Chapter 13: Explanations
As the final group left their training building and Kaibara and Kamakiri were hauled away to the nurse's office All Might had everyone gather at the exit of the mock city where he congratulated all of them on their first day of training. Exclaiming that for their first day they all did exceptionally well and that society would be in good hands with such promising heroes. Everyone was happy for the words of encouragement, much preferring his positive reinforcement over Mr. Aizawa's threats. He didn't stay long however, saying something about making sure the Kamakiri and Kaibara were okay and for Izuku and Bakugo to go to the nurses office as well to make sure they were healing properly before speeding down the hall like a bullet.
Everyone was amazed by the speed of the number one hero, saying how they wished they could move that fast, all except Izuku who knew the truth of All Might's limitations; his battle with that mysterious villain reducing his time as All Might for only an hour a day. As the class began walking down the long corridor he was held back by Tsu who gave him a look that told him she wouldn't take no for an answer.
Led by the hand to the side of the exit and once out of sight, he was greeted by a hard slap on the top of his hand.
"Ow what was…" he tried to say before Tsuyu pulled him into a kiss, wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him in closer. His complaints died on his tongue as hers met his as he began to kiss back, both thoroughly enjoying the other after their exhausting battles.
"If you ever make me worry like that again, I won't forgive you" she said as the pulled away to breathe, struggling to sound threatening as the happiness of his safety blunted her words.
"Didn't mean to scare you" he whispered with a smile.
Tsu pouted at that, an expression for easier now with her more human appearance. "Well you did" she whispered back, before her lips turned into a smug smile. "Good job with Baka-go by the way, that ought to sting his ego"
"Baka-go?" he repeated, surprised by the sudden nickname Tsu had decided to give him.
"If he's going to insult you with Deku I figured we should give him a proper name as well" she answered, sounding very proud of idea "I think it fits pretty well"
Izuku chuckled at the name calling; in all these years neither he nor Mineta had ever thought to give Katsuki a nickname, not that they would have said in front of him if they had. And sure he had once affectionately called him Kacchan but those days felt like a lifetime ago.
Her shoulders slackening however as she eyed his ruined costume "Shame he messed up your costume, you looked nice in it" she said, blushing slightly.
Izuku's face turned red at the compliment, Tsuyu giving a light chuckle at his reaction. They had already gone so much farther than mere compliments but it seemed there was something more embarrassing about saying it than showing it.
"It'll be fine" he said, shrugging his shoulders. "But I have to say, your costume looks nicer".
"Thanks but it's a little tight in the chest now, seems being part frog slims you down" she smiled as she stepped back to give them both a proper view. Her costume was even greener than his; with a streak of black and yellow running down the sides, though one difference was that hers was a wet-suit that hugged her curves in all the right places.
"Definitely" he said, his eyes wandering around her figure before he snapped himself out of it.
"Speaking of appearances, how did your family take the new… you?" he asked; hopeful that her parents would take the change well and be understanding.
"But understanding of what" he thought to himself, he had not told her or Mineta about Moya and what she had told him about these new powers. How would her parents understand if she didn't fully understand either? And whether he liked it or not, she was part of this, she had been affected by it and she deserved to know.
Tsuyu's smile dimmed as he asked the question and he mentally kicked himself for his short-sightedness.
"Can we talk about that later" she said; casting her eyes down and away from him as Izuku nodded his head, wordlessly accepting as he took her hand and squeezed it gently.
It seemed they both had things to say.
Boy's changing room
As Izuku entered the room he was greeted to the sight of Shoji, the large bodied Heteromorph holding back Kirishima as Sero glared at the blonde Monoma looking rather pissed off but not enough to be restrained.
"What the hell was that?!" Kirishima raged fruitlessly trying to get at the smug blonde.
"Yeah we thought you actually got hurt" Sero added as Monoma looked positively bored with the situation.
"If I must educate you so be it" he sighed, the redhead pulling all the harder against the hold to get at Monoma.
"We entered that battle under the pretense of heroes and villains for a device that if real could have decimated an entire city. Yet somehow you, under the label of villain thought it was a good idea to try and help a hero" he explained, looking down his nose at him.
"It was a training exercise!" he argued angrily.
"And if it hadn't been? If it had been real would you have been so quick to drop your defences at the first sign of real pain. We are training for the real world and as such we must approach our training with all the respect the real world demands. Yet you continue believing that your enemy will adhere to the same arbitrary rules of honor as you. Perhaps you should leave your "Manliness" at the door before you get someone hurt and we end up with another Mustafu" He finished not waiting for a reply as he finished changing and walked out the door.
Only when the door shut did Shoji release Kirishima, the redhead glaring daggers at the door before huffing back to his locker.
Izuku shook his head at the display; while Monoma had been broadly correct in the need for caution and to take their training seriously he could have worded it infinitely better.
But speaking of blondes with piss poor communication skills he looked over to see Bakugo changing as well; the hot head that always had something to say had been eerily quiet after their match, not saying so much as a word. His red fiery eyes had dimmed with every match, especially the match with ice guy.
And for all the pain he had caused and for all the joy he got in finally beating him, there was a small part of him that worried over what this change represented.
And then there was what Momo had said, her words ringing in his ears and make him sigh in resentful acceptance. She had been right; he had let his emotions get the better of him in their fight. As soon as he touched Bakugo he could have sent a surge of electricity and take him out, but instead he had tried to beat him down, trying to make him feel the kind of pain he had.
'And in return he got a face full of fusion' he thought to himself as he raised a hand to the part of his face that he had burned. It had healed by now but that wasn't the point, he had gotten reckless and their victory was pure luck.
He'd have to be smarter.
Looking away from one silent blonde he was greeted to the sight of another, Kaminari whose face spoke of something familiar. He could see that he wasn't even there; physically he was but mentally he was far away, his body on autopilot as he finished changing.
"Hey Kaminari, sorry about your match but…" he tried to say, walking up to his fellow electro-kinetic. His words seemed to pull him out of whatever world he was in before he looked to him with what he could best describe as a hateful sadness. Midoriya was surprised by the expression he saw but, could kind of understand. He had been taken out pretty quickly and that had to sting.
"If you want we could train to…" he tried to suggest before Kaminari looked as though he was about to break down before closing his locker and storming out of the changing room.
"What the hell was that about" Mineta asked and Izuku could only cast his eyes down. He had a feeling of where all that emotion had come from and something told him it would only get worse from here.
Girl's changing room
"Oh my god that was so bad" Jiro sighed, running a hand through her purple hair as she cringed at her loss, with Pony patted her on the shoulder to try and cheer her up.
Tsu could feel sympathy for her; her hero team had been the only one that failed to retrieve the bomb. Worse yet by the fact her missing boot was still in the training building, stuck to one of Mineta's hair balls.
"I knew I shouldn't have let him do that" she growled, a look of complete exasperation at her teammates uselessness.
"It not too bad, not like Kendo and Setsuna with Todoroki" Pony encouraged, simultaneously throwing Kendo's team under the bus.
"Hey we tried; he was just too powerful" Kendo defended. "He froze the entire building in seconds how were we supposed to defeat someone like that."
"And we had a plan; Juzo was supposed to take him down before he could get to us, but he was with us during the test for recommendation students and he'd seen what we could do." Setsuna added, subconsciously reaching for the ear that he had frozen and tensing her fist in anger at her lost.
"Besides It not too bad, without rod his attack work" Pony complimented. And it was true, without the grounding rod they all would have been taking out all at once. But Kaminari had the unfortunate luck of going up against a person who had been training with Izuku for weeks and a girl that could make just about anything.
"Indeed, it seems that short pervert has a brain" Momo said begrudgingly and Tsu her brow furrow at the insult. While she did not like his tendencies he did not deserve to be insulted like that.
"He's not too bad" Ibara defended, surprising Tsuyu with her willingness to defend him "While he is lecherous within him lays the heart of a hero" she continued, telling them about how he had saved her during the entrance exam.
"Yeah he helped me too" the mushroom girl named Kinoko said. "I was about to get overwhelmed by the robots and he trapped them all" all the other girls were more than surprised by their testimony.
"What about you Asui" Momo asked "You and Midoriya seemed to have known him the longest"
"He and Midoriya has been friends since they were kids, when the blast happened Midoriya had gotten injured. Mineta carried him on his back to safety" she told them, relaying the story Midoriya had told him the first day they met.
The entire room went silent when they heard that, the mental image of the vigilante that snapped Bakugo's arm being saved by Mineta stunning them.
"There's more to him than meets the eye" she finished and was about to leave the room before Mina stopped her.
"Speaking of that… you look different. And like, not new hair cut different" And with that every eye was on her and she had to suppress the feeling of anger from showing on her face.
She had hoped that no one would notice her change; they had only been around each other for only an hour before the left. Enough time that no one should have seen it.
But she should have known; she had been the first to meet her in the entrance exam and she seemed the type to just blurt out was on her mind. If there was going to be a classmate who would notice her change and call it out in front of everyone it would be her.
Faces plastered with curiosity watched her as she stood silent, her mind reeling from having to come up with an excuse. She'd had a similar conversation before with her family and that had ended... horribly.
"I… was someone that the blast gave another quirk too" she admitted and it was the truth and she had told them she had met Izuku in the hospital after the blast, which she thought would make the next part more believable. "My frog quirk is a transformation quirk and… it hurts to shift between them. Now that I have a water quirk I don't want to use my frog quirk unless I really have to" she explained, letting the pain her first quirk had caused her to coat her lie like sunscreen against the rays of her fellow classmate's eyes.
It seemed to be working, one by one the girls looks of curiosity warped into those of sympathy. It made sense, even Mina had known her for less than a few hours collectively and with the wide variance quirks and how they work they would have no way to know that she was lying.
"Oh… I'm sorry for bringing it up" Mina quickly apologized as a look of embarrassment washed over her face for her bluntness and for a moment Tsu felt a pang of guilt in the pit of her stomach for lying. She knew if it was someone else she would have been the first to ask. But even she didn't know. Why had that blast given another quirk, and why had been erasing her original. So many things had changed for her and she had so few answers and while her classmates might buy her story, she knew Mr. Aizawa and the rest of the school faculty who knew the truth of her frog quirk would want answers.
As Izuku left the changing room, he and Bakugo began their walk towards Recover Girl's office, giving Bakugo all the space he wanted as he walked far behind him. Beside him though had been Mina and the mushroom girl Kinoko.
"Hey; nice going with Bakugo by the way" she whispered, cupping her hand to her mouth so that the blonde couldn't hear.
"Thank you" he answered back, the taste of victory soured by how he had gotten it. "You did great too, I didn't know you were that strong" he praised as Mina smiled smugly, posing dramatically as they walked. They had all watched as she had stopped Kaibara's drill arm with her bare hand and that hadn't been the only time she had surprised them.
In the assessment test she had been the only one to beat Shoji's grip strength; beating his 540kg grip with her own 650kg grip. Even he and Tsuyu hadn't been able to grip harder than 300kg.
"Yeah like in the ball throw test, you nearly threw it a whole kilometer!" Kinoko added, bringing to mind the shocked looks they had all had when she had reeled back her hand and sent that ball flying over the tree line on the other side of the school.
"To be honest, I didn't know either" she admitted, her earlier confidence wavering as she repeatedly clenched and opened her hand "the strength thing is kind of new"
That made Izuku think; did Mina have the same kind of strange power as him. It seemed possible he didn't think she lived Mustafu before the blast, had the bombs effects traveled farther than he had assumed?
"So is that why you're going to recovery girl's office" he asked as she nodded her head.
"It was a split second thing, I didn't mean to hurt him" she said, sounding truly remorseful.
"That's why I'm going too" Kinoko told them, chuckling nervously "I got a little too into the role"
"That's putting it lightly" Mina joked as repeated what she had in the exercise. And though had been rather overzealous he couldn't help but be amazed by her quirk. It was practically the perfect area denial weapon, and he struggled to think how someone could get past it without a window to climb out of.
Finally they reached the Nurses office and were just in time to see Recovery girl pulled the last of the mushrooms off of Kamakiri's body.
"Ah; you finally here, you two boys go over there and I'll see how you both a fairing" she instructed only giving them a moments glace before pointing to an x-ray machine as she helped Kamakiri breathe in fresh un-spore filled air.
The two boys did as instructed; giving each other a wide berth as Izuku watched Mina and Kinoko apologize to their respective boys. Kaibara had been the more accepting of the apology, shrugging a shoulder as his other arm was hung in a sling. Kamakiri meanwhile rebuffed the mushroom girl's apology, saying he didn't need it.
As he looked at his scowling face from behind his transparent breathing mask he couldn't help but draw a parallel to the blonde beside him. It seemed he was returning to his old self, his brow beginning to slant into his usual angry self. After their apologies Recovery girl the girls left and not long after Kaibara and Kamakiri left as well after being cleared
Now alone with Recovery girl she went about making sure they were both okay, examining his upper body for any burns and making Bakugo take an x-ray for his arm.
"You boy's quirks are something else" she mused, shaking her head in bewilderment as she looked at an x-ray of Bakugo's arm that didn't even look like it had ever broken. "You both are as healthy as horses and your arm seems to have set itself properly" she said to Bakugo as she shooed them both off. In the end the visit had taken less than fifteen minutes.
As the two left Bakugo was quick to leave, so quick he didn't seem to notice the pair "empty" shoes sitting against the opposing wall. Izuku waited for Bakugo to turn the corner before he began to speak.
"Hey Hagakure" he said quietly as the shoes began to shift nervously. "Are you okay?"
She remained silent and the realization that he was standing in front of an invisible naked girl became more and more glaring in his mind as the silence dragged on.
"Sorry how I acted back there" she apologized "And I wanted to say thank you again…without the tears"
"It's okay" he said almost instantly. What was he supposed to say after having her cry into his shoulder?
"It's just… no one's ever seen me before. Like the REAL me" she admitted, sounding both sad and happy at the same time, chuckling anxiously as she continued. "And when you told me you could see me I thought you were playing some cruel prank on me"
As she spoke Izuku couldn't help but draw a parallel between her and Tsu, both girls having quirks that affected them in ways he never had imagined.
"And then when I realized you weren't lying, it was all just…" she struggled to say, sounding as though she was holding back tears. "It was a lot to take in"
"I bet it was" he said, as walked up to her and gave her another hug and while she might have been naked, much more than that she was hurting. "Come on, class has probably already started. Where did you put the rest of your uniform" he asked as they released each other.
"Around the corner" she answered and as they walked and turned the corner, Toru pushed aside a trashcan and retrieved her folded up uniform.
Walking back around Izuku gave her the privacy to change, it was more symbolic than practical given her quirk but it seemed right.
"Okay, you can come back" she said and turned to see a floating school uniform.
"If you'd like, you can hang out with me and my friends" He offered as the two walked back to class and allowed himself one radar pulse to watch her lips turn into a smile as she turned her face to his.
"I'd like that"
The rest of the day went by smoothly; the classes blurring together as his mind returned again and again to the conversation he knew he had to have. He'd already made up his mind about telling Tsu but he had also he was going to tell Mineta. He might not have gotten another power from that blast but he had known him almost all his life and he trusted him with his life.
Throwing his bag over his shoulder he walked over and gathered both Tsuyu and Mineta.
"I have something to tell you both" he whispered quietly.
"Alright man, shoot" Mineta said, shrugging his shoulders.
"Not here, let's go back to my place" he told them and while Mineta looked at him strangely for a moment Tsu was more than eager and he could have guessed why. The walk back to his place was quick and quiet, the silence only broken when Tsuyu spoke.
"What if your mom's there" Tsuyu asked.
"She usually isn't there around this time" he answered as they finished their journey to Izuku's apartment. As he fiddled with his keys and unlocked the door he was thankfully greeted by an empty house. Walking into his room and closing the door he turned to them both.
"So what did you want to talk about" Mineta asked, sitting cross-legged and leaning against his bed.
"What I wanted to talk to you both about was the blast" he said as he sat down in his computer chair, needing to sit so he could center himself for what he was about to say.
"Okay, but I need you both to promise me that I'm about to say doesn't leave this room" he stated, pointing to each of them.
Each nodded their heads, their faces turning more serious with the tone of Midoriya's voice as he slowly explained that after their fight with the reapers and after that video of him got popular, Moya came to talk to him.
"A person from the HPSC came to talk to you!" Mineta shouted and Izuku did his best to shush him, worrying that somehow someone could still be listening.
"What did she want to talk to you about" Tsu asked, fully enthralled by the conversation as he continued his story. Telling them about how she had come under the pretense of his vigilante work and then had asked to speak in private where she told him about the First Sons and the Ray Sphere.
"…and it drains neuro-electric energy" he finished as both Tsuyu and Mineta looked at him with slack jaws and wide eyes before Mineta jumped up from his spot with a wide smile.
"I knew it! All the stuff I've been saying, every word is true. The government was lying about the blast and are cahoots with a secret organization. The ray sphere… damn it all makes sense now" he sighed, happy to be vindicated.
"But why" Tsuyu asked "Why bother creating a bomb that gives people quirks"
"Isn't it obvious" Mineta said, turning to her. "That Ray Sphere dishes out ultra-quirks to anyone who controls it"
"Ultra-quirks" Izuku repeated.
"Come on man I thought you were supposed to be the quirk expert" he chastised, putting his hands on his hips "Super strength, healing factor, durability and everything else. Bakugo having his arm snapped and then have it heal in a minute like it was nothing. Look at all that stuff and tell me that's all from a normal quirk"
"But why didn't you get one. You were closer to Izuku when the bomb went off than I was" Tsuyu countered as she looked down at her now normal hands. "And why was it erasing my frog quirk"
"So that's why you look so different!" Mineta exclaimed.
"It's because they're not quirks" Izuku revealed and once more both of them were stunned. Izuku then continued on, telling them about Moya sending him into the Neon district and searching for John's Dead Drops and tailing a reaper who had a backpack full of blast shards.
"She said that whatever these powers are, they aren't quirks" he finished letting the information settle.
"Dude… you're actually a vigilante super spy" said in awe of what he had done.
"And now she wants you to help her find her husband with these Dead Drops" Tsuyu said, repeating what he had told them as he nodded.
"He's the last one to have the Ray Sphere" he told her.
"How do you know that?" she asked and Izuku stumbled. He hadn't told them what had been in the dead drops and while Mineta knew about his unintentional involvement in the blast he hadn't told Tsu.
Should he tell her? Would she understand? The thought of her looking at him and seeing a murderer sent a chill up his spine. No, no she would understand, right?
"It… it said so in one of the Dead Drops" he answered.
"Really, lets here them" Mineta encouraged and Izuku felt himself cringe internally. Pulling his phone out of his pocket he flipped to the three audio files, he'd only listened to the one but… he guessed now was as good a time as any.
With a tap the silence of the room was filled with the tried frantic voice of John White. All three listening intently as he explained how he retrieved the Ray Sphere and was going into hiding to get away from Kessler.
"It was you" Tsuyu said, looking at him with wide eyes. "You delivered the bomb"
"Wait wait; he didn't know it was a bomb!" Mineta said, quickly coming to his friends defense.
"I…I need a moment" she said, looking completely stunned as she rested her head in her hands. "Play the next one"
The two boys looked at each other and with nothing else to say they played the next one.
"Contact established with the First Sons. Met a woman who called herself Jane, and she asked me a variety of questions including whether or not I've exhibited extra sensory abilities. Don't know why she didn't just call it a quirk but I told her I was quirkless. Jane seemed to mull this over for a while and then she gave me an address. I was instructed to meet her there at midnight. No further details."
As the second message ended Tsuyu let out a long sigh as she looked at Izuku with eyes almost pleading.
"Did you know?"
"No, Tsuyu I didn't I swear" he swore with every ounce of honesty he had. "If I had known what would happen that day I never would have delivered that package".
"Come on Tsuyu, does he look like a terrorist" Mineta said, waving a hand at Midoriya as if the idea was too ridiculous to even take seriously.
"Do you really think I could do that?" he asked, his heart beginning to ache. "Deliver a bomb, kill thousands and all for what, to have powers, to be a hero" he said, disgust building in his throat at the idea his words created.
"No I don't it's just…" she tried to say but her lips were beginning to fail her.
"Would I risk going to prison by being a vigilante, trying to solve a crime I committed" he said walking up to her, and grabbing her hands in his and feeling the ache in his chest grow deeper at the stiffness of her body. The eyes of the girl that had embraced him feeling so distant "Remember what I said on the day of the entrance exam"
Slowly she nodded her head as she spoke, her throat sounding tense and restrictive "You said, you wanted to make it all worth it"
He felt a small amount of relief in that she remembered. "That's why I want to become a hero, to make their deaths mean something and to find every last member of the First Sons and bring them down"
Midoriya finally let himself breath in air after his speech. Gulping down breaths as the tension in the room began to lax.
"You're right… I shouldn't have doubted you" she whispered, squeezing his hands and a look of shame filling her features "It's just a lot to take in, I… I'm sorry"
Midoriya felt the pain in his chest slowly begin to settle down as the trio stayed in silence for moment, the reveal leaving both him and Tsu emotionally exhausted.
"Alright you two lets finish this. Play that third recording so we can hear what's next" Mineta suggested.
Pulling apart Midoriya sat back on his chair and thumbed through his phone and played the last dead drop.
"Ten day communication delay due to being incapacitated. Met Jane outside an abandoned warehouse. She put a black bag over my head and led me in. Counted two thousand steps and one right hand turn. She sat me in a chair. Strapped down my arms and legs and left me there."
"Abandoned warehouse… he must have been in the Warrens" Tsuyu said as her voice grew distant at the mention of that place.
"The Warren is huge though" Mineta added, shaking his head. "You could spend months combing that place and without knowing which warehouse they met"
That was a problem, as of now the only lead to John was whatever place he had been taken to and Jane, which was more than likely an alias for her real name.
"I'll call Moya later. See if she can help" he said.
"And when you do that you call me. I'm not about to let you do this on your own" Mineta told him.
"You can count me in too" Tsuyu added. "These villains need to be stopped and if the pros can't do it than we have to"
"No this way too dangerous" he interjected, trying to stop this train of thought before it left the station.
"Which is why I'm coming" he said with a smile even as his face looked nervous. "Someone needs to watch your back while you're out playing super spy"
Midoriya rubbed his temples with his fingers. This was the last thing he wanted but the genie was thoroughly out of the bottle now and neither of them were going to take no for answer.
"God damn it fine! But the moment any fighting starts we run, okay. And we don't use our powers unless absolutely necessary" he surrendered.
"Great, I'll go home and start looking through the warren on the internet. See if I can find a place that looks more suspicious than usual" he announced and was about to leave when Tsuyu spoke up suddenly.
"If we're going to do this, we should probably get some new clothes" Tsuyu advised, to which Mineta looked at her in confusion.
"We can't exactly go around in our hero costumes and we need something to hide our identities" she clarified and both boys thought it was a good idea.
It seemed they were going shopping after all.
U.A
Aizawa sat with his fellow teachers as they went over the recordings of the student's mock battles. He had to admit he was impressed with most of their performances, so many ready and able to use their quirks to the best of their abilities and being able to adapt on the fly. Usually most needed to get that trained into them, a lifetime of never being allowed to truly experiment with their quirks leaving their ideas for application hamstrung. But among that shining review was a black spot that he had known since the beginning he would have to remove.
"I say we expel Katsuki Bakugo" he told them all, paying little mind to his colleague's looks.
"Come now Aizawa, don't you think your being a little rash" All Might said, now in his skinny disheveled form.
"No, I warned him already. If he Injures someone too severely he's out" he said simply.
"Come on Shota your overreacting" Present Mic added, giving his friend a look that made his annoyance increase "I mean both those kids walked off that fight without a scratch"
"Indeed, their healing abilities are quite interesting" said the baritone voice of Ectoplasm.
"He'll live if he dodges" Aizawa retorted, not allowing for a shift in topic as he used the boy's words against him. "And what happens when he faces off against someone who can't just walk it off"
"He has potential and a Strong quirk. But all that means nothing if he can't control himself" Snipe added and surprising Aizawa slightly "If he can't do that, he's just a time bomb waiting to go off"
"Still though, it seems too much for a first offence" Cementoss defended. "Perhaps a suspension or simply stopping him from going to the U.S.J"
"Don't you think we should get her opinion on this" Present Mic said as eyes turned to the astronaut suit of Thirteen. "She would be the one having to help teach him"
"I think it would be a little harsh. I mean, we should at least see how he acts in an environment where it's necessary to save and not hurt" she told them.
"An excellent point" Nezu complimented. "If you are worried about how he will handle others the U.S.J would be a perfect place to see if you are correct"
"And if I am proven right" Aizawa asked, already knowing the answer.
"Then you can expel him" Nezu answered.
"Also, I would like to keep him around as well" Recovery girl chimed in, brow furrowed and hand on her chin in deep thought "These kids abilities are unlike anything I've ever seen"
"What do you mean by that" asked Nezu and if Aizawa was feeling paranoid, he could almost hear anxiousness in the mouse's voice.
"I have been healing people for longer than most of you have been alive and in that time I have never seen quirks like the ones granted by that blast" she told them, sounding grave.
"That boy should have had a shattered radius and ulna and the other had the beginning signs of third degree burns over most of his body. My quirk could have healed them but would have left them exhausted" she continued, taking in a breath and looking at All Might.
"But they healed themselves in a fraction of the time; soft tissue healed in seconds and broken bones in minutes and without even a hint of exhaustion that level of healing should have had on them"
"What are you trying to say" Midnight asked, speaking up for the first time since the meeting began.
"These are not simply the abilities of a single extra quirk"
"Than what do they have" Present Mic asked, his usual smile falling to the wayside.
"I have not the faintest idea and that is why I want them close at hand. Everyone knows the police have run out of ideas and suspects that could have been involved in that explosion but maybe we can at least figure out what exactly they were trying to accomplish" she finished finally, taking a breath after her long explanation.
Aizawa had to admit she was right, at least in the fact that the Mustafu terrorist attack had gone completely cold. No witnesses, no suspects and all the "evidence" was currently attending his class and if they were ever going to catch the bastards, they needed to rethink their approach and start again.
