Chapter 54: A Day in the Life of a Sentient Quirk
Summary:
A day in the life of a sentient quirk.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Ananiel sat at his post, his vigil never fading. Master's word rang in his head in the tone of Ananiel's low, slow inner voice, he truly loved his god and the creations he'd been tasked with protecting, yes even the eldritch dogs. They were like his children, and they would sometimes quarrel as such but Ananiel was always around to stop it from going too far. The Monkey's with wings, sauntered about minding their own business, Ananiel was pleased that they hadn't fought as much lately, he was tired of breaking them up. Though Ananiel did enjoy getting the chance to smack them around for a bit, Ananiel longed for something to test his mettle against.
A few of the hand goats loudly butted heads with each other trying to prove who was the dominant one among the group, folly, Ananiel was the one in charge but he allowed their hijinks regardless. Every once in awhile one of Master's servant's would come to visit and play with some of his creations, Ananiel would not lie. He was slightly jealous of the human's under their god, he longed to abandon his post and go see him. One would not normally be able to visit their god but unlike most people, their god walked among them, their god was physical. Ananiel was never happier then when Master came to visit, he still guarded the treasure master had given him and would let no harm come to the thing in question. As Ananiel stood his usual guard one of the servant's decided to visit, it was the white haired one and the rat, Ananiel scoffed at the aura of authority coming from the thing that dared think itself the superior. But he had his orders, he would do nothing but provide them with an enjoyable experience while they frolicked amongst his flock. The creature in question bored his eyes into Ananiel, knowing eyes he reasoned, eyes full of wisdom. Ananiel could respect that about the rat at least, Master valued intellect over all else and truly if something had a high intellect, it would be that thing.
The girl however was under his personal protection, she was dear to their god and if anything tried to harm her Ananiel would rend the flesh from their body. The spear gifted to him would not bring mercy, nor would it bring a swift death. It would however bring slow agonizing pain as Ananiel relished in his cruelty, no as far as Ananiel was concerned that girl's protection outweighed any of the other things here. When the girl approached Ananiel tilted his head at her, he wished he could talk if only to tell her how much she was loved.
"Hey mister Ananiel can I borrow the pointy thing?" Eri gestured to his spear.
Ananiel was conflicted as he did not wish to give such a dangerous implement to the child but he did not want to sadden her either. Eventually however, he relented and gently handed the girl the weapon in question. Ananiel was surprised as it began to float in the air all on it's own, ah yes the gift master had bestowed upon her. His god truly was a benevolent one, so giving with all his power, it slightly amused him that such an act was possible but truly nothing was impossible when you believed in master. The giggling child played with his weapon a bit before returning it.
"Thank you mister Ananiel!" The ex unicorn ran back over to ride on the backs of the dogs.
The sight pleased Ananiel greatly, the white haired child's joy was his joy in much of the same way that his master's joy was his joy. The rat had walked over and was staring him down, it unnerved Ananiel in the way his visage was reflected in those eyes. "Ananiel ... what a truly interesting specimen. You clearly can think, you possess the best qualities of many different living species, can even fly and on top of all that you can hold quirks. I must say Izuku did an excellent job when making you."
The praise while warranted and true, how dare the creature use master's name, another reason he was jealous of his god's servants. They too would learn to worship his excellency appropriately in time, Ananiel was sure of that and doubly so of the rat in front of him. Ananiel straightened his posture and assumed a more dignified stance, indicating to the rat that his words were not going unnoticed.
Nedzu eye'd the creation that neared on olde angelic, the kind of horrifying seven eyed things only the old testament would carry. "What quirk's do you currently possess if you do not mind me asking? You do not need to tell me obviously, think of it as a request from a fellow sentient animal."
The audacity of the creature was matched only by its propensity to annoy him, how dare they assume to be of equal footing. He was Ananiel the great god's perfect creation, he was leagues above this thing and it's ranking on the hierarchy. It should be begging Ananiel to show his full glory, prostrated on its knees asking for him to show his benevolence, not approaching it with this level casualness. However Ananiel also wished to be free of it's irritance, and began weighing the options in it's head. On one hand he would be lowering himself to the status that this rat thought they shared, on the other he could be rid of him. Ananiel finally decided to go with the latter, the rat was of high standing in his god's eyes, he could at least allow the creature to believe itself his equal. Ananiel twirled his staff before slamming it into the ground and holding one of his four arms out and unleashing a small trickle of water. Truly magnificent, the rat must be basking in the awe that is Ananiel.
"Is that the only one? I see it's quite weak without another quirk to increase its power." Nedzu nodded in appreciation at how powerful the quirk could be when it was pressurized but it was very useless otherwise.
WEAK?! WEAK!? HOW DARE THE RAT CALL ANANIEL WEAK, HOW MUCH HE WANTED TO STRIDE FORWARD AND PLUNGE HIS SPEAR THROUGH IT'S ABDOMEN. BUT HIS GOD HAD SPOKEN, THE RAT WAS TO BE PROTECTED NOT ATTACKED. Ananiel shook violently with fury for the first time ever he wanted to disobey his master, but he would not. His word was absolute, and Ananiel relented before ripping his spear from the ground and returned to his neutral stance. Just you wait RAT if master ever gives me the chance to skewer you I will do so with glee.
Nedzu completely oblivious to the blood lust just calmly watched as the creature returned to his previous position. "Anyway I must thank you for protecting Izuku's hard work, I do hope we can continue to get along Ananiel." Nedzu curtly bowed before returning to play with the girl who had somehow corralled the dogs into picking her up with their tentacles and running around with her.
Never in Ananiels admittedly short life had he wished he could speak more than right now. However the girl's glee quickly brought him out of his enraged state, not even he could remain angry when he saw that smile. However that changed and a visible wave of anxiety swept through the creations as they all felt their master's mental state change drastically. Ever worried for his god Ananiel wished he could leave and check on him but his orders were to protect these creatures, he needed to let master protect himself until ordered otherwise and that made him angry. His god's anger is Ananiel's anger after all.
Another of the servant's came up onto the onto the roof, not that Ananiel cared to remember them but this was the one who originally owned the gift bestowed upon the unicorn. Her step was strange if nothing, Ananiel could not remember her walking like that but it concerned him little until the smell hit him, a smell Ananiel knew too well.
"Oh hello Uraraka, how are you doing." Nedzu gave a chipper greeting to his student who was skipping over to them. "What's going you into such a good mood?"
"Oh hi floaty girl, I really like your quirk it's so much fun!" Eri pointed out the hand pigeon who was gently floating in the air next to her.
"Golly, glad to see it's getting used for something so useful Eri-Chan." Uraraka gave a smile as she drew closer. "Can I hold it? It's nostalgic to see my old quirk in action."
"Sure!" The little girl replied holding out the bird for her to see.
Uraraka reached out for the bird, only for a knife to suddenly slide into her hand as she swung it at the rat, however her swing would never land as suddenly Uraraka? Found herself skewered with a spear. "O-oh..." She gripped the thing running through her body weakly as her hands turned to goop, before she could completely dissolve however, Ananiel was over in a flash and ripped the head clean from her shoulders.
Not something Ananiel enjoyed showing the girl, however scaring the child was the least of his worries at the moment. Once he finished inspected the pile of goo and determining it to be dealt with, he kneeled in front of the scared child and patted her head gently, the girl while initially shaking eventually leaned into it. " -Sniff- t-thank y-you."
"My word, how did they get a clone onto campus!?" Nedzu who had been seconds from getting his throat slit was scared beyond belief, was almost hyperventilating really, as he stared at the pile of Goo he spotted something that wasn't that weird tan goop. Curiosity overwhelming his fear, the rat went over to inspect it, it was the I.D. of one of his students ... oh no. "General Education: Naginata Hina." Nedzu highly doubted the girl was still among the living, he'd failed another one of his students and that failure almost cost him his life. "Ananiel thank you for your quick action, I must say had you not been here I doubt I'd still be alive. I have to go report this immediately there could be another one, in fact there was almost certainly another one walking around campus since this was a clone." The villain wasn't named Twice for a reason Nedzu thought darkly.
Ananiel only gave the creature a curt nod as he continued consoling the girl who been forced to watch his brutality, he'd done his job though. He'd protected them both just as their god had instructed and he would surely be rewarded for his work later, however his god was still in a moment of duress. What ails you my lord, surely whatever it is, is connected to this event. Ananiel had to make a choice here, two secondary orders were now conflicting with each other and it was causing him great anxiety, he had to choose, Ananiel had never chosen before. His flock or the servants? Master would surely know which was the priority, if only he were here to command him. Ananiel decided to defend the human servant's over the flock, the girl and the rat had been both been blessed by his god, his mark was upon them in the form of 'quirks'. If they had one and the animals did not then they were clearly more chosen than his flock.
Nedzu on the other hand was in the process of calling Hound dog. "Hound Dog there's a high likelihood that there's a clone of 1-A somewhere on campus, it's Toga in disguise try and see if you can smell her out. Alert as many teachers as you can, I'm on my way." Ending the call he turned to Ananiel. "Can you fly us to the main building?" Nedzu then returned to his phone and called Power Loader. "Power Loader get on the intercoms and relay this message. "Toga Himiko is likely to be disguised as a U.A. student and is on campus somewhere, student's are to lock in place and do not move. Ectoplasm clones will be coming to get you, if you see another student moving, do not let them get close to you, treat them as hostile and get to safety. As for any student's in their room's, stay there, do not let anyone in under any circumstances, your teacher's will be coming by to check up on you. They will NOT try to enter your room, if they do assume them to be hostile as well."
Ananiel reluctantly accepted the command of the rat and picked them both up using his one of his two human arms for each of them, he then quickly soared into the air with his two passengers. Mid flight Eri started stammering. "N-nedzu, d-did the b-bad people find m-me?"
"I don't know Eri, I really don't know." Nedzu had been played, how could he have let this happen.
Meanwhile in the nurse's office.
"THEY DID WHAT TO HER!?" Izuku was irately screaming as Toshinori explained what Nighteye's reconnaissance had discovered. RAGE, SHEER GOD DAMN RAGE, IZUKU WAS GOING TO TEAR OVERHAUL'S HEAD CLEAN OFF, ONLY, AND ONLY AFTER LETTING HIM TASTE WHAT HE DID TO ERI TENFOLD.
"M-my boy calm yourself, your scaring Recovery Girl ... and myself frankly, I understand your anger but we need to remain calm and handle this rationally." All Might held up his hands because he was afraid the boy was going to hit someone.
Silent vitriol, nay silent death itself was the only thing to come from the boy's tone. "All Might, you have no idea what I'm feeling right now, he disintegrated her after he carved her up like a goddamn turkey, and for what? Just because she didn't have enough blood for his liking, then he'd fucking remake her and do it over again, All Might frankly your lucky I'm not blowing something up right now."
"M-midoriya my boy, I get it your angry and you have every right to be, but getting angry here isn't helping anything right now, you need to save it for them, not here, not us." Yagi was silently cheering that Momo wasn't here to see Izuku like this, even All Might didn't want to see the boy like this. They'd just gotten him back to normal so this wasn't very reassuring.
"Young lad please restrain yourself in my office, I don't like it when people yell in here." Chiyo added trying to calm the boy down, they'd known he'd react poorly to the news but this was a bit much, okay she's lying this was a perfectly natural response. The person in question Overhaul was a monster wearing human skin, as soon as they matched the contents of those quirk erasing bullets to Eri's blood it became obvious, especially since Nighteye found out what Overhaul's quirk was.
Izuku was far past angry, hell he was past livid, Izuku didn't think there was a word for the level of anger he was currently feeling, but ... they were right. Izuku started to reign in his anger, taking it out on his loved ones was a mistake he'd made in the past already. So when the alarm started blaring and everyone was told to freeze in place, Izuku felt a manic grin spread to his face. Ah yes, just what the doctor ordered, a punching bag. Izuku sprinted into the halls despite being ordered to do the exact opposite, now if I were a shapeshifting clone that Izuku highly suspected was a member of 1-A thanks to Toga's previous comments, where would I be? Toshinori and Recovery Girl were yelling after him but they were background noise at this point. Racking his brain it was a few options based on whose blood they knew she had, so the main suspects were Uraraka, Tsuyu, and Hagakure. Izuku opened a portal to the dorm's where everyone had been chilling and stepped through quickly, only to find a stand off of people in the room all staring at each other, about a third of 1-A, not bad, and no duplicates.
"Oh thank god he's real!" Sero shouted out.
"Izuku it is indeed pleasant to see you safe and unharmed but we were instructed to lock down, why are you moving about?" Iida frantically shouted.
"Simple Tenya, I'm hunting." Everyone in the room felt that chill, without even pausing Izuku walked over to Shinsou and stole Brainwashing. "I'm borrowing this Shinsou." Izuku turned and activated Thermal trying to see if that might differentiate the clone from the rest, however none of his main targets were here. "It's most likely Hagakure, Uraraka, or Tsuyu since we know they have their blood, stay here don't move, I'm going to get her and then I'm going to make her squeal like a fucking pig." Izuku sprinted out of the room, if she wasn't down here she was either not in the building at all or she was stalking the floors, their likely objective was him, Momo ... or Eri, and Izuku would rot in hell before he let those monsters take her again. Thermal flared as he ran through floor after floor, Muscular had spread around his body greatly increasing his movement speed as he went. However he couldn't find any sign of the three girls in the halls even after he went through all of them, Izuku realizing he was idiot dropped Thermal and switched to Dark Vision, he wasn't thinking straight, his panic was controlling him. Calm rage Izuku, not blind, never blind. Combining the sight with Zoom Izuku started confirming the number of people in the building, his eyes burned as the strain of keeping this on for an extended period of time started to hit him but if there was a time to fight through the pain this was it.
Eight in the lobby, twelve scattered about the building and two in the halls, they were just yellow silhouettes so differentiating them was hard but he could do it, focus Izu, let the rage blind you to the pain, it was so subtle he barely noticed it but one of the silhouettes just moved, there! I GOT YOU TOGA! Izuku warped above the girl and dropped onto her from above, "I GOT YOU NOW TOGA!" Izuku pinned the stunned target beneath him and noticed there was two Tsuyu's in this room. "Midoriya Kero, it's not me it's her!"
Izuku wasn't quite sure he believed that but she responded and that was all Izuku needed, he brainwashed her instantly but didn't issue any commands, he couldn't let his hand be seen in case he was wrong. "You, other Tsuyu prove to me your the real one, what did you say to me on the bus on the way to the USJ." Izuku leveled a threatening glare at them.
The Tsuyu? wracked her brain a bit before responding. "I don't remember Kero, that was so long ago. It's not me though ask anything else please!"
Hook, line and sinker, I fucking love your quirk Shinsou. Izuku asserted his control over the other girl, and stood up. "Whichever one of you is actually Himiko Toga raise your hand and tell me everything you know about the Chie Haissaki, base, location, weapons, everything."
The Tsuyu Izuku had been sitting on started drunkenly spilling what she knew, Izuku thought this should be heard by Nedzu so he instructed the clone to stop and wait for further orders before calling Nedzu. "Nedzu I got her with Shinsou's quirk and she's spilling everything give me your location, I'm bringing you here."
"YOU WHAT?! I TOLD EVERYONE TO HUNKER DOWN! Please tell me you didn't go after her against my orders." Nedzu already knew he had and it clearly had worked out for the best so he just relented. "Fine I'm in front of the back entrance to the main building. As loathe as I am to say it, good job Izuku." A portal appeared before the rat and he stepped through with Ananiel and Eri.
Izuku's surprise was jarring, why was Ananiel with them? "Uh why is he with you?"
"Ananiel protected us from a Toga clone that was disguised as Uraraka on the roof, he struck around to protect us afterwards." Nedzu explained.
"Ananiel your relieved, go rest on the roof, you did a very VERY good job." That one was sticking around, Izuku would make sure of that.
Ananiel simply bowed before leaving, his height made it slightly difficult to fit into the elevator but he managed. Ananiel had been praised, Ananiel's worth was proven, BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
Izuku pet Eri's head gently. "You made it through something scary, I'm sorry I should've been there for you." He whispered gently before picking her up and holding her too him. "Just rest okay, it's over they won't be getting you ever again."
"t-than-" Izuku took over her with Brainwashing.
"Sleep Eri, and have good dreams." The effect was instant as she fell limp against his body. Noticing that Nedzu was staring at him Izuku explained. "She doesn't need to hear this."
Nedzu nodded at that, Izuku was kind in his own way. "Aren't you going to release the real Tsuyu Midoriya?" That was the other thing that'd been bothering the sentient animal.
"I would but I don't have the fine control Shinsou does, I may release both of them on accident. Anyway, Toga, spill. Tell me everything you were going to say earlier." Izuku returned to the major issue at hand.
"A path of winding tunnels underneath the Yakuza hideout, they don't trust us so we don't get to move around much. It's just me and Twice with them but he's making good use of our clones, we're just biding time until we find the doctor or that's what Shigaraki's said. We were told to get the girl or you but you were a much riskier target so we went after the girl instead, even without her quirk her blood was still needed by Overhaul."
Yup Izuku is fucking killing him, holy shit he's going to kill him. He's made this personal on a whole nother level, and because of Nighteye we already know who wins, how does that make you feel Kai Chisaki, fate itself has betrayed you. "Nedzu do we have any quirk suppressing handcuffs? We may need to question her later and the longer we can keep this clone alive the better, knowing how unhinged Toga is she'd probably kill herself given the chance. Also shouldn't we tell everyone it's safe, we got the clone after all and I doubt they'd risk sending Toga herself here."
"Hmm good point let me get Power Loader, I'm currently having him handle the intercoms or was until I got there." Nedzu pulled out his phone. "Power Loader, we got her announce it to everyone however keep Hound Dog sniffing about just in case. Also we do have some quirk suppressing handcuffs correct?"
Izuku meanwhile wanted to test something he'd been wanting to test for awhile, he walked over and put his hand on her. Hmmmmm ... he can't steal a clones quirk, how unfortunate ... although it could be because I'm not actually touching her, I'm touching the goop from her transformation, in the same way I couldn't take Muscular's quirk by touching his muscles. Thank god he'd asked the girl about her quirk while he was with the villains or he'd have no idea how her quirk worked. Izuku's nose started bleeding at that moment, he still had quite a few more portal's to make too, fuck.
"Izuku can you make another por- I see he'll just have to walk." Nedzu looked on at the state Izuku was driving himself too.
"No it's fine I can do a few more and we need those handcuffs quickly, we can't risk her getting out of Shinsou's quirk and to be frank I've never used it before so my control is less than stable. Tell him I'll make it in the support studio." Izuku's head was starting to hurt, Izuku remembered Shinsou briefly mentioning something about that during the "In my ass" incident.
"Fine just make sure not to push it too hard Izuku." Returning to his phone. "Ah sorry Power Loader, something came up but yes head to the support department Izuku will be creating a portal there briefly." Nedzu hung up after that.
Izuku was sitting against the wall trying to hold everything in, everyone was right he's killing himself slowly by using all these amazing powers. His body was quite literally falling apart from the strain he was inflicting on himself. "Room's spinning, make him hurry Nedzu!" Izuku lifted his hand and made a portal to the support department.
Nedzu ran over and forcibly kept Izuku awake, if he passed out an angry and more importantly free Toga was literally 3 feet away. "Izuku stay with me, you can't fall asleep right now." Nedzu was using his paws to slap Izuku, thankful at the sight of Majima stepping through the portal. "Cuff her quickly, Izuku can't hold her for much longer!"
Majima noticing the panic in Nedzu's voice and the spinning head of the child next to him. "Which one?!"
"That one!" Nedzu quickly pointed as Izuku slumped over, and his control over both of the Tsuyus ended.
"Oh phooey, and here I was having so much fun getting pinned by my Izu. I was so hot and bothered under him. The real me must be pretty disappointed she's failed twice now, oh well." A manic grin spread onto the copy of Tsuyu, everybody thought about how unnatural it looked on the frog teen's face. "Oh and before I go, don't worry, the real me is having plenty of fun with your student's principal Nedzu, Toodaloo." They all watched in horror as the girl slit her own throat spewing that goop that constituted as her blood over the floor and walls before collapsing.
Having his fears confirmed Nedzu briefly forgot about the limp form of his student in front of him, he just blindly walked forward towards the goop. Nedzu had to know, who else did he fail, he reached into the goop and pulled out the ID card that he knew he would find. "General Education: Mineta Minoru." The smile of the grape headed teen stared back at Nedzu, taunting him, two, he'd gotten two of his student's killed by unleashing this girl out into the world. Nedzu slumped over, not caring that Tsuyu and his coworker could see his grief, the rat didn't care.
"...Boss." Was all that left Majima's lips.
Tsuyu for once didn't speak her mind, no doubt because she had no words to say.
Notes:
Me and another fan are currently working on the discord, look forward to it being announced with the next chapter. Also holy crap I just broke 150k views, I'm so honored that so many people like what was essentially my first fanfiction
Current Quirk List
Izuku Midoriya: Kuroe, Float, Minor Regeneration, Breath of Life, Tempo, Ultra Sight, Muscle Augmentation (Renamed to Muscular), Warp Gate, Galeforce, Rewind, Quirk Enhancer, Brainwashing
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
Denki Kaminari: Electrification, Lightning Rod
All For One: Unknown
Kurogiri: EMP
Eri: Zero Gravity
Nedzu: High Specs, Silence
Uraraka: Air Cannon
Ananiel: Water Cutter
Eraserhead: Erasure, Super Strength
Sato: Sugar Rush, Molecular Manipulation
Quirk Bank: -None-
