"And now, for the First year U.A. Festival awards ceremony!" Midnight announces, the sun was getting ready to set by the time these awards are coming around. Midnight stood in front of three podiums, one colored in brown at the lowest altitude, the second colored in gray and had the second highest, the final being the tallest and yellow. The yellow podium was in the middle of the two others, and there were people standing upon each one.

On the yellow, was Katsuki. He was full of rage, growling and shouting even while bis body was chained to his podium. He was angered by how he became the winner of the Freshman's Sports Festival. On the gray, stood Shoto. He had a unfazed and somewhat sad expression on his face. And finally, on the brown podium, Kokei stood. Kokei also looked expressionless on his stand, simply standing and looking forward at the media and their flashing cameras. Kro had technically earned 3rd place as well, but he stated he didn't want the award.

"And now, we have the well respected and admired symbol of hope, All Night here to distribute the awards!" Midnight shouts, causing for All Might to run out from one of the corridors and approaching the center of the arena. The entire stadium was in confusion as to who 'All Night' was, but they cheered nonetheless for the number 1 hero.

Once All Might got in front of the podiums with Midnight, he speaks with enthusiasm. "I am here!.. to give out the awards." He had three medals in his hands, each color coordinated with each podium. "By the way," he whispers to Midnight, "who's All Night?"

Midnight grins and covers her mouth, acting surprised. "Oops, my bad."

All Might shakes his head, "i expected no less from you." He states with a grin and a small chuckle. Then, All Might turns his attention to Kokei. He walks over to the boy's podium, even on the podium All Might was still just barely taller than Kokei. "Young Kyōryokuna, you allowed for yourself to be attacked many times causing for you to take unnecessary damage and end up being more fatigued than needed."

Kokei clenches his teeth together and loosely balls his hands into fists. Just looking into the eyes of this man felt like a prison sentence. 'He acts so high and mighty, simply because he's strong.' Kokei thought, 'i bet he doesn't even remember that I was just a backup student.'

"He doesn't remember cause he doesn't care, that's just the type of person he is." All for One states, "that's Toshinori for you, very egotistical."

"Still, you achieved Third place in this challenging Festival. That's something you should be proud of." All Might says, gently bringing the bronze medal over Kokei's head and letting it drop to his neck. Allowing for it to rest upon Kokei's neck. "Congratulations, Kokei Kyōryokuna." Then, he moved onto the next person: Shoto Todoroki. "Young Todoroki, why didn't you use your flames against Bakugo?"

Shoto looks to the ground, "even though Izuku showed me a new perspective on my abilities, i still have doubts. I don't want to be hasty and use my powers without being fully certain of them."

All Might nods, placing the silver medal around Shoto's neck. And finally, he moves onto Katsuki. All Might attempts to place the medal around Katsuki's neck, but Katsuki growls and doesn't allow it. So instead, he rests the medal on his mouth. Once done, he grabs Midnight's microphone and closes out the Sports Festival.

--

"Kokei!!" Sobokuna runs up to Kokei the moment he walks through the front door. She wraps both her arms around the boy, holding him in a tight embrace.

Kokei, stunned at first, wraps his arms around his mother too. "Hey, mom."

"You did so good! I had no idea you were that powerful! I'm so proud!" Sobokuna rubs her forehead against Kokei's, "why didn't you come talk to me during the break?"

"I looked for you, but I couldn't find you." Kokei responds, using his infrared ray. She was Red, just as always.

"Awh, well that's okay." Sobokuna lets go of Kokei, bringing her hands down to the medal around his neck. "Oooh, it's so amazing!" She compliments him while inspecting the medal all around.

"Yeah, it is. I didn't expect to get as far as i did." Kokei responds, looking down at the medal himself.

Sobokuna brings a hand up to the top of Kokei's head, rubbing his hair around. "I knew i was right when I predicted that you'd be special, I knew it!" Kokei closes his eyes, enjoying the feeling of her fingers brushing through his hair. "Oh yea, you're probably so tired! It's night, after all."

Kokei looks behind himself, out the door was pitch black darkness. On his walk home the sun was setting, and it was beautiful. "I am, good thing i got 2 naps in throughout the day. Well- one was a knockout.."

Sobokuna shakes her head, "nuh uh! I don't want to hear about that fight! You should've won that battle, you fought so hard! And that Katsuki boy, he's very cocky."

Kokei giggles, "yeah, he definitely is. I.. i fought really hard against him.." Kokei looked to the ground, feeling a tear run down his face. "Did i- did i do good, mom?" Kokei asks, looking up at his mom with watery eyes.

Sobokuna stares at Kokei with disbelief, "are you kidding me?" She asks, "of course you did! I already said you were amazing!" She responds, wrapping her arms around Kokei once more. While she held him, she places a kiss on his forehead. "You did great." She repeats, hugging him tightly.

Kokei hugs her back tight, closing his eyes allowing for another few tears to fall. "I worked so hard.." Kokei whispers, "i killed.." Kokei whispers, so quiet that Sobokuna couldn't hear clearly what he was saying. "I love you, mom."

Sobokuna snuggles her head up against Kokei, "i love you too, Kokei."

"Oh. My. God. Kokei! Those battles were so hot!" Jenny shouts into Kokei's ear, bringing a sly smile to his face.

"Thanks, i try." Kokei responds, looking up at the ceiling with the back of his head gently rested upon his pillow.

"That should've been me in third place!" Shihai huffs, crossing both his arms and pouting.

"I don't know how far you would get with Black alone, no offense." Kokei responds, causing for Shihai to whisper a curse under his breath aimed at Kokei.

"Wether you like him or not, you cannot overlook the fact that he fought valiantly and hard." AfO chimes in, "in doing so, he even learned how to use another one of my quirks. You're growing such an alarming rate, it's hard for me to keep track. Keep this type of activity up and you're certain to go far."

Kokei smirks, looking to the right at his opened window. There was a nice, soft breeze coming in through the window. It felt really relaxing. "So, care to tell me more about this new quirk: Super Regeneration?"

"I figured that'd interest you." All for One begins, "as you know, this quirk can regenerate any injuries on your body, includes missing limbs, at incredible speeds."

Kokei awes, "woah.. so i can get my finger chopped off and grow another one.. That's amazing! That's like a starfish."

"Don't go feeling you're invincible now though, because you're not." All for One sternly responds, "it has some weaknesses. Very strong attacks take longer to heal or won't heal at all. And if the wound has been cauterized already, meaning if your body has already began the natural healing process or the wound's been burned closed, the quirk won't have any effect."

"Oh.. well that's still awesome." Kokei commends, "My left arm felt really messed up, maybe even broken. Same goes for my ribs, and the rest of my body felt super sore. Then.. it all went away, that's gonna come in really handy. Not to mention it was easy to learn, since it's a passive like Infrared Ray."

"Precisely, now, get some sleep. You've definitely earned it." With the end of AfO's words, Kokei closes his eyes and drifts off to sleep. Dreaming of all his feats, and the intensive battles he fought in- not to mention the media attention he's received. He was really on his way to becoming.. a hero.

--

"Ahhh..- the town!" Kokei exclaims, letting out a loud and exaggerated huff. He wore a simple blue shirt, with black stripes on the shoulders, and black shorts. All around him was sunny daylight, random groups of people walking past, and many shops with alleyways of their own. There was the occasional person who'd recognize Kokei from the Festival, to which Kokei just smiled and waved awkwardly. So many things had happened to Kokei in this town, it's where he got All for One, where he first killed, and where he killed again. But he didn't think of it as murder, he was just using their powers.. by taking them away. It was a flawed ideal, but his goals were clear.

'Last time i came into here i was hanging out with Jenny..' Kokei thought, reminiscing about the lustful and affectionate date he has with Jenny. "Well, whatever, I'm not gonna just stand around on my first day off." All the U.A. students got 2 days off from school after the Festival, giving them resting time and teachers planning time. In the end, it aids everyone.

Kokei wanders the town aimlessly, not wanting to go into a shop by himself because he knew very little of fashion. Usually, he'd go clothes shopping with Sobokuna or Izuku and his mom, shopping always was a chore to him. And since it was, he didn't do it. It made it easier that U.A had uniforms for everything so that he wouldn't have to shop for new things to wear each day.

While Kokei walks around the town, he comes near the small portion of land between the food plaza and the mall. He heard a muffled amount of discussion from here, and since he was already heading in this direction, he continued toward there. The mall casted a shadow over this area, there was a road for cars to pass through, but not many took this route. This was because the area was prone to crime taking place, since it had no cameras, so many avoided it.

After half a minute of walking in the same direction, Kokei finally makes it to where he wanted to be. What he saw, was nothing short of a mugging. There were 7 grown men, all with tattoos and thuggish attires, surrounding one girl. One of the men was bigger and buffer than the rest, he wasn't one of the talkers. But the girl.. was someone Kokei knew. Kokei blinks his eyes a couple times, making sure he wasn't seeing things. It was real, the woman in the middle was none other than Momo Yaoyorozu.

She stood tall, around the same height as the hunched men, not as tall as the 6'8 buff man though. Momo wore a turquoise top with a matching skirt. She had a worried look on her face while the men ask her menial questions: "what's a girl like you doing in a place like this?", "you got a boyfriend?", "it's a dangerous area here, you could get in trouble".

Kokei wasted no time getting into a running stance and rushing into the circle of men. He pushes between two of the weaker men, shoving through them and getting in front of Momo. The men all looked confused, looking at one another then back at Kokei. Momo looks at the back of Kokei's head, he was facing away from her and staring at the surrounding thugs instead. "Kokei..?" She asks, a slight tremor in her voice.

Kokei looks back at her, "these guys causing you any trouble?" He asks simply, keeping one eye on the people.

Momo seems surprised by his question, but she answers honestly. "Y-yeah.."

The men gasp, "c'mon, girl, you know you're liking what we're offering." Then, another guy looks to Kokei, "is this your boyfriend? He looks like a twig, you can do so much better."

Kokei doesn't flinch by their words, he had a hint of nervousness in his stomach but it pales in comparison to the Sports Festival he had the other day. So, he toughed through it and raises both his fists up ready to fight. "What're we gonna do to settle this?" Kokei asks, "y'all could leave now, or we fight."

"No, Kokei!" Momo shouts, wrapping both her hands around his left fist and holding it toward her. "You can't use your quirk without a license, it's illegal."

'So that's how she got in this situation, and stayed in it.' Kokei thought, "don't worry, I won't use Air Cannon. Just my fists, fair fistfight."

The giant of a man stepped up to Kokei, looking down at him. "Really, little man? You really wanna tango with the minster Reval?" Reval questions, but before Kokei could respond, Reval swings a heavy right arm punch to his face. This attack makes Kokei go slamming down to the ground, a big red bruise on his left cheek.

Momo kneels down to Kokei's level, placing both her hands on his hurt cheek. "You cowards!"

Yet in response, the men only laugh in her face. "Wouldn't have needed to do that to your boyfriend if you would've given us the money, or you.. or both."

Suddenly, Kokei's bruised cheek heals back to normal and he stands back up. Kokei swings a punch to the gut of Reval, but he just grunted and showed no signs of pain. Only for Kokei to receive another heavy punch to his face, but he was still standing. Then one to his gut, a kick to his leg, a head butt to his forehead and an uppercut finish.

Landing Kokei back on the ground where he started. But it didn't end there, once on the ground, Reval began stomping on Kokei. It didn't take too long for many of the others to join in on the beat down.

But then, someone speaks. "Kokei.. it's fine." Momo says, standing up and looking to the group of men. "I'll just give them the money they want, I don't want you to hurt yourself for me any longer." This preposition makes for the men to stop beating down Kokei, and turn to Momo with greedy eyes. Kokei looks to her, covered in his own blood, mouthing the word: no. But she still kept talking numbers with the men, for Kokei's sake.

"Young Kyōryokuna, i have another quirk to help you." All for One states.

'I can't use quirks right now, AfO, I've got to use my fists.' Kokei thought, healing himself and standing back up to his feet.

"These will help your power, in hand to hand combat." All for One says, "strength enhancers. I absorbed 3 of them, these will make your punches much, much stronger."

Kokei closes his eyes, thinking about punching a fully brick wall and destroying it. All the power and strength that he wants- that he needs. Then, he opens his eyes back up. "Hey, thugs." Kokei says, "c'mon I'm still standing. You weak pieces of garbage can't even defeat me while i use no quirk, pitiful." There was a hint of All for One within his speech.

"Kokei- no, don't!" Momo shakes her head, looking pleadingly at Kokei.

The giant thug, Reval, turns to Kokei, stomping back over to him. "So, you want another boxing match?" He asks in a deep voice and a evil smile.

"Yeah, but if i win you leave her alone." Kokei points to Momo, "and if i lose.. well, you can be the decider."

Reval chuckles, "i like those stakes." He raises both his meaty arms to his chin. "Begin."

Kokei swiftly swings a heavy right arm toward Reval's gut, using 2 of the enhancers. As Kokei's fist flew at Reval's gut, the air seemingly separates by the force of his fist. And as the punch connected, Reval's core is sent pushed back. His body toppling over itself and compacting around where Kokei's fist had landed. Reval is knocked back some, but falls to the ground faster than he could be pushed. And while on the ground, he was completely immobile other than the inaudible sounds of his breath. He was completely unconscious.

Kokei steps his right foot on the thug, looking over at the group of people. "Alright, now, anyone want next?" In response to Kokei's question, all the men scattered. Each one sprinting in different directions and pushing one another out the way to get farther. Then, Kokei looked to the last person left: Momo. "So, did i look cool or not?"

Momo shakes her head, "you're so dumb."

Kokei gives Reval one last kick to his side, then approaches Momo. "Did they take anything from you? Hurt you in anyway?"

Momo sighs and looks away, "well.. i gave them some money."

"Wha-!? But.. but i won!" Kokei shouts, exasperated.

"I didn't think you'd win! Well- not in a mean way but, he was really strong. And.. I didn't want them to hurt you anymore." Momo looks to the ground, shifting her hips side to side slightly. "I felt so weak when you were getting beaten up and I couldn't do anything to help you. It felt like when i lost against Tsu.."

Kokei shakes his head, placing a hand on her left shoulder. As his hand was placed on her, she shuttered but didn't move away. "You're strong too, remember that."

"Not strong enough to get third place.. unlike you." Momo rebuttals in a whisper.

"You made it to the final event, unlike 90% of the other students." Kokei responds slyly, a smirk on his face.

"You've got a point, say, are you doing anything today?" Momo asks, looking back into Kokei's eyes.

"Nope, I've got nothing going on." Kokei says, 'you're lucky i had nothing going on, who knows what would've happened if i had something to do.'

"Well, if you wouldn't mind, i still have some shopping to do. And, i feel nervous doing it by myself now." Momo peers at the ground, she looks somewhat disappointed. Not at Kokei, but herself.

"Yeah, I'll escort you. You're a girl so you probably know about style. You can help me buy something for myself, too." With that, Kokei and Momo leave the unconscious crook to deal with authorities and spend their time going shopping.

--

"Thank you for the good time, Kokei." Momo commends him, bowing in appreciation. The two of them were just outside the gates that guarded her mansion of a home. It was now evening, for the entirety of the morning Momo and Kokei hung out in the mall. Going from shop to shop, even with her giving money to those thugs she still had a large amount of funds. She even offered to pay for Kokei's clothes after she picked out an abnormal amount of potential options.

"Yeah, it was really fun. We should do it again sometime." Kokei grips the many bags in his hands, he was holding hers as well. Using his normal strength was very straining on his arms, so he used the strength enhancer to make the load lighter.

"Oh- yes, i forgot you're carrying so many bags. My apologies, please, come inside the house." Momo offers, looking into a face recognition module connected to the gate. This made the gate open easily, and she took a step closer to her house. "Come on, you'll be the first person from school to see my house!"

Kokei looks around, he felt like he'd be intruding. Not to mention, he was a boy. Yet that fact seemed to not register with her, or maybe she just didn't care. "Well.. alright, I'll put your bags in the house." Momo walked at the same pace as Kokei so she could talk to him about menial things. And when the got to her front doors, there even was a butler to open the doors for them. "Wow.. this is really fancy."

Momo shrugs her shoulders, "you get used to it." Then, they entered the home. The inside of this building was amazing, such a luxurious and wide entry room. There was furniture and doorways leading to other rooms, with a staircase immediately after entering the house.

"Are your parents not here, or something?" Kokei asks, looking around the giant room he was in.

"I believe they're at work right now." Momo answers, "Oh yeah, come on up to my room so I won't have to carry them up there." Momo says, prancing up the white marble stairs.

Kokei gulps the spit in his mouth, "alright." He follows behind her, she kept a couple steps ahead of him to direct his way. It was challenging for him not to look up her skirt while they went up the stairs, but Kokei tried his best.

Once they arrived at her bedroom door, Kokei felt a real wave of nervousness. "Well, here we are." Momo says, putting her hand on the doorknob.

Kokei was really about to see her room, 'what if she has embarrassing things in here? What do i do if i see them, ask about it? Would she want me to?' Kokei thought, but time didn't stop for his internal monologue. Because while he wondered, Momo simply opened up the door. Revealing her very normal and expected room.

Small teddy bears and hero plushies were the only thing closest to being embarrassing. Her bed was queen sized, her bed frame had a piece of cloth that draped over the bed. Her room was very wide, almost as big as the entry room to the house.

"You have a.. really nice room." Kokei says, placing down all her bags at the front door.

"Thank you, that's very kind." Momo thanks him, looking down at her bags that he placed.

"Alright, I'll leave you to your room and stuff." Kokei says, turning around and taking a step away.

"You could stay for longer, you know." Momo offers, "you can help me train."

'I need to go check in with Tomura and Kurogiri, I haven't been able to do so much recently. Besides, being alone with a girl like Momo would only lead to.. lewd ideas.' Kokei thinks, turning around to see Momo. "Sorry, not today. I have some work to do, but we can tomorrow."

Momo nods, "alright, see you later."

--

"Alright, haven't done this in a while." Kokei admits, closing his eyes and imagining AfO. He got really good at transforming into him, it was much easier now. Making it only a couple of seconds of focusing to turn into a exact image of AfO. "Time to see what your friends are up to." Kokei reaches a hand out, turning on the transmitter. What appeared was not exactly what he was expecting.

In the bar, Tomura was getting into a scuffle with a man wearing a dark combat suit plated in metal armor across his body. He had spiky black hair that draped over his face and a flat face with no nose. He had red and white rags that acted like scarfs, flowing in the air freely. He held knifes in his hands, to which he seemed quite experienced in the use of them.

"What is the meaning of this?" Kokei asks, causing for both the men to glance at Kokei's image.

Kurogiri, who used his portals to halt the two from hurting one another, was the only one to answer. "Sir, this is the Hero Killer: Stain. I brought him here to recruit him, but Tomura and him got into an altercation."

Stain huffs, letting down his guard and glaring at Tomura. "You support meaningless bloodshed, it's as if you have no sense of direction or motive." Stain looks to Kokei's hologram on the wall, "you endorse this as well?"

Kokei huffs, 'do i? I'm.. not okay with meaningless death, yeah.'

"Do you? You've shed blood for some menial reasons." Jenny says, "i mean, you killed me."

'That was all for a reason, it benefited me. I don't want to kill- I don't kill. I simply give myself better chances of success. And if someone's in the way of my goal, then problem solving is necessary.' Kokei thinks, getting his story straight. "No, i only encourage what's needed to be done in order to reach your goal."

Stain grunts, "so then, what's your goal?"

Kokei looks to Tomura, then back to Stain. "My goal.. is to rid the world of evil. There's a cycle of heroes coming to be just for more villains to appear. But if there was a peacemaker, someone to end this repetition, the cycle would end."

Stain ponders what Kokei said for a few moments, then he sheathes his knives. "That's a goal i can understand."

Kokei leans back in his seat, resting his chin on his fist. "Will you elaborate on yours now?"

Stain smiles menacingly, "I'll rid this world of every fake hero. Only in it for fame and fortune, the hero system is corrupted, and i intend on fixing it. Since no one else will take the initiative."

"Hmph, we seem to have similar ideals. I suppose you'll be joining the League, then?" Kokei questions, attempting to secure a warrior that'd aim for the same goal as him.

Stain shrugs, "more or less."

Kokei chuckles, "great."

Authors note: Wow, Kokei was real selfless to help Momo like that. What a guy! And it looks like Kokei and Stain see eye to eye on their ideals. Was it Surprising? Probably not, Kokei and Stain have similar motives after all. Well, that's all i have to say so I'll talk to you all later.