Fictional Items Shown up to this Chapter:
Costumes: Izuku designs hers and Dabi's costumes using fictional material; much more protective and durable than real life-makes
Potions: Reference to Video Games that use it as Medicine, used as medication in many purposes Izuku sees fit
Fantasy Food: Based on Video Games, Manga and Toriko, contains complete nutritional value a human needs for a day. Izuku had to get genuine grocery food, taste them all in all ways possible and study their nutritional benefits, qualities and traits before she created these
Glowing Orange Feather: Reference to Phoenix Downs in Final Fantasy
Teleport Badge: Based on PS1 Thousand Arms' Teleportum Item
Fireproof Sheet: Used to shield herself from Dabi's flames when Heroes and Police try to get Izuku home
Transmitter Badge: Based on Detective Conan's Detective Boys' Badges used for communication
Glass Balls: Reference to FFVII's Materia
Body Armor: Armor worn by Frieza's army in DBZ
Retractable Daggers: Assassin's Creed Weapons
Winged Ball Walkie Talkie: D, Grayman's Timcampy
Neck Choker: Inspired from Cutie Honey
Color-changing Cuff-Bracelet: Contains Hammerspace
Crystal Floating Laptop: Functions as Lost Person Search Engine
Trap-Dates and Night-Scares
It was still summer.
Izuku was shopping in Kiyashi Ward Shopping Mall.
'Dabi's off to hang out with the League and I can pretty much do what I wanna do.' she mused as she looked around. 'Big payday not long ago too...'
So like a typical teenager, she hung out by herself, and dressed in a cute, knee-high empire-waist pale pink dress that has white bubble sleeves and doll shoes. She even wore a wide white headband on her head and a fancy choker around her neck, and a fancy cuff bracelet.
What a wholesome image for a villain no?
Nobody'd THINK she was one, and still skillfully avoiding even security guards by blending in with the crowd.
However, someone did recognize her while she was playing in GameZone, playing a shooter game.
"That girl...wasn't she in the photo sensei showed us?" Kaminari Denki mused to himself. She was more feminine-looking than her picture back in sensei's class! "She's much cuter in person!" he decided as he approached her while wanting extra credit for school by sending Aizawa a text message plus photo evidence. As a result, Aizawa had him lead this...date and his class observing the pair until the teachers can capture her and bring her home. 'Hey there miss!' he approached her. 'How about you and I go out on a date?'
'A date...? Are you actually free now though, Kaminari-san?' Izuku wondered aloud. 'I heard UA puts you into a juicer till you're pulp just so you'd be a good Hero.' Kaminari sweatdropped before laughing nervously.
'Ahaha, that's why I'm enjoying off-time while I could.' he said weakly. 'And girls in class, I can't go out with.'
Izuku looked amused.
'Well, must be busy becoming a Hero I guess.' said Izuku thoughtfully. 'Are you working hard too?'
'Yeah, though I end up frying myself too! Ahahaha...'
'Oh my...so, you're taking me out around the mall? I've never been on a date before...' said Izuku nervously, but shyly.
She has no friends, how do you expect her to have a boyfriend? Her life was not normal.
Having a cute boy ask her out was new to her. But she also wondered if he would accept her existence being a former Quirkless. She was judged all her life based on whether or not she has one.
For now she would try out this date thing and enjoy what she could.
She made it clear to Kaminari she has no idea what dates are like.
'WHAT?! B-but you're so cute!' he squawked out, wide-eyed, making her blush shyly at the flattering.
'...I was plain-faced years ago until puberty happened...and I was very lacking no guy wanted anything to do with me.' said Izuku sadly. 'You're the first boy who asked me out and said I was cute.' Kaminari felt rather angry on her behalf. She seems so sweet!
'Their loss then!' he scowled grumpily. 'Even Ugly Ducklings turn to Beautiful Swans and they find real friends in the end just like in the fairy tale, right? I'm sure you have friends now.'
Izuku wore a sad smile.
'Well, only one...he was at least ten years older than me and is my brother figure. He taught me things I should have known and realized. We're living together now since I help him in his work and his injury. His Quirk is strong but as he uses it, he's actually cooking his body the more he uses it so he's got so many burn scars.' Kaminari balked in horror at that. His Quirk kills the dude! 'So I'm helping him heal since years' worth of pain broke him. He's getting better now but he's still into black and violent jokes...in a world like this, jokes like that do become reality...'
'Eep...with a career like mine I can see that happening.' Kaminari gulped. 'So what school are you in? I'd like to visit sometime.'
'I'm not going to school anymore.' said Izuku. 'Nine years is compulsory education. That's all I can afford so I started working with my brother. I can only have fun once a week now and the rest of our days working for rent and groceries. High School is optional anyway and only needed because one wants to go to University or in your case, be a Hero. So what will you do as a Hero, Kaminari-kun?'
'Well, controlling my Quirk aside so I don't fry my brain every darn use, putting down bad guys so we can have carefree lives is ideal for me.' Kaminari grinned. 'Walking out downtown without looking over your shoulder, no goon mugging you and, well...no disappearances either...' he said with a gloom.
'Disappearances?'
'...my cousin vanished one day...she was a real hottie.' Kaminari choked out. 'The police and Heroes never saw her again. My aunt and uncle ain't the same since.' Izuku studied his body language. His goals were simple, but meaningful. A contrast to this playboy she got to know.
'I'm sorry to hear that...' Izuku materialized a crystallized computer with a jack wire. 'Can you focus on this cousin for me?'
'E-eh? Sure...?' Kaminari focused on his cousin, and Izuku made him hold the jack wire. Information uploaded into her screen, showing his cousin who was indeed, very attractive. Her picture shrunk and a map appeared onscreen...and a red blink appeared in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kamino Ward. 'Misato-nee is there? Can you go Satellite Mode?' Kaminari asked hopefully. Izuku typed on her floating computer to make it so, and she zoomed onto a location, to a certain factory.
But upon going through its factory facade...
...what Kaminari saw horrified him.
Tanks of Nomus.
'M-my god...s-she turned into THAT?!' he howled in freakout, hands clutching the sides of his head tightly. 'She was turned into that?! A-ahh-ahhhhh...' he stammered in horror on the verge of screaming while edging away from the computer.
'K-Kaminari-kun, calm down!'
'Calm down! My cousin became a-'
She knocked him out and held him up, his face on her ample bosom.
xxx
To Class 1-A...
They were watching the 'date' under orders.
'Shoji-kun, can you tell us what they're talking about?' Mina asked Shoji.
'OK, If I raise my left fist, its the girl talking, OK?' So Shoji relayed their conversation.
'That's so sad...' Jirou frowned as Shoji repeated their conversation. 'Looks aren't everything.' poor girl was alone because 'she was lacking'?
'Yeah...I can agree she was plain-faced when the police showed me her missing person's photo when she was gone a year and a half ago but puberty gave her justice eventually!' said Iida, making robotic chopping motions with his arm in vexation because that was NOT the truth. Izuku, he knew, suffered a lot being a former Quirkless her social life was lonely and crap which drove her to villainy out of despair. He felt utter sorrow for her he hoped they can get through to her. 'Looks aren't everything indeed! So what if you're pretty but a rotten personality? Not worth it!'
'Yes, roses have thorns...but our target seems to be a wildflower herself.' said Tokoyami. 'An unappreciated wildflower.' he shook his head.
'She has a brother figure huh? Sucks to be him though.' said Mineta. 'Each use cooks him alive? Shit, man, real shit...Todoroki's lucky!' he shivered at he notion.
'That's because he's half-cold or he'd be cooked too.' Kirishima cringed as they imagined their classmate suffering the same fate.
But when the conversation took a dark turn that Kaminari started freaking out in horror because of her computer...
"What the hell happened to his cousin?!" they all thought worriedly as to prevent Kaminari from freaking in the mall, their target reluctantly knocked him out.
As one, they worriedly dashed off for the blonde, while Mineta was inwardly moaning on how jealous he was of Kaminari right now...he's on a girl's arms, his face on her boobs!
xxx
Izuku found herself surrounded by a worried Class-A but ready to teleport herself if need be.
'What happened to Kaminari-kun?!' Yaoyorozu asked, playing dumb. 'We're supposed to meet after an hour and he never showed up so we found him...like that.'
'Well, he asked me out on a date.' said Izuku softly. 'But when we talked about why he wanted to be a Hero...I decided to help him find his cousin with my Quirk if only to have an answer to her fate after her disappearance...but...what in the world is this?' she asked, showing them the ghastly image on her computer that horrified Class-A. 'My Quirk never fails in looking for people...but this isn't human.' she said as she was disturbed by her screen's findings.
'...Nomu...its a monster that attacked us back in USJ...so Nomu are once human? Shit...' Kirishima choked out. 'Kaminari's cousin became that thing?' he felt sorry for his easygoing classmate now, no one deserved THAT!
'Its a monster the League of Villains have and control.' said Iida, hoping to appeal to Izuku that joining them is a bad idea in a subtle way. 'They nearly killed Aizawa-sensei a month ago. That was kept from the media of course...please keep this quiet.'
'A-alright...' Izuku took the jack from Kaminari's hand and since Iida knew her from before stabbing said jack in his wrist.
'Eh?!' his classmates gasped out.
'Uh, I felt nothing...' Iida mused but his mind was affected by downloading data. 'I-I know where it is now...she downloaded it in my head!'
'Kids!' Izuku's eyes widened as the teachers in casual wear ran towards them and Izuku realized that the date, was a trap, making her activate her medallion and flee, making Kaminari fall face-first on the floor. 'Shit, just how many teleport badges does she have on her?!' Snipe swore as she was gone.
'But sensei, we got something big.' said Shoji. 'Super big but we better do something about Kaminari first.' he said as he picked up Kaminari.
'We found out a horrifying truth.' said Tokoyami grimly. 'This cannot be talked about in public.'
So they talked in the parking lot about the matter while Shoji carried Kaminari.
'I see...this is big alright.' said Vlad darkly. 'A Nomu Factory in Kamino...Kaminari's cousin became that thing which means...unsolved disappearances were to make those creatures.' he scowled while pained that many people suffered a worser fate than outright killed or held hostage.
'But sensei, this is classified but no doubt Kaminari-kun would want his family to know...' said Ochako. 'What do we do?'
'We'll talk about it but you lot, back to school. Now.' Aizawa swore. 'We'll talk in the classroom about this. Make sure Kaminari doesn't talk to his family yet until we get the clear from authorities. This is beyond us too.'
xxx
'League of Villains...and Nomus...' Izuku frowned as she was walking on the streets. 'Dabi...' she looked worried now. 'If we join the League...are we gonna end up like that?'
She made up her mind.
She'll protect Dabi and Himiko incase they want more Nomus...out of their own members. For now, she'll have to speed up Dabi's recovery. He hasn't been home in days due to doing stuff for the League...she took out her Golem. 'Dabi, is your body OK? You're not home in nine days since you left for the League you miss out a lot.'
/Its like being burn-free's a dream. I need more resilience. Be going home soon as soon as I'm done./ said Dabi wearily and roughly.
'Alright...' Izuku got herself ready with medicine he needed and cooked a lot of yummy food for him.
xxx
In the Bakugo Residence...
Atmosphere was uncomfortable, Bakugo Katsuki thought.
His parents can't even look at him without glares from his mom, and sad disappointment from his dad. His allowance no longer exists too.
His parents were close friends with the Midoriyas ever since they moved to this neighborhood for his parents' work.
Izuku was also his first friend.
But...things changed when she said she was diagnosed Quirkless. He once comforted her since that's what best friends do.
Teachers took him aside and 'told him how the world works' that it was perfectly fine since everyone does it.
And now, years later, it bit him and society in the ass.
He was a dumb kid back then, he should have known. That those smiles...weren't good smiles when he and his fellow kids 'were taught'.
The Police were composed of Psychometers who can read information and history in objects, Lie-Detectors, Telepaths, and Psycho-Projectors or anything related to those Quirks good in police work.
They saw his and Izuku's entire history in Hinadorisu Kindergarten, Byouho Elementary and Orudera Junior High. Having everything aired out like that, he knew he was in for it.
By then, the police who were disgusted and had to do mass-arresting sat him and his family down, Inko-baa and Hero Course Faculty on their findings. And they were made to see the extent of what Bakugo and many kids have done to Izuku Inko had to be held back in throttling him, and his parents...didn't do a thing and would have let her have it, if not for Aizawa binding Inko. And All-Might looking at him in a way that made chills down his bones was nasty.
The teachers 'raised these kids so well that they genuinely became villainous in nature we in good conscience, cannot allow this to happen,' and he has to get rehabilitated while he still could because he already had a hand in creating a Tragic Villain that was Izuku. And he's on her shit list on who to kill. They're already talking to the Board of Education about seeing the kids of his generation and younger rehabilitated, mass-grilling-and-firing of teachers nationwide and being strict on who to hire and put in strict disciplinarians in all schools. It'd take at least, five years to get it all done but him?
As a Hero-in-Training, more pressure on him or else, expulsion. He cannot be a Hero if he was raised to be a Villain who creates more villains through hatred. And he created a dangerous support-type Villain who's now likely supplying the League of Villains with her wares. She can create magical tools, effectively making her have plenty of Quirks and miracle medicine, and who-knows-what-else. They will know if the League did big actions with impunity.
And considering they saw her Hero Analysis notebooks...the police and his teachers were horrified that someone like her, was on the wrong side.
Her notebooks were so detailed that a lot of Heroes will die soon by exploiting the weaknesses written in those notebooks.
Counseling was Mandatory since as he committed this huge crime that society will soon pay for, if she joins the League in a bid to destroy the current society that hurt her for years.
It's all on him more than the other extras during those years. His parents said he nurtured Izuku-the-Villain. And Dabi effectively 'gave birth' to her by adding fuel to fire, feeding on her pain.
His teachers were very hard on him since. Sure atmosphere's the same in class but Iida knows he damn knows because he was in the police, and Izuku saved him, Native and healed his brother...and got to know facts.
He's in hot water with all adults. His classmates don't know yet but its a matter of time...before she comes as promised.
His mind was racing on what to do when the time comes...because every two days, a Hero dies in the worst way possible and it's on the news.
Heroes who didn't pass Stain's grade, are killed. Some Sidekicks killed, some spared.
She really means business.
Dread crawled up his spine.
"I'll soon be dead next..." he thought. And he knew it as he had a major hand in making her that way. He had trouble accepting and denying things all his life and in counseling...and everything, is catching up too fast. Too fast for him to keep up along with the fact that he'll be killed soon.
And he found himself all alone.
His parents were perfectly fine with letting Izuku have her wish thinking she'll just beat him up out of consideration for them.
He's not stupid.
Why?
He dreamed.
He dreamed that she was by his bedside as he slept.
She was staring at him with anger and hate.
Then her face broke into a chilling smile. All teeth and reached for his throat and began to choke him.
When he woke up in the crack of dawn for that nightmare, his neck damn hurt. He even had trouble swallowing. He checked himself in his bedroom mirror and he saw it.
A hand-shaped bruise. A hand-shaped blue-and-purple bruise. He was horrified as the bruise faded quickly and he heard her voice in his freaking bedroom...
I can get you aaaanytime I want...I'll take this nice and slow like you did me...so enjoy your last...Hero.
She spoke in a childish way of soft-speaking with a sinister air about it.
He closed his eyes tight as he shook.
Is this year his last?
His life flashed before his eyes right then and there, and felt the full-brunt of his past actions, that his conscience was finally able to get past his massive pride and ego...
...too late.
