[Undisclosed Location - 12:39am]
Izuku's vision was blurry.
What was happening? Why was everything dark? Where was he? He tried to stand up, but found himself seemingly tied to a chair. He couldn't see anything in the room, though, so it might be from a Quirk.
"Mr. Midoriya. Please calm yourself. We don't intend to hurt you, as long as you cooperate."
His head whipped to the right as soon as he heard the voice. Footsteps rang out, reverberating through the void surrounding him. All of a sudden, Izuku had the turn his head to the side as a bright light entered his vision, blinding him in a different way.
But he could tell that behind the light, a man was sitting across from him. Izuku immediately activated his Quirk, asking it, 'where am I?'. But for the first time since he had used his Quirk, he got no answer.
No human being had any memory of where he was.
He started to struggle against his bindings frantically, looking around the lit-up room behind him. It was relatively simple, just a concrete box with a black, opaque window. Izuku was starting to panic.
Why was he in a stereotypical government interrogation room? Were these people part of the government? In this case, which one? Nezu had told him that most of the governments of the world knew about his Quirk, a scary thought, but had he really been kidnapped because of it?
"No, Mr. Midoriya, not exactly kidnapped."
Cursing himself for muttering at a time like this, he looked back to the left of the bright light, to the silhouette sitting behind it. "Oh, yeah? Then what exactly do you call this?! I'm here against my will, and you brought me here! That's kidnapping!"
The man behind the light chuckled before leaning back, his silhouette almost looking smug. "Kidnapping: the action of abducting someone and holding them captive. I can see how you assumed that we kidnapped you, boy, but there was no abduction. You were made here."
The silhouette shrugged, chuckling slightly. The sound pissed Izuku off. "So while still technically illegal, we didn't kidnap you."
Izuku just stared at the man. "You made me? Bullshit! I was born in Japan, not wherever the fuck this is! The second I get out of here-"
"Ah, but you never will my boy! You're not even the real thing! The real Izuku Midoriya is back in Japan, studying at UA, working to become a hero."
Izuku just stared at the silhouette in shock at that. Probing the man's memories, he confirmed that the man believed the fact that there were 2 of Izuku, and that one was still in Japan.
He probed a little further into the man's memory, trying to figure out where he was. He was shocked when he found that there was nothing else in the man's mind. It was as if all of his memories before entering the room, other than the tidbit about Izuku, oddly, were erased, or shielded somehow.
A sob escaped him, but he quickly pulled himself together. Unfortunately, it was already too late.
"Ah, the reality of your situation has fully set in then, yes? With Bubaigawara's Quirk, we can have as many of you as we need, and no-one will ever even know you're here!"
"Welcome to the resistance, Midoriya." Izuku shuddered as an evil-sounding laugh, before standing up, bring out a metal rod which extended, sparking with electricity. The last thing he heard before blacking out from pain was;
"You're going to help us, whether you want to or not."
"Dude! What the fuck was that?! That was so freaking cool!"
Izuku smirked, placing the 'hostage' off to the side before reaching up and detaching his helmet, shaking his head as his curly hair was freed with a small 'hiss.' Hagakure put her 'hostage' down next to his, and directed Kaminari to sit down beside them.
"Whatever could you mean, Kirishima, my good man? There was nothing special about that match?" He noticed Bakugou off to the redheads side, almost blurry with how much he was shaking. The Todoroki boy was also watching him.
All Might spoke up, looking confused and impressed. "DON'T MESS WITH THEM TOO MUCH, MIDORIYA! THAT WAS QUITE THE PERFORMANCE! I GET THAT HAGAKURE WOULD BE GOOD AT STEALTH AND ALL, BUT I DIDN'T EXPECT SUCH SKILLS FROM YOU AND MR. KAMINARI!"
Izuku smiled at All Might, shrugging. "Did Nezu really not explain everything? Heh, that sounds about right. Well, with my Quirk, it makes stealth much easier! And Kaminari's no slouch either, surprisingly."
All Might hummed, looking the boy up and down once more, wondering what he meant about Nezu not explaining everything. He knew that the boy had trained with Nezu, but to what extent was it?
Whatever the case, this boy was very impressive.
"ALRIGHT EVERYONE! WE HAVE ONE MORE MATCH TO WATCH! HERO TEAM AND VILLAIN TEAM, GO GET SET UP!"
All Might smiled as he watched the children run off to prepare, smiles on their faces. This was what he had been working towards for so long. To be able to see the generations after him laugh and smile without the fear that existed when he was a kid.
It was good to see that it was working.
The next fight went quickly, with very little to say about it.
Bakugou's involvement, and subsequent charge into the building, had turned it from an exercise in tactics to a Quirk-powered brawl, with Bakugou's enthusiasm for violence stoking a fire under his teammates.
Iida's team held up as best they could, but against Bakugou, Hitoshi, Shoji, and Tokoyami, they were eventually rounded up by the hero team, leading to their defeat.
Izuku wanted to say that he expected differently, but he hadn't. Bakugou's Explosion was a powerful combat Quirk, Hitoshi's was practically a godsend for underground hero work, Shoji was incredibly versatile, and Tokoyami was a powerhouse in his own right.
At least watching the match had confirmed some of his theories about Dark Shadow. It was an excellent Quirk, and he couldn't wait to see how the boy could push it to new levels while at UA.
'God, I sounded so much like Nezu there.'
Izuku chuckled to himself as he headed towards the front gate. While he hadn't set up his room in the dorms yet, Nezu was pushing him to finish with his mother's kitchen quickly so that he could stay at UA and interact with his peers more.
While Izuku knew that Nezu was proud of his progress training-wise, he also knew that the stoat was worried about how the little human interaction with people his age had done to Izuku over the years.
Izuku let out a humorless laugh at that. Nezu was worried about his mental growth? He had lost the chance for a healthy childhood that first time he used his Quirk. He didn't like talking about it, and he would never tell Nezu this, but he still saw all the soldiers and civilians that were killed, or worse, during WW2.
And while Izuku was still a little conflicted about living with people his own age, he would suck it up and move into the dorms as quickly as he could. If not for himself, than for his classmates, and for his mentor.
He was about to pass under the gate when he heard the whirling of energy. His instincts screamed at him to turn around, right after the sound of energy grew much louder. He whipped around, already raising his arms, prepared to fight.
"LOOK OUT BELOW!"
Instead, he had to adjust quickly as he found a flying, bright blue person coming at him at full speed. He caught the person, bending his legs and rolling backwards to safely distribute the shock. It worked, for the most part, but his legs were still a bit achy.
He groaned as he let go of the person, who had gone limp on top of him. He sat up, feeling the person flop onto his lap, and chuckled. "Are you alright? That was quite the landi-!"
Izuku had opened his eyes, having screwed them shut right before impact, and stopped midway through his sentence, as his brain took a short break to review his situation.
He was sitting on the ground with a girl in his lap. A girl that just so happened to be absolutely stunning. Izuku found himself staring as he gave her a once over, from her long, bright blue hair, to her powerful looking legs.
Did an angel just land on him?
He was shocked out of his staring when he felt something touch his face. He looked back up the girls face to see her staring at him, poking him in the cheek, smiling widely. (and if Izuku suddenly vowed to protect that smile for the rest of his life, could you really blame him?)
"Hey! You're that kid Mirio was looking for! Why were you staring? Why is your hair green? OOO! What's your Quirk! I bet it's something super cool! You're really strong, by the way, you don't even seem hurt from me landing on you! Why were you staring at my legs? I know they're pretty awesome but what's your reason?"
Izuku blinked at the sudden barrage of questions, processing them as best he could. After he had finished mentally processing the questions, he then surprised himself by answering almost out of habit.
"I was staring because I was a little surprised, my hair is green because my mum's hair is green, my Quirk lets me view people's memories, and I was staring at your legs because they look really nice. How much can you deadlift?"
His mouth snapped shut as he wrestled control of himself again. Apparently all it took was one pretty girl and he was back to a mumbling mess. His cheeks flushed, and he was about to apologize when he saw the girls face.
Her eyes were wide open, and her mouth was in the biggest smile he had ever seen someone do. He yelped as he was suddenly pulled off of the floor, basically thrown into a standing position by the girl.
"Oh my god! You got all my questions! And you gave like, accurate answers! My name is Nejire Hadou! You're my new friend! Anyone that can keep up with me is someone I wanna be friends with! Oh, right. Probably should have asked before assuming. Do you wanna be friends?"
Izuku just nodded, feeling himself smiling. He put out his hand towards her. "You know what? I do! My name is Izuku Midoriya. Nice to meet you Nejire!"
Nejire bounced up and down as she shook his hand, her smile nearly blinding him. "Right back at you new friend Izuku! I have to go now, but it was really nice meeting you! Next time I'll try not to fall on you!"
She started floating a few metres in the air, and Izuku laughed, giving her a wave goodbye. "That'd be nice. My legs are gonna be sore tonight! Anyway, I gotta go too, I have to get my stuff so I can move into my dorm room."
Nejire smiled, nodding rapidly. "Alrighty then! Bye, new friend! I'll see you around!"
Izuku watched her as she flew off, moving incredibly quickly. He had the urge to use his Quirk to learn about her, but held himself back out of respect. After she had turned into a blue dot in the sky, Izuku started walking back to his house, texting his mum to pull out some boxes from the spare room.
Izuku left the campus and started walking home, not even realising how much he was smiling.
[Nezu's Office]
"Thank you Aizawa, that will be all."
Aizawa just gave Nezu a blank stare, his eyebrow twitching in annoyance. "Did you seriously just wake me up from one of my incredibly important naps just so I could erase a student's Quirk? All so that she would meet Izuku?"
Nezu lowered the binoculars from his eyes, turning to Aizawa, giving him front-row seats to the mischievous glint in the animal's eyes. Nezu chuckled. "Why yes, I did!"
He turned back to the window and closed the blinds, not needing to see out of his window now that the two had separated. He moved to his desk and hopped up onto his chair, starting some paperwork.
Aizawa just stared at him the whole time. "You aren't going to explain any further than that, are you?"
Nezu just laughed, shaking his head. "Aizawa, I'm truly disappointed that you even have to ask! Of course not! You can go now."
Aizawa huffed, heading out of the office, knowing it was pointless to argue with the rat. Nezu hummed to himself as he finished organising the paperwork on his desk, revealing a manilla folder.
He chuckled as he picked up the folder and put it in the top draw of his desk. It was a completely unassuming folder, with nothing special about it, except for the label on it.
[Project: Social NejiRehabilitation]