#WhipIt
Izuku stood in the Junkyard in the late hours of the day practicing some exercises that Diana had placed for him. He threw a punch after punch while keeping himself as immovable as possible with bent knees. He had One For All coursing through his entire body at his basic 5% in order to fulfill the amount that Diana had placed on him. Part of the green-haired hero in training thought that Diana was trying to toughen him up and increase his stamina to ridiculous levels.
"200… 201… 202… 203… 204…," Izuku counted as he pulled back his arms before punching once more. "205!"
Izuku finished his fifth routine of punches and allowed the power of his quirk to flow out of him. He couldn't feel his arms and was panting like a dog after running a marathon. He pressed his hands on top of his knees to rest them a little bit. But he knew that the training was only just beginning.
"Alright, now I gotta do the leg exercises before going back home and take a much needed shower," Izuku panted before calling up his quirk's power once more, but then a thought crossed his mind.
Izuku thought about the words that the Reverse Flash had said.
"No Black Whip, no flight, and no 100% power,"
What exactly did he mean by that? Izuku thought about it for a moment and looked at his hand in curiosity. He knew that the nature of One For All was that of a power stacking quirk. Through several generations it had stacked enough power to transform All Might into the number 1 hero. But what kind of power was it stacking?
"It isn't just physical strength, it has to be something more," Izuku began thinking out loud. "Since quirks are tied to biology and they're passed down and combined. Could One For All work like that. If so, there must be something more to the words of..."
"Yo Greenie! You're muttering again," Kara called from behind Izuku causing him to jump in fright.
Kara stood behind Izuku with a sneaky smile on her face as she stifled a laugh from Izuku's face.
"Kara please don't scare me like that, and I'm sorry for the muttering!" Izuku said as his face turned red from the surprise.
Kara giggled at the Japanese student's red face. She truly enjoyed making him blush, whether it was by kissing him by surprise or by snuggling against him when they were alone. She might be a rocker and punk but she was also a sweetheart.
"Don't feel bad, Izuku," Kara giggled. "I just came to tell you that dinner was ready. Want a lift back home?"
"Yeah, that would be great," Izuku replied before a thought crossed his mind. "But wait, didn't you say you failed you're driver's test?!"
"Yeah, but I can always do this," Kara said before lifting up Izuku bridal style.
Kara then took to the sky with super speed and flight as Izuku screeched in fear. As much as Izuku liked Kara to help out from time to time, he didn't however liked how she often did this. It was almost like her hobby and it brought back memories of his first meeting with All Might.
A short flight later, Izuku and Kara were eating at the table with Mr. and Mrs. Danvers. The food that they were having was chicken dumplings and vegetables. As the family ate their dinner Izuku continued to think about what he could do and if there was more to One For All than what he was led to believe.
"Hey, Greenie, what's wrong with you? You haven't touched your food in a while," Kara pointed out.
"Oh, I was just thinking about something we heard at school. You know the future flash rumor," Izuku said as Kara sort of got the hint.
The team had come up with a special hint for conversation. In case they had to talk about hero work while around other people without giving themselves up. In Kara and Izuku's case, he'd say something about school as it was the only thing that Kara didn't like to talk about.
"Uh, right. Remind me what that was all about again," Kara replied.
But it was still a work in progress.
"The project that Barry was trapped by… We had to travel to 25th street to help him," Izuku said slowly.
"Huh, oh! Yeah, I remember now," Kara said finally understanding Izuku's point. "What about it? If you need some more help you can just ask."
"It's something about what I heard, the whole Black Whip thing," Izuku said. "I don't know how I can get that."
"Maybe you can ask the teacher, he could have some answers," Kara suggested.
"I am so happy that you two are helping each other with schoolwork, right honey?" Mr. Danvers said with a smile.
"It shows how much you two are now much better friends," Mrs. Danvers added. "I hope you two keep being such good friends for a very long time."
Both young adults looked away from each other as they were well aware of how 'good' they were as friends.
After they had finished dinner, Izuku decided to call Toshinori Yagi, AKA All Might, to see if he had any answers to his questions. The phone rang three times before the number 1 hero picked up the call.
"Hello…"
"Hello All Might, it's Midoriya," Izuku replied.
"Ah, young Midoriya, so good to hear from you. I've been reading the news and it seems the American style of heroics suits you. How go things?"
"Everything's gone good so far, but I had a question that I had hoped that you could help me with," Izuku continued.
"What seems to be the problem?"
"One For All is a power stacking quirk that becomes stronger as it's passed down, right?"
"Yes, that is the case. But you already know this, Young Midoriya."
"Remember the adventure I told you about with The Flash and The Reverse Flash? Well something that he said about my quirk. I'm just wondering if it could possibly stack more than just raw power that becomes super strength. Could it be possible that One For All stacked the power of the quirks of previous users?"
"Hmm, I don't know. No other quirks manifested themselves when I inherited it. But it could be possible. I once had a vision appear before me of the former wielders of One For All including my master, but I only saw them once. Have you had any of those visions?"
"No, but that could be the key to answering this question. What did you do to trigger the vision, or did it just come to you, All Might?"
"It came to me almost like a dream that happened after I was knocked out. I am sorry but I don't have anymore information, young Midoriya."
"This has been more than enough, All Might. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions."
"Any day, young Midoriya. Take care," All Might said before hanging the call.
Izuku put away his phone and began thinking about the possibility of a vision.
"So? Did you learn anything new, Greenie?" Kara asked scaring the life out of Izuku once more.
After that little jump scare, Izuku and Kara went to sleep after a good day's work. But Izuku wasn't sleeping. He thought about what All Might had told him. About the vision that he had about the previous users of One For All. So he decided to try a little experiment. He activated One For All to only 1% as he slept.
Izuku remained in his bed for an hour, keeping the power coursing through him but all he got was a sleepless hour. He tried to think about the quirk that he had heard, but nothing came. He began mumbling to better rationalize the situation but nothing happened to him.
At the sound of the incessant ramblings of Izuku, Kara grumbled out of her bed and walked over to Izuku's bed. She poked his cheek causing him to open his eyes and see the tired face of the muscular blonde.
"Hey Greenie, sorry but I really want to sleep, could you stop mumbling?" Kara asked.
"Sorry, Kara. I'm just trying to trigger the vision that All Might spoke of," Izuku said lifting his upper body. "He said that it came to him as a dream so I thought I could trigger it."
"Well, in that case, go to bed and we'll figure this out with the girls tomorrow," Kara said.
"But what if-" Izuku tried to argue, only to be cut off by a finger flick of Kara knocking him out.
Izuku fell back down to the bed unconscious.
"I love you Greenie, but pillow talk is only effective when I'm fully awake," Kara said as she then kissed Izuku where she flicked him and then goes back to her bed.
Although Kara's actions were a little rough, they were exactly what Izuku needed.
Izuku opened his eyes and found himself walking in some sort of barren field within a void with stars. A strong wind blew across the plains, ruffling Izuku's hair and hitting his face. He tried to speak but no words came out.
"What's going on?" Izuku thought before looking down.
Izuku saw his body almost completely made out of black mist-like energy, except for the upper part of his face, half of his right arm and left leg.
"AAAAHHH! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BODY?!" Izuku shrieked in his mind.
Izuku frantically began looking around for answers. For any signs of life. Anything that could tell him what was going on. His eyes then spotted a great flame standing a few feet before him. It looked like a bigger version of the fire that is always lit in the Olympic games, but with much greater raw power. Even at that distance Izuku could feel the great power coming from the flames. It was energizing, pulsating like a heart and warm. The green haired young man immediately figured out what this flame was.
This was the source of One For All.
Izuku then followed a trail of smoke coming from the flame. The smoke slowly began to take shape, creating not one but eight other people. Izuku was able to see the faint figure of All Might in his skinny form standing next to a beautiful black haired woman. His eyes kept trailing down as some of the figures weren't all that well formed until his eyes landed on the last two figures. The first one was a skinny pale man with white hair covering his eyes, wearing a long sleeved white shirt and blue pants. And next to him stood a tall bald man with goggles on his forehead, wearing a biker's red sleeveless jacket, black pants and fingerless gloves.
"I'm surprised that you're here so early," a voice came from the skinny man. "But your path has been a little different, hasn't it?"
Izuku's eyes went wide. He hadn't expected them to talk to him. He tried to respond to the meek and kind voice, but he then remembered that he had no mouth.
The skinny man walked up to the current wielder of One For All.
"Do you know who I am?" the skinny man asked.
Izuku merely nodded. He recalled the story that All Might told him about the origins of One For All. The man before the young hero was none other than the first wielder of One For All.
"You have a pretty strong determination to become a hero. And you have much to protect," the skinny man said. "You currently have full control of 35% of your quirk. But you might have to become much stronger for what you'll be facing."
Izuku wanted to reply, ask what the first inheritor was talking about.
Just then the first inheritor placed his hand where Izuku's chest would be and his hand began to swirl. The hand along with the rest of the man's body begins to fade into Izuku's mist like body.
"But I know that you'll be alright, you have good friends," the first inheritor said before disappearing completely.
Just then Izuku heard a grunt and looks up to see the muscular bald biker man standing in front of him. He had half a smile on his face, almost as if he was challenging Izuku on the spot.
"So, you're here looking for about my quirk, huh? WELL GET FUNKY!" the biker bellowed sending Izuku back.
Back in Kara's room, the female kryptonian woke up from a sound night of sleep. She yawned and stretched her arms before turning to her roommate with half opened eyes.
"Morning, Greenie. You slept well?" Kara asked before her eyes snapped open. "Holly molly!"
On Izuku's side of the room, everything was a mess. The bed was flipped, the nightstand was broken into pieces, and the books were scattered on the floor. Izuku was laying on his hands an knees looking at his right hand. The green haired boy looked like he had been through one heck of a dream or a nightmare.
Izuku pants as he feels the power of One For All pulling back.
Later that day, Izuku and Kara meet up with the rest of the Teen Titans at their secret headquarters under Sweet Justice. Izuku explained to them the dream that he had and that he isn't sure as to what the first inheritor or the biker guy meant when they spoke to him.
"Sounds like you had one nasty dream, darling," Zee said before turning to Kara. "And you shouldn't just flick someone into unconsciousness like that. What if you rattled his brain by accident."
"It was a gentle tap, I promise. Besides, Greenie here can take on way worse," Kara said winking at Izuku.
"Did All Might mentioned something would happen when you met the previous inheritors?" Karen asked.
"No, he said that they only appeared to him once and that he almost dismissed it as if it were a dream," Izuku explained. "But there's something that bugs me."
"The biker guy that said; 'GET FUNKY!'? Yeah he did sound like he was a little intenso," Jessica said. "What did he mean by 'funky' anyway?"
"Could this be like a test set by the previous wielders of your quirk?" Diana asked chiming in.
Izuku and the rest of the team looked at Diana in wonder as they wondered if her words were true. Could the previous users be sentient within the quirk itself and be trying to get Izuku ready for something? If so, then what were they preparing him for?
Just then an alarm goes off on the base. Barbara quickly pulls up the alert on the monitors and shows a bank heist happening in the Central Bank of Metropolis.
"Friends, we are needed," Diana said. "Titans Together!"
The team of heroes quickly change to their uniforms and head off to the bank to stop the robbers from escaping with their ill gotten loot.
In two minutes flat, the Teen Titans spot the getaway car where the robbers were fleeing with several bags of money. The team take after them with the criminals noticing them with their rearview mirrors.
"Halt now villains!" Wonder Woman called out.
But one of the robbers popped out holding an assault rifle in his hands with another one popping out from the other side of the car with grenades in his hands. The first one opened fire on the heroes, forcing Wonder Woman to block the bullets with her bracelets. Batgirl and Bumblebee docked to cover as Zatanna and Green Lantern Jessica Cruz used their powers to block the stray bullets and the grenades that the second robber was casually throwing.
"Pots lla stellub ni rieht skcart!" Zatanna chanted as Green Lantern created a circular shield to block the bullets.
Deku and Supergirl push through easily dodging the bullets that the robbers were shooting at them. The two heroes were closing in on the car when at that moment another robber flung a grenade at Supergirl. But she didn't stop her stride, but the grenade blasts a blinding light instead of an explosion. Supergirl recoils from the sudden bright light.
"Supergirl!" Deku screams before turning angrily at the robbers.
"Who would've thought that taking down a knock off of Superman would be so easy?" one of the robbers taunted.
Deku overheard this and narrowed his eyes as he made a One For All jump at the car. Sadly, the car did a sharp turn, avoiding capture by the inheritor of One For All. Deku kept on going -unable to stop- until he crashed into some trash cans.
Deku glared at the laughing bank robbers. A rage began to bubble inside Deku as he narrowed his eyes at the robbers. He got his arm ready for a Delaware Smash, wanting nothing other than to catch those criminals. But his usual green crackling lightning turned black and fired directly at the getaway car. Like a black lightning bolt, the energy tendril latched onto the car's back axle ripping it along with the wheels.
The car was flipped over and was sent flying as Deku stared in surprise and fear as more tendrils began shooting off of his arm. The black tendrils began to hit the street, and everything around Deku. A light post was whacked off by a single strike, a bike was thrashed down the middle and several glass windows were shattered by the whipping tendrils.
"ARGH!" Deku screamed as he tried to get the tendril under control.
Just then the rest of the Teen Titans arrive to see the chaos of the new power that Deku had unlocked.
"Deku!" Wonder Woman called out with worry in her voice.
"I! Can't! CONTROL IT!" Deku struggled to say as he was being lifted by the black energy tendrils.
The Titans jumped back avoiding one of the tendrils swiping at them.
"We have to contain Deku before he hurts himself and others," Wonder Woman said to her friends. "Green Lantern create a force field around Deku. Bumblebee and Batgirl secure the bank robbers. Zatanna, you, Supergirl and I will have to contain Deku with everything we have!"
"Right behind you Wonder Woman!" Supergirl replied as everyone got ready to do their respective jobs.
As Deku fought against the strange power that coursed through his arm as if it were a wild alligator, Supergirl caught him from behind before Wonder Woman did the same from the front. Both women held him in a bear hug, trying to keep him still enough for the others to do their part.
Zatanna appeared next to them and quickly began to chant a spell to keep Deku's power under control.
"Kcalb slirdnet tcarter!" Zatanna chanted causing a purple aura to pull at the wild tendrils but they were fighting every second.
Green Lantern created a will construct bubble around Deku, Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Zatanna. She put all the will she had to keep the rampaging power under control. But every strike from the new power was like being hit by a truck.
Inside the bubble, Deku was trying his best to pull back the power but to no clear avail.
"It's no use, the power isn't pulling back!" Deku said as Wonder Woman held his arm.
"Do not give up, Deku!" Wonder Woman replied as a whip cut off a piece of her hair.
"Yeah, you can put this stuff under control, darling," Zatanna replied before dodging another whip.
"You heard them, put this black whipping thing in its place," Supergirl said holding Deku tightly.
At that moment, Deku realized what Supergirl had just said. The power that he had been trying to learn about was called 'Black Whip' and now these tendrils were coming out and attacking like actual whips. Guilt began to fill Deku as it was his desire to learn more about the power that lead him to this. He felt like a beginner once more, breaking his own body in an attempt to use his powers. He wasn't strong enough for this.
"Deku!" Wonder Woman called out to her teammate getting his attention. "You cannot zone out because of guilt, this is part of your power -a part of you- and as such you must control it."
Wonder Woman's words struck at Deku. He took in a deep breath, closed his eyes and slowly began to calm himself. He let the rage and self doubt to leave his body until he could sense it, the power was calming down as he was.
"That was a nice pep talk," called a voice inside Deku's mind.
Deku opened up his eyes and found himself back inside the void of power that was his quirk. In front of him was the bald biker man once with just as mean a look as he had the last time.
"So tell me kid; ARE YOU GONNA GET FUNKY!?" the biker screamed, scaring Deku.
Deku couldn't reply with words, but after getting back his nerve he nodded in agreement. He couldn't back down from what the biker was saying.
"That's good to hear! Now listen, we've only got a little time before you go out once more," the biker explained. "Listen kid, your last adventure and brief connection with this Speed Force has empowered the core of One For All causing it to grow. The remnants of the previous users and their quirks have been getting getting drawn to the core. That means they'll wake up soon enough. The one that just got woken up is my quirk: Black Whip."
The biker lifted his right arm and the same black tendrils manifested around it.
"This power is tricky to use at first but with the right amount of training you'll be able to call upon it," The biker continued explaining. "You must keep your heart calm and keep in mind what you want to capture with it. You must've really wanted to catch someone to get the quirk so out of control. But don't worry, kid. You'll have more than enough back up for the looks of it." The biker then extended his right hand placing it on Deku's chest causing his whole spirit to swirl into Deku. "Now go get funky, kid."
Deku's eyes shot open, finding himself back in the real world. He saw his friends holding on to him. He then looked at the power of Black Whip and began to pull it back. With his heart calmed down the black tendrils were easy to control.
"Greenie, you alright?" Supergirl asked.
"Girls, I got it," Deku told his friends as they slowly began to reach the ground.
As soon as all four of them touched down, Green Lantern made the construct disappear. She went up to her fellow friends to see what was going on or if anyone was hurt.
"Ai dios mio, are you guys alright?" Green Lantern asked with worry.
"We're alright, right?" Wonder Woman asked looking at Deku's arm.
He smiled lifting up his arm inspecting it. Just then a piano from one of the top floors dropped down on the group. Just then Deku threw his arms upwards and the black tendrils shot up wrapping and catching the piano.
The girls all look at Deku as he dropped the piano away from them.
"Yeah, I think we're good," Deku said with a smile under his mask before a thought caught him off guard. "Oh no the robbers, they're getting… away…" He called out before seeing the robbers tied up by Bumblebee and Batgirl.
"Hey, cool new super power, Deku," Batgirl said as she sat on top of one of the robbers.
A short while later, Izuku and the rest of the Titans were at the junkyard as he was trying to explain what had happened. After telling them that the exposure to the Speed Force triggered the expansion of One For All's core and that had triggered the awakening of different quirks.
"Wow, so you'll be having stuff like flying and heat vision next, Greenie?" Kara asked ruffling his hair.
"This means that there are more power waiting to be unlocked," Barbara said with glee. "Oh man, oh man, I can't wait to see them in action."
"Yeah, but in the meantime, I need to learn how to control this one," Izuku said as he looked at his arms.
"And we'll be there with you, Izuku," Diana said smiling before placing a hand on Izuku's shoulder.