He takes out everything: the toys, DVDs and comics, and places them on the table.
Midnight looks at them curiously and asks, "What is all this, Sir?" She picks up one of the books and starts leafing through it.
"Don't tell me…" Vlad King starts in mild annoyance, "Did you call us here for this!?"
"Hey," Cementoss intejects, "let him explain first, at least." He says and looks at Eraserhead questioningly.
"Today morning I received a call from Izuku Midoriya," Eraserhead starts, looking at All Might now.
"He says that someone left a suitcase in his room in the middle of the night, when I arrived there this morning, everything was scattered across the room and the window was smashed," He says and All Might stands up from his seat.
"Is he okay!?" He asks worriedly, drawing everyone's attention to himself.
"Yeah… don't worry about that. He wasn't harmed but his room was a mess. He slept through all of it…" Eraserhead finishes and brings everyone's attention back towards the case.
"Anyway, we opened the suitcase and found a bunch of strange things…"
"What's strange about a few toys and manga?" Snipe comments picking up one of the toys that looked like Shoto Todoroki.
""What's strange" you ask?" Aizawa says with mild amusement then asks, "Why don't you look at the doll in your hand closely?"
Snipe does as he's asked, his brows furrowed in confusion and concentration, when Cementoss questions, "Did you inspect Midoriya's room?"
"No…" Aizawa replies distractedly, "I should have, I know, but at that moment I was just so baffled by the contents of the bag that all I could think about was bringing everything here and talking to all of you about it. Besides, Midoriya seemed fine so I thought there was no point freaking him out with an inspection," He finishes with a shrug and Cementoss nods in understanding.
"Seems reasonable," He comments and reaches for one of the dolls himself when a gasp is heard from Snipe.
"Unbelievable!" Snipe exclaims, drawing everyone's attention towards himself.
"What is it!?" Vlad King demands, staring at Snipe who is just looking at the doll with amazement.
"Look at this…" Snipe says and passes the replica of Shoto to Vlad King.
It only takes him about 15 seconds before he is looking at the doll in abject horror.
"What in the name of…" He whispers, looking at the doll. This piques the curiosity of the other heroes.
Principal Nezu gets up from his chair and walks over to look at the object that is causing so much commotion, while Cementoss, Hawks, Power Loader, and All Might each pick up a toy to examine
The doll in All Might's hand is of a man, about 30 years of age, dressed in a green suit, giving him a dorky smile. It takes All Might only a few seconds to realize who it is, and the realization leaves him stunned.
He turns the doll around in his hand, over and over again when a small tag on the doll's hand catches his eye. He looks at it closely, and the next few moments only bring him even stranger experiences.
The tag is a folded one, so that it looks like a small gifting card. It reads "All Might," on the outside. Almost as if someone knew that this doll was going to end up in his hands.
All Might opens the tag breathless and reads, the inside says: It's Team Deku and Ground Zero!
Huh? All Might wonders. Who's Ground Zero!?
He rummages around the spread Aizawa's laid out for all of them and picks out another doll. Looking for something to help him understand. An answer, or even a hint.
He looks at the tags on the other dolls. Including the ones in the other heroes' hands. They all come with each one of his student's respective names. None of them including Ground Zero. In fact, he notices that only Izuku's doll didn't have his own hero name on the label, but All Might's instead.
This is frustrating.He thinks to himself and groans. Suddenly, he realizes something else too.
There are several dolls. There are dolls of all of his students. Some students from other classes and schools, but something very important is missing.
It's Bakugo's doll. That's it. It hits him like a thud. He searches the dolls again and he's proven right. There are dolls for all of the 1-A students, but Bakugo is not one of them.
That's weird. He muses. And kind of strange how the note says it's Deku and Ground Zero, and Bakugo's doll is missing. It seems to be more than a coincidence but All Might decides to ignore it. Bakugo's hero name wasn't Ground Zero after all and it seemed hard to believe that he would be in a team with Izuku. Yeah, they were getting along but this seemed far fetched even to himself.
Suddenly there's a holler from Midnight who had been reading one of the comic's Eraserhead had brought.
She looked pale, as if she'd seen a ghost. "Everyone! You've got to see this!"
Everyone rushes over to her and starts fussing over her discovery.
"Look!" She points towards an image on the page she was reading.
It's an image of their student's room. The room is… trashed.
The window has been smashed to pieces, the chair is toppled over, and the bedding is ruined,
On the bed is a child. Eerily resembling Izuku Midoriya.
The image sends a shiver down Aizawa's spine. This was a little too accurate.
He looks at All Might who has the same stricken expression on his face. This could not be good.
"You poor thing. How pitiful it is, to be born without a superpower." Midnight whispers and Eraserhead blinks.
All MIght pales at her words but chooses not to react. She couldn't possibly know, could she?
"What the hell are you talking about?" Vlad King finally snaps. This was too much, even for him.
Midnight looks at All Might, "Is there something you want to tell us?"
All Might avoids her gaze and determined looks at the comic book.
"What does he have to do with Midoriya's room?" Ectoplasm questions, looking confused.
"Let me show you." Midnight says picking up the book and flipping back a few pages.
All Might wants to stop her. There's an awful feeling settling in his stomach. She must've read something in that comic. But even so, he doesn't make a move to grab the book from her hands and stop everyone from finding out. Strange things were happening and a part of him felt that maybe it was best if everyone knew the truth.
His eyes widen when he sees Midnight turning to a page with eight people standing in a line, including himself, his master and six people that he didn't quite recognize; in his defense two of them were just silhouettes so that wasn't really his fault.
"Is that All Might!?" Hawks questions, leaning in and squinting a little so he could have a better look at the details.
Principal Nezu sighs and snatches the book away from their prying eyes, receiving stares of bafflement from Hawks and his staff.
"I think that's enough." He says and snaps the book shut in his hands.
All Might couldn't have thanked him enough in this moment, or any other for that matter.
His head was running wild now. There wasn't much time before everyone would find out about the truth. This book seemed to hold so many secrets… Who knew what had been illustrated in the others?
"Principal Nezu…" All Might started and Nezu looked at him questioningly. "Let them read it."
"You can't be serious!" Nezu exclaimed walking over to him. "I thought you didn't want people to know."
All Might sighed, "Yeah, I remember what I said but… I think if we're going to handle this situation effectively, it would be best if they knew everything… Let them find out about it on their own."
"If that's what you want…" Nezu hesitated, but handed the manga back to Midnight anyway.
The heroes gathered around Midnight once again, each one of them trying to get a good look at the pages.
"Read it out loud, why don't you?" Aizawa mutters and Midnight obliges, starting from the beginning of the chapter.