Chapter 62 - 4-6

Chapter 4

Izuku felt like a new man. It was like he was constantly hyped up on adrenaline as he worked feverishly on the designs of his armor. His brain was working on overdrive and he felt even smarter than he did normally.

He'd never built a full armor suit before, but Mei had developed a few.

Mei Hatsumi had been a long time friend of his. Having worked with him since their early days in U.A.

With them being the two smartest students, they had done great work together.

She and Ocahco never really got along though. Even less so when they graduated from U.A.

Mei had a difficult time adjusting to no longer being financially backed by the school anymore, and her constantly blowing up their equipment, their expensive equipment, annoyed Ochaco to no end. Had it not been for Ochaco's excellent control over their finances then Midoriya Industries would have never got off the ground.

Even after the company became successful Ochaco still disliked her. Izuku decided it was a good idea to keep the two away from each other and Izuku would talk to Mei himself.

It was only until after they got married did Izuku realize why Ochaco hated the idea of him going to meet an attractive female by himself, away from her.

Izuku smiled at his past stupidity.

The arc reactor was the most important part and would likely take the longest. As such he would like to focus on that first.

However, he still needed to produce results with both the quirk erasing bullets and the other support equipment.

So he would work on the armor and when he finished, he would make weaker, single pieces of the armor and give them to Overhaul, while he worked on the arc reactor and the quirk erasing bullets.

It was a more chaotic schedule then he would have liked, but it was all he could do.

"Alright, the blueprints should be finished," Izuku muttered to himself.

The blueprints for the armor was separated into different parts, so as to not elect suspicion.

"Ok, so I'll start on the arc reactor for an hour then move on to the helmet," Izuku muttered. "Eri! It's time to get to work!"

The young girl nodded and gave him her adorably determined look.

Izuku ruffled the hair of his tiny assistant as the two started on their day.

Three months later

BOOM! 

"Darn it!" Izuku shouted, hitting the blast shield in frustration.

Eri brought him a drink to help cool him off. Both literally and metaphorically.

The arc reactor was proving to be troublesome. After two months of working he had finally gotten the thing to turn on and the energy to flow.

The issue was, finding a way to contain such potent energy in such a small object, was proving to be a rather daunting task.

In other news, he had made progress on the helmet and gauntlets, but he wouldn't be able to really finish any of the armor.

He did make a lot of progress on the quirk erasing bullets. In fact, he would probably finish making the permanent version in a few months.

Of course, he still had to give something to Overhaul so he just made a slightly improved version of his bracer boots and handed it off to him.

Izuku sipped his drink when suddenly he heard the door opened.

It was two of Overhaul's goons with a crate.

"We're here to give ya the food." Said one of the goons.

"Come in, and don't touch anything," Izuku told them.

"Got it." The goon said.

The goon then looked at the two goons guarding the doors. The guards nodded their heads, and the goon nodded his head back and then walked into the room, closing the door behind him.

Izuku noticed the odd behavior, and immediately took a stand in front of Eri. "What's going on?"

"You wanna get out of here right?" The goon said in a hushed tone as he unpacked the food.

Izuku's eyes widened. "What are you talking about?"

"Keep it down." The other goon said. "If we want to pull this off then we'll need to make sure Overwhore doesn't hear a word of what we're saying."

"Language! And pull what off?" Izuku said in a hushed tone.

"Destroying Overhaul and the Yakuza." The goon said.

"...What?" Izuku had to try not to shout out in shock. This had to be a trick of some kind.

"You idiot now you got em confused." The other goon scolded. "Let me explain. When he signed up for the Yakuza, we thought we were joining a criminal group with class. With respect. With honor. And back when the boss was in charge, it was like that. He knew what it meant to be a Yakuza. A real Yakuza. Then Overhaul put em into a coma, and forced everyone to follow em, or else he'd kill em with his quirk. He filled the Yakuza with trash and rejects! He started crossing lines the boss said not to cross. He took a villain's name! And worst of all, he started mistreating the boss's grandkid!"

Izuku's eyes widened. Eri is the granddaughter of the former Yakuza boss? No, I have to stay focused. If what he's saying is true then I may be able to use it to my advantage. 

"But why destroy it, wouldn't you rather just kill Overhaul and take back control?" Izuku asked.

"Naw. If we take out Overhaul and all the goons loyal to em, then we'll be too weak. Our enemies will take us out in a heartbeat." Goon 2 said.

"And screw that! If the Yakuza's going out, then we're going out on our own accord!" Goon 1 said.

So it looks like there are two groups. People who are loyal to Overhaul and people who want him dead. Let's call them, the loyalist and the extremest. Izuku thought.

"How many of you are there compared to the ones loyal to Overhaul?" Izuku asked.

"We got bigger numbers, but Overhaul's guys are way stronger." Goon 2 scowled. "We'd never stand a chance if we tried to fight back on our own...but with those bullets-"

"You'd be able to take away their advantage." Izuku finished. "So you want me to make the bullets and then help you and your allies take out Overhaul and his minions."

"I knew you were smart." Goon 1 smirked.

"Ok, if I do this, what happens to me and Eri?" Izuku asked.

"What'd Ya think happens. You take the girl and get outta here." Goon 2 said.

Izuku nodded. This could make my escape a lot easier…but still. 

"If I help you...you'll kill Overhaul right?" Izuku asked.

"Duh! That jerks gonna get what's coming to em!" Goon 1 said.

Izuku frowned. I don't like the idea of killing someone, indirectly or not. But I'll need to erase Overhaul's quirk if I want to get out of here. And even if I refuse them and try to escape on my own, they'll probably take advantage of it and kill Overhaul anyway. 

No matter what he did, if he escaped, Overhaul would die.

But, considering everything Overhaul's done.

...I can live with that. Izuku decided. If it's him or Eri, I'd choose Eri to save in heartbeat. 

"Ok, I'm in," Izuku said.

"Alright! Knew you'd say that!" Goon 1 celebrated.

"But, I'm in charge. I was already planning on escaping so I have a plan in mind." Izuku explained. "You and your friends do as I say, and Overhaul won't know what hit him."

"Sounds good to me." Goon 2 said. "What's the plan boss?"

Two months later.

Izuku looked at the inactive arc reactor behind the blast shielding.

"Come on, please work." Izuku prayed under his breath.

Izuku pushed the button, and the energy started flowing.

The arc reactor lit up, getting bright and bright.

Izuku looked at some screens next to him. "Come on...come on."

The energy kept glowing brighter, as more power was growing inside the reactor.

"And, now!" Izuku said before pushing another button.

The machine died down, but the reactor kept glowing brighter.

"Stabilize, stabilize, stabilize," Izuku begged.

The light became even brighter. Illuminating the entire lab and forcing Izuku to look away.

Then, there was a flash of light! Before the light died down.

Izuku looked back at the reactor.

"I-I did it!" Izuku celebrated. "I DID IT!"

The arc reactor was now glowing bright with energy and was perfectly intact. Finally, after all this time, he had done it. The most crucial part of his plan was finished, now he could work on everything else.

"Izuku?" All Izuku's celebrating had woken up Eri, who was sleeping soundly on the bed beforehand. "Did the arc reactor finally work?"

"Oh, Eri did I wake you up? I'm sorry...and yes! It worked!" Izuku said with a bright smiling on his face.

"Oh. That's good." Eri didn't really understand what that meant, but Izuku was happy and that was all that mattered to her.

Izuku went over to the arc reactor and held it up with pride.

This was the start! The time for escape would be nigh!

"Let's go back to sleep Eri," Izuku said. "I think I'll have good dreams tonight!"

Two months later.

Izuku looked at his finished formula. With this, his work on the quirk erasing bullet would be complete.

Of course, he couldn't give this to Overhaul, he would give him a version that lasted longer than the previous version, but he would never give him the permanent one.

Izuku had made rapid progress after the completion of his arc reactor. Having finished his helmet, and his chest plate would be done in a week or so.

"Alright, let's see how the arc reactor reacts to the gauntlet," Izuku said.

The genius hooked up the reactor to one of his prototype gauntlets.

The gauntlet lit up with a pleasing hum, working as Izuku expected.

"Ok, everything seems to be working fine. Let's try the flashlight." Izuku had installed a flashlight in the palm of the gauntlet, just in case he had to fight in the dark and the night vision feature in his helmet didn't work for whatever reason.

Izuku flexed his wrist to turn on the flashlight and-

FWOOM

He was knocked back, as a blast of arc reactor energy shot out of palm, hitting the wall and making a burnt crack.

Izuku sat up, dazed from the knockback, and the fall. Eri had run over to make sure he was ok and helped him off the floor.

I must have used way too much power. Izuku thought to himself as he got up off the floor. I'm going to have to lower that...a lot. 

As Izuku got up he spotted the crack in the wall. It was a pretty big crack considering that it was a thick concrete wall, meant to take large impacts from big explosions.

After a few seconds of looking at it, he got an idea.

Or maybe not. He considered.

A month later

The chest plate had taken an extra week to finish, but that was only because Izuku had shifted focus into adding a new feature to his gauntlets and boots.

Repulser blast.

Using the arc reactor, Izuku would be able to focus the energy in his gauntlet and blast it out as a beam of light.

In other words, he could shoot lasers out of his palms and feet. Why add this feature to his feet? Why not, could come in handy.

The armor itself was almost complete, he was working on the finishing touches now and it should be done in another month or so.

As the time of their escape drew closer, Izuku started to think of Ochaco. How was she doing? Had she moved on? What would he do if she didn't want him anymore? What if she didn't like Eri? What if-

Izuku shook his head. No. I can't think of Ochaco like that. She'll be fine. When I come back we'll all celebrate. As a family. 

He had almost no doubt he would adopt Eri when they got out. The only possible issue that could disrupt that plan is if Ochaco was against it.

As he was thinking, one of the Yakuza goons that were on his side walked in. "Hey, we got good news!"

"Keep it down." Izuku reminded him. "What is it?"

"We got some help!" The goon said. "From Stain!"

"S-Stain!?" Izuku's mouth dropped. "Why would the hero killer want to help us?"

"Apparently he hates Overhaul just as much as we do." The goon said. "I donna know what Overjerk did to cross the hero killer. But he must have really screwed the pooch."

Izuku thought about this. While he was sure the hero killer would make the job easier, he was hesitant to work with Stain the hero killer. But if it meant securing Eri's safety.

"Alright, make sure he's actually on our side," Izuku told the goon. "If he betrays us, it could be the end of all of us."

"Got it." The goon said before walking out.

Izuku went back to his work. Soon all of this will be over. Just a bit more time.

262Chapter 5

It was the day.

Izuku reported that he had finished the bullet. And as expected, later that day, Overhaul followed by Mimic and Chronostaisis, barged in.

"Where is it?" Overhaul demanded.

Izuku rubbed his eye, giving a secret signal to the guards outside the door, who responded by blinking twice. Everything was going as planned, no diversions.

"I reported it as soon as it finished," Izuku said. "It's right over on that table, I've also laid out the formula right next to it in case you wanted to see it."

Overhaul and his posse rushed past in, their attention laying solely on the bullet.

Just as Izuku expected.

Izuku stood by the door, with Eri by his side. He had only made her aware of the plan last night, and it was obvious she was nervous. If Overhaul weren't so distracted he probably would have noticed something was up.

"This is it, this is the start of our empire." Overhaul held the bullet up to his face, admiring it.

The guard blinked three times.

Izuku blinked once and turned Eri away.

Suddenly the two guards turned, aiming their assault rifles at Overhaul and firing.

Overhaul didn't react until it was too late. "Gah!"

"Kai! GaH!" Chronostasis was shot.

"What the-ah!" Mimic got hit. Suddenly, the small doll exploded, spitting out a large adult male.

Overhaul looked at the bullet lodged in his arm, his eyes as wide as dinner plates as dread and anger filled his body. "What...have you done!?"

"My quirk did they-ahh!" Suddenly Chrono and Mimic were shot again, this time in the knees.

The two guards had put aside their rifles and pulled out pistols that fired real bullets.

"You...traitors!" Overhaul instinctively tried to use his quirk, only remembering he couldn't when it was too late and he was shot in both his legs. Leaving all three of them on the ground

"Heh. Like our guns boss?" Goon one held up the rifle. "Modified by Midoriya himself, looks just the real thing!"

"Give the order." Izuku interrupted their gloating.

"Oh yeah." Goon two put his walkie-talkie up this mouth. "It's time boys! Give 'em hell!"

"You bastards! What is this!?" Mimic asked.

"What' da you think it is doll boy!" Goon one taunted. "We've been planning this for months! See that's the problem with hiring a genius against his will, he out smart's ya!"

"Midoriya finished that bullet months ago, and it was a side project!" Goon two laughed. "Oh, I can't wait till ya see what he was really working on."

"You! You planned this!" Overhaul glared at Izuku, who was walking over to one of the tables. "Do you really think you'll get away with this my men will-"

"Die like the freaks they are!" Goon one interrupted him. "We got a bullet for each one of your little precepts of death, and even if they fail, Stain will take em out!"

"You're done, Kai." Goon two used his real name to anger him.

"Don't call me that you trash!" Overhaul shouted as he started crawling over to them.

While the guards were taunting Overhaul Izuku could hear the firing of guns getting closer to the lab. He couldn't waste any more time.

Izuku kneeled down and opened the panel on one of the tables, before crawling inside.

"What the hell is he doing?!" Mimic asked.

"Oh, you'll see." Goon one laughed.

Once Izuku was inside, he laid down perfectly flat, and in just the right position.

Suddenly a blue light washed over him, scanning him and making sure that it was Izuku under the table and not anyone else.

After a few seconds, the scanning was complete, and it moved onto the next phase, equipping the armor.

Little mechanical arms moved to attach the pieces of the armor onto Izuku, first the boots, then the legs, then the chest, the arms, the gauntlets, and finally, the helmet.

Then the pieces began to attach to one enough, parts moved and stuck together until Izuku was fully sealed in the armor.

Then the arms lowered the arc reactor into the chest piece.

The arc reactor was put into place, and locked in. Powering up the armor with a pleasing humm.

The H.U.D. came to life, allowing Izuku to see, as well as giving him a full analysis of his surroundings and a status report of the armor.

The top of the table opened up, breaking in half and giving Izuku his exit.

He grabbed the top edge of the table and pulled himself up, revealing his grey iron man armor for all to see.

Goon one whistled. "There it is."

"What the hell is that?!" Chrono asked.

Izuku looked at Chrono. "My escape."

"Nice line g-ahhh!" Suddenly Goon 1 had a bottle thrown at his head.

"It's Sakaki!" Goon 2 said before getting a bottle thrown at his head. "Ahh!"

Deidoro Sakaki ran into the room in a panicked, but still drunken, stupor.

"Booooossss! The goons are shooten us!" Sakaki said, before looking at Izuku's armor. "Whaat the fuck is-"

"Intoxication detected, activating auto fire." Said the armor's hud.

Izuku's palm flew upward, and the armor fired a repulsor blast right at Sakaki's chest.

"Wahhh!" The blast hit it's mark, sending the villain flying into the wall and onto the floor. Knocked out cold.

"That thing shoots lasers!?" Mimic's eyes widened.

Izuku got out of the table, he moved around awkwardly as he was unused to wearing the armor.

"Eri, it's time to go." Izuku picked up the girl, as the two goons got off the ground.

As Izuku walked out of the room, he nodded to the two goons, giving them the signal to finish it.

They gave him a wicked smile and picked up their guns.

"Looks like the kids are away. Time for the guns to play." Goon 1 said.

"That was, so lame." Chrono deadpanned.

"Yeah well, you're dead." Goon 1 said.

"If you do this, then you'll destroy the Yakuza." Overhaul growled at the goons.

"The Yakuza died when you took over." Goon 2 cocked his gun.

With Izuku.

"Cover your ears Eri," Izuku told her as he ran farther from the lab.

Eri nodded and put her hands over her ears.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Four gunshots went off behind them. Signaling the end of Overhaul, Chronostasis, Mimic, and Deidoro Sakaki.

Izuku grit his teeth. He didn't like it. He really didn't like it. All the death and destruction that would happen here would be his fault.

But he had no choice.

"Armor. Bring up a map of the base." Izuku said.

In the corner of his H.U.D., a three-dimensional map appeared of the Yakuza base as well as multiple blips showing his enemies and allies. This was accomplished by hacking into the Yakuza's camera system.

It looks like Overhaul, Chronostasis, Mimic, Shin Nemoto, and Deidoro Sakaki are all dead. Izuku looked through the camera's to see how well his plan worked. Rikiya Katsukame lost his quirk and is currently very injured, he probably won't be alive for long. Toya Setsuno, Yu Hojo, and Soramitsu Tabe are all still alive and have their quirks and are fighting off the goons together. Setsuno probably used his quirk to steal the guns before they could fire them. Kendo Rappa and Hekiji Tengai also have their quirks and are fighting them off. Damn it, this didn't go nearly as well as I thought. Most of them are trying to get to where Overhaul was meaning that they're all blocking my path! 

The plan was a simple one. Use the quirk erasing bullets to depower and kill Overhaul and the eight precepts of death. Without them, the enemy wouldn't stand a chance against Izuku's forces. However with most of the eight precepts still alive then their victory was no longer certain. Now they would have to do this the hard way. Izuku's

"Iron Man online. Report." Izuku activated the coms they had established for this mission.

A distorted voice came in reply. "Most of the goons are busy. I killed all the goons on the outside and I'm making my way through the facility now."

"Stain." Izuku immediately knew who this was. Stain was the only person whose voice would be distorted and the only person who would have come from the outside.

"Yes." Stain confirmed. "Did everything go as planned?"

"No. A few of the eight precepts are still alive and blocking my path. They're too powerful for the goons to take alone." Izuku said.

"Tell me who to kill and where to go." Stain said.

"Suit, bring up Stain's location." One of the blue dots on Izuku's map started blinking green. "Right now you're closest to Setsuno, Hojo, and Tabe. Take two lefts then make a right."

"On it." Stain said.

Hopefully, that should take care of them. Izuku looked at the map. But that still leaves Rappa and Tangai. They're closest to me and approaching fast. These goons won't be able to hold them. I need a plan and soon! 

Izuku looked at the maps and considered every option, every room, every ally, every possible thing he could use.

I think. I have a plan. Izuku thought.

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Toya Setsuno, Yu Hojo, and Soramitsu Tabe were fighting off the waves of traitorous Yakuza goons.

They hid behind Hojo and his crystals while the goons shot bullets at them.

Setsuno stuck his hand out of cover and activated his quirk, one by one the guns the goons were using were taken from them until they were left without any weapons.

Tabe ran out from behind the cover, now that his enemies were disarmed nothing was stopping his teeth from reaching the enemies.

"AhhHHH!" The screams of the goons resonated through the halls as they're bodies were bitten into. Blood splashed onto the walls and floors as Tabe mauled them, tearing into their innards until they laid dead at his feet.

"Damn traitors." Setsuno dropped a few of the guns, keeping one just in case.

"We need to get to Overhaul." Hojo deactivated his quirk.

Tabe finished up eating part of one of the goons and looked in the direction of his two friends. His eyes went wide as he saw something behind them. "Look out! Behind you!"

"Huh!? They turned just in time to see Stain, sword drawn and aimed for Setsuno's head.

The blond-haired criminal barely managed to move out of the way in time, with Sten's sword managing to nick his neck slightly, drawing a little bit of blood.

Setsuno and Hojo backed up as far as they could, standing next to Tabe as the three of them got ready to fight.

"Who the hell are you?" Setsuno shouted at him. He didn't recognize him as one of the traitors meaning this was someone else.

Stain grinned like the mad man he was. The hero killer was wearing what could only be described as a cyber ninja outfit. He was covered in red and grey armor, with a red mask covering the upper half of his face. There was a utility belt around his waist and the armor itself was covered in spikes and compartments to keep knives.

He took the sword he cut Setsuno with and licked the blood off the blade.

Suddenly Setsuno felt strange for a moment, and then he was unable to move.

"What the!? I can't move!" Setsuno panicked as he tried desperately to move any part of his body.

"The Yakuza is an old disease that should have been cured long ago. The fact that trash like you still roams free is proof that our current hero system is a failure." Stain said. "Allow me to fix their mistake."

Hojo blinked, and Stain was in front of him. Moving at speeds they could barely comprehend.

His body reacted and crystallized his chest, just barely able to block Stain's blade from ripping into him.

Hojo crystallized his arm turning it into a hard, jagged piller, and swung it at Stain.

Stain jumped back, avoiding the attack.

Tabe ran at Stain, his jaws open and ready to bite.

He lunged at Stain, who ducked before sticking his swords through his chest.

"Tabe!?" The two other villains cried out as their friend was impaled.

Stain slashed his swords through either side of Tabe's body, sending his blood and innards flying through the air. His body dropped to the floor. Dead.

"One down." Stain pressed a button on his swords. They made a whirring noise and then started glowing red, energy crackling off of them like bolts of lightning. "Two more to go."

"You bastard!" Hojo ran at Stain with his crystallized body, his arms out and ready to smash.

Stain took out a small orb from one of his pouches and threw it out over Hojo's shoulder.

"You missed you son of a-"

Before Hojo could finish, dozens of holes opened up in the orb, and extremely small daggers shot out in all directions, with about eight of them stabbing into Hojo's back.

"AHHH!" Hojo stopped his charge as he recoiled in pain.

STAB

While Hojo was recoiling, Stain charged forward and buried his sword into his chest.

Right through his crystals, right through his chest, right through his heart.

The life faded from the man's eyes, and he fell limp onto Stain's sword.

Stain pressed the button and the red glow faded from his sword. He pulled the blade out of the man's chest, letting the body fall to the floor as he looked at his final victim.

Setsuno was staring in disbelief at his friend's bodies. They had been killed, and so easily as well. And now he was going to die too!

"I'm glad I paralyzed you first. Your quirk would have been problematic for me to deal with." Stain said as he walked towards the terrified man.

The man was about to scream, but Stain charged forward and cut off his head.

"Sorry. I'm in a rush." Stain said. "Now let's go find Midoriya."

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Tangai and Rappa ran down the halls towards the lab with a group of loyal Yakuza goons.

"I still haven't heard anything from Overhaul!" Tangai shouted. He was panicking, he'd been trying to contact Overhaul since the insurrection started, but he got no response.

"Overjerk it fine, no way he'd get killed by one of these weak goons," Rappa said.

They ran past a corridor, and one of the goons spotted something.

"Watch out!" The goon warned.

Izuku popped out of the corridor with both armed raised. He fired two quirk erasing bullets at Tangai and Rappa.

Tangai was hit in the shoulder but one of the Yakuza goons jumped in the way of the bullet meant for Rappa.

"An attack?!" Tangai tried to put up a shield. "Wait, my quirk?! Are these our bullets!?"

"He tried using our own bullets against us! The bastard!" The Yakuza goons charged at Izuku.

Izuku's armor scanned the five goons coming at him and activated his shoulder-mounted mini-missile launcher.

The missiles came out and blasted the goons away, sending them sprawling onto the floor unconscious.

Next, he opened his palm and blasted Tangai in the chest with a repulsor blast, knocking Tangai out immediately.

"Looks like I might finally get a good fight outta this!" Rappa smiled as he charged towards Izuku.

Rappa charged at Izuku hurling his fist at him at inhuman speeds.

Izuku activated his repulsor blast in his feet and rocketed backwards into the hallway he came from away from Rappa's attack.

He landed far away from the villain, making sure there was a large distance between them.

"You're too slow!" Izuku taunted. Come on, follow me!

"Don't run away! Fight me like a man!" Rappa charged into the hallway towards Izuku.

Good, this hallway is too narrow for him to dodge anything. He's like a fish in a barrel! Izuku blasted Rappa with his repulsor beam.

The attack hit dead-on, stopping him momentarily, but not doing all too much damage.

"Is that all you got!" Rappa started charging at him again.

Izuku fired again, this time with both his palms.

Rappa brought his arms together, guarding against the attack as it hit him head-on. It knocked him back a few inches, but overall, didn't do much.

He's tough. Izuku thought as Rappa started charging again.

"Increase the power of the repulsor blast to fifty percent," Izuku told the armor. After hearing his palms hum, he fired again at Rappa.

Rappa ran towards him with his arms up, ready to block any attack coming at him.

The blast hit Rappa knocking him back a foot and leaving some burns on his arms. But the villain kept on running, getting closer and closer to Izuku.

He doesn't have a durability quirk he shouldn't be able to take these attacks so easily! Izuku thought. "Increase repluser power to seventy-five percent and switch from blast to beam."

Izuku fired again, this time rather than just a blast of energy it came out as a continuous beam.

The beam hit Rappa's arms, this time with greater result and knocking Rappa back a few feet.

Rappa dug his feet into the ground, smiling as his strength was really getting put to the test. "Now that's more like it! Give me everything ya got tin man!"

"It's Iron Man!" Izuku corrected. "And how are you enduring this!?"

"My body's taken plenty' a blows! My skin's as tough as steel by now!" Rappa responded as he started walking through the beam, slowly but surely making his way toward Izuku.

Izuku looked at his suit's power bar. He had already used up forty percent of his power and it was still draining. He really should have taken the time to increase the energy efficiency of the armor.

I might run out of power before he goes down, and even if I might not have enough power to get out of here! Izuku thought. If I use a hundred percent power I might still not be able to take him down quick enough. Will I have to use that!? If I do then that'll use another chunk of my power! 

Izuku calculated his options in his head, all while Rappa was getting closer to him.

I have no choice! I have to use it. Izuku turned off his repulsor beams.

"What's wrong otta juice!?" Rappa came running at him.

"Reroute all power to the arc reactor," Izuku ordered the armor.

Izuku waited until Rappa was almost right on top of him. His fist cocked and ready to punch Izuku's lights out.

Izuku opened up his arms, leaving his chest wide open. "UNI BEAM!"

BERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

A bright and massive beam of light engulfed Rappa, consuming him completely before rushing through the rest of the hall, then into the room Tengai and the Yakuza were in, and then through the wall, nothing stopped it as it destroyed everything in its path.

The beam only lasted for about seven seconds, before dying down.

With the light gone Izuku could see what had happened.

Rappa was gone, and there was a hole in the room the knocked out Yakuza were in, that lead all the way through the base.

"Power at twenty percent." The armor warned him.

Izuku winced. He would have to be strict on his power consumption, but he could make it. But first.

"Armor, where is Rappa?" Izuku asked the armor.

The armor scanned for the answer. "He is no longer on the map. Camera's suggest he has been blasted out of the facility." 

"So he's not dead?" Izuku asked hopefully.

"Unlikely." The armor answered.

Izuku would have liked to confirm that himself. But he needed to get out and there and fast before he ran out of power.

"Eri!" Izuku shouted into the Hallway. "Cost is clear!"

After a few moments, Eri came running from her hiding spot.

"Are you ok Izuku?" Eri asked, concerned that maybe he had gotten hurt.

"I'm fine," Izuku said, picking her up into his arms. "We need to go!"

Izuku walked through the halls. He would run, but running would drain the battery faster.

He looked at the map, most of his forces had been taken down by the precepts and were now being killed by the remaining Overhaul goons.

And a large assortment of remaining goons was now slowly gathering together, coming towards Izuku as he was on the path to where the lab was. Overhaul's last known location before the attack happened.

Looking at all the remaining Yakuza and their locations, I'll likely run into twenty thugs before I can get to the exit. Izuku thought. And Stain is currently dealing with the remaining thugs. I don't have enough power to use my weapons on all of them. I'll have to take them down hand to hand. 

"Disable all weapon systems and go into power conservation mode," Izuku ordered.

"Weapons systems offline." The computer said.

Izuku looked at the weapons the Yakuza were holding through the camera. Guns and swords won't do anything so they won't be a problem, three rocket launches, those will hurt. I'll need to do something about those. 

He was getting closer to the goons and he had a plan in mind. Kind of.

"Eri." He addressed her as he set her down. "Run the other way until you're out of sight!"

Eri nodded and did as she was told.

Izuku turned around, he could hear the goons coming into the room ahead and he ducked into the corner of the hallway so he was barely out of sight.

He punched the concrete wall with his fist, and pulled out two chunks of it and held one in each fist.

Time to be a hero. Izuku thought.

He charged into the room facing each of the Yakuza thugs.

He threw the two chunks of wall at two of the rocket launcher wielding goons, hitting them in the head and knocking them out.

Eighteen.

The gun-wielding goons fired at him, their bullets bouncing off his armor like they were nothing, as the last rocket wielding goon was taking aim.

A katana-wielding goon charged at him, only for Izuku to grab him by the throat and throw him at the last rocket launcher goon. Making them both fall to the floor and drop their weapons, but not taking them out of the fight.

Two more Katana wielding goons came at him, their swords doing no more damage than the bullets. Izuku grabbed their heads and smashed them together. Knocking them into unconsciousness.

Sixteen.

One of the goons tried to grab one of the fallen rocket launchers. Izuku one the Katana's and threw it at that goon, the butt of the sword hitting him in the face.

Fifteen.

One of the goons decided to use his quirk and turned his head into iron, he grabbed Izuku and tried to head-butt him, but Izuku caught his head with his hands and kneed him in the stomach.

Then he pushed him to the ground and grabbed him by one of his legs.

He picked the goon up in the air and charged towards three of the gun-wielding goons and hit them all with the iron-headed goon's head, using him like a mace and taking them all out. Then Izuku threw him at one of the other goons.

Ten.

While Izuku's back was turned another goon tried to use his quirk on him as well, turning his nails into razor-sharp claws.

"Attack from behind detected." The armor warned Izuku.

Izuku whipped his head back, hitting the goon with the back of his helmet and knocking him to the floor.

Izuku turned around and stomped on his face.

Nine.

Izuku saw that the thug he threw at the rock launcher goon and the rocket launcher goon were getting back up.

He dug his hands into the floor and picked up two slabs of concrete, before throwing it at them, knocking them out once and for all.

Seven.

One of the thugs for whatever reason tried to take Izuku on with his fist. He probably had a minor strength quirk. It didn't matter to Izuku one bit who just caught both his fist, and head-butted him, over and over and over again until he was out.

Six.

"Attack from behind detected." The armor warned him.

BOOM! 

"AH!" Izuku shouted. One of the goons had managed to pick one of the rocket launches and fired it at Izuku's shoulder.

"Armor integrity at seventy percent." The computer said.

Izuku's shoulder was somewhat burnt and parts of it were slightly broken. He was sweating inside the armor. The armor had taken most of the force and heat but he could still feel it a little.

Izuku saw one of the goons heading for the other rocket launches and he lunged at him, tackling him onto the floor.

He pushed the goon down underneath him and punched him in the face, his head hitting the floor with enough force to crack it. Rendering him unconscious.

Five.

"Attack from behind detected." The armor warned.

Izuku looked behind him and saw another goon had picked up the rocket launcher and aimed it at him.

He rolled off away just as the goon fired, causing him to miss and the rocket to hit the wall.

Izuku grabbed one of the guns that a goon dropped and fired it at the goon's legs.

"AHH!" The goon fell to the ground, his knees bleeding.

Four.

Izuku picked up another gun and started opening fire on the Yakuza, who ran and dived away from the gunfire in their attempts to avoid it. But two of them got hit, leaving them bleeding and lying on the floor.

Two.

The two Yakuza goons looked at Izuku with terror in their eyes.

Then, one of the goons took out a knife and slit the other one's throat, surprising Izuku.

One.

The remaining goon started drinking the spurting blood from the goon's neck, his eyes turned red, his muscles started bulging out of his clothes and his hair turned white.

Izuku looked at the now powered up and much more intimidating goon. And readied himself to fight.

Fourteen percent power.

One goon left.

The goon charged at Izuku cocking his fist back to attack Izuku.

He caught both of his fists, locking them into a contest of strength.

Izuku pushed his arms back, his armor giving his greater power.

However the goon weighed more than Izuku, and so he slammed Izuku up into the low ceiling.

Izuku crashed onto the ground and the goon stomped on his head, over and over and over. Until Izuku grabbed his ankle and gripped it with all his strength and the goon's bones gave off a cracking sound.

"ahhhh!" The goon took his foot away from Izuku.

Izuku got up and charged at the goon, pinning him into a wall.

Then he punched him in the face with everything he had, beating him over and over.

The goon tried to punch Izuku off of him but Izuku blocked the attack with his left arm before socking him with his right.

He kneed him in the stomach, broke one of his ribs, broke his nose, and broke his jaw.

Then he kicked the goons leg out from under him, causing the goon to fall on his knee.

Brought both his fist together and raised them over the goons head.

CRACK!

And brought it down on the goon's head, knocking him out and sending him onto the floor.

None. And done.

Izuku breathed in deeply, struggling for breath. He wanted to take off the faceplate so he could breathe a bit better, but he needed to see the H.U.B. to see the map and his power bar.

And after spending almost a year inside this hell, he needed freedom more than air anyway.

He looked at his power bar. Eight percent. Then he looked at his map. All of the enemies were either knocked out or dead. It was just him, Eri, and Stain.

Speaking of Stain.

"Midoriya, are you still alive?" Came Stain's distorted voice from his armor's communication system.

"I'm alive. They're gone. All the enemies have been. Neutralized." Izuku reported. "It's just you me and the girl."

"Can you get out of here alright Sir?" Stain asked.

"I'm fine. My armor is at eighty percent power and all my weapons are fully operational." Izuku lied. He didn't know if Stain was going to betray them, so he couldn't let him know how valuable he was.

"Well, then it looks like my job is done." And with that Stain cut communications, and seconds later he vanished off the map.

Izuku wanted to ask him why he helped him, but using his comms had taken him down to seven percent.

"Armor, turn off all combat-related abilities." He needed to conserve power. "Eri! Come on we need to go!"

After a minute Eri arrived standing in front of him.

"Eri, I'm running out of power so I need you to walk ok," Izuku told her.

Eri nodded while giving him a concerned look.

The two walked through the base, Izuku turning off functions throughout to conserve power.

"Turn off all H.U.D. options besides the map and the power bar."

"Done." 

"Reduce the size of the map to only our escape route."

"Done." 

"Turn off speakers."

Eventually, the two reached a fake wall that led to the above-ground building.

Izuku punched through it, now having five percent power left.

"Turn off the map," Izuku said, the map disappearing from his hud.

The two walked through the building until they finally reached the exit.

"Finally," Izuku said. Eri could only hear his muffled voice from inside the armor after he turned off the speaker.

Izuku slid open the door, and immediately the two of them were hit with sunlight.

The two of them covered their eyes, this having been the first time they'd seen the sun in a long, long time.

The two walked through the garden, true to Stain's word it was filled with dead Yakuza, their bodies bleeding and slumped over. The blood dying all the flowers into roses.

Izuku covered Eri's eyes as they walked through and up to the gates.

Izuku put his hand on the gates. He cocked his other arm back.

PUNCH! PUNCH! PUNCH!

The door broke off. And the two stepped out. Finally leaving that horrible place behind.

Eri looked around at the city in front of her, staring at the cars, the trees, the building, and the people who were looking at them oddly.

She turned to Izuku. "Are we...free now?"

"Disengage and deactivate armor," Izuku said.

Suddenly, the armor unlocked itself, it's individual pieces twisting and turning before falling off, until finally, Izuku was free.

He breathed in the fresh air for the first time in almost a year. "Yes, Eri. Yes, we are."

The two of them looked at each other for a moment, before the tears started rolling down their faces.

Eri lept into Izuku's arms as the two sobbed with joy. It had been so long. So, so long.

But finally, the nightmare was over.

After a few minutes of just them crying, a black limo pulled up in front of them.

A door swung open, and out came his wife Ochaco Midoriya.

The two looked at each other in shock for a moment, before Ochaco started to cry.

She ran to Izuku, and the two embraced before kissing passionately over their reunion.

The kiss lasted for a good long while until the two finally separated.

"It's you." Ochaco cried. "It's really you."

"It's me." Izuku smiled like an idiot. The amount of happiness and relief he felt was indescribable. "H-How did you find me? How did you know I was here?"

"We received a tip that you might be here." Chizome got out of the limo. "At first we thought it was some kind of prank but since we were in the area we decided to drive over here."

"We thought you were dead!" Ochaco broke down, sobbing in his arms. "Where have you been!? What happened to you!?"

"So much." Was all Izuku could say. "So much has happened, I don't even know where to start...But I do know something. I want three things."

"And what would that be sir?" Chizome asked.

"I want to adopt this girl." Izuku gestured to Eri, who was looking at Ochaco from behind his leg. "Her name is Eri."

Ochaco's eyes went wide. "A-adopt, I'm-"

She looked into Izuku's eyes, his pleading, desperate, hopeful eyes.

"We can...talk about it some more later," Ochaco said.

Izuku smiled. That was basically a yes. "Next, once the police and the government and the heroes are all done here, I want to buy this land."

Chizome raised an eyebrow in confusion. "You want to...buy this place?"

"Yes," Izuku confirmed. "Then I want the building torn down, the tunnels demolished and caved in, every scrap of this place destroyed. Then I want to turn it into a graveyard."

He wanted this place so destroyed that only the dead would live there.

"And lastly." Izuku turned to Ocahco. "I want to get far, far away from this place, go home, and hug my wife and daughter until we fall asleep."

Ochaco smiled at him through the tears. "That can be arranged."

They all climbed into the limo, but as Izuku was getting in, he looked at the armor.

"Chizome. Put the armor in the trunk." Izuku ordered.

"Any particular reason why sir?" Chizome asked.

"I don't know," Izuku said. "It just wouldn't feel right to leave without it."

Chizome looked at Izuku for a moment, before turning around to do as he was told. Hiding his grin all the while. You've changed boss. And I think I'm going to like the result. 

After the armor was put into the car, Chizome got in, and they all rode away.

Leaving the Yakuza behind and never turning back.

And so ends the Origin/Yakuza arc. Let's address some questions you may have

Q: How long was Izuku there? 

A: A little over Ten Months. Maybe eleven. 

Q: How did the Yakuza goons and Rappa survive so many things that should have killed them? 

A: Humans in the MHAverse are shown to be way tougher than regular humans even without endurance quirks. Bakugo got slammed into a building by All Might and both Stain and Tomura have survived things that should have killed them.

Q: Why is Stain different? 

A: He works as the head bodyguard for the most advanced tech company in the world, and you think he's not gonna take that shit for himself? He's got lots of stolen Midoriya tech so of course, he looks different. And this won't be his final look either.

Q: What are the legal ramifications of what Izuku did? 

A: Find out next chapter. 

Q: Why was Izuku so ok with people being killed? 

A: He couldn't save them. Trust me he tried thinking of all kinds of different ways to save everyone, but in the end, there was simply no way he and Eri could escape without someone dying. He simply chose Eri's life over theirs.

Q: Why was the armor so weak? 

A: It's a prototype made specifically for getting out of the Yakuza base, hence why it can't fly, made while he was under surveillance from Overhaul, with somewhat limited resources. Of course, it's not going to be as strong as the armors Izuku will use later in this story.

And that's it for now. Please review the chapter and the story. Have a nice day

Chapter 6

So before we begin let me explain two things. 

Firstly, the armor that was used in the last chapter is this fic's version of the Mark 1. I know it's way more advanced than the Mark 1 in the movies and maybe the comics, however, it kinda needed to be that way. The Yakuza aren't just thugs with guns, most of the eight precepts would completely wreck the Mark 1 armor. So I had to make it more like the Mark 2. It's not exactly like the Mark 2 because it doesn't have any sort of flight systems and is not as power efficient.

Secondly, this chapter is basically an epilogue to the last arc, not the beginning of a new arc. 

With that said, onto the chapter. 

The aftermath of Izuku's breakout was more straightforward than one might have thought. Mainly because Ochaco gave anyone who tried to give him a hard time absolute hell.

Of course, there was, of course, a court case wherein it was discussed whether Iuzku was responsible for all the deaths that were caused during the Yakuza civil war.

However, due to lack of physical evidence(and the fact that Ochaco threw around their money and influence), Izuku was acquitted.

Now there was one more thing he needed to address.

Well...two actually.

"What do you mean no!?" Ochaco asked in a baffled tone.

"I mean we can't give the arc reactor tech to anyone, and we can't start mass producing them," Izuku explained. "We have to keep this technology to ourselves, at least for the time being."

The two of them were in their house. Well...calling it a house would be doing it a disservice.

Their home was a five-story manor, built out in the forested part of the city. This was a compromise, as Izuku wanted a smaller house away from people, and Ochaco wanted a big house in the middle of the city to display dominance.

Ochaco had two sides to her when it came to money.

There was the shrewd businesswoman side that haggled in every transaction, and would always make sure the company would never lose too much money or overspend. This side even made its way into their personal life back when the company was in its infancy.

However, once they started getting absurd amounts of money, Ochaco gained a new side of her.

The side of her that screamed, "I was once poor and now I'm rich and I've definitely let the money get to my head a little" side.

This side only ever appeared in their personal life. This part of her would spend lots of money on lavish luxury items and other expensive commodities, and this was the side of her that showed in the mansion.

The living room located on the third floor, was a miniature movie theater, with reclining couches, an extremely large flatscreen T.V. and huge speakers. It was even connected to their second kitchen(one of several they had) which was filled with snacks.

The first floor was for parties and was large enough to accommodate large swarms of people. Although they rarely ever throw parties.

Second floor is where they would entertain guests as well as being equipped with an exercise room(One which Ochaco made use of) and a room for sports that resembled a gym. It was also where the guest rooms and the rooms for the staff were.

Outside was their ridiculously huge complete with a beautiful garden that their gardener's maintained and a pool.

Fourth floor had a sauna as well as several other rooms for relaxation.

And the fifth floor had their master bedroom, their master bathroom, their office, another kitchen in case they got hungry late in the night, and their special room. A room guest and Eri were not allowed in under any circumstance and the room Ochaco and Izuku would spend a lot of time in whenever one of them had a bad day, when the mood was right or whenever Izuku talked to Mei by himself for any time over an hour.

Their bedroom was lavish. Having the best T.V. and furniture money could buy, and a bed so soft it was like sleeping on a cloud. The walls were covered in expensive paintings and other pieces of art. All of it only there so Ochaco could revel in their money.

Currently, the two of them were in the master bedroom, discussing whether or not they should sell the arc reactor technology.

"But why not! Izuku this is the world's most powerful source of clean energy! With this, we could become the most powerful people in the world! All the world's governments would be begging us for favors!" Ochaco nearly shouted, still keeping her voice low enough so Eri, who was currently brushing her teeth, couldn't hear them.

"And what happens if that power lands in someone else's hands." Izuku pulled out his computer. "Take a look at this."

Izuku showed her the computer screen which had on it two charts.

Ochaco looked at her, her eyes growing wide. "This...the amount of products we've made and the amount of money we're receiving is...someone's stealing from us."

"Overhaul told me that people in our company were selling our tech...to villains," Izuku revealed to her.

Ochaco's eyes went even wider. "If we didn't hear about this until now then they must be in pretty deep. They'd have to alter reports that go all the way directly to us. Either that or they have a lot of people in the lower levels spreading misinformation."

"Either way the company is compromised," Izuku said. "I'm not releasing any new tech, let alone the arc reactor until we're sure this leak is plugged."

Ochaco gave him a look of pure determination. "Then let's plug the leak."

Ochaco picked up her smart pad and started jotting things down. "Firstly we need to lower the number of products we're distributing, it'll be easier to notice if something's missing when we're not putting out so much of it. Also, we need to get some more supervisors to look over our already existing distribution, people with completely clean backgrounds."

"We also need to put better tracking on our stuff. I'll redesign the tech to include some more tracking equipment." Izuku added. "We also need to do something about the tech that's already out there. Maybe I can design something to shut down our tech."

"And what if that gets stolen?" Ochaco gave him a serious look. "If that gets into the villain's hands that could cause some serious damage to the company."

Izuku thought about it for a moment. "Then it will have exclusive distribution. I'll make the devices personally and we'll give it to the heroes we know."

"That sounds better." Ochaco approved.

"We also need to up the security," Izuku said.

As the two spat out ideas Eri came out of the bathroom.

"Daddy? Mommy? What are you doing?" Eri eyed the smart pad curiously.

Once Eri understood what adoption was, it didn't take her long to start calling them that. She was rather starved for affection, but fortunately, Ochaco and Izuku had plenty of it to give.

"Oh were just talking about some boring business stuff." Ochaco lifted Eri onto her lap. "How was your day with Chizome sweetheart?"

While the two of them dealt with court, Chizome was assigned to guard Eri.

"O-Ok." Eri seemed upset. "I missed you."

"Oh, we missed you too Eri." Izuku came in and hugged both of them. "Don't worry, we'll have plenty of time to spend with you from here on."

"That's right daddy and mommy are going to make sure you have lots of fun with you." Ochaco smiled brightly at her. "But for now, it's time for good little girls to go to bed."

"Ok," Eri said.

With that, it was basically decided that all of them would go to bed. Eri didn't get her own room, rather she shared one with them for the time being. She needed almost constant attention from either one of them, and she couldn't really sleep without one of them either.

The three of them laid down, Izuku on the left and Ochaco on the right, with Eri in between them, holding onto Izuku.

"Mommy. Daddy. I love you." Eri snuggled up into Izuku's side.

Izuku and Ocahco could feel their hearts melt.

"We love you to Eri," Izuku whispered.

"With all our hearts." Ochaco put her arm over her.

A few minutes later, she was asleep.

"Is it wrong...that I feel like it was worth it?" Izuku asked his wife. "All the pain, all that time apart, all those lives that were taken. Is it bad that I feel like it was all worth it just to get her?"

"She's definitely one of the few upsides that came out of this." Ochaco played with Eri's hair lovingly. "You know, if we're stopping the creation of all new products, then we'll have to fire Mei."

Izuku gave her a deadpan stare. "Seriously. Are you seriously doing this?"

"What? She's never gonna stop creating no matter how much we tell her to so our only solution is to fire her." Ochaco said it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Ochaco. We both know Mei is fine with just making things. Even if we don't sell them." Izuku rolled his eyes. "I am so surprised you didn't fire her while I was gone. Why can't you two just get along?"

"Because she blows up all our expensive equipment, makes it nearly impossible for anyone to work with her because of over the top personality and the fact that she refuses to take a bath and the fact that we have to pay her bills for her otherwise she'll forget and end up living in the lab, which she basically does anyway." Ochaco ranted while still whispering.

Izuku shook his head. "Ochaco. I have never found anyone who makes me feel a quarter as happy as I do when I'm with you, except for Eri. The best day of my life is the day I proposed to you and you said yes. And now we have a daughter. You don't need to worry about someone taking me away."

Ochaco blushed intensely. "Jeez. Why can't you be this confident all the time."

"Because unfortunately, you're not with me all the time," Izuku told her.

"You know I wish I could be," Ochaco said in a serious tone. "I always worry about you. We already agreed that Eri's gonna see a therapist so maybe it's time you saw one too."

Izuku looked away, a frown stretching across his face. "I-I can't. Eri needs a strong father. Someone, she can look up to. Unfortunately, all she has is me."

"And that's more than enough," Ochaco argued. "You're not weak for seeking help, that just makes you human."

Izuku didn't respond.

"You know, Chizome tells me what you're like when I'm not here. How miserable and despondent you are. How you stay cooped up in the house even when I deliberately tell you not to."

"I...I'm sorry. When you're not with me it feels like...it feels...like back before we met." Izuku told her. "I feel aimless. I keep making support gear but it never feels like enough. I always feel like I should be doing more. But...I have Eri now. And she makes me feel useful and happy."

"But one day Eri's gonna grow up, and she'll have her own life." Ochaco reminded him. "As much as I love being the center of your world, you can't depend on two people to hold your life together. Izuku that's just not healthy. We have friends, why don't you spend more time with them, invite them over without me telling you for once."

"I-I don't want to waste their time, they're heroes, they have very important things to do," Izuku said.

"Not on their days off." Ochaco pointed out. "Izuku, what would you do if something happened to me."

"Don't say that!" Izuku said a bit too loudly, making Eri squirm.

There was a short pause, as tears started pouring down Izuku's eyes.

"I spent almost a year without you. And that was all I needed to know that I never want to be without you." Izuku looked up at Ochaco with begging, teary eyes. "Please, don't leave me."

Ochaco looked into his eyes and was reminded of her job.

The job she'd had for almost as long as they'd known each other.

She didn't get paid ridiculous amounts of money to keep their finances or to manage the company or to make appearances in his stead.

Her job was to keep him together and do the things he can't. She was his other half and he needed her.

And so she held his head and whipped away his tears. As she had done many times before.

"Look at me. Focus on me." Ochaco repeated the line she had said many times before. She knew Izuku's mind was a chaotic mess of ideas and thoughts, so she had to make him look at her.

Izuku did just that. Looking at her eye to eye.

"You've made me the happiest woman in the world. I will never leave you." Ochaco told him. "But I worry about you. I'll take care of the whole leak thing. You just make things to shut down our tech, take care of Eri, and find something new that makes you happy. I don't care if it's friends, a new project or a new hobby. Just find something. Please. It'll give me peace of mind."

"...Ok," Izuku whispered.

Ochaco smiled and brought their faces together for a quick kiss.

"Goodnight dear," Ochaco said.

"Goodnight," Izuku said.

A week later.

The progress on sealing up the leak was slower than they would have liked.

It would take a while for Ochaco to put all the new policies and changes into effect, meaning for the time being they couldn't catch anyone.

Izuku had already finished working in his home lab, located in the basement, on a dish that when applied to one of his devices, would cause it to shut down.

Being as it was his own tech, it didn't take Izuku long to make the disk. Eri served as his little assistant as she had during his time with the Yakuza. Complete with a mini-lab coat and goggles, which Ochaco had made sure would be slightly too big for her, adding to her inherent cuteness.

With the disk finished, Izuku wasn't really sure what to do now.

He thought about Ochaco's words. Finding something that he loved aside from Eri and Ochaco...he didn't even know where to start with something like that.

"Daddy?" Eri tugged on his lab coat, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Oh! Yes, Eri?" Izuku responded.

"Are you gonna fix the suit?" Eri pointed to his armor, which was laid out on a table, untouched since it had gotten there.

Izuku was about to say no. He really didn't have much of a use for it anymore, however, as he looked at it, the more the idea seemed...tempting.

The Iron Man armor really didn't have any practical use for him anymore. Even if he wanted to improve, mass-produce and sell the thing like he did with most of his inventions, he couldn't.

Using the armor was more complicated than one might think. After all, it was designed to be used by him, the creator of the armor, and him alone. And as such using it would require you have intricate knowledge of how the suit works and its many mechanisms.

Despite this, Izuku had an urge to work on it for a reason he couldn't quite fathom.

It was like it was calling to him.

Well...I guess this might be what Ochaco was talking about. Izuku thought. It was a shot in the dark, but...well there was no reason not to do it.

"I think I will Eri," Izuku told her. "In fact, hand me my tools, I think I have a few ideas."

A few days later.

Izuku and Eri were in the middle of their gym room, which for the time being Izuku was using as a test room.

Izuku had on the gauntlets and boots of the armor, as well as having the arc reactor strapped to his chest and connected to the boots and gauntlets by wires.

There were giant pillowy cushions laid out around the area, and Eri stood by with a fire extinguisher. (That she was only recently taught how to use.)

This was to protect Izuku as he tried something new using the arc reactor energy and his repulsors.

Flight.

"Ok, Eri you remember how to use the fire extinguisher right?" Izuku asked her nervously.

Eri nodded and held up the nozzle.

"Alright. Test number one. Testing to see if I can achieve lift at fifty percent power." Izuku said. "Go."

SMACK! 

The replusers came to life and immediately catapulted Izuku into the air, smacking him against the high ceiling.

"Ow." Izuku groaned, deactivating the replusers, and letting him fall onto the cushions.

"Daddy are you ok?" Eri came running over, concerned for her father's safety. "Are you on fire?"

"No." Izuku groaned, getting up slowly from the cushion. "I'm fine. My face just hurts a little."

A few minutes later.

Izuku and Eri got back into position after Izuku lowered the power output.

"Ok, Fifty was too much let's try thirty-five percent," Izuku said. "Go."

The replusers activated and lifted Izuku into the air. The green-haired man only had seconds to react and keep himself from splatting against the roof again.

Izuku tried to maneuver himself, but he was moving too fast, he went flying around the gym for a few seconds, before hitting a wall face first.

"Ow," Izuku said again, stopping the replusers and falling onto the cushion once again.

"Ok. Clearly, I have underestimated the power output of the reactor and the upgraded replusers." Izuku groaned. "Let's try recalibrating them and then lowering the output again."

Half an hour later.

After recalibrating the armor and adjusting the power, they got back into position again.

"Alright, test three. Twenty percent power." Izuku readied himself. "Go."

The replusers flared to life, and lifted Izuku into the air, this time slower than the last two times.

"Ok. Going better than last time." Izuku said.

Before he could reach the ceiling she tilted his palms to the left, causing him to fly towards the other wall.

Izuku maneuvered through the air, just barely managing to not hit the walls.

"Ok, that's enough." Izuku deactivated the replusers, letting himself fall onto the cushion once again.

"You did it, daddy!" Eri celebrated, taking Izuku not hitting a wall as a success.

"Not quite," Izuku said. "The maneuverability is a bit too hard to get a handle on, I'll have to lower the power again."

"You probably should have done this outside if you wanted to do this."

Eri jumped at the sound of a new voice and quickly ran to hide behind her father's leg.

Izuku looked at the entrance and saw three familiar faces.

"Tamaki!? Hado!? Togata?! Izuku called out in shock at seeing them all here. "W-what are you all doing here?!"

"Is it so weird to visit a friend after they were kidnapped for almost a year?" Mirio asked rhetorically.

"We were all pretty worried about you after you disappeared," Tamaki said.

"And you didn't even see us after you got out!" Nejire complained.

"S-sorry. So much happened that I kinda forgot to do that." Izuku rubbed the back of his head nervously, only for the heat from the replusers to singe his hair. "Ow!"

"We tried to call you but I guess you lost your phone a while ago huh?" Mirio said.

"Daddy do you know them?" Eri asked him nervously.

"Daddy?" All three of them asked at the same time, giving him curious looks.

"Oh, um, this is my daughter Eri. She was also being held hostage by the Yakuza and so when we escaped, I adopted her." Izuku explained. "Eri these are Tamaki Amajiki, Nejire Hado, and Mirio Togata. Also known as Suneater, Nejire-chan, and Lemillion. They're all high ranking pro heroes! And Lemillion is the number one hero!"

"Heroes?" Eri clung even closer to Izuku, not seeming comforted by that fact in the slightest.

Izuku was confused by this until he remembered the corrupt pros that were in the Yakuza's pocket.

"They're nothing like those fake heroes at the Yakuza base, we can trust them," Izuku told her. "I promise. Tamaki and me have actually been friends for a while now."

That actually did make Eri ease up a little. But only a little.

"Fake heroes?" Tamaki inquired.

"Yeah, the Yakuza paid off some of the local pro heroes in the area, he even used one of them to try and discourage me," Izuku told them. "I tried to get them arrested after I got out, but apparently Stain got to them before I could."

"You think that's a coincidence?" Mirio asked in a serious tone.

"Definitely not, he was there at Yakuza base when he escaped," Izuku explained. "He helped us escape."

"Really!?" Nejire asked in shock. "Did he have something against the Yakuza? Maybe they killed someone he thought was a real hero? Or maybe-"

"Well Stain was never a fan of criminals, so if anything he's probably wanted to get rid of the Yakuza for a while now and used the little civil war they had as an opportunity to do it." Mirio theorized.

"Most likely." Izuku agreed. "I hate that I had to work with that psychopath."

Mirio put a hand on his shoulder. "I wasn't there, but I trust you wouldn't have done it if you didn't have to. You stopped the Yakuza and saved this adorable unicorn."

"Yeah. I'll tell you more about everything later. But um, did you guys need anything?" Izuku asked.

"Nope!" Mirio gave his usual ultra-bright smile. "Just came to see you!"

"It's been a long time. I'm glad you're alright." Tamaki smiled slightly.

"Yeah, you should give us your new phone number!" Nejire said.

"Oh of course!" Izuku looked down at Eri. "Eri could you get me my phone?"

Eri looked at Izuku, and then at the trio, and then at the desk with the phone on it.

She quickly ran over to the desk as fast as her little legs would let her, and grabbed the phone, then just as quickly ran back to him and handed him the phone, before hiding back behind his leg.

"There we go, thank you Eri." Izuku smiled at her. "Now…"

Izuku realized there was an issue. You can't use a touch screen with Iron Man gauntlets.

"Uh…" Izuku blushed with embarrassment at only just realizing this now.

"Need some help?" Mirio chuckled slightly.

"I'll do it!" Nejire swooped in and took his phone.

"Oh, the password is-" Izuku got cut off.

"Chaco's birthday I know!" Nejire said typing in the password.

"Midoriya, buddy. You and Ochaco are adorable. And with little Eri, I'm sure you three will give everyone diabetes, but you have got to get a new password!" Mirio advised.

"Well, a password should always be something important to you." Tamaki defended him.

"Yeah but maybe not, the first thing someone would try if they got his phone." Mirio retorted.

"Done!" Nejire handed the phone back to Izuku. "I also put Tsu's and Shima's number in there!"

"Thanks. I'll make sure to call them soon." Izuku said, handing the phone to Eri.

"You better!" Mirio said in a playful tone.

"Oh and, Togata." Izuku leaned in and whispered into the hero's ear. " Have you had any problems with you know what?"

"At normal a hundred percent. No, but the gear you gave me for past a hundred percent is worse for wear. Since you were gone for so long no one was here to give it regular maintenance." Mirio explained.

"Sorry." Izuku apologized.

"It's not your fault," Mirio said.

Tamaki looked at his watch and frowned. "Mirio, we need to go. Our breaks are up."

"Oh, your right!" Mirio said. "Well, I'll stop by and leave the gear at a later time."

"Ok! I should have it repaired the next day," Izuku told him.

Mirio nodded, and then took off, flying up into the air before passing through the ceiling.

Tamaki grew wings and flew out the window, with Nejire following suit while waving goodbye.

"Why don't they use the door?" Eri asked.

"Because no one who can fly or phase through walls, ever uses a door," Izuku told her.

A few minutes later.

Izuku and Eri once again had gotten in position.

"Ok, sixteen percent should do it." Izuku took a deep breath. "Go!"

The repulsors flared to life and lifted Izuku into the air.

Izuku got a grip of his weight and feeling of moving through the air before he started moving through the air.

Eri watched in amazement, as Izuku flew through the air with relative ease.

I'm flying. I'm really flying! A smile made its way onto Izuku's face. He had done it. He could fly!

He flew around for a few more minutes, doing some tricks and spins the best he could to test his control before after a while, making a rough landing back to where he started.

"It-it worked!" Izuku stuttered in amazement. "It actually worked! The proto-flight thrusters are a success!"

"Does that mean we're done?" Eri asked, her stomach growling. "I'm hungry."

"Of course we can Eri...just get me the screwdriver so I can get these off first," Izuku said.

A week and a half later.

"Alright." Izuku finished tinkering with the helmet, which was on Eri's head. "Now turn it on and read me the results."

Eri nodded inside the helmet. "H.U.D. on."

The H.U.D. lit up and Eri was bombarded with holograms and screens displaying all sorts of information.

"It's a lot," Eri said, trying to look at everything at once.

"Just read off one thing at a time," Izuku told her. "And make sure to look at me."

"O-Ok." Eri looked directly at Izuku, as the H.U.D. displayed all sorts of info. "Name, Izuku Midoriya. Notable physical mutations, none. Energy output, none. Status, civilian. No technology or weapons located-"

Eri continued to read off statistics, all the while Izuku looked at her proudly. His pride coming from both his work on the H.U.D. and Eri's reading ability.

Public education was a non-option for Eri, seeing as she was horribly afraid of going outside, leaving Izuku and Ochaco, and meeting new people.

With that in mind, Izuku had taken to personally teaching her things himself.

Eri, while admittedly not knowing much at first due to living most of her life in captivity, was an avid learner and absorbed information like a sponge. Their lesions typically lasted for about three to four hours, although if the two of them were super absorbed in their sessions they might go on the entire day.

"And helmet integrity 100%." Eri finished. "Did I say it right."

"Perfectly," Izuku responded. Well, it was kind of a lie. She did say a few of the bigger words incorrectly, but she didn't need to worry about that right now.

Izuku had made several modifications to the armor by now. Fine-tuning the replacers for greater control while flying. Increasing the general power and durability of the armor. Greatly improving the power consumption rate.

He had even made improvements to the arc reactor, now that he had better materials and was under better circumstances, he was able to craft a new and improved version. This one was more powerful and generally ran better than the last one.

Izuku took the helmet off her head, it was a good thing the helmet was too big for her, otherwise, her horn would have made it an issue.

"I think you deserve some candy apples." Izuku smiled when he saw Eri's eyes widen and her mouth water.

"I'll go get the apple, you can watch some T.V. while I'm gone." Izuku picked up the remote and turned on the Lab T.V.

"It's a disaster at the Hoth shopping district! A villain is rampaging through the streets and the heroes are having difficulties stopping him!" Shouted a newswoman.

Izuku's attention shifted to the screen, as he observed the fight going on.

Most of the district was frozen over, by a villain Izuku recognized. Blizzard. He was a low threat villain that had managed to escape custody a while ago. He was currently fighting Ingenium, with Froppy trying to avoid going to sleep, and Ground Zero had already been frozen.

Blizzard's quirk isn't powerful enough to do something like this! Kacchan should have taken him out immediately even if it was a surprise attack. This doesn't make any sense. Izuku looked closer at the screen to see if there was something he was missing.

And what he saw made his blood boil.

It was his gauntlets. His E.F.E. gauntlets. They were being used to enhance and focus his icy blast to significantly increase their power.

He knew villains were using his tech to hurt people. He had been told that and Ochaco had even already caught a very small amount of the perpetrators.

But seeing it. Seeing the villain fight heroes with his gear. Seeing him hurt people with his gear. The gear he had spent weeks perfecting. The gear that Ochaco had spent days marketing.

Izuku clenched his fist, and grit his teeth, as he glared angrily at the screen.

Damn it! At this rate, Ingenium is going to lose! Or more people are gonna get hurt. Izuku slammed his fist into the desk before he looked at the disk.

Ochaco should have given Tsu some of the disks but she's way too out of it because of the cold! Izuku realized. And I don't know when or if any of the others are gonna get there! 

He felt. Powerless. Again.

Back then the feeling of powerlessness would send Izuku into a depression. Making him sad and despondent.

But now, he felt angry. Enraged at his own helplessness.

If only he could just get the disk to them. Or better yet use the desk on the villain himself! It was his mess after all.

Then, suddenly everything became clear. And he knew what he had to do.

"Chizome!" Izuku shouted as he ran over to the center of his lab, carrying the helmet.

Chizome barged into the lab. "What is it, sir!?"

"Take care of Eri, and get her candy apple!" Izuku ordered him as he stood in a circle in the center of his lab.

"And what are you going to do sir?" Chizome asked.

"Simple." Izuku placed the helmet on his head. "Engage!"

Suddenly, the floor and ceiling opened up, and arms carrying parts of his armor sprung up.

The arms attached the armor to his body, the armor pieces locked together sealing him inside it, until Izuku was inside the Iron Man armor, Mark ll. It was painted mainly green with black and white highlights here and there.

The arc reactor flared to life, and the armor powered up.

"I'm going to clean up my mess," Izuku told him.

Meanwhile, in the Hoth district.

Iida was running out of steam.

He had been fighting the villain for much longer then he would have liked, but he wasn't able to get close! And what's worse is that now he had to carry and protect Asui from the blast of cold, all while making sure to watch his step so he didn't slip on the ice.

"You can't dodge forever hero!" Blizzard shouted at him, shooting two blasts, one in front of Iida and one where he currently was.

Iida took a hard left and started running up the iced wall, using the immense speed and power of his legs to do so.

I need to get Tsu to safety! Iida aimed to run to the top of the building to place Tsu away from the fight.

However Blizzard wasn't keen on letting this happen, and he shot a blast right at where Iida was running.

The blast hit just above Iida's position, causing massive chunks of ice to appear and toss Iida and Asui off the building.

"Tsu!" The currently hibernating frog girl was flung from his arms, as the two of them plummeted to their certain demise/

Iida closed his eyes and readied himself for death. I'm sorry Tensei. I was not worthy of the mantle Ingenium. 

The two got closer and closer to the ground-

Until Izuku swooped in, and grabbed the two of them, rocketing them back into the sky.

"Whew. Just in time." Izuku breathed a sigh of relief.

"Who are you?!" Iida had never seen this hero before, so either this was a new hero or a vigilante.

"Not important!" Shouted Izuku's voice through the suit's speaker.

He flew to the top of the building and tossed Iida and Tsu on the roof.

"You stay here and guard her," Izuku told him. "I'm going to take him down."

Without another word, Izuku turned around and rocketed right at Blizzard.

Blizzard panicked, seeing the new enemy's high speed he fired off two ice blasts right at him.

"Fifty percent power, Repulsor Beam!" Izuku shouted, as he put his hands out in front of him and fired two steady beams.

The beams smashed through the ice blast, destroying them before hitting Blizzard directly, knocking him through one of the buildings he'd iced over.

Izuku stopped the beams and landed on the icy street, before walking towards Blizzard.

"Ohhh." The villain was stunned from the attack, leaving him open.

Izuku walked towards him and threw out two of his tech disabling disk right at the gauntlets.

The disk latched onto the gauntlets, causing them to crackle with electricity, malfunctioning before shutting down.

"What?" Blizzard panicked as he saw his stolen tech was no longer operational.

"Not so tough without your stolen technology are you." Izuku dashed towards the villain with alarming speed and grabbed him by his blue and white costume.

The villain raised his arm to try and freeze Izuku, but Izuku caught his arm and squeezed it.

"Ahh!" Blizzard shouted he felt his bone's crack.

Izuku threw the villain out of the building and back onto the street for the public to see.

"Gah!" The wind was knocked out of the villain as his back landed on the cold hard ice.

Izuku hovered over to Blizzard, who was attempting to pick himself back up and placed his foot on his back, forcing him to the ground.

"This is mine," Izuku growled as he ripped the E.F.E. gauntlet off the man's left arm, before crushing it with his other foot.

"And this is mine." Izuku ripped the other gauntlet off him, and crushed it in his hand, turning it into scrap metal before tossing it into the ground.

"You're going away for a long, long time," Izuku told him, before aiming his repluser at his head and firing, knocking him out.

The fight was over.

Iida looked down with wide eyes, while the civilians who had stayed(Inadvisably) and the new people started to cheer.

"He did it!"

"He took him down in no time!"

"Who is this guy!?"

Izuku ignored them and looked at the frozen Ground Zero.

"Repluser beam, ten percent." Izuku pointed his palm at the ice he was encased in and fired off a beam of energy.

The beam didn't break the ice immediately, rather it started melting it, making cracks appear more and more in the ice until.

CRACK!

The ice broke apart.

Bakugo fell to the floor. Unconscious from being in the ice.

Ok. Now I only have one more thing to do. Izuku turned around and walked towards the hoard of news people that were starting to gather.

Izuku stood in front of the cameras as reports shouted questions at him.

Then, he spoke.

"Disengage helmet." He said.

Several parts shifted and unlocked until finally, the helmet was loose enough for Izuku to take off.

Everyone gasped, instantly recognizing the face of one of the richest people in the world.

"My name is Izuku Midoriya," Izuku said, with both fury and determination burning in his eyes. "As many of you know, I am the owner of Midoriya Industries. One of the biggest support companies in the world. I started creating support gear and other pieces of technology to help people, to help the heroes who risk their lives to protect us! However, for some time now my tech has been being stolen! And being sold to villains!"

Even more, people gasped as Izuku pointed to the destroyed gauntlets.

"The technology I spent years developing to help and protect people, is now being used to hurt them!" Izuku shouted in anger. "But I won't have it! I just stand by and let other people clean up my mess! Me and my wife are going to find the people responsible for stealing our tech, and put them away for good! And to all the villains who already have my gear-"

Izuku blasted the destroyed gauntlets, ruining them even further.

"I'm coming for you." Izuku threatened.

The crowd broke out into murmurs as people said out loud their varying opinions on the shocking revelations that were just dropped on them.

"Well that's all well in good, but first."

Izuku turned around and saw several policemen with their weapons raised at him.

"You're under arrest for vigilantism." The cop finished.

Oh...I forgot about that. 

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