"...Eh?"

"Show me your quirk in action," Everglade repeated himself to the confused boy in front of him.

"Um, Mr. Everglade. My quirk hurts my body," Izuku said, thinking the man hadn't heard him, "I don't like to use it unless I really need to."

Thompson sighed a little as he shook his head at the boy, "Izuku, I am well aware of what happens when you use your power. However, in order to be useful to people and not be a glass cannon, you will have to find a way to control your power."

"I know," the greenette said with a sad smile on his face, "I can't keep relying on people to help me when I use my quirk. I am trying to master my power to the best of my abilities, but I can never get it right."

"That is where I come in. I will watch you throw a flick, and I'll see how you can improve. Offering suggestions would benefit you greatly."

Izuku thought it over. There was really nothing to lose if he accepted. Plus, if it could help him control One for All sooner, he would take it.

However, one thought did come into his head, "Why are you helping me Mr. Everglade? I don't see you getting anything from helping me with mastering my quirk."

The man nodded at the boy's true words, "You are right on that. I would have nothing to gain from helping you. You are only here to fix my house, and nothing more."

"So why help a total stranger?" the greenette curiously asked.

"You said your quirk was a strength enhancing one, right?" he asked the boy.

"Yes, sir."

"Then if you could gain control of your quirk, then you could use it to carry the heavy loads with much more efficiency and speed. Also, when you go back to your dimension, you will have a mastered quirk, and you'll be more useful. It is a win, win situation," Thompson explained his logic.

"Oh..." Izuku said as he felt a little embarrassed that he was subjected to another of Everglade's logical explanations, "I'm sorry for what I said earlier. I didn't mean to upset you in any way!"

The man put a dismissive hand up before speaking again, "It is no issue Izuku. Now, let's go out front so I could see your quirk." He then got up from the table and proceeded to the front door.

"Yes sir." Izuku said while walking behind the man.


When they made it outside, Everglade told Izuku to try it out on a group of trees that was nearby. That way, there would be minimal damage caused to the house, and Izuku didn't have to hold back.

But it's not like the boy knew how to hold back at this point.

Izuku obliged with the man's request, understanding the logic behind it. He took a deep breath in and out, preparing for the pain he was about to inflict on himself.

He raised his right hand, and had his left hand cup his wrist. With a gritted look on his face, he summoned One for All into his fingers, and then flicked.

Whatever Everglade thought was going to happen paled in comparison to what actually happened. For one, he felt himself be pushed back a little from the blast. He felt his shoes move backwards an inch or two. The second thing he didn't expect was the amount of damage the boy had caused to the group of trees.

Instead of a group of trees all stacked closely together, there was instead a decent sized hole in the group of trees. All the trees that were in that hole were only stumps.

Izuku squinted one of his eyes in pain as he felt the after effects of using his quirk, however, something changed. Instead of the finger being completely broken, Izuku could still feel it after moving it around. Obviously, it was on borderline unusable, but the key word was borderline.

'I didn't break my finger completely! I can barely move it, but I can still slightly feel it! I'm making progress in controlling One for All!' the boy excitedly thought to himself. If he didn't break his finger, then he could maybe fire another shot with that finger; if he was desperate. But to Izuku, this was the most amazing news he had heard in a while. He was closer to mastering All Might's power!

The greenette turned his head around so he could see Everglade's reaction to the display of power. However, he deflated a little once he saw the man's impassive look that had become common. Izuku expected some kind of reaction, but he didn't get anything. He wasn't an ego maniac like Kacchan, but he still liked to see what people thought of his power sometimes. The boy would mainly fish for ways to improve himself so that he could control his power better, but besides All Might, there hasn't really been anyone that has helped him with his quirk.

While Everglade kept his poker face from ever faltering, his inner mind began working into overdrive on what he had just seen. How was a kid that strong?! No child should be able to exhibit that much power from a flick! A FLICK!

The man dusted his shirt off a little from the dust that had picked up. Before Thompson could speak, however, a stray tree started falling from the side. Izuku turned around to notice the tree make a hard impact with the ground.

"Um..." Izuku said nervously as he continued to look at the tree that had just fallen over, "...timber?"

Everglade let that attempt at comedy about his appearance and the trees slide, no matter how terrible it was, "That is an amazing power, Izuku. With that, you could probably defeat any enemy that comes your way."

"I know. It is a pretty incredible quirk," the boy then lifted his hand up to show that his finger was nearly broken, "But like I said before, this is the result of me using it."

Everglade walked over to Izuku and looked at the greenette's finger. He took his hand so he could examine the damage, "So your finger got like this."

Izuku could only nod as he kept wincing from the man's touch. After a few more moments of inspection, the man let go.

"So this is what I think," the man started, "I believe you are putting too much power into one point. You are overloading your finger, which causes it to break. Here is what I think you should do. Option one, is that you tone down the amount of power you put into an attack. I don't think you will regularly need to use this amount of destructive force on an ememy," he said as he pointed to the destroyed trees behind him.

Izuku nodded as he was mentally taking notes on all of the advice.

"Option two, is spreading your power throughout your body. I don't know everything about your superpower, but I know you shouldn't be using that much power through your fingers. If you can spread an even amount of that power through various parts of your body, then you would be less likely to break something. Again, I do not know how your quirk works, so it might not even work like that."

The boy nodded again at the words of the man. He seemed to know a great deal in how to help Izuku, albeit he kind of knew he had to do the first one. Toning down the power was one of the first things All Might had told him after he threw his first One for All punch. This was a work in progress step.

But the second option, making the energy flow throughout his entire body, was something he had never even thought of!

"Now then," Thompson stated, "I believe we should head back inside. You can fix your finger, while I get lunch prepared."

Izuku nodded his head as he followed the man into the house. While he was walking, he took a look at his injured hand. 'I have a lot of things I want to try out. This showing of my quirk was actually very helpful. I think after lunch, if I am allowed, I will train with taking the amount of power down. If I do this first, then it should be easier to do the second suggestion.'


After a lunch with Everglade, Izuku started to put his new ideas to the test.

The first thing Izuku wanted to do was find a right precentage of One for All, that he could use without destroying his body. Or at the very least, find a way to minimize the amount of damage he took.

"Okay. Trial 1!" Izuku stated as he cataloged it in the same notebook Everglade gave him earlier. He then placed the notebook down on the ground, and walked a little away from it.

He faced the trees, and brought his hand into a flicking position with his right index finger. Izuku started channeling One for All into that finger.

"Focus..." the greenette said to himself as he imagined the egg not exploding in the microwave. There weren't any results for maybe 10 seconds, but after that time frame, the amount of power started to ruin the boy's finger. Turns out keeping so much energy contained was very difficult.

The greenette had no choice but to release the flick. It ended up causing the same amount of damage as before, but also broke Izuku's finger.

"Ah!" the boy exclaimed as he grabbed his finger. After a little bit of examination, the boy saw that instead of being very badly injured, his finger was completely unusable and unresponsive. It reminded him of how his arm and legs felt after using his quirk for the first time.

Izuku sucked his teeth in as he walked over to the notebook to write some notes down, 'Trial 1: Failure. Do not hold full power quirk in for more than 10 seconds. Will result in complete unusability


"Trial 4..." The greenette said to himself as he now prepared to use his left hand. The last 2 trials ended the same, with the boy overstressing his finger, and causing it to break.

"Okay, I have four more chances to make this happen. What could I be doing wrong?" the holder of One for All said to himself. For the last few trials, he had started with 100, and then went downwards, 'Maybe that's the problem. What if I start from 0, and try to work my way up to 100?'

So Izuku did just that. Instead of trying to find the sweet spot after starting at his best, he would instead try to find the perfect precent while One for All wasn't even charged.

'So I am at 0 right now. Let's see if I can add a hundredth of One for All.' Once again, the boy imagined his egg, but this time, he would turn the wattage down to the lowest setting.

Even though he did that, all he felt was the full power of the quirk flow into him. Before the ten seconds could end, Izuku quickly turned off his quirk. The result was a feeling of soreness that was barely noticable.

The greenette sighed after dispersing One for All, "Okay. That failed, but at least I'm not completely broken. Let me see if I can do it again."

So the boy tried, and tried, and tried. All through the day, for a matter of fact. He even practiced through some of the night, but no progress showed itself. It was starting to get very frustrating for the young man.

"Maybe I should try again on another day," Izuku said after his recent failure. The moon was rising up, his body was sore, and his stomach was begging for food. So he then walked back into the house with his notebook in hand.

Everglade was sitting on an armchair with a book in his hands. When he heard the door open, he lifted his head up and spotted a tired Izuku, "I see you are finally done with your training, Izuku."

"Yes..." he replied before he sat on the couch and nearly went to sleep just from exhaustion.

"Hey. Get up," Thompson said while he got back to his book. After much effort, the greenette lifted himself up from the comfortable couch. "I would not like sweat on my couch. Take a shower. Food is in the fridge, then go to bed. You need your energy for tomorrow."

"Yes...sir. Sorry about...your couch," Izuku replied with a tired voice as he started walking to where the showers were.

"Oh, and Izuku," the man said, "Tomorrow, since you need money for the supplies, you will be going on a quest. Hope you'll be prepared for it."

The greenette just nodded his head before he made his way to the showers.


Not a lot happened in this chapter, I know. But it should start to get interesting next chapter. Trust me on it.

Thanks for the great support you guys are showing this series! I actually really enjoy making it, and I'm glad others like it too.

I actually almost forgot to answer this question by Shadicgon. This story takes place between V (the one where they introduce Plutia and Ultradimension) and VII (where they introduce Uzume)