A/N: credit to Animeguy1101 for Iida's hero name... enjoy!
Chapter 26: The 7th Symbol
The next day was another day off, but it was more relaxing for everyone as there was no meetings and the fact that they no longer had to worry about Bill in Tenya's dreams.
Though the Pines did bring up a fact that weirded everyone out that they had discovered the night before.
"I disappeared?" asked Izuku.
"We checked on you during the night." Said Ford.
"Just to make sure things were going okay with Bill in his head." Said Stan.
"But there was a green glow around Tenya so we knew it had to be that." Said Mabel.
"How strange." Said Tenya.
"Remember, Izuku is inhabiting a different plane of existence." Said Ford.
"So I guess I literally enter their dreams and come out when it's over." Said Izuku.
"It seems that way." Said Ford.
"By the way did you do anything interesting after beating Bill?" asked Mabel.
"We couldn't come up with anything…" said Izuku, "So we just played board games."
Everyone even Inko who had heard that they could have lucid dreams after beating Bill stared at him.
"Seriously?" asked Stan.
"You guys are dorks." Said Mabel.
"Come on!" said Izuku.
"I would have thought I don't know you would have watched a fight where All Might fought a bunch of dinosaurs!" said Mabel.
"That didn't even crossed my mind." Said Izuku.
However he was thinking "I think I've been spending too much time with Mabel…"
"Right…" said Stan.
After breakfast Tenya left.
"It was quite fun," said Tenya, "Despite the circumstances."
"If you ever want to come over for dinner you're always welcome." Said Inko.
"Thank you and I will find time for dinner." Said Tenya, "See you tomorrow Midoriya.
"See you too!" said Izuku.
With that Tenya left.
Once he was gone he breathed a sigh of relief. Not just because of everything that happened. But the fact that he managed to keep his mouth shut on his brother's plan.
He smiled as he walked to the train station, after all they had all agreed to help Izuku become a hero… he just didn't expect to that.
Sometime later, Shoto was once again leaving the house.
"Are you going out with your friends again?" asked Fuyumi.
"No, I'm going to visit mom." Said Shoto.
"What… shouldn't you tell dad?" asked Fuyumi.
"I don't need his permission to see her." Said Shoto.
He went to visit his mother for the first time since the incident. It was a touching visit. He had managed to finally talk to his mother and he did realize that he should have visited sooner, but with everything going on…
But still he was finally able to do this and put it behind him.
Plus what happened that evening was the icing on the cake.
When he had gotten home he over the conversation his father was having with a technician. Though it was over the phone he could hear the person's voice loud enough.
"We've gotten the test results back and we were able to get a match… but…" said the technician.
"Who's blood is it?" asked Endeavor.
"I don't know how to say it but it was a man who was dead." Said the technician.
"So a murder victim?" asked Endeavor .
"No he died of old age…" said the technician, "More than a century ago."
"What?" asked Endeavor, "Is this some kind of joke."
No… the DNA is that of Mason Pines. And it is that Mason Pines." Said the technician, "Either the person has a quirk that lets them manipulate blood and alter its DNA… or…"
"Or what." Demanded Endeavor.
"You're being haunted." Said the technician.
"What?" asked Endeavor.
"Look I don't think it's actually Mason Pines haunting you… but it's entirely possible." Said the technician.
"You're a scientist." Said Endeavor.
"Look… it's unbelievable but in a world of quirks anything is possible." Said the technician.
"Find out if someone altered that blood." Said Endeavor.
"Yes sir…" grumbled the technician.
Endeavor noticed his son had call the call once he hung up.
"Maybe you are being haunted." Said Shoto.
Shoto walked away… not wanting to talk to his father about it and just let him steam.
The next day it was a rainy day which mean he had to two puppets on hand (pun not intended). As he had to hold and umbrella and his backpack.
Though the second puppets outfit was interesting.
"Is that puppet wearing a rain poncho?" asked Sero.
"Mabel thought it would be funny." Said Izuku.
"Couldn't you have something else?" asked Sero.
"It's not a good idea to wear my robots in the rain… even if they're water proof." Said Izuku.
"What about something else." Said Sero.
"I tried something else once…" said Izuku.
(Flashback)
Izuku sighed as he rode the train… while he had plenty of space… the fact that everyone else was avoiding him like the plauge didn't help.
(End of Flashback)
"It didn't work out." Said Izuku.
"Hey Midoriya!" called out Hagakure.
He turned to the invisible girl and saw she was wearing a headband.
"Oh you went with my idea." Said Izuku.
"Yep!" said Hagakure.
Then he looked at her headband or rather the little plushie on it.
"Is that an alpaca?" asked Izuku.
He didn't know how to feel if it was… maybe a little disappointed but if it wasn't' he would be a bit worried for her… but at the same time relieved that they would be one step closer.
Though if it was a guanaco or vicuña would be weird… mostly due to the fact that most people didn't know wat they were…
"No. It's a llama." Said Hagakure.
Izuku sighed.
It didn't help that Dipper decided to check up on Shoto on the way to school.
That was when Katsuki arrived in class.
"Morning Kacchan… uh…" said Izuku.
"What." Muttered Katsuki.
Izuku pointed to Hagakure and the headband she was wearing.
"Is that an alpaca." Said Katsuki.
"It's a llama." Said Hagakure.
"About fucking time." Muttered Katsuki but it was clear that he was happy that they were closer to stopping Bill.
That was when Shoto and Dipper came through the door.
"Dipper!" called out Izuku.
"What's going on?" asked Dipper.
Dipper noticed the headband.
"That's not a alpaca, guanaco or vicuña is it?" asked Dipper.
"No it's llama." Said Hagakure, "Wait is a llama?"
Dipper nodded they knew that they would have to talk about a few thing .
When the others arrived (with Tenya being the last surprisingly) they were just told there would be a meeting during lunch.
Soon enough class started Aizawa came into the room.
"Next week each of you will be taking internships for week." Said Aizawa, "However with the sports festival, agencies sent out picks and here the ones that gotten picks."
With the exception of Aoyama. Everyone who was in the tournament got draft picks. Of course Shoto got the top, with Katsuki getting second. But almost everyone who made it to the tournament got in.
"Wy not me." Aoyama cried out.
"I'm pretty sure losing your pants in a match kind of affects things." Said Kaminari.
However that wasn't the surprisingly thing… as there was a name on the bottom with just one pick shocked almost everyone in class.
It was Izuku.
Everyone who didn't get draft picks at all were looking at him… the looks were hard to describe… it was an odd mix of a jealous glare and as actually looking kind of happy as all the crap he had gone through made it seem like he earned it even if it was just one.
"Look I have put together why Midoriya has a pick." Said Aizawa.
He looked at Tenya for a second who had a look of he knew about it.
"But please don't ask him until he learns more about it." Said Aizawa.
The class who were looking at him all groaned before he could lay it on them with his look.
"Now there is something very important you must do before you take those internships." Said Aizawa.
The class became tense.
"You need codenames." Said Aizawa.
The class all became excited.
But he did give them his look.
"Now you have to choose carefully." Said Aizawa.
"There's a chance that these names are temporarily but you might get stuck with a name you don't want if that's the case there will be hell to pay." Said Midnight walking into the rom.
"It's Midnight!" cheered Mineta.
"Midnight will be helping you with your names if she finds something wrong with them she will make you change it." Said Aizawa, "It's not my forte so I'll leave it up to her."
It should be noted that he chose the name from a suggestion from his classmate (who as it turned out grew up to be Present Mic) and it got stuck.
He totally wasn't sour about and that wasn't the reason who he crawled into his sleeping bag.
They were all given small dry erase boards.
Izuku honestly hadn't thought of a name in years… well names that wasn't based on All Might.
Plus his depression while he was over it still did affect him a little. That there was a small nagging feeling from it, even though All Might did say he could be a hero and promised to give him his quirk if he got his body back.
Plus there was the fact that he got a draft pick despite only playing the reactional games.
He really wasn't sure what he should do about a name.
"Now is anyone ready?" asked Midnight.
"Wait we have to present them?" thought most of the class.
"Would even want to go first?" asked Jiro.
That was quickly answered with Aoyama going to the podium.
"I Can Not Stop Twinkling." Said Aoyama.
Everyone stared at him.
"No sorry… but I do have a suggestion. Shorten by getting rid of the "I" and change the "Cannot" to "Can't"." suggested Midnight.
Everyone in class stared at him.
Then Ashido went up.
"The Ridley Hero: Alien Queen!" called out Ashido.
"Like that monster with the acidic blood?" asked Midnight, "Not a good idea."
"Copyright reasons?" asked Dipper appearing.
"Copyright reasons confirmed Midnight.
Dipper looked at Ashido who shrugged indicating that he didn't mind the reference and actually worked pretty well considering her quirk and the fact she looked like an alien.
Thankfully these two things making the class rather awkward.
Thankfully it was Tsuyu stepping up with the name "Froppy" that the entire class loved, that things started getting better.
And with that the rest of the class started come in up their names.
"The Gravity Hero Uravity!" said Ochaco giving her name.
"Tentacole." Said Mezo giving his name.
"The Speed Hero: Caliber." Said Tenya.
"Ground Zero…" muttered Katsuki showing the name he had chosen.
Izuku looked at Katsuki surprised, he honestly would have thought that he would have gone with "King Explosion Murder".
Another reason why he wouldn't use the names he chose as a child.
When it was Hagakure turn she chose this.
"The Stealth Hero: Invisible Girl." Said Hagakure.
Which wasn't turned down.
"Hey!" said Dipper becoming visible, "I have a question! Why did you turn down Mina's for copyright reasons but not Toru's?"
"Well it's quite simple… Marvel doesn't care about certain super hero names." Said Midnight, "She can use the name Invisible Girl but not Invisible Woman… it's the same with DC like if someone tried to use the name of a popular hero that often used but if say Todoroki used the name Snowflame there wouldn't be a fight."
"Snowflame?" asked Shoto.
"It's an obscure villain from the 1980s, he only appeared once then he died, but then in the early 21st century he gained some popularity because of the internet and I think he reappeared becuase of it." Explained Dipper, "Also to clear something his powers had nothing to do with snow or fire."
"What were his powers?" asked Izuku out of curiosity.
"It's best if I don't tell you… like I said… 1980's and got popular because of the internet." Said Dipper.
It's better not knowing… he really is that weird…
When Shoto went up he really didn't have a name picked out and just went with given name.
"Are you sure about that?" asked Midnight.
"I'm sure." Said Shoto.
Yes he had finally met with his mother, getting over his hatred of his fire half and was helping help a bunch of spirits torment his father, he still had his problems and using his given name would help him find himself.
However during this time Izuku thought back something back when he first started this school.
"Midoriya you haven't gone yet." Said Midnight.
"Don't worry I figured it out." Said Izuku.
He showed everyone the name he chose.
He saw everyone's faces most of them were confused, Katsuki looked angry which he expected, both Mezo looked concerned, he saw Dipper and Ochaco both seemed to like it though.
"Are you sure about it?" asked Mezo since he knew the origin on the name.
"It's fine. Someone a while ago said that the name could mean something else." Said Izuku.
Indeed the name he had chosen was Deku.
"Also isn't the name a little on the nose with your powers?" asked Kirishima.
"When I get my body back I won't be possessing puppets any more" pointed out Izuku.
"Oh yeah." Said Kirishima.
"We're actually done much sooner than I thought." Said Midnight looking at the clock.
"All right." Said Aizawa waking up from his nap, "I want you to use this time look through the internships. Even if you didn't get an offer you will be interning with one of 40 agencies that offered."
While everyone was interested in what they could do, or their own offers. There was the curiosity about Izuku's.
He sighed as he looked at the offer.
"Wait… the agency…" said Izuku.
He looked at Tenya.
"After what happened I told my brother about you. He was one of the heroes that was initially contacted after Cipher stole your body." He explained, "He was quite impressed with you that he decided to make that offer."
Izuku was surprised.
The jealously from everyone who didn't get an offer faded. It made since that the older Iida brother would want to offer Izuku.
"Wait… what happened between him and Cipher?" asked Kaminari.
"Because it's clear he tried to do something to him." Said Tsuyu.
"Shut up and it's none of your fucking business!" yelled Katsuki, "So just mind your own damn business and worry about your own problems unless you get dragged into it."
Hagakure look at him.
Katsuki gave her look when he was done yelling.
Soon enough it was time for lunch and Hagakure knew she had to talk to the Team, especially once Mabel and Ford arrived for them to talk.
They found a place to do so.
"So a llama is one of the symbols." Said Hagakure… well Toru she was now a member of the team.
"So you decided to try wearing headbands?" asked Mabel.
"I gave her the idea when she decided to give me a pep talk the other day." Said Izuku.
"And I thought this one was really cute so that why I chose it." Said Toru.
"Are you sure it's not an Alpaca?" axed Mabel.
"Or a guanaco or vicuña?" asked Ford.
"Nope! The price tag said llama." Said Toru.
"Guanaco and vicuña?" asked Ochaco.
"The species that what llamas and alpacas were before becoming domesticated." Said Ford, "Their still extant and…"
"Now's not the time for a lecture about South American camelids." Said Dipper.
"You're right." Said Ford.
"It's weird hearing about a normal topic from him for once." Said Katsuki.
"I know…" said Izuku.
"You got that right." Laughed Mabel.
"So… I know…" said Toru who was clearly trying to figure out if she should ask it.
"No we should tell you what happened with my brother." Said Tenya.
They told her and she was surprised and relived by it.
"So…" said Toru.
"I don't owe him anything." Said Tenya, "He also started giving me nightmares afterwards."
"Oh right! He does that." Said Toru.
"He'll probably start giving you nightmares too." Said Mabel.
"Or he could try to get you to join him." Said Ochaco.
"Don't worry if he does that I won't listen to him!" said Toru, "I was there remember… I saw him and saw what he did…"
"Wait you don't think that Tsu, Mineta and Kirishima might be the last three chosen?" asked Ochaco.
"I don't think it will be them… or at least all of them." Said Dipper.
"I really hope that Mineta isn't Pentagram…" sighed Ochaco.
"We'll explain more another time." Said Izuku.
Toru nodded knowing that that it was probably not a good idea to tell her everything in the hallway and find a better place to catch her up on everything.
"You should all get lunch." Said Ford.
"He is right." Said Tenya.
The 7 students went to get food, leaving the spirits.
"(I wonder…)" said Ford.
"(The last three were the ones that had people assigned to him...)" said Mabel.
"(You think there's a chance that they might not be found?)" asked Dipper.
"(For the Question Mark and Pentagram… I have no idea… Stitched Heart…)" said Ford.
Dipper groaned as he it was clear it was implying someone could easily be a fan of Robbie or a become one by coincidence.
"(But we have to see… I have a devolped a theory… whenever Bill makes a move the Zodiac symbols will appear and gather but if something puts a stop to him, then they're no longer needed…)" explained Ford.
"(You might want to bring it up to them whenever the next meeting will be.)" said Mabel.
"(Since Toru is a member now it has to be this week)" said Dipper.
"(I know…)" said Ford.
That night, Toru got ready for bed. The invisible girl soon felt herself drift off to sleep. Then her bedroom turned black and white.
"What going on?" asked Toru as she jumped out of bed.
"So you're the new girl…. And the last symbol that wasn't taken the first time around!" said Bill.
Toru turned around and saw Bill. She of course was on edge, after everything she heard and seen of course she would be.
But still she was the 7th member of the team… and who knew what Bill had in mind for what was going to happen with this.
Next Time: Everyone gets ready for their internships while Toru is brought to speed about everything... Who will they interns with? What will happen? Find out next time!
A/N: I recently read another fanfic where Todoroki did choose the name Snowflame. It's a good name for him... if you didn't know about the DC character that bears the name. As mentioned the chapter he appeared once then died (though I think they might have brought him back) then Linkara showcased him and his glory and he became somewhat infamous. I won't say what his power is but it is glorious... and if you haven't looked him up please do so... So yeah... I had to comment on that...