Chapter 3
Izuku was staring out at the sea, the sun beginning to rise over the horizon it truly was one of the most beautiful things he's had the privilege of seeing, now it's time to give that to everyone else. He turned seeing Momo and All Might behind him in his skeletal form as they walked towards him, the last 4 years were his tutorial, the game started now he mused to himself.
"Good morning Toshinori-san and you too Momo." He smiled brightly at the both of them.
"So Izuku, why are we out here at 6am and who is this man next to me?" Momo knew this beach was important to Izuku and she remembered this man from the hospital so she was pretty certain this man was the mentor that Izuku had been talking about but she couldn't be 100% sure yet.
"Oh, I'll just let him explain himself." Izuku said with a wolfish grin on his face.
Alright so something weird was going on she thought to herself.
"Miss Yaoyorozu, my name is Yagi Toshinori but you may better know me as... The world's current symbol of peace and justice, All Might, young miss." The man said as he bulked back up into his hero form.
Yup this was it, she had finally gone insane her best friend could steal peoples quirks, he was being taught by All Might, and for some reason All Might looked like someone had sucked out his insides with a vacuum cleaner. She slapped herself, hard. It didn't wake her up. "Alright so this isn't a dream, maybe i'm a schizophrenic. Did the butler slip something into my tea this morning, she couldn't rule out drugs after all." She muttered to herself.
All Might looked down at the poor girl, a thought occurred to him, oh no it's spreading. Izuku meanwhile was just laughing hysterically.
"Is that what it looks like when I do that? Momo, it's fine your not crazy and this is all real." Izuku managed to get out between his fits of laughing.
"But then why does the number 1 hero look like that?" Still not having fully recovered.
"Well young miss if you have to ask, this is why." He deflated mid sentence showing her the massive injury to his stomach. " I was injured in a fight with a seriously powerful villain, I lost three fourths of my stomach and a part of my lungs, i've been getting weaker and weaker, which is why I need a successor to become the next symbol."
Momo was visibly shook for a second, but then realized it made sense Izuku would be the perfect successor to All Might, he's already plenty strong and he will only get stronger. Who better to replace the symbol, it was perfect in her mind, but then life as per usual went in a completely different direction.
"Which is why I want you to become my successor miss Yaoyorozu." All Might said with such conviction, such pride she couldn't believe the man believe she could do it, she was only Momo after all.
"Wait what, I thought Izuku was your successor?" She belted out the sentence as fast as she could.
"You were not wrong to assume that, however young Midoriya turned it down and in his place he nominated you. You who were only ever belittled and abused, you who never lost your convictions despite the hardships you have faced in life. Someone whose ideals to be a hero were never shut down despite seeing some of the worst humanity had to offer." The blonde haired man clenched his fist when he finished.
Momo was blushing like crazy. Izuku had said all of that about her? She didn't know whether to be impressed, embarrassed or both. She turned to Izuku. "Why did you turn him down, isn't this like your dream? Wait a minute how would I even be made into a successor." Realizing she had missed the most important step, but then she realized Izuku was here, he could give her All Might's Quirk. That's probably why he was chosen in the first place.
All Might watching the gears turn in the poor girls head had finally had enough, time to just say everything and stop letting her confuse herself more. "Miss Yaoyorozu, I would ask you wait until I'm done to start asking questions, or we are going to be here forever." He laughed, this girl reminded him so much of Izuku the first time they had this conversation. Then he spoke telling her everything about One for All but leaving All for One out of it, he was gone and dealt with and we have a new better All for One to take his place. Better to let the past die with the past he believed.
"Okay, so i'm getting a lot of information dropped on me here, so first off there is actually more than one quirk that can be given. I honestly thought that was unique to Izuku, secondly you want to give me your quirk so that I can become the next symbol along with Izuku. Did I get that all right?" The girl was in various states of shock, her mind trying to process everything that was just said. Hell Izuku having the quirk he did was still a shock to her, this just took the cake though.
"Yes, that is the state of things miss Yaoyorozu, so do you accept?" The skeleton said with conviction in his eyes.
She had never seen All Might look like this, he wasn't smiling, then again the All Might she knew didn't cough up blood every other sentence, but she had already decided that she would be the best hero alongside Izuku long ago. Time to put preaching into practice she supposed. "Yes, Yes I accept."
The man smiled. "Good that brings us to why we are here today, for both of you. This beach used to be one of the greatest vacation spots Musutafa had to offer but now look at it. Much like society it's broken, ugly, marred, corrupted. The entrance exams for U.A. are in 10 months and while I think you have the character of a hero, you certainly do not have the body of one just yet young Yaoyorozu. My quirk is dangerous, even to its user. It's so powerful that if someone with noodly arms like yourself used it, it would likely detonate your limbs or even your entire body. We need to toughen you up before you can even accept my quirk. That is why we are here, we will build up your muscle while you clean this beach. Remember these words, after all just because something isn't flashy doesn't mean it isn't heroic, it's almost always the little things that we do that will have the biggest impact."
Wow All Might was good at speeches, Izuku already knew that of course but when the man wanted to he could clearly belt it out, or maybe he wrote that before coming here, either way it was good.
Izuku spoke up next. "Am I going to take part in this? She needs the muscle after all and I don't. Plus if I help she will have less to clean, it could harm her workout." Izuku didn't want to be left out but it made sense.
"Worry not young Midoriya, I already have a training schedule ready for both you and miss Yaoyorozu, and yes you will be taking part but you will have a smaller section to work on. Your current super strength quirk would make you able to clear too much to quickly."
Momo remembered when Izuku first got that quirk, he had basically been to the moon and back with how happy he was. She didn't admit it or say it outloud but she was kind of jealous of Izuku's quirk even though hers basically was playing god, the power of creation. It was kind of biblical when you take the time to think about it or more like when Izuku had the time to think about it.
All Might broke her out of her ruminating. "This training schedule will be downright brutal, especially to you miss Yaoyorozu, are you sure you want to partake?"
This was her final out she realized, once she started this would be her future. Either the number 1 or the number 2 hero, she didn't hesitate last time and she won't hesitate this time. "I'm not backing out just because things might get a bit rough." She smiled at the man, showing him her fierce determination.
"I like that kind of spirit you go getter you." Buffing himself back up. "Like I always say PLUS ULTRAAAAAAAAAA!"
The training began that morning, it was absolutely brutal. Momo vomited from the sheer amount of working out she had to do. She was kind of mad when she looked over at Izuku and saw that he wasn't even winded yet, stupid quirks, stupid broken super strength, stupid super cooling.
Izuku saw Momo looking at him angrily, he just gave her the best smile he could, which only further provoked the poor girl.
"Well that was good for our first morning, but over training is dangerous, it's best to know when to quit. That reminds me Nedzu wanted to see you today Izuku." The man said from atop his self-balancing scooter.
Izuku visibly brightened up. "Really? It's finally time for the meeting?"
Momo was confused but at this point between vomiting and every else that had happened today she just stopped questioning it. "Alright if we are done for the day then I shall call my driver to come get me. Thank you for everything All Might sensei and same time tomorrow Izuku?"
The boy blushed slightly but nodded in response, he really liked that girl, but not in that way or maybe he did. He honestly didn't know at this point.
"By the way All Might, umm this training kinda feels like it's doing nothing for me, I know this sounds wrong but I feel like I should work on endurance exclusively or I don't know. OH, I'll be quirkless when I do these workouts. Molecular manipulation makes it so I never overheat and with my super strength I'm not actually working out. Even if I can only lift a ton at maximum, while you have and can lift entire buildings, it makes lifting this debris pretty easy." Izuku half thinking out loud half trying to explain himself to his mentor.
"I know my boy, I figured it would. Your body has reached a point where training normally just won't cut it, I had you here more for moral support for her than anything else. I'll try and think of some ways we can improve you outside of just improving your quirks and your use of them but then maybe that's all we should be focusing on. After all for you getting stronger isn't like other people, you don't have to work to improve your body, you can just take something that will do it for you. Which is both the lazy and probably the correct option." All Might shrugged, unable to figure out how to train someone that can't be trained. "Either way let us depart my boy. Nedzu is waiting and he is terrifying when he gets angry." With that they walked off to All Mights beaten up station wagon and drove off.
A good 30 minutes later they had arrived at U.A. The massive gate hanging in the distance... and some weird homeless man standing by it? Not exactly what he thought his first time entering U.A. would be like if he's being honest.
"Um, All Might. Who is that?" Izuku moving slightly behind All Might just in case.
"That my boy is who will be your homeroom teacher Aizawa Shouta, better known as Eraserhead."
"WAIT THAT'S ERASERHEAD, HE'S THE HERO WHO MADE ME DECIDE TO BECOME AN UNDERGROUND HERO, I WANTED TO ERASE QUIRKS JUST LIKE HE DID."
Eraserhead for all his composure, slumped at the outburst. He had a fan? The whole point of being underground was so he didn't have fans. This stupid problem child is really going to be an issue isn't he. Aizawa had never heard of a student being able to skip all practical exams before, hell the man didn't even know what his quirk was yet but it'd have to be pretty amazing if that rat was willing to break all the rules just to let the kid in. He even ordered Aizawa that if the kid ended up in his class he had to consult with Nedzu before expelling him. Aizawa had never, NEVER, been given that stipulation before. Hell he got away with literally expelling his entire class this year. It honestly kind of worried him that the rat was willing to overstep his teaching style in order to protect this kid if he was being honest. Not to mention the kid doesn't even have to take the recommendation exam, he's so recommended he just got in assuming he passed his written exam of course. Breaking himself from the haze of his mind. "All right problem child we're going inside the rat wants to see you and oh here you go it's a guest pass."
Izuku was still beaming brightly at the man, and if this was what having fans felt like then he made the absolute correct call by going underground. They walked in silence until they reached the massive door leading into the office of U.A.'s principal. "Fair warning kid, the principal can be really scary. I don't know how you got on his radar so early but It'll probably end up biting you in the ass. Let's just get this over with so I can go back to sleep." Aizawa mumbled that last part to himself.
Upon walking into the room Izuku was greeted with the sight of a small white animal with a scar over his one of his eyes, the creature in question was rapidly scanning the boy. He felt like he was being seen through if he was being honest.
"Ah Yes, Izuku Midoriya I've heard quite a bit about you, smart, talented, resourceful. After all one of our future teachers has spoken so highly of you, and from what I can see and from the things I have heard about you he wasn't wrong about that in the slightest."
"I um thank you Principal Nedzu, I feel blessed enough as it is. To have earned your praise as well is beyond amazing." Izuku bowed to the animal.
"Pssh stop that, to you I am Nedzu and never feel the need to bow to me. I've sure you've heard of my past, the last thing I want is someone to be subservient to me. I would rather see you as an equal than anything less." The creature spoke giddily.
Knowing exactly what the man, 'err bear? Rat? Fuck it he wants to be treated equally I will call him a man' was talking about, after all Nedzu's past was horrific, he didn't deserve being treated like a literal lab rat.
"So you are probably wondering why I wanted to speak to you, I had a few questions that needed answering before you are accepted here." He then turned to Aizawa. "And seeing if Erasurehead's quirk worked on you was one of them. Go ahead and activate a safe one." He gestured to the boy who simply nodded and activated jetstream at a low speed. "Aizawa try turning it off."
Aizawa not understanding where this was going activated his quirk and sure enough the wind had stopped. "I turned it off."
"Now Izuku try to activate another one." Nedzu stared at the situation like it was a puzzle to be solved.
Izuku nodded again and activated his fire breathing he let out a small amount of heat and then grabbed control of it with combustion. "Seems like my other quirks still work Nedzu."
Aizawa was freaking out, no one had ever been able to use their quirk when he turned it off before and what did they mean quirks? WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON? "Alright you all are going to tell me what is going on right now." Aizawa was usually really good at keeping his composure but this was to much.
"Simple." The rat smiled at him. "Izuku's quirk is the ability to give and take quirks as it stands he has removed the quirks well over one thousand criminals who were all bad enough to warrant stays at tartarus, he then gave those quirks to the quirkless. I'm sure you've heard of the second quirk awakening Aizawa? Well here is the answer, this single boy has already helped the lives of countless people before the age of 15. I'm sure you can see why I'm so interested in him now, no?"
Aizawa was dumbstruck, he had to teach this kid? This isn't a problem child, this is a fucking nuclear bomb attached to a 14 year old. How the hell am I supposed to teach this? "Nedzu, If I am teaching this child I'm asking for a raise, a large one." He said it while staring down at the boy.
"Fine, fine Aizawa. I take it you accept then? The reason this boy should be a hero has already been made evidently clear at least I think it has anyway." The rat said while chuckling
Aizawa just rubbed his hand against his face. "Alright fine I accept but knowing you Nedzu I'm sure there is something you aren't telling me, how much of a workload am I taking on right here, please be honest with me."
The rat just cackled maniacally. "You catch on fast Aizawa, there are conditions but none of them should trouble you. They only trouble the boy after all they are almost all on him and as long as he acts as he is told there will be no trouble at all, and to make you feel better there have been zero accidents for the past 4 years Izuku has operated. The only real worry is if another party messes up and I am forced to take action. Now as to the actual conditions themselves, I'll let Izuku explain them to you." The rat had a gleam in his eye and Aizawa really didn't like it.
Izuku rubbed his fingers together before beginning. "The first condition is that we need to tell everyone in the class my quirk, and stress that if they do not keep it secret then the full weight of U.A.s legal team will be brought to bear against whoever broke that condition, all of class 1-A and the staff will be told, 1-B will be told eventually as well." So that's why the damned rat was smiling Aizawa thought. "The second is that I cannot use my quirk outside of hero training or whenever a teacher gives me permission. The third is that any quirk I take must be returned at the end of the training or whenever I'm told too. Other than that I'm like any other student, I promise I won't cause you any trouble Aizawa sensei." The boy bowing before him.
Aizawa didn't like this, but he can't look at the image of this boy bowing before him promising to be the best little student he ever had and not feel something. Huh he was going to regret this wasn't he. (He would in fact come to regret this.)
"Alright fine kid, I'll take you. Just keep that promise to me and avoid trouble and we'll be good." The boy immediately straightened up staring into the man's eyes with the brightest expression he had ever seen. He had almost forgot the kid was a fan.
"UmcanIaskforanautographpleaseaizawasenseiitsjusyou'vealwaysbeentheinspirationforthekindofheroIwantedtobeanditsjustsocooltomeetyou."
For the first time since the meeting started All Might spoke, well I say spoke but he just starting laughing. "Izuku my boy, please calm yourself. I know you and your love for heroes but do try to breath."
Izuku took a big gulp of air after the muttering spree he just dropped. Staring straight into Aizawa's eyes, he already regretted this but to his credit he took the notebook the boy had and noticed what it was. It was a page all about him, several actually, as he kept looking through the book he realized how scarily accurate the boy was on his and several other heroes weaknesses. Eraserheads quirk only works on things he can see so cloaks and the like completely negate his quirk. He fights almost completely quirkless other than his capturing tape so really all it would take is to abuse the fact that two people are fighting quirkless, bring a gun and it would be relatively easy to defeat Eraserhead. The other option is to go for his vision if he gets the drop on you force him to blink, if you can get your quirk back for even a second that could swing the battle in your favor. He honestly wanted to confiscate the thing when he imagined it falling into the wrong hands. He relented, though realizing this was the first time he had ever given an autograph. Although he figured the rat would get a kick out of the book so he threw it him after signing it. Aizawa wasn't kind but he wasn't cruel either and if the boy wanted his autograph he would have to earn it. "That book has some scary information in it Nedzu, it should be kept out of the public if I'm being honest."
Nedzu curiously took the book, and then started looking through it. This was the most detailed analysis of so many different heroes and their weaknesses and abilities he had ever seen. He had a quirk that gave him an intellect far above the average human and even he was impressed, he found his own page and was startled at the amount of information. Allows the user to maintain and multitask up to 5 actions at once, intellect is so high it almost causes the user to have near precognition when given the time to analyze the situation. Weakness, surprise or unexpected moves. If you can catch the user off guard then their intellect is completely useless, if you wanted to defeat someone with this quirk unexpected sneak attacks were the best option. This boy he thought, oh he liked this boy. The rat starting smiling and it was terrifying. "Izuku how would you like private tutoring sessions from me to help develop your analytical skills?"
Izuku answered with a start. "You really think I'm worth that? I would love too."
Aizawa immediately regretted handing that book to Nedzu. What had he done, he just made a second Nedzu. This was a curse that would haunt him for the rest of his days.
"Well I did say I had several questions but honestly I don't need to ask them anymore, just with how you've been interacting with us I can tell you will make a fine addition to this school. However I do want to ask a question or two regarding you and your quirk. How soon are you willing to let the world know about your quirk? You will be completely safe here on campus with our dorming system however I have heard of your reluctance to let people know."
Izuku paused for a bit before answering "Hmm, I told All Might about this but I don't want people to go around treating me like a god. Can you imagine the sheer number of people who would want to see me if they knew what I could do."
Nedzu paused yes that made sense. "Alright then for the public activities we do here at U.A. such as the sport festival what would you like your official quirk to be?"
"Jetstream, it's my favourite and I'm so close to learning how to fly with it." Izuku did not hesitate to give that as his answer and he was truly close to flight, he could hover and glide for so long now it basically was flight but he would get there.
"Alright then I will have your quirk documentation changed to be Jetstream." Nedzu smiled at his new charge. "So sorry but one last thing, for the safety of your fellow students and staff we need to know what quirks you have at the moment."
"Oh that's no trouble at all, I kind of hit a roadblock at 15 quirks, my limit hasn't gone up for awhile I'm sitting at 10 currently, so I can take quirks whenever I need to and not go over my limit. I can safely go to about 13 quirks before i'll start really feeling the effects of overuse. The quirks I currently have are all in this notebook." Which Izuku pulled from his backpack and handed it to Nedzu.
Quirks currently in my possession.
All for One: Emitter Type Quirk. Allows for the instant transmission of a quirk upon physical touch with the intended target, overuse, too many quirks, or to much usage leads to a migraine from hell and if pushed too far will cause the user to faint. Still need to figure what exactly is the cause of said drawback.
Ultra Sight: Mutation Type Quirk. Changes eyes of the person who has it to a pure shade of black, passively improves the sight of its user, giving them 20/20 vision.
Night Vision functions in a different way to normal Night Vision it just makes it look like a regular day versus making everything green like regular night vision, he can hold this one for 20 minutes 1 hour before it starts to hurt a bit, the previous user supposedly could keep this up for hours at a time.
Thermal Vision functions as regular thermal vision, turning his vision blue except for heat sources which get redder the hotter they are.
Blacklight Vision functions in the exact same way Blacklight does as well.
Radiation Vision is his least used vision and will probably remain so due to the fact that Izuku wanted to be nowhere near any source of radiation.
Zoom is incredibly useful being able to see about 1km 3km out, apparently the last user could see up to 5km out, I tried combining it with Thermal once, I regretted that almost instantly however as it felt like my eyes were burning from the strain but quirks are like muscles and i'll need to train so I can do that. After training this with another one of my quirks Tempo I can successfully handle the strain for around 5 seconds.
X Ray Vision? Dark Vision I need to find a better name for this one, it darkens the world around and causes living things to become a yellow silhouette, he has about 15 25 feet of range with this at the moment. I need to come up with a better name. Oh I know i'll call it Dark Vision.
Jetstream: Emitter Type Quirk. Allows the user to fire bursts of typhoon level winds from their palms, with proper practice the quirk can be used to fly, this is by far my favourite quirk. The winds can reach up to 200mph with only 150 mph being needed to lift the average weight person off the ground and since Izuku is a child he needs much less for take off, it's unfortunate that Izuku can only make winds of around 80 110 mph, he wanted to fly so badly. Overuse leads to the person feeling like they have been running for a very long time, he's really glad All Might helped him train his endurance because I can hold the quirk on for a good ten minutes at this point, the stronger the gust the faster you exhaust it, I can only hold 80 110 mph gusts for around a minute half an hour, his cooling quirk had really helped with that one at the moment.
Combustion: Emitter Type Quirk. Allows the user to manipulate any fire within a 30 ft 45 ft radius, it has almost no drawback and allows for free movement of the fire almost perfectly, the downside is there already has to be a fire, so at the moment it's pretty useless to him but hopefully down the line he get a fire quirk because combined with this one will give Izuku a ton of options. See below.
Fire Breath: Mutation Type Quirk. Allows the user to breathe fire from their lungs that can reach upwards of 800 degrees fahrenheit, the longer the user holds the fire the more injured the throat of the user becomes. Almost completely negated to the next quirk listed, I am only held back by the amount of air in my lungs now, honestly with my skill set I could just pretend I was a fire user at this point. The quirk of his father Hisashi Midoriya, the only time Izuku broke his role and stole a quirk.
Minor Fire Resistance: Mutation Type Quirk. Grants the user the ability to withstand up to 600 degree temperatures comfortably, as long as I keep my fire lower than or at that temperature I will be fine and can continually use my Fire Breath and Combustion works incredibly well when combined with the two. I am probably the worst nightmare for a fire quirk user to fight at this point.
Silence: Emitter Type Quirk. When activated the user becomes incapable of making any sound whatsoever. This includes speech, walking, etc. It literally erases sound from the person using it. Overuse leads to the person becoming deaf for a period of time, overuse usually occurs at around 5-10 minutes, Izuku has no idea what causes it get used faster than normal sometimes. Maybe it's the amount of sound he makes while using the quirk? It is indeed the sound made by the user, I screamed at the mirror for like 2 minutes before the feeling of deafness hit me.
Tempo: Emitter Type Quirk. The user activates adrenaline in their body which makes it appear as if the user has either doubled the speed at which time passes or halved the speed at which time passes for the next 5 seconds. The users physical body is still only able to move at their normal speed during these 5 seconds only the mind is able to keep up with the new speed, it essentially allows you to fight in slow mo for the next 5 seconds doubling a person's reaction time, I still haven't found a good use for the doubling of time part of the quirk. Using it for more than 5 seconds without waiting for the 10 minute 1 minute cooldown time results in a migraine similar to that of overusing All for One.
Minor Regeneration. Mutation/Emitter Type Quirk. He was confused as to how to class this one, since it technically changes his body but it also doesn't have any physical properties, so he just went with both. The user must actively think about healing whichever part of his body he wishes to heal when trying to this quirk, it is not a passive ability. The process at which it does so is incredibly slow and to restore entire parts of the body it usually takes around an entire day. Thankfully they had an example of this already and Izuku didn't have to cut his arm off to find out, since apparently the previous user had lost an entire limb and had it back by the next day. The quirk consumes lipids to heal the body, meaning overuse can lead to malnourishment among other things.
Molecular Manipulation: Emitter Type Quirk. Allows the user to control molecules but only as a function of increasing or decreasing their vibration speed. He can speed them up or down causing the object to cool or heat rapidly. He mainly used it on himself to keep his breathing level via slowing down his own molecules and cooling himself down. Theoretically he could melt a person or freeze their insides with this but he has not and will not try that in the future.
Nedzu had just finished reading the book, the boy took even better notes when he had time to properly study it seems. "Izuku what is this part about taking your father's quirk?"
"Oh shit." He said out loud before realizing that he hadn't just thought that. "I um forgot that was in there. I promise you it was warranted in the situation. I'm sure you all remember who the dragon is. He went around using his flame breath to murder and terrorize people. Turns out he was my father, I already told All Might this but when he found out I was quirkless he beat my Mom and left. I hadn't seen him once until about 5 months ago. He came back to hurt me for ruining his reputation, it was then that I realized who he was. He couldn't be the scary villain he was when he had a quirkless child after all. I um took it and took him to the police station anonymously after knocking him out. I'm so sorry I never told you All Might but it was really personal, and I didn't want to hurt my Mom even more than she was already hurting."
All Might was surprised the boy had kept something like that from him, but could he really blame the boy if it was self defense against an active abuser. "It's fine my boy, just make sure you tell me in the future. Have you used your quirk ever besides that without us knowing? We need to know." He leveled a look at the boy as if to tell him that this was the moment to come clean.
"No I promise I haven't. Not once I swear." Izuku pleadingly hoping this wouldn't ruin his chances.
Nedzu just looked at the boy for a bit. "While I do not blame you for this situation since you were being actively attacked by a known murderer. However I would like to let you know that the police have given you 3 chances and I will be counting this as one of your mistakes." Nedzu looked at him disappointedly. "I am not mad at your quirk usage, I'm sad you never thought you could tell us about such a situation. I would have thought you trusted at least All Might by now." Indeed he was not angry at the boy, just sad he had thought he couldn't trust someone with that knowledge.
Izuku was so angry at himself at that moment, of course they wouldn't have cared he literally had a provisional license and now he's down to only 2 chances left. "I'm sorry it won't happen again, I swear if I am forced to use my quirk outside of my specified bounds you will all be the first to hear it." Izuku said bowing once more, thanking his stars he still had a chance.
Aizawa glared at him, well hopefully he's honest and won't do it again he thought, but from what he'd heard the boy was definitely acting in a rational manner there. "You'll have detention with me for the first week due to illegal quirk usage. Other than that I have no complaints. Are we done with this meeting yet?"
Nedzu simply nodded adjourning the meeting.
Outside the principal's office All Might just pulled Izuku into a hug. "Remember my boy you can come to me for anything, I do mean that."
Izuku sobbing quietly. "Yeah I know, I'm sorry."
And with that a hellish 9 months passed for momo, but she had done it, the beach was fully clean, she had never been so proud of herself.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the dank basement of a moderately stylish bar.
A black gate opens and a child falls to the floor. A wispy black man in a suit walks in behind the child. "I have collected the boy you asked for Sensei."
The boy to all his credit was doing his best not to freak out but when you get shoved through a portal and some kind of sentient cloud is talking, it would unnerve most people. But then a voice entered the child's brain. "Calm yourself child, I will not harm you if you speak to me truthfully, I shall know if you are lying though and there's one thing I cannot tolerate, I'm sure you can understand what that thing is." The voice in his head chuckling, but a dark horrifying laugh not to mention the fear this man radiates, he knew the threat was very real and quickly clammed up and nodded back to the figure, it was dark in here so he wasn't able to quite make the man out.
"Good good, now tell me your quirk, it allows you to create super sharp and strong teeth yes?" The boy nodded. "Now then, I hear you were part of this second awakening of quirks, but that's not really the case is it child? How did you get your quirk." The boy was screaming internally, he knew he wasn't supposed to talk about this he would get in so much trouble but it's better than dying. "There is an organization that helps the quirkless ... like myself. It's called the National Foundation for Quirkless Individuals, they told me about a procedure that could potentially awaken a dormant quirk if I have one. I mean who wouldn't jump at the chance? Everyday I was bullied and beaten down for being quirkless. So I accepted and they put me under, when I wake up I can suddenly do this." He flexes his teeth. "I swear that's all I know."
The figure just smiled or he thought they were smiling. "Good child I believe you, you may leave now but I doubt you'll remember this." A portal appeared below the boy and he was gone. "Sensei, that is 4th second awakening quirk user and the 3rd different organization for quirkless offering a surgery to grant quirks. Someone major has to be backing this." The whispy man pondered aloud.
"I know Kurogiri, I think that this means an old project of mine succeeded." He laughed again. "I almost forgot about it if i'm being honest as I started it over 150 years ago." This had been a very good development.
Chapter 4
Nine grewling months had pass but finally she cleaned this stupid beach, she knew Izuku loved the sunrise and she could finally agree with his opinion. Momo was screaming out a victory yell. She had done it and if she was being honest, she looked good. No more baby fat, just pure toned muscle. All might appeared next to her changing into his buff form.
"OH MY GOODNESS, YOU GO GETTER YOU. NOT ONLY DID YOU CLEAN OUTSIDE WHERE I SPECIFIED BUT YOU FINISHED WITH A MONTH TO SPARE." All might was beaming. "Young Yaoyorozu, I was once told this saying "Something you receive because you are lucky and something that you are given because you are recognized are different in essence." "This is power you have earned, Now Eat This." All Might saying all this while ripping out one of his own hairs.
Momo went from awestruck to dumbstruck. "Wha...?"
"You need to ingest something with my DNA to transfer the quirk Young Yaoyorozu, and my hair is the least disgusting thing that you can eat." All might looked so convincing while saying all this.
Momo to all her credit took the hair coughingly swallowed the thing. "That was one of the grossest things I've ever done All Might, I just want to let you know that. Also hair tastes disgusting. So now what?"
Izuku had been silently watching the whole affair from a distance. He felt it was a private moment and shouldn't interject but he also couldn't help but laugh at the look on Momo's face.
After deflating "Well now we wait, it should be digested within a few hours and then we can begin practicing with it Young Yaoyorozu. In the meantime let's go get food."
"Speaking of Quirks, I've been wondering Momo how is the progress with your original quirk going? Have any of my other suggestions worked?" Izuku ever being the quirk nerd that he was.
"Oh yes, quite a few of them. I have managed to make sleeping gas just pour out of my body for one essentially making me a knock off Midnight. I also was able to figure out that trick which allowed me to produce flame, but that just burned me so I doubt i'll be using it very much. I still haven't been able to create water and then regulate the temperature in order to produce ice instead but I am working on it. As for things you told me to learn to make, learning to make things out of different elements was a really smart move. I found that carbon ring structure you recommended incredibly useful. Ever since I learned it I make any armor and blunt weapons out it. When you told me about that wonder material that wasn't being used because it couldn't be mass produced I'll admit I was skeptical at first that such a thing even existed but I was able to recreate it fairly quickly. I do have to wonder though Izuku, where do all these ideas even come from? I doubt I would've thought of any of these myself." Momo looked kinda sad about that statement.
Izuku only chuckled slightly before replying "Pssh ya right Momo, you're like the smartest person I know, I'm sure you would've figured it out on your own eventually. I did tell you, you could destabilize the global economy in a month ya know, so stop putting yourself down so much. You're so much better than you give yourself credit for." He smiled brightly at the girl who in turn was blushing profusely.
"He is right Young Yaoyorozu, you should give yourself some more credit after all you are my successor." Having the number 1 compliment you was certainly an interesting experience Momo thought to herself.
A few hours after breakfast the trio return to the beach to train with One for All.
"Alright Young Yaoyorozu, to use my quirk first clench your butt cheeks then yell smash. Go ahead and make a fist and try swinging it." All Might instructing the girl to do so.
Izuku upon hearing the worst advice he had ever heard, ran over. "No no no. Timeout."
"All Might are you crazy? You said she could explode potentially, we can't have risk her losing her limbs due to the backlash of One for All. You told me yourself you never had trouble with the quirk but explain to me in detail how exactly it feels and works."
"Hmm well Young Midoriya, It's just kinda like woosh and slam, ya know?" The man looked proud as he said it.
Izuku just deadpanned, "All Might that was the worst description I've literally ever heard. Alright I'm taking over this training session, you okay with that Momo?"
"Sure let's hear what you got oh great master of the Quirks." She snickered at him.
"Well first off and this is very important, do not actually move any part of you once activate One for All. Second try to only activate it in your pinky so if something does break it won't be as serious. Third once you've got it activated just hold the quirk there and try to lower the output of the quirk to as low as you can. Do you think you can try that?"
All Might kinda looked embarrassed by the fact Izuku was able to break that down so much better than him, did he really just try to make the girl throw a 100% punch as the first thing she did with the quirk? Even he couldn't handle 100% at first, god he was dumb. "Young Yaoyorozu I would listen to Young Midoriya's advice, it sounds quite sound to me."
Momo then began concentrate on her new quirk, she felt it like it was a pool , a deep pool with nearly infinite energy, energy she could move around her body. She did as All Might said and clenched her cheeks, letting the energy move to her pinky. Her pinky started crackling with black lightning as 100% of her power coursed through the spot. She was amazed, she felt so powerful. But next she did as Izuku asked and attempted to lower the energy, the Black Lightning lessening as every second passed until it was only a small crackling instead of the fierce thunder she had before. If she had to give the amount a number she would say it felt like 3%. "I think I did it." She said squeamishly.
"See look I told you you were smart Momo, you did it on the first try." He was giving her a bright smile and a thumbs up.
You know the more she saw Izuku's cute dimples with that smil- No not now mind, definitely not now. "What should I do now?"
"I don't know young Yaoyorozu try flicking it out, if it doesn't break anything we will try an actual fist at that level of strength." All Might added in.
She flicked and a small gust of win came out. Internally she was freaking out, THIS WAS 3 PERCENT? IT ALREADY MAKES ENOUGH PRESSURE TO SEND OUT WIND GUSTS?
Izuku just smiled at her shock. "Good job Momo, is anything broken?"
She looked over her pinky and smiled, she was fine. "Nope Izuku I'm totally fine."
"Now try making a fist and punching with that same force Young Yaoyorozu." All Might suggested.
She did as instructed and small black crackling began to surround her right arm, she swung her fist making a noticeably larger gust of wind this time. This was her? Holy shit.
Izuku was busy being betrayed by his mind, damn that was hot. Nope no no no brain not now, she could probably crush my head with those thighs. BRAIN NO.
All Might was the next to speak. "Young Yaoyorozu, that was impressive for a first attempt. For the next month we will focus on slowly raising your percentage of control. Whenever you are alone or have the chance I would recommend keeping One For All activated and slowly raising the percentage as you feel your body adapt to it. For now this was a good first attempt, however we should call it quits for the day."
And so a month passed and it was the day of the recommendation exam at U.A. High, the exam itself taking place the day before the actual entrance exams, this allowed the people taking it to take the regular exam if they failed this one. As she stood staring at the gates of the school she knew this was it, everything she had prepared for starts today. She knew she would pass the written exam with flying colors but she wasn't so sure she would pass the practical exam, at least she had 2 chances she thought.
She walked into the building meeting with the proctor and being sent into a room with 19 other students. Only the top 4 would pass the recommendation exams, but she knew she had this. The written exams were first and she felt like was steamrolling through the test, she was the first person done and had to sit around for another like 30 minutes before all the others finished their exam.
Once that was over a man with cockatiel looking yellow hair and a speaker system announced to his neck appeared. "HEY HEY LISTENERS, ARE YOU READY? SAY YAAAAAAYYYY!"
No one spoke.
"I SEE WERE TAKING THIS LOW KEY TODAY. ALRIGHT I'M GOING TO BE THE PROCTOR FOR THIS EXAM MY NAME IS PRESENT MIC AND I'LL EXPLAIN THE RULES NOW YAAAAAY!" He pointed to the board at the front and it turned on revealing what looked like an obstacle course. "THE GOAL IS SIMPLE GET TO THE END OF THE OBSTACLE COURSE FIRST YOUNG LISTENERS, YOU CAN USE ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE BUT PURPOSELY ATTACKING YOUR FELLOW EXAMINEES IS AGAINST THE RULES AND WILL GET YOU DISQUALIFIED. BUT THAT DOESN'T STOP YOU FROM TRYING TO SLOW THEM DOWN WITH YOUR QUIRKS, SAY YAAYYYYY! ALRIGHT LET'S GET OUT THERE PLUS ULTRAAAAAAAAAA! and with that they were lead from the room.
Momo walked up to the starting line nervously, she could already see the the first obstacle, what appeared to be robots? She was dragged from her thoughts when present mic suddenly shouted "READY GO!" When no one moved Present Mic just calmly said "THERE ARE NO STARTING BELLS IN REAL LIFE LISTENERS, GO!"
After that a boy with bi colored red and white hair started sprinting and then threw a wave of ice behind him to try and stop the group from moving. Momo barely reacted in time throwing 5% of One for All into her legs and jumped over the wave of ice, landing safely on the part that had already frozen over, from there she just started sprinting as fast as she could, the ice boy had already cleared the robots, she was catching up slowly when a robot got into the way.
She aimed both her legs at it and crashed into its face, crushing said face instantly. During that brief distraction a guy with black hair and some kind of wind quirk sped past her, followed by what appeared to be a girl who split herself into 20 different pieces and was just flying them forward, definitely one of the weirder things she's seen. Getting herself out of her funk she barreled after them with a girl with vine like hair in close pursuit behind her. She reached the next obstacle rather quickly, it was a large pit of quicksand , ice boy had been freezing ahead of himself and melting it behind him as he crossed, the wind guy just flew over the pit passing the ice boy taking first, while the pieces girl was floating over at a slower speed.
Momo realized she needed to be able to fly to get past this, she used creation to make herself a wingsuit, which for reason after melding with OFA was now black in color and the things she produced came out way faster. She briefly charged OFA to 10% black lightning jumping from her legs before she leaped as high and far as she could opening the wingsuit at the apex of her jump and gliding past the quicksand, she even managed to pass the girl who split herself, Momo had noticed the girl was slowing down a lot as well. But she also realized that that brief use of 10% hurt, she felt her bones creaking from the strain, before deciding she won't be doing that again.
The last and final obstacle entered her view and it was some kind of wind tunnel, the turbines were so high she didn't think she could leap over it, she was just going to have to push through. She created a sheet of carbon in a V shape with a handle kind of like a shield but the angle made it so she would be much less wind resistant by diverting the wind around her lessening her drag, she charged 5% and just sprinted into the tunnel. Noticing she was having a much easier time of it than the ice boy, she even managed to pass him. That being said she couldn't even see the wind guy, but as she was getting closer to the end the wind just kept getting stronger and stronger she was next to the end but had slowed to a crawl by that point. It was at this point that the girl with Vines for hair was starting to catch up since she could her hair to push herself through the wind and then anchor herself at the same time.
Thankfully managing to get past the wind tunnel just in time to keep her advantage she barreled into the finish line, taking second place for herself. The Vine girl getting third and ice boy getting fourth. The girl that could split herself arrived fifth, and awhile after that the rest of the other 20 managed to reach the finish line. She couldn't believe herself, she had done it, she didn't get first but that was only 5% of her power, well a bit of 10% for a second or two but she couldn't wait to hit even 50% of her power.
Present Mic showed up in a bit and explained the rankings to the students. Many looked dejected when they heard their score, especially the girl who could split herself. They were all top if they werent in the top 5 positions in the practical that they should take the regular exam the next day. She called her driver Minato to come pick her up and she went home, very happy with herself. She tried to call All Might but he wasn't picking up, ah well he could just tell him the news later. She managed to call Izuku however and he was just so happy for her, Izuku knew she was getting in for sure.
A week later and low and behold a letter from U.A. arrived, her family made her put in on in the viewing room for them all to watch.
"I AM COMING TO YOU AS A PROJECTION!"
Why was All Might at U.A.? Momo thought to herself
"You are probably wondering why am I here? Well surprise Young Yaoyorozu you are looking at U.A.'s newest instructor of heroics. I will be happy to let you that you passed the written portion of the exam with an 100, a perfect score, combined with the fact you placed second in the practical exam. You tied for the first overall spot but due to the other person withdrawing from U.A.. CONGRATULATIONS Young Yaoyorozu for placing 1st in the exam, This is your Hero Academia."
The projection stopped there, she couldn't believe it, even if it was a technicality she arrived in FIRST, FIRST PLACE AT U.A. Her parents pulled her into the biggest hug ever, crying for their daughter. "We knew you could do it sweetie, but first place that's amazing. We're so proud of you." That was her mother Yaru Yaoyorozu, her father Mitoshi Yaoyorozu just wiped his eyes and said "You did it sport, we always knew you would be great." He then pulled her deeper into the hug, that lasted for a good 10 minutes before it ended.
She texted Izuku before bed.
3D Printer: Hey Izu guess what?
Cinnamon Bun: Hey Momo, no idea :)
3D Printer: You personally know the number 1 entrant exam for the recommendations. I will allow you to grovel at my feet due to my greatness.
Cinnamon Bun: Yes my lady, I shall prostrate myself before you upon our next meeting. But on a serious note i'm so proud of you. I knew you could do it :D
3D Printer: Please don't grovel at my feet.
Cinnamon Bun: Does this not please the young misses? I am able to perform other functions.
3D Printer: Please stop D:
Cinnamon Bun: Is that an emoji young lady? I knew that commoner swine was corrupting you.
3D Printer: Pssh if that commoner is a swine than I am a swine as well.
Cinnamon Bun: My word, the young lady is no such thing.
3D Printer: Just stop Izu your cute enough already ;)
Cinnamon Bun: osdjfajdfjadpfjapdf You can't just call me cute, your drop dead gorgeous.
Does he really think that?
3D Printer: *ahem* Well i'll take that as a compliment but I am going to sleep we have school tomorrow Izu.
Cinnamon Bun: Ugh don't remind me, that last test was brutal. But yeah cya tomorrow :)