Baraquiel 28

It turned out, that Izuku had gotten off very lightly when it came to a hangover; despite his friends saying that he 'drank like a fish' and effortlessly outdrank his friends.

The look between a sober Midoriya and a drunken one was extremely fine; the definitive factors being Midoriya's green eyes looking slightly glazed over and his pale skin looking rather grey in places. Jiro, grinned as she heard him slip in the shower "It turns out he's rather ungraceful when hungover."

Todoroki sighed "I still can't see how he's not as affected as we are."

Fuyumi at that moment arrived carrying the Twin's "Self-Defence Mechanism, being part of the 20% has made him a target and thus he's applying that to every possible circumstance…It will make for some very fun hustles, which I am sure my Husband will be teaching you."

She grinned as Izuku shuddered "That…sucked. Why would drinking hustles be such a thing worth learning?"

Fuyumi looked over her shoulder to see Dean staggered into the building. "You never know, what might be learnt when drinking undercover. Morning Fuyumi."

"Seamus, you're looking absolutely awful this morning. Bacon?"

Seamus groaned, the teens could see the older man was grey-skinned; eyes bloodshot and dilated with a constant stream of sweat running down on his body "Please. Dry bread as well. Dean and Neville will be here soon, they had a run in with a sharpie." Fuyumi's eyes briefly looked up and she let out a whistle. Seamus grinned "I can see why Harry fell for you."

"More the other way around. Seamus, Harry couldn't get the words out when he proposed…he was utterly…"

"Tongue-tied? borderline babbling? Pacing? Looking here, there and everywhere but you? Hands running through his hair?" Fuyumi nodded, Seamus chuckled.

"That's Harry, cool, calm, graceful and electrifying on the battlefield; barking incoherent ramblings that Athena turned into information and Strategm used to formulate our defences and hostile counter-attacks, but when it comes to those he loves…incapable of…"

"Saying what I actually want to convey. Thank you, Banshee, for throwing my biggest weakness to my motormouth apprentice, youngest brother-in-law and probably my two favourite students." Jiro and Yaoyorozu blushed scarlet at the throwaway comment.

"Favourite students! I thought Teachers shouldn't…" Jiro blathered, earphone jacks tapping nervously.

"We shouldn't, wouldn't and couldn't but we bullshit to our students that we don't have favourites, subjectively we do. Aizawa adores you guys, despite being trouble-magnets and absolutely stupid cats; me personally, my favourites are you four…don't let that go to your heads it's because you continuously improve on what you know and work around your weaknesses. Midoriya, you've got a brain and sociopathic knowledge of quirks and are able to come up with a plan on the fly but your weakness is that you've got to be close and personal and don't have a quirk. Jiro, you're able to detect heartbeats and therefore…"

"People coming at us foiling any potential ambushes. I can relay that information to Midoriya, allowing us to adapt to the change in scenario. However, I panic easily and overload with information; Midoriya is the only one who can take that information and formulate into a plan. Yao-momo can create anything providing she understands the chemical bondings and the elements. Todoroki is, well, Todoroki."

Harry chuckled "That's true, if he puts in the work he can master four elements. Fire, Ice, Lightning and the last is a tossup between Air, Gravity or even Pressure."

Todoroki cocked his head "How do I get the lightning?"

"Simply accelerate the heat in your flames to an unprecedented degree of excitability. As for the ice, theory is accelerate the friction between ice fragments…Todoroki DO NOT attempt this without me nearby, my wife will kill me and get away with it."

Fuyumi giggled "No, I wouldn't kill you. I love you too much for that, you would have to sleep in your friend's house for the foreseeable future."

Harry paled as Seamus chuckled "Harry, Dean, Neville and I are housetrained you know, we CAN cook."

"And by cooking, we don't mean takeout and microwave dinners. I can do a beautiful Beef Casserole." Neville chimed in, faint evidence of the sharpie still present.

"I can do a roast…in fact, I can do all roasts bar turkey." Dean stated.

"As Turkey is the worst bird on earth." Harry replied absentmindedly.

"Why do you both dislike Turkey? You eat it well enough." Grouched Aizawa, a black bin liner over his shoulder.

"We're Brits, we don't like to cause a fuss. We eat what we're served and make no complaints about it; the turkey served has been amazing but between the pair of us we've got about twenty years of bad Turkey incidents…food poisoning and botched cooking so it's tough, we avoid it at all costs." Dean replied.

The adults and teens finally sat down for breakfast, by the time everything had been finished it was getting on for the afternoon. The wedding was two days away but what should have been a relaxing day of recovery from binge drinking was horribly disturbed.

Careening towards them was a motley collection of people. "We need to get the Teachers, or at least…" Midoriya began, he turned only to nearly walk into a brunette woman, about Baraquiel-sensei's age; clad in jeans, boots and a tactical shell suit upper. "Can I help you?"

"Depends if you're Midoriya Izuku?"

"I am…why?"

"I'm the Knowledge Hero: Athena, Baraquiel and Malkavian called me up in the middle of your mothers hen-do, I arrived late, they were three-sheets to the wind…"

"And propping up a bar." Todoroki deadpanned getting a snort from the female hero.

"Probably, anyway they said you were demonstrating Late Quirk Activation and slurred to me to 'run my tests on an adorable green guinea pig'." Athena stated, she looked up and groaned "Just a moment." With that she headed into the house and what was said went right over Izuku's head but Jiro went red and then white "I'm…not even sure that's even possible, I mean Harry-sensei's always on our backs…and the keep the antagonism and murderous impulses to a minimum? That's what gives Baraquiel so many points."

Todoroki grinned "My Brother…speaks harsh, speaks true and holds people to the wording and or the spirit of what was spoken."

Athena nodded "That's Harry for you. He given you the 'make a stand' lecture?"

"No…Why?"

"Making a Stand along with Fish and Chips are arguably two of Harry's most important lessons…oh son of a bitch, Nighteye's here…BARAQUIEL!"

Harry appeared dressed in his hero costume "Hey Athena…What's with the…" Harry looked up to now see the lanky suited hero known as Sir Nighteye. "Fuck. Fuck several kinds of duck."

"Harry, what did you do? You don't look so happy to see him."

"Because I may or may not have told him to shove his quirk up his arse, stop stalking me and actually do some hero work. Then I might have insinuated…"

"That I can't pick up a woman because I'm too busy taking sucking of the Cult of All Might and a woman hearing about their future is not a goodway to pick someone up." Nighteye replied "Baraquiel, despite our…disagreements about heroism, I need your help."

"You need MY help? Or you screwed the pooch, can't blame yourself, thus have come to me to bail your so-called future obsessed self out." Baraquiel growled.

The blue-skinned sidekick bristled "How can you say that! Sir, is an incredible hero!"

"Didn't ask you, Blinkered. Nighteye is a decent enough hero, but cannot accept his quirk alone; making a case it doesn't make." At that moment All Might arrived, chest convulsing and breathing ragged with blood a steady river into a handkerchief.

"Mirai, Enough! Baraquiel, Stand Down!" Rasped Toshinori, wheezing akin to a dead man that he near enough resembled.

"All Might, please, explain why all of you have descended shouting and acting like schoolchildren." Aizawa grouched unfurling his capture scarf.

"My son signed an NDA, about something and for the past three weeks…he's changed. He's normally a happy go lucky, healthy as an ox and as powerful as one; but recently he's been unable to go through an evening or a meal with me without throwing up and with it blood. My apologies heroes, I am Togata Obake. Togata Mirio's father, can you help him?"

Seamus stepped forwards and placed his hands on Mirio's shoulders "Sonic resonance: Body Scan!" With that the vibrations of energy washed over Mirio, Seamus's quirk not only blasted out soundwaves, akin to Jiro's but he could also launch unobtrusive waves to function as a hybrid of X-Rays and Radar.

"He's scanning your son for any traditional abnormalities, like viruses, infections etc. We believe you, but, we have to be thorough." Harry explained as Obake nodded jerkily.

"Do you have a plan?"

"I do, Togata-san, rest assured it'll be a most joyous plan for everyone and all…except the Salesman…because he's the one at fault for all of this."

"Excuse me!"

Harry's temper snapped, and the air around them bristled with static electricity as lightning began to circulate around them. Nighteye was sure enough to notice the lightning beginning to crackle at Harry's fingertips. "You barrel into my house, demand my help and then all you've done is obfuscate, now my colleague and friend is investigating the problem and you're getting twitchy. You getting twitchy, makes me twitchy, I dislike getting twitchy especially when I'm too close to my kids. So I shall ask you this only once, Salesman, what are you hiding?"

Mirai Sasaki gulped "My Intern's Quirk mutated."

"Forcibly mutated, Baraquiel, the kid's suffering from Quirk Poisoning. Quite frankly it's good news that the kid is even breathing; this is possibly the worst case of QP that I've seen save for the time you overdosed and went Baraquiel of the White Lightning." Seamus chimed in.

"White Lightning, really, Seamus? I'll ask you about that later. Quirk Poisoning…that's really not good. It's more common than people expect; it's a side-effect of generational quirk marriages, since they're more or less non-existent everyone assumed quirk poisoning had faded away, only to reappear with potent quirk emergencies, I had quirk poisoning…not fun."

Toshinori gulped "What are the other ways Quirk Poisoning can manifest?"

Hermione closed her eyes momentarily "Not quite sure but theoretically transference of quirks can…or could. But I've not found any hard evidence that transferable quirks even exist." She caught Harry's eye "I've learnt my lesson, don't take anything written down as gospel."

Izuku cocked his head "How so, Athena-san?"

Hermione chuckled "I can see why Harry, foisted you to me…Allow me to formally introduce myself, Hermione Granger, Knowledge/Eidetic Hero: Athena."

The teen's eyes widened and a grin formed on their faces "Athena-san, I'm Midoriya Izuku and these are my friends, Jiro Kyoka, Yaoyorozu Momo and Todoroki Shoto…We have many questions, specifically…"

"About my surrogate little brother, I will gladly answer them but first Midoriya, Baraquiel asked me to perform some tests on you; with consent of course."

Aizawa raised an eyebrow "What sort of tests? I'm to be his step-father…"

Hermione let out a sigh "A physical, a few blood tests, MRI, CAT Scan, a Quirk Central Scan. Some things non-invasive and a few invasive ones."

"And your reasoning?"

"Baraquiel is onto something, to stop him from inflaming a situation or help him get into the driver's seat of the next big crisis that has him freaking the fuck out."

Yagi looked at his former sidekick and sighed "I was originally Quirkless, born to parents of moderate strength and durability quirks in a quirk marriage. My body was physically durable and I was able to pose as a student with moderate enhanced physical quirk without much difficulty; I wanted to be a hero who could save everyone and my Masters, Shimura Nana and Torino Sorahiko scoffed initially, this was at the beginning of the decline of the homo sapien regularis and the beginning of the spike of homo sapien superior or homo superior."

"In non-science speak?" Chimed in Jiro.

"Human Beings and Human Beings with Quirks. Homo Sapien, a quirkless person and person with a quirk." Todoroki replied, his throat tightening.

Yagi nodded "I was given a quirk, a Sacred Torch, passed from one bearer to the next, gathering strength from the previous wielder; with one specific goal. To face the greatest evil known to all mankind, a man with a unique quirk."

Aizawa was connecting the dots as was Hermione and the rest of the adults with Izuku paling as he did so. Harry meanwhile seemed unphased by the revelations. Fuyumi wrapped herself around him "You worked this out?"

"I did. Guesswork, educated guesswork, but still…to actually hear this." He murmured. Everyone turned grey as All Might explained his witnessing of his Successors Death and his own brutal fight with All-For-One.

Yagi looked absolutely torn, for nearly four decades of his life; he'd dedicated himself to keeping the existence of One-For-All and All-For-One a secret. Now, he was faced with an emotion he'd never faced before; anger, he was so angry and not just at Nighteye but also at the Foreign Heroes who'd managed to put him on the back foot and were now telling him to reveal everything. What was worse, Harry didn't seem too surprised at all at the revelations.

"You don't seem too surprised, Baraquiel." Nighteye stated.

"I worked out the most recent events, starting with Shimura Nana with Yagi disappearing, there were more than a few pictures found and got themselves circulated around Britain. We were busy dealing with our own problem, by the name of the Leeching Villain: Lord Voldemort, also known as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, You-Know-Who, The Dark Lord, The Leech Lord and Leech; in essence, he tried to kill me when I was an infant and then tried to kill me until I was Seventeen, after temporarily killing me, we fought for the eight and final time and I killed him. The fact that All-For-One has survived for so long until All Might's Black Ops fight reminded me of Riddle. The fact that none of All Might's backup didn't confirm All-For-One's body or ensures the man had died, makes me think and consider in the view as an expert specialist in this type of villain, he's still alive probably just as injured as All Might or maybe worse."

Inko gulped "And you want my son, to take up the power of One-For-All, Baraquiel, my little boy to be the one to finish it?" She had started weakly but finished with a voice of iron.

"No, Inko, I don't. I'd much rather he didn't take up the power of One-For-All with the power of the seven quirks it now possesses. Unfortunately, your son is the only one who can. There is a short list of people with the capacity to take on the quirk, a shorter list of those that I can trust to wield power, an even shorter list of people that I'd want to have this power and a list of one name of someone who I think could use it, make it his own and take it beyond the level that All Might has…your son, is the only person who could take it, the only one who would take it and the only one who should. Although it is firmly up to him." Harry stated, sinking onto his knees "I'd have stepped up in a heartbeat to wield it regardless of my circumstances…before…I gained shared custody of my godson, when I met Fuyumi and if offered I'd refuse."

"And now?" Shoto asked.

Harry locked eyes with the youngest in-law "Even more reason to turn it down, little brother. I cannot promise Fuyumi that I'll even survive as a hero to be a father to my children, but I promised, I'd do whatever it took to stack the cards of fate in my favour so I'd return home safe. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a job to do to fulfil that order."

(That evening)

Touya sat on top of a building observing the compound that he'd been staking out for at least two weeks; in his time observing it, he had accounted for thirty armed-guards, eighteen disposable clockwork heroes of the HPSC and the building. It was a heavily fortified structure designed to be extra-ordinarily weather resistant, the security cameras appeared to be top-of-the-range, probably with 8k resolution linked to silent alarms. He hadn't been able to get inside but he predicted laser trip-webs and pressure sensors with more armed guards.

"You're late, brother, I thought I'd have to do this solo."

"Solo, no, this was always going to be a two-man job. The HPSC will be expecting a quirked assault on the complex. They wouldn't expect a duo armed with non-quirked equipment." The newcomer stated.

Touya chuckled "So we're getting in, taking how much Composite X exactly?"

"Enough for eight people, remember, Touya we're not looking for the tempered Composite X which is the normal material handed out to Heroes; we're after the untempered Composite X."

Touya chuckled "What's the difference?"

"Tempered has a threshold cutting off those with elemental quirks from using the full range of their abilities; untempered allows us to make a suit akin to a second-skin…if you're going undercover, I want you at full strength to make your cover."

"We're burning moonlight, let's get this done."