Well, it's that time again.

I'm back with another chapter. To be honest, this one was tough to say the least and sorry about the short length, but I think/hope you guys will still get a kick out of it.

And as for some good news, I'm finally caught up on the MHA manga and I'm absolutely loving how the story is going over there, but I will ask to keep the reviews here clean of any spoilers for the anime-onlys.

(On a separate note, I still haven't read Vigilantes but I'm planning on that as well..)

Now, without further ado, let's wrap up the quirk assessment.


Chapter 8

Remembrances and Resolve

Dagobah Beach, 2 days earlier

"Come on Midoriya! You still haven't got a touch on me!" Water Hazard yells as he sprays whips of water. "Don't tell me you still haven't healed yet!"

It had been 5 days since the mall incident and with his fingers healed, Midoriya was right back to training.

Midoriya gets hit with some of them but continues to dodge. "I'm not done yet!"

He rolls under one of those whips and tries to get in close, however…

"That won't work anymore!" Ben yells and sprays the ground, propelling himself back several meters. "Try again!"

"I'm not the only one learning here." Midoriya thinks as he gets up from the ground. "He's gradually adapting just as well as I do. So, time to take it up a notch..."

He turns off the One for All on his arm and instead spreads it to his legs. "What about this!" and jumps into the air.

"Don't hesitate, just do!" Midoriya then activates One for All back on his right arm. "Ready or not, here I come Tennyson!"

Water Hazard reflexively raises his arms but doesn't fire and lowers them back down.

"What is he-" Water Hazard, with an invisible smile on his face, jumps up just like he did and uses his water to further propel himself right at the greenette.

"You did good, but I'm ending this!" Water Hazard says and gets ready to grab Midoriya's right hand. However, Midoriya grabs him instead…

Then, Ben notices Midoriya's other drawn back arm. "That was a faint?!"

"Imagine the egg not exploding!" Midoriya thinks and his left arm lights up. "Unleash the 5%!"

With a left hook, he punches Water Hazard right in the face!

"Ha-There!" he yells. "I got one!"

And better yet, his arm was not broken. It was completely fine! "How was that?"

But Ben does not answer… His eyes were closed. "Tennyson?"

He only starts to realize his situation after that. He… was falling.

"Tennyson?! W-Wake up!" Midoriya yells as he grabs hold onto Water Hazard's body. He couldn't have hit him so hard, right? His arm wasn't broken, so he managed to control it right?

Still no response. The ground was getting closer and Midoriya knew he was out of options...

"D-Do I have to save us?" Midoriya mutters and draws his arm back again. "Is 5% going to be enough to stop both of us? Can I really do this?"

The ground continues to get closer.

"Okay okay, remember your pla-" Midoriya thinks as water suddenly shoots out from under them and slows their fall.

"Good reaction Midoriya." Water Hazard says.

The greenette dials back the One for All on his arm and looks at his transformed friend. "Tennyson, you're back?"

"Never left actually." Ben says with a grin and then deadpans. "I just wanted to surprise you… like you surprised me."

"Y-You almost gave me a heart attack..." Midoriya says as their feet step down on the ground again and he collapses to the sand. After all that running around, his legs were killing him.

"And you almost gave me one with that faint and punch!" Water Hazard retorts. "I know I have a strong shell but that was plain risky."

He then asks: "Can you show me that hand?"

Midoriya raises it, showing the back and front of it. "It doesn't hurt..."

Seeing that there was no open wound, Water Hazard takes a closer look and asks him to try opening and closing it.

"Okay…" Midoriya slowly opens it. Please… Tell me that I can do it…"

There was no pain so far… Midoriya then closes his hand.

"It… It doesn't hurt!" the greenette yells. "It's not broken!"

Water Hazard nods in approval. "Looks like we finally got somewhere..."

In a green flash of light, Ben appears and lends his hand down to his friend. But then…

"Young Midoriya!.." Midoriya hears from afar. "Young Tennyson!.."

Letting the greenette sit on the sand for a bit longer, Ben waves his hand and greets the blonde skeleton running towards them. "Hi Mr. Toshinori."

"Hello..." he pants for a bit. "Sorry…(huff)... for missing…(puff)... the training."

"You have no idea what you missed Mr. Toshinori." Ben then points to his greenette friend. "Midoriya here, finally got a solid hit on me."

The greenette lifts up his left hand with pride and shows his mentor how it's not damaged.

"This is great, young Midoriya." He crouches next to him and throws him a certain sincere look. One that meant: "I'm glad to see you harnessing this power..."

Midoriya then turned to Ben and saw him giving a thumbs up too.

"Well..." he says. "...Ready for another round Tennyson?"

Ben was perplexed for a second. Was it just him, or was Midoriya having as much fun as him?

In any case, he liked it...

With a grin, he puts his hand over the Omnitrix, not even looking to see if it charged up yet. "Ready when you are."

Midoriya returns the grin and attempts to get up on his own but-!

"Owwww!" he groans, reflexively grabbing his leg. "What was-?"

He tries to step on the ground again but he's met with the exact same pain on the bottom of his foot. And both the friend and the mentor notices.

"Young Midoriya..." Toshinori says. "Can you show us the bottom of your foot?"

The greenette was hesitant but eventually showed them. "Is it bad?"

He could feel the pain but…

"Well, at least his arm is not broken..." Ben says, trying to keep an optimistic tone. However, he eventually notices Mr. Toshinori's concern.

As the watch blinks green, Ben pushes down on the rims. "No need to worry Mr. Toshinori, I can get him to the hospital in an instant."

And slams down the watch.

His skin quickly turns red and some kind of yellow patagia forms under his arms. The hands on the end of his arms distort to become 3 fingered instead of 5 and each of those fingers elongate in size. His facial features get reduced down to two green eyes, a mouth stretching over his face and two yellow horns extending from his nose. Waving his arms around, he was ready for takeoff.

"Jetray!" He shouts.

"Hospital?" the greenette asks Toshinori, who was still by his side.

"It is not lethal, young Midoriya, but the bottom of your feet… they are shredded."

Despite the warnings of All Might and the unbearable pain, the greenette manages to look under his foot.

The upper half of his foot as well as the under of his toes were bloodied and the wounds were all kinds of distorted, most likely because of his use of One for All. In the meantime though, the lower halves were normal. Was this still progress?

"In any case, you need to see Recovery Girl."

He picks him up and…

"I'll take care of him, Mr. Toshinori..." Jetray says as he picks up Midoriya with his tail. "I'll be back in a flash."

Before they fly away, Toshinori has something to say to his protegee. "Young Midoriya, with your quirk, you must not rush it."

"Tread lightly and be careful. It won't happen overnight."

Midoriya nods and the pair start flying to the nearest hospital.

As they flew, despite being hung over the ground by only a tail and not even holding onto Jetray's legs, the greenette was not panicking.

"Tennyson..."

"Yeah?" Ben then briefly looks down at his passenger. "Want to try flying on my back?"

"No, it's just that... you tend to give me pointers after each session." He begins. "What is your take on this?"

"You sure?" Jetray asks again and Midoriya nods in response.

Without reservation, Ben says the one line that Midoriya was not hoping for: "Well, I agree with Mr. Toshinori…"

Midoriya sighs and looks to the area down below. "Even if... the school starts in 2 days?"

If Jetray had eyebrows, he would be raising them with surprise. "Midoriya..."

"I should have gotten a handle on it by now Tennyson..." the greenette says, waving his hands in the air. "When our hero classes actually begin, I want to be able to fight in the frontlines..."

He remembers a certain hero's rescue of over a hundred people…

"...Like All Might."

Jetray stays silent for a second. "Yeah I get that but you have to go at your own pace..."

"And besides, there is more to fighting than punches, kicks and projectiles."

As his eyes locate the hospital, Jetray says: "No one is expecting you to be the best as soon as the sun rises..."


Present Day

"NO!" yells Midoriya inside his mind. "I won't be complacent here! If that's my only choice, then I have to go all out!"

He drops the crutch from his hands and grasps the ball with all he's got.

"It's just as Aizawa says. At this rate, there is no way I'll become a hero."

Kacchan, Tennyson, Yaoyorozu, Iida, Tokoyami… All his classmates that had incredible showings pass by one after the other in his mind.

"I have to work harder than a lot of people. That's why, with all my strength… I'll do what I can right now!"

As the ball escaped from his grip, the tip of his finger lit up with a red energy.

"I WILL CATCH UP AND EARN MY PLACE!"

"SMASH..!"

The ball, with a huge shockwave, pierces through the air and flies like a rocket launched into space!

The class was in shock because of that throw but Ben, who had just transformed back, was smiling.

Rather than his whole hand... only the finger he used for that throw was broken.

"Way to set your own pace..."

The ball lands on the ground and Aizawa reads the result: 705.3 meters…

He had a curious expression, but…

"Mr. Aizawa..." says Midoriya and as he turns to look, the greenette makes his hand into a fist. "I can still move!"

The erasure hero smiles and nods. "This kid..."

However, Midoriya doesn't last long in that pose. The bandages under his right foot were turning red and he was sweating bullets by the second.

"Woah woah woah..." Ben comes to the aid of Midoriya and catches him. "Okay champ, that's enough."

The smile of Aizawa vanished right after Ben had entered his frame; but the greenette had too much adrenaline to notice. "Finally, a hero-like result."

But his job wasn't done.

"Tennyson..." Midoriya looks him dead in the eye, with never before seen determination. "I set my pace… and I'm coming for you."

He then picks up his crutch and stops leaning on his friend.

Even though Ben tries to avoid showing it, his grin grows bigger like he's finding this all too amusing... "Yeah sure, Midoriya."

"I'll make sure to watch my back." Ben replies. "In any case though, you definitely made your impact on the class."

"Are you sure?" Midoriya asks as Ben looks back at a currently raging and absolutely livid ash blond.

"Yep, pretty sure."


As every other student took their turn with the ball throw and the other three tests passed on by, the time finally came for the results...

And to learn who would be expelled once and for all from class 1-A.

"Okay, I'll quickly tell you the results." says Aizawa. "The total is simply the marks you got from each test."

Some were fearful, due to their possible standing in the leaderboard.

Some were confident, and just eager to get this over with.

Ben, on the other hand, was smiling like a manga reader in a crowd of anime watchers. He was certain of his position and he didn't exactly conceal it.

"Granted, I couldn't use the watch during the sit-up and seated toe-touch tests." Ben thinks. "But, with the rest of my scores, this was a cakewalk."

"It's a waste of time to explain verbally, so I'll show you the results all at once." states Aizawa and immediately a hologram shoots out of his phone, displaying all the individual results.

Number 1 was, of course, Ben Tennyson.

"Of course." Ben shrugs. "Now to find Midoriya."

Because of the greenette's condition throughout the whole test, he skips the top spots and immediately starts from number 15.

15 Yuga Aoyama, 16 Hanta Sero, 17 Denki Kaminari…

"Oh..." Ben thinks. "Midoriya, say it ain't so..."

Others, like Uraraka, who came to know the greenette desperately hoped that there was some sort of miracle. But, in a quote that felt like something Aizawa would say, reality wasn't so kind.

Ben continued to skim through the leaderboard.

18 Kyoka Jiro, 19 Minoru Mineta and 20… was Izuku Midoriya.

The shapeshifter immediately turned to his friend, and could almost guess his thoughts.

"Last place…" Midoriya thinks. "...will be expelled?"

He looks to the ground and squeezes the hand on his crutch. Was his journey… going to end here?

The hologram disappears and Aizawa, in the most nonchalant manner says: "By the way, I was lying about the expulsion."

"It was a rational deception to draw out the upper limits of your quirks." he says with an almost creepy smile.

"Whaaaaaaaat?!" The whole class was shocked… except for a select few.

"Of course that was a lie." Yaoyorozu says as she stares at the group. "It should have been obvious if you just thought it through."

The low scorers were all sweat dropping. "I didn't notice at all."

"There are handouts with the curriculum and such in the classroom, so when you get back, look over them." Aizawa says with his monotonous voice again. "Also Midoriya..."

He then lends him a piece of paper. "Have the old lady fix you in the nurse's office."

Turning to the class. "Tomorrow will be packed with even more rigorous tests… Prepare yourselves."

With that, the class heads to the changing rooms while Midoriya makes his way to the nurse's office.

As he made his way back, Ben just couldn't help himself from cracking a smile. Not only his friend wasn't getting expelled right out from the first day, but he was on the way to becoming a legitimate hero.

"Goodbye looking for alleyways to transform in, and welcome freedom." he thought as he yawned.

This was what he wanted, freely using his powers and taking responsibility for anyone that came after him.

He was on his way… to make the world an even safer place.

"Oh!" Ben utters to himself, like he had just remembered something. And there was also the powers, or rather quirks, of his classmates...

"Some of them were basic and nothing I haven't seen…" he recalls. "But there were some that even the Omnitrix couldn't give me, negating the gravity on objects/people, being able to secrete acid, straight up talking to animals..."

"Even though I might still have... 9,971 forms to go." He counts with his fingers. "...What they are able to do naturally is amazing."

His eyes fell back down onto his watch and then the result on the scoreboard flashes by his eyes.

Ben was thankful... that one fateful day allowed him to stand above all of them, despite the duty that came with it.


As people began coming back to the classroom…

"That was a little nerve-wracking, huh?" Sero remarks.

"You said it..." Jiro tiredly agrees.

Ojiro puts his hand on his chin. "To be honest, it was weird… Getting challenged right away with tests like that."

"Yeah." Kirishima raises his fist. "But I'll take up the challenge anytime!"

"Speaking on challenge..." says Ben. "You still sure I shouldn't hold back, Kirishima?"

"Maaaaaan and then there was you! How could I know you had a one man arsenal like that?!" the redhead exclaims as he turns to the shapeshifter. "I thought you only had that one bug form!"

"You knew about the bug form?" says Sero from the side. "I was surprised when the 50 meter dash came along and you transformed into… Cannonbolt, yeah?"

Ben nods.

"I really thought you were going to become Rath over and over again."

"Nah, he isn't exactly fast." Ben says as he places the handouts into his bag. "And, excuse me when I say, I don't like being angry all the time."

Jiro asks: "So, for that, you have 3 other forms to go ahead and pick from when it's time to battle?"

"Yeah, more or less..." says Ben as he closes the zipper of his bag.

"Talk about a balanced quirk..."

Sato also joins in. "He does have a 10 minute time though… I would say that's a good restriction."

"Aren't you just saying that because you are also time based?.."Jiro retorts.

Sato shrugs. "Maybe?"

"Do you have more perhaps, Tennyson?" someone asks from the corner of the class and Ben curiously turns his head.

The question was asked by the one and only Yaoyorozu, also packed and ready to leave. "I mean, you did state 'more or less'. "

Throughout the duration of the conversation, she hadn't been paying attention too much and was focused on assessing the first year's curriculum just like how their teacher instructed.

But as soon as Tennyson's forms became the topic, her curiosity started to nag at her. Yaoyorozu had seen Water Hazard in Midoriya's notebook, and if Ben was comfortable with it, she would like to see more...

Sero says: "There is just no way, right?"

Ben was seemingly dodging the question.

So Sero asked again: "Right?"

To be honest, even after the mall incident and training Midoriya, he still wasn't too comfortable with sharing his powers like that… But he really wasn't seeing a way out of this one.

With Ben staying quiet, the class was taken aback. "Really?!"

Ashido then quickly grabs Ben's arm and takes a closer look at the Omnitrix. "Then, if not 4, how many guys do you actually manage?"

"Hmm…" Ben thinks and then shrugs inside his head. "Eh, what would be the point of hiding it?"

"10." Ben says with a slight hint of pride and then thinks of his old transformations. "... and counting."

10… 10 different forms… and that meant 6 that they haven't even seen yet...

It weighed on the entire class… at least for 2 seconds.

"Can you show us one more?" Ashido asks with a smile full of anticipation. "Just one more, please."

Ben looks at the watch and hesitates. "I don't-" But the peer pressure just kept on coming.

"Your forms are all interesting, ribbit." Asui says.

Shoji says as he sits back down to his chair. "I must say that I'm curious as well."

"I mean… if you are for real then we're just one below half." Kaminari says. "I would say, let's just complete the first set."

As the lightning boy speaks his mind, Jiro says under her breath: "Is everything just a game to you?"

"Okay, what the hell..." Ben shrugs and hits the rims of the Omnitrix.

Suddenly a mystical green glow appears in the classroom and Ben turns the dial, to select his next form. "Now who to pick..."

Everyone was itching to see what their American friend would turn into. What could be next? They had already seen a tiger with anger problems, a mutated wolf, a rolly polly and a bug that was a whole mile away from cute.

But no one was as anxious as Yaoyorozu. Looking at her classmate from behind due to the position of their desks. "What will you morph into this time?.. Will it be in-line with my animal hypothesis..."

Then suddenly, "Can it be a dazzlin' one this time?" the same blonde with the fancy belt says.

Remembering his name from the quirk assessment, Ben replies: "Not a bad idea Aoyama." and slams the dial.

A green flash covers the area, resulting in Yaoyorozu shielding her eyes. Once she opened them back up again, she was greeted by a sight… that she never expected to see. "What..."

"Chromastone!" Ben poses and slightly lights up his pinkish crystals. "Dazzlin' enough?"

Aoyama was pleasantly surprised. "Oui… It's amazing."

"Well, we lost him..." Ashido says jokingly but she also loved this tall fusion of rocks. "You're looking really fancy Tennyson."

"You think? It's most likely just the rainbow glow..."

"Yeah! The two of you, while Ben is in this form, could totally be a team!" she says enthusiastically.

The two foreign students look at each other.

"Oh yeah…" Jiro says. "And then you could form your own agency, The Twinkling Troupe."

"The Twinkling Troupe?" says Aoyama looks over and then spins around with an energy unique to him. "That's not bad! Tennyson, we have to do that."

"Uh…" Chromastone sweat drops. "How about occasional team-ups and you keep the name?"

"Deal."

"By the way, what else does he do?" Ashido asks.

"I'm glad you asked..." he proudly turns.

As Chromastone turns to Ashido to answer and turns off the lighting, Yaoyorozu catches a glimpse of the new form's front. "A silicone based structure… Different colored crystals sticking out like spikes..."

Now that she had a closer point of view, she also noticed one another thing on Chromastone and her eyes really went wide.

Swiftly picking up her backpack, she walks right towards the door. "It looks great Tennyson..."

"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Chromastone asks.

"My driver is waiting downstairs." and closes the door behind her.

The class is left staring after her. "She's a rich girl alright..."

But Ben was left the most curious. To him, Yaoyorozu looked visibly shaken. "Did I… do something wrong?"


With the sun shining behind her, Yaoyorozu quickly made her way to a black luxury car waiting for her. It was longer than the average car but a bit too short to be called a limo.

She opens the door and gets inside.

"Juuuuuust another day at school, eh, Little Miss Y.?" the driver asks in an overly cheerful way.

The driver was relatively tall and bulky with an athletic build. He had a huge chin, orange hair, black eyes. And despite the rich background, the driver was wearing relatively normal clothes like a leather jacket, yellow shirt and orange tie, but he still had a brown cap, proving in some sense that he was still a driver.

"Yes, it has been enjoyable..." she answers. "But there is something I want to talk dad about, so can we get home as fast as possible?-"

Her eyes then go wide… She should not have said that, but the driver had already heard it.

"Your wish... is my command, ha ha!" He stepped on the gas, making the luxury car roar forward and sticking Yaoyorozu's back to the couch.

"So…" He then looked back at her for some small talk. "You want to get back home that badly? Honestly, been there."

"Not really." Yaoyorozu said as she pulled herself out. "The teacher represented the U.A. very well and my classmates are quite capable."

There was just… this odd feeling in her heart. Was it relief? Fear? Curiosity?

Whatever it was, she couldn't define it on her own just yet. "So, perhaps shock-?"

The car suddenly swerved very sharply and the driver continued.

"It's been a while since I have been at school, but in some ways, the road is still my school."

"Hey… That's deep. I gotta write that down." he stroked his chin and immediately reached for a pen and paper, making the car swerve again.

"Gah!" she blurted out. "Keep your eyes on the road, Launchpad."

With a merciful tone, "You know mom will make every dent come out of your salary… again."

He then grabbed the wheel with both hands. "Absolutely. Hey, have ya read about the crazy goings on at the Shiromaru Mine? People are talkin about cold air coming from it in spring and while it's buried shut! Think it's haunted?.."

Even though he was just a driver, Launchpad's spirit always cherished anything mysterious and when he was going, there was barely a way to stop him.

And at that point, Yaoyorozu did something that she absolutely hated… She pressed the divider. "Sorry about that Launchpad, but for just this one time, I need to gather my thoughts..."

So, what was she going to say to her father when she got back? All she had was a hunch, not fact… But the appearance, the stance, was it not Te-

With 0 warning, the car suddenly stopped and without a seatbelt, Yaomomo would have been flung right towards the window.

"We're here, Yaoyorozu Manor." the driver said as the creation girl opened the car's door.

Covered by a whole forest, there stood a giant white mansion with multiple windows, a door that was far larger than it needed to be and two towers accompanying the entire structure on each of the sides.

She entered through the door, with her knees weak from the 'nice driving' by Launchpad.

"Greetings Mistress Yaoyorozu..." says the butler as the rich girl steps inside.

He was a relatively slim, elderly man with gray hair despite mostly being bald. On top of that he had a mustache and was wearing a three-piece suit, a black jacket, a maroon vest and a white long-sleeved shirt with a black tie.

"I see that the young mistress had an exhausting first day. Shall I prepare lavender herb tea?"

"No need Alfred." Momo waves it off. She really wanted to come in with a serious attitude, but that would only worry the people inside. "Can you tell me where my father is?"

"Surely." He then points upstairs. "Your father is currently busy inside his office. Shall I call him down?"

"No need, I can go up to talk to him. Thank you anyway."

"Understood. Now, if I may..." Alfred says and bows before leaving for the kitchen.

As soon as he leaves, Yaoyorozu's happy attitude vanishes and she starts making her way up the stairs, making sure to keep herself from running. "It can't be possible, right..."

She gently knocks on the door and waits for a response. "Our shares increased by 0.53% today…"

Momo calmly knocks again. "He is probably busy, documenting our current-"

"Come in!"

Opening the door, she says: "Hello father."

Inside, sitting behind his luxuriously large desk, was a middle-aged man of medium build and height. He had short black hair with a few locks of hair parted to one side and had a mustache. As for what he was wearing, he was wearing a standard business suit.

"Oh, Momo!" his father gets up from his desk and gives his daughter a warm hug. "How was the first day of school?"

"It was very pleasant, father." She embraces the warm welcome. "I made sure to meet many of my classmates just like you instructed."

The father raises an eyebrow. "Really? And what are their names?"

She sweatdrops. "So, there is Tennyson, Jiro, Midoriya, Uraraka, Iida, Kirishima, Ashido, Asui… umm… Bakugo?"

"That's only 9 people, pumpkin." He points out immediately. "Have you not met the other 10?"

Trying to meet her father's gaze."I… have not had the opportunity yet?.." she hesitantly answers.

Her father seemed stern and eager for an answer but… he just couldn't be tough on his only daughter.

"Ha ha, I understand. That's still plenty of people." He goes over the names inside his head. "And one of them is a foreigner?"

"Yes, nothing really escapes your Mind Mansion, father."

Her father's quirk is called Mind Mansion. In a permanent location of his own choosing, Mr. Yaoyorozu can keep a perfectly documented memory of everything that he perceived. However, the quirk works at one tenth of its power upon leaving the premises.

A perfect quirk for a husband to remember every single special day that exists! Also a perfect excuse to keep track of their ever expanding business right from the comfort of his home...

She would love to keep up with this idle chat, but the last thing Yaoyorozu wanted was to lose focus. "Say father, do we still keep our holiday souvenirs in your office?"

"Of course." Mr. Yaoyorozu walks over to a nearby cupboard and opens it. "Did you want to take a look at them?"

"Yes, specifically photos and videos of when we went to America..."

He looks at the shelves, with his finger wandering around an unlimited number of photos that were all neatly kept. "Which part of America are we talking about, pumpkin?"


Niagara Falls, 5 years ago

"How can you not admire the beauty and raw power of nature?.." Mr. Yaoyorozu says from a nearby path's railings, gesturing at the waterfalls in front of him.

"I don't know honey..." Mrs Yaoyorozu says, walking over next to her husband with her own raincoat. "I like the sights but…"

She gestured at the waterfall as well but couldn't really bring the end of her sentence. "I don't know… What are you thinking, Momo?"

Springing up from her position, the 10 year old Momo immediately gets on the railings and looks with awe inspiring wonder. The roaring sound of the water and the light reflecting off from it, not to mention the small droplets of water landing on her face.

"It's... really beautiful, dad." She gets off from the railing. "Thank you for bringing us here."

"It was no issue… After all, Alfred was the one who flew us here."

They then wave over to Alfred, who was waiting in the car for them.

"So, what do you want to go on first? The boat, the cable car… Potentially 'Journey Behind the Falls'?"

With that question, Momo's expression immediately shifted from excited to deep thought.

One thing she knew about his father was that, even if he was going on vacation and had one tenth of the capacity to bring with him, he would make sure to well verse himself in getting the optimal experience. After doing that in his work for so long, it was a habit of his at this point.

Like she had been waiting for this question, Momo's mother immediately: "I vote for the cable car."

The rest of the family looks over. "I mean… Looking from above with the cable car, it just seemed much calmer..."

His father crosses his arms and looks at his family. "I apologize… But I have to select the boat. Pumpkin?"

"Umm..." Momo says and then looks at both of her parents."Is it okay if I pick the cable car?"

"Sure…" Momo's father shrugs. "We can do the boat at a later time."

With a smile, she runs back to the car, and the two parents are left alone for a minute.

"Told you she would like it here." Momo's father says.

After a brief drive by car, they make their way to the terminal...

"Alfred." Says Mrs. Yaoyorozu. "Do you desire to join us?"

"Oh no, let me not intrude on your family vacation."

"It's fine Alfred, really." Momo says. "You would not be intruding at all."

The butler looks at Mrs Yaoyorozu's eyes, searching for her permission.

Seeing Momo's mother nod, he says: "Well, if the little mistress insists."

After purchasing some tickets from the ticket booth, they get onto a cable car that starts from the right side of the waterfall…

With a video camera at hand, 10 year old Momo takes her palace right next to her father. "Oh, look at you..."

"Not all of us have that pristine memory, dad." she answers and just does her best to capture everything.

The giant source of water under them, the greenery on the sides, the bright light coming from the opposite cart… Wait what?

She puts the camera down and rubs her eyes. "What kind of a mutant type quirk is that?"

It doesn't take long for them to pass by one another and all Momo can focus on is the tall cinder man with a campfire head standing next to a girl and an old man. "A pro hero maybe?"

"I don't know him." says the redhead girl as they get further away from each other.

However, just before they got out of range, both cable carts shook vigorously and stopped with an emergency.

Ripping the opposite roof open, a monster says: "But we do!" before another one grabs the charcoal man.

"And we know all of his secrets..."

In a red flash, suddenly the flaming figure leaves his place for a… kid?

"Ahhhhhhhh!" screamed Mrs Yaoyorozu and quickly ducked behind the cart's wall. "Come to me, Momo!"

"Villains..." Momo's father thinks and takes out his phone, but the expensive piece of tech immediately gets hit by a shiny green crystal.

"Not on my watch." The monster reforms his diamond arm and nags his finger. "Now sit still, this will all be over soon."

With a hardened glare, both Mr. Yaoyorozu and Alfred take cover with the rest of the family. In the meantime, Momo was doing her best to keep a cool head.

"Villains?! Here?!" She thinks, slightly panicking from all this. "Keep it together Momo, first… observe the situation."

She wiggles away from her mother's grip, just enough to pop her eyes out from the side of the cable car.

"Okay, one of them is..." She had no words for what she was seeing. It was a walking brute which was the mishmash of all kinds of body parts and textures available and had a weird device on his back. "... a monster. And the other… has an octopus on his head..."

Like fate was waiting for her to watch, a green flash came from the car and the kid in the black and white t-shirt was no more. Momo could only assume the worst. "No!"

The two villains immediately look at the source of the yell and then back to where the kid was.

Suddenly, in yet another green flash, a crystal fist uppercuts the octopus headed villain. "Oh yeah! Think again!"

The crystal hero almost knocks the octopus head off the cart, with him barely being able to hang on.

Seeing the other villain coming up, Momo yells: "Behind you!"

The hero ducks under the punch and counters with one of his own right to his gut! "Thanks."

Momo waves at the hero but is then immediately pulled back down by her parents.

"Stay close to Alfred all right, pumpkin?" Mr. Yaoyorozu warned and looked over briefly like an officer in a shootout. "You're too young to be this close to the action..."

Suddenly, the crystalline warrior was thrown right into their cart, passing above them, through the window.

He shakes his head. "Ow… Even I could feel that..."

Momo and her family look fearfully at the display in front of them… With cracks on his arms, the warrior laid in place.

She could also make out a symbol on him. "Did the flame person have that as well?"

"What's wrong twerp!" The hulking hero breaks into the cable car and steps on the hero's chest. "What happened to all that talk?! Being stronger than us?!"

"No! Get away from him!" Momo shouts, creating two bricks on her arms and freeing herself from Alfred's grip.

Making a steel staff, she then hits the giant in the back… to 0 effect.

"Hmph?" he notices the girl. "Oh, wasn't that cute..."

"Get away from her!" The crystal warrior deforms his arms and shoots several shards right at the abomination, managing to make him falter.

With the villain losing his balance, the crystal warrior gets up and tackles him.

Starting to close off the rest of the cart with diamonds, he yells out: "You won't harm anyone while I'm around!"

As part of the cart was getting sealed off, Momo continued to stare at the warrior's back. An unwavering green crystalline hero...

"Heard that kid?! HE will protect you from ME?! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" As the stand still continued, the villain continued to laugh. "You forgot the meaning of 11 or what, twerp? I got your powers, plus my own!"

Momo could not see any further and she felt the weight shift on the cart. So she made a move towards the window. "Don't lose, hero! Please don't lose!"

Her heart immediately sank.

All she could see was the hulking villain flying with the two wings on his back, while her hero hung onto the villain's legs. "Afraid of heights?"

The hero grins. "Not so much."

She sees her hero letting himself go, but before she can see more, another green flash covers her field of vision.

"Where did..." All she could make out after that, was the octopus-faced villain tackling something down to the steel barge on the waterfall, before suddenly being pulled away from the window.

"Momo!" Mrs Yaoyorozu yelled at her daughter. "Never ever EVER, do that to me again!"

"Are you alright little miss?" Alfred asks, equally concerned.

"Yes..." Momo takes a deep breath. "I'm alright… He protected me..."

"Good… That's good..." Mrs Yaoyorozu says, with adrenaline starting to leave her system, making her voice weaker by the second.

Holding onto tears, she says: "Y-Your father is calling the police and heroes now from my phone… We'll be alright..."


Scratching her head, Momo asks: "...and then the police came, am I right? What happened after that?"

Her father had his arms crossed, refusing to continue his story.

Momo asks again more emotionally. "What happened after that, dad?!"

"Later, the police and heroes arrived..." he says and after taking a deep breath, continues: "We testified for the attack, however the barge had fallen off the waterfall and neither the hero nor the villains were found… I'm sorry."

She could faintly remember hearing that police report as her mother and Alfred were trying to get her into the car… and the nightmares that came along with it.

Every night for the rest of their vacation, she would wake up in a cold sweat, dreaming of the monster's return and finishing the job he started all that time ago.

But, it wasn't the time for that now… She needed to keep her focus on the task at hand.

"Is there anything left from that time?" Momo asks. "A photo? Maybe even a crystal?"

Her father averts his gaze, but he knows his daughter…

So, he makes a move to his desk. "Make sure your mother never sees this..."

He opens one of his drawers, takes something out and slides it over...

It was her old video camera! Back from their trip. "He kept it all this time?"

She takes it and slightly bows her head. "Thank you."

As Momo was about to get outside, her father called out. "Momo!"

She stops.

"What's going on? Why did you bring this up now?" He questions her daughter… But for the first time, not a word escapes her lips…

"Momo!" he cries out again while the teen closes the door after her.

But there was no answer.

"She wasn't scared, so the monster can't have come back… So did the hero?-"

He could get only one glance of his daughter's face before she left. And all he could see… was resolve.


She entered the room, shut the door, tossed her backpack on her bed and without losing another second, plugged the camera into her computer.

After the hero's crash landing, it turns out she had briefly dropped the camera to the floor. The lens was scratched and the angle wasn't exactly favourable. But she had got it…

After rotating the image from the video and trying her best on photoshop, she immediately activated her printer.

The picture that came out was still a bit blurry but, to Momo, it was fine.

Staring emotionally at it, she thinks:

"This is not just a simple animal quirk, is it?.."

The picture was of the crystal hero's cracked body… and the hourglass symbol positioned on his chest.

She sat back on her computer and continued her research.

"What are you hiding Tennyson…"


And that's the cut off point!

Sorry about the short length again but this was the best that I could do without unnecessarily stretching it out.

Also, unfortunately Hagakure got cut out of Class 1-A for the place of Ben. I felt really bad while doing this since I liked the energy she had within the class and 1-A didn't have many female characters in the first place. I have not planned for it, but I might try to bring her back because of that.

As for the alien lineup, the Number 7 is Jetray! To be honest, this one was also a last minute change similar to Water Hazard.

For the longest time, this was where the third classic alien was going to get revealed and it was going to be Stinkfly. But after what I said in the last chapter, I felt like there were high expectations for the final 4 aliens, so hence I changed it up.

Despite this switch though, we still have one more classic hidden within the last 3 so make sure to look out for him.

Lastly, the next chapter should be out on the 19th and we're going to be covering the Battle Trial! I already have some of it written out and I can't wait for you guys to see what I have in store.

Until then, have a great day and see you on the next one.


Replies to "guest" reviews

Wahid Alam: yes, yes, YES! My boi rath is here! Finally, some exciting alien! gotta admit, you were kinda losing me because everything was becoming boring. but this chapter made the story exciting for me again. But, I still want swampfire. ok, now to the flaws. The chapter was pretty good. I have little nitpick here. There wasn't as much as focus needed for ben. We all know what happens to the ua kids in the first day of their school. but we want to know what happens to ben in this au. the episode should've been more focused on Ben and him interacting to other students more. overall, still a good chapter. 8/10.

DBZpower197: Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback, I really appreciate comments like this.

For the focus on Ben, I kinda had to take the focus off him a bit to introduce the other big players beside him in the coming story. There was no way that I would do this crossover but not shake up the AF team.

As for Ball Weevil, I won't retcon him like I did with Chamalien and Stinkfly because I have several scenes already planned out and also because I already introduced him. Plus, I plan to take every alien seriously rather than treating some like they are just a punchline, so just wait, maybe you'll like him.

And for the alien guesses, I guess you have to wait and see… :D