Chapter 70: It's a Terrible Day for Rain

Summary:

What do you mean? It's not raining.
Yes ... it is.
Oh ... so it is.

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Momo and Eri were retrieved from her room by Aizawa shortly after the incident finished. They both came to the obvious conclusion that Izuku had at some point teleported to the fight and was likely the person who healed Endeavour. This point was further reiterated by Todoroki when he commented about how his father had never been capable of such feats like the ones he demonstrated today. The Heterochromatic teen looked he had mixed thoughts on the subject but Momo let it go, it seemed like everything went well and thats all that mattered. Further commenting would likely spook Eri and no one present wanted to do that.

This led to the present group of Todoroki, Yaoyorozu, Aizawa, Uraraka, Tenya, Eri, and Hagakure people sitting around the common room dorm table waiting for the boy's return.

After an hour Aizawa huffed. "Where is the Problem Child? I swear he needs like a collar or something, Yaoyorozu you can make GPS trackers right?" Aizawa looked between the students still present and groaned. "I do not get paid enough for this." The man further grumbled.

"Uh yes Aizawa-Sensei?" The girl was sheepishly rubbing Eri's hair. "But um are you asking me to put a tracker on my boyfriend?"

Aizawa gave her a glare before pulling a juice packet out of his pocket. "No, as that would be illegal. I am asking however that if somehow one 'accidentally' fell into his clothes or something. That would be very amenable."

"Sensei I do not believe it ethical to do such a thing!" Iida quickly added.

"I dunno seems like a good idea to me, I'd like one as well Yaomomo." The invisible girl had a very nonchalant look on her face when Iida directed his gaze towards her she continued. "I mean he can teleport and has been kidnapped before, it seems like a good idea to me.

Iida opened his mouth again to speak but shut it before he said anything.

Uraraka was just poking both of her fingers together awkwardly. "Maybe we should make one for the entire class? Kinda like Deku's animals?"

Speaking of animals Eri was playing with her cat using a small feather she found, Tsu couldn't keep her eyes off of the sight.

"I wouldn't be opposed." Shouto flatly added.

"Be that as it may tracker or not as his teacher I'm not allowed to leave until he returns but you all don't have to wait up for him. I can take Eri, you all need your rest and I see no reason to keep you here until he arrives." Aizawa got up and started making coffee as he said that.

"I want to make sure he's okay Sensei, I owe Izuku at least that much. My brother was finally cleared from the hospital the other day. He made a full recovery, he can walk, and I want to thank Izuku for it." Iida's eyes started watering and thankfully everyone present seemed to ignore it. His brother was safe, his brother was unharmed, Tenya had never been happier than when he received that message.

"Your choice." Aizawa shrugged. "One of you try calling him or something. Tell him if he makes me wait any longer I'm giving him detention." Aizawa dryly added as he watched the machine do its job and create the nectar of the gods.

Momo had been doing that for the past thirty minutes and it went straight to voicemail every time, she pouted and tried one more time getting the same response. "Still no, has the Principal or All Might heard anything?"

It was now Aizawa's turn to check his phone, almost if on cue it started ringing. "Speaking of the devil..." Or rat, Aizawa thought. "Yes Nedzu?"

"I was wondering when you would try to reach out to me. Izuku is fine but there was an ... incident." His voice lacked the usual cheer the Rat possessed.

Aizawa pinched the bridge of his nose because of course there was. "What happened?"

That caused the group present to perk up. "Is he hurt!?" Uraraka quickly jumped up.

"No Midoriya is fine but something has happened."

There was silence on the line for a few more seconds, followed by some bickering by two voices Aizawa didn't recognize, something about a beard. "Nedzu?" Aizawa pressed further.

An audible sigh came through. "I suppose I should tell you, Midoriya found a wounded Nighteye who died to the wounds he sustained shortly after but not before giving the boy an ominous vision of the future."

Aizawa remembered his chat with the boy about what Nighteye told him, but what was so important that the man needed to die for Midoriya to see it, and since when could the man give people visions? "I heard an abridged version from Midoriya after the Toga Incident. What changed?"

A tut followed. "That's the thing, technically nothing but at the same time everything. It might be easier for you to come talk to him yourself, he's ... despondent at the moment." And covered in blood, the bear thought.

"I'm on my way." Aizawa then turned to his students. "I'm going to check on him, all of you go to bed, your just going to worry him more like this."

"But-" Hagakure was cut off.

"No buts, go to sleep or you're also getting detention. Yaoyorozu your in charge of Eri tonight." Aizawa's glare cut through the students and they quickly but reluctantly complied.

Yaoyorozu did as she was instructed, taking Eri by the hand, her mind in turmoil as they walked. She didn't even notice the worried gazes her friends were giving her. What if's and countless theories floated around. Was he going to go back to the way he was before? How could she stop him from ruining himself? What if-

Her thoughts were interrupted by the small girl holding her hand. "Miss Momo we're already here, Mister Izu will be okay."

Seeing that she had in fact been read by a seven soon to be eight year old girl, Momo did her best to calm down. "You're probably right Eri." At least I hope you are the girl thought to herself.


In Nedzu's Office

"Now now Midoriya, I ask that you calm down and explain it to me again, everything." He'd just gotten off the phone with Aizawa, and had called Toshinori earlier, hopefully one of the two could calm the boy down better than he was.

"But it doesn't matter, nothing matters, we're just cogs in a machine. Everyone's going to die, me included. Well except Shinsou apparently and well hopefully he lives because I was already dead at the time and I'm not even sure I took Shigaraki out, I think I heard Uraraka's voice and maybe Hagakure's. I could somehow hear my own thoughts and if that wasn't creepy enough Todoroki dies, Bakugo dies, well at least I think he did because I had his quirk, I had Mina's quirk too so that means she's probably dead, I know Jirou dies and suddenly I'm back in my body. Shigaraki can destroy cities and he has an army of Nomu, apparently cutting his head off wasn't enough to kill him so I'm not sure I even managed to finish him off at the end, and boy oh boy was I trying to kill him in that vision. Did you know he kills Momo because I do and I don't know what to do with any of this information and I think I'm having a panic attack. Why am I covered in blood? What year is it? Oh is that you All Might, it's nice to see you, why do you look so worri- The boy was suddenly cut off as the elder man hugged him.

Aiba and Danjuro had been watching the boy's demented rant from the very beginning when he stumbled through a portal carrying somebodies body and had no idea how to process whatever was going on. Silently but quickly the pair walked over to Nedzu trying to keep some distance between themselves and the deranged boy. "Should we get out of here? We weren't supposed to be seen by anyone." Danjuro quietly whispered to the quirked animal.

"Probably but I do not possess the means to move you at the moment, I don't suppose you'd mind waiting in my side office." Nedzu pointed to the door and the pair quickly moved over to it before opening it and closing it.

All Might had gotten the call from Nedzu and promptly rushed into the bear's office, thankfully he was already nearby as he was reviewing the papers that had been freshly graded by U.A.s mysterious new TA in the teachers lounge. However, the sight of the boy shocked the man to his core and papers quickly became the last thing on his mind. He'd seen the boy depressed, sad, angry, livid, something beyond livid, happy, joyous, in fact he'd know the boy longer than pretty much everyone at U.A., so he'd like to think he had a good grasp on the boy's mental state. But this? This was an entirely different state of being, the boy looked like he was halfway delusional as he wobbled and clenched his fists. Taking the silence as a positive thing All Might simply held the boy for a bit, saying nothing as he slowly started grounding himself. "2148."

Izuku looked up confusedly.

"You asked the year my boy, are you better now?"

Focus reentered his eyes as he remembered where he was, he wasn't laying bisected on the floor, he still had legs and Momo was still very much alive. "...Nighteye." More tears leaked from his already stained face.

Toshinori hadn't even registered that the man's body was in the room because he'd been so worried about Midoriya but now that he looked down he saw it, his dead sidekick, somehow in death he had a smile on his face. Either way he had a more important job at the moment. "Young Midoriya, look at me. Don't think about anything else, look at my gaunt sunken hollowed out face and breathe." Hopeful that injecting a little humor might help in this situation.

Izuku did as he was told and remembered what Tenya told him about panic attacks and started counting as he breathed in and out. Izuku needed to repay the engine user later, that trick has come in handy very often. "Okay... I'm here. I'm in the present, I'm not there." Was this disassociating? He'd seen Eri do it briefly when he revealed Overhaul, the quirk, to her.

"Good, now how many fingers am I holding up." The gaunt man asked.

"T-three." Izuku started to turn his head but All Might forced him to look at him instead.

"My boy I told you to look at me. Don't pay attention to that." His voice soothing and reassuring. All Might wanted to mourn as much as the boy did at the moment but he held himself calm, he needed to be that pillar of justice right now more than ever.

"I-I saw the f-future, N-nighteye showed me i-it. And a lot of p-people g-get h-hurt, d-die." Izuku did his best to keep his gaze off of the man's pooling body, the stench in the air was acrid at the best.

"I see. What else?"

"M-mo dies, s-she gave m-me One for A-all." His breathing started to accelerate again but he did everything in his power to resettle it, focusing on his mentor and nothing else.

Well no wonder the boy was reacting this way then, he'd just been forced to live with the realization that arguably the person closest to him was going to die. All for One killed Nana's husband for the same reason, he was close to her, it would hurt the current user of One For All, so he did it. So Toshinori wasn't surprised that Shigaraki would kill Yaoyorozu to hurt Izuku.

"It's not just h-her, a lot of m-my c-classmates d-die."

Toshinori just hugged the boy again.

Izuku didn't stop though. "S-shigaraki w-was so s-strong, I was s-so scared and a-angry and h-hurt." More tears started leaving the boy's eyes again.

Nedzu had been watching all of this silently from his seat, not quite sure how to react in this situation. Emotion was not exactly the rat's strong suit, he often found it hard to empathize with humans due to his upbringing.

Aizawa then burst into the room. "Problem child, are you okay?!" He saw the scene and instantly halted as he scanned the room, the scent of blood was thick in the air, it didn't take the man long to identify why. Midoriya was covered in the stuff and there was a body next to him, a body the man recognized, Sir Nighteye.

Izuku was startled briefly by the sudden outburst but stopped shaking shortly afterwards.

"It's okay to be scared my boy. No matter how much I look it, I too am often scared. Nobody is immune to the feeling and those that are, are fools." Toshinori was stroking the boys back gently.

Aizawa turned to exit the room as he felt that maybe he should wait till they're done with their moment but as soon as he did he noticed that Problem Child number 2 had followed him because of course she had. Aizawa just facepalmed before sitting down. "Come in Yaoyorozu." He mouthed silently to the pale girl.

Knowing she was busted she listened to the man and gingerly walked into the room, the shivering crying mess that was her boyfriend was a far cry from the usual bravado he demonstrated. The sight visibly pained her and she decided to do what she could and ran over to join their mentor in hugging the boy. "It's alright Zu, it's alright." Momo of course had no idea what had gotten him like this but she suspected it had to do with the body of Sir Nighteye, she didn't like the man of course but she didn't want him dead either.

"See Young Midoriya, Young Yaoyorozu is right here, she's safe."

'What did All Might mean she's safe?' the creation user thought. "Yeah I'm fine Izu, nothing is going to happen to me."

"B-but you d-didn't s-see it, there w-was so much d-death M-mo."

Quickly putting the pieces together, Momo realized what was going on. There was really only one possibility if it was about the future and Nighteye was involved. "Whatever happens Izu, I'll be fine. We'll make it through it, together."

"It's n-not, it's so b-bad."

"Izu please, let me help, I can stop it, WE can stop it."

The boy was getting tired of them telling him that it'll be fine because it won't be. "None of you were there! YOU DIDN'T SEE WHAT I SAW!" The boy snapped and when he saw their hurt faces he immediately regretted it. "I- I'm sorry I didn't m-mean it."

"I know you didn't Young Midoriya, it is quite alright. But perhaps we should have this conversation somewhere else. This environment isn't conducive to the kind of talk we need to have. Can I trust you to handle the situation Nedzu?" All Might turned to the quirked animal.

Seeing what the man meant by that he nodded. "Indeed, I shall. Please excuse yourselves and take all the time you need, that includes you Aizawa, no skulking over there in the corner."

The Erasure hero just grunted.

"My boy could you perhaps make us a portal to the roof of the dorms, I'm sure your animals would love to help comfort you right now." Toshinori softly asked.

Izuku just gave a weak nod and a portal opened, he let the others gently push him through and they were flanked by Aizawa taking the rear. The man remembered their old conversation and if he was going to be at this battle he needed to hear what was going to happen. 'I'm retiring after this class graduates,' the Erasure hero gruffly thought.

Aiba poked her head out the door. "Are they gone?" Gentle was standing over her diminutive stature and also peering into the room. They were dressed in some casual clothes that Nedzu had gotten for them.

"Yes you may both come out now." Nedzu got up from his chair and looked at the body of the fallen hero. For all his intelligence he simply had no idea what the seer had been planning to do with the revelation he'd dropped on the poor boy. Nedzu used his paw to shut the man's eyes. "This is going to be a long day. I suppose I shall call Tsukauchi first. I'm sorry but you two will need to retire to your rooms for the remainder of the day."

Aiba gave a curt nod while Gentle began to speak. "Of course, if you need any assistance please let me or my partner know. I did not know the man before us, but you and the boy have my condolences."

Nedzu gave them a sad smile. "I'm sure he appreciates it, I know I do." As the couple departed Nedzu pulled out his phone and began typing in the number of a very tired detective.


1-A Dorms, Rooftop.

As soon as the quartet exited the portal all manner of deformed 'animals' began crowding around their master, their god. They shared an emotional link with their deity and they felt his pain, they wanted nothing more than to soothe it. Izuku gently pet one of the Eldritch dogs while a few of the hand goats nuzzled him with their mouths.

To Aizawa the sight was both horrifying and oddly cute, he remembered when the boy had made him a cat as a gift and an apology for what he and Nedzu did to him. If anyone ever saw the creature Aizawa would instantly deny that he loved the thing, even with it's weird appendages.

Everyone present was silent for a bit before the quirk stealer finally spoke. "I'm not over it but I t-think talking a-about it h-helped." The tone was soft, weak, empty.

"That's a good thing my boy, getting it off your chest must be a painful thing to do but I'm sure that in the long run it is the best option. Did Nighteye tell you why he showed you this vision?" That was a particularly fresh wound, talking about his Ex-Sidekick in the past tense, like he'd never be able to see him, which was true. They'd finally mended their relationship after all this time and then he just went off and died.

"H-he said t-that I changed the f-future once and that I m-might be able to do it a-again."

"See Izu we can stop it, Nighteye was wrong, his quirk can be wrong." Momo reassured the boy.

"Midoriya, we need to know everything if were going to prepare, can you give us specifics. The time? Whose dead? Where does it happen? How do people die?" Aizawa figured giving the boy a chance to flex his analytical mind would be the best distraction at the moment, he just needed to make the boy stop thinking about it from an emotional point of view and look at it from a logical one.

"I didn't see much it was only about a minute total, and I saw my death but it was strange. It was like, I was in my body and not in my body at the same time. I could hear myself thinking but it wasn't actually me, they knew things I couldn't possibly know." Izuku paused taking a breath. "I think Nighteye showed me that vision because he wants me to stop it. I kill Shigaraki in that vision or maybe, I don't know, everything faded to white as I used one last attack to end it for good."

"From the beginning Midoriya, we need to start with context clues and work our way forward tell us everything." Aizawa prodded further.

Izuku took a moment to recollect and regale his strange vision, if only he'd been more lucid at the time he could've done things like check his phone or figure out more accurate details, like how people died or what caused their deaths but instead he only had his limited view. "Also It's not a part of the vision itself but All Might, Nighteye told me he wanted to die and that he loved you like a brother. It was the last thing he said to me. I also need to find Mirio I have a message for him as well. I'm sorry I didn't save him but he asked me not too."

"I don't blame you in the slightest, if anything I thank you for bringing me his last words Young Midoriya, we can find Young Mirio later first we should plan. Are you sure the voices you heard as you were 'waking up' were Hagakure's and Uraraka's? Also do you have any insight into how you came upon Mina's and Bakugo's quirk?"

"No sorry, Shinsou didn't mention getting revenge for Bakugo, which I found weird honestly. I know he doesn't like him, not many in our class do, but I was using his quirk somehow and I had 4 more quirk enhancers and One for All. I must make another trip to Tartarus sometime in the future."

"Problem Child you've given us plenty of context clues. We know where this attack happens, that likely means there is some reason we are in Jakku, we also know that Yaoyorozu and a fair bit of the class die before this battle as you wouldn't know they were dead and have had time to mourn them properly otherwise. We know Uraraka, Hagakure, and Shinsou are safe, we also know about the danger Shigaraki poses in advance. Nighteye said his quirk doesn't work as well very far out, that means we might not have much time to prepare but we do have time to prepare at the very least."

"No ... that's not right, he said this one vision was clearer than any vision he'd ever seen. Something about my quirk and how it interacts with people, ... I think I need to tell you guys something. Mo you know how the previous users talk to you?" Izuku turned to the current user of One For All.

"Yes?" The ravenette had a puzzled look on her face.

"Well, All for One does something similar. He told me he would get haunted by dreams of the people who'd stolen quirks from him and ..." Izuku trailed off.

Realization shined on the girl's face. "It happened to you didn't it? Why didn't you tell me?"

"I was in a bad headspace at the time and I didn't want to worry you guys further. Not to mention what if those dreams started happening to other people, Ryuto only realized she could torment me because All for One told me she could. I figured the less people knew about the possibility the less likely someone's ghost would start torturing them."

"Ryuto?" The trio all asked.

"It's the person I got Galeforce from, she'd *ahem* been 'mistreated' for her quirkless status and she vented her frustrations at me during a dream. Kuroe kind of ripped her to shreds and I haven't seen her since so It's safe to assume whatever part of her sentience was in there is gone now." The bewildered looks of everyone present didn't surprise the boy in the slightest. "I'm sorry for not telling you all, especially since I've given you an extra quirk Aizawa-Sensei."

"It's fine Problem Child, at least if it happens I'll be prepared for it. Have any more of these 'ghosts' haunted you?"

"No, none. None of my classmates have said anything either but that might just be because they had a nightmare and didn't realize it. Though Ryuto herself hadn't shown up until her real life counterpart died so that might be part of it, I don't have anywhere near the amount of evidence to figure that out though. I've given quirks to thousands of people, what if I just cursed them all, what then?" Izuku looked down in pity and fear.

"Young Midoriya, you know the pain of being quirkless. I've read the statistics after all since I was quirkless myself. The suicide rate is astronomical compared to the quirked population, the death rate, the mistreatment, all those negative emotions. You've experienced it all, I'm sure every single person you've given a quirk too feels blessed, nightmares or no." All Might paused for a bit. "I do wish that the quirkless weren't treated as less than human but we do not live in a perfect society as you are very aware of. You remember the counter protestors yes? They cheered for you my boy, they were more than likely people you've saved or the family of the people you've helped. Never forget that."

"I-I got it."

"Now, we need to prepare for this battle. We are going to destroy the future you've seen, are we not everybody? You my successor." All Might looked at Momo. "You my colleague and good friend." All Might looked at Aizawa. "And you, my son." All Might stuck his hand out as he reinflated for a bit.

Momo instantly put her hand in, grabbing Izuku's hand and adding it to the pile as well.

Aizawa saw the gesture of comradery and sneered for a bit, the smirk was almost hidden by his scarf, almost. He added his hand in as well.

"WE'RE GOING TO SAVE EVERYONE, PLUS ULTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The man shouted as he deflated and started coughing up blood.

"Don't overdo it you idiot, you can't even fight in the upcoming battle anyway." Aizawa mockingly said, ugh he was going to have to tell his class about this wasn't he.

All Might looked sad for a bit but then Izuku spoke. "Um I may be able to help with that actually."

Notes:

Seriously all the likes and comments drive me to write this, I love you all! I'm taking a small break to write other stuff for a bit, plus the anime will catch up to where I am soon, I'm not saying it's cancelled or anything just instead of weekly it might be more like biweekly or triweekly.

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, Rewind
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
Eri: Zero Gravity
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
Hiryu Rin: Scales, EMP
Manami Aiba: -None-
Danjuro Tobita: -None-
Arakiel: Spider
Endeavour: Hellflame, Molecular Manipulation
Quirk Bank: Love, Paralysis, Bad Luck