Edited - I've been running on almost no sleep for about a week now, sorry for weird grammar.
Chapter 32 -
"So how did you beat those things in a single hit?"
Completing his 204th squat, he answered Midnight. "I used a clay token to double my strength for a split second." She hummed and held up her hand. He narrowed his eyes at her when she smiled. "What?"
"Aizawa we can start." She called out to the bleachers.
In no time, his homeroom teacher had closed the distance and handed Midnight her whip. Grabbing a hold of his scarf, Aizawa turned to him. "You remember our game from before?" He sighed but nodded. "Good. Your goal is to tag both of us."
He sighed again at the smile on Midnight's face. "Fine." Both teachers jumped back and readied themselves.
"Start." Instantly he was slashed across the face with a whip.
'Ow!' He felt her anger start to boil. 'Get her!'
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Back in Hosu. (Uraraka)
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She woke up in a state. Half of her hair was defying gravity on its own and the other half was flattened against the side of her face. She was still in her hero outfit and her breath stank like all hell. Dragging herself from bed, she trudged over to the bathroom and entered still in a haze.
Grabbing her toothbrush and putting the required amount of minty paste on it, she brushed her teeth. While doing that, she started unhooking her costume and tossing the bits and pieces next to the wall behind her. Holding the toothbrush with her teeth, she used both hands to free her body from the impromptu pjs. With a sigh and grabbing the toothbrush again, she finished up and spit the nasty tasting foam into the sink.
"While I don't mind the show, I don't think you meant to do this." Her eyes snapped open and she turned to see Mandalay sitting on the toilet on the other side of the bathroom, nude. She opened her mouth to say something but no words came out. Shino smiled and waved. "Grab a towel and give me a couple of minutes to finish up here okay?" She could only dumbly nod and grab a towel to cover herself up. She didn't leave immediately though, and before she could turn away the older woman, still covering her breast, turned to the side and gave her side profile.
Her mind might have slightly broken at that, she reached behind her and practically fell backward out of the bathroom. This caused Mandalay to giggle, which she heard from beyond the now closed door. Now in the calmness and quietness of the main room, she could hear her heart thudding in her chest and feel the heat that had spread across her entire body.
With her body heat raised and her on edge, the drip of cold the landed on her skin made her jump slightly. She looked down and noticed that she was still holding the used toothbrush. Putting it down and using the towel, she cleaned off the drip of spit and foam off her skin. With a sigh, she sat on the floor in front of her bed and put her head on her knees. She had just done one of the stupidest things she could imagine without even realizing it. She doubted she could even look Shino in the eye anymore, let alone at her. Closing her eyes, the only image she could see was the older woman's naturally athletic curves.
The heat came back in full force and died out when she heard a buzzing coming from her bed. She must have spaced out for a second because the water for the shower was running and she could hear a faint humming coming from the bathroom. Quickly going over to her phone, she answered on the fourth ring. "Hello?" She mentally cursed herself when her voice came out squeaky. It happened whenever she was embarrassed.
"Hey girl, how are you?"
"Hey Kendo and umm, good." She shouldn't have stuttered.
"Uh Huh, what happened?"
"Nothing! I just woke up."
Her best friend hummed for a second. "Well whatever. Did you see what happened last night?"
With that, the torrent of memories came flooding back. "Can we not talk about that?"
Her voice must have oozed emotion because her friend's excitement was replaced by worry. "Ochaco, what did you do yesterday?" She stayed silent for a minute before the waterworks started.
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The night before
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After they had gotten the all clear, her and the team had descended on their assigned sector. She was sticking next to Ryuko for the beginning half of the expedition to learn how to stop collapsing buildings. It's all well and good she could hold up 4 tons, but if she did it wrong, she could bury the person even more.
"Pixie, go straight for about 32 meters, there's a man buried under his house." More must have been said because Ryuko's normal smile turned into a frown. She would have asked what happened, but the lady picked up speed and dashed away. Barely able to keep up, she watched from afar as pillars of rock lifted a whole building far enough away from the ground that a person could walk under it. Completely trusting her own quirk, Pixie weaved her way through the rock and rubble, toward the guy. On her way, she did stop to stare at something, but walked off without looking back.
The man she dragged back was unconscious and had a ton of broken bones. He also probably had internal bleeding but she wasn't a doctor. "Call for an ambulance and tell them we have a critical case. Get this man to the main street, your quirk will ease the stress on his body." With her piece said, Ryuko walked off back toward the house and created a wall surrounding it. She had so many questions, but the guy's life came first and she didn't want to argue with the older lady.
A few minutes later, an ambulance came blaring down the road and left just as fast as it came. With just her steady breathing being the only source of sound, she picked up the distinct sound of people talking from across the street. She wasn't a complete ditz and decided to message the team before investigating.
U: Hearing noise from across the street, going to take a look.
Not waiting for a reply, she made her way across the street and used her quirk on herself just long enough to clear the first ruined building. Silently dropping to the ground she heard someone harshly whispering to another. "Shut your trap, whore. If you bring heroes down on top of us, I'll kill you." The very silent sob was cut off by a meaty smack. While she couldn't see what happened she could assume the girl was slapped.
Shooting off another text with coordinates this time, she crept out from around her hiding place and looked around. The rubble she was hiding behind was a massive section of cement wall with metal jutting out of it. There were matching sets of the rubble all around her, which circled a completely bare circle of floor in the middle of the block. The only thing she could see in the crater was a rather tall well built man and a woman wrapped in a tattered cloth.
The man pulled out a cellphone and after waiting for a second, cursed lightly. When they were waiting to get into the city, they had heard the phone lines were completely free so people could call for help, but apparently his call didn't make it through. "Get up, we're going back to Akihabara. This place is done for now." The woman's sobs came back, harsher and quieter, but still made her skin crawl.
What should she do? She wasn't supposed to fight people without one of the team with her, but she wasn't exactly Izuku when it came to stealth. The most she could do was tell police where they were headed and hope someone could catch them before they made it there. Her phone buzzed against her leg, shaking her out of her thoughts. Before she could even react, there was a pull on her body and she was sent flying across the rubble toward the pair. Managing to grab one of the jutting pieces of metal, she armed herself with a makeshift weapon. With almost none of the grace she normally had while flying in the air, she flew at the guy and stopped a meter from him.
The look on his face was pure confusion before it turned into something she never wished to see again. Looking down at the woman with a wide smile. "Guess you were right! If we get back to base without any trouble I'll award you for this cute little prize." The man turned back to her. "You ready to become a plaything little girl?"
She was mad now. Not at the woman, who was now showing so many emotions that she couldn't even guess what was going through her mind, but at the man for thinking she belonged to him. Still able to move her arms, she put all her strength into a swing and smacked the man with the chunk of cement and steel. While it managed to connect, it didn't seem to do much besides piss him off.
His rage quickly died down as he smiled sadiscally at her. Letting out a small chuckle, he talked out loud to himself. "I'm going to enjoy breaking you."
"Fuck you."
He smiled. "If you-"
"Sun Kiss!" The bracelet she wore came to life in a multicolor spasm before being consumed by fire which did two things. The first was to create a ball of fire and the second was to attack the man's face.
Letting out a yell of rage and pain, the man threw her back into the rubble and into a concrete block. Gulping down the pain, she started her own attack. Quickly activating her quirk on all the loose rubble around her, she found a sturdy piece of metal with a chunk of cement on it and rushed the guy. The man had taken a knee from the massive burn the fireball had inflicted.
Clearing the distance and about to take a swing, she felt his quirk start to push her away. Jumping to the side and with all her might, she chucked the bit of rubble at the villain. The man caught up to her with his quirk and sent her flying backward into sharp rocks. Her back felt wet, but she ignored it and started activating her quirk on more rubble. As she worked on the rubble, the man picked up the once makeshift club, which had its cement broken leaving only the metal pole, and pointed it at her. "You'll pay for that bitch."
Instincts shouted at her to dodge, which was the correct call, because as soon as she dived out of the way, a pole pierced the cement where she was standing. Still working on the rubble and throwing the occasional piece or two, she saw the woman making herself as small as possible. The man's anger must have reached its peak, because the next thing she knew, she smacked into an invisible wall. Not taking the time to check her nose, she kicked off it and ran the other way, but hit another wall. Quickly checking the other two directions, she growled as she found herself trapped. Glaring at the man, she tried to think of a way out.
"I was going to break you." He paused for a second. "But you pissed me off." Using his hands to make a ball, he slowly started to flatten them. Just as slowly, she felt the walls touch her skin and start squeezing against her. In a panic, she pushed back against the force but to no avail, the walls didn't let up at all as the man smiled wickedly. "Don't worry, I heard it hurts."
She glared at him as her arms were pushed against her sides. It didn't occur to her that she should be panicked right now, she honestly had no idea why. The only thing she could feel was rage and worry, rage at the man and worry for the woman. Closing her eyes, she pushed with everything she could. Her heart was thudding in her ears, her muscles ached and her bones felt like they wanted to dislocate.
"Ahhh!" Suddenly the walls disappeared and she fell to the ground. Snapping her eyes open, she saw the woman being held by the throat and a sharp piece of metal sticking out of the man's gut. "You'll die for that." Without any decorum or second thoughts, he closed his free hand and all she saw was red.
A fine red mist slowly settled to reveal the now bodiless head of the poor woman, her savoir. The emotions she felt before were instantly replaced by pure unadulterated hate. Taking off the bracelet Izuku had given her, she threw it at the man, who turned with a smile. "Don't feel too bad, she was only ever good at head anyway." With his sick joke said, he tossed the head into the rubble. "Now where were we?"
Her next words weren't only thought, but filled with emotion. Grabbing a piece of cement that was solidly in the ground, she cursed at him. "Die you bastard, Gravity Warp!" Without any warning, or even a light show this time, the bracelet came to life and became a black sphere.
The man opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by a chunk of metal slicing through his cheek and out the other side. With complete satisfaction and a bit of sadistic glee, she watched the black hole start picking up the man and other bits of rubble that both pummeled him and stabbed into him. Every bit of free rubble she had activated her quirk on was going toward the now floating sphere and as some of the last pieces made their way toward it, the man was finally buried. The bit of Izuku's quirk in the bracelet died out a few seconds later with a thump of energy, condensing itself further.
Deactivating her quirk, the ball of floating blood soaked rubble crashed against the ground and stayed where it fell. Her mind finally caught up to what her eyes were seeing and what her stomach was feeling, which was doing jumping jacks. With not even a second thought, she keeled over and vomited on the floor. Along with her lunch and dinner, tears fell from her face.
This was how Pixie found her. Seeing the aftermath of the fight, Pixie simply picked her up and walked toward the nearest police station. Along the way, the rest of the team had shown up and tried to get her to talk, but she was still a sobbing mess. It was at the police station, after Mandalay had used some healing tokens on her and a police officer had used his quirk, she could speak more than a single word.
They had ID'd the man and woman with blood samples, while she was sitting with the now quiet team. Turns out the woman had some type of electromagnetic quirk, which was why the text she had sent out didn't make it out until after she had died. The woman was trying to keep the guy from calling for backup and buying time for help to arrive. It was when they learned that, she broke again. She had let the lady down and failed her. She had to be saved again, first at USJ and now. She wanted to smack herself for being weak but the only movement she could muster was to move her jaw as she sobbed. She had ended up curling into a ball after the questioning and slept against Mandalay, who didn't leave her side.
(Mandalay)
After the bathroom incident, Mandalay had hoped the girl's mind had wiped the memory, but apparently that didn't happen. When she came out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel, she found the girl sobbing again with her phone in her hand. Without a second thought, she picked up the small fragile looking girl and held her. Sitting on the bed and putting Uraraka on her side, she took the phone, which was still in a call. "I'll have her call you back okay?"
The girl on the other end seemed so small as she let out a soft and drained response. "Okay." With that, the line died and she wrapped her arms around the sobbing girl. She didn't say anything, not because she couldn't think of anything, but because she literally couldn't think at all. The ocean of blue and red that flooded her mind was drowning every single thought she had in her head. She felt the first tear fall and then the second and the third. Her own waterworks started after that, which she hoped would end if she could get Uraraka to calm down.
It took nearly an hour, but the sobbing had eventually stopped as the girl's eyes couldn't muster anymore tears and her voice was exhausted. The blue had died down halfway through but was replaced by a deep red. "Take a shower, we'll talk after okay?" With a last sniffle, Uraraka freed herself and entered the bathroom. The rhythmic hum of water thudding against the glass freed her from the ocean of color, allowing her to get up and finish putting on clothes. 'Yes you can come in.'
Almost as much of a mess, Pixie came walking through the door. Instead of blue, she was a mess of red and black. She had only seen the normally happy girl in this mood once and that was after Tiger's protege died at the hands of a villain. Her and Tiger had hunted down the villain with the help of police and had beat the ever living crap out of him. They didn't kill him only because the police had stopped them. She shuddered at the memory of the photos police had shown her. She never knew it was possible to peel skin off of flesh but they had figured it out. The guy tried to press charges against them, but the chief of police and quite a few government officials were behind them along with the general public. They had gotten off on a warning and told they were banned from partaking in attack based missions from now on. They were allowed to help if part of the mission was search and rescue but only if that was part of it.
They were also allowed to defend themselves and citizens if they needed to, which was why Pixie didn't get in trouble for the bakery incident. She pushed her teammate down into a chair and sighed. "I can't have you storming off."
"Why not!"
"One, I need you here to help with her. Her mental state is more important than your selfish need to make it up to her. Two, where would you even go? We don't have any leads and the police won't share any with you." She sighed softly. "And this in no way is your fault, it's mine. I told you to keep her from seeing the kids' bodies which led her to fight that man. If I would have sucked it up and told her the truth we wouldn't be in the mess at all in the first place."
"You were trying to keep her innocent. I can hardly blame you after you saw your first body." Her black was slowly fading to grey.
She felt a shiver crawl up her spine as the memory surfaced. Little girl was cut in half by falling wreckage, wrong place, wrong time, wrong person, wrong everything. Shaking her head lightly, she got rid of the memory. "Are you going to help her or not?"
Pixie sighed loudly. "Fine, but after Tiger and Ragdoll wake up."
She nodded, that was reasonable. The three of them had left the police station early on and went to help more people, staying out most of the night. "Sounds good. Now get, before you see my girl in a towel."
Pixie made a face. "Really?"
She smiled. "Nah, I just want to talk to her for a bit." Her friend stood and after a quick hug, walked out of the room, staring at the floor.
One long shower later, the water turned off and a flood of red assaulted her senses. She was fairly perplexed by the color, she could understand a bit of rage at the guy, but this amount. The door creaked open and revealed a toweled Ochaco. Her eyes were bushy and red, her cheeks were red and pink. She must have stopped crying halfway and made up her mind about something. Her expression was hardened and determined. "What?"
The girl didn't say anything for a second, probably picking her words. "I want to stop them."
Her mind did a double take. "What?"
"I want to help those girls."
She almost wanted to laugh. "You want to take on the human trafficking of Japan?" The girl nodded, a fire lit behind her eyes. Who did she even know that could help her? With a sigh, she ran her hands down her face. "Fine, but not this trip. I'll find someone to get you started in learning, this week we help with clean up and rescue."
The girl nodded and turned toward her pack to get clothes. Seeing her taut, white legs in their splendor made her remember. "Oh, by the way, do you have a swimsuit?"
Ochaco turned to her with a raised eyebrow. "Why?"
She smiled. "Izuku is calling for a Sun Day. He's taking us to a private beach of some sort." Her girlfriend's face went bright red in contrast to her flood of red which morphed into a deep shade of pink. "So?"
"Ca-can you help me choose one?" She smiled, this was the Uraraka she liked.
"My own private show and a date?" Nodding she smirked at the girl's glare. Leaning forward onto her hands, she smiled. "Don't worry, I don't have a swimsuit that fits anymore." The words eventually clicked for the girl because her glare changed into a wide eyed expression. The pink started to glow brighter and brighter. "We'll go Saturday morning." She made a face. "Apparently we're getting picked up by Hale, who's coming to the beach with us."
Uraraka groaned. "Is he trying to build a harem?"
She actually started giggling like crazy at that. "I think that's more on us than him."
The girl's chest went red as she looked at her. Taking advantage of the situation to poke a bit of fun, she stretched to display her body as she said. "How about you get dressed and we go to get your costume fixed?"
"Ye-yeah." The girl turned and took her clothes to the bathroom.
(Midoriya)
"[Medic's Respite, Emergency Aid]."
"I hate you."
He smiled. "Blame your homeroom teacher."
"He's not the one healing me though."
"No, but he's forcing me too."
With a sigh and a stretch, Mirio sat up and looked over at the teachers who were talking. "Izuku."
He raised an eyebrow. "Yeah?"
"What's going on?"
He wasn't sure how to answer the question. Mirio deserved to know what was happening, but it wasn't his burden to bear. Sighing, he sat down on the ground next to Mirio and told him the truth. "There's a villain named All for One, he's going to try and destroy hero society as we know it and install himself as some sort of King."
Mirio tensed and let out a calming breath. "How long?"
Izuku shrugged. "I wish I knew. The most we know is that it's sometime in the next year at least. He's the one who's creating the Nomus. We think he's also in charge of Tenko's crew."
The older student sat a bit straighter. "Then we have to train until there's no point anymore." He looked at Izuku with a determination he didn't have before. "Will you help me?"
Izuku smiled and nodded. "Of course, just don't put yourself out of commission."
Lemillion smiled. "I still have plenty of people I need to save, so don't count on it."
"You two ready?" Both of them looked up at Aizawa and at their nods he pointed to two teachers. "Izuku, Ectoplasm. Lemilion, Mary." Standing up and making his way over to the hero, he was handed a cloth.
Before he could even ask what it was for, Ectoplasm started answering. "It's for training your scent, blindfighting and hearing." From behind the teacher, he saw Mr. Snipe loading his gun.
He sighed as he took the blindfold. "Can I just say, I hate this plan."
Ecto nodded. "You can, but it would fall on death ears."
"Figures." He put on the blindfold and was immediately shot in the forehead.
'Ow. I couldn't even hear the gun going off.' Her complaining drudged up a memory.
"Wait. Are those the guns Hatsume made?"
Snipe's voice was filled with mirth. "Perhaps, you gonna be a yaller dog?"
He flipped off the stands where Hatsume was. "I'm assuming no is the correct answer to that, but I'm pissed she made me work on them." Snipe started laughing.
"We shall begin soon. Your mission is to dodge and block, do you understand?"
He nodded. "Yes sir."
"Then begin." He was immediately kicked in the chin by the pegleg of Ectoplasm and shot in the ear by Snipe.
'I hate this already.' He had to agree with her.
(Mirio)
"Here."
He was handed a pair of knuckle dusters. "Um."
"You're going to learn how to use them and a normal weapon. I'll figure out what weapon later." He was going to ask how she expected him to use weapons when he was using his quirk but she must have read his look. "The brass knuckles are made completely with your blood."
His eyes widened when he looked down at the metal pieces. "How did you-?"
"We had your blood sequence on file and after a lot of paperwork and meetings, we were able to clone your blood."
He had so many questions but the top of the list was this. "I've taken chemistry. Iron doesn't have DNA."
The normally emotionless woman gave a small smile. "We found a man in Belgium who could bind DNA to molecules as long as they came from the same source." She patted his arm, "You've changed that man's life by the way."
He blinked. "What do you mean?"
"The contract UA offered him was and will be enough to pay for his family's care. His two daughters are stuck in beds for the rest of their life and his wife is barely any better. His life was hard because his quirk doesn't have very many applications in the real world and he was barely able to work in the first place because of his family."
He blinked away the mist that was building up in his eyes and brandished the new weapons with a smile. "How am I supposed to train with these?"
(Midoriya)
A couple hours later, he was healing Togata and himself again. He was bruised from head to toe and had welts the size of grapes everywhere. His friend wasn't much better. After learning the basics of a new fighting style, he was thrown into the deep end and started swimming with the sharks. Ms. Soma's body shape completely hid her muscles and it was rather frightening. She had apparently taken up weapons after UA, where all she did was hand to hand combat.
After the spell was finalized, he helped Mirio up and they went back to training. "By the way, Mary's right punch is weaker than her left." The older student smiled at him as he walked back toward Ecto and Snipe. He'd have to remember that when he got her next.
"Are you getting a feel for being blinded?"
He nodded. His [Blindfighting] had gone up a few levels and his [Eavesdropping] had gone up one level. His scent hadn't gone up at all, but the training was working as the skill had gone up a few percentages. "How long am I doing this training?"
"Two more hours then you go with Thirteen and Gran Torino. You will be training with them while everyone else sleeps."
He nodded. He was somewhat dreading what Torino was going to make him do.
Two hours later
After healing Mirio, he was handed off to the new pair. Thirteen gave him a small wave, while Gran Torino just started ordering him around, he was clearly not pleased. As he opened a portal to his base, he walked behind Torino and talked to Thirteen. "Why's he so mad?"
"He's being pulled out of retirement to help with the League. He's not too happy about it."
"Why?"
"Did you hear about what happened after Hosu?"
He shook his head. "I've been training ever since I got out of the police station."
Thirteen sighed. "Heroes are under fire right now."
"What do you mean?"
"The Nomus weren't the ones that caused the damage to Hosu, heroes did."
Alright, that was a fair point. "What's going on?"
She sighed. "Mt. Lady had her hero license taken away and several heroes are being put under probation after public backlash."
That, really really sucked. She had just made her public debut too. "Is it permanent?"
The hero shrugged. "Nothing is set in stone. I'm sure people's anger will cool down, but I'm not sure about her license."
"Kid! Get in the box and start doing your breathing exercises." Torino sat in the comfiest chair he could find and waited for him to start.
Thirteen patted his back. "Don't worry, I'll try to keep him from going too crazy."
He smiled. "Good luck."
Roughly halfway through the night, he was surprised by Akito showing up at his warehouse. "Uhh. Hi?"
"Hey, whats up?"
She hugged him and shrugged. "Got bored. What are you doing? Who are they?"
Hugging back, he answered her questions. "I'm under a training regiment right now." He turned to introduce his teachers. "This is Gran Torino and this is Thirteen."
Thirteen waved happily while Torino got off his chair and made his way over. "You're the girl aren't you?"
Aki narrowed her eyes at the old man. "In what context?"
Not the least bit scared by the girl, Gran Torino started ordering the pair around. "You can help him then." He looked at Izuku. "Midoriya, get in the box and almost kill yourself, girlie will heal you." With his orders given, he turned around and sat back down.
"Is he always like that?"
He shook his head as he took off his shirt. "No, he's just pissed that he's no longer retired."
She only stared at him for a few seconds before shaking away her distraction. "I need to talk to you when you get a chance by the way. We have some magic news."
He gave her a thumbs up and walked into the glass box. 'So question?' He hummed. 'What's your plan on dealing with the magic everywhere?'
"Cosmic Halo." As his body ignited, he sighed. 'If we have to, we can get deeper into it.'
'Sounds fun.' He nodded as he commanded the miniature sun to start dancing in the air. 'What about me fighting?'
He closed his eyes and focused on her. 'IF we can find a safeish place, then I'll see.'
'Okay.' With her piece said, she retreated into his mind and left him alone.
Ever since their talk a few days ago, she had been a lot more reserved and easier to control. Sure her emotions still boiled over, but if he didn't cave into them, they were little more than slight tugs on his consciousness. He had checked her status screen before and was actually surprised by a very small change in her traits. Amoral was actually gone and replaced by Neutral. Selecting it had stated she was no longer willing to ignore problems but wouldn't specially cause more or help unless made to do so. It was a nice change from before. Instead of begging him to fight, she would just idle and watch from her room without a care in the world unless they were in trouble.
Another really nice change was she had decided to dedicate her time to creating new fake memories. One of the things on their to do list was to find a way to implant the memories from afar and instantly during a fight. Not dirty ones she made for both of their pleasures, but the phantom memories. They had practiced sneakily on Akito earlier, but weren't able to select the constraints fast enough before she separated the touch. "Light of Polaris."
At his command, the mini sun shrank and emitted a blinding light that covered the room in a warm glow. He felt his skin start to burn up at that point and just held it until his Stamina started to drain. When it did, he let the light wink out of existence and the fire that seeped off him die out. He felt the burning sensation of cold touch his crisp skin and as the feeling died off, he felt a calming aura envelope him. He had closed his eyes after creating the light and after a few seconds was able to open them to see Aki smiling at him. "Yeah?"
"Think you can make the mini sun split?"
He shrugged, "Maybe. When I first got the power there were 5 suns, but they were all the same size. My HP also bottomed out after 5 seconds of being in the state."
"Try splitting the sun into smaller sections." With his HP and Stamina maxed out again, he tried visualizing what that would look like and a name for it.
'Star field?'
He hummed. 'Maybe. I was thinking of naming it after something. What's the brightest star group?'
'Let me check.' After a second, she got back to him. 'Well from our memories, the brightest and lamest name is Beehive.'
He snorted. 'Yeah, not happening. How bout we just call it Star Cluster?'
'That works. Let's try it out.'
"Cosmic Halo." His skin ignited and the normal star appeared, lazily circling above his head. Holding up a hand and imagining what he wanted, he spread out his hand. The sun vibrated for a few seconds then what he imagined did happen but not the way he expected. The sun shrank in on itself and after a second of vibrating, it exploded. The force of the explosion threw him on his back and kept him there for a few seconds. Opening his eyes, which were now starting to get hard to keep open, he saw a breathtaking sight. Hundreds of miniature stars the size of specks of dust floated all around him, multiple shades of color connected each light. His gravity seemed to be having some sort of effect on it. The little lights began to act like space debris and started to circle themselves until they collided, where they created new brighter stars.
'Cut it!' Misaki's warning made him look at his gauges and he was stunned by how much it had gone down in that short time. Quickly turning it off, the stars faded into darkness and he finally felt the aftereffects of doing that. His mind was numb and felt like it had been smashed with a hammer. His skin had turned black and he had no strength left to even move. His HP was at 1 along with his Stamina, his Mana had gone to 80% so he was safe, but it was terrifying to see it go down.
The water came back, flooding the box and washing away the ash of his skin. It didn't go high enough that it started to drown him like normal but it did its job by cooling off the floor allowing Aki to come in. "You okay?"
He wasn't able to answer and had Misaki send her a message. I hurt everywhere and feel like death.
She snorted. "Your own fault. [Medic's Respite]. All I said was to split the ball, not to create a miniature galaxy." Casting [Emergency Aid] on him, she knelt next to him and kissed his healing cheek. "Was really pretty though, when you get better control of it, I expect a light show."
His vocal chords had healed enough for him to croak out. "Sure, whatever."
Chapter Done!
Hope everyone liked some part of that! I also hope you will enjoy the subplot of Uraraka's. I've been watching a lot of really dark documentaries lately for about a month and decided on it. This does mean her chapters will be darker more often than Izuku's but won't constantly be like that. Look forward to the future!