Izuku sat in the middle of the TDL everyone around him was focusing on making new super moves but his focus was on Momo. Izuku wanted to help her get control of her new quirk so he decided to be her training partner. "Last time you said the quirk activated when you wanted to reach out and grab something, so let's try that. Try to grab that pillar with it."
Momo just stood in frustration with her arm outstretched trying to bring out Blackwhip for several minutes. "It's no use Izu I have no idea how to do it." Momo lamented.
"Well I don't like it but last time you were in danger right? What if we simulate that by having me attack you or something?" Izuku asked the girl, he could fire off some Air Cannon's near her and make it dangerous but never hit her obviously.
"I guess we can try that, I'll ask Cementoss to make us a larger area to spar together." Momo walked off to go ask the teacher while Izuku looked down at his newly repaired costume, Mei did a good job as usual. Although Izuku doubted the girl got any sleep, he should have Shinsou force her to take a nap or something later, she definitely deserved it. Momo returned not much later and a decently large section of the TDL had been walled off for them to use.
"Alright Izuku let's do this." Momo gave a snarky grin to her boyfriend.
How long had it been since the two fought each other? Pretty long actually now that Izuku thought about it. Izuku stretched briefly rolling his neck and getting ready. "You're so going down Mo." Izuku jumped into the air and held himself there as muscles began forming around his body, he remembered how this went last time and refused to let a repeat of the Sports Festival occur. All quirks online, ready to go. Izuku blasted himself to the ground into the waiting arms of Momo much faster than she could react. The only thing stopping him from violently gut punching the girl was his remembrance of what happened to Toga, Izuku instead whizzed by harmlessly. Why hadn't Momo responded to his attack?
"Mo are you ok?" He turned only to see a net quickly being launched at him, as if that'd work Izuku just blasted the thing back at his opponent making sure to keep it on the weaker side, considering the damage it was capable of dealing.. Izuku watched the girl burn the net out of the air but now she was covered in armor, had a shield in one arm and a staff in the other while black lightning occasionally sparked from her body. "Oh so you're finally ready?"
"Sorry Zu I hesitated for a bit." The girl looked a little sad in her eyes.
Izuku instantly relaxed. "Mo what's wrong?"
"I-I just sorry I saw the muscle quirk and I remembered that night and I froze and I -" Momo looked like she was about to start having a panic attack.
Izuku instantly released that quirk and walked forward to give the girl a hug. "Mo we made it, I made it. I won't use that quirk if you don't want to see it."
"Thanks Izu." Hugging the person you were supposed to be sparring was pretty counterintuitive but she was hurting and Izuku felt so nice. After a few minutes Momo had calmed down enough to continue. "Okay I'm good now, you can use the quirk again."
"Are you sure? I don't have too, I can just go borrow the normal one from Aizawa-sensei." Izuku didn't like forcing his girlfriend to relive trauma if he didn't have too.
"No I need to get past this, for me ... please."
Izuku saw the determination in her eyes and how could he refuse that. Izuku took a few steps back creating some distance between the two before reactivating the quirk. Momo visible tensed as the muscle fibers began to cover his body once more but she didn't break down like the last time.
"Okay I'm ready." The girl picked up the shield and staff she'd drop earlier and resumed the stance she had previously. Lightning began to crackle off of her as 11% of One For All coursed through her body.
"Remember, were trying to get you to use Blackwhip, try and feel what happened on that night. I'm going to start attacking now." With that Izuku launched himself forward limiting himself to only a bit of Muscular, 100% of that quirk was far too risky. Izuku slammed into the spot Momo had been previously, the girl leapt upwards and was about to come down on Izuku from above she was already swinging her staff down upon his head. Izuku activated Tempo and simply grabbed the offending object before throwing it and Momo into a nearby wall.
The ninth user of One For All had different plans and a trampoline came out of her back right as she was going to collide with the wall in question. She quickly bounced straight back towards Izuku using some of the force of the throw as well as her own strength in order to blast herself straight at her opponent.
Izuku's eyes widened at Momo's counter to his attack, Tempo had ended so he just held up his arm as the staff came down. Izuku felt the impact from the weapon even through his muscle fibers, likely bruising him. Izuku stuck out his other hand and fired a weak Air Cannon at the girl's torso, denting the armor she was wearing and blowing her back. Izuku was trying to make her use Blackwhip so he decided he was going to fight this battle at a range. The boy switched to Water Cutter, Air Cannon, and Molecular manipulation, he didn't want to maim the girl so he was only using balls of ice instead of anything potentially lethal.
Momo's shield started denting under the barrage of solid ice as she held it up to block the blows, realizing her shield wasn't going to hold for long she dropped the staff and formed a smoke grenade dropping it on the spot.
Izuku just stared at the sight in confusion. "Momo you do know I can still see you right?"
"Yeah but it got you to stop firing didn't it dear?" Momo held in her hands a tranquilizer gun and began pulling her finger back aiming it at Izuku's right leg since it wasn't covered by any muscle fibers.
Well she wasn't wrong however... "Momo don't do it." Momo really. Don't.
"Too late dear!" Momo finished pulling the trigger only for her to feel a dart hit the back of her leg. "Wha-" Was the last thing the girl said before she started falling, she felt Izuku catch her but blackness swiftly followed.
Izuku felt snapshot end and sighed, Air gun projectiles travel at 1200 feet per second but that wasn't the important part. The important part would be where Izuku had zoomed in on her finger waiting for the shot to be fired, only for it to go through a portal and be redirected into her leg. Izuku set Momo down gently, she probably used the weak stuff and would be up in roughly 10ish minutes. Izuku just let the girl sleep in his lap while the drug wore off. Izuku heard a certain pink skinned girl in the distance giggling and pointing but he paid it no mind.
Momo groggily got up as she slowly started piecing together what happened, as she looked up she saw Izuku staring down at her with those cute dimples.
"Morning sleepyhead, I did tell you not to. We're trying to make you use Blackwhip remember?" Izuku saw the recognition in the girls eyes as she realized what happened.
Momo shot out of the boy's lap looking around to get her bearings before sighing in defeat. "How long was I out Izu?"
"Eh like 9 minutes, nothing major. Was it a nice nap?" Izuku asked the girl genuinely.
"It's been awhile since I've accidentally tranquilized myself." How long has it been? 4, 5 years? The girl made a mental note to check for portals before using her weapons against Izuku in the future. "That trick won't work again." She started pouting.
"I doubt it, you're pretty smart Ms. Number 1." Izuku snickered before standing himself. "So before you tried to tranq me, did it feel like anything was working?"
Mom remembered the purpose of the training and thought back. "Honestly no, and the only hint I have is that Banjo said I need to control my feelings to use it, which is an awful hint." Momo pouted trying to remember what she had been feeling that night. All she could remember ...
was ...
rage. Oh she's an idiot, Momo thought to herself. "Izuku make me as angry as you possibly can."
"What?" Izuku looked confusedly at his girlfriend.
"I think it's tied to my anger." Momo quickly explained.
Izuku catching on quickly. "Momo I cheated on you with Mina." That did not have the intended effect as Momo just deflated after he said that.
"R-really?" The girls demeanor quickly worsened.
Izuku started frantically waving his hands. "No no no no I'd never cheat on you, you said to make you angry!"
Momo's mood slightly swung back. "Sorry, I should've realized." Momo's head just drooped some more.
Okay we're done with training today Izuku said to himself. Momo is clearly having an off day, I'm going to take her back to the dorms make her some food and we're going to binge those documentaries she loves so much. Izuku strode over to the girl and grabbed before hugging her again. "We're done for the day okay Momo? Remember what you said to me at the sports festival?"
Momo just slowly shook her head.
"It's okay to have an off day." Izuku smiled before pulling her deeper into the hug. "We're going back to the dorms and relaxing, I AM going to make you food, you're NOT going to leave the couch and I WILL be cuddling with you under the blanket. Do I make myself clear?"
Momo's face brightened a bit as she heard that. Maybe she really did need some time off, this entire year has been one PTSD event after another. It's not surprising that she's mentally suffering a bit, even if they did all made it out okay in the end. The girl just let her boyfriend walk her through a portal back to the U.A. dorms.
"I'm making your favourite, now sit." Izuku half instructed half commanded the girl. Izuku returned shortly before taking a bunch of blankets and wrapping the girl up. This was shortly followed by the boy turning the TV on to "How it's Made.", Momo loved binging the show as it was both entertaining and helped with her quirk. With the raven haired girl situated Izuku quickly moved to the kitchen to start making her Udon. Izuku made sure to keep looking back at Momo intermittently while he cooked. The girl seemed docile at the very least, way more relaxed then before. Other than that it looked like the lights were on in her head but nobody was home. Izuku swore she'd fallen asleep but when he walked over plates in tow his girlfriend's eyes were blankly staring at the TV. "Here you go Momo." Izuku handed her the plate before joining her under the ball of blankets.
They both sat in silence until Momo spoke. "Do you think it's going to keep being like this Izuku? Villain attacks are only surging and we both have targets on our back. Not to mention the unpleasant mob that is still situated outside U.A. for like the fifth day in a row." Momo was just staring at her food not eating while she spoke.
"I'd say it's going to get easier but your right Momo, it likely isn't." Izuku wasn't going to lie to the girl. "However that doesn't mean we shouldn't rest when we can and that's exactly what we're doing right now." Izuku set his plate on the table and leaned into her. "It's going to get better one day I promise, one day we'll be able to look back and laugh, well maybe not laugh but we WILL be able to look back and feel proud of ourselves for making it through everything we did. We're going to get Shigaraki, we'll protect Eri from the bastards that hurt her, the public will eventually give up bothering us and I promise you I'll be with you through it all Momo.
Momo gave him a bright smile before holding up her pinky. "Promise?"
Izuku pushed her hand down which greatly worried the girl but he quickly reassured her. "Considering how badly the last one of those I made, how about this for a promise." Izuku gave her a light peck before pulling away and chuckling softly. "Really that had to be the world's worst pinky promise."
Momo smiled a bit at that and leaned back into Izuku. "Your right it was absolutely tragic Izu."
Aizawa walked into the common room after noticing the abrupt disappearance of two of his students. Only to find them on the couch silently enjoying each others company. They'd both had it rough enough lately, they likely need some time off. The man had a small smile on his face, 'I'm not going to interrupt that, and technically school still hadn't started back up yet so who really cares.' Aizawa left quietly out the front door leaving the two to themselves.
Momo woke up when she heard a noise behind her, she quickly remembered how she got here and saw Izuku's sleeping face. When he's not awake he looks so innocent, his was face completely relaxed, it's nice to see him not worrying about things for once. Outside it was getting dark which implied they had been here for several hours at least. The TV was at a low volume and was still playing "How it's Made." while they slept. Momo finally turned and saw a very pale girl with blonde hair and a buzz cut sitting there at the door staring at the two of them. Momo held up her hand putting a finger to her lips indicating for the girl to be quiet. Hagakure thankfully nodded and quietly closed the front door before heading into the commons and then up to her own room. Momo was just happy it wasn't Mina that found them, she'd likely be here soon however. Momo really didn't want to wake Izuku but it was probably time for her to do so. The girl lightly shook her boyfriend who in turn drearily woke up.
Izuku rubbed his eyes as he started stirring from his slumber. "Hey Momo, how long did we sleep?"
The ninth user just pulled out her phone and looked. "Seems our nap went a bit longer than it should have." Momo felt a breeze get into their blanket and since winter had been fast approaching she shivered at the loss of warmth, she quickly pulled the blanket around themselves tighter.
Izuku let out a lazy yawn. "We should probably try and do something active to tire ourselves out before bed or our sleep schedule is going to be off. Nedzu likely isn't a fan of the fact I skipped out on yet another day of learning super moves, I'll definitely have to be there tomorrow. Though I do have a few ideas that should placate the rat, and as for you we'll definitely get you Blackwhip, I believe in you Mo." Izuku gave her a bright smile.
"At least someone does." Momo huffed.
"That's not fair you know Toshinori does as well, and while Aizawa would never admit he does as well. C'mon what makes you angry Momo, we can use that as a source for the power." Izuku explained.
Honestly Momo was a pretty hard person to anger, of the few times in life she'd really snapped the forest incident was easily the time she'd been the angriest in her entire life. The girl's only thoughts at the time had been, how dare they do this and I won't let them get away with it. "We don't even know if that's how it really works Izu."
Izuku responded by grabbing her arm. "One For All, give her more advice your such a stupid uncontrollable and vague quirk, for once do your damn job and help the successor of your power!" Izuku spoke quietly but angrily at the quirk.
Momo kind of agreed with Izuku's stance, One For All was such a strange quirk and it had to go and make everything so cryptic. "Izuku you don't have to yell at my quirk for me." Momo laughed.
"Yeah I do it deserves it, instead of all of this cloak and dagger bullshit it should just talk to you straight up. On top of that why did it wait until you to start acting weird like this, why not All Might or Nana?" Izuku still held her arm, half questioning her half questioning the quirk.
"Oi what are you two nerds up to?" Bakugo's angry voice came from the door until he stomped into the room.
Momo really not in the mood to deal with anyone today bit back and leveled a glare at Bakugo "Nothing, how about you?"
Bakugo noticed immediately how agitated the girl was and decided not to poke the bear. "Eh just going to my room."
Izuku stared dumbfounded at Momo. "Did you just ... scare Bakugo off?" Izuku knew not to mess with an angry Momo but being able to scare off Bakugo was an entirely different level of achievement.
Momo remembered the final exams and everything else Bakugo put people through before scoffing. "Took him long enough, I've had you scared straight since day one."
Izuku remembered the cafeteria and chuckled. "Yeah you did my lady. Does the young misses require anything else?"
"That will be all, you are dismissed." Momo joked back.
Both of them let out a small chuckle remembering how they met. "It was so much easier back then wasn't it?"
Izuku just nodded. "Yeah it was, you feeling any better?"
"A lot, thanks Izu, now let's take this upstairs. We can let Aizawa handle Eri today." The girl sat up and dragged her boyfriend along to her room.
The class once again reconvened in the TDL for the final day, their license exams will be soon and Momo couldn't be more anxious. The ravenette really wanted to unlock Blackwhip before the day of the exam, so she decided to do everything in her power to unleash it today. "Alright I'm going to do it, I'm going to control my new quirk." Momo was mentally pumping herself up as she readied herself, she needed to be angry but more than that, in control.
Izuku was actually impressed by the sheer amount of determination on Momo's face, she really really wanted this. "Alright Mo, is there anything in particular you want me to do or say or do you want to do this on your own?"
"I'm doing this by myself, you master different quirks all the time, for once I'm going to do the same." Momo sat down in front of the rock pillar from yesterday and started meditating. One For All, you are my power, you listen to me, I am not a slave to the past users. Momo sat in contemplation about her powers, a movie Izuku showed her resonated within her memories 'That's the secret, I'm always angry.' That singular feeling encompassed her, she was angry, she was angry at the villains, at her lack of control, at the previous users, at the events that led her to this point. Momo used that as her fuel she would no longer fail, she might be guaranteed to have All Might's strength one day but that was no longer enough, she needed it now. The thing she was most angry at, the thing that would drive her, was the anger at herself. Momo dived deep and felt the core of One For All, she felt it silently vibrating within herself, she would no longer fail, she would no longer let the world around her dictate her actions. She felt a resonation of sorts coming from the core and it was going to be bent to her will whether it liked it or not.
Momo grabbed at the core with all of her power and squeezed, she felt the thing try to resist at first but momo simply put more of her will into controlling it. 'You are mine and I am yours, give me your secrets One For All.' Suddenly the ninth felt an explosion of power throughout her body and she was surrounded in that black substance once more it was emanating wildly from both of her arms, they writhed without any semblance of control. Momo opened her eyes to see to see the whip violently lashing out all around her, she was thankful then that Cementoss gave them their own section of the TDL, the black mass seemed to be violently hurling itself at the only other person nearby which happened to be Izuku himself. Momo was scared of her power for the briefest of moments but then she saw the smile on Izuku's face as he opened his arms and let Blackwhip impact with him.
The effect was instant, they were both back inside the core of One For All. Eight figures lined up standing in a line next to Momo, she still didn't have a mouth but more of her had formed she could flex her right hand now. One of the figures which she assumed was Toshinori was still very wispy and ghost like, nothing like the solid figures of the other 7. When the girl turned and looked forward she saw Izuku and his quirks doing something similar on the other side. It felt like two sides staring each other down right before a war would begin. Momo did the only thing she could and floated forward, she heard a few of the other past users gasp or tell her to get back but Momo had long since decided that she was in control, she strode proudly until she reached the middle point and held her hand out.
Izuku smiled seeing his girlfriend so commanding, so in charge. How could he do anything less? Izuku walked forward and took her hand in his and for the first time in over 200 years One For All and All For One were truly reunited. The silent oath was made between the two, they never needed words and neither the remnants of All For One or One For All mattered, they would walk into the future together as one power split between two. Izuku listened as a few of the previous users started screaming at the girl, the first easily being the loudest, for her to get back but both of them ignored the voices. Instead they treated them as mere background noise. "You sure about this?"
The girl didn't even hesitate. "I'm sure."
Izuku tested the girl for All For One as she in turn wanted to give the boy One For All, being able to skip the DNA step as for once One For All did not try and dodge Izuku's attempts to steal it. However instead of actually taking the quirk Izuku just let the two quirk strings connect and it felt strangely nice, like two old friends meeting once more. There was a calm as a light began to expand from their combined hands. The world instantly exploded in light and both were returned to the real world.
Izuku awoke staring at the ceiling of the gym while Momo was still sitting in her meditative position, he blinked a few times before speaking. "Wha - What just happened?" Izuku asked to the roof overhanging him.
Momo just giggled a bit before responding. "I think One For All and All For One are friends again, at least I hope so. Right at the end before the light starting expanding, I swore I heard the first say something like "Older Brother"."
As Izuku finally sat up and faced the girl the first thing he noticed was she was crying, the second was he'd never seen the girl happier, however the third and most important thing was that Blackwhip hung loosely at her side. Whatever they'd just done clearly calmed the quirk down, Izuku decided to take a page out of Hagakure's book. "Hey Wondergirl. You did it."
Momo looked to where Izuku was pointing and saw the tendrils whisping off of her body quietly. The ravenette called at them to move and to her surprise they did exactly as she asked, they were no longer the unruly child that refused to listen to her but now hers true and fully. Momo called them back into her body before launching them at Izuku and pulling him into her. "Did I ever tell you I love you?" She grabbed her tied up boyfriend and pulled him in violently, making out with him on the spot.
Izuku to his credit and in his helpless situation just melted into the girl, it wasn't like he could move anyway, he was completely tied up by those black tendrils. Izuku wanted to assert control over the kiss despite his position and started violently using his tongue to dominate the girl's mouth. Momo while initially surprised fought back with just as much fury and soon the kiss turned into the two fighting to be the one in control. A loud cough broke them apart, then Izuku was suddenly no longer restrained and he had to stop himself from falling to the floor.
The two looked over to see Aizawa erasing their quirk. "It's good to see you've gotten control of that new quirk Yaoyorozu but your lucky I was the one to find you and not Midnight or Ashido, just keep it in your pants until later problem children. That being said I'm still waiting on your paper Yaoyorozu, why not add another five pages on why you shouldn't be committing acts of PDA. As for you Midoriya I expect a five page paper on how to escape from being tied up." Their teacher simply smirked laughing creepily as he walked away.
"We really need to stop doing that Izu." Momo sighed.
"Yeah we really do. Only we could be dumb enough to flirt in front of Endeavour and now Eraserhead." Izuku chuckled a bit. "At least it's only five pages, it could be a lot worse." Izuku paused for a second. "That reminds me Momo, what were you going to tell the class regarding your new quirk?"
"I figured I could say it's part of Indra, the quirk is already weird as is, I could just say I found a way to manifest and control the black lightning as a physical tangible object." It sounded like a plausible idea to Yaoyorozu, as her class already understood her quirk was 'unique'.
"Works for me, alright let's finish up here and get out of here." Izuku had already created quite a few new moves combining various quirks, so it's not like the principal or Aizawa could complain about him not making any progress, plus he isn't even going to be taking the test in a few days. Overall it had been a successful few days as Izuku trained both his quirk limit and his use of those quirks, being at 15 sucked as usual but it would be worth it in the long run. The next time he fought he'd definitely have some new tricks to show off to whatever poor soul would be his opponent.
Notes:
The next chapter is going to be a bit, hmm how should I put this ... different.
Also if you guys notice any previous chapters are particularly egregious in regards to grammar or missing words please let me know through a PM I'm going back and fixing them slowly but doing that to over 260k words is going to take awhile on my own.
Current Quirk List
Izuku Midoriya: Kuroe, Float, Minor Regeneration, Molecular manipulation, Breath of Life, Tempo, Ultra Sight, Muscle Augmentation (Renamed to Muscular), Warp Gate, Air Cannon, Water Cutter, Rewind
Bakugo Katsuki: Explosion, Pyrokinesis
Tenya Iida: Engine, Air Step
Jirou Kyoka: Earphone Jack, Mute
Koji Koda: Animal Speak, Voice Throwing.
Mina Ashido: Acid, Liquid Manipulation
Sero Hanta: Tape, Minor Fire Resistance, Fire Breath
Yuga Aoyama: Navel Laser, Photokinesis
Kirishima Ejiro: Hardening, Shunpo
Yaoyorozu Momo: One for All, Creation, Blackwhip?
Shinsou Hitoshi: Thunderclap, Brainwashing
Denki Kaminari: Electrification, Lightning Rod
All For One: Unknown
Kurogiri: EMP
Eri: Zero Gravity
Nedzu: High Specs, Silence
Uraraka: Galeforce
Ananiel: -None-
Eraserhead: Erasure, Super Strength
Quirk Bank: Quirk Enhancer
