3. Checking In On Racheil/Slimes Really Are Entry Level Enemies

Story Start: Five Years Old, 10:30, At A Not So Abandoned Warehouse

Gunfire filled the air of the warehouse as the drug running operation held inside was torn apart by a single person. However, it wasn't a Hero that was attacking the Villains, instead, and this absolutely TERRIFIED the bad guys, it was a short brown haired chibi with permanent pink spots on her cheeks (though she had a ski mask on hiding those facts) and a hard look in her eyes as she darted all over the place, including off of the walls and ceilings. The small child ignored all of the bullets and quirk generated attacks on her, even her black clothing remaining intact. Sadly for the Villains, the same couldn't be said for them. The kid seemed to LOVE going for the joints, piercing knees, elbows, and wrists with her fingers, then going for knockout blows to the head. Nothing the Villains did could save them, and they couldn't run either. All of the exits had been sealed off from the outside before the Chibi had started her attack.

Uraraka Ochako, formerly known as Rear Admiral Racheil Piern kept her arms around the last Villain's neck in a sleeper hold as the jackal headed woman fell to her knees then to the floor. Once her Observation Haki told her that the woman was well and truly out of it, she hopped off of their back and patted her down. Finding the villain's cellphone, she scoffed at the fact the villain used a fingerprint scan rather than a password to unlock their smart phone and soon had it unlocked and going to the number pad part of the phone app.

A few rings later and the operator of the local Police Station picked up and said "119, what's your emergency?"

Ochako pushed a finger against her vocal box to disorient her voice a bit and said "349 Crescent Rd, Drug Runners, 15, all wounded." She hung up immediately after and quickly grabbed one of the duffel bags lying around the place and grabbed not only the few bundles of cash left out in the open but also the much larger amount of money from the safe. As she did so, she thanked the fact that the pads on her fingers meant she didn't have any fingerprints to leave. That and the fact that one of the Villains had opened the safe while she was staking the place out. Observation Haki was great for picking combinations out of people's heads when they were using said combinations.

Three minutes later, sirens filled the air as cop cars and ambulances tore down the road but Ochako was already gone, running across roofs and easily making the jumps across thanks to her quirk as she left the scene of the crime.

Slipping into her apartment thirty minutes later, with the ski mask in the duffel bag and her clothes back to their normal blue and white colors, Ochako silently closed the door and made her way into the kitchen, turning on the light. She was unsurprised to see her parents sitting at the table with crossed arms. Grinning at them, she waved and said "Hey mom, dad!"

"Don't you hey mom, dad, us missy!" Her dad said, waving a sticky note around in the air and continued "'Stepping out for a bit, be back soon.' Care to explain why we found this note on your bedroom door and you NOT in bed?"

Ochako's grin gained a little more teeth to it as she hopped up onto her own chair and placed the duffle bag on the table as she said "I took care of the neighborhood's drug dealer problem and got us some spending cash while I was at it."

She zipped open the duffel bag revealing all of the cash she had grabbed and her mother gasped, putting a hand to her chest as she said "Oh my goodness!"

Her dad stared at the bundles of cash, easily more than they'd make in three years with their construction company after taking out the cost of supplies. A few moments later, he weakly said "That's a lot of moolah."

"Yep, should let us buy more than just noodles and milk for a while." Ochako said happily as she hopped off of her chair and started to walk away.

Only started though because her mom said "Hang on young lady, you still need to explain HOW you 'took care' of those drug dealers, and why you thought it was a good idea for a five year old to take on a group of Villains."

Ochako looked at her parents over her shoulder and suddenly the pair of adults felt like THEY were children being studied by an adult. A moment later, Ochako turned around and entered Parade Rest as she said "You named me Uraraka Ochako, but that is not my first name. That would be Racheil Piern, and when I went by it I was a Rear Admiral in the Marines."

And so another Marine explained their circumstance to their legal guardians, though she was doing so much later than her nominal superior had…

Time Skip: Nine Years Later, Musutafu (Friday)

Izuku winced as Mt. Lady made her debut by slamming a fellow Gigantic quirk user into the side of a building, as in literally INTO the building. THAT was going to put the rookie into the red zone right off the bat for sure.

Still, he took out his analysis journal number twenty three and quickly sketched out the villain on the first empty page along with Gigantic as the quirk classification. The next page over had Mt. Lady as the header, her sketch, and notes on everything about her he had seen which included information on her uniform like why it could stretch with her and his thoughts on the little extra the purple of her uniform had over the lighter parts, he had seen how little movement there had been in her torso region. (Kind of hard not to notice given all of the posing she had done, both in giant and normal forms, especially when she waved) If the purple portions weren't part armor he'd eat his red sneakers.

Snapping his journal closed, he put it in his book bag then took off at a fast sprint, easily dodging between the people who were now going back to their businesses now that the show was over. He still had to get to school after all.

Time Skip: Half An Hour Later

Izuku's home room teacher straightened some papers on his desk as he said "Alright kids, settle down." Once his students were in their seats and looking forward, he said "Today we have to go over what careers you're going to go into. Well, we're supposed to do that, but I already know what you all want to be-" He threw the papers up in the air and said "You all want to be heroes of course!"

The students all cheered loudly proudly showing off their quirks only to be chastised by their teacher about using them without a license even as he said that they all had great quirks for it. (Even though one kid's quirk was simply being able to pull his eyeballs out of their sockets for a few feet, aka having elastic optic nerves)

Bakugo meanwhile scoffed and said "Don't lump all these extras with me teach, I'm the only one who can go all the way. These losers would be lucky to become sidekicks of D-listers."

Needless to say, the rest of the class wasn't happy about that, asking the Explosion Quirk user where he got off having that kind of attitude only to settle down in shock as the teacher said "Hmm, you're planning on taking the UA entrance exam aren't you Bakugo."

"Hmph, of course. If I'm going to be Number One then I need to go to the best school." Bakugo said with a scoff.

The teacher hummed then glanced down the row on his left and behind him and continued "You've chosen to take that same exam have you not Midoriya?"

Izuku nodded, ignoring the surrounding student's exclamations of surprise and disbelief that the Quirkless kid could make it as a hero, though a few of the students countered how he WAS in the top five percent of the year academically and currently held the records for all of the physical tests for non mutant type students.

Bakugo of course, wasn't having it even with those facts. Letting out a loud shout of "WHAT?!" He jumped out of his desk and stomped back to Izuku's and shouted "WHAT THE FUCK DEKU?! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU STAND ANY CHANCE GETTING INTO UA?! I'M THE ONLY ONE FROM THIS SCHOOL WHO CAN MAKE IT THERE, THE REST OF YOU ARE ALL JUST PEBBLES TO STEP OVER, GOT IT?!"

Izuku looked up at Bakugo calmly and said "Bakago, you are in serious need to wake up from your fantasy. Despite what you might think, the world does not revolve around you. I'm going to UA, and there is nothing you can do about it."

Bakugo snarled and shot his hand down at Izuku's desk, sparking as it aimed for the analysis journal on it. Before he could make contact though, Izuku slapped the hand off course, stood up, grabbed the back of Bakugo's head and knocked it down onto the desk causing Bakugo's hands to jerk up and hold his head in pain. The next instant, Izuku had a strip of tape pinning Bakugo's hands there.

Shoving Bakugo away from his desk with one hand while spinning the roll of tape he kept in his book bag on the pointer finger of his other, Izuku said "I warned you last time you tried to destroy my stuff Bakago, you try to blow something up and I'd tape your hands to your face. Try to use your explosions NOW, baka."

"Damn." Several of their classmates said and the teacher sighed as he said "Midoriya..."

"Hey, he started it." Izuku protested even as he flipped a few coins into a jar in a corner of the room labeled Midoriya's Disciplinary Action Tax. Technically he wasn't breaking any rules since he didn't have a quirk to actually use but the school had to at least put up a token effort in keeping him from kicking the backsides of anyone who thought that just because he was quirk less meant he was an easy target.

Needless to say, Bakugo was cursing up a storm as he tried to get his hands free, one of the other students warily moving closer to remove the tape.

Time Skip: End Of The School Day

Izuku avoided Bakugo's attempt to 'get even' with him with the ease of long practice, aka Shave Practice, using his high speed technique to avoid Bakugo's sight. (The Explosion user would eventually be able to see people moving that fast but that would be at LEAST five years in the future from now) He came out of his Shave technique three blocks from the school and began idly whistling to himself as he took a meandering route around the city due to the repairs of Mt. Lady's debut battle being in the way of the direct route home. And if this upped the chances to witness and thus analyze his future coworkers and their opponents in battle then it would simply be happy coincidence. Besides, it's not like Inko gave him a curfew. Oh sure, a time she'd like for him to be back by, but that was definitely more request than rule since she knew he could take care of himself. Case in point...

It was as he was moving through a tunnel that went under a four lane bridge that the next bit of excitement for the day started. Sensing a rather unpleasant feeling presence coming up from the sewers followed by a much stronger presence with his Observation Haki, Izuku stopped walking and reached into his book bag for the three segmented bo staff that he kept on him at all times. (And wasn't that a pain, getting then adding the swing out blades for the end sections, he wound up having to disassemble two large folding pocket knives to get said blades since no one would sell him the tanto blades he wanted.) He held the three sections in his right hand loosely but didn't join them together just yet due to being in the somewhat narrow tunnel. When he saw the Slime Mutant type ooze out of the manhole cover he was glad he hadn't since his bo staff wouldn't be much good outside of poking the being's eyes out in these cramped quarters.

The Slime being locked on Izuku and proved that his personality was as rotten as his appearance as he said "Oh good, a meat suit to help me hide from that muscle head chasing me. Hold still kid, I promise to make this quick." With that, he launched several 'tentacles' of slime at Izuku trying to catch and pull him in.

"Yeah, I don't think so!" Izuku said, easily avoiding the tentacles' grabbing attempts using Kamui directed by his Observation Haki, though he did his best to stay in the tunnel. It meant that the chasing Hero that was rapidly approaching wouldn't have to look far to apprehend this Villain.

Sure enough, thirty seconds later, the manhole cover flew up into the air and freaking All Might came out. Izuku's eyes widened even as he watched All Might analyze the situation, wind back a fist, then punch out with a call of Texas Smash, all within five seconds.

The punch shot a pressure wave down the tunnel that easily blasted the Slime Villain apart. Izuku had a much better time of things, since while he skidded back several feet remained unharmed and had even managed to keep his footing.

All Might let out a decisive nod and said "AND THAT TAKES CARE OF THAT! MY APOLOGIES CITIZEN, I WOULD HAVE CAUGHT THIS TROUBLE MAKER SOONER BUT HE GAVE ME THE RUN IN THE SEWERS. STILL, WELL DONE IN AVOIDING HIM UNTIL I ARRIVED, YOU'RE RATHER FLEXIBLE AREN'T YOU?"

Izuku shrugged and as he put away his still collapsed staff said "Well, you know how it is Sir, parkour and yoga can do wonders for the body." His hand then took out his analysis journal and phone as he said "By the way, I know you probably get this a lot, but could I take a picture and get your signature?"

All Might laughed boisterously and said "FEAR NOT CITIZEN, FOR I DO NOT MIND. BUT ALLOW ME TO SECURE THIS VILLAIN FIRST!"

All Might quickly chugged one of the glass bottles of soda in the grocery bag hanging on his wrist before he carefully placed the eyes and mouth of the slime villain in it. Once he finished that, he ushered Izuku out into the sunlight where Izuku quickly snapped a pair of photos, one a full body photo (No way would he settle for a sketch of the number one Hero in his analysis books) and the other a Selfie.

Once All Might had signed his journal, he gave Izuku a quick two fingered salute and said "FARE WELL CITIZEN, I'M OFF TO HAND THIS VILLAIN OVER TO THE POLICE!" With that, he turned and took a massive leap into the sky.

Izuku was TEMPTED to follow him with Moonwalk but decided against it. He didn't want to come off as a stalker after all, and he had the man's haki signature now. Maybe if they were ever in the same area again he would track him down for a longer conversation (Izuku had THEORIES he wanted proven or busted from the source) but for now he'd let the man go. He HAD seen the perishables in that grocery bag on the man's wrist. He'd later come to regret that decision to not follow things through.

Time Skip: Thirty Minutes Later

Izuku felt the spike of panic and alarm with his Observation Haki from five blocks away. It took thirty seconds to get to an alleyway to duck into, less than five to reach the rooftops by playing hopscotch with the fire escapes in said alley way. Seeing the smoke rising in the air, he entered Shave and quickly crossed the few streets seperating him from the trouble.

Dropping back down to street level once he was close, (There were fires in the surrounding buildings, staying up there was a big no no) Izuku did his best to quickly shift through the crowd to see what was going on. What he saw had him softly cursing to himself: Bakugo Katsuki trapped by the Slime monster who had somehow managed to escape All Might and making it impossible to rescue the punk thanks to all of the explosions he was setting off.

The Heroes present (Death Arms, Kamui Woods, Backdraft, and Mt. Lady) worked on crowd and damage control while claiming they couldn't do anything with their Quirks and so had to wait for someone better able to handle the situation (Which was bullshit since Izuku had already noted who was present and how they could stop this within ten seconds of arriving.) Just as he was about to step in, and damn the rules, a recently memorized Haki signature had him glance to the right. Seeing a tall but emaciated blonde haired figure watching the action with grit teeth and a fist clenched into his shirt where All Might SHOULD have been, Izuku's eyebrows shot up in surprise as he thought 'Damnit, for all of the theories I had to be proven right, why did it have to be THAT one?!'

Shaking that thought out of his head, Izuku focused back on what was important: Bakugo and his fast running out amount of air in his lungs. Quickly breaking out of the crowds, Izuku shot forward, easily ducking under Deatharms' panicked grab. As he ran, he pulled out his bo staff and flicked the pieces out, the bungie cord between the two parts jerking the ends back to the middle where they slotted then locked with a specific flick of his wrist.

He gave the Slime villain just enough time to see him and shout out an angry "YOU!" before he Shaved the remaining distance and reappeared with his staff hitting the Villain's right eye causing him to open his mouth even wider in pain. Izuku took that chance to coat his left arm in Armament Haki, reach into the now much thinner layer of slime to grab the front of Bakugo's school uniform and yank him out, tossing him at Deatharms who thankfully managed to catch the Explosion user.

"DAMN YOU!" The slime monster shouted as he tried to attack Izuku with his tentacles. Izuku though easily dodged the assault, dodging and weaving away until he was in front of the large window of a store front. A duck from the latest attack had him pausing though as the tentacle broke through the window and hit a radio which fell off of the shelf it was on and turned on, playing an iconic theme from the American West causing everyone in the area to also pause at the absurdity of the event.

A moment later though, Izuku smirked and said "Well, I'm the Good, you're the Bad, I guess that makes him the Ugly." He pointed his left hand thumb at Bakugo who had just recovered from his near death by drowning.

Bakugo naturally did not appreciate said comment and his palms flared in explosions as veins pulsed on his forehead and shouted "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME YOU QUIRKLESS LOSER!"

"Still got slime in your ears Bakago? I called you an ugly foul tempered baboon!" Izuku called back with a cackle even as he dodged the renewed assault.

Ignoring Bakugo's furious ranting and threats, Izuku reached a light pole that was now leaning at a forty five degree angle. Quickly leaping up to the top, Izuku said "Right, well as fun as this has been, it's time to end this. Last time we met, I stuck to dodging since I could tell a Hero was chasing you and I just needed to stall for them to catch up. THESE Heroes though clearly lack the fortitude to take you on so I'll deal with you myself."

ALL of the present Heroes were upset about that statement. (Though All Might was ashamed rather than angry, clenching his shirt even tighter) Izuku didn't pay them any attention though, instead pressing on a button on the middle part of his staff which pushed on the magnetic metal wire inside, which in turn pulled on the same kind of wire in the ends of his staff that swung the knife blades out, the blades locking into place thanks to the push tab locks Izuku had installed. As soon as they were locked, Izuku leapt up into the air over the Slime villain before entering into a rapid gyroscopic spin as he called out "TEMPEST STORM!"

An absolute DELUGE of subtly black tinted wind blades rained down upon the Slime villain who was instantly blasted apart. A moment later Izuku landed where the Villain had been with the Villain now splattered all around him groaning in pain thanks to the Armament Haki Izuku had used in his attack.

Izuku gave the Heroes an unimpressed look and said "You four could have had this handled with a little bit of out of the box thinking but were instead simply willing to wait for someone with a 'suitable' quirk to show up. Well, Idon't have a quirk and yet I STILL did your job for you. Think about that, and what it says about you as Heroes." With that, Izuku collapsed his staff before he quickly leapt up the burned buildings and out of the area before any of the gathered Heroes could follow, leaving a rather irritated Bakugo and a thoughtful All Might behind.

Time Skip: The Next Day (Saturday), 8:00

Izuku opened the door of his apartment after it was knocked on only to raise an eyebrow at the sight of the emaciated form of All Might standing in front of it. Still, shrunken form or not, there was no mistaking those blue eyes that were all but shining out at him from the shadows. Giving Izuku a grin, All Might said "Hey kid, name's Toshinari Yagi, I was wondering if I could have a talk with you."

Izuku made doubly certain that no one was in ear shot with his Observation Haki before he nodded and stepped aside as he said "Yeah, I'd like to have a talk with you myself All Might." The name was said softly but the man in front of him still stiffened in shock, a bit of blood coming out of his mouth.

Wiping it away on seeming instinct, the man continued to stare at him in shock as he asked "How?!"

Izuku smirked and said "Let's trade stories shall we?" Moving down the hallway, he continued "Mom's making breakfast, I'm sure she won't mind making some for you as well. We can talk as we eat."

As All Might walked in and closed the door, he thought to himself 'What did I just get into?'

END

Author's Notes: Sorry for the delay, Shantae and the Seven Sirens is addictive.