biGTime0213: Thank you! One other Whitebeard will come, but nobody else. No marines or anything in this one.

Galaxy Creator of Pisces: Thank you!

HOLAA913: Nope. This one is just a regular mission. The good stuff like that is saved for much later. And it's really intense. ;)


This chapter was a joy to write as Ace. He has a damn good time in this one. Oh, I posted a new story, another crossover but much different, so go check that out! Enjoy~


Ace stood with the other teachers as Eraser Head explained how the practical exam would be. Ace was happy they'd let him participate against the kids to make things harder for them. The stakes were high for all of them since they got to go to training camp depending on how they did for the exam. He already felt bad they had three days of a written exam.

Ace would be working with All Might, who was against Freckles and Bakugo. What a terrible pair, though it was obviously done on purpose. The reason their fight would be unfair with both Bakugo and All Might was that the pro-hero wanted Freckles to learn more and Bakugo would throw a fit if he didn't get the hardest match.

When their enemies were announced, All Might landed right next to Ace, being dramatic like usual. "No way, you have to fight against both of them?!" Ashido exclaimed. Ace popped his knuckles. Freckles gulped and Bakugo scowled. The other students expressed relief that they didn't need to go against both of them.

Thirteen said he and the teachers would need to act like villains. Ace had to be careful to not act too much like a pirate. He wouldn't get into full character as best as he could. He was excited.

He and All Might put the weights on their ankles and wrists, which didn't hinder Ace one bit, no matter if they were half his body weight. All Might was different, he weighed a lot. Ace didn't. Plus, his fire power made him lighter. So, to balance it a bit more, he had two more ankle weights on. Freckles asked why he had more. "Being made of fire makes me lighter."

Ace wasn't surprised that, when Eraser Head told them they had a bit of time to plan, that Bakugo ditched Freckles without a word. Ace gave Freckles a sympathetic look before All Might told him not to show favoritism this time, even if he knew the young man disliked Bakugo. "Right. We're villains right now."

All Might quietly said, "You can be a pirate here for once." Ace laughed, but said he wouldn't go too far against them. Once the groups started fighting, preparing or trying to come up with plans, Ace was sitting on the building they were starting at. All Might was below, while Ace was talking to him.

"Should I hide and you be obvious? When I'm made of fire, I make only slight crackling noises that are hard to hear unless in an enclosed space," Ace explained, trying to come up with an adequate plan.

"I think you would be a good distraction for them. I will attack head on and you will appear to throw them off. We've made it hardest for them because they have the worst teamwork. They need to go above the other students," All Might explained. "I'm sure we will both do fine, but they have two people they can handcuff now. If you act, I will adapt, if I act, you will adapt."

Ace nodded, and asked if he should use armament haki. "You wouldn't be using your full power anyways. Plus, they'd be able to cuff you if your arms are solid, so yes, you should use armament haki," he explained, arms crossed and waiting.

"Thank you for not being nosy or talking about my closer relationship to young Midoriya," All Might said, changing the subject.

"Well you're keeping my secret. Besides, I know the danger of telling somebody an important secret. I don't know what it is, but I have a secret that, if it got out, the world would try to murder me in any way they could," Ace said, catching All Might off guard. There was no point in hiding it here, so he told the truth.

He said, "My biological father was the most wanted pirate in the world. The pirate king. While my mother was pregnant with me, the marines executed him and hunted down any pregnant women, killing many of them to try and end his bloodline. But my mom carried me for 20 months to keep me safe. She died during childbirth, though. So, the only people in my world who know are my adoptive grandfather, my little brother and Whitebeard.

"People are punished for their blood there. Another reason I became a pirate. To protect myself from marines. And now I have more people to protect me, even if they don't know about who my biological father was," Ace explained. All Might seemed horrified.

The pro-hero said, "I can understand more now why you chose that profession. The marines are corrupt, and so the only other way to fulfil your dream was to be the opposite." Ace nodded, having already told All Might his dream was always to be free. "I'm sorry that that happened to you." Ace nodded, saying it sucked but there was nothing he could do about it.

"Though that was the main reason I was such a bad child. Hearing by everybody that the pirate king's son should die, be killed on the spot, was trash. Well, it got to me," he said. "Then Luffy and Sabo came and they changed me, especially Luffy, my little brother. He's a pirate, too. But he's a weird one as he's saved multiple kingdoms. What a strange one," Ace said with a laugh.

All Might said having family is the best thing that can happen to a child. Ace agreed and they were silent for a bit. Ace sensed a presence outside the area, close enough to tell but far enough to not be seen. "They're here," Ace stated. "See you in a bit," the young man said and got further from the edge of the roof, erasing his presence and leaning against the air conditioner vent… thing. All Might was further down the street, so Ace was completely behind them.

He would stick to the rooftops and hit them from above as much as possible. Then getting back up on the roofs to hide and come from somewhere else. He was excited. But, he wasn't surprised when he heard Freckles trying to reason with Bakugo, which they needed to do. They needed to work together. Ace had doubts that Bakugo would put his pride and dislike aside to finish this mission.

Ace looked up and over to see All Might waiting but still out of sight of the kids. Predictably, Bakugo shouted at Freckles to stop following him. Ace put his hand to his face. Idiot. Freckles was reckless, but he was smart and was able to work well with others. Bakugo needed to take some advice from him. But, he would probably blow the other up if he ever tried giving concrete advice.

The hot head refused to run, it was better to beat both of them up. "We can't fight both of them at the same time!"

"I don't see either here! I can take both of them! Stay out of my way!" Freckles fell back a bit before he again insisted they have a plan and be ready to run if necessary.

"We should engage in combat as little as possible!" Freckles argued. Bakugo said they'd toy with them until the end and when they were tired he'd beat the both of them. Like they could toy with someone who beat them in less than five minutes and a pro-hero.

Ace jumped off the roof and shot down a massive plume of hot flames. "Who will you be toying with?! If you can't protect yourselves, won't you be useless heroes?" he laughed wickedly, landing in the flames and then jumping up when they just barely dodged it. He jumped off of the side of a building and used a haki covered foot to slam down where Freckles had just been laying. Then Ace was gone, out of sight.

He heard Bakugo let loose a string of profanities as Ace jumped from roof to roof out of view so he was adjacent to All Might, who was still waiting and gave Ace a thumbs up. He crouched again so nobody would see him, erasing his presence once again. He could hear Bakugo shouting threats and Freckles still trying to reason with him.

Ace was mature enough to not let some brats provoke him and make him do less than his best by being baited successfully. He wasn't a kid anymore, he could control his temper. He could let people insult him and not blow up. He would still attack them, but not lose control of his emotions like he used to.

Ace was able to hear them fighting, and felt and heard the hit. Bakugo had hit Freckles. Ace looked down at All Might. "Bakugo just attacked Freckles," he said in a hard voice. All Might's demeanor turned a bit cold. He was angry, but still smiling, even though Ace could see the lines on his face showing anger. Ace backed up again and hid.

"Here I go! I'm coming!" All Might said, taking his arm back. Ace leapt across the street to a building that would be safe. The two coninuted to argue and be distracted until All Might punched the air and let loose a projectile. It was the move that had sent Ace slamming into the barrier.

He covered his eyes as debris ran through the street, destroying the closest buildings and dirt and dust over the others. Ace took it as an advantage as a smoke screen and used it once it hit both of them. He could sense where they were, and Ace grabbed Bakugo around the scruff and slammed him into a building before kicking Freckles hard in the stomach.

"Should you really be arguing?" Ace called before he was gone again.

All Might had finally arrived, and it looked like both of them completely forgot Ace was waiting somewhere, now in a broken building behind a cement wall where he couldn't be seen but could hear what was going on. "Who cares about damaging the city?"

The pro-hero let off an intimidating presence, so Ace did the same. They were villains here.

They both affected the two, but Ace wasn't because he was used to scary and intimidating presences. Ace flamed up but didn't come out of sight, catching the entire building on fire, crackling loudly, some debris collapsing.

"If you think of this as an exam, you'll be sorry," All Might said.

Ace exited the building and then silently ran to behind them. Freckles jerked around when he felt Ace's heat behind them, who kicked the ground hard enough to cause it to splinter towards the two, who were relatively close, causing flames to flow with the cracks, making both boys jump out of the way.

Ace chuckled and then went back into a building. All Might acted like Ace had done nothing, and continued speaking. "We are villains, heroes!" he said darkly. Ace was having no problems with the weights, luckily. He was glad he could go all out. He might be sore later since the weights were around haki covered limbs, so his fire wasn't there to cushion the weight. "Come at us with everything you've got!"

Freckles was shaking. "We can't take him head on! Let's run!" he shouted.

"Idiot, that stupid flaming moron is behind us somewhere!" Ace chuckled at the weak insult. "Don't tell me what to do!" Bakugo raged. Freckles turned around, but All Might kicked off the ground and headed towards the two, who were still arguing. "Stun grenade!" Bakugo shouted, letting out an explosion of light that momentarily blinded All Might. "'Come at me' you said, All Might!"

He started to sound cocky, like usual, before All Might was fine again and grabbed his face easily. Both of the "villains" were the ones doing the toying. Ace was building suspense by not showing himself quickly. He was still hidden from sight.

But then Bakugo started making small explosions on All Might's face, all three of them distracted. Ace jumped down and grabbed Freckles, throwing him hard so he landed against Bakugo, making him falter his attack.

"Hah! We may be villains, but he's my partner in crime. What do you think you're doing to him? We'll kill you together," he asked darkly, a sadistic smile on. This distracted both of them so All Might could slam Bakugo into the ground. It was a hint for them to work together, showing that he and All Might were able to, even without words.

Ace was gone in a mess of flames, hidden again. This was fun. "With such weak consecutive hits, it stung a little," the pro-hero taunted. Then he was in behind Freckles instantly. "And you're not off the hook either, young Midoriya." The kid was terrified. "Are you leaving your teammate and running away?"

The young man was back, slamming a haki covered ankle on Bakugo's arm, shattering one of his gauntlets that doubled as grenades. Freckles was the one with the cuffs, so Ace was safe. "Fuck you!" Bakugo coughed, but Ace had walked back a few steps.

"Are you really subdued that easily, Bakugo-chan?" Ace asked, eyes wide wearing a sadistic grin, like he wanted to seriously kill him. The explosion kid faltered just a moment under the pressure. Ace jumped away and back into a building.

After what All Might said, Freckles jumped backwards, only Bakugo ran into him as they were going in opposite directions. The blonde had abandoned Ace since he was out of view. He only had one arm guard left. Ace wouldn't break the other one.

The two collided hard. Both of them fell on their backs, but they both got up relatively quickly. Freckles started saying they couldn't take them again, that they should run, while Bakugo swore he would kill them. The argument had not changed for either of them. Bakugo said that he was doing what heroes did. Ace let out a creepy laugh that echoed down the street. "Kill us as heroes? Ha! We're just getting started, little ones."

But he stayed hidden. God damn this was fun! It totally reminded him of being back home, only he was playing it up pretty well. All Might was still letting off a scary feeling, but Ace had dialed his back a bit. But both boys were distracted by arguing again.

All Might shouted, "Here's a present for the one who wants to run away!" Some time while Ace was getting their attention with his disturbing words and voice, the pro-hero had gotten a broken railing, and slammed it down, pinning Freckles to the ground. All Might then punched Bakugo so hard he flew backwards and vomited. Ace kept the cringe and disgust off his face, trying to look satisfied.

Ace walked to Freckles as All Might focused on Bakugo. "Do you let yourself get caught? A villain might not hurt you if you give up. But I like the chase," he said darkly, and put his foot down on Freckles' back. He was shaking. "You're friend's over there, being attacked. What should you do, little hero?"

Bakugo seemed very injured while All Might approached him. Freckles was getting upset.

All Might's strategy for riling up Bakugo was to press his buttons. Pointing out that he was so angry because Freckles was improving. It was a low blow, but the truth. It was painfully obvious to anybody who saw them in the same vicinity together. "But you know, there's no way a level 1 power and a level 50 power can improve at the same rate. There's so much wasted potential in you." Oh fuck, that was a really low blow. "Do you understand? You do, don't you? You still have so much room to grow!"

Now he was being a teacher and not a villain. Ace jumped back when Freckles attempted to cuff Ace while he was distracted. "Ah, ah, ah," Ace said, and pressed Freckles' leg down, though not enough to be painful or damaging. He was still pinned after all.

All Might continued to talk, encouraging Bakugo to improve until the brave little shit told All Mgiht to shut up. Ace broke character and hid a laugh. "If I have to get help from that scum, then I'd rather lose!" Man, what an asshole.

Freckles started revving up his power, and Ace stepped back. "I see. Then don't regret this," the pro said, and made it look like he was dealing a finishing blow. And then Freckles was gone, away from Ace and punching not All Might, but Bakugo. Well, he did deserve it, but it was a weird tactic.

"Don't you say that you'd rather lose!" the freckled kid roared angrily. Then he grabbed Bakugo and ran.

"I didn't think young Midoriya would come," he said. Ace ran over and admitted he was good at pushing people's buttons, so he did now. He hoped they'd come up with a plan and stop arguing.

Ace said he was going to go back to wait in the buildings and watch. "You're a good villain, Ace." But he said it as a joke.

"I'm a pirate, not a villain. But I guess it depends on who you ask. There's no such thing as pure good and pure evil. There will always be a gray area," Ace said and jumped up onto another building, away from All Might.

Ace purposely went out of earshot, since the whole fight seemed pretty personal and he didn't want to know things that they may not want him to know. So he kept track of them with haki and not sound.

Once the two stopped talking, Ace ran after them, finding Bakugo exiting the alley way with an explosion. "Where are you looking?!" he demanded.

"You were behind me, huh?" All Might said easily, but then Bakugo made another explosion at him. He let off a few other explosions, and Ace didn't miss the fact that his remaining arm guard was gone. Ace had broken the other one, so he was letting off explosions with just his hands. He was still good at it, like at the sports festival, but it wasn't aimed as well. It didn't shoot out directly, but wider.

Then Freckles was behind him and had the other arm guard, before letting it loose and unleashing a massive, point break explosion that was so huge it completely covered All Might and even reached Ace, who was behind them, watching but not interfering with their plan since they finally made one.

The fire, of course, went right through him, and he sucked the flames away easily. "Nice try. But don't forget about me," Ace taunted with a laugh. But then they both ran. Ace went up to All Might and asked if he was okay. He was, if not his outfit being a bit singed.

"I'm fine. Your fire is much hotter. I must say, you are ruthless."

"We're villains, aren't we? I'm just in character."

"Attacking and running. A good compromise. It's pretty good for an impromptu plan." He then praised them for damaging the city as least as they could, only hitting places that weren't already damaged. Ace nodded.

He said, "Their teamwork is… shitty. They probably have a lot of stuff in the past that Bakugo is angry about. It's not my business, but it's clearly there. You can't hate someone that much when you have no real history behind it." All Might nodded. Then he surprised Ace.

"I have to thank you again. I would not have been able to handle this fight without consequences if your brother had not healed me," the pro-hero said. Ace sighed, saying he had already thanked him more than enough. "I just had to say it. Now, your teacher's gonna do his best. Let's go," and he and Ace ran after them, Ace returning to the rooftops while All Might stayed on the ground. Ace led him to where he could barely sense them.

"They're heading towards the escape gate!" Ace called from above. He and All Might altered their course, heading in the right direction.

He sped past Ace and right in between the two while they were talking (Bakugo being a brat and arguing) and All Might did as Ace had and shattered the remaining gauntlet that had been returned to him from Freckles. "What are you surprised about?" and he punched both of them hard. "Now… die, heroes!" he called and elbowed Bakugo so hard in the chin that he flew backwards, just where Ace was waiting for him.

The pirate grabbed his arm and lit it on fire, blowing up the nitroglycerin he'd sweat, throwing him back in the direction he came from with a scream. "Why are you forgetting me? Am I not evil enough?" Ace asked before shooting at Bakugo and punching him in the back with a haki covered fist. They'd been covered in armament haki from the start.

The blonde's arm was now burnt, but before he could turn around, Ace was gone again. So he turned back to All Might and attacked him, only to collide with Freckles as All Might slammed them together.

Ace let out a firefist that engulfed the street, making them have to get up, even injured, and dodge what blew out the windows of the buildings across the street. It wouldn't have burned them, but the outside of it was hot enough to give off the assumption that it was regular fire. Ace walked near All Might, head tilted with a mask of insanity on, looking like he was going to kill them and would enjoy it.

The pro-hero was on them again instantly, pinning Bakugo down with one foot while Freckles was hanging from the opposite hand. "You cooperate - however reluctantly - and faced us! However, the two of you, that was just a prerequisite to this exam!"

Freckles was struggling to get out of All Might's hold, and the man asked, "What kind of face is that, young Midoriya?" and he threw him in the direction of Ace, who laughed wickedly.

"Now this is fun. Isn't it, Freckles?" he asked in a sickly sweet voice. He backed away from Ace, who was stretching his arms, flames licking them. But he didn't attack as All Might started to speak again.

"Getting away from me with your maximum fire power and then getting through the escape gate. That appears to have been you boys' answer, but now that I've destroyed young Bakugo's last gauntlet, you've lost that maximum firepower. It's over," he said with finality.

Bakugo was pissed. "Shut up!" and he turned his hand so the palm was facing up and let out a huge explosion. Debris went through Ace's body as he covered his eyes a bit. All Might was lost in the dust and dirt. Then he heard Bakugo saying he was going to throw Freckles. Ace thought they'd done enough, and let the kid fly above him, pretending he was distracted by the dirt.

He wanted to make it look like he was close, but All Might was there, flying backwards, and Ace stopped his fire. His back slammed into Freckles' painfully hard and he screamed in pain. Bakugo blew up and started to try and get to them. The pro-hero called them both naive, and slammed the more timid kid into a bus. He was so close to the escape gate.

He felt the heat coming from Bakugo and jumped up to erase the flames, negating the first explosion a bit after the initial shock. Freckles was nearing the gate, and when Bakugo made more and more huge explosions, Ace jumped up and grabbed his foot, slamming him down. "Don't get cocky, hero! Your partner may be running away, but you're not going anywhere."

If All Might could be rough, so could Ace. They were partners in this, Ace wasn't his sidekick. Bakugo could barely move, but tried gripping Ace's ankle and moving it. Ace lit his palm on fire and was moving it slowly towards Bakugo's other arm that wasn't burnt.

He swore and blasted off behind Ace to try and stop All Might from getting to Freckles before he got to the gate, but was kicked to the ground. Ace was feeling bad for them. How hurt they'd be afterwards, wondering if Recovery Girl could fix all of the wounds.

Bakugo was held down and unable to move, and Ace was glad. He was injuring himself too much. Ace didn't like him, but didn't exactly want him doing what Freckles did. It was hard to look at, even if he was the source of some of that damage. All Might had gone harder in the end while Ace had gone harder in the beginning.

While All Might was busy with Bakugo, he didn't notice Freckles using his powers to get closer. He was battered and beaten up, but smiling a tight smile, and asked All Might to move, and then punched him.

Ace ran after them as Freckles was carrying Bakugo. He wasn't going to catch them because they deserved for it to end, but he shot fire that he aimed just above their heads, singing the top of Freckles' hair. He'd made the fire in that tiny space hot while the rest was just warm. It wouldn't burn them.

And they both made it to the gate, finally escaping and sort of winning. They fought well, even though it was messy at the beginning and they had completely different personalities and fighting styles.

Ace was sweating. And All Might came up behind him. "That was fun," Ace said. "Thanks for inviting me to join." The pro-hero nodded, saying his act was quite well. Ace, even before becoming a pirate, had role played with Luffy for different scenarios, and one of them was playing an evil, crazed enemy that the other tried to incapacitate. Of course, Luffy was terrible at it, so Ace did it most of the time and just got good at it.

Ace and All Might were there when they were both getting healed by Recovery Girl. "You guys were awesome in the end," Ace said in a friendly voice. Freckles looked at him in nervousness. "Don't worry, that was all an act. I did pretty good didn't I?" The kid nodded. Ace explained about role playing with his little brother, so he had practice being the bad guy. This seemed to calm Freckles and he didn't look afraid anymore.

"You're… a really good actor," he said. "And… ruthless," and he coughed.

Ace said he was just doing what he was supposed to, not pulling any punches. "No… at the end you did. The fire… it was only hot in one place… it wouldn't have burnt me."

"None of my fire was hot enough to seriously burn. You both got superficial burns that Recovery Girl could heal. I may have been playing the villain, but I wasn't going to kill anyone," he explained.

Freckles nodded, and said, "You were really mean." Ace just laughed and said he was deep in character. All Might, however, was being scolded. None of Ace's attacks had been as bad as the ones at the end with All Might, which injured Bakugo's jaw and Freckles' back. They would take longer to heal.

Ace left the room to go wash off all of the dirt, ash and sweat he was caked with. Nighteye had given him the day off since he was part of the exam and would most likely be tired afterwards. And he was. He wanted a nap.

He passed a handful of 1-A in the hall, who all looked at him in fear. "Don't worry, that was all in character. And All Might went way harder on them than I did. I was just the better one at being creepy," he added with a grin. "Get some rest. I know I will." The others nodded, seeming calmed down a bit.

After Ace showered, he fell asleep the moment his legs hit the bed. He was tired. It had been weeks since he'd come. When would he go back?

He missed them again, but didn't let it get to him at all, and had a peaceful nap.