Hello! Long chapter here for you all!
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Chapter 12 - Resolution
Res, or Resolution, is a statistical representation of your will to live, and your ability to stand when the world is against you. This stat is also one of your greatest defenses against Cha. Most, not all, abilities that affect your psyche can be countered by Res. Along with Con, it represents your total stamina and can be calculated with the following formula: (Con x 5) + (Res x 5)
Note written on the page:
Izuku, no matter what, you must fight to survive. I know it might be hard in some situations, but the world needs you, don't ever give up.
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Magic Dimension
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Izuku awoke with a start, and tried to stand but was unsuccessful. Floating around in zero-g made it hard in the first place, but Sei was holding him in place. Checking the clock on his HUD he noted more than 8 hours had gone by. His arm had come back, but his shirt and jacket were completely torn.
Why hadn't she woken up yet? He tried nudging her, but she gave no response.
"[Observe]". Her stats were about the same since he last saw them, but her Mana was what shocked him.
[Seiren Hale
Level: 32
HP: 2,340 / 2,340
Mana: -29,991,346 / 5,945
Stamina: 2,625 / 2,625]
'That's an issue.' He pulled out one of the Mana Vials and poured into her mouth. Her body reflexively began drinking the contents and he received a prompt.
[This being is cursed! All variations of Mana regeneration, besides Natural, have no effect.]
'Well shit.' Looking around, nothing but empty space and multicolored lights could be seen. 'How can I get us home?' None of his skills would be any help, but he could probably borrow her quirk. The only issue with that was going from dimension to dimension. It wasn't a feeling, it was calculations and what he was sure was some sort of quantum physics. So it was way over his head, but he could just randomly dial it. It could either kill them or lead them somewhere more useful.
'Alright. I'm going for it.' Opening his upgrade menu and selecting perks, the window opened. Scrolling down until he found the correct perk, he made his selection.
[New perk added! Wisdom of Two (Lvl: 1)
Shortly after closing this window you will be presented with an option menu to adjust your new AI.]
'Well this should get interesting.'
[This menu will only appear this once, and can never be opened again.
Do you wish to proceed?]
[Step 1: Voice
Please select the voice you would like:]
It gave him a drop down menu that contained pretty much every voice he has ever heard. Lots of the voices were out of the picture as he didn't want them in his ear. As for others he simply didn't know who they were, so those were out. The ones that stuck out were people that meant a lot to him. He didn't want to use either of the girls, and having his mom in his ear would be disconcerting. Mandalay was out as well, he couldn't imagine the headache he'd get from two of them talking in his head.
All Might had only a single option, but he wasn't sure if that was a good idea. What voice would it be? Small or Large Might? Would it switch between both? Who knew. Then he saw it.
'That's the one.' He made his selection.
[Step 2: Personality
You may either choose the personality belonging to the voice or you may select your own options.
0/10 options selected]
'Might as well go for the default.' He didn't want to spend too long going through all the possible combinations.
[Step 3: Name
What would you like to name the AI?]
He smiled a bit as he spoke, "Kat."
[Setup Successful!]
He waited to hear something, but no one spoke.
'Hello?'
'Hello!' The voice was light and bubbly.
He didn't say anything for a bit then as he was about to ask she spoke. Her voice was a lot more somber now, 'I know you have a lot of questions and I would love to answer them. But I can't.'
'Why?' He couldn't help the sadness in his voice.
She laughed, 'Because silly, I only know what you know. I only see what you see. Your senses, your memories, and feelings are all mine. I have no connection to the true Kat.'
He supposed that made sense, still sucked though. 'Well what do you think about randomly teleporting?'
'I think it's an absolutely ludicrous and completely stupid idea to even ask. You should just do it, it's not like we have any other options.'
He smirked, 'Let's do this then.'
Reaching out with Transference, he received the notification and called out to the quirk. According to Sei, using her quirk was sort of like throwing darts at a map. With a blindfold. Sure eventually you'll learn where to throw it to get the location you want, but more often than not you end up in an area you don't want to be.
'Here goes nothing.' Ripping open a portal in their path, they went through and immediately started falling toward ground.
'We appear to be falling. I suggest opening another portal immediately.'
'You think?!' He quickly did that and it opened up into some sort of ice field. From pure momentum they soared a bit through the air and crashed into a giant pile of snow.
He laid there for a minute thankful he didn't open into some sort of fire dimension or hellscape. Kat was laughing loudly and seemed to getting off her adrenaline high. Could she be affected by his adrenaline?
[Quirk Expired!]
As she calmed down she answered his inner thoughts, 'Maybe it's some sort of frozen hell?'
'I'd rather not have to worry about that.'
'Fair enough. Grab the girl and let's start exploring.'
'Yeah yeah, give me a second.' Draping Sei's arms around his neck, he stood up and crawled his way out of the hole. 'I wonder if cold resist is a skill.'
'I'd think it would be, otherwise we wouldn't take damage from [Cold Snap].
'Good Point. I guess we'll wander until we find a place to set her down safely.'
Finally making it out of the hole, he looked around. Nothing but snow and ice as far as he could see. He did read a book once about a fire hero who survived Antarctica. How did he do it again? Something about an igloo if he remembered correctly. A notification appeared in his vision.
[Cold Damage Imminent!]
'Shit. Any ideas?'
Kat's voice immediately answered, but sounded distant like she was on the other side of a room.
'Maybe use your quirk to circle you slowly?'
'That would only work for so long though. I'd have to find a place and materials where I could start a fire. We have to be fast then.' Calling on his flames, he caused the fire to elongate and shape into a thin rope. Then using his gravity he made it slowly twist and spin around him.
'This should do nicely. Now which way?'
He looked around, "Well north is that way." He pointed in a general direction, "I can't tell how far away though, and I have no clue if this place has plants and animals."
'How fast can we travel?'
"Sprint is at Level 18. The cost isn't so bad anymore, but like my quirk, I can't keep it up forever. If I don't run into any problems I can get 4 or 5 hours of running before needing to stop."
'Then get a move on. Also good news.' Her voice came to the forefront of his mind.
"What?"
'We won't die of asphyxiation!'
"What?!" He didn't even think about the possibility of that.
'You won't suffocate in space. I checked your memories and Sei said something about being stuck in orbit when she was younger. So I doubt we'll get into any trouble with breathing.'
"Uh that's great. You can just do that?"
'Yes, now go! You're burning daylight!'
Holding Sei's unconscious form over his shoulders, he took off into a jog and slowly picked up speed until he activated [Sprint].
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"This place really is dead isn't it?" It had been roughly two hours since their departure from the landing site. It wasn't going well. Even traveling at full speed and not running into any problems, they hadn't found anything. All they had found was more snow dunes and cliffs made of ice.
'We could still use my idea.' She sounded annoyed.
He sighed, "We don't know what would happen if we did that. It could cause a massive amount of damage to the surrounding area that we can't deal with right now."
'Fine. Make your stupid hole then.' He couldn't see it but he could sense the crossed arms.
Using his flames, he canceled the rope and began to dig a hole through the snow. The fire melted the snow easily but the surrounding cold, froze it back instantly. This caused a shell of ice to form around the opening and he crawled his way through. It wouldn't be comfortable, but it would have to do for now.
'Get some sleep before you turn to ash. I'll wake you up if something happens.'
Holding on to Sei, he sat down and hugged her into his chest. Not only for warmth, but to keep her off the icy ground. "Thanks Kat, I'll talk to you in a bit."
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By the time he woke up it was freezing cold and the sun had already set.
'You need to heat up badly.'
He could feel his teeth chattering, "good idea."
He summoned 3 balls of fire, and brought them close to both him and Sei. Slowly moving them across his body and around the girl, he started to warm up. Even Sei was warmer to the touch.
"Alright what do we do?"
'Still have a while before you can use transfer, so I have no clue. Just stay here and keep warm? Try creating new powers?'
He hummed, giving that idea some thought, 'You need to become a space heater.' While he couldn't see her, he still made a deadpan expression. 'What? I'm serious.'
"Any ideas then?"
'Try focusing on the heat vs fire? And try forcing it out?'
He tried to imagine what that would be like before she added, 'If you feel a grumble, stop, farting in such a small space would be nasty. I might not be her mom, but I'd still feel bad for the girl.'
Izuku groaned. One more person who was going to make jokes every time they can, great. "Please stop."
'I'm just saying. Now give it a try.'
He closed his eyes and focused on the ball of fire in him. He could feel it wanting to explode outward, and all he needed to do was call on it. He could feel the heat radiating off it, but trying to call on just the heat earned him a small fire.
'What do we know of space? Your power is manipulation of solar power. How does the sun provide heat to the earth?'
He thought about the question, it just radiates outward and it was distance that kept the earth from turning into Mercury. Wait. Instead of calling on the heat and fire, he willed it to become smaller and smaller, until it was about the size of an coin in his mind's eye. Once it was there he commanded it to burn.
The small ball erupted instantly, trying in vain to unleash its power on the outside world. As its aura reached the outer edges of his soul, he could feel the warmth from it. Opening his eyes, he was blinded for a second, there was light coming off his skin. Then a notification appeared.
[New power discovered!
Solar Aura Lvl: 1 XP: 0.00%
Your body contains the power of the sun. Allow it to expand and consume you, or condense it. Each gives a different result.
Damage - (Unknown)
Radius - (Unknown)
Cost - (Unknown)]
'Congrats. You are now recognized as a space heater.'
Ignoring the jab, he thought out loud, "Wonder what happens if I let it expand instead of shrink."
'You could try it, but I don't think you should be near the girl if you do. Also leaving her alone wouldn't be very nice.'
"I wasn't going too. I was just wondering. I'll try it out when we aren't in a frozen wasteland."
'Sounds fun. Now what?'
He thought about it for a minute. They didn't know if there was anything on this world to begin with or if traveling was even worth it. What he did know was that they were safe inside this hole and didn't face the elements in here. "I guess just wait."
She groaned, 'Fine.' A minute of silence passed, 'Want to play a game?'
He sighed, "Sure."
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'I wield the broken sword. All men fear me, and all fall to me. What am I?'
He thought about and before he could come up with an answer she quickly said, 'Timer's done! Grab her quirk and let's leave this place.'
Pulling up his status screen, he could see that it was indeed over. "Are you able to bring up the notifications on your own?"
'Yep.'
He hummed, "Do you mind keeping an eye on it from now on?"
He could feel her smile, 'Sure. But I request one thing.'
"Fine. I'll do it."
'You got yourself a deal then. Now let's go.'
Standing up and making his way out of the hole with Sei on his back, he stood and looked over the frozen land.
[Quirk Transferred!]
Opening a portal, he stood in front of it and before walking through, he cast a spell.
"[Magma Bomb]."
A massive ball of rock and fire appeared and shot out toward a nearby mound of ice. As it neared, the snow rapidly melted and quickly turned the ice into water. As he watched the carnage, he heard a ping, and Kat frantically said, 'Go through now!'
"What?" He tried to pull up the notification, but he could feel the panic she was giving off. Instead of checking he jumped through the portal and landed on a rocky plain, nothing but boulders in sight. "What happened?"
She pulled the notification up for him. It was a deep crimson red and had warnings all over it.
[World Boss started! Prepare adventurer the battle begins!]
'Sorry. Didn't think that would happen.'
He let out a sigh, "It's okay. Let's try a few more portals." He opened another portal, and took a step through. It led to open space, in which he started to float around. 'Let's try another.'
'Good idea. I don't want to be sucked in a black hole.'
'Unlikely, but fair enough.' He opened a portal in their path and drifted through. The portal emptied out into a reddish landscape, and as he was about to open another, the quirk ended.
'Let's explore this place, it seems interesting.'
"How so" He looked up at his surroundings, and was stunned. Massive plateaus dotted the surroundings, and each vaguely resembling tree stumps. "What in the world is this place?"
'Red soil, isn't Mars red?'
"Supposedly, I never bothered to ask the girls if they'd been. Considering the way the sky looks, I think this place has a dead core. Maybe we can find some water!" Astronomy became a huge focus for him after he had gotten his quirk. He had asked Mandalay if she could get him internet access, he only begged a little. The day after, she allowed him to use the computer located in the dorm hall.
'Sure ya nerd. Let's go find your water.'
He sighed.
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So this place was once alive it seemed. They had found traces of running water, but from what he could tell they were near the equator. Their best bet for ice was the poles and they didn't have the time to go north or south.
'I wonder what this place looked like before it died.'
"I don't think there's a way for us to figure out either. This place is super strange though, nothing I've seen or smelled suggests that this is a normal dead planet. It's like something from a poorly written sci-fi book. Nothing makes any sense and none of the facts align with how it should be."
'Did the science nerd just trash talk sci-fi?', he could hear the laughter in her voice.
"Don't even get me started."
She giggled a bit, 'The suns are about to set, should we find a place to sleep?'
He looked up at the two suns, which spun around each other, called a binary star. "Probably, I don't want to know how cold this place gets at night."
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The next day
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"Yeah, this place is lame."
They had found an underground tunnel, at the base of a stump, but the only place it led to was this cavern. It had taken them all night, many many pits, and an annoying amount of small spaces to reach this place.
'Kinda lame that Gamer didn't make this a dungeon of some sort.'
"You know that would be bad, the girls and I couldn't do a dungeon. I doubt I could do one by myself."
'True, but it would be fun.'
"Not if I die."
'Yeah yeah yeah. Our cool down is done by the way.'
"Alright give me a moment." Along the way down, they had talked about how to proceed from here. Casting [Body of Gods] on himself before going through was a must, he also held one of his last mana vials in his hand. "Ready."
'Let's do this!' He could see a mental fist pump.
He smiled, he could get used to having her here. She made a great travel companion and was up for anything. He allowed his quirk to pull on Seiren's and received two pings.
'Transfer successful, and congrats us, Transference leveled, we also unlocked something really useful to us right now.'
He raised an eyebrow, "Like?"
'How about doubling our available time?'
He gave a satisfied nod, "That would be helpful, too bad we didn't get that."
'We did.'
"Did what?"
'We doubled our time.'
"For what?"
Silence. He started laughing as soon as he felt annoyance coming off her. "Okay, okay. Sorry. That's really helpful though, let's leave this dump." He called on her quirk and a new sensation appeared.
'Oooo shiny.'
"What?"
'A sort of map appeared. Well not a regular map, it's like a 3D star chart. It's not really filled in at all, but it's super colorful.'
"Well let's go somewhere random, and see if it fills in."
'Well, chop chop, our timer is being wasted.'
He smirked and threw open a portal. Walking through, they immediately started falling.
[Ping]
'This shit again?' She was annoyed, 'Also we'll die if you don't open another portal, we're on a gas giant I believe.'
He panicked for a second, before throwing open another portal. Falling through, his center of gravity was thrown out of control as he hit zero-g. 'If it wasn't for Gamer's Body I think we would have thrown up quite a few times, I say about two more jumps before expiring.'
Opening another portal, he was thrown into a grassy field. 'Izuku, I think we made it back.'
"Really?", he scrambled to his feet picking up Sei. The surrounding area was a meadow with trees out in the distance.
'Seems like it, but I might be wrong. It's either risk staying here for a while, or jumping into another dimension. Your pick.'
"Let's stay. If it is home, we'd be making a mistake, if it's not then we leave."
'Okey Dokey. Timer's out by the way. The map did update when we jumped. It's gone though.'
"That's good. Let's try to find a town."
He bridle carried Sei and made his way downhill, he could smell faint traces of smoke making its way up through the forest. As they made it to the treeline, he started picking up scents of wild animals and something unfamiliar.
'Maybe it's a monster!' He could sense her excitement.
"Yeah, let's hope not."
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"It's getting stronger, smells like morning dew and fresh cut wood."
'We're heading towards it right?'
"Might as well."
They lapsed into silence as they trekked through the forest. As they made it passed through the shadow of a rather large tree, he smelled something. 'It's that smell again, check for prints.'
Searching carefully for any traces, he activated [Natural Tracking]. Footprints about the size of his thumb, started to get highlighted. She whispered, 'It's elves.'
He couldn't help the snort, 'I'm pretty sure elves are supposed to be human sized.'
He could feel her 'arms' cross, 'Then what is it pixies?'
As he was about to answer he smelled the weird smell coming from down wind. 'It's coming.' He quickly cast [Sylph's Blessing] and jumped into the nearby foliage. He waited for a few minutes and watched as something came running from the nearby bushes.
'Well, we aren't on earth.'
'No kidding.'
There were two of them. The creatures were humanoid, but no taller than his shin. One had light blue skin and the other was a deep purple. They had two sets of arms and wore leafs wrapped around their small frames. They were searching the ground where he had been and talking animatedly to each other.
'They're so weird looking. You think they're looking for us?'
He felt something sharp press against his throat.
"Nie gar vo hatra."
He panicked before Gamer's Mind took over. He didn't understand these things and doubted he could make them understand him. 'Sorry Sei.' He slipped his hand under her shirt and cast [Hermes' Blessing] on himself. The shirt hid his cast and finished as the thing behind him spoke again. But before it could finish, he used his enhanced speed to dive to the side.
The creature unprepared for his dramatic exit, stood shocked until it reigned it in. He watched as the blade disappeared in a shimmer and bow appeared. 'Run.'
"No duh."
He shot off, starting to bob and weave as fast as he could. Arrows started flying by his head, and where they hit trees, they tore chunks of the wood off.
'Bad sprites!' The shout wasn't aimed at him, the following question was though. 'Aren't sprites supposed to be nature protectors?'
"I honestly couldn't care less right now, we need to find somewhere to hide. Keep an eye out, I'll lose them in a second."
'Got it.'
Building up One for All into one of his toes, he jumped as hard as he could and rocketed out of the canopy. He let his focus drop slightly to aid in the search. The forest obviously wasn't safe to somewhere away from it and easily defended was needed.
'Cave, 10 o'clock!'
He looked and indeed there was a cave, the problem was where it was. "How did you even see that?"
'No idea, but I saw it.'
The cave was easily spotted as it was a massive hole in a rock located in the middle of a lake.
"Please don't be a dungeon, please don't be a dungeon."
'This place is fun!'
Izuku suppressed an irritated sigh.
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Good news, the things didn't catch him. Bad news, the cave was a dungeon. More bad news, Kat was being annoying.
'Please?'
"No." He set Sei down near the entrance and made her comfortable. "I'm not risking her life."
'Fine then, I'm going to sleep.' He could feel her retreat into his mind.
He opened his perks menu, and selected [Wisdom of Two].
[AI Name: Kat
Voice: Katherine Hale
Personality traits:
Daring
Adventurous
Creative
Adrenaline Junkie
Whimsical
Playful
Caring
Dirty Minded
Stern
Amoral]
Who the hell was this woman? In life, she must have been one of the most fucked up people in the world. She was daredevil sex fiend, with a no shits given attitude and a pension for pranks. She must have had many mental issues in her life. He should have spent the time to select her traits. Closing the windows, he sighed and sunk against the rocks near Sei.
He looked at the girl, and wondered how she and her sister came out somewhat normal. They had never portrayed their mother as having such dangerous habits, but then again, they had never really talked about her. Closing his eyes, he slept to regain his mana.
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'Timer's done.'
"Thanks."
Absorbing Sei's quirk, he walked through the portal and fell on to a cloud. "What?"
'Izuku, get up and prepare, someone's coming.'
He had torn the jacket he had been wearing to make a harness to hold Sei in. It allowed him to have his hands free if he needed to fight. Standing quickly, he prepared two spells on his hands.
A being, a good meter taller than him walked out from behind a cloud. The man wore a dark red kimono, with golden embellishments. He spoke in an old Japanese accent, he hadn't studied or even read ancient Japanese since elementary. He was picking up a word here and there, but the sentence structure sounded like nails on a chalkboard to him. "I'm sorry I don't understand you." He spoke in modern Japanese, hoping the man could understand him.
The man scoffed at him, "Kids these days, disrespecting their culture. Who are you?"
He couldn't help the stutter that came out. "My-my name is Izuku."
"How did you get here Izuku?"
"I used my friend's power," he gestured to the unconscious girl next to him. "She can jump between dimensions."
The man hummed, and before he spoke, a butterfly made of fire flew up to him. It landed on his shoulder near his ear, Izuku could make out faint whispering. As the butterfly went up in flame and disappeared, the man turned to him.
"Stupid one, follow me. My lady wishes to speak with you." He turned and started to make his way over the small cloud hill.
'What. The. Fuck. Is happening?'
'You just read my mind.'
"Hurry up!"
Izuku jumped and quickly made his way toward the man. As he came over the hill, he was greeted by a sight that almost caused him to fall over. A massive Japanese style bathhouse sat in the middle of a bowl made of clouds. Smaller bathhouses surrounded the main one and he could see restaurants every now again.
The man kept walking toward a torii gate that seemed to be some sort of entrance. Izuku followed closely behind his guide, and looked at people in the nearby buildings.
People dressed in all manner of colors, drank, laughed, and flirted with each other. Each looked incredibly young and the ones who saw him, kept their eyes glued to him. He shrunk in on himself.
They approached the bathhouse and Izuku immediately went red in the cheeks. Many women were talking animatedly with each other, some didn't appear to notice their wardrobe malfunctions. He kept his eyes focused on the man's back.
'Hey I think we could have some fun here. We should stay awhile.'
'Be quiet, you perv.'
After making their way inside, they immediately took a hard left and proceeded upstairs.
"You at least know how to treat royalty do you not?" The man spared him an annoyed glance.
"Yes sir."
"Good. You shall address her, as My lady. Understand?"
"Yes sir."
'This guy is a douche.'
'No arguments from me.'
They made it to the top floor, which opened up into a landing with a shoji door on the other end.
"Wait here." He walked through.
'How are we escaping?'
"How would I know?"
'No idea, but prepare to run. We ran out of time for making portals, but we can probably run if need be. Start preparing spells and items.'
He followed her advice, he already had [Body of Gods] and [Sylph's Blessing] active. The only one he needed to prepare was [Hermes' Blessing], he kept the spell at the ready. Using his better judgment, he broke an item that Sei had given months ago.
[Shard of Time Glass
Breaking this item will reduce all active cool downs to zero.
This item is one time use only.]
The door opened again, the man appeared, "Come."
Izuku walked into the room, and was immediately stunned. Then [Gamer's Mind] kicked in and Kat spoke to him. 'She has something called alluring aura, seems to be some sort of charm. Be careful with this one.'
The woman herself was wearing white kimono with red. Her face had quite a bit of makeup, which reminded him of ancient Japanese royalty. 'Who is this lady? [Observe].'
[Error! Entity is beyond your understanding!]
Kat swiped away the notification and muttered, 'This is really bad.'
He bowed as he entered and walked where indicated, by the man. As he sat, the woman spoke, "Child, what are you doing here?"
"I'm trying to get home, ma'am. I accidentally opened a portal here without knowing where I was going. I'm sorry."
She eyed him tentatively before humming.
'I don't like that look.'
The woman spoke but hid her mouth behind a fan she was holding. "Why don't we make a deal?"
His face remained impassive as he answered, "What kind of deal?"
"I will give you the ability to go home, but I will require something of you."
He didn't answer, his mind was racing. The sound of running water could be heard around them. The faint talking and shouting of the people on the floor below could be heard.
'Ask her what she wants.'
"What do you want of me?"
The lady folded the fan with a snap, and smiled, "I will need the girl and your devotion."
Before he could stop himself, "No."
He could see the look of anger flit across her face before being reigned in. "And why is that?"
"She's my friend."
The lady stood and approached him, her delicate bare feet making barely a noise. As she stood in front of him, she ran her fingers through his hair.
'Escape now. She just used something on us, but it failed.'
"Are you sure, child? I can give you quite a bit of power in exchange for her. Otherwise, what's to stop me from just killing you?"
He felt panicked build for a split second, then get squashed. He thought for a second before answering, "You apparently need something of me."
She smirked at him, "But not something I can't get from any other human. So what's to stop me?"
She pulled his cheeks to a pinch. He let his quirk yank on Sei's.
'Transfer successful. Now leave!'
He ripped open a portal below him and fell through. The woman unprepared for his sudden removal, stumbled onto the portal, but weirdly didn't go through also. Izuku was falling toward a forest and turned midair to watch, as the woman, with rage filling her eyes and an angry shout, sent a wave of fire after him.
He opened a portal right where he would fall and was awestruck as where the fire touched nothing remained. The trees that were unlucky enough to be in its path, were turned to ash and even that burned away. Kat snorted, 'Hot Flash.'
He couldn't help the laugh. They landed in the portal, escaping the fire, and began flying sideways. Izuku caught his bearings and corrected himself for his landing.
'So good news and bad news.'
As they fell slowly toward the ground he bit the hook, 'What?'
'Good news is we survived and didn't take any damage from that fire!'
'That's not what I'm worried about.'
'Bad news is that we did something kind of bad.' She pulled a notification up for him.
[Beware gamer! You have angered a goddess and will face the repercussions. Run and keep running. Or stand your ground and fight back. You may live or you may die, it's up to you.]
His eyes widened, but he accepted something like this could happen. 'I guess that's what happens when you piss off the goddess of Anger Control.'
She snorted, 'Not like we have a choice, We can't let the girl die. Now open another portal, let's find our way home.'
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1 week of teleporting later
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"You know, I may not need to eat, but food right now sounds so good."
'Eh, takes away time from training and fighting. Now where to?'
He rubbed his face, "I don't know, we've been dimension hopping for what feels like forever and I have no idea of how to focus it still."
'Well, absorb her quirk and let's leave this place.'
They had landed on another barren planet in the middle of space, unlike others though, this one had a decent atmosphere, but with no life.
'Transfer successful.'
He opened a portal, walked through, and was instantly stunned. He had walked out into the middle of a small town, the signs were in Japanese and he quickly identified the town as Mishima. 'Did we…' Kat trailed off.
Izuku couldn't help the cheer that came out his mouth, "We did it!"
'Finally, now let's get home, you have a jog ahead of you.'
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5 hours later
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Izuku knocked on the door of his home, his key had been lost awhile back. There wasn't an answer, but the door opened with a tiny squeak, and was immediately thrown open by his mother. Her eyes immediately started watering.
"Hi mom. I'm sorry I wasn't home this past week, it's been kind of crazy."
She didn't answer and just hugged him. The sobbing started. 'Izuku look.' Kat pulled his attention to the small calendar that rested on the wall of the entrance. 'It's March 20th.'
He could feel the color drain from his face, he had been gone for months, not a week. He pulled his mother closer and let her cry into him.
Minutes went by before his mother calmed down and pulled away from him. He took in her appearance. She had actually grown severely thin in his absence, her normally chubby cheeks had sunk in and her hair had started to grow slightly white.
"I'm sorry mom, we didn't plan for it to take that long. Some stuff happened. I'm sorry."
She started to tear up again, "It's okay you're here now, get her in bed, and clean up. You smell horrid."
He nodded, and walked in. As he passed her, she asked, "Is she going to be okay?"
Taking her off his shoulders, he laid her on the couch, she wasn't as travel-worn as him, but the planets they visited did a number on her clothes. "She will be, eventually. Would you mind giving Aki and her dad a call?"
His mom nodded and went for her phone. As she did that he made his way to the shower and fresh clothes.
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Knock, knock.
Izuku woke up from his nap, he didn't need to sleep, but this was the most comfortable he had been since he was last here. His mom had gone to answer the door and after a brief exchange, Aki and her father entered. Both seemed about the same, besides Aki gaining an inch or two. She smiled when she saw him, but made her way to her older sister.
She sighed after a second, no doubt seeing her sister's mana. Straightening her polka dot rainbow dress, she sat next to him. She was a lot more subdued than normal. "Hey."
"Hi."
'Isn't she normally super hyper?'
'We have been gone for awhile.'
"So…", she paused briefly, "What happened?"
"Later please. We can hang out and I'll tell you more detail, but I'll save the story for when everyone gets here."
She nodded and leaned into him, he hugged her and she started crying. 'Look what you did!'
'How is this my fault!?'
'You were the last one to talk to her!'
'That doesn't mean I've done anything!' He suppressed the annoying voice in his head and spoke to Aki. "You okay?"
She spoke through tears and snot, "I've missed you guys so much. Don't leave me behind again. Please."
Instead of answering, he just hugged her tighter. He honestly didn't know what to say. At that moment, her dad walked and after seeing his daughter crying on a boy's shoulder, he winked.
Kat laughed, 'I like him.'
'Your real self did marry him.'
'I can see why, meow.'
'Please don't do that.'
'Pixie?'
'Pixie.'
'Fine.'
Hideki knelt next to his unconscious daughter, and brushed a bit of hair out of her eyes. It was then that he felt something hit his mind's eye.
'What was that?'
'There's some sort of black wolf thing here! Get out mutt!'
A gnarled voice yelled, 'Betrayal! Betrayal!'. The feeling rapidly vanished and Izuku watched as a dark aura started surrounding the girls' dad.
Akito seemed to pick up on something amiss. Wiping away tears and mucus, "Dad? Worg?" She turned to Izuku, "What happened?"
"I don't know! I heard some shouting in my head then it disappeared, it yelled betrayal after meeting my AI."
She perked you at that, "Oh so you went for the voice in your head?"
"Not the time! What's happening to him?"
She stood up and walked over to her dad and sister. Reaching out a hand, she touched Sei. Turning to his mother, she bowed, "I'm sorry, I'll deal with him."
She opened a portal below her father and closed it immediately. Walking over to Izuku and she sat down next to him again. His mom was wide eyed and looked to him for answers. He bit the bullet, "What just happened?"
She shrugged, "Worg went wild and started to take over dad. He was fighting it but Worg's personality is too strong and will eventually win. Teleporting him away is a lot safer and will allow dad to calm Worg down. Happens every once in awhile, normally Sei takes care of it." Seeing his mom's wide eyes she quickly added, "He'll be fine I swear, I just don't want him to destroy your house."
Inko nodded and walked back into the kitchen. Shaking her head the whole way.
He turned to Aki, "What exactly happened to Sei?"
"I'm assuming she used a spell called [Anti-Magic Bomb], it's a planetary wide attack that wipes magic forever." She pulled her knees to her chest, "It's a suicidal attack for a magic user, if magic disappearing doesn't do you in, it's the curse."
He nodded along to her explanation, "I did see a pop up for that. How long will it take for her to wake up?"
"Her mana is regenerating at a rather slow pace, the curse cuts natural regen in half. So I'm not sure, but I'm guessing maybe 3 years, give or take." She leaned over into his shoulder, "Thank you for keeping her safe."
"No problem." He gave her a smile.
'Izuku?'
'Is that the chick that allowed you to make me?'
'Mandalay?' What in the world was she doing here?
'All Might's here too, we should be getting there in a minute or so.'
"So what about the AI made Worg mad? Did it insult him?"
Izuku wasn't sure what to say. Was there something wrong with using the voice of their dead mother? Maybe. Instead of dwelling on it he answered honestly, "When I set up the AI I had to select a voice, and not wanting to select one which I could hear normally. I choose one which I wouldn't ever hear again."
Confusion ran across her face, before slowly morphing into understanding. She looked at him, "Do you mind if I?"
"Uh, I don't know?"
'I'm okay with a field trip, let her.'
He nodded at Akito, and she absorbed [Wisdom of Two]. It felt like someone was ripping out a part of his brain. The pain quickly subsided, and Izuku watched the young girl go through a lot of emotions quickly. Leaving her to talk to the AI, he stood up and walked to the kitchen, with his mom.
She was currently making drinks, and gathering what snacks she could find. Izuku took a look around and noticed a huge lack of food. His mom must have been really affected by his absence.
"Mom?"
She turned, her eyes were puffy and red, "Yes honey?"
"Do you need any help?"
She nodded, "If you want."
Walking over, he started to assist where he could. It was silent for a moment, before he asked, "Mom?" She turned her head to look at him. "What happened after I left?"
She turned back to the nearly empty platter, "I went to the girls' house and asked if you were, there and they said the eldest was gone too." She paused before continuing, "All Might said you were still alive, but how could I trust that? I waited for you everyday, and you never showed."
Now he felt like a horrible person. "Mitsuki came over a couple of times and made food, but I may have stopped letting her in." She trailed off.
"When was the last time you left the house?" He almost didn't want to hear the answer.
His mom glanced away, her cheeks going slightly pink. "I didn't want to be gone when you came back."
He sighed, "I'm sorry."
"Let's switch topics, please?"
At his nod she asked, "What caused you to be gone so long?"
"We got into a fight with a monster in another dimension and Seiren was forced to use a move that put her out of commission. So I tried to find my way back on my own, on my end I was only gone a week."
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, just disorientated is all, I visited so many places and dealt with really weird issues. It's just confusing to be able to sit down normally."
"Well, it's good you can calm down now."
Knock, knock.
'Kid, we're here.'
Walking toward and opening the door, he was greeted by Mandalay, who picked him in a hug and carried him back into the house. "You stupid brat, where the hell were you?"
Fighting against her grip, he managed to say, "Please let go."
'Awe so mean.' She dropped him. 'So where were you?'
"Forced adventure?" He shrugged, "it's only been a week for me."
'Sounds like a story, mind sharing it later?', he nodded. 'Also I learned some interesting information about you over the last few months, gamer.'
He immediately looked at All Might, he just smiled and waved at Izuku. Letting go of a sigh, "I'm sorry I couldn't tell you."
'All good, little lion', she flicked his forehead. 'Just stop lying to me from now on. Got it?'
He rubbed away the feeling of the flick, "Little lion?"
She sent him an image, it was of costume that was just about his size. He could feel his face heat up, "No."
She gave him puppy dog eyes, 'Please?'
"I'm not wearing that. I'd look ridiculous." He crossed his arms.
'Come on, RagDoll and I worked really hard on it. You'd make her feel bad if you didn't wear it at least once. Please?' She had clasped her hands together.
Great, guilt tripping. He's not saying it wasn't effective, but it was annoying as all hell. "Fine. Once though. That's it."
She pumped a fist, "Yes!"
"I have no idea what just happened, but it should be worth seeing." All Might gave him a grin, and walked up to him, "How are you doing my boy?"
He smiled at his mentor, "Good, glad to be home. It's been a long week for me."
"I'm sure it has. Discover anything interesting?"
He made a gesture with his hand, "More or less, I did discover two new powers though!" He finished his sentence with a grin.
"That's amazing, you'll have to show me soon."
Izuku nodded and turned as he heard a portal open. "Izuku!"
It was Akito, she must have brought back her dad. He turned to the two heroes, "Akito and her dad are also here. Come in."
He walked back into the house right into the living room. Hideki had sat at the edge of the couch that Sei was asleep on. When he saw Izuku, he gave a small wave, "Sorry about that, Akito explained everything. Worg is still fuming but he's not going to try and attack anymore."
Izuku laughed a bit, "It's okay. Just made me a bit confused."
Hideki nodded, "I think we're going to go, I need to get her home, and I'm pretty sure Aki will just teleport back when she wants. Are you going to be okay?"
His daughter nodded, "I'll fill you in when I get back. Bye dad."
With that the man picked up Sei and walked out, nodding to both All Might and Mandalay along the way. When the door closed, Akito reached out and transferred Kat back to him. She spoke to him, 'The weird family is dealt with! Now what did I miss?' He swore he heard papers shuffling, 'Hmm, I approve of the costume, and I think you need to do something with your mom. Get her out of the house.'
He couldn't help but nod at that last part, 'Agreed. So what did you talk about?'
'None ya.'
'Really?'
'Yes, unless you want to talk about girly bits?'
'Nope. I'm good, just curious, forget I asked.'
'So little lion, are you going to explain what happened?'
'That was so weird! I love it! Tell her to do it again!' He could feel the excitement radiating off of her.
He regretted everything he'd ever done. Sitting down he started to tell them what happened.
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Earlier
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[Transfer Successful!]
'That felt so weird, is this going to be a regular thing?'
'No, just this once.'
'Awesome, so what's up?'
'I just wanted to talk.'
Not mom released a sigh, 'Look kid, I'd love to answer all your questions and help you out, but I can't. I don't know anything about the lady who I'm based on, besides what Izuku remembers.' She paused for a second, 'For what it's worth though, I'm sorry for your loss.'
'It's okay. And even if you did remember anything, you wouldn't know who I was anyway.'
'What do you mean?', curiosity lined her voice.
'You have an American accent. Mom lost hers a year or two after meeting Izuku. She didn't have me for a couple more years after that.'
'That makes sense, can't say I'm happy about sounding a little off key when talking, but eh, what can ya do?'
Akito chuckled a bit, 'Another thing is your traits.'
Kat did a double take, 'When did you pull that up? And what's wrong with who I am?!'
'It's been open the whole time and nothing, I swear. It's just after meeting dad, mom cooled down a lot. She became more grounded and became a successful person outside of being a vigilante.'
Kat hummed, 'Sounds boring.'
'Do you mind if I ask you a question?'
'Shoot.'
'You have Izuku's memories right?'
'Yeah, and let me tell you, it took forever to organize them into a neat order.'
Akito giggles, 'One more question? You have to keep it to yourself though.'
'Lie to Izuku? Who do you think I am? Some sort of deviant? Okay yeah I can do that, what's up?'
'How does he see me?'
'What do you… Oh! Uh, I'm sorry to tell you kid, you're his little sister to him. He's never seen you as anyone else. Sorry.'
Akito groaned into her knees, 'That really really sucks.'
'Don't feel too bad about it. He's had several women flirt with him, and they didn't even leave big memories. There is one, but it's more of a case of circumstances versus him pursuing her.'
'Great even the universe is against me.'
'Eh, you'll find someone. Now what did you do to your old man?'
'Mom made him a special cage where Worg couldn't escape if he took over dad. Once Worg calms down, dad will text me and I'll open a portal for him. I'll send him a text right now to explain what happened though.'
'How did your parents meet?'
She huffed, 'Dad won't tell me and mom always said, it was out of this world. So I'm guessing dad is from another dimension, but mom made a lot of innuendos, so there's no way of knowing.'
Kat snorted, 'Seems a bit of her old self still lived on.'
Akito rolled her eyes. A small chime on her cell played, "Sounds like dad is sane."
'So what is his quirk anyway?'
As she typed out a message she answered, 'His quirk is Worg. It's a sentient entity that has a set of powers which include, shadow manipulation, mental attacks and if he takes over dad, he gets stronger.'
'Stronger?'
'Worg enhances all of dad's stats, to the point where he could battle mom i 1. The problem with it, is that Worg can't process human emotions. It causes him to fly into a fury, and attack everything. It also shortens dad's lifespan considerably, if it wasn't for mom and Sei, he would probably be dead right now.'
'Hmm. That's kind of bad ass. So are you going to be helping from now on?'
'I have too. I've already lost one parent, I can't let this one go so easily.' She stuck out her hand and ripped open a portal. After a second, her dad walked through.
She felt Worg enter her head. 'Hey mutt, you gonna go off the handle again?'
Worg snarled at the AI, he didn't respond. 'It's okay Worg, she doesn't even know mom.'
Worg gave a half snarl half grunt, his version of whatever. After a second Worg retreated back to dad. She called out to the front door "Izuku!"
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"Then we ended up back here."
All Might started laughing, Mandalay joined in a second later. 'Hmm either you broke them, or they're nervous.'
'Why would they be nervous?'
'Izuku we pissed off a goddess! Who wouldn't be?' After saying it she corrected herself, 'Okay I take that back, besides us, who wouldn't be?'
'Fair enough.' He waited for both of them to calm down before he asked.
"So what was so funny?"
All Might wiped a few tears from his eyes, it was Mandalay who answered, 'A couple of the teachers at UA and the team placed bets on what happened to you. Everyone guessed something different, but it was Aizawa who got it the closest.'
"What did he bet on?"
'You accidentally knocking out the girl and getting stranded on some barren rock.'
Kat snorted, 'That seems about what would normally happen.'
He ignored the jab, "What did he win?"
All Might answered him, "For us to know and for you to find out." He checked his watch, "It's getting pretty late, we should head back to the school."
'After the exam, are you going to come train with us again?'
He shook his head, "I think I'm going to go on a vacation with my mom. I've been away for a long time, I owe it to her to spend time together."
She smiled at him, and pulled him into a hug, 'Don't worry about it, I'm just glad you're back Izuku. The next time I see you though, you're wearing the costume. Got it?'
He hugged her back, it felt weird to treat someone like her, as he didn't know a word for it. "Yeah, yeah yeah. I promise."
After she let him go, All Might was next in line, "I look forward to seeing your results in the entrance exam, my boy. I'm sure you'll do amazing."
He hugged his mentor, "Thanks All Might, I'll see you soon."
With the two heroes gone, it was just him and Akito. His mom had gone to bed, as she didn't want to hear the story of how her son almost died, he didn't blame her.
"I guess it's time for me to go as well?"
"You can stay longer if you want, I don't mind. I also want to ask something of you, if you don't mind."
She tilted her head, "Like?"
"Do you mind opening a portal for my mom and I after the exam?"
"Sure, but wouldn't that be breaking quite a few laws?"
He smiled, "Not if we go through the airport like normal and go through immigration like we were on a plane."
She smiled back, "That might work. If you get in trouble though, I won't be able to bail you out quickly."
"I'll call, to make sure, I'd rather not be a fugitive."
She put her hands up, "I can see it now, UA hopeful gets arrested abroad."
He laughed, "Yeah let's hope not."
It was silent before Izuku couldn't handle it, "What do you want to talk about?
She shook her head, "I don't know, you answered most of my questions during the story."
He hummed, "Want to watch TV?"
She perked up, "Sure!" She waited until the TV was on, "So you never did say."
He gave her a sideways glance as he laid down on the other sofa, "What?"
"What did you get for killing the elemental?"
'That is a great question. What did we get?'
"I don't know, I closed it without reading the whole thing."
"You have Quality points to spare right?"
He nodded, there wasn't much he could actually spend it on that would be of immediate use.
"Get Photographic Memory then, it should contain the prompts from the memories."
He opened the window with a hum, "Why not?" Selecting the quality, he received two prompts.
[You now have access to the vault.
The vault is a collection of all your memories, emotions, and hardships. Perhaps searching through these will give you insight into who you are?]
[You have access to several memory vaults! Unfortunately though, you do not meet the requirements to gain access to these vaults.
List of vaults and their requirements:
Gamer: Become Level 90
One for All: Have One for All reach Level (30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100)]
'Holy.'
"Izuku? Are you okay?"
He blinked and looked over at Akito, "I need to level."
She tilted her head, "Why?"
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Chapter 12 Done!
I hope everyone enjoyed some part of that. Next chapter is the exam! I hope everyone is looking forward to this!
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Quirks (This will be exactly what Izuku sees when he opens the window. No extra information will be given until Izuku learns more about it.)
Gamer (Lvl: 20)
Obtained
Level 1: Observe
Level 15: Party
Unobtained
Level 30: Class
Level 45: Path
Level 60: Profession
Level 75: ?
Level 90: ?
Level 100: ?
Observe Lvl: 3 Xp: 65.32%
This skill allows you to see stats and possibly hidden information about the target.
Information revealed: Name, Age, Level, Stats, Quirk, and Quirk Rank]
Cost - None
Cool down - None
Party Max Level
This ability allows the user to bring up allies HP, Mana, and Stamina gauges, without using Observe. These gauges will be displayed on your HUD.
One for All (Lvl: 12)
Obtained
Level 1: All or Nothing
Unobtained
Level 15: Full Cowl
Level 30: ?
Level 45: ?
Level 60: ?
Level 75: ?
Level 90: ?
Level 100: ?
All or Nothing Lvl: 12
Utilize the full potential of One for All in a devastating attack.
Increases a physical movement by 450%
Chance of adverse effects - 93.5%
Cool down - None
Transference (Lvl:10)
Obtained
Level 1: Quirk Transfer
Unobtained
Level 15: ?
Level 30: ?
Level 45: ?
Level 60: ?
Level 75: ?
Level 90: ?
Level 100: ?
Quirk Transfer Lvl: 10
Transfer an amount of quirk levels from target equal to Transference level.
Duration - 1 Minute 40 Seconds
Cool down - 21 hours 36 minutes
Quirk Power Unlocked - Extended Duration I - Double the duration of transferred quirks.
Heliokinesis (Lvl: 1)
Please note: The costs and damages of your abilities are unknown and need to be discovered by you. Hints have been provided.
Powers Obtained:
Pyrokinesis Lvl: 12
Harness the fire within you and unleash it upon this world
Damage - ?
Cost -
Size: ? (Hint: % of HP gauge)
Damage: ? (Hint: % of HP gauge)
Gyrokinesis Lvl: 14
One of the four primal forces, and it bends to your will.
Max Weight - ?
Max Speed - ?
Max Objects - ?
Cost - ?
Solar Aura Lvl: 7
Your body contains the power of the sun, allow it to expand and consume you, or condense it. Each gives a different result.
Damage - ?
Radius - ?
Cost - ? (Hint: % of HP per sec)