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Before I tell you anything about me, I want you to believe in something, the impossible. Before you shut out of this, hear me out. Imagine a world, where most of the population has powers, some of those powers are used for good, some are used for evil. People don’t know the full truth about how powers came to be, they all think a baby one day just started glowing, but I know what really happened.

Hi my name is Izuku Midoriya and I used to be quirkless, until one strange day I developed powers, powers I had in my past life when quirks were first created. You might be thinking, past life that’s a stretch, how do you remember your past life? Honestly, I couldn’t tell you, I’ll tell you my story and how I found out about my past life in a bit but first back to the matter at hand. Quirks originated when the particle accelerator exploded and they only expanded as more dark matter was released into people. But that was covered up by the government, the knowledge of the old hero’s are still there but are thought of as myths, like Flash, Vibe, The Legends, Green Arrow, those heroes. Anyway, this is my story.

Before I uncovered the truth about my past life, my life was pretty sad. My father left when I was young, my mother says it was to work overseas but I call cap. I think it was because he didn’t want to have a quirkless son. Yeah, I wasn’t born with a quirk, because of that my best friend started to bully me because I was an easy target since I was weaker than him. That all started when I was 4, now I’m twelve, it’s been 8 years since society has ostracized me from being equal.

It started out just as a normal day, the class was so far ignoring my presence and not making my life miserable, then the teacher announced, “Class, today we’re having a new student. Her name is Cynthia.”

A tall, slender girl with black hair, wearing leather clothes walks in. I’m assuming she doesn’t have the uniform yet. She says, “Hi, I’m Cynthia, my quirk is breach. I can open portals and send waves of vibrations at people.”
I mumble a bit too loudly, “So like the hero Breacher?”
Everyone turns to look at me, Kacchan(my main bully Katsuki Bakugou who used to be my childhood friend) yells, “Shut up Deku! No one cares!”

I shrink back into my seat, Cynthia looks shocked, probably mostly about how the teacher isn’t doing anything and how the class treats me, “Hey!” She says, “Don’t be rude to him! Also, yes, exactly like Breacher. I’m surprised you knew about him.”

I rub the back of my neck, “Hehe, I’m a big hero nerd.”

She gives me a small smile, Kacchan looks furious, “Hey, I don’t know who the hell you think you are, but that useless nerd is quirkless so you shouldn’t waste your time on him!”

Cynthia's face turns to a scowl, “Look dude, I don’t know who you think you are, but you don’t get to dictate what I do with my life and I don’t care about him being quirkless, he seems cool!”

My face turns bright red, no one’s ever defended me before I quietly stutter out a thanks. The whole class is stunned, the teacher then says, “If you like the useless Deku so much then you can sit next to him.”

She looks shocked for a second before giving a small hmph before walking towards the seat next to me. Once she sits down she whispers to me, “Are they always like this?”

I give a small sigh before answering, “Unfortunately, today’s pretty calm though, normally someone would throw something at me or I would be bleeding by now.”

“What did you do to them to deserve this?” She asked, stunned.

“Exist,” I say in a monotone voice.

“You don’t deserve this treatment,” she says as she holds out her hand, “Friends?”

I grab her hand to shake it, “Friends!” I say but when I grab her hand my vision turns blue and I see her and this guy, he has long black hair and is wearing a shirt with a movie reference on it. They look like they were in a relationship. My vision goes back to the classroom, I am out of breath. Cynthia puts her hand on my shoulder and asks me, “Are you okay?”

“Yeah,” I say, “Peachy.”

As the day goes by I start to feel as though I have met Cynthia somewhere before, I just can’t remember where and when. I am dreading the end of the day because I know Kacchan and his friends will do something. The final bell rings everyone starts to leave, until it’s just Kacchan and his gang, Cynthia and me. Cynthia asks, “Are you ready to be done with this for today?”

I give her a weak smile, “Yeah, today has been something that’s for sure.”

Kacchan starts walking over to me, grabs me by the collar and slams me against the wall, “Deku you are just a useless piece of trash who doesn’t deserve friends, learn your place.”

“Hey! Leave him alone!” Cynthia yells at Kacchan, “He’s human, of course he deserves friends!”

Kacchan activates his quirk in the hand he is holding me with, I start to whimper as the burns hurt, “Shut up!” He yells, a loud thumping can be heard coming from the hallway and into the class, “Cynthia!” The voice yells, “What’s the hold up?”

“Dad in here!” She yells readying to fight Kacchan.

A man walking into the classroom looks the situation up and down, “What’s going on here?” He asks in a serious tone.

“B-breacher?” I ask in a weak voice.

“That’s me, now, you aren’t bullying this kid are you?”

Kacchan drops me hastily, “Tch, just teaching him a lesson. Let’s go!”

They quickly exit the room. Cynthia runs up to me, “Midoriya! Are you okay!?” She asks, her voice filled with concern.

“Nothing I haven’t dealt with before, ugh!” I say with a wince.

Breacher comes over and looks at what happened, “Kid you’re not okay that’s a serious injury. You need to go to the hospital.”

“They won’t do anything, I’m quirkless,” I slur together.

“They’ll take orders from a hero, come on, can you walk?” He asks.

“Yes-,” I start to say.

“No, he shouldn’t move in this condition. We should just breach him there,” She says, cutting me off with concern.

He gives a nod, “Good idea.”

They open a portal and I see the hospital. I hear Breacher yell, “Someone help this man is severely injured!” Then I black out.

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In my dreams, there is this man who looks like the guy I saw with Cynthia. Then I see him approach me and he says, “You have to remember me! You can help people with your tech again, just remember!” He disappears, memories start flooding my brain and then I quickly gasp and sit up. When I wake up and realize my surroundings and hear the song Poker Face and mumble, “Why is it when every member of team flash wakes up Poker Face is playing?”

Cynthia quickly turns her head over to me and runs over, “You’re awake!”

“Yeah, hey Gypsy,” I say, not really knowing what I’m saying.

She stammers back, “What did you call me?”

“Gypsy, you’re codename from Earth-19, you told me if I ever called you by your real name I was a dead man walking,” I say.

“Cisco?” She asks, with tears in her eyes.

“Yeah?” I say.

“Did you reincarnate?” She asks.

“Mhmp,” I nod.

“Oh you idiot, did you just remember?”

“Yup!”

“Did your powers appear now?”

“Hell yeah!”

Breacher walks into the room and says, “Oh you’re awake, that’s good. The doctor said you should be fine in the next twenty four hours. You’ve also been asleep for half a day.”

“So it’s the next day?” He gives a nod, “oh, I’m sorry for wasting your time on me.”

“Hey kid don’t be sorry, I’m a hero I help people it’s my job,” he says, putting his hand on my shoulder.

“Uhm so actually Breacher I have something to tell you,” I say nervously, “Uhm I actually knew you in my past life, my name was Cisco Ramon.”

“Cisky?!?” He asks, surprised, then starts chuckling. “No wonder you care about each other so much.”

“Uhm, how are you both here, on Earth-1 and alive?” I ask, confused.

“We reincarnated too, just on Earth-19 we reincarnate with our memories and the same physical appearance. We reincarnate to find our soul mates again and again.” Cynthia says.

“Soul mates?” I say then pause, waiting for the realization to hit me, “Are you saying?!”

She gives a small laugh, “Yeah, you and me.”

“Does that mean my friends might be here?” I asked, hopeful.

“Probably, they had the hearts of heroes so they probably are somewhere in this world.”

Before I got a chance to say anything else the doctor walked into the room, “Oh good you’re up, have you called your parents or guardian to let them know you’re alright?.

My eyes widened, frantically searching for my phone before Gypsy said, "Whoa, slow your roll hot shot, here it is.”

I quickly grab my phone and dial my moms number, she picks up immediately, “Izuku baby?” She asks with a worried tone.

“Yeah mom, I’m sorry for worrying you.”

“The hospital called me last night, but I wanted to wait until you were up if you wanted me to come,” she says, sounding like she had been crying.

“No! It’s okay mom, I’m fine now. I’m sorry, I just don’t want to worry you,” I say while tearing up a bit.

“You’ll always worry me baby. Are you safe?” She asks with a small plea in her voice.

“Yeah, the safest,” I say while looking at Gypsy and Breacher.

“That’s good, I’ll let you get back to doing whatever you were doing, love you!” She says.

“Love you too!” I say as the call ends.

“So, Cisco Ramon is now emotional?” Gypsy asks.

“Okay, first off,” I start to say as Gypsy mutters ‘there he is’, “I blame reincarnation me, he was bullied and was sad most of his life so yeah. But I’m still the same Cisco Ramon you know!”

“Fair enough,” she says while the doctor comes back in.

“I’m gonna take it the call went well?” She asks politely.

“Yeah,” I say, “so how much longer do I have to be here for?”

“You should be good, just take it easy.”

“Will do!” I say as she leaves. “You think I’ll still be able to control my powers again?”

“In time probably, you shouldn’t mention all your powers though, maybe just your breaches.” She says as she puts her hand on my shoulder.

“Yeah, that makes sense. Wanna get out of here and get a cup of coffee?” I ask.

“That would be nice,” she says, giving me a smile.

“Heck yeah! Coffee time!” I say, excited.

“What about school?” She asks.

“Normally they don’t give a damn if I miss it or not, and if I do they just give me extra work and yell at me.” I shrug.

They both stare at me, “That’s just not right!” Gypsy says.

I sigh, “I know.”

“Then why do you accept the treatment?” Breacher asks, surprised.

“Last time I said something about it, they just made it worse,” I say in a sad tone.

I immediately after that received a tackle hug from Gypsy, “Just remember, to me you are the most wonderful person I could have ever met.”

I start to tear up as she places a small kiss on my forehead. That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me, I think. It’ll be nice having a friend by my side throughout all of this. “So, coffee?” I ask, breaking the tension.

She chuckles, “You and your coffee,” she says as she gives a disapproving nod. “One could think your love for coffee rivals your love for me.”

She winks, I place a hand over my heart, “Gypsy, how could you! Coffee will never rival your love for me!” I say as she raises her brow. “Alcohol, on the other hand.”

She lightly slaps the back of my head, “Cisco!” She exclaims.

“What? I’m not wrong am I?” I ask as I look over at her dad.

“I don’t disagree with you, I'll give you that. Even though I’m more of a tea person, I can get you some wine sometimes,” Breacher says.

“Wow, that would be nice.” I say.

We start to make our way out of the hospital to go to the nearest cafe until I spot Kachaan, or as I should start calling him(probably not to his face) Bakugou, cause what good has the nickname ever done for me. “Gypsy,” I say, she turns her head toward me, “Eleven o’clock, angry pomeranian.”

She laughs at that, “What nickname would you give him as the nickname master?”

I have to think about that one, he’s a walking tnt so bringing back my nicknaming memories and abilities, what would I call him. The answer comes to me immediately, “Kaboom,” I say, widening my smile.

She starts laughing at that so hard Breacher turns around and asks, “what’s so funny?”

“Ci- I mean Izu, would give nicknames to all the villains and weapons they had back during the team flash days. So I asked him what he would name Bakugou.”

“Izu!?! Really Gypsy, I got a nickname???”

“Yes idiot you do. It feels weird not calling you Cisco.”

“Yay!” I say excitedly. Bakugou turns over to our direction as we get closer to the cafe. “Uhm, Gyps?” I say.

“What?” She asks.

“Slight problem,” I say, getting nervous.

“What is it?” Breacher asks.

“Kaboom,” I whisper. They turn and see him angrily walking/running over to us.

“Oh shrap,” I say. Gypsy gives me a weird look, “I’ll explain later.”

She nods, “Kids get into the cafe, I’ll deal with him,” Breacher says.

“Thank-,” I start to say but before I can finish Gypsy pulls me into the cafe. As soon as we get in I see Breacher holding Bakugou. “You think he’ll be okay?” I ask.

“Who? My dad or Bakugou?” Gypsy asks.

“Both,” I state.

“Dad‘ll be fine, I’d be worried about him breaking Bakugou’s neck,” she says angrily.

“You don’t know him like I do, plus if Breacher gets hit with an explosion, that’ll hurt.” I say as I wince from the memory.

“Fair,” She says, while walking up the counter to order, “Also call him John while we’re out. We don’t need people knowing he’s here.”

I nod, she orders a decaf cappuccino, and a green tea for John, while I get a caramel latte. We go and sit down at a table while we wait for him to come. “So, what do you wanna do for a career?” I ask, curious.

“Be a hero, it’s close to a Breacher, I think UA’s overrated though so I’m going to go to Shiketsu,” she says while taking a sip of her drink.

“That’s really cool! I’ve always wanted to be a hero before I got my memories back, but I may also do something tech on the side!” I exclaim.

“What school?” She asks.

“I know it’s overrated, but probably UA,” I say calmly.

“That’s it, we’re breaking up right here right now!” She says laughing.

I raise my eyebrow, “Oh so we’re together?” I ask.

“I mean we are soulmates and we did use to date, it makes sense even though we did just met again but we’ve known each other for a while. So Cisco Ramon, will you become my boyfriend again?” She says.

“Why not? I mean we are on the same earth now, we can make things work!” I say, “Also, hear me out on the UA thing.”

“I’m listening.”

“UA’s bigger right? So I’ll probably find at least someone I know from my past life,” I say.

“Okay, first off, what’s to say your old friends will want to be heroes. And two, doesn’t Bakugou wanna be a hero? I would if I had his quirk.”

“Yeah, he does. Why?” I say.

“Cause if you get in, and I know you’ll get in, I won’t be able to protect you from him.”

“Gyps, that's really sweet, but I’m more worried about the teacher. I've had 2 mentors so far who have wanted to kill me, or well us.” I say.

“Give me their name, I’ll take care of them.” She says with a scowl.

“Woah slow down girl they’re probably both dead, and they never actually hurt me,” I say, holding my hands up then mumble, “Well in this time anyway.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” She asks, annoyed. “Izu, tell me.”

“Before you met me, the first year team flash was active. We had a mentor, Harrison Wells, or so we thought.” I say bitterly.

“Ok, I don’t get where this is going. But I’m assuming it has something to do with why you recruited H.R.?” She says.

“Yeah, team flash isn’t complete without a version of Wells. So back to the story, Wells wasn’t actually Wells, he was a man from the future, called Eobard Thawne. He had come back to kill Barry, but when he killed his mom instead Barry came back with him to protect his mom. So after Thawne did that, he lost his speed somehow, so he was stuck in the past. He had to turn Barry into the flash.”

“Okay, but what does this have to do with you dying?”

“I’m getting their chill girl!” I say, “Thawne impersonated Wells and opened S.T.A.R Labs to rebuild the particle accelerator to create meta humans so Barry would turn into the Flash. After we all started working together months later, there was this catastrophe, I don’t remember the details but I do remember that Thawne gave a speech to me explaining his plans, then saying I was like a son to him then him vibrating his hand and him saying he was sorry about sticking his vibrating hand through my chest.” I say with hatred.

“Who. did. what?” John says as he walks over to the table.

“Izu, I’m so sorry,” Gypsy says as she puts her hand on my shoulder. “You shouldn’t have had to deal with that.”

“Yeah, but I did. It’s fine now though. There’s one good thing that came out of that,” I say, trying to be positive.

“And that is?” Gypsy asks, confused how something could have been positive out of dying.

“My powers activated,” I say.

Gypsy covers her mouth in horror, “So you-.”

I nod my head, and for the third time today, she hugs me. I think this might be a record for hugs other than my mom. I melt into the hug immediately. “Oh you poor thing, Izu, are you touch starved?” She asks.

“That makes so much sense now,” John says, Gypsy gives him a weird look, “what! It does! He wasn’t used to people touching him when you first met him as he had been bullied, but now when you give him a hug he looks like he’s about to cry.”

“You will get all the hugs and love you deserve!” Gypsy exclaims proudly, “and once we find your friends I will make sure they hug you all the time too!”

I start to tear up, “You’re the best you know,” I mumble into her shoulder.

“You are too! Now unfortunately, we shouldn’t show this at school and you have to call me Cynthia again,” She says, backing away a little but her hands still on my shoulder.

“That’s fair, but it’s not you ignoring me for the day, so it’s already a pro,” I say, giving a weak laugh.

“We are getting you some help eventually. Also dad,” Breacher looks over at her, “The nurse didn’t say about other injuries on his body or if he had any problems like, malnutrition, dehydration, stuff like that?”

“No not that I recall, maybe she didn’t run any because that’s not what we were there for. Do you want me to schedule something?” He asks in a small worried tone.

“I’m fine for now,” Gypsy glares at me, “I know you worry for me but I would like to take this at my own pace. Okay?” I say.

“Fine, but any small change I notice about you, off to a doctor, or better yet, if any new injuries appear,” She says strictly.

“Who are you? My mother?” I ask.

“Shut it, anyway we should get you home.”

“Yeah,” I say sadly.

“Hey, we’ll see each other tomorrow,” she says.

“Yeah, John can you?” I as

“Breach you home? Yeah, I can. Let’s get somewhere secluded first.”

We leave the cafe to go to an alley where Breacher opens a breach right to my apartment. We get out. I say thank you and good bye, they say good bye then breach away. I knock on the door, two minutes later it opens up and my mom comes out and hugs me.

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The next year goes by quickly with Cynthia/Gypsy by my side. Of course Bakugou and his group still target me, but they have been doing it less as my and Gypsy nowadays are barely apart, but the class still has no idea we’re dating. I introduce her to my mother and they get along amazingly! It’s almost the end of the next school year, I’m turning 14 this summer but I still haven’t found anyone besides Gypsy and her dad from my past life. Speaking of her dad, John/Breacher has been teaching me to control my powers, all except my vibes, aka when I see things in the past, present or future. But I am determined for today to be a good day….. please don’t jinx me, me.

I get to school, meet Gypsy in front of the gates, she inspects me like she does every day to see if I have any new injuries, but I’ve gotten good at hiding them. We walk into school, into our classroom and sit down at our respective desks and wait for everyone to come in. Once the school day officially starts we just sit there and wait till the day goes by. Few hours go by and by the end of the day the teacher for some reason decides to hold me back.

“Go I’ll meet you out front ,” I whisper to Gypsy.

“You sure?” She asks, uncertain.

“Yeah, he’ll only be more mad if you stay,” I whisper back.

“Ok,” she says.

“Ah, Midoriya, so glad you could stay back,” the teacher says.

“What is it sir?” I ask nervously.

“To put it short Midoriya, I know you’re cheating my class,” he says with an abrupt tone.

“How?!?!” I ask, confused.

“Simple, ever since Cynthia joined your answers are exactly the same,” he says handing me our tests.

“First off, the only reason our answers should be similar, not the same, is because I study for hours with her,” I start off, I look at the tests, “Second, this doesn’t even look like my handwriting!”

“Well I have heard from several students that you have been cheating, so you will be suspended for a week!” He says, with an aggressive tone.

“I- that’s not-!” I start to say.

“You’re quirkless, there’s no such thing as fair for your kind!” He spits out.

I walk out of the classroom aggressively, cheating on a test, that’s too low even for me! I get to the front to look around for Gypsy but don’t see her, so I tap her foot waiting for her to turn the corner. A few minutes goes by and she’s still not back, maybe she wanted to surprise me with coffee? Or even better, alcohol! Then I get run into by this guy who probably has a speed quirk, “Oh my god! I’m so sorry! I was just training my speed, then I lost control and sped up. I’m so sorry sir!” An unknown voice says

“First up, not a sir, I’m a kid like you. Second it’s fine, happens all the time, losing control of quirks, not people running into me,” I say brushing it off.

“Still I’m sorry about that, my name is Tenya Iida,” he says, holding out his hand.

“Izuku Midoriya,” I say as I grab it and stand up. As I do, flashes of memories of Barry and I get shown, can it be? “Barry?” I ask, hopeful.

“Excuse me?” He asks, offended, maybe not, I think, but I have to try!
“Bar, it’s me! Cisco, Cisco Ramon!” I plead.

“First you said your name is Midoriya, now it’s Ramon? Which is it!?” He asks, confused.

“Bar, remember,” I say, putting my hand on his shoulder.

I can see the realization flash (no pun intended) in his eyes, “Vibe?” He asks, nervously.

“Heya Flash, or should I say, the man who couldn’t keep his identity for the life of him,” I say, chuckling.

“Dude!” He says and pulls me in for a hug, “I’ve missed you!”

“Me too! So,” I start, he looks up at me, “Speed still your thing? Fastest man alive?”

He chuckles, “Yup! I’m glad!”

I look around to see if Gypsy’s anywhere near, I don’t see her but you know who I do see? You guessed right, Bakugou. He comes over storming angrily, “Shoot, Iida, Kaboom incoming!” I say quickly.

“Who-?” He starts to ask but is cut off.

“Deku!!!!!” He screams loudly.

“What do you want, Kachaan?” I ask.

“You can’t have friends!” He comes over, pushes Iida out of the way, and grabs me by the collar, “I told you before! A quirkless nerd like you doesn’t deserve friends!” He makes a small explosion.

Iida is about to yell something but before he can a loud “Hey!” is heard from a distance. That’s definitely Gypsy, “How many times have I told you to leave him alone!” She yells at him, “He is ten times better than you, especially with his personality, quirk or no quirk, Izuku Midoriya will always be superior to you!”

“Amen!” Iida says, everyone looks at him, “Even though I ‘just’ met him, I can see that he will be a better hero than you'll ever be!”

“Hero? This useless, quirkless, nerd?” He spits out, “He’ll never be a hero! And even if does, he’ll die trying!”

Gypsy punches him in the face, which forces him to let go of me, Iida catches me. “Shut up!” Gypsy yells.

“Cynth he’s not worth it!” I say, “Leave him be, or you’ll be just as bad as him.”

“Tch, final warning before I sick my dad on you.” She threatens. “Let’s go have our coffee!”

“Can Iida join us?” I ask.

“Is he?” She asks.

“Yup!” I say.

Iida looks between the both of us, “Then sure, he can. But he’s paying for his coffee!” Gypsy says.

“Uhm, that’s fine?” Iida says, unsure.

Once we get farther away I say, “Gypsy meet Barry, Barry meet Gypsy.”

“Ok wow, you did find someone! Your best friend!” She says.

“Wait, your Gypsy? Damn, you're still a badass !” He says.

“Of course I am, what else would you expect!” She retorts.

“Fair enough,” He says, holding his hands up.

“So, still speedy?” I ask, breaking the tension as we walk into our cafe.

“Yeah, not nearly as fast though, and it’s only my legs,” He says, disappointed.

“Hey, maybe now that you have your memories back your speed will come back! That’s what happened for me,” I say.

“Really? Is that why that kid was targeting you? Also, are you okay? Did he hurt you with his explosions?” He asks, concerned.

“I’m sorry? He did what?!” She asks me as we walk up to the counter.

“Don’t worry! I’m fine! Uhm, a caramel latte with two shots of espresso please!” I say quickly.

“We are getting back to this topic later! A cappuccino please.”

“I’ll have a separate order from them, please,” Iida says and the barista nods as she gives us the total.

Gypsy and I walk over to the pick up area, she puts her hand exactly where Bakugou hit me I give a small wince. “So now you’re lying to me about if you’re fine or not?” She asks. “Are you lying about any other injuries?”

“I just didn’t want to worry you, or bother you with problems that haven’t changed since I was little,” I say, looking down.

”Hey!” She says, as she grabs my chin and makes me look her in the eyes, as Iida approaches us. “You will never bother me with anything! And I’m pretty sure Barry would say the same!”

“Also, since we’ve known each other forever, just call me Tenya while we’re in public,” he says, smiling.

“That’s fair, same here then! Just call me Izuku,” I say.

“Oh we’re gonna be a force to be reckoned with as a hero duo!” Tenya says, passionately.

“What school are you going to?” I ask.

“UA, my parents expect the best from me! My brother is Ingenium, so they expect me to do as well as him,” He says.

“I’m also going to go to UA, but isn’t that unfair of you have to try to live up to your parents' expectations?” I ask.

“I mean yeah but, I’ll be fine. Don’t worry about me Cisco.”

“Hey, you worry about me, I worry about you, that’s the deal here because you’re my best friend.”

He chuckles as we grab our drinks, “Fair enough! Want to go train together later?” He asks.

“I would love to! Gyps you wanna join us?” I ask.

“Sure, after we get you checked out.”

“Fine, just because you won’t leave me alone until I agree,” I say reluctantly.

“Thank you, Tenya, are you tagging along?” She asks.

“Do you want me to?” He asks.

“I mean my problems are yours and yours are mine, so why not?” I say as we head out of the cafe. We get to the doctors office and start to check in, “Hi I’m Izuku Midoriya, I have an injury I would like to get checked out, please?”

“Let’s see, Izuku Midoriya,” the receptionist says, “Ah sorry, no can do.”

“Why not?” Gypsy asks with a scowl.

“He’s quirkless, we don’t take his kind!” She spits out.

“Listen here, I am Cynthia Reynolds, daughter of the pro hero Breacher, if you don’t look at my friend right now so help me I will call my father!” She says aggressively.

I turn into a tomato, “Yes ma’am, I will find someone to take him,” she says scared.

She runs into the back while Gypsy turns around to us and says, “Well that was productive!” She exclaims.

Tenya and I just slowly nod, “Yeah, sure honey!” We walk to some of the open chairs in the waiting room, to break the tension I ask, “Do you think we’ll find Caitlin at UA?”

Iida looks at me, “One can only hope, my friend.”

I give him a weak smile, “Who else would you want to find?” I ask.

“Definitely Iris, and Joe!” He says, excitedly.

“Do you think your parents are here?” I ask.

“No, probably not,” he says in a sad tone, “I don’t think the universe likes me that much.”

“Then the universe will have to square up, because my best friend deserves the world after the pain he’s endured!” I say holding up my fists.

He gives a chuckle and bumps my shoulder, “Right back at you dude!”

“Izuku Midoriya?” A person calls. We get up and walk toward the door and follow her into a room, “please wait here, the doctor will be in shortly.” She says as she looks at me weird.

“What do you think that look was for?” Gypsy asks.

“She’s probably quirkiest,” I say.

Gypsy looks at me, “Okay, I am going to fight her now!” She stands up, I pull her back down.

“Don’t you even think about it!” I say as someone walks into the room.

“Hi I’m Doctor Usaki, I’m sorry about the nurse who brought you here, she’s a bit quirkest. However, I am not, my cousin is actually quirkless but she has the biggest heart.”

“See, it’s a quirkless people trait!” Gypsy says.

“What can I help you with?” Doctor Usaki asks.

“Uhm, I have a bully with an explosion quirk, and he likes to use it on me, and he exploded me a bit and I would like to get it checked out to make sure it’s nothing serious!” I say quickly and quietly.

“Can you test to see if there’s anything else we should know like if he’s malnourished or dehydrated, or if he has any other injuries that he didn’t properly take care of?” Tenya asks.

“Yeah, I can do that. You kid have yourself some caring friends,” she says, giving a smile.

“I know, I’m very lucky! I don’t know what I’d do without them!” I say.

“We’re lucky to have you too, Izu!” Tenya says, smiling at me.

“Ok, can I see the injury, or previous ones you haven’t gotten checked out?” She politely asks.

I give a hesitant nod and slowly take off my shirt, I hear two distinctive horrified gasps, “What did they do to you?!?” Gypsy almost yells.

“It’s not that bad!” I try to say.

“No Izuku, it is that bad!” Tenya says.

“I’ve never seen someone this badly injured! Can I get an X-ray of you? Just to make sure you have no broken bones?”

I give a nod, Doctor Usaki mutters a quick ‘thank you’ before heading out of the room to go grab the X-ray machine. Gypsy then asks, to break the tension, “How long have you been hiding this from me? And I don’t want any excuses, just the truth.”

“I wasn’t used to people caring for me, and I thought that even if we did try to go someplace to get me help, they would turn me away,” I sigh, “I appreciate everything you’ve done for me this past year, but that trip to the hospital changed my life. It was the first time someone did something about my bullies instead of looking the other way.”

“Cisco, you know I would do anything for you. Even if people didn’t let you in I would either force my dad to make them let you in, or we could go to the agency my dad works at and we could have patched you up there!” She says, while giving me an aggressive hug.

“I-, Gyps,” I say, tearing up.

“I’ve said it once but I’ll say it again, you deserve the world Cisco Ramon!” She says, squeezing me harder.

“Gypsy, move over! It’s my turn to give my best friend a hug!” Tenya says.

Gypsy sighs, and reluctantly lets go of me as Tenya then gives me a hug, “You know I never actually repaid you for saving my life right? Well multiple times but mainly that one specific time,” I say.

“What one?” He asks.

“The one where Wells killed me,” I say quietly.

“…I’ll be honest I forgot about the first version of the day, before I turned it back,” he says. “But, you don’t owe me anything, well I take it back.”

He places his hands on my shoulder as I look up into his eyes, “You can repay me by staying my friend! That’s all I ever want from you,” he says, I raise my eyebrow, “okay okay, you caught me, I also maybe want some of your tech because it’s the coolest!”

I laugh at that as the door opens, Tenya lets go of my shoulders as we turn to face the doctor. She takes the machine and moves it up and down my body, “Good news, nothing is fully broken, bad news you do have a few fractures,” She says looking at me with a sad smile.

“Where are they?” I ask.

“One on your right wrist, the other on your right collarbone,” She says, lightly touching where the injuries are. I wince at the touch, “We should get a brace for your wrist and a sling for your collarbone, luckily they’re on the same arm so you won’t be moving it too much. Are you right or left handed?”

“Right,” I say.

“Do either one of you go to his school?” She asks.

“I do Doctor,” Gypsy says, raising her hand.

“Right, then can you help him with work? I’ll write a note for your teacher and principal and if they don’t believe me I swear to god I will show up at your school and show them my doctorate!” She says, aggressively.

“Thank you again!” I say.

“No problem kid, anytime,” she says, messing up my hair.

“Hey!” I say.

“Stay safe you guys, also be careful!”

“We’ll try,” Tenya says.

We walk out of the room and out of the hospital, “Why do we not breach to places again? I mean we do have to people who can do that?” Tenya asks.

“Is the fastest man alive complaining about being slow! It’s because I don’t want to rely on my quirk for everything,” I say.

“That makes sense,” He says as we exit the hospital. As soon as we step on the sidewalk someone collides into me.

“Oh my god, I’m so sorry!” The person says quickly in a scared tone.
I get flashes of a girl with long brown hair, brown eyes, but they slowly shift into snow white hair with icy grey eyes, “Caitlin?” I ask.

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“Who’s Caitlin?” The boy, who has white and red hair with a blue and dark grey eye and a big scar covering the blue eye, asked, confused.

“Izuku! You can’t just ask people that!” Tenya says quickly.

“But I vibed her when he touched me!” I say, “You can’t tell me that the half with the white hair looks exactly like our icy friend!”

“Icy friend? Oh you mean Frost?” He asks.

I stood up, “Exactly!”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I’m who you think I am,” he says.

“Ok, you’re right I’m sorry, who are you then?” I ask.

“My name is Shoto Todoroki, but I need to leave right now!” He says.

“Ok, but I want to ask you some questions, Gyps? Can you do the honors?” I ask.

“Do I ever?” Gypsy as she opens a breach, “Here, if you’re running from someone we can get you cover.”

“Okay, but how can I trust you?” Shoto asks.

“We’ll explain later, for now you just have to!” I say.

We go into the breach and it goes into Gypsy’s apartment, “Dad I’m home! Izu’s here with two other people!”

I can hear Breacher footsteps coming into the room we’re in, “Izzy huh? How are you doing?” He asks.

“Izzy? Really? Are you always gonna do that with my name?” I ask.

“Ciscky, Izzy, tomato tomato!” He says.

“I’m taking that as a yes,” I say.

Gypsy starts dragging me, “Come on idiot,” she says, the other two follow us.

We get into Gypsy’s room, “Okay, first off introductions! My name is Cynthia Reynolds but if you call me that I will slit your throat!” She says aggressively, Shoto gulps, “just call me Gypsy!”

“I’m Izuku Midoriya,” I say.

“Tenya Iida, my quirk is speed,” he says.

“I’m Shoto as you know, my last name is Todoroki, my quirk is half hot half cold,” he says in a monotone voice.

“So kinda like Caitlin,” I mumble.

“I’ll ask again, who’s Caitlin!?” He asks, confused.

“She is a friend of ours, who has ice powers,” Tenya says.

“But also another person in her head!” I say, “Todoroki, this may seem like a weird request but can I touch your hand for a second?”

He seems very suspicious, “Why?” He asks.

“I want to check something with my quirk, so may I?” I ask, politely.

“Sure,” he says as he holds out his hand.

I give him a warm smile as I touch his hand. My vision changes to my memories of Caitlin and Frost, I come back, and look directly in his eyes, “I was right, we just need you to access your memories,” I say with tears in my eyes.

“So, that is Cait?” Tenya asks.

“Yes Barr, that is,” I say, wiping my eyes.

“I don’t understand, I’m still not your friend,” he says, backing away.

“Well you can be, and I’m sorry for being like this,” I say, “Todoroki, you don’t have any weird memories, like ones where you’re a different person?”

“I-, how did you-?” He asks.

“We all have had memories like that, those were our past lives, in my past life my name was Cisco Ramon, and Tenya was Barry Allen. Do those sound familiar to you?” I ask.

He looks like he is about to say something but groans and holds his head, his eyes turn a shiny grey color, like Frost’s, “About damn time,” the voice that doesn’t match Shoto’s says, “I’m finally free again! And can actually protect Caity now.”

I chuckle, “I guess that means you’re back with us Frost? Also, how are you here?” I ask.

“Yes, but if you guys are talking about me, or talking to me in front of people who wouldn’t understand, just call me KF, F, or just Frost. And I have no idea,” she says excitedly .

“Yes you’re Ice Queenness,” I say, fake bowing while rolling my eyes.

She rolls her eyes back at me, I give a fake gasp and she gives Todoroki back control, “You back with us Todo?” I ask.

“Yeah, uhm, what the hell was that!?” He yells surprised.

Eyes turn grey again, “Mental block is blocking the memories from coming back, they will come back slowly but surely. Probably will be here by the end of the week,” she says.

“Thanks, Frost,” I say.

Eyes turn back to normal, “The hell is happening to me!” He asks.

“That was Frost, the icy person who lives in the back of your head,” I say in a casual tone.

“How are you calm with this!?” He asks.

“Because we knew about Frost, well me and Barry anyway,” I say.

“Yeah, I remember when you were scared of her, or when she was evil,” Tenya says.

“You know her?” He asks.

“Yeah, we knew her in our past life, you were our best friend,” I say.

“Sister and our doctor,” Tenya says, I nod along.

“I- I remember, well a bit, Midoriya, you said your name was Cisco, right?” He asks, I nod my head, “You made the tech for our….group? That’s what we were right?”

“Yeah, we were a team, along with some other people,” I say.

“You also had power and an alibi as the hero Vibe, right?

I give a smile, “this is more memories than I expected,” I say.

“And Iida, was Barry?”

“Yes ma’am,” Tenya says.

“You’re the fast one, right?”

“Yup!”

“That’s all I have for now, sorry,” he says, apologetically.

“That’s fine, you’ll get caught up eventually!” I say, “you know what we need now.”

They both look at me, “a base! Something to replace S.T.A.R. Labs,” I say.

“We could get an apartment and some computers?” Tenya says.

“That could work so I could do my tech stuff,” I say.

“I have the money, could I buy it using my dad’s credit card?” Todoroki says.

“I- yeah that work, Todoroki? Since you will have the memories of Caitlin and we’ve known each other technically forever can I call you Shoto or Sho?” I ask.

“Honestly, I prefer my first name as it doesn’t relate to my father, so sure,” he says.

“Anyway, I should get going, I forgot to text my mother and she’s probably worried,” I say.

“I should too, if Cisco is leaving I shouldn’t intrude any longer,” Tenya says.

“I mean, my father will get more mad if I hide from him for longer so I should go as well, thank you for having me,” he says as he gives a small bow.

“It’s no problem, as long as Cisco’s here any of you guys are welcome!” Gypsy says, she gets up and gives me a kiss on the cheek, “See you at school tomorrow.”

“Yeah, see ya dear,” I say, winking.

I open a breach to leave but before I hop in I ask, “you guys want me to breach you home?”

“Sure,” Tenya says.

“That would be nice,” Shoto says.

“Yeah, OG team flash field trip!” I say.

“It’s not the OGs without a version of Wells,” Tenya says.

“Shut up Tenya! We don’t talk about the OG, well he’s not even the og one, Wells!” I yell.

“We’ve had this conversation before Cisco,” Gypsy says.

“I meant everyone thought he was Wells, except us and some of the other Wells,” I say, “anyway we should get going!”

I open a breach and the three of us step inside, I first drop off Shoto and wish him good luck and hope that his father isn’t too mad. Then I open another breach to Tenya’s house and after saying bye and discussing when we should meet up again. I open the last breach to get home then knock on my apartment door, a minute passes then my mom opens it and welcomes me home.

My mom looks at my arm, “What happened to you?” She asks, frantically.

“Oh uhm, I tripped and hit a wall, don’t worry about me I’m fine!” I try to say, quickly.

She gives me a look that tells me that she doesn’t believe me, but she won’t push if I won’t tell.“How’s school going? That friend you have?” She asks.

“Oh, Cynthia? She’s good, she’s very protective though,” I say.

“That’s good, she’ll protect you, but why do you need protection?” She asks in a concerned tone.

“Some people don’t like the quirkless mom,” I say.

“Why though? They are still people” she asks.

“They’re thought of as weak, so people target them, shouldn’t you know this?” I ask.

“It didn’t cross my mind that people would treat you differently just because you don’t have powers. you’re just my sweet and considerate son, why would people target you?” She says.

“Uhm, people don’t,” I try to lie.

“Izuku, you know you can tell me if anything’s going on right?” Mom says, with worry in her tone.

“Yeah mom, I just don’t want to worry you, also I have two other friends besides Cynthia now, their names are Tenya Iida and Shoto Todoroki!” I say, trying to change the topic.

“Oh yeah?” She asks, surprised, “tell me about them.”

I start talking about my new but old, not that my mom knows, friends and I swear I see my mom tearing up, I continue to ramble until I realize how late it is and wish my mom a good night.

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These past several months have been amazing, I’m almost done with highschool! Bakugou has left me somewhat alone, picking on me the minimal amount. Tenya has almost got us an apartment lease to rent so we have a base, Tenya, Shoto, Gypsy and I all train on the weekends ever since Shoto got all his memories back, we’re meeting with them today to finally sign off on the apartment.

“Alright class, as it’s nearing the end of high school, I’m going to pass out career forms,” the teacher says, as the class gives a collective sigh, “just kidding! I know you all want to be heroes!”

Everyone in the class starts using their quirks, Gypsy and I just look at each other and sigh, “Yes, you guys have wonderful quirks, but it’s against the rules to use them in class!”

“Don’t lump me in with these losers, sensei!” Bakugou yells over the class. “As if I had anything like their stupid quirks. Heh.”

The class starts yelling at him, “Shut up Extras!”

The teacher continues, “Ah Bakugou, of course you must be aiming for the best of the best, U.A. High school!”

Gypsy looks at me and rolls her eyes at me, I let out a small chuckle as the commotion rises again, “I aces the mock exam! I’m the only one here suited for UA,” he goes on and on, Gypsy just mocks him, I try to hold in my laugh.

“Oh yeah, Midoriya? Don’t you also want to go to UA?” The teacher asks.

Everyone, minus Gypsy starts laughing and I hear comments like, “There’s no way you can be a hero without a quirk!” And remarks similar to that. I try to defend myself, “That’s not true! It doesn’t say you have to have a quirk!” I try to continue but before I can, Bakugou explodes my desk.

“Deku, you’re totally quirkless! There’s no way you could even stand a chance at UA high, especially competing with me! I’ll squash you like the bug you are!” He yells.

Gypsy runs over to me and whispers, “Are you okay?” She asks in a worried tone.

“Ah and I can’t forget Cynthia Reynolds, you’re going to Shiketsu right?” The teacher asks.

Bakugou starts laughing maniacally, “Shiketsu?! That’s nothing compared to UA, it’s even worse than Deku!”

“I bet he’ll get in and get a better score than you!” She says.

“Him, the useless, quirkless nerd?! There’s no way! What can he even do!” He yells, the bell rings.

People pack up their bags and start to discuss their plans for the weekends, Gypsy helps me up and asks me again, as she was cut off rudely, are you okay. “I’m fine Gyps, don’t worry about me.”

“You sure?” She asks in that worried tone she only uses with me.

“Promise, if you want, Cait can check up on me when we meet, okay?” I say.

“That makes me feel better, yeah,” She says.

I go to grab my notebook, but before I can, Bakugou takes it, and we look at him, “Kacchan give it back!” I say, hating that I have to call him that.
“What is that?” A member of Bakugou’s gang asks.

Oh no, I think, that has all my training analysis in it! I look at Gypsy dead in the eye, a silent message that says ‘I need that notebook back’. She nods at me. “Hero analysis for my Future? It’s not like you’ll be needing that!” A member of Bakugou's gang says.

“Give it back!” I say, all my hard work is going to be destroyed.
Bakugou explodes it, before I get the chance to grab it he throws it out the window Gypsy opens a breach and catches it before it falls into the pond.

Bakugou puts his hand on shoulder and activates his quirk, “If you dare try for UA I’ll kill you myself,” he says, my face is angry but scared, I say nothing to them. Gypsy looks like she’s about to explode, I mouth ‘don’t’ to her.
“Jeez, still can’t talk back, can you?” A member of the gang says.

“He’ll never be able to say anything, he’s still lame even as a third year,” Bakugou says, as he gets to the door, he stops before he leaves, “You know, there might be a way for you to be a hero, if you want a quirk so bad then take a swan dive off the roof of the building and maybe you’ll get lucky in your next life!”

Gypsy snaps, she goes to lunge at him, maybe to break his nose I stop her before she gets the chance. He exits the room, I let her go, “Why did you stop me!!” She angrily yells, “he just told you to kill your self and your letting him get away with it!?”

I sigh, “The only person who would get in trouble is you,” I say, calmly, “that would only be counter productive.”

“We are talking about this today!” She says in a passionate tone, “Barry, Cait, my dad and I will take care of this. I am not going to let this slide any longer!”

“We don’t need to let them know,” I say.

“Yes we do, they’ll find out sooner or later, they will go berserk if they find out from Bakugou before you,” Gypsy says.

“That actually happens a lot with us,” I say with a dramatic sigh.
“Actually?” She asks.

“Yup, when Harry told the team about my powers, when I told the team about Caitlin’s powers, when I told the team Harry was losing his smarts, etc.” I say.

“Wow, that is a lot, also I want to tell them because I love you,” she says as she kisses my nose. I blush a little.

“Fine, let’s get going,” I say as she takes my notebook out of the breach and hands it to me and we exit the class.

We make our way downtown and we get to the tunnel, a sludgy person appears out of the sewer, “A medium sized body? That works perfectly!” We try to run but he lunges at me, I start to suffocate.

“CISCO!” I hear Gypsy yell, scared for my life.

“Calm down, I’m just taking over your body. It’ll only hurt for a few seconds and then it’ll be over,” he says like it’s normal, Gypsy is trying to aim her blast, but is hesitant due to the fact she doesn’t want to hit me, I nod to tell her to do it. “I’m saved. You’re a real hero kid, I never thought he would show up here.”

Gypsy sends a blast, “Ha, that won’t work kid, I’m fluid!”

I can’t breathe at all, the more I struggle, the more I feel my body growing weak. I can hear commotion in the background, I assume Gypsy’s yelling. I can barely make out the next sentence as my eyes start to close, “Fear not kids! Because I am here!” He yells as he punches the liquid person. I black out, Cynthia runs over to me and catches me before my head hits the ground.

“What the hell was that! You could have hurt him!” Gypsy says, angrily.

“Well I saved him didn’t I?” He says, surprised that she’s angry.

“Ugh, what?” I ask.

“Hey, zu,” she says.

“Zu? I ask. “That’s a new one.”

“We should get you checked up,” she says.

“Yeah, All Might?” I ask, “I have a question?”

“Sorry young man, I have places to be!” He says as he’s about to leave.

“Wait!” I say as he leaps I accidentally grab his suit. How was that accidental, you may ask, well simple, I went to reach out to him and his impact made me go like ten feet off the ground. It was either, probably die or grab him.

“Hey now! Why did you grab me!?” He yells.

“You blasted me like 10 feet in the air! I had no choice!”

We land on a roof, “Well hopefully the people downstairs can let you out, I must be on my way!” He says.

“Wait! I’ve always needed to ask a hero about this! Do you think a person without a quirk can be a hero?” I ask, just wanting to know his opinion. “People have always deemed my dream unattainable, but I just want to try and save and protect the people who need it.”

A cloud of steam dissolves and a very skinny man appears, “What the heck!? Who are you? Are you an All Might imposter or what?!” I yell at the man in front of me.

“Kid I am All Might,” he says.

“You’re so skinny though,” I say, then wince at what I said.

“You know how people hold in their gut to look impressive, I’m that kind of guy,” he says.

“That’s unexpected,” I say.

“You’ve seen the real me now kid, don’t tell anyone,” he says. I think to myself I’m so telling Gypsy about this, he lifts up his shirt, I inhale sharply. “My respiratory system was nearly destroyed and my stomach was removed due to an enemy 5 years ago,” he says. 5 years ago, let’s see I think, “I’ve wasted away because of the after effects of those surgeries. I can only do hero work for three hours a day.”

I could probably come up with something to help him, I mean I’ve made a meta human cure and crazy tech devices, Cait and I could probably help him, “Five years ago? That was the toxic chainsaw fight, right? Or was it that fight you had right after that wasn’t broadcasted?”

“How?” He asks.

“I’m smart, I do a lot of tech stuff, my friend and I could probably help with that respiratory system problem,” I say.

“I’ll think about that kid, you want to know the real reason behind my smile? It’s to shave off the overwhelming pressure and fear. A pro should always be ready to risk their lives, so no, I don’t think you can be a hero without a quirk, I’m sorry kid it’s the hard truth.”

“Okay, thank you for being honest! Think about my offer though!” I say while he leaves.

I open my breach to get back to Gypsy, as soon I get back I start hyperventilating, “Cisco! Are you okay!?” She yells.

“Can’t breathe!” I say.

“Did the sludge get into your lungs! We need to get you to a hospital!” She yells.

We breach to an area near a hospital, she stops short, “That’s the guy who-,” she says. I look up, the villain who nearly killed me is attacking Bakugou.

“We need to help him!” I say.

“How? Our powers don’t do anything!” She says.

“Good thing I have a cold gun!” I say.

“When did you build a cold gun?? And why do you have it?” She says.

“I was trying to figure out something for Sho’s support gear, so I made a cold gun to be able to figure out what to do!” I say.

“Fair enough, I’ll breach you close,” she says as she opens a breach. I see Tenya and Shoto in the distance. We go through the breach, “Hey slime! Remember me!” She yells.

I ready the cold gun, and press the trigger, the guy starts to yell as he freezes, I motion to Bakugou as she should get him out of here, she nods. All Might shows up behind me, “I’ll take it from here young one, Detroit Smash!”

After Bakugou was saved, the heroes scolded me because I was being reckless, but praised Bakugou for handling the situation well, Gypsy opens a breach and I quickly go through it. When I go through Tenya gives me a hug, the realization of what happened today finally hits me, I break down. “Gypsy gave us the summary of what happened today, we got the apartment, it’s mostly furnished, we can have a movie night,” he says.

I smile, I see Bakugou appear from the corner, “Deku! I never asked you to save me! What, were you trying to pity me or something? Stop looking down on me, you useless nerd!” He storms off.

“Bakugou is a piece of work,” Shoto says, “Also, nice cold gun!”
I give a small chuckle, “Thanks, I’m working on something for you,” I say.

Before we can open a breach and leave we hear a distinct “I am here,” coming from the corner. I push my friends behind a bush, so they can hear the conversation. “All Might?” I ask, surprised, “why are you here?”

He turns into his normal form, I hear small gasps and turn my head to glare at them, “First off kid, I would like kid I would like to accept your proposal if you’re friends are okay with it, second I’d like to thank you, also I have a proposal for you,” He says.

“Okay?” I say unsure, “but why are you thanking me? I got reprimanded for helping.”

“Exactly! Of all the people in the area, it was you! A timid, quirkless boy who sprung to action to help an innocent man, you were the reason I was able to fight,” he says.

I stood there shocked, no one (besides my friends, who don’t count) had said anything like that before to me, “Most heroes show signs of greatness when they are young, their bodies moved before they could think!” For some reason, I remember my mom apologizing when I was younger, because my life didn’t turn out the way I wanted, “That's what happened to you, right?” He asks.

I try to say no because I know exactly what I was going to do before I can. He continues, “Yes, you can be a hero!”

I smile, as I appreciate him telling me that even though I was going to be a hero anyway, “I believe you’re worthy of inheriting my powers,” he says.

I’m sorry!?!? What does he mean by that! I hear someone almost fall over, idiots, I think,“Huh,” I say.

“What’s the face for? It’s a proposal for you! The real work begins here, listen here boy,” he says while cackling, “I’m asking you kid, if you want to try accepting my power.”

Okay, now I’m just thinking All Might is quirkist, cause he is offering me a power instead of saying I can be a hero without one, “I appreciate the offer but-,” I start to say but get cut off.

“No need to thank me kid, everyone, all the news sources, always assumes my quirk is some form of super strength, but my power was actually passed on to me, like an Olympic torch,” he says.

“Wow, that’s crazy,” I say, sarcastically.

“Yes and you might be next, I have the ability to transfer powers, the true name of my power is One For All,” he says.

“I’m sorry All Might, but I’m going to decline this offer, I’m sorry,” I say.
“Kid you don’t understand, I have been looking for someone like you for a long time,” he says.

“Yeah but I want to be a hero without having to rely on a quirk, I wanted to ask a respected person in society to see what their opinion was, you told me no, so that just made me want to prove myself more,” I say.

“I just revealed my darkest secret to you, and now you’re just turning away!?” He says.

“Look, I’ll think about it overnight, I have to go, my mom is probably worried,” I say to him.

He gives me a smile, I knew I could count on you kid, you know that beach with all the trash on it?” He asks, I give him a confused nod, “Meet me there tomorrow when you have your answer.”

“Ok, see you,” I say, as I turn the corner to where my friends were eavesdropping.

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I open a breach and push them inside the breach quickly.

We land in this random apartment, “Is this?” I ask.

“Yup, our new base,” Tenya says proudly.

“It looks amazing!” I say with awe.

“Thanks, Shoto helped with the interior,” he says looking at Sho who is embarrassed.

“Frost also helped,” he says.

His eyes turn grey, “You’re kidding right? I did all the work around here,” Frost exclaims, proudly.

“Sure, Frost sure,” Tenya says with a chuckle. “So are we gonna talk about what just happened?”

I pull a chair over and fall into it, “That was the weirdest part of my day, did you have any idea that his quirk wasn’t actually his, cause I didn’t! Also before you ask, I really don’t want his quirk, I already have my own quirk and I just wanted to know if I would be able to do it without one, not get one!” I say, “Also, I feel that All Might is quirkist.”

“Honestly, from hearing that conversation I totally get where you are coming from, but are you ever going to tell him you have an actual quirk?” Iida asks. “Also, what was that?! Telling someone they can’t be a hero without a quirk but then saying you can but only if I give you mine!”

Gypsy sits down right next to me in my chair, “I agree with speedyI can’t believe the number 1 hero is actually quirkist, like what the hell! You’re supposed to help people and give them hope, not crush their dreams,” she says in an annoyed tone.

Tenya and Sho both pull over chairs, “Cisco what did he mean by deal?” Tenya asks, confused.

“Oh uhm before I knew he was quirkist he told me his respiratory system was destroyed and stuff so I told him that I could talk to you guys and see if we would make him an artificial stomach,” I say nervously.

Tenya stares at me, “Really? You want to help this bastard?” He asks.

“I mean, we may hate him, but Japan needs him,” I say.

“Fair enough, can you and Cait do that though?” He asks.

I look over at Shoto, “We probably could, we could make artificial organs and stuff, we just need to figure out how,” he says.

“Schway!” I say.

“What is that?” Gypsy asks, “Is that like shrap?”

“Oh right I never explained to you, Barry had a daughter from the future that came to the past, those were the slang of her time, I like them so I use them,” I say and shrug my shoulders.

“Okay that makes sense,” Gypsy says.

“Now might not be the best time but, my gender is just starting to confuse me,” Sho says, we all turn and look at our peppermint haired friend. “Well like because I was Caitlin and Caitlin was female, also I still have Frost in my head so what should I do?”

Tenya looks at him, “Well I mean if you want we can use female pronouns?” Tenya asks.

“What about a mixture?” I ask, they both look at me, “You don’t want your dad to know but you’ve also been male for years, we could do genderfuild with mostly female or maybe nonbinary or just those two with male out in public.”

“Yeah, that sounds about right,” he- she states.

“Honestly, that makes you more badass, if you want me to design your costume would you prefer I made it more in a feminine style or-,” I start to ask but then get cut off by two people.

“You’re making our suits?!” Tenya asks excitedly, and, “Killer Frost style suit again please!” Sho says, quickly.

I chuckle, “Sure why not, but can you get suits from UA just so I can get an understanding of what you want and what you would want to change, also I would like to steal the materials,” I say in an evilish tone.

“That is such a Cisco thing to do,” Tenya says, with a laugh.

“Also, I’ll find a way to tell him I have a quirk without telling him about the past life thing, also are the computers set up?” I ask, wanting to know if I could maybe get into the satellites again.

“Yeah, same password as the S.T.A.R labs ones, why?” Tenya asks.

I quickly roll the chair Gypsy and I are sitting on over to one of the computers, Gypsy gives a yelp of surprise. I log into the computer really quickly and try to get the Satellite code to regain access to them so that we can use facial recognition and find more people from our time faster, “Booyah!” I yell, excitedly, “Hal, Robbie, Data and Colossus are back baby!” I say the names I gave the satellites, feeling excited.

“You got into DeVoe’s satellite’s again, also they’re still there?” Tenya says surprised.

“Yeah, apparently even though DeVoe made the satellites about 200 years ago when we fought him, they still are in very good condition,” I explain. “I bet if people knew that a villain created the satellites they’d go crazy.”

“They probably would, also good to see that your hacking skills aren’t lacking,” Shoto says with a smirk.

I grin at her, “Who’s the best hacker in the world baby?” I ask.

“Felicity Smoak,” Sho and Tenya said in unison.

I look at them with my mouth hanging, “Guys, that’s not friendship,” I scoff.

They both look at each other and start laughing, “We made it a bit Cisco, whenever you ask who’s the best hacker, we just have to automatically say Felicity,” Sho says.

“Wow, I feel betrayed by my best friends,” I say, with my hand over my heart.

“Speaking of best friends, you think the multiverse isn’t destroyed anymore?” Tenya asks.

I turn to look at Gypsy, “Do you have an answer?” I ask.

“Yeah, the multiverse exists again,” she says.

“So would Kara be back on Earth-38? Even after the events of Earth-Prime?” Tenya asks.

She shrugs her shoulders, “Maybe? I don’t know,” she says.

“Maybe we’ll find out during our ‘annual crisis,” I say jokingly.

Gypsy gives me a weird look, Tenya stares at me, “No, not again, if we get annual big fights again I’m going to scream,” he says.

“So no one, besides us, knows that the multiverse exists still?” Shoto asks.

“Who knows?” I say, “I just had a sudden thought, if the multiverse is back, does this mean that Earth-1 is another planet?”

“Aren’t we Earth-1?” Gypsy asks.

“Theoretically, no. When Crisis hit the multiverse combined into 1 planet, Earth-Prime which is us now. So if the multiverse was remade, would Earth-1 be a separate planet?” I ask.

Tenya, Shoto, and Gypsy look at me confused, “What if,” I continue, “Earth-1 is us, but if Crisis never happened and the time it’s moving at is different than ours?”

“I think your Earth-1 theory might be right, but the second part is a little over stepping it,” Tenya says.

“Fair enough,” I say, “But back to the original topic, speaking of yearly crises, if I see the Monitor aka Mar Novu, I will punch him in the face no hesitation!” I state proudly, “Or possibly Nash, even though he did change.”

“You want to punch a god in the face? Cisco no,” Tenya says.

“Cisco, yes! Bar he made you accept the fact that you were going to have to die, but then Oliver dies instead and Kara the they all get resurrected and our earth becomes Earth-Prime cause everyone in the multiverse got destroyed, oh shoot, Harry and Jessie!” I say.

Iida gives me a weird look, “Okay, you have a fair point about your reason, but I won’t let you punch him, also what about them?”

“Earth-2 got destroyed first, and Earth-3 so what happened to Jay, Jessie, Harry, and like all our friends from the multiverse?” I say.

“Well Gypsy’s here? We can hope that they’re fine,” Sho says, trying to reassure me.

“I hope he’s smart again, when and if we find him again, I mean he was regaining it before Crisis,” I say, in a hopeful tone.

“Are you saying you miss Harry??” Tenya asks, teasingly.

“No! I hate him, he pisses me off!” I say.

“Sure ya do,” he says, still in a teasing voice.

“And that’s totally why after Crisis you played his last message to you on repeat for hours,” Shoto teases.

“Screw you both !” I say.

“Love ya too Cisco,” he says.

“Shoto? Can you check over Cisco? I just want to make sure he’s okay from the sludge and Bakugou,” Gypsy says, with concern.

“I think your Earth-1 theory might be right, but the second part is a little over stepping it,” Tenya says.

“Fair enough,” I say, “But back to the original topic, speaking of yearly crises, if I see the Monitor aka Mar Novu, I will punch him in the face no hesitation!” I state proudly, “Or possibly Nash, even though he did change.”

“You want to punch a god in the face? Cisco no,” Tenya says.

“Cisco, yes! Bar he made you accept the fact that you were going to have to die, but then Oliver dies instead and Kara the they all get resurrected and our earth becomes Earth-Prime cause everyone in the multiverse got destroyed, oh shoot, Harry and Jessie!” I say.

Iida gives me a weird look, “Okay, you have a fair point about your reason, but I won’t let you punch him, also what about them?”

“Earth-2 got destroyed first, and Earth-3 so what happened to Jay, Jessie, Harry, and like all our friends from the multiverse?” I say.

“Well Gypsy’s here? We can hope that they’re fine,” Sho says, trying to reassure me.

“I hope he’s smart again, when and if we find him again, I mean he was regaining it before Crisis,” I say, in a hopeful tone.

“Are you saying you miss Harry??” Tenya asks, teasingly.

“No! I hate him, he pisses me off!” I say.

“Sure ya do,” he says, still in a teasing voice.

“And that’s totally why after Crisis you played his last message to you on repeat for hours,” Shoto teases.

“Screw you both !” I say.

“Love ya too Cisco,” he says.

“Shoto? Can you check over Cisco? I just want to make sure he’s okay from the sludge and Bakugou,” Gypsy says, with concern.

“Sure I can,” Sho goes to the back to get the medical equipment, he comes back, grabs a stethoscope and puts it on my back to listen to my breathing. “Your breathing is a little bit uneven, but I think you’ll be fine. Gypsy what injuries from Bakugou did you want me to check?”

“Bakugou exploded his shoulder, can you just make sure it’s fine?” Gypsy says.

“Sure, shirt off please?” She asked me. I take off my shirt quickly, wanting to get this over with. He sucks in a breath.

“What?” I ask.

“It doesn’t look good, I’ll get some burn cream on it and hope for the best,” he says.

“Thanks Cait, you’re the best,” I say.

“Anytime,” she says.

“It’s getting late, we should go home,” Gypsy says.

“So much for movie night. We should plan a sleepover here sometime soon, or like when school starts, if we get in of course,” I say.

“That would be a fun idea!” Tenya says, excited, “Also just so you know, we will be spying on you again tomorrow to see what the outcome is.”

I chuckle, “Yeah, that sounds like something you guys would do.”

“Anyway, I need to get home now, or the old man might get mad,” Sho says.

Before he can go I hand him something, “Here, I made extrapolators for you two that way we don’t always have to breach you home, or to us. You can just do it yourself,” I say.

“Thanks,” he says with a small smile.

I give one to Tenya, they both press the extrapolators and walk into the breach. Gypsy and I give each other a hug then say at the same time, “See you tomorrow,” then open our respective breaches and go home.

I open the door to my house and my mom immediately hugs me and says, “I saw what happened on the news! Are you okay? Is Katsuki okay? Why couldn’t you let the heroes just help him? Why did you help? Did you know how worried I was?”

“We’re both fine mom, the heroes weren’t doing anything so I had to do something or else Kacchan could have been injured worse,” I say.

“You still shouldn’t have had to do anything! Where did you even get that weird gun from?” She asks, with concern.

“Oh, uhm Shoto has an ice quirk and I was making something for them but needed to figure out how to make it so I made the cold gun to help me figure it out,” I say, fiddling with my fingers.

“I didn’t know you like working with tech,” she says, embarrassed.

“Oh, it’s a hobby I picked up after I met Gypsy and my other friends,” I say.

“When will I meet your other friends?” She asks.

“Eventually mom, maybe before or after UA exams,” I say, giving her a small smile.

“Well it’s getting late, you should get some sleep,” she says, giving me a kiss on my forehead.

“Will do mom, also, I’m meeting my friends at the beach tomorrow so I won’t be home till later,” I say.

“Okay, just get home safe,” she says.

“Will do,” I say back. I go into my room, get ready for bed then go to sleep.

The next morning I wake up, get ready, eat breakfast, say goodbye to my mother, then breach to the beach All Might wanted me to meet him at. I find him waiting for me on the beach, I quickly make my way down to meet him, “All Might?” I ask.

“Ah young one, it’s good to see you, what is your name?” He asks.

“Izuku Midoriya, sir,” I say, I hear a breach open nearby.

“Do you have your answer?” He asks.

“Yes, my answer is still no,” I say.

“I will not be taking that as an answer, young Midoriya, you will accept my quirk! Now let’s get to work,” he says.

“But All Might-!” I try to say.

“No, I have tried to find someone for a long time, I do not want to find another and you have the perfect body type for my quirk,” he says.

“What does that even mean?” I sigh, not wanting to argue with the top hero further.

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10 months go by, it is almost time for the UA entrance exam. These past 10 months, All Might has pushed my limits, he has been overworking me by making me take all the trash off the beach, I have had several breakdowns with my friends, sleepovers where I dump what happened and what he’s making me do.

When All Might forced me to take his powers, he told me I had to train my body or all my limbs would explode off my body. My mother has been worried for me as I either come home with my eyes red or dark circles under them. In the small bit of free time we have, Cait and I start to work on the artificial organs, we’ve started to figure out how to make them and what to compose them of, we just need the materials to do it.

Today is finally the day before the exams, Shoto won’t be with Iida and I because he’s being recommended by his father (ick, no one likes the guy). As much as I would love to spend time with my friends now, All Might told me I have to finish cleaning the beach before the exam.

“Ah young one, it’s good to see you, what is your name?” He asks.

“Izuku Midoriya, sir,” I say, I hear a breach open nearby.

“Do you have your answer?” He asks.

“Yes, my answer is still no,” I say.

“I will not be taking that as an answer, young Midoriya, you will accept my quirk! Now let’s get to work,” he says.

“But All Might-!” I try to say.

“No, I have tried to find someone for a long time, I do not want to find another and you have the perfect body type for my quirk,” he says.

“What does that even mean?” I sigh, not wanting to argue with the top hero further.

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10 months go by, it is almost time for the UA entrance exam. These past 10 months, All Might has pushed my limits, he has been overworking me by making me take all the trash off the beach, I have had several breakdowns with my friends, sleepovers where I dump what happened and what he’s making me do.

When All Might forced me to take his powers, he told me I had to train my body or all my limbs would explode off my body. My mother has been worried for me as I either come home with my eyes red or dark circles under them. In the small bit of free time we have, Cait and I start to work on the artificial organs, we’ve started to figure out how to make them and what to compose them of, we just need the materials to do it.

Today is finally the day before the exams, Shoto won’t be with Iida and I because he’s being recommended by his father (ick, no one likes the guy). As much as I would love to spend time with my friends now, All Might told me I have to finish cleaning the beach before the exam.

I quickly leave my house and go to the beach to get to cleaning, since All Might’s not here I can cheat and use my powers to make things go faster. Several hours go by, it is nearly night fall, even with using my quirk I still have a lot left to do. I get so caught up in moving trash and the fact I have a day left to prepare I don’t realize it’s almost the crack of dawn and my phone has been spammed with calls and messages.

I take a small break and hear an angry, “Izuku Cisco Ramon Midoriya!”, Gypsy yells. I think, Oh shoot, I’m in trouble.

Three people come down to the beach who I quickly identify as my friends. I'm in so much trouble, I think, “Hey guys, how are you doing?” I ask, trying to play it cool.

“Don’t you ‘hey guys’ us, why haven’t you answered your phone at all these last few hours?” Gypsy asks, angirly.

“Few hours? Gyps I’ve only been here like two hours,” I say, confused by what she means.

“Cisco, it’s 1 am,” she says in a deadpan voice.

“HUH! When did that happen!!!” I almost yelled.

“Let us help you finish up,” Tenya says, “If we help, it’ll be done in a flash.”

The silence is so loud, no one laughs at Tenya’s joke besides himself, “Oh come on guys! That was funny!” He says.

“No it wasn’t,” All of us say.

We start all cleaning up, it still takes longer than we expect, especially since Tenya isn’t as fast as he was, Sho’s doing manual labor, Gypsy and I are doing a mix of breaching it to the pile and carrying it. I take off my shirt as I am getting hot, Gypsy looks over at me with a surprised expression on her face, “What?” I ask, worried there’s something on my face.

“Nothing, you just are very muscular now, and I like what I see,” she answers, coming over to me and gives me a peck on my lips.

“Fair enough,” I say and smile back.

I hear a frosty voice yell, “Hey lovebirds! Maybe you could help out a bit here instead of flirting!!”

“Sorry Frosty!” I yell back, I nearly get an icicle to my skull, “Dude? Really?”

“Stop calling me Frosty!” Frost yells

“Okay Freezerburn no need to get angry, Also guys!” I yell.

“What!?” Tenya yells back.

“Skeleton face told me to meet him here at 6, it’s almost 6, go hide or something,” I say.

I see a thumbs up from Tenya and Shoto, Gypsy just gives me a warm smile then leaves. As they leave I quickly try to finish up the beach, ten minutes later, it’s finally done. I don’t think I would have been able to finish cleaning the beach without the help of my friends. All Might comes over and stares at the pile of garbage and says, “Wow young Midoriya! I didn’t think you could do it! You have now definitely proven the worth of my quirk.”

I stare at him, “You’re saying that if I didn’t clean the entire beach you would have left me alone! Are you for real?” I ask in the most Cisco toned voice.

“No, I would have still given you the quirk anyway, now it is finally time,” he says and holds out a piece of his hair, “Eat this!”

I stare at him in confusion, “Why?” I ask.

“Because it’s how you gain my powers, now the exam is in 3 hours, just trust me and eat it!”

I turned in disgust, “There must be another way, can’t I inject your blood in me or like add it to a drink, no matter how disgusting that sounds,” I say.

“Nooo, I don’t like needles, hair is the only way,” he says.

As much as I hate the idea, I quickly eat the hair and swallow then down a bottle of water. “Ugh!”

“Now, go get ready for the exams, you have trained hard for this,” he says. I quickly run off and as soon as I am far enough away I breach to the apartment.

“I hate the skeleton man so much!” I yell, not expecting anyone to be there.

“We know,” Tenya says coming round the corner, I flinch.

“Sorry, I wasn't expecting anyone to be here,” I say.

“That’s fair,” he says, “Cisco did you text your mom?”

“I did, don’t worry about that, I told her I feel asleep working on something at yours,” I say.

“Okay, what did the skeleton bastard do now?” He asks.

“The skelly man did something?” Shoto asks, his eyes go silver, “You need me to give him frostbite or freezer burn for you?” Frost asks.

“I’m good for now Frost, thanks for the offer though. As for what the man did well, you know how he has to give me his power right?” I say.

“Yeah,” the two say, as Gypsy comes from the back with coffee.

“What are we talking about?” She asks.

“Skeleton,” I say, “Oh is that coffee?!”

“Yes, since you stayed up all night, I thought you would need it, also you should shower so you’re ready to go for the exam,” she says.

“I love you Gyps, also are you saying I smell?? How uncouth!” I say.

“Wow I didn’t know you knew big words like that, but yes, you worked with trash for like ten hours straight, of course you smell,” she says.

“Fair enough, now where was I? Oh right, him passing his quirk! So he said I had to consume a piece of DNA from him to gain the power,” I say.

“I’m sorry what?” Tenya asks.

“Yeah, I know, it’s disgusting,” I say, “I say, would transferring blood work, or making me drink it in a drink, he said no and told me to eat his hair,” I say.

“Ew man hair,” Tenya says.

“Yeah so I had to eat it, 0/10 would not recommend, it tastes so bad! Anyway hopefully they kick in soon, but I probably rely on my powers and strength,” I say.

“Yeah, I’m going to use my speed,” He says as he starts vibrating.

“Hey! Look at that! You’re speedy again, wanna see how fast you can run?” I ask.

“I would but how?” He asks.

I go grab a device sitting by a monitor, “Simple, I’ll attach this device to you it’ll measure your velocity,” I say, attaching the small circular device to him, “Now run Barry run!”

“Is that saying ever gonna get old?” He asks.

“Nope, our classmate will be looking at me strangely but it’ll be fine!” I say.

He shrugs his shoulders and speeds off, I quickly log into a monitor and pull up the program for the device, “Holy cow!” I yell.

“What?” Sho asks as he and Gypsy come to look at the monitor.

“He’s already almost at Mach 2!” I say, “he just jumped to 4!

“Wow, he’ll get back to his fastest soon enough,” Sho says.

“How fast can he go?” Gypsy says confused.

“Very fast!” We both say. We watch as he keeps running and his speed keeps increasing, he finally runs through the apartment walls, yeah he phased through the walls, and skids to a stop.

“Wow, that felt amazing! I forgot how much I loved running like that! How fast was I going?” He asks, excitedly.

“My good sir, you went up to almost Mach 7, if you keep running like that you’ll be back at your top in no time!” I say.

“Mach 7 really? Wow, also exams are in an hour and a half so we should get ready,” he says.

“Oh shoot!” I scramble out of my chair and open a breach to my room and shower, my mom hears commotion and slowly creeps in the door.

“Hello? Is someone there? I have a frying pan,” she says calmly but scared. I’m still running around the room like crazy but stop for a second.

“Mom, calm down, it's just me!” I say, just so she doesn’t throw a frying pan at me.

“Oh Izuku baby! When did you get home? I didn’t see you come in through the door?” She asks.

“Oh yeah, I had Gypsy breach me to my room, as UA entrance exams are in an hour and a half so I needed to shower and change so I was gonna get right to it then come see you,” I state.

“Oh right, I forgot that’s today, I wish you good luck!” She says, in a happy tone.

“Thanks. Now I have to shower quickly!” I say, as I run to the bathroom and close the door.

Almost an hour later, I am finally ready, I say goodbye to my mom and leave the apartment. I open a breach to the other apartment to see if Tenya’s there and when he’s not I call him, “dude, where are you?” I ask.

“My house? Where else would I be getting ready?” He says.

“Exams are in half an hour, are you ready?” I ask.

“Chill dude, we got time! I’ll meet you at the coffee shop?” He asks.

“Please! I need more coffee! Even though it can’t top Gypsy’s coffee I still need it to make it through the day,” I say.

“Just don’t have 4 cups like last time, or you will crash,” he says.

“Oh trust me, I learned from last time,” I say, as I hang up to meet at the coffee shop.

We grab our usual orders and breach to UA, wow that’s a big school, we look at each other nervously, “Are you ready for this?” Tenya asks.

“Yeah, I wish Cait was here though,” I say.

We start walking towards the doors, but before we make it, I trip over the sidewalk. Tenya doesn’t notice, but before I hit the ground I realize I’m now floating, “Huh what!” I say.

“Izuku! What happened?” He asks.

I see a girl next to me, “It’s my quirk, I’m sorry for using it on you without asking first, but it’s a bad omen trip,” she says, “Anyway, good luck!”

“Thank you! You as well!” I say.

“Deku!?” I hear a voice from behind me yell, “the hell are you doing here?”

“Taking the exam obviously,” I say.

“Are you talking back to me, I’ll teach you a lesson!” He goes to activate his quirk.

“Whoa whoa! Let’s be civil about this! If you use your quirk on him, the pros could see it on the security cams and you could lose your chance at becoming a hero huh, we don’t want that now do we?” Tenya says, I have never been more grateful for Tenya than in this moment, actually I have but ignoring that.

“Tch, extras, you won’t pass Deku, remember your place,” he says as he walks past us.

“Thanks Ten,” I say, as I breathe a sigh of relief.

“No pro Izu,” he says.

We walk into the building and sit down in a pair of empty seats and wait for whoever's going to speak.

“Welcome to today’s performance!! Everybody say Hey!!” A man with spiky yellow hair yells.

The room is silent, “Iida come on, no one did it!” I say
“Really? Fine,” he says, we both scream hey back, to make him feel better, people look at us weird.

“Thank you to the two who did say hey, I really appreciate it! I’m here to present the guidelines of your practical exam, are you ready?! Yeah!!!” He yells louder.

“Izu what hero is this? I recognize this voice a bit,” Tenya asks.

“It’s the voice hero Present Mic, I play his radio show in the apartment when I’m working sometimes,” I say, a bit excited.

“You’ve always admired heroes,” Tenya says.

“How the test will go, little listeners, you’ll be experiencing a ten minute long mock cityscape maneuvers!! You can bring whatever you want, after this presentation you all will head to the testing areas you’ve been assigned!!!” He yells, “That’s so kids from the same middle school can’t help each other out!!.

“Phew, I won’t be with Bakugou,” I say.

“I think we’re together Izu,” Tenya says.

“Really!! Nice, I got my best bud with me, you wanna work together?” I ask.

He gives me a smile, “why not!”

Present Mic continues, “Each site is filled with three kinds of false villains, use your quirks to disable these villains, of course attacking others is prohibited!!!”

“Did you bring anything useful for this?” Tenya asks.

“Yeah, I saw that the faux villains were robots so I bought a smart watch so we can hack if necessary and some mines to explode them if necessary,” I say.

“Cool, that’s so Cisco of you to do,” he says.

“Thanks,” I say sheepishly, rubbing the back of my neck.

“May I ask a question?” Some random person says, “It say on the handout there are four fake villains! This would be such an evident error for Japan’s top hero course!! We are all here to become the best heroes we can be!!” He says passionately, “Also you with the curly green hair and the blue hair with glasses! You’ve not been so silently whispering this entire time, it’s very disturbing!! If this is a game to you please leave immediately!!”

Tenya goes to stand up, “Don’t, we don’t know who he is, we don’t want to get into more trouble,” I whisper to him then say louder, “Sorry, we were just discussing tactics!”

“Alright, alright examinee 7222 nice catch. Thanks! But it’s not worth anything, it’s more of an obstacle, have you ever played Super Mario Brothers? It’s like a thwomp, there's only one that’ll rampage around the area!”

“Thank you for the explanation, I’m sorry for interrupting!” The random person says.

“That’s all from me!! I’ll leave my listeners with our school motto!! Plus Ultra!!! Break a leg everyone!!”

We all exit the building and head to our designated locations, “Ten, here take a few mines, we can work together to destroy them!” I say.

He takes the mines from my hands, “Sounds like a plan!”

We make it over to the gates, “Tenya look! It’s that girl, should I wish her good luck?” I ask.

The random guy comes up, “are you going to interfere with her?”
I flinch at the sudden touch, I start hearing whispers about me, “I was just going to wish her good luck, sorry about flinching, I’m not used to touch or social interaction,” I say.

“Hey, why are you touching my friend?” Tenya asks.

“He was going to disturb that girl,” the guy says.

“He was going to wish her well, that is one of the only other people my friend has interacted with, he did not have ill intentions,” Tenya says.
I smile at him, “My social skills, besides the friends that I’ve had for years, are very bad, so I’m sorry if you think I’m weird,” I say.

Tenya and I walk off, “And begin!!” We hear a voice yell, “what’s wrong the test has started!! Run! Run!! The die is cast!!”

Everyone runs into the arena, “Tenya follow my lead!” I yell.

We start punching robots, helping each other take them out, I turn my start watch on and type in the command to blow up the robots, several robots. Time flies by, both of us each have 47 points, but we’re still waiting on the zero pointer…. I just jinxed us, damn. The zero points just comes out of hiding, everyone starts running the other way. I hear a small ow from in front of me, “Tenya,” I say.

“I see her, what’s the plan?” He asks.

I think for a minute before coming up with a crazy idea, “Throw me!” I say.

“What?” He asks.

“Speed spin and throw me at it!” I yell.

“Okay? I trust you,” he says as he grabs me and starts spinning me, I hear whispers around me like, ‘what is he doing?’

He lets me go, I fly up to the zero pointer, grab the cold gun that I forgot to take off, and blast it. Once it’s partially frozen I punch it with all my might, my arm breaks from impact, well I guess that’s All Might's quirk, I start falling to the ground fast and quickly open a breach. I slide out of it, “Izuku! Are you okay?” Tenya asks.

“Yeah, hey are you okay as well?” I ask the girl.

“Yeah, probably better than your broken arm, thanks for saving me!” She says.

“That’s good,” I say.

“Izu, you should go to Recovery Girl,” Tenya says, concerned.

“Can’t I just have Sho look at it?” I ask.

“No, come on,” he says.

We head off to find Recovery Girl. Once we find her she heals my arm with her quirk, then Tenya and I bid farewell and leave to our respective homes for the night, we’ll tell the team tomorrow.

Chapter Text

A week passed, and we told the team. Shoto had their exams happen a few days after ours, and then Gypsy had hers as well. Now, we all anxiously wait for our results. I hear my ringtone go, I’m assuming it’s my mom as most of my contacts besides Breacher are in this room. I picked up my phone, “Hello?” I ask.

-Izuku! It’s here! The letter!- my mom says on the phone.

“Actually?” I say, surprised.

-Yes!- she replies.

“Okay, I’ll come grab it, would you mind if I open it with my friends? Or if they want, we can all come by the house,” I tell her.

-Of course!-

“Thank you,” I say, “My letter is here, you guys wanna check for yours and then come over?”

“Sure, why not,” Tenya says as he shrugs his shoulders.

“I will hold off for now, as my father will probably be expecting me to open it in front of him, so if you two just want to grab yours, we can then head out,” Shoto says.

“Yeah, Gyps? You have yours?” I ask.

“I can check,” she says.
I open a breach to Tenya’s house while Gypsy opens a breach to her mailbox, as she lives in an apartment. Tenya goes through his breach and comes back a minute later as Gypsy goes through hers and also comes back with a letter.

“Got them?” I ask.

“Yeah, is anyone else nervous?” Tenya asks.

“Don’t be Bar, we did well,” I say.

“I mean we kicked ass, but I’m still worried,” he says.

“We got this, you guys ready?” I ask.

“Yeah,” Sho says, “I wanna meet your mom.”

I open a breach to my apartment and knock on the door, “Mom I’m here, with my friends!” I say.

The door opens, “Izuku and friends!! Come in, I made tea and cookies,” my mom says.

“Oh, thank you, Ms. Midoriya, I appreciate the gesture,” Tenya says, while Shoto is a bit pink. I nudge them in the ribs.

“Not used to parents being this kind, huh?” I ask.

“Shut it,” they say.

“Dear, do you not have good parents?” My mom asks, concerned.

“Uhm no,” they say.

“Mom, these are my friends, Shoto Todoroki, who used they/she or is it she/they pronouns?” I ask, forgetting the order.

“Either or, depends on how I’m feeling it can be she/her or they/them if I want,” Shoto says.

“Fair enough, what are you feeling like now?” I ask.

“Do we have to have this discussion in front of your mom?” They ask.

“Of course you do!” My mom says, “I want to know what you’re comfortable with, also I can help you grow out your hair a bit, and help with fashion choices if you need!”

She goes back to being pink, “Oh uhm, thank you. I would like to grow out my hair a bit,” she says.

“Of course, now you said your last name is Todoroki, do you have a name you prefer to be called? Also, your dad is Endeavor, right?” She asks, Sho gives a hesitant nod, “So, he doesn’t know I’m assuming? Don’t worry dear, your secret is safe with me! If you ever need a place to stay, you’re always welcome here, that goes for all of you.”

She gives them a warm smile. Sho gets all flustered and I chuckle at her, “Th-thank you ma’am, I really appreciate it, also you can call me Shoto,” they say, then whisper to me, “Your mom is the best, can she adopt me?”

I start to laugh, the others look at me weird. I whisper back, “You know what, sure why not! I would love to have you as my official sister,” I say more loudly, “And this is Tenya Iida and as you know Cynthia Reynolds aka Gypsy, also state your quirks.”

Shoto says, “Fire and Ice, I don’t like my fire power though.”

“My quirk is speed, I run fast,” Tenya says.

“I can open portals,” Gypsy says.

“Your quirks are very cool,” my mom says.

“Thank you Ms. Midoriya,” Tenya says.

“Mom, do you have my letter?” I ask.
“Yes I do, here you go,” she says, as she grabs my letter and hands it to me.
I smile at her, “Thanks, you guys want to go to my room?” I ask.

“Is it still covered in All Might?” Sho asks, teasingly.

“No, I only have some, I redecorated,” I say, as we start walking there.
“Do we have to have this discussion in front of your mom?” They ask.

“Of course you do!” My mom says, “I want to know what you’re comfortable with, also I can help you grow out your hair a bit, and help with fashion choices if you need!”

She goes back to being pink, “Oh uhm, thank you. I would like to grow out my hair a bit,” she says.

“Of course, now you said your last name is Todoroki, do you have a name you prefer to be called? Also, your dad is Endeavor, right?” She asks, Sho gives a hesitant nod, “So, he doesn’t know I’m assuming? Don’t worry dear, your secret is safe with me! If you ever need a place to stay, you’re always welcome here, that goes for all of you.”

She gives them a warm smile. Sho gets all flustered and I chuckle at her, “Th-thank you ma’am, I really appreciate it, also you can call me Shoto,” they say, then whisper to me, “Your mom is the best, can she adopt me?”

I start to laugh, the others look at me weird. I whisper back, “You know what, sure why not! I would love to have you as my official sister,” I say more loudly, “And this is Tenya Iida and as you know Cynthia Reynolds aka Gypsy, also state your quirks.”

Shoto says, “Fire and Ice, I don’t like my fire power though.”

“My quirk is speed, I run fast,” Tenya says.

“I can open portals,” Gypsy says.

“Your quirks are very cool,” my mom says.

“Thank you Ms. Midoriya,” Tenya says.

“Mom, do you have my letter?” I ask.
“Yes I do, here you go,” she says, as she grabs my letter and hands it to me.
I smile at her, “Thanks, you guys want to go to my room?” I ask.

“Is it still covered in All Might?” Sho asks, teasingly.

“No, I only have some, I redecorated,” I say, as we start walking there.
“Do we have to have this discussion in front of your mom?” They ask.

“Of course you do!” My mom says, “I want to know what you’re comfortable with, also I can help you grow out your hair a bit, and help with fashion choices if you need!”

She goes back to being pink, “Oh uhm, thank you. I would like to grow out my hair a bit,” she says.

“Of course, now you said your last name is Todoroki, do you have a name you prefer to be called? Also, your dad is Endeavor, right?” She asks, Sho gives a hesitant nod, “So, he doesn’t know I’m assuming? Don’t worry dear, your secret is safe with me! If you ever need a place to stay, you’re always welcome here, that goes for all of you.”

She gives them a warm smile. Sho gets all flustered and I chuckle at her, “Th-thank you ma’am, I really appreciate it, also you can call me Shoto,” they say, then whisper to me, “Your mom is the best, can she adopt me?”

I start to laugh, the others look at me weird. I whisper back, “You know what, sure why not! I would love to have you as my official sister,” I say more loudly, “And this is Tenya Iida and as you know Cynthia Reynolds aka Gypsy, also state your quirks.”

Shoto says, “Fire and Ice, I don’t like my fire power though.”

“My quirk is speed, I run fast,” Tenya says.

“I can open portals,” Gypsy says.

“Your quirks are very cool,” my mom says.

“Thank you Ms. Midoriya,” Tenya says.

“Mom, do you have my letter?” I ask.
“Yes I do, here you go,” she says, as she grabs my letter and hands it to me.
I smile at her, “Thanks, you guys want to go to my room?” I ask.

“Is it still covered in All Might?” Sho asks, teasingly.

“No, I only have some, I redecorated,” I say, as we start walking there.
“Do we have to have this discussion in front of your mom?” They ask.

“Of course you do!” My mom says, “I want to know what you’re comfortable with, also I can help you grow out your hair a bit, and help with fashion choices if you need!”

She goes back to being pink, “Oh uhm, thank you. I would like to grow out my hair a bit,” she says.

“Of course, now you said your last name is Todoroki, do you have a name you prefer to be called? Also, your dad is Endeavor, right?” She asks, Sho gives a hesitant nod, “So, he doesn’t know I’m assuming? Don’t worry dear, your secret is safe with me! If you ever need a place to stay, you’re always welcome here, that goes for all of you.”

She gives them a warm smile. Sho gets all flustered and I chuckle at her, “Th-thank you ma’am, I really appreciate it, also you can call me Shoto,” they say, then whisper to me, “Your mom is the best, can she adopt me?”

I start to laugh, the others look at me weird. I whisper back, “You know what, sure why not! I would love to have you as my official sister,” I say more loudly, “And this is Tenya Iida and as you know Cynthia Reynolds aka Gypsy, also state your quirks.”

Shoto says, “Fire and Ice, I don’t like my fire power though.”

“My quirk is speed, I run fast,” Tenya says.

“I can open portals,” Gypsy says.

“Your quirks are very cool,” my mom says.

“Thank you Ms. Midoriya,” Tenya says.

“Mom, do you have my letter?” I ask.
“Yes I do, here you go,” she says, as she grabs my letter and hands it to me.
I smile at her, “Thanks, you guys want to go to my room?” I ask.

“Is it still covered in All Might?” Sho asks, teasingly.

“No, I only have some, I redecorated,” I say, as we start walking there.
“Do we have to have this discussion in front of your mom?” They ask.

“Of course you do!” My mom says, “I want to know what you’re comfortable with, also I can help you grow out your hair a bit, and help with fashion choices if you need!”

She goes back to being pink, “Oh uhm, thank you. I would like to grow out my hair a bit,” she says.

“Of course, now you said your last name is Todoroki, do you have a name you prefer to be called? Also, your dad is Endeavor, right?” She asks, Sho gives a hesitant nod, “So, he doesn’t know I’m assuming? Don’t worry dear, your secret is safe with me! If you ever need a place to stay, you’re always welcome here, that goes for all of you.”

She gives them a warm smile. Sho gets all flustered and I chuckle at her, “Th-thank you ma’am, I really appreciate it, also you can call me Shoto,” they say, then whisper to me, “Your mom is the best, can she adopt me?”

I start to laugh, the others look at me weird. I whisper back, “You know what, sure why not! I would love to have you as my official sister,” I say more loudly, “And this is Tenya Iida and as you know Cynthia Reynolds aka Gypsy, also state your quirks.”

Shoto says, “Fire and Ice, I don’t like my fire power though.”

“My quirk is speed, I run fast,” Tenya says.

“I can open portals,” Gypsy says.

“Your quirks are very cool,” my mom says.

“Thank you Ms. Midoriya,” Tenya says.

“Mom, do you have my letter?” I ask.
“Yes I do, here you go,” she says, as she grabs my letter and hands it to me.
I smile at her, “Thanks, you guys want to go to my room?” I ask.

“Is it still covered in All Might?” Sho asks, teasingly.

“No, I only have some, I redecorated,” I say, as we start walking there.
“Do we have to have this discussion in front of your mom?” They ask.

“Of course you do!” My mom says, “I want to know what you’re comfortable with, also I can help you grow out your hair a bit, and help with fashion choices if you need!”

She goes back to being pink, “Oh uhm, thank you. I would like to grow out my hair a bit,” she says.

“Of course, now you said your last name is Todoroki, do you have a name you prefer to be called? Also, your dad is Endeavor, right?” She asks, Sho gives a hesitant nod, “So, he doesn’t know I’m assuming? Don’t worry dear, your secret is safe with me! If you ever need a place to stay, you’re always welcome here, that goes for all of you.”

She gives them a warm smile. Sho gets all flustered and I chuckle at her, “Th-thank you ma’am, I really appreciate it, also you can call me Shoto,” they say, then whisper to me, “Your mom is the best, can she adopt me?”

I start to laugh, the others look at me weird. I whisper back, “You know what, sure why not! I would love to have you as my official sister,” I say more loudly, “And this is Tenya Iida and as you know Cynthia Reynolds aka Gypsy, also state your quirks.”

Shoto says, “Fire and Ice, I don’t like my fire power though.”

“My quirk is speed, I run fast,” Tenya says.

“I can open portals,” Gypsy says.

“Your quirks are very cool,” my mom says.

“Thank you Ms. Midoriya,” Tenya says.

“Mom, do you have my letter?” I ask.
“Yes I do, here you go,” she says, as she grabs my letter and hands it to me.
I smile at her, “Thanks, you guys want to go to my room?” I ask.

“Is it still covered in All Might?” Sho asks, teasingly.

“No, I only have some, I redecorated,” I say, as we start walking there.
“Thank god, I would hate to have to stare at the skeleton,” she says.

“Shush,” I open the door and we all sit, squished on my bed, “Tenya, you wanna go first or should I?” I ask.

“Hmmm, you go, we’ll mostly get probably the same thing,” he says.

“Okay,” I open my letter and a circular communication device comes out, “What-?”

A hologram emerges. All Might’s face is there, “Am I on screen!!?”

“All Might!?” We all ask.

“It took some time to go through some loopholes and get this done, so sorry I couldn’t contact you sooner, that’s my bad,” he says. “We’ll be seeing each other a lot more, young Midoriya, since I work at UA.”

“Oh hell no!” Sho says, “The old man will get on my back, but I don’t want the skeleton teaching us!! If he does anything like how he taught you, I’m leaving for Shiketsu!”

“That’s fair, I may join you?” I say. Tenya nods.

“Is it bad to say I’m glad to be at Shiketsu?” Gypsy says.

“No,” we all say.

“Okay,” she replies.

“You did well on the written test, but at the practical you failed,” we looked at him, stunned.

“How!?!” I yell.

“You got 0 points,” he says, “But wait there’s more! Behold this screen!”

A person walks in, “Uhh, hi, excuse me?” She says.

“That’s the girl who I saved,” I say.

“What is she doing here?” Tenya asks.

“Uhh sorry to bother you, but you know the boy with the green curly but also kinda long hair, and he has freckles.” She says, “Could I share some of my points with him? He looked upset after the exam ended so I thought he hadn’t earned any points. Can you give him the points he lost because of me! He saved my life!” She says.

Present Mic says, “Sorry little listener, you can’t share points, but I think you won’t need to.”

“Because you saved the girl, the judges all agree, Izuku Midoriya, you get 60 hero points! They saw all the skills you need to become a great hero, meaning you passed, kid! Welcome to your hero academia!” All Might says.

The video shuts off, “What the hell??” I yell, “I would get it if they said I failed the practical because of my tech, but I used the cold gun when fighting the zero pointer so??”

“I’ll call UA,” Sho says, pulling out his phone.

“Cait don’t you dare!” I say.

“Hello? Is this Principle Nezu?” They ask, I slap my forehead, “Yeah, I’m Shoto Todoroki, calling on behalf of Izuku Midoriya. Why? We’re friends and we were watching our entrance exams together and we were wondering why he failed the practical? Put you on speaker? Sure.”

She puts the call on speaker, -Can you hear me?- the voice asks.

“Yes,” I say.

-Good, I don’t know why you would think you failed the practical exam, you passed. You also got extra points for saving the girl and working with Tenya Iida,- he says.

“Then why did All Might say he failed?” Tenya asks.

-He did what? Midoriya, I am so sorry, I have a question, did you make the equipment you used?-

“Uhm, yes sir, they weren’t that good though,” I try to brush it off.
“Don’t lie to yourself Izu, you make the best tech,” Sho says.

“He’s right,” Tenya says.

-How many people are with you right now?- the principal asks.

“Uhm, 3 sir, Tenya Iida, Shoto Todoroki, and Cynthia Reynold,” I say.

-Is that why you and Tenya worked together? Because you’re friends?- he asks.

“Yes sir,” I say.

-Midoriya, you are an interesting kid, here is my offer for you, how good are you at computers?-

“He has a satellite he’s hacked into, and he programs stuff for us,” Tenya says.

“First off! I didn’t hack into the satellite, it was already ours by technicalities, second off, stop spilling all my secrets!” I say.

“Well, you’re not telling him about yourself, we’re just helping you,” Shoto says like it’s obvious.

-Midoriya, I like you kid. Firstly, as an apology from All Might. I would like you to help with security and be my personal student- he says.

“I-,” I start.

-Secondly, you will have a special pass and an hour designated for you to be able to use the support course lab.-

“Thank you, sir! I greatly appreciate the opportunity, I won’t disappoint you!” I say, excitedly.

-You will come to my office once a week once school starts, I will inform your teachers,- the principal says.

“Thank you again!”

-It’s my pleasure Midoriya, maybe you can tell me how you got those breaching powers of yours. Yours truly am I a rat, dog, or bear?- he hangs up the call.

“Well, that was…… something,” I say.

“You said it,” Gypsy says, “Tenya, open yours.”

“How worse could mine be?” he says as he opens it.

The hologram of All Might appears, “Hello young Iida, first off I would like to say it was rude of you to help young Midoriya like that,” he says.

“Excuse me?” Tenya exclaims.

“Second off, Nezu, the principal if you don’t know, doesn’t know this but, I transferred all of Midoriya’s points to you, so you have 100 villain points and 10 rescue points as you helped Midoriya with the rescue,” he says, “So you have passed the exam, welcome to you hero academia.”

“I’m sorry?! He gave me your points but gave me rescue points for helping you? Did he expect you only to pass on them and because you surprised him with the amount of villain points you got?! Was he surprised by us helping each other?” Tenya yells, “I’m sorry about this Cisco, I don’t want your points.

“It’s fine, Bar,” my phone buzzes. “Oh, guess who?”

“The bastard?” Tenya asks.

“Yup, he says to meet at the seaside park at 8 pm tomorrow,” I say.

“Can we join?” Sho asks, “I wanna punch him in the face!”

“No! If he knows you are aware about the fact that you know his secrets, he’ll be mad,” I say.

“Ugh!” She says.

“I agree,” Tenya says.

“Bar! Come on! You’re supposed to be the reasonable one here,” I say, “Gypsy, you want to open your letter?”

“You know what, sure. Why not?” She says, she opens the letter up, “Oh look, my school actually has some sense, unlike yours, they give us an actual physical letter!”

I roll my eyes at her, “Well, are you gonna read it?” I ask.

“No, I'm going to just sit here and wallow in sadness,” she says. “Kidding, it says, Miss Reynolds, you have been accepted into Shiketsu High. Congratulations, we will see you when term starts.”

“Anyway, we all got into our schools, this calls for celebration!” I say, “Shoto, give me your phone!”

“Why?” They ask.

“Because I’m going to trick your dad into letting you sleepover,” I say, moving my eyebrows.

“How?”

“Do you trust me?” I ask.

“Yes, but how are you going to do this?” They say, as they hand me their phone.

I dial the number, “Just watch, hi is this Endeavor? Yes, this is your son’s support item maker. I do work at UA, your son is here, but I have to keep him for the night. Why? Because I still need to test this support item I made for him….put him on the phone? Ok.” I passed the phone to Sho.

They put the phone on speaker, -Shoto!!!- the voice screams and we all cover our ears.

“What do you want?” They ask.

-Is what the man said true?-

“Yes, he’s making support gear for my suit before I get it,” Shoto says.

-Why is he making it for you now? Why not when you need it during your training at UA?- Endeavor asks.

“You want me to be the best hero, right? Yeah, so what’s the point of a support item you don’t know how to use it? So, I’m going to train with it now, that way when I train at UA, I already know how to use it,” Shoto says, as if it’s obvious.

-You make a fair point, Shoto. Fine, I’ll allow it. But I want you back here by nine no later.-

“Ok, old man, bye,” Shoto hangs up the phone. “Cisco, you're a genius! Oh I would kiss you right now but one, you’re not my type, two you’re my brother, and three you have a partner.”

“True, so I should finish that support item I already started for you or it will be suspicious.” I say, as I hop into a breach and land in the apartment to grab the machine. I look around until I find it, the mini cold and fire gun wrist blasters. I reopen the breach and go back to my room. “Got it!”

“Wow, those look cool,” Tenya says, “What are they?”

“They’re blasters made to make bullets by Shoto channeling his powers through each respective one,” I say. “They collapse into bracelets so you can wear them outside of your hero costume.

“Cool, they’re for fire and ice?” They ask.

“Yeah, I know you don’t use your fire but your dad will ask why there is only one. You don’t have to wear both,” I say.

“Nice, thanks Cisco!” Sho says.

“No problem Cait,” I say. “I should tell my mom you’re staying, y’all joining us?”

“Why wouldn’t I?” Tenya asks.

“Sounds fun,” Gypsy says.

“‘Kay,” we all exit my room, “Mom?” I ask.

“Yes honey?” She says.

“Do you mind if my friends stay over? We want to train in the morning,” I say.

“Did you all make it in?” She asks.

“I don’t know, but most likely,” Sho says.

“I made it into Shiketsu,” Gypsy says.

“Izu and I made it into UA,” Tenya says.

“Oh, you did!! Congrats Izu!!! I’m so proud of you! This calls for celebration! Yes, you all can stay over tonight!” she says.

“Thank you, Ms. Midoriya!” Sho says.

“It’s nothing, also since you guys have been friends with my Izuku for a while, you guys can just call me Auntie Inko,” She says with a smile.

“You’re much nicer than my own parents, can you adopt me?” Shoto blurts out.

Mom blushes, not expecting that question, “I mean I can try, but your dad’s Endeavor, so it’ll be hard,” she says.

“Do you have cameras, Sho?” I ask.

“Uh yeah, why?” They ask.

“I’ll hack into them to get you evidence, mom,” I say.

“You’re amazing, thank you,” she says.

“No problem Ca- I mean Sho, you’re basically my sister, I’d do anything for you!” I say.

“Do you think Gideon could have some information?” Tenya mumbles.

“Probably but where would we get her?” Sho says.

“I have an idea!” Tenya says, then runs out of the house.

“Anyone want to explain to me why you almost called Shoto by a different name? And who’s Gideon? What’s happening?” My mom asks.

“Team meeting! Without Tenya,” I say and we all huddle in a circle. “So should we tell her?”

“She would be a useful ally and could cover for us if needed,” Sho says. “Plus, she’ll find out eventually anyway. She’s probably one of the best people to tell.”

“Fair enough,” I say. “Gyps?”

“Let’s do it!” She says.

We all turn around and face my mom. “Mom we have something to tell you,” I say, but before I can continue Shoto cuts me off.

“We’re reincarnations and we were all friends in our past life,” she blurts out.

I look at her, “Really? I was going to talk,” I say.

Her eyes turn grey, “You were being too slow,” Frost says.

“Wow, okay ice queen,” I say.

“Okay, so are you guys going to explain more or?” My mom asks.
“In my past life I was Cisco Ramon, also known as the hero Vibe, as well asthe mechanic of our team. When I remembered my past, I regained my powers, which are annoying to explain and I’ll explain them later,” I say.

“I was Caitlin Snow, the doctor of the team, but also the hero Frost. Well Frost was both Frost and Killer Frost, but I am technically Frost so,” Shoto says.

Eyes go gray again, “Yes, give me the credit mortal!” She says.

“Shut it Frost, Auntie Inko, please ignore my split personality disorder,” Shoto says.
“Ok, does that mean you need food for two people?” She asks.

“No-,” Sho starts to say.

Eyes go grey, “Yes,” Frost says.

“No, don’t listen to her,” Sho says.

“Ok?” My mom says, confused.

“Ignore them, they do this all the time. We’re going to be at school so we can’t do this there, people would ask questions,” I say.

“Okay, if they ask we can just tell them to mind their own business,” Frost says.

“What if they tell Endeavor?” I ask.

“Hell no!” Her eyes go back to normal.

“Finally!! I’m free!” Sho says.

“Anyway, Tenya was Barry Allen, he was a CSI however he was also the hero known as the Flash, the fastest man alive!” I say, as he runs back into the apartment.

“I got her!! Now, Izu, can you add her to the apartment, our coms, and phones maybe?” Tenya asks, as he hands me the software.

“I can try,” I say. “Also my mom knows about us now. Gypsy you wanna go?”

“I was basically the same in my past life, same name, same powers, same boyfriend. Except my boyfriend’s doppelganger from another earth killed me,” Gypsy says.

“Yup, that was a fun day,” I say.

“You knew?” She asks.

“Your dad wanted me to help find out who murdered you. We saw my doppelganger do it, but I was also being framed for it at the same time,” I tell her, “Before the Breachers could kill me I trapped them in an anti breach force field while I confronted Echo.”

“Cisco, do you know how dangerous that was? He had a gun-,” she gets cut off.

“He had a gun?!” My mom yells.

“No, I had the gun,” They looked at me startled. “What? He was framing me, planted the gun in my workshop and was making it look like I had killed you while I was sleepwalking!”

“Cisco, I am so-,” She tries to apologize.

“Don’t apologize, it wasn’t your fault, also Breacher loves me too much for that to happen,” I say.

“Thank you for solving my murder though,” she says.

“No problem, darling!”

“Are you two, dating?” My mom asks.

“Yes?” I reply nervously.

“And you didn’t tell me any of the times she came over? Izuku, I am disappointed, how could you hide such an amazing person from me!”

I blush, “She is pretty amazing,” I say.

The day continues like this, my mom asks about some of our adventures and we tell her most of the good ones and about some of the villains just to start off. The next day approaches, and I meet All Might at the beach while remaining calm. I don’t tell him I know about what he’s done. so I just hear what he has to tell me.

“Hey AM,” I say.

“AM?” He asks, confused.

“Well it’s a public spot, I’m assuming you don’t want me to yell your hero name?” I ask.

“Yeah, that wouldn’t be good, why AM though?” He asks.

“A person I knew went by H.R. he shortened names so since you didn’t give me a name to call you, I just said the two initials of your hero name,” I inform him.

“That’s fair, you can call me Yagi then, as that’s my last name,” he says.

“Okay? Anyway, why did you need to talk to me?” I ask.

“I wanted to congratulate you on passing, I couldn’t inform you due to the policy,” he says.

“I was surprised to hear that you became a teacher at UA,” I say while thinking, ‘Since you’re not a very good teacher.’

“UA, knows about my predicament with finding a successor, I told them before I found you,” he says.

“Oh, that makes sense,” I say, “You never really told me how to control the power. When I used it for the first time it broke my entire arm.”

“Yeah, that can’t be helped for now,” he says as I hear a what in my ear.

I forgot to mention, I have a comm in my ear allowing my friends to hear what he’s saying.

“Since you just gained the quirk you need to take time to train it,” he says calmly.

“So you knew I’d break my arm and didn’t warn me about it?” I ask, surprised.

“Yes and no, I honestly thought you would have broken more,” he says.

“Why didn’t you warn me?” I yell.

“I wanted to find out for yourself. Besides if I told you, you wouldn’t have used your new quirk, and therefore wouldn’t have passed,” he says.

“You don’t know that!” I say.

“It wouldn’t have counted if that Iida kid had helped you,” he says nonchalantly.

“I wanna punch him,” Tenya says.

“Shh,” I whisper.

“You just have to learn to adjust your body to the output of the power,” Yagi says as he transfers into his normal All Might form. I mentally slap my head as we get chased by fans.

A month passes, and in that month, I have added Gideon to our comms and devices. I also started making sketches and what materials I will need for our suits. Mom and I have been searching through security cameras, articles, interviews, and asking Gideon for help to find evidence so we can take Endeavor down. It’s the first day of UA. Tenya and Sho are waiting for me outside my apartment. I say goodbye to my mom as she wishes me good luck.

“Someone took a while,” Shoto teases.

“Oh, shut it!” I say, as I open a breach, “Let’s go!”

I breach us to the gates of UA and we walk to our class together. As we approach the door, I hesitate. “What’s up?” Tenya asks.

“What if Gypsy’s right about Bakugou? What if he torments me while I’m here?” I say, nervously.

Shoto places a hand on my shoulder, “We won’t let that happen.”

“Thanks,” I say. “Also, give it a week before we start making inside jokes about Team Flash.”

They both give an exasperated sigh. “Fine,” Shoto says. “Also, what’s Bakugou’s code name again?”

“Kaboom, and thank you,” I say. “Also, no frosty friend shenanigans, okay?”

Her eyes go grey. “Fine, Wavey.”

“Wavey? Really?” I ask.

“You call me Frosty, so, Wavey,” she says.

“That makes sense.” I say, as we walk into our class for the first time.

Chapter Text

I open the door and walk in, the first thing I notice is Bakugou with his feet on the desk. I freeze. I see Tenya and Shoto notice him and Shoto gives me a reassuring hug. Tenya goes up to yell at him for the shoes on the desk, which is just an excuse to yell at him. I see the girl who I saved walk up to me, “Hey! You got in!” She says.

“Yeah I did,” I say while I mumble, “No thanks to someone.”

*Flashback to when our middle school found out about Bakugou and I both got into UA*

Bakugou confronted me in an alleyway, “The hell did you do to pass the exam, Deku! I was supposed to be the only one from this school to get in!!” He yells, as he grabs my collar.

“I got in due to my tech and martial arts skills, but also with the help of one of my friends!” I exclaim, he activates his quirk.

*End of Flashback*

I hear a voice behind me. I look and I see a guy at the door lying there in a yellow sleeping bag, “If you’re here to make friends you can leave and do it elsewhere,” the voice says and the whole room goes quiet. “This is where you learn to be a hero. Life is short, most of you lack common sense.”

I whisper, “So that’s Eraserhead, cool!”

He continues, “I’m your homeroom teacher, Shota Aizawa, pleasure to meet you. Go to the locker rooms and change into your gym uniforms immediately then scurry to the PE grounds.”

We all go to the locker rooms, and as I’m changing I hear some gasps, I’m assuming they see my scars, which are mostly from Bakugou. I give them all a glare before Tenya, Sho, and I head out and up to the PE grounds with the rest of the class follow up soon after. Mr. Aizawa looked at us with a weird look, “We’re doing a quirk apprehension test,” he says.

“What,” almost everyone besides us, a girl with a long ponytail, and Bakugou, yells.

“What about orientation?” The girl with short brown hair, who is standing next to me, says.

“If you want to be a hero, you won’t have time for tasks like that,” he says.

I mumble, “Don’t we know it?”

“Yeah, villain after villain, barely any breaks from saving the universe/multiverse,” Tenya says, as Shoto nods.

“Us teachers have freedom for how we handle our students. So, you will be doing activities you did for the physical tests in middle school, which you were not allowed to use your quirks. But here, you're allowed to use them.” He says, I gulp, nervous as my tests will definitely be different now.
“Bakugou, how far could you pitch a softball in middle school?”

“67 meters.” He says, as he is thrown a softball.

“Now try with your quirk, don't hold back.”

“Would I ever,” he says as he activates his quirk to throw the ball.

“Die!!!” He screams, as he releases the ball which causes wind to hit all of us.

“Before we continue, one must know their capabilities. This is a rational metric that will form the start of your ‘hero foundation’,” he says, showing us Bakugou’s score.

“705 meters? Unreal!” I hear someone say.

“Awesome! That looks so fun!!” Says another.

“It looks fun, you say?” Mr. Aizawa says, leading me to think: ‘oh shoot, we’re doomed’. “So, you’re planning to spend your three years here having a good time? What happened to wanting to be heroes, huh? Alright then, new rule, the person in last place will be deemed hopeless and expelled instantly.”

I hear Bakugou laugh, everyone turns to look at him, “If the person in last gets expelled, you should just expel the quirkless nerd right now!”

Tenya tightens his fist, “I’ve told you before Bakugou, he has more potential to become a hero, than you ever will!” He yells at Bakugou.

“Oh, there’s a quirkless kid in the class? Let’s see how he faires,” Aizawa sensei grins.

“The kid who places last gets expelled? It’s our first day! Isn’t that a bit unreasonable?” The girl standing besides me says.

“Natural disasters, massive catastrophes, villains who are insane, a lot of things can happen when we least expect it. Japan is drenched in the unreasonable. It’s our job as heroes to be prepared for these situations. Over the next three years you will expect that your life at UA is one hardship after the next,” Aizawa says, “I expect you to overcome these trials I am going to give you, and climb to the top.”

The trials start, the 50 meter dash goes mostly fine. Tenya, Sho, and I are going at 50% as we don’t want to show off and because Tenya would finish in a second. I can see multiple people's quirks, and they look very cool. I expect we will go over names and quirks later. I opened a breach and walked through it, my time was 2.14. I can feel Bakugou staring daggers into the back of my head. Next was the long jump. I can use my quirk for this too. I run back, open a breach, run through it and open it up to land. Then sideways jump, that was easy. Tenya comes over to me, “Bakugou’s have a pissy fit, trying to figure out how you have a quirk,” Tenya says, I snort.

“You think if I tell him it’s technology, he’ll believe it?” I ask.

“I don’t know, why did we switch?” He asks.

“We’re talking about private information, most of the class probably doesn’t know English, we can talk about whatever,” I say, like it’s obvious.

“Fair point,” he says.

We get back in line for the rest of the ball test, the girl who I still haven’t asked her name begins. She gets infinity for a score. I hear the class yelling about how she got it. It’s my turn now. I walk up and get ready to throw, but I’m nervous. I hear Bakugou make a comment on me being quirkless. I get ready to open a breach, then throw the ball, but I don’t activate my quirk.

“From what I saw during the entrance exam, you can’t handle the full power of your quirk. How did you pass the exam as you got no points? How can you save someone when you only injure yourself when you try?” Mr. Aizawa asks.

I look back, I see Shoto trying to hold Iida back, his eyes are gray. I see her whisper something in his ear. Mr. Aizawa grabs me with his scarf, my vibes activate. I see Thawne coming over to me, no, I think. He says, “You showed me what it was like to have a son,” then he vibrates his hand and shoves it through my chest. As I come out of my vibe, I stumble backwards, my breathing quickens, my ears are ringing and I think people are yelling my name. Tenya comes over to me, “Izuku! Follow my breathing, in for 4, hold for 5, out for 6, keep going.” My breathing slows down, but my heart is still racing, “What happened? Are you okay?” He asks, very concerned.

“I-I saw Thawne, the confrontation scene,” as I speak I don’t hear anything besides my voice I can hear the wind blowing past my ear, “He called me his son, then stuck his vibrating hand through my chest, I don’t know why I’m panicking, I’ve seen this multiple times, I guess I just wasn’t expecting it,” I whisper and try to laugh it off.

Tenya quickly wraps me up in a tight hug, “We can figure out what caused this reaction later, for now just know if I ever see him again, and he hurts you mentally, emotionally, or physically, I will do what he did to you tenfold! Also don’t be ashamed of how you reacted, we haven’t encountered him yet and have not seen him in a while,” Tenya exclaims, passionately.

Shoto comes up on my other side, their voice is icy as they say, “I can give him freezer burn or frostbite if we come in contact with him again.”

“Frost no,” I whisper.

“Ugh, you’re no fun,” she says.

“Guys, I’m fine now, I have to finish the test,” I say, they don’t get off, “Seriously, I know you love me as much as I love you. You have to get off now, you can come over later.”

“Fine, just don’t wear yourself out like you did when you were trying to find my dad,” Shoto whispers.

“It was one time!” I exclaim.

“They have a point though,” Tenya says, and they both walk away.

I walk back up to the area, “Kid you okay? What was that?” Mr. Aizawa asks.

“Yeah, I’m fine. You don’t need to worry about that,” I say.

“Okay,” Mr. Aizawabacks off.

I throw the ball, and as soon as it’s in the air, I quickly open a breach and the ball goes through it. Aizawa turns the score thing to me as it reads, unreadable, “Oops,” I say, as I rub the back of my head.

“Izu!” I hear Tenya yell, “Did you accidentally throw it into the multiverse?”

“I forgot we have multiple Earths again and forgot to focus on where on this Earth I wanted to send it,” I say, annoyed.

Shoto is laughing her butt off, “how do you forget about the multiverse??”

“Crisis, that’s why,” I say.

“Fair,” Sho says.

Everyone is staring at either me or the other two. I see Bakugou twitching and he starts running towards me, “Deku, you bastard, tell me how you did that or I will end you!” He yells, before Aizawa’s scarf wraps around him.

“It’s my capture weapon, don’t make me use my quirk so much, I’ve got dry eyes!”

Finally, the quirk apprehension test came to a close, my friends and I tried our best and used our quirks to the best of our abilities. The scores come up and surprisingly Tenya, Sho, and I are 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. “Well, what do you know,” Tenya says, elbowing me in the side. “You got third, good job.”

“Thanks, I definitely wasn’t expecting that,” I say, nudging him back.

“We all got in a row,” Sho says.

“I expected you to be the best of us, since your father’s been forcing you to train since forever,” I say.

Bakugou looks like he’s going to blow a fuse. The small purple dude with balls on his head looks really sad and disappointed, “Oh yeah, that whole expulsion thing was a lie,” Mr. Aizawa says, “It was a logical tactic to push you to your best expectations.”

Everyone screams: ‘what’, besides us and the girl with the ponytail. “Yeah, that makes sense,” I said.

“True,” Shoto says.

“It was the most logical thing to do,” Tenya agrees, nodding.

“So, you three do have a brain,” the girl with the ponytail says.

“Okay, we’re done now. The sheets with your curriculum on them are back in the classroom, if you want you can also do introductions,” Mr. Aizawa says.

We all head back to the locker rooms to change out of our gym uniforms. After that, we head back to the classroom. “We should start with introductions, say your name and quirk. I’ll start, I’m Momo Yaoyorozu, my quirk is creation, I can make any physical object but it drains my energy. We can go in order of the test scores,” She says.

“So that means, I’m next. I’m Shoto Todoroki, my quirk is half hot half cold, I don’t use my fire, I will never use my fire, do not ask me to use my fire. If you do, I will give you freezerburn,” they say.

“I have a question?” A girl with pink hair and skin says, “You seem close with the two people you were with, how do you know each other?”

“I will let Izu explain that,” they say, “speaking of which, you’re up.”

“H-hi,” I say shakily, why am I acting like this, man up. “My name is Izuku Midoriya, my quirk is called vibe, it allows me to make breaches to other places.”

”Why is it called vibe if you only make breaches? Wouldn’t a portal based name be more appropriate?” Momo asks.

I sigh, “I didn’t really want to mention this part of my quirk but I can see flashes of events sometimes. We called it vibe because when I first got my quirk all I could see was stuff that could happen, like a good or bad feeling.” I state, “As for my relationship with these two idiots,” I hear a “hey” come from both sides, “I’ve known them since middle school and we’ve been friends ever since.”

“Hell yeah we are,” Shoto pulls me in for a side hug, “The best of the best! Also, Izuku can be overwhelmed easily, so don’t ask him too many questions or crowd him.”

I give her a warm smile, but then say, “I don’t get overwhelmed easily,” I pout.

Shoto whispers to me, “Yes you do, Cisco. Tenya told me what happened before your physical exam and also you’ve been bullied for all of this life, as well as part of the last one. You’re not very used to people yet, but since you’re Cisco you’re not as social awkward as you would be. It also helps that we’ve known you for years,” she says.

I stare at Shoto for a moment before I whisper back, “No yeah, you have a point.” Honestly, that makes sense.

Tenya comes up and joins us, “Yeah, same message here. My name is Tenya Iida, my quirk is speed,” Tenya says.

“How does Deku have a stupid quirk!!” Bakugou yells angrily and stomps up to us, “The useless nerd was quirkless for all his life, then UA comes around and he has a freaking quirk!!”

“He’s had a quirk for a while now, ever since you had a new kid in your class,” Shoto says.

“How the hell did he get one!!” He continues to yell.

“Probably because he always had one it was just repressed and once someone with a similar quirk came into his life, it decided to appear,” Tenya says, “Anyway, next person go please.”

“Wait, I have a question!” The girl with short brown hair says, “Why does he call Midoriya, Deku? Is it like Dekiru or something?”

“No, Bakugou calls him that as an insult,” Shoto states.

“I mean if you change the meaning of it, it kinda sounds like you can do it, you know?” She says.

“No,” Shoto says.

“Please don’t call him that, Miss,” Tenya says.

“Why not though? I don’t mean it in the same way that the Bakugou kid does.”

“Just because you change the meaning, doesn’t mean you get rid of the trauma behind the name,” Shoto says.

“Like how even though I kinda want to use Reverb as my hero name, it still brings back trauma,” I mumble, Tenya gives me a sympathetic look and mouths ‘I’m sorry’.
Bakugou angrily storms up to where we were standing, “Name’s Katsuki Bakugou, I make explosions, I will be the best of you extras, Tch!” He walks away.

“The name's Fumikage Tokoyami, my quirk is Dark Shadow,” a shadow comes out.

“Hi, I’m sentient,” the shadow says.

“Cool,” I whisper.

He walks away, and the next guy comes up, “My name is Mezo Shoji, my quirk is duplicate, it lets me duplicate body parts, like ears, eyes and arms.”

“I’m up next, my name's Marshirao Ojiro. My quirk is my tail. I can maneuver it like an extra limb,” he says, then goes back to his seat.

“Yo what’s up dudes, my name is Eijiro Kirishima! My quirk can make my skin hard so nothing can penetrate it,” the guy with red hair says.

“Hi everybody!! I’m so excited to meet and get to know everybody here!! My name is Mina Ashido!!! I produce acid from my hands. My skin is pink so my acid doesn’t affect me!!” She says in a very happy tone.

The girl with the short brown hair goes, “My name is Ochako Uraraka, my quirk is zero gravity, I can make things float with the touch of my hand but can only do it for so long and only lift so much. I hope we can all be great friends!!!” She says happily.

“She seems like a nice person, I want to be friends with her, but if she calls me Deku, I won’t allow it,” I whisper to my friends.

“Agreed,” Tenya says.

The next person who goes up seems like he has a shy persona, “h-hi, my name is Koji Koda,” he says in a small voice, “my quirk allows me to call animals to my aid.”

I give him a smile, he gives me a weary one back. Next is a big man who is very muscular, “Hi guys, I’m Rikido Sato! My quirk is called Sugar Rush, the more sugar or sweets I eat, the more powerful I get,” he says, confidently.

“So, your quirk is like diabetes?” Shoto asks bluntly, I try not to laugh.

“Sho!” Iida says, “That is very disrespectful, and Izuku, stop laughing!”

“Sure, speedy,” I say quietly, trying to stop laughing, “I’m sorry, I’m not laughing at you, I’m laughing at how bluntly Sho said that!”

“That wasn’t me,” She whispers.

I wipe my eyes, “Ah, that makes more sense,” I say.

Sato stares at us, “I mean, when you put it like that, I guess?” He says, in a confused tone.

“I’m next kero, My name is Tsuyu Asui, but please call me Tsu, kero. My quirk is Frog, it gives me the abilities a frog has. Only downside is my body is sensitive to the cold,” she says.

The next person walks up, as Tsu leaves, like they’re walking on a runway. “Bonjour, mes amis!! My name is Yuga Aoyama! My quirk is navel laser, it allows me to shoot a laser from my tummy, but it makes it hurt. Merci!!” He walks off.

“…..okay?” I say, confused.

“Hey bros, I’m Hanta Sero, my quirk lets me produce sticky tape from my elbows, it also lets me swing like Spider-Man!” He says, smiling.

“I’m Denki Kaminari! My quirk makes me able to produce electricity!” He says, energetically.

“Hi I’m Kyoka Jiro, my quirk is Earphone Jack, I can stick the jack into anything and hear what’s going on. I can also produce sound waves if I put it in a speaker,” she says, in a calm tone.

As she walks away, a person, who we can only see the uniform of, goes up, “Hi!!! I’m Toru Hagakure, and my quirk, as you can probably tell, makes me invisible to the human eye,” she says.

“I have a question,” I said, quietly.

“What’s up?!” She asks.

“You said human eye, right? Does that mean if a specific amount of light shines on you, we could see you?” I ask.

“I think so, I’ve never actually tried it. Maybe I should!” She says, “Thanks for the suggestion!”

“N-no problem,” I give a small smile.

“Hey, you’re getting better already!” Shoto says, while nudging me with her hip.

“I suppose so, it’s still gonna take a bit though,” I whisper to her.

“Take as long as you need, the only reason you got used to us is because you knew us,” Tenya says.

“That statement is confusing for anyone besides us to hear,” Shoto says, as we all chuckle.

A small, short guy walks up to the front of the class, “I guess I’m the last one, I’m Minoru Mineta. My quirk is called Pop Off, it allows me to take the balls off my head and stick them to things or people which they can’t take off. I can’t be stuck to my quirk,” he says.

Mr. Aizawa looks up at us while he’s in his yellow sleeping bag, “You done? School’s over, get out!”

We all scramble out of the classroom, not wanting to get in trouble with Mr. Aizawa. When we get to the gates, I notice Uraraka running over to us, “Wait up, you three!!!” She yells at us.

“Oh, hello Uraraka, what’s up?” Tenya asks, in a professional voice.

“I was wondering if you three were going to the station,” she says.

“No, Izu was gonna breach us to his house,” Sho says.

“I thought you said not to use him for personal reasons?” She asks.

“We did, but we all are going and it avoids uncomfortable social interaction,” Tenya tells her, “Also, we’ve known each other for a while, this is just how we roll.”

“Actually, can we make a coffee stop before we head back?” Shoto asks, I perk up. “Of course, you love coffee!”

“Can we meet Gyps?” I ask.

“You know what, sure! Why not?” Tenya says.

“Yay!” I say, “Let’s go! Uraraka, you want to join? Can she join?”

“I-, you know, why not. Just one rule, if you want to be friends with us, don't call Izu, Deku, and when he says you can call him by his first name, that’s when you can start, okay?” Tenya says in a stern voice.

“You know what, that’s fair. You guys seem like good people,” she says while smiling at us.

“I’m fine with her joining us, but she’ll have to get the Gypsy approval,” Shoto says.

“Gypsy approval?” She asks, confused.

“You’ll see what I mean,” Sho says.

I grab my phone from my pocket and dial Gypsy’s number. “Hi Gyps, you wanna meet us at the coffee place?…… oh, you're already there? No yeah, that makes sense. We’re bringing someone from our class, you know the girl who I saved, the one who was in my acceptance video? Yeah, that’s her, don’t be too hard on her. Me, being dramatic!! How dare you! I am never dramatic, you’re the dramatic one! Ok, see you soon! Love you! Bye!” I scoff.

“You are dramatic though, Izu. If I had a nickel for every dramatic Izu moment, I’d be richer than rich,” Tenya says.

“That was a new side of Midoriya-kun that I’ve never seen,” Uraraka says.

“You should see him when he’s messed up what he’s working on or when we scare him,” Shoto says, “It’s funny.”

“Ugh, why am I friends with you guys again?” I ask, as I open a breach.

“Because you love us,” Tenya and Sho say.

We all walk through the portal and open the doors to the coffee shop. As we walk in, I see Gypsy waiting for us near the counter. “Gyps! Hey,” I yell.

“Hey Izu, how are you?” She asks.

“Doing good, first day of school was a pain though,” I say.

“Oh? Do tell. And this is?” She asks.

“Oh uhm, hi? I’m Ochacko Uraraka, nice to meet you?” She says, nervously.

Gypsy gives her a full body scan, “You look fine, we will talk over coffee,” she says.

We go up to the counter and order our usual orders, a caramel latte with two shots of espresso, an iced coffee with hazelnut syrup for Shoto, a cappuccino for Gypsy, a matcha latte for Tenya, and a mocha espresso with extra mocha, sugar, and milk for Uraraka. We grab our coffee before we go sit down at a table. “You said today was a pain? What happened?” Gypsy asks.

“Our teacher made us take this quirk apprehension test instead of going to orientation and stuff,” I say.

“Yeah, also you’ll never guess who’s in our class,” Tenya says.

“Please don’t tell me it’s who I’m thinking of,” she groans.

“It’s exactly who you’re thinking of,” Shoto says. Uraraka looks between us, like a ping pong ball going between paddles.

“Uhm, who are we talking about here?” She asks, confused.

“Bakugou,” Shoto, Tenya, and Gypsy say.

“Why do you guys have a problem with him? Sure, he seems mean and doesn’t like Midoriya, but what’s the reason?” She asks, confused.

“Bakugou, code name Kaboom, bullied Izu during middle school. I was his only friend in our class, everyone either isolated him or ignored him,” Gypsy says, “Yes, we three went to the same middle school, we met Tenya and Shoto outside of school.”

“Wow, I had no idea, I won’t let him do anything to you, now that I know,” Uraraka says.

“Thanks, Uraraka,” I say.

“Wanna move this to the base?” Gypsy asks.

“You wanna trust her with that already?” I ask, confused.

“She just basically vowed to protect you from Bakugou, we need to get her geared up,” she says.

“Oh, I don’t need gear, if he does anything I will float him to the moon,” she says, in a slightly scary tone.

“I’m guessing your quirk activates by touch then, what if you can’t touch him?” Gypsy asks.

“Fair point, do you guys have gear?” Uraraka asks.

“Yeah, I have these blasters that collapse into brackets,” Shoto says.

“I have a taser,” she looks at Tenya weirdly.

“What! You never know when you might need it!?” Tenya says.

“I mean fair, but also no.”

“Hey it’s not my fault it was the only thing that Izuku could make that works with my quirk!”

“How does a freaking taser work with your quirk!”

“My speed makes a lighting trail or something, I’m assuming it’s because I can run at the speed of light,” Tenya lies, “So, I channel the lighting through my taser.”

“Now that makes sense, what would you make me? Also, we don’t have to go to your apartment yet, I mean we just became okay friends, maybe wait a bit first,” Uraraka says.

“Yeah that’s fair, maybe I can also make you a type of blaster that can change the gravity around a person instead of you just having to touch them?” I say.

“Can you actually do that?” She asks.

“I probably could, and I could make a support light item for Hagakure, so she could be seen,” I say.

“That would probably be nice, I’m betting she doesn’t know what she looks like,” Tenya says in a sad tone.

“Thank you for offering to make me a support item, you probably are pretty good since you made one for Todoroki and Iida,” Uraraka says.

“No problem, but I’m not the best,” I say, but get cut off by Tenya, Shoto, and even Gypsy, exclaiming how good I am and shouldn’t put my work down.

“Also, Uraraka, if you don’t like your hero suit in any way, Izu can either redesign it or make adjustments,” Tenya says.

“Really? That would be helpful, but I mean you don’t have to if you don’t want to,” She says.

“No, no it’s fine! I love mechanical stuff, it might be a while before I can get to anything of yours though cause I'm going to redesign our suits after we see them,” I say.

“I can’t wait to see the before and after!” She says, excitedly.

“Well this was a lot of fun, here Uraraka, why don’t we exchange numbers and make a group chat, so we can do this more often?” Gypsy asks.

“Sure! Can’t wait!” She says.

We exchange numbers as we finish our coffee and once we’re done with that we go our separate ways, well we part with Uraraka, but the gang comes with me. We headed back to my apartment for the night. As we step out of the breach, I ask Shoto in a concerned tone, “Cait, you sure Endeavor won’t try anything when he realizes you aren’t home?”

“Ehh, I’ll pull the support excuse again, but I got to start coming up with more excuses,” she says.

“That’s true,” Tenya says.

I opened the door, as I finally remembered to bring my key with me to school, not that I didn’t remember before I just didn’t want anyone (Bakugou) to destroy it. “Mom, we’re back!” I yell.

“Izuku, Shoto, Cynthia, Tenya, I’m glad you’re back, do your parents know you’re here?” My mom asks.

“I’m about to text my dad,” Tenya says.

“My dad knows that if I’m not home now that I’m probably with Izuku, but I will text him just in case,” Gypsy says.

“I’m going to use the support excuse on my dad and hope that it works,” they say, as we walk to my room.

Shoto’s eyes go gray and her hair goes fully white, “If not I will give him freezer burn!” Frost says.

“Uh, Frost, I don't think you can give him freezer burn,” I say.
“Why not?” She asks.

“He has fire powers, it will melt the ice immediately,” I say.

“Ugh! Then, we use meta cuffs to stop him from melting the ice, or give him the meta cure,” she suggests.

“I mean, I could stop Endeavor from being a hero, but like he might murder me so, I won’t take my chances.”

“Cisco, you ruin my fun and all my plans,” she says, annoyed.

“No, I'm just saying your plans aren’t logical, but we can make them logical,” I say.

“Now I’m intrigued,” she says, her eyes flickering, “No, Caity, don’t you-!”

“Finally!!!” They exclaim, “I overpowered her! I am in control!!”

“Texted my parents, said I was studying with a friend for the night, they're fine with it,” Tenya says.

“My dad knew before I texted him, I was just about to send a message and he said, ‘Have fun with Izzy and be safe, don’t do anything I wouldn’t,’ should I be scared?” Gypsy asks.

“Yes,” I say at the same time Tenya says, “No.”

I give Tenya a weird look, then look at Gypsy, “Speaking of Breacher, do you think he will actually hunt me again?” I ask.

“I wouldn’t put it past him,” she says.

“Ugh!” I exclaim.

“But I hear he’s helping at UA tomorrow as a favor for either Eraserhead or Nezu,” she says.

“Fun, I wonder what the plans are for tomorrow, anyone want me to make them something?” I ask.

“You already have Uraraka’s thing to work on,” Tenya says.

“Right! I should get started on that for her,” I say, grabbing the spare metal I have.

“When do you start classes with Nezu?” Tenya asks.

“Probably when he realizes I’m fluent in English,” I say.

“Fun,” Tenya says.

“You guys wanna freak Present Mic out by just talking in English the whole class,” Shoto asks.

“Did you have to ask?” I ask, “You know it!”

“I’m in,” Tenya says.

“This will be fun! Oh, also an idea! What if you made that thing again where Frost can control me but you can’t tell?” Shoto says.

“I mean, the change in attitude would be noticeable,” I say.

“I forgot about that bit,” Shoto says.

“Kids, dinner!” I hear my mom call us.

We all head to the kitchen to eat, then we head back to my room and I work on Uraraka’s blaster for a bit then, I ask the group, “Due to the now known fact that All Might is not a good person, are we still going to try and figure out a way to fix his respiratory system?” I ask.

“He may not be a good person, but he’s a good hero. Japan’s crime rate is down because of him. As much as I hate to say it, we should fix his respiratory system so he can be a hero for longer,” Tenya says.

“That’s true,” I say, “Cait, you want to go back to the lab and work on the serum?”

“We’re making it a serum?” She asks.

“Well, would you like to make multiple organs and do a surgery on All Might or make a serum that will replace his very damaged respiratory system?” I ask with a sarcastic tone.

“Fair enough, we know how to make the organs, we just got to figure out how to replace them with the old ones with the serum,” Shoto says.

“What if I went to Earth-2 and looked in Harry’s S.T.A.R. Labs?” I ask.

“We could find something,” Shoto says, “But then we would need to figure out if we would need to change anything on it as the vibrational frequencies are different.”

“That would just be more work!” I sigh.

“What if I gave him my speed healing while we did it? Or, we can phase his organs out some way?” Tenya asks.

“That could just work, we could make the serum phase the organs out so the new ones could come in, Bar you’re a genius! Let’s get to the lab! If we’re lucky we can get this done by tomorrow,” I say.

“You know what, why not,” Shoto says.

I open a breach to the lab and we get to work. Several hours pass, and it is 1am, before we finally finish and head back to my room quietly. I don’t have the energy to open a breach, so Sho uses their extrapolator to get back to my room. As soon as we step out of the portal, I hit my bed and fall asleep.

Chapter Text

The memory of Thawne murdering me flashes in my mind and then I immediately wake up. “Cisco, you alright?” I hear a voice next to me ask. I realize I fell asleep in the middle of Tenya and Shoto, with Tenya on my left and Shoto on my right, while Gypsy is near my feet.

“Yeah, I’m fine, Thawne interrupted my dreams,” I say.

“Why do you think you vibed him when Aizawa’s scarf touched you?” He asks, in a concerning tone.

“I don’t know, that was probably the only time it will happen,” I say before checking the time. The clock reads 7:00. “We have an hour and a half before school starts, do you need to do anything?”

“I should probably shower,” Tenya says.

“Suit yourself,” I say, as I put my head on Shoto’s shoulder.

Just before Tenya leaves he says, “Cisco, you know even though now that you’re older than me here, you’re still mine and Shoto’s younger brother.” He walks out the room and gives me a warm smile. My heart warms at that comment. They will always be my older siblings figures, even though they will never replace Dante, they were there when he was not.

My eyes close again as I drift back to sleep, half an hour later I hear whispering and someone with a camera taking photos. I immediately wake up, “Barry! What’s with the photos?” I yell.

“Oh come on we can all have matching lock screens, mine is you and Cait, yours is me, Cait and Gypsy, Cait’s is me and you! Please!” He asks.

“Ugh, I’m too tired for this. Gyps, do you have any coffee?” I ask.

“Knowing you, of course I do,” she says, passing me the mug she’s holding.

“You’re a lifesaver,” I say, “Now time to wake Caity up!”

“I don’t think Frost will like the fact you stole her nickname for Caitlin,” Tenya states.

“Too bad,” I say before I take a deep breath. “Wake up, Caitlin!”

She wakes up, her eyes going silver, “What the hell was that for, Cisco!” Frost yells, angrily.

“It’s 7:40, time to wake up,” I say.

“You suck,” she says, her eyes turning back to dual color.

“You could have woken them up nicer,” Tenya says.

“And miss the reaction? I’m good, the main thing I’m glad about is that she didn’t knock my coffee on me,” I say, “Now, let’s get ready and get some food!”

We spent the time we had before leaving by having fun while we got ready and ate. We made jokes about our past experiences and villains we’ve faced, while comparing them to people we know now. We say goodbye to my mom and walk towards U.A. Once we get to the gates, Gypsy opens a portal to Shikestu and gives me a hug before she leaves.

We enter our school and head to homeroom, after that we have English, time to create some chaos. “Good morning, listeners!!! Welcome to English class!! Today we’re going to look at sentences in English and see where a mistake is, who’s ready to learn!!!” Present Mic says, enthusiastically.

“You think English classes are always going to be like this?” Tenya asks me.

“Probably, Present Mic is known for being loud, enthusiastic and sometimes obnoxious, so this is what we will have to deal with,” I say.

“Yay,” Shoto says, sarcastically.

“So, who wants to tell me what the mistake is in the next sentence,” he reads a sentence from the book he is holding.

I raise my hand, Present Mic calls on me and I stare him in the eye and say the mistake while speaking in English in a monotone voice.

He looks at me like I won a Nobel Peace Prize. Tenya and Shoto are trying hard not to laugh. “You speak fluent English,” he asks, surprised.

“And Spanish,” I say.

“You speak Spanish too?” The boy, I believe his name’s Sero asks.

“Yes,” I say, smiling as I now have a buddy I can speak Spanish to.

“Remind me why I didn’t take a language again?” Tenya asks.

“Because then you wouldn’t be special,” I say.

“True,” Shoto says.

“You three all know English?” Present Mic asks.

“Yeah, we thought it would be a good idea if we ever went to America,” I say, the lie coming easily out of my mouth.

“One of our best ideas, if I do say so myself,” Tenya state, “Now that I think about it, have we had many bad ideas?”

“Bad ideas as a group, or bad ideas each of us have had? I can definitely count many bad ideas from you, but not really us,” I say.

“Oh yeah, name them,” He dares

“Uhm, trusting Thawne, going to get Snart and go against Lyla, not saying anything about Flashpoint, I can name more if you want me to,” I say.

“Fair enough, I do make many mistakes,” Tenya says.

“You guys gonna elaborate on any of that?” Ashido asks.

I give a sheepish smile, “Probably not,” Shoto says.
The overhead speakers activate, “Izuku Midoriya, please report to the principal's office, it is time you accept my proposal,” Nezu announces.

“Well, I called it,” I whisper to Tenya and Shoto.

“That you did, my friend,” Tenya says.

“Tell us how it goes!!” Shoto says. I give a salute to them as I head down to the principal’s office.

“Nezu,” I say.

“Midoriya,” he says with a smirk, “Come take a seat.”

I walk over to the seat and sit down, “Now Midoriya, answer me this. Do you know how to play chess?”

“Do I?” I say, his grin widens.

“Then let the games begin,” Nezu says as he pulls out a chessboard.
15 minutes go by, this is an intense game with both of us are staring at the game waiting for the other to make a mistake. “Your turn, Midoriya,” Nezu says, while smirking.

“Well, Nezu, I believe you made a mistake. checkmate,” I say, continuing to look him dead in the eye.

“I think that’s impossible, Midoriya,” Nezu says.

“Really, look at the board and make your move,” I reply.

He looks down at the board, flabbergasted. The bell rings, “Hm, well, Midoriya I look forward to working with you,” he says.

“Same here, and since this is going to be the start of an amazing partnership, you can call me Izuku,” I say.

“Well then Izuku, I look forward to our next meeting,” Nezu says.

“Thank you for the amazing game, Nezu,” I say, as I leave the room.

I head back to my class, which is now mathematics with Ectoplasm. I walk into the room and sit next to Tenya and Shoto, “Hey,” I say.

“Oh, look what the cat dragged in,” Shoto whispers, as Ectoplasm starts teaching.

“How was it? What took so long?” Tenya asks.

“We played chess, it was very intense,” I say.

“Ah yes, does that mean we can go back to our weekly chess games?” Tenya asks.

“Sure, why not?” I ask.

“You’re not planning to take over the world or anything yet, right?” Shoto asks.

“Nothing yet,” I say, “Maybe he’ll give me ideas for other weapons I can give you guys.”

The class continues, Tenya, Shoto, and I still talk a bit but we also pay attention. When the bell rings for the second time, we wait for our next class.

After classes finish for the morning, we head to lunch with Lunch Rush. Lunch passes by fairly quickly, Tenya, Shoto, and I talk with Uraraka and I hand her the gravity blaster.

“You got that done fairly quickly,” she says.

“It’s not fully done yet, it’s still in the testing zone. I’m giving it to you because we have heroics next and maybe we can test it out there,” I say.

“That’s fair enough, so report on how it works and stuff after?” She asks.

“Yes, especially if anything breaks or seems out of place, that’ll be the most important thing,” I say.

“I’m excited but also worried about heroics, mainly because we have Bakugou in our class,” Tenya says.

“If he does anything to you, I’m letting Frost take control,” Shoto whispers to me.

“Shoto! No!” I whisper back.

“Also Izu, I have a question,” They say.

“Hit me with it,” I say.

“If we fight in the sports festival, can we blow it off?” They ask.

“You mean just do something stupid?” I ask.

“Yes,” they say.

“You know what, why not? I can bring a deck of cards, or we can spar without quirks,” I say.

They chuckle, “Oh, my dad will be pissed, but it’ll be so worth it,”

“Yeah,” I say, the bell rings and we go back to 1-A, and wait for our teacher.

“It’s heroics right, so we have Snipe next?” Tenya asks, unsure.

“We should, unless-,” I say.

“It’s me!!! Walking through the door like how any normal person would!!!” All Might yells.

“All Might, took the spot,” I finished.

“God damn it!” Shoto whispers, annoyed, “there goes my chance of actually learning anything in this class.”

Tenya snorts, “True that!” People start talking all around the room about how cool this is going to be while us three just sulk in silence
.
“This is Foundational Hero Studies!! For this class, we’ll be building up your hero foundation with the help of various trials!!!” All Might yells, “Let’s get right into today’s activities, battle trials!!”

Everyone starts to get really excited and stands up, while I send a glance to Shoto and Tenya. “And to go with your first battle!! We’ve prepared the gear we had you make requests for to match your quirks!!”

“Maybe something good might come out of this,” I mumble.

“Like what?” Tenya asks.

“I can remake your costumes if you don’t like anything. I can change it after today,” I say.

“Yes!” Tenya and Shoto say, in a happy tone.

I hear Kirishima yell, “Our battle gear!! Awesome!!”

We go grab our suitcases, “Get changed and gather at Grounds B! The suit and gear you bring into the field is very important and vital, boys and girls! Don’t forget from here on out, you are all officially heroes!!!” We all head to Ground B to get changed into our costumes. Once we get changed I meet up with Tenya and Shoto.

“Hey,” I say to them, they look as if they are trying not to laugh, “Oh, come on guys! My mom gave me this jumpsuit, just be lucky I didn’t make the suit I drew when I was a kid!”

“That’s fair, but the colors don’t scream Vibe,” Tenya says.

“Well since it’s the first time, I decided to wear it, then once it gets destroyed, I will create a new suit that is more protected than this one,” I say.

“Who wants to bet that it gets destroyed today?” Tenya asks.

“Definitely if I get paired with Kaboom,” I say, as we start to walk out.

“Yeah, he won’t hold back, any complaints with yours Tenya?” Shoto asks.

“Well, mine is a bit more bulky and more armory, but I did ask for something similar to my brother but less armored. My guess is they didn’t know what I meant so they just gave me this and are waiting for me to complain,” he says.

“I have an idea to fix it,” I say.

“Please, I trust you, just I want something similar to the Flash suit,” he says, as we exit the changing room and meet up with the others.

“I have a complaint, can we make my suit like the old Frost suit? I miss that one.” Shoto says.

“You’d still look good in it,” I say, “I’ll do Tenya’s first, as his will take longer. Hey Uraraka!” I wave her over.

“Hey guys, Midoriya, your suit looks nice! Also, you can call me Ochacko,” She says.

“Thanks, yours too! Then, you can call me Izuku,” I say.

“Thank you, mine is a bit more tight than I expected and it outlines my curves more, but other than that it’s fine!” She says.

“You want me to change that? Or change the design at all?” I ask.

“Thanks for the offer, maybe later, I bet you have costumes to change,” she says.

“Yeah, mine's probably gonna get destroyed today, so I might have to make a new one,” I say.

“Bakugou?” She asks.

“Yup,” I say.

“This will be an indoor battle!” All Might yells.

“Oh great, this is just asking for Bakugou to murder me!” I whisper to my friends, annoyed.

“Villain fights are normally out in the open but most of the bases and the better part of the fight is indoors. For this test you’ll be split into two groups, villain and hero, for a two on two battle.”

Tenya raises his hand, “how is this foundational training?”

“It just is!” All Might says.

“How do we determine who wins and loses?” Momo asks.

“Can we just blow them up?” Bakugou asks.

“Is there a threat of being expelled, like in Mr. Aizawa’s class?” Kirishima asks.

“I can’t hear all of your questions if you ask them at the same time!” All Might says.

“All Might?” A voice asks, “are you going to introduce me to your class?”

“Does that voice sound familiar to you?” I ask Tenya and Shoto.

“Kinda,” Shoto says.

“Definitely has some familiarity,” Tenya says.
“Ah right,” All Might says and gestures next to him, “Class today I brought in a friend to help me, his name is-.”

When the guest steps into a spot where we can see him, I realize who it is and scream cutting All Might off, “Breacher?! This is the favor Gyps was talking about?”

“Izzy? I didn’t know you were in this class, now that I know, I will take favors more often,” Breacher says.

The class stares at us, “You two know each other?” All Might asks.

“Yeah, Izzy here is friends with my daughter, he’s also made improvements to my support gear,” Breacher says.

I can see Bakugou sweating from here and just to make him more nervous I add, “We also spar from time to time too,” I give a small chuckle as I see most of the class (including All Might) jaw drop.

“I’ve seen them at it, they don’t go easy,” Shoto says.

“Oh, Shoto and Tenya, you’re here too?” Breacher asks.

“Yup, we can’t leave Izu on our own, now can we?” Tenya says.

“Hey! I am capable of handling myself!” I protest.

Breacher glances over the rest of the class till his eyes stop on Bakugou, “And of course the icing on the cake, Bakugou,” Breacher glares at him hard. “All Might, you going to explain the way the battle will work?”

All Might clears his throat, “Uh yeah, so for this training, the team who are the villains will be guarding a fake nuclear weapon they want to detonate. The heroes must stop them before their time runs out. If the hero’s capture the villains or stop the nuclear device before times runs out they win, while if the villains capture the heroes or manage to keep the heroes away from the bomb when time runs out then the villains win. Simple enough?”

“How are teams going to be chosen?” Momo asks.

“We will be using a lottery system, whoever gets the same letters will team up, then we will pick two letters for the teams who will face off. Let us begin!” All Might says, enthusiastically.

The teams consists of, Group A: Ochako and I, Group B: Shoto and Shoji, Group C: Momo and Mineta, Group D: Tenya and Bakugou (yikes those two won’t get along at all), Group E: Ashido and Aoyama, Group F: Sato and Koda, Group G: Jiro and Kaminari, Group H: Tsuyu and Tokoyami, Group I: Ojiro and Hagakure, and finally Group J: Kirishima and Sero.

“The first team who will fight is,” All Might says as he sticks his hands inside the box. “Group A and D! A will be the heroes, while D will be the villains!”

“All Might, I must object to this pairing!” Tenya yells.

“Iida come on, I know that Bakugou is strong, but since you’re on his team, you’ll be fine!” Kirishima says.

“All Might I also must ask you to re-draw,” Breacher says.

“Guys it’s fine-,” I try to say but get cut off.

“No, it’s not!” Breacher, Tenya, Shoto, and Ochako yell.

“I’m sorry, Breacher, but they must learn to work together and learn their strengths and weaknesses,” All Might tries to play it off.

“All Might, you don’t understand! The Bakugou brat hates Izzy!” Breacher yells.

“Oi! Who are you calling a brat, old man!” Bakugou yells.

“Breacher, drop it. It gives me an excuse to do something I need to do so it works,” I say, trying to keep calm and not panic.

“That’s it? You’re going to use the way he treats you during this as the excuse for that? Izuku, that's not right!” Ochako says.

“It’s fine, Tenya and Shoto know what to do if anything happens, let's get to our places,” I say.

Before we head to the building, Breacher guides everyone else to where they will watch the fight while All Might tells us how the battle will start, “The villains will head inside first, after 5 minutes the heroes will head in! Everyone else will be watching on the security cameras while only me and Breacher will have comms that we’’ll be able to hear just in case someone goes too far. Remember, this is a practical training exercise so go all out without fear of injury!” All Mights says, then leaves.

Before we split ways, Tenya pulls me in for a hug and whispers to me, “Try to stay safe, if things get out of hand, I will let you win. All Might said to go all out so Bakugou won’t hold back.”

“Bar, you don’t need to let us win,” I try to protest.

“Only if Bakugou severely injures you or Ochako, I will let you win. Just really want to see his face. I already told Cait to take a photo of it,” Tenya says.

“Right, also I would kill to see that,” I say.

Tenya squeezes me tighter, steps back then puts a hand on my shoulder. He gives me a reassuring smile and then walks away.

“We have a lay of the building layout, knowing Ten and Bakugou, they will be on the upper floors,” I say.

“Yeah, you sure you’re okay with this?” She asks.

“Yeah, I’m not happy I’m fighting Bakugou, I would have preferred Tenya and Shoto as we know each other well and won’t try to kill each other,” I say, “I’ve seen them both fight for years. Bakugou, from being the victim, Tenya, from fighting alongside him and occasionally a spar or two.”

“That’s two different perspectives of two entirely different people,” she says, in a concerned voice.

“Yeah, we have something they don’t,” I say.

“Oh yeah? What’s that?” She asks, confused.

“Teamwork! And your anti-gravity blaster,” I say, pointing to the blaster that she’s holding.

“I’m gonna take off my other support item on my wrist for now, I know this is a lot to ask but can you?” Ochacko says.

“Add the blaster to your existing support item? Yeah, just give me some time, as I have to make 3 suits, and support gear. Also inform me later of what it can do so I can combine them” I say.

“That’s fair, wait who else are you making suits for?” She asks.

“Tenya and Sho, Sho didn’t really know what to do for his suit and Tens is too clunky for him,” I say.

“Let the battle trials begin!”

“Ocha, can you float us up to the 4th floor?” I ask.

“Yeah, what’s our plan?” She asks, “Also, I get a nickname?”

“Yeah, your name is just long to say sometimes and I’m trusting you with my life here,” I say.

“That’s fair,” Ocha says.

“Anyway, we’re going to infiltrate through the window, then search for the bomb. Since we’re facing Bakugou, Tenya won’t be able to stop him, so he’ll probably come after me immediately,” I say.

“I won’t let that happen!” She exclaims.

“No, we’re going to let him,” I say.

“Are you insane?! That’s like asking for a death wish!” She yells.

“Just trust me on this, if he goes after me that leaves you to find the bomb, Bakugou will be too focused on me to stop you! I can give you my cold gun to deal with Ten if you want, as that’s one of his weaknesses,” I say.

“No, it’s fine. Also, why aren’t we using your breaches?” Ocha asks, confused.

“Tenya can hear the sound of my breach from a mile away, we will have more of the essence of surprise this way.”

“Fair point,” Ocha says, she takes a deep breath, “Let’s win this thing!”

Ocha touches me to activate her quirk and we float up to the fourth window and open it to enter the building, as soon as we enter she deactivated her quirk. We start to go straight down the hallway. I think to myself, I’m not gonna use One For All unless it’s completely necessary, I’ll use my breaches and hand to hand for now.

My thoughts get interrupted by an explosion going straight at my face. I barely have time to dodge it, my shoulder padding is mostly destroyed, “Ocha! Are you okay?” I ask, concerned.

“Yeah, he missed. What about you?” She says.

“He barely got me, but did destroy part of my costume,” I say.

“Damn it, Deku! Don’t dodge me, you coward!” He yells, “I’m going to blow you away, no matter how many times I get interrupted!”

Bakugou starts aiming a right hook at me, it’s his signature move, so I already knew this was coming. Before he can do anything with it I intercept and judo flip him. “Wow! You really have seen him fight!” Ocha says, excitedly.

”Kacchan, you always lead with a right hook, I’ve seen you do it countless times. Guess my ‘stalker notes’ really did come in handy, huh?” I say, “I used to admire you, no matter what you did to me. But meeting my friends changed my opinion on you! I’m no longer the Deku that’s weak, that can’t stand up to you and useless! I’m the Izuku who won’t ever back down to save a life!” I say, wincing at the nickname.

“Now, I’m really pissed! You used to be so easily scared of me! I never knew the useless Deku could grow a spine! Guess I'm going to have to rip it back out! Bakugou yells.

Bakugou and I grew up together, our moms are best friends, and so were we. But once he got his quirk and I didn’t, our classmates and teachers all started filling toxic thoughts in his head. It also doesn’t help that his quirk forces him to be stressed all day. I wanted to hold onto the small thread of friendship I hoped we had left and grab it with an iron grip. For me, to defy him like this is basically digging my own grave, well if this was middle school that would be that case. But, I’m not just Izuku Midoriya anymore, the weak quirkless kid, I’m also Cisco Ramon, the inventor for Team Flash, one of the greatest hackers in the world!

“Ocha! I got this, go!” I yell, Bakugo kicks me in the face after I finish.
Bakugou's leg is right next to my face, so I do what any person would do and try to tie him up with the capture tape, but it’s not going to be that easy. Bakugou notices what I’m trying to do and attempts to go in with another right hook. I dive and roll below the explosion.

I need to come up with another plan, so I run around the corner. Bakugou starts yelling at me, “Get back here, Deku! You’ve been tricking me all this damn time! Have you been laughing at me behind my back all these years?! Your quirk is quite the flashy type, huh? Why don’t you use it?! So I can prove I’m stronger than you once and for all!”

So far, as expected, he’s just been focusing on me, and forgotten about Ocha. Tenya’s probably guarding the bomb, and for now won’t go easy on her. Bakugou’s blinded by pure rage and hatred due to the fact I now have a quirk. I need to keep Bakugou away from the bomb as much as possible, and since his palms are where his quirk comes from, I can temporarily freeze them. He'll be forced to fight without them, or I could use pressure points, nah I won’t get that lucky so, let's play around with him a bit.

“Izuku!” I hear Ocha call from the comms.

“I hear you, what’s up?” I ask.

“I blew my cover, but I’m with the bomb, he’s slowly trying to corner me,” she says.

“Where are you located?” I ask.

“The middle room on the fifth floor,” she tells me.

“I’m almost right below that, we don’t have much time left, and if we waste that time then it’s their win, and we’re not going to lose! Stall him! I have a plan,” I say and explain my very risky plan to her.

The plan is somewhat simple, as long as I time it right. Bakugou will try and throw another explosion at me so if I open a breach before that and open another one at the ceiling then that should open a hole and debris should fly leaving Ocha to have something to throw at Tenya.

“Why won’t you use your stupid quirk? Are you looking down on me, Deku!?” He tells angrily.

“Kacchan! I’m not afraid of you anymore!” I yell at him.

“I know everything you have in those stalker notes you have, you know. My explosions are sparked because of the sweat on my palms, which is like secreting nitroglycerin that helps detonate a bomb. Now if these things are like I asked, then they contain the excess sweat into this beaker and will make my explosion bigger!” He explains.

My eyes widen, I hear All Might through his coms say, “Young Bakugou, don’t do this! You’ll kill him!”

“He won’t die if he dodges!” He retorts.

I quickly grab the cold gun off my utility belt and aim it at Bakugou's arm that he’s aiming at me. I press the trigger before he can detonate his explosion. His gauntlet freezes and so does his hand on the trigger, I quickly run closer, but not too close to where Tenya and Ocha are.

“Deku, what the hell did you do!” Bakugou yells, “Don’t use cheap tricks on me!”

“Ocha, what’s the situation with you?” I ask.

“Don’t ignore me, Deku!!!!”

I hear All Might through Bakugou's comms again, “Bakugou, if you try to shoot another blast, like the one you would have shot if it weren’t for Midoriya’s quick thinking, I will end this fight, and you will lose. Launching an attack like that indoors is catastrophic, it could affect civilians. You have to be more aware of your surroundings. It doesn’t matter if your playing the role of a hero or a villain, you’re still training to be a hero at the end of the day. That was foolish of you, do that again and I might consider punishment.” Before the comm cuts off, I hear angry yelling from the otherside.

“Izzy!” I hear Breacher call me in my comm.

“Hey, Breacher, what’s up?” I say.

“Nice reflexes, that was a close one. I can call off the match and make it a draw if you think you can’t handle him anymore,” He offers.

“No, I got this, I will say if it gets too much though,” I say.

“Good, I don’t want an angry Cynthia yelling at me tonight, ’What do you mean you let them fight! Why didn’t you stop it?’ Kinda stuff, you know what I mean?” He says.

“Yeah, I do,” I say.

“Anyway, before you go back to fighting Kaboom over there, I have someone who wants to say something to you.”

“Oh?”

“Izu!” I hear Shoto’s concerned voice yell.

“Oh, hey Cait, what’s up?” I ask.

“That scared me, now go out there and kick his ass,” She says.

My comm disconnects, and I hear Bakugou yell, “Face me and fight, damn it!”

He starts approaching with his explosions propelling him, I open a breach and step into it and quickly close it. I reopen the breach above and behind Bakugou and kick his back to send him flying. He slowly gets up and tries to come at me again, I don’t move in the beginning but once he fires the explosions, I slide under it to avoid it, but he turns around and hits me with a right hook that sends me flying.

“Deku, you are beneath me! So act like it!” Bakugou states. “Why won’t you use your god damned quirk with me huh!? Are you still looking down on me? Ever since we were little kids, you’ve been looking down on me! You haven’t changed!”

“I never looked down on you! You used to be my friend! Then one day, after our quirks came in, you thought you were better than me! Everyone praised you! Even I did! I thought if you believed I thought you were amazing enough, you would be my friend again! You were my first and only friend back then! I thought I could get you back!” I yell, “I’m not using my quirk because it’s easier to use hand to hand for this! I’m not looking down on you! I’ve only ever looked up! But now, I don’t look at all!”

I go to throw a punch at him and when it collides my vibe activates. I see memories of a man who’s wearing a dark green cloak with a bow and a quiver. I stumble back, Bakugou goes to throw another explosion at me. I open a breach that takes the explosion and open a second one on the ceiling and yell, “Ocha! I’m here, get ready!”

I hear her yell, “Okay!”

He throws the explosion and it transfers to where the other breach is and explodes the ceiling, I hear Ochacko say, “Sorry, Iida! Here’s my improvised move! Home Run Comet!”

”You call that a home run!” Tenya yells.

”The hero team wins!!” All Might yells. “Come to the security room for the critiquing!”

I open a breach to the room above me and see Ochacko throwing up, “Ocha! Are you okay!?” I ask, concerned.

“Yeah, I just overused my quirk a little bit,” she says.

I let out a sigh of relief, I get tackle-hugged, probably by a certain speedster, “Izu! Are you okay? Are you injured? I should take you to the nurse‘s office!” Tenya asks, concerned.

“Ten, stop mother henning, I don’t need to go to the nurse’s office! I’m fine!” I say, annoyed.

“Your suit is destroyed, you probably have some burns on you that probably need to get checked out!” Tenya retorts.

“I can wait till after this class!” I say.

“After we get critiqued, Sho will agree with me,” he says, glaring at me.

”Fine,” I say.

“Izuku! We did it!!!” Ochako yells.

“We did, didn’t we?” I say.

We put our arms around each other's shoulders and walk to the security room. Once we get there we stand in a line, I can see Bakugou visibly twitching. “Alright who do we think the MVP of the match was?” All Might asks.

Momo raises her hand “It was a mixture of Midoriya and Iida sir,” she says.

I perk up at the mention of my name, “Correct, anyone want to tell me why?” All Might says, my jaw drops.

“Midoriya obviously strategized and came up with a plan, and even with Bakugou coming after him he stayed calm and collected. He also stopped Bakugou from destroying the building, and by using his own explosions against him to help Uraraka win against Iida,” Momo says, “And Iida because he adapted to the situation to make it so his enemy could not use her quirk to fight him while he could. Bakugou had a personal grudge that he took the fight out on, Uraraka broke character halfway through and blew her cover, also her attack was reckless. Neither of them could have been MVP for these reasons”

The room is completely silent, “Y-yeah, couldn't have said it better myself,” All Might says.

After that, Shoto gives me a big hug before having to go down for her match. I argued with Tenya for like 5 minutes to let me watch Shoto’s match before going to Recovery Girl’s office. The argument ends when Breacher offers to take me there after the match is over. Tenya sighs and reluctantly agrees. Shoto’s match goes quickly, she freezes the building so that the opposing team couldn't move, then Shoji listens for where they were in the building.

Once that is over, Breacher holds up his end of the deal and takes me to Recovery Girl’s office. Once we get there Breacher gives her a recap of what happened. She visually scans my body for signs of any other injuries.

“You have many types of burns but mainly third degree ones, I’ll heal what I can but I will give you burn cream to help heal the rest, and for if you get any in the future,” She says.

“Thank you, Recovery Girl,” I say.

“No problem, sweetie, now smooch,” She says then kisses my cheek.
I feel exhausted from her using my energy to heal myself, but I have enough to head back to class as the battle trials have finished. I say thank you to Recovery Girl again and then head out.. “Hey Izzy,” Breacher says.

“What’s up?” I ask.

“Two things, one; you want some coffee?” He asks.

“Do I ever?” I replied.

“Second, can I send you the recordings I was taking of the match and analyze them?” He asks.

“You want me to analyse them?” I ask, surprised.

“I told Nezu and Aizawa I would get them analyzed by a professional and you are the only person I know who can and your analysis is always scarily accurate,” he explains.

“I’ll take the challenge,” I say.

“Anyway the teachers lounge has some, I’ll grab you a cup,” he offers.

“As long as it’s not decaf sure, and even if it is decaf I’ll have some,” I say.

“You love coffee, don’t you?” He asks.

“Yes,” I replied.

He chuckles then walks into the lounge, 3 minutes passes then he comes out with a mug, “Here you go,” he says before he hands me the coffee.
“You’re amazing,” I say, “tell Gypsy, when you see her, I say hi.”

“Will do, you did amazing today Izzy, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Fighting against your bully is hard, but fighting against your bully and winning is harder. You did good, kid, keep up the good work,” he says in a proud tone.
“Thanks Breacher,” I say.

“No problem, kid, anytime you need help, don’t be afraid to call,” he says.

I nod at him, and sip the coffee and head back to class 1-A. As I open the door I almost get tackled by my two best friends but before they can, I yell, “Coffee! Mind the coffee!”

“When did you get coffee?” Tenya asks.

“How did you get coffee?” Shoto asks.

“You’re allowed to have coffee?” Ochako asks.

Most of the class notices me with the coffee and they yell, “Where did you get the coffee from?!?”

“Damn, they ruined the trend,” I mutter, “Breacher got me the coffee since most of my energy was drained to heal my burns and stuff.”

“That’s fair, you don’t want to miss the end of the second day,” Tenya nods in approval.

Shoto gives Tenya a weird look, “Dude, why?” They ask.

Tenya leans over to Shoto and I and whispers, “In this life, I am an enthusiast about school, we need to remember to sometimes act like how we would in this life.”

I shrug, “Fair enough,” I say at the same time Shoto mutters, “That figures.”

As the school day comes to a close, I can still see Bakugou glaring at me, “Kacchan, I have never lied to you about not having a quirk, my quirk developed a while ago and I choose not to tell you, as you are not entitled to that information,” I say, in a monotone voice, “If you want to become entitled to that info, then you’re gonna have to earn it. I’m sorry if it’s not the answer you were expecting, but if you want any chance of becoming friends or at least rivals, you have to prove that you’re not the bully I know you are.”

I walk back to my friends, Tenya and Shoto start congratulating me and say that we’re going out for coffee after this, “You’re getting more coffee?” Kaminari asks, “That doesn’t seem healthy.”

“If that doesn’t seem healthy, you should see how much he drinks when he’s working on something,” Shoto teases.

“Sho!” I yell, “Also, speaking of working on something, I guess I have to redesign my costume now.” I chuckle.

“You’re the only one who would take that as a good thing,” Tenya states.

“Hey Sho? Did we bring the serum?” I ask.

“Yes, you put it in the small pocket,” Sho reminds me.

“Ah thanks, you want to give this to All Might after school ends?” I ask.

“After is good,” they reply.

The class sans Bakugou is looking at us weird, I wave them off saying it’s a personal thing. As the class starts to file out, I notice Mr. Aizawa in the corner in a sleeping bag. I walk over to him and ask, “Mr. Aizawa?” He gives a grunt, I’m going to take that as a yes, “Do you know where All Might is?”

“Schools over, Midoriya, why do you need him?” Mr. Aizawa asks.

“That’s a fair question, we just need to give him something,” I say.

“He should be in his office,” he responds.

“Sorry for bothering you, and thanks!” I say.

We head out of our class room and try to find All Might's office, “Ah young Midoriya, what are you doing here?” I hear a voice I recognize as All Might’s ask.

“We were actually looking for you, All Might,” I told him.

“Oh really?” He asks, “How can I be of assistance?”

“We have the thing to bring your organs back and it probably will help you have more time to do hero work,” Shoto explains.

“Great! That’s amazing,” his voice falters, “what did you say?”

Shoto tries to smile it off, “I didn’t say anything, you just need to inject this into your stomach and it should work,” Shoto says, nervously.

“Okay, thank you, young ones, I’m going to have Recovery Girl supervise this,” All Might says.

“That would be a good idea,” Tenya says.

“No problem, All Might,” I say, “Coffee time?”

Shoto snorts, “Yeah, coffee time, did someone tell Gypsy we were going to be late?” They ask.

“Yeah, I sent her a quick message before we went to search for All Might,” I say.

“Are you also doing your suit today?” Tenya asks.

“Yup, sleep is for the weak!” I yell.

“You’re an idiot, I’m guessing you want me to bring you coffee in the morning?” Sho asks.

“Please, also after coffee,” I say as we walk out of the building, “Can we go to the fabric store and stuff, so I can get materials?”

“Are you asking us to come or?” Tenya asks, unsure.

“Join me on my quest for materials for our future suits, also I need opinions on things,” I reply.

“Why are we walking to the coffee shop?” Shoto asks.

“Because I like talking to you guys,” I say.

“That’s fair, also can we trash talk All Might for a moment?” Tenya asks.

“Ooohhhh, yes! What did the skeleton do now?” Sho asks.

“At least four of us told him that it wasn’t a good idea to pair Cisco up with Bakugou, right? Even Breacher said something, but he just ignored it,” Tenya complains.

“I know right! When we were watching your match, I very loudly complained and part of the class joined in. Breacher did try to stop the match, but All Might just brushed it off as Bakugo was excited to train,” Shoto exclaims.

“Speaking of Bakugo,” I say and the duo turns to me as we approach the coffee shop.

“I don’t know if it’s my vibes acting up or what, but when I punched Bakugou today, I saw Oliver,” I say, their faces are agape.

“Oliver Queen is Katsuki Bakugou!?!” Tenya says, surprised, “Oliver is so much better than Bakugou, but yeah I can see the similarities.”

I open the door to the coffee shop and give Tenya a weird look, “Bar did you hit your head? Oliver Queen and Katsuki Bakugou are similar, please enlighten me on how that is!” I say, in a dramatic tone.

I see Gypsy waving to us, it looks like she’s already bought us our drinks, “And Gypsy is a life saver, that’s another point for her,” I say as we walk over to her, “Hey, hot shot!”

“Can I finish my explanation?” Tenya asks.

“Yes please do, enlighten us, Bar,” Shoto says.

I give Gypsy a kiss on the cheek then whisper to her, “I’ll explain after Ten explains.” She gives me a nod and I pick up my coffee and take a sip as I sit next to her.

“Reason One, anger issues, Oliver is brash and used to use violence to intimidate people. Two, tone of voice,” Tenya says.

“Are these actual reasons, or are you trying to justify your logic?” Shoto asks.

“Listen, it sounded much better when I was comparing a mental image in my head,” Tenya says.

“I’ll ask Gideon to do a comparison later when I go to the base,” I say.

“Am I going to find out what’s going on now?” Gypsy asks.

I give her a quick rundown on what happened today and what we were talking about, also that we plan to go fabric shopping after this.

“So, let me get this straight,” Gypsy says in an annoyed tone. “In a nutshell, you became Nezu’s personal student then my dad, along with All Might, taught you foundational heroics but just made you fight each other in teams and you, with that girl you brought with you yesterday, Uraraka, fought Bakugou and Tenya and both of you won?”

“That’s basically it,” I say.

“We also gave All Might the vial we made him to give him his organs back,” Shoto says.

“You guys are crazy at UA, next thing I’ll be hearing is you had to fight villains or something!?” Gypsy says.

“I don’t know, hopefully we’re not that bad,” Tenya sighs.

“Fabric store?” I ask.

“You know what? Why not, let’s go!” Sho exclaims.

“Where are you going to get the armor from?” Gypsy asks.

“I’ll figure something out,” I dismiss the question.

“I can ask my dad if you can use the armor from his destroyed suits, he never throws it out and it’s still good,” Gypsy asks.

“That’s a brilliant idea, thanks Gyps. But, last I saw the both of you, neither had armor on your suits,” I ask, confused.
“Let’s just say, since quirks are now everywhere, our outfits have had upgrades,” She says, while smirking.

”Cool! What kind of armor does Breacher have on his suits?” I ask.

“Shoulder and knee pads, stuff like that,” Gypsy says.

“Any reinforced fabric?”

“Uhm, probably? But dad’s suits are pretty destroyed,” She tells me.

“I’ll work with literally anything,” I reply.

“Ok, I‘ll drop by the apartment later with the stuff, and look, we're here,” she says.

“Yay! Fabric time!” Shoto says, excitedly.

“I wasn’t expecting you to be excited for this trip?” I say, confused.

“I’m not, I’m excited for the outcome,” they say.

“Same here, we get to help you with picking fabrics, right?” Tenya asks.
“Of course you do, they’re your costumes, I want you guys to be comfortable,” I say.

“Yes!” Shoto says.

We walk into the fabric store and split up to look for the fabric colors we want. Since, Gypsy is just here with us and not to get fabric, she follows me around. I get mostly black, some red, and yellow to make my suit similar to the one I had as Vibe. When I go to the check out, I see Shoto with navy blue fabric and some black and silver, while Tenya has mostly white and navy blue. “You guys got what you want?” I ask.

“Yeah,” Tenya says, “I am excited to see how this turns out.”

“Same here, can’t wait to see what my father has to say about this,” Shoto says, excitedly.

“But remember, Cisco,” Tenya says, in a warning tone, “We have a while before we probably will need our hero costumes again, so don’t work on them for too long today.”

“Damn, pulling the Barry warning tone on me, don’t worry! I’ll have them done for you soon, just not telling you when,” I say, with a smirk.

Tenya sighs, “Fine surprise us.”

“Oh believe me, your standards of the meaning of surprise will be increased by ten,” I say.

“Do I want to know what you mean by that?” Shoto asks.

“Nope! This may sound weird, but Tenya, you know how you have multiple pairs of glasses?” I ask.

“Yeah,” he says, in a suspicious tone.

“Can I borrow a pair?” I ask.

“Why?” He asks.

“It will ruin the surprise,” I say, menacingly.

“Fine, we can drop by my house after this and grab a pair,” he says.

“Thanks!” I say.

“Izu,” Gypsy says, “I’m going to go, so that I can drop the armor and everything off at the apartment.”

“Ok, sounds good,” I say and give her a quick peck on the cheek, “Love you, Gyps!”

“Love you too,” she says.

As we leave we go to check out, before I can say anything Shoto grabs all of the fabric we got, puts it on the counter and puts a credit card on the counter. “Shoto!” I yell.

“What?” They ask, “Let me spend my dad’s money on this! Please?”
“At least let me pay for my stuff,” I complain.

“Nope, I’m paying. Suck it up, Ramon, this is for the years of tech you’ve made us,” Shoto exclaims.

“Cait, why would you do this to me?” I ask.

“Because I want these suits to be amazing, so I will spend my father‘s money on all this fabric for you,” she says.

“Ahem, if you two are done arguing about who is going to pay, can you do it quickly? There are people behind you,” the cashier says.

I turn around and look behind me and there is a line of people, “Oh I didn’t realize, I am so sorry,” I quickly apologize.

“Nah, you’re good, kid just hurry up,” he says.

As I’m apologizing to the cashier, Shoto takes the opportunity to swipe his dad’s card, “Thank you, have a good day, you three,” he gives us a smile. I look at Shoto and give her a glare.

As we walk out the door, I slightly nudge Shoto, “You are a prick, I hope you know that,” I complain.

“Yeah, but you love me,” she retorts.

“Want me to drop you off? I want to get working,” I say.

“Don’t you need measurements?” She asks.

I blink twice before saying, “Yeah, I do, you guys have time for me to take them?”

“I always have time to spend with you, especially if it means ignoring my dad,” Shoto says, in a proud manner.

“Of course you do, Bar?” I ask.

“How long do you need? I should get back to my family soon, but I don’t think they’ll mind if I spend a few more minutes taking measurements for a hero costume,” he says.

“Oh yeah, I forgot you have an actually stable family,” Shoto says in a sarcastic tone.

“Hey, at least this time Joe isn’t all of our parental figures,” I say, in a positive tone.

Tenya lets out a snort, “Oliver, Kara, and us three all had parental issues. Me with my enemies killing my parents, you and Cait just not having a good relationship with yours, Oliver watching his dad shoot himself, and Kara being sent from her planet to earth,” he says, while chuckling.

“God, we need therapy, normally this shouldn’t be funny, but we’re all so messed up we just laugh about it,” I say.

“Yeah but who would believe us if we did go to therapy?” Shoto asks, “I mean it sounds crazy if you say you‘re a reincarnation from a past life and then start trauma dumping from that life.”

“That’s true, now come on! Let’s go to the apartment so I can do my therapy, making suits!” I say.

“Hey Izu, does that mean you’re our fashion designer friend?” Shoto asks.

I thought about this question for a moment, “Nah, I’m more of an inventor than a designer,” I settled on that for a response.

“Fair enough, Onward?” Shoto says.

“To adventure,” I reply, as I open a breach.

Chapter Text

As we enter the apartment, I drop all the fabric on a table and quickly get to work on measuring them so I can start sketching designs and building equipment for the suits. Fifteen minutes later, I finally finished getting all the measurements I need to make the costumes. “I didn’t think that would take as long as it did,” Shoto complains.

“Really? I thought it would’ve taken longer, also Cisco, couldn’t we have just sent our measurements?” Tenya asks.

“Yeah, you could’ve but this is more exciting!” I say.

“Only for you,” Shoto mumbles.

“Anyway, I’m going to open a breach so we can take you home!” I say.

“Didn’t you give us extrapolators?” Tenya asks, “Why are we using your powers still?”

“Barry, the extrapolators are keyed to the apartment, they’ll only take you there, like how an extrapolator only took us to Earth-38.” I explained.

Tenya looks dumbfounded, “How did I forget that!” He says in an exasperated tone.

Shoto chuckles, “Maybe because you’re all run, no stop,” they say, Tenya and I look confused, “Oh come on, he doesn’t stop and think about it, he just goes on the first thought that pops up!”

“That makes more sense now,” I say, “Anyway, lets go!”

I open a breach to Tenya’s house, “Well I can’t wait to see what your parents are like,” I say.

Tenya sighs in regret, “Let’s just get this over with,” he says.

We go through the breach and arrive at Tenya’s house. Even though I’ve dropped him off at home before, I never realized his house was a mansion. We walk up to the door and ring the doorbell. The door suddenly opens and a person who I believe is Tenya’s mom opens the door. “Tenya! You’re home! Welcome back!” She gives Tenya a hug, “Oh and you brought guests! You should have given us a warning.”

“Sorry Mom, my friend here, Izuku, needed a pair of my spare glasses,” He says while rubbing the back of his head.

“Hi, I’m Izuku,” I say, giving a small wave.

“And I’m Shoto,” they say.

“So you’re my son’s mysterious friends that he spends a lot of time with,” she says, sticking out her hand for me to shake it.

“Mom!” Tenya says.

As I shake her hand, I see flashes of a woman with red hair and a brown cardigan stuck in a circle of lightning. “Nora?!” I blurt out.

My two friends next to me turn their heads and stare at me, Tenya mouths to me, ‘What do you mean’ I shake my head and mouth back, ‘Never mind’.

“Sorry about that,” I say, “I saw something with my quirk and sometimes I just blurt out random things.”

“It’s fine, honey, come in, Tenya can get you the glasses you need, though I don’t know why you would need them, and the rest of you can meet Tenya’s father,” she says, giving me a smile.

“That would be nice, Tenya’s said lovely things about you,” I say.

“And he’s the only one with a father we would want to meet,” Shoto mumbles.
“That is true!” I whisper to her.

We enter Tenya’s house, he splits off from us to go get me a pair of glasses. We walk over to his living room where Tenya’s father, I’m assuming, is sitting at a table doing work. “Honey?” Tenya’s mom asks.

”Yes, dear,” his father replies.

“These are Tenya’s friends,” she says, motioning to us.

He gets up out of his chair and walks over to us, “So these are the people he won’t tell us anything about huh, I recognize Shoto Todoroki, only because Tensie has heard about you from Endeavor,” Shoto pales, he continues, “And I recognize you from the sludge villain incident, but what’s your name?”

“I’m Izuku Midoriya, it’s a pleasure to be meeting you!” I say as I stick out my hand for him to shake it.

As he shakes it, I get flashes of Barry’s father from the times he was rushed to the speed lab to when he was taken by Zoom. As I come out of the vibe, I attempt to try to send it to his memories to try to get him to remember. “Izu?” Sho asks in concern.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” I tell her. Tenya’s dad is still standing there. I whisper in her ear, “I saw Henry.”

She looks at me in shock, I assume Tenya’s mom overheard my comment as she looks confused. Tenya’s dad falls into the chair, we turn to look at him. ‘Huh,’ I think, ‘Must’ve been a delayed effect.’

“Henry!? Like Henry Allen?” Sho asks. “Are you certain?”

“Yes,” I reply, “Mrs. Iida, I’m sorry., this may hurt for a second.” I grab her wrist and send the vibe from earlier to hopefully jog her memories. She passes out, Shoto quickly catches her and puts her on a chair.

Shoto looks at me in surprise, “What did you do?” They ask.

“I’m just letting them remember, it was a bit forceful but I want the Allens to be whole again and have a good life,” I tell her. “I know it wasn’t right for me to force them to remember, I didn’t really think before I did it.”

“I get where you’re coming from, honestly, we’ve all been through so much. I would love a chance to be with my family again,” Shoto says. “Even though my mom and I didn’t get along well and my dad was possessed by an evil icicle.”

I hear a groan coming from the table but at the same time I think, ‘What is taking Tenya so long?’

“Ugh, I feel like my head was slammed into a wall, what happened?” Tenya’s dad asked.

“Oh, you’re awake!” I say, “Now, don’t panic, I can explain.”

“You!” He yells, Shoto facepalms. “You did this to me! What have you done!”

Shoto’s eyes turn grey, “Can it with the yelling! He had a very good reason. If you don’t think it’s reasonable enough you can knock him out later,” Frost says.

“Thanks Frost- wait what!?!” I yell, “You know what, that’s fair. Okay, I regave you your memories from your past life, which my quirk allows me to do.”

“Okay,” he says, “But why me?”

“Fair question, Shoto, Tenya and I all remember our past lives, and your past life son is Tenya,” I say.

“Barry is Tenya?” He asks surprised.

“Oh goodie, you do remember,” I say.

“I found them!!” I hear Tenya yell as I hear another groan coming from the chair.

I hear a ‘whoosh’ sound right next to me as Tenya appears. “What took you so long?” I asked.

“I was trying to find my most recent pair of glasses. And here they are,” he says as he hands them to me.

“Thanks!” I say as I open a small breach and put the glasses through it. “Oh, by the way, Barry, meet your parents, Nora and Henry, meet Barry!”

Tenya is shocked, his mom is a gape. No one makes a sound until his mom says, “Oh my sweet baby boy!” Tenya speeds over and hugs both his parents with teary eyes.

“I really want to say something stupid,” I whisper to Shoto.

“Don’t,” they say.

“Come on! It’s an emotional moment! It’s asking for me to say something!” I say. “Hey Tenya! I told you, you could find them.”

He chuckles, “You called it, now let's not let Thawne or Zoom ruin this again.”

“That would be very unlikely,” Shoto says, “Should we nor redo introductions?”

“Why not?” Tenya says, coming over to us. Tenya’s parents look at us confused.

“So we’ve already told you who we are now, but what you don’t know is who we were back then, Tenya start us off,” I say.

He turns to look at me confused, as we are in a line. “They already know me though? Why am I doing this again?” Tenya asks.

“Formal introductions, my good sir. Name, power, alias, like we did for my mom,” I tell him.

“Fair enough,” he says. “Alright, my name is Barry Allen, I am the fastest man alive, my power is super speed, I can run faster than light. I was the hero, The Flash. Chronological order, Izu you’re up!”

“Damn, I’m Cisco Ramon, tech guru of Team Flash, I make all the gadgets. My powers allow me to open breaches, see the past, present, or future, and also send vibrations at people. My hero name was Vibe and Mecha-Vibe, as I did get rid of my powers once.” I say.

“Questions can wait till after,” Shoto says as we notice Tenya’s dad opening his mouth to speak. “My name was Caitlin Snow, I was the medic of the team, I technically didn’t have an alias as she is her own person and I will let her explain.”

Shoto’s eyes change into a silver grey and her hair goes fully white. “Hey! Your hair is changing again. I thought it was weird that it wasn’t,” I say.

She stares at me, wondering whether to throw an icicle ar my face or not, “Ignoring that, even though I am glad it’s back to being all white, I’m Frost, I live in the back of Caity’s mind waiting for her to let me out,” I suppress a snort, “I have ice powers and was a criminal for a period of time. My hero identity is Frost, criminal identity is Killer Frost. That’s it for me.”

“I always forget she started out as a criminal,” I say. “So! Any questions?”

The two parents look at each other then Tenya’s dad asks, “What happened after I died?”

Tenya, Shoto, and I look at each other then I say, “A lot, where would you like to start?”

“After my death,” Tenya’s dad says.

We talk about how we defeated Zoom, then how Tenya made a Flashpoint, sorry not sorry dude. We spoke about how Savitar happened and how Tenya got stuck in the speed force for months. Then what happened with DeVoe and Barry was sent to jail. Next, the fact that Barry’s daughter came from the future, and so on and so forth. I’m not naming every villain here, especially since I wasn't there after God Speed. We also talked about the crisis. The first one, the Dominators, second, the Nazis at the wedding, third, Elseworlds, when Barry and Oliver swapped bodies, then the fourth and final, Crisis, the one where the universe died.

Now you might be thinking, ‘Izuku/Cisco, is that what you meant by yearly crisis?’ Yes, that is exactly what I meant by it. Anyway, after we brought them up to speed(no pun intended). We had to say our goodbyes as I wanted to get to designing. As Shoto and I are

departing, I open a breach to take her home, but right before we go through, Tenya comes behind us and gives us one last big hug, says see you tomorrow, and warns me that if I stay up all night, he will confiscate my stuff. I give him an aye aye captain, even if I’m a bit annoyed. Shoto and I go through the breach and I give her one last hug before opening another breach to the apartment to get to work.
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I wake up not remembering falling asleep and seeing my sketches and the start of the costume lying on the table. I quickly reach for my phone which is also on the table and see several hundred missed calls from everyone! My mom, Gypsy, Tenya, Shoto, even Breacher. I quickly dial my mom’s number, the phone rings once, twice before I hear a, -Izuku Midoriya!!-

“Hi mom,” I say sheepishly. “I’m sorry for worrying you. I was working, wasn’t paying attention to the time, and before I knew it I was asleep.”

-It’s fine honey, I knew where you where, I was just concerned why you weren’t home yet.-

“Yeah, I know, I’m going to come back right now so I can get ready for school since I have,” I checked the time, “20 minutes!! I’m coming now!!”

I open a breach and dive roll into it then run to my room to change and I quickly send a text to the group chat notifying them that I’m fine but fell asleep at the apartment and if they want me to pick them up. After I finish getting dressed I check my phone and see that Shoto wants a pick up but Tenya will just run.

As I run to the door, sinceI have ten minutes left, I grab a quick breakfast and a coffee to go and say goodbye to my mother while I open a breach to Shoto’s house. “Hey Sho,” I say, “Old man give you any trouble?”

“Nope, something’s been keeping him at work late. So by the time he’s home, I’m already asleep,” she tells me.

“Now that’s good, are we heading out?” I ask.

“I see you have your coffee, we have no reason to stop. So let’s go see our resident speedster.”

I open a breach to the gates of UA, where I see it swapped with reporters and Tenya hiding behind a tree near the gate. We sneak over to Tenya’s location to talk to him. “Hey, Ten!” Shoto says.

“Good morning, do you see how many reporters there are!?! I don’t want to speed through or walk through that!” He says, astonished.

“Yeah, that’s too much social interaction, but I have a solution to our problems!” I say.

“What?” They both ask with desperation.

“Breach to the classroom?” I ask in a teasing tone.

They both stare at me in disbelief then look at each other and deadpan. “Why didn’t I think of that?” Tenya asks himself.

“Maybe because you speed think past the easy solutions?” Shoto asks genuinely.

“That makes sense,” Tenya says. “Let’s skip past the reporters now!”

I chuckle at the statement and open a breach as I lock arms with my two best friends but before we step through I hear a faint, “Hey wait! Take me with you!” Coming towards us.

I turn around and see Ochako running towards us from the other side of the gate. She stops as she reaches us and catches her breath as she says, “I’m glad I spotted you guys before I went in, I was wondering how to get past the crowd. Do you guys mind if I accompany you? I assume you’re going to the classroom .”

“I don’t, what about you guys? Also I don’t know if what we’re doing is technically legal-,” I get cut off by Shoto.

“Izu, when have we actually cared that what we are doing is legal or not?” She says, “how many times have we actually looked at laws?”

“Fair enough,” I say, “any objections to Ochako joining us on our journey?” I look at my friends, “No, okay.”

“I do have a question, when did the first names happen? Also, what did you mean by not legal stuff?” Tenya asks.

“During our battle trial,” I informed him. “And to answer your second question, what did we use to do? And think about the definition of it right now”

“What does being a hero have to do with-….. oh, right. Now it would be considered vigilantism. And you made weapons and gear for us. I see it now.” He says. “Also, since you’re calling Izuku, Izuku, you can call me Tenya.”

“I prefer Shoto either way, but you have earned the privilege of calling me it in front of everyone.” She says.

Ochako smiles at both of them, “Then you can call me Ochako, shall we go in? We only have 5 minutes left?” She says.

“Right!” I say, as Ochako hooks up with Tenya. “Why is this giving me Wizard of Oz vibes, like we’re about to go skipping off to Emerald City to meet the Wizard?”

Shoto and Tenya start cackling, while Ochako looks confused, “Shall we skip as we enter the portal And sing ‘we’re off to the wizard, the wonderful wizard of oz’ while we’re at it?” Tenya asks.

“What’s the Wizard of Oz?” Ochako asks.

“Remind me to show you that one day,” I tell her, “It’s a pre quirk era movie, it’s very good.”

We go into the breach singing as a group, “We’re off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz.” And as we arrive in the classroom, people turn to look at us strangely as we finish our song.

As the bell rings we sit down in our seats. Mr. Aizawa enters the classroom, looking done with life. He stops at his desk, pulls out a stack of papers that he puts down as he says, “Good work with yesterdays, battle practice. I’ve looked over the grades you got and evaluations,” he pauses his speech and turns to look at Bakugou. “Bakugou, grow up already, whatever personal problem you had, you can leave it at the door. This is a place to learn to be a hero, not pick fights with each other because you have a grudge.”

Shoto snickers at that, because it’s not a grudge, he just has an obsession of being better than me. Mr. Aizawa continues, “Stop wasting your talent.”

Bakugou obviously doesn't like that answer as he grits his teeth and says, “got it,” in an annoyed tone.

“And Midoriya, good job on controlling the situation, but learn to avoid big injuries. I don’t want that happening again, you have potential, use it,” he tells me.

I nod, “Got it sir, it won’t happen again!”

“Good, now on to normal homeroom stuff. This is a sudden announcement but today you will be picking your class president.” Mr. Aizawa says.

The class erupts into loud chatter about everyone wanting to do it, well, everyone besides Shoto, Tenya, Ochacko, and I. “So who do you think is going to get the position?” Ochacko asks.

“Tenya,” Shoto and I say at the same time, then look at each other and start laughing. Tenya looks shocked and embarrassed.

“Why me?” He asks, we both turn to look at him like ‘really?’ And we see a genuine confusion on his face.

“Tenya, are you stupid?” I ask him and he gives me a confused look, “No, right. Who was the leader of TF? And don’t say Wells!”

I can see the gears turning on his head, “You! Tenya! You led us for years! I know several other people who would also say you had great leadership skills. If anyone were to lead this class it would be you,” I tell him with confidence.’’

He smiles at me, “Thanks Izu, this noise is getting to me. Should I do something about it?”

“Yes, please!” Shoto complains, “They are giving me a headache!”

“Everybody quiet down!!” Tenya yells, “Leading the class is a big responsibility, it should not be just anyone. I know you all want the job but ambition does not mean you have the ability to do it. We should hold a democracy to see who gets the most votes, whoever has the second most votes gets to be deputy.”

The class, minus Shoto, Ochacko, Bakugou, who just doesn’t care, and I all start to mutter in agreement. Kirishima says, “But Iida, most of us haven’t known each other very long! You, Todoroki, and Midoriya have an unfair advantage as you have known each other longer, and most people will vote for themselves anyway!”

“While that is technically true that my friends and I technically have an advantage if we put our faith in each other, that just means we trust each other to be in charge of us. Also if anyone does get multiple votes that means they have already earned part of the class’s respect and therefore are fit for the job,” Tenya explains. “Mr. Aizawa, is this allowed?”

“Do whatever you want,” he says from inside his sleeping bag (Is he supposed to have that out during class?).

About twenty minutes later, everyone voted. We put all the votes in a jar and nominated Tenya to write the score on the board. Once Tenya has done that, the final people chosen for class rep and deputy is Tenya and the deputy is Yaoyorozu. “You’re done?” Mr. Aizawa asks, getting up from his sleeping bag. “So Yaoyorozu and Iida are your chosen people? I hope you chose wisely.” The bell rings. “Class dismissed!”
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As the lunch bell rings everyone files out into the lunch hall. As we get our food Tenya goes to find us a table in the giant crowd. Shoto leans over and whispers in my ear, “Is he really speeding through the crowd to get us a table?”

“Well, yeah, we want to get a good table,” I deadpan.

Shoto gives me a look, Ochacko just snorts. I see Tenya waving us over, “Well guys that’s our cue!” I tell them, then start to go over to Tenya. We go sit with Tenya and all start chatting about how our day’s been going and what plans we have after school.

“I’m surprised Nezu hasn’t kidnapped you today, Izuku.” Tenya says.

“Same here, but with all the reporters I’m not surprised. If someone saw us they may think it’s favoritism or I paid Nezu to get in,” I responded.

“True,” Tenya says just as the alarms go off. We look around in shock as we weren’t expecting the alarm.

“Security Level 3 has been broken! All students please evacuate in an orderly fashion!” The alarms blare.

Everyone starts to quickly run out. I pull out my phone and quickly ask, “Gideon, what is a level 3 security breach in UA?”

She calmly replies, “A level 3 security breach in UA means that someone has infiltrated that building.”

“Who could have infiltrated UA?” Shoto asks, we still are not moving.

“Gideon, can you show all of the security cam footage in UA?” I ask, we start slowly moving out of the cafeteria.

“Alright,” The security cameras show and I glance around to see what’s going on. I see two things, one a guy with light blue hair looking through a file box and two reporters trying to swamp the gate.

“Ok, someone has broken in, but we don’t need people to panic more so we could get away with saying it's the press,” I tell the group.

“How could someone have broken in? UA has top notch security,” Shoto asks.

“But not S.T.A.R. Labs level,” I say. “Tenya, can you speed hack into the speakers and tell everyone it’s the press and that there’s no need to panic? I would do it, but I can’t hack fast enough.”

“I can, but we are going to tell someone that somebody did indeed break in right?” He asks.

“Who do you take me for? We aren’t going to hunt down the guy ourselves now, that means no speeding through the city, Tenya.” I say giving him a glare.

“Why am I getting called out!” He asks, annoyed.

“Never mind, just say the announcement,” I tell him.

“I got it! Everyone! Everything is fine!” I hear Tenya’s voice echo throughout the hallway. “It’s just the press! There’s no need to panic! U.A, has a strong security system, no one should be able to infiltrate it!”

Everyone starts to file back to their classes as the police arrive to deal with the reporters. Instead of heading back to our class, Tenya, Shoto, and I, after convincing Ochacko to go back to the class to tell them we will be there soon. We headed down to the principal’s office to tell him what we saw.

“Nezu?” I ask while knocking on the door.

“Midoriya? Come in,” he replies, we open the door and enter the room. Tenya closes the door behind us, “So, to what do I owe the pleasure?”

“We saw someone break into a filling room and take something. He had shaggy blue hair, he had cracked lips and kept itching his neck,” I explained to him.

“And how did you see such things?” He asks in a suspicious tone.

“I asked Gideon to show me security camera’s,” I say in a nonchalant voice.

”Oh, and who’s Gideon?” He asks.

“Gideon, can you introduce yourself?” I ask the AI.

“Yes I can, my name is Gideon and I am an interactive artificial consciousness who assists these three individuals. I have access to every database and camera system in the city that is accessible by our satellites,” she says.

“Satellites?” Nezu asks.

We all look at each other and start to explain that we got access to a satellite and try to make up a story on how we were able to use it. “Anyway! I say, trying to change the subject. “We just wanted to let you know what we saw!”

“Mhm, thank you for informing me of this, we will try to see what file they took, meanwhile you all should head back to class,” Nezu tells us, we all turn to leave the room. “Midoriya?” Nezu asks, I turn my head so fast I could experience whiplash. “Chess?”

I smile and walk back to the desk, “You’re on!” I tell him confidently.”

We play chess until the bell rings. I tell him thank you for the games and hopefully, I will see him tomorrow. “Midoriya,” He called one last time, “You can book to stay after and use the support course area because you have my permission to use it. Just warn me in advance.”

“Thank you Principal Nezu,” I say as I bow, “I will use this wisely!” I turn back to the door and quickly leave the room to go find my friends. “Hello lads,” I say as I wrap my arms around their shoulders.

“How many games of chess did you play? It’s been a few hours,” Tenya asks, concerned.

“14, I won 4! Nezu caught me off guard on some so I made many mistakes,” I tell them, they stare at me agape. “Oh Nezu said I could use the support course area to work on stuff whenever I just had to let him know. Speaking of stuff, anything happen in class?”

“No, nothing much, just the usual classwork. I'll send you the homework though,” Tenya says .

“Right! Anyway, I’m going to go to the apartment to get work done. Do you guys want a ride home or not?” I ask.

“I want to run home today if you don’t mind,” Tenya says, in his polite tone.

“That’s fine, Cait?” I ask the dual colored mop of hair.

“I think I am going to take my sweet time getting home to annoy the old man today. He’s always so ‘grateful’ I get home so quickly. So I’m going to walk today.” They say with a smug smile.

“Fun,” I say, “If you need anything either text, press the distress button, or tell Gideon.”

“I know Izu, don’t worry,” she gives me a small smile. “I’m not alone.”

Eyes flash silver as a note saying, I‘ll deal with anyone that comes our way. I nod and open a breach, “See you tomorrow, text me if you want a pick up.”

They both nod and we have a group hug before all departing.

Chapter Text

I quickly texted my mom to tell her I might be spending the night at the other apartment and not to expect me to be home tonight. I see a text pop up on my phone from Shoto, which reads, -My dad is forcing me to train since the USJ is tomorrow, from what he’s told me. I can’t tell if he’s lying or not, just be aware of the fact. -I reply with, -Good to know, hope he’s not going to hard on you.-

I breach to the apartment so I can continue creating Tenya’s, Shoto’s, and my hero suit, and since tomorrow we are going to the USJ, I have to get this done. Several hours later, and I finally finished three suits! Tenya’s going to be annoyed that I stayed up til five am, but it’s so worth it. I put the suits in a black bag when I decide that I’m going back to my apartment to shower, change, and down a pot of coffee.

I quickly open a breach and silently land in my room. I take a quick shower, change, then quietly go to the kitchen with the bag of suits to make pancakes and coffee. Once that’s done, I eat, then pour coffee to go, then go back to the apartment to get the suits in my bag and head back. I text the group chat to see if anyone is up. Then go to the couch to take a nap and set an alarm for 7:30 to let me know when to leave.

I wake up to my alarm going off. So I get up to tell my mom good morning, goodbye, and grab the black bag before breaching to the UA gates to get to class so I can nap. I text Tenya and Shoto to tell them I’m not picking them up today, slip my phone into my pocket, and put my head on the deck to go back to sleep, since I really didn’t get enough sleep.
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I hear an “Izuku, Izuku!” as I wake up again.

“What is it?” I ask groggily. I sit up and rub my eyes.

“Dude, you were out like a light. How much sleep did you get?” Tenya asks.

I hold up the bag, “How much do you think I got?” I ask him.

Tenya looks into the bag, “Izu, you didn’t,” he says. I give him a sheepish smile. “You stupid idiot, you’ve lost your privileges for a week, no, two weeks!”

“Entirely worth it!” I say, sitting up.

Shoto walks into the room, looks at the two of us and asks, “Izuku, what did you do?”

I gasp, offended that he would think I would do something bad, “I didn’t do anything!!” She scoffs. “Wow, you have no faith in me do you?” I ask.

“It’s not that, Tenya has his disappointed face on,” They explain. “Tenya, what did Izu do?”

“Look in the bag to see for yourself,” Tenya tells her. She walks over and takes a peek in the black bag he’s holding. She gasps.

“You didn’t,” I nod, she sighs. “Perfect day to test them, too.”

Tenya elbows Shoto in the ribs, “You’re supposed to be on my side!” Tenya complains.

“I’m just saying facts!” Shoto says. “I’m not happy he barely got any sleep but they’re cool!”

The class starts to gather around as the bell finally rings. “What are you guys talking about?” Kirishima asks.

“You’ll find out soon!” I tell him.
“Izuku Midoriya, please report to the principal's office with that black bag of yours.” The intercom announces.

I take the bag from Tenya, “Well, I guess that’s my cue!” I salute the class and leave the room. I quickly make my way down to the principal's office as I go to open the door. I hear a second voice talking, so I whisper, “Gideon, identify the voices in this room, please.”

“Identifying voices,” she says. I go to listen to their conversation to get some clues on who it is.

“Nezu, is it really necessary for me to be here?” The mystery person asks.

“Yes it is, I want you to see the craftsmanship of what this student has made,” Nezu tells them.

Craftsmanship? Has to be someone who crafts things, it’s most likely a teacher, but which teacher creates? Wait, I think I know.

“The two people in the room are Nezu and Power Loader, two of UA’s staff,” Gideon says.

“Thanks, Gideon,” I whisper. So Nezu wants to show Power Loader my creations. That’s interesting. What’s more interesting is that Nezu already knows that I have hero suits in the bag. I knock on the door, “Nezu? Power Loader? Can I come in?” I ask.

“Huh, very interesting. Yes, you may, Midoriya,” he says in a calm, collective tone. I open the door. “Thank you for coming.”

“No problem, Nezu, so, you know what’s in the bag?” I ask, already expecting the answer.

He grins, “Yes, I’m curious about how you made them and what they are made of.” He says. I hand him the bag. He takes the three suits out and gives one to Power Loader; they both examine the suits. I sit in silence, waiting for their response. “This is amazing craftsmanship!” Nezu says, I sigh with relief.

“Agreed!” Power Loader says. “You positive you made this?”

“Yes, sir,” I say, trying to stay confident. “Stayed up till five am finishing the designs.”

“Where did you get your materials from?” Power Loader asks. “Some of the armour is hard to get.”

“I got all the fabric from a fabric shop, most of the armour I got from Breacher’s old suits. Some I made from scrap metal.”

Power Loader looks at me agape, “How did you manage to get that! I’ve been asking just to look at that stuff for ages!”

I smirk, “My girlfriend is his daughter, and Breacher is a good friend.”

“Damn kid, you have connections. Your work is amazing. Nezy, can we let this kid show his stuff off in the Sports Festival?” Power Loader asks.

My mouth drops open. I might get to show my stuff off during the Sports Festival? That’s when heroes are watching to see which kids they want at their agency. So, for me to possibly show my gear off, that’s double the people who might want me to intern with them, since I’m not only a hero, but I can do tech support. “I was already thinking that, but I have to get clearance with the rest of the staff and the HPSC,” Nezu says grimly.

The HPSC, the most biased hero commission to exist. They protect Endeavor even though he abuses his kids. They find children and train them to be soldiers to obey their every command. I feel bad for Hawks and Lady Nagant. She used to be a hero, but killed the past commission's president. Anyway, the HPSC is not good, and that’s it.

Power Loader nods, “Understandable, you still have to clear it with them.”

“Gideon?” I ask, “How long until the Sports Festival? Answer in speaker mode, please.”

Power Loader raises an eyebrow. Gideon replies, “The UA Sports Festival is an event where students show off their skills or inventions, orhave the chance to move to the hero course. It takes place in two weeks.”

“Is that an AI?” Power Loader asks.

“Yes,” I reply, “I didn’t make it; she was given to us.” Well, technically, future, past? A version of Tenya that was in the past made it.

“Okay, because I was about to be super impressed,” he said.

“Nezu, do you still need me for anything, or should I head back to class?” I ask.

“Your friends can give you notes on your classes. I’ll let you go back for your heroics class, as I assume you know what’s going to happen?” Nezu asks. I nod, “Good, Power Loader, do you want him for anything?”

“What do you mean by that?” he asks, shocked.

“Do you want him to show you his skills in building?” Or can I have him to myself?” Nezu asks.

“Do you want to show me anything?” Power Loader asks.

“I mean, I told Ochako I’d make her a new suit. I also want to make one for Hagkure,” I tell him.

“Why those two in particular?”

“Well, I asked Ochako if she wanted anything from her suit changed, she said it was too tight, so I want to make it fit better. For Hagukure, I want to make her an actual suit instead of gloves and boots, and something that can make her be seen but not like a quirk disabling device if you know what I mean.” I say.

“Okay, I get where you’re going with this,” he says. “Come down to the support course, we can plan this together.”

My eyes sparkle, “My inner nerd is coming out, I am so excited to be working on something with the Power Loader! Eeeekk!” I squealed.

He chuckles, “Same here, kid, I’m excited to work with you too. Let’s go!”

This is starting to remind me of when I started working for Dr. Wells, but Power Loader isn’t like that. This is making me start to miss Harry now, one of the top tier Wells. I hope he’s doing okay wherever he is, whoever he is. I follow him down to where the Support Course is, suddenly, I hear a loud explosion, and I flinch out of instinct. “Hatsumei! Was that you again?” Power Loader asks.

“Again? Does this happen often?” I ask, concerned.

“You’d be surprised,” he deadpans.

“It wasn’t my fault this time, Power Loader!” Hatsumei? I’m guessing, says.

He facepalms, “Just be more careful,” he says.

“Sir, yes, sir!” She salutes. She pauses, looks at me, “Who’s this?” She asks.

“This is Izuku Midoriya. He’s going to be working with me on a project.” Power Loader tells her.

Her mouth is agape, “You get to work on a project with Power Loader?!” She asks, surprised but also excited. “Do you know how incredible this opportunity is?”

I give a sheepish laugh, “Yeah, I must’ve won the lottery with this. I thought it was crazy that I got in the Hero Course here, but getting the opportunity to do this is insane!” I say, realizing how crazy this actually is.

“You’re a Hero Course student?” she asks, surprised.

“Yeah, I tinker with tech from time to time,” I admit.

“You don’t just tinker, you create gadgets and suits.” Power Loader says sincerely.

“I mean, I’ve made a few gadgets for my friends, and,” I say, trying to play it off. Power Loader raises an eyebrow. “Oh, fine, I make gadgets. Can we get to work now?”

“Yeah,” he waves his hand to get me to follow him, “Hatsumei, can you tell everyone not to bother us and that I will explain later?”

She salutes. We got to his desk and started to figure out how to make Hagakre’s suits. We decided to make Ochacko’s weights so she doesn’t have giant balls on her wrist. I told Power Loader I’d ask her if she’d want a different design for her suit, same for Hagakure, if she could have a suit, what would it look like? “Have you seen the movie The Incredibles, more specifically Incredibles 2?” I ask him.

“Yeah, of course, why?” he asks.

“What if we could make Hagakure’s suit like Violet’s when she touches it, it goes invisible, until we can figure out how to use the light to see her,” I suggest.

“That’s a good idea, let’s work until twelve so you can go get lunch, we can figure out when to continue later,” he says.

We get to work on trying to figure out how to make the suit; we basically turn the Support Course into a science lab. Since Hagakure sent a sample of her DNA we try to add the DNA to a small piece of fabric we have. After a few hours, we finally figured it out. I say thank you and bye to Power Loader before running off to the cafeteria to meet Tenya, Shoto, and Ochako as the bell rings. “Tenya!” I yell, “Wait up!”

He turns around, “Hey, Izu, what have you been doing all morning?” He asks.

“I was originally with Power Loader and Nezu, but then went to the Support Course to work on an actual suit for Hagakure, so that’s fun, I just need to ask her for a design.” I tell him, “Is Ochako sitting with us?”

“Most likely, yeah. Any particular reason you’re asking?” Tenya asks.

“Yeah, I told Power Loader that she said her suit was too tight, so I want her to give me a sketch of a new design for the suit if she wants one,” I say.

“Fun,” he says. “Well, you’re back to your old job then, aye?”

I chuckle, “I guess it does feel nice though. I also think I might be on to something about the thing.” I whisper to him. The thing obviously being that our crazy rat, dog, bear, principal(still trying to figure out what he is), is on to us being reincarnations.

He shrugs, “Wouldn’t surprise me. Plus it’d be nice to have an evil genius on our side.”

“Yeah,” I say as we get our food. I start to look around for Shoto and Ochako when a cold hand touches my shoulder,” Ahhh!” I scream, and people turn to look at me. “Shoto! You can’t just do that!” I say then whisper, “Frost, I know it’s you, don’t do that again!”

She chuckles, “But it’s so easy to scare you though, Cisco,” Frost whispers back. Her eyes and hair change back to normal, “Come on! Ochako’s saving us a spot, you can catch me or us up when we get there.” Shoto says.

As we walk over, I just tell her the fact that Nezu may be on to me and keeping a close eye on us. She nods as we sit down. “Hey, Ochako? If you could get another suit, would you change the design in any way?”

“Well, I guess I would make it a bit more space-themed because that’s how I originally designed it also, since my quirk is like when you’re in space, so I thought it’d be a good idea,” she admits.

“Cool! Could you give me a sketch?” I ask.

“Why would I give you a -?” Ochako starts, then hesitates, “Wait, you don’t mean?” I nod my head. “Oh my god! Really?” She asks excitedly.

“Yeah, it’s a project I’m working on with Power Loader,” I see Hagukure pass by, “Hagakure!” I yell, she stops, and comes over.

“Ye,s Midoriya?” she asks, confused.

“If you could have an actual suit, what would it look like?” I nervously ask her.

“Uhm, I don’t know, why are you asking?” she asks cautiously.

“Uhm,” I say, “I’m working on a project with Power Loader to get you an actual suit, so I have been tasked with getting a design for it.”

“But won’t the suit make me stand out more in a battle? That’s why I have the suit I have now.” She says.

“You can barely call what you have now a suit! Plus, if you were to somehow turn visible in a fight or be seen, it could leave you vulnerable since, well, you are basically naked. Don’t worry about the suit, I just need a design.” I tell her.

She looks shocked, well, from what I can tell at least. “I never thought of it like that. Thanks, Midoriya! I’ll get you that sketch! And in the meantime, wear my gym clothes with my suit.” She walks off.

“No problem!” I yell back. The bell rings, indicating the end of lunch. As we walk back to class, Shoto, Tenya, and Ochako give me a rundown of what I missed in our classes today and what I have to do for homework.

We take our seats in homeroom as Aizawa walks in, nand one of us makes a sound. He takes one look at us and says, “Good, you’ve improved. For today's basic hero training, All Might, I, and a special guest will supervise.”

“Sir? What exactly are we doing?”

Aizawa replies, “We will be doing rescue training that will prepare you for disaster relief, from fires to floods.”

“Rescue? Sounds like another tough day?” Kaminari complains.

“Right?” Mina agrees.

“Come on, you guys! This is what being a hero is all about!” Kirishima says excitedly.

“I’m excited for the flood area! I’ll be right at home, ribbit.” Tsu says.

“I’m not done,” Aizawa says as he activates his quirk. He presses a button on a remote. “It’s up to you whether or not you want to wear your hero suits. As some of them may be ill-suited for this activity.” The whole class starts to get excited and stands up, pushing up on our desks. “This training site is a bit remote, so we’ll be going by bus. That’s all, get ready and change.”

We all quickly get out of our seats, and while most of us go to the wall with our costumes, I grab the bag as we head to the locker room to change.
“You guys excited?” I ask, taking their suits out and handing them out.

“Definitely, this is going to be a nice refresher,” Tenya says.

Shoto’s eyes turn silver while her hair turns white, “I’m ready to kick ass and save some people!” Frost says excitedly.

“You know you’re not the one really kicking ass, right?” I ask, making sure as I clip my fanny pack on.

Her head drops to the floor, “I know, it’s still disappointing.” Red hair appears again. “We really need to start asking before just pushing me out of control!”

“Frost will get caught one of these days,” Tenya says, annoyed fondly.

“Anyway, let’s get the new fit on!” She says excitedly. We all split off to change into our new suits. When we all get out, everyone’s already left. “Huh, it seems like we’re running late,” she chuckles.

“That’s not funny! Mr. Aizawa’s going to be annoyed,” He facepalms.

“Well, at least we get to show our new suits off without any spoilers!” I say, trying to find the positive in this. Both of them smile at that. We all quickly run out of the locker room and spot Ochako. “Ochako!” I yell, “Wait up!”

She turns around as we catch up with the class, she chuckles, “There you guys are! I was wondering why you didn’t come out of the class with the other boys.” She looks us up and down, examining our new hero suits. She gasps loudly, drawing the attention of the entire class, “Oh my god!!! These look absolutely amazing!!! Is this your work, Izuku?”

I rub the back of my neck in embarrassment as the rest of the class turns around, gasping and starting to murmur, “Yeah, it is! Everything made from scratch!” I say, getting really embarrassed by the attention.

“Alright, everyone! Time to stop gawking and load onto the bus! If Izuku is okay with it, we can answer your questions on the bus!” Tenya yells and waves his arm.

When we’re on the bus, everyone starts asking questions. I get overwhelmed with all the voices yelling at me until Shoto calmly says, “Everyone calm down! One at a time, please, can’t you see you’re overwhelming the poor man? Remember what we said on the first day about social anxiety?”

Everyone starts murmuring apologies at once, bowing their heads, “Everyone, it’s fine, really! I get that you’re curious-!” I try to say before I get cut off by Bakugou.

“Well, I for one, don’t care about what you have to say!” He yells angrily, “But when the hell did you get into making stupid things! I’ve never seen this before.”

“You only saw one side of me, Kacchan,” the name feeling disgusting in my mouth, but I call him that so he doesn’t think I’ve really changed. “I did this at home, never bothering to show it to you, as we know what you thought of me, and probably still think of me,” I mumble the last bit.

“So you’re still looking down on me after all these years!?!” He asks, infuriated.

“Bakugou, that’s enough!” Yaoyorozu sternly says. “None of us may know your history with each other,” Tenya and Shoto mumble in protest, “but this is UA, where we are supposed to learn how to be heroes, not make our personal problems everyone's problem! If you have such a problem with Midoriya, maybe you should switch classes, or better yet, schools. And maybe while you’re at it, fix your god complex, you are not better than everyone, stop acting like it. We are all classmates here, which means we are equals.”

Shoto gives a wolf whistle as Bakugou finally backs down, “Yaoyorozu, that was amazing. Any questions you have can be answered first!” She says. Tenya and I look at Shoto, we both have our eyebrows raised, “Don’t you even think that way?” she whispers to us, as she turns tomato red. We both start to cackle.

“Thank you, Todoroki,” Yaoyorozu says, her cheeks a little red from the praise. I look at Tenya and he shrugs. “Midoriya, my question is, what does Uraraka mean by your work? All three of your suits are different from what they were during the training exercise, but surely those were professionally made. Like, look at the armour.” She asks, looking between the three of us.

“No, Ochako’s right, I made the suits and part of the armour, but some of it is from old Breacher suits that he used over the years,” I say, my cheeks flushed from pride and embarrassment.

“It’s true! But he’s also made the support gear that we wear, like his gloves, my blasters, Ochako’s grappling hook, or Tenya’s taser.” Shoto says, turning her bracelet to show her blasters, then turns them back.

The class gapes, “You made those?” Kirishima asks in shock.

I nod, “I made Shoto’s blaster and Tenya’s taser way before the school year, though. I also have a cold gun.”

“Wow, Midoriya, I wish I had the skills to do that!” Kaminari says, enthusiastically.

“Thanks, Kaminari,” I say sheepishly.

For the rest of the bus ride, I answer all of the class’s questions about the fact that I made the suits Shoto, Tenya, and I are wearing until Aizawa tells us that we are here and to get off the bus. As we walk to the doors of the USJ, flashes of a purple mist and a guy with blue hair and a hand over his face appear. As I come out of the breach, I stop dead in my tracks. “Izuku?” Tenya asks the class, including Aizawa, to turn and look at us. “Are you okay? You’re shaking.”

“I have a bad feeling about this,” I say, shakily.

“What could go wrong, man?” Kirishima asks. “This is a part of UA, there’s no way anything could go wrong.” He laughs nervously when his attempt to break the tension fails.

“I don’t know, just stay on guard,” I warn them as I whisper to Shoto and Tenya, “I put coms and Gideon into our glasses, Sho you have a small retractable mic around your ear, that I hope you put on. If anything happens stay in touch. I had a vibe about a mist guy and a guy with blue hair and a weird hand on his face. Stay safe, stay on guard.” I tell them, tand hey nod as Aizawa opens the door to let us in.

“Whoa!!!” The class collectively gasps. I was impressed, even though I knew where we were going to the USJ, seemed like Shoto and Tenya agreed with it being impressive.

“Is this Universal Studios Japan!?!” Denki asks.

“There’s the flood zone, landslide zone, conflagration zone, etc.” A mysterious voice says, “Every disaster and accident, I actually built this place myself. I call it the Unforeseen Simulation Joint, or the USJ. So, no, not Universal Studios Japan,” A short person in a spacy outfit chuckles.

My eyes sparkle in admiration a bit, “It’s the space hero Thirteen!” I say.

Ochacko jumps with joy, “I love Thirteen!! They’ve always been my favorite hero!!”

Aizawa looks around, then turns to Thirteen, “Thirteen, where's All Might? Wasn’t he supposed to meet us here?” he whispers.

“About that, he almost reached his limit during his patrol this morning. He stopped at the school to rest and will meet us later,” they whispered to him.

“Oh, the irony, we’ll start without him and figure out what to do when he gets here.” Aizawa face palms.

“Right before we start, I have a few points to make. As many of you may be aware, my quirk is called black hole. I mainly use it to save people in disasters but my quirk could easily kill. I’m not going to doubt some of you may have a similar problem.” Thirteen states.

“In our superhuman society, quirks are very heavily restricted and monitored. It may seem that the system is guarded well and that nothing can go wrong, but remember, it only takes one bad decision or wrong move with an uncontrollable quirk for someone to die." They continue.

I look down, thinking about the artificial speed force or Flash Point, or literally any other choice we’ve made that could have been world-ending. After taking a shaky breath, Thirteen starts again, “During the physical tests that Mr. Aizawa has given you, you’ve learned about your hidden potential, everything that you can and will learn about your quirks.”

I start to get flashes again, this time of Aizawa on the ground, injured, people and villains scattered everywhere, and a big creature-like thing fighting All Might. I come out of the breach, holding my head in pain. “-the danger that your quirks can pose to others. This class will show you how to utilize your quirks to learn how to save and protect people.” They finish, Iida notices my hands clamped around my head, and holds me, and I drop to my knees.

“Mr. Aizawa, something’s wrong with Izuku!” He says.

“Leave me alone!” I say, not talking to anyone, “I know something's going to happen! I don’t need more specifics! And even if I did, they didn’t need to hurt that badly!”

“Izu? You okay? Do you want me to let go?” He asks, and the class starts to get worried.

“No, just another vibe, help me up, please,” I whisper. “I’m fine-,” I cut myself off, “Mr. Aizawa behind you!”

I stand up with my arm around Tenya for a bit of support. Mr. Aizawa whips around to see a bit of black smoke appearing, and as it grows, a hand starts to come out of it and then a head. A head of a man with blue hair, a hand on his head and face, and crimson red eyes. “It’s him,” I whisper.

“Huddle up and don’t move!” Aizawa yells, Shoto puts his hand on my shoulder, and Ochako comes closer. “Thirteen protect the students!” Villains start to appear out of the portal, and the portal, which is apparently a person, has eyes.

Ochako whispers, “What’s happening?” she asks, panicked.

“A villain attack,” Tenya says.

“Are those part of today’s training?” Kirishima asks nervously.

“No, these are actual villains, don’t move!” Aizawa says as he puts on his goggles.

“Thirteen and EraserHead, is it? According to the staff schedule we received the other day, shouldn’t All Might be here?” The portal villain asks.

“So that was your doing, of course it was,” Aizawa scoffs.

“Where is he? We’ve come all this way, brought so many playmates, so where is All Might, the so-called Symbol of Peace? Maybe, some dead children will catch his attention?” He starts manically laughing.

“There’s no way that these are actual villains? What kind of villains decide to sneak into a school?” Kaminari asks, trying to break the tension. The class is stiff; no one’s moving.

“Thirteen, aren’t there intruder sensors?” Yayorozu asks.

“Yes, of course, there are; normally, they would have gone off by now.” They say, looking around.

I bring one of my gloves up and take my arm from around Tenya and use it to tap many buttons, a screen projects for everyone to see. “Either one of their quirks is jamming the sensors, or a hacker hacked in,” I announce.

“Maybe they aren’t as dumb as they seem,” Shoto says, and the whole class turns their heads to look at him. “This place is far from campus; they picked a time when a small number of people would be here. They also said they were expecting All Might, so that means they had our schedule.”

“The alarm!” I say, a lightbulb fires off in my head. “When the press was trying to get answers, the villain must have caused that distraction so he could get the schedule.”

“That makes so much sense,” Tenya says, groaning.

“Thirteen, start evacuating and try to call the school! There might be a chance one of those villains has an electric type quirk, Kaminari, if you can try to signal for help!” Aizawa yells, getting in position for battle.

“Sure, but Mr. Aizawa! You can’t fight those villains alone!” Kaminari protests.

“He has this, don’t worry. After all, he is a pro hero,” I tell him, hoping he’ll be fine.

We all start heading to the door to try to get out, “Thirteen! Maybe I could be of help? My quirk allows me to open breaches. It would be quicker if we went through one!” I say, trying to be helpful while Aizawa is distracting the villains.

“Good idea, Midoriya, open a breach,” they say.

I open a breach, the class starts getting in a line to go through it, normally, I would go with the group that goes through, but we don’t have the time for that, so I hope this works. Before the first person goes through, a purple black portal covers it, “I can not allow that!” The portal villain announces. “ Greetings, we are the League of Villains! Forgive our audacity, but we have come here to UA High School, this bastion of heroism, to end the life of our Symbol of Peace, All Might.”

I blink at the villain in front of me, do all villains monologue at some point? Like, this is just getting weird at this point. “We were under the impression that he would be here today, but it seems like plans were changed. No matter, my role stays the same.”

Bakugou and Kirishima rush up to the villain with their quirks activated. Even if they shouldn’t have done that it gives me the perfect distraction. I whisper, “Gideon?” I ask, hoping that, the person jamming the place didn’t interfere with her.

“I see the situation, I have already sent a notice to Nezu,” she replies, already knowing what I was going to ask.

“No, both of you get back!” Thirteen yells, I snap back into attention.

“Thirteen! Wait! Don’t use your quirk! It may just backfire on you!” I yell, the portal wrapping around us. I suddenly appear over the flood zone, falling into the water. I quickly open a breach onto the boat so I don’t land in the water. I tumble out of the breach, sitting on the floor of the boat.

I notice that Tsuyu is climbing onto the boat, Mineta following close behind. “Midoriya, you’re here too. We seem to be in a bit of trouble here,” she says, surprised, while Mineta is trying to catch his breath.

I nod my head, “Yeah, apparently they got a hold of our schedule, like I said earlier, the media storming the gate makes more sense now. They’ve been waiting for this change and prepared for it well.” I say, standing up.

“But, but! There’s no way they actually have a way to beat All Might, right? Once he gets here, he'll punch right through those thighs, right?” Mineta asks, sounding panicked.

“If he gets here, and I don’t know, even the best heroes have their weaknesses,” I say, then mumble, “I should know, Tenya, Shoto, and I have been defeated several times.”

“What was that Midoriya?” Tsuyu asks.

“Nothing! Just that we don’t know what they have planned for All Might, but first we need to figure out a way off this ship and away from these villains.” I tell them, “But first, I need to check up on our classmates.” I tap the side of my glasses. “Sho, Ten, can you hear me?” I ask.

“Loud and clear, boss man!” Shoto says.

“We all know I’m not the leader here, Tenya is,” I say.

“No, why do you guys always say I’m the leader? We all know Sho is the one who puts up with our crap. Also, Izuku, you are the brains; that’s basically the leader!” he says.

“Even if Sho puts up with our crap, it’s still the other way around, plus you scream big brother energy, I literally have you in my contacts as big bro speed, come on! Also, just because I’m the brains does not mean I’m the leader! Anywa,y back on topic,” I say, Tsuyu and Mineta look at me weirdly. “What’s going on with you? Are you with anyone?”

“I’m still at the entrance, I’m with Ochako, Shoji, Mina, Sero, Sato, and Thirteen,” Tenya says.

“I’m alone, appeared in front of a group of villains and unleashed Frost onto them and pegged them for information, they didn’t give me anything good though.” Shoto reports.

“I’m with Tsuyu and Mineta, we’re in the flood zone, we’re on a boat right now with villains surrounding it.”

“Guys, Thirteens asking me to run to the school, Izuku did you?” he asks.

“Tch,” Mr. Aizawa says, throwing another punch. Then, as he’s still counting down, he elbows the blue-haired man right in the stomach.

“It’s hard to tell when you're moving around so much, but there are moments where your hair falls between your eyes.” He smirks, “It happens after whenever you finish a move. Also, your max duration is getting shorter so often. Don’t overdo it, Eraser,” he says, putting his hand on his elbow.

A memory flashes in my mind: Aizawa on the ground, very injured. I quickly move to a spot where I can use my quirk but not be seen. I send a powerful blast at the guy attempting to get him off my teacher. He flies backwards and hits the ground hard.

“I don’t know where that came from, and I don’t care.” He says, annoyed, trying to stand up. “I do know that you don’t specialize in group fights, this is different from your usual type of fight, but you still jumped right into the fight. Maybe trying to give the kids some hope?” He says as a portal opens behind him, “Oh, and by the way, hero, I’m not the boss here.”

A weird creature with a brain sticking out of the top of its head. He lunges to fight Aizawa, before he can react, and most likely get hit, I open a breach behind the weird thing and stand up and hit it with a giant blast. Then close the breach, not knowing where the thing went.

“My Nomu!!” The blue-haired guy yells like he’s about to have a tantrum. Suddenly, the Nomu falls from the ceiling. I open up another breach and keep the breach he falls from, and the one he lands in open. The guy looks at me and yells at the top of his lungs, “What the hell did you do!!”

“Sho?” I whisper into my glasses, “I may need some back up, let Frost go wild, but don’t hit the falling thing.”

“I’ll be right there, but are you sure about the Frost thing?” she asks.

“Positive, this villain needs a lesson in Frost,” I tell him. “Tenya? What’s going on with you?”

“I’m trying to keep pace with the heroes, but if you need me there, I will be.” He says.

“I can cover him for now, let you know if that changes.”

“Ok, we’ll be there soon.” Tenya says, “Hold on tight.”

I see an ice bridge appearing over us. It drops suddenly, and a sheet of ice hits the blue-haired guy as he is almost at our location. I laugh, “Right on time, Frosty!” I yell, so happy to see her.

She smiles, then goes back to a stern expression. “Hey, Handy! Pick on someone your own size!” Frost's eyes shining silver. With the hand I’m not using to hold the breaches, because somehow I’m just using one hand, I send another wave at him. It breaks him out of the ice and sends him into a wall. “Hah! Take that!”

The portal face appears next to him, “Master,” I hear him say, “One of the heroes got away, the heroes should be here soon.”

As if right on cue, I hear a stern, “I am here.” Come from the entrance way. “I got a note from Nezu during our chat that there was a problem at the USJ, so I headed out as soon as I could. Young Iida ran into me on my way out, and I mean literally, and told me what was going on. It made my blood boil, hearing that kids were targeted because of me.” I roll my eyes a bit, remembering when the Sludge Villain tried to take over my body to get away from All Might. “You all must have been so scared, my colleague have done their best, but fear not, you can be at peace now knowing that I am here!”

No, I in fact, along with Shoto and Tenya, was not scared as we have dealt with worse. But you think all of us are amateurs, I get it. I stop the breaches as my vision starts to get blurry. I see a flash of yellow before realizing that Tenya caught me, knowing I was exhausted from using that much power and focusing energy. The minute I stop the breaches, the Nomu, that’s what it’s apparently called, lands on his face and then charges at All Might, and he charges back.

“Get me to Aizawa, run those two up, I’ll breach with him.” I tell him, he gives me that worried face, “I’ll be fine, quick breach back up to the entrance.” He nods and quickly runs me over to him, then runs to grab the others, and then speeds up to the entrance. I put my arm around Mr. Aizawa’s shoulders, open a breach, and help him jump through.

As I land, Thirteen comes over to grab him, “Is everyone here alright?” they ask. Shoto comes over and supports me so I don’t faint from exhaustion.

“Yeah, no serious injuries here.” Shoto glares at me. Apparently they took control back. “Fine, I overused my quirk a bit, I should be fine though,” I admit.

I can hear All Might and the Nomu fighting in the background. Hearing them trade punches. “Tenya?” I ask, “What if you hit him with a lightning bolt? Would that help All Might with weakening him since he absorbs physical blows?” I ask.

“Yeah, it could help, and while I’m running around, should I gather the rest of the class?” He asks.

“They should be fine as long as they stay in place,” I say.

“Iida, what are you doing?” Thirteen asks, “Leave the fight to All Might, he’ll take care of the villain.”

“Don’t worry, Thirteen, I’ll be back in a flash,” Tenya says, winking at Shoto and me. We both groan. We see a yellow blur, running around the USJ, and suddenly a lightning bolt is sent at the Nomu. He speeds right back, “Order up! One lightning bolt to the face for a Nomu?” He grins.

“Nice line!” I say and hold out a high five.

“Ok, what the hell was that?!?” Jiro yells, “How many more things are you hiding from us?” she asks.

We all look at each other, if only they knew, “That was a part of my quirk, the faster I run, the more friction I build up, and the more friction, the bigger the blast I can send,” Tenya says, using the scientific logic behind the power rather than saying the power.

I give him a nod of approval. I hear a blast in the background, I make my glasses zoom in, and I see Bakugou and Kirishima trying to fight the Nomu, “Idiots! The lot of them!” Shoto yells.

“Hey Tenya?” I ask, smirking.

He sighs, “Oh god, what is it?” he asks nervously.

My smirk grows wider, “You wanna bring out an old move?” I ask.

He thinks for a moment, pauses, then grins, “You don’t mean?” He asks.

I nod, “Super Sonic Punch!!” We both yell. He speeds out the doors.

“You sure this is wise?” Shoto asks, “We just had him throw a lightning bolt, you sure he should do this?”

“Gideon? Can you check Tenya’s calorie and energy levels?” I ask.

“Mr. Allen's energy levels are fine for now, the same with his calorie count, but after he does a super sonic punch, he should have a small recharge.” She informs us.

“Hopefully, after this, we will be done with this,” I sigh, “Thanks, Gideon, helpful as always.”

“No problem, Mr. Ramon,” She says.

“It sounds weird being addressed as that, but the same, it feels normal, you get what I mean?” I ask Shoto.

“Yeah, it brings back memories,” she smiles.

Just then, Tenya comes flying in, jumps over the stairs, and hits the Nomu right in the face. He goes flying backwards, not too far, but far enough, and goes through a building. The whole class, including All Might, Bakugo, Kirishima, Aizawa, Thirteen, and even the villains, stare at him in complete shock. “Hah! Nice one!” I say, he quickly runs over.

“How fast was that?” Tenya asks.

“That took 2.54 seconds, good job, Mr. Allen, you broke your record!” Gideon says.

He cheers. Right after that, the rest of the Pro Heroes come, and Snipe starts shooting the blue-haired guy. “Hey there, they are! Perfect timing!” Tenya says.

They smile at him, “Tenya, did you leave the pros and run back here and neglect to tell us that they were coming?” I ask.

“Heh heh, I’m sorry?” He responds.

I facepalm, “Come on, Tenya!”

“Like I said, this is why you’re the brains,” he deadpans.

The blue-haired villain starts trying to retreat into the portal, but Snipe gets to him first and starts firing at him, “Stand down, villain, unless you want me to end it right here?” Sinpe asks, but before he can get an answer, the blue-haired villain falls into the portal, saying something about failing to beat All Might, and next time it would be different from what I heard.

My mind thinks back to Snipe shooting, and there's something familiar in it. I hear the Pro Heroes talking about what happened as Shoto, Tenya, and I walk over to Ochako, “Before I forget,” I say to Tenya as Ochako meets us halfway as she notices we are coming over. I hand Tenya a Ciscobar I took out of my pocket, “For precautionary reasons, eat it.” I say, shoving the bar at him. He chuckles, takes the bar, opens it, and takes a bite.

He smiles at me, and I smile back. Ochacko starts talking about how scary that was. A reminder for those who forgot, a Ciscobar is a granola bar that I made for Barry/Tenya that has a lot of calories, so he can easily recharge. I might give some to Recovery Girl for a precaution, as these kinda are medical supplies.

“Izuku!” Ochako yells, shaking me out of my thoughts. “What did you think of the whole situation? Wasn’t it scary?”

“It was something that’s for sure, I didn’t think it was that scary, I was more worried and thought we were unprepared,” I say.

“Why weren’t you scared?” Ochako asks some of the class coming over, “We just fought villains, how are you not scared?”

The rest of the class starts to nod and agree with Ochako, Tenya, Sho, and I just look at each other and sigh. Bakugou and Kirishima are walking up the stairs. “I was attacked by a villain a while ago, it tried to kill me, and then an hour or something later, I ran into the same villain trying to kill someone else in front of a large crowd, and the pros couldn’t do anything, so I tried to stop him. That also wasn’t the worst thing that happened, but it’s the most recent.” I tell them.

The whole class gasps. Ochako looks like she’s about to say something, but I shake my head. I don’t want their pity. We all hear sirens and the Pro Heroes going outside, so we follow them. Anyone who wasn’t with us when the Pro Heroes arrived ventures out soon after. A detective comes up and asks, “Is everyone here? And okay? Are there any major injuries?”

The Pros turn to look and Present Mic asks, “Is everyone here and accounted for?”

“More importantly, is anyone injured?” Mindnight adds, glaring at Mic.

None of us speaks up, shaking our heads until Shoto snitches, “None of us are injured but my friends here,” She says, motioning at us as well as glaring, “Did overexert their powers.”

I glare back at her for snitching, “Good to know,” The detective says. “You two, and anyone else who overused their powers, should go straight to Recovery Girl when you get back to the school, alright?”

We both nod, “Detective?” Tsu asks, “What about Mr. Aizawa?”

“Thankfully, he got out of the fight before he got more injured. He’s at the hospital right now, getting his elbows healed and making sure his eyes aren’t dried out. All Might should also be fine, he went to Recovery Girls to get healed, which I should head to, to get his statement.” The detective says as he goes to talk to the other police officers.

“We will have to get our security systems reevaluated,” Nezu says, glancing at me.

“Teleportation quirks are not that common, too bad this one went to the villain's side,” Midnight complains.

“Tsukauchi!” Nezu asks, the detective turns around, “Would you mind taking those three to the nurse? Midoriya looks like he’s about to collapse.” Nezu points to us three.

I blink, look at myself, squint, then ask, “I don’t look that tired, do I?” I ask Ochako.

“Dude, you look exhausted, like one push away from falling over,” She says.

“Great, I guess we’ll take the ride,” I tell them.

“Yeah, I can take them, come on, you three,” He motions us to the car, and we all follow.

As soon as we get in the car, I ask the detective, “Uhm, sir? Do you have any idea who that villain was?”

“No, not yet, but hopefully I will soon.” He says.

The rest of the ride passes in silence, we pull up to the gates, say our thank yous, and hurry off to Recovery Girl. We get to the door, knock thrice, and hear an “Who is it?” and some scrambling.

“It’s Izuku Midoriya, Tenya Iida, and Shoto Todoroki. Can we come in? Also, if All Might’s in there, we know about his skinny form,” I say.

Shoto starts cackling, “Yes, you may, come in!” She says, I open the door, glance around the room, and see All Might lying on the bed. “So, what can I do for you? Before you answer, Midoriya, go sit on a bed, you look exhausted.”

“That’s mainly what we’re here for, Tenya and Izuku overused their powers a bit during the fight. I just wanted to get them checked out,” Shoto says.

“I see, I’ll check over them. You guys can stay here for a few hours and get some much-needed rest,” Recovery Girl says as the Detective walks in. “What did you guys do to overuse your powers?”

I suck in a breath of air, “I may or may not have put the Nomu in a falling loop for like ten minutes or something, also while blasting the villain,” I tensed.

“You did that?” The detective asks, shocked. “You saved your teacher from getting so much more injured, good job, kid!” he praises.

I smile at him, “Tenya here, decided to throw a lightning bolt and a super sonic punch at the Nomu, whilst still getting used to how much he has to eat for his powers.” Shoto glares at Tenya.

“It wasn’t that bad, Sho-,” he immediately gets cut off by Shoto.

“You barely had time to finish lunch today, and you said you barely ate enough for breakfast! We should have made sure we had more bars on us before we left! I’m glad that Izu had one when he-,” I cut off Shoto by unzipping my fanny pack and dumping out all the Cisco Bars I had on me. “...okay, good to know you had those. Anyway, that’s all from me,” Shoto finishes.

I smile at him, “What do you mean, eat enough for his quirk?” Recovery Girl asks.

“I have to eat 10,000 calories a day because my quirk makes me have a fast metabolism, so Izuku made a bar that has a lot of calories in it that I can consume quickly if I’m low on calories,” Tenya explains.

“What happens when you’re low on calories?” Recovery Girl asks, taking notes.

“I get sluggish and can pass out easily,” he says.

I snort and say, “Treadmill.” Shoto joins me in chuckling. Tenya sends a glare as Recovery Girl, All Might, and the Detective look intrigued. I slowly stop laughing and explain, “A while back, before we knew Tenya needed so many calories, he just kept passing out, we put him on a treadmill to monitor his vitals, and when we figured it out, we were a second too late as he fainted while he was on the treadmill and went flying into the boxes.”

“We were worried back then, but now when we look back on it, it’s funny,” Shoto chuckles.

“I can see how that would be,” The detective says.

“Tsukauchi, I didn’t see you come in!” All Might says as he sits up.

He gives a wave, “Hi, All Might, I dropped these three off here because I was coming to see you. Before you ask, all the students are fine. Aizawa and Thirteen aren’t too injured, thanks to your students here. They hadn’t helped you guys protect the students; you all could have had worse injuries.” He informs him.

“Thank you, you three, I know some of the other students may have also helped, but did help a great deal,” All Might says.

I beam, because no matter if this guy isn’t the best person, he’s still a public figure, “No problem, All Might! It’s what heroes do!” I say, the other two nodding as well.

There is another knock on the door, and Recovery Girl asks, “Who is it?”

“It’s Snipe, may I come in?” He asks.

“Yes, you may,” Recovery Girl responds. He opens the door and walks in, glancing at the three of us and All Might. “To what do I owe the pleasure?”

The detective quickly says, “I’m going to leave, I still have to write a report and have a job to do.”

“Okay, great to see you, Tsukauchi!” All Might says.

“You too, All Might,” He says and waves goodbye.

“I am here to talk with the three students,” He says, “may I borrow them?”

“Of course,” Recovery Girl says. Snipe makes a follow motion, we look at each other before Shoto shrugs, and we follow him out.

As we leave the room, Shoto very bluntly asks, “Is this an intervention?”

Snipe blinks twice as we turn to look at her like What the heck, “No? I don’t know why it would be. I’m just here to check up on you three, make sure you’re okay,” he says.

It’s now my turn to blink as I just stare at him, trying to find the familiarity in the way he was shooting the gun and the way he’s checking up on us. “We’re fine, sir, thank you for asking,” Tenya quickly responds.

Snipe holds out his hand for us to shake, “I want to thank you for helping out and reaching us and just doing your best,” He sincerely says.

I quickly jump at the chance and go to shake his hand. As soon as I touch it, my powers jump at the chance, showing me flashes of a tall man who is a police officer with his daughter, who looks very familiar. As I come out of the vibe, I gasp, “You’re Joe! Joe West!” I say and start to laugh, “This makes so much sense!”

“What!?” Tenya almost yells, “No way that Joe is just apparently here!”

“Apparently, fate has decided to give you your whole family, Bar,” Shoto teases.

Snipe stares then asks, “What? What do you mean, ‘I’m Joe West’? Who even is Joe West!?”

I retouch his hand for a second and see a blue glow, “Give it a sec,” I say, “Don’t pass out, don’t pass out.” I cross my fingers.

He doesn’t move or blink for about 30 seconds, then says, “That was strange. How did you know that I’m Joe West? How did you even know who Joe West is?”

I grin, “Well, if you can’t tell from my powers, I’m Cisco Ramon,” I say.

“Oh boy, we’re doing this again? I’m getting sick of introducing myself again and again!” Shoto complains.

“Cait, come on, how else do we explain that we’re people that we don’t look at all like!” I say.

“Barry, please talk sense into our little brother,” Shot says.

He looks between us, “Cait, what do you want me to do? If we want the people we used to know to know us, then we have to explain somehow!” Tenya says.

Snipe looks shocked, “Bar? Like Barry Allen? Cait? Like Caitlin Snow? And Cisco?” He asks, “Does that mean you all are-?”

“Your adopted son/son-in-law, and his friends? Yup, we are!” I say, Tenya smacks the back of my head, “Ow, Tenya, what was that for?”

“Cheeky brat, whether we like it or not, we were all practically adopted by him at least emotionally,” He says.

“Valid,” I say.

“Oh my god, may I?” He asks, opening his arms for a hug, and who are we to say no to a Joe West Hug?

He hugs us so tight that barely any of us can breathe, “Joe?” Tenya squeaks out, “Can’t. Breathe!”

He quickly lets us go, “Sorry, it’s just been a while since I’ve seen you all,” he says sheepishly.

We all smile at him, “It’s fine,” Tenya says, “We missed you too.”

“Ok, so I know this is a bit unprofessional, but would you like to join us in getting coffee and seeing Gypsy?” I ask, “Also, just catch upon what we’ve been up to.”

“You haven’t done anything illegal, right?” Snipe asks.

We all look at each other. Shoto’s hair goes white, eyes turn silver, “No, they are all too much of a wimp to do anything illegal, me, on the other hand.” Frost starts.

“No Frost for the last time, we can’t kill Endeavor just because he pisses you off!” I say.

“We have an actual pro on our side, can’t we?” She begs.

“Not happening,” Tenya says.

Frost pouts before Shoto’s hair slowly goes back to normal, “So yeah, Joe, sorry for the heart attack, Frost is back to living in my head. I miss her having her own body,” Shoto says.

“Well, it’s good to see her alive now?” Joe says, trying to figure out how he feels about Frost, the chaos causer, being back.

“So coffee?” I ask.

He chuckles, “Get cleared by Recovery Girl, then we’ll talk,” he says.

I salute, then we reopen the door to talk to Recovery Girl.

“I did send a message to Nezu, or well, Gideon did, he should know. Just run and hope you meet him on the way. Just remember you are faster than him,” I tell him.

“Yes, sir! Okay, I’m going to speed out of here. I’ll let you know when All Mights is on his way.” I see a yellow streak running through a wall.

“Midoriya, how are we planning to get out of here?” Mineta whines. “We can’t fight these guys, they outnumber and outpower us!”

“Good thing we shouldn’t need to, I can open a breach, get us to the land. If Mr. Aizawa wasn’t fighting alone and we weren’t split up, I could have asked Tenya to speed us all out. That could have worked, but that may have taken too long, and once they realized what was happening, that also could have gone wrong,” I start to explain.

“Stop talking about plans that could have happened and just get us out of here!” Mineta yells.

“Right, sorry!” I say, as I open a breach, “Grab my arm!”

They both grab one of my arms and we hop into the breach. We land in the central plaza, where Aizawa is fighting all the villains. We duck behind a rock so we don’t get seen. “What are we going to do now?” Mineta asks.

“Sshh, the blue-haired guy is counting down. I want to see what happens. Maybe we can get information.” I say then whisper, “Gideon, can you record them?” I ask.

“I have been saving all the security camera recordings to the computer and backing them up; no one should be able to delete them.”

“Thanks,” I say as I watch Mr. Aizawa fighting the blue-haired man directly now.

“Twenty-four seconds,” he says.

“So you’re the boss?” He asks, trying to distract him.

“Twenty-three seconds, twenty seconds,” he counts down, ignoring Aizawa’s question.