An Unlikely Pair

In an apartment...

'Dabi! Wake up! Phone Call from a client!' a green-haired girl jumped on the bed to wake up bundle under the blankets and shook said bundle.

'Mmmh, annoying...' Dabi groaned as his scarred hand reached for the phone from the girl who soon left him in his room. 'It's me. ...gotcha. Have some errand boy meet us at the usual for the pay when we bring back evidence.'

He then put his phone away.

He tossed off his blankets.

Dabi is a fairly tall, pale young man of a slim, somewhat lanky build in his early twenties. He has longish black hair that spikes up around his head, hanging low over his eyes, which are thin, turquoise in color, and heavily lidded. His most striking features, however, are undoubtedly the patches of red scarred skin that cover much of his lower face and neck, all the way down past his collarbone, below his eyes and on his arms and legs.

'Hmm...almost there huh?' he mused as he looked at the red patches on his body.

In his eyes, he saw them as purplish-wrinkly frail patches of skin he had to hold together with surgical staples. That was how it USED to look like and made his life hell in constant burn pains that his mind broke. But now...yeah. He's almost fixed. He never DREAMED he'd be fixed.

He then remembered the girl that jumped on him.

Her name, was Midoriya Izuku.

She ran away at age 14, fed up with society.

She was Quirkless for years when it turns out she was a rare Mutate, and her Quirk needed specific conditions to activate. But the damage was already done.

Her mother may have loved and cared for her but treats her like weak glass and constantly discourages her from her dreams. School? Yeah. Dabi was no idiot. He knew what Izuku went through. Hell, when he did his own digging, many Quirkless committed suicide as kids BECAUSE of school. She was by far, the longest-living Quirkless, until she stumbled onto her Quirk.

And he stumbled onto this gold mine who gave up on society out of disgust and only then when she was so badly injured from bullying and abuse did her Quirk manifest when she 'wished' for a fantasy item that would heal her instantly...

It was no wish.

She can only create fantasy/fictional items. She cannot make real-life items. And they're as effective as she imagines it to be, and she can destroy her creations on a whim. Other wishes she tried to make don't work. Only items, forcing her to look up the internet and crack books, even steal some substances.

Dabi named her Quirk 'Dream Works' and with her as his partner, he taught her how she should see this world, and 'broke her further' using her own school life as material and a possible future for her which is basically misery in all-caps, further making her see things his way. She did and ran away, living with him since but she still retained her gentle personality. However, she lets him do what he wants in fights and doesn't stop him from killing anybody because 'some sacrifices had to be made and some has to die for the bigger picture' as she decided, but she will draw the line at those who did not deserve death.

Since then, they work together. He was the Fighter, she was his Support.

She had been constantly healing his body with her items and building up his tolerance to fire, and they eat well together as well as working out in the gym.

If not for her, Dabi thought, his body will still be the wet paper bag as he's known. He could not fight prolonged battles he learned efficiency. He was also so skinny as money's tough to come by. But with his new partner, he got healed, healthier and stronger. He's got a swimmer's build now too as he didn't like too much muscles. He sees too much of it as 'compensating for something'. For him, just enough to prove he's at his physical peak is sufficient.

His partner took to full use of her powers as well. She was once very short. Too short to be fourteen. But she would tell him that ever since she was diagnosed Quirkless, her father claimed to be going on a trip but never came back, forcing her mother to go to work when before in their marriage, 'he promised her the world'. They used to live in their own home too but they moved to a cheap apartment after selling their house, and her mother took to stress-binging. Dabi can guess their financial state from there.

But now, from the shorty undeveloped thing she once was, she's now a physically fit and toned, shapely girl standing at 5'6, having a figure girls her age would kill to have. She also has impossibly-long hair as hair takes months to grow at the length she had it now, wearing it long and straight to reach her hips and pin-straight like her mother's when when he met her, her hair was short 'and fluffy'. Her skin is as fair as his, and her teeth straight and constantly dentally-maintained with a gadget she made.

Come to think of it, he uses that, too. And other dream cosmetics to fix themselves up but one thing she would never fix, is her scarred body caused by Explosion Attacks on her. Evidence of her plight, and her motivation to fight. For her it's a symbol of how disgusting society has become

They work well together as assassins. He trained her fighting skills and the rest was left to her creativity. She was iffy at first at killing, but he would tell her they were just 'trimming off weeds for a brighter future' and it would help her fight for her fellow Quirkless which had been her motivation to be a Hero long before she activated. And it still was.

Sure they have food, medicine, support stuff and their costumes but one thing Izuku could not make, was money and other real-life stuff.

Hello, they need money for rent and daytime clothes?

Villain Activities aside, they live normal lives too. But solely sticking to themselves as they hated society unless they meet more like-minded friends.

This now-judgmental, Quirk-Revolving Society.

Izuku still sends her mother money. 1 million and some items so her mother can remarry and forget her ex-husband...and Izuku personally killed his family as revenge.

The man apparently re-married and has children with Quirks. She has had half-siblings.

Poor girl, Dabi thought. Replaced with new toys in his opinion. But as a well-educated student and later partner, she paid back in kind.

She killed his wife and his in-laws' entire family, and a lot of his friends so he had no one to turn to, and he with her younger siblings in turn would know financial difficulties she and her mother suffered. She left a message on the wall that read: Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves, Midoriya Hisashi written in his second wife's own blood that his children found...putting her ex-father in the spotlight as a result and his own children wary of him because whoever 'he crossed' murdered their mother, grandparents and many more people. Due to the case, as Izuku predicted, her younger siblings are put under foster care away from their father who's now under scrutiny. It's also for their safety.

Not like Izuku would kill children. That was a line she would not cross. Doesn't mean she can't traumatize them though, and make them see what a criminal their father is.

She did the bodies so brutally Dabi never thought she was THAT creative.

Not only that, she bombed so many places. Her tormentors' homes, her teachers' homes, but one special treatment was her childhood friend's home. The parents were kind to Izuku, unaware of the suffering their son puts her through. So she blew up just his bedroom while everyone was still out. Simply blowing up that bedroom to cinders exactly when the Bakugo couple drove home from work as her tormentor tends to go home late.

'Ahahaha, sorry auntie, uncle, you just paid off the Loan for that house but hey, I'm not letting Kacchan walk from his crimes scott-free...you know?'

He was proud as her teacher and partner.

But even in her descent to Villainy out of despair and anger, she still remained a good person, always looking after him and breaks up bullying she spots in the streets when they walk around. After her revenge, she went back to normal, satisfied she avenged her mother's abandonment and her torment, fully-focusing on 'cleaning up society' with him next.

It has been a year and a half since.

They're well-off in wealth as they hardly need to spend anything, living in a swanky 2SLDK together under a false name.

One night, Izuku found something interesting.

'Dabi! Have you heard the news?!' Izuku gasped out.

'Aa. It's about our man of the hour.' Dabi grinned. Stain was right up their alley. 'What a guy, eh? Have you...'

Izuku took out a thick wad of paper.

He was ABOUT to ask if she gathered intel. She was ahead.

'Only you.' he chuckled. She was always well-prepared.

'So Dabi, here's the thing...can we really believe Stain allied himself with the League of Villains? A month ago they were morons.' Izuku pointed out as she put the data down on their coffee table. 'It's hard to imagine someone cunning and methodical like Stain will join idiots.'

'I've been thinking.' said Dabi, looking thoughtful as he sat on an armchair in their living room to read the papers she's got. 'As a pair, we did many things together. But to truly change a world...it'll be a gamble joining organizations. We'll see what they have to say if their recruiter approached us.'

'Alright. We walk around at night?'

'The usual.'

Izuku's papers were all about Stain and his latest targets, reputation and WHY were they targeted. And he had to sort things out before making a decision.

With that decided, they took to roaming at night together. But because of Izuku's paranoia, she follows him by the rooftops as with Quirks, anything can happen. Even Quirk Theft or Sealing so she wants to stay anonymous as much as possible.

In this alternate universe where Midoriya Izuku was not a 1-A Student...

Asui Tsuyu and Mineta Minoru were the only ones badly injured at the USJ Incident...and Iida Tenya and Native nearly died if Izuku wasn't walking around. However this time, it was Endeavor's Agency who actually fought Stain when in other parallel worlds, he grudgingly accepted covering up for students, one of whom his son. Because of that, while they DID get the job done, they didn't get away unscathed either...they were all under Critical Surgery.

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U.A Infirmary...

'...so you were rescued by a green-haired girl with freckles?' Tsukauchi asked the injured two who were said to appear right into Recovery Girl's clinic.

'Yes...we were both stabbed in fatal places...we were about to die when she came.' said Native. 'She created a big glowing orange feather and put them on us. We were about to die but our fatal stab wound healed, but nothing else. She then gave us a large bottle of shimmering green liquid that tasted nice and all of a sudden we're energetic...and the final thing she threw at us, was this.' he held up two medallion like items that look like rocks. 'These two teleported us here...it all made sense. These badges were shiny metal with a glowing red gem when she used it on us...it only turned to rock when we got here.'

'She didn't speak the whole time but at least she looks nice.' said Iida before looking shaken. 'We were lucky...very lucky.'

Tsukauchi took out his tablet and fiddled with it for a bit.

'By any chance, is she...this?' he showed Iida and Native a picture of Izuku, with MISSING on top.

'Missing?!' Iida shouted in shock. 'How?! And she doesn't look like that, I'd say she matured while she was out, but I'd know that appearance.' he said as he made a before-after comparison in his mind. In this photo she was plain-faced and when he saw her, she looks much more feminine by large jump and matured. But who else has patterned freckles?!

'She went missing as of last year.' said Tsukauchi. 'Her mother reported her missing. She was in her second year of Junior High when she vanished...she was said to be Quirkless and now you're telling me she created items for you?'

'Y-yes sir! She created them out of her hands like Yaoyorozu does!' Iida gasped out. 'She can't be Quirkless, she generated these items from her hands! Come to think of it...they're all fantasy items...no support company can make what she used on us.' he croaked in realization. 'A feather that kept us alive by only healing our most fatal injuries? That incredible energy drink so Recovery Girl can fully-heal us and now a badge that took us here?'

'We'll investigate this matter. It seems Midoriya Inko's daughter wasn't Quirkless after all...that girl is Quirkless for fourteen years.' Tsukauchi told the startled pair. 'Since her parents' Quirks are different that she didn't manifest similarities, and her parents were about fourth generation, she's a Rare Mutation.' he mused thoughtfully. 'As anyone knows, Quirks are inherited genetically through what appears to be Mendelian inheritance and typically manifest in children by the age of four at the latest. Children will either manifest one of their parent's Quirks or a new composite Quirk formed by the fusion of the two, or a Mutation may occur. Due to that, specific conditions may have been required to trigger an activation, otherwise it'd remain dormant for years, and be mistaken for a Quirkless which is why statistics say 20% are Quirkless when in reality they're as few as Mutations.'

'However, she has the additional Toe Joint by X-Ray but...that was all her doctor did. Just used an X-Ray to settle the matter when other tests should have been done, talk about negligence...poor girl must have suffered unnecessarily considering how most of society treats Quirkless people.' Tsukauchi shook his head in disgust as Native and Iida balked at the idea. 'There are others with additional joints yet still has a Quirk which was reason why additional tests were always done. The toe joint test wasn't be-all-end-all. If she's seen in Hosu, we'll look for her there but we need your cooperation and update on what she looks like now, so we'll be seeing you by the station tomorrow morning.' and he opened the door to let Aizawa in...

Iida knew he's done for.