Izuku screams as he's thrown from the Warp Pipe, crashing against one of the large mushrooms and bouncing off. Out of instinct, he quickly catches himself on one of the mushrooms with Black Whip, stopping himself from hitting the floor. He lowers onto the ground, taking a moment to catch his breath.
"Thank gosh I still have my Quirks…" he mutters quietly, then noticing that he was in his Hero Costume. He looked shocked by this, since he remembers wearing the Tartarus prisoner jumpsuit before being sucked into the pipe. But before he can dwell on this, he sees something else that makes him gasp.
He was looking around the surrounding area in astonishment, seeing the large mushrooms, brick structures, and floating islands with waterfalls.
"What is this place?" he wonders out loud as he then looks at some of the smaller mushrooms. He slowly reaches to touch the blue one, when…
"DO NOT TOUCH THAT MUSHROOM! YOU'LL DIE!" Toad exclaims as he jumps out, startling Izuku and making him fall back. Toad then looks at the mushroom and realizes he got it wrong. "Oh, I'm sorry. That one's perfectly fine." he says as he leans against the mushroom, patting it.
Izuku was taking a moment to catch his breath. "Wh-What the…?" is all he can mutter as Toad then approaches him. "Pleased to meet ya! I'm Toad!" he says as he starts to walk off. "Uh, Izuku." the boy from Earth says as he notices some bug-like creatures waddling in his direction, so he gets up and walks after Toad.
"So this, uh… this is… this is not a dream?" Izuku asks, only for Toad to spin around and slam his walking stick into Izuku's right arm, causing the green haired hero to shout in pain.
"That hurt, right?" Toad asks Izuku nonchalantly, to which Izuku angrily responds "YES!" "Definitely not a dream." Toad says as Izuku rubs his arm.
"So… what is this place?" Izuku asks as he slowly numbs away the pain in his arm. "The Mushroom Kingdom!" Toad answers with happiness.
Izuku honestly didn't know what he expected. He was in a mushroom forest, talking to a mushroom -headed creature. Of course it'd be called the Mushroom Kingdom.
Just then, he heard some footsteps approaching, making him look to the right and see a tall figure with a round head sporting a permanent frown, and two long thorn covered brambles for legs with suction cup feet. The creature ends up towering over Izuku like an arch, looking down at him as he stares back in uncertainty.
"... Hello?" is all Izuku can say, before the creature just flips off. Confused by this, Izuku continues following Toad.
"So, what brings you here?" Toad asks as they keep walking through the mushroom forest. "Um… well, a pipe just appeared out of nowhere and sucked me in, so… now I'm here." Izuku answers. "Though, I nearly landed in some other place. It was foggy, and... and I believe there was lava."
Hearing that makes Toad freeze with a gasp. "Uh, that is not good." he says as then faces Izuku. "You… almost landed in the Dark Lands."
"The Dark Lands?" Izuku asks, to which Toad nods. "They're under…" he stops and looks around, making sure no one is listening, before whispering to Izuku. "... Bowser's control!"
"Bowser?" Izuku asks as Toad starts walking again. "He's the most evil, wretched creature alive. Rumor has it, he's searching for the Super Star, one of the most powerful things in this world. With it, he can destroy our entire kingdom, maybe even the entire world."
That shocked Izuku. This Bowser guy sounded like a serious villain that seeks to destroy everything.
"I'm taking you to the princess." Toad says as he stabs his walking stick into one of the large mushrooms and uses it to jump up to it. "She knows what to do. She can do anything."
"Princess?" Izuku asks as he climbs up the mushroom, only to look ahead and gasp.
He sees a small town with small buildings, many shops, and is likely pretty well occupied with residents. And the town itself seemed to be leading up to a large castle on the tallest hill, a castle with a tall tower supported by four towers along the outside white walls and with shiny red roofs.
"C'mon, Izuku!" Toad exclaims, as he begins running in the direction of the town. "Our big adventure begins now!" Izuku follows Toad as the two leap from mushroom to mushroom, heading for the town.
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In another part of this universe, in another galaxy, really, Rosalina is watching the green haired hero and the Toad through a magic window as small star-like creatures float around her, chittering curiously.
A yellow one approaches Luma and chitters at Rosalina, who picks it up and pats its head. "You're right, little Lumas. I made the right choice bringing Izuku Midoriya to this world."
She looks to the magic window with her Lumas. "This world needs someone with a strong heroic heart, and he was the perfect choice." She continues. "This is a chance for him to start his Hero career from scratch again… and I know he'll take this chance."
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Izuku and Toad arrive at the small town that was surrounding the large hill, seeing the small buildings are houses or shops, and the inhabitants are all mushroom-headed creatures just like Toad. "This way, Izuku! The princess lives right on that hill!" he exclaims as he runs through the town, with Izuku following as he takes in the new surroundings.
There were Toads hitting coins from blocks, Toads running shops, Toads working on construction, and everything else in between. A few of the Toads see Izuku and stop what they're doing in shock, clearly not expecting to see another human besides their princess.
"Excuse me, everybody. Coming through. Got a big adventure happening right now. Just clear a path for us." Toad says as he pushes through the crowd of Toads, causing one of them to drop a coin, which rolls to Izuku's feet.
He picks it up just as the Toad walks up to him in a stunned amazement. "Here you go." Izuku says as he hands the coin back to the Toad, who still stares in amazement as Izuku continues following Toad. It was easy to tell which one he was supposed to follow, since he was the only one with a backpack full of adventure gear.
As the two keep walking through the town, Izuku can't help but notice how some platforms seem to just give a middle finger to gravity. They're basically floating. His thoughts were suddenly interrupted when he heard Toad say "And up we go." "Wait, up?" Izuku says as he notices Toad suddenly riding a rising platform.
Quickly, Izuku channels One for All and leaps up to the platform, grabbing the edge of it and pulling himself up just in time to reach a higher area. Izuku follows Toad across a floating bridge of bricks that have small gaps between them. One wrong step, his ankle would be stuck and he would fall… which would hurt even with his Quirks.
"Just pop in this pipe, and we're on our way." Toad says as they approach some clear pipes that travel up to higher points of the town. Izuku stares in amazement as Toad approaches one pipe. "It's the only way to fly, man." he says, before jumping into the pipe and flying up, laughing and cheering.
Izuku approaches the same pipe and peeks in. "Oh, wow. These pipes look crystal-" before he could continue, he was suddenly sucked in and flew through the pipe, following behind Toad.
Toad then flies out of the pipe and runs to another one, this one made from a green metal.
As Izuku flies out of the clear pipe and lands before this green one, his eyes widen as he sees the similarities between this one and the one that brought him to this world. Toad noticed Izuku stop, so he walks over, grabs his arm and pulls him to the pipe. "In ya go!" Toad says, throwing Izuku into the pipe before the boy can protest.
After what felt like hours of going through pipe after pipe, Toad and Izuku soon made it out of the pipe that led up to the tallest point of the hill. Izuku was never one that felt motion sick before, but going through all those pipes definitely made him want to throw up. Thankfully he didn't, as he completely lost the urge to after seeing the castle itself.
"Here we are. Palace doors. Bing, bang, boom." Toad exclaims. "Come on!" he adds as he runs to the castle doors, laughing and cheering. Izuku runs after him, amazed even more at the castle the closer he gets.
"Pretty impressive, am I right?" Toad asks, but before Izuku can answer, they're cut off by the Toad Guards blocking the door with their halberds. "Hold it right there, you two!"
"State your business!" one of the guards says to Izuku and Toad, and the greenette steps up a bit. "Uh, Toad here was taking me to see… the princess?"
The two guards look at each other, then smirk and look back to Izuku. "What princess?" one sarcastically says, to which the other adds "I never heard of any princess."
The first guard seems to have a realization. "Oh, wait, I did." he says, then sarcastically adds. "Our princess, though, is in another castle."
"Oh, yeah. That's right." the second guard adds, then the first one continues. "You should try another castle, maybe. She ain't in this one." The two guards bump weapons, proud of their joke while Izuku and Toad are getting annoyed.
Before Izuku can say anything, Toad steps up. "Okay, so they're messing with you… and I don't like it." he says as he pulls a frying pan out of his bag, making the two Toads gasp. Izuku was left surprised, thinking Toad was about to fight them…
… only to instead start cooking with it, which confuses the young Hero. "What do you guys, um… What do you want to eat? Anything... anything your hearts desire." Toad says to the two guards, who actually sit down across from Toad without any question.
Without the Toad guards noticing, Toad glances at Izuku. The greenette realizes what Toad's doing: he's distracting them so he can enter the castle.
With the guards busy, Izuku sneaks to the door, opens it, and sneaks inside, quietly shutting it behind him. Once inside, he's met with large walls decorated with marble pillars, white and pile tile floors, gold chandeliers, and beautiful plants.
But he doesn't have time to marvel about this place. He needed to find the princess quickly, since it was only a matter of time before the guards realize what happened and alert the rest.
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In the main room of the castle where the throne is located, many Toads can be seen gathered for a meeting currently being held. In the middle of the room, a table rises from the floor and displays a map of the entire kingdom made in a block-like style. "Council, your attention." an elderly Toad with brown spots on his head and a white mustache. "Bowser has found the Super Star and is headed toward our kingdom."
The map shows a floating area of smoke and lava, Bowser's Kingdom, with a large golden star above it. One of the areas below it is the kingdom made of ice, which gets covered in smoke and fire, showing its defeat. "Its power will make him invincible." the elderly Toad continues somberly but sternly. "We will be destroyed."
That makes all of the Toads present gasp in fear and panic, as one of them looks up to the throne. "Princess, what are we gonna do?" He asks as everyone to looks to the throne as well, where the princess is sitting.
"I will not let him hurt you." Peach says assuringly, before standing up from the throne and walking down the stairs, holding the bottom of her dress a bit in order to not trip on it. "We are going to stop Bowser."
"How? Look at us." a Toad with yellow spots says, before making his eyes big and adorable, like a child begging their parents for a toy or sweets. "We're adorable."
"I'm going to convince the great Kong army to help us. Together, we'll annihilate that monster." Peach assures the Toads, who murmur in surprise.
"Their mad king doesn't make alliances." a Toad with red spots speaks up. "The Kongs will never agree."
"I can convince him." Peach says with confidence. "I'll leave for the Jungle Kingdom in the morning."
"Good luck, Princess, for all our sakes." the elderly Toad says, to which Peach smiles at him. "Thank you, Toadsworth. I trust you'll watch the kingdom while I'm gone."
Toadsworth nods as Peach walks out of the room to prepare for her journey. After a minute of walking, she hears what sounds like rushing footsteps, much to her surprise. She turns around, when…
CRASH!
Peach falls to the ground as something crashes into her, and she lands on her butt with a grunt. "What the-?!" she exclaims as she looks to see what bumped into her.
But her eyes widened when she saw it wasn't something that crashed into her.
It was someone.
And it wasn't a Toad.
It was… a human?! An actual human like her?!
The greenette boy rubbed his head, groaning from the crash. He opens his eyes to see what he crashed into, but his eyes bulged out in a panic as he realized he had crashed into the princess.
"O-OH MY GOD, I-I'M SO SORRY! I wasn't watching where I was going and didn't mean to crash into you! I was just trying to find my way around this castle and look for you because Toad told me to look for you, but I just wasn't sure where to go because I've never been here before so-"
His muttering of an apology was cut off as Peach put her hand over his mouth, her eyes just as wide as his. Izuku slowly calms down as they both get up, with Peach removing her hand from his mouth.
"Are you…" Peach asks with shock and amazement as she looks closely at Izuku, before gasping. "You're a human! I mean, you are a human, right?" She begins inspecting Izuku, walking around him.
Izuku was beet red. He was thankfully glad she wasn't inspecting him the same way Hatsume did. "Y-Y-Yeah, I-I'm human…" he stutters out as Peach's eyes seem to widen with more excitement.
"Wait, wait, wait. Let's go back." Peach says, changing the subject. "Who are you? Where did you come from?"
Izuku fought off his nerves as he began explaining. "O-Okay, my name's Izuku Midoriya… and I'm from a city called Musutafu in Japan. A large pipe j-just showed up out of nowhere and sucked me in, a-and I ended up here. Th-Then I encountered someone named Toad and he told me about this guy named Bowser who's threatening the world and then told me to come here and look for you because you apparently know what to do."
"Well, you're in luck. I'm on my way to stop him." Peach says confidently as she turns to walk off, but Izuku stops her by exclaiming "Take me with you."
Peach turns and looks at Izuku as though he just grew a second head. "This guy's a lunatic, a psycho." she says as she approaches Izuku. "He will eat you for breakfast. He won't even notice it, probably, 'cause you're very…" she was looking for the right words to describe Izuku, and settled on "... plain-looking."
Had this been the Izuku from Aldera, back when he was scrawny and Quirkless, he would have sulked in defeat right then and there. But this was the Izuku that had gotten into U.A., trained under All Might himself, and fought villains multiple times.
"You know what? Make fun of me all you want." he says with a glare that surprises Peach. "I'm used to being an easy target. But I am not going to sit around and watch as this monster goes around causing all kinds of chaos and destruction, hurting innocent people just because he's got strength. I know you're probably strong in your own right, but I'm going with you. And that's final."
A tense silence filled the room as Izuku and Peach stared at each other, the former not losing his determined look as the latter just stared in surprise. After a few seconds, her expression turned into a slight smirk.
"Well, okay. Let's see what you're made of."
Next Time: Izuku, Peach and Toad's Journey!