Alright, listen. My name is Izumi Midoriya, the sixteen years old School Council President of Yuuei High School, the greatest hub of delinquency in all of Japan – no matter what those idiots from Shiketsu High say.

When I first joined this school, the School Council had basically no power, despite the power that comes with the armbands, and the school was broken up in four different factions, each vying for control of this dump. Pathetic, I know, but that's what it was.

So I beat them all up. Simple, clean, and I could form a proper council. With my squad behind, I forced all of them into the School Council, and since then I have been the queen of this school.

Oh also, most of us are in a deal with a god.

I know right? Wild.

This is my life.

And I wouldn't change a bit of it.

Izumi leaned back studying her new underclassman, hiding her stunned expression. He looked quite similar to her, same shade of green hair, similar freckles, height, and so on. 'Did dad have an affair?' She wondered. 'Izuku' sounded right up his alley to name a child, and Midorikawa was suspiciously similar to Midoriya. 'How the fuck are the others not noticing?' She wondered, glancing at Mirio and Tomura, busy reading and playing games respectively, and at Bakugou, who was glaring daggers at the former. 'Nevermind, they are idiots, of course they wouldn't notice.'

She glanced at Kendo, who threw back a knowing look. Alright, so she at least had noticed. Thank god there was another brain in the whole Student Council.

She studied Midorikawa once more. He was dressed in a normal attire, which was already weird. Most people that came to the school without knowing its reputation showed up in full uniform the first day, and even the ones that knew at least put on a token effort. But this guy here was dressed in mostly street clothes, including… her eyes went wide staring at the large glove and the metal shoes he was wearing. Those were definitely not casual clothing. 'He can walk around with those?' She wondered, staring at his shoes, 'He might be a lot stronger than he lets out. What do you think?'

'I see the Path shifting. That's… unusual.' The deep voice replied in an amused tone. Izumi held back a shiver. She stared at her armband.

'So what do I do?'

'If you wish to follow the Path, you must have him tell you the truth of who he is, and then agree to an exchange.'

'What exchange?'

'Now, that would be your decision. You know well my job is to present you the Path of Most Resistance, not help you navigate it.'

She grumbled. Useless demon… spirit… angel? No one had ever figured out what those things were. Small pieces of She Who Bears Gift, that was all they knew for sure. And it wasn't nearly enough.

"I want to talk with him alone." She decided, saying it out loud. Everyone raised their head to stare at her.

"Well, if the boss says so…" Mirio was the first to answer, standing up and quickly walking toward the door. On the way out he patted the new student on the shoulder. "Don't worry, she probably won't kill you."

"P-probably?"

"Eh, you never know." And with that he walked out. Izumi stared at the others. Bakugo just grunted, walking out of the room with his hands in his pockets, glaring daggers at… pretty much anything in sight. Just usual Katsuki.

"Tenko, out." She insisted, noticing the older teen still sitting on his chair.

"Wait, I'm almost done with this boss."

"Now." She insisted further, this time adding a menacing tone to her voice. Tenko raised an eyebrow, before huffing and pausing his game.

"If I lose you'll pay. I've wanted the eastern hallway on the third floor for a long time now."

"As if Iida would let you touch that."

He snorted, "What, Glasses? I can beat him no problem."

"Then as if I would let you touch that."

He paused at that, before scratching the back of his head as he walked out. "Now that's more menacing. Do your job school President." And with that he left as well, completely ignoring Izuku.

Finally, Izumi turned to Kendo, who had stood up but didn't seem to want to leave. "Kendo, alone with him means everyone leaves."

"With due respect, Izumi, he is an unknown. For all we know he has a Deal superior to your own."

"Please, what could he have that I can't beat?" Izumi's question made Kendo rise an eyebrow again, and she smiled. "Come on Itsuka, you know what I mean. As Tenko would say, a final boss wouldn't just walk in like this. And even if he was, I can at least hold on long enough for you four to come back and help me."

"Three. You know Tenko won't."

"Just convince him then. That's why you are the Secretary." She made a mischievous grin, returned by the other Council member, before she walked out, leaving her alone with Midorikawa. The younger man seemed very tense, on edge. "So, let's have a talk."

"S-Sure?"

"Alright. Question number one. Are you my illegitimate brother?"

-x-

Izuku stared at her with his mouth wide open. "What?!"

"You look like me, are only slightly younger, same hair color, same eye color, same freckles, your name is Izuku and your surname is suspiciously similar to Midoriya. Gee, how could I have ever thought of you being related to me?"

"She has a point." Izzzuku answered, and Deku could feel the grin painted on his face.

"N-No, no, I'm… Alright, I thought I would keep the lie up longer than this, but I suppose you should know since you are probably the one most involved. Just please, don't tell everyone else. I'm you from another universe." He exclaimed the last sentence all at once, almost as a single word.

She froze.

Snorted.

And then doubled back laughing, so much that she almost fell from her chair. Izuku blinked. 'Is that… fun?'

"I don't know man, I'm wondering too."

Finally, after a few moments, she managed to stop herself from laughing and took a deep breath, staring once more at Izuku as he tried to figure out what she was doing. "Ugh, my belly hurts. I thought there was some fishy thing going on, but you are just vindication that the talking sheep wasn't a weird dream."

"… The what?" Izuku asked, but it was drowned in another laughter, this time Izzzuku laughing as he emerged from his head. Staring at his bracelet, he noticed Epsi was back active and even she was chuckling. "Alright, uh, I think I'm the only one that doesn't get what's funny."

"Right, you never met Izuku Merinoriya." Izzzuku replied, a wry smile on his face as he uttered the name.

Deku froze. He took a deep breath, and then stared at the dream entity, feeling annoyed for the first time in a long while, "… That's not real."

Izzzuku snickered.

"I refuse to believe it's real."

In response, Izzzuku turned around and transformed in midair, showing him the appearance of a sheep with green wool. And freckles.

The sheep had freckles. "Zuzu, please, tell me it's not true."

"Uhm… I'm not sure what is upsetting you so much. Izuku Merinoriya, or Merino as we call him for short, is a Hero from the Sheepverse. One of the animal universes."

"There are more of those?!"

"Of course. What, you thought humans were the only ones that could win the sapient lottery?" Izzzuku snickered, noticeably still appearing like a sheep, and turning to look at Izumi, who had managed to not look too surprised when the dream being had spawned from Izuku's head and his bracelet had started talking. Deku was starting to envy her self control, though he thought he had reached that point too once, then he had met a cowboy version of himself, and then Spider-Man, and then grass. Honestly, maybe he shouldn't have been so surprised by the sheep. Izzzuku interrupted his thoughts, talking to Izumi. "So you know Merino, uh? How long ago did you meet him?"

"About… five years ago? I was still in middle school, and they took us to a zoo. You know, a kiddy one with all the cute animals to cuddle? I didn't expect to end up meeting a talking green sheep. Everyone thought I got a heat stroke and dreamed it, but I knew it was real! Ah! Can't wait to tell Bakugou he was wrong, that will send him for a loop."

"Don't do that, but yeah, that's Merino alright. What did he say?"

"Not much. He said he was from another world, and that since he wasn't exactly inconspicuous around the cities, he would leave setting up a… what was it… some sort of agent – but he said he would leave that to some friend. He was very kind, but also stern. A bit annoying, to tell the truth."

"He is very protective of children." Zuzu replied. That did take Izumi a moment longer to process, and Izuku realized why. Him and Izzzuku were males, so she could disassociate herself a bit from them. Zuzu was closer to her than either of them were.

"Yeah, I noticed. But anyway, that was all I knew. He then disappeared and when I told about him everyone thought I just dreamed him up."

"I see." Izzzuku hummed, turning to Epsi, "So what did the League do?"

"Nothing." She sighed, showing a file, "We sent a Patroller to investigate and set up a Sitting Agent, but we never figured out where One for All was. All for One clearly exists, but since she is a supernatural being, we couldn't exactly question her. It was decided One for All either didn't exist or was gone already, and the universe was marked temporarily J-298, TBDverse."

"Whatverse?" Izuku asked.

"It means no one put down a name." Izzzuku supplied, "Usually Patrollers or Isaac come up with one, but sometimes the Patrollers can't think of one, and Isaac can't visit each universe to find one that fits. So in those cases, we are just left with a number and a general 'TBD' in place."

"I see. Yeah, it makes sense finding One for All would be hard in universes like this where the society isn't built around Heroes." Izuku nodded, understanding.

"Uh, well you are lucky. I have One for All."

Everyone turned towards the girl at once, the dream sheep and the human both with their mouth wide open. "You what?!"

"I'm the one with One for All." Izumi repeated, pointing at her armband, "It's the Contract."

"A contract? What?"

"No, no, Contract, the special kind of Deal that… You know what a Deal is, right?"

"To be honest, I think we don't." Izzzuku shrugged his shoulder, before turning around and appearing as an older man wearing a suit, handing her a piece of paper of official looking nature, "Unless you mean some lawyer stuff."

"Nah, that would be stupid."

"There is more than a world where One for All and All for One are companies, so I wouldn't be that surprised." Izzzuku remarked. Both teens stared at him.

"… Ooook, I don't want to know." Izumi shook her hands, turning to Izuku, "More importantly, Midorikawa, it's time you tell me what you are doing here."

Izuku nodded and started to explain.

-x-

"Alright, I get it." Izumi replied once he was done, and Izuku sighed.

"So you see why I need to find help, right?"

"Absolutely. If those guys are watered-down versions of our goddess, you are going to need help." She grinned, "So let's make a deal. You help me, and I help you."

"I… I guess, sure. But what's the deal?"

"See, I get why my piece reacted to you. He said you were my next step on the Path, and I believe I figured it out. You are super strong, with a power called One for All, right?"

Izuku nodded, "Yes, it's my Quirk. Oh, a Quirk is…"

"Tell me later, just the answer is enough. In that case, we can help each other. See, I'm dealing with a situation caused by the students of Shie High, the Shie Hassaikai."

"Something to do with a girl named Eri?"

Izumi blinked. "Uh, how did you…"

"Just a hunch." He replied with a sigh, suddenly alert, "What are they doing?"

"She has a Deal they want to bring on their side, so they intend to convince her to join her gang. We want Eri to join our squad instead." Izumi clarified, then shrugged, "You don't have Deals, right?"

"Not in the sense you intend, I guess."

Izumi made the most annoyed sigh Izuku had ever heard, "Fiiiine, let me explain, dammit. I doubt we can work together without you knowing this. You have heard about She Who Bears Gift, the goddess of All for One, right?"

"More or less."

"Well, she is basically a supreme entity that owns every ability in the universe. When she offers that ability to someone for a short time, they have made a Pact. Say, a man trapped in a burning building prays to her. She takes something from him, and then gives him an ability that lets the guy get out. That's the Pact, the lowest ranking of all agreements with her, which is meant only to let you achieve a goal. It's the most common. Then, there are Deals. If you pray to her and pay a higher price, you can receive a power for your entire life. That's a rare one, because not many people are willing to pay what she asks for that. Contracts are just a special kind of Deal, just think about it like that."

"What does she want?"

"Depends. Usually servitude, meaning you will have to fight people that break their end of the bargain."

"That can happen?"

"Of course. Humanity has free will, and she can't just take back a Deal directly. She needs to send people to either kill the deal breaker or force them to willingly surrender their power."

Izuku nodded. That sounded dangerously similar to what All for One did in his own world, and the idea of an All for One god was terrifying. He glanced at Izzzuku, who evidently thought the same thing. "So Eri has a Deal?"

"Yes. Don't ask me why, it's considered rude to do it."

Izzzuku frowned, "That sounds stupid, why hide it?" He shook his head before Izumi could reply, meanwhile reverting back to his human appearance, "And anyway, why do they want that power?"

"It's because any group with that skill on their side can become the largest, most powerful delinquent gang of Japan." She grinned, "Which is what we are going to be once she joins."

"You want to use Eri?!"

"Not use it, jeez, I'm not Overhaul, thank you very much. We are friends already; she was my underclassmen in middle school after all. She wants to join my squad."

"But you will still use her ability."

"It's not like she can stop using her ability. No one will get hurt if we do things right, and a lot of gangs are after her so we need to give her self-defense lessons anyway."

"Her ability to rewind time doesn't cause harm?"

It was Izumi's turn to blink. "Uh, what? That's not her Deal."

"What?"

"That's what Eri can do in your world?!" Izumi's eyes grew wide, and Izuku could see her realize why he was so against it, "Holy shit that's powerful! And dangerous! Can she revert people to nothing?!" She saw him look away, an eloquent enough response, "What the fuck?! That's messed up!"

"She is a good girl!"

"I certainly hope so! If she was a bad person she'd be a touch and death enemy, right?"

Izuku had never thought about it, because Eri was so young and innocent he could hardly consider her going to the side of the villains, but Izumi was right. "But why do they want her Deal if it's not rewinding time?"

"It's called Friendly World. And yes, it doesn't sound like much, I know, but trust me, it's a dangerous one. I want to bring her on my side because every other delinquent band in Musutafu and beyond will want to put their hands on her."

Izuku wanted to ask what it did, why it was so important, but he decided to ask what was more important, instead of what made him more curious. "So, what should I do to help?"

"Eri is finishing Middle School, and next year she will enter High School. It's mostly accepted that whichever High School gets her enrolled will be the next dominating force in Japan's delinquency world." She responded, and Izzzuku couldn't hold back a laughter. She glared at him, "It's important for us, ok?"

He snickered, "Sure, sure. Pffft." He mouthed the word 'dominating force in Japan's delinquency world' a second time, snorting louder.

She growled before turning to Izuku, "Anyway, point is, we want her to enroll into Yuuei, and Overhal – or I should say Kai, he gets really pissed when I do that – wants her to enroll into Shie Hassai."

"Can't she just freely decide?"

"She could, but Overhaul is a bastard and has kidnapped her dog, and now is planning to do things to it if she doesn't choose the other school."

That was a lot. Izuku's brain took a solid minute to process that in this world Overhaul's horrible crime was kidnapping a dog. Which was bad, but the image of the Yakuza boss holding a dog hostage was just hard to come to terms with.

"You ok?"

"I think you broke him." Izzzuku commented unhelpfully as usual, before making a megaphone appear in his hand. "I'll fix him." He took a deep breath.

The threat made Izuku come back to his senses before a loud scream could. "Wait, no, I'm here! I was just… processing, I guess. Sorry. Uhm, alright, so, where do I come in?" His question changed the subject just enough to not make him think about Overhaul holding a dog hostage to force a girl into enrolling in his school, though Izzzuku mumbled 'spoil sport' as he made the megaphone disappear.

"Well, we were going to fight Overhaul over this, and he was going to get the students of Gunga High to help him fight us. Then we would have asked Ketsubutsu and Shiketsu, they would have asked some other schools… That would have been basically a delinquent war on the streets. Bad idea, bad things happen, especially when the police gets involved. Worst case scenario, they close down on everyone, especially Yuuei."

"Seriously how does this logic make sense. A gang war over someone's High School enrollment? With magic wielding teenagers?!" Izuku shouted, gripping his head, "Why do I find this more confusing than the world where I am grass?!"

"I find it hilarious that you think that a teenager fighting a Yakuza boss with a girl on his back makes more sense." Izzzuku replied, and whirled around to show himself with a copy of Eri on his shoulder. Izuku felt his heart warming seeing the child he had saved, and he sighed.

"Fine. I won't question it. Too much."

"Thank you. This might just be entertaining for you, but for me it's a real problem. I didn't go through the trouble of unifying the gangs of Yuuei, only to see them crumble because every time we try to fight he just uses Eri as a shield. So, we organized a fight. Me and my group against him and his group. He also added a no Deals rule, meaning we are going to fight hand to hand, because he knows I am strong enough to bend him over my leg and make him cry. And that's where you come in." She grinned, "You don't have a Deal to power yourself up. With you, if you really are super strong, we can wipe the floor with them easily. So here is the agreement, you fight for me, and I fight for you. Both of us are strong enough, as I'm sure you will see."

Izuku couldn't decide if that was a promise or a threat.

-x-

"So that's it for today's training, Mister Izuku?" Zuzu asked, as the three followed Izumi down the road toward the dorms.

"Yes. I can't go training and risk losing this place, after finally finding someone willing to help. And I don't want to risk getting involved into something else and miss on my end of the bargain." Deku had agreed to it, and he had to admit, the thought still made him uneasy. It was to save Eri and her dog, Lemillion - Izuku admittedly had almost lost it at the name, until he had found out about her cat, Deku – from the Hassaikai.

'Except that this isn't the Hassaikai. This is a bunch of school bullies that call themselves the Hassaikai.' He pondered once again what was going on with this world. If magic like this was so easy to access, why did they only mention it being used in in school fights? What was the point of it all?

He felt there was a piece missing, like with the nanomachines of Emerald Knight's universe. Something either they weren't telling him, or that they didn't know enough about to share it with him. Izzzuku, now back in his head, was however not going to offer any insight on the matter, so he turned to his more reliable companion.

"Epsi." He called, and the AI immediately lighted the screen. Apparently, it considered dealing with just Izumi safe.

"Yes?" The girl asked with an encouraging smile.

"Can you check if mister Merinoriya, or the patrollers that came after, said anything else about this universe? Any insight would be appreciated."

"Yes. Though, I think I should mention the last report from a Patroller is from four years ago."

Izuku nodded, "Right. About that, you said there is a Sitting Agent here?"

Epsi paused, then frowned. "Uh. There is, but I only know his name, Oboro Shirakumo, and a dry description of his appearance. Everything else is marked down as 'unknown'. What an odd choice for a Sitting Agent." She frowned, "I will try to find more about him."

"Thank you." He watched her start to scroll through papers – he had to assume that was a way to help him visualize what she was doing – but got distracted when Izumi stopped and he almost bumped into her back. He thankfully managed to dodge and looked at what she was pointing out.

"Welcome to Heights Alliance, Yuuei's dormitory." She said, "You like it?"

Izuku didn't know how to describe the image of a universe where Heights Alliance looked like it was built in the middle of a large city's slums. Where in his world the building was pristine, here it was discolored, with some windows barred with planks of wood and graffiti on the wall. In fact, a blonde boy he recognized as Kaminari was drawing one right now, though he froze when he noticed Izumi.

"Ah, Denki, you are here just in time." Izumi called, not missing a bit as she rushed to him and put an arm around his shoulder, a gesture that should have been friendly but somehow looked threatening.

"H-Hello Izumi. Uhm, can I help you."

"Oh, I was thinking you can start by not leaving graffiti all over my walls." She replied, and he gulped.

"Of course."

"Of course. Now, go find Bakugou, Tenko and Mirio, and tell them Midorikawa is going to replace Tenko as our third fighter. Then call Itsuka over, I have to talk with her about something."

"Y-Yes, at once."

Izuku looked at him leave, "So I should keep up the Midorikawa name, right?" He asked as Izumi opened the door to the dorm.

"It's easier that way, since you don't want me to babble about your real identity like you did to me. If anyone asks, we will say you are a distant relative. I think dad has a few cousins, though I never met them." She smiled, "Well, this is it."

The inside of the building was remarkably different from the exterior. Here, everything was clean, the walls free from graffiti, and the living room was the same as Izuku's, if a bit more worn out. "Uh. Pretty different from the outside."

"That's because I have someone here that runs a tight ship." Izumi sighed, "I think it's missing a bit of personality to be honest."

"Miss President!" A new voice shouted, and both Izuku and Izumi turned in time to see the unmistakable figure of Iida stride toward them at full speed.

"Here he is." Izumi grumbled, but Izuku ignored her, feeling his guts twist. He had run into some of his friends in the Multiverse, but never one that was so close to the one he knew. From the way he moved to the way he spoke, this was unmistakably Iida, one of his closest friends, but at the same time Izuku knew he wasn't. This was Tenya Iida, member of a delinquent group, not Tenya Iida, the golden student of a prestigious institution.

"Miss President, I was informed there have been at least sixty unsanctioned fights this week." He exclaimed, "I'm glad to report this is a good progress for the Student Behavior Committee."

"Good job." She drawled with a tone that Izuku read as clear sarcasm, but Iida clearly ignored it or just didn't realize.

"Thank you, ma'am! As head of the Committee, it is my duty to reduce that number to zero. That said, I would ask for permission to extend once again miss Nejire an offer to join the Committee."

"… Iida, you are head of the Committee. You can do whatever you want."

"School rules dictate I must request permission to the Student Council President for that. I must therefore object to your basic assessment and request your permission to…"

"Yes, yes, whatever. More importantly, this is Izuku Midorikawa. He is joining Yuuei."

"I welcome you, Midorikawa. To a long, friendly relationship." Iida immediately replied, grabbing Izuku's hand and shaking it, "I hope you are among our more well-mannered classmates."

"O-Of course." Izuku replied, trying to figure out why Iida was behaving like this if he was supposed to be a delinquent like everyone else.

"Anyway, here is the module for enrollment." Izumi said, taking out from her pocket a folded piece of paper.

"You just had that on you?"

"I have like ten in my pockets and under my shirt."

"… Why?"

"You never know when you might need one, trust me. Quick enrollment is a staple of Yuuei after all."

Before Izuku could pursue that line of questioning further, Iida dragged him to a table and made him sit down to compile the paper, guiding him through the process calmly but effectively. Izuku couldn't help but think he felt oddly out of place in this version of Yuuei.

"I know what you are thinking." Izumi said once they were done and Iida quickly left to go to the administrative offices – which, Izumi had informed him, were actually empty, since no sane secretary would want to work at Yuuei – "What is he doing here?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

"Truth is, Iida is a rule hound. He will go around making sure rules are followed, and will do anything to ensure they are."

"That doesn't seem bad…"

"He beat the shit out of someone in numerous occasions in his old school, either between students or outside of the building."

"He what?!"

"Oh, it was always to stop a crime or a severe infringement of school rules, and he always did it quickly and efficiently. Violence is violence though, even when it's the hammer of justice. In the end his old school couldn't accept his behavior anymore, despite his excellent grades, so they expelled him and he had to come here." She grinned, "They sent me a real asset, I tell you. The school is much better since he arrived and I forced him in my squad."

Izuku's head started to spin. Could that friendly man he had just met be the same person that would beat up people? "This, squad, what is that?"

"My gang, the Izumi Squad. Originally it was just me and Tsu, but right now we have a full list of members. Well, everyone in this school technically, though they are broken up in smaller bands." She grinned again, something Izuku was finding the girl did a lot. And she was pretty scary when she did. "Anyway, we aren't here for that."

"What for then?"

"Ehi boss, you back?" A familiar voice asked, and Izuku turned around. Down from the stairs came Ochaco, Shoto and Tsu. Each of them was just slightly different from the people he knew. Shoto had his heir on the red side cut down almost completely, the white ones kept in a style Izuku had seen once or twice in American programs but never in real life. No scar on his face, thankfully, but the moment he saw him he looked on edge.

Uraraka, on the other hand, was dressed normally, with a t-shirt and short pants, and looked at him curiously. Her hair were about the same length as normal too, but her eyes had an edge Izuku had never seen on her face back in his own world.

Tsuyu was dressed the same as the other girl, and she seemed the only one that had no second thoughts about him. She had been the one that had talked.

"I'm back Tsu, yup. And this here is our new trump card for tomorrow night." She said, grabbing him and pushing him forward, towards the trio. They all stared at him, and Shoto frowned.

"Not to doubt your judgment Izumi, but are you sure he is up to it?"

She grinned. Again. Izuku was starting to worry. "Well, let's put him to the test, shall we? Let's go to the gym and see how he holds up."

Izuku wondered again if this was worth it.

(xx)

This chapter actually had to be rewritten twice, once because it was too heavy on giving explanations on this world's power that are better off being broken in parts over the story (like Eri's deal or what a Contract is), and once because I managed to fuck up the PoV and wrote it like it was Izuku's thoughts in Izumi's PoV, which is an impressive feat, especially when you notice after 800 words.

So yeah, Delinquentverse, a bit of Beelzebub and a bit of Medaka Box mashing with the MHA characters. She Who Bears Gift is obviously a mix of All for One and Anshin'in (that's all the info you get on Eri's power too, but some people will know what to do next).

Of course, a totally different world means Shirakumo doesn't die, so yay for cloud boy being around. At least, hopefully.

Next time we get to see what the Delinquentverse is like powerwise. Sorry for having to save it but the chapter would have taken far too long to release otherwise, and anyway I feel like we deserve a bit of a fighting chapter, since it's been almost twenty chapters since the last serious fight.

Hope Izuku is ready.