UA Hero Academy, Teachers' Room, 7:00 a.m…
"... and that's why I think Tobey MaGuire is the best Spiderman!"
All Might, in his emaciated form, had just finished his two-hour argument about the best Spiderman in cinema, in front of a bored Present mic and an Eraser head who had been sleeping in his sleeping bag since the beginning.
"Well, bravo toshinori. But that didn't convince me, Andrew Garfield is still the best Spiderman," said the punk rock hero in an impassive tone as he stretched.
"I would have tried..." Toshinori said sadly, bowing his head in defeatism.
It was at this precise moment that Eraserhead found to wake up.
"Is he finished? Thank God," the underground hero sighed in a monotone voice as he stepped out of his cat-patterned sleeping bag.
Toshinori gritted his teeth in anger but he suddenly and literally began to vibrate with his whole body!
VRRRRRTTTTTT!!!
It was due to his phone in his pocket...
"hahahahaha!!!" laughed Mic while holding his ribs, so much he was crying with laughter!
"Toshinori, you're so frail that you vibrate as much as your phone!! It's so stupid!" exclaimed Present mic, laughing even more.
Eraser just sighed with a tired expression on his face.
Seeing the number displayed on the call screen, All might excuse himself as he returned to his personal office. He lowered his voice so as not to be heard by involuntarily prying ears.
"Young Izuku, hello! Do you need anything?" he said with a smile.
Izuku's voice resounded and all might have listened intently, his face furrowing as he went.
Several minutes passed and All Might listened to his protégé without interrupting him once.
In the end...
"I understood you well, young Izuku. I would like us to talk about it right away, but you're on your way to school. Meet me at Dagobah beach after class, okay?"
Izuku replied, and All Might nodded with a smile.
"Very good, see you tonight"
......
9:30 a.m…
"Congratulations once again to Bakugo for his excellent work in this math exercise...." said the math teacher, calm and gentle, her name was Mrs. Fubuki.
Most of the students congratulated bakugo with big admiring eyes (author-chan: how many chapters have we not seen kacchan? Lol!)
Bakugo smiled with his sneering, presumptuous, and arrogant air. His body was a little taller and more muscular, and his crimson eyes shone with a wild glow.
"Bakugo has to train like crazy to pass the entrance exam..."commented one of the girls in the class with a smile, charmed by Bakugo's predatory charisma.
"He's going to succeed with his fingers in his nose, he's extremely powerful and he's second in the class... " added another girl.
"And Midoriya? He is still late…"whispered one of the boys.
The teacher clapped her hands to get the attention of the whole class.
"There is only this week left before the end of your year in our fabulous junior high school , your full professor (AN: chapter 35) has surely told you about your choices of orientation, I would ask you to take this into account for your future, even if most of you want to be heroes" she says in a soft but firm voice.
Everyone nodded obediently except bakugo, of course.
The door then opened abruptly and Izuku entered, all sweating as if he had run a marathon.
"Hello!" he greeted shyly as he readjusted his yellow All Might bag.
The class looked at him in silence, some giggling and others shaking their heads with a mocking, amused smile.
"Legend has it that Izuku Midoriya will never stop being late," one of Bakugo's henchmen sneered and everyone laughed out loud, except the teacher and you guess who.
"What was it this time, Midoriya? Darkseid attacked the earth? A Skrull invasion? Or did you save a little girl from a Deathstroke or Bullseye?" asked Mrs. Fubuki in a sarcastic and ironic tone. His sharp voice contrasted sharply with his soft tone of five minutes ago. Izuku sweated profusely.
"Already, you are really passionate about comics, it shows. I also love comics but that's not the subject I guess... Well... An old lady dropped her shopping cart which was full to the brim with provisions. It sprawled out on the sidewalk and Mount Lady was passing by in her giant form and she was going to crush everything! So I stopped her and she helped me pick everything up but the eggs, milk bottles and tomatoes were ruined... So, I have... I went shopping for the old lady because she was exhausted and...."
Izuku mumbled all this and the teacher sighed as she pinched the artery of her nose.
"Go sit down Midoriya, you're lucky you only have one week left here and you're at the top of the class, otherwise I would have sent you to the headmistress for your punishment"
Izuku quickly complied and thanked Ms. Fubuki with a respectful bow. He didn't want to end up sitting in a kindergarten chair in Ms. Suzuki's office and being lectured for hours.( AN : Chapter 36!)
Bakugo looked at Izuku with a look filled with contradictory feelings: anger, respect, jealousy, fear... All this gripped his chest tighter than he would have liked. The green-haired boy noticed his gaze but looked away with a tense face, which deeply annoyed Bakugo.
"Deku... He looks down on me now, he thinks it's because he saved me and that he saves a few NPCs that he's superior? It's just a pebble on my way to becoming Japan's greatest hero... a pebble in my way." Bakugo tried to convince himself by clenching his fist, which smoked slightly from the explosive sparks.
He gritted his teeth before glaring at him. He could see that deku seemed different, he seemed to hide something, a strength that he didn't know... and it made him mad with rage.
The little pebble was finally a big rock, a very big rock...
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A few hours later, All Might have observed the sea.
The sand of the beach of Dagobah moved in small grains because of the wind. All might smile thinking that it was thanks to his disciple that this old garbage dump had become this beautiful beach again.
"All might!" exclaimed Izuku as he reached him.
All might smile before returning to his Malabar form.
"Young Izuku! I'm happy to see you,Did it go well at school today? "
"I came late again but it's okay..." Izuku said with a nervous smile and a drop of sweat on his forehead.
All might sighed, now knowing his disciple and the running gag of the delay.
"Young Izuku… "All Might said, becoming more serious again despite his iconic smile.
"What you explained to me on the phone is really incredible, you know? You have acquired a new Quirk, the Quirk of the fifth holder."
Izuku nodded seriously and raised the palm of his hand, green and black tendrils burst out of it and spread out a few meters away before izuku winced in pain and made them disappear. He massaged his arm with a tense smile.
"It's really painful, it will take a little practice to master it"
"Black whip... It looks like a dark version of spider-man's webs," said All Might.
"That's it! And banjo said it was the same, I have to train the muscles better to withstand the tendrils and control my emotions so as not to make them uncontrollable and dangerous"
All might nodded.
"It's a very good Quirk, unfortunately I'm not really in a good position to explain to you how to control them well," explained All Might with a sheepish smile.
"Don't worry, with my analysis, I'm going to study black whip and master it, I already master 23% of the one for all, I have to master 25% before the entrance exam and with the black whip on top of that, I could save a lot of people!" exclaimed Izuku, clenching his fist with a determined smile.
All might burst out laughing as he ruffled deku's fluffy hair.
The sun was gradually setting in the sky. It was getting ready to get dark…
"It's really amazing, young Izuku... You are certainly the only One For All holder to establish such a close bond with the other holders. Even I didn't know it was possible" a silence fell for a few minutes, then he continued: "I never went to this dimension you told me about, even if at times, I felt like I felt the consciousness of my mistress nana shimura guiding me. The fact that you can talk with them and acquire their Quirks makes you really special."
Izuku lowered his head, his eyes fixed on his fist.
"Banjo didn't want to tell me anything, he explained to me that the more percentage of the one for all I mastered, the more new Quirks I would unlock. When I tried to ask him questions, he said that only the first bearer could answer me."
"I see... Nana also told me about this first carrier, she didn't know much except that he had been fighting against All for one for an extremely long time and that he seemed to be related to him in some way. She didn't even know much about the sixth bearer before her, describing him as a dark-haired man with a smoke Quirk"
"The one for all has a more complex history and origin than I thought," Izuku said with extreme seriousness.
All might nod before looking at his watch.
"young izuku... I have very important things to do and I don't think I can be there for you tomorrow," he said with a sorry look as he scratched his neck.
"No problem All Might, I totally understand that your role as a symbol must be preserved. You can't waste your precious time in your malabar form on me, I'll practice mastering the Black whip a little" Izuku replied as he adjusted his bag over his shoulder.
All might thanked him with a nod and Izuku bowed respectfully.
"I'm hurrying home, my mother must be worried," Izuku smiled as he bowed one last time before leaving.
All Might smiled softly as he saw him leave.
"Don't be late... as usual!" exclaimed the symbol of peace with his iconic smile widened.
Izuku stumbled over one of the steps of the stone staircase!
"You're not going to get into it too!!" the green-haired boy yelled, blushing deeply, offended.
"HAHAHAHAHA!!" All Might laughs at his deep, powerful voice.
Izuku, despite his little anger, couldn't help but laugh too.
Izuku, at that very moment, felt even luckier. To be so close to his idol, to laugh with him, it was one of the best things that could have happened to him...
To be continued...