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Izuku hopped from rooftop to rooftop on his way home, grinning brightly the entire way. Kyubey gripped Izuku’s right shoulder with his front paws and Izuku’s left shoulder with his back paws, his tail and ear tendral things flapping in the wind.

‘This is amazing! Being a magical girl is awesome! I never want to stop feeling like this!’

However he only made it a few blocks before stopping… He put his hand up to make sure Kyubey didn't fall.

He could feel someone in trouble, like a tugging on his arm, he launched himself in the direction. Kyubey gripped his shoulders tighter at the newfound speed he gained at the thought of someone in danger.

When he arrived he saw the scene of the explosion that woke him from his suicidal trance. He stopped on the roof of a building behind a crowd of onlookers. There was a big crowd, at least 50 people on each opening of the street held back by heroes and police. 

They were all watching as the slime villain that earlier tried to kill him was now attempting to suffocate Bakugo Katsuki. It was clear that Katsuki was panicking at the lack of oxygen, firing his quirk off randomly, keeping the heroes from advancing and lighting buildings on fire. 

‘How long has he been deprived of oxygen for? It must be less than 3 minutes because he’s still conscious but that could just be due to adrenaline.’

Kamui Woods was holding back the civilians with his two wooden arms.

‘He can't get to the villain and grab Katsuki due to the explosions and flames, he'd burn up! He's way too flammable!’

Backdraft was using his quirk to try and douse the flames on the nearby buildings.

‘There are too many flames to put out and more just keep coming due to katsuki’s explosions, and they won't stop until Katsuki is either saved or dead.’

Mt. Lady, who just debuted today, was standing behind the crowd, opposite of the one he was behind, she was looking on with a worried look.

‘She can't get through, she's too big for the small street. Can she not control how big she gets? She’s a brand new hero, I haven't had enough time to analyze her quirk.’

The Punching Hero: Death Arms was just standing there watching as Katsuki was dying.

‘Why isn't he doing anything? He could hit the villain’s eyes and mouth, right? Sure he might be burned but not seriously.’

Izuku was frozen for approximately 10 seconds while observing the situation before him, then him and Katsuki locked eyes, Izuku could see the fear in his eyes, he could feel the pain of suffocation that he experienced earlier today, and so Izuku hopped from his spot on a random roof and landed right in front of Katsuki and the villain holding him hostage. 

Izuku descended loudly, cracks forming in the pavement from his landing. He plunged his left hand into the slime and firmly grabbed Katsuki’s arm, Izuku cocked his right arm back and down then he swiftly delivered an uppercut to the center of the slime body. 

All the crowd saw was a villain with a slime mutation quirk holding a middle schooler with an explosion quirk hostage when suddenly a green blur landed with a loud crack and then the slime villain exploded upwards into the sky while they were knocked over by a powerful shockwave. 

The gusts of wind caused by Izuku’s punch knocked over crowds surrounding them, the flames consuming the buildings were blown out like candles, the clouds above them parted and it started to rain water and pieces of sludge, the pro heroes were barely able to stand but they prepared themselves to face whatever just took out the villain they were struggling with and was able to change the weather. When the dust cleared what they saw shocked them all.

Izuku stood there holding Katsuki by the arm, he faced the ground as he collected his emotions about what just happened. He took a long deep breath, he could feel Kyubey’s weight on his shoulders, it was comforting like a weighted blanket, it felt good to save someone even if it was a person who has hurt him a lot, it also felt pretty good to get revenge on that villain for choking him earlier. His eyes flickered over to the coughing form of the boy who has bullied him since childhood and they locked eyes for the second time in the past 10 seconds, he let go of his Katsuki’s arm as he felt his hood being pulled over his hair by Kyubey.

Bakugo Katsuki coughed up sludge that had just been choking him, the sudden air was great but caught him off guard, all he saw was a green blur and suddenly he was able to breathe again. He took a deep breath and looked to whoever was holding his arm, his eyes locked with familiar emerald eyes.

‘Deku!?’

He tried to yell at Deku but he was only able to cough up more sludge. He felt his arm be released as a white cat sitting on Deku’s shoulder pulled up the hood Deku was wearing. 

‘ Why the hell is he wearing a dress? ’

Izuku now wearing his bunny ear hood/mask turned around to face a crowd of civilians, reporters, police, and multiple pro heroes. EMTs who were swarmed Katsuki, the reporters suddenly jumped forward, now that the villain was defeated the police started collecting the pieces of sludge and they were no longer trying to hold back the crowd, cameras flashed and microphones were shoved into Izuku's face. 

“Are you a new hero?! What's your name?!” 

“What’s your quirk?! Do you have a name for the move you used to defeat the villain?!”

“That cat is so adorable and unique! Is it connected to your quirk?!” 

“Your hero costume is super cute! Are you going to play into the bunny girl aesthetic?!”

Izuku flushed, his entire face turning red, at all the sudden attention and especially at the last comment. All the overlapping questions from the reporters were overwhelming him, that was until the pro heroes stepped in, the crowd went silent as they talked.

“Hey kid! I haven't seen you around before! You new?” Death Arms spoke loudly.

“U-um well I-i’m not r-really…” Izuku trailed off

Kamui Woods stepped forward “Hm? You're not new? So you’re an underground hero? I wouldn't have guessed that from your outfit and quirk.”

Backdraft spoke next “Same here! Your quirk is perfect for being a limelight hero and your costume… well it's definitely not what i've seen underground heroes wear before… and what’s with the cat?”

Izuku blushed again at the praise but especially at the costume comment.

Before Izuku could respond to any of the questions Mt. Lady jabbed her finger at his chest, right next to his soul gem. “You’ve got a lot of nerve deputing on the same day as me! Especially in that cute outfit and with that adorable cat! Well I guess the outfit is fine since you're going for cute while im serving sex appeal but still! So not cool taking my debut spotlight!”

“O-oh! I'm sorry miss Mt. Lady! I promise I didn't mean to steal your spotlight! I saw you and Kamui Woods fighting that giant purse snatcher this morning on my way to school, I think both of you are super cool! Both of your quirks are super strong!”

“Oh! You're a hero student? Do you have your provisional license on you?” Death Arms asked.

“U-um n-no I don't have one…”

“You're a first year? Ah that makes this harder. We’ll have to talk to your heroics teacher and he’ll choose how to discipline you. I know you have some training but you can't jump into a fight until you have your license and you are legally allowed to!” Death Arms scolded.

“A-ah no u-um I meant that I'm not a hero student! I don't have a license because I’m in middle school.”

Everyone around him went quiet.

“YOU’RE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL!?” Mt. Lady yelled. Then she whispered. “I told a middle schooler that ‘I'm serving sex appeal’? How embarrassing.” 

“Y-yes?” Izuku answered her first question while purposefully ignoring her whispered shame.

“B-but you took out that villain in one hit.” Kamui Woods stated mostly to himself but since it was so quiet everyone heard it.

“U-um y-yeah?” Izuku answered again. 

“Hold up, why do you have a costume if you’re in middle school?” Backdraft asked.

“O-oh um…” Izuku blanked.

‘I can't tell them I’m a magical girl, I don't even know what being a magical girl even means!’

So Izuku lied “...It’s a part of my quirk?...”

“Your quirk gives you a cute outfit and cat!? Damn I’m jealous.” Mt. Lady said.

“Mt. Lady please! This is serious! And don't curse in front of a child!” Kamui Woods said.

“What?! I was just sayin’ also I’m pretty sure middle schoolers curse like all the time. I know I did when I was younger.” 

“You are corrupting the next generation with your sleazy ways!”

“S-SLEAZY??!! HOW DARE YOU! YOU OVERGROWN WEED!”

“OVERGROWN WEE-! YOU’RE THE ONE WHO’S OVERGROWN YOU-YOU HUGE BITCH!”

“OH REAL ORIGINAL, CAN THE OLD COFFEE TABLE NOT COME UP WITH A GOOD COMEBACK!?”

“I’M ONLY FOUR YEARS OLDER THAN YOU! AND STOP MAKING FUN OF MY QUIRK!”

“BOTH OF YOU QUIET! Stop acting like children! This is a serious legal matter!” Death Arms yelled at the two arguing pros then he whispered something that only they and Izuku could hear. “There are cameras.” 

That last comment got Kamui Woods and Mt. Lady to shut up, their eyes drifting to the crowd of reporters.

Mt. Lady spoke first. “A-ah sorry about that woody… those quirkist comments weren’t very cool of me…”

Then Kamui Woods responded. “Y-yeah don't worry about it… I started it anyway, it was ungentlemanly of me to call you sleazy… when you’re just comfortable in your body…”

The apologies were obviously fake to Izuku but the crowd seemed to eat them up. Death Arms turned back to Izuku.

“And you! You’re old enough to know how serious unlicensed public quirk use can be! You have no training and could seriously harm or even kill someone! It’s incredibly reckless of you to jump into a fight when you have no experience!”

“I-I’m sorry! I-I just saw my friend in trouble and rushed in without thinking! My body just moved on its own! I’m sorry!” Izuku cried, literally he started to cry, fully in tears.

“Y-your friend?” Mt. Lady asked

“Mhm… we’re in the same class…I’ve known him since we were born, our moms are childhood friends.” Izuku sniffled.

“You must have been very afraid to see a childhood friend in such a… precarious situation.” Kamui Woods says gently as he places his hand on Izuku’s back. “How about we take you to the hospital that your friend will be taken to and call your parents to pick you up,” 

“O-o-okay” Izuku sniffles again.

Kamui Woods takes Izuku to the ambulance Katsuki was being checked out in. The other pros stayed back to have pictures taken of them ( cough Mt. Lady cough ) and answer questions from reporters.

When he and Kamui Woods got there Katsuki was yelling at the three EMTs to get away from him. 

“Get off me! You surgeon rejects! I’m fine!”

“Chill out kid! We need to make sure your lungs clear! You could still suffocate if any sludge is still in your lungs!” One of the EMTs states.

“I said I’m fine!” Katsuki growled.

“Uh… Ahem!” The EMTs and Katsuki turned to them, Katsuki’s eyes locking onto Izuku. “This kid is childhood friends with the victim, he’ll be riding with you to the hospital, call his parents when you get there.”

“HEY! I’m no victim!” Katsuki screamed at Kamui Woods, taking his attention away from Izuku for a second.

“Yes sir!” The EMTs said all at once.

The three EMTs, Katsuki, and Izuku got into the ambulance, two of the EMTs got in the driver and passenger seats while one of them got into one of the two seats next to the stretcher, Katsuki sat on the stretcher (the emt in the back tried to get him to lay down but soon gave up), and Izuku sat in the final seat in the back.

They rode off to the hospital. Kyubey rubbed on Izuku’s as Katsuki glared them both down, not attacking Izuku only because the EMTs were there.

‘I’m definitely going to have to talk to him about my new powers…He wont kill me… right?’