The Amazing Deku

Disclaimer: I don't own Spider-Man or My Hero Academia.

Legend:

"I made this song for you" speech

'Still, I love him so much' thoughts or quotes

'I'm going to kill him' Mandalay/Black Cat's Quirk or All for One talking

"CHOCOLATE!" Symbiote/Kuri talking

Kei: Welcome to the New Year. Remember that you get out of it what you put in. And here is where we finally upgrade ourselves. Oh yeah, time to reply to guests.

Guest 1, I must go out and say no. There will be no Green Goblin. But there is a Goblin character in this story, and I'll let you all find out who he is. There also will be an upcoming chapter that contains an iconic moment featuring Spider-Man. And finally, if I make Izuku and Momo's intimacy any more mature then I'll have to write a lemon.

Guest 2, yes. He has one of my favorite villain designs of One-Punch Man.

Chapter 40: Provisional Exam 2 – Hero At Last

In the anteroom, the heroes in training who have made it this far sit together refreshing their minds for the upcoming trial to take place.

Kaminari comes over to where he once was holding bottled water in both hands, just to see his partner in crime Mineta sitting with a scowl staring dead ahead of where they are. The electric teen traces the path of hatred to where Izuku is, holding their class president Momo close to him.

"Dude, you need to let it go," says Kaminari sitting next to him. "You stare too long and you're gonna blow up his brain with your mind."

"Worth it…" he grumbles with bitter jealousy. "Why? Midoriya is the definition of a geek, the kind of guy who would blow off a date with a hot chick to attend an All Might rally. How does someone like him have a harem?!"

"Wait, what?"

"You haven't noticed that he's always around a smoking hot girl? I see him hanging around that blond bombshell all the time and she's always giving him that look where she wants to be impregnated by him!"

"… Blond bombshell?"

"You know! That blond inventor from I-Island with freshly grown American titties creams her spinach every time he steps into her restaurant! And then there's Jirou, who wears his merch all the time! And he's not the only one." He points over to Bakugo, who is doing everything in his power to ignore him. "Bakugo over there has the personality of a chipotle enema after Chernobyl cooked it at over 1000 degrees, and the other sexy girl in our class is always fawning over him and Todoroki!"

As so, the electric teenager shrugs while hi friend cries blood. "They say the hairier the bear the more attractive they are."

Meanwhile, Todoroki walks by nearing the Shiketsu group. As he does he immediately notes that among them is a very tall hero in training wearing an arm gauntlet with an extremely exuberant face as he talks about heroes. That guy immediately frowns upon seeing Todoroki. Or rather, glare would be more accurate. "Oh, it's you."

The ice maker says, "You know, ever since I got here I have noticed that you've got this intense hatred in on me. If you have something to say, say it."

The guy keeps his eyes on him. "You don't know who I am at all, do you?"

"… should I?"

"I am Inasa Yoarashi, and I love UA so much," says the teen, his eyes all focused on the ice user. "I also applied to UA in the recommendations, but I refused. And if you can't figure out why then you might as well go back over there."

Here, Todoroki glares back feeling offended. "Excuse me?"

"I love passionate heroes the most, which is why I dislike you the most along with your old man." That's when he flinches, Todoroki keeping his eyes at the guy.

At that moment the sirens go off. A slightly recovered Mera says, "Villains have unleashed a large scale terrorist attack on the city of 'City Name Here'. …wait, you couldn't make up a damn name?! Not even I'm that lazy!"

He coughs. "A-Anyway, due to building collapses many people are trapped. A roadblock has stopped rescue workers from reaching the sight. Your objective is to save as many civilians as possible, bring them to the relief zone, and force away as many villains as possible until rescue workers can arrive." After the scenario is spread to them, like before the building unfolds. The heroes in training take off into the city quickly.

While exiting the anteroom, Izuku thinks it over as his mind concocts a plan of action. While looking aside his friends from UA are all out and about to split up. Seeing Bakugo leaving on his own, the spider boy fires a web to pull him back. Obvious reservations on this move are obvious.

"What the fuck are you doing?!" he shouts, Izuku ignoring his shouting.

"Everyone," says Izuku catching his friends' attention, "I think it's best we each split up into three teams: rescuing, carrying, and protecting. One team will look for people as widespread as possible, another will carry them back to the rescue zone, and the last will look around for people to be rescued nearby and protect the safe zone. If you're mobile even with someone, join the carry team. If you're best as finding, rescue. If you're a good fighter, protect."

Kaminari approaches Izuku with a scowl. "And what makes you think that's a good idea?!"

"Because there're one hundred of us here in a situation where villains have attacked," he replies, looking back over at his girlfriend. "And there's a good chance if we all focus on finding people those we save will be unprotected."

Sadly, the electric boy is still confused. Jirou sighs before pushing him away. "You go and protect the shelter, electric boy."

Shouji glances at Izuku before slapping his hands together. "Huh… then I guess my job is obvious."

A large majority of Class 1-A move forth heading into the disaster zone. Iida, being amongst the rescuees, watches the boy who quickly took command despite only having trained with them in a few days. At the same time, this is the same boy who saved his life and helped him become better than what he almost ended up. Maybe it's because of who he was that they're taking his plan to heart.

Further in the disaster area, the crew sees many dilapidated buildings as well as other heroes entering in pursuit of people to save. They even see members of schools who tried to get them disqualified, like Shindo from Ketsubutsu.

Looking around, Momo takes a look around using her glasses. "Asui, you, Mineta, and Shouji check the water area for anyone who fell in and can't swim. Bakugo, Izuku, Jirou, and I will head further west and search for survivors."

The waking nuke glares at her, asking rudely, "Why the fuck do I have to do that?!"

"Why are you even here?" asks Jirou in annoyance.

"Because I fucking want to!" Despite their incessant squabbling, the quartet of heroes in training makes their way out.

They meet their first civilian actor, a little child. Having reached him first, Bakugo comes over to the boy. "Please, help me!" the boy cries, holding his leg oozing fake blood by the ankle.

Class 1-A's problem child takes a knee, resting his prosthetic on his right knee glaring at him. "You'll be fine. Quit crying."

"The hell is wrong with you?! Points deducted!" he shouts, suddenly breaking character.

With an exaggerated growl, he shouts, "Eh?"

"You can't just come up to someone bawling their eyes out like they're about to dehydrate saying man the fuck up, you idiot! Didn't your mother teach you how to handle kids?!"

Of course, the tick mark on Bakugo is evident. If he doesn't do something fast, he'll act just like when they were at that school of Kouta's. After what happened to Best Jeanist, you'd think he'd try harder.

Remembering his experience, Izuku walks forth pulling Bakugo back. 'Just remember the times you helped people before.' "Just calm down; we'll save you right away."

"Are you kidding me?! Points deducted!"

Wait, what?

The kid comes out of his act to reprimand the emerald protagonist now. "First off, just like spiky over there, you can't approach someone so casually; you gotta be slow at first. Also, do you expect anyone to feel safe around you when they can't even see your face?! You might as well be a villain!"

Sighing in a half groan, Izuku quickly thinks of a solution that came to him thanks to advice granted by Sir Nighteye, and says, "Don't worry about how I look. You see, I need it to be a hero; otherwise, I look like I was bitten by a radioactive avocado. And you already know how bad its complexion is."

"Huh?" The kid then flinches, realizing he's back in character. He pats his face and resumes the act, fake crying like before but less.

"If you ever saw it, you'd probably take a bite out of my face!" Izuku laughs, his joke making the victim calm down just a little. He then stretches a hand over his head and pulls off his mask, revealing his smiling face. "Don't worry. I'll save you right away, kid. I bet your mom and dad are worried sick."

The kid accepts Izuku's hand and allows himself to be carried in his arms. 'Nice adapting.'

As Izuku takes off with the boy, Bakugo watches with a truly blank expression as Momo comes back lifting a grown man fireman style. Noticing his face, she asks, "Bakugo, what's wrong?"

"Nothing…" is his only reply.

Shortly, Izuku reaches the safe zone and comes before Ashido. "Yo, yo! Midoriya!" She waves to him as he gives the child over to her.

"Ooh, a pretty girl," says the child as he gawks at the girl who has him held.

Izuku watches as they go, before leaving to swing back to his team. Once there he notes a nearby dilapidated building with a missing entrance Jirou and Bakugo are going to and joins them.

There, Jirou presses her ear jacks onto the walls of the wrecked establishment and listens in. After a few seconds she says, "I'm getting three heartbeats. Two on the ground floor, and one upstairs."

"I'll check upstairs."

Izuku crawls along the side heading to the nearest opening, a single-window composed of sharp, broken glass. Up onto the second floor, he crawls around the floor looking around for the person who needs to be rescued. All he can see is torn bedsheets on a fallen apart bed, a cracked television stuck into the wall, ripped carpet, and a hanging light that gives a dim orange glow.

"Hello?" he calls out.

"Please, help!" He hears someone shouting this out nearby, followed by harsh coughing. That's some good acting on her part.

Izuku kneels walking forward in the direction of her voice to a bed, noticing the woman is stuck underneath it. He grabs the bed and lifts it with ease, grafting it on his shoulder. Once held up he shoots a web line up at the wall attaching it to the bed.

With her free, he lifts the woman in his arms bridal style. Even though she has some visible damage to her, this brunette lady is still a sight to behold. Now that he thinks about it, she looks familiar. Wait… "Momo?"

She opens her eyes looking up in the spider's emerald eyes, a deep blush forming on his face. "Ah…"

"Uh…" He turns red at her flushed appearance, shaking his head to calm down. It must be some Quirk of hers or something. He then says, "Don't worry; I'll take you to get some help."

She reaches up and hugs the boy, shoving his face deep into her white shirt cleavage. "M-M-Momo?!"

"It's okay," she whispers sensually. "I have all the help I need in front of me, Spidey-sama."

'Eh?' The spider boy flinches when his Spider-Sense turns on. He quickly pushes her away as he winces in pain, quickly holding his face. Meanwhile, the woman stands just a few feet away holding a knife. "…Who are you?"

"Wouldn't you like to know, Spidey…" she speaks, mouth wide open as she licks her teeth. "I just had to see you again, and she said this appearance would lower your guard."

"She?"

"I would love to see more of you again, but for now…" She moves closer to the only window in the room. "Bye, Izuku Midoriya."

"W-Wait!" She jumps out, dodging a shot of webbing. Izuku pulls himself to the window and looks around for her. Nothing.

He then climbs out the window, looking around for whoever it was. "Where did she go?"

"Hey, Deku!" Izuku looks down at Bakugo carrying an old man on his back. "Get a move on! Where's the person up above?"

He still looks around for the woman, before facing Bakugo. "It's…"

Before he could complete his words and warn them of the potential danger going on during this test, an explosion goes off taking their attention away in many random places of the training city.

Once the destruction blankets the city in noise, all activity takes a screeching halt. The group stops their actions to look at the incident happening near the first aid station where the victims are being gathered. A glance can detail it as a group of villains led by the No.10 Hero Gang Orca.

On the intercom, Mera says, "Villains have launched a large-scale terrorist attack. They have appeared and started their pursuit. Continue with your rescue efforts and suppress the villains at once."

The lesser villains around him take out guns and shoot the area and the heroes in training, as the big guy himself speaks, "When it comes to protecting the people in the cities, a hero's job is complex and multifaceted. There is the actual rescuing, and the dealing with enemies…"

One heroine gets covered in the cement shot at her and falls. "Now, which of these will you do, heroes?!"

There at the safe zone, Shindo takes center stage shoving his hands into the ground to release a shockwave into the earth that travels to Gang Orca and his men. He then turns to the others, shouting, "Get everyone to safety! If they hurt a single person, our mission is a bust!"

"Good vibrations." Gang Orca moves in close to him in almost a blink of an eye. Before the vibrating hero in training could react, the killer whale man releases a sonic wave that hits him point-blank. "How's that beat for you?"

"Kuh…" He falls back, stunned and twitchy.

"Just because I'm wearing these weights," says the killer whale hero as he clenches a fist, "doesn't mean you can underestimate me."

He looks at his left peripheral as a wave of ice comes his way. He roars releasing a hypersonic wave to shatter it with ease. From its point of origin is Todoroki, annoyed at how powerful this guy's waves are. "Todoroki…"

Gang Orca snaps his fingers, and his men move to the safe zone as other heroes are moving citizens to safety. Another stream of ice travels at them, only for Gang Orca to step in the wave and block it with his sonic wave. The pseudo villain's men march to the safe zone with their cement guns until a tremendous wind blows onto the scene pushing them back. The cause of this is a hero in training floating in the air atop a platform made of wind.

"AHA! You won't be getting a single step further!"

Over at the safe zone, among the heroes escorting people to safety is Izuku. He stops to take a look at the battlefield, noticing that Todoroki is using fire. But sadly, the combination of wind and heat is repelling one another. Even worst, they're arguing with one another which leaves Todoroki open to being hit by a cement gun.

He hands over the little girl he has over to Iida before saying, "I'll go help them out. You guys finish this up."

Izuku runs to the battlefield just as the two fire off their respective Quirks. In a repeat of what happened earlier, the two elements split apart. But here he spots the flames heading to the preparatory vibrating hero who still can't move.

'5 Percent!' Without thinking, he leaps in the air at the man while circulating One for All through his body and stretches his right hand out to fire a web line. It sticks to the teenager and the spider pulls him in the air so he narrowly avoids the flames coming his way. He grabs the guy while midair, spinning as a result.

Izuku lands with a screech before laying the guy down. He turns back to the two who were fighting and angrily shouts, "What are you two doing?! We have to work together!"

He checks down at the guy he rescued, who looks shocked by what he saw. "That was… that was a web…"

Uh oh. Izuku did just expose his webs, which he kept in reserve in case he needed them. Well, no point in worrying about his secret identity; he needs to pass this exam, or else he can't do either.

"Well, well, Izuku Midoriya," speaks Gang Orca as he eyes the spider boy approaching the battlefield. Two fingers point to the boy before he focuses on the previous fighters who failed to stop him.

The sea mammal approaches Todoroki with an arm stretched before he turns quickly to the aerial hero and fires a shockwave. He tries to move away with the wind but gets pushed back into the sonic wave's path by a blast of cement.

Paralyzed, the guy hits the ground painfully. Gang Orca then turns his attention back to Todoroki and hits him with a point-blank sonic wave. He then looks back to witness Izuku having beaten down the two who fired at him easily and is coming at him doing a flying sidekick.

Izuku contacts the orca's forearm and flips over it, landing on his shoulder/back. 'Well, I already exposed myself.' He then shoots webs down at his face to cover the pseudo villain's eyes. With him blind, he hops off to grab Todoroki and moves away.

The spider, unfortunately, couldn't get two feet away before stepping back to avoid a blast of cement fired at him. He spots the lesser villains have their guns trained on him, and Gang Orca has removed the webbing. The only other people who could do so through pure physical strength were Muscular, as well as Trapezius while drugged, putting him well in their strength range.

"Midoriya," says Todoroki, groaning as he tries to speak, "this isn't your battle."

"You sound like Iida," he replies, laying the paralyzed teen down. "This is everyone's fight, not yours. If you think otherwise then you might as well go job hunting."

Izuku walks away from Todoroki facing Gang Orca and his men, dispelling One for All. "Once you've got your priorities straight, get back up and help me. That goes for you too over there." He glances over to the wind man before going into the fray.

September 9th, 13:12…

A little far outside of the stadium, a blond girl can be seen walking outside away past the parking lot. She dazzles at the vial of a small amount of blood in her hands, her face red and golden eyes sparkling with ecstasy.

"I got it. I got it."

Before she could amaze further on what she possesses, it's yanked out of her grasp by a thin web line into the air. From up above, the Ghost-Spider hangs upside down in wait. "Oh, hello Ghost!"

The spider girl pockets it. "How was he?"

"Every bit as wonderful as you mentioned." Her hands clasp to her face as the heat on her burns brighter. "Thank you for this break!"

She then skips back off, as the spider girl watches. "I gotcha now, Shigaraki."

Back to Action…

Todoroki has been having the worst day ever.

Ever since his loss to Bakugo, he has been trying his best to overcome the darkness left in his past. The scars of what his father did to his mother remain on his face, and the hatred that has amassed from it has made him dedicate to surpassing his father without using his Quirk. But, the fact of the matter is both of them are right. Instead of focusing on what's important, he instead jeopardized his chances because he couldn't learn to let go. Because of that, he's got another scar to prove he was a fool.

"You still have a long way to understanding what it truly means to be a hero, because letting people around you suffer because of your selfishness makes you the furthest thing from one."

This event has been the biggest of the wake-up calls, and the biggest start for his desire to overcome his problems. His first real step to progress, and the only reason he has ever used his left side at all. He even started way before visiting his mother in the hospital.

That's why it's a bit of a shock to realize how bad his hatred has been left in him once he and the rest of his class touched down at Takoba National Stadium and have run into rival after rival. That in and of itself is of no hindrance, except for a big ball of wind who loved UA named Inasa Yoarashi introduced himself during the break between parts 1 and 2 of the test.

"I was in the recommendations! But I turned it down."

While looking back at that moment, he should have remembered him as the guy who tied with him, and why wouldn't he? He's loud, annoying, and very shameless; he's Bakugo if he was as polite as Iida. But, every time their eyes would pass each other he would notice a look of hatred. Then he told him as honestly as possible why:

"No one with hatred in their heart can ever be a hero. You're just another Endeavor waiting to happen!"

That hurt him the most. It's almost a reminder that no matter what he does, he's too far gone. If he gives up now, he'll never reach his goal of being a hero his mother can be proud of. Even more, he'll never overcome his darkness.

In between this, he appeared and took over his thoughts; Izuku Midoriya, otherwise known as the Spider-Man. Having had no interaction with the guy, only first knowing him from the likes of Yaoyorozu gushing over him and the advice others have received from him, the first time he saw him was when he was delivering something to that pink-haired girl from the support course that got far. There, a slight hint was delivered that he was Spider-Man, and so much evidence kept piling up with that thought in mind to make him realize it's true.

From what he knew before, Midoriya was Quirkless despite having the powers of a spider. While there's a humorous story behind it, Midoriya had not attended hero school and instead became a vigilante despite so much of the media picking on him. He had even less of a reason to be a hero than him and he perseveres regardless. Here he is now, trying to earn a license to legitimize his actions and be a hero; he's this close to making that happen.

"What are you two doing?! We have to work together!"

He even had the nerve to reprimand him, the right too. If he had been paying attention and bothered changing tactics to complement the cooling wind they would have taken out Gang Orca by now; unlike Yoarashi, he has another option.

'Well, it's not too late to fix my mistake.' Todoroki glances up after finishing his soliloquy to focus on Izuku still in battle against Gang Orca and his men. His eyes spot Yoarashi giving him the same look; clearly, he has the same idea.

With Izuku, he is busy jumping and flipping over sonic waves and cement bullets. Landing into a crouch stance, he faces Gang Orca. 'The biggest threat is him, but without any help, he'll seal me in cement sooner or later.'

"Men," speaks the killer whale hero as he raises his hand, "aim all at once." His men draw their weapons and point at Izuku.

If they all fire at the same time, he can dodge it. But without any tall structures for his webs, he's bound to get hit by cement if they shoot him carefully. "I need to do this smart."

"Cover your eyes, Deku!" Before he could take action, up above everyone sees that a grenade is launched up in the air over his head. He puts his trust in the voice who spoke and looks down. The rocket explodes and turns into a blinking yellow light. Bright enough it is that the villains shroud their eyes and squeal in pain.

Izuku then looks up and spots Bakugo, Iida, and Ojiro jumping over him into the battlefield. "Ojiro? Iida?"

"Don't be surprised!" shouts Ojiro aka Tailman, the tailed teenager moving forth to spin before one of the faux villains. Twisting to the left, his tail slams into the bad guy's face and sends him flying over.

"We're all aiming to be heroes, so there's no way we wouldn't do this!" adds Iida aka Ingenium as steam blows from the exhausts coming out of his legs. Using this boost in speed he sweeps a villain off his feet and kicks him into a group of others.

A few of the villains start to recover their sights. One aims Izuku and fires, his cement bullet blocked with ease courtesy of a shadow claw attack from Tokoyami's iconic Dark Shadow.

Bakugo lands next to Izuku, glaring at him. "You get those civis moving. We'll hold them off."

"Eh?" Izuku looks to his rival in shock. "You sure?"

The walking nuke gets up in his face with a scowl only a mother could hate. "You're pretty damn mobile with your fucking webs and jumping. Who else but you?!"

"Uh… okay." Thinking about it, that's a good suggestion. He can leave this to the more fighting oriented Quirks while he aids in the rescuing. He then takes off heading to the rescue zone.

Over with Gang Orca, he drops Todoroki and moves forward to Inasa. "Might as well finish him off and then go help the others."

As he storms forth, he stops when his body starts to sweat. "Hmm?" That's when it explodes upward, a torrent of flames trapped in a wall of wind. 'So that's it… you two recognized your foolishness and are trying to make up for it.'

While the battle continues, the shadow bird moves in close beating back two villains who tried to get past the front line. Ashido flips and spins in the air and releases acid from her fingers to melt down their cement guns.

"Keep it up!" she shouts, throwing some acid to disable the guns. "They're almost done!"

Still, within the tornado inferno, Gang Orca takes out a bottle of water he left on the side and dumps it out on his dark skin face. 'This is indeed a dim situation. My men are being taken down, and I'm being hit over and over by waves of heat. Anyone else would have given up by now. But, in the off chance you have to play a card, you should always prepare the next one!' His red-tint irises narrow as he roars, releasing a sonic blast to blow away the flames finally.

"So, what's your next plan?!" he shouts, directing his steaming face at Inasa.

Sadly, their response internally matches up. 'None. That was our last trump.'

"Hey, Willy!" Bakugo shoots himself forward in the air, coming up close to Gang Orca just after his second wind. He makes the okay sign with one hand and places his other hand's palm behind it. "I hope you got theft insurance because I'm about to own your ass!" The light of his Quirk can be seen on his end before he fires.

"AP Shot!" An explosive blast concentrated into a single point fires out.

This super move hits hard enough to send Gang Orca backward and send chips of metal debris in the air. He falls to the ground in a skid, correcting himself into a crouch. His right arm that took most of the damage shows a broken gauntlet.

"TIME!" Everyone ends up stopping in their tracks as Mera calls out on the loudspeaker. "At this moment, all the H.U.C. who were deployed have been rescued from the danger zone."

Each of them looks up to the sky as the news is broadcasted. "With this, all the provisional license exam procedures have been completed."

Izuku inhales relief at the exam finally being completed. "After we tally the scores, we will announce them on the screen here for all of you to see. Whoever has sustained injuries should go to the infirmary. The rest change your clothes and wait."

Over in the stands, Ms. Joke grins with awe watching the students all file away. She rests her head on her hand saying, "This was an interesting crop. How many of yours do you think will pass this year, Eraser?"

Looking next to her, she notes the empty seat. A quick look over and she spots the introvert has made a beeline for the exit. Despite that, she waves him off. "Okay! I'll see you in June!"

Time passes until it's 1400, or 2 PM if you lack an understanding of military time. All the students who have made it to the top 100 all look at the screen before them within the battlefield they once fought inside.

Soon the screen turns on, and amidst the blue light, they each quickly scan their names. Momo, quick to notice that their names are listed by their surnames, immediately scans to the very end to find her name in the 'ya' category. And there she finds it, Momo Yaoyorozu, as one of the many who have passed.

"Hard work finally paid off," she cheers, as do the rest of them.

"Phew!" Jirou says with a sigh.

"There I am!" is Iida's proud statement.

"FUCK YEAH!" shouts Bakugo with a grin, pointing in the air the moment he sees his name in the 'ba. Shocker.

Izuku meanwhile is streaming his eyes up and down the screen looking for his name. Until…

"YES! I made it!" he yells with excitement. Though he stops to cover his mouth, looking at the others who are also just as exuberant as he is. He then smiles while looking for more names, and quickly spots Yaoyorozu there. He turns to Momo and gives a high five.

"Congrats on passing!" she says to her beloved.

"You too!" The two look around and notice plenty of their classmates have also passed. Though once Izuku's eyes happen upon Todoroki and his solemn gaze he can tell he didn't exactly get what he was hoping.

"Todoroki," they both say in perfect unison. The two walk over to the fire and ice user, before…

"Todoroki!" They stop just as someone else comes over. It is Inasa, dressed in his school uniform that also includes the leather hat.

"I love that hat," says Camie looking at him.

He glares at him, his eyes turning to sincerity slowly, before taking a stance at attention. With all his might at a speed, no one saw coming he slams his skull deep into the stone floor with enough force that a thud could be heard. "I'M SORRY!"

"What the…" Izuku says with a flinch.

"I'm sorry…" Inasa continues. "It's my fault you didn't pass. I was so narrow-minded that I didn't bother trying to work with you. I became exactly what I hated! I'm sorry!"

The son of Endeavor blankly stares down at him. A side glance follows before he frowns, also feeling a large amount of guilt. "It's not entirely your fault. Had I not been so filled with hatred, none of this would have happened."

"But-"

"There were some other things I realized thanks to you confronting me directly too. I have a ways to go before I can become a true hero…" He then turns his eyes over to Izuku. "I'll take what you two have shown me to heart."

The spider stares back at his new friend, giving a nod to him in affirmation. "Un."

September 1707…

Finally free, the Provisional License Exams have concluded. Mera is off taking a long-deserved sleep somewhere. Aizawa has finally escaped the terror that is Ms. Joke. All the students who have partaken in the exam are either gone or going. And Izuku?

"UWAH!" Our spider vigilante has finally evolved into a semi-hero. Here he stands to look at the Provisional License Authorizing Hero Activity Card with his name and face on it, moisture hitting the card with each passing second.

"Izuku, are you okay?" He recovers just enough to look over at his girlfriend, who comes over carrying her hero case. She looks more joyous than worried for someone asking that question.

"It's just… I finally did it." He shows her his ID. "I finally made it. After all those people who hated me, who told me I was wrong, who believed I would never amount to anything, I'm now a hero."

Never in her life has she seen such happiness on his face. He looks so innocent, so pure, so sweet. "I'm just so glad I'm here. Even more, I kept my promise to Ochako after all…"

"Mhm, Ochako," Momo repeats, eyes turning downtrodden at the mention of her name. Of course, he still cares for her. "You have matured a bit."

"Yeah…" The boy takes a moment to accept that bit of praise before the now wide-eyed teenager takes out his phone immediately and proceeds to take a picture. "I gotta show mom and All Might as soon as possible!"

To that, the girl sighs. "So mature…" Momo slips away the card out of his grasp to look at it. "Hero Name: The Amazing Deku..."

She practically swoons. "You really took my words to heart."

"You helped me out a lot after all." He takes the card back and smiles at her. "I can't use Spider-Man, and this name is far more similar to who I want to be as a hero."

"That's true. That kind of has to be a secret now."

At that, a thought occurs to the boy's mind. 'Secret…' Now would be the best time to tell her. "Momo, that reminds me."

The rich girl's attention, having never left her adorable boyfriend, reopens to give her a front-row seat to the next set of words to come out his mouth. "Hmm?"

"During the test when I was up in that building, there was this girl who attacked me." An almost automatic response he notes is her expression takes a drop in kindness. It is the same expression she gave when he first mentioned Black Cat. "But, she looked like you."

"… pardon?" This is in English.

"She looked exactly like you, but acted nothing like you…" he adds, taking in a breath. "She must be with the VA."

"The VA?"

"After the exam ended I've been spending a good amount of time thinking over why she could copy your appearance, and the only thing that makes sense is that she has a Quirk that allows someone to transform into them."

That's surprising, but also possible. "A Quirk that transforms someone into another person?"

"That's my surmise, yes," he replies in a murmur. "All Quirks have a form of restriction on it that makes them different and more unique. So, if it's a Quirk that transforms one into another then it would probably require something to match that person's appearance. Maybe it's like a mirror image and she needs to face you to copy it. Or maybe she requires your DNA to transform into a proper duplicate. But does it also copy Quirks? Can it murmur murmur murmur murmur…"

"Interesting…" Momo speaks while going along with his murmuring.

"But, that also gives me another thought, one that I realized the minute I saw her." A scene replays in his head back when he was in Kamino Ward that night, trying not to get murdered by Shigaraki. A man who possessed a Quirk very similar if not identical to Shimura. "Tenko Shimura was arrested and locked away for possible connections to the Villain Alliance, but what if it wasn't him? What if he was framed?"

As Momo comes to this disturbing revelation, Itsuka Kendo comes up to the two. "Yaoyorozu," she says, calling their attention.

"Oh, Kendo!" says the rich girl. But, noticing her expression as sullen as an obscure reference, she can tell Kendo isn't in a joyful mood despite having passed. "What's wrong?"

The girl with orange hair takes out her phone and shows a video, which has an image of Cantoi. Peering over, both Momo and Izuku cover their mouths in horror seeing the gruesome scene.

Uwabami hangs over her agency, covered in blood and held up crucified for all to see. Around her neck hangs a sign that reads, "For a Better World."

Kei: Uh oh.

Wanda: That's what the M rating is for.

Kei: Oh yeah. Anyway, in the next chapter, we will take a little break to display the aftermath of Uwabami's death. Izuku also has a little chat with both Bakugo and Momo about secrets they don't know about.

Wanda: Oh! Oh! We're five chapters away from revealing the newest artwork for the story, courtesy of Gotetho.

Yusei: What's the pairing for Izuku this time? You didn't bring it up yet.

Kei: Oh. I wasn't going to put it down. But to appease the readers, it is Izuku x Momo x Shino x Melissa. The sad thing is we could do far more, but that's not the main focus of this story.