As they had learned, Bola was an eccentric spazz sometimes. He did things no one understood why, made sure not to tell anyone his reasoning, and enjoyed the confusion and chaos he sought with impish glee.

So, it made perfect sense for him to return from his absence without saying a word as to what he did and jump instantly on the next point of interest presented to him. That being the two new seats in his theater.

The armor-clad man rubbed his hands like a cartoon villain, "It's show time!" He pulled from his balcony a…trash can? "It's here somewhere."

"Bola, why do you stash your things in a trash can?" Izuku, having the closest relationship with their host thanks to his little heart-to-heart with his alternate self, felt comfortable enough to ask.

"Because my vault is full of other crap." He rummaged through it, throwing random things over his shoulder. A book, a juice bottle, a kitchen sink (he indeed had always one handy), a gun, a cluster of colorful stones, a– was that a human skull?! Oh, wait, it had three eyes and looked more like a gorilla one, "So here's where I put that troll skull. Good to know." He threw the skull behind him, and it landed with a loud crash and a cat meowing angrily. Bola paid no attention to the commotion he caused and instead continued rummaging until he found what he was looking for. "Ah ha!"

The man pulled the desired objects and raised them dramatically, "Behold!"

It was a pair of blue crystals in the shape of stars, something green coming from inside it like a tail, making them look like shooting stars.

SM Eri gasped, "Where did you find Star Shards?"

Bola stayed silent momentarily, "I don't have to tell you that." He threw the trash can away, ignoring SM Eri's pout. The man took a pitcher stance, cupping the two crystals in his hands, "YEET!"

They watched Bola throwing the Star Shards out one of the strange-shaped windows. Instead of falling, the star-shaped crystals lit up when they passed the threshold of the theater and zipped away in dizzying paths that traced jagged lines against the currently starry black background of Nothing.

"What the fuck was that!?" Came Katsuki's scream.

"Hold."

"What, ribbit?" Tsuyu tilted her head curiously with a finger on her chin.

"Wait for it."

"Wait for what, man?" Ejiro looked borderline confused.

"Almost… Here it comes!"

As they flew away, the Star Shards returned, bouncing from star to star until the two comets flew into the theater by the same window.

The audience let out startled shouts as the blue masses pinballed through the room, ultimately crashing into the two new chairs. When the lights died out, sitting in the new spots at the adult corner were Present Mic and Midnight, who were currently unconscious and in their hero uniforms.

"Present Mic and Midnight?!" All the students shouted in surprise and shock.

"No." Shota groaned, burying his face in his hands. "Please, no." His words were muffled.

"Yes!" Bola cheered gleefully, "Our new guests are Hisashi Yamada and Nemuri Kayama! AKA Present Mic and Midnight!"

"Kill me now!"

"You can't die here, unfortunately," Sleppt said with an apologetic expression while Bola and Dark were watching the entire escapade with mild amusement.

Shota took a deep breath, stood up from his chair without speaking a word to anyone, and went marching to the door. He tried to open the door, but it remained slammed shut. He tugged repeatedly until everyone was given a comical scene of their teacher desperately trying to pry open the doors with a foot on leaning on the door and a crowbar. (Where did the crowbar come from?!).

"I'm afraid the doors won't open either." Sleppt looked sheepish as he rubbed the back of his neck, and Shota turned sharply in his direction. "The theater has a mind of its own, so it is unlikely they will allow you to leave until dinner or Bola gives you permission."

Shota groans, dropping the crowbar, which is then swallowed by the floor. "If I am going to stay in a room with the cockatoo, knock me unconscious." He demanded.

"NOPE!" Bola immediately shut down the idea while crossing his hands like an X. "The purpose of this theatre is to watch what happens to your alternate selves! It beats the purpose if you sleep through it all! That also stands for drinking yourself stupid!" He gave the hero a pointed look while huffing the last part.

Another groan from the sleep-deprived teacher as he looked like a man who lost all hope and will to live while his students laughed.

"Calm down, you whining, Drake." Dark rolled her eyes with a huff, still thoroughly amused by the dramatics of the homeroom teacher. "While I won't give you more alcohol until dinner, I have taken precautions for when these two come." The Dragoness pulled out two items out of her inventory. One was a blue crystal necklace with a silver undead dragon with its large tail wrapped around the crystal and its wings wide open. The chest revealed ribs, and the head looked scary, with the undead dragon grinning. To put it simply, it looked a little unnerving. The other turned out to be some kind of silver pendant with mysterious markings.

"The Dragon pendant is a quirk suppressor for the loud one, and the other is for you to wear." Dark huffs, handing off the crystal necklace to Chibi, who runs off to Present Mic to put it around his neck. "I forged both of them myself and enchanted them," Dark said as she walked towards Shota.

The homeroom teacher eyed the pendant warily as the Dragoness walked closer. Once she was in front of him (which reminded Shota how much taller the Dragon was), Dark grasped his hand and opened the palm so she could drop it. Afterward, she closed his hands with her scaly hands, careful not to pierce the skin with her claws.

"I call it the Pendant of Miracle," Dark smirked, amused by his reaction. "Named after the enchantment: the Miracle of Healing. Your friend will wear the quirk suppressor at all times unless training is involved, but you will only be allowed to wear this during the showing.

Shota eyes the item warily. "And what does this thing do?"

"It's a healing pendant," Dark said as though it was obvious, placing her hands on her hips. "I'm fully aware that as we get further into the series, things will get more complicated, and you will deal with a splitting migraine. Add that with those nosy friends of yours, and you'll be dealing with worse."

"I still think you should've given him pills…" Muttered Sleppt under his breath so that no one, other than his coworkers, as they have crazy enhanced hearing, could hear him

Shota reluctantly put on the pendant, the silver item glistening by the room's light. The sleep-deprived man grasped the item to get a better look at it. "If it does indeed work…" He drawled, his eyes on the pendant. "Why am I allowed to wear it only on the showing? And why give it to me in the first place?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Dark snorted, "We need you to be mainly focused on the screen. But outside of the viewing? I will take great amusement in you facing the consequences of your foolish actions. Such as drinking my strong stash of liquor that might as well be poison to humans." Shota glared at her, but she remained unbothered. "Plus, the pendant would prevent you from going drunk, as it will see the substance as poison and get rid of it."

Shota groaned while his students and colleagues laughed.

"As for the second bit, call it a bit of mercy." Dark huffed, smoke coming out of her nostrils.

"Wha-?"

"Don't ask. My reasons are my own, and let's leave it like that."

"Now that you're done, can I put this show on the road?" Bola didn't wait for an answer, ducking in the balcony and reappearing beside Izuku's chair, "Do me a favor and keep your friends from getting too rowdy while I wake up the newcomers and give them the usual speech, eh?"

"S-sure!" Izuku nodded hastily, earning a thumbs up from Bola. When the man turned, he grabbed the two unconscious teachers and walked away, dragging them while doing so. Surprisingly, the armored man chose that instead of teleporting behind the chairs like he usually did. The doors opened to Bola (Shota throwing an irritated glare at them) and closed carefully, locking themselves again after he passed. However, just as Bola left the theater, something escaped the folds of his armor. Izuku grabbed the paper from the floor and was about to call out for Bola when his eyes instinctually read the first line.

The first set of words that caught his eyes made his words die in his throat. Izuku quickly hid the page in his notebook, ensuring Bola hadn't seen it.

"Midoriya, everything okay?" Shoto's question almost gave Izuku a heart attack, but he thankfully stifled the cry that climbed up his chest.

Izuku looked around, seeing everybody else, especially the staff, was distracted. He motioned Shoto closer, the bichromatic boy getting up from his seat and standing beside Izuku, unknowingly blocking the view of the adult area. Perfect.

Opening the notebook back and tilting it just enough, Izuku motioned to it with his head while making a zip motion over his mouth.

Shoto read the first line, and his eyes widened just like Izuku's did. He hustled closer to make sure no one could see the contents of the page beside them two, "How did you get that?"

"Bola dropped it."

"Did he do it on purpose?"

Izuku hummed just as softly as they had been whispering, considering the possibility, "I wouldn't put it past him."

"Doesn't matter. Let's read it and speak with the others in the next break."

Izuku nodded, angling his notebook so both of them could read the contents of the lead he had just gotten. On the page, the content was scratchy written.


Bola Report 0

I'm doing it.

I have the start more or less figured out, and while the initial plan went out the window, I like the direction this is going.

Keeper and Silver volunteered to help, which is honestly half the reason I'm taking the plunge. While conciliating everything will be hard, I think I can do it.

The point of contact between the two sources I'm using will need some finicking. Silver showed me with her project that starting both 'threads' at the same time and tying them is possible, but with the different 'pillar concepts' I'm using, I'll need to improvise.

I'm so over my fucking head.


Izuku and Shoto traded a look. What was that all about?

Well, apparently, they would have to wait until the next break (Izuku hastily stuffed the piece of paper in another page of his notebook before flipping the pages back to where he was initially) as the timer hit zero, and the screen lit up.

"I'm home!"

Izuku barely closed the door when Eri came running and tackle-hugged him, "You're back!"

The girls gushed, much to Izuku's embarrassment.

Ochako smiled kindly at him, "It must be nice to have Eri like a little sister."

Izuku paused, his embarrassment forgotten as a warm smile came on his face, "Yeah, I guess it does…"

"My god, she is even cuter in person." Nana's voice sounded in Izuku's mind. He still had to get used to having someone else in his head, but it was like his Other said, 'Hearts are powerful, and their connection even more so. With them, a miracle is nothing more than a shared wish.'

And like that, their wish to be together was granted, and Nana swore to use this chance to help Izuku the best she could.

"So All Might's master pitched on a ride." Denki quipped, making a few of his classmates laugh. "Things surely won't go wrong."

"With someone as manly as All Might's mentor, surely she would help the other Midoriya." Ejiro grinned as a few gave exasperated smiles in his direction.

Izuku merely hummed in agreement. Maybe the other version of his shattered counterpart will get help from All Might's mentor. Toshinori also seemed interested in how things would go with his mentor guiding his successor.

"Izuku, I'm finishing dinner. Go change so we can eat." Inko said from the kitchen. The smell of katsudon made Izuku salivate, "Yes, Mom!"

Carrying Eri to the table, Izuku bolted to his bedroom and changed into some loose clothes. When he got back, Eri and Inko were sitting waiting for him.

"So, Izuku, how was your first day?" Inko asked her son. She was curious and a bit nervous about how UA worked compared to regular schools.

"It was crazy!" Denki said as he whipped off the fake sweat out of his head.

"With having the shattered Midoriya failing and go through that 'dive of the heart' thing to fight dream Midoriya, it was overwhelming." Hanta rolled his eyes fondly.

"I know, right?" Kyoka rolled her eyes. "Greenie here can't catch a break."

"It was amazing! Our homeroom teacher is Eraserhead. He made us do a quirk test, and everyone had such cool quirks! There was even a boy with one that looked like a Heartless, but it was different and could talk too!" Izuku retold his day with the energy and wonder of a child telling a story. Eri had stars in her eyes just from listening to all the amazing things he did. Inko was happy that he could make more friends.

"Is the shattered Deku going to tell your mom what happened?" Ochako wondered as she looked at her friend.

Izuku looked thoughtful before he shrugged. "Probably not. He probably doesn't want her to worry when it was already handled."

"You should still tell your mother about this, Midoriya." Tenya scolded his friend, chopping his hands.

"Well… It's not really me, and my mom already knows." Izuku shrugged.

"You would still do it even if that weren't the case," Shoto said bluntly, already knowing how his friend would act no different from the Shattered Midoriya if the same circumstances occurred in their world.

Izuku could only smile sheepishly as he scratched his cheek.

"Aren't you going to tell her about the little 'accident' you had?" Izuku could hear the inquisitive look Nana was giving him, 'I don't want to worry her about something that we already handled.'

Inko shook her head fondly as many of the students chuckled.

"Classic Midoriya." Hanta shook his head, his iconic smile on his face.

"Humm, ok, I'll let it slide this time."

Toshinori couldn't hold back a smile as his students laughed at Nana's response.

"What did you two do today while I was at school?" Izuku didn't let his mental conversation get in the way of the vocal one. At his question, Eri almost jumped in her chair, "We studied together, and I made a drawing of you!"

The girls gushed at the girl's excitement, much to Eri's embarrassment.

Inko giggled at the child's enthusiasm, "Yes, Eri is quite the smart girl, with an artistic talent too," Inko turned towards the younger girl. "Do you want to show Izuku your drawing, dear?"

"Yes! Show us!" Mina squealed with Toru.

Kyoka silently relished the fact that her new enchanted headphones spared her ears, but she still glared at the girls for the sake of it.

Eri's answer was to jump from the table, run to the shared bedroom, and in a second, she was back with a sketchbook.

Handing it to Izuku while jumping in place, she eagerly awaited his reaction. Izuku smiled and petted her head. He would love anything she did. The fact she drew him only made his heart warmer. Opening the book, Izuku saw a crayon drawing of them and the Dream Eaters, but he was in his standard form, all of them side by side.

The pink girl and her invisible companion squealed at the cuteness.

"That's adorable." Ochako beamed at the picture on the screen.

Izuku blinked, but then his stunned expression melted to that of warmth. While this wasn't him, it was heartwarming to see how much the other Eri effort put into her drawing. It… felt nice to be a big brother.


[Play: Kingdom Hearts 2.5 - Naminé]

"Is that a drawing of me?"

"Yes, I hope you like it."

"You kidding? I love it! Thanks Naminé!"

[End Music]


Everyone was surprised at the sudden flashback, but none of them could help but to smile softly at the mysterious blond girl smiling brightly at the Shattered Izuku's response. They were equally impressed by the details of the drawing of Shattered Izuku. But what really brought their attention was the name Izuku muttered.

"Her name is Naminé." Izuku hummed, happy to finally have a name for the person. He flipped his pages back until he found the drawing of the girl he did and wrote down her name.

"You saw how close your other self and this Naminé girl are?" Mina grinned at the green-haired teen.

Izuku blushed, catching on to what his classmate was implying. He didn't notice Ochako's sudden stiffness and tension right next to him as her expression darkened a little. The staff took notice of this, and each single one of them had their own reactions.

Dark snorts under her breath, "Can she be more obvious?" She said as she turned a page from her novel.

Sleppt merely smiled knowingly, shaking his head while seemingly cleaning something.

Bola looked as though he was barely hanging on to his cackles while SM Eri's eyes shone as her grin widened.

"Yeah, it's rather cute, Midoriya." Toru grinned, turning around to face her classmate, placing her hands on top of her seat, and resting her head on top of them.

"As cute as this is, we still don't know this girl and how she is connected to the Shattered Midoriya." Minoru was the one who pointed it out.

Kyoka hummed, her expression scrunching up as she took in a good look at the blond girl on screen. "True. It's possible that this Naminé girl was always alone. Cause she does bring out those lonely vibes. It could be that Green became her friend after he found her and has been close to her ever since."

Izuku pondered over the punk teen's explanation, "That is plausible." He wrote the information down. "But we can't really put anything together without solid evidence. And even if that wasn't the case, we still have so many questions left unanswered." It didn't really help the tension that began building up.

Nezu hummed thoughtfully, having already written this information down. "Interesting…" He resisted the urge to rub his hands in anticipation. The spoonful of information that was given certainly was making his mind work overtime. What a fantastic world that was!

Ochako felt troubled. She had no idea how to think about the Shattered Midoriya alone with a girl she had never met, but if it's true what Kyoka said about Deku being this Naminé girl's only friend… could it be that…? It took all her will not to slap her cheeks. It was better not to think about it. As Deku noted, they can't really put anything together without all the pieces. She could only hope the dread in her stomach was all for naught.

Why couldn't she calm the fuck down?

"Do you like it?" Eri asked, a little apprehensive as Izuku didn't say anything. Her fears were dismissed as Izuku looked at her with his usual sunny smile, "You kidding? I love it! Thanks Eri!"

Despite the earlier tension, everyone couldn't help but smile at the little brother-sister scene.

Eri once more tackled-hugged Izuku.

The girls gushed at the adorable scene while Izuku covered his blushing face with his hands. Eri, while also as embarrassed as Izuku, couldn't help but keep her focus on the scene.

In that other world, the other Deku and SM Eri are siblings, and both of them seem very happy. SM Eri even showed her drawings of her, the other Deku, and even those Dream Eaters. And then there is Deku's other mom, who happily took SM Eri as her own child. She couldn't help but want that. Mr. Eraserhead and the rest of the staff in UA were nice, but she craved an actual family to call her own.

But could she really have that? Eri pondered over that as he looked at her Deku.

Inko, who was watching the whole scene, was discreetly taking pictures. Those two simply are too adorable together, "Okay, let's finish eating now. We don't want the food to get cold."

"Yes, mom!" They answered together, which made Inko's heart melt.

Inko likewise felt her heart melt at the scene. Though different circumstances occurred for her counterpart to gain a family, it felt no different from her own. Though, with an additional daughter to boot.

She glanced at the one-horned girl with her counterpart beside her before focusing on the screen.

They finished dinner, and after washing the dishes, Izuku brought Eri to his bedroom, "Eri, today we'll begin your training!" He said with a serious voice, his hands behind his back. Eri straightened up from his tone.

"Wait, training? What training?!" Denki cried out in alarm.

Katsuki smacked him upside the head, "Isn't it obvious, Dunce Face?!" He snarked, ignoring the blond's pained yelp, "He's going to teach the brat to become a wielder of those Keyblades!"

"You didn't have to hit me though!" Complained Denki as he rubbed his bruised head.

"Then stop being stupid!"

"This will be good. Let me get some popcorn!"

There were some chuckles.

"Wait, where is she going to get popcorn?" Denki asked out loud. Everyone ignored his question.

"We'll begin with your magic training first because I know how much you are excited about it." Izuku finished in a more relaxed tone, Eri beaming with happiness.

"Again, with the magic nonsense." Kyoka rolled her eyes.

Mina and Toru, on the contrary, were barely hanging on to their seats as they watched how this would go.

Izuku also had his notebook ready, wanting to see how his counterpart would partake as a teacher.

"Still adorable," Nana's voice was accompanied by a crunching sound of her biting something, 'Did you really make popcorn?' Izuku said with an internal deadpan stare.

"Where did she get the popcorn?" Denki asked again with an incredulous stare.

Everyone was just as stumped, with Izuku looking just as incredulous as Denki.

"I think the real question is how is she eating popcorn," Mina said seriously. "She shouldn't even have a body!"

"Some things are better off left unexplained." Came Dark's response before anyone could bring themselves headaches by overthinking about it. "Just drop it and move on."

There were some grumbles, but they obeyed. Shota looked done with reality and wanted nothing but to be swallowed by the ground and never come out. However, since he was practically forbidden from dying, drinking, and sleeping, he stuck with glaring at the pendant he was given as though it had offended him.

Izuku bent down, making eye contact with the younger girl, "First, you have to feel your magic. For that, there's a little trick: roll up your sleeves just to make sure you won't put them on fire by accident. Believe me. It's not fun."

There were a couple of snorts.

"Setting your sleeves on fire is ten times better than having your bones be turned into a paste." Denki teased.

Izuku sheepishly shook his head.

At that, Eri became nervous. Izuku tried to reassure her, "Hey, don't worry, your magic won't hurt you. It's so that we don't ruin your favorite dress." he pointed to the red dress with the green star that Eri loved so much.

"It would be a catastrophe if the unicorn's dress got burned!" Mina said aghast.

"Yeah, Midori, thanks for doing her a favor!" Toru said.

"Uh... no problem?"

SM Eri nodded in agreement with the two girls. It would have been a catastrophe if her favorite dress was ruined.

Katsuki looked annoyed. "It's just a stupid dress!"

"It's not just a dress!" Mina looked offended. "I would have thought you would know better cause your parents are in the fashion industry!"

"Shut up and continue the fucking video!"

Denki looked at Katsuki with surprise, "Your parents own a fashion company?"

Hanta snorted, "Never thought that someone as angry and battle-hungry as Bakugo would have parents like that."

"Fuck off, Soy Sause!"

"It's not it," She said in a small voice, barely a whisper. Izuku was confused for a second before realizing what was the problem.

Izuku's eyes widen in realization at the same time as his counterpart before looking solemnly at the Eri on screen.

He gently took her hands, squeezing them. "Eri, you don't have to hide your scars." His voice was soft, trying to soothe the girl.

"Oh…"

Everyone went quiet as they squirmed uncontrollably at Shattered Izuku's words.

"I don't like them." Her downcast look made Izuku's heart hurt, but she ended up doing it. Her tiny arms were marked with scars, reminding her of her nightmares.

"My goodness." Inko looked horrified at the amount of scars the little girl had and covered her mouth with her hand and the other on her chest.

Most of the students likewise looked horrified, and Tsuyu let out a sorrowful croak. Ejiro looked sick to his stomach and looked away, not at all reacting when Mina and Toru started crying. Ochako let out a choked sob and covered her mouth with her hand.

Everyone who hadn't been a part of the raid was likewise horrified. They couldn't imagine the agony and suffering the little girl went through before she was rescued.

Izuku gritted his teeth, his quirk threatening to activate as his hands nearly crushed the armrest of his seat as he tried to get rid of those images of how Eri would have suffered and the negative memories during the entire raid.

Nezu's expression darkened, and his fur bristled. He tsked and looked away, his paw trailing tenderly at his own scar. Out of everyone in his room, he knew what it was like to be experimented on by others for their own gain.

Eri looked like she wanted to cry, but SM Eri was there to comfort her. The girl in question looked grim as she looked at her old scars, but her face smoothed into a neutral mask.

She shot Bola, who had come back on his balcony a while back with no one realizing yet, a glance. He simply gave SM Eri a thumbs up. The girl grinned. She could always count on him to bend the rules for her when needed. Now, how should she go about healing the other her's scars?

Who was she kidding? The complete package it is!

Izuku did his best to put the lesson back on track to try to cheer her up. Raising his hand, Izuku summoned Heroes Rising. Eri already got some of the childish light back in her eyes with just the sight of the weapon.

Despite the situation, many couldn't help but smile at the childish light on SM Eri.

Toshinori nodded in approval. It seemed his successor's counterpart knew what to do to get the girl's mind off those bad memories.

"Good save, kid. Now move the topic along and bring her mind out of it," Nana said more seriously now.

"Yeah, man, let the little unicorn forget about that." Denki agreed with Nana. Everyone else either nodded or let out mutters of agreement to the electric teen's words.

Taking her hands, Izuku put them in the handle, "The best way of sensing magic for the first time is doing it, so close your eyes, think of something you want to happen, and the Keyblade will do the rest." Izuku gave Eri an encouraging smile. The girl nodded and started to close her eyes, but not before giving a last glance at her arms, 'I want them to go away.'

Everyone felt their hearts shatter at the little girl's desperate plea.

Her wish lit the Keyblade with a golden glow, and Izuku's eyes widened. The glow washed over them, and in a second, Eri's scars and Izuku's fatigue simply vanished.

Everyone jumped and then let out shouts of surprise.

"What just happened?!" Denki screeched, everyone also voicing their confusion as some of them pointed at the screen.

Izuku was just as shocked. "SM Eri's scars vanished! B-but how?!" He turned to the girl, who only mouthed "spoilers" back at him.

Nezu was just as shocked as his students and colleagues but snapped out of his stupor. It clicked to what just happened, and he couldn't help but chuckle under his breath as he wrote the information down. "My oh my." He cackled silently.

"What just happened?" Nana asked, shocked. Her voice snapped Izuku out of his trance. Instead of responding, Izuku started to laugh, dismissing his Keyblade and scooping Eri in a tight hug as he started to jump around his room.

Everyone was just confused.

"Why is Shattered Midoriya laughing?!" Denki cried out. "What is happening?!"

Katsuki's eyes twitched, his hands releasing small cackles of explosions as he struggled to keep his temper down. "If you shut up, we might find out, idiot!"

Denki pouted and crossed his arms but obeyed the exploding teen's demand. The last thing he wants to do is face the wrath of explodo boy here.

Seeing the scars gone left Eri equal parts elated and confused, "Izuku, what happened?"

"That's what I want to know, kiddo."

"You and all of us," Mina said, rubbing her temples.

"Eri, you're a genius!"

"I am?" She tilted her head, confused.

"She is?" Nearly everyone turned to Izuku, who seemed thoughtful.

Then, it all clicked in Izuku's head, and his lips made a silent 'O' before he started laughing. "Of course! Why didn't I realize?!"

That response further confused everyone, and a few of them started to get annoyed.

"Are you going to fucking tell us, Deku?" Katsuki snarked.

Izuku caught his breath and looked amused, "I would, but I don't have to because I'm pretty sure my counterpart is going to explain it all." The uncharacteristic sass of the boy took the others by surprise. Honestly, Izuku was becoming thankful for the slight merge with his other self. It helped him express himself a little better, and it was fun to let his snark out from time to time.

There were a few grumbles as the screen unpaused.

"Yes! Eri, that wasn't just healing. It was also light and time magic, all fused in one! It was like if you sent a super healing spell back in time to the moment you were hurt, erasing any wound you had, even I feel like I just got a full night's rest instead of having made a whole physical test!" Eri didn't understand precisely what Izuku was saying, but she understood that she had done something right, and Izuku was happy about it.

Everyone absorbed Shattered Izuku's words, and some of them seemed thoughtful.

Katsuki hmmed as he thoughtfully took in the explanation. "So what your counterpart is saying is that the brat created a spell that heals everything?" He simplified to his more limited knowledgeable classmates.

Izuku shrugged, "Basically." He smiled, "SM Eri combined healing and time! She could heal everything by rewinding someone's injury to when it's fresh!"

"Not exactly. It instead healed the wound the moment it happened, causing the reality to autocorrect the present to account for the change." Nezu hummed, eyes glistening as he wrote that information down his notepad. "Recovery Girl would be pleased that such a thing exists if we had access to it."

Toshinori eyed his boss, "I'm pretty sure she would retire immediately if that were the case."

Nezu was amused, "Indeed."

Shota hummed thoughtfully, "Maybe it might even heal the critical injured." He eyed the shriveled form of Toshinori.

The man in question merely ignored him and instead focused his attention on the screen. He subconsciously placed his hand on his injury without noticing.

"With something like that, you could even…" Izuku trailed off in the end, an idea striking him, making his heart full of hope. Putting Eri back on the ground, Izuku kneeled in front of her, looking Eri in the eyes, the sudden shift making her nervous, "Eri, what you did is wonderful, and that can help a friend of mine. He is a really good man who was hurt really bad, but you can save him."

Toshinori paused and looked at the screen in surprise.

Izuku froze. And then his eyes glistened with hope. Could his Shattered counterpart be thinking…?

"I can?" Izuku nodded at her question, putting his hands on her shoulders, "I know this is sudden, and I don't like to put that kind of pressure on you. But I believe in you, Eri. If anyone can do it, it's you."

"The other, you seem desperate," Ochako murmured to her friend. "Why is that?"

Izuku swallowed but didn't answer her.

The conviction Izuku used to say was the same as he used when he protected her. She wanted to help him, too. She wanted to be like him and save others. She nodded with a resolution, "I'll try."

"It's all I ask."

"Who are you talking about?" Denki and a few others seemed confused.

However, it seems some of them caught on and were wide-eyed at the screen. Even Katsuki eyed Izuku in shock. He swallowed thickly when Izuku, who noticed his stare, nodded solemnly.

"Can she really do it? She can save Toshi?" Nana's voice never sounded so fragile, so desperate, but Izuku believed in Eri.

Those who needed the clarification sucked in a breath.

Izuku tightened his hold on the armchair. Unknowest to him, his mentor was doing the exact same, his hands white.

Toshinori tried to swallow the lump in his throat as his hand gently traced the scar under his shirt. Surely young Midoriya's counterpart wouldn't mean…

That belief bloomed into hope, which turned into determination, 'She can, just you wait. She'll do wonderful things with her power, and I'll help her all the way.'

Momo looked shaken, "Your counterpart is hoping to…undo the damage done to All Might?" She swallowed.

All hell broke loose.

"What the fuck?!" Denki blurted out. "Is it even possible?!"

"Could she really heal All Might?!"

Izuku looked at SM Eri, noticing the girl was trying very hard not to make eye contact with anyone in the room. "Can…did you?"

The unicorn stared deep into his green orbs for a long moment. SM Eri then shrugged, "Spoilers."

"Oh, for fuck sake!" Came Katsuki's outraged cry as nearly everyone groaned at the response.

While Izuku shared Katsuki's sentiment, he only sighed and nodded. Of course, nothing could ever be easy. But then again, she didn't outright deny it, so it is possible…no. He shouldn't get his hopes up. All he could do, as in the words of Bola, 'Watch and find out.'

However, that didn't stop him from glancing at his mentor and then at SM Eri before putting his attention back on the screen.

"So, Eri, let's continue your training?"

"Yes!"

Despite everyone's earlier annoyance, some of them couldn't help but to smile a little at the cute scene.

With a new conviction, the Master and apprentice stayed up as long as Inko permitted them. Hours later, the two were asleep in the middle of a pile of notebooks, both with bright smiles on their faces.

Inko couldn't help but to smile fondly, placing a hand on her chest.

Mina squealed at the scene, unable to remain still in her seat, "So cute!"

Toru was also jumping on her seat.

Izuku looked at the screen and felt a sudden warmth in his chest. He places a hand on his heart, unable to keep away a smile. Eri looked at the scene with eyes brightening and her heart-tugging on her chest.

SM Eri simply let out a fond smile as she recalled the nights she and Shattered Izuku would stay up doing lessons and studying and fall asleep in a pile of notebooks. It was one of her many favorite memories.


[Play: Kingdom Hearts 2.5 - Naminé]

"So, how do I look?" Izuku said, posing in his new black cloak. The girl that was with him gave an appraising look. "You look a lot less intimidating than Riku with it."

Everyone blinked at the sudden cute scene changing to a flashback.

"It's Naminé." Denki said in surprise and then narrowed his eyes, "And Shattered Midoriya, but what are they doing?"

"It looks like Shattered Midori is looking for fashion tips." Mina grinned like a maniac, ignoring the groan from the green bean as she turned to look at him.

"Can we PLEASE stop talking about my fashion sense!" He wasn't asking.

"It will happen, Midori. You can't delay for much longer." Mina grinned. "Sooner or later, we're gonna yeet you back on the screen, and Shattered Midori's fashion sense will bleed into you!"

Katsuki growled in annoyance, "Shut up, Raccoon Eyes, and sit the fuck down!"

"My name is Mina, damn it!"

"Language Ashido!" Tenya scolded his pink classmate.

"Why am I the only one getting scolded?! What about Bakugo?!" Mina shouted with indignation.

"Cause our class rep knows that Yappy Yappy Pom Pom Douche is a lost cause," Hanta said with a teasing smile he shot at Bakugo, who fumed at the nickname.

"Oh fuck you!"

"Everyone, please calm down!" The class rep pleaded, chopping his hands.

As Tenya tried to get everyone in order, Izuku allowed himself to relax and made sure not to smile. Mina may have been hoping for the desired bleeding effect, but he ensured the staff took care of it.

"Thank you, Dark."

"Well, I'll take that as a compliment." Izuku said with a small laugh, "Think it's enough for the undercover mission?"

"An undercover mission?" Ochako asked in surprise.

Tenya pushed his glasses. "I see, so the reason why Midoriya was in league with the black-robed gang was because he was a spy among them."

Mina snorted at the class rep's words, "Black-robed gang."

"B-but why?" Denki sputtered. "And who are those people?!'

"If we knew, then you wouldn't ask, dumbass." Kyoka rolled her eyes.

"So mean!"

Mezo spoke through his mouth, not his mouth appendage. "But even then, there are still too many questions about what the other Midoriya is doing."

Mashirao nodded in agreement, "It doesn't help that the other Midoriya has no idea what's happening."

Tsuyu croaked, tilting her head. "I'm sure it's related to this Naminé girl. They mentioned Riku, so maybe both of them are keeping an eye on the organization while protecting Naminé.

Everyone pondered over the frog girl's words.

Nezu was so proud (and took great enjoyment while at it) of his students brainstorming. It pains him to put an end to it, but they must return their attention to the screen so that they can gather more information and have time to talk about it. "It pleases me to know all of you are thinking through this, but please, children, return your attention back to the screen. We can talk more about this during our break." He stated as he raised a paw.

There were a few whines of protests and grumbles among the students, but everyone reluctantly obeyed. After all, no one wanted to get on the bad side of their sadistic principal.

"I hope so." she said with a downcast face, one that Izuku knew the reason why, "Hey Naminé, you know the rules: no frowning, no sad faces. I'll be back before you know it!"

"Why would you? After everything I've done..."

"After what's she done?" Izuku wrote that bit of information down on the entry of Naminé.

"Interesting," Nezu muttered as he flipped his notepad and also wrote down that tidbit of information. But even then, the white rodent thing resisted the urge to scratch his head at the incomplete information. It was a rare opportunity for him ever to be confused! How exciting indeed!

"Wait, what did this chick do?" Denki asked, looking confused.

"Because we're friends, and you weren't the only one that did something bad because someone was forcing you, but now it's all water under the bridge."

"Wait," Ochako reeled in, her face pale. "Naminé was forced to do bad things by someone?!" The words sunk in, and dread began to build up

"That's awful." Momo covered his mouth with her hand in a horrified realization

Izuku swallowed, feeling a sorrowful tug on his chest. Then, his eyes narrowed, feeling anger bubble up as his fist clenched. It seemed like his shattered counterpart's anger and protective nature bled on him, too. There was no doubt about it. Both their protective nature combined into one, thus becoming something more fierce.

Izuku hid a grimince. He just hoped that things wouldn't go too overboard when they returned back to their world. The urge to break his hand on the face of whoever made Naminé so sad didn't bid a good sign to his hopes.

That made Naminé open a smile, and Izuku was quick to point it, "See! You're smiling, so all that talk about Nobodys not having hearts is wrong."

"Um, what?" Denki asked.

"What did he mean by nobodies?" Mashirao scratched his head.

"No, that's not the correct question to ask," Mina waved him off, "Rather, did Shattered Midori admit to us that this girl called herself a nobody?!" The pink girl looked outraged, "What kind of sick mindset is that?! Did the villain who forced her to do bad things shove those buckets of lies on her head?! I'll melt him with my acid!"

"Not exactly the way you think, Mistress Ashido." Came Dark's voice before anyone else could riot on Naminé's behalf.

"Call me Mina!"

"It's much more complicated than that." The Dragoness continued as though she wasn't interrupted.

"Are you going to explain to us?" Momo asked.

"I wish." Dark snorted. "Unfortunately, I am not allowed to say anything about that. As Lord Bola says 'spoilers.'" Everyone groaned. They were all getting sick of hearing the word over and over again. "Fret not, younglings," Dark said, huffing, "While I can not explain what the situation is right now, we're are almost there to which I can give you some tidbits of information."

"And how much information is that?" Izuku asked warily.

"Just enough for all of you to have a better grasp on it and for you to figure it out on your own." Came the blunt words.

Cue in more groans.

"You can't just see a single smile and say that..."

"Of course I can! I just did." The two laughed at that. Izuku raised his hand and offered her his little finger, "You don't have to be afraid. I'll get back to you. It's a promise!"

The girl's smile softened, and she linked her finger with his, "It's a promise."

[End music]


"That's so sweet." Mina gushed before she frowned, "But wait, with Shattered Midori, he promised her that he'd return! Did something happen after that promise was made?!"

"Kinda obvious there," Kyoka commented dryly. "We did get a flashback of Green's messed up memories after all."

"Oh, you know what I mean!" She stuck out her tongue on the purple-haired teen.

Bola finally opened his mouth, scaring the daylight out of everyone and nearly giving some of them heart attacks, "You'll have to watch and find out!"

There were screeches as most students and adults nearly jumped on the ceiling.

"Where did you come from?!" Denki shouted, putting his hand on his chest to calm down his racing heart, everyone doing the same and glaring at their host. Inko looked worse for wear as she tried to calm her rapidly beating heart.

"I've been here a while. You guys just never bother to take notice." Bola cackled as everyone let out grumbles. "Okay, people! Our new guests are being caught up to speed and will be joining us shortly." He ignored Shota's irritation as he turned to Izuku, who tensed, hand unconsciously covering his notebook and the note inside. Bola maintained his stare for a long second, then huffed a chuckle.

Izuku froze. Bola knew. He knew Izuku knew he knew. But Izuku knew Bola knew he knew.

Their host was plotting something, and Izuku walked right into it.

"Bunny Boy, if you find anything interesting lying around, be sure to share, eh?"

Dark merely rolled her eyes, "Don't scare off the youngling too much, you imp."

"Excuse you, I'm a gremlin!" Bola said with a mock, offended voice.

"Same difference." Dark waved him off.

"Says the lizard." Bola teased, taking great enjoyment as the Dragoness' expression darkened. Pun intended!

"Excuse me?!" Dark bellowed, growling dangerously at the man on top of his balcony. The entire theater trembled as her bloodlust and malice drowned the entire room, and it unnerved everyone in the audience.

This was much worse than Sleppt!

"You're excused." Bola dodged the cursed sword of the Greatsword of Artorias thrown at his head like a javelin and took a step to the side when a Gargoyle Tail Axe was thrown just mere seconds later to chop his head off. He laughed, unbothered by the Dragoness' hostility or the audience's shocked and scared shouts.

"Guys, please calm down!" Sleppt pleaded, playing peacekeeper. "We don't want to cause another hollow accident."

Dark had smoke coming out of her nostrils, but she merely huffed. "Fine, I'll drop it for now." The Dragon glared at Bola, "We will talk about this later." She said darkly, everyone shivering at the malice in her tone, as she returned to her makeshift chair where, oddly enough, Chibi and Astrid were gone. Before anyone could question where they went, the two peeked out from the side of the food cart. Once they noticed things had calmed down, they returned to their original positions as though nothing had happened.

"Sure we will," Bola said with amusement, eyeing the ire Dragon before turning his attention to his baffled audience. "Anyway, kiddies, time for the serious stuff now." He snapped his fingers, bringing to his hand a page precisely like Izuku had in his possession. "If you find exactly fifteen of these, tell me. No beating around the bush, no stalling. You'll drop everything you're doing and come to me immediately. Got it?"

While everybody but Izuku and Shoto looked at the man weirdly, the two in the know had their faces ashen. "Why that?"

"Counting with the number zero, I made fourteen of those."

Shoto blinked, "But you said if we find fifteen of your reports, then we should go to you."

Bola's face instantly became dark, "Someone else made the last one. And I want it gone." The man bounced off his sudden bout of grimness back to his usual self, "And I'm willing to compensate you guys for the trouble."

Izuku took a mental note to look into whatever issues Bola had later while Shoto narrowed his eyes suspiciously at their host. The rest of the audience just stared at the boys in askance but received no further explanation.

"Now then, back to the show!" Bola exclaimed. "The sooner we finish this, the sooner we can finish off for the day and head to dinner!"

Everyone perked up.

"Dinner?" Denki looked excited.

Nezu, however, raised a paw.

"Yes, my furry friend?" Asked Bola as he pointed at the mouse-bear principal.

"When you mean finish off for the day, do you mean that we won't see any more episodes until tomorrow?"

"Yep." Bola popped the 'p.' "After dinner, Sleppt will show you your rooms where your belongings were brought from your world. Afterward, the rest of the day will be up to you with what you want to do before lights out." Again, he went serious, "And when the lights turn off, everybody better be in their rooms."

Mina raised her hand to get Bola's attention. "So it doesn't matter if we're awake in our rooms?" She asked.

"Nope. Just stay in your rooms before lights out." He repeated.

Katsuki scoffed, "Or what?"

Bola glanced over his shoulder, sure the punk was watching, "Or I won't be able to guarantee your mental, emotional, metaphysical, or existential integrity." At the audience's shocked and dreadful stares, he shrugged and gestured to the windows, "We're in the middle of Nothing, people. Here, the rules are cosmic horror at best and death zone at worst." That's without counting the skeletons in his closet. A very annoying, very bothersome skeleton who Bola couldn't wait to ship off to be another person's problem.

He didn't have the patience for this shit. Bola swore to leave the hero-ing for heroes who knew how to hero from now on. He also ignored SM Eri's concerned stare.

"So basically, stay inside our rooms, or everything falls to shit?" Denki concluded with a pale face.

Bless their naive, untainted innocence. But Bola would protect it as much as he could.

"Yep." Bola said bluntly, popping the 'p' again as Sleppt nodded solemnly, and Dark looked bored. "Anywho~! Back to our scheduled viewing!" Bola snapped his fingers, and the screen started the show again.

Despite feeling unnerved about what was to come, everyone did what their host ordered.


"Izuku, wake up!" Izuku jumped awake. Eri was on the side of their bed, shaking him, "What? What happened?"

Eri pointed at the All Might clock on his nightstand.

Despite the earlier tension, none of them could hold a smile. A few of the teens chuckled as Shattered Izuku's expression went from tired to panic.

"Welp, someone is going to be late." Denki teased.

"Midoriya!" Tenya berated his friend as he chopped his hands, "One must not be late and be efficient with time! That is not the showing of a true hero!"

"Te-Iida, calm down! Also, that's not me!"

"I overslept!" Izuku's panic-filled steps were heard as he put on his UA uniform, grabbed his things, and ran to the kitchen to take something to eat on the way. That ended up being unnecessary, as his mother gave him a sandwich and a juice box the moment he left the bedroom.

Nearly everyone was laughing while Inko, who had now managed to relax from her near panic attack, merely smiled.

Giving her and Eri a quick hug, Izuku took his things and ran, 'You could have woken me up, you know!' Izuku's answer from his spiritual guide was her loud snores in his head. Chuckling, Izuku ran down the street to the train station.

The laughter became boisterous, and Toshinori couldn't help but chuckle.

After a quick ride, he was again reunited with his friends, even if some were annoyed with his tardiness, "What took you so long, Deku!"

"Sorry, I overslept!"

"Izuku-san, it is irresponsible on your part as a hero in training to not manage your time efficiently!"

"Hey guys, give Izuku-kun a break. Everyone loses the hour sometimes."

"And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the result of the Shattered Dekusquad dynamic," Hanta said with a chuckle.

"The Shattered Dekusquad and Bakubro, you mean." Ejiro beamed.

Katsuki merely seethed in his seat while a few of the teens chuckled in agreement.

"Are you guys always like that?" Mina asked between laughs.

"Yes, yes they are," Mina said through her tears of mirth.

Izuku laughed, "Well, mostly in the morning, but we are still quite lively in the afternoon, too," He then got into her face dramatically, placing his hands over his sides, "Why? Can't handle the craziness, Mina?"

"As if!" Mina's yell was drowned by the laughter.

"Wouldn't have it any other way!" Mina said while jumping into place. Eijiro gave Izuku a fistpump and a "Yeah!"

Ejiro shot a toothy grin at the sheepish Izuku.

"Hey, guys, that's nice and all, but shouldn't we be going?" Kyoka said, pointing ahead. They all realized they still had to go to class and started walking.

The laughter became louder.

"The deadpan was just perfect!" Denki laughed as he nudged the punk teen.

Kyoka also looked amused, the enchanted headphones still firmly on her ears. "I suppose."

The new group of friends walked to UA in high spirits, especially Izuku, and the others were quick to notice, "You sure are excited Midori," Mina said, poking Izuku's cheek.

"Of course I am! We're going to meet a lot of heroes! Weren't you guys excited?" He said, leaving the part of his plan to save All Might out.

"Classic Midoriya." Hanta chuckled, everyone else showing their amusement.

Izuku merely chuckled sheepishly and scratched the back of his head.

Katsuki gave Izuku a knowing smirk, "You just want their autographs, Deku." He knew the greenett well enough to know what he was planning, if only he knew.

"Guilty as charged." Izuku raised his arm in surrender while the others laughed.

If it weren't for the fact no one can die in the theater, most of the audience would have died from the lack of oxygen over their laughter. Some of them were clutching their stomachs as they laughed with tears in their eyes.

"Your counterpart didn't deny it, Midoriya!" Hanta gasped out while pointing at the screen and laughing.

Usually, Izuku would be blushing a storm and bury his face in his hands to avoid looking at anyone in the eye. But thanks to the influence of his Shattered counterpart, all he could really do was let out a helpless shrug and say, "I can't help it if I love heroes."

The laughter seemed to increase. It was a nice distraction after the earlier tension, Izuku had to admit.

"Ever since Bola yeeted Midoriya on the screen, he's been funnier!" Denki laughed with tears in his eyes. Izuku laughed.

Ochako was giggling, "I do like the new you, Deku. It's a good combination of yourself and Shattered Deku!"

Izuku, once his brain processed what Ochako said, stopped laughing and turned red as a tomato. "W-what did she mean by that?!" Izuku screamed in his head, unable to comprehend what his friend meant.

Ochako, who didn't realize what she said until she said it, looked away with a blush and buried her face in her hands. Why did she have to say that?! That was so embarrassing.

Dark, who was reading her novel, resisted the urge to snort and gag. Could these guys be any more obvious? Had they forgotten she had an extreme hearing range? Probably so. Otherwise, they would be this disgustingly cute.

"And why are you so happy? They're only going to give us some boring ass classes." Katsuki complained.

"Bakugo!" Tenya chided, chopping his hand on the ashen-blond-haired teen. "You shouldn't say something like that! Our education is important!"

Katsuki snorted, "Blow it out of your ass Four-eyes. I never said that our education was fucking unnecessary. Just that it was fucking boring."

The class representative looked aghast, and a few classmates chuckled at the outcome.

"Class rep bested by Blasty McExplody!" Denki chuckled.

"What the fuck did you call me, Dunce Face?!"

Tenya was quick to scold him for that, "Bakugou-san, you can't say that every form of knowledge is important!"

"Yeah, and it can't be that bad if pros are teaching us, right Izuku-kun?" Ochako turned to Izuku and saw that he stopped walking and had a vacant look on his face. He stayed like that for a second more before shaking his head and looking back at them.

Everyone suddenly looked uncomfortable when they saw how Shattered Midoriya unexpectedly stayed still and looked blank.

"What just happened?" Ejiro had to ask when the other Izuku shook off whatever he was doing.

"I don't know, man, but that looked creepy." Denki shuddered.

SM Eri spoke, "That was Izuku's remembering his old memories."

"Wait," Momo looked at SM Eri as realization sunk in, "Are you saying, whenever we see the other Midoriya's memories…"

"He looks dead at the world on the outside?" SM Eri finished and shrugged. "Pretty much. His heart is shattered, and it's trying to put itself back together."

"How does that work?"

SM Eri opened her mouth to explain but stopped herself and looked at Bola.

The theater's owner deliberated with himself for a moment before coming to a decision. That being, rolling with it. "Imagine that Deku's memories are like jigsaw puzzles that got scattered. When he gets a hint to one of them, he enters a kinda low maintenance state so all his energy can be used to put them back together forcefully."

Tsuyu gave Bola a very flat state, "That doesn't sound healthy."

"Probably because it isn't. But when life gives you lemons, become a capitalist tycoon and overthrow the government." Cue another round of very mixed reactions, thanks to Bola's own version of the old saying. Most people laughed, caught by surprise, but some had very pointed questions about the man's way of thinking.

The rest of the group noticed it and were concerned by the seemingly random spaced out, but the three that were on the knowing quickly realized what happened, "Another one?" Ochako asked, trying to see if her friend was fully back.

"Yes, but there wasn't anything too important on that one. Just give me a sec to note it down."

"Umh, guys, what happened?" Eijiro asked, worried for his new friend. Ochako, Tenya, and Katsuki traded a glance and debated if they should tell them, but Izuku beat them to the punch.

"The question of the century," Denki muttered. "If we didn't see the memories, we would have been just as lost."

"True." Kyoka nodded.

"Yes, we were lucky that we have forces beyond our reach guiding us through the darkness," Fumikage said solemnly.

"I wouldn't say lucky, Fumi." Dark Shadow complained. "All this is giving me a headache, which shouldn't be possible!"

"Dark Shadow!" Reprimanded Fumikage.

"C'mon! You agree with me, right?!"

"We will talk later."

"You agree with me!" He cackled.

Rikido hummed, ignoring his classmate, trying to get a cackling Dark Shadow back under control. "But our counterparts don't have that luxury, which means they'll be more confused."

"As if we aren't?" Minoru asked sarcastically. "We still don't know everything that happened with the other Midoriya or what his story was before this. And even if we have more information than our counterparts, we still have no idea what is happening."

"I guess that's true." Rikido sheepishly scratched the back of his head. The shorter boy had a point.

Tsuyu merely looked thoughtful, "But even then, we still have an advantage compared to our counterparts. We do have some information that we can put together that our counterparts can't yet."

"Yeah, I guess, but we're still missing too many pieces." Toru complained, "I am still confused about what the heck is going on!" Koda nodded silently in agreement with his invisible classmate.

Yuga hummed, sparkling as he spoke, "Perhaps, but as our unnerving host said, 'Regardez et découvrez.'"

"Uh yeah." Rikido shook his head. Even if he didn't understand what his French classmate said (Is he even French? Rikido couldn't tell), but being around their host for so long, he could already guess what Yuga said.

His assumption only solidified when Bola started cackling on his balcony.

"Well, this will probably sound a little weird." Izuku said to the three new integrants of the group after finishing his notes, "Almost a year ago, I started to have some strange dreams of me doing things I don't remember doing, going to places I don't remember going, and meeting people I don't remember meeting."

"Those who we know now are Goofy, Donald, Riku, Kairi, and Naminé." Izuku hummed. "Then there is Axel, Roxas, and Xion."

"And don't forget that glitchy teen." Katsuki pointed out, expression a scowl. "We don't know anything about him, how he is connected to the other Deku, or even his fucking name!"

"Yeah." Izuku nodded. "And as for the other places we briefly saw my other self and his friends go, we don't even know much about them."

Tsuyu looked interested, "I wonder how your Shattered counterpart managed to change his legs into an orca tail. Ribbit."

"Uh… yeah…" Izuku scratched the back of his head. There was that, too.

Magic was a good guess, but if he stopped to think about it, everything could be waved off as magic. Bola started to explain the basics of the system Shattered Izuku used, but they had very little in the ways of limitations and what his counterpart could or could not do.

"Or how you and your companions turned into monsters in that scary Halloween town." Denki pipped in.

Another interesting point. Did they have Halloween costumes on hand? Did they make it with magic? Was that even a thing that they could do?

"So many mysteries and so little answers." Nezu mused. "But it would be best to return our attention to the screen so that we can see where this goes."

There were a few mutters, but everyone obeyed.

"Wait, so your quirk makes you see the future, too?!" Mina asked with stars in her eyes, but the hype died down when Izuku just chuckled and shook his head, "Nope, that's not it."

"That would be amazing, though," Mina muttered.

"If it is not your quirk that does that, then what is it?" Kyoka asked, a little skeptical about it.

"Wouldn't we like to know?" Hanta's comment dripped with sarcasm, which made the Kyoka in the audience laugh.

"Let's be real. We're not getting any straight answers here."

"Don't I know it?"

"I don't know. I don't even know if the things I see are real." Izuku's tone fell slightly, and his friends could see the sadness in the generally bright and happy boy, "But it feels real. The dreams might not be real, but the feelings are, so it has to be because even if I don't remember these events happening, they've left a mark in my heart." Izuku placed a hand on his chest, and his smile was back even brighter by the end.

While everyone else focused on the screen, Izuku simply looked deep in thought, his brows furrowing in what looked like a mix of confusion and mild frustration. Regardless, he opened up his notebook to a new page.

In the header, he wrote a simple heart with question marks all over it.

While hardly anyone paid close attention to detail, Izuku had begun to notice that the other him and others around him talked about their hearts quite a bit. But what did that mean? Did they mean something more than an actual, physical heart?

Maybe one or two times, he would've thought they were talking metaphorically. But now?

Kingdom Hearts, the Seven Princesses of Heart. He was missing something, and his counterpart kept mentioning them. The dive into the heart is a challenge for keyblade wielders. And nobodies. Those who lacked hearts.

Granted, this was much less of an answer and more of a theory as everything he had to put with a question mark at the end. He was missing pieces of this confusing puzzle. As frustrating as it is, he needs to wait until he can put together an actual answer.

He swore he could hear Bola's mad cackling from the back of his brain somehow, though the man himself was silent.

"Don't worry, Izuku-kun, we will help you figure it out."

"Yeah, we all will, so don't worry, Midori."

The Mina in the theater nodded along with her other self, "Yeah, we're all in this together! Sooner or later, we'll figure stuff out."

Shoto, being himself, pointed out honestly, not knowing it would be in poor taste at that moment, "Aren't you at the bottom of the class? I think you wouldn't be accommodating in an investigation."

"Shoto!" Izuku didn't even realize he used his friend's first name, "That was something very mean to say! Mina just offered her help. No matter what her test scores are, she's still willing to lend a hand and help, and that's what counts."

The youngest Todoroki looked at his friend wide-eyed, "Oh." With it spelled like that to him, Shoto realized he had committed a faux pas. "I'm sorry, Ashido."

Mina had her face planted on the floor. "So cruel and cold, Todoroki." She stood back up, "But it's fine, apology accepted!" The pink girl then threw Izuku a thumbs up, "And thanks for rushing to defend me, Midori!"

The wind was instantly taken off his sails, making Izuku very self-conscious of his outburst. "S-sure! Sorry for yelling like that."

Shoto then looked at his friend. "You called me by my name."

Izuku scratched the back of his head. He was blushing a little in embarrassment, "Yeah, sorry. I can't help it sometimes."

Shoto hummed, "It's fine. I don't mind. Though I would prefer if you used my surname."

"No promises, but I'll try."

"That's all I ask."

Kyoka still didn't entirely believe it, but she wasn't going to just be left out, "I will help with what I can, and who knows, maybe, in the end, I can write a song if you had some more phrases like that."

Izuku smiled at his friends. He could feel their desire to help him and once again thanked the stars for having them.

"Make sure to take care of them. Friends as good as these are hard to come by." Nana didn't have to say it because Izuku promised in his heart that he would always be there for his friends, the same way they are here for him now.

"Oh, now she's awake." Denki laughed. Everyone was also laughing.

'So you're finally awake, sleep well?'

"Like a baby, this place is really comfortable, y'know."

'Glad to hear it.'

The laughter grew louder while Toshinori's expression turned humorous. It was nice to hear his mentor banter with his successor.

After a roll of surprisingly mundane classes (and Izuku getting more autographs for his journal), the seven young heroes were eating in the cafeteria. Izuku passed his dream journal to Kyoka, who was currently finishing reading it.

"Same old boring day of school," Denki remarked, rolling his eyes.

"At least the staff was kind enough to just show some scenes and skip the boring stuff," Hanta remarked.

"Yeah."

"Mophead, you wrote everything you saw in this notebook?"

"Yup." Izuku nodded.

"And you sure you didn't forget anything?"

"Yup." Another nod.

"This doesn't make any sense."

"Yup." The nod this time was accompanied by a helpless shrug.

"Someone give this woman a medal." Toru snorted, and her body shaking in her seat made clear that she was trying hard to contain her laughter, "For the most obvious, accurate, and harsh comment ever made."

Mezo pointed out at the on-screen Izuku, "At least he's self-aware enough to admit whatever he's seeing makes no sense."

"Character development!" Hanta earned another round of laughter at his joke.

"Come on, Kyoka-chan. It's not that hard to understand. Midori had some crazy adventures in other worlds and saved the universe." When Mina said that, they saw Izuku spacing out again, "See!"

"For real?!"

Mina slapped the armrest of her chair, pointing at her screen self dramatically, "See! I can help solve the mystery, too!"

Her happy shout brought Izuku back, and he instantly paled. That rang alarm bells to his friends. Ochako put a hand on his shoulder and asked in a low voice, afraid of scaring him, "Izuku-kun, are you okay?"

"Donald's gonna kill me."

"What the fuck?!" Katsuki yelled.

"Why would the duck want to kill Shattered Midoriya?" Shoto asked in confusion. "Aren't they friends?"

"You're missing the point, Todoroki." Hanta shook his head. "They don't mean actually kill him, just that he'll be furious."

"Oh." Shoto blinked, "That's an odd concept."

"It's a metaphorical saying." Hanta shrugged.

They stayed in silence for a moment before Katsuki used the more eloquent response possible, "What the fuck?!"

There were a couple of snorts.

Izuku looked around to make sure no one else was listening, "There's this thing called the World Order. Basically, you shouldn't tell people that other worlds exist to preserve the balance and not cause a panic because I know the only reason you're not panicking is because you don't believe it." All the occupants of the table except Izuku looked away from him at that.

"World Order, huh?" Izuku pondered over this.

"Wait, you're telling me that there are other words than our own in the other Greenies' world?" Kyoka asked incredulously, looking as though she was having difficulty believing it.

"So there are aliens out there!" Mina felt her eyes brighten. "I wonder if those Xenomorphs are there too!"

Bola looked at her, "Yo, don't say something like that! I don't want any more pests roaming around my theater!" He huffed.

"So they do exist!"

"Back to the show!"

Izuku saw that his friends did feel bad for not believing his words, "Hey guys, it's okay, even I have a hard time believing it, and I'm the one seeing it." Izuku then placed himself in front of the group with a mock glare on his face, "But if it is true, you have to promise to keep it a secret, okay?"

"It is not that we don't want to take your word for that, Izuku-san, but all this seems a little far-fetched," Tenya said after recomposing himself. The others nodded along with him, "And the fact that your visions are incomplete just makes it even harder to understand."

"Exactly!" The students bellowed.

Toshinori scratched his neck, "It is something hard to get our heads around it."

Shota groaned, "This is too complicated for my liking." He grumbled and let out a tired sigh. "The only information we can get are those flashbacks, but they aren't reliable because they are incomplete and out of order. Not to mention that some of those flashbacks keep glitching out. Can't we just get a straight answer?"

Izuku overheard his homeroom teacher's complaints and hunched up his shoulders. Inko and Toshinori shot Shota glares, which the underground hero had used all his will not to shrink at. While the number hero had a strong aura despite losing his power and shrinking, it was downright terrifying when combined with the problem child's mother.

"Now Aizawa," Nezu chided, whiskers flickered in a flutter of an irritated motion. "I understand that you are frustrated, but you mustn't relieve your pent-up irritation towards the other Midoriya. You must remember that he is a victim in this case and has no knowledge of his origins. We mustn't rush this, and I expect you to understand."

Shota sighed, slumping in his seat. "I know. I'm sorry, but it's aggravating that we've gotten no answers." Normally, the underground hero had more patience with cases similar to that of the other problem child, but their situation was draining it dry.

"I understand." Nezu softly replied, raising his paw as he glanced at his staff member. "But we can not expect the recovery process on the other Midoriya to be rushed, especially at our convenience. We must be patient and gather all the information we can collect. While incomplete, we can work on creating hypotheses and theories."

The underground hero sighed, rubbing his temples. "You're right. Sorry."

Toshinori nodded in satisfaction while Inko sighed in relief. On the corner of the retired hero's eye, he could see his successor's posture relaxing.

"Welcome to the club," Izuku slumped in his seat.

Most of the teens felt sorrowful when they saw their classmate's apparent depression. Izuku especially expressed sympathy, as he knew how much his counterpart was lost, confused, and desperate to find out who he was.

Seeing the green boy depressed, Katsuki tried to stir the conversation to another topic, "Hey, is it true that our next class is with All Might?"

Izuku perked up at that. The others noticed it and decided to go along, "Yeah! I couldn't believe it. We're really going to learn how to be heroes with the best!" Eijiro commented excitedly.

Everyone lit up, both because they were happy that their depressed classmate's counterpart was distracted and because they understood where this conversation was going.

"Oh yeah!" Ejiro grinned, "I remember our first class with All Might as our teacher! It was such a manly day!"

"I'm not sure I would call it that," Mashirao mumbled under his breath, his shoulder hunching as he remembered the humiliation he had endured that day. "But it was… something."

Toru slumped in her seat, depressed as she too remembered being a victim of Shoto's ice before she could do her debut. Mezo merely looked away, rubbing his neck while Shoto blinked indifferently.

"I remembered being excited being taught by the number one hero." Denki grinned, oblivious to the three student's tension.

Mina jumped, "Yep, yep!"

"Though things could have gone better, as All Might wasn't exactly a good teacher," Tsuyu said bluntly, earning a sheepish expression from Toshinori.

"To be fair, it was All Might's first time teaching." Izuku defended his mentor, "Can you really say teaching a bunch of inexperienced children wanting to be heroes is easy when you have no experience yourself, at least at teaching?"

"Say that after teaching for a decade." Shota scathingly muttered as he ignored his boss' cackling.

"Hmmm. I suppose you have a point, ribbit."

"Yeah, it will be awesome, but we have to go easy on him. Teaching is harder than you guys think."

"Deja vu." Denki snorted, earning a laugh from his classmates and a sheepish grin from Izuku.

"Talking from experience, Broccoli Boy?" Kyoka asked with a raised brow. The rest of the table looked at Izuku curiously, "Well yeah, I'm teaching Eri some magic, and it's really hard to explain something you understand, but the other doesn't, so for a teacher giving his first class for a bunch of students will be even harder."

"Okay, that's true, but now I have some questions, Midori," Mina said, leaning forward and facing Izuku, "First, who's Eri?"

"Well, that's a long story..."

Mina giggled, "Oh, I can't wait to see everyone's reaction when they find out Shattered Midori was shot!"

"Even yourself?" Kuoka asked dryly.

Mina shrugged and waved her hand uncaringly, "Meh, it will still be funny."

Kyoka snorted.

"We have time," Kyoka said, curious about who Izuku would teach, even if she still wasn't convinced about the 'magic' part.

For the next few minutes, Izuku retold the tale of that night. All except Katsuki, who already knew, were listening closely.

"You were shot!" They all cried.

Everyone was laughing at their counterparts' expressions.

"I wish I had my phone with me so that I can take a photo!" Mina laughed, removing the tears of mirth in her eyes with her fingers.

"So do I!" Hanta and Denki laughed, pointing at their own shocked faces.

'Why is everyone so fixated in that part?' Izuku's silent question got an answer,

The laughter got hysterical.

"Because not everyone can just shrug off a bullet, and because they are your friends and are worried about you," Nana said between sounds of chewing.

The laughter ended abruptly, and the amusement in the room dissolved into incredulous confusion.

"Is… Is she eating?" Denki asked incredulously.

"How?!" Sputtered Ochako as everyone around her had a mental breakdown.

'Are you eating?'

"Yup, this place is like a five-star hotel, with good food, comfortable rooms, and quality entertainment."

"Can… Is that possible?!" Sputtered Izuku as he looked at the staff and SM Eri (with Eri looking oddly at her counterpart), respectively.

Bola and SM Eri shrugged, Sleppt gave a sheepish smile, and Dark simply huffed in annoyance. That didn't help at all!

"That doesn't help us!" Denki complained, and everyone else shouted their agreement.

"Not sure what you expected us to say, boyo." Bola shrugged. Everyone could make out the impish smile behind his helmet. "The heart is yours, you tell me." He waved at the screen.

"That's utter bullshit!" Katsuki yelled, his hands cackling with miniature explosions.

"Hey, that's just how it is." Bola shrugged again before wagging his finger sternly at the ashen blond-haired teen. "And please, don't use your quirk in the theater. I prefer not replacing the carpets and furniture again after the cosmic sludge incident a couple of days ago." SM Eri snorted in amusement while Bola grumbled under his breath.

"Yeah, please don't." Sleppt pleaded with a tight smile, his eyes expressing tiredness. "I prefer not going through that again any time soon."

Dark snorted, rolling her eyes with a scowl. "Compared to the mess we had to deal with, this will be nothing. But I might as well put a quirk suppressor here to avoid another headache altogether.."

"Do we want to know…?" Izuku asked hesitantly, seeing how done the entire staff looked.

"No. No, you don't." The staff and SM Eri drawled simultaneously.

"O-ok then?'

'I'll take that as a compliment,'

Everyone let out confused laughter.

While Izuku's inner conversation was happening, he reassured his friends that he was fine on the outside.

"I'm gonna kill that bird bastard," Katsuki said calmly, and that made Izuku realize just how angry he was,

"So will I!" Mina shouted with resolve, standing up from her chair and raising her fists. "I'll melt that bird bastard with my acid!"

Toru stood up with her friend, her sleeves indicating that she had her hands up and no doubt clenching her fists. "The unicorn must be protected!"

Denki stood up, roaring as he raised a fist. "I'll electrify him with my quirk!"

"I'll pound him to the ground!" Roared Rikido.

Minoru snorted, "Careful of what you say."

"Now, now, everyone!" Came Tenya's voice. "There is no need for us to be drastic!" He was ignored as everyone continued making plans.

Tsuyu looked at Ochako, "Hey, Ochako, have you ever sent anyone to space?"

"No." Ochako said before her expression turned dark, "But I can try."

"Uraraka!" Came Tenya's scandalized gasp.

"I would like to take a couple of hits before you do." Tsuyu declared, a vengeful aura overtaking her.

"Asui!"

Izuku looked just as appalled as their class representative, never mind that his entire being wanted to smack down Overhaul all over again. "Guys! It's all right!" Izuku was quick to assure, his hands going up and down in assurance. "We've defeated Overhaul, and he's now in Tartarus!"

"Without his arms." Tsuyu was quick to add.

"WHAT?!" Everyone bellowed.

"He lost his arms?!" Denki shouted.

"Y-yeah." Izuku winced as he remembered the reports of how Overhaul lost his arms and the death of Sand Hero: Snatch. "The League of Villains had something to do with that."

There was a tense silence before Tsuyu spoke again, "Which makes it easier for us." She nods with a vengeance, and nearly everyone roars in agreement.

"No one is going to murder anyone." Shota let out a tired sigh as he stood up from his chair.

"Why not sensei?!" Mina cried, outraged, as she shook her fist in the air. "We need to kill the bastard for torturing the little unicorn!"

Katsuki's grin was feral. After everything around here, killing someone was what he needed to release his pent-up emotions. "Fuck yeah! The fucking asshole deserves it!"

There was more outrage as most of the teens made threats on what to do with Overhaul. Some were more gruesome than others, while others were ridiculous and humiliating. Shota, Tenya, and Izuku tried to bring order while Nezu watched with enjoyment, and Toshinori looked as though he had no idea what to do. Inko was as white as a sheet and seemed to get paler as more murderous suggestions were made.

"As much as I love to hear your plans for murder." Bola cut in. "We do have an episode to finish and another episode to watch before we wrap things up for the day and have Dinner. So I suggest you put a pin on that for now and pay attention to the screen."

"Don't encourage them!" Shota snapped at their host, who cackled, which only aggravated him further. The last thing the homeroom teacher wanted to deal with when they returned to their world was murder charges for his students for causing manslaughter to a villain who was already locked up and dealt with or getting themselves killed trying. He glared at his students' his hair rising and eyes turning red. "Now, everyone, sit down and be quiet! No plotting murders allowed." His eyes hardened, which scared his students, "And if I hear anything involving murder, you are all expelled on the spot. Understood?"

"Yes, sensei." Despite the heavy reluctance, nearly everyone obeyed and sat down. Izuku sighed as he realized that some of his classmates had not heeded the threat and were still secretly planning and plotting. It would seem he needed to sway his friends not to kill a man who was already paying for his crimes. And he blatantly ignored the same desire burning in his chest.

Eri looked at everyone in wonder while SM Eri was grinning.

"Hey, Kacchan, it's over now. Eri is safe, and no one will hurt her again, not without passing us first."

Izuku looked exhausted. Of course, his Shattered counterpart would also make plans. At least it was more of an 'if anyone comes and harms her, then they're dead' troupe rather than pointless murder.

Now, if only he could calm the emotions his other self bled on him down. Or at least that's what Izuku blamed for his desire for revenge in the name of his unicorn.

Izuku and Katsuki traded a smirk, "Let them try!" Katsuki's smirk turned vicious.

"Geez, remind me not to piss off those two." Muttered Kyoka.

"Okay, remind me never to piss off these two." Kyoka said, slightly intimidated, while Eijiro shouted, "That's so manly!"

"Hell yeah!" Ejiro shouted, to the amusement of everyone.

Ochako patted her shoulder, "Don't worry, with these two, I'm sorry for anyone who tries to mess with us."

"Not unless it's Overhaul," Ochako scathingly declared, with Tsuyu nodding in agreement.

"You shouldn't be thinking about coming such heinous acts, Uraraka." Tenya scolded, chopping his hands lightly. "That isn't how a hero is supposed to act!"

"Like you're the one to talk." Izuku couldn't help but add mentally but remained quiet as he watched.

"Doesn't make it less true." Tsuyu shot back.

Izuku just groaned, "Guys, please stop talking about murder." He pleaded, looking exhausted.

"No promises, ribbit."

Izuku groaned again as he rubbed his face tiredly. He made a mental image to keep an eye on his classmates. He would ask some of the staff for help since Izuku doubts Bola would put an end to it.

"Yeah, the 1-A gang stick together!" Mina jumped in her seat while throwing her fist up, the others going along with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

The bell soon rang, and the class went back to class. They all sat and waited for the teacher, but you could feel the expectation rising. And it blew up when they heard the iconic voice, "I AM…"

All the students excitedly straightened in their seats as they heard their heroics teacher's familiar voice. It also brought a sense of sadness as they remembered that they wouldn't be able to listen to that voice anymore in their world.

"...ENTERING THE ROOM LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!" All Might said, doing a pose.

The students cheered with their onscreen counterparts.

Toshinori smiled fondly as he ignored Shota grumbling about his grand entrance. He also heard his successor's mother smothering her laughter, and he couldn't help but to grin.

The class cheered as All Might walked to the front of the class, "TODAY, WE ARE GOING TO OFFICIALLY START YOUR TRAINING AS HEROS! AND FOR THE FIRST LESSON, WE HAVE THIS!" He flipped a plate with 'Battle' written on it, "OF CORSE, AS HEROES, WE HAVE TO LOOK THE PART, SO YOU ARE GOING TO USE THIS!" He pressed a button on a small controller, and a part of the wall slid out from the side, containing briefcases numbered from one to twenty.

"I could never forget how manly All Might was!" Ejiro wiped his manly tears away before his demeanor became more somber. "A manly hero who is no longer here…"

"He's still alive, though," Tsuyu pointed out.

"Well, yeah." Ejiro's voice remained somber, "But at the cost of his career. All Might could never be the Symbol of Peace ever again."

There were murmurs.

"But yeah." Ejiro forced a grin, "I would rather have All Might alive than dead."

"All of us do," Hanta said solemnly as a heavy tension filled the room.

Shoto, his face remaining stoic, broke it by saying, "Especially Midoriya since All Might is his dad."

Izuku burned red as he shot a weak glare at his friend while nearly all of his classmates burst into laughter. "I already said All Might is not my dad!"

Shoto gave his friend a look with askance. "I have yet to see otherwise."

Izuku groaned and buried his face in his palm.

"All Might isn't Deku's fucking dad, Icyhot!" Katsuki shouted.

"And how would you know?" Shoto asked, turning his attention toward the temporal pomeranian. "You claimed that Midoriya's dad left when he was young. Who is to say you remember what he looks like?"

Before the argument could go on, Inko spoke up. "Todoroki." The teen in question turned to his classmate's mother in attention, unaware of the stares. "While I understand that there is…confusion, I can confidently say that Hisahi is indeed my Izuku's father." Inko let out a tired sigh at the reminder of her ex-husband. "While Hisashi doesn't exist in that other world," Inko gestured to the paused screen, "...and he hasn't been part of our lives since our divorce, it is with full confidence that All Might is not Izuku's father."

It was silent as the students took in the information while Toshinori silently nodded in agreement.

Shoto, in particular, looked stunned before he turned around and sat down quietly. Izuku simply let out a small sigh of relief. He hopes that those inaccurate conspiracy theories about All Might being his dad were put to rest.

Shoto looked at his friend, a new glint in his eyes as a storm began to brew in his head. "While All Might isn't your dad biologically, who is to say he isn't in adopted terms?"

Izuku choked on his spit, so much for that idea.

"Our costumes!" The class said in an amazing show of synchrony,

"I wonder if the other Midoriya will have a different costume." Denki wondered outloud.

Katsuki snorted, "The nerd is a big All Might fan. So there is no way in hell he would change it."

Denki snorted with a couple of their classmates. "Yeah, you're right. There's no way Midoriya wouldn't pass the opportunity to be like All Might."

"Especially since it makes him look like a bunny rabbit." Mina teased.

More laughter aroused as Izuku buried his face in his hands with, his face burning in embarrassment. "They're not bunny ears!" He whined, but that only caused the laughter to increase.

Dark hummed quietly amidst the laughter as she pulled out a black crystal to observe it. "They wouldn't be this happy if they met Lord Izuku's darker counterparts." She murmured quietly so that no one in the audience would hear. "Especially those who ended up murdering their beloved Symbol of Peace."

Sleppt nodded solemnly.

"NOW, SUIT UP AND MEET ME IN GROUND BETA!" All Might gave some final instructions before running off, the students quickly following after taking the briefcases.

All the teens laugh at their counterparts, scrabbling for their costumes. This brought many good memories.


Toshinori was pacing at the entry gate of Ground Beta, both from the anxiety from giving his first class to the excitement of seeing his students in their costumes for the first time. He still remembers the first time he put on his. He felt like the coolest guy in the world, so now he couldn't wait to see his students!

All the students beamed when they heard the narration.

'Why are they taking so long to… wait, they are entering together? That's so COOL!' Toshinori saw each of the different costumes, all of them fitting very well. Young Iida with the classic armor of his family. Young Bakugo with a costume that goes along with the tematic of his quirk, especially the grenade gauntlets.

Tenya took the praise stiffly while Katsuki felt an odd warmth on his chest.

"Hell yeah, we're cool!"

"Look how manly I look!"

"Mon ami, check out how dazzling my cape is!"

Among the students cheering, Toshinori smiled fondly. He remembered when he saw how cool it was to see all his students in their heroes' costumes. He briefly remembered his successor's first model of the costume and smothered a snort.

Inko, however, beamed at all of her baby's classmates' costumes. They all looked so cool. However, her attention, which included everyone's attention, had their focus on Shattered Izuku's hero costume.

And Toshinori had to give it to his successor. That was an amazing costume, even if he took it from the one he drew in his notebook, from his Station of Awakening, as he called it.

He was in a green jumpsuit with black lines running over the sides, white gauntlets going halfway to his biceps, and his red shoes were now accompanied by black metallic soles and braces that made them look like greaves.

Izuku paused the screen, and as soon as he did, his eyes took every detail of the hero costume his other self had before he wrote it down in his notebook. None of his classmates seemed to mind that he paused the screen cause everyone was wowed by the Shattered Izuku's costume.

"Oh, man! Look at his costume!"

"He looks so cool!"

"Yeah, but he still has those bunny ears!" Came a snort.

"Who cares? He looks so awesome!"

Ochako had a light blush as she looked at Izuku with excitement. "Wow, Deku, your other self's costume is awesome! Are you going to add any of those extra gadgets your other self added?"

Izuku hummed thoughtfully. "Maybe."

Ochako beamed.

Toshinori meanwhile nodded in approval. His successor certainly looked like a hero.

He, too, had a metallic mouthpiece and a cowl with bunny ears and eye holes hung on his back, and of course, it wouldn't be

The retired hero let out a snort under his breath. It seemed that no matter which world they were in, young Midoriya will always be the fanboy. "Can the other Midorya be more obvious?"

complete without his crossed belts, but now they were red utility belts that connected in a silver heart emblem in the front.

"That's a cool symbol," Denki exclaimed.

"Isn't that the same symbol we saw on the intro screen?" Hanta wondered out loud.

"Maybe." Mina shrugged, "But we saw it in the dive thingy."

"The Dive to the Heart." Momo corrected the girl.

Mina waved her correction off, "Yeah, but the point is that we saw it there." She flashed Izuku a mischievous grin. "And it looks good on him too!"

Already knowing what the girl was implying, Izuku stopped taking details of his Shattered counterpart's costume so that he could shoot her an impressive glare. "Stop talking about my fashion sense!"

"YOU ALL LOOK AMAZING! NOW LISTEN CLOSELY!" He picked a piece of paper and started to read it. Some students snickered while Izuku sent him a sympathetic look.

Nearly everyone snorted with their counterparts while Toshinori rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Why am I not surprised? Well, at least he noted all the important parts." Nana sighed in Izuku's mind while the class listened to the plan for the exercise.

Everyone laughed at Nana's unimpressed deadpan while Toshinori shrank in his seat.

"All Might-sensei, are you sure that drawing lots is the best way to decide the teams?" Tenya voiced his concerns loudly.

"Well, other than Midoriya's costume, this is different from what happened." Denki snorted.

"Yeah, remember how Bakugo asked if he could kill us?" Hanta teased as Katsuki fumed.

"Or if we were going to be expelled like sensei implied." Ochako shivered lightly at the threat.

'Or how Dazzling my cape is?" Aoyama sparkled.

Everyone eyed the French student oddly.

"Uh yeah…" Rikido said, unsure of how to respond to that. "Whatever you say."

"Relax, Tenya, you never know who you'll have to partner up with in the field, and some of the best combinations you'll see happen by chance," Izuku said, smiling, remembering all the visions of his seemingly random team-ups that ended with him and his friends taking down bigger and stronger foes.

There were some brief flashbacks, but they were going too quickly for everyone to process what was going on.

"Geez, did anyone see what happened?" Hanta commented, scratching his head.

Denki looked back at Izuku, "Hey, Midoriya, can you somehow rewind and slow down the footage?"

Everyone eyed Izuku as the teen in question shrunk at the attention but put his focus on the game controller in confusion. "I honestly don't know."

There were groans.

Bola snorted, "Oh hush, all of you. Return your attention back to the screen."

There were grumbles.

"But is it still possible?" Denki asked their host.

The only answer he gained was a maniacal cackle, which thoroughly annoyed everyone.

After some quick draws, Izuku ended up with Ochako,

"As expected." Denki dawled, unable to hide his amusement.

Most of the class was also amused.

"Yay! The dream team is back again!" She said, giving him a hug, which made Izuku blush neon red, as Ochako's costume was a bodysuit that left little for the imagination.

There was a round of laughter while Izuku buried his red face with a muffled, mortified groan. Ochako was also red but was somewhat flattered at what the narration implied, what the other (and maybe even hers) Deku saw. However, she would have done it without her classmates, teachers, and Deku's mom hearing it. This was so embarrassing. They would never live it down!

Inko couldn't help but to perk up at the sight.

"Quite the ladies' man, huh, Midoriya?" Minoru teased.

"Shut up!" Izuku whined, his red face refusing to calm down.

"I call bullshit!" Katsuki said with a deadpan, as he ended with Tenya, "Come on, what are the fucking odds?"

Aoyama spoke up, "Considering what we've seen of this Midoriya and his luck, I'd say the odds are in his favor."

Denki then chimed in. "Favor of what? Friendship?" He said with a snort.

Mina, however, didn't let his sarcastic remark bring her down. "Yeah! Never underestimate the power of friendship!"

Katsuki grumbled, "Don't fucking say that." If there was no other thing that was more nauseating to Katsuki than the whole friendship is magic shit.

Sleppt simply spoke as he finished cleaning. "Ms. Mina is right, you know," he said without thinking much about it.

The students looked at him until Tsuyu spoke up, "Right about what, ribbit?"

The man then put what he was cleaning in a tub of random assorted items. "Well, that's-" He didn't get to finish as a sink landed on him, which made everyone jump at the unexpected clash.

"Shush!" Bola shouted. He put a finger in front of his helmet, making a shushing motion. "No spoilers! And you kids better not hound my employees, or I'm breaking out my marble sinks!"

Everyonegroaned. They were so close to actual answers from a reliable source.

Slepptquickly recovered. "Oops, motormouth," He said before pulling a broom from…somewhere.

Everyone swore they could hear Bola's eye twitch behind his helmet while they heard Dark snort in amusement.

As Sleppt swept up, he spoke, "Well, what I can say the Bola won't throw something at me for." He looked up at his boss, giving him a knowing look under the mask, "Ask Bola. Dark, heck, anyone in this theater, and they'll tell you Friendship is Inevitable." That said, he went back to his task.

Everyone processed this and then looked at each other before turning their expression into a deadpan back at Sleppt.

"Yeah." Denki deadpanned, "I don't think Bola is reliable on information."

Kyoka snorted, "No way I would trust that nuisance, that's for sure. I think I'm better off asking Dark or you."

Izuku nodded. While unknown to his classmates, Dark had been reliable to him. While brutally blunt and quick to anger, the Dragoness wasn't exactly playing by Bola's rules. And while there are certain rules Dark has to follow, she could be relied on for some helpful information. There is also no doubt Sleppt is also someone to trust, as the butler had been helping them. Not to mention, the butler tended to slip some information by accident. So, by playing their cards right, they could get the information they need without getting anyone in trouble.

Sleppt merely hummed, "Even so, most of the staff would be more than welcome to listen to you."

"Good to know," Nezu said, his eyes glittering with similar thoughts to Izuku's running on his head as he rubbed his hands with anticipation.

"Just be mindful that we're under the 'no spoilers' rule.' He smiled with an apologetic smile as many groaned. "We're not fond of it either, but as long as we're in this theater, we abide by Bola's rules." He eyed the grumbling Dragoness. "All but Dark, that is. She is merely doing it to pay back Bola."

"He can kill me all he wants until I become hollow." Dark snorted, smoke coming from her nostrils, "But I am not, and never will be, loyal to that imp."

"Yet you continue to serve him." Shota bluntly stated.

Dark's irritation was noticeable by the vein on her forehead, and everyone started to get nervous as Bola began to chuckle, "Yes. Just like you continue to serve your little rascal of a boss when you tried to quit many times before."

Shota grumbled irritably as his students eyed their teacher with surprise and shock. The Dragon was right on the dot. In his youth, he applied many times to quit his teaching position, but the rat devil refused to let him leave. The rat devil in question laughing behind him was not helping either.

"I am only here until this entire thing is done and taken care of as per our agreement." Dark rolled her eyes. "Once all of you leave, I will leave this star-forsaken hell and return to my abyssal hell." She then muttered under her breath so none of the audience heard her, "Which admittedly isn't too bad considering things…"

"Which is going to take a while, isn't it?" Izuku asked.

Dark snorted and merely shrugged. "I suppose it depends on your point of view. I'll leave once you either figure out where the key is and leave, or you watch the entire series. This entire thing will be nothing more but a blink of an eye for me."

"HOW?!" Everyone asked.

The Dragoness shrugged. "When you are basically immortal, time works differently for you."

"Anyway." Sleppt coughed to get everyone's attention. "It would be best if all of you turned your attention to the screen. We're almost done with this episode, and it would be best if we finish."

There were grumbles as everyone still wanted answers. Nevertheless, everyone obeyed. However, before Izuku could unpause the screen, an ear-piercing alarm was heard that made everyone wince and cover their ears. Both Eris all of a sudden had earmuffs while Sleppt and Dark covered their ears with their hands, the latter grimacing a little.

Bola reacted quickly and pulled out an alarm from his pockets. He shut if off immediately and turned to the crowd, "Welp, it seems that they finally caught up!" He cackled as he rubbed his hands in anticipation.

Izuku, who ensured he hadn't gone deaf, looked at Bola questionably, "You mean Midnight and Present Mic?"

"Yep." He popped the 'p.' "I'll be right back."

The host disappeared in a flash of light, making everyone sigh in annoyance. Most of them still sour over nearly losing their eardrums. Shota especially was in a very foul mood. On top of his busted eardrums (which he did notice healed right away as he briefly eyed the pendent warily), he now had to deal with two idiots.

"I have to agree with Sparky on that one," Kyoka said, coming back to the group, her partner coming with her. He had blonde hair with a lightning bolt mark on it in black. He wore a leather jacket and pants that fit with Kyoka's punk-rocker look.

Putting their foul mood aside, they chuckled a little at their Katsuki's scowl matching the one on screen.

"I say it was Greenie using his magic to cheat!" She joked with a grin. Izuku pouted at that, "So now you believe it?"

"Nope." Kyoka said, popping the 'p,' her grin widening at Izuku, who pouted harder, "You make it too easy, Bush Head."

There was boisterous laughter at the dynamic on screen. The laughter ended, however, when the double doors opened.

Everyone turned their attention, and it was no surprise when they saw Bola with their two new guests, Present Mic and Midnight, following from behind.

"Hi there, little listeners!" Came Present Mic's (also known as Hisashi Yamada) excited greeting.

Most of the students greeted their teachers with warmth, excitement, or indifference.

"My my, quite the predicament we are in." Mused Midnight, aka Nemuri Kayama, as she eyed all her students and co-workers.

"Hey, Shota!" Hisashi greeted his friend as soon as he noticed him. Either the English teacher was oblivious or ignoring Shota's irritation as he grumbled darkly under his breath and shrunk himself in his seat.

"Anywho," Bola spoke from back on his balcony and gained everyone's attention. Hisashi and Nemuri looked wide-eyed as they eyed the spot Bola was before, back on the balcony with bewilderment. "These two have been caught up with everything and are ready to join you." He pointed at the unoccupied seats next to a dismayed Shota. "Now, you two, sit down, and we can continue on with the show!"

The two teachers looked at each other and shrugged before going to their assigned seats. Hisashi sat on Shota's left while Nemuri sat on the right. "Hey, Shota, looks like we're seat buddies!" Hisashi grinned as he put his hand around the grumpy underground hero.

Shota grumbled and sank further in his seat, much to the amusement of all his students. "Don't touch me."

"Now, Shota, no need to be a sour puss." Nemuri grinned cheekily, taking amusement in the man's dark grumble.

"Anyway, back to the show!" Bola stated, getting everyone's attention back to the screen.

"Are you guys always like that?" The blonde boy asked, getting nods from everyone, "Cool, I think I'm going to like this. The name is Kaminari Denki."

After a quick round of introductions, they saw that the last team was formed. All Might picked another set of boxes and pulled two balls, one black and the other white, "THE FIRST MATCH WILL BE HERO TEAM A AGAINST VILLAIN TEAM D!"

"Of course." Snorted Kyoka. "Nothing different from our world." Nearly everyone laughed in agreement at her dry retort.

The class fell silent as Izuku and Katsuki traded a glance. They smirked as sparks flew, literally as Katsuki had tiny explosions popping in his hand, and Izuku's whole body had small green lightning arcs dancing over it.

"Well, here's the difference." Scoffed Denki. "In our world, Bakugo was more malicious, and Midoriya was more of a scary cat."

Katsuki grumbled in his seat as he slumped.

"And at least we know why," Mina grumbled under her breath as she crossed her arms. Her words made Katsuki flinch.

"A fated battle between men." Ochaco and Eijiro said in perfect synchrony, and their friends had to agree with it.

Ochako and Ejiro frowned, with the latter looking conflicted as he eyed the silent Katsuki. Both of them remembered the excitement they felt when they thought it was all but a rivalry. But after they found out how much of a bully the blond was to Izuku, and even went as far as suicide baiting him… It gave them a different perspective they didn't want.

Nemuri and Hisashi also noticed, frowning as they remembered the suicide bait. They had hoped that it wouldn't tie to their world, but one look at the tension in the teens, they knew those hopes were destroyed.

The teams followed All Might. The villain team took the fake bomb they had to defend and entered the building. At the same time, the hero team got a plant off the building and a white roll of tape to capture the other team.

"Hey, Shota." The Voice Hero murmured as everyone else was distracted by what was happening on screen.

"It's all taken care of," Shota said quietly, already knowing what was on the two heroes' heads. "The rat has decided to put Bakugo in anger management and psychological treatment and plans to hand out harsher punishments once we return to our world."

"What about Midoriya?" Nemuri asked quietly, looking stoically at the screen with her arms crossed.

"Nezu also placed him in psychological treatment and counseling." Shota's expression darkened, one hand clutching the armrest while the other hand was on his capture weapon as thoughts of strangling the principal and the entire staff of Aldera Junior High with it came to mind. "He also has plans against Bakugo and Midoriya's junior high."

"So they were directly responsible," Nemuri spoke coldly, her expression turning icy, which would make men shiver in fear.

Shota hummed in agreement.

"And with the rat boss on their case, there will be nothing left of them to burn," Hisashi said darkly, crossing his arms before eyeing his friend warily. "Are you planning on joining him?"

Shota said nothing, but there was a glint in his eyes that made both adults shiver. They almost felt bad for the entire staff of Aldera, but they didn't. After all, they were stupid enough to earn the ire of their boss and friend.

"WHEN I START THE EXERCISE, YOU TWO WILL HAVE FIFTEEN MINUTES TO TOUCH THE BOMB OR CAPTURE THE VILLAINS, SO GOOD LUCK!" With some last encouraging words, All Might walked to the viewing room. Ochako tried to memorize the map layout but wasn't very successful, "Do you have a plan, Izu...are you okay?"

Ochako was worried seeing Izuku shaking, but then she saw his ear-to-ear smile and the green sparks coming off from him, "You're excited?" She rolled her eyes, sure she was too, but Izuku took it to an entirely new level.

There were a couple of snorts.

"Huff, boys." Izuku could hear the eye-roll in Nana's tone,

There were barks of laughter at Nana's response, and Toshinori couldn't help but smile fondly. He remembered the same tone Nana gave him whenever he was reckless in his youth. They were fond memories of his that he cherishes.

so he decided to answer them simultaneously, "Ya'know, the best way to know someone is to fight them." That got the two's attention, "Because then you can let your actions talk for you." Izuku finished with a grin that was matched by Ochako.

"Beautiful words of encouragement." Kyoka rolled her eyes.

Ejiro grinned, "Manly words from a manly man!"

"You don't have to say everything exciting and cool to be manly, dude." Hanta rolled his eyes.

"Hey, it's the truth!"

"And about the plan…" Izuku trailed off while looking up, "I have an idea," The buzzer sounded. Izuku, in a swift movement, took Ochako's feet off the ground, holding her in a princess carry.

Mina's mood instantly improved, and she mischievously let out a wolf whistle, which caused whatever tension in the air to dissipate as a few of the audience sputtered in laughter. "So bold, Midori!"

Izuku sputtered as his face turned red and tried to defend his shattered counterpart's actions against Mina's teasing, increasing the laughter. Ochako looked away with a blush on his face, but even then, she couldn't help but take a peek at the screen.

Why was it that she gained butterflies just because Shattered Deku took her other self off her feet?

Once she processed that phrase, she turned even redder as she covered her face with her palm and let out a mortified moan. Why was her own mind against her?

She let out a startled yelp, glaring at Izuku with a blush.

Cue more laughter as both Izuku and Ochako turned redder. They could make a tomato jealous.

"Next stop, up!" Izuku cried, encompassing himself in the aura of Full Couling, bending his knees and jumping.

In a second, both of them were in the air, a couple of meters above the roof, "Woah! The view from up here is amazing!" Ochako said, looking at the city replica from above.

Everyone was surprised by how high Shattered Izuku was, but it quickly turned to awe as they enjoyed the view. Ochako wowed in astonishment while Izuku glanced at her before looking back at the screen.

"Glad you like it, but now hold on, we're going down!" Gravity once again took effect, and the two fell. Izuku landed in a slight crouch, his metallic soles leaving small cracks on the floor.

There were barks of laughter from the teens while Inko looked as though she was about to have a heart attack.

"The little listener certainly knows how to make a landing with style!" Hisazhi teased.

Shota grumbled, "Too problematic."

"Thank you for choosing Deku Airlines. Hope you had a good flight." Izuku joked while putting Ochaco back on her feet.

There was a burst of laughter at the witty remark. Meanwhile, Inko was pale as she tried to calm her racing heart from her other son's stunt.

"The flight, not so much, but the view sure was great. Thanks, Deku." The two laughed before walking to the roof door.

The laughter became louder at the playful banter between the two friends.

"Well, now they are on the roof." Kyoka snorted.

Tenya chopped his hands. "Indeed, which means that they have an advantage over us and catch us off guard!"

"So basically, they have the element of surprise." Hanta rolled his eyes.

"While unusual, it is not uncommon." Momo hummed thoughtfully. "There will be times where a pro can not expect to use the front door, so they must find alternatives to get the villains."

"Which means that they'll get the jump on the villains." Teased Rikido.

"As if I'll let the Shitty Nerd get the best of me!" Roared Katsuki, which made a few of them jump as the blond had been eerily quiet most of the time, "I don't care which fucking universe, world, or dimension we are. There is no way in hell I'll let the nerd beat me!"

"Even though Midoriya already beat your ass in our world?" Snarked Denki.

He immediately regretted it as the ashen-blond teen gave him a terrifyingly cold glare in his direction. "You want to repeat that Dunce Face?" His tone was eerily dark.

"N-no, sir!" Denki squeaked, his instincts yelling at him to run, but he was unable to as he was frozen on the spot with utter terror.

"Calm down, everyone!" Tenya chopped his hands as he tried to regain order. "Bakugo, don't go around scaring our classmates!" He berated at Katsuki.

Katsuki would normally argue and shout profanity at the upright teen, but he wasn't in the mood. So he tsked and called it quits. Katsuki sat down with a dark grumble and slumped in his seat. His hand slipped into his pocket where the charm was, and he began to fiddle with it. It made him feel a little better, honestly.

Many eyed Katsuki warily, almost worried as though he was going to blow up on them again, before turning his attention to the screen.

Izuku was about to grab the door handle when his instincts screamed at him to dodge. As they hadn't let him down before, Izuku grabbed Ochako and jumped back. One second later, an explosion sent the door flying, "See! Told you they would be here. Deku always comes with these crazy ideas!" Katsuki said to Tenya as they entered the roof.

Everyone jumped at the unexpected explosion before they laughed at the other Katsuki's words.

"So much for the element of surprise." Teased Hanta as a few of his classmates burst into laughter.

Momo hummed as she took in Katsuki's counterpart's words. "It would seem that the other Bakugo knew the other Midoriya well enough to do this."

"You mean be a chaotic gremlin?" Teased Toru. "Because then, yeah, I can see it."

"Hear that Bakugo?" Teased Hanta and nudged the boy playfully. "Your counterpart is not only much friendlier and happier with Shattered MIdoriya, but he also knows how much of a nuthouse he is!"

Katsuki had a vein on his forehead as he began to lose control of his temper. "Fuck of wierd face!" Despite it all, Katsuki fiddled with the charm as he tried to gain better control of his anger and try and ignore the painful tug on his chest.

"Just forget about it." Grimaced Katsuki.

The wind blew through the roof. The two teams stared at each other. Izuku and Ochako nodded at each other and ran at the villain team.

Everyone cheered at the start of the battle scene while the teachers looked impressed with the duo's synchrony.

"Look at them! That's like a cool anime fight!" Mina said to the other members of the group who were watching the fight in the viewing room. With them was the addition of their partners for the trial, Denki, another blonde in shiny knight armor with a French accent called Aoyama Yuga, and a quiet boy with a head seemingly made of rock named Koda Koji.

A few in the audience let out whines of protest when the fighting scene cut off to the viewing room.

"No fair, we were getting to the good stuff!" Whine Denki as he crossed his arms and sulked in his chair.

"Well, at least there's the monitor." Mezo pointed out as the monitor on-screen showed the epic fight scene.

"But it's not as impressive as the real deal!" Denki complained.

"But isn't this technically a screen?" Shoto blinked in confusion. "Because this had already happened in the other Midoriya's world, and all we're doing is looking at what happened."

Denki opened his mouth to argue, shutting his mouth when he realized he couldn't come up with a counterargument, and continued to sulk. Once again, Denki had been bested by one of the top three in their class.

Shoto merely blinked in confusion.

"They really got into it!" Eijiro said, seeing Izuku and Katsuki trading blows, the two dancing around each other with excited grins while trying to hit the other.

"Hell yeah, they are!" Ejiro cried, gaining shouts of agreement from most of his friends and classmates.

"A little too much into it," Kyoka said deadpanned, seeing Katsuki blast Izuku Keyblade in mid-swing, throwing his arms up, only for the green boy to use the momentum to do a crescent kick that connected with Katsuki's jaw, sending him flying and spinning.

Kyoka snorted at her other self's dry remark while everyone else burst into laughter.

"Just perfect!" Denki snorted.

Koji used sign language to tell Kyoka something, "Neh, those two are actually good friends. They are just a little crazy."

"A little?" Denki pointed at the screen to show that Katsuki was now the one to use the momentum to throw a counterattack. The explosion made the ground tremble.

The laughter grew louder.

"Yeah, no way!" Snorted Denki, "They are beyond crazy!"

"No shit, man!" Ejiro laughed. "That looks fun!"

Katsuki merely eyed the screen, not even bothering to speak. He gritted his teeth as the tug on his chest grew sharper.

"Hey, they're not the only ones having fun." Eijiro now pointed at Tenya, who was zooming in and out of range while doing potshots at Ochako, who was trying her best to use her quirk on him to take him out of the battle.

"Go, Ochako!" Cheered Mina and Toru, making the girl in question smile.

Tenya nodded in approval as he looked at his friend. "Well done, Uraraka. Your counterpart is certainly making my counterpart be on his toes!"

Ochako grinned, "You're not bad yourself, Iida."

Izuku smiled at the screen as pride surged in his chest. "Yeah, Ochako, you and Tenya are doing amazing!"

"Thanks, Deku!" She beamed.

"Midoriya, please use my surname."

Izuku raised his hands in defense. "I'm really trying… But I just can't help it."

Ochako laughed at her friends' dynamic. It was different since Izuku was yeeted to the screen, but she liked it. She loved seeing Deku more confident and relaxed.

"Yeah, but not like that! Look at their moves!" Mina said as Katsuki tried a right hook on Izuku, only for the boy to grab his hand, hook his Keyblade on Katsuki's arm, and do a judo throw that impressed the whole class.

Ejiro let out a snort, "And there is the Judo flip."

"No different from our world huh?" Teased Denki.

"Only except our Bakugo was more angry." Tsuyu bluntly said.

Katsuki seethed, "Fuck off, froggy!"

"See?" Came Tsuyu's deadpan as the room erupted in laughter.

When things looked favorable for the hero team side, Ochako took a kick that sent her barreling on Izuku's back. They were now in the middle of Tenya and a panting but standing Katsuki.

A few winced when the teens on screen collided forcefully.

"It seems team D might win here!" Denki yelled as he pointed to the screen.

"No way, man." Hanta grinned, "If it's anything similar to our world, then Team A will pull the element of surprise and win! Especially since the Shattered Midoriya is nuts compared to ours."

There were laughs of agreement while Izuku grinned sheepishly.

"Ouch! This isn't working, you got a plan?" Ochako asked without looking away from Tenya. She and Izuku were now back to back, facing their adversaries.

Izuku's mind was running a mile a minute before remembering something that could change the tables, 'It worked with Tesla.'

"Wait…" Izuku realized what his other self was thinking and looked at the screen in shock.

"Are you telling me the other MIdoriya is planning on surging One for All on Uraraka?!" Minoru screeched incredulously as it also clicked on him. Those who needed Minoru's clarification also let out shouts of shock.

"Is that even possible?" Mezo asked.

"That is questionable, as Tesla was a Dream Eater," Momo pondered as she cupped her chin.

"But you forget that Shattered Midori is known to do the impossible." Mina, of all people, pointed out. "He's done a lot of things that shouldn't be possible but somehow worked."

"That is true. Ribbit." Tsuyu looked thoughtful. "And not to mention, in the other world, magic exists, and it was implied that there are other worlds out there. So doing something like that shouldn't be out in question."

"That is true." Momo admitted, "As impossible as it should be."

As they talked out, no one noticed SM Eri's grin. Oh, they had no idea.

"But Tesla is a Dream Eater. You sure it will work with her?" Nana was understandably concerned with Izuku's crazy idea,

"Well, at least All Might's mentor shares the same concern." Momo hummed.

'Only one way to find out.'

Many snort.

"Classic Shattered Midoriya response." Teased Hanta.

Izuku glanced at Ochako, "I have an idea. Do you trust me?" Ochako looked back, their eyes met, and they had their answer, "Of course I do." She gave a nod and a soft smile that Izuku returned.

Mina wiggled her eyebrows suggestively at the two in question. Ochako and Izuku blushed, respectively, with the former glaring daggers at her and the latter looking at his notebook as though it was the most interesting thing in the room.

"Well, here goes nothing." Izuku took one of Ochako's hands, which ended up startling her for a second before she felt like someone had just plugged her into a power plant. Izuku's aura enveloped Ochako and turned pink, and both knew what they had to do.

Ochako leaned in her seat excitedly, with nearly everyone copying her actions as they waited with anticipation and impatience.

"Well, at least it does work." Izuku joked as he had his notebook ready.

In perfect synchrony, they stomped. Their sudden move startled their enemies as another shock wave of rocks floated from the ground.

"Oh man, the anticipation is killing me!" Ejiro jumped out of his seat excitedly.

"Sit down, Shitty hair!" Katsuki barked as he dragged down the redhead. However, that didn't spoil the redhead's excitement as he kept squirming in his seat. That further annoyed the blond as his eye twitched.

Ochako held Izuku's hand with both of hers and spun in circles, the boy sticking his Keyblade out and sending the rocks out like a wave of meteors.

"It's just like the Sports Festival." Tsuyu hummed with a finger on her chin. "Only with a Shattered Midoriya flare added to it."

While Izuku let out a sheepish smile, Ochako grinned. She liked where this was going.

Tenya and Katsuki did their best to dodge, but while they focused on the flying boulders, they didn't notice the floating duo dashing at them when they got too close to one another.

"Go team Ochako and Midori!" Cheered Mina with a couple of their classmates.

"Too long!" Bola complained, "Go for something short! Like 'Green Tea!'"

While Ochako and Izuku sputtered at the name, Mina seemed in thought. Not too long after, she beamed at their host. "Great idea! Team Green Tea for the win!"

Both teens spluttered their protests but were ignored as the pink girl grinned.

Ochako started to spin in the air both horizontally and vertically, Izuku using the movement to attack, sending arcs of pink and green energy.

There were many noises of awe at the light show they were given.

"You know, if the hero gig doesn't work out, you and Midoriya can work in a circus or something." Denki shrugged at the two.

Ochako smiled nervously as she sweatdropped and scratched the back of her head. "Uh, I think I'm better off being a heroine, thank you."

Izuku nodded, unable to stop himself from grimacing as he mentally pictured himself performing and making a fool of himself in front of thousands of people. That was much worse than being interviewed!

The acrobatics combined with powerful attacks were too much for the villain team. They saw themselves overwhelmed by the other team.

Everyone cheered while Ochako grinned with Izuku beaming right beside her.

Ochako gave Izuku a glance. He nodded and said, "Time to finish this!"

Ejiro grinned madly as he jumped in his seat in anticipation, to the dismay of Katsuki. Unfortunately for the blond, it seemed most of his friends (even if he would never admit it out loud) were doing the same.

Ochako once more stomped on the ground, sending a wave of purple and pink energy that robbed her enemies of their gravity. She gave a final spin and threw Izuku up, and he ascended high in the air before feeling the world pulling him once again. Putting all his weight on Heroes Rising, he descended to the ground like a comet.

Nearly everyone was wowed with what was happening.

"Oh man, that's awesome!" Cheered Mina, with a few of their classmate shouting their agreement.

Izuku was writing the entire thing like a madman.

Present Mic yelled a loud cheer that annoyed Eraserhead, but the demure man had to admit, this alternate version of his students did pretty well for something they came up with on the fly.

"I know that face. You're hyped, too."

"Nemuri… You know what? Fine. For a first proper combat scenario, they went in together, not counting the entrance exam. Both were quite decent." That was all he was giving her.

Midnight, unfortunately, knew him too well, "Meaning you are impressed they found a way to combine their strengths so well and are happy that they managed it. C'mon, it's not hard to admit it."

Aizawa's elaborate response was a grunt that couldn't ever be understood as agreement.

The impact shook the building, and Katsuki and Tenya were sent rocketing to the door frame they destroyed. Izuku and Ochako traded a high five and ran to capture the villain team and win the trial, "It's not over yet, Deku!" Katsuki said while trying to stand.

"Yes, it is! Gravity." Izuku pointed his Keyblade up. It glowed purple, and a dome of energy fell on Katsuki and Tenya, who felt like they suddenly weighed a ton.

"What was that?!" Toru's shout had the result of everybody turning to Bola for an explanation.

Who answered their questions was, in fact, SM Eri, "That was Gravity. It's the first level, well, Gravity spell." She signed to Bola, who popped out from behind the two Eris shared seats with his blackboard.

"Gravity magic is the one that focuses on the application of force. It can increase the gravitational pull applied to you or the gravity field of a body." As SM Eri explained, a drawing of a dark-purple orb hitting a stick figure and leaving it flattened on the ground appeared on the board. Following it was a sword being stabbed on the floor and a similar purple orb pulling things to it. "In lack of better terms, it can also increase the bonk of a hit."

Momo, the most intellectually accomplished of the students, gave SM Eri a flat stare at the end part. She was following the little girl's explanation with rapt attention, impressed by how coherent it was, until the last bit, "'Bonk'?"

Bola was the one to answer, "The properly named 'Bonk Factor' by yours truly is a simple way to measure enhanced impacts assisted by non-physic-congruent means. In layman's terms, how to measure the bonk caused by magic stuff."

"Oh! I think I got it!"

Ochako's exclamation made SM Eri hide a giggle, "You would."

Bola poked the girl at that. A raised a finger, and the unicorn put her hands up in surrender—stupid 'no spoilers' rule.

"Yeah, it basically is a simple way to calculate how big stick plus magic shenanigans equals BONK! It's pretty useful if I say so myself." Bola's explanation left some people more confused, but those who got it nodded along with his words.

"And how do you match that?" While not very interested in the technical part, Mina was still curious at how someone could simply count magic as a thing.

"Great question! There's two ways to do it." Bola drew a big stick on the blackboard, its tip glowing purple. "The first is to apply something to the object you're bonking with."

"He turned it into a verb now." Momo's snide remark was ignored.

"Let's look at Gravity as it's the case. You're enhancing the force of the impact by enhancing the force the object is applying through magic. Meaning that something that should only cause so much damage hits a lot harder because it is applying the force of something bigger and slash-or heavier!" Bola seemed… Calling it 'excited' didn't do it just. The man looked like a child ranting at people about their favorite subject.

Another person who became like that was, unsurprisingly, Izuku. The green-haired boy was almost vibrating in his seat, "That's amazing! With it, any attack could cause considerably more damage, or you could achieve the result of a normal hit while exerting a lot less energy!"

"That's fun and all, but what's the other method?" Shoto didn't like when people implied there were two parts to something but only explained one.

"Oh, yeah, sorry." Bola let out an awkward chuckle and went back to his explanation. On the board, a glowing stick figure was swinging a now regular stick, "The other way was to enhance yourself to swing around your bonk stick harder, basically, what that hero bunny already does, really. The more of One For All he can put behind every swing of his Keyblade, the more bonk he can squeeze out of every hit."

"Okay, that makes sense. Still, can we go back to the show, people? Not everybody here cares for nerd talk." Hanta, who didn't feel all that drawn to the subject, pointed back to the paused screen. Don't get him wrong, the magic shtick was kinda cool, but for someone who hadn't either it or super strength, the subject was exactly a concern.

"Thank fuck someone said it," Katsuki chimed in, also seeming to have not been that interested in the explanation.

Since when can you do that?" Ochako asked, shocked, "Since now, thanks for showing me how to use gravity magic." Izuku answered, grinning.

Despite the earlier confusing yet life lesson of a century, nearly everyone let out some confused laughter.

Quippy Izuku was funny, and nobody could argue with him.

They secured their downed friends, who stopped struggling, seeing they had lost that one. The buzzer sounded again, and the victorious duo traded a fist pump.

"Team Green Tea for the win!" Mina yelled out, pumping her fist in the air with their classmates cheering in agreement.

The two in question couldn't speak up about Mina's outburst, seemingly just blushing and looking away, embarrassed. But underneath that embarrassment was a vengeful spirit that resided in Ochako, and the girl swears up and down she'll have Mina regret her life decisions when she's done with her.

Mina felt an odd, apprehensive shiver on her spine.

After recovering his bearings, All Might announced on the comms system, "THE HERO TEAM WINS!"

As the episode ended, Bola loudly cleared his throat, "So, what do our pros think about the battle? Only honest answers. Leave being a hardass for someone who cares. Talking to you, Eraserhead!"

The underground hero rolled his eyes at their host's antics, honestly getting used to them by now. "Entering by the roof was the main thing I would commend them for. With the way most people think, the weapon would be hidden on a top floor, with the first or second being heavily guarded. Both points become a non-issue if not a positive by entering the building from the top floor."

Hizashi nodded along with his friend, used to his line of thinking. "YEAH! Also, with you getting caught and battling on the rooftop, you little listeners minimized the collateral damage, which is always important."

"However." Nezu, also being a pro hero and feeling that the question was for the school staff in general, also added his own points to the exercise. "A point to critique would be how the teams split up in two separate battles instead of one where the two members worked together. At least until the very end."

Midnight agreed with her boss, but she also saw the reason behind it, "Something to keep in mind, but in this case, it wasn't a bad decision. Iida and Uraraka could get caught by friendly fire if they stuck too close to their partners, so keeping your battles separate wasn't all bad."

"The most glaring problem was how the duo's lost track of their teammates." Toshinori, always happy to be a teacher (even if he still wasn't the best at it, not by a long shot), finished the point his colleagues were making. "Even while distancing themselves from each other, they could still hit their partners by accident. And as you all saw, Young Uraraka was thrown right and Young Midoriya when he had his back turned."

"Big OOF!" Bola nodded, happy with a professional breakdown of the battle. "Still, awesome commentary! Great job people."

The students clapped at the analysis of their teachers, some of them taking those words to heart.

"Now, we only have one episode left, and then we'll pack up for the rest of the day and have Dinner." Bola summed up. "Once we're done, Sleppt will take you to your rooms so that you change into more comfortable attire for the rest of the day."

Denki raised his hand.

"Yo!" Bola pointed at Denki.

"So, do we have to wear our uniforms for the showing?"

Bola crossed his arms into an X, "Nope. You guys can come in with whichever clothing you want tomorrow. Same applies to the teachers in their uniform." Bola then shrugged, "You guys came here with your uniforms on. We didn't exactly put them on for you."

Hearing that bit made many relax, especially the girls. No one wanted to picture the thought of someone they hardly know or trust to change them.

"So why were we in uniform?" Denki asked out loud. It was more a question to himself, but Bola answered anyway.

"Who knows." He shrugged. "The whole thing is random."

Sleppt spoke up, "Magic in its essence, especially summoning magic, seems to manifest itself however it wants." He then looked to the students, "So the magic seemingly decided to throw your uniforms on you randomly. It's better if you don't question it, however. It'll just end in a headache."

Dark, by that point, had locked up her food stand again. Nearly everyone had their stomach growling and gave the cart a longing look. They should have gotten a snack or two while they had the change, but they were so caught up with the showing they forgot. Now, they were paying the price.

"There are various forms of magic out there," Dark said as her ears and lips twitched as she heard the growling stomach of the mortals. "Some are more confusing than others, others are more logical, and some are best left forgotten." Dark picked up Chibi, who had fallen asleep a while back. "That said, you should be thankful that you had something on. One of many worst-case scenarios is that you would have ended up buck naked here, and I doubt most of you want to see each other's birthday suits."

Many students considered the first bit of explanation, but they burst into tomatoes at Dark's blunt intent. Some of them even gagged, while a few of them looked slightly disappointed or relieved.

"Wait…" Izuku's blush died off as he picked up Dark's other intent. "You said 'one of many bad things….'" he suddenly looked scared, "Do we want to know the worst…" He trailed off, a little scared to finish.

Everyone caught on to what their classmate meant and blanched. They turned the Dragoness with pale expressions.

Dark merely winced as many gruesome and unpleasant scenarios came to the top of her head. She picked up Chibi, who had fallen asleep a while ago, and Astrid, who had woken up from her nap, stood up and stretched. To protect these innocent souls, she said this, "I can not tell you everything, unfortunately, as there are many things out of my depth. But to put it simply, had it not been for Bola's desire to get none of you killed as well as trial and error, you would have come inside out or worse."

Everyone looked horrified and sick to their stomachs at the implications. They became paler as more gruesome and unpleasant scenarios formed in their heads, and what did Dark mean by trial and error?!

Bola faked a cough to get everyone's attention towards him. This would not do. He needed to get their head out of whatever unpleasantness they had in their head. Thankfully, Dark left out some details. "Ahem. Look, summoning magic can be done in a bunch of different ways, like any other magic. It usually is a temporary thing with no risk to it, but that doesn't quite work for viewing purposes, so I have to figure out the permanent stuff. It's a lot more complicated, yes, but I figured out the kinks, and you have no reason to worry about it. Now, let's get back to it. We have a lot to see before we can go to dinner."

Everyone nearly jumped when they came out of their stupor when the theater doors closed, indicating Dark, Chibi, and Astrid left. Unable to see a reason to protest or simply having lost the will to do so, everyone did as asked. It was unlikely they would have the appetite to eat anything for dinner after what Dark had implied earlier, but they needed to forget certain things.

Hizashi trembled in his seat and turned to his friends, "How screwed would we have been had we not been protected?!" He whispered shouted. "And who do you think suffered during the trial and errors?!"

Shota sighed tiredly. Why couldn't he just get a damn break?

Izuku would rather forget what Dark implied and pay close attention to the screen as the timer hit zero.