Hero of the Dark Skies

by MosesArk Reborn2000

When Young Midoriya is left with the heart breaking news that he will never develop his own quirk, does he give into despair and chase after heroes? No, he strives to become a hero just like All Might and he knows just what to do to even the odds against those with quirks-he builds it, that's how. Quirkless Izuku, More confident Izuku, DC & Marvel influence

40. Special Training

Alright, I know that I said that season 2 content was over and one with but technically this chapter was based on an episode that was released as part of the season so it counts. It's a lot less serious than the previous chapter and was done more for fun than anything else. This is the episode where some of 1-A do a small training exercise during the summer break, from how the episode was structured, it takes place just before the Two Heroes movie which itself takes place before season 3 kicks off. This chapter will serve as the last chapter for part II of my story. Part 1 was season one plus that date chapter with Yu and Izuku, Part 2 is season two along with this one and Part 3 will start with the Two Heroes movie and will be the entirety of season 3. Anyway, I hoped you enjoy the chapter, if you did or have some criticism you would like to air, please review or PM.

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Chapter 39: Special Training – Saving the world with Love!

(UA High – End of July, before summer training camp)

"Morning." All Might stated as, in his skinny form, he walked into the staff room at UA. There were only two others present in the room, Midnight and Cementoss. It was the start of summer break so the fact there were next to no students on campus and even fewer teachers wasn't that odd.

"Good Morning to you too." Cementoss greeted the man back as he and Midnight watching the television mounted on the wall.

"They're airing a special about you on TV right now." Midnight pointed out as she gestured to the screen as it changed a scene to when All Might saved some people while in the states. Hearing this, All Might approached the duo to see what it was about, sure there were documentaries about him but seeing how they were about him, he tended to avoid them. Partly because he didn't need them to remember his own life and partly because he didn't want to come off as full of himself.

"About me?" He asked as he joined them in watching the television.

"How did the symbol of peace, All Might, become the number one hero?" The narrator asked the age-old question as they watched some old footage from when he saved a family from being hit by a stray attack from some villain robbing a casino.

"To find out, we must look back to the past, to when he studied abroad in the United States." The narrator stated as the clip jumped to when he uttered his now-iconic catch-phrase towards the camera, though he didn't recall seeing one at the time and chalked it up to it not being important in the moment.

"I am here!" The younger All Might on screen said as he faced the camera and gave his award-winning smile before jetting off to stop the villains.

"Oh man, that takes me back." Cementoss uttered with a happy smile as he recalled seeing this for the first time in his younger days.

"How many years ago was that?" Midnight asked the man himself as he had been a pro much longer than the rest of them, with a career only surpassed by Nezu and Recovery Girl when it came down to the staff. In response to the question about his age, All Might just started to 'cough' into his sleeve as he was kinda embarrassed by the fact he was the third oldest staff member.

'Hiding your age with coughing? I would expect that from Midnight but you?' Cementoss asked himself as this was odd for them. Sure he and other members of the staff had learned that of recent, Midnight had shown rather unamused feelings whenever her age was brought but he didn't think he'll see the same behavior from his childhood hero.

'What are you, a maiden?' Midnight asked herself as she was rather amused by this. It wasn't every day that she got to see others react like to when their age was brought up.

"Come to think of it, wasn't that your first hero costume?" Cementoss asked as he thought that this would be as good a time as any to change the subject before things got messy.

"Y-yeah." All Might said as he got himself back together and looked at the screen. Now that he thought about it, what did ever happen to his old costume?

"You sure know a lot about him." Midnight pocked as she didn't know that much about All Might's early days, having been focused on training to get into UA herself and frankly, following other pros, All Might may have been a rising star back then but he wasn't the number one nor her favorite hero.

"Of course I do, I'm been an All Might fan since I was little." Cementoss said as he still recalled how he got his first All Might action figure when he was about 10 years old. He even had a small collection by the time he started hero school.

"As expected from the symbol of peace." Midnight gave the older man a nudge in the ribs at that. In response to that, All Might bulked up and gave his famous hearty laugh.

"Oh, not at all!" All Might joked as if becoming the number one and a world-renowned pro hero was simply. They weren't sure if he was messing with that or just full of it.

'He said that with such a smug face!' The two teachers thought to themselves as they directed their attention back to the TV.

"While he was in the states, his sidekick at the time was none other than the young David Shield. One of if not the smartest and most successful hero support item designers in the world and a recipient of the Nobel Quirk prize." The video cut to show some of David's accomplishments ever the years and how he had made a name for himself in his own right.

"Are they talking about the world-renowned Professor Shield?" Midnight asked as All Might powered down from his muscle form, he needed to conserve his strength after all.

"Birds of the feather flock together, I'm not surprised that those two know each other." Cementoss said as he looked over to their co-worker who was watching the screen with a look of happy nostalgia.

'Dave old friend, this takes me back to the good old days.' All Might thought to himself as he remembered all the crazy stuff the two men got up to back in their younger days. They were around colleague age and it showed in their habits.

"An email is here! Am email is here!" However, before he could go further down memory lane, he heard an alert go off on his computer. He didn't have time to see who the sender was though as Aizawa and Kan both walked into the teacher's office from another door.

"Getting back on track, I think it's about time we start the special class, don't you think?" Aizawa said as he had just finished directing the first group to the class where they'll be hosted.

"Oh, already?" Midnight asked as she looked at her desktop and saw that some time had passed since she got there.

"The preparations have already been made." Cementoss stated as he had taken the time to ensure that everyone was good and ready to go for their special classes.

"Then let's go train those zygotes." All Might as he along with the rest of the staff left the staff room, he'll read the email later.

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(Later – In 1-B classroom)

'UA holds special classes for those who want to train even during summer break. Today is the first day of that.' Izuku thought to himself and he and several others sat in random seats across the homeroom for 1-B. The room looked identical to their own, nothing to write home about.

"Normally, we run this with course with a small number of students, holding it multiple times. But this time is different. As some of your classmates didn't sign up for this, we decided to mix the two classes for these exercises." Aizawa, along with Vlad stood in the front addressing the group that was made up of students from both first-year hero classes.

"We did this to get you out of your comfort zone as in the field, we heroes often have to work alongside others we may not know that well or get along with." Vlad explained the reasoning why they mixed up their two classes which made sense, those in 1-A were already accustomed to Aizawa's unconventional teaching methods, they assumed that Vlad had a similar strategy when he came to teaching. "As out of the 40 students that make up the first-year hero students sans Shinso, only 24 of you signed up so we split you into groups of 8 at random. You are the first group." He finished as he looked over the rather diverse group of faces and skills in front of him.

"For the sake of legal reasons and to please the principal, we'll conduct a roll-call. Don't complain and just go along with it." Aizawa said as he pulled out a clipboard and a pen.

"Yes sir!" The group of eight students replied to him.

"Setsuna Tokage?"

"Present." Tokage said with a smile as she waved.

"Ibara Shiozaki?"

"Present, sir." Shiozaki for her part, just kept her reply short. She was still a little shaken about the mall incident but she had resolved herself to improve as much as she could so that such evil would never be allowed to flourish and harm any more people.

"Tsuyu Asui?"

"Here." It was the same with Asui as she had finally been cleared for combat training again seeing how her tongue had healed up faster than expected.

"Izuku Midoriya?"

"Present and accounted for." Midoriya said from his seat near the back as he leaned into his seat. He had been cleared for training though he now had a scar on the right side of his neck and one on the left side of his lower torso, a permanent reminder of how close to death he came, and as a reminder to get back at that hand obsessed freak the next time they saw each other.

"Ochaco Uraraka?"

"Present." Uraraka responded with her patented bubbly personality. She like Shiozaki and Midoriya was cleared for training and she was eager to improve herself so that an incident like the mall didn't repeat itself.

"Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu?"

"Here." Tetsutetsu replied to the roll-call. It had been a couple of days since he officially received One for All and thought eating All Might's hair was gross as hell, he was ready to see what he could do in the field. Though the man did tell him to be careful as they didn't know what kind of damage he was capable of inflicting on both himself and his target.

"Shoto Todoroki?"

"Present." Todoroki replied when his name was called, keeping his tome crisp and even.

"Katsuki Bakugo?"

"Here." Bakugo responded as he placed his feet on the desk. The teachers would normally say something about it but seeing how it was outside normal school hours, they didn't think to make something out of it.

"Just so you know, this will be harder than your regular classes, I hope you are prepared." Aizawa reminded them as they had intentionally kept the truth about the exercise and the requirements secret. They wanted to see them react in a situation as close to the real thing as possible.

"Shiozaki, Uraraka, Midoriya. Are you three sure you're cleared for training?" Vlad asked as he turned his attention to the three students that were involved in the skirmish at the mall recently. They were lucky that with such a panic, no one was dumb enough to try and record the actual fight so it wasn't too hard to keep their names and faces out of the news but rumors were still flying. The school was lucky that it had happened outside school hours or activities since their parents were none too pleased about the whole thing and the upcoming summer camp.

"Yes sir, Recovery Girl gave us the green light for training." Shiozaki bowed her head to them as the three had swung by the school nurse just to be sure before coming here. They had somewhat bonded over their time in the hospital as their friends came and went. Even Monoma had made an appearance and didn't try something, only surprisingly thanking them for being at his classmate's side during it all.

"Just don't push yourselves too much, alright?" Vlad told them as he wasn't afraid to pull them from this if any issues arose during the exercise. With what they had planned, there'll be no need for the violence of any kind.

"Thanks for the concern, we'll make sure to pace ourselves." Midoriya responded for the three of them, still having the image of his hysterical mother in his head when she got to the hospital and was cleared to see him.

"Question, if we fail, will you threaten to expel us again?" Uraraka rose her hand and asked.

"No, but you think about slacking off." Aizawa replied as Nezu had made sure to inform him that he couldn't expel or give demerits for their performance today unless it was a serious offense.

"In this class, you will have to fight and capture a hypothetical villain." Vlad told them the broad scope of the exercise, to which the students were largely pleased with that.

"It is a hero-like class."

"That should have been obvious." Vlad deadpanned to them before he went on. "As you all must know, villains commit all types of crimes every day. Your task is to go to the scene of the crime, stop the villain, and determined what happened there."

"It'll be up to your judgment about whether or not it was caused by a villain and if you all should fight or not. This will help train your ability to access and deal with situations in the field." Aizawa explained in detail as they needed heroes that were more than brawlers and though the police and investigators handled investigations more than pros, it was still essential for a pro to be able to assist in that regard and take notes on the crime scene that they can hand over to the detectives later.

"Your special instructors for this exercise will be-" Vlad started but before he could finish, the back-door into the class swung open and from it, a familiar blonde hero came rushing in.

"I am coming in through the back entrance!" All Might announced himself as he flexed on entry, gaining the attention of the students as they turned to stare at the number one.

"All Might?" Shiozaki asked, now this was a surprise, she had no idea he was helping with this.

"Man, this is gonna be awesome!" Tetsutetsu cheered as he felt real pumped to be trained by his predecessor and the top hero in the world.

"You're muscular today too! Muscle!" Uraraka noted as she observed how the guy's muscles rippled with power, some of them were almost the size of her head! At the same time, the front door of the class opened up and the other three teachers entered the room, just more like normal people.

"Not just All Might. Myself as well as Midnight, Present Mic, and Cementoss will also be part of this exercise." Aizawa explained as the three additional teachers came into the class and in Midnight's case, waved at the students.

"Enough chatter. Get your costumes and meet up at ground beta on the double!" Vlad told them as the wall rack came out with each of their costumes briefcases.

"Yes sir!"

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(Later – Ground beta)

"I can see the cardboard cut-outs of the police, I'm betting this is the crime scene." Tetsutetsu pointed out as he along with Tokage and Uraraka looked towards the building they assumed was the crime scene. The rest of the group stayed in the alley.

"(Kero) They fixed up this place, didn't they?" Asui pointed out as though it hadn't been that long since their finals, the area had been fixed up to the point it was brand new.

"Oh yeah, this place was messed up after our practicals." Midoriya remembered how wrecked the place was, he had to give UA credit, they cleaned up nicely.

"Who'd you have to fight?" Tetsutetsu asked as he hadn't spoken with the guy about their finals.

"It was a five one-two. Midoriya, Bakugo, Sero, Mina, and I had to fight All Might and a third year." Asui answered as those from 1-B looked as shocked as they did when they found out who they were fighting. It was also the unspoken decision amongst those from 1-B that Monoma never finds out about this, he would no doubt ran with this till their end-of-year exams.

"We barely won that one." Midoriya said as they limped away from that one.

"Jesus man, that sounds brutal. I was paired up with Tsunotori and we have to get past Power Loader." Tetsutetsu said as he thought back to his match-up against the Support teacher. "We were lucky that she was able to get to the exit before I was taken out."

"If you are done with your little meet and greet," Aizawa spoke, now thoroughly annoyed that they were acting like this wasn't an exercise. "I'll give you the breakdown of the situation."

"There has been a villain attack at that jewelry store. The employees and customers have been taken hostage and everyone is barricaded inside. The number of villains and hostages is unknown." Aizawa explained the situation that had been set up for them. "As pro heroes, you have been asked by the police to came in and resolve the situation."

"Hmm, Aizawa-sensei, the teachers that are playing the villains and hostages-" Shiozaki tried to ask him for more info but he cut her off.

"I will not be answering any of your questions. You all need to conduct this like how you would in the field. That means you have to make your observations, come up with your theories and act on that to the best of your ability." He told them as the whole point of this was to see how they interpret the situation and what actions they chose to take to resolve it.

"Yes sir!"

"Then, since you all understand, let the capture exercise begin!" Aizawa said as he took out his phone and sent a message to whoever was inside the store to inform them that the students were on their way and they should be ready for them.

"So, what's our first move?" Uraraka asked as she looked across the street towards the store but couldn't make out anything on the inside.

"We need information about what is happening inside. If we can see how many villains and hostages they are, we can better plan our move." Tokage suggested as she looked out at the building herself.

"Great idea, I'll send out Green Day." Midoriya said as he, wearing the repaired and fully operational Mk IX-Delta, gave the command for his little drone to detach itself from his backpack and start to fly upwards and out of the alley.

"I'll send an eye out as well. You can never have too many scouts." Tokage stated as she sent out her left eye, like the drone, she made sure that the eye would head towards the building from a high angle to ensure it wouldn't be spotted. Though it was a little unsettling to watch an eyeball fly off like that, the group decided to wait and see what the two greenheads would find out before they did anything else.

"Aright, easy does it. We don't want the villains spotting us." Midoriya said as he used the touch-screen on his gauntlet to manually control the drone and ensure they weren't spotted. It didn't take all that long for him to get it into the position and to scan the building for heat sources. "Alright, I can see five heat signatures inside the buildings. I'll see if I can't find anymore that could be away from the rest." He reported to the group as he controlled the drone to fly off and inspect the rest of the building for anyone else that could be inside.

"I don't know about the rest of the place but you're right about the five. I see five people in the main lobby of the store. All of the teachers." Tokage said as she was able to get her eye closer to the glass due to its smaller size. From there, she could see into the building.

"Anything more?" Todoroki asked the two of them.

"Yeah, All Might seems to be the villain, I don't see anybody that looks like his partner. Midnight, Present Mic, and Cementoss are all tied up. Vlad-sensei is knocked out near the entrance. Going by the uniform, I'll say he was the security guard but was taken down hard." The lizard tail splitter user replied as she could see that all three out of the four teachers were tired up and placed in different parts of the store while Vlad seemed down for the count near the entrance.

"Are they all together?" Bakugo asked, wanting to get a better picture of the inside of that building.

"No, All Might is close to Vlad but he looks to be knocked out, he isn't moving. The hostages are not grouped up but have been placed separately from each other. Midnight-sensei and Present Mic-sensei are each behind a display case and Cementoss is tied up closer to the back of the store." Tokage reported just as Midoriya finished his primary scan of the building.

"Alright, just finished scanning the building the best I could. Didn't spot any other heat sources that could be a person. Those five are the only ones in there." Midoriya reported to the group as he ordered Green Day back to a safe distance to keep the chances of being spotted low.

"All Might most likely took down Vlad-sensei because he was the security but why not tie him up?" Asui asked as that seemed kinda odd.

"Well, he is knocked out. Maybe All might didn't think he'll need to tie him up." Tetsutetsu reasoned as he wouldn't waste rope on a guy that wasn't going anywhere any time soon.

"Alright, so we know that All Might is the only villain in there and that he's close the entrance. We need a way to take him out before he can react and harm any of the hostages." Midoriya laid out its mission objectives in getting in and solving this before anyone else got hurt.

"How will we do that? He can see the entire street from there and we spot us coming." Shiozaki asked as they couldn't approach from the street.

"Send in Garden girl?" Bakugo said as he thought about a plan.

"Garden girl? What, you mean Shiozaki?" Tokage asked as she gestured towards her classmate who looked surprised by her apparent nickname.

"Who else would I be talking about, Jigsaw?" And now, Tokage also had her nickname, though she wasn't sure how she felt about it thought it was better than some of the names she heard he had for his classmates.

"Excuse me but my name is-" Shiozaki tried to step in, clearly annoyed that he wasn't using her proper name but Asui stopped her before she could start a pointless fight.

"Trust me, it's a lost battle. Unless he respects you, he isn't going to refer to you by name. (Kero) But why her?" Asui told her before she turned her attention to the rude, foul-mouthed member of 1-A.

"See that ledge above the entrance?" Bakugo pointed as he gestured towards the small concrete roof above the entrance into the store. "If Garden girl can get up there without being seen, she can take down All Might before he knows what hit him." he explained as she would be in a great spot to launch an attack as there was no way All Might would think they could get that close. "The rest of us can move as a back-up once he's got him." He finished though he hated to admit that they'll have to be the diversion and back-ups.

"That's a pretty solid plan, C-dumb. We'll go with that." Midoriya complimented him as he used one of the newer nicknames for his former friend and now rival.

"Suck it."

"Such vulgar language. Do you kiss your mothers with those mouths?" Shiozaki asked the two of them, appalled that they could exchange such rude words as if normal.

"Yes, I do, not too sure about him." Midoriya said as he pointed towards the blonde before he changed the subject, they didn't have time for a fight right now anyway. "Anyway, now we need a way to get her across and keep the villain distracted so he doesn't see her coming."

"I can call him and keep his attention on me. Tokage can use her quirk to carry Shiozaki and Uraraka can use hers to make her weightless." Todoroki suggested an idea as he didn't think it would be much effort for his fellow recommendations student to use her quick to move the girl if she was weightless, plus it would make controlling her mid-air much easier.

"I can do that." Uraraka said as it wouldn't be difficult to make the vine-haired girl weightless, she had come a long way since her first day so she wouldn't even have to worry about upsetting her stomach.

"Not a bad idea, let's do it." Tokage gave her approval to the plan with a thumbs-up and with that in place, the three girls started getting their part of the plan as Todoroki called the store using the number that Aizawa had given them.

"Who's this? The Police?" He heard All Might asking on the line, he quickly moved his phone away from his ear and passed this along to the rest of them.

"You two were right, All Might's playing the villain." Todoroki told them before he turned his attention back to the call. "I'm a pro hero. You're the culprit, aren't you?"

"I wonder about that." All Might replied but not with a conclusive answer but he did however move away from the door and turn his back to it as he spoke on the phone. This was something that Tokage picked up seeing how her eye was still on sight observing the inside of the store.

"He isn't looking, we're clear." The one eyes Tokage said as she separated one of her hands to carry the girl as Uraraka used her quirk to make her weightless. Tokage then used her dismembered appendage to grip the girl's white robe, started carrying her towards the ledge.

"Why don't you tell me what your demands are?" Todoroki asked their teacher who was playing the villain this time around.

"Yeah I got a demand, all those cops and your heroes need to leave the scene now. If you don't follow my demands, somebody is gonna get hurt." All Might replied to him, sounding annoyed that he wasn't getting his way but not facing the doorway, giving them time to get Shiozaki into position.

"We don't want anybody to get hurt today but you have to be more reasonable with your demands, tell me about the hostages. Is anybody injured?" Todoroki calmly replied as he treated this like the real deal and kept his cool.

"I'm not telling you jack! I want you heroes and police gone and I want them gone now!" All Might told him before he hung up and went back towards the door to keep an eye out for them.

"She's in position." Tokage reported as Shiozaki was landed before their teacher could turn his attention back to them. Tokage was even able to call back her hand without being spotted.

"Good because All Might is at the door again. He must be checking to see if we left." Midoriya said as he saw the shadow on the glass that could only be one person.

"We haven't left the alley so it's not like he knows where to look." Asui pointed out since he couldn't possibly know where they were. If he did, he would have done something with that info.

"Damn, in that position, he's too close to Vlad-sensei. Shiozaki also can't see him as well so she can't aim properly." Tokage said as her eye saw how Shiozaki couldn't get a clean shot from her position and with Vlad too close, she couldn't afford to mess up.

"We need a way to get him away from there so that she can move in and retrain him." Tetsutetsu stated before Bakugo got tired of waiting and stood up.

"Fuck this. I'm going in." Bakugo said as he started walking towards the alley exit.

"You can't be serious." Midoriya asked him as he didn't think the blonde was this battle crazy, this was an exercise of brains, not explosive brawn.

"I'll come in from straight on, All Might will turn his attention to me and Garden girl can swoop in and take him out. I'll use my explosions to blind him as I go." Well, at least Bakugo had a plan, even if it sounded rather short-sighted as they weren't sure if All Might was allowed to use his quirk, if he was, he could take Bakugo out before he knew what hit him.

"Don't you think that's a bit harsh?" Uraraka asked him but it didn't seem to faze him as he walked right on past her.

"Not at all. While he's at the window," Bakugo started before he blasted himself off, leaving the alley of the street with explosive speed. "I can really teach him a lesson!" They hear him yelling as he made the jump towards the place, leaving them no choice but to follow him.

"Dammit, there he goes again!" Midoriya cursed as he watched as the guy flew off towards the target, even Shiozaki looked surprised by this from her peach.

"What do we do?" Tokage asked as though she was quite intelligent herself, Midoriya had more experience dealing with how Bakugo handled things. Seeing now another option, he just ticked to himself before flying out as well.

"Follow him!" he called as the group of six rushed out of the alley towards the building. Tokage chose to run rather than split herself into pieces while Izuku came in from above.

"I figured that this was how things would start." Meanwhile, watching this go down, Aizawa made a note to himself as he figured that Bakugo or Tetsutetsu would try to take the direct approach with this. That being said, this wasn't the average exercise where you could punch your way out. "Sorry, but this training exercise wasn't one where you can fight."

Back with the students, as they approached, Midoriya noticed that All Might was no longer at the doors but had moved closer in, was this a trap? "Hold on, All Might isn't at the entrance anymore, Bakugo abort, abor-!" But alas, he was too late.

"Stun grenade!" Bakugo yelled as he let loose a blinding blast into the building which not only shattered the windows of the main entrance but was intended to blind All Might long enough for them to move in. They were in mere moments after Bakugo blasted his way in but rather than finding All Might and having to fight him, they found a sight none of there were expecting.

"What the…." Tetsutetsu asked as the smoke cleared and they all were able to see what awaited them in the store. Meanwhile, outside the building, Aizawa watched on.

'Now you all see,' 'This is where the special class begins.' The ever-tired-looking teacher thought to himself as he already knew what was waiting for them. The sight of All Might on the floor, covered in blood. 'It'll be interesting to see how you interpret and handle this.'

"The villain is….dead?" Uraraka asked as they took in the sight of what appeared to be a dead All Might. Moving in to investigate, Asui used her long hair to tickle his nose to see if she could get a reaction. She got one as All Might's face twitched as he held in a burst of light laughter at the tickling sensation on his nose.

"He's not dead, but it looks like he's playing it." Asui stated as she got back up and faced the group who now had to deal with a robbery that turned into a murder.

"What the heck man, we were supposed to capture, not kill." Midoriya yelled at Bakugo.

"Hey, that blast wasn't strong enough to kill shit! Tell them, Garden girl." Bakugo defended himself but Shiozaki didn't have anything to say in his defence.

"I didn't see much other than All Might moving further in from the doors. The blast and smoke prevented me from seeing anything else." She had looked away from the blast and covered her head to prevent the glass from the explosion from hurting her. She didn't appreciate how he had launched that attack with no warning.

"Same here, the blast messed with heat readings, I can't see anything good on the recording from Green day." Midoriya said he wasn't thermal camera didn't catch anything useful due to the blast, all he had was a blinding flash and now….this.

"I pulled my eye back before it was caught in the blast, but I saw more or less the same as Shiozaki did." Tokage also didn't see a thing, so now they were left with this mess.

"I doubt it was the blast that got him, that knife is covered in blood. That appears the murder weapon." Todoroki pointed out as the knife seemed to be the only real thing that could have done this, if it was the glass, there was be visible shrapnel or tears in his clothing but aside from the one on his chest, there was nothing.

"Hold up, that's the knife the All Might was holding. Isn't that right, Shiozaki?" Tokage asked as she remembered seeing him holding it earlier.

"Yes, that was his weapon but how could it be the murder weapon?" Shiozaki confirmed that though she was surprised that it was the apparent murder weapon.

"None of us saw anybody enter or leave. The entire place is surrounded by the cops so unless there is an exit we don't know about, the only people who could have done the deed," Tokage started as they all turned to the still tied up hostages as Midoriya helped Vlad up to his feet.

"Are right here." She finished as they all widen their eyes at the fact they were being accused of murder.

"I don't know about that. I mean, all of them are still tied up and none of them are anywhere near the body. How could any of them have done it?" Tetsutetsu said in their defense as you didn't just kill somebody, hell all of them are still tied up!

"I don't know, so why don't we get to the questioning part of this?" Midoriya suggested as Vlad was able to stand on his own two feet.

"They're right. We need more information about this." Todoroki agreed with him as they begun to question the hostages.

"I'm one of the workers of this jewelry store. The villain came out of nowhere and took down our security officer before he threatened my life. After he had me place the merchandise into his bag, he tied me up and put me right over there." Cementoss said when asked what he was doing there and what had happened before their arrival.

"I came in to buy some accessories when the villain but when I walked in, the villain was already in the store. I was so surprised by this that I wasn't able to react in time before he tied me up as well." Midnight said her bit, acing nothing like the seductive pro and teacher they had come to know thought Shiozaki appreciated how she wasn't flaunting her stuff like normal.

"Yo, I came in to find an engagement ring for my girl but then outta no-where, the villain appeared and decked that security guy. I was reaching for my phone to call the cops when he hit me with a sick lariat and knocked me out, yo. When I came to, I was already tied up." And Mic, well he acted like himself only if that self became a musician rather than a pro.

"I work security here but I was distracted. My back was turned to the door because of this one crappy rapping skills drawing my attention, that's when the villain came charging in, before I could react, he hit me over the head and I blacked out. I came to when you all got here and got me back on my feet." Vlad answered the question, to which Mic voiced his objections about his rapping being bad.

"You, was he already in the store when the villain showed up?" Todoroki asked as he turned to face Cementoss. Hopefully, if there was a fault in one of their stories, the others will point it out in their defense, after all, why defend a murderer when you have nothing to gain or lose?

"Oh yes, I was servicing him when the villain appeared. He got him with one blow before threatening to harm me as well." Cementoss replied to the question.

"When you came in, were these two already present?" Tokage asked Midnight in a different part of the store.

"I didn't right when I entered but when he was tying me up, I saw that he tied them up already and placed them in different parts of the store. He did the same with me." Midnight told them what she saw or rather what was staged, though from what they had seen earlier, her story backed up their observations on the scene before Bakugo's actions.

"Why wasn't the security guard tied up as well?" Asui asked them as she was still hung up on why Vlad wasn't tied up.

"Why it looked like that hit did a number on him, he didn't move till you heroes arrived and got him to wake up. Maybe the villain knew that." Cementoss said as they could agree that Vlad pulled off being knocked out quite well.

"Or he didn't have enough rope." Mic joked to them which they didn't appreciate going by the blank faces or glares they were sending his way.

"They all match up pretty nicely." Seeing that their stories all lined up, Todoroki couldn't find a loose end in any of them. They all matched up perfectly.

"No one robs a jewelry store unless it's for financial gain. Everyone, would it be a problem if we checked your wallets? I would like to see something." Midoriya asked as he turned to the four people who were on sight and taken hostage by the villain. Lucky for them, none of them objected to showing them their wallets.

"Mam, you are?" Midoriya asked when he opened his hand towards Midnight.

"Nemuri Kayama. I work for Nezu Advertising." 'Ms. Kayama' replied as she handed him her purse for him to look through.

"What are you checking?" Uraraka asked as she came up next to him as he did a quick search of the purse and its contents.

"As I said, you don't rob a jewelry store unless you plan to sell that stuff for profit. Meaning that the people involved would be short for cash." Midoriya explained his reasoning before he finished his search and handed Ms. Kayama her purse back. "Miss Kayama's wallet is all credit cards, store membership cards, and a checkbook. She doesn't seem like someone short on funds." He concluded as from what he could tell, she wouldn't be the type to involve herself in such a crime with that wallet.

"Same with, I'm sorry what was your name again?" Tetsutetsu was going the same as he just finished looking through Present Mic's wallet.

"Hizashi Yamada, solo musician." Mr. Yamada replied as he even gave the guy a card with his details on it.

"Right, Mr. Yamada has coupons, gift cards, and some cash but the money looks to be enough to get an engagement ring." Tetsutetsu finished.

"It's the same with Mr. Ishiyama and Mr. Kan. Both don't have a lot in them besides bus passes, lunch money, and in Mr. Kan's case, his phone." Asui reported as they had looked through the wallets of the two workers and found nothing amiss.

"Let me see how much is in Mr. Yamada's wallet." Midoriya said as he stepped forward and looked inside the wallet. There wasn't that much cash inside but it didn't appear to be a little either. "Excuse me, Mr. Ishiyama but is this enough cash to purchase an engagement ring from here?" Midoriya asked as he showed the wallet's contents to the 'store clerk' to get his opinion on it.

"Well it's not enough for one of the more pricy ones but you could certainly purchase a good quality ring with those funds." Mr. Ishiyama replied after looking through the banknotes.

"Figures, he didn't look like the kinda musician with much funds." Midoriya stated, to which Mic felt like he was stabbed at the cold dismissal of his craft, even if it was just an act that was mean. Seeing that there were getting nowhere fast, Bakugo started to grow iterated with how slow their pace was.

"Dammit, the villain was iced, one of them has to be the killer!" Bakugo yelled as he turned to the four teachers who aside from Vlad, did a good job faking being scared of the boy, for Vlad he didn't look all that impressed and more annoyed that he was being grilled despite the fact he was out like a light for the entire thing.

"But what would be the motive?" Todoroki asked him as that was still the unanswered question.

"The stolen jewelry of course!" Bakugo yelled back as he got into the boy's face, though Todoroki was used enough to his abrasive personality that this didn't bother as much as it once did.

"Even if that's the case, is it a bit reckless to kill the villain? They must have known they'll be one of the suspects." Asui pointed out as that was another flaw in the accusation. No one was dumb enough to commit a crime if they didn't think they could get away with it.

"Besides, the villain was the one with the jewelry, none of them touched the bag." Todoroki pointed as the bag hadn't been touched from where it had fallen before she picked it up and placed it on the counter.

"So if the motive wasn't theft, then perhaps it was an internal conflict?" Uraraka suggested to the group, though both Midoriya and Tokage didn't look sold on that.

"If there were more than one that maybe, but we didn't see anyone else besides them." Midoriya replied as he couldn't possibly see such a scenario going down if there was just one person.

"Were they any other villains or thieves?" Tetsutetsu asked Mr. Ishiyama.

"Not that I could see." Mr. Ishiyama shook his head as he answered.

"I didn't see any other criminals." Present Mic said in agreement as to when he woke up, he didn't see anybody else aside from those present.

"I just finished checking the building," Shiozaki announced as she just returned from checking the rest of the building. "There are no other entrances or holes in the walls. I even checked the windows. None of them are broken or open. They close from the inside so there's no way someone would have been able to get out, not without help." She finished as she looked at the group again, not sure what to make of this as none of this was adding up.

"So he was acting alone, which means that one of these three sent him to meet the big guy." Bakugo said as he faced the three, not counting Vlad as he was out.

"I didn't kill him!" Mr. Ishiyama stepped forward with his denial as he had a little nervous sweat going on for him.

"M-m neither!" Ms. Kayama was the second but equally sure of herself if not a bit desperate.

"It wasn't me yo, it wasn't me!" And like always, Mr. Yamada was the most vocal and active of the three as he denied any involvement in the crime. Meanwhile, back with Aizawa, he thought to himself about all things that could be progressing.

"They haven't been able to find definitive evidence on who the killers are, so here is where you can make a call." He thought aloud as he looked down at his phone and saw that the timer he had set for this exercise was drawing to a close. They had another 8 minutes to finish things up.

"Wouldn't it better to leave this to the police? They are the ones who investigate crimes and know crime scenes better than we do." Shiozaki suggested as they were getting nowhere fast.

"You do have a point there." Asui agreed with the girl as she reasoned that the police would have a much easier time than them with this case. After all, they had done when they were asked to do if you didn't consider the body on the floor.

"But is frustrating, knowing that the culprit is right here." Uraraka voiced her objection to that.

"It sucks, I know and we can't just pick one and say it was them, we got nothing on any of them." Tetsutetsu agreed with her the group seemed to be starting to vote on what action they should take since they didn't have a clear-cut leader.

"Then, why don't we make the guilty one confess?" Bakugo suggested as he gave the three a wicked glare but kept his explosions to himself. Though that alone proved enough for everyone to know what he was suggesting they do.

"Bakugo, that's enough." Todoroki told the blonde as he gave him a glare of his own.

"Heroes can't perform such actions, surely you know this." Shiozaki voiced her objection to such a tactic, forcing a confession was not the righteous method.

"She's right, if you do that, the police will arrest you." Asui reminded him as the police wouldn't take kindly to such in the real world.

"I know that, frog legs!" Bakugo yelled at them before he notices out of the corner of his eye that both Tokage and Midoriya were giving each other a look that said they were silently discussing something. "Hey Deku, Jigsaw, you two have thought of something, haven't you?"

"Yeah, something been bothering me. Why did he barricade himself in the building?" Midoriya asked them as that was the part that he had trouble believing about this whole thing.

"What do you mean, he's a criminal." Uraraka stated as it was kinda obvious that villains would do something that this.

"Yes, but this was a robbery, not a hostage situation. At least, that's how he must have planned it. So why not take the bag of loot and run? Why stay?" Tokage counted that argument as this wasn't supposed to be a hostage situation but more along the lines of daylight robbery. The news didn't cover it as much but that did happen and more often than not, the villain was captured after he/she tried to flee the scene.

"Well, that could be because as I put the jewelry in the bag as he told me to, the police showed up." Mr. Ishiyama told them a part of the story he hadn't revealed before but they chalked that up to them not asking for it.

"Someone from the outside must have called the police then since Mr. Yamada wasn't able to make the call in time." Midoriya stated as they all recalled how Present Mic was taken down before he could make the call, when they checked his phone, they found that it had been smashed, most likely by the criminal to prevent it from being used.

"Mr. Ishiyama. Does this place have a silent alarm of some kind?" Tokage asked the store worker as it was common knowledge that many businesses had such a system in place, the movies and crime shows like to paint it as a button underneath the table which a worker can press without alerting the criminals to his action.

"Yes, but it's down for maintenance." Mr. Ishiyama replied.

"So you weren't the one who called the authorities?" Midoriya asked him as he kept on taking in this information to paint a picture of what went down.

"That's right. I don't even have my phone on me, it's in the break room charging." Mr. Ishiyama told them to which Shiozaki nodded her head as she had seen a phone charging in the break room when she checked the building for alternate exits.

"So if you didn't call the police, and Mr. Yamada was stopped before he could make the call, who did." Uraraka asked the group as now that didn't even have a person that called the police in the first place, or at least, she thought she didn't.

"It was Ms. Kayama." Tokage said as she turned her gaze to the shocked woman who felt herself being singled out from the other two.

"M-me?" Ms. Kayama asked them as she felt the other three hostages watching her, appearing just as surprised as she did.

"She's right. You're the only one who came in after the villain appeared, meaning that you could have very well have seen him entering the building." Midoriya said as he found it pretty odd that she missed a villain entering the store or the commotion that broke out inside before she opened the door, the front was glass, how could you not see it happening?

"Hold on a minute, guys, that seems a little farfetched." Tetsutetsu stated as that just sounded like a theory.

"Idiots, don't make things worse. Why would the person who called the police walk into and get caught on purpose?!" Bakugo asked them, wondering where the hell these two supposed eggheads got that idea into her brains.

"The same reason that the villain would barricade himself in the store. Ms. Kayama," Tokage stated as she stepped closer to the older woman. "You knew the villain, didn't you?" She asked the women who started to appear uncomfortable about the topic.

"Not only that, I'm betting that you knew that he was a villain and that he committed crimes on the regular." Midoriya stated as he started to explain their theory to the group.

"Knowing ahead of time he was going to hit this jewelry store, you followed him and when you saw him go in, you called the police." Tokage took it up from there as they could all imagine that she followed him and called the police, which would explain why they got here so quickly.

"But you couldn't do it, just stand back and let him get arrested. So after making the call, you entered the jewelry store yourself." Midoriya shook his head as he could see that someone in that mindset wouldn't be able to just stand back. "No doubt seeing you here must have been a shock for him."

"Even so, he must have understood your intentions and carried on with the robbery, tying you up like the rest of them. But as he did that," Tokage pointed out towards the cardboard cut-outs that had been blown down by Bakugo's entry. "The police arrived and he found himself cornered, so he dug in and barricaded himself in the store."

"W-why would I do something like that?" Midnight asked them, though she didn't sound as sure of herself as she did a moment ago, hinting that either she was hiding something or they were close to the truth.

"It's because you wanted to stop him, didn't you? To get him away from a life of crime." Midoriya asked her though he already knew the answer to the question there.

"I can already see it now, you have tried in the past, haven't you, to get him out of the life? But going by the fact he's lying there like that, you were never able to get him to quit." Tokage said as she spared the body a glance, truly a pity since she was most likely trying to prevent this or prison.

"And that's why you did what you did to get him caught by the police." Midoriya stated as Ms. Kayama started to appear guilty or remorseful, if only by her body language.

"Hold up, guys. Even if things went down like you think that did, why was the villain killed?" Uraraka asked as with all that, she seemed like the last person to want to kill the villain.

"She wanted to stop him, not kill him didn't she?" Todoroki asked them as he got the same thing from that little reveal and couldn't see why she would hurt him. Did she have a brief lapse of sanity or was she so angry she wasn't thinking straight?

"That's right, there's no way she would have killed him." Tetsutetsu agreed with the other two on that one.

"You're not wrong guys, she didn't have a motive." Midoriya said as he looked at the three of them before turning his attention back towards the three. "That's why the culprit isn't among us." He finished the statement which shocked them all till some of them started to understand what he meant.

"Hold on, I'm confused." Tetsutetsu said as he didn't get it.

"What do you two mean?" Shiozaki asked them. They had done a full sweep of the area, seen no one else enter or leave, so why could the culprit not be among them.

"Could it be…?" Asui asked as she looked down in thought.

"Suicide?" Todoroki asked aloud as he looked down at the body. He did find it odd that the murder weapon was the one that the villain was holding.

"That's the most likely conclusion." Tokage explained to them. "Even though he knew of Ms. Kayama's intentions, he still tried to escape but then we showed up, he saw that he was truly boxed in."

"So he saw that there was no way out and took his own life?" Shiozaki asked them, appalled that he committed such a sin just to escape justice.

"Doubtful." Midoriya shook his head before he looked down at the body with a look of sadness to him. "He did it for Ms. Kayama. His last thoughts must have been that if he was captured alive, then their relationship might have been exposed. Even if he couldn't find the strength to leave a life of crime behind, he also couldn't let such a dark shadow fall over her life."

"That's why, when he saw Bakugo coming," Tokage started as she could imagine that when he saw the hero approaching, he thought that he had no other option. "He decided to try and take that secret with him to the grave." She turned her gaze to the woman who hasn't denied a single accusation, hinting that they were all right. "Ms. Kayama didn't tell us the truth, because she realized why he did what he did, how he gave his life for her sake." It was at that moment that Ms. Kayama broke down in tears as she fell to her knees.

"And that's why you kept quiet about it. You didn't want to do anything that could have made his sacrifice meaningless." Midoriya finished as they looked at the crying women with sympathy as he breathed out a sigh, he certainly wasn't expecting this when he signed up for these classes.

"So Ms. Kayama and the villain were a…?" Uraraka started to ask though she already knew the answer. Midoriya didn't give a verbal response but he did nod his head at her question.

"It's so sad. She was trying to save him because she loved him." Asui wiped a tear from her eye as this was so sad even if it was staged.

"And he was trying to save her because he loved her." Tetsutetsu finished the sentiment as he cried manly tears.

"Even though he couldn't find the strength to embrace a more virtuous life, he still loved her and wished to make sure she could live her own life. Oh, what a troubled soul he was." Shiozaki said as she brought her hands together for a pray.

"For it all to end like this, how ironic." Todoroki uttered to himself as he looked away, not sure how to handle this.

"That the truth of this all robbery." Tokage finished. But while they all were moved by it all, there was one of them who didn't seem to care.

'The hell are they talking about?! That damned Deku reads too many murder mystery novels.' Bakugo thought to himself with an angry scowl as he didn't sign up for drama, dammit! He wanted hero training.

"Alright, that it. The exercise is over." Aizawa walked into the building as he showed them his phone and how the screen showed that their time had run out. At that little sight, it was like a switch had been flipped as Midnight was back to herself in an instant.

"Oh, that was fun!" She cheered as she got up to her feet.

"She's back to herself already?!" The group, including Bakugo, asked themselves in shock as that change was jarring.

"Talk about turning on a dime." Midoriya muttered to himself, slightly concerned that she was such a good actor.

"Thank you three, you can go back now." Aizawa stated as the three teachers nodded to him before walking off.

"How was my rapping?" Present Mic asked the two as they walked past the students on their way out.

"It was a little over the top…" Cementoss told him as though it was just an act, the guy wasn't much of a rapper.

"Midoriya, Tokage." Aizawa turned his attention to the two who had built up the theory that proved to be true.

"Yes sir." The two responded to him, standing straight and facing him.

"Good work, your deductions were close to the same as the scenario that was prepared for this exercise. The villain cut himself with his knife." The tired teacher told them two as he was impressed that they were able to understand what the scenario was to such a degree. He was prepared for the students to choose to just leave the investigation to the police.

"Oh yeah! We are right on the money." Tokage cheered herself as she had heard how hard it was to get praise from this guy, she considers this a win!

"Excellent work getting there from just wondering why he barricaded himself in the store in the first place." Aizawa didn't scold her, seeing that there was no point with the exercise was over and only kept on talking.

"Oh, Aizawa-sensei is praising you, Midoriya." Uraraka pocked her friend in the side as she smiled at him, one that he returned.

"Yeah, that only happens once in a blue moon." Midoriya agreed with her as he recalled how it was rare to hear Aizawa praise any of them during class or practice, the best you normally got was 'you didn't fail' or 'you can improve that.'

"But you all overlooked one thing." But seeing how they are getting too happy for him, Aizawa decided to drop the bomb on them.

"What? We missed something?" Shiozaki asked as she didn't think there was any more to the story, what could they be?

"That's correct. That's why your score for this capture exercise will be," Aizawa started before he gave them the news. "Zero points."

"What?!" They all yelled out, that was outrageous, sure they could have done better but zero points?!

"The hell is with that?!" Bakugo yelled at him, to which Aizawa turned his gaze down.

"Firstly, look down." He told them as they all looked where he was and noticed one tiny little detail.

All Might was gone.

"The heck?" Tetsutetsu yelled out in confusion as none of them had even noticed him leaving.

"Where did All Might's corpse go?" Midoriya asked before they all heard that familiar laugh moving away from them, in response, they all ran out of the store only to see All Might running off.

"Hahahahaha! I'm fleeing towards freedom!" All Might yelled out as he disappeared around a corner, leaving them all shocked and without words as to describe this chain of events.

"He's alive?!" They asked as they could only watch as he ran off, none of them able to understand what the hell just happened.

"You made two mistakes with your investigation. Firstly, you assumed that he was a corpse and didn't tie him up, which allowed the criminal to escape." Aizawa said as he came out to stand alongside them and explain things. "Secondly, you didn't stop to think why he chose this jewelry store in the first place. Truth was that he chose this place because he was working with Vlad to rob the place. That's why he didn't tie him up, they were planning on making off with the loot together." He explained as they all realized that Vlad wasn't present when Aizawa excused the teachers, did he make his escape when they were questioning Midnight?

"But Midnight." Tokage, for once, didn't have anything to say as she tried to bring up how Midnight knew he was coming but Aizawa was prepared for that.

"Never said how she knew he was going to hit this place, if you had investigated further or looked at the scene with a more critical eye, you would have immediately found it suspicious that the security guard wasn't paying attention to the door, or that thought he was supposedly taken down by a single blow to the head, he had no visible or notable injuries or issues that one would associate with such a blow." Aizawa told them as any security guard worth their salt wouldn't take their eyes off the front door and interior, added to the fact that the villain took him out with a single blow that left no side effects would have been a clue.

"So because of that, not only did All Might get away but Vlad was able to snatch the bag of stolen goods when you weren't looking and get away." Aizawa said as he looked inside at the place where the bag of jewelry should have been.

"Hold up, he did what?" Midoriya said as he ran back in and true to his teacher's observation, the jewelry was missing.

"So they even got away with the loot?" Todoroki asked, showing confusion and surprise from all this.

"That's allowed." Uraraka asked as all that just seemed unfair.

"That's just…..just dirty. You did us dirty, man." Tetsutetsu fell in depression as they didn't even manage to keep the stolen good.

"I can't believe I was wrong." Tokage stated as she knew felt like shit. Man, she should have seen that coming!

"There was another hint to this when Asui tickled All Might's nose. That was a clue that he was playing dead, or did you think that All Might was a poor actor?" Aizawa asked them all as they paused at that one. That was a clue!

"(Kero!)" Clearly, Asui didn't think much of it either but now they were paying for it.

"He reacted, didn't he? Corpses don't move. He was alive" Aizawa told them before he started to walk off. "That's it for this group's special class, you all fail. Dismissed!"

"That's it…?" Midoriya asked meekly as he knows felt like hugging Yu as he tried to rebuild himself after that.

"After all that, we didn't even manage to secure the stolen good." Shiozaki was equally disappointed in herself as they screwed up big time with that one.

"This is dirty!" Bakugo yelled out in anger as he let off an explosion to try and vent.

"Wait a minute! If the villain was alive, then that means he never killed himself for All Might's sake. He was just waiting for a chance to get the hell outta here!" Uraraka realized, which just made things worse for them.

"He wasn't protecting her, he was protecting himself!" Midoriya yelled out in anger as he wanted to break something now.

"Midnight misunderstood it and thought he was doing it for her." Asui now felt sorry for Midnight as she didn't seem to notice that little fact, but to be fair, that's whole lotta blood on the floor, even if he staged it, how'd he lose that much and still be able to run off?

"Then what about their love?!" Tetsutetsu asked.

"Their love?" Midoriya asked from his state of rage and depression.

"Their love…?"Todoroki wondered aloud.

"There was no love." Bakugo yelled as he felt like his day just went to shit. Sadly for him, it got worse when the jewelry store came down right next to them, burying the surprise students in dust and some debris.

"Oh no, Jojo." That was the only thing Midoriya was able to say before he found himself engulfed in the debris.

"Why!?" they all yelled out at why UA decided that the building shouldn't last.

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(Back in the main buildings)

"Man, keeping muscle from for so long is exhausting." All Might thought to himself as he closed the door into the staffroom behind him as he relaxed and exited his muscle form. "I still need to make sure that young Midoriya finished up what I'll need to train young Tetsutetsu in One for All." He thought aloud as he made the transfer just after 1-B finished their practical exam. It had been some time since then, more than enough time for OFA to take root in its new user so he was eager for them to start training it. Though they'll have to wait for after the summer camp as he wasn't on the list of teachers going.

As he thought about this, he approached his desk and started up his computer. One of the first things he saw was the email from earlier. "Oh yeah, I got an email." He asked himself as he looked at who was the sender and he was pleasantly surprised by the nametag. "From Mellissa?"

"Dear Uncle Might…" He started reading it aloud….

It's been a real long time since we last spoke. You might have been surprised to see my email. I'm writing to you because this year, the I-Expo will be held on I-island, where papa and I live. Schools in Japan are on summer vacation right now, right? I will be sending two invites to the event later, you can bring whoever you want knowing you, you'll be sure to bring some unique. Came to see Papa and me while you're here. A Japanese hero who fought against villains while studying abroad, and his reunion with an American scientist after so many years…Don't you think it'll be dramatic?

P.S Papa doesn't know that I sent this email or that I'll be sending you tickets to the expo and reception. He'll be so shocked when he sees you when you came to visit. I can't wait to see his surprised face.

'A symbol of peace?' He thought to himself as he just finished the email.

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(Flashback)

The flashback took him back to his younger years, to when he and Dave first become real friends and not just work partners. He remembered how they had driven out to the beach and Dave had asked him what his goal in life was, about why he wanted to be a pro. "What I'm aiming for is a world where everyone can live and laugh. I want to become the symbol of peace that shines a light on that world." He finished his declaration as he looked into the sunset, determined to live up to the legacy that his master had left behind and one day, defeat the monster that had taken such a righteous hero from the world.

(Flashback – End)

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"Dave…" Funny, it had been years since he last thought about that day. he had achieved his goals by now, he became the number one, a symbol of peace, was living up to the legacy of his master and One for All and years now, had believed that he had taken down All for One once and for all. Only now that last one was up for debate as from what they had seen from the league and with their Nomus, they are a strong reason to believe that son of a bitch was still alive and very active in the villain scene. He knew that his time was running out, that he would need to either take him out or be forced to hand this issue down to his successor but he also didn't want to saddle his old enemy onto his protégé, it just didn't feel right.

He had to make a decision.

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(That Afternoon - Saitama Prefecture)

"I…" A very familiar voice called out as it raced down the residential area of the town he was in.

"Am waiting to ambush young Tetsutetsu on his way home!" All Might finished as he came to a stop right in front of Tetsutetsu as he was entering his family home.

"All Might?!" Tetsutetsu asked/yelled as the last thing he was expecting when he came home from school was to be ambushed by number one. It was a good thing his parents weren't home yet otherwise this would be very hard to explain to them. Even more so when All Might puffed out into his skinny form, man, he was still getting used to that.

"Young Tetsutetsu, you know about I-island, right?" All Might coughed into his hand as he asked him the question.

"Oh yeah, it's that super high-tech island where all the geniuses in the world live and work, right?" Tetsutetsu didn't think himself a bastion of knowledge but he did know big things like this and what was bigger than a manmade island that could move around like a boat?

"Would you like to go with me?" All Might asked him when he saw genuine happiness in the boy's eyes when he heard the term.

"Wait, like go to I-island, one of the best places on earth, with you?" Tetsutetsu asked him again, maybe the setting sun was getting to him because this was amazing!

"You wouldn't be going for fun, you know. Now that you're my successor, I'm been thinking that you need to develop a more shrewd sense of judgment, and meeting with Dave can help with that." All Might explained as had thought about and decided that even if he still wished to try and take down AFO one last time, he needed to start his successor's training and start it in earnest. His old friend might just have some tools and ideas that they could even use.

'He's going the mile…just for me?' Tetsutetsu thought to himself as he saw just how far his mentor was willing to go to train him. Seeing that, how could he refuse? "Of course, I'll be honored."

"Then I advise that you go inside and pack your things, we'll be leaving immediately." All Might told him with a laugh as he pointed towards his house.

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"Hold up! Like right now?! I can't just up and leave like that! What will my parents say?!" Tetsutetsu demanded of him, he couldn't just spring this on his folks, they'll never approve! Lucky for him, All Might didn't seem to be serious as he laughed to himself.

"Just kidding, sorry about that but I wanted to see the look on your face. No, you should pack but we're be leaving the day after tomorrow, in the morning." All Might told him as only a man-man would leave for I-island so quickly when it wasn't an emergency.

"Oh thank goodness, that gives me time to run this by my folks." Tetsutetsu sighed to himself as that gave him time to approach his folks about this and convince them to say yes.

"I suggest you get to it then, I'll be eagerly awaiting their decision!" All Might laughed as he bulked up into his muscle from and like that, he was off, having jumped off towards wherever he was going.

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And that is the chapter, I hope you all liked it since it was supposed to be a filler or omake, I never looked too hard into it but I wanted to add it nonetheless. One of the major changes that those who watched the episode would note was the fact that he didn't just tell Tetsutetsu to pack since their leaving, I still don't know how they convince Inko to approve that as he's still a minor, he can't just leave the country without parental consent. Plus, I doubt Melissa would send the tickets and that email so late seeing how the expo is right around the corner, so here she send them two days in advance to give All Might time to make time in his busy schedule as even if she didn't know about his condition and health, she must have thought that he's a busy man, he can't just drop everything and head to I-island, not without some notice so he can reschedule things.

When it came to the actual exercise, the only real change was the fact that Vlad was involved and in on the apparent robbery, the other major difference was that the villains managed to get away with the jewelry since none of them were paying attention to the back or noticed when Vlad slowly but surely moved closer towards it before he grabbed it and ran. If this chapter didn't give you a hint, I'll just say it, those in 1-B are going to be more involved in the story in the coming chapters, you can bet that they'll be present in the next arc with covers the entire movie. It's completed and now all I have to do is write out the actual chapters since I've completed planning for every chapter already.

Also, when it came to the students of 1-B, I hope that I got their personalities right since they don't have a lot of screen time, I had to go with what their wiki pages say about them. Tokage is supposed to be chatty, confident, and extremely provocative, and talkative. Not only that, but she is also quite intelligent and a great fighter so I had her along with Midoriya be the ones to unravel the truth of the exercise and act similarly to how Midoriya(at least, my take of him) does because he's also confident but also a wise-ass. Shiozaki is a very modest and courteous person but also deeply religious not afraid to make her pure intentions known but also has an unexpected vindictive side. She didn't act on that last part as Asui stopped her before she and Bakugo could start since when I think about it, those two would not get along due to very different personalities and approach to dealing with others in a social setting.

Also, as you can imagine, the two classes grew closer due to that mall incident because since all three were kept in the same room, whenever one of their friends came over, they spoke with all of them so unlike cannon when 1-A and 1-B have little to no interaction up till the summer camp raid, here students from both classes have already made contact and become close friends as with the case with Itsuku, Izuku, Tetsutetsu, and Yui. I have plans for others from 1-B, including Pony since she and Juzo still haven't made anything of the fact they saw Izuku at a karaoke bar, they didn't see his table so they didn't see Yu but they saw and heard him. that will come up later but for now, thanks for reading.

Next arc: Three Heroes

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Reviews:

Cosmyk Angel: Yeah, it can come off like that since Izuku tends to think back to events as if the entire show is him remembering his life up till a certain point. Sorry about that.

FouzyFFN: They'll find out soon enough, but not all of them at once.

Yamajiji: In this take of it, that was the only conclusion as Izuku had no way of knowing that Tomura was about to retreat without causing a fuss, we all saw in cannon that was what was going through his head. He's shown to question his motives as Tomura hasn't grown into the leader and villain he can be down the line, he's still immature, short-sighted, and petty. Spinner looks up to Stain so wanting to make sure that their boss can bring about his ideals seems kinda obvious.

D3lph0xL0v3r: He couldn't hear the conversation, if he could what why didn't anybody else even closer to the two hear it? They were sitting in a mall with people walking right past them, if they were talking loudly without trying to be discreet, someone would have at least gave them the look or stopped and asked what the heck the two were talking about. If he had heard it, you can bet he would have shot Tomura instead.

Zukafew119: Once more, two reviews, two responses. For the earbuds, this take on Izuku is more tech-savvy for obvious reasons so having such things on hand seemed to fit. Yeah, Bakugo's gonna have to find a new way of cursing Izuku out because that won't be the only time he uses that comeback. Nor will it be the only time someone makes a statement about Katsuki's MILF of a mother, he's gonna have to deal with his classmates and guy friends in general at least bringing up the fact his mother is hot.

Green day didn't detect Nejire because she was one of the first buildings next to the door entering the zone, Green Day didn't start from the scan from the beginning so it never even saw her. Writing Nejire's character was a little tricky due to her thought process and personality but I think I got that down. When it came to Nejire in the fights, she may be a beast but she's an adorable one, kinda like if a giant puppy was terrorizing your hometown. On the one hand, it's crazy powerful and on the other, you wanna hug it.

Yeah, the first part of the fights were hard for them as they were written to show that they were way in over their heads, that All Might and Nejire-Chan were on a level they can't even see yet. When it came to the waves that both Midoriya and Nejire use, that was something I enjoyed putting in since I can't see her getting angry unless it's a villain or is serious-such as the Overhaul raid as she knew that a little girl needed to be saved. If it were just a normal raid for drugs, she'll have most likely been in a better mood as when we saw her, Froppy and Uravity took down those two giant villains. And no, she wasn't using half power, it was even lower than that as we all saw how Mirio owned the entire class. It stands to reason that she and Tamaki could have put in the same level of effort(not much) and done the same.

Like she said, he's been fighting and training at UA longer than him so it makes sense she would be able to see through most of his attacks and tricks since though creative, he is still a newbie to this. Koda does speak in cannon…..just rarely, like as rare of finding anything other than piggies(Not sure if I'm spelling that right) magic on Pokémon Go in the first 6 months(Game in 60 seconds reference). Aizawa being himself was a good change of pace as I also had a really strict teacher back in high school so writing how one would view this kinda thing wasn't too hard. And yes, they are smart enough to be keeping collateral as low as they can. Those aren't Fairy Tail characters, honestly, how the hell is the guild still open when members constantly break or ruin things on missions? I wouldn't hire you to defend my town if I knew a third of the town was liable to be caught in the fighting and destroyed.

Bakugo and his nicknames, it was bound to happen sooner or later as I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure he was the one that came up with the nickname for Mirio, that nickname being Tintin. Nejire-Chan moment when she got upset about him not using her hero name was also pretty funny to write. All Might, on the other hand, moves pretty fast so it was a good thing that Izuku designed the system of his gear to be able to keep track of such objects, plus he knew he would be fighting at a disadvantage against people with quirks so he would try to fit as many gadgets and features into his gear as possible to make up for that.

The trap took me a while to come up with as I wanted everyone on the team to have a significant role in the battle and not just diligent them to side characters when it should be their moment. Also, Izuku in cannon probably would have made use of his knowledge of the guy's weak spot if he wasn't on the run for 90% of his match, here they had a solid plan and Izuku makes more use of his clear genius-level intellect. Plus to be honest, I forgot for a while that his gauntlets can electrocute people like that and only remembered when reading older chapters, it was a great place to bring them back into focus, don't you think?

Sero wasn't trying to wrap him up completely as that would have certainly added things sooner but I chose not to go that route because Sero is still young so he will make these kinds of mistakes, you can't fault him for that and the second reason was more for the plot, I wanted the fight to drag on and make them have to work for that win. With Nejire, there was no other way they were going to take her down other than going big, it didn't make me happy to bring Tsu pain but for the sake of the plot, he had to be done. Izuku on the other hand has been dealing with Bakugo his whole life as he knows what one of his blasts feels like and could mentally prepare himself for it.

With the students, wouldn't you think that tasing, burying, and then wrapping up someone in boulders and tape would be enough to keep them down? People like Nezu and Recovery Girl have seen him come back from worse. They were proven right when All Might broke out and laid into them, taking out three of them without much trouble. Asui would have been caught too if she hadn't cloaked and escaped when she did.

The little scene with Power Loader was also me goofing off as I wanted to give him some of the craziness that other teachers seem to have but much like Mei, his brand of crazy is all things machines. That scene with the van was done to show that Izuku does plan for every occasion seeing how he didn't know what they were going to fight or how their test was being graded, he just brought it on the off chance they end up fighting zero pointers or something. I also took that as a chance to explain why it's technically legal for a minor to have any of that.

Yeah, if All Might had intercepted it before Izuku, he would have destroyed it before it could have been of any use. With the eyes, that was an error on my part, it was supposed to be red eyes as it is a prototype to the much better model that will feature down the road. I already made the change so that chapter should account for that with all the scenes describing the eyes saying they are red, not green. You are also not the only one that got the Gundam reference and I would be lying if I said that Gundam didn't have a role in the design as it is the biggest mecha series in the world. It also took inspiration from War Machine seeing how the suit was designed to carry heavy weapons and be extremely durable.

With the students and teachers, could they have any other type of reactions to such a beast as not one of them could take on such a monster? Kaminari's reaction was kinda my reaction when I thought to myself how I would react to such a thing. Wouldn't you be unnerved that this weapon of war was built by a student, a first-year? What would you think he could build by his third year? Also, it's less predicting and more admitting as All Might is still human-even if he wasn't injured by AFO, he is most likely in his late 40s, he has at most a decade left of hero work before he'll be too old. Sure there are exceptions such as Yoroi Musha but they fight in completely different ways.

The flaws had to be there, this was his first actual mech so it would have some growing pains as Mei would put it. The fuel lines were leaking due to damage from the fighting and the structure itself had flaws in the metalwork. That plot twist was something I got from Homecoming when Tony shows that he's controlling his suit from India via wifi, of course, Izuku doesn't have that kind of range yet and he mostly left the onboard AI to do the fighting but maybe down the line, he'll be capable of something similar.

The note wasn't his idea but a group one, they were refereeing the meme 'Ran bitch, ran!' I changed it since they had run but the joke still stands. Recovery Girl was going to grill into them no matter what, from the first stupid move to the end, those five took some serious risks there.

Blackbelt219: I already addressed that and responded to you but thanks again for pointing that out.

GunBlade2020: Yeah, but in my opinion, few quirks in the MHA universe would have made that exchange any less tense.

bauers374: That's right, so far, you are the first one to say it. If he's not obvious by now, the kid will be using hero movies, cartoons, and games as the inspiration behind his passcodes. As they are well over 200 years in the future, the odds of someone just knowing these things are as low as a shark eating a cow. I didn't play Arkham City.

DCosmicSage38: I'm still on the fence about that as he created F.R.I.D.A.Y. to replace J.A.V.I.S due to Javis being used to create Vision, at least in the MCU. You can bet he won't try you create Ultron or anything like it. I want to have more fun chapters like that too but fitting them into everything is pretty hard as is.

Zukafew119: Well, it was the end of season 2 so I wanted to give them some more screen time before the movie and season 3. In this take, Tomura was humiliated by Izuku and his classmates on two separate occasions. The first being the USJ where Izuku roasted him and proved his Nomu could be beaten and the second being that, unlike cannon where it's' just Stain taking up the headlines, it was Izuku, Todoroki, and Kendo as they fought against the guy in live television, though the trio didn't notice the helicopter at the time. Anyway, the point is that all this loss has spurred the villain to grow at an accelerated rate. I don't know what he does in the manga but I've heard that he becomes a beast, so here he'll reach that sooner rather than later.

Tomura thinking the guy can be of use makes sense when you think about all the shit the guys have been put through, the league attracts the outcasts of society, hence why so many stories have Izuku join or even lead the league. Tomura can see that and has some plans, or drafts for then, to try and bring him in. AFO would agree with such as he takes and gives quirks like candy, I doubt someone like him would look down on someone for not having one, especially when his brother was thought quirkless for so long. That being said, he knows that how to pitch your idea or views is equally important to the idea itself, Tomura may very well be able to bring Izuku into the fold….if he can pitch his goals in such a way that Izuku would sympathize with and want to aid.

The same with Shoto as in cannon, he has every reason to spite his father yet is given no real reason to want to become a hero, only that when he was like 5, he wanted to be a hero because he saw an interview of All Might. It's not the best reason as becoming a pro in this world must have been the childhood dream for 7 out of 10 kids in their world. Also with not going after families, it is less a matter of ethics and more a matter of survival as we have all seen what vengeance-driven vigilantes can do to criminals, just think Peppermint and Punisher. AFO is given this advice as striking at a pro's family is the same as the nuclear option, it should be the last resort.

I didn't feel like adding French words into Aoyama's speech and there wasn't much to add to that as though many stories have been speak using a think French accent while mixing in a hell of a lot of actual French but here, he doesn't too that too much. Tenya's back in the saddle and he's ready to make up for all the lost time as though Tokoyami, Midoriya, and Uraraka no doubt passed along classwork, they can't help him with practical training so he's gonna need this summer camp more than the ones that failed. Uraraka still develops the crush but at this point, that's all it is a crush. They'll soon learn that he's already in a relationship so don't expect that ship to go anywhere.

Please remember that he does date a pro hero so Yu would have at least tried to teach him how to act in a crisis, give him a bit of an advantage in class, which is why he was able to keep his head and not panic despite the fact his life was literally on the line. Tomura bought the bluff since he's seen what the kid is capable of creating. If Tony Stark made that same threat, I wouldn't believe him because chances are, he's right. Plus I needed a way for Izuku to have the same control over the situation so I added that little tool but I think I've already established that the guy never leaves home without one.

I also like Shiozaki, to be frank, I ship her with Izuku the fourth most out of the cast because the two seem like they'll get along just fine. Third is Tsu/Izuku, second is Uraraka/Izuku and number one is Mei/Izuku. What can I say, I don't like shipping what's canon because it's canon, it's gonna happen so why not ship two characters who may not get together. Villains work with fear, so Izuku was giving his honest opinion as we see in canon that Stain is so intimidating that he managed to make both the students and pros, which included Endeavour freeze from fear. Meanwhile, Izuku had never frozen when it came to the league or Tomura, at least he hasn't as of season 4.

Yeah, shit hit the fan when the fight broke out as not only did they fail to capture him but they suffered three injured, one of whom lost a heck of a lot of blood. It may have been fruitless now but it will help serve a purpose later on in the story, but I won't reveal what or when at this time.