Chapter 7

"Fuck no!" Bakugo shouted at Izuku as he tried to storm out of the room.

"Why not Kacchan?" Izuku asked. Bakugo rounded on him pounding his way to Izuku and stood in front of him.

"I'm not going to be a part of some stupid band just for a dumb ass cultural festival!"

"What if we continued it after the festival?"

"I'm not being a part of a band that you lead you fucking nerd!"

"I'm not leading the band, Jiro is." He said raising an eyebrow and the blond. "She was the one who wants to set it all up." Bakugo gritted his teeth.

"Like I don't know where this is going. If we made a band you would be the lead singer, and we all know that the lead singer gets the most attention in any band. I am not letting you out shine me on any stage. I don't give a damn about how good you are." He seethed and turned to storm out. Izuku stood still for a second, rendering what Bakugo said before sighing and going to his last resort.

"I'll fight you if you join." That made Bakugo stop. "Just… just join for one performance and if it doesn't work out I won't bother you about it again. We don't have a drummer and I remember that your mom told my mom about it a long time ago."

"You're basing you asking me off of something that the old hag told your mother when we were kids?" Bakugo asked genuinely. Izuku chuckled and scratched the back of his neck.

"Well… yea." He said. Bakugo scoffed.

"Fucking nerd." He muttered to himself before turning around. "Who's in so far besides you and Jacky?"

"Myself on piano and vocals, Jiro on guitar and some backing vocals, and Kaminari on bass and backing vocals." Izuku said.

"Jesus, three singers. What the fuck are you planning Deku?" Bakugo asked more curious than angry now.

"We're planning a band." Izuku said. "We're already writing music for some of the songs I have written along with one of Jiro's to perform. We'll also be thinking about some cover songs like the one I sang for Eri and maybe one of my father's bands old songs." Izuku said.

"Didn't your father leave you for England?" Bakugo asked before wincing slightly. Izuku grew a frown but didn't fight back.

"He moved to England for work but formed Smile with Mr. Brian and Mr. Roger but he left mutually because he wanted to pursue hero costume design and he was burning to many microphones with his quirk." Izuku said. Bakugo bit back a remark before starting to think it over.

"When?" He asked. Izuku smiled.

"We have a practice in half an hour and I'll spar with you once I talk to Mr. Aizawa about gym time." He said. Bakugo nodded before turning and started walking away.

"I better not regret this Deku!" He shouted once he reached the stairs.

"You won't!" Izuku shouted back. He pulled out his phone and texted both of his band mates.

Izuku: He'll be there tonight.

Jiro: Thank the lord.

Kaminari: Hell yea, now we're on our way to rocking!

Jiro: On out whey lol

Kaminari: Hey ): Midoriya, Jiro's being mean

Izuku: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What can I do?

He put his phone away and smiled. It was going to be amazing, and if it wasn't, he'd make it amazing.


"I'm surprised at how well you can actually play Bakugo." Jiro said putting her guitar on its stand

"What the fuck does that mean jacky?!" He shouted at her. She shrugged it off and looked over to Kaminari and Midoriya who had told them to all call him Izuku now. He was following along with Kaminari's bass rift he was doing.

"That's got potential but I don't think it'll work for Bohemian Rhapsody. Try writing your own song around it." Izuku said. Kaminari lit up with a smile which then dimmed.

"I wanted to get it done before the festival but if it doesn't fit with Boh Rhap then I'll figure it out later." He said dejectedly.

"Don't worry pikachu you'll get it… eventually." Jiro said as she put down the bottle of water and tossed Izuku another one. He caught it and started downing it quickly. She threw one over to Bakugo who begrudgingly caught it and nodded slightly as a thanks. The new band members were all sitting down in a sort of semicircle relaxing.

"What should our band name be?" Kaminari asked out of the blue. All three turned to him. "What? We need one."

"Do we?" Jiro asked him.

"Well yea, we can't just be called the 1-A band because not all of 1-A is in." He said and Jiro pouted and turned away.

"I didn't know what else to put." She muttered. Izuku chuckled.

"It's all right Jiro but Kaminari is right. I think we need a band name. What do you think Kacchan?"

"Why the fuck do you think I care?" He asked.

"I know you have been having fun Kacchan but you just won't admit." Izuku teased slightly.

"The only reason I'm doing this concert is because the old hag won't shut up about it and I'm beating your ass every night!" He shouted.

"One, your mother is a nice lady and she is very excited for you. Two, we're tied in sparing and that last one doesn't count and you know it." Izuku said getting a bit agitated.

"Oh shut the fuck up Deku. Just because I brought up your big handed girlfriend and you got angry doesn't mean you can't count that last one as a victory for me."

"You called her a bitch and a whore! That was uncalled for!" Izuku exclaimed as he stood up.

"Well don't be easily angered there Deku." Bakugo said standing up as well with a sadistic smile.

"Jeez calm down dude. No need to act like a hysterical queen." Kaminari said as he and Jiro pulled them aside. All resistance stopped and all three stared at him. "W-what?" He asked nervously.

"Queen…" Izuku said testing it out on his tounge. "Queen… I like it."

"Like it for what." Kaminari asked.

"Better than my idea of Hero." Jiro said, ignoring the confused lightning quirk wielder.

"That's too on the nose jacky." Bakugo said.

"What are we talking about?" Kaminari asked.

"Introducing Queen: Denki Kaminari, bass. Kyoka Jiro, guitar. Katsuki Bakugo, drums. Izuku Mercury, piano and vocals." Izuku said, imagining it as he walked towards the front of the stage holding his arms out. The other three raised an eyebrow.

"Mercury? That's fucking dumb." Bakugo asked. Izuku looked back to him.

"For you maybe." He turned back to the empty gym they were practicing in. But for me, no looking back, only forward. No more useless Deku. Mercury, the name of the number one hero and lead singer for Queen. No more Midoriya. No more failure." He turned around to the others and pointed upwards. "Tomorrow we blow a hole through the roof and make our names known."

"We're performing outside." Jiro pointed out but that didn't stop him.

"Fine then, we punch a hole through the atmosphere. Leave them with a performance that they can't ever forget. Who's with me?" The new Izuku Mercury said. Jiro smirked and nodded.

"I'm with you Mercury." She said. Izuku nodded at her. Kaminari pumped his fist.

"Hell yea, Mid-Mercury. I'm so pumped right now." He said with a smile. Izuku nodded back then looked at Bakugo who had his arms crossed and was acting like he wasn't interested.

"Katsuki, are you with me?" Izuku said walking up to him with a hand held out. Bakugo now looked at him and his outstretched hand. He looked into De- no Izuku Mercury's eyes. He saw passion and confidence that he hadn't seen in him since… well ever. He liked and didn't like it at the same time. He sighed and grabbed his clasped his hand.

"Don't get any funny ideas Mercury. A name change doesn't change the fact that you will be beneath me in the end." He said bitterly. Izuku smiled.

"Whatever you say."


"Inko!" Mrs. Kendo waved at her friend. The thicker women looked over and smiled. She waved back and started walking over to the older couple. She was accompanied by a man around her age with long curly black hair and a brown-haired woman around the same age.

"Kumiko!" She said as she hugged the orange haired woman. "It's so good to see you again."

"You too!" Kumiko then pulled back and her husband Isamu hugged the green haired woman.

"Isamu. It's good to see you." Inko said.

"Wish we would have gotten together sooner, but for my future son in laws concert, wouldn't miss it." He said. Inko blushed lightly and chuckled. He then looked up the other two… Americans? "I'm Isamu Kendo." He introduced himself.

"Brian May…" he said with a British accent "…and this is my wife Christine. It's nice to meet you." The others were shaking hands and introducing themselves to each other.

"Brian is an old friend and he taught Izuku how to play piano and write music along with help train his voice." Inko said with a smile. The Kendo's were pleasantly surprised.

"You must be very gifted if you could teach Izuku." Kumiko said. Brian simply smiled.

"I've been in a couple bands myself and have learned a thing or two, but it was Izuku who studied and excelled all by himself. I just guided him." he said. The Kendo's nodded and the group made their way to the stage for the play by class 1-B which Kendo and her class had come up with. But that wasn't the main event tonight. Kirishima had posted the two videos that he had gathered of Izuku singing which had both garnered over 30 million in the span of under two weeks. The popularity of the 1-A singer had grown and soon the local news station ran a piece on it for the UA cultural festival spotlight. This year the festival was more popular than ever.

They found seats near the front and towards the middle and took the seats. What surprised Inko was that Izuku had All Might or Toshinori help precure seats. That was a funny shock as the Kendo's and May's were stuttering and tripping over their words. Inko and Toshinori just laughed it off. He was about to leave when Inko invited him to stay and watch with them. He refused at first until the other four asked him to stay. He sighed but smiled and sat by his sucessor's mother.

The play was good, but it wasn't paid much attention as the crowd was too excited for the next performance. Present Mic came in and wrapped it up, and the audience gave a light clap. Inko saw Mitsuki and Masaru and waved them over. The usual round of introductions and such insued and the Bakugo's joined the little group. The Kendo's caught their daughter's attention who was with a taller blond-haired student and a little girl with white hair and a little horn sticking out of her head. She introduced the pair as Mirio Togata and Eri. Mirio and Eri were both connected to Izuku as Inko discovered and was very happy to hear the good things that they said about her boy. She also found Eri super cute and the most precious thing as she described Mirio and Izuku saving her life. The three of them said good by as they joined another group of students. Inko recognized some of Izuku's friend like Iida and Uraraka.

A banner fell causing the crowd to roar in excitement. "Queen?" Mitsuki asked Inko. Inko just shrugged. She recognized Katsuki as he walked out and behind the drum set but not the other two. The yellow headed boy picked up the bass and the purple headed girl picked up the guitar. Izuku came out last, clad in only a tank top and shorts as he walked to the piano.

"Hello, we are queen and that big bag of dynamite on the drums is Katsuki Bakugo." The purple headed girl said.

"What the fuuuudge did you say jacky?!" it was kind of sad to see him not change that much from when he was little.

"On bass is jammingwhey himself Denki Kaminari." She said teasingly.

"Way uncool." Kaminari said while smiling.

"I'm Kyoka Jiro on Guitar. And our singer is Izuku Mercury." Mitsuki, Brian, Kumiko and their spouses looked at Inko who nodded.

"He wanted to start anew. I told him I wouldn't be offended if he changed his name so he did." She answered.

"He was very worried he would be hurting your feelings if he did. He had been thinking about it for a while now." Toshinori said.

"Why'd you get a rabbit to sing for you?" Some asshole in the back called out. Izuku pursed his lips before looking back at Jiro. She said something and he nodded.

"Let's do it." He said not knowing he was speaking into the microphone. He ran his fingers across the keys then started playing. With one song he had captured the audience. It was as amazing as it was astonishing to see. She looked around and saw that the little girl, Eri, was super happy and realized that this was the song he played for her. She remembered him coming home on the weekend explaining the whole thing. The song ended and the crowd roared with applause. Izuku nodded and did a flamboyant bow before turning to his bandmates and nodded. Kaminari smiled and Jiro rolled her eyes before nodding. Bakugo smirked and adjusted the microphone besides him.

"Is he going to sing?" Mitsuki asked herself.

"Is he any good?" Masaru asked.

"How the hell should I know?" His wife shot back.

"Are you gonna take me home tonight? Ah, down beside that red firelight Are you gonna let it all hang out? Fat bottomed girls You make the rockin' world go 'round…" The three male members started to sing and Brian's eyes popped open wide.

"That son of a bitch is covering my song." He muttered and chuckled. Which got some looks from some of their little group. "They're doing a better job than we did too." His wife chuckled and so did the rest of the group. Once they finished that song. Izuku walked up to the microphone and pulled it and some of the poll out of its stand. You could hear Present Mic give a little screech about costs.

"Hello, all you beautiful people." He said which got the crowd's reaction as they cheered and applauded him. Izuku smiled. "Well, that's a lovely welcoming from most of you. I'm glad your treating this rabbit with respect." That got a laugh out of the crowd. "Now, the last two songs were covers of other people's songs but now, now we get into the good stuff. Our own music." He held out his hand and someone threw a tambourine to him. He caught it and pointed it at the crowd. "Are you ready?" Cheers rose up as he started tapping it on his leg and Jiro began playing on her guitar. Kaminari added on with his bass. Then Katsuki started keeping rhythm with Izuku's tambourine.

"I was told a million times, Of all the troubles in my way, Mind you grow a little wiser, Little better every day, But if I crossed a million rivers, And I rode a million miles, Then I'd still be where I started, Bread and butter for a smile, Well I sold a million mirrors, In a shopping alley way, But I never saw my face, In any window any day, Now they say your folks are telling you, Be a super star, But I tell you just be satisfied, Stay right where you are…" Izuku strut and danced across the stage gathering attention and reaction with each move he did. The crowd was all for it, all for him as they clapped, danced, and cheered. Inko almost started crying and didn't know if she would make the rest of the concert with dry eyes. She felt a hand grab hers as she looked to her left to see Toshinori smile at her.

"Even with all his setbacks you helped him every step of the way. You did good Mrs. Midoriya." He said. Her eyes became wet but she refused to cry now. She wiped her eyes and smiled up at him.

"Thank you Toshinori and it's just Inko." She said. Toshinori lightly blushed but looked back up to see Izuku framing his face in the tambourine while singing.

"Keep yourself alive, yeah, Keep yourself alive, Ooh, it'll take you all your time and money, Honey you'll survive..." Inko smiled as she watched Izuku constantly involve his other band members. Dancing near them and having them sing is something that Brian said that Hisa- Freddie used to due in their band. Even if he looks like her, she was glad to see he wasn't all her and had some of his father in him. As the song was near it's end he moved his way over to the guitarist, Jiro, pointing and dancing at and by her. She wrote the song. A lot of people got it as the girl blushed and playfully nudged him out of the way, but a lowered head couldn't hide her little smirk. Izuku strut to the front of the stage and tossed the tambourine out into the crowd.

"That was fun." He said and the crowd seemed to agree. "Settle down, settle down now. What shall we do next?" He asked tapping his chin. "We could keep it somewhat up-tempo or we could slow it down. What do you prefer?" He asked the crown.

"I prefer up-tempo like the song list said." Jiro said.

"Relax a little. Let the audience choose. Right Bakugo?" Kaminari says.

"Why ask me? You know I don't care." He said gruffly which got Izuku chuckling.

"You know the bands preference, how about you?" He pointed the end of his mic stand to the crowd. There were a variety of answer before the mic stand stopped on a younger looking middle school girl who was now blushing like crazy. "How about you darling?" he said before hanging his microphone out to her.
"I-I, Uh I… um slow?" She said meekly. Izuku nodded and stood up.

"Whelp, slow it is. Jiro." He said turning around to the purple haired guitarist. She begrudgingly pulled of the electric guitar and pulled on the acoustic guitar.

"Yea, yea I heard you." She practiced the chords. What he nor the others expected was a wave of shouts and screams for joy, instantly recognizing the song. He looked back to Jiro who was also in shock but kept playing. He hopped off the stage and onto the pathway that had been made just for them.

"Love of my life, you've hurt me, You've broken my heart and now you leave me, Love of my life, can't you see?" He then pulled the microphone away and cupped his hand to his ear. The crowd of maybe one thousand sang back to him. He wasn't expecting this. Jiro, Kaminari, and Bakugo weren't expecting this. The video has been out for two and a half weeks and people have already memorized the lyrics. Izuku looked out in shock at the crowd, he took a gamble and it paid off. As he knew the second verse was coming on he waved his hand to make the crowd continue singing. And they did. He picked them up when they started to taper off. "Bring it back, bring it back, Don't take it away from me, Because you don't know, What it means to me." He paused for a moment then continued. "Do you will remember, When this is blown over, Everything's all by the way, When I grow older, I will be there at your side to remind you, How I still love you, I still love you." He walked out to the farthest point and looked for her. There she was, smiling with their classmates and Eri. Her eyes were watering and she tried to wipe the tears away. "They're all singing. Thousands of them… singing to you… Because it's true." The cheers grew and he saw her cry harder. He smiled and walked back down the walkway, finishing the song.

He hopped back on stage and walked over to the piano, throwing the mike over to the PA who luckily caught it. He adjusted his mic, and the others did the same. He played one note on the piano before all four members opened their mouths.

"Can anybody find me somebody to love?" After the line he started playing the piano. "Ooh, each morning I get up I die a little, Can barely stand on my feet, (Take a look at yourself), Take a look in the mirror and cry (and cry), Lord, what you're doing to me (yeah yeah), I have spent all my years in believing you, But I just can't get no relief, Lord! Somebody (somebody) ooh somebody (somebody), Can anybody find me somebody to love?" The others joined in adding little pieces of lyrics over his lyrics which sounds clustered but fit so well. Neither one was overpowering the other but at the end he ended with the last lyric softly. Inko smiled at the song. It was his newest on he had written saying that he wanted something new. This was certainly new.

" work hard (he works hard) every day of my life, I work 'til I ache in my bones, At the end (at the end of the day), I take home my hard earned pay all on my own, I get down (down) on my knees (knees), And I start to pray, 'Til the tears run down from my eyes, Lord, somebody (somebody), ooh somebody, (Please) can anybody find me somebody to love?" Now he was showing off. Inko laughed as he belted out the last word. Well it was his song, might as well show off a little. The crowd was loving it and that's what mattered to him. Cheers erupted while he was singing. Jiro laughed and shook her head in amazement. Kaminari was amazed as he watched Izuku. Katsuki smirked. He had to hand it to him, this wasn't something he would regret for a long time.

The rest of the song was around the same but after another perfect singing verse from Izuku, it became more instrument focused with Somebody to Love being repeated over and over, so much so that the crowd joined in. At the end of the song, Izuku bowed then motioned for the others to bow. The cheers were so loud that people passing by outside of UA were curious to what was going on.

"Now…" Izuku started looking out to the crowd "… For our last song we, yea I know I'm sad to leave you lovely people but, we've got school tomorrow." Chuckles from the crowd. "We will play the song that started it all. That got me confident enough to start being open about my music. This song is called… Don't Stop Me Now." Cheers and hollering picked up as Izuku started on the piano as he sat down on the stool.

"Tonight, I'm gonna have myself a real good time, I feel alive and the world I'll turn it inside out, yeah, And floating around in ecstasy, So don't stop me now don't stop me, 'Cause I'm having a good time, having a good time…" He hopped off of the stool kicking it back. "I'm a shooting star, leaping through the sky, Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity, I'm a racing car, passing by like Lady Godiva, I'm gonna go, go, go, There's no stopping me"

Inko was now crying. Not only because she recognized that song but she recognized what was going on. Izuku was being reborn under the lights of the stage. No longer a Midoriya, Izuku Mercury was going to become a household name as a musician and as a hero. He was becoming the person he was always meant to become. She grabbed Toshinori's hand and looked over to Brian, who was too wrapped up in the performance with a child-like glee she hadn't scene in him in a long time. She looked up to Toshinori who was watching Izuku with a smile and light blush. These two men had affected her son in such positive ways, she could never repay them. She looked back to Izuku who had now taken center stage with the microphone and poll he had before. He bounced his leg up and down as he sang the chorus.

"Oh, I'm burnin' through the sky, yeah, Two hundred degrees, That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit, I'm traveling at the speed of light, I wanna make a supersonic man out of you" You could not take your eyes of him if you tried. His stage presence was magnetic. She then remembered that he wanted her to take photos. She fumbled with her phone as she tried to hastily pull it out of her purse. She opened the camera as the song was ending and the instruments were slowing down. "La da da da daah, Da da da haa, Ha da da ha ha haaa…" His head was back microphone in the air and eyes closed. She snapped the photo and a couple more to be safe. "Ha da daa ha da da aaa, Ooh ooh ooh" She opened the photos app and looked at the photos. While they were good, the first one was great. Izuku was silhouetted against the stage light with the sunset behind him. The microphone poll up with his head and torso leaning back. The perfect photo to showcase the birth of Queen and the birth of Izuku Mercury.


AN: Hello Again. So I sprained my ankle pretty badly on Monday and I've been bored out of my mind, but I wanted to keep to schedule and try to post the chapter on the weekend. Queen has been formed and is now known. I'm happy with my choices for the instruments and I hope you are too. Now this is not the biggest concert they will perform. They will perform again, but before that they have to have more songs. For right now they have four and a half (Bohemian Rhapsody) and will be working on more. The next couple chapters will be song creation and album making. After those albums I want a little heroism and some story from that aspect of life. After that will be the last couple of chapter with this AU's version of Live Aid and maybe some family drama as I name dropped some big names. Once Live Aid is done, I'll do one Epilogue and that's it. I don't know how long this will be but I'm ready to ride it out and I hope you guys are. I'm excited for this and I hope you guys are too. See you next time, peace. -3008

P.S. Song list:

I'm Still Standing

Fat Bottomed Girls

Keep Yourself Alive

Love of My Life

Somebody to Love

Don't Stop Me Now