At school, it was the talk of the town about the nomu attack. Only those who were in the hero course came face to face with them, but everyone else had been scared as well, and rightfully so. Those things were scary. Especially the smart ones that none of the kids but Luffy ever came across.

But he was also talked about a lot, finding them on his own and getting information from them. It was talked about briefly, but Hawks mentioned that strongly, saying Luffy started the battle and gave them the upperhand, even if it was messy and their plans didn't work out at first. But the results would have been the same.

Everyone lived and the nomus were all dead.

His classmates asked him how Hawks was doing and Luffy said he was doing well and his wing was mostly grown back. "That's good," Tokoyami said in relief. Luffy grinned and said he was totally back to normal. Tokoyami held in a laugh and Luffy told him it was funny and okay to laugh. "I just never expected that to happen."

Ashido asked what happened. "Hawks was given strong pain meds and was a little bit loopy." He was asked to see a video of it but declined. Hawks wouldn't want anyone seeing him like that. It was already bad enough it was in front of Endeavor, even if he couldn't help it while being in the same hospital room as him.

Aizawa walked in and everyone sat down. The teacher told Luffy that someone mailed a letter to him and he needed to not put the school address down on anything. Luffy knew for sure that he hadn't. He took the envelope handed to him and grew frustrated.

"This company keeps trying to recruit me but the company doesn't exist. This is the third time, I swear I told nobody to send anything here. But I'm sorry for the inconvenience," Luffy said with a bow.

And the letters kept coming no matter if Luffy continued to ignore them. He was sick of it, and ripped them up each time since it was the same thing over and over, without even a return address, so how would he reply in the first place? There was an address, but it was a public park and at a specific time that he was at school or on patrol. What were they going for?

It had started to concern Hawks, that he wasn't just being spammed, but harassed. Though the letters had nothing of importance, spam mail at least had some kind of scam or false information that could be fact checked by going to Google.

So, finally, Hawks got fed up with the constant letters that Luffy was getting really frustrated with, and went to the address himself while Luffy was in school. He didn't know about it, so when he got back home, Hawks stormed into the apartment looking absolutely livid, something he almost never looked. It was out of character and worrying.

"What's wrong?" Luffy asked in shock at the demeanor of the pro-hero.

"I went to the address they keep sending at the right time. It's not a company, it's people looking to start a company ad wanting your popularity to get you there. They're fucking scum bags, piece of shit fuckers," he growled. Luffy was still surprised. "They were your parents."

Luffy's eyes went wide and then he got angry, too. After throwing him out and abandoning him for 8 years, they contacted him to use his popularity to help them? We're they planning on tricking him into helping them? He wouldn't tell Ace or he'd find them and do something that would get him in trouble or make him lose his job.

"I filed a report already about their past child abuse, no matter how long ago it was. They deserve to pay for how they treated you, what they did to you when you were only five. They deserve to be punished, put in jail. And they will be since I'm a pro-hero, and I have more sway in such things," Hawks explained, getting calmer even though he was still pissed with what he was saying.

Luffy looked down, and said he was glad he went for him. "It was hard not punching them both in the faces." Luffy said it was good he hadn't or he would have looked bad. "That's true, but their case is personal with me. Still seeing the scars they gave you, the self hatred they planted in you as a little kid. I hate them."

"Well, I'm never going to see them ever again. You don't have to worry about anything," Luffy assured him, hiding his own anger and annoyance.

"I'm not worried, just angry by the gall they had, as if what they'd done didn't matter to you and you'd just help them because you have blood ties. They looked like douche-bags, cocky, like they were the best people and hadn't abandoned both of their children, especially the way they abandoned you."

He was able to track where they headed to and got their address and names. "They'll either be arrested or go on and run and then be arrested. Acting like child abuse was nothing… especially you… ugh," he groaned rubbing his hands down his face. "Let's order pizza tonight," he said abruptly.

Whenever he thought Luffy was upset, they ordered pizza so he didn't have to cook. Once when he was younger, he told him he was upset and didn't want to cook because of that. Ever since, he took that into account and they ordered their dinner to be delivered or pick up to go.

Luffy was quiet at the desk and finishing up his homework. He had stopped doing all his homework before and stuck to do it daily. It always gave him something to do if he had to do it each day. He kept up and never fell behind. Hawks was silent, too, watching something Luffy couldn't hear from his headphones.

He would visit the cave again tomorrow after patrol. He had it during school, like it sometimes ended up on. Full day patrols were necessary sometimes to get used to being a hero full time. When he went to bed, he was plagued with thoughts about the kind of people his parents were, who would throw a child out of a moving car. Someone evil. A villain would do that, not a parent.

When he slept, he was glad he never got flashback memories to his childhood, ever. He still didn't remember their names or faces. Maybe he hit his head when he was little and lost his memories after being shoved out. Maybe that was a blessing, but he did wish he knew Ace. But it would just have made him miss him more and feel even more alone for those three years.

He got up at 8:30 and got dressed in his hero outfit before putting the candy in his pockets on his bags and with a cheap green necklace of beads around his neck that he got from the dollar store on his way back home the other day.

It was St. Patrick's day, and he wanted to look just a little festive and give candies out to kids wearing green, also having stickers to give out to kids who had no green on them. He could focus fine while also interacting with people.

And boy, did kids like it. Only the little ones since the older ones were at school. He would crouch in front of them and congratulate them on wearing green, much better than his cheap necklace, and give them a piece of candy.

When one didn't have green, he'd give them a clover sticker with a piece of candy. Kids who also saw swarmed around him. He handed out stickers and candy before he heard screaming. "Duty calls! Sorry, have a good day!" Luffy called flying away and getting "bye bye!"s.

He arrived at a villain attack, a sludge monster. He wasn't going to touch it, he just zoomed in and pulled the person stuck inside out and far from the scene. "Hawks, there's a sludge villain," and he gave him the address. "I don't think I can get close without being sucked inside."

"Be there soon."

Sometimes there would be times where Hawks was busy doing something else, helping in a dire situation, so he couldn't come help. So when that happened he'd call the sidekicks for them to come help. But most of the time, Hawks was available. There wasn't much crime in his area due to his presence.

Hawks arrived with Tokoyami, and the three weren't sure what to do besides keeping people away. When it got too close, Luffy and Hawks flapped their wings to get it away, but it just splattered the goo off of the guy.

"Trap the sludge so he can't use it," Hawks said. Luffy said he was on it and went to the nearest market and stole the jumbo soda bottle, all of them.

"I'll come back and pay later, promise!" Luffy shouted on his way back. He got no resistance from the worker, as everyone knew Luffy by now in that city, had known of him for a long time, even if they did not know him personally. They all knew he wasn't a thief and kept promises. Plus, he was in the hero business, you'd never shoplift and especially not in hero costume.

He dumped the soda out on his way and then shoved them in their hands. "Tsukuyomi, you stay here, Luffy behind him, I'll go in front of him. Flap your wings and we'll catch the droplets. Luffy nodded and flapped his wings hard enough to separate the goo and send it flying, where Tokoyami and Hawks easily caught the goo in the bottles when forced them in ways so the suction pulled it in. With more and more goo leaving and with nowhere to go, they got it all and all that was left was the man himself.

He was zip tied tightly, cutting the circulation off on his hands. The police were already there and detained him further, shoving him into the cop car while he cursed swear words at him. They all looked at the 20 huge bottles of sludge, and Tokoyami asked what they would do with it. "Bring it back to the weapons vault and into the safe. We don't want it seeping through any cracks if it can still move on its own.

The three headed back, and weren't too far from the agency, which was ridiculous for the villain to pull anything so close. Hawks looked at Luffy and saw the necklace and bag of candy. He laughed at him. "I'm just being festive and relatable!" Luffy said defensively.

"Aww, how cute," he replied.

They locked away the sludge in the fourth floor which held weapons and other things left over from villains that would be safer here than in a police warehouse. It had a huge lock and sealed sides of the door so nothing could get in or out. If there was an or earthquake, that's also the safe room for people if they can't evacuate.

Luffy went back out patrolling and had brought a little bag of clover leaves at a gardening store and sprinkled them over kids, making them laugh and say "Hi Luffy!" and he'd wave down at them. Honestly, though he'd never tell anyone else, interacting with kids on the streets were one of his favorite parts of patrols, even though he often had to leave mid-sentence to go stop a nearby crime.

Maybe it was after seeing the dead kids, maybe it was after saving baby Felix. He didn't know, but he did know he liked kids.

And this was clearly on his fan page and the cutesy part of the news there is at the beginning before the villain and weather stories come up. Luffy was an expert at avoiding the press, able to hear where they were and easily bypass them. Flying really was convenient. Tokoyami wasn't in a place where he could fly easily, but his practices were going really well.

On days they didn't have patrol or after school, sometimes they went to practice without Hawks, Tokoyami knowing he could trust Luffy to help him out.

But that day, after patrol was over for him since he started so early, he left to go to the cave and relax. He flew through the cave with his bright wings, whose light hadn't dulled in the weeks since he'd gotten them back. He flew over the puddle that brought him back to life and ended up in the room that was no longer blue, but a reddish pink. The bugs had changed colors. He sat in the chair, seeing his wings react to them in a strange way. The red rippled through the feathers for a bit before fading and eventually returning to the normal glow that he put away.

That made him wonder... Were the bugs the source of that puddle and the quirk boost? He observed the ground and found that it angled downward. The water was collected in the deepest part of the cavern, having slid down the smooth floor of it. It wasn't wet right now, but he was fascinated.

He stood and looked closer to the little slugs and saw that they were indeed wet, but not dripping. He touched one, and it was slimy but he felt his finger tingle. What were these bugs? Had they never been discovered before? Was Luffy the first, and Hawks the second?

He pulled his phone out of his pocket and took a photo of them, zooming in close enough to see their bodies in detail. It was so interesting. Surely if anyone had found these things, they would have tested them… right? Well, maybe people wouldn't eat them, so nobody knew. Midoriya's mission had been against someone who could erase quirks. These could boost them. He never knew you could do so much to your quirks.

Though Eri's situation had been different. Still, it was intriguing. Luffy sat under the glow for a bit, enjoying the scene that looked like it was looking at the night sky, only it was a pinkish red. He got a call on his headset since it had much better range than his cell phone, which had zero bars in the middle of the mountain down in a deep, underground cave.

"Hey, where'd you go?"

"The cave. The bugs changed color and I have a theory about the water," Luffy said simply. Hawks said he'd be over in a little bit. Luffy waited with some "elevator" music on and just relaxed. Once he heard Hawks down the tunnel, he turned it off and then heard a loud "Oof!" as Hawks hit the tunnel wall since he couldn't see anything. Luffy's laugh echoed down the cavern and Hawks landed in front of him with a scowl before he saw the now pink bioluminescent caterpillar like creatures.

"Wow, I wonder what caused this," he said, walking close to one. He touched it and winced. Luffy walked over, asking what was wrong. "Feel like it burned me." But then the little mark faded and all traces of pain, too. "Feels fine, now though. Don't think I'll be drinking that water afterall."

Luffy worried that it was poisonous. "I don't know. It wouldn't help going to the doctor to ask how to cure it, but I am worried. What if the markings are made to keep away predators, like poisonous snails or fish?"

"Should we go to the doctor?" Hawks said he really didn't want to go to a hospital again, so they'd go to one of the faster doctor's offices. They left and flew to the doctor's office before Hawks landed on a telephone pole.

"What's wrong?"

"The burning in my finger went away. Didn't last very long, at all."

Luffy asked if he thought he was poisoned after all. He asked if Luffy had felt a burning sensation when he touched the water. "My face and hands stung but it disappeared quickly and I felt fine afterwards." Luffy said. He asked if he should go to the doctor's after all, even if both of them felt fine.

The pro-hero thought. "The smart thing would be to go check out, but I honestly don't feel any worse than I did. You're fast at flying, if anything happen you can get me there immediately." Luffy agreed, hoping it would be okay. They flew home, but when it got dark out, they could both see just the faintest of glows on his wings before it faded and didn't come back. Luffy's still glowed.

"Man, what weird bugs." Luffy agreed. The glow didn't return, though. Maybe ingesting it made it last a lot longer or permanently. Luffy's wings had not dulled in brightness. That was now part of his public image, which left an air of mystery since he wouldn't say how they glowed.

The rest of the night, Luffy kept an eye on Hawks, just being cautious. And he looked for anything resembling the bugs they'd found. Lots of similar looking caterpillar-like bugs but with different markings. And many of them were poisonous. But looking up the symptoms for all of them, none of them matched Luffy's feeling great.

Luffy wished he could test what was in the bugs and water, but he wasn't a scientist and both of them had decided to keep them a secret or the public would go wild to get it. Villains especially.

Luffy kept checking on Hawks in the middle of the night, but he was like usual, snoring obnoxiously while tangled in his blankets.

In the morning, Hawks was very happy. He slept perfectly and felt very energetic and weirdly excited for work. It looked like everything was okay and he wasn't actually poisoned. The poison in all of the bugs resembling the mystery one had clear symptoms early on. So Luffy felt better about it.

He had agreed last week that Friday night would be his first night patrol. He had done it with Hawks a couple times before, but never on his own. Hawks didn't patrol at night but said it was important that he got used to doing it.

Tokoyami would be doing his own night patrol on Thursday night and then they would do it together on Saturday. The school week passed quickly, with Luffy being absent two days for the agency, and not patrolling this time, but doing practice paperwork with Tokoyami, and sending in emails to Hawks to make it seem like they were actually reporting things.

He would give them feedback about how they'd done. Tokoyami was excited for something so easy where he could prove he was smart. He still felt like he didn't get to show Hawks enough talent, even though he was better at flying, now. So he was going all out with his night mission.

When Friday morning came, Tokoyami was in a wonderful mood, and everyone asked why he was so happy. "I got a great response to my mock paperwork sent to Hawks and was able to stop a bank robbery on my night patrol."

Luffy grinned and gave him a high five. "You can tell he isn't playing favorites when I got a B on my paperwork because I wasn't detailed enough. Usually he's fine with how I do it, but he got serious for once." Tokoyami laughed, something that rarely happened. Luffy was happy for him.

"I was also able to glide from building to building since it was nighttime and Dark Shadow was strong. He likes the flying too, it seems, so there are no problems. I am grateful you've gone through the trouble of helping me, Luffy."

The winged teen grinned and said it was his pleasure. He wished Luffy good luck on his patrol, and Luffy thanked him.

He had the police scanner on in his headset, keeping his senses out as he flew up and down streets, through alleyways before he was in a part of town that connected with the train system. There were night time incidents at the train stations often. But when he was flying over the tracks, he heard the scanner say that a train had been hijacked by villains.

Luffy said in the headset that he was in the immediate area. He got no response, his voice probably not recognized. But he flew there, and saw the villain through the window. Luffy hung onto the side of the bullet train easily before he crawled up the side and quietly forced the door open, making the terrified engineer look and the student put a finger to his lips before Luffy walked up behind the guy silently and chopped the back of his neck to knock him out. He pulled his arms behind him and zip tied him.

"Is everybody okay?" Luffy asked those in the car. They were all shocked and looked scared.

"Th-There's a bomb under the train!" one shouted. Luffy immediately jumped out and flew below it, going very fast and saw a beeping device near the belly of the train. One of the first things a sidekick taught Luffy was how to diffuse a bomb. It was a long time ago, but he remembered how.

He went back to the door and asked for scissors, if anyone had scissors or a nail clipper. A woman gave him nail clippers, and said he'd be back up in a moment. He dropped down again and used the talons on his wings for once, digging them into the side of the train while he easily opened the bomb up and snipped the correct colored wires in this type of bomb, positive he'd done it right. The beeping ended and Luffy dislodged it from the train base in case it crashed and somehow went off.

He had it in his hands when he flew back to the entrance. "I've diffused the bomb, but you need to stop at the next station. Police will be there to help and take the villain. Does anyone know what quirk he has?" he asked the scared people. "Don't worry, the bomb won't go off, and if it did, I'd still protect everyone on this train.

He heard and didn't see the guy in zip ties try to grab his leg while pretending to be asleep. He pulled his arms back and dislocated his shoulders. "It would have been easier for you to stay asleep." He assured the passengers that he'd dislocated his shoulders.

"So, his quirk? It's okay if no one wants to say, I won't push it and the police will find out. But it would be really helpful to know."

"His nails could grow into razors but only for a little bit of time. Then he had the gun instead. "Gun? I don't see a gun," he said in worry.

"That's because it's not a real gun!" and the dude, crying from pain, had his palms turn into gun barrels. Luffy put his boot over the hands and the bullets bounced off of the steel bottoms and ricochet into his hands.

"Seriously, stop struggling," Luffy said as the guy screamed. The train slowly quickly stopped at the nearest station and Luffy hauled the injured villain out and to the police. "He can create gun barrels in his hands and his fingernails can turn into knives. I've dislocated both shoulders and his hands have both taken the brunt of his own attack." Then he handed them the deactivated bomb. "This was on the bottom of the train car, but it's been deactivated.

Police questioned some of the passengers in the first car and Luffy didn't expect to be swarmed by scared children. It was dark out so his wings growed very brightly. Their parents were there, thanking him. "It's what heroes do, right? Of course I'd save everyone I can. You kids have to grow up to be better than the villain. You're brave, you were so calm on the train!" he praised.

They had been, all silent no matter how young. There were people filming, but Luffy knew he'd been filmed through the train camera as well. After the little kids went back to their parents, Luffy said he had to go back onto patrol. They said goodbye to him, teary but grinning. Luffy flew away and found a scene with a car that was underwater with someone inside.

Luffy was there even before the police were called, just there at the right place at the right time. He jumped in and ripped out the car door and brought out the person drowning. She was not moving or breathing so he started doing CPR. They'd learned this at school, thank god. He moved his face to the side to cough out all of the water. "Are you okay, miss?" Luffy asked in worry. She started sobbing. There was nobody else in the car, he'd checked. No animals either. She would have died if he hadn't flown over there.

She sobbed and hugged him, not getting him wet since he was already soaked. His headset was waterproof and working fine. He patted her back, and asked if she had called anybody for help before he got there. She sobbed that nobody would have known where she'd gone.

"Well, you are still here. I'm going to call an ambulance for you, alright?" She nodded and he called the police on his headset. "I need an ambulance in the Toki docks. Her car was under water and I got her out, but she needed resuscitation."

"We'll send an ambulance right away," the operator said. Luffy waited with her for a while, asking her questions about her dogs and cats, trying to distract her from the trauma of almost drowning all alone.

When the ambulance got there, Luffy carried her to it. She sobbed out thank yous to him, and he gave her a smile and a nod, saying he would send it paperwork to insure her belongings since it was a hero that rescued her. He already had her name and method of contact.

He flew away, but the rest of his shift had no events. He flew home exhausted until Hawks hugged him. "You saved your first hijacked vehicle! I'm so proud of you!" Luffy laughed and said that he was completely calm the whole time, proud of himself as well. "It's thanks to to Macy that I was able to disable the bomb."

Hawks nodded, saying shit could have hit the fan really bad if he had messed up. Luffy knew that was true, which was scary in hindsight. He didn't even know if the bomb would go off on its own, but he didn't risk it. "Then I came across somebody's car sinking in the water at the Toki docks. Just by accident, and I saved the lady. She was pretty shaken up," Luffy explained as he dumped the water out of his boots into the sink.

"You'll be in the news again."

Luffy pointed out, "There's hundreds of hero cases a day. Not all of them fit into the news. Besides, this one wasn't flashy at all." He changed in his room and then wrung out what was still wet in his outfit into the bathtub. His wings were back in and he was wearing a t-shirt and shorts.

"Still, you're popular. Plus, any student stopping a hijacking and diffusing a bomb would be news," Hawks replied. "Just wait, that fan page is gonna be active again. So, how did you like the night patrol?"

Luffy said, "I honestly really liked it. I would do it again. Were you worried?" Hawk truthfully said a little bit, but not as much as he used to. "How are you feeling?"

Hawks replied, "I think I'm fine. I've been taking my temperature and checking the place I touched it but nothing weird. My piss is normal, too."

"Thanks for sharing," Luffy said. "But I really wonder what those things are. I probably took a mouthful of watery shit if that water did come from them." Hawks started laughing. "It was worth it, my wings grew back." Then he laughed, just saying he was glad he drank shit. At least it didn't taste or smell bad.

He announced he was going to bed, eating a couple of pop tarts for dinner, since he was tired. It was late enough to sleep, too. "Night, hero. I could say 'shit eater', but hero sounds better." Luffy shook his head and went to the bed and passed out. Now that he didn't sleep with his wings out, his bed was extremely large for his body's size. But it was nice.