*Midoriya's P.O.V*
IM: Will everyone in your class be able to make it?
IK: We all said we would make it. Thank you for the offer.
IM: I got my bonus before I resigned. Besides I promised Itake.
IK: ... Who?
IM: Oh, the girl with the mushroom hat, I don't know her name, so I call her Itake, after Shiitake mushrooms.
IK: Ooh... You mean Kinoko Komori.
IM: I'm sticking with Itake, she said she liked that nickname anyway.
IM: Anyway, I'll send you the details later, I need to tell 1-A about this. Figured I'd ask your class first, they seemed like the hardest ones to convince to take a load off.
IK: You should be the one taking a load off, you were the only one who got severely injured.
IM: Ehh, pain is an illusion. Pain is in the mind.
IK: ... Are you okay?
IM: I'm fine, I was just referencing a line from a video game from the past century.
IK: What game?
IM: Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes... anyway getting off topic. I'll talk to 1-A right now. See ya.
Alright... one half of the plan is done, time for the other half. I switched to the Class 1-A group chat... I don't know if it was a great idea or a horrible idea that Yaoyorozu made a group chat and added Sero and Kaminari... half of the chat is their bull.
IM: Hey, you guys want to go out as a class?
IM: ... Along with 1-B?
TI: Midoriya! I'm glad you're alright!
IM: It was just a broken arm Iida, it's fine.
RS: 'Just' A broken arm?!
IM: Getting off topic. I made a promise to the mushroom girl I left with Shoji, I'm sure you remember her Shoji.
MS: I do.
IM: Anyway, the promise that I would survive the battle with the Nomu and take all of you out for Strawberry Banana smoothies and a day out in the town.
IM: I said all 40 of us, so if you all would not make me a liar I would appreciate it.
TH: I'm down! Smoothies!
MA: Well if you are offering Midoriya, I'm game!
OU: I have free time, sure!
DK: Hell yeah! Free smoothies!
HS: Hell yeah!
KJ: I'm down too.
MO: So am I, thanks Midoriya.
MS: So will I.
KK: Can I come too?
IM: Yes Kouda, you can come.
KK: Then I will come too.
EK: I'm in too. I'll drag Bakugou along too.
KB: Why the fuck would I go?
IM: Because I saved your butt in the USJ.
KB: I could have taken him easily.
IM: No... you couldn't have.
IM: And I know where you live, so I'll be picking you up regardless of had you said yes or no.
KB: Fucking fine, but I don't need your pity smoothie!
IM: Good, saves me money.
ST: No, I'm not here to make friends.
TI: Todoroki, this is a good chance to bond with our classmates.
IM: I'll handle this Iida.
IM: Ice Ice Baby, in exchange for you coming with us. I'll tell you what my Quirk is.
ST: You think that will sway me? And don't call me that.
IM: You know you want to know... you know you want to know how I beat that villain by myself.
ST: ... Fine, I'll come along.
IM: Great! Fantastic.
IM: Yaoyorozu, Iida, Tokoyami, Aoyama, Satou, and Asui, you in?
MM: What about me?
IM: Only if you're on your best behavior... you wouldn't want to get me angry.
MM: I-I promise!
IM: Good.
DK: Midoriya is scary...
IM: As I should be, anyway you 6?
TA: I'll tag along, but I don't like smoothies, or any cold beverage for that matter.
IM: Well good, that's why I picked the place that's near a coffee shop too.
IM: And if you say you don't like coffee I can't help you.
TA: Coffee is fine.
RS: I'm down too.
YA: Smoothies would be divine!
FT: Revelry in the Dark.
IM: I'll take that as a yes.
TI: I would like to attend as well, but Midoriya, you don't have to treat us.
MY: Yes, allow us to treat you after dealing with the villains.
IM: Great! I only had like 10,000 yen.
IM: Just kidding... kinda, thanks for the offer, but I can handle it.
MY: It wasn't an ask.
IM: ... Dang that was a rather intimidating text. I'm proud.
IM: Alright I cave.
MY: Excellent. Where is this place?
I sent them the location of this place and told them to meet me there in an hour and a half, they all agreed and signed off.
My work is done.
An hour and a half later I met up with the others... then I saw... a girl crying? Being the kind individual I am I walked over to investigate, "What's wrong with her?" I whispered to Kendou.
"She's... taking the USJ incident hard." She said while comforting her.
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Idea.
I walked over to Yaoyorozu and asked for a specific request. She nodded at my bizarre and sudden request and made me the materials. I made some necessary preparations before heading back.
"Alright, prepare to be amazed." I said as I held out the deck Yaoyorozu made and a paperclip, "I'm going to need you to yell stop whenever you want okay?" I asked as I started running my thumb over the cards like a flipbook, she said stop around the middle. I took out the card and folded it into the paperclip, "Okay, this is your card alright? Keep that safe and away from me. I did some fancy shuffles while I was amping up the trick, "So when I was a kid I was fascinated with magic tricks, the sense of wonder of how did they do that? My little mind was curious." I said as I belted out a card from the middle, "Now look." I said as I flipped it over, "There's the ace of diamonds. Alright, now I'm going to fan these out and I want you to pick one." I said.
She looked hesitant but picked a card out of the deck, "I-I choose this one." She said with hesitation.
"Alright, now flip it over, if that's the two of diamonds that's cool!" I said with excitement... and the card was... the eight of hearts.
"I-Is that bad?" She asked.
"Nah give it here." I said as I took the card from her hand and placed it on top of the deck, "Because we can just do this." I said as I took the card and the one below it, gave it a shake, while switching the eight with the two of diamonds, they didn't see it because the shakes were so fast. They were amazed by that. Time to ride their amazement. "A common trick for magicians is to have a card in their ba- See there's the three." I said setting it down next to the two. "Now if I shoot one out from the center-" I said as I did just that, "See there's the four."
"Wow..."
"How did he do that?"
"Alright I'm going to drop the cards slowly, I'mma need you to yell stop. Alright?" I asked as I slowly dropped cards before she yelled stop. "Alright, now see if that's the five." I said as I pushed the last card dropped. She picked it up and it was the five.
"What?!" She exclaimed with the look of wonder in her eyes... it's working.
"Alright I think the 6 is about ehh... 28 cards from the top." I said while shooting it out, "There's the 6." I said placing it on the table... as the rest of Class 1-A came to watch the trick.
"Alright, now Kendou you see this 10?" I asked before sliding my hand over it placing the 7 over it, "Now it's a seven." I said as I placed it down next to the 6. "Alright, Itake you ready, tell me when to stop." I said as I did the same trick from the beginning on Itake, she yelled stop and I pulled out the eight. Everyone was shocked, even Bakugou. Todoroki however just widened his eyes for a second, but the intended audience is entertained so it's all that matters.
"I put a card in my pocket before I came over here... see there's the 9." I said before I placed the deck on the table. "Alright, now watch. I'm going to cut the deck into fours..." I said as I did just that, "And hopefully we can find... the 10, the jack, the queen, and the king." I said as I flipped the two top cards on two of the piles revealing the aforementioned cards.
"Wow..."
"There's the 10, the jack, the queen, and the king." I said as I placed them in their respective spots. "Now you... what's your name?" I asked while I sneakily grabbed a deck that wasn't shuffled but was missing the diamonds.
"Y-Yui Kodai." She said.
"Alright Kodai, name me a card, any card." I said.
"U-Um... the three of clovers?" She asked.
"Alright." I said as I gave the fake deck a fake shuffle, "I figured why not take all the cards and shuffled all the clubs back in order." I said as I slid the clubs revealing them to be in order, "Had you said hearts, I said what the heck, and I shuffled all the hearts in order." I said as I slid the clubs across revealing them to be in order. "Had you said spades... I figured might as well. So I shuffled all the spades in order." I said as I slid the spades to show they were in order.
"What?!" Kodai exclaimed.
"But where is the 3 of clovers?" I said as I handed her the paperclip with the card, "Why don't you pull that card out." I said.
"No way..." She muttered as she pulled the card out of the clip... it had the 3 of clubs.
"WHAT?!" She exclaimed as she looked around for any sort of explanation, "H-How did you do that?! With the cards, and the flips, and the shuffles?"
I laughed, "A magician never reveals his tricks... or else they'll get boring." I said with a smile, "But you don't seem sad anymore... so my job is done." I said as I pulled up a seat and placed the diamonds back into the deck, "But card games are always fun... oh wait, the 3 of clubs is ruined." I muttered, "Yaoyorozu, can you make us another?" I asked.
She smiled a knowing smile and made me another three of clubs, "Here you go." She said.
"Alright." I said as I stuck the three into the deck and gave it numerous shuffles, "Who wants to play?"
Hours went by... and I have yet to be defeated in any card game.
"H-How have you not lost yet?" Tetsutetsu asked.
"What can I say? I'm amazing." I said with a smirk.
"Come on another rou-"
"This is a waste of time." Todoroki said, "Are you going to tell me about your Quirk or not?" He asked.
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"I was wondering when you were going to be direct about it." I said as I set the deck aside, "Alright, I'll spill."
"Finally." He muttered.
"However, there's a stipulation." I said.
Todoroki sighed, "What?" He asked.
"Tell us why you won't use your fire side." I said.
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"What?" He asked.
"If I'm the one spilling the beans, then you should too." I said.
"Todoroki, you don't ha-"
"Deal." He said, "But you go first."
"Smart boy. Alright, gather 'round." I said as everyone made room for themselves at the table. "The name of my Quirk... is Glass Cannon. Basic explanation is that my speed and strength are astronomical. At the cost of me having less health." I explained.
"The fucker goes down in one strong it." Bakugou said.
"I used to go down in one hit." I said.
"What?" Bakugou asked.
"Yup, I took a hit from the muscle guy. It hurt, but I was still ready to fight. All it took was my arm being broken because of my full power to knock me out." I said.
"How did you get more health?" Todoroki asked.
"You know what HP stands for in RPGs right?" I asked.
"Health Points, why?" Kirishima asked.
"Well my variant is 'Hope Points'." I explained, "The reason I went down so easily before coming here was because I had basically next to no hope what so ever. Especially since I'm in a family of two with the rent skyrocketing because of heroes being destructive with their powers, not to mention everyone at my Junior High was a complete jerk." I said, "However things started to look up. I actually have friends. My mom got a better job. I have decent teachers. Heck I actually want to be in class... most of the time. Present Mic can be really loud and Cementoss occasionally bores me to sleep. Aside from that, I'd say everything's coming up milhouse now." I said.
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"So it's because of us, that you're getting stronger?" Kendou asked.
"Yeah. Which is why Todoroki." I said looking at him, "That saying you're not here to make friends is a stupid idea... You'll need allies in a pinch, and should that day come, well if you keep going the way you're going... then things aren't going to be pretty." I said while shuffling the cards absentmindedly. "But hey, less competition for number 1 that way."
He was silent... he's probably thinking about what I said... good. "Alright who wants another round?" I asked.
"What about Todoroki's end of the bargain?" Uraraka asked.
"Ahh who gives a dang? Whatever inner demons he's dealing with he can tell us if he's good and ready." I said with a shrug, "Besides... dealing with other people's problems is too much of a pain." I muttered.
"You helped Kodai a few hours ago. Ribbit." Asui said.
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"Another round!" I exclaimed moving away from Asui calling me out in front of everyone.
After a few more rounds we all parted ways for home... it was getting pretty late after all. As I was about to head home Kendou called for me.
"Hey Midoriya!" She yelled as she ran over to me.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Nothing... just wanted to say thanks." She said, "For doing this."
I shrugged while trying to supress a smile, "I made a promise and I kept it. Besides... having crying people around is such a drag." I muttered.
She laughed at my statement, "Whatever you say dude." She said, "But hey, if you want to do something like this again, text me."
I turned away before nodding.
"I'll keep that in mind."
*End of Chapter*