My Hero Academia: Marvelous Legacy

by Oan Glalie

The daughter of a living legend, a fangirl, a boy with unatural powers and a mysterious girl will soon be attending Japan's top hero school. What lies ahead of them is quite unknown at the moment, but they can discover it soon enough as they work on becoming heroes together alongside their new classmates and teachers... Their story has only just begun.

28. Countdown Till the Big Event

"You're you, Lisa?" he asked.

"Well, that's what it says on my birth certificate, last time I checked." Lisa replied while still smiling.

"You're in front of our apartment?"

"Yeah it was, well… I was scared I was going to get lost getting here but, made it, hehe."

"All the way from California to Japan?"

"If the more than ten hour flight and signs in Japanese are anything to go by… yep."

"Robbie, is this how you greet your friend who came all the way from the other side of the world to see you?" Yu asked the boy, making Lisa chuckle awkwardly while blushing a bit because something about the way she said, well it made her feel something… nice.

She hoped that the boy felt the same thing… or if not, that he could at least not notice the blush in her face in order to not make things more awkward.

"What? No, I was just asking. I mean-"

"Hey, Reyes…" suddenly a voice called for the tall boy… and the voice sounded a bit female?

Lisa decided to take a look behind the Reyes and Takeyama to see who said that and walking toward the door with phone in hand, she saw Itsuka Kendo. Seeing that she had a school uniform, she came to realize that she was probably a classmate of Robbie. She seemed to be of similar age to them and even if at the moment Robbie didn't have a tie or jacket with him, he still looked a bit more formal than he normally used to back then.

"Hey, so I was-" Kendo was saying before stopping abruptly when she raised her sight off her phone and met Lisa. And upon seeing her, more specifically, her hair, she just looked at the class B enforcer. "Who even gets you?" she asked him, confusing the American redhead.

"Uh?"

"Oh sorry, I haven't presented myself. I'm Kendo Istuka. And you are…?" Kendo asked the girl.

"Ah, right, sorry. I'm Lisa, nice meeting you, uh…" Lisa replied, wanting to greet the girl properly, but suddenly struggling with not knowing whether to offer a handshake, bow or even if she should wave. "Hehe, sorry. I uh, I guess I'm having trouble knowing what to do." Lisa awkwardly said before turning to her friend. "Um Robbie, is she one of your classmates?"

"Oh yeah. Guess I should have made the introductions."Robbie said, before properly introducing them one to the other. "Lisa, this is Kendo, she's my class' president. Kendo, this is Lisa. She's an old friend of mine from back home."

"Really?" she asked.

"Yeah, we've known each other for years. Since middle school, actually."

"Since middle- wow you must have the patience of a saint." Kendo said, while murmuring the last part.

"Uh? Sorry, I think I didn't catch the last bit. I'm still new to japanese."

"I was saying that I love your hair. It's very pretty!" Kendo said, turning to Robbie while gesturing to Lisa's hair. "What do you think, Reyes? Doesn't it look good?"

"I'm sorry, I don't think that I'm following." Lisa said still having difficulty understanding.

"Oh don't worry. It's just an us thing." Kendo reassured her.

"A-An us thing?!" Lisa innerly wondered as Yu herself asked Kendo something.

"Hey, Kendo-chan, weren't you going to tell us something?'

"Oh yeah, I was almost forgetting about that." the other teen said. "My parents called. They said that they did end up needing help, so I'm heading back home to help out. Sorry, I guess I won't be able to stay for dinner."

"D-Dinner?!"

"Oh, that's a shame. Would you like me to give you a ride to your house then?" Yu asked.

"No need, honestly. Truth is, there is this place I want to check quickly that's on the way to the station. So walking might be better."

"Aww, you really have to go?" Gabe asked… not wanting her to go?!

"Sorry little guy, but I do." Kendo said, kneeling in front of the younger Reyes brother. "Cheer up, I'm coming back on Saturday, so don't put on that gloomy face. How about you instead show me that pretty smile of yours?"

"Ok!" Gabe said, flashing a smile that made Kendo smile.

"Gabe likes her?!"

"Ok then, I'm off!" Kendo said, bowing to Yu. "Thanks for having me in, even if it wasn't for that long."

"Oh it's ok. Come back anytime you feel like it. You're welcome any day of the week." the pro-hero replied.

"I guess then, see you tomorrow, right?"

"And on Saturday. Don't think that I won't hold you to work on your car, got it?"

"W-Wait, work on- you're actually letting someone help you on your car?!" Lisa asked in shock.

"Yeah, it's the least he can do after-"

"Can we please just drop it? It's giving me a headache." Robbie said as Kendo and Yu chuckled.

"Yeah right. Seriously, you need to give me a few tips on how to deal with him. I bet he had you going nuts with how he can be."

"Oh that… well…I guess- I mean not, I…" Lisa was saying, looking at Robbie and smiling a bit. "Truth is… I find it hard to believe that he could be capable of doing something bad to me even if he tried!"

"Thank you! God, you have no idea how much I needed someone to have sense!" Robbie said, making Lisa chuckle.

"Your welcome, Robbie!" Lisa replied, only to later notice Kendo looking carefully at her. "Um… did I do something wrong?" she asked, feeling a bit confused and somewhat worried.

"You know? I don't know why… but I like you!" Kendo suddenly said. "Sorry that I have to leave so suddenly. Please don't take it the wrong way."

"Oh I uh, it's ok. I mean, this was meant to be a surprise, it's not like you could know." Lisa replied.

"Well, you seem nice, so I would like to hang out sometime later. Hey Reyes, give her my number when you get the chance, ok?"

"What do I look like, a secretary?" Robbie asked.

"I outrank you, so take it as you want it." Kendo jokingly said, making Robbie murmur something. "If he gives you any trouble, give me a call and I'll put him in his place! See you guys later!" Kendo said, as she took off, leaving Lisa a bit confused.

"Um.. what was going on?"

"Ugh, just a pain because… nevermind, I'm not going through that again." Robbie said, preferring not to make the same comment that got him into the whole Kendo mess.

"Oh… you two seem pretty… close." Lisa said with a bit of a down tone.

"Well, next to Shinso-kun and the girls, Kendo-chan might be one of Robbie's closest friends."

"I see…well… I was just coming to say he-"

"Hey Lisa, you hungry?" Robbie suddenly asked, making Lisa lift her head.

"Huh?"

"Well, I know that flying can be a pain and their plane food is as tasteful as a box of crayons. Plus, you seem a bit tired, so why not have an actual meal?"

"Oh I don't know. I wouldn't want to oversta-"

"Oh don't be silly. We'll be glad to have you over for dinner!" Yu suddenly said.

"Yeah, please stay!" Gabe begged.

"You… you really want me to stay?"

"Yeah! I mean, we were already going to have a confirmed extra plate today and we made plenty of food. Plus, not to brag or anything, but I think I may have surpassed myself if I do say so myself." Yu said with a proud look on her face.

"What are you talking about? I did most of the heavy-lifting in the kitchen." Robbie said, deflating Yu's ego a bit.

"Can't you let me have this one thing?" Yu asked the boy, making the redhead chuckle a bit as Robbie turned to her.

"Come on, the food's still warm. It'll be like old times." he told her.

"Well, when you say it like that. Sure, I would lo… I would like it a lot." Lisa replied as the group nodded and all went inside to have a nice meal.

Time until U.A Sports Festival: 5 days.

---

"Alright, lunch here we come!" Kirishima exclaimed with excitement, a sentiment that was shared by the rest of the class.

"Hey, did you guys hear about the special that they're having today at the cafeteria?" Mina asked.

"Oh yeah! Man, I sure have to get one!"

"We ought to hurry then, if it's anything like the last special, then chances are they'll run out of them in no time!" Sero suddenly said, about to hurry and run to the cafeteria, only to suddenly stop and turn to Annie… who was looking half-asleep with bags under her eyes. "Uh… h-hey Parker, um… you want one? Because I was thinking I have some extra money today so if you-" he was saying as Annie who was struggling to remain awake as her head was almost giving in suddenly snap back to reality.

"Answer's 82!" Annie suddenly said, gaining looks from most of the class as she suddenly replied to what she thought Sero was telling her. "I uh… sure Hanta I can help out with math."

"B-But I wasn't -"

"Hey Valerie, can you go ahead and tell the others I won't make it today? I'm going to be busy at the workshop."

"A-Again? T-This'll be the fourth time in a row."

"Yeah sorry, but I was up late doing some quick calculations and I think I'm finally close to pulling it off. So I-"

"Parker, I want to talk to you for a bit." Aizawa suddenly told the girl out of nowhere.

"Uh… could it wait, teach? I was going to-"

"I wasn't asking." he sternly said, making her sigh as she headed for his desk while the rest of the class, Valerie included, headed outside. Even if the blue girl didn't look like she wanted to.

"Alright, what did I do this time? Is this because of me asking All Might if I could keep his mask? Because seriously, I was joking, I thought it was obvious."

"You know full well that something as irrelevant as that wouldn't be worth putting the effort."

"Then, what is is?"

"You've been half asleep." he told her, causing Parker to just give her teacher a plain look.

"Really? You called me because I'm 'sleepy'? You? Can I at least say that-"

"No you can't." Aizawa cut her mid-sentence, knowing what she was going to say.

"Ok fine, I may have slept a bit late yesterday. Is this really that big of a deal to have this talk?"

"You've been like this since the beginning of the week. And you've started to show signs of fatigue since yesterday, might I add."

"Oh, so when I do it, it suddenly becomes an issue, but when, say, someone that constantly brings a sleeping bag to school does it, it suddenly a.o.k."

"That's irrelevant here, Parker. Sleep deprivation is no game and quite frankly, you not getting enough sleep is irresponsible and-"

"Feeling like someone's projecting themselves a little bit." Annie murmured.

"Parker!"

"Oh what? It's not like I've been slacking in school."

"Midnight had to snap you back to reality yesterday after you drooled all over your desk. Present Mic said that the only reason you didn't drop to the floor in his class was that he kept on increasing the volume of his voice to keep you awake. And just today, you practically slept while standing when you were answering an equation Ectoplasma wrote on the board."

"Ok, fine. So I've been snoozing a bit in class. So what? I remember full well answering everything right. So what's the problem if I still end up doing well?" Annie asked, making Aizawa sigh and looking down as Annie looked at the hour the clock on the classroom was marking.

"That's not the point Parker. What I'm trying to-" Aizawa was saying, lifting his gaze once more… and seeing that Annie was no longer in the room. "You really are your father's child."

As for Annie, well she was rushing towards the workshop belonging to the support course knowing that she was no doubt going to get chewed on for ditching her teacher the way she did. Welp, that would be for her to deal later. Right now, she was on the verge of recreating her family's web-fluid recipe. Or at the very least, the standard version that is. Sure, it won't hold something like a Hulk or Hercules like the formula used by her dad (well, it could hold them for like a bit, but it was still a quality product), but it would still be a massive improvement.

Fireproof, insolation, increased elasticity and endurance, bulletproof, explosion proof, sword proof. What more could she ask…? Well, maybe a lot, but that wasn't the point.

Upon arriving at the workshop she and Hatsume were going to work, she was met by some of the support course students. And they didn't exactly look happy to see her. Was it the whole blowing up the cafeteria? Not necessarily. Unlike everyone other than her friends and maybe her classmates, the support course knew it was mostly Hatsume's doing. That was especially obvious to those who have the… opportunity of having classes with her.

It was rather the fact that she was a hero course student working in the support course domain that ticked some of them the wrong way. Not like they were against other courses being on the workshops, that would be idiotic at best. They made gear that the future heroes would use, so their input would be extremely valuable. Even the management students were welcome since they would help with their knowledge of budget and organizing.

But that was the thing, they helped out. They didn't, however, do everything themselves. Honestly, that was so baffling it sounded like a joke in Japan. Who do they think they are, the next Tony Stark?

Well, Annie wasn't that far in a sense. She was smart. Smarter than pretty much everyone in the support course, Hatsume included. Her personal project was far more complicated compared to anything the first-year students were doing. Heck, it was more complex than most of what the third-years were doing.

Yeah, it was a bit of a pride thing. It kind of stung to see her outperform everyone while being part of, not only another course, but the one that they were supposed to gear up. And the fact that on the first day she came by to talk to Poweloader about having the lab lend to her and Hatsume, she ended up solving a problem everyone was having with some support item and in a manner that was incredibly efficient and improving compared to the ideas they were having didn't help one bit. Especially considering that she didn't even think it was a big deal since she stopped her conversation with the teacher to turn around, saw the board, did her thing and then resumed her talk.

She obviously just wanted to help and had no malice or ill-intention by doing so, but dammit if it didn't make them feel inadequate.

So she was met with a couple of dirty looks, envious stares and what have you. Not like it bothered her. She was already used to getting weird looks and especially as of lately. There was the whole, her father's secret being revealed and her having to deal with it at school and on the streets, the whole cafeteria mess alongside other stuff and even her classmates to an extent. Whether it were the usuals of Tenya and Katsuki glaring at her, Todoroki being… Todoroki (that was the best way she could think to describe that guy) and for some reason, Uraraka being weird around her and some of the other girls like Kyoka and Toru acting with a certain level of animosity towards the redhead.

Whatever that whole deal was, it could wait. So after passing the exiting students, she met up with Hatsume and Poweloader, who looked like they were talking before they took notice of her. Once they did, the two turned to meet her.

"Hi there, Poweloader, sir." she greeted the teacher.

"Parker, what a pleasant surprise! What brings you here?" he asked.

"Oh, I was planning on spending some time on my personal project. So I was wondering if me and MH could borrow it for lunch period?" she told the teacher, who didn't seem sure despite the construction-site-looking get-up covering most of his face.

"Are you sure, Parker? It'll be the fourth time this week alone and you don't exactly look like you had the ideal eight hours of sleep."

"Oh yeah, this is nothing. I had it fixed up on the way to school. Stopped at a store and asked for an expresso…. Unfortunately, the machine was broken, so I had to settle with some coffee candy. But hey, it did the work, didn't it?" she said, although the teacher didn't look convinced.

"I'm not sure, Parker. Overworking oneself is not a good habit. Especially for someone your age. Why else did you think I was so determine on having Hatsume leave the workshop during lunch period?"

"Um… to reduce the amount of explosions and melted tables?"

"Yes, that too but you know what I'm referring to. Besides, operating equipment like the one found here under fatigue is not safe. You ought to take a break."

"No breaks! Only baby making!" Has tune suddenly said, lifting her gaze from the cube-like item she was working on and having the other two present sigh.

"I really ought to buy that jar." Annie murmured before turning to the head of the support course. "Please sir, I'm almost done with this part of my project. I can feel it. I promise I won't make a mess. Just for today and I won't come back tomorrow."

"I'm not sure…"

"If I come back tomorrow with bags on my eyes, I'll keep out of the workshop for a month. Heck, I'll keep MH away for a month!"

"Yea- wait no! Don't make that sort of deal, Ann-May! I need to work on my babies!"

"Please?" Annie asked once more and finally, making the teacher sigh in defeat.

"Very well, but I expect that you finish and take some time to rest afterwards. And I expect you to uphold your end of the deal if you don't, understand?" Powerloader asked as Annie nodded and Hatsume shook a bit.

He nodded and then started to walk out of the Development Studio. But suddenly he stopped before exiting the room as he turned around.

"And if you do make a mess and still come back tomorrow, you two are banned for two months. Am I clear?" he asked once more as Annie nodded yet again and Hatsume shook with fear.

Then he left. Leaving the two girls alone. One was ready to start her work, even if she looked like she was about to fall over by a light breeze. The other one still gulped at the thought of two months without being able to work on her babies in her free time within school grounds. Annie saw that in her and sighed. Of course she should have expected that. Maybe she shouldn't have dragged her into her deal, that was wrong. So, she decides to try and cheer the pink-haired girl up.

"Come on, MH, let's get to work while we still can. And if all things work out, I'll let you in the web-formula." she said, making Hatsume's eyes gleamed with excitement.

"You mean it?!"

"So long as I make it work today? Sure. We can even use your Hatsutest to see if it works." Annie said, pointing at the box-shaped invention that Hatsume had in hand.

It was an invention of Hatsume that was meant to help in testing materials and functions for support items. Kin was the one to name it on Tuesday after both Kamala and Robbie rejected all of her propositions.

"Yeah! We'll test your baby with my baby!"

"Alright, I'll let that one's slide. Just let me take something from my bag and we'll start working. Okay?" Annie said as Hatsume nodded.

She then placed her bag in one of the tables with free space and started looking for her notes and other important stuff. She then looked at the eager Hatsume place her invention in another free space and when Annie looked at her work-place she saw (outside of the mess that made her understand why her mother always complained about her working-area always being a mess a bit more) was an odd liquid in a container that garnered her curiosity.

"Hey, what's with that stuff?" she asked the other inventor girl who looked excited.

"This is something that will make a specific baby of mine to be more efficient by a total of 76% more! Want to see it?" Hatsume asked as she took the liquid and got it to where the Hatsutest resided.

"Wait, you don't have to-" Annie was saying, until she then started to feel a tingle in her head. "Uh? Why's my spider sense going -"

BOOM!

Outside of the studio, many of the students that were headed to the cafeteria, were startled by the sound of the explosion that was as loud as someone dropping a piano from a third floor. The faint flash of light that could be seen from below the door, that was accompanied by some smoke and… and odd smell of popcorns for some reason.

Yeah, as it turns out, Hatsume already used the Hatsutest prior and forgot to clean it up. And whatever she tested before, clearly had a volatile reaction to the new agent coming into contact with the residue that still remained.

Time until U.A Sports Festival: 4 days.

---

"... however, thanks to the intervention of the masked hero known as Spider-Man, the assets belonging to Alchemax were secured from falling in the posesion of the terrorist group known as the Zodiac…" the newslady reported from the TV.

At the villain's lair, fairly early in the morning, Joey was having breakfast. Or at least the excuse of a breakfast that they could afford. It was just a small cereal box and some soy milk. Honestly, the least Kurogiri could do was try and have someone do some errands for them to get something worth eating. She has had prison food from toilets that taste better than whatever that excuse of a cereal was. The cardboard of the box tasted better and that was already excluding the taste of the soy milk. And it's not like they were short on money surprisingly, especially considering that they could afford cable with a decent amount of channels. Some of which, like the one she was watching the news at the moment, were foreigners.

Then again, with Kurogiri having to listen to whatever petty little tantrum Shigaraki threw, Joey would rather blame him for their current predicament rather than the more put together of the group. If not for the fact that he might be of use in the future among other reasons regarding her staying in the country, she would have already killed the brat. But then again, mutant powers or not, a meat shield could come in handy in the future.

She took a sip of her drink and tried not to gag at it. As she did, she looked up and saw the news report kept on going. It was from an American channel. One of the ones she liked to watch from time to time while staying in the dump they called a lair. It was pleasant to hear something in her native language from time to time. And the look of annoyance that Shigaraki had everytime she tooned into that channel and him being unable to understand a word that was said, was a pleasant sight for her. Almost enough that she could start to tolerate his presence. Which, of course, meant that it would be ruined whenever Tomura started to whine and be irritated that she remembered why she wanted to push him into incoming traffic.

Regardless, she looked at the report and growled. They were reporting on some international evil group called the Zodiac. They were practically some HYDRA-esque organization wanting world domination. And with HYDRA not being as active as of lately (their latest attempt of restoring themselves to their glory of old being thwarted by the Unity Squad and S.H.I.E.L.D after their failed attempt at a comeback after the Regent fiasco being one of the reasons why), it was naturally that someone would try to fill the vacuum left in their wake. Enter the Zodiac, yet another group that aspires to conquer the world… for whatever reason. She really didn't care, they were all the same to her.

Evil group has an idea for world domination. Evil group tries to steal some science thingy from whoever had the science thingy they wanted and some hero comes and saves the day. But the 'hero' that saved the day this time was what had her livid yet again.

"... while protecting the civilian populace nearby from being harmed, Spider-Man engaged in a battle against the group's leader, Scorpio. And while he was successful in stopping the group's endeavor, he was unable to apprehend them. With the increase of criminal activity in the city and the fact that rumor has it-" the TV was suddenly turned off.

Looking behind her, she saw Supercharger out of his costume, being the one responsible for turning the TV off. Fact that Joey was not exactly pleased at.

"I was watching that." she told him.

"You didn't seem to be enjoying it." Supercharger replied.

"I was still watching it, you asshole."

"Do you, by any chance, happen to be a masochist? Because I don't see a reason to torture yousrelf so early in the morning."

"Tsk, and what if I do? It's my life, since when do you care?" she told the other American criminal before looking carefully at him.

"Is there something wrong?" he asked.

"Seeing you without a costume… you sure are an old man. Probably the geezer of the group, honestly." she told him.

It was true. He was already an adult by the time he crossed paths with the wallcrawler the first time they met. Heck, he was probably older than a lot of the heroes that debuted around that time, the adults included. Without his costume, one could take notice of his more aged features. He already had some wrinkles in his face. His skin wasn't exactly smooth by any means. And he had a few gray hairs in his blonde mane. Supercharger already got to outlive his father and now, he was on his way to having outgrow him as well.

"Yes, I may as well be. To me, you are as much of a child as Shigaraki is to you. Though credit where it's deserved, you're not as infuriating to deal with." he told her, making her left eye twitch.

"Is there a reason you came here or you just enjoyed being an ass?"

"I'm going for a walk outside. I can't stand being confined in this wretched place and seeing how my costume concealed my identity enough to not be recognised on sight, I might as well take the opportunity and stretch my legs. I came here to see if you would like something."

"... Why are you even talking to me? Much less, offering me something? With all your stinkin 'hate for superpowers' crap,I was expecting that you would rather look the other way instead. Aren't I part of the problem by your logic?"

"You're right, you too are part of the disease. But you're also of possible usefulness for my mission. So until then, we're colleagues. At the very least, I'll try and be understandable of your presence."

"Until you decide to kill me, right?"

".. Yes, until I decide to kill you." Supercharger replied as if stating a fact. "This world is sickening. Their obsession with power will be their undoing. Which is why I make it my mission to force them to see the truth. Once I make them listen, I'll kill you and everyone in this room. Including myself. Then again, I might do it before. That is of course, if it means speeding the process of them learning. But until then, might as well try and play nice." he said.

Joey just stared at him. Her expression completely unreadable to most. However, she just reached into a pocket in her jacket and pulled something. It was a roll of money, being tied by a rubber band. She then tossed the money to the other American, who caught it with his right hand.

"I won't care as long as it's edible and doesn't taste like something made on a dirty toilet. Keep the change if you want. It's mostly Shigaraki's. I snagged it when the idiot wasn't looking." she replied as Supercharger nodded.

Afterwhich, he left the hideout and took a stroll on the streets of the city. For every step that he took, for every person that he passed by, he had to contain the urge to burst into a shock of electricity. He loathed each and every single one of them. He cursed their society and their blindfold worship for the supernatural. He was reminded of the year prior. When he was approached by the very same Regent. He, like him, was a victim of the world of the 'superheroes'. But he had a different approach to his goal. One that he himself didn't meet eye to eye exactly. The former C.E.O wanted to cage them. Using them as batteries to grant him their powers and to fulfill their role in what he believed would be the right way to do so. All while at the same time, using those lessers with abilities as lackeys to enforce his iron grip.

Supercharger did not agree with that. His vision was simple and more efficient in his eyes. End them all. Those with built-in weapons. Those who defy the order of nature by existing. And those who seeked it out. They all deserved to perish in his eyes and that included himself. Those with power could not be allow to continue plaguing the world. And with that in mind, he shouldn't have accepted in trying to aid him. Yet, he convinced him with one simple question.

"What is power?"

That was enough to gain his attention. And while he did not answer it to him, Ronald had a feeling that either he had the answer or his take on the answer. Something that the electric villain has yet to find for himself. Something that even to this day, he still tries to answer for himself. But for the time, he will have to put that question off for another day. For looking at a news report nearby, a new question came to be more immediate.

"The hero killer?"

As for in another part of the country, at U.A high, some of the students of class 1-A were training on different school grounds. It's been an activity that they've been at since the announcement of the Sports Festival. Well, most of them anyway. While there were some that reached the point of even asking to train on school grounds after classes, some trained on their own in other places. Mainly some of the Americans, or even Momo and Shoto, who trained their skills in different manners.

Now though, most of them were in class and a lot of them were in the U.S.J which at this point, is the area class 1-A is the most familiar at school. And at the time being, most of them were on different grounds of the compound honing their skills. In the ruins section of the compound, where a handful of them were doing some joint training together. Mainly, a group consisting of Uraraka, Mina and Aoyama, who were practicing with some debris nearby. Uraraka would use her quirk to hurl it upwards and both Aoyama and Mina would try and take them out before they hit the ground. Truth is they were starting to get good at it. 90% of the time, they managed to do just that…

The other 10% was a piece of rubble falling flat on Aoyama's head.

Izuku was there too. He actually considered whether to go to one of the gyms of the school or the . At first, he thought that maybe the gym would be the better option. Seeing how his control over One For All was still not the best, maybe a workout at the gym could help him a bit. But he instead opted to try and have a more practical approach at using his quirk at the U.S.J. Trying to get out of his comfort zone and all.

With that in mind, he was now sure that going to a gym to work out was the better option.

"Make way, coming through!" the group all heard.

Looking above them, they all saw their classmate Sero, trying to swing from building to building like a certain arachnid-themed hero. However, he did it in a way that looked curious to Izuku. He was swinging from one building to another one (though admittedly, he was just two to three stories high at most), holding one line of tape with one hand and the moment when he met the highest part of the swing, he let go and tried to do a spin on his own axis. Just as he was midway on his spin, he then tried to take aim and shoot another line of tape at a flagpole near the window of one of the buildings.

"I got this, I got this!" he thought to himself as the tape was shot… and ended up missing by a couple of meters from his maker. "... I don't got this, I don't got this, I don't got this!" he started to frantically think as he started falling.

Sure, the height wasn't that tall…? Maybe? Well, to people like Parker and most heroes, maybe not. Unfortunately for Sero, he was not Parker or her family. That fall was definitely going to hurt. And he was too much in a panic to even think about trying to shoot another tape line. Mainly at the fact that spinning might have desorianted him a bit. As he saw the ground approaching faster to him, Sero tried to brace for impact as he closed his eyes and covered his face with his arms. However, instead of feeling the ground breaking his teeth, he felt someone tapping his left foot and then… nothing.

No ground smashing on his face, nor the wind crashing against it as he was falling. Actually, he didn't feel like he was falling anymore. So he opened his eyes and saw that he was actually floating two to three meters at most from the ground. And looking beneath him, he saw his classmates all looking a bit worried for a bit and then relieved at seeing him not flattening himself with the ground trying to pull the stunt that he did. He also saw Uraraka, who also signed a bit before touching the tips of her fingers with one another and releasing her quirk as he started to descend slowly to ground level.

"I ah… that was a close one wasn't it?" he asked as Mina walked towards him, and gave him a light tap on his shoulder.

"You almost scared us half to death! Be more careful"

"Yeah, sorry, sorry, I was trying to try something. Oh, thanks Uraraka, you saved me."

"It's alright, I'm glad I could help. Just please be more careful, that was kinda scary."

"My bad, I was going for a new thing, but I guess I couldn't pull it off yet."

"Hey, Sero-kun…" Izuku approached the other boy.

"Yeah?"

"I was curious, wasn't that one of Parker-san's moves?" Izuku asked, since even if it was for a couple of seconds, he did see Parker use that exact move the day the class had that 'surprise exercise' with All Might. Specifically when she jumped in to fight their teacher dressed as a villain.

And that fact made Sero feel a tiny bit embarrassed, Mina and Aoyama curious (with Mina smirking for some reason) and Uraraka looking a bit odd.

"Oh, stealing her moves? I see, I see. I got to say…" Mina was saying, as Sero murmured something.

"I wasn't stealing her moves, per say…"

"Huh? Did you say something?" the pink girl asked, making Sero realize what he said and preparing to cover it up.

"I uh- N-No! No, I was just… well you know, Parker is Parker and she has cool moves so, you know?" he awkwardly said.

Sure, both Uraraka and Midoriya already knew of his fanaticism towards Spider-Man and sure, Mina didn't seem to be the person that would judge in the regard that he thought one would (not sure about Aoyama, tho). But it was probably best to not mention anything about him and just pretend it was simply admiration towards Parker… which wouldn't even be a lie in the first place, now that he thought about it.

"Um… yeah… Parker sure is something, right?" Uraraka said, a bit awkwardly and not with her normal enthusiasm.

"Kind of odd that she's not here. She and V just went to train on their own. Kinda reclusive, don't you think?"

"Oh, that's because Parker-san wanted to make up with Vector-san for not making it to lunch period for most of the week." Izuku told them what she told him when he suggested they train together. "They probably want some alone time."

"Yeah, I guess it makes sense. And with V being so shy, I guess them being on their own is probably the better call."

"Parker wasn't at her table? I didn't notice." Uraraka suddenly said.

"She is surely a mysterious mademoiselle, if I do say so myself." Aoyama spoked.

"Mm? Oh yeah, I think Parker was just busy with some personal project or something." Mina said, surprising Izuku since that was what Parker told him that very morning.

"You knew about that?"

"Oh yeah, Khan tells me stuff from time to time… she's a girl from class B. The one that always sits with Parker and V during lunch. But not the one with pink hair, that's someone else."

"Yeah, I met her already. I didn't know you and Khan-san were friends."

"Oh yeah, we met before the entrance exam once. We're not exactly that close, but we talk every once in a while." Mina was saying, looking around and seeing that a certain pile of rubble nearby was large enough for her to sit and looked close enough to a chair to actually sit on it. "From what she told me, Parker has been at it for the better part of a year or more. And she's been practically killing herself trying to make it work all week long. Good thing she stopped doing that today, right?"

"Um, why's that?" Sero asked Mina, who was already sitting on her rubble seat.

"Come on, you just said it. She's already cool enough as it is."

"But I didn't-"

"Seriously, the Sports Festival is already pretty nerve-wracking as it is. But knowing that we're going to have to try and make ourselves know with people like Todoroki, Parker and Bakugo standing next to us? Talk about being anxious." Mina said.

Just then, Izuku suddenly remembered that Sport Festival is more than just a school event. It's a competition. A chance to make one known to the country and more. The words that All Might told him not that long ago rang in his head. And as he did, Uraraka pictures the images of an almost devil-like Bakugo, a cold expression form a mean-looking Todoroki and an also somehow scary Parker and afterwards, she also started to feel a bit frightened.

"Great, now I'm nervous too."

"And let's not forget the pros watching the event, mes amis. Why, I heard rumor that a lot of specially important people will be attending the Sports Festival. I even heard that there's a chance of some being highly estimated foreigner heroes, or representatives of important heroes." Aoyama added, multiplying Uraraka's worried even more so.

"That's not helping, Aoyama-kun!" she cried.

"Well, I'm not that worried about trying to stand out with them on the stage. That other one, yeah, it's a bit intimidating. But I'm rather more worried about the other class." Sero said, getting Izuku's attention once more. " I mean, most of us only know what two of them can do and those two were terrifying as it is. And remembering that the final round is mostly 1 on 1 fights, I'm wondering if I should write a will."

"Why do you say that?" Izuku asked.

"Are you kidding?! You were unconscious, but we all saw what that Reyes guy can do! That guy is the stuff of nightmares!"

"Kaminari once mentioned being intimidated by the chance of having to confront either Bakugo or Todoroki in the Sports Festival." Aoyama mentioned.

"Well, I'd rather take on either of those two than Reyes. Parker lost to him, what chance do people like us have?!" Sero said before turning to Izuku. "Seriously man, how can you talk to him without shaking?"

"Mm? Well, I don't see Reyes-san as someone scary.

"You kidding?!"

"I mean, I was a bit intimidated the first time I met him. But he's a really nice person."

"... Ok, between Bakugo and Reyes, I'm starting to think you might have issues." Sero said.

"I don't know, to me he's just kind of a jerk, so I'm not scared either." Mina said.

"And why would that be?" Aoyama wondered.

"It's mostly how Parker looked after their match. That and also from hearing Khan every once in a while." she said, remembering the latest time she talked to her class B friend and hearing her description of the boy back on Tuesday.

"Tsk, insensitive jerk!"

"Wonder what's up with him?"

"Well, he told me this morning that he had a friend from home over for dinner. But for some reason, he was a bit annoyed at how said friend got here for some reason."

"Tsk, meddling doctor."

And while they all talked about what they believed the other class will be at the Sports Festival, a certain someone saw them from the corner of the street. They didn't notice him there, but he overheard their conversation as he was passing by. He heard of them putting certain individuals on a pedestal and being weary of them for how powerful they were. And at that, he growled.

As he started to walk to a certain area with a lot of big debris, he pictures their image in those big pieces of rubble. The image of that icy-hot bastard. Of the class B flamed ass. Of that damn Yankee and of course… of him. Of that useless Deku.

And with that image of mind, he rocketed to them and blasted them with his explosions. Leaving nothing but small pebbles.

"Those bastards! I'll show them that it doesn't matter who they are or where they come from… I'm the one reaching the top!"

Time until U.A Sports Festival: 3 days.

---

"Yeah, yeah, I get it… no, I'm busy working on something. You know, after thursday, I think I'm on figurative fire…! I was on literal fire for a bit after MH blew us up… yeah let's make sure that doesn't happen." Annie was saying, talking to Kamala on the phone.

It was already weekend, with the Sports Festival already on its way. And at the moment, at the Parker-Watson household, Annie was at her room, fiddling with some mechanical pieces that were small enough to be comparable to parts of a watch or a mechanism of similar size.

She was talking to Kamala on the phone, being a bit anxious and just going back and forth between working on her stuff and literally anything else. So she opted to call her inhuman friend to clear her mind for a bit.

She would have called her other friends too, but Valerie was helping Shinso train a bit, Robbie was apparently with a friend or two, she just met Kin, so she didn't knew what to talk to him and Mei… well, she didn't want to blow up again, so she decided to hold the thought with her. She was sure that outside of good sight, she could smell science.

She wasn't sure how, she just knew that was a power of her.

So Annie called Kamala and while she was also doing some workout herself apparently, she also seemed to have a similar feeling of getting her head distracted for a bit and answered the phone right away.

"Anyway… yeah, my mind's blank right now…Overworking myself? That's rich coming from… actually nevermind, this would only apply if you were Robbie… PFF, you know I'm right… fine, I'm sorry, I guess you might be onto something… yeah, I guess, we'll see… wait was that 'you' as in me, or 'you as in someone else?" Annie asked as the call ended. "I really need an espresso right now."

"Yeah, no. You're already hyperactive as it is." Annie heard the voice of her older sister, who stood by the entrance of her room.

"Oh, hey May. What are you doing? I thought you would be out today."

"Me? What are you doing locked in your room all day long?"

"I didn't lock myself, the door was open all the-"

"Wait, what's… oh god, did you even take a shower?" Mayday asked, sniffing the air in the room and clamping her nose, something that did make Annie's face a bit red.

"Jerk! Of course I did! That's just the smell of some stuff I knocked on accident!"

"Couldn't you knock on some perfume instead?"

"Oh, haha, very funny! This coming from the one that always forgot to do her laundry after a game!" Annie retorted to her sister, who just sighed.

"Annie, you've been in your room all day long working on whatever science project you have going. It's almost four in the afternoon and you haven't even got something to eat. Look, I'm off to the office to go over some stuff. I already put Benjy to sleep. There's some food in the fridge, heat it up and do something other than this, ok?" she told her sister, who groaned a bit.

"Yeah, yeah, fine. Why do you have to be so bossy?"

"Just get something to eat. And stop it with… whatever that is. I don't want to get back knowing you kept on killing yourself by overworking. Mom has enough on her plate as it is and I don't want you to be all stressed out for tomorrow."

"Seriously? You still on about it? Why do- I'm too old for a play-date. Plus I-"

"No, I already told Fuyumi that you would be there to help out. Come on, it can't be that bad."

"Guy probably believes he needs to bite a bullet if I were to tell him that." Annie murmured.

"That's not nice, Annie."

"Fine, I needed the break anyway. Some food would help me focus on that later." Annie said as she started to walk to the exit.

"I mean it Annie, no more work."

"Maybe I could check some stuff with your gear while I'm at it "

"I'm telling you that-"

"Oh, maybe I can-"

"Anna!" Mayday said with a tone louder than normal.

There was no going around it, that actually got Annie off guard. Her sister wasn't the kind to scream at her like that unless she meant it. Mayday just sighed as she rubbed her temples and before Annie could say anything, May spoke before.

"I know why you stay up all night."

"Uh? What are you talking about? I'm doing some-"

"You stay up late looking at news involving New York." the older sister said, catching Annie off guard even more so and making her try to deny what she knew was true.

"... I… I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just… doing some science stuff and-"

"Annie… just because we don't share the same room anymore, doesn't mean I don't pay attention to what you do." Mayday replied, with a softer tone this time.

"... There was an attack involving a Tri-Sentinel."

"Sis…"..

"Dad had to beat a Tri-Sentinel by himself while-"

"Look, I get it. Things still aren't what we want. But just over worrying ourselves like this won't help. It'll just do the opposite." Mayday said, placing a hand on her sister's shoulder. "Look, I think I'm close to a licence and this whole school event? Burning yourself like that is no good. Believe me, I know from experience how bad that is." she said, comparing what her sister was doing to the times she over excerpted herself before a basketball game and before she has powers herself.

"Alright… I guess I can take a break."

"Good, that's all I wanted to hear." she said, ruffling Annie's hair, which despite being a bit annoying, did make Annie chuckle a bit. " B'sides, who knows, maybe tomorrow might be fun. Plus… that Shoto kid isn't that bad-looking."

"Gross."

"I'm just saying, if I were your age I might-"

"Oh my god, my sister's a cougar. Hide your kids everyone, Mayday Parker is looking for a new boyfriend and the younger the better apparently." Annie joked as her sister gave her a light small on her shoulder as she laughed a bit.

"Idiot."

"Fine, fine I'll go. Shoto's not that annoying so maybe it might be alright."

"Just alright?"

"Look, just because you wanted all that nonsense drama doesn't mean I want the same. I want my sanity intact, thank you very much."

"Just saying. In my honest opinion, you might not have that many options." Mayday said, as Annie smirked a bit.

"Don't you have some paperwork to do?"

"Alright, I can take a hint… just, don't overdo yourself. We're bad at not noticing when we do that so listen when someone tells you to stop every so often." Mayday told her, as Annie nodded.

Meanwhile in another part of town, two foreigners were doing some sightseeing of their own. One of them was a blonde woman with blue eyes. The other one was a woman of black short hair. And right now, they were wondering what to do now.

"Come on, I bet one of those stores might have one of those fancy dresses from those japanese cartoons." the blonde one said.

"I'm pretty sure they have a name and I don't know. We got lost three times already. Don't you think we should head back?" the one with black hair asked.

"Fine, alright we'll look for that fancy dress later, wouldn't want to have our pictures on milk boxes before the U.A Sports Festival. Besides, maybe that way, I can get that Tenuki guy to take me on a poker round."

"That's not his name."

"I barely passed english in highschool, what makes you think I can remember things in other languages without getting them mixed up."

"I was there, I know." replied the one with black hair as they started to head to where they were staying.

However, just as they did, the one with black hair noticed a broadcast on a T.V nearby. In it, they were talking about some events that happened two days ago that were stopped by a group of the local heroes. But one of those heroes caught her attention. That was because that specific hero was none other than Spider-Girl. And seeing that so iconic look that resembled the original wall-crawler made the woman smile.

"She's just like you."

"You said something?"

"Nothing. Just wondering what the Sports Festival will be like. I don't know, maybe wondering what kind of students would win it and all."

"Hey, the Avengers and their schools already paid for the trip and staying. As far as I'm concerned, we're the real winners here." the blonde one said as the other woman chuckled.

Time until U.A Sports Festival: 2 days.

---

"Damn, these guys are cornering us like animals!" a pro-hero with a large gauntlet-like equipment on his left arm and who was wearing a striped uniform said, evading an attack from a criminal.

Near a museum, a group of criminals in advanced suits and a couple of others were attacking an exhibition involving artifacts found as early as the beginnings of the Nara period. For whatever reason, they were very adamant of going after a specific relic. Which relic was it? The heroes didn't exactly know. They decided to make sure they were as far from the museum as possible when they learned of the attempt. The heroes that were dispatched in aiding the police were Orca and Ingenium, accompanied by Spider-Girl and two of Tensei's sidekicks, Big Shot and Onemu Shinya.

Big Shot and Onemu aided in keeping a perimeter alongside a pro-hero dressed in some two-piece suit with a frilled, open chested jacket with epaulets. His name was His Purple Highness (which explained the why his clothes were excessively purple) and he was a bit older than some of the others aiding in defending the museum, which in his own words is the reason why he decided to play a more supportive role for the day, while still on guard in case something dire were to happen. Thankfully, it didn't seem like that would be the case, seeing how some other pros join in the effort. Specifically the one with the gauntlet called Slugger and a man dressed with an orange robe and a blindfold that kinda made him look like a wizard from dungeons and dragons to Mayday, whose name was the Magic Hero: Majestic.

Pretty catchy name.

In their battled, they noticed that one of the criminals had a strange orb in hand and if all the fantasy movies and tells her father told them taught Mayday anything, was that if someone with some weird artifact attacks a museum where other weird artifacts might reside, chances are that said person was about to unleash some ancient evil into the world. And in all honesty, Mayday wasn't fond of the idea herself. She already got beat up by an old snake god once, she wasn't about to go through that again with whatever Cthulhu-like monster they wanted to unleash or whatever. So she went to his nearby area and fought him. It was rather easy to spot him. Since unlike the others that were wearing mostly green advance suits, he had one that was black and looked a bit more equipped. That and he did have a jet-pack.

Like, ok everyone had one, but his looked cooler.

"So, I take it you like black." Mayday said, avoiding a laser blast shot at her, while elbowing someone in the face. "Would it be rude to try and guess you're a bit of an edgelord?" she asked, dodging this time a slash from whatever sci-fi sword the guy had. "I mean, with all the black and that overkill jet-pack." she dodged another slash. "Plus, the big 'I'm not compensating' inefficient-looking sword that's colored red." she dodged another one. "And you have a skull painted on your face-plate." she leaped and dodged a large vertical slash again. "Can you even see through it? It doesn't look like you can see through it." she moved out of the way as an energy blast was shot at her, but instead hit another criminal in the jet-pack, which sent him crashing into a lamp pose. "It could probably explain your bad aim. That's like the seventh or eighth of your buddies you hit."

"By god, do you ever shut up?!" he yelled, blasting over and over at herr and failing to hit her just once as he accidentally takes some of his allies yet again.

"Oof, let's make that eleven to thirteen. You know, if you keep doing that, no one's going to want to sit with you during recess."

"ARGH!" the villain yelled, launching himself towards her with a vertical slash and missing again.

"By the way, you look like a brooding type. Are you a brooding type? Do you like to perch on buildings and brood near a gargoyle?" she asked. "I remember having a gargoyle back home. I named him Hendrickson. Pretty good listener." she said as she kept on irritating the villain.

Meanwhile back with the other heroes, Slugger groaned. He was certainly not fond of the American and her attitude was not doing any favors to her in his eyes. A hero should take their duty seriously and making jokes and treating everything like a game in the same way she was doing was most certainly not a hero thing to do to him.

"Am I the only one that's starting to get irritated by her banter?" he asked as he was fighting one of the villains that was a bit bigger than normal.

"Focus more on what's important! Instead of complaining, do not let your guard down!" Orca said, wrestling a total of seven criminals that tried and failed to subdue him, as the hero just tossed them all away.

"The gear that they have, isn't it from the old Yakuza group, the Shogun Reapers? I thought that they were dismantled like two years ago?" Ingenium asked, taking down multiple enemies in the span of him saying that.

"They don't seem to be as efficient as the old Shogun Reapers. My best bet is that they're common criminals that obtained their equipment through the black market!" replied Orca.

"More important than who they are, is what they might seek out! And if that red orb that the one Spider-Girl is fighting is what I think it is, then we can't let them get to the museum!" Majestic said, summoning some sort of energy circles that he used to take down multiple villains in the process.

Enma Kannagi - Hero Name: Majestic - Quirk: Magic!

He can create energy rings from his wrist to use as he wishes. Either as a means of transportation, binding and many more. Though they do have a limit to what they can do.

He then generated some smaller rings and made them move in a particular way that some may have found odd. He then sent those small rings to make some formation and after completing them, they flew towards the ground in front of a decent number of criminals. Afterwhich, they disappeared and then the ground itself rose up and trapped the foes up till their chest while also immobilizing their arms.

"There, the Clamp of Containment should hold them for a bit." Majestic said, looking at where Spider-Girl was and attempting to assist, but was unable when some more criminals jumped him from behind. "Blast it, Spider-Girl! Whatever happens, you must take away that crystal from that villain! Otherwise the consequences might become even more dire!"

"Take away the pretty rock and save the day, got it!" she replied, clinging to the criminal from behind and ripping something from the jet-pack. "Hey there. Quick question; Is this important? It looks important. I bet it's important." she said, holding a piece of the jet-pack as they were starting to lose altitude.

"You lousy girl! That was the stabilizer!"

"Oh, would you look at that! It was important!"

"Is this a game to you?! We're going to fall you idiot!"

"No, not really. Just you. I'll take that, by the way, red just doesn't go with your eyes." Spider-Girl said, taking the crystal from the criminal before jumping away. "Yoink!"

The criminal then crashed behind Slugger, who was startled at the action and as he did not notice that he crashed into the last asilant that tried to make a move at harming the pro-hero.

"Hey, be careful! That almost hit me!" he yelled.

"Yeah, my bad. I'm not as proficient at the good-old knocking villains with other villains. I still need some practice." she replied as the others approached, including the two Idaten sidekicks and His Purple Highness.

However, just when all seemed resolved, and the officers started to apprehend the ones on the ground, one managed to wake up and caught one of the officers by surprise. Grabbing the law enforcer, who didn't look older than Mayday, by the throat and grabbing a dagger and pointing it at his victim.

"Alright, nobody moves! Now listen here, if you don't hand over the Crystal Artifact, this little nobody is going back home in a bag!" he yelled as the others tensed and the Spider-Girl did something a bit baffling.

"Ok." she said, making everyone to look at her weirdly.

"What?!" shouted Slugger.

"Here, catch." she said tossing the artifact towards the criminal.

Said criminal also tossed the object to the criminal, who promptly pushed the officer out of the way as he looked upwards to the artifact. Leaving himself completely vulnerable as the American kneeled and placed a hand on the ground.

"By the way, enjoy the lift." she said, tensing the muscles in her hand and using a certain ability that was very unique to her when it came with her family's interesting gifts.

Without warning, the criminal suddenly felt a force pushing him upwards and soon enough, he was suddenly launched two or so meters into the air. Majestic acted quickly and using one of his rings, he caught both the artifact and the criminal as well. Guiding him to the other officers that were quick to cuff him and making sure he would not be a threat anymore. All while Mayday walked and helped the officer on his feet once again.

"Sorry, I guess that I should have tried something better." she apologized.

"Yes, you should. But I guess you can't argue with the results, can you?" he replied as Shugger came by.

"What the… what was that?!" he asked the heroine. "Is this a game to you?! That could have ended badly if-"

"Relax, I gave her the green light." the officer replied, showing his hand and in it, there was a message in glowing writing that said 'don't worry, just act'.

Seigi Masayoshi - Quirk: body-language!

He can generate messages written in any and all parts of his body. It may not be that much, but it has its uses.

"That was quite the gambe, young man. A bit too risky if you ask me." Orca told him.

"The criminal was obviously not in the best shape. Even if he caught me off guard, I could still break free. His grip wasn't that strong and I had multiple officers and 8 pros surrounding us. There was no way it should have ended badly." he replied, as he made a small bow. "Excuse me, I think I should help out. If it makes you all feel better, the captain is probably going to give me an earful later." he said as he went to help his fellow officers.

As for the others, Mayday decided to walk towards Majestic, she was a bit curious at what he did. After all, only one of the things looked like a quirk and the other one seemed a bit different. Meanwhile, Orca and His Purple Highness stood next to Slugger, because Tensei also walked alongside Mayday. And truth is, Slugger seemed a bit moody.

"Is there an issue that bothers you?" asked Highness.

"It's just that it feels wrong to see someone taking the job of being a pro as a joke. This is a line of duty that should be taken serious"

"And what makes you think she doesn't?" asked Orca.

"Come on, just-"

"Were you annoyed at her?"

"With all the banter and awful jokes? Yes."

"Do you think the villains were also irritated?"

"If I was annoyed, I would be surprised if they weren't."

"Then I see no problem here." Orca answered, surprising Slugger.

"What?"

"Being irritated can lead to anger. Anger without control would make her opponents think irrationally, which would lead to them making mistakes that would make them easier to apprehend." he elaborated, surprising the younger pro. "There's more to taking something serious than a stoic expression in the face. Truth is, you can question her means, but her results speak for themselves."

"I must say, her costume and attitude might cause her troubles and she's still lacking in a few aspects. But that young lady certainly has what it takes to be a proper pro." His Purple Highness said, as Slugger looked at her and sighed.

Now he was feeling jealous.

"Wait, so you're an actual wizard?" Mayday asked Majestic.

"Well, let's say that after graduating I wanted to make my name and quirk a bit more… literal." the (actual) magic hero said. "Now, I'm by no means someone that could compete for the title of Sorcerer Supreme. I just do what I can."

"Huh, didn't think Japan would have wizard heroes."

"Magic and our country are in a weird place… like it's rare to see magic and all, but Majestic is still a very well-equipped hero to me." Tensei informed May. "I did always wonder though, what kind of magic do you use? Or is it all the same?"

"A little bit of chi, a little rune magic. It's nothing special and not really anything high-level. It's kind of the best I could do."

"Hey, if it does the job, it does the job, right?" Mayday reassured the other pro-hero. "By the way, what's with the fancy jewelry?" Mayday asked, pointing at the artifact.

"Oh this? You see, it's part of an ancient collection of relics composed of six ancient crystals. We still don't have that much about them, but supposedly when you have all six together, they're supposed to have world-ending consequences."

"Wow, that's grim. Didn't think I would see something like that on this side of the globe."

"There's world-ending events all over the world. Not just New York." Majestic said. "Anyway, agents of our country had a run-in with this stuff years ago. Surprisingly they looked different. For starters, they were smaller and more unique-like."

"If they're different, how do you know they're the same relics?" Tensei asked.

"It's mostly the feeling they give in. Magic stuff. Agents managed to locate one some months ago and they gave intel about what happened to those qualified to know about the artifacts. My best bet is that they changed after magic was restored." Majestic said, although he wasn't even sure himself. The Hero Association and the section specified in otherworldly topics, as rudimentary as it was, liked to keep quiet. "Anyhow, I'll take care from now. Wamu-san will at least appreciate that no one lost an eye this time. And maybe we can get more intel about these things if these lot discovered a connection between them and the exhibit." Majestic said as he started to walk away.

"Well, this day was certainly exciting, don't you agree?" Tensei asked.

"Eh, it beats doing inventory at the agency. Why do you have a backup generator?" Mayday asked.

"I got it for cheap. I thought that I could maybe use it for emergencies and stuff."

"And…?"

"We accidentally screw something up. So unless you have a small thunderstorm nearby, I don't know how else we're making that thing work again."

"A thunder- oh wow, how bad do you have to mess it up that you need something like that?"

"The instructions were in german ok, I wasn't sure whether the buttons said 'on' or 'yellow submarine', that thing wasn't even written well." Tensei defended himself as Orca approached them.

"That was a fairly decent job you did."

"Only decent?" asked May.

"You've improved, but you can still do better." Orca said, getting a plain look from the American. "In any case, it was certainly a good work. If I remember correctly, Idaten was requested to be stationed in Hosu to help with dealing with the crime rate during the Sports Festival, right? I take it you two will be there?"

"Not me. If I remember that dumb rule book correctly, apparently I'm not allowed to for some dumb reason."

"No, you will be there."

"Huh?" was the only thing that Mayday replied and when she saw Orca pulling some card-like object, her eyes widened. "Is that…?" she was saying, pointing at the object.

"It's just a provisional license. It still has a lot of restrictions, but it's proof that you're doing good." he said as he handed her the provisional license.

And as Mayday took it, she was wondering if it was real. All this months, all the road blocks. And after all that effort, she had a provisional license. Sure, it wasn't the real thing, but truth is, she was starting to believe that she wouldn't get one in years by now. But… here it is.

"Today marks my last day as your supervisor. I made a request to grant you a provisional license if I saw it fit. They were adamant at first, but I was very persuasive. As of today, you're now once again under the full supervision of Ingenium."

"I… I don't know what to say…"

"Say that next time, you'll be getting the real thing. This means that they're running out of excuses not to give you one, so don't give them excuses. Only results, like you've been giving them."

"I… yes, sir!" Mayday said as Orca nodded.

"So, now what? You're back to your usual routine?" Tensei asked.

"I'm going to have an eye at the Sports Festival and their first years. I guess spending so much time with you two made me wonder how your siblings and their generation stack up to. Who knows? Maybe I could take on some under internships this year."

"Knowing you and my sister, I'm not sure whose meant to torture who." Mayday joked as Orca turned to her. "Kidding, kidding. It was just a joke."

"Rest. You've earned it. And tomorrow, show the world of your capacity as the hero that you are! Why, you'll be a splendid - I mean .." he suddenly stopped as Mayday looked at him weirdly. " … YOU BETTER NOT SLACK OFF OR I'LL BE BACK TO BEAT YOU BACK IN SHAPE, YOU HEAR ME!" he yelled, leaving her very confused as he started to stomp away.

Was he… being supportive?

"Huh… who knew that guy could be nice to me." she said as Tensei pat her on the back.

"I told you. He's not bad once you get to know him."

"... You know what? You're right. He's just a softie inside." she chuckled as she looked at her provide license and felt pride in it. "Just wait dad, I'm getting the real deal in no time."

"Anyway, let's get something to celebrate. My treat."

"I'm taking you on that offer, mister." she said as the two started to walk.

"By the way… did you seriously try to play matchmaker with your sister?"

"Oh, come one can you blame me? From what Fuyumi said about her brother, those two would be adorable!"

"I'm starting to feel for Annie."

"Pfft, please, she'll thank me when I get back home." she replied.

Some time later on the day, Annie was being dropped off at her house by Fuyumi and Shoto Todoroki. After helping at the school Fuyumi worked at, the eldest Parker daughter and the second-born Todoroki child ended up becoming a bit close to one another. Mostly at their common ground as the older siblings that had to be the responsibilities in their family. And because Mayday was Mayday, she arranged for her sister to help Fuyumi with a school activity they had on Saturday. Mostly because she heard Shoto would be there and because there's nothing that siblings love to do more than finding ways to tease their siblings.

It wasn't that difficult for Annie and despite what she would claim, she ended up being a pretty decent teacher assistant. She was always told she had a natch with children. Shoto… yeah, he really… he sucked.

Good thing he's going for a hero line of work and not one involving him being a babysitter, because he would have starved if he took that work line.

Still, Annie found the experience relaxing even if the kids did say that she talked funny. It was definitely her accent. Not like Annie would hold it against it, she's not even a native speaker of the language and of course little kids would mention it. Got to hand it to Robbie, he was better at masking his accent. He actually sounds… exotic? Well whatever the right definition was, it was better than Annie sometimes sounding like a drowning duck every once in a while. Still, it was nice and she even had a warm feeling when one of the students even called her big sis. She couldn't help but imagine Benjy calling her that at that moment. Good grief, was that how Mayday felt when Annie called her that?

And once again, Shoto kept on looking at her all the time. Fuyumi saw that and chuckled, but Annie still wondered what was up with him. Seriously, that guy was becoming more and more odd to her. And them being driven by a loud guy in a pretty nice car didn't help one bit. What's with her knowing two rich kids in her class…? Well, she did see Momo drink from a very fancy-looking mug that one time so, maybe she should add one more to the list- actually isn't Tenya the younger brother of the guy her sister was working with?

… Why are there so many rich kids in her class?!

"We arrived at the Parker Household!" the driver screamed in a manner that not only made Annie being reminded of a taxi driver back home, but also made her think that if Katsuki were to ever drop the hero bit to become a taxi driver… he might look like that.

"Thank you so much, Kurumada-san. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, I know you don't normally do these sorts of things." Fuyumi thanked the driver.

"Phaaa! Just remind your father that my contract exists for a reason! This is a one-time thing, so he better not make a habit of it!"

"I'll be sure to tell him that."

"Really? How does that work? Is it like an off-weekend kind of deal? Are you just their dad's personal driver? Do you all have personal drivers? Oh, I know, you-"

"Zounds! You talk too much!" he interrupted the redhead rather loudly.

"... zounds?" she repeated.

Didn't her dad once mention how Doctor Strange used to say that a lot back in the day?

Just then, Fuyummi's phone rang. When she pulled it out and saw who was calling her, she frowned.

"Well, look who just remembered how to use his phone." she said, seeing her brother's name, Natsu, on screen. "Sorry I have to take this. Shoto, why don't you accompany Anna-May-chan to the entrance? Maybe talk some bit?" she said with a grin on her face and a wink that went unnoticed by Shoto.

Too bad it didn't go unnoticed by Annie, who just mentally groaned. Great, bad enough that Mayday had those bothersome ideas of some highschool-drama, but apparently Shoto's sister is just like that as well. She was pretty jealous of the dual-haired color boy and his complete denseness. That and she was starting to be scared that she may one day act like that with little Benjy. God forbid that.

"Ok." Shoto said plainly.

Yep, the guy was denser than a bag of bricks… lucky him.

"Thank you so much for the help Anna-May-chan. You did such a good job, the kids loved you. Have a good evening and please give my regards to your sister." Fuyumi told the second-born Parker girl.

"Oh, that's not the only thing I'll give her." Annie murmured.

"Huh?"

"Nothing I uh… yeah, it was pretty fun. If you need help again, just ask."

Fuyumi just nodded. After which, the two teens exited the vehicle. Then they started to walk towards the entrance of the house and with the awkwardness of the moment that was increased by Shoto's sister being… a watered-down yet equally teasing version of Mayday, Annie decided to break the ice. Mostly for the sake of her mental health. Which would explain why the pun was actually intended in her head.

"So… you have a driver, huh?"

"He's my father's personal driver. This is actually the first time I've ever been driven somewhere by him. I wasn't even aware of how loud he could be."

"Yeah, he kinda reminded me of Katsuki. Albeit, a somehow nicer Katsuki and less bothersome at that." Annie said, in an attempt to bring some nice dose of comedy into their conversation… which seeing as it was Shoto who she was talking about was very inefficient. "Uh… so, had any fun today? I mean, I hope so. The Sport's Festival is tomorrow, so-"

"It was a waste of time." Shoto abruptly said, taking Annie aback.

"I um… come on man, it wasn't that bad. Like, don't get me wrong, you weren't great either, but hey, not everyone can be great with children."

"Do you know why the two of us are here?" Shoto asked.

"Um… big sisters being annoying…? Wait, I'm a big sister, am I telling myself annoying?"

"Fuyumi only arranged for this because she saw me think of you out loud." Shoto revealed, surprising Annie.

"Wait… was he… oh god please, don't tell me that he has a crush on me! Ugh, stupid school drama is the last thing I need! Wait, no focus Annie! There's probably another reason he said that… please, let there be another reason he said that." Annie thought to herself. "S-S'that so? A-And why's that?" she awkwardly said.

"You're Spider-Man's daughter. That's more than reason enough for most." Shoto just said, catching Annie off guard.

She was already aware that her classmates knew about that. Hell, she never forgot that Shoto was the first to figure it out. But she was still surprised by him mentioning it. Or more like, taken aback. Izuku and Valerie were the only two she talk to about her family in class, maybe Masahiro like once or twice. So hearing someone else talking about that toñic felt weird. But more importantly, what Shoto said. Was that… was that the only reason…?

"I've been wondering for a while… Are you by any chance forced to become a pro-hero?" Shoto asked the girl.

The feeling of confusion and surprise that the girl had? It was replaced by another different one altogether. A small feeling of indignity at such a question.

"What?"

"Your father's identity was made public around a year ago. And for some reason, here you are. Studying at U.A while he is still back in New York. It really doesn't make sense unless there was something going behind-"

"What are you insinuating?"

"One daughter goes to U.A and the other goes to work under a pro-hero. Both attempting to become pro-heroes themselves. And I'm sure Spider-Man would end up getting something from all of it." Shoto said.

In a flash, Annie's right arm tried to reach towards Shoto. And in an even faster flash, her other hand grabbed it and pulled it towards herself. Her frown grew and she was nearly snarling at the boy after hearing his comment. Still, she tried her hardest, her absolute hardest, not to do something that she would no doubt regret.

"My dad… loathes the idea of me putting on that costume. He loathes the idea of me going to U.A. And most of all, he loathes the idea of me having been born with his powers. So don't go around saying crap like that, understood?" she said, her tone being low and intimidating, yet the boy didn't waver one bit, his expression still as stoic as ever.

"So are you a failure for him to think that?"

At that comment, Annie's sight only registered red and she let go of her arm. She grabbed Shot by the collar of his shirt but stopped at it. She wanted to punch him. She really, really wanted to punch him though a house and that was still her being reasonable. Very few times has she felt like that before and boy was Shoto the first person in well over a year to pull that off. But she still tried to restrain herself.

"Watch what you say and get to the point if you want to keep those teeth of yours intact. Because if you keep on pressing my buttons, I won't care that our sisters are besties. I'm turning that red side of your face purple."

Her previous reactions didn't do anything to affect him. Her almost reaching for him didn't affect him. And even her actually grabbing him by his shirt didn't affect him. But that one comment made the boy glare at the girl. It was obvious that whatever history that burn had, he wasn't fond of it. Good, she thought. She knew that it was wrong to think that and she knew that she would hate herself later for thinking that. But right now, she just wanted to make the boy feel bad for his comments about her and her family.

"Do you know who my father is?"

"A rich bastard that can't raise his kids for shit?" Annie asked and for some reason, Shot smirked this time.

She wasn't even sure why he did. Was it that he actually found the comment funny? Was it some smug expression thinking how scared she would be to know who his father was? She didn't give a damn about it. She only knew that his expression just wanted her to hit him even harder than she was trying not to, so she let go of him.

"He's Endeavor. The number 2 hero."

Endeavor, the number 2 hero. That took some time for Annie to process why she should care about that. Then, she remembered her father and the relationship he had with some heroes of Japan. The world thought he and All Might could not stand being in the same room together even if that was untrue. Mirko sometimes got into punching matches with him almost because she thought it was fun. Or so she heard, even her dad wasn't sure about that one. But Endeavor….

"Endeavor definitely hates my guts…"

Oh, yeah… that.

"Is that it? So all of this is because you're salty that my dad beat up yours?"

"I couldn't care less about that even if I was forced to."

"Then spit it up because I'm losing my patience."

"My dad has been number 2 for years. Unlike everyone else, he's one of the few that actually tried to surpass All Might himself. But he could never get close to him. All Might was unreachable… that is, until you remembered that for all his great deeds, he never did manage to catch Spider-Man."

"Oh my god, just how braindead do you have to be to actually buy those stupid rumors!" Annie said, her tone increasing a bit.

"I don't care if they're real or not. I only care that Spider-Man was the one person that did what no one else in the country did. If All Might was my father's unreachable goal, then Spider-Man was All Might's unclimbable wall." Shoto told the girl, who still glared at the boy, who now himself sported a mean look of his own. "Parker, we're objectively better than everybody in class. And that includes Midoriya." he said, confusing the girl in spite of her bad mood.

"... How sad must your life be for you to say that?" Annie asked, making the boy's expression grow grimmer to her actual surprise. "I'm only saying this once and you are going to get what I have to say through that thick air-conditioner head of yours. I am not better than anyone. I don't see myself above anyone, much less in whatever pathetic view you have of reality. And what's with you bringing Izuku into this? Are you really that petty and insecure that you would lower yourself to Katsuki's level and pick on some stuttering kid to make yourself feel better?"

"I only see things as they are. And that includes me being superior to the one person who despite being underwhelming in terms of potential, somehow manage to garner the attention of the number 1 hero." he told Annie, who in that instant felt all the anger and negative feelings washed off her body as her eyes widened at what the boy said.

Did he just… does he…

"... What…?" she said, in a low tone filled with shock.

"I came here to tell you this. I have a goal in mind and that's not me wanting to make friends. I'll reach the top… all without using my left side. And tomorrow, you and Midoriya will be ways to prove that. He represents the number 1 hero. I represent the number 2 hero. And you, represent the thing beyond the number 1 hero. And at the Sports Festival, I'll be the one to defeat you all without using my flames." he told the girl, preparing to leave and leaving the girl standing there. "Those students of other courses declared war on us. Take this as my declaration of war to you." he told her before walking away.

Annie was at a moment in which she did not feel anger or annoyance or even hatred. Just a sense of confusion. Yet in that sense of confusion, she allowed all that was told to her to truly click in her mind. And as she did…

"Hey, Shoto…" she said, making the boy stop, showing that he acknowledged her voice a bit, but not enough to make him turn around. "... All of this… would you have done this if it were just me…? Or is it really just because my dad's Spider-Man…? Is him being Spider-Man the only thing you care about?"

"Yes." he stated bluntly. No 'ifs' or 'buts'. No hesitation. He simply said it as if he were stating a fact. "To put it simply, you and your family are just a convenient way to get my point straight. Once that's over, there's no need to keep acknowledging you." he said before finally leaving.

As Shoto got in the car. As the car drove off, getting smaller and smaller until finally being out of sight even for someone like her. Annie just stood there, outside of her own house and completely still. She simply contemplated what she experienced.

All that she was told. And as she did she remembered what she thought about her hoping that his attention to her was something else than what she first thought. And truth is that in spite of how uninterested she felt in that regard, despite her hating the idea of thinking of a romantic relationship and how much the thought made her stomach want to hurl. She would have preferred it that being the real reason now. It would have been easier to deal with than the actual reason.

And also… it wouldn't hurt as much as it did.

After some time collecting her thoughts, Annie finally entered the house. Once inside, she saw that her mother had yet to arrive from work. Which also meant that she had yet to get Benjy from Jarvis, who agreed to babysit the small child. She only saw Gog, sleeping on the floor with a chew toy on his mouth and her sister on the couch. Talking on her phone before finally noticing her younger sister had arrived.

"Yeah and then I… oh, sorry Davida, gotta go. Tell Courtney and the gang I say hi." Mayday said, hanging the phone and then turning to her younger sister with a grin on her face. "And here comes the lucky lady of the evening, gals and lads! Care to share the spicy details of today? What can you tell us about your prince char… ming?" the older Parker sister was saying, but stopping when she saw Annie's face.

It was red. It had crystalized eyes with a few tears forming on them. And most of all, a livid look that could kill with a glance.

"S-Sis… a-are you-" Mayday tried to talk to her sister, who promptly interrupted her.

"You sure know how to pick them!" Annie shouted to her, before storming off to her room and slamming the door once she got there.

It took a couple of seconds until after the sound of the door slamming loudly until Mayday reacted. And once she did, she quickly got off the couch and headed for her sister's room.

"Annie? Annie what happened? Annie, please you can talk to me?! Please open the door?! Annie?!" Mayday called her sister with an ever increasing tone to no avail.

Time until U.A Sports Festival: 1 day.

---

Fireworks decorated the blue sky. Masses gathered all around, as they entered the colossal stadium before them. Guests from all over the country and beyond met for one thing and one thing only. To witness what the future of heroism looked like

Time until U.A Sorts Festival…

"Aaaaalright! Let's get starting!"

… Now.

---

My Hero Academia: Legacy Bits! - Fun at the Lab!

Thursday at the U.A Support Course studio was… something.

It was around the time the students should be having lunch. But instead of relaxing as they ate their meals, two girls were working at a certain experiment of theirs. Well, it was an experiment that mostly belonged to just one of them, but the other one was just as excited as the person performing it… even if it was not noticeable at first all the bags on her eyes and the tied expression, it just looked like the girl just wanted to get things over to finally get some shut eye.

… Which technically wasn't wrong either.

"Alright… I added and substituted the correct proteins now. The mixture had the perfect amount of cooling time… beginning test number… what number were we at again?" a tired Annie asked Mei, who finally rid the room of the smell of burned hair.

"Mm… we are in the triple digits now? Maybe? I don't remember. I think the head trauma from the last explosion made me lose track of the number. Which is a new one for me, actually." Hatsume replied as Annie sighed.

"Whatever. Doesn't matter. Let's just get this over with before lunch period is over and before I fall asleep on the floor again. I ran out of coffee candy already and I just want to get this over with." Annie said as Mei nodded.

The two poured the mixture Annie had made carefully into a small metallic container until it was filled up. They then approached the machine that in theory should help them see if the experiment was a success. The Hatsutest MARK 8. They would have used the MARK 1 for it… but Hatsume forgetting to clean it up before adding in a new chemical compound resulted in a very large BOOM and a very large headache.

The other six left didn't fare too well, unfortunately. So after some thinkering, Annie made sure that the MARK 8 had more chances of breaking down before blowing up. Explosions were bad as it is, but explosions with super hearing was not the most pleasant thing in the world.

Annie took the metallic container and carefully inserted it in the machine. She did it slowly at first, trying to make sure she did everything in her power for this to work. The machine took the vial and then proceeded to make an odd noise that made the two girls tense.

One would think that having an extra sense that helped warn someone of incoming danger would make things less stressful, but the truth is that no. No it did not do that. As a matter of fact, it did the opposite of helping for some ungodly reason.

"Ok… beginning test in three… two… are you positive that the remote is no longer an option?" Annie asked Hatsume.

They then both turned to the side of the room, where they could see the remote of the machine. Half of it having been embedded into the wall while the other half still had some signs of smoke coming out of it.

"Yeah, I don't even know what I should have expected." Annie said, before turning back to the experiment. "Ok… beginning test in three… two… ooooone…" she said, slowly reaching for a button in the machine until she pressed it.

Then, the machine shot a thin, white thread of sticky silk-like material straight to a wall.

The two girls just stood there in complete silence. Annie then started eyeing the result carefully. Putting on gloves and touching the silk carefully.

"Mm… sticky properties meet the hypothesised result. Density and appearance are on point… now, let's see if-"

"Aaah!" Hatsume shouted, picked a metal rod and swinging it at the silk, only for the blow to bounce off, not even budging the tense silk and making the girl fall on her butt. All thanks to Newton's Third Law.

"... Ok, well at least we now know it can take blunt force just fine. Let's see what else we can do." Annie said.

They tested the results with everything they could come up with at the time being. The blade of a pencil sharpener and a pair of scissors did nothing to the silk. If anything, they both lost their blades with them even breaking at one point. So sharp objects resistance was a tremendous success.

They then heated it up with some fire and saw that the silk was completely fine. Not a single marking in it and still being cold to the touch. High temperature resistance… check.

Then, they started to try and apply some more stress to it. To see how good it faired. 10 pounds of force. Twenty pounds of force. A hundred pounds of force. Two hundred. Two fifty. Seven hundred. Five thousands. Twelve hundreds. Fifteen hundred. Twenty thousand. Over twenty five thousand pounds of force and it was still good as new! Even Annie's old web disolvent did absolutely nothing to it!

… It worked… It was a complete success.

"... I did it… I actually did it… I managed to replicate the standardized web-fluid formula without any hints or reverse engineering! I DID IT! WOHOO! SUCK ON THAT ONE OXFORD!" she exclaimed in joy as Hatsume approached the girl with an equal joyful look.

"Wait, so does that mean what I think it means?!" Hatsume asked.

"You bet it does!"

"Yes! It worked! I'll finally get to know what that formula is!"

"Huzzah! I'm a genius!"

"Score for the baby makers!"

"That sounded so wrong on so many levels, but I'm too happy to care about it!"

And as the two girls kept on jumping with glee in their eyes and other stuff that expressed their happiness, Annie went to her backpack, pulled some papers and a pen and then handed them to Hatsume.

"Sign here, here, here, initials and name here, and a final signature here!" she indicated, still with her upbeat mood.

"Ok!" Hatsume said, equally happy as she did what she was told and once she did, return the papers to Annie. "What's that for?!" she asked.

"Oh, it's a contract dictating that upon learning of the web-fluid formula and variants of it, you're agreeing to not profit or utilize it in works without previous authorizations of my family or selected individuals!" Annie replied, as it took a couple of second before Hatsume realized what Annie said, which just made her suddenly stop.

"... Wait, what?"

"Yeah, so basically I've been watching way too much Shark Tank. And remembering how my family's stuff always got plagiarized, or ripped off and seeing how I'm basically becoming a liscenced heroine with a fancy card and stuff, I said to myself; Hey, might as well register the family recepie while I'm at it to make sure someone doesn't try and do something dumb. So I called my cousin that's studying to be a lawyer, told him what I had in mind and after some convincing that this could help him practice lawyer stuff, boom! Contract!" Annie said, as Hatsume's expression went from happy, to…

"Huh?!"

"It's not exactly that much of a legal binding, more so as we both agreeing to talk about patterns or stuff once we're both 18. Isn't it great?" Annie said, placing both hands on her hips and then feeling something in the right pocket of her jacket, so she reached inside of it and pulled out a coffee candy. "Hey, sweet! I did had one more! Want some?" Annie offered the candy to a perplexed Mei.

Did she seriously…?

Forget the contract, she knew she would one day had to deal with those! But she was agreeing to having to ask permission to make babies with that formula? In what world does she need to ask if she can make any sort of baby!

"Reyes was right, you are evil." a downed Hatsume said, as Annie shrugged and ate the coffee candy.

On that day, young Mei Hatsume learned a valuable lesson. And that lesson was; that licensing and copyright were a bi-

---

Well, after forever there's finally a new chapter. This time, the final chapter before finally getting to the Sport Festival. About time right?

This one sure took longer than it should. Between me working on some other stuff, the occasional writer's block, me doing other stuff again, this should have been probably done like five or four days ago. Hell, maybe even six. And wow, it was also a bit longer that I thought. Like, the moment I saw the number of pages alone, I knew that this was long. So much so, that whenever I reread it, I noticed that one part of it could actually be use in another chapter and that me taking it out of this chapter would actually make the flow of it better. Because with it the passing was very clunky in what I already consider a somewhat clunky chapter. So hey, on the bright side, I already have some early material for when that time comes.

Anyway, the next chapter might also take a bit longer or just about the same amount of time as this one. Not because of the same reasons, but because of things I'll be doing in regards of how I manage things. Definitely picking up on my Dec Holders series because I don't want it be a nearly yearly series in regards of chapters. Because at that speed, it would take forever to even get to half of what I have in mind for that one in particular. Almost like it were One Piece and I don't even watch One Piece. Also still working on something for this story that will definitely be ready for the next chapter. Also me working on a new workflow planning… that is to say me having and actual workflow planning instead of whatever the hell I was doing before.

So yeah, that's about it. I'm now a year older (well, for like almost two weeks, that is), I celebrated another of independence for my country with my family by eating good food and also, I was in the middle of another yearly earthquake. Because of course I did.

Lucky me, I was not in the epicenter of it, but dammit if I don't feel for those guys. Because where I was it was probably one of the strongest ones I felt personally and after seeing the videos of where it properly hit, I know that I didn't even had it that rough. So yeah, typical September, apparently. Which by the way, I'm sure those that will understand what I'm about to say, will have a decent level of agreement with me:

¡… Pinche mes mamón, ya van varias seguidas, culero! ¡Bajale a los pinches sismos ya, wey!

But hey, that's what happens when you build a city in a dried lake that wasn't dried properly. It makes the ground jello. Because clearly the city sinking yearly wasn't enough. The… well, not good news, but the okish news is that I live somewhere else most of the time… on the other hand, I get to still experience those issues every now and then.

Anyway, new chapter, enjoy. Wash your hands, huh a tree or something and don't do something stupid like strangling yourself or something. Seems like something no one should ever say, but then again, there's a reason why shampoos have instructions. Anyway, stay safe, bye.