While the chapter is relatively short, I was busy with another idea in mind. I was going to try to break the typical word limit I tend to write.

Eldr is waiting in anticipation of what Tokoyami is going to say. The atmosphere thickens with a lot of tension as the raven teen open his eyes, "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. That's essentially what Midoriya's quirk does to himself and others around him, right?"

Kamanari was confused, "Uh, Tokoyami what are you talking about? I thought you were going to ask Eldr a question"

Tokoyami shot a glare at him, "that is the question." the emphasis was thickened in his tone "Eldr, could you rewind the footage to where Midoriya was confronted by his shadow, please?"

Eldr did exactly as what he was requested, he knows what is going on, he pauses the footage. "Ah, you managed to figure out the components of Midoriya's quirk hmm?" His slyly smiles at the shadow quirk user as he sat down on his chair projection.

"I read something like this in junior year, something called a shadow, the dark unconscious side in one's mind" Tokoyami said, a serious grim expression on his face was plaster in.

"So?! What's so dangerous about imaginary thing, I could kill at an time I could" Bakugo said, smirks at the thought of taking a shadow down.

"Ah, your shadow is taking over you right now"

"WHAT!?"

"As I was about to say, a shadow is a dark beneath one's consciousness below the ego, like Bakugo's ego is huge that his shadow could take an advantage over." He readies his quirk when Bakugo was going to pounce and tackle him. Fortunately, Eraserhead manages to erase both quirks, orders Bakugo to stand down and let tokoyami finish what he finds out.

"Thank you, sensei. A shadow is our dark inner thoughts, parts of ourselves that we tried to hide or suppress from, personality traits that people sees it as 'inferior or unwanted'. A shadow is everything what we truly are and people project that into others without acknowledging it's presence, you could say that the greatest enemy isn't a villain that's already there, it's the villain is within all of us"

The students were worried and terrified about the implications of a shadow, their own shadows, their own image of a villain is whatever is within them. Midoriya realized why his counterpart didn't bother to use his quirk, it's essentially exposing a person's inner darkness to the target. He looked at the doppelganger on the screen, that's his inner villainous side.

Tokoyami continues to explain more, "A shadow is something that we can't defeat, it'll keep coming back til we either accept or acknowledge its existence, just like what Midoriya did to beat his shadow and that fallen angel is a result of integrating one's shadow into an inner power"

The pros were intrigued by the nature of Midoriya's quirk, which essentially makes other confront their own personal demons, something that the heroes would be horrified to encounter, to face someone that knows your darkest fears, failures or insecurities, that personally knows you because that IS you. A true embodiment of oneself.

Aizawa was astonished, their quirks were similar but different approaches, his quirk is erasing quirks, thus rendering them powerless and has to rely their own strength to win. Alt. Midoriya is to exploit one's personal irrational weaknesses against them, rendering everyone caught powerless and has to acknowledge it to win, if that were so simply to begin with.

All Might, now knows the nature of alt. Midoriya's quirk, he thought that he still could be a hero even with a power to make others feel or think that they're powerless. Then, he feared that one for all would amplified Midoriya's quirk, making it more dangerous to use.

"To be clarify, a shadow isn't a bad thing though" Eldrozul said, looking at the screen with an aloof respond, his eyes, however, tells another story. "A shadow is what you truly are and the moment you've accept it as a part of you, then you're whole." He finished it off by standing on the stage and pointing at Alt. Midoriya's dark form, he looked at the orb and resume the next scene.

Where the shadow was seen, beaten to the ground by Midoriya, bruised and breathing heavily but stands victorious. He played the scene

"Have you accept what you are?" The shadow asked, his body slowly fades away, flakes of ashes began to stick to Midoriya's skin.

"Yes" Midoriya replied, accepting what he's been denying for so long.

The ashes began to engulfed his body as it immortalize his image forever. He glance his shadow once last time before he fades back.

"Embrace the darkness within, accept the gift that you can it a 'curse', and thanks to the quirk that's been passed down to you. People who are cursed within the darkness in their hearts, forever empowered by the grasp the true nature of man and conquer it all" The shadow said, as he fades away from the chamber.

Midoriya bust the building down with his wings, smile and replies to the blonde man "I'm ready now"

Everyone in the theater were impressed by the spectacles and the words of encouragement that the shadow said before dissipating into the empty space of which has been displayed on the screen, Tokoyami smirked, impressed by the Alt. Midoriya's display of power and preserverance to overcome his inner darkness.

All Might couldn't help but marvelled by the flames of his inner power, deep down he could been more proud to any midoriya's in different worlds, but something came up his mind and can't help it but being more worried about the rest.

Uraraka saw something about Midoriya's counterpart, radiates power and evolving without sudden changes about him and yet genuinely admires that part. She would learn more about him and the world which is kinda similar, but has one major difference. She couldn't wait what's more install for them to know.

Todoroki was, for the lack of the better term, intrigued by the implications of him being affected by Alt. Midoriya's quirk. What kind of inner demon waiting for him to be unleash? Something that's buried deeply within his heart, before the original changed his ways. Questions saved for later.

He glance his hand down as Uraraka's hand waves in front of him "Hello? Midoriya, hey!?" She tries to get his attention but to no avail, til Present Mic announced out "TIME'S UP!" Midoriya snap the trance out and sheepishly smiles at her.

"Sorry, I spaced out" Midoriya apologize, for being unresponsive. His finger scratches the side of the cheek.

"No, it's alright, I guess you have something in mind" Uraraka replied, a visible blush sticks on her face. "Again, thanks for saving me"

"That's what heroes do, right? Saving people in the face of danger." Midoriya remarks, the flames slowly dissipate into the air. He took the eyepatch out from his pocket and cover the left eye with it. "It's nice to meet you, Uraraka." As he said that, he turned to the opposite direction, raising his hand in the air.

The two immediately blushed at their first encounter, being played in a different direction and on the screen, nonetheless they couldn't change anything if they were in it.

Everyone was impressed by Alt. Midoriya's virtue of being a hero, to save those who can't fight impossible odds. Midoriya can't help but smile at his counterparts conviction. Momo, Iida and the teachers were praising that declaration, the latter were clapping for the most part. Everyone were excited for something interesting to see what's next.

A new scene changed and it's an ominous one

A path of scorched fire, roared into the streets, obliterating the Point Zero as the road bacame a bubbling wasteland as if a bombing squad were dropped from the sky or for the lack of a better term, surging beneath the ground and lay waste from the surface.

Everyone were terrified by the destructive carnage they've witnessed, the girls were hugging each other for comfort as they hope that no one were caught in the middle of it all. The guys were scared if they seen it before their eyes. The teachers were astonished by the sheer, unrestrained use of power, something was amiss as an individual with this level of collateral damage couldn't be coming from someone young as a student. Yet they'll know the reveal more closer than they ever realized.

A young man with an ash blonde hair, panting as his arms were radiating heat, hands blistering from the intense heat.

"So that's how it works huh?" Bakugo said, as the horn blare across the sky. His hands resumed back to their original state.

The scene ends with Bakugo, the alternative one is the source of that, something that come out of an apocalyptic event, even Bakugo was dumbfounded by the sheer strength of his quirk and something played back like a broken record. He looked at the raven headed teen.

"Hey, Poe's pet, what did you mentioned awhile ago?" The explosive brute asked, crackling mini explosions in his palms

"I'm more dumbfounded that you know about that, never took you as a gothic nerd, then again you're close friends with Midoriya so that's it, I guess" The raven bird replied with a snarky rebuttal "No offense to you, Midoriya, then again he would take it as an offense via association"

The green haired in question curled his index finger and proceed to put his finger down as he was going to asked that as either a compliment, an insult or both.

Eldr stood up and announced "So any questions?!" He asked with a sheepish smile.

Now the next story that's coming up is the reason I added a M rated.