"So… That's the idea." Izuku revealed to his two friends. After explaining his plan out loud to both of them, he wasn't sure what reactions that they would have had.

Mina had been the one to insist that they would need a lot more than just the two of them if they planned on becoming Heroes, and her arguments made a lot of sense. With just One For All, and Acid at hand, they were very limited as to what they could possibly do, and even if they had a wider range of versatility, the fact just remained that just two of them meant that they weren't going to be able to do much. If they wanted to really make an impact on society, to show that Quirks could be used for good, then they were going to need to have more people on their side. More people acting as Heroes. More people who shared their goal.

Hence why Uraraka and Todoroki were now sat in front of both Izuku and Mina, having just been told the entire Hero plan.

Todoroki was a no brainer. Mina had been the one to suggest him basically immediately, for a number of reasons. First of all, they knew that they could trust him, since Todoroki was one of Izuku's friends. He was a person who held no negative feelings towards the Quirkless, specifically because of Izuku's actions himself. And the most practical reason - His Quirk was ridiculously strong. The ability to generate ice and fire both made him incredibly versatile, and incredibly dangerous. If they ever wound up in a bad situation – Of which they would end up in a great many, without even a shadow of a doubt – Todoroki's Quirk would be fantastic for helping defuse it. Either with force, or containment, fire and ice respectively.

On the other hand, Uraraka was a less obvious choice, and one that Izuku made. Like Todoroki, she was one of the only people that he knew in the dorms that had no negative feelings towards the Quirkless. But her Zero Gravity Quirk, sure, it was useful… But compared to everyone else's Quirks, It didn't really have a great many ways to hold up. None of the outright power like One For All. None of the deadly components that Acid had. None of the versatility that Half-Cold-Half-Hot did.

Additionally, it was limited. Unlike Acid and Half-Cold-Half-Hot, it required physical contact in order to work. One For All worked in the same way, but that was a Strength-Enhancement Quirk. It had multiple uses. All Uraraka's Quirk let her do was float things, and that wasn't very useful in the grand scheme of things.

What she did have though, was the right attitude for this sort of thing. One could chock it down to naïveté to a certain degree, since she hadn't experience a huge amount of personal discrimination against her due to her Quirk, but she was optimistic and cheerful. She dreamed of a world where Quirks were accepted as a part of society, just like Izuku and Mina did, almost childishly. She hadn't experienced the gut-punch that was prejudice directly against her, since her family had been so supportive of her when her Quirk activated. She was easily one of the luckiest people in all of Yuuei in that respect.

Those qualities were what made her a good choice to be a Hero with them. Her honest heart, and her genuine kindness and optimism towards creating a new world in which Quirked and Quirkless lived side by side.

And as predicted, she was the first one to leap out of her seat, throwing her tightly closed fists into the air. "I'm in! This sounds awesome!"

"Yahoo! Mina cheered at Uraraka's decision to join in the Hero Team, throwing her own hands into the sky as her brown haired friend did, just a few short seconds after Uraraka did so. The two did a double-handed high five once they came within a close range of one another, grinning ear to ear and smiling at one another.

Izuku smiled at her decision to join them in their Hero endeavours as well, thankful for her unconditional and instant support. He'd had a feeling that she'd be the one to show her support for the idea within a matter of seconds, and she'd proven him right.

Looking at Todoroki though…

He looked far, far more sceptical. Stoic, almost. At the best of times, he was mostly emotionless, not really expressing much that would give away his opinions of feelings, other than his actions, which would then be made very clear. But right now, he wasn't showing any of that sort of thing. Nothing beyond the normal icy stare that he gave even his friends at the best of times.

Primarily looking at Izuku, the bi-hair coloured boy seemed to be processing everything that had been explained to him. The concept of becoming Heroes. The concept of showing off and properly using their Quirks to protect people. The risk that they would be running, especially with the new laws now in place against use of Quirks. Essentially, they wouldn't really be Heroes, but Vigilantes of a sort. And a number of practical questions were making their way into his mind as well, as he considered all the various possibilities.

"So, how would we hide our identities?" He asked. It was a question that Mina nor Uraraka had even considered quite yet, but Todoroki had come up with it in a second. "Quirks are unique to each individual… So we'd need to find a way to hide our identities. Plus, unless we find some kind of way to hide what our Quirks are while still using them. How many people do you think are going to be able to use both ice and fire?"

"… I hadn't even thought about that." Mina admitted, her excitement and joyful expression falling at the same time. She looked over to Izuku, hoping he had some idea. "My family would know it was me immediately by my Acid Quirk, and they could report it me if they wanted to…"

That was a sticking point in Izuku's plans, he would admit. He would be fine – Strength - Enhancement was vague, but for everyone else? The fact of the matter was, If they were going to use their Quirks, then they would be putting themselves at a pretty high risk. If someone figured out just how much their Quirks could do, then all they'd need to do is look them up on a register list, and they'd be pretty accurately be able to find out which person was which.

It was like Todoroki had said – What were the chances of someone within the Tokyo area having a Quirk as complex as Half-Cold-Half-Hot? With a sigh, he confessed. "I'll be honest… When it comes to Quirks… We're just going to have to hope that we can either come up with a good, believable lie, or that no one who would recognize our Quirks will."

That wasn't a comforting answer, and Izuku knew it perfectly well. Even as he spoke, Uraraka and Mina looked a bit more uncomfortable with the idea suddenly. It was one thing to try and act like a Hero… But when all the evidence was going to point towards you, then your anonymity wasn't going to be of much security.

And remaining anonymous was pretty much the only line of defence that they had.

"You've got a Strength – Enhancement type Quirk, Deku. That's easy to hide… But what are the rest of us supposed to do?" Uraraka questioned, showing a more concerned, borderline panicked expression.

"W-With your Quirk, its pretty easy." The black haired boy said, already with a convincing idea for her fake Quirks name. "We can just say your Quirk is 'Gravity Manipulation' or something. That should at least give you a bit of protection. The trick would be just not letting anyone know that you need to touch objects to make them float." He then turned over to Todoroki, who seemed to be waiting for what his fake Quirk would be, and how he'd be expected to hide his actual one. "With you, Todoroki, we can say you have Temperature Control. Again, we'd just have to find a way to trick people into thinking that you can use whatever element from whatever on your body, not just cold for right, and hot for left."

A few hand gestured, and careful thinking when they were out on the field… And they could still probably at least obscure their Quirks, give them some sort of semblance of secrecy. Make them harder to pin down.

Taking a step forward though, Mina looked at Izuku. "What about me?"

His green tips obscuring his eyes partially as he looked up at her, regret visible in his equally green iris, Izuku let out a small sigh. "…I honestly don't know, Ashido. I can't think of anything that would hide your Quirk well. Unless we can pass if off as a dissolving agent of some sort… Plus, considering you need to secrete Acid from your skin in order to use your Quirk, and your skin is very easy to identify, and your horns and eyes too… You're the one who's going to be the most at risk…"

Not for the first time in her life, Mina cursed her abnormal appearance. Izuku was right. Doing this Hero thing, when she looked the way she did… No matter how someone looked at it, specifically when it came to her, it was a very dangerous thing to try and do… If she gave up even a single shred of evidence as to who she was… That could mean game over.

She could end up putting the others at risk is she screwed up just once.

These were things that Izuku hadn't thought about until Todoroki had mentioned them. And it was a good thing that they had been brought up. Focused more so on the training to be able to use his Quirk enough to even attempt this sort of thing, making notes that could help him, and trying to keep on top of his work that he had to do for classes… It had just slipped his mind.

They were the first things that Todoroki had thought of though. Asking him to join them had been a wise choice, if only just for this feedback and questioning, forcing Izuku to consider things they might not have until it was too late.

Noteworthy though, Todoroki wasn't rejecting the idea outright. He was expressing his concerns at the validity of the idea, yes, but he wasn't outright saying he wanted nothing to do with it.

"As for your 'hiding our identity' question…" Izuku carried on, walking to where he normally rested at night, and reaching underneath the mattress. From underneath the bed, he pulled out a large number of plastic bags, all filled to the brim with wools, leather, and various other fabrics within. "If we're gonna be Heroes… We'd need costumes and Hero names. So we can keep our faces and names hidden."

"Hold up, you know how to sew?!" Uraraka questioned, apparently shocked beyond belief by this revelation.

Slightly taken aback by this vocal shock, Izuku stuttered on a couple of his words before regaining his normal speaking abilities. "Y-Yeah, I-I – I learned back when I was living back home. Kacchan's parents were fashion designers… So he knew a bit about it, and he taught me a bit. Just the basic stuff… I picked up the rest on my own."

"Wait, were you planning on making all our costumes yourself?" the Zero Gravity Quirk user had made her way over to Izuku, and was rummaging through one of the bags that he had, looking over plastics, wool and other stuff within them.

"Well… Yeah."

"Hey, lemme help!"

"D-Do you know how to sew?

"Of course I do!" Uraraka grinned. "I told you my family is poor, didn't I? Well, I had to learn to sew to repair stuff, to save a bit of money wherever we could. I'm actually pretty good at it! If we split duties, we can probably make the costumes pretty quickly!"

"A-Awesome! A-And about Hero names…"

For her part, Mina was remaining intentionally silent as the group discussed costumes and the ideas of Hero names and whatever else they had to go over before Todoroki would come to a decision.

She hadn't considered it throughout beforehand, but the fact was, because of her Quirked mutations and utterly inhumane appearance…. She stood out. She stood out as clear as lava in a forest. And because of her Quirk worked, some of her unusual features had to be on display for the naked eye to see in order for her to use her Quirk. In order to be a Hero, she had to risk her very identity every single time she wanted to throw any sort of attack, or use her powers. It was like Izuku said. Even if they lied about her powers, her appearance was still going to make going out at all a huge risk

What could she do? Use a hood to cover up her horns? To try and conceal as much of her face as possible? Could she get away with a face mask and a bandana to hide as much skin around her face as she could? What about her arms and hands? Could she try and keep some loose, Acid-proof material around there to it would conceal her forearms as much as possible?

Was doing these things even possible? Did an Acid-Proof fabric even exist?

As much as she wanted to help Izuku in his Hero plan…

Could she? Wouldn't she just be in the way? A danger if someone figured out who she was?

A liability, almost?

The Quirked girl cursed her appearance once more. Her own Quirk was screwing her over.

She did envy people who had Quirks that they could easily conceal. Those lucky people wouldn't have to worry about this sort of thing happening to them, instead just having to focus on how to best hide the origins of their Quirks. Todoroki would just need a hood or a hat of some kind, and he'd be sorted. Uraraka wouldn't even need that, and nor would Izuku. Their normal anatomy was absolutely perfect for helping them hide who they were. As long as they could conceal their faces, they would be fine.

But she wasn't as lucky.

Would it be better for them if she didn't join in their Hero ways? If she instead stuck to the side-lines, and helped them practice and train when they weren't actually doing Hero things? Her desire to see this movement work, to bring some light onto the benefits of Quirks in society outshone her desire to be an actual Hero herself, awesome as it sounded. The most important thing was that the Heroes were a success, and her wants and needs took second place to that.

"…o if you could give me a rough drawing of the Hero costume you wanted, Todoroki, I could probably make yours within a week. Ashido, could you do the same with Uraraka?" Izuku just got out of explaining something to both of his friends, and then addressed Mina, but she was so wrapped up in her own thoughts that she didn't even notice him speaking to her. "Ashido?... Ashido, you okay?"

Called out of her thoughts, Mina suddenly became aware of her surroundings again, and was greeted with three sets of eyes all focused on her. "Huh? Oh, sorry Midori, I uh, I wasn't paying any attention."

Patient with her, Izuku nodded in his understanding. "Is something bothering you?"

"No, just, thinking." Lied the pink girl, not wanting to cause any unnecessary distress in his already stressful plans. "What was it you said?"

It was very clear that Izuku didn't believe her in the slightest. One of his eyebrows was raised in a show of obvious confusion, though he didn't choose to vocalise it. Instead, he trusted her to speak up if something was bothering her, so he just continued. "For the Hero Costume – Do you think you could maybe draw an idea of what you want your costume to look like, and then give it to Uraraka?"

"Why Uraraka?"

"You're both girls. She has a better understanding of… What you'll need than I will."

Mina just nodded her head.

"It's gotta be something you're happy to wear." Izuku reminded everyone. "Our costumes… They're things that we need to wear with pride. We need to be eye catching as well as proud of what we do. The more people who notice us, the more support we could end up getting from other people."

With his arms crossed, Todoroki tilted his head slightly to the right. "What about your Quirk? Have you managed to overcome the bone breaking?"

"Sort of... I can use my Quirk to jump from place to place…. But I can't really control it properly. I don't have a real way of stopping yet. And my attacks…" Truth be told, he hadn't even worked on attacking. He'd not thrown a punch with One For All since he'd rescued Katsuki from those kidnappers.

He didn't have nearly enough control for it.

"Don't rush this, Midoriya." Warned Todoroki. "You're not going to be able to help anyone if you aren't careful."

"…Yeah, I know."

"And what about Bakugou? If you're telling us about this idea, you must've told him, right?"

"…He said he doesn't want anything to do with this."

"Wait, he did?" Uraraka questioned, her voice pepping up noticeably as she did so. "I thought that was why he kept visiting the exercise rooms."

Katsuki unleashed another series of explosions in his hands. He'd been at this for quite a while now, his hands throbbing, and the skin on his palms starting to peel off slightly. But he refused to stop unleashing explosion after explosion.

There was a limit to how much power that he could put out when it came to his Quirk. As he'd grown older, used his Quirk more, and experimented with it, he'd discovered his limits, and honed himself to be able to surpass them when the time came – An occurrence which was all too common during the days he and Izuku spent rescuing Quirked people off the streets.

Now he was taking it one step further. Izuku wanted to become an actual Hero. Like something straight out of a comic book, he seriously wanted to give this notion of protecting Quirked and Quirkless alike by using the powers that they had to fight against people who would use their Quirks for selfish reasons, and to stop the discrimination against the Quirked – With force if that was what it was going to take.

As far as Katsuki was concerned, Izuku was being idealistic about the whole thing.

"Die!" He screamed, blasting another huge detonation onto the walls. If the walls broke, it didn't matter. Their teacher Ishiyama – the blocky Cement Quirk user – Could repair it using his Quirk. It was the strongest, sturdiest thing here, so Katsuki wasn't holding anything back.

Quirks weren't accepted, and they weren't going to be. Not for a very long time, until all of them were long dead. Toshinori was the person who had taught the both of them that the gene that causes Quirks in people is a dominant gene, so unless everyone who had it was hunted to extinction, the world becoming a superhuman society was just an inevitability. It might take twenty years, or it could take four hundred. Whatever the case, it could happen, if the people liked it or not.

But right now, when Quirks had just become a thing within society… They were feared, and no amount of good publicity was going to convince people that the Quirked were anything other than dangerous mutant freaks that needed to be contained and controlled.

Izuku was fighting against that though. He just didn't know how to stay down. He wasn't even a natural, but he refused to back down on his stance that the Quirked still deserved their basic rights.

If there was one thing about Izuku that Katsuki did respect, above everything else, it was that.

Katsuki refused to back down, but Izuku? He didn't seem to know how to back down.

Even in the face of danger, like when they'd fought against those Quirkless assaulters who had tried to stab and maim Ashido, he had remained steadfast, even while shaking in fear, refusing to move or abandon the girl he didn't even know. In the face of being ostracised by his classmates for standing by a Quirked animal in human's skin, he'd stared them down and told them he wouldn't abandon his friend. In the face of getting burned by Todoroki's fire, he'd taken the blast and forced the guy to calm down. In the face of his friend being kidnapped, he literally broke his bones in order to save him.

Bikers, bigots, broken bones, entering a school for Quirked and being completely out-casted by the people he now lived with, people who had dangerous power that could rip him apart in an instant…

He was still trying to become a Hero, to prove all of them wrong.

That was something that simply had to be respected, even if Katsuki didn't want to admit it. No matter how moronic it was to him, no matter how much he told Izuku that he was insane for trying to do all of these things, he still went ahead and did them.

Maybe that made him the stronger one of the two.

Still, he was weak. Especially with the way that Quirk of his worked. It made him weak.

Unless he could control it…. And Katsuki was confident that he'd figured out a way to help speed that process up.

"Kacchan?"

Finishing unleashing one final, powerful blast against the wall, Katsuki used the momentum from the detonation to spin around on his heels to look at the small party of people who had just entered the door. The usual squad, Izuku, Mina, Uraraka and Todoroki had all come along to apparently see him, led by the aforementioned brunette girl to his location.

His hands were still smouldering, and lightly bleeding from the continued use of his Quirk. He'd been at this for a few hours now, ever since Kirishima had come to speak to him regarding their truce, or whatever it was that they were in the middle of now.

"Told you he was in here." Uraraka commented, holding the door open for the others to enter the concrete corridor before her.

Looking around, Mina and Izuku were able to notice all the cracks along the sides of the walls, all the scuff makes and slightly singed parts of the room and walls, the aftermath of an explosion being unleashed against them. Some areas had suffered huge splits and chunks blasted out of the walls and floors, which just served to further highlight how powerful Katsuki's Quirk was. It wasn't a subtle, nor was it one that was easy to hide… But it was one hell of a powerful ability, without question.

Upon a closer inspection the camera in the corner of the room was broken. It hadn't been destroyed, but it looked like the battery had died. There was no red recording light on the camera's front, so it wouldn't have been able to keep a track of all of the moves that Katsuki had been doing.

It would help to hide his Quirk if someone had seen him using it in the streets. Or at least obscure it. Explosion wasn't exactly the most difficult Quirk to figure out, but the less footage they had of its user, the better.

Was that why he had chosen this particular room?

How hard had he been training at this for?

"What's going on, Kacchan?" Izuku questioned, finally asking for the answers to the most obvious question on his mind right now.

"Someone's gonna need to keep your Quirkless ass safe." He responded as flatly as he could get, and as straight to the point as he'd ever been in his entire life. "With your fuckin' Quirk, you're not gonna last five minutes as any sort of Hero on your own. So, I've been practicing with my Quirk." Pointing with his index and middle finger towards the camera, he explained. "I don't think the dipshits that run this place even know that a camera's dead down here, so we could make this our training grounds."

"You're actually on board with this whole Hero idea then?" Todoroki questioned, sounding genuinely surprised.

"I'm fuckin' here training, aren't I?" The Explosion Quirk user retorted sharply, throwing his arms open to display the absolute destruction that he'd caused within the training room.

Smiling in genuine happiness at his friend's change of heart, Izuku was a few seconds away from actually running up and giving his childhood friend a huge hug with a 'Welcome to the team' speech.

Until he saw that Katsuki's red eyes were aimed directly at him, glaring. "Speaking of training, Deku, your Quirk. Is your control any better?"

"Uh…."

"Not really." Mina put in, before Izuku could make any excuses or stammer filled explanations. "He can barely even use it to move, never mind to throw a punch."

"A-Ashido!"

"Hey, it's the truth, dude."

"Whatever, you dumb fuck." Katsuki muttered. "I think I have an idea about your Quirk."

"Huh?"

Without another word, Katsuki got himself into a fighting stance facing the nearest wall, and, throwing a right hook, as was his trademark, unleashed a loud, large and lethal explosion just in front of him, with no real target other than the air to the side of him. With how much he had unleashed, he had needed to use his feet as a way of counterbalancing the kinetic energy that his own Quirk's activation put back on him.

Once the explosion dissipated and was reduced to nothing but smouldering on his hands, he looked at Izuku once again. "When I use my Quirk to create explosions larger than I can handle, I get recoil, which blasts my hands back. If I wanna avoid this, I have to set myself."

That made sense. If he wanted to avoid the blowback from generating too large a blast, he had to get ready to absorb the force by setting himself in such a way that the force was transferred into the ground – By using his leg as a transference rod, he could make sure that the majority of the force went elsewhere from him.

"Quirks are just a biological feature…. Except yours isn't." Katsuki continued. "We all know how to use our Quirks effectively and it's natural to out on what we have to do. You're still 'Activating' your Quirk. So until you can figure out how to properly use it, you need to set yourself. Some way to equal out the force that you're outputting."

Thinking about this, Katsuki made a number of valid points, which Izuku took into his consideration. His comment about how Quirks were just body functions to those who had them was a good point made, since they had, in most cases, either been born with them, or had had years to learn how to use them. Katsuki hadn't been born with his, it developing later down the line, but it hadn't taken him too long to get used to it. Like an instinct.

And his comments about setting himself were also true, something that he'd noticed whenever he used a large blast. He'd always set his body up so that it would transfer the kinetic energy elsewhere…

The question now was, if it was possible to do the same for One For All.

He muttered to himself as he thought up his ideas. As it stood right now, total control of One For All wasn't going to come instantly, or for quite a while. The only reason he wasn't breaking his bones was because of all the training that Toshinori had given him over the last couple of years, but if he used it too much, then he was going to end up shattering his body…

A way to set his body… So that he wasn't at risk…

A buffer to absorb the force of the Quirk…

A way to shield himself…

To spread the force…

All the way through his body…. Making his own body act like a buffer to the attacks themselves!

"…Kacchan, you're a genius!" Izuku grinned, running over to an empty part of the room, so he was away from everyone else. He had an idea, an idea that he was absolutely confident in. He just needed to get the feeling right, and he'd have it!

Following Izuku's movements with his eyes, Katsuki folded his arms. "You got something?"

"You said you set yourself when you use your Quirk in large doses, right? Well, that's all my Quirk is! It's a huge amount of energy that I can release at once – But doing so breaks my body because it's all focused in one place. So what if I… "

As he spoke, the red lines that ran across Izuku's body when his Quirk was active began to spread all over his entire body – The legs, the arms, the torso and chest, even creating an X symbol over his face and around his eyes. His entire body began to surge with power, enhancing every single part of his body with the utter strength that was One For All.

Like a cloak of sheer power. Izuku's hands gripped onto the empty air like claws taking a tight hold of a prize, and he looked up to his friends, all taken aback by the action.

"…Cloak my whole body in One For All!"

It took absolutely everything that he had to keep up this form as it was right now. Still not used to the force of One For all in a regular fashion, this was a whole new challenge in itself – But if it worked in the way Izuku was hoping that it would, then this could seriously speed up the process of honing this Quirk!

Electricity began to spark off of his body, generated simply from the sheer energy of the Quirk. He stumbled briefly – It was difficult to even move in this state – But he was doing it! He had the Quirk active, and he was holding it!

"Holy crap Deku!" Uraraka spoke with a huge grin on her face, her fists tightly clenched as she witnessed this display of power.

"Think you can move like that?" Katsuki grinned, his hands already crackling with small detonations, eager to push Izuku to the limits, to see if he could handle this new method of using his Quirk.

"I…. I think so." Izuku stated. Moving was hard, but he felt like he could do it. All he needed to do was focus on what he was doing, and focus hard.

"Let's test it then!"

Propelling himself forward with his explosions, Katsuki launched himself straight towards Izuku, his intent to attack him crystal clear. As he approached the struggling One For All user, his hand lurched forwards, and aimed for his friend's chest, where he would end up doing the least amount of damage with his Quirk.

Though he made an attempt to move, maintaining this form and moving turned out to be a far more tricky a task than Izuku had first suspected. His body simply didn't want to respond to his commands, and so, he could do nothing, except just be struck by Katsuki's harsh detonation, blasting him with enough force to knock him backwards.

Continuing his assault with vigour, Katsuki then propelled himself to the side, where he then launched a sweeping kick for Izuku's legs, aiming to knock him off of his feet, and into the ground below him. Once on the floor, he'd be a far easier target to keep blasting, over and over again.

As a counter though, Izuku managed to finally gain control over his movements and pushed back on the ground, causing him to leap backwards a considerable distance. Landing with his hands and feet against the wall, without just splatting into it, Izuku had managed to make a successful dodge against Katsuki's attacks, for the first time while in this mode!

And it had gone exactly as Izuku had hoped it would! Admittedly, the outright explosive power of the Quirk was down by a significant margin, but he was still very easily moving at superhuman speeds, and it was much more preferable to just having his body constantly become shattered!

He was doing it!

He was using his Quirk!

Still, Katsuki launched himself forward once again, repeating the same movements to force his opponent into a corner, this time unleashing more powerful blasts to increase his speeds. In turn, Izuku did the same move again, pushing off the wall to get away, with a repeated success once again!

"Man, they're really going at it!" Uraraka commented from the side-lines, watching as the two unleashed their Quirks over and over again. She was like a kid watching the superheroes fight on the old TV cartoons that Mina remembered watching. "Look at 'em go!"

"Is this really a good idea?" Mina questioned, worried about her friends ending up hurting one another, Normally, she'd be right there with Uraraka cheering on the, frankly, awesome looking battle, but because it was her friends engaged in this combat, she was actually growing concerned for their general well-being. "I mean, Bakugou really doesn't seem to be holding anything back."

As she said this, Katsuki unleashed what could only be described as a wave of explosions towards Izuku, ripping the ground underneath him to shreds. Izuku was able to scatter out of the way, and was now trying to find a way to directly counter attack the red eyed Explosion user. The more he moved, the more natural his movements seemed to become, as he adjusted to the power that was now running throughout all of his veins.

"This isn't anything compared to what they want to do." Todoroki commented.

"Huh?"

"Midoriya wants to change the world, and to do that, he's chosen to become a Hero, because he thinks that it's going to help change the hate the Quirkless have towards us. We've all chosen to do this with him, because we all share the same dream that he has… But Katsuki is here for a different reason." The oldest friend to the two of them explained. Both the girls looked over towards him as he spoke, hooked on the explanation he was giving. "Bakugou basically owes Midoriya his life. He stood by Bakugou when he was ousted as being Quirked, and for that, Bakugou is willing to do whatever it takes to help Midoriya realize his goals. But he's aware of the state of the world, and the harsh truths of it. Maybe more so than all of us."

Getting in close, Izuku tried his very first punch with his new technique – A straight forward reverse punch with his right hand, only for Katsuki to easily dodge the simple attack, and then unleash a detonation under his ribcage.

"Gaaak!"

"Bakugou doesn't intend to let Midoriya try being a Hero without pushing him to the limits – To make sure he can handle it." Todoroki finished off, watching at Katsuki pinned Izuku against the nearest wall, his palm pressed against his face. "The fighting in here… It's not even close to what it's going to be like when we actually go out as Heroes. And Bakugou knows it."

In his other hand, a small series of explosions and sparks jumped out from Katsuki's palm, highlighting his face as he grinned

"Checkmate, Deku."

"Again!"

Training took up the majority of that day, and left him with a number of cuts and bruises, but once he was done, he went straight to his room, and locked the door.

Izuku had a number of rather niche talents, a side effect to his earlier years of aiding Katsuki in hiding his Quirk, and spending his days trying to save Quirked individuals. Random little things that he would pick up on when he was dealing with Quirked people that not a lot of other would. Living with Katsuki for so long had also taught him a great number of things, the aggressive teenager actually holding a surprising number of talents himself, which he'd been made to teach his black haired friend. One of these skills was the ability to sew and craft clothing.

Many times, he had found himself trying to clothe someone whom he had rescued from the streets against prejudice, covering them up in some way with what little he had, from his own clothes, his absent fathers clothes, and anything else he could find. Often though, very few people were fortunate enough to be of either of their sizes. Even more of a mountain in the way of this particular plan of his, Izuku had interacted with multiple Mutant Type Quirked individuals, or just had Mutant features, and therefore, traditional clothing wasn't going to cut it.

Some people Izuku had met had blades within their forearms, a part of their Quirk. Another person had scales as opposed to skin. Some had tusks, some had tails, and one person had four arms as opposed to two. None of which had any official clothing lines. Discrimination against Quirked individuals stemmed deep. Many people didn't even consider them to be Human, but animals. Therefore, alterations to regular clothing was rare, and had to be done either by the individual themselves or by someone who was willing to alter clothing to better suit their Quirk.

So, Izuku had been presented with a choice – Either to help pay for the clothes to be altered, or to learn to make them himself.

He chose to do both.

When the situation called for it, when faced with a serious case where the person was basically without a single object to their names, or when it was outside Izuku's capabilities, he would go and pay for these clothes to be made, as quickly and as efficiently as he could possibly have them made. In those cases, just making sure that the person was clothed was the main priority.

But when these weren't the cases however – Like when he had helped Todoroki off of the streets – He would do whatever he was capable of himself. He would go out, purchase the materials that he would need, and stay up for hours and hours into the late morning, and craft what he could. Katsuki would usually help him in some way, yelling at him like he was the biggest moron on the world when he got a measurement wrong, or used the sewing machine the wrong way. It had helped the black haired boy quickly learn, to avoid Katsuki's screaming at him.

Upon his first meeting with Todoroki, the Half-cold-Half-Hot Quirk user had been wearing a dark blue navy jacket. During their encounter, Todoroki had burned the entire left side of the jacket with his ability to generate fire, turning half of it into nothing but cinders. This was the same encounter that had left Izuku with the burn on his arm. So for a few days, he'd done nothing about it.

Once he was able to however, and once the air between him and the bi-hair coloured teenager was cleared, he had gotten to work. This was one that Izuku didn't ask for any help from Katsuki though. And of course, he could have just gone out and bought another one, but he actually wanted to craft this himself. He wanted to be able to get better at this sort of thing, to be able to create clothes that these Quirked individuals were able to wear, even if it was just Izuku's personal show of good faith and goodwill towards them. To show he cared, that he gave a damn about them. To get better at making these clothes, so he could make more, for more people when they needed it. But above all, he really did just want to show that he was on their side, in whatever way he could.

That particular skill, as it turned out, was really starting to pay off learning.

Two nights after the attack on the High School, Izuku was hunched over his desk. He'd spent about an hour and a half adding people and Quirks into his sketchbook, he then pushed the pad and pencils to the side, and pulled out from underneath the desk, the large bag filled with sewing equipment.

And he got to work.

You get an extra chapter this week to celebrate Mina's badassery that was her screen time in Chapter 144 ^_^