A short, preteen girl with long silver hair tied up in a bun skipped alongside a young couple with hands clasped.
"That store should be around here somewhere. That app on my phone is never wrong." The husband said, dragging his free hand through his short green curls.
"Except when it is." The brunette wife sighed, resting her head casually on her partner's shoulder.
The little girl giggled in excitement. "I can't wait to see it!"
"Me too, Eri." The wife shared her big smile. "Izuku, are you sure you know where it is?"
"I never said I did. I said the GPS thingy does." He said waving his phone up.
"OH! There it is! I see it!" The girl, Eri cheered, hopping up and down, repeatedly grabbing Izuku's shoulder in mid-jump.
She pointed to a tiny gift shop just down the block with a small yet very colorful and welcoming sign out front.
Just the other day, her godfather Mirio Togata walked her downtown and passed a store just like it. Unfortunately they didn't have time to go inside and look around then.
Today, she wanted to take her adoptive parents' day off together and go see it as a family now that they finally had the time to spend.
"Lead the way!" Ochako cheered.
Eri giggled with glee and began to run across the road.
That's when Izuku felt something wrong and lunged forward, his powers carrying him across the road with lightning speed, catching Eri in his arms and pulling her to safety.
He looked back to witness a large semi-truck running the light it was supposed to stop at. And worse, it kept going until it crashed through the front of a nearby office building.
"Izuku..." Ochako alerted him.
"Take Eri inside. I have a feeling it wasn't the driver that caused that." He ordered, not taking his eyes off of the truck.
His suspicions were correct. The entire left side of the truck melted into liquid metal and plastic as a man dressed in a thin layer of pads and a suit jumped out carrying a briefcase in his hands.
"Suit up!" Izuku shouted.
On his command, a green material sprouted from his belt and wrapped up his body tightly. He pulled out a set of large white gloves from his back pocket and slipped them on. As he stepped forward, his shoes expanded and grew up his legs into his protective hero-boots. Custom designed for his leg-based fighting style.
From two small metal earpieces, expanded forth two halves of a mask that met at his chin and expanded, keeping his mouth visible but protected.
"Who are you supposed to be?" The man in the costume and briefcase asked from across the intersection.
"I am Deku! A hero! And it looks like that briefcase you got there didn't originally belong to you. I'm going to ask that you drop it or there will be consequences. You're lucky nobody got hurt."
"Not yet." The man sneered. "Though I have to tell you, do you know how hard it is to keep track of all these superheroes now? There's nearly thousands of you guys in Japan alone!"
As Izuku continued his confrontation of the villain, Ochako ran Eri inside the gift shop.
She pulled out her phone and a small set of headphones, then placed them in Eri's lap where she sat on the front counter.
"Okay Eri, honey. Listen to me. If things go sour, I might need to go out there and help your daddy, okay? Just stay here and listen to music until we get back. Okay, sweetie?" She asked the girl, getting down on one knee to meet eyes better with her.
"Okay, Mama." Eri nodded obediently, with a worried look on her face.
"Here. I'll even let you listen to my favorite song first." Ochako flipped to the correct song on her playlist then handed it back to Eri.
"G'bye, Mama!" Eri waved. It still worried her, seeing her parents always having to leave to save someone or stop a villain, but she was growing more confident with them together. Izuku and Ochako did make a great team when they had the chances.
The song began to play and Eri closed her eyes listening to the words.
It started off with a quick piano beat. Almost immediately, she lost all sense of reality to move along to the song. She jumped off the counter and lifted her leg up as the beat grew louder, completely drowning out the sound of Izuku being slammed into the window from the outside.
Sun is shinin' in the sky. There ain't a cloud in sight.
Eri danced around the store, between the aisles, unaware of the growing chaotic fight outside.
The owner of the store had a cat that passed by her on its way outside. It quickened its pace, noticing Eri now chasing after it with her hands out.
Still oblivious to the explosions and debris, and miraculously dodging it all to the beat of the song, Eri chased the cat around the street as Izuku and Ochako were trying everything in their power to drown the villain in the very mounds of solid materials he's melted down.
Ochako dropped a car right on top of him but it melted, and he passed through like he'd just had a large bucket of water dumped on him. He laughed and ran, until Izuku slammed his fist across his cheek.
Still, the fight carried on through Eri's song.
Now, with the scene behind her, and the cat in her arms, she skipped along happily humming along to the words of the song.
Mr. Blue, you did it right. But soon comes Mr. Night creepin' over...
SPWOOSH
Izuku ripped open a nearby fire hydrant and directed the high-pressured spray of water at the villain by twisting the entire metal spout with his strength.
The villain dropped the briefcase and threw his hands out in defense. As the water made contact with him, it turned solid, like ice, only strangely still the same temperature the water was.
Still, solid or liquid, the pressure of the water, slamming into him, was enough to knock him back and bury him in the chunks.
Ochako grabbed the briefcase from the ground just as the police arrived in three vehicles.
"Pro-heroes Deku and Uravity! Thank you." One officer acknowledged.
The couple sighed in relief. After Ochako handed the breifcase over to police custody and filed a report, they returned to the store where Eri had returned before them, sitting back on the counter with the cat in her arms and a new song just starting.
"We need a longer vacation." Ochako huffed.