Luist try to enjoy a nice day on a rural town, but the past catch up with him, in more ways than just memories.
Izuku received the response from U.A. and find out something terrifying about the near future.
The whole chapter is a lore chapter disguise as a filler episode, so pay attention this will mart the start of Crack treated seriously.
Lots of new revelations for the future of the fanfic.
But if you want to skip it to the part of izuku you can do it too, but probably get lost in the future.
Luist's day off
Musutafu City, Luist Department 6:45 A.M.
It had been two days since Izuku's exam, and today, Saturday, marked the start of Luist's free weekend. He had booked a one-night stay online at a ryokan in the spring town of Shūzenji Onsen, and by now, he should have been taking a taxi to Mishima Station.
Instead, the twenty-year-old war hero was still asleep on the couch after watching a marathon of popular hero movies to catch up on modern culture- and the beers he drank to survive the more tedious ones hadn't helped in the slightest.
"WAKE UP!" SteLL was singing Chop Suey! at full volume while holding a holographic guitar. "Wake up!" smaller holographic copies of her chimed in as chorus singers. "GRAB A BRUSH AND PUT A LITTLE MAKE-UP! - HIDE THE SCARS TO FADE AWAY THE SHAKE-UP! - WHY'D YOU LEAVE THE KEYS UPON THE-"
The music stopped as Luist finally lifted his head from the couch.
"I'm up… I'm up," Luist muttered lazily. He looked deplorable. "You're too loud, SteLL…" His voice sounded slurred and tired, and the dark circles under his eyes didn't help his appearance.
"I'm glad I can't smell," the AI replied flatly. "You look dead as hell. Now we have to go, it'll take us three hours to get to Shūzenji, and you still need to at least shower."
"Wha… oh." He glanced at the clock on the wall. The drowsiness began to fade as he yawned, stood up, and stumbled toward the bathroom. Seconds later, a loud scream echoed through the apartment. "SteLL! You forgot to turn on the water heater!"
SteLL just smirked from the living room, hovering over the armor in its collar form.
"That'll wake him up." Luist was forced to shower with cold water, and the fact that it was February didn't help. Once he got dressed and packed a few things into a backpack, he left his apartment and stepped out of the building.
On his way to Mishima Station, he stopped by a 7-Eleven to buy something to eat for the trip. He picked up a yakisoba pan and, from a vending machine, a warm Boss coffee. The sugary drink and the delicious snack made him feel a little warmer than before.
"I can't believe you'd do something like that to me…" Luist muttered as they walked among the morning crowd. Some people still gave curious glances at the floating AI hologram. He had brought SteLL along with him; dressed in casual clothes, the collar that contained his armor rested around his neck, allowing her to hover beside him.
"Aw, are you going to cry? Serves you right after laughing at me the other day," she teased, crossing her arms and pouting. "Also, you enjoyed that warm shower yesterday morning."
"Yeah, because it was freaking warm," he replied with a frown. He was tired of her sassy side, but there wasn't much he could do about it, not until he found her a proper robot body. "Hey, SteLL, I've been searching online," he began. "Apparently, there are some support companies that make cybernetic implants. Maybe we could use their tech to build you a body of your own."
"Yeah, I've seen them," she said flatly. "Not the kind of body I have in mind, let me tell you."
"Huh? Then what type of body you oh-so-great SteLL are you looking for?" he asked, smirking. If she was going to be like this, he could play along, after all, they were the same age.
"Gundam," she said with a dreamy look in her eyes, clasping her hands together as she fantasized about having a mecha for a body.
"GUNDAM!? Are you crazy? That would take us years to build, and we'd need at least the Cronomium as a power source just to make the thing move!" he said, raising his voice in disbelief.
The subject triggered old memories. He remembered that, back in the war against Servick, an engineer from Pipe's Team had built and piloted a mecha. She'd died in the suit. He had never met her; she died before Luist even formed the Alfa-9N.
Then the flashbacks came, the smell of boiled blood, the grotesque abominations of flesh and metal that Servick had sent to crush troop morale, and the horrifying discovery that those same experiments had originated from M9 itself. He remembered the truth: Servick's real identity, an experiment created by his own father, a high-ranking M9 scientist. The time travel incident he and some of his squad go through. The betrayal of M9 in the future, turning on him and his friends.
"…st! Luist! Hey, you spaced out," SteLL said, her tone suddenly worried. "Your cardiac rate is high… Do you want to cancel the reservation?"
Luist blinked, realizing his breathing had quickened and his heart was racing. He took a deep breath and shook his head. "Nah… I was just remembering. About two years ago. We really do have some kind of curse to be this unlucky."
The AI shook her head. "It's not that bad. At least we have each other, and we've found friends here. I know they won't replace the ones we lost, but… I'm sure everything will turn out fine."
It was the first time in the ten months he'd been here that Luist had really stopped to reflect on his past life. By Earth's standards, he was an alien soldier, raised for war, molded to witness suffering across the galaxy, and even the destruction of entire planets.
The war hero arrived at Mishima Station just as the train was pulling in. "You know… now that I think about it… did Alfa get destroyed?" Luist asked as he stepped aboard.
SteLL's expression turned uneasy. "Why do you ask that?" she said softly, her tone tinged with sadness. It wasn't an unreasonable question, given what he'd lived through.
"That kid… Jenmah's cousin… Purple Rose, or whatever her name was," he muttered, his voice lowering as old memories stirred. "She said the core of Alfa was in danger right after I went to fight that stranger…" He paused, remembering his young, bratty, hot-headed apprentice and her cousin. "She was literally the planet itself, with her chosen power."
The purple-haired teenage girl had the power to control plants. It was a basic ability at first, but when he met her for the first time, it had been one of her copies. As she grew from a child into a teen, she exiled her real body to the planet's core and lived through humanoid copies scattered across Alfa's forests. It had always been creepy watching her fuse into and emerge from trees. The day he finally met her true human form was the day the invasion began.
The AI sighed and shook her head. "I don't have a real answer to that… the probability is there, and it's high. But we don't know if the distress signal we sent to the pirate fleet ever reached them, or if that stranger even intended to destroy the planet." SteLL looked out the window of the train, her expression unreadable.
"Yeah… no reason to dwell on that. I just… hope Alont, Jenmah, and the rest are okay," Luist said quietly. He wondered if his brother was searching for a way to bring the original Luist back, or trying to find his parallel (gender-bend) self first. "Hey, don't you think it's weird that my brother dated himself?"
SteLL turned to glare at him. "Ah… please elaborate." She hadn't been present when Luist and Alont went to train Jenmah back on Alfa two years ago; at that time, she'd been helping Locofth develop the Haltron project. So, this whole selfcest comment had come completely out of the blue.
"Well, you see, when he was brainwashed and fighting for Servick, he fell for this one girl. She also fell in love with him. They started dating, and months later Servick found out and separated them, telling them they were the same person from parallel universes… so, is it weird?" he asked, having had plenty of time to think about it since he didn't have much else to do.
SteLL tilted her head, thinking it over. "Well… do they have the same hair color?" she asked, hoping he'd say no.
"No. She had white hair and silver eyes, and she was shorter than him, too." He remembered her appearance from the interrogation they'd conducted—back before the time-travel incident.
"Then no, it's not weird," SteLL sighed in relief. "You see, there are two parallel gender-bend universes for each gender, so she must be the evil version of your brother, not the exact same. That means she has the opposite blood type and genes, so they're not doing anything wrong by dating. It's weird as a concept, but since they're basically different people genetically, they could pass as a normal couple."
"Ah, thank God," Luist said with a sigh of relief. "At least now I won't associate Alont with those weird mangas I saw a few weeks ago."
"What mangas?" SteLL asked, narrowing her eyes suspiciously as she caught the plural.
"Ah, well… oh look, we have to change lines."
As they switched to the Izu Hakone Railway Sunzu Line, Luist didn't try to keep the conversation going for the rest of the ride to Shūzenji Station.
The two enjoyed the change of scenery. The tall buildings and noisy screens filled with hero advertisements were long gone. In their place were small villages and rural houses, surrounded by green fields and frosty roads. Thankfully, the train had heating. The car they were in wasn't very crowded, so Luist could relax and quietly take in the beauty of the journey, listening to the gentle hmm of the train gliding along the rails.
Shūzenji Onsen, Izu Peninsula
Luist's mouth fell open in awe as he took in the sight of the town, cozy and quiet compared to loud Musutafu. It reminded him of home. Alfa had been just like this: nature blending perfectly with technology, the ideal balance between civilization and the wild.
"Shūzenji is said to be the oldest among the many hot spring resort towns in Izu. Due to its nostalgic streets, it is also known as the Little Kyoto of Izu," SteLL read aloud from the online tourist guide.
Luist listened as he walked along the stone-paved streets, heading toward the ryokan he had reserved. "Little Kyoto, huh… maybe that could be our next destination on a day off," he thought, spotting his destination in the distance.
SteLL continued her narration: "Shūzenji Temple and the Bamboo Forest Path, located in the heart of the town, are also must-see spots. After exploring the town during the cold winter, visitors can warm up and relax at the historic hot springs." She finished reading just as they arrived at the entrance to the ryokan.
"Here we are. Pardon the intrusion," Luist said as he stepped into the reception area. "Good morning, I'm here for a reservation under the name Luist T. Chun."
An elderly woman, seemingly in her seventies, lifted her head from the diary she was reading. "Ara ara, welcome, youngster. You must be the gaijin who made the reservation the other day. I'm Sakai Yumi, and I'll be your host for tonight."
The woman then began to hover slightly on a cloud of steam, she probably had a quirk related to it, very fitting for the place she ran.
"The larger bath is open until midnight, and the one on your balcony is, of course, private to you. Dinner and breakfast are on the house since it's your first time here," she said cheerfully. It sounded convenient; if Luist liked the food and accommodations, he'd definitely be coming back.
"That's so generous of you, Sakai-san." He still struggled a bit with Japanese honorifics, but he knew when to use them to show respect and manners. "Say, is there anywhere nearby where I can get soba or udon?" He was already getting hungry, the energy from his small breakfast hours ago had long worn off.
"I know a couple of places," she said with a warm, gentle smile. "There's a soba shop right in front of my niece's candy store, near the bridge. You can't miss it. The local hero often goes there to help out some of the townsfolk."
That caught Luist's attention. He had never thought about heroes who didn't want the attention of hundreds of thousands of people or the money that came with the job. But if someone went through hero school, passed the license exam, and still decided that protecting and helping a small town was the best course of action, that person had his respect.
"I can't wait to meet them. I'm going to leave my backpack in my room. Anything else I should know?" Luist asked before heading off.
"Hmm, well, a gaijin like you should know by now, no cameras and no accessories in the baths. You have to shower before entering the water. Also, if you have any tattoos, people might look at you weird," she said, listing the most common reminders for tourists.
"Oh, no, I don't have any tattoos, and I'll keep those in mind. Thank you again, Sakai-san."
With that, Luist went to his room to get ready for a walk and a proper meal. He stepped into the traditional room; the tatami mats looked clean and soft, and the balcony's natural hot-spring pool, its crystal-clear water gently steaming upward, already made him feel relaxed.
"Sakai-san seems like a nice woman. Makes me want to stay here longer," SteLL commented as she took in the cozy atmosphere.
"Agreed. Definitely making myself a regular here," Luist said, setting his backpack on the floor next to the closet where the futon was stored. "Well, I'm starving. Better go get some lunch."
Luist breathed in the cold yet fresh air of the peninsula. SteLL did the same, simulating the feeling from their home universe. The two of them watched the locals promoting their stores with clever signs and colorful advertisements aimed at tourists.
Then Luist spotted the local hero, and his breath caught in his throat.
"Jenmah?" he muttered under his breath as he stared at the young woman. The resemblance was uncanny. She was a redheaded hero, probably two years younger than him, a recent graduate, by the look of her, and clearly had sharp instincts, since she immediately noticed him watching.
"Hello there. A tourist, right?" she asked with a friendly smile, her expression carrying that same chaotic energy his late student used to have. "Well, aren't you full of self-control? You must really like what you see," she teased when he didn't answer right away.
"Ah, sorry. You just remind me of someone I knew back in my home… country," he said, almost slipping and saying planet. He was genuinely stunned by how much this heroine resembled Jenmah from his universe.
"Ha! I bet you say that to all the cute girls you meet," she smirked, and SteLL, floating just behind him, had to hold back her laughter.
"That's not- She was a girl that-" He paused, trying to find a way to explain it in this world's terms. "A girl I used to tutor. You just look like her."
Now that he noticed the costume properly, the heroine was wearing a skin-tight suit with a thermal-themed cape in blue and red. He instantly regretted giving her a full look, she had a very attractive figure.
"Sure, and you checking me out just now was totallywholesome tutor behavior," she said, laughing when he went red in the face. "Hehehe, you're a funny guy. I like you, onii-san. How can I help ya?" She kept teasing him; she was exactly like his bratty, annoying student.
Luist frowned, his deep red face betraying his embarrassment as he finally found his voice. "Yeah… I was looking for a udon shop near a candy store."
"Ah, you must mean Sakai-neesan's store. It's right over here," she said, guiding him down the street. She kept her teasing tone as they walked. "You don't seem like you're from Asia. Where are you from, nii-san?"
"I'm… from Europe," he lied. He knew his ancestors had been pirates from central Europe during the time of King Arthur, but after two thousand years of an interplanetary gene pool, he had no idea how much of that bloodline was still left in him.
"Really? I never would've guessed. You look different from all the European tourists I've seen," she said, keeping the conversation casual, and if he weren't so socially awkward, he might've noticed the flirty tone.
To SteLL, who was still hidden from the girl, this was pure gold. She would have endless teasing material from now on.
"Anyway, what's your name, nii-san?"
"Luist T. Chun," he answered as they approached the bridge and the nearby candy shop.
"What does the 'T' stand for?" she asked, giggling at the odd composition of his name.
He knew he'd made a mistake not leaving the "T" out, but he'd already dug his own grave — now he had to lie in it. "It stands for 'The,'" he admitted, embarrassed by his ridiculous family surname. He hated how names on this planet didn't work the same way they did back in space.
The heroine burst into uncontrollable laughter. "AHAHAHAHA! That's-" She had to hold her stomach to breathe, laughing harder with each second. "AHAH-AHH-HAHA- so silly!"
She finally stopped when she realized she was drawing too much attention in the small town. Clearing her throat, she smiled innocently. "Ehem… that's a pretty good name," she lied, her tone playful.
She then pointed toward a candy shop. "That's Sakai-neesan's place, she has the best mochi in the peninsula! And over there," she said, gesturing to a soba restaurant, "is Hacha-obasan's soba shop. Remember that The Thermostate Hero: Fahrenheit helped you today." She winked and walked away, waving at the still-flustered Luist.
"Hey, Romeo. Did seeing a cutie patootie make you shy or something?" SteLL hovered behind him with a devious smirk. "God, you look even more stunned than you ever have with me," she giggled, secretly happy that he was finally capable of feeling something close to normal again.
"Shut up," Luist muttered, annoyed and already dreading the teasing he'd have to endure later from his AI companion.
Unbeknownst to both of them, someone was watching from behind as they entered the restaurant.
12 minutes later.
Luist had to admit, one thing he didn't miss from his universe was the lack of food variety. Here, he'd experienced all kinds of new flavors. There was something about Japanese food that made everything taste richer, and the number of ways to prepare the same dish amazed him. After trying Inko-san's katsudon, he understood perfectly why it was Izuku's favorite.
"You seem pleased with yourself, brother," someone said casually, sitting down beside him.
SteLL, who had been using the armor's nanobots to scan the flavor of the udon, froze in shock at the sound of the newcomer's voice.
"You betcha, Alont. This place has the best udon I've tasted in- wait…" Luist turned, locking eyes with the sharp, dark-haired man beside him. "ALONT!?"
He immediately realized they were speaking in Alfarian.
"Not only him, nephew," another familiar voice added, older, calm, and authoritative. "He could never figure out how to make a time-and-space distortion dissipator without accidentally time-traveling in the process."
"Professor Locofth? But… What are you two doing here?" Luist asked, his shock deepening. Both of them looked far older than the last time he'd seen them, meaning they had arrived from a much later point in time.
"Did… did the original me come back?" he asked quietly, a knot forming in his chest. If they were here, it might mean the original Luist hadn't made it home, and they needed a replacement.
"Nah," Alont said bluntly, waving a hand as he signaled the waiter for sake in Japanese. "He's happily married, ruling Alfa with two adopted kids, and one on the way."
"Then… why are you here?" For the stranded variant, this didn't make sense.
"We're helping all the variants Luist left behind," Locofth explained as he also ordered some sake and gyoza. "I programmed the Haltron to mark every universe where a stranded variant ended, for this very reason."
Luist nodded as he began to understand and he had to admit, it was a clever idea. "So when you say 'helping me,' you mean…?"
The scientist took a sip of the alcoholic drink and bit into a piece of gyoza. "You see… mmm, this is so tasty… ah, right, it's to warn you about the implications of being here."
That made Luist straighten up, wondering what his uncle meant by that.
"Chosen Ones have been appearing outside our universe," Locofth said.
That was something Luist already knew, after all, there was Izuku.
"Yeah, a kid from here got access to my Alfedarnomiumcrystal, but it was just for a moment. After that, I put it back inside the armor," Luist explained, thinking that would be enough to prevent more Chosen Ones from appearing.
"Luist… have you even read Chosen Theory?" Alont asked in disbelief. He turned to SteLL. "SteLL, have you explained to my idiot brother how the Chosen process actually works?"
SteLL shook her head. "No… wait, you didn't know?" She looked at the blue-haired man, who only stared back, puzzled. "Oh God, he doesn't know…"
"You see, we can use these crystals as batteries, but we can't contain their influence or their sentient behavior. When any of the three crystals exist within a universe, they generate a local pocket dimension and begin to choose their own champion."
Luist's face paled. "That's… no way…"
"And eventually," Locofth continued, "they also start choosing weaker or limited Chosen Ones. But if there's already a green champion…" He looked at Luist gravely. "Then the red and blue ones are also among the people of this planet."
On a certain hidden bar
A certain older teen sat playing video games. The tips of his hair glowed faintly red, and his eyes shimmered beneath the shadow of the hand that once belonged to his father.
In a laboratory across the sea
A blonde-haired teenage girl adjusted her glasses, her hair glowing with a soft blue hue. With her newly awakened "quirk," the pieces of metal around her floated and assembled themselves as she constructed something extraordinary.
In a dark alley
A blonde girl with red glowing tips in her hair stood over her prey. Blood daggers hovered around her, pinning the terrified man against the wall. With a wicked grin, she used her new power to draw blood from the small cuts on his skin, and drank it.
In a locked room
A small girl held her hands up, summoning a transparent green barrier to delay the inevitable pain. The light in her hair dimmed as her secondary power failed, and she was dragged away by her abuser.
In a quiet room
An orphaned boy looked at his hat and a photo of his late parents. His gaze drifted to the small tree outside his window, its branches trembling slightly, responding to his dread. His aunt believed it was simply an evolution of his quirk due to his trauma.
Shūzenji Onsen, Izu Peninsula
Back at the restaurant, Luist grew serious as he processed everything. "This is far worse than a simple Chosen One with an overpowered ability," he muttered, more to himself than to the others.
"Anyway, it's your duty to find them," Locofth said calmly. "Stop the ones who need to be stopped, and train the ones who deserve it."
"Here, this is for you." From his dimensional storage, the professor pulled out a developer box filled with nanobots and a few power crystals. "Also, this is for you, SteLL." He handed the AI a databank containing blueprints and an update for Luist's Haltron. "It's been great helping you."
Luist stopped them before they could leave. "Wait… can you tell me more about home? What about my little sister?" he asked his brother. The last time he'd seen her, she'd been boarding an evac shuttle.
"Oh, she's getting married soon," Alont said, his face twisting into an oddly irritated expression.
"That's great, wait, why are you angry?" Luist asked, genuinely happy at first that his sister had found someone she loved.
"To Servick," Locofth said flatly.
The sour look on Alont's face and the deadpan tone of Locofth made the reveal even more absurd.
"I beg your pardon?" was all Luist managed to say before every instinct in his body screamed overprotective big brother. He was already ready to tear through space and time to stop that wedding.
But before he could act on it, the two visitors left, vanishing to their next destination, leaving Luist fuming in the middle of the restaurant.
Luist managed to calm himself by walking through the town and buying some dango to eat while he tried to distract himself. Eventually, he ran into the heroine from earlier and chatted with her for a while before heading back to his ryokan.
"Ugh, I'm dead…" Luist groaned, too tired to visit the open bath. Instead, he slipped into his private one and enjoyed the view of the evening sky from there.
"Tell me about it. I just finished installing the update, when your uncle makes one, it always means more terabytes than NASA's entire gallery," SteLL said, sounding equally exhausted. She summoned a pixelated hologram of a hot tub and stepped into it. "Ahh… way better," she sighed, sounding genuinely relaxed from the simulated sensation.
The two stayed quiet, finally able to disconnect and rest, at least for now. Still, the thought lingered in Luist's mind: the possibility of a red Chosen emerging. A CronomiumChosen always meant death, and here he'd been thinking he had found a place of peace.
Later, he enjoyed the dinner that Sakai-san had prepared for her guests and even chatted with a few other tourists, silently hoping these peaceful days would never end.
The next day, Luist packed his things, ate breakfast, and left a generous tip before stepping out into the cold morning air. He walked back to the candy store from the day before, he wanted to bring some dango for tea time at his apartment.
As he stepped out of the shop, a familiar redhead was waiting for him outside.
"Hey there, nii-san. You already heading back?" she asked. She wasn't wearing her hero suit this time; instead, she was dressed casually. Without the mask, he could see her face clearly, she really did look a lot like Jenmah, though her vibe was different. Her clothes made her look more cutethan sexy, unlike her hero outfit.
"Again, just staring at me in silence?" she teased with a giggle, and he noticed the faint blush on her cheeks.
"That's not-" She tilted her head to the side in a way that made her look even cuter, and he couldn't deny it. "Yeah, what about it? I've got free will, after all," he said, trying to sound confident, but his flustered face betrayed exactly how much her teasing got to him.
"Hehehe, you're right about that," she said before suddenly grabbing his phone. Before he could react, she handed it back to him with a grin. "My civilian name is Naomi Nanami, though you can call me Nami-chan." She winked and skipped off down the street.
"Whoa, that girl's got a lot of rizz to catch you off guard like that," SteLL said, smirking.
Luist ignored the comment and looked at his phone. In his contact list, the name ️ ️Nami ️ ️ glowed on the screen. His face turned bright red, she was bold, that was for sure.
"Hehehe, I like her," SteLL said. "I'm going to force you to call her daily. You need a girlfriend."
"SteLL… shut up," Luist muttered, but deep down, he couldn't hide his excitement at the thought of that phone call.
Izuku part.
Midoriya household
It's been a week since Izuku took the exam, and the lack of word from All Might was starting to put him on edge. *Maybe they think my powers are too dangerous? Should I call him to make sure I'm still in? Do the other heroes think I did too much damage to the city?* he thought while staring at his cooked fish. A whole week had passed, and still no letter from U.A. Sincerely, he was starting to feel like he did before gaining confidence from Luist's training.
"Izuku! Why are you smiling at your fish?" His mother's voice snapped him out of his thoughts. "You've been like that for a couple of minutes."
"Ah, sorry, Mom. I'm okay," he said as he finished his dinner. Once done, he sat down on his couch, contemplating his options, and the possibility of not getting into the program, or worse, being banned from it entirely.
"Even if you don't get in, I'm really proud of the way you've used your gifts."
SteLL had forced All Might to tell his mother about the entire plan to make Izuku a great hero, the power he had awakened from the Alfedarnomium crystal and the one he inherited from All Might.
But that didn't calm his nerves, which only grew with each passing day. Then, a knock on the door caught his attention. As his mother opened it, the familiar blue hair of Luist appeared behind her. Izuku immediately stood up and walked toward him.
"Luist-san, did something happen?" he asked, surprised, since it was quite late, and Luist hadn't said anything about visiting.
"Nothing that we can't talk about later. For now, I brought you this."
Luist held an envelope bearing the U.A. logo in his hands.
Izuku's mother gasped, and the boy took the envelope with trembling hands.
"Go to your room, you'll want some privacy," Luist said with a proud smile.
Izuku hurried into his room, which was filled with hero memorabilia and a few gadgets he had developed inside his freeze dimension. He sat down at his desk, his nerves making him tear the envelope open more roughly than necessary. A small cylindrical device tumbled onto the desk.
"Huh?"
"I AM HERE, ON A SCREEN!" All Might's booming voice filled the room as his image appeared, smiling brightly in a yellow formal suit. "IT TOOK SOME TIME TO JUMP THROUGH SOME HOOPS AND GET THIS DONE! SORRY FOR NOT CONTACTING YOU SOONER, THAT'S MY BAD!" He gave a quick bow before continuing, "AS YOU ALREADY KNOW, I'LL BE SEEING YOU A LOT MORE OFTEN FROM NOW ON, AS I'VE ACCEPTED A TEACHING POSITION HERE AT U.A.!"
Someone off-screen could be heard urging him to move things along, creating a brief, comical exchange that might have made Izuku laugh, if he weren't so tense.
"NOW, ABOUT THE RESULTS!" All Might continued, his tone full of excitement. "YOU ABSOLUTELY ACED THE WRITTEN EXAM AND ACHIEVED 78 VILLAIN POINTS IN THE PRACTICAL! BUT—!"
"But what?" Izuku's excitement faltered, replaced by worry—was this where the bad news came?
"HAHAHA! YOU MUST BE NERVOUS, AREN'T YOU? DON'T WORRY—I'M AN ENTERTAINER, SO!" All Might's grin widened as he pressed a button, and a recording from the day of the exam began to play.
Izuku saw himself leaping high into the air, but the footage quickly shifted focus to Uraraka.
"What… is this?" he whispered.
The silent recording showed the girl struggling through the pain, forcing herself to push away a slab of asphalt with her broken limb and using her quirk to lift a fallen piece of the destroyed robot. Izuku could see how much it hurt her, yet she had saved him just in time.
If she wasn't there… I could've… The thought hit hard. He remembered Kacchan's words from the day he first gained his time-stop power—the irony of almost dying exactly the way his childhood friend once implied was unsettling.
"IN ADDITION TO HAVING A QUIRK—" All Might's voice broke through his thoughts, leaving the other power unsaid, "—YOUR HEROIC ACTIONS SPURRED OTHERS TO ACT!"
Izuku blinked, a smile tugging at his lips as pride began to replace fear.
"THE ENTRANCE EXAM THE OTHER DAY WAS NOT GRADED ONLY ON VILLAIN POINTS!"
The video now showed him pulling Hitoshi out of danger.
"A HERO IS SOMEONE WHO PRIORITIZES THE LIVES OF OTHERS—EVEN AT THE COST OF THEIR OWN!"
A new score appeared beside his 78 Villain Points—90 Rescue Points.
"RESCUE POINTS—GIVEN BY THE PANEL OF JUDGES OF U.A.! MIDORIYA IZUKU, YOUR TOTAL IS 168 POINTS—MORE THAN I SCORED WHEN I FIRST ENTERED U.A.! AND URARAKA OCHAKO: 45 POINTS! YOU BOTH PASS!"
Izuku's vision blurred as heavy tears streamed down his face. He couldn't help it—he was too happy, overwhelmed by the joy of finally hearing those words. His dream… had come true.
"RAISE UP, YOUNG MIDORIYA!" All Might's booming voice filled the room.
The boy straightened his back, lifting his head high with pride, his chest swelling with emotion.
"THIS IS YOUR HERO ACADEMIA!"
"Yes, sir!" Izuku shouted, wiping his face with both hands as laughter and tears mixed together.
A few minutes later, he stepped out of his room. His mother flinched slightly at the sudden movement, while Luist stood waiting with a knowing smile—he didn't need to ask. He already knew the boy had achieved his dream.
When Izuku smiled back, Inko couldn't hold back anymore; she rushed forward, hugging her son tightly and crying his name. The round of hugs didn't stop there—Luist followed, giving the boy a firm, brotherly embrace and a pat on the back, while SteLL used the nanobots to ruffle his hair affectionately. It was a warm, heartfelt moment—one of pure happiness—before the reason for Luist's visit resurfaced.
Once everyone gathered in the living room, Luist asked Izuku to bring them into his freeze dimension. The teen agreed, still unsure why his mentor was being so cautious. Inko wasn't surprised; she'd been in this still, silent plane before and often used it to tidy up the house without wasting a second, so she took it all in stride.
"Okay, first of all—congratulations," Luist began with a proud grin. "Never doubted you for a second. Secondly…" He reached into the pocket dimension of his armor and pulled out a large metallic case. "I brought you a gift. This is a developer box—capable of creating anything. And I'm here to help you build your very own power armor."
That made both Izuku and his mother look at each other in surprise.
"Isn't that a bit much? You've already done enough-" Izuku began, but Luist interrupted him, his tone suddenly serious.
"The thing is… this will be necessary," he said, setting the metallic case on the floor. "Izuku… I received a visit from people from my original universe. And there's bad news for the future of this world."
The teen's expression hardened while his mother's smile faded.
"Chosen Ones are starting to appear here," Luist continued grimly. "And that could mean the beginning of a second Dawn of Quirks."
The words hit like a thunderclap. Izuku froze, and Inko went pale. The idea of something like that happening again, a global surge of powers, uncontrolled and chaotic, was terrifying.
"A-are you sure?" Izuku stuttered, slipping back into old habits.
"Yeah," Luist nodded, his face grave. "I ran a scan across Japan. The radar showed two full-fledged Champions, you, and another one. That means there's someone out there with power equal to yours. And it could be a Red or BlueChosen." He exhaled slowly, his shoulders tense. "And there are three others with limited power yet not less dangerous." If time hadn't been frozen, Luist would've been drenched in sweat. The implications were that heavy. "So yeah," he concluded, meeting Izuku's eyes. "You'll need all the help you can get."
He pressed a sequence on the box. It opened with a hiss, revealing a pool of liquid metal, thousands of dormant nanobots swirling like quicksilver, and several glowing power crystals stored in containment capsules.
Izuku felt a cold chill crawl down his spine, but he clenched his fists. There was no room for fear now. If a new age of power was truly coming, then people would need heroes more than ever.
"Let's do it," he said firmly.
Luist smiled, proud of the determination in the boy's eyes. Together, with Inko's careful hands assisting and SteLL's voice guiding from within the armor, they began designing and developing Izuku's own Haltron Power Armor, combining the latest blueprints from Luist's world with Izuku's own designs of his hero suit, the one he once dreams of what kind of hero he aspired to be…
And the one he needs to become now that the earth will need a symbol of hope for the future of humanity.
TBC.
The design of the power armour of midoriya will came the day of the team ups, but for those that know my accounts will find it online already.
Also some spoilers ahead
Shigaraki Tomura red champion chosen power: perfect counter.
Melissa Shield blue champion chosen power: techno Kinesis.
Himiko Toga red chosen power: Blood smiths.
Eri green chosen power: Telekinesis
Izumi Kota blue chosen power: natural control.
The descriptions and way of these abilities work will be explore in the future, also yeah I'm not going to make Izuku win easy.