The bubbles, aside from his own heartbeat, the first sounds he heard were the bubbles as he floated in the clear gel that was his home, sometimes he heard other things like the muffled voices talking to each other, other times he heard a woman's voice talking to him still muffled from inside the tube of gel but he could almost feel the warmth from her voice. He missed her; even though he couldn't see her he still missed the sound of her warm voice and hoped she would return; the others were boring and cold. All they talked about was something known as "[PROJECT: Manticore]" or how he was "put in jeopardy" because of the woman's constant kind words and how they were glad she was removed from the project entirely; it didn't matter if he shared DNA with the woman.

He hated them; he pressed his wings onto the sides of his tube, his growls bubbling inside the gel setting off the red glow. To him, it meant one thing; fresh air.

The gel dripped from his mouth pooling on the floor, his eyes were still glued shut due to the amount of gel be he felt the cool air of the room wash over him as the others prepared to put the air tube down his small throat, this was his chance. He curled his tail when they were not looking and struck forcing open his eyes as the stinger pierced the nearest whitecoats throat. Bright red arterial spray jutted out of the whitecoats throat onto his small frame using his claws to clip the straps holding him in place. He stood on shaky legs looking around the room, noise blared all around him as he slowly made his way towards the exit, he had to escape. He needed to find her again, they had a bond and he could sense her if only slightly, all he knew is that he needed to leave. Not soon but right now.

He was just about to escape from the confines of his prison he felt the hands of a whitecoat grab him, "Where do you think you are going Manticore," he heard the whitecoat growl, his face covered in the gel that the young child floated in mixed with the blood of his dead colleague, "We will not let you go. Years of research amounted to you and you are not getting away from us." He struggled in the whitecoats grip, thrashing about trying to get free but it felt fruitless the man's grip was tight around him, and in rage, he swiped at the whitecoat with his claws, it was little more than a scratch but the man's laughter was soon replaced with screeches of pain as the flesh on his body began to melt away. Each individual cell dying as skin blistered and burst with yellow puss and deep crimson blood steamed from the open wounds. Bones splintered and melted making the whitecoat scream more in agonizing pain as the acid from the boy's claws ate away at his body.

By the time the boy left, all that remained of the whitecoat was a pool of bubbling crimson goo.

Four months after escape: Musutafu, Japan…

Inko sat at her coach lifting a ten-pound dumbbell looking around her apartment watching the TV and waiting for the phone. She knew her old teammates would call her soon; they all had interned in All Might's agency as sidekicks before becoming known as the Royal Trio, they had gained massive popularity over the time they had interned for All Might but Inko only assumed it was just that, their time with All Might. She did not want to leave but the promise of higher education was too good to pass up and All Might supported her decision allowing her to temporarily retire with the potential of returning as a pro-hero later on.

Toshinori was a nice guy, he had helped all three of them out of some very dicey issues both in and out of the job; When Rei got in a heated, no pun intended, fight with her husband the pro-hero Endeavor Toshi was there to put out the metaphorical and literal flames and get Rei out of her situation with her kids. It may have pissed Endeavour off to no end but Rei deserved better than that waste of oxygen that was the number two hero, until Rei knocked straight to the bottom of the barrel when she took the number two spot. Inko's situation at the time was similar to Rei's except it was with a guy at the university she was going to for her Ph.D. At first, Hisashi was a nice guy; treated her right, and spoiled her with grand gifts and fancy dinners, she would never admit it but he was exciting when he was around on most nights, after a month in university Inko caught him trying to flirt with Mitsuki when she came to visit her, it was enough to make her lose control of her quirk "accidentally". The look on his face when he was sent flying for a brief moment was entertaining, but so was the time when Toshi made it very clear to Hisashi, with the accompaniment of Rei and Mitsuki, that he should leave her be otherwise be put up on stalking charges.

He got the hint.

She never got the chance to thank All Might and her friends for the help, she never really got to tell Toshi that…

Shaking her head Inko brought herself back into the present, All Might was her former boss it was unprofessional to think of him in such a way. She was about to sign her return form when she heard a knock at the door, she was not expecting anyone at this current point in time. Using her quirk, she pulled her capture tool to her hand and slowly approached the door, ripping it open. What she saw at her doorstep astounded her, she never thought she would see him again but seeing him at her apartment door brought her to tears.

Manticore looked at Inko his small wing fluttering with happiness looking into her green iris' before approaching her with a beaming smile slightly showing his small, sharp fangs, "Mama," the child said hugging Inko tight. She returned his affection with a gentle caress of his head tousling his locks of green and black hair smiling in return.

"Izuku my baby."