Chapter 10

He was glad that his phone was on vibrate. Izuku was sitting in the UA theater room watching an older American movie that Pony liked a lot called Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. It was a surprise to see all of 1-A, 1-B, the big three, some of the support, general education class, and the teachers all here to watch the movie. His arm was wrapped around Itsuka's shoulder as she leaned into him, mainly to get to he popcorn bucket on his lap. He was really enjoying the film but in the back of his mind, he was thinking about what Mr. Brian had said. 'Keep your phone on you, I'll need to talk to you soon.' So, when he heard the vibrations coming from his pocket, he unwound his arm from her shoulder and hander her the popcorn.

"Where're you going?" She whispered quietly. He leaned down to whisper back.

"I need to check if it's Mr. Brian. He said he needed to talk to me." He said. She nodded. He kissed the top of her head and shuffled his way out of the room, scooching past Hatsume who was annoying Iida with some weird silent popcorn popper machine thing and Tokage who was silently chuckling at them. He had to squeeze past Mirio who had Eri on his lap. Eri huffed at him, annoyed and the singer laughed silently. He patted her head as he passed while Mirio chuckled. Finally making it outside he pulled out his phone to see that he had one missed call from Brian. Just as he clicked on his contact info the call screen appeared with a picture of young Izuku and Brian.

"Hey Brian." He said as he walked to a nearby bench.

"Glad you kept your phone on you this time." He said with a chuckle. Izuku lightly blushed.

"You knew that, that was a bad time to call." He said in a fake annoyed tone before chuckling to himself.

"Got me there." Brian said. The older man then ruffled something before speaking again. "I spoke with an old bandmate of mine and your dad's, Roger, you remember him."

"Yea I do, what about?" Izuku asked.

"Well, he has a record label that while not doing too bad, ain't doing too good either." Brian said. Izuku made a huh sound before Brian continued. "Well, I told him about Queen and he watched your video's online. He likes, and I mean really likes, what he saw and he is flying out to watch you guys perform live." Izuku stood up quickly from his seat.

"You shitting me?!" He exclaimed.

"Eww… no. Anyway he'll be here in around five days and will be here for the weekend before flying back to London on that Monday. He said to have four to six songs ready to play. Just between you and me, have something a bit rock and roll, he personally likes that more so it'll sell him on the idea." He said. Izuku laughed and jumped up in the air.

"Oh hell yes! This is our shot! We have a-" He stopped when he saw Bakugo walking out of the theater with his phone in hand. "-Kacchan?"

"Deku?! The fuck you doing out here?" He asked in an angry but annoyed tone.

"Probably the same thing as you, taking a phone call." He said before raising an eyebrow. "Who are you talking to?" Bakugo gritted his teeth and turned away quickly.

"None of your damn business, that's who!" He exclaimed as he walked away from Izuku quickly.

"…Okay then." He said holding the phone back up to his ear.

"It's a girl. 1000 Yen that he's on the phone with a girl." Brian said with a chuckle. Izuku seemed shocked.

"Really?"

"Oh, one hundred percent. Anyway, I'm trusting you to tell the rest of the band and to get ready for Saturday. Understand?"

"Yes! Everything will go great! Just watch." Izuku said. Brian chuckled.

"That's the plan Izuku. I'll call you in a little bit."

"Alright. Talk to you soon." He said as he closed the call. He thought about going into the theater but Bakugo's semi-soft voice begged to differ. He walked to the start of the hallway that Bakugo was in and leaned against the wall to try and listen in.

"You don't have to fangirl about Queen illusions… Hell yea I know we're good… Don't bring that fucking nerd into this… Yes I know he's really good… Well… It hasn't been dull I'll say that much… We still haven't released any other songs but I have one I'm working on and we're still trying to get a record deal… Heh I threw a rock through the first guys window… He fucking deserved it too… Don't call me that… at least illusions isn't demeaning, fucking Bakubae is…" That's when he couldn't hold the chuckle in. "…hold on a second. Fuck out of here Deku!" Izuku chuckled some more as he poked his head into the hallway, waved, and hurried back to the theater.

"Okay, so what are we playing for the studio executive?" Jiro asked as she mindlessly strummed on the acoustic guitar. She, Izuku, and Denki were sitting on the stage behind the soundproof curtain, waiting for Bakugo to arrive. Izuku was busy in his notebook and Denki was on the Switch.

"Keep Youreslf Alive first, then Killer Queen, after that Somebody to Love, and lastly Bohemian Rhapsody… unless anyone else has any other ideas." Izuku said. Denki put the Switch down.

"How the hell will we play Bohemian Rhapsody?" He asked.

"That's what's practice is for." Izuku said looking up at him. A hand pulled back some of the curtain and Bakugo walked in holding some pieces of paper, clamped together by a binder clip. He chucks it at Izuku and sits on his stool. Jiro scoffs at him before looking down at the papers. Izuku unclips the papers and reads one of them.

"Champions of the World?" Denki asks turning around to face Bakugo.

"Yea what of it?" He scoffs.

"And bad mistakes, I've made some, I've had my share of dirt kicked in my face, But I've come through… Some of the words don't really work." Jiro said quickly reading through it.

"So what?!" He snarls.

"You've never written a full song, have you?" Izuku asks, standing up.

"This was my first try." He said through gritted teeth. "I… It was going to be called I am the Champion but I realized that Deku was going to be singing it so I changed it." That got some chuckles from the other members. Izuku smirked before picking up a pencil off of his music stand.

"We are the Champions sounds better doesn't it?" He asks Bakugo. The boy stayed silent. "I'm not going to make any changes to it unless you like it Kacchan." He said.

"Yes… It sounds better." Bakugo admitted.

"It's alright to admit that you're a bit out of your depth Bakugo." Jiro said.

"I ain't fucking out of my depth Jacky! I'm just… I haven't done it yet. Once I get the hand of it, I'll be a fucking writing machine!" He shouted. Izuku chuckled.

"We're a band and a team Kacchan, we're all here to boost each other." Izuku said with a smile.

"Besides, I'm actually liking it." Denki said. "Izuku, can you sing the chorus?"

"Yea, let me change some of the wording really quick." He said as he fixed some of the pronouns and verbs. After he was finished he showed his work to Bakugo who begrudgingly nodded. Izuku smiled before putting the lyric sheet on the closest music stand.

"We are the champions, my friends, And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end, We are the champions, We are the champions, No time for losers, 'Cause we are the champions of the world…" The other members perked up, Jiro and Denki nodded in agreement, this could work.

"I like it. Now to figure out the instrumental." Jiro said as she put her guitar down.

"This'll kick some ass!" Denki exclaimed picking up his base. Bakugo scoffed.

"Of course it will, I fucking wrote it." He said arrogantly. Then turned to Izuku. "What all are we playing for the music guy?"

"Keep Yourself Alive first, then Killer Queen, Sombody to Love next, then We are the Champions, lastly is Bohemian Rhapsody." He listed.

"How the fuck we going to play Bohemian Rhapsody?" He exclaimed.

"Thank you!" Denki exclaimed as he motioned to Izuku who stood there smiling.

"That's what practice is for. And besides we got all week." Izuku said, still smiling.

"You better know what you're fucking doing." Bakugo said.

"I do… mostly."

"What the fu… You never told there'd be a crowd." Roger said a bit annoyed walking into the 1-A dormitory. All of 1-A, 1-B were there, along with Bakugo and Jiro's parents. Kaminari's grandfather and Inko were there as well. Eri was with the big three in the first ever Queen shirt that Momo had made for her. Brian chuckled nervously.

"I didn't know either." He said as he watches Kendo rushing his way.

"I'm sorry Mr. Brian, Izuku told me about it and I accidentally let it slip one day during lunch. I'm sorry." She bowed. Brian looked over to Roger who was running a hand down his face.

"Look, orange hair-" Roger started.

"Itsuka Kendo." She stood up as she said this.

"…Itsuka, I'm not that thrilled over this but I'll make do with what I've got. Make sure that everyone else is quiet during the performance, understand?" He asked her. She nodded and walked towards the front of the room to talk to the uninvited guests. Roger watched the girl leave in confusion.

"That's Izuku's girlfriend." Brian

"So, he likes red heads?" Roger asks which got a chuckle out of Brian.

"Something you and him have in common." Brian says as he starts walking towards the small crowd. He spotted Inko sitting next to Toshinori. Roger followed him and spotted the woman.

"Huh… she's gained a little weight." He said quietly.

"Not much though, Izuku having a friend and musical talent helped out a lot with her own mental state I think." He said as he gets her attention. She smiles and waves before seeing Roger. She stares at him before smiling widely. She walks over to the two men and hugs the blond one.

"It's so good to see you again Roger." She says. Roger who had frozen, now hugs her back.

"You too Inko." After they let go he motions away from her. "I've got to set up my stuff, but we'll have to catch up."

"Of course, of course. What are you doing for dinner?" She asks. Roger chuckles.

"If I'm guessing correctly, coming over to your house." Brian and Inko both laugh alongside him.

"I don't remember you being this smart." She jokes which earned another chuckle from Brian and a fake shocked gasp from Roger.

"Words hurt my friend." He said before snickering. "I've got to go, I'll talk to you after their performance." She smiles and nods before headed back to her seat with Brian who gave him a wave. Roger quickly sets up his camera and makes sure that it only gets the band. Itsuka was running behind and out of the gray curtain again, talking to everyone else, probably telling the others what he told her. He watched as Inko conversed with a very tall frail blond ma- holy shit that's All-Might! He took a couple breaths to compose himself. Just talk to him later… and not like a complete idiot. He watched Itsuka run behind the curtain before peeking her head out to look at him. He nodded at her and hit the record button, texting the other members that they were close to ready. She walked out and sat by a green haired girl. The other board members were all on the stream, watching it from their office in London.

The curtain hadn't moved yet but he could hear the rumble of the guitar start up. He recognized it as it was the guitar part from the first song that they played that the purple haired girl had wrote, Keep Yourself Alive if he remembered correctly. The curtain rose as the two guitarists were playing, the drummer was tapping his cymbals, but Izuku was in the center of the stage, bouncing his foot up and down, back facing the crowd, tambourine in hand. He turned on a dime, winked at the crowd, and started singing. He knew of Izuku's stage presence but his ability to put on a show was something that he and the whole board were astounded by. Well Roger's wish for a quieter performance died as the people in the crowd bought what Izuku was selling on stage by cheering and clapping. As the song was going on, he texted his closest friend on the board an apology. He got a text back saying that he shouldn't be, it sold the performance and his ability to captivate for the audience.

He wound down the song and bowed. The crowd of like 50 people applauded with it sounding like over 200 people. Izuku walked over to the piano and nodded at the others. One note and the startup of the second song, Somebody to Love. He remembered this song, as it was this song that confirmed the fact that they need Queen on their label. They played through it and Roger was receiving more texts about the band, all positive and praising his scouting skills. He smirked, silenced his phone and decided to watch the show without distractions. He also noticed that Izuku was showing off his vocal chords and range in this song, but who could blame him, he had a better version of Freddie's voice. The song ended and he motioned out to the band as the applause grew.

Once the applause died down all four members snapped their fingers before they started playing again. He heard a squeal from the crowd and chuckled. While this song was new to him, some people must have heard before. It had a nice tone, calmer for a rock song but catchy and kind of a song you'd want to dance to. Izuku stayed on the keys but his eyes shifted from the crowd to the purple haired guitarist and he realized that he had been focusing too much on Izuku and not enough on the other members, no fault to them, Izuku was just a whole different person on stage according to Brian.

He watched the purple-haired girl for a while and defiantly realized that it was not the others fault at all. She was calm and collected on the stage, but always wore a smirk. It spoke loads about her personality. Her skill was very impressive and he shouldn't be surprised. Brian told him about her parents and he had done some research on them. It's sad that he forgot her name. The blond-haired boy on bass was the weak link in the group. He was good, he couldn't deny that, but he wasn't great. He looked like someone had been teaching him for around a couple years and was still learning. Not a bad thing but a thing you should keep track of. He has a smile on his face though, a joyous, excited smile. He was always ready to learn and be better, that's what the smile showed him. The drummer was viscous, smacking the shit out of the drums when demanded which hurt the former drummer to see. But he never did anything over the top. Nothing super aggressive, a bit contradictory with his last thought but whatever, being confident in what he was doing. Maybe a little too confident when looking at his smile, an arrogant, almost feral grin.

"Now…" Izuku caught his attention "…for our second to last song, we have our newest, never before heard song, We are the Champions." He rolled his fingers and started singing. "I've paid my dues, Time after time, I've done my sentence, But committed no crime, And bad mistakes, I've made a few…" He started singing softly and played softly on the piano with a soft bass line. "… I've had my share of sand kicked in my face, But I've come through, And I need to go on and on, and on, and on" Now it picks up with guitar and drums, a harder rock anthem that Roger was hoping for personally. "We are the champions, my friends, And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end, We are the champions, We are the champions, No time for losers, 'Cause we are the champions of the world…" And he loved it. Proclaiming to the world that, hey, we're here, and we're starting up top and staying there.

"I've taken my bows, And my curtain calls, You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it, I thank you all" Izuku blew a kiss out to the crowd at the end of that verse before continuing which elicited a chuckle from Roger. This kid was good on stage. "But it's been no bed of roses, No pleasure cruise, I consider it a challenge before the whole human race, And I ain't gonna lose, And I need to go on and on, and on, and on…" He really liked the involvement of the whole band in the vocals, it gave the songs that did that a… he didn't know how to put it but it was a unique but good feeling to the song. After singing the chorus two more times, with a bunch of teenagers joining in which made the other board members laugh and become more excited realizing their desired demographic, the applause was that of at least 500 people. The members bowed before turning to one another and talking off microphone. After a couple seconds Izuku sat back down on the piano stool. The bassist ran off and grabbed some chimes setting them next to the drummer, The guitarist was fixing her and the bassists mic, and the drummer was taking a drink of water. Izuku was staring straight ahead, taking deep breaths in and out. What were they going to do?

He looked out at the crowd, making eye contact with several people before landing on Brian. Brian just nodded. Izuku smiled and looked at Roger who was eyeing him with some confusion. "You're in for a show darling." He said with a wink. Roger just shook his head and chuckled. Just like Freddie.

"No?!" A girl with pink skin cried out. "You're doing it?!" She stood up from her chair and leaned over a student with a bird heads chair. That outburst got a murmur from the crowd before a realization met with cheers and shock.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Izuku said with a smirk before looking back to his bandmates. They all nodded at him and he turned to his microphone.

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality, Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, A little high, little low, Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me…" Izuku then played the piano and everyone was quiet for once as everyone had one thought on their mind, what was this going to be.

"Mama, just killed a man, Put a gun against his head, Pulled my trigger, now he's dead, Mama, life had just begun, But now I've gone and thrown it all away, Mama, oh oh, Didn't mean to make you cry, If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters" He was intrigued now, the soft instrumental with the softer voice of Izuku made it seem like a slow song and the words were interesting.

"Too late, my time has come, Sends shivers down my spine, Body's aching all the time, Goodbye everybody I've got to go, Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth, Mama, oh oh (anyway the wind blows), I don't want to die, Sometimes wish I'd never been born at all…" The second verse was more rock and roll but felt around the same until the end of the singing. The guitarist went into a hard rock solo. A scream is heard from likely the girl's father, which garnered a chuckle from the audience and himself. Then it stops abruptly with Izuku repeatedly tapping one key.

"I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouch, Scaramouch will you do the Fandango…" What the fuck was this? …He could learn to love it. "Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me, Gallileo, (Gallileo), Gallileo, (Gallileo), Gallileo, figaro, magnifico…" So, the bassist had the highest voice then.

"Hell yea Kaminari!" A boy with a flat face and black hair said which got a laugh from the audience. Most of the crowd has seemed to buy the song and it's weird… opera section?

"I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me, He's just a poor boy from a poor family, Spare him his life from this monstrosity, Easy come easy go will you let me go, Bismillah, no we will not let you go, let him go, Bismillah, we will not let you go, let him go, Bismillah, we will not let you go, let me go, (Will not let you go) let me go (never, never let you go) let me go (never let me go), Oh oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go, Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me for me for me" This was a song for the people who like to laugh, sing, and have a good time together. This was a song that people could bang their heads to in a car. This was a song for the youth. This… this was a song… this was the song that Ray hated… prick. He loved it now. Then it went back to full hard rock again with drums, bass and guitar. Izuku had now popped off of the stool and pulled the microphone out of the poll with the upper half still attached and jumped to the center of the stage.

"So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye, So you think you can love me and leave me to die…" He spun and danced getting the crowd back into it. He clapped them on and motioned for everyone to stand up, which they followed. "Oh baby can't do this to me baby, Just gotta get out just gotta get right outta here…" Izuku kept on dancing with the band continuing to play. The crowd of teenagers seemed to be loving every second of it. They then toned it down and Izuku started slumping to the floor while the backing vocals ohh'd him on.

"Nothing really matters, Anyone can see, Nothing really matters, Nothing really matters to me, Anyway the wind blows…" There was a piano that was playing but not from him as he slumped down onto his back, microphone up in the air. The verse had finished and he acted like he dropped dead with the curtain closing in front of him. Kid had theatrics that's for damn sure. The crown of 40 now sounded like 1'000 as they cheered, screamed and applauded. The curtain rolled back and all four members were linked with arms over each other's shoulders and did one bow together which elicited more cheering. They stood up and Izuku looked straight at him and panted out "How was that?" Roger chuckled as the place quieted down, all turning to look at him. He smiled at them.

"You're signed."

AN: Hello again. Nothing much to say here except that again, I'm not overly proud with this one. Lack of proper planning brought me this and the fact that I can't describe music or concerts all that well, but I'll do my best. I have the story all planned out now so it'll be around 27 chapters long. That's all guys and gals, I'll see you all next time. Peace -3008

Queen song list so far:

Don't Stop Me Now

Bohemian Rhapsody

Love of My Life

Keep Yourself Alive

Somebody to Love

Killer Queen

We are the Champions