Chapter 3, New Friends New Enemies
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"Yo! Animo! I know you're in there, open up!" A short chubby man with a receding hairline wearing a brown suit yelled. After getting no answer the man pulled out the keys and made his way into the strange apartment, animals in cages and glass tanks were littered everywhere.
"pew smells like a zoo in here" he complained before bending over to look at a frog jumping around in one of the many glass containers.
Noticing a reflection in the glass of a silhouette of a man behind him he quickly turned around before letting out a scream of fright at the man who had snuck up on him.
"HOW DID YOU GET IN!" Yelled the man seemly oblivious to having just scared the crap outta him.
"Animo! Jesus don't s-sneak up on me like that!" He said grabbing his chest and trying to calm his heart rate "How'd I get in? With a key, I am still your Landlord remember? Maybe not because your rent is 6 weeks past due"
The now-named Animo, who had a sickly green skin tone along with long white age due to age, combined with his skinny body made him look quite unwell. Speaking of which he didn't seem to take kindly to the man's complaints.
"All of my funds go into my research. Now get out! You're disturbing me." Animo demanded before walking past the man waving his hand in the air in a dismissive manner and making his way towards a table.
"Hmp looks like you were disturbed way before I got here pal. Listen Doc you and your furry friends are out on the street unless you pony up the green" The landlord demanded holding out his hand. Unbeknownst to the humoured face of Animo.
"Pony up. Interesting choice of phrases" he noted with a smile, before reaching over his table to grab a helmet of sorts. " You must be an animal lover, you're gonna love this" he stated as he put a very dodgy-looking contraction that had 2 big horns on his head.
"PFFF HAHAHAHAAAA what's that? Did you make it with the kitchen utensils" The landlord taunted laughing at the ugly design of it.
"This is my Transmodulator phase number one. Tell me, do you know what my quirk does?" Seeing the chubby man tilt his head in confusion Animo continued with his explanation. "My quirk is called Forced Evolve it allows me to forcefully evolve creatures at the genetic level and accelerate mutations in small ways such as colour changes and maybe slight size changes whilst granting me control of the subject."
Animo paused to grab the frog the Landlord was staring at before and placed it on the floor in between them.
"But with my Transmodulator, my quirk is superpowered into allowing me to evolve millions of years at a time! Observe." Twisting the dial on his chest that was connected to his helmet with wires, the Landlord watched in horror as red electricity shot out of the horns and onto the frog, which then rapidly began to grow as horns grew out of the side of its head and two more eyes sprouted on its face.
The Landlord could barely even have enough time to scream as the now giant frog spat its tongue towards him and pulled him into its mouth.
"Hwaaap Gahhhh" The man screamed as he was slowly chewed in the monster's mouth.
Animo only hearing muffled grunts and the crunching of bone let out a sly smile at the man's death. "I'm sorry I can't hear you. Sounds like you have a frog in your throat. Hahaha or is that the other way around? Hahaha!"
After hearing a final Crunch and watching the Frog swallow Animo moved on to grab a nearby notebook.
"So close to having what is rightfully mine. All I need is a FEW LOUSY component to finish my work." Animo yelled furious from being denied what is his, kicking a nearby table causing the tv remote to fall on the ground and accidentally turning the TV on.
"So whatever your needs, from pets, workout equipment, and clothes to state-of-the-art electronics, You'll find them at Musutafa Mega Mall!"
"Ahh just what the Doctor ordered" his eyes narrowed.
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Meanwhile...
Izuku was currently at the mall, after seeing that he has giant 40ft tall robots after his watch he had decided it would probably be best if he got in shape. That and he may need to be physically caple with his normal body if he won't be able to use his new transformations for the UA exam considering 2/10 are now wanted criminals.
Speaking of which, yesterday when he had fought the giant unit of tech he had meant to go HeatBlast, not DiamondHead, 'What was that about? I swear I chose HeatBlast, is the watch broken?'
Speaking of watch his mother finally seemed to take notice of it during breakfast as he wasn't wearing a long-sleeved shirt. Izuku quickly made up some excuse of it being some new hero merch he bought, his trusting mother instantly buying the story.
Taking a worried glance at the thick strap of junk on his wrist Izuku could only let out a sigh as he thought of his past two days, not only had he fought a slime villain that gave someone like Kachaan trouble, but also a giant Robot that had given actual pro's trouble!
There was no doubt in his mind, he had the power to be a hero, the problem was how he was gonna use it, considering he wouldn't be able to enter UA with that power without being instantly arrested and potentially having the watch taken from him.
'If they could even take it off '
Making his way through the busy building as the Mall was filled to the brim with families shopping to teenagers hanging out and having fun.
"Hey! Watch it man!"
A sharp voice broke through the mall's chatter, drawing Izuku's attention. He spotted a short man with a rat mutation, dressed in a worn orange jacket, apologizing to someone he had just bumped into. The man slinked away quickly, disappearing into the crowd.
Izuku's eyes followed the rat man as he bumped into a girl around his age with shoulder-length brown hair and a permanent blush on her cheeks. He quickly muttered an apology and slipped around the corner, leaving the girl frowning as she patted her pockets.
"HE PICK POCKETED ME!!" before turning around and running around the same corner the rat man went.
Izuku's feet moved to follow, but he froze. 'Should I get involved? I've already caused enough trouble... and it's just a purse, right? Someone else will step in… they have to.' But his heart raced. Deep down, he knew he couldn't just walk away.
Still despite the reasoning in his head Izuku's body had other ideas as he broke into a sprint around the same corner they went, unable to refuse someone in need of help.
Running through the crowd his eyes quickly glance around trying to spot the purse snatcher and his victim. Making his way towards the end of this certain block of the mall, Izuku noticed the number of people had finned out significantly apart from the occasional teenager sitting on a bench or leaning against a wall.
"I said give it back!" An angry feminine voice yelled.
"So what if I did? It's mine now, Now back off before you get hurt!" Replied a nasally voice.
'That's gotta be them!' Running towards the voices, Izuku turned a corner into a seemingly empty space of the mall that seemed to of closed all the shops, there he spotted the Rat man flaring his quills being cornered by the brown-haired girl he had allegedly robbed.
Stepping in he made his way towards them.
"Give her purse back now," Izuku said in a shaky yet determined voice.
The two quickly turned to the new voice eyes widening, the girl breaking out into a quick smile while the rat snarled.
"How about...No!" The rat man yelled before flaring his quills atop his head and shooting out some straight toward them.
'That's it!' Izuku's instincts kicked in. Yesterday's fights flashed through his mind—dodging, reacting—he moved before he could think. He lunged forward, grabbing the girl and pulling her to the side just as the rat man's quills whizzed past, embedding themselves in the mall floor. Uraraka let out a startled scream as they tumbled to safety.
"You asked for this!" Izuku said as he stood back up and tapped the green button on the Omnitrix bringing the ring up.
"Oh yeah?! Whadda you gonna do about it huh?" The rat man taunted, feeling confident against some scrawny human.
Izuku's hand hovered over the Omnitrix, already twisting the dial to Diamondhead. Stabbing attacks? Easy. Durability types could handle that. But just as his hand moved to slam the dial down, he hesitated. His eyes flicked to the girl—Uraraka—and her worried expression. Diamondhead had been all over the news yesterday. Same with Heatblast. He couldn't risk being recognized.
'No way can I let these two see me transform into them, especially in a mall, security would be on me quick!'
Seeing no other options Izuku twisted the dial once more to another silhouette.
"whadda you gonna do about it huh?" The rat's taunts entered his mind, before raising his hand into the air and slamming it onto the watch.
"THIS!" Izuku yelled before a blinding flash overtook the rundown area of the mall, blinding both the rat and girl as they covered their eyes. Izuku felt as his body morphed, turning squishy, his body shrinking.
As the green flash faded, Uraraka and the rat man blinked rapidly, tears forming from the brightness. Where Izuku once stood, a small black-and-white figure now stood in his place—fins sprouting from its head, a confused expression on its cartoonish face. The rat man's shock was palpable, and even Uraraka couldn't help but tilt her head, eyes wide.
'Awwww he's like an old-timey cartoon!' The girl thought cooing at the little small creature.
'A splixon!? The hell?!' The rat creature thought in great confusion as to how this human just transformed into a splixon.
Said Splixon looking down at his hands before a bright smile captured his face.
"Alriiight! Let's see what this guy can do!" He said as he attempted to crack his fingers and stretch his arms.
"Back up!" The rat man yelled only to be ignored as the black and white figure charged him fist raised behind his head intentions clear.
The rat man, experienced in street brawls, ducked just in time, dodging Ditto's swing. With a swift motion, he grabbed Ditto's squishy arm, swinging him in a wide arc. Ditto let out a surprised yelp as he hurtled toward Uraraka, who instinctively caught him, the weight much lighter than she'd expected.
"Are you okay!?" The girl asked concerned for her new ally.
"Lemme at him lemme at him!" The little being said struggling to get back into action struggling in her hold like he was in one of them old-timey cartoons. The girl not sure if letting him go after seeing him just get rag-dolled didn't immediately let him go, or so she thought as she watch as he pushed out of her grip and seemed to stretch before completely splitting into two, the girl let out a yelp of surprise and quickly dropped them.
"Woah!" The two beings said at the same time, standing up and examining each other, before breaking into a smile.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" They once again said in unison, a troll-like grin overtaking both their faces before turning towards their foe.
Said foe now snapping out of his stupor took a sudden step back in a panic attempting to get in a more defensive stance, only to immediately get balled over as the girl seemed to touch one of the Splixons with all five of her fingers, the splixon let out a yelp of surprise as he suddenly began to float and let out an even bigger one as she grabbed him and proceeded to meet him towards the rat smacking against him brutally.
The rat man quickly recovered and grabbed hold of the first of the splixon now on top of him as they wrestles for dominance, only to immediately yelp as the Splixons clone jumped on his tail and proceeded to jump into the dog pile.
The girl could only watch as the three of them rolled across the floor, scratching, pulling ears and fur, and punching.
"Ow!" The small clones yelped in unison as the rat bit into one of their arms, only to immediately get punched in the jaw.
"You felt that too!?" The bitten clone said to the other.
The rat man, panting and battered, finally mustered enough strength to shove the squishy clones off him. Staggering to his feet, he took a few steps back, glaring at them before spitting, "Fine, you win! Take your stupid purse!" He threw it to the ground before scampering off like a proper rat.
"That's right rat!"
"Nobody messes with-" The clones turned to look at each other.
"Ditto!" They yelled in unison wrapping a arm around each other's shoulders.
"Thank you so much!" The girl said as she grabbed her poor purse off the ground and held it to her chest.
"No problem lady!" Ditto number 1 said
"We're more than happy to help!" Ditto number 2 stated.
"My name is Ochaku Uraraka, what's yours?" The bubbly girl asked a smile forming on her face as she looked down at the two clones.
"Izuku Midoriya!"
"Ditto!"
The two said at the same time before looking at each other.
"You moron what if she decided to report us!"
Hey! Who are you calling moron...moron!"
As the two Dittos glared daggers at each over they soon stopped at hearing the girl, Uraraka, laughing at their bickering.
"Your quirk is amazing! Don't worry, I won't report you for helping me. I have to thank you somehow." She paused, tapping her chin thoughtfully. "Oh! I know! Let me treat you to lunch!"
The two Dittos quickly glanced at each other before turning back towards Uraraka.
"Sorry, but we gotta buy some stuff.."
"Oh," the girl's face saddened as she looked at her feet in disappointment.
"Good thing I'm here!"
'huh?' looking up Uraraka saw now three clones all grinning, one of them walking away to presumably continue with whatever it was he needed to buy.
"So what are we getting?" One clone asked.
Uraraka, being a bit tight on money right now, hence why she was so desperate to get her purse back, tried thinking of something cheap yet fulfilling meal. Finally, an idea hit her as she straightened up and a smile appeared on her face.
"I know!"
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Argit was having a terrible time, first, his deal that he came all the way up from UnderTown this morning was a complete bust, the guy not wanting to pay and kept trying to lower the price, granted he was selling it for double the amount it goes on the market, But still!
Just as he was making his way out of the mall to head back to UnderTown, Argit, never one to miss out on some easy money, started pickpocketing people. It was like taking candy from a baby! Or so he thought until he was suddenly cornered by some disgusting earth girl demanding her purse back. Just as Argit was about to scare the girl away, some green-haired brat joined in telling him to give the purse back.
Argit tired of having his back against the wall and seeing no other humans around quickly shot a few quills towards them intending to knock them out. Only for the green-haired brat to show some surprisingly quick reflexes and dodging while pushing the girl outta the way. Then the Human did something really surprising, in a blinding flash of green he turned into a damn splixon! Argit knew humans had some pretty strange abilities but that was unheard of.
'was it a sludge puppy or something? Did his quirk let him change into different species? Does he know..?'
"Let's see what this guy can do!" The wording struck Argit as strange, "this guy", he had said suggesting he had more. Argit paused, a sudden thought worming its way into his brain, Afterall in UnderTown you'd have to of been living under a rock to not hear of the Pyronite and the actual freaking Petrosapien! Vulkanus had seemed really intrigued by that...
'Of course! This must be some sorta quirk that lets him turn him into aliens! And he's too stupid to realise...' a Cheshire-like grin making its way onto his face realising some people in the UnderTown would pay a pretty penny for this sorta information.
"Hey, Argit! You're late!" Getting cut out of his plotting Argit turned to one of the many business partners he has acquired over the years, a tallish lean yet muscular dark-haired kid not much older than the two he just encountered made his way towards him.
"You are not, gonna believe what happened!" Argit replied ready to inform him of his reasons for being late.
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munch
"Man this is delicious," one ditto said as he licked his cartoony-like finger clean.
"Almost as good as mums katsudon!" Another agreed as he grabbed a handful and catapulted the food into his mouth.
"Haha I can't believe you've never had Chili Fries before, my dad used to take me out all the time to get em because they're so cheap but still so good!" The girl explained taking a bite from her serving.
"You burp said it!"
"So Midoriya right? where'd your other, um, self go?" Uraraka asked.
"He's buying some workout equipment, I need to train for the UA exams! It's my dream to be a hero!" One of the Dittos explained as the other finished the meal.
"I'm planning on going to UA too! Well if I can pass the exams, my family recently rented out an apartment for me here in the city so I can study for UA! Although I'm gonna be going to a new school until the exams.."
"Really? Cool! Maybe we'll end up in the same class!"
"Yeah! What's your quirk?" The second Ditto asked remembering how she had seemingly made him fly when she touched him earlier during the fight.
"It's called Zero Gravity it makes whatever I touch with all five of my fingers loses its gravity" Uraraka explained whilst scratching her cheek.
"Woah! That's so cool, the power to defy gravity, golly you'd make a great rescue hero! Just imagine the situ-mutter mutter mutter"
Ditto number 2 could only watch with a grimace as he now realised how strange his mumbling was, 'Is this what my class have to deal with?!' quickly slapping his clone on the back of his head, instantly regretting it as he felt the sting on the back of his own head as well.
"Ouch!"
"Stop mumbling dipstick!"
Uraraka let out another giggle at their antics, 'watching them really does feel like watching an old cartoon'
"Haha thanks, what about you? How's your quirk work? It's got something to do with the watch you were wearing right? You did something with it before transforming and the same symbol of the watch is on your forehead now" innocently asked Uraraka unknown to the panic she just sent through Izuku.
'Oh, crap! How do I explain it?! Oh yeah you know, just a watch fell from SPACE and stuck itself onto my arm and now I can turn into 10 different creatures! As if I can tell her that!'
"Oh aha, well you see my q-quirk is a... transformation type! It's called..Ditto"
"Y-yeah!, And the watch is j-just a support item, to help the transformation go faster!"
The two Dittos stuttered out with strained grins stretched across their faces.
"Oh. Okay, that's cool" Uraraka replied with a confused face wondering why they looked like they just got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
"Yep!" The Dittos spat out in unison.
An awkward silence took over, Uraraka quickly wanting to get away from the subject that seemed to make them very uncomfortable glanced around trying to start a new topic before bringing her eyes to the dial atop Midoriya's head 'It looks so familiar...'
"I feel like I've seen that symbol before?" Uraraka asked pointing at Izuku's head.
'Crap! Of course, she has, HeatBlast and DiamondHead have been on the news the past couple of days, the media making a big deal out of it assuming the hourglass symbol was a badge of sorts'
"Pfff this old thing? Naaaah think you're just thinking of one of them hourglass time things!" izuku said with a goofy smile and a little chuckle waving his hand in the air.
Uraraka narrowed her eyes for a second before shrugging and accepting the answer.
"Must be haha Hey Mid-"
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
The Omnitrix's sudden beeping filled the air. "Finally," Ditto muttered, more than ready to return to normal. He and Uraraka watched intently as the dial on his head blinked red... but nothing happened. Ditto's smile faltered. "Uh... what?"
... only to not change him back?
"Huh?" They said in unison, confused as to why he hasn't transformed back yet.
"What was that? Is it supposed to flash red and beep?" Uraraka asked slightly worried that he was gonna explode or something.
"Yeah, it's what it does before changing me back to my normal self" Izuku explained while looking at his still squishy hands.
"Then why didn't you change back?" Uraraka asked confused.
"We don't know" The Ditto's said at the same time as they looked from their hands to each other with worried faces.
"Eh?! What'ya mean you don't know? It's your quirk" Uraraka asked confused once more as to why someone wouldn't know how their quirk would work.
"Ummm, becauuuse... I only just got my support item, I lied earlier! The watch is to help me use my quirk! Without it I can't use Ditto 'not technically a lie' So I'm still figuring t-things out!" 'once again not technically a lie.
"Woah! So you helped me even without knowing how to use your quirk properly? So cool!" The girl said staring in awe.
"He yeah I guess" Izuku confirmed rubbing the back of his head feeling a bit silly.
"Forget that! We need to find out how to change back! I don't wanna be this short for the rest of my life!" The other Ditto yelled with a panicked face.
"Hmm, maybe you guys just need to be all together to change back?" Uraraka suggested holding her chin with a thoughtful look on her face.
"That's it! Uraraka you're a genius!" The two Dittos shouted in unison as they jumped up running towards where their 3rd clone was.
"H-hey wait up!" Uraraka yelled quickly following after them.
Only for the three of them to stop as a massive boom shook the building, causing it to shake and make the people let out surprised screams.
"W-what was that!" Ditto number 1 yelped, worried another 40ft tall robot was about to appear.
"I d-dont know but we should find the other you and get out of here fast!" Uraraka said panic in her voice.
"Right!" The two Ditto's agreed heading off towards where their fellow clone had gone with Uraraka following close behind eager to return the favour of helping them.
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5 minutes earlier
To say Ditto 3 was a little annoyed at having to go shopping for weights while his two clones got to eat with a cute girl was a bit of an understatement.
"sigh welp, at least I don't have to carry it." Ditto number 3 said trying to see the bright side to this situation.
"Ohh good for yoou, how bout helping us carry some of this you jerk!" Ditto Number 4 complained as he and Ditto 5 and 6 carried some boxes filled with weights.
"Yeah! Why aren't you carrying anything huh!"
"Not cool!" Ditto five and six quickly agreed
"Hey don't bla-"
BOOOM
"Woah!" The four Ditto's yelped as they looked onward towards the rubble to see A GIANT FROG!!! Hopping through the wall made in the side of the building, not only that but on its back was some skinny man with some sort of strange device on his head. Looking around the man broke out into a smile at seeing what he must be here for, the frog then leapt towards an electronic store and straight through the entrance smashing debris everywhere.
"What the heck was that!?" Ditto Number 3 yelled both hands on the side of his head panic showing in his features.
"A frog." Ditto number 4 answered only to receive a smack across the back of the head from Ditto 3.
"We gotta stop him. C'mon!" Ditto number 6 said heading forward ready to stop the villain, only to have his arm immediately grabbed by Ditto number 5.
"We shouldn't, we'll be on the news again and then Uraraka will realise why she thought our dials looked familiar! Our identity will be exposed ... P-Plus it's not like he's hurt a-anyone yet"
The Ditto's all looked at each other thinking about what to do, looking back towards the electronic store they watched as the man was now on his frog's back with a bag wrapped around him carrying presumably what he stole. The frog man hopped his way towards the open wall he had broken in through.
"Hey! You were right he's leaving!" Ditto 4 half whispered half yelled, happy to not have to get involved.
Only to quickly look on in shock as two mall cops came running with tasers drawn.
"FREEZE" The bigger of the two mall cops yelled aiming his taser towards the man and his giant frog, the sight was quite comical, yet respectable.
The green-skinned man snarled as he once again made his frog jump smashing straight into a nearby pet shop. The cops quickly followed after and the Ditto's as well worried for the two cops' safety. As the Ditto's rounded the corner they watched as the man looked down at the two Mall cops before glancing to his left at a nearby hamster in a cage.
"Get off that giant..frog and put your hands up." One of the Mall Cops yelled aiming with his taser once more.
Animo grinned as he twisted the dial on his chest which proceeded to power up his quirk, shooting red electricity from his horns directly towards the hamster cage. The Cops and Ditto's watched in horror as the once cute animal grew monstrously huge, its teeth jagging out, before letting out a loud screech and rushing towards the mall cops. Animo bounced further to the back of the store intending to find a new pet.
SPZZZ
Shooting their tasers, the cops looked on with looks of relief as it seemed to stop the rodent in its tracks, shaking violently, only for it to immediately recover and once again rush towards them. Just as the Mall Cops thought they were about to be Hamster chum a miracle happened.
"Yoohoo!" A high-pitched voice said turning to the sound and seeing a short black and white man lob a weight plate directly into the side of the hamster's head. Letting out a shriek of pain the mutated hamster quickly turned to its new target with hatred in its beady red eyes.
"See something?" Ditto asked arms crossed behind his head showing off his body, taunting the hungry hamster.
The hamster with a feral shriek of rage charged its new meal intending to devour him.
SMACK SMACK SMACK
Shrieking in pain again at having three weight plates smacked against its head, the hamster turned to see what other nuisances are interrupting its meal only to see three Ditto's waving cheekily at him before breaking off into sprint all in different directions, the hamster quickly giving chase after one. Meanwhile, the first Ditto made his way to the Mall Cops.
"Call for a hero! That guy's bad news" Ditto said
"Who are you?!" One of the Mall cops asked voice shakey from nearly being eaten.
"Ditto!" He answered with a grin.
The Mall Cops snapping out of their stupor quickly pulled out a radio "We got a Villain attack in Musutafa Mega Mall block 2, Male 5'6, riding on a giant frog or toad. Trust me. You can't miss him!" The man explained.
Speaking of the man Ditto turned and watched as he once again twisted the knob on his chest and shot red electricity towards a small bird. Causing it to grow just like the hamster into a monstrous size.
"Arise to your full potential my pet! to serve me, Dr Animo!" Animo yelled triumphantly.
"Aww man, what sorta pet food are they selling around here!?" Ditto quipped taking a couple of steps back.
The Doctor heard him and seemed to remember he had an audience of a strange mutant and two mall cops turned his attention to them.
"Behold the genius of Dr Animo. nothing can stop me from getting what I deserve, mark my words! Today I will make history or should I say Pre-History!" Having finished gloating about his plans, the villain jumped from his seat on the frog's back to the bird's back, smashing through the glass roof and into the sky. The frog followed immediately after and jumped out of the hole in the roof.
'Phew, thank god that's over' Izuku thought letting out a sigh of relief only to let out a gasp remembering his clones were being chased by a blood-thirsty bear-sized hamster. Quickly running out to where he saw them leave and ignoring the Mall Cops' shouts for him to come back, Izuku sprinted following the claw marks scratched into the floor.
'I-im sure they're fine! It's just a hamster...'
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"AHHHHHHHH" The Ditto's screamed in unison barely managing to dodge getting chomped as the Hamster closed in and tried taking a bite.
One Ditto unfortunately didn't read the 'Wet Floors' sign and immediately slipped on his ass sliding a few metres, unable to get up as the others ran around the wet recently cleaned floor not noticing their comrade had fallen. The hamster seeing an easy meal immediately changed its course from the other two Ditto's to the one separated from the pack, shrieking a horrifying noise with its mouth wide open ready for a meal. The other Ditto's noticing the lack of claws tapping behind them quickly turned around watching in horror as the hamster descended into their clone.
"LOONY COMET!"
SMACK
SMACK
Two white and black blurs blasted into the side of the hamster's legs first after just being thrown by Uraraka who took their gravity away before cancelling out her quirk just as the Ditto's hit into the beast, smashing it onto its side its head smashing into a nearby water fountain knocking the beats out instantly, red leaking from its head.
"Alright!" The two Ditto's celebrated giving each other a big high five.
The Ditto they saved falling on his back trying to calm his heart after nearly becoming Hamster food.
"T-thanks Uraraka. I thought I was a goner for sure"
"It was nothing, are you okay?" Uraraka asked concerned for his health.
"Yup!" Answered all the Dittos minus the one that had stayed behind at the pet store, speaking of which.
"There you guys are! Woah you took it out? Awesome!" The final Ditto came having followed the claw marks the giant hamster had left during its chase.
Just as the Ditto's finally reunited, all six of them looked at each other's heads in surprise as the Omnitrix finally flashed red.
BEEP BEEP BEEP
In a flash of blinding red causing Uraraka covered her eyes in pain after just essentially being flash-banged once again just with a different colour. Now instead of the 6 Ditto's stood a normal Izuku Midoriya with a shaken look on his face.
"Midoriya what happened? What is this thing?" Uraraka asked with great confusion as she stared at the unconscious nightmare-fueled Hamster.
Izuku immediately told her of the events that had occurred and explained the situation to her whilst they made their way out of the mall as the police arrived detaining the giant hamster. Soon finding themselves sitting on a nearby bench recounting the events that had just transpired.
"Dr.Animo? What do you think he meant by 'making history' " Uraraka asked making air quotations as she quoted Animo. Izuku pauses trying to claw at his memory of any Villains known as Dr. Animo.
"I don't know, I've never heard of him before, and I'm a hero fanatic! He's definitely new." Concluded Izuku having not remembered ever seeing this Villain before.
"Yeah... But you were so cool! Taking out that villain, I mean yeah it was a hamster. But still!" Uraraka excitedly said as she kicked out her feet trying to reenact the move the Ditto's had used to defeat the giant hamster.
"I-i mean y-you the one who threw m-me, and I was u-under the effects of your quirk" Izuku stuttered out a small blush taking over his features at having been complimented by a girl. Seemingly having been a lot more confident and playful as Ditto than he usually is. 'Does Ditto alter my personality?'
"Yeah, but it was your idea!"
"S-still!"
Uraraka let out a playful Hmpf as she puffed out her chest and crossed her arms. Almost immediately her face broke into a smile as she whipped her phone out.
"Here let's trade numbers!"
"W-what?!" Izuku yelped bringing his arms up to cover his face attempting to hide his furiously blushing face.'A girl wants my number!' Recovering as much as he could Izuku shakily pulled out his phone, ignoring the many missed calls from his mother assuming she probably just wanted him to pick something up whilst at the mall, and exchanged numbers with her.
Uraraka happily looked at the new number added to her phone before an idea hit her.
"Hey, I know! You live here, right? You can show me around tomorrow" the bubbly girl suggested, excited to have someone who knows the area show her all the cool places. 'That and I wonder if I can convince him to use his quirk again, it's so adorable!'
"O-oh, sure I can, it'd have to be in the afternoon though. It's a Monday tomorrow and I have school" the green-haired boy explained.
"Oh yeah good point, I have to go to a new school tom-" she paused after glancing at her phone screen as her eyes widened. "N-No way! Look at this!" She yelled quickly scooting closer to the boy showing her phone screen.
Izuku would have probably blushed at the close proximity if not for what she showed him, bringing absolute horror to his face it appeared to be a stream from Will Harangues' channel, the title making his heart drop.
'Musutafa Mega Mall Attacked! A new member of the Musutafa Vigilante team spotted!'
it read whilst showing a low-quality image, obviously taken from one of the poor staff that had been hiding behind the counter, it showed Ditto with his arms crossed behind his head when he was taunting the hamster, saving the mall cops.
"This is so cool, you're on the news! And they think you're friends with them vigilante guys haha. I knew Harangue was a bigot when it came to those with mutant quirks but this is a whole new level!" Uraraka said laughing at how they could think Izuku was a Vigilante.
"Haha y-yeah" 'Holy crap she hasn't figured it out!' just as Izuku was about to bring up a different subject to move her away from this conversation he heard the familiar intro of the Will Harangue show suggesting she had already pressed play.
"Welcome back to the Will Harangue Nation live! The story? Get this, giant mutant animals rampage in Musutafa Mall! With camera footage and witness descriptions, the police have concluded this is the work of one man. Aloysius Animo, his Quirk is called Force Evolve, allowing him to generally evolve animals in small ways such as colour or a slight change in size."
"Slight? That thing was massive!" Uraraka stated, referring to the grizzly bear-sized Hamster.
"Once a promising researcher in veterinary science. Even winning an award for his research. Only to be quickly fired and lose it after it was found out he was doing all sorts of sick twisted experiments behind the scenes."
"Rightfully so!" Uraraka said, Izuku quickly nodding along.
"Due to his Quirk, you're probably wondering 'Harangue, why are these animals so big?' well my dear listener, allow me to answer your questions. Authorities believe Animo to be on the drug making its way around the black market recently known as 'Trigger'. Which drastically improves a Quirks strength, allowing Animo to enhance his animals far further than before."
"That m-makes sense," Izuku said thinking it is a solid theory, Uraraka agreeing as well.
"Using his now amped-up Quirk Animo, get this, smashed through the Mall whilst riding a giant frog! That's not all ladies and gentlemen for take a look at the newest confirmed member of the Musutafa Vigilantes." Harangue said before playing a low-quality video obviously one of the staff members hiding behind the store counter with shakey hands.
The video showed the whole event in the store with Ditto saving the two mall cops by throwing the weights at the hamster to Ditto being saved by his three clones, Izuku watched the video as the hamster ran off chasing the clones outta shot, the phone recording them all way till they went out of sight before returning it's sight on the original Ditto telling the Mall cops his name.
"Ditto!" The video pauses on his grinning face then switches back to Harangue.
"Woah so that's what happened" Uraraka said having missed that whole ordeal in the store.
"There you have it ladies and Gentlemen. Ditto...Well, it's a better name than DiamondHead. It appears this Vigilante has a cloning quirk of some sort."
"Haha, there's no way he actually thinks you're involved with those two" Uraraka said referring to Diamondhead and HeatBlast.
"Now I know some of you out there are probably wondering how I know for certain he's with those other two Vigilantes and not just a scared civilian defending themselves."
"Got that right!" Uraraka said laughing a bit.
'Oh crap' Izuku thought, realising what was probably about to happen.
"Well my dear viewers look towards this zoomed-in image of his head," he said as a blurry yet still seeable picture of his zoomed into the dial before two images of HeatBlast and DiamondHead popped up. Izuku watched as it zoomed in on the dial on HeatBlast chest whilst also zooming on the dial on DiamondHead's left pec, all three were an exact match.
"H-huh? That's j-just a coincidence hehe, r-right?" Uraraka asked turning from her phone to Izuku who instantly avoided eye contact. Leaving Urarakas eyes to drift towards his watch.
"I c-can explain" he stuttered out.
"H-huh!? What do you mean you can explain?! Are you actually a Vigilante!?" Uraraka yelled in surprise.
"Shhh!" Izuku shh'd her quickly covering her mouth with his hand whilst looking around to make sure no one heard. "L-listen I can explain"
"Wait what?"
Both teen's eyes glanced to the phone wondering what would have Harangue say that. Seeing as the man looked off to the side seemingly being told something just off-screen before turning once more to the camera.
"Ladies and gentlemen we have a breaking story here live on the Harangue Nation. Dr Animo has just recently been seen breaking into downtown Musutafa Museum whilst riding a giant bird."
"That's close by!" Izuku said, debating whether to help or not.
"While the majority of staff and visitors have escaped, Hostages have been confirmed to be guarded by a giant toad. Heroes have been called and will arrive shortly, stay tuned as we will keep you updated on the Harangue Nation"
Turning her phone off Uraraka let out a mumble making Izuku realise he's had his hand covering her mouth this whole time. Blushing Izuku quickly took his hand off with a small apology wiping the spit off his hand.
"Call your teammates!" Uraraka shouted, her eyes wide with urgency. Izuku blinked, confused for a moment. "Teammates?" he echoed.
"Yeah the fire guy and Crystal guy, You heard Harangue he has hostages! You gotta call them!" Uraraka stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I can't" Izuku muttered staring at his still red watch 'any second now'
"W-what?! Why not?"
Weighing the options around his head Izuku turned his eyes from his watch to the confused girl next to him. An idea came to mind, but he had to be sure.
"Do you really wanna save those people?" He asked staring into her eyes.
"Of course!"
'Every other time, the trouble found me. But this time... I'm going straight toward it. I guess this is what it means to be a vigilante,' Izuku thought, his heart pounding as he accepted what he was about to do. Letting out a sigh accepting his fate Izuku looked around spotting a nearby clothes store.
"Follow me"
2 minutes later
Uraraka, now in a random alley Midoriya had led her to just after going to a clothes store, stood very confused as to why she now has a black ski mask over her face whilst Izuku twisted the dial on his watch, the red glow from earlier gone now back to the green she saw earlier.
"Ummm what are we doing? I thought you were gonna call your team?"
Izuku finally stopped his frantic twisting of the dial having found the silhouette that had wing-like shapes coming out of it back, glancing towards Uraraka with a grin.
"I am the team" he said as he slammed his hand into the dial.
FLASH
Izuku felt a sharp itch ripple through his body, followed by the familiar sensation of his skin hardening into green chitin. New limbs sprouted from his back, and his form twisted into something entirely alien—completely different from his usual humanoid transformations.
As the blinding light finally died down, Uraraka looked on in awe at the very non-Ditto-looking transformation, more of a bug.
"A... dragonfly?" Uraraka took a cautious step forward, eyes wide in amazement. Then, she wrinkled her nose and stepped back. "Ugh, more like Stinkfly!" she exclaimed, her voice muffled as she pinched her nose.
"Stinkfly? Hey, that's a good one!" Izuku said in a nasally voice as he examined his new body, looking around with FOUR different eyes all with complete 360 vision. 'This is so weird'
"W-wait two transformations? Does that mean you're HeatBlast and DiamondHead too!?"
"Ehhh ehe yeahh" StinkFly confirmed scratching the dial on his forehead. "Promise you won't tell anyone, please!"
"I guess I owe you one for helping me with the rat guy...Plus this is kinda exciting, though! A real vigilante—how cool is that?" Uraraka grinned, her eyes sparkling with excitement as she pumped her fist in the air.
"Yeah! Animo won't stand a chance against us!"
"Us?" Uraraka asked eyebrow raised confused.
"Y-yeah, you said you wanted to save those people, with the Ski mask no one will know it's you" StinkFly explained worried she might back out.
"Your right." A determined gaze settled on her features. " If I'm going be a hero, I can't simply watch people in trouble and not do anything. A-and plus this'll just be a one-time r-right?"
"Yeah, C'mon let's fly!" Izuku said eager to test out his wings, flight coming naturally to him as breathing as he quickly took to the air before circling around and grabbing Uraraka who let out a yelp in surprise.
Flying in the direction of the Museum Uraraka made herself weightless increasing their speed as well as making StinkFly weightless making them go high enough not to be spotted from below and a lot faster.
It didn't take them long at all to get to the Museum, flying far above the police chopper and crowd spectating behind the safety of the police who dare not move as a giant frog sat at the entrance with three people wrapped in its tongue a bird flying above it with a woman in its claws, threatening to drop her if the cops chose to come any closer.
StinkFly quickly flew to the back of the building flying next to a nearby window before using his massive stinger of a tail to smash the window open. Making their way inside StinkFly gently dropped Uraraka on the ground as she cancelled the effects of her Quirk.
"Where is he?" Uraraka asked while looking around the Muesem at all skeletons
"No idea" StinkFly answered using all four ayes to look in different directions.
Walking further down the long building it wasn't long before they found something of interest. Uraraka picked it up as they both hunched near each other to read it.
'Musutafa Mega Mall Electronics' the small red box read.
CRRRICK
Both immediately looking up gasping in surprise they see Animo himself standing next to a mammoth, fiddling with the device on his chest. Having heard their gasp, Animo immediately turned to his new guest.
"And who might you two be?" He asked annoyed at their interruption his eyes widening slightly at the giant bug.
"The names StinkFly!"
"A-and I'm Lucky Girl!"
StinkFly quickly gave her a confused look where she could only bashfully shrug with a light blush.
"Now give up and tell Kermit to let the hostages go, it's over" StinkFly demanded as he raised his stinger and fluttered his wings a bit.
"Oh, but it's only just begun. See I only needed a few components to push my work into phase two, reanimation of dormant cells"
StinkFly putting together the only thing that could mean quickly took a few steps back. "Uh oh"
"what's wrong? What's he doing?" Uraraka not catching on as fast asked with a worried face.
"Bringing life back into that which has been long since lifeless. Observe!" The mad doctor explained with mad glee as he turned the dial on his chest once more shooting red electricity out of the horns and into the nearby Mammoth.
StinkFly and Uraraka could only watch in awe and horror as the Mammoth's once lifeless eyes shined a brilliant red and moved. The ground shook as the beast took walked letting out a loud trumpet noise from its trunk.
"Behold, the brilliance of Dr. Animo!" he shouted, his voice booming through the museum as the red energy crackled around his headpiece. With a wild grin, he dashed toward the next display, eager to continue his twisted experiment. Leaving the two teens to stare in horror as the mammoth slowly turned towards them glaring its eyes before charging towards them.
Both teens let out a shriek of fright. StinkFly quickly grabbed Uraraka and flew over the charging behemoth.
"What the hell! A mammoth!? Seriously?!" Uraraka yelled in disbelief.
"Say what you want about Animo, but this is impressive!" StinkFly stated also in a state of disbelief after witnessing the feat of reanimating life.
"So what's the plan?" Uraraka asked as she watched the mammoth attempt to swipe them with his trunk.
"Would your quirk work on something that big?" StinkFly questioned.
"The biggest I've ever lifted was four tons, and that thing looks a lot heavier" the girl dangling
Understanding their situation the insect quickly dropped Uraraka on a nearby balcony out of the mammoth's reach.
"I'm gonna try something" was all the big said before flying towards the mammoth. Uraraka watched as StinkFly avoided the trunk swinging towards him and quickly countered by slashing the mammoth's eye leaving a nearly looking scar on the face of the mammoth.
Said mammoth quickly shrieked through its trunk in pain as it retaliated and slammed its massive trunk into the annoying fly.
StinkFly let out a pained grunt as the mammoth's trunk slammed into him, sending him crashing into the ground with a sickening thud. He bounced off the hard floor and smashed into the wall, cracks splintering outward from the impact.
"Owww let's not let that happen again" StinkFly said as he stood back on all shakey four legs, his two arms holding his head in pain.
"Mi- I mean StinkFly, are you okay!?" Uraraka asked worried for her friend.
"yeah, I'll live.." feeling the floor shake StinkFly quickly took off into flight barely managing to dodge the goliath as it smash into the wall. Scared out of his mind StinkFly let his instincts take over as he clenched his eyes and squirted green slime out of them directly towards the mammoth, splattering onto its head and wall. Izuku watched fascinated as the Mammoth struggled for a bit before managing to rip its head out of the mucous.' that's it!'
StinkFly quickly flew back towards Uraraka alerting her of his plan, flying away as she quickly agreed back towards the mammoth. StinkFly then proceeded to shoot another surge of slime from his eye stalks directly onto its back before then attaching it to the roof. Stopping the mammoth in its tracks before it began to move stretching it out, StinkFly quickly repeated the process once again before the first could snap, repeating the process until its back was completely covered in green goop with long strings attaching it to the roof.
The mammoth having enough let out a roar of anger through its trunk and began forcefully yet slowly stepping forward shaking with effort. The roof creaked.
"Now!" Shouted StinkFly with urgency.
Quickly jumping down from her safe spot while slowing her descent with her quirk Uraraka landed next to the behemoth before slapping its leg with both hands. The mammoth's eyes widened in panic as it hastily got pulled to the roof, the tension of the slime mixed with Uraraka's quirk working together perfectly.
StinkFly fired more streams of slime, each one sticking the mammoth further to the ceiling. Its struggles slowed as the goo covered it, trapping it in a cocoon of green slime. Only its trunk remained free, snorting in frustration as it realized there was no escape.
"You should be good to cancel your quirk now," StinkFly said landing next to the shaking girl although the slime helped it was still extremely heavy.
"Release!" The teens watched in relief as the slime seemed to hold, turning each over they both broke out into massive grins giving each other a high five. Just as Uraraka was about to take off her Ski mask to wipe the sweat from her face and possibly hurl, StinkFly stopped her.
"Wait!" StinkFly quickly looked around with his eyes before spotting 4 of what he was looking for. Security cameras, squirting them with an eyestalk each StinkFly quickly had one more look around before giving Uraraka the go. Good thing too considering what happened next.
BEEP BEEP BEEP
The familiar flash of red came, once again blinding poor Uraraka, leaving a normal Izuku Midoriya. 'Ishould have got a ski mask for myself' Looking down Izuku noticed and felt a bruise forming from when he was struck by the mammoth's tusk.
"Why'd you change back? We still have to stop Animo!" Uraraka's voice was filled with concern as she looked at Izuku, his face flushed with exhaustion.
" I-i didn't mean to!, I can only stay transformed for 10 maybe 15 minutes at a time. It's gonna be another 10 until I can transform again" Izuku explains bashfully scratching the back of his head.
"10?! T-that's okay, we don't need no weird powerful Vigilante transformation to take him out!" Uraraka said trying to hype up not only Izuku but herself.
"R-right! Your Quirks just as strong as any of my transformations" Izuku said with a smile, before stripping his shirt off causing Uraraka to blush lightly and making her very confused.
"Uhhh what are you doing?" She asked tilting her head.
"S-sorry I just can't let my face be seen" Izuku explained with a small blush of his own which quickly got covered along the rest of his head.
"Oh alright, good idea!"
"C'mon, he went this way." Izuku said sprinting towards where the mad scientist had gone, Uraraka following closely.
Turning the corner the teen's stomachs dropped at the Doctor, No, at what was next to the doctor. Towering over them all was a mass-
"A FREAKING T-REX!?!" Uraraka screamed out, before quickly realising her mistake as both the rex and Animo turned toward them. Animo snarled and the rex let out a deep growl.
"You are very persistent. I hate persistent" Animo grouched out his face fastly turning from a frown into a smile as an idea hit him. Climbing atop the rex, it lowered its head to make it easier for the man, before facing it at the children.
"You kids shouldn't have gotten involved and ran along to play. But seeing as you are here, I am greatly interested to see how this creature eats" With a crazed grin the man commanded the Dinosaur to charge the two shaking kids.
BEEP
As if sensing he was in trouble the dial on Izukus watch turned green, Izuku hearing the familiar beep quickly pushed Uraraka out of the way and slammed the Omnitrix down.
FLASH
"'Gah!" Animo cried out, shielding his eyes as the blinding green light flashed across the museum. The momentary blindness left him vulnerable, staggering backward in confusion.
Izuku's body convulsed, muscles straining and bones cracking as the transformation took hold. A sharp pain shot through his sides before—bam—two new arms burst out from beneath his originals, red skin stretching taut over the fresh muscle. As the green light faded, he stood taller, his four massive arms flexing, each one ready for the fight ahead.
As the green light died down Uraraka and Animo looked on in awe as a tall muscular man with red skin and four arms and eyes stood, nearly as tall as the rex, albeit noticeably smaller.
Animo is especially interested in "Incredible! Able to rearrange your DNA to such heights... I'll look forward to plucking away at your corpse!" The man yelled before charging his T-Rex directly into the Fourarmed man headbutting him and causing him to slam into a nearby wall.
"GAAH, fine you wanna go? Let's wrestle!" He yelled in a deep gravelly voice. With a grunt, Izuku launched himself at the T-Rex, both of his right fists swinging forward. They slammed into the beast's massive jaws, sending a ripple through its skull. The dinosaur's head snapped to the side, but Izuku didn't stop. Before it could recover, he leapt, wrapping all four arms around its thick neck, muscles bulging as he tried to choke it out. The T-Rex roared, its tiny yet sharp claws raking across Izuku's chest. He gritted his teeth, the pain searing, but he refused to let go.
Immediately getting his chest ripped and cut by the small yet dangerous arms that only barely just reached his body, forcing him to let go in pain and immediately having his upper left arm snatched into the jaws of the beast.
"GAHHHH" he screamed in pain as he used his bottom two arms to pull its jaw apart and his upper right to smash into the rex's left eye popping it on impact. The rex let out a roar of pain as it let go and took a couple of steps back.
Taking this chance to glance at his arm he thanked the heavens as this transformation seemed durable enough for the bite not to be too deep, still bleeding pretty badly, but not as bad as he thought.
Uraraka watched from the sidelines, heart pounding in her chest. She needed to help. Steeling herself, she activated her Quirk, making her body weightless. With a deep breath, she launched herself into the air, aiming for Dr. Animo.
As she flew toward him, the world around her seemed to blur. She slammed into him, the force of her weightless momentum knocking them both to the ground. Animo growled, trying to shove her off, but Uraraka clung on tight, using her Quirk to keep herself grounded as she wrestled with him."
"arhh foolish girl!" He said as he pushed her off and quickly went to return to his beast aid only to notice he wasn't moving forward, but up. "What!? What is this!"
Uraraka once again made her way to the rex slapping his leg, Uraraka immediately felt like throwing up from the sheer weight. The rex turned around hearing the distress of its master and feeling a slap on its leg growled and went to take a bite of the annoyance. Only to widen its eyes as its tail got grabbed and pulled on its tail.
"Uh oh someone's in trouble" The red man taunted as once again tugged on its tail before spinning it around, his strength combined with Uraraka's Quirk made it all too easy and he spun picking up drastic speed before releasing it. Watching as it smashed out of the building and out onto the street after Uraraka cancelled out her quirk, making it fall roughly onto the frog instantly crushing it and forcing it to release the hostages. The bird with a surprised screech released the woman it had been holding, screaming certain she was falling to her death, only to be luckily saved as a wooden branch wrapped around her and the frog hostages and pulled them towards the police.
The bird quickly tried to escape back to its master only to be grabbed roughly by a giant hand.
"Look it's Kamui Woods and Mt. Lady!"
"Yeahhh!"
The reports having a field day from taking pictures of a T-REX and a few of Mt. Lady's backside for work of course.
"This bird is easy work, a pleasure to save you and give some Ass-istence" Mt. Lady said, showing her butt off for the crowd whilst giving a big wink.
"This is it" "This is it" This is it" "This is it"
The reports quickly taking their money's shots.
"Hey what's that up there!" Someone from the crowd yelled pointing towards the wall the rex had smashed through. Where they saw a Tall muscular red-skinned man with FourArms. Before disappearing within the building after seeing flashes of cameras towards him.
"Kamui who is that?" 'and why is he stealing my spotlight!' Mt. Lady asked with a glare.
"A possible villain! I shall stop their treachery!" He yelled triumphally playing it up a bit for the cameras. Usually, he would have Death Arms go in and deal with the thugs whilst he and Mt. Lady controlled the outside making sure there were no escapes or civilians in danger. But Death Arms was currently out of action recovering from yesterday's villain attack, so Kamui shall deal with it himself!
Only to immediately pause as a man screamed from being hurled out of the hole the red mutant had disappeared into, quickly catching him before he splattered onto the concrete. The man let out a grunt at the rough landing, causing the strange contraption atop his head to fall off and smash into the ground.
"NOOOO MY TRANSMODULATOR!" screamed the man in pure rage. Suddenly the bird Mt. Lady was holding seemingly disappeared, or so she thought until she opened her hand and saw it had shrunk, not only the bird but the frog as well, whilst the T-Rex reverted itself into a mere skeleton.
"You! You're Animo, your hideous crimes stop now!" Kamui Woods said, tightening his grip on the green-skinned man and handing him towards the police who quickly cuffed him as he struggled"
"Nrgh Nooo! I can't be imprisoned! Im only in phase 2 of my plans. I refuse to let it end so early!" Only to be thrown into the back of a police vehicle, the door slamming into his face and muffling his pained yelling.
Seeing that their main target was captured Kamui quickly pulled himself towards the hole where Animo had been thrown out. Making his way in he found it...empty.
Meanwhile
"AHHHHHHH" Izuku and Uraraka screamed as they were hundreds of feet in the air right now. See after throwing Animo out knowing Kamui Woods would catch him, Uraraka had cancelled out FourArm's gravity allowing him to jump out through a window making for a quick getaway.
All seemed to be perfect apart from one small fact. They had underestimated this form's strength and we're now trying to slowly try to descend by having Uraraka cancel her Quirk before activating it again once they were close enough to the ground. Only problem? They were heading straight towards the ocean! Getting close Uraraka cancelled her quirk out less they splat against it like concrete from the mere speed.
SPLAAASH
Finally reaching land the two quickly crawled before rolling into their backs, Urarakas mask being lost to the ocean and Izuku having transformed after landing.
Speaking of whom, his shirt was also missing having lost it in the current, showing the bruises on his chest and narly looking cuts on his left arm from the rex bite that had already scabbed over, the salt water burning it a little.
"That..was... AWESOME!" Uraraka huffing and puffing whilst a bit green from the constant use of her quirk and swimming, excitedly yelled.
"Ha yeah, I can't believe I fought a freaking T-Rex!" Izuku said thinking about how absurd his day had been, no, his whole weekend.
Giant robots, dinosaurs, mammoths... and evil scientists. Izuku couldn't help but grin—being a vigilante was dangerous, but it was exhilarating in a way he never expected.
"I know right? Did you see Animos face when you picked him up and threw him out of the building haha"
the two teens breaking into laughter with Uraraka reenacting the moves he had thrown against the dinosaur before realising that's not the best idea with how exhausted she was.
The two sat in exhausted silence, watching as the sun dipped below the horizon. The sky was a brilliant orange, but neither of them seemed to notice—both were too busy catching their breath.
Izuku glanced at Uraraka, who was still panting from the effort. "That was... something,"
he finally said, his voice hoarse. Uraraka laughed weakly. "Yeah. Fighting a dinosaur was definitely not how I thought my day would go."
They both sat there for a moment longer, the adrenaline slowly draining from their bodies. Izuku winced as the pain from the bite on his arm started to sting. He glanced at the wound, then back at Uraraka.
"Hey Uraraka I should probably head home, my mum's gonna start getting worried soon otherwise" Explained Izuku as he made his way onto his feet. Uraraka making her way onto hers as well.
"Ha yeah, you should probably buy a shirt before you go home. I'll message you later, maybe we can do this again sometime" Uraraka suggested.
"D-definitely, see you later!" Izuku said making his way home, quickly making his way to a clothes store on the way buying himself a hoodie, earning a couple of strange looks as he entered shirtless and heavily bruised. Wearing his new black hoodie hiding his injured arm, Izuku opened the door to his house.
Before he could step inside, his mom pulled him into a tight hug. Izuku winced, trying to hide the pain in his arm. "Mom, I'm okay," he reassured her, though he could feel her tears dampening his shirt. "I was so worried…"she whispered, squeezing him even tighter."
"M-Mum.. Are you okay?"
"Am I okay? Izuku I saw on the news the mall had been attacked and tried calling you, you didn't return any of my calls!"
"S-sorry mum, I was busy hanging out with a friend, the mall had been attacked before I got there so I never got to go shopping " Izuku lied feeling extremely guilty.
"A friend? Who Katsuki?"
Izuku almost snorted, almost.
"No, her name's Ur-
"Her?!" Inko asked covering her mouth before breaking out into tears and wrapping him in a hug once more. "Ohh my baby boys growing up so fast! Is that her hoodie your wearing? What's her name!?"
"Mum!" Izuku squeaked out covering his blushing face at what she was suggesting. "I-im going to my room!" He said passing past her into his room and slamming the door.
"Okay, sweetie dinner will be ready soon!"
Having a quick shower Izuku then proceeded to grab the first aid kit out of the bathroom counter and bandaged his left arm and disinfecting the bite marks. Making his way and enjoying a nice warm meal with his mother, when asked about the bandages he said it was from falling over on the road when messing around with his friend.
Seemingly buying it Izuku made it home free and returned to his room exhausted from his busy day. Climbing into bed and getting comfortable he noticed something on his phone.
One New Message.
Uraraka: hey Midoriya it's me Ochaku Uraraka!
Midoriya: yo! Uraraka I didn't expect a message so soon!
Uraraka: yeahh well I couldn't stop thinking about today, It was so much fun! XD
Midoriya: sure was! Apart from getting bit by a dinosaur, this was the most fun I've had in ages.
Uraraka: hehe definitely got to do that again, the Vigilante stuff I mean!
Midoriya: if your down, though only when we have to! I still wanna go to UA and not Prison...
Uraraka: awww your no fun xD though yeah I guess you make a good point...
Uraraka: hey check this out, this guy hates you! Haha
Uraraka sent a link
Izuku already guessing who it was clicked on the video and watched the familiar intro play before cutting to Harangue.
"Welcome back to the Harangue Nation. Our top story has to be a recap of the Musutafa Mega Mall attack by Dr Animo and his mutant pets.
Izuku mostly blanked out as it was just a quick recap saying EXACTLY what he said in his earlier morning afternoon live on his channel.
"But that's not all ladies and gentlemen, not only do we have one more confirmed Vigilante other than Ditto, but three more!"
He said as it cut to a video of him as StinkFly with Uraraka, him saying his name when Animo asked who they are.
"The names StinkFly!"
"A-and I'm Lucky Girl!"
Then proceeding to cut to a video of the T-Rex being thrown out before cutting up to him glancing down at the crowd in his Four armed form. Before once again cutting back to Harangue.
"There you have it ladies and gentlemen, not one, but three new Vigilantes, confirming our theory of them being on a team."
"I guess he is technically right now because of Uraraka.." Izuku thought as Harangue once again pulled up some more tweets about his forms.
AlienQueen #Vigilantes #Ditto Ditto looks so cute! Omg, I need a plushie now!
CrimsonRiotStan #FourArms That big red guy is so Manly! The guy beat up a freaking dinosaur!
Chickenjuz #StinkFly one narly lookn bug dude.
MurikoThighStan #Luckygirl #Vigilantes Is it just me, or does Lucky Girl seem extremely out of place in their team? Wonder what her Quirk does.
Izuku read the tweets with interest and joy, this being one of his favourite parts of seeing himself on the news.
"Not only that but we have footage of attempted MURDER from FourArms, the name decided by our recent poll," Harangue said.
"Attempted murder!? And really FourArms? That's worst than DiamondHead!" Izuku watched as it played a video of him throwing Animo out of the building.
"I knew Kamui Woods would catch him!"
"Thankfully a real hero saved the villain's life just in time, but attempted murder is still a crime, justice must be taken, ladies and gentlemen. Go to our website for tonight's final poll and vote. FourArms bloodthirsty or sociopathic! Vote now!"
"You gotta be kidding me!"
Midoriya: yep you're right, he hates me...
Uraraka: haha cheer up 'FourArms' xD
Midoriya: ha.ha. -_- also lucky girl? Where'd that come from?
Uraraka: oh I just thought I needed a codename and at the time I was feeling really lucky having met you!
Midoriya: gee thanks! And don't worry Lucky girl is better than half my codenames!
Uraraka: can't argue there! Thanks though really. I'm gonna head to bed now.
Midoriya: yeah me too, goodnight!
Uraraka: goodnight to you as well! Talk to you tomorrow!
turning his phone off, Izuku cozied up under the covers with a warm feeling in his chest, as for the first time in years, Izuku had a friend...