Midoriya Izuku's world was just pain. Not the kind of pain you could fight through, but the kind of mind numbing, soul rending, pain that could reduce the most stalwart of men into a gibbering mass of trembling flesh. Pain like stubbing a toe, but over every single millimeter of his body.

It had started with something that had, at the moment, seemed like a good idea. He was trying to save that girl, and when it had become clear that neither he nor Iida would reach her in time, he stopped drawing off simply the residual warmth of One for All, and had, in effect, set himself on fire drawing on as much of the energy as he could gather to boost him enough to take it out before it could crush her.

Even through the veil of agony, he hoped it worked. He'd been able to remain lucid just long enough to kick the damned thing before the pain caught up with him. He was rather sure that the origin of the pain was that he'd torn his muscles. All of them. He'd effectively turned One for All into the world's most powerful meat tenderizer, and he was the steak.

It felt like an eternity that he'd lay there, trapped in his own mind, by his own pain... but then, in an instant, it receded.

For a moment he simply lay in place trying to recenter himself, waiting for the stars clouding his vision to fade, and his temporary agony fed madness to recede..

"Ow." he muttered to himself.

"Midoriya-san, you're awake..."

Izuku groaned and looked up to find Iida and the girl standing over him. Slowly he sat up to see the field was all but deserted, applicants had already left save for these two.

"What happened?" he asked as he sat up..

"You saved my life," replied the cute girl with a pretty smile. "Thank you..."

Izuku blushed and began to stammer. Oh god, a cute girl was actually talking to him!

She walked over to him and held out her hand to help him up. "My name is Uraraka Ochaco!"

He smiled nervously and took it. "Um... It-it's nice to meet you, Uraraka-san! I-I'm Midoriya Izuku."

"And I am Iida Tenya, Uraraka-san. It is a pleasure."

She smiled. So cute! "It's great to meet you, Midoriya-san, Iida-san! I hope we're in the same class if we get in."

"I agree," Iida replied, "With my speed, Midoriya-san's power, and your versatility, I am sure we will make for a most excellent team."

Izuku took a deep breath to calm his nerves. Punching killer robots? Easy. Talking to girls? Hard.

To distract himself for a moment, he looked at the devastation around him. The countless smashed robots and the massive hulk that lay behind him. He'd done it. He'd done what All Might had said. He'd been the best hero he could be... and in doing so had saved a life.

"Today was a good day," he said after a moment, basking in the sensation. He just hoped he was right. If he had led these two down the wrong path, he'd hate himself forever.

"I agree, Midoriya-san" Iida replied with no lack of personal pride, while Uraraka simply acknowledged his statement with a cheerful, girlish "Uh-huh".

"So what happened after I blacked out?" More like a red out, but still, "After I kicked the zero pointer?"

"Uraraka-san noticed that you were falling from the sky." Iida stated, "So together we caught you. She used her quirk to render me weightless, and I used my Engine's thrust to fly up to catch you, whereupon she used her quirk to cancel your momentum."

He blinked as his mind focused on the most important part of that statement. Her quirk. "Weightless? What's your quirk?"

"Zero Gravity!" she replied with a smile. "Anything I touch I can make weightless..."

She touched a broken piece of robot and it began to float.

His eyes went wide as he considered the multitude of uses for such a quirk. It would be priceless in everything from heroism to construction. Just the value in the space industry alone could make her billions. She could charge a billion yen just to touch a satellite before launch and they'd shower her with money if she wanted.

"So cool!"

She blushed. "Thanks! Your quirk is pretty awesome too! Watching you kick that thing, it was like watching All Might in action!"

Izuku froze and laughed, scratching the back of his head. Oh crap! Were they going to guess his secret? "Well, I wouldn't say it was like All Might..."

"Hahahahahaha! Did somebody say All Might?!"

"Gagh!" Izuku gasped as All Might appeared from almost nowhere, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt with his hands on his hips and his smile as wide as ever.

"Because if so... then I Am Here!"

Both Uraraka and Iida both gasped. "All Might!" they cried out almost as one, both of them awestruck by the presence of Japan's Number One.

"It is a pleasure to meet you All Might-sama," Tenya exclaimed, bowing deeply. "I am Iida Tenya. I am honored to meet you!"

"At ease, Iida-shonen. And how about you, young lady?"

Uraraka flushed deeply and bowed as well. "I'm Uraraka Ochaco..."

"And it's good to meet you as well, Uraraka-shojo. Anyways, I was just passing by and decided to check up on the young lad who provided some additional work for me," he said, giving Izuku a smile.

Izuku went cold and froze. "A-additional work?"

"Yes. Your kick was quite impressive, Midoriya-shounen!" he leaned in conspiratorially and stage-whispered to Izuku, "Maybe a little too impressive, really. You actually managed to clear the boundary of the Battlezone. I had to personally redirect it to make sure it didn't land on anything important."

Izuku went pale. Oh god. Had he managed to mess up even then? Would they kick him out for this, even with All Might's recommendation. He began to quiver in place as his mind constructed horrible scenario after scenario about how they'd punish him for almost dropping a giant robot on the school.

"Relax, Midoriya-shounen!" All Might exclaimed, patting him on the back. "Breathe normally. Everything is alright, because I Am Here. I simply spiked it into one of the sports fields and nothing got hurt except for some grass."

"Am I going to have to pay for that?" Izuku asked, more than a little frantic.

"No, of course not, my boy! That's why you're here, after all," All Might clapped him on the back, "To learn to master your strength and become a great hero some day!"

He took a deep breath and began to relax. Okay. Everything is okay. He's not getting expelled before he can even get accepted. Everything is alright.

"So, um, All Might-san?" Uraraka asked, "Why are you here? I mean, at UA?"

All Might leaned in and looked side to side. "Can you three keep a big secret?"

"Of course, All Might-sama." Iida stated, puffing up his chest, "Any secret you ask of me, I will take to my grave, upon the honor of my family and the Idaten Agency!"

"No need to go that far kid," All Might replied with a raised eyebrow, "But here we go. This year... I aaaam... joining the faculty! I am here because I am going to be a teacher! Perhaps even one of yours."

Iida gasped dramatically while Uraraka made something of a girly happy sound.

"Wow! We're going to learn from the Number One hero himself!" Uraraka exclaimed, before pausing, "If we pass."

"Not to worry, Uraraka-shojo. I'm sure the three of you have nothing to worry about. In fact, between the four of us again... and I'll freely admit I might be saying too much... I'd be stunned if you three weren't all in the top ten. I won't say any more, but I have high hopes for all of you and I look forward to seeing you here, in this great Hero Academia!"

All Might stepped back and smiled. "Anyways, the other reason I'm here is because Recovery Girl ordered someone to come and take Midoriya-shounen to the infirmary if he wasn't already up and about."

Izuku flinched. Maybe he had gone a little too far...

"After all, the bus has already left..."

Izuku grimaced. And now everyone was walking because of him...

"But don't worry. I'm sure the ambulance will be more than happy to drop you three off at the main building. So I bid a good day to you all and I'm off!"

He lept into the air in a blur of motion.

"Amazing," Iida said in an awed voice as All Might left. "To be personally graced by the Number One Hero..."

"He looks a lot younger than he does on TV," Uraraka thought out loud.

Izuku twitched slightly. That was because he just was de-aged by a little girl with an amazing quirk who also healed a terrible wound that was given to him by a terrible, mysterious villain who also gave me a copy of his quirk. But he couldn't say that out loud.

"Um, maybe he changed his diet?"

Uraraka thought for a moment and nodded. "Yeah, maybe. All his food brands are super greasy American food. Maybe he switched to something with less saturated fat?"

"A Burger feast!? Really, Toshinori! Are you trying to kill yourself?!"

All Might laughed and scratched the back of his head as he wilted slightly under the death glare of Recovery Girl. She was one of the few people able to cut through his armor, almost without effort. He supposed that was because the small elderly woman had become something of a surrogate aunt to him doing his days at UA, and since his injury she'd been one of his head medics. So if anyone had the right to be angry at him, it was her.

"Actually, Chiyo-san," he said weakly, "Something has come up that I was going to tell you about..."

"And I supposed it is something that permits you to go off your diet," She glanced at Nezu, her scowl apparent and the annoyance clear, "And you didn't stop him?"

The small nonhuman simply shrugged, "I trusted that Yagi-san has his reasons."

She scowled and glared at the Symbol of Peace, "And what came up that you could eat like you were never injured? And return to your natural form, there's no use in burning your time here."

Toshinori smiled. "Actually, about that. It would probably be easier if I showed you."

He then pulled up his shirt, exposing his unmarred and unscared torso. Chiyo gasped in shock while he swore he could hear the gears turning in Nezu's head at the sight.

Slowly the older woman walked forward and placed her head to his torso in shock. "How is this possible..." she looked up, "Your body was damaged beyond all our ability to repair. It was even beyond healing quirks..."

"A small girl did this. One who..." he paused, "Perhaps it would be best if we were to call Midoriya-shounen in. He was present and he seems to have an eye for detail that I will freely admit I sometimes lack. I believe his input would be priceless in this situation."

Nezu nodded and walked over to his phone to make the call.

When Miru Momoru told others that he was a nurse, they tended to give him funny looks. After all, most people couldn't parse past the stereotype to realize that yes, there was indeed such a thing as a male nurse. That said, he didn't mind, personally felt that he was destined for it.

After all, his quirk was Healing Touch. It gave him the ability to impart his stamina to others, speeding their natural healing and in extreme cases giving those on the edge the strength to keep from falling into the abyss. Some people would have lamented that they didn't have a flashy quirk, but he'd always been a peaceful child and in time he grew into a peace loving man. He was grateful that he was blessed to be among the few gifted with the ability to heal. To be able to relieve someone of their pain, or even stave off death.

That was why it felt so out of character to him that he so sorely hoped that when All Might found the son of a bitch who'd harmed the precious, innocent child before him. This girl who reminded him of his own darling daughters. That he turned his face into mush. No... to Powder.

She had been filthy and unkempt, and showed clear physical signs of low-grade malnutrition. Her limbs were riddled with countless cuts and small wounds, both old and fresh. It had been all he could do to keep from crying as he cleaned her up and tended to her injuries.

To see anyone in pain made him despair. To see a child in this condition, it was like falling into an abyss. Ironic then that he was All Might's personal medic, the daily caretaker of a man who was in constant agony. But then again, witnessing his suffering despite the pain it caused him was a weight on his soul that he was more than willing to bear. After all, if All Might was willing to fight on despite his own suffering, sacrificing himself for the good of others, then he would do all he could to help shoulder as much of that great man's burden as he could despite how much it made his heart ache.

"Hey, doc."

He smiled and looked toward the hero who had greeted him. "Hello, Mount Lady-sama."

The voluptuous blonde woman in a horned costume (which if you asked him, was maybe a little too tight to be considered appropriate) stepped up to his side and looked over the girl before turning to him.

"How's she doing, doc?"

"She's deeply asleep," he replied, "Whatever happened to her has drained her strength completely. If she wasn't showing signs of REM sleep, you'd think she was in a coma."

"Is she going to be alright?" the normally flamboyant woman asked, her eyes shining with sympathy.

"With time and rest, I believe so," he replied sadly. "I've lent her as much of my stamina as I can, for now. From here, we have to wait and see."

The Pro Hero nodded and looked at him. "Go rest up. I'll let you know if anything changes."

She was right. He needed a bottle of juice and maybe a light nap to rebuild his reserves. However, before he left, he gently placed his hand on the child's head. "Be well, little one."

Five minutes after Nezu made the call, a terrified Izuku Midoriya walked in with the poise and expression of a man marching off to his own execution, muttering to himself about how he hadn't even been accepted and he was being sent to the principal.

"Relax, Midoriya-shounen," All Might said with a calming tone, "You're simply here to help me explain to Nezu-sensei and Recovery Girl-san what happened this morning."

"Oh, okay but can I say something before we start?" he asked.

Nezu nodded. "Go right ahead, young man."

Young Midoriya turned to Recovery Girl and bowed. "Thank you for healing me. I'm sorry I wasn't fully conscious to thank you."

She looked at him. "What happened that injured you so badly, young man?"

"A girl was in danger so I drew too much from One for All and hurt myself," he replied.

"So!" Nezu said with some pep, "This boy is your successor then?"

Izuku and Toshinori shared a look. They both could sense what the other was thinking. "You tell him."

Being the adult in the room, All Might sighed and looked back at the small mouse-weasel-otter-creature and said, "Not exactly?"

Nezu perked an eyebrow. "How so?"

"It's a bit of a story," All Might began, "And like all good stories, it begins with a girl..."

"Really, All Might? That sorry opening?," Nezu said with a chuckle.

"H-he's being fully serious," Izuku replied, "When he was about to pass One for All to me a girl showed up."

"Tell me more, please."

Izuku looked up to All Might who nodded. "She looked like she was in pain. She had a glowing horn and her body was cracking with energy... and she ran over begging me to take One for All from her."

"She had all of the signs of the quirk going out of control," All Might added.

"Well, she bit off her own tongue to get blood flowing but her quirk reverted the injury..."

"Reverted, not regenerated, you say?" Nezu mused.

Izuku nodded. "I stabbed myself with my pen and rubbed her tongue against the wound. When the blood mixed, I got One for All. Then she reversed my would and used what was left of her energy to make All Might young and healthy again."

"You sound like you have some guesses as to the nature of her quirk?" Nezu asked.

He nodded. "I think her quirk rewinds time," he replied, "I know it sounds a bit extreme but she had her quirk going until she gave me One for All. She said it was ripping her apart but while she looked to be in pain, she didn't look injured. I think she was rewinding herself so One for All didn't..." he paused and flinched, "Kill her."

"Fascinating..."

Izuku looked up. "I've been thinking about it and I came up with something. It's still a little out there but... it does explain a few things."

"Hmn, do tell, young man..."

Izuku looked to Toshinori for guidance and he simply nodded in response. "Go right ahead, Midoriya-shounen. I've trusted your instincts so far."

He frowned slightly. "I know you said don't count out the impossible but this is going to sound impossibly impossible and..."

Nezu looked at him. "All Might-san trusts your judgment, Midoriya-san. Every theory is valid as any other until it has been eliminated."

Izuku sighed. "I think she's a time traveler."

The Recovery Girl blinked. "You can't be serious."

Nezu raised his paw. "No, no, Chiyo-san, let the boy explain."

"She knew exactly where we would be, when we would be there, and what we were doing," he replied, "Who else could have known that? And she had One for All."

"Are you sure it's One for All?" Chiyo asked, "This could be a trick."

"No," Toshinori replied, matter of factly. Having had time to clear his mind and think about it, he could feel the flames of One for All burning brightly in young Midoriya. He carried within him the same sacred touch that Toshinori bore. "It is One for All. Of that, I have no doubt."

"It could be possible," Nezu replied, "Though it would probably be better to simply ask her to explain, where is she?"

"Might Tower," was Toshinori's reply. "I ordered my personal staff and even some of the Pro Heros who operate out of the tower to keep an eye on her in my absence. She was exhausted by her ordeal and passed out from exhaustion almost immediately after restoring me."

Nezu smiled. "So does this mean that you will have time to watch after a homeroom?"

Toshinori's eyes went wide. Oh no. Oh hell no. He was not letting this hyper intelligent little rodent weasel him into this. "Absolutely not! For the past five years I've been barely able to handle my responsibilities."

"As a teacher you have responsibilities to the school, and with your body completely healed, your responsibilities should be no problem..."

He knew exactly how Nezu operated. Let him have a word in edgewise and he'd use that High Specs brain of his to bludgeon you into submission with logic until you begrudgingly did whatever it was he asked of you. The only way to avoid it was to avoid it by giving him zero room to converse. Therefore, he only had one thing to say on the issue...

All Might shook his head, "No."

"All Might-san, I..."

"All the no."

Nezu scowled. "Be reasonable, Yagi-san..."

"Iie. Nyet. Non. Nein... NO!"

The hyper intelligent rodent scowled in annoyance, but clearly knew when to quit. "Very well, but now that you're no longer on a Time Limit, I do expect you to dedicate time to every hero class rather than just 1-A as we'd previously agreed."

Toshinori paused. Okay, he'd take it. "That is entirely fair. I have no problem giving every student in this school my full attention when needed, I just want it recognized that Midoriya-shounen is my personal student as well."

Nezu nodded, "Very well, but I expect no favoritism."

"Um, excuse me?" Izuku asked. "But does this mean I'm accepted?"

Nezu paused for a moment and smiled at the boy. "While I'm normally adverse to letting students know ahead of time, as I believe it's unethical, in this case I believe it's fair to say the jig is up. Yes. I doubt there's a single member of the staff whom you didn't manage to impress with your performance in the exam. Your exact placement however, that I am going to be leaving in the air. Have to maintain some surprise, after all!"

He began to laugh, an experience that from the lad's horrified face, clearly put the fear of God into young Midoriya. It certainly scared the hell out of him.

All Might sighed and leaned in. "You'll get used to it kid... but in the meantime," He placed a hand on his shoulder and smiled. "Welcome to your Hero Academia!"

Izuku's response was simple. A nonverbal squeal of pure, unadulterated joy.

Izuku looked quietly into the guest room at the sleeping figure of the little girl who suddenly appeared in his life. While it wasn't actually a hospital room, as All Might had decided not to place her in one of Might Tower's infirmary rooms, instead choosing one of the guest rooms, it was starting to look a lot like one to Izuku regardless.

While he and All Might had been at UA, his medical staff had cleaned her up, changed her into a nightgown, and given her an IV.

Sitting next to her, reading a manga, was the shapely form of Mount Lady.

"I am here, very quietly entering the room," All Might stated, in a voice far gentler than he normally used, causing the Pro Hero to look up.

"Munchkin's safe, big guy," she said before frowning slightly, "Can't imagine what she's been through. Poor kid."

She gently petted the little girl's white hair for a moment with a soft smile on her face before looking to All Might as her expression hardened. "When you go after the fucks that hurt his kid, call me. I'd like to put my size 300s right up their asses."

Without a moment of hesitation, Izuku pulled out his notebook, and made a note. Mount Lady in her transformed state wears size 300 shoes.

"Um, what are you doing, kid?" she asked in confusion, before narrowing her eyes in recognition, "Heeey, aren't you that brat who threw his bag at that slime guy last year?"

"Um," Izuku blushed, "Yeah."

She glanced to All Might. While her mouth didn't say a word, her face was clearly asking why Izuku was here.

"While I'd be thankful if you didn't spread this around," All Might began, "I've taken Midoriya-shonen under my wing. He has a strong, heroic character and his quirk is similar to mine."

She blinked. "Really? I can't see if. If it was, that sludge guy would have been splattered all across the landscape."

Izuku blushed and turned to All Might, who nodded to him. It was time to deploy the cover story, "I actually didn't even know I had a quirk until I started training with All Might."

She blinked, clearly befuddled. "The hell does that work?"

Izuku mentally exhaled. They discussed what to do in situations like this. Now that All Might was whole again, he couldn't use his skinny form to hide the fact that he was personally mentoring Izuku from the public eye. They'd be lucky if the tabloids didn't already have pictures of him riding in the Allmobile. A cover story was needed to placate the media. It was agreed that they'd base it on the excuse he'd given Kacchan, building off it enough to tell just enough truth to obfuscate the truth of One for All. Now here's hoping that it was convincing.

"I will tell you a secret, if you swear yourself to absolute secrecy," All Might stated bluntly after a clear moment of consideration.

"Um, okay?"

"Midoriya-shounen is a late bloomer." All Might replied matter of factly, pausing for a moment to add impact to his statement, "As was I. We were both registered as quirkless as children when in fact we both possess physical reinforcement quirks that require a strong body to function properly. Without a powerful enough physique to support our quirks, well," he chuckled darkly, "the words 'chunky salsa' come to mind..."

To emphasize the concept he made an exploding motion with his hands.

Mount Lady visibly grimaced, turning a little green at the thought. As did Izuku. He wasn't kidding. What happened when he fought the zero pointer was the best case scenario. And this poor girl almost suffered something far worse.

"It was only under the guidance of my dearly departed mentor that my body became strong enough to support my quirk, and I was thus able to grow into my power and become the hero I am today."

Izuku perked up at the word "Mentor". Another thing he'd have to ask him about later.

She blinked. "You've never told anyone about your quirk before, why are you telling me now?"

"Because most of what I've told you is a matter of public record, if you know where to look." All Might replied bluntly, "I was registered quirkless until I applied to UA. While I don't like to discuss my youth personally, I recognized the same signs in Midoriya-shounen here." he gave Izuku a hard pat on the back, "And felt I would be remiss if I didn't offer him the same opportunity to live up to his potential."

She nodded in understanding. "I can see why you don't talk about it. A lot of people would have a hard time working their heads around the idea that you of all people were once functionally quirkless. Must have been terrible..."

"Actually no," All Might replied with a small, honest smile. "If anything, I'm grateful to have had the opportunity."

Mount Lady looked at All Might, with absolute bewilderment. An expression mirrored by Izuku. In what way was being quirkless an opportunity?

"What now?" she asked, "I'm sorry, but I don't get it."

"A wise man once said that 'A strong man, who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power. But a weak man given strength knows the true value of that strength, and with it, he knows compassion.'."

Izuku swallowed. This wasn't the normal boisterous All Might he'd grown used to seeing. This was something else, something far more... personal.

That was something Mount Lady picked up on as well as she looked at him, mouth slightly agape. "Wow, I... Wow. That's... deep. Real deep," She paused, clearly struggling with the enormity of what he'd just told her, "Is that your big secret? Why you're not like a lot of the other heroes?..." she went quiet for a moment, biting her lip as she struggled to put her thoughts into words. "You've never looked down on anyone, have you? It's because you understand. You... you who stand at the pinnacle of what it means to be a hero... you're there because you know what it's like to lie at the bottom of the heap...?"

"You see, that's just it. I don't see myself as standing at the pinnacle of anything. I see myself as a pillar. Giving them something to rely on, something that they can lean on, something that they can always trust to support them, even in their darkest moments." he smiled, "It's why I always say 'I Am Here'. It's not to advertise my presence, it's to reassure the people around me that everything will be alright."

Izuku had to write this down. All Might had never given an answer to why he wanted to be the Symbol of Peace beyond "I simply knew." He almost tore several pages out of his notebook to scribble in insight to what could essentially be considered the biblical creation myth to All Might fanboys everywhere.

The pages all but smoked as he desperately tried to record the words of his idol.

"And... is that why you always smile?" she asked in a small, almost childish voice as she looked up to him, the awe on her face completely unveiled at this point, "Because they need something to depend on?"

All Might closed his eyes and looked misty eyed for a moment. "Because no matter how scary it might get," he was clearly quoting someone, "You have to smile and say it's okay..." He looked off into the distance, his trademark smile on his face, but instead of looking mildly plastic as it normally did, Izuku could tell that it was entirely authentic, "Those who keep smiling are the strongest after all."

Mount Lady at this point was looking at All Might with complete and utter awe as she struggled to parse what he'd just told her. And Izuku was much the same. He'd always all but worshiped All Might, and to hear the truth to his motivations just doubled, no, tripled his intense admiration for the Hero.

"I will be their mountain!" Mount Lady suddenly exclaimed, her eyes misting with emotion.

"Shsh!" All Might half-exclaimed, putting his finger to his lips before pointing at the girl, who seemed to toss in response to Mount Lady's outburst of emotion.

The voluptuous heroine recoiled for a moment, looking mildly abashed, before bowing at the waist, and continuing in a much softer voice, "My name... I took it because it sounds cool." she admitted, "But now... after hearing this? I'm... I'm going to live up to it. I-I will be their mountain. Mount Lady, the mountain that will always shelter the innocent from the storm. Thank you, All Might-san..."

"Not just the innocent," All Might said with conviction, "Sometimes the greatest thing, the most heroic, and the hardest thing you can do... is to try and save the villains from themselves. They're not always evil... all too often they're just... lost. Trapped by a pit of hopelessness and lashing against a society that they feel has rejected them. All too often it falls on us, as heroes, to give them the first hand up to escape that darkness and step into the light..."

She took a deep breath, "I... I have a lot to learn, don't I?"

"We all do, even me," All Might replied matter of factly, as he placed a hand on her shoulder. " But you're already a fine Hero. I'm sorry about the preaching."

"N-no!" she whispered loudly, catching herself before she could yell out, as she looked up to him with wide, impassioned eyes. "When I was a girl I always looked up to you. I wanted to be like you, and I hoped I could be as heroic as you are. Now... Now you've shown me the way, All Might-san."

All Might chuckled and rubbed the back of his head, "About that. Don't just go trying to copy me, okay? Just take this as friendly advice, and find your own path to being a great hero."

"I will," she paused, "I mean I won't... I mean I'll..."

He laughed and smiled at her. "I understand what you mean."

She blushed and bowed to him again, "Thank you, All Might-san."

"It was my pleasure." he said with a smile.

She nodded. "I'll make you proud."

"No," he replied sharply, and frankly, "Don't make me proud. Make yourself proud. Be someone you can look in the mirror and be proud of."

She nodded strongly, her face a mask of determination. "I will."

He smiled. "Good. I'll take over for now, alright?"

She nodded and started for the door, walking with determination. And butt wiggle. A lot of butt wiggles. Izuku had to admit, the latter caught a lot more of his attention than the former.

Pausing as she reached the door, she looked back at them before bidding farewell with a playful wave and wink as she returned to character, effortlessly readopting the flirty and mildly irreverent attitude that had become a hallmark of Mount Lady's brand since her introduction.

"Later, All Might... Small Might."


Next chapter will be out in a few hours. I have them all saved up on my device so I'll just upload periodically.

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