Izuku stared with shock as the softball landed not even 50 meters away.

What?

How...

He stared at his hand, then up at Akemi, whose eyes were wide with shock too, when his teacher spoke up.

"I erased your quirk."

He whirled around to see his teacher's scarf float off from his shoulders, revealing a pair of yellow goggles hanging from his neck, and his eyes widened with realisation.

Eraserhead.

His quirk was erased.

The scarves, now revealed to be a capture weapon, snapped around him and pulled him close.

"From what I can tell... You can't control your quirk, can you?"

"W-what? But sensei, I've been using it all along—"

"Let me rephrase that." He said, louder this time so everyone could hear him. "You can't control your quirk without her help, can you?"

The class began mumbling, from over his shoulders, Izuku can see Akemi's eyes widen.

"Those golden light... They're not from your quirk." He said, "are you planning on incapacitating yourself once they aren't around, and leave others to save you? And," He glanced over his shoulder, "helping your classmate like this... You're hindering him, you know. Care to explain, Kimura?"

Akemi stiffened a little behind him, and Izuku realised something.

Her father is a strict man. He recalled. He must've talked to her like this all the time.

"I- "

"Akemi, please undo the block."

He spoke up before Akemi could even get a word out.

"Izuku..." She protested, but Izuku shook his head.

He can't always rely on others. Akemi've already saved him too many times, but she isn't always going to be here. He'll have to learn to control it.

"I've got a grasp on it now. Please let me try." He lied. He still couldn't control his quirk, but he has an idea.

Aizawa-sensei raised an eyebrow at the declaration, and released him. "Kimura, undo whatever you did." He began walking away, "I've returned your quirk, hurry up and get it over with."

He looked towards Akemi, whose eyes we're downcast as she stood there. She glanced at him and he nodded, so she raised her hand, and it glowed.

Izuku glowed with golden light, before it condensed and left him like a beam of laser and returned to Akemi's outstretched hand. She held the condensed energy and raised it to the sky before releasing several enormous blasts of crackling lightning with light that outshone the sun and lit the entire campus in sight with blue, before she lowered her hand and nodded.

This amount of energy... Izuku watched with awe. Akemi's power... Hu. His classmates were startled as they gaped at her, with blue electricity crackling around her arm and singed clothes, in shock.

"It's done." She said, loud enough for him to hear.

Izuku turned and made his way back in the circle, took a deep breath, pulled his arm back and threw.


He could tell the boy was lying.

But whether he prepares for an honourable defeat here by using all his strength or chicken out and show that he doesn't have any control doesn't matter. Either way he has no potential and he'd leave disappointing his little power regulator.

He watches as Kimura withdraws her power and shoots out an impressive light show of electricity. To others perhaps it looked like a reckless display of power, but Shouta couldn't help but nod, impressed. Every single strike of lightning and power was entirely in her control. She has potential alright. But she'll have to stop butting her nose into other's business.

However he did notice the light shift in Kimura's body language, and how she seems to avoids his gaze. It could pass as shame, but there was something familiar in her eyes that he couldn't quite place.

He turns his gaze back towards Midoriya, and sighs as he pulls back his arm once more and prepares to throw.

Zero Potential. He snorts and crosses his arm, and watches, as the kid began to throw...

And charged every last drop of his quirk into his finger, launching the ball across the field.

He straightened.

Oy... Are you serious? His eyes widened, as the kid curls his arm back up and holds up a fist.

"Sensei..."

He grins with slight tears in his eyes.

"I can still move!"

He grins, this kid...

His thoughts were cut short as a loud voice from behind him screeched with fury.


Please RnR for comic relief!