Izuku slowly opened his eyes. "Ohhh."
He was so tired. He'd used up a lot of energy trying to get Nomu to explode. Not as much as Kota, but still quite a bit.
His eyes widened, and he instantly became alert. "Nomu!"
He jolted up, using his fear to energize him, and he quickly looked around.
It was hard to see through the smoke, but he could see what was in his immediate surroundings. And what he saw quickly put his fears to rest.
He saw Eri and Kota, passed out on the ground, and pieces of Nomu's flesh and mechanical parts scattered around the ground.
It was over. They were safe.
Exhaustion washed over him, and his legs almost gave way. But he couldn't afford to pass out now.
Kota had used up all his energy so he was OUT. And Eri most likely passed out from both emotional and physical exhaustion so he didn't anticipate her waking up anytime soon.
It was all up to him to get them home.
And fortunately, with all the smoke around them, no one saw them turn back into their kid forms! And thanks to that smoke, he could transform without anyone seeing hi-
"Why are you here?"
Izuku pupils shrank, and dread filled his heart.
He turned around, and saw Momo Yaoyorozu standing over him.
Oh come on! Izuku was tearing up. Why couldn't things be easy for them! Just once! Don't cry! Don't cry! Don't cry!
"Oh dear! I didn't mean to alarm you!" Momo quickly tried to reassure Izuku, who she just saw as a scared child. She then bent down and scooped him up. "Are you ok? Are you injured?"
This did not help. Partially because now Izuku was trapped. If he called down his lightning it would hit her too.
Also she was now holding Izuku against her body, in her very exposing hero costume, and Izuku did not appreciate that in the slightest.
"I'm fine now, please let me go!" Izuku said, his face beat red, as he lightly struggled to get out of Momo's grip but to no avail.
"That's no good. I have to get you to the teachers at once." Momo was about to leave, when she noticed Kota and Eri lying there. "There's more of you? Wherever did you all come from?"
"Uh...um...uh...we-we-we...were hostages!" Izuku came up with the best excuse he could come up with. "The villains kidnapped us a-and used us as hostages! But the Marvels showed up and saved us!"
"...I see. But how did you get here?" Momo asked him.
"I-I don no!" Izuku feigned ignorance, not being able to come up with a better explanation in his flustered state. He hoped that being a scared little kid would make her stop questioning him.
Foruntalty, it was, and Momo gave him a look of pity. "Alright, well, I'll have to get you three some help."
"N-No it's fine!" Izuku tried to convince her, to little avail.
"Can someone assist me!" Momo called out into the smoke.
Izuku got more and more nervous, as three figures arrived from the smoke.
Mina, Ochaco, and Kirishima arrived. Kirishima was carrying an unconscious Todoroki.
"Hey Momo what-oh what a cutie!" Mina stopped and squealed when she saw Izuku and the others, before frowning when she remembered where they were. "Wait, why are kids here?"
"Oh no, are they hurt?" Ochaco said, going up to inspect Izuku, getting much closer than he appreciated.
"N-No!" Izuku was quickly trying to figure out a way to escape, but he couldn't think of anything, partially because of his close proximity to a girl.
Seeing Izuku's bright red face and the steam that was nearly coming off of him, Mina giggled and looked at Momo. "Yamomo you might want to let the kid go. You're gonna give him a weird taste for skin ships when he grows up."
Momo looked down at Izuku's face, and where she was holding him, and her face quickly matched Izuku in redness. "I-I-I see! C-can someone else take them please!"
"I got them!" Ochaco went over and touched Izuku's head, making him blush further with embarrassment, before he realized something...he felt weird.
Momo let him go, and much to his confusion, he didn't fall to the floor, instead he just floated like he was in space.
"Woah." Izuku looked down at his dangling legs, floating in mid-air. It was slightly different from flying, different in that he had no control of this unlike his flight. He was just...floating.
"You like it? It's my quirk. It lets me turn off the gravity of anything I touch with all five of my fingers." Ochaco explained to him, before going on to touch both Eri and Kota, bring the two unconscious floating kids next to Izuku.
"This is amazing! That's so cool! You could be a great rescue hero!" Seeing a cool quirk did manage to calm Izuku down a bit, before he remembered the situation he was in. Oh no now we're really trapped!
Now all three of them were stuck mid-air. He literally could not run away.
Ochaco grabbed them all in her arms, keeping them together.
How could this get any worse!?
"Huh?" As if the universe was trying to say, yes it could, Eri started to wake up.
Uh oh. Izuku thought.
"Oh, another one is waking up." Kirishima said.
Eri looked around groggily for a bit, before her brain woke up.
She remembered the Nomu and started looking around to see if it was dead, before quickly realizing that she was in her child form, and that she was in the arms of someone she didn't know. "Ah-ah."
The students saw the girl starting to panic,as tears started glimmering in the corner of her eyes.
"Hey it's ok! The villains are gone now!" Mina tried to reassure her, but to no avail.
"S-Sha-Sha-" Before Eri could say the word, Izuku covered her mouth.
"Don't say it!" Izuku shouted. "Don't say the word!"
Eri gave him a confused and fearful look, and Izuku gave her a determined, reassuring look in return.
"We're ok...you have to trust me." Izuku told her.
The determination in Izuku's voice, and the fact that it was Izuku saying it, calmed Eri down to a degree, and she gave him a look showing her trust in him.
Izuku took his hand off of Eri's mouth, and turned to the very confused U.A. students. "U-Uh um, sorry about her! Eri gets scared very easily. And uh...she was trying to say a no-no word so I had to stop her. Sorry."
The students gave them a weird look, before shrugging it off. They were kids after all.
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"Any sign of the Marvels?" Nezu asked Snipe after the hero just got back from surveying the building.
"None. Sorry." Snipe apologized.
Nezu sighed and shook his head. "Well they couldn't have gone through the exits we had those covered. Did you see any signs of them flying through the roof?"
"No." Snipe answered. "But it's possible I missed something."
"Well, you should focus on rounding up the remaining villains." Nezu told the hero, who nodded and ran back into the building.
Nezu's ever present was nearly slipping. This was a disaster. Villains attacked his students with an All Might worthy monster, and the Marvels broke in, and now nobody knew where they were!
At least no one was hurt...except All Might. Fortunately Cemnetoss came in and kept anyone from seeing him in his skinny form, but he was still in pretty bad shape all things considered.
"Principal Nezu!" The animal principal heard one of his students shout from behind him.
Now, whatever Nezu expected to see when he turned around...this was not it.
Behind him was Ochaco Uraraka, carrying three children who were very obviously smaller versions of the Marvels.
Nezu thought that their true forms may have been smaller than their Marvel forms, but he never expected them to be actual children! This made things so much more complicated.
His students didn't seem to realize who they had in their grasp. Most likely they didn't think too much about it because they were children. Perhaps they were just writing off their obvious resemblance to the Marvel's as a coincidence.
And Nezu might have been able to do the same, if it weren't for the fact that Kota Izumi, someone they suspected to be related to Marvel Aoi, was HERE, were the Marvels were, whom had seemingly disappeared, and he was right next to a boy that looked like Marvel Midori and a girl that looked like Marvel Aka.
As the children approached him Nezu thought about the best way to proceed. "Children? Where on earth did you find them?"
"They were in the smoke. The place where All Might and the Marvels fought that monster." Momo explained. "They said the league kidnapped them to use them as hostages."
Nezu looked at Marvel Midori and Marvel Aka , who were giving him a desperate look that said "please buy it".
If he wasn't sure they were the Marvels before, he would be now.
"I see. Well it's a good thing we found them then." Nezu would play along. It was all part of his plan. "Do you two think you can take the third one and make it home by yourselves?"
The two conscious Marvels, and the students looked at him in shock.
"Y-YES!" Izuku and Eri answered immediately.
"Well then, Ms Uraraka, please put them down so they can go home." Nezu instructed his student.
"Wha-Principal Nezu you can't be serious!?" Momo asked the principal.
"Of course I am, they appear to be uninjered, and they said they can make it home." Nezu told her. "Ms Uraraka. If you would."
"But-" Ochaco stopped when she saw the look Nezu was giving her, telling her that this was NOT a request.
With some trepidation, Ochaco set the children down on the ground, and undid the effects of her quirk.
Almost immediately, Izuku grabbed the unconscious Kota's arms. "Thank you for everything but we should get home now! Our parents will be worried! Eri grab his legs!"
Eri quickly did as instructed, and the two ran off, carrying Kota with them.
Once they were out of earshot, Nezu turned to his students. "Being me Ms. Hagakure, with haste."
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After getting a good distance away from U.A. the kids ducked into an alleyway, and placed Kota on the ground, before stopping to catch their breath.
"I-" Izuku stopped when suddenly Eri latched onto him, and started crying into his shoulder.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" The horned girl sobbed. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Eri kept sobbing, muttering she was sobbing, and Izuku put his arms around her and started patting her on the back.
"It's ok. It's ok." Izuku reassured her. "We're ok. It's all over now."
After a few minutes, Izuku managed to calm her down.
"Let's just go home." He told her, looking around to make sure no one was looking, before looking back at Eri. "Do you have enough energy to get back home?"
"I-I think so." Eri stuttered. "I'm tired."
"We can rest when we get home." Izuku told her. "Here let's do it together. Three. Two. One."
"SHAZAM!" They both shouted at the same time.
KRAKOOM!
Lightning came out of the clear sky, and struck the two of them, transforming them into their champion forms.
Izuku grabbed Kota, and the two took off into the sky.
Little did they know, someone had been watching. They just couldn't see her.
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Once again the pro heroes were gathered in a police briefing room. Given that it was the same heroes that had been gathered for the Marvels meeting, the heroes assumed this meeting was once again about the troublesome trio.
"Thank you for gathering everyone." Nezu was in the front of the room this time. "As you may have surmised, we will be talking about the Marvel's again."
"Did we manage to find their identities?" Kamui Woods asked.
"Can we finally go after them!?" Miriko asked eagerly.
"Yes, and no." Nezu answered. "We did find out their identities but...it's complicated."
"Of course it is." Aizawa said, while in a full body cast.
Nezu pulled out a remote, and pressed the power button, displaying the image of Izuku, Eri, and Kota in their child forms on a screen behind him. "These are the Mavel's true forms."
"WHAT!?" Shouted pretty much every hero there.
"Wait a minute, are you telling me that the Marvels are children!?" Ryukyu shouted in shock and outrage.
"All this time we've been fighting kids!?" Fatgum was in disbelief, with a look of shock and horror on his face.
"Are you saying we've been getting our asses handed to us by toddlers!?" Miriko shouted, now seeming even more pissed than before.
"Everyone! Please quiet down!" Crust told everyone, and after a few minutes, the room became quiet. "Principal Nezu, please explain. How could the Marvels, some of the most powerful vigilantes in history, be children who don't even appear to be over ten?"
"Well, as you are all likely well aware, there was an attack on U.A. two days ago." Nezu started to explain. "Me and my staff will be handling the issue of the league of villains, but another group that showed up was the Marvels. However, as we were cleaning up, one of my students came to me, holding these three children together. Apparently they were found where the Marvels had last been seen fighting the villains, and their explanation was that they were taken hostage, although there was no report of anyone seeing them anywhere in the facility before hand, and all the villains we captured knew nothing of any hostages, they also said they needed to get home to their parents, despite the fact that all of them are orphans. And if you remember correctly, one of them is Kota Izumi, someone we suspected was connected to Marvel Aoi. So his appearance here alongside two other children who look identical to Marvel Midori and Aka, tells me that they are in fact the Marvels. And also, this."
Nezu pressed a button on the remote, and it showed a video of Eri and Izuku transforming, before flying away with Kota.
There were a few moments of silence in the room, before Fat Gum spoke.
"So what do we do now?" He asked. "Their kids. We can't just beat 'em into submission."
"Why not?" Miriko gave him an irritated look.
"Why not!?" Fat Gum looked at the rabbit hero with fury in his eyes. "Their kids! They're like...Nezu, how old are they!?"
"Aoi and Aka are seven, Midori is eight." Nezu answered.
"Are you telling me you don't have an issue with fighting kids who haven't even hit the double digits yet!?" Fat Gum shouted.
"Well what are we gonna do just ask them nicely to stop!?" Miriko asked sarcastically. "You think any kid with that much power would bother listening to us!?"
"There has to be a better way!" Crust protested. "What kind of heroes would we be if we laid our hands on innocent children!"
"Innocent?" Hawks raised an eyebrow. "They're vigilantes."
"They're children!" Crust argued. "They don't know the consequences of what they're doing! And they're orphans! They don't have any parents to explain this to them! We need to tell them that what they're doing is-"
"And you think they're just gonna stand there and let you explain it to them?" Aizawa said, his voice slightly muffled by the bandages. "I'm not anymore egar about the thought of attacking orphaned children, but we don't have much a choice here."
"There's always a choice!" Fat Gum argued. "We're heroes! We find a way to do what's right!"
"Heroes also have to know when to compromise." Nighteye finally spoke up. "Nezu, before we continue this debate, let's hear more about these children."
"Very well." Nezu pressed another button on the remote, and the screen showed an image of Kota. "Kota Izumi. Son the water hose duo. We've gone over most of the information about him. Except for a few things. One of which is his quirk. Hydrokinesis. A combination of his parents' quirks, it allows him to shoot water from his palms, and control it. An ability Marvel Aoi had never displayed, until the U.S.J. where All Might said he saw Marvel Aoi use this ability. And as for the other bit of information, well we'll get to that later."
Nezu pressed a button, and the image changed, this time to show Izuku. "This is Izuku Midoriya, funnily enough his last name was similar to his vigilante name the whole time. He was diagnosed as quirkless at age six, with his father walking out on him soon after."
"Scum." Ryukyu scowled.
"Not too long after, his mother died in a fire. And he was placed into the care of family friend, Mitsuki Bakugo and her husband Masaru. However, a few days later he ran away." Nezu explained. "Given what we know about the Bakugo family, abuse is suspected as a possible reason why he ran. Although questioning their son has now shown any evidence of this."
"Poor kid. Being quirkless can't be easy." Fat Gum gave the image a sad look. He would have never thought that kid smiling brightly in the photo would have gone through so much.
"Next, we have Eri." Nezu pressed a button, and showed an image of Eri...or rather, a drawing of Eri.
"Why is it a drawing and not a picture like the other two?" Kamui asked.
"Because there are no pictures of her." Nezu explained. "There is no information about her, at all."
"No information?" Nighteye asked. "No parents, backstory, no school information? Nothing?"
"No." Nezu shook his head. "The only reason we know her name is Eri is because according to one of my students, Midoriya called her that. And that's assuming he used her real name. She has no records, no birth certificate, and there have been no missing children reports fitting her description. And there has been only one report of her being seen before. Watch."
Nezu pressed another button, and another video played on the screen, this time it showed a security camera feed from a train station.
Everything was happening as usual, until a cry was heard from out of view.
"Help!"
Izuku, Kota and Eri all ran in.
"Bad men! They touched me in my no no places! And now I can't be a bride anymore!" Eri cried.
The heroes then watched as the crowd rushed the children onto the train, as two of Overhaul's goons came in.
"Those are Overhaul's men." Nighteye pointed out as the video ended."
"Indeed. But it doesn't end there." Nezu explained. "Because those three children never got off that train."
"What?" Death Arms asked.
"The people on that train reported that the children simply vanished in a flash of light." Nezu explained. "They never got off that train. And funnily enough, do you want to know who did get off that train? The Marvels."
"Wait, if we had this information then how didn't we know their identities sooner!?" Death Arms asked.
"Because no one noticed the Marvels on the train." Nezu continued. "No one reported the Marvels teleporting or suddenly appearing. But when we tracked down the people on the train and at the station, none of them said they remembered the Marvels getting on the train. Somehow the Marvel's reappeared on the train, without anyone noticing."
"That...doesn't sound possible." Best Jeanest commented.
"Well whatever happened, the next time these kids were at a police station. They entered and were seen by some officers, but they left being carried, unconscious, by those same officers. Who claimed that they were bringing them home." Nezu explained.
"But seeing as how they were definitely never brought back, and the children were being chased by Overhaul's men for whatever reason, it's safe to say that those officers knocked them unconscious, and brought them to Overhaul." Nighteye scowled. "That must have been why no one ever saw the Marvel's enter Overhaul's base. And why they were there to begin with."
"As well as all those reports of lightning bolts coming out of the sky." Endeavor added. "From what we've seen, they need to be hit by lightning that they summon to transform in and out of their Marvel forms."
"But none of this explains how they got their powers in the first place." Ryukyu pointed out.
"I have a theory." Nezu said. "But first a question. Why were they running from Overhaul and his henchmen?"
"Uh, because they're crooks?" Fat Gum stated the obvious.
"But if they had their powers, then why not just find a conspicuous place to transform, and take them down themselves?" Nezu pointed out. "If they had their powers. Why bother with this?"
"Unless of course...they didn't have their powers yet." Nighteye came to the same conclusion Nezu did.
"Right, I believe whatever happened on that train, is when they were given their powers." Nezu said. "Because it's very clear they weren't born with them at this point. But as to who or what gave them their powers, I have no ideas."
That was a lie. He had a prediction that All for One was behind this. But it's not like he could tell anyone else that.
"Well then our mission is clear isn't it?" Endeavor said. "We need to take them out, and fast."
Fat Gum opened his mouth to retort, but Endeavor beat him to it.
"I understand that they're children, but that only makes them more dangerous." Endeavor countered. "Children are impulsive, and prone to act on emotion. Marvel Aoi has shown this numerous times. What if one day Marvel Aoi has enough of a particular news station, and decides to pay them a visit? How much destruction do you think a child with the power of All Might, throwing a tantrum would cause?"
After that there was a pause. As the more tentative heroes had to concede to the fact that the flame hero had a point.
"Children that young, should not be trusted with power that great. It's amazing that they haven't killed anyone yet." Endeavor continued. "But we can't just wait until they either make a mistake or just grow tired of being slandered in the media. We need to take them down before someone gets hurt. Not to mention, there is someone capable of giving power like this to people, and the Marvels are our only lead. They're too important to allow things like age to stop us. It's not an option."
Once again, the heroes in the room who weren't already on board had to concede. Although it was obvious to see they didn't like it one bit.
"Thank you Endeavor." Nezu said, before continuing. "Now, we can't release their identities to the public for obvious reasons. If people found out that that kind of power was in the hands of children it would cause a panic. Not to mention it would harm hero society regardless of our actions. On one hand you'll have people asking how we haven't managed to catch two seven year olds and a eight year old yet, and on the other hand, you'll have people outraged that we'll be fighting children at all. However this information will be given out to a limited number of pro heroes."
Suddenly Crust raised his hand.
"Yes?" Nezu called on him.
"You don't think...that Overhaul actually...touched the girl in that way...do you?" Crust asked, his face showing that he desperately hoped the answer was no.
Suddenly the mood in the room sifted, as everyone's faces quickly matched Crust, as they looked at Nezu for an answer.
"I...would not know." Nezu answered, the smile gone from his face. "Nighteye was the one who had been studying the Yakuza so it would be up to him."
Everyone looked at Nighteye, whose expression remained neutral, as he pushed up his glasses. "...Given what I know of Kai Chisaki...I wouldn't have suspected it of him...but I wouldn't put it above him either. And given Marvel's Aka's behavior...it's most certainly not out of the question."
"Shit that's not an answer!" Miriko shouted.
"Well I don't have a definitive answer." Nighteye retorted. "That is the best I have."
And that uncertain, and uncomfortable feeling, would plague the room for the rest of the meeting, as the heroes wondered what that girl went through.
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"I was punching orphans!?"
Naomasa sighed as his friend vomited blood all over his desk. "That's about how I thought you would react to the news."
After he stopped choking on his own blood, All Might spoke up. "I-I-I-I was punching orphans! Orhan children!"
Naomasa sighed. He was gonna be like that for a while.
Yeah All Might is not having a good time.
So now their identities are out. If you're wondering how Toru managed to hide a camera while tailing someone, she hid it in her hair. When things go in her(I mean food) they're shown to also turn invisible, so if she hid a camera or a phone in her hair, it would be completely invisible while also being able to take a video or a picture clearly because the hair is invisible. It's like an invisibility cloak. You can see through it. But they can't.
Anyway, the trio wasn't captured but they're not in a good position. What will the heroes do to try and catch these vigilantes, and what villains will emerge to try and get in the way?
Anyway, that's all for now, please review and have a nice day.