Chapter3- The Imp: Origins

One month before Izuku's accident

Mineta Minoru made a terrible mistake.

Now please don't misunderstand, he made plenty before, and he continue to make plenty afterwards, but this was a major fuck up.

Because this mistake led him here, dying in an alleyway, with a knife in his head.

The purple pervert ponders how he was put in this predicament, but his memories are all scattered, mostly because of the dagger penetrating his skull.

An orphanage, not getting adopted, disgusting from those around him…butts…oh right…

He was looking up some girl's skirt.

He was going through his normal route to the orphanage when he saw her. Blond hair, red eyes, she was a student from the looks of it, but he couldn't tell from where.

With his 3ft statuer, he had a great view under the girls skirt. He saw Nirvana for 3 seconds, then something felt off.

A sharp pain In his head, his nose started bleeding, and then he fell. The pain only lasted for a short moment oddly enough, it was like all the feeling left his body.

"Disgusting perv" the girl sneers before pressing her foot on the end of the knife's handle, pushing it further into the boy's skull. "I don't even want my knife back"

She left Minoru there, laying still, except for the occasional twitch.

He laid there for 3 hours, he should have died long before then, but he was still alive. For reasons the boy was unaware of, he was still alive after a stab to the head. He was unable to move, and his thoughts were a mess, but he was alive.

"Well now, what is this"

Man? Woman? Minoru could not tell, for it sounded like both speaking at the same time. The dying boy can't move his eyes, all he can see is the boots of the person in front of him, and then he hears the buzzing of bees.

"What an odd brain composition" the voice says while something Minoru can't see picks him up. "I need to examine this further" is all Minoru hears before his consciousness blurs out.

When Minoru wakes up again, he still can't move, and now he can't see. There's a loud thumping sound, and being drowned out by that thumping is talking.

"You brought another kid in?" He can hear the voice of a woman.

"There are too many of usss here as isss" he can another woman hiss out.

"And were not sssharing a room" another woman, a different voice, but same hissing inflection.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE HIM TO A HOSPITAL!?"

That voice was a man's, loud and highly concerned. The bickering goes on for a bit until the voice he heard first speaks up

"Remarkable! The hypothalamus and pituitary gland are highly functional. And his brain seems to be completely encased in a purple glaze."

The thumping stops, and Minoru is blinded by a bright light. His eyes take a moment to adjust, and when they do, he finally sees his savior.

"Rejoice child, I will be saving you"

"Boss, just take him to a hospital" Minoru sees an obvious foreigner say, the hunchback just waves him off.

"Those hacks couldn't handle this. Maybee, get the gumblar system"

"And a month later here we are" Mineta says, he just finished explaining his situation like it was the most common thing in the world.

It had been 3 months since Izuku's near death experience, and during that time, he and Mineta mostly talked to pass the time. Today they were outside, and the topic of how Mineta got his system was brought up.

"That's awful" Midoriya cries, clearly talking about Mineta's actions.

"I know right, total overreaction" Mineta nods his head while looking through his phone, "but hey, my quirk evolved when she stabbed me, so that's a plus."

"Evolved how?"

"Oh check this out", Mineta smiles as he pulls one of the purple balls from his head. "So normally these balls are liquid on the inside, completely unreactive to any and all stimulates. But after the stab, the liquid became hyper reactive. If the membrane of the ball is broken…"

A tube with a needle on the end comes out of the contraption on Mineta's back, the imp throws the ball and the tendril lashes out, cutting the ball. The moment the liquid comes in contact with oxygen, it combusts in a violent manner, almost like a TNT.

Midoriya jumps back from the explosion, and Mineta cracks up.

"Hahaha, yeah, that's only the ones near my frontal lobe."he says while pointing to the front of his head. Moving his finger to the right side of his head, he further explains.

"The ones here are a paralyzing agent" he explains while moving his finger to the left side of his head, "over here his adrenaline.

he finally points to the back of his head, "and these are highly conductive."

Mineta was so engrossed in his explanation of his quirk that he didn't notice Izuku's mumbling. The white haired boy completely loses himself in analyzing Mineta's quirk.

"Yo, buddy, pal, amigo, home slice…MIDORIYA!!"

"Huh" Izuku finally snaps out of it, "sorry, bad habit".

"Yeah cool, we need to go! That explosion alerted somebody, and I heard sirens".

Izuku snaps up and becomes aware of the world around him once more, hearing the blaring of sirens getting close.

Izuku turns to Mineta, but he's already running off. "Haul ass!" He screams while making a break for the garage.

A week after

Minoru and Izuku sit in the kitchen of the strange garage/house, In front of them is Layla, otherwise known as Bomber.

"Alright listen, if you two are gonna stay here, you need to work"

Izuku nods his head while Mineta shrugs his shoulders, Layla handing them their phones. The doc just put a strange app on both.

"This is the Topologics hotline, we do odd jobs on it" she explains while pointing to the various requests popping upon the app.

"Though technically Izuku isn't a Topologic since your system wasn't made by the doc exclusively, but we're not rebranding now" she explains while turning away from the two. "Now if you'll excuse me, I got a request to deal with a woman's stalker ex". She walks out of the door, and turns to Mineta while a smug smile creeps on her face, "and she's HOT".

She slams the door and Mineta curses to himself. "Midoriya, we need to accept a job from a hot lady, this instance!"

"I-I mean, shouldn't we focus on getting a job from anyone?" Izuku asks while scrolling through the app, getting a good look at its functions.

It's a bit like a job hunting site, with various names and summaries of their requests, and when you click on it, it shows more in depth explanations.

On the top corners the apps are icons, Izuku's has a white ring, while Minoru has a grape. Right beside it is a small 1.

"Wait Midoriya, how'd you get your mom to be ok with this?" Mineta asks. Curious since his mother was lukewarm at his staying here at most.

"It took some convincing, but she came around. I really needed to get out of the house, since I'm not going back to school" Midoriya explains while scrolling through the app and seeing a strange request *please wash my 37 dogs*

Mineta swipes up for Izuku, "Absolutely not" he says before continuing the conversation. "Wait a minute, you were pushed off a roof, what happened to your bullies?"

"they… I heard there was a bit of a stir, but it's not like they meant for it to happen. Plus, I was a quirkless kid, no one cared."

"That's fucked up" Mineta pitty laughs while looking at another request. *Please escort me across town* next to the request is a picture of a beautiful woman with red skin. Mineta is about to click on it, but Izuku stops him.

"That's level 2, we're level one" he points out, causing the grape haired boy to let out a huff.

This goes on for about 5 minutes, until Izuku comes across this request *clean my room cause I'm to lazy*.

"What joker posted this?" Mineta laughs

"It is a bit strange" Izuku points out

Mineta clicks on the request to get a better look, and freezes in place. Below the request is a picture of a blond bombshell. She's wearing sweatpants and a dirty shirt, and the room around her is a mess, but Mineta doesn't care.

Before Izuku can say anything, Mineta clicks the accept job button, and the two are given an address.

Izuku actually shows the faintest hint of annoyance at Mineta, and the imp gives an excuse.

"Alright look, my body moved on instinct, I'm sorry. But I already clicked the accept button, so we might as well go"

Izuku sighs and rises from his chair, "alright, get dressed"