Codename: Quirk – Classification: Weapon

Chapter 2: Who is Izuku Midoriya?

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"So, short version: mission was a failure" said Colonel Aizawa from the opposite side of the table, rubbing his nose bridge and with his characteristic tired expression.

Mina saw Momo gulping. She had little reason to be afraid, given that it was Aizawa she was talking with, but she always tended to overthink her failures. It was something that always worried Mina, but Momo never gave any reason for it to be based on any sort of trauma, or disorder. She just was a perfectionist, in contrast to her pink friend. "Yes" said the black-haired girl, looking directly at Aizawa, trying her best to ignore everyone else.

While Momo was sitting down on the giant round table, the other three girls were standing up behind her. She had commanded the mission. She was the one reporting. If Mina could, she would have wanted to share the stress her friend was under. Momo was being heard by people varying from Commanders and all the way up the Army hierarchy to Generals themselves. She had recounted the entire operation. How they had successfully infiltrated the enemy base. How they had been discovered. How it had all been for nothing. How she had failed.

Eyes wondering the room, Mina could not see the walls, covered in darkness. The sole source of light was used to illuminate the large table and the people sitting in them, leaving Mina, Ochako, Mei and a couple other individuals in shadows. Only the team that had gone in the mission and some key individuals in the army were allowed into this room. Most of the officers here weren't even allowed to bring their secretaries or any other kind of aide. That was the nature of the secret operations quirked individuals were send to: they were treated with the utmost secrecy, results and nature only known by a handful of people. Records would be edited to only include the very basics, and never go into digital filing. No one would know the names of the girls, or that they were ever there.

It was all pretty standard for Mina. It had surprised her at first, but had become more of a routine as time passed and she went in more missions. Some of them had been easy: recover a target, infiltrate and destroy records, all pretty basic. They would then report, a meeting like this would be held, and the mission would never be talked about.

However, that wasn't the case when the mission was unsuccessful. The number of officials doubled in those cases. They all proceeded to assess risks and some of them would shout at the failing team for their failure. Mina hated that, mainly because most of the time the ones doing the shouting were the quirkless officers. The ones they only looked at reports.

Those who didn't knew the danger of the missions they were sent to.

Mina then looked back at the black-haired man in directly in front of them. At least Colonel Aizawa had been softer on Momo. The guy could be stricter than most, but he knew them from time back. Back when they were still in their first year of the academy, he had been their trainer, and had stayed with them throughout their training. He had seen them grow, and some of them thought that he had only accepted the promotion once he knew he would still be able to help them once they started their own military careers. Of course, he would never admit it nor give any hints about it, but the timing had been right and Mina herself couldn't stop herself of thinking it was that way.

However, there was something odd today. He had specifically avoided a particular subject, and controlled Momo's narrative so that she didn't touch the subject either: the mysterious green-haired teen that went by the name of Izuku Midoriya.

After a long trip to join with the troops and being transported via helicopter to base, a medical team had approached them. They attended Uraraka, but, using the movement their arrival had caused, they quickly took Midoriya away from them. Against Mina's shouting and asking for explanations, a doctor had clearly stated that they weren't allowed to join him, reminding her of her rank and how she had to obey him. Immediately after he was taken away, however, he and the other medical personal started acting like nothing had happened, like he had never existed. It had annoyed Mina. She was going to ask Aizawa what he knew, and she wouldn't accept a no for an answer.

Who was Izuku Midoriya, and why was he such a close-guarded secret?

Mina's thoughts had wandered so far from the meeting that she was surprised when Aizawa announced the meeting was over. A couple of officers automatically sprung to their feet and left the room, followed by their aides. Some others started muttering between them about what the mission meant to them, most likely seeing how it would fit in their personal agendas. Mina looked at Momo, and saw that Ochako had already walked forward and was trying to calm her friend, who had managed to maintain a professional attitude throughout the meeting, even if they knew that she was an emotional mess. Mei was already with her back against the wall, taking out some project from her pocket to tinker with. She tended to be the more reserved of the group, unless you were talking with her about some of her gadgets. Mina didn't like that about the girl, among other things. At least she could care a bit about Momo, right? She then walked to friend's side and squeezed her arm, in an attempt of showing support. However, she could not stay there, she thought, as she saw Aizawa yawn and leave the room.

She had someone to talk to.

She ran towards the door and exited the room without missing her pace, founding the hallways really packed with the officers that had exited the room and a bigger group of people talking to some of them, most likely wanting to know what had happen. It took her a couple of seconds, in which she stood on her toes and tried to look above her head, but she finally was able to locate Aizawa, walking away from the meeting and not talking to anyone other than to correspond a salute.

"Colonel Aizawa!" shouted Mina, waving at her superior as he turned around, her trademark Ashido smile already on her face.

Sighing, Aizawa waited for Mina to catch up with him "Ashido, for the hundred time, learn to act with professionalism," he grunted. The girl took all the liberties she could once she got to know someone. "What do you need?"

Mina looked around her, making sure no one was hearing them. Everyone else in the hallway was too immersed on their own conversations to notice a quirked individual talking to a non-quirked colonel. But she knew that what she was about to ask about could affect Aizawa's career. He had hushed while issuing the command back in the mission. He had kept Midoriya's involvement in the mission a complete secret. So she didn't want to be the one to throw all those risks out the window. "Who is Izuku Midoriya?" she asked, whispering in her lowest tone.

For a couple of seconds, Aizawa's face was harder to read than any unknown dialect. Mina and her friends had once laughed about it, joking about how he could be a professional poker player if he hadn't got himself involved in the military. When he finally spoke, he did so with a stern voice "Ashido, I will ask you to never talk about that with anyone. The less people know about it, the better" he said.

Mina understood that. She did. If he had kept it as secret as he had, then it meant it was important. But if she already knew, then why not tell her?

"What do you me-"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THE MEETING IS OVER?!" a strong voice boomed down the corridor, enraged. A voice that made Mina stand upright with a hand to her forehead in salute, and made Aizawa joined her, though clearly not in fear, unlike Mina. Through the corner of her eye, Mina say Momo, Uraraka and Mei exit the room, Momo quickly trying to hide the handkerchief she had been previously holding and hurrying to salute.

With loud steps, the huge figure of General Enji 'Endeavour' Todoroki came into view, as everyone moved to the sides to avoid being in his path. With a furious expression and his trademark fire moustache, he looked down on nearly everyone. "AIZAWA!" he shouted, making loud noises with every step he took. Even when out of combat, the General radiated pure power, and he was clearly pissed about not having made it on time.

"Yes, General Todoroki?" asked the Colonel, with a tired voice. In contrast with nearly everyone in the army, he wasn't afraid of the General and his fiery personality. It helped he was rarely scared. Some actually thought the guy didn't know the meaning of fear.

"YOU WILL BRIEVE ME ABOUT THE MEETING." With those words, the General continued his march down the corridor, without acknowledging anyone else except the person he had addressed. For as long as she had been part of the army, Mina had never seen the General even acknowledge her existence, but she preferred it that way.

"Yes, sir," said the tired man, and, with one last glance in Mina's direction, he followed the General. They both were later followed by the party that always followed Endeavour around, mainly his secretary and a group of other officers. As they passed her, Mina eased up, tension leaving her. She knew that the General would be out of the base during the mission, and they had been lucky he wasn't there for the meeting. If he had been there, Momo would have had it much, much worse. If rumors were to be trusted, he had been in a summit with Generals from a couple of neighbor countries, most likely discussing strategies or the sharing of resources in the current war. That meant he wasn't there to hear about the mission's total failure, and wasn't there to berate Momo about it, she thought as the group walked down the corridor, when the sight of a unique hair color made a bulb turn on in her mind. A half-white half-red colored hair that belonged to someone that could help her find out about Midoriya.

"Hey, Shoto!" she shouted with a grin in her face, and run towards the teen, who turned around to watch who had called him. He looked cute, Mina thought, with his hair combed and his uniform completely tidied up, in contrast with how he usually used his jacket as some sort of cape. His scar on the side of his face gave him a hardened appearance, like he was always fresh out of battle. Ladies would swoon over him. She would have to up her game. When she reached him, she placed her feet together, and joined her hands around her back, trying for her cutest pose.

"Ashido. What's up?" he said with a cold tone anyone could have took as disinterest. But Mina and her friends knew better. The guy was just awkward.

"I need a favor" she chanted, with a smile and closed eyes. She then opened them and brought her index finger to her cheek. "Would you do something for little me?"

Shoto's stoic expression didn't changed, making Mina thought that she had failed. She knew that Shoto could be awkward, but at least he could say something. His personality could be really cold some times.

"Sure, what you need?" he finally said, making Mina's eyes open in surprise and her mouth open in a smile. She started skipping on her place, which made Shoto looked at her with a raised eyebrow. What was her deal? He was close to turning himself around and leaving her skipping in her happiness when Mina jumped towards him, grabbed his arm, pull it to her torso so that it was close to her chest, and looked at him directly with her unique eyes.

"Something only my favorite Brigadier can help me with" she said with absolute happiness in her eyes, as she pulled him in the direction of the medical center, taking personal note of his blush provoked by his contact with the girl. She knew Shoto was not interested, but that didn't meant she could not mess with him a bit. What are friends for, after all? "I will tell you all about it on the way there!"

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As Mina walked away with Shoto, they didn't realize they were being watched by the group of girls Mina had left behind. Uraraka didn't know what to think. Why she was talking with the Brigadier was anyone's guess, Mina had been somewhat quiet after the mission had ended. Maybe she liked him? She had always being somewhat vocal in her opinions of him, but was she ignoring that most likely, Shoto was just being oblivious to her flirting? The girl's antics could sometimes be a complete mystery.

"Well there goes that cutie" laughed Mei, trying to ease tension. Both Uraraka and Yaoyorozu turned around to watch at their sniper, who was still fidgeting with whatever device she was creating, it starting to take the form of a small helicopter. Mei, although her main quirk allowed her to look long distances with zooming from her eyes, was also a level of technologic genius, being responsible for most weapons their team used. Mina's Acid Gun was just an example of her level of talent.

"You think Mina could be interested?" asked Yaoyorozu, folding her arms, emotionally drained from the meeting. Right now, she had no strength to try and hypothesize what her pink friend could be thinking.

"You girls know her better than I do. Your guess is as good as mine" laughed Mei, opening her jacket to reveal a corduroy top that showed a more-than-normally-appropriate portion of cleavage, making Uraraka blush a bit from awkwardness. She didn't handle that kind of attire very well.

"Oh! And there comes yours, Gravity girl!" she pointed, making Uraraka turn around to see another figure stomping the ground as he walked, his yellow hair being messy as always and his red eyes looking directly at her as he pushed people out of his way. Great. Now he was here.

"Ochako!" shouted Bakugo as he nearly ran up to her. He put his hands on her shoulders and examined her for any sign of lasting damage. "Are you alright?"

"Well, ignored by the hot head, isn't that new" Mei sighed, putting an arm around Yaoyorozu and pulling her away from the pair. "We will let you love birds talk, maybe you can stop him from doing this shit again and leaving us alone."

"Fuck you, techno-freak!" shouted Bakugo, receiving a middle-finger from Mei. In other times, that would have made Uraraka chuckle. Today, however, she wasn't feeling like it.

"Bakugo" she said with a somber tone, surprising him, as she was the only one who referred to him by his first name, which she wasn't doing this time. Uraraka's hair fell over her face, covering her eyes, and her smile was gone. "I have something to say to y-you," she said, her voice nearly failing her at the end of the sentence. Bakugo looked at her with open eyes. Scanning his surroundings, and realizing they weren't been heard, he nodded with his head "What the fuck is it?" he asked. What was going through her head?

"I…" she didn't know how to start. Where to start? The mission? His disappearance hours before deployment? Or what had been bugging her mind from even before the Midoriya kid even showed up?

"Where the fuck where you?" she asked, looking at him with teary eyes. She had chosen those words, words that he used, to try to get the message through. How mad she was. How she was mad at him.

"Does it fucking matter?" he asked, letting go of her shoulders and crossing his arms over his chest. "I thought the mission was a fucking simple one. I thought you out of all people would get it fucking done with no problem."

"You thought…?" repeated Uraraka, not able to believe what she was hearing. That was the reason he had run away on a fit of anger? Because he thought everything would go all right? This was a fucking war, goddammit! Not some training exercise! "I was shot in the fucking leg, Bakugo! We nearly died over there! Everything we knew about the mission was wrong, and it almost got us killed!"

"But you're all right, aren't you?!" shouted Bakugo, incredulous they were even having this conversation. "You are already here! And you three are walking like nothing had happened!"

"But not thanks to you, you idiot!" shouted an enraged Uraraka, not believing how detached he was acting. How he was acting like the exact type of asshole her friends had always described him as. She knew they weren't exactly boyfriend and girlfriend, but they had shared moments together! They had kissed! And now he was acting like her almost dying was ok?! "You think you're so strong-"

"Well I am!" interrupted Bakugo, making her stop her shouting. "And so are you! Your quirk is one of the strongest ones here, and you are going to tell me you couldn't handle a single fucking mission? You're going to ask me to cry for you? You are supposed to be better than this!"

"What, this quirk?!" she shouted with tears in her eyes, putting her palm between them and pointing to the pads she had on her fingers. "This quirk that I trained so I could be as powerful as you? This augmented quirk, with all the pain that took? An augmentation I let you convince me of? Oh, yeah, it's powerful! So is supposed to be yours! But how much good has it done to you? Any power is worthless if you are not there to help the people you care about! Or is it that you don't care about me?"

"And what if I do or don't? You shouldn't care! You should stop acting so weak and accept the power you now have!" shouted Bakugo, raising a finger at pointing accusatorily at Uraraka "You have the power! So don't act like you need anyone!"

"Then maybe I don't need you, is that what you are saying?!" shouted Uraraka, slapping Bakugo's hand away from her, making sure one of her pads touched it and activating her quirk, incrementing the gravity pull of his hand. Bakugo felt to the floor, pinned down, and tried to lift it up with no success. Uraraka watched him struggle for a bit, cursing at everything, until her anger at him faded away, leaving her only with a feeling of emptiness. And she couldn't take it anymore.

"Goodbye, Bakugo. We are over"

And with that, she turned around, putting her hands over her ears to stop hearing the cursing her now ex-flame sputtered to every direction, her tears running down her cheeks and falling from her chin. She just wanted to be out of there. She just wanted to be alone.

As he saw her walk away, Bakugo finally stopped shouting once his hand returned to its normal weight, free from Uraraka's power. His blood restarted its normal flow through his arm, generating the pain that follows a numbing sensation. Massaging it to ease the pain away, Bakugo kept glancing in the direction Uraraka had walked away. Maybe, deep down, a part of him hoped she came back and told him things were all right? Maybe he had more to say, or he felt she had more to say?

Feeling anger threatening to explode inside of him, Bakugo picked himself up, straightened out his pants, and, with a furious glare in his face, started to walk in the opposite direction Uraraka had gone. No. He didn't need her. He didn't need anyone. Right now, the only thing he needed was to go to the training gym, and blow some shit up.

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"Where are you taking us, doc?" asked Shoto as they followed the doctor through another hall full of individuals in lab coats, a bit annoyed at how he had done everything possible to avoid giving him the full answers. Mina was walking behind them Shoto, looking everywhere. She rarely had come here. Hell, she wasn't even authorized unless in company of personnel with higher clearance. But well, there was Shoto, so it all had to be good, right?

When Mina had told Shoto everything, he had accepted to use his rank to get some answers. No scientist in the facility could deny an order from a Colonel like Aizawa, and Shoto, being a Brigadier, was on top of him, ranking-wise. He should be more than able to get the full picture. But he also found it strange. Was Midoriya another augmented? Why had he never heard of it, even if he spent most of his time following his father around? General Todoroki was one of the most important officers in the army, and it would be only natural if he knew about the green haired boy Ashido talked about. But no word had ever been said about him, and, with the power Mina described, it was something truly suspicious. Enji Todoroki always had the most powerful quirked individuals under surveillance, to see how better to use his favorite weapons. Bakugo, Iida, himself… all pieces in his father's strategy.

When they had finally found the doctor who Ashido claimed had taken Midoriya away, he had tried to go away, excusing himself. Shoto had to give an order for him to stay and answer their questions. He hated giving orders outside of battle, it made him feel like his father, and he despised that. But Ashido had asked him to help her find the truth, and he always tried to help his comrades. However, getting answers from the doctor had proved to be hard. Who is Izuku Midoriya? He didn't know. What was the reason he was here? He didn't know. Why had he pulled him from the group? Because he was order to take him to heal. On who's order? Colonel Aizawa. Where had he taken him?

That last question was the reason they had kept walking behind the doctor the last 15 minutes. He had only agreed to take them there. They had gone deeper and deeper into the facility's area dedicated to science, quirk studies and weapons development. They had passed hundreds of personnel in white lab coats, tables and carts full of disassembled machinery, and more than one caged animal. Mina nearly screamed when she passed a glass panel and, from the other side, a gorilla had hit it with enough force to make it tremble. However, the gorilla wasn't normal. Instead of fur, he had fire, and he looked directly at Mina with completely blue eyes, as if recognizing her because of her pink skin and horns as someone with the same condition. He was a fire gorilla. An animal with possession of a quirk.

Mina had needed a whole minute to get her thoughts together after that interaction. A hundred questions wondered her mind. How? How had the gorilla developed a quirk? It was supposed to be a human trait, and a rare one. Yes, quirked individuals were guaranteed to have quirked offspring, but that animal made no sense. Either he had been born with one, changing everything they knew of quirks…

Or he had been given one. And the thought scared her much more.

If quirked individuals could be created, then what would that make her? She would become far less special. The army wouldn't need her to go into missions, and she would most likely be sent to the front with her friends. And the thought scared her. She had heard of tons and tons of quirked individuals dying in the fronts. Some of the quirked individuals died in glorious combat, and where given full honors for them and their families. Some of them died in less than glorious ways. But Mina didn't cared. She didn't care about honors or medals. She just wanted to stay alive.

"We are here."

They had reached what looked like the door of a elevator. The doctor had turned around and was looking for something on his coat, taking out keys, pens and even his wallet, until his face revealed he had found what he was looking for: a pin.

"Now what?" asked Shoto, examining the door and how it lacked any button or way to open them.

"You, girl, you have to wear this," he said giving the pin to Mina, who hold it between his index and thumb and examined it. It was a normal metal pin, with a red light in the center. "Put it on your clothing and it will give you access, so that the elevator works while you're inside. And, sir, given your rank and the fact that you're in uniform, you wouldn't have a problem. Your identity chip on your rank badge would suffice," he said as he pushed what he had taken out deep into his pockets. After he had finished, he addressed the pair of soldiers in front of him "That pin was the only thing that gave me any way to use this elevator. If anyone asks, I will tell them the truth: That it's now with you and that I gave it to you under Brigadier Todoroki's orders." Through the corner of her eye, Mina could saw Shoto wince at being called by his surname. He hated that. That was the main reason every one of his friends addressed him by his name. "I didn't understand what was down there, so I can't explain what you will find, but you should be safe, Brigadier" he said, offering a handshake to Shoto, who, after a couple of seconds of silent, finally took it.

"You'll need anything else, Brigadier?"

"Yes. What's up with the gorilla?" asked Mina, wanting to know the truth about the weird being she had seen.

The doctor turned to look at her, an expression on his face that made it quite clear he had addressed Shoto. "That's one of the only documented animals that have been found to develop a quirk. We are examining him to see what made him develop it while being a non-human, if it was his primate nature or if it was a genetic mutation" he said, his tone indicating how he believed Mina would not understand, but Mina did, and it lift some worries from her back. Her fears on that subject were not true. With that, the doctor nodded with this head in Shoto's direction and walked away, just for a moment before he started running away from them, or, Mina thought, away from the elevator. What were they going to found down there?

"So… after you, my favorite Brigadier," said Mina with a nervous smile, bowing in an exaggerated manner and motioning Shoto to take the first step into the elevator.

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A whole minute of the elevator descending in complete silence, they finally reached their floor. The elevator at this moment had long gone underground. Mina knew there were underground levels in the base, but this took it a bit too far. One elevator, which only served as the connection between the floor they had got in, and the one in which they would supposedly find Izuku Midoriya. Mina could feel a drop of sweat running from her forehead. Cold sweat. That was the way her body had to tell her of the possibility of near danger. The first indication of a involuntary fight or flight response. But why? Was she in danger from Izuku Midoriya? It couldn't be that, he had saved her. And she was here to find him, maybe even thank him… No, it wasn't that. Her eyes wondered and she took a glance at Shoto's hands, clenched in a fist. He was thinking the same thing as her. He was thinking 'This seems too much for only one guy'.

As the doors slide open, they uncovered another hallway, no different from the ones back over ground. It was lacking windows and was illuminated by light bulbs on the roof. However, it did had an important feature: Doors, all located on the right side of the hallway, each at a big distance from each other and with a small window to look inside, and each with a document hanging by its side, prepared to be read by anyone who thought about going inside.

"Well this is weird" muttered Shoto, taking Mina out of her thoughts. He then proceeded to walk to the nearest door, leaving the pink girl behind. He grabbed the document and started flipping its pages, while Mina reached up to him and looked inside through the window. He room was weird, all right. It looked like it was taken straight out of an insane asylum. Every wall of the white room was cushioned, as well as the floor. The lighting in the room was minimal, which at first glance made Mina miss the room's occupant. It was a single girl, small in size, sat against the wall, wearing a strait-jacket and a muzzle that stopped Mina from seeing a big part of her face. Her hair was tied up in 2 bows, with a couple of strands falling over. The sight of her sent a shiver down Mina's spine.

"Himiko Toga" said Shoto out loud, and Mina turned her head to see that he was reading the files. "Female, 15 years old. Huh… she's a year younger than us" he commented. Mina could see that. Even in her condition, she looked quite young. "Quirk: Transform. By ingesting the blood of a person, she can transform her appearance into that of said person. The amount of blood directly correlates to the time of transformation. The files say she used to be part of the army; she had the job of infiltration behind enemy lines, to steal documents, spy and create chaos, and then to pull back. It also has a complete record of all the dates of her missions, even if not the places… but it says here that after her last mission, that lasted 20 days, she returned to a base near the frontlines and disappearances started. Some soldiers were found dead and the evidence pointed towards different… officers…" Mina was holding her breath. She knew that story. Shoto did too. It was too close to them. But it had been her?! A girl, even younger than them, had been responsible for one the one of their friend's greatest lose? "A soldier, name erased, followed the clues after being personally involved in the matter by the evidence pointing towards a fellow, and he found the suspects inside Toga's tent, been drained of their blood and long dead. He managed to subdue Toga and bring her to the authorities. He was promoted." Shoto closed the file, his hands trembling, and look at Mina, who was watching him with horror in her eyes.

"Tenya" she muttered. The soldier that had defeated Himiko Toga had been their friend, Tenya Iida. He had been forbidden to say names involved by his superiors, and he had followed that order, but after months of going to therapy and repressed rage, he had open, at least to tell them what had happen. One of the officers that were under suspicion had been his own brother, Tensei Iida, who had also disappeared afterwards, only making the accusations against him more plausible. Tenya had followed the clues and found his brother's corpse, still opened, still fresh, with Toga harvesting it for its blood. He had nearly killed Toga if he hadn't been stopped. He had never known what had happened to her after she was arrested.

And now Mina and Shoto knew. She was here. And if a monster like Toga was here, most likely other monsters were contained behind the other doors.

And Izuku Midoriya could be one of them.

Walking to the next door, Mina grabbed the file, glancing at the first page. Shigaraki Tomura. Looking inside, Mina could see a tall, thin man with white long hair, in a straitjacket similar to Toga's. He was huddled at the corner, his legs trying to cover his face. She then proceeded to read the file. Quirk: Decay. Anything he touches with all five fingers would start to crumble to dust. Apparently the guy had been a simple soldier, until he had become mentally unstable and had targeted his own comrades, for no apparent reason other than just for the sake of it. He had been taken out by General Yagi himself, and, apparently, had developed a grudge according to psychological evaluations. Mina looked at the guy one more time. He hadn't noticed her; apparently the glass was only one-way. He was still trying to cover his face with his legs, contorting in weird ways. Mina couldn't stop herself from feel sickened by these individuals.

"Where is Midoriya?" she asked Shoto, hoping to receive a concrete answer. Shoto had been reading the file over her shoulder, and, in response to the question, pointed ahead of them. There still were some rooms.

Now Mina had no desire of knowing anything about this people. She only grabbed the files to glance at the name, and dropped them as fast as she realized they weren't who she was looking for. Jin Bubaigawara. Shuichi Iguchi. Atsuhiro Sako. Kenji Hikiishi. And some of them, for some reason, only had codenames: Muscular, Moonfish. Mina didn't even glance at the window on their doors. She had no interest in them. She was walking so fast paced, that she nearly started missing some of the files. That was, until she found what she was looking for.

Izuku Midoriya. And a door with no window.

"He's here, Shoto" said Mina, turning around to see her friend reaching her, eyes open in surprise. She was trembling in anticipation. What did all of this mean? Was him being here, amongst this monsters, a testament to his own nature? Nothing out of his interaction with her had given her a reason to think that he could be found down here. These guys were cruel, crazy, even sadistic. And he couldn't be far from it. He was sweet, caring and somewhat heroic. So what was he even doing here?

"Read all of it" said Shoto with a stern voice. His combat voice. He was acting like his rank dictated. He was prepared to fight to defend himself and Mina if Midoriya was anything like these crazies. So he needed every bit of information he could get.

Opening the file, Mina started reading it for both of them. "Izuku Midoriya. Male. 16 years old. What…" Mina had to stop reading right there. A single piece of data that took her attention. July 15. Apparently they shared birthday.

"Mina…" said Shoto, making her continue.

"Right, sorry. Birthday, July 15. Quirk: Strength Enhancement level Delta, possibly Omega" Omega… That was General Yagi's level. "There's also the extra info that states that he tends to suffer mayor damage after using it. He did break his arm back when we met him. The file says that he was found in an enemy facility as a prisoner after the nation lost territory. He was taken as a war prisoner along with his mother, name erased, and other members of his town, and was found after they regained the lands. Multiple quirk suppression measures were been taken to keep him imprisoned, and, during the escape, they failed. He alone caused the death of multiple enemy and allied forces. His mother also died during the escape." Mina couldn't believe it. The guy had been even had a mother before the war had taken all of it away. But he also had killed their soldiers, for some reason. What was this guy? "Psychological analysis on the subject tells he suffers from PTSD, triggered when seeing firearms. He tends to attack the user. That… does explain some things." Like why he attacked the enemy soldiers and why he didn't had any problem approaching them. At the moment, none of them were holding to any firearms.

"So?" asked Shoto. Mina looked at him. His face was as stern as always, but there was something more. He was ready. At this moment, all of her instincts told her she was surrounded by very dangerous people, but there was something she had forgotten: Shoto could be even more dangerous than most and he was on her side.

"Nothing. We go inside" said Mina, her hand finding the door's handle. She needed to know. However, she realized there was another feeling in her: doubt. She had gotten there somewhat sure about who Midoriya could be, but nearly all she'd seen had hinted at her being wrong. What was it? Should she believe her instinct that told her Midoriya could mean danger, or should she go for her impression of him? She had to know, so she chose the latter.

And with that thought, Mina turned the handle, producing the sounds of the door's mechanism unlocking, and pushed, opening it.

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This chapter was written during free time while I'm supposed to be studying for my finals jajaja so it has been a good stress reliever. Hope you liked it. Yeah, cliffhangers and all that stuff, personally don't like them, but thought it was a good way to end this chapter.

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