Here's the next chapter! Enjoy!
"Wait, you're saying that I have more then just my own set of genes in me?" Izuku asked in confusion.
"In a sense yes, To explain, Imagine that your DNA at it's core is like a stem of a flower, While that and your blood type remain untouched the stem itself has gained a set of leafs while the blossom on top has bloomed, which in this case would be these powers, but each one of the leaves seems to be from 3 different plants instead and yet it is not causing the flower itself to wilt due to the obvious difference between each one but is co-exist with it like a symbiotic relationship, allowing the whole plant in general to thrive. I even saw the change in the genes occurring under my microscope while you were all having lunch, It was fascinating seeing it all with my own eyes. And given what you all told me, it seems I was correct in my hypothesis, you got your powers from not just one but 3 different people who seem to have nearly identical abilities with several differences here and there. Weirdly but thankfully enough despite the different genes each one of them in terms of blood type seems to be exactly the same as yours so there won't be any problems because of it there." Recovery told her as she and the Others were seated in the nurses office after having came back from lunch.
"Do you know who they belong to?" Aizawa was the first to ask.
"Unfortunately no, even one of my trusted medical colleagues from the Hosu hospital can't make heads or tails of this, whoever these 3 belong to doesn't seem to be from Japan, nothing can be found in the national database about it either, he even asked me if this was some sort of prank. Were he in the same room as me I would've whacked him on the head for even thinking I'd do something like that." She said, kind of miffed, which was understandable.
"Which makes the theory of these powers coming from another world all together more plausible." Nezu stated as he took a sip of his tea which he brought from the kitchen before they left the cafeteria.
"But it still doesn't explain how we can get the kid back to her normal self, If she can transform then surely she should be able to return back to her normal clothes." Aizawa stated as he looked to the girl as she was half listening and half pondering as she was in a "thinker" pose.
Concerned that in all the time that they spent today that he hadn't seen her "power down", as one would put it, and hoped that she wasn't going to be stuck like this.
It would be difficult if they had to explain to her mother later if that was the case.
"That might actually be easier to explain, given all you told me, if these abilities did indeed come on almost an instinctual level during her training, then it shouldn't be too hard for her to figure out, if she thinks about it, how to transform back." Recovery girl told him.
Izuku, who heard all of this, turn to her as she nodded before she looked down at her compact, after a moment she grabbed it but this time instead of transforming she slid the compact out of its sleeve and opened it.
The inside had a screen surrounded by a yellow outline and yellow dots in a circle on it on the inside of the lid and she had a feeling that that would be a key detail later, And on the other side there were four buttons, with three of the colors being The same colors as her three forms while the last one Which was a circle and was holding the other three colors seemingly like they were half of a circle was yellow, and the other half was a plain white surface with yellow dots making up the line for the other side of the lower half of the compact.
After pressing a few buttons there was a flash of light and moments later when the light died down everyone saw that she was back in her normal clothes, the same clothes that she was wearing when she was cleaning up the beach earlier that day.
Though there were two key differences, despite being back in her normal clothes she still had her power belt, for a lack of better description, which meant that she would still have access to her new powers at any time, and she still looked as fit as she did when she was still "Powered up".
"At least that's one thing we have less to worry about." Toshinori stated as he smiled in relief.
Good to know that she indeed had the ability to not only transform but de-transform at the same time, honestly it would be really difficult to try and explain to her mother why her daughter was stuck in a superpower form indefinitely.
"But that still leaves another question," Recovery girl said to them as she pondered, "If these powers did indeed come from another world, what was that world like? Why were these powers brought here in the first place? Who are the people she is connected to? There's just too many questions and not enough answers for this."
"You have a point there." Toshinori said as he and the others nodded in agreement.
"Which is why it's a good thing that you called us here to help."
At the sound of that voice, the gang turned to the door as it slid open right as they heard that voice spoke.
There were three men standing there, two being young adults, and the last was an old man who was just as short as Recovery girl was although it was easy to tell that he was slightly taller than her by at least a few millimeters.
For the first man, Izuku immediately recognized him as Sir Nighteye, All Might's former sidekick before they split a couple years ago, He's a pro hero whose quirk foresight allowed him to see into the future of the person he's made physical and eye contact with for the next 24 hours, and can even see years into that person's future if necessary.
His base hair color was generally the same as her own except with the emerald green there were several yellow highlights that were visible and were the same color as his eyes while his hair was shorter than hers, wearing a pair of oval glasses, a simple mostly whitish gray office suit on top of a white dress shirt and a red tie with white polka dots on it and black dress shoes.
Sure he may look like just your average yet strict looking office worker, but that was only a facade, as a prohero he took his job very seriously, once more is that despite how it looks the suit was made to be able to be worn in combat not to mention that he also has special weighted stamps that he carries with him that he throws as projectiles which can pack a real punch as she has seen from a few of his (kind of rare) fights a while back.
Just because his quirk was not battle oriented doesn't mean that he didn't know how to defend himself in combat, especially when his quirk was in play, he's similar to Eraserhead in that regard.
Next was the second man, he was a tall man with short, black hair and somewhat rectangular black eyes. He wore a tan overcoat and matching hat that looked like a fedora, underneath it he wore a white dress shirt, a green tie, black slacks and dress shoes.
He looked kind of plain looking, and she's going to go out on a limb and guess that this man was some kind of detective or police officer. And he seemed like a pleasant follow as he greeted everyone with a smile unlike the other two men who came in.
As for the little old man, she had no clue whatsoever who he was, But given the costume that he was wearing, surely he had to be a prohero, or at least an old-time veteran.
He had grey white spiky short hair which was the same color as his beard, and light brown eyes, his costume consists of a full-body monochrome suit along with a yellow cape, a belt with the letter "G" on it, very thick yellow gloves and boots, and a dark domino mask which resembles two diamonds.
It really stinks that she didn't know who he was, although if she had to guess, it could be possible that given his age, he has long since retired, well before she was born and he wanted to stay out of the spotlight like the Erasure Hero.
But then she noticed that something was amiss, one was that she saw her mentor shaking at the sight of the old man and looked like he was going to bolt out of here at any second.
He was clearly scared, but could see that he had a look of respect on his face that was mixed with that fear.
Why was he scared of that old man? Surely he knows him, but how and why was not clear to her.
Two was that the Foresight hero as glaring at her with an intensity that she had only ever seen on TV, but feeling it in person was scary as she felt like he was trying to either turn her into ashes or psychoanalysis her a little too seriously.
But in his eyes he could see... skepticism? Distrust? Anger? Directed at her. But why? She literally had not done anything to warrant that. So why did it look like he was angry at her for, metaphysically, running over his beloved cat?
Three was that The plain looking man looked like he was aware that tensions were rather high as He shot everyone an apologetic smile as if telling them sorry in advance for what was going to happen.
And four was that the Principal and the Youthful Heroine had a knowing look on their faces while Eraserhead clearly knew who Sir Nighteye was but had no idea who the old man was.
There was something that she was missing, whatever it was she hoped she would find out soon before her Green themed persona popped in to make an angry remake about the obvious sudden rise of tension.
'Kaoru.'
An unfamiliar voice came in her head as this startled her, though thankfully she managed to hide it this time, wondering where it came from.
'Kaoru...? Is that the name of the green form?' She thought to herself before she was brought out of her thoughts as she heard the old man yelling, which startled her quite a bit, at Mr. Yagi:
"YOU IDIOT! WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL ME ABOUT GETTING A NEW SUCCESSOR MONTHS AGO?! YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE A TEXT OUT OF NOWHERE LIKE THAT WITHOUT ANY FURTHER CONTEXT AND EXPECT ME TO HELP YOU JUST LIKE THAT!!"
"I-i-I didn't wa-want to bother y-you and I d-didn't kn-know when w-would be a b-better time to t-tell you!" Toshinori tried to tell him but was stammering badly in fear as he was sweating bullets and quivering like a scared little kid.
"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT LYING TO ME YOU BIG OAF! YOU KNEW EXACTLY WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME! AND EVEN THOUGH YOU TOLD YOUR SIDEKICK, FORMER OR NO, YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME AS WELL!" Yelled the old man as He now moved to be in front of him, "IF YOU WEREN'T IN YOUR TRUE FORM RIGHT NOW I WOULD PUMMEL YOU UNTIL YOU'RE BLACK AND BLUE!"
"I'm sorry!!" The blonde yelped an apology as his voice went up by a higher octave.
"YOU BETTER BE BOY!!" The old man lectured him.
Izuku honestly did not know what to do in this situation, as this felt awkward and rather weird to her.
Never has she seen her hero/mentor get lectured like this, or at all really, and almost seemed like the man himself was reverted back to being the same age as her rather than the adult he actually was because he was being lectured by a little but most certainly older man.
She really did not know what to say or think about this at all.
By looking at everyone around the room, she was surprised that the only one who seemed surprised about this, besides her, was Aizawa as he too didn't know how to respond to this, It looked like a part of him wanted to be amused at seeing somebody actually lecture the number one hero about something he messed up on besides Recovery girl, but at the same time just remain shocked as this was the first time he had seen anybody legitimately both scare him and scold him at the same time.
And that was saying something because as far as the erasure hero was aware, hardly anything scared him, even though that was illogical given the fact that everyone is scared of something, but for the number one hero he did so well to hide that nothing scared him that the very thought of it being otherwise seem kind of ludicrous even to those who were rational thinkers.
"Uh, Please pardon the interruption," Said the plain looking man as he tried to defuse the situation, "I think This kind of... conversation... should wait until you two are in private, right now I think it would be better to introduce ourselves and get down to the reason why we're here."
Toshinori made a note to himself to get him a gift basket later to say thank you for defusing the situation as, yes he was right, They need To get back to the situation at hand and save the lecture later, that and his friend saved him from looking like even more of a coward in front of everyone even though he had a good reason to.
The old man huffed before he relaxed his shoulders as he said, "Fair enough, otherwise we would be in here all day," Soon he turned to Izuku, getting a good examination of her before he spoke, "So you're the successor he chose who ended up in this mess in the first place, correct?"
"Y-yeah." She spoke trying to beat down her hesitation and looked him in the eyes, trying not to divert them and not focus on the fact that this old man was scolding her mentor only moments ago, "I'm Izuku Midoriya."
The old man nodded in approval, Glad to see that She wasn't shying away and chose to focus on him despite the rant he was giving out moments ago, before he replied, "Nice to meet you, Names Gran Torino."
She nodded back before turning to the other two men as the plain man introduced himself next with a friendly smile as he took off his hat in greeting, "I'm Naomasa Tsukauchi, I'm a police detective and I've been a good friend of Toshi's for several years."
Nighteye was the last to introduce himself as he spoke calmly although the calmness he was conveying in his voice did not match the look in his eyes as he adjusted his glasses, "I'm Sir Nighteye, I was formerly All Might's sidekick before we parted for... personal matters."
The way he said "Personal matters" was spoken as if it were nothing but a sad burden as Toshinori briefly had a look of guilt on his face before he turned to his successor as he told her, "They too are a few others who know of my secret and about my quirk, so you don't have to worry about hiding anything from them."
She nodded before the sound of the door being closed caught her attention as she turned back to the officer and foresight hero as they closed the door behind them before the officer said, "Toshi brought us in to help with your case, and so we can be introduced ahead of time in case something might happen."
It made sense.
She understood that as she nodded in understanding.
Soon enough the principal handed the new arrivals the tablet so that they could see what happened on the beach earlier that day so they would know that what had happened to her was true, then they spoke to Recovery girl about her findings and then spoke to the principal, Toshinori and Aizawa about what they learned from the training that they did earlier in the gym.
There were brief moments where she was asked a question about confirming a few things and of her own thoughts about what they learned, Tsukauchi even reassured her that everything would be well as he had a lie detector quirk so he would know if she was telling the truth or not (Which as she commented, was a super handy quirk for a police detective and made interrogations a lot easier, to which he thanked her with a chuckle), with that assurance she told them everything that she knew in response to each question She was asked.
But other than that mostly the adults were talking, but she didn't mind. Though It would have felt less awkward if the foresight hero had just stopped staring at her too much during the whole thing.
It was unnerving to say the least, but she didn't want to risk saying anything to make things more awkward or give him another reason to glare at her.
So She instead decided to focus back on what occurred moments before the older pro started ranting at Mr. Yagi.
Kaoru... She heard that name when she was thinking about the green themed persona.
It felt right... like that really was her name.
So what were the names of the pink and blue ones?
'Momoko ... Miyako...' Two unfamiliar voices spoke in her head that made her sit up straight.
'Momoko... that's for the Pink one, and... Miyako... is the blue one...' She thought to herself.
At least she now knew, She still felt weird about suddenly knowing these names like this or knowing anything she suddenly knew out of the blue, but if it helped her to find the answers she was looking for then she would have to bear with it.
But ... She couldn't help but feel like there was a little more to each of them, if these three, Momoko, Miyako Kaoru respectfully, had superpowers, did that mean that they were heroes from whatever world they were from? And if so did they have hero names too?
'Blossom... Bubbles... Buttercup...' This time She heard all three of the unfamiliar voices in her head, one at a time, and now that she was concentrating on it she knew that the three of them were female and each of them sounded different.
That confirmed the latter. And for the former it just had to be the case.
Given everything that's happened today she chose to believe it.
But That still left her with a ton of questions.
How old were the three? What kind of world did they live in? What were their lives like outside of Hero work? Likewise what were their lives like while performing heroism? Was there anybody that they could trust with their secrets? Did they have to keep their powers secret like in those old comic books? Or did people in their society have super powers like them too? Did each of them have families? To name a few.
But before she could even start wondering further, Sir Nighteye's voice brought her back to reality as he spoke:
"Those are very good questions indeed Ms. Midoriya, as well as insight you provided."
Upon hearing that she blushed as she looked back at the gang who were staring at her, she realized that she started mumbling out loud again.
Honestly she was starting to really take into consideration getting some kind of mask to muffle her mumbling so it would stop causing disturbances.
And keep her from getting into trouble.
"It happened again?" Toshinori asked knowing what the first part was about.
"Yeah... Sorry." She responded, trying to not rub the back of her head in embarrassment and just focus on breathing in and out through her nose to try and calm herself.
"If it's any consolation, I too had the same bad habit as you when I was younger, and it took me ages before I got it under control." Sir Nighteye told her in a matter-a-fact way.
This made her do a double take, which made her forget her embarrassment, as she asked him, "Is that true?"
He nodded and replied, "Yes, and I've been told that I got that habit from my biological mother, who I never got to know as me and my twin sister, who I too never got to know, were separated and adopted by two different families not long after birth, to my frustration I never learned anything beyond that as I was never told any further nor have I found anything regarding that."
Ok, that came out of nowhere.
He never intended to tell her that bit of his backstory, in fact, he never meant to say that out loud as this was personal to him.
Not even Toshinori knew this.
So why did he feel that it was alright to tell her?
"Ok, I didn't see that coming." Naomasa was the first to break the silence.
"You never told me you were adopted or had a sister." Toshinori said, stunned about this bit of trivia his former sidekick never spoke about.
"It's because it was personal to me." He told him as he adjusted his glasses, "Though I don't know why I chose to speak about that part out loud, that part baffles me."
"I think we've all had moments like that in some manner, even about subjects we'd rather keep to ourselves, suddenly we start speaking about them without meaning to." Gran Torino pointed out as the others agreed as they too have had that happen before too.
Besides, they were all entitled to their own secrets. As just as Toshinori never knew about that part of The young man's backstory, The foresight hero himself doesn't know certain things about his former boss.
And he respected the others privacy as he has for him.
"As I was saying," Sir continued, trying to get over the confusion from what had occurred, "It took me quite a while before I got it under control, I still do it but I only ever do so when I'm alone in my office. All it takes is practice."
She nodded in understanding.
Putting what she had unintentionally learned about the pro on the back burner as she focused on what he told her.
It was weird knowing that he had the same habit as her but it was good to know that there was a way to manage it enough so it wouldn't be bothersome to others, even if it never bothered Mr. Yagi, her mom, Aizawa nor the principal.
"Now that we got that out of the way," Aizawa then chimed in, wanting to get back to the major subject at hand, "We can now focus back on why we're here," He then said as he turned to the young teen, "And on what you had said before."
"Ri-right." She replied, fumbling a bit there before she said, "The "Knowing" part of this power happened again, but this time It allowed me to know the names of each of these forms, and gives me enough insight to know that these 3 belong to 3 girls who are heroes from where they are from."
"Which are?" Nezu asked her, giving her room to speak.
"For the Pink form, it's Momoko, who goes by the hero name Blossom. For the Blue form, Her name is Miyako, who goes by the name Bubbles. And For the Green form, That would be Kaoru, Who is known as Buttercup." She listed before she stated, "But aside from that and knowing what we already know about each side of this, I don't know anything about where they are from and the like."
"Which is why I'm here." Sir Nighteye spoke as he moved until he was in front of her, "My quirk might give us a hint on what we don't know yet, even though I can use it to see into the future, I've never had a chance to try it out on someone who had a split personality, Quirked or not. Since this is a new variant however, there may be a chance that I may see something that I haven't witnessed before."
He had a good point.
From her memories on his involvement in hero fights and cases, it's never been stated nor reported that he used his quirk on someone who had SPD or MPD before.
Plus this sounded like a sound idea.
But...
"Do you think there'll be some kind of backlash from using it on me?" She asked him in concern. "Are you sure you'll be okay with it?"
The look she gave him was... endearing, it seemed that she'd take into consideration what could happen to him if he used it on her, even though he could tell that she wanted answers as well, she was not willing to put him through any mental or psychological pain that might happen from this curious variant. She was asking him if he was still ok in going through with it, knowing that there would be no going back afterwards.
Sir gave her, since coming into the room, a smile to reassure her as he admitted that he was touched by her concern for him.
Even though this situation was centered around her, knowing that she was more worried about him then she should be about herself made him start to understand a little about why Toshinori chose her to succeed him.
He may still be apprehensive of her, but he was willing to admit that he could see something in her along with the fact that she was smarter than she looked based on what the principal told him (If he was really serious about this then it would be foolish to not look into that, but that's for later as he had to focus on the now).
"I've already taken it all into consideration, rest assured, should anything happen, know it was not your fault and that I knew what I was getting into going forward." He told her before extending his left hand to her ready to accept hers.
Despite her concern she understood, she trusted the hero as she gave him a firm nod before she accepted his left with her right.
The moment he grasped hers and focused his eye contact with her was the moment when she got to see his quirk up close as when he blinked, the white part of his eyes were now black and his pupils replaced with strange and intricate purple gears turning clockwise and counterclockwise right in front of a light purple void behind them.
It was more fascinating then words can describe, this would definitely be something she will write in her notebook later.
Nothing was said as everybody watched the foresight hero in action, No one moved aside from Aizawa and Toshinori who moved to be behind him in case he were to stumble backwards in case something were to come up.
Which ultimately did happen as after a couple of minutes he lunged back letting go of the teen's hand as he let out a sharp gasp, grasping his head with both hands as if he were either in shock or in pain, eyes shut tight as the two heroes caught him before he could collide into the wall or ground. In their grasp they could feel him trembling as he forced himself to breathe in and out deeply to try and calm himself down.
This had startled everyone as Recovery girl moved over to make sure that the man was all right while the number one hero and the underground hero moved him so that he could sit on the bed and be able to steady himself, while the police detective, the veteran hero and the young teen watched as they gave the others space to work.
Nighteye frantically waved them off telling them that he was all right as he told them that he just needed to calm himself and think.
Which did take a couple of minutes, but eventually he was finally breathing normally as he closed his eyes and massaged the eye lids, feeling them throb slightly mainly from psychological phantom pain.
Enough to throw him off balance in a non-physical way.
Finally he opened his eyes slowly as he looked to the group who gave him worried looks, especially that of Izuku as she had a look of guilt on her face as if she had done something wrong.
No it wasn't her fault, They both knew of what could happen if his quirk were to react to her, he can't really fault her for worrying but really she should not feel guilty at all as he understood the consequences and was willing to brace himself to face it if it means helping them to understand more about this curious case they got involved in.
Upon being asked by Recovery girl if he was alright, he nodded as he said firmly yet somewhat disoriented, "Shaken more than anything but otherwise I am ok."
"Did you..?" Izuku asked hesitantly.
"Rest assured Midoriya, I'm alright, we both theorized and I confirmed that there was a different outcome and a drawback that would happen from being in contact with the other. Despite being thrown off my equilibrium, I am stable. Do not blame yourself, I've already made my bed and I slept in it, metaphorically speaking, I was ready to face it despite the reaction I got." He assured her stern but gently.
Not trusting her voice, she nodded as she understood.
"Were you able to see anything?" Gran Torino asked him, to which Nighteye gave a firm nod as he replied, "Far more than I anticipated, far beyond what I thought would happen if I used my quirk on someone with more than one side to them."
"Meaning...?" Aizawa asked as he and Toshinori were still by his side just in case.
He readily replies, "The theory on these powers and personalities coming from another world are correct, they're from a world different from our own, though rather odd it literally feels like they did come out of a super hero teen girl anime from back in the old era before quirks were born. They did come from 3 normal girls who were turned into super heroines."
Everyone looked to the other, surprised (though it was hard to tell with Nezu), before turning back to the man who was ready to explain what he learned while being in his "Foresight zone".
FINALLY DONE!!!
I had to do some rewriting here and there several times so that some parts would make sense but it's with it.
Now we can get onto the next fun part.
I hope to get the next one done by next week before things get crazy, but we'll just have to wait and see.
As always, leave your comments in the reviews and tell me what you think.
Until next time, TTFN!!