Disclaimer: I don't own My Hero Academia. All rights for it belong to Kohei Horikoshi.
I-Island
It was a peaceful day in California. People were walking around and having fun with family, till a casino exploded revealing two villains exiting it. One was a skinny man wearing a red suit while the other was a heteromorphic man with greenish-blue skin and six arms. The man yelled happily, "We'll take this money." The two began to make their escape with the money.
The heteromorphic man yelled, "Brother, we have some company." The skinny man looked and saw a bunch of police cars pull in front of them. The cars were followed by two heroes. A man wearing a black suit with an electric theme then released a huge electric attack toward the heteromorphic villain causing a huge explosion.
The heteromorphic villain jumped from the smoke as the male hero yelled to his companion, "End this now, Cowlady." The woman to his side charged to the villains transforming into an ox.
The skinny villain exclaimed, "Get the hell out of my way." He then used his quirk and launched a bunch of missiles toward the heroes and the civilians.
A small family of four watched in fear as two missiles were quickly approaching their car. The family closed their eyes in fear waiting for their imminent death, but suddenly the two missiles exploded as a voice rang, "There's no need for fear! Why?" two children inside the car opened their eyes to see a blond man standing there looking at them with a smile, "Because I am here."
The skinny villain screamed in frustration, "Who the hell are you? Heck, where did you come from?"
The man revealed to be young All Might replied, "I'm just a passing-by hero from Japan."
The man laughed making his arms into rocket launchers, "In that case, I'll just have to send you back home," he sent two missiles toward the blond hero, "inside a coffin." All Might went to destroy the rockets which made the villain smile as he kicked his partner, "Come on, let's go from here."
When the hero realized what happened, he was dumbfounded seeing the villains already making their escape, but a shout caught his attention. A futuristic car came from behind the police cars, "Toshi, get on. We need to follow them." All Might smiled as he hopped into the car.
The man used the G.P.S., "Your body moves before you think, doesn't it?" he shook his head, "You need to be more careful, Toshi. You went too far ahead. You're lucky I managed to catch up to you, or else that villain might have been able to escape from you."
All Might chuckled a little, "Well, what can I say?" he then looked at the G.P.S., "My body moves before I can even think when I see that someone's life is in trouble." He crossed his arms with a smile, "Don't you agree with me, David?" All Might smiled at the man.
The villains were running away, but a device was watching them from the sky. The villains were running down the street, when All Might and his partner came down the lane as the huge villain yelled, "Brother, they caught onto us." The skinny man was angered and launched two rockets.
The attack caused the people on the street to panic, but the car then launched anti-missile rockets stopping the villain's attack. David said, "All Might, we have to wrap this up before class starts." This made the hero laugh a bit causing the man to say, "I'm serious, Toshi."
All Might replied, "Don't worry, David." He then jumped into the air, "I'm going to do just that."
The rocket villain frowned and launched another attack, but All Might destroyed it by using one of his famous moves 'Detroit Smash'. He was engulfed by the resulting explosion from the missile's destruction, but he came out without a scratch wearing his hero suit.
The heteromorphic villain then threw himself at All Might as the hero decided to end the fight using a move named after the city. All Might reared his fist back and yelled, "California Smash". The attack collided with the heteromorphic villain's face causing him to be sent barreling into the ground causing a huge smoke cloud. When the smoke cleared, it revealed the villains passed out.
Many people then praised All Might, but David came and said, "Come on, we have a couple of minutes before the class starts." The man then began to berate All Might due to his general absence from his academic classes, but something came up regarding the airport.
All Might said, "We need to go there, right now." David looked at him but sighed smiling as he turned the car into a flying car and went to the place of the incident…
"All Might… All Might…" the man woke up to see his successor calling out to him. All Might then stretched his body, "What just happened? Did we already reach I-Island?"
Izuku nodded, "Yeah, we entered I-Island's airspace." He then began to vibrate from excitement, "I can't believe that I'm going to visit I-Island. This is a dream come true."
All Might smiled, "I can see that you're happy about coming to I-Island, young Midoriya."
Izuku smiled brightly, "I-Island is one of the greatest places in the quirk era. It is a floating island in the ocean where 100,000 scientists live and work to create new technology," he smiled brightly, "This is one of the greatest days of my life."
All Might chuckled, "Well, I can't blame you," he rubbed his chin, "but I wonder why you gave the tickets you won from the sports festival to Tetsutetsu."
Izuku blushed a little, "Well, I thought since I know you that meant you were going to take me anyway, so I gave it to him since he can use it to benefit from this experience. He can also use it to bring someone else to benefit from it."
All Might laughed, "That's the spirit of a true hero, young Midoriya." He then looked around. Seeing that the coast was clear, he buffed up, "Since this is going to be public, I have to keep up my muscle form beyond my regular time limit. This is going to be hard."
Izuku smiled, "Don't worry, All Might." He gave him a thumbs up, "If anyone can do it, it's you."
All Might laughed, "Don't change this fanboy side of yours, young Midoriya." He hugged him, "Never change. I can't imagine a world where not like this."
Izuku then asked, "All Might, how come you're invited to I-Island?" he never asked him this, "I mean I know you told me that you're coming here, but why were you invited in the first place? There are a lot of heroes who are ranked first in their respective countries, but never get invited."
All Might smiled, "Well, I have a friend here in I-Island, so he managed to get me a ticket," he moved his hand through his hair, "but then I asked him for an extra ticket for a companion."
Izuku looked down, "A companion…" he rubbed his shoulder, "Shouldn't you bring a family member with you instead of me? It feels a little bit wrong to take their place…"
All Might flicked him on the forehead, "Nonsense, young Midoriya." He put a hand on the young boy's shoulder, "We are connected by something deeper than blood." He then grabbed the boy's hand, "We are connected by OFA. Something stronger than any blood."
Izuku nodded, but the plane suddenly jolted, "I guess we arrived. I can't wait to see all the scientists there." All Might only smiled at the boy's excitement.
Once they landed on I-Island, All Might and Izuku finished the official customs procedure before they finally managed to walk outside the airport. Izuku smiled, "I can't believe that I'm finally here at the land of the inventors. I'm at I-Island."
All Might patted Izuku on the back, "You better believe it, young Midoriya." He then pointed to the place in front of them, "This is I-Island. Now, can you tell why I-Island was created?"
Izuku replied, "Well, it was created for the world's greatest minds to work together to understand quirks better." He then pointed to its walls, "It was built with a security system similar to that of the prison Tartars. No villain was able to break into it…" The boy descended into a mumbling spree.
All Might shook him, "Breathe, young Midoriya, breathe." The boy stopped making the man sigh, "Thank the heavens. You're alright. Your face was turning blue for a moment."
Izuku chuckled a little, but a voice grabbed their attention. It was something some heroes like Eraserhead feared, while others like Present Mic loved. It was fans.
Izuku was suddenly shoved to the side as people crowded All Might asking him for an autograph. The hero couldn't help, but stand there and ask the people to calm down.
An hour later, All Might was standing there with lipstick marks on his face, while Izuku was standing from the ground after almost being trampled by people.
The boy said, "Wow, and I thought that I was a hardcore fanboy." He then cracked his neck and back, "Turns out that I'm not but a small drop in an ocean of craziness."
All Might grinned, "Well, get used to it, young Midoriya. When you become the number 1 hero, you need to get used to fans swarming like flies, but are you ready for Expo?"
Izuku nodded, "Yeah. I heard that many inventions get presented every year during the Expo."
All Might then said, "Well then, let's get moving, but first…" he looked toward the center in I-Island, "I need to go visit my friend that I told you about. Damn it, we're about to be late."
Izuku exclaimed, "Right, let's go. There's no time to waste then." He tried to run, but All Might grabbed him from the hood of his hero costume.
All Might shook his head fond of the boy's antics, "Young Midoriya, do you even know where we're going?" the boy blinked before smiling sheepishly, "Further than that, my friend doesn't know about OFA, so don't bring that up."
Izuku titled his head, "But why? I thought you would have told him like your officer friend."
All Might explained, "I wanted to, young Midoriya…" All Might's face gained a haunted look, "But a strong foe like AFO would put their lives in danger since they know the truth."
Izuku nodded, but he also felt a little uncomfortable given that he thought he should tell his friends at some point about OFA. He then thought, 'In that case, I will learn how to control OFA much better to be able to protect them from any danger AFO presents.'
They then heard a bouncing sound coming from the distance. They then looked up in confusion only to see a blond girl bouncing on a Pogo stick coming their way. The girl looked at All Might and stopped. She then jumped toward him, "Uncle Might"
Izuku looked at them with visible confusion on his face, 'What in the world is going on here?'
The girl smiled, "Uncle Might, it has been so long since I last saw you."
All Might grabbed the girl midair as he began to spin her around, "Melissa, I can't believe how big you've grown." He hugged her, "It was only a couple of days ago when you were 5 years old."
The girl now known as Melissa replied, "Of course, I grew up a lot during your absence. I'm 17 now." The two began to chat with each other leaving Izuku to the side who suddenly felt that he was a third wheel in their little reunion.
All Might noticed Izuku's discomfort and introduced the boy, "Melissa, this is young Midoriya."
Izuku waved awkwardly at the girl who smiled at him and said, "Hello, my name is Melissa Shield."
Izuku nodded before introducing himself, "My name is Izuku Midoriya." He then showed her his U.A. school card, "And I'm a hero student at the U.A. hero course."
Melissa's eyes sparkled, "That's so cool. I bet that you're going to be an amazing hero one day."
She then saw his hero suit and began to examine it. She looked at it with a critical eye giving comments till she saw the gauntlets, "Those seem really amazing. The person who worked on those must have stayed countless nights to make them this good."
All Might coughed into his fist, "Melissa, I can see that you and young Midoriya have something in common," Both teens looked at him, "You both get absorbed into your passions when it comes up," Both teens blushed a little, but what All Might then said made them go nuclear, "Perhaps this might be a sign of love at first sight."
Melissa then began punching All Might in the chest while the hero was laughing at her reaction. Izuku meanwhile lost the ability to think coherently, 'Is All Might trying to kill me?'
All Might then grabbed Melissa's hands, "Oh, Melissa" the girl looked at him pouting, "Where's Dave by the way? I thought he would be here to greet me with you."
Melissa smiled, "I left back in the lab working on some big project that he managed to finish its first phase, so I invited you here to celebrate with him." She giggled a little, "Isn't that awesome?"
All Might nodded, "Well, that's going to be a pretty awesome surprise for old David." He then rubbed his chin, "Do you have any idea what this project is about?"
Melissa shook her head, "Sadly, no." she crossed her arms, "I talked to him about it, but he said that it's too confidential to talk about it with me, so I just dropped it."
All Might hummed, "This seems serious. In that case," the man laughed, "let's go, surprise old Davey." The teens nodded their heads and All Might began to walk away with Izuku on his tail.
Melissa yelled, "Wait for me." She then turned her Pogo stick into a small sphere and put it in her back pocket. She then followed the two, "Wait! I'm the one who knows where he is."
In the airport, a man with a bunch of his companions had just arrived and they looked at I-Island with a malicious look in their eyes. He then received a call, so he opened his phone.
A voice from the other side replied, "Did you arrive on the island? Did you have any trouble entering through the airport? Do I need to come and get you?"
The man replied, "No, there's no need for that. Everything went smoothly as you said it would."
The voice then said, "Good, good. Then come and take the goods you need at 3 p.m., at gate 66."
The man replied, "Alright. I'll be there." he then hung up and put his phone away.
Inside one of I-Island's labs, a blue-eyed man with light brown hair and a beard looked at a picture of a young All Might and smiled fondly as memories began to hit him from that time.
"Professor David," a voice called him making him put the photo away. The man now known as David looked at a blond-haired man who said, "I finished cleaning up here, too."
David smiled, "Really! That's great, Sam." They both walked out of the room they were in as David said, "Why don't we go and have lunch with my daughter Melissa sometime?" he then added, "She told me that she's going to the academy to do some work."
Sam put his hand on his chin, "But I thought that the students had a vacation during the Expo."
David laughed, "I know, I know, but Melissa told me that she's doing some independent research."
"I'm your daughter after all," a voice knocked them both out of their musings, "So, I can't help, but act like you." David and Sam looked at the door of the room only to find Melissa standing there.
Melissa came forward and said, "Hello, papa." She then looked at Sam, "Hi, Sam. Thank you for care of my father who knows nothing but doing research all the time."
The three people laughed at this when David couldn't refute what his daughter said about him.
David then inquired, "Although I'm very happy to see you, I thought you were at the academy. What are you doing here? Did something happen to you?"
Melissa shook her head, "No, but I heard that you finished the first phase of your project, so I thought that we should celebrate this occasion," she then smiled widely, "Of course, I thought that a small surprise would be nice, so I brought over someone that you know."
David blinked in confusion, "Hmm, you brought someone over? Who is that?"
Melissa beamed brightly, "Alright, I'll give you a hint." She then walked in front of the door, "He's someone who you love very much."
David looked only to see All Might there as he shouted, "I am here… shaking with emotions from this exciting reunion." Izuku meanwhile stood there at the door not sure what to do.
David was beyond shocked, "All Might" His friend Sam was currently questioning if this was the real All Might that was standing in front of them.
All Might then went and hugged David, "David, it's been so long since I last saw you. I came all this way to I-Island just to see you, my old friend." The giant man let down David on the ground as Melissa popped behind All Might with a smile as she said, "What do you think, papa? Did you like my surprise? I made sure that you didn't find anything just so I could make this way much better."
David's shocked face dissolved into a small smile, "Yeah… I like this surprise very much..."
All Might said, "Well, you can thank Melissa for this." he then patted the smaller man on the back, "Tell me, Davey. How long has it been since we last saw each other?"
David laughed, "I'm sure that we both don't want to know that," He then elbowed All Might in the gut, "I'm sure we both don't want to think about how old we actually are, do we now?"
All Might and David laughed together as the former said, "We definitely don't want to do that."
The two men then exchanged greetings and fist-bumped each other. All Might then turned around and introduced Izuku, "David, I want you to meet a student of mine. His name is Izuku Midoriya." He then toward Izuku who was visibly shaking, "Young Midoriya, I want you to meet my friend…"
Izuku cut All Might off, "David Shield. A top quirk scientist who won the Noble Quirk Prize!" he then continued with his rant, "He was also All Might's partner during his time in the U.S.A. and created all of All Might's hero costumes including his young age costume, his bronze age costume, his sliver age costume, and most importantly, his golden age costume." The boy couldn't stop his nerves from shaking from happiness, "I'm so moved right now."
David then walked to the boy, "I guess that I don't need to introduce myself to you then." Melissa meanwhile giggled at Izuku's behavior. This made Izuku blush as he bowed down apologizing, but David calmed him down, "Alright, there's no need for that."
All Might coughed into his fist. David then noticed that a little bit of steam was coursing off All Might's body, so he said, "It's been a while since I saw All Might. How about you leave us alone so we can catch up?" he then looked at Melissa, "Can you take the boy and show him around the Expo?" Melissa nodded and took Izuku's hand to show him the Expo.
David looked at Sam and said, "Sam, I want you to rest too." The man nodded his head and left the room leaving All Might and David alone.
All Might was engulfed in steam as he began coughing uncontrollably. When the steam was gone, All Might was down to his skinny form. David caught him, "Toshi, are you alright?"
All Might replied, "I'm fine, but thanks for making Sam leave the room. I don't how long I would have been able to keep my muscle form up. My time has gotten shorter over the days."
David examined him with his eyes, "You already told me your symptoms," David now had a worried look in his eyes, "but I never realized how bad they are."
Meanwhile, Izuku and Melissa were walking through the island as the boy examined everything with his eyes, "This is so amazing." He then exclaimed, "I can barely believe this island was actually built by humans."
Melissa replied, "We have everything that a large facility has," she stopped for a bit before adding, "The only thing we can't do is travel outside the island."
Izuku tilted his head confused, "You can't travel outside the island? Isn't that a bit extreme?"
"Well, the island's scientists and their families need to take confidentiality contracts," Melissa explained, "to make sure that no information is leaked outside the island."
Izuku then looked to the side and exclaimed in joy, "It's the monster hero: Godzillo." The hero looked at the crowd that Izuku was standing with and gave them a peace sign.
Melissa came to his side, "He must've been invited here by his sponsor." She then looked around, "To show their new equipment, sign autographs, and other stuff like that."
Izuku nodded with happiness, "I-Expo is really amazing." Melissa smiled at Izuku's happiness.
Melissa said, "Well if you want, you can come to a party with all the industry's guests tonight." She then gained an apologetic look, "But you're going there, right? Since you came with Uncle Might."
Izuku nodded as he mentally wondered, 'Hmm, is that why All Might told me to bring formal clothes to this? I hope there isn't dancing involved since I really suck at it.'
Melissa then led Izuku to one of the pavilions on I-Island where all the newest support equipment was present. Melissa took her time showing Izuku many of the newest support items much to the boy's unending happiness. At the end of their tour, Melissa said, "Almost everything here was created on something my papa has patented."
Izuku replied, "That's so cool, Melissa. Your father is really awesome." The girl thanked him.
Melissa then added, "Every item here helps heroes save more lives around the world."
Izuku grinned, "You really respect your father's work, don't you Melissa?"
The girl smiled, "That's because I want to become a great scientist like him one day," she then put her hand to her chest, "That's why I work as hard as I can to reach his level one day."
Izuku nodded, but then asked, "Oh, by the way, do you go to the academy on I-island?"
Melissa replied, "Of course, I go there. it's one of the best places to become a quirk scientist." She then added, "My father was also one of the people who built this place so I ended up here." She then gained a determined look as she said, "But even still, I have a long way to go. I still need to study more to be able to reach Papa's level and help heroes around the world."
Izuku smiled, "I also still have a long way to reach All Might's level," he clenched his fist in determination, "That's why I also need to train to gain better control over my quirk and save as many people as I can. That's why I won't need to give it my best."
"I guess you respect Uncle Might very much, don't you?" Melissa chuckled, "You seem so enthusiastic whenever Uncle Might is mentioned. It surprised me very much."
Izuku blushed and looked down, "I'm sorry, but All Might is my idol. I can't help it." He covered his face to cover up his embarrassment, but Melissa assured him everything was okay.
"I think your admiration for All Might is on a different level of its own," a voice whispered into Izuku's ear making him, "I mean you do have a shrine for All Might inside your room." Izuku then saw a floating mouth in front of him making him smile a little.
Setsuna's mouth returned to her, "So, you did come here after all, Izuchan?" she put her hand on her chin, "I thought you gave your ticket away to Tetsu, but it's all good now." She then hugged him, "Come on, let's go see the others. We have a couple of friends here."
Izuku replied, "Yeah, but first let me introduce you to my friend," he then pointed to Melissa, "This is my friend, Melissa Shield. She was the reason why I came here." Melissa arched an eyebrow in confusion regarding why he was hiding a part of the truth to why he came here.
Setsuna walked forward, "Hi, my name is Setsuna Tokage. I'm a hero course student of class 1-B in U.A.," she then removed her hand and rubbed Izuku's head, "And I'm this knucklehead's closet friend. And believe me when I say that he has a shrine for All Might in his room."
Izuku put his face into the ground as his face glowed with embarrassment making the girls laugh.
Izuku then stood up, "Oh, yeah. I never asked you, Setchan." The girl looked at him, "How did you come here? Do you have some hero relatives who were invited here?"
Setsuna nodded, "My uncle is a sponsor for the hero Godzillo, so he managed to secure an invitation for plus one. My mother was supposed to come, but something came up, so…"
Izuku then felt himself get neck-chopped, "I still don't understand why you gave your tickets to Tetsu?" he looked around to see Kendo with an amused look on her, "But at least, you managed to weasel your way into coming to the Expo. It would've been a shame if you didn't."
Izuku stood up with a sheepish look on his face, "Well, I told you I was coming here anyway."
Itsuka raised her hand, "Alright, I can see why you gave Tetsu your tickets, but you could have just come with him," she looked at Melissa, "If it weren't for her, I doubt you would've seen this place."
Itsuka turned to Melissa and put out her hand, "Hello, my name is Itsuka Kendo." She then looked at Izuku, "And I'm Izuku's martial arts instructor of sorts. I'm the only one who gets to kick his butt from time to time."
Melissa giggled a little taking Itsuka's hand and shaking it as Izuku asked, "What's with the introductions and defining what you are in my life?"
Melissa looked at him, "Well, I think it's nice that you have friends that care about you so much."
They then heard shuffling. They looked and saw the guards stopping a pink-haired girl from grabbing the inventions that were being displayed. The girl was yelling, "Please, I have to examine this baby. Just for one minute. I just have to see it up close."
Izuku sweat-dropped, 'There's only one person in this world who calls their inventions babies.' Izuku pulled at the rim of his suit, 'Please, don't let her be here. She will cause a disaster.'
A male voice then yelled, "Hastume, for the love of…" they saw Tetsu pulling Mei back to his side using a rope, "Come here, and stop causing problems. You're going to get us kicked out."
Mei replied, "They can't kick me out of here," she was grasping the metal rail of a display, "I need to see this baby much closer." She was then yanked off the rail causing her to fall back to Tetsu's side who sighed and rubbed sweat off his face.
Izuku came up to Tetsu, "Tetsu, so you came to I-Island after all." He then looked at Mei, "But why did you bring Mei? I thought you might bring someone like Kirishima with you."
Tetsu rubbed his forehead in frustration, "That was the plan, but something happened…"
"You're going to I-Island," Mei asked Tetsu with happiness evident in her voice, "I can't believe this. I'm going to come with you." He then saw her rampaging through her stuff inside the lab. Once she finished, she yanked the extra ticket from his hand and said, "I'll be waiting for you at the airport."
The girl went away, but Tetsu was left there confused. He only came here to ask Powerloader for costume upgrades, so how did he just gain a companion to I-Island?
Tetsu groaned as he pulled the leash Powerloader gave him to keep Mei under control, "And to add insult to injury, people have been looking funny at us all day."
Melissa laughed, "Your friends are funny, Midoriya-kun." She then grabbed Mei and whispered something into her ear making the girl nod excitedly and calm down.
Setsuna tilted her head, "Okay, I have to ask," Melissa looked at her, "What the hell did you say to her? Even her teacher can't control her like that."
Melissa put her finger on her lips, "That's the trade's secret. I can't tell you anything," she then walked away, "But really though, I just told her that I will let her meet my father later on."
Itsuka asked, "And who is your father, Melissa?"
Melissa smiled, "My father is David Shield. My one of the main scientists on this island."
Mei squealed in happiness, "I can't believe this. I'm talking to David Shield's daughter." She hugged Melissa, "Please teach me your father's ways. I need to meet him."
Setsuna then shook her head in disbelief, "Alright, let's go see the others." She then led the group, "There are other students from class 1-A here. Yaomomo from class 1-A brought them here."
Outside the pavilion, Setsuna led the group to a small table where Ochako, Momo, and Kyoka were sitting. The rich girl looked at them, "Hey guys, guess there's more of us here. The more the merrier." She then walked toward the group and noticed Melissa, "Oh, and who are you?"
Melissa smiled, "Oh, I'm Melissa Shield. I was showing Midoriya-kun around the place when I met his friends, but when they told me that there were more hero students, I came here to meet you."
Momo blushed, "Oh, you came all the way here to meet us. I'm so honored, so I'll introduce myself. My name is Momo Yaoyoruzu. The girl wearing the space-themed costume is Ochako Uraraka. And the punk girl is Kyoka Jiro." The other girls smiled at her.
"So, this is what hero students look like," Melissa said, "I bet that you did all types of awesome things in the hero course. I hope one day I'm able to help you guys."
Ochako beamed, "I'm looking forward to the day that I work with you, but are you planning to become a pro hero like us?"
Melissa shook her head, "No, not really, but I'm planning to become a support engineer." She put her hands on her chest, "I want to follow in my papa's footsteps and become a top support engineer throughout the world."
Jiro raised her eyebrow, "In your father's footsteps?" she then asked her, "Who is your father?"
Melissa brightened, "My father is David Shield…" She was stopped when Momo gasped, "You're the daughter of David Shield?" Melissa nodded, "It's an honor to meet you. I'm a huge fan of his."
Melissa then asked, "Putting that aside, did you guys do hero work? I really want to hear some stories about your experience on the field." They looked at Melissa and nodded.
Setsuna began, "Well, to be honest, I mostly did surveillance work with Edgeshot," she then tapped her chin, "Oh, but near the end of my internship, I did help him take down a drug-selling ring."
Itsuka and Ochako sighed telling them that they didn't do anything interesting during their internship. They both told them that the most exciting thing they did was chase down a small midget who shoplifted some stuff from a convenience store.
Momo then told them what she did during the internship, "I mostly trained with Fatgum on creating more complex items while using less lipids." She then hummed and put a hand on her chin, "but I did meet his other intern. Fatgum told me that his intern is part of the big 3 in the school. I think that girl who tested Pony and Mineta is a part of them too."
Everyone present suddenly shivered remembering how strong the girl was. She was no joke.
Tetsu's shoulders dropped down, "I thought that going with Fourth Kind would be awesome," a depressed aura surrounded him, "but all we did was lift trash from the park and make tea for people coming to his agency. This was the worst internship choice ever."
Izuku rubbed the back of his head, "I'm sorry, but I didn't do anything much during my internship with Miruko. We did train a lot and she taught me how to improve my Shoot Style…"
Setsuna bonked him on the top of his head, "Didn't do anything much!" Izuku looked at her with a pout, "You fought the hero killer and defeated him with Kamakiri's help. You need to stop being modest." Izuku only looked away with a blush on his face.
"Man, I still can't believe you took down the hero killer," Jiro said, "I never thought you had in you to stand up to crazy homicidal freaks of nature," she then hummed, "But then again, you did stand up to Shigaraki back at the USJ, so I guess that's something."
Izuku and Setsuna shivered remembering their last encounter with the crazed man-child.
Melissa then clapped her hands, "That sounds so amazing. I bet that you're going to be amazing heroes one day, but now I think it's about we order some food, don't you agree?"
The others nodded as two waiters approached them, "What do you want to order today, ladies?"
They were shocked to hear a voice familiar to them. They turned only to come face-to-face with Kaminari. "Hi, guys. I'm going to be your waiter today, so allow me to serve you." His eyes then zoomed on Melissa. He then grabbed Izuku and Tetsu dragging them aside, "Hey, guys. How's your hot friend? Introduce me to her. Maybe, I can have some luck."
Tetsu pushed him aside, "Dude, have some decency and standards. Try to be manly like me."
Kaminari replied, "Hey, there's nothing wrong with liking girls." He put his hand on the back of his head, "Not that I'm saying that liking guys is bad either. Everyone has his preferences."
Tetsu facepalmed as Izuku said, "What Tetsu is trying to say is that you shouldn't make her feel weird around us, since we are still guests here and we shouldn't cause trouble…" he then asked, "Where is Hastume? I haven't heard her say anything."
Kaminari replied, "Dude, she seems to be in her own little world." He pointed behind him only for Izuku to see Mei playing with something in her hand, "Just look at her. She looks harmless."
Tetsu sighed in relief, "Thank god. I thought I lost her for a moment there."
Kaminair sweat-dropped, "Come on, she can't be that bad." He looked back at Mei and then at Tetsu and Izuku, "I mean what is the worst thing she can do? It's not like she can blow water up."
Izuku and Tetsu didn't know if he was just dumb or if he was just tempting fate.
Someone then nudged Denki, "Come on, dude. Do your job." Both boys looked down to see Mineta. The boy noticed them and greeted them, "Hi guys, um… nice to see you here."
Izuku and Tetsu both gave him a dry look as Tetsu said, "Yeah, nice to see you too." They still didn't forget the stunt he pulled during his final exam. They were both still angry about the incident.
Kaminari looked down at him, "Come on, dude. Don't you want to see that blond cutie over there?" Mineta swallowed heavily but shook his head though sweat was pouring down his face since he was using all his willpower to stop his perverted thoughts.
Denki frowned a little, "Dude, what happened to you? You seem to have become a stick in the mud." Mineta gasped in shock, but Denki laughed, "Calm down. I'm just joking…"
They were suddenly held by the scruff of their vests as Iida who arrived on the scene said, "You told me you wanted to work, didn't you? So, go to work." The boy looked and saw a bunch of his classmates and students from the other class so he bowed, "Greetings, I'm Tenya Iida." Once he saw Izuku, his expression suddenly soured a little before gaining a more neutral look.
Melissa stepped forward, "Hello, my name is Melissa Shield. It's a pleasure to meet you."
Iida grabbed her hand and shook it, "It's nice to meet you too. I'm here on behalf of my family." He then pushed his glasses, "My family comes from a long line of heroes, so they received an invitation, but I was the only one able to come here."
Momo smiled, "You, too?" she then explained, "My family has stocks in I-Island, so we were given tickets. I had two extra ones, so I took Uraraka and Jiro with me."
Both Jiro and Uraraka chuckled remembering how they actually got the tickets through a game of rock-paper-scissors. It was really funny back then.
Jiro then added, "Though the other girls did come too." She then looked at Tokage and asked her, "What about you guys? Did you bring the rest of your classmates or at least the rest of the girls?"
Setsuna smiled sheepishly, "Sorry, but I didn't think about this. I got the tickets just two days before leaving. I talked with Itsuka and Kinoko if one of them wanted to go. Itsuka told me that she was interested." She then looked at I-Island, "But Kinoko said that she had her own way here."
Momo asked her, "Do you mean that she's coming here? Intriguing, but how will she be able to do that? Most of the people who came were invited or had some type of business here…"
"I have some type of business here," the group shrieked in fear as Kinoko stood behind them, "My parents won a competition and are responsible for the catering in I-Island during the I-Expo, though I did bring some extra muscles with me to help my parents."
Melissa introduced herself to Kinoko, but then asked her, "What do you mean?"
"Well, it should become evident," she looked at a big screen in front of them, "right now." The screen then showed huge explosions as vines erupted from everywhere and destroyed a couple of robots as the announcer shouted, "Incredible. She managed to defeat them in 20 seconds."
Ibara on the screen put her hand in prayer as a light shone upon her from the sky.
Izuku asked, "Shiozaki is here?" Kinoko nodded, "What is she doing? What is that?"
Melissa explained, "It's just a small contest to see who can destroy the robots in the fastest time."
Izuku grinned as Tetsu and Itsuka followed him to the field and they all said, "All one there is a rotten egg." The three ran there as Kinoko yelled, "Please tell Shiozaki when you see her that our work starts in half an hour, okay? In half an hour."
The three reached the ring and the announcer said, "It appears that we have three more challengers." She then looked at the three, "Which one of you is going to start first?"
Itsuka walked forward and flexed her muscles, "I think since I'm the president of our class, I should be the person to go first." The announcer nodded and gave Itsuka the signal to get ready. When the announcer gave Itsuka the green light, the girl pounced on the robots and began to rip them apart left and right till she finally destroyed the last one, "25 seconds."
Tetsu came up next and took his place as he got ready to rip the robots into tiny pieces. Once he was allowed to start, the boy destroyed the robots as fast as he could, but sadly his quirk wasn't made for speed so he took about 33 seconds making him frown, but Kendo cheered him on.
Izuku was up next. The boy crouched down and activated OFA at 25%. The announcer then said, "Ready, set, go." The boy then blasted from his spot. He first destroyed a robot found inside a water stream in the arena. He then destroyed another with a finger flick inside a cave. He then found one at the top of the mountain so he used a spear inside a gauntlet to destroy it. He continued this theme till he found the last robot. He tried to destroy it with Blackwhip, but he managed to trip it before he destroyed it by smashing it with his foot.
The announcer exclaimed, "That's unbelievable." She gasped in shock, "He managed to defeat them in 15 seconds." She turned to the audience and said, "Can anyone defeat this record?"
Izuku went to his friends who were talking with Shiozaki who gasped and started running away to meet with Kinoko to help her with the catering job.
Melissa then came up to Izuku, "These gauntlets are awesome. If I thought they were amazing before, now I see how well-made they are."
Mei popped up, "If you're talking about Mr. 10 million's gauntlets, I'm the one who made those babies." Mei exclaimed puffing her chest.
The two girls began to talk with each other about support gear as Setsuna grabbed Izuku, "You doomed us all, Izuchan. Mei was already a handful. Now imagine her with I-Island tech." the boy shivered involuntarily as he thought about this scenario.
Everything then shook as ice covered the entire arena with the announcer saying, "Amazing, he managed to defeat all the robots in one shoot in just 12 seconds."
Izuku looked down and saw Shoto down there. the boy jumped down and greeted the dual-haired boy, "Todoroki, you came here too?" the other boy then explained that he had come here on his father's behalf. The two began to talk as Tetsu joined them while the girls chatted with each other.
Somewhere on the island, the mysterious man from before had a bunch of men tied down on the ground as he received a phone call. He replied to the call, "Yeah, I'm here."
The man on the other end of the line said, "We need to be careful. All Might's here at I-Island."
The other man wasn't shocked and replied calmly, "All Might's here. Don't worry. We'll take care of this. just act natural and don't do anything that might make people suspicious of you."
He then hung up and looked to his men who were getting ready for tonight's job.
Inside David's private lab, All Might was inside a machine that was scanning his body and vitals.
David was looking at a computer with a horrified expression before looking down, "What's going on, Toshi?" he looked at the man, "Why are your quirk readings dropping so dramatically? Even if your fight with AFO damaged you heavily," David looked at All Might's wound, "This is just unnatural. What is happening to your body?"
All Might coughed into his fist, "When you're a hero, your body starts to fail…" David looked down with a sour expression on his face as All Might thought, 'I can't risk telling him about OFA. If I do, David and Melissa will be in AFO's crosshairs.'
David then said, "At the rate you're going, we'll lose the symbol of peace." David then added, "The only reason that Japan has a 6% crime rate is because of you acting as the symbol of peace. Other countries have a 20% crime rate." The man looked down with a saddened look, "There were many times that I wished you just stayed in America."
All Might looked at his friend's face so he stood up and walked up to him, "Don't worry about that David. There are many capable heroes out there." he then patted David on the back, "And there are many people like you who support heroes, too. Plus, I can still be All Might for a couple of hours…"
David then said, "But if there were a villain like AFO out there, then…"
"Dave" the man looked at All Might, "If that ever happens, then I will never bow down to him."
All Might then thought, 'Beisdes there is hope… with OFA and the symbol of peace… the new generation is going to be strong enough to face any villain out there.'
During the afternoon, the speakers in I-Island announced that the island would close down at 6 p.m. today since the Expo was taking place.
Near the café where the students were sitting, Kaminari, Mineta, Ibara, and Komori were all resting their bodies from the harsh work they endured today. The girls were still better off than the boys who seemed to have lived through and then came back.
Melissa walked up to the 4 hero students and said, "Hi, guys. You all worked hard today, so I thought that you all deserve a reward for all your hard effort." She then gave him 4 tickets for tonight's party in Expo making them all smile and thank her.
Everyone then agreed to meet each other at 6:30 and they all went to wear formal clothes. Izuku decided to stick with Melissa for a bit as she told him that she wanted to show him her lab.
Inside David's office, All Might was wearing his hero costume. The man buffed up and walked to the door, "I guess I'm going to see you…" He opened the door to go outside, "…at the party."
David then jumped, "Toshi…" All Might looked back at him but he couldn't say anything, "Nothing… see you at the party." All Might laughed as he left to get ready. David was left in his room reminiscing about his old times with All Might. He then remembered how he met the man.
In another part of the island, a bunch of security guards was tied up as the man said, "Everything is going according to the plan". He then put up a mask on his face, "Let's begin this night."
In Melissa's lab, Melissa took Izuku to the lab where she works. when they entered it, the girl was a little embarrassed by the state it was, "I'm sorry if it's a little bit messy."
Izuku wasn't bothered by this as he complimented the girl, "This seems very professional, Melissa." He then looked at a bunch of prizes that Melissa had, "Wow, you're really amazing, Melissa."
Melissa then replied, "Actually, I always had very bad grades because I was focused on becoming a pro hero, so I had to study extra hard to make up for that."
Izuku tilted his head, "You wanted to become a pro hero?"
Melissa was looking for something inside a storage unit, "Yeah, but that's a dream I gave up years ago." She found what she was looking for and came back to Izuku, "Now, I have a new dream."
Izuku couldn't help but ask, "Why did you give up on becoming a pro hero?"
Melissa rubbed her shoulder, "Well, to be honest, I'm quirkless." She looked at a photo of her and her father, "My quirk took long to show, so my father took me to a doctor at 5, but that's when…"
Izuku didn't need her to go further on. He knew how she felt about this. he was there himself when the doctor who diagnosed him mercilessly steamrolled his dreams.
Melissa then came back and saw Izuku zoned out, "What's wrong, Midoriya-kun?"
Izuku looked at her, "No, it's nothing." He then looked at his hand, "It's just… it must have felt weird to be told that you don't have something everyone else has."
Melissa smiled, "Yes, I was very shocked, but I had a goal close to me." Izuku blinked as Melissa pointed to a picture of her father, "My papa. He doesn't have a quirk that makes him a hero, but he still helps heroes like Uncle Might and many others, so I decided to be like him. Someone who helps heroes indirectly."
Izuku parroted her words, "Someone who helps heroes…"
"That's right," Melissa said with determination, "this way I hope to become a hero." She then opened a box she brought with her, "I made this while I was watching Uncle Might. You told me during our conservations that you can't control your quirk at 100%, so I thought I should give it to you."
Izuku tilted his head, "You want to give this to me?" The girl nodded and asked him to use it. The boy then put the band-like device on his wrist and activated it only to turn into a gauntlet.
Melissa then said, "If I had to name it, I would call it the 'Full Gauntlet', so what do you think?"
Izuku replied, "I think it looks awesome, but what can it do?"
Melissa replied, "Well, it can handle up to 3 full-powered punches that are equal to Uncle Might's smashes., but it's still a prototype."
"Are you sure you want me to use it?" Izuku asked Melissa, "I mean it seems important." Melissa nodded telling him that it made her happier if her gauntlet was used to save people.
Izuku then received a phone call from Tokage telling him to come to the party, since it was way past their meeting time. the boy gave her a confirmation that he was getting ready. He ended the call and looked at Melissa, "I think we should start preparing ourselves."
The girl nodded as she went to wear her own outfit.
Author's notes:
Welcome guys back to a new chapter of my story. In this chapter, we saw Izuku's arrival at I-Island, meeting Melissa, and other stuff. The next chapter will probably be when the action begins. Sorry, if this chapter is a little bit boring and drawn out.
As always please take care of yourselves, write your opinion about the current chapter in the reviews, and tell me how you think I can make the story better.
And finally, I hope you all enjoy reading my work, and see you next time with a brand new chapter.
