A/N: Blarg sorry if this is late. I had kind of a lot of work for college recently...

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"Now that you've picked out your hero names it's time to get serious again," Aizawa said, having reclaimed his podium. He pulled out some packets and sheets of paper. "The work study will take place next week, starting Monday and ending Sunday. Those of you who got offers from agencies are heavily suggested to pick from that list, but if you ask for the other list I'll give you one. I'm mainly saying that for the people who didn't get many offers so you don't feel like you don't have a lot of choices. Keep in mind, everyone, that you should think carefully about what kind of hero agency you'd want to work for. Depending on the kind of hero work you want to do, you might want to look for a rescue agency. Or that'd be a waste of time if you want to focus more on taking down villains or crime investigation."

Midnight nodded. "If you want to do rescue work, go to an agency known for rescue work. Make sure to look up an agency before you choose it, too." She winked. "Would be pretty embarrassing if you thought your choice was an underground investigation specialty and you end up working under Wash, huh? And don't worry if you can't find too much, you can always ask one of your teachers."

"Right, it's almost time for lunch," Aizawa said. "You have a few minutes before that, though, so I suggest you spend it thinking about where you're going to go for your work study. You have until Friday to tell me where you want to go or Nedzu will pick for you. And trust me when I say that you don't want that. So all of you better think carefully about your choice." He passed out the papers, handing out the more uniform stack to the students who didn't get any offers and giving the people with offers their own packets (though Sero, Shinsou, and Yaoyorozu respectfully asked for extras of the first stack on account of only having gotten single sheets of paper...). I gulped when my extra-large packet thumped on my desk. "Have fun, kid," Aizawa-sensei told me with what sounded like the lightest bit of sympathy.

"...Would it be inconsiderate to say I feel slightly intimidated by this thing?" I asked. It was so big. The closest packet in size was Kacchan's, but even his wasn't nearly as big as mine. It'd take me a while to read through it all...

"Nah," Shinsou said. "As much as I'm jealous you got so many offers, I really don't envy you having to go through all those agencies." He scanned his list of offers. "Dang, guess I didn't need the other sheet. That one looks good." He pulled out his phone and started looking up whichever offer caught his eyes. I sighed and went back to my list. It had some basic information on each of the offering agencies, but I didn't know if that was enough that I could delegate some of the pages to my elementals...

"You're really thinking about that, huh Midoriya?" Tsu said after I'd read a few pages.

I chuckled nervously. "Ah, most of it is just that there are so many to go through. I've only gone through a few hundred..."

"Hey, at least you got any," Ashido whined.

"S-sorry..." I said. "I just... feel like I have to pick a good one, because there are so many..."

"That sounds reasonable," Ojiro said. "Luckily I'm already familiar with one of the agencies on the list, but if I wasn't..."

"Yeah... So I take it you've already picked an agency?"

"Actually, I have too!" Uraraka added.

"Nice," Tsu said. "Who is it? Studio Thirteen? The Wild, Wild Pussycats? Maybe Team Idaten?"

Uraraka blushed slightly. "A-actually I'm thinking of going to Gunhead Dojo!" She punched the air. "I know I want to be a rescue hero, but I realized when fighting Bakugou that maybe it'd be a good idea to at least have some experience with fighting and stuff even if I'm a rescue hero, y'know? Plus I think my fight with Bakugou awakened something in me."

Kacchan chuckled. "Yeah, that fight was pretty fucking great. You're pretty damn good already, but I can see why you wanna get some combat training." He looked back at his sheet. "Probably gonna go with Best Jeanist."

"Did not think you'd go for him, Bakugou," Ashido commented. She chuckled. "Though now that I think about it you kinda channeled him a bit in that fight with Midoriya, huh?"

Kacchan shrugged. "He's the highest-ranked hero that I got an offer for, though I suppose I also do wanna branch out a bit and figure he's as good a mentor as anyone."

Uraraka held her hand out to him. "Yeah, expanding new horizons!"

Kacchan snorted and high-fived her. "You're a dork."

"Well who's dorkier, the dork or the dork who high-fives her?" Uraraka asked.

Kacchan rolled his eyes. "You, for making that dumb fucking comment."

"By the way," Sonia's voice suddenly whispered in my ear even though she was sitting invisibly on Iida's desk, "Iida's heartrate spiked when he circled one of the names on his list. Hosu was where his brother was attacked, right?"

I winced. "That doesn't sound good. The man who attacked him, Hero Killer Stain, is a serial killer villain who always attacks in fours before moving to a new city, and Ingenium was his first strike in Hosu..."

"That bad?" she asked.

"I... hope I'm wrong about it, but he may be trying to get revenge." I sighed. "What am I going to do about this?"

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"Hey, Todoroki!" I said as we walked to the cafeteria. He was probably going to sit alone, but I'd decided to invite him to join our table. "Or should I call you Shoto?"

He looked like a deer in headlights as he turned me. "Um..."

My eyes widened. "S-sorry, I meant like your hero name, not your first name!"

"Right," he said. "Though, I don't mind if you do call me Shoto. I've... never really had a friend before..."

"Well that's... not exactly good, but I was planning on inviting you to sit with us at lunch. Would you like that?"

He blinked. It looked like he was a bit startled, like he hadn't expected that. "Yes," he said after think about it for a moment. "I think I would like that."

"Great! Follow me!" I smiled.

"Midoriya," he muttered after a few moments of silence. "I... initially thought of taking my father's offer."

"Offer?" I asked.

"His name was on my list of agencies I got offers from..."

I winced. "And... you said 'initially?'"

"I saw another agency, though. One that I remembered from when I looked up Water Hose. Have you heard of the Wild, Wild Pussycats?"

I nodded. "They're a rescue-oriented agency, but they might be really good for you. Better than him at least... I didn't know they took students, though."

"I didn't either, but I'm grateful for them."

I smiled at him. "That's good. Ah, here's our table."

Shoto was a little uncomfortable at first, but he warmed up to everyone by the end of lunch.

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I knocked on Shuzenji-sensei's door. We didn't have anything going on in our afternoon classes aside from looking over our options (and while I couldn't completely delegate that task to my elementals Juniper had offered to read them to me) so I got permission from Aizawa-sensei to talk to Shuzenji-sensei. "It's open!" she called.

I pulled my paperwork out of my inventory as I opened the door. "I got it signed!"

Shuzenju-sensei smiled at me. "Good job, Midoriya-kun. Give it here so I can give you your license, please."

I handed her the paperwork, which she started looking over one last time. "By the way, when you have time Power Loader wants to see you, something about you collaborating with one of his students."

I nodded. "I'll check in on that later, then. I have a pretty good idea of what it's about."

She nodded, then finished checking the paperwork. "Everything looks in order." She reached into one of the drawers of her desk and pulled out a small rectangle of plastic. "You can get another if you lose it, but it's annoying and I suggest you take good care of it."

"Thanks," I said. I sniffed. It wasn't a hero license, but it was so close! "H-hang on, give me a minute." I managed to only shed a single giant tear, then put my new healer license in my inventory when I had composed myself.

"Should I be concerned about the size of that tear?" Shuzenji-sensei asked me.

I shook my head, pulling the water off with my water magic. "No, it's a leftover mutation from my grandmother's Quirk, Ocular Gushers."

She nodded. "Okay then. Are you good?"

"Actually... can I voice my concerns about one of my fellow students?" I asked.

"Is this about Iida-kun?" she asked.

I flinched a little. "Yeah. I... just wanted to say..."

Shuzenji-sensei sighed. "Yeah, we're keeping an eye on him. Unfortunately not much we can do at the moment, if he's not willing to talk about it..."

"Thanks anyways. Also, I'm very close to prestiging my healing skill, so do you think I could try to heal Iida's brother when I do?"

She rubbed her chin. "That means you'll get a better version of it, right? I'll see what I can do about that, especially if it's as good as you think."

I bowed. "Thank you. I'll go now."

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I walked back to the development studio, after having cleared it with Aizawa-sensei of course. By now Juniper had gone through about a fourth of the list, but I was still no closer to figuring out who I was going to go with, even with the past bearers giving me advice. There were just... too many.

So I was going to take my mind off of it, for now at least. I opened the door of the development studio-

And dodged out of the way of a flying Hatsume. I had Halitus create an air cushion to catch her softer than the wall would.

"Hatsume, just the person I wanted to talk to," I said as Halitus lightly blew the soot off her. "Are you hurt?"

She gave me the thumbs-up. "I'm perfectly fine." Then she started invading my personal space with a mad glint in her eye. "Now what was it you wanted to tell me about?"

I backed up a bit. "Maybe we should talk in the development studio?" I suggested.

She nodded vigorously. "Of course, of course!" She walked through the open door. "Follow me, please!" I followed her to a workbench directly across from the door with a smoking, destroyed machine on it. Hatsume sat down on the swivel stool in front of it and sighed. "It's always a fun surprise when one of my babies explodes, but I wish I could unexplode it so I could try to see what went wrong."

"That would sound so wrong out of context..." Claude muttered, looking at the broken 'baby.'

"It still kinda sounds wrong in context," Iggy added.

"I might be able to help with that, if you don't mind," I offered, switching Float out from Mending.

"You can?" she asked.

I nodded and rapped the device lightly with my knuckle. It stopped smoking, the buckled parts smoothed out, the soot disappeared, and various bits of metal flew across the workshop to reattach to it.

Hatsume gasped and examined the machine. "My baby! Good as new! How'd you do it?"

I hesitated for a moment, but then shrugged and just came out with it. "It's a long story, but I can kinda copy Quirks now."

She stared at me with a huge grin. "So you want me to build you adaptable hero gear that can be used with all kinds of Quirks?"

I blinked. She was certainly eager... "That wasn't exactly why I wanted to talk to you today, but if you're offering then I'd be happy to at least try that out."

"Then what did you want to talk to me about."

I pulled a small marble out of my inventory. "Use Eye for Magic, please." She stared at the marble intently with glowing eyes and nodded. I backed up a bit and channeled some mana into the marble, activating it. The marble glowed as a bubble of mana formed around me.

Hatsume gasped. "Is... is that... an enchantment?" Even without Eye for Magic I'm sure I would have seen a mad glint in her eye.

I grinned. "Yup. I learned the skill after my last fight in the sports festival. I think it might be a good idea to teach it to someone whose Quirk doesn't involve easily learning magic, so they might be able to teach it to more people."

Hatsume drooled. "I agree to your terms. I will make sure Majima-sensei knows how to do it, and I'm sure he'll take over from there. Now teach me your ways."

I could understand her enthusiasm, so I took out two more marbles and tossed one to her. "Watch closely, I'll enchant this one with the Mana Dome spell and then let you try." She was vibrating. I activated Eye for Magic and stared at the marble as I enchanted it. It was a bit like programming the spell into the marble, using Item Enchantment as the programming language. I watched the way the enchantment set into the marble carefully so I could help out Mei if she had any trouble with it.

"Right, now you try," I said when I was done. She grinned maniacally as the marble glowed with her mana. I stared at it. She did it almost perfectly. The bubble wavered a bit when she activated it, but still... "That's actually a pretty good first try," I told her. "You've almost got it."

She grinned. "I think I know how to do it from here. The babies I can make with this..."

I nodded. "I take it you'd be willing to help me develop good enchantments? The Item Enchantment skill also lets me passively enchant anything I make with magic, which could get interesting if I have a good portfolio of enchantments."

She nodded vigorously. "Of course, off course!" She thought for a moment, then pulled out a lens that was probably meant to be used for a robot eye or something. "Watch this!" It looked like she was putting the Eye for Magic spell into the lens, which was a pretty genius idea, actually. Unfortunately, though, the lens cracked. "Damn it!" she yelled, then looked through the lens. She sighed and held the lens out to me. "You can fix this, right?"

I took the lens and Analyzed it. It was almost there, but not quite. "Yes, but it'll probably wipe the enchantment. Mending doesn't exactly fix things so much as it returns them to a previous state." I checked out the enchantment on the lens by holding it up to the shield marble. It looked off, but it was definitely promising!

"Drat. Ah well, just do it. I wanted to practice wiping enchantments, but I suppose I can do that later."

I nodded and Mended it. "Probably a good idea." The lens uncracked and the enchantment disappeared. I handed it back to her. "And I think that making magic-sensing lenses is also pretty genius."

"I know, right!" She grinned and attempted the enchantment again. This time she got it perfectly. She looked through the lens and grinned, then handed it back to me. "Keep it, I'm gonna see about making magic-sensing goggles for my whole class."

I grinned. "That's gonna be fun."

She nodded. "Actually, you said you can copy Quirks, right?"

"Yeah."

"If you want you can copy mine."

"Thanks. I can think of a few ways that I can put it to good use. Can you use it like a magnifying glass, or only to see faraway things with better detail?"

She grinned. "Correct! I can zoom in on even the tiniest of circuits as well as the farthest of people!"

"That can be pretty useful. I mean, even if it was only farsight I could use it for spell sniping, which could be pretty fun, but that's also pretty good!" I held my hand out. "I can copy Quirks through skin contact, if you will." She high-fived me. "Thanks. I'll check in on you later."

She pulled out her phone. "Actually, let's swap phone numbers so we can talk enchantments!"

"Yeah, that sounds good!"

"Gettin' a girl's number, huh?" Raimon joked. "Dang, Izuku, I didn't know you were such a player!"

I mentally rolled my eyes as I gave her my number. We talked for a bit more about enchantments and design (she was way more useful than Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, when it came to developing my Imaginary Architect ideas) before I returned to my classroom.

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Kacchan slapped me on the back after dismissal. "You figure out who you're going with, Deku?" he asked me with a smug grin.

"No, not yet," I said. "I assume you have?"

He nodded and showed me his packet, or rather the name on his packet that was circled. "Best Jeanist," he bragged. "Number four hero's pretty fuckin' good, huh? Plus, he'll probably have some tips for my silk magic." He emphasized that statement by creating a small strand of silk between two of his fingers.

"So that's... something you're doing now?" I asked.

"Yeah, it was pretty fun tying you up," Kacchan said.

"Is that really something you want to admit?" Tsu asked him.

He silently flipped her off, which was honestly pretty tame for him. "Plus, I could probably use something to restrain villains and not just blow 'em up."

"Yeah, that's probably a good thing to think about," I said. "You wanna leave now? I should probably get home soon so I can read through my list."

"Yeah, sure, let's go. Mom's gonna wanna see this." He opened the door.

"I AM HERE IN A BIZARRE POSITION!" All Might shouted, bent over to be right in front of Kacchan's face. Was it just me or did he look slightly nervous? His trademark smile was wavering ever-so slightly.

"The fuck are you here for?" Kacchan asked him.

"I need to borrow young Midoriya for a bit." Saying this, he held up a small slip of paper. "A late submission."

Kacchan nodded. "I got it, I'll wait to walk home with him." He grabbed my shoulder and yanked me toward All Might. I stumbled forward a bit, but caught myself so I didn't crash into All Might. "You guys've got talking to do anyway," his voice said despite his lips not moving.

"Follow me, then, young Midoriya." All Might started walking and I followed him.

"Hey, I've been meaning to ask..." I said as we walked.

"Hm? What is it, young Midoriya?"

"Do you mind if I call you Yagi-sensei? At least when we're talking in private?"

He smiled at me. "Of course, my boy! Though, what brought this on?"

I chuckled sheepishly. "It's a bit of a long story but, well... I kinda entered my mindscape and realized I put you on a bit of a pedestal."

"There was a literal pedestal, wasn't there? Probably with a giant statue of me." He lightly touched his chest. I cast Healing Hands on him, just in case. "And... might I guess there was a crack in the statue?"

I blinked. "Y-yeah... How'd you know?"

"It's not my first time dealing with mindscape logic."

"When would you have..."

Yagi-sensei gave me a small but hearty laugh. "I'll tell you later." He led me down the bathroom hallway. "Now, this offer..." He started trembling slightly. "Well, it comes from my old homeroom teacher, back when I was in Yuuei..." I frowned and used Open Mind. What kind of person could they be to make All Mi- Yagi-sensei nervous like that?

Not wanting to probe too deep, I only made out flashes of a yellow blur bouncing around a gymnasium and some yelling. "Why would he come out of retirement to send that offer?" Yagi-sensei thought. "It must've been that letter I sent him..."

I turned it back off. "Hey, is he talking about Torino?" Shimura asked.

"Was this person a friend of your mentor?" I asked.

Yagi-sensei flinched. "Er... Yes. He... Well, he saw a lot of promise in you, but thinks you could use One For All better."

I thought about it. "I... probably could, yeah. Speaking of, though, I found something I think you'd like to know about."

He eased up. "What is it, young Midoriya?"

"I think it might be better just to 'show' you, actually. Invite Yagi Toshinori to party."

Yagi-sensei looked at the text box for a moment before accepting.

"Hello, Toshinori," I heard a bit of a smirk in Shimura's voice.

Yagi-sensei coughed up a bit of blood in surprise. "Sh-Shimura-sensei?"

She chuckled. "Yes. Sorry for the surprise."

"H-how? Are you... a ghost?" He started looking around for her. "Speak, apparition," he said.

"Oooooh, Iiiiii'm aaaa ghooooost," Hikiishi said. "And I'm here to make you faaaaaaaart."

"Don't tease, Jiroku," Kaizen chided.

"What," Yagi-sensei said flatly. He looked at something, probably the party list. "Young Midoriya, are these... the past users of One For All?"

I nodded. "I kinda... found them in my mindscape. I think it's a part of One For All or something."

Yagi-sensei nodded. "I remember seeing vague shadows of what I had assumed were the previous users once or twice when I was first getting a hang on One For All... Perhaps it was a glimpse of these... ghosts."

"Oh yeah I remember that," Daigoro said. "Was pretty freaky when it first happened..."

Yagi-sensei nodded. "It was very freaky." He cleared his throat. "Young Midoriya, do you mind if I stay in your party for a bit? I think... I'd like to catch up with my old mentor."

I nodded. "Yeah, I understand, Yagi-sensei."

"Thank you, young Midoriya." His smile eased up a bit.

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Elemental list:
Midoriya: Halitus, Dune, Rayne, Blaise, Juniper, Mifuyu, Raimon, Iggy, Sonia, and Claude
Bakugou: Pyra and Leaf
Tokoyami: Corvo
Uraraka: Nebula and Ion
Hagakure: Lucy
Tsu: Bubbles
Aizawa: Charlie and Cassiopeia
All Might: Seth O'Scope