Alright, what in the world did I just write. I originally had this chapter with a word count of barely 1,000, but wanting to stick to my rule of never posting a chapter under the word count of 2,500. I sat down and began adding for to this chapter and now it has an exact word count of 2,800. And I wrote all of it in less than 40 minutes.

*cough, cough* Okay, last time Izuku got into some trouble with the Hero Public Safety Commission, who sent Hawks to deal with him. Luckily Izuku managed to keep his wit about it (depending how you look at it) and had to be bailed out by Principal Nezu.

This chapter Izuku and Hawks travel back to UA and we get to see how other people react to Izuku's incident.


After ordering dinner and enjoying their meal, the occupants of the compartment filled their evening with entertainment. Hawks pulled out his phone and slipped his goggles back on, however, he slipped the visor up like it was a pair of headphones. Then showing extreme control over his quirk, Hawks laid down on the bench while four feathers came out and held his phone in the air, allowing it to hover above him without him having to use his hands. A skill his trainer always told him was useless growing up, but Hawks never listened. He always enjoyed having quote-on-quote useless skills, as holding his phone helped him gain better control over precise movement.

On the other side of the compartment, Izuku had slipped his helmet back and looked over all of the data from his flight. His speed and the temperature of his suit as he climbed through the atmosphere. What caught him off guard was how hot his suit had gotten as he had barely felt any heat, but the sensors had recorded his exterior temperature as nearing 530 degrees Celsius (1,000 degrees Fahrenheit). Guess the Gold Titanium alloy of his suit did more than keep out the cold, but it was clear that if he wanted to go any faster, he would have to deal with more air friction and increased temperature.

That made getting thermal paint more of a pressing issue. Though it was easy enough to get a standard batch, the internet was vast and anything could be found. So Izuku moved the data and side and began looking for thermal paint at different online stores. Most of what he was looking at could withstand the temperatures he was reaching. Yet he wasn't going full power and if he wanted to travel at a higher speed, he would need to get better thermal paint. Maybe the Hatsume's knew a good supplier, if not Izuku could ask some of his fellow support students, and maybe pass the request up to the second and third years.

After checking a few last stores and not finding anything that fit his needs. Izuku powered off most of his suit and laid down on the bench. The bench creaked a bit as he distributed his weight over it. The eye slit closed and a white noise filled Izuku's ears. As he lay on the bench and sleep slowly overtook him, Izuku reflected on the day. A lot of different people had made different decisions and some of those decisions raised questions in Izuku's mind of why they were made. Why was the HPSC after Project Hero Suit? Why had Hisashi never asked him to be on the lookout? Why did Hawks want to help Izuku after finding out he was Hisashi's son? Yet these questions and more would need to be put on the back burner as he worked on getting ready for the Sports Festival. The repulsor in his right boot was going to be a simple fix, as Hawks only hit the core ring and that was easily swappable. Past that he would need to train, he knew how to fight but it was a different feeling within the suit.

As the sun disappeared over the ocean, Izuku fell asleep, making tomorrow become today that much quicker. Hawks looked at the sleeping Izuku, some sorrow feeling in his heart, as he recalled all the stress and worry that Hisashi carried with him every day. Izuku was young, barely even starting high school, he didn't deserve to have to deal with the HPSC breathing down his neck every day.

As the morning of the next day arrived, the train rolled into Musutafu. Hawks woke up with a jolt as the train slowing down nearly threw him to the ground, he let out a yawn just as the sound of something heavy landing caught his attention. As he sat up, Hawks looked over and saw that Izuku had also slipped off the bench. Hawks gave out a small laugh as he fully sat up then walked over to Izuku. He knelt and knocked on the helmet as if knocking on a door.

"Anything broken in there." Hawks said and the faceplate popped open.

"No." Izuku gave out a yawn and asked, "It's morning already? It feels like I just barely fell asleep."

"Yes. A feeling that you'll become all too familiar if you get transferred to the hero course. You think you're burning calories now, but wait until hero training." Hawks said as he summoned back some of his feathers that had fallen off throughout the night.

"Only if that's the problem." Izuku said as he sat up. Hawks noticed what appeared to be a green lightning zap against Izuku's eyes. The tiredness disappeared from Izuku's face as he pulled his helmet off, promptly forming a question in Hawks' mind that he stored to come back to later. As Izuku picked himself off the floor, he grabbed his jacket and hat. As the train rolled into the stain Izuku slipped in the jacket and covered his hair with the hat.

After the train came to a full stop, Hawks opened the door and rushed the disguised suit out of the compartment. He hoped to beat the rush of passengers getting off the train, hopefully letting them escape without too much trouble. Izuku's heavy footsteps did nothing but bring attention to him, as Hawks was almost pushing him down the hallway and out of the train.

Out of the train, Hawks slipped on his jacket and goggles. Izuku walked alongside him as they walked into the station, through baggage and out onto the street. There Hawks finally stopped pushing Izuku, allowing him to look up and down the street. UA was in the distance and with morning traffic starting soon, they would have to move to get ahead of it.

"Should we call a taxi?" Izuku asked and that would make a story that a taxi driver told to all his friends.

"No, I don't think either of us is going to fit into the back of a taxi." Hawks said as he looked around. He saw people beginning to look at them, starting to recognise who he was and starting to pull out their phones. A sure sign they wanted a photo with him, and he was never one to turn down a photo, but he didn't have the time, "Besides we don't have time to wait for one, people are starting to recognize me"

"What, are we suggesting we fly? You're forgetting that's what got me into trouble the first time." Izuku said as he looked around, seeing people pulling their phones out.

Hawks nodded his head a bit and said, "Yeah, true. But this time we should be close enough to UA." Hawks stretched out his wings and got ready to take a fly, "You should be good."

Hawks then took a running start and then flew into the air, causing Izuku to smile. He quickly pulled off his hat and jacket, discarding them on the floor. As Izuku took off running he slipped his helmet on. The moment the hud appeared, Izuku shot off into the sky, resulting in people quickly pulling out their phones in an attempt to get a photo but Izuku was long gone before any of them opened their cameras.

Izuku got above the surrounding buildings and took half of Hawks, even with his broken repulsor he quickly caught up to Hawks. Hawks noticed and gave out a chuckle, before doing a barrel roll and then turned around and looked at Izuku, as if challenging him to do the same. Feeling a rush of adrenaline, Izuku tried to do a barrel roll, but as he nearly crashed into a building, he figured it would not be a good idea to try that again without more practice.

Izuku heard Hawks laughing and saw him doing aerial tricks, but shooting off towards UA again. Izuku sighed and directed more of his quirk towards his boots and went rocketing after the winged hero. Within a few minutes, they landed at the front gate of UA and slowly hovered down to the ground. Hawks

The land was soft and quiet, while Izuku dropped the last few centimeters, nearly breaking the cement under him. As Izuku caught his balance he saw Powerloader and Mr Aizawa walking up to greet them. Powerloader's expression was hidden by his helmet, while Mr Aizawa had his usual neutral but annoyed look

"Mr Aizawa," Izuku said as he slipped off his helmet, surprised to have the teacher of 1-A waiting for him. He had seen the perpetually tired pro hero in the hallways, and though they had never formally met, Izuku knew Mr Aizawa would be the teacher he would need to impress in the end. Vlad King was also a hero course teacher, but he was over 1-b and wasn't known as the teacher who expelled students to prove a point. Izuku was kind of hoping that their first meeting wouldn't be anything like this.

"Yo, Eraserhead," Hawks said as he waved and smiled at the still-half-asleep teacher

"Hello, Hawks. Midoriya." Mr Aizawa said in a very monotone voice as he took a small sip of coffee. Making up for the warmth that the pro hero's voice lacked as he spoke Izuku's name, "I'm only here because I heard that the support student gunning for my class had got into trouble. If you were in my class when this happened, you would have been expelled, before Hawks got to you." Mr Aizawa stared death into Izuku's soul. Izuku felt like his best option was to try and fly away, but his suit kept his ground. Mr Aizaaw then sighed and walked away to do whatever he had planned for the day.

"Don't mind him. He's always like that, even with all the naps he takes throughout the day." Powerloader said as he looked over his shoulder at Mr Aizawa as he walked away. Powerloader then looked back at Izuku and smiled, "So how did it go?"

Despite the situation and how much trouble Izuku could be in, Powerloader had a great interest in how well his best friend's design held up. He had been available for the maiden flight as he had to continue working on getting everything ready for the Sports Festival.

"Well everything worked really well. I did a couple of laps around UA's main campus and then into the upper atmosphere, breaking the record for fixed wing flight and I think I broke the sound barrier."

Twice.? Jabisu chimed in.

"Yeah, but then I came back down and found myself in the middle of Fukuoka." Izuku said with a chuckle, as it had been a bizarre past day.

"Yeah, Principal Nezu called me after he finished talking to you. Speaking of the rodent, he's waiting for you in Classroom 6-G" Powerloader said, jabbing his thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the support department. Izuku nodded and began walking towards the support department, with Powerloader walking right behind him. Along with Hawks, for some reason.

Powerloader noticed and turned to the Number 3 hero and said, "Um, excuse me Hawks, but what are you doing? Principal Nezu said you would just be returning Midoriya back to UA."

"Hey, I said I would do that, but with my day now filled up, I thought I would take a look at Hisashi Sutāku's workshop. The HPSC has been interested in getting a look inside for a while, their curiosity piqued my own." Hawks said.

"You don't plan on stealing anything," Powerloader said, knowing why the Hero Public Safety Commission was interested in Hisashi's work. But there was no need to get into that right now, right in front of Izuku.

"Won't even think about it." Hawks with his hands up in defence, but with a cheeky grin, "The HSPC knew Sutāku had ties to UA, but they didn't think he actually worked at UA. If they learn not only do I know where it is, but I've been inside. I'll be able to hold that over their heads for a while." Hawks said, with a cheeky grin.

"Wait, you want to blackmail the HSPC?" Izuku asked, looking over his shoulder with confusion at Hawks. And why would Hawks feel he would need to do that?

"Who do you think I learned it from?" Hawks chuckled, ending that part of the conversation. Izuku and Powerloader moved the conversation to the data Izuku had gotten from his flight and made plans to go over it at a later date. After a short walk for two of the trio, they arrived at the support department and Powerloader scanned his ID.

Once inside Powelroader led the other two through the support department, to the back of the building where Classroom 6-G was waiting for them. Inside said room was waiting for Principal Nezu, enjoying a nice cup of tea. And one royal irritated, infuriated, aggrieved, vexed, tick offed, fuming, wrathful, raged. Overall 'Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman's Scorn' type anger, of one Mei Hatsume. After Izuku had left UA space, she had tried to track him with her quirk, but eventually, even that wasn't enough. Mei then tried to track Izuku's phone but he was moving too fast and she received no update about Izuku or what he was doing. Until Principal Nezu had elected to inform her of the trouble Izuku had gotten into, after informing Powerloader. Mei was already angry from being thrown to the ground from Izuku's departure, so the news didn't do her any good.

After Mei stormed away, with almost cartoonish smoke coming out of her ears and a look of vengeance on her face, Principal Nezu kept a close eye on her. Well a close eye from his office, using the many cameras around UA. And what he had heard about her, he was not all surprised that she had taken her anger out by inventing, building late into the night until she collapsed from exhaustion. However, in the time she had spent inventing, she created nearly 40 different machines and each exploded.

However, Principal Nezu didn't fail to notice that Mei did not once seem displeased at the surface-level failure. It was the opposite, after the first few explosions she began to slowly gain a grin, then she would clear her workspace and move on to the next invention. By the 15th explosion, Mei's grin was so large and evil-looking, that Principal Nezu began to fear what she would do to her fellow classmate.

So while others might call it a mistake, Principal Nezu invited Mei to wait with him. Mei arrived early in the morning, her devilish grin gone and replaced with a look of fury. And from that Principal Nezu had never seen a support student so calm before. A staple of students from the support course was they were always working on something, drawing blueprints, working on homework or inventing. And Mei had been the worst in some time, but now she was acting the complete opposite.

Mei sat perfectly still. Her fingers weren't tapping on the desk, her eyes weren't moving around looking for something to entertain herself. NO, she sat perfectly still as she looked across Classroom 6-G at the door. She looked like a predator motionless behind a bush waiting to pounce on its prey.

And the moment it opened, Principal Nezu made no move to stop Mei Hatsumi

When Izuku came into view, Mei made a beamline to him and began yelling while throwing her arms in the air. "What a brilliant idea! Let's go up the stratosphere where you could have died from Asphyxiation. Worse, you decided to come back down to Fukuoka, were you trying to draw the attention of all the pro heroes in the area? You're lucky Hawks didn't kill you. Go get your armor off so I can hit you." Mei rammed her fingers against Izuku's arc reactor to get her point across.

Izuku obeyed without a word, as he walked over to the corner. After a few seconds, the wall panels retracted and mechanical arms came out and began to disassemble the armor. Once the last arm disappeared and the walls formed back together, Izuku turned around. Only to see Mei walking up to him and quickly slugging him across the jaw.

Now Izuku was the one that was stronger of the two, but that by no means didn't mean Mei was strong. She had an engineer's hands, meaning she could easily bend a piece of rebar without too much difficulty. So when Mei hit Izuku, he just collapsed and fell to the floor.

"Ow. you didn't have to hit so hard," Izuku said, rubbing his jaw as a bruise. was already starting to form. Izuku began to pick himself up and had his knee under him but with all the training he had from pro heroes, his senses failed to see Mei's second attack. Mei had drawn back her legs and kicked Izuku in the ribs. Izuku fell to the ground with a surprised groan as he held a hand to his rib.

"I'm going to hit even harder until you learn your lesson," Mei said then when a final kick made Izuku start coughing. Knowing she hadn't kicked hard enough to cause any serious damage she waited for him to stop coughing and then offered her hand. And to the surprise of everyone else in the room, Izuku accepted it and Mei hauled him to his feet

Teacher, Principal and Hero all watched with differing levels of concern and worry.

"Now that is over. Midoriya. You are now on the HSPC watchlist. If you make a mistake like that again, they will do anything to take your suit." Principal Nezu began as if nothing had just occurred. Principal Nezu aww Powerloader was trying to stop him from going further - "They were interested in Project Hero Suit long before your father died. They are one of the many reasons your father became paranoid in the later years of his life." Principal Nezu said.

"Why is the HPSC so interested in my father's armor?" Izuku asked as he leaned on Mei as if she wasn't the one who just knocked the wind out of him. And as she had been the one to knock the wind out of him, it was her fault he couldn't stand properly.

Principal Nezu turned on the holo table and pulled open Project Hero Suit, as the hologram of the suit appeared, Powerlaoder sighed and dropped his shoulder. No point in trying to stop Principal Nezu now, if Izuku was going to know the truth, he should know all of it, "Your father feared the HPSC because they wanted to take his invention and militarize it. Your father made sure they never saw a working prototype, any piece of the armor. But now they have, they know the suit work, all of the parts of it. and they want it." Principal Nezu pointed at the suit, "This is one of the greatest inventions in the world, since the atom-bomb. Your father knew the power, it could change the way heroes are looked at. He always knew what could happen if it fell to the wrong hand, and I don't just mean villain. He protected it with his life and as his son I hope you do the same." Principal Nezu took a deep breath, "For now, I will be meeting with the Hero public Safety Commision after school. I request you two are off campus and at home. For now there is no need for you to get involved."

"We understand." Izuku and Mei both bowed.

Principal Nezu looked over Izuku and Mei. He might be able to hold those bloodthirsty government pigs for a bit, but eventually, they would come after Izuku and by proxy Mei. They would have to be trained on how to deal with them, as dealing with the HPSC was the complete opposite of fighting villains. Principal Nezu didn't show his disdain for the governmental body with a smile as he said, "Besides, you have to prepare yourself for the sports festival next week."

"I think I'll stay in town for that," Hawks said, staring through the Hologram at Izuku. Hawks tried not to dwell on specific memories as he looked at Izuku. Yet Izuku looked so much like Hisashi, with the same hairstyle, the same genius intellect and the same dumb smile Hisashi always wore when he got one of his new inventions to work.

"Good. Now we'll leave you two alone." Principal Nezu said, as he and Powerloader began to walk out, "You have a lot to prepare."

"Shouldn't we be getting to class?" Izuku asked, following Principal Nezu and Powerloader. Izuku pulled out his phone and saw that school should have started 20 minutes ago, so shouldn't they be getting to class?

Powerloader stopped and turned to Izuku, "All first years for the week off to prepare for the sports festival. Did you not know that?" Powerloader then realized that while he had brought up the Sports Festival in class, none of his students seemed too interested in it, as the support department while waiting until the School Festival that happened in the fall. The Sports Festival was more catered towards the hero course students. Meaning he had never explained they had the week off.

Izuku and Mei looked at each other, neither of them remembered that bit of information. "No." Izuku and Mei said. If they had the week off, they could spend the whole time working on inventions to use in the Sports Festival, information Izuku knew as he asked Principal Nezu about and he was kind enough to pass the information about it to Mei. Though the glint in her eye, made Izuku worry about what she had planned.

Principal Nezu turned to Izuku, "Then I suggest you use this time wisely. Have everything ready so the hero course student doesn't know what hit them." Advice that Izuk And Mei nodded to

Powerloader and Principal began walking out of the class again but then the support teacher turned to Hawks and said, "Hawks, don't you have somewhere to be?"

"No." Hawks said, having sat down in one of the classroom chairs, "I think I'll stay in here for a while. The HPSC is going to want me in the meeting and I didn't exactly get a good night's rest on the train."

Powerloader looked at Hawks with a look that said, "How in the world are you still a pro hero."

"Besides, I think Midoriya could use a few flying lessons. It was your first time, but you have a lot to learn. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?" Hawks looked over at Izuku. Who had passed out and fallen to the floor?

The overexcitement in his brain was too much, he was being offered to be trained by Hawks. The number 3 hero in Japan and one of the best air combat-based heroes in the world. Izuku would be able to mark something off his bucket list that he didn't realize he had put on it. Sure he had trained with other pro heroes, even with Miruko, but those other pro heroes weren't as highly ranked and his training with Miruko was less than training and learning how to take a punch.

"Is he okay?" Hawks asked, worried about all the physical abuse Izuku was receiving in such a short period of time. Mei unleashed some strong hit and falling unconscious to the ground couldn't have felt good on his head

"Oh good job. You crashed his hard drive." Mei said, looking over the unconscious Izuku, "Give him a minute to reboot and he'll be fine. You should have seen him after Miruko agreed to train with him, all red faced and unable to think."

Mei looked at Hawks, not knowing what she had just said.

And that's chapter 24. I think my favorite part of writing this chapter was Mei's reaction to everything that happened. I know it this example is a bit taken to the extreme, but I've seen a few example of 'Hell Have No Fury Like A Woman's Scorn". And I think that's what made it fun.

Next week, we get to see Izuku improve his aerial combat under the tutorage of Hawks in preparation of UA's Sports Festival. Will he learn how to fly like a bird, or fall like a rock.

Next Time: Flight School.

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