Replies to my Reviewers
darkpaladin89: That's right. We never got first names for the First Hero and First Villain. I'm giving them the naming theme of having their names end in '-shi'. Tomura's different as it's clearly obvious that he was being used in canon.
fencer29: In their case, this is the first time they can interact with the outside world, especially as only Takashi and Nana were the only ones to interact with the extra souls they were carrying, even as incredibly brief as Nana's experience was. In Izuku's case, these are the first adults other than his parents and All Might who believe in him, so he's not going to be rejecting them anytime soon. He essentially has 5 (6 if you include Toshinori) uncles and 3 aunts.
TheGreatBubbaJ: MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Kinging: I hereby ignore that for my own!
Not a flame: Thanks.
yoshi3000: Coming right up!
Chapter 07: Battle Trial I
Izuku Midoriya stared at his hand while walking back to homeroom from the cafeteria, where he had met the Cook Hero: Lunch Rush!
"Daisy-san. Are you sure that Stockpile is just a physical enhancement quirk?"
"Hmm, yeah. Why do you ask?" Daisy replied.
"It's just that, every time I use it, my veins start glowing but if All Might uses it, he bulks up." Izuku explained. "I mean, he might just be using it along with {Pump Up} subconsciously but it's like even {Stockpile} itself 'Awakened' during all it's years."
"Well, it's your quirk now, Little Ninth." Takashi said. "Figure it out and use it better than we did."
As the class settled down, Denki Kaminari showed Izuku news of Mount Lady figurines for sale.
'It's like her debut...' Izuku thought as the hormonal teenage boy in him rose again after years of suppression were rendered moot thanks to constant exposure to Denki. Since he wasn't distracted by Pro Heroes and villains on the scene, he could really appreciate just how her costume clung to her body, outlining her curves excellently.
"I know, right." Denki commented, causing Izuku to realize that he muttered that out. "That ass is amazing. Let's visit after school to check it out!"
"I wanna go too!"
Izuku blushed and flinched as Minoru Mineta jumped in to tag along as well, the ball haired boy actually drooling in anticipation.
"I am..." Izuku gushed as {One for All} resonated with the Eighth Champion, heralding All Might as he announced at the entrance to Class 1-A before bursting through the door, finishing, "...coming through the door like a normal person!"
"What's normal about that?" Takashi questioned.
"That 'All American' vibe of his always cracks me up!" Daisy giggled.
"You're the only real American among us." Hikage stated.
"It's All Might!" Denki gawked along with the rest of the class.
"Wow, he really is a teacher!" Eijiro Kirishima confirmed.
"That's a costume from the Silver Age, isn't it?" Tsuyu Asui observed.
"It's style is so different it's giving me goose bumps." Mashirao Ojiro commented.
"I teach Foundational Hero Studies. It is a subject where you train in different ways to learn the basics of being a hero. This is what we'll do today; Combat Training!" All Might explained.
"Combat…" Bakugo whispered excitedly.
"...training." Izuku finished nervously.
"And to go with that are these!" All Might announced, gesturing to the side of the wall opposite to the door as four slim rows of wall opened up, revealing cases with class numbers on them, All Might continuing. "Costumes made based on your quirk registrations and requests you sent in before school started."
"Costumes!" Izuku whispered.
"What's with all the flexing, again?" Harumi asked.
"Don't you remember? He does it to ignore the pain." Takashi explained.
"I'm sorry what?!" Izuku replied in shock, entering the Mindscape to face them. "What do you mean by pain?!"
"Little Ninth. Every time Toshi uses {One for All}, he puts his wound under immense strain." Nana explained. "That's why we've been slowly reducing his time. For every time he uses it, the wound that should have killed him opens up a little."
Izuku painfully remembered every time that Toshinori got excited, he'd start spewing blood. Had he seriously gotten used to it?!
"Anyway, back to class, now student." Harumi flicked her finger, the motion somehow sending Izuku out back into real time.
"After you change, gather in Ground Beta!" All Might instructed.
"Yes, sir!"
Izuku breathed at the revelation that he'd stumbled upon, thankful for his training with {Aura} which now compressed entire Mindscape conversations into a second.
Izuku opened his case to find his suit.
"Isn't that the suit your mum got you?"
"This was born from my mum's belief in me so I'm wearing it." Izuku replied as he moved to the locker room to change. "It's not state-of-the-art or flashy, but it means something to me. This is it. My Hero costume!"
All Might waited inside Ground Beta before the class came walking in wearing their costumes.
"They say the clothes make the man, young men and ladies. Be fully aware… From now on… you are heroes! That's great, everyone. You all look cool!" All Might praised them, then exclaimed, "Now, shall we begin, you zygotes?"
Izuku stepped out of the entrance tunnel, revealing himself in a green full-body jumpsuit with a red belt, elbow pads, knee pads, and gloves, along with his signature red boots. He also wore a mask with long ear-like protrusions that resembled All Might's haircut, and a respirator with a makeshift smile on it that also resembled All Might's.
"PFTHAHAHAHA! Talk about homage!" Daigoro guffawed.
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Hikage said.
"Oh, Deku-kun?" Ochako Uraraka exclaimed, adjusting her helmet as she walked to him.
"Uraraka-san!" Izuku blushed as he observed her costume up close. 'Is this what Kaminari-kun meant by the term 'Sensual Spandex'?'
Ochako's hero costume consisted of a black full-body suit with a pale pink design down the middle of her torso, which really complimented her slender yet curvy figure, two black circles on her chest, and a black rectangle below her waist, running between her legs. There were also two more pink patches over her shoulders, both cut off by darker pink armbands that matched the thick choker around her neck.
She had circular wrist guards, a dark pink handle on the back of each one, wide knee-high boots with magenta soles and a two-piece belt around her waist a circle embedded into the center where the pieces joined up, all adding up to make her look like a space oriented babe.
"If only she was a few years older..." Daigoro said before Hikage dope slapped him.
"That looks cool! Really down to earth." Ochako commented before looking at her own attire.
"I should've written what I wanted. Mine ended up being a skintight bodysuit. It's embarrassing..." Ochako rubbed the back of her head.
"You look great." Izuku blurted before blushing madly and hastily covering his mouth in panic.
"Really? Thank you, Deku-kun." Ochako took his comment well, causing Izuku to sigh in relief.
Mineta gave Izuku a thumbs up from nearby, causing him to tilt his head in confusion.
It only increased when All Might observed Izuku's costume before hiding his mouth to lower his chuckles.
"Even Eighth sees it!" Daigoro roared in laughter.
"Now, it's time for combat training!" All Might announced after composing himself.
"Sensei!" Tenya Iida's voice came from a costumed student who looked like a cross between a car and a knight next to Izuku.
'Oh, that was Iida-kun. He looks cool.' Izuku thought, glancing at Tenya beside him in the armored white suit.
"Izuku. Take a note of Iida here and make sure to get some armor." Nana advised. "As you can't use {Pump Up} yet, you have no invulnerability."
"Other than Third and All Might, did any of you have invulnerability?" Izuku replied.
"This is a battle center from the entrance exam, so will we be conducting urban battles again?" Tenya asked.
"No, we're going to move ahead two steps!" All Might explained how they'll be fighting each other on teams, heroes vs. villains.
"Without basic training?" Asui questioned.
"This is a real battle to understand those basics! However, the key this time is that there's no robot you can just beat up." All Might exclaimed.
"How will wins and losses be determined?" Momo Yaoyorozu asked.
"Can we beat them up anyway?" Bakugo sneered.
"Will the punishment be expulsion like with Aizawa-sensei?" Ochako fretted.
"Isn't this cape just crazy?" Aoyama sparkled.
"Will you be splitting us up based on chance or comparative skill?" Tenya asks.
"I'll answer all your questions!" All Might promised. "Yaoyorozu-shoujo! Bakugo-shounen! Iida-shounen! I will explain it all momentarily. Uraraka-shoujo! No expulsions here. Aoyama-shounen! Yes, your cape is magnificent."
'He got them all.' Izuku thought in wonder as Midoriya noted when All Might started to focus on Bakugo and Yaoyorozu.
"Teams and opponents will be determined by drawing lots!" All Might added to Tenya.
"They're being decided so haphazardly?" Tenya questioned.
"Pros often have to create makeshift teams with heroes from other agencies, so maybe that's why?" Izuku explained to Tenya.
"I see. The discernment to look ahead… Please excuse my rudeness!" Tenya bowed to All Might.
"It's fine. Let's do this quickly!" All Might announced, drawing the lots for teams.
(KingVessel: Same as Canon)
"Wow, it must be fate! I'm counting on you!" Ochako jumped close to Izuku as they'd been chosen as a team.
'Oh my gosh!' A madly blushing under his mask Izuku thought in a panic. 'I have to make a good impression on her!'
"Is that what we're calling it these days?" Takashi asked.
"These kids are just too cute." Daisy sighed.
"The first team to fight will be these guys!" All Might announced, referring to Team A; Midoriya and Uraraka, and Team D; Bakugo and Iida.
"Team A will be the heroes, and Team D will be the villains. Everyone else, head toward the monitor room." All Might instructed.
"Yes, sir!"
Izuku looked in Bakugo's direction, only to find him looking his way, pissed. Izuku flinched away, but glared back. This surprised Bakugo... then pissed him off more, making him even growl a bit.
"Villain team, go in first and set up!" All Might explained to Tenya and Bakugo at the building location. "In five minutes, the hero team will break in, and the battle will start!"
"Yes, sir!" Tenya replied while Bakugo glanced at Izuku.
"Iida-shounen, Bakugo-shounen, learn to think from the perspective of the villains. This is pretty close to a real battle. Go all out. Don't be afraid to get hurt." All Might instructed.
"If I'm going all out, do I use all the quirks available?" Izuku asked.
"Naturally." Takashi replied. "It may seem unfair to you, but there are times when an opponent will be unfairly stronger than you, regardless of which sides you are."
"It's a lot of work to memorize the building's floor plans." Ochako said next to Izuku while Bakugo and Tenya went in the building. "But All Might is just the same as when he's on TV."
"Unlike Aizawa-sensei, it looks like there's no punishment, so we can relax-" Ochako started telling Izuku until she looked at him, seeing him shaking while she shrieked, "And you're not relaxed at all!"
"Well, it's because we're up against Kacchan…" Izuku started. "And there's Iida-kun too, so I feel like I need to be on guard..."
"I see. Bakugo-san's the one who makes fun of you, right?" Ochako asked in concern.
"He's amazing." Izuku relaxed before replying. "His personality's horrible, but his goal, his confidence, his physical strength, and his quirk are way more amazing than mine."
"The only thing I protest there is the confidence part!" Daisy yelled. "And maybe the physical strength part too. I protest everything else!"
"Indeed! How can you disparage {One for All} so casually, Little Ninth?!"
"I don't know his goal but don't consider your own lesser than his or anyone else's so easily, Izuku." Hikage said.
"Damn right!" Daigoro roared. "Obliterate that sucker!"
Ochako's surprise showed as Izuku suddenly showed a burst of confidence.
"Thank you, everyone." Izuku said while adjusting his mouthpiece. "I'll win. For once in my life, I'll beat Kacchan."
"Um, Deku-kun..." Ochako asked tentatively. "Who are you talking to? And now that I mentioning it, there are times in class when you just stared off into space..."
"Ah, oh right! It's a side effect of my quirk!" Izuku rapidly explained (bullshitted). "Each of my copied quirks carries a bit of personality from the original holder. That's why I blank out sometimes and my personality changes a bit... hehehe..."
"Oh, I see." Ochako accepted his explanation then smirked. "Well then, so it's a fated battle between rivals?"
"Oh, sorry, this isn't your problem, Uraraka-san." Izuku waved his hands in panic.
"It is! We're a team, aren't we? Let's do our best!" Ochako cheered, making Izuku smile.
"She's so precious." Daisy commented.
"Now, let's start the indoor person-to-person combat training with Team A and Team D!" All Might announced to the teams.
Inside an observing room, All Might told the students, "Okay, everyone, you all should think as well."
"Ah, All Might-sensei." Hanta Sero raised an a hand to question. "Is it okay for Midoriya to compete normally? I mean, he has multiple quirks. I like the guy but isn't it totally going to be unfair to Iida's team?"
"You make a good point, Sero-shounen." All Might replied. "However, there will plenty of opportunities in which a hero or villain will be outmatched against a sudden opponent. For example, imagine a battle between villains against me. Who do you believe would win?"
This brought about a small round of nervous chuckles at the obvious answer.
"If it appeases you, do note that Midoriya-shounen only got his quirk a month ago." All Might said. "As he has spent most of his life quirkless, you all have the advantage of experience over him."
"I see..." Yaoyorozu contemplated. "If anything, Midoriya-san might actually be the one in a disadvantage here..."
Izuku and Ochako entered the building cautiously through a window.
"We've infiltrated successfully!" Ochako whispered.
"There are a lot of blind spots, so let's be careful." Izuku warned her, as they walked down a hallway, occasionally turning corners with their guards up.
'The Predecessors have mentally blocked me so that I can learn on my own'. Izuku thought as he felt the familiar sensations of {Stockpile}'s pulsing, {Blackwhip}'s slither and {Railgun}'s crackle. 'Adding {Danger Sense} and Uraraka-san's {Zero Gravity}, we've got a winning chance.'
[Kacchan's about to attack.]
Thanks to {Danger Sense}'s warning, Izuku quickly darted back, carrying Ochako away from Bakugo's surprise attack. Ochako yelped a bit as Izuku's dive pushed her down, shielding her from the worst of it.
"Uraraka-san, are you all right?" Izuku asked as {Stockpile} burst to life in his body.
"Yeah, thanks." Ochako coughed from the smoke. "How about you?"
"I'm fine." Izuku replied, crouched and getting ready to move. "But still, he ditched Iida-kun and came as I expected..."
Bakugo waved the dust from his explosion away, standing tall and looking down on the two heroes. A large gouge had been torn into the concrete wall from {Explosion}'s power.
"Come on, Deku." Bakugo taunted. "Don't dodge."
"I knew you'd come at me first." Izuku rose to his feet. "I figured you'd try to catch me by surprise."
"I won't do so much damage that this fight gets stopped, but I'm gonna get close!" Bakugo shouted at Izuku as he charged forward.
However, Izuku grabbed his arm, making him blink in surprise.
"[Stockpile: 5% Oklahoma Smash!]" Izuku slammed Bakugo over his shoulder and into the ground, spit coming from his mouth as his body actually bounced upwards from the impact.
"You always start with a big right swing. How much and how long do you think I've been watching you? I wrote an analysis for all the heroes I thought were amazing in my notebooks. Like Notebook No. 13 that you blew up and threw away." Izuku explained, some buried anger leaking into the final part of his words.
"Deku..." Bakugo growled as he got up.
"Don't call me that. Not anymore." Izuku growled back, surprising Ochako and Bakugo. "The 'Deku' you created from 'Defenseless Izuku' is no more. My 'Deku' is born from Uraraka-san's 'Dekiru'!"
"Even though you're scared and weak…" Bakugo started, gritting his teeth. "You still stand in my way? That's what I hate about you!"
"...Oh really?" Izuku said in a strangely dissonant yet serene tone. For some reason, it horribly unnerved everyone, including All Might who was listening in. "Kacchan, do you know why I started with my notebooks? When I became diagnosed as quirkless, I felt horrible for just the simple fact that I might never become a hero with you. My dad, who you know has to work overseas and thus we hardly get a chance to physically see him, gave me the idea and will to create these notebooks. They aren't just my notebooks. They are a symbol of the belief that my dad had for me from the very beginning. And then you burnt it and threw it into the fish tank."
Survival instincts won against pride as Bakugo's feet moved back a bit.
"The truth is while I don't know if I hate you or like you, one thing is definitely for sure." Izuku's body suddenly burst with power as a translucent green aura, cracking the ground and walls around him. "I have never forgiven you for what you did to {Hero Analysis for the Future No. 13} or what you told me to do afterwards."
'What did he he tell Deku-kun/Midoriya-shounen?' Ochako and All Might thought simultaneously.
"Just shut up and defend!" Bakugo suddenly growled into his earpiece, presumably to Tenya. "There's a nerd in front of me that I'm really angry at right now!"
"Uraraka-san, go!" Izuku yelled at her when Bakugo blasted himself toward him. "It's fine! He's totally gonna ignore you!"
Bakugo proved Izuku right by launching right past her to land a hastily blocked kick, letting her run off to find Tenya. "Looking away? You must be full of yourself."
Izuku quickly wrapped {Blackwhip} around Bakugo's leg, trapping it to his arm and flinging him away as he came with an attack from his right again. Due to him not having stable footing, Bakugo was sent flying away by his own attack.
Izuku slid back as Bakugo started to regard him much more cautiously. Bakugo got ready to charge at Izuku again before he suddenly started running away, much to Bakugo's surprise.
"Come back here, Deku!" Bakugo yelled, running after Izuku.
'I have to lead him away for the plan to work.' Izuku thought, occasionally using {Railgun} to throw small green lightning bolts at Bakugo whenever {Danger Sense} warned him of him getting too close.
"Hey! You tricked me, didn't you?! Was it fun tricking me all this time?" Bakugo gave up chasing as he yelled, "Huh?! You've got some flashy quirks there, don't you? Try and get me with them! 'Cause I'm better than you, no matter what!"
Izuku suddenly stopped before going back to him.
"There you are!" Bakugo yelled as Izuku suddenly jumped out of a corner. "You shitty-"
He was cut off as Izuku suddenly punched him in the cheek, sending him flying across the hallway till he cracked the wall.
"Tricking you?!" Izuku screamed at Bakugo as he slid down the wall. "Do you think I went through years of bullying all for the sake of tricking you?! How the fuck did you reach that idea?!"
Bakugo launched himself at Izuku, blasting him with enough power to shake the floor, but as the smoke cleared, it was revealed that {Blackwhip} had simply formed an impenetrable wall between him and Izuku.
The wall went down only to reveal Izuku, covered in viridian sparks and crimson vein-like tendrils on his appearance, crackling with pure, unadulterated power, zipped towards Bakugo and recreated the very first move he (Well, technically Takashi) used {One for All} for on a non lethal scale.
"[Super-Power: 9% Musutafu Smash!]" Izuku's dropkick sent Bakugo flying into- no through the wall and into the other.
Izuku held back a yell as he felt his body ache terribly. Even though he hadn't broken anything, he still felt like his muscles were trying to pull themselves apart.
'I can't believe that just 9% caused this much damage,' Izuku winced as the pain slowly faded away, looking at the wall he'd sent Bakugo through. 'both inwards and out.'
"Deku-kun!"
"Uraraka-san! How's it going?" Izuku responded to Ochako through his comms.
"Iida-kun found me. Sorry!"
"Where are you?" Izuku asked.
"The middle of the fifth floor."
"Almost directly above!" Izuku observed. Looking up, Midoriya noted, 'We probably don't have much time left, either.'
'If we run out of time, our opponents win!' Izuku stood up to face Bakugo as he blasted the wall he smashed through, making the hole big enough to walk through. 'I can't lose this fight!'
A ping sounded as Bakugo's grenade-like right gauntlet flashed red on the black lines between the green sections.
"I'm all loaded up." Bakugo said as he raised a fist.
"What does that mean?" Izuku asked, being wary as {Danger Sense} started to go haywire.
"I've heard that the first quirk you copied and used was All Might's." Bakugo said as he made a sort of deranged expression. "Why won't you use it? Are you saying you can win even if you don't use it? Are you underestimating me, Deku?"
"'Why aren't I using it?'" Izuku repeated incredulously. "I am using it! I'm just not trying to kill you, Kacchan!"
Bakugo gritted his teeth before he started smirking.
"With your stalking, you probably already know, but my quirk, {Explosion}, lets me secrete nitroglycerin-like sweat from the sweat glands on the palm of my hand and make it explode." Bakugo pulled back a handle on his grenade, a small pin appearing, adding, "If they made it this the way I asked, then these gauntlets will store the nitroglycerin inside them, and…"
Bakugo put his finger on the pin to pull it out. "Pull out one crazy awesome blast!"
Bakugo's comms flashed as if someone was speaking to him at the moment.
Bakugo ignored them, looking straight forward with an insane expression on his face. "He'll be fine as long as he dodges!"
"[X-Cannon!]" He pulled the pin, shooting forward a massive fireball which roared out of the support gauntlet, tearing apart the walls of the corridor as it raced towards Izuku.
Izuku tried to block with {Blackwhip} but was too slow, only managing to save himself a bit as he made a point of dodging and blocking at the same time.
Bakugo grinned at the damage he'd dealt Izuku as the boy laid shell-shocked on the floor, his costume mask gone entirely and his right sleeve missing.
"Is that… even allowed?" Izuku gaped at the destruction around him. He would have needed a huge amount of any of the 'combat' quirks he had to cause this much damage.
"̷D̷e̷k̷u̷-̷k̷u̷n̷!̷ ̷W̷h̷a̷t̷ ̷h̷a̷p̷p̷e̷n̷e̷d̷?̷!̷"̷
Izuku winced as he tore out his comms. It had melted and was sparking from the heat of Bakugo's attack.
"Look around, Deku. The more that's stored in these gauntlets, the stronger the blast." Bakugo growled as stalked forward as his left gauntlet pinged as well. "Come on, use All Might's quirk, Deku… I'll force you to surrender even if you're at full strength."
"'He'll be fine as long as he dodges'?" Izuku stared at Bakugo with some fear and a little betrayal. "Kacchan, where you just trying to kill me?"
"Huh?" Bakugo suddenly questioned not to him but to his comms.
'That's most likely All Might calling him out.' Izuku thought as he saw the burns on his arm slowly fading away. 'Just as I thought. Stockpile isn't a strength enhancement quirk, it's an energy generator. Since it's healing my wounds as I'm currently in Full Cowl, this means that I can use it to heal any wounds I get as long as I don't go over the limit my body can handle before running the risk of breaking down-'
"Fine, then! Let's fight it out with our fists!" Bakugo yelled, making his way to Izuku and interrupting his internal monologue.
'It's no good. I can't dodge it! A counterattack. Watch the timing-' Izuku's attack was rendered meaningless as Ochako dropped down from the sky and through the large hole in the wall to dropkick Bakugo in the face, which sent him flying back.
"Uraraka-san?!" Izuku exclaimed in shock. "How?! Why?!"
"For the first question, I jumped out a window and used my quirk on myself!" Ochako replied as she pulled up Izuku to his feet. "As for the second, of course I came! A blast big enough to shake the building happened and you weren't responding in your comms!"
"B-B-But you shouldn't be here." Izuku replied as he eyed Bakugo roaring and getting up again. "We both have our roles to fulfill and now because of me, the plan's rui-"
"Forget the plan." Ochako shot him down. "You're my partner and my friend before that. Why wouldn't I come down to help you?!"
"You're in the way, Round Face!" Bakugo roared. {Blackwhip} was faster, latching unto him and with a heavy grunt, Izuku slammed him into a wall for the third time.
As Bakugo started to get up again, Ochako took the chance to tag him with {Zero Gravity}, somehow grab hold of {Blackwhip} (it was still attached to him. Ochako just grabbed a hold of the tendril), and begun slamming him against the walls, ceiling and floor for all she was worth.
Izuku had been left standing there slack jawed as the sweet, friendly girl treated the other boy as a piñata, except Bakugo was the 'piñata' and the surroundings were the 'bat' to spill the 'innards'.
'{Zero Gravity} indeed.' It was at times like this that caused Izuku to remember that even though quirks were essentially believed as physical functions of one's body with corresponding drawbacks, there were still phenomena which essentially just existed to make the rules of biology, chemistry and physics their bitch.
Case in point, the {Zero Gravity} he was currently seeing Ochako apply on the foul-mouthed piñata that was Bakugo, was definitely causing the laws of Inertia and Buoyancy to go have a Drinking Game elsewhere from this dimension.
"Um, I think he's had enough, Uraraka-san..." Izuku tentatively deactivated {Blackwhip} releasing a dazed Bakugo onto his knees as Ochako deactivated {Zero Gravity}.
"Ah, sorry, Deku-kun." Ochako sheepishly scratched the back of her head, staggering a bit from the nausea she had subjected herself to.
"Now then," Izuku walked up to Bakugo, who weakly glared at him.
"Bakugo." Izuku placed a hand on his shoulder. "Do you remember the last time you placed your hand on my shoulder?"
Bakugo only had three seconds. The first was for confusion. The second was remembrance. The third was a pure look of terrified shock that Izuku would secretly memorize and treasure to his last day while publicly denying it.
[Railgun: 1,200 Volt Point-Blank Charge!]
Bakugo was suddenly hit with emerald electricity originating from Izuku's still clenching hand for a solid four seconds. Afterwards, he fainted.
After tying him up with the capture tape, Izuku turned to Ochako who had now recovered. "Let's go, Uraraka-san!"
"..." Ochako stared at him a bit in ponder before nodding her head in acceptance. "Call me Ochako-chan."
"EEEEHH!" Izuku's face blew crimson, some sparks actually dancing through his hair. "I-I-I-Is that really okay?"
"I'm the one who suggested it, aren't I?" Ochako replied. "Besides, Bakugo was the one who gave you that nickname, right?"
Izuku stilled before reluctantly nodding.
"In that case, it's really fine." Ochako assured him. "I've essentially been calling you by a different reading of your first name after all. You can do the same for me."
"W-W-Well then," Izuku breathed carefully, "may I call you Occhan?"
The bright smile he received could have pierced black holes.
"Now then, Occhan." Izuku commanded, after getting composure over himself. "Time's almost up. We deal with Iida-kun now."
"Right." Ochako replied with a bit of a dark aura and smile which surprised Izuku a bit. "I'm all fired up!"
Izuku stared back a bit before smiling back. "Right. Let's go ahead."
KingVessel: There we go, please review.