I-Island: Expo


"I must say, it's quite nice that David would send his own jet for us to use!" Toshinori tried to laugh but found himself just coughing out blood instead. The plane David had sent for them was top of the line, latest in aviation technology straight from I-Island itself. A true masterpiece of the craft, and it was all for him and two kids.

Izuku and Reiko looked on as the man tried to wipe away the blood with a handkerchief, Izuku grimacing at the sight and Reiko asking if that usually happened. Izuku was said to respond in the affirmative.

They had met up just hours prior, before waiting to be picked up by Toshinori who had taken them to the airport in an old beat up truck, and it wasn't until now that Izuku realized that Toshinori would be traveling with them to the Expo, something he was rather excited about, but also worried over.

Was All Might able to travel? He obviously did travel for work, but didn't he have lots of medicine to take and probably a daily check up that he was required to do with Recovery Girl, "I mean, there's no way he just exists like that every day…" Izuku muttered to himself as their bags were hauled aboard by airport staff.

Would he be getting check ups while on I-Island? Were there people capable of doing that? After all, only Recovery Girl covered All Might currently as she was the only one capable of doing so that was in on the secret of his true form and One For All.

"You're mumbling again." Reiko chided him as she poked his cheek, to which Izuku rubbed his neck in embarrassment.

Toshinori looked at the two and smiled while cleaning up stray blood on his chin with a handkerchief, he was glad his successor was able to live a joyous life with friends, unlike himself. And it would stay that way for as long as he had a say in things, "Now come, you two, we have a flight to catch!" He said without coughing.

The two teens glanced at him before nodding along, Izuku holding a hand out for Reiko if she needed help getting up the many steps to the plane, she didn't need the help but still took the hand either way.

Something that they were both silently happy about.

It took only a few moments before the three were situated in the aircraft, Reiko and Izuku sitting side by side and Toshinori across from them. The disguised pro smiled at the two looking at an in-depth pamphlet that was on the side of the table in a stack, covering what was going on at the I-Island Expo, including tech that would be shown and people that would be covering them.

Even the model plane was included in the pamphlet.

"I mean —- a showcase of all the latest tech to come out from the most advanced place in the entire world!" Izuku laughed as he skimmed through it, seeing improvements on all sorts of old gear like jet-packs, gauntlets, and shock absorption gear and entirely new inventions like zero-gravity areas, double gravity training gyms and even more while also looking at entirely theoretical thoughts that were being discussed–

"What's that?" Reiko asked as she pointed at a red glove.

Toshinori pointed up as Izuku laid the pamphlet down, reading the name, "It's called the Full Gauntlet… made by one Melissa Shield?" He stated confused, "Is she related to David Shield? All Might's first sidekick?"

"Ha!" Toshinori laughed quietly to himself and grabbed the pamphlet, flipping it over to grin even more, "Young Melissa is David's daughter, and All Might's god daughter." The old man spoke softly, softer than Izuku had ever heard him speak before, with a true genuine smile on his face. "She's quite the inventor."

Izuku perked up, grabbing an extra pamphlet from the stack, flipping through a section dedicated to young inventors that were enrolled at the school on the man made island, Melissa Shield seemed to be their most promising one, "I've never heard of her before this, I wonder why…" He mumbled.

His companion leaned on his shoulder, just close enough to read what was on the page, "It appears I've found the reason." Reiko interrupted and pointed at a specific section, a part of the page dedicated to information about the inventors, her quirk was labeled N/A. "She's quirkless."

Izuku's eyes widened as he followed Reiko's finger, no words coming out as the information slowly rolled through his mind. "She's quirkless." He mimicked. Toshinori raised a brow at his student while Reiko snapped to his eyes, seeing contemplation behind them, "But she looks so happy."

The words alarmed his teacher and friend, both sharing a glance before trying to reign in Izuku's attention.

"Young Mido—"

"Izuku."

The boy's eyes snapped towards her, only inches apart, she grabbed his face to keep their gazes locked. "I will never pretend to know what happened in your past, but trust that I will always be someone you can confide in." Izuku's cheeks squished together as Reiko creased her brows, "And— if I ever have the fortune of acquainting myself with anyone that made your life harder in younger years, I will take much joy in tormenting them."

Toshinori coughed out blood and Izuku's face bloomed into a blush. "Y-Young Yanagi, as a hero in training you can't make such threats!" The disguised pro chastised as he hastily cleaned up his coughing fit.

Reiko blinked owlishly at Toshinori before looking back at Izuku, "I will take much joy in their negative karma that will definitely not be caused by my own actions." To her joy, Izuku giggled, a small stress free sound that caused her heart to do flips.

"Thank you, Reiko." And hearing him say her name so casually only caused more flips to happen.


Their conversation died down as the plane drew closer and closer to I-Island, though both of Izuku's acquaintances made note to ask him later about how he felt about his old quirk status, up until Toshinori glanced out the window an hour later. A wide smile came to his face as something finally entered into view, "Young Midoriya, Young Yanagi, look!"

Izuku's mouth fell open and Reiko's eyes widened as they saw.

"I-ISLAND!" The hero otaku screamed so loud his accompaniment winced. "I'm actually here! We're actually here!" He shook so much, like a little boy that was still watching All Might's debut video.

Toshinori grinned, "Yes, we are, my boy."

Reiko glanced at the older man, for some reason having an odd sense of Deja Vu, before shrugging and instead focusing on Izuku's excitement. "It's almost going to be time for us to land, do you have all of your belongings ready?"

"Huh? O-Oh! Yeah of course!" Izuku blabbed as the plane started to descend. The two had to end up forcing him to sit in his seat, and with a little bit of coaxing they managed to do it. With a short rock, they touched down and Izuku's excitement reached new extremes as he threw off his seat belt and the door to the vehicle flew open to allow them passage onto the most technologically advanced place in the world.

Multitudes of heroes that had all been invited to I-Island, and Izuku saw them all scattered throughout the tech show. Some of Japan's most notable heroes, like Wash and Endeavor, were present, while there were also heroes from other countries that Izuku had never even heard of before. It was all surreal, like I-Island wasn't even a real place and instead Izuku found himself in heaven, a hero otaku's heaven.

Toshinori planted a hand on his student's shoulder, "Holding up, Young Midoriya?"

"Of course!" He squeaked back, causing his mentor to laugh. "Reiko, Reiko! Look at all the cool heroes!"

"I can see them. They are in plain view." She replied.

Many of both the island's inhabitants and people who had paid to come were strewn about, every now and then were big groups surrounding what Izuku assumed were pros. A short glance at his mentor made him think about what would happen if Toshinori was in his buff form.

They would be swamped.

But, over all of the crowds, a young woman came into view… on a pogo stick…?

"Sorry, coming through!" The woman yelled as she hopped and hopped over the civilians, woman, men, and children yelping and shouting as she just barely missed. But, when Izuku looked at her, his eyes found she was smiling without a care in the world, she wasn't barely missing, each of her jumps were careful and calculated. Apparently she was a pogo expert.

"And—" She landed right before the three of them, though this time didn't bounce back up, "We're here." She hopped off of her pogostick and the item shrunk down so much that it fit in her pocket. "Howdy."

"H-Hi." Izuku tried to catch the tip of the shrinkable pogostick in her pocket before looking back up at her and a realization struck him, "Y-You're Melissa Shield!" He exclaimed and pointed at her.

Reiko perked up and used her quirk to flip through the pamphlet from the plane, pulling up an image of the woman and comparing it to the one in front of them, "How astute of you, Izuku."

Melissa giggled, "That I am." She stuck out a hand, "And you're Izuku Midoriya, right? You won the First Years Sports Festival at UA."

Izuku eagerly took her hand and shook it with both of his, as if he was meeting a celebrity. After all, how many people could say they got to meet the genius daughter of All Might's first ever sidekick? Not many. "Yeah, how'd you know?"

"You've been the talk of the island, especially after that Stain thing." Melissa smiled as Izuku blushed, forgetting how many people talked about that, "Now, Yield is literally talked about everywhere."

"Y-Yeah, it's kind of embarrassing–" Izuku paused, "Wait." He blinked. "Yield?"

"Yeah?" Melissa tilted her head.

Izuku glanced at Toshinori, then Reiko, and then back at Melissa, "My name's Deku. You've got the wrong guy."

The two blinked at each other, before Izuku felt a poke on his cheek. "No, it appears online that your name has gotten dropped in favor of "Yield" which was derived from the title you had added to your name." Reiko commented as her phone, floating of course, was continuously bumping Izuku's cheek with an article pulled up on it.

Quickly snatching the device out of the air, Izuku scrolled through the article, muttering so fast none of them understood quite what he was saying. Eventually, he handed Reiko back her phone.

"Are you well, Young Midoriya?" Toshinori asked.

"Y-Yeah." Izuku stammered, "Just a little… confused? I suppose." Izuku shook his head, trying to figure out where the name change had derived from. Though, he supposed it was of no importance. "But, that doesn't explain what you're doing here, Melissa?"

"Well." The blond turned around and motioned for the three to follow, "My dad told me to take care of you three while you're here and he's gonna be dealing with All Might."

"Wow, I wasn't sure my boss was going to be able to make it." Toshinori sent Izuku a mischievous grin before looking back at Melissa. "When's he going to be here?"

Passing through crowds of civilians and heroes, Melissa turned back to them and shrugged, "Dad didn't say, all I know is that he's got a speech scheduled for a banquet later today."

"A banquet?" Izuku asked, "Is that why you had us bring dress clothes, Mr. Yagi?"

"Of course!" The older man smiled as the group came to a halt, "Now, I have business to discuss with Mr. Shield. So why don't you two–" He glanced at Reiko and Izuku, "Get better acquainted with Ms. Shield and the area?"

"I suppose that is possible." Reiko glanced at the older girl, "Why don't we go grab some food?"

"That's a great idea!" Melissa grabbed both of them by their hands, "I know a great spot!" Toshinori watched as the three teens retreated before heading off on his own, after all he was going to be having a very important meeting with a lovely old friend.

"All of the training I've been doing for the past year is going to be undone by this one sandwich."

"That is a rather giant overestimation of the caloric quality of this food, Izuku."

The two bantered as Melissa glanced between them, Izuku was eyeing a rather large sandwich that was much too large for his mouth as Reiko floated chips that he had bought into her own mouth while a video played on her phone. What it was? Melissa didn't know.

Izuku decided to take a bite, barely fitting the thing in his maw and audibly swallowing. "Is it good, Izuku?" Reiko asked, still not looking away from her phone. He only nodded.

"You two seem close." Melissa giggled, using a robot to cut up her own steak for her which earned a rather amazed look from Izuku, "And you guys use each other's given names which to my knowledge isn't very common in Japan, right?"

"Yeah?" Izuku asked before taking another bite, "Just feels natural."

"That it does." Reiko smiled, only slightly, before floating another chip to her mouth while also floating a napkin to Izuku. "Your face is a tad messy."

"Thank you."

Melissa couldn't believe the two of them.

"Oh, my. I didn't expect to see you here, Midoriya." A voice cut through the crowd as Izuku was mid-bite. And it was with a mouth full of food that he looked up to see one of his sister classes' representatives along with two of her friends, Jiro and Uraraka. The three girls were all in their hero costumes, which Izuku and Reiko were confused about since they weren't.

"Being caught at your most vulnerable, I believe that's what they call tragic, Izuku." Reiko almost sniggered at his expression before Izuku quickly took the last bite of his burger and shoved the plate away.

"I didn't mean to embarrass you, Midoriya." Momo grinned as she took a seat while Uraraka and Jiro looked over the menu.

"It's fine." Izuku replied as he snatched a floating chip and ate it much to Reiko's chagrin. "It's nice to see you again, Yaoyorozu."

"Likewise, Midoriya." The heiress gave a curt bow, "I don't mean to impose but what are you doing here?" She asked afterwards.

"I got two tickets for winning the Sports Festival." Izuku quickly answered, "And I asked Reiko if she wanted to come with me." He added. "And you guys?"

Jiro raised her hand, as if to say something, "Princess over here." She gestured to Yaoyorozu, "Is here on business, we just tagged along."

"Basically." Uraraka sniggered.

"N-Now, I wouldn't put it like that, especially not the princess part." Yaoyorozu had a slight blush on her face. It was surprising that she was still unaccustomed to casual talk like this after being enrolled in UA for a whole term now, "I suppose I can accept that It still does get the point across."

Izuku handed them a menu, "Well, glad to see you guys, and here in case you want to order anything."

Graciously, Uraraka took the menu and after a moment's notice of looking it over she spoke, "All this is pretty cheap…but I don't get how they're asking for fractions of single units of Yen" Uraraka mumbled looking over the prices.

"It's not Japanese money, we use our own form of currency here, since we're technically not aligned with any one nation." Melissa mentioned, pulling out her own wallet and a small card, "Don't worry, I'll cover you guys."

"You don't mind?" Yaoyorozu asked as she pulled out her own card.

"It doesn't matter, waiter!" Jiro called out.

Izuku started watching whatever was on Reiko's phone, which ended up being another one of her supernatural investigating shows. This time though, instead of a show it was a basic content creator. "Is this in America?"

"Yes, there's quite a lot of paranormal activity concentrated there it seems." Reiko replied with a hum, "I wonder how those spirits would interact with my quirk."

"But isn't your quirk just a form of telekinesis?"

"I believe you are being what they call a buzzkill." Izuku heard Jiro and Uraraka snort and tried not to pout.

"What would you like to order?" Someone interrupted, causing everyone to look up and see Kaminari in a butler outfit and just a few feet behind him catering at a different table was another familiar face..

"Kaminari! What are you doing here, you oaf?!" Jiro yelled at him.

Kaminari paused to blink before looking at the punk dressed girl, "Jiro!" He screamed much too much, "What are you doing here?!"

"I asked first!"

"Okay, okay, chill!" The blond sighed, "There were job offers for Japanese kids for a bunch of the shops on the island, at least for while this place is close anyways. I applied, told Mineta to join me but he didn't want to."

"Thank heavens." Izuku barely heard Yaoyorozu utter under her breath.

"I'd say, the uniform looks rather similar to Monoma's hero costume." Reiko commented, looking the boy who attempted to hit on her during the Sports Festival up and down.

"Monoma?" Kaminari raised a brow, "Oh, he's right over here!"

"What?" Reiko and Izuku said in sync.

"Oi, Monoma!" Kaminari called out over his shoulder, "You got some people over here that want to see you!" And sure enough, bustling between tables in a butler's outfit and a tray that was most likely filled with drinks before was Monoma, who looked like he was in his element.

"What is it, subpar classmate of 1-A, Kaminari?" Monoma asked with a smirk, and surprisingly a lot less bite than any of them ever expected.

"You don't need to add that part in everytime, dude…" Kaminari muttered.

The two stopped their bickering as Monoma took notice of everyone gathered. "Midoriya, Yanagi! My my, isn't this a pleasant surprise." Those of 1-A were surprised to see an honest smile on the boy's face as he took out a notepad, "Anything I can get you two?"

"Thanks Monoma, but we already ate, They though–" Izuku pointed to the three girls from 1-A, "Haven't."

"Riiiiiight." Monoma drew the word out as his smile now seemed just a tad forced, "And what would you three ladies like?" With that, the girls ordered their food with the card that Melissa had let them borrow, much to Uraraka's embarrassment for a reason Izuku didn't know, and that drew conversation back to something else.

"So, Midoriya." Melissa started as she cut some jello, "I've been keeping up to date on news out of Japan ever since Un– All Might started seating at UA." Izuku raised his brow at the slip up but let her continue anyways, "And I've gotta say you're strange."

Yaoyorozu sputtered mid sip and coughed while Uraraka and Jiro both raised their brows. "Wow, go for the throat much?" Jiro asked.

"A-Ah, sorry! I didn't mean it like that!" She rectified, "What I meant was, you're not a recommendation or a legacy student, but you're by far making the most waves out of any of the first years at UA, even Todoroki who is literally Endeavor's son." He supposed when she said it like that, it didn't make sense, "So that begs the question–" Melissa looked him straight in the eyes, "Who are you?"

That garnered everyone's attention, even Reiko glanced at Izuku out of the corner of her eye.

There was only one answer that came to mind, "I'm just a kid who's wanted to be a hero ever since he knew what one was." That was it.

And that was the weird thing to Reiko. Izuku was just doing what it took to become a hero because he's thought it was cool ever since he was a kid. It was cool to be like All Might, to be a symbol for something greater than himself. There was no talk about fame, wealth, or power, simply something so people could be safe when in his presence.

A cinnamon roll was the only way to describe him.

"Huh, well alright then." Melissa found herself smiling, "Thought it was going to be a little more put together than that."

It only took a couple more minutes for the entire group to head out, bidding both Kaminari and Monoma a farewell and promising to meet up with them later when both boys had finished their shifts. For now, Melissa led them all to something she thought they would enjoy as hero students.

"This is our "Villain Attack" Attraction, where hero and hero students like yourselves can compete to see who can take out all the "villains" the fastest!" Melissa announced with more cheer than Present Mic did during the Sports Festival.

The attraction was a faux cliff face, with robots taking up the spots of villains located on the mountain. It even appeared to have a timer and scoreboard to keep a tally of who had been doing the best each day.

"Sixteen seconds!" And it appears they just had a new first place. Izuku and Reiko and the 1-A girls all looked down into the attraction, and to their surprise saw Iida in his full hero costume, someone they definitely didn't believe would be laid back enough to entertain a "villain attack" simulator, that was honestly more just a game.

"Iida-san, what are you doing here?" Yaoyorozu called into the pit.

The boy robotically moved his helmeted head here and there before looking up and landing on his fellow 1-A representative, "Ah, Yaoyorozu-san, I didn't see you there!" Jiro snorted off to the side. "I was pushing my quirk to its limits in a mock test to see how fast I would be able to dispatch villains in a real scenario!"

"I bet he didn't even know about the scoreboard…" Uraraka muttered off to the side.

"He most definitely didn't." Yaoyorozu replied.

After a few minutes, Iida made his way up to meet them with his helmet off and under his side like a ball. "Uraraka-san, Jiro-san!" Iida raised a hand, "It is nice to see you here!" The boy looked over, "Midoriya-san, Yanagi-san, it is nice to see you as well!"

"Iida-san, you didn't answer my earlier question." Yaoyorozu continued from earlier, "What are you doing here?"

"Ah, my deepest apologies." Iida both bowed and chopped an arm, "My parents were asked to come to the Expo, however they've been busy with my brother's rehabilitation. I've come in their stead." Izuku was glad to see that Iida was doing better after everything that had happened in Hosu, the boy finally seemed like a darkness had been lifted off of him.

"And what of you, Yaoyorozu-san?" Iida quirked a brow.

"It is a similar situation, my parents are here on business and I was allowed to come along and invite some friends." Yaoyorozu replied with a smile, "So, I asked Jiro and Uraraka if they wished to accompany me."

"A generous offer!" Iida chopped an arm over and over.

Izuku tuned the rest of the conversation out as he looked down at his costume case before looking at the Villain Attack Simulator. "Hey, Melissa?" The blond looked over at him as the surrounding conversation was halted. "Is there anywhere I can change? I want to try the simulator."

"Huh?" She placed a hand on her head, "Yeah, there should be a changing station nearby."

"Alright, I'll be back!" Izuku set off around a corner to look for said changing station.

Reiko walked up to the others as Izuku disappeared, "I believe this is what is often referred to as "betting time" by the masses." She walked towards the edge of the barrier that looked over into the simulator. "I believe Izuku will take the top spot on the scoring board."

"There's a scoring board?" Iida asked. "Why would they add something so egregious to such a wonderful simulator!"

Only a few minutes later, Izuku was in the simulator donned in his hero costume. The boy did a few stretches before activating One For All and pulling his mask and respirator on. A small countdown rang throughout the area before ending in a loud buzzer, with that Izuku quickly shot off his feet and into the air, stacking his movement of Full Cowling on top of Air Force to make himself even faster.

With use of quick hits and air bullets, Izuku moved like a blur, the robots being destroyed as soon as he passed. And with one final air blast, Izuku sent himself down and landed on his feet once more.

"Thirteen seconds!"

After a quick tug, Izuku's mask was off allowing his hair to flow in the air. His eyes locked on his friends, and more specifically Reiko, and he couldn't help but let a smile crawl onto his For All charged up for a brief moment and Izuku leaped up towards them, "How was that?" He asked quizzically as he sat on the railing.

Yaoyorozu and Uraraka looked amazed, Iida was running his mouth asking if Izuku had done the simulator to push his quirk or to compete in a competition, Melissa was also rambling but Izuku assumed she was examining his movements, Jiro was grumbling about enhancement quirks being too strong.

And Reiko was looking him over, "I remember when you could barely use your quirk, it feels like forever ago now, doesn't it?"

Izuku rubbed the back of his neck, "Yeah it does."

Before any conversation could take place, the sound of cracking glass followed the creation of ice as a glacier covered the entire cliff face. Those of 1-A, 1-B, and Melissa looked on in shock as the robotic voice called out a simple, "Fourteen seconds!"

At the bottom of the faux mountain stood a relaxed Todoroki who quickly countered his frostbite with a flickering of fire on his left side.

"Hey, Todoroki!" Uraraka and Midoriya called out at the same time, making the boy turn to look up at them. He gave a simple curt nod.

After a moment, the boy joined them, giving them all a greeting. It was strange seeing him act so normal, but Izuku admitted to himself that he preferred this when compared to how the boy was during the Sports Festival.

"How have you all been doing?" The boy's voice was still monotone, but now it had a slight hint of lightness that wasn't there before. Perhaps that had been a thing during their Final Exam, but Izuku was much too nervous during that to realize.

"We've been well, though I'm sure you're tired after such a long trip and competing in such a simulator, are you not Todoroki?" Yaoyorozu spoke so eloquently that the surrounding people felt a tad less intelligent.

Todoroki patted his stomach, "I could eat some soba right now."

Uraraka pointed down the street, "There's a shop down that way, had really good food that we all enjoy. I'm sure there's some soba there you could get." That gained Todoroki's attention and he found his head locked towards the direction Uraraka had pointed.

"If you want to, Todoroki, I could accompany you down there." Iida offered, "I already have a card with the Island's currency in it."

"Midoriya!" Melissa called out with an idea in mind while silencing conversation, "Can you come with me? There's something I want you to test out." Whatever it was, the girl seemed eager to try it, and Izuku couldn't help but be a little reminded of Hatsume when he looked at Melissa right in the eyes.

The two were vastly different, Hatsume was like a rabid dog off of a leash, while Melissa was like a distinguished cat, but underneath he could see the same obsession that Hatsume had.

As such, Izuku was intrigued about what Melissa wanted to show him,"Sure? What is it?" 1He asked.

"It's something I've been working on for enhancement types like yourselves, but I've never had someone use it before." She summarized.

Izuku pondered, "Yeah, I can go." He turned to Iida and Yaoyorozu after, "Do you guys want to meet up with Kaminari and Monoma later and we can all head to the banquet together?"

"That sounds like a wonderful plan, Midoriya." Yaoyorozu grinned, "In the meantime, we can all try on my custom catalog of dresses!" Reiko glanced between Yaoyorozu and Izuku, and subconsciously floated towards the boy. "Yanagi." Yaoyorozu spoke abruptly, "Do you want to come with us and have some—" She paused, "What was it again, Jiro?"

"Girl time, Yaomomo."

"Ah, yes!" She turned back to Reiko, "Would you like to have some "girl time" with us?"

Reiko quickly looked at Izuku, "So, we shall meet up together with Monoma later?"

"Sure." Izuku sent a smile her way. "I'll be back in time for the banquet, promise."

"As do I." Reiko sent the biggest smile she could Izuku's way, though it wasn't that large at all.

With that, the two went their separate ways, Izuku with Melissa to test out some gear or related piece of equipment specifically for enhancement type quirks like himself and Reiko with the 1-A girls for some time with new friends. And in that, Iida and Todoroki were left completely alone, one still pondering why such a wonderful simulator would be turned into a childish game and the other wondering if the soba here at I-Island would be cold.


Izuku looked on in wonder as he entered what he presumed was Melissa's personal workshop, across the walls were shelves adorned with dozens upon dozens of gadgets or other sorts of equipment. From what Izuku saw there were multiple iterations of one concept all clustered together.

On one shelf was multiple jet packs, and going from left to right they were bulky and looked like they were set to explode, before becoming more streamlined and professional, something current pro heroes would most likely use. It was the same across all the shelves and other storage devices that Melissa had.

Chest pieces, capture weapons, hover boots, trap foam, smoke bombs, gas masks, night vision, ear pieces, all sort of things that Izuku had heard of before except that these versions looked way more high tech than any version he'd ever seen.

"Even compared to Hatsume's, this stuff is on another level." Izuku spoke out loud with awe.

"Thanks." Melissa giggled as they made their way to the back.

Izuku blushed after realizing he was speaking out loud. "S-Sorry."

Melissa waved him off, "You're good, Midoriya." They approached a large table, covered in what looked like tons of iterations of a glove, sleeves, and even bracelets, "Now, this is what I wanted to show you."

In front of them, Melissa grabbed a small black box and opened it. Izuku peaked inside to see a red bracelet. "What's that?" Izuku asked, after all he was surprised that they came all this way to just see a little bracelet. But then, a memory struck from their flight to the I-Island, and a certain detail from the pamphlet they read.

Perhaps the thing in front of him was the elusive "Full Gauntlet" that Melissa had made. Though, even if it was the Full Gauntlet, Izuku hadn't read what the glove did so he didn't know the equipment's utility.

"Well—" Melissa plucked the bracelet out and closed the box before holding it out to Izuku, "I made this to challenge my dad, it's a bracelet that can expand into a gauntlet that can handle the full force of All Might's power, something Dad was never able to do." She grinned and Izuku looked at the piece of tech in awe.

"S-So…" He grabbed the bracelet with shaking hands, "This can handle 100% of All Might's power…?"

"Sure can." Melissa smiled and put the empty box away, "I call it the Full Gauntlet." She looked at Izuku afterward and the boy was happy to know that he was correct in his assumption, "I saw that your body can't handle the full power of your quirk during the Sports Festival. And again after the Stain incident."

Izuku's eyes widened, "You could tell?" The Sports Festival made sense, the Hosu Incident didn't.

She shrugged, "It was kind of obvious for me, Dad's been researching enhancement types since I was a kid and that rubbed off on me." Melissa pointed to the bracelet, "I figured that you'd be the best person to give that thing to, but bare in mind it's only good for three shots."

Izuku nodded along, not really paying attention and instead focusing on taking off his costume's glove and friendship bracelet, strapping it to his left wrist afterwards. With a quick pull up of his sleeve, Izuku locks the Full Gauntlet to his right hand. "So, how do I turn it on?" Izuku asked after waving his arm around.

The bracelet was surprisingly light, but also extremely comfortable. The thing was strange, felt strange, but it also felt completely right.

"The bracelet reacts to your quirk usage." Melissa grinned at her own accomplishment, "I used to have it with a button but this was better, so, once it detects that you're exceeding your body's parameters it'll wrap around your arm."

"Woah." Izuku looked down at his arm, "Technology can do that…?"

Melissa's smile only grew more, "It can now."

"This is incredible!" Izuku let One For All flow through his arm, past levels his body could handle, and sure enough the bracelet beeped to life."

"Quirk exceeding established parameters: changing to gauntlet mode" The device spoke and expanded across his arm, bands of red material crossing together around his palm, fingers, and forearm. "Change is complete."

Izuku couldn't help but look over the transformed gauntlet, squeezing his fingers and feeling the tightness and comfort of the gadget. "How long did this take you to make?"

Melissa gestured to all the failed ones covering the table, more than any of the failures covering the shelves, "Took me a long time, it was actually my graduation project, but I started it way before my last year."

He could only nod along, and after lowering his output of One For All the gauntlet shrinked back down into a bracelet. "This is just—" Izuku really didn't have any words, and if this could really handle his full output and allow him to fully use that power then it was even more incredible then he could fail to describe. "I don't know…"

The American smiled, "You can have it."

"W-What?!" Izuku's eyes widened, "N-No, I can't take this. The Full Gauntlet is something that someone way more important than me should have."

"Midoriya." Melissa cut in but still smiled, "There is quite literally no one I know that would benefit from this besides you, the entire gauntlet was made to handle All Might's full power, you're no All Might but I've seen what your quirk does to you. The Full gauntlet will cushion that, so you might as well take it, right?"

"Well…" Izuku trailed off, "Okay." Izuku smiled, "Thank you."

Melissa let out a hand for him to shake, "Don't mention it, Midoriya." Izuku quickly took her hand and shook it, "If you have any problems with the Full Gauntlet then let me know, I'll fix it up for you."

"Alright!" The two made their way out of the workshop, only to see someone exiting from a nearby office. "Mr. Yagi!" Izuku waved the man over as his mentor's eyes caught the boy. Behind Yagi was a familiar looking man.

"Dad!" Melissa made her way over and hugged her father and Izuku sat gobsmacked in the hall. "Oh, Midoriya! This is my dad." Melissa gestured to the man who gave an a small nod to Izuku, "The esteemed scientist, and All MIght's first ever partner when he first started out in America, David Shield."

David rubbed the back of his neck, "My, my, what a nice introduction." The man grinned before looking over at Izuku, "You're Midoriya, the student that won the Sports Festival, right?" David stuck a hand out, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

Izuku quickly stumbled to shake the man's hand, "T-The pleasure is all mine, Mr. David Shield sir!"

Yagi quickly chopped his student on the head, "Calm down, kid, he's just a normal guy, no matter what his origin story is."

"Ah, sorry!" Izuku went ramrod straight but quickly bowed and opened a notebook for David to see, "Can I please have your autograph?" Yagi sighed but David grinned, plucking a pen out of his pocket and signing a picture of a younger him and All Might in their old floating car.

"The Allmobile? It's been a while since I've seen that thing. Haven't driven it in ages." David smiled at the memories, glancing at Yagi and giving him a knowing look. "Anyways, we're happy to have you here with us, Midoriya."

"I'm glad to be here, Mr. Shield."

"Just call me David."

It took everything inside of Izuku to not fanboy in the moment, "Yes, Mr. David." It was good enough.

The two teens bid the adults goodbye as they went to get ready for the banquet. Yagi went on his way to prepare his great speech that he would be giving to the masses, and David went to organize a heist of his own great creation.

All the while, two villains were organizing a heist of their own.

END


So, I did change the way the Full Gauntlet works just a little bit, but I prefer this way much more. I thought the whole button thing will ruin moments of tension I have planned for later on.

Also, this chapter is a tad bit shorter than usual ones, but I thought this was a good place to end off on. The next chapter will start with the banquet and the first part of the attack.

As some of you may have noticed, Bakugo, Kirishima, and Mineta are absent, but have been replaced by Monoma and Reiko. I don't enjoy writing Mineta, though I do believe that underneath all that stupid pervertedness he is a decent character and one of the smarter ones in the verse.

And there's no reason for Kirishima and Bakugo to be here. While originally, Monoma wasn't going to be here I remembered the butler jobs Kaminari and Mineta had and couldn't get the image of Monoma being a butler out of my head, after all it is literally just his hero costume.

Reiko's going to have some girl time, Izuku has the Full Gauntlet, and Black Whip has already manifested, while two separate villain groups are preparing to execute a heist.

Who will come out on top? Will Toga and Twice make it out with the Quirk Amplifier? Is Izuku going to be overpowered with the Full Gauntlet? Wait to find out!

Jay out!