"So... you do this every day? End of school to dusk?" Diego asked as he sat on a wrecked car, watching Izuku push more garbage off the sand.

"Yep!" Midoriya answered through gritted teeth. "Where do you go to school exactly? I've never seen you around mine, and since you keep dropping by, you shouldn't really live far away."

"Home schooled," Diego answered nonchalantly. "My grandfather is quite smart. From what he told me, he was a lawyer when he was younger. And his friends have quite the vast array of smarts. And certification in one case."

"Oh, you don't live with your parents? How old is he?"

"Three hundred and twenty."

Izuku spun his head at the blonde. "What?! That old?! Does he have an Immortality Quirk or something?!"

Diego merely shrugged. "Yeah, more or less. It's actually Vampirism."

Izuku panted as he processed the new information. "So... you live with a Vampire."

"Correct."

Izuku blinked and attempted to keep his composure. "You, uh, mentioned his friends?"

"I did, didn't I? They've known each other for years, even decades."

"What do they do?"

"Well, one is a certified priest, but he also partakes in whatever Gramps tells him to." The young Brando watched as his companion pushed with all his might against an industrial freezer. Diego's eyes didn't waver as Izuku began to lose his footing. Within an instant, Diego's skin was again cracked and his fingers sharp. He grabbed Izuku by the back of his collar before his face met the ground.

"Are you alright?" The young Brando asked, not letting go just yet.

"Yeah, I'm okay," Izuku responded as he regained his footing. Taking a moment to regain his composure, he capitalized on it by asking something that had been on his mind. "When we first met, you showed me your power, Scary Monsters, but said that what I saw wasn't all it was capable of."

"I can see what you're getting at." Again, he changed visually with his face and fingers. He tilted his head back and sniffed the air. His eyes looked to the side, towards a pile of rotten, half-eaten food. His arm shot out to the side with the same speed he had used to catch his acquaintance.

Midoriya heard a squeaking... or perhaps it was high pitched screaming. Diego pulled his limb out of the heap, revealing a rat was in his clutches. Naturally, Izuku was repulsed and quickly stepped back.

"Calm down," Brando said with a roll of the eyes. He bent his index finger, scratching the vermin's side. Just like him, the rat began to change. Although while Diego simply looked like a movie makeup artist had used him as a canvas, his prey was becoming something else entirely. The fur seemed to retract into its body, which in turn seemed to expand. Its diminutive hind legs expanded, as did the toes. The neck grew as well along with the muzzle. The whole body became scaly and green by the time Izuku figured out what was happened. Diego had turned the rat into a dinosaur.

"Compsognathus," Diego said through his fangs. "Not too much trouble when there's only one, but they are good at tracking."

Midoriya struggled to find words. Brando had just placed a species that had been extinct for millions of years back on the face of the planet. "Is... is this permanent?" He stared with his eyes as wide as possible at the prehistoric reptile as it looked around and pecked at the ground.

Diego pondered on the question. "Not sure on that. Never really tested that."

"Can you change it back?" The greenette took a step away, not wanting his foot to be under the dinosaur's snout.

"Indeed I can." As soon as the words left his lips, the small predator began to change back to it's natural state. It was like watching a movie on rewind. The limps and mouth shrank and the brown fur returned as it once again was a rat. And evidently, the experience had not been a pleasant one as it squeaked and scurried off out of sight.

Despite the whole thing having been horrifying, Midoriya could not help but be impressed. I really have to start writing this down! He turned his attention back to Diego. "Can you do that to anything?"

"So long as it's alive. Although I do admit I've never done it on another person. Except myself."

"Wait, what?"

The effect was not unlike the rat's spectacle. Diego's skin quickly became scaly and teal as his teeth sharpened. His blonde name retracted into his skull save for a few locks that stood on end, making a row of spikes form on his head down to his shoulders. Out of his lower back sprang an aqua tail that was about as long as he was tall, and covered in yellow markings that spelled 'DIO' over and over again from its tip to where it met his spine. The only parts of him that did not get longer were his arms. The entire process took but a second, and when it was done, anybody that was unaware of the context would look over and see a blue Utahraptor standing in front of a teenage boy.

Izuku felt fear seep into him. After all, a large reptilian killing machine was looming right at him. "Please tell me you're still... you."

The raptor sniffed the air and looked around. Could Brando not see him in that form? Was that a handicap that came with his power, being blind?

Having shown his power, Diego willed himself to return to his human form and bid Izuku farewell for the day, and made his way home. He had the money for a cab, but something at the back of his mind had him decide to walk.

The door opened, seemingly on its own, and he stepped in. "Thank you, D'Arby."

The teal-haired levatating butler moved to the side and gave a bow. "Welcome home, Master Diego. Lord DIO wishes to speak with you."

"Alright then. Where is he?"

"In his study, if I recall."

Diego ran off and looked over his shoulder for a moment. "Thanks again!" He made his way through the massive structure. Naturally, all the blinds were drawn to keep the sunlight out, so he had to rely solely on sconces, chandeliers, and candles to navigate. He quickly made it to the designated room, and sure enough there was the elder Brando with his nose in a book and Nukesaku not too far away.

DIO glanced away from the written words. "Diego. You're back so soon?"

The young Stand User shrugged. "Sometimes I just don't have anything to do."

"Understandable." The Vampire spoke evenly. "Your mouth is bleeding."

Diego gently pressed a finger to his mouth and moved it into hid line of vision, finding it to be true. "That's been happening a lot lately."

"Are you eating raw meat again?"

"What?! No! Fully transforming just drains me."

"Well, then you are not listening to the advice. You must think it is completely natural. I had always surmised that power would always come naturally to you. Isn't that what you always wanted? Power, respect, and influence?"

"You know the answer."

DIO nodded. "Your Stand's ability is versatile. If you ever get the full grasp of it, it could be one of the strongest I've ever seen."

"Could be? One of?" Diego repeated. Being anything less than first place was a disgusting thought to him.

"I've heard of a man who could erase time but-"

"Erase time? How does that work?"

"I don't fully know but that isn't the issue at hand."

Nukesaku spoke up. "Maybe he-"

DIO glared at him. "Silence." He smirked at the fear in the other Vampire's eyes.