A/N: 90,000 hits! Whoo! Enjoy the chapter as I try to remember something I watched a couple weeks ago! Enjoy!

Chapter 38: Exploring the Expo

Izuku and All Might followed Melissa to the main building of the island, a massive skyscraper.

Melissa found where her father was working to give him the surprise, IE: All Might.

Izuku watched as All Might reunited joyfully with his old friend. He watched as All Might gave his old friend a bear hug. It really was a touching moment between friends who hadn't seen each other in a while.

Though Izuku did notice that David seemed nervous for some reason.

"Oh yes, I should introduce you two." Said All Might, "David meet my student Izuku Midoriya."

"Oh it's nice to meet you." Said David.

"I can't believe I'm meeting the David Shield!" squeed Izuku who began to rattle off things about David Shield.

All Might laughed at his protege.

"Sorry about that." Said Izuku blushing.

"Melissa, why don't you show him around the expo." Said David.

"All right." Said Melissa.

"Well… see you later." Said Izuku awkwardly.

Both of them left All Might, David and David's assistant to talk and spend time.

"So." Said Melissa, "Do you have a hero name or a nickname."

"Well it's Deku." Said Izuku.

"Is it okay to call you that?" asked Melissa.

"Well yeah." Said Izuku, "I did choose it as my hero name."

"Okay Deku." Said Melissa.

Izuku entered love mode when she said that.

"Are you okay?" asked Melissa.

"Sorry about that… I've been trying to control it." Said Izuku blushing bright red

"It's okay…" said Melissa who was a bit confused.

And so the two headed towards the expo.

Izuku was kind of happy to be going with Melissa.

Not because it was a pretty girl, but going around a new island with someone he knew well and cared about might get him crying more than usual.

Going to explore, seeing the sights, people screaming in terror, the marines chasing them down, angry people yelling about stiffed food bills, all you can eat restaurants hunting down the crew because a certain rubber captain can't control himself…

"Deku are you okay?" asked Melissa.

"Just thinking about things…" said Izuku with a sweat drop, "Very annoying things."

"Okay." Said Melissa.

As they explored the island they saw the pro-hero Godzillo, a man with a quirk that made him look like a giant lizard that looked like it would rampage through Japan.

And soon they she was showing off an area that showcased all the various things they invented on I-Island with Izuku being impressed.

As they explored it a voice from behind them said.

"Looks like you're having fun!"

Izuku turned around and saw it was Ochaco looking like she was in daze.

"Oh hey Ochaco!" said Izuku.

"You look like you're having fun." Said Ochaco.

"You just said that…" said Izuku.

"Izuku…" said Momo showing up.

"I guess Ochaco won the competition." Said Izuku.

"She did." Said Kyoka joining the two girls while glaring at Izuku.

"Uh… why are you glaring at me?" asked Izuku.

"Hibiki told us you came here with you "Secret Mentor"." Said Momo using air quotes.

"Secret mentor… I don't have a secret mentor." Said Izuku lying through his teeth.

The girls all looked at each other, even Ochaco snapped out her daze of seeing Izuku with a pretty girl.

"Oh Deku? Are these your friends?" asked Melissa.

"Yeah they're in my class…" said Izuku, "And a group of friends I hang out with…"

"So that must mean you know Uncle..." Said Melissia.

Izuku pulled Melissia aside.

"Please you can't let them know that I'm here with All Might." Said Izuku.

"Really why?" asked Melissa.

"Because he thinks he's being subtle." Said Kyoka.

"Oh right… she probably heard that." Said Izuku.

Momo walked over and placed her hands on his shoulder and looked him right in the eye.

"Izuku as one of your closest friends… I need to tell you this." Said Momo, "Just please… stop trying to hide the fact All Might is your mentor… at least half the class knows."

"But…" said Izuku.

"He came to watch your final exam." Said Momo.

"He did?" asked Izuku.

Momo nodded.

Izuku sighed remembering what Aiko told him when Hibiki revealed that he figured out that All Might was mentoring him.

"We weren't very subtle about it, we were." Said Izuku.

"No… you weren't." said Momo.

Melissa was confused, but knew what do to defuse the situation.

"Do any of you want to go to the café?" she asked.

Thankfully the four girls talked it out and learned that Melissa was All Might's honorary niece and she invited him there to surprise her dad.

"Oh that's really sweet." Said Ochaco.

Izuku sat a nearby table trying to figure out what to tell All Might and how at least half his class figured out that he was his mentor.

Though to be fair at this point everyone in class knew Izuku was a "Late bloomer" due to the whole thing about the Bakugo bullying revelation.

"That could work!" thought Izuku.

"So Midoriya! Who's the girl?" asked a voice.

Izuku looked at the voice and it turned out that Mineta and Kaminari were there and they seemed to be dressed like waiters.

"Mineta and Kaminari… what are you doing here?" asked Izuku.

"We got jobs working here." Said Mineta.

"We're making money and we get explore the expo during our break." Said Kaminari.

Then they noticed that Izuku was glaring at them.

"You're not angry about that are you?" asked Kaminari.

"I'm having problems right now… and seeing you two here aren't helping them." Said Izuku.

"Oh Mineta… it's nice to see you…" said Momo with her eye twitching, "You know Aiko told me what you tried to pull with Izuku…"

Mineta began to sweat at this.

"Wait… Aiko told you…" said Izuku, "Why?"

"Oh you know Aiko." Said Momo with a shrug.

Izuku honestly shouldn't surprise that she told her considering Momo's intense hatred of Mineta.

"Are they more of your classmates?" asked Melissa.

"Yeah… but their idiots." Said Kyoka.

Melissa giggled.

"What are you two doing! You two should be working as well as properly representing our school!" yelled Iida.

"Iida you're here too." Said Izuku no longer paying attention to the two perverted idiots.

"Oh yes, I came here to represent my family." Said Iida.

"It's the same for me." Said Momo, "I brought Ochaco and Jiro along. While Izuku is with his "secret" mentor."

"I see." Said Iida knowing it meant All Might.

"You knew too…" sighed Izuku.

"You two didn't hide it very well." Said Toru suddenly appearing behind Izuku.

"Don't do that!" yelled Izuku.

"Sorry." Laughed Toru.

"Looks like a lot of the class is here." Said Mashirao.

"I wouldn't be surprised if the whole class is here on the island to be honest." Said Hibiki as he approached with Yuzu.

"So how are things with you?" asked Izuku.

"I couldn't understand half the words he said." Said Mashirao.

"I'm pretty sure half the scientists we met were trying to kill him with their minds whenever he criticized their work." Said Toru.

"Wait… you're Hibiki Kinzoku." Said Melissa.

"So you heard of me." Said Hibiki.

"I have." Said Melissa.

She looked towards the girls.

"Everyone's told me not to show off anything to him because he'll smugly criticize them." She whispered to the girls.

"Sounds about right." Said Ochaco.

"What are you telling them." Said Hibiki.

"Come on Hibiki… there's criticizing them and there's being a butt." Said Yuzu.

Hibiki just face palmed.

"Izuku… Ochaco… Momo.." said Yuzu, "I guess I should properly introduce myself since the last time we met… was not the best way to have a first meeting. But I'm Yuzu Hoseki, it's great to finally meet you."

"It's great to finally really meet you." Said Izuku.

"Also we finally learned your family name." said Ochaco.

"Seriously?" asked Yuzu.

"It never came up." Said Hibiki.

"You've been telling them about me for months…" said Yuzu, "And it never came up."

"Sorry." Said Hibiki.

Before the weird bickering best friends continue they heard some explosions nearby coming from what looked to be some sort of stadium.

All of the teens looked at the stadium.

"You two deserve a break from me." Said Hibiki, "Just make sure Mashirao doesn't accidently end up in a restricted area."

"Please stop brining that up." Sighed Mashirao.

"Did that happen?" asked Ochaco.

"Almost." Said Toru.

And so all the teens minus the two who had jobs headed to the stadium to see what was going on.

Turned out it was a competition to see how quickly someone could defeat robots.

And they all recognized the current contestant.

It was Kirishima.

"Kirishima's here too?" asked Izuku surprised.

"Is he another classmate?" asked Melissa.

"He is." Said Iida.

"It looks like he has obtained 8th place!" said the woman who was announcing things, "Now for our next contestant!"

And the next contestant showed up, it was Bakugo.

Bakugo was able to complete his much faster than Kirishima was currently at a much higher standing.

"Hey!" called out Kirishima noticing the group, "So you're here too."

"I thought you weren't coming Deku." Said Bakugo walking over.

"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Izuku going into Sanji mode.

Melissa looked at Izuku confused, after all it was like he was a completely different person

"Is he okay?" asked Melissa.

"it's fine… it's just a problem he has." Said Momo.

"When they invited me they told me that it was originally went to first place, but they declined it." Muttered Bakugo glaring at Izuku.

"I got invited by someone else and took them on their offer." said Izuku glaring at Bakugo, "You know you're lucky they didn't tell me they were going to give the invitation to the runner up… I would have kept it if I had known."

"They don't like each other do they?" asked Melissa.

"No this is them getting along… sort of it…" said Ochaco, "It's weird between them."

Bakugo glared back.

"So are you going to do this?" asked Bakugo.

"If you want me to beat you gun powder for brains." Said Izuku jumping down to participate.

"So…" said Mashirao to Kirishima, "You were his plus 1?"

"Yeah." Said Kirishima.

And soon enough it was time for Izuku's turn at the competition.

Once it started Izuku activated One for All and Arment Haki at the same time, while using observation Haki to figure out where the robots were.

During the fight Melissa noticed that Izuku wasn't using his hands to fight.

Once Izuku was done it was clear that he got a higher score than Bakugo.

"Seriously!" yelled Bakugo.

"What? Are you mad I got a higher score than you?" asked Izuku.

"No! You were holding back!" yelled Bakugo.

Izuku froze and realized he forgot Diable Jambe.

"I didn't mean to intentionally." Sighed Izuku slipping out of Sanji mode.

Bakugo was caught off guard by this and knew whatever Izuku was going through was serious.

"I've been going through something…" Said Izuku then he quickly went back into Sanji mode, "But I'm not telling you."

"Like I want to hear about your stupid and weird problems." Muttered Bakugo.

That was when the next contestant went up and it completely froze the entire battle field getting the highest score.

They of course recognized that person was Todoroki who noticed all of them.

"Seriously!" yelled Bakugo, "What are you even doing here!"

"I came here representing my father." Said Todoroki.

"Hibiki said that the whole class is probably on the island." Said Izuku, "And I'm starting to believe him."

"Whatever! I'm going again!" said yelled Bakugo.

"Seriously Bakugo!" yelled Izuku.

"I can accept you holding back… but Icy Hot didn't even try!" yelled Bakugo.

"Come on… just accept it." Said Kirishima.

"Is it too late to pretend we don't know him?" asked Izuku face palming.

"You were talking to him earlier, so no." said Todoroki.

Not too later, Mineta and Kaminari were exhausted from working all day.

That was when Melissa showed up with some sort of tickets.

"Here." She said.

Both of them looked up.

"What?" asked Kaminari.

"She decided to take pity on your two and invite you to the gala tonight." Said Kyoka.

"Against our judgment." Muttered Momo while she and Izuku glared at the two.

"Really?" the two of them asked happily.

"We should all meet up together, and go as a group!" said Iida.

"That's sounds like fun!" said Toru.

"Better than going with Hibiki." Said Mashirao he looked at Izuku, "You're so lucky you got to escape."

"Like I said, trying to kill him with their minds." Said Toru.

After parting ways Melissa decided to show Izuku something in her room.

"I noticed that during the competition you were only using your legs to fight." Said Melissa.

"Yeah… I was…" said Izuku.

She took out a box that contained something that looked like a red bracelet.

"What is it?" asked Izuku.

"Put it on. "said Melissa.

He put it on and found that whatever it was activated wrapping his arm in a strange metallic device resembled a fingerless glove.

"It's my own invention, I call it the gauntlet." Said Melissa, "It should be able to withstand three of Uncle Might's smashes."

"What seriously?" asked Izuku.

Melissa nodded.

"I can't take this though." Said Izuku.

"Why not?" asked Melissa.

"Well you see the reason why I don't use my hands in a fight, well it's compilated." Sighed Izuku.

"How is it complicated?" asked Melissa.

Izuku knew he should tell her.

"You see a couple months ago, I was attacked by a villain. Her quirk forces a person to remember their past life. Mine was fighting cook." Said Izuku not wanting to get into the pirate part at the moment, "In my past life I learned not use to my hands in a fight as that's a chef's greatest tool. I don't consider myself a chef any more, but using my hands just feels wrong."

"Is that why you keep acting strangely?" asked Melissa.

"Yeah, my past life's personality sometimes shows, we are complete opposites." Said Izuku, "It's often hard…"

"I see." Said Melissa, "But I understand why you can't use it…"

"Thanks…" said Izuku.

"But if you ever feel like you have to use your fists to fight, you should keep it." said Melissa.

"What?" asked Izuku, "But it's yours."

"It still fine." Said Melissa.

"I'll keep away from Hibiki then." Said Izuku.

"How do you know him?" asked Melissa.

"He was hit by the same quirk." Said Izuku.

"Wait… is that how he suddenly became a genius inventor suddenly?" asked Melissa .

"Yeah." Said Izuku.

"I've heard that before he started inventing he wasn't good with technology." Said Melissa.

"I know." Said Izuku, "I heard."

Both of them laughed.

"Please… it's my dream." Said Melissa.

"Dream?" asked Izuku.

"Yeah. To be a lot like my dad." Said Melissa, "He's such a brilliant scientist and I can't help to be like him."

Izuku stared at her and she noticed.

"Oh sorry for staring, it's just that almost everyone today dreams of being a hero." Said Izuku.

"I gave up on that a long time ago." Said Melissa.

"Really why?" asked Izuku.

"Because I'm Quirkless." Said Melissa.

"Oh…" said Izuku as he couldn't help but to think "So she knows what it's like too."

"It's fine really." Said Melissa, "I'm happy with my life as it is."

Izuku looked at her and smiled back at her.

That was when Izuku's cellphone began to ring.

He looked at and saw it was Iida.

"Oh hey Iida." Said Izuku.

"What are you doing Midoriya!" yelled Iida on the phone, "It's past the time we were supposed to meet up!"

Izuku sweat dropped at his phone and knew he had to go to the hotel and get ready.

Thankfully the plan was always to go to the gala so he was all set.

However what he didn't know just was going to happen during that gala and what it would mean for the entire island.

Next Time: It's time for the Gala however a bunch of villain with big guns show up and take over not only the party but also the entire island's security system, with the heroes at the gala down, it's up the heroes in training (and Melissa) to save everyone, can they do it? Find out next time!