Here we go *Yawn. The fourth chapter that I wrote this week. God I'm tired, but it was worth it! Thank Asobi for impromptu vacations amiright? Anyway let's get on with it, this chapter isn't going to be very long or elaborate but I can't wait to write the next one! You all know why.
This chapter contains a reference to a certain underrated(IMO) abridged series. Actually there are two references, one to said underrated series, and a second to a much more popular one. I'll let you guys guess what they are, and where from. The answer will be at the end, no cheating now, or Fou will find you and eat your soul!
The group of watchers, haven been left to their own devices after Asobi stormed off saying that he had urgent business to deal with decided to discuss what happened in the earlier episode amongst themselves.
"So is anyone gonna point out that Asobi-san had some seriously good points? Hindsight is 20/20 but a lot of those strict anti-quirk laws the Japanese use seem highly suspect now." David spoke up first, putting the topic out in the open.
"I'm not going to lie, he has a point. I never really liked how illogically worded those laws were, not to mention the fact that only a minority of the police actually enforce them heavily. I guess this also explains why the government has been so slow at integrating quirks into the education system." Aizawa agreed, having his own gripes with the government.
"I honestly should have expected that. It was foolish of me to think that all of that monster's influence could be flushed out less than a decade after his fall. Especially since he was left alive all this time, who knows what plots he could have concocted with all that free time!"
The kids were having their own talk, though nowhere near as heavy. "So Izuku-kun, have you made any progress with your quirk since that fight with Stain?" Kirishima asked the guy who was quickly becoming his close friend.
"Not really, other than a small increase in the speed at activating OFA there hasn't been much improvement percentage-wise. I'm working on it though!" He really just needed to work on his physical body from now on. So long as he doesn't gain any more massive injuries he should be fine. Not like that was going to happen anytime soon!...Right?
*BANG! The door to the room slammed open as a practically giddy Asobi made his way into the room.
"Ok ladies, gents, and sentient inanimate objects let's get to the next episode!" I exclaimed while chugging down a mug of steaming mystery juice. Thoroughly confusing and concerning the others in the process.
"A-asobi-san, are you ok? And what are you drinking? A-and did you say something about sentient objects?!" Izuku asked me, worry on his face as he took some experimental sniffs of the drink's aroma.
"Yeah I'm fine. Great in fact! Oh and this? It's just a nice little concoction of my own invention, it's a mixture of Kalaxian crystal dust, mega seed dust, bourbon and Columbian coffee." I named each ingredient, quickly realizing that nobody knew what I was talking about. Also carefully to avoid the third question.
"Ok so I know two of those things.." Izuku mumbled audibly, I quickly amended my mistake.
"It's basically liquid drugs." I down the whole thing after I say that. "AHH! Wubba lubba fucking dub dub that's the good shit!" I exclaimed as my eyes dilated slightly and my shoulders relaxed momentarily before I went back to normal. Only to notice everyone staring at with wide eyes.
"..What?"
"*Sigh. And why are you drinking what I can only assume are alien liquid drugs? Specifically why are you drinking it in front of several heroes and hero course students that wouldn't take too kindly to that?" Aizawa asked, fully deadpan staring at me now.
"Specifically? Well to answer your second question first. What are you gonna do about it?" A collective sweatdrop was formed. "Exactly, as for the reason for why. Well there are two. First and foremost I'm a multi-million year old being and a god of entertainment." I put a supreme emphasis on my domain. People tend to forget that it included quite a bit of stuff.
"Do you really think I wouldn't try some stuff out at least once? Especially when there are literally no consequences to it?" What was the point of being immortal if you don't try some of the more reckless stuff now and again?
"As for the second reason. I just got done going through some seriously heavy nonsense with another universe and I needed a pick me up. Trust me, if you saw some of the shit I did you'd need some too." I answered honestly, still a little shaken from the experience.
"Where did you go? Is it a universe we would recognize? And did you really get so messed up after only a few minutes?" Pony asked bravely, honestly I had no idea whether they would know about this franchise or not so might as well.
"First of all time dilation is a thing remember. For me It's been about 400 years since I last saw you guys." Letting that sink in for a moment I waited for them to pick their jaws off the floor before continuing. "As for the universe...Does the name Natsuki Subaru mean anything to you?"
Five people cringed the moment I said that name, recognition clear in their eyes. "Which version?" Yanagi asked, hoping for one of the more tolerable versions of his life.
"Archbishop of pride." I answered simply, summoning a new mug of forgetfulness for myself.
"And you said 400 years...Yeah I can't blame him for drinking that, I think anyone would need it after that" Pony agreed, knowing exactly what he was talking about. It was hard enough to read about the shit that Subaru did in third person. Just imagining having to experience all of that in first person throughout all of it?...Shit.
"The poor boy who fell from grace, that whole story is a tragedy of the highest order." Shiozaki added. Though those that didn't know any better were still skeptical.
"Look, there are a few Izuku's that have similar abilities to Natsuki Subaru, I'll show you one of them after this episode to prove my point, besides it's been a while since we've seen some good old fashioned horror." Cue cold sweating, yeah they didn't think I'd go that far did they. Despair is waiting for you for being overly curious. Anyway I started the episode before anyone could sputter out an objection.
"I know I wasn't here long, but, thanks for everything." Izuku thanked Gran Torino for his help. If it weren't for him he'd probably take much longer to come up with full cowling after all.
"There's no real reason for you to thank me. After all, I wasn't around when the really big stuff happened." Gran Torino apologized in his own way.
"Yeah, but the only reason I was able to stand up against Stain at all is because of our sparring." Izuku said, only to get whacked by a cane.
"You survived, but only because the Hero Killer let you!" Gran Torino reprimanded, reminding him how lucky he got.
"Still, that's a pretty big achievement, gero. Granted the heroes he attacked were all by surprise but it's still amazing that you beat him, even with help." Tsuyu complimented, not entirely denying Gran Torino's point though. Izuku did get lucky.
"But you did learn to channel your power instead of relying on one monster smash. Even though you still managed to get a stress fracture." Gran Torino nagged, shaking his cain at the boy. "You went over your limit! I thought we agreed you're only supposed to use 5 percent! Your nerves got in your way and you lost focus!"
"Fair enough, though I doubt any of us could have stayed focused against someone like that." Kirishima admitted, he certainly wouldn't be able to focus on something that precise in the middle of a fight.
"Feh! Says you, I could take em!" No prizes for guessing who made that empty boast.
"But keep at it, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it eventually. See you round." Gran Torino said his goodbye and prepared to go back inside before he was called back by Izuku.
"Wait! I have one more question. I haven't found the right time to ask, but.-OUT WITH IT! I'VE GOT PASTRIES TO EAT!" Gran Torino interrupted him.
"That guy has one serious sweet tooth." Kaminari muttered.
"You have no idea." "You have no idea" Said man's former student's heard him.
"Even though you're really strong, and you trained the number one hero yourself, no one knows you. You should be super famous, but you're not. Is there a specific reason why?" Izuku asked, though he had his suspicions.
"Oh that's easy. I was just never that interested in working as a pro hero. There was a time in my past where I needed to be able to use my quirk freely without limits. That's the only reason I got my license." Gran Torino replied.
"Makes sense. If I had a high speed quirk, I'd want to use it a lot too." Satou said, and honestly who wouldn't? Speed quirks were just plain convenient, not to mention fun for anyone who could use them.
"Why isn't that an option by the way? Having a special class where someone can earn a quirk license without becoming a hero. There could be a general exam for people that just want to use their quirk because of its convenience." I suggested, to the thoughtful looks of everyone.
"Or maybe a special exception for work related quirk use. Making it a hero exclusive option is just objectively a waste of resources." I question while sipping on my mug. Little known fact, drinking hot drinks makes you look 20% classier. Or 20% more like a douche if you do it wrong.
"The douche has a point, I'd kill for the chance to use my explosions to get around the city quicker!" The resident firecracker exclaimed, imagining himself zooming through the city at high speeds. And his opinion doesn't count! I'm totally pulling an Ozpin regardless of what people say!
"As vulgar as he was I agree with Bakugo-san. My engine quirk would be monumentally useful for travelling and opening up my schedule. Not to mention the health and training benefits of daily quirk use." That last point made the teacher's stop to think. Iida wasn't wrong, constant quirk usage was the cornerstone for strengthening and evolving one's quirk, having quirk usage become more common would benefit most people's health in the long run.
"It might be better to hear this from All Might. He'll explain it better." Gran Torino said. Izuku nodded before he walked off.
'The greatest hero huh... He may not look or act like him, but he's still just like Toshinori.' Gran Torino thought, before deciding to end his internship the way it began.
"Not that it's a bad thing. Uncle Might is uncle Might and Deku-kun is Deku-kun. There's no need to be a perfect copy of the man nor should he." Melissa smiled at her best friend, receiving another smile and blush in return.
"Hey kid...who are you?" Gran Torino asked, pretending to be senile. Earning himself more than one snort from the audience.
"I'm Izuku Midoriya." Izuku replied, not getting why his teacher was reverting back to his old schtick.
"That's not what I mean." Gran Torino said, hoping his student would understand. Izuku suddenly realized something. "I'm Deku!" he exclaimed.
Gran Torino smiled and waved him off.
The next day.
"Holy crap! What the heck, Bakugo?!" Kirishima and Sero laughed at Bakugo's new hairstyle.
"Stop laughing. My hair's gotten used to this so I can't get it back the right way. Do you hear me? I'll kill you both." Bakugo glared, ready to burst from the humiliation.
Even though they saw it themselves the students of 1-A couldn't help but snicker at Bakugo's internship aftermath, though 1-B and the rest who didn't see it didn't have the same resistance to it. Tokage in particular could barely stand as she clutched her sides for support.
"I'd like to see you try, pretty boy!" Sero laughed, especially with what happened next.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" Bakugo yelled as his hair went back to normal.
"Oh, so you did get part of Mitsuki-chan's quirk after all." Inko mumbled to the confused looks of the others. "Glycerin, it keeps her skin silky smooth but it also forces her hair to stand on end like permanent hair gel." She explained, leading to many complaints from the girls that essentially equated to "Lucky smooth skin bastard"
"Wow, you got to fight some villains?" Mina asked Jiro who was recounting her internship with Death Arms.
"All I did was help people evacuate and provide logistical support." Jiro said modestly, Mina still thought it was pretty awesome though.
"I spent most of the time training and cleaning the ship deck. Although there was this one day we caught a bunch of drug smugglers." Tsuyu remembered that day, though she could have gone without the Davy Jones knockoff for obvious reasons.
Getting several deadpan looks from the others I bite back. "Oi! I make my own supply thank you very much! If you want something done right do it yourself and all that, besides I'd never trust a bunch of amateurs anyway." The deadpan just deepened, I think I missed the point.
"What about you, Ochako-chan? How was your week?" Tsuyu asked.
"It was very...Instructive" Ochako said as she entered a combat stance, aura the complete opposite of what she usually exuded.
Thankfully nobody was paying too much attention to Deku's growing blush from seeing that side of her. Well, almost nobody. 'Kukuku blackmail for days!' I thought, knowing just who to use this against.
"She's acting different. And in just a week" Kaminari said, sweating slightly.
"Different? Don't be fooled, Kaminari. All women are demons on the inside." Mineta said as his teeth chattered.
"Again, you have a serious case of internship fraud to work over there. Last I checked Mt Lady was in the top 50 so it should have some nice returns if you apply the right pressure." I not-so-subtly suggest to Nezu, evil chuckles emanating from us as we sipped our respective drinks. See? Men and rodents of class.
"Hey man, everyone at my internship loved me. It was actually kind of great. Now if you want to talk about the ones who really changed, it was those three." Kaminari pointed to Izuku, Iida, and Todoroki.
"Oh yeah, the Hero Killer!" Sero exclaimed. Momo added in her two cents saying that she was worried while Kirishima just said "Glad you guys made it back alive." With a toothy grin that was being hidden by virtue of Bakugou manhandling him and Sero.
"You were lucky Endeavor showed up and saved you guys." Sato said, unknowingly making the three flinch a bit, internally of course, they already knew this song and dance.
"Or so I thought anyway. Though I'm glad to be wrong if it means my classmates are huge badasses!" Satou exclaimed, giving the mentioned classmates a few fist bumps which Iida denied, not feeling like his actions deserved praise.
"Yeah, that's right. He saved us." Todoroki said, remembering the police chief. Though it did kill him a little on the inside to give the bastard any undeserved praise. And most deserved praise for that matter. He had issues ok don't judge him.
"Did you see the video about him? It's all over the internet. He may be a villain, but he's super tenacious. He's actually kind of cool, don't you think?" Kaminari said, sticking his foot in his mouth as usual.
"Ok, that was on me, though you do gotta respect the dedication it took to get that strong." Kaminari admitted, and most begrudgingly agreed. A decade of intense training just to keep up one's ideals was impressive no matter what it was for.
"Kaminari!" Izuku scolded me.
"It's ok. He had a certain determination. I can see why some people would think he was cool. But his beliefs led him to cold blooded murder. No matter his reasons, murder cannot be condoned. But now, I promise I will strive to be a true hero!" Iida exclaimed with his signature karate chop.
"Hell yeah!" The more vocal of the watchers exclaimed while the quieter one's simply nodded in approval.
The screen shifted to hero training at field gamma with All might.
"It feels like I haven't seen you in a while! Welcome back! Now, we'll be conducting a rescue race!" All Might exclaimed.
"If this is rescuing, then shouldn't we be at the USJ?" Iida asked while Izuku was gushing over All Might's golden age costume.
"That place is for disaster rescue only. As I said earlier, this is a race. Now, you will compete in groups of 5. I've sent out a distress signal. Each group will race to find me and rescue me. Whoever finds me first wins! Just please try to keep the property damage to a minimum!" All Might pointed to Bakugo.
"Why are you pointing at me?" Bakugo asked.
"Heh, though to be fair to explosion boy he isn't the only one with a quirk that can cause a fair bit of collateral damage by default." I gave not so subtle looks at Mina, Todoroki and Aoyama. Acid, ice erosion and straight up lasers, not exactly the most subtle ways to travel around.
The screen showed the first group as Izuku, Sero, Ojiro, Mina, and Iida.
"Everyone in this group has really good mobility." Kaminari said pointed out, with one notable exception.
"I'd say Midoriya-san's at a heavy disadvantage against those four." Momo said.
"Yeah, moving around quickly isn't one of his strong suits." Jiro agreed. "And whenever he uses his powers, he always gets badly injured." she added.
"I still remember my reaction to seeing full cowling for the first time. The difference that a single week's worth of training made was ridiculous, it really motivated me to train harder." Jiro spoke up, remembering the shock of what came next.
"I feel the same, honestly it made my own progress seem so insignificant in comparison…" Momo couldn't help but agree, her own confidence took a steep nosedive after seeing the class's weakest(at the time) member improve so quickly.
"A wise man once said that it's only natural for a novice to improve faster than an adept. Don't be discouraged if you reach a plateau in skill, that just means you are at the precipice of something new." I said, hinting at a lesser known aspect of quirks. Thankfully it brought Momo out of her bad mood.
"I'm betting on Sero-san." Kirishima said, knowing that the bootleg Spider-Man had one of the best quirks for the job.
"Oh yeah? I got odds on Ojiro-san." Kaminari said, sure he didn't have a heavy mobility based quirk but his own physical fitness could make up for it.
"I choose Ashido-chan, her reflexes are nuts!" Mineta gave a non perverted compliment for once.
"Hey Asobi-san, the moon wouldn't happen to be blood red back in our world would it?" Mina asked, such things didn't happen in everyday life. Was the end near?
"Not since I last checked." Easing her worries of the coming apocalypse.
"I know Deku will be last." Bakugo said, not unjustified given what he knew.
"I hate that he was right, even with the new power. Wait was that the joke?" Momo questioned, breaking what I assume is the 5th wall in questioning the past through the lens of a manga writer. I might need to fix that before we have another Deadpool situation on our hands...Nah!
"Even though he's still recovering, I think Iida-kun's got this one." Ochako joined in, to which Tsuyu agreed.
"Go!" All Might said. Sero immediately swung up and flew forward with his tape.
"It's like this course was built with me in mind!" Sero said before a green blur suddenly zoomed past him.
"With my new training, I can win!" Izuku smiled as he jumped from structure to structure with astounding speed.
'The way he's propelling himself through the air.' Todoroki thought in realization.
"Those jumps. He looks just like..." Ochako started.
'Those are my moves. While I spent my time getting groomed at that useless internship he...look at him! Damn it!' Bakugo thought angrily.
"Broken pride aside Bakugo-san's got a point, a week of training time wasted, oh well at least now we've established class A's monster trio.
"Huh, it really is a monster trio...So wait who's Luffy? And does that make Iida Jimbe?" Pony questioned, mentally categorizing the 1-A students by their straw hat counterparts.
"I think you're taking the term a bit too literally...I like it! Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and yes, he is indeed Jimbei!" I pointed to Izuku, Todoroki, and Bakugo respectively. Getting confused looks and loud cursing from the three. Something about 'not being anything like that curly eyebrow fuck'
"Wait why am I Luffy?" Izuku asked, not getting the connection.
"Well you eventually become the strongest of the three, and the #1 hero so that fits the king of the pirates role. And secondly you have a ton of women coming after you that you're completely oblivious to!" I answer back jovially, not waiting to hear his mortified response as I unpause the video.
'I can do this. Don't go above 5%.' Izuku thought before he suddenly slipped on a wet pipe.
"Ouch, talk about bad luck. What were the odds that a single wet pipe ended your hot streak!" Mirio couldn't help but exclaim, he was doing so well too!
"Luck's a part of being a hero too I suppose. A minor part but still." Aizawa muttered out, lord knows he faced his fair share of bad luck on certain missions. Some worse than others but the point was that even when the odds were against you it just meant that you needed to push on harder regardless of what may happen to you.
"Got it. I gotta watch where I'm landing." Izuku thought to himself as he face planted into the floor right next to the other contestants.
"You really need to work on your landings." Inko half joked at her sons expense, at least this time his injuries weren't particularly bad and even she had to admit that his cartoonish position was pretty funny.
"Young Sero may have come in first, but you've all shown remarkable improvement! Keep training and prepare for your upcoming final exams!" All Might exclaimed.
*Glass breaking.
'Oh boy. That's the sound of sanity collapsing in on itself.' I look towards Momo, the most likely culprit. She was mumbling 'four weeks' and 'time anomaly' Guess she figured out how nonsensical it was to have their class' final exam at what had to be barely a month into school.
The USJ incident happened in their first week. Then they had two weeks to prepare for the sports festival. That whole affair barely lasted a whole day, after which they spent a week at their internships making it four weeks in total, or a little under a month.
Yet they were already talking about their final exams. Needless to say Momo's brain just broke from the sudden realization that her world operated on cartoon time physics along with regular anime logic. Hence the 6th wall breaking.
"That was incredible. Find me after class. We need to talk. The time has come for me to tell you everything about me and One For All." All Might gave a thumbs up.
"Yay! You made Dad Might proud!" Toru exclaimed, hugging Izuku's side excitedly. Used to the sudden hugs by now Izuku just smiled, happy with the memory of impressing his mentor. Now if only he had the courage to kindly ask for some space. Don't get him wrong being surrounding by three beautiful girls(one of them being invisible meant nothing) was great and all but it did leave him a little suffocated.
The screen shifted to the locker rooms.
"Midoriya-kun, look what I found! Someone put a hole in the wall! A previous generation has given us a gift. You know what's on the other side, right? This peeks into the girl's locker room!" Mineta exclaimed, pointing at the offending hole.
"Why did you try to tell Izuku-kun first? It's not like he's a pervert like you." Momo asked, still a little angry over the attempt but nonetheless curious. Though if she were being honest the sight of the boys were distracting her and the rest of the girls from their righteous anger. 'Did Izuku-kun get even more muscular?'
"First off because he's one of the only ones that gives me at least a little respect!" The small one exclaimed, plus he was still grateful for his plan back at the USJ. "Besides I can't turn down the opportunity to bring him over to the lewd side! He's already a wannabe harem king as it is, just imagine what it will be like if he actually tried!"
A collective shiver went down their spine. They didn't have to imagine, they already saw three Izuku's that were ladies men in their own right. Hell one of them managed to do it while being a fucking mime of all things!
"Don't even think about it! Peeping on them would be criminal!" Iida scolded, though he took no real steps to stop him.
"Yes. Yes it would. We'll be having words when we get back, Mineta." Aizawa's oni aura returned, quickly cowling the perverts' enthusiasm.
"Then you'll have to lock me up in solitary confinement because you can't stop me! I wanna see Yaoyorozu's curves! Ashido's slender waist! Hagakure's floating underwear! Uraraka's super fine body! Asui's unexpectedly soft boobiiiiiiieees!" Mineta exclaimed crazily before getting his eye pierced by a certain earphone jack.
"Did you really think we wouldn't hear you? The walls aren't that thick and you were yelling like a lunatic!" Toru asked incredulously at the grape's stupidity. How the hell did this guy score higher on the exams than her?!
'Why am I the only one he didn't say anything about?" Jiro thought to herself, a dark grimace on her face as the other girls thanked her. Luckily for the viewers it was at an angle where nothing could be seen. I sent the girls a thumbs up at that.
Jiro covered her face in embarrassment.
"Don't worry about that so much Jiro-chan! You have plenty of attractive features too." I tried to make her feel better.
"Like what?" She asked, not immediately believing me.
"Oh plenty of stuff. Like most heroines you have an athletic, lithe body. Your hair works well with your rocker girl aesthetic along with your hero costume itself, love the red streaks by the way. Speaking of your musical talent, using an instrument is a pretty attractive skill on it's own, even without your impeccable singing voice. Plus you have beautiful eyes to top it all off." I listed off her more attractive features eliciting a megaton blush from the tomboy rocker.
"W-wow. And you said that so easily, that takes some massive confidence!" Kaminari was legitimately impressed and disappointed in himself for not saying all that first.
"Eh, you live a few million lifetimes and you learn to just say what you really think, regardless of the outcome. Pro tip for life, compliments are always appreciated so long as they are real, can't really go wrong with 'em. Worst thing that could happen is that people disagree with you, and then, so what? Life goes on, no regrets." It was pretty common advice, though it was the type that even adults or old men had trouble following, it takes a certain type of person to throw caution to the wind and just say whatever the hell they want, consequences be damned.
The screen shifted to Izuku entering the lounge where All Might was sitting with his head down. "Have a seat." All Might invited, unknowingly making Izuku tense up from the atmosphere.
'He's so intense.' His student thought as he sat down.
"I heard that the Hero Killer swallowed your blood in the attack. Do you remember how I gave my quirk to you? What I said that day?" All Might asked, only to be met with the greatest impression known to man.
"Eat this!" Izuku suddenly made THE All Might face.
Uproarious laughter followed immediately after, many couldn't help but clutch at their sides while a few, namely Mirio, Ochako, David, Melissa, and surprisingly Bakugo all collapsed in massive heaps of pulsating laughter.
"N-No way! That was perfect! Almost identical to Toshi's real voice!" David exclaimed, in complete disbelief at how perfect the impression was.
"Deku-kun! W-why, why d-didn't you tell me you could do that! It's amazing! Haha!" Ochako and Melissa said at the same time, each using Izuku's arms as makeshift support to no avail as they join David on the ground.
Mirio straight up passed out from laughter.
Meanwhile with the loudest blonde. "Holy shit Deku! Since when did you perfect that fucking monstrosity! Back in that shithole Aldera it was barely passable and now?! Fucking perfect!" Even Bakugo had to give credit where it was due, it was pretty great.
"No, not that part! I said the key was in my DNA. That's why you had to swallow the hair." All Might clarified, Izuku started to freak out, immediately fearing the worst.
"Holy crap! Don't tell me the Hero Killer has One For All now!" He panicked.
"Fucking terrifying." Nobody could deny Awase's reaction to the idea of a Stain with One for All *shivers.
"No, he doesn't. I thought you'd be worried about that, but it didn't cross your mind. One For All can only be transferred if you, the bearer, intend to pass it along." All Might said.
"But it can be transferred by force." All Might said as he thought of an example of a girl forcing him to take chocolate.
"...Weird example aside, it's a legitimate reason to keep the quirk secret." Aizawa agreed with All Might's decision for once, that kind of power needed to be kept on the right side no matter what.
"The power you have now is unique, and you should know its origin. One For All is derived from another power. A power that's very old. The name of that quirk is All For One. It allowed its user to take quirks from others. He could keep the quirks for himself or give them to others." All Might said.
"Cliche power aside it really is ridiculously terrifying to think that someone like that actually exists… Good thing he's far from his peak now." Kendo admitted, thankful that this particular villain wouldn't come back to his previous power. So long as nobody managed to revert the damage caused to him. Not like something that crazy is possible or anything...Right?
"He could steal powers?" Izuku asked,.
"This was back when quirks first started appearing. People didn't know how to deal with the newly powered among them. Civilization's progress slowed. Society decayed." All Might said as an image of hate protestors appeared.
"Which is particularly stupid when you think about it. Why would you delibiratly piss off the people with fucking superpowers?! It's like people in large groups just lose all logic and self preservation skills!" Awase had a minnie rant that nobody could deny. Rule number 1 of staying alive. Don't poke the fucking bear! Especially when said bear also had laser eyes and a fucking machine gun on it's back!
"There was one person who managed to rally many people behind him. He went by the name of his power, All For One. He stole quirks from others, and with his overwhelming abilities, he committed evil acts with little resistance. In the blink of an eye, he became the leader of villains and ruled over Japan." All Might said memory jumping back to darker times.
"I've heard a lot of rumors about this online, but isn't that made up? It's not in our textbooks." Izuku asked, though he probably should have guessed that something like that would have been covered up.
"It's the kind of shameful history that people would rather ignore." All Might replied.
"Why? There's tons of other shameful history that's still known." The slightly naive Momo asked, there was a slight difference between them though.
"It's difficult to erase large events from history, wars, dynasties, memes. Such things are nearly impossible to rip from the public consciousness. AFO however, was a hidden ruler, a shadow king that the common folk only heard about in whispers. Much easier to ignore." Another sip of my mug was drunk to let the mini speech sink in...And reading over it now I might have been higher than I thought.
"This villain made people trust him or submit to his will. However, there were many poor souls who couldn't bear the burden of the quirks they were given. They became mindless and incapable of speaking, much like the Nomu." All Might explained, hinting at the identity to the Nomu's creator.
"This evil man had a quirkless younger brother. He was small and sickly, but he had a strong sense of justice. They couldn't have been more different." All Might said as an image of him appeared.
"He kept resisting him. Then All For One gave him a quirk, one that would allow him to stockpile power. We don't know if it was a gift he was giving his brother, or a way to force him to submit." All Might told his student, the meaning behind this soon became clear.
"Wait so..." Izuku started.
"Yes. It turns out the younger brother did have a quirk. He had a useless power that allowed him to pass on quirks. And so this quirk merged with the younger brother's power. And that is how One For All came to be." All Might said spreading his arms out for dramatic effect.
"This sounds great and all but it all seems a bit overly convenient" Momo muttered, trying to pay attention to the narrative tropes that might apply to this backstory. She's learning, who knows maybe in a few decades...
"Hold on! I understand One For All now, but this bad guy must be long dead by this point! Why are you bringing him up?" Izuku asked, AFO should be well over 100 years old by now.
"A person who steals quirk has no limits. There are quirks that halt aging. He probably has something like that. The Symbol of Evil seemed pretty much immortal. Even though his brother couldn't defeat him, he decided to entrust it to future generations, hoping they could stop his older brother." And so the torch was passed.
"Eventually it was my turn, and I managed to defeat All For One. But he survived and is back in action as the brains behind the League of Villains. So now you know. The entire purpose of One For All is to defeat All For One. As its holder, you may one day have to fight against this great evil yourself." All Might passed on the second torch, this one came with quite the heavy burden.
"And he won't be doing it alone, not anymore!" Ochako exclaimed, uproarious agreement from her class and most of class B followed, the big three obviously joined in, though Tamaki was a lot more reserved. The pro's just smiled, proud to see such camaraderie grow within their charges.
Inko was having another mini heart attack but that was to be expected, she already expected this to be the case.
"I'll do it! With you by my side, I'll do anything!" Izuku promised, not knowing the whole truth.
'Come on, tell him. No, he won't understand. Our futures are...' All Might thought, tried to force himself to say it, but the words just wouldn't form. 'I'm sorry, young Midoriya. But by the time you face him, I won't be by your side anymore.' All Might thought darkly, giving the watchers the wrong idea.
"Objection!" Momo called out, momentarily shocking everyone. "This stinks of deliberate emotional manipulation from the author! I call foul, what he actually meant was that One for All was going to leave his body soon so he wouldn't be much help against AFO...Right?" She deflated at the very end, asking me in a much smaller voice.
"Umm, c-correct. Huh, I mean from an outsider's perspective I can see how you figured it out but I'm no less impressed. Good job with your ascension Momo-chan! Who knows maybe in a few decades you'll be predicting full arcs ahead of time!" With that monumental relief flooded everyone's chest, knowing that All Might wasn't quite dead yet.
Though, that didn't mean that he was completely in the clear. One didn't survive injuries like his and expect to live exceptionally long either..
That's all for now I suppose. This one took me quite a while to write, which makes sense I suppose since it's 2 whole manga chapters long, most of which was exposition for the watchers, I decided not to skip most of this since it provided some good moments for character building, along with some comedy.
The next chapter for the Konosuba fic should be up by monday next week. Or it could be out significantly earlier, it all depends on factors I can't really control so here's hoping. Anyway that's all for right now, see ya later and as always have a great day!