Bakugou finally caught up to the hero who had stopped running after his curiosity got the better of him to stare at Midoriya's deformed corpse. The boy's blood had gathered around his body and was already starting to shimmer.
The two stood in silence for a minute before All Might finally broke it. "I'm concerned," He said.
"Yeah well, everything considered that's a fair reaction."
"He's really dead," All Might said, still in shock.
"I tried to tell you," Bakugou examined the body. "It's his quirk."
"DYING is his quirk?!"
"Um, kinda?"
All Might just stared at Bakugou.
"Ugh. I'm really not good at explaining this."
"NO. NO, YOU ARE NOT."
Bakugou glared at All Might, annoyed at this reaction. I don't think that's really fair to the hero, he simply lacked the background knowledge to truly comprehend the situation and Bakugou was frankly not helping.
"Look. He's immortal. He dies and then he gets his shitty glitter everywhere and BOOM. Not dead."
"What does that even MEAN."
"It means the asshole knew I'd be terrible at explaining this and wanted me to suffer!"
"You know, somehow I doubt that was his intention."
"That was DEFINITELY his intention. He just likes to see me fail."
"Will you please just explain what's happening-"
At that moment Midoriya did indeed explode in a cloud of glitter. "I'M BACK!"
All Might screeched.
"Sorry for keeping that from you All Might," Midoriya said as he stood. "But there you go! I'm also immortal. Which is kinda useful."
"I'm sorry you're what."
"Kacchan! Did you not explain my quirk to him?" There was a teasing undertone to his words that lent credence to Bakugou's theory.
Bakugou flipped Midoriya the bird. "Explain your own quirk, spaz."
"Finnnne." He turned to the thoroughly confused hero. "So! My quirk is called Adrenaline Rush, basically, my body pumps modified adrenaline into my system 24/7. It makes me have a constant adrenaline rush and also activates my body's hysterical strength mechanism. So that means that I go over my limits in strength, but it has the side effect of breaking me cuz my body isn't meant to take the strain-"
"I don't mean to be rude but can we please get to the immortal part?"
"Oh! Um, yeah that's probably important." He cleared his throat. "As a safety since my quirk is so volatile there's also a healing aspect. That is, um, only activated after my heart stops. So… yeah."
There is a silence broken only by an awkward cough from Bakugou.
All Might took a deep breath, "Kid. WHY did you not think to tell me this?!"
"I just did."
All Might said nothing.
Midoriya sighed. "I dunno. I guess since I just don't really tell people it didn't exactly occur to me."
"And WHY do you not tell people?! I for one would have greatly appreciated a warning."
"Uhh, I have a few reasons. Also," Midoriya winced. "it does tend to cause, er, trauma."
"Ah. That would be a valid reason." All Might sighed and shook his head. "You're going to be a handful of a successor aren't you?"
"Wait. You still want me to inherit your quirk?"
"If anything the knowledge of your true quirk has only reaffirmed my thoughts that you should. After all, being immortal will probably be very helpful."
"Okay, but WHY do you want me to take your quirk?"
"Don't argue with him dumbass!" Bakugou interjected. "Just take the damn quirk!"
"Okay okay!" He turned to the hero. "All Might sir, I would love to take on your quirk."
They stood in awkward silence for a few minutes as Midoriya looked at the hero expectantly.
"Um. Right now?" All Might said.
"Was- was that not what you meant?"
"Well, originally I had planned on having you train your body before so that you wouldn't explode-"
"Been there, done that, he's fine," Bakugou interjected. "Now give him the quirk."
"Wha-"
"Don't ask," Midoriya said exasperatedly. "Um, he has a point though…"
"That he does." Suddenly he transformed back into his All Might form and pulled a hair out of his head. "EAT THIS!"
"What."
"You need my DNA to get my quirk."
"Okay but like, your hair?" Midoriya put a hand to his mouth and began to mutter. "Only the follicles at the bottom actually contain DNA so I really should only need to eat that end, but that's still kinda ineffective. Maybe if I just like licked your arm? Cuz then I'd be digesting hundreds of your dead skin cells and those would also have DNA-"
All Might struggled to keep up with the relentless flow. "Do- do you want to lick me?"
"I- not particularly!" He waved his arms. "But like, I WOULD if I needed to."
"UGHHH," Bakugou groaned. "Just eat the damn thing already!"
"Okay! I was going to!" And with that Midoriya grabbed the hair and devoured it.
He made a face as he swallowed. "Is that it?"
All Might nodded. "You should begin feeling the effects very soon."
As soon as he said that Midoriya doubled over. "Uh oh."
"What's wrong?! Are you okay?!" All Might asked worriedly. He bent closer to the boy.
"GET-BACK-I-THINK-I'M-GONNA-"
I have no doubt that the next word was going to be 'explode', but the sentence was cut off by Midoriya exploding so I am unable to confirm this.
Bakugou let out a high-pitched screech of anger as blood splattered his shirt.
"Okay, so I guess you were right about the whole exploding thing," Midoriya said as soon as he revived.
Bakugou furiously slapped at the glitter down his front. "You THINK?!"
"I…" All Might blinked hard. "I don't think I'll ever get used to that."
"You say that until it happens like a hundred times," Bakugou glared at his shirt as if willing the glitter out. It did not work. "Then it's just annoying."
"So exploding wasn't fun but I think I have a better handle on it now," Midoriya said as if that was a normal sentence, "What next?"
"Ah. Well," All Might started, at a loss for this strange situation he now found himself in.
"Cuz I was thinking I might need to change my quirk description now that I have One For All too."
"What, you finally going to add the 'makes owner of quirk act like a fucking spastic squirrel with no regard for personal safety' to the description?" Bakugou snorted.
"Ha ha. But really. The official description says I have a very minor strength enhancement which is obviously no longer true."
"Well…" All Might started hesitantly. "You are able to change those when necessary. If I may offer my opinion?"
Midoriya nodded.
"We can't have people knowing about One For All, but if you edited your quirk as if you had just discovered more about it then it should be fine."
"So you're saying I should change my quirk description to be like a combination of Adrenaline Rush and One For All?"
"Exactly. I was thinking you could maybe name it after the small strength aspect of your existing quirk."
Midoriya's eyes brightened. "Hysterical Strength!"
Bakugou laughed sharply. "Well you're hysterical enough, that's for sure."
All Might smiled. "Midoriya Izuku, today you become the ninth holder of One For All, or as it will be known as from this day forward- Hysterical."
