"Thank god you're ok!" Inko wailed as she held her daughter tight in her grasp, the shapeshifter gently holding her with a bemused smile.

"Mom, you're the one who almost died, I'm supposed to be worrying over you." She said, rocking the woman back and forth ever so gently in quiet joy that she was ok. She sighed, pulling away a moment later. "Speaking of though… All Might has something important to talk about with you."

"Huh?"

"Oh, right." The blonde nodded, stepping towards her and nervously meeting her gaze. "You see, miss Midoriya, due to the circumstances of this attack I think it would be best for you and your daughter, as well as her aunt she has mentioned to move into a U.A. safe house, at least for the time being while this villain is still out there. Young Izumi has already agreed to it, so we need your opinion now as the adult."

"Oh, well that's easy. Of course we'll move in." Inko said, almost flippantly to the mentor and students surprise. At their looks, she smiled lightly. "It's been overdue for us to move out for a while anyways, Izumi. I do my best but the heating is broken, it's far from both your school and my work and the neighbours aren't exactly the best people, not to be rude. This is just the last nail in the coffin."

"I… guess that's fair." The vigilante said with a surprised hum, looking up to her mentor. "I guess I can go get auntie Kokoa soon, along with Kendou to let them know what's going."

"Yes, you should probably do that my girl." The skinny blonde nodded, taking a seat in the chair beside the plump mother. "You also called on me as well as your child by the way? What for?"

"Ah, I just wanted to thank you." She said with a kind smile, patting his hand. "I'm still here because of you."

"Well, it's just my job…"

"Still, I'm grateful." She said with a hum, before her features darkened a little. "Of all the people to have to come back…"

"Ah, you know this man then?"

"He is the one person I've ever given my daughter explicit permission to beat up." She said matter-of-factly, before sighing. They lapsed into silence after that, neither really knowing what to say. The blonde remained by her side regardless, knowing his student wouldn't want her to be left alone just yet.

After what felt like forever, Izumi has returned with Kokoa in tow, checking over the woman and being just thankful she was alive. Midoriya explained her agreement to join them in the safe house and All Might had begun to take his leave, saying they should all come up to U.A. in the morning to discuss arrangements,

Kokoka stayed for as long as she could, fussing over her friend but eventually returned home presumably with the intent to start packing up her stuff. Izumi remained in the shadows for the rest of the night on the roof, watching other her mother and texting with Kendou, who was doing her best to cheer her little sister up with random jokes and images and just general conversation.

As the clock got near twelve, the girl could only sigh.

'Talk about the day from hell…'

Izumi hadn't gotten a proper look at Nezu's office the day before, having been distracted by the incident with Bakugou but now she could, she had to admit it had a simple but elegant charm to it.

The desk she sat in front of, her aunt and mother either side with All Might off to the side, was made of a fine mahogany with rounded edges. The hybrid creature that was the principal had a fancy teacup sat upon a saucer and behind him towered a massive bookcase, adding to the elegant and refined aesthetic.

"So, miss Midoriya, miss Kokoa, I presume you both know why you are here?" Nezu asked and the two nodded. "Excellent. I have had one of my employee's go ahead and begin setting up our biggest safe house already, so it should be ready for you to go see as soon as you please. Once you have settled in, I would like to discuss matters such as what will be happening with your places of work in a one on one setting."

The two woman nodded their head in understanding and the principals gaze shifted to the youngest person in the room, causing her to squirm a bit. She did not have good expectations for how this meeting would end…

"I have one of my staff members waiting just outside to take you to your new home, if you would like to go see it now. In the meantime, I would like to speak to young Midoriya and All Might alone regarding this situation." He said it cordially but he had a simple gaze that made it clear there was not a choice in this matter, so the two stood and quietly left. Izumi clenched her fist and prepared for the worst. Would she be expelled for her work? Arrested even, due to how long she'd been committing this 'crime' for?

"It's nice to finally meet you face to face." Nezu said simply, before giving her a bright smile. "And I'm glad you are just as good natured as I hoped you would turn out to be. Please, relax, you look like we're going to kill you."

"H-huh? You're not… angry?" The greenette asked, tilting her head in confusion. "I thought… I thought I was in trouble…."

"Ah, an understandable concern." The principal nodded, before he laughed lightly. "Still, perhaps not a viable one. Even if we did decide to pursue you, if All Might refused to help then realistically we'd probably never catch you. On top of all of that, I've always been… disenchanted with the idea of vigilante's defaulting to being villainous people. Some are, but much as you said to me just yesterday, some are like Stain… and some are like you."

"L-like me?"

"Yes, that is to say, someone only with others best intentions at heart. When you passed the entrance exam with those powers of yours, my curiosity was peaked. All Might had said he had two successors but I was uncertain why you qualified if you were not taking on One for All." He said, causing the greenette's eyes to go wide. 'He knows?!' "Evntually, I worked out who you were and I looked back over every recorded case I could find. Everything I found lead me to two conclusions. One, that you were just a child acting in places where the professionals failed, which made your actions that much more noble. I found myself struggling to consider punishing you for that. The second thing I found cemented the idea that punishing you would prove a terrible course of action… you are one of the few vigilante's who has, to date, never failed to save innocent lives over punishing would be criminals. In other words…"

"You acted as a true hero, like you always have." All Might said with a small smile from where he waited, causing the greenette to smile softly herself. She was safe…

"Quite. I couldn't in good consciousness bring myself to stop you, and now we have a chance to turn you into a true pro, where you won't have to hide behind a mask to help others. I'd say it's a win-win for all involved." Nezu clapped his paws, before suddenly a somewhat more serious look came onto his face. "However, this new arrangement likely means your days as freely running off as Prototype are done for good, more or less. There is no way you can get out the school in any way that wouldn't alert a less agreeable member of staff to your second identity, so if there is even one thing you need to do as the Prototype, it's time to do it now."

"…Yeah. I do know one thing." Midoriya nodded, standing up tall. "I need to go to Tartarus and figure out why no one is saying anything about Srijan's breakout."

"Then, I ask you hurry back as soon as you can, miss Midoriya. All Might will meet you by the gate when you return, and will take you to your new house when you return. How long do you think you will be?"

Izumi paused at that, looking down to her hand and humming in thought.

"That's a good question actually. Last time I went there was two years ago, pushing myself to my absolute top speed got me there in about twelve minutes. It's about fifty five from my house so I must have been going somewhere around two hundred and seventy five miles an hour…" She listed off, missing the impressed look from the other two in the room. "I've gotten better since then naturally, so the real question is how much of a boost Srijan actually gave me. Never had a way to measure how much of a power up I've gotten from each one, though it's always a bit random. From here, Tartarus is about a hundred and twenty miles away, right?"

"Twenty four, yes." Nezu supplied, sipping his tea. "You're rather good at quick math's."

"Always have been." She said with a small smirk, walking towards the door. "If I had to take a guess, I should be able to max out near three hundred miles an hour now. That means I'll probably see you in two hours at the latest!" She concluded, stretching and walking away. "See ya when I get back!"

"Good luck, my girl!"

"Two minutes, twelve seconds." Izumi muttered to herself as she zipped trhough the air, landing on the wall of the building and dropping down through a window she was fortunate enough to find open.

She clung to the roof, avoiding motions sensors and guard patrols as she hurried along, trying to take in all their details as she got closer and closer to her location. When she was just two hallways away she shifted into a guard, dropping below and walking forward with purprose.

Normally, people would have to worry about their quirks being deactivated as soon as they got close to any of the cell's. It was how they managed to stay so secure, along with constant patrollers who took no chances and security camera's monitoring everyone's every move.

If she were literally anyone else, she'd have probably already been caught by now. Fortunately for her however, as her power didn't technically count as a quirk, it couldn't be stopped by normal means which combined with her naturally advantageous stealth powers meant she was probably one of the few people who could get in to this place so easily.

She came across the cell she was looking for, walking up to the glass. She looked inside and…

"Srijan?!" She muttered in surprise, seeing the man sitting on his bed without a care in the world. "How the hell…."

He didn't respond, and her eyes picked up on something most couldn't. Her body wasn't the only thing that got faster with time, her reaction time did as well and she managed to pick up on something seemingly no one else had this entire time.

He was flickering. It was brief and over almost instantly but she could see it. Taking a deep breathe to prepare herself, she lifted her arm and laucnehd forward.

Red alarms went off immediately as the glass exploded from her punch, and she jumped inside only to find the man not reacting. He was moving as if he was there, but not reacting to anything around him.

Beneath him, obscured by the projection was the miniature projector creating the hologram which she quickly grabbed in irritation.

Was that really all it took to trick the guards? That would suggest he hadn't been out long…

But it would also suggest he most of had help from someone else.

"HALT! YOU ARE-"

She didn't waste any more time, disappear from sight in the blink of an eye disappearing from the prison, being quick to shapeshift as soon as she was able back to her Prototype outfit a far enough distance away people were unlikely to immediately make the connection.

She at least knew how Srijan had escaped without detection in part, but she hadn't gotten as many answers as she was hoping, rather just more questions.

Out of all of them, one big one weighed on her mind.

If they came to blows again, and she knew they would, would there be any chance at all for a resolution that wouldn't involve one of the two Prototypes dying?

Last time, he'd been too cautious with his powers, afraid of pro's and submitting to a large group of them as neither had a full understanding of their powers. Now though, he seemed like he would be much more confident in front of anyone including All Might…

Arresting him might not be an option anymore.

"So how did it go?" All Might asked as the skinny blonde held onto a pole in one of the school's buses. Usually they were reserved for the students but he had managed to get ahold of one for the girl's arrival as well as for his own sake with his body.

"Not as well as I hoped." The girl admitted, fishing the projector out her pocket and giving it to the man. "DIdn't get as many answers as I was hoping but I do know now that he tricked the guards by using a hologram. What I don't know is how he got it, or how he got out without drawing attention to himself. Judging by the fact that he couldn't have made that alone though…"

"Someone is working with him." All Might summarized with a disturbed and worried look on his face. "I wonder…. It's possible…"

"Huh? What's possible?"

"O-oh! Ignore me my girl, just a thought. Best to leave it for now, probably just being paranoid." The blonde waved away, looking up from his seat to where the city that the girl had performed her entrance exam in was coming up. "Here we are by the way. Kept the safe houses close to the actual buildings that way they could all factor in to a single cost, and just furnish a select few. Did the same thing for the teachers living arrangements here."

"Oh, I didn't even think about that but with how diverse the selection of teachers is, I suppose it makes sense they can't all just hurry home." The teen girl hummed, as they began to climb off the bus and head towards one of the few buildings separated far from the others. "Wonder what it's like?"

"Well, I heard your mother and aunt certainly had glowing reviews." Her mentor laughed as they stepped into the building, walking to a nearby elevator and taking it straight to the top. "We'll come out right in your house, mainly so if us pro's need to come get you we can get in as immediately as possible. That's how Nezu explained it anyways. Ready?"

"Yup!" Izumi nodded, as the doors opened up into a massive living area. It was as big as, if not bigger than her classroom, making her eyes go wide in amazement as she stepped out. Off to one side there was a rather oversized dining table and in another corner was a TV and a few couches, beside what was presumably the bathroom.

In the back far left corner, much to her surprise was a sort of bar area that really threw her for a loop and off beside it was a small hallway that lead to three separate bedrooms, that Inko and Kokoa walked out of a moment later having heard there arrival.

"Izumi!" They both called out, hurrying over and wrapping her into a big hug. The more plump of the two woman smiled at her gently, gesturing to the house. "What do you think, sweetie?"

"It looks awesome." She said whole-heartedly, laughing despite the situation that made it necessary. "I think I'll enjoy living here…"

All Might smiled at that, holding his hands out dramatically.

"Then welcome, my girl, to your new home."