Three months after the incident/Seven months before the Exam

"Ready?" All Might asked, as he stood tall in his muscular form, a series of trash can's held in his grasp. Izuku just nodded as her arms began to glow bright green. "GO!"

He threw the trash can lids into the air rapidly and Izuku blasted after them, coming over the top of one and using her beams to slice through it before she let herself fall through the air, throwing two weak energy balls from both her palms, watching them collide with the two other trash cans.

She quickly slowed her descent after that, before aiming behind her and taking off toward her mentor, blasting to her feet and flipping over him, hitting him in the back with an even weaker energy ball.

The man turned as she went for another strike, knocking away into a nearby trash pile and lifted his hand into the air, ready to strike her. She reacted barely in time, throwing her beams right at his chest and blasting him back as they weakened so as to not be anything more powerful than a person's natural blows.

The older blonde threw down his arms in a crescent shape, instantly causing the energy beams to dissipate before he appeared behind the girl and gave her a light tap on the shoulder.

"Dang it!" She exclaimed through laboured breathes, standing up tall. "I almost had it…"

"Well you're certainly get better, my girl!" The pro laughed, transforming back into his skinny state after checking the coast was clear. "Just two months ago you were struggling to maintain energy balls for more than a moment and now your firing them out like you've been doing it all your life. Not to mention how well you've taken to flying. You are certainly a versatile fighter."

"Still… I need to find more ways to utilize it." Izuku said matter-of-factly, looking at her fists. "Thinking logically, there has to be more ways to use this energy that just firing out beams. This wasn't it's original purpose, just a side effect so their must be other ways for it manifest, I just need to figure out. Maybe…"

"Uh, my girl?"

"…What happened when I stood up to Asari, the way the desk cracked beneath me wasn't my natural strength. This body is great for agility and flying but it came at a cost of physical strength, I've only caught up to how I was before I regenerated recently and I definitely couldn't do that to a desk in my old body… Maybe…"

"MIDOIRYA!"

"AHH!" Midoriya shouted in surprise, before turning to her mentor who was looking at her concerned. "Uh… sorry. Got lost in my own thoughts. Happens a lot."

"Uh.. this is the first time it's happened since I've met you as far as I know." The skinny blonde pointed out, causing the purple eyed teen to blink, before smirking.

"Oh. Guess it makes sense, somewhere in me the old Izuku is still there, just kinda resting now." She said with a hum, relaxing. "Guess he just kinda slips out every now and again."

"Well, I suppose that makes sense." All Might shrugged, before tilting his head. "You mentioned something about your strength."

"Ah! Right, well a while back I kinda got into a… disagreement with a classmate. Not important why but I kind of instinctively called on a small amount of my regeneration energy and my desk ended up cracking beneath me. It's like my strength got enhanced…" She explained, and after a moment All Might bulked back up.

"Well, one way to test it my girl! Hit me normally, then hit me with a little energy going through you and we'll see if it makes any difference. Don't be sh- AH!"

She wasted no time striking him hard with her fist, but his cry was only one of surprise as he barely reacted to the blow.

"Could of waited until I stopped talking… Now with an energy boost."

She threw the exact same kind of punch, however this time her hand lit up bright green and the man's head actually moved from the strike, as he stumbled back the tiniest bit in surprise.

"Holy! Ha, I actually felt that!" He laughed, rubbing his cheek where she had hit. "That's something to add to our training regime then."

"Wait hang on, one more thing…" She interrupted, looking down to her fists before taking a breathe and focusing. She used the same technique she usually did to make enegy bals but focused on wrapping the enerfy around her hands. "Almost- AHH!"

She let out a sudden cry of pain and the energy exploded on her, throwing her back. All Might looked to her with a worried gaze but fortunately aside from some minor pain she seemed alright.

"Dang it!" She hissed, shaking her hand as if she'd burned it. After a moment of recovering, she sighed and turned back to her mentor, who merely gave her a questioning look. "I thought I could increase the strength boost by overcharging the amount of energy in my hand, and wrapping the outside in it. kinda like gloves."

"Well, that may still be possible, it didn't explode straight away so perhaps you just need to find the sweet spot." He encouraged, pulling out his phone and sending Inko a quick update on how they were doing. "Any other ideas my girl you might be able to utilize?"

"…Not in training." Was all she said, without elaboration before she prepared herself for another trash can barrage. The number one pro wanted to question it but ended up letting it go, presuming she would tell him when she was ready.


Five months after the incident/Five months until the exam

Midoriya hummed a random tune to herself that had been stuck her head lately as she pulled her bag on tighter, hurrying through the halls.

As she moved, she swerved through random students and teachers, passing into a hallway that had the principal's office in the very centre, and as she looked up she was surprised to see two people in suits walking into the room.

She wasn't planning on eavesdropping but she did hear one interesting little bit of information as she passed by without intending to. One that left her with a smile on her face.

"We're here to investigate rumours of mistreatment on your students. I'm sure you knew this was coming for a while now…"

'So All Might's rant had finally gotten someone to take action, about time.' Unbeknownst to the young blonde at that moment, it wouldn't be more than a week before enough evidence piled up against the school's principal for him to be taken into custody for a variety of reasons.

She didn't feel sorry for the man when she did learn of it.


Six months after the incident/Four months until the exam

"Ready?" Izuku asked as she held both her hands out, waiting on her mentors confirmation. After a moment, he nodded as he bent his knees and the girl created two energy balls much bigger than her usual ones.

Her normal ones were usually about the size of baseballs but these ones were easily double the size of beach balls at the least. And some big beach balls at that. "Ready, my girl!"

"DOUBLE OR NOTHING!" She suddenly bellowed, having come up with a name for the move while she'd been waiting for her mentor to prepare, as she launched them both straight at the man.

Despite their size they moved at a rapid pace, forcing the man to stay on his toes to dodge them. To his surprise however once he did, they suddenly changed course and continued to come after him, both hitting him straight in the chest and blasting him off his feet thanks to being caught off-guard.

As the dust cleared, Izuku frowned as she saw the man in his skinny form, hacking and wheezing as he pushed himself up. 'Pushed him too far again… That injury…. I wonder why no one could heal it? Maybe… just maybe I can do something with my powers. Should save that until we finish training though.'

"Ok, you clearly need a break so we're taking one. No arguments, matchstick." She said simply, hopping over to help him up. He just nodded quietly in understanding. "Those medium strength balls really did a number on you, huh?"

"Did… did you just say MEDIUM strength?" All Might asked incredulously and she hummed out a noise of affirmation.

"Well of the strength I can access. Technically I could tap into an unlimited strength from how my power was described to me but realistically I think I can only draw out as much energy as my body lets me handle. Energy balls can draw in a lot more energy than beams though due to their being way less backlash."

"Huh. So this is what real fear feels like."

She smiled despite herself as she helped him stand up. He wouldn't even need a successor if she could get him healed up soon. What was the worst that could happen?


Nine months after the incident/One months until the exam

Izuku's throat was dry and her breathe was short as she sat in the waiting room of the hospital. Her vision was blurry and her chest was tight as she digested with the wood, rocking back and forth gently.

'Please be alright, please be alright, please be alright…'

"Izuku!" a familiar voice caught her attention and she looked up to see her mentor there with a shocked look. "I came here as soon as I could. What's going on?"

"I… I nearly killed mom." She said simply, feeling like she was going to vomit just saying those words. The skinny pro sat down beside her, gently placing a hand on her back and rubbing small circles into her back. "I.. I…"

"Breathe my girl. Take it slow, and just tell me from the top, alright?"

"RI…right. Well… I was just relaxing, watching the TV while mom was cooking…"

Midoriya cracked her knuckles as boredom set in, nothing on the television particularly catching her interest. This was the most she could do to entertain herself, as it was never this easy in her old body to do.

She was considering just retiring for her room until her mother finished up the food, when a sudden pained yelp caught her attention and had her hurrying ot her mother, who had a large gash in her hand. "Mom?! You ok?"

"I'm fine." Inko said, before hissing as she grabbed a towel. "Just cut my hand by accident. I'll be fine."

"Hang on, let me see." Izuku said, walking forward and taking her mother's wrist. The woman moved the towel and the young blonde flinched at the size of the gash. "Yeah, that will scar on it's own. But maybe…"

She held her hand atop her mother's and a green flow flowed through the younger Midoriya into the older woman, who let out a relieved sigh after a moment.

"Oh that's much better…"

Izuku should of let go. She should have let go right then, but she was a stupid idiot who had to get distracted by the television suddenly announcing a new pro, drawing her attention and leaving her regeneration energy running into the older woman.

"Huh? Oh I wonder what their quirk is! It must be something pretty cool if they are making the news-"

"Izuku…" Inko said quietly, drawing her daughter's attention back and causing her to let go immediately upon seeing her mother's face having gone pale. "Izu…"

Suddenly she fell forward, only being caught at the last moment as she suddenly ad violently let out the contents of her stomach, her daughter barely keeping her up. "Mom!?"

"Doc…ctor…."

The teenager took the hint immediately, pulling out her phone and punching in the emergency number as her mother thought to maintain consciousness.

She lost it around the same time the paramedics burst into the house, one taking her onto a stretcher while the other helped calm the younger Midoriya and explain the situation.

After that, they were delivered to the hospital as quickly as possible and the blonde had texted her mentor to come as soon as he could.

"The… the doctors haven't told me anything yet, but I know it's my fault." She said quietly, tears threatening to fall. In fact, it was the first time tears had ever appeared in this body at all, and by god did that somehow make it so much worse. "She might…. might be…"

"Hey, hey, come on now." All Might comforted quietly, continuing to rub circles into her back and just holding an arm around her to comfort her. "It's just an accident ok? She's going to be fine. If your mother is as tough as you are, she won't be brought down this easily."

"He's right." A new voice said, and they both looked up to see a doctor standing there with a small smile. "Hello, sorry to interrupt but allow me to put your minds at ease. Miss Midoriya is alive, and recovering."

"Oh thank god…"

"The problem from what we can gleam is something quite simple. It happens with a great many healing quirks, especially those that are energy based. They are left activate for too long and as there is nothing more to heal they start to just overstimulate and fill up the body with unnatural substances it's not meant to handle, causing whoever is receiving the treatment to become ill. Fortunately it seems you managed to catch it just in time, any more and I'm afraid her condition would of become terminal."

Izuku felt like her heart might stop.

"As it is now though, she'll recover after about a week. In the mean time, I'm legally required to tell you that while it was an understandable act to try to use your healing powers, there is a reason many are not allowed to until they've trained as medical professionals. I'll let you off with a warning, but if this happens again there could be serious consequences."

"I… I understand." Midoriya nodded quietly, smiling despite herself. Her mother was alive, that was all that mattered. "Thank you…"

Still, a part of her faltered inside, because even as the fact her mother wasn't going to die was lifting her up, a much more unsettling fact finally settled in her mind.

It had always been hovering but never really sunk in before, the girl just unable to comprehend the idea of it but now…

Now it finally hit her like a truck. There was no way heal All Might safely.

His time was nearing a close, and there was nothing to be done about it.


Ten months after the incident/One week before the exam.

"Uhh… are you sure this is a safe distance my girl?" All Might called to her from far behind her as she stared down the last few remaining trash piles before her with a glare. 'Just got to finish these off and we'll finally have cleaned up Dagobah.'

"Probably not." She called back with a shrug, as she held her hands above her head. "FULL POWER! RENEWAL BALL!"

In an instant, one absolutely massive green energy ball came to form above her head, as large as the trash piles themselves and crackling with energy. She threw it forward as hard as she could and watched as it landed on top of all of the trash, rapidly disintegrating it all with it's power.

Still, it wasn't quite finishing up the job, a few small bits remaining right at the bottom out of it's reach, so Izuku threw a much smaller energy ball into it, causing it to combust violently and send sand and litter everywhere, all over the sky.

As soon as it did, she fired off a rapid barrage of energy balls that all hit, eradicating every last spec of trash. A clapping caught her attention and she turned to see her mentor there, giving her a massive smile.

"There you go, my girl! With the last spec gone, and with so little time left, I don't think there's much more to be done." He laughed, walking over to her with a proud smile. "And I have to say, it's been an honour watching you grow as you have."

To his surprise, he was suddenly pulled into a tight hug, but he returned it a moment later as his student just buried her head into his chest.

"You know, a lot of people would probably kill for the chance to be trained by you." She said, before looking up to him with a cheeky smirk. "I gotta say, not worth it."

"Oh hush, you." The man said with a roll of his eyes and an affectionate smile. "Training a delinquent like you was a chore in of itself."

"Hey, I guess an old dog can learn new tricks."

"I'm not that old."

"Considering you refuse to tell anyone your age, yes, yes you are. I deem it so." She said, sticking her tongue out at him. "So, you really think I got what it takes to pass the exam."

"Ha! I have confidence you might not only pass, but perhaps even snag first place if you put your mind to it!" He said with confidence. "For now though, I'd recommend resting for the remaining week. You have trained non-stop practically for a whole year, it's time to take a much needed break."

"And what about you? What will you do now?" She asked, curious and honestly a little sad at the prospect she might not see the man again after this. A smirk came onto his face however, as he ruffled her hair.

"Oh don't you worry about me, kiddo. I think you'll find I'm going to be a little harder to get rid of than you expect."

"Then guess I'll just have to stat being extra annoying?"

"Isn't that your default setting?"

"…Touché, matchstick, touché."