For once, I'm doing a disclaimer!

In this fic, I'm doing something I've been wanting to experiment with for probably over a year at this point. It's something entirely different, as I am adding characters from other series I really enjoy to the main cast. And that means REMOVING some characters from 1-A! No. I don't care that they're your favorite. If all you're going to do is bitch about it, save yourself the trouble and don't review.

Thank you Ignis for your help with the gratuitous spanish.

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Midoriya Inko never had the normal worries regular parents had. She never had to worry about whether her precious little boy would be special. If he would be one of the unlucky few to be the wrong kind of special; the kind with no Quirk. No, from the moment she laid eyes on him for the first time, she knew her little Izuku could be anything he wanted.

Instead, her worries were about keeping Izuku safe long enough to be whatever he wanted. When he was born, she and her husband were befuddled. Her Quirk was the Attraction of Small Things. His was Fire Breathing. As far as they knew, no one in their immediate lineages had any Mutant Type Quirks. Most were either Emitters or more rarely Transformation.

So, it was quite a shock to see her little boy for the first time, and realize he had a lot of hair. You could even call it light fur. He was FAR too furry for a human child, never mind one his age. It didn't cover his entire body, but it covered enough. And that wasn't even counting the extremely prehensile monkey tail coming from his lower back.

But despite the differences and extreme confusion his obvious Quirk gave them, she and her husband didn't love their child any less. And he was their child. No one else could have that diamond-patterned series of freckles, dark-green hair, and emerald eyes. The doctors had been just as confused, and got the shocks of their lives when they examined little Izuku.

"My word!" The lead doctor's exclamation immediately drew their attention, prompting Inko to frantically ask if there was anything wrong with her baby, "Wrong? Perish the thought! I've just never seen Quirk Factor numbers like these!" The man exclaimed, a look of excitement on his face as he adjusted his glasses, "His numbers are off the charts! And not only that, but they're high everywhere! He has classic signs of not only his clear Mutant Quirk, but Transformation and Emitter on top of it! You two will need to be extremely careful with little Izuku, Midoriya-san. He just may surprise you!"

The knowledge had done little to settle her nerves about being a new mother, and the doctor's words had proven prophetic. Izuku developed with a speed that caught his parents flatfooted, beating every physical developmental milestone by months. He was capable of sitting unsupported at two months, and had been crawling by month four. By month six, he had been capable of standing on his own, using his tail as support. By month eleven, he had been walking totally unsupported.

At a time that most parents would be cheering on their baby taking their first unsupported steps, Izuku had nearly given Inko a heart attack by hanging from the dinner table using his tail. Her son was trying to kill his poor mother! She couldn't take frights like these!

Unfortunately for her, she was forced to learn to roll with the punches, because Izuku developed into an extremely free-spirited, mischievous little boy! By the time her books said he should have been slowly climbing steps one foot at a time and maybe kicking a ball around… her little boy was running and jumping all around the house, flinging himself to and fro using his tail and even doing acrobatics. She swore he must have been a gecko and not a monkey because she'd caught him on the damned ceiling once before! And by that, she meant she had been looking frantically for him and he'd just dropped onto her shoulders from above, scaring the lights out of her and laughing in delight all the while.

It was almost with unwilling relief that she finally was able to put him in preschool, right next to her best friend's little Katsuki. Once Katsuki awakened his literally explosive Quirk, she wasn't sure if she envied or pitied Mitsuki.

Of course, that was when the doctor's words came back to bite her. Izuku had been the center of attention in the pre-school classes. Everyone was in awe of how developed he was, and the fact that he could have run circles around a child twice his age. By the time Katsuki awakened his Quirk at age four, Izuku had been able to leap halfway across the playground in a single bound, and could even lift something heavier than even his own body without so much as a grunt of exertion. But Katsuki's explosive Quirk? Now that was cool, and suddenly he wasn't the center of attention anymore. Everyone was praising Katsuki and his amazing Quirk, and while Izuku was happy for his best friend he couldn't help but be a little jealous. For Izuku, his abilities had always just been his normal. They'd never been unique in his own mind, despite the astonishment they created in others. Now he saw his best friend getting explosions, another classmate getting wings, and so on and he did start feeling a little annoyed that his special ability hadn't come in!

Pouting while the other fickle kids surrounded their new leader Katsuki, Izuku imagined himself launching fire from his hands, or summoning a windstorm, or anything cool and new. Adults would have laughed out loud if they had known what he was thinking. Izuku's Quirk was already so unique and amazing, so it was their job to make him realize that no 'flashy' powers would be coming.

Except they did.

He was swinging a stick around while pouting, and then all of a sudden the stick was twenty feet long and almost hit a teacher. The entire playground froze as they gawked at Izuku and his huge stick. Even he was staring at it in disbelief, "Izuku, what was that?!" Katsuki yelled at him, a little irritated at his spotlight being taken.

"I don't know, Kacchan…?" Izuku didn't really have an answer, before he focused on the stick. He imagined it becoming smaller, and it snapped right back to regular size. He grinned and pointed it into the air, imagining it growing and it shot into the sky while he laughed in delight. It snapped back to small size and the rest of the class surrounded him.

"Wow that was so cool!" One of the little girls exclaimed.

Another was pouting, "It's not fair! You're already super strong! Why do you get to have a super cool Quirk too?"

Katsuki was scowling a bit, "So you can make stuff big? Try something else!" The dumbfounded teachers watched in total disbelief as Izuku went around the playground, trying to grow other things. The kids were confused, because nothing he tried actually worked. Only the stick did. It wasn't a wood-based power, because he tried it on the wooden blocks keeping the sand in the sandbox, and got nothing. It was only the stick.

A teacher came over, "Try this, Midoriya-kun." She handed over a broom gently. A plastic one. Like the stick, the broom grew twenty feet, before snapping back to normal in his hands, "How bizarre." She couldn't help but comment, "You can only grow sticks? Or poles?"

"I guess?" Izuku was equally lost, of course, "Still, that's pretty cool! I have a Quirk!"

"That's not fair!" One of the boys who hadn't awakened a Quirk yet exclaimed, "I don't even have one Quirk and Midoriya has two! That's greedy!"

"What do you mean?" Izuku cocked his head, "Isn't this my Quirk?" He grew the broom again for emphasis.

The rest of the class stared at him deadpan, and the teacher explained gently, "Midoriya-kun, adults can't move or jump the way you can. Your sense of balance and flexibility are also amazing. Adults also don't look furry like you-" Indeed, Izuku's arms and legs were already darkening and he even had what looked like the beginnings of sideburns, "Or have a tail. Your Quirk was your Monkey traits. This is extremely surprising."

"Really?" Izuku was still confused, "That's always been normal to me. I didn't know it was a Quirk."

The teacher laughed, "Well little monkey, you could already have been a good Hero with just that, so you're going to be a great one, aren't you?" Izuku and the rest of the children cheered.

The spotlight totally taken off him, Katsuki frowned in annoyance.

When Inko had learned of her son's new ability, she'd almost started to weep at how much more mischievous he could be. Indeed, she got used to him standing up on a vertical broom-handle, perfectly balanced like a little cat, and then jumping onto her shoulders. The trip to the doctors hadn't revealed much they hadn't already known. His Quirk numbers had climbed even higher than when he had been born, and she had already known he had Quirk Markers for all the types.

The doctors had wanted to do tests on him, but Inko hadn't been comfortable and had taken Izuku home, though she promised to contact them if anything else came up. And come up things did. Not immediately no. Beyond Izuku's strength growing to the point he could jump vertically a story and a half by the time he was five, and start outright being able to lift weights half a year later, nothing much changed.

Katsuki had learned how to make bigger explosions, and the entire class had Quirks by now. It was during a new year where a new student came in from a different school. She didn't end up staying long – her dad had been transferred to Musutafu for training for a few months before being sent elsewhere for a higher position – but the impact of her arrival echoed in the class. She had a transformation Quirk, and a really cool one at that! It let her turn into a dog! A full blown, amusingly colored Siberian Husky to be precise.

Izuku had fallen in love with her Quirk, and had poked and prodded her about how it felt, how cool it was to run on four legs, and all sorts of questions about her Quirk. Amused and happy at the attention, the girl had happily answered all of them. Izuku had declared that he wanted a Quirk like hers too and had scrunched up his nose in concentration.

The boy with long fingers snorted, "Yeah, that'll be the day! Midoriya getting a third quir-" BAMF. In a flash and small puff of smoke, a garishly green Siberian Husky barked happily as the other husky visibly jawdropped, "-k. WHAT THE HELL?!"

Izuku barked in excitement before running in circles chasing his tail. Then, in a flash that no one could follow, had knocked down a slightly-fuming-in-jealousy Katsuki and started licking his face, "Gah! Get off me!" And Izuku was off again in a flash, bounding this way and that way and even doing a wall run nearly to the roof of the school vertically. He bounded off, spun, and landed in his normal monkey boy form.

"That. Was. AWESOME!" Izuku cheered, surrounded by his classmates. Katsuki clenched a fist and stomped off, annoyed that he'd once again been 'beaten.'

Inko had been rendered… immune to her son's shenanigans lately, so for once she took his new ability in stride and had merely grabbed her keys to take him to the specialist again. Once there, Izuku demonstrated his new ability to transform into a dog, and this time the specialist who had been seeing him since he was born gained a gleam in his eye.

"Midoriya-kun, that is a fascinating new ability you've shown us today, and it gave me several clues about what your Quirk actually is!" He pulled a book from his shelf, "Do you think you could try turning into this?"

Izuku looked at it, with Inko looking over his shoulder and blanching. She rapidly shook her head, instantly starting to sweat and waving her hands to the doctor. She was ignored. Izuku put the book in her lap and with a BAMF, there was a gigantic Siberian Tiger in the room, grinning toothily. The doctor started to sweat, realizing that maybe this hadn't been his best idea. Inko straight up fainted, a ghost flying out of her mouth as she slumped.

Izuku roared. The ceiling shook and shrieks rang out throughout the hospital, with Inko squealing in fear as she revived and the doctor involuntarily wetting himself as he jumped. Cries from young children started filling the air and Izuku transformed back with a wince. Not because he felt particularly bad for his prank, but because the shrill sounds hurt his ears.

The doctor moved his clipboard to hide his shame, and coughed in embarrassment, "Y-yes, good job, Midoriya-kun." He smiled, "I have one more test, and if it succeeds I think I've figured out exactly what your Quirk is!"

"Really? What do I have to do?" Izuku asked excitedly, vibrating in his seat so much his tail slid underneath his butt and raised him up. He started doing tail ups in his seat, much to his mother's exasperated amusement.

"I want you to stop and picture a cloud. A golden cloud that looks as fluffy as a marshmallow that you could lay down on. I want you to picture it forming right in front of you!" The doctor spoke almost frantically.

Izuku quirked his head, "A cloud? That's really weird." He closed his eyes, "But I'll try." He focused on the doctors instructions, even though he thought it was way too strange. With his eyes closed, he didn't notice the golden mist starting to coalesce in front of him or his mother's disbelieving eyes or the doctor's near maniacal excitement.

"You did it!" The doctor couldn't help but exclaim.

Izuku's eyes popped open and he gaped at the beautiful, fluffy golden cloud before him. "Seriously?" He grinned madly as he jumped at it before his brain engaged. Inko was a little worried, but knew he'd done bigger jumps before so he wouldn't be too hurt if he fell. And then Izuku landed on the cloud, cheered, and a millisecond later started flying circles around the tiny room.

Inko turned dead eyes at the doctor, "D-did you just… teach my son HOW TO FLY?!"

The doctor recoiled, "Uhhh, Midoriya-kun, please come back down."

"But this is fun!" Izuku complained.

"I-zu-ku!" His mother didn't have to do anything more than use that tone. Izuku made the cloud go back down and sat on it angelically. "Now doctor." She said, smiling in that way that looked kind and inviting but was actually meant to drive fear into your soul, "Why don't you explain why you thought that would work?"

Rubbing some sweat off his brow, the doctor replied, "It was a hunch that I actually developed after the last time you came here. I found it strange that he could only use his growing and shrinking ability on sticks and poles, so I started doing research. I found something but dismissed it as being too silly. It wasn't until he showed me his ability to change into animals that I remembered about it, and the cloud confirmed it. Yours son's Quirk… well." He smiled as he got up – forgetting about the stain in his pants and drawing a snigger from Izuku, who quickly shut up at the look from his mother – and came back with a book, "I think you'll make better use of this than I did, Midoriya-kun."

The name of the book?

Journey to the West

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Izuku let out an exasperated sigh on his way to the market. While he had something to be happy about since mom was making katsudon for him, it was another day of his old friend Bakugo being a dickhead. They'd been thicker than thieves when they had been toddlers, despite the annoyance he had displayed at Izuku being so much stronger than him. But when Izuku had come back that day with his new Quirk diagnosis and armed with the power of the book he'd been given, all of that time together had seemingly evaporated and blown away in Katsuki's mind.

Izuku's Quirk was one of the extremely rare – though in modern times it was coming along more often than before – Omega Quirks. Omega Quirks were classified as such because they didn't fall in just one of the three normal categories. While a person with an extremely powerful Quirk could be confused for an Omega, normally they were just extremely powerful Emitters, and so on. Omega Quirks were different, because they could embody two of the different categories, or even be Omni-Typical and display traits from all three of the regular classifications. Izuku's was like that. Over the years he had trained his newly defined Quirk which had been renamed from Monkey to Monkey Sage – Izuku had learned that his Quirk was almost exactly like the legendary fictional Hero. His Mutant traits were obvious, but then he'd displayed the Emitter ability to summon the Nimbus, and also had the ability to transform into various creatures. He wasn't sure if he was also limited to Seventy-Two as he hadn't tried that many yet, but it was a reasonable assumption to make.

The sheer jealousy Katsuki had experienced learning his old friend was seemingly destined to be a better Hero than he ever could be had almost literally turned him as green as Izuku's fluffy locks. He'd gotten increasingly short and gruff with Izuku, and the more abilities Izuku learned to use from what had basically become an instruction manual for his own Quirk, the nastier the jealous boy got.

He'd come up with an insulting nickname – Deku, claiming it to be an alternative reading of Izuku – which hadn't stuck since Izuku was the opposite of useless. He started constantly challenging Izuku to fights to prove his Quirk was better. Izuku of course hadn't taken it lying down, and for a few months their friendship had burnt out as they got into scraps on the daily. They'd both had their worried parents called in regularly, but refused to make up. Katsuki was too prideful, too stubborn, and had that classic superiority/inferiority complex from his general personality and upbringing. Izuku himself was too prideful, too stubborn, and honestly having too much fun egging Katsuki on.

But after years of it, it had gotten tiring. It stopped being fun for Izuku because the blonde was too easy to rile up. And unfortunately, while Katsuki was miles ahead of where he would have been without a rival (those AP shots HURT if you got hit), he didn't grow nearly as fast as Izuku did. It didn't help that Izuku mellowed out a bit over time. He still loved his pranks – do NOT bring a rubber chicken near Daichi – but he had focused on being a Hero, so he didn't do them as often. In any case, once it became clear to Katsuki that he wasn't keeping up physically, he had turned up the vitriol and verbal abuse.

And Izuku had stopped putting up with it once it became clear they weren't friends anymore. He'd just gotten out of class when Katsuki had tried to swipe and destroy one of his notebooks. They'd both gotten in trouble like usual when a tail-slap from Izuku had knocked him away before he could plant a crackling hand on Izuku's book. Like hell he would allow the bombastic blonde to destroy his hard work.

The teacher had predictably freaked and given a lecture they'd once again ignored, and Izuku had leapt away out the window the second the bell had rung. Three great leaps had him in the forests miles away from the school, and Izuku had wasted no time pulling his staff from its place behind his ear and enlarging it to normal size. He'd had it made from a really tough tree that he'd brought down. It was a dark wood with silvery, metallic ends made of Titanium. The forest probably hated him at this point, what with how many of the trees he'd knocked down over the years training his body to the limits. He wasn't sure if the saplings he'd planted made up for it.

Hours later, his phone had rung, and his mom had asked him to come home with pork cutlets, which was why he was now heading to the market. Of course, he had his face on his cell as he walked, looking up Hero news for the day. "Huh, a new heroine debuted? It was close by too." He clicked on the article, and his eyes bugged out and a dirty grin crossed his face, "That outfit can't be legal. I can see everything."

He would have gone on, but an explosion rang out and he immediately went serious, his phone disappearing into his pocket. "…Those sounded familiar. The hell is he doing?" He was engulfed with a small puff of smoke and became a falcon, quickly winging his way to the site of the explosion and transforming back. "What's going on?" He asked one of the bystanders.

"Huh?" The man turned to him, "Some Villain grabbed a kid."

"All Might was chasing him! Where is he!?"

"Why are the Heroes just standing around?" Another asked, unbidden.

Izuku's eyes hardened, forcing his way past the mob, pushing and shoving his way forward, ignoring their indignation. He got to the front and took stock, eyeing the anthropomorphic sludge, and grinding his teeth when he noticed Katsuki caught inside it.

A Hero that he had thought pretty cool named Kamui Woods had people in his wooden grasp, "Explosive fires are my weakness!" He groaned, "Someone else has to take this one!"

He was at least rescuing people, but Backdraft was right there. 'They could team up and cover Kamui's weakness!' Izuku's fists started to tighten as he watched Backdraft put out fires that just lit right back up when Katsuki's dumb ass blew more shit up.

His attention was drawn by that new Hero Mt. Lady stepping over them; the same one he'd just been ogling on his phone! But it was no time to take in that sexy bod. Not when her first words were, "Oh no! This street isn't wide enough! I can't get close!" She had frozen above them, with the pervs looking up and drooling and the skintight Hero suit clinging to her body.

'You've got to be kidding me?!' Izuku snarled inside his mind, 'Can she not control her size at all?!'

"He's too slippery to get a hold of!" Death Arms snarled out, "We can't do anything against him! At least his hostage is resisting!"

'Are you-' Izuku cut himself off. Katsuki was causing more problems by resisting, not less! They had been useful in getting attention but now they were actively impeding the Heroes! If he stopped then just that by itself would allow Kamui to get close and try to pull him out! Plus, he was just blasting around wildly and causing property damage everywhere!

"It's no good! There's no one here that can stop him!" Kamui cried out, "We have to wait for someone with the right Quirk! That boy just has to hold on a little longer!"

Izuku's blood was pounding so hard in his ears, everything else was drowned out. Wait for the right Quirk? These morons alreadyhad everything they needed to save Katsuki! Izuku knuckles cracked and then he saw Katsuki's face. The despair in them. The terror. The pleas written right in his eyes for help.

Izuku leapt forward. He moved so quickly a shockwave followed his body. The 'Heroes' around the street didn't have a moment to even react and tell him off before he was at the scene, flipping over the enemy. His hand flashed out and grasped right for the sludge's eyes, the only weak point he had seen. The sludge rippled violently with a scream of agony as Izuku wrenched its eyes right from its main body, the action freeing Katsuki's mouth as the sludge flowed to follow its eyes. Izuku continued his flip and chucked the eyes to the right the second he'd seen it flowing towards him, sludge following. He landed and skid backwards, idly aware of the Heroes screaming at him. He didn't care.

With a roar of anger, he transformed into one of his favorite forms; the Elephant. His trumpet ringing out, it dug into the sludge and wrapped around Katsuki's waist, dragging him right out. He flung his old friend behind him and transformed back into regular form, Katsuki landing and stumbling. Izuku's hand went for his tiny staff, bringing it out and spinning it as it grew to regular size. With a grunt of exertion, he swung it down hard, extending it to far larger than it normally was. The sludge had just been regaining its senses when the titanium head of his staff smashed into where its skull would have been and continued through its body. It impacted the floor with a tremendous bang, a pressure wave blowing outwards and blowing the slime apart into tiny pieces. But it didn't just do that. Savage winds buffeted the flames and put them out, while Mt. Lady had to use her body and arms to protect the civilians who were still just standing around.

When the smoke cleared, a crater remained on the pavement, with scattered bits of sludge here and there. Izuku stood from his stance, letting out a snort of frustration as he put his staff behind his ear once more and waited to deal with the peanut gallery. He could see news crews training cameras on him and knew this might blow up in his face. He knew his mom was probably worried sick too.

"What the hell were you thinking?!" Kamui roared at him.

Death Arms looked even angrier, "There was no need for you to put yourself in danger!"

Izuku snapped, "Maybe if you morons knew how to do your damn jobs I wouldn't have had to!" He bellowed back at the man, before snapping a finger at him, "I heard every word you lot said! 'He's too slippery!' His eyes felt damn solid to me! Maybe aim for the obvious weak point next time!" Eyes practically growing in rage as he turned his gaze to Backdraft, he continued sending them to the burn unit, "And you! If you hadn't wasted time putting out fires that this idiot-" He pointed at a scowling Katsuki, "-just kept reigniting with every explosion, you could have COVERED KAMUI'S BRANCHES WITH WATER! Wet wood wouldn't have burned as easily!"

The media was absolutely eating his words up, and both Kamui and Backdraft looked thunderstruck, "'That boy just has to hold on a little longer?' What kind of Heroes are you?! The only reason Kamui gets a pass is I saw him rescuing people! The rest of you just stood around! Mt. Lady can't even control her size, despite the fact that she visibly grows and doesn't just poof into max height! And even if her Quirk was just an 'on/off' switch, why the hell doesn't she have equipment that can grow with her like her costume can? She could easily have blown out the fires with a giant fan!" He then turned to Katsuki, who was far paler than normal as he beheld Izuku truly furious with him for the first time in his life. "And you! Good job not being able to stop exploding things for FIVE SECONDS to let the Heroes rescue you! If you hadn't spent the last five minutes blasting everything and causing hundreds of thousands in property damage, they could have pulled you out of that sludge with Kamui's wood after Backdraft put the fires out! But no, it's just one mode with you isn't it? Blast everything, and then blast it again for good measure!"

Izuku spat at the ground after taking a breath, before he schooled his face. "Wait for a proper Quirk." He snarked, "Well one sure showed up. Too bad it only needed to get involved because none of you stopped to think for five seconds." Without another word, he bent his knees and leapt right out of the street, disappearing past the urban skyline.

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"Would be nice not to have to deal with Katsuki or the glasses guy." Izuku mumbled to himself as he walked through the halls, "Now where is 1-A?" He stopped short of the absolutely gigantic door to his class, "...Well they've got the whole 'inclusion' thing down." He chuckled to himself as he opened the door, biting back a groan when he saw Katsuki sitting there with his feet up on the desk like he owned the place.

"Deku!" The blonde bomber snarled out as he laid eyes on his hated rival.

"I suppose one out of two isn't bad." Izuku deadpanned at not seeing the tall, stiff boy, before visibly ignoring the blonde and getting a vein to pop up on his head.

But before Katsuki could get up and start yelling like usual, Izuku's eyes were drawn to the busty goddess that stood from her seat and walked over to him, "Oho, you must be Midoriya." The redhead had her hair parted into three huge braids falling behind her back, and an additional two falling in front of her shoulders, framing a pair of breasts that were straining the buttons of her UA issued shirt.. "So, you're the one who took first in the exams." She smiled, but there was a hint of something else behind it, "I look forward to competing with you." She said finally, after a moment of staring him down.

"Only if you can keep up, sweetheart." Izuku smirked back at her challengingly, "Izuku Midoriya, but you already knew that, didn't you?"

"Irene Belserion. You'll remember that name, won't you?" She smirked back, and the air felt charged in a way that he hadn't felt for years. Not since he and Katsuki were competing on somewhat the same level. She looked away, her brown eyes alighting on a gray-skinned girl with dark purple hair and a red gem on the middle of her forehead. The one who had tied with her in the entrance exam, denying her even a solid second place. "The same to you, Rachel Roth. You may have tied with me once, but it won't happen again."

The girl looked to her, her deadpan expression unchanging, "I'm not here to compete with anyone. Stay out of my way and I'll stay out of yours." She said flatly, before turning away and ignoring them.

Irene's eye noticeably twitched at the snub, but before things could escalate an arm landed around her shoulder, "Hey, come on now." The dark-skinned young lady had rich purple hair as well, along with brilliant golden eyes and a catlike smile on her face.

'Fast!' Irene, Rachel, and Izuku all thought with slightly widened eyes. Irene didn't let her surprise show for too long, "Oh? Did you want to throw your hat into this game as well, Shihōin?"

"Nah, I just figured we could save the dick measuring for after we've had a class or two." The more conservative members of the class choked slightly at her crass words. Izuku himself bit back a chuckle as she visibly eyed him up and down, "Well aren't we lucky? We got a lot of good eye candy, don't we ladies?"

"Oh we're going to get along marvelously, Kitty-chan." Izuku smirked back at her, making a show of checking her out in turn.

All the while, Katsuki had started to resemble a steamed lobster as he continued to be utterly ignored by everyone in the room. He was just about to start yelling and asserting dominance over the extras when he was cut off by a bubbly brown-haired girl popping up behind Izuku, "Oh, yay!" She exclaimed, staring at Izuku, "We're in the same class! You were so amazing during the exams! You were all WHACK and BAM and wrecked all of those bots!" She mimed his actions, swinging an imaginary staff.

Izuku turned and gave her a roguish grin, causing her seemingly-permanent blush to darken, "You weren't bad yourself, Ochako-chan. Those gravity powers were awesome."

"Oho, she already has a 'chan' as well? Should I be jealous, Izuku-kun?" Yoruichi Shihōin wondered how this was going to turn out, but never got a chance to find out.

A massive crash sounded from the front of the room as the ceiling collapsed. There was a dichotomy of reactions from the students. The most unprepared let out little shrieks and nearly fell out of their chairs. Ochako jumped roughly a mile into the air and instinctively got behind Izuku, before getting a hold of herself and holding her hand out. The air cupped in her clawed hands started to visibly warp. Irene held out a hand and what appeared to be a more traditional 'magic' staff appeared in a red flash. She pointed it warily toward the front of the class. Rachel was engulfed in impossible black light, floating into the air with her chair falling over behind her. Katsuki's hands started to crackle, his explosions ready to go. Yoruichi dropped to her knees, but in a ready position to move quickly. In a flash, Izuku's staff was off his ear and at full size in his hand. He thrust it forward and it extended forward into the dust cloud.

He grunted as he felt it get jarred from its path and slam into the wall instead of hitting a target. Finally, the dust cloud cleared, and jaws dropped, "¡Wow, estupendas reacciones! I give you forty points!" An adult woman with long blonde hair, gorgeous green eyes, and a green piercing below her bottom lip with an extremely bubbly voice stood there, giving them a peace sign. Her outfit almost had steam coming out of Izuku's nose, and he clearly wasn't the only one. Her top was literally just a red and yellow poncho that was so short it barely covered her navel. As she stood up and it fluttered, it became clearly obvious that there was nothing else beneath it. Maybe not even a bra, judging from her exposed sides. The garment was that small. The bottom was some sort of makeshift skirt, clearly held up by her belt and not any sort of actual waistband. She wore bracers and greaves on her arms and legs.

She also had the brightest smile any of them had ever seen, ever since that day three years ago.

There was dead silence as they took in the extremely famous Pro Hero before them, with Izuku not being able to help himself in thinking, 'The Hero Course is the best…'

Another bit of the ceiling fell down with a crash. Up above them, a deadpan and exhausted voice sounded, "Must you always be so irrational, Quetzalcoatl?"

"Of course!" Quetzalcoatl replied happily, "It's my joy to test all of you!" She clapped her hands, "And you're all such great kids, aren't you? We're going to have fun." Her grin now was terrifying. "In your desks, you'll find your gym uniforms. Put them on and meet me outside. You have fifteen minutes~!" With a wink, she leapt right out of the hole she'd made, and another crash sounded. Seconds later, more bits of ceiling fell down and smashed into her desk.

Not a single person moved, utterly stunned. The voice from above sounded again, "Fourteen minutes. You lot aren't very rational either, huh? Get moving." They scrambled.

"¡Perfecto!" Quetzalcoatl exclaimed, clapping excitedly as she hopped in place, doing interesting things to her supple cleavage, "Right on time everyone!"

"Ah, sensei?" Ochako raised her hand warily, "Why are we out here? Aren't we missing orientation?"

"Yes, yes!" Quetzalcoatl agreed easily, "No time to waste on all that! We only have a couple years to turn you into great heroes! We can worry about the rest of it later!"

"What will we be doing then, sensei?" Izuku asked her, and blinked when she focused on him for a moment and then seemed to blush and look a little bashful.

"Oh my, such handsome students I've got. You might be pushing a few of my buttons, Midoriya-kun." She hid behind her hands, and jaws dropped all around at the blatant flirting from their teacher.

Izuku grinned, "Well that's good, you've been hammering mine since that amazing entrance! Wanna get married?"

"EHHHHHH!?"

"Oh my!" Quetzalcoatl blushed, "So forward! Maybe if you can beat me I'll give you a shot, Midoriya-kun!"

"All the motivation I need!" Izuku grinned madly, getting the inkling that this was going to be fun.

"Excellent attitude!" She went back to her bubbly self, "And it'll be the attitude you need, because the best way to test you out and see how advanced you all are… is with some matches!" She twirled in place, laughing gaily as several students blanched, "¡Exacto! ¡Exacto! Your task for the day is to face me."

"But you're a pro hero!" One of the students cried out in shock, a cold sweat forming on his back.

"¡Si! ¡Si! That's what will make it so fun!" She grinned, cocking her hip and placing her hand on it. The other she raised, revealing a little silver bell on her finger, "¡No se preocupen! You're not expected to win against me! You're not being graded here. This is just for me to see how advanced you are," Her face became terrifying, revealing sharp teeth that looked shark-like, "-And if you really belong here at UA."

A clamor rose from the shocked students, and she continued, "¡Si! ¡Así es! While you may have passed the entrance exam, all you proved was that you could destroy some robots. Now it's time to test your mettle, your fortaleza. I may be nicer than Aizawa-sensei, but if you quake in your shoes at even the thought of facing me, then you might just find yourself moved down to Gen Ed!" She went back to happy, bubbly Quetzalcoatl, "So give it your all, everyone!" Despite her words, the students were definitely shaken, "And I know full well that not everyone is suited for direct combat, so here are your possible objectives! One; you must take this bell from me by any means possible! Take care not to harm your fellow students, or else this onee-san might have to spank you! If any of you succeed, it's an instant win!" She exclaimed cheerfully, "If you're unable to do that, you must escape the 'area' through a special exit!" She pointed behind her, where indeed there was a big, obvious, 'EXIT' gate. "If you don't fight directly, you must show me your analysis skills! Try to find a way that you could maybe win, even if you can't use it during this match! And finally… just survive for fifteen minutes! Those are your options!" She grinned menacingly again, "¿Están preparados?"

There was a clamor from the students, as everyone took on ready stances, "Quit trying to scare us, sensei!" Izuku grinned, his staff in hand and ready to go, "We didn't get here just to be taken out by words!"

"Wow! Good to hear!" Quetzalcoatl grinned back, "Let's see you back those words up! ¡Vamos!"

At the word, Izuku leapt forward at a blistering speed, swinging his staff to knock her block off. In a golden blaze, a strange-looking blade appeared in her hand, looking rather like golden-brown stone or some sort of wood with various green shards of glass making up the actual blade. It was a macuahuitl, befitting her origins from the Americas. The two weapons clashed with surprisingly loud noises, and Izuku grunted as he found his strength completely outmatched for the first time in his life. "Holy shit!"

Quetzalcoatl was smiling brightly, serenely. She didn't have a sign of strain on her face. "Oooooh, you really are a special one, aren't you, Midoriya-kun?" With a casual flick of her arm, his staff was parried into the air and her leg shot out for a side kick. Izuku let the momentum carry him backwards, throwing his other arm out and back-handspringing with one hand. He landed on his feet, and Quetzalcoatl jumped to avoid the giant boulder wreathed in a black aura that landed where she was standing. She landed on the boulder and turned to the flying Rachel, "¡Muy bien! You avoided your fellow student and aimed for when you thought I would be distracted!" Her hand flashed out and caught the shaft of Irene's staff, "You kids are so well trained!" She laughed gaily as she twirled forward, pulling Irene forward by jerking on the staff and hammering her elbow into the beautiful redhead's gut.

Irene grunted as she was flung back, but landed on her feet, seemingly no worse for wear. Izuku ran forward, turning into a jaguar and trying to claw the bell off his teacher's belt. Quetzalcoatl looked a little irritated for a moment as she proved her monstrous strength, flipping the large animal over her head and throwing him away. Izuku landed and grunted as he turned back, "Damn, she's so strong!"

Yoruichi formed multiple speed clones of herself as she circled around their teacher, "You're fast too, sensei, but are you as fast as me?" Her hand flashed out, reaching for the bell, but to her utter shock Quetzalcoatl caught her hand and threw her into Rachel, who had been preparing some smaller boulders she ripped from the ground. The Violette was forced to abandon her objective, grunting as she was forced back in the air with the dark-skinned girl in her arms. "Me and my big mouth!" Yoruichi groused.

"Ahahaha! This is fun! This is so much fun!" Quetzalcoatl never lost her grin as she ran forward, "Maybe you all are the ones All Might was waiting for!" She exclaimed as she dodged little balls of what looked like white webbing. The girl firing them from her wrists had blonde hair, with the right side of her head having a portion of her hair buzzed off. She had a piercing on her right eyebrow too. She continued firing the sticky little web balls, up until Quetzalcoatl got too close. She abandoned her strategy, instead nimbly leaping up and over her teacher's head, somersaulting multiple times, and firing strands of webbing down at the teacher. "Oh, it's so sticky!" Quetzalcoatl exclaimed as she grabbed at the two strands and spun the girl over her head.

"Wahhh!" Izuku still didn't know her name, but she screamed as she detached the webs and allowed herself to fly a good couple dozen meters. She landed easily, throwing herself into a tumble. "Oh she is so not fair!" She complained as Izuku helped her to her feet, "Thanks. Gwen Stacy." Gwen introduced herself to him.

Off to the side, Quetzalcoatl was shaking her hands off, "Quizás eso haya sido una mala idea… C'mon, get off!" Quetzalcoatl mumbled to herself as she continued trying to get rid of the webs. They were good and stuck to her palms.

"WILL YOU ALL QUIT IGNORING ME?!" Katsuki finally exploded and...well.. exploded. He bum-rushed forward, mini blasts propelling him towards Quetzalcoatl as he spun, before his hands crackled extremely loudly and unleashed a monstrous explosion at the bubbly blonde.

A ways away, Kyōka Jīrō cringed in a bit of pain as the loud noise assaulted her senses, even as she accepted some speakers from Momo Yaoyorozu, a girl with a Quirk allowing her to create items from her own lipids. As they weren't in costume, she would need some support items to be able to fight optimally. Thankfully she had gotten into a conversation with the gorgeous girl in homeroom, so she knew of her Quirk ahead of time.

"Ah, muchas gracias!" Quetzalcoatl beamed at him as she stepped from the fiery hell unscathed, webs conspicuously missing from her hands, "You'll find attacking me with flames quite difficult though!" She winked playfully as a gigantic vein throbbed on Katsuki's head.

"DIE!" He roared, exploding into the air and firing mass explosions like mortars at her.

"Bit of a one-trick pony, aren't you?" She asked, not smiling quite as wide as she bust through the blasts, "We'll have to fix that!"

Katsuki looked like a deer in headlights as her knees landed on either side of his head, just barely missing out on getting an eyeful as she flipped and directed his head towards the floor. 'Ah, I'm going to die.' He thought to himself blandly as he got piledrived into the ground.

A massive plume of grit rose up, and when it cleared Katsuki's legs were sticking out of the ground, twitching. Quetzalcoatl stood up and scratched her chin a bit sheepishly, "...Maybe a bit much… Whoops." She grabbed his leg and pulled him out, "You okay?" He groaned, "¡Ese es el espíritu!" She exclaimed cheerfully, putting him down somewhat gently.

Izuku was off to the side, "Lucky, dumb bastard." He shook his head, "Still, surprising for HIM of all people to not research heroes that negate his Quirk."

"Lucky bastard?" Yoruichi laughed as she landed beside him and Gwen, "Would you have rathered your head buried in the ground instead?"

"Have you SEEN those thighs?" Izuku laughed, as he started pulling out a few strands of his hair. He kept them in hand.

"Point. She's got nothing on mine though." She slapped her right one for emphasis, grinning wildly.

"Or mine." Gwen smirked at him.

"We'll have to check just to be sure, Kitty-chan, Gwen-chan. I promise to be an impartial judge." He responded, getting another laugh out of them.

"Ballsy, aren't ya? Pretty sure most girls would have slapped you already." Yoruichi replied with a laugh.

"I am debating it. Perverts." Rachel landed next to them, tone monotone, and Irene just appeared. "Any ideas?" She asked as they watched the two-tone boy Shōto Todoroki create a massive glacier and send it at their teacher, who only laughed loudly as she broke through it with a single kick and sent the boy flying backwards.

"I'm struggling to think of a weakness." Another redhead - and Izuku had to do a double take because how the hell did he miss her? - landed beside them, her bat wings disappearing in motes of red light, "Kinda feels like she's invincible, doesn't it?" The sapphire-eyed redhead turned to them, "Pleasure to meet you all. I am Rias Gremory."

"Ahh, you're a Magic user as well?" Rias instantly caught Irene's attention, "What a stacked class we have. Other than my mother I've never met another." She told her.

"Yes, my parents' Quirks both manifested as the ability to cast 'spells,' although each were far more specialized. I also have 'Devil' Quirk ancestry from my Grandfather." Rias confirmed, "My mother's may be particularly useful here, although I AM afraid of actually harming her. Annihilation is not a power you throw around casually."

Izuku chimed in, "She hasn't so much as taken a hit and her durability is insane. You really think that your spell could overwhelm that?" He grinned at her.

Rias smiled prettily at him, before pointing a finger at the ground. A black bullet wreathed in a red aura fired at the ground, annihilating a basketball-sized mound of dirt. Not even ashes remained, "What do you think, Midoriya-kun?"

"Look." Rachel drew their attention as Quetzalcoatl clapped her hands to her ears. Unassuming little Kyōka finally did something that seemed to work. She couldn't defend against sound, after all.

Momo took advantage of her distraction and fired a net gun at their teacher, successfully wrapping her up. "Chance!" Yoruichi yelled gleefully as she blitzed forward.

"No wait!" Irene yelled out, but the dark-skinned girl was already gone, just as the spider girl landed near them.

"Just kidding!" Quetzalcoatl either got used to it or really had just been faking. She ripped through the net easily and twirled around the Yoruichi missile, grabbing her leg and using the poor girl as a bludgeon, knocking down Kyōka and Momo. "Ahahaha! You kids are good! It's already been five minutes! Just ten more to go~"

"Damn! What magic do you girls have? Other than Annihilation, I mean." Izuku asked them.

"Barriers and defensive spells would be the biggest aid, I would say." Rias said after a moment of contemplation.

Irene let out a little sigh, "I can enhance our physical attributes with my enchantments."

Izuku let out a smile, "Perfect." He flung the hairs he had ripped off earlier into the air, and they began to glow gold, "I've got some magic of my own!" With little bursts of light, several clones of Izuku popped out. Gwen and Rias both slowly blushed brightly as their imaginations went a little wild for a moment.

"Oh my. I do believe I just figured out your Quirk, Sun Wukong-san." Irene's cheeks reddened slightly too, but she tried to hide it behind a smirk. "Let's do this!" She slammed the butt of her staff into the ground, and a red glow engulfed all of the Izuku, Gwen, and Rias. Yoruichi - blinking in shock - popped up in a little burst of light, courtesy of a Teleportation Spell from Rias. She was quickly also Enchanted by Irene.

Rias was next, waving her arm in front of her face. A blue magical circle appeared in the air, before smaller versions popped up on each of them.

Rachel however, shielded herself from the effects, drawing questioning glances from the rest of them, "My own magic won't play nicely with either of yours. The Void never does."

"Ahh, I thought you merely had telekinesis." Rias said in surprise, and the black was the medium it was carried on.

Rachel shook her head, "Regardless, this isn't the time. Let's get that bell."

"Spoke my mind, sunshine!" Izuku yelled, every one of his clones blazing forward. Some transformed into animals, and others just readied their staffs.

"...He is going to be exhausting." Rachel breathed deeply to try to center herself.

"That's what she said!" Gwen and Yoruichi both laughed as they flung themselves forward, following Izuku.

"...I could make it an accident." Rachel ground her teeth as she rose into the air.

"OooWOW! ¡Que Tecnica!" Quetzalcoatl flashed out to meet them, "One Hundred Points!" She had a blush on her face as she beheld all of the Izuku clones, but ignored it. She parried a staff with her macuahuitl and kicked the clone away, leaping over Yoruichi who had actually attacked for once rather than going for the bell. Gwen was flinging her webs expertly at the other blonde, trying to snipe the bell. Quetzalcoatl weaved around them easily, "You really ARE such great kids! This is so much fun! How did you all get even stronger?" She kicked the massive boulder that Rachel had flung at her, cracking it in half. Before the right half had even fallen, she had grabbed it and flung it at the flying Rias.

Rias held her hand out and was engulfed by the black aura tinged with red, and the rock vanished in a burst of intense light. Not even ashes remained.

Irene took aim with her staff from her position in the air, "Disappear!" A massive reddish-pink explosion cratered the ground where their teacher stood, its bright hue blinding several students. Katsuki ground his teeth at seeing her show even his biggest explosion so far up, but couldn't get off the ground.

"That was dangerous." Quetzalcoatl pouted as she appeared unharmed in front of Irene in the air, "I have a full order of joint locks ready for you." She slashed forward with her sword, and was blocked by Irene's staff.

The redhead had an expression of strain on her face, but was trying to hide it, "No thanks, sensei. Not interested."

"Mou, that's a shame." Quetzalcoatl grinned evilly, "Too bad for you I wasn't really asking." She kicked the air behind her and flew forward faster than Irene could react, "You're tough! You can take it!" The two fell down towards the earth, crashing in another plume of dirt. Irene flew out of the cloud unscathed, having used a spell to replace herself with a nearby rock, "That's no fun!" Their teacher called out as Irene landed softly.

"Go for Midoriya then. I'm sure he'd love to be under you." Irene deadpanned.

"Facts, though I prefer top!" Izuku roared as a gigantic mammoth far bigger than the elephant he'd pulled off years ago to save Katsuki. He swung his trunk, the back blast strong enough that the earth cracked and broke behind it. Quetzalcoatl spun around with her customary smile and grabbed his trunk with both arms. The impact moved her back three feet, "Oh you gotta be-" Her sharp-shark-toothed grin made a comeback, "FucKING MEEEEE!" She started to spin in place, lifting the massive beast over her head and twirling him around as if he were as light as a pair of bolas. The whirlwind she created blew the other students back.

"HA! HOW DOES IT FUCKING FEEL, DEKU!" Katsuki roared in laughter, seeing his rival manhandled.

Quetzalcoatl stomped the ground and then slammed him down, shattering the field for dozens of feet around them, "Ahahaha! You okay, Midoriya-kun?"

Izuku let out a pained laugh, "I know this is real rich coming from ME, but your powers are bullshit!"

"¡Jajaja!" Quetzalcoatl laughed hard at his comment.

He let a puff of steam escape him as he shrank back to normal, "I think I'm in love."

"Oh, you charmer." She demurred, hiding her newly flushed face behind her hands again. She wasn't distracted enough to miss the shards of ice being fired at her, and casually dodged them all. She ran out of the way by the directed blast of sound from Kyōka and the bolas being thrown by Momo before running vertically up the ice pillar left by the broken glacier from earlier. Nearing the top, she flung herself backwards, dodging waves of debris thrown by Ochako as well as black blasts from Rachel, another Disappear spell from Irene, more Annihilation bullets from Rias, various flying animals from the blocky boy with no hair, and heading straight for Rachel.

Rachel's eyes widened as she intoned, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" A three-layered black shield appeared in front of her as her hands glowed with dark energy. Quetzalcoatl crossed her arms in front of her, forming an 'X.' She crashed straight through all three barriers as if they weren't even there, getting Rachel to gasp in shock before getting chopped and sent hurtling towards the ground from the impact as if she were fired out of a cannon.

She landed right beside Izuku before tumbling and landing on top of him. He chuckled a little after having the air forced out of him, "Come here often?"

Rachel let out a defeated groan, letting her head fall to the ground.

In the end, they had failed to put even a single scratch on the beautiful blonde, and failed to get a bell. What hits they'd gotten in were shrugged off, and she'd appeared almost entirely untouchable. A defensively enhanced Kirishima maxing out his Hardening Quirk had managed to put a hairline fracture on her macuahuitl, and had swiftly been defeated after that. The blazingly fast Yoruichi had engulfed herself white energy which blew her gym top away, revealing a simple black tube-top binding her breasts. She'd rushed the teacher with explosive force and tried to pound her into submission, only to exhaust herself and be taken out without putting a scratch on the woman. Yuga had nailed her with his laser, and the bubbly blonde thanked him for warming her up a bit. Ochako managed to get a hand on her and removed her gravity, thinking that she'd gotten them at least a chance to win. Yet it was for naught, because Quetzalcoatl laughed at Zero Gravity. Katsuki had gotten up and been put back down. Shōto had encased her in a glacier. Gwen had snatched the bell finally with a strand of her spider silk. Rias and Irene had both blasted her with spells including a tentative Annihilation, and nothing worked. She'd flexed out of the glacier, snatched the bell out of the air and burned away the sticky goop, shrugged off the spells as if they didn't exist….

Irene had even revealed her relation to the current Number Nine Hero in Japan Ryukyu by transforming into a giant red dragon. Izuku still thought she was gorgeous, but the young woman insisted it was hideous and she hated it. The blast of apparently-not-fire from her maw hadn't done jack, and the Tyrannosaurus-inspired Izuku had managed to close his jaws on her, only for her to no sell a T-rex's bite force and prevent him from clamping down, laughing all the while.

And finally, blessedly, the fifteen minutes expired, leaving the entire class in various states of exhaustion and misery, with Quetzalcoatl fresh as a daily, and smiling as widely as possible. She had Quetzalcoatl had more than proved her position as the Number One Rank Hero in the whole world currently. "I love this class already! ¡Excelente trabajo, everyone!" A mass of groans entered her ears, "¡Si, Si! We certainly are feeling the burn, aren't we! Congratulations! Every one of you certainly earned your spots here at UA. You all showed that grit and determination I wanted to see! Even when you got knocked down, you got right back up! That is important in this day and age! When an earthquake rocks the world, we have to be ready to save people. When evil villains attack, it is us who must be ready to take them down! The world can be very unfair, and it is up to us to correct that unfairness! We must all be ready each and every day to grow and learn, so that we can prevent future tragedies! Anyone who gives up at the first hurdle does not belong!" She gave them a thumbs up, "Welcome to 1-A! Officially this time! I look forward to working with you all, everyone! PLUS ULTRA!"

This time, she got the shouts she had wanted to hear, "PLUS ULTRA!"

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Despite knowing it was coming, nothing quite prepared Izuku to see All Might in the flesh for the first time in years. When he had been young, All Might had been larger than life. Heavily muscular, piercing blue eyes, that gravity-defying 'V' shaped hair… He had just had a presence that had instantly made Izuku want to be better than he was. It had been what made him start taking his training more seriously, despite not exchanging more than a few words with the man while he had a poster autographed.

And while he still had that presence when you were with him…

Gone were the muscles. His flesh was sunken on his frame. He was skeletal, and even his signature hairstyle hung limply. The night All Might had gone on national television three years ago to announce his retirement had been… harrowing. It had been two years after he had saved Katsuki from that sludge Villain, about midway through his first semester of high school. He… no… the world had been disconsolate.

Seeing the greatest man alive… the man who had saved millions year after year for decades sit down in that chair and look human had sent something cold down everyone's spines. To hear the jovial man sound so exhausted had instantly put tears in Izuku's eyes. Hearing the greatest Hero's story; hearing how for seven years, the man had been fighting on borrowed time to keep them all safe had been as inspiring as it had been a gut punch.

And then the real gut punch had come. To the utter silence and shock of his interviewers and the entirety of their watchers… All Might had started to steam, and had visibly shrunk into a skeleton before their very eyes. Not a soul had moved, and not a sound was made as the exhausted, gnarled-looking man had raised a finger and pointed it at the camera.

"Next." He'd smiled. It was an ugly thing. Not at all like the smiles he'd worn as the number one Hero. And yet people had cried all the same. "Next…is your turn." That simple sentence had said more than any number of explanations or analysts possibly could.

Izuku and Katsuki had ramped up their training explosively. Even as they bumped heads in class and competed for the top spot in everything, or how nasty their words for one another got, they had never fought again. They didn't have the time to waste on such frivolities. All Might was gone. Their Symbol of Peace was retired. Another had arisen eventually, reportedly enraging Endeavor, but she had been a newer Hero. One who had been untested as All Might had been.

They both threw themselves into training, and even through their insults with one another had given the other ideas on how to get stronger. Their fights became spars on occasion to try new things out, but they'd gradually drifted away. Their parents had hoped they would reconcile with All Might's retirement, but the boys had too much between them now. Katsuki wanted to be number one and had lost something when he lost the ability to ever challenge All Might to test his own might. Izuku wanted to be the new Symbol and help those frightened now that All Might was gone. They both had looked to different aspects of the man for inspiration. They both had the desire to surpass him.

Maybe now that they were learning from him, they would understand better the burden he had once held on his shoulders. Getting into U.A. had been the first step, and both had aced the exams with top scores. That wasn't to say it was easy, however. This particular entrance exam had been absolutely packed with talent. Any other year, many of those who had missed the cut would have made it in. But this was U.A. The best Hero Course in the world, not just the borders of Japan. The top five had single-digit point gaps from one another. Izuku had come in first place, and he only had seven more points than Yoruichi, the fifth place finisher.

All Might's retirement had galvanized the world, with the youth of every country eager to step into his shoes. It truly said something that in both the entrance exam AND the "test" their homeroom teacher Quetzalcoatl had put them through, Izuku – with a Quirk like the one he had – had needed to fight as hard as he could for every inch he could take.

And now, with All Might's sunken grin shining as he held the word "Battle" up on a placard, Izuku felt the need to prove himself once again.

"That's right! We're going straight to battle trials in Heroics 101." All Might told them, "I would like all of you to meet me down in Ground Beta. But first!" It still felt weird to see All Might like this; out of costume and in a well-tailored suit showcasing his lack of muscle. But never let it be said the man didn't still know how to work a crowd, pointing grandly to the wall, "You'll need these!" The entire class cheered, some even standing out of their seats as All Might laughed, "That's right! In accordance with your Quirk registries as well as your own submitted requests… COSTUMES! Let's go get dressed, shall we?"

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And a here we ARE! I had a BLAST writing this one, and there are some significant changes from canon: Izuku and All Might never met. One For All is long passed on and Izuku can't have it. Not that I would have given it to him anyway. All Might is retired and is actually a seasoned teacher at this point.

I also did something I've been wanting to do for a while; which was to include some MHAified crossover characters. The other class has some others planned as well. Quite a few overpowered as fuck Quirks in this one too… really makes you wonder what the other side has, doesn't it?

I also finally had a chance to include one of my favorite TFS lines in a fic. LOL

Let me know how you liked this one guys, and as always, you're invited to the discord! Discord . gg / 3ZwnRbh

Next one is ALSO going to be fun as fuck. Hope you're all ready for it. LOL