Midorya grinned as he felt his friends arms wrapped around him, the two still laughing over their fusion. He couldn't even describe the feeling if he tried, beyond perhaps the word "euphoric" .
"Well…. I am thoroughly confused but…" Iida shook his head before smiling as he walked up to them, holding his hand out and shaking both of theirs in congratulations. "Well done, both of you."
"Thanks Iida, sorry we crushed but… I wasn't really sure if their was a time limit or anything." Midoriya chuckled nervously, scratching the back of his head. The brunette and blue haired teens looked at him in confusion and he sighed. "I'll explain when we get back to class, I doubt I'll be able to avoid having to anyway."
"Deku…" Bakugou growled and they all looked back to the blonde, Midoriya's eyes widening as he saw a familiar glow in his palms. "You…."
"Uh, Bakugou! The training exercise is over!" Iida reprimanded, as he saw the teen about to use his quirk. Before the taller boy could say anything else though an explosion went off and the explosive student was rocketing toward the greenette.
"YOU BASTARD!"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" A new voice shouted and before Kacchan could reach his target, he was held back by the frowning form of All Might. "I don't know why you think you're actions here today are in any way ok, young Bakugou but I assure you they will not go unpunished. You could have brought down the building and killed everyone inside!"
"Ah fuck off! It wouldn't of done shit!" Bakugou bit back, not knowing when he was beat. "That fucker needs to learn his lesson!"
Whack!
Suddenly, the student shut up after a swift strike to the back of the neck knocked him out. At the remaining students confused and concerned glances their teacher just sighed. "I wouldn't normally wish to do that to a student but as he's already proven to be volatile I had to make sure he wouldn't struggle and break anything."
"So…. Do we just go back to the observation room now?" Uraraka asked and the blonde nodded, dropping the unconscious boy in his hands onto a stretcher on one of the robots that walked in. "What will happen to him?"
"He'll be woken up by Recovery girl then sent to serve detention with Aizawa. Whether he remains in U.A after is up to him. As for you all, I'll be back to oversee the next match, before that if you would all return and let teams E and F know they are on next. E are the heroes, F are the villains."
"Yes sir!" They all nodded in unison before making their way back. The walk was quiet, however if one were to pay attention, they would notice Izuku and Ochaco were walking closer together than before, trading looks and smiles.
Iida was too busy thinking over the event to notice.
"You guys! That was soo awesome!" Mina cheered excitedly when the three walked into the room, bounding up to them. Then, her gaze turned to the two heroes and her grin became much more teasing. "And I have no idea what that combining thing was but wow did you two look cozy before it~"
"H-hey! That's just… how fusion works." Midoriya defended, rubbing his arm as the two blushed. The other students began to crowd around them and it only worsened. Iida informed the next tow teams they would be up next and they nodded, before turning their attention back to Midoriya.
"Fusion? Would you mind actually explaining it? I was under the impression you had a super strength quirk?" Momo inquired and the greenette sighed as he walked over to a nearby seat, letting out a sigh as he collected his thoughts. Looking up, he ended up shrinking back at the expectant looks when the door opened.
"Ah, you're all still here, good." The teacher said, before noticing they were all crowded around his successor. Letting out a light chuckle, the man just shook his head. "Explaining, young man?"
"Yeah…. So…." He shook his head, rubbing his hands against his face. Trying to think how to explain this was not easy when he had to do it on the spot. Looking at all the expectant looks… "Um… could I get some space please?"
"Oh, right. Sorry dude!" A boy with red spikey apologised as they all backed off and gave him some breathing room, while Uraraka took a seat beside him to help him stay calm. "Are you ok? You look a bit… pale."
"Just…. Ok, so, I have two quirks." He finally said, ignoring the cursory glance he got from his teacher as he finally settled on an explanation. "Just…. One didn't actually show up for a long time. I do have a super strength quirk but you remember how it broke me?"
"Yeah, it was kinda gross, to be honest. No offense dude." A girl with purple hair and headphone jacks for earlobes said, twirling said jacks around her finger. The here eyes widened in realization. "Oh, I get it. If a kid had that kinda power….."
"Yeah, I'd probably be eviscerated." Midoriya nodded shuddering as the mental image of a younger version of him trying to use One for All entered his mind. "It's a side effect of my actual quirk really though….."
Lifting his hand, he let them all see the gem inside. "I…. I'm honestly not sure exactly how it works but…. As far as I understand it if I activate my power while touching hands with someone or something like that, we combine into one person."
"So, you like share a body or…" Mina inquired, and the greenette laughed.
"N-no, It's more like another person is kinda born but we're still vaguely in control? I guess it depends on who I fuse with or something, but obviously, fusion, out attributes and such fuse. S-so my super power, mixed with Ochaco's gravity altering power results in a much more powerful version like you saw there."
"Uh…. Midoriya?" The pin skinned girl tilted her head to the side, confused. "Since when were you on a first name basis?"
The greenette and brunette both blinked, before looking at one another and blushing again.. However this tie the two just laughed, getting more confused looks.
"Um guys?"
"I.. I don't know. I guess…."
"Well, they were inside each other." All Might piped up, and the two friends blushes reached the deepest shade they could at his word choice. "I'd imagine it was just a side effect of sharing a mind. You all refer to yourself mentally by your given names, so it was just natural to them afterwards to continue."
"You could have put it in any way…." Midoriya muttered as he covered his face in embarrassment. He swore he could here a chuckle come from the blonde.
"Hm. Well either way, Bakugou of course performed the least desirably on this training exercise, he could have jeopardized his teammate and while it is of course in line with villainous behaviour, his decision to go all out against the heroes was still incredibly reckless." A tall girl with raven hair spoke up, eyes closed and arms crossed. All eyes turned to her as she continued. "Iida performed much better until…. What was the fusion called again?"
"Izuraka." The fusion teen provided, and she nodded.
"Until Izuraka arrived. His confusion was understandable, but he should be on guard at all times. Getting into the role as he did and trying to counteract Uraraka's quirk was a smart decision." Finally, she turned to the two heroes with a look of confusion. "What I don't understand is why you waited so long to fuse. That was the most baffling decision when it gave you such a power boost. If you did then you're performance, aside from perhaps being a little too forceful with your quirk would have been flawless-"
She stopped as she noticed Midoriya cringe and look away, and she frowned.
"Is there some sort of problem with fusion?"
"No… it's just….." He shook his head as he looked up at them all. "I kinda used to hate it. I didn't have super strength and… I'd only ever fused with Kacchan before and it was…. Horrible."
"Yeesh, I could imagine." Mina said, gagging at the idea. "I do not want inside his mind ever."
"So, honestly I thought it would always be like. I planned to never use it if I could but…. It's not always like that." He said, grinning despite himself and meeting Uraraka's eye, who smiled back. "So…. I guess I maybe will be using it more from now on."
"Well, I'm…. glad you could overcome…. Whatever you had to overcome." A boy with yellow hair, that had a black lightening shaped streak going through it said with a thumbs up.
"Alright class, I'm glad you are all getting alone but it's time the rest of you got into it, ok? Team E, team F, get to your positions." All Might requested and the four students of those teams nodded, all making their way. As they did, Mina turned back to her friends with a grin.
"Seeing as you guys put on a show, I'll make sure to give it everything I have as well! See ya when I win!"
At that, Midoriya could only grin. A grin that grew wider fifteen minutes later when she proved to be correct about that prediction.
The rest of the fights had been one spectacle after another, the greenette's grin growing as he took in how amazing each of his classmates were, writing quietly in one of his notebooks as he did so and committing their names to memory.
After that, they had all been rushed out and spent the rest of the day doing maths and English work that had been a breeze for the boy. The final bell had rung and he'd taken out his phone, wanting to check his mom didn't need anything before he went home.
As he looked over it, he failed to notice the steadily growing group at the front of the class, or how they all looked over to him every couple of moments until finally they all walked up to him.
As their shadows loomed over him, he looked up and for the briefest moment had a flash to when a group of middle school kids would come to beat him up. Shaking his head, he quietly reprimanded himself. 'They aren't like that.'
"Hey Midoriya, mind if we talk for a bit?" The red headed boy from before asked, leading the group. Along with him were all the girls minus Yaoyorouzu, and most of the boy's except for Iida, Bakugou, a heterochromatic teen called Todoroki and a bird headed boy named Tokoyami. "Ejiro Kirishima by the way."
"Uh, sure? Is something the matter?" He asked, quirking a brow and a girl with long green hair beside him shook her head.
"No, just we thought if we were all going to be part of a class together for the next three years, we might as well know each other. Ribbit. Tsuyu Asui, by the way but my friends just call me Tsu." She explained and Midoriya nodded in understanding, pulling his bag onto hi shoulder but remaining in his seat.
"That makes sense." He nodded, and let them all introduce themselves quickly even though he'd already learned their names. "So? What was your question?"
"Well, sorry if this Is too personal or something but the way you're power effected Uraraka's was kind of… odd." Kaminari, an electricity controlling teen said. "Cause she only removes gravity, you'd think just making it stronger would be giving her a better weight limit…."
"But you changed it to full on gravity control." Said girl finished as she took a seat on the desk behind him and just scratched his head nervously. "So…. They were all wondering what it would be like on their powers."
"Not wanting to put any unwanted ideas in your head or anything." Sero, a tape creating teen said quickly, put his hands up. "But like, we can't help but be curious man."
"Honestly… I have no idea." Midoriya shrugged, with a sigh. "That was the first time I've ever successfully fused. Like I said, I've been in the process of it with Kacchan before but it's….. it's like we're so out of sync that whatever the fusion is becomes completely unstable and falls apart. I mean I could probably guess a few, like Iida's engines would probably be way stronger and make a fusion between us that much faster. Though seeing as size is added into a fusion as well I can only imagine how unbalanced we'd be at the height we'd be at…."
"Ah, well no worries man. Just curious is all." Kirishima said with a shrug of his own, before putting a finger to his chin. "Using that for hero work will be odd though, especially if you have multiple people in a team."
"Yeah….. well, I'll figure it out as I go along. I kind of have a theory why it was so much worse with Kacchan…." He explained as he stood up and got their attention. "It's just a guess but I think it's because he's always been so hostile towards me, and so it's a really…. What's the word? I guess…. You could compare a fusion to a relationship. Me and Ochaco were already friends, better friends then I've had before in my life so it was way more successful. Me and Kacchan… for lack of a better word, it was toxic so felt horrible."
"Yeah, I guess that makes sense." Satou, a tall teen with a sugar quirk said, crossing his arms. "So the better you get along with someone…"
"Yeah, the better the fusion. That's the working theory. It might not be exactly the same with everyone but seeing as no one here has anything against me or me against anyone….. Well honestly I'm kinda looking forward to finding out what might come of any fusion." He said, giving them all his brightest smile. The first to respond, recovering from his blinding smile was an invisible girl named Hagakure.
"Who gave him permission to be so cute?!" She whispered to someone near her but the green haired teen heard and immediately started to blush at that.
They all continued to talk for a little while after that, trading names and numbers when finally it was time to leave and the one for all user found himself with all the girls alone in the class.
"Well, uh…. Me and Ochaco were going to walk him with the girls though… seeing as Iida kinda accidentally ditched you, what with needing to get home quick uh…" Mina looked over to the remaining girls with a grin. "Mind if we take him with us, just to the station."
"Let's just go. I don't care." Jirou, the earphone jack girl shrugged and Hagakure nodded her own approval at bringing him along.
"Thanks. You didn't need to but…" Before he could finish, pink coloured fingers placed themselves over his lips and he was met with a serious look from Ashido.
"Dude, considering what I've heard so far already, yes we did." She said simply, before pulling him along by the arm to catch up with the other girls. He blushed lightly but smiled as he walked beside them, occasionally responding to one or two questions thrown his way.
Eventually, he ended up fully involved in a debate over what would happen with his quirk if he fused with himself somehow with Hagakure, Jirou and Mina while Ochaco and Asui talked amongst themselves about a show they both happened to watch.
Though they'd meant to split up at the train, they'd ended up all on the same one and the boy had been the first to get off, smiling happily as he did so.
When he'd gotten home later, after he'd had lunch and talked about his experience with his mother (she almost broke down, holding him tightly when he told her about his first REAL fusion), he's gotten two texts.
The first had been from Jirou, surprisingly.
Jirou:
Jirou: Hey. It's Jirou. I didn't really think I was gonna like having you along with us, was just meant to be the girls but you were cool, I guess. Just don't push your luck.
The other message had been an unexpected but not unwelcome development.
Girls of 1-A:
Ashido: Yo! Thought we culd all do wit a GC! Also added Mido.
Hagakure: Gee Ashido, you sure seem to want to include him a lot~ There's no any reason behind that, is there?~
Mina ^_^: Wat? He's cool and I don't like what I've herd before. That's for him to tell ya'll tho.
Jirou: Uh-huh. Sure. Whatever, I'm cool with it, as long as he doesn't change from how he was today.
Ochaco ^-^: I'm down with Izuku being in!
Asui: You did it again, Uraraka.
Ochaco ^-^: ah! Great now it's weird calling him normally.
You: Sorry about that. I really didn't know that would happen.
Ochaco ^-^: It's fine Deku.
Unknown number: Well, if the rest of you are ok with his presence then I suppose I have no objections.
Mina ^_^: Gr8! we'll just call him an honorary grl in the meantime then to justify the GC name.
You: I'd say cool if I could understand what you were actually saying.
Mina ^_^: Ouch, but fair!
Laughing to himself as he went to his room, Midoriya could only wonder how All Might would react to that. Still, he finally had friends, and they were awesome and he didn't want to let them down.
So he would be the best damn honorary girl ever!
Which was a weird thought to motivate him as he pulled up his work to continue, but oh well. It worked at least!