Izuku flew shakily through the air in the form of Chiller, veering off to the left every so often and dropping lower and lower, clearly struggling to maintain flight.

At least that's how he was making it look from an outsider perspective, not that it seemed he actually needed to sell it. No one at the moment seemed to be around, distracted by the utter chaos of the night.

That worked fine by him, as he didn't want to have to worry about getting in trouble for using his powers atop the rest of the things that had happened that night. He spotted the street with the entrance to the plumber base and took in a shaky breath before letting his wings give out.

He dropped fast to the ground, turning his body incorporeal at the last moment so he fell through the earth and waited until he came out in the main room of the underground complex, turning back to normal and slowing his descent at the absolute last moment so as to avoid a painful crash landing.

Well, a MORE painful one anyways. The sound of many soldiers reaching for their guns reached his ears and he groaned as he tapped the Omnitrix symbol, turning back to normal.

Once he did, he heard a shout and felt his body get rolled over by a concerned looking Homura. "There you are kid. Wh- holy shit, your face."

Doing his best not to let his new distrust of the man creep into his tone, he simply groaned again in agreement. "Had a friend… Four arms… Caught me off guard…"

"A tetramand? Dammit!"

His face was bruised and even had a busted lip. Todoroki had some pretty powerful strikes when you were deliberately avoiding defending against them. It wasn't like he was beaten within an inch of his life or anything, but he definitely had looked better.

The heterochromatic teen had tried to stop, and Momo had been all for it ending as soon as possible but Izuku had convinced them just one more strike should mean it would definitely be sold.

His body kind of hated him for the decision, which was absolutely fair really. His girlfriend hadn't been all that pleased either.

"Come on kid, let's get you to the recovery wing." Magister Homura said, helping the greenette to his feet and taking him down the hall towards a new room. Inside it was pure white, with a woman walking around inside. "Hey Ko, new patient."

"Hmm? Oh Jesus!" The woman exclaimed upon seeing the greenette. She was a blonde woman, with long back length hair and an M-shaped parting for her bangs. Her eyes were a cool ice blue and her skin was pale. "Did you guys go too far in training again?!"

"No, this was a field mission." Homura excuses, getting a look of exasperation from the blonde.

"A child?! Seriously?! What next, you gonna give a four-year-old a gun?" She asked sarcastically as she took the Omnitrix bearer up onto a bed and put her hands out towards him. To his surprise, they lit up with a golden glow and he felt his bruises start to fade and his lip begin to heal. As it finished he felt better than he did even before fighting Stain. 'So they still use quirks then? Seems kinda hypocritical but good to know.'

"It was an unexpected development. I thought there was no reason to say otherwise but now, I see quite clearly he won't be going out on another mission anytime soon." Homura said with a seemingly sympathetic gaze to his intern. It took a lot more willpower than It should have for Izuku not to respond 'You have no idea.'

"Well either way, it was a quick fix. Good thing you didn't have anything more serious or we might have had some real issues. " The woman said with a kind smile, before shooing them both off. "Now, try not to end up back here."

"We won't." Homura said, gesturing for Izuku to follow him. They began walking towards "You should go rest, Midoriya. Healing quirks aren't perfect. Nothing works better than basic rest to recover."

"Yes sir." Was all the greenette offered in reply, eager to get to the room he had been staying and finally getting around to putting this entire situation behind him.

As he walked, one might have noticed his eyes studying the halls intensely. If they saw him at the right moment, they would have seen the small smirk on his face as he approached his room, having seen pipes and vents aplenty throughout the halls.

Easy ways to sneak around if you happened to be the right size to do so. He just had to wait until the right moment…

"I'll be in the main area, and Norio will be knocking about someplace. Just come find us if ya need something, or go back to the infirmary if you notice anything weird after that whole healing thing." The blonde man instructed, getting a nod from the Omnitrix bearer before he set off. "See ya kid. We'll get those aliens yet, don't worry about it."

'Yeah… not if I have anything to say about it.' Izuku thought, as the man left, frown deepening. He closed his door and took a quick look around his room. A clock up in the corner caught his eye. '8:24PM. That gives me a few hours to think this over, and get ready.'

With that thought, he took a deep breath. "Well, if nothing else, might as well train One For All a little, see how much I can use now. IZUMID-2-2-1-0-0."

The Omnitrix lit up.

"Recalibrating," it announced. A sort of ticklish sensation ran through the teen for just a moment before the watch piped up once more. "Body now able to process 5% of One For All. Transferring power. Alternate forms now able to use up to 95% of One For All."

With that, the watch went back to normal.

"Five percent huh?" Izuku muttered, before taking a deep breath and focusing on the power, calling upon it. He felt it through his body and began to move with the power up. His face lit up as he felt the speed at which he moved. "Ha! Now this is a power up!"

Not that the three percent previously hadn't been useful, but it was more like being a peak physical human instead of super human. It wasn't much especially compared to his alien forms, but he'd be damned if he started complaining.

With that thought, he began to focus on testing out his new base power as he tried to kill the time.


It was half an hour to midnight when Izuku finally decided to make his move, having exhaustively trained with his new power as best he could without any real proper way to test it beyond the speed in his room.

Any training for such a power was better than nothing though. Shaking his head, he pulled out his phone and searched through his contacts to find Todoroki.

You: Investigating. Meet in half hour. Location being sent.

Todoroki: Midoriya. It's Gwen. Get info on stone, any codes or such needed to release prisoners and find a way to disable electricity, so defenses are lessened.

You: got it.

With no more stalling, he put down his phone, opened the door and pulled up the Omnitrix, scrolling through the selections to find Brainiac, pressing it in and shrinking in a flash of green light.

He headed towards the now towering doorframe, running out into the corridor. He looked around quickly, making sure no one was about to see before he launched at a nearby pipe, scrambling up it and getting towards one of the vents.

He quickly unscrewed one of the openings and jumped inside, following it around towards the main room in a sprint. He had to come out a little early as there was no entrance straight into the room like there was in the corridor just preceding the room.

He had to hang around for a moment, as Norio walked past. There was a brief moment of panic when the small frog like alien lost his footing and almost tumbled right into the brunette's hair but he managed to stay in the air, watching the plumber leave before he leapt down to the ground and ran into the main room.

It wasn't empty but it was far sparser than earlier, with only two people present. Two random plumbers the transformed teen didn't recognize. 'Let's see…'

He jumped up to the closer one who didn't seem to be particularly attentive at the moment, noting a cup of coffee on the table that looked like it was freshly made. With a small amount of guilt, he began pushing against the mug, ignoring the burning sensation on his tiny fingers and jumping out of sight at the last moment.

It landed on the man's lap, causing him to let out a pained cry as he jumped to his feet.

"AH FUCK FUCK FUCK!" He shouted in pain, hoping away and trying to pull the fabric further from his skin without ripping it off to avoid the burning pain. The other plumber, a woman turned to him with a worried look before looking unimpressed.

"Seriously?!"

"Ow fuck! Help!" He asked, getting the woman to roll her eyes. She looked back at the room for a moment before sighing and helping him out with a shrug of her shoulders.

"You seriously should be able to go to the recovery wing by yourself. You're going to get us both in trouble." The woman complained, even as she took him with. Izuku waited until they were out of the room before letting out a small, somewhat tinny laugh.

"That was way easier than it should have been." He chuckled, not complaining as he jumped up to the main computer. His features quickly became more serious as he began pressing in numbers. "Still, don't have long. Only five minutes at best, which means no time for Enhance. Got to do this the old fashioned way."

He began typing away, his enhanced intelligence and form's innate understanding of technology helping him quickly bypass the computer's security and get inside. 'Too easy.'

"Let's see…" he hummed, scanning the info that went by his eyes. The first thing he managed to find was the electricity kill switch. "Looks like…. If I just insert a small script, I can put it on a timer to fail. The prison seems to be on a completely different system though so will need to find a different way to free the other aliens."

With that thought and the script put in place, he quickly set to work on finding information about the aliens. "So many different species… Oh, there we go! A skill switch for every cell at once, absolutely perfect…."

He noticed something in the files for the prisoners, opening it and feeling his eyes went wide. 'They kept the ships each alien arrived in on the lowest level? That's really useful…. Did… did Gwen think of that or…. Well, good to know either way!'

He chose to ignore the sudden feeling of not being as prepared as he'd like creeping up on him. He finally focused on the most important detail, the supposed dimension hopping artefact. 'Reality stone, reality stone, reality stone….'

He had to skim through a few files but eventually he found one detailing the level of security assigned to a room near the same hangar holding the alien ships they would have to go to.

To say it was excessive was an understatement.

'No way with that much security that the stone ISN'T in there.' He smiled, finally having all the information he needed to get. He quickly put everything back to the original settings and jumped down just in time for the return of the two from earlier, both looking like they'd seen a ghost.

"Jeez, he was so angry…" The man muttered aloud, as Izuku bolted past him and the woman. "What did we even do?"

"Abandon our post because you're a cry baby."

"Well then why did you go with me?"

"Do you want me to punch you?"

"What?! No!"

"Then shut it!"

The small frog like alien snickered, jumping up the walls into the vents and running back. Thankfully on his way there was no Norio or any other person to avoid as he came out outside his room and changed back to normal.

He grabbed his phone as he closed the door behind him, relaying the information to Todoroki and Gwen, before looking around. He spotted his hover board in the corner.

He grabbed it, before sighing. 'Well, I guess it's a good thing I don't have too much stuff to carry around at least once this is all said and done.'

A part of him wondered for a moment if they shouldn't have waited a few more days to prepare but he squashed the thought almost immediately. Every second there were people wrongly imprisoned for no good reason that went by was unacceptable; he couldn't add more to that.

Looking to his watch, he cycled through his aliens as he thought about how he himself should proceed as soon as the assault began. 'They have a lot of counter measures for my aliens. Hopefully a lot will be negated by the lack of power but better safe than sorry.'

He stopped on one of his two new ones, the silhouette strikingly similar to Tessa. A Conductoid transformation. A smirk crossed his face as an idea settled in. 'Clearly, they aren't as well equipped to deal with them as other aliens and that's in normal circumstances. I'm willing to bet they're even less prepared for a One For All powered one!'

With that thought, he left the selection on the Conductoid and went back to training One For All like he had been earlier. He was going to need every little bit of preparation he could get.


A deep frown was set on Izuku's face when the time finally came. Three minutes to midnight and he was storming down the halls with intention, no plumbers getting in his way thankfully.

He'd told Gwen and Todoroki he'd send a signal when it was time for them to come in, not disclosing what said signal was beyond 'it will be obvious.'

He wasn't sure he liked the idea of the red head fighting again so soon with her leg but he knew he couldn't stop her and he got the impression she was like him. When her mind was set on doing something there would be no stopping her. She said something about healing faster than normal people as well, which had helped a little bit even if he didn't understand why she didn't count as 'normal'.

He soon enough found himself for the third time in the main room, where he was surprised to find it totally empty.

And it set him on edge, he was expecting people he was going to have fight. Still he cautiously made his way to where the entrance elevator was to let in Gwen and Todoroki.

As he stepped towards it though, a blast of energy flew past his head and hit the wall, making him jump as he turned to see Homura at the main computer. A blaster in his hand, and scowl on his face. "Why aren't you in your room?"

"Huh, and here I was thinking I was going to have to set off some alarms to find you sir. This works better though." The greenette said, feigning innocence while ignoring the question which just seemed to annoy the stocky man.

"So you met her." Homura said, tapping a button on the computer and bringing up on the display several texts. The Omnitrix bearer immediately recognized them as his own, eyes widening slightly. 'Crap! They were monitoring my texts?! Wait, why DIDN'T I consider that!? So much for Braniac being the smartest alien!' "They have more than likely already been intercepted and taken down outside. So, have anything to say for yourself?"

Izuku sighed, facing Homura fully with a scowl of his own. 'Well, no point in wasting time now.' "You said you didn't know the escaped alien's name."

"Huh? Well-"

"I'm confident you were lying." Izuku said, watching as the Magister shrugged it off like it meant nothing. He felt his anger rise. "If you can tell me her name, I'll concede I made a mistake. I'll help you stop the attack and even let you throw me in a cell if you need to. So tell me, what was her name?"

All lies in reality but he wanted to make a point and it would be much more effective this way. An incentive.

"I… don't know." Homura admitted, face relaxed as if he didn't see any issue in that fact. Izuku's glare hardened.

"You don't know?!" He let off a growl that sounded more like it would have come from Rath instead of his human form. "Tessa!"

"Huh?"

"Her name is Tessa." He explained simply. "She is another person, like any of us, just as important as any of us and you couldn't even be bothered to remember her name!"

The magister pointed his gun forward as Izuku pulled up the Omnitrix, ready to slam the dial down.

"This entire organization ends today. I'm confident now, do you know why?"

"…Why?"

He slammed in the watch, his new alien form appearing. He was tall and sleek, a full black body with white belly. His eye was a bright green and he had two conductors instead of the one.

And he was already sparking. Homura fired a blast at the perceived attack, which the new alien quickly absorbed.

"Because you didn't remember." He growled, firing a blast of his own right at the man.

And so it began.