Okay, we are back with what will be the last update for this mouth, Corona-Virus may have brought the world to a crawl but exams are still a thing, now even harder since I couldn't attend classes for months and then hava to attend via video calls, I hated every minute of it. So now, I'm stuck here trying to make sure I know everything for my upcoming exams while not burning myself out. Because of that, I unfortunately had to keep this chapter below 16K words but with this chapter, I will cross the mark of 500k words. The chapter itself will pick up where the last one left off but like with the last one, they'll be some extra scenes here and there because Izuku has been working on some new goodies. Also, from when the his wiki page says that Izuku's birthday is July 15th, and that he turns 16 during the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc, that means that the special present that David was referring to will only come into play for him from midway into season 3. Mellissa on the other hand, she'll receive hers in season 4 since her birthday is October 1st, Mineta birthday is October 8th and he turns 16 during the US School Festival Arc.
Chapter 41: The action is only just beginning
(Previously)
"Mellissa wants to apply for a hero school, back in the states." David dropped bomb as he took a seat with a sigh, appearing as old as he was.
"Hero school? What brought this on?" Toshi asked him as that was surprising. She was already third year, she would have to start again from her first year if she were to just switch courses. The part about her leaving the island also made sense as the academy didn't have a hero course.
"Watching Izuku, watching him give it his all despite the fact he doesn't have some quirk of his own. It inspired her, gave her hope that maybe she can be one too. I'm worried about it, how could I not, you're the strongest guy I know and look what happened to you but," David voiced as he had seen it too many times in his nightmares, his baby girl going up against some monster….against AFO and despite all her gear, all her training…he would lose her to that…that devil in human's clothing.
"But?" Toshi asked him as he could see where the ma was coming from, but as the same time, he could tell this wasn't the final word he had to say.
"I want her to be happy, to follow her heart and make her own decisions, just like I taught Mellissa her whole life. If she wants to at try again, to give this hero thing a shot," David started before he gulped down his fears and just said it. "Who am I to stop her?" Hearing this, despite it all, Toshi couldn't help but smile as he thought back to the root of all thing.
"That boy, looks like he's doing what he set out to do already." Toshi said to himself, just loud enough for David to hear him.
"Who, Izuku?" David asked him.
"Yep, when he first met. He saw my true form, that part you know." Toshi started that was what he told them Shield when he had sent them the letter about the truth of his condition. "But as we talked, I found out that the lad, I found out that he wanted become a symbol of hope, to prove that hard work and dedication are still what's important." He stated as he was quite proud of the boy, he had this drive to see things through to the end, to never give up. He knew in his gut that the boy would become a fine hero one day, even better than the one was already.
"Yeah, that one certainly never rests but All Might, can I ask something of you?" David asked him with a smile of his own as he recalled all the happy letters the boy had sent whenever he had achieved some new milestone. He was diligent, he was determined, but he was also kind and a true hero at heart. Not in it for the money, for country, or even for the girls. He just wanted to prove that quirkless weren't helpless, to save people.
"Anything." Tosh I replied to him. This made had been his brother in all but blood, he would do anything to help him as he had done so for him and so many others.
"I can't and won's stop her from trying but, can you teach her a few things. I'll be a lot better if I knew she was getting tips and training from you." David asked of him, even if he knew was pretty selfish. But Toshi didn't see it like that.
"You have my word. I'll train the both of them into some fine heroes." Toshi promised his friend. Taking that vow to heart as he now had even more reason to train this next generation of heroes to the best of his ability. They'll ensure that the world would be in better hands then the ones protecting it right now.
(And now – Afternoon on I-island)
"The I-Expo preview will be closing at 6pm. Thank you for coming, enjoy your night." Later on, it was late afternoon as the automated system announced that the island events were closing for the night. This announcement was heard by everyone, including three overworked students.
"Dammit." Kaminari whined as he and Mineta laid on the floor with their backs against the closed doors of the café they had spent their entire day working at.
"The expo isn't even open to the public yet, if we're this slammed now, will we ever get to rest?" Mineta asked as when he signed up for this he didn't think they'll be this swamped with work.
"Shit-up, I don't want to think about it." Kaminari was close to tears as he denied it. Dammit, how were they supposed to have a fun time if they were stuck waiting tables and cleaning after brats who somehow always managed to spill their food on the floor?
"I gotta agree with Mineta there, we're gonna be real busy but I heard more staff will be joining us by then, we'll get time to see the sights." Kendo, who wasn't as exhausted as the two of them tried to rise their spirits as she could tell that just the three of them managing the costumers was insane, and was happy that the owner seemed to agree and was bringing in more people.
"Hey, Mineta and friends!" They all heard someone calling out to them, the three looked towards the sound of the voice to see that it was Midoriya calling out to them, and along with him was Yu and the rest of the group, having stuck together for the entire day. "Judging from the dead looks you two have, I can assume your shift entailed more work then you thought?" The class rep in a suit asked them as Yu looked down on them with a smirk on her face.
"Midoriya? Since when were you-!" Mineta started to ask before the image he was seeing finally got processed as he jumped to his feet in fright and hide behind Kaminari. "What is she doing here?!" He yelled as he pointed a shaking finger towards the pro he had the unfortunate luck of having interned under.
"Mt. Lady?" Kendo was also confused by this, she figured pros would be invited but she didn't think Mt. Lady had gained that kind of attention yet. If she was here, wouldn't that mean that Kamui Woods was also present?
"Hey." For her part, Yu simply waved at that as she stood by Midoriya's side. She didn't know Mineta would be here but now that she did, she could have so much fun with this. She wouldn't even need to lay a hand on him, he was already terrified of her.
"I don't get it, why is Mt. Lady with you?" Kaminari asked as he couldn't understand as to why a pro was hanging around with his friends.
"She and Midoriya are dating, she came with him." Todoroki, being himself, dropped that little bomb without any regard for the social implications of it. Hearing this, the three eye's widened to the size of dinner plates as they turned their attention back to the apparent couple and noticed something they didn't before, the fact that Mt. Lady and Midoriya were holding hands.
"What!" All three yelled as one did so out of pure shock, the other envy and the last one fear and jealousy.
"It's true, she is my woman and I her man. Jealous." Midoriya asked as he leaned his head onto her shorter shoulder, his smug grin clear for them to see.
"Don't rub it in, one of them looks like he wants to cry." Yu told her boyfriend as Kaminari looked close to tears as he took on this image.
"That's because I do! Midoriya, please teach me your ways, I am an eager student." Kaminari begged as he all but threw himself at the feet at his new master. If he could score a hot, older woman then perhaps there was a chance he could teach him out to actually get a date.
"Kaminari, that's enough." Kendo told the guy as she picked him up from the collar of his shirt and gave him a light chop to the neck, soft enough that he wouldn't fall back down but hard enough for him to feel it.
"Have some pride, man." Jiro told the guy with a huff as this was just dumb for her, she ignored the part where she felt sad that he didn't think he could get a date by himself, he isn't that bad.
"Hmmmm, I don't know, I don't really have enough time to properly impart my awesome knowledge onto you….but you clearly are in need of my guidance." Midoriya, much to their surprise, was actually considering it though the smirk in his face could also mean he was just messing with them.
"Are you for real right now?" Tetsutetsu asked the guy with a deadpan face, honestly, it was like dealing with guy Tokage sometimes with this guy.
"When you have a hot girlfriend, you can talk shit to your single friends all the time and now, I don't have to hide my relationship from you guys." Midoriya countered as he gave Yu a quick peck on the cheek, getting a light chuckle from her and jealous looks from Tetsutetsu, Kaminari and Mineta while the girls just rolled their eyes with small smiles at his antics.
"Joy, something more he can hold over us." Tetsutetsu muttered to himself.
"By the way, before I forget." Iida, who had been quiet this whole time as he was still struggling to cope with the whole relationship between an adult and teen thing, said as he walked forward and handed the three café workers something.
"What are these things?" Mineta asked as he looked at the ticket he had been given.
"Invitations to the big expo reception later tonight." Yaoyorozu replied to them with a smile as the three looked down at their invites in shock.
"There is a party?" Mineta asked them as he shook with excitement and hope.
"These are for us?" And Kaminari wasn't that far behind as he held his invite like it was his child.
"Are you all for real right now?" Kendo asked them, showing off a wide smile as she didn't think this would happen on this trip.
"Mellissa felt pity on you three and thought you'll want to join in on the fun before things really get busy around here." Jiro told them quite bluntly.
"She figured you guys could use a break." Uraraka, who had been unusually silent most of the day, spoke up but most of them could pick up on this change since she wasn't as peppy as normal.
"I had a few extras, please, I'll love for you to have them." Mellissa told the three with an award winning smile. Dammit, if only she knew how beautiful she looked right now.
"Kaminari." Mineta started to tear up.
"Mineta." Kaminari said as he started wiping away tears from his eyes before he and Mineta jumped forward and started to hug the very much surprised Mellissa's waist as if she was a lifeline.
"A beautiful angel has rewarded us for all our hard-work!" The both of them cheered through the tears as they hugged their new favourite person. Seeing all this, Midoriya, with a straight face, approached the two and picked them up by their collars and broke their hold on the girl.
"Yeah, yeah, just don't make a move on her. She and I are like brother and sister so if I see any you try…..we'll end up target practice." Midoriya threatened the two of them as he gave the evil eye.
"Yes sir!" Both whimpered at his cold, hard glare as he stared them down. It didn't matter if he was quirkless, they both knew he could end them.
"Don't scare them like that, I'm don't need you to protect me you know, I am the older of the two of us." Mellissa told the guy as he knocked him in the side with her elbow.
"That may be so, but screwing with people is one of my favourite past times." Midoriya responded as that scary aura to him vanished in place with amused smirk as he absentmindedly rubbed his side, since when was she this strong? He actually felt that.
"Thank you for this, but I didn't bring anything nearly as fancy for a former reception." Kendo spoke up as she just recalled that she had only brought vacation clothing with her seeing how the café gave her uniform when she arrived.
"Not to worry, I'm sure I have something you can wear." Yaoyorozu told the girl with a small smile. She always brought more clothes then needed just in case of emergency, she was sure there was something she could lead her fellow UA student.
"But we're not even the same height." Kendo pointed out as Yaoyorozu was not only taller than her but she was….larger in other areas as well, she just didn't say that last part.
"Don't worry about it, chances are, she has something." Jiro told the girl since Yaoyorozu had informed her and Uraraka to pack something nice but since none of them owned anything that fancy, the girl went out of her way and made sure to bring something for all of them.
"Hmm, okay…?" Kendo agreed since she didn't know all that much about 1-A but she trusted that they might be able to help her. Seeing how everything else was set, Iida stepped in once more.
"I heard that they'll be a few pro heroes at tonight's reception. It's imperative that we don't' do anything to tarnish UA's reputation. We'll change into our former clothes and go as group, everybody meet at lobby 7 at the central tower at 6:30pm sharp. Don't you dare be late." Iida told the group as he wished for them to have as good a time as possible but not let things get out of hand. This was an international event with pros and other big wigs from across the board, they needed to be on their best behaviour.
"Got it Iida, but before we all split off, I wanna show you all something, now that we're all here." Midoriya said to the group, grabbing their attention.
"What, another girlfriend?" Jiro joked, missing how Uraraka flinched at that.
"I hope not." Yu said with a smile but they all knew that there was a fury hidden in there.
"Nothing like that, bird enthusiast's honest." Midoriya said to them as he would never cheat on his girl, his mother taught him better than that. Iida thought about it for a moment and saw that they could spare some time.
"I suppose we could spare some time, what would you like to show us?" Iida asked him as the boy started leading them all, including Kendo, Kaminari and Mineta on towards some unknown location.
"Come on, follow me." Midoriya told them as they left the café area behind and started heading towards the workshop area.
"Where are we going?" Kaminari asked him as he hadn't had the time to really explore, so he would get lost pretty easily if he was separated from the group for whatever reason.
"I have a small work space here on I-island, a 13th birthday present from Dave-sensei. I want to present two pieces of hero tech that I recently finished you all of you." Midoriya told them but chose not to say anything more.
"Ohh, this should be good." Tetsutetsu stated as they all knew that the guy always cooked up the weirdest equipment.
"I wonder what he cooked up this time, do you know Melissa?" Uraraka asked their tour guide who only shook her head in denial.
"Nope, I'm as in the dark as the rest of you." Mellissa replied as though she knew about the workshop he was taking them towards, she hadn't been told as to what he had been doing in there. she didn't even know about his Silver Wing until she unveiled it.
(Later – Midoriya's private lab)
"Well, here is one of them." Midoriya said as he led them into his workspace which to those who had seen his lab back home, they were slightly disappointed by how low tech it was in comparison. The place looked more along the lines of an auto-garage but with less cars. And the thing he was referring to was one of the few spotless things in the room.
"That's a large box, is it another mech suit or something?" Jiro asked as the container in question was the length of a human body and looked like it could fit one if it was deeper but from the side view, it didn't look any larger than a really large dictionary.
"Mech? No, Suit," Midoriya said as he pressed a button on the side of the container which opened with a hiss as it cover slowly moved to reveal that the contents, "Yes." A hero costume, one that was clearly meant for a woman going by the style and shape so it was only logical that the one person in the group that knew of this would put two and two together. One major clue as to who it was for was the colour scheme, which was red, silver and gold.
"Is that?" Yaoyorozu started asking as she took a step forward, Midoriya turned to her with a smile and gestured for her to approach before he answered.
"Yep, Yaoyorozu, I present to you," Midoriya said as she got close enough to actually touch the suit. "You're new and very much improved, hero costume."
"You made her a hero costume?" Uraraka asked her, shocked that he had somehow found the time to even do this, why did he even make one to being with, Yaoyorozu already had a hero costume, the one she was wearing right now.
"Yeah, we talked about in the past and after finding out her hair doesn't interfere with your quirk, I used that as base to make her costume that would offer much better protection than the one she's wearing now." Midoriya explained to them as he had taken quite a while to even get the design for this done before he started. The only good news was that the fabric he created to use for it wasn't as difficult as he would have thought it would be to create.
"The design is quite impressive, I had no idea you had an eye for fashion, Midoriya." Yaoyorozu complimented him as she picked up one of the boots and inspected them and saw that there were slightly heeled much like her normal ones but bigger. She could never understand how Midnight chose to wear high heels but the woman and many others somehow made it work.
"He doesn't. He had to consult with me on the design. We wanted it to be still be sexy, but not slutty while above else, being functional. To be protective while also eye catching, something people won't just forget and will recognise on sight." Yu butted in as she came up from the rear and gave the younger girl a big hug, getting a surprised whelp from her which made the group laugh a bit.
"Well you to did a great job, this looks amazing." Melissa pointed out as she could see that a lot of work went into the design for this, but the question was if the material itself could stand up to the rigors of hero work.
"I had no idea you had finished it so soon." Yaoyorozu honestly forget about this with all the crazy stiff they had been up to lately, she didn't even remember that he said he'll try and make something for her.
"I finished it only this morning, some of the material was only here on I-island and I didn't have the time or funds to special order them back in Japan." Midoriya noted before he started to blush and took out another, smaller box and opened it for her. "Also, since I…noted that you don't seem to wear a bra, I made these as well." He said as he looked away as she looked inside and to her embarrassment, she saw an assortment of women's underwear.
"Underwear?" Yaoyorozu found her own face changing colour as she took in the sight of both regular(and very attractive) panties and bras along with some sporting underwear.
'Oh lord, this is embarrassing!' She thought to herself as she grabbed the box and shut it close before anyone else could see this. Who would he do this!?
"Dude, you made women's underwear, when did you even get her three sizes?" Kaminari asked him as he this was far better than he thought it'll be.
"I gave him my measurements when he offered to make me a new costume. I just didn't think he could make…undergarments as well." Yaoyorozu told them as she didn't think he would use them for this, she gave him those numbers in confidence that it'll be for her hero costume which he had made.
"Care to explain, Izuku-kun?" Yu asked him as she gave him a light glare of her own. She had no idea he was making underwear, this would take a pretty good explanation to get out of. Seeing that he may have dug his own grave, Midoriya rose his hands to fend her off as he pleaded his case to end up in it.
"It wasn't for anything dirty, I assure you but as I said, I noted she doesn't wearing a bra or any other type of suitable….support shall we say for your….above average bust. I've worked out with my mother and Yu here enough times to know that women need support up top when doing physical activity," That first part made sense as even Shoji and Ojiro had noted that Yaoyorozu didn't seem to wear any type of sports bra or bra at all with her costume. They just assumed that the costume itself provided the support for her breasts and left it at that. But Hagakure had let it slip that Yaoyorozu would mention it at times and how it was annoying and caused her pain. "So I threw in a bonus and made her some pairs she could wear in everyday life and not have to worry about them interfering with her quirk should the need arise for her to jump into action." He finished as to why he also made her some normal(if you considered Victoria's secrets underwear normal) underwear as well. Sure most pros didn't find themselves in situations where they were needed off the clock but it did happened.
"Oh, well thank you. It has been rough but I just had to learn to live with it." Yaoyorozu replied as she took in his explanation while the blush on her face cooled down. Honestly, she didn't think she'll ever get a solution and was considering asking her parents if she could have breast reduction surgery to get rid of the problem.
"Not anymore, I made around 12 different pairs for you, just don't ask me for more….it was weird enough having research women's underwear so I would know what the hell I was doing….the things I saw online." Midoriya muttered to himself loud enough for the group as a whole to hear, he didn't think just typing in 'women's underwear designs' on his computer could lead down such a…dark, dark rabbit hole.
"The changing room's over there, why don't you try them on?" He said as he gestured towards the bathroom in the corner, he'll need a second to recollect himself as he had already wiped his internet history cleaned after that deep drive onto the web.
"I think I will, thank you Midoriya. This really means a lot to you." Yaoyorozu told him as she could imagine he went to great lengths to get this done. She would need to find some way to repay him for this but for now, she'll just try it one and see how it looks on her.
"Don't worry about it, what are classmates and friends for?" He replied with an honest smile as the girl collected the costume and walked towards the bathroom which unlike his workspace, he kept spotlessly clean.
"What a minute, does that mean you could make something for Hagakure?" Uraraka asked as the thought just occurred to her that their peppy invisible girl couldn't use any clothing because she could make them invisible as well. Hearing this, Midoriya took a moment to think about it.
"Maybe, but I'll need to study her hair and see what fabric blends I'll have to use since the costume would need to as invisible as she or capable of turning invisible." He concluded as he could make use of her hair as well but the problem would be that any fabric he blended it wouldn't be invisible as well. Maybe he could create a support item that could make that possible but he didn't know enough about light and how it interacted with the world to think himself capable. He knew someone that was but she was expensive as hell and only took contracts she was interested in.
"What's the second thing you wanted to show us?" Mineta asked as he barely hid his disappointment that knowing that soon enough, Yaoyorozu wouldn't be training in her normal hero costume.
"Why don't we wait for Yaoyorozu to return to the group before I show you all, yes?" Midoriya asked of them as he wanted them all to see this and it would unfair if he didn't follow through with that. They didn't have to wait all that long before they heard the bathroom door opening again, allowing one of their to return to the group in a brand new costume that stole the whole show.
"So, how do I look?" Yaoyorozu asked them as she had a little red on her cheeks at the fact all were looking at her like she was a different person and for good reason. Her new hero was made up of a high-collared, sleeve crimson bustier-leotard with the same silver lines at her waist and around her arms that her old costume had. The exposed naval of the previous costume was however, gone. The newly added sleeves of the costume were sliver in colour and tucked into red gloves that go right up until her elbows. With this, she wore black legging/stockings that went all the way up to the leotard where they seemingly connected to it, on the side of the leggings was also had a red line going from the bottom to the top that also seemed to glow. She also sported a pair of knee-length crimson and white boots with heels, which had a dip like the older one but not as extreme. She also wore a gold utility belt but only the one rather than two, this one being larger then one of the old costumes'. One new addition to her new gear was the blue and gold jacket(think Black Canary in Young Justice). On the back of the jacket, was an emblem which was of a golden Matryoshka doll opening up to reveal a chibi black bear which the group found to be cute and fitting.
"Oh my God, she looks amazing." Kaminari said with nothing but awe in his voice as he took in the unique but jaw dropping design.
"I thought covering more skin would be a bummer, but somehow she looks even hotter." Mineta agreed with him she looked amazing in the new costume, almost like the costumed heroines of old, no, she DID look like the comic book heroes of old.
"Mineta, now is not the time for such behaviour!" Iida, while also impressed with the new costume, still felt like he needed to reprimand his classmate for his behaviour.
"Looks very fashionable." Jiro complimented it as the costume seemed to fit her friend like a glove.
"Looks like Edna's advice was on the money, as expected." Midoriya nodded their head as that had cost him quite the pretty penny.
"Wait, Edna, you don't mean-" Mellissa asked as there was only one person in the world which he could be referring to.
"Yep, Edna "E" Mode. I had her consult me on a few things such as colour pallet, materials and etc. She didn't design your suit but she had a large hand in its creation." Midoriya revealed to the group as those who knew the name, that group being Todoroki, Iida, Yaoyorozu, Mellissa and Jiro all looked at him like he just ate the moon but to be fair, that would be just as shocking as Edna was known to be a recluse and eccentric, one didn't just hire her for anything-even if you were willing to pay millions
"Midoriya Edna is the one of the best fashion designers in the world and the best hero costume designer in the world. How could you even afford her consultancy fees?" Yaoyorozu asked him as that woman didn't work cheap.
"It was….very expensive, I admit. Drained my savings by 80% but it was worth it to ensure we I made the best possible product for you." Midoriya admitted that just about all his savings had went into designing this one costume. He was sure he could make it all back now that the Silver Wing had made its debut but that will take time since he hadn't gotten any concreate orders yet now had a large production facility for them.
"I can't let you pay for the whole thing, please allow me to pay for it." Yaoyorozu told him, standing firm.
"No way, it was meant to be a gift, I didn't expect payment." Midoriya cut her down as he didn't want payment for a favour.
"Well too bad, I won't sit here and not offer some form of compensation for this. I'll pay 90%." Yaoyorozu countered him, she knew she could afford it if she checked her own saving account from all her allowance money and if not, she could always ask for it from her parents.
"40%" Midoriya replied with an offer less the half of what she wished to pay.
"85%" Yaoyorozu went down, but not by much. This all to the rest of them looked to be very bizarre as they never thought they'll see someone argue to pay more for something.
"45%" Midoriya rose but much like his counterpart, he didn't go that far.
"70% and that's as low as I'll go." Yaoyorozu told him, her stance firm as she starred him down as the two had a silent war.
"For real, who argues for paying for a present?" Midoriya eventually asked her as this was getting weird, even for them.
"I do, especially when that present must have cost you thousands of US dollars." Yaoyorozu replied as she had heard a quote for one of Edna's dresses from her mother. The cheaper ones could go for anywhere in the 30,000 to 60,000 dollars range.
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"Fine, 70%." Midoriya relented. Great, now he had to find where saved the receipt for Edna's services.
"That was the oddest bidding war I've ever seen." Tetsutetsu whispered to kendo and Todoroki who both nodded their heads.
"Hmmm." Todoroki sounded as that was quite the sight. Whenever his brother, Natsuo was home and watched things like Pawn Stars, people didn't bid to pay more for something, it was the opposite.
"Moving in, we have the last item on our list, these." Midoriya said as he moved onto a smaller box which was on one of the worktables, he didn't give it any flair but rather just opened the box and revealed the contents of the box.
"Two sticks?" Mineta asked as they may have looked good but they didn't look like much. At his words, there was a silence that hung around them as Midoriya looked to be smiling but they could feel the cold anger building in his as the wave and violent washed over them.
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"If I wasn't in such a good mood right now, I'll pick up these two custom made eskrima sticks and beat the ever-lasting shit outta you." Midoriya told him as he took out the two weapons and held them in his hand, his grip notable tight as he worked to calm himself down. "I made them for Kaminari here, since he's been badgering me to make him some support gear." Midoriya stated as he breathed out a sigh.
"Really? These are for me? Awesome! Do they conduct electricity or something?" Kaminari asked as he stepped forward and Midoriya handed him the two weapons which he started moving around in his hands, noting that they felt lighter then he thought they would.
"They do that and more. The batons are made from the same material as my staff making them not just extremely light but also extremely tough. You can smash though a brick wall with these babies and they'll be none worse for wear." Midoriya told him since there were people out there who was really tough, even without their quirks so he would need a tool that could hit as hard as possible to take them down. "The handles are insulated so anybody else holding them at that point won't have to worry about being electrocuted."
"Why is that important? I mean, there are my support tools." Kaminari raised a good point, the guy was not electricity proof but he had an extremely high resistance to the stuff.
"Yes, but they do have internal batteries which were specially chosen for their high amp and voltage capacity. Each baton can carry a charge of around 700,000 volts, so you can pre-charge them and carry them with you so you don't have to worry about your limit as much." Midoriya him, news that made the guy look like he just got an early Christmas present.
"Oh dude! Thanks a bunch, that'll will really help me in training, no more frying my brain for me!" Kaminari announced as he did some dorky 'martial arts' move with his new tools as he let loose some power from his hands and to his amazement, since he wasn't holding the handles, they started charging up with a little screen showing him that the internal batteries on the both of them was now 1% filled. Oh yeah, 7,000 volts and they could still soak up the juice!
"It's a shame, you kinda looks cute with that goofy, weird face whenever you go over your limit." Jiro joked as she and the rest of them were very much amused by the sight of him trying and failing to perform martial arts.
"But wait, there's more. You see, like my staff, the sticks can take on two other forms. The first one is pretty basic," Midoriya said as he opened his hands to the guy, who placed the eskrima sticks back into it's creator's hands who then aimed the two ends together before slamming them onto one another. "Just slap the two ends by the handles together and you get, a bō-staff. I can show you how to properly fight with them later since I refuse to let some idiot make staff users across the world look bad." Midoriya explained as the two sticks combined and both let out additional length with turned the two sticks into one average length bō staff before he did some actual tricks with it and then he showed them how the made them come apart. He pressed a little button on each of the sticks and twisted them in opposite direction. This made both retract their extra portions into themselves and disconnect.
"What's the second form, is it a rocket powered hammer to?" Kaminari asked as he had wanted something like that ever since he saw it during the sports festival.
"No, you don't need something like that, plus rocket hammers are my thing." Midoriya told him as the day he made copies of his gear for others is the day Bakugo gave up his sailor mouth and joined a church choir, never.
"Dammit." Kaminari moaned sadly.
"What your support tool can change into is something more along the lines of when you need to take someone down…hard." Midoriya explained as he pressed another button, there were only two buttons on each of them, and the ends of them change form, gaining size and what they assumed was bulk as it soon finished shape. "They become maces, the heads are pretty solid and I don't recommend using this mood on just anyone but I should inform you that in each form, the electrical power stored within can still be used, so all your strikes can be enhanced by a little electrical shock." The inventor explained as he showed off how the properly swing such a weapon and where one should be aiming with them.
(Later)
"Now that we've see what you wanted to show us, we should be off. I shall see you all soon!" Sometime later, the group stood outside the workshop, having seen what Midoriya wanted to show them. Iida had just finished his sentence as he turned around and ran off.
"He must really enjoy going off full throttle whenever he goes." Yaoyorozu joked as she was still wearing her new costume, finding that not only was is comfortable and stylish but it also didn't impede her quirk in any way. Midoriya had even included an under-forearm touch screen computer where she could store everything she already stored in her 'yaoyorictionary' and more. But she loved the little Russian nestling doll/bear thing more.
"Alright people, see you soon, I gotta go take a shower and change into something else." Midoriya said as he and Yu turned round to head back to their hotel so they could get ready.
"See you all in a bit." Uraraka called out as she along with Yaoyorozu, Jiro and Kendo went back to there the three girls were staying for the week so they also get ready.
"I gotta go get ready." Todoroki said as he left the group as well.
"Midoriya, Tetsutetsu." However, before the two boys could leave, Mellissa called out to them. "Could I show the two of something before you get ready for tonight?"
"Is there time?" Tetsutetsu asked as they already spent quite a bit of their time checking out Midoriya's surprise for them.
"Oh, just go see what she wants you to see, I'll meet you back at our hotel room." Yu shoved her boyfriend forward as she knew that she had nothing to worry about. The two of them were like siblings and she also knew he was as faithful as a cute little dog.
"If you're sure about that." Yu nodded her head at as she gave him a little peck on the cheek before turning around and walking off. "Okay, you got some of my time, now what is it you wanted us to see?"
(With All Might and David)
"[Cough,] Right then, I'll see you later." Toshi said with a cough as he bulked up into his muscle form just as he was leaving. "I look forward to partying with you."
"Same." David started before he called out to his friend before he could leave. "Toshi!"
"Yes Dave?" All Might asked him.
"…Do you….ever wonder what the future will look like?" David asked him a question that had been weighing on his mind ever since word reached him of All Might's injury and what it would mean for his career. All Might himself took the question and thought about how the answer it before he did anything.
"I can't say the thought hadn't crossed my mind once or twice, in fact these days I find myself worried sick about it. But we must trust the next generation to only keep the peace but achieve even greater feats then we did, just like how elders left the world in our hands, the time is fast approaching when we will have to do the same." All Might replied as he had come to that conclusion a long time ago. Sure he hated that fact that he'll need to retire soon but the fact of the matter was that he would have to retire some-day, even if he wasn't injured five years ago, he was already in his late 40s, he had at best another decade of hero work in him before he would have to retire from active combat and stick with just teaching.
(Later in the - with the mysterious group)
"We found five guards but they're restrained now. Just as they said, security is stretched thin tonight, the plan's a go." One of the unknown men said, as like the rest of them, he had changed into some tactical gear and wore a mask with a white 'X' on it to hide his identity.
"Keep them bound but don't kill them. Start working on the security system." Their boss on the line ordered him as the guy sat down at the central control desk and started hacking into the system.
"Yes sir, we'll begin infiltration now," The masked man said as he found himself getting past security protocols pretty easily, but that was more because they came prepared. "No issues so far, it looks like those security codes we were given are genuine. It should be long until the whole system in under our control." The hacker reported to his boss.
"Good, report back to me when you succeed in taking over." The red haired man said as he cut the call and smirked as he fixed his own, unique mask onto his face. "Now the fun can finally begin."
"Get ready to move, you all know your roles. Don't screw up." He ordered the several men he had with him as the shutter doors in front of them started to open up as they begun to move towards their target.
(At the same time – With Mellissa, Midoriya and Tetsutetsu)
"This is the I-academy campus, where I spend most of my time." Mellissa told the two boys as she gave them a small tour as they made their way towards her lab. "And to the left here is my own personal research laboratory." She finished as she opened a door and lead them into a very modern workspace.
"I'm sorry it's such a mess." Mellissa said as she went to the side where she started looking through the many cabinets she had for whatever she wished to show them.
"I wouldn't call this messy." Tetsutetsu said as he and Midoriya looked around the place and saw that it was very clean and organized.
"It's definitely larger then my work space here." Midoriya pointed out as his workspace may have been a garage area but he had to share it with others as well. He didn't have a private area like this.
"I can't believe she studies in a place like this, the whole place feels so professional." Tetsutetsu told the guy as she saw the family photos she had in here. From pictures of her parents wedding, which he saw All Might had attended, to her birth and early childhood and even pictures that appeared to have been taken recently. He picked up that after a while, from when she was a little girl, the women he suspected to be her mother, stopped appearing any the pictures, in any of the pictures. "The support lab back at UA has nothing on this." Tetsutetsu said as Midoriya took a seat in one of the chairs in the room as he looked around at all the high tech tools and appliances she had in here. She even had gear he hadn't been able to get his hands on yet for his own home lab, lucky.
"Are you sure that's because this is better, or because grease monkey always blows something up in there?" Midoriya asked him as he had heard tales of how she caused more than a couple explosions….a week in the support lab.
"When will you call her by her name?" Tetsutetsu asked as like many others had noticed that he never referred to Hatsume by her name.
"When she can remember my name." Midoriya replied as when he went to see her about some gear, she didn't even remember his name, referring to him as 'muscles'. He didn't even know why the hell that stuck out as a nickname for him, sure he was in shape but he didn't think he was that in shape.
"Are those, trophies?" Tetsutetsu asked as he noticed that numerous trophies that were on display on one of the selves. They ranged in size and colour but all of them were for 1st, 2nd or 3rd place respectively.
"Yep, that little missy is quite the intelligent one. She's won contests and competitions all over the place." Midoriya told the guy as he had been in attendance for one of them. She schooled the competition that time and won first place.
"I wouldn't consider myself that bright, not too long ago, I was getting terrible grades. Izuku remembers those days." Mellissa downplayed the praise as she kept on searching for what she was looking for.
"You got better didn't you, so why bring it up?" Midoriya shrugged his shoulders as it wasn't like she was close to failing back then. She just had average grades.
"That's because I really got into by books. I got to be a good student if I want to be a hero." Mellissa responded to them as she found the drawer she was looking for but her choice of words got a pause from the two as they took that in.
"You mean like a pro? I didn't know you were in the hero course." Tetsutetsu asked her as he hadn't thought she was in support. Midoriya thought the same as he had heard nothing about any transfers from her since I-Academy didn't have a hero course of any kind.
"At first no, I had given up on that dream for a while. I'm quirkless after all." Mellissa said to them as she walked up with a small box in hand.
"Quirkless?" Tetsutetsu asked, surprised at the odds of being in a room with not one but two quirkless people. Before meeting Midoriya, he hadn't been sure he had interacted with one before in his life. He quickly noticed he was staring though and had the courtesy to look away, ashamed of himself.
"Don't worry about it, I'm used to the looks, quirkless people are something of a rarity these days, especially younger quirkless people." Mellissa told him as he got used to the looks a while ago.
"Still, I'm sorry for staring, it was really unmanly of me." Tetsutetsu apologised as what he had just done was still rude.
"You sure you and Kirishima aren't related?" Midoriya, who wanted to break the tension before things could get out of hand, asked to mess with the steel boy who in turn turned a glare at him.
"Midoriya, I swear to God, I will punch your lights out." Tetsutetsu told the guy as he raised up one fist to which Midoriya rose both hands up in a sign of surrender though he still looked amused. Seeing that this would get him no-where, Tetsutetsu turned his attention back towards Mellissa. "So, I know this sounds rude, but what happened?"
"Well I turned five and I didn't show signs of one, so papa took me to a specialist. They confirmed it. Like with Izuku, I'm in the minority of the population who will never develop a quirk of my own." She explained to him the story but for obvious reasons left out some parts.
"I'm sorry about that." Tetsutetsu told him, honestly sorry about things.
"What so you mean? I'm not crippled you know." Mellissa, who didn't look all that upset, still asked him with a raised eyebrow. Thinking she was upset, Tetsutetsu started waving his hands about as he tried to explain himself.
"I didn't mean it like that, I swear! It's just….that I heard a little from Midoriya and well…his past didn't exactly sound like rainbows and sunshine. People can be cruel like that." Tetsutetsu explained as he calmed down from his little freak out by the end there.
"I won't lie, it was…hard the first couple years. I had change schools twice to get away from all that negativity but after a while, I found my groove. I even made friends who didn't care that I didn't have a quirk. And for a while, I was happy. I decided that I would become like my papa, and help others indirectly with the support items I make." Mellissa started out with a sigh as she recalled the less then fun years she had to go through way back when.
"For a while?" Midoriya spoke up, last he checked, she loved building support items.
"Yes, then I met you, Izuku. You were just like me. You didn't have some kind of power like so many others but that didn't stop you. You didn't let it stop you." Mellissa told him about the feelings she had been dealing with for a while now. She then took a breath and continued on.
"After watching you all these years, how you perfected your work each and every time it failed to improve upon the last. How you got into UA, fought villains, won the sports festival, took on uncle Might and won?" Mellissa asked him, listing off his achievements in life though he would be the first to admit that each of those came from hard work and dedication. "I couldn't just sit back and not at least try." She revealed to them both, giving the two boys enough clues to figure out what she was saying.
"Mellissa, you don't mean…" Midoriya started asking but paused mid-way through.
"Yes, once I finish my course here, I'll be transferring to a hero college in the states. That's who you couldn't contact me lately, I'm been working out, taking self-defence classes and making gear for myself." Mellissa revealed to him as the girl had been spending all her free time working her butt off in order to increase her chances of winning.
"Wow." Tetsutetsu said as he took that all in. Sure there were hero courses in universities but those were much harder than high school level since the students were older.
"Wow is right, Mellissa, this isn't a game. Are you sure about this? You already making big contributions to the world as is." Midoriya asked her as though he was proud she found the resolve to try, this wasn't something you did on a whim. Once you go pro, you risk your life every single time you head off for work.
"If one can't live life as they want to, is that truly living?" Mellissa quoted something from a book she couldn't recall the name of. "I get it, the three of us have seen the possible consequences of hero work, and not even as strong as uncle Might can avoid them but, I want to help people. I want to be a hero, just like him and so many others. So if there is a small chance that I can, I'm gonna take it." She told the as she had made up her mind, she had given up once before, she'll be damn sure she didn't give up this time. Was she prepared for failure? To not get into a hero course? Yes she was, but she at least wanted to try.
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"That was the manliest speech I've ever heard." Tetsutetsu actually looked close to tears from that. It was just that good, hearing someone with resolve that strong and willing to take on becoming a pro, it made him emotional.
"I didn't think crazy was contagious. Oh what the hell, I'm in. you ever need help, don't be afraid to ask, you've already helped me a bunch." Midoriya told her with a sigh in the beginning before he finished it off with a thumbs-up.
"Speaking of which, Tetsutetsu. This is for you, could you try it on?" Mellissa said as she opened up the box she had brought to the table and revealed the contents to be a dark green wristband.
"Oh, umm…sure." Tetsutetsu said as she gave him the weird piece of jewellery and he quickly put in on his right wrist.
"Try pressing the button here on the back." Mellissa told him as she stepped back from him, leaving Tetsutetsu by himself as the two creator watched him closely. Seeing that he could trust her, Tetsutetsu did just that and was shocked when the thing started to glow and expand.
"What the-!" Tetsutetsu yelled out in shock as the wristband grew and extended till it covered his entire forearm and even parts of his hand, finishing itself looking a fingerless glove/gauntlet combo. "A glove?"
"As far as names goes, I was thinking something like 'Full Gauntlet.'" Mellissa told him as she gave a name to the piece of tech he was wearing with a smile before she starred at his arms with no amusement in her tone or voice. "At the villain attraction, I noticed that you were limiting yourself on purpose, not using your full power. I guess that uncle Might's power must be that dangerous, right?" She asked him, surprising the two boys who didn't think she would have caught onto that so easily, heck, Midoriya hadn't caught onto it yet.
"Yeah, I can barely use 10% as is, when I tried to use just 15%, I nearly broke my arms." Tetsutetsu told her as since he was still new to the power, he couldn't push himself as much as he wanted to.
"That's not good, is it? Even with your steel quirk, your body still can't handle that power?" Mellissa asked him as she suspected that his steel quirk would have acted a natural protector against the stress OFA put on his body.
"Not for long periods of time. The strongest single attack I can muster is a punch with 20% and even then, my own quirk is almost completely overwhelmed and I'm left spent." Tetsutetsu revealed as when he had done that, he nearly passed out from the iron loss since his first quirk had been worked to the bone trying to protect him. If it wasn't for Recovery Girl, he would have been in a tight bind.
"Then it's a good thing that I made that gauntlet. Originally, it was strong enough to withstand All Might's full power punches up to three times, but thanks to combat data Midoriya was able to get for me, that limit has doubled." Mellissa told him with a proud smile as she was so happy that she was able to produce such a thing, especially since she heard from her papa that when he tried to make gear for All Might in the past, none of it could keep up and the ones that could were far too clunky and impractical.
"Hold on, when did Midoriya get data for you? I haven't seen him use this before." Tetsutetsu asked as he didn't recall the guy ever using something like this.
"Well he didn't have the gauntlet, but he did have the material the gauntlet is made out of. That's the stuff his staff is made out of and pretty soon, his main armour pieces will be made from the same material." Mellissa explained for him as Midoriya simply nodded his head at that. Tetsutetsu took that as good sign since if that hammer of his was made of the same stuff, then he was sure it could stand up to the power of OFA.
"I always thought you made that stuff." Tetsutetsu still found himself asking as Midoriya always said he made his own gear and he assumed that meant the material as well.
"Nope, that was her brain child. I just forged it into the shape and tools I needed them to be, the gauntlet you're wearing now is an improved version of an earlier model." Midoriya told him as he got up from his seat.
"Please take that with you." Mellissa asked of him out of the blue.
"What, I can't just take it." Tetsutetsu tried to deny that since it seems too good to just hand over to someone but Mellissa wasn't having it.
"You're not, I'm giving it to you. I know that uncle might made the right choice with you, you'll going to be a true hero someday, but you're going to need the support to get there. With full gauntlet, you don't have to worry about breaking yourself as much now. That means you can save more people. I can work on creating a new costume for you later that incorporates this but for now, this will do nicely." She explained her reasoning to him as she tried to get him to agree to accept her gift to him.
"Just don't tell Kaminari and Mineta, they'll be so jealous that Mellissa already giving you presents." Midoriya joked to them as they could imagine that those two might not have the best reaction about this, but it wasn't like they needed to know anything right now.
"Alright, I'll take it under one condition." Tetsutetsu said after he took a couple moments to think about it.
"And what would that be?" Mellissa asked him, wondering what condition he could possibly have for her.
"Promise me, that one day," Tetsutetsu started out, as serious as the grave before a wicked grin broke out across his face. "I'll see you in the field, fighting alongside me." Hearing that, hearing that he believed in her to such a point made her so damn happy that her smile as brighter than her normal ones.
"You can count on it." Mellissa responded to him as she gave him firm handshake to seal the deal between the two of them.
"Wonderful, now if you would excuse me, I gotta jet and go get ready." Midoriya said as he turned round and left the room. He was happy for the both of them and even more so that Mellissa had found the courage to try chasing her dream but he needed to get ready before Yu started wondering what was taking him so long.
"Oh crap, he's right! I need to get ready, I can't show up looking dirty, I'll embarrass All Might. See you later, Mellissa, gotta jet!" Tetsutetsu just realised that as he knew that he would have to rush back to his hotel and get changed. He didn't take any more time before he jetted out of the room as well.
(Later – I-Tower)
"Sorry we're late." Sometime later, in the early evening long after the sun had set, Midoriya and Yu found themselves walking out of the elevator into the lobby that Iida had wanted them to meet in. Unlike before, Izuku was wearing a different suit, this one was more expensive than his others. It was made up as a white sleeved dress shirt with a black tie that Yu had to help him with, light green vest and dark green blazer with black lapel with green trousers and finished off with red leather shoes that Yu had gotten him for this occasion. He didn't bother trying to do up his hair since that was a battle he could never win.
The pro herself was wearing a purple dress that ended around her knees along with black heels, over this she wore a black evening jacket. Her hair was done up in a bun and around her neck was an emerald necklace Izuku had gifted her for her last birthday. She finished off the looks with a white silk scarf that was wrapped around her shoulders with the edges hanging off her shoulders across her bust. She wore little make-up but was wearing some lip glass and some eye liner.
"What took the two of you so long, we were supposed to meet her 30 minutes ago!" Iida, who was in a blue suit with a white shirt underneath, yellow tie and black shows demanded of them. it would have had more weight if they didn't pick on the fact that aside from him, it was only Mineta and Kaminari, the two of them still in their uniforms, just cleaner ones and Todoroki, the duel quirk user dressed for the night in white suit with black lapel, light blue shirt and red stripped tie. It was only the four of them, where was everyone else?
"Hot damn!" Kaminari, seeing Yu in her evening wear, couldn't help but gush over it as she looked stunning tonight.
"Are can something so cruel, look so appealing? Truly a rose with thorns." Mineta on the other hand, looked depressed as not only was she taken but he had seen her 'true colours' and knew that she wasn't worth the struggle.
"Guarded by the ever watchful eyes of a bird of prey. You two better watch yourselves before some….unfortunate accident befalls you." Midoriya, who was still standing right next to the woman who due to her heels, looked taller than him-warned his classmate about eyeing his girl when he could see him.
"Yes sir." Kaminari was quick to back pedal before he did something foolish.
"As for your question, Iida. We had a little wardrobe malfunction. Izu-kun's suit had a stain on it we only noticed as we were leaving, so he and to go back and change." Yu informed them as Izuku actually wanted to wear something else, it was only as they were leaving that they picked up on the stain, as to how it got there was anyone's guess since the boy rarely ever wore suits and these were supposed to be brand new.
"I don't own a whole lotta suits so naturally, I didn't pack all that much." Midoriya added in as he stopped glaring at Kaminari and turned his attention to the other two who had brought along formal wear.
"By the way, where the hell is everyone?" Yu asked as she was sure they would be late but to their surprise, it seems there was still people missing.
"They're not here yet. Does a proper meeting time mean nothing to you people?" Iida asked seemingly the group as a whole as they all heard a ding going off behind them, meaning that someone else had just arrived via elevator. Todoroki, who had been looking that way when it happened, saw that the name that appeared on the scanner above the door way was of Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu.
"I'm here, I'm here!" Speaking of which, the white haired male rushed out of the elevator as soon as the door opened as he practically jumped into the lobby. The choice of clothing he had seemed more along the lines of a suit you would wear to a cousins wedding in that it was a standard black suit with a white dress shirt. The only really additions was the fact he wore a grey bow-tie and a neatly folded, green handkerchief sticking out of the single pocket on the jacket's left breast pocket.
"You looks dashing in that suit. Looking to pick up some ladies tonight?" Midoriya asked him as though it wasn't the best suit he had seen, he was no fashion icon either since he had to ask Yu to help him buy the suits he had packed for today.
"Wha-No! I'm not here for that!" Tetsutetsu denied as his face flushed a bit as the suggestion and the fact that Yu looked even better than she did in her hero costume in that dress.
"Oh, then are you perhaps here…for the men?" Midoriya started off as if he was shocked, which got chuckles from Mineta, Kaminari and Yu who all found his antics funny. "I won't judge my guy, love is love but you don't have to be afraid about coming out." He teased his friend who looked really insulted right about now.
"Sometimes I want to punch you in the goddamn teeth so hard." Tetsutetsu told the guy as he could really go without the roasts every twenty minutes, he cursed the day that he and Tokage met since ever since, the two of them had been worse than ever before as their verbal armouries had seemed to grow and Tokage's pranks got even more unexpected and complex.
"Sorry I'm late, it took me a while to get ready." It was at same time that Uraraka, wearing a very pretty white and pink mid-thigh length dress with black stockings and red shoes arrived to the party, Uraraka didn't do much with her hair but she did a black bow with a white rose add-on to her hair. Seeing her also looking great, the two boys couldn't help themselves.
"Best night ever!" Both Kaminari and Mineta called out in glee, though they were largely ignored at this point. Things only got better(at least for Kaminari and Mineta) when Yaoyorozu, Jiro and Kendo arrived as well. The heiress had done up her hair different than normal, with her spike ponytail being smaller and more spread out, she had also worn a golden, diamond encrusted side combs keeping her hair in place. She wore a fashionable lime green dress which had a wrapping around her waist that really made her bust stick out more. She didn't wear any kind of stockings of leggings, opting instead to just wear a pair of white pump heels.
"Apologies for the tardiness, Jiro's feeling shy." Yaoyorozu said as she forced Jiro out from behind her to that everyone could what she wore. Jiro looked very different to her normal fashion sense in her evening wear. That wear being a dark pink and dark purple dress which ended mid-thigh via a frilled skirt. She wore a belt which was fastened via a dark purple bow. Long with this, she wore a small, black jacket and dark red fingerless gloves. On her lower half, she finished the look with grey leggings and dark pink Mary Janes.
"No worries, we didn't get here on time either." Midoriya told them as the group looked on them, but in Tetsutetsu's case, his eyes were focused on his class rep who looked in his opinion, beautiful.
"I didn't think she would have something my size." Kendo commented with a small smile as she looked down at the clothing she had been loaned for the night. That clothing being curve fitting, marigold evening dress with tangerine add-ons to the dress top, adding more coverage to her bust while meeting in the centre of her chest where the two tied together and branched off down the dress towards her sides, the add-ons being long enough that the hang up till her knees and flowed towards her shins before where they met on the small of her back. Like Yaoyorozu, she didn't have any stockings or leggings, opting instead for a pair of ocean blue slingback heels.
"Told you she would, but honestly, this is fancier than anything I've ever worn before. It feels like a costume." Jiro told her as it was a surreal experience going through all the clothing Yaoyorozu had with her. It took them a while just to pick out what they all wanted, nevermind get ready.
"I'm just glad you're not in a T-shirt." Kaminari joked as he had known her long enough to know for a fact she didn't own a single dress.
"Even the jacket can't ruin it." Mineta agreed with him but the two didn't notice the two earphone jacks moving towards them like floating snakes until the connected with them and gave them a very painful surprise.
"Shut up." Jiro told the two of them as she removed her earphones jacks from them and retracted them back to their normal length. She was both pissed and embarrassed by them right now
"Why would you do that? You just said you don't have anything better? It was meant to be a compliment." Kaminari asked as he didn't see the issue here. How was he to know she would just happen to have dress he didn't know about?
"No it wasn't." Jiro debunked that as both Yu and Midoriya watched on, amused by their antics.
"She strikes me as a tsundere, are they dating?" Yu whispered into her boyfriend's ear as this was starting to remind her of one of the favourite girls from anime, or maybe she's more along the lines of a kuudere?
"No but I give it until the end of the school year, they'll be dating by then." Midoriya joked as he had picked on their close relationship early on in the year. Sure Jiro liked to tease him but it was clear she cared and he didn't mind her teasing all that much.
"What was that?" Jiro, who had very sensitive hearing, asked the two as she turned to face them with red cheeks but a real angry looking glare. In responded, Yu acted like she wasn't paying attention and Midoriya rose his hands up in mock surrender.
"Oh, nothing, just the ramblings of an eccentric inventor." Midoriya replied to her as he gave her a cheeky smile. Oh, he's going to enjoy this, it may not be a romantic like Mina but he did enjoy messing with his friends.
"This is my first time in formal wear, I just borrowed something from Yaoyorozu." Uraraka said as she walked up the couple, still feeling down about this while 'he was taken before you even had a shot' thing but she was trying to get over it. They were still friends, they didn't need to be more than that….
"Well, it looks very nice on you. Ain't that right, guys?" Midoriya, bot picking up on her slight distress, complimented her look before he looked towards the other boys present to get their opinion.
"Yes, but I'm quite confused as to why Yaoyorozu had a dress like," Todoroki asked as he eyes Kendo, though unlike Tetsutetsu who needed Iida to smack him to reboot him, he was observing her critically as the fabric of the dress was very…light, meaning you could see that she wore a one piece swimsuit kinda thing under it if you looked hard enough. "That with her."
"It was the only thing my size that fit, all right." Kendo muttered as she didn't really like to think about how this was far more daring then anything she had ever worn. It was that moment that the last member of their party arrived to take heat off Kendo.
"Oh good, I thought I was going to miss you guys." Mellissa said as she ran out of the elevator towards the, not noticing that Tetsutetsu, Kaminari, Mineta and even Iida were looking at her with awe, and for good reason. Her hair had been done up into a high ponytail which was tied with a large black bow with bangs swept back underneath a red headband, while her face-framing is left loose. She wore golden earrings which hung from her earlobes and for once in a blue moon, she wasn't wearing her glasses, leading them to assume she opted for contacts or something. When it came to her choice of clothing, she was wearing a strapless dress with a sweetheart neckline. The upper half of the dress is a deep blue, while the skirt is a pale powder blue. Separating the two segments was a black cloth belt with a large white rose that sits slightly to her left, covering where the material is tied. The belt matched the black ruffles underneath her knee-length skirt. On her feet, she wore white, opened toed heels with straps. She even had her toenails have painted a shade of coral pink, the same as her fingernails and lips. "Let's get downstairs to the party." Mellissa finished as she joined them.
"Damn, Mellissa, you clean up better then I thought." Midoriya complimented her as he looked her over.
"And what the hell is that supposed to mean?" Mellissa asked him with a annoyed frown.
"It means that you're either covered in grease and motor oil or dressed like a Amy or Sheldon from Big Bang. Admit it, you have a fashion sense about as good as mine." Midoriya accused her as the two of them were very much known to never dress to impress. Sure she could pull off the nerd look like a model but she wasn't setting any trends anytime soon.
"It's not my fault, my friends don't really attend things like this so they were no help growing up." Mellissa rebutted that statement as she thought she had a great sense of fashion, certainly better than his ironic or snappy t-shirts that Izuku liked to wear. And while they had their little feud on who was better at getting dressed in the morning, Mineta and Kaminari could only gush on Mellissa's look.
"The headliner has arrived." Mineta said as he bowed down, crying tears of joy at the sight he had been allowed to see this fine night.
"Mineta, I can't take thing much beauty, I think I might die from being in her presence." Kaminari was close behind, their antics proving to be both confusing and concerning to the rest of the group.
"Something tells me those are going to make a fool of themselves tonight." Kendo spoke up as this was already turning out to be a weird night, and they hadn't even got to the actual reception yet.
Maybe bringing them was a mistake." Jiro agreed with her as Kaminari at times was a massive goofball, she wasn't too sure this such a high class event was his speed…or his lane.
(At the same time – main security room in the Central tower)
"We have full control." As the group discussed and got ready to go to the reception itself, the unknown assailants that had breached the security had just finished taking full control of all automated security in the building.
(Central tower – 2nd Floor: Reception Hall)
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to I-Expo's opening night's reception. We of I-island hope you enjoy yourselves." The announcer welcomed his guest, and much like them, he had no idea that their famous security had been bypassed and taken control. "Now, I wonder we if can't get All Might, the number one her up here. He's visiting from Japan, wouldn't you all like to hear him a few words." He called out as he eyes All Might as he stood with Dave, a wine class in hand as the two had been in the middle of a discussion when he had been called up.
"Came on, maybe a round of applause will help." The announcer suggested when it looked like All Might wanted to disagree, starting the round of applause himself which was soon joined by most of the guests themselves, including both Momo and Izuku's parents who on the other side of the hall having their own discussion. "Please, join us on the stage."
"Really Dave? Could have given a guy a warning, couldn't you?" All Might asked him as he had a feeling his old friend had a hand in this.
"Come on, this was bound to happen once they found out you're in town, you don't have to say much. A small speech will be enough." David replied with a light smile as he gestured towards the stage as the people around them clapped for him to give a speech.
"You owe me one." All Might laughed as he walked towards the stage. At that same time, the assailants that had taken control of the security were issuing their own orders and commands to the island's automated security forces.
"Thank you for inviting me, it's truly a pleasure to be here. Formal speeches aren't really my thing-" All Might started what would have been a short but honest speech if it wasn't for the screen behind flashing red and showing a big red and black banner with the word 'Emergency in big bold letters.
"This is an announcement from the I-island security system. We have received word that an explosive device was found somewhere on the I-Expo grounds." The island's female automated announcement system declared for all to hear across the island.
(I-island – Business area)
"A bomb? Seriously?" This was hear by two students from 1-A, those two being Sero and Sato who were at present having dinner in one of the fancy restaurants on the island.
"I didn't expect this on this trip." Sato said as the two looked around worried for what this supposed bomb could be.
(I-island – Residential area)
"I-island will now be in high alert mode. Your safety is out top priority, residents and tourists should return to their lodgings as soon as they can." As the system announced directions to the people, while this went on white, three legged security drones zoomed around the streets in small units.
"Oh man." Hagakure said as she and two others listened into the announcement on the TV that had interrupted what they had been watching before.
"I hope that nobody is hurt." Mina spoke up as she really concerned about things. Bombs were meant to hurt people and they didn't even know where it was right now.
"We'll be safe so long as we follow directions." Tsu, being the calm voice of reason. The three girls in Mina's room in the hotel room they were staying in so at least they were off the streets.
"Yeah, you right about that." Mina, seeing her logic agreed with her that they were in a relative safe area right now. Chances are, it was nothing more than a false alarm, they saw how hard it was to get through security, what were the odds of a bomb getting past?
"Anyone remaining on the street after ten minutes will be in violation of the law." The island announced as stores windows become to shutter shut and people were asked to leave restaurants and other establishments and make their way to where they were staying.
"We should hurry." Shoji stated as, Tokoyami and Komori from 1-B hurriedly walked along the sidewalk back to their lodgings. They had ran into Komori just before the announcements started and as she was separated from her group, they offered for her to join them where they were staying until this was sorted out.
"Of course, this isn't a matter for us to get involved in. it would be best to leave it to their security." Tokoyami replied as he sparred the shorter girl a glance and saw that she was starting to freak out but was able to keep herself in check, he couldn't blame her, he didn't expect anything like this when he decided to attend I-Expo.
(Back with the main group)
"As part of our precautionary measures, most of the island's buildings will now be sealed off." The system announced the group could only look on in surprise as the shutters for the windows came down with a thud and sealed them in.
"The hell?" Mineta voiced as this was starting to not be so fun.
"This doesn't seem right." Midoriya muttered to himself as he and Yu shared a glance, they didn't know what but something was off about all this.
(In the reception hall)
Their gut feeling proved to be right as in the reception hall, before anyone could make head sot tails on what the hell was going in, the doors opened into the room masked armed men started pouring in, blocking all the exits, pointing both shotguns and assault rifles at the crowd which caused people to start to panic while pros all over the room placed themselves in front of the civilians. As both Inko and her husband were forced to move towards the main mass of people like all the others who happened to be near the edges of the room, the masked man from earlier came into the room. "In case you haven't caught on," The started as he waved around his drawn pistol, his clothing different from the other and proving enough for everyone to get that he was the leader of this whole thing. "The security system is under our control now. I know we got a lot of heroes in here but if you decide to make a scene." He threatened as the main screen switched over to show the in multiple locations, the security drones had hordes of innocent people in their sights.
"I'll sure the security sentries think that the good civilians they got in their sights are dangerous criminals. So I'll play nice, since everyone on this island is now my hostage." He threatened then, a threat no-one was willing to test since they all knew most if not all of those people would have no chance against a security drone designed to face off against villains and other dangerous criminals.
"Naturally, that includes all of you." He finished as he placed in hand on the side of his face, most likely speaking through some sort of communications device. "Do it." Once he said that, numerous black dots on the ground started to appear, seemingly out of no-where as they fired off glowing blue tape which started to restrain just about every pro hero in the room. It didn't matter who they were or where they were standing, not even All Might was safe from this as he was hit with three of them. Many of the heroes were caught off guard by this and lost their balance and fell over.
"The emergency retraining devices." One of the researchers in attendance cried out in shock at the fact their systems against criminals were being turned against them seemingly so easily.
"Crap." All Might cursed as he found that the restraining tape was stronger then he thought, not so strong that he couldn't break out but before he could make a move..
BANG!
A single gunshot was fired, scaring the people in more as some even screamed in shock as their hostage taker walked onto the stage with his pistol pointed towards the ceiling, the barrel still smoking from the shot he just let off. "Don't move. We all know that those little straps won't hold you for long, but if you make one move, I'll kill everyone in this room." He told All Might as he saw that the guy was starting to struggle, can't have that, can he? Seeing that this villain didn't appear to be the joking or not serious type, All Might complied and stop trying to get out of this.
"Villain…" All Might said to him, his tone serious as the villain kicked him over, looking down on the number one with an air of glee to him.
"There's a good boy, was that so hard?" He mocked the number one as he turned to face the crowd, he didn't need to keep his gun on All Might, he knew that the man wouldn't try anything so long as everyone else's life was on the line, just like any other typical hero.
'How in the world did they get past security? How did they even take control of it in the first place?!' As this was happening, David's mind was running a mile a minute to try and figure out how all of this happened, they hired extra security for this extract purpose, to keep the people safe! How did they get past them?!
"You're all going to follow All Might's lead and do whatever I say, do we have an agreement?" The villain asked but they all knew that it was a demand, not a request as Miki held his wife's hand. He may have not been much of fighter but he would defend her for as long as he could. He just prayed that his daughter was safe in all this mess, come to think of it, she was supposed to be here, where was she? Similar thoughts were going through the minds of Hisashi and Inko as they hadn't seen their son show up yet, all they knew was that he wanted to show up with a group of his friends and Yu but none of them had been seen yet.
'Toshi, you have no choice but to listen to them, at least for now!' David thought to himself a nervous sweat formed on his brow, he hated that this was one of the few times All Might couldn't help them but he knew or hoped that his old friend would realise that.
'Dave….!' All Might thought to himself in frustration as he caught the look in his old friend's eyes. They both knew that this situation was shit but they couldn't do anything about it, not whole the deck was stacked against him so much.
'Don't worry, I'll make sure everyone is safe. I promise you that.' David didn't know how, but he could at least promise that as he couldn't stand to let these people hurt someone for their own ends. He just hoped Mellissa was safe, where ever she he was right now.
(Back with the group)
"I'm not getting any signal, looks like the service is completely blocked." Todoroki said as the group lost all semblance of merry as after hearing that announcement, Todoroki had opted to try and contact the island's security or fire fighters to see what was up but he couldn't even get a call out. Every time he tried, he got the same message of his service being suspended.
"Same here, I got international coverage and I got nothing. Whatever this is, all communications are down." Kendo also tried, but using her phone and like him-she couldn't even contact their friends who they knew were on the island. As far as she knew, some of her classmates said they were coming and she had seen Kodai, Komori, Tsunotori, Bondo and Awase seeing how the five had stopped by the café earlier bit she didn't know where they were right now of if they were safe and it was getting to her.
"Are you guys serious?" Mineta asked as he handling this the worst out of the group as Midoriya pulled out his own phone to see if he couldn't have Neko make contact with security, his or his father's lab on the island, unlike Todoroki and Kendo, he had higher security clearance.
"The elevator is not working either." Jiro reported to them as she couldn't even call up an elevator for them, the entire building seemed to be on lockdown.
"What the heck is going on here?" Mineta yelled as the group tried to think up what to do now.
"Izuku, is this normal?" Yu asked him as she looked around the room, trying to see if there were any clues to their predicament or ways out of here, she spotted a door in the corner with the universal sing for stairs, which at least meant they weren't trapped in the lobby but rather, only inside the building itself.
"Not as far as I can tell." Midoriya answered as his brow creased up as neko just said she couldn't make contact with anything or anyone, not on the island or back home. For some reason, his connections to the outside world had been cut. "I can't make contact with me lab, that shouldn't be blocked, I have clearance from the security system."
"Strange it is, the system shouldn't go onto high alert, that isn't the protocol whenever explosives are discovered." Mellissa thought aloud as she thought that strange as well as she knew more about the various security protocols the security should take for multiple types of scenarios and this didn't match up with any of them, was there a bug, a malfunction?
"Guys, I think we should go to that party." Tetsutetsu voiced, sounding as hard as his quirk as he looked towards the group as a whole.
"What makes you say that?" Kendo asked him as Iida nodded his head and crossed his arms.
"Because that's the place we can find All Might and Professor Shield right now. If anyone would now what the hell is going on, it's them." Tetsutetsu explained his reasoning to them, getting most of them to look on in surprise, they had no clue that All Might was present.
"Wait, All Might in there?" Uraraka asked as this was news to her.
"Oh thank God, we're saved." Mineta calmed down as that proof to be really good for their morale. If he was here, then if this was a bomb threat, things should be taken care of pretty quickly.
"Mellissa, is there any way we can get down there without the elevator?" Tetsutetsu asked her, the American girl nodded her head as she gestured towards the door that Yu had spotted earlier.
"Sure, we can use the emergency stairs. That'll at least get us close." Mellissa explained as it was their fastest and only route to the reception hall. They needed to speak with her father as soon as they couldn't if he wasn't already addressing the situation.
"Then we'll follow your lead then." Todoroki spoke up as the girl started leading them towards them. They didn't know it, but they were about the get entangled in a villain attack/hostage situation.
Whether they liked it or not.
And we are done! Man, I can't believe that only 12 minutes(give or take) of the movie ended up being over 15K words of content. The plan was originally to have the chapter be shorter at around 11k but I didn't want to end things at that point and chose to end things here, before the group finds out just what the hell is going on. What were thoughts on the new gear for Momo and Denki? I did allude to them getting some in earlier chapters with Denki thinking about getting some tools as far back as the USJ attack. With Denki's new weapons, I bet you all thought I'll make himself like Mjolnir or Stormbreaker and turn him into a Thor variant, didn't you? The thought was appealing when I thought it up but to honest, Denki reminds me more of Peter Quill, or at least the MCU take on the character since they are both goofy, not too bright not too strong characters who nonetheless are heroes, even if they are not the poster boys for such. When it came to his weapon, the mace form is styled to look like what Lisbeth uses in SAO, at least during the Phantom bullet arc.
Yaoyorozu on the other hand, that took a lot of consideration since I'm not a artist, I can write but I can't draw to save my life so it was hard figuring out what look Yaoyorozu would have from no one. With her new get-up, the inspiration behind it was mix of the costumes worn by: Black Widow, in From Age of Ultron with the glowing lines; Black Canary in the Young Justice cartoon with the jacket and Wonder Woman and what she wore in the animated movie Justice League Dark. The little Russian nestling doll/bear thing was a last minute add-on since one of my friends thought it would suit her and I have to agree, she's attractive but more often then not, she's more Nejire attractive which means she's cute-so she should play on that in her hero costume.
And that's right, you all read that right, Edna "E" Mode, the mastermind behind the costumes of most of the heroes in the Incredible movies is a character in this universe, same with the Incredibles themselves. I think we can all agree that Edna would love living in such a world as heroes are not only legal but they are servants of the people. She can do what she loves best and create their costumes on mass and best of all, her name can be attached to those costumes so that everyone will know who created them. The only real difference between her and her movie self would be that she's older in this take but other than that, she's the same.
With the flow of everything else, I think things went well as Tetsutetsu and Midoriya have found out that Mellissa wishes to try and become pro herself now, that's a plus but it was also something I had on my mind ever since chapter one since the two knew each other. I found it odd that she wouldn't try if she had a quirkless friend who was and had a good chance of getting into a hero school. Yu's presence will change thing up as you can imagine, so most of the events of the movie simple wont' happen for one reason or another but I have planned a great arc for this movie that I hope you all enjoy.
Reviews:
bauers374: Well I hope you make a great costume, I'm not American so we don't celebrate Halloween like that. I still don't know what the hell I'm going to do with this lockdown and global pandemic screwing with everything. I haven't seen the 2nd MHA movie yet but from what I've heard about it, things will hectic during that part but if Tony and James can keep up with superhuman like Hulk and Thor, then you can bet your ass that Izuku will be able to as well. Plus by that point, he'll would have grown a lot and gained new and improved tech. Maybe he'll do something like that down the line, I do have plans for that stretch outside Japan after-all. Chadwick Boseman was a great actor, he will be missed.
Robotdocter: Thanks for that, it's always great to hear that I did a good job and that chapter was well received. I hope you liked this chapter as well since there is more staff set to happen in this arc that will change things from cannon even more.
Yamajiji: Their relationship was never meant to stay hidden forever, but it was fun writing everyone's reactions to it. Iida always struck me as an Erza kind of character, just not as violent in his way of enforcing the rules so seeing them together, I just couldn't resist writing him passing out from it.
NinjaFang1331: Thanks.
D3lph0xL0v3r: Hmmm, Steel or Metal Shell, not bad names but I'm surprised that you're the only one who offered up any suggestions. Yes Donny's brothers are back in NYC, you can't have one without the others, they are a package deal. It was actually the 2012 version that got me really invested in the series. And no, Yoroi and their father still know each other, like in cannon, Splinter isn't their biological dad but their adoptive father. More on that will be explained when they enter the story proper.
tacktician: No worry, I read a lot of fanfiction as well so at times, I forget information in one story which means I have to reread the story just to jog my memory. I don't recall ever saying that he didn't. the mech did have cameras.
FouzyFFN: How you like Mineta's reaction to it? Don't worry, we'll see more on his opinions of it as the story goes.
Blaze1992: Well he was already making money before, but now he's going to be making a lot more of it. I doubt the UA staff will care all that much, it's not like they short for cash, the school must be loaded if it can afford all that stuff. With the typos, I already corrected that, not sure how long it'll take for the updated version of the chapter to be posted.
GunBlade2020: You have a point but any work towards adding partners hasn't even started yet. I don't know much about such relationships but from what I've read, they are much higher maintenance then the standard two person deal. There's already too much happening right now for me to even attempt that. Still, it's not like I have no plans for it.
Deathmaywrite: That is me bane that I'm always working to try and correct. On the other thing, I love his music too, as well as AJR which is why I placed their songs into the chapter, when I was writing that final fight, I was actually listening to it Rumble as I did so.
taimu shu: Thanks.
Zukafew119: Well the movie starts out with Midoriya and All Might in cannon so why not have the same scene, only with Tetsutetsu. It also allowed me to show off how they interact as it's different to the relationship between Izuku and All Might as in cannon, All Might's like a second father to him as the man helped him to achieve his dream, gave him support to do so and is regularly giving him advice or life advice, also Hisashi is not in the picture so the role of a father figure was as open as it could be without us getting confirmation that the guy is dead.
With Mellissa and Dave, All Might old them way back in season 1 after he had that heart to heart with Izuku in chapter 2 I believe, I'm pretty sure it was chapter 2. So their interactions from that point have been different to show this. Mellissa is quite peppy and full of life so she would of course tease him on his name as you gotta admit, it's repetitive, so much so that every time I have to write out his full name on my computer, word asks if I want to delete the second one. With his name, I just thought he took it after that movie from a couple years ago with the robots that box or something, it's the hero name he chose in cannon so I didn't think to change it. He may take English as a second language but that doesn't mean he's good at it. I barely passed my second language back in high school and I can barely speak it.
With David, the guy is the only known person to win this Nobel 'quirk' prize so we can only assume that he's at the top of the game, especially with all the tech he has created in his life as Mellissa points out that many of the items on display were only made possible because pieces of them were created by her father. The Atlas battle suit was more a dig against RWBY since cRWBY has really been dropping the ball with RWBY itself. I still watch it and I'm planning to watch volume 8 when it comes out but volume 7 among other things, was disappointing to watch. For the sake of plot, Grimm attack(despite the fact the lore of the show says that mantle is too damn cold for the Grimm to be an issue), they don't trust Ironwood(despite the fact they had no reason to not trust him and they are now doing the very same thing they all yelled at Ozpin for), Robyn was failure as character etc, I'll rant about this on a PM, this isn't the time for this.
The main cast do tend to forget that they performed in what is considered the modern day Olympics at times, granted not all of them had as much screen time as others but they still were featured on international television. I was hesitate to bring in Kendo but she's set to play a larger role in events then cannon, along with other members of 1-B so I thought it fitting that she be there. Tensei is dropped in cannon past the whole thing with Stain as Iida and other characters don't even bring him up, I felt that was an injustice against him, especially since Tensei is a fully fleshed out supporting character in the spin-off of the show, Vigilantes.
The villain fight scene was hard to right as Tetsutetsu fights in completely different manner to both Bakugo and Midoriya but I feel like I nailed it since I've gotten no complaints. And you were right on all three fronts with why OFA didn't take him out as quickly as it did Izuku in the early days. I also added in Yu in the same way Todoroki was in cannon, we don't see him actually do the trial but we know he did it and got a good time. Odd how you say that, I wasn't really thinking of the Quinjet when I designed the Silver Wing but I suppose they share some similarities. The Silver Wing was designed to be the best in the marker and seeing how the gear that heroes have access to, designing something like that isn't impossible, it would most likely just be very expensive.
The original idea was to have those ships be of the JMSDF but then I recalled that they don't have all that many ships to spare in the first place, on the other hand, we all know how powerful the US in terms of its armed forces, they have a larger defence budget than any other country on earth by a mile. The price he's selling them at is that low due to him wanting to get as many into service as possible but also because by that point, drones can't be that expensive as the resources and tech needed to build them would be more streamlines. At the price they are selling for, you could find sports cars more expensive. Thanks for that, I didn't know that Tensei almost never meets Tenya's friends, I would have imagined that they would have had a study session of some kind at some point but now that they live in dorms, I suppose that's a moot point.
Their reactions were as funny to write as they were to read when the chapter was posted. Todoroki is the most chill of the boys, if a little sheltered which is something I planned to exploit to the fullest as this story goes. With Dave and Toshi, I really wanted to give the two men a good heart to heart, to get it all out there and to allow you readers to see more about their personalities and opinions on things. Melissa deciding to try giving being a hero again was something that was always in the cards, ever since chapter one, the only issue was that I needed a good moment to add it into the story and that last chapter was the best moment I could pick. Izuku would be proud of that once he stops to really think about it since he was thinking about her in this chapter and not about how he's already starting to inspire people to be more.
Guest: Chapter two explains that.
