Welcome, Heroes. Rio is back with the next part of this fic. This story here was an interesting one to write, as it involved me using a bit of knowledge from my workplace to pull off, along with some old memories from my childhood. I've been a little unsure as to how it turned out, honestly, but it was still quite a bit better than the initial draft of the previous chapter before I had it replaced. I hope you all enjoy this next instalment, everyone, and I will see you in the author's notes.

Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction in dedication to a much grander work. As such, the author does not own the rights to any characters within this story, and any correlation between any original characters that may appear and people in the real world are merely coincidental.

Domestic Heroes

Midoriya Pizzeria

"Alright, looks like all the ingredients are here. Guess it's time to start on tonight's dinner. You girls ready for this?"

"You bet, Deku!" "Yeah, Dad!"

"Very good! Let's get started, then!"

Izuku had a massive smile on his face as he watched his girlfriend and daughter figure put on their aprons and started washing their hands. It was another quiet evening in their apartment, and the young hero decided to have a little fun with his girls and suggested that they all cook together. His idea was greatly received, with both Ochako and Eri looking quite eager, especially after he told him what they were going to make. After all, it wasn't often they could have pizza for dinner, considering how much he and his girlfriend try to eat healthy. However, with how well Eri's been doing at school lately, along with how hard he and Ochako were working the past week, he figured they could indulge a little.

"Ok, girls, time to learn how to make a proper pizza. Any questions before we begin?" Izuku asked, sounding and acting not unlike a teacher as he spoke, when a slightly scarred hand was raised before him. "Yes, Eri?"

"Um…What kind of pizza are we making? I'm not really picky, so I'll eat anything, but we have a lot of ingredients here…" Eri asked as she gestured to the table, where a fairly large assortment of toppings were found, including pepperoni, beef, mushrooms and olives.

"Eri's got a point, Deku. I'm fine with whatever, too, but this is a lot of stuff to choose from. What, are we planning on using them all?" Ochako spoke up, also looking a little confused by the plethora of ingredients.

"That's exactly what we're going to do. We're using all of them for a pizza. None of us are all that picky when it comes to what we want on our pizza. We'll eat anything. So I figured, instead of just having a pizza with about two or three toppings, we go ahead and make a pizza with a whole lot of them! Wouldn't that sound delicious?" Izuku explained, grinning at the surprised looks he got from the girls.

"But…will it taste all that good? I know these ingredients are what normally go on a pizza, but will they all work? I don't want to end up looking like those pizzas we found in that buffet that we all went on our last year at UA." Ochako confessed, looking a little green as she recalled that little fiasco of a time.

Eri nodded in agreement, also looking a little uncomfortable, while Izuku stared back at them with a soft, sympathetic expression. He knew what Ochako was talking about: Just before their summer camping trip on their third year, their class, along with a visiting Eri and Kota at the time, went over to a recently opened pizza buffet that claimed to have all kinds of pizzas from around the world. It looked pretty good inside, and the selection of pizzas to choose from was simply massive. There were some that the class were not expecting to see. The biggest shocker of a pizza they found, however, was one that was made out of peanuts, with peanut butter as a base and even peanut shells as toppings. It was one of the oddest pies they have ever seen, and it came to no surprise that, eventually, Kaminari, Mineta, Kota and even Bakugo were dared or coerced into trying it, among some other strange topping pizzas like fudge-anchovy and chicken-bacon-clam. It ended with them choking and gagging on the pizza, to no one's surprised, and the explosive teen was so angry about the food he nearly destroyed the buffet in protest, getting multiple others involved in the process. After that disaster, the students were kicked out and the school was forced to pay for the damages, and to this day, the former members of class 3A, along with the two children that were accompanying them, were forever banned from the pizza buffet…

"Oh, this pizza's not going to end up like that, I promise. In fact, I double checked this recipe with Iida and Todoroki, and all these toppings are actually used for a style of pizza that is quite popular for those who like a bit of everything. It has quite a number of names, but the most prominent one is the Supreme, so we're going to make that for us." Izuku assured, not at all offended by the unsure expressions he was getting, before heading over to the packaged pre-made dough and tore the seal. "Alright, lets get started. Ochako, would you mind handing me the tomato sauce? I'll grab the spoodle so I can spread it on the crust."

"…Spoodle?" Eri repeated, looking at her father figure in confusion as he went to one of the kitchen cabinets and pulled out what looked like a large spoon with a big dip in it.

"Yeah. Spoodle. It's supposed to be a cross between a ladle and a spoon. Lots of pizza restaurants use these instead of normal ladles not only so that they can get sauce out of the large containers they need, but also to spread it on the crust easier. This one's actually from that buffet that Kacchan got us kicked out of in high school. A few of these got struck by Mineta's sticky hairs and ended up on Tokoyami, Aoyama and Shoji somehow. They weren't able to return them by the time we were banned, so they decided to give them to Tsuyu, me, and Sato, since we're the ones who cook the most out of everyone in the dorm." The young hero explained just as Ochako arrived with the sauce in question.

"I still can't believe you kept it after all this time. Not to mention the pizza cutter that sliced part of Sero's hair off and giant spatula thing that smacked Hagakure in the face. Why you kept them I'll never know, but at least they're being used for something…" The woman chimed in dryly as she pointed at said items behind her with her thumb while pouring the sauce on the dough with her other hand.

"Hey, they didn't want it, and I offered to take them for them. Besides, they're technically mom's, you know, and I promised to return them to her tomorrow." Izuku countered, a wry expression on his face as his girlfriend shrugged in response, before turning back to Eri. "Now, as I was saying, pizzerias like to use stuff like this to help spread the sauce around, and this was made specifically to do that job easier. Watch."

With practiced ease, Izuku placed the utensil on the center of the crust, where he began spreading the sauce outward in circular motions. Eri watched on intently, more than a little curious about the process of pizza making, while Ochako was giving the girl a small, fond smile as she walked over to her boyfriend with a couple small bowls of white cheese hovering beside her.

"You're practically hypnotizing her right now, Deku. Might want to hurry up and cheese this thing before you put her under a spell." She teased, grabbing Izuku's spoodle and moving the cheese bowls over to him before pressing her fingers together, allowing them to fall into his hands.

"Right. Good idea." Izuku agreed as Eri snapped out of her curiosity, the girl turned away slightly with an embarrassed blush on her face while Izuku proceeded to sprinkle one bowl of the shredded mozzarella onto the sauced dough. "Now, now, Eri. Don't be embarrassed. You're showing a great interest in cooking and I like that. I'm nowhere near as good as mom or Ochako, but I like to think I do well enough to teach you a few things."

"Don't downplay yourself again, Deku. How many times have I told you that you're a good cook?" Ochako said as she slapped the young man upside the head, both exasperated and slightly irritated at his self-deprecating comment. Even after all these years he still had moments of self-doubt, despite all the confidence and positive reinforcement he's gotten.

"Ah. Sorry, Ochako. Force of habit." Izuku apologized in a sheepish tone, scratching his cheek nervously as he turned to Eri, who was also looking at him worriedly. "I'm fine, Eri. Really. How about you help me put the pepperoni and ham on this. Ochako, can you weigh out the other toppings we need? I got a list and scale on the counter ready right beside them."

"Gotcha, hun." Ochako said kindly as she walked to the other side of him and checked out the list, brows furred as she read it. "Huh, not a lot of toppings going on this pizza as I thought. Is this right?"

"It is. The more toppings you have on a pizza, the less of them you put on it to keep the weight consistent. If you put too much on it, it won't cook properly and might end up breaking with how heavy it is. Not enough, and it will end up burning and even sticking into the oven. There's a balance to cooking, after all." Izuku explained as he and Eri placed the sliced meats onto the pizza, the child nearly salivating in anticipation as she did so.

"That makes sense…" Ochako mused, staring at the veggies and couple meats that were before her. Nodding in understanding, she grabbed the toppings and placed them on the scale, eyeing the screen to make sure that it was the exact amount, and placed them inside three separate bowls, two toppings in each, after making sure they were properly measured. With beef and sausage in one bowl, green peppers and onions on another bowl, and black olives and mushrooms on the last bowl, the woman let off a satisfied 'hmph' as she made two bowls float and hovered them over to Izuku and Eri while she carried the last one.

"Excellent, Ochako. This is exactly what we needed." The greenette grinned, prompting the brunette to beam back in response as the pair proceeded to spread the meats, green peppers and onions onto the pizza. After that, they waited for the black olives and mushrooms to drop, but were confused when they never showed. Turning their heads forward to the holder of said toppings, the couple couldn't help but chuckle quietly as they saw Eri looking down at the floating bowl of toppings hungrily with a bit of drool leaking from her mouth while her eyes easily showed the internal conflict between putting the toppings on the pie or eating said toppings right away.

"…Was she like this with the ham and pepperoni, too?" Ochako whispered, more than a little amused by the adorable sight of struggle the girl was having.

"Yup. Took her a minute to snap out of it, but she got it done. Not sure about this, though. She's must've skipped lunch or something so that she could eat more for tonight." Izuku said just as Eri snapped out of her daze, and proceeded to hurriedly place the toppings on the pizza before turning away in embarrassment once more.

"…Sorry."

"Don't be sorry, Eri. It's fine. Not often that we can have this stuff, so I don't blame you in the slightest." Izuku assured as he grabbled the last bowl of cheese beside him and proceeded to sprinkle it on top of the pizza, making it complete.

"Ooh, that looks good, Deku." Ochako muttered, staring at the food in awe and a little bit of saliva also about to drip from her mouth as she instinctively pressed her fingers together, having forgotten that she still had bowls in the air and that one of them ended up hovering over the floor until…

*clang*

"Mow!"

"Oh! Mikan!" She exclaimed as soon as she and the others heard the yowl. They all looked down at the floor, and all of them, especially Ochako, winced at the sight of an irritated looking orange cat with a small silver bowl on its head that was dripping what looked like a mixed of olive juice and mushroom bits.

"..."

"Mikan, honey, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to have the bowl land on your head! Honest!" Ochako apologized as she removed the metal object from the cat's head, feeling quite guilty as the cat continued to stare at her irritatedly while Eri began using a nearby towel to wipe its head, and the floor, clean.

"Well… Looks like I'm going to have to give a slice to Mikan when the food's ready as an apology. You don't mind, do you, Ochako?" Izuku asked, getting a nod in response as Eri looked up at him in confusion.

"Is that a good idea, Dad? I heard that it's a bad idea to give cats a lot of human food, especially stuff that has onions on it like our pizza." Eri questioned, looking a little concerned.

"It's fine, Eri. Mikan's more resilient than he looks, remember? He has eaten human foods and other stuff that cats can't eat plenty of times in the past and not once has he gotten sick. Even an onion doesn't affect him." Izuku assured, smiling at Eri looking down at the now proud looking cat on the ground, before turning to the pre-heated oven and carefully placed the pizza into it. "Ok, all that's left is to wait for a while and then it's dinner time. It'll be around twenty minutes before it's done, but I do have to stick around and check it so that it doesn't bubble up. You two can set up the table and have fun, I'll stay here and clean up."

"Alright, hun, if you're sure." Ochako said as Izuku nodded back with that small, happy smile of his, making her smile back before heading over to the counter and grabbing the plates. "Eri? Mind getting the napkins and shakers ready?"

"Ok, Mom. Should I get both peppers with the cheese, or just the red one?" Eri asked.

"Get both. More variety."

"Ok."

Izuku watched on with a small smile as the girls proceeded to get the table ready, chatting cheerfully to themselves with him chiming in every now and again while checking on dinner and doing the dishes. It was such a relaxed atmosphere, free of any troubles or worries from the outside world… It was days like this that Izuku worked so hard to preserve. To ensure that no one would disrupt. To restore if it does come crashing down somehow. He lived a dangerous life, as did his life partner, to make sure that the days of peace and relaxation, like today, were common, and not a novelty. It was difficult to be sure, and some days even overwhelming, but seeing his girlfriend and daughter in all but blood happy and cheerful as they patiently wait for the food that all three of them made together made it all worth it in the end. He loves them, and they love him, and he will do whatever it takes to give them the lives that they deserve.

*ding!*

"Alright, girls! Pizza's ready! And it looks amazing as well! Guess we did a good job on this, huh?" Izuku said with pride in his voice as he pulled out the pizza with the large spatula, admiring the look of it as he set it on a cloth on the table.

"You bet we did, Deku! And I'm sure it will taste as amazing at it looks!" Ochako exclaimed with stars in her eyes as she watched Izuku slice the pie into even eight slices, more than ready to take a bite out of it.

"Oooh…" Eri muttered as her father figure pulled out a large, steaming slice of the multi-topping pizza onto her plate, mesmerized by the sight of it and her stomach growling in full force.

"Hehe. Look like someone's ready in." Izuku chuckled at his girls' antics after placing another large slice onto his salivating girlfriend's plate before setting a large piece on his own. "Alright, looks like were good. You two ready?"

"Yes, Deku." Yes, Dad!"

"Alright then. All together now…"

"Thanks for the food!"

Prompt 12: Cooking Together

Author's Notes: And that is that, everyone. It's a bit different, but it turned out fairly well in the end, I believe. Again, much better than the previous instalment of the eleventh prompt by a long shot. Maybe I'll use it as a piece for Green Tea Tales, but that's for another time. I'm enjoying these prompts the further I go, and some of the later ones have been quite pleasant to go through. I can't wait to show them to you all in the end. More to come tomorrow, everyone, so look forward to it. With that all said, thank you all so much for reading my work. I hope you have a fantastic day, Heroes, and I will see you next time.

Farewell, and remember: Go Beyond. Plus Ultra!