8 day chapter turnaround, not bad. Two-thirds of the art for previous chapter has been posted on AO3 so check that out. There will be a third page in about 2 weeks.
CW: Surgery
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|==:: ZARIMAN DATA FILE REPOSITORY ::==|
[Recovered partial transcript of encrypted transmission between Executor Tuvul and Chief Liason Quinn.]
T : -and you have failed to meet your goals yet again. Riots, and sabotage in the biomes.
Q: Apologies, my lord, but the situation has worsened. We've seen an uptick in violent altercations between the passengers with multiple casualties. This has only raised concerns about the safety of the Void jumps. The crew fears that-
T: The jumps are perfectly safe. If the citizens are succumbing to the madness it is their fault for ignoring safety procedures. Need I remind you, Quinn, you were given authority by the Seven to handle these matters according to our legems. Make an example out of the dissenters. You have served us loyally for many years, but that does not exempt you for failure.
Q: Lord Tuvul, executions would only-
T: I think you misunderstand me. This is not a request, this is an order. If you are incapable of carrying this out you will be replaced. We may not be able to punish you, but your brother and his family are well within our grasp. Do remember that the next time you question my orders.
Q: Apologies, my lord. It will be done.
T: If the Zariman Ten-Zero situation continues to deteriorate, we will have no choice but to deem it a failure. You do understand what that means, don't you?
Q: I understand.
[End Transmission]
Q: Round up the prisoners for execution. They will be given the judgment of the Jade Light. {Quinn whispers, enhancing audio} I'm sorry. I don't have a choice. Void forgive me for what I must do.
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[Takoba Municipal Beach Park, February 12th, 2243]
Two more weeks. Two more weeks until the U.A. entrance exams. Haylee yawned as she jogged to the beach, a bag full of food in one hand and bokken in the other. They were expected to finish the cleanup within the next few days but there was still a bit to go. It was still fairly early in the morning and Haylee wanted to get some cardio in before they started training today.
As she approached the beach she saw Mr. Yagi getting out of his truck nearby. "Hiya!" Haylee waved.
"Ah, young Tenno! How are you doing today?" Toshinori greeted.
"Fine, I'm pretty pumped to get this beach done. Is Izuku here yet?" She hadn't seen her friend in the past two days, since they were taking time to rest between training sessions.
Toshinroi frowned. "No actually. I haven't seen him yet…" Izuku was usually on time, or even early, and waiting for training. It was strange that he wasn't here yet.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Both of them jolted at the sound of a familiar scream. Thinking something was wrong, they sprinted toward the beach entrance. Instead of cries of pain, they found Izuku standing atop a massive pile of garbage stacked at the top of the staircase. The boy was crying out in triumph, shirtless and caked in sweat and grime, his chiseled form illuminated by the rising sun.
"Holy shit…" Haylee's jaw dropped along with the items in her hands. She ran over to the railing and looked across the beach. It was completely spotless, and he'd even cleaned Haylee's assigned area as well.
"Holy… stinking… super-crap!" Toshinori bulked up to his hero form. Izuku wobbled atop the garbage pile and toppled over the side. He saw Haylee crouch in preparation to void-dash and catch the boy, but luckily he was one step ahead. " I got you, my boy. You really went Plus Ultra! That part of the beach wasn't even part of the assignment!"
"I- I did it!" Izuku panted.
"Holy… when did you get all this done? How!" Haylee gawked. There were cars in the pile; unlike the others, she hadn't sliced them into more manageable pieces with Exalted Blade.
Toshinori set Izuku down. "I… used…" He wobbled around in an exhausted state.
"Hold on," Haylee grabbed a bottle of water from her bag. "Drink."
Izuku gratefully took the water and chugged the whole thing. "Ahh... Thank you. I took the engine blocks out and found some trash to make a ramp to push them up. I didn't want to scratch up the stairs."
"Young Izuku, you truly went above and beyond!" The hero pulled out his phone. "Look at this."
Haylee and Izuku leaned over, the former snorting. It was a picture of Izuku splayed out on the beach, tears gushing from his eyes. "This was you when we started, and look at you now!" Toshinori flexed his muscles. "All these months of training have paid off! You pushed yourself to the limit and then some! You're still a long way off from being able to handle my full power, but your hard work will be rewarded today!" He reached up to pull off a strand of hair his spikes.
Haylee in the meantime had grabbed a chocolate bar and started to nibble on it.
"Eat this."
Izuku stared blankly at the strand of golden hair. "Huh?" He could hear the sound of Haylee choking on her chocolate bar beside him.
"You need to ingest some of my DNA for One For All to transfer. This is how my master transferred it to me. It's tradition!" Toshinori rubbed his head sheepishly.
"Gross!" Haylee gagged, staring regretfully at the chocolate she had spat onto the sand. "You really going to make him eat hair." She looked at Toshinori with disgust.
"I- I'll do it!" Izuku declared.
"Hell no!" Haylee glared. "Listen Izuku, as someone with hair long enough to have it get caught in my mouth, I can tell you it's disgusting."
"Your hair isn't much longer than mine…"
"That's not the point dude." Haylee deadpanned. "Ugh…" Faster than Toshinori could react, her hand shot out and snatched the hair from his outstretched hand. She broke her half-eaten chocolate bar in half, smooshing the strand between the pieces into the world's worst sandwich. "Here, eat it this way."
Toshinori sputtered, transforming back into his skinny form. "You can't just-" His voice was silenced by an annoyed stare from Haylee.
"A- alright!" Izuku gingerly took the One For All chocolate sandwich. Given Haylee's love of the confection, it was a sign of trust that she was giving this to him-
"You're buying me another chocolate bar later." She told Toshinori.
… nevermind. He looked back to the chocolate which was already starting to melt in his hand. This was it. He was going to have a quirk. Briefly, he thought about the fact that this was technically an indirect kiss with Haylee, but his excitement threw that idea out of his mind.
This was everything he ever wanted, wasn't it? He'd put all these months of work into training for this moment. He wasn't going to be the useless, quirkless Deku anymore.
But Toshinori and Haylee said he could be a hero without a quirk. Not like All Might, but still a hero. He could be like one of those heroes with non-combat-oriented quirks, although he'd be at more risk in a fight despite his strength. It was ironic, now that he was about to get everything he ever wanted he was second-guessing himself. Maybe there was someone better, who had a quirk that would compliment One For All better. Was someone like him with no quirk really suitable?
' I know that Toshinori was quirkless and wasn't able to be a hero before he got One For All from the seventh user… but he believes in me. Haylee believes in me. Mom believes in me. Even if I didn't tell Monoma, Tokage, and Eikyō about my quirklessness they believe in me too.' He looked up to see Toshinori's proud face. Would he be upset if he rejected it? Maybe a little, but he would respect the decision if Izuku decided not to. But…
Izuku wanted to be a hero like All Might. Sure, he could save people without a quirk. He'd proved that much already, but he wanted to be a hero that could save everyone. With One For All, he would be able to save a hundred times that amount.
The chocolate-covered hair entered his mouth a second later.
"Ew." Haylee grimaced.
It wasn't too bad with the partially melted chocolate covering the strand. He just chewed it a little and swallowed the glob whole. "I don't feel any different…" Izuku said after a few seconds, clenching and unclenching his hands.
"Your body needs time to digest the hair. It should take a few hours for your body to process One For All." Toshinori explained. He wasn't sure how it worked exactly, not like there were many chances or trusted scientists to oversee the process for any of the previous users. Even with his limited scientific knowledge, Toshinori knew it was probably impressive for a quirk to forcibly activate the dormant quirk gene.
"So now what?" Haylee asked.
"You should rest before the quirk comes in young man. Remember what I said about overexerting yourself? You've been working on this when you weren't supposed to, weren't you." True to what Toshinori said, Izuku looked exhausted. One for All should help with his fatigue, but he needed to rest. "How about you take a nap for a few hours? We'll take One For All for a test once you are rested up."
"Alright." Izuku started over to the bench only to stumble, the fatigue of the past few days finally catching up to him. Haylee was right there to catch him.
"I got you." She picked him up bridal style much to his growing embarrassment and deposited him on the nearby bench.
"Thanks, Haylee." Izuku yawned.
Toshinori returned with a stack of towels to function as a cushion. "Would you like me to call your mother?"
"Yeah… she'll want to see me… use my quirk…" Izuku murmured sleepily.
"I'll watch him while you're gone." Haylee offered.
"Alright. I'll be back in about an hour."
==VI==
Izuku had fallen asleep minutes after Toshinori departed. With nothing else to do Haylee simply crossed her legs to mediate, rising half a meter off the ground. With her sharp senses, she would be able to tell if anyone tried to sneak up on him while he slept.
"One For All…" The Vestige of the Man in the Wall mused in its mocking facsimile of her voice. "Such an interesting power, and an impressive legacy to live up to as well. Of course, you would know a thing or two about inherited power…"
' You again? Shut the fuck up.' Haylee thought. ' I thought you said you would leave me alone.'
"So hostile! I just saw something that caught my eye. That boy's power will be nothing to scoff at. You could bend him to your will, reshape him into a fine ser-"
Haylee manifested herself in her mindscape, appearing directly in front of her copy and blasted a hole in its head with a beam of Void energy. "How's that for hostile motherfucker!? You keep your hands off my friends!"
The copy slumped against the overgrown Zariman walls with gray sand pouring out the hole in its face rather than blood. For good measure, Haylee kicked it in its still-smirking face, causing the doppelganger to disintegrate into a pile of dust.
"How rude!" Another copy with tears pouring down its face hugged her. One would have thought it was actually upset if not for the slasher smile on its otherwise sad-appearing face. "I just wanted to tal-"
Haylee didn't let the vestige finish, twisting out of its false hug and punching it in the throat. It made a gagging noise for a split second before Haylee grabbed its hair and slammed it face-first into one of the Cephalon terminals. A few broken teeth fell to the floor, and she finished the "sad" copy off by quickly snapping its neck.
"FUCK OFF!"
"Someone's angry." A tired-looking Haylee with dark bags under its shimmering golden eyes ridiculed. "Don't you know that killing yourself is bad for your mental health? Not that you were ever concerned with that anyway."
With a growl, Haylee charged at the vestige. It dodged her punches passively like it could see them coming a mile away. "I'm not you shithead. This is cathartic."
"Are you though? Maybe I'm not a copy of the original Indifference? Perhaps I'm the deepest, darkest part of you that wants to be free from all the emotions holding you back?" It proposed. "Or maybe I'm just a figment of your imagination?"
Haylee ignored it, sweeping this copy's legs out from under it. Unlike the previous, it was clad in her purple transference suit. She put her foot down on its neck and stomped. It disintegrated like all the rest.
She turned around to the sound of metal scraping, coming face to face with a blood-stained copy of herself carrying a dented metal rod coated with gore and a bit of brain matter. Haylee faltered at the sight of herself in her old Zariman bodysuit.
"Ah, so that finally stops your little violent spree. A good ol' blast from the past!" It threw its arms open in a grandiose display.
"Don't you dare take that form!" Haylee demanded shakily, taking a step back.
"Struck a nerve, have I? Very well." The vestige flickered and reappeared as Haylee was now. "Don't say that I'm unreasonable. Are you done with your little temper tantrum?"
"Only if you're done with your mind game bullshit." Haylee snapped back, her rekindled rage brushing aside the traumatic memories.
"You're no fun… but fine." It pouted. "I don't get you. Limitless power at your fingertips and you choose to be... boring. Why live a normal life when you have a universe for the taking? I limited universe, but still!"
Haylee rolled her eyes. "Have you ever considered that I just don't care? I finally have the chance to live a normal life here. Why would I give that up?"
"Aside from Eikyō Lumine and Midoriya Izuku, and perhaps Monoma Neito your friends are nothing special. They're all mortal, and you will outlive them all. What will you have in a few centuries?"
"I'll have Ordan and Natah." She took a hostile step forward. "And don't badmouth my friend's dickwad."
"What about a thousand years? Ten thousand?" It goaded.
"I'll still have Natah." Haylee hesitated.
"And what happens when you eventually lose her too?" It ducked, the blast of violet-blue void energy barely missing its face.
"Fuck you. Why do you care?" Haylee's questioning expression morphed into a shit-eating grin after a moment. "Oh, I get it…"
"Hm?"
"Oh, this is fucking rich. I knew something was up with how you've been acting." Haylee keeled over laughing. "You're afraid, aren't you?"
It's deviously smiling face didn't betray any hint of her guess. "I don't know what you mean."
"You keep saying how I should become a second 'Man in the Wall' or whatever, but you're becoming more like me." She cackled. "You stupid bitch, my emotions are weakening you, aren't they? That's why you want me to throw all my attachments away."
"Think what you like." It gave her a bemused smirk. "Is that true? Maybe. Or maybe not? There is one single truth: I am what you will become. It may take centuries, millennia even, but eventually, when you lose everything you ever loved you will become me. Not the Man in the Wall, but something new."
"Go fuck yourself with a sharp rock. I'll never be you, and you quite literally can't change that. It's part of the deal I made with the original, remember? I get its power, and you hitch a ride to watch. You're nothing, just a remnant of a once mighty wall, rubble." Haylee hissed mockingly.
"Hmmph." Haylee could tell she struck a nerve. "Fine then." The copy looked up. "Looks like we have company." And with that, Haylee snapped awake.
Turning around, the vestige smiled. "Hello, Umbra. It seems you were a bit late to our little… chat."
The Warframe let out a loud growl, storming up to the copy and pinning it up against the wall by the throat.
"Oh don't be like that. Haylee is doing fine. Disappointing to the original me's plans, but fine. You should be happy for her, shouldn't you?" It informed with the same sinister smile it always wore.
Umbra growled again, activating Exalted Blade and slicing the wall a few times to write something. The vestige glanced at the wall.
死 (DIE)
"Rude." It stated plainly. Umbra dropped it and it fell on its butt. "One would think you would be nicer to something sharing this pretty little face." It pulled on its cheeks to make Haylee's face smile unnaturally wide.
"Grrrrrrrrr…."
"Run along now, be lucky I give you such free reign in here. You don't want to get chained up too, do you?"
Umbra clenched his fist and paced for a minute, before raising a single digit toward the duplicate.
"Charming."
==VI==
"Tenno?" Haylee's eyes opened to a concerned Mrs. Midoriya standing in front of her. "Oh, I was worried."
"Sorry. How long were you…" Hayle blushed.
"About five minutes. You looked upset while you were meditating. I didn't want to startle you." Toshinori had told her that Haylee had been through a lot but didn't go into much detail. Knowing that she thought it a bad idea to touch her without consent.
"Ah… sorry. I was just…" Arguing with a presumed fragment of an eldritch god that looked just like you? "Thinking."
"I heard Toshinori gave Izuku his quirk." Inko looked over to her sleeping son. "I wish I'd been here to see it, but it's not like it's something that I could take a picture of."
Haylee checked her phone. She'd been meditating for about three hours now. Huh. "I mean, it wasn't that impressive or anything. Mr. Yagi just made Izuku eat one of his hairs." She made an "ew" face.
"Did he now?" Inko let out an exasperated sigh. "I swear, that man…"
"I know, right?"
They both turned as Izuku mumbled in his sleep. Hopefully, he'd wake up soon.
==VI==
"Oh shit!" Yoichi jolted awake. "New user, who dis?"
Ever since Eighth had killed All For One, the vestiges of the past users of One For All had entered a slumber. They couldn't pass on since they were trapped in the quirk, so it was the closest thing they had to peace. How long had he been asleep? Four years now?
Apparently, Eighth had just passed on One For All. It made sense, his body probably wasn't in the best shape due to the injury. He hopped out of his bed and ran to the big throne room. Floating in the sky was a huge loading screen which was at 69%. "Nice."
Now, who did Eighth pick? If it was someone with a quirk he'd have to find some way to warn them about having one for all. Taking another look at the progress bar, it was already at 76%. That should mean that the quirk was already a part of him, and his body was finishing adjusting to the sudden change in genetics.
"Let's see what we're working with here." Yoichi manifested a pair of sunglasses and a laptop. "I'm in." He'd always wanted to say that. An image of Ninth popped up. He was a green-haired teenager, fifteen years old according to the fancy little profile screen. "Midoryia Izuku, oh, good he doesn't have a quirk." Thank god Eighth had somehow lucked into that. "Now how did you meet this one?"
He flipped through the highlights of Ninth's memories. Somehow One For All knew to filter out private stuff so it was only the important bits.
"Can a quirkless person become a hero like you?"
"You should keep your dreams realistic…"
Dammit Eigth, you hypocrite. Once Seventh woke up and saw this she was going to kick Toshinori's vestige.
" My body moved on its own."
Yoichi nodded in approval. Midoriya seemed like a good successor.
" You too can become a hero!" He saw from Toshinori's perspective.
He skimmed through the next few clips of the first weeks of training before something caught his eye. "Hold up, what's this?" It was the beach that Ninth was training on, but there was a girl in what looked like a hero suit pulling people out of the water. She was about Ninth's age… what was she doing with a suit like that, beat up as it was?
Ninth said something to her but it didn't look like she understood. ' Ah, she's a foreigner.' But what language was that? Arabic? It certainly wasn't anything he'd heard while inside One For All.
Immediately after they attempted to communicate, a large red heteromorph appeared behind her. Yoichi immediately froze, because he could sense one horrifying fact.
That man was more powerful than his brother. The woman on the ground said something to the man who looked like he was seconds away from turning Ninth into a steaming pile of ash. The sheer amount of power the man possessed was terrifying. Eventually though, whatever the woman on the ground was saying seemed to calm him down.
Unfortunately, Eighth chose that time to arrive, antagonizing the man into resuming hostilities. Surprisingly All Might took him out in a single powerful punch. Did he overestimate the mutant's power? Yoichi took a look at the two adults on the beach. 'Or maybe he was just exhausted already? Those two certainly are.'
Then a rusted fridge fell toward the people on the ground, and the girl did something. She charged forward with her arm morphing painfully and slashed the appliance in two. "Phew." Yoichi whistled. "That's an impressive quirk." He frowned as the girl looked surprised that she'd done that before passing out. That was odd. She should be old enough to know what her quirk was, plus her outfit looked like one a hero student would wear. Though… it looked warped, not because of the scratches that adorned it. It looked like parts of it had blended together and melted partially.
The scene shifted again, and he fast-forwarded. Eighth's detective friend interviewed ninth and he went back home. Oh, he actually told the kid's mother about One For All too? "Probably for the best…" Yoichi mused. More time passed with the boy going to school, resting, and then training more off and on every few days with Eighth.
What he learned from watching is that Ninth was a skittish but determined and intelligent boy. He took to training like a moth to a flame and seemed to do fairly well in school. Sucked that his teachers and classmates were quirkist assholes though.
"Ah, there she is… Tenno Haylee? That's an interesting name." The girl was back with Eighth and she didn't look happy to be there. She was speaking Japanese this time too, which was impressive for only a few weeks passing between their first meeting.
"I told you I wanted to get away from the old man, not talk to your trainee," Haylee grumbled to Eighth before storming up the steps of the beach.
"Classic 'I'm not here to make friends material'." Yoichi shook his head. Knowing what he'd seen from Ninth so far he figured that would only spur him to try to befriend the girl. Tenno… that was an interesting name. She wasn't related to the Imperial Family, that's for sure. The quirk he'd seen was similar to the Weapon Creation quirk that had been passed down the Raiden line though.
True to his expectations Ninth tried to talk to her, which she responded to with hostility. That is, until he gave her chocolate. Yoichi smiled when two days later the girl asked to be friends with Ninth.
==VI==
Haylee's quirk wasn't like anything Yoichi had ever seen before. She kinda looked like… what was that series called? Kamer Rider? Maybe like a hyper-sleek version of that? She called it 'Excalibur', which was dope as fuck. The sword abilities she possessed certainly lived up to the namesake. There was something that concerned Yoichi, and that was the sheer number of abilities the girl possessed.
Regeneration, invisibility, short-range teleportation, a wave-based ability that made things float, and some kind of energy manipulation. On top of that, there was the armored transformation with blade-based abilities as well. There were some powerful and versatile quirks out there, and he could see the energy manipulation extending to the other abilities… except regeneration and transformation.
She appeared to have multiple quirks. All Might wasn't an idiot, so he probably knew that too. No way would he be so trusting in letting the girl see his true identity and train with his successor otherwise. He'd have to check Eighth's memories after this…
A while later Ninth and Haylee experimented with her quirk. For someone who appeared confused about her quirk the first time Yoichi saw her use it, she seemed to know a lot about its limitations.
What was she? If she had multiple quirks she should be deteriorating rapidly unless her body was somehow compatible with them like a few of All For One's minions had been, but that was rare. Most of the time they ended up as vegetative husks who couldn't even walk.
Did that asshole force a bunch of quirks into some girl before he died? ' But that doesn't explain the red mutant from earlier…' All For One wouldn't employ someone more powerful than himself so that probably wasn't it. Maybe some government finally figured out how to replicate his brother's powers and made the girl, only for her to escape?
He needed answers dammit!
The weeks went by and Haylee had joined Ninth in training. Their friendship had also grown, and Ninth's mother had even invited Haylee and her family to Izuku's upcoming birthday. "She has a family?" The only people he could think of were the two men and women from the beach and the huge mutant. Haylee didn't resemble any of them, unless she was… oh wait, Eighth said something bad had happened to Haylee in the past. Maybe she was an orphan?
Yoichi skipped to the birthday to check. Yep, the white-haired man and the… well, that was the same woman but her hair color had changed from raven-black to purple with light streaks. "Skip skip skip!" Yoichi impatiently tapped his foot. "Aha, there we go!"
The woman's name was Tau Natah, and the man was named Karris Ordan. Tau had a powerful shapeshifting quirk, while Karris could make bone constructs. Yoichi kind of regretted skipping around Ninth's memories because some of this information had probably been said already. He'd have to go back and watch them in more detail.
They did presents, and Ninth received a sword from Karris. One for All with a sword… Second would be interested when she woke up. Toshinoiri gave him an autograph and Haylee a hand-carved figurine. The two teens went to Ninth's room to look at his frankly impressive collection of All Might merch. ' Must be awkward for Eighth to see.' Yoichi thought with amusement.
The two were alone now, and both seemed nervous. "I wonder…" Yoichi manifested a bucket of popcorn. "Oh! Is this going to be a love confession?" He leaned back, giddily popping a piece into his mouth. It didn't nourish him but it still tasted good. "I ship it." Come to think of it, Eighth was close to Izuku's mother, and she seemed to be reciprocating it. Good for him. Toshinori deserved a shot at happiness.
It turned out not to be a love confession. Instead Ninth told her about One For All. Yoichi couldn't help but feel he missed that earlier. "Damn, this is what I get for skipping content like brother did…" He lazily tossed another handful of popcorn into his maw like the greedy little gremlin he was. Izuku probably asked Toshinori if he could tell her in a part he fast-forwarded through.
She seemed to take the news well, so that was good. It looked like Ninth was afraid Haylee would be upset he withheld the truth for so long. They talked for a bit about heroes and quirklessness, which seemed to be a topic they discussed before. Haylee even took Izuku's hand. "Oh, is she gonna confess then?" Yoichi hypothesized excitedly.
Haylee looked nervous, looking away from Izuku guiltily. " Midoriya, since we're on the topic of secrets… there's something I've been wanting to tell you too." She grabbed her hand to stop it from shaking.
"Relationship upgrade confirmed?" Yoichi leaned forward.
"It's about where… where I'm from. Where we are from." Haylee started. "We're not from this universe."
Yoichi would've echoed Ninth's loud reaction were it not for the fact that he was now choking to death on popcorn and had fallen on the floor in shock. ' Fuck! Gonna choke to…' It was then he realized that he could just make the popcorn vanish and that he didn't to breathe inside One For All. "What the hell?!" He yelped, rocketing into a sitting position and rewound the memory.
"We're not from this universe."
"We're not from this universe."
"We're not from this universe."
Yep, he definitely wasn't mishearing that. Yoichi bolted from his seat, passing the huge red "Emergency Meeting" button in the middle of the throne room. This didn't qualify as a world-ending emergency like that incident in Russia nine years ago, so he wasn't about to wake everyone up.
Fifth's room was the only one available to enter, by virtue of not having a " Do Not Disturb" sign on his door, and by bothering to have a door to access his space inside One For All.
"Fifth! Fifthhhhh!" He zoomed over to the Blackwhip user's bed and started to frantically shake the muscular man awake. "Wake up!"
"Ughhhh." Banjo's hand shot out and grabbed Yoichi by the shirt. "First? What the hell d'ya want? I was having a nice dream dammit!" He stood up angrily, suspending Yoichi with a few strands of his quirk.
"Eighth transferred the quirk-"
"He what?! Doesn't that require a vote?" Banjo shouted.
"Well, we were kinda asleep, so Eighth got more sway over the quirk. Plus, the core of One For All must've agreed with his judgment in our place?" Yoichi guessed. "But that's not the important part, c'mere!" He wormed his way out of Blackwhip using One For All and tried to pull Banjo, who wouldn't budge.
"Whaddya mean that's not important?" Banjo questioned. "Explain, or I'm going back to bed."
"Well, the best way I can explain it is Isekai stuff happened."
Banjo stared at Yoichi blankly. "What?"
"Ugh… I forgot you're not cultured. You know the genre where someone gets hit by a truck or something and gets sent to another world?"
"Ninth got sent to another world!?" Banjo shouted.
"No, like the reverse. A bunch of people got sent to our universe." Yoichi informed.
Banjo took a few seconds to process the ludicrous statements First was making. "You're fucking with me, aren't you?"
"Nuh-uh! I have proof! Quick, to the throne room!" He sprinted off without Banjo, who sighed and elected to follow the idiot now that he was awake. Banjo was going to kill him if this was another prank. Why couldn't Yoichi get Second or Seventh instead of waking him up?
He sat down on his throne while Yoichi fiddled with a laptop, blowing up the video onto a large screen in front of them. It was from the perspective of whoever Ninth was, looking at some nervous girl with messy blue hair. "So you weren't making it up? Who is that?"
"So, I haven't actually watched further-" Yoichi started, to which Banjo facepalmed.
"Why-did-you-wake-me-up-without-checking-the-information-first?" Banjo angrily slammed his fist into the armrest of his throne with every word.
"Woah holds on Fifth, I believed it because I saw what came before this so contextually it makes sense." Yoichi defended. "She's about to tell him anyway, so just watch." He started the memory back up.
"We're not from this universe."
"WHAT!"
Ninth shouted, quickly covering his mouth.
' So Ninth is just a teenager…' Banjo noted. "Who's the girl?" He asked while she explained to Ninth how they got there.
"Tenno Haylee, has a weird quirk that I thought was a product of my brother or something. Quiet, I wanna hear this." Yoichi shushed, eyes glued to the screen.
"First!" Banjo sputtered. This was the kind of thing you led with. He turned back to the screen.
"Where I'm from, humanity had reached the stars long before I was born. There was an Empire called the Orokin that ruled from Mercury to the outer reaches beyond Pluto. There weren't quirks, but our technology was super advanced. They terraformed most of the planets to be habitable, even ones like Venus." She explained. "But the Orokin were greedy and wasteful. They realized that their current way of life would lead the system to ruin, so they decided to try and move to another system instead."
"So, were you Orokin then?"
Ninth questioned.
The girl scowled, and both users recoiled from the sheer hatred emanating from her. "No, fuck no. The Orokin were complete and utter scum. The only reason the Orokin Empire was successful was the technological monopoly they had and slavery."
"Fucking hell," Banjo said.
"S-slavery?" Ninth asked.
" They bred a race of clones specifically to use as slave labor, called the Grineer. Aside from that, there were people forced into servitude as punishment as well." Haylee turned to Ninth.
"Quick question, what's Ninth's name? I forgot to ask." Banjo whispered.
"Midoriya Izuku," Yoichi replied.
"But back to what I was saying, they wanted to abandon our home, the Origin System, for the Tau System. To do that, they had to send ahead some terraforming machines to prepare it. After that, they just had to colonize it with 'loyal subjects' who were lucky enough to be chosen for the journey." She grit her teeth. "Which meant people that the Empire wouldn't care about losing. Dissidents, undesirables, or just those of the lower class. A few loyal people were chosen as the command staff as well. My parents were picked because my dad was an engineer and my mom was a scientist. I was born during the construction of the ship made to take us to Tau, the Zariman Ten-Zero." She explained sadly.
"Oh…" Izuku whispered.
"The ship was almost done being built by the time I was eleven, and I'd grown up there. I had friends there too." She struggled with the last part. "Uhm, this next part requires a bit of context. So alongside my reality was a dimension called 'The Void', which the Orokin based a lot of their technology on, including the Solar Rail which let them use faster-than-light travel." She continued to explain. "The journey was supposed to tour around the worlds the Empire controlled for propaganda before making the journey to Tau, but the colonists had concerns over the safety of the trip. No ship had made a Void jump that far before, and the odd occurrences of violence popping up as the trip progressed didn't help things. The adults tried to keep the kids out of the loop but it was obvious something was up."
"Damn…" Yoichi muttered. "Those Orokin sound like real pieces of shit."
"No kidding." Banjo scowled.
"- the agricultural biomes were sabotaged in hopes that the Orokin would delay the jump, but instead they told the crew that we would do the jump or their families back home would be punished."
"Bastards." Banjo clenched his fist.
"It was just supposed to be a jump drill, but someone must've sabotage the ships drives. Instead the whole ship was stuck in the Void." Haylee's voice grew shaky. " And…" Her lip trembled and she looked like she was on the verge of tears before Izuku grabbed her hand. She calmed down, letting her breathing slow before resuming. "None of the adults made it out alive."
Yoihci could see the haunted look in her eyes. Whatever happened was too horrific to describe and was clearly deeply traumatic to the girl. "Fucking hell." He heard Fifth whisper.
"That's how I got my powers. All the kids who survived were… changed by the Void." She said, avoiding Izuku's gaze guiltily. "Remember how I said we didn't have quirks? I didn't have any powers. I was just a normal low-class daughter of some colonists."
"You were quirkless… like I am now."
Izuku realized.
"Now?" Banjo questioned.
"Ninth told her about One For All. Sounded like Eighth told her guardians too." Yoichi informed Banjo.
"Wait, he what!?" Banjo whirled around, wide-eyed. "Haven't they only been here a few months? Is he insane?"
"It's Eighth." Yoihci shrugged. "The man's a meathead sometimes but he's not stupid. If he told them I trust that he had a good reason."
"Hrmph." Banjo narrowed his eyes and leaned back.
"-at least your powers won't turn you into a monster." Haylee said bitterly. While the two vestiges were talking she let the crackle of Void energy run down her arm.
"And… and that's how you got all your powers?" Izuku asked.
Haylee gulped. "N-not all of them."
"Wait there's more?" Banjo raised an eyebrow.
"That's only part of her quirk. It was so multifaceted, that's why I said I thought All For One had a hand in it." Yoichi explained. "But I have a feeling that whatever she told Ninth isn't going to be any better than what we've heard so far…"
"The Void is a place beyond scientific explanation. Time and space don't follow the rules there. We were in there for… I don't even remember anymore. It was a few years, but we stopped aging and had to worry about other things," She shuddered. "That were more important than keeping tally of time. Not that we could tell how fast it was passing. Eventually the ship returned to the Origin system, but only a few days had passed there since the incident. They were about to write us off as a mechanical failure."
" Tenno… how- how old are you?" Izuku carefully asked.
" Mentally and biologically? About fifteen. Chronologically I've been alive for close to nine hundred years."
Banjo made a choking noise. That was older than all the One For All users and All For One's ages combined.
After Izuku recovered from that revelation, she continued. "The Orokin rounded up all the children. Not to rescue us, but to erase their mistake. Everything related to the Zariman was erased. We were never on that ship according to the records. They discovered the powers that we had, and they feared us. They called us many things; abominations, monsters, devils… but the name they stuck us with was… Tenno."
"Tenno… Ten-" Yoichi's eyes widened.
"Ten-zero." Izuku said at the same time.
Yoichi and Banjo continued to watch and listen as Haylee explained how the newly named Tenno were locked up like animals, beaten, experimented on, and a few were executed. They could feel Ninth's horrified emotions that matched their own. It was painfully reminiscent of the way early quirk users were treated back in Yoichi's time.
She explained how there was a scientist who tried to help them control their powers and overcome the trauma wrought by the Zariman incident, but the damage ran too deep. Unable to help them, she opted to suppress the children's painful memories instead and lock them in stasis.
"And then, while we slept, war came to the Origin System. The terraforming machines that were sent to Tau became self-aware and realized that the Orokin would ruin Tau once they arrived. They called themselves The Sentient, and invaded in full force to try and annihilate the Orokin. Of course, the Orokin didn't like the idea of those machines in the first place, and made it so travelling back to the Origin system would sterlize them. Even with that weakness, they overcame the Orokin's technology and subverted it. The stronger the tech, the faster it fell. On top of that they adapted to any damage dealt to them, their only weakness was the Void."
"Oh no…" Yoichi and Banjo came to the horrifying realization of where this was going.
"Don't tell me…" Izuku paled.
"They… first they used the Grineer slaves as conscripts to hold out for a while. When that started to fail, they fell back on older, more arcane and esoteric weapons. But while that happened they made something… unforgivable." Haylee growled.
"You know my armored form?"
Izuku nodded fearfully.
"Technically its not my body. It's called a Warframe. There was a plague the Orokin released to fight the Sentient, something ancient that they refined in an attempt to control it. In the early stages they unleashed it on colonies between the main Sentient force and Earth to buy time, regardless of how many civilains were consumed in the process." She shuddered. "The Infestation… its a fate worse than death. Your flesh will transform into armored steel and absorbed into the hive with only one goal: the assimilation of everything. Basically techno-organic zombies."
Banjo felt like he was going to puke.
"But, they also refined the Infestation into several strains. One they administered to soldiers and prisoners to create super-soldiers called Warframes. The one I use is the Excalibur series. The man that it used to be was an Orokin bodyguard before he became… that. I don't know his name, but I called him Umbra. The transformation was…" She looked for the words to describe it. "Midoriya, there are things that I can't tell you. Not because I want to keep them from you, but because there are things that you are better off not knowing for your own sanity."
Izuku nodded, breathing somewhat erratically in a horrified daze. He understood based on vast amount of information she'd already given him how it could be worse.
" They couldn't control most of the Warframes. All their minds knew were pain and anguish from their stolen lives. They were powerful on the battlefield but inefficient. But…" She took a deep breath. "We could control them by taking away that pain. We understood each other. I'm not sure how they figured it out, but they gave us the opportunity. The 'devils' would fight for the Empire and be rewarded." She said with a sneer. " They trained us, put us in the Warframes and sent us out. For better or worse, it worked. We started beating them back, those of us that survived anyways." Haylee took a moment to catch her breath.
Yoichi heard the sound of sniffling and turned to Banjo. "Are you crying?"
"Yes." Banjo manifested a box of tissues and blew his nose and stared at Yoichi with red eyes, blackwhip flailing around his arms in distress. "You wouldn't get it First. You aren't like Seventh or I. You didn't have kids. No child should have to go through that. I can't help but imagine if my daughter had to go through that hell."
"Fifth," Yoichi calmly stated. "I understand perfectly how you feel. In fact…" Banjo blinked the tears out of his eyes and looked into Yoichi's. The First user's bright green eyes were bloodshot and crackling with the energy of One For All. "I'm fucking livid."
==VI==
They watched the rest of what the otherworlder had to say, growing more appalled by every word. The girl had fought for decades inside those Warframes, former humans. That didn't even cover the woman that tried to help them being executed for… dare they say it: loving them more than her bastard of a lover.
Then there was the Natah lady who took her place, and according to Yoichi was the same woman who was sitting in Ninth's living room with Toshinori. She hadn't even been human until they came here. She was one of those Sentient things, along with her father who Yoichi had informed Banjo was stronger than fucking All For One. He'd nearly shat his non-corporeal pants at that revelation.
Haylee went on about the end of the war and how with Natah, or the Lotus's help, they slaughtered the Orokin elite. Judging from Ninth's thoughts, he was both horrified, but at the same time even with all his heroic instincts couldn't blame Haylee for what she'd had to do.
Because unlike All For One, the Orokin wouldn't stay dead, as attested to by the existance of Ordan Karris. The man who had more blood on his hands than the Symbol of Evil, trying to atone by slaying the Orokin only to be trapped in virtual hell.
"Fucking christ." Banjo shuddered as Haylee finished up recapping the leadup to Natah's brainwashing and fucking Ballas. "First, if any of those Orokin fuckers somehow end up here, we're finding a way out of One For All and dragging them to hell." Banjo seethed. "I didn't think people could somehow be worse than All For One, at least he had understandable motivations. This is just…" His hand gripped his throne, causing the mental structure to crack.
"Agreed." Yoichi nodded.
""D-does it bother you?" Haylee asked Izuku, fingers drumming against her thigh . "That I… that I've killed people?"
"Yes…"
Haylee flinched back as if expecting that answer. " Oh…"
" Wait! I mean, it bothers me, but it's not like you had a choice!" Izuku reached out and grabbed her hand. " It's not your fault!"
"Nice save Ninth." Banjo nodded.
After that, Haylee started crying causing Izuku to panic. She reassured him it was because she was happy that he didn't hate her for lying to him all this time, and for being a good friend.
"Well…" Yoichi paused it after Haylee wrapped Izuku up in a hug. "That is… a lot to unpack."
"No fucking kidding, and she wasn't even telling the kid most of it from what I can tell." Banjo replied. "Fuck me, I want to pop out there and hug the kid myself. Goddamn."
"Do you want to keep watching to see what happens?" Yoichi asked.
"Well, I ain't going back to bed now if that's what you mean. I'm invested now." Banjo manifested some snacks. "Go back to the beginning, both Eighth and Ninth's perspectives."
The 100% completion of One For All went unnoticed in the background.
==VI==
"How does it feel sweetie?" Inko watched Izuku clench and unclench his fist, hopping up and down experimentally.
"It feels a bit different. Stronger?" He flexed his arm.
"He feels stronger," Haylee noted. "I can sense the power in him. It feels like Mr. Yagi's but larger." She gave a mischievous grin. "I wanna see you throw a punch!"
"Now young Tenno, don't go and get ahead of yourself. Izuku may be a proper vessel for One For All now, but he still hasn't even used the quirk." He crouched down and placed a hand on Izuku's shoulder. "Even with all this preparation, remember that it was rushed. I was much taller and had more muscle when I was your age. I was able to use 100% of One For All's power right off the bat, but the backlash is pretty intense. You need to get a handle on the power first."
"What do I need to do?" Izuku asked Toshinori, eyes wide with anticipation of the sage advice of the world's greatest hero.
"Take note, my boy," Toshiori buffed up. "You need to clench your buttcheeks, and say this from the bottom of your heart: Smash!"
"Eh?"
"Huh?"
Inko facepalmed.
"The hell's that supposed to mean old man?" Haylee grabbed Toshinori by one of his drooping hair antennae and pulled. "Dumbass! What are you trying to tell him to do? Take a shit? Those are terrible instructions"
Toshinori shrunk back down and Izuku gawked at the sight of Haylee shaking the Symbol of Piece by the head.
"Toshinori… surely you have a better explanation than that?" Inko chided her boyfriend.
Haylee stopped wagging Toshinori's head to give him a chance to respond. "But that's how it feels when I do it. It's kind of a gut thing!"
"Hmph!" Haylee released Toshinori and crossed her arms. "That's a friggin terrible explanation." She turned to Izuku and stabbed her bokken into the sand to lean on. "Alright, listen up Izuku 'cause I'm only gonna say this once. Can you feel your quirk?"
"Y-yeah, I think so…"
"Alright, come here." She motioned for him to stand next to her. "Watch." Haylee's arm glowed and she fired a blast of Void energy into the water. "My power is tough to control. It needs focus or I could end up hurting or even killing someone. You're supposed to be stronger than All Might is," She said gesturing to the aforementioned hero. "And I'd rather not be turned into a red smear on the ground next time we decide to spar, so you're going to need to learn what amount of force to use, like in our training. You with me so far?"
Izuku nodded. "I think so."
"Alright, now you try it. Feel the power of your quirk and concentrate on throwing a punch. Make sure to aim high so you don't accidentally cause a tsunami or something." She instructed, hoping that she was overestimating just how strong One For All could be.
"Okay." Izuku took a deep breath. "Here I go."
His right arm began to spark, red vein-like marks tracing their way up to his fist. Haylee could taste the faint tang of ozone in the air and the hair on her neck stood on its end.
"SMA-"
There was a loud cracking noise, and everything went white.
==VI==
Inside One For All, a large explosion interrupted Yoichi and Banjo, knocking them off their thrones. Dozens of Mini-Yoihcis appeared, running around the ruined throne room screaming and on fire for some godforsaken reason.
"What the hell was that?!" Banjo yelped.
"Shit's fucked sir!" One of the chibi-Yoichi stopped screaming just long enough to respond.
"Owwww…" Yoichi sat up. "Well that's not good."
"Yoichi, honey" A familiar voice intruded. "What the hell did you do?"
Yoichi turned around to see a very pissed Third behind him, accompanied by Seventh and Forth.
"Oh boy."
==VI==
People were often under the assumption that the Tenno were nearly invincible warriors, and that was true for Warframes most of the time. There was a reason that most Tenno opted not to leave their Warframes, and when they did it was in Void mode to avoid any damage. Being a small frail teenager tended to make you an easy target, even if you could regenerate. They could recover from wounds that would kill people normally and had incredible tolerance for pain but that didn't help much if the attack knocked you out in a single blow.
' Agh… what the hell happened…' Haylee blinked the sand out of her eyes. Did she just black out? She could make out the blurry form of Izuku hunched over clutching his arm in with Mrs. Midoriya and Mr. Yagi tending to him.
He looked like he was screaming, but Haylee couldn't hear anything over the ringing in her ears. She stuck her finger in them to see if they were clogged with sand only to be met with the wet feeling of blood.
' Shit, my eardrums burst didn't they.' Sound suddenly returned with a pop and with it her eyes unblurred a bit.
"Aghhhhh!" Izuku screamed in pain. His arm was a mess of purple bruises and his fingers bent at an unnatural angle. Splinters of Haylee's sword were scattered around him, one having cut his leg.
"Breathe honey, you're alright!" Inko reassured fearfully.
"Haylee.. Is she?" Izuku whined.
"I'm fighnng-" Haylee coughed out blood. That was when felt something on her stomach. Her purple shirt was turning a deep red with a quarter of her bokken embedded in her left lower lung. Being unable to feel pain was both a blessing and a curse. At least she could feel things unlike her dad, but it made it hard to tell when she'd been hurt. "Fuck." She grabbed the broken weapon and tried to pull it out. Instead, she heard a crack and a slight feeling about one of her ribs. "Oh, you motherfucker." Her ribs had broken from the impact and the training sword had splintered off inside her, but then the broken bones had healed around the snapped part of the blade.
"Shit!" Toshinori looked at the two injured teens. "Inko, I'm taking them to U.A." He picked Izuku up in one arm and bulked up. "Do you have a ride or shall I send someone to pick you up?"
"I can drive myself. Is Izuku… are they okay?" Inko sputtered, shooting a worried glance to Haylee who appeared the worst off.
"I'm fine." Haylee staggered over to Toshinori, blood leaking from her mouth. "I can regenerate, the wood is just stuck in me."
Toshinori grabbed Haylee, holding a teen in each of his burly arms like a baby and took off into the air.
==VI==
[U.A. Nurse Office, Restricted Zone]
"You muscleheaded dolt! What were you thinking?" Recovery Girl jabbed Toshinori in the head with the tip of her cane. After they'd arrived on site she'd ushered them into an area away from the prying eyes of anyone who would come into the normal office.
"Chiyo I-" Toshinori sputtered.
Haylee giggled, blood still leaking from her mouth. "You messed with the medic Mr. Yagi. You don't fuck with the medic."
"I heard you were planning on passing on One For All to that boy, and within a day you bring me not one, but two injured children?! They aren't even students here!" She kept bonking him in the head and pointed to the unconscious Izuku, who had his arm warped in a cast. "You're lucky Midoriya's injury was minor! If he'd punched something solid he would've shattered every bone in his arm!"
"You did give pretty shit advice." Haylee unhesitantly threw Toshinori under the bus.
"What did he tell him?" Chiyo asked furiously.
"He told him to 'Clench his buttcheeks and yell smash from the top of his heart.'" Haylee rolled her eyes.
"Really." Chiyo facepalmed with a resigned sigh. "You!" She pointed to Toshinori. "Stay right there, that girl still needs to have her wounds treated."
"I'm fine. Honestly, I don't even need to be here but he told me not to burn the wood out myself." Haylee muttered.
"Oh, I'm not done with you either missy. Just because you can regenerate doesn't mean you get to be reckless and hurt yourself."
Haylee squealed in surprise.
"I swear, you regenerators are all the same, thinking you're invincible. Then you run off and get yourself smacked in the head and killed." She motioned for Haylee to follow her. "Come one missy, time to get that pesky sword out of your stomach."
Haylee tailed the elderly hero into a surgical suite and sat down on the operating table awkwardly. There weren't any other surgeons in the room besides Recovery Girl. "Now, how much pain are you in?"
"I don't feel pain, ma'am."
"Just call me Recovery Girl dearie." She hopped up on a stool and reached for the anesthetic.
"I don't need that." Haylee interrupted. "You can operate on me while I'm awake. I'd honestly prefer it that way."
"Are you sure?" Chiyo asked.
"This isn't the first time I've been vivisected," Haylee replied flatly.
Chiyo stared at her somberly before nodding. "Alright then." She took out a pair of paramedic shears and cut through Haylee's shirt. "Are you able to stop yourself from regenerating or your wounds?"
"Yes." Haylee pulled off her bra and lay down on the table.
She stared at the ceiling while Recovery Girl prepared her for the surgery, gently drumming her fingers against the metal table. Eventually, the woman got started and started making incisions. The surgery suite was eerily quiet aside from Haylee's breathing and the machinery.
"So you… know about all of us then?" Haylee asked quietly, careful not to move anything important while she worked.
"Yes, I wouldn't work for Principal Nezu if he didn't keep me in the loop about these kinds of things." She pulled a fragment of wood out and set it on the surgical tray, watching the unnaturally calm girl's chest rise and fall for a moment.
"Who else at the school knows?" Haylee rasped as Recovery Girl reached back inside. The Youthful Heroine frowned.
"The full story? Just Nezu, Yagi, and myself." She looked Haylee in the eye. "I see the problem now. The sword snapped inside you and the broken piece is caught on your rib and lung."
Haylee stared at the woman's hand in her chest. "Well, I don't want you to push it out the other side, so just cut the rib off. I'll grow it back." She said without hesitation.
"Hold still. I don't want to nic anything important." Chiyo instructed and began to saw through the bone. "There we go." She pulled the bloody wooden pole from Haylee's chest cavity. And began to clean up the remaining scraps. After a few more minutes she set down her tools. "Alright dear, you can heal yourself now."
"Thanks, Recovery Girl." Haylee nodded in confirmation.
Chiyo watched the girl's calm expression as her rib regrew and flesh knitted itself back together. Someone so young shouldn't be so calm about this, and the way she'd explained that this wasn't the first time she'd had to have a live surgery unsettled her.
Haylee sat up and let the older woman wipe the dried blood off her chest. "Is… is Izuku going to heal in time for the entrance exam?" Haylee said, concerned and a bit guilty.
"Midoriya should be fine so long as he doesn't do anything reckless or strain it further. His arm will be fully healed in a few days." Chiyo explained. "There are extra shirts in that drawer over there," She continued as Haylee put her sports bra back on.
"Its… it's not entirely Mr. Yagi's fault he got hurt." Haylee confessed. "I was the one trying to teach him to use his quirk… I just didn't know that this would happen."
Chiyo sighed and put both her hands on her cane. "It's not your responsibility to teach Midoriya to use his quirk. I'm hard on Yagi because he…" She paused, reconsidering her words. "He has certain expectations that he is expected to fulfill. You were simply trying to step in when his methods were inadequate. Don't go blaming yourself dear."
"If you say so." She replied, unconvinced.
"Yagi is a muscle-headed oaf sometimes, but he's not stupid. I'm sure he wasn't expecting it to turn out like this either since he was able to use the quirk with only a bit of soreness. He also said it was the same for his master as well." Chiyo's frown softened. "But you are child-"
Haylee opened her mouth to protest.
"-and don't you dare pull the 'but I'm older than you card' with me young lady," Chiyo said disapprovingly. "Midoriya is your friend, not your responsibility. Now hurry on back to Yagi while I clean this mess up."
==VI==
[Group Chat]
NotAMasochist: So, good news and bad news.
NotAMasochist: Izuku's quirk finally manifested today.
DinoRawr: ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )
DinoRawr: Wait, wats the bad news?
NotAMasochist: Well
NotAMasochist: He broke his arm when he used it the first time.
✧Lumi✧: (ó﹏ò｡) Oh no! Is he okay?
NotAMasochist: He will be fine by the entrance exam, so don't worry.
NotAMasochist: Mr. Yagi took him to the hospital and they used a healing quirk.
DinoRawr: phew
✧Lumi✧: GreenBean u ok?
GreenBean is now online.
GreenBean: Yeah. I'm fine
GreenBean: I was more worried about NotAMasochist
DinoRawr: Wdym?
NotAMasochist: oh.
NotAMasochist: right
NotAMasochist: the impalement
DinoRawr: THE WHAT
✧Lumi✧: (oᗝo)
DinoRawr: GreenBean DID YOU STAB HER?!
GreenBean: (╥﹏╥) nooooooo!
NotAMasochist: Guys, it's not a big deal. I was just standing too close to him and the force from his punch broke my training blade.
NotAMasochist: It's not like this is the first time I've had a blade rearranging my guts.
DinoRawr: o-o
✧Lumi✧: o-o
GreenBean: o-o
DinoRawr: Also, phrasing, but seriously wtf, that's not something you should be so chill about.
NotAMasochist: Huh?
NotAMasochist: oh
NotAMasochist: FUCK
NotAMasochist: (blushemoji)
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VITW: See that kid? Make him a minion
Haylee and Umbra: KYS
Izuku finally has One For All, and two weeks early. Will he get time to train it? Probably not since he can't risk breaking himself before the exam.
Short AN because it's late and I have work tomorrow. If you have any questions or stuff ill be happy to respond in comments (on Ao3, because fanfiction dot net only lets you do it in DMS for some archaic reason). Also, I've been feeding the intrusive thoughts on the idea of a Guild Wars X MHA AU because there are literally no crossover fics between the two on Ao3 (that aren't just prompts of unrelated fandoms) THE WORMS ARE BACK *clutches head*
Next Time: The UA Recommendation Exams