Original Posted On April 3, 2024
Beta Read by: Crowfeast
Collab: Crowfeast
Review Responses:
Jjohn34: Rhino has always been one of my favorite Spiderman Villains, so why not include him, right.
ShadowBloodedge9396: Yes, in canon, Bakugo does acknowledge that in some degree. Shigaraki seeing Joker as Player 2 is huge, but it doesn't mean he likes Joker. That is BTAS: The Man who Killed Batman, from season 1. The quote is 'Without Batman, crime has no Punchline'.
123andynguyen: It was.
Fox Boss: Who do you have in mind? I could use some more ideas for Joker to team up with or kill.
Ybarra87: That is an interesting idea.
Charlesparmenter5: Eri is prime candidate, don't worry. I gave the Best Joker? Thank you. I have an idea I will talk to Crowfeast about adding more DC/Marvel characters.
Nathair1: No, Marvel Rhino. Yes, specifically, Batman the Animated Series, Matt Hagen/Clayface. Well, Aleksi IS a rhino man, so he is incredibly heavy. Thank you, I altered the line. Maybe~
MEATBICYCLE: Foghorn Leghorn?
Joker Solomon Kane: Yes, they do.
31otto8gruessert1987: I can promise one of those things.
OKAY, LETS READ THIS SHIT! I DON'T OWN DC OR MY HERO ACADAMIA!
"Hey" = Speaking
'Hey' = Thinking
'Hey' = Memory
"Hey" = To be Determined
Chapter 3: Two of a Kind
It had been three days since Captain Chicken's corpse had been found strung up with his face carved open.
The city of Mustafu was in a panic, several news stations talking about it, connecting it to Joker.
Images of him online were becoming popular with variety of groups and individuals.
But there was one group who took notice, and did their best to keep any and all copy-cats at bay.
The Heroes.
UA Teacher Conference Room…
"… potentially Izuku Midoriya who has been missing for nearly a year." The Principal explained to the teachers, an image of Izuku on screen.
As the teachers mumbled amongst themselves, Aizawa glanced at All Might.
The Number 1 Hero was clenching his fists tightly as he stared at the smiling teen on the screen.
'So… it is him.' All Might thought as he mentally began to sweat.
"All Might…"
"Yes." He said as he turned to Aizawa, who was a mummy wrapped in heavy bandages, seeing all the teachers looking at him.
"If you want, I can take the lead on this case." Aizawa offered.
Shota Aizawa might not always visibly show he cares, but he did care about his coworkers, even if they happened to be the biggest showboat in the country.
"I can help."
"If the information we have from Bakugo is true, you have a connection to this villain called Joker." Aizawa said as he put his bandaged hand on the table. "Let me investigate Izuku Midoriya's disappearance, you need to focus on the students."
"That can also be said about you." Nezu said as he scratched his chin, trying to find a solution. "Hm, how we inform the police of our findings, and Aizawa can investigate the school Midoriya went to. It can potentially lead to clues regarding his drastic change in personality…" The picture of Midoriya changed to a picture from one of the camera within the USJ, zoomed in and a little pixelated, showing Joker above Bakugo. "And his appearance."
The meeting adjourned shortly after, with the Erasure Hero walking through the halls.
Students were getting ready for the Sports Festival.
Hero Course Students doing independent training of various kinds.
General Studies Students prepping for a basic festival and banners for their favorite Hero Course Students.
Business Course Students were forming groups for their simulations and food court items.
'Just another year of heroism.' Aizawa thought as he left the campus, a piece of paper with the location of Izuku's Junior High School and his home.
Todoroki Home…
Shoto held out his right hand and leg, ice forming around him as his torso began to freeze, numbing and slowing his body.
Lowering his arm and fixing his standing position, Shoto sighed, placing his left hand on himself to gently warm his body.
"You still plan to hold back?"
Shoto's face formed into a scowl as he turned to Enji Todoroki, his father, the Number 2 Hero, Endeavor.
Shoto walked past his father, choosing to ignore him.
"Your childishness will not carry you in the upcoming festival, Shoto." Enji told his son. "Your fire will cover your Ice's weaknesses."
Shoto didn't break stride, an inferno of cold in his eyes.
"I will be at the festival, watching you, Shoto…" was the last thing Shoto heard his father say.
Next Morning, Aldera Junior High …
Aizawa walked up to the school. He would be lying to say he was curious and kinda anxious.
For some reason all the records they could find about Izuku mentioned him as a student that was quirkless. Even somewhat a trouble maker for their promising students. But since the incident with Bakugo, he was starting to have doubts.
Walking into the building he was greeted by the secretary in front of the principal's office, she let him into the room. He sat down and saw the small balding man sitting there with sweat dripping down his face.
Either he was nervous about him being here or the subject matter that brought him here.
"Greetings Mr. Eraserhead, or should I call you Mr. Aizawa?"
"Either is fine." Aizawa replied as he pulled out a file, "I'm sure that someone told you why I am here correct?"
"Um yes, you're here to ask about one of our former students, yes?"
Aizawa slammed a picture on his desk, the man froze up.
Then he relaxed, having a more serene smile.
Aizawa immediately sensed something was wrong.
"Do you know who this is?" He asked the principal.
"Yes, this is Izuku Midoriya and honestly, the boy was a lot of trouble for our school."
"I heard," he glared at the principal, "From the information I was able to gather he was seen as a troublemaker for most of your students, correct?"
"Oh yes!" He laughed, "He didn't do anything other than bother them. I can't tell you how many times that boy just irritated the students for his own pleasure. He even bothered our star student Bakugo who is usually well behaved."
Aizawa already sensed something was deeply wrong.
Well, behaved? Bakugo?
Those weren't words Aizawa would use to describe him.
Impatient, rude, vulgar, and narcissistic.
These would be more accurate, but he needed to probe for more information.
"So, when Midoriya went missing it says the school didn't bother to check in. Just wrote him off?"
"Yes, you see he had some aspiration of becoming a hero. Even though he didn't have a quirk that he could use. The boy was facing the harsh reality he wouldn't amount to anything in this day and age." The principal laughed, "I mean really, he wanted to surpass All Might isn't that funny?"
Aizawa glared, "No it isn't."
The principal felt a shiver go up his spine.
"That kid had a dream and you all shit on it. Making him feel lower than dirt. Honestly, was going to ask more questions but I think I have enough to push this issue." He stood up, picking up the picture, and walking to the door.
"Wait what are you-,"
"Your school is under investigation for fraudulent information about past and current students. Violations of quirk restriction laws, and abuse of a child with no quirk while turning a blind eye to bullying that might have led to death." He grabbed the door handle and opened, showing a paling secretary who was sitting at her desk, having heard everything that was said.
"You'll be lucky to avoid jail time. Hope you are happy with your life choices because I promise you, no hero school is going to come and protect you."
He slammed the door leaving the paling principal and staff, before walking out of the room.
Once in the hallway he sighed. Getting so worked up is not his usual state but he couldn't help it.
Izuku Midoriya, if he was turned into a monster, then the school sure as hell bred it.
The level of madness he had to endure day in and day out, the abuse he suffered for not having a quirk, and the way the other students got away with everything. The way the faculty didn't lift a finger to help him and even forced the blame onto him?
Yeah, he wasn't happy. But that still didn't explain his disappearance a few days later though?
'Records show that he was at the school. But then he disappeared almost a year ago after leaving. Where did he go?'
Aizawa rubbed his chin.
"Sorry sir." Looking behind him, he saw a young student in a black school uniform. "Can I ask you something?"
"Yes?" Aizawa was annoyed with people who were bothering him or unable to adjust to reality, but he wasn't an asshole.
"Is it true that you're investigating Izuku Midoriya?"
"Maybe, why?"
The child gripped his hands together as they shifted slightly.
"Then you might want to talk to the nurse, she has all the records regarding what happened to him in school."
Aizawa was going to need that, if they could prove the abuse was going on and the school was hiding it. Then they had even more legal reason to shut the place down and start cracking down on the wayward students.
"Also, I saw him on the day he disappeared."
Now this intrigued him.
"Where was it?"
"It was outside of school," the kid smiled, "I saw All Might that day and when he leapt into the air, I saw that Izuku had latched onto his leg. But I don't know what happened after that."
'So that is why All Might is bothered. Did he have a hand in creating Joker? But-,' Thinking back to the news he remembered the quote he put next to All Might. 'No, he didn't.'
Aizawa thought about the meeting he day prior, how All Might was reacting to the information on Midoriya.
He tried to think hard, he didn't want to think his friend would say something so cruel to the child. But, the more he looked at the more the evidence piled up against him.
He would need to address this with the school when he gets back but for now, he had to talk to the nurse and collect the reports. Then give them to his friends in the police department who were investigating the office near the school and the hero living near as well.
"Thanks kid you might have helped clear up a mystery for me." He smiled, "Keep up the good work."
"Thank you, sir." He smiled and saw the hero walk away not noticing the dark smile forming on the child's face.
Week later…
Bakugo was getting ready for school and the upcoming festival.
Ever since the Joker incident he was stepping up his training and he working harder in his classes. But he wasn't making the progress he liked it and was frustrating to him.
Walking to the door he turned to the TV and he was shocked with the headline. Grabbing the remote he turned it up.
Aldera Junior High: Discrimination unveiled! School facing legal action and possible jail sentence!
Apparently, everything had come out; everything about Deku, the mess he created at the school, and even the lies the school told to the hero academies to get some students in.
Bakugo was surprised with how through they were being as he knew most of the people that were arrested and fired from the school. They were the teachers that didn't help those that were considered inferior, not that it bothered him but it was clear that there was a big case brewing thanks to this.
Walking to the door he quickly made his way to the school to prepare for the festival and to get his head on straight.
'Deku, you son of a bitch, I don't know where you went but if you think this is a joke you're in for the worst beating of your life!' Bakugo thought as he made his way to school.
Meanwhile…
Joker was in his lab once again, gloves and goggles on as he reloaded his trick gun.
It was highly sensitive, so any distr…"
"Joker." Aleksi called from the door, knocking on it, making Joker flinch, sending the pin into the ceiling, nearly clipping Joker's nose. "We have a problem."
Aleksi waited for the door to open, taking a step back when it did to reveal a VERY upset Joker.
"What, pray tell, IS THE PROBLEM!" Joker yelled, tossing his gloves to the ground.
"What crawled up your Hooha?" Aleksi remarked sarcastically.
"Hey, puns are my thing, Aleksi." Joker said as he jabbed his finger into the rhino-man's chest. "Don't steal my thing."
"We need more food." Aleksi explained, not bothering to play along with Joker's tantrum.
Joker deadpanned.
"That's the problem? Couldn't Matt go out and buy food?" Joker asked as he moved slightly to look near their new tv, seeing the third member of their group watching it, molding and remolding his face and body for training.
"Can't. It's raining." Matt replied as he turned on the news.
"It will be a cloudy day with decent rain coverage, small chance of flooding in certain areas, but overall, no forms of transportation are being blocked…" the weather reporter said before Mat changed it to something else.
Joker facepalmed.
"You do know my skin is bleached slightly and my face is scarred." Joker explained before he tossed his goggles at the mud-shifter, which hit and deformed his shoulder slightly. "How am I going to go out and NOT be caught? My flesh make-up isn't waterproof."
"Why not buy some that's waterproof?" Aleksi suggested, trying to be helpful. "We have the money for it."
He wasn't lying, they still had plenty of money left over from their previous bank robbery.
Joker… agreed by pulling out a notepad and writing it down, still in a bad mood, but agreeable.
Matt looked up in thought.
He snapped his fingers.
"Aha, there is an idea." He said as he tore one of his fingers off, it reforming as he got up and walked up to Joker.
Casually tossing it on Joker's face, the finger deformed into its mud coloring before it began to spread across Joker's face.
Stretching like a tight mask, the mud became a healthy skin tone, covering Joker's bleached and damaged flesh.
He looked like Izuku Midoriya again.
Pulling out his phone, Joker looked at his image… and was disgusted.
"Change it…" he mumbled.
"Why? Don't like your old…"
"I SAID CHANGE IT, OR SO HELP ME…" Joker shouted, his eyes filled with rage as he did.
Matt really couldn't care less, but put his hands up, making Joker stop his threat.
Putting his hand near Joker's face, and with some concentration, the mud shifted and re-applied itself.
Izuku's face was no longer Izuku.
It looked different enough for Joker to accept it.
"Good enough." He said as he touched his face, feeling the clay shift.
"Yeah, don't do that. I had to make it thin so it 'looked' natural." Matt warned as Joker began to leave, taking off his purple jacket and green vest. "It won't fall off if you wear a hat…"
"Thanks for the tip." Joker said in restrained irritation, handing Aleksi the notepad. "Make a list of what you want, since Matt doesn't eat, I need to buy enough for the two of us."
Aleksi began to do that as Joker walked into the closet, which was just another room in the chemical factory they called home.
Within was a bunch of clothing Joker had gotten over the last year.
Some bought.
Some stolen.
Some handmade by him.
Even some wigs and the previously mentioned flesh make up.
Grabbing a black-blue wig, Joker changed into a more casual outfit with a baseball cap and a backpack.
"You done?" Joker asked Aleksi as he returned to the living room area.
"Yes, here." The rhino-man said as he handed it over.
Looking it over, Joker rolled his eyes and bid his comrades farewell for the time being.
After walking, then taking a train, Joker did the grocery shopping, walking out of the store with his backpack full and four bags filled to the brim.
'I should cut through there; it is quicker to the train station.' Joker thought as he eyed up an old alleyway that connected to the station.
Joker branched from the sidewalk and entered the alley.
The buildings were abandoned, but someone stalked from within, her eyes locking on the disguised villain.
Using her natural flexibility, she climbed down the wall, her feet touching the ground before she brandished a knife.
With a quick thrust, she gashed Joker's arm, his blood coating her knife as he dropped the grocery bags, pivoting on his feet to see who attacked him.
'A school girl?' He thought before she jumped him, pushing him against the wall, his hand grasping her wrist to keep her from stabbing him.
"Aw, come on, let me see you cut up and bleeding~" she said affectionately, smiling a toothy grin showing off sharp vampire like canines.
She was wearing a school uniform and had her pale, ash blonde hair was in two messy buns, her yellow eyes full of anticipation and glee.
"How did you sneak up on me?" the disguised villain asked his attacker.
She giggled.
"No one has ever asked, but I guess I'll tell you~" she said as she continued to push the knife toward Joker's shoulder, the tip puncturing his skin deep enough to bleed, making stars appear in her eyes.
Joker liked this look as he chuckled.
"By holding my breath…" She said as she began to blush at the blood soaking Joker's clothing. "And clear my mind, I can erase my presence and vanish from view."
Joker giggled, making his attacker confused, before surprised when he dug his nails into her wrist.
Before she could counter, she was given the surprise of her life when he pulled her in, locking their lips together, his tongue entering her mouth and sensually battling her tongue.
In her surprise, her grip on the knife loosened, allowing Joker to take the knife.
Shocked that her victim was kissed her, Joker the opportunity to knee her in the gut, knocking the wind out of her.
Joker grabbed her shoulder and stabbed her in the side, avoiding her organs and vitals, pushing her down onto her back as he was on top of her.
"Who are you?" Joker asked, his playfulness hidden behind a serious tone.
"Toga…" She gasped as her face was completely red, her body feeling hot and tingly. "Who are you…"
"You don't know?" Joker asked as he smiled, remembering he was disguised with Matt's clay.
He raised his blood-soaked hand, which was Toga's blood, and removed the false clay skin and wig in one motion, her blood smearing across Joker's smiling cheeks.
Toga's eyes widened as she recognized him.
"I'm the Joker, baby~" he said with her blood forming his trademark red makeup.
Toga's heart beat faster.
She LOVED seeing people cut and bleeding, but this was the first time someone stabbed her… and covered themselves in HER blood.
It was arousing.
It was intriguing.
And she wanted to be like him.
"Now, my dear…" Joker said as he grabbed her knife in her side, gently moving it. "What should I do with you?"
Chapter 3, DONE!
Aizawa revealed the school system is not always fair, especially toward quirkless students. In canon, Bakugo's behavior would NEVER slide in Real Life. He'd probably be arrested long ago for doing a fraction of the BULLSHIT he did to Izuku.
Toga's been introduced. I'm excited to see what happens next.
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