Kuri handed Izuku a box of his possessions. "You'll do great living with Bakugo."
"You really think I can do this...moving out?" Izuku said.
"I've known you for years Izuku. You're awesome." Kuri kissed his cheek.
Izuku blushed and went downstairs.
"Are you sure about this, Izuku?" Inko said. "College, a job, your own place...You're not Superman, you know."
Izuku and Kuri laughed together.
Xxx
A cop was beating a teenager with his nightstick hard. His partner watched and smoked a cigarette.
Blackwhip flew out and grabbed the nightstick and yanked it out of his hand.
The Cop whirled around. Deku floated at side of a building behind him.
"Stop it I'm a cop!" Cop said.
Blackwhip hit his mouth.
"In the world of good cop, bad cop, you are definitely a bad cop." Deku said.
The Cop fumbled for his gun, Deku turned, floated up the building. The Cop fired, two shots that chinked off the brick where Deku was, but he was already floating off into the darkness.
In the moment of distraction, the Teenager got to his feet and started to run.
He was caught by Miko.
"Now now dear. Let's see to those injuries." Miko leaned in and stroked the teen's cheek. A spiraling glow of silver light surrounded him and his bruises and bumps were healed by her sacred energy.
Xxx
The Daily Bugle showed a front page picture of the angry Cop, next to the headline: "DEKU AND MIKO HELP CROOK ESCAPE!"
Jonah Jameson lowered the paper, saw Robbie glaring at him.
"You know that isn't true." Robbie said.
"That's why we put quotes around it!" Jameson said.
Other staffers glowered at him. They didn't like it either.
"If you all love him so much, GET ME A PICTURE!" Jameson said.
Xxx
Kuri helped Izuku move into his apartment. Bakugo and Reiko were fixing up his room, and Kuri looked over and smiled as she caught them making eyes at each other.
"Look there." Kuri said to Izuku.
"You think they're..." Izuku said.
"Sure enough." Kuri laughed.
Izuku looked at her and chuckled.
Kuri put a camera on the table and fiddled with it. "There we go. Now it'll be perfect for your new job."
"Thanks to you." Izuku said.
"Don't mention it." Kuri stuck her tongue out.
Xxx
Up on a rooftop, blackwhip shot into the corner of a building cornice, holding the camera in place.
A beige glove reached into the frame and selected a shutter setting.
Through the viewfinder, a camera's eye view of the rooftop, looking slightly down over the city. The word "automatic" flashed in red in the corner of the frame.
Suddenly Deku came swinging into frame, and Miko shimmered into view, right toward the camera, dangling dramatically from a web strand. The shutter clicked.
"You owe me one." Miko said disdainfully, shimmering away.
Xxx
The resultant photograph was an action shot of Deku and Miko. A hand flipped past it, to another, and another- all good shots, floating shots, flying shots, blackwhip shots.
Jonah Jameson looked up, trying to hide his enthusiasm. Izuku stood across his desk.
"Good shots right?" Kuri grinned at Izuku.
"They sure are." Izuku grinned
"Where'd you get these?" Jameson said.
"If I tell you that, you'll send your own photographer next time. This is my job." Izuku said.
"No jobs! Free lance, Perky, best thing in the world for a man your age, don't get tied down! I'll give you a hundred bucks for the lot." Jameson said.
He turned and left his office. Izuku followed.
"A thousand or we walk!" Kuri demanded.
Izuku looked at her gratefully.
"Dammit Kuri! Fine, Fine. You win. Hoffman. HOFFMAN!" Jameson said.
Hoffman, a tired guy, looked up from his cubicle.
"Cut a check to Izuku Midoriko for a thousands dollars, less taxes-" Jameson said.
Izuku turned to Hoffman. "It's Midoriya, Mi-do-"
"-social security, and voluntary contribution to that charity my wife likes." Jameson said.
"Sir, if you could just put me on the payroll, see, I really need the insurance I'd get with a full-time job, my mom has this condition she-" Izuku said.
"Insurance?! What are you, a photographer or a claims adjuster?! What happened to hard drinking and Australian bush hats and lying to foreign women? Stick around, Kid, I'll make a journalist out of you, hell, HOFFMAN!, remind me to send him some Christmas meat, NOW GET ME MORE PICTURES!" Jameson said.
The Daily Bugle displayed one of Izuku's dramatic shots of Deku and Miko, over the headline: DEKU AND MIKO: HERO OR MENACE?! exclusive photos!
Xxx
Three police cars screeched around a corner and squealed to a stop outside a jewelry store in the diamond district. An alarm bell rang, the front window of the store was smashed-and three thieves were suspended above the doorway, trapped, squirming in Blackwhip's clutches.
The first cops leapt out along with Kuri and stood underneath, staring up in amazement. As they entered the scene, the window repaired itself and the money flew from the thieves pockets back into the registers.
The image was in the The Daily Bugle, Next to the headline: WHO RUNS THIS TOWN?! Cops Powerless Against Deku and Miko
Xxx
Robbie looked at Jonah. "How come you hate him so much?"
"Because he's a vigilante! Thinks he's above the law! What if he turns against us someday?! It's just a matter of time! Look at him! Look at those eyes!" Jameson said.
They looked up at a picture of Deku and Miko, a grainy blow up of their faces, his wicked masked eyes staring straight out at them, and her Mardi Gras mask mocking them.
"Is there a man alive who could give those lunatics a fight?" Jameson said