Alex3600: hey, so, this chapter went completely off the original rails from what I hand-wrote, so enjoy the chaos!
Alex walked into the room and promptly fell.
-thud-
"OW!" Present Mic ran over to check on Eraserhead, then on Alex. Eraserhead walked over to them as well. Alex went to get up but almost fell, so they opted to stay on the floor. It was then they realized that they were feeling very fatigued. Alex realized the trash can was still full of vomit. They went to get up, trying to push past the dizziness and fatigue.
"Alex, don't try to get up, you're very tired, that took a lot out of you" Alex looked up to see the rat standing over them.
"Not to be rude, but who are you?" The rat laughed
"I guess we never really got an introduction for either of us. My name is Nedzu, I'm the principal of UA High" Alex looked at Nedzu, shocked. This was the Nedzu! Talking to them! Alex nodded, keeping the excitement building up in their chest down, making sure not to show it. After all, emotions weren't the best thing to show to people you just met. Alex went to get up again before 3 hands grabbed their shoulders and pushed them down onto the ground.
"Nope, Alex, stop trying to get up, you've overused your quirk, you need to rest" Alex heard a new voice before noticing 2 more figures standing near them, 1 was short, like a grandma, and the other was tall and thin. Alex registered something coming off of the tall one before a mist hit them and the world started to fade away as they fell into a quirk-induced sleep.
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Shouta sighed, removing his scarf from his nose and mouth. Nemuri grinned at him, as she picked up Alex. Hizashi started to laugh.
"Sho, you should have seen your face, it was like, 'What the hell is happening?'" Both Hizashi and Nemuri started to laugh. Shouta groaned, they were always like this. Hell, if he hadn't known better, he would have said that Nemuri was also on his and Hizashi's wedding certificate. but he did know better since Nemuri was his best man (woman?). He looked over at Alex, they looked surprisingly younger than their age.
'Almost like a child' Shouta looked at Nedzu and Recovery Girl. Nedzu stared back, just as hard.
"I'm going to take her to 1-A's dorms" Nemuri went to leave
"They" she turned back.
"What?"
"Alex is non-binary" Shouta informed her.
"Ah," she grinned as she left with them. As soon as she left, Recovery Girl hit her staff against the ground
-Crack-
The sound reverberated (Alex3600: ohh, big word that I spelled correctly!) around the room, causing Shouta to look at her.
"Now, I don't care whether you want them to or not, Alex needs medical attention! Therefore, I'll be giving them a check-up, including a blood test and some shots." She looked at Shouta "You are in charge of getting them there" Shouta nodded, sighing
"They probably don't want to go, or be in a room like that" Recovery Girl looked at him
"Why not?" Shouta just then realized that he fucked up. He took in a deep breath before saying "They seemed to just not like being inside that much, and most kids who were on the streets don't like doctor's offices anyways"
'I can't give away their secret, even if I could, I wouldn't, it's their's to share, not mine' Shouta went to leave when he heard 2 gasps and 1 laugh. He turned around and-
"Ack" Alex was there, staring at him. Then another figure appeared. They looked like Alex but had wings made of fire, a tail, and horns. Their hair was also teal, as well as they had red eyes.
"Hello, Eraserhead!" Alex hadn't looked to their right, so they most likely knew about the other them. Shouta still felt like pointing it out.
"Alex, who's the other you?" Alex looked confused
"Other me?" they looked to the right, before seeing the Other Alex. The Other Alex grinned and waved. Alex looked shocked
"H-how are you here?" Other Alex grinned and shook their head. Alex seemed to be hearing something before saying
"Well, how did this" They gestured at the Other Alex "happen, I just remember a voice" Other Alex sighed and appeared to have said something to Alex. Alex nodded,
"So this happened because of the mist thing" Other Alex nodded, then said something to Alex. Alex started to fade- wait, fade? He blinked, and they were fading. Other Alex was starting to fade, but he heard a voice- not Alex's, but a voice that ever so slightly changed octaves with every word, say
"Erin, call me Erin" They finally faded. Shouta looked at Hizashi and signed:
What was that?
Hizashi shrugged, then nodded to Nedzu, who was looking quite surprised. Recovery Girl was looking less surprised, but she also seemed to be fretting about Alex and Erin. Shouta walked out the door, surprised nobody stopped him, but then took it for granted. He walked over to the 1-A dorms, texting Midoriya about heading over to help out with Alex. He chose not to mention Erin, if they wanted to reveal themself, they could, it wasn't in his paycheck to talk about a seemingly second entity in a child to another child, especially since they both seemed to have a knack for finding trouble.
His phone buzzed, Midoriya had agreed to come. He said he'd be there in a couple of minutes. He sighed and knocked on the door to the common room.
"Come in Sho" Nemuri called out.
"How'd you know it was me?"
"Alex said something in their sleep"
"Ah," Shouta went to look at them.
'They look so small' Alex started to stir, moving into an odd position, before turning into a snake.
"Hey Sho, what do you think would look good on the-Ack!" Nemuri had looked away for a minute while Shouta was watching Alex. Shouta looked at the look on her face
"W-Where'd Alex g-go?" Shouta pointed at Alex, secretly enjoying the shock on Nemuri's face. Of course, Alex ended up waking up at that time.
"Hey, wait, WHERE THE HELL AM I?!" Shouta watched as Nemuri's expression turned from shock to fear.
"What the fuck Sho, you couldn't have told this to me earlier?" Alex seemed to be enjoying the drama since they had turned back into a human. They looked dead on their feet. Shouta went over to them
"Hey, kid, are you okay?" Alex shook their head, closing their eyes. A small groan escaped their lips.
"Alex?" Alex suddenly said, but it wasn't their voice, it was Erin's. Alex shook their head again.
"Hey, Alex, are you okay? I can have you sleep again." Nemuri tried to tell them, but Alex seemed to be having too hard of a time with something to hear her. Shouta sat down beside them on the couch. Alex shied away from him at first, but they moved a bit closer to him, setting their head on the pillow he had set beside him. They seemed to go back to sleep. Shouta wanted to make sure they were okay, but he had to understand they were like a scared cat or dog, and that this was a big improvement to their normal skittish behavior.
"Hey Hobo, nice to meet you, Alex didn't talk much about you." Shouta looked down at Alex,
'The fuck?'
"Oh, right, probably should have led with this, but I'm Erin, and I'm gender neutral. I don't have a gender, so I go by any pronouns, even though I act more feminine." Shouta just looked up at Nemuri. She shrugged as if to say 'What do you want me to do?'
"Can I touch Alex without them waking up?"
"Oh yeah, I'm mostly in control, sh-sorry, they're a bit delirious, so I'm doing the talking. God, it's so hard to change my pronouns for them, but I guess that's what I get for deciding to go dormant for 8 years" Shouta felt Alex's forehead, it was a bit warm, with some sweating.
"Could I check them for injuries without getting too personal?"
"I think both of us would rather you not, but I can tell you where there is some pain, right calf, just above the achilles tendon. It feels infected and swollen." Shouta took a deep breath and looked at their leg.
'Whelp found the wound' It was a small cut, about 3 cm long, down their right calf, with yellow puss crusted across the top. It looked like some herbal remedies were used, but they most likely didn't do much.
"Alex usat a lot when they were younger when the lady would take a 'blood sample' that we both knew was just an excuse to hurt them. She would take a knife and slice a small chunk off their arm. Not big enough to be noticed, but big enough to hurt. Alex would make some herbal remedies for them and the other girls who were being sliced, and some who would slice themselves. They were so sweet, now they've toughened up, just a couple years too late I'm afraid." Shouta and Nemuri looked shocked.
"Back up, back up, Alex was cut by an adult?" Nemuri asked, Shouta was still processing the information just handed to him.
"Yup, I'm honestly surprised they carry a knife on them at all. Then again, it's not white, so that probably helped a bit. They also had blood drawings with needles, those never got treated either, so they had to treat themself. They used the same method, but sometimes I wished I could get Alex out of there, but Alex made me promise not to show myself. Now I see it was so we weren't pulled apart with those drug cocktails the foster care made for people like us, it didn't affect their quirk, just the other soul.
We wouldn't have been able to communicate and think of ways to escape. After about 2 years though, I hated seeing how Alex looked, so I disconnected for 8 years, trying to find a way to get them out of there. I talked to girls who had died there, you have no idea how hard that was, doing it without being in control. I still did it though, and I found out they could leave at 10 because the foster care kicks the females out at 10. I still tried to help, but when I tried to 'reconnect' with Alex, they were already here and it had been 8 years."
"What the hell did I just walk into?" Shouta turned to see Hizashi at the doorway.
" 'Zashi, close the door" Nemuri chided, swooping in like a hawk on him
"And go shower, I don't know what you were doing on the way here, but you smell terrible. Now go, I'll fill you in later" Hizashi walked off, looking at Shouta with puppy-dog eyes, begging for him to contradict Nemuri. Shouta shook his head, Nemuri scared even him at times.
"Hey, 'Zashi, toss out some antiseptic and band-aids, will you?" Shouta called out to his husband, looking at Alex's leg.
"So go on, what else happened?"
"Well, sometimes, they would 'foster out' Alex to families. They would have to bring her back a couple of days a week for a 'medical checkup' for their 'medical condition'. Alex always tried to fight tooth and nail to not go but was always overruled on it. It was times like that I wanted to break my promise to them, to come out and kick all of those people's asses. However, if I did, Alex wouldn't have ever trusted me again, so I didn't. They also hid that they could shapeshift. The foster care didn't read files that much, so Alex was safe from that, however, they still 'tested' Alex about the elemental manipulation aspect of their quirk. Sometimes, Alex would have a stimulus injected into them, I remember because they had a headache for days, not to mention a slight fever and chills, like an infection…" Erin's voice trailed away as Shouta looked at Alex and lifted their shoulder
"Could you have this arm go back to its normal state?" He motioned Nemuri out of the room because he still didn't want to invade Alex's privacy any more than he was doing. Alex's cells rippled, before turning into the flesh thing he had seen earlier that day. He looked at their shoulder, where there was one spot. It looked like it used to be infected, but it no longer was.
'Damn it Hizashi, when will you toss out the antiseptic and band-aids?'
"Something like this would happen, they would get fatigued if they overused their quirk too much though, but I think it's both in this instance." Nemuri quickly walked in and handed Shouta the first aid kit. He got out what he needed and set the box beside him.
"This will hurt a bit, I hope that's okay?"
"Yeah, I think Alex needs this." Shouta started to clean the cut, then bandaged it. Before long, it was covered in white gauze to stop the bleeding because the puss was acting like a clog for the cut. A knock on the door alerted Shouta of someone else there.
"Come in" When he saw the red shoes, he groaned inwardly. Of course, he would pick now to come.
"R-Ruby?" Midoriya said, slightly shocked. Then his shock turned to anger
"Ruby, I told you you needed to take better care of yourself, but nope! You thought you had everything sorted out!" Midoriya started to mumble at this point, so Shouta decided now was the perfect time to head to bed. With Nemuri watching Alex and Midoriya, nothing could go wrong. He walked to his and Hizashi's apartment, went into their room, and got into bed, falling asleep quickly. Well, until his loud husband woke him up asking if Alex was okay.
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Izuku couldn't believe his friend. He had told them to stop overusing their quirk, but Ruby always said
"Jade, you don't need to worry about me, I'll be fine" He guessed their motherly instincts were still there, even if Ruby wasn't female any more. Ruby started to stir, moving around into a small ball form. Suddenly their eyes shot open in a panic, darting around the room, before settling on Izuku.
"Jade? The fuck you doing here?" Their eyes were unfocused
'Ruby's delirious right now' "I just got here, I live here, and when I saw you on the couch, I wanted to make sure you were okay" 'Lie, Aizawa-sensei asked me to come back, god I feel so bad for lying to Ruby, but they're delirious right now, I'll tell them later.' Nemuri-sensei nodded at him, and he went to his room.
'I hope they're okay' Suddenly, an overwhelming amount of guilt was on him like a ton of bricks. He started to dig his nails into his palm, bite his cheek, and scream internally at himself
'Why didn't you do anything?' he dug his nails deeper
'Useless, waste of space, stupid Deku, always hurting somebody.' bit his mouth harder
'Maybe I should have listened to Kacchan back then, maybe I should have jumped' Tears started to fall down his face as he laid down in his bed, tuning out the world around him, eventually going to sleep. He's tired right now, he'll clean up later, yeah, later…
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Alex moved to the edge of the couch, their head still pounding.
'Ugh, I feel like shit'
'Yeah, well, you don't look much better' A muffled yelp escaped from their lips
'E-Erin?'
'In the flesh'
'I thought you had left me!'
'Sorry Alex, I didn't mean to be gone for so long'
'It's fine Erin'
Alex watched as Jade walked away, black spots dancing across their vision. They started to look around more and noticed the lady from the viewing room, the one who had them sleep with their quirk. Alex went to stand up, setting their arm on the couch armrest.
They pushed themselves up, noting where the door was. Alex found a piece of paper and wrote: Jade has a way to contact me, but if needed, use this. They left a small crystal that if used right, can be used to contact them with light. It can make an illusion of the person and if Alex feels their crystal warming up, they can 'accept' the 'call' and show up as an illusion in front of the other person.
Alex noted the time, 11:00 PM, and went out the door they noted earlier. They looked back, thanking Eraserhead for finding them and meeting them, then turned and left.
'Alex, where are we going?'
'Away from here'
'But this place is perfect for you, plenty of people who care'
'Yeah, but it seems too perfect, this has to be a trick'
'Alex, have you been around the foster care lady at all?'
'Yeah, I still have a score to settle. One of her employees appeared at my exam and pulled me into his quirk, black void. I bought him back personally'
'Bitch, do you not know what her quirk is?'
'No? What is it?'
'Emotional manipulation, she can manipulate your emotions and sometimes actions! When you went to return her employee, she probably used it on you'
'But I don't look anything like how I used to.'
'Yeah, but you brought back her employee who was most likely sent out to find you! Therefore by the power of deduction, she knew it was you and manipulated you to feel like something was off. She wants you to leave the school's protection!'
'Well, I can fend for myself, I'll survive, I did for years before Eraserhead found me'
'Well, you also didn't have her trying to find you, you'll be safe here! With pro-heroes to protect you!' Alex shook her head and started to head to the forest, where they could hide until morning.
'But I don't need to be protected! I'll be fine! Drop it, please.' Alex started to climb a tree, keeping watch for anyone coming towards them. Alex settled down near the top of the tree, keeping the ground in sight, and stood watch for a few hours. When the sun started to peak over the tops of the trees and shine on the windows, Alex started to head closer to the middle of the tree. Once they got there though, they noticed a fire. It was at the bottom of the tree and rising fast.
'Shit-shit-shit-shit-shit!'
'Told you'
'Not now' Alex focused on the fire, noticing how it wasn't red, it was blue. Alex focused on it becoming smaller, then extinguishing fully.
"Is this tree fucking fire-proof?" a voice Alex had never heard before growled. Alex peeked out of the branches and saw a person with black hair and purple dotted around his skin below them. He seemed to be making a fire with his hands. Alex started to panic. They went to the nearest tree and hid.
'Alex' Erin hissed 'he doesn't work for the foster care' Alex calmed slightly before hearing the dreaded words being called from the school
"ALEX" They winced, holding their ears. The black-haired man ran away, his black coat trailing as he hid in some bushes.
"ALEX" Alex was really close to just shifting into a potato, but then, the mist from earlier started to go through the forest. Alex's eyes widened in panic before they started to will the air to keep it away from them.
'The person whose quirk that is is called Midnight' Erin so helpfully supplied. Alex groaned, Midnight was an R-rated hero, she's nice, but Alex didn't want to see any pro heroes or anybody for that matter. Their vision went red before turning back to normal.
'Erin, what did you do?'
'I sent her a small vine to trip on'
'I thought you didn't like my idea of leaving?'
'I don't, however, I will protect you with whatever resources I have available.' Alex didn't know what to say, but they went towards the road, knowing that they could set up camp for the night in an alleyway later. As they got farther away, they felt more in tune with what was happening. They walked to the second closest alleyway to the school and set up camp. They then went to the store and grabbed some food. They walked by a couple who were scrolling through their texts, not paying attention to them as they snagged their wallets.
They went and paid, then left before the couple could realize what happened. Alex left the wallets with the cashier, stating that they had found them and wanted to see if the store could find the owners. Alex took the bag of chips and opened it as silently as possible. They took a breath, the smell of junk food mainly was foreign to them. They sat down and ate the chips, slowly watching for anyone to appear. Nobody did, so Alex found a bin, hid in it, and closed their eyes for a slight nap.
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Shouta woke up to Nemuri shaking him, his husband already out of bed.
"Alex disappeared" Those words immediately woke Shouta up.
"They what?" he wanted clarification
"Left, and they left a note" Nemuri read the note to Shouta, and handed him the crystal.
'Damn it Alex, why did you leave?' Shouta got on his patrol gear and headed for the door, getting ready to search for Alex, when Nemuri stopped him.
"Sho, maybe we should drag your class into this? I mean, Alex could become one of their classmates, so we probably should ask them to help find Alex?" Shouta nodded, heading over to where his husband was with a mug of coffee for him
"Sho, I made you a coffee, you'll need it to deal with Alex." Shouta took the coffee and downed it in no time. He thanked Hizashi before heading out to see his students. They all returned the morning after Alex disappeared except for Midoriya, who came that night before they had left.
When he walked into the room, everyone was silent. Shouta walked over to the podium and said with a straight face
"Class, today I have a hero assignment for you. You need to help track down a missing person, their name is Alex. They disappeared around midnight last night." the class looked at him eagerly, ready to start
"The thing is though, this isn't a drill, or a test, this is real. While Alex isn't in any danger as far as I know, they still need to be found. We don't have an image of Alex, however, they have a pixie cut and are pale, their eyes are a royal blue, and they like to hide in alleyways. They also like to read books, so check the library." Everybody in class 1-A looked at one another except for Midoriya, who started to look angry. He went to leave the classroom.
"Problem child, what are you doing?"
"Going to contact Ruby" He stepped out of the classroom and seemed to hold something up to the light. He came back in after a little while looking shocked
"T-They didn't pick up" Shouta nodded, before addressing the class one final time
"Me, Yamada-sensei, and Nemuri-sensei will be going with you. You have all of our numbers, so call us if you find Alex. Now go get on your hero suits and start finding them" The class ran to change into their suits.
'That's why they all didn't get expelled, they tried really hard to be heroes.' He walked over to where the nearest light was.
"Midoriya" he called out to his student, who was just starting to leave
"Y-yes Sensei?"
"Can you show me how this works?" he pulled out the crystal Alex left behind.
"R-Ruby made you a crystal?" Shouta nodded, before seeing Midoriya pull out a tinted green crystal.
"You hold it up to the light to make an illusion of sorts" Shouta held it up to the light, and an illusion of himself appeared in front of him.
"Ruby normally picks up the crystal calls because they mean someone could be in danger." The illusion flickered away. Shouta put his hand on Midoriya's shoulder and started towards the door, steering him while he was muttering stuff about how "they could be reading" or "they could have been kidnapped" When he reached the changing rooms, Bakugo grabbed Midoriya's hand and said
"Let's go, nerd, you need to change to find that kid" Midoriya followed him, blushing slightly before the door closed behind them fully. As soon as the door closed, Shouta was out of there, he ran past Hizashi and Nemuri's classrooms and gave them a thumbs up. All 3 of them quickly headed for the school's gate. Shouta got over it with his scarf, while his other 2 friends opened the gate.
He started to check alleyways first, he checked them thoroughly, and he looked behind every trash can and dumpster. He checked the roofs next, looking down into the alleys to find Alex.
-ring- -ring-
He looked down at his phone, it was Midoriya calling him. He picked up the phone
"Yes, problem child?"
"We found something, I'll send you my location"
"Hold up, 'We?'"
"Yeah! Me, Kacchan, Todoroki, and Asui ("call me Tsu") sorry, Tsu. We decided to go in groups of 3-4 people, to make life easier for each other." Shouta saw the location and headed over there quickly. He hung up the phone and dropped down behind his students.
"We found a bag of chips" Todoroki looked towards Midoriya as he said it, a look of fear crossed his eyes
"Ruby always said that junk food was a treat, not a snack. My guess is that Ruby went to go get a treat to calm their nerves from leaving the campus." Shouta nodded, before picking up the bag. He noticed that the crumbs at the bottom were fresh, no ants in it.
"Problem child, go look around for anything that could hide Alex" Midoriya ran off, going to try and find what Shouta asked.
"Who the fuck is Ruby? Why does Deku keep on talking about her?"
"Them, Ruby is Problem child's nickname for Alex. Also, stop calling him Deku, it's not nice." Bakugo rolled his eyes, looking annoyed at him. Midoriya came back and looked excited.
"I got in contact with Ruby! They said they don't want to come back, I tried to talk them out of it, but they will not budge!" Shouta calmed Midoriya down a bit before pulling out his crystal. Bakugo looked at them both like they were insane. Shouta held it up to the light and an illusion of himself, Bakugo, and Midoriya appeared. After a few seconds, it changed to one of Alex's.
"Hello, Eraserhead!" They waved at him, they didn't look as cheerful as they let on.
"Alex, please come back, I don't think you're safe on the streets anymore."
"I've been trying to tell them that, but they wouldn't listen" Erin piped up, Alex's lips didn't move, so Erin might be tampering with the illusion on their end.
"And I've told you I'll be fine! I've been on the streets for 6 years!" Alex said, sounding less concerned for themself than for Erin.
"Alex-" Shouta was cut off by a screaming Midoriya
"Ruby, get your ass back here now! You're in danger, and the school is the best way to keep you safe!" Alex visibly paled, as did Bakugo at Midoriya's swearing. The other 2 kids had run off, so it was just Shouta, Bakugo, and Midoriya who heard the swearing.
"J-Jade, maybe calm down a bi-" Alex was cut off
"No! Got back here, because if you don't I'll come find you and drag you kicking and screaming back to the school. You know I don't make empty threats Ruby." Alex was looking shaken up before they turned around and the illusion faded. Midoroya looked crestfallen, then Alex rounded the corner and came up behind him.
"Hey Jade" Midoriya jumped before grabbing Alex into a hug.
"Never do that again," he said sternly "I don't want to lose you ever" Alex was visibly stiff during the hug, but after a little while, they relaxed and hugged him back.
"I can't make any promises Jade, but I'll do my best" Alex looked at Shouta and signed: I need to talk to you. Shouta was taken aback. He signed: You can sign? Alex nodded as Midoriya let them go. Shouta and Alex went over to the corner and started to talk. Shouta stared Alex dead in the eyes and said
"Alright, why'd you leave the school campus?" Alex started to look nervous
"So, you know that woman at the counter?" Shouta nodded
"She's the owner of the foster care. Her quirk is emotional manipulation, and she manipulated my emotions. She made me feel distrust like everything was too good to be true. Erin tried to talk me out of it, but I didn't listen to them as I should have, and now you sent multiple people after me." Alex looked sad like they were sorry.
"I'm sorry about being a burden, and having you send people after me" Shouta looked surprised at Alex.
'They apologized?' Alex nodded,
"I don't do that often, or for a lot of people." Midoriya walked up.
"Ruby doesn't, they only said sorry to me once, and that was only because they accidentally touched one of my burns from…" he trailed off and Alex looked paler
"You never told me it was a burn, you just jumped a meter high" Midoriya paled,
"W-well, I-I d-didn't want y-you to w-worry about me. I-I was f-fine, really!" he stuttered, Alex didn't look convinced.
"Tell the truth, I'm not against going through your memories Jade" Shouta watched the interaction until Bakugo appeared and started to yell at Midoriya for running off. Midoriya shrunk down and tried to hide behind Alex. Alex looked at him with a look of surprise.
"Stop scaring him, can't you see he's skittish right now?" Bakugo looked at them with a look of surprise
"So the Jewel girl talks." Alex got visibly upset at that comment
"I'm not a girl, I'm non-binary, so don't call me a girl, I'm a person!" Bakugo went quiet at Alex's outburst, before whispering
"Sorry," Alex nodded, then turned to Shouta.
"I can take up back to the school if you want" Midoriya started to visibly bristle at those words
"NO! You aren't using your quirk for a little while longer, I'll call Yaoyorozu and ask her to make us some bikes." He pulled out his phone, but Alex was quicker and suddenly they were all wrapped in vines.
"Yeah, but I'm not going to do the quick route. NOW HOLD ON!" Alex closed their eyes and the next thing Shouta knew, he was being thrown through the air.
"SHO, WHAT THE HELL?!" He looked down to see Hizashi screaming up at him. He just waved, knowing he could tell him later what happened. After a couple of seconds, he noticed he wasn't falling, he was just suspended in the air.
"Alright, so I could have us fall from this height, but instead, how about I have us fall slowly to the ground" Shouta slowly was let down when his feet hit the ground, he looked at Alex in shock.
"You couldn't have mentioned you could do this sooner?" Alex shook their head, grinning as Midoriya steered them away, Bakugo in tow, muttering about how if they tried to use their quirk both he and Midoriya would be angry, also how he'd blow them up. Shouta grinned, knowing that they would most likely become friends.