Chapter 6

WHY OH WHY, WHY OH WHY, DON'T YOU WANNA STAY WITH ME?! WHY OH WHY, WHY OH WHY, ARE YOU GIVING UP ON ME?!

Hello, all you future Titan paste! I, Zayden StormVoid, am finally back with another chapter of Welcome to the MCU Phase 2! Yes, yes, it has been too long, excuse me for wanting to stay away as much as I can from Thor the Dark World, which is the U.A. group's next venture. Also, again, I've been busy with Pokémon Violet and antsy to get Hogwarts Legacy but that will just make this wait even longer.

And yes, I began a chapter again by horribly singing a recent song stuck in my head, Under the Tree by SiM for the latest episode bundle of Attack on Titan. Also, did you know that this song is based on Mikasa's POV and the Rumbling op was based on Eren's? Makes you wonder if the next one for the final episodes will be under Armin's POV.

Also, just to get this out of the way, because the mere mention of this earlier probably has some people fuming, but yes, I am interested in getting Hogwarts Legacy, and there is nothing wrong with that. I keep seeing people on Twitter and everywhere whining about this game being 'transphobic' because of JK Rowling's opinions, and it's frankly ridiculous. First off, this game has nothing to do with JK other than using the Harry Potter IP that she created, but she has nothing to do with the development of this game. Secondly, to those that would say that buying this game is still financially supporting her, a) this is JK Rowling, one of the most richest women in the world, so I don't think boycotting this game is going to hurt her wallet in any way, and b) she gets a share of the money for tickets to Universal and so many other projects that Everyone has and still is supporting so targeting this specific game seems stupid, lazily convenient, and easy for gullible, angry idiots for wanting to feel like the good guys and feel validated. Recall the wise words of Albus Percival Wolfric Brian Dumbledore: There is always a choice between what is right, and what is easy. And thirdly, it is just a Video Game, one that I hear has a trans character in it, not sure and so what? Attacking and harassing people for buying and playing this, even bringing sensitive souls to tears is just not cool and makes those people come off as monsters and shines a bad light on your cause and the people you are supposedly standing up for. MightyKeef on YouTube made an awesome video saying all this perfectly and better than I could, so check him out.

Phew, ok, enough ranting, back to the story. Last time, we had the finale of Iron Man 3 with the Iron Legion making the inventor girls equal parts like squealing banshees, swooning and fainting, and passionate to the point of obsession, even with them peppering kisses all over Midoriya's face. Speaking of romance, Ibara's fake-out death had everyone balling and raging, Bakugou having Midoriya write very useful date tips, and Melissa and Midoriya getting closer. The full-on Dabi reveal leaves the Todoroki men in panicked shambles and Hawks sweating up a storm. Resolves were strengthened as Melissa learns to be a Hero based on her intellect and brains rather than worrying about being a copycat, Hawks is driven to figure out more of Dabi after his reveal, and Bakugou realizes the growth both he and Stark have made in their lives and resolves to work harder on his desire to apologize to Deku and has something to talk to Ibara about.

And with this intro lasting forever, let's just skip the reviews and head on straight to the Index:

"Zayden." -Normal Dialogue

'Zayden.' -Mental or Internal Dialogue

"Zayden." -Flashback and Mental Flashback Dialogue

"Zayden." -Buff All Might, Dark Shadow, and Movie Dialogue

"Zayden." -Comms, PA, and TV Dialogue

"Zayden." -F.R.I.D.A.Y. Dialogue

"Zayden." -Movie Narration Dialogue

And finally, I do not own My Hero Academia, which belongs to Horikoshi and is animated by Bones Studios, also Horikoshi please take care of yourself better, and I do not in any way hold the rights to the MCU movies, belonging to a current butthurt corporation that is getting ass rammed by Florida, Disney, Marvel Studios, and Sony in some cases, and all credit to the movies goes to the directors, the actors and actresses, and the hard-working studios and workers involved.

P.S. Yes, I have heard that, aside from a good portrayal of the villain Kang, Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania sucked doo doo balls and is piss poor start to Phase 5, really glad I didn't see it. But let's get on with the other disappointing child of the MCU: Thor the Dark World... AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Thor: The Dark World

Part 1: A Disappointing Reality

Third POV

As everyone inside the gym stretched their legs and conversed about the recent movie, Bakugou led Shiozaki outside for their talk. They were met with the light of the setting sun casting an orange light and shadows over a field of multiple craters and blast marks from Bakugou's earlier rampage. Bakugou's eye twitched as he remembered his frustrated feelings with the Mandarin's anti-climactic reveal, continuing to lead Shiozaki further away. Shiozaki sweatdropped at the signs of Bakugou's tantrum but giggled when she noticed the look on his face bordering between grumpy and embarrassed.

As he led the two of them further, Shiozaki started becoming nervous herself. 'What if he wants to cancel our date?' The thought came up in Shiozaki's head. It struck her with a wave of fear before she dispelled it with a shake of her head, tempering her expectations till she heard what Katsuki had to say.

The two stopped a little way from the gym, and Bakugou stopped. "So, you wanted to talk to me about something," Shiozaki noticed the slumped shoulders on her crush that looked like they were being weighed down. Katsuki turned to face Shiozaki, the vine-haired girl seeing the conflict and fear in his eyes. "Is everything alright, Katsuki?"

"That movie. I-uh...wanted to know if you were okay?" Bakugou asked, his voice sounding as awkward and nervous as he did when they talked about their date. "You know, with all the shi-stuff you went through and that put you through."

"Hey, it is okay, 'Suki. Truly," Shiozaki could see the slight rise in the corner of his mouth at her pet name for him. "I thought that we agreed that the actions of our counterparts aren't our own."

"It's not that," Bakugou shook his head, a slight slip of frustration escaped his mouth before he calmed it down. Looking at the flinching in his eyes, Ibara could tell he was madder at himself than with her. "You looked sad. About Hansen. And when we all thought that you had died."

Ibara smiled kindly at him. "I believe that last part is something that I should be asking of you," Shiozaki and Bakugou chuckled. "But I understand, and rest assured that I am okay. Yes, Maya's betrayal was painful, and her death when trying to save you was sad, but I can only hope and pray that her sacrifice had redeemed her enough. But I know from that look that that isn't everything."

Bakugou flinched. The way he shuffled and shook made it look like he was about to explode. Finally, he stopped and sighed, wiping a hand over his suddenly sweaty face. "I...I haven't been fully honest with you," Bakugou finally spoke, sad acceptance in his eyes. "I haven't been honest about who I am, and...and I can't have you agree to go on a date, even one, without being real with you. I owe you that much."

Shiozaki blinked, surprised and a little worried. The way his voice exuded guilt was clear that whatever Bakugou hid from her, it was something he was deeply ashamed of, and how truthful he sounded about possibly breaking off her date unless he told her made Shiozaki worried it was something bad.

"Katsuki," Ibara took Bakugou's hands, clasping them with hers, trying her best to give her the comfort he clearly needed. "Whatever you have to confess to me, I will hear it, but if you aren't truly ready, then I understand if-"

"No," Bakugou's firm voice cut her off. "I have to. Not just for you, but for me. I can't keep this to myself and from you without it tearing me apart for much longer."

Seeing how serious he was, Ibara nodded, quietly waiting for what he wanted to confess.

'Heh, kind of fitting that I confess to her about this shit,' Bakugou chuckled bitterly to himself. 'Like I'm in some kind of reconciliation with a priest or nun.'

Berating himself for trying to stretch this out longer than he should, accepting whatever may come of this, Bakugou took the dive. "I bullied people."

The silence was deafening as if the wind itself held itself in shock at what he confessed. Bakugou closed his eyes tightly before he could see any more of Shiozaki's shocked eyes. "All my life, I was told I was talented and special, and I made sure that everyone knew it," Bakugou began, his mind taking him back to his little 4-year-old self. "I wanted to be the best at everything. Hell, even my admiration of All Might was mostly because he was the best of the best and never lost. Sports, grades, social status. I was an arrogant piece of shit, and it wasn't like the praise of all those lackeys and suck-ups did any help." Bakugou cringed at how defensive that sounded. "And when someone tried to upstage, as I thought, I would try to put them down. I wanted to...put them in their place." He remembered hatefully that very day he read out Midoriya's pale and gave him that dreaded name he branded on him ever since.

"Then, my Quirk came in, and it only got worse. I got worse," Bakugou recalled the shameless praising of kids and grown-ups alike, sucking up to him for having a powerful Quirk, and how he realized how much it got to his head. "I started getting more violent and entitled. As much as I realized all those extras were just buttering me up, trying to look cool at 'seeing my potential' or being friends with the future Number 1 Pro, I liked it. I felt I was like a king. That no one could ever stand up to me like I was the second coming of All Might. That no one can stand on the same level as me." Bakugou's eyes were downcast, seeing tiny, 4-year-old Izuku Midoriya below him. "But then, some did try to stand with me, as an equal, even as a better."

"Hey, are you alright? Are you hurt?" Little Midoriya's rang in his ears.

"And I couldn't take it," Bakugou gritted his teeth, trying to keep back the whimpering rage and guilt he held inside. "I started bullying people, for daring to think I was as weak as them, that I was like their ordinary asses, for thinking they were looking down on me. I pushed them, punched them, kicked them, used my own Quirk illegally on them." Flashes of doing the things he said on Deku throughout those 11 years happened before him. "I thought I was showing them their place, showing them how strong I was, but I was pathetic, nothing but a bully. A monster." That dreaded day came back up and he even felt the words get stuck in his throat before he said them. "I told someone to kill themselves just so they can get a Quirk in their next life."

Bakugou didn't look at her, he couldn't look at her, anymore after the hitch of her breath he heard. "When I saw how Stark left Todoroki on that rooftop, and he said he contemplated jumping off of it, it was like I was back there like I hadn't changed at all, that no matter how much I thought I did throughout the year, that I was still that petty, insecure, thoughtless asshole that spoke those God damn words!" Bakugou's gaze fell to their joined hands. "And when you, other you, whatever, fell and Stark couldn't catch you, I thought I failed, not just in saving you, the one person that I truly can't stand seeing get hurt, that I lo-I felt that I failed in redeeming myself from all the mistakes I made, all the sins I committed that can't be forgiven, much less redeemed. I felt I couldn't ask for either, because I wasn't worth it, that wasn't worth anything, especially someone as pure, beautiful, and kind as you."

Bakugou felt one of her hands slip from his, and it made him feel 10 times worse. "S-So if you want to just break things off here, forget our date, even tell me to fuck off and never speak to you again, I get it and-"

Bakugou stopped when he felt her hands on his cheek. Not that hard slap if he expected, but a warming and loving embrace. He finally looked up with widened eyes at Shiozaki's tearful, sad eyes. But they weren't just sad for hearing the things that he did. 'Why? Why is she looking so sad for me?' Bakugou thought, completely lost. 'She should be cursing him. She should be calling me some spawn of the Devil and hating me.'

"Why?" Bakugou's broken voice whimpered out. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Shiozaki's mouth whimpered, a tear falling from her eye. "Because you aren't the only one here who has made mistakes. Horrible mistakes."

Bakugou's eyes blinked, surprised and confused. Thankfully, Ibara didn't keep him waiting. "Truthfully, I wanted to save this for our date, to be upfront with you as well, but I can't in good conscience deny you the truth of myself from you either." Ibara began, her guilt spilling across her face. "As you have seen before, I, shamefully, have a problem with imposing my own beliefs and views onto others. Often, I thought I was being proud and confident in who I was, but in truth, I realized how invasive and pushy I was. And I was much the same when I was younger. No, I was worse."

Ibara's mind took her back to a smaller, younger Ibara, her vine hair shorter and up to her small shoulders. "Like myself, my parents were very religious people, and educated me on our religion dutifully, some would say zealously, really." She could remember how her younger self took to heart the teachings of the Bible and the Church. "I was always and studious and curious soul, as my parents called it, and absorbed all I could, till I was the one that searched for more of my faith, not just my parents. But, in time, I grew prideful myself. I thought myself enlightened, holy, and unblemished compared to the sinners and decadents all around. And when people questioned me on my faith, called me a naïve child, silly, and stupid, I reacted ill-fitting of my faith, of myself."

"I too used to bully people," Bakugou's eyes widened, in complete disbelief that Ibara Holier-than-thou Shiozaki could ever have been anything closely related to himself. As much as it clearly hurt Ibara to relive the past, she kept going. "There was this one girl who thought I was being silly about my superstitious beliefs, called me brainless, naïve. And so, I reacted harshly in turn. I didn't realize that I was strangling her till I saw her nearly pass out. I quickly stopped, but I looked at my hands, my Quirk, the thorns of my hair stained in blood from the cuts she had on her." Ibara remembered vividly that day, how she looked at her own Quirk like it was the Devil himself.

"I felt unclean, sinful, a monster," Ibara whimpered. She looked ready to burst into tears. Then she felt Bakugou's hand on her own on his cheek. She saw his sad eyes, that sadness for her, and Ibara found the strength again to continue. "I told my mother. I cried and cried; I couldn't meet her in the eye to say how sorry I was. I had read and memorized the Bible back and forth and could remember every passage from the top of my head, but when I truly needed it, I failed to live up to it. I sinned and struck at someone for being mean to me when I should have turned the other cheek and replied with humility."

"But then my mother hugged me, even when I tried to push away, she held me tight, and I broke in her arms," Ibara smiled sadly at the memory. 'And when she made me look in her eyes, I didn't find the vengeful disappointment that I thought I was to her, I found the love she always bore for me, now mixed with sadness and failure, but one of herself, she felt that she had failed me to teach me the true meaning of our faith, not to look at others in judgment and ridicule, but love and compassion. I tried to tell her that wasn't the case, but she wouldn't hear it and was sorry for putting all of this on me. I asked her why she wasn't angry at me, or even disappointed. She told me she was disappointed in what I did, but she told me I was just a child, lost and confused, that any anger and judgment that was needed was to be directed at her, not me."

Bakugou looked at Shiozaki's eyes, full of love and praise for her mother, reminding him of his mother. While she was much like himself, no matter how many times they yelled and fought, Bakugou never failed to find the love that his mother still had for her baby boy. It was then Bakugou realized another thing: whenever, in the past, he spoke badly about Midoriya or any other extras that he bullied, his mother would look at him sadly, but that sadness wasn't just at him for the wrongs he did, it was also to herself. Bakugou realized his mother felt the same as Shiozaki's, guilty and sad for whatever she did to make her baby boy like this.

"Afterwards, my mother asked me three simple questions," Ibara lifted Bakugou's gaze toward hers, making sure he was fully receptive to her words. "'Do you know what you did was bad?', Do you know why what you did was bad?', and finally, 'Do you feel truly remorseful of your actions?'"

Shiozaki's words rang like a bell in his head, the same questions now being asked to himself.

"When I sincerely said yes, she hugged me again and said that she would help me make things right, to help me repent for my actions, only if I remember to be better and learn from my mistakes," Shiozaki revealed. "And that is what I did. I sought forgiveness, from my parents, my Lord, and from the girl I attacked. Day after day, I tied to reach out to her, to apologize for what I had done, to make amends."

"Did you?" Bakugou could only ask.

"Yes. It took much time and effort, she often tried to push me away, to leave her alone and I almost did at times, but I couldn't move on and forgive myself until I did what I needed to do," Shiozaki smiled to herself. "I felt that, even if she didn't want it, I couldn't stop till I made it up to her, to make things right."

"Helping, even when you aren't needed, is the essence of being a Hero!" Bakugou remembered the words he heard the nerd say once from Glasses. Seeing Midoriya flash for a moment beside Shiozaki, almost made him want to chuckle out loud.

"And then one day, she nearly got into a car accident, and I used my Quirk to save her," Shiozaki remembered the day like it was yesterday, pulling the girl from a terrible collision, how the girl looked at her with surprise, and then how she cried into her shoulder. Then the memories of their shared experiences, the laughs, the hangouts, and, after she moved away, the letters and calls they give to each other to this day. "I believe it was then that she truly realized I was truthful in my repentance, and she forgave me. Now, she is one of my closest pen pals, and that experience, saving her and earning her forgiveness, made me truly believe in my faith and awaken my desire to be a Hero, and the rest is history."

Bakugou was speechless at her story. Here he was, trying to distance himself from this pure girl from the monster he was, and now he discovered that she was much like himself, a flawed person, who made horrible mistakes out of hubris and pride and burdened with guilt. And yet despite this, she seemed all the more perfect in Bakugou's eyes. She was just like himself, and she did what he couldn't, found forgiveness and repentance from the target of her bullying. She was more than a Hero in his eyes, she was strong, unbelievably strong, and Bakugou was in awe of her.

"So, Katsuki Bakugou," The serious shift in her voice caught him off-guard, and attentive to her gaze. "Do you know what you did was bad?"

Bakugou's eyes widened, realizing what she was doing. The grip his hands had on hers tightened and shook. The beatings, the bullying, the horrible pranks, and the words he all did to Izuku Midoriya rose again. "Yes," He answered, the cracking in his voice sounding almost pathetic to himself but steeled his resolve.

"Do you know why what you did was bad?" She asked again, seriously.

Bakugou saw all the consequences of his actions. Izuku's insecurities, his lack of confidence, and his stuttering, how oblivious, if not dismissive and in disbelief of the affections of his female classmates, his mother and Auntie Inko growing distant, the scars, both mentally and physically, he delivered onto Izuku Midoriya. "Yes," His voice shook harder, tears welling up in his eyes.

Shiozaki leaned in closer, her nose centimeters from his. "And do you feel remorseful of your actions?" She asked finally.

Katsuki Bakugou saw the hurt and pain he delivered onto Deku, the fear and panic he felt whenever this horrible secret was close to revealing itself that he had no one to blame but himself for, how he felt the guilt and regret Bakugou did to Midoriya. "Yes!" He choked out, unable to let the tears inside as they burned in his eyes.

The next thing he knew he was wrapped in a tight embrace by the girl herself, and her vine hair, wrapping him in a loving embrace, like a cocoon. "I will not lie and say I am not disappointed in the actions of your past, as I know you hold some for me and my own, but I am overjoyed at your honesty, and I swear to this on the Lord I love, that I will help you, the man I love, find the forgiveness and redemption that you need and wish."

Bakugou broke, wrapping his arms around Shiozaki, gritting his teeth painfully hard to keep the sobs and cries from coming out. He wasn't scared of her hearing him cry, he just felt he didn't deserve them yet, not until he...and Ibara helped him achieve his goal of redemption. If he wasn't so focused on this, he would have picked up that she said that she loved him.

"T-Thank you," Bakugou whimpered.

"You're welcome," Ibara smiled, wiping her tears on his shoulder.

The two leaned away from their hug after what felt like an eternity, staring at each other. Bakugou and Shiozaki noticed their ruby red and dark green eyes getting closer or noticed the rub of their noses and foreheads. Their lips were inches from each other. Then centimeters. And then...

"Hey! Are you two done?! We are just about ready to..." Kirishima's voice died as he realized what he just interrupted.

Bakugou and Shiozaki broke away from their near kiss to gaze at the paling, non-natural redhead with wide, alarmed eyes. Then that alarmed turn to wide, red-eyed fury.

"SHITTY HAIR!"/"KIRISHIMA!" The two's voices were heard roaring through the sounds of explosions and whip-like cracks.

"I"M SORRY!" Kirishima cried back in terror.

After what felt like forever, the group saw Ibara and Bakugou, trying to look as dignified as possible, walk in, while Kirishima stumbled in, covered entirely with soot and comical whip marks around his body.

Bakugou and Ibara refused to discuss what their meeting was about or explain Kirishima's condition, but it didn't take a genius for most of them to realize that Kirishima must have interrupted a special moment between the two.

When asked, the Manly student of 1-A shivered, and all he could say was "I am grateful for my Quirk for I have seen Fury incarnate."

Despite all this, the students just shrugged and returned to the screen as Mei clicked on the next movie. Ibara meanwhile looked back at Bakugou one last time, once more processing the information her crush admitted to her, and while it didn't change how she felt about him or her desire to help him find redemption and forgiveness, Ibara realized that she never did ask who specifically Bakugou bullied.

Mei pressed the file, and a poster for the next movie pulled up. In it, Thor, with Mjolnir in hand, held Inko, the latter of whom wore Asgardian robes, while Odin and Loki stood off in the cloudy background. The title of the movie read out: Thor, The Dark World.

"Well, at least it seems that Thor and Foster will be reunited from this poster alone," Itsuka mentioned, already brightening up All Might's mood.

Izuku sighed, bracing himself for the more than likely chance of his idol/father figure acting romantic with his mother. Oh, and his mother possibly in danger of whatever will come of this video.

The movie began with the crescendo-ing of epic music whilst multiple comic-like pages and scenes flipped by in rapid-style, flip-booking speed, the hue of the scenes in golden yellow and ruby red. Then the scenes started tilting at an angle revealing the scenes playing out on large transparent letters. The screen paned and circles over the letter as they grew bigger and more noticeable before the panning and scenes ended with a red screen and a large silver word in the middle. Marvel.

"Huh, what was that all about?" Ojiro asked, scratching his head at what he witnessed. "Like it was cool looking, but what did all that mean?"

"To put it simply, as Master Zayden said in his letter when receiving me and the device, these videos you have been seeing are occurrences from a different universe, specifically Universe #20,000, but the events showed and displayed, including this opening credit, are based on a set of movies in another universe, the exact contents of which belong to Universe #19,999." F.R.I.D.A.Y. attempted to explain.

"Okay, I'm completely lost, and not just to be funny," Mina scratched her head, completely confused. "Say what?"

"I think what F.R.I.D.A.Y. means to say is that these movies we have been seeing are different versions of movies of another universe," Momo explained. "So, if say, we are universe 1, we have been watching this universe 20,000 in events styled as movies, but in another universe, say universe 2, they have been watching something similar to these videos and viewed as simply fictitious movies, but of a fourth universe, this universe 19,999. Is that correct?"

"Well, your universe is more like Universe #68,421, but yeah, pretty much," F.R.I.D.A.Y. replied.

Mineta snapped his finger and clicked his tongue. "Dang it, so close," He muttered to himself.

"Huh, isn't it rather both morbidly satisfying and pride wounding how high a number we are in the grand infinite numerology of the multiverse?" Nezu inquired.

"Given that there should be theoretically an infinite number of universes, and if the theory that the universe constantly expands over time to keep being infinite goes the same for the multiverse, then 68,421 sounds very low in perspective," David replied.

"Ah, good point." Nezu nodded, chuckling amused.

"So, there is another universe that's similar to the one that we are watching, but those are considered movies in that universe," Itsuka repeated the revelation, hoping it would stick in her and everyone else's brains to keep from repeating this any further. "Though, are we considered fictional in another universe as well?"

"Yes. Your branch of the multiverse is seen in multiple universes as a manga and anime," F.R.I.D.A.Y. revealed, amused. "It is often rather amusing how one universe's fiction is another universe's reality."

"I... I don't know how to process this so I'm just going to put this in the back of my mind for now," Mount Lady muttered, reminding herself to save the rapidly building existential crisis in her mind for a more appropriate time later. "Let's just continue with this movie."

The screen was pitch black again for a few moments before Odin's voice spoke up from the void. "Long before the birth of Light, there was Darkness." Odin began.

All Might perked up at the voice of his otherworldly father, both in the sense of another universe and otherworldly in possibly a god-like figure.

Monoma flinched at the voice of his counterpart's adopted father, remembering how very upset Loki was when he found this out.

"And from the Darkness came the Dark Elves." Odin continued, while the sounds of shifting metal gave way to the birthing of light on the screen.

"Dark Elves?" Pony questioned, head tilting, confused.

"Like the Frost Giants, Dark Elves were another race of sentient creatures from Norse Mythology," Iida explained. "They were also the Light Elves that were their opposites, with the Light Elves described as more fair, beautiful, and used to Light while the Dark ones lived underground and had more frightening pitch-black appearances."

"Well, that sounds rather racist," Mina raised an eyebrow at that.

"A-Apologies, if that is what it comes off as!" Iida waved his hands in peaceful surrender. "That is what it is transcribed as from our limited knowledge of Norse myths. Although, whether they referred to their appearance in a racial skin tone or an outfitted appearance is to be debated."

"Plus, this was also written down and translated from more Northern Germanic origins, where there would be very little quantity of darker-skinned people." Jurota reasoned.

"Anyways, their home in the Nine Realms was called Svartalfheim, but it's a subject of debate whether Dark Elves were considered Dwarves instead because the latter often call Svartalfheim home." Iida continued. "And Light Elves are said to reside in Alfheim."

"Plus, there are some other texts that make this even more confusing such as the supposed existence of Nidavellir, the actual home of the Dwarves, actually being Svartalfheim or its own realm, but then that would make 10 realms rather than 9, because of Niflheim and Helheim, although another theory says that Helheim is actually just part of Niflheim so-"

"ARGH! SHUT THE HELL UP AND SAVE THIS MYTHOLOGY CRAP FOR LATER!" Bakugou whined, his patience already run thin by Deku's mutterings. "Let's just get on with the video already and see how it is in this world, you eggheads!"

"Millennia ago, the most ruthless of their kind, Malekith, sought to transform our universe back into one of eternal night." Odin continued narrating, as the light grew brighter, illuminating more of the room, with a tall figure in dark and silver armor, with a black cape, strut closer to the center of the room where the light shone down from the roof. The figure was given a closer look as he looked up, a black star on the center of his chest-armor, that looked a pale yellow in the spotlight, his head garbed in a black helm, that opened up in the back for his braided white hair to flow out. His ghostly pale skin, white irises on a black sclera for eyes, transparent markings on his gaunt cheeks, and long, pointed ears revealed an inhuman appearance.

"Huh, well, I guess in this world, the Dark part of the Dark Elves seems like a fashion-like thing, not race." Hagakure pointed out.

"And an apparently evil and malicious kind of dark," Kyoka added.

"MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART DETECTED!" F.R.I.D.A.Y. paused on Malekith's face.

"I suppose with this guy's villainous-sounding intentions and looks, this guy might be another counterpart to one of our Villains." Gran Torino guessed, a gut feeling pulling him to that conclusion. Tsukauchi brought up his notepad to quickly take a note if Gran Torino was right.

Two screens popped up next to the Dark Elf's face, the images shown in them and F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s next words bringing shock and horror. "MALEKITH!" MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART: OBORO SHIRAKUMO AKA KUROGIRI!" Appearing alongside Malekith was the smiling face of a young man, his light blue, wavy hair looking almost like living flames, and the black and purple smoking form, and glowing, yellow-eyed visage of the League of Villain's infamous Warp Villain.

"It's that Warp Villain from the League!" Mineta cried out in fear, all but shivering at the memory of the gaseous-looking Villain and his actions at the USJ.

"It is," Shoji nodded, recalling how he grabbed onto the Warp Villain, attempting to give Iida time to escape the USJ to warn the school and Heroes. "But that boy's image, is that his actual identity?"

"But he looks rather young, almost at our age, compared to the more adult-sounding Kurogiri." Tokoyami pointed out, eyes narrowing in suspicion. "Something is amiss."

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the students, several eyes from the U.A. teaching staff widened in a range of horrified emotions.

Thirteen felt the need to rub her back where the laceration scars, the ones she received during the USJ were. Scars she gained from her own lack of combat experience and the work of the Villain she just realized who he was.

"No." Midnight gasped, her low voice cracking under the emotions rising to the surface. Tears began welling up in her disbelieving eyes, clasped hands over her agape mouth. "I-It can't be. H-How could-"

"No. No, no, no, no." Mic's voice and hands shook, uncontrollably, the shades of his glasses falling enough to see his watering, horrified eyes. "N-Not him. T-That's i-impossible!"

The tail of Principal Nezu shot straight up, fur spiked up in visible alarm, and by the looks of his gnarled teeth and claws digging into the cement of his armrests, the normally calm and collected principal was giving way to a more outraged, furious side. 'What is the Meaning of This?!' Nezu growled in his thoughts, struggling to keep the fury and outrage that sprung from his core.

Time froze all around for Shouta Aizawa. An unseen wind blew his hair back to reveal his wide eyes, pupils shaking as everything became a blur, but Oboro's face next to Kurogiri's. 'No.'

Aizawa's mind was bombarded by the acts of both names, the kind, good, smiling actions of his Hero friend long since dead, and the Villainous, heinous crimes that the Warp Villain caused towards himself and his students. 'That's impossible.'

Aizawa's trembling hand slowly reached up to the goggles that hung from his neck. He remembered Oboro gifting them to him, their Work Study under Purple Highness, the villain attack, and Oboro's bloodied corpse in a body bag. 'He can't be him.' Aizawa couldn't finish the thought, unable to picture Shirakumo's face in place of Kurogiri's. Unable to see his friend, a Hero to his core, become such a Villain. 'He would never-'

'As long as the Three of Us Stick Together,' Oboro said with a determined smile. 'There's not a Problem in the World we can't Resolve!'

Faint, choking gasps came out his mouth, the stoic, insomniac teacher forgetting how to breathe.

"Mr. Aizawa? /Aizawa? /Grunkle Aizawa?" Three voices managed to pierce through the fog that clouded his ears.

Aizawa blinked in surprise, taking a deep breath, and panting deeply. "Aizawa?" Oboro's voice reached his ears. Aizawa's eyes widened and whirled his head at the source...only for his eyes to lock onto worried Midoriya. "I-Is everything okay, Sensei?"

Aizawa blinked, surprised. He quickly rubbed his eyes and looked again at Midoriya, still there and looking at him worried. His gaze then widened to see the entire group staring at him, including his students all with varying degrees of worry and fear in their eyes, fear and worry for him. Among them, Shinsou stared at him with horrified shock and Eri looked almost like she was about to burst into tears at whatever she saw of him.

Aizawa quickly stood up from his seat and marched his way down the steps and out of the gym, pretending to ignore the sounds of worry and confusion of his students.

As Aizawa left the gym, the students were entirely flabbergasted at what just happened to their Sensei, looking at each other for answers they didn't have. Often their gaze shifted to the paused screen with the faces of Kurogiri and the young man, Oboro as what F.R.I.D.A.Y. said, knowing that this had something to do with it. When they turned to the teachers, they didn't illuminate much. Many hung their heads in sorrow or looked just as confused as the rest of them.

Midnight and Mic looked horrible. The erotic-acting Art teacher was practically bawling, making even Mount Lady look at her with sadness and worry. Present Mic looked like he was a step away from either passing out or exploding.

Recovery Girl sighed, saddened. Turning to Nezu, now looking more relaxed and calmer, she said "I will go talk to him." Nezu nodded and the elderly Heroine stood up and rushed out the door at a striding speed the students never thought to have seen from the elderly nurse.

"Okay, can someone please explain to us what the hell is going on?" Kaminari looked to the teachers, comically sweating. "Because I'm kinda freaking out seeing my normally bored and napping teacher looked like he was having a nervous breakdown!"

Nezu sighed, reluctant to share this with the students but it needed to be said, and with Kayama too busy sobbing into All Might's shoulders and Hound Dog attempting to calm down Mic, it landed on him to reveal it.

"Oboro Shirakumo, the boy you are seeing here, was a Hero Course student at U.A. many years ago." Nezu began explaining. "In fact, Oboro attended the very same class as your very own teachers, Eraser and Mic."

The students looked back at Oboro's picture and could see from the very bottom the collar of their U.A. uniforms. "Along with their senior student, Midnight, they all attended the Hero Course." Nezu continued. "Shirakumo was a bright, passionate, mischievous, light-hearted, and hopeful student. The four of them were close friends, though Oboro, Mic, and Eraser were of the same class in their 2nd year."

"Oh, that's cool." Uraraka brightened up slightly. "So, he's another U.A. graduate and Hero, right?" Uraraka flinched as Kayama sobbed particularly loud at that. Uraraka's brightened smile dropped to a worried frown. "Right?"

Nezu sighed again. "During their 2nd Year, at the time of their Work Studies, Aizawa, Yamada, and Shirakumo were all recruited by Kayama to an agency she was doing her Work Study, the one owned by Hero Purple Highness." As Nezu continued, Aoyama perked up, remembering the flamboyant and sparkling Hero that he looked to until his retirement. "On one unfortunate attack by the Villain known as Garvey," Nezu flinched, regretting mentioning the Villain's name at the side glance of Mic growling in pure hatred. "Your teacher would defeat the Villain, but a casualty of the incident was Mr. Shirakumo, who, unfortunately, was crushed to death by resulting debris."

The students were silent in their horror of such a horrible tragedy towards a Hero student, one just like them, and worse, a friend of Aizawa's that he, and Mic and Midnight, clearly took pretty hard. Eri whimpered and cried at the news, especially on the pain that her surrogate Grunkle was clearly going through, while Kouta gained a haunted look in his eyes, remembering the dead bodies of his parents draped in white. Izuku hugged Eri tightly while Kouta was picked up and hugged by Momo, the boy having absolutely no issue with the motherly attention.

Uraraka gasped, clasping her hand over her mouth, horrified at her inappropriate excited tone from her earlier. "I'm so, so sorry, Miss Midnight!" She cried out, tears welling up in her eyes and panicking. "I-I didn't mean-"

"I-It's okay, Uraraka," Midnight cut her off, sniffling and wiping away tears and ruined mascara from her eyes. "I know you didn't mean any harm or offense. I must be the one to apologize for having you all see me like this."

"What?! That's bullshit!" Mineta exclaimed. "There's no need to be sorry for that! It's okay to cry!"

"For once, I agree with the perv," Kyoka nodded, looking to her teacher as she helped in patting and calming Kouta. "If it were one of my friends, I would react just the same."

Eri whispered to Izuku, who nodded and wrapped a strand of Black Whip around her waist and lifted her towards the R-Rated Heroine. When she hugged the Heroine and her muffled voice called her 'Auntie', Midnight almost burst into tears again. She smiled sweetly at her 'niece'-or rather a great-niece but she would prefer not to add the great part-petting her hair affectionately.

"But wait, if he's dead, then why is it saying that he's Kurogiri?" Kirishima asked the million-dollar question.

Mic almost burst out his answer-one a rather loud dismissal of such claim-but All Might's hand on his shoulder and shake of his head, made the Voice Hero back off.

"That is a rather interesting question," Nezu replied. " F.R.I.D.A.Y., I know this may prove fruitless in asking, but is there anything that you may tell us of this?"

F.R.I.D.A.Y. was silent, and the further she was, the clearer the unspoken answer the group received. "I'm truly sorry, Principal Nezu, but I'm unable to reveal such sensitive information so crucial to the timeline." F.R.I.D.A.Y. still answered, her robotic voice showing a truly remorseful tone that would have otherwise fascinated Mei and Melissa, but now was not the time. "But if you truly wish to know about this mystery further, you already know where to search for answers."

Tartaros. The impenetrable Super Villain. Where Kurogiri, Oboro Shirakumo, himself resided.

"Detective Tsukauchi." Nezu said, looking towards the police force detective.

"Already on it." Tsukauchi wrote down his note, underlining it with great emphasis. "Soon as we finished with this movie, I'll call my contacts in the prison. See if I can expedite our research into his identity and Quirk." Tsukauchi looked towards Mic and Midnight, the latter still in a bear hug by Eri. "And see if I can schedule a visit."

"Thank you, Naomasa." All Might nodded, grateful.

The sounds of doors opening were heard and from it, the group saw Recovery Girl walk in with Aizawa, now more hunched and tired looking than ever. The students wished to have said something to their Sensei, their condolences and whatnot but saw that now wasn't the time.

"Aizawa, I-" All Might didn't take the hint and tried to speak.

"Enough," Aizawa spoke up, his sharp tone biting and harsh. "Let's just get this over with."

The head of the group nodded, looking back to the screen, expecting to continue the movie and perhaps find more answers to this situation. Aizawa took a deep calm breath, before feeling a tug on his knee. Looking to see a very worried and nervous Eri, no amount of boiling rage or crushing despair could keep the insomniac from accepting Eri into his arms and accepting her hug.

Izuku smiled sadly at his teacher, and proudly at his daughter, preparing to get used to continuing on the rest of this movie without Eri by his side, agreeing with the precious little unicorn to sit by Aizawa and the others to cheer them up.

The screen turned to where Malekith looked up: an opening roof revealing a poisonous green sky and three large portals, each one at a higher level than the last. Each portal held a different biome of sorts, the closest one appearing like a lush jungle or swamp, the one above it peers into a snowy mountainside, and the furthest visible one opening up into a fiery volcanic area. And each portal was slowly, yet clearly inching further together in alignment.

"Are those portals?" Nejire asked. "They look like they head into other areas."

The Heroes flinched, already picking up on perhaps a reason as to why this Malekith's counterpart was the member of the League that opened Warp Gates. Now, if only they can figure out why and how a long-dead student was supposedly the identity of said Villain.

Malekith smirked and walked away. "Such evil was possible through the power of the Aether," A swirling mass of black and blood red replaced the scene, floating and swirling around, emitting horrible screeching and wailing. "And ancient force of Infinite destruction."

"The hell is that thing?" Kamakiri frowned at the menacing mass of red. "Looks like a blood pack that gained sentience or some shit."

Izuku frowned at the ancient artifact, his ears perking up at what Odin said. "Infinite destruction...Unlimited power," Izuku muttered to himself. Turning one of his notebooks toward a specific page, he wrote the best visual image of the Aether he can, right next to the info he had on the Tesseract and the gem of Loki's spear, his analytical instincts practically buzzing that there was a connection here.

The scene changed back to before, another Dark Elf, this one with a darker skin tone but similar white hair and visible white eyebrows, overlooking a vast field of large hills and dark clouds blotting the sky. Strangely shaped ships that were described similarly to a sword or dagger floated about the skies as explosions appeared and war sounded below.

"Oh, well, I guess Dark Elves can actually be dark-skinned, too," Kosei gestured to the screen.

"But what's with those ships?" Awase narrowed his eyes at the Dark Elf ships. "They look like floating daggers or something."

"They appear to have flight capabilities and their thin width could likely serve as a means to be a harder-hitting target but I would have worried about the lack of width for its defenses if it just so happens to be hit," David muttered to himself.

"Are you really trying to nitpick some clearly evil dude's ship for having a weakness?" Miruko raised an eyebrow at him.

David noticed the silliness of it and chuckled embarrassed, rubbing his neck.

The Dark Elf turned, revealing more of his armor similar to Malekith, and addressed the approaching Dark Elf. "Malekith," He greeted, before speaking in an unknown language that which F.R.I.D.A.Y. helpfully translated. "Asgard's forces are upon us."

"MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART DETECTED!" F.R.I.D.A.Y. paused on the newest Dark Elf. "ALGRIM THE STRONG AKA KURSE! MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART: TSUGUO MOGAMI!" Beside the picture of the newly revealed Algrim was the picture of a man with very big lips and shaggy, dirty-blonde hair taking a criminal mugshot. Before questions arose, another image arose that caught the breath of the group. "Although, I believe you know him better as the Nomu from the USJ." The image of the large, bulky abomination was shown, its dark purple skin rippled with muscles and grotesque red scars, wearing khaki pants that acted more like shorts with skull-designed kneepads, and the unforgettable avian-face with his brain exposed.

"T-That guy...was that horrible monster?!" Mineta paled horribly, remembering the dark purple behemoth of muscles that nearly killed Aizawa and stood against All Might himself.

All Might growled, glaring at Shigaraki's weapon against him back at the USJ, an incident he failed to be to help till the very last moment because of his own stubbornness. He convinced himself to go on patrol and stop crimes other Heroes were more than suited for three hours, wasting his time limit, and chose to rest at the main building rather than be where he was truly needed. He won't apologize for saving the lives he protected during those three hours, but that recklessness with his limits nearly killed himself, his students, and his colleagues.

Plus, seeing how the undead weapon of the League looked like before this horrific transformation reminded him again of the League's architect now sitting in Tartaros where he will rot for the end of his days. However, while they found and apprehended the League's true leader, the main creator of the Nomus was still unaccounted for. Even if All For One could be construed as the creator of the Nomu with his numerous Quirks alone to tie with the creatures with multiple Quirks, even All For One would need scientific and medical backing to harvest and maintain the transformed monsters. All For One needed a doctor of some kind.

The image of the doctor with the green-lensed glasses, Garaki, came to mind, as did the disturbing evidence around his identity. To Midoriya he went under a different alias, which was already suspicious on its own, but add another alias and that this man's supposed grandchild became one of the Nomu from Hosu and his counterpart allied with Shigaraki's counterpart and too many wires crossed to be in any way a coincidence.

Aizawa scoffed angrily, the scar below his eyes, evidence of what the particular Nomu did to him at the USJ, as well as his shortened limit on using his Quirk before he gets dry eyes. Then his memory shifted to how Thirteen was also harmed by the Warp Villain, the one F.R.I.D.A.Y. claimed to be his long-since-dead best friend. And seeing the face of the man that creature was, looking almost completely different, was like comparing Oboro to Ku-

Aizawa's eyes widened, a jolt of recognition lightening in his head. 'Not fully different,' He thoughts to himself, recognizing both the man's eyes and big lips to the Nomu's, with the lips stretched out to form his avian-like beak. Then he thought of Oboro and Kurogiri, the cloud-like hair of Oboro's, and matched it to Kurogiri's appearance like a swirling mist or a dark cloud. And given what he and the other Heroes were informed regarding the creation of the Nomus that the HPSC has gathered thus far, 'They are pretty much like animated corpses,' Aizawa's fist clenched at the mere thought of his friend's dead body revived and desecrated to become a Nomu.

He wasn't the only one to come to this conclusion and feel unbridled rage from it. Nezu had to breathe in deeply to keep his composure. Still, he bristled at one of his student's bodies being experimented on and warped to become the unnatural creature he was now. And now with his counterpart alias with the counterpart of the USJ Nomu, Nezu's brilliant animal mind came to the disturbing conclusion of who was responsible for all of this.

Nezu turned to Tsukauchi, pleased to find the man writing fervently all the information and the glance and nod towards him made Nezu assured the detective reached a similar answer.

More explosions sounded when Malekith joined the Dark Elf in overlooking the fighting. A rumble and a bright light shined above for Malekith and the Dark Elf to look up to see a beam of rainbow light, the Bifrost, descending from the heavens of space.

"It's the Bifrost," Melissa gaped in awe at the Rainbow Bridge of myth come to life before her. While she and her father, along with Detective Tsukauchi, watched the first Thor movie to catch up with the others, her mind couldn't help but analyze the phenomenon and figure out whether it was magical in nature or a creation of extremely advanced science.

Down below, legions of Dark Elves, all sporting similar armor and wearing white, near-expressionless masks, fired upon the unseen Asgardian forces with dark, strangely shaped weapons firing bolts of red energy. No sooner when they halted their advance did the Bifrost crash upon them sending numbers of them flying and screaming from the impact.

"The noble armies of Asgard leg by my father, King Bor, waged a mighty war against these creatures," As Odin narrated, more and more Asgardian warriors rushed out of the Bifrost and towards the enemy, slashing upon the Dark Elves with swords that flashed and hummed a white glow as they made their mark. The recovering Dark Elves fell into formation to halt the Asgardians but were quickly overwhelmed, the mighty warriors of Asgard hollowing and grunting as they leaped, slashed, and fought with expert fighting skill.

One poor Asgardian fell by a bolt of red energy, falling to see a further, larger group of Asgardians come out of the Bifrost, the one leading the charge and firing beams of pure golden-white energy from his lance was a large man with a large, braided brown beard, brown hair escaping down from the man's dark, horned helmet, the man bearing a similar resemblance to that of Odin.

"King Bor?" Mina questioned.

"In the myths, the god Buri was one of the first of the Aesir gods to be born from the Frost Giant Ymir, a primordial entity that created many of the creatures and even worlds of the Norse myth," Momo informed. "Then Buri sired Bor who then had three sons, Ve, Vili, and Odin, as well."

"Yeah, I can see a bit of the family resemblance," Kyoka pointed. "He even has the same laser-shooting spear that Odin has."

"Send in the Kursed!" Malekith ordered in the elvan language, the other Dark Elf rushing to give the order.

Back down at the fighting, all the way in the back, a Dark Elf looked at its palm to gaze upon the object it held: an oval-shaped, grey rock that cracked and glowed with a rubied magma aesthetic. The Elf would crush the rock in its grip and soon its whole body began crackling with burns that spread quickly throughout its body, just as more Elves standing next to him did the same. Their bodies were caked in smoke for a short moment, then they roared inhumanely as they leaped out and onto the field of battle, transformed into large, hulking monstrosities, skin like volcanic dirt, grey rocky armor and spikes adorning and sticking out its transformed body.

The Heroes and students all flinched again as the appearance of these hideous transformations reminded them of the League's own nightmarish abominations. 'Nomu,' They all thought, definitely feeling like the connection between the Warp Villain and the USJ Nomu's counterparts was being hammered in, to the displeasure of some of them.

Said memories of the USJ Nomu had Aizawa feel phantom pains flare up at the memory of the creature breaking his bones like twigs and All Might rubbed his weak spot where Nomu struck in his final clash with the creature. The Nomu of Hosu and Kamino Ward Incidents were also brought to the forefront of the Heroes' minds, as well as the terror, strength, and multiple Quirks they possessed.

Endeavor and Hawks felt reminded again of the hooded Nomu that attacked them, but the Flame Hero drew more comparisons towards the Nomu from Hosu, specifically the near-headless one that he incinerated the brains out of.

The Kursed landed on the field and showed their impressive strength, sending Asgardian soldiers flying with a swipe or smashing into the ground.

Malekith looked back up to the portals, witnessing the three converging in a single column. "As the Nine Worlds converged above him, Malekith could finally unleash the Aether." Malekith turned away and towards a large column of black stone and metal, most of the upper part suddenly floating upwards revealing the Aether.

"Wait, is it being held in between a floating rock and a hard place?" Kaminari raised an eyebrow.

"Ignoring that last part, the cramped confines could be necessary to keep in place an object of power that seems more formless and erratic in appearance," Shoji deduced.

Malekith stretched his hand towards the swirling mass, the blood red and dark energy coming towards him. But right before he could touch it, another beam of the Bifrost descended in front of him, blasting the leader of the Dark Elf back. The Dark Elf swiftly got back up, drawing two curved knives at the rushing squad of four Asgardians. While one broke from the others to fight the other Dark Elf, Malekith flung his right knife toward the lead Asgardian, burying it into the poor man's chest. As the Asgardian began to fall, Malekith ripped the blade out of the dead man and stabbed the second, tossing his body away. He dodged and ducked from a swing and thrust from the third, tripping the Asgardian with a hard swipe to the back of the legs, and finished the soldier by plunging his knives into his chest.

"Jesus, he's tearing through them so easily," Mount Lady flinched at the soldiers' death.

"Those soldiers knew the price of war and their sacrifice is sure to be honored, but I don't think this attack is simply to just kill the leader of the Dark Elves," Tsukauchi said, narrowing his eyes as he picked up the battle tactic here.

Looking back up to where his weapon was, Malekith rushed towards the beam of rainbow light. But before he could reach it, the Bifrost ceased and the black slab that held the Aether had vanished, leaving behind nothing but a runic inscription burnt onto the ground. "But Asgard ripped the weapon from his grasp," Odin revealed, Malekith looking up to where the Bifrost descended from. He looked back down, rage and defeat in his eyes and gritting teeth. "And without it, the Dark Elves fell."

"They distracted Malekith in time for the Aether to be secured away from him," Endeavor nodded in approval of the plan. "If Malekith successfully used this source of infinite power, then he could accomplish his objective easily and win. But with Asgard having the clear superior forces, if they take the weapon then they could simply whittle down the Dark Elves to defeat."

Three Asgardian rushed towards one of the Kursed warriors, all three stabbing the transformed creature with spearpoints lit in white energy. The Kursed warrior at first tried to shrug off the stabs and push back, the Asgardian holding ground while a fourth comrade leaped high towards its head and brought the behemoth down to the ground on his weight and strength of the three.

"These Kursed, as Malekith referred to them, appear to have the same enhanced strength and durability that the Nomu do, maybe even regenerative factors as well, but just like those abominations if they sustain too much damage, they can be overwhelmed," Tiger detailed the attributes and comparisons of the Kursed and Nomu.

More Dark Elves were slain around the battlefield, ending on one dead Dark Elf while its brethren fell around it. "With the battle all but lost, Malekith sacrificed his own people in a desperate attempt to lay waste to Asgard's army," Malekith trembled with rage before looking towards the floating T-shaped warships, the red lights at the helm shutting off as they began to fall from the sky, crashing onto the battlefield and Asgardians and Dark Elves alike. "Their deaths will mean our survival."

Izuku frowned at seeing the death and destruction of what appeared to be the entire culture of an entire species. He understood that this was war, and if left to their own devices Malekith would have succeeded in his plan that sounded unfortunate for the rest of the universe, still, Midoriya was dejected that an entire race was being wiped out following the will of a madman willing to sacrifice them for an empty victory.

The three teachers frowned in distaste, all three in further denial that this Dark Elf, much less Kurogiri, would ever be related in any shape or form to Oboro Shirakumo, the same selfless boy that couldn't for the life of him deny aid to anyone in need, be it a friend or a stray cat. They knew Shirakumo would rather sacrifice himself rather than sacrifice lives.

Gran Torino could see the conflict and denial in the teachers' eyes and felt sorry for them. From the praise he heard Nezu about this boy, Shirakumo did appear to be quite the selfless man that would give his life for those in his charge. 'But then again, Kurogiri is much the same,' Gran Torino thought to the Warp Gate Villain that was still silent in his prison cell, refusing to say a word unless it was to ask if Shigaraki, his charge, was safe. The comparison felt bitter to Torino, but then again, so are the most painful and hard of things to accept, like the death of your best friend.

Malekith addressed his commander while another ship rose behind them, the two making their way onto it. "This war is far from over." After they got onboard, the ship floated up to the skies, activating some cloaking technology, and vanished from all sight.

"So, Malekith escaped and is still out there," Itsuka frowned.

"But Odin said that this was a millennium ago. Wouldn't Malekith have died by now?" Kinoko asked, unsure.

"The Asgardians already show a very long life expectancy with both Odin and Thor being thousands of years old by now," Ibara addressed the question. "While the Dark Elves may be a different race, I wouldn't be surprised if they held a similar form of seeming immortality."

"And with the technology being so advanced even a millennium ago, even if they don't have the same long natural life as Asgardians, they could have ways to put themselves into stasis for even thousands of years," Shoda added.

"Malekith was vanquished, and the Aether was no more," Odin kept the story going, while the portals above fell out of alignment. The shot went down to see the carnage and devastation the war against the Dark Elves left. King Bor looked upon the battlefield with silence. "Or so we were led to believe."

"Sire, the Aether," An Asgardian came up behind the king. "Shall we destroy it?"

"If only we could," Bor responded with a reverberating voice, turning towards the soldier. "But its power is too great. Bury it deep. Somewhere no one will ever find it."

The black slab, glowing red with the Aether, was shown on a platform inside a deep, empty cave, left vacant as the structures inside.

"Yep, I think we found the McGuffin for this movie," Ragdoll noted.

"McGuffin?" Pixie Bob questioned.

"Yeah, in both Captain America and the Avengers their McGuffin was the Tesseract where everything that happened was because of it," Ragdoll pointed out. "Seems like the Aether is going to be of great importance in this one."

"Sadly, I think you are right, Tomoko," Mandalay nodded, looking grim in thought. "And if the kids are right about Malekith being alive to this day, then I'd imagine he is waiting for the right time to find and take back the Aether."

Thor: The Dark World

"Could the Dark World be Svartalfheim?" Uraraka suggested. "It looks like a Dark World and it's home to the Dark Elves. Maybe the Aether is still on Svartalfheim and Thor or someone else has to find it there."

"Sounds about right," Izuku nodded, writing it down. "Nice work, Ur-Ochaco."

Uraraka blushed and smiled, pleased by both Deku's praise and remembering to call her by her first name. Her apparent glee was noticed, for once, by Izuku, blushing at the further evidence of his best friend having feelings for him and, with the feeling of being pleased because she was pleased, his feelings for her.

The sound of chains clanging was heard before the dark screen regained color. Bound in chains, a blank-faced Loki was led on, surrounded by Asgardian guards toward Odin's throne.

"Looks like we are picking up to just after Loki was captured by Thor," Setsuna flinched at the awkward moment, looking down to see the often-obnoxious blonde of their class frown at his counterpart.

While he frowned, Monoma did so not at himself in chains, but at the stupidity and vile actions his counterpart did that put them in this position. He barely registered Itsuka's supportive hand on his shoulder, appreciative of the comfort despite doing not much to keep away the guilt of his counterpart now a mass murderer by all accounts.

They all stopped before steps to the throne, Frigga standing to the side, wringing her hands together, nervously. "Loki," Frigga said, looking worried at her adopted son.

"Hello, Mother," Loki turned from the throne, flippantly, to address Frigga. "Have I made you proud?" He asked, expectantly.

"MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART DETECTED!" F.R.I.D.A.Y. paused the scene on Freya, pulling up an image beside Freya that took All Might's and Torino's breath away. "FRIGGA! MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART: NANA SHIMURA!" An image of a dark-haired woman was paired with her red-haired counterpart.

"She seems familiar," Eri tilted her head as she thought to herself.

"NO WAY!" Miruko suddenly shot up from her seat, grinning wide and joyously. "She's that Queen's counterpart?! Duh! Makes perfect sense!"

"What do you mean, Miss Miruko?" Momo questioned. "Do you know this person?"

Miruko had a mortified look on her face. "What are they teaching you at school these days?!" Miruko growled out. "That's Nana Shimura, the Sky Hero: Nimbus! She was one of the most awesome and badass Heroines of her time and my own personal Heroine!"

"She was more than that," All Might suddenly spoke up, everyone looking in surprise to find a tear running down All Might's cheek. "She was my mentor and a mother figure to me. She, in fact, was the one who taught me my signature smile."

"SHUT YOUR TRAP!" Miruko practically zoomed up to All Might's face, fangirlish joy radiating from her face and, if one paid attention, her foot thumping like an actual rabbit. "NIMBUS WAS YOUR MENTOR?! HA! No wonder you were our Number 1 Pro and Symbol of Peace for so long with a hero like her!"

"Wow, so the Queen of Asgard, Thor's mother's counterpart was All Might's mentor and mother figure? That's so awesome!" Mina exclaimed.

Melissa blinked in surprise at all this, looking at the woman that was, by his own words, like a mother to her Uncle Might. 'But then, why did Uncle Might never talk about her?' Melissa asked herself.

Meanwhile, as all this occurred, Izuku's eyes widened at the sight of the 7th wielder of One For All, the bearer of the Quirk he stood to master one day: Float. She looked exactly like she did in his vision with all of the other Vestiges. Izuku would have honestly been in full-on fanboy mode like Miruko if he didn't already know about her.

As for Bakugou, he looked approvingly at the pleasantly muscular woman, seeing the strength she held from her confident face alone. 'So, this was All Might's mentor, huh?' Bakugou thought.

"You got that right, Rabbit Legs," Gran Torino chuckled. "Shimura taught everything this blond oaf knows and had me take over his training. She was a dear friend of mine."

"Was?" Vlad King said.

Endeavor perked up, recalling All Might's prior words about a mother figure and mentor that passed away. The Flame Hero looked to the former Symbol of Peace; All Might's eyes darkened in sorrow. "She was killed in action against a Villain," All Might muttered.

Eyes of pity and sadness were directed at the sorrowful Hero that was their Symbol of Peace, realizing how painful the loss must have been for the once powerful Pro to look so dejected. Eri had hopped off Aizawa's lap and onto her Grandpa Might to offer him comfort, which the former pro appreciated from his surrogate granddaughter.

Miruko's ears dropped, her often smiling or raging face now surprised and sad. "No one ever did know what happened to her," Miruko muttered, eyes roaming as she thought of Shimura's disappearance from the Hero circuit. "Many people thought she just quietly retired. Why wasn't it made public?"

All Might froze, the memory rushing back into his eyes.

"All Might...I'm counting on you."

"MASTER!"

"Thank you for such a wonderful comedy."

*BOOM! *

Snapping out of the painful memory, All Might shook his head. "Not right now," All Might managed out. "Let's just continue."

Seeing that they weren't getting any answers, everyone agreed, Miruko begrudgingly so, and sat back down to continue. Izuku, one of the only people here who knew the truth, looked up to All Might and Gran Torino and gave his most sincere and silent condolences, the two former Pros smiling sadly and nodding in thanks.

Noticing the rather somber turn of events, Ryukyu decided to let out a chuckle. "Sad news aside, I must say that this was a very surprising turn for you, Miruko," Ryukyu gazed teasingly at her friend. "I haven't seen you so excited and fangirlish like that, I almost mistook you for being related to Midoriya."

Chuckles and snickers erupted from the Heroes as Miruko blushed red from head to toe. "S-S-SHUT UP! So, what if I got a little excited over my favorite Hero?! Sue me!" She yelled out, trying her best to ignore the rise in laughter. Instead, Miruko, her gaze on Shimura's protege, noticed this interaction between the former Symbol and Midoriya, brows and rabbit ears perking up, suspicious.

"Please, don't make this worse," Frigga pleaded with Loki.

"Wait, why is her name Frigga instead of Freya like in the movie before?" Pony pointed out.

"Frigga. Freya. In some interpretations of Norse Myth, oftentimes, the two are one and the same, two names for the same goddess, one a name of the Asgard Queen and the other for the Vanir Goddess." F.R.I.D.A.Y. answered.

"Define 'worse'," Loki retorted.

'Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.' Monoma mentally tried to silence his villainous counterpart before he actually makes things worse.

"Enough!" Odin shouted, regaining the disgraced, adopted son of Odin. Odin himself sat upon the large golden throne of Asgard. "I will speak to the prisoner alone."

With but a final longing look, Frigga walked away and out of the throne room.

'No! Come ba-' All Might caught himself in his thoughts, shaking off the mournful longing that welled in him in seeing his mother in all but blood-hell, perhaps even in blood if you count passing on One For All. All Might, too, realize his hand slowly raised towards the screen as if trying to reach out toward Frigga. He stopped the subconscious act, clenching his bony hand tightly, forcefully bringing it back down to the armrest.

All Might felt a tap on his shins, looking to his left to see Gran Torino gazing at him, a look of understanding and mutual grief on his face. No words were needed between the two to know how they felt the same, wishing to see just another glimpse of the woman that meant so much to them. To themselves, they hoped they would see more of Frigga in the events of this video to come.

Loki watched Frigga leave before turning back toward Odin. He took a couple more exaggerated steps before slamming his chained heels together, dramatically, standing straight and pompously flippant.

All Might already groaned, putting his head in his hands, knowing full well his brother from another mother, and world and universe, was not going to make this easy.

Suddenly, Loki's faux serious face and pose broke into wheezing laughter. "I really don't see what all the fuss is about," Monoma's counterpart said.

"Really?" Ochaco raised an eyebrow at him. "You mean other than brainwashing my friend and Melissa's dad, killing Agent Hizashi and numerous people, stealing a cube of unlimited power, and using it to unleash an alien invasion of New York?" With each misdeed on Loki, Uraraka looked angrier and angrier at the God of Mischief.

The recollection of Hizashi's counterpart's death minutes after they found out that Shirakumo might be alive as Kurogiri and his counterpart likely being the Villains of this movie only made the three teachers more upset.

"Do you not truly feel the gravity of your crimes?" Odin asked. "Wherever you go, there is war, ruin, and death."

"I went down to Midgard to rule the people of Earth as a benevolent god," Loki responded, shaking his head at his adopted father, whom he sees not. "Just like you."

"Clearly someone doesn't know the meaning of benevolent," Ibara shook her head, frowning. "In a way, he's learned all the wrong lessons from his parents."

Bakugou perked up, gazing up at her, realizing she also meant her past self she revealed just minutes ago outside. Ibara caught his staring and turned to him. Bakugou gave the best comforting look he could and raised his hand for her to take. Ibara smiled and offered a discreet vine to wrap around his wrist. Bakugou almost chuckled at what now feels like some kind of tradition for them in these viewings.

"We are not gods," Odin shook his head back. "We are born, we live, we die. Just as humans do."

"I suppose this is a confirmation of your theory from the first Thor movie, Midoriya," Iida said. "When you suggested that the Asgardians are simply a race of extraterrestrials with preternaturally long lifespans and advanced technology."

"I guess so," Izuku nodded, pleased a theory of his turned out true. "Though, I don't we still found a justification for the magic like Thor's lightning and Loki's illusions."

"That I believe we might have to accept as actual magic until proven otherwise," Momo sighed.

Loki pursed his lips, nodding in slight agreement. "Give or take 5,000 years," Loki pointed out.

"All this because Loki desires a throne," Odin continued, his tone patronizing to the God of Mischief.

"Wow, I can't just feel the patronizing tone from here," Setsuna shuddered.

"Odin is responding to Loki's nonchalant attitude regarding his past actions by downplaying Loki's selfish desire to rule Asgard to simply being sitting on a throne," Aizawa revealed.

"It is my birthright," Loki declared, humor gone from his loud tone and mischief vanished from his eyes.

"Your birthright was to die!" Odin declared back. "As a child. Cast out onto a frozen rock." Loki's eyes blinked, hurt but steadfast to try not to let it show. "If I had not taken you in, you would not be here now to hate me."

Monoma flinched at his other-worldly father's words, recognizing their truth. While he felt his anger at one point justified for his true lineage hidden, his actions in response to that anger were inexcusable. He set up the very reason for his brother's banishment over jealousy and in return destroy his own original destiny to rule Jotenheim as king, he attempted to murder his brother to keep a throne he wasn't meant truly to have to satisfy his pride and prove his worth, and manipulated, controlled, and murdered to have the world his brother loves in petty vengeance. His counterpart betrayed those that took him in and saved his life for an entitlement he allowed himself to believe.

'Maybe I could learn a thing or two,' Monoma recognized the similar blind hatred and jealousy that led him to make members of his class see their sister class as antagonists that did them wrong by unfair circumstances more than rivals. He was more than willing to try and ruin the relationships of two of his classmates because of what class their crushes were in.

"If I am for the axe, then for mercy's sake, just swing it," Loki took a step forward, impatient and nervous.

This time, All Might flinched, antsy and desperate to jump into this world and save the life of his counterpart's brother. For all his faults, All Might could recognize the hurt and pain that led Loki into this, one his own counterpart failed to realize and address, one that their father failed to clarify and reveal the truth.

'He is in chains and not a threat to anyone anymore,' Toshinori argued in his mind. He wanted to argue to focus on this Thanos villain that may have held his brother under duress or even controlled him against his will but realized it would be stupid to try and explain something unknown or accurate to people that wouldn't be able to hear him.

"It's not that I don't love our little talks, it's just," Loki paused to find the right words. "I don't love them."

"Frigga is the only reason you're still alive, and you will never see her again," Odin answered. "You will spend the rest of your days in the dungeons."

Monoma flinched, imagining himself in the same situation-wasn't hard given the circumstances-seeing if Frigga was his mother. 'Spared from execution from my mother but cursed to never see her again in my likely thousands of years of imprisonment? Yep, that is sure to be a painful punishment.' Monoma admitted to himself, though was unable, or perhaps unwilling, to think of a more just punishment as befit the hundreds his counterpart killed.

Loki looked taken aback by the 'light' punishment. "And what of Thor?" Loki questioned. "You'll make that witless oaf king while I rot in chains."

"Hey! He may be a little witless but he's not an oaf!" Mina argued against the God of Mischief.

"Yeah! Even if he is a little hotheaded, he's still grown into a wiser, selfless, and Manly guy!" Kirishima joined his horn buddy in Thor's defense.

All Might felt both glad at the defense and yet a little embarrassed at the slight disses of his counterpart, which may or may not also apply to him.

"Thor must strive to undo the damage you have done," Odin replied. "He will bring order to the Nine Realms and then, yes, he will be king."

"Wait a minute," Izuku perked up at Odin's words. "I think we failed to miss something about the Bifrost's destruction in the last Thor movie."

"And that would be?" Asui asked.

"Odin seems to imply that the other Realms are under some kind of jurisdiction or protection under Asgard, except for Jotenheim and perhaps Svartalfheim as either conquered states or in a truce," Izuku began explaining. "But it seems that Asgard's only way to travel between the Realms is the use of the Bifrost."

"Which was destroyed by the end of the first Thor video," Jurota picked up on Izuku's train of thought. "And without Asgard able to go to the other realms, then threats to the lives and stability of those other Realms would flourish and grow rampant."

"Exactly," Izuku nodded. "It...It would be like if the one thing keeping criminals in the shadows was suddenly gone."

The rest of the group didn't need to think hard about what Midoriya tried to say without stating it outright. Hawks frowned, looking down at his feet. 'Crime has grown more rampant and the country's crime level has risen after All Might's retirement.' He thought. 'Without our Symbol of Peace, Villains are becoming bolder and more active. Threats that were once hidden in the shadows had festered and wormed their way through the cracks when All Might would patrol less often.'

The League and the Nomu came to mind, but so did Ending being released from prison and coming straight after Endeavor's family, The Apostle of the Stars warning against Endeavor's rise as Number 1, and even more serious threats such as Nine and Humarise, and the still growing, disastrous threats like Shigaraki taking over the new Paranormal Liberation Front.

'Because we lean so heavily on All Might for so long, not many of us Pros felt the need to pick up any slack, and look where that got us, a crazy cult of thousands now ready to strike in a few months,' Hawks thought dryly, looking toward Endeavor. 'Let's just hope we're ready to clean up our own shit...or that we survive long enough to even try.'

The scene shifted to people running for their lives, explosions, bolts of blue energy, and dirt shooting up around the verdant plains. A title card appeared and named the area: Vanaheim.

"Is this another of the Nine Realms?" Todoroki asked.

"Yes, the Realm of Vanaheim," Momo nodded. "It's often described as a realm full of forests, jungles, and plains. Home to a faction of gods, the Vanir gods, that were more in one with nature than the war-loving Aesir and often had conflicts with each other."

Ibara and Kinoko liked the sound of a more natural and verdant realm, though that only grew their worry of seeing it now in flames and chaos.

Asgardian soldiers and even Vanaheim warriors clashed against armored, demonic-looking men, some with curved horns. Riding on a horse and donned in silver and red armor, Lady Sif charged towards the enemy, twirling her sword in one hand and a short shield in the other.

"Yay! Lady Ryukyu is back!" Nejire cheered.

"Please Nejire, I'm by no means as much a Lady as my counterpart," Ryukyu tried to calm her protege.

"No way, you're just as awesome and a Lady as Sif, Ryukyu!" Uraraka jumped in with Nejire. "Both of you are so wise, strong, and elegant. I don't think I could be half as good now without your training and guidance."

"I have to agree, too, Miss Ryukyu," Asui croaked. "You are part of the Top 10 for a reason, and so hold yourself poise and elegant like a Lady."

Ryukyu was stunned by the sudden declarations of her interns, and coupled with Nejire's fervent nod, she felt touched. "I am honored to have such praise from you girls," Ryukyu smiled sincerely. "Thank you."

Lady Sif leaned back, her back against the saddle, evading the swipe of a sword. She slid gracefully off the horse and spun to meet the creature that slashed at her. She took a step back, evading another wild swipe. Sif raised her shield arm back and smacked the brute to the ground.

"See?! What did we tell you?!" Nejire gestured to the screen. "Badass!"

"Okay, I got it already," Ryukyu chuckled, sweatdropping. "No need to stroke my ego any further."

Volstagg smacked away an attack from another enemy with his war axe, turning in time to see another enemy attacker charging at him, weapon raised high, and blocked the strike with the pommel of his axe. Volstagg swung and let the attacker fly past him, landing on the first enemy he smacked away.

"Hey, Fatgum, your counterpart is here, too!" Kirishima pointed out, smirking. "You look so awesome!"

"Ha! Thanks, Red!" Fatgum patted his stomach. "I do look cool."

"It looks like your counterpart lost some weight," Tamaki muttered.

Fatgum's eyes blanked and stared back at the screen. Noticing that his oldest protégé was correct, he wailed. "WHAT A TRAVESTY!"

More of the unknown enemy rushed from the woods, one blue-headed one stopped, raised his rocket launcher, and fired. Explosions occurred everywhere under the heavy fire, with houses catching fire, dirt rising into the air from the impact, smoke, and flame everywhere.

"Those monsters have rocket launchers?" Kosei scratched at his head.

"I believe we already established that the gods and creatures of the Norse myth are not so much monsters and gods but aliens, ones with advanced technology, so yeah, it isn't hard to imagine some of them inventing and using rocket launchers," Jurota said.

Sif heard the sounds of a weapon cocking, turning to see one red-helmeted alien aim his weapon at her unguarded form.

"Ryukyu!" Ryukyu's interns, plus Miruko, exclaimed.

A brief glimpse of light was all the warning the alien got, looking up in time for the Bifrost to crash down upon him. Sif raised her shield over her head, blocking the sudden light and force of the Rainbow Bridge. As she steadied herself, Mjolnir shot out of the portal, smacking an enemy straight in its face.

Slowing to a stop in mid-air, Mjolnir practically hummed as it flew backward, back past Sif as the Bifrost ceased, and towards the hands of the Mighty Thor.

"The God of Thunder is back, baby!" Tetsutetsu exclaimed.

"Didn't Odin say they weren't gods?" Honenuki questioned.

"Okay, so the Guy of Thunder is back!" Tetsutetsu corrected but shook his head. "See that just doesn't roll off the tongue as well."

All Might chuckled, amused, but glad as well to see his godlier, in power if not in status, arriving to put an end to this warfare.

Enemy attackers rushed at him. Thor ran towards them, jumping onto their off-guard shoulders, raising Mjolnir high into the air before slamming onto the ground a blast wave of lightning sending all nearby foes flying and sparking.

Thor stood from his crouched position to look at Sif. "I've got this completely under control!" Sif exclaimed through the fighting, her blonde hair slightly disheveled.

"Is that why everything is on fire?" Thor quipped, smirking at his friend. And then a foe came up from behind him and tackled him into a bear hug.

"If you are going to burden us with your quips and one-liners, at least be spatially aware enough to not get attacked from behind." Aizawa groaned, disappointed.

All Might sweatdropped.

As more fighting ensued, Fandral hopped off his white steed, quickly slashing and smacking away foes with his rapier. Hogun kicked away another foe's weapon while he smacked others with his morning star. Fandral tanked a punch across the pace and kicked a foe behind away. He grabbed the wrist of the foe that punched him and leaned back to avoid the gunfire in the alien's hand, the bullets accidentally striking and killing the alien's comrade. Fandril quickly slashed the shooter and continued the fighting elsewhere.

"Ah, and now both of our counterparts are here, too, Edgeshot," Ectoplasm noted.

"Indeed, and your counterpart's skill with the morning star is excellent," Edgeshot nodded. "Though my counterpart could do with a better sense of his surroundings and humble his cockiness."

"Yeah, your counterpart taking lessons from me?" Hawks grinned teasingly.

"Which one? Pretty boy you, or your hunkier, badass one?" Miruko teased back, to Hawks' enjoyment and laughter.

Thor and Sif fought back-to-back against the enemy forces, slashing with her sword and smacking foes away with her shield and his hammer. Thor tossed Mjolnir at an off-screen target. Sif cut an enemy down, lifting her head to see another one aiming a harpoon launcher and fire. Sif raised her shield to her side, the spear lodged only halfway through her shield before it stopped its approach towards Thor's back.

Thor looked back to see the feat. "You're welcome," Sif said.

All Might nodded to Ryukyu as well, Ryukyu in turn nodding back.

A weapon bouncing off Thor's armor had the two resuming the fight, Mjolnir returned to Thor's hand. Thor swung the hammer, sweeping an attacker off his legs and sending him flying and landing hard on the ground.

A fierce roar stopped the fighting all around, Thor, Sif, and foe and friend looking around to see the cause. Thor felt the slight rumble of the ground, turning as the crowd of enemies parted to see a figure coming out of the smoke: a tall, large humanoid made entirely out of grey rocks, his shoulders and knees armored and a large metal mace in hand. An Asgardian came up to try and stab the creature, only for the rock monster to swing his mace and send the poor soul soaring.

"What the hell is that?!" Bondo cried out. "A golem?"

"That is an alien species known as a Kronan," F.R.I.D.A.Y. replied, pulling up information alongside the paused rocky creature. "They are essentially made entirely of rocks and have stronger than average strength and durability because of it. Though many are seen as males, it is still as of yet unknown whether females exist of their race."

The enemy troops cheered at their fighter while Sif blinked. "All yours," She said to the God of Thunder.

The Kronan stomped towards Thor while his allies chanted his name.

"Are they saying Warfrick or Warfrag?" Manga questioned, a question mark on his text bubble.

"I thought it was Wharfrag," Shoda replied.

"The fucks a wharf?" Kamakiri cursed.

Thor marched up to the Kronan in return. The rock alien slammed his mace onto the ground, kicking up dirt, and roaring in intimidation.

"Hello," Thor attempted to greet the Krogan.

The Krogan responded to his greeting with another roar.

"Isn't this the part where Thor should roar back?" Kaminari referenced.

"Nah, it was funny the first time. Too many times would ruin the joke." Kyoka shook her head.

"So why do you guys always gang up on me?" Kaminari complained.

"Because that shit never stops being funny, Sparkplug," Bakugou barked back. "And because you know we mostly laugh with you, not at you."

"Mostly," Kaminari muttered but agreed.

"I accept your surrender," Thor replied.

"Okay, that was good," Miruko admitted with a snicker.

The enemy aliens all burst out laughing, while the Krogan simply raised its mace, ready to strike. Thor smiled for a second before spinning his hammer around. Before the Krogan could strike, Thor swung Mjolnir upward and smashed the rock monsters into literal pieces.

The crowd of enemies grew silent. "Anyone else?" Thor asked. Quickly, the enemies dropped their weapons and fell to their knees in surrender.

"Well, that was easy," Rin blinked his eyes, still registering Thor turning that rock guy into literal pieces.

Kirishima and Tetsutetsu paled, imagining their hardened bodies on the receiving end of Thor's hammer. They didn't like what their vivid imaginations conjured up.

"Perhaps next time we should start with the big one?" Fandral suggested.

"Prison rules: to show your strength above everyone else your strength and get them to leave you alone, the newest prisoner finds the biggest one in the yard and beats them to an inch of their life," Tsukauchi detailed. "Seen it many times in the prison yard."

"Well, was the option to start with the big guy even possible?" Pixie Bob questioned. "I mean he seemed to only have come up out after things were going array for his fellow marauders."

"Hey, is it me, or does that Fandril guy look different from before?" Kosei asked, narrowing his eyes at the rapier-wielding Asgardian.

The others looked closer to see what Kosei was talking about, with some agreeing that the member of the Warriors 3 did look slightly different from how he normally looked.

Time passed as the Asgardian soldiers lead the captured foes away and the denizens of Vanaheim began work on rebuilding and picking up after the battle. Hogun walked by a couple of boys running past him.

"At least the civilians and children are safe," Kamui Woods nodded. "Hopefully, they may rebuild in time and without further chaos."

"Keep moving. Go ahead of me." A guard yelled at the chained-up foes, while the remainder of the Warriors Three and Lady Sif escorted them. "Don't you turn around!"

"Where do we go next?" Hogun asked Thor, the two off to the side.

"Hogun, the peace is nearly won across the Nine Realms," Thor responded. "You should stay here. Be with your people, where your heart is. Asgard can wait."

"Oh, so Vanaheim is Hogun's home?" Sato asked.

"I suppose so," Sero shrugged. "Nice that they could save his home from those space pirates or whatever they were."

Upon learning this, Ectoplasm was filled with a sense of worry for the people his counterpart was a part of. Worried questions of whether anyone particularly important to him was hurt along with a new sense of anger toward those barbarians that attacked his home.

Hogun smiled. "You have my thanks," Hogun nodded and raised his arm.

Thor accepted the arm with his own, clasped in friendship and comradery. "As you have mine," Thor nodded and smiled back.

Ectoplasm composed himself, the scene helping to remind him that his people were safe, and the conflict ended swiftly with but a hammer swing of his counterpart's companion. Ectoplasm looked up to the Toshinori, his colleague once as a Pro and now a fellow teacher, and gave a nod of thanks. Toshinori smiled and nodded back.

Hogun went back towards the village. Thor looked up towards the sky. "Heimdall, when you're ready," Thor said aloud.

Not a moment later, the Bifrost came down on top of him, engulfing him in a river of colors. The river slowed and eased into the solid Rainbow Bridge, the shot rising to see the magnificence of Asgard before the eyes of the group.

No matter the times they have already witnessed the city of the gods' beauty, the group was still in awe of the majestic city. Yaoyorozu failed to find any elegant structure she had visited in her memories that matched even a quarter of Asgard's beauty. Uraraka still gazed at the large golden palace, the well-built structures that showed class, well-defined integrity, and stable structure; Asgard truly looked like a heavenly paradise where the gods resided to the poor girl.

Hatsume almost drooled like a dog at seeing the technological masterpieces that Asgard held, from those floating ships and even structures to the design of the palace that resembled for her the pipes of an organ piano. Melissa and David were likewise in awe at seeing the golden city of the Aesir of myth come to life before their eyes, the intricate beauty and utopia that was their home of I-Island seemed to pale by comparison.

"So, how did they rebuild the Bifrost?" Shoda asked. "With the Tesseract?"

"Actually, yes," F.R.I.D.A.Y. answered. "Given its energy capabilities and its abilities over space, the Asgardians used the Tesseract to restore the Bifrost and its connection to the branches of Yggdrasil."

Overhead shots of Asgardians training were shown, their blades sparking with white light. Overseeing one group, Odin looked up and raised his arm for a raven to land on it. The raven cawed and Odin listened intently.

"Wait, is Odin understanding that raven?" Koda asked, intrigued at seeing another person able to speak with animals.

"In the myths, Odin was also called the Raven God as he used magical ravens to spy on all things happening in the Nine Realms," Izuku answered. "And he had two pet ravens, Huginn and Muninn that were his personal overseers of them all that relayed the information he received, from the ravens and other gods."

The raven flew from Odin's arm just as Thor walked out, leaning on the ledge to watch the Asgardians train. "Is Vanaheim secure?" Odin asked.

"As are Nornheim and Ria," Thor answered.

"Are those some of the other Nine Realms?" Uraraka asked.

"Um...no, not that I recall," Momo scratched her head at the names. "If I recall, Nornheim was a section of Asgard that was home to the Norns, the witches of fate and prophecy. But I don't believe it was a Realm of its own. And I do not know of this Ria Thor is speaking of."

"I think I should elaborate," F.R.I.D.A.Y. spoke up, showing off an image of what the group deduced as the World Tree, Yggdrasil, and the several realms along its branches, nine of which were large and a few that were small in comparison. "As Thor stated in Thor 1, the Nine Realms are part of the phenomenon known as the Yggdrasil, worlds that are easily connected by the Bifrost. Of the Nine Realms, there are Asgard and Midgard, or Earth, Jotenheim as the Realm of the Frost Giants, the fiery world of Muspelheim, Alfheim and Svartalfheim, the Realms of the Elves both Light and Dark, Niflheim, the Realm of ice, fog, and death, you have recently seen Vanaheim, the Realm of the sister-race of the Asgardians, the Vanir, and finally, Nidavellir, the Realm of the Dwarves."

"So, those are the Nine Realms, and I'm guessing that Helheim in this world is simply a part of Niflheim, and Svartalfheim and Nidavellir are separate realms," Izuku muttered as erased and rewrote the new information about the Nine Realms in the notebook he had it in. "And on the map, they must be those big planets, but what about those smaller ones? Are they perhaps Nornheim and Ria?"

"Correct," F.R.I.D.A.Y. replied. "While the Nine Realms are the most knowable, there are other, smaller planets that are connected by the Bifrost. These other worlds include Nornheim, which is as Yaoyorozu stated the home of the Norns, and Ria, the planet where the Kronans live."

"You mean that rock guy that Thor obliterated?" Kirishima remembered. "That was where the guy was from?"

"So, not only were the Nine Realms affected by Asgard's absence because of the Bifrost's destruction, but all these other smaller worlds as well," Iida deduced.

A knot of guilt twisted in All Might's insides. 'All these worlds, their people, were in danger because of me.' All Might thought guiltily, recalling how he destroyed the Rainbow Bridge.

"Hey, there better not be any guilty thoughts about this being your whole fault, Toshinori," Gran Torino snapped All Might from his mind. "Yes, you were the one who destroyed that Rainbow Bridge, but don't you forget it was to the service of saving that Frost Giant planet from Loki."

"He's right, Toshi," David jumped in. "From what Melissa and I watched, if you hadn't destroyed the Bridge then an entire planet would have been destroyed. You stopped Loki from committing literal omnicide. I believe it was never in your counterpart's intentions for this to be the consequence."

All Might took the words of the two closest men in his life to heart and gave them nods and smiles of gratitude.

"Though our work would have gone more quickly with you at the fore," Thor hinted.

"You must think I'm a piece of bread that needs to be buttered so heavily," Odin scoffed.

"That was not my intent," Thor smirked.

"For the first time since the Bifrost was destroyed, the Nine Realms are at peace," Odin informed. "They're well reminded of our strength, and you have earned their respect and my gratitude."

"Thank you, father." Thor accepted the thanks from his King.

"Nothing out of order except your confused and distracted heart," Odin revealed.

Thor looked to Odin, his expression of one caught red-handed, but attempted to shake his head. "This isn't about Inko Foster, Father," Thor lied.

All Might and Izuku quickly realized what Odin was referring to. Thor missed Inko Foster, and now, the Bifrost was rebuilt and now able to take Thor to Inko Foster on Earth. However, it seems that both the conflicts across the realms and perhaps even Thor's own father were keeping the God of Thunder from reuniting with the woman he loves.

"Human lives are fleeting, they're nothing," Odin bluntly replied. "You'd be better served by what lies in front of you." Odin gestured out to the field. Thor followed his father's direction to find Sif easily knocking down her sparring partner with her glaive. Sif looked up to gaze at her friend and prince with subtle longing.

"Oooh, I sense a love triangle!" Mina squealed.

"I swear I'm one ear-piercing squeal away from taping her mouth shut," Kyoka growled, her eye twitching with annoyance.

"You do know she can just melt out of any tape you would have me make for you, right?" Momo advised. Kyoka could only sigh, reluctantly agreeing with her.

"Oh, I didn't know your counterpart had feelings for All Might, Ryukyu?" Nejire tilted her head.

"With respect, my counterpart is the only one that perhaps harbors those kinds of feelings," Ryukyu waved off both her protege and All Might. "No offense, Yagi."

"None was taken, Ryukyu," All Might waved off her concern in return. "Just as the actions of our counterpart aren't our own, attraction is also not the same."

"You say that, and yet both Vine Hair and Explosivo seem to be a thing, same with the other Green Heads," Miruko pointed out, the said mentioned individuals blushing. "What, trying to hide that you share the hots for a certain green-haired mother?"

Miruko tease brought up a rising blush in All Might and Izuku at the mention of All Might's secret relationship with Izuku's mother, the latter still not fully used to the knowledge after only finding out about it a couple of days ago.

"P-Please, it's nothing like that!" All Might tried denying, waving his hands around like he was channeling Iida.

While All Might fought against the teases of Miruko, Izuku was unfortunately subjected to the teases of the girls.

"Hmm, is that true, Midori?" Toru inched closer to Izuku; the green-haired teen was almost certain there was a teasing smile on her invisible face. "Has Todoroki been right this whole time by calling your idol your Dad Might?"

"I-I-I don't know anything about any sort of r-r-relationship between my mother and All Might!" Izuku stuttered out in his defense. Not a complete lie, he only found out about this secret relationship two days and knew almost nothing about any dates or progress in their love life, though he wasn't exactly going to reveal that now.

"Hmmm, think he doth protest too much?" Mina, and Setsuna, joined Toru in inching their teasing faces closer to Izuku's blushing one.

"I thinketh he does, Madame Mina," Setsuna joined in, sounding as pompously noble as she could. "Why else would Little Eri refer to All Might as her Grandpa Might?"

"Okay, that's quite enough, ladies," Momo warned before pulling Setsuna's head away, whilst Kyoka jabbed her jacks into her classmates' ears and shocked them lightly. "I believe it's time we continue with this video and not waste our time torturing Midoriya with gossip and speculation."

Izuku sighed in relief, sending smiles to both Momo and Kyoka as they led the three away, finding the motherly and helpful side of the two a blessing against the teasing of Mina and Toru, and now Setsuna. Whilst a part of Izuku liked the attention the three gave him, it can often be a bit much for his inexperienced social side. The two girls blushed in response but smiled back, happy to reign in their mischievous classmates from their shared crush.

"I'm telling you this, not as the AllFather, but as your father," Odin said, patting his conflicted son's shoulder, walking further up to gain a different view of the training. "You are ready. The time has come for you to take the throne."

"Wait, now he thinks Thor is ready to become King?" Sen questioned.

"Thor has changed from his warmongering ways.," Edgeshot pointed out. "He has been humbled, learned the value of the lives of others, and in a time of peace and security that Odin claims have been reached, a change of fresh leadership would be the perfect opportunity than the chaos of war."

'I only wish that our change of leadership would have been at such a time.' Endeavor thought, unpleased with having to take the mantle of the Number 1 Hero when the crime rate was rising because of their Symbol's retirement.

"Embrace and celebrate what you've won. Join your warriors. Eat and drink, revel in their celebration," Odin suggested. "At least pretend to enjoy yourself."

All Might frowned at how familiar those words were. Nighteye had warned him against continuing Hero work after his battle and injury against All For One the first time, his old sidekick had wanted for him to slow down, even retire after his victory against the tyrant, but he didn't listen. Instead of reveling in his nemesis's defeat and resting his wounds, he continued going out, stopping crime as usual and continuing his time as the Symbol. All the while he distanced his old sidekick and ignored the prophecy of his death, and whittled his time limit in his buffed state day after day till he was reduced to this.

Later, Thor washed his hands of blood and grime, the screen panning up over his wet, chiseled body that glowed in the sunset.

"Oof. Seeing this reminds me so much of your earlier days, Toshinori." Midnight shivered, fanning her blushing face at the memory of All Might's younger form.

Toshinori chuckled. "Agreed. The good old days," He reminisced of those days, younger, faster, far more handsome than the walking skeleton he became.

"I sure hope I'm part of those good old days?" David smiled at his lifelong friend.

All Might nodded, clasping his hand on David's outstretched one. "The best of days."

"Awww, bromance!" Toru squealed.

"Okay, that's it," Kyoka huffed, taking the roll of tape from Momo's hand and stalking toward Hagakure. "Mina can burn away any tape on her, but not you."

It took a minute or two to halt Kyoka's chase of Hagakure, the invisible girl, and Mina and Setsuna likewise, promising to mitigate their squealing.

As he wiped the water from his body, Thor walked up towards the nearby balcony, gazing at the stars, longing clear in his eyes.

All Might's high spirits about the days of old quickly dimmed to a sad understanding. He knew from Thor's longing gaze landed, even if he couldn't see her. There would be no merriment or reveling for the God of Thunder.

The time was now night, the denizens of Asgard walking and conversing while snow fell gingerly around them. Thor sat in a tavern, the music and merriment numb to his ears, gazing up at the various couples all around, enjoying food and company with each other.

Looks of sympathy and sadness were directed from the group to the Asgardian. It brought a tear or two to the eyes of some of the girls, including Momo as she found this something out of her romantic novels, of two distant, star-crossed lovers lost in the memories of each other when they couldn't do so physically.

Volstagg downed a flash of ale, a young girl with his eyes on his lap. "Another!" Volstagg cried out with laughter from all around and the young girl giggled and clapped for her father.

"Woah, Fat! Look, you got a kid?!" Kirishima pointed out excitingly.

"Not just one," Tamaki pointed at the other kids and the woman that sat around the large Asgardian. "It seems your counterpart has his own family."

Fatgum was surprised, but quickly smiled softly as he stared at the giggling smile of his counterpart's daughter, who might as well be his own. Toyomitsu never thought much about raising a family of his own. Hero Work and stuffing his body with food for his Quirk took up most of his time, added now with training Amajiki and now Red Riot. Plus, he couldn't lie and not admit that there is a small aspect of insecurity about ladies finding him at all appealing. Sure, he was proud of his physique and how useful and powerful it was for his work as a Hero, but work with the ladies was something completely different and something he was inexperienced on.

Seeing a version of himself, laughing, drinking, and eating with a family of his own brought more than just bring a smile to Fatgum's face, it also had him start to reconsider his previous stance on his love life. It couldn't hurt to give it more of a try.

Fandral laughed at his friend, his arms around two beautiful women.

"Huh, looks like your counterpart is a bit of the ladies' man himself," Hawks grinned at Edgeshot. "Are you sure we didn't trade counterpart or something?"

"After seeing how serious and responsible your own counterpart was compared to yourself, I would have to actually agree with you," Edgeshot snarked back.

But while his friends laughed and reveled, Thor's smile lacked and fell, putting down the flash of ale and rising from his seat. Thor nodded his silent farewell to Volstagg and Fandral, the former nodding back and the latter patting his back as he left.

Izuku frowned, seeing the man who looked like his idol in this state, joyless, empty, alone. It hit far too close to home for Midoriya and his own experience in his love life. Before his mind could wander further into that dreaded day, he shifted his thoughts back to All Might, but this time his mother, too, pondering if this loneliness was what the two of them felt before they met each other.

His mother was a single parent, working hard to provide for him, and no husband to help or give support save a monthly child support check. It left his mother with little free time of her own to do and Izuku spending those days either locked wallowing in his room or out getting chased by bullies left him not around to spend those times together. And with All Might, Izuku, despite being the man's biggest fan for years, failed to consider how lonely All Might's life was, too. Not much was known about All Might's identity, much less his family life, and despite being a coveted Symbol and handsome man no love life to speak either. Izuku realized that behind the guise of a Hero, it must have been a lonely life his idol led.

So, now, recalling that picture of All Might and his mother smiling, happy, truly happy, Izuku gained a better understanding of the good this relationship of theirs was to the both of them. They deserved to be happy together.

'But then what about yourself?' Izuku asked himself, gazing toward the girls he now knows harbor feelings toward him. Realizing his feelings toward them might be met in full, the 9th bearer of One For All pondered if he could really open his heart like that, again.

"There was a time when you would celebrate for weeks," Sif commented as Thor walked up.

"I remember you celebrated the Battle of Harokin, so much that you nearly started the second," Thor reminisced.

"Well, the first was so much fun," Sif smiled cheekily.

"Huh, so your counterpart has a bit of a rowdy side," Miruko smiled at an embarrassed Ryukyu.

"If you don't cease your teasing, I swear I will toss you from my Dragoon form to Tokyo," Ryukyu threatened. Though given how Miruko just laughed at the threat, Ryukyu knew not it was not one she was going to take seriously. And even if so, more amused than wary.

Thor smiled back but once more looked away with sadness. Sif's smile grew saddened over the mood of her friend, and perhaps something more to her. "Take a drink with me." She insisted. "Surely, the AllFather could have no further task for you tonight."

"No, this is one I set myself," Thor replied.

"It does not go unnoticed that you disappear each night," Sif commented. "There are Nine Realms. The future King of Asgard must focus on more than one."

Thor's eyes became contemplative, though smirked guiltily at Sif's true words. Thor clicked his tongue at the words to say. "I thank you for your sword and your good council, good Lady Sif," Thor chose and took his leave. Sif watched him go with a sad frown.

Gran Torino sighed. 'Like looking in a mirror.' He thought bitterly. Not only was this self-imposed loneliness and lack of merriment too similar to Toshinori is his earlier youth, but likewise to Shimura and how she isolated herself from her family, giving away her son, to keep him safe, the fat lot of good that did anyways. At least, Toshinori was finally finding happiness with his successor's mother, now the only worry left is if the successor, himself, hasn't followed in his mentor's footsteps on this, too.

The scene changed to a cloudy day in London.

Inside a fancy restaurant, Inko Foster peeked up from her menu to spy a look at her current date.

"Yay, Grandma Inko is back!" Eri cheered.

Forgetting all pretense of hiding his hidden relationship with her, Toshinori smiled at seeing Inko's beautiful visage again by her counterpart.

The man spotted her peeking, Inko ducking back into her menu to the man's amusement. He looked back down at his menu to see her fingers peek from below his menu, sliding over a napkin with the word 'Hi' written on it.

And then that smile turned into a jealous frown upon realizing that she was on a date, with another man.

"Uh oh," Mineta pulled at the collar of his shirt. "Awkward."

Izuku has gotten over his mother and father divorcing, practically, he has recently accepted and is getting used to his mother dating his childhood hero and idol, despite that notion said in those words making it sound weirder, but now, seeing a version of her on a date with another man brought back those feelings of protectiveness and discomfort all over again.

"Hi," The man replied, the two putting down their menus to converse.

"Hi." Inko smiled, nervously.

"Well, strap in, folks. This is gonna be one awkward ride," Setsuna muttered, bringing up a bowl of popcorn, ready to watch the show unfold.

"So, what's the story with you?" The man asked.

"Why does there have to be a story? There's no story." Inko replied, somewhat defensively.

"You spent the first ten minutes of our date hiding behind a menu that has three choices on it," The date pointed out. "It's either chicken, vegetarian or fish, Inko. I think there's a story and I'm thinking the story involves a guy."

"Well, he appears quite inquisitive," Momo commented, her eyebrow raised.

"You mean he's being a little pushy and judgey?" Mina translated. "I agree."

"Pfft, women am I right?" Mineta bumped his elbow at Kaminari. "Can't hear their own hypocrisy."

"Y-Yeah, I guess." Kaminari chuckled, uncertain.

"You guess?" Mineta raised an eyebrow at him. "Dude, you always agreed with me on this, why the caginess now?"

"It's-um...i-it's nothing." Kaminari waved off, nervous sweat down his brow he wiped. "Forget it, you're right. Chicks are complicated."

Mineta was unsatisfied, narrowing his eyes suspiciously at one of his closest friends but chose to accept the answer and keep an eye on him.

"It's complicated," Inko admitted.

"Is he still around?" The man asked.

"No, he...went away." Inko chose her words carefully.

Cue the All Might flinching in guilt.

"I've been there," The man nodded, understandingly. "The going away. It's hard, isn't it?" Inko nodded. "I was seeing a woman and she took a job in New York. Eventually, the distance killed it." Inko gave a subtle flinch at the mention of New York but listed on.

"She's flinching about New York because Thor was there, right?" Awase said.

"Bingo," Sen nodded.

"And the fact that she kept sleeping with other dudes," He revealed further.

"No!" Inko gasped.

"Oh, so many," The man nodded.

In almost perfect unison, most of the guys in the group patted their chests and raised their fists toward the man that was cheated on, an air of comradery around them for their fellow man. The girls looked at their male counterparts bemused or rolling their eyes. Among the guys, one of them who refused to participate in the action was a grumpy All Might.

"Oh, come on, Might. You can't leave a brother hanging just because he's dating your-" Mic did not finish his sentence when a sharp glare from All Might's almost glowing blue eyes narrowed at him. "Never mind."

A woman walked up to them. "Hi. Could we get some wine, please?" The man asked, assuming she was their waitress.

"Sure, I'd love some." The screen paned over to see that the woman was instead Pony's counterpart, Darcy.

"Hey, it's other me!" Pony exclaimed.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot that Pony, or Darcy, or whatever interns under Midoriya's mom," Rin nodded as he remembered.

"I just remember when she was staring 'do-me' eyes at Thor the whole time," Setsuna chuckled.

"You guys, Stop!" Pony shouted, waving her arms while her face blushed red.

"Richard, this is Darcy," Inko gave a tired introduction of her friend, while said friend gave a silent thumbs up to her. "What are you doing here?"

Darcy pulled up a chair, the resulting sounds of a dragged chair very loud and awkward. "Oh, hello." The man awkwardly flinched.

Kyoka groaned, covering her ears at the sounds.

"So, I show up to work at your lab/your mom's house," Darcy began, grabbing Inko's knife and bread, began buttering it up, and ignored Inko's suffering and Richard's awkward chuckling with every embarrassing detail. "Fully expecting you to be moping around in your pajamas, eating ice cream, and obsessing about You-Know-Who?" She cleared her throat in emphasis.

"Ah," Richard realized.

"Oh, no, no, no! Pony!" Ibara pinched the bridge between her eyes. "Are you interrupting their date with your presence with malicious intent?"

"She means are you intentionally sabotaging their date by third wheeling." Yui clarified.

"No, No! I-I-I D-D-Didn't mean...uh..." Pony panicked and tried explaining her counterpart's actions.

"It is fine, Tsunotori," Todoroki suddenly spoke up, his cold gaze softening towards the equine-featured girl. "I am sure that your counterpart didn't mean any ill actions with her arrival. Both she and you do not strike me as the vindictive type. And she was fairly surprised by Inko's date and gave her congratulations."

Pony blushed a mad red at Todoroki's defense of her. "T-Thank y-you, T-Todoroki." She nervously squeaked out.

Todoroki blinked in surprise, a slight skip of his heart occurring at her thanks. "I-It's no problem." He replied, turning away, doing his best to hide a confused and conflicted expression and thoughts. 'That was...odd. That was rather similar to how I felt with Camie. But why with Tsunotori, too?'

"Well, Todoroki is right about the whole surprise about her date point," Setsuna jumped in, struggling to bring down her rising grin at the interaction. "Darcy and Pony are both a little naive and understanding of boundaries, so perhaps this is a work stuff thing and she failed to read the room."

"Setsuna!" Pony whined at her friend, blushing further.

"But you're not." Darcy continued, her tone cheerful and muffled by buttered bread in her mouth. "You're wearing lady clothes. You even showered, didn't you? You smell good."

"Okay, getting creepy," Itsuka her hand crossing over her neck to gesture to the onscreen version of Pony to 'Cut it out'.

"Is there a point to all this?" Inko smiled dangerously at her friend. "Because there really needs to be a point to all this."

All Might shivered both in fright and in admitted arousal at Inko's familiar threatening tone that could make even himself in his prime take a step back in fear.

"Right," Darcy said, Richard smiled at his date. "You know all that scientific equipment you don't look at anymore?" Inko blinked in surprise. "You might want to start looking at it again." Darcy pulled out a device that was beeping. "This is the reason we came all the way out here."

The device beeped rapidly as Darcy gave it to her. "It's malfunctioning." Inko shook her head, staring at it with confusion.

"That's what I said," Darcy said, while Inko banged the device on the table trying to fix it. "That's what I did. I thought you would do something a little more scientific."

"What a blow to one's pride to have their mental faculties so similar to their more naive assistant," Reiko muttered.

"Huh?" Pony tilted her head, confused. After Itsuka whispered/clarified in Pony's ear, Pony blushed and whined again. "Reiko! You're so mean!"

"I'm sure it's nothing." Inko nervously denied it, Richard graciously agreeing with her.

"It doesn't look like nothing," Darcy responded. "It kind of looks like the readings that David was rambling about." Darcy turned to Inko's confused date. "Our friend David. Kind of went banana balls."

Melissa and David blinked in surprise, bemused by what Darcy meant when they said that David Shield's counterpart went 'banana balls'.

"He's not interested. I'm not interested," Inko replied, ignoring Richard saying that he was interested. "It's time for you to go now." Inko smiled at her date.

Darcy finally took the hint and puckered her lips. "Okay," Darcy said, getting back up. But not before dragging the chair back loudly.

"What was that about not being the vindictive type?" Mina teased. Pony buried her embarrassed face in her hands. Mina turned to Izuku, who gave her a soft yet pleading look, nodding toward a slightly more infuriated Todoroki.

Mina got the hint and sighed, before nodding and zipping her lips, and throwing away the key. Izuku smiled and caught the metaphorical key, the two chuckled and giggled. Then they realized just what they were doing and blushed, looking away and returning to the screen. While Mina inwardly squealed, Izuku gave another silent chuckle, unable to fight the amazed smile and sigh in his throat, now fully realizing the fun and lowered inhibitions Mina seemed to bring to his life.

'It feels...good,' Izuku blushed, realizing he wanted more of this with her and him. 'Really good.'

"Short but sweet," Richard commented.

"She needs help," Inko replied.

"Everybody is so mean to me." Pony bemoaned.

"There, there, you know it's all in good fun." Itsuka patted her friend on the back.

The two went back to staring at their menus. "I think I'm going to have the sea bass," Richard decided.

"Sea bass, yeah. Sea bass is good," Inko said, distractingly. "Sea bass, sea bass, sea bass, sea bass, sea bass, sea bass. Sea bass..."

"Your mom sure loves sea bass, Midobro?" Kirishima teased.

"Is she always liked this?" Ojiro asked the embarrassed son of Foster's counterpart.

"When Mom sets her mind on something, it's almost impossible to get her to stop," Izuku nodded.

"Now we know where you get it from," Asui commented, to Class 1-A's explosion of laughter and Midoriya's further embarrassment.

"Is the kid accurate?" Gran Torino whispered to Toshinori.

Yagi nodded, a comical sweatdrop over his head. "Had to go on my hands and knees and admit the boy's my intended successor before she let him stay at U.A." All Might admitted.

"Heh, finally, a woman as stubborn as you are." Gran Torino chuckled while Toshinori groan. Gran Torino's smirk turned sad. "Reminds me a Shimura, I suppose."

All Might previous embarrassed slump was replaced with a sad one as well. "Yeah," He admitted.

"Is that why you were so interested in her?" Gran Torino asked further.

"I would be lying if I said her resemblance wasn't a reason. I wanted to know her better," All Might admitted before his gaze became serious. "But as I did, the first reason became less and less why."

Gran Torino snickered. "Good. I'd hate to imagine you with some mommy complex."

Yagi groaned. "Don't make it weird."

Richard looked up at her, sighing. "Inko?" Richard got her attention. "Maybe you should stop saying 'sea bass' and go after your friend."

"This was so fun," Inko instantly put down the menu and assured the man.

Richard waved away her concern. "You know I'll just stay here and say 'sea bass' alone." Inko gave him one more apologetic smile.

"And date fail," Hagakure declared.

All Might would refuse any and all mentions of him having a petty smile on his face. He truly held no ill will toward the man himself, at least that's what he told himself.

Inko marched out of the restaurant and towards the red car where her friend sat eating the last of the buttered bread. "And I hate you," Inko declared.

"What? I said he was cute," Darcy defended herself.

"Just shut up and drive," Inko replied, and Darcy did just that.

"Aye, aye, boss!" Pony saluted with a winking eye and her tongue poking out.

Todoroki could only think one thing as he saw this: 'Cute.'

As they drove across London, a sudden voice spoke up in the back. "You need to take the next left."

Inko gasped, startled, looking back to see a young man with brown hair in the backseat, looking at a device.

"What the-how did we not notice him?" Mina exclaimed, pointing at the guy.

"Well, the screen kept him out of frame," Asui answered. "The real question is how didn't Miss Foster notice him?"

"Welcome to my world," Ojiro muttered.

"Who's he?" Inko asked, confused.

"He's my intern," Darcy answered.

"You have an intern?" Inko asked, incredulous.

"Oh, yeah," Darcy nodded.

"Wait, can she do that?" Mount Lady raised an eyebrow. "Can an intern really hire another intern to be their intern?"

"You are a Pro Heroine who has already hired an intern herself, how do you not know the rules of internships?" Kamui Woods stressed at her, the reprimanding tone he used making Takeyama turn away in a huff.

Meanwhile, said intern of Mount Lady paled as he remembered all the chore work that the size-changing Heroine made him do. 'I wasn't an intern; I was her servant.' Mineta trembled in his seat. 'And not even in the fun way?'

"Hello, Dr. Foster. Ian Boothby," Ian introduced himself, showing more of his British accent. "It's such a great honor to be working with you."

"MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART DETECTED! IAN BOOTHBY! MULTIVERSAL COUNTERPART: KOSEI TSUBURABA!"

"Hey! Nice!" Kosei smiled and gave a thumbs-up. "I'm finally here, too...as...Pony's...intern..." As he quickly realized his situation, his thumbs-up deflated, along with the excitement in his smile.

"Tsuburaba! Fetch me a soda!" Pony exclaimed, smugly.

"*Sniff* You see that girl? I raised her," Setsuna sniffled, tears of joy and pride going down her face.

"Why doesn't this world make sense?" Ibara grumbled, comically depressed.

"Right. I have to call David." Inko took out her phone.

Ian looked back down to the device in his hand, seeing the GPS on the screen. "Oh, take a right."

Darcy complied and made a quick right that almost had her crash into a car.

"Pony!" Ibara shrieked.

"Tsunotori! That level of speed is unsuitable for how you're driving in the middle of a city where you could have an accident so easily!" Iida scolded the horned girl. Pony made a face that looked almost like a sad puppy. Iida flinched and felt immediately guilty. "J-Just don't do it again!"

"And a left," Ian directed again.

Darcy made another sharp turn into a thin driveway. "I have totally mastered driving in London," Darcy complimented herself.

"Well, to be fair it is different how to drive in America than it is pretty much everywhere." David sweatdropped. "Different lanes, a different side where the steering wheel is."

"Wait, you guys in America drive on the left side of the car?" Mount Lady paled. "How does that make sense?"

"Given how horrible of a driver you are already, should you be one to talk?" Kamui dissed her, remembering through a conjured thought bubble how his car was wrecked after Takeyama took it for a test drive.

"Hi, David. It's me again. Where are you?" Inko called on the phone. "I came here because you said you were onto something, and then you vanish."

Suddenly the scene changed to a newscaster on the scene of Stonehenge. "I'm here at Stonehenge for what has been an interesting unfolding of events today," The newsman reported.

And then the next scene was quite the horrible one for all present eyes watching: David Selvig right next to the rocks of Stonehenge, trying to lift and direct a device of sorts into the air...and wearing absolutely nothing.

"AAAAAHHHHH!" Melisa screamed quickly covering her eyes at the trauma-inducing scene of her father buck-ass nude.

Izuku and Mirio were right with her, covering Eri and Kouta's eyes to their struggle and requesting to know what was going on.

The gym/makeshift movie theater was filled with howling laughter from all sides. Students like Bakugou, Mina, Hagakure, and Kaminari were falling off their seats in laughter, poor sensitive souls tried to save their eyes from such a scene, like Ibara, Koda, Pony, and Kinoko. Others were staring with a mix of confusion and disgust, those being Endeavor, Aizawa, Mandalay, and Edgeshot, on what the hell was going on.

Toshinori, for one, has seen a lot of things that his friend, David Shield, has done that were full of fondness and laughter at the poor man's expense; the most memorable of which was David scoring the number of his future wife while flat-out drunk. This scene, however, was taking the cake as the former Symbol of Peace was bawling in laughter, both at the naked Dave on screen and the one standing behind him.

Speaking of whom, Dave barely registered the pats of condolences for such an embarrassing display, sitting slump and pale as a ghost, with many choosing to believe they saw David's own soul try to escape from his mouth.

"The police were called to the scene shortly after 11 A.M. this morning after a seemingly harmless rambler approached the area then, decided to strip naked and effectively terrorize tourists with scientific equipment whilst shouting that he was trying to save them." The reporter informed while the naked David Selvig ran away from police while his unmentionables were, thankfully, censored. David was then escorted by police to a police car whilst trying their best to cover him from the eyes of the public.

Melissa had the extreme desire to wash her brain with bleach if it could erase the horrifying nightmare that was this scene.

Meanwhile, David was so embarrassed, his desire for bleach was to blind his eyes and burn his eyes to shut himself from this world of embarrassment.

"The man, later identified as noted astrophysicist, Dr. David Selvig, has been called in for questioning by police." The news showed David being shoved into the police car.

"Well, I guess this explains why Mr. Shield isn't calling her back," Uraraka patted Melissa's slumped backside.

The scene transitioned back to Inko, Darcy, and Ian exiting the parked car by a couple of shipping crates. "Come on, this is exciting," Darcy called out. "Look the intern is excited."

"Ian," The intern reminded her of his name.

"Pony, did you seriously forget my counterpart's name?" Kosei asked, a depressing aura clouding over his head.

"I-I'm sure she is joking, hehe," Pony weakly defended herself, unsure if what she said was true or not.

"Do you want the phase meter?" Darcy asked, ignoring Ian.

"No," Inko said.

"Bring the phase meter," Darcy said, regardless, to Ian, tossing him the car keys. "The toaster-looking thing."

"Yeah. I know what the phase meter is," Ian muttered under his breath, while Inko chased after Darcy.

Inko walked the eerily windy area, noticing the very obvious strange signs of a flipped-over cement truck and a few shipping crates standing right-side up.

"Okay, that is definitely not normal," Kaminari scratched his head. "Unless a guy who was handling a crane with those crates just wanted to be funny."

"And the flipped cement truck?" Sero raised an eyebrow. "What, high winds that knocked over a heavy ass truck full of cement but not unstably stacked shipping crates?"

Sero's sarcasm did bring up an excellent point. Nezu looked at the flipped-over cement truck and found there was no sign of damage on it that would lead to the conclusion that it was knocked over by another large machine or vehicle. And the placement of the shipping crates in such a formation that reminded the rodent principal of those dagger-like flagships of the Dark Elves made the situation all the more concerning.

Inko's phone rang, playing a hip-hop song as a ringtone. "How do I change the ringtone on this thing?" Inko asked, answering the call.

"An astrophysicist with three degrees should be able to change her own ringtone," Darcy's voice sounded from the phone, Inko turned around, finding Darcy walking towards her with Ian the intern carrying the toaster-looking phase meter.

"Why are you calling me?" Inko asked.

"I didn't want to shout. The intern says it's this way." Darcy gestured to her side as she walked in that direction.

"Ian. My name is Ian." The intern tried reminding her again.

"Shh," Darcy hushed him.

"Honestly, I feel like half the reason Darcy got her own intern was to act like Foster is to her to him," Kyoka stated bluntly, leading to Kosei's depression cloud to darken and Pony's embarrassment to grow.

The three began walking around the seemingly abandoned area. After walking into an abandoned building, a couple of pigeons spooked the three, looking to see a couple of shadows move across the blue tarp behind them.

"I am not getting stabbed in the name of science," Darcy warned, cautious. "It's okay, we're Americans!"

"Is that supposed to make them like us?" Inko questioned.

"Hey!" Pony yelled, slightly offended before deflating. "Oh, it's true."

"They'll make it go away," A girl's voice was heard before a boy shushed her. Finally, a trio of kids walked out of their hiding places.

"Oh, it's just a bunch of little kids," Nejire tilted her head, smiling at how adorable the girl looked in her pink jacket.

"But what are kids doing in this place?" Iida questioned, concerned. "This place seems abandoned and highly unsafe."

"Either they are just a bunch of kids that hang out here all the time, or they are a pair of street orphans," Amajiki replied.

"Let's hope that it's the former," Mirio decided to take the more positive route.

"Oh, they're kids," Inko sighed, relieved.

"Are you the police?" The girl among the three asked.

"No, we're scientists. Well, I am," Inko clarified.

"Thanks," Darcy said, dryly.

"Well, she's kind of right, Pony," Setsuna said.

"Yeah, yeah, I know I'm stupid," Pony pouted.

"I wouldn't say stupid, Pony. More like eccentric," Itsuka clarified. Pony perked up at the seemingly more positive title and smiled.

"She does know that means slightly crazy, right?" Kosei whispered.

"If you don't want all of her counterpart's rudeness toward your own to be justified, I'd recommend keeping that to yourself," Honenuki advised.

"We just found it," One of the boys, the one with mocha skin, said.

"Can you show us?" Inko asked of them.

The three looked at each other before leading the way. Heading into a large room with an open skylight, the third boy walked ahead of the others towards a cement truck in the middle of the room. The dark-skinned boy walked up to the cement truck, looking at it warily, before placing his palm under the nose of the truck...and then lifting it.

"Huh?!" Was the general response from the audience.

Or rather instead of lifting it, the truck floated out of the kid's hand and started floating and swirling in the air gravity stopped working on it. Inko gasped at the unbelievable sight.

"Oh...wow," Mina stared at the floating truck in surprise and awe. "I-It's almost like your Quirk, Uraraka."

Uraraka slowly nodded her head, still gazing surprised at the floating truck.

"You think that that boy has a similar power to Uraraka?" Toru asked.

"No, this is something else," Momo said, her inquisitive mind going overdrive in figuring this phenomenon out. "One of the kids said that they found it, referring to it as something not of themselves. What this looks like appears to be some kind of distortion in the gravitational field that is causing the truck to be lifted as if it were weightless."

"That doesn't seem right," Darcy just said through her shock.

The kids continued to lead the trio of science experts up a flight of stairs. When they stopped, the three looked up to see the mocha-skinned boy drop a bottle of liquor. All six watch the bottle falls down the middle before suddenly, in front of the audience's eyes, the bottle disappeared.

"Did that bottle just vanish?" Kaminari gaped, brain already sparking at the science behind all of this.

"It went through a portal," Izuku realized. "The way it vanished, and the air rippled around when it did, looked like it fell into some kind of invisible pool. And because we haven't heard a crash yet, it means it's no longer in that space but somewhere else."

"Where did it go?" Inko questioned.

The girl pointed up and so the three did, watching as the bottle somehow appeared out of thin air and began falling again, only to vanish back where it first disappeared, like falling into an invisible lake. This process repeated again and again until the other boy reached out and grabbed the bottle, smiling at the crazy occurrence.

"Amazing," Melissa gaped wide. "Gravitational anomalies, wormholes, something truly amazing is occurring."

"That's incredible!" Inko exclaimed, excited and fascinated. Inko looked around and found an empty beer bottle. Testing it herself, Inko let the beer can drop and so too did the can vanish, but after a few seconds, the can refuse to appear like the bottle.

"What happened?" Inko asked, confused.

"Sometimes they come back. Sometimes they don't," The girl answered.

"This is fascinating," David muttered, eyes dancing with probabilities and equations forming in his head. "Items appearing and reappearing at first, then simply vanishing for another? If this is some kind of wormhole-generating rift, then the portals they are going through must be opening and closing at random intervals, suggesting it is likely unstable."

"That's bad, right?" Sato asked.

"Extremely," Power Loader answered. "Imagine if a person were to fall into that wormhole? It, at best, be a fifty-fifty shot if they were to return, and we have no idea if they do return and fall into the portal again if the fifty-fifty chances would still be in play and keep the portal open. But if the chances for the portal close does happen, then the possibilities of a return trip become slimmer and slimmer with each fall."

"And we have no idea what's on the other side of the portal," Jurota stepped in. "Whether it be in the middle of the sky or even if it is on a different planet altogether. And if it's the latter, and the portal closes, what are the chances that this other planet has an atmosphere that can sustain human life? That unfortunate soul could be stranded on an alien world where they could suffocate and die easily."

"Or what if the connection goes both ways and something comes through from the other side?" Momo jumped in, as well. "Perhaps a creature from a different planet? A dangerous one at that. Or a pathogen or noxious gas that could contaminate and harm the environment and everything and everyone around it?"

"Okay...got it," Sato muttered, getting paler after every detail and scenario the three proposed.

"Hmm, wormholes and potential interplanetary travel," Nezu hummed. "With such a possibility and show, it seems rather similar to the Bifrost and its interplanetary transit abilities."

"So, those wormholes may be transporting objects toward one of the other Nine Realms?" All Might guessed.

"Or one of the other lesser realms that are still connected by the branches of the Yggdrasil," Endeavor nodded.

"Lesser may be a bit of a harsh title there, Number 1," Hawks chuckled.

Endeavor only gave a huff of air as a show of acknowledgment.

Inko contemplated this information, looking at the phase meter as it beeped. "I want to throw something," Darcy said. "Inko, give me your shoe."

Inko removed the same device from before and looked at the readings displayed. "I haven't seen reading like this since...since..."

"New Mexico?" Darcy accurately guessed.

"Well, I guess that confirms your theory there, Principal," Midnight said.

"The question however remains as to what is causing these disturbances," Aizawa reminded. 'And I have a pretty good hunch of what it is.' Aizawa thought of the Aether they showed at the beginning and the portals that occurred over the skies of Svartalfheim.

Inko looked at her with rising excitement and wonder in her eyes before running off, shouting "Don't touch anything!"

As Darcy and Ian watched her run off, Darcy looked to her intern and said, "Give me your shoe."

"No, thank you," Kosei shook his head, vehemently. "I'm not walking in this space-bending place barefooted."

Up on another level of the building, Inko continued to try and register more of the readings. Hearing the kids laugh, Inko saw the three kids, Darcy, and Ian continue to test the phenomenon but tossing more stuff and seeing if it came back or not.

Suddenly, the phase meter beeped louder than before, the wind started to blow harder, and the readings began going higher.

Ian, getting in on the fun, tossed a pair of keys down and the keys vanished and refused to return. As their smiling faces started to process what happened, Darcy asked "Were those the car keys?"

Ian's answer to that was a smile turned upside down.

Inko continued walking as the readings grew and beeping still rang loud. Hearing a faint gust of wind, Inko turned to a corridor to her right, beginning to walk slowly down it while the beeping grew faster. The closer she got the more the eerie howl of rushing wind grew and the faster the phase meter beeped.

"That's not good," Hawks frowned, narrowing his eyes.

"The rapid beeping of warning or that eerie howl from the wind?" Snipe guessed.

"It's the wind itself," Hawks answered, surprisingly serious. "There's no open window along that hall and no visible sign that the wind is blowing out from that other room. The wind is blowing out from that door at the end of the hall, but even if that room had an open window, no strong wind short of a storm or a hurricane should have that wind blowing out of the corners of the door that fast and hard."

While hearing the more jovial and light-hearted Number 2 Pro speak so knowledgeable and seriously was a surprise to kids, hell even to his fellow Pros, they quickly recognized that he was still the Number 2 Hero with the highest climb up the ranks since All Might for a reason beyond his looks and popularity. And as the Winged Hero that spends the most time in the air, outside of perhaps Ryukyu when flying in her Dragoon form, he would be rather knowledgeable about wind patterns and movements.

"So, if there is no logical normal reason that that wind should be blowing like that, then a more abnormal reason is the cause," Ectoplasm realized. "And no most likely answer would be-"

"Another wormhole is down that hallway," Thirteen answered for him. "And it's blowing air from the other side of the portal."

Halfway down the corridor, the wind started blowing around her despite the lack of windows and the device beeped rapidly, almost warning her of the danger she was facing.

Izuku's eyes widened in alert, almost like a tiny faint alarm was ringing in his head. "Wait!"

Suddenly, as Inko looked around with growing dread, a strong pull of wind and gravity pulled her further down the corridor, like she was grabbed by an invisible force pulling her in. "Whoa!"

"MOM!"/"INKO!" Izuku and All Might shouted, reaching their arms for the green-haired woman.

"Ah!" Inko cried out as she reached the end of the corridor and, like the can, the bottle, and the keys, Inko vanished into thin air.

"It was a wormhole!" Uraraka exclaimed, her worry rising for Midoriya's mother from another world.

... only to suddenly reappear, stopped completely, over a side of a cliff leading to nothingness.

"Oh my god! That was close!" Kouta gasped out at seeing his idol's mother almost fall down the cliff to certain doom.

"But where is she?" Mirio raised an eyebrow.

"Darcy!" Inko cried out, the echo of her voice the only response. Looking around, she noticed she was inside a massive cave structure, the faint designs of architecture on the walls, and behind her, a giant slab of black stone and metal, a crack at the bottom glowing and crackling in a red, menacing light.

A shiver ran up All Might's spine. "The Aether," He breathed out. "Inko's been teleported to where the Aether was hidden."

"If this location is tied in some way to that abandoned complex in London, then the Aether's powers could have destabilized the area to form wormholes there," Gran Torino analyzed.

"And that portal must have taken her to Svartalfheim," Momo analyzed as well. "Those structures along the walls were very similar to the ones in that Svartalfheim cave and the atmosphere looks eerily familiar to the Dark World."

Driven by curiosity, or a sense of madness, Inko approached the giant slab, walking around and peeking beneath where the top part of the black rock refused to meet with the lower half, only seeing a red light inside. Right next to it, Inko peeked further, seeing the cause of the red light, the swirling mass of blood red and black energy, the name she knew not: The Aether.

Izuku's and All Might's nerves buzzed with worry as the inquisitive woman neared and circled the formation that held an object of infinite power. Eri squirmed in Aizawa's lap over her surrogate grandmother, the insomniac granduncle pulling her in close.

With a sudden pull of force, Inko stumbled onto the stone, looking back up at the crack to see the mass of energy surge toward her. Inko tried to pull away but failed before the infinite source of energy surged into her hand.

"NO!" Izuku and All Might shouted in unison.

Gasping, Inko stepped back, the top part of the black rock finally falling, though Inko focused on trying to find and remove the red energy from her hand, finding nothing but the faint flow of red inside her skin. As the glow vanished, Inko stumbled, suddenly dizzy and tried, and collapsed to the ground.

"Oh no," Nejire gasped out, hand over her mouth. "It went inside her."

"And an artifact of infinite power inside the body of a regular human being can spell only disaster," Iida grumbled.

As she hit the ground, the scene shifted suddenly to a belt of asteroids in deep space. When one floated away, it revealed the dark T-shaped ship floating among the asteroids, silent and dead-looking. Only for the red lights to glow and turn on.

"It's that Dark Elf ship!" Mineta exclaimed. "It's turning on! But how?!"

"Given the coinciding of these events, it's clear that the Aether has a tie to the Aether and its reawakening must have awakened the ship with it," Tokoyami answered.

Inside the ship, as more of the red lights glowed and the ship reactivated, in the middle of a room, a human-shaped figure hung off the ground, their face covered in a metal mask. As the lights around in turned on, the metal mask shifted open, as it fully pulled back, Malekith's eyes opened with it.

At the return of Kurogiri's counterpart, Eraser, Mic, and Midnight flinched, still in denial of believing this madman that would sacrifice his people for victory would be in any way their dead friend, much less that said dead friend was alive as a Villain in Tartaros.

Stumbling after a near millennium of sleep, Malekith walked around the helm of his ship, the light of the star, off in the distance, and its light the illumination needed to see. Malekith looked down to see more Dark Elves awakening in their slumber. In his Elvan language, Malekith spoke, "The Aether awakens us. The Convergence returns."

"So, the Aether did reawaken them, as Tokoyami suggested," Todoroki narrowed his eyes. "But what is the Convergence?"

"Remember what Odin said at the beginning, Shitty Hair?" Bakugou spoke up. "Malekith wanted to use that Aether thing when all the Nine Realms were converging. Sounds an awful lot like what this Convergence shit is."

The scene cut to Thor walking up to the gate of the Bifrost. He entered the dome to find, as always, Heimdall standing watch over the expanse of space.

"You're late," Heimdall commented on Thor's arrival.

"Merriment can sometimes be a heavier burden than battle," Thor replied.

"How does that work?" Sero raised an eyebrow.

"He could mean that even when one wins a battle or war, what they lost along the way may weigh too much on them for any kind of celebrating," Izuku answered, his eyes downcast as his own movie coming up in his head.

Izuku felt two hands on his shoulder, turning to see they were from the ones he felt like he sacrificed for. Todoroki smiled sadly at him, knowing that the guilt of his death still weighed on Izuku. The other was Setsuna, who both she and Izuku felt they have sacrificed in losing each other, with Setsuna's counterpart likely dead at this point without ever knowing that he was alive, and Izuku's counterpart losing Setsuna and all he ever knew waking up more than 70 years later.

Izuku smiled at the two of them, for their friendship, and more in Setsuna's case. Midoriya patted Shoto's hand in thanks, which received an understanding nod from Todoroki, and squeezed Setsuna's lovingly, earning him a blushing smile and a nod from Tokage.

"Then you're doing one of them incorrectly," Heimdall retorted.

Thor chuckled. "Perhaps. How fare the stars?"

"Still shining," Heimdall answered, Thor walking up beside him. "From here, I can see Nine Realms and ten trillion souls."

"Jeez, ten trillion?" Fatgum blinked in surprise at the number. "Lot of people to watch out for."

"Hey, we're Heroes, man, saving those we can reach, that's our whole job right there," Hawks smirked.

Heimdall smirked at Thor before planting his sword into the mechanism. "Do you recall what I taught you of the Convergence?" Heimdall asked the God of Thunder, while the dome spun around.

"Yes. The alignment of the worlds," Thor answered. "It approaches, doesn't it?"

'So, Bakugou was right," Asui croaked. "So, this Convergence is an alignment of the Nine Realms. Must be a very rare thing that happens after a long time."

"The universe hasn't seen this marvel since before my watch began," Heimdall noted. "Few can sense it. Even fewer can see it. But while its effects can be dangerous, it is truly beautiful." Heimdall's golden eyes stared out into the cosmos, in his eyes witnessing the shifting of stars and worlds in all their beauty.

Throughout his life and after his training, Hawks felt in a way blessed with his Quirk making him able to fly, soaring among the clouds and taking in everything before him. While chained and caged he still felt being under the Commission's thumb, when he flew through the sky, that's when he felt the freest. And with the plus sized perc of nothing escaping his grasp and ears when he could hear and send out his feathers to stop any crime under him.

But seeing how Heimdall gazes across the cosmos, seeing and hearing everything, from the people under his watch to the beauty his counterpart spoke of with this Convergence, Hawks found a new thing to be envious of.

"I see nothing," Thor said as he, too, stared out into the stars.

"Or, perhaps, that is not the beauty you seek," Heimdall commented. The two chuckled.

The girls felt the urge to coo at the romantic implication there. 'Despite the beauty of the stars before his eyes, the one star's beauty he wishes is the one he can't see.' Momo, the romantic novel-enjoyer, almost gushed.

Suddenly, many of the guys had the strong urge to write this stuff down, Midoriya being the most fortunate to have a notebook in handy to do so.

"How is she?" Thor asked, curious.

"She's quite clever, your mortal," Heimdall informed. "She doesn't know it yet, but she studies the Convergence as well." Heimdall took a few steps forward. "Even..." Heimdall stopped, surprise appearing in his eyes.

"What?" Thor asked, wary of Heimdall's sudden silence.

"I can't see her," Heimdall revealed.

"Wait, huh?" Nejire looked confused. "What do you mean he can't see her? Can he not see her because she's not on Earth and is in Svartalfheim? Because the Aether is inside her and is confusing him? Or that she is de-" Nejire wisely shut her mouth on that particular question, realizing that that possibility isn't one that Izuku wouldn't be too pleased in hearing.

As for the scientist in question, Inko floated in a sea of blood red, the familiar swirling mass of the Aether covering her body, wrapping around her like a cocoon.

"Mom," Izuku muttered, his hands, clench on his armrest, finding support in Melissa's hand over it.

This next instant of self-imposed, instinctual guilt-tripping for All Might was that his counterpart could have gone to Earth at any time to see Inko and half the desire All Might felt that Inko had in observing the anomalies was because they were similar to the Bifrost's energy in New Mexico. All Might knew that part of Inko's desire was to find him and if his counterpart was there, not only could she not have ended up here by blind desire, but his counterpart could have told her about the Convergence and what was going on. Hell, he could have even escorted her and protected her from the Aether, if need be.

The more ways All Might realize this situation could have been avoided because he wasn't there made his emotions almost leave the plane of guilt to one of anger at himself.

Inko closed her eyes and fell into Darkness. Then the slow opening of eyes gave way to light. Inko groggily tried to wake up, seeing the mirrored roof of a building, a subtle, watery portal above her before it faded away. Inko shook her head, shaking the ringing in her ears, finding herself back in the abandoned complex, a floating stone, off to her side, finally giving way to gravity.

"Okay, at least she was transported back to Earth," Ibara sighed.

"Only now, she has been burdened by some parasitic artifact of infinite power inside her flesh," Reiko reminded.

Thunder rumbling in the skies overhead, Inko ran out, meeting a squad of police cars, Darcy talking with one policeman and Ian was hounded on by two others by their car.

"Inko!" Darcy saw and called to her, running up to her. "Where the hell were you?"

"Tell me you didn't call the police," Inko said, upset.

'What was I supposed to do?" Darcy questioned back.

"Not call the police," Was Inko's answer.

"I was freaking out," Darcy admitted while rain began to fall around them, yet not on them.

"Wait, do you see that?" Mirio narrowed his eyes and pointed.

"The rain is falling but not on them," Nejire blinked, confused. "Is it because of the Convergence thingy?"

"It could be that a portal opened up conveniently above their heads," Tamaki responded. "But whether it was a portal created by the Convergence or some effect of the Aether inside Inko Foster is debatable."

"You call the cops, and they call the Feds," Inko began explaining, heatedly. "Next thing you know, we have S.H.I.E.L.D. crawling all over 'Area 51-ing' the place."

Mic flinched, remembering how much his counterpart was an inconvenience to Foster and her team. Now though, his counterpart was not around to interfere, which was a source of greater flinching for both Aizawa and Kayama.

"Inko-" "We had a stable gravitational anomaly," Inko continued through Darcy's words. "We had unimpeded access. Our only competition was ten years old!"

"Inko! You were gone for five hours," Darcy finally revealed.

Inko blinked in surprise. "What?"

"Five hours?!" Pony's eyes widened.

"Time must work differently between the Realms," Shinsou surmised. "If the Nine Realms are merely different planets from different points of the galaxy, or galaxies even, then it would make sense how time in one realm that took minutes could take hours in another."

"That or whatever happened with Foster with the Aether could have knocked her unconscious for quite a while," Monoma added. "Perhaps even both."

Registering the thunder again, Inko noticed the rain, finding that while it was pouring not a single drop of water landed on her, Darcy, or the circle around them. Darcy noticed and said, "That's weird."

"Yeah, I think I'm on the 'this is caused by the Aether insider her' side," Kirishima said.

Inko continued to look, utterly perplexed. And then, spotting past one of the shipping crates stood the man of her desires, Thor himself.

"Reunion time!" Toru squealed, clapping her hands excitingly.

All Might began to smile, himself excited to reunite with the love of his life, now apparently multiple lives.

Inko handed to Darcy, who just noticed the God of Thunder too, the phase meter and began walking towards the love of her life. Taking with her the circle of rain immunity and exposing Darcy to the elements. "Typical."

"Okay, yeah, it's definitely the Aether doing that," Kaminari nodded, tossing his hands up in further exclamation.

"Inko," Thor greeted her...only to be received in kind with a slap on the face.

"Ooh, she's mad," Sen hissed, while a few students were chuckling at the sight of Midoriya's mother smacking All Might across the face.

"Sorry. I just needed to make sure you were real," Inko apologized. "It's been a very strange day."

"Oh, well at least she isn't actually ma-" Kosei tried to say before the video interrupted him.

"I am. Inko, what-" Thor was cut off again with another slap to the face.

"Where were you?" Inko demanded.

"Okay, no, she's definitely mad," Kosei backpedaled on his statement.

More of the group laughed, with even Midoriya among those who couldn't handle the humorous exchange between his mother's and All Might's counterparts. Even Aizawa gave a small smile to this, partly for the scene and partly because of Eri's infectious giggle.

All Might just sweatdropped, thinking in response, 'Yeah, I might have deserved that.'

"Where were you?" Thor questioned back. "Heimdall cannot see you."

"I was right here where you left me," Inko replied, angrily. "I was waiting, and then I was crying, and then I went out looking for you." Thor's face took on an expression of guilt. "You said you were coming back."

"I know. I know, but the Bifrost was destroyed." Thor began to explain himself. "The Nine Realms erupted into chaos. Wars were raging, marauders were pillaging. I had to put an end to the slaughter."

Inko blinked back her surprise and anger as understanding took hold. "As excuses go, it's not terrible," Inko admitted. "But I saw you on TV. You were-You were in New York!"

"Yeah, putting down an alien invasion caused by his psychopathic brother," Shinsou stated, still pissed at the actions Loki did against his counterpart and all the people he hurt under his command.

"Inko, I fought to protect you from the dangers of my world, but I was wrong. I was a fool," Thor admitted himself. He lifted his hand to caress Inko's face and her flowing green hair. "But I believe that fate brought us together."

"Well, fate and some blob of infinite-"

"SHH!" The girls immediately shushed Sero in unison, whirling their heads back to the screen with rabid attention.

"Pfft, girls," Sero quietly grumbled, kicking up his feet.

"Inko, I don't know where you were or what happened, but I do know this." Thor said.

"What?" Inko asked, staring lovestruck at the Asgardian Avenger.

"I know..." Thor found himself lost for words at seeing her beautiful face.

"You do?" Inko asked, vulnerable and pleading.

"Do what?" Thor managed to ask, their faces growing closer together.

"That was some good dialogue," Kosei whispered.

"Eh, they're in love, does things to your head," Kosei replied, his eyes drifting their gaze to one certain small, mushroom-loving girl from his class.

"What?" Inko didn't even hear the question out of her mouth, the two almost nose to nose...

"Hey!" Darcy yelled, breaking the romantic air around them into awkward silence.

The wonder lust at the romantic scene was also cut away from Momo's eyes and the Yaoyorozu heiress was very unhappy. Stumbling and sputtering at the sudden interruption, Momo's face fell into her hands and let out a muffled, frustrated scream.

While he didn't want to get enjoyment out of her frustrations, Izuku had to admit that seeing Momo so passionate about something and then so upset the romance ended was rather adorable.

"Pony! I love you, girl, but you got to stop cockblocking us here!" Setsuna exclaimed, feeling Yaoyorozu's pain. "It was just getting good."

All Might had to agree with Young Tokage's words as he desperately tried to shake off the lovestruck look on his face...and perhaps calm down a certain friend of his downstairs.

"It's not my fault!" Pony defended herself. "I was waiting too!"

Darcy ran up to them, jacket over herself to block the rain. "Is this you?" Pony's counterpart asked about the circle's immunity to the rain.

Thor took notice of the strange phenomenon just as the rain abruptly ceased.

"Wait, it just ended now?" Rin questioned.

"I've been to London before to attend a conference, and yes, the weather there can be rather erratic, even without a physics-breaking artifact of ultimate power," David said.

"Uh, we're kind of in the middle of something here," Inko huffed at Darcy.

"Um, I'm pretty sure we are getting arrested," Darcy revealed.

"Okay, so not only is Pony a cockblocker, but also the cops. Typical," Setsuna grumbled, before turning to Tsukauchi. "No offense."

"None taken," Tsukauchi shrugged.

Inko sighed. "Hold that thought." Inko ran back towards the police, leaving Darcy and Thor.

"Look at you, still all muscly and everything," Darcy commented on Thor's return, tapping his armor. "How's space?"

"Space is fine," Thor gave a kind smile and answer.

"I know, I know, don't flirt with someone else's man," Pony spoke up before any of the girls or guys could say anything.

"Excuse me," Inko began to the policeman.

"Are you Inko Foster?" The policeman asked.

"Yes." She spoke.

"And do you know this man?" The policeman gestured to Ian getting searched by another officer.

"He's my intern," Inko said. "Well, my intern's intern."

"This is private property and you're trespassing, the lot of you," The officer revealed. "You'll have to come with me."

The officer reached and grabbed for Inko only for the contact to be met with a sudden and violent expulsion of red and black energy that sent all nearby flying and Inko to the ground. Thor shielded Darcy from the blast.

"What the juice?!" Mineta exclaimed, startled at the sudden expulsion of energy.

"It must have been the Aether," Tokoyami narrowed his eyes. "That blast wave held the same color and essence of the Aether and must have reacted to Inko's wishes against being arrested."

"Inko. Inko," Thor ran up to the grounded scientist.

"Thor?" Inko asked, dazed.

"Are you alright?" Thor asked, worried.

"What just happened?" Inko asked her question.

While Thor lifted Inko gently, the officer recovered and cautiously stalked toward them. "Place your hands on your heads," The officer ordered. "Step back."

"Oh, great, now an even bigger misunderstanding," Mina grumbled.

"This woman is unwell," Thor tried to reason.

"She's dangerous," The officer hissed out, the other officers aiming their guns at them.

Izuku glared at the cops. While he knew they were well in their right of fear of the unknown, especially with how violent that wave of energy was; however, he did not appreciate those words and glances to describe his mother like she was a monster.

"Man, sometimes cops are fucking idiots!" Bakugou grumbled, sharing Deku's opinion. "Someone accidentally blasts you with energy out of fear, and their first reaction is to do the same thing that caused it even worse?!"

"So am I," Thor warned.

"R-Requesting armed response officers to the scene," The officer panicked and called in.

Thor pulled Inko close. "Hold on to me."

"What are you doing?" Inko questioned.

Thor looked up as the runes burned themselves into the ground, the wind circling them, and the beam of the Bifrost bathed on them.

"Ooh, they are going to Toru to escape the cops!" Toru exclaimed excitedly.

"Well, that, and bring Foster to Asgard to see what is wrong with her," Asui reminded.

"Oh yeah, that too," Toru acknowledged.

The officer looked up at the beam of light, his hat flying off, and as the Bifrost vanished, so too did Thor and Inko. Darcy looked up in shock, walking up to where they once stood, oblivious of the car beside her, missing its hood. "Holy shit!"

"Language!" Iida yelled.

"Iida, while I'm that big a fan of cursing excessively, don't you think being the swear police after so many of these videos and with Bakugou in the same room rather pointless?" Uraraka patted the man's shoulder.

Thor and Inko, meanwhile, traveled along the Bifrost. Only a moment of darkness passed for Inko before rainbow light erupted around her again, holding on to Thor for dear life as space and energy roared around them.

"While I admit that traveling through the Bifrost is amazing, this would normally be an epilepsy canon for some unfortunate person," Mandalay voiced her concern.

On Asgard, Heimdall shifted to his right, dodging the hood of the car that came flying in.

"Oh! That was from the car they showed that was missing its hood," Sato chuckled. "That's kind of funny."

Heimdall turned his eyes back on the portal just as Thor and Inko landed. With their arrival, Heimdall closed the portal.

"We have to do that again," Inko chuckled, panting with exhilaration. Noticing the Watchman, Inko greeted him with a "Hi."

Heimdall offered a kind smile. "Welcome to Asgard."

"And I think your mom, as far we know, is now the first human to visit Asgard," Todoroki stated.

"I never thought I would be jealous of her of anything, even for having a Quirk," Izuku said, whispering that last part. "Guess I was wrong."

AAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDD SCENE! Oh, thank God! One down, three more chapters to go. Lots of apologies needed for this wait time lasting so long, again distracted by new games, real-life issues apologies, and the fact that I don't like this movie.

When I rewatched it to make the script for this, at first, I was like 'well, this movie is kind of decent, why did I hate this so much?' Then I got to the ending and realized the final battle bruhaha, especially how Thor defeated Malekith, and it was so awkward and cringy I shuddered in my seat. Plus, there were two instances where I felt the runtime of this movie could have been cut and melded four different scenes together. The first was the introduction of the movie, which I felt could have been conjoined easier with when Odin was telling Thor and Jane about the Aether/Reality Stone and adding a level of suspense and mystery to the Dark Elves and the Aether, with the risk of a huge exposition dump as a result.

The second instance was the news of Dr. Selvig's crazy nude scene and Darcy and Ian finding out about it from the same news. Those scenes could have been blended together, making the mystery of what happened to Selvig more suspenseful, and not repeating information the audience already knows and wasting time.

Also, hoped you like that scene in the beginning with Ibara and Bakugou. This scene has been the culmination of all the previous chapters, especially the Iron Man movies. All this time Bakugou has been suffering from the guilt that has arisen recently of his past misdeed toward Deku, with Bakugou seeing a version of himself that acted like a conceited, selfish, arrogant asshole, just like himself, and the two recent movies, Avengers and Iron Man 3, was the breaking point for Bakugou, with Stark's standoff and words toward Rogers and the reference to Bakugou's suicide baiting from Touya's admitted thoughts on jumping off the roof. There is only so much guilt and self-loathing a man can handle before he breaks down, trust me, I would know from experience.

And so, Bakugou made up his mind that he couldn't date Ibara until she knew just the kind of person he was, he had to admit this to someone before it ate away at him any further, and who better than the girl he is coming scaringly close to loving. And if she hated him and rejected him because of it, Bakugou would understand, even if it would tear him apart, he would understand this as his just desserts for all 11 years of borderline if not outright torture to a little boy who just held out a hand out to him.

But we find out that Ibara isn't the pure angel we think of, as evidenced by her sudden violent acts when angered, and that she too was also a bully, like Bakugou. Only unlike Bakugou, she made the step forward that he has yet to fully commit, realizing the fault of her actions, seeking forgiveness, and achieving it through a selfless act of heroism that completed her quest for redemption, become a cornerstone for her faith and beliefs, and was a reason for her choosing the path of Hero. And with this, she knows what Bakugou is going through, endearing herself to him further by Bakugou going out of his way to admit his wrongdoings to her of all people rather than keeping it secret, and Bakugou falling for her more by her faults so similar to his own yet her as an example of overcoming those faults.

And now, Ibara will help Bakugou on his own path of redemption and still give him a shot at this connection between them that only got stronger, and we finally see Bakugou directly asking for help for something that he doesn't know how to fix, Ibara's vines around him not only an act of comfort but, like Stark said at the end of Iron Man 3, a cocoon for which to grow and evolve further into who he is meant to be.

But anyways, let's get onto the counterpart explanations with possibly, in my opinion, my most controversial pick out of any of them: Shirakumo/Kurogiri as Malekith. Let me explain. Yes, when it comes to personality Malekith and Shirakumo don't really have much in common, and Malekith and Kurogiri at first glance have as much in common as bad guys, but their power sets and Malekith's scarred face just screamed to me Kurogiri. With the Aether, Malekith could attack with tendrils of wispy Darkness much like how Kurogiri could, and the Aether's reality-bending and portal-making abilities would match well with Kurogiri's Warp Gate Quirk. And then there was Malekith's face going from half-dark from Thor's lightning blast to fully dark by the climax of the movie. It reminded me of the Kurogiri interrogation scene, where half of Shirakumo's face leaked out of Kurogiri's and fully revealed to Aizawa and Mic that Shirakumo was truly a resurrected Nomu. And you can say that the further Malekith's face became dark, the more the Shirakumo aspect of him became like Kurogiri. Plus, there are only so many Villains with tangible similarities for me to pick, and others that could match well with Malekith already reserved for better picks.

Plus, this serves both to show that this story takes place before the finale of Season 5 of My Hero Academia, and the reason for Tsuakuchi and Gran Torino to figure out that Kurogiri is Shirakumo and Aizawa and Mic's visit to Tartaros.

Then there is Algrim/Kurse as the USJ Nomu. At first, I completely forgot about this character's existence in this movie, and when I saw the Kursed and I had Malekith as Kurogiri, I pointed to the screen, Leonardo DiCaprio-style, and said 'Nomu'. And then I remembered that this guy turned into a Kursed, a strong one that rag-dolled and pummeled Thor to the ground and I figured that the USJ Nomu, the arguably biggest threat, and weapon of the main antagonist in the USJ arc, was the best fit. And as for the USJ Nomu's civilian name, we never actually get his name when he looked human, only his face, so I decided to give him one, his name actually being his Japanese voice actor's.

Ian Boothby as Kosei Tsuburaba, I admit, was a lazy suggestion on my part, given how both characters, in their respective franchises, don't really do much outside of one movie or anime arc, and why Kosei specifically rather than the other 1-B students that likewise don't do much was because Kosei's Quirk, Solid Air, I found to be Quirk that looks like something the Reality Stone could do, bending reality to make solid air, so I made Kosei counterparts to this character who only appeared in the movie where the Reality Stone was introduced.

And finally, Nana Shimura as Frigga/Freya, whichever you want to call her. Yes, I acknowledge that I didn't give her a counterpart in the first Thor movie, and my only excuse was that I was still solidifying counterpart choices by then and I decided by this movie to just say 'screw it' and make All Might's mother figure, who is powerful in her own right, dies to motivate his character, and sacrifices herself to give All Might and Gran Torino time to escape be the counterpart to Thor's mother figure, who is a powerful witch in her own right, dies to motivate both Thor and Odin to the extremes they would go to destroy Malekith, and sacrifices herself to save Jane from Malekith in time for Thor to appear and send the two fleeing. And hell, Frigga died by the counterparts to Kurogiri and the USJ Nomu, the two being creations of All For One and Dr. Garaki, the former being Shimura's murderer.

And with that, this chapter is over and thus begins the next month-long wait. I would say I'm kidding and poking fun at myself, but I know my own lazy ass, and my family and I are going to Orlando for spring break for 5 days, so yeah. Anyways, hope you guys liked this chapter, leave your thoughts in the comments, sorry if I couldn't respond to them this chapter, but the Hogwarts Legacy rant felt like it too much time in an already long chapter, comment your counterpart predictions, check out my others stories here and on AO3 if you want, and remember to stay safe, sane, and healthy.

This has been Lord Zayden of the Ancient and Noble House of StormVoid, bidding you all a due. *Apparates away*