TheGreatBubbaJ - A very Nedzu thing to do, ngl.
Detrametal - True. Canon promptly ignores it, forcing Midoriya to act as emergency counselor. So many broken bones, ugh.
Trixuny - Actually I kinda expect some of them to work elsewhere, like in US. If all survive the story. You really don't need three new Nedzu's and at least three semi-Nedzu's in a single country tbh.
The Archivist of Nyx - Yep. Four students of Nedzu. RIP UA. Also the chaos gremlin class is like: Izuku: "we're doing it!", Momo: "let's do it like that", Tenya: "If you explain it with this legal rule, it'll be technically legal!" The rest of the class: *enthusiastic cheering*.
PLPanda - There is no protection. No escape. Only Chaos Gremlins.
(***)
"So, Aizawa… what is it about?" All Might asks his son's homeroom teacher with just a slight worry in his voice. Because honestly, he was just invited by him to Nedzu's office and that alone is… pretty unusual.
"Did your son tell you why he went so far in his fight against Todoroki?" Eraserhead replies with a question. Nedzu is observing them from the other side of the coffee table.
All Might's worry reaches a new level.
"No, he didn't." He decides to be honest. "He is claiming that he had no better plan than this. I know he is… well, perhaps not lying, I don't think that he does that to us. At least not straight to face. He is either omitting the truth or making us deliberately misunderstand something."
This is, in general, rather worrying. Then again, Izuku is a teenager. Whose head probably operates on a slightly different frequency than everyone else. Nedzu is juggling truths and lies left and right, and it's not like he is actively malicious despite that.
Maybe save for the bits when the HPSC president is involved. Then there is a lot of malice.
"Someone… I suspect Kyoka Jirou, but I have no proof… has overhead some rather worrying things." Eraserhead says. "She talked with Yaoyorozu about it, and Yaoyorozu went directly to me. With transcripts, because Plus Ultra or something." He sighs. "They explain the strange fight between Todoroki and Midoriya, but are also… Well, to say that they are worrying is an understatement. Frankly speaking, this is a bit beyond my paygrade, really. So I'm bringing this to you."
He put two identical few pages long folders before Nedzu and All Might.
All Might took his, but he decided to gauge how bad it is before taking a look. Nedzu simply riffled through the pages, before freezing for a few long seconds. Then he went to brew tea.
A lot of tea.
Not good.
The first 'recorded' talk occurred between Todoroki Shoto and Izuku. Apparently after the Human Cavalry Battle ended.
All Might is shocked when Todoroki straightforwardly asks Izuku if he is All Might's son. The achievement of guessing it on such a basis as, pretty much, instinct is… but then the talk goes off the script he had in his head. Because Izuku admits the truth.
He knows about his son's plan to walk in his father's footsteps but without relying on Yagi's help too much. He respects Izuku for that. He suspects that this is why he befriended Tenya so fast - they both are descendants of fine heroes who decided to not participate in the recommended student exam simply to prove to the world that they can do it with their own strength.
But then he hears the part about Endeavor engaging in a QUIRK MARRIAGE to get Shoto to become a Number One Hero in his stead. And All Might realizes why Eraserhead looks so… broken.
The verbal beating that Todoroki receives from Izuku afterwards is nothing short of inspirational. All Might is actually proud of his son. Or, to be more exact, he is proud of his own image that his son has.
Izuku isn't blindly worshiping him like he used to before they actually met. He has arguments now. Values they share, things that All Might did and opinions he carries. And considering what he learned from Inko, Izuku agreed with All Might on most of said values and opinions even before they met.
He truly inherited his mother's looks and his father's personality. And he finally sees Yagi Toshinori behind All Might's face.
All Might finished reading the first talk. Then he moves to the second one. The one between… oh no. Izuku met Endeavor.
The talk leaves All Might shocked and confused. He is shocked because he just found that Izuku taunted the Number Two Hero to the face, to the point of calling out his dead eldest son. But he is confused because he, quite literally, doesn't recognize his son.
Izuku is derisive and aggressive. He heard from Compress that Izuku went vocally berserk on the heroes beating Himiko and Hitoshi, but this… this is more than All Might imagines. A lot more.
The only really Izuku part of this talk is him threatening someone to keep them from hurting someone else. But even then, All Might doesn't understand the blue flame part.
"Todoroki Touya's flames were blue." Nedzu, of course, knows where All Might is in the text. And helpfully answers. "At least on the day he died."
All Might moves over to the third transcript. This time it's Todoroki Shoto and Izuku, happening during their fight.
He takes note of an odd part of Izuku's explanation for being angry. The part that seems to indicate that someone else told Izuku earlier about Endeavor's abuse, but Izuku didn't believe in it (frankly, All Might can still barely believe it himself).
The rest is classic Izuku, really. Only now does All Might realize that his son almost crippled his left hand because that was the only way (in his twisted if beautiful mind) to save someone. Namely Shoto Todoroki. From himself.
Everyone came prepared to witness a fight. Instead they witnessed an emergency psychological counseling that just happened to coincide with a fight. Emergency counseling that, considering the fourth transcript (of a short exchange between Shoto and his father), somehow worked.
Izuku just earned his father another fan, it seems. One more person that Yagi can't fail.
"There is…" All Might says, while putting the file away. "... a lot to unpack here." Eraserhead gives him a brief 'what a brilliant understatement' face.
"To say the least, yes." Nedzu is already starting to drink the tea. How he avoided being burned by it is one of his many mysteries. And he even speaks as if nothing was happening. "Let's start with the most worrying part. Namely, Todoroki Shoto's home situation."
"Can we do anything about that, really?" All Might asks bitterly. Nedzu sighs.
"Not without proof. And a transcript of a talk that wasn't caught on any recording device barely counts as ammunition against the Number Two Hero." Nedzu honestly replies. "Worst of all, I can see the HPSC' dirty little fingers in this. I wouldn't be surprised if they did their best to inflame Endeavor's ridiculous obsession in order to have him or his son overtake you as the Number One Hero. We all know that would be a powerful blow to my position."
"What about Shoto and his siblings?" Eraserhead asks, but frankly speaking, he knows the answer.
"We can't be sure that they will be willing to testify." Nedzu replies. "Shoto had All Might next to him, the only hero stronger and more influential than his father. While in the school that's pretty much my fortress, and he must know that I'm the HPSC personal enemy. With an ability to match it in power. Yet he told no one." He sighs. "Well, no one save for Izuku. And it's not like Izuku told anyone about this, didn't he?"
Probably to not aggravate Shoto's home situation. Yagi knows that his son is smart enough to arrive at the same conclusion as Nedzu just did.
"So what can we do?" Aizawa asks. Nedzu thinks about it for a few seconds.
"Frankly speaking, I don't think that we can do a lot in these circumstances." Nedzu eventually replies. "Save for making Todoroki visit Hound Dog regularly to help him deal better with the situation… and for us looking for some tangible evidence of the abuse. I'll rewrite the transcript to cut out the parts indicating that Izuku Midoriya is All Might's son and I'll explain the… political ramifications of the issue to our guidance counselor. Calling the police right off the bat or trying to bite Endeavor's throat out would be a bit too rash."
All Might nods. This is a mistake, something that he learns much later. If not for Nedzu's edits, Hound Dog might have read the part where Izuku states that a true hero smiles even in grim times. This would have made him notice the warning signs earlier, and spare people a lot of pain.
Miscommunication kills. Or at least makes people suffer.
"The second worrying bit is about Izuku Midoriya." Nedzu says, while Eraserhead nods faintly. "Yagi, do you have any idea where he might have learned earlier about Endeavor's misconduct?"
"Well…" All Might is, frankly, a bit lost himself. "He and his mother mentioned that when he was bullied in school, he mostly evacuated to the internet. He was quite active on various forums for discrimination victims, I think he is even an administrator of one. He might have run into someone who knew about Endeavor's family there."
"Bullied?" Eraserhead's eyes are suddenly on All Might. Who realizes that Aizawa might not have been in on that one thing. "Discrimination victims?"
"Err…" All Might kinda shrinks in his seat. It's not easy when you are already deflated like he is, but… "He was a late bloomer. He awoke my quirk only a month before the Entrance Exam. So he had a bit of a rough time at school."
"And you didn't do anything about that?!" Eraserhead is increasingly angry and Yagi realizes that he also didn't know about the part where Yagi became a part of Izuku's life a bit late.
Well, shit. Time for some emergency explanations.
(***)
Emergency Group Chat for World Domination
GravityGirl: Izuku!
SmallMight: Ehhh?
GravityGirl: Me and Momo have a question for you.
CreativeSpirit: Yes.
SmallMight: Okay?
GravityGirl: You're awesome when it comes to quirk analysis, yes?
SmallMight: Err, not exactly awesome, I'm just… kinda competent?
CreativeSpirit: Ugh.
CreativeSpirit: Not digging into your criminal underselling of your abilities right now.
GravityGirl: Yes.
GravityGirl: Tell us how to get stronger!
SmallMight: Err?
CreativeSpirit: Me and GravityGirl had that idea that if you are so good in using weaknesses of enemy quirks against them (vide Kurogiri), then you might also have some good ideas about how to make our quirks stronger.
GravityGirl: And after losing fights in the school festival we are super hyped to get stronger!
SmallMight: Please no, one Inasa is bad enough.
GravityGirl: XD
SmallMight: Uhm, so I think I have an idea or two, but I'm like, not sure how practical they are?
GravityGirl: TELL US
CreativeSpirit: Enlighten us.
SmallMight: Ok, so… Yaomomo, can we meet in school tomorrow? I know that classes are off (for two more days), but this is something that we have to do (and talk about) in person.
CreativeSpirit: Not a problem for me.
SmallMight: Great, and Uraraka…
SmallMight: Who are you planning to intern with?
GravityGirl: Still thinking about it, most likely some rescue hero!
SmallMight: Can I suggest an alternative?
GravityGirl: I literally wrote to you asking about your ideas to get better, so… yeah?
GravityGirl: Go for it!
SmallMight: That would be the Battle Hero: Gunhead.
GravityGirl: Eh? Why?
SmallMight: Because majority of rescue hero casualties come from them arriving to places that were attacked by the villains only to discover that some of them are still around. And the majority of them know very little about actual combat.
SmallMight: Gunhead is an expert martial artist (whose martial art is focused on non-lethal takedowns through holds and throws) who is also famous for also being an expert teacher when it comes to that.
SmallMight: Considering your quirk, he can make you much stronger in a fight during the two weeks of the internships.
GravityGirl: My quirk?
SmallMight: Uraraka. Throws. Those are based on relative weight at least partially, and you can literally make your opponent weightless.
SmallMight: You could - theoretically - perform an overhead throw on All Might and then slam him face-first into the pavement (theoretically, he is too fast and strong to let you approach him, but if you somehow surprised him…).
GravityGirl: Oh
GravityGirl: OH
GravityGirl: Now that I think about it, I had him on the list of heroes who offered me to intern with them!
SmallMight: He probably had the same idea.
GravityGirl: I'm going to him then! Thank you, Izuku!
SmallMight: No problem! You should also consider watching Tenko's training and perhaps get some insight about combat use of five finger point quirks that way!
CreativeSpirit: If your idea for her improvement was this good, I'm looking forward to seeing what you have for me.
SmallMight: You'll love it.
(***)
Momo shows up in the school, only for Izuku to pop up and promptly hurry her towards the part of the school belonging to the Support Course.
They ignore the clearly exasperated Power Loader (who is also eyeing Izuku suspiciously, it's as if he knew that something bad was going to happen but had no proof so he couldn't intervene to stop it) and head towards the part of the compound from which she can hear loud machine sounds and…
...was that a small explosion?
"Mei!" Izuku shouts while walking through the entrance confidently.
"Izuku!" Yaoyorozu realizes who they are about to meet. Mei Hatsume has a… reputation, especially after the School Festival. She walks into her personal lab right in time to see the girl in question (wearing a plain black tank top and workshop overalls) leap towards Izuku and hug him. "My muse! My inspiration! My partner in crime! What brings you here? Are we going to make a baby?"
Momo almost chokes on air. MAKE A BABY?! What sort of den of iniquity did Izuku lead her to?!
"Mei, context!" Izuku shouts before turning towards Momo. "She calls her inventions 'babies', Yaomomo!" Momo is visibly relieved. Mei looks like she didn't listen to the exchange or didn't care about it. "Mei, I came to introduce your new best friend to you."
"Oh?" Mei turns her head to measure Momo. "Why is she going to be my best friend?"
"Did you see her quirk during the festival?" Izuku asks and Mei thinks about it for a few seconds.
"Some sort of item summoning, yes?" Mei looks curious, but in an oddly restrained manner. At least, restrained for her.
"Nope." Izuku grins. "Momo Yaoyorozu can create everything that she understands the structure of, from the molecular level up, for as long as she has enough fat to power up the process. This means that she is…"
"... a living material printer." Momo doesn't like the almost hungry glare that Mei is giving her. "And as a result, she should be able…"
"... to create things too precise for normal tools to achieve, for as long as she knows and understands the blueprint." Izuku says and Momo is increasingly worried by the duo in front of him practically speaking as a single entity. "She wants to get stronger as a hero, so I decided that if she learns from you, she should be able to create things more complicated than shields and polearms or cannons, and instead…"
"...missile launchers…" Mei. "...better cannons…" Izuku. "...flamethrowers…" Mei. "...gas weaponry…" Izuku. "...power generators…" Mei. "... stun batons… "Izuku. "...refined uranium…" Mei.
The list goes on.
Momo Yaoyorozu is terrified. But also intrigued.
(***)
UA Staff Chatroom
PowerLoader: We are all going to die and it's Eraserhead's fault.
Eraserhead: What?
Eraserhead: Wait.
Eraserhead: What did Midoriya do this time?
AllMight: Why do you automatically assume that it's his fault?!
Eraserhead: Because whatever it is, he is certainly involved in it.
PowerLoader: Well, Eraserhead is correct.
AllMight: … What did he do?
PowerLoader: He introduced Mei Hatsume, the mad scientist and engineer to end all mad scientists and engineers (imagine David Shield but completely unhinged and ignoring OSHA as a rule, with a lab that explodes like twice a week) to Momo Yaoyorozu, the living material printer that can create pretty much everything for as long as she understands the blueprint properly.
Eraserhead: Oh shit.
AllMight: Surely it can't be that bad?
Midnight: Yep, I mean, what can they do? They are just students, right?
Midnight: And Momo is a refined lady from the elite, she is not going to do anything really weird, right?
PowerLoader: They are working together for four hours and I already had to add synthesizing refined uranium to the list of things that are forbidden to UA students. Because Hatsume wanted to create a miniaturized nuclear reactor. I was too afraid to ask what it was supposed to power.
Principal: ...
PowerLoader: And when I came upon them and asked what they were doing, I got the answer 'we're making a cute baby'. From Yaoyorozu and Hatsume. In unison. While Izuku Midoriya was chuckling maniacally in the background.
Midnight: Oh no.
Eraserhead: We're all going to die.
PowerLoader: Principal TRIPLE MY HAZARD PAY DAMMIT OR I'M LEAVING THE FACULTY RIGHT NOW!
Eraserhead: objectively speaking everyone who is teaching Midoriya and his class should receive a hazard pay
Eraserhead: I demand mine to be doubled due to being their homeroom teacher
(***)
Izuku Midoriya's Official Support/Fanclub
GravityGirl: And Momo should be back with whatever result of Izuku's idea was soon!
GravityGirl: Or, like, six hours ago? I'm actually kinda worried?
Mindhack: Izuku's idea was probably just so good.
CreativeSpirit: YES.
LeadSinger: Momo?
CreativeSpirit: I HAVE SEEN THE TRUTH OF THE UNIVERSE!
CreativeSpirit: I have been enlightened.
CreativeSpirit: And I have made a baby.
LeadSinger: What?!
CreativeSpirit: In the meantime… invite.
User MadScientist joins the chat!
Mindhack: Oh no.
LeadSinger: Oh shit
GravityGirl: (O-O )
MadScientist: MOMO!
CreativeSpirit: MEI!
MadScientist: Is this the place where we show our deepest respect to Izuku Midoriya, my muse and inspiration?
CreativeSpirit: Yes!
MadScientist: YES!
GravityGirl: wait, muse and inspiration?
GravityGirl: How did the two of you know each other before the UA? I know you did from what I saw during the Human Cavalry Battle, but...
MadScientist: oh we have a mutual friend on the I-Island that got us to meet, we've been throwing ideas back and forth together for a few months now
MadScientist: Izuku has such a beautiful mind
MadScientist: We're making so many babies
Froggy: Uhm?
CreativeSpirit: Mei, CONTEXT!
(***)
SmallMight: Well, your apologies to Inasa seem to be well-received. This is progress.
Thermostat: Yes.
Thermostat: What now?
SmallMight: Right now we have to figure out how to make you meaningfully interact with other people. Because I don't think you have a lot of things to talk with people about aside from training and school, yes?
SmallMight: Is there anything else that you can imagine having a talk with someone about?
Thermostat: Well, I can theorize about heroes.
SmallMight: Theorize? Can you show me an example?
(***)
SmallMight: KAMINARI!
ZapZap: What is it dude
SmallMight: I have a business proposal for you.
ZapZap: ?
SmallMight: I need to make a youtube channel, and I come to believe that you might be the best choice for that.
ZapZap: Huh?
ZapZap: I mean, my brother has one and it's kinda popular, so I know the theory and I kinda wanted to become a youtuber at some point (heroics better, though mixing the two is always an idea)
ZapZap: but what sort of channel and what brought this?
SmallMight: Discovery that the Heroics Course has two absolutely, absolutely incredible conspiracy theorists and we absolutely need the world to see them ramble about the heroes and villains.
SmallMight: Amaya Uyemuri of class 1-B apparently tried to persuade Monoma and the rest of his classmates that All Might is just Endeavor and Thunderbolt wearing a metaphorical trench coat because they couldn't agree on who was going to be the Number One Hero so they decided to become one together.
SmallMight: he even brought detailed calculations of their weight and speed on the basis of their quirks to justify it. It's like a blackboard of numbers and charts. They all add up.
ZapZap: LOL
SmallMight: And Todoroki Shoto… no, I'm just going to show you the screenshots because even trying to sum it up in my mind makes me laugh my ass of the seat
ZapZap: Shoto?!
ZapZap: OH MY GOD
ZapZap: WHAT IS THIS
ZapZap: THE WORLD MUST KNOW
SmallMight: I KNOW, RIGHT?!
SmallMight: I'm trying to rehabilitate Shoto back into society and I think that this might be the key to give him something to socialize about.
ZapZap: I'M IN, DUDE
ZapZap: THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE GOLDMINE
ZapZap: You bought me like a pack of jellos.
ZapZap: I'm getting technical preparations done rn with my brother's help, you get them to agree to all of that!
SmallMight: Get Jirou to work on the soundtrack xD
ZapZap: YES!
(***)
SmallMight: Don't do it.
TurboMan: ?
SmallMight: Don't intern in Hosu.
TurboMan: Why? Manual is a perfectly logical choice for an internship.
SmallMight: Don't insult my intelligence, Tenya.
SmallMight: You got second place in the school festival. Ingenium is your older brother.
SmallMight: You got thousands of offers, most of them from heroes on a much higher place in the ranking or more oriented towards your quirk.
SmallMight: You're planning to go on a solo revenge crusade against the Hero Killer, aren't you?
TurboMan: No, I'm not. That would be illegal and most likely suicidal considering my level of skills. Truly, it's only logical to leave him to the pros.
SmallMight: Then pick another offer for internships.
SmallMight: Another offer not from Hosu.
TurboMan: I want to go with Manual.
SmallMight: Really forcing my hand, aren't you?
SmallMight: Hero Killer didn't attack your brother.
TurboMan: What?
SmallMight: I can't tell you anything, but you know about my connections with All Might and Nedzu.
SmallMight: Someone is trying to frame the Hero Killer into an attempted murder of an outstanding hero to make his messages against hero corruption lose their edge. Let me guess, your brother didn't see the attacker? But it 'fit the pattern' and the weapon used was similar?
TurboMan: This… might be the case.
TurboMan: But the authorities stated that it was the Hero Killer that maimed my brother. And I trust them.
TurboMan: I'm going to Hosu.
SmallMight: Very well. Then I'm going to use the final argument.
SmallMight: Tenya. If I promise to fix your brother's spine, will you drop Hosu?
TurboMan: What?
TurboMan: His spine is damaged beyond recovery.
SmallMight: My sister has a powerful recovery quirk. Probably the most powerful in the world (which is why she is kept hidden from the people, and why she was kidnapped in the first place).
SmallMight: She can heal your brother. And I'll smuggle her into your brother's hospital to heal him - if you go to the internship of my choosing and stay there obediently until the end. Rather than going to Hosu.
SmallMight: Call it an instinct or a hunch, but Hosu stinks. I don't want any of my classmates to be anywhere close to it.
TurboMan: If you are lying, I'm going to change your life into a nightmare.
SmallMight: Spooky, Tenya. But I'm not lying.
TurboMan: Hypothetically, what would be your choice of an internship?
(***)
This is the biggest chatrooms-to-text ratio per the entire story, for the record.
Also I regret absolutely nothing. This is a small step for the world, but a large leap for Momo Yaoyorozu's descent into chaos gremliness.