"Are you serious?" Aizawa asked with a raised eyebrow, looking nonplussed. "You're telling me that Endeavor herself wants you to marry your classmate and have kids by the end of the next year, which is quickly approaching?" she pondered before yawning, stretching her limbs, several audible pops being heard. "What a clusterfuck. Nozomi, you have a way to counter this BS, right?" she questioned, looking over to the principal who was sitting down with a cup of steaming tea.
"I do indeed! Endeavor has no power, nor the right, to force the two of you into a marriage contract. If she tries, which she would most assuredly do after the Sports Festival, I'll personally use some connections I have to void it. Does that put the two of you at ease?" the chimera asked, looking to her students who were sitting down as well, one of them being much more expressive.
"Thank you so much, principal Nozomi!" Midoriya thanked, bowing repeatedly in his chair.
"Thanks," was the one word reply from the ice-cold Todoroki, sitting cross-legged in her chair. "Is this over? I'd like a drink of water, if it's all the same to you."
"Yes yes, you're free to leave and still participate in the Sports Festival," she reminded her students, watching as they bid farewell and left her and Aizawa alone.
"That was nice of you," Shoka noted, her hands in her pockets. "But won't that cause Endeavor to breathe down your back?"
"I'd like to see her try!" she cackled, deeply unsettling her colleague. "But seriously, I'm not too worried over her."
"You're not?"
"Indeed! She won't harm a hair on my body as long as I have power over her."
"Good," Aizawa breathed a sigh of relief, one less thing to worry about.
"Midoriya, thank you," came the monotonous voice of Todoroki as they walked back to their class's bleachers.
"Of course, Todoroki. Your mom is crazy if she thinks she can make us have kids together."
"Agreed, though I do wonder if our child would be as smart as you and have my quirk," Shiho admitted shamelessly.
Izuku decided to indulge her as he said, "Intellect is not hereditary, and the quirk our child would have would be different than yours, maybe better or worse depending on her genes. Who knows?"
"Have you ever dabbled in gene manipulation?" Todoroki asked casually as they took their seat in the stands, sitting down next to each other.
"Not yet, I haven't seen a use in it besides modifying and improving the human body to superhuman levels. Why?"
"Between you and me," she lowered her voice, whispering into his ear, making him tingle as he felt her breath against him. "I don't know why I'm telling you this, but I'm a result of some genetic experiment. Endeavor mixed her DNA with a man when she impregnated my other mom to get my quirk."
"You have two moms?" he asked in a whisper, surprised.
"Yeah, I do. She, that being Endeavor, kept doing that until she achieved 'the perfect daughter,' which is me. It's why I'll never use her fire."
"Her fire? It's your own quirk, Todoroki. Your shitty mother still has her quirk, it's not like you stole it from her. Your quirk is unique, it is yours. If I had it, I wouldn't be wasting it like you are," he critiqued, trying to drive home the point.
"Maybe, but it's complicated," she argued, them whispering back and forth.
"Then make it uncomplicated."
"First up to rumble is Midoriya Izuku versus Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu! Jeez, what a name!" Present Mic suddenly announced, stopping their conversation.
"I'll be back. JARVIS, talk to her and convince her that she's wrong and I'm right," he ordered as he handed over his sunglasses to his friend, going down into the arena quickly.
Todoroki put on the glasses before she was bombarded with information, such as a detailed heat-scan of the area and an x-ray of herself. "Hello?" she asked tentatively.
"It is good to meet you, Miss Todoroki. Or do you prefer Miss Shiho?" JARVIS intoned, speaking to her and only her through the glasses.
"Miss Shiho works."
"Good to know, Miss Shiho. Now, my Sir wants me to assure you that your quirk is your own, which it is. Quirks can be passed down to child to child from their parents, but that does not mean they have their parent's quirk. It is usually a mutation of the mother's quirk, although in your case it is mothers. Since it is a mutation of your mothers' quirks, this means that it is inherently not theirs, it is yours. Do you understand?"
Todoroki swallowed thickly as she digested that information. It made sense, too much sense. She activated the flame part of her quirk, it warming her and enveloping her in flames as she thought of her true mother, Todoroki Rei, who always wanted the best of her.
It was decided:
It was her quirk, not Endeavor's.
Down in the arena Tetsutetsu flashed a grin at Midoriya as she slammed her metal fists together, it making a loud CLANG! noise in the process. The two were standing on opposite sides of the battle area, both readying up for a fight.
"Not gonna put on your fancy suit?" his opponent taunted, ready to rumble.
Midoriya pressed and held his hand against his NTC, conjuring the nanites to flow over his hand, forming an Iron Man gauntlet up to his wrist. "I don't need my full suit to beat you," he ominously stated, as if it was a fact.
"And start!" Midnight told them.
Izuku activated his Zero-Point Energy tech in the tips of his gauntlet, and with one finger he stopped the running opposition in her place in a field of blue energy that came from the tip of his pointer finger. The young woman had a determined look on her face as he gently repositioned her outside of the arena, then turning off the tech so she didn't fall too far to the ground. She fell, shocked on what happened.
"Tetsutetsu is out!" Midnight began.
"And with that Midoriya Izuku wins! What the hell was that support gear?!" Present Mic asked in awe, looking over to her co-announcer to see if she knew.
Aizawa took the microphone from her friend as she spoke into it, "I have no idea. Ask him about it after all this is over, if you can."
Midoriya examined his gauntlet in detail, proud of his accomplishments ever since he met Desiree. He gave a formal bow to his former adversary as he walked back to class 1-A's bleachers. Everyone was abuzzed at seeing him win so easily, but Todoroki gave him a nod as she handed back his JARVIS sunglasses, whispering to him that they'd speak later.
"Midoriya! How did you manage to call out only your gauntlet?! And what new tech was that blue energy?!" Iida immediately asked as she chopped the air with her hands, cornering him as soon as he entered.
"My nanotech container has a USB-C port at the bottom that can connect to a computer if you use the right cable. Its programmable, and depending on the type of clicks and presses you input on the surface different things happen. If I double-tap it calls out my Iron Man armor, if I tap and hold for two seconds it only brings out enough nanites to cover my hand up to my wrist, and if I press it like this," he tapped it in a specific way, spawning his portal gun, "you get my portal gun," he explained, putting it back into the NTC with barely a thought. "As for that 'blue energy,' as you called it, that was Zero-Point Energy. It allows me to freeze any target in place and move them to my whims."
"Midoriya, that's incredible! Your support gear is like a quirk of its own!" Uraraka commented, thoroughly impressed.
Everyone heard Present Mic announce the next matchup, which was Tsuyu against someone named Ibara. Some of them, such as Todoroki, watched with bored interest. Midoriya, meanwhile, made a thinking gesture as he asked everyone, "Who wants to put on the armor, or at least part of it?" That got everybody's attention, almost all of them wanting to try it out. Izuku looked among his classmates before deciding on: "Sato, how about you?"
The big woman with noticeable lips looked shocked that he chose her, before she nodded excitedly.
"Full suit or just a piece?"
"Full suit, please," she requested, excited beyond belief to try out the man's invention. He took off his NTC and told her to place it on her sternum, which was between her breasts. He instructed her quickly on how to put it on, and she did as instructed, double-tapping quickly on the device, the nanomachines quickly coming out and covering her whole body with a sleek and fancy suit of armor. She looked badass, and Sato flexed her fingers, feeling the power in the thing she was wearing.
"Now I'm trusting you to be responsible, Sato. I want you to imagine a weapon of any kind at the end of your hand. Visualize it, imagine it becoming real," he told her.
Ritsuko breathed in deeply and did as he said, imagining a wicked-looking blade before she heard/felt the nanites move around and formed the blade in question. "Woah! That's awesome! It can create anything I think of?" she asked, surprised.
"Yep, the only limitation is your imagination, so it's kind of like a Green Lantern Ring. Which reminds me, I should really get one of those," he muttered the last part. "Okay, let's do another person. Sato, if you will?"
The big woman imagined the suit peeling away, as if it was never on her. It thankfully worked and she was normal again, handing back the NTC to her friend. "Thanks, dude! That was awesome!"
"No problem! Any takers?" he watched them scrabble to be the next person to try out his tech. He looked carefully before selecting: "Tokoyami, you're up."
"Truly, a mad banquet of darkness," she said edgily. "Are you sure it'll work with my head?" she asked normally, surprising everyone by not being edgy.
"It should conform, but just to be sure, JARVIS, scan her head, make a helmet design, and then upload it to the NTC," he ordered into his nanotech-based sunglasses.
"At once, Sir…it is done."
"Thanks, J. Tokoyami, here you go," he said as he watched her press the NTC against her sternum, double-tapping the device as the nanites formed over her unique body proportions. When the nanomachines reached her head it successfully formed around it, giving her a mecha-bird look.
"The colors do not suit me, but this is amazing nonetheless," Fumika admitted before asking, "By the way, how would my quirk come out? It can't exit through the armor," she explained.
"Hmm, I'd imagine you could just mentally tell the nanotech to uncover a section of your body to allow your quirk to come out," Midoriya hypothesized, watching as she did just that as Dark Shadow made itself known.
"She's truly thinking this is cool and wants to know if it comes in black!" Dark Shadow outed its user, Tokoyami mentally telling the nanomachines to go back into its container as she tried to shove her quirk back inside her. After a battle that lasted a total of ten seconds, she managed to do so, handing back the NTC to Midoriya while huffing and puffing.
"Your quirk is really cool," he said as he put on the NTC again, making everyone (sans Bakugo) slump in disappointment. "Does it have any weakness?"
"Sunlight or any other form of light is a big one," Fumika explained, not realizing she was handing ammunition to her potential adversaries. "It's based on the light levels and, while this one is personally a theory, my emotions. I still need to train Dark Shadow to better handle the beast within."
"Hmm, neat," he said as he directed his attention back to the one on one fights. Monoma was currently dominating in the arena, somehow splitting her body into several pieces to fly around and strike her opponent, which was against Mineta, who wasn't doing half bad. Unfortunately, Monoma's flying pieces of her body got stuck on Minori's purple balls, allowing her to pick up one of the body parts and throw it out of the ring, deeming her the winner of the round. "Huh, didn't expect that."
"I don't know, she does have a way of showing potential," Jirou argued, twirling her earphone jack with her fingers.
"Fair point."
"And next up is Yaoyorozu Momo against Kendo Itsuka!" Present Mic announced from her microphone, Yaoyorozu getting up from her seat to go down into the battle arena. Midoriya watched the battle with obsessive vigor, muttering to himself who'd likely win, unknowingly making his classmates smile at his silly antics.
It was a slaughter, to say the least. As soon as the round started Yaomomo took out a 12 gauge shotgun that she had materiaized before cocking it, daring her opponent to make a move. Itsuka, wisely, gave up immediately to not get shot, deeming Yaoyorozu the winner.
The battles went on and on like that, like Bakugo versus Tokoyami (the former winning), or Jirou versus someone named Komori (with the latter winning due to her mushroom quirk, which was really fascinating to Midoriya). Eventually it was Hatsume against Iida, with the former showing off her babies with the help of the latter, such as her hover soles and auto balancers, which Midoriya really wanted to get the designs of because it could save him and help stabilize his flight if it went off due to an enemy. Hatsume, surprisingly, threw the match, seemingly satisfied that she got to show off her copious amount of babies.
Midoriya took out his phone and called a specific number. "Mr. Midoriya? Why are you calling?"
"Miss Hisoka, you're watching the Sports Festival," he stated, knowing the likelihood of her doing so. "That was my friend Hatsume Mei, she has a treasure trove of ideas and inventions, all yours to patent and sell if you were to pick her up."
The CEO of Geonosis Tech sighed before saying, "The Board will consider it. Please forget this number," she requested before ending the call, right as Hatsume came to the class 1-A's bleachers to see her one and only science bro.
"Greenie! Did you see me and Four-Eyes out there?!" she asked excitedly, not knowing she just insulted Iida. "We showed off so many babies together!"
"Midoriya, who is this?" Mina asked, liking her energy. Another pink-themed student to potentially befriend, she thought.
"Everyone, this is my science bro Hatsume Mei. We like to throw and bounce ideas off each other," he introduced. "And Hatsume, we simply must talk about your auto balancers later. I see potential in them.
"Will do, bro. Hello, potential customers!" she addressed them. "If you ever need gear just come to the Support Department and ask for me!" Hatsume told them, a proud smile on her face. "Greenie here is pretty good too, but when we work together we create many cute babies together!"
That caused quite a lot of them to choke on their spit.
"Midoriya, thank you for opening my eyes to see that it is my quirk," Todoroki thanked, bowing before him in the arena. It was finally the semi-finals, with the green-haired inventor against the dual-type quirk user.
He double-tapped his NTC, his armor forming over him like a second skin at this point. His helmet slid over his face as he readied himself, "No problem, Todoroki. Helping people is what heroes do, after all."
"Enough chit chat! And start!" Midnight announced, cracking her whip to signal them. Immediately his opponent sent out a large glacier of ice, bigger than any she had made before. He just barely managed to get out of the way by flying, shooting at Todoroki a repulsor blast set to stun at her. She couldn't dodge it in time as she got struck, getting sent back a couple of feet. He saw her use her quirk to heat herself up, getting rid of the hypothermia that was surely setting in.
"THAT'S MY GIRL! KICK HIS ASS!" Endeavor shouted loudly from the stands, leaning excitedly against the metal railing.
"It seems that Endeavor is being supportive of her daughter! How touching!" Present Mic commented.
Midoriya saw this as an opportunity as he activated his Sonic Stunning Device, trying to stun her before she summoned a wall of ice in front of her, stopping the attack. She sent a torrent of fire at him, which mildly heated him up as he sent a beam of energy back at her. She dodged it, skating on the ice she conjured at her feet to dodge the attack. Izuku decided to just ram into her and push her out of the arena, flying fast at her. Shiho didn't have time to react as she got slammed into, pushed out of the arena. He dropped her from a little high up, expecting her to hit the ground and lose.
But no, Todoroki shot at the ground with her ice powers, making a slide that got her back in the battle area, keeping her from getting out. "You're gonna have to do better than that, Midoriya," she told him, not realizing that was a taunt.
Annoyed he shot out his Zero-Point Energy from the tips of his fingers, trying to wrap her up in the energy field. She blocked it by creating a dome of ice around her. The Zero-Point Energy struck it, allowing him to toss it aside with a large CRASH! noise as it slammed into the stadium walls, as with his other hand he shot a repulsor blast at her. She wasn't able to dodge it while she was heating herself up, getting sent back to the edge.
All the while Present Mic was commentating, "This is crazy, folks! It seems this isn't a wash like with Tetsutetsu! They seem to be evenly matched!"
Todoroki decided to try her glacier attack again, this time successfully entrapping her foe in the ice. He was suspended in animation, like meat in aspic. With her signature monotonous look she looked to Midnight-sensei to get her the win before the both of them heard it: A crack in the ice.
They saw as the arc reactor began to glow brightly before a strong and yellow-orange colored energy came bursting out of the ice, freeing its user from it. He flew out before sending a bunch of non-killing missiles at Todoroki's feet. She didn't have time to think as they exploded, sending her out of bounds as she ragdolled against the ground, skipping several times like a rock on water.
"And Midoriya Izuku wins!" Midnight declared, the crowd going wild. Izuku flew over to his former adversary and activated his Medi Gun, healing her injuries.
"And in terms of good sportsmanship, Midoriya is somehow healing Todoroki! How nice of him!"
"You did awesome, Todoroki! I didn't even know you could make glaciers that big!" Midoriya gushed, taking off his Iron Man suit as he helped up his classmate from the ground.
"Thanks for healing me, and making those glaciers give me serious hypothermia, unless I offset it with my fire."
"Your fire? I imagine that JARVIS was able to convince you?" he asked as the two walked back to the bleachers.
"Not just him, though it did help. It was you, Midoriya," she gave a rare smile, not caring if her mom was pissed she lost against a man.
Speaking of Endeavor…
"You cheated," came the cold voice of the number two pro heroine, blocking them from going further to their friends.
"How the hell did you get here so fast? Weren't you up in the bleachers?" Midoriya questioned.
"You cheated with that suit of armor," she reiterated as she ignored his inane questions, stalking up to the man before they were sharing the same air space. "That device," she gestured to his nanotech container, "is giving you an unfair advantage to the other students, especially against my daughter. Give it to me," she ordered as she reached for his NTC.
"No," he replied, walking backward away from Endeavor, putting a protective hand on his invention.
"You don't get to say 'no,' boy. Give it to me before I seriously hurt you," she warned, holding out a hand for the device.
"Mom, leave him alone."
"Stay out of this, Shiho," Endeavor told her "perfect" daughter. "I'm warning you, Midoriya; give it to me."
"You're going to destroy it!" he argued, seriously considering suiting up to take on pro heroine. Hell, maybe the younger Todoroki would help.
"You're damn right I am. No man should have that much power," she stated as if it was a fact, further activating her quirk to send out her flames farther to intimidate them.
Suddenly her quirk turned off, surprising all three of them. "I would appreciate it if you didn't threaten my students, Endeavor," the tired and pissed off voice of Aizawa Shoka came. She walked over to them, a scowl on her face, her eyes red and her long hair floating. "You have no right to take and destroy Midoriya's support gear, especially this late in the Sports Festival. Leave now," she ordered.
"You don't get to order me around, Aizawa. Your quirk won't last forever, and we know this man is cheating."
"Cheating? By using his intellect to win? Please, save me from your sexist opinions," she mocked, her eyes straining.
Endeavor decided to intimidate Aizawa by getting in her face, but was stopped when a blue energy enwrapped her, freezing her from all movement.
"Leave my sensei alone," Midoriya commanded, having his Iron Man gauntlet on, using his Zero-Point Energy to stop her.
"Midoriya, let her go."
"But she was—"
"Let her go," his teacher ordered.
He begrudgingly let Endeavor go, who soon whirled on a dime at the man. "You! You dare try to stop me?! Know your place, boy!" Endeavor yelled, about to backhand the boy before cloth bindings stopped her, coming from Aizawa's capture tape.
"He's just a kid who was protecting me. When I let you go, Endeavor, you'll leave us the hell alone, understand? Or do I need to involve All Might and Nozomi?" Eraserhead threatened before letting the fire heroine go. She grumbled under her breath as she left, letting Aizawa breathe a sigh of relief. "Midoriya, I appreciate the help but don't do that against pro heroines unless you want a death sentence," she informed him.
"Yes, sensei," he said. "Todoroki, are you okay?"
"Am I okay? My mom was the one threatening you, Midoriya. I'm fine, are you?"
"Kind of? She did try to destroy my nanotech container, which would've been disastrous," he admitted. "Thanks for the save, Aizawa-sensei."
"Of course, problem child. Now get back to your classmates, they're probably wondering where you are," Shoka said as she walked back to the commentary booth, leaving the two of them alone to make their way back to their friends.
"Mom, how are you?!" Iida Tomoyo spoke loudly into the phone, secluded away from her classmates. She heard sniffling, as if her mother was holding back a dam of tears. "Mom?" she asked in a much softer tone of voice, scared that something happened.
"Tomoyo, it's your sister," she began ominously. "She's been injured."
The color drained from Iida's face as she heard her mother explain what happened, at least as much as they could surmise from the attack.
All she could hear after that was loud white noise, numb to everything as she left the Sports Festival, going to the hospital where her sister was at in a hurry.
"And now, ladies and gentlemen, for the final bout of fighting for the festival, I give you: Midoriya Izuku against Bakugo Katsumi!" Present Mic introduced, seeing the two students down in the arena on opposite sides. "Both powerhouses in their own right, especially with Midoriya's armor and Bakugo's explosions! Who will win? Who will lose? Stay tuned to find out!"
"You better not go easy on me, Zuku," Kacchan warned, doing some stretching exercises to limber herself up.
"Understood. I'll kick your ass quickly, don't worry," he cockily assured her, his Iron Man suit already on.
"As if. Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off and what are you?" she asked with fake haughtiness, doing a couple of small explosions to figuratively and literally warm herself up.
"Then I'm just a big man," he quipped, enjoying their little back and forth.
"And start!" Nemuri commenced, striking her whip to the ground.
Immediately Bakugo charged at him, firing her explosive quirk point-blank in his face, a large explosion covering the entirety of his head. This ultimately didn't faze him due to his helmet as he batted her away, sending her flying to the edge. She used her hands while using Explosion to correct her landing and stay in the arena, a manic smile on her face at a real challenge. Katsumi decided to use one of her stronger moves as she flew through the air, propelling herself fastly in a circular motion before slamming her hands on the torso section of his suit of armor, releasing the Howitzer Impact on contact. A large explosion filled the whole arena, sending her opponent out of the ring before he caught himself, stabilizing his flight before it was too late. His armor was scuffed and peeled away, nanomachines coming out to replace the missing nanites, undoing the damage.
"It seems that Bakugo's strong attack didn't leave any lasting damage! It's like his suit has a self-healing quirk or something like that!" Present Mic commentated. "Will that last forever?! Who knows?!"
Midoriya ignored his teacher's commentary as he fired two repulsor blasts at her, Kacchan unable to dodge both in time. She ate the blast, using her quirk to stop her backward momentum. Izuku got an idea as he put his hands together, his nanotech changing in the area and making a dual machine gun that began blasting energy blasts by the dozen.
Bakugo flew out of the way, doing aerial moves to stay away from the energy balls. One nicked her in the foot and shoulder, making her click her tongue in pain and annoyance. Eventually Midoriya saw that his attacks weren't doing anything and waited for her to make the next move. Bakugo took the bait and brought her hands together, using her left hand to make a circle in her right palm before firing, creating a narrow beam of explosive power. The green-haired inventor simply moved out of the way, the beam passing him harmlessly, it slamming and cracking the wall with a BOOM!.
"Bakugo, be careful where you aim that! You could destabilize the stadium and hurt the crowd!" Midnight chastised.
"Yeah yeah, I get it," Katsumi dismissively acknowledged before changing the power output of her quirk, firing a volley of small energy ball blasts at her childhood friend. He conjured a transparent forcefield, stopping all of them expertly. "You're just full of tricks, aren't you?"
"I aim to please." He decided to end this now, as it had gone on long enough. Before Kacchan could stop him and avoid the attack, Midoriya used his Zero-Point Energy ray and froze her, moving her to the outside of the arena and placing her on the ground, so that she didn't have a second to recover when he inevitably released his childhood friend, looking pissed that he ended the fight so early.
"And Midoriya Izuku wins!" Midnight announced, the crowd going wild to the point that it grew deafening.
"Folks, you heard it here first! The first ever man has won the Sports Festival! This will go down in history as one of the most infamous events, a man winning against countless women!" Present Mic yelled out over the loud, unruly crowd.
"You did good, Izuku, but don't ever pull that bullshit against me again," Bakugo warned with little malice when they met back up as they made their way back to the bleachers.
He gave a mock salute as he gave her a quick peck on the lips, making her blush at his open display of love, "Wouldn't dream of it."
Midoriya, Bakugo, and Todoroki stood standing at a podium at different levels to reflect their placement in the Sports Festival. All of them, them being the reporters, Midnight-sensei, and the three students stood standing about, flashing grins or faces for the paper.
"I am here to give you your medals!" came the loud and proud voice of the number one pro heroine, All Might, as she came from the heavens and landed on the concrete with a THWOMP!, creating a small fracture in the material. All Might was wearing her heroine costume while holding a bronze, silver, and gold medal, one of each. She approached the heterochromatic teen as she put on the bronze medal over her, "To you, Young Todoroki, for getting third place in this festival! Good going, I'm sure your mother will be proud of you!" she naively assured before going to Bakugo, who looked a little peeved to be at number two. "To you, Young Bakugo, for getting second place! I saw you and you did some amazing moves!" she said as she put the silver medal around the student's neck.
"Thanks, All Might," she said with a ferocious grin, feeling a little bit better at hearing her idol praise her.
"And last, but most certainly not least, to you, Young Midoriya Izuku. The first man to not only participate the Sports Festival, but to win it as the first place winner! For that, young man, you've most certainly earned this," she congratulated as she put on the gold medal around his neck, him shooting a beaming smile at winning. "Now, let's do a group picture for the papers!" she heavily suggested, bunching up him, Bakugo, and Todoroki together in a bear hug as their picture was taken from practically all angles. "Now," she projected her voice to the people in the stand, sounding as loud as Present Mic did when she used her quirk, "Any one of the young women participating in this tournament could have won this honor. I say with certainty that the future of heroines looks bright, so I will say this to end my little speech: U.A. is about going beyond…"
"PLUS ULTRA!" everyone simultaneously shouted, making All Might proud she said that instead of saying "Great work" that she originally planned. Thankfully Nozomi had caught her and asked her what she was going to say, changing the outcome of the speech entirely.
"Good job, master!" Desiree praised, giving cold kisses to his cheeks, as that was all she could do while staying undetected.
"We're definitely having celebratory sex later," he informed her, getting slightly shy from all the attention he was currently wading in. Nothing could ruin this, he thought to himself.
"Sensei, my plan to ensnare the man is going swimmingly," Shigaraki informed her crippled mentor over the monitor. "I believe he'll be ready to go through one of Kurogiri's portals soon, possibly by the end of this month or the next."
"I knew you had potential, Tomoko. Splendid work on your scheming. How did the man fare in the Sports Festival?" the dying, crippled woman asked.
"He won it."
"Just like that? Please, give me all the details. After all, I have plenty of time," she said, gesturing to her broken and battered body that was splayed out on the bed which her protégé couldn't see due to the audio only feed.
"Okay, this one is crazy, so bear with me, please, Sensei. It started off normally enough…"
"You know, it occured to me that our class doesn't have a group chat," Midoriya casually and randomly mentioned to his classmates.
"Oh my god, that's a totally awesome idea! Great going, Midori!" Ashido gushed, going around and getting everyone's number before she realized something, "Where's Iida?"
"I have no idea, she's been missing for a while now," Yaoyorozu noted, adopting a thinking posture. "Midoriya, do you have her number?"
"I don't—"
"But I do!" Uraraka butted in, holding her smartphone up as if presenting it. She expertly navigated the UI to get to her text messaging app, shooting a message to Tomoyo, asking her where she was. Her phone soon started ringing, startling the brown-haired girl as she hastily answered it. "Iida? What's up?" she talked into the receiver, her face growing confused before she offered her phone to Midoriya, "She wants to talk to you."
"Okay…?" he unsuredly asked, wondering why the hell Iida wanted to talk to him specifically instead of the one she called. "Iida, everything alright?"
"Midoriya…can you perform miracles?" Tomoyo asked in a delicate voice, it having a mixture of pain and anger as she talked. "My sister, Tenyo, the pro heroine Ingenium, has been attacked and crippled by the Heroine Killer: Stain."
"Holy shit, Iida! I can't believe she survived! But why—"
"Because I believe you're someone capable of performing miracles. Can you come and take a look at her, use your tech and all that?" Iida requested, unknowingly gripping the phone tightly on the off chance he said no.
"Where are you located?" he asked immediately, activating/donning his Iron Man suit, ready to go at a moment's notice.
It was time to be a good friend.