Chapter 2
GREETINGS FANFICTION BROTHERS AND SISTERS! ZAYDEN THE STORMVOID IS HERE! I'M BACK TO GIVE YOU THE NEXT CHAPTER OF WELCOME TO THE MCU!
With how receptive this story has been in just Two days, It would have been a crime not to deliver onto you guys this next chapter. I also wish to remind people that this reaction story will be basically a near word for word recreation of the movie with MHA characters sprinkled in between talking about it and reacting to it. Also, the movie will be split into multiple chapter and not one, super mega long chapter. I mean this chapter is already going to be longer than all my other stories already.
But lets then get to answering some reviews:
Jthomajiba: The Iron Man is being brought!
Guest 1: Hmm, I could do that for follow up story after I'm finished with the MCU, Hamilton is really popular.
ArcticKnight13: The updates with both the Death Battle story and this one will be roughly around the same time frame of the same day to a day later. Also it is starting now.
Guest 2: Funny you should ask about that, because one of the ideas that you mentioned, the Batman Arkham series, is one that I was already thinking about, I even have a list of characters for it. I'm unfamiliar with most of the other fandoms you asked about but I could perhaps do one for Jurassic Park or Jurassic World.
Maximum Rhapsody:...Are you some kind of telepath? How did you know about David and Melissa? But really, I just don't like the Hulk movie but they will comment on Hulk in later chapters.
Also here is a list for you guys to know who is talking throughout the story:
"Zayden." -Movie, movie characters, and All Might buff form dialogue
"Zayden." -F.R.I.D.A.Y. dialogue
"Zayden." -Jarvis dialogue
"Zayden." -MHA character dialogue
'Zayden.' -MHA character though dialogue
Now with all this said and done, let's get onto the story. But first, as always, I do not own My Hero Academia, which belongs to Horikoshi and Bones Studios, or the MCU and Marvel characters, as those are owned by Marvel, Disney, Sony, and the movies are given credit to the awesome actors, directors, and studios who worked on these movies, or the music referenced here.
With all that said, Let's Rock and Roll!
Iron Man
Part 1: Not Born, But Built
Third POV
The video starts with a shot overlooking a desert region with a few U.S. Military convoys driving through the barren vista. Rock Music (Back in Black) is heard as we drift down and enter the center Humvee.
Kaminari, and many of his fellow students were banging their heads to the music. "This Music is Rocking!" He said. "What's it called?"
Both Jirou and Izuku responded with "Back in Black by Ac/Dc."
Momo said "As expected from our class's resident music expert but how do you know about it, Izuku?"
Izuku chuckled nervously and scratched the back of his head. "I, at times, like to listen to some pre-Quirk era music,mostly when I have free time or when I'm training."
Jirou was curious and asked "Really? What kind of music?"
"Mostly rock, country, techno, some pop, and some rap." Izuku answered.
"W-Want to listen and p-play some music with me sometime after this?" Kyouka asked nervously, blushing while fiddling with her ear jacks.
Izuku was surprised at first but quickly answered, with a bright smiling face, "O-Of course, Jirou! I would be happy to play some music with you after this!"
Jirou blushed heavily and said "J-Just call me Kyouka."
Reactions to this adorable interaction were mixed. The girls of Class-1A, Nejire, and Mei were silently livid at Kyouka getting ahead of them for their fight over Izuku's heart and began planning some ways to catch up. The girls of Class-1B, more specifically a certain green-haired lizard girl, found the interaction sweet and some even blushed at Izuku's bright smile. The female Pros reactions ranged from teasing, seductive smiles, from Midnight, Pixie Bob, and Mt. Lady, to looks of curiosity from Miruko and Ryukyu.
As for Eri, she was looking on wit child curiousness, wondering from her Papa's talks with the black-haired, kind girl with the big chest to the shy, purple-haired girl with those weird things coming out of her ears, to which one was her Mama.
The men side of the group were also mixed. The 1A guys were mixed between proud and smiling at Izuku's kind nature, mostly Iida, Todoroki, Koda, and Kirishima, to knowing smiles from Aoyama, Tokoyami, and Shoji to finally jealousy and anger from Sero, Kaminari, Mineta, and Bakugou, the latter the more angrier. The 1B guys were jealous of the green bean's 'mad game', especially Monoma, and realizing the slight blushes from their female classmates didn't help. Shinso and Kouta noticed the looks from the girls and almost burst out laughing. While the male pros reactions ranged from amusement from Hawks, Tiger, and Present Mic, boredom from Endeavor, and teacherly/fatherly pride from All Might, Eraser, Gran Torino, and Nezu.
Bakugou finally let out his anger, and yelled otu "ALRIGHT ENOUGH WITH THIS STARING AND REACTION OVER THESE TWO SHITS ALREADY AND LETS GET THE VIDEO ON WITH ALREADY!"
Despite Bakugou's vulgar tone, they agreed and continued the video.
The name of the area showed up as Kunar Providence, Afghanistan, 2008.
"So they are in Afghanistan, huh." Hawks said. 'From what I remember from pre-Quirk era history, Afghanistan in 2000-2010's was not exactly a peace time with lots terrorism and war."
As the video took them inside the center vehicle and the music played, it showed a few soldiers looking nervously at a figure who looked teleported off Hollywood Boulevard with a black suit and glass of vodka in his left hand.
The man in question was none other than genius inventor, and tech billionaire, Katsuki Stark.
"BAKUGOU!/KACCHAN!" Everyone yelled out surprised as they saw their classmate/student first in this universe.
"HAHA!" Bakugou yelled triumphantly, a look of mad, petty, arrogance of his face. "YEAH BITCHES! I'M FIRST! TAKE THAT SHITTY DEKU!"
He was unaware of the dirty looks he was getting from the female population of the room for that last statement, nor the look of disappointment and annoyance at one of their, admittedly, star pupils incapable to let go of whatever grudge Bakugou held onto Midoriya. Though they had to admit that it was nice to see their student in this universe and that he is doing well from what the video said.
"Congrats bro!"Kirishima said, oblivious of Bakugou's words or the negative tension. "You're first up and you are a Billionaire and Tech Genius! That's so Manly!"
Katsuki Stark looked over at the nervous soldiers around him. "I feel like you are driving me to court martial." He joked. "This is crazy. What did I do? I feel like you are going to pull me over and snuff me. What are you not allowed to talk? Hey Forrest!" Stark directed his gaze and question towards teh soldier next to him.
"We can talk sir." The soldier nervously.
"Oh." Katsuki looked at his glass of vodka and said "I see. So its personal?"
"No, you intimidate them" Ramirez, the soldier driving replied.
"Good God, you're a woman." Katsuki joked. "I, honestly couldn't have called that." The other soldiers suppressed their laughter as Stark continued " I mean, I'd apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here? I thought of you as a solider first."
"This version of Bakugou seems like quite the jokester." Sero said.
"He seems rather arrogant, yet has a weird style of both complementing and likewise insulting others." Momo deduced.
Bakugou remained silent, not sure whether to take That as a compliment or an insult.
"I'm an airman." Ramirez informed.
"You have, actually, excellent bone structure, there. I'm kind of having a hard time not looking at you now. Is that weird?" Katsuki joked, all the soldiers repression broke and started laughing and chuckling. "C'mon it's ok laugh."
"Wow." Todoroki said impressed. "This version of Bakugou is actually more enjoyable and pleasant than our version." The audience laughed at Todoroki's unintentional burn, Izuku trying hard to not laughing himself.
"YOU WANT TO GO ICY-HOT!" Bakugou yelled out.
"Sir," the soldier in front of him said. "I've got a question to ask."
"Yes, please." Katsuki said with an air of pride.
"Is it true that you went 12 for 12 with last year's Maxim cover models?" The soldier asked smiling.
Katsuki took off his shades and said "That is an excellent question. Yes and No. March and I had a scheduling conflict, but fortunately, the Christmas cover was twins." That gains some smiles and laughs from the soldiers.
While the boys and some girls were laughing, Mineta yelled out in perverted frustration "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! NOT ONLY IS MIDORIYA AN OBLIVIOUS HAREM KING MASTER, BUT NOW SO IS BAKUGOU! WHY DOES THE UNIVERSE WRONG ME SO?!"
Izuku was confused and blushing like a tomato at Mineta's exclamation, while Bakugou was too busy sucking up praise from Kaminari, Sero, and Kirishima at his counterpart's own 'mad game'. Asui decided to answer the pervert's exclamation with "Because you are a small, weak, cowardly, pervert with no good defining traits while Bakugou and Izuku are both strong and Izuku has an adorable, pure, kind nature."
Izuku was now burning as hot as a furnace that Kota had to cool him off with his water quirk. Bakugou's moment in the sun was shot down and he gritted his teeth in it being Deku and his girls to do it, while Mineta's head was down in sadness and depression.
"Anything else?" Katsuki asked, to which he looked over at the soldier beside him with his hand up nervously. "You are kidding me with the hand up, right?"
"Is it cool if I take a picture with you?" The soldier asked.
"Yes, it's very cool." Katsuki said. The soldier fished out his camera from his pocket and gave it to his fellow soldier, Stark and Forrest leaning into the shot with Forrest's hand in a peace sign. Stark said "I don't wanna see this on your My Space page. Please, No gang signs." The soldier quickly lowered his hand. "No throw it up, I'm kidding." The soldier resumed. "Yeah, peace. I love peace. I'd be out of a job without peace."
"What kind of job do you think he has?" Uraraka asked.
"Probably something to do with war and money." Tokoyami said.
Rin asked "Isn't he a billionaire and tech genius?"
Izuku deduced and said "If so, then the only thing I could see a billionaire and tech genius making money of the military would be weapon's contracts and war profiteering."
"That is quite barbaric and disappointing to make a profit out of war and suffering!" Iida said.
"But an unfortunate necessary one." Death Arms stated. "Where else do countries get the money to fund their weapons to combat their enemies?"
The soldiers were about to take the picture when an explosion occurred in front of them, the vehicle in front bursting into flames.
"WHAT?!" The group was shocked at the sight and remembered what Hawks said about terrorism and war.
The soldiers acted with Ramirez going out to engage, before she was shot and killed. The other soldier went out and told Forrest "Forrest, protect Stark, don't go out!" He left and fired upon the unknown enemy, but was killed as well.
"Oh no." Uraraka cried out, sad at the deaths of the soldiers, alongside her fellow students. The pro heroes were sad too but held their heads in respect and understanding. They died doing their duty and while many wished to be there and help, they knew that this was a universe not of their own and, for all they knew, there were probably no heroes in this world. Mirio and Izuku worked to cover Eri and Kota's eyes and ears from the scene, with assistance from Momo making some blindfolds and earmuffs.
"Damn." Forrest cursed seeing his comrade die. He loaded his weapon warning Katsuki to stay in the vehicle and stay down. He didn't last more than 5 seconds before he was shot and killed.
Katsuki, seeing his protection killed, for out and ducked under a pile of rocks from the gunfire.
"Why did he go out there where he could get shot and why doesn't he use his Quirk?" Mina asked, worried for her classmate.
"He likely doesn't have his Quirk in this world and he could do little to stay in the vehicle when they have the means to blow it up like the other one." Momo inquired. "Perhaps he also means to call for help?"
Right on cue, Katsuki pulled out a high-tech looking phone and began to try to call someone. Then a whistle pierce through the air as an object landed on the ground next to him. Katsuki looked for a moment at the object to see that it was a missile.
"A MISSILE?!" They students yelled. The teachers and heroes were on edge at the thought of them seeing one of their student's counterparts dying in front of them.
"GET OUT OF THERE KACCHAN!" Izuku yelled, worried for his friend.
Stark read the logo on the missile with wide eyes.
Stark Industries.
"Stark? Like his last name in this world?" Todoroki asked.
"Don't tell me we are going to see Bakugou die by his own missile?!" Kirishima said "That's awful! And horribly ironic!"
Katsuki barely picked himself up before the missile exploded and launched Bakugou's counterpart a few feet away."
"BAKUGOU/KACCHAN!" The audience yelled out in horror. Bakugou looked at the screen with shocked eyes, fearful at seeing himself die.
Katsuki landed on the ground, his suit covered in dust and covered in scratches and bloody cuts. He looked down to his chest to find it filled with tiny puncture holes that were stained red with blood. He opened his white dress shit to find his chest still protected with a bulletproof protection vest, the vest damaged with pieces of shrapnel. He sighed before his head fell down and he slipped into unconsciousness.
The screen was black and everyone was fearful at whether Bakugou died.
"I think he is alright, students." All Might tried to calm them down. "At least Young Bakugou had a protective vest on, so he could have survived."
"Smart of him to bring protection in a war zone." Endeavor complimented. "But was the vest simply bulletproof and was it capable of handling a blast from a missile and the shrapnel?"
That put them on edge again but not so much as before.
The screen showed color again and showed Katsuki, tied up in a chair, a bag pulled from his head to show his sweaty and bloody-cut face. Around him was a whole group of armed terrorists.
Iron Man
36 hours later, Las Angeles
"No!" Kirishima shouted. "Not a flashback! We have to see what's going on with Bakubro!"
"I'm fine, Shitty Hair!" Bakugou said. "I'm sure that my other self will get himself out of there but I want to see why I was in Afghanistan in the first place."
They screen showed a banquet hall, with dozens of tables filled with people with suits and two monitors that showed various images of one man.
"Katsuki Stark." A narrating voice sounded off the monitors. The people there clapped their hands in applause. The voice continued with "Visionary. Genius. American Patriot."
All Might smiled at that, reminiscing of his time in America and liked how Bakugou was seen as a patriot of his country.
"Even from an early age, the son of the legendary weapons developer, Masarou Stark," It showed an image Katsuki's father.
"How's my shitty dad a weapons developer?!" Bakugou yelled out. "He's a god damn fashion designer with no backbone!"
"Still its so cool that Uncle Masarou is so well distinguished here." Izuku praised.
The heroes saw the image of the elder Bakugou and saw that despite his facial features and and hair style, that he clearly took after his mother in the looks department, and, to All Might, Izuku, and Eraserhead who have met the woman, the attitude.
"Regardless," Sero said. "Don't you guys think that this is sort of like some narrative exposition?"
"Quickly stole the spotlight with his brilliant and unique mind."
"HA! You hear that Deku! I have a brilliant and Unique Mind! Take that!" Bakugou bragged.
"You are also more likable and a jokester in that universe, so hell has definitely frozen over." Shinso said with a tired voice.
That elicited laughs and chuckles, whereas Bakugou yelled out "SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH, MINI-ERASERHEAD!"
Todoroki grew intrigued at that and started to take notes on Shinso's similarities to Eraserhead. It would make for an interesting side-project of Dadzawa while he continued to work on his Dad-Might theory.
The screen showed an older looking man, bald with grey and white stubbles for a beard and wearing a suit.
The video was paused, much to the audiences confusion before F.R.I.D.A.Y. spoke up "Scanning Complete of Multiversal Counterpart Match! OBIDIAH STANE! MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART: YUBI AYASE!" It shows an image of a teenage Yubi Ayase, making Izuku and Bakugou flinch at seeing the image.
"Who is that?" Mina asked. Many of the audience were confused with the random image and name of a stranger suddenly tossed out and confirmed to be a counterpart to this Obidiah Stane.
Izuku answered, his voice meek and his face shrouded in the shadow of his hair, "Yubi was someone both me and Kacchan knew growing up."
"Oh, so he must be a friend of you guys. That is so cool that he is still connected to you guys through universes!" Uraraka cheerfully said, happy that Deku and Bakugou had a seeming friend here too.
Izuku lowered his head more, memories of his time as Kacchan's punching bag and victim replaying, as well as the times he remembered Yubi attacking him with his finger stretching quirk. Izuku said "Not exactly."
Everyone looked Deku with confusion and concern for his demeanor. Kota and Eri looked up and were also concerned and sad when Izuku's cheerful gleaming eyes, seemed to darken and lose their shine. They looked dull and lifeless as he remembered his past.
Kota could see a tiny flicker of hate and a reservoir of sadness and pain in Deku's eyes, much like when he himself was drowning in his hate for heroes and quirks before. Eri saw his Papa's eyes so sad and dull that it reminded her of how she would look, reminded her of how she was tormented by Overhaul.
Izuku snapped out of his state when he felt two hands on his own, one by Kota and the other by Eri, each giving him comforting, smiles. Izuku's eyes gained their shine again and meekly smiled again at the two.
Bakugou meanwhile has similar memories, but completely opposite of Deku's. For one, he wasn't the one getting beating down, he was doing the beating. He remembered how he bullied Deku, and at the time he thought it was alright. No one would care for a Quirkless weakling like Deku, and no one stopped him or told him no. Not the other kids, not the adults, not the teachers, and so he thought it was alright. And sense Deku's speeches about being a Hero despite his Quirklessness made the younger Bakugou insecure and angry he always'd proceeded to bully him, Yubi joining in.
But now, after his time in U.A., with the constant trials where he faced failure, where he faced the need to grow and change, where he was told no and the truths behind why he hated Deku revealed, he knew then that what he did in the past was wrong. Knew that if it were revealed that he would possibly get expelled. Not that nerd would do it Bakugou always thought and knew, but it served to make the ash blonde more angry at himself for being so stupid that he put himself in this situation, having to rely on Deku not saying anything, to be able to still be a hero, to not have All Might look at him with the look of disappointment and hatred that always woke him from his nightmares.
So seeing Yubi Ayase here and reminding him of all this, made Bakugou angry but also afraid, afraid that their past will be found out. Afraid that his dream would end.
The students and teachers noticed the demeanor of Izuku and Bakugou and grew worried. Seeing Izuku look so down and depressed, hurt the girls to their core and looked at the boy in the image with suspicion and the inklings of hatred. The boys were similarly worried, especially that the very image and name of this one random kid from their past made Izuku's and Bakugou look so down. Todoroki also managed to catch a glimpse of Izuku's peering over to Bakugou before flinching and looking away, which made Todoroki more suspicious towards Bakugou and his past with Deku that it would make Midoriya so quite and broken looking.
Kirishima too looked at Bakugou, who looked angry yet afraid and noticed how he looked at Midoriya for a second before quickly looking away, hoping no one would notice. But Kirishima noticed, and he knew that this person reminded the two of something of their past, something that the two didn't want to remember. Kirishima knew that Deku wasn't the cause of it, the green bean wouldn't hurt fly willingly, but Bakugou was explosive, easy to anger, and even arrogant, Kirishima admitted, and he was dreading and almost outright rejecting the suspicion that seem to be clear in his head.
The teachers grew suspicious over Ayase's past with Midoriya and Bakugou. All Might knew that Izuku had a troubling past over being Quirkless, but with how Izuku looked so broken, so sad and depressed he feared that it was worse than he thought. He whispered his concerns to Nezu and both agreed to talk to the boys later and while also investigating both Ayase and Izuku and Bakugou past.
After things settled down and the two hero students agreeing to move on, they resumed the video.
"At age four he built his own circuit board. At age six, his first engine. And at age 17 he graduated summa cum laude from MIT."
They were impressed with Bakugou's counterpart's genius mind, especially Mei who was itching to see if the genius of one world could be the same in another, but a suspicion in her head was telling her that wasn't the case.
Kaminari scratches at his head and asked "Uhm, I know that all this is cool but what is summa cum laude mean?"
"It is a Latin term for one highest distinctions of honor in the American education system, the highest in fact. Which meant that Bakugou was among the highest in his graduating class." Momo said, a tiny bit of envy in comparing herself to this Katsuki Stark.
Bakugou yelled out "Of course I would get the highest honor! I Bet I Was The Best of the Best! I expect nothing Less!"
Sero said "Given that he graduated at the age of 17 while most of us here are 16 and still in high school, I don't doubt it."
"Then the passing of a Titan." The screen showed a newspaper article of Masarou Bakugou and Mitsuki Bakugou dying in a car crash on December 16, 1991.
The room became silent and the proud, standing explosive teen sank into his seat with a look of shock and horror. The only roaming thought in his head were that his parents died in this world.
He heard the sorry's from everyone but practically drowned them out. Then he felt Kirishima's hand on his shoulder and he nodded his head in appreciation. He then felt a more skinner hand on his shoulder that quickly turned more buff and stronger and another hand, this one scarred on his arm. He knew whose hands they were and for once didn't shook Deku's hand away and just made a tch sound and a nod, trying to fight back the tears at the thoughts of his mom and dad in a car crash and dying or dying at the hands of a Villain.
After things settled, they continued.
"Masarou Stark's lifelong friend and ally, Obadiah Stane, steps in to fill the gap left by the legendary founder." It showed photos and magazines of Obadiah Stane. "Until at age 21, the prodigal son returns and is anointed as the new CEO of Stark Industries." It then showed a newspaper of Katsuki with Stane in the background.
The students complimented and praised Bakugou for his counterpart being the CEO of a billion dollar industry.
Nezu frowned at the look of the newspaper, almost seeing the hidden resentment in the man's eyes.
Applause sounded in the room. "With the keys to the kingdom, Katsuki ushers in a new era for his father's legacy, creating smarter weapons, advanced robotics, satellite targeting. Today, Katsuki Stark has changed the face of the weapons industry by ensuring freedom and protecting America and her interests around the globe."
Applause sounded off again and as the monitors finished the video, the spotlight was drawn onto a familiar red-headed man in a military dress suit. Colonel Ejiro Kirishima.
"KIRISHIMA?!" The students cried out in surprise.
"Nice man!" Tetsutetsu praised. "You're a Colonel in the US military! That so Manly!"
"I Know!" Kirishima said excited after snapping out of his surprise.
Kirishima spoke "As liaison to Stark Industries, I've had the unique experience serving with a real patriot. He's my friend, a great Man, and my great mentor."
"Aww, KiriBaku survives across dimensions." Mina teased. People laughed at that and Bakugou's red face.
Kirishima, oblivious to the teasing behind Mina's words, wrapped an arm around Bakugou and said "Here that Bakubro, we are Manly Best Friends Across Space and Time!"
Bakugou gritted out with an embarrassed red faced "S-Shut up, Shitty Hair! And get your arm off of me!"
Kirishima finished his speech by saying "Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor and privilege to present this year's Apogee Award to Mr. Katsuki Stark." Applause arose but after looking over the crowd, Kirishima found no sign of Katsuki with Stane shaking his head with amused eyes. Kirishima rolled his eyes and sighed disappointed, but not surprised.
"Bakugou, it is highly rude and disrespectful to show uninvited to and award ceremony in your honor!"
"Seems to me that Bakugou's arrogance and jeunesse has lead to him doing this multiple times by looks of Stane and Kirishima." Aoyama said.
"SHUT UP GLASSES AND SPARKLE TURD!" Guess who said that.
After seeing that Katsuki was a no show, Stane rose from his seat and came up to receive the award. As he got to the podium, received the award and the claps resided he said "This is beautiful! Thank you. Thank you all very much. This is wonderful."
Bakugou yelled out "HEY ITS MY AWARD YOU STRETCHY FINGERED EXTRA! STOP TAKING IT LIKE ITS YOURS!"
"You know that he wouldn't have to accept it if your other self was there, right?" Shoji said, making Bakugou sit back down grumbling at himself.
"Well, I'm not Katsuki Stark." The crowd laughed. "But if I were Katsuki, I would tell you how honored I feel, and what a joy it is to receive this very prestigious award."
"Guy really knows how to work a crowd that's for sure." Snipe said. "Make them feel flattered when the man of honor is a no show."
"Wells it's to be expected from a man who had to take over the business before Bakugou." Ryukyu said.
"The best thing about Katsuki is also the worst thing. He's always working." The scene the shifted to said working man working it on a game of craps, with his own crowd of people cheering, yelling "Work it! Come on!"
Laughter ensued, even Bakugou himself over seeing him ditching such a boring event for some thing of more flair. Eraserhead meanwhile had to resist the urge to either bang his head on a table, give the real Bakugou detention over his other self's betting and drinking, or both. Iida meanwhile was waving his arm in hyper speed motion muttering how disgraceful Bakugou's actions were.
As Katsuki was flirting with an attractive woman next to him (something that was causing Mineta to grit his teeth in jealousy), Kirishima appeared and said "You are unbelievable."
"Busted!" Honenuki yelled out.
"SHUT IT SKULL FACE!" Not even bothering asking who it was that yelled that.
"Oh no!" Stark grumbled. "Did they rope you into this?"
"Nobody roped me into anything." Kirishima said, Katsuki playfully saying sorry. "But if they told me that if I presented you with an award, you'd be deeply honored."
"Of course Id be deeply honored." Katsuki said with mock sincerity. "And it's you, that's great. So when do we do it?"
"Right here." Kirishima said. "Here you go." He handed the award to Katsuki.
Katsuki grabbed the award and quickly said "There it is. That was easy. I'm sorry Wow! Would you look at that?" He handed it off to the girl he was talking to nonchalantly.
People were laughing at the two's interaction. "Bakugou is the playful jokester and Kirishima is the serious one." Torru said.
Mina then said "OMG they switched personalities." That caused more laughter, with Kirishima scratching at his head with an embarrassed smile and steam coming out of Bakugou's raging, embarrassed blushing face.
After a brief interaction of Katsuki losing his bet, handing of his trophy to a guy dressed as Julius Ceaser (to which Iida said that was highly disrespectful), Katsuki can be seen walking to his limo, Happy Awase, his bodyguard following beside him with other body guards.
"Wait, I'm his god damn bodyguard!" Awase yelled out in shock and anger.
"And his limo driver, apparently." Sen said.
Monoma was about to let out another rant about Class-1A being attention hogs before he received a karate chop to his neck by Kendo and knocked out.
As Katsuki was about to enter his ride, a blonde, attractive reporter suddenly called out "Mr. Stark! Excuse me! Mr. Stark! Christine Everheart, Vanity Fair Magazine. Can I ask you a couple of questions?"
Mineta was practically drooling and ready to make a perverse comment but was impeded by a tape in his mouth, courtesy of Sero.
"She cute. She's alright." Katsuki whispered to Happy before agreeing.
Christine asked "You've been called the da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?"
Katsuki responded "Absolute ridiculous. I don't paint."
Mt. Lady clapped and said "Wow, this kid is already better at interviews in that world than here." Cue the angry, explosive Pomeranian screeching out again.
"And what do you say to your other nickname, the Merchant of Death?" Christine said bluntly.
"That's not bad." Katsuki admitted.
"Only 'Lord Explosion Murder' would think that a nickname like that would be good." Uraraka said. Which caused everyone to laugh, especially the 1B students who didn't know about that.
"Are you serious?!" Setsuna gasped out.
"That was his second choice behind 'King Explosion Murder'." Momo said. The 1B students were howling in laughter, which made a certain triggered individual so mad his palms were crackling with tiny explosions.
"SHUT UP YOU 1B EXTRAS!"
"Let me guess, Berkeley?" Katsuki asked.
"Brown, actually." Everheart said.
"Well, Ms. Brown, it's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we got." Katsuki said. "I guarantee that the day weapons are no longer needed to keep the peace, I'll start making bricks and beams for baby hospitals."
"Wow." Kyouka said "So this Bakugou is more of a practical realist."
"HEY!" Bakugou yelled "I ALREADY AM A PRACTICAL REALIST!"
"Says the same guy that rather strike his own teammate than work with him over a grudge." Asui said, still pissed at when Bakugou struck Deku in their Final Exams.
"Rehearse that much?" Christine bluntly asked.
"Every night in front of the mirror before bedtime." Stark said.
"I can see that." She said.
"I'd like to show you first hand." He flirted.
"All I want is a serious answer." She insisted.
"Ok, here's serious." Katsuki said. "My old man had a philosophy, "Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy."
"Your dad sounds brutal." Kamakiri said.
"Sounds like something that Aunt Mitsuki would say." Izuku admitted, to which the explosive teen for once agreed with Deku.
"That a great line coming from the guy selling the sticks." She said.
"Ooh! Burn!" Kaminari said.
"My father helped defeat the Nazis, he worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero."
Christine pushes further saying "And a lot of people would also call that war profiteering"
Katsuki now seemingly pissed took of his shades and said "Tell me do you plan on reporting on the millions we've saved, by advancing medical technology or kept from starvation from our inteli-crops? All those breakthroughs, military founding, honey."
"And that kids is how you drop the mic on reporters that want to call you out for something." Mt. Lady said.
"Wow. You ever lose an hour of sleep in your whole life?" Christen said.
"Id be prepared to lose a few with you."
Christine's smile turned to a frown. A second later, the scene shifted to having Katsuki and Christine, now pants-less, making out in his bed like a pair of dogs in heat, with the two making out to the point where they roll off the bed much to Stark's laughter.
"Boy, that escalated quickly." Kaminari memed.
Meanwhile, the boys were calling Bakugou a dog and player, to which said player smirked and looked proud of himself, while Mineta was absolutely livid with jealousy. The girls however looked away and tried to wash the site away with Izuku in Bakugou's place which only led to their anger and jealousy, which led to replacing it with Bakugou, which to them trying to wash it away and it continued that way on and on and on for a while. Thankfully, Kota and Eri were blocked form the scene with the quick work of Izuku and Mirio.
The scene changed to where it showed Christine in bed covered in blankets, until the room came alive with the windows changing to reveal that bright morning sky, with holographic displays ok the side and an robotic voice played out in the room waking Christine up.
"Good morning." The A.I., Jarvis, said. "The weather in Malibu is 72 degrees with scattered clouds. The surf conditions are fair with waist-to-shoulder high lines. High tide will be at 10:52 a.m."
"SERIOUSlY?!" Mei shrieked in surprise and excitement. "He Made a Fully Functional A.I. System In 2008?!" She was already begging Bakugou for his secrets and Izuku for a journal for her to write in.
"Hey, I just noticed something." Torru said. "Despite the British accent to it, doesn't that voice sound like a robotic version of Ojiro's?"
After replaying and listening carefully, the rest of the group could definitely see the similarities between Ojiro and J.A.R.V.I.S., with the mentioned tail martial artist wondering if this was him in this other world. A robotic butler of sorts to Bakugou.
Christine, covered in blankets, much to Mineta and Kaminari's disappointment, got out of bed and looked out the window to see the beauty cliff side surf view with the screen zooming back to reveal a beautiful mansion on the side of a cliff in Malibu, California.
"Damn Bakugou!" Sato said. "That's a freaking cool house you got!"
"It's almost as big as my parent's summer mansion!" Momo said in exclaim, meanwhile Uraraka fell down with shocked, wide eyes muttering what was Momo's life.
Christine walked into a large living room, wearing only her underwear and Tony's dress shirt from last night, looking around for Katsuki, while also admiring the room. She reached over to a keypad over by the wall with curiosity.
As she touched it, it flared red with Jarvis's voice saying "You are unauthorized to access this area." Christine jumped away in fright. "Jesus." Christine cursed.
"That's Jarvis He runs the house." A voice called from behind her.
Standing behind Christine, wearing a black business dress with a white undershirt, was Ibarra Shiozaki, her hair less viney than her counterpart but still green and in a pony tail.
"IBARRA/ME?!" Class-1B, especially Ibarra, shouted in surprise at seeing their classmate and friend int his world, looking different.
"Wow, Ibarra." Setsuna said. "You look so proper and business like."
Ibarra continued and said "I've got your clothes here." Holding a hanger with Christine's clothes wrapped up. "They've been dry-cleaned and pressed, there's a car waiting for you outside that will take you anywhere you like to go."
Christine walked over to her saying "You must be the famous Ibarra Shiozaki."
"Famous?" Pony said. "Nice Shio!" Ibarra thanked her classmate.
"Indeed I am." Ibarra simply said.
Christine received her clothes and said "After all these years, Katsuki still has you picking up the dry-cleaning." She looked at Ibarra with a smug look on her face.
Ibarra simply smiled and said "I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires, including, occasionally, taking out the trash." Her eyes and words directed at Christine and her look. "Will that be all?"
"DAMN GIRL!" Setsuna shouted out. "You just burned that girl so bad, she is going to have to take that car to the hospital!" The other females were likewise praising Shiozaki while the guys laughed at the proper burn.
Ibarra blushed and simply said "While I myself wouldn't have been so blunt and antagonizing, I do find my other selves's words towards that sinful reporter to be well-deserved in putting down her sinful pride."
'Not blunt huh?' Present Mic thought sarcastically, remembering Ibarra's bluntness at Mic's words of her during the Sports Festival.
Music played again as we see Katsuki tinkering with an engine of sorts. "Give me an exploded view." Katsuki said to a monitor.
Jarvis said, showing off a schematic of the engine, "The compression in cylinder three appears to be low."
Large amounts of scribbling was heard, Mei writing like a mad woman at the designs along with a footnote that said something about creating an A.I. assistant.
"Log that." Katsuki replied to the A.I. Behind him as he worked, Ibarra walked down the stairs, with a pad in one and hand and a phone to her ear in the other. She opened the glass door to Katsuki's workshop.
As she was finishing up her phone call, she shut off the music, Katsuki saying "Please don't turn off my music."
Ibarra replied "You are supposed to be halfway around the world right now."
Katsuki replied "How'd she take it?"
"Like a champ." Ibarra said not skipping a beat.
"Why you trying to hustle me out of here?" Katsuki replied nonchalantly as he inspected a piece of technology.
Ibarra said "Your flight was supposed to leave an hour and a half ago."
"That's funny," Katsuki said. "I thought that with it being my plane and all, that it would just wait for me to get there."
"He Has A Private Plane, Too?!" Mineta screeched out. "How much money does he have?!"
F.R.I.D.A.Y. responded but pausing the video and saying "Estimations on Katsuki Stark's net worth being over 9.3 billion U.S. dollars."
Silence filled the room, jaws dropped at the amount of money that Bakugou in this other world possessed.
'That's almost three times as much as my parents!' Momo thought in shock.
"Katsuki," Ibarra said. "I need you to speak to you about a couple things before I can get you out of the door."
"Doesn't it kinda defeat the purpose of having your own plane." Katsuki continued, seemingly oblivious to Ibarra's words, as he stood for a second before sitting on the hood of another car.
"Larry called." Ibarra said. "He's got another buyer for the Jackson Pollock in the wings. Do you want it? Yes or no?"
"Is it a good representation of his spring period?" Katsuki asked.
"Um, no." Ibarra said. "The Springs was actually the neighborhood in East Hampton where he loved and worked, not the 'spring' like the season."
"So?" Katsuki said bluntly.
"I think it's a fair example." Ibarra said. "I think it's incredibly overpriced."
Katsuki Stark was silent for a millisecond before he said "I need it." Ibarra smirked fondly. "Buy it. Store it."
"Anyone else getting rich asshole, spending all of his money recklessly vibes coming off of him?" Kyouka asked. 98% of people raised their hands, the only exceptions being a ticked off explosive Pomeranian and Endeavor.
Bakugou walked towards a fridge and mini-kitchen, Ibarra writing down something, and continued "Okay. The MIT commencement speech-"
"Is in June." Katsuki interrupted. "Please don't harangue me about stuff that's way, way down-"
"Well, They're haranguing me, so I'm going to say yes." Ibarra interrupted him.
"We'll deflect it, absorb it." Katsuki said. "Don't transmit it back to me."
"I need you to sign this before you go." Ibarra continued undeterred.
"What are you trying to get rid of me for?"Katsuki said. "What, you've got plans?"
"As a matter of fact, I do." Ibarra admitted.
"I don't like it when you have plans." Katsuki said.
"Well, I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday." Ibarra said.
"It's you birthday?" Katsuki said with a straight face.
"Yes." Ibarra said.
"I knew that." Katsuki lied. "Already?"
"Yeah. Isn't that strange? It's the same day as last year." Ibarra said with a teasing smile.
"My shipping senses are tingling." Mina said with a mad gleam in her eyes.
"Oh yeah?" Torru asked. "What is this ship called?"
"Katsubarra or Bakuzaki." Mina said, causing teasing laughter to sprout from everyone. Bakugou and Shiozaki both blushed brightly, looked at each other at the same time, blushed more and looked away, much to everyone's char-gin.
"Get yourself something nice from me." Katsuki said.
"I already did." Ibarra said smiling.
"And?" Katsuki asked smiling too.
"Oh it was very nice." said Ibarra. "Yeah, very tasteful. Thank you Mr. Stark."
"You're welcome, Ms. Shiozaki." Katsuki said. She tapped her pen onto Katsuki's cup to which he drank and gave it to her and walked away, with Shiozaki smiling wider.
Bakugou strongly tried to keep his embarrassment and blush from being seen, avoiding the glares from Mineta and Kaminari and the teasing glances from Mina and the girls. He looked to Izuku and then to All Might, who both just smiled and gave a thumbs up like Kirishima, to which made him more embarrassed and ticked off.
Shiozaki faces the same situation with the stares from the guys of and the teasing glances from the girls, and tried to to cover herself in her vines with an embarrassed, blushing face.
We then see Katsuki driving fast down a road to an airport in a sports car, with another car driving behind him, driven by Awase. He drives onto the roadway next to his private jet, with Kirishima in his uniform waiting and pissed.
Katsuki got and laughed as Awase parked next to him. "Oh, I thought I lost you back there."
"You did sir." Awase said. "I had to cut across Mulholland."
"Bakugou, it is highly disgraceful to intentionally leave your bodyguards behind and breaking the speed limit!" Iida chastised. "You could have been taken hostage from someone or gotten in an accident!"
"Seems like he learns his lesson later on." Shinso grimly said, reminding them of current Bakugou being held hostage by terrorists.
"Ah! I got you! I got you!" Katsuki said smiling.
"What's wrong with you?!" Kirishima yelled out pissed.
"What?" Stark said. "I got doing a piece for Vanity Fair."
"If by piece, he means having a piece of Vanity Fair, then he's right." Mineta said pervertedly. Punishment: Hung upside down by his legs by Sero's tape on Tsu's instructions. No one disagreed.
"Three hours." Kirishima said. "For Three Hours, you got me standing here."
Katsuki and Awase walked past him and entered the plane saying "Waiting on you now. Let's go come. Come on. Wheels up. Rock and roll!" Kirishima shook his head as he got on the plane.
As they plane flew, Katsuki and Kirishima sat on a table, Katsuki flirting with the flight attendant. "What you reading, platypus?"
"Platypus?" Kirishima questioned.
"Don't ask me how my other self thinks!" Bakugou said. "How should I know what he thinks?!"
Kirishima and the others decided to not bother answering that question.
"Nothing." Kirishima said grumpily.
"Come on sour patch. Don't be mad." Katsuki said.
"I told you I'm not mad, I'm indifferent, ok?" Kirishima said still grumpy.
This led to a series of apologizing from Katsuki, rebuttals from Kirishima about not expecting much from Katsuki, and Katsuki simulatiously flirting with the flight attendants (making a certain perverted, string up grape head more jealous).
"You are constitutionally incapable of being responsible." Kirishima said.
"It would be irresponsible not to drink. I'm just talking about a nightcap." Katsuki replied.
"Hot sake?" The flight attendant asked.
"Yes, two please." Katsuki replied quickly.
"No." Kirishima refused. "I'm not drinking. I don't want any."
A second later the screen shows a drunk Katsuki and Kirishima drinking hot sake, Kirishima drunk talking about war stories. All the while music was blasting, lights were blaring and the female flight attendants were dancing around a pole with their hair undone and their shirts rolled up and buttoned down.
"Well...I guess Young Bakugou knows how to...reconcile with his friends." All Might tried to spin a positive turn at the scene.
"He corrupted my horn buddy!" Mina exclaimed.
Kirishima blushed embarrassed at the laughter of his friends and his break down to drinking.
Later, the plane arrived in Bargram Air Base, Afghanistan, Katsuki and Kirishima walking out to be received by a group of soldiers and generals.
Katsuki stood before the group on a stage and shouted out a speech. "Is it better to be feared or respected?"
"Fear is a mighty weapon to deter villains and foes to the shadows, while to be respected means to be seen as a leader and warrior with the trust of his comrades." Tokoyami sagely said.
"I say, is it too much to ask for both?" Katsuki said.
"That actually makes sense." Snipe said.
"It's good to have a balance of fear and respect as a hero. You have to command respect from your fellow heroes so that you may be seen as trust worthy, be able to lead in a crisis, and to be seen as a hero to the people. However, fear is also needed to be able to drive villains and criminals away from crimes, similar to All Might." Nezu wisely said.
"With that in mind," he continued. "I humbly present the crown jewel of Stark Industries' Freedom Line. It's the first missile to incorporate our proprietary repulsion technology."
"Repulsion?" Kaminari questioned. "So like, does it make people gross out and drives them away?"
Mei jumped in before Momo could explain saying "It's a force under the influence of which objects tend to move away from each other. It's akin to mostly magnetic polarity of the same kind or an electric charge of sorts."
"They say that the best weapon is one you never have to fire." Katsuki said.
"Indeed." All Might said. "It's better to prevent a fight through words and reason than through fists and violence."
Everyone agreed, except for Endeavor and Bakugou, the latter having a semi-mental breakdown at hearing his idol, who he respected for his strength and never losing a fight, practically telling him that Deku's way of peace and reason is better than his way of beating up bad guys.
"I respectfully disagree." Katsuki continued.
All Might and the heroes frowned at that. The students were more so confused as to what he meant.
"I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dad did it. That's how America does it. And it's worked pretty well so far." Katsuki said.
"While I wouldn't go that far, he does make some sense." Kendo admitted. "If words and reasons don't solve things, it is reasonable to have the strength and firepower to defeat the enemy as quickly and efficiently as possible."
"Find an excuse to let one of these babies off the chain, and I can personally guarantee you, the bad guys won't even want to come out of their caves." Katsuki waves his hand to the side
Three large missile shifted from its firing device and took aim at its target area. After targeting, one of the missiles launched off at high speeds.
As it soared through the air and neared it target area, its sides broke out and fired off a dozen tinier and faster looking missiles that whistles through the air.
As it hit the ground, Katsuki raised his arms up and said "For you consideration, the Jericho."
Multiple explosions occurred along a mountain range and the blastwave was so large that the wind blew past Stark and the others in a fear of pure destructive power.
The assembled group collectively dropped their jaws to the floor at the show of destruction from only One missile.
"Holy. Shit." Mina said with pure astonishment.
"Yeah...Holy." Hagakure said sarcastically.
"Those explosions make Bakugou's look like firecrackers." Sero said stunned.
For once, Bakugou didn't yell out at being called weak. He instead looked at the screen with pure amazement, mostly at himself for creating that weapon, and nodded dumbly.
"Let's hope that that kid doesn't end up getting That kind of firepower with his Quirk on the wrong side." Hawks whispered to Endeavor, who nodded in agreement.
Katsuki walked over to a high tech crate that opened up to reveal wine glasses and vodka. "I'll be throwing in these with every purchase of 500 million or more. To peace." He picked on glass up and toasted before drinking its contents.
"Jesus, Man." Kirishima said. "You are such a badass in this world!"
"I'M A BADDASS IN EVERY WORLD! ESPECIALLY THIS ONE!" Bakugou yelled out.
"While he is quite 'badass'," Yui said, air quotes on badass thrown in. "He's also looks like he has an alcohol issue mixed in with reckless indulgence and parental issues."
The students and teachers looked to her, impressed with her deduction. "While I can understand all that, one question: How come parental issues?" Setsuna asked.
"He got angry and took his shades off when that reporter called his father's heroic work war profiteering." Yui explained.
Katsuki's phone vibrated and he answered, to find Obidiah in bed. "Katsuki." Obidiah greeted.
"Obie." Katsuki greeted back. "What you doing up?"
"I couldn't sleep till I found out how it went. How'd it go?" Obie asked.
"He's seriously worried about That weapon not seeking well?!" Awase asked incredulously.
"Of course!" Mei chipped in. "Customer satisfaction should always be a number 1 priority when marketing and distributing babies to their maximum potential and profit! My babies keep me up all night!"
"Um, Hatsumei," Izuku said. "When was the last time you slept and how long?"
"Two hours last night!" Mei said without one care, oblivious to the gapes of shock, sighs of expectancy, and groans of Power Loader.
"It went great." Katsuki said. "Looks like its gonna be an early Christmas."
"Hey! Way to go my boy! I'll see you tomorrow yeah?" Stane congratulated.
"Unlikely." Tokoyami said grimly.
"Why aren't you wearing those pajamas I got you?" Katsuki joked/accused.
"Good night, Katsuki." Obidiah said before hanging up.
"Hey Katsuki!" Kirishima yelled out as Katsuki enter the vehicle.
Katsuki looked his head out and said "I'm sorry. This is the 'fun-vee'. The 'hum-drum-vee' is back there."
"Ouch." Kaminari said. "Kirishima just got kicked out and burn in one go."
"It's alright." Kirishima said. "I take it as a thank you for not getting shot by terrorists later."
"S-Shut it Shitty Hair!" Katsuki stuttered embarrassed.
Mina was drawing up notes in her Shipping Journal, which she got from Midori, on her KiriBaku ship theory.
"Nice job." Kirishima said.
Katsuki patted Kirishima's hand. "I'll see you back at base."
"Very unlikely." Shihai said grimly too.
The scene showed the same scene of the humvees driving off only for the front car to be blown up.
"And back to the present time on Kidnapped by Terrorists." Kaminari joked.
Flashes of bright lights with Katsuki groaning and screaming in pain, rapid images of men in masks over him, pulling out pieces of metal from his bloody open chest.
"Well we can chalk that up to getting out of that explosion unscathed as a big fat no." Shoji said.
"I hope he ends up alright." Ibarra wondered out loud.
"Why Ibarra? Scared your boss crush might get hurt?" Setsuna teased.
Results lead to laughing and chuckling from the audience and blushing and stuttering from Ibarra and Bakugou.
Bakugou looked at the stuttering, holy vine girl and thought 'She is...cute...'
The images ended with a plate of round metal inserted into his chest and Katsuki falling to unconscious again.
The screen turned black before turning back on to see Bakugou, in raggedy clothes, wake up. He groaned in pain and discomfort and looked around him, pulling out a long plastic tube from his nose.
He looked around to find a tall and thin man, shaving his chin in a mirror. He wore a dusty and dirty dress shirt and pants, glasses, and had greying specks of hair on his chin and sides.
"Who's he?" Kaminari asked.
"One of his captures perhaps?" Iida inquired.
"No." Izuku said. "He looks to dirty and worn out to be one of those terrorists. Perhaps he's another prisoner, perhaps one of the doctors that operated on him?"
Bakugou tried to move, the wires connected to him moving a device beside him and causing noise.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." The man spoke in an Arabic accent, not even bothering looking back.
Stark looked back to find that the device that he was connected to was an old looking, car-sized battery or generator. He traced the wires to his chest covered in bandages and slightly more bump that usual.
Katsuki tore the bandages off, panting hysterically in escalating desperation and horror. As he tore the final ones and looked at his exposed chest, he found in the middle a round piece of metal stuck to his chest.
"Oh Jesus!" Tetsutetsu exclaimed.
"Young Bakugou." All Might said worryingly.
"What the hell is that thing?" Kamakiri said wierded and grossed out.
"Not sure." Power Loader said. "But given how it seems surgically implanted on him in the same area where the shrapnel hit his chest, connected by a generator of sorts, and we saw images of doctors removing shrapnel from bush chest, my guess that it's some kind of magnet."
"It looks disgusting." Mei grimaced. "Amateurishly made. No flair. It looks like something pulled out from a dump."
Katsuki looked at it in and gasped out in horror. The screen shifted to see the old man mixing food from a pan, whistling and now wearing a black blazer, while Katsuki inspected his chest.
"What the hell did you do to me?" Katsuki said accusingly.
The man chuckled. "What I did?" The man said. "What I did is to save you life."
"Hah!" Typical of Class-1A and their delinquent of a Pomeranian to accuse the man who saved you life so horrib-ack!" Monoma was silenced by a chop to the head of Kendo.
"I removed all the shrapnel that I could, but there's a lot left, and it's headed into your aptrial septum." The man explained.
"Why The Hell Didn't You Remove ALL of It?!" Bakugou accused himself.
"He said he removed all the he Could." Uraraka said. "Plus I don't think that cave looks well equipped enough to work on someone that well."
Bakugou calmed down, grumbling.
"What is the aptial septin?" Kaminari asked.
"Aptrial Septum." Momo corrected. "And it's basically the middle of your chest and area where the heart and lungs connect. So for there to be shrapnel still inside of him in those areas is very bad, incredibly fatal."
"Oh no." Uraraka gasped.
"Want to see?" The man in glasses said, picking up a tiny bottle and shook it, tiny pieces of shrapnel jingling around. "I have a souvenir. Thank you."
"Shrapnel From Inside My Chest Is Not A Souvenir, You Bastard!" Bakugou raged.
"Hey calm down man!" Kirishima said. "It was probably a joke. Maybe to keep you calm."
"I Am Calm! I'm as Calm as I Can Be!" Bakugou yelled out, not calm.
"Though I do wonder why he seems so cheery over this?" Mandaley asked.
"Humor can be a coping mechanism in times of distress. Such cases include myself and Ms. Joke." Nezu explained. "Isn't that right Aizawa?"
"No comment." Eraser said stoically, much to Hizashi's, Kayama's, and Class-1A's amusement.
He tossed the bottle to Katsuki. He caught it and inspected the shards of metal that were previously in his chest. "I've seen many wounds like that in my village." The man pointed out. "We call them the 'walking dead',"
"Why would they name people with shrapnel in their chests something like zombies?" Reiko wondered.
"Because it takes about a week for the barbs to reach the vital organs." The man finished.
"Oh." Reiko said, her question answered.
"What is this?" Katsuki asked.
"That," the man pointed out. "Is an electromagnet, hooked up to a car battery, and it's keeping the shrapnel from entering your heart."
"That's pretty smart." Death Arms complimented. "But how effective will it be in keeping the shrapnel from his heart in the long run?"
"Depends on both the magnet and the power source." Power Loader explained. "Since it's coming from a car battery, Id say that it's effective but depending on how much power the battery has left and how much it will last, it will probably take perhaps a week still or twice as much."
Katsuki zipper up his jacket and looked over to find a camera looking on them. The man followed his view and smirked. "That right. Smile."
"We met once, you know, at a technical conference in Bern." The man revealed.
"I don't remember." Katsuki said.
"You wouldn't." The man said. "If I'd been that drunk, I wouldn't have been able to stand, much less give a lecture about integrated circuits."
"Ouch." Sero said. "Nothing like pointing out your alcoholism to jab at your dickish attitude."
"So should we get Bakugou drunk and fix him of his own garbage-fire attitude?" Kaminari joked.
Laughter filled the gym as Bakugou yelled out "SHUT UP REJECT PIKACHU BEFORE I BUST YOUR ASS SO HARD, YOU'LL BE SITTING ON AN ICE PACK FOR WEEKS!"
"Do you mean beating him up with your Quirk or are you just that desperate to bang Kaminari?" Kirishima joked.
More laughter rang while Bakugou sat back down with red face and grinding teeth.
Katsuki Stark looked around again and asked "Where are we?"
Before the man could answer, the metal doors thudded, a slide of a metal panel revealed another man who yelled something in Arabic. As a commotion of words sounded behind the walls, the man quickly stood up and whispered to Stark "Stand Up. Stand Up!"
As Katsuki stood up, the man grabbing his arm, the man warned "Just do as I do. Come on put your hands up."
The doors opened to reveal a pair of men, the one in the middle with a piece of paper and the others with loaded guns on them.
"Those are my Guns." Katsuki realized. "How did they get my guns?"
"First blown up by your own missile, now you are being threatened by your guns. Karma's a bitch ain't it?" Setsuna said.
"Shut It, Lizard Bitch!"
"Do you understand me?!" The man whispered loudly. "Do as I do."
The man in the middle raised his hands up and exclaimed in Arabic. He started speaking in Arabic but the few words that were easily translated were "Katsuki Stark." and "weapons."
After the man finished speaking, he gestured towards the man with glasses who translated "He said 'Welcome Katsuki Stark, the most famous mass murderer in the history of America."
"Murderer?!" Kirishima exclaimed. "How is Bakugou a murderer?! He is a tech billionaire, not a Villain! That's really unmanly to say!"
"Just keep watching Kirishima." Izuku said frowning, already figuring out what the terrorist meant.
The terrorist continued speaking with the man translating "He is honored. He wants you to build the missile. The Jericho missile that you demonstrated. This one." The terrorist gave the man a photograph of the Jericho missile from before.
"There's No Way In Hell Bakubro Would Create A Missile For These Scumbags!" Kirishima said.
"While I agree that the idea of Bakugou creating a missile as dangerous as that to a group of terrorists is ridiculous, I fear that he has little choice with guns on him." Iida said.
"I'd Rather Die Than Give Those Sick Bastards My Missile!" Bakugou yelled defiantly.
"They could end up using the man as a hostage." Momo said, making the explosive hero student grit in frustration.
"No." Izuku said. "While it's possible, I don't think that these guys, that see Kacchan as a murderer, would care about the life of another over his own, despite how I believe otherwise. Let's continue and see."
Bakugou was extremely close to blowing up at Deku before he said that last part. He decided to grumble and continue to look.
Katsuki looked at the picture and the terrorist and said "I refuse."
"Yeah Bakubro!" Kirishima said. "Stick it to those Scumbags!"
A second later and Katsuki is having his head dunked and held under a tub of water.
The teachers and students flinched, especially Izuku and Kirishima, at seeing their fellow classmate/student/friend being tortured by the terrorists.
"Why doesn't he use his Quirk to fight back?!" Uraraka said, flinching at the sight of her opponent from the Sports Festival being tortured.
"This is a world that doesn't seem to have Quirks. He can't fight back. He's just Quirkless." Momo said, similarly disturbed at seeing her classmate tortured.
Izuku and Bakugou flinched at that, Izuku and Bakugou remembering their last with Izuku being beaten up and bullied by Bakugou and his lackeys. 'I-Is...is this what...Deku went through...with me?' Bakugou thought, his teeth gritting and self-deprecating words going through his head.
All Might gripped his wounded side, berating himself for not being there to help and being forced to watch this unfold. Eraserhead similarly was pissed off, his hair standing up and his eyes glowing in pure rage.
The screen then showed Katsuki being dragged, with a bag over his head, along with the man with glasses through a series of tunnels. They arrived to the outside of the cave where the boss spoke out.
The bag over Katsuki was removed for him to look over at a series of terrorists, tents, and loads of weapons.
"Shit!" Tetsutetsu exclaimed. "They got a whole dang squad of terrorists out there loaded to the teeth!"
The terrorists forced Katsuki to walk along, the tech billionaire holding on to the car battery connected to him. As he walked, he saw dozens of crates and boxes filled with weapons, the Stark Industries logo on them, including missiles.
"Oh." Kirishima said sadly. "So that's what they mean by Mass Murderer."
"They could have said that Bakugou's weapons killed a lot of them, that they use his weapons to kill lots of people, or both." Izuku explained.
"What is disturbing is how these guys managed to get so many of his weapons?" Pixie Bob questioned.
"Maybe some of his buyers sell his weapons on the blackmarket." Eraser said.
They stopped, the main boss turning to Katsuki and spoke in Arabic, the man with glasses translating "He wants to know what you think."
Katsuki looked to the terrorist and said bluntly "I think you got a lot of my weapons."
As the man translated, the terrorist spoke again, which was translated "He says 'We have everything you need to build the Jericho missile. He wants you to make a list of the materials. He says for you to start working immediately, and when you're done he will set you free."
Katsuki looked to the terrorist, his hand out and took it.
"Bakubro no!" Kirishima said in defiance. Many in the audience where feeling antsy and worried, including Bakugou himself.
Katsuki said "No, he won't."
"No he won't." The man confirmed.
"Whew!" Kirishima breathes out in relief. "Oh he had me there for a second."
"He had us in the first half, not gonna lie." Kaminari memed.
Jirou sighed annoyed and said "Please stop trying to sound funny."
"Do or do not. There is no try." Kaminari memed again, much to the laughter of the students, and the groans from Jirou and some of the teachers, ie Aizawa.
The terrorist chuckled, thinking he succeeded, while Katsuki looked over to find a group of armed men on top of some rocks, with one bald man standing in particular.
"Why is he important?" Sato questioned.
"He could be the leader of the group." Iida inquired.
F.R.I.D.A.Y. paused the video again and scanned the man and said ""MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART DETECTED! RAZA! MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART: TSUBASA!" An imaged showed of a rather obese kid with a shaved head and a pair of red wings.
"Who is he?" Jurota asked.
Momo looked to the flinched faces of Izuku and Bakugou and said "I'm going to guess that he is another 'acquaintance' from your childhood, Izuku?"
Izuku nodded and said "Yeah, he is. But unlike Yubi, who was still around last time I saw him at Aldera, Tsubasa went abroad and I haven't seen him since I was younger."
F.R.I.D.A.Y. heard and did another, more different scanning phase and said "INFORMATION DETECTED! TSUBASA STATUS: DECEASED!"
The room grew quiet, Izuku and Katsuki wide eyed and shocked. Bakugou gritted his teeth, rage pooling up, while Deku gained tears in his eyes and mourned for the kid. He may have bullied him but it still didn't mean that he wasn't Deku's friend at a time and that he was still a person that he knew and died.
"How?" Bakugou growler quietly in rage, angered that someone he knew was dead and he didn't know about it.
F.R.I.D.A.Y. brought up video footage of a seeming random street, but seeing the smoke and fire in the distance and the figures of Izuku, Iida, and Todoroki, along with Gran Torino, Native, Manuel, and a captured Stain. the mentioned individuals in the group along with Endeavor widened their eyes at what this was.
"Wait...is that-" Mina asked trembling.
"Hosu City, the night Stain attacked us." Iida clarified.
"But why is it showing us this?" Momo asked.
Suddenly the video expanded where they saw a white, skinny Nomu with wings pop out of nowhere and grab Midoriya with his feet and started flying away with him.
"DEKU!" Uraraka shrieked.
Suddenly in a flash of movement that barely anyone registered, Stain broke loose from his restraints, kicked the blood of the Nomu off one of the heroes, paralyzing the creature and rushing towards it at high speeds. He leapt up and grabbed Deku off the Nomu and stab his knife into the Nomu's brain, killing it.
"Wait, Midori...you were saved by by the FREAKING HERO KILLER!" Mina asked shocked.
Izuku rubbed his head and said "Yeah, when he killed the Nomu, he mumbled something about 'trying to build a stronger society', about fake heroes and 'you can't die.'"
The audience looked at Izuku with shock, at the fact that the Hero Killer was Izuku as a worthy hero.
"Regardless, this still doesn't explain why this is of any importance." Todoroki said.
The screen rewound and paused at the Nomu before it died, and showed an image of it and Tsubasa with F.R.I.D.A.Y. saying "DNA MATCH CORRUPTED! RECALCULATING REMOVAL OF EXTRA DNA SAMPLES! NOMU AND TSUBASA DNA MATCH OVER 75% CONFIRMATION! BRAIN WAVE FUNCTIONS UPON DEATH ALTERED DUE TO SUPPRESSED MEMORIES INVOLVING IZUKU MIDORIYA REFERRED TO AS DEKU!"
The audience was horrified at the results, especially Endeavor, remembering and paling at the realization that he fired a spear of fire onto a kid turned into an undead monster.
Deku proceeded to break down in tears, the guys and girls comforting him. Izuku felt horrible at realizing that the boy was dead right in front of him and he didn't even knew at the time. Izuku's self deprecating thoughts took over and warped the situation where he thought the consciousness of Tsubasa tried to reach out to Deku, to save him from what he became. Something Deku believed he failed, with Deku's mind being bombarded by picturing the old Tsubasa being impaled by the knife with tears of desperation and fear.
Bakugou was growing ever more furious. Not only did he just been told that Tsubasa was killed, but he also was told that his former lackie/friend was turned into one of those abominations, and was killed by the Hero Killer.
The heroes were horrified at the realization that a mere child was turned into those monsters, especially All Might and Endeavor, wondering who would turn a child into one of those monsters.
Miles away in an underground lab, a certain horrible, evil scientist sneezed and shivered in fear for some unknown reason. His thoughts shifted to memories of his grandson, the one he turned into that Nomu that Stain killed. He wondered why he was remembering it but shrugged without a care and moved on to his work.
Back to U.A. after everything calmed down, and decide to discuss that for later, Nezu currently writing notes to investigate Tsubasa and All Might and Gran Torino making a note to call up Tsukauchi to investigate this, the video continued.
Katsuki stated at the crackling fire where the man said "I'm sure they are looking for you Mr. Stark, but they will never find you in these mountains."
Katsuki continued to look into the fire with a blank look. The man bent down and said "Look, What you just saw, That is your Legacy, Stark. Your life's work, in the hands of those murderers."
"Well this is getting rather deep. And depressing." Amajiki muttered.
"Kinda seems like the universe itself is giving Bakugou in that world a slap of realism." Nejire muttered curiously, Bakugou frowning and contemplating himself.
"Is that how you want to go out?" The man questioned. "Is this the last act of defiance of the great Katsuki Stark? Or are you going to do something?"
"Wow this is getting really deep!" Mirio said.
"Why should I do anything?" Stark said, sounding defeated and angry. "They're going to kill me, you, either way. And if they don't I'm probably dead in a week."
"Kacchan." Izuku muttered out. "Don't give up! You never give up!" Bakugou looked over at Deku in shock, and looked down, now more confused as to how to think of his former friend.
"Well then," the man said. "This is a very important week for you, isn't it? Hmm?"
Katsuki looked up, defiance and a plan forming in his eyes.
"Yeah!" Kirishima yelled. "Never giving up, even with the odds stacked against him! That's Bakugou for ya! And That's so Manly!"
Bakugou smirked, appreciation in his eyes towards Kirishima.
The screen showed the terrorists moving around in a hurry, carrying weapons and tools around while Katsuki shouted orders for what he needed, the man translating to the terrorists.
Katsuki was currently dismantling a missile when he asked the man "How many languages do you speak?"
The man responded "A lot, but apparently not enough for his place. They speak Arabic, Urdu, Dari, Pashto, Mongolian, Farsi, Russian."
"Jesus." Fatgum exclaimed. "I didn't even know half of those existed.
"Who are these people?" Katsuki asked.
"They are your loyal customers sir." The man answered snarky. "They call themselves the Ten Rings."
"The Ten Rings?" Itsuka asked
"That definitely sounds like a terrorist group there. Or a cult." Hawks said.
"Had you handled your own terrorist groups, Hawks?" Tokoyami asked.
"I've had my fair share of groups that called themselves terrorists or gave themselves some badass sounding names to make themselves sound scary." Hawks admitted. "They didn't seem scary for long."
As they worked they were being watched by the terrorists who uttered in a foreign language. As Stark drilled out a screw, the man asked "You know we might be more productive, if you include me in the planning process."
"Uh-Huh" Stark said before dismantling the rocket.
"I see Bakugou is just as bad at teamwork in this universe just as much as ours." Uraraka said.
Bakugou would have yelled out at the 'Gravity Bitch', as he so colorfully nicknamed her, but one glare from Eraserhead shut him up at the promise of consequence.
Katsuki dismantled some parts of a metal part and took out a small piece of metal. "We don't need this." Stark said before tossing the rest of the machine away.
The man asked "What is it?"
Katsuki held up the piece of metal with some pliers and said "That's palladium. 0.15 grams. We need at least 1.6 grams so why don't you go break down the other 11?"
The man nodded and did so.
"AHA!" Bakugou exclaimed. "YOU SEE! I CAN WORK WELL WITH OTHERS WHEN THEY ARE NOT MORONS! EAT THAT GRAVITY-" Lord Explosion Murder stopped as he looked over at Eraser's glowing red eyes. He sat down muttering "Tch. Whatever."
Katsuki grounded up some dirt into a cup. Katsuki's fellow prisoner held the jar of palladium over a fire with a pair of tongues, and slowly brought it over to the table. "Careful." Katsuki warned. "We got one shot at this."
"Relax." The man said "I've got steady hands. Why do you think you are still alive?" The man steadily poured the palladium onto the cup.
"What do I call you?" Katsuki asked.
The man turned to him after completing his task saying "Higari. Higari Maijima."
"HUH?!" Power Loader exclaimed in surprise.
"What's wrong Mr. Power Loader?" Mei asked. "That someone you know?"
Power Loader nodded and said "That person is me. That's my name."
The group looked surprised, blinking in realization that the U.A. teacher was the man with glasses, with the fellow teachers congratulating Power Loader for his appearance in this world and helping out his student.
Hatsumei then realized something and starting profusely apologizing to Power Loader for her comment over the 'hideous' electromagnet that she insulted. Power Loader let Hastumei, acting being mad, and said that she can avoid detention and time off the design studio by sleeping more and not blowing up the place more. Hastumei agreed to the first and made no promises on the later, Power Loader signing before giving in.
"Higari. Nice to meet you." Katsuki said.
"Nice to meet you too." Higari said.
Katsuki plucked out a thin ring of hardened palladium from the cup and stuck it onto a round piece of glass. Katsuki worked over a roundish piece of machinery, until Katsuki and Higari stood over the completed tiny machine that looked and glowed like a mini-reactor.
Higari said "That doesn't like the Jericho missile."
"That's because it's a miniaturized arc reactor." Katsuki clarified. "I've got a big one powering my factory at home. It should keep the shrapnel out of my heart."
"So Bakugou did all that and created a miniaturized version of a reactor to act as a pacemaker?!" Momo asked shell-shocked.
The audience was astounded, but Kaminari, confused, asked "What is an arc reactor?"
"Not sure." Mei replied. "But it must be some form of highly efficient and powerful fusion energy reactor if it can power a whole factory!" Mei proceeded in taking down notes.
"But what could it generate?" Higari asked.
"If my math is right, and it always is, three gigajoules per second." Katsuki bluntly said.
Jaws dropped to the floor in collective unison.
"HOLY MOTHER OF BABIES!" Mei exclaimed in pure amazement. "100 OF THOSE BABIES COULD POWER ALL OF THE U.S.A. FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR! EVEN MORE TIME IN JAPAN! I MUST HAVE THE BLUEPRINTS OF THAT BABY!"
Mei practically lunged at the black box before Izuku, with Full Cowling at more than 15%, dragged her back saying "I'm sure it can give you them, but after this is over, ok?"
It took the persuasive powers of Izuku, Power Loader, and Nezu combined to make Hatsumei sit down and stay put, with Hatsumei getting Izuku to test out her babies for a whole day. The girls didn't like no Izuku for a day, much less when they saw the ecstatic, blushing look on her face.
"That could run your heart for 50 lifetimes." Higari said astounded.
"Or something big for 15 minutes." Katsuki said.
Mei was already breaking in anticipation and looked to Izuku with eyes that screamed that he had no choice but to test All of her babies. Izuku started wondering if he just signed up for a day in Hell.
Katsuki brought Higari to a table with a lamp with schematics and blueprints to various devices. He put them on the table as they stared at it. "This is our ticket out of here." Katsuki said.
"What is it?" Higari questioned.
"Flatten them out and look."
As he did, Higari said "Oh...wow. Impressive."
Down on the table, illuminated and put together, was the schematics of a large high tech, suit of armor.
Mei drooled hungrily as she wrote down the blueprints like her life depended on her, which to her she did. Everyone else looked to the blueprints and felt chills go up their spines in both anticipation and excitement.
Sometime later, Katsuki and Higari are playing a game, his mini-arc reactor in his chest. After Katsuki made a roll, Higari chuckled saying "Good. Good."
"You still haven't told me where you're from." Katsuki said.
"I come from a small town called Gulmira." Higari said. "It's actually a nice place."
"Got a family?" Katsuki asked.
"Yes, and I will see them when I leave here." Higari said.
"Aww." Mina said. "So hopeful!"
"It is nice for him to want to escape to see his family, to have hope." Izuku said smiling, knowing that that is the kind of hero he wants to be. A Hero that not only gives people a sense of peace, but also hope.
"And you Stark?" Higari asked.
Stark looked at him for a moment, before he said "No."
"Aww." Mina said again. "Bakugou is lonely."
"AM NOT!" Bakugou replied.
"No?" Higari questioned. "So you are a man who has everything, and nothing."
"Ouch." Kaminari said. "That's actually really sad. To have all that wealth and fame and for it to mean nothing in the end without someone to share it with."
The students of Class-1A looked to Kaminari stunned. Jirou said "Wow, Kaminari. That was...actually something smart and analytical of you."
"Yes, I, too, am extraordinarily analytical." Kaminari memed. The students laughed out loud while it took all of Jirou's willpower not to stab her jacks into Kaminari's eyes.
Days went by in the cave, the terrorists checking in on them but not finding anything suspicious at first. But as the days went, the terrorists became more confused. It then showed Raza looking at a screen of Katsuki and Higari testing out a leg, with the Ten Rings leader shifting the ring in his finger and suspicion in his eyes.
"Uh oh." Honenuki said. "Looks like their busted."
As Katsuki was welding a piece of metal with a blowtorch, the panel slid open and and terrorist shouted out in warning. The two captives raised their hands as a group of armed terrorists came in, Raza coming out of the group and walking over to the pair of scientists. Raza looked at the two and said "Relax." Katsuki and Higari slowly brought their hands down.
"Wait, he could speak English this whole time?!" Pony said astounded. "Then why have the fat guy speak and Higari translate?"
"Probably to make themselves more threatening by having the boss have his lackies speak for him while he poses dangerously." Monoma mocked.
Raza walked to Katsuki and inspected the glowing arc reactor in Stark's chest. "The bow and arrow once was the pinnacle of weapons technology." Raza said. "It allowed the great Ghangis Khan to rule from the Pacific to the Ukraine."
"Bad guy monologuing?" Shinso asked sarcastically.
"Bad guy monologuing." Aizawa answered.
"An empire twice the size of Alexander the Great." Raza continued as he inspected a missile. "And four times the size of the Roman Empire." Raza picked up the schematics. "But today, whoever holds the latest Stark weapons rules these lands."
Katsuki looked at Higari nervously, who subtlety shook his hand to not worry.
"And soon." Raza said as he turned to Katsuki threateningly. "It will be my turn."
"So classic bad guy takes over the world bullshit." Bakugou said, unimpressed.
Raza walked to face Katsuki and spoke in Urdu, which was translated to "Why have you failed me?"
Higari spoke back in Urdu saying "We're working. Diligently."
"I let you live." Raza said, turning and walking towards Higari. "This is how you repay me?"
"Uh oh." Sero said. "I've got a bad feeling about this."
"It's very complex." Higari lied and said truthfully at the same time. "He's trying very hard."
"Get him on his knees." Raza ordered. Two of his men complied and brought Higari to his knees forcefully. Raza chuckled sinisterly and said "You think I'm a fool? I'll get the truth."
"We're both working." Higari implored.
Raza picked up a set of tongues holding a burning brand piece of coal and said "Open your mouth."
"What?!" The audience said in shock.
"What does he want." Katsuki asked, worryingly.
Higari was pushed further down, his head nearing the hot coal. Raza spoke gripping Hiagri's bald head "You think I'm a fool?" He set Higari's head into the anvil the coal nearing him. "What is going on? Tell me the truth."
"I don't think I can watch this." Torru covered her eyes with her hands, not that anybody noticed.
Mei was shaking in her seat, for once in rage at seeing her practical mentor about to be tortured. Bakugou too was shaking in anger, at his own counterpart's weakness at not being able to stop it. Higari froze up, narrowing his eyes at what his counterpart was being forced to go through.
"He's building the Jericho." Higari implored again and again, Raza demanding the truth.
Katsuki intervened, stepping forward and said "What do you want a deadline? A delivery date?"
The group of terrorists pointed their guns at Katsuki telling him to back off, but a hand from Raza stopped them and let him continue.
"I need him." Katsuki said. "Good assistant."
Raza pondered for a moment before dropping the piece of coal...a inch away from Higari.
"Phew." The group breathed out in relief.
"Well done, Young Bakugou." All Might praised. "You performed admirably and competently in this situation. Bakugou smiled at the praise from his idol.
"You have until tomorrow, to assemble my missile." Raza said, before walking away with the rest of the terrorists.
"Tomorrow?!" Kirishima said.
"Looks like Bakugou and Power Losder will have to pull out all the stops to finish the suit." Momo said.
Katsuki is then seen hammering a piece of metal, the clangs of the hammer resounding in sync with the dramatic music, an action that resonated into the group's minds and souls.
Katsuki finished and dipped the metal into a pot of water, steam rising. Katsuki set the object onto the table where Higari was working.
He looked to see an iron mask.
"OH MAN THAT IS SO MANLY!" Kirishima and Tetsutetsu roared out in unison.
"Looks like the suit we saw in the beginning wasn't just a support item, it's basically this kid's whole dang superpower. Might as well be a Quirkless Hero." Hawks said to Endeavor.
That last part resounded with Izuku, Bakugou, and All Might. Izuku looked to the screen and smiled brightly, realizing that his ideal and dream of a Quirkless Hero was in fact a reality somewhere.
Bakugou looked at the screen and Deku, realizing that the nerd's dream of a Quirkless Hero wasn't in fact total bs, and is in fact what he was doing in another universe. Bakugou didn't know whether to feel smug about it or pissed off that he was proven wrong.
All Might felt teacherly pride over this student as a Quirkless Hero in another world, but couldn't help feel guilt as he remembered what he told Izuku on that rooftop. He may have tried to make amends by saying that Izuku could be a Hero, but he knew that since he passed his Quirk to Izuku that he still didn't say that a Quirkless Hero was a possibility. He was proven wrong and All Might smiled as he saw Izuku smile as Bakugou in this world did what All Might here could not.
Katsuki wrapped his hands up in gauze as Higari readied the suit's pieces. Higari helped Katsuki put in protective gear and then place Katsuki into the suit, Katsuki's head the only thing left exposed.
"Ok. Can you move?" Higari asked, making a hand gripping motion, to which Katsuki repeated and nodded. As Higari screwed the last bolts and secured the suit on Katsuki, he said "Ok, say it again."
"41 steps straight ahead." Katsuki repeated the steps out of the cave. "Then 16 steps, that's from the door, fork right, 33 steps, turn right."
Raza looked over at the monitors with suspicion and impatience. He spoke in Arabic which was translated to "Where is Stark?"
"He was here a moment ago." The terrorist replied.
"Go look for him." Raza ordered, his men moving out.
"Oh no, times up." Present Mic said.
"Hopefully they can get the suit functional in time." Midnight worried for her student.
"Let's hope that the suit is enough to get them out safe and sound." Aizawa said. Unknown to everyone, his hands were twitching in anticipation and worry.
One of the soliders opened the latch and shouted out Higari and Stark's names.
"Say something, Say something back to him." Katsuki said.
"He's speaking Hungarian." Higari said. "I don't-"
"Then speak Hungarian." Katsuki insisted.
"Yeah that will work." Shoji replied sarcastically, earring nervous chuckles from the group and nervous grumbling from the ash-blonde teen.
"Oh I know." Higari said.
"What do you know?" Stark asked.
Higari spoke back something in Hungarian, trying to bide time. As the terrorist continued yelling out, he was unaware of the device that was strapped to the door.
"Is that a bomb?!" Mineta yelled out.
"Good old Bakugou." Sero said "You're love for explosions sticks around throughout the multiverse."
"Like me." Kirishima said smirking.
"SHIT UP YOU IDIOTS AND JUST WATCH THE THE DAMN MOVIE!" Bakugou yelled out embarrassed.
The soldiers proceeded to open the door, which set off the bomb. The explosion sent the two guards blasting away dead while the smoke and dirt blasted over the two captive's heads.
Raza shouted orders to his men, a group of terrorists rushing to Katsuki and Higari's location.
"How'd that work?" Katsuki asked.
"Oh my goodness." Higari said as he witnessed the two guards dead. "It worked alright."
"That what I do." Katsuki praises himself.
"HELL YEAH THAT'S WHAT I DO!" Bakugou said "NOBODY IS BETTER AT KILLING VILLAINS AND MAKING BADASS EXPLOSIONS THAN ME!"
"Whatever happened to shut up and watch the movie." Sero mumbled at Bakugou's hypocrisy.
Higari continued to ready the suit and said "Let me finish this."
"Initialize the power sequence." Katsuki said. "Now!"
Higari went to the computer connecting the suit and said "Ok Ok. Tell me Tell me."
"Function 11." Katsuki said. "Tell me when you see a progress bar. It should be up right now."
Higari hit the keys and saw as a progresses bar appeared. "Yes." Higari said. "I have it."
"Press Control 'I'." Katsuki continued.
"'I' Got it."
"'I' Enter."
"'I' and Enter."
"Come over and button me up."
Higari worked quickly on the suit as they could hear the shouts of the terrorists. Katsuki told Higari to hurry as the old scientist worked as fast as he could.
Higari looked over at the screen, the progress bar over half completed. "We need more time." Higari looked over to Katsuki and said "I'm going to buy you some time."
"Stick to the plan!" Katsuki yelled. Higari ignored him, grab a gun from one of the dead guards and ran. "Higari!" Stark yelled out, as he heard Higari fire the gun towards the ceiling, scaring away the terrorists momentarily.
"Mr. Power Loader." Mei mumbled worried.
"Now I really got a bad feeling about this." Snipe said.
"He's buying him time, but how much?" Cementoss questioned.
The students were on the edge of their seats, the tension growing deeper and deeper.
We see the terrorists go through one of the tunnels but immediately turn back cartoon style as Higari chased them out, yelling and firing his gun.
The audience couldn't help but nervously laugh at the comical look at it and cheer for the Support Course teacher's counterpart's bravery.
That nervous laughter quickly died as Higari stopped, in front of him, a firing squad of terrorists with their guns trained on him.
"Oh god." Hatsumei mumbled out in fear.
The computer screen showed the progress bar complete, the suit powering up, and the sounds of the suit moving.
"He bought him enough time!" Kota cheered.
"But at what cost?" Amajiki muttered darkly.
The terrorists ran forward till they reached the room. Two men moved in, guns at the ready and looking around, one unaware of their target next to him.
The terrorist saw a bright white glow and looked around in time to meet his face with an uppercut. The man flew, gun firing as he flew, knocked out.
The rest to the soldiers fired everywhere. When they were done and thought the target was dead, they were quickly proven wrong. They were knocked away onto the walls, bullets firing and bouncing off the armor, until they were all down.
We get a full view of the Katsuki Stark in his Mark 1 suit, the suit grey and black, large and armored, like a more robotic version of a knight, and complete with the glow of Katsuki's reactor in the middle of his chest.
"YEAH!" The students and kids cheered, the teachers and heroes inspecting the suit with amazed eyes.
"That suit looks sick!" Kaminari said.
"He knocked them out like they were nothing!" Sen cheered.
"SO MANLY!" You can guess which two hard heads said those words.
"Wait that looks different then what we saw in the image." Ojiro said.
"The first one looked more advanced and colored so it was probably built later, this one seems like the first one, is its bound to look less advanced." Izuku said, eyes wide and bright at the cool scene.
Mei was drooling up waterfalls and writing up the suit's look so fast, her hands were but blurs.
Katsuki walked forwards, the terrorists bullets bouncing off his armor harmless, and Stark sent every soldier that went his way flying at the suits sheer strength. The terrorist fled in fear as Katsuki moved forward. The terrorists fled and closed a set of doors and locked it, the last one screaming and begging for help. The terrorists flinched at the loud thud and the screaming stopped. Loud bangs and dents appeared on the door as the gunmen backed away. One gunman fled in time for the doors to fly off their hinges and slam into one of them. The rest quickly fled.
"Oh man! He's scaring them off shitless!" Kamakiri exclaimed.
Katsuki knocked another out, accidentally hitting the wall and getting his arm stuck.
"Oh no, he's stuck!" Uraraka shouted.
More gunmen ran with one moving in close to the distracted Katsuki. He fired a bulletproof that ricocheted to his head, killing him dead. Katsuki stopped and looked at the dead man before ripping his arm off the cave wall.
The audience laughed at the comical and pathetic way the terrorist died, Bakugou practically wheezing and holding his sides. Eri and Kota were confused as their eyes were closed by Deku and Mirio, but they were sure it was funny to get them all laughing like a pack of hyenas.
Katsuki continued onwards till he saw the light of day at the end of the cave. "Higari!" Stark yelled out, as he saw his friend on the floor, covered in blood and bullet holes.
"NO!" Mei shouted out in horror, the rest following suit. Power Loader grit his teeth as he saw his other self so bloody and hurt. Nezu tightened the grip of his paws as he saw his fellow teacher and colleague so hurt.
"Watch out!" Higari choked out.
Katsuki barely managed to duck under a fired grenade from Raza, the fired weapon imbedding onto the wall behind him. Katsuki readied a missile and fired it at the terrorist leader. It hit the wall of the cave where it crumbled on top of Raza as he screamed in pain before falling unconscious.
"YEAH!" Bakugou screamed out. "TAKE THAT YOU SHITTY SCUMBAG! NOBODY MESSES WITH ME, MULTIVERSE COUNTERPART OR OTHERWISE!"
Katsuki rushes towards Higari as he called out "Stark."
Katsuki knelt down and pulled up his face mask. "Come on. We got to go. Move for me, come on. We got a plan. We're going to stick to it."
"This was always the plan, Stark." Higari whispered out weakly.
"Wait what?!" The students asked aloud.
"What does he mean, this was always the plan?!" Bakugou screamed out, his eyes getting worried. "Did that bastard plan on getting himself shot?!"
"He planned to sacrifice himself." Endeavor said. "He figures that whatever happened that he was going to die, either by sacrificing himself or getting shot."
"Wait, but what about his family?" All Might asked. "He said he would see them again after this. What about that?"
"I suggest we watch and find out." Nezu said grimly, his brain already figuring it out, with Izuku's horrified eyes widening even more as he too figured out afterwards.
"Come on, you're gonna go see your family. Get up." Katsuki insisted desperately.
"My family is dead." Higari said. "I'm going to see them now, Stark."
"WHAT?!" The rest for the audience screamed out.
"They're...dead?" Mina whispered out, tears in her eyes.
Mei's eyes were tearing up, sniffles and sobs breaking out of her facade. The room was filled with sniffles and watery eyes. Bakugou was looking onto the ground, muttering 'dammit dammit', Power Loader looked worn, sad at the sight of himself dying and the news of his other self's family dying. He could imagine it, seeing a nice, kind, beautiful women by his side, a son or girl with his eyes and hair or their mothers...and he could imagine them fading to ash as they died in his arms.
Kota and Eri were crying leaning onto Mirio and Izuku, who held onto them.
"It's ok. It's ok." Higari whispered as he saw Katsuki frown further in rage and blank horror. "I want this...I want this."
Katsuki sniffled and breathed out hard. He turned to the dying man and said "Thank you for saving me."
"Don't waste it." Higari whispered finally. "Don't waste your life."
Higari breathed in and out his last breath and, with eyes closed in peace, died.
The group was reduced to quite tears, sniffles, and bowed heads in respect for Higari's death.
Mei quickly broke into tears, Power Loader coming down and comforted her, sadden as well by his death but touched at how much his, admittedly, favorite student, cared for him.
They were later joined by Izuku with Eri and Kota who hugged the girl and comforted her, with Hatsumei bringing in Izuku as well, much to the boy's initial surprise, but quickly faded to comfort his friend.
After the audience settled down, especially Mei, they continued.
Katsuki breathed out at the sight of his friend's death and looked out the cave to deal with the monsters that did this.
"YEAH GO GET THEM! MAKE THEM PAY!" Kota yelled out.
The terrorists camped out guns aimed at the cave entrance. They heard loud thuds and lowered their weapons slightly at the sight of Katsuki Stark in his armor. Men shouted and fired upon Stark. After a whole barrage of bullets, they ceased fire to find that they did nothing.
"My turn."
Katsuki fired flamethrowers from his wrists onto the terrorists. Many of the soldiers back ran away from the flames, others fared less and were covered in the flames or launched away as the flames set off explosives from the nearby weapons and blasted them away dead.
"Holy Flaming Shit!" Kaminari exclaimed. "Now that is hard core!"
""Dude, you are like going Todoroki or Endeavor on their ass." Kirishima praised.
"While it does seem similar to my flames, I doubt their could reach mine or my father's range and control." Todoroki said.
"ARE CHALLENGING ME, ICY-HOT?!" Bakugou shouted. "I'LL KILL YOU JUST AS I AM KILLING THOSE SCUMBAGS!"
"Charming." Todoroki simply said, much to the blonde's annoyance.
Afterwards, one of the terrorists climbed the rocks to a large turner and fired upon Katsuki, the impact and caliber of the bullets knocking Katsuki back and, along with the gunfire from the other gunmen, were bringing him to his knees.
"KACCHAN/BAKUGOU!" The group exclaimed.
"While the armor of the suit is impressive, and is holding well against the bullets, I doubt that even a man made of iron or steel could stand perfectly still whilst they are getting fired upon by a torrent of that caliber." Momo said.
"Kacchan has to get out of there, not take them all out." Izuku said.
Katsuki fired his flamethrower again at the soldiers, and blasted a few back before noticing the flames surrounding all the weapons, including the missiles. Stark reached time his side, and flipped a switch. Flames fired from his feet and he took to the skies as the terrorist camp was engulfed in a massive explosion of fire.
"Yeah!" The students exclaimed.
"He got out!" Sato exclaimed.
"And He can Fly!" Mina also exclaimed.
Only for a short while later, the flames on his feet flickered and cooled down, sending Katsuki flying towards the ground.
"He thought he could fly." Hawks said.
"It seems those thrusters work a lot like how I use my flames to propel and help me float in the air." Endeavor said.
"And the way that Young Bakugou makes himself fly through the air using his explosions." All Might added.
Uraraka made a mental note to ask for thrusters of some kind into her hero costume boots. She considered asking Deku and Hatsumei after this.
Katsuki screamed as he hurled towards the ground. He landed in the sandy dunes in a crash of flying sand and metal parts. Katsuki could be seen laying in the sand in a tattered, broken down remains of his suit, groaning and wiggling himself out of the dead suit.
"He's alive!" Kaminari jokingly rejoiced.
"Phew, at least he landed in some sand." Kirishima said. "God knows what would have happened if he landed on some hard rocks."
"He would have become an iron, ash-blonde splat." Asui said, much to people's nervous chuckles.
Katsuki groaned as he took of his face mask and said "Not bad."
We then see Katsuki wandering through the desert, tired, bloody, and covered in soot. As the sunset began and Katsuki walked over a hill, helicopters, U.S. military helicopters appeared.
"He's Saved!" The students cheered, Izuku breathed a sigh of relief, worried that his former childhood friend/rival would have died in the desert.
Katsuki yelled out to the choppers, falling down to his knees in exhaustion. One of the choppers landed, with a few soldiers hopping out and running towards Katsuki. One of them being Kirishima.
"Kirishima to the Rescue!" Mina said excited.
Kirishima smiled, at saving his best friend, while Bakugou smirked, thanking that it was Kirishima of all people to save him, with the only people he would accept rescuer from without yelling would have be him and All Might.
Kirishima walked over to Katsuki and asked "How was the 'fun-vee'?"
Katsuki laughed and was hugged by his friend. Kirishima continued with "Next time, you ride with me."
AAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNDDDDDD SCENE! Oh Cliffhangers, every reader's worst nightmare and every writer's sick pleasure to write in.
As I said, I will be breaking this down into parts, this chapter already is super long having to cover what amount 40 or more minutes of screen time. And yes, I could have broken this down even shorter, but I wanted for the first chapter to so all of Tony Stark's, or rather Katsuki Stark's, flaws and previous selfish assholeness and watch him grow to be a better man and break out with the suit.
Also, I apologize if some of the breaks in between for the MHA characters were too long, but hey it would be a reaction story without at least a good amount of reaction. And also, something that I know you guys will be asking: Why did I have Obadiah Stane be Yubi Ayase, one of Deku's old bullies, and not an actual Villain from the series? Why did I show Tsubasa as Raza's counterpart and the whole Nomu thing?
For Ayase, I figured that he was a good fit to be Obadiah. While Obadiah went behind Tony's back and betrayed him, Yubi was only a lackie of Bakugou that stuck with him to be popular and having him as Obadiah would plant the seeds of suspicion towards Izuku and Bakugou's history, a history that I felt wasn't fully resolved nor given enough attention.
As for Tsubasa, you can consider this as another seed of suspicion towards Izuku and Bakugou's history but also for the heroes to look closely at Tsubasa's history, ie with his grandfather, Dr. Tsubasa, aka Dr. Ujicko, aka the Doctor who created the Nomu and is aligned with All For One. Plus, since Hawks is there and undercover inside the Paranormal Liberation Front, this would be neat way to tie into canon with the Heroes discovering the Doctor and who he really is. Plus, Tsubasa as the flying Nomu in the Hero Killer Stain Arc is an actual theory that hints towards the evilness of the Doctor.
Anyways, that's all I have for you guys today, I laugh and evilly chuckle at your pleas for more, MWAHAHA! But as always, keep yourselves safe and healthy, comment your thoughts in the reviews, constructive criticism is always welcome, comment what you guys believe should be whom in the later movies, and read my other stories if you guys wish.
This has been Zayden StormVoid, and I will see in the next one! BYE BYE!
