Melissa walked up to the boy, looking him over. "You doing okay, your arm is kinda … wavy." She gestured to the lack of working bones.
"Really?" He looked at his arms. "Dang it, sorry I broke your gauntlet. It was such a great gift too! I could use every spoonful without hurting myself for once." Apparently broken limbs weren't a big deal to him either.
"Are you kidding? If it broke down it's the inventor's fault. That thing was meant to take a couple of All Might's punches but you managed to overload it. How hard were you going?" She asked him.
"Bunny-sensei was using all his power, so I thought I should be doing the same." The face he made while saying that was just adorable. "Still, sorry I couldn't save it with your dad."
"You saved my dad, that's all that matters." She smiled. "You were a real hero, you know that?" He stared at her with sparkly eyes.
"IRUMA-KUN!" Hagakure jumped onto him, along with Uraraka. "I'm so glad you're okay!"
"What did we say about bone breaking!?" The round-faced girl shouted. "You need to be more careful! You're usually so good at avoiding danger, at least when it comes to physical harm."
"Sorry, but I needed to hit Metal Mask for hurting everybody." Was this what it was like to see a little brother flirt with girls? It was oddly enjoyable. "Where is he? I need to give him a few more punches."
"Unconscious, he won't notice it." Todoroki walked over to them. "I made sure he's secure along with this." He held up the Quirk Amplifying Device. "So what's the consensus on-"
"Yell at me later." Bakugo proceeded to grab the object and blew it to smithereens.
"Actually, that's probably for the best. The thing is way too much trouble than it's worth." She nodded to the explosion user. "I'm just glad it's over for the moment. Your class really is something amazing, Iruma."
"I know, it's incredible." The boy smiled back at her. "I never thought i'd have so much fun in my life before I met them." That was both touching and concerning. "So what's the plan now?"
"How about getting your broken arm into a cast." Iida spoke up. "You truly do need some sort of tracker on you at all times."
"Don't worry, I will volunteer as his chaperone for the rest of this trip!" Hagakure brought Iruma in close. "I still owe you that dance after all~."
"Oh, I know a few steps, I could teach you.." Uraraka pulled the boy in her direction
"Actually I don't think I'll be able to dance." He spoke.
"Come on, it's not that hard to learn." Melissa smiled.
"No, because I just realized I might have broken my leg too, and you two are the only thing stopping me from hitting the ground." The endorphins were strong in this one.
Kyoka saw with a peeved Momo, a braindead Denki, and a leg dead Mineta. "Why … Why does today hate short legs?" The boy muttered. "Is there no salvation from running all the way up? I didn't even get to do anything."
"We saw Iruma double team with All Might, so there's that." Kyoka shrugged. "You know, for someone that was trained by All Might, he doesn't really move or fight like him." She turned to Momo, who had let the 'wheying' Denki lean on her. "Still out of it?"
"Whey." That would be a yes. The boy just stared out dazed with a smile and a thumbs up. She was kinda holding back a laugh.
"There, there, Denki, it'll be fine." Momo patted the boy. "You did good. You did good." Great, now she feels jealous. Feelings really do suck.
"So you kids really did go off and fight villains on your own?" A vaguely familiar voice came in, and turning their attention to it, they saw Denki's mom…in a hero costume? "Denki, you pushed yourself too far again, didn't you?"
"Wheeeey."
"Don't be too hard on him, Elecplant-san-ah I mean-Kaminari-san.." Momo started fumbling on her words. "He did it to protect all of us while we were loading the cannons. Your son is really brave and admirable."
"Oh, I was gonna wait until he was back to normal but … if he really did help." They nodded. "You kids are something, taking on an entire army of robots and … whatever happened here." Jiro was sorry for whoever had to clean this up. "I swear, being a hero student was never this dangerous when I was your age."
"It probably wasn't." Mineta muttered. "We just happen to have a danger magnet this year." Sad but accurate.
"Hmm …" The woman sat down. "So then … which of you lovely girls is dating my son?"
"I am!" Momo said immediately and a little too loudly, bringing the brain dead boy even closer to her. "He's quite charming and always has something sweet to say to me."
"And here I thought he'd never get a girl. Thank you for looking out for him." What…Even his mother thought like that? No wonder Denki got so irritated with her snark.
"Hey, he's a pretty cool guy." She almost instinctively spoke up. "I-uh, I think, any girl would be happy to date him." Damn it, feelings, you really do suck!
"Kaminari … traitor …" Even half dead the boy still had to get it in.
"Roll call time … the getaway pilot?" The officer asked.
"Dead when the villain crushed the getaway chopper." That was gonna be grabbed by the press.
"The hacker?"
"Locked him up with the Muscle guy and Teleporter villain." He nodded.
"The fire breather?" He got a weird report on that one.
"Hospital." The muscle and teleporter villains claimed they injured the man, and the kids backed up that claim.
"What about the one with the knife arms?"
"Alive, got thrown into another tower and remained unconscious the entire time. He's also in the hospital."
"What about the ringleader?"
"Which one, Wolfram or Shield?" That guaranteed the press wouldn't let this story go for a long, long time.
"Let's … start with Shield."
"In custody, he's claiming guilt and giving his full help." The man spoke. "I really hope the guy's got an early parole."
"Yeah, at this rate, we're looking at a good twenty to thirty years at minimum." Real shame, one of the smartest minds of his generation now turned villain. "And Wolfram?"
"Hard case, his quirk makes it impossible to lock him up in metal, so we're going with a hyper plastic form of security." The man chuckled. "Ironically a Shield invention."
"Cruel irony depending on how you look at it." He gave a little laugh of his own. "What about the kids? Don't exactly feel like arresting the ones that freed everyone."
"All Might advocated for them, saying he gave them his full permission. Can't really argue with Japan's number one." Very true.
"Then I guess our work here is done." He sighed. "What a crapshow of a day."
"Tell me about it. We're lucky to keep it on the down low as it is." They started to make their leave, seeing a small glance of a blue skinned woman talking to the kid with the cowlick. As they did. Probably nothing to worry about.
Iruma, cast in a leg and arm brace, waved to his friends, turning to Melissa. "Thanks for everything … I'm sorry about what you saw."
"It's fine. Well, it really isn't, but I think I'll be okay." Melissa shrugged. "You stopped the villain from taking my Papa away, I'll always be grateful for what you and your friends did for me yesterday. You're an amazing hero, Iruma."
"Do you … know what you'll be doing?" Iruma asked her. "I would offer you anything I could." But he doesn't have money or home or family to offer. Well there was that six million, maybe he should have asked Momo when she was around.
"I'll be alright for the moment. I've lived on I-Island for years, so I think I'll stay here for a while. I never met my mother, and I don't have any other family other than Uncle Might..except maybe you, 'secret love child'." She was laughing, so that meant things were close to being okay. "Who knows, maybe I'll transfer somewhere else eventually, but for now, this place is my home."
"If you say so." He smiled. "Thank you Melissa … It's because of you I wanna help people more." He never realized how many people had it that much better, he just thought everyone suffered on some level the same. "I think I understand what Bunny-sensei means by saving people with a smile."
"That's my job, to help the people helping people. That's the kind of hero I want to be." Melissa patted his shoulder. "You know, I never asked you what your hero name was."
"I'm the Assisting Hero: Kettie!"
"Your hero name is determined?" She chuckled. "And here I thought it would be something more original."
"Hey, it's plenty original! No one else has it."
"Right, right. Thanks Iruma, despite how horrible it was, your time here was … fun."
"Yeah, it was." Weird how something could be so fun and dangerous at the same time. "It really-"
"IRUMA-KUN!" Toru ran up to them and grabbed a hold of his non-broken arm. "We're about to leave! Let's wrap it up before anything else happens that forces you to stay."
He tilted his head in confusion. "But I'm riding with Bunny-sensei." He had to wait on the guy after all.
"We called, he said it was fine." He did? Wow, thanks Bunny-sensei!
"You're friends are really something else, Iruma."
"Yes, yes we are..bye now!" Toru started carrying him off. "If we hurry, we'll be able to sit right next to each other all twelve hours back." He thought it was nine hours?
Mustard liked this group. At first it was Stain motivators to fix society, then it was a bunch of people wanting to kill an annoying guy, now it was a group of tortured souls that wanted to rip down society from the roots and show it how the world should be. They got him, despite all their little quirks … fuck you it was funny.
Which is why he felt the need to be honest. "This is stupid." He spoke bluntly. "We're supposed to be genuine criminals and we're summoning a demon?"
"This is what Sensei told us to do, and he's never lied to me before." Shigaraki was looking over 'Demon summoning for morons.' Was this All For One guy just a huge troll?
"Okay so for us kids." He gestured to himself and Himiko, the only one in his age group. "Who the hell is 'All For One'. Who picks out a name like a musketeer?" Shigaraki and the girl looked confused. "... Three Musketeers?" No response. "Famous book series?"
"I've never been into reading, always been a gamer." This is why the education system for the common man was failing.
"I haven't heard much either." Dabi spoke up from his corner. "Just that he's some sort of boogie man for other villains to avoid. Muscular, you're the oldest, anything?"
"Yeah, whispers here and there, supposedly steals quirks from any and everybody, ruled Japan from the shadows for hundreds of years." Who knew the meat head could be well informed? "Last I heard, he died, or some shit a few years ago."
"Sensei can't be killed. All Might just slowed him down a little."
"If he can't be killed does that mean he's an infinite blood fountain?" Himiko giggled. "Imagine how much I can sedate …"
"Please, no one is unkillable." Mange retorted.
"The man lives with everything from the nose up, including some of his greymatter, missing." Kurogiri explained further.
"So we're being told by a hundred year old zombie boogie man to summon a demon from hell?" Mustard wished that was the start of a bad joke. "Do we even want to know how someone like him even discovered something like this?"
"Sensei mentioned it was a pastime with his brother or something, he didn't go into detail about it." Why did getting answers only make it more confusing? "Alright, all that's left is for the blood.. " He looked specifically at Himiko. "Three meters back."
"Aww…Can I cut you at least?"
"Nope." The man simply rubbed his finger against the edge of one of the book's pages and let it bleed out.
"This is stupid. Let's bring hell on earth!" Twice talked in contradictions as usual. It didn't matter,this would be over, as soon as the blood hit the ground, did nothing, catch on fire-wait what?
"Wait, something is actually happening?" Spinner said with disbelief. "Wait, does this mean the afterlife is real?"
"Probably." Mustard rolled his eyes. Don't get existential now, this wasn't the time. The fire blazed into a blue bonfire that barely went to human height, and unlike what one would expect, warmth, there was a sinister coldness that blanketed the room, the blazes forming into a suit, embers dying into … glasses?
The last of the dying flames settled onto a blue hair with a single horn, as a curious looking boy took notice of the room. "So this is the human world … more run down than I expected." Well if he was a demon, he was definitely an asshole.
"So you're actually a demon…can I stab you, pretty please!? You'd look so much cuter if you were covered in blood!" Himiko cheered. There was no way a demon was going to let himself be injured, you moron!
"You think I look cute?" The boy blushed. Nevermind, he was the moron. "Why thank you, but I can't accept, or at least right now. You need to look cute if you wanna stab me."
"Oh, so you want me to stab myself?"
"Only if it makes you despair." … What? "Tell me, what makes you cry at night? What makes you realize that no one loves you as a freak of nature? What makes you want to take a rope and hang it around your neck?" The boy gave a horrifyingly perverted smile. "That's … what I find cute."
"...You aren't cute at all." That was all the girl had to say. Wow, he actually felt bad about that.
"Aww, I guess it was a love never meant to be." That was love for you? "Then again I already have someone special, and at this point it would be cheating."
"My name is Tomura Shigaraki." The leader spoke, apparently unphased about all of this. "I summoned you, what are the terms of whatever contract bullshit we need to get out of the way?"
"Simple really, I am Kiriwo Amy, and I wish to learn about true villainy." The demon stated plainly. "I want to see how you humans create despair among yourselves, I want to see the cracks and shadows that Plus Ultra creates, and most importantly, I want to kill the determination of anybody willing to go beyond their limits."
"... Hey Dabi, congratulations, we found you an Emo buddy." Compress tried to lighten the mood.
"Fuck you." A reasonable response.
Tomura stood silent, still just staring at him. "Here are my terms. You don't aim any of that 'despair' bullshit at anyone I deem an ally, and you'll do work with whatever skills you can offer. If you follow these rules, you're free to explore the human world and do what you want."
"Fine, I suppose those are workable terms for the moment." The demon creepily smiled, looking almost..turned on. "I'm finally here, Deku-kun. I'm going to wipe that smile off your face, and you will join me in despair." Creepy bastard.