

Shouto could see the logic but he could also see the flaws, so getting a little louder he said “it’s not the same, you we're never burned by a quirk that was an exact copy of your own, you weren't trained until fire and torture meant the same thing to your mind! You were given almost 8 months to use your quirk without the constant thought of your father ruining it!” Steam escaped from the sides of his mouth as he both figuratively and literally got more and more heated the longer this conversation continued.

But instead of trying to refute him Midoriya just nodded and said “you're right. I did get 8 or so months to form my own opinions, and it is different since I never got to see my father's quirk in action. But that doesn't change the fact that quirks don't make heroes Todoroki. Hearts do.” Izuku said while pushing off the wall and poking Shouto right in the chest over his heart.

Shouto tried to refute and say how it wasn't that simple to just ignore his father but then Izuku said “And if you still don't believe me, that you can do good with that quirk, then just look at my sister! her quirk actually did do something terrible that left her terrified of it, and yet when my mom's life was in danger she didn't hesitate to use the quirk she was terrified of to save someone's life!” Izuku then turned away from Shouto and started to walk down the hallway while saying “so, just make sure you understand the same thing a 6 year old figured out and I'll promise not to bring it up again.” and Shouto could only nod along, knowing his friend only had the best intentions for him, but also knowing that just one conversation or one inspiring story wasn't gonna undo almost 10 years of bad experiences.

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After that frankly draining conversation Izuku grabbed some katsudon from a nearby stall before looking around for his mom and sister, he eventually found them at a nearby table enjoying some soba, so he plopped his bowl down next to them and sighed tiredly as he buried his face into Eri’s straight white hair, the consequent giggle he got out of his sister made his mood improve just a little.

“Is the sports festival that tiring?” Asked his mom, Eventually he sat up and said “no, I just had… I guess you would call it a fight? with Todoroki.” He said before shoveling a bite of his food into his mouth.

His mom nodded while his sister gasped and said “you fought with Todoroki-san!?” he chuckled before saying “no we just disagreed on some things.” At that Eri nodded and went back to eating, he then turned to his mom “what’s wrong?” She asked, already sensing he had a question to ask.