Vixen crossed her arms smirking "Well well. Didn't expect the league of villains to go through so much trouble to find me. What brings you to my neck of the woods?"

The purple mist disappears from behind Shigaraki as he takes a step forward "A business opportunity hopefully. You're an educated woman hence while you call yourself doctor yes?"

Vixen smirked showing a bit of pride and what he said "I've been known for my academic achievements. Well at least before I learnt the satisfaction of taking a life with hardly any effort" her smirk quickly turning into an evil grin that could only match Togas.

"That's what I like to hear. Can you tell me what this is?" Shigaraki tosses a small dart towards Vixen and she starts examining the dart and its contents the moment she catches it

"Hmm looks like we have a little drug that prevents the use of quirks. Am I Wrong?" Shigaraki nodded and even made a mental note that her reputation holds up. "I have a case full of them but not enough to sell. I want to mass produce it and make a profit while causing havoc. Are you able to create it?"

"Hmmm if I had lab access I can reverse engineer it. But in order to produce a good enough quality product I'll need the source of the main ingredient."

A slight groan escaped Shigarakis lips "That might prove to be some what difficult to provide. The source is a little girl." Vixen raised a brow and looked at the villain before her slowly calculating the information she's been given "A girl you say? This wouldn't happened to be the same girl that was caught in the middle of the battle between pro hero's and the yakuza would it?"

Shigaraki gave a simple nod "hmmm I see then this confirms my theory that the drug was made from a quirk... okay then I'm ready to negotiate terms"

Shigaraki crosses his arms "I'm listening Doctor." "1. I require a lab, 2. I need the girl alive 3. After i achieve mass production of your little drug. I require to do more tests on the girl. Who knows what secrets and powers she holds. 4 and final term. I take breaks whenever I decide. I occasionally get an itchy trigger finger you could say... and it's an itch I loooove to scratch." She smirked waiting for a response

"Hmmm it'll take time to get a lab ready up to your standards and it'll take longer to get hands on the girl. Especially since she's taken up residence in UA."

"Get my lab ready first. And once I join you I'll help plot a scheme to get the kid. We got a deal?"

"Hmmm deal."

High country following day

Izuku crawled out of swag yawning. He was hoping to take in the spectacular views of the mountains but was meet with a large thick fog surrounding camp. He look to the fire place and saw Know making himself a cup of tea out of his trusty billy. "You finally awake young fella?"

Izuku walked over rubbing the back of his head "yeah I'm up. Where's Dan?" He asked after noticing he wasn't in sight. "He's gone out to get some tucker." Izuku nodded and remember that tucker is slang for food. At that moment a gun shot echoed from the valley below catching Izuku off guard and triggering his instinct to take up a defensive stance.

Know look at the young hero trying not to laugh "settle down mate that was Dans rifle. Which either means we got dinner or he missed" Izuku relaxed and sat down embarrassed "so I'm assuming that means he was hunting?"

"That's right" "so what was he hunting? Kangaroos?" "Haha although there's a shit load or Roos about that's not what he was after. Deer actually" Izuku raised a brow "deer?" Know nodded and sat up "Sambar deer to be exact. There's at least 6 deer species that run feral on this continent. And they're good eating. Which I'm assuming is gonna be your first lesson."

"... first lesson?" Izuku went pale and became confused "part of surviving is knowing how to live off the land. So we'll teach you how to fish and hunt to at least give you an idea of what to do when you're up shit creek without a paddle." Izuku gulped loudly still listening "isn't this a little extreme?!" " Well Dan decided it was a skill set you needed to learn before tackling actual training. Actually he's got me trying to make plans to get captain blondie down here with us."

This caught Izukus attention and looked quickly at Know "Captain Blondie? You mean All Might?!" Know nodded "yup. Considering how last nights quirk discussion caught you a bit off guard. We decided we need All Might here with us to go into full depth about the unique quirks you boys have."

Izuku nodded and frowned still upset by the fact that All Might didn't tell him that there were different kinds of All For Ones power. Know could almost read the boy like a book and decided to defend the symbol of peace "You know kid. It is possible that he didn't know this either. It's possible that the person who gave him the quirk never told him either. And no one really knows about Dans quirk since he tries to avoid using it unless necessary."

Izuku felt comforted by what the elderly man said and it would make sense if that were the case but the last sentence confused Izuku

"Dan doesn't use his quirk? Why."

Know cringed at the boys question knowing that it was a touchy subject "You should honestly ask him about it but it'll be quicker if I told you I guess"

Izuku sat up ready to listen to the story

"Dan was a basically 18. He'd just got the quirk and was excited to go out and help people. He did a few heroic deeds but made sure it never got in the way of the time he spent with his beloved Matilda. Matilda and Dan were high school sweethearts and madly in love as most kids are at that age. They were on there way to concert or something but the car they drove got caught in a fight between some hero's and villains who had a gigantification quirk. The villain stood on the car and crushed them both. They both survived at first but she later died in hospital and he healed thanks to his quirk. He tried to transfer the quirk to her hoping the healing part of the quirk would save her... and that's how he found out that he can give his quirk to someone else unlike yours."

Izuku stared at Know as he told Dans story and slowly his eyes shifted to the camp fire. He didn't know how to handle the story. He felt angry, sad mainly that something like that could happen but it's not surprising considering what the world is like. He's broken heart stops him from being a hero.

Know looked up from his tea "Don't let truth get in the way of why you're here Midoriya. You wanna be a hero. We'll make one as best we can"

Grunts and pants could be heard down the hill getting closer. Then out of the fog emerged Dan carrying a young sambar deer on his shoulders. He gently placed it on the ground and collapsed beside it exhausted "Holy Fuck that's a big hill" He looked up at Izuku and smirked "Okay boy time to get your hands dirty"

Izuku stood up nervously but trying his best not to show it "what am I doing exactly?" "Lesson 1: how to skin and butcher game." With that Dan pulled out a knife and handed to the nervous boy "It's not a pretty thing to do but I honestly think you'll benefit from this."

5 hours later.

"Okay now you trim away that bit of fat since deer fat is no good unlike beef or pork fat. Then after that you can start cooking it"

Izuku was exhausted with his body aching in places he didn't think possible. But he was hungry and now that he technically harvested his own meat (with the exemption of actual taking the animals life) he was more then keen to devour the piece of backstrap he placed in the fire.

Dan walked back to Izuku with a large backpack "Rito after lunch throw this pack on. I've loaded it up to about 30kg. Just have it on while you do your daily training. The only thing I wanna add on to your training plans is for you to hike up and down the hill next to us as much as you can before sunset. Sound challenging enough?"

Izuku smirked "oh I'm sure I can handle it"

Dan smirked back "Good man. Oh one more thing. You can't use your quirk."

"Oh..."