"That went… well?"
Izuku was back in his chair while All For One was again caged to the metaphorical piece of furniture, the man had just explained Izuku about the events that transpired while he was bound and chained. At first Izuku was petrified of the consequences that were surely to follow, but as there was no other choice he had made peace with it. The greenette was content with the fact that his father was safe, Melissa and Momo were relatively unscathed as well as the other members of his class were under the guard of their teachers.
Despite of the end of it, he still had multiple questions and as he had a lot of time in his mindscape he decided to raise them,
"W-Why did K-Kurogiri listen to you!? I mean, I got the hint when he answered my questions but-"
"You thought he was just over confident in his plan…" the man sighed as the wisps somewhat died down. "I guess there's no bouncing around it, tell me Izuku, what does the word 'Noumu' mean to you?"
"B-Brainless, sir.."
"Come on child, don't be so distant, call me Sensei."
"Y-Yes sensei."
"You're right, they are brainless, just tools waiting for orders, prepared from corpses and sometimes a few live specimens."
Izuku paled "L-Live specimens!?"
"It's a technique All For One and his doctor perfected many years ago… You see, your quirk is somewhat different from his, the way you can sense the emptiness in someone's body, he could not. As a result, many people he tried giving quirks to, died in the process as their mind tore itself apart, so they came up with a solution where they directly program a dead brain to listen to its owner's orders."
"Just like the muscular one was listening to Shigaraki."
"Precisely Izuku, now at first they could only create creatures which were fragile at best, but over time they practiced and one upped themselves. Finally as of now Kurogiri is their finest creation."
The whitette's eyes widened "You mean K-Kurogiri is a N-Noumu!?"
"Yes, an artificial being capable of producing original thoughts and feelings. Yet loyal as ever to his master… the one bearing All for One."
The realisation hit Izuku, the mist-man was obeying Izuku because he has All for One, 'It would have been so simpler if I'd known this beforehand.'
"But why didn't the exposed-brain Noumu listen to me when I begged him to stop punching!?"
"The mindless or rather the Noumu lacking free-will are assigned to a person as their authority, in this case Tomura Shigaraki was his master, it might not even obey All For One if not for Shigaraki's order."
"T-This is fascinating stuff Sensei."
"You find this amusing? I guess we two are alike after all, would you like to hear about your new quirk?"
"Please Sensei…"
"It's name is Hydra-"
And so the two quirk enthusiasts were set for their three day time period in each other's company.
'This isn't so bad' Izuku mused as he focused intently on what Sensei had to explain.
Melissa was terrified of what she had just witnessed, her best-friend was probably beaten to death trying to save her, when she couldn't do anything. She foolishly gave away her position, got captured by that Hand villain, what an impressive feat for the 'Symbol of Peace's successor'. While Izuku kept the Noumu at bay and without a care for his own life dived into battle. She knew given the situation there was nothing she could have done but she can't help but wonder if the roles were switched, what would Izuku have done to get away from Shigaraki?
It was all her fault, Aizawa-sensei got hurt trying to save her life, Izuku got hurt doing the same and god-knows what would have happened to Uncle Might if they somehow weren't warped away by Kurogiri. What if the Tomura had kept her hostage while the Noumu and the Mist-man killed Uncle, she knew the man was the strongest hero on the planet but even he will suffer to detain a warp quirk user of that precision, not to mention the Noumu was hand-crafted to negate All Might's attacks, a perfect description of the said creature would be 'a punching bag that fights back'.
Melissa was rushing towards the hospital where Uncle Might had brought Izuku to, luckily Momo was a good friend who declared that she'd cover for her and asked her to go. Principal Nedzu also seemed to get her sentiment as he didn't tell her to refrain from doing so.
So when she forcefully bypassed all the nurses and threw the door's open, revealing a buffed down Toshinori sitting beside the motionless body of Izuku.
She fell to her knees and broke down, the faint beeping of the medical equipment connected to the greenette could be heard in between Melissa's violent sobbing.
"I-It's all m-my f-f-fault Uncle Might, I was weak and h-he tried to save me a-and he got beaten up by the-"
Before she could descend down further a warm comforting hand fell on her shoulders as a teary eyed Toshinori calmed her down.
"It's not your fault Young Melissa, don't blame yourself for something you couldn't control. I have seen many heroes go down the path and I'd be damned if I let my very own successor suffer through it. You did nothing wrong, this was the villain's fault and mine, as a teacher I didn't stand up to my responsibilities and you guys took the shot. I-I am sorry Young Melissa… I should've been there."
Melissa balled her eyes out and hugged the life out of Toshinori 'I have two crybabies now' he chuckled sadly in an attempt to cheer himself while glancing over to Izuku's unconscious body.
"W-Will he be o-o-kay?"
Toshinori remembered what Recovery Girl had informed him and what Izuku or rather All For One mentioned, it still frightened him as to how and why he was speaking through his protege, even though Yagi knew it was just the quirk, he couldn't shake off the eerily chill that ran down his spine when he heard that voice.
"He is physically fine, thanks to the 'Regeneration' quirk he took from the Noumu, but he will be in a deep sleep for about three days because he went over his quirk limit. Unfortunately we will have to reveal his quirk to the students as he intends to pass on the extra quirks to them, I was first against it but passing off them is essential for his survival."
Melissa released her uncle from her grasp and moved towards Izuku, she sat beside him and placed a loving hand over his forehead and hummed. "W-Would you mind if I stay here tonight Uncle Might?"
"I don't think that would be wise Melissa, you should rest, I will stay here you haven't even changed out of your costume yet."
"I-I'll ask Momo to make me some clothes for the night, I-I'll shower in there" she pointed at the room's attached bathroom. "B-But please don't ask me to leave him here.. Please." she spoke the last part in muffled cries.
Toshinori knew this wasn't smart and if David were to hear this, which he would, All Might might regret it, but seeing the conviction and compassion in his successor's eyes. He couldn't help but remember how Gran Torino stayed right beside Nana when she suffered a similar fate, so with a glint in his eyes, he hesitated.
"Sure Young Melissa, but don't ask Young Yaoyorozu to come here… I'll have Midnight pick something out for you, I sense she'll be here soon."
With that remark All Might bid her goodbye and went off to confront Nedzu on the matter of the revelation of Izuku's quirk to his class and the update in plans of revealing the secrets of OFA and AFO to Melissa.
After an hour or so Nemuri and Mic barged in and wept over their nephew, they stayed over a while and then joined Shouta who was admitted to a room over, him and Thirteen were injured from the attack but were set to make complete recovery.
Just when they were turning in for the night Momo, Katsuki and Sekigai visited Izuku and left, Katsuki was silent the whole time while Momo and Sekigai offered themselves to stay over with Melissa, to which the blonde refused and asked them to rest in the comfort of their rooms.
It was close to midnight when Melissa woke up from a nightmare, she was revisiting the whole incident in her dreams, realising she won't be able to sleep she moved from the couch and crept over to Izuku's side and snuggled up to him for comfort, even in his vegetable state he was helping her.
When Melissa saw Izuku's innocent face in the moonlight a thought came to her mind, she had read several studies about patients in coma still having a mental connection to the outside world, so she held him tightly and wept while keeping her head close to his chest as she kept her fingers running across his scarred hand.
"Please wake up Izuku… please wake up."
Izuku noticed some muffled voices creeping through his ears "P...eas ..ake.. up, ..zu… " he noticed the darkness in the void shifted, a ray of bright light entered and showered itself over the greenette, it was so bright that the source couldn't be seen.
"So it's true...",
"Wha..?"
Izuku felt warmth, not one that was a cause of weather or illness, rather something that can only be emitted by another person, then the scent made its way to its nose, the sweet lavender scent that came from. "Oh.."
"Yes, the Ninth seems to be in contact with you, All for One and One for All are the closest they've been in over a century."
With that statement, the surroundings shifted a long path formed itself between Izuku and the source of aforementioned light, the chair underneath him vanished and the man beside him stood tall still bound by the chains but without the furniture, before he could ask Sensei what was this all about, the light shifted and opposite to the path nine figures stood tall, he noticed a shadowy vestige of All Might and in the front stood Melissa.
What perplexed Izuku more was that Melissa's whole body was covered by black fog and only half of the face was visible, just her head upto her nose, her eyes were closed too.
Izuku took a step forward towards the blonde and suddenly the whole realm exploded, the light blinded Izuku and he fell into darkness while hearing a faint.
"Big brothe-"
3 a.m
Melissa was on the verge of falling asleep, thanks to Izuku's embrace, when she heard muffled rumbling coming from the teen, she rose and was shell shocked to see Izuku was awake!
Though what baffled her was when she noticed his eyes were completely black.
"Listen carefully Ninth, things are going ahead of the schedule, Izuku will be awake in 12 hours, make sure you have the students mentioned earlier, however due to certain developments he'll have to make more room, bring another brawler…"
As soon as these words escaped the greenette's mouth he fell unconscious, Melissa was shook to her core after hearing such a deep and intimidating voice out of nowhere, 'This must be his quirk', she mused while running around to find some doctors and to mention Uncle Might and Nedzu about the situation.
Next morning at UA Dorms
"Hey, do you know why All Might wants us here?" asked Kirishima. Kaminari who was beside him just shrugged. Everyone in class 1-A was gathered as they were to have a meeting with the pro hero. Noticeably, they were missing their home room teacher and a blue eyed blonde.
"It probably has to do with yesterday's incident." Sekigai proclaimed to everyone. A few nodded as it seemed reasonable.
The door opened and in came All Might in his legendary glory but was ruined with even more shadows covering his face "Everyone please sit down."
While things settled down, the hero coughed into his fist "Well, I must apologize to you all for not being there!", he bowed. The students were a bit surprised and shocked to see the number one pro hero lower his face to them.
"It's okay All Might!/ Please raise yourself!/ It's alright! We're fine!" yelled the students to ease the hero from his self loathe. He nodded and rose to once again speak, slowly gaining his composure.
"As you all know, we have you all in your dorms to stop any further attacks that the villains have in mind", he breathed out as Momo stood up and walked to his side. "Now, I'm pretty sure you have questions as to what happened to Young Midoriya", A couple of students felt an awful feeling bubbling in their guts while a few others were eager to hear.
"To know what happened, you have to know about Young Midoriya's quirk or should I say, quirks.", All Might said while a few looks of disbelief and gasps came from the small crowd.
"Wait, Yaoyorozu! You know about this!" exclaimed Mina, worried about what was happening.
"Of course, I knew about it before U.A."
She got a few stares but All Might continued "His quirk... is rather complicated if we got into depth. The name is called 'All for One', it grants the user to steal, give and combine quirks. Such a quirk comes with drawbacks, it limited his mobility, as you can already tell from the previous training we all did. He still hasn't gotten to the last part, but he's getting there."
Everyone's eyes widened in shock that such a quirk exists and a few grew to be fearful. Naturally of course. "W-Wait, doesn't the Noumu thing have multiple quirks?! I-Is Mi-", Tenya angrily started, but was cut off.
"He's not a traitor if that's what you're thinking!", Momo countered. "We were already friends before U.A and he only has good intentions in being a hero!", She angrily finished.
"There's no other explanation, such a rare quirk!" Tenya bit back.
Katsuki heard enough "The nerd has been, I hate to say it, but heroic since we were little!", The class watched the trio argue as All Might cleared his throat, in an attempt to stop them.
Tenya seemed to uncharacteristically grow a vein in his forehead "There's no defending him! You saw how the mist villain did as he was told by Midoriya!", Katsuki clicked his teeth while Momo clenched her fist.
"I mean, we all saw it", a few students averted their eyes but some nodded.
"ENOUGH!", All Might yelled to break up the argument in the room. "If you let me explain, things would sound better", he sighed.
"From the evidence they gathered, it seems probable that the villain, Kurogiri, came out as somewhat of a double agent, It is possible that he was forced to help the leader, Shigaraki. Or was trying to get help, in which Young Midoriya responded. There is a good chance that the said villain might seek out heroes in near-future", The class' faith in Izuku was growing as those who saw what happened nodded in realization. It all made sense! He's the type of person to do that!
Meanwhile Tenya felt horrible to think about his classmate in such a way. Especially when he almost declared him a traitor. Without any concrete evidence,
"Young Midoriya stopped the Noumu from attacking any further by taking away its quirks. That action fortunately brought us time, he saved all of you yesterday", All Might eased their minds as they all visibly calmed, a few obviously had their composure on since the beginning.
The blonde hero repeatedly tapped his head in thought and suddenly snapped his fingers with a smile "Yeah! That's what I was gonna say! Okay students, that is what I was supposed to clear up. You can all go back to your rooms, Young Yaoyorozu, Kirishima, Kaminari, and Sato. Please stay."
The rest headed to their rooms, comfortable with the explanation. Mina and Toru patted Momo in comfort as they walked away as Sero and Ojiro did the same to the guys. As the room quieted from lack of most of class 1-A, the hero spoke. "We need to go to the hospital where they are currently keeping Young Midoriya at."
"Right now?" Sato asked.
"Why of course!"
"Hold it old man." A sudden voice interrupted any further talking. Katsuki and Sekigai came out from the stairs with a determined look on their faces.
"We're coming with you."
10 minutes before the transfers
Aizawa was sitting on a chair beside Izuku's bed, Nemuri and Yamada had reluctantly left after staying the whole night watching over the bandaged-up hero. RecoveryGirl was able to heal his arms and face to near optimum conditions, though he still had minor scarring outside his left eye and unfortunately due to the impact and quirk overuse, his 'Erasure's' time limit had also fallen. It wasn't significant but noticeable. Before him laid his son, unconscious and relatively somewhat unscathed, but the horror he saw when Noumu blasted a fury of punches onto him still agitated the man.
Beside him, on the couch sat Melissa staring into nothingness as both of them waited for the student's arrival and Izuku's awakening. It was unfortunate but when Aizawa came into Izuku's room this morning he was baffled to see Melissa snuggled up to the boy, though it wasn't an unpleasant one, it was a surprise nonetheless. He tried to not make his presence known but the girl was an extremely light sleeper as she woke up and descended into a blushing stutterIng mess.
Shouta didn't blame the girl, after all she was in a strange land, all alone with strangers. And after what she witnessed the unmentionable terror being done to someone close to her, it was natural that the person would need some sort of comfort. Aizawa knew if he were not undergoing treatment of his own, he might have stayed with Izuku too. He knew that Melissa didn't mean any ill intention with her actions so he didn't mention anything about it and let it slide… for now.
Aizawa was about to call Yagi and inquire about the status over at the dorms, when grumbling voices came from the greenette.
"H-Head… hurts, q-...irks ov… load."
Aizawa made his presence known by greeting the newly awakened Izuku "Good morning, sleep right?"
Before Izuku could comment on his Mummy-of-his-father's appearance a blur of golden hit him and he noticed the familiar warmth.
"M...lissa?"
It was as if the world had vanished for the said girl, without saying a word, she hugged the life out him and started sobbing violently in his neck.
"Are y..u A...ight? Dad you do..t look so g..d, is everyone f..ne?"
Aizawa noticed the missing words and quickly came to the solution that the aforementioned quirk overload had hindered his cognic faculties, as if on cue he received a message from All Might that they are in the hospital and coming up to their room.
"I am alright Izuku and she's shaken up a bit, but I am afraid it's time for the transfer now."
"C..n't, they d..nt k..ow ab..t AFO."
"That part has been taken care of, rest assured just do the transfer and get healthy… asap."
Suddenly the door of his room flew open revealing a buffed up Toshinori in his hero costume and a couple of his classmates.
"IZUKU YOU ARE AWAKE!" Momo lost all sense of inhibition when she joined the ongoing hug between him and Melissa, she separated after a few seconds while the latter did not.
"It's great to see you awake Young Izuku."
Izuku was about to greet his idol when a certain 'Youthful-heroine' interjected "Izuku, continue with the transfer first, your body would begin serious cognitive degeneration if you stay in that state for long!"
"C..me M..mo t..ke h..nd."
Complying to his request she shook his hand and felt something flow into her.
"I'ts D...cay, b.. Ca..ful."
Paying caution to the wind she touched a pen lying on a nearby table, as soon as all five fingers touched it's surface, the piece of stationary disintegrated, Momo quickly caught up with the situation and made herself a three finger glove for both hands.
Izuku moved his hand towards the redhead, who was shedding manly tears at the sight before him, he gave him a manly shake and felt something new enter into his body.
"Im..pa..t re..oil"
Momo caught on to his faint words and explained the quirk to the redhead "It's Impact Recoil" she noticed that due to the state Izuku was in he had to take a few moments between transfers, so she took the time to explain it to him. "It transfers some of the physical attack to the attacker itself, for instance, Sato punch him real hard and Kirishima don't harden."
At first Kirishima didn't wanted to do this as Sato's punches hurt like a bitch, but noticing that their teacher was intently watching, he gave in. Sato punched Kirishima, while the latter tried to activate his newly acquired quirk, as a surprise to both of them Eijirou barely felt hit while Sato's knuckles were red from the recoil.
"Oh, it's so cool! But A-Aizawa-sensei, why didn't Midoriya use this against the Noumu."
This got the attention of the muffled up blonde who was still latched onto the greenette.
Shouta sighed and explained "You'll see, Izuku go on."
He nodded as he extended his other hand towards the 'Sugar-rush' user.
Aizawa noted that the transfer happened as he began "Now try punching Kirishima."
Sato without a doubt laid one on Kirishima's side and noticed that both were unscathed.
"You see the creature was punching at a much powerful level, and as Impact Recoils doesn't cancel out the damage, Izuku still received it, while the opposite was different, Noumu's Shock-Absorption negated all of the Recoils sent by him."
All the teens nodded as Izuku turned his attention towards the 'Electric' user.
"So this must be 'Insulator' then?"
Everyone including the pro-heroes looked baffled at the teen, when Kirishima asked 'How do you know?"
"Me, Shinso and Tsuyu were at the ship-wreck zone, and even though my brain was fried and Shinso was unconscious, we witnessed the monster intercepting Midoriya's lightning strikes."
While the teens were still weirded out by the whole concept of passing around quirks, they were extremely grateful that Midoriya chose them, Katsuki was again silent the whole time they were there, no one except Shouta noticed the card he slipped through Izuku's bag and the hint of tear he had in his eyes.
If Kashiko was being honest with herself, she was a little jealous of the other people that got additional quirks, what agitated her more was the fact that the said people already had perfect and flashy quirks, but she knew there must have been a reason for which Izuku picked those three, not to mention she was overjoyed to see Izuku being all better. She wanted to go hug him but the vibes she was getting from Melissa weren't helping in that matter.
After a few moments they all thanked Izuku for his generous gift and wishing him to get well soon, they went back to their dorms to try out and show-off their new quirks.
The adults also sensed that the two teens might need some time alone, they decided to give them some privacy.
"M-Melissa?"
The said girl was still latched onto him like a Koala, but when she noticed that they were alone, she finally let him go and sat beside him while running her fingers through his scarred hands.
"Don't you dare do something like that again", She adjusted her glasses and tried to hold back the tears. "For a moment there, I-I thought you'd-"
Izuku placed a finger on her lips and stopped her from finishing that sentence "I promise I'll try to not do something reckless again."
Melissa knew this wasn't a right time to pop the question, neither she wanted to ruin the moment, so she wiped her eyes and placed a loving kiss on Izuku's tender lips and snuggled into his warmth.
Izuku froze in time as Melissa took away his first kiss, he knew the moment couldn't be more perfect so without any thought he let himself melt into her embrace.
They stayed like that for what felt an eternity but was a few minutes when Melissa spoke up.
"So, why did the Mist-man listen to you?"
Izuku's eyes widened as he realised that he'd have to explain that to everyone.
'Oh boy…'
Notes:
Current Quirk List
Izuku Midoriya : Weather Manipulation + Unknown Quirk, All For One, Minor Cell Activation, Scanning, Hydra, Super Regeneration
Melissa Shield : One for All
Shouta Aizawa : Erasure, Metal Manipulation
Momo Yaoyorozu : Creation, Decay
Eijirou Kirishima : Hardening, Impact Recoil
Rikido Sato : Sugar Rush, Shock Absorption
Denki Kaminari : Electrification, Insulator
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