Midoriya rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as he walked to the front door, in his school outfit but lacking his blazer. He had awoken earlier than he normally would and his mom was still preparing breakfast so she sent him to go get the newspaper they had delivered.
The boy leaned over and gave the headline a quick once-over:
U.A.'s Newest Faculty Member: The #1 Hero All Might.
Midoriya scowled at it, remembering the chaos it had caused the day before. The newspaper had the usual 'More on page 3'. There was only one other story advertised on the front in a small column:
New Organization: 'The Abbey of The Everyman', Religious or Atheist?
The greenette rolled his eyes as he took it to his mother. The boy himself being agnostic, he had learned long ago to avoid any religious talk like the plague lest he end up with a headache when someone zealous from any one of the many sides. The boy stopped in his tracks as he realized something, looking down at his mark. 'Not really still agnostic anymore, are you? Mark's proof there's at least someone out there.'
Midoriya shook his head as he put the paper on the table for his mom to read when they finished breakfast and he went off to school. The boy put 'The Abbey' out his mind as he went to look for his blazer. After all, not like they were really important to him.
He was getting stared at a lot, he could tell as he finished up some new notes on Kamui Woods he had found out through the news on his way to school. People weren't as stealthy about it as they thought they were.
If he were a sassier boy, he might have told Hagakure that staring is supposed to be easier when you are invisible. Of course they weren't like the stares he used to get growing up. He hated those stares. The stares he used to get reminded him everyone thought of him as 'A freak, not worth their time.'
These stares were nice, if a little embarrassing. Well except Bakugou's but that was a given. These stares were from people who liked him for one, and they were stares of awe as well as perhaps a tinge of jealousy for some. Since they found out he had multiple powers and had the capability to manifest more, they had been staring. (Or in Bakugou's case glared with enough fury to rival his own explosions.)
The announcement that sounded over the schools speakers had NOT helped. The cheery voice of the principal sounded throughout the room.
"Will Mister Izuku Midoriya from the hero course, class 1-A and Miss Mei Hatsume from Support, class 1-H please report to my office at lunch? Apologies for any interruptions everyone. Have an amazing day!"
Once the announcement finished all subtly about the staring had flew out the window at one hundred miles per hour into the path of a runaway freight train.
"Do you have a girlfriends we don't know about Midoriya?!" Kaminari asked, a teasing grin on his face. He felt his flush red and before he could get a chance to defend himself Mineta then shouted out.
"You must of done something to be called, and with a girl? DID YOU GET LAID?! WHY DIDN'T—"
A loud THWACK sound reverberated through the air as a book collided with the short boy's head, quieting him down while Midoriya blushed deepened massively. Tracing the path quickly lead everyone to the conclusion that Uraraka had thrown the book.
"Uraraka." Aizawa started annoyed, pinching the bridge of his nose. "While I don't disagree with quieting Mineta in this scenario, please refrain from using methods like that from now on or I will have to give you detention. "
"Sorry sir. I feel bad about it." Uraraka said. It wasn't hard to mean she didn't really mean that apology. Aizawa didn't call her out.
"Anyways, I would appreciate it if you all staring at Midoriya so much." Aizawa told them, causing the greenette to let out a sigh of relief. He hadn't let the boy dissuade the notions about this 'Hatsume' being his 'girlfriend' but he had stopped the staring. It was nice that his homeroom teacher was on his side. "If you all find him to be good eye-candy that's fine but don't interrupt my class with your attractions."
Almost the entire class joined Midoriya in blushing massively as the boy decided that their homeroom teacher liked to mess with him with really good timing.
Midoriya sighed as he walked up to the massive wood doors with fancy accents. He had almost been late, having to reassure Iida and Uraraka that he really didn't have a girlfriend. He still wasn't entirely sure they believed him but they had let him run off for his visit to the headmaster.
As he walked in he found a small group of people inside. The principal, as well as Ectoplasm were there. Along with them was a teacher he recognized as the pro hero Power Loader and a female student with pink hair and gold eyes he had never seen before wearing a black tank top and a jacket tied around her waist. She had oil smudges over her and a manic grin. 'That must be the Hatsume girl.'
"Midoriya, you're here." Ectoplasm said, noticing him. Everyone else looked at him at that. The girl's eyes seemed to widen in excitement. The principal smiled and waved his paws slightly.
"Ah, young mister Midoriya, Good. Now that you're here we can get on with business." The principal started with a twinkle in his deep black eyes. 'Oh, that's what the Outsiders eyes remind me of, animals.' "Before we get to the main point of this meeting, I want to tell you that from now on, Ectoplasm will be your main trainer in regards to your powers. He is the quirk counsellor here at UA for those with more troublesome abilities. Of course you may have already realized this from him being present during your training with…Dark vision was it?"
"Yes sir." The boy confirmed with a nod. The principal got out his chair and walked around to the front of his desk.
"Hmm, certainly an interesting name. Dark Vision." The principal stopped as if seeing how the name felt in his mouth before nodding and continuing. "Anyways from now on, if you have any reason to suspect you may have developed a new power, even if it's only a slight suspicion you'll be expected to notify the nearest teacher, or get a student to bring a teacher to you if for some reason you are immobilized by it in some way. Explain to them the details of what happened so they can take any necessary precautions and they'll escort you to Ectoplasm or in cases of inability to move, him to you. Once you are with him, well I'll let the man himself explain."
The teacher in question walked up to him, his grin unnerving the boy a little. He knew the man couldn't help it but the greenette still shivered. 'Please tell me all the 'being immobilized' talk is over.'
"Once you're with me, we'll figure out the details of the power and start an immediate training session to get you used to the power and try to eliminate and danger of misuse." The strict phantom like voice of the pro really unnerved Midoriya as he nodded to show he understood. "After all most students have almost a decade to learn to control their powers, you've only had a few months at absolute best for Far Reach and mere days for Dark Vision. Starting next week as well, I'd like to hold an hour long training session after school on Wednesdays and Tuesdays. Normally I'd bring you to the counselling sessions on Wednesdays but you're a special case and I don't believe those session would be useful for your situation. When a location is decided on I'll inform Aizawa. Anyways I shall be leaving now, I'll see you Tuesday. That is, assuming you don't develop a new power soon."
As the teacher left he noticed the girl seemed to be fidgeting wildly, almost bouncing up and down in excitement. It reminded him of when he was kid and All Might would appear on the television.
"Power Loader, would you please introduce our students as well as yourself to mister Midoriya?" The principal asked the other pro who walked toward the greenette at the mouse-bear-dog things prompting.
"Nice to meet you." The hero said, shaking the boy's hand. "As Nezu says I'm Power Loader, I teach students in the support course and this is-"
"HI! I'm Mei Hatsume, though you probably know that. Oh nice muscles, these would be perfect in one of the inventions I have an idea for." Power Loader had been cut off by the girl who had rushed forward and started feeling up the greenette, causing him to blush as deep as he did earlier in the day. Power Loader pulled the girl off him and scratched the back of his head.
"Sorry about her, she's genius but has next to no concept about how to be polite. At least she's straight-forward." Power Loader explained, grumbling. "Hatsume, go get the things you made from outside."
"Power Loader, if you don't mind I'd prefer you go with her and wait when she brings it in." Nezu asked of the pro with a pointed look, seeming to indicate that was an order, just given politely. The hero complied as Nezu turned to address the boy once more.
"The real reason for this visit is due to some items Miss Hatsume has created recently. You may be wondering what that has to do with you. She has said some things about a 'black-eyed man' who's been inspiring her in her dreams, giving her ideas and solutions to problems in her design." The principal explained causing Midoriya's eyes to widen in shock. "All Might explained to me the origin of your mark. We agreed it was best not to tell any other teachers. So as of now, only us, All Might and Recovery Girl know about the figure I believe he referred to as 'The Outsider', so I'm sure you can appreciate that we had to look into it."
The boy nodded, his mouth dry. He placed he hand to chin in thought. "Why would the Outsider visit her though? I mean she's certainly interesting by our standards but I was pretty unremarkable when he came to me so he clearly has a different though process over what he considers interesting."
"Well as it turns out, she has been working on two projects that were addressed to a 'Deku.', it didn't take much investigating to find out that it's a nickname two students use for you." The principal clapped his paws and nodded behind him, prompting the greenette to run around to see Hatsume and Power Loader walking in with two closed boxes. "As for what the items are, well I'll let her explain shall I?"
Midoriya tentatively walked towards the two, thankful the box in the girls hand was stopping her from feeling him up again. She spoke up, eyes full of energy and her manic grin still not leaving her. "Open the one in my hands first!"
"O-ok." The boy said, complying. He found himself almost frozen in shock once he opened it and gently took out its contents. It was a mask, made of metal and it was designed to look almost exactly like his costumes mask, except the ear on the left side was chipped off. He could tell not only because of the design but on the right side of the mask had the green cloth of his mask covering the metal underneath. "Wait is this…?!"
"We visited the place you lot did combat training to see the aftermath and get some ideas about how we could deal with collateral damage. I found this cloth lodged in some rubble. I only brought with me at the time as some scrap but then I started having dreams. This mask is one of the two final products of said dreams." Hatsume explained while he inspected the mask, turning it around he found a silk like red cloth on the inside, with two holes cut to allow the wearer to see out the eyes. He noticed some small wires traveling from one of the eyes up to the roof of the mask and down to where the ears would be. "This mask has some really awesome lenses in the left eye. The only thing I know can see farther are my own eyes with my quirk, and not by much! And unlike my quirk, there are certain mechanisms in there that will amplify sound! It's one of my best works, though relatively simple and seeing as its based off your mask, not to mention the inspiration of course I'm giving it you.~"
"This is…." Midoriya was speechless as he held the mask in his hand. Wat he could he say to this? A girl he didn't even know had given a gift, upgrading his mask. "I'm really grateful, thank you very much! But why would you do this for me?"
"Because I want you wear, see how good it is and let everyone know who made it so more people want my products, getting me noticed by support companies easier." Hatsume said without an ounce of shame in her voice. The boy blinked, dumbfounded at the bluntness while Power Loader groaned.
"I told you she's straight-forward. You'll want to open this now, but be careful, if you rush you might cut off a few fingers." Power Loader told him, prompting Midoriya to come over. He nodded to show he understood and carefully opened the box.
"I told you it's impossible for it to do anything lethal!" Hatsume exclaimed at her teacher, rolling her eyes.
"You can't know that! I don't care what crazy thing your dreams tell you, it needs to go through safety checks before you can claim that." Power Loader told her as Midoriya pulled out a metal block that had been rounded out slightly like a sword hilt. A button was hidden near the top of the handle and at the bottom there seemed to be some kind of bone attached to it that almost seemed as though it was emitting a small song from the small sounds he could hear from it.
"Before you write it off as just a block, press the button." Hatsume told him and he complied, a clicking sound was heard and suddenly the sides seemed to spring out but because of his grip they didn't get far. Moving his hand he watched as both the sides fell down and seemed to clamp together slightly when they met again. The boy adjusted his grip onto the newly formed longer handle and as his grip got tighter something start to come out the top.
"Point it away from you, slightly down for ease and then squeeze hard. Then press the button again." Power Loader told him. Midoriya complied and almost jumped back in shock when a blade slid out from his grip. The bones had disappeared inside it. He pressed the button and once again a click was heard, which the boy realized must have been a lock inside the handle. "Why don't you explain to him how you intend for it to work, Hatsume?"
"How it DOES work." Hatsume pointedly started, convinced of her design being perfectly like she intended. "Is using a lock and some good old human applied pressure, the metal block will unfold into a sword. I've made some modifications to it so it will be incapable of piercing skin at all, however it can still be used as a an effective weapon. It will still be like the person you use it on was sliced by the sword but there will be no truly lethal or debilitating damage. Strike someone in a way that would be lethal with a regular blade will merely render your target unconscious. However just because its incapable of actually slicing through sentient beings DOESN'T mean it isn't still a sharp sword. If whatever you hit it with isn't living the blade will be like any good sword. Once you're done using it you simply press the button and the blade will slide right back in. There's a magnet that will lock it in place so you can turn the hilt upside down and it'll transform back into just a metal block."
The boy followed her instructions to fold it back and it was as easy as she made it sound. "Holy, that's super cool!"
Power Loader spoke up then, coming to take the handle from the boy.
"Hatsume is certain her blade will work like that but she hasn't explained to me at all how she did it. She's bright but she's also one of the most reckless students around. I trust that her idea is something she can produce but I need to put this blade through a lot of tests first before it can be allowed to be used by anyone." The pro explained, placing the folding blade inside the box and picking it up and leaving, Hatsume trailing behind him. She didn't bother to take the mask. Nezu then spoke up from behind Midoriya.
"I obviously cannot allow you to brandish a blade if it proves to be dangerous, mister Midoriya. However the mask you're free to take to your next hero class if you wish. I'll inform your teachers about the circumstances of it. As for the blade, if it truly turns out to be as miss Hatsume claims then it will be your choice if you wish to start using it. However if it turns out to be dangerous, it will be kept in storage until your third year, when you can take the exams to be granted a license wield dangerous weapons as a pro."
"Um… wouldn't a blade still be considered a dangerous weapon, regardless sir?" The boy asked, confused.
"Seeing that, if it works as intended, it cannot directly harm anyone to the levels considered dangerous, no. Were you to bring it into a public after gaining your provisional license, you might be stopped occasionally by some pros and police but so long as you can prove to them it's incapable of doing real damage they will leave you alone." The principal explained with a smile. "Of course, I still recommend taking those weapon exams when the time comes, as it will make life easier and if the mechanisms do fail in future you can still legally wield it. Now go get lunch, I have taken up enough of your time with these matters. Before you go though, I can't deny I'm curious. Do you think you'll wear the mask?"
Midoriya took a moment to consider the question. He knew he wouldn't be able to use his costume due to what happened to it when he fought Bakugou however, if the mask had the capabilities Hatsume claimed it did then it couldn't hurt to get used to it. "Yes sir, I think I will."
