"I think All Might may be my uncle," Izuku said one day, halfway through the weekly meetings for the organisational higher ups. The location was an old arcade that had gone under a few years ago and had been bought by Brain at Izuku's instructions for a good price. It was not busy most days and constantly ran at a minor loss that was easily eaten by Living Tree's other industries. There was barely even any money laundering done and it would take somebody with a seriously powerful analytic Quirk and a serious fixation on the company to find any wrongdoing and even more to prove it.

These weekly meetings took place on a Tuesday morning at around eight and the arcade remained closed during this time allegedly for staff meetings which obviously didn't exist. Right now the three of the four heads of Living Tree were sitting around one of the dining tables drinking milkshakes prepared by one of the serving robots.

Izuku had timed his announcement perfectly as both Brain and Ears had been taking a sip at the same time and the shock from his announcement had startled them into taking to suboptimal actions. Brain, far quicker in her thoughts had decided to do the less photogenic thing and spray out the milkshake while Ears had inside managed to breath it in leaving him coughing and spluttering. Brain glared at him before she stood up from her chair and walked behind Ears smacking him in his back and performing some form of massage that appeared to work. Twenty seconds later she returned to her chair as the serving robots started to wipe up the mess she had made.

"And what brought about that hypothesis," she said her glare being replaced by a look of interest. "Something in the blood," she concluded. "But we only extract the portion of DNA that has to do with the Quirk factor so you would be unable to perform an avuncular DNA test. Therefore your Quirk must have some sort of similarity with that of the Number one hero."

"Bravo Brain," Izuku said clapping his hands in appreciation at his subordinate's deduction. "That is exactly what happened. As you know I've been devoting a simply unhealthy amount of time in analysing his quirk and I think I am quite close to simulating. Maybe by the start of next month I will be able to do some preliminary testing?"

"I will book it in," Brain said before taking a sip of her milkshake and gesturing in a clear sign that said 'get on with it.'

"Okay," Izuku acquiesced. "There is an eight percent similarity which is a pretty weird number."

"Far too low to be parental," Brain said thoughtfully. "It's also very low for an avuncular relationship but by no means impossible."

"I was unaware that you had an uncle, Boss," Ears said as he relaxed back into his chair.

"Yeah, Dad doesn't talk about him much," Izuku said as he polished off his strawberry milkshake before throwing the plastic into the nearest bin. "I know that the both of them fell out a long time ago and they don't talk much."

"And you suspect that All Might is him," Brain said raising an eyebrow. "I will dig into All Might's history but while I can expect some relationship due to common genetic lineage I doubt that it is as close as to be called familial."

"Cool," Izuku said. "Does anybody have any more topics they want to bring up or can we call this session to a close."

"I happen to have one for you, Boss," Ears spoke up, slightly unusually. While technically he was one of the executive members, he was also the one who initiated the least operations among all of them and tended to be more reactionary, providing his services and expertise to any project but never starting them.

"Well that's something I don't see very often," Sudor said as she walked away from an arcade machine on which a random villain proclaimed his victory over Endeavour. "Finally showing the initiative Ears. What nefarious deeds will you have us pull?"

Ears opened his mouth to announce his plan and was immediately interrupted by the sound of music. After a brief moment Izuku reached into his pocket before pulling out his phone. He flipped it open and walked a brief distance away from the table before answering it.

"Hi Mom," he started. "How are you doing?" He listened for a brief moment. "I'm fine I'm just at work. My boss is a bit of a slave driver." He continued and the rest of the table were treated to the sight of Brain clenching her fist at the blatant lie. "Yeah I'll pick some up after work. I love you too Mom." He returned the phone into his pocket and retook his seat at the table.

"A slave driver, am I?" Sakura said her voice dangerously calm. "I don't want to hear that from the guy who spent all of yesterday morning playing solitaire."

"You really are a dutiful son, Boss," Ears said with a grin on his face that edged towards being slightly sadistic. "If I didn't know you so well I would call you a mother's boy."

"I think I recognized the Anime that song came from," Sudor remarked casually. "Was it…"

"Enough," Izuku said sharply. "Err; we should focus on Ear's plan. Right what was the plan Ears."

"I was collecting some information that could be important to some people," Ears began.

"Right, blackmail," Sudor said as she sat down on her chair and put her feet up on the table. "Never really liked the whole blackmail thing."

"Then it is a good thing that I am in charge of that aspect of the business," Ears said. "To cut a long story short; I know where a veritable bounty of support gear will be for all of this and next week."

"Those generally have high profit margins," Brain said approvingly. "Even if they are never really as effective as when they are fully custom made."

"Zero considering the fact that we are going to be stealing it," Izuku responded offhandedly, getting a somewhat weird look from Brain.

"Not zero after all the business of locating a buyer, setting up a trade, storage, protection and transport," Brain said raising an eyebrow. "This you should know by now, Boss."

"I have a buyer," Izuku rebutted casually. "Our new contact has more than enough desire for these kinds of items and the contacts to dispose of those he doesn't want to keep. I will gladly take a lump sum and leave the rest to him."

"Then that's fine," Brain said turning back to Ears. "Why would there be so much support gear gathered together at once anyway?" she said. "Is what I would say if I didn't know you were talking about that upcoming Hero Support Gear Exhibition in Kyoto. So you have managed to stumble onto the location they are storing the gear." Brain said and Izuku could see hundreds of thoughts flash before her eyes as she paused briefly. "This could prove dangerous but lucrative."

"Collate a list of possible villains," Izuku said to Brain. "Ears, try to get more information without arousing any suspicion. You have my permission to use some 'leverage' but be careful. Sudor," Izuku said staring at his fellow executive who seemed to eagerly await something to do. "Sit on your hands."

"Wait, what the hell," the icy villain said, somewhat dumbfounded. "Hey, you are not leaving me out of this. I'm the strongest you've got, Boss."

"You also have the stealth abilities of a cat on a piano," Izuku remarked wryly. "If it really comes down to it you can be the distraction squad on the other end of town. But if we're as desperate as to resort to that then the plan has already fallen to pieces. I will go myself and I will take Muscles, Knees and… another person."

"Keeping Tindalos on standby?" Brain asked a question she already knew the answer to. She stood up from her seat at this point, idly checking the time on her phone, although with her Quirk she almost certainly knew it. "I've got some work to do this morning. I2P me anything interesting you find out and I'll put together a plan."

"Thanks Brain," Izuku said as he also stood up. "I'm going to go home and study. Have to work hard if I want to get into the general education course. I bid you all farewell and good luck."

"Can I get a lift from Tiny," Sudor spoke up before Izuku left. "I have to go see a man about some money. He has done quite the runner and I hate taking trains."

"In the interests of not having to cover up the untimely death of another molester I will have to I suppose," Izuku said. Sudor despite normally acting like your typical sporty girl could be astonishingly vindictive and sometimes Izuku was just glad she didn't direct it at him.

Giving a nod he gave out a low whistle before darkness engulfed him as a pair of jaws snapped shut with a chomping sound. He had to go revise mathematics.

xxx

"That's the building we are going to rob," Shigaraki Tomura said from his position behind Izuku. The two of them were standing on a fire escape of an office building opposite the location they were casing out. "It looks like a place that prints newspapers." The white haired villain rubbed his shoulders to try and insulate a bit of warmth from the cool night air. He was dressed in his normal clothes black long sleeved shirt and pants with just an additional brown jacket on to keep out the cold. He had no secret identity, apparently as a result of him having no identity, although Izuku was sketchy on his full history.

"Do people even still read newspapers," the leader of the Living Tree said as he held a pair of binoculars to his eyes. "What did you expect the place to look like? It's a regulatory body for support gear to make sure that the devices don't blow up the heroes or ruin the reputation of the glorious Hero Public Safety Commission. They keep the prototypes in a vault beneath the building behind a door of solid titanium that is just begging to be disintegrated."

"And so why are we standing on a fire escape outside above a dingy alley looking at the building instead of getting into that vault," Shigaraki said impatiently. He still maintained a respectful distance from Izuku, the head of Living Tree had basically informed him that if he stepped within three feet of him he would consider it an attack. It was a bout of healthy paranoia that needed to be instilled within Shigaraki and while Izuku would mentor him there was no way that he would trust him.

"This is the only blind spot in the mess of cameras that cover this place," Izuku said as he dropped down his binoculars. "The roads surrounding the street are flanked by business offices and there are no places where one can casually go and sit down. All of them have their security controls and each and every building would have been vetted by the Public Safety Commission to verify that they are above board. The place also averages police rotations every thirty minutes and the density of hero sightings is significantly above average. What does that tell you Shigaraki."

"We're doing a damn forced stealth mission," Shigaraki said, his voice irritated at the thought.

"Only partially correct," Izuku responded back, never taking his eyes off of the building. "I fully expect stealth to fail at some time. At that point we will grab the goods and run abandoning all further attempts at stealth. Remember Shigaraki, there are no extra lives," Izuku said as he lowered the binoculars. Suddenly a muted vibration came from his side pocket and Izuku pulled out a two way radio.

"You will have forty seconds to get inside before the backup power comes online," a voice came from the radio. "I'm ready to go on your instruction, Boss." The voice sounded young and feminine, likely due to the fact that it was the young female Muscles who was in charge of this stage of the operation.

"Hit it," Izuku said as he leapt onto the railing. "You know what to do," he said to his partner who simply rolled his eyes. He definitely knew what to do considering Izuku went over it about a dozen times. Izuku didn't wait for a confirmation however as he leapt off the fifth story railing drawing a grappling hook at the same time. He made light use of Brain's Quirk calculating the perfect trajectory that allowed him to just catch the top of the skyscraper and sent him in an arc towards the fourth floor window. As he flew towards the incoming glass he watched as simultaneously lights instantly died across the whole block plunging a portion of the city into darkness.

Glass shattered as he broke through the window and landed on his feet. A stifled gasp was enough to tell him that he wasn't alone and so he sprinted towards the location of the noise; a torch wielding security officer clad in a black uniform. Whatever training the man had received it was not enough to hold out for even a second. A blow to his sternum caused the unprepared man to double over and the last thing he sensed was the strong smell of mint as Nose's quirk sent him into slumber.

Izuku didn't have the time to pause for a second however. Five seconds had already passed since the power failure and he had thirty-five seconds before the alarms and cameras went up. Allowing the guard to hit the floor like a marionette with its strings cut, Izuku dashed towards the stairs taking three at a time in a manner which would have caused his mother to scold him if she was there and he wasn't committing a felony right now. With twenty one seconds to spare Izuku arrived at the security office. The door was made of steel but this was already taken into account in Izuku's plans. The office was at the end of a long corridor which allowed Izuku enough time to hit his maximum speed. A brief shield of blue appeared around Izuku's foot a brief instant before he dropkicked the door causing the tough security door to crumple like tinfoil.

The shocked and scared stiff look on one of the night watchmen's face made Izuku behind into his mask. While he was not a sadistic person by nature it was in his job description to be at least a little intimidating. The paralysis didn't last for long though as the man fumbled on his belt for a device that looked like a Taser. Izuku waited a second for him to unclip the device before he yanked it out of the man's hand using his mother's quirk and unloaded it into his opponent.

The device was incredibly effective as the guard immediately went rigid and then fell down to the floor motionless. He seemed to be inflicted by some form of paralysis as his eyes remained wide and open and his pulse and breathing were steady. Izuku decided to keep an eye on him for a moment and instead headed towards the console taking a seat in front of the security cameras. A flick of a button and the doors to the outside smoothly opened to allow Shigaraki to step into the empty lobby. At least the other villain seemed to be taking the situation seriously for once. The manchild seemed to be taking the situation seriously for once as indicated by the fact that he was moving very quickly towards the vault.

Abruptly a shrill ringing sound broke through the silence and Izuku turned his head slightly to see the words incoming call next to what looked to be an old fashioned Bakelite attached to the console. That was both worrying and impressive considering the fact that it had only been just over a minute since the lights went off. It was most likely a routine call to check if the power failure was a symptom of something bigger; which it was. Naturally Izuku considered his options at this point. The easier would be just to not answer. That would likely lead to an inherent uncertainty which may cause the person on the other side to delay the call until they could get through as was human nature. On the other hand there may be protocols that require them to call it in if there was no notice given.

"Tokawa Yagi here," he said pressing the button to receive a call and choosing a random name.

"Tokawa Yagi?" the feminine voice on the other end said sounding out the name with some confusion. "Where's Goro?"

"He just headed towards the water closet," Izuku said. "He left just a bit before the lights went off. He isn't back yet."

"And he left you behind," the woman on the other end of the line replied. "Are you new? I don't think we've ever met before."

"I worked here briefly about two years back but then I had family troubles and had to move," Izuku blatantly lied. "I've only been employed again for about a week and I haven't even officially had orientation yet."

"Well I'm sure it will be a pleasure to have you aboard," the lady said. "I'm Kano Fumiko," she said. "Have you been briefed on the procedures for these situations?"

"It requires a password doesn't it?" Izuku asked. "Just hold on a second and I'll relay it." Izuku looked away at this point and turned towards the still downed Goro who was glaring at him defiantly. He discretely tapped into Brain's quirk before he spoke.

"Password," he said while staring his captive in the eyes. As soon as that word left his lips a string of numbers flowed from the mind of his prisoner into his brain in the form of an eight digits that were whispered into his ears at speeds that were almost too fast to pick up.

"54687231," he said clearly enunciating each number. There was a brief silence as the lady on the opposite was clearly comparing the numbers to her own records. "You have a nice day now," she said brightly. "We'll send additional people to check in on the morning if the powers not running then."

"Hopefully I'll be in my bed by the time they come in," Izuku replied. "Have a nice night." He placed the receiver down letting it click and the call end. Then he pulled out a device that he had been working on for a while. "You wouldn't happen to have a pacemaker," he said to the downed guard receiving a definite 'No" from his mind. "Good, then this then will not harm you." The device that he was holding was a miniature EMP which should take out all electronics on this room and completely wipe the security footage and may also trigger an alarm as a byproduct. Izuku looked through the cameras noticing that Shigaraki had reached the vault by this point and was now disintegrating the middle being very careful not to trigger the sensors around the edges of the vault.

Izuku watched as Shigaraki reached into his pockets and pulled out a device that was shaped like a whistle; a nifty piece of equipment that sent out high frequency noises over up to a few kilometres away. The device was obviously effective as Tindalos appeared from one of the corners of the room and hopped through the hole in the steel door. With a sigh Shigaraki gave one last look at the camera before climbing into the vault himself.

Izuku sat down in the chair for a moment watching them. Despite how collected he appeared on the outside his heart was beating like a drum and he kept calm forcibly by rearranging his quirks in case it was necessary for him to make a quick getaway.

"How long does that thing last anyway," Izuku said ten minutes later after he had fully sorted his remaining Quirks. He looked down towards the security guard on the floor who remained still. "Oh I see," he said giving him a regarding look. "You regained motion a while ago. I suppose that is the best plan. You have good judgement. Nothing you could do would affect me anyway."

"Why are you doing this?" the security guard finally spoke out, his words filled with venom.

"You know how hard it is to get a job in this economy," Izuku said smirking. "Somebody has to put bread on the table."

"You could have been a hero," the security guard said and Izuku broke out into a chuckle. If that little display was skilled enough to be a hero then heroes wouldn't be so venerated.

"Let me guess," he said. "You wanted to be a hero, but your quirk wasn't powerful enough so you had to settle for this job. You resent me for having the ability to become a hero and choosing not to. You're just jealous of the fact that I actually enjoy my job Goro."

"Don't call me that," the man on the floor said continuing with his glaring and then they were both disrupted by a ring from the Bakelite. Izuku debated once more over letting it ring before he picked up the phone.

"This is Tokawa Yagi here," he said covering the receiver with his hand so that any words that Goro might say wouldn't get through."

"Hi again," the familiar voice of that Fumiko sounded over the phone. "I just called to tell you that there have been reports from next door of somebody entering through the window. They are going to send a hero over."

"Oh, which hero?" Izuku asked, interested and a little dismayed.

"Get this; I heard that they are going to send the number eight hero," her voice sounded excited but Izuku felt anything but at the moment. "Are you still there?" she asked after a moment of silence.

"Don't tell him anything Kano," Goro suddenly shouted from his position on the floor.

"Wait Goro, you're back," an element of confusion entered the voice over the telephone. "What are you talking about?"

"First name terms? Goro, you sly dog," Izuku chuckled despite his nerves. "I'm afraid to tell you that I am a villain and am currently robbing this place," he said into the phone.

A long moment of stunned silence came over the phone, but Izuku didn't have any time as he placed the receiver down before crushing the Bakelite with the bottom of his fist. That piece of news had been unexpected and he contemplated his luck for Living Tree to run into the two strongest females in Japan. Still while Knees lost to the Dragon that didn't mean that Izuku would lose. He was after all quite a bit stronger than Knees; there was far more of a chasm between third and second than between second and first. Still there was no need to keep Shigaraki around and so Izuku reached into his pocket and pulled out his two-radio.

"Bring it to a close," he said briefly.

"I've almost got the last of the high value loot," Shigaraki replied just as quickly. "Give me another three minutes and I can get fifty million more.

"Hurry up," Izuku said as he prepared to destroy the consoles only for his radio to sound again. "Yes," he said picking it up.

"Boss, somebody just jumped through the window on the fourth floor," the worried voice of Muscles sounded out. "They were moving very fast."

Izuku immediately turned towards the security camera and his eyes roamed the dozens of feeds until they latched onto a blur… right outside the room. His eyes whipped towards the door a second before an immensely quick kick lashed out towards his abdomen with force that would easily take him out of the fight.

The kick impacted on his stomach and he was immediately torn in two as gore flew about everywhere before the chunks, that were a muddy green in colour reversed their direction and were attracted to his midsection once more and burrowed into his shirt. That threw his opponent into a loop as she came to a stop leaning on the console and Izuku immediately and vindictively hit the button for the EMP causing all of the surrounding devices to smoke and explode and the hero to launch herself off of the console and onto the floor.

"Are you trying to stop me you wascally wabbit?" Izuku said mockingly as he looked at the No.8 Hero Mirko.

"No I came to offer you carrot cake," the rabbit responded just as quickly. "What is your Quirk anyway?"

"My dashing looks," Izuku said stepping back. "You can't see beneath the mask but I'm really handsome."

"I'll just beat it out of you then," the rabbit said and she moved. Izuku's normally high speed failed him at that moment and half of his head was obliterated with a kick that he only partly dodged. He slowed down the reformation and immediately activated Brain's Quirk speeding up his analytical procedures and thoughts. Despite half his head being missing he was still able to calculate the optimal time and just as he was about to get hit the world slowed to a crawl and he was able to get sway to the side to avoid getting bisected again. The remainder of his head reformed and he pulled down his hood to prevent his face from being seen, considering a good quarter of his mask was now destroyed.

Still this was a losing battle and so Izuku did what he did best in this situation. Cheat and run away. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a useful device before setting a timer and holding it behind his back as calculations were made and the world slowed to a crawl. As the foot of the killer rabbit approached Izuku gave a grin and head-butted it.

Two seconds later as his head reformed from the sludge he was overjoyed to see the security guard and the rabbit writhing on the floor, the spent flashbang laying innocuously on the ground nearby. Must really suck to get hit by 170 decibels if you have rabbit ears. Thankfully as he had neither ears nor eyes the flashbang didn't affect him at all. Still this was no time to monologue smugly; they wouldn't be able to hear him anyway. Once more he pulled his hood over his head thanking his over prepared mind that the cameras were out before he ran out of the door and towards the stairs.

He could hear Mirko stumble to her feet behind him and while he could respect her gumption he had to admit that he really didn't like her. He hit the stairs pulling out a dog whistle and blowing as hard as he could despite the burning in his lungs. As he hit the bottom of the stairs he heard a crashing sound that was coming closer at a high speed and he practically dove into the quickly forming mouth and teeth. The last sight that he saw before Tindalos snapped his mouth shut and he felt that familiar feeling of teleportation was the sight of a bleeding rabbit, with a wide viscous smile.

Two minutes later Shigaraki was retrieved by Tindalos. He had apparently had no problems as the deafened rabbit didn't even know of his presence. As thanks for his help Izuku treated him to a properly cooked steak.

Author Note: You know it struck me some time during writing this that Izuku was basically playing One Night at Freddies.