Sorry for missing last weeks upload. Had family visit over the weekend and then went up to family's property to chop wood all day on Labor day. Then had to deal with the sales that happened during labor day sales, didn't get a chance to load until Friday and by then I decided just to wait. But now I'm back and ready to post the next chapter of Electric Heart.
Last time Izuku was working on some equipment for his hero suit, when Ochaco and Momo came in with some request for new support gear. He was happy for the distraction and it seems from that it seems he was able to come up with a plan for his fight against Gizon Hisahito.
Now it time for someone to tell their story.
As always I do not own MY HERO ACADEMIA or Marvel or any of their characters.
With that, let's begin.
The following day Ochaco and Toshinori found themselves staying after school yet again, but it wasn't meant as a chance for extra training. Something Toshinori had forbidden her from doing, as she needed to give her body a chance to recover. Which was something Ochaco knew was coming from Recovery Girl and Tohsinori was following along with it out of his great fear for the woman. So why were they headed towards Gym Beta? Well Ochaco was planning on making good on her bet and made Gym Beta the place to tell her story
They soon reached the building and Toshinori scanned his teacher's ID, allowing the door to be unlocked and he pulled the door open. The first thing they saw was Gizon standing in the middle of the gym. His eyes were closed and his body was giving off a slight glow. Suddenly a noise not all too similar to a gunshot went off. Then without opening his eyes, Gizon turned to his side, just as an off-white-yellow projectile narrowly missed his chest.
"Hey Uraraka, Toshinori," Gizon said another gunshot went off. However, this time instead of dodging Gizon held out his hand and grabbed the rubber projectile out of the air. His hand absorbed the kinetic energy, evidenced by the yellow glow around his hand and arm increasing a bit before dimming. But surprisingly Gizon tossed the projectile to his other hand and shook his hand around to get the pain to disappear, while a small look of pain appeared on Gizon's face.
"What are you working on?" Ochaco asked and in response, Gizon tossed the projectile to Ochaco. She looked it over, "Rubber bullets."
"Before I was only able to enhance my strength and speed, but as of recently I've noticed I seem to be about to enhance my senses. Nothing that matches being boosted by a specialty quirk, so I wanted to see how much my reflexes improve. However, I don't exactly have someone to shoot those things at me. So I got Principal Nezu to agree to set this up for me. Seems I'm about to track a slow bullets, but…" Gizon then waved his right hand again, "Seems my quirk is still struggling to deal with a small high velocity object."
Then, as if sensing something, Gizon quickly pulled out a remote and hit a button, "So are you here to make good on the bet."
"Well…." Ochaco said and held out her hand then let them drop to her side, "You won fair and square, still don't understand why you want to hear the story. It's not that special."
"It managed to convince that big blonde idiot to pass his quirk to you, so it must mean something." Gizon said
"Hey." Toshinori said, not enjoying being called out, "I'm not an idiot."
Gizon just shook his head as he walked over to his backpack and pulled out his water bottle. Before taking a sip he said, "Ready, whenever you are."
"It happened five months before the entrance exam." Ochaco began.
It had been a long day for Ochaco and because of that she was tired. She hadn't gotten a good night's sleep before, partially because of how little she had for dinner, partially because she was stressed about how horrible her parents' business was doing. Beyond that school had been long and Ochaco had struggled to make sense of the different lessons. She thought she had been about to keep up with the lessons, but it seemed a series of tests about the new material made it evident she wasn't fully understanding everything.
But those kinds of days were happening more and more often, meaning Ochaco was getting used to them more and more. Thus despite how tired she could be called, she only let out a small yawn as she walked home from school. It was a warm afternoon, but luckily it was getting into fall meaning the nights were colder. Ochaco always slept better on colder nights.
Yet Ochaco still needed to get home and work on her homework before she could have any thought about turning in early to try and make up for lost sleep. And before that, she had to stop by a small convenience store to get a snack.
As Ochaco opened the door and the little bell went off she noticed a thin man with yellow hair over at the counter purchasing some items. He appeared to be the only other customer in the stores, so Ochaco paid him no mind as she headed over to the refrigerator and grabbed herself a cheap soda.
"Thank you for coming and enjoy your weekend." The elder gentleman said from behind the counter.
"You as well." the yellow-haired thing man said as he grabbed his items and left the store.
Ochaco then began to head over to the counter, but not before grabbing a small package of almonds. As she walked up to the counter the elder gentleman's smile grew and he said, "Ah, Uraraka, good to see you again." the elder gentleman, "A number #5?"
"Not today Mr. Yasakoro." Ochaco said she put the almonds and small soda down on the counter, "Just these for the days."
"Parents struggling to get some work." Mr. Yasakoro said as he rang up the item.
"A construction company moved into town and is taking all of the jobs. My parents are able to get the odd job, but mainly it is just repairs and installation. New building just goes straight to the construction company." Ochaco said as she stopped a small yawn from escaping her lips.
"Well, you and your family are in my prayers. I hope someday you'll have the chance to live a better life." Mr. Yasakoro then slipped Ochaco's items into a bag, then added something extra. He handed the bag to Ochaco, who looked inside and saw the extra item.
"Mr. Yasakoro, I didn't." Ocahco said. It was a pork sandwich, with lettuce, tomatoes and olive. A #5, her favorite from Mr Yasakoro's deli, "You can't."
Mr Yasakoro gave a dry laugh and said, "I can do as I please within my own store. Besides, I haven't had a chance to thank you for fixing my sign outside."
"It was just a frayed wire, barely took an electrical tape to fix." Ochaco said.
"And it would have cost me a great deal of money if I had called in a professional. So please, to help this old man's heart, take the sandwich." Mr Yasakoro said as he placed a hand on his chest above his heart.
Ochaco sighed in defeat and took the sandwich. "If only more people were as kind as you."
"Right back at you." Mr Yasakoro said as Ochaco headed to the door
Before opening the door Ochaco turned back around and said with a bow, "Thank you very much Mr. Yasakoro." She enjoyed seeing Mr. Yasakoro. He had a hard life with his family dying from a villain attack. Yet he always wore a smile and was kind and generous to his customers. Ochaco had become good friends with him since starting middle school.
As Ochaco walked out of Mr. Yasakoro's store she pulled out the soda. She twisted off the lid and took a small sip. The cold drink felt good going down her dry throat. While the water fountains at her middle school did work, the water that came out of them was always lukewarm. Ochaco continued to enjoy her drink until she walked by a back alley.
"What did I say would happen if you didn't have my money ready?" A rough voice caught Ochaco's ear. It was a rough neighborhood Ochaco had to walk through, so she heard things like that a lot and always made sure to only pay attention to her own business. She was ready to continue walking until she heard a voice that she recognized.
"I need another few days. I wasn't able to get many jobs." Ochaco's heart sank as she heard the voice. It was a kid from her class, Ren Hachi. He was a loner and didn't talk much, except to Ochaco. She knew his mother had lost her job and was sick with a rare disease and because of that Ren worked odd back alley jobs to try to save money to pay for the surgery his mother needed.
"You made me lose a lot of money because you lost the case. I told you that you had to repay me. One way or another." The older voice threatened.
"Please. I'm trying to help my mother." Ren said.
"I don't care. Your mother should have raised you to be a better worker." The rough voice said, then Ochaco held two things colliding. Ochaco felt her body move before she could think. She was running down the alleyway before she could make a plan. She acted before she could react. And before she knew she had reached Ren and his attacker and acted.
Ochaco gripped her plastic bag and swung it around. It nailed the older man in the face. However, the attack did nothing because as Ochaco's mind caught up, she noticed the person she had attacked had metal skin.
"You want to die too b432h." The man drew back his fist and hit Ochaco in the chest. She flew down the alley and landed in a pile of trash bins, "I suggest you walk away unless you want to die like this idiot." The man turned his attention back to Ren.
Through fuzzy eyes, Ochaco saw the thug begin to hit Ren over and over. Ren began to cry, but his screams never reached the street. No one would know Ren had been killed, not until some garage men came to clean the alleyway.
Ochaco's hands began moving around looking for some kind of weapon to use. Then Ochaco's hand brushed against something metal. She grabbed the object and pulled it out of the trash. It was a barbell from someone's home gym. In the narrow alleyway, Ochaco knew she wouldn't be able to overcome the weight of the barbell to get a good swing. Lucky for Ochaco had her quirk and the barbell's weight wasn't an issue. She gripped the barbell tightly in her hand, she felt the gravity become cancelled on the object. With renewed confidence that Ochaco didn't know the origin of, she got to her feet and got ready to attack.
"Hey, Metal Head." Ochaco ran forward, holding the barbell over her head. The thug looked at Ochaco and smirked. In front of him was a scrawny little girl who was struggling to hold a 45-pound barbell over her head, she wouldn't be able to do much damage.
However, Ochaco wasn't as scrawny as she first appeared to be. She wasn't muscular, but she was in pretty good shape which had come from lifting heavy objects around construction sites. She often helped her parents on the weekend, and that lifting and work had put a lot of power into her muscles. So as Ochaco brought down the barbell, she copied a form she had seen in a movie that made it appear to put more weight behind the attack. It seemed to have worked, as when the barbell hit the thug's head, the barbell began to bend at a weird angle, while the thug looked dazed and even stepped back.
The thug then shook his head and yelled, "You're dead…" Before he could finish the sentence, Ochaco brought the barbell back up and then smacked down on the thug's head again. Immediately the man's eyes rolled back into his head and he fell unconscious.
All of her strength seemed to leave her as Ochaco realized what she had just done. She had illegally used her quirk and then proceeded to use it to attack a man. But it was an attempt to protect one of her classmates. Ochaco felt like she was about to puke but then she remembered Ren. Used to the feeling of nausea, due to her quirk, Ochaco was able to push the feeling to the back of her mind. She then stepped over to Ren and held out her hand, "Are you okay?"
Ren let out a stiff breath and as he inhaled it sounded as if bones were rubbing against bones and through gritted teeth he said, "No, I-I think he broke some ribs." Ren had tears falling down his cheeks. Ochaco let go of the barbell, leaving it to float in the air, she then knelt down and gently lifted Ren's shirt. Her eyes were met with several nasty bruises around Ren's chest and she noticed odd bumps on his side. Those were most likely from the broken ribs.
Ochaco teared up and said, "Come here." Being careful of his broken ribs, Ochaco hugged him, "I'll help you out to the street."
"I don't think I can walk." Ren said with tears.
"That's okay. You've been strong, take a rest." Ochaco then looked at the floating barbell. Lowering it to the ground, Ochaco released her quirk and touched all five fingers to Ren's chest. With the weight off of his chest, Ren felt like he was about to breathe easier and from the sense of relief he cried even harder. Ochaco then lifted him up to his feet.
Ochaco then looked at the thug. She couldn't just leave him in the alleyway. She needed to bring him out to the street as well. Using her quirk on the thug, she grabbed his jacket and then gripped the back of Ren's neck. She then hauled the two out of the street, where she gently put Ren on the ground before releasing her quirk, letting the thug just fall to the ground.
Ochaco then pulled out her phone and quickly dialled 110, "Yes hello I would like to report some domestic abuse and illegal quirk usage off of Shimiochigi and Mihama. A block east from Mr. Yasakoro's convenience store."
Ochaco then ended the call, then waited for the police to arrive. She sat down next to Ren and did her best to comfort him, but she didn't have any medical practice and all she could do was reapply her quirk to help take the weight off his chest. As the police arrived, the thug began to wake up, so Ochaco was quick to explain the situation, which resulted in the thug being slapped in cuffs and being taken to the station. After Ren's chest was examined and wrapped, he was given some painkillers. Then was loaded up into an ambulance, and it was only then that Ochaco released her quirk.
Then as the ambulance rushed off, Ochaco was directed into a police cruiser. She had attacked someone and had used her quirk, but since it had been to help someone and she had been cooperative, she wasn't forced to wear handcuffs. After the police debated what to do for a few minutes, Ochaco was taken down to the station and into one of the integration rooms where she re-explained and added more detail to her story of how she came across Ren.
"So it sounds like you just want to help your friend out? But the means you use to do so, missy, it could put you in a lot of trouble." The officer said.
"Yes and I understand officer. But Hachi, he's had a hard life and his mother struggled to have steady income. I know Hachi wasn't doing the most legal jobs, but I can understand why he had to." Ochaco said. It was the same reason she helped her parents at jobs. She wanted to give them a better life, but as she grew her dreams of becoming a pro hero seemed more and more distant.
"I'll have an officer pick up Ms. Hachi and drive her to the hospital. Then we'll help the two of them find some steady income. As for you, this is your first offense, like ever. So good on you for keeping your nose clean, and you'll be written off with just a warning." The officer said.
"Thank you officer." Ochaco said.
Suddenly a knock came from the door and the officer got up to answer it. The officer had barely opened the door and the conversation was held in a whisper, so Ochaco couldn't see who it was or hear what they were talking about. After a few seconds, the officer turned back to Ochaco and said, "It appears you have a visitor."
Ochaco panicked a bit, then realized it couldn't have possibly been her parents. They were out at a job that was an hour out. Then who could it possibly be? Her question was answered as the officer moved out of the way and two men walked into the room. The officer moved out of the way to reveal two men. The first one to step into the room was wearing a tan trench coat and a hat. The second man Ochaco recognized as the man she had seen at Mr Yasakoro's store.
"Hello, Ms Uraraka. Officer Namso thank you for letting us in. If you could give us the room." The first man said to the officer as he pulled off his head. He then looked over at the one side glass panel. The officer tipped his hat and then left the room, "Hello my name is Detective Naomasa Tsukauchi."
"And I am Yagi Toshinori." Toshinori said as he sat down at the table across from Ocahco.
"We would like to preface this by saying that you aren't in any trouble." Detective Tsukauchi said as he made sure the door was locked and then he walked over to the table and sat next to Toshinori, "You were merely helping out a friend and circumstances arose."
"And you acted like a hero. You work to protect a friend who was in trouble with no thought of reward or praise. There are many pro heroes out there who talk about how their bodies acted before they could think. Their only thought was to protect the innocent." Toshinori said, "Is that not how you described to the police, as it certainly looked like that."
"I guess." Ochaco said, as she had a few brief moments of relief after being told she wasn't in trouble, but was now confused where this conversation was going.
"That attribute is often seen as the spirit of a true hero. And from that we have something that we would like to discuss with you." Toshinori said.
Back in Gym Beta, Ochaco took a deep breath and let her shoulder drop, she didn't realize how tense she had been while telling the story. She took a breath and said, "Like I said, not that dramatic. It's not like I stopped a massive villain's attack from happening. I was just helping out a friend."
Gizon just shrugged his shoulders and turned to Toshinori, "At first she didn't believe who I was or the truth about my quirk."
"Though after he revealed his transformation and told me the history of One for All. Well I'll admit I didn't hundred percent believe the story about his quirk, but I saw it as an opportunity to be trained by the symbol of peace. I didn't believe in One for All until I gained the quirk. Since then I've continued to train to be his successor." Ochaco said.
"I chose Young Uraraka because she displayed the character traits of a hero. Selflessness, a want to help other people and not backing down from a fight, among other things. One for All might be a crystallization of stockpiled power, but a person is able to draw its true power out when they're pure of heart." Toshinori said.
"Guess that explains why Uraraka can't use its full power." Gizon said, then stepped back, just out of range as Ochaco swung a right hook that could have knocked the person out.
"You want to say that again, jerk," Ochaco said as she took a small step forward to make sure her next punch wouldn't miss. She didn't care if Gizon would be able to absorb the damage, it was going to feel good
"No, I think I've made my point." Gizon said, then cleared his throat, "So you had five months to be ready to receive One for All?" -Ochaco nodded- "That doesn't seem like much."
"Well Young Uraraka was well on her way to be ready anyway. Helping her parents with different construction jobs helps lay a good foundation." Toshinori said, "So it was more targeted training, so that her body was strong enough to handle the influx of energy and strength."
"Was any of that training learning how to control One for All?" Gizon asked, already knowing the answer to the question.
Toshinori paused. "Um, no. I didn't give Young Uraraka One for All until the morning of the entrance exam." Toshinori said, getting a feeling of what he was going to hear from Gizon.
Toshinori braced for Gizon to berate him with a comment such as, "Why did you decide to give your successor a highly potent quirk and then send her into a highly stressful situation."
But Gizon just shook his head in disappointment and said, "Then might I suggest thanking Midoriya in some way for saving your successor during the entrance exam."
"Uh what?" Toshinori asked, confused about where that comment had come from.
"You elected to forget that Uraraka got stuck under some debris and Midoriya had to step in to destroy the zero-pointer." Gizon said, recalling how Ochaco had shared her experience from the entrance exam.
Toshinori had been in the teacher's booth watching the entrance exam and afterwards, Ochaco recalled her personal experience. She talked about the panic and fear she felt and what plan she had going, "Oh, yeah."
Dismissing that, Gizon turned to Ochaco and asked, "What did your parents think of your extra training?"
"They were a little concerned in the beginning. My sudden vigor, odd excuses to go out and train, coming home smelling like sweat and trash. They talked to me and shared their concerns but after meeting Toshinori…" Ochaco said and Gizon raised an eyebrow. If the number of One Pro Hero for Japan meeting with Ochaco's parents. Well personally, Gizon felt that would have raised more questions than answers could be given.
"Me." Toshinori said, gesturing to himself, "Not All Might."
Gizon didn't nod but simply turned to Ochaco to allow her to continue, "He explained the situation about how he was a scout of UA's hero program and how his department could take care of the extra expense to help with my diet and training. Five months later I'm going to UA and doing their entrance exam."
Gizon nodded, then headed over to his backpack, and began looking for something.
"What are you looking for?" Toshinori asked.
"You told me your story, now it's time I tell you mine." Gizon said as he reached into his backpack and pulled a small item out.
Ochaco tilted her head and said, "What? But I lost, so I had to share my story. That was the deal we made for the Sports Festival."
"My quirk demands an equivalent exchange and with All for One becoming bold enough to attack UA. If I don't want to see the world being destroyed, I need to expand my circle of trust. So a story for a story." Gizon said as he began to walk back to the duo, "Last time I told you how I know All for One and who my father was. Now it's time I tell you who I was."
Gizon flipped the small item between his fingers as if it was a coin, "There the general consensus thought that as a person's grows, so does their quirk. Albeit overall strength or the different things it can do. However, as I grew up, my quirk never did. When I first gained my quirk I could hold about 20 pounds of kinetic energy. Yet as I grew that amount never really grew, even with all the training I did. Eventually I top out about 100 pounds of force, there was nothing I could do to get stronger. But my father, you see he wanted me to be strong, fast, and unseen. Be untouchable, the perfect thief. Make it so no average pro hero could catch me and any who did I was able to fight my way out. So when I was 10 my father approached All For One and offered a deal. He would complete two highly dangerous, impossible tasks in exchange for two of All For One's quirks."
That comment struck a chord with Toshinori and he waved to make Gizon pause, "Hold on, you have two quirks like Uraraka?"
Gizon shook his head and held up his thumb, index and middle finger, "I have three in total. After my father completed the two jobs, All For One gave me two additional quirks by the names of Hyper Generation and Force Multiplier."
"And that's how you were able to heal so quickly after the USJ," Ochaco said, recalling how healed Gizon was during their conversation shortly after the attack on the USJ building.
Gizon bounced his head side to side, "In truth Hyper Regeneration and Force multiplier aren't as strong as they sound, in reality that's part of the reason All for One was willing to give them up. Hyper Regeneation really ain't that hyper, while it does accelerate the user's regenerative properties, it really only to the point that it takes a week to fix a broken bone. And Force multiple only doubles the force behind the attack."
"Still that's pretty good." Ochaco mumbled.
"The only reason they are strong now has to do with my primary quirk: Energy Absorption. When I was given them, I tested them out and found how weak they were. Then the following two days it felt as if my entire body was on fire and I could feel that something was happening. It felt as if Energy Absorption was absorbing the quirk energy from Hyper Regeneration And Force multiplier, like it was mixing them together in an attempt to …. I don't know, like it was trying to make something new. On the third day I tested them out and found some items out. My primary had double to 200 pounds of forced, not only that but I could direct that energy to Hyper Regeneration and Force Multiplier, temporarily strengthening them too. I guess it is not all too dissimilar to how One for All can amplify its user quirk."
"200 pounds of force that doesn't sound that much. I mean you were throwing punches equal to 40 percent One for All. That's a lot more than 200 pounds of force." Ochaco said.
"There in lies the secret to my strength. Energy absorption can only hold 200 pounds of force, but Hyper Regeneration has a larger store unit. Say Energy adsorption is your standard storage unit, Hyper Regeneration is the whole lot. And the way I'm toable exert more than 200 pounds of force is through force multiplier. You see everything I can do is because I have three very weak quirk working together to do the feat one powerful quirks. I am constant moving the energy from Hyper Regeneration to Force Multiplier and then using it through Energy Absorption. And it took a lot of work, but I was able to gain complete control over my quirks." Gizon said.
"What do you mean?" Toshinori asked.
"When I tested Hyper Regeneration, it sort of just started working automatically when I broke my hand. Force Multiplier, there was a split-second feeling when I landed a hit that I could make it strong, which coincidentally led to the testing of Hyper Regeneration. But after waking up I could prevent myself from healing, choose when it happened and I could add more force behind an attack before throwing, all by manipulating the energy from my primary quirk." Gizon then turned to Ochaco. "When we were fighting Nomu, I was redirecting most of my quirk's energy into Force Multiplier so I could dish out attacks similar to All Might. When we were in Recovery Girl's office, I had some leftover energy that I redirected to hyper regeneration to heal my body in tandem with Recovery Girl's quirk.
"Then during our fight Uraraka you broke my hand, I was focused on the fight so I stopped any energy from going into Hyper regeneration and fixing it. Because I knew if I had any chance to withstand One for All, I had to pour everything into Force Multiplier. Even during our final clash, you were overpowering me and I had to use Force Multiplier and double it by 15 to match your strength." Gizon said.
"Is that where that golden hue of your's came from?" Ochaco asked, remembering how back during their fight, she could feel herself winning against Gizon, but then his biblical glow disappeared only to return with a more golden color and he began to push her back.
Gizon nodded.
"So hold on, you have three quirks in total. 'Energy absorption, Hyper Regeneration and Force Multiplier." Toshinori said, listing them off on his hand, then he thought about the report on the biology of Nomu from the USJ, "Yet Nomu had two quirks and is what scientists were led to believe was the reason behind its transformation. But you have two extra quirks, but you look completely…."
"Human." Gizon said, holding his arms out as if he were presenting himself, "Yeah I read the report and I asked the same question. I don't why I haven't transformed into a Nomu, but if I had to hazard a guess. It's because of Energy absorption. Remember how I said after getting my extra quirks my body was on fire for two days? At the time I thought it was just my body getting used to the quirks, but after thinking about Nomu, I'm thinking it was my body almost transforming. In fact I think that's where this came from." Gizon said as he pulled down his shirt to show the black scar over his chest and showing that it had grown, "Energy absorption can only still how handle 200 pounds of force but I've been overloading it a lot since the beginning of school with Force Multiplier. I don't think this is just a sign of quirk exhaustion, I think it the suppress of a Nomu transformation of some kind."
"Are you saying that you're slowly transforming into a Nomu?" Toshinori asked, but Gizon just shook his head. At the moment the only one that could possibly have the right answer would be All For One's assistant, the older man that Gizon simply knew as The Doctor. But it wasn't as if Gizon could simply dial up his number and call him. But if Gizon was slowly transforming into a Nomu, then he was as sure as hell was going to do something before he hurt anyone. He was here to fix what the past had broken, he wasn't going to let himself break anything more.
"Wait, hold on, I have two quirks." Ochaco said in a panicked tone and pointed a finger to herself, "Am I going to transform into a Nomu?"
Toshinori froze upon seeing the panic in Ochaco's eyes. Gizon was quick to ram his elbow into his side. Toshinori let out a whizz and then said "Uh, no. All previous wielders of One for All had two quirks and none of them turned into Nomu. Remember the first wielder was given a stockpile quirk, so One for All should be able to be passed to any number of people and none would transform."
Ochaco let out a breath of relief, but Gizon could tell that thought was going to linger for a bit. Gizon turned to Toshinori and said, "Good cover."
As Ochaco seemed to be calming down Gizon went back to a point he was trying to make earlier, "Now something I learned about All For One, from the times I saw him in person, is he's the type of person that gathers. Not just quirks, but information. Information about people of interest, whether it was a villain or a pro hero. He didn't just gather information about their quirks, but their personal life as well. The day my father died, I knew All for One would be coming for me. Luckily I had a two-hour head start and I made good use of it." Gizon then held out the small item in his hand to Toshinori. Who looked down and saw it was a flash drive, "I didn't have much time in his office, so I wasn't able to copy much information."
Gizon tossed Toshinori the flash drive, "It contains all the information about who my extra quirks initially belonged to and some extra information I was able to get hold of before All For One came knocking for retribution."
"Retribution?" Toshinori asked as he took the flash drive.
"Yeah, my father owed the big man some debt when he got killed. And what's the saying, "Sins of the father fall upon the heads of the sons." Gizon said with a shrug of his shoulders as if he didn't have the literal boogeyman after him, "So I ran away and hid."
Gizon then turned to Ochaco, "And that's my story. Not all that more interesting than yours. While you were stepping forwards and acting like a pro hero. I was running away and hiding like a coward. So don't think you don't have it in you to be the pro hero of your childhood dream."
Ochaco just nodded, but in her mind, she was thinking about what she was trying to make her life out to be. On the surface, she could say she was trying to be All Might's successor, to be the next symbol of peace. To hold up One for All's legacy, to be the next top hero. But wasn't that every pro hero's dream in a way, to be known as the strongest, most powerful hero?
It was the same dream that all of her classmates had, what could make her so unique, make her stand out in a crowd that was already filled with more interesting people. She recalled the comment Kirishima had made about how his quirk wasn't flashy, especially when being compared to others like Bakugo, Shoto, or even Momo and Shoji. But then she recalled Gizon's comment, about how despite Kirishima's reservations, his quirk was still good enough to get him into Japan's number one hero school and what made Hardening special was how Kirishima chose to use it.
There was nobody out there that had a quirk like Zero Gravity, but there were several quirks that had super strength, so Ochaco would need to find a way to stand out among that. Ochaco looked at Toshinori, it was his quirk before her and from that, he was about to become known as the symbol of peace. Could she ever top that?
Toshinori looked down at the flash drive and pocketed it, "You've done a lot to help prepare us for All For One's return and we'll put whatever information you managed to get to good use."
"Yeah." Gizon said half-heartedly. He then began to walk to the door to pick up his backpack.
As Gizon grabbed his backpack, Toshinori called, "And Young Hisahito, good job forging your own path. We'll make a pro hero out of you yet."
Gizon gave the same smirk that he always had while training Ochaco. He then turned out of the gym but not without raising his arm similar to how he did after his fight with Ochaco during the Sports Festival. Then before the door closed he called out, "Then I guess I'll be seeing you at the finish line."
Omake:
As Gizon and Ochaco walked to the train station, she was reflecting on what Gizon had told her about his past. He had put a lot of trust in her and Toshinori when he decided to tell them who he was, or who he used to be. But to reveal his extra quirks and how personal he was with All for One. Yet in the back of her head, there was a nagging thought that did seem to want to reveal itself.
The thought won't register until Ochaco looked down at her right hand and saw the light scarring it. What she wouldn't give to make those scars disappear, then she had a funny thought and turned to Gizon, "Hey, I bet One For All regretted giving you Hyper Regeneration after his fight against All Might."
"Huh?" Gizon questioned as he was deep in thought.
"We both know One For All didn't come out of that fight untouched if All Might thought he was dead. So I bet he's missing Hyper Regeneration, since it probably would be nice to have it." Ochaco said and began to laugh.
Gizon thought about it for a few seconds, and then said to laugh, "I bet his head looks like a sack of potatoes."
Gizon and Ochaco continued to laugh until Ochaco had to leave on her train and Gizon waited for his.
So there you have, Ochaco tells Gizon the story of how she met All Might, learned about One for All and trained to be given it. Then Gizon revealed a bit more of his past, how and why he has additional quirks, while discussing some problems that might come in the future. While Toshinori gets to see how hard his student are working at becoming pro heroes.
As for the Omake, those aren't going to happen ever often. This time around I really wanted to get in the joke about All for One regretting giving up Hyper Regeneration, because with how he looks, he would want as many healing quirks as he could get. But I couldn't work it in to the story, so I made an Omake.
* To those that don't think I made either Ochaco or Gizon's backstories, or at least how they told it that dramatic. First off, read the chapter title. Second, it suppose to be like that and it's something I'm going to be coming back to a lot. Think back to Chapter 20 "Why we stand." And how Ochaco thought how Gizon deserve One for All since his cause seems so noble. Ochaco thinks because she didn't do any dramatic or 'very' heroic she doesn't feel worthy of the power. Yet Gizon is letting her know his origin isn't all that more dramatic than her. Like the Gizon said, he ran while she fought.*
Beyond that next chapter is the last one before Izuku and Gizon Sports Festival fight, and Izuku makes a deliver and then is given a surprise offer.
Next Chapter: Copyright.
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