Izumi's eyes were narrow, her foot tapping on the floor as she stares at the door. She frowns, wanting nothing more than to run in there and grab the jackal pup and just run…closing her eyes she tries to keep the images of the bandages wrapped around her arms flash in her mind. She growls, her lips curling as she slowly slides down, wrapping her own shaking arms around her knees.

"Ma'am?" Looking up she saw Kitt looking at her in concern, "are you ok…like really ok?"

"Yeah bud!" Izumi smiles, but it doesn't really reach her eyes, "sure I'm fi-" she sighs, closing her eyes as she places her head in her hands, "no… I.. I can't lie to you Drippy… I'm not… we... we both knew what Starline did to us… we saw the virtual logs he made… we both knew he had no plan on making us into heroes…" she grins her teeth, closing her eyes tight, "but hearing an actual doctor said it… that we were actually brainwashed…it just made it all real… that… that our lives… it was all lies,"

"Am I a lie?" Izumi blinks, turning her gaze to Kitt who was frowning at her in sadness.

"Of course not," Izumi stated and without hesitation wrapped her arms around him and pulled him in a hug, placing her chin on her head. "Sometimes… after we learned the truth... I felt bad because you were literally made to be my best friend… you didn't have a choice… but," she holds Kitt right to her, feeling her eyes burn, "but maybe I'm just selfish…but until you tell me to my face that you want nothing to do with me anymore… you will always be my little buddy… my drippy,"

"Well… I may not have a choice back then... but I know that even if I did, I will always choose you," Kitt chirps, looking at Izumi through his bangs, blinking his fuchsia eyes at her, "You're my best friend too…and maybe I'm a bit selfish too,"

Those words made Izumi tear up with appreciation and joy. She felt the love and care that Kitt was genuinely giving her. She hugs him tighter, smiling, "Thank you, Drippy,"

Kitt smiles, his tail wagging a bit more but then he blinks, his eyes looking at her in concern, "Ma'am? Are… are you breathing alright?"

"Alright? Of course, I…" Izumi then erupted into coughs, bringing her hand up to cover her mouth, her shoulders shaking as she wheezes for breath.

"Ma'am?!" Kitt cried in panic, grabbing Izumi's shoulders. He watches as the blood drain from her face and she was starting to sway sluggishly. He looks around frantically, looking for anything electronic for her to drain.

"Kitt? Izumi!?" Izumi's emerald eyes looked uo to make the blurry for of Alice. The echidna-bat was standing outside the room where Eri was and she rushed forward, kneeling down and feeling her head. Izumi shivers, feeling the coldness that came from the palm.

"Can you help her?" Kitt whimpered, looking afraid for Izumi's wellbeing.

"I believe I can," Alice reached into her cloak pocket and pulled a small shard, roughly the size of her pinky finger. It was glowing a brilliant emerald green and glowing with raw power. "And this time, perhaps for a longer period," she said as she places the shard in Izumi's hand, closing them around it as it started to shine brighter.

Izumi shivers a bit, closing her eyes and taking deep breaths. The color in her face was slowly returning, her quills that were once dropping and dulling pick right up and became a brighter green... Kitts watched intently, looking over every little and major change appearing on Izumi until she finally opens her eyes, now shimmering to a brighter and healthier green. He sighs in relief but looks at the shard in curiosity, "What is that?"

"That is a shard from the Master Emerald," both Izumi and Kitt look up at her and gasp, "After…Uncle Sonic and Uncle Shadow disappeared..I knew that Eggman would be after it so I did what I could only think of. I broke it into pieces, sending the shatter remains out across the land,"

Izumi frowns a bit looking at the shard, "But…wasn't that what I was standing on? When we got Chaos Control?"

Alice smiles, "Yes…over the last few years we have been collecting the shards…and so has Eggman..he not only had Mimic captured me but also the shards we had collected, so he could put the Master Emerald back together," Alice sighs shaking her head before she smiles at Izumi, "I have been sworn to protect the Master Emerald from a very young age…just like my father…and his father before him…and his father before him. I am to protect it from those who wish to use it to harm others. But I believe this shard has a better purpose right now: To help you stay alive."

Izumi blinks at Alice before she sputters, trying to give the shard back to her. "I can't take this! This is too important for me to use it as a power source!"

But Alice shook her head and gently pushes Izumi's hands back to the young hedgehog's chest. "Izumi, its not a power source. It is something that not many can put it perfectly into words, but believe me when I tell you that I know that helping you stay alive and stable is what Chaos wants,"

Izumi curls in on herself, closing her mouth shut as she look in those pink eyes. Alice was not backing down. Gulping she stares at the little shard that held so much power…and closes her hand around it, taking a deep breath, "Ok…ok I…I promise I won't lose it,"

Alice smiles, "I know…I trust you Izumi Midoriya,"

Neither of them notices, with Izumi hand wrapped around the shard, that it glows brighter at the sound of Izumi's last name. But Izumi shakes her head, feeling a bit more power running through her. But it was pushed out of her mind as a white blur ran out of the door and latch themselves onto her, "are you ok?"

Looking down at the small jackal pup, Izumi couldn't help but smiles. Alice kneels down, pushing a strand of her hair out of her face, "Izumi's ok now, Eri. She has a condition that doesn't let her replenish her energy like you and I can,"

Eri blinks at that but she nods her head. Pushing her head into Izumi's shoulder when Doctor Shinshi came out of the doorway, "well that's all I can do now. From what we got she had all her shots," Izumi wraps her arms around Eri as the little girl shivers, "but other than a bit of malnutrition and the.." Dr. Shinso glares a bit, "scars on her arms. She's perfectly healthy," he turns to Alice, "if you see any problems, have them call me and I can come right in,"

"Thank you Dr. Shinsho," Alice smiles, taking Eri into her arms, "Though what about that other boy we brought in? The one with the scars?"

Blue eyes blink open, a hiss escaping from his throat as the light from above burns his eyes. But slowly, Dabi blinks them open, finding himself not in an alleyway, hospital room or lock in some sort of dungeon…but in a comfortable bed with booling futons, keeping his normally high body temperature down to a safe range.

Frowning in confusion, the tiger slowly pushes himself up, looking around before he stills at the sight of a ebony fur cat with slight silver streaks at the tips of her quills, sitting in a reclining chair while reading a book. She looks up at him with her blue eyes, almost like his own, "You know, the last time I saw burns like that, it was on my own skin. I had just started learning to use my own flames and I had lost control," she shuts the book close, setting it in her lap. "It was agony to move while the burns were healing but you were walking as though they didn't bother you one bit,"

Dabi narrows his eyes at her, his lips curling, "Cause they don't. Anyway…where's the kid?" his eyes shifted around, his body tensing as he prepared to bring his flames out. Normally he wouldn't have cared about a kid like Eri. Wouldn't give a flying fuck…but the stuff that Overhaul had been doing to her, it had disgusted him. And…he couldn't just stand by and watch…maybe if it was Shoto…he shakes himself, no…even if he was the bastard's masterpiece…he didn't think he would stand by and allow that to happen.

But just as he began to stand up, his eyes widened at the sight of his arm. Instead of gnarled, wrinkled purple patches of skin, were now paled, almost leather like and tight in appearance. He actually didn't feel it anymore…he tries to move his hand and he sighs in relief when his hand closed into a fist.

"Eri is ok," Dabi looks up, narrowing his eyes at the cat, "She's having her first cup of hot chocolate," she smiles a bit before she frowns at him, "you should had gone to a doctor much sooner,"

"What I do is my own concern," Dabi hisses, slowly standing up but the cat sighs, shaking her head, "Who are you anyway? I feel bad calling you cat in my head,"

"I'm Melody," she smiles a bit, "and it is my concern when your hurting yourself. Having that kind of power, those intense flames, it has to be taken seriously,"

"And what?" Dabi sneers, his lips curling to show his sharp fangs, "Let me guess, I need to stop? Fat fucking chance! I have things to do and I will get it done even if it kills me,"

"No, I would never tell you to stop using your gift," Dabi stops, his breath hitching and he looks up at Melody with wide eyes, having been caught completely off guard. "I know that urge… that itch…that you can't quite scratch when you hold in your fire," she lifts up her own hands and Dabi stares as blue flames ignited on her fingers, "It feels wring to hold in your flames. Its akin to trying to stop a wave by building a wall in its path. It wears down the wall and claims it to the sea…I don't want you to hold in your flames, "Melody looks to him, "I want to help you use the,. Without being so grievously hurt,"

Dabi stares before he scoffs, "There's no possible way. My body is made for an ice Quirk.

"And I am not exactly built for extensive use of the telekinetic abilities that I inherited from my father. But I have managed to find some ways to get around my limitations if only temporarily. You can too,"

"Sorry sweetheart but if you knew what I wanted to use these flames for-" he ducks down from a pillow that had been thrown at his head and turns to see a rat glaring at him, "Who is the crust face,"

"Like you should be talking," the rat growls, before he turns his red eyes to Melody, "Are you sure you can trust him…I'm pretty sure he's the guy who has been going around burning people to death,"

"Oh, not like you haven't dusted a few people," Dabi smirks, "I see pictures of you, but you look more gross in person, Erosion,"

The hero growls and started to walk over to him, possibly to hit him but Melody grabs him by the arm and gently pulls him back, "If you mean use your flames to kill Endeavour you will have our complete support, Touya,"

Dabi chokes, his hands clenching the blankets and it was only after years of practice that he didn't ignite them, "What the hell are you,"

"Oh, grow up," Erosion glares, "Not surprising that the son of the number 2 hero doesn't know how to introduce himself," he then yelps as the back of his head was hit, and rubs it while giving Melody a hurt look.

Melody sighs, rolling her eyes, "It's not hard to…especially when you have an ai-cyborg on your side gathering any information to catch up what's been going on in the Continents," she frowns at him, "and honestly if we didn't look the other way of past misdeeds brought by pain and suffering then my Uncle Sonic wouldn't have married Uncle Shadow…my mom wouldn't have married my dad," she chuckles a bit.

"You're dad? What could your dad have done?" Dabi asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Tried to kill Uncle Sonic,"

Dabi blinks and even the rat blinks in shock. Melody shakes her head, "If you want to join for some hot cocoa come down if you want,"

The two didn't say a word as they watched Melody leave the room, Tenko's face starting to turn red. Dabi couldn't help the grin that grew on his face, "Oh Crusty you have it so bad,"

"Shut up or I'll throw another pillow at you,"

Dabi shrugs his shoulders, slipping out of the bed, "Whatever…I better check on the kiddo anyway," Tenko mutters, glaring at the tiger but quickly follows him.

Heading down the stairs, Dabi looks around, trying to not look impress at the size and wealth of the mansion when he heard a little yip, "Fire man,"

Turning he sees the young jackal pup cuddle close to the now hoodless ALice. His eyes widen slightly at the sight of the echidna features intermingled with bat features, "An echidna? I thought you guys were extinct…"

"Well, that is what my father and grandfathers want most to believe. But its not entirely the case," she stated as she gently sets Eri down, the pup quickly running over and wrapping her arms around Dabi's leg.

Dabi looks down, and he gently shakes his leg, "Yeah… good to see you to kiddo," he shakes his leg more trying to get her off, "you can let go now,"

Eri whines, "No! I thought the bad man was going to make you disappear like my curse did to daddy!"

"Oh little Unicorn," the echidna-bay hybrid looks at the pup gently, standing up and walking over, "that bad man is cruel and a liar. Your gift, the one Chaos gave you is not a curse,"

Eri blinks at her, looking confuse, "Gift? Chaos? I… I don't understand,"

"Hey Eri!" Dabi turns his head and blinks at the green and black hedgehog with a wolf's tail sitting next to a small blue fur fennec, "if ya want I can tell you about Gifts and Chaos," Eri shuffles back a bit but looks up at Dabi and Alice. Sighing, Dabi pats her on the head while Alice smiles gently and nods her head.

Dabi watches as the small pup goes over but looks over his shoulder and blinks as a skinny, and he meant skinny dragon walked over, a German Shepard mobian following behind him, "this is Detective Naomasa. He's a good friend of mine and he has been great help with Young Midoriya's case,"

The detective takes off his hat and bows, "I'm glad that I've been able to help fix this injustice," he walks over and sits on one of the couches, making a lynx who was working on some sort of contraption look up. "Well after much work, and thanks to the help of Dr. Shinso, Izumi Midoriya has been declared alive,"

The lynx made an air fist pump screaming out yes, while Alice and Melody looked relieved at the statement. Eri blinks and pokes Izumi in the cheek, "But she is alive, she right here,"

Alice smiles at her, "She was hidden away for a long time from the people here," she explains as Ella came over with a platter of mugs that were steaming, "When they can't find you for a long time, they will believe that you are dead,"

"Oh," Eri blinked but her attention was pulled towards the steaming mug she was given. She turns to Izumi and Kitt, watching as they sip at their mugs and does the same. She stills and while she didn't smile her tail doing a little wag.

"That's good," Toshinori replies with a small smile, "that means we can start looking for online schooling for her and Young Kitt," he then frowns at the grimace on Tsukauchi's face, "what's wrong?"

Tsukauchi sighs, rubbing his face, "with us declaring her alive we had to contact those who are related to her, to inform them. Her father, Hisashi Akatani has stated he wants nothing to do with her,"

Izumi shrugs her shoulders at this, "Not surprising. He left when I was four, heading to Northamer. He stopped contacting us a bit after I turned eight, before mom was…" she rubs her arm, going silent a bit,"

Ethan growls a bit at this and mutter under his breath. Melody looks over to him but other than shaking her head she ignores it.

"The other person we had to contact, was her Godmother, Mitsuki Bakugou,"

Ethan once again looks up from the device he was working on, "Wait…Bakugou? You don't mean that she is related to that blonde brat?"

Izumi gulps a bit, "She's his mom. Her and my mom were friends, childhood friends. My mom was his godmother and she was mine…"

Alice frowns a bit, before turning to the Detective, "And what did Mrs. Bakugou said when you told her Izumi was alive?"

"That she wanted to see her, and get her moved in with her straight away,"

Izumi spits out the hot cocoa she had just taken a sip of, coughing and sputtering at what was just said. Kitt yelps and gently pats her on the back, while Eri looks up at her in confusion, "No! I don't want to live with the Bakugous!" her green eyes filled fear and anxiety.

Tsukauchi was startled at the outburst but Alice and Ethan immediately came to her rescue, "Definitely not. Izumi has made attachments here with us and is finally in a calm and stable environment where she can start growing healthy and with stability. Taking her away from that will do more harm than good.,"

Ethan nods his head, "And that fucking brat tried to assault her when she saved his damn life. He will attack her day in and day out if they live together!"

Tsukauchi held up his hands, "Hey, I agree with everything you say. Even the Chief agreed with me especially with…Midoriya's background," he looks apologetic at Izumi who flinched, "Unfortunately Mrs. Bakugou didn't take that lying down, so I'm just warning you now that she might try and find you and…convince you to put Midoriya under her care," he grimaces a bit, a frown growing on his face, "She said that two unemployed women have no right to watch over an traumatized fragile girl,"

"Why does she always call me fragile," Izumi mutters, a frown on her face as Kitt hugs her, "Just because my Quirk…I mean Gift drains me…she'll probably try and stop me from even training for U.A"

"Not happening," Melody stated, looking at Izumi with a kind smile, "You are going to get in U.A and you will have us to help you,"

Toshinori chuckles and nods his head in agreement at this, "Do not worry Young Midoriya…before long you will be walking in the halls of U.A as a Hero student,"

Izumi looked up at him, and he felt happiness when he saw the hope in her eyes. But then he freezes, a chill running up him as everything fades to black. Only him and Izumi were there, in some sort of void. He was glowing yellow, while Izumi was glowing a bright green. He looks around startled, confused in him before he looks down, seeing his chest begin to glow a brighter yellow, before an orb of light emerges from within him. He watches as it slowly floats over to Midoriya, turning pink, purple, orange, teal, blue, red, and then white. A pure bright and pulsing white which slowly began to shift its form.

Toshinori gasps, staring at the figure who had glowing eyes and claw-like hands with three fingers on each. Two long protrusions sway behind them, as they tilt their head, staging at Izumi. The dragon watches them as they nod their head, before they place their hand onto Izumi's shoulder and slowly begin to submerge into her being.

Before the void faded away, Toshinori saw that Izumi' chest began a bright white, before it turned into a bright emerald green. He coughs, splattering blood onto the floor making the young tiger yelp in shock but Toshinori pays it no mind. It had finally happen, he was no longer the Host for One For All.

Izumi Midoriya was to be his successor.