Chapter 68: Quirk Practice and a Side of Publicity
Summary:
With everything out of the way Izuku finally takes a deep dive to understand just what's happening to his body.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
10:00 AM Day of the New Hero Bill Board Rankings
"You have Osteoporosis."
"I have what?"
"Osteoporosis, a result of your body losing too much bone or not creating enough. The bones in your right hand and arm are completely porous which would explain why it's so weak." The school nurse stated. "In your case I believe it to be a loss of bone, you lost an entire hand remember? What was the name of the quirk again?"
Izuku pondered the potential implications of that before realizing. "Overhaul."
Seeing the look on his face. "Overhaul: To take apart something in order to examine it and repair it if necessary." Chiyo stated. "You don't create new materials, you take existing materials and change them into something else. When you repaired your hand you stretched the existing bone in your arm in order to create new fingers, this is true for the skin tissue, the blood cells, as well as everything else. The reason those aren't as much of an issue is because the body replaces them much faster than it does bone. I'm going to be frank, you need a bone marrow transplant." The doctor said with more resignation than anything else in her voice.
Izuku examined his hand for a bit, deep in thought. "I know you're going to hate this suggestion and will likely hit me with your cane for asking, but I could easily just cut my arm off and grow a new one. I could also try to repair my arm with Minor Regeneration as is, but I feel like that won't work." Izuku flexed his fingers.
There was silence for a few moments. "You're right, I absolutely hate the idea. I don't even want to think about it or the potential implications that it could cause you to do in the future."
Izuku accepted that and lowered his head, not even going to try and argue his position.
"However, bone marrow transplants are not only hard to get, they are incredibly painful. While I would never in any other situation even remotely suggest that you take this course of action, I believe it may actually be the correct decision here." The doctor sighed. "That doesn't mean I'm green lighting you to do this whenever, what it means is I'm saying under a controlled environment where we can monitor for any potential issues that under the correct circumstances it might be the correct choice. I am NOT saying you just go throwing limbs left and right all willy nilly, and if I ever hear about you doing this anywhere besides this very room, I promise you, you won't like the consequences of your decision."
Izuku just blinked in awe at the woman. "... Wait r-really?!"
Recovery Girl sighed again. "Yes but I will be setting up an appointment and appropriate precautions will be taken, in the meantime just try not to overdo it too much and go easy on your right hand."
"What kind of preparations?" Izuku slightly curious what the set up for what was essentially an amputation.
"Painkillers, Blood Thinners, Sterile equipment, etc. Just things that'll make sure in the worst case scenario we can treat you." The woman was already writing a prescription for the things she'd need. "Expect to do this surgery sometime next week Midoriya. You're dismissed and please take better care of yourself dearie. You've giving me more than my fair share of heart attacks this year."
Izuku gave the woman a bright smile before leaping off the bed. "I was going to do some quirk testing with Momo later, is that fine?"
"Like I said don't stress your right hand but if its just practice it should be fine, now run along and take care of that poor girl." Chiyo didn't even turn as she clacked away on her keyboard.
Izuku flexed his fingers one more time as he walked through the hall he'd had Minor Regen turned on during that whole conversation and it didn't look like it was repairing anything, Izuku had to assume that meant his quirk didn't see the hole filled bones that constituted his arm and hand as an injury. 'What if that means if I cut it off they'll regenerate to this state?' The thought made the boy frown a bit, worst case scenario he'd just get a bone marrow transplant, no big deal, and it certainly was good to find out about this earlier rather than later. Especially with something that's fixable. The logic behind the true function of Overhaul made sense, when Overhaul (The person) repaired himself he took the body parts of somebody else to replace his own, though when Izuku rewound the man he made sure to not go far enough that his arms came back. Bastard was going to spend the rest of his life as a cripple for what he did to Eri, Izuku made sure of that.
As Izuku walked he put both hands on the back of his head, it was relatively quiet in the halls at the moment, since it was the day after the festival classes still were out, and people had surprisingly quickly tore down all their stands before leaving the day before. Though the odd piece of trash was still to be found in the halls, they served as the only indication of the prior days events. Izuku pulled out his Notebook and read as he walked, he'd recently changed his note taking practice and was writing down every quirk that was in someway managed by him. He was just about to update Overhaul as he'd finally understood it's true nature.
Izuku's Quirk Bank
Personal Quirks: Current Limit is 17 before passing out, currently at 14/16 total storage.
Quirk Synopsis: See separate section for more detailed information.
Kuroe: Base quirk, mutated form of All For One, sentient. Allows the user to give and take quirks on touch.
Breath of Life: Allows the user to give 'Life' to inorganic objects, the amount of life changes depending on the size, the user slowly regains 'Life' as time passes. The things given life also need to be resupplied with life once a certain amount of time has passed or if they were physically active. Things given life have an interesting way of following orders. Example if I gave a vague command such as 'deal with them', the quirk would do anything ranging from murder to breaking a few limbs. Anything with sufficient brain mass is sentient, though it seems things that anything created with the quirk has some form of sentience. For some reason they act as if they're religious Zealots.
Minor Regeneration: A strong albeit slow emitter type quirk that lets the user regenerate their body at the cost of lipids. As it is an emitter type quirk and not a mutation you must continually activate it in order for regeneration to occur. As such it does not work when unconscious.
Tempo: Allows the user to either slow down or speed up time in intervals of 5 seconds, at periods of every 26 seconds. The human body acts at a normal speed however, in practice the quirk simply increases reaction time, which is incredibly useful for ending fights quickly. Overuse leads to migraines.
Ultra Sight: Mutation type that grants the user different visions as well as passively increasing the users standard vision, gives the user black voidless eyes. The visions in question are Blacklight, Zoom, Thermal, Radiation, Dark, and Night Vision. Overuse leads to eye strain.
Muscular: Accumulation type emitter quirk. The body stores muscles that can be extended from their body on command. This grants the user increased strength and speed, the amount depends on how many muscle fibers you deploy and where. No quirk overuse but if all muscle fibers are destroyed the quirk is essentially useless.
Warp Gate: Combination of four different quirks, one being a type of quirk that lets the user create physical clouds, the other three are unknown. The quirk allows the user to create portals to any location they have visually seen before. As a Nomu quirk it is incredibly dangerous for a human to possess, DO NOT give to another person as it will likely break them.
Galeforce: Allows the user to propel gusts of hurricane level winds from their palms, with training the total speed greatly increases. Overuse leads to fatigue.
Quirk Enhancer: Essentially a useless quirk to anyone who does not possess a second quirk. Allows the user to increase the strength by a quirk to as much as 1.5x power. No quirk overuse.
Confession: Upon verbally communicating a question to a person, the person is forced to respond to the question. No quirk overuse but has some potentially interesting applications depending on the scenario.
Overhaul: The quirk allows the user on touch to destroy and recreate something in any form wished, however there must be a material to use as a base. In addition you cannot turn one object into something else. Ex: If you overhauled concrete you couldn't turn it into marble.
Quirk Bank:
Spider: Mutation type quirk. Gives the user aspects of a spider albeit a humanoid one, they can shoot spider webs from their hands, four elongated spider legs emerge from the back of the person with this quirk. In addition the teeth of the user become vaguely fang like, they also possess the ability to spew poison from their 'fangs'. This quirk is currently possessed by Arakiel.
Molecular Manipulation: Allows the user to rapidly heat or cool themselves or other objects or people via touch, strangely takes up a very small amount of quirk space. Love: According to its user, it allows them to confess their feelings to the person they love and the power and quirk of the person who has been confessed too will be greatly boosted, only works once per day. Untested and on loan at the moment.
Elasticity: Allows the user to apply elasticity to any object they touch, however since the user is touching the air they can essentially use the quirk anywhere within visual sight or apply it to the ground via their feet. Unable to be broken and the greater the force applied to a 'rubberized' object the greater the knockback will be. No quirk overuse.
Paralysis: Contrary to what the name may imply it does not actually paralyze anything. What it really does is lock an object or person in frozen space, they can neither interact with nor be interacted with when contained in this prison. Emitter type quirk, activated by 'marking' an object. The hands of the person who possesses this quirk has a black spot on their palms, this black spot can be 'activated' when done so the black spot begins to leak this black goop similar in nature to ink. When the stuff comes into contact with a person or object they are 'marked'. Once marked the user can activate the quirk at any time to 'lock' the target.
Bad Luck: Mutation type quirk. A truly inconvenient quirk, impossible to be turned off or directed. Anyone within 30 feet of the user has inexplicably bad luck, as the saying goes, if it can go wrong, it will. The user itself is immune to the power of the quirk, however bad luck for a person nearby could also cause harm to the user. Currently on a Pigeon being kept a very very safe distance from the dorms.
Izuku looked up from his notes realizing he'd walked quite a distance he wanted to read the detailed section but relented. He'd have plenty of time in the future anyway. As he looked around he noticed he was in front of Nedzu's office. Izuku decided to take a quick peek and knocked on the door to the principal's office and in he went. "Hey everyone." Izuku smiled brightly at the people present, those being Aiba, Danjuro, Nedzu, and Eri before taking a seat.
"Oh Midoriya, how was your check up with Recovery girl?" Nedzu barely looked up, instead intently focusing on whatever he was working on at his computer.
"I'm fine, just need a small surgery to fix my hand permanently. Other than that, it seems Kurogiri's quirk isn't affecting me too adversely, so basically a bill of perfect health." Izuku smiled at Eri who saw his smile and returned it before turning back to her work. "How about you two? Any good news on the whole not going to jail thing? Not being treated too poorly by Nedzu are you?"
The rat looked slightly insulted but let the comment slide.
Danjuro started straightening his back for a second. "The cell bed is incredibly uncomfortable and I haven't seen day light in over 24 hours, the food is magnanimous however."
Aiba seemed to be struggling from similar issues. "It's better than an actual cell Gentle, we shouldn't complain."
"Thank you for voicing your discomfort, I'll see if something can be done about your arrangements. If I'm going to work this hard to fix something I might as well go all the way." Nedzu then turned to the greenette. "Midoriya could you have Yaoyorozu make them a better bed?"
Izuku shrugged. "She shouldn't mind I'll ask her the next time I see her. Though you did never answer about the whole no jail thing."
Gentle wilted a bit. "It seems we are to be, hmm how should I phrase this. We are to be enlightening our community through services rendered for their benefit."
"What Gentle means is we're doing community service for a very very long time before the leash comes off." Labrava then turned her laptop towards the boy. "My first job is to completely overhaul the security here at U.A." She turned the laptop back around after that. "I'd explain the code and such but I doubt you'd understand, also Nedzu I must say whoever did your security previously is top notch. It took me months to hack it."
"Why thank you for the compliment Aiba, Power Loader and I created the framework ourselves. We put a lot of effort into it so to hear it be appreciated brings a smile to my face. I'll pass along your praise to Power Loader the next time I see him. I can't wait to have you two meet, I have a feeling you two will fit together like two peas in a pod. He was practically drooling when he saw the code you created to infiltrate U.A."
That caused the small twin tailed girl to blush slightly. "T-thanks." She turned back to her laptop ending that conversation.
"What about you Gentle?" Izuku asked.
"I am being given a crash course on teaching, apparently I'm going to be a teacher here in the future. I shall brilliantly guide the hero hopefuls of the future down the right path!" Gentle finished with a flourish accidentally knocking his papers off the desk.
Izuku turned to Nedzu with a confused look on his face.
"We were able to turn All Might into a capable teacher in less than a few months, Danjuro over here will have plenty of time to become a most excellent teacher. We're having him start as a TA soon, I've heard from the staff how much they wanted one and I figured it could be a good introductory task." Nedzu cheerfully giggled, what he really meant was that he had someone to do everyone's paperwork for them. Revenge for all the work the man is making him do in order to free him.
Izuku saw that smile and was definitely glad not to be on the receiving end of it. Rest your soul Gentle Criminal, Izuku drew a cross with his fingers. Seeing everyone else busy with their tasks Izuku curiously walked over to Eri to see where she'd gotten too. She was currently working on her multiplication tables and doing a decent job Izuku thought. "What's five times four Eri?"
Seeing Mister Izu was now standing over her shoulder she wracked her brain for a second. "ummmm, TWENTY!"
Izuku ruffled her hair. "Smart girl, keep up the good work okay?"
"Ahuh!" She rubbed her head into the older boy's hand.
"Alright Nedzu I think I'm going to head out. You all seem busy but glad to know everything's going well so far. I gotta go practice with Mo, then ugh, we're watching THAT as a class."
Noticing the disdain in the boy's voice Nedzu lifted his head once more. "Hmm?"
"The Hero Billboard, usually I'm ecstatic to see it but this year I want nothing to do with it to be honest."
That elicited a small chuckle from the bear. "I can see why, don't worry he's being kept on a tight leash."
"Good." Izuku flashed him a thumbs up before starting to walk out of the room.
"Oh that reminds me." Nedzu fished something out of his desk before throwing it at Midoriya.
Seeing the object sailing towards him Izuku caught it and stared at him. "What is this?" It was a gold colored metal forty-seven.
"That's the rank you would've earned if you could be put in the rankings." Nedzu had a rare smile on his face.
"You - you can't be serious! Forty-seven?! I would've been ranked FORTY-SEVEN!?" The boy's shocked expression was priceless to the rat. "I'm not even a second year yet, hell we're barely halfway through the first one." Izuku couldn't believe it.
"Congratulations Midoriya, people are finally recognizing your efforts." The genuine smile eluded to how proud the rat was of his student.
"H-how?" Izuku stared at the shiny bright Forty-Seven and it almost made him start crying.
"Your very public victories against Overhaul and All for One really brought you some publicity Midoriya, not to mention your the personal student of All Might and you saved the man's life back at Jakku. I'd say forty-seven is adequate for your achievements. What about you two? As ex villains what's your opinion?" Nedzu turned to his prisoners.
Labrava spoke first. "As an enemy your horrifying Midoriya. But on this side, I think you deserve it."
"INDEED! Your passion has moved this old man's beard. I hope we can share the stage so to speak, I think you'd make an excellent second act." Gentle exclaimed in his usual exuberance.
"Yeah Mister Izu, you saved me, your my hero." The girl got up from her seat and started hugging his leg.
Izuku lost it then and there and started crying into the little girl's hair as he hugged her back.
Everyone in the room averted their eyes and pretended they didn't notice his crying.
"Sniff - thanks everyone. I'll -sniff- keep doing my best."
"Mister Izu your getting my hair all wet."
Izuku wiped his eyes before apologizing. "Sorry Eri."
"If it makes you feel any better Yaoyorozu got thirty-five." The rat callously tossed out.
Izuku chuckled when he heard that. "Oh she's going to totally lord that over me. I can already hear her saying it."
Nedzu laughed along. "I'd be disappointed if she didn't, now get along Midoriya. You have things to do and so do we."
Izuku agreed and released Eri from the hug. "Bye bye Mister Izu, I'll see you later!"
The girl exclaimed before running back to her desk.
"Yeah I'll see all of you later." Izuku exited the room before looking down at the object one more time. 'Forty-seven huh.'
Izuku looked at his watch and saw he had another thirty minutes before they were meeting up to try out new quirk ideas and decided to take a stroll through the scenic route instead of walking straight there. As Izuku passed by the schools green house he heard animated talking, not quite shouting but getting close and he decided to investigate real quick. 'An exciting day it seemed.'
"Hellooooooo?" The quirk stealer called out into the room as he walked in. As he rounded a large plant he caught two people staring at him, recognizing the brunette and fellow Greenette. "Oh hello Shiozaki and Komori, how're you two doing?" They seemed slightly irritated but Izuku did his best to look calm.
"SHE won't agree with me that mushrooms are the best plant." Komori angrily stated.
"And SHE seems to not understand that Sunflowers are the superior plant, they always stretch and grow into the sun, they simply want to find the Lord's light." Ibara clasped her hands as light began to trickle down onto her.
'SERIOUSLY, HOW DOES SHE DO THAT!?' Izuku angrily thought but brushed it aside.
"But since you're here you can give us a second opinion. So what's better shrooms or sunflowers Green Demon?"
"Easy it's sunflowers correct?" Ibara turned and stared at the boy.
"First off, Green Demon? Second, I think both are good, Mushrooms are essential to the cycle of life and Sunflowers are aesthetically pleasing to the soul." Izuku knew that answer wouldn't placate them but he was more curious about the title 1-B had given him.
Komori started pushing her two index fingers together, clearly embarrassed. "Um well, ha ha, I wasn't supposed to use that title directly to your face but since I kind of let it slip." She started rubbing her hair. "It's kind of ... what we call you?"
"I do not debase you with such an evil moniker but the more chaotic forces of our class, Monoma and Setsuna both refer to you as such. I apologize if it offends you, Itsuka has been trying to make them stop from spouting further slander but it's been proving a futile effort so far." Ibara looked guilty.
Izuku just groaned. "You don't have to walk on eggshells around me, it's fine. Plus I have the perfect way to get back at them." Izuku started giggling maniacally.
"Right whatever, back to our argument, mushrooms are totally better than sunflowers."
Ibara was about to respond again but Izuku cut her off. "That reminds me." Izuku whipped out his notebook and a pen. "I've been wondering about your quirk forever, I know you can create spores and those spores have to be gestated into actual mushrooms. You can create any kind right? Does that include poisonous ones? How easy would it be for you to kill someone if you did that? How'd your quirk manifest? Can you make psychedelic mushrooms? Oh but not like I want any I was just curious about potential medicinal uses of your quirk."
Both stared in shock at the boy in front of them. "Umm I'm going to be real dude, I heard like half of that."
"I as well was lost to your musings, is this a common occurrence?"
Izuku realized this wasn't his class and as such weren't used to his mutter sprees and quickly became embarrassed. "Oh, sorry, I just got so excited your quirk is so cool. Can I borrow it?"
"Borrow it?" Komori asked.
"I just wanna try and create a few shrooms, pleasseeeeeeee?" Izuku was basically begging her at this point. "I'll let you borrow any of mine you wanna try?"
Komori looked at the boy's puppy like face and started laughing. "Sure dude, you got it. I still owe you for float." She held her hand out waiting for the exchange.
"Thanks your the best!" Izuku quickly gave the girl a handshake before taking Mushroom, he replaced it with a fun one. "It let's you make surfaces elastic, combine it with Float and I'm sure you can have some fun with that."
Izuku was about to start creating spores but stopped himself as he realized the potentially lethality of the quirk and turned back around to ask her some questions only to see the girl bouncing around the air laughing. "OH MY GOD DUDE THIS IS AMAZING, WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Shiozaki saw the expression of joy on her classmates face and became slightly jealous, her face quickly becoming a pout.
"Sorry to interrupt your fun Komori but how does your quirk work!" Izuku shouted at the girl who'd gone just a bit too high up.
"Just make a visual image of the type of Mushroom you want and think about spreading something! I'd recommend Shiitake for the first time!" Komori shouted as she dropped Float and bounced into another rubber wall before reactivating Float as she was thrown into the air.
"Thanks!" Izuku shouted after the girl as he did as she instructed, having googled what a Shiitake mushroom looked like he imagined a small amount of dust dripping from his hands and onto the table. Within seconds they were growing out of the wood, wow that's neat.
Komori touched down a few seconds barely making a sound as she hit the floor. "See Mushrooms are better."
"Just because you have a quirk that makes Mushrooms does not make them better. You see me in here everyday, look at what hard work can make." Shiozaki pointed to her garden.
Izuku looked at his watch. "Oh crap! I gotta go!" Izuku gave a light tap to the girl's hand taking his quirk back before returning hers. "Sorry thanks for letting me try this!" He waved at the pair as he went, hearing their bickering continue.
Izuku was out of the green house when the urge to cough came over him, doing so he watched as blood came out. "Wha-" Izuku stared at his hand for a long deep moment paling at the sight. 'What, what is that? Did, did I just cough blood!? That's ... really not good. But Recovery Girl said I was fine!?' Izuku heard a group of students coming and quickly got rid of the evidence before walking at a slower pace to his destination. He'd just be a bit late, he never coughed blood, and nothing was wrong. He'd get a second test with Recovery Girl before saying anything to Momo. Maybe he should postpone these tests? He'd been doing so for such a long time though, he can't keep putting this stuff off, but if he hurt himself somehow. Crap, we'll just take it easy Izuku, we'll not strain anything and be fine. Having decided on his course of action the quirk giver quickly walked towards the forest where he and Momo were to commence his new quirk ideas.
"Hey Zu!" Momo shouted as her boyfriend approached, he looked a little haggard but that's probably because he ran over here. "What made you late?"
She watched as he started rubbing the back of his head. "Sorry Mo, I got distracted talking to people and I didn't want to use a portal."
"No worries." She held out her hand and the boy took it. "I found this beautiful spot with a clear stream we can relax by whenever we need a break, we should definitely go hiking out here more often. The mountains U.A. owns are really beautiful."
"That sounds like a wonderful idea, I haven't gotten to go hiking in forever." Izuku smiled at her as they walked in silence through the woods for a brief few moments.
"So what'd you want to test today anyway Izuku? We've got like 3 hours before the Hero Billboard announcement starts so that should be plenty of time to do whatever."
"Oh not too much, I don't wanna strain myself just trying out a few of the new quirks and trying to get a better understanding of Overhaul." He turned to look back at the girl. "What about you? Any luck with One for All? Did they say anything?"
"Unfortunately I've not heard anything since that dream we had the other mourning, I'll just focus on meditating with One For All and that's about the best I can do." The quirk inheritors smile brightened greatly. "I'm up to a continuous 15% now and I can jump to bursts of 30% safely! I know it doesn't sound like much and I have so far to g-"
The girl was silenced as a pair of lips turned on her. "You're doing great, no self loathing okay? You've tripled what you could do at the start of the year and that's amazing Mo."
Momo flushed. "Y-yeah, thanks." Momo looked around noticing they'd reached the spot. "Oh here it is Izuku, the creek is hidden right behind here. Momo quickly pulled him around a small bend and behind it was the quaintest spot, a small open field with long wavy grass, they billowed back and forth in the wind as the sounds of a small creek trickled along.
"Wow..."
Momo turned to see the look on her boyfriends face and smiled to herself. She then strode forward and walked over behind a tree finding a picnic basket and a blanket she definitely hadn't hid here earlier.
Izuku questioningly stared after the girl until he saw what she grabbed at from behind the tree. She then gently laid out a blanket next to a tree and set down the basket on top of it. Izuku sauntered over feeling some kind of emotion he wasn't sure about, but it was a good one. "I love you."
Momo blushed at the sudden confession. "I remembered when you cooked for me when I wasn't feeling well and well ... I wanted to return the favor Izu." She pulled out two wrapped somethings from the basket before setting them down and then pulling out two metal thermoses. "I hope you like it, I made these sandwiches myself and I brewed the tea with some help from my mom." She nervously watched as Izuku took the wrapped sandwich before taking a bite.
Izuku's eyes watered a bit. "It's amazing and I love you."
Momo blushed more. "You just said that."
"I know what I said." Izuku gave her a wry smile before leaning his head on her shoulder. "You know what, let's skip practice and just relax. I think we've earned that Ms. Thirty-Five."
That caused Momo to tilt her head. "Ms. Thirty-Five?"
"Oh did Nedzu not tell you? Apparently people called in and tried to have us added to the Hero Billboard, if we were allowed to be on there you got thirty-five and I got forty-seven." Izuku explained as he carefully fished out the metal object from his pocket with his left hand before showing it to her.
"That's! That's amazing Izuku! I-I got thirty-five?! You - you got forty-seven!?" Momo loudly exclaimed as she jumped up causing Izuku to fall over now that his support was gone.
From his spot on the floor he just smiled at her. "Yup, your already doing such a great job Momo, I'm so proud of you."
"But why am I higher than you?" Momo seemed to grumble.
"Because your the favorite and we both know it Mo." Izuku said with an airy expression on his face. "Honestly that's how it should be, if I hadn't gotten kidnapped I wouldn't even be on that list like I'm supposed to be." Which Izuku complained about.
"Izu we both know you would've turned up on there eventually and I don't know, it just feels? Not earned? I feel like the only reason I'm more popular is because I'm physically attractive or because my quirk isn't 'evil' like yours."
"Eh let people talk, I don't care about my ranking anyway and you, what did I say about self loathing? Who cares how you earned it? The point is you earned it, you worked hard and earned it. So come over here and eat okay?" In that Moment Izuku just realized the perfect gift for Momo's birthday, she was going to love it. It was in two weeks, he should have enough time to get it and if he couldn't he could always call in a favor or two.
Momo sat back down and nibbled on her sandwich. "I still think you deserve to be higher but I do admit, it feels ... nice. To see how far we've come, what we've done together, and that we're finally being shown results for our work."
"Good. It's all up from here anyway. For now we relax and enjoy the last few warm days of the year. Besides your the hot one anyway, though to be fair I never really wanted my face seen anyway. Maybe I can do something about that in the future, maybe if I just stop showing my face people will forget?" Izuku half muttering half asking aloud.
"You and I both know that won't work Izu." Momo commented in-between bites.
"Ughhhh I know, doesn't make it any less annoying, stupid League of Villains. Stupid kidnap - Oh my god I'm an idiot." Izuku brought his hands to his face.
"Hmm?" The girl looked up.
"I could've just had you make me a mask or something before we jumped in, how didn't I think of that?!" Izuku fell over realizing his stupidity.
"You know what they say Izu, hindsight is 20-20." Momo dispensed some wise knowledge that probably didn't make the boy feel any better.
"I hate that saying." Izuku whined out before taking a sip of the tea, it was cold and made with sugar and it felt good on his tongue.
"It'll be okay Zu." Momo ruffled his hair while he laid down.
"Yeah ... I know."
"BROS I'M SO EXCITED!" Kirishima shouted out from his spot on the couch. "IT'S GOTTA BE ENDEAVOUR RIGHT? RIGHT?!"
Izuku watched as Todoroki winced when his fathers name was mentioned and started walking towards the boy.
"Of course shitty hair, there's no way it's anyone else. I'm more fucking interested in the other spots, like whose the new number two? Is it that bird fuck?" Bakugo spit out.
"It'll be fine Todoroki, he won't have the spot for long okay?" Izuku whispered to the boy.
Todoroki turned, anger present on his face but when he saw the other boy he tried to make himself less irritated. "Thanks Midoriya. I just hope earning the position this way upset him as much as I think it did."
"I'm sure it did Todoroki, from what you've told me of him, he's like Bakugo. Not earning this spot is probably killing him inside." Izuku smiled.
"It better." Todoroki pouted.
"I hope it's Mirko." Mina suddenly shouted. "We need more women in the top ten! Although..." Mina turned to Momo. "You're probably gonna end up there one day, make sure you pull out a win for us girls Yaomomo."
That made Momo blush and wisely decided not to mention how she technically already earned the thirty-fifth spot. "I think we all have a chance to wind up there Mina."
"Yeah a chance, you and a few of our classmates are basically guaranteed a spot. It's not fair!" Mina then turned towards the quirk stealer. "Midoriya help me with my quirks! I haven't gotten to look at your notebooks in forever!"
Izuku winced. "Well I did have one idea, have you tried learning to fly with Liquid Manipulation?"
"What?! How could I possibly fly?!" Mina ran over and started shaking him.
"Well I mean you cou-" He was interrupted by the T.V. blaring.
Izuku recognized the chairwoman as she spoke. "The reason we held this ceremony at this time is because we judged ourselves to be at a turning point. It's been about three months since All Might's retirement and I'm sure many of you have never known a world where All Might wasn't the number 1."
She paused before continuing. "People say we lack a new symbol to replace him, and that's what were going to show you today. The people present on this stage are the new icons that will carry the torch into a brighter future. Let us all strive towards a new, more peaceful society together." She started walking towards the end of the line where we could see Ryuku had gotten tenth place. Izuku paled for a brief moment realizing he'd never talked to her about what happened against Overhaul. "And now a brief statement from each of the top ten!"
Ryuku grabbed the mic before speaking. "Thank you very much but the truth is I would've declined this rank if at all possible. I recently failed in my duties as a hero and had to be saved by a hero student of all things. There were more people I could've saved, better work I could've done and for that I apologize. I will strive to be a better hero and truly earn the rank of the number ten." This was followed by Ryuku bowing.
Back in the common room everyone stared at Midoriya. "What?!"
"Green you need to stop stealing all the spotlight." Jirou coldly commented.
"They didn't even mention my name, and Momo was there too!" He shouted as he pointed at the girl.
"Don't drag me into this please." Momo blushed when all eyes turned on her.
Izuku was poked by Mina who had apparently not given up on their earlier conversation. "So you were saying I could potentially fly?" She whispered in the boy's ear.
"Can we all just watch this please?" Sero loudly complained which made everyone turn around.
Izuku turned to Mina before whispering. "Guess I'll give you a hint, Magic carpet." With that Izuku watched her confused face for a bit before he turned back to the screen.
A man in a green hero suit started shouting. "You're absolutely right Ryuku, I understand! I wasn't even there for both of those incidents. I feel the anguish in your heart. That feeling of self reproach. We can all do better!"
"Crust wait your turn." The man clad in samurai armor commented, he merely grunted into the mic as it approached him and passed it along.
This was followed by a washing machine simply saying. "Wash!"
Izuku stopped watching as he saw who was on the far left and groaned, directing Todoroki's attention.
The Heterochromatic teen stood shortly after. "I'm done, good night everyone."
Kaminari watched as the boy left. "Does he not wanna hear his Dad speak?"
Izuku watched as his friends shoulders slumped, part of him wanted to walk over and shush Kaminari, the other part didn't want to turn it into a big deal. "Hey Kaminari?"
"Yeah man?"
"Drop it."
"Wha-"
Jirou seemed to pick up on the tension and directed the electric boys attention away.
The quirk stealer missed the number 7 and 6 hero and turned back to see the new number five Mirko: The Rabbit Hero. "Hey, you guys scheming bad things? Imma pummel you into the floor so be ready!"
Hawks visibly groaned from his spot.
"Next we have the number 4 hero, EDGESHOT! You know based on approval rating alone you would've been number 3."
"Numbers don't concern me, I'm grateful for the approval I get but I'm not doing this for fame." The number 4 coldly answered.
The reporter continued along. "I'm sorry he couldn't make it due to his injuries in the battle at Jakku but Best Jeanist sent his regards and said to look forward to him being back in action soon! Now we have the number 2 hero HAWKS!
Hawks snatched the mic before flying up into the air. "Who cares about any of that? Is this time to be clinging to the past? Is it okay to uphold the status quo? We no longer have a symbol. Why are people who can't earn a higher spot than me being so tame and subdued on a day that's supposed to be a 'turning point'?! Please speak more like real heroes."
Bakugo looked on in awe at the new number two. "I like him."
"I bet you would Bakubro." Kirishima clasped him on the shoulder.
The audience looked on confused as the number two slowly lowered themselves back to the ground. "Let's see ... If we're just going by approval ratings. Best Jeanist would be first do the extra support he's getting from those hoping for a swift recovery. I would be number 2, Edgeshot would be number 3, and Endeavour 4th and so on. I think approval ratings are the most important metric at the present moment. That's all from me." Hawks added before shoving the mic into the hands of the new number 1. "Let's see what you got number 1 hero with a lower approval rating than me."
Endeavour glared at the man for his antics but remembered his conversation with All Might. "For all of those who don't believe in me, just watch."
There were some more finishing announcements before the stream ended shortly afterwards. "That Hawks guy is really cool. Didn't you intern with him Tokoyami?"
"Indeed, we are birds of a feather so to speak. He has taught me much during my time with him." The bird headed teen confirmed before Dark Shadow jumped out. "What my partner means is Hawks was so fast we had to struggle just to keep up with the guy. His side kicks didn't even bother and it rubbed both of us the wrong way."
"Dark Shadow! What have I said about talking without my permission." Tokoyami reprimanded his quirk. "That I should keep doing it and I'm the smarter of the two. Someone's got to keep you in line."
"Dark Shadow, return!" Tokoyami shouted before his quirk retreated back into his body. "I apologize for that unsightly moment."
"It's cool dude, it's so cool having a second mind to talk too, it means your never alone you know?" Kirishima added.
That reminded Izuku that he wanted to talk to the bird teen about what it was like having a sentient quirk, though Kuroe had much less physical effect on the world versus Dark Shadow. Before he could walk over and ask his classmate he was already out of the room, a shame.
Endeavour looked at his phone, strange why was that bird brain calling him. "Yes?"
A lackadaisical voice came over the phone. "Yo Endeavour, what if I told you I wanted your help dealing with something, it'll be worth your time I promise. Oh and how did you like the set up I gave you?"
"Set up? You almost made me look like a fool boy." Endeavour angrily responded. 'Was he testing him?' The number 1 thought.
"But you didn't and you looked so cool number 1 so relaxxxxx. But anyway this is business not pleasure. How'd you like to team up Endeavour? In my home town I've heard some troubling reports of Nomu sightings."
That got the number 1's attention. "I'm listening."
"Good, good, tomorrow me and an associate of mine are going to be meeting up, we'd be honored if you could make it Endeavour-san."
"Send me the details." Endeavour quickly hung up after that, 'finally a lead on the league.'
Notes:
Current Quirk List
Izuku Midoriya: Kuroe, Breath of Life, Tempo, Ultra Sight, Muscle Augmentation (Renamed to Muscular), Warp Gate, Galeforce, Quirk Enhancer, Confession, Overhaul, Minor Regeneration, Elasticity, Zero Gravity
Bakugo Katsuki: Explosion, Pyrokinesis
Tenya Iida: Engine, Air Step
Jirou Kyoka: Earphone Jack
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: Rewind
Nedzu: High Specs, Silence
Uraraka: Air Cannon
Mirio: Permeation
Sato: Sugar Rush
Eraserhead: Erasure, Super Strength
Setsuna Tokage: Lizard Tail Splitter, Vitality Stealing
Kinoko Komori: Mushroom, Float
Jurota Shishida: Beast, Mute
Manami Aiba: -None-
Danjuro Tobita: -None-
Arakiel: Spider
Quirk Bank: Molecular Manipulation, Love, Paralysis, Bad Luck
