Inferno Hero: Ignition

Harry Potter and Enji Todoroki

Todoroki Enji, First Year Hero in Training; Flame Hero: Endeavour, placed his bag and hero costume suitcase on the sidewalk as he looked at his destination. If he'd known that the Hero he'd wanted to intern under was living in an old factory, not heroic!

He sighed, and he pressed the intercom 'Who is it?' came the voice of a young teen.

'Todoroki Enji, Flame Hero: Endeavour.' there was the unmistakable sound of metal screeching, and a door appeared in the side of the wall. "Come, come, we're burning daylight."

"This is coming from a guy dressed as mummy." The hot-headed student retorted.

The Mummy snorted "You're impulsive, headstrong, heavy-handed, passionate...correct?"

Endavour nodded "I can't say I disagree with those words and experiences; I'm aiming to be the Number One."

The Mummy grunted "Come, let us see what you've got." The gangways and walkways were clustered with heroes; some were coming in out of the piping, others leaving the doors; Endeavour also clocked a slender-man with sharp features and ghost-like colouring. Hisashi, climbed into a van and the doors shut.

"That's Agni, one half of Firestorm. Real name Midoriya Hisashi. He's the bosses illegitimate son."

"Illegitimate? From what I've seen of Ignitions, he's not one to abandon his children."

"He hasn't. He wouldn't. It's complicated. Come, Ignition will want to see you." At the end of the hallway was a simple office door that read: Ignition's Office. The Mummy knocked and entered.

"Heatwave...I thought you were on bed rest?"

"Needed a shit, boss. Besides your Godson got his hands on the intercom and buzzed the Intern in." Enji watched as the paper closed, folded up and tossed onto an empty desk, Ignition was a rakishly thin hero; skinny and wirey as well. Enji found himself looking at someone who did not fit the look of a hero.

"Todoroki Enji?" This was interrupted by a series of body wracking coughs and splutters. "Ignition, a pleasure to meet you. I must say when I looked over your transcripts, a solid first semester; granted it means fuck all really, second in the Sports Festival only losing to Yagi Toshinori...Definitely academically stronger than Yagi as well."

Enji nodded, there was something off about this hero "Are you alright?"

"Yeah…" Another bout of coughing "...consequence of fire quirks ' smoker's cough'...potent fire quirks, I mean. I've seen your initial readings, I've got to say...impressive and moronic."

Enji lost his temper, flames exploded into existence only for them to be snuffed out "Impressive, 2000 Fahrenheit? How hot are you running?" Enji paused.

"I'm not sure."

"Boss he clocks at 36 Celsius standard, with that outburst he's reached nearly 37. One degree for a third percentage increase in flames. It'd take him a while but he could get to your natural output; he'd never reach it for long enough as his body will shut down."

Enji was confused, sure he understood biology and the limits of the human body "I don't quite understand."

Ignition smirked "Because no-one chooses to. Heroes these are more and more about the instant flash; the initial blast of flame, no-one really cares for the pro-longed fire...Okay, Todoroki the body operates at its most effective between 36.5 and 37.5 celsius. Although you get cryogenic quirks that run low, for fire quirks expect your standard body temp to be 37.1-37.8...We run hotter than most people."

Enji nodded "Due to the ambient heat we generate from our quirks; I'm also guessing we are also heavier, more heat requires energy etc."

"More or less. Protein, Carbs and Fats are your best friends when it comes to food sources; personally, I ditch the carbs, double my protein and increase my fat intake whilst ditching carbs...it lowers the threshold for ignition, you could say and gives you a massive bang for your buck. But anyway digression, thus you know that at 38degrees and above you come across as feverish and at 42 degrees you have heatstroke and potentially death. Fire quirk users are not immune or resistant to that fact. How hot do you think I burn when I use my quirk?"

"The way you stole my flames indicates you can burn hotter than me. My best before I crashed and this was me pushing myself; my flames were taking on a blueish colour."

Heatwave and Ignitions eyebrows rose considerably "Fourteen and you're already hitting 3k Fahrenheit...And only through luck with Recovery Girl did you survive. Todoroki Enji, you're a lucky son of a bitch, you should be dead. In my class, I had with myself six other fire-themed quirks; the only reason we didn't strike up an agency together was that we hated each other and would try to kill one another; then our tragic backstory turns into one of melodrama and teenage angst culminating in a Fire themed 'Gunfight at the O.K. Corral', I walked away, the six of them didn't.

Enji stared at his hero intern "I heard about that. Then you dropped documents on the Hero Association of Britain…"

Ignition chuckled weakly at that "When people fear governments there is tyranny. When governments fear the people, you have liberty…British Heroes were back then as bent and corrupt as they came; you couldn't bring a single charge against them. So I hit the powerful backing the heroes; I cackled like a villain as I watched my next door neighbour tear themselves to shreds."

"You're not English?"

There was an increase in temperature "I'll accept British, but if we're being nitty-gritty I'm Welsh. The Welsh have no proper heroes; our heroes were part of the Hero Association of Britain, I took my chance and grabbed my Godson and we came here. I'm no fan with how things are run here, but it's more acceptable than Britain. Anyway, Todoroki, here for this week we are going to teach you how to harness your flames in less life-damaging ways. Hopefully, I'll give you groundwork on creating your own signatures and finishers but by the time we're done training...you didn't think I was going to leave you with one week training? Boy, you've got the chance to become the HOTTEST hero since the J-Force."

"J-Force?"

"Burning Hero: Human Torch and Fallen Angel: Ghost Rider, one flies and the other is a walking skeleton...Still trying to figure that quirk out; money is on spectacular genetic inheritance."

Endeavour nodded "What happened to them?"

"One got a bullet to the head and the other…not sure. But there may be a new lass as Ghost Rider right now...That'd be cool."

"A female hero?"

"A competent heroine; not saying anything against Midnight, she'll whip my ass sixteen ways through Sunday and come up with ninety-six ways for the other six days."

Enji nodded "Ignition if you're up for it...can we…"

Ignition nodded "Yup. Let's get started."

With that Enji began.

Ignition smirked. There was something about Enji Todoroki, that was far too similar, too similar for him, Potter Hadrian now Evans Hari to digest. He lived many lives, he played the hero; he was the villain; been the mentor to said prior roles and sometimes he played the ever-useful minion, teacher, advisory roles giving nudges or even doing fuck all. He'd also mean magic change, magic waxes and wanes it appeared. Every time humanity ended Harry would materialise in another world, each time to enact the will of Death. Master of Death was another title for Death's Guardian; he was the one sent to ensure death happened. He wasn't the only one after all. He was the Counter-Force's Counter-Force. With every world change, his magic changed but the one thing he didn't lose was his fertility. Needless to say, the results had been spectacular. But even this one was by far one of his most colossal. It was time for him to see if Death granted sick-leave.

Hari smiled and then groaned. 'None of my previous cockups have lasted beyond much more than three generations. But why did it have to be this one? Why did it have to have been a descendent of Tom Marvolo Riddle, and one of my granddaughters from my Lily Luna?' He thought to himself.

He's good though, this Shigaraki; managing to track my patterns. Patterns that I've must have forgotten I'd memorised. His ability to take Quirks…that's always fascinated me, and to think he could take me on...he can try. Could he p0take my immortality? But what would happen if he does? I'll think about this later.

Hari pulled himself from his thoughts, as Enji roared in frustration as he failed to complete his first task. To ignite the air around him, without heating his body up. "Enji, I'll show you again. You ignite the oxygen by getting excited." Hari did so, causing a blaze in his hand.

Enji growled in frustration "Don't react, relax. Think about something you want, what you really want. Some dreams start small. Something that'd make you happy, it could be a memory or a dream but always remember account for fuck-ups."

With that he left. "Always account for fuck ups? Don't react, relax." Enji muttered. He stopped, what did he want? To be a Hero, the Number One. Enji paused, he hadn't gotten along with his parents or his siblings. His parents hadn't had time for him or his half-sister Inko, so it hadn't been a surprise when he'd cut them out of his life. He remained in contact with Inko, not closely, but close enough for him to feel happy about having someone he could turn to. A family, someone to think he was the best father ever. Someone to be there for him. Enji smiled "Start small? Igniting the air around me, not all of it. Let's start with a finger."

Hari watched his newest student. He'd do well, not the best, he was no Nana Shimura; his latest immediate lover/fling. She was a good one, he stopped, he sighed. "Fuck this, for once I'm fucking off. This can be sorted out with a family bloodbath. Hari, you are sitting this one out." Hari muttered to himself in Welsh. Some things remained with him such as languages, it was always helpful, Enji would be his ace! He hadn't done the Manipulative Information Horder Dumbledore, Enigmatic Gandalf, Cryptic Yoda route yet! Hide information, be utterly useless at revealing it in a coherent display "I open at the close, I am about to die" and "Fly You Fools". With that Harry would leave everything to Enji to work out.

"You, Todoroki Enji, will be a Legendary Hero only to be outshone by One Above All Else, The World's Greatest Hero...I only wish I'd be able to see it."

Hari smiled thinly to himself "Let's get started."