3 Years later
It was the day of the entrance exams at long last. After Izuku and Himiko met Rumi and Mei at the train station all four began the walk to UA. All were wearing their school uniforms and had a backpack containing supplies for the written test and gym clothes for the practical.
Izuku was watching the news coverage about a fight between a villain with a muscle augmentation Quirk and the Water Hoses. The heroes had died and left behind a son that was only four years old. It was such a waste, a child made orphan and an amazing Quirk in the hands of a monster. It wasn't uncommon for heroes to die in the field but it usually didn't happen on live TV in broad daylight, the worst villains were usually behind closed doors. Izuku was brought out of his solemn mood with an elbow to the ribs.
"So what's it like still being shorter than me?" Rumi asked Izuku, giving him a challenging grin.
Izuku looked down at the dark skinned rabbit girl with a raised eyebrow. "I'm 6'6", you're 6'2", your ears don't count."
Over the course of the last three years Izuku and Rumi had both shot up in height. Izuku was as tall as Endeavor now but not as bulky. Their muscles were built for movement and strength, not size. Every muscle was toned and lean, striations visible in every movement, like a wild animal pressed against the bars of its cage.
Rumi punched him in the shoulder. "They're part of my body, they count!"
Izuku sighed in defeat. "Ugh fine, you're an Amazonian Goddess. Happy?"
Rumi stood on her toes and pecked him on the cheek. "Very~"
"Do you think your growth spurts had something to do with your Quirks?" Mei asked from Rumi's side where she was holding her hand as they walked.
Izuku cupped his chin. "Hmm maybe, Cell Activation basically supercharges everything else so it makes sense and Rumi's Quirk evolution was mostly physical so it would make sense that it would affect her height too."
"Hey Mei, did you get all your gear approved for the practical?" Himiko asked from where she was clinging on to Izuku's arm as he began muttering to himself.
"YA! Apparently since I'm double majoring I can bring almost anything as long as I've made it myself!" Mei responded enthusiastically as ever.
"Ok, good. It's a good thing Izuku's moms got you training with Snipe, we owe them a gift basket or something." Himiko said with a smile at the thought of how supportive the Mamadoriyas had been.
Izuku snapped out of his theory crafting mutter spree. "That reminds me!" He pulled his backpack off and began digging through it. "I've got snacks for after the written exam! Don't want to go into the practical hungry after all. Some carrots for Rumi, a pomegranate for Himiko, and a chocolate bar for Mei. It's plain, nothing crunchy." He clarified as he handed out the snacks, knowing Mei's aversion to anything crunchy.
"WOO!" Mei cheered as she eagerly accepted the chocolate.
"Thanks babe, you always take such good care of us." Rumi said as she accepted the carrots and bumped his shoulder affectionately.
"Thanks Izukun" Himiko said as she accepted the pomegranate and pulled Izuku down into a kiss, nipping at his lower lip with her fangs and licking the blood.
Rumi pulled two thermoses from her bag. "That reminds me, here's some of my and Mei's blood for the practical, since you can't use Izuku's Quirk cuz it's a stockpiler."
Himiko's pupils blew wide as she accepted the thermoses. "I have the best partners ever!" She purred out.
As they walked up the familiar path of UA's entrance someone shouldered past Izuku, barely moving him. The offender said nothing and kept walking without so much as a glance backwards.
Izuku recognized the familiar head of spiky blonde hair. He had expected to see Bakugou again at UA but not so soon that's for sure.
Himiko's eyes narrowed to slits and were shadowed by her bangs. "Was that Bakubitch?" She asked in a dangerously low voice.
In her anger she wasn't paying attention to where she was stepping and tripped on a loose brick.
Izuku went to catch her but stopped when he noticed her floating horizontally and a girl with a bob of chin length auburn hair with her hand outstretched, touching Himiko's shoulder. The girl was about 5'1" and had a round face with a small blush.
Izuku felt Himiko's emotions spike, too many and too fast to register what they were.
Himiko's eyes went wide in recognition. Still facing the ground and unable to see her benefactor, Himiko asked quietly with hope evident in her voice, "...Ocha?"
The brunette gave a sharp intake of air. "...Himi?" 'Ocha' helped Himiko into an upright position before whispering 'release' under her breath and returning the blonde's gravity.
The two stared at each other in silence as if the rest of the world had fallen away. Izuku could sense so much relief coming off the two…and affection.
Tears pricked at both girls' eyes and they pulled each other into a desperate hug.
"Ya disappeared, I thought I'd never see ya again! Was it because I beat up those guys fer picking on Tsu?" The brunette asked with a distinct Kansai accent and a waver in her voice as she brushed her thumb over the scar going through Himiko's left eyebrow that she had gotten when she was ambushed.
That's when it clicked for Izuku. Himiko had told him, Rumi, and Mei about the day she ran away. It was the day of her middle school graduation, some bullies were picking on a girl with a frog Quirk and Himiko's friend Ochako had stepped in and beat down the bullies, but got pretty bloodied up and bruised for her efforts. Himiko said that was when she knew she had to run away or she would end up hurting her friend. Her cravings for blood had reached a boiling point, she chose to run away rather than harm her first crush.
Himiko nuzzled her head deeper into the crook of Ochako's neck and gave a muffled reply. "N-no Ocha, it's a long story but I promise to tell you everything."
"You must be Himiko, ribbit." Said a croaking voice from a nearby girl with an obvious frog Quirk. She was short, five feet tall at most. She had long, green hair that went down to the small of her back and was tied in a large bow. Her face wasn't very expressive, but had large eyes and an angular, upturned mouth. Izuku could feel the girl's unease despite her expressionless face.
Ochako pulled herself from the hug blushing slightly more than what seemed to be usual.
"H-How rude of me, I'm Uraraka Ochako and this is my girlfriend Asui Tsuyu." Ochako gestured to the frog girl.
Izuku registered a lot of conflicting emotions in Himiko then. They would likely have to talk about this later.
"Call me Tsu, ribbit. Ochako has told me a lot about you, Himiko." Tsu said near impassively, but Izuku could feel her worry.
"She has?" Himiko asked with disbelief before gesturing to Izuku, Rumi, and Mei. "These are my partners. The giant one is Midoriya Izuku, the Amazon bunny is Oguro Rumi, and the pink gremlin is Hatsume Mei."
Apparently it was Ochako's turn to feel the same conflicting emotions. Tsu seemed to feel relieved and…hopeful? Definitely needed to talk about this later.
Izuku and Mei smiled at the two and waved.
Rumi threw Tsu a grin. "Nice to see another person here with a mutation Quirk."
Mei scooted close to Izuku, pulled him down to her level and whispered into his ear. "What just happened?" She asked, knowing Izuku would explain the nuances of the interaction well thanks to Empathy.
"We'll all talk about it later, but don't worry about it ok?" He whispered back.
Mei nodded and kissed his cheek before pulling away smiling.
The bell rang then and everyone went wide eyed. Himiko quickly exchanged numbers with Ochako before they all but ran into the building to take the written exam.
The written exam had been objectively difficult but was nothing compared to Nezu's personal tests. Izuku was confident in his girlfriend's abilities too, they had all studied together for three years after all.
He found his seat for the briefing before the practical and was relieved to see his girlfriends there as well. He took his seat with Mei on his right and Himiko on his left, Rumi was on the other side of Mei.
After a minute of bemoaning the fact that they would be split up for the exam Present Mic took the stage. Mei and Izuku began shaking each other excitedly, they often tuned into his radio show late at night while they worked in Mei's workshop together.
"EVERYONE SAY HEY!"
"HEY!" Izuku and Mei bellowed in response, but were the only ones.
"THANK YOU LISTENERS!"
Izuku went back to shaking Mei. "He called us listeners!" He whisper-shouted in excitement.
As Present Mic began to go over what to expect in the practical Izuku and Mei were frantically whispering to each other and reading over every detail in the provided packet while Rumi and Himiko listened to them and Present Mic.
"EXCUSE ME!" a voice a few rows from behind them yelled.
A spotlight lit up a tall well muscled boy with neat, blue hair.
"YES LITTLE LISTENER?" Mic asked, giving the boy the metaphorical stage.
"You mentioned three types of faux villains but the packet clearly labels four, if this is a typo then UA should be ashamed!" The bespectacled boy pushed up his glasses and pointed at Izuku. "AND YOU TWO with the messy hair and dreadlocks, you two have been whispering to each other this entire time! If you aren't going to take this seriously, then you should leave immediately!"
Himiko showed her teeth at the boy, not in a smile but in a way a predator might bare its teeth at prey.
Rumi stood up, chair clattering to the floor as she pointed at the blue haired boy. "Watch your fuckin mouth, you ain't a proctor! Besides, don't ya know better than to ask questions before the lecture is finished?!"
The boy sputtered while cranking his arm in a very robotic fashion before bowing to Present Mic in apology for interrupting.
"SO MUCH SPIRIT!" Mic yelled before going on to explain the zero pointer.
Izuku stood amongst a group of other examinees outside of mock city Beta. He was wearing black gym shorts and a green t-shirt that read 'hat' in black lettering.
He noticed Ochako attempting some breathing exercises to calm herself down from what he could tell was nearing a panic attack. He reached out with Empathy and pushed calm confidence into her, she spun around and looked at him bewildered but smiled anyway.
Before he could go talk to her a hand gripped his shoulder. In a flash of movement he acted on instinct and grabbed the offending appendage and put it into a wrist lock as he spun on his heel and reared back his fist.
He was greeted with the shocked expression of the blue haired boy from the briefing, he released the boy's wrist.
"You shouldn't just grab people like that, you could trigger someone." Izuku said in warning. If the boy had done that to Himiko she would have gutted the poor boy before he could've even reacted.
As the blue haired boy began sputtering something that sounded like the beginnings of an apology, Danger Sense flared and Present Mic yelled, "GO!"
After so many spars with Mr. Oguro and brutal training sessions with Gran Torino Izuku reacted with muscle memory.
He activated Float and rocketed off, flying over the stunned crowd and the still opening gate into the mock city.
He saw the robots that had triggered his Danger Sense rolling down the main street towards the gate. A shockwave buffeted the street as he broke the sound barrier as he flew just over the robots. They began to aim upwards as he let Black Whip lash out, wrapping around each and dragging them along the street as he went. He reached the end of the main street and released Black Whip as he turned around to survey what he had done. There was an assortment of two dozen one, two and three pointers piled in a twisted heap beneath him. The exam participants were just now clearing the gate and staring at his floating form with wide eyes.
In the observation room the staff of UA were staring slack jawed at the monitors showing Izuku, well most were.
"That's our boy!" Midnight cheered as she jumped onto Thirteen's lap and squeezed their puffy space suit in a hug.
"He certainly knows how to make an entrance!" All Might in his thin form agreed. No longer did he look like a walking skeleton in a suit, he was thin but not grotesquely so, his black sclera had even returned to white. Such a feat was only possible with Recover Girl's evolved Quirk that now was capable of curing diseases and nullifying poisons.
Snipe sat forward and pointed at a separate monitor. "That ain't all, my lil protégé is kickin ass too! I swear she's the second coming of Lady Nagant."
The monitor showed someone flying high above a mock city in a winged suit of armor holding a rifle. The feed on the monitor was too far away to get a very good look at the armor or rifle but a separate feed showed robot after robot crashing to the ground unmoving with a single hole through each of their carapaces.
"Was her support gear cleared?" Cementoss asked.
"Ya I cleared it myself, she even has all of it patented already." Power Loader responded.
Vlad King stood up and pointed to another screen. "FORGET THEM, LOOK AT MY PRECIOUS BABY GIRL GO!"
On the monitor feed Himiko was smiling wide and ripping through machines with her claws faster than they could track her movements. After using her claws to climb the face of a building she morphed into Mei and wrapped her arms around her own midsection in a quick hug while she surveyed the area. She then morphed into Rumi and ran her hands over the sides of her face lovingly before she leaped from the building towards a grouping of robots.
"It appears Rumi is having fun as well." Thirteen commented.
On another monitor Rumi was bounding down streets almost too fast for the cameras to follow, leaving cracked asphalt and a wheezing midget with purple balls for hair in her wake. She slammed into the side of a building, almost collapsing the concrete wall and used it as a springboard to launch herself head long into a group of robots that had surrounded a few overwhelmed examinees. She ripped through the robots like tissue paper with her lightning fast kicks.
"How's your boy doing Aizawa?" Nezu chirped.
"About as well as you'd expect against this irrational exam, he should have taken the recommended exam like I suggested." Eraser Head groused.
On the monitor that was occupying his attention showed a indigo haired boy struggling to wield a broken piece of robot as a weapon. Izuku landed next to the boy and grabbed a nearby piece of metal, formed black claws and carved the piece of metal into a sword before handing it to the bewildered purple haired boy and flying off.
Aizawa hid his smile under his capture scarf, he couldn't be biased as a teacher but as a father he was glad the Midoriya boy had helped Shinso.
Power Loader held his thumb over a large red button on a control panel. "It's almost time…"
Izuku had given up on trying to count his points shortly after the start, he just decided to treat this exam as seriously as possible and do everything he could as if real lives were at stake.
He was flying above the buildings as he surveyed the area with thermal vision for any robots or people that needed help.
He saw a girl climbing on the back of a three pointer and a boy with his hands held behind his head in a ridiculous pose as he shot a laser beam through a one pointer like it was held together with gum. The boy then turned his attention to the three pointer that the girl was still climbing around on. With thermal vision still active he could see the boy's stomach begin to heat up, preparing to fire another laser.
'He must not see the girl!' Izuku yelled inside his mind.
Izuku flew down in a flash and snatched the girl off the back of the three pointer in a princess carry just as it exploded.
Izuku turned to the surprised boy. "Watch where you're shooting, you almost hit her!"
He turned back to check on the girl still in his arms, he looked down and saw the thermal image of a girl with hair and eyes that both fluctuated with heat in a beautiful pattern…she was also naked. He blushed so hard he thought he could hear a tea kettle somewhere as he let her down while averting his eyes.
'Her clothes must have gotten damaged at some point.' He thought as he pulled off his shirt and handed it to the girl while still averting his eyes.
"S-Sorry, I didn't mean to look. H-Here, it should be big enough to cover you up, and don't worry about giving it back." He said quickly.
The girl let out an 'eep!' before grabbing the dress sized shirt. "You can see me?!" She asked in disbelief.
'Of course I can see her, how could I not?' He thought before switching off thermal vision.
Before he could turn back to the girl, a thundering crash sounded as buildings collapsed and a massive metal hand gripped the nearby building.
"That must be the zero pointer, we should get out of here." Izuku said and was about to fly off before he heard something.
"Ouch..." came a pained whisper from down the street.
He looked to see Ochako laying face down with debri pinning her legs, and the zero pointer launching a bus sized fist at her prone form.
Before he even realized what he was doing he charged Full Cowl up to his maximum of 25% and launched down the street towards Ochako. Time slowed as Danger Sense triggered and he barely made it in time as he caught the fist, his feet cracking the asphalt from the force. His muscles bulged, he was barely able to keep the fist at bay as he held it with outstretched arms. His feet were digging deeper into the road as the fist slowly began to overpower him. Blackwhip pulled the debri off Ochako's legs, freeing her.
"Run..Uraraka." He grunted out above her.
"I think my leg is broken.." Ochako said in defeat.
'Well fuck.' He cursed internally, he was pretty sure Rumi was a bad influence on him.
'I could use my Blackwhip talons to carve through the inside of the robot but it wouldn't be fast enough to save Ochako. I could go past my limit and throw a 100% punch but there's no guarantee it'll work with only one punch and I'm pretty sure it'll break my bones and leave me unable to throw a second. There has to be something!' He rapidly thought of his options as time was still slowed.
His mind flashed back to the news report that morning, he remembered the way that villain's Quirk made muscles grow over the top of his skin, making him much stronger than normal.
As he had the thought Blackwhip responded subconsciously. Hundreds of small tendrils began snaking down his body in a mimicry of the muscles beneath, each strand of Blackwhip whip mimicking a skeletal muscle structure. After a few slowed seconds Blackwhip now encased his body in a single, thin layer of black muscles. The faux muscle ended at his ankles, wrists, and base of his skull. He could feel the weight of the monstrous fist lessen and the Blackwhip muscles bulge in sync with his own.
He went past his limit of 25% all the way to 100%. He threw the fist back and to the side, resulting in the zero pointer stumbling forward from the loss of support. As it began falling towards him he launched upwards with Float and uppercut the monstrosity with everything he had. Fist connected against metal, his knuckles exploded open as metal crumpled. The robot's head snapped back in a deafening boom as it began falling backwards and exploding internally.
With the threat dealt with he descended back to the ground and let Blackwhip go. When the faux muscles retreated he saw that his right arm was purple, then the pain registered. He definitely broke every bone in his arm but at least they hadn't shattered.
'Guess 100% is still too much.' He thought as he kneeled next to Ochako.
As his arm very slowly began healing from Cell Activation he reached out with his uninjured hand and laid it on Ochako's purple ankle as it began to glow green.
"This won't heal your leg entirely but It'll make it feel better in the meantime." Izuku said not noticing the girl's wide open mouth as she stared at his bare chest.
"You were so cool! It was all BAM then KABOOM!" Ochako cheered while gesticulating with her hands wildly.
Izuku went to ruffle his hair in embarrassment but winced when he tried to move his still very broken right arm.
"YOUR HURT!" Ochako screeched.
"Make way, make way." A familiar voice said.
Recovery Girl made her way through the crowd of gathered onlookers, swatting with her cane at anyone that took too long to move.
"Honestly, these tests get more dangerous every year I swear. You hurt dearies?" Recovery Girl asked Izuku and Ochako.
"Ya, I had to go over my limit and broke my arm, Uraraka here broke her ankle when debri fell." He answered while his hand still rested, glowing on Ochako's ankle.
"Don't make it a habit or I'll tell your moms, young man." Chiyo warned as she gave a quick smooch on Izuku's arm and Ochako's ankle, healing them immediately. Izuku knew that Recovery Girl's Quirk sapped the energy of those she used it on, but thanks to Cell Activation he barely even registered it. Ochako looked like she was about to fall asleep though so he kept Cell Activation active on her to restore her energy.
"Y-Yes Ma'am." Izuku responded, nodding rapidly as his curls bounced.
"Woah I felt so tired at first but now I feel great! Was that your Quirk? You can do so many cool things!" Ochako said excitedly as she stood up and got very close, smiling so bright he had to squint.
He blushed and ruffled his hair, "T-Thanks Uraraka."
"Call me Ochako, you saved my life after all." Ochako said, dismissing his formality.
He smiled down at the girl. "Thanks Ochako, you can call me Izuku."
He could feel the girl's excitement turn into affection, maybe even attraction. Before he had time to think about that some floating gym clothes jogged up to him and handed him the t-shirt he had given away.
"You can have this back now, I'm Hagakure Toru by the way!" Toru said animatedly.
"Thanks, I'm Midoriya Izuku." He said confusedly as he put his shirt back on. He could feel their disappointment as he did so.
"What happened to the girl that had my shirt, is she ok?" He asked, hoping she had found something else to cover up with.
"That was me, silly!" Toru said, waving her arms around.
'What!?' He thought, flipping thermal vision back on. It was the same gorgeous girl with a bob of hair and eyes that both seemed to shimmer. She looked to have a beauty mark similar to Nana's as well.
"Is that why you were naked!?" He all but screeched.
"Ya, I can't turn my invisibility off or make other things invisible so I have to get naked to be invisible, I never expected someone would be able to see me….What do I look like?" She finished quietly.
'Ethereal.' he thought immediately.
Ochako and Toru gasped quietly.
He slapped his hands over his mouth, "Gotta run! Sorry!" He said as he ran toward the entrance blushing.
Earlier that day
Deep within the substructure of the Shie Hassaikai main base of operations, Kendo Rappa wandered. He was looking for Overhaul so he could challenge him again but had ended up lost in the concrete underground maze.
"What, am I supposed to carry a map or something!?"
He slammed open a metal door, it was dark inside so he flipped on the light switch.
"You in here Overhaul!?"
No response came. It was then he noticed the steel chair with leather restraints at the center of the room, a small chair…one someone would design with a child in mind. There were specks of dried blood in the chair's nooks and crannies, as if it was too much of a hassle to clean fully.
He took another look around the room and saw four massive steel barrels that had a sign hastily slapped onto them that read 'waste'. Against his better judgment he opened one, he immediately gagged and closed the lid. Inside was a soup of what used to be a human.
Blood and viscera was not something he was unused to but he had seen what Overhaul's Quirk did to people, he had even felt what it was like first hand. It felt like unimaginable pain, as if every cell in your body was crying out in agony followed by the sweet release of death. No, Kendo Rappa hadn't gagged because of the gore inside the barrel but because he could make out the pieces of what used to be a child…the teeth was what gave it away.
He was about to go find some yakuza to kill but he heard something coming from the nearby vent high on the wall. He strained his ears, it was tinny but he could make out the whimpering of a child trying in vain to muffle their cries.
He marched back into the deserted hallway and headed in the direction he heard the crying coming from. He didn't have to travel far to find a door being guarded by one of the underlings. He could hear the crying coming through the metal door behind the man. Rappa's ever present battle manic smile was gone, in its place was a snarl.
He loomed over the short pudgy guard with all his eight feet in height. Just as the scared shirtless guard began demanding what he wanted he palmed the man's face and effortlessly crumpled the man's skull into the metal door.
After kicking the lifeless body out of the way he opened the door. Inside was a poorly lit child's room with dozens of unopened toys and colorful paint on the walls, at the center was a large comfy bed with a wisp of a child at the center of it. She had ruby red eyes and snow white hair that went down to her lower back and a small horn on the right side of her forehead. They were features he recognized from the barrel. She was wearing a threadbare white t-shirt dress and her arms and legs were wrapped in bandages, and they were shaking as the girl looked at him with terror.
The dichotomy between the room and it's inhabitant was sickening, here was a child's dream bedroom and it's inhabitant was a horrified child being tortured day in and day out, no that wasn't accurate was it? He had felt what it was like for Overhaul to use his quirk on him. It felt like dying. This girl had been dying day in and day out for who knows how long. Well that stops today. He punched an address into his phone and handed it to the terrified girl that was still bracing for violence.
"Follow that, run as fast as you can, I'll distract them." He said, the phone still in his outstretched hand.
"But you're wearing the bird mask, aren't you with them?" The little albino girl squeaked out.
He ripped off his torn up mask. "Not anymore."
He could hear footsteps echoing down the hallway outside.
"You have to go now, tell him that The Rapper sent you." Rappa said as he set the phone on the bed before he stepped back into the hallway facing the coming footsteps.
The little unicorn walked up to the threshold of the room, phone in hand. She paused as she looked down, then almost in disbelief that she was able to, she crossed the doorway.
"But won't you d-die?" She asked with tears in her eyes.
Kendo Rappa looked back over his shoulder at the girl with a sad smile that was only possible after nearly two decades of self-destructive habits. "That was always the point…let me do this one good thing before my final bell rings."
With that he faced forward and rushed down the hallway to meet the yakuza bastards head on.
As he rushed down the dark hallways, tears began pricking at his eyes and he whispered to himself, "I'm sorry Itsuka, I'm sorry I couldn't be the father you deserved."
Izuku and his girlfriend's walked into Ogre's Gym, Mr. Oguro wasn't home so they decided to hangout at Rumi's after the exams.
"So what happened this morning with those two girls that Himiko knew?" Mei asked as she sat on a weight bench to take off her boots.
"They were from my middle school, I didn't really know Tsu but Chako was the reason I had to run away, remember?" Himiko responded as she sat down on the floor and leaned her head onto Mei's lap.
"Because you liked her too much and were scared you were going to hurt her? Do you still like her?" Mei asked nonchalantly as she began playing with the stray hairs of Himiko's buns.
Himiko knew better than to try and lie so she told them the truth. "I don't know if I ever stopped…"
"Oooh, Does that mean Ocha and Tsu are going to join our polycule?" Mei asked as she excitedly clapped her hands.
"Each relationship might be unique but we're a package deal and we don't even know if they're bi or not." Rumi supplied as she wrapped an arm around Izuku's mid section.
Izuku ruffled his curly locks. "Welllll, I'm pretty sure Ochako is at least."
Rumi bumped her hip into Izuku. "Ohoho first name basis already? And how do you figure she's bi?"
"Well after I saved her from the zero pointer with no shirt on she was giving off some...emotions." He said bashfully.
Himiko wiggled her eyebrows seductively. "You didn't say you were shirtless~ Still can't believe you took that thing down and figured out a new move on the fly."
"Ya! I knew I shoulda fought that thing! But why were you shirtless?" Rumi asked.
Izuku blushed slightly. "Because I gave it to a naked girl, it turns out she was invisible and only I could see her because of thermal vision."
"You little charmer! Anyways I'm not opposed to new people joining the polycule but we'll have to get to know them a bit better first." Rumi decided.
"Me too, they seemed nice and I like Ocha's accent." Mei said with a manic grin.
"I'm fine with getting to know them better and seeing where it goes, hopefully we all get into UA together." Izuku said.
Himiko sniffled. "I love all of you so much, thank you for giving the idea a chance."
"Of course Himiko, we love you and if you think you might be interested in adding someone or someones to our relationship, then we're willing to try at the very least." Izuku said as he knelt next to Himiko and placed his hand on her shoulder.
The door to the gym chimed as it swung open.
"Sorry, we're clos–" Rumi began but stopped at the sight of a small child holding a phone like it was a lifeline.
Izuku felt for the girls emotions and nearly gagged, her terror was so all encompassing that it he could taste it, it tasted of spoiled milk. What on earth could a little girl that couldn't be a day older than five be so afraid of? He tried pushing calm into the girl but he could feel the terror come rushing back.
"T-the Rapper sent me, please save him." The girl said in a trembling voice.
Rumi gave a sharp intake of air. "That's the name of an old friend of my dad's, from his vigilante days."
Everyone began walking closer to the girl but stopped when they noticed her trembling increase.
Izuku knelt down on one knee about five feet away. That's when he noticed the bandages covering the girl's arms and legs and the fact that she was barefoot.
"We won't hurt you. I'm Izuku, what's your name?" He asked as softly as he could.
The child looked all around nervously, as if expecting a trick. "I-I'm Eri."
"Did someone hurt you, Eri?" Izuku asked, trying to tamp down on his anger at the possibility.
"N-not today." She responded as her lip trembled.
Izuku could feel his girlfriends' rage pouring off of them like a damn breaking.
"Nobody is going to hurt you ever again if we have anything to say about it." He said with a bright smile and opened his arms up invitingly.
Tears pricked Eri's ruby eyes as she tentatively walked forward into Izuku's open arms and at the last second she threw herself into him and clutched her arms around his neck as the floodgates opened and she cried with heaving gasps for air.
He held her close and stood up, her small legs wrapping around his waist. He ran his hand through her white hair trying to calm her. Rumi, Mei and Himiko circled close and placed comforting hands on Eri. He tried to push calm into her once more and this time it worked, her crying subsided and her breathing steadied.
The door to the gym chimed yet again and Danger Sense triggered as Izuku registered pure Malice coming off the newcomer.
Rumi stiffened and whispered, "Dangerous, lethally."
The man had black hair and was wearing a plague doctor's mask and a purple feather collared jacket.
"Ahh, you found my daughter, we'll be going now." The man said, Empathy registering her being his daughter as a lie.
In his arms Eri flinched hard at the too smooth voice.
"She's covered in bandages, were you the one that hurt her?" Izuku ground out.
"Of course not, she just trips a lot." The man answered, clearly getting annoyed.
"Liar. She's not going anywhere with you." Izuku stated with finality.
Rumi and Himiko went as tense as a spring, Mei reached into her pocket.
"Come along Eri, we don't want any trouble now do we?" He asked through gritted teeth as he pulled his white gloves off.
Danger Sense was beginning to nudge harder and harder in the man's direction, Empathy was registering murderous rage from the man. Eri's fear was back in force and she began to try and wiggle out of Izuku's grip, he pushed calm back into her and she stopped. "He'll kill you," she whispered into Izuku's ear.
Judging by the gloves Izuku deduced that his quirk relied on touch and was likely very lethal.
"Give her back in 3…2…" The masked man began counting down as he slowly started crouching.
"Ifyouagreetoasparsaywhat." Izuku rushed out after coming up with a semblance of a plan.
The man raised an eyebrow. "What?"
Blackwhip sprang into life and wrapped around the man's wrists just before his hands could reach the ground. Blackwhip pulled his arms wide and lifted him off the ground.
"GIVE HER BACK!" He roared as he flailed against his newfound restraints.
Himiko flashed forward and leopard punched him in the throat, her fingers curled into a fist at the middle joint instead of the knuckles, his head hung forward as he gasped for air. "Not cute at all."
"Luna Arc!" Rumi yelled out as she descended on the man with an axe kick to the back of his head, jerking it further downward.
The man looked up with wild eyes and without his mask as Mei pulled a small ball from her pocket and threw it while cackling. It landed on his chest with a splat, then electricity raced along the man's skin as he convulsed before going limp in Blackwhip's hold.
The door chimed as Mr. Oguro stepped in. "What the fuck happened here?" He asked almost too casually.
Izuku clasped his hand over Eri's free ear and gasped.