Ochaco waited in her hospital bed. She'd woken not too long ago, but she knew she wouldn't have to wait very long.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.
She smiled. "Come in."
And like clockwork, Izuku came in, holding a bouquet of flowers. Flowers she'd never quite seen before, purple with white shining dots of them.
"Sorry, it took me so long. I uh…I had to get these ready." Izuku said as he came in, handing the bouquet to her. "They're special flowers made using Fractal Farming. They're called Cinnamon Milky Ways."
"Why-oh," Ochaco said as she caught a whiff of the flowers. "It's because they smell cinnamon. That's cute. I like these."
"I'm glad." Izuku pulled up a chair next to her bed and proceeded to collapse in it. "I'm so glad you're ok."
Ochaco put down the flowers, before gently rubbing his hair. "Hey, I'm not gonna die so easily."
"You better not. I think I will actually lose my mind." Izuku said, looking at Ochaco sadly.
"Oh, Izuku." Ochaco continued moving her hand through his hair. Petting him reassuringly as she left his head resting on her lap. "Once I get out of here I think I wanna go to the park. I love the kids, but I think we could use some quiet."
"A picnic sounds nice," Izuku admitted. "At night. Get some good food. Nothing too fancy, just comfortable. And warm. And then we end it with some ice cream. Just you and me…you, me, and the bodyguards that is. Ugh, why can't life be simpler."
"Doing the right thing almost always makes things harder." Ochaco sighed. "You're probably the biggest source of good and change in the world right now. So all the evil's that want things to change for the worse. Or even just to stay the same, are gonna pop outta the woodworks and try ta kill ya."
"I just wished it ever showed any sign of stopping," Izuku said sadly. "The Foot is gone, but Ermac is still around. I still haven't found all the Shadow Dragons, and the M.L.A. is still at large. And that's just the major threats."
"But the Foot is gone." Ochaco pointed out. "And from what I'm told, Ermac got weaker. So we DID make progress there."
"But you'd think as the most powerful man in the world, I would be making MORE progress." Izuku sighed.
"You're greedy, you know that?" Ochaco said light-heartedly.
"Maybe a little." Izuku chuckled.
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Bakugo looked down at the stub where his arm had been.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.
"Who the hell is it?" Bakugo asked, looking up at the door to his hospital room.
"It's me." Said Izuku's voice on the other side.
"Tch. Come in." Bakugo said, sitting up a bit more.
The door opened, and Izuku came in, holding a briefcase in one arm.
And Katsuki's severed arm in the other.
Katsukui gave Izuku a confused look. "What the fuck are you doing?"
"I can only imagine how confused you must be," Izuku said, closing the door behind him with his foot, before walking over to Bakugo's bed. "I heard your attitude's been improving back at U.A."
"...Things aren't the way I thought they were…I'm not what I thought I was." Bakugo admitted, not looking at Izuku. "I finally started to get the message that our old schools didn't really teach us shit. But I don't know what's what anymore. I'm trying to figure that out."
"Well, that's the best I can ask for at this point," Izuku said. "Now. Onto business. Since you're no longer the person you were, I think I would like to reopen the possibility of a relationship. Not friends. Not now. Maybe not ever, if you don't want to be. But more like a business relationship. You are one of the best upcoming heroes, and such a person is someone I'd like to have working with me."
"I see…and what the hell does, working with you, mean exactly?" Bakugo asked.
"Well I could go into a bunch of stuff that would sound more professional, but instead I'm just gonna get right to the point," Izuku said. "I want you to protect Ochaco. With your life."
"Don't think she needs protecting." Bakugo pointed out with a snort.
"You thought a lot of things, many of which turned out to be wrong." Izuku pointed out bluntly. "And I'm not one to take chances. Not anymore. Not with her. For as many resources as I have, YOU are the one who's going to be working side by side with her as heroes. Be it at school, or on the field. And among all your peers aside from her, you are the strongest. And so I want you to make sure that she's safe. Of course, I'm not asking you to do this for free."
Izuku placed the suitcase on Bakugo's bed, and opened it up, revealing a black and red robotic arm.
"This was specially made for you. It'll work better for you than your old arm ever did." Izuku explained.
"And what if I said I'd rather have my old arm back?" Bakugo asked, looking at his detached arm that Izuku had under his.
"Oh, that's not an option," Izuku said bluntly. "You see, as much as I would love to just pretend like all the stuff that happened between us never happened. It did. And that information is very much public. If I just let this go like water under the bridge, the public isn't going to like that. But this arm. It symbolizes something. You shed blood and lost a limb for my sake. That means something. And if we just put it back on, then all of that will be lost. As such, regardless of your answer, I'm keeping this arm."
"Are you really just gonna steal my fucking arm?" Bakugo almost laughed at the absurdity of what he just said. What made it absurd wasn't that Izuku couldn't do that. Because he absolutely could just steal his arm and Bakugo couldn't do anything about that.
"Consider it payback for all the years of physical and mental scars I still have to deal with," Izuku said. "So do you accept my deal?"
"...Yeah sure fuck it." Bakugo sighed as he leaned back in bed. "Nothing makes any fucking sense anymore so this might as well happen."
"Now you have the right attitude, probably," Izuku said.
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In the labs of the Midoriya Foundation, Izuku and Giza walked up to a door.
"And here we are," Izuku said as he opened the door.
Inside the room was what looked like a high-tech smithy. Forge included as well as a bunch of other old-fashioned and high-tech machines.
And laying on a table, were two of the blades that Shredder had shot out during the fight.
"Are you sure you want to do this yourself?" Izuku asked, giving Giza a worried look. "If I recall, you don't have any blacksmithing experience, and the amount of these we have access to is limited."
"I apologize for asking so much of you. But this is something I wish to do with my own two hands." Giza said. "However long it takes."
"...Very well. I trust you know what you're working with." Izuku said as he turned and began to walk away.
Giza walled into the forge, closing the door behind him, and staring at the blades.
This would be the ceremony that marked the end of a chapter in his life.
Then, Giza took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and unfolded it, revealing a design for an Odachi.
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The Midoriya Foundation had many labs aside from the main one.
Most of them were in the cities, however, about one-tenth of them would be located in places that could only be described as, the middle of nowhere.
The public was told this was for the safety of staff and outsiders alike. Giving scientists more space to do experiments.
This was true, but there was also another reason for some of these locations. That being it allowed Izuku to do some more…shady business.
In one of the meeting rooms in these far-off labs, Izuku met with Kaza.
"I want you to expand the Sky Pirates," Izuku told her.
"What do you mean? Expand?" Kaza asked.
"As you're no doubt aware, I've been opening up holes in the crime community, creating massive power vacuums," Izuku explained. "These vacuums will either be filled up by new criminal organizations, or older ones will use this opportunity to gain more power. If that's the case, I'd rather the next big villain group, be one that's under MY control. So I want you to expand the Sky Pirates into not just a villain group, but a criminal organization."
"I see…and how do you want me to go about this?" Kaza asked after thinking about it for a moment.
Izuku pulled out a briefcase, and opened it up, revealing several files inside. He pulled one out and gave it to Kaza, who immediately started reading it. "In there is the location of a facility holding various resources, owned by the Midoriya Foundation of course. Right now both the Midoriya Foundation Army and the Pro Heroes, have exhausted themselves after dealing with the Foot. So this is the perfect time for you to pull this off. Once that's done, we'll secretly make you dozens of new ships. After that, you begin recruiting."
Izuku pulled out four more files. "The people I'd like you to recruit have been sorted into four groups. The first are people that I would like you to keep as permanent members, they should be both trustworthy and useful to you. The second group are people who became villains but are very clearly in over their heads. Decent people who were either forced into villainy or simply made very poor decisions. I would like to use the Sky Pirates as an opportunity to help these people in some way. The third group are those who are completely disposable and mostly harmless mooks. And the last group are potential threats. I want you to lure them in so we can set them up to fall later. Obviously, some members of the Sky Pirates will have to get captured otherwise I and the heroes would look incompetent, which is what groups three and four are for."
"And you can get some dangerous people off the streets." Kaza pointed out.
"Exactly." Izuku nodded. "Now, the people on these lists should be easy enough for you to keep under control. However, given your track record, I am allowing you to recruit people, from outside of these lists, without needing to consult me for the most part. Of course, I'm doing this as an act of trust, both in your loyalty and competency. I trust you know what happens if someone YOU personally recruited goes out of control."
"I haven't failed you yet, I don't intend to start doing that now sir," Kaza answered. "My subordinates will obey my commands. I guarantee you that."
"Good. Now, I will need to give you a new base of operations. I can't have dozens of flying boats in Japan's skies. So I'm giving you this small group of islands here." Izuku said, pulling out another file and giving it to her. "And one last thing. Seeing as we're increasing the scale of this project, I thought it would be best if we found a way to give you an increase in power. You will be the leader after all. And my scientists say the best way to do that for you would be via cybernetic augmentations."
"You want to turn me into a cyborg?" Kaza asked casually, showing only a bit of interest.
"If you want. This is not something I'm willing to force on you of course." Izuku told her.
"No need to be so hesitant, I'm in," Kaza said quickly.
"You don't want to think about it first?" Izuku asked her, taken a bit off guard by how decisive she was.
"Not much to think about. I do this. I get stronger. The stronger I am, the more I can do." Kaza scoffed. "Not like this body of mine was good for anything but fighting anyway. You think I win beauty pageants like this sir?"
"I…suppose not," Izuku said, giving her a pitying look. "In that case, we can start right away. Although I will still give you a little more time to REALLY think about this."
Kaza sighed. "If you insist, sir. But my answer won't change."
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"Kill! Villains!" Ermac repeated as they stood in an alleyway, over a massive pool of blood that was once a mugger.
"There you are."
Ermac turned around, and Furisuku was standing behind them.
"I was a bit late, but it's a good thing you escaped before that Ribrianne person completely made you disappear," Furisuku said with a smile. "Alright, time to go."
SNAP.
Furisuku snapped their fingers. And suddenly, Ermac found their body forcibly being shrunken down and compressed.
Ermac desperately tried to activate some of their quirks, but they suddenly found that none of them would work.
"Don't resist, this is what you want after all," Fruisuku said as Ermac turned into a black orb of energy, and continued to shrink. "Well, what some of you want. But it's enough."
The black orb that was once Ermac continued to shrink until it turned into a small black gemstone, the size of a small rock.
The rock floated over to Furisuku's hand.
"Your wish is granted," Furisuku said. "Now do you want to help me get back home a bit faster? Don't worry, you don't have to do anything. You just have to want it."
SNAP.
And with the snap of their fingers, they were gone.
Ok, short chapter but it's pretty important.
Now we can get back to the more light-hearted stuff.
Please review and have a nice day.