7

Eri didn't remember her life before the bad men and the surgery room. She didn't remember her parents. Sometimes, at night, when she was alone in her bedroom, if she concentrated hard enough, she could remember some voices. Two men, kind and loving, and a woman, at first kind too, but then her voice was filled with rage and disgust.

All she knew was pain. Pain and solitude. The men that followed Overhaul weren't her friends, they didn't care for her. Eri was just a tool for Overhaul´s plans. Her happiness wasn't important. All they cared about was her curse. It was all she was good for after all. Her curse.

She hated it. Her curse. Because of it she didn´t have a daddy or a mommy. Because of it she was cut open and disfigured. No matter how much she cried or begged, they just kept cutting. And her curse wouldn't even help her. At first, when Overhaul started to experiment on her, her curse would react and explode like a bomb. But it never worked against him. He learned how to protect himself. With time, her curse stopped acting. That made him angry. He wanted her curse to act. So he made her feel more pain, much more pain until she couldn't think.

For so long she only knew pain and misery. It was all she knew.

Until that day.

Some of her guards were talking, apparently the Young Master wasn´t in Japan, he was in another country, managing a business deal with some cartel? But he would return in one week. At that moment Eri felt something she had never felt before.

Hope. She felt hope. At least that's what her few books described.

Her guards weren´t hard to fool. All she did was pretend to feel sick. Their fear of something bad happening to her, overcame their fear of risking exposing her to the authorities. Using the secret tunnels they took her from her cell and to a car. The moment Eri saw the car, she faked barfing. They put her on the ground and she bolted.

She ran and ran and ran. In her mind, if she ran forever, then they would never find her.

And then, Izumi found her. The older girl protected her and saved her. When the men came for her, Izumi beat them up and then found them a safe place to hide. Izumi got her new clothes and even some paint so her white hair wouldn't be so noticeable.

That night was the best of her life. She was away from the compound and someone was hugging her and humming a lullaby until she fell asleep.

When the next morning came, Eri had been sure it was all a dream. She had been so happy to see Izumi sitting in front of her, eating some strange pink and curvy fruit.

"Hey sleepyhead, how are you? Want some? It's really sweet. If not I have some other things. Other berries and a few cookies" She put other fruits in a blanket. They were of different colors and shapes. Eri had never seen anything like that.

"Do- do you have apples?" she asked timidly. She didn't want to sound spoiled, but she really liked apples. It was one of the few nice things that they gave her after the experiments.

"Uhhmm, let me look. Maybe here? No. Noo. Ahh, no. Finally! One tasty sweet apple coming!"

Eri wanted to smile when Izumi gave her her favorite food. But she couldn´t. She didn't know how to smile. Izumi smiled for her. They ate quietly. When Eri finished her apple a water bottle was put in front of her. She drank it and thanked her savior.

"Eri, we can't stay here. I have an idea, but I will need your help. And for that I need to know who were the men that were after you and if you know what do they want"

Her body started to shake. Thinking of them, of the room, it filled her with fear. She couldn't move. She couldn't speak. She froze. Her horn started to itch. No, no please. She had to control it. But she didn't know how. Her breath became more labored. She had to warn her, to warn Izumi. She needed to get away before it was too late. But her voice wouldn't come.

Izumi tried to get closer but Eri didn´t let her. She ran towards the other side of the room and yelled:

"NOO, STAY AWAY. PLEASE I CAN'T CONTROL IT!" Eri´s tears blurred her vision. A light shined from her horn, pain came and then it went away. Eri cried. She was sure her curse had taken Izumi away from her. Just like with her parents.

Arms hugged her. Her head was pulled against a chest.

"Shhh, it´s ok Eri. Focus on my breathing. Can you feel it? In. Out. In. Out. Just like that. Don´t worry. We have all the time in the world"

Eri followed her breathing. In. Out. In. Out. A wave of exhaustion crept over her. Before she knew it her eyes closed.

When she came to, her head was on Izumi´s lap. She was brushing her hair and smiling at her. Eri wanted to cry. She couldn´t remember the last time someone had been so nice to her.

"Eri, I know this is hard. All I want to do is snap my fingers and make everything good. But I can't. I don't think anybody can. A quirk like that would be so OP don't you think?"

"What is a quirk?" "Nobody told you?" Eri shaked her head. "A quirk is a gift, a power that most of the world has. Some quirks are similar but each one is different"

"A gift? But I don't have a gift. I'm cursed. Everything that I touch is destroyed"

"Eri, I want you to listen me closely" they stared at each other "Whoever told you that you were cursed, is an idiot"

Izumi's bluntness shook her. There was no hesitation in her eyes. She truly believed in what she said.

Izumi suddenly grinned "I have an idea. How about you say that the person that told you that is really stupid? I bet that would make you feel better"

Could she do it? She wasn´t sure. She wanted to try.

"O-o" she couldn't. She wasn't strong. She was weak. Izumi's hand gripped hers. She grabbed hers too.

"Overhaul is really stupid" she whispered. Izumi's eyes encouraged her.

"Overhaul is really stupid" she wanted to be confident.

"Overhaul is really stupid!" She wanted to be brave!

"OVERHAUL IS REALLY STUPID!" She wanted to be like Izumi.

"HE IS THE STUPIDEST! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!"

Somehow she felt better. As of saying what she felt lightened her.

Izumi smiled and hugged her.

"You did great, Eri. Now I'm going to explain my plan ok" "But, don't you need what I know?" "Not right now. I shouldn't have pressured you. It was my mistake. I won't deny that knowing about Overhaul won't help, but I won't force you to speak about it until you're ready Eri"

She nodded. Izumi was so kind and nice. She wanted to help her. But she was right. Eri wasn't ready. Her throat tightened whenever she thought about it.

"In a few days many heroes will be in Tokyo and its surrounding areas. We need to be there at that time. So we will stall. Take different buses and trains with no destination in mind. We will hide in cheap motels with different names and identities. I will dye my hair black so we can pretend to be sisters. That means that I will call you imouto and you will call me nee-chan"

"Nee-chan?" "Do you prefer nee-san? Or aneue?"

"Izumi-nee?" She asked the older girl. Izumi's face went red. "Ah, well, ahh. It's best if we don't say our names. That way it would be harder for them to find us. But, but, if you want, you can call me that too. Ok?"

Eri nodded. She liked that. Calling Izumi her sister, it felt good. It felt right.

Izumi reached into her bag. She pulled a ball, it was small, the top half was blue with red stripes and the bottom half was white. A button marked the middle.

"This ball here is special Eri. With this you can summon a powerful knight named Sir Plushy. If Overhaul or anyone that wants to hurt you comes near you, then all you have to do is push this button twice and point forward. And he will protect you Eri. Because he is a really powerful knight"

And she was right. Sir Plushy protected her. When Overhaul found them, when he threatened to kill Izumi to punish her, Eri was afraid. No, she was terrified. But Izumi-nee wasn't scared. She was there. And Eri had to be brave.

Sir Plushy was amazing. He hadn't flinched at the sight of Overhaul. He put himself in front of both of them, like the knight Izumi-nee proclaimed him to be.

Then Sir Plushy grabbed her and then he did something that made the world twist. One second they were on the alleway, in front of Overhaul, and the next they were back again on the same warehouse she and nee-chan had first hidden in.

"Eri, dont be afraid. I'm not going to hurt you" a man´s voice spoke in her head. She turned. There was no one there. Just her… and Sir Plushy.

"Sir Plushy?"

He nodded.

"My real name is Gallade, Sir Plushy is a nickname Izumi gave me so that you could call me that"

"Oh, so I can't call you Sir Plushy?"

Gallade sigued.

"No, you can. But only you. And please don't tell Izumi. She sucks at giving nicknames. When she finally becomes a hero somebody will have to help her to come up with a good hero name"

"Ok, thank you Sir Plushy" "Your welcome Eri"

"Why can I hear your voice in my head? Is it, is it your quirk?" Even after talking with nee-chan about quirks, she still wasn't sure about them. Nee-chan promised her that after Overhaul was arrested, she would get someone to help Eri how to control her quirk, so she wouldn't be afraid of it.

"Humans have quirks, I'm not a human. I'm a Pokemon. My species have physic abilities, one of them allows me to comunicate with my mind. Don't worry, I'm not reading your mind. I just project my thoughts towards your mind. All your thoughts are safe"

That made her breath again. Her mind was the only thing that neither Overhaul nor his men had broken. Oh, she was scared of them. She was terrified. But she had escaped. She had confronted him. Nee-chan would be proud.

Wait. Nee-chan. She wasn't here.

"Where is Izumi-nee? Why isn't she here?"

"Izumi is stalling Overhaul with her other Pokemon. Remember, it's part of her plan. They will show the world his real face and the heroes will capture him. As soon as its safe she will call me and we will teleport back"

"Nee-chan can call you with her mind?"

He nodded pleased.

"Izumi catched me when I was still a Ralts. Part of our bonding involved forming a mind link. Even if we were in differents parts of the world our link is strong enough to communicate with each other"

Wow. Sir Plushy must be really powerful to be able to do that.

Neither talked. Eri was nervous, she wanted to believe in her nee-chan. Wanted to believe that Overhaul will be defeated and then she and Izumi would live happily forever after. Like in her books.

It felt like forever before Gallade spoke.

"It's done. Overhaul was defeated. Izumi is ok. A little banged up but fine"

It was done. He was gone. She was free.

She couldn't believe it. She had to see it. She needed to see it.

"I want to go. I want to see nee-chan"

Sir Plushy nodded. He knelt and spread his arms. She went and let him grab her. It was comfy. Not like when Overhaul grabbed her. With him it felt as if she was a thing, a possession. With Sir Plushy it felt like having an older brother.

"Hang on" he warned her. She clung tighter and closed her eyes. When she opened them they weren't at the warehouse.

They were in the street. It was filled with so many people. With heroes. She didn't know their names, she only knew they were heroes based on Izumi's descriptions. Her nee-chan liked to talk about the heroes a lot.

There were flashes and yelling. The policemen formed a barrier against people with cameras that for some reason were screaming. Nee-chan was next to some heroes. Two of them were really tall and muscly, one was blond and he had a smile on his face, the other had fire covering parts of his face. He wasn't smiling. Maybe because of the fire?

Another hero had big red wings, he looked younger than the first two. There was also a blond man wearing jeans on his face and, a washing machine?

Nobody had noticed that they were there. Eri wanted to run towards her nee-chan and hug her and never let jo again. Before she could, a man yelled.

"You! This is all your fault Eri! You think you will get to live a happy life now?! You're a cursed being Eri! All you touch dies! Just like your father! You think these heros will protect a cursed child like you?! Ha! You-" Overhaul was being held by two policemen. There were bruises and gashes on his face. His mask was gone and his hand bound. The moment he saw he started to yell and struggle. Nee-chan's fist shouted him up.

Her fist was so strong that it made him fall against the ground.

"Eri is not cursed. She is kind and smart. She is good. She is innocent. The only cursed being here is you. If you say anything bad against her again, then you will never speak again. I don't care if that makes me a criminal" Nee-chan's speech had everybody staring at her. She just went to Eri and knelt down.

"Eri, it 's done. No matter what, I promise you will be free. No matter what"

Eri didn't wait. She jumped into Izumi-nee's arms and hugged her with all her strength. She cried. She felt nee-chan's tears on top of her head. She never wanted this to stop. But of course it had to stop.

"Hehem. Excuse me young lady, but we need to ask you some questions" a officer interrupted them. Izumi-nee smiled at her and rubbed her head. She took Sir Plushy´s ball from her hand and gave it to Sir Plushy alongside her belt and bag.

"Hide until I call you. Trust no one, but don't hurt anybody unless you're in danger" she ordered him. He nodded and disappeared.

The officer flinched and stared at nee-chan. She stared back.

"I will answer any questions about myself and about Eri, but I won't risk my team's safety. Until I can get an official, written and signed assurance that no member of my team will be taken from me, experimented or anything that I don't like, then they will stay hidden. Also, I want an official statement that Eri will have a good family, one that loves her and treats her like one of their own"

"Kids these days huh?" The winged man came closer. He was smiling. "Don't worry officer I take responsibility from this two"

"Are, are you sure, Hawks?" The officer asked the hero.

"Yep. This girl here reminds me of me, you know. Except for the lack of feathers, of course"

He was grinning. Eri was used to fake smiles. She had seen them her entire life. Hawks' smile wasn't fake. It was real.

She turned towards nee-chan and nodded. She frowned but nodded back.

After that they were taken to a hospital. When the doctors and nurses wanted to examine her, she became so scared that nee-chan holded her against her chest and started to hum. After some arguing they left.

A few hours later a small woman came. She was closer to Eri's size than to nee-chan, but she was really old. She even had a weird cane. For some reason nee-chan started to stutter when she saw the old lady.

"Y-y-you a-ar-are the Juvenile Heroine? Recovery Girl? The renewed Hero Healer?!" Eri was sure that Nee-chan's scream could be heard to the moon.

"Ahhh! Why did I leave my notebook with Gallade?! I could have had the best healer in the world signature. Wait, does Recovery Girl signings? I don't remember hearing about it, but I also don't remember about her refusing to sign for a fan"

"Young lady, if you keep mumbling then I will just be bones and ashes" Recovery Girl told her. Nee-chan blushed and apologized.

Recovery Girl just chuckled and smiled.

"Now, what is your name, young one? Mine is Chiyo, but everybody calls me by my hero name"

"E-eri madame" "What a cute name for a cute girl. Tell me, do you like lollipops?"

"What are lollipops?" "They are a type of candy. They come in different flavors. Even apple" nee-chan explained. Eri's eyes widened. Apple candies.

"Apple candies?" Her mouth watered at that thought.

"Here, one red and one green"

Eri put the red one on her mouth. It truly tasted like apples!

"So tasty! Thank you Chiyo-san!"

"No problem. Now, I need to examine you to make sure you are healthy. I will explain each procedure before we start, ok?"

"Can Izumi-nee be with me the whole time?" She didn't want to leave nee-chan.

"Of course, she needs an exam too. Here is an idea, how about Izumi goes first and then you?"

Chiyo-san was really kind and nice. First she showed them the medical equipment she would use and then explained while examining nee-chan. When she saw the needles she was afraid, but nee-chan just smiled and relaxed.

When it came for Eri's turn she was nervous. Except for the needles nothing looked like the tools Overhaul used in the surgery room. And Chiyo-san never stopped smiling. Overhaul never smiled at her. He never spoke to her with care. Only with disgust and indifference.

But she was brave. Like Nee-chan showed her.

The coming days officers and other persons came to speak with both of them. At first they wanted to interrogate them separately. Nee-chan went first, alone, while Chiyo and a kind officer named Sansa played with her old board games. When it came her turn to speak with the officers, Izumi-nee stood at her side. When she cried, she hugged her.

During the night they put their beds together and cuddled.

A few days later a woman showed up. One of the detectives that had interrogated them, Detective Tsukauchi, came with her. Eri liked the detective. He hadn't yelled or glared at her. When Eri couldn't keep talking about her past and the bad men, he would just sit and wait. Even Izumi-nee liked him, she said he was smart and that he didn't seem like a bootlicker that only knew how to parrot back.

Whatever that meant.

The woman's hair and eyes were the same shade as her nee-chan. She kinda looked like nee-chan.

"What hurt you must that day?" she asked. Her eyes wouldn't leave Izumi-nee's eyes. Eri didn't understand that question, but Izumi-nee did.

"That you just apologized over and over for something you couldn't control. And that you couldn't muster the strength to lie to me"

The woman started to cry. Nee-chan too. Then they were both hugging in the middle of the room. They would stare at each other, then hug, all the while crying.

Eri had never seen so many tears in her life. Was that Izumi-nee's quirk? Producing so many tears?

"Nee-chan?" She asked, timidly. She didn't want to interrupt, but she was curious. Who was that woman? Why were both crying so much?

Nee-chan looked at her. Tears still flowed down her face, but she was smiling. She broke from the hug and held her hand.

"Eri, this lady here is one of the most important people in my life. Just like you. She is my mother, Midoriya Inko. She gives amazing hugs, makes the best katsudon in the world and does her best to cheer you up. She is the best mother ever" the woman, nee-chan's mother, cried while listening.

"Mom" she turned towards her "This little girl here is Eri. She is the sweetest and kindest kid ever. And she is my imouto. I don't care what other people say or do. Eri will always be my imouto"

Eri's eyesight blurred. She was crying. Nee-chan wasn't going to abandon her. She wasn't going to leave her.

Izumi-nee's mother knelt in front of Eri. She smiled at her and offered her hand. Eri tentatively grabbed it and shaked it.

"Hi Eri. You can call me Inko or Inko-san if you wish. It's your special privilege for being my daughter's little sister" she winked. Eri's lips tried to twich, to move, to smile. But it wouldn't come.

"Detective, how do we proceed? What do I have to sign to take both of them with me? I have a emergency foster license for cases like these"

"Both? You want me too?" She was confused, somebody wanted her? Someone who had never met her, who never even spoke to her? Inko-san was definetely like Izumi-nee. Both were kind and good.

"Of course I do. You're Izumi's imouto. That means you're part of my family"

Family. She never had that. Maybe, then, if Inko-san was nee-chan's mother, then she could be…

"The situation is a little more complicated Midoriya-san. Eri doesn't have a birth certificate or any type of documentation. We know she is not related to Overhaul, blood tests proved that. However there is no match with missing children or to missing adults. Documentation is still being made for her. And your daughter was declared dead during her case trial. We are still dealing with that. Also, despite her collaboration, she still refuses to provide her 'Pokemon' or any evidence of the supposed alternative Earth she claims to have lived in the past five years"

"Like I said, I want it on paper and signed by the necessary authorities that none of my Pokemon will be experimented on, taken away from me or killed. I'm not asking for them to be recognized as citizens, not even as the cognitive creatures they are. I just want an assurance that they will be safe. That's all"

"A very respectable request if I say so myself!" A voice said. She didn't recognize it. It was male, but more squeaky. She didn't see the owner.

"Down here young lady" the voice said. It was right in front of the door. It was small, smaller than she, covered in white fur, with a scar across it's right eye. It looked like a mix between a mouse and a bear. And it was wearing clothes.

"What am I? A mouse? A dog? A bear? Who knows?!"

"Principal Nezu, punctual as ever" the detective spoke. "Midoriya-san, Izumi-san Eri-san, this one here is Nezu, a Pro Hero. He is the principal of UA"

"Why does the principal of UA wants to speak with us?" Inko-san asked. Eri too was confused. Nee-chan told her UA was the best hero school in Japan. Maybe of the world. Why would it's principal want to talk to them? Should't he be very busy?

"For two simple reasons. First, Eri-chan's quirk. Her blood tests, the information that your daughter was able to gather and the few things that Overhaul revealed implies that Young Eri here has a very powerful and possibly dangerous quirk if not controlled. As a teacher, it's my most important duty to help the young control their quirks to their best. Young Eri will need not only the best teachers but also the facilities and the ways to experiment with no fear. I offer that"

"Why?" Izumi-nee asked.

"I respect your mother a great deal. She is a spokeswoman for anti quirk discrimination. I still remember her speech of how society unintentionally creates villains out of nowhere by creating the concept of 'villain quirks'. Eri's quirk is dangerous. You know it Young Midoriya. It's why you chose this route, the public one. You wanted the world to know Eri existed, so that no one could use her or hurt her without there being serious public repercussions. A smart move" he started to grin "Your mother has a foster license. If we make some tweaks involving how Eri will be tutored by UA's best teachers, then nobody could deny her petition to foster. And then, when six months pass, who would deny an adoption by a respected lawyer and mother of a hero student"

"Wait, what?" Izumi-nee blinked. Eri was confused too. Nezu-san spoke a lot. "Me, a hero student? But, how?"

Nezu's grin widened.

"And here comes my second reason. Miss Midoriya, how would you like to become a hero alongside your Pokemon?"

Yeaaahh, Eri´s POV! And I think I finally managed to make a larger chapter. Ok, there are maybe two or three chapters before entering school, soo I will try to make them larger. By the way I have no idea of potential pairings so I´m open to sugestions. It´s not going to be a romance story but I don´t say no to some loving. In other news I´m considering writing other crossovers. I don´t know if anybody is messaging me because ff keeps saying there is a mistake with the synchronization, soo. Sorry! Maybe one day it will be fixed, if not, really sorry, I´m not ignoring you guys. Well, hope you liked this chapter and that you like the story.