Chapter 12: Aftermath of the USJ
All Might breathed a sigh of relief as Cementoss, a hero that could control cement placed a wall near All Might so none of the students couldn't see him transform into Toshinori.
He sighed then coughed up blood.
"You really put a strain on yourself." Said Aizawa.
"By the way Shota…" said Mabel using his first name., "You need to get your elbow fixed."
"Please don't call me that…" said Aizawa.
"Why I'm older than you." Pointed out Mabel.
Aizawa rolled his eyes.
In a bar somewhere, the three remaining villains appeared thanks to Kurogiri's quirk. Nearby was a TV with the word "Voice only" on it.
"You lied…" growled out Shigaraki, "You said that All Might was getting weaker, he's not any weaker…"
"Actually he's faking it." Said Bizuku.
"What?" asked Shigaraki.
"You don't know but he's kind of like a balloon animal." Said Bizuku, "He really pushed himself today and I bet he's going to be sick for a while…"
"How do you know that!" demanded Shigaraki.
"You know that Bill Cipher is a being of pure knowledge…" said a voice on the screen.
"Don't try to flatter me." Said Bizuku, "I just know a lot of things and I know that the injuries he sustained are something he's trying not hide from everyone…"
Shigaraki grumbled.
"By the way don't take the loss hard." Said Bizuku, "Like I said the girl who beat you up was Shooting Star… you didn't stand a chance."
"Isn't Shooting Star one of the Spirits of the Pines family you told us about?" asked the voice on the screen.
"Yep! You know her other self as the Fighting Mama, she started taking boxing when she was 13, plus the added century since she died… you didn't stand a chance between her already being dead, that fact she's been practicing fighting for a long time and that you get all your battle strategy and practice from playing video games." Explained Bill.
"What about the Nomu?" asked a different voice from the screen while also trying to prevent a fight.
"All Might sent it flying out of the building." Muttered Shigaraki.
"I couldn't get the coordinates for him." Said Kurogiri.
"You know you could have told us where he landed." Muttered Shigaraki.
"The police is about to find him so I don't think we'll be able to get him back." Said Bizuku with a shrug.
"It's a real shame… after we put so much work into making him the Anti-Symbol of Peace." Said a diffrent voice on the screen.
"Hey that only means you can make better ones in the future." Said Bizuku.
"You know for someone who's so high and mighty I bet you didn't kill the ones you wanted to…" said Shigaraki.
"What made you think I wanted to kill them?" asked Bizuku.
"What?" asked Shigaraki.
"I let them live, after all where's the fun in killing them now? Not when I can torture them, tear them apart and even tempt them! Why should I break my toys now when I can still have oh so much fun with them… I'll kill them once I get bored with them…" said Bizuku.
"You sounds like you have plans…" said the first voice on screen.
"I'm going to have so much fun this week!" laughed Bizuku, "I got lots of plans…"
"Well that might be…" said the first voice.
"Don't worry…" said Bizuku, "I'll still do my job giving you information and also helping out when I want to, speaking of which there's a job I want to do in a couple of weeks… I'll give you the information when it comes up…"
"What sort of job." Said the voice.
"Just something that will helpfully benefit both of us." Said Bizuku, "But for now I want to head home and work on my project."
"Very well…" said the first voice, "Kurogiri."
"Of course." Said Kurogiri.
"It's better to talk to each other without me around too." Added Bizuku.
Bizuku left through the cloudy like gate, when he got to the location he smiled.
"I made the right choice using them." He mused to himself.
Meanwhile at the Landslide Zone, it was like no one wanted to say anything.
However Katsuki knew he had to break the silence.
"Damn it Deku! You better still be here! If you are put on the damn puppet so that we can know you're here at least!" yelled Katsuki, "So quit moping and put on the puppet!"
Izuku sighed, flew to his body and put his hand into the pouch where he kept his puppet.
Which was also wearing his hero costume.
"Wait… you have a puppet of your hero costume too?" asked Hagakure.
"Yeah… Mabel made it for me… she made all my puppets." Said Izuku.
"Why did you even trust that maniac to begin with!" yelled Mineta.
"He seemed nice when I first met him…" sighed Izuku, "If wants to appear nice he can… I think he just wanted to let everyone know he's evil…"
"Now's not the time for this! Deku! You should go find some help since you can fly." Muttered Katsuki.
"It's fine… we've found you!" called out a voice.
They saw it was Midnight.
"It's Midnight!" yelled Mineta with steam coming nose.
Tsuyu glared at him, "Now's not the time…" she muttered.
Midnight had communicator on her telling the other teachers about the injured here.
Izuku was just quiet as more teachers arrived along with the Pines with Mabel hugging him.
"It's going to be fine…" Mabel said reassuring him.
Not too long later all the injured were taken back to the main school building due to the fact that Recovery Girl's quirk was a rather strong healing quirk, though it did use the person's stamina to heal them.
The police was soon there rounding up all of the villains that were left behind.
Stan did try to flee, but the other Pines stopped him.
All of the unharmed students were gathered in front of the USJ with a detective counting them.
"Expect for the five inured they are all here." He explained.
"So Cipher's real and not a villain that everyone's blowing out of portion?" asked Jiro.
"It's true…" said Tsuyu.
"We only saw him for a few seconds without that mask… but man he was creepy." Said Ashido.
"You said it…" agreed Sato.
"It was like someone took out what was good in that body and ripped it out and replaced it with pure evil." Said Sero.
"Uh…" said Izuku.
"That's exactly what happened…" said Tsuyu.
"Hey Midoriya…" said Kirishima, "How do we get one of those symbols…"
"What?" asked Izuku.
"Okay that's enough of that!" said Stan stopping the conversation.
"Even if you want to join the fight, it's better to leave everything to fate." Said Ford.
"You can't be serious…" said Kirishima.
"Come on! I wasn't there… but from what I heard…" said Kaminari.
Kaminari was also one of the ones who believed it before that day.
"That's enough!" yelled Dipper, "You don't want to get involved unless you have to!"
"He's right." Said Mabel who was serious, "Bill enjoys messing with the members of the Zodiac, even when not fighting."
"It's probably a good idea to not jump into it…" agreed Izuku.
"They're the ones who know what they're talking about." Said Yaoyorozu taking charge (as she was the Vice Class Representative).
"We don't know what's going to happen in the future, if we get the full Zodiac or not…" aid Ford, "But forcing it won't be good at all."
Most of the class were quiet.
"Anyways it's better if we get you all to class." Said the detective, "That's the best place to get your statements."
"Um… can I give mine here." Said Izuku, "Since I really need to talk to the others…"
"If you want to…" said the detective, "Also I need to talk to All Might."
He turned to a police offer with a cat head wearing a little bell and told him he was in charge of the rest.
"Kitty police officer!" yelled Mabel, "And he's wearing a bell."
Dipper began to push away his sister.
"Nope! We're going to the nurse's office." Said Dipper.
"But! But…" said Mabel.
"You can't pet him anyways! You use up all time for today!" said Dipper.
Mabel pouted.
AT the school's infirmary Todoroki laid in bed as his limbs were the worse injury.
The others were recovered from their own injuries but they didn't want to leave Todoroki.
"What was that cane made of?" muttered Shoji.
"Well he said they were made of nightmares and because of his powers… I think he wasn't lying about that." Said Ochaco.
That was when heard something from the other side of the infirmary. It was covered by a privacy curtain.
Said noises were Recovery girl clearly whacking All Might.
"That was stupid! Stupid!" she scolded.
"Should… should we ask what's going on over there?" asked Ochaco.
"I don't think we should…" said Tenya.
"We all got hit by cane enough times today…" muttered Katsuki.
Also he knew that All Might or rather Toshinori deserved the whacks he was getting.
"So… should we talk about it…" said Shoji.
"Wait until Deku gets here…" muttered Katsuki.
"He's right it's better not to talk about it behind Midoriya's back." Agreed Tenya.
All of them were silent expect for the occasional growls from Katsuki, Recovery Girl scolding and whacking and Toshinori's tired apologies.
Not too long later Izuku entered the room with the Pines.
"Hey…" he said somewhat weakly.
There was a silence.
"I'm sorry for dragging you all into this!" he cried.
Stan slapped him in the head.
"Stan!" cried Izuku.
"Stop blaming yourself Deku!" yelled Katsuki.
Izuku sighed.
"So you believe us now." Said Stan to Shoji and Todoroki.
"Yeah…" sighed Shoji.
"I believed you from the beginning." Pointed out Todoroki, "I just wasn't sure if I was part of it."
"Well you are part of Team Zodiac after all." Said Mabel.
The two nodded in agreement.
"Okay… but seriously how did you even lose! I can get Bill in Green Bean's body working out… but it shouldn't have beaten you." Said Stan.
"Somehow it has a quirk." Said Katsuki.
"I can explain…" said Toshinori from behind the curtain.
"Are you sure about this" asked Recovery Girl.
"I'm sure… they have to know about him…" said Toshinori, "Plus I was thinking of telling the four of them anyways."
Recovery Girl sighed…
She opened the privacy curtain, the four students that didn't know about.
"Wait… what's going on?" asked Ochaco, "I thought All Might was there."
"I am All…" said Toshinori who then coughed up blood causing multiple screams.
"I'm starting to think your body wants you traumatize everyone who hasn't figured it out on their own." Said Stan.
He explained about his injury and the fact he's done to a few hours a day, and the reason why he's not in good shape right is that he pushed his limits.
"I might have lost a half hour today…" he sighed.
"So no one but us knows about it?" asked Todoroki well… Shoto.
"Just the staff, and few of the people I'm closest too." Said Toshinori.
"He told me and Kacchan a while back…" said Izuku.
"Separately." Explained Katsuki.
"I wandered in on him telling Izuku." Said Mabel.
"He told us, but we figured out he has something akin to a transformation quirk a long time ago." Said Ford.
"Really how?" sked Tenya.
"Various reasons… the biggest was there's no posts on social media about him doing mundane things." Said Dipper.
"You know… that's always bugged me." Said Ochaco, "you just think there would be a ton of selfies of people while he's grocery shopping."
Toshinori face palmed.
"He could have gotten groceries on his assistants..." Said Tenya.
"I don't know, he seems like the type of guy who does his own chores." Said Shoji… well Mezo.
"Tried to trick me by saying he was a sectary, but I saw through it…" said Stan, "Word of advice kids, don't try to con a con man…"
There was a silence in the room.
"What?" asked Shoto.
"Oh… yeah…" said Stan, "Haven't… said anything…"
He noticed the looks on Mabel and Katsuki's faces… both of them looked they were going to have some fun telling them.
"Anyway…" said Dipper getting things back on track, "You know something…"
"Bill did say something about you knowing the villain." Said Izuku.
"I won't give you all the details between us." Said Toshinori, "He was… the leader of the criminal underworld for many years. And his quirk is very powerful. The power to take and give quirks."
"That should be impossible." Said Tenya.
"No it's not." Said Ford, "It's entirely possible, even though I have no memories of the research into quirks, what my other self did discover that anything seems to be possible when it comes to quirks, even the power or give and take over quirks."
"If it's possible to temporally erase them or to copy them then it's possible to permanently steal or give them." Agreed Dipper.
"Bill said that the quirk that was given to him allows my body to use the natural abilities of the soul." Said Izuku, "But he also said that it's only a fraction of what he can use…"
"It must be a small fraction." Said Ford, "Because I have seen Bill's full power, and it is disturbing…"
"So let's summarize everything, Bill's joined up with a villain who's believed to be an urban legend who gave him a quirk that will go to being useless when Green Bean goes back into his body anything else bad you want to let us know?" muttered Stan.
"Cipher gave me those nightmares so I'd breakdown whenever I tried to hurt Deku or that I'd kill myself before he could rescue me." Muttered Katsuki.
"And of course!" muttered Stan.
"We thought that might be the case for the first one… but for the second one…" muttered Ford.
"That's just something he'd do…" muttered Dipper.
"I know I've said this a million times already! But if you see him in your dreams you have to tell Deku." Muttered Katsuki.
The five nodded.
"I think that's it…" said Izuku, "I'm going home… Mom must be worried even if I can't get hurt…"
He left before any of them could stop him.
"OKAY!" yelled Mabel, "What did Bill do to him!"
The five heroes in training looked at each other and told them what Bill told him.
This of course angered the Pines.
"(IF there was another way to kill him…)" growled Stan.
"Bill has a way with words…" muttered Ford, " I don't know if he'll be able to bounce back from this so easily…"
"We all have to make sure it doesn't get to him…" said Mabel
Katsuki gritted his teeth as they said it.
But before he could do anything the detective showed up.
"Hey Toshinori…" he said.
"Oh Tsukauchi!" said All Might.
"(Crap! A competent cop!)" yelled Stan in English.
He ran towards the window and jumped out of it.
Everyone stared out the window either baffled or somewhat bemused.
"Stanley…" sighed Ford face palming.
"Did Mr. Pines just…" said Tenya baffled.
"He confused to being a conman earlier…" said Mezo, "He is a criminal isn't he…"
"You have to have no idea…" laughed Mabel.
They decided to leave, except for Shoto who Recovery Girl wanted to observe for a while longer.
They knew they would probably talk again once they returned to school.
After Toshinori talked to Tsukauchi (who actually was a very close firmed of his), Shoto knew he had to ask a very import question to him.
"Does my father know?" asked Shoto.
"No… none of the other top 10 heroes know." Said Toshinori.
"I see…" muttered Shoto.
A couple hours later, he was allowed to go home.
When he got home his father was waiting for him. His father was the number 2 hero Endeavor. A man that hated the fact that he was the number 2 hero that he was obsessed with beating All Might no matter what.
"I heard about what happened today." He said.
Shoto didn't answer.
"How powerful was the villains quirk?" asked Endeavor.
"It was a reality warping quirk." Explained Shoto knowing that his father wouldn't believe the real story.
"UA is going to be closed for the next couple days." Said Endeavor, "We're going to be training tomorrow."
Shoto just nodded.
Later Shoto got his futon ready and went to bed.
However that was when suddenly his room turned black and white.
He jolted up and knew something was wrong.
"Sorry it took a while to come here, but I wanted our first meeting to special." Said a voice behind him.
He turned around and saw that Bill was floating behind him.
Bill looked at Shoto with an evil glint in his eye…
He was going to have fun with this one…
Next Time: When school returns, Katsuki realizes that Bill has been haunting Shoto's dreams who denies everything. Now Izuku must once again break into someone's house and their dreams. Meanwhile, the Sports Festival is in two weeks... however with everyone else excited Izuku doesn't know if he can participate and it only gets worse when a General Education student declares war on the class. What will happen? Find out next time!
A/N: The next arc won't be the Sports Festival but rather an original arc I'm calling the Cipher Dreams arc... obviously it's where Bill as he put it in the chapter "torture them, tear them apart and even tempt them"... while Izuku gradually gets more and more depressed about what he said... So I hope you all enjoy!