Welcome to the MCU! Phase 2!

by Zayden StormVoid

The sequel story to Welcome to the MCU covering all Phase 2 of the MCU! 'Nuff said. (Again) Izuku x Harem story, you have been warned! Other ships included. M-Rated for Bakugou cursing levels

2. Chapter 2

Chapter 2

WELCOME ONE AND ALL BACK TO WELCOME TO THE MCU! NOW PHASE 2! I AM YOUR HANDSOME WRITER EXTRAORDINAIRE, ZAYDEN STORMVOID!

Last chapter was an introductory chapter to bridge Phase 1 and 2, and a decision made since adding it to this chapter would have been too long for my taste. In that chapter, we had Melissa and Mei being offered the opportunity to work with Power Loader and David Shield on Vibranium and the Stark element, Deku and Momo's team up mock battle and winning, pulling influences from Black Widow and Captain America, Izuku beginning to realize the girls' feelings towards him, and Ibara and Bakugou's date being discussed.

But now, it's finally time to begin Phase 2 of the MCU with Iron Man 3. Not exactly one of my most favorite movies of the MCU, as I felt it was too short, rushed, and slightly insulting to the name of the Mandarin, Iron Man's arch nemesis, but at least I find it more tolerable than Thor the Dark World and Captain Marvel, those definitely one's that will be a pain to write.

But before we start the action, let us first answer the reviews of the final interlude chapter of Phase 1 of Welcome to the MCU:

HanBaron: I did state my apologies previously, either in here or in MHA watches Death Battle that was I was a plebian outsider that didn't know too much about Japan and their culture. I'm a weeb, not a weeabo, there's a difference. Also, Ibara being Catholic/Christian is something she's always been, even in canon, and many of her Ultimate moves are based on Catholicism/Christianity. Her Hero suit is a freaking white robe like a holy maiden for Christ's sake. And yeah, I realize All Might's age would put him around his 50's-60's, but it's not exactly too weird, plus this a Japan 200 years into the future where people care more about Quirks, times and laws change, hell Japan has a age of consent of 13 yet for this story and the others I bumped that age up to 16-18. I have been struggling with what to do with Mineta but I'll take your idea for consideration. And in my defense, it is hard to manage every little detail I put into these stories, especially when I switch over to another story and will have to remind myself of what I have done and what I have planned.

AlbertMozart: 1) With the exception of the Incredible Hulk, Far From Home, and the still pondering of Captain Marvel, all of the rest of the MCU movies of Phase 1-3 will be covered and end on Endgame. Far From Home, despite its inclusion into Phase 3, I consider more a Phase 4 movie so it will be covered with the other Phase 4 movies like No Way Home in a sequel story that would cover other movie franchises, you know if I'm still doing this fanfiction thing by then. 2) It would be a travesty if I didn't. 3) Thanks for the hopeful optimism.

Turtle dude32: To answer both your comments, first with the Wakanda part, as I did with some characters, I will NOT, I repeat Not, change the races of the Wakandans, as I only change races to their MHA counterparts when it wouldn't actively hurt or make no sense in context and backstory of the characters, like the Wakandans like Black Panther and Shuri since they are from Africa. Plus, most of those race changes can also be ambiguous and up to you and other viewers how to view them as, just don't argue with each other in the comments. Their counterparts may be Japanese but not all of them are. Also, welcome to the world of real life double standards, where men can be ogled like eye candy but women, despite being strong, brave, and 'good at everything', are somehow fragile and need of protection from pervs, I mean just look at the latest trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder. But I did have Eri point out the double standard and protect her Papa, did I not? Everyone seems to gloss over that part.

Kenetix411: Don't worry I'm back. Had some computer problems, spent more time on vacation, and had some stuff to do in real life, but I'm all good. Agreed on your opinions of Iron Man 3 and Thor 2. Yeah, Shoto is definitely the Winter Soldier if he's Barnes but don't worry I got something to keep his identity hidden till his reveal. Actually, despite the raven head, Tokoyami is still Japanese and of pale skin, as we have seen his arms and wrists before and they are not black, so no you're not racist, and its actually a reasonable prediction since he is the only one of the class that can fly, if you discount Deku's Float Quirk, Bakugou using his explosions to fly, Momo creating a jetpack, and Uraraka floating with Zero Gravity. Won't say anymore about Starlord or Ant-Man but you will find about Killian in this story, so hold onto your butt.

Gakuto1991: I have heard and respected your opinions and can see where you are coming from, no bad act must go unpunished, I can agree with that, but there is more than one way to punish someone, and Bakugou will not go unpunished, I can tell you that I will try to make it so, but you also have to admit that Aldera does have the lion share of the blame, with them letting Bakugou and the other students act without impunity and targeting Deku. Plus, I think Bakugou forced to suffer therapy is already a fitting punishment for someone as explosive and emotionally closed off as he is, and it's for the better that he and Izuku get their bad blood sorted out. Plus, I'm trying to make this fit with the manga (Spoilers) where Bakugou has formally apologized, in front of the entire class, for what he did, so there's that. As for their bond needing to be let go, I think Civil War could take care of that. *Reading your interpretation of Cap, Bucky, Stark fight. Taking notes on to think about it later*

Then, our Index:

"Zayden." -Normal Dialogue

'Zayden.' -Internal or Mental Dialogue

"Zayden." -Flashback and Mental Flashback Dialogue

"Zayden." -Movie, buff All Might, and Dark Shadow Dialogue

"Zayden." -Coms, PA, and TV Dialogue

"Zayden." -F.R.I.D.A.Y. Dialogue

"Zayden." -Internal F.R.I.D.A.Y. Dialogue.

"Zayden." -Jarvis Dialogue

"Zayden." -Narration Dialogue

And finally, I do NOT own My Hero Academia, the child of Kohei Horikoshi and adapted by Bones Studios, or the MCU and its movies, by rights owns by the cooperate overlo-I mean-Disney, Marvel, and Sony in some, and all credit to the movies belong to the awesome actors, I support you Chris, don't let yourself be discriminated because of your religion, the directors who molded the movies into what they are, and the studios and people behind them for working hard on these movies that we love.

Also, because this is coming off rather close to the horrible events of the Texas and Buffalo shootings, along with all the other shootings that have taken place shortly before and after, Trigger Warnings of Terrorism, Violence, and Death have been issued for this since we are dealing with the Mandarin and his terroristic threats and videos.

With all that said, Let's Rock and Roll!

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Iron Man 3 Part 1: Haunted Past

Third POV

Somber music played over a black screen, before Katsuki Stark's voice spoke out with "A famous man once said: 'We create our own demons.'"

A few heads in the audience nodded. All Might thought towards his first fight with All For One, how he let the Villain manipulate him into gouging his stomach, and his workaholic nature, pushing himself to continue being the Symbol of Peace, despite losing Nighteye and further weakening himself to where he was today.

Endeavor thought to his family and the mistakes he made in his mad fervor to surpass All Might. And what did he earned? His eldest son gone, Natsuo's hatred, his wife in a mental hospital, his daughter struggling to repair what he thought was unrepairable, and Shoto hating him for most of his life, a scar on his face, and a lifetime of regrets.

Bakugou drifted his gaze to Deku, remembering their past, all the beatings, mocking, words, taunts, and threats, and now faced with the prospect that all his past sins will come back to ruin him, either ruining his chances of being a Hero, or ruin the friendships he, begrudgingly admitted, gained, ruined his chances to be with someone he felt he could finally be happy with.

The screen came to life with a shot of three Iron Man armors, The Mark 5 on the left, the Mark 6 in the middle, and the Mark 7 on the right. Suddenly, the Mark 7 was consumed in fire and and explosion.

Mei let out a horrified wail.

"Whoa! What happened?!" Mineta exclaimed, wide eyed shocked.

"Who said that? What does it even mean?" Stark asked, as the Mark 6 and wall behind it exploded. "Doesn't matter. I said 'cause he said. So, now, he was famous and it's basically getting said by two well-known guys." The Mark 5 joined its armor brothers in an explosion that tore it to pieces.

As the other armors exploded, Mei continued wailing in horror, her eyes wetting with what could be possibly tears.

"What the Hell is going on?!" Kaminari exclaimed.

"I...I don't know." Izuku stared confused and terrified of what it meant towards Kacchan.

"I don't, uh..."Stark sighed, exasperated. Glass and rubble rained down as the screen began to darken again. "I'm going start again. Let's track this from the beginning."

"No, no, no." Mina wagged her finger, shaking her head. "No, I demand an explanation for what is happening? Is Bakugou getting attacked in his home? Is his house blowing up?"

"Perhaps, but unfortunately, it seems we will have to wait to find out what happened." Momo sighed.

Suddenly, loud techno music blasted out the dark screen. "Yo listen up here's a story. About a little guy that lives in a blue world."

"Oh! Its that song!" Kaminari pointed to the screen, just before he drank from his soda. "You know, the one that goes 'Da ba dee da di Da'."

"Oh yeah!" Kirishima perked up, smiling in recognition. "Urgh! I can never remember the name!"

"It called Blue, by Eiffel 65." Kyouka answered.

"Yeah, the song is very...lit." The group looked in astonished befuddlement towards the red-and-white-haired teen that spoke those words. "I learned that from Camie. Is it a good thing?"

"Y-Yeah, very accurate." Setsuna tried to say without crackling in laughter.

"And all day and all night and everything he sees, is just blue like him inside and outside..." The music continued as the numbers 1999 appeared on the screen.

"So this is starting before 2008, when he was kidnapped by the Ten Rings." Melissa said.

"Great, we get to see more of douchey Stark before his change." Kamakiri mentioned.

Bakugou's eye twitched, both insulted and because he was dreadfully right.

Soon after, the scene changed to night over a fancy building, the words Bern, Switzerland, appearing. The scene switched to the inside of a large convention full of well-dressed people mingling. The words New Year's Eve appeared finally.

"Oh, so this was the New Year's of 2000!" Uraraka said, excited. "That must have been so exciting and memorable."

"Ribbit." Tsu nodded.

A brown haired woman wearing a New Year's tiara blew on a blue party horn, the blue tube tapping a sunglass wearing Katsuki Stark in front of her. Katsuki, who wore a white and gold party hat, and the woman chuckled, drunk.

Immediately, Bakugou broke into a cold sweat over his paled face. He, fearfully, craned his head to look at Ibara above, flinching when seeing her small smile, strained and fake, a gloomy and vengeful mood that hung over her, causing those near her, and Bakugou, to shiver in fright.

"Half hour till the ball drops." Happy Awase turned around to speak Stark, his curly black hair now long gelled back to form a mullet, a mustache and goatee on his face.

"PffftttBAHAHAHAHA!" Sen and the rest of Class 1-B started to laugh. "Awase! What's with that hair?!"

Awase blushed crimson, pulling down his headband over his eyes. "I-It was the 90's. He weakly defended. "I-It was trendy thing back then, right?"

"Le Mal, monsieur Awase." Aoyama exclaimed dramatically with a pose. "The trend of mullets and their popularity began in the 1970's before they exploded in further in the 1980's. While they persisted in the 90's and even 2000's, the trend was slowly dying by the early 90's. So my apologies, but your counterpart is just, as they, behind the times."

The further chuckles just made Awase wish he could meld his face into his seat.

Blinking awkwardly at their interruption, Katsuki cleared his throat. "Hey, do you wanna-"

Before he could finish his sentence, a man came up to his side from behind. "Tony Stark?" The man said as he patted the billionaire's shoulder. "Great speech, man!"

"I got you, pal." Happy said as he grabbed the man by his shoulder and began leading him away.

"And you are certainly still...'passionate' about your job, Awase." Itsuka tried to save face for Awase.

"I think the right word is eccentric or zealous." Yui spoke up, only adding more fuel for the laughs and Awase's embarrassment."

"Tha-I gave a speech?" Katsuki perked up and asked the man, confused. He looked to Happy who was leading the man away. "How was it?"

"Edifying." Happy replied.

"Unintelligible." The woman said, honestly.

"MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART DETECTED!" F.R.I.D.A.Y. paused the video and focused on the woman. "MAYA HANSEN! MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART: INTELLI SAIKO!" An image of periwinkle-haired woman in a sailor uniform appeared, a monocle over her left eye and a large red ribbon around her neck. Momo perked up as she recognized the girl she saw.

"She looks familiar." Tsu said, a finger on her chin as she pondered who she was.

"She's the Hero Course student from Seiai Academy." Momo revealed, crossing her arms as she recalled the Seiai girl's plan to trap her and her classmates in a cold room. "During the Provisional Licensing Exam, Kyoka, Asui, Shoji, and I faced against her and her classmates from Seiai."

"Oh yeah, that snobbish girl that bragged about her genius." Kyoka said, raising a non-appreciative eyebrow at the image of the arrogant girl.

"Sounds like the perfect chick for our own bragging, arrogant jerk." Mineta taunted a fuming ash-blonde teen.

"At least I got the bite and the skill to back it up, You Purple Dwarf Pervert!" Bakugou barked back.

"Really?" Katsuki pondered, amused. Maya hummed affirmatively as Stark began to lead them forward. "Its my favorite kind. A winning combo."

"Where are we going?" Maya asked with a chuckle.

"Uh, to town, on each other. Probably back in your room." Stark answered.

Bakugou let out a small explosion to the taunting pervert's face before he could speak about that.

Ibara breathed in deeply and exhaled calmly, trying to calm herself down. 'Calm down Ibara.' She thought to her herself. 'A) Do not fall prey to the Sins of Envy and Wrath. B) This was before Katsuki changed for the better. And C) This isn't your Katsuki, he would never be as foul and sinful as his other self was.' Remembering Bakugou's sailor-like mouth, Ibara sweatdropped. 'Well, mostly sinful.'

"Because I also want to see your research." Katsuki added just as Maya widened her smiling, agape mouth.

"Okay, you can see my research, but that's...I'm not gonna show you my 'town'." Saiko's counterpart replied.

'Oh, I'm sure your 'town' is quite the sight.' Mineta thought to himself, only half learning from his mistakes.

As they walked, spotting them and turning towards them was Higari Miajima.

"POWER LOADER?!" The group exclaimed.

Mei's eyes widened, her constant smile falling to a small sad frown. Bakugou followed Mei, shock and guilt invading his eyes. Memories recalled in their, and the others, of Power Loader's counterpart, how he saved Katsuki's life, taught him to be a better man, helped make the Mark 1, and how he died, sacrificing himself and pleading to not throw his life away.

Power Loader was likewise shocked to see himself again, after his counterpart's tragic death.

"Mr. Stark." The future dead scientist said, walking up to his future cellmate. "Higari Miajima."

"Huh, a man I can finally call 'Higgy Jiggy with it'." Stark shook the man's hand and joked.

Chuckles and snickers resulted, mostly from the teacher, as they planned to use that against their colleague for ages to come.

"Wait a minute, I remember now!" Uraraka bounced in her seat and pointed. "Didn't Mr. Power Loader-er um sorry-Mr. Miajima said to Stark, when they were in that cave, that they met before?"

"Yes, in Bern...Switzerland." Iida finished Uraraka's train of thought, recalling the interaction. "He said they met in a technical conference."

"And gave a rather drunken crude lecture of 'integrated circuits'." Momo added. "This must have been that very same night."

Bakugou's eyes widened, wondering how he could have forgotten.

Higari chuckled. "I would like to introduce you to our gust, Dr. Wu." Higari lead and introduced Stark to Dr. Wu.

"Oh, this guy. Hey." Stark greeted, shaking the doctor's hand. Dr. Wu greeted the man in Mandarin.

"You're a heart doctor. She's going to need a cardiologist after I..." Stark said before blowing the air horn towards Maya's lower half, much to Dr. Wu's awkward, exasperated expression.

Ibara continued trying to clam herself down, Setsuna noticing that the religious girl was gripping the armrest tightly enough for it to start cracking.

"Bye." Maya said their goodbyes to the two as Stark led them away.

"Perhaps another time?" Miajima asked meekly as they walked away.

Bakugou frowned guiltily, displeased with seeing more of his drunken playboy past, and now to blow off the man who would save his counterpart's life in the future. 'Idiot.' He groaned internally, at his counterpart and himself.

"Hey, don't beat yourself up, kid." Bakugou looked up to see Power Loader, smiling sadly at him. "Might have been a jerk back then, but don't let the past overshadow what you are today."

Bakugou froze for a moment before nodding, sending a small, strained smile towards the Support Teacher, who nodded back. As he got a pat on the back from Kirishima, Bakugou snuck a peek towards Deku, who smiled at him and nodded. Bakugou didn't have to be a genius to know what Deku meant. He nodded back, with a smirk.

"It started in Bern, Switzerland. 1999." Stark's voice narrated over the scene, Katsuki and Maya walking through a lobby, Happy leading them to the elevators they sought and a group of partying guests, mostly partying, drinking women, following them. "The old days."

"Mr. Stark!" A man called out, trying to call out to Stark from behind the following crowd. His back was to the audience but what they could make out of the man was his dark blue jacket, black pants, a cane in one hand, the sides of glasses, a flowing, shaggy mess of familiar, snow white hair. "I never thought they would come back to bite me. Why would they?"

"Oh wow! Hey, Katsuki!" The man greeted excited, catching up to the two as Happy was helping organize people on the elevator.

Katsuki and Maya turned to meet the man, his face now visible to the audience.

A horrified gasp drew the group's attention from the screen to where it came from. Endeavor stood up, his eyes widened in horror and his mouth agape, moving as he tried to make words come out.

"It...It can't be..." Endeavor managed to gasp out.

"Endeavor? What's the matter?" All Might asked, his brows raised in concern of the new Number 1 Hero. "Do you know this man?"

If Endeavor heard All Might, he didn't show it, still staring at the screen as if he was seeing a ghost.

Shoto frowned in confusion at his father's reaction. Turning back to the man on screen, Shoto narrowed his eyes to see who the man who caused his father's reaction was. Immediately, Todoroki recognized the man with wide eyes, for he looked like an older version of the person he always saw in their house's shrine.

"T-Touya Todoroki." The man introduced himself. "I-I'm a big fan of your work."

The instant the man said his name, the group whirled their heads to look at the man in front of them. Eyes quickly widened as they the dots connected in their brains. The snow white hair, the similar facial structure, the same blue eyes. The students felt like they were seeing an older, more nerdier version of Todoroki.

"T-Todoroki?" Izuku questioned, turning to his friend. "Is he related to you?"

"H-He's my oldest brother, Touya." Shoto revealed, earning the gasps and wide eyes of his peers.

"Woah, I didn't know you had a brother." Kirishima said, a smile finding his way to his lips.

"I have three older siblings actually." Todoroki corrected, his gaze unable to be torn from the face of his elder brother. "My sister Fuyumi is a teacher and Natsuo is in college. Touya is the eldest of us."

Izuku's and Bakugou's eyes suddenly went wide, their brains recollecting their dinner visit to the Todoroki household, Natsuo's rage towards Endeavor, and Fuyumi explaining about Touya. Izuku's gaze towards one of his best friends became sympathetic and sad, while Bakugou stared at the screen, eyes narrowed at what is going on.

"Oh, that must be wonderful to see your elder brother in this universe." Momo clasped her hands together and smiled. "What does he do?"

At the question, Shoto finally looked away from the screen, his eyes falling to the floor with a somber look. "He's...not with us anymore..." He answered.

More gasps followed from the students, with looks of surprise and horror coming out from his classmates, and the same looks mixed with pity and sympathy from 1-B. Momo had a hand clasped over her mouth, eyes horrified at her mistake, tears of sadness and pity flowed from Pony's eyes, Izuku gazed at his friend with sadness.

The Heroes and teachers looked towards Enji, the normally gruff, stoic at best, Hero now looking at his feet in defeat. It was no mystery to the adults what happened to Endeavor's eldest son, the ablaze fire from the boy's own Quirk that took his life, only a piece of jaw left intact, which Tsukauchi heard about among the evidence found on the scene of the fire, it was a news story that all the Heroes were privy to, but not the cause of the boy's Quirk backfiring. So they could understand, sympathetically, how an adult version of his deceased son would make the powerful Hero look so haunted and defeated.

Endeavor's mind returned back to the past and that dreaded night.

"No! Why Won't You Stop?!"

"Look At Me! Endeavor! Look At Me!"

"You'll Be Glad You Created Me! I Just Know It!"

Endeavor's clenched fists shook, his eyes gritting as he tried to suppress the tears of grief and regret that wanted to flood out.

Hawks noticed, feeling sympathy and sadness for his idol to have to experience this, but more importantly he spotted an emotion from Endeavor's eyes that made him raise an eyebrow in confusion: guilt. 'Well of course he would feel guilt. He's a father who's kid died. What father wouldn't have their kid die and feel like they failed as a parent?' Hawks argued in his own mind. Then memories of the meeting when they were first introduced to the device sparked back in Hawk's mind. The guilty and regretful look that Endeavor sported. Then Shoto's scar and the boy's coldness towards his own father popped up, and the knowledge he found out that Endeavor's wife is in a mental hospital for giving Shoto that scar. 'But...could there be more to that?'

Nezu looked towards Endeavor with a frown present. His desire to speak to the new Number 1 now more clearly present in his list of priorities.

Izuku felt a tug and looked to see a sad Eri looking at him. She pointed towards Todoroki and Izuku immediately knew what Eri meant. Picking her up she lifted her over towards Todoroki. The white-and-red-haired teen blinked in recognition of her presence before Eri jumped out and latched onto Shoto's chest, clinging and hugging him.

Shoto was wide eyed and taken back. He looked down to see the little girl staring up at him with teary eyes, yet with a smile on her face.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Shoto." Eri said, smiling tearfully at him. "But it looked like you needed a hug."

Shoto was frozen silent, as if his own Quirk backfired on him. Suddenly, his agape frown closed to a small smile. 'So much like her father.' Shoto thought, finding Eri's smile mirroring Midoriya's.

Shoto wrapped his arms around the white haired girl, pressing his chin gently on top of her head, his wet eyes and smile grateful. "Thank you, Eri." Shoto said, gratefully. "I did need a hug. Thank you for the help."

"Its what Heroes do, Uncle Shoto." Eri simply replied, smiling wider and hugging him harder.

Not a single eye in the room was dry, many of the students bursting into tears, either silent and respecting like Izuku, Yaoyorozo, and Iida, to loud and wailing like Pony, Nejire, Hagakure, Mina, and the two hardheads. All Might smiled wide and proud at his surrogate granddaughter and at his protégé/surrogate son for raising her like this. Aizawa's thin line of a mouth jerked up to a small smile, glad to see the young white haired girl grow so much in so short a time.

A whimpering Mic sniffled and teared up and quickly grabbed the closest thing to blow his nose. Unfortunately, for Aizawa it was his scarf.

Endeavor was taken by surprise at how close his son was to the girl and how much the girl adored his son as family. He again felt a swell of gratitude and indebtedness in him felt towards the girl and her 'Papa' Midoriya, even more than how he felt to the boy when he, his son, and Bakugou saved Natsuo from the Villain, Ending. Accompanying the gratitude was jealousy at how well a father the boy was when he was just as old as Shoto, followed by more regret.

The Hero then felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to find the hand belonging to All Might, who smiled sadly at him. "I can't begin to understand how it must feel to lose a son, especially with what happened." All Might said, his gaze turned sorrowful as it drifting off into space. "But I know perfectly well about regret and guilt. A...close mentor of mine, mother figure really, died fighting a Villain, and I was powerless to stop it. Everyday afterwards, I thought 'Why her?' 'What did she do to deserve this?' 'What wasn't it me?' I hated myself for being so powerless. I blamed myself. Sometimes, I still do." Endeavor was surprised what is rival and source of obsession revealed, not ever thinking that the smiling Symbol of Peace would think that about himself.

"But then I think back to what she said, to continue onwards, that when the world and its darkness begin to feel suffocating, to remember the good times." All Might said, his smile showing fondness and love. "She said that those good times are what keep us going, to remember what was and cherish them, and to look forward with a smile to what could be."

Endeavor stared amazed, and did exactly that. He looked back to Rei, smiling at the flowers she loved, her increasingly rare smile when she bore their children to the world, Fuyumi's unceasing hope and smiling support for a family reunited, saving Natsuo from Ending and his apology, Shoto's smile with his friends and beginning to open up to him. He remembered him and Touya when they began his training, his wide smile, eager to learn and succeed.

Endeavor smiled, faintly. His thoughts then turned to the future and what could be. A future where his family was together, smiling and happy, without him to ruin it. A future he could still make. A future he felt the only way to make amends.

"Your mentor." Endeavor said. "She must have been a lovely woman."

"Yes." All Might replied, still smiling fondly with love for his mother in all but blood. "Yes, she was."

"Thank you." Endeavor thanked his former rival. "Truly."

"Like Eri said, you looked like you needed some help." All Might replied, smiling ever truly.

After taking a few minutes to cool off, all that time Shoto and Eri hugging one another, the teen felt calm and at peace. He thanked Eri and sent a grateful smile to Midoriya for raising her right, so far. He waved off apologies from his classmates and peers, especially an insistent Yaoyorozo who still felt guilty for her insensitivity. He sent his own apologies, he and his father both, for the commotion, but those were waved off as well.

Finally, the two forcing themselves to see Touya's face, they asked F.R.I.D.A.Y. to continue the movie. The A.I. did so, choosing to follow her orders and not tell them about the true fate of Touya Todoroki and what he has become. 'Though I'm sure they may get an idea, at the very least, by the end of this movie.' F.R.I.D.A.Y. thought to herself.

"My work?" Maya asked the white haired man, smiling.

"Who isn't? He means me." Katsuki said.

"Well, of course, but, Ms. Hansen, my organization's been tracking your research since year two of MIT." Touya turned his attention to Maya as they entered the elevator, looking surprised at being recognized and paying attention to the man more and more.

"Yeah, we're full." Katsuki said as Happy got in and put his arms away from the doors of the elevator.

Quickly, Touya zipped in, diving under Happy's arms and into the elevator with them.

"Oh, wow, he made it. He made the cut." Katsuki said.

"He seems rather perilous and determined." Toshinori offered a compliment to Endeavor about his son's counterpart.

"Yes. Touya was always...stubborn." Endeavor said, guilt still present in his eyes. "Got it from me, unfortunately."

"What floor you going to, pal?" Happy questioned the man pressed against the elevator wall.

"Well, now, that is an appropriate question." Touya chuckled in a mix of nervousness and excitement. "The ground floor, actually, of a proposal I'm putting together myself. It's a privately funded think thank called Advanced Idea Mechanics." Touya presenting the two business cards.

"Was your brother interested in science, Todoroki?" Melissa asked before looking horrible. "I-I mean, you don't have to answer if you don't want to and-"

"Its okay." Todoroki waved off the blonde's stuttering apology, smiling knowingly at how she and Midoriya were so 'close', so easily. "You all don't have to tip toe around me. You can ask me what you want, and I will answer or not."

Melissa and the others nodded, proud at the emotional maturity of their friend.

"As for your question, Melissa, I'm afraid that me and Touya, Natsuo, and Fuymi weren't all that close when I was younger." Todoroki replied. "And Touya died when I was too young to remember him much."

While sympathizing looks were given to Shoto, Endeavor decided to answer what he knew to the similarly wondering pros around him. "No, Touya wasn't at all interested in science, engineering, or anything like that." Endeavor said. "He had a bit of disdain for Support Items really. Refused to consider using one when we trained his future goal of being a Hero. Wanted to succeed on his own power, he said."

Hawks frowned. His eyes blinked, his thoughts turning back towards Dabi. He remembered asking him why he didn't like to use Support Items when his Quirk caused for him to get burned. He recalled Dabi's response being rather similar, saying he wanted to complete his ambitions and goals with his own power, and nothing else.

"Uh..." Maya said, unsure of what to say.

"She'll take both." Katsuki said, actually grabbing one of the cards. "One to throw away and one to not call." Maya gazed at him with a fond smile.

Todoroki and Endeavor started to narrow their eyes at Bakugou's counterpart for his rather dismissive and rude comments towards their brother/son's counterpart.

"Advanced Idea Mechanics or A.I.M. for short. Do you get it?" Touya asked with nervous excitement, gesturing to his white shirt, A.I.M. written on the shirt in cobalt blue words.

"I see that, because it's on your T-shirt." Katsuki stated the obvious.

"Aw!" Touya chuckled and shook his head smiling, like they were a pair of close friends joking.

"It is a rather inventive name." Melissa said, cupping her own chin in thought at the name.

"Yeah, sounds like a good name for a Support Item company." Mei agreed, thinking the same exact lines.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

The elevator opened on the 10th floor, Happy stepping out, holding several stings attached to yellow and blue balloons. "Ladies, follow the mullet. Ladies first." Katsuki said.

Awase buried his eyes back into his headband as they chuckles began again.

"Thank you," Maya said to Touya, exiting the elevator while inspecting the business card closely.

While the girls followed the two, Touya beginning to follow them as well, Katsuki pressed an arm between Touya and the door, holding him back. Stark turned to Touya and said "I'm titillated by the nation of working with you."

"Yeah?" Touya asked, almost desperate.

"I'll ditch these clowns. I'll see you up on the roof in five minutes." Katsuki lied, walking out the elevator. "Just gonna try and get my beak wet real quick. You know what I'm talking about."

"Yeah. Yeah." Touya nodded rapidly, moving his head to see Stark as the doors began to close. "I'll see you up there."

"Damn betcha." Katsuki lied again as the doors closed.

"He's not gonna see him, huh?" Sato asked, though his tone showed that he already knew the answer.

"Yep." Kaminari nodded. "This is still before his 'undouche-aning' in Iron Man 1."

"You make it sound like he stopped being a douche afterwards." Sero snickered.

"SHUT THE HELL UP BEFORE I BLAST YOU TO TO KINGDOM COME LIKE OTHER ME DID TO THAT CAVE!"

"Come on!" Stark exclaimed as he stared at the screen in front of him, Maya chuckling at his exclaim. "I thought that was just a theory."

"Well, it was." Maya smiled at Katsuki's amazement, typing some keys on her keyboard. The computer screen showed a CAT scan of a person's brain, a small red dot by the bottom of the parental lobe, near the temporal and optical lobes, the former of which glowed orange before the orange spread to the rest of the brain, a separate CAT scan showing the orange then spreading down the veins of the body before all of it was colored orange, a bar beside it showing the increase of temperate and heat. "If I'm right, we can access the area of the brain that governs repair-" "Wow!" "-and chemically recode it."

"That's incredible." Stark said, impressed. "Essentially, you're hacking into the genetic-" "-Operating system." The two said together. "-of a living organism." Stark finished.

"Exactly." Maya nodded. "Yes."

"Wow." Katsuki said, impressed still.

"Wow indeed." Melissa said, amazed. "Just think of all that they could achieve! Regular injuries, protection and healing of diseases at faster rates, injuries and wounds that would seem impossible to heal before could be able to be repaired easier, Hell, even diseases like cancer could be wiped away for good!"

"Sounds like the beginning of a regeneration Quirk." Setsuna noticed. "My Lizard Splitter Quirk has a regenerative effect if one of my split limbs were ever destroyed."

"Like a lizard's natural regenerative healing." Melissa said, smiling at Setsuna, who smiled back.

Deku watched the interaction between Melissa and Setsuna. He smiled, happy to see Melissa and Setsuna getting along, but also happy as always to see Melissa's enthusiasm and beautiful mind work. Deku blinked and blushed, registering what he thought, becoming more aware of how he truly felt for the girls, and not exactly opposing it either.

Happy fiddled with a plant in a glowing, open, metal container. Noticing it, Maya pointed to him and stuttered out "Is that...Can you..."

"What?" Happy said confused.

"Can you not touch the plant?" Maya pleaded. "It's not...She doesn't like it. She prefers-"

"She's not like the others." Katsuki simplified, turning back to Maya.

"So she's focusing this regenerative process on plants first." Momo said.

"It is a sensible first choice." David said. "Plant cells have been seen as possible experimental models in the regenerative processes, development and adaptive mechanisms, and, from what I heard, being possibly used in fields of transgenesis as a tool for decoding the functions of genes and-"

"Dave." All Might cut his friend off with a hand on his shoulder.

"Oh s-sorry." David apologized for getting carried away.

"Come on. Let's go to the bedroom." Stark said.

"Hmm." Maya chuckled, amused. "That's cute."

"Happy. Leave her ficus alone." Katsuki ordered as he went into the bedroom with the laptop and Maya in tow.

Ibara wanted to feel impressed that Stark knew what type of species the plant was, only that his obvious and increasingly pushy attempts to bed the woman making Ibara resort more to calming herself.

"And because-And seriously don't." Maya warned again switching her attention between Katsuki and Happy and the plant.

"And you're starting with plants." Katsuki said.

"For now, yeah." Maya nodded, leaving Happy outside, looking back at the plant.

"I'm calling it EXTREMIS." Maya revealed.

"EXTREMIS?" Itsuka repeated the word, confused.

"A Latin phrase used as 'in extremis'." Nezu revealed. "It means 'in the farthest reaches' or 'at the point of death'."

"An appropriate name when considering the nature of his EXTREMIS's prospects." Kamui said. "If Miss Melissa is accurate in her predictions to what this process could entail then life-threatening injuries, that would be far to fix or deadly, could be repaired."

As she said that, Happy messed again with the plant, and ripped off a some branch.

"Awase!" Itsuka said, her tone reprimanding.

"What? Is was just a small twig." Awase raised his hand in defense.

"I told you not to touch it, You Shitty Bodyguard!" Katsuki yelled.

Awase replied with a middle finger.

"For Human application." Stark continued their conversation on the bed.

"Exactly, exactly." Maya smiled, happy Stark was understanding. "Dendritic revitalization."

"Uh..." Mina craned her head to Momo for an answer.

"The investigation of how neurons respond and recover after injury." Momo sighed.

"Much better." Mina thanked.

"I swear I will force you and Hagakure to attend every study session until I cram all I know into your skulls, Mina." Momo threatened.

"And you know how likely improbably that will be." Hagakure chipperly replied.

Momo sighed again, forcibly admitting that she was right.

"Its revolutionary." As Katsuki said that, the scene shifted back to the plant, the part where the branch was snapped off glowing orange and red.

"Disease prevention." "Change the world." The two talked while the stem of the torn branch suddenly growing rapidly and spreading a new branch, the stem glowing red hot and smoking. "...even limb regrowth."

"So that's EXTREMIS." Tokoyami said. "It is regrowing the limb of the plant Awase tore off."

"See?" Awase gestured to the screen. "It's alright."

Stark looked at her silently. "You're the most gifted woman I've ever met." Stark said.

'Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.' Bakugou cursed internally at himself.

'Calm. Calm. Calm.' Ibara chanted in her mind.

"Wow." Maya said, nodding and staring unimpressed.

"In Switzerland." Stark corrected.

"Hmm. That's better." Maya smirked. "Aw, you're seeing things."

"This week." Katsuki chuckled as she took of his sunglasses. "You almost bought it, didn't you?"

"At least, he's honest?" Kirishima tried to save face for Bakugou.

Maya simply smiled wide and happily, putting on the glasses. Katsuki stared at her with an uncertain, almost pondering gaze. Taking a hint, Awase, with a nod, pull the twin shutter doors closed, leaving them in peace.

Katsuki and Saiko's counterpart both leaned in, their lips meeting in a kiss.

The awkwardness of the room skyrocketed, with the many of the group rubbing their necks, looking to anywhere but the screen, whistling. Bakugou found himself highly tempted to bury his head in the ground. Ibara continued calming herself down, to an immense degree now, but seeing Katsuki kiss another woman still made her heart crack a little. Seeing how it must hurt Ibara, despite the different universe thing, Setsuna and the other girls of Class 1-B narrowed their eyes at their version Katsuki. Though Itsuka was not pettily angry enough not to slap her enlarged hand over Monoma's mouth before he could retort out an insult or mock of any kind.

As Awase pulled the doors open to peek (much to the chagrin of his classmates), the plant suddenly exploded in a small burst, leaving only smoke and a smashed terrarium. The two separated and looked at the small destruction.

"The Hell happened?!" Kamakiri yelled out, jumping in his seat from the sudden explosion.

"D-Did the plant just explode?!" Manga questioned, the kanji for plant and explosion appeared in his text bubble.

"This is what I'm talking about, the glitch." Maya said, looking back at the laptop.

"Some glitch." Kosei muttered. "Good thing she didn't use that on a animal or human."

The students shuddered at the thought.

"Have you checked the telomerase algorithm?" Stark asked.

"The what?" Maya asked.

"I second that what?" Kaminari raised his hand.

"Third." Mina raised her hand as well.

"Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein that adds a species-dependent telomere repeat sequence, or also known as terminal transferase." Momo answered.

"..." Was all that the two and the rest of the students replied.

" It's a reverse transcriptase enzyme that carries it own RNA molecule that is used as a template when it elongates telomeres." Momo tried dumbing down the answer.

"..." Was still the only response.

Momo sighed tiredly. "It's part of a process in a DNA strand that helps reverse the loss of DNA after it multiplies." Momo dumbed down further.

"Oh!" She was finally met with an affirmative response.

Momo sighed again. Looking towards Izuku, she met his sympathetic gaze and mouthing 'I'm sorry. We're nowhere near as smart as you.' Momo smiled gratefully at the boy who captured her heart.

Before Stark could reply further, Happy shouted "Down!" as he dived forward, tackling Katsuki into the bed, under him. "Stay down! Stay down, boss." Happy whispered into Katsuki's ear, his face pressed against the side of Katsuki's own.

"We're good. You-You're-You're right on me. I made it." Katsuki insisted, implying for his bodyguard to get off, to which he did, looking back to the smoke.

"Comedy gold." Setsuna snickered out, clapping her hands, while the other students laughed, a red-faced Bakugou, an embarrassed Awase, and smiling Ibara, appreciative of the second, were the only exceptions.

"What was that?" Happy asked Maya, the sounds of people counting down to be heard outside.

"It's a glitch in my work." Maya responded. "It's-"

"She was just talking about it." Katsuki cut her off. "Glitches happen."

"Its not Y2K." Happy said, Katsuki pressing his palms against his face, annoyed at Happy for ruining the mood.

Awase felt a tug on his hand and looked to see a vine wrapped around it. He looked to Ibara who mouthed out 'Thank you.' Awase decided to take what he can get and nodded, mouthing out 'You're welcome'.

"Hey!" Katsuki exclaimed, noticing the cheers and explosions. "Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year." Happy and Maya both said.

"The start of the second recorded millennia and they were inside talking about exploding plants and Awase's face on Bakugou's?" Kosei questioned.

"To some, the most important events in human history are just another Friday." Jurota replied, sagely.

"All right. I'll see you in the morning." Katsuki shook Awase's hand, bidding him a good night.

"You good?" Awase asked. "I'll be right outside."

"Really, Awase?" Setsuna raised an eyebrow at him. "You're going to stand outside as your boss is boning someone."

"I'M NOT TRYING TO HEAR THEM!" Awase, red-faced, yelled out.

"Yep. Okay, cool." Katsuki replied.

As Happy left, Maya looked at the remnants of the explosion, seeing fried, charred stand, shattered glass, and smoking outline of a lamp that was destroyed, the rest of chair with a small fire and steaming limb.

"Jesus." Fat Gum cursed. "That's quite the reaction from a glitch."

"Looks like a small explosive went off." Snipe said, worrying dread in his voice. "If a small plant could cause such a reaction, imagine the yield on a 'glitching' person?"

The question was left unanswered officially, but inside the heads of the group, the answer their imagination drew up was terrifyingly horrible.

As people celebrated outside and inside the conference, up on the roof, Touya leaned against the wall and his cane, shivering slightly from the cold and wind. He looked at the fireworks exploding in the sky as he waited and waited, checking his watch and looking around for Katsuki desperately.

Bakugou, Izuku, Shoto, and Endeavor flinched in unison. Bakugou felt more guilt worm it's way into his mind, this time being blowing off the counterpart to his rival's deceased brother, which only seemed to twist the guilty knife of his conscious. What only drew this knife further was that he left the nerdy man up on the roof, his infamous words repeating in his ear. Izuku also heard the words in his mind, flinching as his imagination suddenly replaced the desperate, waiting man on the roof to a scrawny, desperate, and nearly broken shell of himself, having just been told these haunting words and heart shattering, dream crushing words from his idol.

Shoto wanted to glare at Bakugou for the offense towards his brother, counterpart or no, but knew he couldn't hold him against his counterpart's actions, nor the counterpart for the redemptive change he underwent. And Endeavor's guilt and anger was directed towards himself, again, recalling how he abandoned his eldest son, as well as the rest of his family, to achieve his own fanatical, selfish goals, how this same abandonment

"So, why am I telling you this?" Narrator Katsuki asked. The scene changed to a half-naked Katsuki on the bed, in the morning, writing something on a card, before leaving a kiss on the back. "Because I had just created Demons, and I didn't even know it."

Leaving it on the nightstand, grabbing his shades and leaving, the scene switched to Maya in her red lingerie on a chair before her laptop and desk, the morning light shining out the window as she read the letter. "Yeah, those were good times." Hearing the door close, Maya turned to the screen, her blank stare expressing heartbreak and sadness. "Then I moved on."

While she felt a sense of smug pleasure and joy watching Katsuki dump the woman, Ibara couldn't help but then feel guilty. Not for her counterpart having Katsuki, but the damage and heartbreak that her crush's counterpart had caused on the poor woman. It left Ibara conflicted and torn.

"After a brief soiree in an Afghan cave, I said goodbye to the party scene." The scene changed to panning over the dark ocean water at night, up a cliff, up to Stark's home, the lights on. Words on the screen showed that it was the Present Day, in Malibu, California. "I forgot that day in Switzerland."

"So now we are in the present time, but I'm guessing not when those suits of his are blowing up, right?" Nejire asked

"Probably." Mirio replied.

"These days, I'm a changed man." Katsuki narrated still as his Present Day self exclaimed in slight pain. "I'm different now."

Bakugou didn't have to look to know that Deku looked at him with a smile. He scoffed, annoyed yet grateful, of the nerd's insistence.

"46." Jarvis counted, the scene taking them inside the house, a closeup shot of a note saying 'Stark Industries R Dept'. Katsuki groaned again, accompanied by the sound a sharp release of air and a stabbing noise. "I'm...Well..." The shot moved to see the DUM-E arm swiping the floor with a Dunce hat on top of its robotic claw head.

Mei practically squealed in delight at DUM-E's return. Melissa, David, and Power Loader sweatdropped, recalling after their talk that Mei showed them blueprints of her own DUM-E she planned to build, too.

"47" Jarvis counted again. "You know who I am." The scene moved further to show present Katsuki Stark sitting on a chair, a wet wipe clenched in his teeth shown injecting something into his arm again.

"Woah woah, what is he injecting himself with?" Sero questioned.

"And why with what looks like an air pistol?" Honenuki questioned further.

"Sir, please may I request just a few hours to calibrate-"

"No." Katsuki cut Jarvis off. "48" He injected himself in the arm again with the device before exclaiming in pain.

"Wait, did he inject 48 things inside himself?" Kuroiro asked.

"Likely, though I believe that the next thing he should inject himself after this is a tetanus shot." Jurota replied.

Katsuki shook his arm, taking out the wet wipe from his mouth, dabbing and tapping it on his arm, wiping away the blood on the spots he injected himself. "Micro-repeater implanting sequence complete." Katsuki said.

"Micro-repeater?" Itsuka said, confused.

"Micro-repeaters are radio signal repeaters that receive and transmit certain signals." Melissa explained. "They are normally used by commercial and radio operators to extend signals in a radio frequency range from one receiver to another."

"But why would he inject himself with them?" Ibara pondered over her crush's counterpart's actions. "And what frequency are they supposed to be tied to?"

"As you wish sir." Jarvis gave up and replied. "I've also prepared a safety briefing for you to entirely ignore."

"Which I will." Katsuki replied.

"Heh, oh those two are so cute." Setsuna chuckled.

"Bakugou, it is important to take safety and briefings very important!" Iida protested, his arms waving as usual.

"Does he never stop doing that?" Rin asked Ojiro in front of him, while Bakugou gave the blue-haired teen a middle finger that aggravated Iida more.

"Only when he's very passionate about something." Ojiro responded.

"Which is all the time." Kyoka retorted.

"Alright. Let's do this." Katsuki looked up towards the lovable claw machine. "DUM-E. Hi, DUM-E." DUM-E stopped wiping the floor with the broom and lifted its claw head up to Katsuki. "How did you get that cap on your head? You earned it."

Mei fumed in pure anger at the inventor's casual mistreatment of the 'adorable baby'. Luckily, Yui placed a hand over Mei's mouth before she could exclaim out her likely crass and vulgar words at Stark's counterpart.

"Hey. Hey!" Stark exclaimed, getting up and began walking, jabbing and using a wing chun dummy as he passed it and a Christmas tree. "What are you doing out of the corner? You know what you did. Blood on my mat. Handle it."

"Interesting." Kamui said. "Judging by that Christmas tree, it must be December in this timeline."

"Jee, that's some really smart, and totally not obvious, observations there, Barky." Miruko replied, sarcastic and sassy. "In other news, healthy grass in green and snow falling means its cold out."

A sweatdrop appeared over Kamui's head.

"Sir, may I remind you that you've been awake for nearly 72 hours?" Jarvis reminded, as the other hydraulic arm machine, U, aimed a video camera at Katsuki.

"72 Hours?!" Ibara exclaimed in shock.

"Bakugou, it is Highly unhealthy to not properly rejuvenate your body and maintain your health by not regularly sleeping!" Iida yelled and arm waved again.

Bakugou's increasingly twitchy eye and forehead vein physically shoed the blonde Pomeranian growing more and more irritated by his Class Pres already.

Meanwhile, Izuku chose to direct his attention to a certain, innocently whistling, pink-haired inventor. Raising an eyebrow and smirk at her, Mei blushed and pouted at him. "Fine, Muscles, I will sleep more." Mei grumbled. 'Stupid Muscles and that cute smug look on his face.'

Izuku chuckled and smiled, his cheeks blushing slightly at Mei's reaction. 'She does become more manageable and more social whenever I'm around, huh.' Izuku thought, realizing that rather obvious fact. 'I really am such an oblivious idiot.'

Ignoring Jarvis, Katsuki walked up to the camera and make a couple of punches towards the camera. Standing in the center of a glowing ring platform, Katsuki looked at the 7 previous Iron Man armors in their displays in front of him, by the wall. "Focus up ladies." Katsuki bowed to the suits. "Good evening, and welcome to the birthing suite." U's camera recorded Katsuki. "I am pleased to announce the imminent arrival of your bouncing badass baby brother."

"OH! He Made Another One!" Mei bounced immediately out of her adorable pout into star-eyed excitement; something which Izuku smiled and blush more, feeling inspired and happy, as always, of Mei's near endless supply of energy, just now seeing it in a whole new, romantic light.

Melissa quickly brought up her notebook, borrowed from Izuku. She flipped through the pages, detailing the schematics and details of the previous Iron Man suits and ended on a new page, ready for what new suit was to come.

Katsuki looked back at U and ordered "Start tight and then wide. Stamp date and time." With a deep breath, Katsuki continued saying "Mark 42. Autonomous prehensile propulsion suit test. Initialize sequence." Katsuki raised his hands up and wiggled them.

"Woah woah woah, hold the phone." Power Loader waved his hands to stop. "Mark 42?!"

"And an autonomous prehensile propulsion suit?" David said, eyes widening in quick realization.

Mei now had to restrained in her seat to keep her from rushing F.R.I.D.A.Y., practically foaming at the mouth at the knowledge of 34 other Iron Man suits, and 35th on the way to be revealed.

Melissa looked at her notebook. 'I'm going to need a bigger notebook.' Melissa thought.

In response to his fingers wiggling, a series of beeps could be heard. On a table, disconnected pieces of an armor suddenly lit up, activated and powering up.

Eyes began widening in the audience as they too started to realize what was happening.

"No way." Awase's jaw dropped. "He really did..."

"I mean, its not a big stretch." Honenuki muttered, eyes widening. "The Mark 7 was callable and attached to him quickly while he was falling."

"And those receivers that he injected himself with, are connected to those pieces of armor!" Shoda exclaimed in awe.

"Jarvis, drop my needle." Stark ordered. At his request, a record player moved and dropped the needle onto the spinning disc. Funky Christmas music started playing, Katsuki Stark snapping his fingers and wiggling his hips to the song, eyes closed and smirking.

Hawks laughed, holding his sides. "Oh this kid, or rather man. I think I might like him more than other me." Hawks admitted.

Bakugou grinned wide and confident. 'Show these extras why we are the boss.' He thought to other him.

"Dashing through the snow, in a one horse open sleigh," As the singing began, Katsuki looked to the table. "O'er the fields we go," Katsuki jabbed his left open palm, fingers first, to the table, his right arm raised up and back, but nothing happened. "Laughing all the way." Katsuki frowned at nothing happening and did the motion again with a grunt as he exerted more force.

Snickers broke out of the group at the rather awkwardly comical failed attempts from Katsuki, something which dropped Bakugou's grin into a snarl.

"Bells on bob tails ring, making spirits bright," "Crap." Katsuki cursed, bringing his arm up and biting and jabbing it to turn on, with a beep to affirm activation. "Oh what fun it is to sing a sleighing song tonight." Katsuki made the motion a third time, this time one of the armor pieces, sprouting jet fire from its thrusters and shooting out towards Katsuki.

"Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Jingle All the Way," The gold and red armor piece landed on his hand, latching around to form an armored hand and began opening further and covering more of his arm. More gold and red armor pieces followed suit and latched onto his shoulder and bicep, covering his entire left arm. "Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh." Katsuki jabbed at another table with his other hand, the armor flying out and latching and forming another armored hand.

As the jaws dropped, Bakugou's grin rose again, wider and more arrogant.

"Amazing!" Momo gaped. "A prehensile suit that can come in pieces for better luggage and easy attachment! And with it propulsion technology, it can fly to Stark, even if there are far away from another!"

"That is the purpose of the receivers." Jurota nodded impressed. "They are linked with the armor pieces of this Mark 42. And since they are injected into his body, mostly his arms from the looks of things, he can essentially summon his suit, and probably other suits from anywhere, like a telepathic Quirk."

Deku had to add Black Whip into the efforts of Yui and Iida to hold Mei in her seat, the pink-haired inventor almost vibrating. Deku noticed Melissa writing down the information of the Mark 42 with almost as great of fervor as Mei. Izuku smiled again at how these two girls were so alike and so passionate about their goals and dreams.

Katsuki laughed in victory. "All right I think we got this. Send them all." Stark said.

"And here, ladies and gentlemen, is where pride comes before the fall." Asui spoke up, earning a Bakugou glare.

More and more armor pieces flew out and around the basement lab. Katsuki lifted his leg in time for the two leg armor pieces to latch around his right leg. Smirking and nodding arrogantly, until that smirk was ended by barely dodging one armor piece, where it crashed through the glass, striking the Mark IV armor in the head and decapitating the armor, the armor piece lodged in the glass.

While Mei wailed out in horror at the Mark IV's decapitation, Asui looked to Bakugou with a blank look that pretty much said: 'I told you so'. Bakugou made her join Iida in those he flipped the bird at.

Katsuki barely ducked again, holding his left arm up to block another armor piece from striking his head, the pieces bouncing off the arm in a clang and ricocheting into a light, it and the light falling onto the ground. "Probably a little fast. Slow it down. Slow it down just a-" Katsuki made a time out sign before dodging another piece. "-a little bit." Katsuki ducked another piece that flew overhead and crashed through some pipes.

Ibara let out a tiny yelp at the near miss and how hard of force the pieces can impact with.

"Yeah, I'm guessing that titanium flying with jet propulsion at your face would kinda suck." Hawks snickered.

Katsuki lifted his leg in time for the other leg armor pieces to latch and surrounded onto his other leg. Only for a groin armor piece to fly in and smash into his groin fast and hard, Katsuki groaning in pain.

The girls laughed at the scene yet all the guys could do was simultaneously cringe and flinch, covering their own groins, practically feeling the impact and pain, Bakugou, strangely, most of all.

"Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle All the Way," Katsuki barely recovered for another armor piece flying in from behind and latching onto his back, knocking him forwards in the air. Stark activated his hand thrusters before he hit the ground, hovering and correcting himself in mid-air. "Cool it, will you, Jarvis?" Stark said in a strained voice.

"Hey, you said that you wanted All of them, all at once, 'Kacchan'~" Mina teased.

"Zip It, Weird Eyes!" Bakugou yelled.

"Oh what Fun it is to Ride in a One Horse Open Sleight." More and more pieces came and attached itself to him, covering his back, head, sans face, front, stomach, right bicep and shoulder. "Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell-" The music was cut by a flying piece smashing through the record player.

This time, Kyoka screamed in horror, followed by Mic. "YOU IDIOT!" Kyoka roared in horror and anger. "Do You Know How Rare Record Players and Discs Are, Today?!"

The piece that murdered the record player popped open and raised up in the air, forming the face plate. "Come on. I ain't scared of you." Katsuki egged the piece on.

"Never would have thought I would see this." Ojiro muttered. "A grown man arguing with the flying mask of his suit."

"Might as well just roll with it, at this point." Sato shrugged.

In response, the piece began flying towards him. Only for it to collided on the table and flip around upside down and backwards. Katsuki quickly sprung and jumped in a flip, helped by his thrusters. Upside down, the face plated clasped on to him, and Iron Man landed like a superhero.

"WOOH! Now That's a Superhero Landing!" Kaminari cheered and clapped.

"MANLY!" Kirishima and Tetsutetsu cheered as well.

The hud appeared over Katsuki's smirking face. "I'm the best." He declared.

"HELL YEAH I AM!" Bakugou roared in smug victory. "EAT IT FROG AND ROUND FACE!"

"And-" Ochaco smirked and said.

The armor piece lodged in the glass shot out and struck Iron Man's butt, sending the Armored Avenger into the air and collapsing onto the floor, all the pieces, sans his helmet falling off and detaching from his body.

"The best, huh?" Ochaco smugly asked.

His burning hot embarrassment, trying to staying cool, and Ibara's laughter kept Bakugou from blowing both Uraraka, and everyone, laughing to Hell.

Stark groaned on the floor, removing the face plate. "As always, sir, a great pleasure watching you work." Jarvis spoke up, with snark.

"Oh this a great pleasure to watch." Uraraka agreed with the male sounding A.I., munching on some popcorn. "A great watch indeed."

"And I guess 72 hours is a long time between siestas." Narrator Katsuki spoke again as Present Katsuki got up, a bleeding cut on the side of his lip. A shot of Katsuki crouched among the broken Mark 42, and U hilariously whirling in a panic between Stark and a smoking lightbulb was shown. "I didn't think it could get any worse." The screen suddenly glitched and turned to black.

"Then I had to go and turn on the TV."

Color shot back up on the screen with a quick flash of a robed man with his arms raised up his sides, before it landed on a single shot of a colored error screen...only in the middle held two crossed swords circled by ten words in ten, connected rings.

The group suddenly tensed, instantly knowing something wasn't right. The experienced pros narrowed their eyes at the screen, knowing a terrorist highjacking of communications when they see one.

Bakugou narrowed his eyes, recognizing and connecting the dots of the symbol. 'Ten Rings. Like the name of the terrorist group that kidnapped other me.'

"That's when He happened." The scene changed to a man in robes, his back towards the screen, his hands clasped behind his back, walking down a row of kneeling Middle-Easterners. The scene changed to a side shot of the robed man, showing his dark, long, shaggy, brown beard, his hair tied in a man bun up the top of his head, and sunglasses over his eyes.

"Terrorist?" Nejire asked/knew the answer already.

"Terrorist." Amajiki said, suddenly composed and serious.

The man turned to the rows of people behind him, turning away from the kneeling men who were cuffed. "Some people call me a Terrorist." A man's voice spoke. The front row raised their guns at the kneeling men and fired as the robed man walked away, gunning down the men in cold blood. "I consider myself a Teacher." The robed man's men cheered for him as he raised his hands over them, each finger wearing a golden ring.

Eri whimpered and hid her face in Deku's chest. Deku wrapped his arm around her protectively, glaring murderously at the robed man and his gunmen that killed all those men in cold blood. The students and adults followed him with their glares. The U.A. teachers glared the most, insulted this man would dare style himself as a teacher, like them.

"America." The man said as images of dressed up children, smiling women, and Capitol Hill were shown, before ending in a close-up shot of the man's face. "Ready for another lesson? In 1864, in Sand Creek, Colorado, the US Military waited until the friendly Cheyenne braves had all gone hunting." The man spoke as old images of Native American women and children were shown in rapid fire. "Waited to attack and slaughter the families left behind." Another shot of dozens of Native American children were shown, followed by another of a burned down settlement was shown. "And claim their land."

Melissa, David, and Pony squirmed and frowned in reminder of the home country's past misdeeds and vile acts.

"39 hours ago, the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait was attacked." A shot of a burning, smoking building was shown ablaze and exploding. "I-I-I did that."

Widened eyes were raised, horrified at the revelation.

"A quaint military church filled with wives and children, of course." The man revealed as he walked towards the camera, staring straight at the audience. "The soldiers were out on maneuvers. The braves were away."

"How Despicable!" Ibara hissed with pure hatred in her voice and eyes.

All Might gritted and gnashed his teeth, enraged at this man for his horrible actions, and excusing it as a lesson and some kind of punishment for past sins on people who had nothing to do with that event. The only one who seemed more animalistic and rageful was Hound Dog, his rage making the dog-looking teacher almost rabid.

"President Ellis," The man continued rapid-fired images of explosions, President Ellis, a man with a bag over his head and tied to a cross, and oil drilling machines were shown. "You continue to resist my attempt to educate you, sir." The man put torch over the man on the cross and he and his cheering men, firing their guns to the sky, watched as the bound man burned. "And now you've missed me again."

Ibara was more and more horrified and disgusted, tying a man to a cross and setting him on fire. She felt like it was a personal attack to her religion. The flames on Endeavor's body seemed to brighten and rise at his own anger, seeing the tied man set ablaze, his son follow him, his left side sparking embers of fire.

Kouta joined Eri in clinging to Midoriya, clutching onto his leg. Deku patted the boy and rubbed Eri's back calmly, his eyes hardened with pure disgust and hatred.

"You know who I am." The camera showed his men cheering. "You don't know where I am." The man's face was shown without his glasses. "And You'll Never Seen Me Coming" said the Mandarin.

Bakugou glared at the Mandarin with pure rageful eyes and snarling growl. 'I'm going to enjoy killing you, you Disgusting piece of Trash!'

Multiple images shot of war, destruction, chaos, and death were shot, the final image: a red screen, the crossed swords and Ten Rings in the middle.

"Ten Rings?" Deku muttered. "Could this man be the connected to the same group that kidnapped Kacchan?"

"You're right." Momo blinked, her eyes narrowing at the symbol. "But didn't Obadiah Stane's men killed them all when he betrayed them?"

"It could be a group that has taken up their name as some sick form of honor." Iida scoffed, disgusted. "Or perhaps a member of the Ten Rings survived who grew in power and became this man."

Power Loader's glare narrowed, his fists tightening at the thought that this man and terrorist group were part of the same group that killed his counterpart and his counterpart's family.

"Now that we seem to be back," A TV error screen was shown before switching to a newsroom and anchorman. "Let's recap some of the frightening developments-"

"American airwaves were hijacked-" "The nation remains on high alert-" "All attempts to find the Mandarin have so far proved unsuccessful." Channels flipped between news broadcast of different stations, the final one showing the words 'Where is the Mandarin? Global Manhunt Underway.'

"The Mandarin, huh?" Bakugou questioned before snickering into a sick snarl. "Good. Now, I know the name to put on his tombstone!"

While the adults could understand, and partially support the student's thirst to take down this terrorist, they still were concerned about Bakugou's rather ruthless and near bloodthirsty attitude, hoping these movies didn't give the teen, or the other students, the impression to simply kill every Villain and criminal they came across. The most worried were the group from last night, All Might, Nezu, Gran Torino, Tsukauchi, and Aizawa, that discussed the need for Bakugou, and Midoriya and Todoroki, to attend therapy with Hound Dog.

"Central to my administration response to this terrorist event is a newly minted resource." The scene switched to President Ellis addressing the nation. "I know him as Colonel Ejiro Kirishima."

Kirishima smiled, pleased to see his counterpart again, and that he will personally deal with this Mandarin.

"The world will soon know him as the Iron Patriot." The scene switched to an image of Kirishima and footage of a suited Kirishima walking in, his armor different. Instead of black, grey, and bulky, the armor was slimmer, the armor red, silver grey, and blue, a rectangular arc reactor over a silver star on his chest, his minigun still attached on his shoulder blade.

"Pfft, did they just color Kiri in the American flag?" Mina snickered, trying to suppress her laughter.

"Nope, they apparently gave him a 'super patriotic' rebrand." Kyoka snickered as well at the cheesy name.

A sweatdrop appeared over Kirishima's head, choosing not to voice out that he found the Iron Patriot name Manly.

"And how is President Ellis responding?" Another news man asked, a clearer image of the Iron Patriot shown with the font below saying 'War Machine Rebrand'. "By taking the guy they call War Machine and giving him a paint job."

"The same suit but painted red, white, and blue." It switched to another channel. "Look at that. And they also renamed him, 'Iron Patriot'. You know just in case the pain was too subtle."

"It tested well with focus groups, alright?" Kirishima defended the name and paintjob, he and Katsuki sitting in a bar drinking and eating as they watched the news.

"'I am Iron Patriot'!" Katsuki said in a deep, mocking voice. "It sucks."

The laughter and agreement the students some adults had with Stark made Kirishima shut his embarrassed, red mouth even more.

"Listen. 'War Machine' was a little too aggressive." Kirishima continued defending the name. "Alright? This sends a better message."

"He speaks truthfully." Aizawa nodded, looking down to his students of 1-A. "As I said when you all got your own codenames, they are what cement what kind of Hero you want to be and what you want the public to see you as."

"Indeed." Midnight nodded. "While War Machine does have a tone that would be menacing to Villains and paint him as an unstoppable force, it is far too aggressive to be the name of a Hero that inspires Hope, Patriotism, and Security like Iron Patriot."

As they talked, Bakugou turned his thoughts to Best Jeanist. He remembered as Jeanist wished for him to think of his own Hero name and to tell him it when he returned to his agency. He still hasn't done so, given Jeanist's current leave of absence for recovery, but the mostly reformed former bully was still determined to have his mentor be the first person he revealed his name to.

Katsuki sighed. "So what's really going on? With the Mandarin." Katsuki asked. Kirishima set down his drink as Katsuki took of his red-tinted sunglasses. "Seriously, can we talk about this guy?"

Kirishima sighed and looked around the bar. Leaning closer, with Stark scooting his seat closer, Kirishima whispered "It's classified information, Katsuki...Okay, there have been nine bombings."

"Nine." Katsuki repeated the word, his frown deepened.

"The public only knows about three." Kirishima continued.

"Why would they hide the other attacks?" Uraraka asked, confused.

"Probably to keep the public from freaking out about just how many times this terrorist has struck, unstopped, and to not invite mass panic." Hawks answered, the words that he parroted being of his bosses at the Heroic Public Safety Commission; and every one left a vile taste in his mouth.

"But here's the thing: nobody can ID a device." Kirishima revealed. "There's no bomb casings."

"Nine bombings with no residual evidence of a bomb by its shelling?" Nezu pondered. "Interesting."

"Perhaps, the bombs were just so strong that there was nothing left to find?" Awase asked.

"Nothing short of a nuke would be capable of leaving behind evidence of an explosive device, and even then that is not a guarantee and they were classified as bombings, not missile strikes or nukes." David replied.

"You know I can help." Stark suggested. "Just ask. I got a ton of new tech. I got a prehensile suit. I-I-I got bomb disposal. It catches explosions in mid-air."

"Bomb disposal?" Izuku questioned. "Could this be one of the other 34 suits that he made before the Mark 42?"

Melissa wrote down 'Bomb Disposal Suit' under the list of suits to work on. 'Stark has the right idea.' Melissa thought. 'Each one of these new suits must be for a specific situation. I can imagine that there could be ones tailored for Search and Rescue missions, others for more situational combat events, or even for different climates.'

Ejiro looked over Stark as he spoke before saying "When's the last time you got a good night's sleep?"

"Yeah, if they keep mentioning that, it definitely means that it's going to be important." Kaminari said.

"Welcome to the golden rules of movies." Kyoka retorted.

"Einstein slept three hours a year." Katsuki defended himself this time. "Look what he did."

"He also was a bit of hound dog, yet you're not doing that anymore, are you?" Setsuna retorted to the Bakugou counterpart, that couldn't hear her.

"Thankfully." Ibara muttered.

"People are concerned about you, Katsuki." Kirishima continued undeterred. "I'm concerned about you."

"You gonna come at me like that?" Stark questioned.

"No, look, I'm not trying to be a dick-" Kirishima and Katsuki argument was cut off when they noticed two girls a young girl and a younger boy walk up to them. "-tator."

"Heh, nice censoring, Kiri." Mina snickered. "Way better than Sailor Mouth next to you."

"SHUT YOUR SHITTY MOUTH, YOU FUCKING PINK IDIOT!" Bakugou yelled.

"I rest my case." Mina smugly leaned on her seat.

"Do you mind signing my drawing?" The girl asked.

"If Richard doesn't mind." Katsuki gestured to Kirishima. "Are you alright with this, Dick?"

"Ah, I see what he did there! Clever." Setsuna snickered.

"Then please explain, because I'm a little lost." Kosei asked, confused.

"It's a sort of nickname associated with a certain name or names." Izuku replied. "Like how Bill can be sort for William, even though there is no B in William, or Jim with James. Here, the common nickname for Richard is usually Dick."

"Why? Were guys called Richard usually dicks?" Kaminari asked further, scratching his head.

"No, it was for some crude stereotype, but rather as a rhyming convention." Iida answered this time. "Where the name Richard gained short nicknames like Rich or Rick, over time, the nickname of Dick and Hick were made to rhyme with Rich and Rick. It is why Bill is the nickname for William, because Bill was a nickname that rhymed with Will."

"Yeah." Kirishima chuckled, keeping his annoyance hidden behind humor. "Fine with me."

Katsuki looked at the drawing that the girl gave him, a drawing of him as Iron Man leading the missile into the wormhole in the Battle of New York. Katsuki's eyes twitched before recomposing himself. "What's your name?" He asked.

Ibara blinked as she picked up the sudden eye twitch of Katsuki, earning her a worried look, feeling that something was off.

"Erin." The girl replied.

Katsuki looked to the younger sibling, a small boy with blonde hair and glasses that looked at him silent curiosity. "I loved you in a Christmas story by the way." Katsuki joked.

"Listen, the Pentagon is scared." Kirishima whispered as Stark made to sign the drawing. "After New York, aliens...Come on. They need to look strong." The boy continued staring at Katsuki, making the Armored Avenger more uncomfortable. As he wrote 'Help me Erin.' beside the drawn Iron Man and signed it, his eye continued twitching, followed by the rest of his sweating head.

"Uh, what's up with Stark twitching?" Setsuna asked, concerned.

Concerned frowns and raised, inquisitive eyebrows were raised as more and more of the group picked up on it. Izuku frowned in serious concern over Kacchan, his frown paired with his slowly widening eyes as he realized it was when Stark looked at the drawing and when Kirishima mentioned New York.

"Stopping the Mandarin is a priority, but it's not-"

"It's not superhero business." Stark cut to the chase, his grip on the crayon tightening. "I get it."

"How could it not be superhero business?" Uraraka asked, confused.

"As far as we know, this Mandarin is a terrorist operating outside the U.S. in a third world country." Ryukyu began explaining. "Terrorists are issues and threats that the military are mostly in charge of taking care of. But since Iron Man is not part of the U.S. military, he can't involve himself without causing an international incident."

"No, it's not, quite frankly." Ejiro nodded. "It's American business."

"That's why I said I got i-" Katsuki cut himself off at the sound of the crayon breaking in two. Katsuki palmed his hand in front of his face and exhaled sharply.

"Are you okay?" Kirishima asked, concerned.

"I broke the crayon." Katsuki groaned.

"Yeah, something's not right." Tetsutetsu muttered, frowning concerned. "He's sweating like he's in the middle of desert, again, and looks like he's having trouble breathing."

Ibara's grip on her seat only tightened with every point that Tetsutetsu made.

"Are you okay, Mr. Stark?" Erin asked, worried as well, yet to him it became muffled and low.

"Hey, hey, take it easy, Katsuki." Kirishima placed a comforting hand on Katsuki shoulder, yet his voice, too, became low and muffled to Stark's ears.

The adults quickly realized what was the problem, only frowning harder in worry at their conclusion.

"How did you get out of the wormhole?" The silent boy finally whispered to him.

Katsuki suddenly jumped out of his seat, his face full of sweat and panic. "What did you say?" He mumbled out as he swiftly began to leave the bar.

"Wait a minute, Katsuki. Katsuki!" Kirishima called out to him, swiftly following after him.

"Katsuki." Ibara joined her fellow greenette in worried muttering.

Meanwhile, with the drawing, right beside his initials was a mess of lines crossed around Iron Man.

Bakugou's wide eyes held a mixture of befuddlement and anger. 'The fuck is up with other me?!' Bakugou roared in his mind, annoyed at not knowing what was wrong with him.

Stark stumbled out of the restaurant, bumping onto a few people, gasping for breath panicked. "Sorry." He breathed out an apology, making his way to the Mark VII standing by the curb. "I'm just checking on the suit."

"Wait, did he seriously just leave the seat outside like it was a parked car?" Kaminari pondered.

"Out of all that's happening, that's what your asking?" Kyoka shook her head in disbelief.

"Hey, everyone was already questioning what was going on with Bakugou, I just wanted to speak my mind about something else." Kaminari defended himself.

Detecting his approach, the suit opened up its backside for Katsuki to stumble in. As the suit clasped around him, Katsuki collapsed to his knees, gasping for breath, the civilians around him looking at him with concern and worry.

"Check the heart-check the..." Katsuki stammered out, looking over at his vitals on the hub. "Is it the brain?"

"No sign of cardiac anomaly or unusual brain activity." Jarvis reported.

"Okay, so I was poisoned?" Katsuki questioned further.

"My diagnosis is that you've experience a severe anxiety attack." Jarvis revealed.

Katsuki went silent in sheer shock. "Me?" He questioned the A.I.

"Anxiety?" Ibara questioned, her worry only rising higher.

"It's the invasion of New York." Snipe revealed.

"What do you mean, Mr. Snipe?" Hagakure asked

"The invasion and going through that portal must have caused some form of PTSD in him that results in anxiety and panic attacks when he remembers it." Snipe explained. "It's like how Midoriya had that PTSD during the Avengers when he was hitting the punching bag, probably brought on by the sounds of his punches sounding like cannon and gunfire. Only Stark's are being caused by any mention of New York, the invasion, and the Chitauri."

Bakugou was speechless as he pondered this shocking revelation. Bakugou was not one to be afraid or traumatized of things, there was a time in his life where he would view people who suffered this 'weak and fragile'. All For One and the League were a wake-up call to him. He still had nights where he woke up in a cold sweat to All For One, the destruction he wrought, his intimidating presence, his manipulative voice that echoed in his dreams, fearing the Quirk-stealing Villain clutching his head and rendering him Quirkless, powerless, and sentenced to the same bullying he inflicted on Deku.

Now, finding both himself and his counterpart in the shoes of those he would once belittle, felt like another piece of karma that the universe inflicted on him.

Ibara looked to Bakugou with clear worry. She remembered her old Saturday routine, before she came to U.A. She spent the morning watering her plants in her garden, finish the day with a nightly adoration, and, in between, volunteer at the retirement home, assisting the staff, tending and caring and even play old games with the elderly residents. She still helps out, though to a lesser degree due to her studies at U.A. and the dorm system.

She remembered Old Mr. Torauma, how the lovable old man would tell her about his days as a Hero, heroic tales of saving innocents, and the sorrowful tales of past mistakes, regretful desires, and those he failed to save, still haunting the old man in his dreams. She remembered how she would comfort the man, soothe him with song, and pray for him every night to this day.

Now, as she looks between her crush and his anxiety-induced counterpart, she recalls his capture by the League and All For One, and wonders if perhaps she may be needed again to help another with his own trauma.

Kirishima crouched down and tapped Stark's helmet with a resounding clang. "Come on, man, this isn't a good look. Open up." Kirishima said, worried.

"Don't you see that he is going through something, dude?" Sato questioned to Kirishima, to which was to be debated.

"While this event is understandably excusable for Stark to calm down, we Heroes have to be shining pillars, strong and sturdy, to give civilians peace of mind and safety." Edgeshot spoke. "What Colonel Kirishima is fearful of is that the Iron Man on his knees and gasping for breath might induce a sense of panic to the surrounding civilians to a country already on edge by a terrorist."

"Sorry, I gotta split." Stark replied, getting up in a grunt and flying off to the sky.

"Kacchan." Izuku muttered worried.

"Is Uncle Kacchan going to be okay?" Eri asked her Papa worried.

Izuku smiled comfortingly to Eri and stroked her head. "Yes, he will, sweetie." Izuku replied. "Uncle Kacchan is strong. He will get through this alright, you will see."

The scene brought smiles and coos from the group, easing the tenseness and worry that infected them prior.

The scene changed to a skyward shot of Stark Industries before switching to inside the building. "Badge. Badge." Happy said, warning as he passed multiple people. "Badge, guys, I put a memo in the toilet. Come on."

"Wow Awase, power trip much?" Setsuna snickered.

"Oh my god, are we sure that this guy isn't Iida's counterpart?" Mina too snickered.

The two classes snickered and chuckled to the blushes, both embarrassed and offended, of Awase and Iida.

"Katsuki has got them in his basement." Happy said to Ibara as they walked. "They're wearing part hats. This is an asset that we can put to use."

"Uh-huh. So you're suggesting that I replace the entire janitorial staff with robots." Ibara said dryly as a lady came up and gave her a paper to sign. "Thank you."

"What I'm saying is that the human element of human resources is our biggest point of vulnerability." Happy argued, to Ibara's scrunched face of confusion. "We should start phasing it out immediately."

"Talk about paranoid, dude." Sen chuckled.

"W-Well, I-I mean...we also wouldn't have to pay them if the janitors are robots." Awase weakly defended himself. The resulting laughs at his expense were expected.

"What?" Shiozaki exclaimed in pure confusion.

"Excuse me, Bambi. You should be wearing-" Happy said to another employee.

"Did you just say that?" Shiozaki asked, shocked. "Happy."

"Yes?" Happy said.

"I am thrilled that you are now the Head of Security. Okay?" Shiozaki congratulated the former bodyguard. "It is the perfect position for you."

"Oh, so Awase has become the Head of Security." Itsuka took note of.

"He was a bodyguard to that insufferable, reckless blonde so he has the credentials for such a position." Monoma replied, scoffing at Bakugou. "And what good is a bodyguard to a man walking around in a suit of armor that can fly and fire missiles?"

"The Only Insufferable Blonde in this Room is You, Copycat!" Bakugou roared in retort.

"Can't we just compromise and say that you both are insufferable blondes?" Setsuna petitioned.

"Even with how much they have changed, that would still be too much of a compromise for them." Asui retorted, to Setsuna's laughter and the two insufferable blonde's glare.

"Thank you." Happy thanked with a satisfied smile. "I do appreciate it."

"However, since you've taken the post-" "You don't have to thank me-" "We've had a rise in staff complaints of 300%." Ibara continued past Happy's interruption.

"300%?!" Mina snickered in amazement.

"Wow, who knew the paranoid, stick up his ass that Iida has was that infectious?" Hagakure pondered, to which Iida gaped at her, offended and arms chopping at blazing speeds. Uraraka had to ease him out of whatever rant he was about to retort against Hagakure and Ashido.

"Thank you." Happy thanked, his smile still full of pride.

"It's not a compliment." Ibara made clear.

"How would that be considered a compliment?" Kosei scratched his head.

"Delusion." Kamakiri replied.

"It's not-It is a compliment." Happy argued. "Clearly, somebody's trying to hide something."

"Hide what? The secret takeover plans hidden in the urinal cakes?" Kamakiri joked, to the guys laughter.

"Excuse me. Ms. Potts, your 4:00 is here." Ibara's secretary informed them before Ibara could argue further.

"Thank you." "Did you clear this 4:00 with me?" The two responded at the same time.

"Geez, calm down, man." Rin said.

"Happy, we'll talk about this later, but right now I have to go deal with this very annoying thing." Ibara said.

"How so?" Happy asked why it was annoying.

"I used to work with him," Ibara revealed as they began walking into the room. "And he used to ask me out all the time, so it's a little awkward."

An eyebrow was raised on Bakugou's face, identifying, reluctantly, that what suddenly was rising in his chest was protectiveness over his girlfriend in another world.

"I don't like the sound of that." Awase gave his opinion.

"No offense, Awase, but other you looks like he wouldn't like the sound of someone breathing loudly." Setsuna snickered, chuckles and laughter joining her.

"W-Well, y-you know, uh...they could be breathing loudly b-because they beat someone up?" Awase tried defending himself.

The defense resulted in an increase in laughter from his classmates.

"Alright, alright, that's enough joking at Awase's expense." Vlad defused the situation.

The two froze at Ibara's 4:00. Dressed in a sleek, light black suit and brown and black striped tie was none other than Touya Todoroki.

"What?!" The group exclaimed again at the sight of the eldest Todoroki sibling

Touya smiled, happily. "Ibara." He greeted her.

"T-Todoroki?" Shiozaki asked, surprised at how the man looked.

Shoto and Endeavor looked at the grownup Touya with complete shock, completely surprised to see the glow up that he went through to look like this. Endeavor felt like he was looking at a mirror of what his younger self looked like, only slimmer and with white hair.

Gone was the nerdy Touya from the past and now stood a far more handsome version. He stood tall in in his black suit with a confident swagger and had clearly bulked in comparison to his younger self on a cane. His long, shaggy, white hair now was trimmed down to a still messy, but more manageable style. A trimmed 5:00 shadow was now present on his face, though hairs were black in contrast to his hair, as well as his sideburns and few lines on the sides of his head that were likewise black yet almost hidden behind his white hair. His glasses were gone, showing more of his bright, almost burning turquoise eyes.

"Woah, Shoto, dude, no offense, but your brother glowed up." Kirishima complimented.

"N-none taken." Shoto said, surprised at the sight of his eldest brother now older, wondering if this is how he would have looked like if he was still alive.

Although, there was something familiar about Touya's appearance that he didn't quite put his finger.

"Hey, Todoroki." Izuku called for Shoto's attention.

"Yeah?" Shoto replied.

"Um what's with the black hairs on Touya?" Izuku asked. "I-I know that this may be hard to remember, but did your brother have black hairs like that?"

Todoroki blinked at the question and looked back at the new Touya. "N-No." Todoroki said. "Touya's hair was originally red like mine and my father's, but overtime it became white."

"White?" Momo asked.

"Despite having my old man's Quirk, a more powerful version really, from what I heard, the constitution of Touya's body took after my mother's." Todoroki explained. "His body was suited more for an Ice Quirk like hers, so his body changed further to my mother's looks as he grew older. His red hair turned white and his body became more unsuited for his Quirk, so much so that he started burning himself if he used his Quirk."

"Oh, that's horrible." Ochaco said, sadly.

"Yeah." Todoroki said, remembering wanting to hang out with Touya, Natsuo, and Fuyumi but his father never let him, trying to get him to focus on his training. He thought back to his memories of Touya that he had, and recalled no time his brother had black hair. "But throughout the time I knew him, he never had black hair or developed black hair like his white hair. Natsuo had my mother's hair color from the start and Fuyumi has white and red hair like me, but only stripes, zigzags, and red, not black." He looked to Touya's counterpart. "This must be something else."

Endeavor listened to his son's conversation and thought back to his own memories of his eldest son. Shoto was right on the money about Touya's hair, his body unsuited for his Quirk, another consequence of his actions. He also remembered Touya's unstable look as he nearly attacked a baby Shoto. He remembered trying to keep Touya away from Shoto, and, consequentially, his other siblings. Where Shoto only remembered wanting to play with his siblings, Endeavor saw the look of hatred and resentment that Touya shot at them both, the father that abandoned him and the little prodigy that stole his father's attention.

And in no time in Touya's 9 years of living did Enji ever see his son with black hairs.

He looked to his fellow pros who's looks asked the same question as Izuku asked to Shoto. He shook his head, wordlessly telling them that his son never possessed black hairs. It only drew more suspicion and looks of curiosity.

Meanwhile, Hawks gazed at Touya with a suspicious, narrowed gaze. 'T-There's something about him that looks...familiar.' Hawks thought, trying to read the eldest Todoroki sibling's face and make out the familiarity he felt and suspected.

"You look great." Touya nodded at her stunned face. "You look really great."

"G-God, you-you look great." Shiozaki stammered in shock as he approached them. "I-I-I-"

"Rendered speechless, Ibara?" Setsuna teased.

Ibara fired a glare that pretty much said 'Not one word'. Setsuna stole a glance from Bakugou who held a similar, more jealous glare and held back a chuckle.

'Now I can see more of why they are made for each other.' Setsuna thought.

"What on Earth have you been doing?" Shiozaki asked.

Touya shrugged, nonchalant. "Nothing fancy." He replied with a clear white smile. "Just five years in the hands of physical therapists.

"Must have been some therapists." Yui muttered, earning a jealous grumble from Shinsou.

Pony looked like a blushing mess, almost as smitten with this elder Todoroki sibling counterpart as the Todoroki of 1-A. Pony shook her head, rationalizing that this was the counterpart to Todoroki's deceased brother and not cool.

"And please, call me Touya."

"Uh, you were supposed to be issued a security badge." Happy tried interjecting himself into the conversation.

"Happy, it's okay. We're good." Ibara replied before Touya.

"Yes? Are you sure?" Happy asked.

"Yes. Stand down." Ibara ordered nicely.

"I'm gonna linger right here. Okay." Happy said, still keeping a suspicious eye of Touya.

"Subtle." Jurota plainly said.

"Hey, at least other me could just be looking after my old boss now that a super cool looking, handsome dude is flashing smiles at his girl." Awase defended himself, again.

Bakugou didn't even bother to retort how he didn't need the former bodyguard's help, mostly because he wanted him to look after his girl.

"Thank you." Ibara thanked before turning back to Touya. "It's very nice to see you, Todoroki."

Touya smiled at Ibara, handsomely, and walked with her further into the office.

Jealousy rose in Bakugou's chest, eyes and hands twitching, a inch away from exploding the guy's face for making those smiles at his girl. The menacing aura coming off of him were enough to make Kirishima and the others scoot away, cautiously.

Happy sat down on a couch, spotting from across the room a nearly shaved head pale man, who looked restless, wiping his face and looking at the magazine to his side. "Hey, guy." Happy called out to him, tapping on own his badge.

The man wordlessly grabbed another thing by the table beside him and showed Happy his badge. He smirked at a lady walking by. "Merry Christmas."

"MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART DETECTED!" F.R.I.D.A.Y. paused and scanned the man. "ERIC SALVIN! MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART: KENJI NAKAMURA!" F.R.I.D.A.Y. showed an image of a plain black haired kid in a black school uniform.

"Uh, who's that?" Kaminari asked, looking around to get confused looks from everyone else.

Izuku immediately stiffened, his eyes widening in recognition. Bakugou followed afterwards. While he didn't care about the extra enough to remember his name, he could recall his face.

"U-Um, Kenji was...another student from Aldera, where me and Bakugou went to before U.A." Izuku stuttered, his eyes losing their brightness as the memories came back.

After Tsubassa moved away, or at least they believed he moved at the time, Kenji took his place among Bakugou's main group of lackeys. He was nicer compared to Yubi and Bakugou himself, but to Izuku, he was treated like garbage by Kenji, calling him names, pranking him severely, he was even involved in...that incident, the memory of which still made Izuku flinch.

Bakugou froze as well, his mind racing in a panic almost as much as Stark. The extra was always the most spineless of those that followed him around, yet he could still recall him setting up his pranks towards Deku. He never participated in them, but sure as Hell didn't care to stop them, or deny that he laughed along with everyone when the deed was done. Bakugou's brain then sparked back to that fateful day of the Sludge Villain attack, the day he told Deku those dreaded words he wished he could take back, and where Yubi was there as he said them and snickered, beside the Stretchy-fingered extra, Kenji was there too.

'Is that why he's suddenly here as well?' Bakugou thought, bitterly. 'Is my past and demons coming back to haunt me just as much as Stark? Dammit.'

The students could immediately tell that whoever this acquaintance of theirs is, it was someone they didn't have fond memories of. The girls immediately wondered if this Kenji was perhaps someone who bullied Izuku, given how Izuku seemed to have stiffened and deflated at his mention, like Yubi, thus earning the image and man a suspicious and angry glare.

Kirishima likewise was suspicious. Not just of Kenji's past with Midoriya, but also Bakugou. Kirishima noticed how silent and still the ash-blonde teen was at his mention, it was almost the same reaction he had towards that Yubi guy, who's counterpart was Obadiah Stane, and Tsubassa who was Raza. And they all made his bro still and afraid, and Kirishima did not know why he would be afraid of some random guys from his past.

All Might glared at the teen the moment Midoriya revealed his connection to Aldera, his brain already connecting the dots to it being another bully towards Midoriya. All Might turned to Nezu and Tsukauchi, the both them meeting his gaze and nodding, all three of them agreeing to add this to their investigation of Aldera.

"After years dodging the President's ban on 'immoral' biotech research," Touya spoke with Ibara, putting air quotes on the word 'immoral'. Touya then brought out and placed a small white container on the glass table and began unlocking it. "My think tank now has a little something in the pipeline."

Touya placed a device on the back of his ear and said "It's an idea we like to call EXTREMIS."

Raised eyebrows were raised up in rapid succession.

"EXTREMIS?" Ojiro repeated the name. "Like the thing that she put into the plant that exploded?"

"It would appear that after being rejected by Stark, Hansen took up Todoroki's offer and joined the A.I.M." Tokoyami said. "And now after all these years, they may have perfected it."

Bakugou flinched, the guilt for ditching both people in Switzerland rising up.

"I'm gonna turn your lights down." Touya pressed a button and dimmed the lights. Grabbing three spherical objects from the case, he held the three metal orbs to Shiozaki. "Regard the human brain." As he said that, Touya rolled the spheres down the table. The spheres stopped by the middle of the table and corrected themselves, turning one of their sides till it faced upwards.

As they did, and stopped in a triangular formation of each other, the orbs hummed and their upwards sides glowed and shined out light. The lights projected to Ibara and Touya a near photo-realistic holographic projection of stars.

"Uh...Wait, hold on, hold on. That's-That's the universe. My bad." Touya apologized, nonchalantly.

"He meant to start of like that, didn't he?" Kyoka figured.

"Its an business tactic." Momo nodded. "It makes him come across as humble and modest, while flaunting off one of his products and its capabilities. My parents allowed me to sit down on some of their business ventures and contracts. They wanted me to get to know some of the family business for the future."

Melissa chuckled. "Same here." She spoke up and turned to Momo. "Dad let me come with him to some of his less secretive meetings. Said he wanted a second pair of eyes he can trust and for me to learn the ways of business."

Momo smiled at Melissa. "Then it appears we have more in common than I first guessed." Momo replied.

"Guess so." Melissa smiled back, friendly.

Watching the two girls get along brought smiles to the rest of the Sisterhood, glad to see that they were starting to finally get along better with each other after the past two days of jealousy and conflicted feelings. It was a sign of hope for them that this Sisterhood of theirs could work.

"But if I do that..." Touya pressed a button on his remote and where the model of the stars and universe were, it was replaced with something the group saw as more amazing. "That's the brain." Accurate to Touya's revelation, the model was in the shape and structure of a human brain and seemed to pulse like a brain. The holographic model was a cosmic blue, the lines and ridges of the brain glowing a brighter, cooler blue, white dots sparkled and glittered all over the brain and, coupled with the vein-like patterns that glowed a orange glow, looked like a mini star system in the shape of a brain.

"Oooh!" Nejire gazed at the holographic display in adorable, child-like awe. "That's so pretty! Do you think my brain looks as cool as that?"

"More beautiful than that." Izuku mumbled.

"What was that, 'Zuzu?" Nejire asked, the ends of her mouth slowly rising.

"Ah! Uh, Nothing! Nothing at all!" Izuku lied desperately, blushing madly at his screw up and chuckled nervously.

Nejire shrugged with her soldiers, pretending that she didn't hear what Izuku had mumbled that made her smile grow wider and cheeks blush pink.

"Strangely mimetic, though, wouldn't you say?" Touya asked, suavely.

"It does looks similar to a galaxy." Thirteen said. "Must be why he chose the stars and space as the 'accidental' first look."

"Wow, that's amazing." Ibara said, gazing at the brain impressed.

"Thanks, it's mine." Touya replied.

"What?" Shiozaki turned to him and asked.

"This. You're inside my head." Touya gestured to the model and then to the device he placed behind his ear. "It's a-It's a live feed."

"So that baby must be giving the image of is brain to those little holographic display babies." Mei analyzed. "Must be producing the image via a CAT scan-like signal that details the structure of it."

"Or there could be a device that he put into his brain via surgery that would allow his brain to be imaged and the earpiece is just recieving and transmitting the data." Melissa suggested.

"Come on up, I'll prove it to you." Touya said, climbing up to stand on the glass table, handing out his hand to help Ibara up. "Come on."

Ibara took his hand and stood on the glass table with him, standing in the center of the model of his brain as it spun around them.

"Ooh, so romanti-" Pony's mouth was slapped shut by Kinoko, the mushroom girl gesturing towards an increasingly nervous Ibara and an increasing jealous and angry Bakugou.

"Now, pinch my arm." Touya brought his left arm up to her. Ibara looked at him with a smile. "I can take it. Pinch me."

Ibara chuckled and complied. As she did, the orange veins of the brain flared up and glowed white hot and bright. Ibara gasped. "What is that?" She asked.

"It's the primary somatosensory cortex." Touya explained before simplifying. "It's the brain's pain center."

"Interesting." David said, nodding along to the demonstration.

Deku darkly thought about how his brain's pain center would look whenever he used One For All beyond his limb-sustaining limits.

"But this is what I wanted to show you." Touya pointed at a part of the brain behind her, turning her gently to where he was looking and pressed a button on the remote. Touya moved his hand in the air, the model responding to his movements and moving and focusing on a certain part of the brain. "Now, EXTREMIS harnesses our bioelectrical potential. And it goes...here."

The model zoomed in rapidly through the starry-like brain model to what appeared to be an empty, vacant hole, the starry neurons swirling around it like a black hole. "This is essentially an empty slot and what this tells us is that our mind, our entire DNA, in fact, is destined to be upgraded."

Eyes went wide across the group as a single collective question popped in their head. 'Is this, in fact, why Quirks came to be?'

"Wow." Ibara gasped out.

Outside, watching the whole thing, Happy was interrupted by a ring. Happy fumbled, trying to find the source of the ringing before finding it on his tablet. Fumbling with the tablet, trying to answer the call, Salvin across the room noticing, Happy finally managed to answer the call and point the tablet at his face. "Hello?"

"Is this Forehead of Security?" Katsuki asked, the camera on his phone showing the upper half of Happy's head, especially his forehead.

"Good one." Mirio chuckled.

"What?" Happy asked, before realizing who the caller was. "You know what-Look. I got a real job. What do you want? I'm working. I've got something going on, here."

"What? Harassing interns?" Katsuki guessed, walking past the Mark 42 standing at the center platform of his basement, and beginning to go down the stairs.

"More like harassing everybody with memos." Miruko said.

"Let me tell you something. Do you know what happened when I told people I was Iron Man's bodyguard?" Happy questioned the Armored Avenger. "They would laugh in my face." The answer caused Katsuki to chuckle. "I had to leave while I still had a shred of dignity."

"Guess you were right after all, Monoma." Itsuka nodded to the blonde.

"Well, of course I am." Monoma bragged. "I-"

"There's a first time for everything." Yui cut him off.

Laughter proceeded to cut Monoma off before he could retort to Yui, his face red and his cheeks puffed as he desperately tried to hold back his insult.

"Now, I got a real job. I'm watching Ibara."

"What's going on? Fill me in." Stark asked, walking down to the lower level while the Mark 42 slowly descended by the lowering platform.

"Spying on your girl is not a good move, Bakubro." Kirishima shook his head.

"Zip it!" Bakugou whispered/yelled at Kirishima.

"For real?" Happy asked, incredulously.

"Yeah." Stark nodded.

"Alright." Happy relented. "So, she's meeting up with this scientist. Rich guy. Handsome."

"Right." Katsuki said as he placed his phone propped up against a nightstand. The Mark 42 continued descending past Katsuki and into a lower, darker floor, the Mark 42 disappearing into the darkness as a shutter closed off the lower floor.

"I couldn't make out his face, at first. Right? You know I'm good with faces." Happy said.

"Oh, yeah, you're the best." Katsuki said, patronizing the former bodyguard.

Awase grumbled at the patronizing tone but kept silent.

"Yeah. Well, so I run his credentials. I make him." Happy continued. "Touya Todoroki. We actually met the back in...Where were we in '99? The science conference?"

"Um...Switzerland." Katsuki answered.

"Right, right, exactly." Happy nodded.

"Todoroki. No...I don't remember that guy." Katsuki replied as he tried to remember but blanked.

"Of course you don't remember." Happy rolled his eyes. "He's not a blonde with a big rack."

Melissa subconsciously covers her own large rack with her arms, unfortunately making them appear larger, something Deku noticed and silently appreciated. Ryukyu, likewise, noticed her own large rack and nervously chuckled. In contrast, Mount Lady and Pixie Bob proudly, and arrogantly, flaunted their own assets, to the boy's blushing appreciation. Meanwhile, Ibara was a mix of grumbling at this Bakugou's past taste in woman and wondering if her Bakugou would appreciate her own large assets.

"At first, it was fine. They were talking business." Happy continued his report while Katsuki poured himself a glass of wine. "But now it's, like, getting weird. He's showing her his big brain."

"His what?" Katsuki turned to Happy, confused.

"Big brain." Happy repeated. "And she likes it."

Mineta and the boys snickered and could barely control her childish giggles, while Mic and Hawks just nearly broke down in laughter.

"Boys." Ryukyu sighed and rolled her eyes. "Right, Ru-"

"BAHAHAHAHAHA!" Miruko burst out laughing, clutching at her sides and kicking her feet in the air. Ryukyu, sweatdropping, stopped what she about to say.

"Here, let me show you. Hold on." Happy directed the tablet towards Shiozaki, Todoroki, and his big brain. "See?"

"Look at what? You watching them?" Katsuki retorted. "Flip the screen, and then we can get started."

"I'm not a tech genius like you." Happy defended himself. "Just trust me. Get down here."

"Flip the screen. Then I can see what they're doing." Katsuki insisted.

"Huh, I like this." Itsuka smiled. "I mean, he's checking up on her, but at least he trusts her enough to not suspect her of doing something without proof."

Ibara smiled, glad to see her crush's counterpart trusts her other self, and hopes that her own Katsuki will give her the same trust. Bakugou smirked smug, and Tetsutetsu wished he had one of Midoriya's notebooks to write down what Ibara said as something she likes in a partner.

"I can't! I don't know how to flip the screen!" Awase snapped and yelled at Stark. "And don't talk to me like that anymore. You're not my boss. Alright, I don't work for you."

"Wow, dude, way to stand up for yourself." Sen nodded, impressed.

"I guess that was years of bodyguarding and 'boss being an asshole' just coming up to the surface." Awase shrugged, likewise pleased with his other self.

Bakugou's reply to his bodyguard in another life was the finger.

As Happy stood up for himself, Stark searched up Todoroki and his information. "And I don't trust this guy." Happy continued. "He's got another guy with him. He's shifty."

"Relax." Katsuki switched the screen back to Happy.

"Seriously?" Happy questioned.

"I'm just asking you to secure the perimeter." Stark ordered. "Tell them to go out for a drink or something."

"You know what? You should take more of an interest in what's going on here." Happy said, looking back to see Shiozaki and Todoroki. "This woman's the best thing that ever happened to you, and you're just ignoring her."

Ibara smiled at Happy for, in his own way, trying to look out for both her and Katsuki.

"A giant brain?" Katsuki simply asked again.

"Yeah. There's a giant brain. There's a shifty character." Happy listed his concerns, looking at the shifty character concern. "I'm gonna follow this guy. I'm gonna run his plates and I'm gonna-You know what if it gets rough, so be it."

"Awase, don't instigate a conflict towards a character, no matter their shiftiness, if you can avoid it." Vlad King sgaely warned.

"Yes, sir." Awase nodded.

"I miss you, Happy." Stark said as he inspected the wine cellar.

"Yeah, I miss you, too." Happy said sincerely.

The girls cooed at the slight bromance between the former bodyguard and boss, with Awase embarrassed by it, and Bakugou grumblingly uncomfortable.

"But the way it used to be." Happy clarified. "Now you're off with the super friends. I don't know what's going on with you anymore. The world's getting weird."

"As if the world wasn't already weird with billionaire playboy's flying in suits of armor, aliens that might be gods, super soldiers through super steroids, and giant, green, rage monsters." Hawks pointed out.

"Hey!" Katsuki snapped and exclaimed, cutting Happy off. "I hate to cut you off. Do you have your Taser on you?"

"Why?" Happy asked.

"I think there's a gal in H.R. who's trying to steal some printer ink." Katsuki placed the phone where the wine he grabbed was. "You should probably go there and zap her."

"Yeah, nice." Happy rolled his eyes.

"With how paranoid he is, I'm surprised he wouldn't take that seriously." Rin said.

"Imagine if you could hack into the hard drive of any living organism, and recode its DNA." Touya continued his meeting with Ibara, the brain model turned off.

"That would be incredible." Ibara replied to Touya's affirmative hum. "Unfortunately, to my ears, it also sounds highly weaponizable." Touya smile started to drop into a slight frown. "As in, enhanced soldiers, private armies, and Katsuki is-"

"Katsuki, Katsuki." Touya said, scoffing humorously. "You know, I invited Katsuki to join A.I.M. 13 years ago. He turned me down. But something tells me now there's a new genius on the throne," Touya gestured to Ibara. "Who doesn't have to answer to Katsuki anymore, and who has slightly less of an ego."

Sen hissed in discomfort. "Oof, he should not have said that last part." He said.

"Yeah, rookie mistake." Kosei nodded. "You never tell the girl the truth that they have an ego, even if its to say that they have a small one. He should deny the existence of them having an ego. It's boy-girl politics 101."

"I'm sorry." Kosei shuddered in fear. He craned his head to see the entire female population of the room looking at him with smiling yet terrifying faces that promised pain. "But did could you repeat what you said, Tsubaraba?" A scary, smiling Itsuka asked.

While Kosei pleaded and struggled for his life, Sen wiped the bead of sweat from his head. 'Boy-girl politics 102, Kosei. Never talk about the secrets of Boy-girl politics out loud when in the presents of girls.' Sen thought. 'Especially when it's about the truth.'

Before Sen could fully relax, he flinched at the stare of Yui down below. She made a 'I got my eye on you' expression, to which Sen, fearfully, nodded.

"It's gonna be a no, Touya." Ibara said firmly. "As much as I'd like to help you."

The scene changed to Ibara and Toua walking out of Stark Tower. "Well, I can't say that I'm not disappointed." Touya said, honestly. "But then, as my father used to say: 'Failure is the fog through which we glimpse triumph'."

"Eh?" Hagakure questioned.

"That's very deep." Ibara nodded. "And I have no idea what it means."

"Ah, Shio, we didn't get it either." Setsuna wrapped Ibara in a hug. "You are one of us."

"I am perfectly capable of picking up on quotes and their meanings, thank you very much." Ibara huffed.

"No, me neither." Touya chuckled. "He was kind of an idiot, my old man." Ibara chuckled.

Endeavor's eye twitched, but bit down the fatherly irritation at the fact that there was no son to be irritated by here.

"I'm sure I'll see you again, Ibara." Touya said his goodbyes, leaving with a kiss on Ibara's cheek.

The boys cautiously looked to Bakugou who's while he was smiling, it was a dangerous smile, accompanied by twitching, raging eyes, throbbing forehead veins, and jealous aura around him.

As Ibara watched him go with uncertainty and guilt in her eyes, she quickly composed herself at Happy's arrival. "Happy." She greeted him.

Setsuna stared at Ibara with teasing eyes. Ibara's was a silent 'Shut up' look.

"Car's ready, if you're ready to go." A suspicious Happy said.

Ibara watched Touya entering his car with Salvin, talking to someone on the phone. "Yes, I just, um-God, I forgot my other things so-I'm just gonna..." She left it at that and reentered the building back to her office.

Happy looked towards Touya and Salvin just as the car started up. Happy brought out his phone and took a picture of the car's license just as they drove off.

"Just do anything reckless, Awase." Itsuka said, slightly worried.

"Come on, Pres, when have I ever been reckless?" Awase replied with a joking smile.

The scene changed to sunset at Stark Manor, Ibara rolling her car up the round driveway. She looked out her car window to spot something, blinking her eyes in surprise. Parking the car, she got out to come face to face with a Massive stuffed bunny rabbit doll with the ribbon around its collar holding a sign that said Merry Christmas. Ibara sighed, fondly and unsurprised.

"Awww! That's so cute!" Toru squealed.

"And really big." Tsu noted.

"And Must Be Super Expense!" Uraraka cried out, horrified at what, she felt, was a unnecessary waste of money.

Ibara entered the Manor saying "I'm sorry I'm late. I was-" She registered what she saw in front of her and continued with "What the-What is that?"

Sitting on the couch was the Iron Man Mark 42, leg crossed and arm out over the couch.

"Oh just your billionaire, superhero boyfriend, wearing millions in dollars in high grade technology and energy and just lounging on the couch with it." Sero said, nonchalantly.

"And you wished that you were me, Tape Arms." Bakugou retorted.

"You're wearing this in the house now?" Ibara asked. "What is that, like Mark 15?"

"Uh, yeah." Katsuki said, getting up and looking at his arm, the Mark 42 number on printed on it. "Something like that. You know, everybody needs a hobby."

"Some hobby." Sato stated.

"Oh, and you have to wear your hobby in the living room?" Ibara sat down on a chair, taking off her heels while Katsuki walked towards her.

"Just, breaking it in. You know, it's always a little pinchy in the gooey bag at first, so-" Katsuki said, wiggling his hips, to which Ibara chuckled and laughed.

Mina was super thankful her teasing sense tingled in time for her to get her phone out to record that. "DELETE THAT, YOU PINK ALIEN BITCH!" Bakugou roared in embarrassed anger and made to grab the phone. Mina just laughed as Izuku and the rest kept the raging explosive teen from destroying her, her phone, or both.

"Well, hey, did you see your Christmas present?" Stark asked, gesturing outside.

"Yes, I did." Ibara nodded, grabbing a pile of papers on the table. "I-I don't know how I couldn't missed that Christmas present. Is it gonna fit through the door?"

"Well, actually, it's a good question." Katsuki said, Ibara looking through the pile of drawn memorabilia and fan mail. "I got a team of guys coming tomorrow. They're gonna blow out that wall. So, uh-"

Uraraka looked even more horrified at the prospect of spending money so recklessly to tear down a wall for an already unnecessarily expensive gift. Noticing her reaction, Momo decided to, wisely, keep quiet of her equally massive wolf pup doll that she got for her 7th birthday, and how her parents paid to blow down a wall of her mansion to help bring it in.

"Okay." Ibara went along with him.

"Tense? Good day? Huh?" Stark asked as he went up behind the seating Ibara and began giving her a message, to Ibara's delight. "Ooh, shoulder, a little knotty. Naughty girl."

"Oooh!" Mina squealed in teasing delight. "Katsuki~!" She mimicked Ibara's voice. "Do you know how to massage a girl, too? Your Mom forced you too?"

"OH HELL NO!" Bakugou roared out, disgusted at the prospect of massaging his mother's feet like the 'old hag' wanted. "Nothing that old hag could do would get me to do massage her ugly ass feet! She had my old man and shitty Deku for that!"

"You massage, Deku?" Uraraka asked Deku, surprised.

"Y-Yeah, i-it's no big deal." Izuku rubbed his neck nervous and blushing. "Mom would usually come back from work super stressed out and I decided to learn how to give her massages to relax her. Aunt Mitsuki found out about it through my mother and practically demanded I show Kacchan and Uncle Masaru. Said I have 'God fingers' whatever that means."

The Sisterhood girls blushed and smiled, delighted.

"Ooh, Ooh, think you can give me a massage, Zuzu?!" Nejire asked/pleaded. "My shoulder's been bugging me for a while and I couldn't get it right."

"U-U-U-Uh s-sure Nejire." Izuku accepted, his blush only growing.

Quickly, the Cinnamon roll of Class 1-A got up to Nejire and sat on her seat's armrest. The periwinkle haired girl turned around and moved her long hair for Deku to have easier access. Deciding to tease him a bit, Nejire craned her head to gaze at Deku and smiled teasingly. "Don't get too handsy, I~zu~ku~!"

Blushing brighter and brighter, Deku steeled his nerves and placed his hands gently on Nejire's shoulders. What followed for the periwinkle girl was what she could only describe as reaching the gates of Nirvana. Deku's gentle fingers knew exactly where to squeeze, soothe, and move, often leaving Nejire shuddering and gasping for breathe, her face contorting to what many cultured men would describe as an 'ahegao' face.

Mineta passed out from blood loss from a nosebleed, Kaminari nearly following suit, and the rest of the guys either looking uncomfortable or shifting awkwardly in their seats, suspiciously fixing up and messing with their pants.

The girls were practically scarlet red. Momo had a hand over her mouth muttering how 'scandalous' Nejire was, but couldn't deny her brain picturing herself in the 3rd year's place. Mina and Hagakure asked Momo for some napkins, to wipe the blood from their noses. Yep, just blood. Asui was currently formulating plans to stretch her legs out so that Midoriya could 'do his magic' on them. Uraraka was bright red, wondering how it would feel for Deku's fingers to massage the pads of her fingers. Mei likewise pondered for Midoriya to massage her hands, imaging coming home from a busy day of inventing things for Izuku to come up and massage her callus's of her hands. Melissa's eyes were hidden by her glasses and the light of the screen, though red race, silly smile and steam practically shooting out her ears and nose were good indicators of how she felt. Setsuna may or may not have stolen some of Momo's napkins and may or may not have used them for her own bleeding nose. And Kyoka was beat red and totally not all thinking about Midoriya massaging her jacks. Nope not at all.

The male adults quickly felt uncomfortable but were more or less stuck watching as their female counterparts forced them onto their seats watching the show with amused delight, blushing curiosity, and daydreaming. Nezu likewise stopped them, mostly because he was laughing to himself at the chaos Midoriya was ensuing before them.

While Ibara was blushing red from the 'scandalous' sight before her, a lightbulb metaphorically lit up in her mind. "Wow, Midoriya, you certainty do seem quite talented in your massage." Ibara faux gasped, hiding a giggling smile with her hands. "Oh I wish I could have someone as talented with your fingers for a partner, but alas the Lord says otherwise."

The results were as expected as raging steam blew out of Bakugou's ears and nose and the growling, jealous teen was already planning on learning how to make good massages and show Deku 'Who truly makes the best massages'.

Quickly wishing to step away before Bakugou directs his clear anger on him, Deku quickly finished up his massage and went back to his seat in lightning speeds, pretending to not at all clearly notice Nejire's clear pleasure, and not at all pleased with himself, and not at all fix up his 'not-so-little friend downstairs with Black Whip while no one was looking. And like Deku, everybody pretended this never happened.

"I don't want to harp on this, but did you like the custom rabbit?" Stark asked again.

"Did I like it?" Ibara repeated the question.

"Nailed it, right?" Katsuki said.

"Wow. I appreciate the thought very much." Ibara turned and got up to press on the suit. "So, why don't you lift up that face mask and give me a kiss?"

Stark made beeping noises, imitating a computer, while tapping his helmet with his fist. "Huh. Yep. Damn it, no can do." Stark replied. "You just wanna kiss it on the facial slit?" Stark tapped the mouth of the helmet.

"Uh huh." Ibara nodded, amused and rubbed the armor's chest. "Well, why don't I run down to the garage and see if I can't find a crowbar to jimmy that thing open?"

"This is just perfect." Setsuna eagerly watched while eating popcorn.

Ibara hid herself in her vines, praying to the Lord to end her suffering.

"Crowbar, yeah." Stark agreed, his voice growling sexually.

But as Ibara made her way to the stairs, Katsuki suddenly stuttered out, in a panic. "Oh! Except there's been a uh uh a radiation leak."

"I'll take my chances." Ibara replied, walking down the stairs.

"That's risky." He called out to her as he followed.

"Hiding something that will make her mad?" Kuroiro whispered to Honenuki.

Honenuki nodded. "Definitely."

As Ibara made her way down the stairs, she heard Katsuki's voice coming from the lower floor. "At least, let me get you, like, a hazmat suit you can-" Katsuki grunted, his voice strained. "A Geiger counter or something like that."

What Ibara found was the real Katsuki Stark downstairs, doing pull ups with a goggle-like device on his face projecting a holographic hud.

"Oh no." Rin shook his head. "He's screwed."

"Using some kind of thingamajig to control his suit and talk to his girlfriend while doing something else and not giving her his full attention? Yeah, screwed is an understatement." Kosei nodded.

Hearing her footsteps, Katsuki sighed. "Busted."

He got off the bar and turned to face a disappointed, angry Shiozaki. "This is a new level of lame." Ibara said, dryly, pushing away DUM-E attempting to give her food and the remote controlled Mark 42 walking to her side.

"Agreed." Ibara grumbled, not at all happy.

"Sorry." Katsuki apologized.

"You ate without me already?" Ibara questioned, upset. "On date night?"

"Oh this is just getting worse and worse for him." Melissa said.

"And better entertainment for us." Mina and Hagakure chomped on some popcorn.

"He was just-" "You mean you." Ibara interrupted Katsuki, gesturing to the Mark 42.

"Well, yeah, I just mean we were just hosting you-" Ibara scoffed, unbelieving what she was hearing. "-While I finished up a little work." Katsuki argued.

"Dude, come on man." Kaminari groaned. "A girl wants for you to pay her your full attention. Anything else is considered insulting."

"Woah." Kyoka gasped out, her eyes in disbelief. "How the hell did you say something so intelligent? About girls, no less?"

"Hey, I may be a bit of a perv-" "A little?" Kyoka interrupted him with raised eyebrow.

"Okay, a total perv." Kaminari admitted. "But I at least take the time to know about women for when I get my own girlfriend. At least I'm better than Grape Rush here who only studies about a woman's rack."

"Hey!" Mineta exclaimed, angry Kaminari truthfully called him out.

While Kaminari and Mineta argued, Izuku, secretly, flipped the pages of his notebook to another section and wrote down Kaminari's words of advice, under a notebook chapter called 'How to interact, talk, and date girls'.

"And yes, I had a quick bite. I didn't know if you were coming home, or you were having drinks with Touya Todoroki." Katsuki revealed.

Ibara's jaw dropped in disbelief as the Mark 42 turned to face her. Turning to look at the blank Iron Man face, she snapped with "What?"

"HAHAHAHAHA! This is too perfect!" Uraraka laughed. "Oh, he is so screwed!"

Shut it, Pink Cheeks!" No guesses who that was from.

"What?" Katsuki said, the Mark 42 walking away.

"Touya Todoroki? What, are you checking up on me?" Ibara asked, offended.

"Technically, Happy told him." Ojiro pointed out, but like everyone in his universe, the movie Ibara ignored him.

"Happy was concerned." Katsuki replied.

"No, you're spying on me." Ibara said.

"I wasn't." Katsuki lied.

Ibara shook her head and turned to the stairs. "I'm going to bed."

"Hold on. Come on, 'Bara'? Hey, I admit it." Katsuki raised his hands in surrender, stopping Ibara halfway up. "My fault. Sorry. I'm a piping hot mess."

"It's been going on for a while. I haven't said anything." Katsuki began explaining as Ibara came back down. With a sigh, Katsuki explained further. "Nothing's been the same since New York."

"Oh, really? Wow, I didn't notice that at all." Ibara replied, sarcastically.

"You experience things, and then they're over, and you still can't explain them." Katsuki shook his head in amazement. "Gods, aliens, other dimensions. I'm just a man in a can."

Melissa looked down and started to ponder what he said. She, with her father and Mei's help, were on their way of working towards her goal to be a Hero herself, to not only be their world's version of Iron Man, but the world's first Quirkless superhero. But in all the hype and excitement of finally getting a chance to achieve that dream, Stark's words suddenly dropped a dose of reality on her.

Just like Stark had to now face the odds of aliens, gods, and threats from outside the preconceived notions of reality, so too would Melissa, if she were to go down this path, have to fight Villains and criminals with dangerous Quirks, contest among fellow Heroes with Quirks of their own that they have trained for years, and stand up against societal pressure and biased norms of who could be a Hero.

'W-Would I have what it takes to stand up to all that?' Melissa thought, uncertainty flooding her thoughts. 'It's one thing to dream and wish and another to achieve it. And everyone has had years to train and be Heroes and train their Quirks. But I would have to start from the ground up, and have to rely on technology that can be taken advantage and worked around, and with how the world views and treats Quirkless people, d-do I really have what it takes to be a Hero based around someone else?'

Unknown to her, Izuku stared at her with an unreadable look.

"The only reason I haven't cracked up is probably because you moved in. Which is great." Stark admitted. "I love you. I'm lucky."

'Extremely lucky.' Bakugou agreed.

"But honey, I can't sleep." Stark revealed. "You go to bed, I come down here. I do what I know. I tinker. I..." Katsuki sighed, tired as he sat on a workbench. "Threat is imminent. And I have to protect the one thing that I can't live without." Katsuki pointed at Ibara. "That's you."

Ibara smiled, touched by his words.

"And my suits, they're uh..." Katsuki tried to explain.

"Machines." Ibara reasoned with him.

"They're part of me." Stark argued.

"A distraction." Ibara countered.

Katsuki sighed, again. "Maybe."

"I get what he Billionaire Boy's saying." Mei said, ignoring Bakugou yell. "My babies are how I called them. They are my adorable little babies I made that I poured my sweat and tears into. In a way-"

"They are a part of you." Melissa finished her sentence. "A piece of yourself you gave shape for the world to see and enjoy."

Mei smiled brightly. "Sorry Muscles, but you're position as my best friend in in jeopardy." Mei spoke up.

While at first taken aback, Izuku smiled nonetheless, happy that the antisocial inventor was making more friends she can relate to and touched that Mei considered him her best friend, as he admitted that she was one of his favorite people to spend time around, even if some of that time was in near death situations thanks to her babies. Izuku was likewise happy to see Melissa find friends as well, given her unhappy past that she told him before.

Shiozaki walked up to her boyfriend, placing her hands on his shoulders and around his neck. Stark dropped his head and placed it on her collarbone, which she responded by wrapping her hands around his head in a hug, her chin pressed lightly on his head, while Stark wrapped his arms around her.

Cue girls cooing, Ibara blushing/smiling, and Bakugou grumbling denying affection/smiling too.

Taking off the headband of his device and setting it down, Ibara looked into Katsuki's eyes softly. "I'm going to take a shower."

"O-Okay." Katsuki nodded as he walked to the stairs.

"And you're joining me." Ibara looked back as she walked.

Katsuki's eyes lit up. "Better." He replied as he got up.

Now cue roars of laughter from nearly everyone, a nuclear red Ibara hiding in a cocoon of vines, and Bakugou threatening death by explosions to all those laughing.

The scene changed to the couple sleeping on the bed, soundly. Suddenly, Katsuki shuddered and jolted slightly in his sleep, sweat on his brow. A quick flash of memories of him flying up to the wormhole above New York caused him to gasp loudly, grabbing a sleeping Ibara's attention. The memory of going through the portal with the missile and falling from the sky caused Stark to groan, panicked.

"Bakugou." Kirishima said, incredibly worried.

The pros and teachers frowned, all too familiar with their own nightmares of the job, but still not happy it is causing to one of their students.

Ibara woke up and went to Katsuki as he shuddered and whimpered, clutching tightly on is pillow, his face scrunched in fear. "Katsuki." Ibara said, worried. Katsuki whimpered still. "Katsuki. Katsuki!" Ibara tried shaking him awake.

Ibara clasped her hands over her mouth, tearing up at Katsuki in such pain and turmoil and looking powerless to help him through it.

Izuku frowned, worried and afraid for his former childhood friend. To him, seeing Kacchan afraid, panicking, and fearful felt like Izuku's world was turning upside down. To see him go through what he used to on a daily basis, and sometimes still, made Izuku more worried and sad for his friend...and desperately trying to deny the dark voice in his head that relished in the karma of situation.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, Bakugou was bitterly and guiltily embracing some of the karma, feeling like he deserved this for what he must have inflicted on Deku, while another side of himself, his self-esteem most likely, was screaming at him saying that that was total, self-pitting bullshit and that this was making Ibara and Deku upset.

"Ka-" Ibara was cut off when the Mark 42 appeared, grabbing her wrist and pressing her down on the bed.

"What the Hell?!" Kaminari exclaimed, jumping in his seat.

Ibara's terrified gasp woke Stark up. He turned and immediately got up form the bed, facing the prehensile suit. "Power down!" Stark ordered. The suit responded, letting go of Ibara and standing up straight, powering down. Katsuki brought his hands together and struck the suit, the armor collapsing into pieces again.

"Okay, what the hell just happened?" Setsuna questioned. "Why was Stark's new suit trying to strangle Ibara?"

The two panted, frightened and shocked. "I must have called it in my sleep." Katsuki figured, looking to the panting, terrified Ibara.

"That seems like quite a design flaw." Melissa said. "Did he allow such a thing in case he were attacked in his sleep?"

"Perhaps, but it appears that Stark will have to specify more clearly for that purpose or recalibrate the sensors for it to not do that." Momo replied.

"That's not supposed to happen. I'll recalibrate the sensors." Katsuki promised. "Can we just...Just let me..." Katsuki reached out to her, vulnerable as she got up from the bed and walked away. "Just let me catch my breath. Hey, don't-Don't go. Alright? Ibara-"

"I'm going to sleep downstairs." Ibara said, walking out. "Tinker with that."

'You...You Fucking IDIOT!' Ibara mentally screamed at her other self. 'Katsuki is in pain and suffering Right in Front of You and didn't mean for that you happen! Don't leave him to suffer! He's only going to blame himself and make this situation worse! Comfort him!'

"Don't bother." Ibara blinked away from her mental rant to look to Katsuki who said that. "Don't blame yourself. She's just in shock of what happened. I would have done the same. It's alright."

The group was beyond shocked that Katsuki Bakugou was trying to comfort someone and say it was not their fault. The students didn't know if this was some kind of miracle of character growth sent from God or a sign of the apocalypse. Deku chose to see the latter, seeing how clearly hard it was still for Bakugou to say that, given how brief and gruff it sounded. Izuku just hoped that Bakugou didn't just go blame himself instead.

Ibara shared Deku's sentiment. Ibara wanted to deny his words and say that she was clearly in the wrong for what she did, leaving him to dry, but the tone of his voice and look in his eyes told her to not push this, at least here. So, as much as it made her physically angry to follow her counterpart's actions, Ibara chose to let it slide and not press it.

Katsuki Stark slumped on the bed as the Mark 42 pieces lied on the floor. He brought his hand up over his sweating face and slammed the other against the bed in anger. "Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!" He groaned/whimpered.

The scene changed to the TCL Chinese Theatre, cars going down the streets while people walked past around and past the famous American landmark.

It changed again to a man in a jacked, sitting by himself, panting and sweating, fiddling around with his military dog tags.

"An army vet." David recognized. "But what's wrong with him? PTSD?"

"Perhaps." Tsukauchi said, narrowing his eyes in suspicion. "But it could also be some kind of drug withdrawal, given the signs. Sweaty, physically and, likely, psychologically uncomfortable. Classic symptoms I've seen of individuals attempting to stay off drugs and alcohol."

A second man came, walking towards the military vet. The man looked up to see Eric Salvin.

"It's that guy from before." Nejire pointed out. "The guy that was with Todoroki that Happy found suspicious."

"Can you regulate?" Salvin asked.

"Yes, I can regulate." The vet responded.

"Regulate?" Mirio questioned. "Like regulating a machine?"

Iida joined Awase's suspicions of his character. Regulate isn't something that you normally don't hear towards people, outside of himself and his brother with their engines. This sounded, to Iida, like Salvin was seeing if the army veteran could safely regulate whatever drugs or substance he might be trying to sell to him.

"You sure about that?" Salvin questioned again.

"Yes." The vet said again, determined and sure.

Meanwhile, Happy stood by a stand, trying on a pair of shades, lowering them and moving the mirror in front of him to spy on the two suspicious men.

"Nice work there, Awase." Vlad nodded, pleased. "A way to look like a casual shopper and to use whatever means most inconspicuous to observe your target. Though, I will say to work on your subtlety, both your counterpart and yourself."

"Thanks, Sensei, and will do." Awase replied, knowing that stealth wasn't exactly his strong suit, and it appears his counterpart has a similar issue.

Salvin lowered a small case by the man's side. "It's a decent batch." Salvin said. The vet chuckled, delighted. "Don't say I never did nothing for you."

"Thank you." The vet thanked him. "I mean, for understanding."

"So it's a drug deal, then." Amajiki said, eyes narrowed. "And it looks like these two have a familiar relation to each other, likely fellow war veterans of the same group, friends, longtime or recent, or frequent and friendly supplier and customer."

Fat Gum nodded, proudly pleased at his longtime intern and pupil for implementing the knowledge he taught him, while Kirishima eagerly wrote down his elder student's wisdom and skills in his brain.

Eric just nodded and walked away. The vet took the case and opened it, checking it. Happy made his move and walked towards the vet. As the vet closed and made to leave, Happy bumped into him, dropping the case and its contents on the floor.

"Smart dude." Hawks nodded. "Fake an accident to drop the contents of that case and swipe one to investigate."

"I'm sorry, buddy." Happy apologized, helping the man pick up the dropped items: small, triangular devices that appeared almost like injectors.

"What are those?" Pixie Bob's brows furrowed to figure out what those were. "Some kind of injector?"

"Not like any that I have seen in the drug busts I participated in." Edgeshot replied. "Though the sides of this device appear to shoot outward to make way for that tube, the injector most probably, to stick out for injection."

Happy began helping him gather the items, grabbing one of them and quickly pocketing it. But as Happy met the man's eyes, the vet's eyes glowed red, the veins of his face glowing in the same orange red glow as it ran down his cheeks.

"Uh..." Sero said, pointing at the screen and the glow from the army vet.

Startled, Awase quickly composed himself and got up, walking away and left the strange man to the rest. Looking at his hands, he looked at the closed device he had in his hand.

"Okay, good, now get the hell out of there, Awase." Itsuka muttered, worried.

Suddenly, Happy was forcefully bumped into by someone. Turning, he saw the man to be none other than a grinning Eric Salvin. "What are you doing, buddy?" He asked. "You out by yourself? A little date night? Seeing your favorite chick flick, maybe?"

"Shit, he's been made." Sen cursed.

"The encounter with the army vet was perhaps too quick after Salvin left." Vlad explained. "He could have seen the faux accident occur and made Awase or realize he was being tailed by Awase all day."

"Yeah, a little movie called The Party's Over starring you and your junkie girlfriend." Happy retorted. Happy raised his hand and showed off the device. "Here's the ticket."

"Why is he showing the thing to him?" Kinoko asked. "Couldn't he just play dumb and hid it in his pocket?"

"Both Awase and Salvin know that he has been discovered so playing an act would be futile." Reiko replied. "And Awase here is a form of security personal with authority and Salvin isn't, so Awase could get away with revealing it."

"No kidding." Salvin replied, a fierce dangerous look added to his eyes. "That doesn't belong to you."

As he made to grab it, Happy closed his fist around the device. Looking quizzically at him, Salvin dodged a left punch from Happy. Happy shook the man's other hand off and struck Salvin with a right hook, drawing attention from bystanders.

"Nice right hook, man." Rin said.

A weird hum was heard before Salvin turned back to Happy, his face lighting up orange red like the military vet. The glow reached the bruise and cut on his nose, the bruise immediately fading and the cut healing and closing in a red glow, to Happy's shock.

"Oh shit." Kaminari cursed, eyes widening.

"He has the same thing that the army vet has." Tokoyami narrowed his eyes. "And it appears to have regenerative capabilities."

"You don't that it's..." Ojiro didn't have to finish his sentence as everybody knew what was going on.

Awase punched at him again only for Salvin to sidestep and grab his arm. Salvin proceeded to fling Awase through the air like he was a sack of napkins, the former bodyguard tumbling through the air and crashing through a stand, glass shattering and falling as he landed.

While bystanders screamed and looked to see what was happening, the army vet inhaled whatever was in the device, his face glowing more orange red.

"EXTREMIS." David narrowed his eyes. "They've weaponized it and are giving it away."

"Not necessarily." Aizawa replied, his own eyes narrowed, too. "The deal we saw looked like it was Salvin doing the man a favor. This could be a small breach of something more covert and dangerous."

Endeavor's normally angry eyes were wide in growing fear and horror. 'Touya.' Endeavor thought, thinking back to the little boy that was his eldest child. 'What have you become?'

Happy got up groggily, looking up to see Salvin making his way towards him with red eyes.

"Salvin!" Eric looked towards the vet who yelled out to him. "H-Help. HELP ME!" The man screamed, his entire face glowing redder and brighter with the glow of EXTREMIS, his eyes and throat a pool of lava, reaching his glowing red hand out to him as he was choking and glowing brighter.

Izuku's eyes widened drastically. "He's going to explode!" He yelled.

"What?!" Itsuka exclaimed, looking to her classmate from another world with great fear.

As the glow got brighter, Salvin immediately ran, Happy ducking behind the stand he flew through. As the people ran, the vet glowed like a mini-sun before he exploded, a wave of pure heat and flames incinerating anything near into dust, a plume of fire and destruction blasting out into the street, causing cars to be hit, swerve, and crash.

"AWASE!" Class 1-B yelled in horror.

"Just like the plant from before, EXTREMIS is still unstable." Aizawa said, glaring heavily at the scree, fists clenched tight. "However, now they have gone to human testing and this was the results of it."

Amid the smoke, ash, and screams of clamoring survivors, Happy laid on the floor, his suit tattered and his groggy face covered in bleeding cuts. Barely conscious, Awase moved his face to the screen.

Ibara choked back a sob, her hand flying to her mouth, her eyes watering with tears.

Happy looked at the destruction and flames around him, where the exploded man resided was nothing more than scorched earth and rubble, and the walls held the scorched black shapes of people, all that remained of the people caught in the blast.

"Dear God." Thirteen cupped a hand over where her mouth would have been under her helmet. She had witnessed a lot of disasters during her time as a Rescue Hero, including explosive devices and Villains and unstable explosion Quirks going off. This had took the cake as one of the horrific, seeing the scorched marks as the only signs of these people existing.

Endeavor and Todoroki looked horrified at the sight, more so than the group. Todoroki thought back to the Joint Training Class where he nearly vaporized Tetsutetsu with his own Flashfire Fist attack. Luckily, he was stopped by Honenuki, but seeing what became of these people because of this super hot explosion, Todoroki started to imagine Tetsutetsu in their place.

Happy groaned and looked closer to where the man was, spotting the man's military tags. Happy groaned weakly, moving his arm to reach out to the tags. Movement stopped Happy and looked to where he spotted a glowing red hand press against a support beam, and pushing himself up was Eric Salvin, alive, intact, and his hands, feet, neck, and head glowing red.

"How?" Mic gasped out horrified. "How is he still alive?"

"EXTREMIS must have given him some resistance towards the heat and explosion." Midnight guessed.

Happy gasped in horror. Salvin's foot stomped on the tag as he walked, his foot that only had the big toe left, from the blast, glowing and crackled like magma. The foot sizzled and hummed as the stumped remains of his toes shifted and reformed the toes. Happy could only watch as Salvin, who's cuts were being healed, marched off alive and chewing on a piece of gum.

"EXTREMIS is regenerating his lost limbs, like a lizard." Setsuna noted.

"Such a innovative creation, and now it's been weaponized and used for destruction." Melissa said, angrily.

Izuku and Bakugou stared horrified at Kenji's counterpart. They thought back to Yubi as Stane who became the Iron Monger, Tsubassa being the terrorist Raza, and now Kenji as Salvin. The two were both left to wonder if everything from their past was just going to come back to haunt them as Villains.

Happy Awase groaned as his arm went slack and closed his eyes.

"No, no, no, no, no." Itsuka shook her head, denying the high possibility that her friend and classmate had just died in front of her.

Awase slumped in his seat, wide-eyed shocked at seeing himself, possibly, die.

Bakugou's guilt swiftly melted into pure rage, his fists clenched till the knuckled were stark white, his teeth clenched so hard it was worried they might break, and ruby red eyes glaring murderously at the screen. 'Kenji!' He roared in his mind.

The screen shifted into the red screen and the 10 ringed insignia of the Mandarin, followed up by multiple rapid fired images and another insignia over an error screen.

"It's the Mandarin again." Kamui said.

"What does that robed terrorist want now?" Death Arms grumbled.

The feed landed on the Mandarin's ringed hand crushing a fortune cookie, while armed men came up in vehicles, with footage of the Mandarin hopping off of one, in regular clothes and sunglasses. "True story about fortune cookies. They look Chinese. They sound Chinese." The Mandarin spoke, as they switched to a close-up of his face. "But they're actually an American invention." The footage showed restrained men with bags over their heads lead out of vehicles. "Which is why they're hollow, full of lies, and leave a bad taste in the mouth." The Mandarin crushed another fortune cookie.

"Hey, hey, you're right about their American made and those fortunes are full of shit but they actually taste delicious." Rin argued. "At least to me."

"My disciples just destroyed another cheap American knockoff." The Mandarin revealed, showing footage of the normal Chinese Theatre, and then the palm trees set ablaze by the EXTREMIS explosion. "The Chinese Theatre." They showed Happy on a gurney being wheeled out and into an ambulance.

Ibara sighed in relief. "He's alright." She said. "I hope."

"But wait, what does that jackass mean he blew the place?" Kamakiri questioned. "Wasn't it that malfunctioning war veteran and Salvin that blew the place up?"

"I...don't know." Jurota pondered, confused. "Could he simply be taking the credit for the destruction or-" Jurota's eyes widened. "-could he have staged it?"

"How?" Honenuki questioned.

"What if, and bear with me, what if, perhaps, the Mandarin orchestrated for this army vet to be given more of EXTREMIS, knowing full well that he couldn't regulate it properly, and thus creating the explosion."

"But that's insane." Shoda shook his head. "The only way that he could have allowed this to happen is if..."

"Is if the Mandarin had access to EXTREMIS." Shoji finished Shoda's train of thought. "Which would only be possible if Mandarin and Touya Todoroki are working together."

Endeavor slumped in his seat, his body swimming with anger at what had transpired, and fear that Touya's counterpart had something to do with this. Endeavor began to wonder if this was the universe's way of karma, to have him witness the son he failed the most as a Villain in another life.

"Mr. President. I know this must be getting frustrating." The Mandarin continued, an footage of the Mandarin, with open arms, being greeted by smiling Middle Eastern children came to him. "But this season of terror is drawing to a close. And don't worry. The Big One is coming." The Mandarin's men cheered. "Your graduation." The Mandarin was shown firing at a image of President Ellis, the bullet blasting through the head.

"This will surely help push this President Ellis to pressure Kirishima into finding the Mandarin as soon as possible." Mandalay said, frowning, unpleased at the sight of children flocking towards the Mandarin like he was their savior.

"More than that, with what happened to Happy Awase, this will surely push Stark into chasing after the Mandarin with a fury." Tiger added.

The scene switched to Happy on a hospital bed on life support, the machines beeping as he was still alive.

"Hey, hey, it's alright guys." Awase said to his classmates that looked clearly worried. "I'm alright, and, as you can see, other me looks like his going to be okay. It will take more than a little fire to kill me."

"It is much appreciated of us for you to enlighten our spirits, Awase." Monoma said, actually sincerely. "But just know that the scumbag who did this to you will feel the full of wrath of U.A.'s superior Hero class."

The students were rendered speechless by the sincerity of Monoma's words, but those last words at least relaxed them, knowing that world wasn't truly ending. Class 1-A just decided to roll their eyes and let Monoma have this one for once, though Bakugou still needed to be muzzled by Sero's tape.

As a nurse checked up on him, she was startled by a "Hi." The nurse turned to see Katsuki Stark sitting on a chair, chuckling. "Do you mind leaving that on?" Stark pointed to the T.V.

"Sure." The nurse nodded.

Stark got up and pointed to the screen playing a show. "Sunday nights. PBS. Downtown Abbey." Katsuki said, looking to the unconscious Awase. "That's his show. He thinks it's elegant."

At the stares from his classmates, Awase raised his hands in surrender. "What, it is elegant." His response had his classmates roll their eyes, amused.

"One more thing. Make sure everyone wears badges. He's a stickler for that sort of thing. Plus, my guys won't let anyone in without them."

"Awww, he really does care." Kinoko cooed. "Your boyfriend is softy, Shiozaki."

Shiozaki was thus rendered blushing red and stuttering while Bakugou had to be saved from choking on a piece of popcorn.

"We're awaiting the arrival of Katsuki Stark." A news reporter said to the camera outside the main entrance to the hospital. "We're hoping he'll give us the reaction-His reaction to the latest attack."

As Katsuki was spotted walking out, he was flooded by cameras and reporters asking for his comment, talking about another Mandarin attack. Stark walked past them all, ignoring them and marching towards his car. But as he was about to get in, after walking around to the car's driver seat, a male reporter spoke up and asked "Hey, Mr. Stark. When is somebody gonna kill this guy?" Stark froze and turned to the reporter, a smug man recording on his phone. "Just saying."

"Oh man, that man has the most douchiest face and voice that I ever seen." Death Arms grumbled. "I just want to sock that grin off his face."

A deep frown was on Katsuki Stark's face, his eyes burning with rage hidden by his glasses. His turn made the reporters step back.

"Is that what you want?" Stark questioned. He silently gazed at the reporter and the camera for a bit. "Here's a little holiday greeting I've been wanting to say to the Mandarin." Katsuki spoke up to the rest of the crowd of reporters and cameras. I just didn't know how to phrase it until now."

"My name is Katsuki Stark and I'm not afraid of you." Katsuki announced. "I know you're a coward. So I've decided-" He took his glasses off and stared dead at the man. "-That you just died, pal. I'm gonna come get the body."

"Damn, that was one badass, manly line right there." Tetsutetsu whistled.

Izuku noticed Bakugou staring at him with an unreadable look. Bakugou then motioned his hands like he was writing something. Izuku immediately knew what Bakugou was trying to say to him: 'Write that shit down later, nerd.' Izuku shuddered at just how well his inner Kacchan voice was, but nonetheless wrote it up on a separate page for him to rip it out and give it to his explosive rival.

"There's no politics here. It's just good old-fashioned revenge." Stark continued. "There's no Pentagon, it's just you and me. And on the off chance you're a man, here's my home address. 10880 Malibu Point. 90265. I'll leave the door unlocked." Katsuki grabbed the man's phone and ripped it off of him. "That's what you wanted right?" He then tossed the phone into a pillar, breaking it instantly, to the reporter's frown. "Bill me." Stark immediately got into the car, ignoring the reporters again and drove off fast and furious.

"...D-Did he just challenge a terrorist and told him his home address?" Sero finally said after picking his jaw from off the ground.

"And I thought Jamming Yey was the dumbest person in our class." Kyoka said dryly.

"Yeah...wait, hey!" Kaminari exclaimed.

"I've compiled a Mandarin database for you, sir." Jarvis reported, showing an image of the Mandarin and the Chinese Theatre in a screen back at the Manor. Stark moved multiple holographic icons and images into a cube of data. "Drawn from S.H.I.E.L.D., FBI, and CIA intercepts." Stark moved the cub of data to the center platform in front of the suits.

"Katsuki Stark, Holographic Detective." Mina said in deep voice.

Momo just sighed and shook her head, hand on her face, wondering what was she going to do about her.

"Initiating virtual crime scene reconstruction." Jarvis said, the cub expanding out into a virtual reconstruction of the outside of Chinese Theatre and the remains of the blast. Multiple images and data floated around, too.

"Okay. What have we got here?" Stark asked, as he got up and walked around the virtual reconstruction. "The name is an ancient Chinese mantle meaning 'advisor to the king'." Stark looked around at the blast site and images. "South American insurgency tactics. Talks like a Baptist preacher. There's lots of pageantry going on here. Lots of theater. Close." A snap from Katsuki's fingers made the floating images and data vanish.

"The heat from the blast was in excess of 3,000 degrees Celsius." Jarvis informed, the reconstruction showing the explosion and its blast wave, along with the holographic models of the blast victims' bodies. "Any subjects within 12.5 yards were vaporized instantly."

"Jesus." Manga cursed. "It's a good thing Awase ducked behind that stand or he would have...okay shutting up now." This action based around the warning looks from the guys.

"No bomb parts found in a three-mile radius of the Chinese Theatre?" Katsuki asked.

"No, sir."

"Well, unless you mean that army vet's ashes, then nope." Sato shook his head.

"Talk to me, Happy." Katsuki said, looking down in front of him of the virtual reconstruction of Happy on the ground. Stark noticed as Happy's eyesight and pointed hand was focused on a particular object that Jarvis zeroed in on.

"The dog tags!" Uraraka pointed out. "Happy must have known that Stark would investigate this and so wanted to at least point him in the right direction."

"I think you may be giving him a bit too much credit, Ochaco, but that is a possibility." Asui replied.

Katsuki walked over to a chair as the zeroed in area was materialized above his lap. "When is a bomb not a bomb?" He asked as he swiped the image a couple of times, until his eyes widened slightly at the clear object of interest: the dog tags.

"There's your bomb part." Kamakiri gestured. "As in a part that belonged to the bomb." As he was met with silence, he whispered to Jurota. "Too soon?"

"Yes." Jurota simply said.

Stark lifted the dog tags up and flipped them sideways so they faced him. "Any military victims?" He asked.

"Not according to public record, sir." Jarvis reported, the words of the tag enhanced and cleared showing the name of the exploded man: Taggart, Jack.

Stark climbed up the table cabinet, saying "Bring up the thermogenic signatures again. Factor in 3,000 degrees." As Stark got up, he looked down an a holographic map of the United States.

"The Oracle Cloud has completed analysis." Jarvis informed as several locations were marked in red columns, with the corresponding information floating above. "Accessing satellites and plotting the last 12 months of thermogenic occurrences now."

As it finished, Stark ordered "Take away everywhere that there's been a Mandarin attack."

At his request, the list of columns disappeared till there were only 11 left.

"That's a lot of locations." Ojiro said, disturbed.

"With the dividing line to be the middle of Texas and upwards, 5 on the west side, and 6 on the east." Izuku analyzed and drew up a map on his notebook, dotting the areas. "On the west side, two occurred near the coastline of California, another in South New Mexico, one by South Montana, and a fifth South of Colorado. And at the eastern side, one occurred in East Texas near Louisiana, two on the upper eastern side in New York and Pennsylvania, and three occurred fairly close together in East Tennessee, West Missouri, and the middle of Michigan."

"It's hot when he uses that big brain of his isn't it?" Asui asked, her cheeks brightened pink.

"Yeah." Uraraka and Melissa sighed out dreamily. At their realization, the two blushed brighter yet giggled.

Stark looked at the data of the locations, first with San Rafael, California. "Nope." He said, moving onto another. He looked at Springfield, Missouri and passed it, before his eyes settled on Rose Hill, Tennessee, the heart signature showing a thermal scan of upwards to 3,000 degrees. "That. Are you sure that's not one of his?"

"It predates any known Mandarin attack." Jarvis reported, showing the news reports of the incident involving a US Army Veteran by the name of Chad Davis and an explosion that claimed 6 lives. "The incident was the use of a bomb to assist a suicide."

"How horrible." Momo gasped out. "Why?"

"Sometimes those in the military can't rationalize nor accept the tragedies and hardships they faced, they're haunted by them, and sometimes it is too much for them." Snipe said. "It's the same with Pros, kid. It's not a pretty sight to see your Heroes crack under the weight of their actions and past." Snipe thought back to Lady Nagant, a better sniper than he was and she fell into Villainy. "The best thing you can do is try and be there for them so they don't go off the deep end like this."

"Bring her around." Stark said, the location info moving closer.

"The heat signature is remarkably similar." Jarvis informed. "3,000 degrees Celsius."

"That's two military guys." Stark muttered as the information was brought up again.

"Could it be that the Mandarin is giving EXTREMIS to army vets?" Uraraka asked. "But why them?"

"It would make sense if you think about it." Melissa replied. "A lot of army veterans have a hard time finding jobs so they could have easily paid them, others could lose a limb or two, so an experimental invention that could grant them back their limbs would be taken quickly, and with depression and trauma something that could happen to a lot of them, they would feel like they wouldn't have anything to lose should they try it."

"To take advantage of the weak and the vulnerable for their gain." Iida grumbled. "Disgusting."

Deku instinctively patted and rubbed his surrogate daughter's head, to her enjoyment, the 9th bearer of One For All knowing how Eri knew exactly how that felt.

"Ever been to Tennessee, Jarvis?" Katsuki asked.

"Creating a flight plan for Tennessee." Jarvis simply said.

With a dramatic swipe of his hand, Katsuki disengaged to the holograms.

Then the doorbell rang. Katsuki looked to his side to see a hologram showing someone's car outside and ringing the doorbell.

"Are we still on ding-dong?" Katsuki questioned, stunned. "We're supposed to be on total-" He banged the device in his hands on the metal top he sat on. "-security lockdown. Come on, I threatened a terrorist. Who is that?"

"Oh my god, he can't catch a dramatic break, can he?" Kaminari laughed.

"There's only so much I can do, sir," Jarvis replied dryly, Stark sliding off the cabinet and made his way to the stairs. "When you give the world's press your home address."

To prove Jarvis's point, outside were a couple of news helicopters circling around Stark Manor.

"They look like a pair of hungry vultures circling overhead to view his impending doom." Tokoyami muttered darkly.

"Okay, don't jinx it." Sero replied.

Knocking and ringing the doorbell was a beautiful brunette, impatiently waiting and knocking.

Ibara's eyes blinked repeatedly, trying to figure out who this familiar person was.

Finally, the door buzzed as the doors opened by themselves. As she walked in, and a scanner scanned her over, Stark in the Mark 42 stopped her. "Right there is fine." Stark said. After a few seconds of awkward silence, Stark said "You're not the Mandarin." Stark opened up his face plated to observe the woman. "Are you? Are you?"

"Wow, A in observation skills there." Sen clapped and said sarcastically.

The woman smiled and nodded her head. "You don't remember." The woman chuckled. "Why am I not surprised?"

"Don't take it personally. I don't remember what I had for breakfast." Stark replied.

"Gluten-free waffles, sir." Jarvis jumped in.

"It's the same with Bakugou and names." Sero said.

"Fuck you, Tape Arms! I'm great at names!" Bakugou yelled in reply.

"Alright, then, what's my first name?" Sero questioned.

"..." The group could literally see Bakugou using all of his brain power from the look on his face. "H-Hanji?"

"I rest my case." Sero shook his head.

"Fuck!"

"That's right." Stark said.

"Okay, look, I need to be alone with you, someplace not here. It's urgent." The woman said, looking around as if they were being watched or the place was about to explode.

"She looks like the place might explode any second." Mic commented.

"Well he challenged a terrorist and tell him his home address for all his missiles or goons to blow him and his house up." Midnight replied.

"Normally, I'd go for that sort of thing, but now I'm in a committed relationship." Stark said, walking further into the living room with the woman following. "It's-"

He was cut off from saying more when two pairs of bags were suddenly tossed and landed from upstairs next to Katsuki. "With her." He said.

"Great timing, Ibara." Setsuna said. "And were you trying to aim for his head?"

"I think a good drop onto the head could smack back whatever sense he lost when he did this." Ibara grumbled angrily.

Bakugou could not help the blush at hearing Ibara being.

"Katsuki?" Ibara called out from upstairs. "Is somebody there?"

"Yeah, its Maya Hansen." Katsuki called back as he stepped out of the now open armor, Maya looking at him with impressed amazement. "Old botanist pal, that I used to know, barely."

"Wait, that's Maya?" Mina pointed. "The Maya that Bakugou tongue wrestled and made EXTREMIS?"

"I don't that last part was needed." Ojiro replied and was ignored.

"But why is she here?" Hagakure asked, confused.

"Could be that she knows what her work is being done and is trying to warn him." Kyoka answered. "Maybe she doesn't like how it's being done and is turning on her boss."

"Possibly." Momo nodded, agreeing with her best friend.

Ibara came down the stairs, trying to move past the giant bunny doll blocking her path.

"Please don't tell me there's a 12-year old kid waiting in the car that I've never met." Katsuki pleaded.

"He's 13." Maya corrected. "And no, I need your help."

"WAIT!" Setsuna exclaimed as Ibara's vine hair started standing up. "Shio, before you go 'Wrath of the Lord' on us, mostly Bakadouche down there," "HEY!" "She does have a kid, but she's said no. She only corrected him about how long it has been since they have actually seen each other, Not that he has a kid with her. Ok?"

Ibara's vines calmed down and her look of comical fiery rage melted away into calm understanding. "Thank you for the clarification, Setsuna." Ibara said, bowing slightly to Setsuna. "My sincere apologies if I lost my temper there for a moment."

While Setsuna said that it was fine, Bakugou sighed in relief, glad that his counterpart didn't screw anything else by having a kid with an ex, but that he still kept breathing. That was the only reason why he didn't blast off to explode Setsuna Tokage into pieces, and then blow up those pieces.

"But, what for? Why now?" Stark asked, confused.

"Because I read the papers and frankly, I don't think you'll last the week." Maya replied, honestly.

"Please, I mean give the man credit where it's due." Kamakiri scoffed. "This man fought terrorists before with a tin can of a suit, fought other super suits like his, and helped stop an alien invasion. Yet they make this Mandarin guy sounds like he's going to kill him."

"Speaking about that, where's the Avengers anyways?" Shoda pointed out and asked. "Stark is part of them and they formed that team to help each other face against threats, so where are they?"

"Oh yeah, now that you mention it, you have a point." Kosei said. "I mean where's Thor and the Hulk when you need them. Or Cap, Black Widow, or Hawkeye."

"I DON'T NEED HELP TO TAKE ON A TERRORIST WEARING A ROBE AND A PONYTAIL!" Bakugou yelled.

"Plus, it could simply be that the other Avengers didn't get the news in time." Jurota replied. "I imagine that my counterpart could be in a remote location to keep from accidentally transforming and harming people, Black Widow and Hawkeye are agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that could be on a mission, Midoriya might be on the other side of the country, and Thor is perhaps back in Asgard, far from conventional means of communication."

Izuku nodded, agreeing with the reasons why he and the other Avengers would not be there to help, though it still left a bad taste in his mouth to leave his friend/rival to face such a threat on his own when he could help. All Might felt the same with his own counterpart, yet understood more.

"I'll be fine." Stark assured her.

"I'm sorry, with Happy in the hospital I didn't know we were expecting guests." Ibara apologized and walked up to the two. "And old girlfriends."

"We weren't." Katsuki stuttered out. "She's not really-"

"No, not really I-It was just one night." Maya agreed with Stark.

"Yep." Katsuki nodded.

Ibara still looked at Katsuki with a smile yet annoyed look. "That's how you did it, isn't it?"

"It was a great night." Katsuki said.

"Sheesh, talk about pouring salt on an old and opening would." Hawks hissed.

"Yep. Well, you know. You saved yourself a world of pain." Ibara commented to Maya.

"What?" Katsuki looked at her, confused and slightly offended.

"HEY!" Bakugou cried out offended.

'He may likely be a world of pain for me to handle.' Ibara thought but still smiled. 'But I'm willing to give him a shot regardless.'

"I'm sure." Maya nodded, agreeing.

"Trust me. We're going out of town." Ibara said, looking determined.

"Okay. We've been through this. Nope." Katsuki refused. "The man says no."

"Yep!" Ibara insisted. "Immediately and indefinitely."

"Honey-" "Great idea. Let's go." Maya jumped in and insisted, as well.

"I'm sorry, that's a terrible idea. Please don't touch her bags." Katsuki continued refusing.

"This is how normal people behave." Ibara tried to persuade Katsuki.

"I can't protect you out there." Katsuki argued loudly.

"Jesus, how long are they gonna continue arguing?!" Kamakiri groaned, already sick of this.

"Given that this is Shiozaki and Bakugou we are talking about, maybe a while." Bondo replied.

"Is...Is that normal?" Maya pointed out the giant bunny doll.

"Yes, this is normal!" "Sadly, that is very normal." The couple both spoke.

"In this world full of aliens and demigods, pretty much." Mount Lady shrugged.

"It's a big bunny. Relax about it!" "Calm down." The two started arguing with each other, all the while Maya stood there, impatiently and awkwardly.

"I got this for you." "I'm aware of that." As the two continued their argument, Maya looked at the active television behind her and noticed a view of Stark Manor. Just as they were about to argue whether Ibara likes the bunny or not. Maya tried getting their attention with "G-Guys? Can we, um...Do we need to worry about that?"

Maya pointed towards the window and the T.V., where on the T.V. showed a missile heading towards the house, and the window of the living room behind them. The missile zoomed towards them, all three turning to look at the incoming missile.

"LOOK OUT!" Izuku and All Might both yelled.

It crashed through the window and exploded, launching all three backwards in an explosion of force of debris.

"KACCHAN!/KATSUKI!/BAKUBRO!" Izuku, Ibara, and Kirishima exclaimed in fear.

"SHIO!/IBARA!/SHIOZAKI!" Setsuna, Bakugou, and Itsuka yelled.

While they flew back in slow motion, Katsuki summoned the Mark 42, yet pointed it at Ibara, with the suit latching onto and covering Ibara instead.

"So he can summon the suit and attach it to someone else." Mei noted.

"That was some well quick thinking on Mr. Stark's part." Nezu commented. "Given that Ibara was closest to the blast with him, Mr. Stark chose for her to be protected by the suit, rather than Ms. Hansen who was the furthest from danger and himself."

"The act of a True Hero." All Might nodded. "To put other's lives before your own."

As the face plate of the armor latched onto her, Ibara and Katsuki slammed into the wall, the billionaire hero slumping to the ground, his breath knocked out of his lungs. Maya meanwhile was blow back closer to the entrance and slumped unconscious.

Outside, three helicopters flew over the water and towards the Manor. Standing on the co-pilot seat of one of them was Eric Salvig chewing on a piece of gum.

"So he is working with the Mandarin." Izuku glared at the screen. "And that means-"

"Touya is working for the Mandarin." Shoto finished the sentence, his glaring eyes conflicted and upset.

The helicopters opened their sides, revealing and readying to fire more of their missiles.

"Get out of there, Shio!" Pony exclaimed, fearfully.

Katsuki got back up and looked around, seeing Maya on the ground, unconscious but breathing.

"Okay, good, she's alright." Mandalay said. "She's just unconscious."

"And looks like she only might get a concussion from that." Ragdoll added.

Just as Stark was about to breathe in relief, the roof above them began to crack and break apart. As the rubble began to fall, and Stark crossed his arms, preparing for the impact, Ibara in the Iron Man suit jumped in and blocked the rubble from hitting him, the rubble crashing and crumbling harmlessly onto the Mark 42. The face plated opened up to reveal Ibara's face. "I got you." She assured him.

"Nicely done, Shiozaki." Vlad King nodded. "Even as a civilian, you still act like a worthy Hero."

"Thank you, Sensei." Ibara smiled at her teacher, before turning back to the screen, nervous.

"I got you first." Katsuki said in rebuttal. "Like I said, we can't stay here."

"If he hadn't saved Shio, I would be tempted to just slap the shit of him." Setsuna said, shaking her head, exasperated at Stark/Bakugou.

The helicopters aimed and began firing multiple missiles at the house. One broke through the glass again and exploded inside, launching Katsuki further into the living room, tumbling onto and over the couch. Before Ibara had a chance to worry, Katsuki got back up and yelled "Move! I'm right behind you."

But as Katsuki ran towards them and Ibara towards Maya, the ground between the two cracked open and formed a ridge between them.

"Shit." Bakugou cursed.

"Oh no! The floor split!" Kinoko said, worried. "Now he can't cross!"

"It's far too wide for Stark to jump through safely, without the suit." Itsuka said, gripping her seat tightly. "And with the ceiling collapsing, even if he tried to jump he could get smack down the ridge from debris."

Ibara looked back in fear. "Get her. I'm gonna find a way around." Katsuki said, immediately. Ibara looked at the ridge and at him in confused terror. "Stop stopping. Get her. Get outside. Go!"

Ibara wished to argue with him, but painfully knew that he was right.

Ibara this time listened, closing the face plate and running towards Maya. The suited CEO lifted up the awakening Maya and began to lead her out the crumbling manor. As they neared the glass doors, Ibara thrusted her palms towards the glass, but no repulsor blast fired. Looking between the hand in confusion, she stopped and put the hand behind her, this time the blast coming out and sending both Ibara and Maya recoiling through the glass. They tumbled and rolled on the ground yet were okay.

"Phew, okay, Shio is safe." Setsuna sighed in relief.

"And Hansen is also safely outside the manor." Reiko added.

Another missile struck the cliffside below the manor, the manor crumbling even faster with Katsuki stuck on the living room side of the unjumpable chasm. Watching the manor crumble more, Ibara gasped out "Oh my God. Katsuki!"

Ibara grip on her seat was so strong that cracks could be seen on the armrests.

Another missile struck, the floor of the manor shifting downwards as the supports began to crumble. Katsuki slipped and began sliding down towards the window. Quickly, Stark grabbed onto the metal bar and stopped, just as his feet crashed through the glass.

"Shit! They're targeting the support columns of the manor!" Kirishima exclaimed, his hardened hand gripping the armrests into pieces.

'Guess it wasn't smart to build a manor on the side of a cliff.' Kamakiri thought, but chose, wisely, to not say it out loud.

Propping up against the bar, Jarvis spoke with "Sir, Ms. Shiozaki is clear of the structure."

Looking back at the helicopters, Katsuki thrusted his hands forward and then thrusted them back. Outside, the Mark 42 began to separate and leave Ibara and flew back into the manor. The helicopters began firing their Gatling guns on Katsuki, the Avenger crawling away as the bullets missed. The parts reached him and began to form around him. Katsuki dive-rolled away from some more bullets, stretched his arm out for the glove armor to attach itself to it, and finally the face plate, the hub appearing over Katsuki's nose-bleeding face.

"Hell Yeah!" Bakugou yelled. "Now Die, You Terrorist Scumbags!"

Before Stark could attack on the copters, another missile fired on the manor's cliffside, causing for the manor to shift further down. Stark tried to steady himself, his palms firing yet achieved no lift. "Jarvis, where's my flight power?!" Katsuki questioned.

"Working on it, sir." Jarvis replied. "This is a prototype."

"Why the hell is he using a shitty prototype instead of the other suits downstairs?!" Miruko yelled, angry.

"Well, in retrospect, he could have wanted to use the Mark 42 in case he needed for it to attach and protect Shiozaki." Ryukyu argued.

"Then why not test the suit's systems before this shit happened?!" Miruko retorted. "All I'm saying is kid might have book smarts, but not a lot of street smarts."

An angry tick mark appeared over Bakugou's head but chose to shut up and not argue against a Pro Hero who could kick him through the wall in a heartbeat.

Iron Man turned away from the copters firing on him and tried climbing up, grabbing onto the ledge. He turned back and aimed his wrist to the helicopters, only for a System Error to appear, showing his missile targeting and firing system offline.

"Oh come on!" Tetsutetsu exclaimed, annoyed and angry.

Iron Man heard the sounds of noise behind him and turned to see the piano coming towards him. Eyes widening in surprise and an idea, Katsuki let go of the ledge and began sliding as the piano missed him and continued sliding past him with its greater weight. As the piano was in front of him, Iron Man fired his repulsor blasts launching the piano with a melodic chime through the window and onto the middle helicopter's cockpit, causing the copter to swerve and crashing into the water below.

"Huh, smart." Hawks snickered at the sight he just saw. "And innovative. Never thought I see someone destroy a chopper with a piano."

"Though why isn't he just using the repulsor blasts to destroy the helicopters?" Death Arms asked. "If they can destroy flying alien vehicles, I'm sure they can blow up a chopper."

"That's one." Stark counted off.

Stark turned back to see the one of the other two flying over from a large crack in the ceiling. Katsuki looked to his wrist and tried prying it open. "Sir, the suit is not combat ready." Jarvis informed, to Katsuki's frustration.

"Shut Up! I Know Already!" Bakugou yelled before Kaminari could say a word.

As the chopper hovered to the manor's side and locked onto Stark via heat sensor, they opened fire again. Stark slid out of the way as he opened the wrist and pried out the missile. With a discuss throw, Iron Man launched the missile towards the chopper and fired at it with a repulsor blast. The blast struck the missile and it exploded onto the chopper, the second chopper to begin swerving and crashing.

"That's two." Katsuki continued counting.

"Yes!" Izuku and Eri cheered, hopeful that Kacchan would make it out of this.

Bakugou grinned in victory.

However, where the chopper was swerving and crashing onto was towards the manor and Stark. "Oh." He simply said.

Izuku's joy swiftly turned to fear and Bakugou's dropped to a frown.

Iron Man turned back to run away as the chopper crashed into the manor, the blazing explosion launching Stark forwards. Crashing onto the other ledge, Stark tried to latch on but slipped and fell onto the second floor of the manor.

"KACCHAN!" Izuku yelled.

As Stark looked around at all the destruction, he turned to find DUM-E looking at the struggling claw head remains of U, whirring weakly on the floor.

Mei let out a horrified shriek, holding her hands over her mouth as she actually started forming tears for the destroyed robot.

More missiles fired, the manor started collapsing faster. The explosions of the missiles blasted and destroyed the Mark 7, followed by the Mark 6 and the others one by one.

"The beginning." Uraraka shuddered in horror. "This is what was happening in the beginning. Stark Manor getting destroyed."

The last of armors exploded, the manor shifted more and more, and DUM-E slid and fell down the cliff in a wailing shriek.

"NO!" Mei screamed in horror.

Eri whimpered and buried her head in Deku's chest. Deku wrapped his arms around her, tightly.

Finally, the last of Stark Manor crumbled and collapsed and began falling and crashing into the water below. As he clung onto the manor as it fell, Katsuki Stark looked down with wide eyes as he crashed and sank beneath the waves.

"NO!" Ibara cried.

Stark stumbled and sank into water, the wires of a machine roping onto around his neck, dragging him deeper and deeper into the water.

Ibara ran into what remained of Stark Manor and looked down at the crashing remains of the manor and cliffside. "KATSUKI!" Ibara wailed out.

Setsuna quickly wrapped her arms around the weeping Ibara, trying her best to comfort her friend.

Underwater, Stark struggled against the wire wrapped around his neck, pinning him to the sea floor, while water slowly trickled into the suit and his helmet. As he lifted the wire off of him, he only had a second to look before another large piece of rubble crashed onto him, burying him further.

The group looked at the screen with shock, fear, disbelief, and horror.

Uraraka looked shocked, unable to process Katsuki Bakugou, as annoying and smackable as he is, getting smashed and...Uraraka didn't want to admit what she thought happened. Kirishima was in utter disbelief, eyes as wide as dinner plates, shaking his head, refusing to believe that Bakugou was at all dead, claiming he was too manly to die like this.

Izuku and All Might looked horrified, the former shaking his head like Kirishima. 'He...He can't be...this isn't possible...' Izuku thought, anger and fear flooding his mind. 'You can't be de...You hear me! You're Not Dead!'

Bakugou was speechless, seeing himself get dragged into the water and crushed under the weight of his own manor would do that to someone.

The job seemingly done, the chopper turned around and flew back to the ocean, Salvig chewing on his gum contently.

Then that shock swiftly became fuel for a burning hatred towards the man, Bakugou looking at Salvig with hatred that he felt he never felt towards anyone before.

Meanwhile, Stark's hand burst through the rubble as he struggled to get himself out. "Sir, take a deep breath." Jarvis advised. A second later, the glove armor dethatched and shot off with its thrusters, turning back around to Katsuki and grabbing his hand. Using its backwards thrusters, the armored glove managed to pull him out of the rubble.

"YES!" All Might exclaimed in relief, followed quickly by everyone else.

The glove reattached itself, the leaking water reducing and releasing out, Katsuki Stark took in a deep breathe and fired his suits thrusters. "Flight power restored." Jarvis informed.

As the chopper flew away, unbeknownst to them or anyone else, Iron Man flew out of the water and into sky, disappearing into the clouds, before the screen turned black.

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AAAAAAANNNNNDDDDD SCENE! *Sigh* Finally! Super sorry to everybody for this taking so long, but writing three different chapters back to back, two of which took a lot more brain power, tackling writer's block and laziness, and writing about one of the most badly written movies of the MCU was difficult. Honestly, I shudder at the knowledge that I have three more of these and four of Thor the Dark World to get through before I'm out of this hellhole I dug myself into.

But anyways, that's Part 1 of Iron Man 3 and the first official reaction chapter of this sequel story. And I hope you guys liked it well enough. My sincerest apologies if the ending was a bit rushed and lazy in the reactionary side, but I just wanted to get this one over with like an exhausted marathon runner sprinting through the finish line. Maybe this is what the writers of Game of Thrones felt and why their final season was trash?

But that aside, we got a lot that happened that I have planned to set up. Melissa coming to grips with the reality of her dreams and its challenges and whether she would be up for it, Deku working his way through figuring out his feelings for the girls, Endeavor and Shoto on Touya Todoroki's appearance and supervillain status, and the Katsuki's with their guilt over the past, with Stark facing the demons of his past in Killian, now Touya, and Maya, and Bakugou with Salvin now revealed as Kenji.

Speaking of, the name Kenji Nakamura may be an OC name of my creation, but the person he is supposed to be is the third bully and lackey that we saw in the first and second episode of My Hero Academia, the black haired dude that was beside Yubi and with Bakugou before the Sludge Villain attacked him, the one who seemed the nicest given that he asked Bakugou if he went a little too far with Deku that day. We never got his name so I just made this one up. The Nakamura last name was inspired by Ethan Nakamura, an antagonist character from Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Son of the goddess, Nemesis, and Kenji I got from the name of the director of all three My Hero Academia movies, Kenji Nagasaki.

Speaking of counterparts, with Salvin, I didn't want to waste an important Villain character in a forgettable, secondary antagonist role, so I just went ahead and decided that, if Bakugou's lackeys, and Midoriya's bullies, were already in Iron Man 1, Yubi as Stane and Tsubassa as Raza, then why stop there? So Salvin's counterpart is another one of Midoriya's past bullies, made to haunt both Bakugou and Midoriya and fit the theme of Iron Man 3 of past demons coming back.

As for past demons, Aldrich Killian's counterpart is Touya Todoroki, aka (Spoilers) Dabi. It made all the sense really, and was kinda obvious. Both are wronged men with a haunted past that blame a certain person for what they did to them, Killian being stood up by Stark and Touya for being passed on by his own father for his younger brother. Both have pyrokinetic abilities and when I saw Killian's tattoos at the finale of the movie, when I rewatched it, I did a Leonardo Dicaprio pointing at meme and immediately pictured Dabi's burn scars. Plus, given how EXTREMIS can be unstable, it matches with Dabi's Fire Quirk being so hot and powerful on his less suitable body that it's unstable and burns him. Also the black hair and sideburns are a reverse play on Dabi's dyed hair, where at first when we see Dabi he has black hair but when he is revealed as Touya Todoroki, his white hair is revealed, so here, I'm doing the reverse. I won't say for certain if the Todoroki's and group will know that Touya is Dabi by the end of this movie, but certain characters may have their suspicions.

Plus on a side note, now Touya Todoroki can join the Marvel list of characters with first and last names starting with the same letter, like Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Fing Fang Foom, and etc.

Then with Maya Hansen, this was difficult at first. My choices ranged from Saiko, Mei, and Melissa, since they are all intelligent side characters like Maya, but ultimately, I save the last two for later, more important roles, like Melissa as Agent Sharon Carter, and had Saiko be Maya, and it's not a bad fit either. They are both intelligent side characters, Saiko's whole Quirk being called IQ and Maya the creator of EXTREMIS, who were antagonistic to the main characters, Saiko being a major obstacle for Momo and her team during the Provisional Hero License Exam and Maya at first aiding Killian, but ultimately the two ending their time in spotlight decent, with Saiko's hubris destroyed yet humbly acknowledged her loss to U.A. and Maya turning on Killian to keep Tony alive.

Also, Ibara's backstory in helping out in the retirement home was actually an inspired choice from my own life as I used to volunteer at a retirement home, loved those old rascals and they loved my singing on karaoke night.

And finally, to all those complaining about the harem stuff, I did warn you guys in those beginning notes that you don't read. So I have just one thing to say to you all: No, no I don't think I will.

But pissing off people aside, that's all for now. Hope you guys and gals liked the chapter, check out my other stories if you haven't already, comment your thoughts in the reviews, stay safe and healthy in these sad and dangerous times, comment what other counterpart connections there will be in the future, and comment on this important question: When they make it, what should the four inventors call the Stark Element other than Badassium?

This has been Zayden StormVoid and I see you all later brochachos!