"..why, just why?" Neito questions, face palming. "WHY WOULD YOU AGREE TO THE DORMS!? THIS GUY'S AN IDIOT!!"
Kokei smirks, "well actually, there's a lot of reasoning behind my actions." Kokei stands up, pacing around All for One's deceased body within the ever-so familiar alleyway. "Firstly, if I don't accept I'd already seem suspicious. I'm sure every other student had little to no issues with this, considering the amount of times we've been attacked." Kokei puts a finger up to his lip, "I don't know what, but they probably have some ulterior motive in doing this dorm opportunity."
"Perhaps it is to monitor the students and be sure they weren't involved with how the league acquired the Forest Training location." All for One suggests, "sounds logical enough."
"Yeah, that definitely sounds plausible." Kokei nibbles on the interior of his bottom lip.
"If that's the case, you won't be able to leave without being monitored!" Jenny shouts, realizing what this all meant.
"Gonna start moving in the shadows?" Shihai questions, "would be pretty easy for you- when you use my quirk, of course."
Kokei shakes his head, "no no no. I have a better idea. While i had you all muted, i interacted with Kurogiri as AfO. I told him that i survived and he was overjoyed, saying Tomura would be as well.
Then, i gave him a small transmitter that could only capture audio. I have one as well. I don't want them being able to see that I'm in a student dorm. So, this will allow me to speak with them whenever while in the comfort of my own dorm room. Should take the suspicion off of me, at least somewhat."
All for One smirks in pride, while Jenny and Shihai gasped. "Well.. anyone could've came up with such a simple plan!" Neito states, huffing in anger. "And where's that Stain guy? Why doesn't he speak much anymore?"
"Kokei always has him muted." Shihai answers, "he's on punishment."
"What kind of sick place is this!?" Neito questions in horror.
Kokei chuckles softly, "my conscience."
"Sup class, good to see you all together again." Shota greets the collection of Class 1-A students, all standing before the brand new dorm building. There were small trees around the building, two fairly tall towers made up the building. They were separated by a portion half as tall as the towers titled: '1-A Alliance'.
"Now listen up, you all need to being preparing to receive your Provisional Hero Licenses. We were planning on giving them to you all during the Training Camp but, instead, that didn't happen." Shota peers over at a particular group of people, Izuku, Shoto, Momo and Eijiro. "I would normally expel the entire class, except Toru, Jiro and Katsuki, since no one stopped them." Shota rolls his eyes, "anyway, I'll show you all around."
Upon entering the dorms, one would walk into the lobby. It was a large living area for both boys and girls to mingle with their free time. It contained many couches and seats, tables and televisions riddled neatly about. Further toward the back of the lobby, were 3 different directions to head toward. To the left, the girls' side of the dorms and to the right the boys'. Down the middle held a kitchen area for cooking.
On the boy's side, once entering was a hallway filled with dorm rooms and stairs to ascend higher for more dorm rooms. At the bottom floor, however, contained showers and a type of bathhouse. Near no rooms were on this floor.
Kokei found his room on the 3rd floor, 2nd closest room to the stairs for that floor. To deliver all his boxes, mainly of things he purchased during his shopping with Inko and Izuku, Kokei used his strength enhancers to lift more than he was usually capable of. Kokei's arms had healed almost fully since he had used OfA, and so did the rest of his body- except for the gargantuas scar on his left shoulder.
It occasionally caused him problems, like with sleeping if he accidentally rolled onto his stomach he'd yelp in pain due to the pressure. It was still very sensitive, even after it'd been a couple weeks.
Once bringing all his boxes up to his room, Kokei felt intimidated by the amount of space in his room. Though it normally wouldn't be much room, Kokei didn't have much. Even so, Kokei started unpacking.
After about 1 or 2 hours, Kokei's new home was fully setup. When opening the door and walking in, to the left of the door and in the corner was Kokei's bed. A plain bed with blue sheets and a matching colored blanket as well as pillow. In the back and middle of Kokei's room, on the wall, was a moderately sized window to which he had blinds to put on it. On the wall, above his bed, hung his third place medal from the Sports Festival.
Just next to his bed, he had a small bedside table with his phone charging on it and a face down framed photo. Connected to the ceiling, on the far back right side of his room hung his punching bag. And near the door, to the left in his room, he had a chair incase of company. And to the right of his room, near the door, he had his dresser. All the clothes in there was what was in the majority of his boxes.
It was a fairly plain and bleak room, but Kokei thought it looked swell. Especially since, inside one of the zipped up tears in his punching bag, hid the audio transmitter to interact with the league. Kokei closes the door to his room shut and lunges onto bed, immediately yipping in pain due to his shoulder aching again. "Ack!" Kokei yelps, "owww.."
Kokei rolls onto his back, "well, guess I've got some free time." Kokei lets out a soft yawn, pulling off his clothes until he was only in his boxer briefs. Then, he pulls the blanket over his body and closes the blinds. Totaling his room into darkness and silence, for the most part.
In the next moment, Kokei was in a different place. It was his old house. The kitchen light was the only light in the house that was on, and Kokei stood at the closed front door. There was a humming noise coming from the kitchen. Naturally, Kokei followed the noise and what was in that kitchen was something he never thought he'd see again. "Say, Kokei, you still like your eggs fried?" Sobokuna questions, she stood over at the stove and was mixing up a dish.
From just seeing her and hearing her voice, tears begin to arise in Kokei's eyes. "Mom.." Kokei says shakily, running up to Sobokuna and wrapping his arms around her.
Sobokuna gasps, then giggles. "It's nice to see you again too, my little hero. Go, take a seat I'm whipping you up something."
Kokei burrows his head against Sobokuna, rubbing his head against her back and holding her tight. After a short while, he unwraps his arms around her and sniffles. "It feels unreal to see you again." Kokei tells her as he sits down at the kitchen table, looking up at his mom the whole time. "So much has happened since you were last here!"
"Mhm, i saw it all. But I'm sure you still wanna tell me about it." Sobokuna laughs, and so does Kokei, between sniffles. "I would love to listen to your stories, but, I'm afraid my time here is limited."
Kokei looks at Sobokuna worriedly, "why..?"
"Because I'm dead, it's a challenge being able to speak with you now." Sobokuna sighs, then smiles. "That's alright, though, I'm sure I'll have enough time to serve you this meal." Sobokuna scurries with the spatula she held, mushing around the eggs in her pan. "I suppose I'll just be direct in saying this, Kokei." Sobokuna glances back at Kokei in between cooking. "Since I've been dead, I've been able to learn more about you. The real you."
Kokei looks down at the table shamefully, "oh.."
Sobokuna puts her eyes back onto the dish she cooked. "Yes, i know of your true quirk and what you really had to do to get into U.A., I know of your involvement with villains and the people who've lost their lives to you. I know of it all." Sobokuna pauses for a moment, Kokei closed his eyes and readied himself for the impending hate he'd receive. "And I wanted to let you know that I understand."
Kokei gasps, looking up from the table and to Sobokuna. "What!? You do..?"
Sobokuna nods, turning off the stove heat and sliding the eggs off the pan and onto a plate laying on the countertop. "Yes, i know that you've been feeling guilty about yourself recently. Wondering what I'd think if i knew what you have done."
Sobokuna places the plate on the table in front of Kokei. She also placed a fork and knife on either sides of the plate, then went and sat down at the other end of the table. "And the answer is: I would still love you the same. It doesn't matter what you do, what darkness you possess or what deeds you've committed. As long as you're doing what you believe is right, i will support you 100%."
Kokei's eyes dilated, glossy from the tears he'd cried and the more that were coming to eye. "Thank you, mom."
Sobokuna smiles, "now now, try the eggs! I spent a long time making them." Kokei picks up his utensils, using them to cut into the flat egg and using his fork to portion off a piece. "They might need some seasoning, though."
Kokei raises the egg up to his mouth and bites onto it. He slowly chews, then another tear runs down his face. It was hard to put into words how it tasted, but the only thing Kokei knew how to relate it to was love. Taking love and making it into a consumable food. "It's.. perfect." Kokei says as feedback, his teeth jittered from overwhelming happiness.
Sobokuna claps for herself, "yes! I knew those were gonna be the ones. You have no idea how many tries it took me to get that recipe right. I'll tell you, TOO MANY!"
Kokei chuckles, "you're goofy." Kokei then sighed, looking into his mother's warm gaze. "I love you, mom.. And i miss you."
Sobokuna smiles back at Kokei, "i love you too, Kokei. And i am so proud of you. Now, you best wake up. I think someone's at your door."
"Kokeiiiiii! Wake upppppp!" Toru and Mina whine in between knocking on the door. "We need to go into your room for the room contest!"
Kokei slowly blinks a few times, opening his eyes up and looking around at where he was. It was his first time sleeping in this dorm, so it was somewhat weird. Kokei was still half asleep, so, he didn't respond to the obscure amount of times the girls knocked. "Kokeiiii! Open up, or we will for you!"
Those few words made Kokei awaken fully within seconds. Kokei jolts upwards, "wait!" Kokei shouts, "don't come in yet!"
Mina giggles, "hmmm, you girls hear anything? Because I don't, looks like I'll have to open it myself."
Kokei's life flashes before his eyes, he figured his best bet was to rush out if bed and charge the door. Locking it before they could open the door fully. 'I wanna use a push, but I don't think we can use our quirks in the dorm!' Kokei thought to himself, flailing his body out of bed and falling to the floor. "Oh no no no no NO!" Kokei shouts, he couldn't put on his clothes again since he figured they must be already on the verge of opening the door. "HAVE MERCY!" Kokei begs, getting ready to run toward the door until- it opened up.
Revealing Kokei, standing next to his bed, in just his gray boxer briefs. Standing in the doorway was Mina, Momo, Toru, Ochaco and Jiro. All but 1 of the girls in his class were witnessing this.
They all stand there, motionless for a short period until Momo yipes and directs Mina to close the door. Kokei's face was bright red, he felt very embarrassed. Kokei falls back onto his bed while the girls begin profusely apologizing to him through his door. "They have no mercy.. I should've known." Kokei whispers, sighing shakily.
"Well," Ochaco begins, looking at the ground with tinted pink cheeks. "I suppose that makes us even, now.."
Silence befalls the girls, and Kokei, after Ochaco speaks. And soon after, a loud "WHAAAT!?" Sounded and began the interrogation of Ochaco.
Meanwhile, Kokei stands back up from his bed and peers down at the face down framed photo on his small bedside table. Kokei smiles happily as he grabs the photo and places it up, positioned against a fold on the back of it to keep it angled upwards.
What the photo entailed, was a young Kokei and Sobokuna sitting at their homes' kitchen table. Kokei was eagerly eating a plate of eggs while Sobokuna was the one taking the photo, making it a type of selfie with her giving the peace sign.
It was back when Kokei was freshly adopted by her, a short while after, she cooked him homemade eggs and Kokei confessed that he loved it. He loved it so much that she felt she had to make more and more, it was so adorable to her that she wanted to document the occasion.
After a short while, Kokei's door opens back up and Kokei stands on the other side, opening it. He wore a type of pajamas, which were just some plain black pants with a checkered red and black shirt. "Alright, go ahead and raid." Kokei says, granting the girls permission to carry out their plans. "Does every boy here get the S.W.A.T. squad, or is it just me?"
"We're holding a contest!" Toru informs the boy, all 5 of the girls gazing at his rather plain room. "Wow.. so this is Kokei's style."
"Must admit, it's pretty plain." Mina states her thoughts directly.
"She means it in a good way," Ochaco whispers to Kokei. Kokei feigns a smile, gazing at the girls inspecting the rest of his room. Ochaco suddenly gasps, "you have a punching bag?! Training must never stop for you."
Kokei shrugs, "I haven't used it in a while, it's here more for sedimental value than anything."
"Hmmm well, Kokei, your room is adequately designed." Momo states her assessment, eyeing Kokei's eyes with her own.
Kokei crosses his arms together and peers at Momo. "That so? Well, if you'll all allow me, I'd like to go eat something. So.." Kokei waves the people in his room towards the door, many of the girls giggling as they left his room. Kokei huffs, turning off the light in his room and closing the door, locking it behind him. 'I don't believe they were sent to inspect all the rooms in a normal fashion. That's not something they'd put students up to, must've really just been a contest and I'm just overthinking it.'
The following days in the dorm were fairly normal, yet still lively. Kokei's daily routine stayed the same even when being in a dormitory. He woke up with the blinds open to shine in on his face, as a type of natural alarm. Then he would get up, still wearing his pajamas, and open up his punching bag. He'd do a type of checkup on Tomura and the league daily, making sure they were in a good place and thriving instead of struggling.
After speaking with them, Kokei'd leave his room and go downstairs to brush his teeth in the bathroom, as well as shower after, alongside his peers. Yuga'd always peer and scoff at Kokei, but Kokei felt it was more of a 'good morning' greeting than disgust. And after that, the whole class would gather, piece by piece, in the kitchen to indulge in breakfast together. Then, they'd all walk to school together.
"So, as I've said before, you all need to acquire your Provisional Hero Licenses." Shota announces to the class, standing upon his normal podium. "It's not an easy task, the exam has roughly- I'd say- a 50% acceptance rate." This statement causes murmurs from amongst the class, but Shota kept continuing with his words. "With this being said, we feel it necessary you all develop Ultimate moves to have a certain type of edge over your competitors."
Suddenly, Midnight, Cementoss, and Ectoplasm enter the classroom. Energetically, Midnight announces the necessary importance of special moves, giving you an advantage based upon the situation. The other two state mainly the same thing, just much more monotoned.
After the informal presentation, the students enter the locker rooms and change into their Hero costumes. They then met up at the set location for where their class would occur: Gym Gamma- run by Cementoss. The gym was a giant area, the inside riddled with different zones similar to the USJ. Considering Cementoss owned it, therefore could mold the area inside to his will.
Once all the students gather within the gymnasium, Shota begins formally speaking to the class. "So, since the camp didn't work out, you all will be spending the remainder of Summer perfecting Ultimate moves. Ectoplasm has taken the liberty of helping all of you. Take this time to not only work on Ultimate moves, but also contemplate making any altercations to your hero costumes." Ectoplasm steps forward, splitting off into multiple clones that equated the number of students. "With that being said, let's begin."
"Okay.. Ultimate move.." Kokei says awkwardly, twiddling his fingers while staring at the Ectoplasm clone before him. The other students were scattered about elsewhere, while Kokei positioned himself to train atop one of the giant boulders. He felt stronger and more capable whilst having higher ground. "Uhm.. I'm stumped."
"Well, maybe you should attempt at battling me and something may come to mind." Ectoplasm suggests, to which, Kokei immediately aims his left palm at the hero.
"Push," Kokei states, unleashing a fairly narrow steam of fairly light air. Yet, Ectoplasm easily moves out of the way.
"I seem to recall that happening to you many times." Ectoplasm points out, "it's easy for others to avoid your air attacks. Perhaps you should do something to make them more accurate, rather, alter the chances of others dodging them lower."
Kokei scoffs, "and how do you suppose i accomplish that?"
"Your hero costume could help." Ectoplasm explains, "you could modify it as to accommodate what you desire." Ectoplasm gauges Kokei's confused state, so, he sighs and speak again. "I'll tell you what i told Mina, you can try using your fingers as a nozzle for you air attacks. Who knows? Maybe it'll help."
Kokei awes, "i think it could.. that's really smart." Kokei aims his left hand at Ectoplasm, narrowing his fingers until his hand made up that of a circle. Then, he spoke again. "Push." This attempt wielded much different results. Now, the soft gust of air had empowered and rushed toward Ectoplasm in the matter of a short few seconds rather than many. The power of the 'Push' was stronger too, forceful enough to jerk Ectoplasm's body back. Though it was much more narrow, rather than its usually wide nature. Making it more of a precise shot than the usual big blasts Kokei launched.
"Amazing!" Kokei admired, that push had been about 1/3, or more, the power of one 'Destroy'. Begging the question in Kokei's mind, 'what would happen if i used a Destroy like this? With strength enhancers and kinetic boosters, as well as Springlike limbs and using both hands. That'd be devastating.' Kokei smiles happily at Ectoplasm, "that worked really good! Thank you. I think I'll call that variation.. Push: Precision."
Ectoplasm bows modestly, "always happy to help. Now, any Ultimate moves coming to mind?"
Kokei puts a finger on his bottom lip, humming in thought. "I've already had the thought of a barrage attack, ever since you and your clones bombarded Fumikage and I during the finals."
Ectoplasm nods, "alright, what'd ya have in mind?"
Kokei stretches his arms out and hops side to side, to get his blood pumping. "So uh, just stand there and do nothing. Hopefully something cool will happen.. if this works." Kokei gulps, he had a good idea as to what he wanted to happen. He wanted to make that idea a reality, but to do this, he needed a lot of his energy.
"Okay, here i go." Kokei aims both his palms at Ectoplasm, "Push: Darkness!" A wave of darkness overwhelms Ectoplasm's body, due to Kokei keeping the attack active. Then, seamlessly, Kokei morphs into the darkness. Once inside the darkness he created, Kokei surrounded Ectoplasm. Using this to his advantage, Kokei kicked and punched at Ectoplasm. Meanwhile Ectoplasm couldn't even place where Kokei definitively was, or even if these punches and kicks were his doing.
After a short while, the unkempt darkness fades out and Kokei reappears before it completely dissipated. He was panting to catch his breath, and Ectoplasm simply smirked and clapped. "Great work, Kokei, that definitely looked like a Ultimate move qualifier." Kokei smiles at Ectoplasm, in between rapid breaths of air. "And if you don't mind me asking, how can you do that darkness add-on to your air?"
Kokei blinks a couple times as he stared at Ectoplasm, then, Kokei slowly stood up straight. Thinking of an excuse during his burrowed time. "Not too long ago i figured out that, upon stating the word 'darkness', my pushes and destroys become enveloped with darkness. I've never used it before since i learned about this recently, glad to hear it works well."
Ectoplasm pauses for a while, "huh, that's definitely something different."
"Mhm, now, let's get back to training."
"Oh, you're all going to get an upgrade too?" Izuku questions his peers that unintentionally grouped up in the U.A. hallways. Who gathered with the boy was: Tenya, Kokei and Ochaco. They were all heading in the direction of the development studio, wearing their hero consumes due to just recently exiting class.
"Yeah, I'd like to get a radiator to cool off my jets." Tenya explains while the 4 walk down the halls.
"I need arm sleeves, to help with the tension that builds in my forearms. And keep compression, that'd probably feel good." Kokei explains. "And i wanna get my piercers off my costume, they aren't a help anymore." Then, Ochaco went last.
"And i want something to help with my nausea!" Ochaco enthusiastically states, as she finished speaking the group arrived at the giant doors titled 'Development Studio'. Yet, the moment they arrived, the doors get abruptly flung off their hedges.
Before anyone could react, the event already finished occurring and only dust is what showed. After a short period, the dust settled to reveal Izuku newly on the ground with someone atop him. Mei Hatsume, her chest extremities pressed against Izuku's chest. Quickly, both Ochaco and Izuku become extremely flushed and embarrassed by Izuku and Mei's close proximity. 'Never have i wanted to be Izuku so bad.' Kokei thought, clenching his teeth together so he wouldn't say anything he'd regret.
Mei quickly stands up, keeping her same normal smile. "My apologies for that explosion, one of my babies threw a tantrum. So, who're you people?" The group sighs, having to reintroduce themselves to the pink haired girl. "Oh yeah, I remember.. sorta." Mei leaves the group to go back into her studio, a cluttered mess of gadgets and creations. A type of black smoke seemed to constantly plague the air.
"I hear you're really good at gadget creating," Kokei states, "could you upgrade my costu-"
Mei quickly rushes up close to Kokei, stars in her eyes and a excited look on her face. She left next to no space between Kokei and hers' bodies. "Upgrades!?"
"Calm it, Mei." Power Loader instructs her, yet she still kept her close proximity and happy smile upon her face. "And you all can come in here, can't help you out there."
Mei follows the 4 into the Development Studio, just being in there felt like something was always being invented. Izuku was first to begin his request, "i want something similar to-" yet before he could finish speaking, Mei throws a suit of armor onto Izuku. It causes for his body to contort and shift in uncomfortable and unpredictable ways. And soon after, Mei attaches arm engines to Tenya which cause him to go soaring upwards into the ceiling. Kokei backs away from Mei cautiously so he wouldn't be the next victim to her 'babies'.
Mei giggles, watching Tenya struggle getting his head out of the ceiling. "Yknow, if your legs get tired you can use those to walk." This suddenly makes Izuku's mouth become agape and make him stare toward the ground.
"Sorry for Mei, she's very eccentric. But she's very great at her work, you all should get acquainted with her since she'll likely help you in your future careers as heroes." Power Loader states, "anyways, what is it you're all here for?"
Ochaco steps up to the plate, "i want something to help with my nause-" Then, another explosion- caused by Mei- interrupts once more.
Authors note: Heyo, it's been awhile. I've been procrastinating making new parts of MHAFO for a few weeks (I already made this part months ago) so there's still more parts for you all to enjoy! But, after I finish writing season 3, I'll likely be taking a break from MHAFO for a bit. Thanks for sticking around and hope yah liked this part! That's all I have to say so I'll talk to you all later.
