The universe is a cruel and spiteful place. Danny is agnostic. He does not believe in gods. He fights them all the time so it would be super weird for him to suddenly start sacrificing a lamb to please them. He's pretty sure Pandora is a vegetarian.

There are many universal laws. There's Godwins' law—as an internet discussion becomes longer, the probability of comparison between Nazi's or Hitler approaches—and there's The Law of Percussive Maintenance aka hitting something until it works. Jack Fenton and numerous other scientist in fields unpronounceable use this law like its tissue paper.

Someone had subscribed Danny to the Narrative Law of Egregious Causality. And because our protag got a C- in his English test, that means Bad Shit Happens Just Because And There Is Nothing You Could Do About It. When you scream at the Void. The Void slaps you with a rubber chicken and eats your English homework out of spite.

And so, here we are, The Narrative Law of Egregious Causality in effect starts when Ashido Mina borrows a book. They were telling ghosts stories the other night and this one particular book just screamed B-rated Horror movie. It was big, it was leather, it had a magic circle on the front cover along with the words OCCULT SUMMONING RITUALS in English embossed silver letters. There were silver and gold sigils on the back.

Why was it at the U.A. Library though?

Mina did not question that. She checked the book out and left happily out of the library completely forgetting about that Hero History Book that she was supposed to borrow instead.

It was time for another sleepover.

Tokoyami was born with a shadow quirk and a raven's head, and decided to die on that hill. He loves the arcane, the occult and fantastical. He is a creature of darkness. Tokoyami has several fake skulls on his shelf that are much scarier than real ones.

But even he is wary of things that bump in the night. Mina Ashido wanted to try summoning a ghost. Her source: A book she got from the U.A. Library. She even convinced the whole class (with the exception of Bakugou) to participate in the ouji board nonsense. They "borrowed" Tokoyami's incense and very expensive candles to add to the aesthetic.

"It would be fun," they said.

"I want to see what happens."

"Tch. Those things are fake. I'm going to sleep," said Bakugou.

The lights were off. It was 8 pm. Aizawa was at a meeting. The night was at his darkest. It was the perfect moment to summon a ghost. Tokoyami was bullied by Mina and Kaminari to draw a magic circle on the floor with erasable chalk.

"Wow! Tokoyami-san. Your art skills are phenomenal." Midoriya complemented. Tokoyami would blush if he could. He doesn't think that this is a good idea. This was a horror movie waiting to happen.

They formed a circle. "This is going to be so exciting." Mina squealed. She placed the book at the center of the circle. Mina had opened it to a page where an ouji board was printed out. They had substituted the triangular planchett for a clear glass.

"Why is there a bowl of ketchup and rice?" Momo pointed out.

"According to the book, we would have a better chance of pleasing the spirit if we have a sacrifice." Mina replied.

"Why ketchup though?"

"Because it looks like blood,"

"Rice is a little plain. We should add some potato chips to the mix."

And so, the class scrambled to get more food out from the refrigerator. They didn't actually believe that they were going to summon a ghost today. But suddenly, tons of What If particles had struck their braincells making them continue. (And it was almost midterms) Five minutes later, each student had offered something to the sacrificial pile. There was a chocolate cupcake, black tea, a broken mp3 player, blue cheese, jelly packets, orange juice, one piece of strawberry mochi, a half-eaten hamburger, a block of raw meat, some flowers taken out from the woods, soy sauce?, apples, uncooked soba noodles, two caramel sweets, a photo of All Might, and lastly from Mineta, a piece of paper that says 'Please Don't Kill Me.'

Mina clapped her hands, "That should do it!"

Ochako raised her hand. "If the ghost doesn't show up, can I have the cupcake."

"No fair. I called dibs." Jiro interjected.

"Let's start." Mina said quickly before the rest of the girls fight over Sato's cupcake.

Mr. Uraraka hired the kid because he looked like he needed some help.

And he could lift 60 kg without tiring.

When Uraraka first saw Danny, his clothes were dirty and all he owned was a violet backpack that looked like it had been ran over by a train multiple times, chewed off by some Doberman pinchers, spat back out and then ran over again by a high speed train just for good measure.

"I lost all my papers…but I swear I'm not a criminal…I'm really strong and I'm not asking for much…just enough for food and board," The boy had told him desperately.

Uraraka was a little wary at first of the American boy. He looked like a teenager but the boy assured him that he was in his 20's. Uraraka doesn't know enough about Americans' to dispute that. He hired the boy because he too was desperate to save some money. Uraraka let Danny stay in his couch for a month before the boy could finally afford his own place.

The boy had been a good luck magnet ever since he came to work for Uraraka's company. There were less accidents, and Danny was pretty good with using difficult machinery. Yesterday, some debt collectors had come by his house. He told Danny about it and the next day, he learned that they decided to cancel his debt out of the generosity of their hearts.

"We're getting pretty lucky today. The landlord even fixed that broken roof for free!" said Mr. Uraraka.

"Don't you find it weird though. I could have sworn his eyes were brown and not green," His wife said, a hand on her cheek as she was preparing dinner.

"Oh hush. You're just being paranoid. Maybe something nice happened to the landlord. He's sharing his happiness with us. Oh and by the way, we saved nearly 100,000 yen having to fix that generator. Danny's really good with technology. Downside was, it tends to glow green during the night. Weird. But Hey, at least we don't have to pay the electric bill anymore," Uraraka said.

His wife tilted her head, "How come,"

"Oh, Danny did something to it, " Mr. Uraraka waved a hand dismissively, "said that the generator was going to run for over a 100 years. Isn't that great." He beamed, not even questioning it.

His wife frowned, "What's the kid's quirk anyways,"

"Oh, he doesn't have one. His parents probably disowned because of that," Uraraka said, smiling sadly. The kid was strong. He needed to be. Being quirkless in a quirk filled world was hard.

The Uraraka's had invited Danny for dinner. The boy was too skinny he needed to eat more. And because of him, they could afford premium quality beef without feeling guilty about it. There was a knock on the door.

Danny Fenton was wearing a t-shirt with the word JAXA printed on the front and a globe at the back. His jeans were cleaner now. His face, a lot less sullen.

"Welcome, Danny. Come in, come in. Don't forget to leave your shoes at the door,"

Danny chuckled. "Alright, Mr. Uraraka. I won't forget this time."

Danny's shoes were new. Red bright sneakers unlike the dull tattered ones that Uraraka had first seen him wear. The boy seemed to do things effortlessly. The shoes practically slipped off his foot as if he was wearing slippers. Neat.

"Thanks for inviting me to dinner. I missed Mrs. Uraraka's cooking," Danny said.

Uraraka smiled at him. "We bought some beef. The expensive ones too," he said, wiggling his eyebrows at Danny.

They sat at the table. Mrs. Uraraka greeted Danny and asked him how he was doing with his new apartment.

"It good," Danny says.

Mr. Uraraka served Danny the best cut of meat. "Here. You deserve it. We wouldn't be eating delicious meat if you hadn't come to our lives."

"I see the roof is finally fixed," Danny says not looking up.

Uraraka smiled again. "Yeah. How did you know?"

Danny's eyes widened. "Oh…I passed by the landlord this evening. He mentioned it in passing,"

Mrs. Uraraka touched her lip, "I thought he was in Kyoto today?" she said thoughtfully.

Danny looked panicky, "He came back because he forgot something…was in a bit of a hurry." Danny gobbled up a slice of beef quickly, "Wow…this is so gwood," He says mouth full.

Something was happening. Danny stopped chewing. He looked around the room nervously. Uraraka didn't bring this up because he knows that the boy keeps on going to the bathroom. Bowel problems probably.

This was not good. Danny was being summoned. He felt pulling. Like invisible strings were being attached to his back, pulling him backwards. It was a lot like being sucked in a thermos actually but this time, Danny could actually avoid it until the chanting stopped. He hears overlapping voices in his ear. They didn't even made any sense.

"Are you okay, Danny? Bowel problems again?" Mr. Uraraka asked like a man who was used to it by now. It was because Danny often went to bathroom to go ghost at unexpected times. Like the time debt collectors were bringing baseball bats to the construction site or when he heard a scream from an alley, and had to help some poor old lady from being mugged.

"Umm…not exactly." Danny said, voice weak.

"Don't worry my boy. Nothing to be embarrassed about. It's not because of the food is it?" said Mr. Uraraka, leaning conspiratorially at him.

"No," said Danny shaking his head. "The food's delicious is just—Oh crud"

And then he couldn't hold it in anymore. The pull was too strong. He didn't even know that it was possible to summon him in this dimension. And then Uraraka's face stretched backwards. The room was spinning. There was darkness. And then there was light.

It was candle-light.

Class 1-A was fully expecting nothing to happen. Mina had led the chanting. It was gibberish. They tried their best to say it properly but it eventually ended up with chanting more gibberish.

Midoriya had started humming an All Might theme song and Jiro was chanting "Do, re mi, fa, so, la, ti, dooooo" like a Bhuddist monk in prayer. Tokoyami was chanting in pig-latin, "La domini, exaltia, albia."

"fettucini, linguini, lasagna…" said Kaminari, who decided that chanting pasta was enough Latin for the day.

No one. Absolutely no one was expecting it to work. Mina had convinced Hagakagure to hide and lift the book at the end of the chant.

"This is ridiculous," Tokoyami finally said what everyone was thinking.

And then there was cool breeze bringing shivers to everyone's spines. Even the ice user Todoroki felt cold.

"What was that?" Uraraka gasped.

"Todoroki. Quit it!" Mineta said loudly, voice trembling.

"I'm not doing it," said Todoroki.

"What do you mean. You're the only one with an ice quirk. It's freezing in here," Mina says, shaking hard. She places her hands on her shoulders.

"I'm not doing it," Todoroki repeated, also shivering. He activated his fire quirk to warm him up a little bit but for some reason he was still cold.

"OOoOOOOOooo"

Uraraka gasped again. She grabbed Tsuyu's arm, squeezing it tightly. "Did you hear that?!"

"Hear what?!" Tsuyu says.

"AHHHHHHH!"

This time everyone heard a wail. It wasn't very loud but it had a strange echoing quality to it that can only be achieved by someone with great audio editing skills. It sent more shivers down everyone's spines.

"Okay. That's it. I'm leaving!" Mineta said standing up and walking towards the light switch.

"Alright, Hagakagure. We know it's you," Mina finally admitted. "You can stop now,"

"I'm not…doing…anything…I…swear…brrrrrrrr," said Hagakagure from somewhere near the center of the magic circle. She was about to lift the magic spell book Mina got from the library but the room's temperature dropped. She was naked and shivering.

There was the sound of a cartoonish pop. Like someone smacking their lips together. There was a glowing boy with white hair and green eyes floating in the center of the magic circle, right beneath the sacrificial pile of trash.

"Um…Boo?"

"GYAHHHHHHH!"

Everyone screamed.

Midoriya had never seen Phantom in person. Only in pictures and even those couldn't compare to what a sight Phantom looked like. Especially in dribbly candle-light. Phantom loomed. He gloomed.

We are so doomed.

Everyone was screaming. Panicked voices all around. Mineta passed out. Todoroki had his mouth hung opened. Uraraka and the other girls had huddled up in a ball screaming their hearts out. Midoriya couldn't move. It was the same, mind numbing, heart stopping feeling he experience when facing All For One. Phantom was just floating there like some bad special effect. He glowed. He was outlined in the darkness and made the light of the candles downright sinister. Phantom looked like the only three dimensional character in their two dimensional world. The air froze. Midoriya heard a howl coming somewhere in the forest.

Midoriya realized that he couldn't breathe.

And then Phantom spoke.

His voice echoed. Like a tunnel or a deep, dark chasm that claimed the lives of many hikers. "I was having dinner," He said testily. "What's with all this stuff? Offerings? Neat. A cupcake!"

Sato's chocolate cupcake that the girls were fighting for ownership was now floating in the air, flying straight into Phantom's mouth. He gobbled it all up, not even chewing the damn thing.

"Phantom?" Todoroki finally managed to speak. "What are you doing here?"

Phantom scoffed. "You guys summoned me here."

Tokoyami started bowing like a medieval knight, "Revel in the darkness! Dark Majesty, accept our offerings and spare us!" he said darkly. Dark Shadow came out of Tokoyami's bellybutton and joined Tokoyami's pose.

Phantom cocked a black eyebrow. He sighed, seeing the magic circle drawn on the floor. Iida too, was frozen in the spot. His arms were raised in an L-shape.

"It's a villain! There's a villain again in U.A. I knew that the dorms were going to be useless," Mineta mumbled from his (supposedly) unconscious state.

"I'm not a villain." Phantom stated. "And I'm not here to hurt you. Mind you this is your fault for summoning me here," he added reproachfully.

The fire from the candles snuffed out. Their only light source gone. Phantom glowed, casting large shadows. Darkness was fine and all, but shadows were where the monsters hid. Regardless of gender, everyone screamed. Except for those who couldn't move, couldn't speak, couldn't even blink from the horror in front of them. Phantom had his hands on his hips. He had no legs. Just a ghostly tail.

"Don't be afraid!" Tokoyami boomed, "As a spirit. He cannot escape the circle."

Mina stopped screaming for a moment, adding "Yeah. I read that in the book. He can't hurt us if he's inside,"

Midoriya took a deep breath. The screaming died down.

Phantom was not convinced. But he did not do anything to dispute the fact. He looked down on the offering pile said: "Huh, no wonder you guys were successful. Usually when I'm summoned, people use blood. I'm not a vampire."

Phantom used his powers to levitate a bag of potato chips. He opened it. It made a crackling noise that made everyone flinch.

"Quick. Capture him!" Sero says to Todoroki.

"I can't," Todoroki hissed. "He can just go through it like Mirio-senpai,"

Ah yes, there was that terrifying fact that Phantom had multiple quirks, one of which was similar to Mirio's. The older student had kicked all their asses; how much more was Phantom. He'd probably blow them all to bits with that green laser quirk of his.

"Well, this is nice and all," Phantom droned. He checked his wrist as if there was a watch attached to it. "But I have dinner plans," They waited for Phantom to do something. He flew towards the door.

"I thought you said the circle would work!" Uraraka yelled.

The fluorescent lights came back.

Aizawa was standing at the door.

Several things happened at once: Aizawa's eyes flashed red. Phantom dropped to the ground. Aizawa wrapped him with capture scarf.

"Phantom! What are you doing here!?" Phantom was struggling, trying to escape the capture scarf, "—Hey what gives! I can't use my powers!" "—What did you do to my students!?" Aizawa said, voice low and dark.

"I didn't do anything man. They brought me here," Phantom said, wiggling on the ground like a worm.

Aizawa didn't dare blink.

"How is that even working?! I'm not even from this dimension" Phantom said, voice echoing and shrill. He sounded more like a teenager this time. Midoriya noticed the word dimension and filed that under his mental notebooks.

Phantom was still wrapped up in Aizawa's capture scarf. The teacher was looking down on the alleged villain, his eyes wide as saucers.

"We need to incapacitate him. He's strong. Even with his quirk gone." Aizawa announced. He tightens his grip in the capture scarf. Midoriya knows he doesn't have very long until Aizawa's quirk deactivates.

"Iida, sound the alarm!" Aizawa commanded. Tenya finally moved, he ran as fast as he could, hitting the emergency alarm on the wall. There was a WOOO-WOOO-ING noise. Red light surrounded their visions.

"I wasn't doing anything!" Phantom wailed.

"Your under arrest, Phantom. For vigilante acts, associating with the League of Villains, and trespassing the Sports Festival," Aizawa said. Midoriya saw his teacher's eyes twitching. He doesn't have very long. If Aizawa blinks, Phantom activates his quirk and becomes untouchable.

"Get Midnight!" Aizawa's voice had an uneasy tone to them. His eyes were starting to close. They didn't have much time.

" .GO!" Phantom yelled so loudly that Aizawa blinked. Phantom phased through the capture tape and was about to escape until Midoriya activated his quirk. Full Cowling. Green lines traveled through his legs. He knows he might not capture Phantom because of the villain's intangibility but at this point, Midoriya had no other options.

Midoriya leapt. Grabbing Phantom's leg. Midoriya pulled. Phantom had been so shocked and panicked that he forgot to use his intangibility quirk. Midnight and several other teachers had arrived at the door. Even All Might. They saw the chaos in front of them.

"Hey kid, let go!" Phantom yelled, waving his leg back and forth.

"Midoriya-shonen!" All Might said.

Midoriya was hanging by Phantom's right leg. They were floating up the ceiling. Midoriya tried to pull him down but his hands passed through Phantom's leg like it was no more substantial than fog. Midoriya landed with both his feet on wooden tiles.

That was enough. Midoriya had given enough time for Aizawa's quirk to recharge. Phantom descended. He hit the ground hard, closing his eyes from the impact.

"Eraser-head!? What's going on!" Midnight-sensei said. "Is that Phantom!?"

"Midnight!" Aizawa said. He wrapped Phantom back in his capture scarf.

"Got it!"

The R-rate Hero ripped off her blouse. The violet vapor swirled through Phantom's body like a snake. But no matter what Midnight did, Phantom did not pass out.

"Was that supposed to do something?!" Phantom said, scowling. "News Flash! I'm dead. I don't need to breath,"

Midnight stepped back. That was the first time someone was unaffected by her quirk. What were they going to do now? Aizawa can't keep his eyes open forever.

"You're surrounded. Give up," Snipe said, pointing his gun to Phantom. He shot the boy twice, making both of his shoulders bleed green. "Let's see if blood-loss doesn't pass you out still," Snipe said darkly.

Phantom did not as much as wince at the bullet wound. The green blood had the viscosity of slime. The white haired boy smirked.

"Maybe if you shoot me in the head, I'll pass out, huh, cowboy. I dare you!"

"Insolent child," muttered Snipe. He was still pointing his gun at the boy. This time at his forehead.

"Snipe-Sensei! You're not going to actually shoot Phantom in the head are you?" Midoriya protested, voice shaking. They were heroes. They weren't supposed to kill people. Even…probably already dead villains deserve to live. Or just really not get shot in the head.

"Midoriya, this is a dangerous villain," Midnight reasoned.

"Maybe if we shock him, he'll pass out," All Might volunteered.

The expression on Phantom's face was pure dread. He stopped struggling."No. Don't!" Phantom said a little too quickly causing Eraserhead to smirk.

"Kaminari!"

"What—I don't…." Kaminari stuttered.

"Do it. Otherwise, the villain is going to escape." Eraserhead yelled desperately. His eyes were burning red.

Kaminari's lip wobbled. He did not have much courage compared to Midoriya and Todoroki but he steadied himself. Kaminari walked to where Phantom was, underneath Aizawa's scrutinizing gaze. He touched the boy. He was cold. The kind of cold that reminds you of death and loneliness. Kaminari hesitated.

ψ D̷̙̼̹̠̈́̇̿͝o̵̡͐̂͘n̸̡̦͕̿͊t̶̖͊̽̋̄̈́ ̷̣̹̼̔̈̏͂y̷͇͉͔͝o̷͓̙̿ư̷̝̘̙̓̊͂̂ ̷̢͇̭̈f̷̘̭̺̖̔̇ù̷̥̝̽̕c̶̢͓̺̒̃̈̈́k̶̢͉͖̱̠̈̔̇̕ī̵͎̦̂̀͌n̴͉̭̘̔͊g̵̰̝͈̗̤̐̌̇̃̚ ̵̘̳̞̮̍̓̾̾d̵̮̂͐a̶̡̖̣̣̎̐̔ͅr̷̛̮̙̟̓͛͘ͅȩ̴̳̅͐̍̅ Phantom begged, his voice sounding demonic. Midoriya heard a shrill scream from behind him. Kaminari had tears in his eyes.

"Don't be scared, shonen." All Might reassured him. "We're not going to let him hurt you,"

"I WAS JUST HAVING DINNER!" cried Phantom, in his normal, echoing voice this time.

Kaminari didn't even bother saying his move. He knew that if he used up his quirk too much, he'd shock everyone as well. A burning sensation in his veins traveled in his arms until it reached his fingertips.

There was a scream. It reverberated to the walls. It shattered the windows. Phantom's eyes were closed as he screamed. Kaminari had his as well.

Midoriya noticed dark tree roots appearing in front of Phantom's face. They glowed green as well. Aizawa had let go of his capture weapon as soon as Kaminari used his quirk on Phantom. Everyone, even Mic who was used to loud noises by now, had their ears covered.

And then the scream stopped. Phantom was no longer moving. Kaminari quickly let go of Phantom. All Might held the blonde boy in his arms.

Something happened.

White circles traveled throughout Phantom's body. He looked completely different now.

He was probably older than Izuku. His hair was black. He was bleeding red.

The room sighed collectively. It was over. Aizawa finally blinked his eyes.

"That must be Phantom's true form," All Might said, a hint of sadness to his voice. "We need to get him to Recovery Girl." He added quickly before Phantom bled out in the dorm room. Ectoplasm summoned a clone and carried Phantom out of the dorms.

"He's not breathing," said Ecotplasm nervously. "And he's cold," The hero tried to find a pulse somewhere near Phantom's neck. There was no heartbeat.

Midoriya couldn't see Ectoplasms face from his mask but the pro-hero was surely panicking. "Hurry," All Might managed. His voice was calm despite the fact that they probably had a dead villain in their hands.

Aizawa surveyed the room. The magic circle and the book was still there. He glared at his students. "Is anyone hurt?" He grumbled.

Midoriya and the rest shook their heads.

"Good," Aizawa said darkly, "Now tell me what exactly happened here?!"

They were in trouble now. Phantom could have killed them, yes—but Aizawa had the power to expel them. Which in the whole, was way worse than facing a villain with multiple quirks. Bakugou was so lucky he was asleep.

All fingers pointed at Mina Ashido.

Mrs. Uraraka stared at the empty seat to her left.

"There was always something strange about that boy," said Mrs. Uraraka to her husband. "His eyes were always a bit too…solid. Too real."

Mr. Uraraka hung his mouth. Finger pointing across him. To where Danny once sat.

"He just…popped…" He said flabbergasted, "…Like a balloon. He was there and now…he isn't,"

"Should we call the police?" Mrs. Uraraka said calmly, already standing up to grab the telephone.

"No…." Mr. Uraraka said shaking his head. "It's probably the boy's quirk. I think he was just too embarrass to tell us."

Mrs. Uraraka never heard of a quirk that made you disappear like a cartoon character whenever you had bowel problems. But it sort of made sense. No wonder Danny said he was quirkless.

"Well, I guess I should wrap this up for Danny when he comes back later," Mrs. Uraraka said kindly.

In fact, Danny Fenton never came back after that. All the more for Mrs. Uraraka who enjoyed the leftovers.