Naruto30 - Don't know that fanfic so I can't say yes or no tbh xD
odorsloth - I don't think he had enough interest in actually WORKING HARD to learn all the combinations. He is more of a 'stack 5x strength enhancement and do a Detroit Smash but without calling its name' guy.
SmokyGhoul - Ha!
TheGreatBubbaJ - Yup.
Musicalwatcher99 - Was already pretty much explained. He can apply status conditions (like Powerful or Imperceptible) to people whom he touched to establish a link (similarly to how Foresight's first point works like).
Detrametal - Endeavor was the right person in more ways than one :P Mystery Hacker is a surprise tool that will help us later. And yeah, Aiko deserves to be protected and cherished :D
Matt - That's honestly an armageddon scenario. For the villains xd
(***)
1-A Chatroom
ClassPresident: And that concludes the brief summary of Aiko's quirk.
ClassPresident: Naturally, it's top secret.
CreativeSpirit: … wow, and I thought that MY quirk is overpowered.
ClassPresident: It's not exactly overpowered. It's more of a rock paper scissor thing against various types of quirks.
Mindhack: That's not what I expected.
Mindhack: wait
Mindhack: she can see things that we can't and whatever she sees can't be properly described in human languages, right?
Mindhack: So, in a way, it's still perfectly possible that she has an eldritch abomination complex mutation and this is just her biological differences manifesting
GravityGirl: Well at least he's consistent
CreativeSpirit: one way to say that
Thermostat: I approve of this theory.
ClassPresident: todoroki no
Thermostat: todoroki yes
ClassPresident: …
CreativeSpirit: I literally can't tell if he actually managed to be funny on purpose or whether he just emotionlessly corrected ClassPresident that he, actually, is a Todoroki.
Thermostat: yes
CreativeSpirit: … now I'm even more confused
CreativeSpirit: I think that he's getting better but like
CreativeSpirit: It's a bit of a Mineta Moment?
Grapevine: uhm
Grapevine: that's good or bad?
CreativeSpirit: yes
Thermostat: yes
GravityGirl: pffft
Froppy: *amused ribbiting*
CreativeSpirit: Speaking about getting better or not
CreativeSpirit: How are the Anti-Overhaul Squad members doing?
LeadSinger: so-so
LeadSinger; I heard his heart stop beating, it was…
LeadSinger: kind of bad
LeadSinger: Even after I got a reward hug from Eri and heard what exactly Overhaul did to her from her parents.
LeadSinger: He 100% deserved that, but…
Thermostat: we'd feel much better if my father stopped him rather than us
LeadSinger: ^
LeadSinger: on point
LeadSinger: How do you feel, I mean, you were the one to do the deed
Thermostat: Not well. But I had a long talk with my father.
Thermostat: I believe it helped.
AcidParty: Yeah, Overhaul was objectively one of the worst people ever, and considering how many people he killed we really didn't have much choice and if we let him continue, it would be a disaster
AcidParty: also hearing what he did to Eri made me kind of regret that I only managed to cut his hands off
AcidParty: but like
AcidParty: I get the feeling that we're being exposed to the darker parts of the heroics kind of ahead of schedule
AcidParty: First the HPSC now the idea that we might and probably will be forced to kill people during our career because sometimes the villains won't give us a choice
AcidParty: it sucks
AcidParty: At least Aizawa-sensei feels sensitive enough to not throw a 'I told you so' into our faces
ClassPresident: yeah
AcidParty: On the other hand, I wish to state that what Riot did was absolute peak manly ever
Riot: oh
AcidParty: you knew that he is probably going to touch you and that we weren't sure if the defense quirk would hold and you were like 'that's my job'
AcidParty: wow
Riot: uhm thank you?
GaleForce: super awesome and hotblooded af
GravityGirl: Riot that's the right moment
Riot: uhm
GravityGirl: seriously
ClassPresident: uhm?
Riot: … I'll take that on DM.
AcidParty: ?
GravityGirl: GaleForce?
GaleForce: i am alright
GaleForce: i knew that this was a potential part of the job beforehand
GaleForce: it sucks but after seeing so many people die to overhaul it was obvious that it was the only option
GaleForce: i am more worried about the heroes and country as a whole, we lost so many awesome heroes
CreativeSpirit: I'm not sure if I even want to think about this
CreativeSpirit: How's Sero doing? He's offline
BoomBoom: alright
BoomBoom: the only thing he did was pulling Shitty Hair to the side
CreativeSpirit: phew
CreativeSpirit: Izuku?
ClassPresident: It's alright. Uraraka gave me a serious talk about it. So did my parents.
ClassPresident: I think that I just have to rest
ClassPresident: anyone has anything to ask me for before I go?
Mindhack: I need you to help Himiko
ClassPresident: ?
Mindhack: Tenko is currently pursuing her around the school grounds with a printout of the 'I have a girlfriend/2d doesn't count' talk.
ClassPresident: ugh
ClassPresident: I'll go ask Suto to ask Tenko for a tour on the school grounds, that will get him off Himiko
Mindhack: Much obliged.
(***)
Eraserhead exits the teacher's lounge just in time to startle Tenko Shimura and Suto Sakai-but-soon-Shimura. Judging from the scene in front of him, Tenko was showing her where the teacher's lounge is when a powerful mob boss suddenly emerged from the dungeon in front of them.
The 'powerful mob boss' was Eraserhead's addition. Because Tenko, of course, referred to the teacher's lounge as a 'dungeon', with Nedzu apparently being the final boss.
Which, honestly, makes perfect sense.
What made much less sense was the fact that Suto clearly lost a few years when no one was looking. That was super quick, Aizawa has to admit. Less than a day has passed from the end of the battle. Several hours, in fact.
"Uhm." Shimura shrinks slightly. He must have gotten that ability from the Midoriyas. "Aizawa-sensei."
"Yes, that's my name." Eraserhead replies. Suto proves to have somehow inherited character traits from Uraraka, because that was a rather familiar barely restrained 'pffft'. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm giving her a tour." Tenko announces, looking rather proud about it. "She likes it!" Suto nods quickly in the background. Aizawa has no doubts about it judging from her rather intense tail movements. Whether she likes UA, tours, or Tenko Shimura remains to be seen.
How long before Suto Sakai-but-soon-Shimura becomes one more chaos gremlin? Midoriya was relatively alright while strangled out by social anxiety. When he started coming out of the shell… nothing was the same anymore.
In the meantime, she feels like she would potentially help restrain Tenko Shimura. Truly, a blessing from the Lord.
"Good." Eraserhead simply doesn't feel like reminding them that technically she isn't yet a part of the UA student body and Nedzu was still finalizing the process of making sure that the police wouldn't try to arrest her or do anything as stupid. "Keep doing that."
He is about to leave, but… then something happens.
"Uhm." Suto is suddenly fidgety. Very fidgety. Like Midoriya on a bad day. "I wanted to thank you for saving me. You were there with Tenko and… uhm… I'd like to thank that green-haired lady as well, but…"
"Don't worry, she drops by this school regularly." Eraserhead replies. "You'll have your occasion to do that. Besides, if there is anyone you should truly thank it's Shimura. Ms. Joke and I were doing our job, and we were both trained properly to do it. If there was anyone who was truly risking his head for you, it's Tenko Shimura."
Let no one say that Eraserhead is heartless. He is merely very picky when it comes to showing that particular quality of his.
Suto and Tenko's eyes meet, before quickly escaping from each other, clearly too shy for extended eye contact. It's rather heartwarming. However, Eraserhead enjoys being coldhearted. Or at least having a healthy heart temperature.
"Oh and remember to use protection." He thus announces. Tenko suddenly shrinks, looking like he was seriously considering jumping out through the window. Suto, in the meantime, hides her face in her hands, the visible parts of it being very, very beet red.
Tenko somehow freaked out even more when he saw her tail happily waggling twice as fast.
Yes. Psychological violence (mostly beneficial in the long term) against his students. That hits the spot.
Eraserhead got halfway to his personal nap corner when a sound from one of the classrooms he was passing by drew his attention. He peeked inside just to see that he managed to accidentally interrupt a rather fervent kissing session between Eijirou Kirishima and Mina Ashido.
"Uhm." Ashido blushes in a rather interesting color, her school uniform messy after the… ordeal. Kirishima in the meantime has his face match the color of his hair. Well, almost.
"Use protection." Eraserhead announces. The sight of the duo in front of him freaking out warms his heart. Then he leaves.
It's starting for real. The most horrible part of being a high school teacher. The love lives of young and typically deeply inexperienced people regularly risking their lives AND having physical bodies trained close to perfection (not to mention typically working on their looks really hard, because hello, it's partially show business as well), which tends to result in the whole thing being… uhm… irritatingly existent for Eraserhead's taste.
While also being painfully chaotic.
At the very least he can obtain some cheap amusement out of the ordeal. He just has to be there when it happens to obtain sufficient ammunition, which honestly kind of sucks.
At the very least his own children seem to be mostly free of the problem. Himiko has her one-sided crush on Midoriya (he would rather die than be actually related to the Midoriyas, so he's super happy about Uraraka Ochaco being there), which occupies her emotional attention entirely. But it's more or less alright. Hitoshi, in the meantime, seems entirely free of the issue.
Phew.
(***)
"You… don't look very good." Hitoshi says towards Izuku. Midoriya ran into him while returning from the cafeteria. Shinsou was sitting on the stairs, reading some book.
"Yeah, I…" Izuku sighs. "Way too many people died, the chaos outside, protests, the rise in crime, the fall in hero's approval ratings, I mean it was merely three days from that mess and it's rather clear that we won't like the result."
"Right." Hitoshi sighs. "Look at this from my point of view. I managed, thanks to you, to be put on track to become a hero… and now I'm starting to be seriously worried if the hero society will survive until my graduation day."
Izuku chuckles. Merely slightly bitterly. Hitoshi puts the book away and invites Izuku to sit on the other side of him. Izuku decides to do so.
"Kind of sucks, yeah." Izuku admits. "We're in the same boat, I guess."
Right, Shinsou knows about Midoriya being a late-bloomer. So many years of acting against impossible odds to become a pro-hero, now this. Damn.
"Yeah, but considering your track record, you'll probably somehow fix the whole thing." Shinsou replies. He is reasonably certain of that. "Not anytime soon, but…"
"I think that you're giving me too much credit." Izuku is, naturally, the first one to take a step back. "Principal Nedzu, in the meantime…"
Shinsou has about fifty times more trust and faith towards Izuku than towards the Principal Nedzu, but… yeah, if he says that aloud, Izuku will quickly go the 'no you're totally wrong he is awesome' and… it would just hurt to have to watch it.
"What sort of book were you reading, by the way?" Izuku changes the subject. Shinsou freaks out on the inside.
"Uhm, nothing interesting." He tried to dodge.
"Hmmm…" Izuku stares at him, clearly thoughtful. "You know, if we lived in a story or a manga, I'm something like 90% certain that this meeting would exist to make me suddenly rebound back to boundless optimism. Something which, I'm sure of it, would be caused by me seeing the title of the book in question."
"I'm fairly certain that we live in neither a story nor a manga." Shinsou cuts back. "And my book is certainly not a plot element."
"C'mon, don't be like that!" Shinsou braces for combat. Except, he barely has the time to defend himself before Midoriya has the book in his hands. "... seriously? A book about dinosaurs?"
"Look, I've just… developed an interest in them." Shinsou quickly replies. "Absolutely independently." Midoriya gives him a questioning stare. "Look, whatever happens, just don't tell Himiko, okay?"
"Having secrets from your sister?" Izuku looks surprised by it.
"I mean, maybe a bit." Hitoshi relents. "She's trying to set me up with Setsuna Tokage, and… honestly, Tokage isn't half-bad as a person, and I kind of get why father tends to hang around extroverts. An introvert like me kind of needs someone to make him leave the shell to not turn into a total shut-in weirdo, but it has to be someone who knows when to stop. To not go too far and so on, and thus far Setsuna seems to be doing alright on that field, and I can even live through the teasing, which she seems to like but… like… doesn't go too far and…"
He stops speaking. Because he realizes that the shit-eating grin on Izuku's face is rather familiar to him.
Unfortunately, the person in front of him realized what his pause meant. So, "Izuku" dashes from the stairs and towards the nearest exit.
"HIMIKOOOO!"
(***)
"Young Togata." All Might says. Mirio maintains his cheerful smile, but… honestly, Yagi is good enough with people to see the pain underneath.
"Yes, Yagi-sensei?" Lemillion asks. He is probably curious why exactly did All Might (well, formerly All Might, turns out that destroying the hero license-issuing organization delays your own reclassification as a hero, who would have known) want to see him. Enough to borrow him in the middle of the class.
"How are you doing?" Yagi asks. Lemillion immediately knows what he's referring to.
"Centipeder is taking over his hero agency, and…"
"That's not what I was asking about." All Might cuts in. "And I know that you know that."
No point in hiding anything, it seems. Then again, that was the former Number One Hero. Former Symbol of Peace.
"I'm… furious." Lemillion says. "And lost. Sir was… a mentor of mine, but also more than that. I've only managed to go so far thanks to him helping me figure out my quirk. Losing him is… I just don't know what to do now."
"Mirai, it seems, knew what to do." All Might replies. When Lemillion looks at him questioningly, he adds. "You know that Midoriya Izuku is… something of my personal student, yes?"
"Yes, but… uhm…" Mirio scratches the side of his head. "I kind of thought that you were sharing him with Nedzu, actually."
"... I hate the fact that you're right about it." All Might sighs. "The thing is, we had… a bit of a deal. After we've managed to reconcile our issues. We've promised each other that if something happens to either of us, the other one will… take care of their personal students."
"Oh, I…" Mirio isn't sure what to say. He isn't sure what to think about it. But…
"I know that I can't replace him." All Might continues. "And I know that at this point you're already a splendid hero, all you need is to just pass your final exam, which I'm certain you'll achieve with flying colors. However, I need you to know that if you need any sort of help or advice, I'll always be there for you. And if you want some additional training, I… let's just say that I have a lot of skills to share with you."
"I… thank you, sir." Mirio finally manages to say something. "I… think that I'll take you up on that offer."
Sir Nighteye, it seems, was his mentor even from beyond the grave. Mirio Toogata will make sure to become the best hero he can, if only in his memory.
(***)
"Wait a moment." Miruko stares at Bloodblade over the UA's fence. "What do you mean by 'you're not allowed to visit him anymore'?"
Akaguro Chizome groans loudly.
"Yoshihiro Maki's internships with you were terminated." He announces. "You left him to fight against an S-Rank villain alone. What else did you expect to happen?"
"What the fuck?!" Miruko might be in her civilian clothes, but it only makes her something like 10% less intimidating. Unfortunately, the former Hero Killer is absolutely not-intimidated at all. "He was powerful enough to beat that ass and a perfect match against him, even better than I was! And I managed to help him overcome his issues with beating complex mutants up!"
"Okay, I admit that you DID help him." Bloodblade decides to concede the point. He decides against informing Miruko that a solid chunk of said progress is Maki imagining his complex mutant enemies to have her face. How exactly that worked with the Curator (a massive whaleman) was anyone's guess, really. "But you also acted INCREDIBLY irresponsibly. As a result, he is no longer your intern. And is thus an unaffiliated teenager that you can't just randomly drop by to talk with."
"I'm his mother!" Miruko shouts back.
"No you're not!" Akaguro shouts back.
"YES I AM!" Miruko shouts back, her hands suddenly on the fence. It's like she felt the urge to grab and crush something and that was the only thing in range. "LET ME IN! LET ME IN!"
(***)
"Wow." Mr. Compress announces. He is watching the ongoing shouting match between Miruko and Stain from a distance. But he is fairly certain that he doesn't want to get anywhere close to it. He isn't interested in becoming a part of that mess. "They really put 'belligerent' back in 'belligerent sexual tension', aren't they?"
Present Mic wheezes loudly. Midnight in the meantime looks like Christmas came early. Oh, well.
(***)
"You know what?" Miruko clearly has enough of it. "Now I really want to beat the fuck out of you. When do we have the promised fight?"
Actually, Akaguro realizes, he's really interested in beating the fuck out of her as well. She is pissing him off.
"Tomorrow." He replies. "5pm. I'll let you choose the location. But it better be close to a hospital."
"Oh, afraid of being a little… hurt?" Miruko gives him a wry smile.
"No, afraid of you dying on me." Akaguro announces. Oh that struck a nerve. Absolutely delightful. "Go and perhaps grow up a little before the f…"
"Grow. Up?" Okay, that struck more than a nerve, judging from the death stare he just received. "Is it about my height?"
"What? No." Akaguro decides that she is probably a little bit touchy on that subject. Weird, but… I mean, she is actually shorter than Midoriya, so it might be due to that. "I don't care what your size is as long as you can hit people properly. I meant about growing up a bit to stop acting like a whiny kid."
That seems to have mostly defused the situation. Phew.
"Oh please, I'm not a whiny kid, I even have my own grown-up kit and…"
"HE ISN'T YOUR SON GODDAMMIT!"
(***)
"Did you hear something?" Ibara asks, raising her eyes from the patch of flowers she was cultivating behind their dorm.
"I think…" Maki says slowly, the tools she asked him to carry for her still in his hands. "... that it's the next installment of the custody battle over me. You know, the one that I mentioned happening before the battle."
"Oh." Ibara blinks at him a few times. "You have a very odd 'luck' when parental figures in your life are involved, did you notice that?"
"Unfortunately, I did." He replies before sighing loudly. "Let's get back to gardening, I really don't want to think about that right now."
(***)
Two Days Later
"You look like shit, girl." Her personal assistant announces when Miruko finally enters (she won't say 'limps into', she has her pride) her hero agency.
Her hero agency is more like 'a place where people are doing paperwork for her'. She barely shows up. Yes, she has an apartment above it, but she typically shows up there whenever she goes through a fierce battle and wants to heal in peace.
The injuries sustained during the Beast's takedown were mostly healed by Recovery Girl, though.
Naturally, her personal assistant has a rather similar personality. They are working together for a while, and if Miruko found her doing organizational work for some underground cage fighting ring (before recruiting her), no one had to know.
"Tell me about it." Miruko groans before heading towards the nearest couch. "I had a very… intense spar. With the former Hero Killer."
"Oh, that 'stupid ambush predator that can't fight face to face and is just a whiny, edgy bitch'"? She is enjoying it, isn't she? At least that's what Miruko reads off her face.
"Turns out, he's probably a robot undercover." Miruko replies while lying down on the couch. "I swear to Bugs Bunny, it was like trying to kick through a fortified bunker wall or something. I could have knocked him out if I went for the vitals, but it was just a spar, and he just… he just kept standing no matter how many times I kicked him. It was unnatural, let me tell you that, absolutely unnatural."
"Right." Her PA looks unnaturally cheeky. "That explains why you're grinning so widely. Finally, a proper sparring partner, ehh? So, by the way, who won?"
She is grinning?! Shit. Change the subject, her PA isn't supposed to know about that and she'll grow suspicious quickly.
"Uhm, well, yeah." Miruko replies. "I did, of course. Unfortunately, my kit's still unavailable to me and that pisses me off." That subject will do for now.
(***)
"You look like shit, man." All Might announces when Akaguro limps back to the UA.
"You don't say." Bloodblade groans. "You think that Recovery Girl will fix that?" He says, while raising his right hand. Two fingers are most definitely broken. A rib or two are probably in the same state.
"If you ask her nicely." All Might replies. "Like, really nicely. So, what happened?" It's rather clear that he doesn't think that it was a villain attack. If someone attacked Akaguro with the ferocity suggested by those injuries, he would most certainly call for backup, he isn't an idiot.
"I had a spar with Miruko." Akaguro announces.
"That explains the bruises." Yagi nods thoughtfully. Yeah, Akaguro really feels like he is one walking bruise. Everything aches. "So, how was it?"
How to put it correctly… oh, let's go with that option. Akaguro Chizome really isn't interested in hiding things from his best friend (and yes, the fact that All Might somehow became his best friend is still super confusing to him).
"I won, of course." He replies. "But it was… fierce. I swear, I was this close to having my pelvis crushed."
"Pelvis?" All Might blinks at him. "What the hell were you and Miruko doing during the spar for you to be close to having your pelvis crushed?"
"It… wasn't during the spar." Akaguro Chizome deadpans. It takes All Might something like five seconds of shocked stare for the shit-eating grin to start manifesting on his face. "Don't. Just… don't. It won't happen again."
It happens again less than a week later.
(***)
The Most Terrifying Ship is back in business! Also, yes, there was chaos and nasty things happened, but these are teenagers and strong ones at that. They'll be fine. Also, to be honest, I'm mostly busy cleaning up certain sideplots concerning the UA students, because their participation in the Endgame Arc will be rather... faint, really. Even Nedzu wouldn't risk sending students en masse into what can be an another disaster like the assault on Beast's headquarters.