It's time for Chapter 17 of Electric Heart, but first some updates. The next chapter of Project Velocity has a chance of coming out this week, I don't know. I feel like I've got a handle of how I portray their training, but I'm still sleeping on to see if it holds up. It's a 50/50, but if it's not uploaded this week there definitely next week.

Alright last time Izuku and Mei learned about the attack on the USJ and Izuku learned a villain has stolen his father's designs. He has made a promise to himself to bring this villain to justice, but when the moment comes will Izuku lose himself.

Now it's time for the other side of the story.

As always I do not own any rights to Marvel or MY HERO ACADEMIA or any of their characters.

With that, let's begin

"I told you he could help. He used my quirk to defeat that horrible creature. He wanted nothing more than to help and protect his friends." a female voice said somewhere within the ether. It sounded like she was almost begging for help.

"Please he doesn't even think of them as friends, even mentally he only sees them as classmates. And in the beginning he was more worried about saving his own skin, afraid All For One had found him." a male voice scoffed though it was coming from a completely different direction, "Even then he really didn't act under he thought that man that claimed to be Shigaraki wasn't All For One. So try all that you want, he's still a villain."

"Only the son of one. Maybe if we weren't here, he wouldn't have changed but the reality is that we're here and he wants to help people." The female voice said, trying to calm the conversation.

"Please, until I see that his first and foremost only thought is protecting someone, I won't do anything you and he asks of me. I might be stuck with you, but that doesn't mean I have to like it." The male voice said in a strong tone.

When Gizon first regained consciousness, he stopped himself from opening his eyes. It was the general reaction for someone to open their eyes when they first regained consciousness. However, he had been knocked out by his power enough times to know that immediately one's eyes was a good way to temporarily blind yourselves and cause the surefire headache to become worse. So when Gizon formed his first thought, it was, "Don't open my eyes."

As Gizon kept his eyes closed, he felt around the bed he was lying in. There were rail guards on either side of him, and along with the thin blanket and deflated pillow, it was obvious he was in a hospital bed. His hearing slowly came back, and he could hear the steady beat of a heart monitor. He was definitely in a hospital, most likely UA's personal one meaning he was being watched by Recovery Girl.

Gizon lifted his arm and found something strange about them. On each of his wrists were cold metal rings that were clanging around; Gizon smiled as he realized what they were. He had been handcuffed to his hospital bed and made a smart decision. And no doubt done at the order of All Might, or mauve he even did it himself. And despite how it looked and what it could be perceived as Gizon couldn't blame his teacher. He had just revealed he knew who All for One was, a person you don't just know unless you meet him. And the only way you leave meeting All for One alive is if you're in his good graces.

Even then Gizon could fuzzily remember him also mentioning One for All. That was a secret almost as less known as All For One. A quirk that was passed from generation to generation, the next user stronger than the previous one. Though All For One was kind enough to provide that part of the story, once Gizon's father asked why he had to plant a virus in Might Tower. The master villain was mute about the origin of such a quirk, though Gizon never had to question why All For One was after it.

Maybe All Might wasn't as dumb as Gizon thought he was, something Gizon won't ever tell him. Gizon knew about both quirks, it was easy to see why his loyalties were in question.

The last thing Gizon remembered from the battle was a portal opening in front of All Might and the Nomu rocketing out of it. At that sight, Gizon knew that he had to help All Might, no matter what. All For One had told Gizon's father about All Might's injury and Gizon recognized the smoke coming off the number 1 hero as not a good sign. A sign that he was about to transform, a sign Gizon recognized from seeing the times All For One stole a transforming quirk.

After seeing All Might needed help Gizon remembered himself yelling 'No' and leaping at All Might, but past that, it seemed Gizon's mind had just deleted those memories. All of it, well, besides Recovery Girl yelling at him and explaining that if he had fought anymore, he would have begun to damage his quirk.

Gizon suspected the Recovery Girl would give him another ear full when he recovered enough, in nothing else to make sure it got through his thick skull. All Gizon could really wish for now was that he was in his own bed. And what were those two voices that he thought he heard, it sounded like one of them, the female one was trying to help him. Was his mind trying to make sense of all that he had heard Recovery Girl say, stitching together different sentences out of order?

Gizon was resting on his hospital bed for about ten minutes before he heard the door swing open. He could have easily opened his eyes and meant his interrogator, but for one, he already knew who they were, as there were only two people who would be the most interested in talking to him. Second, he enjoyed the peace the darkness in his eyes gave him, allowing him to focus on the moment.

Gizon heard two very different footsteps; one was light, very different from the power the person actually held. The second pair was accompanied by a pair of crutches. Confirming who was talking to him, but then Gizon noticed something new. As Gizon directed his attention to the newcomers, he felt their quirks. Not in the sense of aura, or their power level or what their quirks could do, but he got a sense of longevity from both, while the smaller source held an extra piece of worldly freedom. Gizon was caught off by this new sense he seemed to have gained, and knowing who would want to talk to him helped make sense of what the feelings were from.

Gizon then heard a pair of curtains being moved and someone clearing their throat. However, before either of them could say a word, Gizon said, "All Might, Uraraka, I assume you're here to talk about what happened."

The two in the room paused, not speaking, as they hadn't prepared for Gizon to be fully awake and conscious. "Recovery Girl informed us your heart rate returned to normal ten minutes ago, but she didn't feel you would be collected enough to hold a conversation," Toshinori said then gave a dry cough into his hands.

"Well, I am fully conscious and able to speak my mind; I'm used to waking up from being unconscious. I'm conscious enough to know about these." Gizon said, shaking his arm around and making the handcuffs hit the railing. Gizon could sense the glare Ochaco was directing towards their Heroics teacher. And while not unwarranted, Gizon was happy that Ochaco wasn't pleased.

A few moments before Toshinori spoke and when he did he said, "Hisahito, everyone is entitled to their secret. I would know that better than most, despite my public image. However, the secrets you somehow know, are not the kind of secrets that are good to have."

"Yours aren't… Sorry. As you said, everyone is entitled to their secret, and with that, they are allowed to choose with whom and when they share those secrets." Gizon said, waiting for his teacher to stop beating around the bush and just ask the question. He was starting to feel a bit irritable, and though he had just woken up from a nap that was probably made tomorrow, he would have liked to go back to sleep.

"Yes, but some secrets are best shared with others. To help share the load they cause." Toshinori said with a pause in the middle. He had expected to come across someone, let alone a high school that knew about One for All and All For One. And trying to play it out the window and act like he didn't know Gizon knew it was out the window. Yet what was the best way to play it as Gizon's loyalties were in question?

Gizon waited for Toshinori to ask the question, but he didn't. Gizon then noticed something in the way Toshinori spoke; he wanted to ask the question but at the same time didn't. He didn't want to be here, but he was out of some sense of. Better to never ask the question and live in bliss than to live with the burden of truth, "Are you too afraid to ask the question because of what you might learn or because you don't want to be told you failed?"

Ochaco looked from Gizon to her mentor and asked, "What is he talking about?"

Toshinori didn't answer his successor's question but asked, "How do you know about All For One?" That would answer several questions in one go, but still, it didn't answer the question that was the most different.

Gizon sensed the hidden camera in the corner of the room, giving a warning to whoever was looking at it. The small red light blinked, then went out. Gizon then dropped his head back down to his pillow. "Not even Principal Nezu knows about this, so don't go telling him. I know about All for One because my father worked for him." Gizon said. He didn't want his history to come up, but he owed All Might and Ochaco that much, "My real name is Āsā pākusu junia, son of Asa Pakusu."

"Living Taser." Toshinori said, "I'm familiar with his work. His ability to avoid capture was infamous among heroes and his ability to steal anything was famous among the villains." Toshinori had never had a personal run-in with the villain but heard from others how hard it was to catch the villain. With Living Taser always looking over his shoulder and on the hunt for his next score, that wasn't the best environment to raise a kid. And how would a son of a villain such as the living taser come to find themselves at UA? Perhaps as a spy.

Toshinori shook his head at that thought, if it came down to it Gizon would confess.

"Energy Soul was the name of my father and it allowed him to transform into living energy and move along power lines. My quirk is not my father, it's called energy absorption." Gizon began.

"Like Nomu's Shock absorption?' Ochaco pointed out, could that mean Gizon and Nomu's quirk work in similar ways? Gizon did seem to absorb kinetic energy and empower himself, at least that's how it looked to Ochaco the few times Gizon had used his quirk.

Giozn paused for a second, then said, "I don't know, maybe, but it sounds like it can only absorb kinetic energy, such as a punch from All Might. My quirk, while not as strong, has more variety; I can absorb any kind of energy, from thermal to kinetic to electric. My quirk stores that energy, and I can use it to enhance my strength and speed."

Toshinori coughed into his hand, bringing the attention of the conversation back to him. "That however, doesn't matter how you know All For One, or why your father worked for him. He is not the kind of man to hire or trust any low level street thief." Toshinori said, wanting to get to the elephant in the room.

"You said it yourself, my father's ability to steal anything was well known in the criminal underground. And when you're the best at something, you work for the best. One day my father got a job stealing from a villain by the name of Shigaraki, and as it turns out, Shigaraki is All for One's real name." - Gizon heard a small gasp from Toshinori, signalling the #1 hero had never taken the time to learn the real name of his greatest enemy- "Obviously my father got caught, as you simply don't steal from the world's greatest villain without being caught. Luckily for my father, All For One was merciful and allowed my father to steal the hard drive; however, for the deal, my father would have to steal something of equal value to All for One."

"After completing his job, my father got a job from All for One to steal some information from some inventor. Never heard the inventor's name of what the information was, but my father completed the job and never heard from All For One. Until six months my father received another job from the so-called Demon Lord. That was the first and second of many jobs my father completed for All For One."

"Then how are you here?" Toshinori asked. Son of a notorious thief who worked under one of the most notorious villains. Someone couldn't simply disappear from All for One's radar. Even a new identity and moving to a new country would only work for so long.

"Would you believe me if I said I never wanted to be a villain? I could never find it in my soul, the 'want' to hurt other people for selfish reasons." Gizon said as he shifted in his bed.

"Then how did you escape?" Ochaco asked.

"I never had a chance to, but then my father died. He was out stealing something and an accident occurred. The moment I heard about it, I knew All For One would come looking for him, for me for payment. So I disappeared, created the identity of Gizon Hisahito and hid until I applied and got into UA. When Shigaraki Jr appeared at the USJ, I thought All for One had finally found me, yet they were there for you, All Might. So that's my story, what's your's." Gizon said.

Toshinori and Ochaco looked at each other. They were clearly having a silent conversation, but the hushed breath they took. Gizon waited for a whole minute before he coughed and said, "It seems I gained a new aspect of my quirk; now I can sense both of yours. And though I am new to this power, I believe no two quirks should feel as identical as yours too."

Neither of them said anything, so Gizon added, "You're worried that I'll talk. I have multiple reasons for why I won't, but for now, understand I shared my secrets because eventually, we'll need to trust each other. And as I said after the attack, I know about One for All"

Toshinori took a deep breath and then said, "My quirk is called One for All. It's a stockpile quirk that is passed from User to User. With each new user, One for All's power increases. I, Myself, am the eighth user and Young Uraraka, Here is the ninth." The true history of One for All and how it was created was something only the user ever really needed to know, and Toshinori held to the belief that Ochaco wouldn't need to fulfil its purpose.

Gizon nodded, then turned his closed eyes towards Ochaco, "I guess that explains the extra strength you displayed in our fight against Nomu, as your quirk registered as Zero Gravity."

Ochaco was caught off guard by how Gizon had that information, "How…." Ochaco left the rest of the question unfinished. Ochaco had never said what the name of her quirk was, so when she gained control over One for All, she could say a name that was covered by quirks.

"Son of a thief. I know the quirks of everyone here at the school." Gizon said as he suddenly slipped his hands out of the handcuffs and revealed them. He sat up and opened his eyes to see their shocked expression. Toshinori took a small step forward as if he wanted to redo the cuffs; however, he stopped as Gizon dropped his hands to his lap.

Ochaco chuckled a bit, then said, "I'm new to One for All and haven't really had a chance to train with it. The USJ was the first time I've used it… well, you can see the result." Ochaco moved her arms as if presenting herself. Gizon looked Ochaco over and saw her legs were tightly wrapped in gauze, and her right arm was in a sling. Gizon noticed light scarring on Ohcaco's hand and assumed there were more under the wrappings.

Gizon rubbed his knuckles and said, "Yeah, I understand what you mean." When he first received his force multiplier quirk, his body had become littered with scars as he trained with it. However, those all disappeared when he got his regeneration quirk, but Gizon still trained to make sure he could control his extra strength.

"What do you mean?" Ochaco asked as she finally sat down in a chair.

"Sorry but that is a secret I take to my grave. But I will tell you as I trained my quirk I learned that if I always threw a 100% punch then my body couldn't withstand the recoil. I assume something similar is happening to you. Your body doesn't know how to regulate its new quirk. Something All Might probably hasn't taught you. Probably because he never had to deal with it." Gizon said, throwing a glare at Toshinori. It was his quirk the most recently and it was his duty to teach Ochako How to use it.

"Great, you're starting to sound like my old teacher." Toshinori said, shivering at the thought of his old UA teacher.

"Me however, I can provide some insight into regulating One for All. If you're interested." Gizon said.

That threw Toshinori and Ochaco for a loop. In the past few hours, Giozn had revealed he knew about One for All and All For One, he knew the villain personally, his father had worked under him, but now Gizon was offering to teach Ochaoc how to use One for All, and to what end All For One was dead, "Teach me. We've only known each other for less than two weeks. Why are you offering to teach me?" Ochaco asked as she was surprised by Gizon's offer. He seemed like a down-to-earth person, but to make that kind of offer that soon.

"Ochaco Uraraka, Daughter of Hoshi and Mio Uraraka. Only Child. Born in Mie Prefecture on December 27, which makes you a Capricorn by 5 days. Your Blood type is B and your height is 156 centimeters, per your doctor's appointment at the beginning of this year. Would you like me to continue?" Gizon said, then noticed the confusion on Ochaco's face, "Remember, son of a thief. As for wanting to train you, I have my own personal reason, but you're the next symbol of peace. You're going to need all the help you can get." Gizon said.

"What for?" Toshinori asked.

"Clearly, you're not as smart as you think, nor as powerful." Gizon said as he slumped forward a bit, he then faced Ochaco and then Toshinori, "Clearly you haven't put everything together. Shigaraki Jr, Nomu with Multiple quirks, my father working for him. My father only died two years ago and he only began working for One For All six years ago. You tried All Might and you got close but One for All isn't as dead as you think he is."

A bit is reveal of Gizon's past, but he's talked more about his father's role and not his own. Toshinori and Ochaco learn that All For One is still alive and is moving his pieces around from the shadows. With this revelation will Ochaco accept Gizon's offer to help train One for All and will his assistance be enough.

(Rewrite: If you are confused from this chapter. Good, you're not the only ones too, so are Ochaco and Toshinori)

Next week, Izuku hit's a brick wall and receives help from a very unlikely source

Next Time: It Actually Is.

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