Here we have Chapter 2! I hope everyone has been enjoying the rewrite so far!

Admittedly, there have been a few minor changes, aside from some grammatical changes and how sentences were changed, plus the aged-up characters from the original story, as well as UA being a University.

Chapter 3 will start to see how the story changes from the original, so look forward to it!

Thanks to Mega over on the Hoard Discord server for editing this chapter.

Review response time!

Final Pharaoh: Thank you, I hope you continue to enjoy it going forward!

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[I do not own any copyrights to My Hero Academia, Dungeon & Dragons, or Warhammer 40k, they belong to their original owners.]

Chapter 2

Returning Revelations

Izuku grunted as he started to push the washing machine across the sandy beach towards the pile that would be later loaded onto a small pickup truck, thanks to Yagi Toshinori, also known as the number one hero, All-Might. It had been a week since the worst possible day of his life. However, the ending of such a day turned out to be the most important of his entire life; the sludge villain incident had revealed Izuku's heroic spirit to the weakened number one pro hero in Japan. And such actions had deemed him worthy to inherit All Might's quirk of "One for All". Even now, while panting and sweating up a storm, he felt excitement and determined to not let down his new mentor.

Izuku was alone on the beach this morning; All-Might had to take care of something and had trusted the young boy not to overdo it, as some of the piles of trash were not that stable and could possibly crush the young inheritor. It hadn't stopped Izuku from thinking of ways to tackle those piles of trash, feeling that he had to push himself that much harder to catch up with his peers and Naoki.

Speaking of which, his mind then went to his absent friend, who still had not returned any of his texts over the weekend, possibly due to not having "hatched" from the silk cocoon. He began to wonder what sort of changes would his friend undertake within. His thoughts were interrupted when the alarm for him to head back home and then go to school blaring not too far from him. He sighed, grabbed a towel, and began to dry himself before heading back to his small apartment.

The morning class alarm sounded that made all the students head towards their desks as the teacher walked up to the front of the chalkboard. Izuku looked up from his new notebook and scanned the room before finally stopping at the empty desk to his right where Naoki would typically sit. He sighed gently as he closed his book to prepare for the beginning of the day when the teacher cleared his throat, gaining the class's attention.

"Now, as I'm sure some of you know, Naoki Gensou had been out due to health issues involving his quirk." droned the teacher as he looked over the class dully, "He's made a full recovery according to the doctor's and his family, so he will be returning today. Come in." the teacher looked to the open door as some of the class started to gasp and whisper. Even Izuku was taken aback by his friend's arrival.

Instead of the usually large and pudgy caterpillar-like boy with a severe underbite with two pronounced canines and a small tuft of hair on his head, walked in a taller, more lithe built young man, his skin was a dulled steel blue color that shone similar to the chitin that Izuku recognized that was similar to Gensou-san, where it was hardened in some places but with spaces of a darker blue flesh to allow for movement. His arms and chest showed off some muscle definition underneath his school uniform, but the most striking changes were to his face. No longer was his bottom canines poking out to a goofy degree with an underbite to further had the strange visage, but his jaw was now adequately aligned and gave off a full smile, revealing the bottom and top fangs that fit snugly within his mouth. His facial structure had the same chitin and flesh appearance, but it was hardly noticeable when matched with the two long horns that had grown from out of his head, trailing back along with his head looking to be made with thick ridges, the points of which look to have been sand down to blunt their sharpness. The tuft at the top of his head had now become a full head of hair that was long and silky looking, reaching the base of his neck while also framing his blue pointed ears perfectly.

Izuku then noticed his friend's eyes, a perfect black sclera like his mother's with bright blue iris' that the emerald-eyed boy figured that Gensou-san would have been happy for. Then one final shock was revealed to the class as a long tail slowly unfurled from around Naoki's waist; it was thin but covered in the protective chitin and ended with a rather sharp point and shifted around as Naoki then slowly bowed, and out came his voice.

"It is a pleasure to see you all again; my apologies for my sudden absence," Naoki spoke with a soft tone to his voice, though a slight hint of a metallic trill to it. Izuku, who at this point started to jot down into his analysis book his friend's sudden change as Naoki continued, "As to my sudden appearance change, it is due to the nature of my quirk from my mother's side of the family, similar to caterpillar metamorphosing into butterflies, though truthfully, that was supposed to happen when I was eight years old, so I'm sort of a "late-bloomer" I guess would be an apt term for it…" he said running his chin thinking about it, which was then interrupted by the bellowing of the rabid local pomeranian, AKA Katsuki Bakugo.

"Doesn't matter how you changed, you fucking bug! I bet your weak ass quirk hasn't improved; it's probably just the same old stupid illusions that don't fool anyone! HA!" Bakugo grinned like a maniac while raising his hand up and firing off a few pops of his explosions. Izuku shook his head and sighed as Bakugo suddenly turned Izuku, threatening him silently and snarling, until the clearing of the teacher's throat made Bakugo turn his head to the teacher who said, "Bakugo, please..." which made the blonde-haired boy huff and sit back down.

Izuku silently released a breath he was holding to look back at his friend, only to see the blue iris' flare up and glow brightly with what looked like flames and staring at the loudmouth in front of him. This lasted for a few moments before Naoki blinked and the look was gone, heading towards his seat to the right of Izuku, giving the quirkless boy a smirk and a nod. Taking out his books from his bag, Naoki opened his notebook, and classes resumed.

"So, this is where you have been while I was in the cocoon? Finally giving you're all in the weight training, huh?" Naoki said offhandedly as he looked over the trash-filled beach where he was sitting on top of a dishwasher, watching Izuku pushing a tire across the sand, grunting in exhaustion as the day had not been kind to him in regards to Bakugo hunting him down as per usual. Thankfully, Izuku and Naoki were able to avoid the blonde loudmouth, though that had cut some time into Izuku's beach cleaning duties, which upset him to a degree as this meant less time for him. As he was pushing the tire, he looked up to Naoki, who was now just sporting a sleeveless muscle shirt that showed off a little more of his body changes that he underwent; Izuku still had to ask him how it felt and what happened to his excess… mass...but felt that would be too rude.

Naoki, however, saw the gleam in Izuku's eye that meant his friend had a billion questions regarding his transformation, which he chuckled at, snapping Izuku out of the look, "You wanna know where all the fat went, huh?" he asked which made Izuku sputter and start to apologize with words coming out of his mouth a mile a minute, which made Naoki laugh hard, "Izuku! It's fine! I'm shocked you hadn't asked beforehand."

Naoki said as he wiped a tear from his eye from laughing before continuing, "So it's like this, while some of the mass went into forming my chitin and new body extremities, and yes… the horns hurt like hell when they were growing… it also fueled up and improved my quirk!" He opened his arms out like an entertainer, though that last statement made Izuku trip, causing the boy to scramble up from the sand and his bright eyes fully locked onto his friend.

"IMPROVED?! HOW?!"

Naoki rubbed the back of his head gently, chuckling softly as the cheeks on his face turned a darker shade of blue, "Well… now my illusions seem more... life-like if that makes sense like they have weight and are more believable. Though I don't know how many I can bring forth or how big it can get, it takes a really keen sense to figure out they are illusions. While under its spell, any "damage" you take seems real. It's why I had no contact with you over the weekend; I was getting my quirk status updated; it's now called "Phantasmal Force"!"

Naoki got off the machine he was sitting on and started to hum, activating his quirk to conjure a blow torch, walking up to Izuku and turned it on, and the bewildered cinnamon roll blinked as he reached his hand out to the flame but stopped as soon as he felt the heat. Izuku's eyes and smiled widened at this and started to mutter up a storm of the potential of Naoki's quirk, which brought the chitin encased demon-looking boy with a smirk as well, tossing the blow torch away as it phased out of existence, "And it's activated similar to my mom's quirk, using the vibrations of my vocal cords to do it!"

"And if you can keep practicing and strengthen your vocal cords, you could possibly keep up the 'physicality' of those illusions! That's amazing, Naoki!" Izuku beamed as his friend nodded, continuing his explanation.

"Though I'm still trying to figure out a way to make it even more believable, especially if it interacts with me, just because I already know that it is an illusion. Still, that's what I'm going to be practicing until we get to UA! Speaking of… I heard what you did at the slime villain incident!" He smiled, which caused Izuku to chuckle lightly, rubbing the back of his head and blushing lightly.

"It's awesome you got to see All Might and save Bakugo, which I can assume he's resenting still?'' Naoki crossed his arms as Izuku nodded and sighed, then the bug demon boy sighed as well, "He'll never change, I swear… if he SOMEHOW gets into UA. I hope the teachers there will actually put him in his place...otherwise, well…" Naoki's voice lowered to a degree not even Izuku heard, which caused him to raise an eyebrow at his longtime friend in curiosity about what he was planning.

But said the boy suddenly perked up and smiled at Izuku, "Oh yea! I can even have people show up! Watch this!" and then he began to hum loudly, and from behind one of the trash piles stepped out All-Might of all people, wearing his traditional American-styled uniform and then began to pose and flex in front of the two boy's, bellowing a laugh and shouting the iconic quote of "NEVER FEAR! I AM HERE!" Then began to laugh some more while Naoki chuckled and kept his humming up as he looked to Izuku and smirked, "never hurts to have the number one hero to be summoned at whim, right?" he snickered as Izuku chuckled nervously, thinking of what would happen if the real All Might had seen this.

Of course, the universe just loves to bend Midoriya over a barrel as a shrunken All Might made his appearance from the parking lot that leads to the stairs to the beach, "Young Midoriya! Sorry I'm late, I had some busi-" the skeleton of a man stopped as he was but a few feet from his successor and another boy with blue, hard-looking skin, horns and tail, and the relatively large posing All Might before them. There was a brief moment of silence before Izuku began to speak, "Al-Toshinori-san! It's not r-" but he was interrupted as the skeleton buffed up to his "hero form" and charged towards the "imposter".

"Do not worry, young Midoriya! I shall deal with this impost-OOP!" All Might bellowed at first before suddenly phasing through the fake All-Might, crashing into the trash pile behind the illusion with Izuku shouting out his name and running towards his mentor, who at this time groaned and shook his head, pulling himself out of the trash pile slowly and back down to his "normal" form, coughing out some blood. Izuku helped him stand up and out of the trash and check over some injuries as a voice came from behind the mentor and student, making them freeze instantly.

"Izuku… is... is that A-All Might? and .. why did he shrink?" asked Naoki, dispelling his quirk and looking utterly confused and shocked at the two. The uniquely eye-colored boy looked and stared at the two of them before Izuku uttered a simple two words that perfectly matched the scenario of All Might's secret being known unknowingly by someone else.

"Ah, beans.."