Izuku flitted backwards, towards the wrecked car, landing and releasing Bakugou from his grip. The girl - Hatsume he guessed from their brief introduction in the alley - leapt from his back to stand beside the blond boy.
"Why don't we go somewhere else to talk." he buzzed, hoping the agitation wasn't as noticeable through the already agitated sounds Stinkfly always made.
The girl rolled her eyes at him, crouching so she could keep her balance as the glowing disk beneath her sped further off into the outskirts of the city.
Izuku was about to follow after her when Bakugou spoke out behind him.
"Oi." Izuku turned a pair of eyes to look at him.
"We weren't done yet. Who the hell is that. And how did you suddenly get a quirk." For Bakugou, that statement was fairly calm. Despite the threatening tone or the mean spirited grimace on the other boys face, Izuku took the statement for what it was.
"The one is connected to the other, I think anyway." He said matter of factly, turning again to take off after the strange girl.
"Listen nerd! Just because I haven't blown you away yet doesn't mean were buddies now! Don't think you can just fly away to-"
"There are six men in that car who probably need medical attention. I'm sure the heroic thing to do would be to call the police and ensure they all survive. It'd look pretty bad if the guy with the explosion quirk was seen running from a blown up car." He figured that'd keep Bakugou pinned down for a little bit. Or, at least until he realized Hatsume could easily do all that herself.
"YOU DAMN NEERRRRDDD!"
Was the last thing he heard as he flitted away.
Stopping out of eyesight of the crash, The girl had landed herself on the roof of a nearby building. A two story apartment of some kind. He approached cautiously but she merely stared at him nonplussed as he zoomed around the roof to look for traps.
Eventually landing himself, he began asking questions.
"Who are you? What is this thing? Why do you even know about it?"
She blinked at him, annoyance clear in her face.
"Change back so we can talk like people. Lepidopterrans are no fun to be around."
He stood there silently for a few moments before returning to his questioning.
"Whats a Lepidopterran?"
She glared at him balefully saying nothing.
"Look we can't just sit here till I time out. No telling when that'll be."
"You don't even know how to turn back?!"
She stomped towards him, prompting his wings to buzz into motion, lifting him up and baring his immense scorpion like stinger at her.
With a long suffering sigh she pointed at the Omnitrix dial on his chest.
"Hit it again to turn it off"
Izuku thought that was interesting. His experiences with reactivating the dial while transformed so far had boiled down to just the one time during the entrance exams.
It had not turned him back.
It also, however, had not killed him.
So tentatively, he reached up and pressed the dial.
And suddenly, in a blaze of green light - Izuku, sans his backpack, was standing on the roof where Stinkfly had been.
The woman gazed at him appraisingly. "Your sort of shorter than I thought you'd be."
Izuku merely responded with an uncomfortable shrug.
The foreign woman rolled her eyes at him, for what seemed like the tenth time.
"My name is Gwen Tennyson. You are in possession of a piece of Plumber technology that was intended for. . . someone else. Hand it over."
She said the word 'plumber' as though it had a different meaning than Izuku new, and fished a badge out of a pocket on her skirt that greatly resembled the image on the Omnitrix while it was at rest.
"I can't. . ." Izuku began, then thinking about it, stopped. His experiences to date flashed before his eyes, the battles he'd fought, the people he'd met, and finally All Mights smiling face as he looked down at him, and those fateful words.
"You too, can be a hero!"
He looked up at the girl, Gwen, tightly clutching his wrist where the Omnitrix rested.
"I can't take it off. I don't know how. And even if I did - I wouldn't give it to you."
Gwen seemed to be taken aback by the sudden steel in his voice. His posture as a human had, until that moment, been largely submissive. Pitiful really, if she had to put a word to it.
Now though, the boy was glaring at her so hard she thought she may burst into flames. No time to worry about the discrepancy she supposed, calmly stating,
"Then your under arrest uh -" she paused to consider what the other boy had called him. "Deku."
Too late she realized that Izuku hadn't merely been holding the Omnitrix in an emotional gesture. She lashed out, lobbing a blast of pink energy at him from only a few feet away, but was too late.
Izuku's hand, already laid against the Omnitrix pressed down on the dial. He grew exponentially, and his skin turned a fierce red colour as his arms split and he found himself looking down on the previously taller girl.
The transformation took only moments and the blast of energy she'd hurled exploded on the red hide of Four Arms with a satisfying crack - but the blow did no more than push Izuku's shoulder backwards a few inches.
Izuku jumped across the space between them, hoping to bowl her over long enough to escape, but instead found himself suspended in a bright pink bubble of energy.
Unable to move Izuku began assaulting the orb for all he was worth, laying blow after blow into the walls surrounding him. In short order the field around him began to fracture, and he continued his attack with renewed vigor.
"Your trying to be a Hero aren't you!?" Gwen yelled between pained grunts that matched the rhythm of Izukus punches.
"We're the good guys."
"Then maybe next time you'll show up with the cops and a hero!" Izuku bellowed, finally shattering the field around him charging the girl, slamming her into the door leading down into the building. His lower set of arms reach up to restrain her own hands, and one great red forearm was held pressed against her throat.
"But I'm betting you won't do that." Izuku got a thoughtful look on his face.
"In fact, I'm surprised you knew I had the Omnitrix. It looked like you didn't even know my name." realizing she could speak while he choked her, Izuku continued on in his mumbling, more now to himself than her.
"But you do know how I look now. Damn. Stupid." he chided himself.
When the Gwen finally fell still, he made a note of his location, ensured she was breathing, and leapt away, only pausing to return to normal and call the police when he was well away from her.
Several hours later Gwen awoke in the back of a dilapidated camper she knew all too well. An old man in a Hawaiian shirt drove along the streets of the city, smiling charmingly back at her as he heard her wake.
"G..Grandpa?"
"I know I told you about him, but I don't remember telling you to pick a fight with him Gwen."
"Grandpa! He stole the Omnitrix! It wasn't meant for him! It was meant for. . ." she trailed off noticing the hard look in his eyes.
"Me. Yes I know. But that doesn't mean I want you to run off and assault another kid."
"He stole-"
"He didn't actually. From what we can tell he found it before Vilgax could, so he's actually done us a favour."
"But!"
"Gwen, enough."
The old man in the Hawaiian shirt hadn't change his tone at all. He still smiled beatifically and drove calmly. But Gwen knew that the conversation was over.
". . . Fine."
For Izuku, the next day of class was awkward to say the least. Bakugou made no attempt to speak to him, acting for all the world as thought nothing had
happened. He didn't tell the class about their misadventures the previous day, and neither, Izuku decided, would he. Although that was for entirely different reasons.
Much to the surprise of the majority of the class, Aizawa arose from behind his desk as though he'd never left, his sleeping bag dropping around him while he spoke.
"Get your outfits - were going on a field trip." the command was spoken in the same, dry exhausted tone Aizawa always had, but Izuku felt he detected a
certain amount of glee in the statement.
Class 1-A immediately exploded into frenzied questioning - they were silenced, surprisingly by Bakugou.
"Oi." The class froze as the hotheaded teen glared at them through half lidded eyes.
Despite having ignored Iidas attempts to achieve the same effect, and who'm the class had mutually elected class president, the class of 1-A returned to order, splitting up to change into their outfits.
Less than an hour later, the students found themselves atop a great stairway, only a mile or so off campus, leading into what appeared to be one of the most bizarre theme parks they had ever seen. All around them were scale examples of major disasters and environmental hazards. Aizawa was unimpressed, but their guide, Thirteen, the Space Hero, all but gushed as he led them along the path towards the different areas.
It was only after they had finished listening to an impassioned speech on the nature and best use of quirks by Thirteen, did the close realize something wasn't quite right.
The light around them began to dim and from portals all about them, hordes of men and women poured out. On completing their task, the portals themselves reformed, into a vaguely manlike shape, just ahead of the class.
In a voice clearly meant to mock that of the greatest hero, the being of pure darkness intoned "We have arrived." Before much of class 1-A was swallowed by darkness.
Izuku found himself sputtering water, unable to tell where he was. His disorientation was short lived, but more than enough for a shark headed man to begin shooting towards him through the water.
"Crap!"
He exclaimed, immediately reaching for the Omnitrix. Izuku had practiced this motion. He could perform from any orientation, from any position. It was only one small brick in the foundation he was building for himself. The Omnitrix made him a gunslinger, and he always wanted to be fastest on the draw.
"ALRIGHT! THE WATERS HAVE BEEN CHUMMED!" The villain said, attempting to sound menacing Izuku was sure, but merely sounding obnoxious.
"SAYONARA SMALL FRY!"
The shark headed mans jaw distended, opening to an unprecedented size as he all but flew through the water towards Izuku, and Izuku had little doubt that he would have died if not for his practice with the Omnitrix.
Before he could reach the device though, he was jerk backwards, away from the jaws coming for him, his hand swiping through the water vainly at where his wrist had been.
"Sayonara small fry." came the voice of his classmate Asui Tsuyu. Looking down Izuku realized the girl had wrapped her tongue around him, and was chargingthrough the water to an object he could barely recognize through the spray of water as she moved. Under her arm he could see Mineta, all by crying indistress and screaming at the top of his lungs;
"fffuuuUUUUUUUUUU-"
The pigmy sized boy was cut off, the air rushing from his lungs as Asui leapt from the water, landing adeptly on the side of what turned out to be a large boat of some kind, crawling up the side of the boat and depositing the two boys on its deck, Asui shook herself off, idly kicking Mineta when his mouth opened and his eyes stayed at chest level.
"Lecher Smurf is right. We're definitely fucked." She said, her voice almost monotone.
Rising from the deck and rubbing his side, Mineta re approached the group, adding his own thoughts.
"I mean, mean and you aren't super combat oriented, but my boy could just turn into the big red guy and smash the shit out of those tools."
"Just Tsuyu is fine." the taciturn frog girl said, turning to look at Izuku questioningly.
Izuku for his part, slammed his hand down on the still raised dial, hoping to make quick work of this so he could return to help his other classmates - who he was sure were also scattered about the area.
*bzzt* scanning mode activated, scanning for foreign dna
The omnitrix cycled through a number of his forms, and he could just see a space begin to open between two of them, before the dial receded, and the device locked.
He stared pensively at the device for a second before raising his eyes to Asui and Mineta, now tinged with fear.
"I-I'm no good. Somethings wrong."
Mineta and Tsuyu stared at him for a moment, before Tsuyu turned abruptly, walking towards the edge of the ship. Mineta, freaked out.
"OH MAN. WERE GONNA FREAKING DIE."
"Were gonna be okay Mineta. The teachers will come soon - I'm sure of it."
"HOW'RE THE TEACHERS GONNA EVEN KNOW WE NEED HELP? MY POWER IS HAVING STICKY BALLS ON MY HEAD MIDORIYA. STICK. BALLS. I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW I GOT IN TO THIS SCHOOL!"
Izuku didn't mentioned that he'd thought that more than once himself. He also had to admit that Mineta could be right. None of the students had been permitted to bring their cellphones on the trip.
As he pondered this, the ship began to shake, gently at first, but more violently as time went on. When eventually the rumbling caused him to stumble he yelped,
"Asui!?" as the frog girl returned from gazing over the edge.
"I told you to call me Tsuyu." she said, her tongue lashing out and pulling him back into balance. She allowed Mineta to tumble about the boat until he reached out and grabbed hold of a railing to steady himself.
"And if I had to guess, since this is a simulation - I'd say the boats sinking."
The aquatic villain that had assaulted him before began to swim eagerly around the boat as it descended, a number of other villains in all manner of underwater and aquatic gear joining him. Despite the danger of the situation Izuku couldn't help but be struck by how perfectly useless all these people would be if they hadn't had a location in water to utilize.
As the water began to rise around them, Izuku found himself leaping to dodge airborne harpoons and ranged attacks from the villains closing in on them, Asui, who was the only of them who could really fight in water, had leapt into the fake lake, and was swimming circles around the most dangerous of the villains she could locate.
Unable to think of a better option, Izuku scooped up Mineta under one arm, and dashed for the stairs leading to a higher part of the ship. The ship, probably owing to the entire thing being a simulation, did not sink very fast, and Izuku managed to place enough space between them and the water that he only occasionally had to look out for ranged attacks.
Unfortunately this meant that the majority of the villains were free to focus on Asui, who was, quickly being cornered by the mob.
Her back to the ship, Izuku watched on with growing helplessness as the attacks of the villains began to land true.
"Damnit." He glanced down at Mineta, dropping him where they stood.
"S-stay here."
"Dude. You can't go down there. You'll freaking die. I'm more useful than you right now."
Izuku turned to face Mineta and for the first time the smaller boy realized there were tears streaming down Izuku's face. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe him as wracked with fear. He watched with amazement as the cowardly boy in front of him turned away.
"I'm f-fine. I have to help Asui."
Was all he said, before he began sprint madly for the edge of the precipice they were on, leaping directly into the waters below.
Izuku all but crashed into Asui, dragging her several feet under the water and out of the way of an attack by the Shark faced villain, and though wounded, Asui looked genuinely irked that Izuku had saved her. She squeezed her eyes shut as she huddled under the water with Izuku, and the mob of aquatic villains, closed in on them.
Suddenly, the two of them heard a tinny mechanical voice, as the Omnitrix dial popped up displayed a new form over top a strand of hair.
*Bzzt* Scan Complete.
Before Izuku could think of the consequences, his arms released Asui, and his hand slammed down on the dial.
The approaching villains were momentarily blinded in the murky waters by the flash of green.
Izuku felt his lungs expand, and a rough green texture flesh explode across his body. He grew to the size of a full grown man, and the muscles in his legs swelled, even as information about his new form flooded his mind, and the Omnitrix provided him with a wetsuit and glasses that fit almost too snugly to his new, now noseless face.
Grabbing Asui, he all but exploded out of the water, his new form well adapted for the environment. His now webbed foot exploded out, catching the shark faced villain with him in his ascent and launching the man ahead of them, where Izukus powerful new legs continued to smash into him, releasing all his pent up frustration.
As he landed on the shore he turned back towards the sinking ship he'd left Mineta on, tensing his legs and ignoring the now unconscious villain as he prepared for another physics defying leap. He turned slightly to Asui as he did so and declared, completely without shame;
"Relax baby, Bullfrag is here."