Sorry that this chapter took a bit longer than the others but the idea i had for this chapter wasn't enough so I had to add to it to stretch it out and I am not the most happy with the outcome chapter is fine though.
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The Maximum hero chapter 5: Meetings and more meetings
Nervous hands tie loose shoelaces into a tight knot atop red sneakers, it is currently 12:10am and Izuku is hesitantly preparing to go to his required quirk use in public class.
He debates simply not going but he immediately knows that's a bad idea, even if he did call saying that he was sick or something they would know it was a lie, or if they did believe it all that would happen is the meeting gets moved, better to get it over with. He understands that he broke the law and this is barely a slap on the wrist but still!
He is going to have to be in a room full of people that possibly used their quirks in a more…. Violent manner than how he did, at least they won't think he's quirkless. Speaking of which he had to tell his class that he now had a quirk since it didn't take long for the information of his 'quirk' to be made official, so his new quirk is officially named "Nanosuit". Ugh even thinking of it gave him goosebumps, it was much more panic inducing than he thought it would be.
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"Everyone pay attention, Izuku here has some big news he'd like to share with you" The tired teacher announces to the class. It's not true, Izuku legally has to tell his classmates for 'their safety' but at least now it looks like this was of his own choice.
A few tense moments pass as Izuku steps out from behind the teacher, this is either going to go very well or horribly wrong.
He stands in front of the class and gathers himself "H-Hey e-veryone um I have something I'd like to tell you I uh you see I'm not uh".
"SPIT IT OUT DEKU '', Kacchan berates from his seat, annoyed at Izuku's pathetic whimpers of an announcement.
"I-I-I….. I'm not quirkless…" Izuku gently states.
The silence in the room is heavy and everyone who wasn't paying attention to Midoriya before definitely is now.
"Well… not anymore at least…I…I first learned about it about a week ago" Izuku lies to hide the true length of time he has been aware of the nanosuit, if he said it had been months there would be questions as to why it took him so long to say anything. "I-I had to wait to get it r-registered with the city…. and get looked at by a quirk specialist before telling you all".
"It's called Nanosuit… and it's a transformation type" Midoriya clearly informs the suspicious class, a class that isn't very accepting of this new knowledge.
"But you're quirkless!"
"How could you get a quirk now of all times?!"
"He's probably just lying to fit in!"
"First the fake two colored eyes now this? When will he stop?!"
Izuku can feel the class turn on him again, He didn't want to but it is obvious they won't believe him without a demonstration.
NANOSUIT ENABLED Izuku summons the suit so his classmates can get a proper look at it and stop doubting him. The familiar HUD fills his vision but this time he has the option to "Tag" them? Not the time to look into that.
The accusations and questioning stopped as though everyone's mouths forgot how to speak. Even Bakugo can't find the words to scream at Izuku, something that has literally NEVER happened before.
Izuku unsummons the nanosuit since there is no reason to keep it equipped and makes his way to his seat at the back of the class, Kacchan regains his composure and before Izuku can get past him, grabs him by the arm and pulls him to his level.
"This changes NOTHING, once a deku always a deku, you are still a bug to me and I will still be the only one of us to make it to Yuuei, Got That?" Bakugo makes sure to be quiet enough that the teacher won't overhear and then roughly shoves Midoriya away.
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Thankfully nothing else happened to him after that, surprisingly no one made that big a deal out of it, probably due to shock but he'll take it. Since that day he hasn't gotten beaten up…as badly as before and while his classmates still didn't speak to him, they also didn't talk about him when he was in listening distance. All in all it could have gone much worse.
Back to the matter at hand Izuku was ready to leave the house but his mom had prepared a light meal for him so he goes to the kitchen to quickly scarf it down.
It isn't much just a bowl of white rice and some leftover beef from the other day but it's still a solid meal. "We should get there 10 minutes early if we leave now, so just let me know when you are ready and we can go '' Inko sits near the door waiting for her son.
"We can go now mom I'm done eating and I'm changed", he quickly washes his now empty bowl and places it to dry. He feels a bit better now that his belly is full but that is sure to change.
The drive to the station is calm, nothing notable, but for every turn, stop, and minute that passes Izuku feels his nerves bundle tighter and tighter, he won't have a panic attack like when he experiences those strange memories, but it isn't a very comfortable sensation.
Inko brings the car to a stop in front of the main entrance,"Okay Izuku i'll be here at 2:10 unless it finishes sooner than expected then just call me ok?"
"Yeah mom I'll call" the door cracks open and Izuku's leg leaves the car as he exits.
Inko grabs her son's arm before he can fully leave the car, " Izuku dear….. it'll be okay, you don't have to panic, I'm sure everything will be just fine".
"Thank you mom, really." Inko then lets go of his arm and drives off as Izuku enters the building.
Midoriya goes to the front desk where he is greeted by a female receptionist. "Hello there, what is your business with us today young man?"
"I-I'm here for t-t-the quirk use in public meeting" the shaky teen squeaks out.
"Just go down the hall to my left and it's the 3rd door on the right", The woman gestures with her arm in the direction of the meeting.
"Thank you" Izuku goes the direction the lady pointed at and finds the correct door, he's still a few minutes early so he can wait but decides it's better to be punctual. He rubs his face and lighty groans, he really doesn't want to do this, then he opens the door.
The room is about the size he expected, about as large as the average classroom with a handful of tables with 3 chairs at each one, but there are less students than he thought there'd be. To be fair he assumed it'd be filled with delinquents and mean individuals so it wasn't the most realistic expectation. There are only 4 other people in the room, 3 boys and one girl, 2 of them are sitting in the far corner of the room with their heads down and the other 2 are spread evenly in the room and looking as nervous as he feels, not even daring to be on their phone.
Izuku fights his nerves and utters a simple greeting to the female officer he presumed would be teaching them, to which she returns a simple smile and light wave.
Wanting to actually pay attention and learn from this Izuku sits near the front of the classroom at an empty table and waits for the lecture to begin.
It's taking longer than he thought to begin so he just sits at the desk and fights the urge to scroll on a hero news article, he can wait an hour before consuming hero news, probably.
The officer walks to the front of the room, looks like it's time to start then.
"Hello I am officer Kei Yama and before we begin I will be taking attendance" She flips a page on her clipboard and clears her throat.
" Haru Hashimoto"
"Here"
"Hino Asa"
"Here"
"Denki Kaminari….Denki kaminari?" She does a final look around before moving on.
"Akimitsu Tanaka"
"Here"
"Izuku Midoriya"
"P-Present"
"Jin Asaki"
"Present"
She sets down her clipboard, "Okay then we can begin, now who here can tell me the reas-"
The door slams open before she can finish her question, a boy around Izuku's age is the culprit. He is wearing a casual black jacket over a plain white shirt and jeans, blond hair parts around his forehead with a black lighting bolt atop his hair, dye maybe?.
"I'm here! I'm here! Sorry for the tardiness but I thought she said my left not her left so I was waiting in an empty room until some grumpy guy kicked me out and I had to find the right room." He's breathing rather heavily after saying all that he must've ran over here once he realized his mistake.
The instructor sighs, "Name?"
"Denki Kaminari, reporting for duty!" He does a mock salute punctuating his sentence. He… isn't taking this very seriously is he?
"Take a seat we are starting"
Instead of sitting in the back in an empty table, which there are a ton of, he instead chooses to sit on the same table as Izuku, just a chair between. Izuku doesn't say anything but inwardly he is a bit surprised and honestly a little annoyed that he chose to sit next to him out of every possible spot. No biggie though.
The lesson passes and if it had to be summed in one word it would be… boring. Izuku was so incredibly bored the entire time, he didn't want to be rude and not pay attention but the guy next to him wasn't so careful and he could see him nod off a few times. The lesson itself was pretty much a review of everything they learned in class alongside a few videos and examples from the officer on how to avoid making the same mistakes. He thought they were going to be dismissed but it seems like there was one final thing to do.
"Okay so we are about done here there's just one final task for you all", She grabs some papers and begins to pass them out to the students, "I want you to pair into groups of 2 and talk to them about why there are here and compare it to your own case, then I want you to each discuss how this can be avoided or alternate solutions to the reason you used your quirk in the first place, turn this into me and i'll give it a quick read then you can go".
"Sooo want to be my partner?" A grin is evident on the blonde's face as he lazily gives a pair of finger guns towards Izuku.
Izuku is taken aback by his sudden question, "S-sure we can work together"
"Great!, Im Denki Kaminari by the way, So what are you in for?'' The grin remains on his face and Izuku doesn't imagine it'll be fading soon.
"Im Izuku Midoriya and uh well you see I ahem I-" Izuku can't bring himself to admit what he did, he doesn't feel guilty over doing it or anything but for some reason he feels embarrassed more than anything, like his mom caught him trying to steal a cookie.
The blonde's grin goes from a casual smile to a knowing smirk, "You embarrassed?"
Izuku nods, and lets out a bashful chuckle, "Y-yeah I guess that was obvious huh"
"Just a bit" Kaminari sighs dramatically, " I guessss I can say my reason first then, Well my quirk is electrification and it allows me to create and absorb electricity, I can output around 1.5 million volts before I uh short circuit" His fingers crackle with small eclectic sparks
"That's amazing your quirk can be used in so many ways you could deplete electronics, charge them, or even short circuit them, you could paralyze people and possibly restart a stopped heart, Have you tried to give people a energy boost before, it could be possible but it would take precise electricity control. Izuku wasn't able to stop himself from saying all the possible uses of his quirk, he didn't even realize he had cut him off until he finished talking.
"I hadn't even thought of energizing anything other than electronics before, wow you must be really smart huh?" Kaminari praises Midoriya's abilities, genuinely impressed. "Well ahem i'm in here because I mayyy or may not have been charging people in exchange for giving their phone a quick charge and I may have not listened to the teachers when they told me to stop the first 4 times and got sent here as a punishment for quirk misuse."
Izuku does feel a bit less embarrassed now but he also finds it funny how his reason for being here and Kaminaris are about as opposite of each other as possible. He should tell Kaminari the reason for his being here now. "Well my q-quirk is called nanosuit and it is a full body armor I can summon that augments my speed, strength, reflexes and gives my increased vision" since Kaminari displayed his quirk with his hand Izuku supposed he should do the same. He quickly coats his hand in the nanosuit and flexes it once before deactivating it.
"That looks so cool! And sounds like it would be super useful in hero work, or is it wrong to assume you are going to try and be a hero." The electricity powered boy declares.
"Thank you and I am going to apply for Yuuei's hero course so you aren't wrong" Izuku reveals with a light smile
"No way, me too! Hey lets both make it together, anyway sorry for cutting you off please continue", He rolls his hand in as an invitation to continue.
"It's fine, and well I was shopping at a bookstore when a man tried to rob the girl cashier at gunpoint, he didn't know I was there but I couldn't just stand there and watch as he robbed and possibly shot her so I…stopped him with my quirk".
"Dude…." Kaminari falters before sporting a massive grin, "That's awesome! Why are you even here if you saved someone you didn't do anything illegal?"
Izuku blushes fiercely "I mean I still used my quirk to knock someone unconscious even if it was a villain, I don't have a hero license and I wasn't given permission. I'm very lucky I wasn't charged with vigilantism and only have to attend this class, I can't imagine being able to apply to hero school with vigilantism on my record and-" a hand grabs his shoulder
"Hey hey hey, I didn't understand half of what you said but sounds like it was still illegal but coming to this class was enough of a punishment, that still sucks though you saved someone and got in trouble for it? that doesn't seem right.'' He grabs a pencil and gestures to the paper. " Well for what we could have done differently for mine we can just put that I could've just not have done what I did and charge phones normally, but I don't know about yours."
"I think we could put something like I could have tried to save her without my quirk" Izuku suggests.
"Yeah that works" a pencil quickly scribbles out the idea, "I think it's good enough as is, she didn't say we have to have a certain amount of sentences or anything."
"Okay, lets go turn them in then"
"For sure"
Midoriya and Kaminari both walk to the instructor and give her their papers, she does a once over of each one and then places them aside. " Good job boys, give me your names and I can mark the completion of this course for you"
"Denki Kaminari"
"Izuku Midoriya"
"Okay thats all I need from you have a nice day" They then both turn around and leave the room.
"Glad that's over. I was sooo bored. I think I fell asleep a few times there" Kaminari stretches to wake himself up completely.
"Y-yeah you fell asleep I saw your head drop a few times" Izuku chuckles
"Hey I hope we both make it to Yuuei you are already a hero but yaknow crime bros stick together" Denki quips pulling his phone out of his pocket
"C-crime bros? But we didn't-commit any crimes?" the green haired boy questions.
"I know but we still technically got involved with the police and hey, crime bros has a nice ring to it"
"I…guess?" Izuku chooses to not question it any more, it was just a nickname and not even a bad one like his other one.
"See you at Yuuei Midoriya!" The energetic teen waves goodbye as he leaves the building holding his phone to his ear.
Izuku goes outside as well, the event lasted a bit longer than expected but not very only fifteen minutes past 2, his mom is sure to be outside waiting for him by now.
Yup he was right, he sees his mom parked near the front of the lot as he leaves the front office, Izuku makes his way over to her, eager to return home and relax for a few hours.
"Hi Izuku, how was the meeting? Not too bad I hope" Inko had seen Izuku walking to her and pulled out of the spot in advance to meet him halfway
"No mom it was fine just insanely boring, I think i'm getting a headache too" the tired boy falls into the passenger seat by his mom
"That's too bad, I'll get you right home then so you can take a nice nap and recuperate yourself". That sounds wonderful to Izuku so he sighs a breath of relief, he wasn't kidding about the headache so hopefully it'll leave during the car ride.
Sensing Izuku's fatigue, Inko refrains from conversation the remainder of the trip allowing her son to sit with the radio's current song.
At home Izuku hurries to his room, his headache is getting really annoying now, he hasn't had a headache in years so why did he get one now all of a sudden?
He enters his room and drops himself onto his bed. His head feels like it is splitting he shuts his eyes from pain and then his body gets really warm and then suddenly it stops. He doesn't bother to stand up and instead drifts to sleep.
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Izuku knows he is dreaming the instant he opens his eyes, it's strange he knows he's dreaming but he doesn't have control over any actions. It is better than the other times this has happened, before he would experience the visions before he even realized what was happening but this time he feels a sense of control.
He is in the woods now, a familiar one that he hasn't been to since he was a boy. What was he doing here? This seems so familiar but this isn't his memory, it can't be since he is currently chasing looking for something while in the nanosuit. He isn't in control of himself either, it's like he is a passenger, only being able to view what happens but capable of feeling everything.
This is strange, every previous memory has been completely foreign to him but this one almost feels like deja vu. He pulls out a powerful looking bow and toggles with its settings, he lands on a basic arrow with the drawstring weight set to max for the highest damage dealing.
After some more time of tracking he crouches and his eyes settle on a ceph stalker, Izuku shivers once he realizes what it is, he doesn't know why but he has an intense fear surrounding it. Once he has good cover between some bushes and shrubbery he readies the bow and pulls back the drawstring, arrow at the ready. He releases his grip on the arrow and allows it to fly through the air, soaring at an undetectable speed until it lands center mass of one one the stalkers. The stalker instantly dies from the impact but the other one runs aways, he should've tagged it before firing damn it.
Wait, how does he know what tagging is? He barely discovered that function today and he didn't even have time to actually use it but now he has full knowledge about it. He knows he can tag both allies and enemies but enemies will appear as a simple triangle while allies will be shown as a triangle with another triangle inside it, he can tag anyone that isn't too far away and can see through walls for tagging but he doesn't really understand how that works. He knows all these things but not how he knows them.
Anyway he pauses for a moment before giving chase he goes to retrieve his arrow from the other dead stalker's corpse.
As he begins to run in the direction of the final stalker the scene shifts again, this time he is inside of a plane looking down on an island. He is still running and jumps out of the plane falling down along with other men also clad in nanosuits.
This is all new to him, these memories last much longer than before they have substance to them, that honestly makes them much easier to handle.
He is falling when an elderly male voice speaks to him, it isn't live though, it seems like whoevers memory he is currently in is themselves remembering what the voice told them.
"The lingshan insertion remains nominally a US covert operation, you're going to be my eyes and ears out there Prophet." he looks around and sees the other men falling in the air around him, spread out evenly as to not collide, "Keep your team alive, by all means- thats a loyalty I fully understand, I applaud it in fact, but your primary function is to report back to me."
He isn't falling anymore he is now facing a large squid shaped machine that towers over him, the voice however remains, " if you can bring back samples," How the hell is he supposed to bring back a sample of that beast?
"If you can't, just come back alive and tell me what you saw" yeah that is what he would choose in this situation but he isn't even in control now so what does that matter. "It's the data that's key now- the nanosystems, but we're on borrowed time here, all of us".
Scene shifts again, but this time it is pure darkness, "time for the whole human race to wake up!".
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Izuku is in his room again but something is off. The nanosuit is activated without his express action to do so. He wasn't afraid this time upon waking, but he is very unsettled, did the suit activate to protect him? Was it what causes the dreams?
Another thing of note is how he felt, he feels…. Stronger now not insanely stronger or anything but he can very acutely feel an increase in power. Was that headache and warmth before an evolution of sorts?
The Yuuei entrance exam is closing in and now he feels even more prepared. With the nanosuit and his growing strength from exercise he is confident he will pass whatever trials are thrown at him in the exam.
Welp that's the chapter next chapter will probably be the entrance exam and if it isn't then the one after that is 100% going to be and the headache plus warmth is just the suit further bonding to Izuku, that's also how he gained the knowledge on what tagging is. I hope you all enjoyed and sorry for the shorter length of this chapter. And While this is a crysis x my hero crossover I would like to say rest in peace Akira Toriyama you filled so many lives with wonder.