Hey guys, sorry about the delay. With midterms going on I don't get to write as much as I would like, but thankfully they'll be done after next Wednesday.
You know, I honestly didn't think I would write something many people would read, let alone like. Now less than a month after things started there's 201 people following this story, which is way more than I was expecting. Thank you all so much for continuing to read, through the good chapters, and the not so good ones. Now then, since there weren't any questions since last chapter, let's get right back to it.
Midoriya once again slowly woke up to the white panel ceiling of Recovery Girls office.
What happened?
The memories of the fight started to play back in his mind. Aizawa's broken body, the terrifying form of the Nomu, the even worse voice from when he was knocked out, and the look on Uraraka's face when he sent her away from the flood zone.
As he thought about everything he realized there was something in his hand, slowly looking down he felt his face go red as he realized that Uraraka was in the room with him, asleep in a chair with her head on the bed next to his legs, and her hand wrapped around his.
"Ur- Uraraka?" Midoriya finally managed to get a word out after taking in what was going on. Uraraka slowly woke up and saw the now awake Midoriya looking at her, then looked at their hands realizing what she did. She went even more red then him before letting go and slapping him across the face just like at the entrance exam. "Wha?" before Midoriya could get a full word out Uraraka started yelling and the door to the room opened, revealing Recovery Girl and a skinny All Might.
"You idiot! Did you even try to think? You went after villains that took down two pros, by yourself! I could have helped you and instead you made me watch as that thing killed you! I watched you die, then suddenly you were fine, and then you didn't come back after the fight. I thought you died again, why couldn't you have just waited for backup, or let me come with you when the fight started. Do you have any idea what it's like being stuck watching your best friend get broken like a ragdoll? We could hear you screaming from the entrance when it started throwing you around, and then you didn't get back up and and and" Uraraka started crying even harder as All Might came up and put his hand on her trying to reassure her and Recovery girl started berating Midoriya as well.
"Young man I don't know how you managed to do it, but you managed to surpass even All Might's recklessness. When I saw the state of your costume and all the blood I thought you were beyond saving, yet that regeneration quirk healed almost all of your wounds, but not without cost. It seems like your enhanced strength you copied another two quirks that are always active as needed, but there are some side effects. Your regeneration heals even minor wounds like bruises, but it burns through your bodies energy to do so. To put it simply, the more you heal, the more food you have to eat to balance things out, and if you don't eat enough your quirk essentially shuts down or it keeps trying to heal you until you. After everything that happened you would have died of starvation if you hadn't been brought here as fast as you were. You've been unconscious for two days. Did you even think about the potential side effects before trying to copy that villains quirks?" Recovery girl waved her cane around angerly like she wanted to hit Midoriya, but was taking care not to.
"I didn't exactly have time to, wait DID YOU SAY I'VE BEEN OUT FOR TWO DAYS?" Midoriya looked back and forth between the three other people in the room.
"Relax Young Midoriya, classes were cancelled for the rest of the week due to what happened." All Might was the first to respond. "Consider yourself lucky. I saw the damage to the facility, and the other student informed me what you did. Both of these two are right, what you did was extremely dangerous and almost ended in your death." All Might looked like he wanted to say more, but looking at the worsening expression on his students face he figured he should at least say something good.
"Still, you did good getting that creature away from the others, Kirishima and Todoroki told me what you and Uraraka did, and they along with young Bakugou managed to hold back the remaining villains until I arrived. Besides you, Mr. Aizawa, and Thirteen nobody was injured. It could have been much worse, but you still need to be careful. You don't want to get an injury you can't heal from." Midoriya glanced down at his teachers stomach briefly before looking back up, remembering that All Might was speaking from experience. As he processed everything he was told All Might took a step forward and leaned forward. "Also, you need to find a way to make up what you did to Uraraka. She refused to leave your side when we brought you in. You didn't see her when she told me about what you did in the flood zone, she's more terrifying then most of the villains I've faced over the years." All Might backed away and Midoriya looked back and forth between All Might, and the much calmer Uraraka.
"Hey Recovery Girl, how long until I can start training again." Midoriya said looking back at the nurse, trying to think of any way to get out of here before he finds out what All Might meant, but all that did was make Recovery Girl and Uraraka getting more annoyed. All Might just facepalmed.
"Hmph, I should have figured that would be the first thing you asked. Let me run a few brief tests, and give you the instructions for your future diet that All Might and I made then you're free to go. You two leave us alone, he'll be out in a minute." Recovery Girl went to a table to grab a folder while the others left the room, as she got to the door Uraraka turned back and glared at Midoriya for a second.
"Don't think I'm letting you off the hook, we need to have a serious talk about teamwork." Uraraka turned and walked out the door, leaving Midoriya wishing he was back fighting the Nomu again.
"Hey Uraraka!" Midoriya smiled as he walked out of Recovery Girls room, only to have the usually cheerful girl start backing him into the wall as she glared up at him.
"I'm still mad at you, what's the point of doing all of that partner training if every time we get in a fight you act like it's a last resort? We didn't use any of the stuff we worked on when we fought Iida and Bakugou, I was going to let that slide because I know you and Bakugou have history, but at the USJ, when we were actually in danger not only did you wait to use me as a last resort, you actually sent me away from the fight. Fighting alone when there's no choice is one thing, sending me away and making me watch you almost die is completely different. Why the hell did you do that? And don't try to say it was to protect me or I'll float you into the stratosphere." Uraraka crossed her arms and waited for a response.
Crap, I really need to avoid pissing her off.
"O o okay, yeah, sorry I wa wa wasn't really thinking about the fight in the plaza. I figured you could alert the school while I focused on assisting Mr. Aizawa with the main fight. I didn't think about how dangerous it would probably be."
"Except if it was just to alert the school Iida would have been the best choice, not me. Plus until it disappeared your clone actively tried to keep me from helping you." Uraraka continued to look at Midoriya with her unchanging expression.
"I I didn't want anyone to get hurt. I thought maybe I would distract the villains until the pros arrived. I didn't think the big guy would be that strong when I rushed into the battle." Midoriya realized he was digging himself a deeper hole.
Why am I so nervous right now?
"Izuku, I'm training to be a hero, getting hurt is part of the job, letting your friend die is not, so let me make something clear. You aren't going to charge in alone when I might be able to help, understand?"
Midoirya started nodding his head in agreement and Uraraka immediately backed off and went back to her normal cheerful self.
"Good, now, let's get you home, your mom wanted to see you as soon as you woke up, then we'll go to the beach and practice for a bit. I know a few of the others wanted to see you after you woke up, but one of the conditions for me staying with you was letting the staff keep our phones, let's get those back and get you home." Uraraka started to walk towards the exit, leaving a stunned Midoriya behind.
What just happened? Wait, why would the school ta-
"I AM HERE!" A buff All Might came out of one of the classrooms near Midoriya breaking his train of thought before it even fully began, surprising both Midoriya and Uraraka.
"All Might? When did you get here?" Uraraka looked back at their teacher, who just laughed.
"A TRUE HERO CAN MASTER THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE. I CAME TO CHECK ON YOUNG MIDORIYA, BUT THERE ARE A FEW THINGS I NEED TO DISCUSS WITH YOU BOTH, PLEASE COME WITH ME TO THE TEACHERS LOUNGE BEFORE WE GO TO YOUNG MIDORIYA'S HOME." All Might turned and walked towards the teachers lounge without waiting for a response from either of the shocked teenagers.
We?
Uraraka and Midoriya walked into the lounge and shut the door while All Might looked around to make sure they were alone before deflating in a cloud of smoke.
"Mr. Yagi?" Uraraka exclaimed, seeing the skinny man that helped her and Midoriya train where All Might once stood.
"A All Might? I thought wanted this to stay a secret?" Midoriya looked back and forth between his friend and his trainer who took a deep breath.
"Wait you knew about this?" Uraraka turned to the stuttering green mess that was her friend.
"Young Midoriya, I wanted to keep my condition secret from the public, however I know how close you two are. If I'm going to continue to train you both outside of school, she would probably figure it out eventually. It's for the best we just catch her up now. Plus I wanted to hear both of you stories about what happened at the USJ, and discuss the next stage of your training, along with why I'm moving things along at the speed I am."
Midoriya let that sink in as All Might began to explain his battle with All for One, going in even more detail then he did the first time he explained it to Izuku, including all the information about his quirk and how Midoriya copied it on accident the day they met. He explained their training, and even the way that Midoriya took on the entire UA staff, and managed to take out three of them, ending his story with the day of the entrance exam.
Uraraka turned and looked at Midoriya, then All Might, then Midoriya again.
"Why are you telling me this?" Uraraka finally asked.
"Because, soon I will have to retire, and until I decide on a true successor, Young Midoriya would have to bear the burden of my quirk and the secrets that come with it alone, I know how close you two are, and decided it would be best if you knew. Also, things have changed since the last time you left school" All Might explained, but he was clearly hiding something. Midoriya could tell that much, he just didn't know what. "Something happened after the USJ attack that made me realize I made a terrible mistake."
"Why, what happened?" Midoriya looked at his frowning teacher.
"I thought it would be best to tell you this slowly, but you both need to know before you leave the building, and I also need to explain why things are the way they are." All Might looked down for a moment then back up at his two students as he took out his phone. "The convoy transporting the villains that attacked you intercepted by a villain on the way to prison. The lone killed the officers and heroes escorting the prisoners, along with all the heroes that responded except for myself. Every time I got close I was teleported away by the warping villain, unable to do anything. When the first news team arrived, the villain killed them and broadcast a message using their equipment."
All Might handed his phone to Izuku, who nervously clicked play on the video All Might had pulled up, the background was the flaming convoy with the three villains from the USJ standing over the dead bodies of several lesser known heroes, along with Death Arms, Mount Lady, Backdraft, and two of the top ten heroes, Edgeshot and Miruko, along with an injured Hawks but the most terrifying part of the video was the villain holding the camera. He wore a mostly undamaged suit along with a black life support mask resembling a skull.
"This message is for All Might's successor, Izuku Midoriya." The voice of the villain brought Izuku back to the USJ, specifically when he blacked out.
"So, you're the new holder of my brothers quirk."
There's no way this is the same guy from my dream.
"I know who you are child. I know what you are capable of, and now, you know what I can do. Enjoy this last semester of peace child, I have already crushed the first seven of your kind to oppose me and injured your master." He walked over to the barely conscious Hawks, lifting him with ease for the camera to see before snapping Hawks neck with one hand.
This is All for One? Oh my God.
Midoriya felt Urarakas hand wrap itself around his but he didn't even acknowledge it as he watched the scene unfold.
"These other so called heroes can't stop me, even these heroes that managed to crawl their way into the third and fifth spots are dead at my feet." The masked man dropped Hawks and looked right into the camera as a portal opened behind the villains he was rescuing.
"Now, now it's your turn."