My Iron Giant
-The Iron Titans-
Part 1
Falling, still, spinning, motionless, their shared body didn't know what was happening but all it could do was brace against the forces acting against them. There was one comfort to them that kept them sane, they were together.
[Drift Functioning at 100%]
Their minds were updated with the memories of one another, a euphoric calm keeping them grounded when they couldn't even perceive any reality besides themselves. The shutters over the optical sensors deactivated in order to negate the conflicting images.
"Where, are we?" Ochaco asked in the cockpit.
'I don't know.'
She gasped, smiling at hearing Izuku's voice without anything inhibiting him. Ochaco missed being a part of him.
'I missed this too.'
Ah, her thoughts were his too weren't they? Damn that's embarrassing, but she didn't mind if it was Izuku.
Their shared metal body jerked, the motion felt on the outside but not affecting their bodies internally.
[Warning! Gravity Well Detected]
[Scanning….Error, excess input from unknown energy signatures.]
[Impact Imminent]
"Shouldn't we fly away from that?"
'Where would we go? This might get us back.'
Izuku had a point, for some amount of time they had been at the mercy of the emptiness that was filled with...something that they couldn't make out. Now they had a choice, let this thing take them somewhere or continue to drift in the void. Space was so much easier than this, why did Hatsume have to break the universe?
"Let's go."
'Right.'
Positioning the shock absorbers in their feet to the source of the phenomena, they braced for whatever was to come.
[One For All Core = 100%]
[Shields = 100%]
[Sensors = 100%]
[Impact in 5]
[4]
[3]
[2]
[1]
Bursting through the surface tension of reality, waves of energy scattered across their hull from an outside force. Whatever machine that was causing that quickly shut down, letting them examine their surroundings. Vents pulled the smokey air away, revealing a roughly twenty foot metal figure standing in front of them. Behind it was Melissa Shield, and Mei Hatsume in a familiar looking girl's arms. They were right back where they were, good.
Big gun being pointed at their face, not good.
'Gun.' Both of them thought, mostly Ochaco bleeding into Izuku's mind. Metal shifted from their wrist in a quick explosion of green light, constructing a rifle similar to Ochaco's new gun with the core of their mech running energy into it. It glowed threateningly as they stared down the armed intruder.
"You are trespassing on private property, put down your weapons and identify yourself immediately!" It demanded, a female voice coming from the vanguard class titan. Did Hatsume make this? It sounded like it was piloted but if they didn't know who they were it might be a robot. They needed answers now, and no way was Ochaco answering to someone pointing a gun at her rudely.
"Hatsume! Shield! What is happening, who is this?!" Her voice carried through Izuku's powerful speakers. She wasn't getting an immediate response, which ticked her off even more, and that gun was STILL IN THEIR FACE!
"Hatsume, did you make this thing? Either shut it down or we'll do it ourselves!" Yet when she called out to the girls, she noticed Hatsume was unconscious in the mystery girl's arms who looked disturbingly similar to Izuku.
'Do you have another secret family member?!' Ochaco asked through her thoughts.
'I hope not, I'm tired of surprises.'
Still, Hatsume didn't look too good. Those dark circles, her limp form, they never saw her like this.
[Scanning subject -Mei Hatsume- ]
[Alert-Dangerous levels of caffeine in subject]
[Alert- Subject extremely fatigued]
[Alert-Health is deteriorated past acceptable levels]
Hatsume was not like that thirty minutes ago. Fine, this thing wants attention, they would give it.
"What did you do to her?" Ochaco threateningly asked, the gun in their grip tight as more power funneled into it. As Ocahco was focused on aiming the gun, Izuku had the eye trained on the foe ready to burn a hole straight through the metal.
[Priming Weapons Systems]
"That's Ion! How in the world?!" Melissa shouted.
Ion? Oh right, they looked like Ion from that game Snipe got a training simulator for her. Pony also seemed to love it. Now that they examined the opposing Titan is was modeled similarly like a vanguard class with slight deviations in the design. The arms were slightly different, it had metal antennas sticking on its head, and the color scheme had a lot more focus towards green.
"Izuku, take it easy. Please lower your weapon!" The girl yelled out.
"No/No." Both Titans said at the same time, Izuku speaking instead of Ochaco. The other Titan spoke in a different voice, another similar voice. Looks like they were going to be getting more surprises.
"What's going on here?!" Coming to their aid was Vlad King, their homeroom teacher.
"Vlad-sensei? Get that robot to stand down!" Ochaco called out, hoping that the machine would listen to a teacher.
"Calm down everyone! This certainly has a good explanation! Let's just talk it out!" Melissa tried to reason, but was pulled back by the teacher.
"Don't get so close Shield, that thing is clearly hostile and armed." Vlad warned Melissa, his eyes turning towards them.
Thing, THING?! How much shit are they going to go through before Izuku is finally considered human?!
"Thing?! What are you talking about Vlad-sensei? How can you call Izuku a thing?!" They were backed into a corner, everyone was staring at them like they did something wrong. Today was going well, progress was being made, they were going to help so many people. Now things are back to square one, Izuku being treated like a death machine for just protecting her.
"Sensei, this is probably one big misunderstanding! We need to stop them before they start to fight for real!" Melissa tried once more to reason, but the teacher's grip kept her from walking between the two big robots with guns.
"Don't worry students!"
No.
"For I am here to help!"
Way.
"Alll… Mght?" Izuku asked, his words not as thought out from the sight of the number one hero. He was there, in that stupid yellow suit.
[Disengaging Drift]
The cockpit opened, letting Ochaco leap out of it to float towards the hero. The gun in Izuku's grasp vanished alongside her plug suit.
"Uraraka?!" Vlad yelled in shock, but was ignored.
When she finally reached him she pulled him into the tightest hug she could, confirming that he was really here. Tears started spilling out of her eyes, he was alive, he was here."All Might sensei! You're alive! How is this possible?! I saw you… we saw you…!"
Her words kept choking the more she cried. The number one hero patted her back, keeping her in his arms. "Ahahaha! Don't worry young Uraraka! I'm alive and well as you can see!"
Izuku felt it was wrong, the quirk coursing through his body reacting strangely to the man. No, he watched him die, his scans were running at full capacity as he watched All Might get speared from all sides as his strength ran out. This wasn't possible.
[Scanning subject -All Might -]
[ALERT]
[Quirk Energy unrecognized]
[No injuries detected]
[Scans do not match true subject -All Might-]
"You…not him." Izuku's chest slammed shut as he prepared for another fight. This wasn't All Might, but it still had large quirk readings. His eye hummed with energy as he targeted the potential enemy and definite fake.
"Not..same!" He slammed his foot down, bracing to obliterate the enemies that might bring harm to them.
Ochaco's eyes widened, realizing that Izuku saw something that her chocolate orbs could not. Feeling around his torso, she couldn't feel the scars, the wounds he sustained years ago. This wasn't All Might. Trying to break free of his grasp, she struggled to fight the muscled man. He was keeping her hostage, he wasn't here to save the day.
[Primary Directive: Protect -Ochaco Uraraka-]
"LET ER GOOOO!" Izuku didn't care about his voice, he needed the perfect shot to take that stolen smile off the fake's head. Whoever that was, it was keeping Ochaco from him.
That wasn't an option.
"Calm down friend, nobody is going to hurt anyone here." Not Might still had her behind him.
The zero pointer, Mazinger, the Nomu, they all tried to kill her. He couldn't hold back, not if he wanted to succeed. Charging as much possible energy into his red laser focused eye, he gave the man one last warning.
"NOWWW!" The light around his optic was blinding to everyone, the vibration of the pure force behind the charged attack shaking the room.
"Toshinori, let the girl go. He is prioritizing her safety over everything." The other titan said to the man, retracting the shoulder weaponry and setting his gun on a side table.
"Not that I don't trust you, but how do you know that?" Not Might said, sweating under the glare that Izuku held towards him ready to disintegrate the man.
"Because that's what I would do in his place."
Ochaco was released, letting her jump back to Izuku who caught her swiftly and carefully. He kept his gaze on them, lowering the energy behind his potential attack. Slightly.
"What in the world is happening?! Uraraka left this morning to meet with her parents because they came to Musutafu for the festival. I personally signed the paperwork for her leave!" Vlad yelled to everyone in the room.
What the hell was wrong with everybody?
"Leave? My parents are rebuilding Recovery Girl's office right now! And who is that All Might lookalike?!" Ochaco demanded from her perch in Izuku's palm, her hand hovering over the gun on her hip. It was doubtful she would need it with Izuku right here, but she had enough life and death scenarios to not want to have one.
"I'm sorry, but I don't understand? I assure you that I'm All Might."
Now he was lying to her, to him, her desire to shoot the man herself rising with each second.
"All Might is dead. You better start talking now."
Izuku mirrored her, the eye zeroing in on his vital organs as Ochaco flexed her fingers to potentially quickdraw her sidearm.
"Wait! I think I might have an idea what is happening here." Melissa exclaimed, getting the attention of everyone. "How… how did uncle die?"
"How? Are you serious right now?! You were at the funeral with us!" Ochaco screamed at her, the confusion of this starting to get to her nerves. If she was any less of a person, someone would already be dead by now.
Izuku let one of his cameras focus on Melissa, the girl was dressed differently. Now that he started examining the room everything was different. This wasn't where they were, this was different. There was no question he would protect Ochaco from any threats, but perhaps there was no threat. He needed answers, so he'd play along as long as it got them talking.
"U.S.J… crushed..by nomu" It flashed across his memories, the blood, the gore, the fire, everything that Izuku was trying not to think about these last few days.
The opposing titan's cockpit opened with a hiss, a blackhaired girl with a mature figure stepping out onto its hand in a similar manner to them.
"That didn't happen. We were attacked by a swarm of robots but Zuku appeared and we managed to defeat them together even before uncle Might arrived." She stated.
[Scanning...Subject closely resembles -Momo Yaoyorozu-]
[Quirk energy and anatomy deviates from previous campus wide scans.]
Two people who were close to the ones they knew, but weren't.
[Scanning multiple subjects…]
[Scanning complete.]
[All subjects deviate from previously recorded data]
One imposter made sense, two were strange, but everyone being replaced was impossible.
"Who are you?" Ochaco asked the ravenette, still not easing up on her itchy fingers.
"Yaoyorozu Momo, and he is Knight Izuku. Sorry about earlier, Zuku here can get a bit overprotective sometimes."
"Wait… Izuku?" Ochaco asked aloud, looking between her Izuku and the supposed Izuku.
"As I thought, both of them reacted to the name earlier too… and seeing the reaction of Vlad-sensei you aren't the Uraraka Ochako that attends this school either." Melissa offered as an answer.
"I'm not an imposter! I have my student pass right here!" Ochaco quickly pulled out her id, showing them that she was really her. Why did they keep asking her these things, she should be asking them!
"I believe you, don't worry. Can you tell us what happened before you two ended up here?" The blond asked in a consoling matter.
"Hatsume happened." Ochaco angrily explained.
"... I'm sorry, but do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"
That was true, Ochaco caught her doing many, many things to Izuku's metal body when she thought they weren't looking.
"That's a good point… The school created a small program in which we were trying to use Izuku's quirk to create new technology. Hatsume tried to do something to him, it was about gravity I think?" Ochako recalled, looking to her friend for some help.
"Body felt wrong. Gravity system failed, we fell." Izuku tried to explain. Making the right sounds in the right order was possible, but slow and hard. It was easier to leave the talking to Ochaco.
"I don't know what Mei tried to achieve here, but she hooked up my universal transceiver to a massive power source. The amount of Graviton particles it was producing was extreme, before we could stop her she activated that contraption and you two arrived." The other titan shared.
"My head hurts just from them talking about all that, I'm going to bring Nezu here. You should stay just in case." Vlad King said to the not Might, leaving to do just that.
"So we have a connection. On your side Hatsume did something to Izuku's body that resulted in a gravitational anomaly. Here she created a device that created a sort of gravity well before her 'baby' overloaded and nearly killed us all." Melissa voiced her thoughts.
"Aren't you going to question how it is possible for them to exist in the first place?" Yaoyorozu questioned aloud.
"I would love to bust out my tinfoil hat and run around shouting that the multiverse theory is confirmed but we need to be methodical here Mo."
Ochaco saw how they used nicknames for one another. Glancing at Izuku, maybe she should give him a nickname? It was hard to think of him as anything other than Izuku. Maybe it was a thing that they did here in..."Wait a moment! Are you implying we ended up in a different universe?!"
Izuku was really glad he wasn't the only one thinking that, otherwise he might have to check if being in a claustrophobic space piloting a huge metal body was affecting his thinking.
"That's the theory for now, yes. I don't have any other explanation how you have another Knight with you." Melissa replied.
"Not Knight...Midor..iya..Izuku." He replied to them, getting more attention than he expected.
"Wait, like Izumi? Is Midoriya Inko your mother?" The blonde questioned.
"Yes."
"That's strange… Izumi doesn't have any technopathic abilities…" Melissa started to mutter to herself.
Well technically he didn't either until a month ago. Izuku recalled the girl who he guessed the Izumi was, the girl bearing many similarities to how he remembered his body looked like. Huh, that's how he looked as a girl.
"Ahem!" Not Might feigned a cough.
"It's good that we managed to resolve our initial misunderstanding peacefully, but I think that further discussion should be moved somewhere else." He said, gesturing to the partially detonated room.
Oh, it normally doesn't look like this? Ocahco always thought Hatsume's workplace would often be scorched with plenty of destruction around the place. The only reason she thought the support department was clean when they started their club was because of someone with as big of a name as David Shield showing up.
"Yagi-kun has a good point, we can continue this conversation in my office!" Principal Nezu exclaimed happily, choosing this moment to show in the doorway. Both Ochaco and Izuku noticed the scar along his face was on the opposite side, really selling to them how this was a parallel universe.
"Knight-san, Yaoyorozu-kun, could you prepare a place for our guests in your respective dorms? We will arrange for something more long term after the festival if necessary." He continued, getting visual confirmation from the two.
"Splendid! Let us go then, it's getting a bit late and I have a feeling this talk will take a bit of time." The chimera clapped his paws, leading the way.
Izuku followed them, the white creature sitting atop this All Might's shoulder. Using his advanced vision he located Izumi making her back from the nurse's office from dropping Hatsume off.
Izuku briefly wondered how close her One for All was to his and-
[Scanning…]
[Scanning complete. No anomalies detected in basic stockpile functionality]
No anomalies, so no Nana, or the other holders. Looks like it's exactly as Izuku first guessed it to be like right before All Might gave his quirk to him. Maybe that's why she doesn't have a trace of technology in her. To be honest, he was jealous. She had her All Might, no getting trapped in a metal body, everything he dreamt of having.
Glancing down to Ochaco in his hand, he was reminded of one thing he had that his universe counterpart didn't. Her.
"Pst." Ochaco whispered to him, getting him out of his thoughts. She pointed to Melissa, who was trying to keep up with the large man and Izuku easily outpacing her.
Izuku extended a hand to her, the girl catching her breath as she plopped herself on it.
"Thank *puff* You." After going through the turns of the hallways, Izuku was able to map out the building. So much was the same, but slight deviations proved it was a totally different place.
"This is incredible… to meet two real Titans in the span of only few weeks." Melissa said, looking Izuku over from her perch on his hand.
"I don't really know if this is the weirdest thing that happened to us lately." Ochaco replied, recalling how they discovered some form of the afterlife, a giant monster, going to space, and a very odd movie that Thirteen insisted that she watch.
Reaching the large door to the principal's office the group met with Izumi who had returned from carrying Hatsume's sleeping body to the infirmary.
"Oh, Izumi! You won't believe what we found out about our guests!" Melissa exclaimed happily, jumping down from Izuku's hand.
"Midoriya Izumi, meet Midoriya Izuku! I think that he can be your multiversity counterpart or something like that!" The blonde inventor continued, shocking the girl.
"You… are me?" Izuku asked, looking the nervous girl over. Sure this was a similar universe, but the comparison for her to be so much like her was still an odd sight.
"Umm… Hi?" Izumi replied shyly with a little wave.
"Let us go inside, I have a feeling we have a few stories to tell." Nezu ordered from All Might's shoulder.
"How is young Hatsume? I trust that she is cared for right now?" The principal asked the green haired girl.
"Ah, yes Nezu sir! Recovery Girl was really angry but when she discovered that it wasn't me this time she got more lenient. Hatsume-san was extremely tired, I think that she didn't sleep for quite some time. She mumbled something about a great white bird ordering her to make a baby and something about lost travelers but it was mostly incoherent. Recovery Girl already checked her for any… illegal substances... but didn't find anything." Izumi replied, turning all her attention to the small creature.
In the office, instead of two couches sitting across from each other and a desk there was one large couch facing the desk. Ochaco was gently placed down by Izuku, who squatted behind the furniture. Ochaco sat in the center, Melissa electing to stay standing as Izumi and All Might took both sides.
"Tea?" Nezu asked, already near a small serving table with a steaming teapot on it.
"Yes please." Ochako replied after a long sigh. It brought a smile to her face, seeing something was the same. Except that tea pot, their Nezu had discussed the importance of proper spouts and how they change the beverage. This one seemed to have a more technical one that was self heating.
"I assume that your physiology is similar to Knight's, but maybe I'm wrong? Would you like some tea too?" He asked the giant who looked down at his tiny form. The comparison between the two was comical, the Principal hardly being the size of his finger.
Izuku hadn't tried to eat, or drink yet. If he couldn't do it, he didn't want to embarrass himself here.
"No … thank you." His eye flashed in sync with his words.
"Hmm… it seems that you are a man of few words but not from your own accord." Nezu mused, serving tea to the others.
"It's significantly better than in the past." Ochako commented.
"How so? Are you having problems with controlling your Titan form?" Melissa asked, still analyzing the new giant.
"He was able to change into it only a short time ago. Okay, does anyone have any idea what is happening? All Might is alive, not wounded and had a growth spurt, there is a second Izuku… wait, isn't she supposed to be his counterpart? So who's the other metal giant?" Ochako started questioning. Right away she would have guessed 'Knight' to be Izuku's counterpart, but there was already an Izumi here.
"Knight-san suffers from memory loss, he only remembers his given name and a call sign of sorts which he accepted as his surname." The white rodent explained, taking a seat across the table from their guests.
"The investigation is still ongoing, but the most likely scenario is that he arrived in our world like you two." He added after a small sip of his drink.
"What?! Why didn't you tell us anything? It could help him regain his memories!" Melissa exclaimed, shocked.
"It was just a theory until today. With the unexpected visit of our guests here we can safely assume that it's highly probable." Nezu replied unperturbed.
"Okay, so what about your All Might? Why is he so big? And shouldn't he stop using his buff form already?" The brown haired girl asked, then paused seeing how she might have made a mistake in case the residents didn't know the basics of All Might's secrets.
"I don't know what to tell you young Uraraka, I don't really understand what you mean. I can expand my musculature a bit by using my quirk but I'm not doing it right now." The mountain of a man replied, shrugging a bit.
"You had a giant scar, to the left of your stomach. You got it in a fight 6 years ago with a powerful villain, when we started the school you could only keep your quirk active for 3 hours a day." Ochako explained.
He touched the side of his torso, getting lost in his thoughts as he recalled the most stressful fight he ever had.
"That's a long story…" The symbol of peace replied.
"It's good that we have a bit of time. Don't worry, I have a feeling that everybody here knows about One for All." Nezu tested the waters, seeing everyone not reacting in surprise further inflated his confidence in his intelligence.
"Well… from my side it started with me, Gran Torino and Nighteye managing to track down the most dangerous villain in human history…" Toshinori started.
"And that pretty much brings us up to now." Melissa had finished up her perspective on the sports festival and its ending.
"Con, grats" Izuku told the girl in his simplified way. He wanted to talk to them so much, asking a million questions about artificial intelligence and how someone quirkless had made it so far. It was inspiring.
"Thank you!" Melissa bowed gracefully to him. "You seem pretty awesome too. Did you get to participate in the festival?"
"Not yet."
"Interesting, so when does your festival take place?"
As Melissa started to indulge herself to yet another big robot, Ochaco tried to cure her headache by indulging herself in the Principal's offered tea. It wasn't working, at all.
"You're in a war..." The girl whispered out, baffled by the different levels of violence their two worlds had.
"Then I assume your reality isn't?" The Principal asked, his little paws shaking in excitement from the reveal of one of the most debated spatial theories. "I thought possibly your world might have more violence given that gun you have."
He pointed to the one currently strapped to the hip of Ochaco, the girl turning her body to give everyone a look at it. Her tone became serious. "You're not going to take it away are you?"
"Normally yes, but these circumstances hardly count as normal."
"No." Izuku spoke from behind the couch. "We had, peace."
"Had?" Izumi questioned, worrying for the answer. Their All Might was dead, and apparently was injured for several years and had limited time. Just what threats did their world had that would take out the best hero ever?
"There was a monster." Ochaco began, recalling the gruesome monstrosity that sought slaughter. "Created with multiple quirks, standing a hundred feet tall and covered with bones that stuck out of its skin. It healed itself constantly, was as strong as All Might, and could absorb the shock of just about anything."
There was a long pause as the reality of what she said started to sink in.
"You said it was created, I assume it was by All for One?" All Might asked the two teens. His response was a solemn nod from the girl.
"Is that.." Izumi felt the words start to choke in her throat. "Is that what killed All Might?"
"Yes." This new Izuku glanced over to All Might, Ochaco only guessing how much his heart was breaking again seeing his hero before him. They weren't the same though, their All Might was dead.
"I have a question." Melissa raised her hand gently to get their attention. "If that, thing, was a hundred feet tall. How did you beat it?"
"Oh, I guess we haven't explained too much." Ochaco set her cup down, taking a deep breath and collecting herself. Realizing how close Izuku actually was to their Izumi she decided to start there. "Izuku was a lot like you, quirkless, dreaming of being a hero, and got One for All from All Might. I even remember when he would run around in an All Might onesie as a kid and-"
"T-that's enough!" Izumi interrupted, blushing profusely at the embarrassing memory. All Might laughed aloud, imagining little Izumi in his brand of pajamas.
"You remember, so you were always close with him?" Melissa asked.
"We didn't meet until UA." Ochaco realized that was going to get more questions so she quickly explained. "Actually, there was one point where our memories merged."
"You shared your memories?!" Melissa jumped in front of them, grabbing Ochaco's shoulders and peering around her head. The closest thing to combining the human mind with a machine was their own Izuku, but this was a direct link without any hint of implants. "All of them?!"
All Might coughed into his overly large fist. "I think we should let her explain."
"Sorry." Melissa stepped back, now listening with restrained curiosity.
Seeing everyone's attention was on her, Ochaco recalled the turning point in her personal life. "So, during the entrance exam I ended up getting stuck. The zero pointer was coming from behind and didn't notice me under the broken chunks of the building. I thought I was a goner, but then I saw Izuku running up to help me. That's when he turned into a really tall robot, over three times the size of the zero pointer and threw it away."
"That would be well above a hundred meters." The Principal calculated off the top of his head. Melissa wanted to jump in again and ask the Titan how he was able to manifest a functioning body in seconds, but a quick glance from the Principal reminded her of what was important. "So, Izuku Midoriya had a quirk before but never knew until he tried to use One for All yes?"
"That's what we guess." The girl recalled a certain unhappy nurse looking through the half heartedly completed medical history of Izuku. "But we don't know for sure if he was quirkless or not because they never did a blood test, just an x-ray of his pinky toe. Anyways when he first transformed he would only follow me around, protect me from any danger, or do what I asked of him. It took us a while to find a way for him to shrink down to a smaller size. When I was asleep his real body would wake up and Nana would-"
Ochaco's story was interrupted by All Might putting a hand on her shoulder, he wasn't smiling this time. When Izumi saw her mentor look so vulnerable, she knew that this was someone important to the man. "Nana, as in.."
The girl nodded, understanding how All Might must be feeling right now. This was the second time witnessing this after all. "Nana Shimura, somehow Izuku's quirk used One for All as a powersource and managed to make her into a hologram that Izuku could talk to. When Izuku gained control of himself, she was gone. We haven't seen her since."
"I see…" All Might sighed, his shoulders visibly sagging. Ochaco reached her hand up to console the man, but hesitated before reaching to him.
"What, do we do?" Izuku asked the Principal, who was arguably the smartest being in his world.
"I haven't the faintest idea." Nezu replied earnestly. "Isn't that exciting?"
"No." The blonde inventor admitted. "Not really."
"I guess I should clarify." Nezu got up from his highchair, walking up to Melissa herself. "I don't know how I can help these two other than offer a place to stay here, or long term solutions. When it comes to returning these two home, you would be much more use than I."
"But I didn't even bring them here. I still can't even figure out how they got here!" Melissa admitted, cringing when she saw the two other worlders lose even more hope. "Well, we haven't really taken the time to understand what happened on both ends. Maybe when we here more details about the mechanics involved I might have a starting point."
"Sounds wonderful!" All Might stood up, clasping his hand on Ochaco's shoulder and the other on Izuku's metal arm. "If there is anything this old man can do to help, let me know."
"You're not that old/Not old." Both Izumi and Izuku spoke at the same time. Ochaco giggled, seeing how similar the two really were.
Melissa clapped her hands, taking the spot Nezu was just sitting at. "Alright! Just to clarify, you got here because of Mei trying to do what exactly with your Izuku?"
The brunette frowned, recalling how pushy their Hatsume was. "She wanted to understand how Izuku was able to generate gravity, or manipulate it? Something along those lines. Remembering how Izuku felt it was like part of him started to, fold, bend, fall? I'm sorry, I'm not very good with complicated tech."
"That brings me to my next question, how do you two share your memories?" Melissa pulled out her phone, pulling up a notes page for writing down anything useful for the new tech.
"It's Izuku's quirk." Ochaco pointed to the metal giant. "He can upgrade himself based off things we watch or he interacts with. He used be be stuck as over three hundred and fifty feet before one of the girls with a size quirk tried to shrink him down. It didn't work, but he somehow learned how to control his size better because of it."
"How, how do you even power something that big?" Melissa asked utterly baffled by trying to imagine the technology behind that.
Ochaco looked over to Izuku, who looked just as confused. "One for All? I..detect power, based off...quirks."
"You...actually use quirks as a power source?"
"Yes?"
Melissa's eyes threatened to break her glasses, quirk research had only ever gotten so far before eventually people gave up. They broke nearly every single conceivable rule about energy conversion when they first came into the world. Then they got smarter, analysing the tiniest parts that fit together perfectly to let the human body accomplish the previously thought impossible. Over time, their research only took them so far because of how unique each one was until they just guessed how a quirk worked based off previous ones. Perhaps there was more to quirks than previously realised, she needed to contact her father about the potential behind-
"Um, is there anything else?" Ochaco glanced between the staff and students.
"I...I've got a lot to think about." Melissa gave in, more and more anomalies were popping up that were changing her entire view point on how the universe worked, or, multiverse. Damn she just wanted some nice, simple equations to explain what the hell was happening.
"While you're thinking." Nezu stepped towards the two visitors. "Why don't we show these two where they will be staying for the night."
At the mention of night, Ochaco let out a yawn. Izuku stood up before the others, holding out his hand to the girl. She grasped his finger, letting him pull her up and guide her to the door. The action did not go unnoticed by the others, even Melissa who was ready to put herself to work for the night.
"Aw, that's precious."
CROSSOVER! I have only seen this done once, but after talking with Xyrothor we decided to give it a whirl for a couple of chapters! His story is "Beauty and the Titan" and has exclusive scenes and perspectives in his fic. Go check it out if you want more!
Now with a tv tropes thanks to Arakiisjogenius
Spotify Playlist I listen to while writing this. "CyberFunk" by BLACKOUT.
Any questions, comments, or jokes are welcomed. As long as they're funny.
PasiveNox:
Almost died, but still alive.
ZeroExia:
Yep.
Aquarion:
I'm looking for something original, not what every third person names an owl.
Harleking31:
When you look at it in a different light, if One for All was a simple stockpile quirk than everytime the user punched it would take away some of that energy. When All Might passed the quirk on, then it acted as a finite source of power. Izuku though, is just adding to the total potential of One for All the longer he has it. Quirks are bullshit and don't follow any real laws, so the BOT capitalizes on that.
Saramus92:
I appreciate all the ideas and art you have created for this story, unfortunately I am backed up by suggestions at the moment to the point where I am picking which ones will make it and which ones won't by the time this story is finished.
Planar-Walking-Entertainment:
Tada! It happened.
Nobody Foot Soldier:
When you put it like that you're absolutely right.
fencer29:
The owl always finds its prey.
Naveh Sorferts:
I'll check it out.
Emrys Akayuki:
Snipe doesn't have a quirk because I wanted to make his character more intriguing. Of course, he just lied to people about having a quirk and had the skills to fool them.
Guesterguest:
Snipe lies about having a quirk but really doesn't. I know it's not canon but neither is this fanfic so I'm making his character more interesting.
She isn't locked out, she just kept trying to bring Izuku home but he isn't listening to her and no one can force him to go home unless Ochaco herself went there.
Obviously you have never dealt with mothers before, they can be blinded by emotions and not care about facts adding on impossible demands.
Poinkkill:
With All Might dead, there is no point for him to try and make the quirk enhancer.
Kilo8:
I still need to finish that game.
Craask:
Yeah, it is actually kind of like that for the hacking.
Reishin Amara:
He'll figure it out eventually.
Guest:
There was a liberty prime reference, and Izuku has always had speakers. Also, while Izuku and Ochaco can feel the outershell of the robot body, they don't feel the pain. Only what is and isn't.
Random65:
I think the movie is great in going through the important events listed in the books. Of course, it has been nearly a decade since I read them or watched the movie.
Weeldx:
DING DING DING You are correct!
CommandantCo:
If things go the same then yes Izuku would directly help out a beloved hero. Possibly even Tenya finally seeing Izuku in a better light.
Guest:
Snipe is quirkless in my story, because it's different and adds more depth to his character. He just lies about having a quirk so he could be a hero.