"It's not much, but welcome to my lab." Melissa flicked a switch and the lights turned on while a large window along the back wall also opened up to reveal the ocean. A large assortment of equipment was spaced evenly around the room, and a few gadgets were still in various stages of development. Everything felt so clean and orderly, almost like a doctor's office.

Izuku bit his lip as he recognized this room and the machine that sat in the center of it. This was her father's lab when he came all those years ago with All Might. David Shield was still alive and well, but was still serving his sentence for his crimes that night. Even with All Might's forgiveness and good word could only lighten a sentence so much. At least Melissa had done well for herself.

"Do you have any big projects you've been working on?" He asked walking further into her lab and rolled his right shoulder, it wasn't in pain or uncomfortable but for some reason, his plain white T just felt off. He would have preferred walking around in his hero costume but with that tear, he doubted it would look great.

Melissa shrugged and motioned back towards the door, "A lot of the projects I've been a part of have something on display at the expo, I can give you a tour once it's open if you'd like. But, for now, why don't we check out on your- Mei, what are doing here?"

"I need to talk to Izuku about what he wants and needs in his new suit." Mei shrugged and pushed some of her pink hair back under her goggles. He couldn't help but notice the oil stain on her cleavage as her breasts jiggled under her oil-stained tank-top. She had gotten bigger. If Mei noticed she didn't care. She hopped up onto a desk chair her knees curled up as she did so. "Besides, I'm not going to let you get a head start on our little competition."

"I'm not going to try and get a head start, well I mean I already have a few designs ready, it's why I called Deku here, to begin with." Melissa crossed her arms over her dress vest and let out a pout her blue eyes glaring at Mei.

"So do I." Mei returned Melissa's glare with a toothy grin, that only looked slightly unhinged. "And I've been meaning to contact Izuku for a while. I have some new babies that are going to help him a lot."

Melissa sighed looking so much like the annoyed older sister and turned to him. "Deku, is there any way you can make her leave," she gestured towards the machine next to her, "I'd like to test your quirk levels and I think it would be best if we did that in private don't you?"

He didn't really think there was anybody other than Mei that could tell Mei what to do, and even then she probably only listened to herself half the time. "It's alright Mei, besides I didn't think you could go more than five hours without tinkering on something."

"I sleep a solid six." She pouted and crossed her arms while leaning back.

"And then roll out of bed and start inventing again." He couldn't help but smile sometimes she would sleep inside of her inventions passed out mid wrench twist only to wake up and do it again until the project was finished.

Mei gave a sheepish smile and shrugged. "Yep! My babies need me after all, but I want in on the data about your quirk, I need to see if the power increase has changed or if it leveled out once the transfer was complete."

Wait, did she just?

"Transfer? What are you talking about?" Melissa asked then sighed. "Don't say random things like that Mei, we have a hard enough time understanding you as is."

"Huh? You mean you don't know that Izuku got his quirk from All Might?"

Evidently, Mei was even smarter than he thought she was. Which made her all the more frightening.

"Mei, how do you know that?" He asked calmly, not quite sure how to deal with a situation like this. The only person that had ever found out was Kacchan, and that was because he almost told him. So how on earth did Mei figure it out?

"Izuku? What are you talking about?" Melissa asked, her mouth hanging open as she placed a hand against her forehead.

"I was mostly running off of a theory, but good to know I was right, I mostly found out by gathering data, when I watched some of your fights to uhh, to make sure that my babies were working properly I noticed that your quirk is inconsistent too say the least. I also saw your hero profile, and then your civilian profile where you were labeled as quirkless, then you had a power-up type quirk that destroyed your own body. But that label had to be changed later as it was revealed you had a stockpile type quirk, which led to the question of what you were stockpiling, the simple answer was power, but there was no way you were just storing up that much power by just doing nothing. You were overflowing with it. Then when you started to get additional quirks it hit me. It wasn't originally your quirk, but rather it was a quirk that could be transferred to another person mixing with one that could store power, from there it was passed down through some generations until it became yours."

Mei beamed at him. "It was really obvious."

"Please don't tell anyone else Mei, it's supposed to be a secret." At this point it was so he'd be able to choose a new successor in peace down the line, but that wasn't for a good long while.

"Wait, she's not making stuff up?" Melissa looked pale, and stumbled towards her own chair. "Well, that explains why you were so close to Uncle Might, I just thought it was because you two had similar quirks. Not the exact same quirk."

"Sorry, I thought everybody else either knew or thought the same thing I did." Mei shrunk into her chair hiding behind her knees.

"It's fine, really, I'm not sure there's much of a point to keeping it a secret from people I trust. So I'm fine with you two knowing. Besides, it might help with making my new costume right?" He looked between the two girls, really not sure what he was supposed to do. Mei wasn't bouncing off the walls and Melissa looked unsure of herself.

That lasted all of two seconds.

Melissa shot up. "That's right! My father helped All Might become the symbol of peace, and since you have his quirk, now it's my turn to help you! I'm more fired up now."

"Yea!" Mei bounced up and pushed on his back. "Now get in the scanning machine Izuku! I want to see those metrics!"

"What? Can't you gather your own data?"

"Sure, but I wanna see what your gizmo can do! Like what's it measuring? Potential energy? Dormant energy? Electrons? Muscles?"

He smiled as he watched Mei cause havoc in Melissa's lab just by being there. She was already frantically typing on the computer while buzzing around the device while Melissa tried and failed to stop her. Maybe he could try and get the two of them to be friends instead of competing to make him a new suit?

"This is some neat tech you have here," Mei cackled as the machine began to whirl to life.

"It's based on my father's design, now please, I'll share the data with you, just stop messing with it," Melissa all but begged still reluctant to touch Mei.

Mei giggled and stepped away from the computer, she certainly knew how to annoy people into giving her what she wanted. "After you Ms. Shield. I can't wait to see what this thing looks like in action, I'm already getting a dozen ideas."

"I'm glad I could inspire you." Melissa rolled her eyes and made a few keystrokes. A flat metallic bed with black pads on it twirled up from the ground. "Now please, Deku, lay down on the bed, we'll be able to get all of your data in no time."

"So I don't have to take my clothes off?" He asked sliding onto the ever so slightly uncomfortable bed. It wasn't the first bio scanner thing he'd gotten into over the years and it probably wouldn't be the last.

"No! No!" Melissa stood straight her face away from him. "The clothes you have on shouldn't interfere with the scanner."

Apparently, him being shirtless upset Melissa. And Mei was oddly silent. She was just standing there staring at him without her usual maniac smile on her face. It only reminded him that beyond the crazy and under the grease Mei could easily be considered beautiful. He knew better than to try and ask her out though, he doubted there was a sexual bone in her body.

"Is something wrong Mei?" He asked as the Machine began to hum enveloping him in dull yellow light that shifted to a bright blue and back again.

She shook her head, the crosshairs of her eyes zooming in on him then back out as she blinked back in surprise. "Huh? Oh, yea, I'm fine, just hungry." She placed a hand on her stomach. "I don't think I've eaten since yesterday. Wait what day is today?"

"Wednesday?"

"Oh, I had a sandwich on Monday?" she asked holding out her fingers.

His eyes flew to her chest despite himself and he just had to wonder how on earth those were so big when she ate so little? Was it like a bear with hibernation?

"You really should eat properly Mei, your lack of nutrition is probably what causes your explosions and fires." Melissa pushed up her glasses as the screen began to fill with data. She let out a groan, and stretched, bringing her hands far above her head before popping her neck and bouncing on her legs.

And now he was looking at her butt. Probably not good to get an erection while he was being scanned. Would that show up? He could see his blood type so it would probably show up.

"Hey, how about after this we go out to eat somewhere? It'll be my treat, what do you say?" He offered, looking between the two girls.

Mei winced, hand still on her stomach. "Maybe."

"Won't your girlfriend get jealous if you took two girls out to dinner?" Melissa asked a soft smile on her face as she turned back to look at him. "I remember her getting jealous when I hugged you a few years ago."

Yep, that sting was still there. But it hurt even less than it had this morning. It was probably because he kept looking at Mei and Melissa.

"Considering how we broke up about a year and a half ago, we shouldn't have to worry about her being jealous." It was easier than he thought it would be to laugh at that statement. "Besides you're my friends, and I'm running on whatever was in Mei's healing in a can and airplane peanuts, now come on what do you say?"

"If that's the case I'd be happy to take you up on the offer Deku." Melissa turned a cheerful smile on her face while one hand was over her heart. "I know just the place as well."

"I'm going too," Mei said her manic smile returning. "Dinner meetings are the best place to discuss what a client wants after all."

"Mei," Melissa sighed. "I don't think that's what Izuku had in mind when he invited us to dinner, besides, the restaurant I had in mind isn't the place for that, it's more classy."

Mei shrugged. "I'll wash before we go there."

Melissa looked like she doubted Mei knew what a shower was.

XXXX

Checking his watch for the fifth time Izuku looked down the street for any sign of pink or blonde hair. He was a bit early and Melissa did say that they wouldn't need a reservation before the Expo actually started. But he still wanted to be certain.

He had gotten out a relatively nice dress shirt and the singular pair of slacks he had packed and put them on, he didn't really know what Melissa meant by classy, did it mean formal? Or did it mean don't wear a T-shirt and shorts. Other people looked entering the restaurant looked like they were just as dressed up as he was.

"Is she late?" Mei asked from beside him.

He nearly jumped when he turned to see her standing there. Then he stopped his brain processing the image in his mind. It was Mei. Wasn't it? Her usual messy pink hair was combed and pushed to one side so that it nearly obscured one of her amber eyes, the crosshairs locked onto him. The dress she wore was a simple navy blue that rested on her shoulders and showed off just an ounce of cleavage, around her neck was a necklace that had an atom made of glass jewels.

"That is you right Mei?" He had to ask, he kept looking towards the necklace.

"Why is everyone so shocked that I can dress up? Making a good first impression is very important, besides making a baby that does my hair was a lot of fun." Mei huffed, was she pouting? It was adorable.

"Sorry, sorry, I'm just so used to seeing you covered in grease and talking about your newest baby. But you really do look good, I especially like that necklace." He gestured towards it, careful not to get too touchy with her. Even if this was Mei and she didn't know what boundaries were. Chances are she'd have no problem groping him right now. "Is that the one I gave you for your birthday back in U.A.?"

She nodded. "Yep, it's the only piece of jewelry I own, people say it suits me when I wear it."

"I'm glad you're getting some use out of it." He had gotten it for her because of all the help she gave him with his gear. It really seemed like a small thing but seeing her wear it just made him that much happier.

"Ahh, there you two are." Melissa walked up her blond hair was pinned back behind her ears giving her a graceful look, while her simple red dress and splash of red lipstick just reminded him of her outfit all those years ago and how beautiful she was. "You look good Izuku, and you as well Mei."

Mei grunted in response.

"Right, well let's head on in, I'm sure you'll both love this place."

He was loving that he was going to dinner with two of the smartest, most beautiful women he had ever met.

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