"What do you mean I can't go with them? This plan! It's the final mission, I belong there!" Geus screamed at his grandfather.

The two of them were separated from the rest of the group, along with the plan. Upon Gaz's request, the two of them were in their own sect of the squads. Geus knew none of the details that his grandfather kept from him.

Even now as the others left to do their own phase 1 of the operation. Geus and Gaz were left behind near the bottom of UA's facility. And for the first time Gaz put on his own hero suit. It looked like his nervous system was puffed out over a black fabric. Along with two open points below his neck where his handlebar mustache ended.

Gaz closed the locker and continued to ignore his grandchild's screams. They still ached in his heart, tore his feelings, and made him want to throw up. His hands trembled as they rested on the cold steel.

"You told me yourself! I can do this!" Geus continued to shout. "I've done everything! I trained, mutilated my body for this! Sacrificed everyone!"

"I know!" Gaz shouted back. His fist punched through the locker like it was paper. "And so did I! Because I knew once All Might was gone there was nothing to stop All For One!" Gaz pulled his fist out and turned around. He grabbed Geus's shoulders and knelt down to one knee. "I didn't pull you out to save you, or to save my own guilt. We are waiting, that is the job I know only we can do." Gaz gulped down his hesitation and smiled, a broken smile. "Did your dad ever tell you I had five other brothers?" Gaz nervously chuckled. "All of us were born of the same quirk. No variation, all the same. Even your father was born of the same quirk."

"Dad... Never mentioned that." Geus's tone went quiet. "He never really talked about anyone on your side."

"I'm not surprised." Gaz got up from his knee and Sat on the bench. He pulled a walkie from his suit's pocket and on the same bench. "When he was born he was still in America with me, and your grandmother. Except that was when I pulled out of the family business to move to Japan with her. Right before I left I learned it created a bad spark in the family. Some wanted to leave with me and others wanted us straight up dead."

"They went through with it didn't they?"

"Yep. One brother went to kill the other till it was just me and my oldest brother. My dad was dead years before that and Mom wasn't around, so there was nobody to stop the bloodbath. But it also made us learn the unique property of our bloodline." Gaz took a slow breath and rubbed his eyes with his palm. "We're able to absorb our family's quirk into another. My brother absorbed all of my other siblings. Turns out my dad and my mom. His power at that point was enormous, he had the potential to disrupt America. If it wasn't for All Might, I wouldn't want to live anymore. I... I couldn't stop him."

"But All Might has never killed anybody. It's not the thing heros do."

"He didn't die. I absorbed his quirk along with the others. In exchange, he got to live but without any of the influence he once had. After that I took our family to Japan to live out the rest of the days. But I'm only good at one thing, and that's doing bad."

"Midoriya is separated!" Gaz's radio blared. "And no matter what we do Shigaraki is adapting to everything we throw at him."

Gaz brought the radio up to his mouth. "Roger that, bring him into position for the drop."

Gaz stood up and cracked his neck. "What your father never told you was that he never wanted his quirk when I told him that story. He married a gal who's family despised quirks and was quirkless, telling everyone he was the quirkless one in his family. What he didn't tell anyone was that when you were born, he transferred his quirk to you."

"But my quirk was located in my lungs, not my heart like everyone else." Geus followed his grandfather to the door.

"And that's why your body couldn't handle the extra power, taking over your heart and your lungs. It wasn't something it was built to adapt to. The power became too much for your inexperienced body."

"But what about my cousin Keena? He had another variation of our quirk yet he wasn't part of our side."

"Your father slept with your aunt in an attempt to move the blame from him to her. From what my spies reported was that your mother and aunt were fighting for him since day one. It was your birth that made them think it was his fault for the quirk."

"God our family is messed up." Geus finally chuckled, his tension slightly lowered.

"It is."

"You're right over him!" Gaz's radio went off.

"Boy, remember right before we left to spend your days with your friends before it all went down? Like the final day before the suicide mission from one of your games? Even to sleep with your true love?"

"Pa, we are 16, I'm a year older than all of them. I'm not doing that."

"Nejire! Tamaki! And Mirio isn't slowing him down! And Midoriya isn't here yet!"

"Well, this was why." Gaz kicked the pair of steel doors out, and to Geus's surprise, there was only a blue sky on the other side.

Both of the doors fell hundreds upon hundreds of feet to the ground below. The wing began to suck into the room and attempt to pull them both out. Luckily Gaz anchored himself to the wall and grabbed onto Geus before he flung out. The smile on Gaz's face wasn't one that Geus has ever seen before.

"Remember that training with Midoriya? The one you were almost too scared to do?" Gaz chuckled as he looked out into the sky.

Winter Before The Attack Of The League of Villains

Geus shivered in his hero's costume. Neither his abnormal body temperature or the suit's warmth of his quirk helped in the slightest. Both him and his grandfather stopped above one of the mountain's edges.

A little ways away from the UA campus, Geus's grandfather came up with this plan. Far, far below, just before out of eye sight both Midoriya and Bakugo stood below the base.

"Those two already got the game plan, stop your assault at all costs." Gaz stood at the edge with his arms folded across his chest. "They agreed, and the school to take you out here, to do this. You... Just need to blast everything you got."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Geus started to form his gas into a giant bubble to his back in preparation.

"Your Iron Maiden move? We're going to evolve it. Step one, then step two. But for now step one is just getting your shell hard enough. Surround yourself in a shell of your gas and jump off the edge." His hand waved to the open space behind him.

"Are you insane? There's no scientific hypothesis to say I'd live through that jump!" Geus shouted and paces the small area.

"That's why we got those two down there. Midoriya will catch ya if you fall too fast without your shell. And Bakugo aims to destroy your shell with his own quirk... Which he was way too happy to hear."

"How am I supposed to SAFELY hit the ground from this height?"

Gaz raised an eyebrow. "You're kidding right? Padding, pad your shell inside with semi soft gas. Our quirk basically lets us fall from any height with this. Parashoot yourself before falling, form plane wings to elevate before the fall, I can name tons of manipulations."

They both stood there for a second not talking. Then Gaz's face scrunched up towards his grandson before swearing to himself. His head fell to his hand and groaned.

"Are you seriously telling me with all your propulsion with your quirk, never looking for a safe landing measure?"

"Look I never went too far or too fast I couldn't just reinforce my limbs."

"Your grandmother would slap me in the back of the head if she heard that. Then yank your ear for not thinking of that first!"

"Alright! I got it." Geus moved his stored gas around his body. A thick layer of soft gas underneath the hard shell. "So I'm supposed to just jump? Then what?"

"Let Bakugo explode you." Gaz smirked. "Your goal is to survive the blast before impact, all of them."

Geus was right at the edge and stopped in his tracks. "Multiple?"

"What? You think your enemies out there will just shoot at you once?" Gaz laughed. "Boy they will target you like the tank you are." He pushed Geus's back and straight off the cliff. "Just think tough!"

Current

"I do, I also remember after that you wanted an explosion."

"A glorious one!"

"Bakugo's down! Best Jeanist and the others are doing everything they can to defend him! Drop now!"

"Change of plans." All Might's voice came to the radio. Both of the Sansei's stood there, their muscles frozen. "Young Midoriya will be there in time. Trust me. I got a plan but I need Geus there to back me up."

"Alright." Gaz's voice became solid, the gun and excitement was all gone. "Where are we going?"

"Move the plane to my location and be prepared to drop it on my go."

"We're in a fucking plane?" Geus shouted. "We were just below the school!"

"That's the power of connections in the US of A baby." Gaz chuckled. "We got a big ass chopper hauling a large jail cell through the sky. Thanks to a donation to yours truly."

"What the hell did you do back in the day?" Geus peeked through the glass of the door. His eyes grew at the sight of hundreds of feet above the tallest buildings around them.

"I did a lot of bad things back in the day." Gaz grabbed Geus's shoulder and squeezed. "Today I will make up for those mistakes."

"All Might jumped into the fight!" Gaz's radio echoed.

"What the hell do you mean that geezer jumped into the fight?" Gaz yelled louder than before into the device.

"He has a suit and is fighting All For One! Midoriya is on Shigaraki and barely holding on himself!"

Gaz turned Geus and pulled him into his forehead. "When you said goodbye to Jiro today... What did you say?"

"Today is not the day for a pervert joke!" Geus pushed his grandfather off. "All Might's dying, my friends are dying! What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Boy... It's important." Gaz's dumbing stare drove straight into Geus's soul.

Earlier That Day

"This is it isn't it?" Ashido's coolness started to fade, that slight panic became a bit brighter.

"It's about time we take them on!" Kirishima started to punch in the air, his hype never slowed down.

All these professional heros, each student in UA's hero classes joined together. The tension so tight in the room could chop every head off with a slight tug.

"You all have your positions and understand your assignments." Aizawa began. "Your training and areas of expertise, along with your field studies are put to the utmost pressure."

"Hold on." Geus raised his hand. "I never got a paper or told where I was going."

Even Geus started to feel the weight of everyone's eyes on him. The only thing he could tell was if it was pity or something else. If they knew ahead of time or are too afraid to speak up. This wariness created a small feeling inside Geus.

His fist clenched and his neck veins pulsed. His mouth opened but he felt someone tug on his suit. The soft touch and gentle finger drags on his palm... Jiro. Geus calmed down for the moment.

"I had to bury a friend yesterday. I'm fine today." Geus grumbled.

"We know that and with your experience with your grandfather we placed you in another area." Aizawa looked even more stressed than normal. His eyes barely focused on his students but to Gaz. "Putting you on the front lines with the others with your crowd control isn't your utilization."

"Your story here in UA isn't one of a normal student. In fact none of you kids had a first year like any year before." The principal stepped in the middle of everyone. "What's ahead is dangerous, one not even the pros have faced before. So putting everyone at their strongest is our main goal here, along with knowing everyone would be safe in that area."

"And it wasn't just their decision." Beka slowly closed the door to the room and bowed. "I personally recommended you stay away from the front lines."

"I thought you were on my side." Geus felt his temper rise but kept it down. "Everything I proved just for this."

"It's not what you think, Geus. Please believe me." He arm lifted with the palm to the sky. "Your grandfather will explain everything to you alone. We all thought that was the best strategy for this."

Geus took a long breath and closed his eyes. "Whatever your plan is, good luck everyone. Even if I'm not there to back you up. I know you can still do it." Geus smiled.

"Why isn't Geus with us? He's as much of Class 1A as the rest of us!" Midoriya called out. "We fought together, learned together, he should be part of it."

"Midoriya's right. His quirk alone can slow down any of the League's members out there. It could probably take over Shigaraki's before it touches anyone else." Shoto stepped in. "It's a power we shouldn't leave out."

"I hate to admit it but leaving him out is a waste for us not to have." Bakugo reluctantly spoke. "His explosive power isn't as good as mine but without it is only giving All For One the edge."

"He's not being left out by choice." Gaz yelled out. "The other pros agree and understand it. There's things that haven't been revealed to all of you but it's necessary so that All For One doesn't get the hint. With All For One's quirk stealing ability, if he gets Geus it's over for us. If he can enhance it, if he steals it, nobody in Japan will live."

"Lethal sulfuric gas spread thin enough to enter the atmosphere and go undetected is fatal to this plan." Aizawa handed Geus a separate folder. "Unleashing him when it's time is the best point for him. And if that goes out to the enemy that whole idea is wasted."

"So for everyone's safety, not knowing if Geus is even released is the best strategy." Beka gave Geus a smile and a wink.

"Come on boy. Let's get into position." Gaz pulled on Geus's neck.

Before Geus became yanked out of the room he grabbed Jiro. His hand latched onto hers and pulled her close to him. All while his hand grabbed the corner of his mask and flipped it off. 'I love you.'

Now

"You finally said it huh?" Gaz smirked.

"It was just a confession alright! They do it in every movie I watched. They always say it before the big fight, for all I know it's just a crush." Geus couldn't look his grandfather in the eyes. His focus entirely on his own shoes.

"Look not everyone marries their high school sweetheart." Gaz pulled Geus's shoulder into his body, his arms enveloped around his back and squeezed. "And you're just a kid at the end of the day. But finally you have the balls to say something."

"I didn't want to die today without telling her." Geus's voice shook and deepened. The fear of all these events finally made him crack. "I didn't want to die with that regret of never saying it."

"I know, boy. I prayed all night for the first time to your grandmother asking for prot

ection today. Don't believe in a god but I'm sure if there is one, he would answer today."