Disclaimer: I own none of this. Soul Eater was created by Ohkubo Atsushi, whereas My Hero Academia is produced by Horikoshi Kōhei.
Quirks. A few centuries ago that would typically mean minor oddities in an object or personality, but it all changed in the mid 2000s. In Qing Qing, China, a child was born with the ability of passive bioluminescence, one that marked a turning point in society across the globe. The glowing baby was soon followed by an ever-increasing number of people born with their own powers, known at first as meta-abilities.
Within a century a not insignificant amount of the earth was populated with these power bearers, and chaos had consumed many countries as the laws initially put in place to control these powers grew oppressive. Many turned to crime, revelling in the power their meta-abilities gave them. However more still used these same powers to help, kind-hearted vigilantes that apprehended the newly formed villains.
While the governments were reforming, it was agreed by everyone to incorporate these vigilantes, making a new form of civil servant career, the heavily idolised professional heroes. With that a new age was cemented, an age of heroes, and meta-abilities came to be known as 'Quirks' in order to distance society from the recent dark age. And so life carried on.
Then, over a hundred and thirty years after this mass restructuring a man graduated from one of the subsequent hero academies that would rock the world. A man that bore a responsibility handed down to him by his master, that bore a strength forged by over half a dozen people over the better part of two hundred years to kill a monster that society will probably never know exists, that possessed the determination to achieve the impossible.
This man is Yagi Toshinori, the monument to the era of peace he near single-handedly ushered in better known by the public as all might, and this is… not his story.
Got you there, didn't I? No, the journey of the symbol of peace is best left for another time, however it does set the stage for the true focus of our story, a boy by the name of Midoriya Izuku. Someone cut from the same cloth as and inspired by all might, he would rise up past trials and tribulations to become the number one hero, going through adventures along with his class on the way!
"Yeah, Tsubasa is kind of a quack," the doctor explained, "he's a nice guy, but he has this old fashioned belief in the more mercurial facets of quirk science. There's actually been a couple of studies into what correlation the extra toe joint has to an active quirk factor, and the answer is basically nothing except that it appears in every single user of an energy quirk without fail, your son being no exception."
Here the doctor turned to the wall mounted screen and played a video. In it they see him performing a number of tasks: throwing a ball, running around a track, sit-ups and other activities commonly used when doing a standard physical assessment. After that they measured the amount of force he could put into an action. Then they had him repeat everything, however this time a spectral, waving smoke emanated from his arms and legs.
There were a couple of other noticeable differences however, foremost was the increase that the child had made, as well as the lack of fatigue. He ran further for longer, threw the ball further, all his physical parameters had increased to about double. The second was the visible rythmic pulsing that appeared in the air around the smoke.
"From what we can tell, the energy seems to emit a wavelength that your son perceives to be almost like music depending on what he's using it for. He already had access to two patterns, one for physical enhancement and one for his senses, however he noticed one of our nurses dealing with a migraine and healed her. So, you want to reveal how you knew she was in pain?" He asked, addressing the child next to his mother.
Izuku was an exceptionally kind child, and despite his intelligence had a fairly simple thought process. So when he was asked that, he responded equally simply. "Her song was off," he stated.
"Her song?" His mother Inko questioned.
"Mhm! Everyone sounds different, but I can tell when someone's song is off, and that means they're hurt. So I kinda used my song to replace the 'off' notes by copying it and made the song better, which made her better!" The boy exclaimed happily.
"Hm, well that is interesting then. Now, do you know what you want to call your quirk?" The doctor asked with a smile. In response the youngest Midoriya ran over to the desk to grab a dictionary, flipping through it as his quirk activated on its own and wisps of smoke appeared around his eyes. Stopping on one, he read the word description and grinned.
Midoriya Izuku
Quirk: wavelength
A couple of years later our resident green bean was walking home from the park when he heard a song that, if he had to describe, sounded almost broken. Over the last three years he'd worked on his quirk with the enthusiasm expected of a child with superpowers. He'd used his enhancement and sensory 'Melodies' so often that the smoke showing wasted power had disappeared, and he almost always had the latter on.
Things hadn't been all good, as Izuku had also had a falling out with his former friend, Bakugo Katsuki. The blonde had regarded his ability as a 'pansy's quirk', and generally took offence to him still wanting to be a hero. It was to the point that Bakugo distorted the meaning of the green haired boy's name to create the insult Deku, meaning useless.
Moving back to the present, a sense of urgency came upon the wavelength manipulator, chasing the discordant tune to an alleyway where he found something that caused his heart to leap into his throat: a black cat lay slumped against the wall, side bleeding and gouged. Immediately Izuku dropped to his knees and started using Wavelength to heal them, but he knew it wouldn't work completely, so he attempted something he'd only vaguely thought of.
Pulling on more Wavelength energy, he essentially 'pinged' it off of the cat's Song to amplify it, before reaching from within and pushed! All at once a blue bubble of power emanated from his body to surround Izuku and the cat, a technique he called Maestro expansion. Using this, the green haired boy subconsciously reached further in his attempt to heal the feline, to dormant quirk factors in its DNA and activating them, resulting in a not insignificant effect.
Once the cat was healed, Izuku let the expansion drop and yawned widely. That technique was really draining on his reserves at the best of times, and this was not the best of times. Feeling something impact his hand gently, he looked down and smiled at the purring cat headbutting his hand. Giving the feline a scratch behind the ears, he got up and continued home.
…Only to notice a certain black furred cat following him. "You want to come with me, huh?" He chuckled, getting a 'mrrp!' in response. Giggling at their enthusiasm, Izuku picked the cat up. "Okasan has been thinking about getting a pet, but you'll need a name. How about, Blair?"
Another three years passed, and a lot happened. Bakugo's attitude got worse, for one, devolving from his already brash countenance to little more than a constantly angry bully who used his quirk on others. This came in direct conflict with Izuku's helpful nature and resulted in more than one clash between the two, clashes that the green haired usually won due to the utility of his quirk and analytical abilities.
Speaking of which, Izuku had made a number of leaps and insights on Wavelength, thanks in part to Blair. As it turned out using Maestro Expansion had an unforeseen effect on the cat, that being she gained the ability to use wavelength, to an extent. While she could use the basic sense and strength Melodies, she couldn't use the healing one. In exchange, she got a technique that Izuku couldn't use: that being the ability to turn into a pair of linked chain scythes.
The first time the cat did this, both Midoriyas freaked out, only calming down once she turned back to normal. Along with this and Blair's instinctual use of Wavelength resulted in the pair creating a few new techniques. The first of these was Soul Menace, which used the friction between the user and victim's Songs to create a pseudo-electrical charge and a wave of concussive force, stunning the enemy.
Another much more prominent one was Soul Resonance, which was based on the amplification trick Izuku used when he was healing Blair. Izuku would send his wavelength into blair while in weapon form, who would immediately do the same, repeating this until their wavelengths were fully synchronised. When that happened blair would transform, glowing brightly as her scythe blades elongated and tilted to run closer to parallel with the handles, to behave similarly to swords.
These skills would come in handy, when as they were going home from training they heard an unholy screech! Instinctually Izuku dodged to the side, Blair turning into her weapon form in the boy's hands. In front of them was a man, although it would make sense if you didn't believe that at first: he looked completely feral, mouth twisted into a hideous snarl, while his eyes held a terrifying madness.
Paying more attention, Izuku noticed a number of things: the mans' clothes were meant for someone notably smaller, his pale grey skin made the pitch black veins along the visible parts of his body stand out more, and the monstrous claws extending from his fingers had blood running down them from those same digits drew him to a few possible conclusions for what was happening.
First was that he was being affected by a quirk awakening that had sent him into a feral state, possible but unlikely. His clothes, the tie especially, indicated that he was some kind of businessman, and that shouldn't put him in a state where his quirk would evolve in such a manner.
The second theory izuku had was that whoever this was was under the influence of some sort of control quirk. More likely than the first, he considered as he dodged some swipes from his spontaneous combatant, but not by much. Quirks like that usually had a distance or visibility limit, and he'd never heard of one that could also alter the body before.
That left him with the last option, that this guy was being affected by a drug not unlike Trigger, possibly being unlucky enough to just get hit with a dart of the stuff on the way home. It would explain the feral behaviour, the apparent transformation, as well as the blackened veins. Of course, there was also the issue of how to get him to stop, but luckily Izuku and Blair had been working on something in case they had to fight someone on trigger.
"Blair, Phase Resonance!" Izuku ordered the moment they got a second to breathe. Starting the change, Blair shined with light as her scythe blades twisted and lengthened, now closer resembling linked swords. With a cry izuku charged forwards, ducking through the claws and slashed clean through his enemy, flaring Expansion at the moment of contact. The energy bubble blackened and cracked as Izuku left to obscure the man within, before it broke apart like ribbons to reveal a normal man with no obvious injuries and a floating red orb.
Phase Resonance was a technique that they made to remove a substance from a person's body, primarily to help power down trigger users. Izuku and Blair had been practising on trees by getting rid of fungal infections, but it had never had a reaction like creating a hitodama-like object before. Before Izuku could theorise more, Blair returned to her cat form, leapt up and swallowed the ball whole. After freaking out for a moment, Izuku made sure that Blair was okay, then set the man up against a wall, wrote a note for the heroes and left.
Later a pair of detectives showed up to the Midoriya household to get the younger member's statement, after scolding him for leaving an incident without permission, regardless of whether or not there wasn't anyone around.
As it turned out, Izuku's theory was entirely correct, the man had been shot with a dart that contained a dangerous cocktail of drugs that transformed the body and put them into a berserker-like state. The result stays in the body, and if there's too little in said body it causes terrible withdrawal symptoms. People had been getting shot with them for the last few weeks, and the police dubbed the substance 'Kishin Egg'.
However, by removing the entirety of the drug in one fell swoop and knocking the body out to recuperate, Izuku managed to circumvent the addictiveness factor. It had been a theorised solution, but no-one had the right quirk or tech to pull it off. The senior detective, Tsukauchi Naomasa, chuckled when izuku said he wanted to be a hero and said that he should look into making a contract to help Kishin Egg victims, as it would look great on his highschool application. The man was leaving, so he missed Izuku's contemplative look at the joke.
And that is what he did. For a year he worked on perfecting the Phase Resonance Melody, both the original one for when Izuku and Blair ran into the occasional Kishin Egg victim on a rampage, and a one person version that doesn't look like he's trying to kill someone. Then he approached the police about healing the contained victims. They were understandably not pleased at a child doing a job meant for adults, however they still hadn't found a way to do it themselves, and accepted the offer.
So for the next three years after that, Izuku and Blair worked on dealing with the Kishin Egg victims with the police, getting supervised combat experience while doing so. When the verdant boy asked why they went along with it, a nearby officer laughed and explained that they got reports of vigilantism from kids around his age that were impatient to get into heroism, and it was refreshing to find someone who at least tried to go down a proper route. That the ones healed in fights were recouping slightly better didn't hurt either.
Naturally when Bakugo heard about this arrangement, he spent half his time around Izuku insulting the calmer boy about working with the police and the other half bitching to anyone who'd listen that he couldn't do the same, despite Midoriya's work being mostly healing people and paperwork. In other words, something that the blonde couldn't do and the most mind numbing task known to man.
Despite the odd dissonance between the Explosion quirk user's mouth and his test scores, by the time their third year at middle school began Izuku had a distinct school friend count of nill. However this was fine with him, he had friends at the police station, and he'd even gotten to meet some Pro Heroes and get their autographs for his analysis journals. But even without them, he had Blair.
On the topic of Blair, it turned out she was eating those hitodama for a reason. They boosted her wavelength reserves, and whenever she ate a hundredth one she developed a new, cat themed ability. Because of this she was able to equalise the reserve difference between them, which made their Soul Resonance easier and stronger.
She'd also learnt how to manifest her scythe blades and chain through her tail resulting in her resembling a nekomata. While they hadn't seen combat yet, it was better safe than sorry, and thus Blair was regularly practising so she could control them properly.
And that brings us to today, as the homeroom teacher walked through the door, carrying a stack of papers. "Good morning class, I hope you had a nice weekend," the man started. "Now a couple of things. First, we have a new transfer. If you could come in and introduce yourself?" He asked, and in through the door came a girl with blue and pink hair and purple eyes. She had clear muscle definition while remaining lithe, which added to her looks, and her expression was an odd mix of dissatisfaction and hope.
"Hi, I'm Tsutsumi Kaina, I hope we get along." She introduced in a low voice that indicated she didn't particularly care either way. Ironically, this cemented the opinions of the simps that immediately started crushing on her, which was the opposite of the girl's intention.
"Perfect. If you could sit near the back, there's a spare seat." She nodded and took the seat one across from the window, to the right of Izuku. "Now, I've got here your career documents, that you should have filled out seriously… but we all know that you lot want to be Heroes!" He cheered, throwing the papers into the air. The class responded by cheering right back and showing off their quirks. Only three people didn't: Izuku and Tsutsumi because unpermitted quirk use was against the law and their quirks particularly were very noticeable, and a certain blonde Pomeranian because he was gearing up to stroke his own ego.
"Yes yes, you've all got very impressive quirks, however if you could all settle down-" was all the teacher got out before a foot slammed into a desk, accompanied by the sound of a chair scraping across the floor.
"Oi teach! Ya might as well stop encouraging these extras, they'd be lucky to make it as a sidekick to some nobody C-lister!" Bakugo snarked, provoking a wide array of insults to be thrown his way, but he just smirked. "Complain all you want, it doesn't matter. Meanwhile, I have enough raw talent, skill and instinct to surpass All Might as number one, and because of that I even aced the UA mock exams!"
During this little rambling of pure arrogance, Tsutsumi leaned to her left and muttered, "so is it normally like lis or is today just hectic?"
Izuku snorted and replied with, "this is actually fairly tame by his standards. Izuku Midoriya by the way, and this little one is Blair." He held the quirk wielding cat up.
Taken aback by the feline in the classroom, she took a second to reorient herself. "Nice to meet you both, I guess. But why do you have a cat with you-"
"Oh, Midoriya and Tsutsumi are also applying to UA." The teacher commented offhandedly. Izuku sighed while Tsutsumi looked indignant at having personal information read out loud for everyone to hear; it doesn't matter that they would have found out at some point, that's an offence and she knew it!
"So, it's going to be one of those days, huh?" Izuku groaned. At Tsutsumi's confused look he drew himself up to explain, before an enraged "DEKUUU!" cut him off. Groaning again, the green haired teen slammed his head down on the desk, aware that Blair was poking his head with her paw.
"Hey, so what was that guy on about back in class?" Tsutsumi questioned Izuku. It was after school, and the pair had discovered that they lived in the same apartment building. So the pair were walking together and talking about whatever came to mind.
"Well, Bakugo has had this weird combination of superiority and inferiority complex since we were like, four of five." Izuku explained. "He believes he's better than everyone else while denying the existence of other people's progress consciously, but subconsciously recognises that same progress which causes him to try and stamp it out. When my quirk first manifested, it was definitely useful but my way of describing it used a lot of music analogies, so he labelled it a pansy's quirk and left it at that. It still does, thinking about it."
"That was… certainly in depth." Tsutsumi sweatdropped. "How did you figure all that out anyway, did you ask his therapist or something?"
"Hm? Oh no, Bakugo doesn't go to therapy, regardless of how much he should. I found a psychology book in the library one time and committed it to memory, since emotional and mental state is really important for a couple of my techniques, and in general if we're being honest."
Before they could continue, a massive explosion occurred from a few blocks away, leaving a sense of foreboding. The pair shared a look, before running in the direction of the smoke.
Okay, so maybe running towards what was likely a villain attack (they were right) wasn't their brightest idea, but it resulted in them getting trained by ALL MIGHT! That was more than worth the risk. Plus, how could they have guessed that he could transfer his quirk!? That was crazy!
On a morning where All Might (whose real name was Yagi Toshinori) had sent a message saying that he wouldn't be where they usually trained that day, Izuku decided to broach a subject that he thought might be touchy. "So… you want to talk about why you flinch whenever you hear the name of Yagi's quirk?"
Predictably, the rifle-quirked woman stiffened, before she sighed and dropped her shoulders. Giggling a little, she responded with, "you know what? Sure, but this'll take a fair amount of context so we may as well take our break now." Nodding, Izuku put down the truck tires he was carrying and they went to sit on the steps. "Alright, so to begin, I was approached by the HPSC during elementary school. They monitor the systems for orphans with strong quirks, and Rifle is certainly strong, I'll admit that much."
Curling her arms around her knees she continued. "They offered me a fast track to becoming a pro hero, specialised training, custom diet plans, the works. Naturally, being eager to help people, I signed whatever they put in front of me. I read it all of course, I'm not an idiot. It's only the fact that I read everything properly and some dumb luck that saved me."
Kaina's shoulders started shaking, from rage or fear of barely missed danger Izuku couldn't tell, but he pulled her into a side-on hug regardless. "Their little project," she hissed, "was to make child soldiers. They'd take in orphan kids, train them up, have them displayed as the poster children for the commission, and all the while they'd give covert missions that the public didn't know about: a villain about to commit terrorism here, a corrupt hero there, all of them dead…"
Here the emotion got too much for her, curling up into the boy's side a bit more. "...There was a clause in the contract, that said that I could back out so long as I didn't sign another one at the beginning of highschool, and the HPSC couldn't complain. I got lucky, I heard two commission agents talking about how there were likely going to be more elimination missions because of, and I quote, 'that two hundred year old quirk stealing son of a syphilis ridden whore All for One'. I figured out what that meant and opted out of the program, saying it didn't feel fair to have such an advantage over my peers."
Leaning back, Izuku looked at the cloudy sky. "Hm. So, the HPSC are somewhere between corrupt and straight up evil, and we probably have a super centennial quirk thief, possibly with a ludicrously high body count, as some sort of destined nemesis based on the name? Jesus, what's my life, an anime?"
Kaina pulled away to look at the other teen, disbelief written across her face. "Seriously, that's your reaction?! And what do you mean 'we' have a nemesis? You're the one getting one for all."
Izuku chuckled heartily, bringing the woman back into a hug and getting a red flush in response. "Well that's easy Kaina, we're a team! You can't get rid of me that easily! However, even with one for all I doubt we'd be strong enough to face all for one, so I've just come up with a couple of ideas. Starting off, how would you feel about wielding Wavelength?"
"Blair!" Izuku yelled, "Hold the heap of scrap metal!" The last seven months had been busy to say the least. Upon Kaina revealing her past, with Izuku reciprocating later that day, the pair moved to given names, growing closer by the day. Their enthusiasm to get their designated task done was greatly increased by the two hanging out in all their free time, until they were basically dating without realising it.
Izuku's plan to give his best friend access to Wavelength worked brilliantly, giving Kaina the power to transform fully into a rifle alongside it. While a decent shot, the verdant teen was nowhere near the crazy level of accuracy Kaina had, with them needing to use Soul Resonance in order to get anywhere close to that skill. However, Kaina's full rifle form wasn't without benefits. For one, the form possessed a massive increase in firepower, and using Wavelength bullets meant that they couldn't potentially run out.
When the time came for Izuku to receive one for all, Kaina laughed her ass off at the fact that he had to eat all might's hair. In celebration, they decided to hang out at the apartment she'd leveraged out of the HPSC, and in a spur of the moment decision that might have resulted in him getting hit, kissed Kaina on the cheek. This didn't result in bodily harm however, merely them both turning into tomatoes and their relationship status going from dating but not realising to dating. Inko thought it was adorable when she heard about it.
The interesting part happened when the pair were sucked into one for all when they were having a nap, Resonance's bond apparently enough to get someone else in there. The shock that the ancient quirk had hit the singularity was almost immediately one upped by the fact that as a result of the sudden boost in power they got, the two humans and Blair now looked closer to young adults than teenagers so they could cope. Speaking of Blair, she gained the ability to take on a very attractive, very developed, very naked human form. Which they discovered when they woke up with her lying on them.
All of these facts were largely irrelevant however, as currently they were facing down a giant robot during the UA entrance exam. A logistical error with the paperwork meant that Kaina and Izuku were in the same area, while Blair was just a cat even with her new human transformation, and simply followed them because she had nothing better to do. Now wearing casual jeans and a t-shirt, that cat nodded and began to glow as yellow Wavelength energy poured off of her.
"Cat-astrophic binding!" she called out, turning into a massive amount of chains to trap the zero pointer in place. She left the head open however, knowing that her partners would be aiming there as she waited for two words.
"SOUL RESONANCE!"
"Hi, I'm Midoriya Izuku, and my quirk used to be called wavelength, but after an awakening I changed it to Soul Symphony. I like learning about music and medicine, and I hope we get along." Izuku introduced himself. It was the first day of class in 1B, and they'd just gotten done with joining 1A's quirk assessment.
One for all had done more than make them look older and give all three wavelength users major power boosts. Izuku got a new level to his Melodies, signalled by blocky white lines appearing and rotating around his head. The new technique that he called 'Sanzu Lines', let him use versions of the Melodies that were several times stronger than the originals, but it was straining to use, to the point where maintaining it for ten minutes felt like he'd been doing full body workouts nonstop for hours.
Because of this new bonus however he managed to snag third place, just barely being beaten by Yaoyorozu Momo and Todoroki Shouto from 1A, and just above Kaina, whose ridiculously tailored training regimen let her pass the baseline norm fairly consistently. Bakugo nearly had a fit, as was his wont to do, about not being first place, before remembering his teacher's no nonsense attitude and clamming up.
The next day they were doing battle simulations as separate classes, and as those that wanted to work together could choose their partners, the wonder team of Izuku and Kaina made their first official appearance. Their opponents, Shoda Nirengeki and Kamakiri Togaru, had very interesting utility options, but their options were reliant on them having greater endurance or the home field advantage. While they had the latter, the villain team lacked the former as well as surveillance options.
When the match began, Kaina retreated to a building on the other side of the road while Izuku used Maestro Expansion to engulf the building in his energy. This didn't actually have an offensive use in this instance, however it did make them antsy. When the fight-junky Kamakiri responded to their predictions by searching for a fight, Izuku distracted him by a window so Kaina could hit the insectoid looking boy with a custom capture bullet.
When Shoda went to investigate, the green haired teen knocked the other man out with a soul menace, ending the match handily and with minimal structural damage.
Their next week was calm as well, with the exception of the fuss some reporters made when they somehow broke in during lunch. They voted for class president, and ended up with Kendo, with Shoda acting as vice. Then over the weekend, the news covered a group of villains attacking 1A! Coupled with the televised sports festival coming up, everyone realised individually and together that if they wanted to deal with the immense pressure that UA's most famous event would bring in a month, they'd need to train like hell.
So that's what they all did. The entirety of hero class 1B gathered together to brainstorm as many ideas for everyone's quirks as possible, to develop strategies and optimise team dynamics and combo moves. They also worked individually on their quirks, bodies and minds. For an entire month, all spare time for twenty teenagers was spent honing their bodies, on preparing to tell the world that they were here!
"Aha! Now you talentless buffoon, feel the wrath of your own quirk's full potential!" Monoma yelled giddily. He'd seen the power behind the top scoring entrance examinee, and nearly salivated at the applications it could hold. Really, such a versatile quirk was wasted on someone like him, he'd likely barely scratched the surface of it's potential, probably using it for flashy shows of power and giving arbitrary, minor power boosts.
Firing up Wavelength, Monoma shot towards his opponent again, smoke trailing around his limbs as he brought out the true power of the barbarians quirk, and threw a devastating haymaker… only for it to do absolutely nothing except make the blonde feel like he'd just punched a brick wall. "Oh, that looked like it hurt. See, you might be under some misconceptions about my quirk, so let me give you some pointers." With this, Izuku took the top half of his tracksuit off, revealing the metallic dark grey of an active technique.
"First, that smoke is a sign of both you reaching your physical current limits and that you're wasting tons of energy. Next, what you are currently using is Wavelength, or a copy of it at least. Wavelength was an energy quirk that was best focussed in conjunction with others, also making it a 'meta-quirk'. I say was because three and a half months ago Wavelength awakened, becoming Soul Symphony, something that's energy aspect was focussed on during such. Like this technique, a subdermal variant of my recent Bass Barrier Melody."
Izuku grinned at the combined look of dawning apprehension and rage at his chiding tone. "Finally, there's the rather offensive assumptions that I wouldn't A. take my quirk to it's absolute pinnacle and beyond, and B. that I don't have precautionary measures for dealing with copy quirks. Now, let me help you Adjust!" With a roar, the Maestro meister slammed into place directly in front of Monoma, fist buried squarely in his gut as he crossed the forty feet the 1A student had put between them in an instant.
"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow."
"Seriously, what were you thinking, bleeding yourself like that!" Recovery Girl cried with another whack to Izuku's noggin. When the teen had stumbled in looking anemic she knew that whatever his explanation was it would be stupid, but bleeding himself in order to make quirk conducting carbon steel for new weapons!? That was the kind of stuff that she'd expect out of that buffoon Yagi!
"In my defence, the only reason I didn't come sooner is because otherwise the blood would have spoiled. Admittedly it smells like that regardless, but that's life I suppose." Izuku replied drunkenly. "Hey RG, do you mind taking some pictures? I'm sure Kaina will get a laugh out of them once she stops kicking my ass."
"How much carbon steel did you even make? On top of that, how did you make it, because you make it sound like you were using a forge?" The miracle of UA asked. Thinking on it and considering Nedzu's insanity with UA's equally mad budget, it wouldn't surprise her if-
"I did make it in a forge." Even while sounding like he had a concussion, RG could hear the pride in Izuku's voice. "I fused the iron with my blood by using it as the quenching coolant, and then putting the metal back in the forge and folding it and repeating. And I made enough is all I'll say. However I feel it'll be worth it."
"So, what did you do during your work placement, Midoriya?" Tokage asked. The class was on a bus, heading towards a training zone to do their finals, and they were allowed to use their costumes. Izuku's consisted of an extremely durable suit, made of a special combination of graphene and kevlar, under a white trench coat which contained a number of support items like capture foam grenades or a special pair of gloves he hoped to test.
Tokage's by contrast was much simpler, being a purple scale patterned bodysuit and a matching domino mask. "Well I stayed here. I spent most of my spare time on a personal project and repeatedly got smacked upside the head by RG on account of it being a dumbass move, then this old guy called Gran Torino showed up and I trained with him. I say trained, it was closer to him beating the shit out of me 'till I put up a challenge."
"Uh.. huh."
"Next up, Ida, Komori, Midoriya, Ojiro and Shishida please step forwards." When the respective students did so, Vlad King continued. "Now this isn't timed, but your scores will give us an idea on how much each of you need to improve on mobility. When the buzzer sounds, you'll all need to head in the direction of all might, on that building got it?"
"Yes sensei!" they replied in unison. When the signal went off, so did the potential heroes! Shishida launched into his bestial form and started swinging between pipes and walls like a chimpanzee, Ojiro used his tail as a spring, Ida used the engines in his legs to rocket through, and Komori grew giant mushrooms to use as jump pads!
Izuku however, put on a pair of gloves and said two words that his 1B classmates knew by heart, followed by two new command words. "Soul Resonance Remnant: Lariat!" The gloves transformed, growing to cover the entire forearm and developing armoured bracers, while the fingers of the gloves unravelled up to the first knuckle, gaining metal plates and other reinforcement on the backs of Izuku's hands.
Then it was revealed where the material for the fingers went as the strings they had formed lit up in a contradictory glow of black energy, outlined in green. From there Izuku launched himself into the air, pulling himself along at high velocity with the strings similarly to a certain pre-quirk comic hero.
Midoriya ended up getting second place to Shishida, and when he was asked the teen explained that the Remnant ability was complicated, but it was meant for if he wasn't able to work with Blair or Kaina but couldn't accomplish something with just his wavelength control. In reality, while this reasoning was true, remnant was actually a way to channel the quirks in one for all using the carbon steel he'd made during the internships in support gear. As a bonus it let Kaina and Blair use them as well, as it only took wavelength control to use.
A week after their finals, class 1B were getting out of their bus onto the cliffside. Their homeroom teacher was acting disturbingly Aizawa-like, and it was putting them on edge. When half of the Wild Wild Pussycats drove up with a kid that feeling got worse, none who felt it more so than Kaina, Izuku and Blair, who came with them because she'd been feeling left out.
Thus, no one was all that surprised when Pixie-bob launched them down the mountain using her quirk. The dirt monsters were a shock, but mostly in regards to the blonde woman's range. Two hours later, they arrived at the cabin, the less focussed on class' constant training giving them a distinct advantage. The fact that the wavelength users also boosted their abilities with a massive teamwise resonance helped immensely.
Then that kid, who they'd found out was Mandalay's nephew named Kouta, cemented his place as the class' favourite brat when he punched Monoma in the balls. Honestly they got where the blonde teen was coming from, as despite how difficult they were to use copy quirks were looked down upon as cheating, but his issues in regards to the two classes resulted in him being nigh on insufferable.
If the hero course were asked to describe the training camp, the answers would range from painful, to mind numbing. Everyone had been put through another quirk assessment to gauge how far they'd grown, before getting started on specialised training that put their bodies and quirks through gruelling strain. Everyone's training was suited for their quirks, although some had commonalities. Blair laughed at first, until she was dragged into Izuku's training, which was to work on his Maestro Expansion and Lines of Sanzu.
their task was to 'impart their will' onto the designated area. Specifically, they had to impart effects on things in the range of his Expansion, which would give each of them an edge in close combat. Quite why the teachers had accepted a sentient transforming cat on this school trip was unknown, but Nezu was almost definitely involved. Izuku had a bit extra to do however, as he'd noticed that as he activated the Lines of Sanzu each time, the bottom-most one would get longer, gradually wrapping around his head like a halo.
He theorised that if he could 'complete' the line then at least part of the strain from enhancing him and his Melodies would disappear, possibly even letting him form more than the current three, each one being able to enhance a single Melody at a time. This also raised the question of whether the other lines would begin the same process after the first.
Blair, however, had it moderately easier. Leaning on the witch theme and altering the Bass Barrier Melody that Izuku had taught both other Wavelength users, she produced an entire pumpkin themed house inside her clearing-sized Maestro Expansion. The house had the additional quirk of cancelling out all abilities on or in the house against her. She called it her 'shack of nyafarious intent'. The name got her some chuckles later.
Izuku's training went both better and worse. He learnt that by keeping the Lines of Sanzu and Maestro expansion active at the same time, his Soul changed to have a skull mask on the front, as well as the Sanzu Lines that appeared after he gained the technique. The teen could feel that his quirk was trying to tell him something, but all he could tell was that his technique names and the mask had something to do with it. Knowing his luck, he'd probably figure it out in the middle of a fight or something.
"Goddamnit I hate being right." Izuku grumbled, Blair's weapon form cleaving through any in the way foliage. On a whim, Izuku had activated his perception Melody as a bit of a cheat sheet for the bravery trial, only to find a number of Songs that both radiated malicious intent and that he didn't recognise. Upon telling the staff about them, he noticed Kouta on the mountain right by the strongest Song, grabbed Blair and ran off in the direction of the two people.
Breaking through the treeline and onto the mountainside, Izuku caught sight of the looming figure over the kid and didn't think. Flaring the Lines of Sanzu and his strength Melody the verdant teen blitzed past the villain, picked up Kouta and got him out of range. Then, turning back towards his enemy he took note of everything. He was tall, easily passing seven feet, and had short blonde hair and a prosthetic eye. More than that though, there was something about the mania in his eye and his Song that unnerved him. It was like…
"Kishin Egg… you've taken Kishin Egg!" he exclaimed. Of all the responses he was expecting, laughter was not it.
"Ah, man that was good kid! Figures that the brat ruining our operations for the last couple of years would recognise it, but this batch is a tad better in a number of ways. For starters," he flexed and manifested a Maestro Expansion, but with the red glow and hexagonal patterns of Kishin Egg Hitodama. "We've been replicating you and your quirk, you little shit! Our new Kishin Asura can resist your Phase Resonance! On top of that, it comes with a neat trick called Madness wavelength. Mine's the madness of violence, want to guess what it does?"
Seeing that Izuku was shaken, Muscular decided to go for broke. "And the best part is that while it has to be taken willingly to work, Kishin Asura isn't technically a quirk and can't be suppressed like one, and it gets rid of the body's ability to go unconscious! In other words, if you want to take me down, little reaper, you're going to have to kill me! Think you're up for it?" Meanwhile Izuku was having an existential crisis.
Heroes didn't kill. That was the one rule that all kids grew up hearing about the industry. But that wasn't true, was it? After all, Kaina's past showed that the commission didn't care about death so long as it benefited them, and even All Might went into his fight with all for one prepared to kill him.
But it went beyond that. Death was an intrinsic part of the universe, in order to live a person must one day die. To go against that order… would be true madness. Slowly, one by one, the Lines of Sanzu materialised, before the first line wrapped fully around Izuku's head. "First Line of Sanzu: connected. Form of the First Reaper." he muttered softly, even as wavelength energy decimated the area around him. A skull mask appeared over part of his face.
In a flash, the teen was behind Muscular, Blair already in her Resonance state. "Soul Resonance, Witch Hunt." The signature corrupted bubble appeared around muscular, but when it broke there wasn't an unconscious man on the floor, only a Kishin Hitodama with a robotic looking right eye. Izuku looked at it sadly with his one visible eye, before reaching out and grabbing it. "Collect." In a flash the orb was gone, and the hero student looked at Kouta with a kind, calm smile. "Come on, let's get you to your aunt."
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Alright, I'm gonna leave it here. I wanted to go further, have this big epic fight with all for one, but trying to put a fight on paper is one of the biggest reasons why chapter eight isn't out yet. I can't write choreography to save my life, sorry. I'm also sorry for not posting this yesterday, but I fell asleep while writing.
So yeah, Izuku was a soul eater style meister. A fair bit of what I did was original, but with a magic system like Wavelength control, I wouldn't be surprised if a character actually did break out something like the Bass Barrier. I had a lot of fun thinking of the technique names, not gonna lie. This also had a bit of a darker tone than my last MHA story.
Izuku's inspiration for abilities had two main sources: death the kid, and Udyr from League of Legends. The latter is the one who inspired the bass barrier by the way. It wasn't meant to be a replication of Haki, the skintight Bass barrier was the W ability stance in Udyr's kit. Just thought I'd clarify.
I'm especially proud of how I worked Kishin Eggs and Blair into the story, although I do feel that I rushed the character development on the last snapshot. Speaking of Blair, I wanted a way to introduce the concept of demon weapons because Lady Nagant (best girl, fight me if you disagree) existed, but then I realised 'hey, how would Tsutsumi pull off a full conversion without wavelength, and how Would Izuku know this could be done?'
So then I had the idea of Izuku having a pet that he healed with wavelength to discover Resonance, or at least a bastardised version, and the pet developed powers. After that I just had to remember that Blair existed, and boom! Cat Girl with bonus powers!
The Kishin bit was actually easier, as I needed a way to power blair up with her Soul Eater powers, and there is no doubt in my mind that if a few sufficiently fucked up people with the right quirks got together, a drug that worked like a fusion of trigger and a nomufication drug could absolutely exist.
Anyway, there are a few other things I wanted to talk about, but I'll cut this short.
So until next time, where I'll hopefully be able to choreograph worth a damn!
Ja ne!