Quirkless Rejects

Happy 16th Birthday, Chief!

Jester hopped up from his sitting position. "Dude that is such a great idea!"

"But it is tomorrow, right?" questioned Bubblegum as she walked over and picked up her daughter again. "How would we pull together a party that soon?"

"You bake, Bubble," Jester intervened. "Heck, it was the whole reason we got the bakery in the first place. Make a cake tonight. With Rena too, I am sure Izuku would appreciate the sentiment. Grimlin, Doom, and Butterfly make the other party foods. Cateye and I will handle the invitations by going door to door. Fox, you two get in disguises and get decorations. We will meet here when Fox gets back and set them up."

"What about a gift? It is his birthday after all," Doom said. Jester tapped his chin. He pointed to Eraserhead. "You get it. You are his 'dad' after all."

Everyone looked at Jester stunned. Grimlin himself was impressed by the kid. "What?" Jester asked, picking up on the shock. "I have been around Izuku long enough to be smart enough to do this much at least." That's fair. "So are we doing this or not?" the ginger asked. Grimlin cleared his throat. "Yes, let's." They all split to do their own tasks. He, Doom, Butterfly, Bubblegum, and little Rena all went to the kitchen. The next order of business, what kinds of 'party foods' would Izuku even like?

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Shouta pulled out his bald cap from the news station attack. He chuckled inwardly, not outwardly, of course, when he saw it. He had a cruel flashback to Izuku's almost death at that time. Well, Mikumo was present then but that didn't matter. Shouta pulled back his hair and pulled on the cap. The longer that Izuku was whole and Mikumo was no more, Shouta had been able to see just how true that statement about still having a son was. In retrospect, Mikumo was just a part of Izuku that Izuku had cut off. Now that he was back together, there wasn't much difference. Well, except for this whole emotionless thing. Shouta pulled out green eye contacts and put them in. Shouta had noticed something off about the kid but hearing it out loud hurt. It hurt more so that he didn't realize it at all. He had simply thought that the two forces balanced each other out to make a normal person. Shouta pulled out a razor and, sadly, shaved his stubble. The more he thought about it, Izuku from the start was never 'normal' even if Shouta hadn't known him since a child. There was obviously something twisted in his mind if he started this whole organization that has gotten big enough to destroy the world as we know it. He couldn't have ever been normal if that Deku part was made because that insane Deku part was still a part of him that he had just cut off until the merging again.

Shouta pulled on a plaid shirt and blue jeans. If that was all true, while being insane isn't what one would describe as healthy, Izuku suppressing his true nature for longer than he already has is even less healthy. Shouta had a feeling that the emotionless thing was also part of Izuku cutting off his emotions and the real one being void of them so long as they played themselves in the forms of Mikumo and Deku that he really just could no longer attach to them. It was all the more reason that they all had to help him find himself again. Whether that be an insane maniac or a calm being, Shouta knows that it is necessary that Izuku get in tune with his true self and accept it completely.

They could only hope that this party brought something akin to a smile to the greenettes face.

Shouta put makeup over the scar under his eye and the tattoo on his cheek. Now, if only he didn't have the hardest job of them all, picking out a gift for the most wanted man alive that also happens to be his adopted son.

He sighed and pocketed his wallet and a pocket knife for safety before going downstairs. People, rejects, were starting to file downstairs as well as Jester and Cateye went from door to door. Some filtered in from the outside coming from the other warehouses as well. Were they really planning on fitting all three warehouses in this one? Not even that, they would soon need another warehouse as more and more people joined the fight for freedom. Wow, they are really dedicated. He witnessed some of them bringing food in as well. Jester and Cateye probably knew that the three cooking and Bubble's cake would not be enough for this mass multitude of people so they were probably asking around if people could also bring food. The best part was that due to all of their training, you could barely even hear them at all so it was highly unlikely that Izuku would wake up.