Chapter 13 lets do this! Before I begin let me put it on the record. Constructive criticism is GOOD. I want to make this story as good as possible and as I said in chapter 1 I'm not the best writer in the world so anything that can improved from a grammatical standpoint I'm all for it. Now this chapter is mainly ONE having different interactions and working, he'll gain info that will be relevant in future arcs and you'll see how people feel about his new app.


Chapter 13 What matters and new friends

The country was on fire the next morning. All over the news many outlets were reporting how Trigger was being secretly made and distributed from a warehouse owned by a well known and respected pharmaceutical company. A tip was called in by ONE who left unconscious guards, buyers for the drug and the ringleader for the authorities to find, along with a flash drive full of evidence. The authorities had been trying to get information on Trigger labs, buyers and supply chains for months and the evidence left by ONE gave them what departments all over the country were looking for and more. This led to the immediate investigation and exposure of secret labs all over the country as well as the arrest of hundreds of people involved. The media was having a field day with the fact that an illegal hero was once again able to do something pros and police could not.

It's been three days, Izuku had finished his morning training and was eating breakfast with his Mom. Inko was happy that her son had accomplished something that had such a domino effect. She was also happy that the tune in the media was shifting to a far more positive one since the aftermath of the attack on the city. He was happy, truly happy and it warmed her heart, he was doing good in school and he was living his dream, she was just so proud.

Izuku saw his mother smiling at him and while it didn't bother him it made him curious. "Hi mom, something you want to ask me?" he asked with a curious smile.

The mother simply nodded her head and smiled at him. "No, I'm just so proud of you Izuku. I remember how I felt when you told me you wanted to be this, I was so worried about how bad it could turn out. But you chased your dream and have done so many great things. You were so devastated when you were barred from the hero course but you didn't let it break you. You showed that you're strong and capable and you've helped a lot of people. You don't treat this like a game and it actually matters to you. Stay gold son."

Izuku smiled with pure joy. He loved his mother and everyday he was thankful for the mother he had. She was amazing, supportive and loving, she has always given him everything he's needed be it physical or emotional. "I will mom. I love you."

Their beautiful moment was interrupted by a sudden news report. "We have breaking news! There seems to be a new app going around and it appears to be run by the vigilante ONE." The greenettes turned to the TV to hear the report.

"That's right it looks like our local Illegal hero is doing a little branding." Said a female reporter. The Hero: ONE App came up on the screen and the reporter talked about the features that app entailed. Izuku liked this local news show as they talked about him the most. It was a team of three reporters, one woman and two men. One was Miko Fujioka, a beautiful woman with golden blonde hair, golden eyes with the whiskers, tail and ears of a fox. One of the men was Ken Katakuri, by far his biggest hater and critic. He also did a radio show where he took every chance he could to slam ONE, after the fight with Vaccine Man he was by far the loudest at making it clear it was all his fault. He's an older man with sharp features, slicked back gray hair and a lampshade mustache. The last one was Shuntaro Ugo, a handsome man with blue skin, blue eyes, shoulder length dark blue hair, whether he was ever on his side was hit or miss.

They began to have a discussion about the app as well as his recent activities.

Fujioka spoke first. "I'll be honest, when I first saw this I took it as a type of social media app but after really looking into it it's actually pretty smart on his end. What I mean by that is that this is a relatively good substitute for a hero agency, which I think THAT'S what it's supposed to be."

"Regardless of this app's true purpose, this is next level arrogance from him. We have a criminal and a menace telling the whole world YES I break the law, YES this is what I'm going to do, and would you please help me be better at it. THIS! Is not a hero! I ask the actual, truly responsible and upstanding citizens of society? Do not indulge in this app!" Katakuri exclaimed

Ugo went next. "While I can't agree with his "unprofessionalism" the results speak for themselves. He exposed a massive drug operation, many pros and police have been left holding an empty bag. The incident at UA, responding before any of the teachers could. I don't know what he'll do next but we've talked about him enough to know he's very efficient, and his way of investigating clearly works for him."

The older man narrowed his eyes at his colleague. "You're missing the point, Ugo! Because he's good he gets a pass on breaking every quirk law and hero regulation there is? We have pro heroes and police with credentials, authority and the ability to handle these situations! He breaks the law with impunity, big deal he's still a criminal. He is taking work for REAL heroes. I've spoken to several pro's on the record, they DO NOT like him. He hides behind a mask and he needs to be stopped because this app is liable to be a bigger thorn to real heroes. The public calls the police when a crime is committed they then send those reports to hero agencies, what do you think will happen if they can just report those crimes to a vigilante?!" He exclaimed, almost yelling.

Fujioka responded not intimidated by his words as they were standard for him. "He'll probably handle it. The app tells you when he's on duty and it doesn't look like you can send a request when he's not, so it should be fine. Also it looks like you can call him through the app if he accepts your request. Many people have already downloaded this and they seem to like it."

"It's smart branding if nothing else." Ugo made his last thought.

"I hope this leads to his capture very soon, that is all."

The two Midoriya's turn away from the screen, both pretty impressed that that report was pretty good. "We'll that's good free advertising." Izuku stated casually.

Inko turned to her son. "I downloaded your hero app and it looks really cool, I'm assuming Takumi made this?"

"I gave some design suggestions but all the coding that went into this is all Taku. I'm pretty sure that making the news isn't gonna stop people from downloading it, if anything they'll want to do it more."

"Be careful Izuku, anyone can use this to lure you into a trap or something."

"I thought about that even before we made the app, I'll be fine mom." He reassured her.

She smiled at him before giving him a hug. "Do your best son." They embraced for a moment before Inko pulled away looking up at him. "I can't believe you're almost as tall as your father."

Izuku scratched his cheek with a finger as he smiled back at her. "Well I have shot up 11cm since last year. Speaking of dad, do you know the next time he'll be home?"

He said he'll be home for a few weeks before and during your summer break."

"That's great! I actually haven't spoken to dad since Vaccine Man's attack. He was so worried." Izuku paused for a moment before continuing. "Do you think I should tell him I'm about my hero identity?"

Inko crossed her arms as she thought to herself. "Yes, but it should be at the right time where you can explain everything and show him how strong you've become so he won't worry like I used to."

"Alright I'll do that, see you later mom." He said to her as he walked out the door headed to school.

High above the city of Musutafu The Winged Hero: Hawks flies across the city as he looks at his phone. An interested smile on his face as he goes through the Hero ONE app. "This guy really has an app to act as his agency, MAN talk about creative!" He exclaims with laughter. "Still though, I wanna talk to him as soon as I can. Given the times he's usually sighted he's probably at work or in school, so let's figure out which it is." He said as he continued to fly.


At Rising Sky

Rumi Usagiyama the Rabbit hero: Mirko, looks at her phone as she prepares to go on her mourning patrol, since she came back she's been hard at work with training. When she's not working, she's training with her master and the girls, who she has gotten pretty close two. Kiyuki quickly became like a little sister to her and she enjoys playfully picking on Saki. It caused quite a stir in the dojo when people found out that she was living there, but Keizo calmed the situation.

"Yo Ru-chan, off to work." Came a voice she registered as Kiyuki.

Looking up she could see Kiyuki and Saki walking up to her dressed in their school uniforms. "Yeah, I'm hopping out in a bit." She replied. She took a moment before asking the girls a question. "Hey have you two seen this app for that vigilante ONE?"

This made the girls' eyes widen as they weren't expecting this. "Yeah, our friends Midoriya and Fujiwara told us about this, the news was talking about it a few minutes ago too." Kiyuki responded

"Ok, what do you two think about this?" The rabbit woman asked.

"I thought it was interesting so I downloaded it, there's a community page on the app and people really love the guy apparently." Saki answered.

"Same, I downloaded it because it's interesting, you know I don't need a hero to save me but still." Kiyuki responded. "Why do you ask?"

"I've been wanting to fight this guy for a while, and I think this gave me the perfect opportunity." She looked at her phone with a fierce smile.

"Well good luck with that Ru-chan, see you later and enjoy your patrol." Kiyuki said as the two girls headed to the train station.


As Izuku was just passing the front gates of Sakai High he suddenly felt a presence behind him, he didn't turn around to look as Taku slung his arm around his neck. "1000, we've had over 1000 freakin downloads since it made the news! We are about to be WORKING my guy!" He exclaimed

"How many do we even have right now anyway?"

"It's been up for a couple days but we're hovering at around 1800 right now, probably be double that by the end of the day. Requests are gonna come in like crazy, we'll have to be so business savvy I might need to create an A.I to handle it."

Izuku's eyes widened as if distraught. "Please, do not do that." he pleaded casually.

"Yeah, I know, it's just a thought. You can never fully trust an A.I. First you want it to be capable and efficient and before you realize it acquires sentience and your past the point of no return. Grandpa went down that rabbit hole years ago, turned his house into an A.I that almost killed the entire family and some important political figures." He chuckled a little at the story. "He avoided jail time but Japan has laws governing the existence of A.I's because of him."

"You Fuji's are so extra sometimes."

"Suck it Midoriya!" He jokingly shot back.

The two friends had a laugh as they made their way to class, no one really paying them any attention. "Anyway I did a little more digging into Ishki Hashikawa, the guy who became Nomu and it turns out he was last seen in Kashik when the cops lost him. Lastly I hear there's a WHOLE lot of underground shit that goes on in that city, it's out of our way but if you're interested we can go out there and look around. We got a three day weekend coming up so we can just get a hotel, keep it a low key investigation."

"Let's do that then, if it will get us closer to finding the mad scientist behind Nomu I'm all for it. Looks like we're going undercover."

"And I've been waiting for a moment like this! Taku exclaimed, clearly excited.

"Hey Izu, ever heard of something called the Underground Masquerade?"

"I remember so jerks back in middle school talking about that, it was when we first started out so I looked into it and as far as I know it's a moving underground fight club."

"I was able to find some police records mentioning it, it's an anything goes fight club suspected of being a cover for some shady operations as people who participate tend to go missing.

"It's possible Hashikawa could have been kidnapped while participating." Izuku surmised.

"It's possible, the problem is only certain circles of people would know where it is, after all it moves around. The last time it was busted was in Osaka ten years ago."

"Well we know it's still a thing, let's keep looking out and investigating."

"Ha, when do we not!" He exclaimed jokingly.


The school day came and went with Izuku and Taku getting in position to do work, Izuku turned into ONE and went into the city While Taku became intech and went to the lab. ONE stands on the roof of a building, letting the users know he's now on patrol and ready for requests. Looking down he can see a handful of heroes also on patrol but he ignores them like always, Somehow he has apparently become Death Arms Mortal enemy as there is zero civility with him, he only wants to capture him. While he was waiting for a request he decided to handle something, a small warehouse was holding black market goods, he just needed to take down any and all guards and he was good. "Hey ONE!" He hears someone call out to him. He looked down and was surprised to see Mirko looking at him with a fiery smile. He jumps down to converse with the Heroine.

He kept his hero voice but that didn't stop his hero fanboy from slipping out. "Hello Mirko, I'm glad I get to meet you. I'm a really big fan, how can I help you?!" He smiled as he asked her.

The woman continued to smile at him as she pointed a finger at him. "I challenge you to a fight ONE." This declaration got the attention of all civilians within ear shot.

ONE was a little thrown off by this as he was expecting her to try and arrest him, one of the skills he's picked up from Keizo is a fine tuned ability to read people, and he could tell she had no interest in that. "It seems you're adequate with martial arts etiquette. I can tell you don't want to arrest me but before I respond, why?"

Her fiery smile still on her face. "Because I wanna know if all the rumors I hear about you are true, plus you saved me. If I don't get a crack at sending you flying I'll never get over it." She answered. She also had a theory about him which by fighting him would certainly confirm.

ONE merely smiled as he registered her words before thinking to himself. "The Rabbit Hero: Mirko wants to fight me, sure this is about her pride but it's about more than that. I can tell she has no interest in arresting me, maybe we can be friends, that doesn't mean I can let her win though." He finished thinking and he came to a decision. "I accept your challenge, but we're both on patrol at the moment so this will have to be quick."

"That's fine, so where should we do this?"

He pointed to his 10 o'clock. "There's a vacant lot eight blocks that way, plenty of space. People may see but we won't damage any property. At least I won't."

"Lead the way then."

With a combination of leaps and parkour they made it to the lot in less than a minute. It was a wide rectangular lot with low grass and concrete walls on three corners with the sidewalk passing by it. Mirko looked around, comfortable with this location as it was in between abandoned buildings, so no chance of collateral damage. "This'll work, now let's do this!"

They both went to the ends opposite each other, Mirko looked fired up while ONE took a deep breath before getting into his stance. "I'm ready when you are."

Mirko wasted no time as she rushed him, she threw a blurring flurry of kicks that ONE easily dodged. Mirko continues to kick, chasing him as the two become blurs that move across the lot. ONE stops the chase and stands his ground as he dodges another flurry of kicks. He shifts forward blocking a kick with his right forearms and decks her in the forehead with his left fist. The blow sends her flipping back and skidding as she gains her balance ONE thrusts his right elbow into her stomach, knocking the air out of her and she drops on all fours.

Mirko lays crouched on the ground. "Cough cough. "He can dodge my kicks like it's nothing, who IS this guy. She thought as she pushed past the immense pain and stood up.

Jumping at ONE she throws a right spin kick to his left side, he brings up his left arm, easily blocking her kick, the force cracking the ground beneath him. Still airborne the rabbit woman pelts him with a barrage of kicks that he easily blocks, she is stunned suddenly when for a moment her kicks pass through him. She instinctively crosses her arms over her face, successfully blocking the axe kick that was about to come down on her, the force of it making her crash to the ground, cracking it and causing a loud crash making the ground shake. Her arms were still shaking in pain as she flipped herself back to her feet. Turning behind her she could see her opponent, still rearing to go.

"Damn that really hurt, he tricked me with a fucking speed clone and I didn't even see him jump! He's a smart one." She thought.

"Her arms are pretty much useless for the rest of this fight, she doesn't really use them in combat anyway other than blocking. I can't do this all day so…"

Pushing past the pain Mirko comes back again throwing a flurry of kicks with ONE returning some of his own, the two clash with blurring kicks and it's clear that ONE's are far stronger and faster with some of his connecting. After countering one of Mirko's kicks he quickly connects a hook kick to the right side of her head. He swings back and spins, kicking her left side and in that same motion connects a chop to the left side of her neck before following through on a punch to the face that sends her to the ground. She's hurt but finds the strength to stand back up.

""He's as good as I expected, NO he's way more than that. Plus it looks like my hunch was right, still I ain't backing down."

She was brought out of her thoughts when ONE was in her face in a flash, he slams his right elbow into her stomach then flicks his arm slamming a backfist into her face and finishing her with a palm strike to the chin that sends her crashing into the concrete wall behind her cracking it. She lands on her feet leaned up against the wall as ONE cocks back his right fist and fires three shockwaves of punched air. "Air Bullet!" The attacks move faster than the blink of an eye hitting her forehead, stomach and right knee, knocking her out and making her drop to the ground.

ONE smiles, not out of arrogance but because he was happy he was able to fight a sibling student. He was sure of it now, they could be friends. He picked up the unconscious rabbit woman and sat her against the wall while he sat beside her until she woke up. After about four minutes she woke up. "Welcome back sleeping beauty." He joked at her.

"Shut up!" She replied annoyed as she got to her feet and dusted herself off.

"You ok?" He genuinely asked.

She was massaging her chin as she responded. "Yeah I'm good." She continued to massage her head as she gathered her thoughts. "You've got some good moves ONE"

"Thank you, yours are pretty good as well."

"Thanks for the other day by the way. Since then I've been doing serious training whenever I'm not working and I needed to gauge how strong you were, because if I got saved by someone much weaker than me I'd never live it down."

"It was nothing, just being a hero."

"You really are, aren't you." She paused for a moment before continuing. "So you were a disciple of Rising Sky too huh?"

The hero was completely shocked that she would suddenly throw this out, then he realized he had given himself away in a sense from fighting her. "Excuse me?" He replied trying to play dumb.

"Don't play dumb. I may not know who you are but I do know that you're a disciple of the dojo where I was trained. You seem competent so I shouldn't have to spell it out for you, it's your kicks! There the same as mine and anyone else that trained at the dojo." She stated bluntly.

ONE's eyes widened behind his cowl. "She's right, I knew this could happen. At Rising Sky fighting is an art form, throwing a punch, kick, knee or elbow, there's a very distinct way of doing these that Keizo and Michiko make sure every student perfects. it's so distinguishable that any student who fully completed their training would easily recognize it regardless of fighting style." He thought.

Mirko noticed his shift change and gave him a mischievous grin. "So are you gonna tell me who you are or do I have to figure it out?"

He regained his composure and gave her a confident smile. "You know I can't do that, good luck with unmasking me though.

"Hm, you sure know how to keep things entertaining. Come on, walk n talk."

The two heroes left the lot and were walking down the street, they continued talking while staying alert for any action. They talked about some of their best cases, why they wanted to be heroes, ONE even offered to help her train if she wanted, which she agreed to. The two heroes make their way to a stand and get some bottled waters. Handing her one he continues their conversation. "Is it true you used to frequent underground fight clubs in highschool?"

"Haha, I'm not surprised you heard about that, man those were some wild times for me! Being Rising Sky's number one problem child, good times." She laughed in nostalgia.

"Master said once that she neutered your battle hungry nature, but by that point it was too late to kill what she had created." He joked, smiling at her.

"Well it's true. I wasn't like that when I first got there though, actually I was pretty timid. I think I was eight, I saw these kids bullying another kid. I wanted to help but I was too scared to do anything, it bothered me all day. I was in a park by myself sitting on a swing and it was getting late, and then this woman walked up to me telling me to head home. But seeing how down I was she asked what was wrong, and that's when the tears came down. After I told her the story, she smiled at me and called me brave because of my desire to help someone else despite being scared. She said I had the heart of a hero and offered to train me. That's how I met Michiko Tabihara for the first time." She smiled fondly at the memory.

"I was kinda the same. I wanted to be a hero, I wanted to help and save people with a smile just like All Might. But…It was gonna be really, really hard for me. My mom took me to meet with them and Michiko was the first I spoke to. I begged her to give me a chance and I wouldn't let her down. I'll never forget what she said to me. She said being that kind of hero definitely seems impossible...That is unless you trained at their dojo. Though my road got a little bumpy I still ended up where I wanted to be."

Mirko looked at the green clad vigilante beside her, many thoughts going through her head. "This guy is definitely interesting."

"Hey Mirko, are you going to watch the UA Sports Festival? It starts tomorrow you know.

I'll watch but I'm not really interested in scouting anyone. but Michiko's been badgering me to take on a girl she trained who's apparently going to be in it. Her name's Momo Yaoyorozu if i'm right."

"Well since you're sibling students you should at least look and see what she's got. Come to think of it, I think I met her at the USJ, she seemed like she had potential."

"Speaking of your days in underground fighting, have you ever heard of the Underground Masquerade?"

Her eyes widened with an excited look on her face. "That! Hell yeah! It's crazy because I only did that once and I found it by complete accident."

ONE suddenly became more attentive, determined to get as much info on it as he can. "You were in it?"

"Yeah, back in those days I had a sixth sense for when a fight was going down and once I felt it I was heading over. Tiger Bunny came in to kick some ass!"

"Tiger Bunny?"

"My street fighting alter ego duh! But it wasn't much of a secret, everyone knew the local school girl who crashed fight clubs." She shrugged smiling.

"I want to investigate it, do you know anything like where and how it moves around?"

"Not a clue. Like I said I followed my senses to find it last time and I didn't even know it was called that until after the fact."

ONE sighed at this. "Was there anyone shady or suspicious, in a place like that, someone who just stood out compared to everyone else?"

Mirko closed her eyes as she tried to remember back a decade, then one face came to her. There was this guy in a hood. I don't know who he is or where he came from, some chaos broke out and gas started to fill the place. I had to team up with two other guys and he tried to stop us from getting out."

"You remember what he looked like?"

"Yeah, he had black skin and so was his face, his eyes were yellow and it threw me off at the time but he seemed to have two quirks."

This made ONE's eyes widen. "You sure."

"He could stretch, grow and regenerate his limbs. I could be wrong but that sounds like multiple quirks to me.

"What happened to him?"

"Don't know, we fought him but he was strong so I made it outside and found a detective who called All Might. I got back in the fight and we were able to push him back him but when All Might arrived a black portal opened up and he was gone."

"A black portal." He thought. His thoughts then immediately went back to the USJ. "So whoever the leader of the league of villains is has been in business for a while. This hooded guy could have been the very first Nomu. But her story just raises even more questions." He looked back at the rabbit woman. "Thank you Mirko.

The two went quiet for a while as they kept an eye out for action."How about we team up on a case?" The rabbit woman looked at him with a mix of shock and confusion. "Before you reject, I know you don't DO teams but hear me out. I recently discovered a warehouse holding black market goods. Wanna help me take it down?"

She smirked. "Legally speaking I need probable cause to bust up a place like that. Get me that and I'm in."

He pulled out his hero phone and showed her a photo of a pudgy man with an eye patch over his right eye, black hair with a small ponytail. "This is Takuma Kokuri, he's more or less an underground merchant. He's one of many in an underground network of traders. Weapons, support items, drugs, counterfeit money, even costumes for villains he's got it. Been investigating him for a few months now and was able to connect this other guy back to him who moves merchandise from one of his smaller warehouses. We catch them moving and loading goods, I sneak in, get evidence and signal you when to strike."

Her fiery smile lit up. "Let's do this!"

The sun was going down and they were in position. With an ear piece and Intech on the line, Mirko was laying low on the roof of the building directly across the street from the warehouse. There was a large fence around the lot with a gate as the only way in, she could see over a dozen guys standing near delivery trucks, going in and out of the warehouse or standing in the lot talking amongst themselves. The way they were all dressed in dark clothes was definitely suspicious. ONE was on the roof of the warehouse completely out of sight. Once trucks of new goods arrived they would make their move. After another ten minute of waiting three delivery trucks pulled into the lot. "Show time." He said as he pulled a cartridge from one of the pockets on his belt containing five small fly shaped robots, he pulled out two and they began to fly from his hand in the direction of the lot.

"Spy Flies are ready ONE! I'll set Mirko's earpiece to hear everything these two pick up and I'll signal her when you're ready."

"Thank's Intech, Make sure to capture photos with these other three."

"I got you."

Using his Phase ONE technique ONE phase through the roof of the warehouse and lands in the rafters, All around he can see the building is full of crates and pallets of black market goods. Looking down he can see roughly ten guys in black moving stuff in and out of the warehouse, no one has noticed him yet as he releases his last three spy flies. These are little robots Intech made that are basically tiny cameras and trackers. They record what they see and hear with perfect resolution and audio, they can take photos of things as well as map out a trail of unfamiliar areas. Their feedback is sent to Intech and his hero phone. After five minutes he got a call from Intech. "Yo ONE, Mirko said she's heard all she needs to, you can go right now. The spy flies have all the photos and audio you need too."

"Alright, tell her to go now if she wants. I'll handle the guards in here, then find a computer."

"Roger that."

All the guys in the building got stirred up when they heard a loud crash from outside. They all rushed to the exit when three were suddenly knocked out after being struck by air bullets, the other seven turned around to see who the attacker was only to see a green blur drop to the ground and a strong gust of wind send them into the air.

Seeing the guards trying to get outside ONE quickly fires three air bullets, hitting three in the back and knocking them out. Before the others even knew what was going on he had already jumped from the rafters and rapidly spun into a ball before doing a zero degree axe kick, creating a vacuum that brought them all into the air. In a flash of speed the hero one shots all the guards. He lands from his assault and walks to find a computer as the sound of their unconscious bodies hitting the ground rings throughout the building. He could also hear the sound of crashes and guys screaming.

"Hm, sounds like Mirko's doing just fine. Now for that computer."

Ten minutes later he was flying across the city with Sky Walk. Mirko was talking to the police, the guards were being rounded up and the stuff was being confiscated. He was able to get some more evidence from the computer he found and put it on a goober that he gave Mirko, naturally he couldn't stay for the clean up but he and the rabbit hero had some good words before he had to go.

"The police are on their way, you should probably take off. Here's your earpiece back." She gave it back to him

"Thanks. Before I do, here you go." He hands her the goober. "I found a computer in there and was able to get records and files on another warehouse and supply lines, I was also able to get the plates and drivers of some of the trucks they use."

The rabbit hero was amazed by this level of work. Working on a level outside of fighting and rescue eludes her. He's not only able to fight, he can also work on a technical and investigative level. He can literally do it all, most heroes are usually in a bubble and stay in it but he works in every field. "Good work ONE."

"I can send you the info gathered by the spy files, just give me your info and Intech will take care of it ."

After getting her info he could hear sirens in the distance ONE leaped away after saying goodbye. The rabbit hero couldn't help but smile at him as he flew away into the city. "ONE, you are DEFINITELY an interesting guy."

"Can't believe I got to team up with Mirko! That was awesome! Now that I think about it, that's my first team up ever." He thought to himself. "Who knows, maybe we can do it again."

Intech suddenly spoke into his cowl. "I got to team up with Mirko, she was so hot and awesome. I definitely want to do that again." The sidekick mocked playfully. "Is exactly what you were thinking right?"

This slightly annoyed the hero. "Get out of my head! But what do you think of our first team up?"

"That went way better than I expected. She was really surprised to learn that you have a sidekick. Still, I don't think she'll tell anyone, this could be good."

"I really hope so, I like Mirko, she's a good hero. Where are we on the app?"

"You've actually got a handful of requests at the moment, try getting on that so people know that this is definitely real."

"Ok, will do. Talk to you later." Call ends.


He's still flying and about to pull out his phone when he looks ahead and sees a figure flying about 100 yards in front of him. It became clear who this was from the giant red wings flapping. "Hawks?" He said in a confused tone. Suddenly as if he heard him the winged man turns around and starts flying towards the vigilante, and after a couple seconds the two were face to face. He stopped Sky Walking and floated while using his leg strength to stay airborne as they looked at each other.

"Well well if it isn't ONE. I've been looking to talk to you for a while."

He was surprised to hear these words. "You wanted to speak to me? About what?"

"I'll get to that in a minute but how are you flying? More specifically, how are you not falling?!" He asked with a smile in a seemingly excited tone.

"I have my ways." He responded with a smile.

"Okaaay. Come on, fly and talk." He said before flapping his wings and flying to his right.

ONE jumped off the air and followed. They flew across the city for over a minute with Hawks seemingly testing ONE's ability to fly with ONE easily able to keep up with him in both speed and maneuverability. After a while he decided to find out what he wanted to talk about. "So what's this about? Surely you didn't want to meet me just so we could fly around?"

The two landed on the roof of a building as the hero answered. "Let's be friends." Hawks said casually as he smiled at him.

"As in a let's hang out and get some food, kind of way?" He jokingly replied.

"More as all heroes don't hate you kind of way."

"Ok." He smiled as he proceeded to shake the hero's hand, he suddenly felt a tiny shift on the back of his belt, though he knew exactly what it was he continued to shake Hawks hand with a smile.

"Later ONE, keep up the good work." He was about to fly away when ONE grabbed the collar of his shirt.

"Hold up Hawks, I think you forgot this?" He said smiling at the hero as he reached behind him and pulled a small feather that was slid between his belt.

"Keep it as a memento." He smiled as he tried to play off what he just tried to do.

ONE continued to smile. "I was born at night but not last night, if you wanna spy on me you're gonna have to do better than that."

Hawks looked surprised at this. "What do you mean, it probably just fell on you as we were flying. Relax a little man."

"Oh I'm very relaxed. We're friends now right, so I'll tell you. I'm a huge hero fan and a bit of a nerd for quirks. Long story short that means I have intricately studied yours. Your quirk gives you strong feathers and you have full control over every single one, you can fly, use some as swords and just one is more than strong enough to lift and carry a person. However, you're able to get to scenes and stop incidents quickly, save and rescue people you can't even see, why is that? Because these feathers have strong sensory abilities don't they?"

The number three hero eyes narrowed a little and put up a smile at this breakdown of his quirk. This is something not on public record. As far as the public knows his feathers are just strong and he can control them, he was amazed and a little mad that ONE figured it out. He has feathers positioned all over his city and he's able to hear and feel everything that they pick up. That's how he's able to stop crimes and catch others so fast.

"I'm taking that silence in meaning I'm right." He looked at the feather for a moment. "Your quirk's even cooler than I thought, so let's try this again, anything you wanna ask me go right ahead, just keep it civil."

"Wow! No disrespect but you really ARE a quirk nerd aren't ya." He smiled, laughing a little to himself.

ONE smiled back. "So I've been told."

Hawks put a hand to his head with an embarrassed smile. "Man, this is embarrassing. Still I figured I'd take a shot at unmasking you. You really interest me ONE, you're on the radar of a lot of powerful and influential people in this industry. Back when the city was attacked, I know you beat the blue villain not All Might, also stopping the attack at UA and most recently uncovering the biggest Trigger operation to date. I'm not jealous, I'm impressed more than anything. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't really care about the vigilante thing. You're good, REALLY good, better than most pros actually. But the powers that be want you unmasked, so I took a crack at spying on you. But you found me out."

"We'll you're not the first to spy on me nor will you be the last, I'm accustomed to it by now."

"Still, I wanna know. You're clearly strong, why are you a vigilante? Hell with the right connections you could go pro the first chance you got."

"Sorry, but those reasons are my own. All I can say is that I'm living my dream."

"Nothing wrong with that, but how you chose to live it I doubt it's paying your bills."

"I have a life and career goals outside of this. It's very important to me so it'll always be a priority. Plus I'm not a big fan of heroes getting paid and I kinda think the ranking system should be abolished."

Hawks raised an eyebrow at this. "Really, how come?"

"With the term hero having become a largely profitable industry I think that can lead many who pursue it to get in for the wrong reason. I like to think I do this for no other reason than for 1. It's always what I wanted to be. 2. Because with all the strength and skills I have obtained I should use it to help others and make the world as better a place as I can, and 3. Because it's the right thing to do. I'm a firm believer that a hero is someone who does the right thing because it's right regardless of what you'll gain. Some people want money, attention, praise, fame, I don't care about any of that. I will never do this for praise or reward, I'll keep doing what I do cuz I'm a hero. He finished giving the hero a bright smile.

"Hm, I like you ONE, you're pretty cool you know that?"

"Was that sarcasm?"

"Nope."

ONE chuckled a little as Hawks looked to speak again. "I feel kinda the same way you do. Popularity and approval ratings make up an important factor in the rankings when that's got nothing to do with being capable and effective against villains. My goal is to make this a world where heroes have too much time on their hands." He spoke with genuine truth.

"Well that collectively should be the long term goal, if we have nothing to do then it means everything is peaceful, that picture looks good to me."

The two had a mutual understanding before ONE got a notification for his hero app letting him know he just got a request. He saw that he had over a dozen different requests that have built up since he went on patrol up until now. The sun had gone down and it was dark, he started with the request at the top that said "Husband in danger", clicking on it the location of the user came up showing that they were a few blocks away. "Alright I'm off Hawks, I got a request on the app."

"Mind if I tag along?"

"Sure, other pros may look at you a certain way if you're seen with me, and the public may think it's weird."

"Let them think what they want, plus you can just call it me legitimizing your work."

"You mean piggybacking!" He jokingly stated.

Hawks closed his eyes and shrugged with a sly smile. "Call it what you will."

For the next couple hours Hawks tagged along with ONE as he knocked out every request that came through on the app and other incidents. The first was a woman asking for help with her husband who was in some kind of danger. They learned he was being blackmailed into helping an old friend and his associates rob the casino where he worked security. After some spying they stopped the plan before it even began. They moved on to catching some carjackers, stopping a drug deal, foiling an attempted rape and and mugging. They resolved a kidnapping, saving the person bound up in the trunk of a car. ONE even saved a family from a fire and used a thunderclap to put it out. The two heroes were having a good back and forth with them, even competing over who could stop a crime first with by the end of the score was 12-4 ONE's way.

When they would resolve a case ONE would get some distance from the scene while Hawks handled the police. He would outright tell them when it was ONE who resolved the incident, taking credit only when he himself did. People even walked up to them asking for selfies when they were walking on the street and would immediately upload them to the community page in the app. He was certain this was gonna cause a stir tomorrow once the public and other heroes knew about this. He didn't mind too much though, after the past couple of hours he wouldn't mind being friends with Hawks. Kamui Woods tried to call them out when he saw them flying across the city but they pretended not to hear him.

It was almost ten o'clock and the two heroes were standing on a water tower overlooking the city.

"Hey Hawks, are you going to be watching the sports festival? You know it's tomorrow.

"Yeah I'll check it out, I wanna talk to a member of class 1A and try to get some info on the League Of Villains. Speaking of, do you know anything about them I should know?"

"Their goal at the moment seems to be to kill All Might. They have someone who can inject the quirks of others into someone else and scientifically modify them. I'm looking into uncovering that right now. Also I'm not entirely sure of their relationship or her allegiance but they have a powerful woman named Takae Tachibana on their side." He responded.

Hawks eyes widened slightly at these words. "Takae Tachibana, you're sure!" He sounded a little stressed.

"Yes I'm sure, why does she bother you? Something I should know?"

Keeping his composure. "It's nothing. Anyway, I'm gonna call it a night, later ONE." He said before flying off.

ONE watched the No.3 hero fly away, officially suspicious of the past half minute. "Yeah, there's definitely some history between Hawks and Tachibana-senpai. The question is...What is it?"


He was about to head home but as he looked down he could see a boy his age sitting on a bench looking really upset. He was the same heterochromatic haired boy he saw at the USJ, and remembering what Momo told him his name was Todoroki. He jumps from the water tower and flips off a building before landing ten feet to the left of the sitting boy. He jumped a little at the sudden arrival of the hero. "ONE."

"Hey, I was about to end my patrol, but I saw you from the water tower and you looked upset. If you want to talk, I'll listen." He said, being truly genuine.

"Todoroki was surprised, he just got into a fight with his bastard father about the sports festival tomorrow and he needed to get out of the house. He's been worse than usual, especially since he was hurt in the USJ attack, he claimed that if he used his fire he would have been just fine. According to his class ONE had saved him when the Nomu monster was about to kill him and he never got the chance to thank him. Now he was standing in front of him asking about his problems. His father hated him, he's taken a lot of work from him the past few months and whenever he tried to arrest him ONE either escaped or easily beat him. Talking about something like this to a stranger felt a little weird but it was someone his father hated, who was stronger than him, and despite being illegal was a better and more likeable hero than him.

Hey ONE, I'm Shoto Todoroki, do you have a minute?"

"Sure." He answered as he sat down.

"First off, thanks for what you did at the USJ, I really appreciate it."

"Don't mention it, Kiminari radioed for help and I'm just glad I made it in time."

Todoroki went quiet for a moment, thinking to himself before he spoke again. "ONE, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure, shoot."

""I've seen videos of you fighting, there are a lot of rumors online about you, since you're right in front of me, tell me, seriously...Are you All Might's secret love child or something?"

His eyes widened behind his cowl. He wasn't expecting him to ask him that question but he wasn't surprised that someone asked that. That's been a rumor about him for months now since his first exchange with All Might. Given his power and his interactions with the man many people think that, which he always denies when asked. "No, I am not related to All Might in any way, shape or fashion. I have a father that I strongly take after."

"Well the power you escude is definitely the same. Anyway, I had to get out of the house, I couldn't deal with my bastard father." The coldness of his words made ONE fully zone into the conversation. "My father's the Flame Hero: Endeavor, you must have heard of him?"

"Yeah he REALLY doesn't like me."

"As far as I'm concerned, keep doing what you're doing."

"So what did he do that has you so upset?"

He took a breath as he collected his thoughts. "Have you ever heard of quirk marriages?"

This made the hero cringe at the question. He was never a huge fan of Endeavor but in that Moment his opinion of him was significantly lowered. "Yes, I have. Personally I find the concept of that sickening. Forcing someone to marry just to make a child with a powerful quirk is many kinds of immoral because it takes love out of the equation. Not only that, genetics are a tricky thing, getting the child you want may never happen or even worse you go through child after child until you get the one you want. Which will only lead to neglect, abuse and abandonment towards all but the trophy child."

Todorki looked at him amazed at his perception. "You're very perceptive. That's exactly what happened to my family, My father paid my mother's parents to get his hands on her ice quirk. My quirk, Half Hot Half Cold, is a dual emitter type that's a perfect blend of theirs. It took them three tries before they got the quirk my father wanted."

"Fire and Ice. Am I right to assume that the entire point of the marriage was to have a child who's quirk would eliminate the drawbacks of his own?" He asked, becoming more and more frustrated with the flame hero.

"Exactly. To understand this situation, you have to understand Enji Todorki. He wanted to be recognized as the strongest, and to be the #1 hero. Even after blitzing through the ranks and becoming the #2 hero when he was only 20 he knew that he could never surpass All Might. So he planned to syphon a child who could. His anger and obsession led to him abusing all of us, it took a toll on my family, especially my mother. When I think of her, all I can remember is her crying, just before she threw boiling water on my face." This made ONE cringe. "It was all his fault, everything is his fault, he put her in a mental hospital after that, and is raising me to usurp All Might. But I refuse to be a pawn for that scumbag, when I'm in battle I never use my left side I never use HIS power. I'll win the sports festival and become the top hero using only my mom's power."

ONE had taken in everything the other boy had said to him and he could truly empathize with him. He Knew Endeavor was a rough intimidating person but to think that someone who calls themselves a hero would go this far and do something this disgusting just for something as pointless as being called the strongest. He was sickened, disgusted and enraged at the #2 hero and would let his thoughts be known on this the next time they meet. When he first saw him Todoroki looked like someone who needed help and he was going to do it. "Todoroki, I empathize with your situation. But do you want to be a hero? I know why HE wants you to be a hero but do you genuinely want to be a hero?"

Shoto was shocked by this as he looked down and tried to collect his thoughts. "Yes."

"Why? And it can't be something as petty as you want to renounce your father. That's got nothing to do with saving people or being a hero, you said you'll only use your mom's power but what if someone loses their life because you didn't use your flames." The heterochromatic teen looked down. "And It's not Endeavors power or your mother's it's YOURS. It's your quirk and only you can decide how it'll be used, and if you decide to be a hero and help people then you have to be willing to use all of it. Be the hero YOU want to be for your own reasons, not his."

Shoto looked at the green clad vigilante, his eyes widened as he suddenly remembered a memory he had with his mother. They were sitting on the couch watching an interview of All Might where he said some of the same words ONE just said. He then remembered his mother's words after she comforted him after his father's abusive training. "Shoto, you still want to be a hero don't you? It's okay, you can use your power to be who YOU want to be." A tear suddenly ran down his face after remembering the memory, ONE saw this and grew a bit concerned.

"You Okay Todoroki?"

The other boy whipped his face as he had a smile on his face. "Yeah I'm fine, you're right. I want it, I want to be a HERO." He said with passion as he looked at his right hand, coating it with fire before making a fist and putting it out. He then stood up to leave. "Thank you ONE, you've given me a lot to think about."

ONE smiled at the boy. "Happy to help, I wish you well Todoroki. And good luck in the sports festival, I'll be watching." Todoroki nodded before walking away. "That guy will be ok, but seriously what the hell Endeavor! Issue to address later, let's get home."


Izuku awoke the next morning, it was friday and the day of the sports festival. He had no classes today giving him a three day weekend and he was going to use it to handle business. The hero killer struck again last night, as they predicted in Hosu. He killed one of the sidekicks of Ingenium, after a quick study of their patrol routes last night he was pretty sure he knew where he would be. Also he was certain Ingenuim would certainly want to avenge one of his sidekicks.

He was going to head to UA and give Momo his support before heading to Hosu, he was a little nervous as he was going to do something drastic that he hoped wouldn't distract her too much. After doing his morning routine he ate breakfast and got dressed, putting on a white Tee, blue shorts and his red shoes. He headed over to UA where they were holding the sports festival, the entire time he was thinking of what he'll say to Momo when he sees her. "Just wish her luck Izuku and make a point to celebrate with her later tonight."

He made it to the stadium and outside he could see food stalls and many heroes present. He saw Mount Lady, Air Jet, Mirko, Kamui Woods, Ms. Joke, Fat Gum and even Endeavor. He was here he may as well meet and get photos with some of the heroes, he had time after all. He got a selfie and some sexy pics of Mount Lady, had some good laughs with Ms. Joke, shared a bite of Takoyaki with Fat Gum and he even spoke to Mirko and got a picture with her. After he had his fun we went into the corridor under the stadium to look for Momo, he had told her he was there and would come to meet him. He was nervous as his lady friend would meet him soon, the advice he'd gotten from Michiko a few days ago not helping his nerves.

Rising Sky two days ago

Izuku, Taku, Kiyuki and Saki were having a study group at the dojo. They had a test the next day and Kiyuki wasn't doing so hot in this subject so they are all studying in her room. Izuku and Taku were both at the top of the class in just about every subject, plus she's their friend so she didn't mind helping her out. After they had finished they started talking about various things when Izuku wanted to ask the girls something. "Hey girls can I ask you two something?"

"Sure what's up Izuku?" Kiyuki responded

"What is it Midoriya?" Saki responded.

"I want to take things to the next step with Momo, how do I go about that without making it weird?"

"Yaoyorozu huh, so you're finally doing that. Hell, when I first met her I knew you liked her." Kiyiki stated

Saki was blushing a little as she noticed a presence. "I don't think I'm the best to give advice here."

" Just tell her how you feel bro?"

"I agree with Taku, just get a moment alone and tell her. Most women prefer the direct approach, and if she likes you back it won't be an issue."

The door suddenly opened to reveal Michiko. "You children just love to disappoint me don't you?" She said in a playful tone.

"What do you mean Auntie?" Kiyuki asked.

"I mean this isn't something as simple as just telling a girl you like her, this is a girl who is always thinking from an intellectual standpoint. Things like feelings are no different. I'm not saying Izuku just telling her won't work, but I know a way that will make things more effective."

"And that way would be?" Izuku asked.

The master gave a sly smirk. "Kiss her."

"Nani!"

"Not on the lips, boy. Just do and say this."

End Flashback

Izuku lets out a deep breath as Momo comes into view. "Hey Momo." He smiled and raised a hand at her.

"Hello Izuku, I'm glad you came to see the festival."

"Normally I would love to stay and watch the show. But I just came to wish you luck."

"You're not staying?"

"Unfortunately no. I wanted to wish you luck before heading to Hosu, trust and believe I will be watching and rooting for you."

"I appreciate it. You said you're heading to Hosu, I assume it's to look for HIM."

"Yes, plus I suspect Ingenuim will go after him too. So I've got to save him by getting to him first."

"Be careful Izuku."

"I will. Good luck, I'll definitely be rooting for you, I hope you take home the gold and impress every pro watching."

She pumped her fists as she smiled at him. "I'll do my best."

"You'll do great." He said before leaning in and planted a kiss on her left cheek. The girl was so surprised she couldn't respond as he pulled away and looked back at her with a cool look and a charming smile. "That was for luck. We'll celebrate later, now go put on a great show." He said before turning and walking away, leaving the creation girl with butterflies and a major blush as she touched her left cheek. She turned to walk back to her class determined to impress the pros and the boy she liked.

Izuku had made it off UA's campus, several thoughts going through his head. "I did it, I actually did it! I really hope that doesn't distract her too much, should I have waited after the festival? Issue for later, the issue right now is finding Stain before Ingenuim does. Time to head to Hosu."


And that's how chapter 3 ends, I was really excited to write this and am just as excited to write the next three chapters, I can't wait to get those out. There going to be good, a shift from canon that will introduce some characters sooner than expected. ONE now has a good reporte with both Hawks and Mirko, what is the history between Hawks and Takae Tachibana? How will the relationship with Mirko develop? We'll see. The city Kashik is my own city and a clear star wars reference and it's where two arcs will take place with some fun developments. Past the 1k followers mark, wish I had that many reviews but oh well. Make sure to leave a review and let me know your thoughts on the chapter and comeback because chapter 14 will have some interactions and some turns. Next time, ONE encouters Stain, Stain makes a new ally, Momo shits on everyone in the sports festival, the ship of Izumomo sets sail and ONE and Intech go undercover.