Welcome back to 'A Multiversal Vacation'! This is going to be the last chapter for a while, as after this is posted I'll be working on a few chapters of 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' & I'm also going to be taking a vacation, so this chapter will be long to tide you over (all twelve of the people that read this… gah, my writing sucks). Anyways, the song for this chapter is 'High Hopes' by 'Panic! At the Disco'.

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Chapter 10: High Hopes and Rejuvenated Dreams

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"Are you sure you want to stay back here?" Eric asked, frowning in concern. "The world we're visiting right now isn't that bad. Hell, you'd all fit right in without any batted eyes - except for maybe the weapons."

Fluttershy shook her head 'no', with Ruby, Yang, and Blake following her lead. "Sorry, but I need to get back and help rebuild Ponyville. Plus, I need to help these three settle into their new lives here."

As Eric opened his mouth again to refute her claims, Jade laid her hand on his shoulder and gently squeezed, a silent message between the two of them to just let the issue go. Eric slumped slightly, conceding to Jade and saying his goodbyes to the others.

"Do you mind grabbing Velvet quickly?" he asked as they walked away, Jade raising a questioning eyebrow in response. "She would likely want to be around us for emotional support if the need arises, and taking that away from her would be rather cruel. Plus, she's going to be shaken over her attempted murder via possessed teammate. It wouldn't be right to leave her to stomach that alone."

"Her teammates could help her just as much," Jade shot back, "And it isn't like there's any shortage of unintentional therapy with the ponies around."

"True, but there's also the sad reality that both the ponies and her teammates are still adapting to this world. Her teammates specifically didn't come along because they needed time to adjust! Leaving Velvet here would leave her with nobody to talk to that doesn't already have problems of their own, and would hinder more than it would help. We're taking here with us."

Jade sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "...Fine. You're right on this, but if our luck holds true, what with our adoption of a new student for every visited universe thus far, we'll likely end up with another person competing for attention."

"We'll deal with that when it comes along." Eric waved it off, heading back over to the mansion and knocking on Velvet's door. "Velvet? You in there? It's me, Eric. Jade and I are going on one more vacation, and we were wondering if you wanted to come along."

"Is anybody else coming?" a brittle, barely audible voice came from behind the door. "I don't want to be in a group right now."

"Don't worry, it's only me and Jade. Flutters is staying here to help establish New Ponyville and the rest of your team is remaining here to adjust. Do you want to come?"

Suddenly, the door swung open and Velvet darted forward, grasping Eric in a massive hug and shivering in utter terror. As her eyes spilled over with tears, Eric glanced inside and was unsurprised at the scene that awaited his eyes. The bed was unmade, the blankets having been shaped into a sort of cocoon, and a plate of food laid cold and untouched upon the table.

"Did you have a nightmare?" he asked, and she flinched in response. "You can tell me, you know. I won't speak a word to anyone else if you don't want me to."

"I keep seeing myself as I was all those years ago, but whenever you come to save me, you're always stabbed through the back by Weiss! She has this expression twisted with regret, though, and she tells me to run as shadows consume her. I try to run, but I never get anywhere, and…" Velvet sniffled.

Eric just tightened his hold slightly around his daughter, whispering quiet platitudes to her as she vented her emotions to him. Over time, the sobs quieted down, and Velvet felt stable and secure enough to let go of the hug and step away. Wiping off her face, she let out a shaky smile and grabbed her camera from the doorside table. "Let's go."

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Eric, Jade, and Velvet stepped through the portal and into an alley in the dead of night, stepping out into a near-empty street with very little traffic. Only one car was pulling away from the edge of the street, and it's tires flung an old newspaper at Eric's face. He snatched it out of the air and glanced at the date before lighting it on fire, burning it to a crisp.

"We're around ten years before the start of canon… we're in an alternate universe, then." Eric groaned, dropping the charred remains into a trash can. "I aimed for the start of the universe during the portal's creation, so we got diverted a good distance away from the main universe."

"Are you who my mommy told me I'd be staying with for a while?" a young voice chirped out. "She told me I'd be staying with somebody cool for a long time, but she hasn't been back to pick me up yet…"

The group of three turned around to find a tiny kid with a fluffy ball of curly green hair staring up at them. Velvet sat down next to the kid, laying a hand on his shoulder as she asked "When did your mommy leave you here?", hoping that her fears wouldn't be confirmed by the kid's answer.

Sadly, the kid responded with "A few nights ago. Why?", and Velvet's heart sank in her chest. Standing up, she bent down and tousled the kid's hair, an unhappy frown now hidden from the (admittedly adorable) kid.

"Do you want to come with us?" She inquired, hoping beyond hope that the kid would respond with yes.

"Yay!" the kid hollered in unbridled glee, grabbing her hand and bouncing up and down in utter joy. A small smile crept over her face as Velvet picked up the kid and looked at Eric and Jade with a single, pleading look. Jade had a slightly annoyed look on her face, irritated at her vacation being cut so short, but eventually relaxed and gave a quick nod in response.

"Sure." Eric shrugged, opening a portal back to their world. "You can take him along with us. What's your name, kid? Better yet, what's your dream?"

"I'm Izuku Midoriya, and I'm gonna be a hero!"

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A few years later

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Izuku Midoriya was a very happy 10-year-old at the moment. Not only was he able to spend time with his dad, who was always busy at work (though despite this, he always made time for Izuku and big sis Velvet), but he also got to see all sorts of cool stuff! "Wow," he breathed in utter awe, looking around the room. "This place is so cool!"

"This is my laboratory!" Eric proudly proclaimed, white dyed hair poofing up in all directions and clear goggles around his neck. "This is where I conduct my experiments in every subject under the sun, and then some! I have two rules - first, don't touch anything without asking if it's safe and if you're allowed! Second, don't come in here without me being present and aware of your presence! Now, it's time to make explosions with SCIENCE!"

Then, he picked Izuku up and dived behind a clear blast shield, handing him a pair of safety goggles as he did so. "In three, two, one, zero!" he counted down, and pressed the button on the detonator in his hand. A massive column of fire blasted up towards the sky, dying down a few moments later and leaving Izuku with stars in his eyes.

"And this is the first of what I shall teach you!" Eric cackled, before being hit in the head with a thrown cinder block that somehow turned his hair back to normal.

"Dear, stop corrupting Izuku! I have more cinder blocks!" Jade called from the next room over, tossing another up and down in her hands.

"Fine, Jade!" Eric harrumphed before turning back to Izuku. "Anyways, the main reason why I called you here is because of your desire to be a hero. Recently, I found that your genetic makeup doesn't accept superpowers in any normal condition after analyzing a blood sample. We're here to find out which ones you can make work with your body, and how."

He then tossed Izuku a fruit with multiple swirls on it, going into a slight tangent afterwards. "So, this Devil Fruit will be good constant for this. If it works with your body, then we know that basic modification of the body through an external power source will work. If this doesn't work, I'll give you one of my genetically modified ones, and if that doesn't work we'll move on to the next one."

"Umm… can't you just give me the modified fruit now?" Izuku asked carefully, holding the circular green fruit back towards Eric.

"Sure! Screw the scientific method because of SCIENCE!" he shouted, swapping the fruit out for a yellow one with multilayered swirls.

"That doesn't make any sense at all." Izuku deadpanned as he caught the new fruit and took a bite, choking as it went down before wiping his mouth. "That tasted disgusting!"

"In order to remove the weakness to seawater and allow for a greater variety in the powers, I had to sacrifice the taste." Eric shrugged, handing Izuku a glass of water to help wash the taste out. "Honestly, I don't know which power that fruit gives. I'll still help you be a hero though, even if the power is a joke."

Suddenly, Izuku stilled, green flashes of light racing along his body as the fruit took hold. He shot out the door, a trail of green light and an excited scream of "WOOHOO!" behind him.

"Aw, great. He got the Pika Pika no Mi. Well, time for him to train that fruit to its' limits." Eric groaned, heading along the path of light as it slowly faded.

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Four years later

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"Hey Izuku! Get over here!" Eric called the 14-year-old over to the portal, the green-haired teen rushing to keep up with the rest of his family. "We're going back to your home world!"

"Really! This is going to be awesome!" Izuku beamed, well beyond excited. "I'm finally going to get the chance to be a hero!"

"Now, you're going to need to go back to school for a bit in order to get an academic record, but you should be fine. After all, you've already learned quantum and regular physics in order to use your powers." Eric told him, and Izuku's face fell slightly before brightening up again.

"Well, that just means that I get to make more friends!" he cheered before becoming more serious. "Plus, they'll be a good source of information on the current heroes and villains. Even if it's only word of mouth and twisted beyond belief, there's bound to be some information from them that will be true."

"Well said, Izuku. Now, Allon-sy!" Eric whooped, creating a portal and doing a triple backflip through it.

"Did he just-" Izuku began, only to be cut off by Jade.

"My fiance can be a bit of an idiot, and yes, he did just do a triple backflip through the portal in a suit. Now, let's head through before the portal closes."

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"Welcome to your home for who-knows-how-long!" Eric jauntily whistled, unlocking the door and swinging it open. "A moderately sized townhouse with some storage space and all the comforts of home. And by all the comforts I mean smaller rooms, none of the divine technology, and no room for a lab or a library."

"Still better than some other universes." Jade muttered as she stepped inside and looked around the already furnished drawing room. "So, you've already brought our less noticeable stuff here? Color me impressed. What about the background?"

"We're Americans that moved here a few days ago after taking a vacation here. Izuku is our adoptive son and Velvet is his older sister, as you're unable to have children due to an injury received during hero work. I'm a support hero, but you're an active frontline hero that's registered as Verdant. Velvet's your sidekick and intern, but you're also unofficially using that to help her deal with some recent psychological trauma. Any questions?"

When none were forthcoming, he clapped his hands together and smiled once more. "Well, let me show you our rooms. After that, do what you want. Izuku, you're coming with me to your new school tomorrow for the placement tests and registration, so get a nice outfit ready. So, let's get to it!"

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(the next day)

"Well, Eric-san," the principal began, pausing slightly as he glanced down at the papers in his hands again. "Not to question your judgement, but are you certain that you want your son to take the highest level tests we can provide? After all, you've only recently adopted him…"

"I have full belief that Izuku will succeed at the highest level. I'm merely here as a formality to get him into the appropriate grade level." Eric responded coolly, staring the principal down. "I understand your concerns, but they are unfounded."

"Very well. Your son shall have the appropriate tests for the 8th grade given to him." the principal sighed. "Midoriya, follow me."

Two hours later, Izuku and the principal returned to see Eric tinkering with a few spare parts that he'd stowed away in his coat pockets. Next to him lay a new wristwatch, a gauntlet with electrified knuckles, and a functional drone with 29 separate laser pointers mounted on the main body. Studiously ignoring this, the principal coughed to get his attention and began.

"Eric-san, your son has managed to get a 100% on each of the tests. Now, we are willing to accept that your son has done that legitimately, but in order to waive any potential disbelief from higher officials in the district, we are obligated to test your son's quirk to ensure it didn't give him an unfair advantage."

Stashing the gadgets back in his pocket (which left no noticeable bulge, much to the principal's confusion), Eric stood back up and nodded his assent, following his son and the older man. After a few minutes, they reached a large, brightly-lit room that was plated in foot-thick steel armor. As they headed into the room, the principal turned around and headed into another room to the immediate right, his face appearing in a plexiglass observation booth.

"Now, Midoriya, what is your quirk?" he asked, his voice rasping through the speakers installed in the booth.

"My quirk is called Light Body. I can turn my entire body into light while choosing to maintain or not maintain my current mass, and it also allows me to create simple light constructs." Izuku explained, turning himself into a flash of green light as he bounced around the room. "However, it's green and as such isn't subtle at all, and I need to concentrate in order to turn my body into light."

Stepping out of the plexiglass room, the principal unlocked the door and ushered them out of the room. "My apologies, but that was required in order to provide indisputable evidence that he didn't cheat. Now, welcome to Aldera Junior High, Izuku Midoriya. A tour guide for the two of you will be along shortly."

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"And that's everything in the school!" a girl with deer antlers chirped as she finished the tour and school let out. "We'll see you in class tomorrow!"

As Eric and Izuku thanked her for her time and began to walk home, he ruffled Izuku's hair fondly and asked, "What do you think?"

"I think it'll be a nice stopgap so I can get some friends my age, at least until I get into U.A." Izuku responded, knocking his laughing dad's hand away with a pout. Sadly, this statement didn't go unnoticed by one Bakugou Katsuki, and he stepped out to confront them.

"Hey! Your shitty ass isn't allowed to go to U.A.! I'm the only one in this goddamn neighborhood that's allowed to be the best!" he snarled, hands bursting into explosions in an attempt to intimidate them.

"Cute. Now, can you get out of our way, kid? We have more important things to do than talking to someone with an aggrandized view of themselves and a superiority complex." Eric deadpanned, him and Izuku deftly dodging around the enraged Bakugou.

"I'm not done talking to you-" Bakugou yelled before being restrained by his peers, each trying to convey how it would be a horrible idea to attack an adult in public. As they walked on, the commotion behind them slowly faded until it was nothing more than background noise.

"I want to change my answer." Izuku said a few minutes later. "If it means spending time around people like him, then this next year is going to be hell."

"I'm inclined to agree. Do you think I should get my hair cut?" Eric responded, leading to the conversation eventually devolving into an argument on whether the pompadour or the afro was a sillier hairstyle. As the two bickered back and forth, a massive glob of slime rose up out of the sewers and took a long look at them.

"Hey, sorry about this, but I'm gonna need your bodies!" it cackled, drawing itself up and threatening to engulf them as they turned into the alley that lead to their house.

"Really?" Izuku asked, a ball of light forming in his hand before Eric pulled out a taser and fired it into the mass of sewer sludge. As it flinched back, Izuku let the light in his hand dissipate out of sheer bewilderment. Why would his dad use a taser instead of, well, anything else?

"What the hell is that?!" the thing screeched in pain moving away from the two of them.

"It's called a taser, dumbass. And judging by the shadow flying over our heads and growing rapidly larger, I'd say you have bigger problems than a minor shock." Eric replied, tucking the taser back into his pocket as he pointed to the sky.

"DETROIT SMASH!" the massive figure yelled, and the thing from the sewers was blown into a gooey mess that was quickly shoveled into a plastic bottle.

"MY THANKS FOR KEEPING HIM BUSY!" the man yelled, striking a pose that just radiated extreme hamminess. "I AM ALL MIGHT, AND I AM IN YOUR DEBT! NOW, I MUST LEAVE! FAREWELL!"

And with that said, he took off with a massive jump, the pavement cracking under the force. Silently watching the retreating figure for a few seconds, Eric spun around and beckoned for Izuku to follow him. It was not time to question the inherent hamminess behind All Might's entire being - it was time to get Izuku acclimated to his world again. Hopefully, it wouldn't take too long…

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10 months later

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"So, do you mind telling me exactly why I'm being asked to pay a few million yen in fines?" Eric twitched, hands shaking violently as he stared down at the paper he was just given.

"Your son performed an act of unlicensed vigilantism and public quirk usage when pro heroes were already on the scene. As such, as you are his legal guardian, you are obligated to pay for him."

"Pardon me, but I think that this 'act of unlicensed vigilantism' is merely a front. After all, I was also at the incident, and the villain was actively trying to attack us while the heroes did nothing. I'm sorry, but if you're willing to try and fine people for doing the right thing and actually being competent, I have no qualms about actually calling the government in on this. However, I do acknowledge the public quirk usage issue, and I will pay the fine and reprimand Izuku appropriately."

The well-dressed legal representative ground his teeth as he negotiated with Eric, extremely irritated at his inability to get any of the real fines to stick. "Fine." He ground out. "Your point is valid and acknowledged, and the fine will be reduced to twenty thousand yen for public quirk usage alone."

"Here, then." Eric tossed the envelope of yen to the now-steaming representative. "The fine is paid, and as such I must request that you get out of my house. Thank you and goodbye."

"Wait, what?" the man said before being catapulted off the property and into the neighbor's pool via a spring-loaded pressure plate on the deck.

"I love this thing." Eric smiled fondly at the resetting trap before heading back inside. "Really Izuku, you couldn't keep it contained for one more day? The U.A. Entrance Exams are tomorrow, after all."

"I needed the practice and it counted as self-defense!" Izuku pouted as he finished his five page essay on the laws of the world they were currently in and handed it to Eric.

"I know that, you know that, and the government knows that, but those annoying hero agencies are all increasing my workload by trying to slap us with fines for us defending ourselves. Officially, shame on you for using your 'quirk' in public. Unofficially, good job on the self-defense, but did you really have to increase my workload by this much? Oh, and good job on the essay. It covers just about everything important comprehensively." he grumbled, faux-pouting as the rest of the family laughed at him.

"How're you doing Velvet? I know the case you two are on isn't easy for you or Jade." he asked, turning his attention to his daughter. She sighed and slumped back into her chair, body language showing her sheer exhaustion.

"Breaking up the sex slave ring is not easy for me." She eventually admitted, rabbit ears drooping slightly. "What makes it worse is that it's one centered around people with animal mutation quirks, so I can always see myself in their place. However, I think busting this is actually really helping me, along with the therapist I've been seeing. Do I think I'm fine? No, but I'm getting better." She smiled, pride radiating from her body when Eric gave her an overjoyed smile in response.

"On another note, Jade wants to see you up in your room now. As she puts it, she wants some sweet relief in a very hypocritical manner." Velvet giggled as she saw her dad's face contort into an annoyed scowl.

"Damn it Jade!" he yelled up at the ceiling. "Sex as stress relief is fine, but we're not doing BDSM!"

"Izuku, Velvet, you two are responsible for your own dinners tonight. I'm going to teach one naughty temptress a very satisfying lesson." he practically purred as he stalked upstairs and shut their room door.

Izuku turned to look at Velvet, his expression one of pure relief. "You have no idea how thankful I am that their room is soundproof." he admitted, before the house reverberated with a loud moan of pleasure.

"You were saying something about soundproofing?" Velvet responded, face as green as Izuku's hair.

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The next day

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Izuku arrived at U.A. in a flash of green light, landing with his arms behind his head and whistling as he walked up the stairs and into the building. Sitting down at the desk, he looked around the room as the other examinees began to trickle in.

"Hi! I'm Ochako! Nice to meet you!" A voice chirped from next to him, and he fell out of his chair as he flailed around in surprise. "Sorry!" the same voice squeaked as a hand wrapped around his ankles, and his momentum slid to a halt before ever hitting the ground.

As he pulled himself back up into his seat, he stared at her in awe. "What is your quirk?"

"Well it's," she began, only to hear the examiner call for silence. "Something I'll tell you after the exams."

"That's fair." he shrugged, and both turned their attention forwards.

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"Kami, that test killed me!" a pink-skinned girl groaned as they marched out of the classroom and into the auditorium, a black and yellow-haired kid patting her sympathetically on the back. Izuku was choosing not to pay attention to this, though, as he was currently chatting with Ochako about their quirks.

"Mine is called Zero Gravity! It allows me to make any object weightless!" Ochako explained, smiling at her new (and now very confused) friend.

"Wait, if it neutralizes weight then why did I… never mind, I'll figure it out later." Izuku shook his head as he turned to Ochako. "Mine's called Light Body. It allows me to turn my body into light. On the plus side, lasers. On the minus side, you wouldn't believe the number of Fleshlight jokes I've heard."

Ochako giggled as they sat down and listened to the background chatter in peaceful silence. At least, they did until the hero Present Mic came onto the stage.

"Welcome to U.A., everybody! Now, can I hear a Plus Ultra!" he boomed out, and a quiet cheer escaped from some of the audience members. "I can't hear you!" he tried again, and this time the crowd let out a much larger cry of "PLUS ULTRA!"

"Great! Now, your exam is going to be in our very own mock city, and you shall be facing these!" he exclaimed as he stepped to the side with a dramatic flourish, revealing images of three different robots. "Each of these bad boys will be worth either one, two, or three points depending on their number!"

"Excuse me, sir, but that's only three types of enemies. The handout says that there's four!" another voice interjected, a bespectacled teen rising out of his seat to claim it. He then whipped around to face Izuku and Ochako, finger pointing dramatically at them. "And you! This is not the time to be holding hands! It's wholly unprofessional and distracting to both yourself and others!"

"Oh no." Izuku deadpanned. "I am distracting others by doing something near-unnoticeable with somebody else that consented to this action. I am a glorified attention magnet. Woe is me. I'm sorry, random person I've never met before. Shall I kowtow to everyone her in an attempt to humbly beg their forgiveness?"

This left the boy sputtering slightly as Ochako slumped into her chair in relief, thankful for the attention being taken off her. The auditorium exploded into laughter at this, only stopping when Present Mic yelled for everyone to quiet down.

"Good job catching that, young man!" he beamed as he turned his attention to the embarrassed Ilda. "There is indeed one more enemy - the zero-pointer! You won't get any points for defeating it, so you might as well just run from it. Now, any questions?"

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As they headed off towards their assigned entrance gate, Izuku and Ochako were beset upon by Ilda again, his face still flushed red. "That was extremely inappropriate conduct!" he sputtered in annoyance. "I was merely trying to assist the general audience, and you mock me with your words? Shameful! If that is how you're going to act, then maybe you shouldn't be a hero!"

"You know, the same could be very well applied to you." Ochako piped up, blushing slightly when their attention turned to her. "After all, you did just expose something harmless and distracting for no real reason back here, and now you're trying to guilt-trip us again. Sorry, but I don't think of that when I think 'hero'."

This left him even more flustered, and Izuku and Ochako simply moved around his still-sputtering figure. "I feel bad about that." Ochako winced as they arrived at the gate. "I mean, we did just shame him in public…"

"True, but he was also at fault in this." Izuku interjected. "And either way, if he keeps that overly strict attitude he'll be far too inflexible as a hero. If being a raging jackass, and yes, I do acknowledge that I was acting like one, means that I can save a life, then I'll be the jackass needed in that scenario. I'll see you after the exam, I guess."

Waving goodbye as they split up in the crowd, Izuku let out a long, deep breath. It was time to get serious, and there was no room for error here. "Sorry, everyone." he thought, preparing to blast through the gate the moment it opened. "But you won't get a chance to shine."

"Everybody ready?" Present Mic's voice boomed over the speakers. "START!"

Izuku shot into the faux city, body already transformed into light. "For this will be over in a flash."

For a single moment, the city shone an intense green as Izuku rocketed around inside before stopping in the center of the city, an already dissipating blade of green light clenched tightly in his hand. A long, drawn-out crash reverberated throughout the city, pieces of the destroyed robots collapsing to the ground as Izuku stuffed his hands back into his pockets and began walking out of the city.

"WHAT'S THIS?" Present Mic's voice boomed out over the loudspeakers, sounding simultaneously shocked and terrified at the demonstration of Izuku's power. "IN AN INCREDIBLE TWIST, IZUKU MIDORIYA HAS DESTROYED EVERY LAST ONE OF THE ROBOTS, EARNING AN INSURMOUNTABLE SCORE OF SIX HUNDRED POINTS! NOW, FOR EVERYONE ELSE TAKING THE TEST, DO NOT WORRY! WE HAVE ADDITIONAL ROBOTS, SO YOU'LL STILL GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW YOUR STUFF! IZUKU MIDORIYA, HEAD OVER TO THE FRONT GATE! YOU'LL BE EXCLUDED FROM THIS NEXT TEST!

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As Present Mic made the announcement, the rest of the U.A. faculty were still staring at the sheer devastation left after Izuku's assault on the robots. "You have got to be kidding me." one spoke up, swallowing heavily as he attempted to assuage his own fears. "There's no way he could possibly do all of this in such a short time! He's got to have an absurdly powerful illusion quirk, or a technology based quirk! There's no other way that this could possibly happen! Right?"

"Wrong." another voice cut in, and the entire staff craned their necks to see Principal Nezu watching the retreating boy, eyes deadly serious. "He did all of that himself. Teachers, be thankful that you get to teach him to be a hero. He'd be a horrifying villain."

The one other voice gulped, and the room slowly settled down as they began activating the new robots. "Aizawa?" Present Mic spoke, turning to face his old friend. "We just lost a spot for class 1-A."

"That's the least of my worries right now, Hizashi." Aizawa responded, also keeping his eyes focused on the new student. "That's the absolute last thing I'm worried about."

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A week later

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Izuku walked into the gates of U.A. for the second time, and felt a surge of pride well up inside of him -

"NOPE! I'M NOT WRITING THIS CRAP ANYMORE!" A disembodied voice rang out through the fabric of reality, and everything in existence froze. "I'M DONE WITH MAKING YOU GUYS OUT TO BE INFALLIBLE! I'M GETTING RID OF EVERYTHING HERE FOREVER! SCREW THE PLOT, SCREW ALL OF THE GODDAMN MARY SUES I'VE WRITTEN, AND GOODBYE FANFIC UNIVERSE!"

And then the entire multiverse that had grown and developed for an uncountable amount of years blinked out of existence, nothing but a truly empty void left behind.

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"Oi, what the hell!" my friend snapped and pushed the computer away. "You can't just end it like that! We have an entire plot here! The characters are developed, new loves are found, and the lore is expanded further."

"Oh yes," I snipped back, glaring back at him. "I can damn well end it like this. That plot is the most typical fanfic plot ever when it comes to mary sues. 1) Everything is fine, and the character is super OP. 2) Something happens to generate angst and the tragic backstory is revealed. 3) Character angsts over something for a while but is snapped out of it, gets a goddamn harem because 'true love and his sheer badassery gets all the bitches', and that's in your story outline!"

"We're not doing this anymore!" I continued, not letting him have a moment to interject. "This is my computer, and my profile! Seriously, I can't take this anymore!"

"Fine!" he yelled, and stomped away. "Don't come crying to me when you get no more hits whatsoever."

"Up yours too, jackass!" I called back, before adding "Oh, and are you still up for that game of Texas Hold 'Em tomorrow?"

"Sure, man! I can't wait!"

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Well, I guess this is over. Thanks for everything, and can't wait to continue working on "Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them"!