"Good morning!" Present Mic's voice shouted through the as he sat in the booth with a mic. "Hey, guys! That's it for preparations! It's almost time to start!"
"Aw, yeah! Here we go!" A random student of Class 2-D said in excitement as he and his classmates prepared their quirky attraction.
Meanwhile, in the forest, Hound Dog was on his patrol duty before picking up a scent in the air.
"There's two scents of people nearby... Grr... One is Midoriya... Sniff... The other is both recognizable. Could be an intruder." He thought before contacting someone to help him check out who the random scent belong to was.
"We're here to let loose and party! All grades and courses should just go out and have fun! Let's hear it, everyone—"
The clock chimed at nine o'clock, signaling that the school festival has began.
"The U.A. School Festival... starts... now!"
Fireworks popped off into the sky while the Ryugu Family of Fishman Island watched in awe.
"Well, this is something." Fukaboshi stated while standing next to his brothers, his little sister and their father, King Neptune, who nodded.
"Indeed-jamon. And it seems Shirahoshi is enjoying it as well." Neptune said, looking to see his daughter watching the fireworks in awe.
"Your majesty!" Calling to him was Cementoss, who walked over to them. "On behalf of the principal, I have made you and family front row seats for the concert of Class 1-A."
"Thank you-jamon."
"Please, this way." The man lead them to the gym, where the concert was being performed at.
Manboshi looked and saw how much his little sister had changed. "I guess letting her stay here was a good choice. She doesn't seem nervous like I expected her to be."
Fukaboshi nodded. "Yes. Straw Hat's company must have done wonders for her."
"Come on, father!" Shirahoshi grabbed her father's hand, trying to get to gym. "Izuku-sama and his friends' show is about to happen! Let's hurry!"
"Okay, okay, but hold on, Shirahoshi!" Neptune pleased while his daughter tried to drag him. "I can walk, and there's still time until their performance like you told us! Wait!"
Back in the forest, Izuku had his arm up to his face as he stared down Gentle and La Brava.
"Fourth... Gear..."
He coated his arm with Armament Haki before taking a deep breath, then biting into his arm, but unlike how it made his arm expanded, the air blew around while the head of a snake covered him.
Gentle watched wide eyed as cloud of snakes covered the boy, with a giant cloud of smoke covering him while the top has the head of a King Cobra snake.
The air whipped around his legs before lifting Izuku up, then his chest was covered in the smoke before clearing to have bits of Armament Haki coating his chest.
His arm was wrapped up in smoke like a cocoon before coming out to be coated in Armament Haki. His head was wrapped in it as well before quickly clearing to show that his hair had grew even longer, along also having flame shapes in them, mixing in with his green highlights in his hair.
His eyes had dark lines swirl around him, giving him a serious look. His arms had been coated up until the shoulders with Armament Haki and his legs were, too.
"Snake-Man!" Izuku said while getting into a stance, holding his right arm up while his left arm was outstretched.
(A/N: Once again, shout out to LRGriffin for the amazing art.)
"Snake-Man...?" Gentle questioned in confusion while his eyes were widened in shock at the boy's transformation into Fourth Gear Snake-Man.
"He looks so much different than the time he fought in that recording..." La Brava pointed out, noticing that Snake-Man was much more slimmer than Bounce-Man, which gave Izuku a large body.
The boy panted as while he may have been healed, there was some stamina taken from the effects of the Sea Prism Stone. "Hah... Hah... Your control of your Quirk sure is something... and with that new power boost your lover gave to you is another thing for me to be careful of... That's why I'll use..."
He compress his fist into his arm. "Something faster!!" Izuku fired his fist, and it was sent flying at Gentle at ridiculous speeds.
The man could barely react, and he was able to dodge it at the last moment, with the fist grazing the side of his cheek.
"That was close!" He said before seeing something coming at him. He turned to his right to see Izuku's fist before it punched across the face, knocked Gentle over to the ground.
"Gentle?!" La Brava shouted in fear.
"How was I hit? I dodged his attack for sure!" Gentle thought in confusion before he saw another punch coming for him, but he dodged it only to later get hit across the face again.
He saw another punch and dodging it, then turning around to see Izuku's fist was bending in order to gain another hit in.
"I see..." Gentle quickly moved his head, dodging the fist that passed by his chin. "He's bending his rubber arms to keep trying to attack me head on!"
"Chase him, Python!" Izuku shouted as his fist kept on bending and stretching, unlike the time he used it against Doflamingo and Overhaul's fused body, it gotten faster when it continued to stretch.
"It's getting faster..." Gentle muttered while putting up a barrier. "How is that possible?! And bending shouldn't be possible for rubber!"
"That's because it gets faster every time it stretches after it expands!" Izuku explained as his arm was now stretching and bending at ridiculous speeds, didn't help Gentle that One For All was added into the mix, increasing his fist's speed to the point where it was just bouncing around very fast that the man couldn't see where it was coming next.
"Gomu Gomu no... Jet... Culverin..." Izuku's fist stopped bouncing around and immediately headed straight for Gentle, who didn't look worried.
"There's no need for panic. My air membrane will just hold it back or repel his fist back."
However, he didn't count Izuku adding Ryou into his fist, which made him internally damaged the air membrane and punch Gentle across the face.
"Smash!!"
"Gah!" Gentle groaned in pain before being flung through the forest.
"No... Gentle! I'm sorry! My love... My love wasn't enough to help!" La Brava cried as she watched them fight.
"Not yet!" Izuku compressed his legs before blasting off after Gentle. "Gomu Gomu no... Black..."
"No one has proved that your love was not enough!" Gentle replied as he put up multiple air membranes to act as barrier while Izuku compressed both of his fists. "Mamba... Smash!!"
Izuku released his fists, which unleashed an all-out assault of fists at Gentle from all directions—Up, left, right. The barriers only held them back, but the forest was getting damaged by them. Ryou was used to push further and Gentle was hit with the barrage of punches.
"That's from over!" Izuku shouted before rushing for another attack when Gentle got back up.
"Gently..." He made multiple air membranes, stacked on top of each other before pushing them down onto the boy, pinning him to the ground. "Sandwich!"
Izuku couldn't get up due to Gentle standing on top of the stack of air membranes. "The thinner the sandwich, the classier it is, inherently... I don't like piling layer upon layer... But even so, I I want to fulfill... the fleeting dream of my middle years."
"Ah... umm... Who're you, again?"
"To leave my name in history, craved into it for posterity! This dream is no longer a dream I hold for myself! Today, I take the first step toward my great work. It's not so trivia that I can just gif with up when someone tells me to. If you're a U.A. student, then you must understand my yearning for my dream."
Izuku slammed his fist into the ground, breaking it before punching the dirt away as he dug like a mole, soon digging out of the Gently Sandwich.
"Why? If you understand so much, why does it have to be the school festival?! Why would you trample on everyone's hopes!?" He shouted while flying up before grabbing his coat, trying to pull Gentle down but was yanked up by the Gently Sandwich.
"That's because that's how it is!" The man shouted before Izuku just punches him across the face.
"If it's for your dream, then you can steal people's hard work and passion, along with the smile of a girl who doesn't even know how to smile yet?!"
Gentle created another air membrane, which he landed on before kicking Izuku away. "That means..." He used the air membrane as a launchpad before flying at Izuku, ready to hit him with his Sea Prism Stone gloves. "I can make my dream come true!"
"My dream... is to become a Hero." A teenage Gentle, real name Danjuro Tobita, stated as he was in the principal's office with his mother, who was crying into a handkerchief. He was 18 at the time. "A Hero great enough to be written into textbooks one day."
"Well, that's not what I asking." His mutant principal stated while holding a paper with Tobita's grades and progress on them, which didn't look too good. "Things looks bad for ya, Tobita. Our school isn't that prestigious, but you keep failing and getting held back. Not to mention, this is the fourth time you've failed the provisional licensing exam. Honestly, the best I can recommend is that you voluntarily withdraw."
Tobita's eyes looked shocked while he tried to keep smiling upon hearing those words from his principal.
"I heard the Takeshitas' son already has agencies around the Grand Line asking for him." Tobita's mother stated as Tobita looked to see his friend talking with people about how he already has invitations to different agencies across the Grand Line.
"Don't worry, Mom." He replied with a smile. "I won't be discouraged. I'll endure this. I'll do my best!"
In the present, Izuku unleashed another Gomu Gomu no Jet Culverin Smash, which was block as Gentle attempted to punch the boy, but Izuku dodged before coating his entire head in Armament Haki and then proceeding to headbutting the man, who was still reflecting with on his past.
One day, Tobita was having his tea break at the local café on the island he and his parents stayed at before hearing footsteps come by a window.
"Call a Hero! A Hero!" The man running passed a window shouted.
Tobita walked outside and followed the man, leading him to find a worker was hanging from the platform he was using to clean the windows, with one of the ropes having been snapped.
"He's gonna fall!"
"I thought with my Quirk, I could make a cushion."
Tobita ran in, using his Quirk to make a cushion for the man. However, at the same time, a Hero with wings came in and flew directly into the air membrane, repelling him back while the man and the platform he was hanging onto landed on it, making him lose his grip and fall to the ground, becoming severely injured as the platform had fell onto him.
Tobita stared in shock at what he just done while the ambulance's sirens roared in the distance.
"The man who fell was seriously injured and will need to take six months to fully recover." An officer stated to Tobita, who was brought to the station for interrogation of his actions. "In the end, your actions interfered with a Hero's rescue attempt. That is obstructing the discharge of official duties, and you will be charged with that crime."
When he got back home, Tobita entered the family living room to find his mother crying while his father on the phone, talking to someone. On the table was a letter, saying 'Notice for Withdrawal'.
After that, he packed up his things while his mother screamed and threw himself at him, stating, 'never come back, you failure of a child.'
Izuku blasted himself forward, flying with the elastic force before throwing a punch, which Gentle managed to dodge before grabbing his arm, weakening the boy because of the Sea Prism Stone in his gloves. He yanked Izuku towards him before kicking the boy across the face, but Izuku responded back by punching Gentle with his free arm.
The man attempted to counterattack by grabbing the ground for footing and then kicking the boy, but Izuku dodged it before kneeing Gentle in the stomach, which was enough to cause him to vomit out the Gold Tips Imperial he drank earlier.
Time passed after that day. Tobita was now 22 years old, and was a part-timer, certainly unemployed. During his time alone growing, traveling from island to island, he had grown his beard and mustache.
He was currently walking down the streets with a smile on his face. "Spring is nice. I can eat wild vegetables."
Screams of joy gained his attention, and in front of the crowd of people was a person that just happened to become a popular known Hero. And it wasn't just any person...
"I had already forgotten my dream..."
It was his old friend from school, Takeshita.
"Takeshita?!" He asked with a smile on his face before heading over to him. "Why, if it isn't Takeshita! You already formed your own agency? That's wonderful! Do you remember me? We were in the same class, though I was held back a year—"
"Ah... umm... who're you, again?" Takeshita asked with a confused look, but still smiled, trying to be nice... not knowing that he had just forgotten about his friend.
Tobita just stood there, jaw dropped as the Sakura flowers blew in the air. "My dream..."
"A Hero great enough to be written into textbooks one day."
"...was already gone. Just dead."
Gentle was now scrounging around his apartment through boxes. "Would I just continue to grow older, poor and pathetic before dying alone?"
He stopped when he found a book that was titled 'History of Supervillainy', which he looked at with a crazed look and smile in his face. "No! Never!"
"Not yet! I have time!" Gentle stated in the present as he and Izuku clashed fists once more.
"Gentle!" La Brava cried out for him in worry as she saw the hits he took before he responded with his own. "Up until now, we only used Lover Mode to escape. Gentle doesn't like violence, and yet he's—"
Gentle punched Izuku across the face before backflips over him, bouncing off the ground with his Quirk. "You can mock me and say that I'm mentally weak!" He land on a tree before bouncing off of it. "That's fine! I...!"
Izuku caught his fist with ease, which caused a shockwave that blew everything around them away. But the Sea Prism Stone glove was weakening him even though his hand was coated in Armament Haki.
"Who says I'm mocking you?! I don't do that to my opponents, Gentle Criminal!"
La Brava couldn't hold it back and her tears followed down her face. "Win! Gentle!"
From her love, La Brava had given Gentle another boost of power from her Quirk, which Izuku saw. "That girl's Quirk...!" He reacted and caught Gentle's right fist when he tried to punch him again. "His power's getting stronger! And with the Sea Prism Stone embedded into his gloves...!"
More pink smoke emitted off of Gentle before he snapped back to reality and pushed Izuku down, who held his ground, which caused the ground they stood on to break as their feet pushed into the dirt. "You! Tell me, boy. Why do you want to be a Hero?"
"I love you."
"This dream is no longer a dream I hold for myself!"
"I'm the same as you, Gentle." He replied while holding the man back. "My dream isn't just my own anymore! A dream too big for the body I was born with! A dream I'd given up from the bottom of my heart! For everyone that didn't laugh! For everyone that acknowledged me! I want to life up to their expectations! For those who have been hurt... I want... I want...!"
His mind flashes through every single moment he went through in life, from born Quirkless and told he could be a Hero to discovering he was a reincarnation of Monkey D. Luffy and having that chance again, with now people that supported him this far. Then up to now, with the death of his mentor and Nighteye to his and Mirio's visit with Eri at the hospital and how she called him her papa.
"I want to become someone who can show them a bright future!"
Gentle didn't respond but gave a smile. "The same... huh...?" He gritted his teeth before tossing the boy away, who crashed into a tree.
La Brava pulled out her laptop and began to go to work. "I believe! I believe that Gentle will win!" From the background, she heard the blows the two were exchanging with each other, but she still continued working while tears were still in her eyes.
"The computer and program that I put together for this day—If I can connect to U.A.'s internal network with this special wi-fi, then I can deactivate their security system, and we can get inside."
The program was at 67% upload and reach 70% before another tab stated she was denied access. "From here, the wi-fi just barely doesn't reach!" La Brava took the laptop before taking some dirt as she ran into the forest, rubbing it on her to mask her scent from Hound Dog.
"I need to get closer! What I need to for Gentle's sake!"
Gentle turned around to see her run into the forest. "La Brava, no! It's dangerous to go alone!"
"I'm putting..." He turned back to see Izuku stand up, compressing his fist. "...an end into this! One For All... at 50%! Gomu Gomu no..." Izuku fired off his fist, but instead of aiming directly for Gentle, it looped back in order to gain speed.
"So will I!" Gentle bounced off into the air before putting his hands up, where multiple air membranes are created, but unlike Gently Sandwich, these were spaced apart and each one grew more bigger than the last. "Gently Super-Lover!"
"King Cobra Smash!!" Izuku's fist bend back to them with its increased speed. "Go!"
Back in the forest, La Brava continued to run but stopped in shock. "No... No...!" In the distance in front of her was Hound Dog, who lead a pack of four Ectoplasm clones.
As Izuku's fist flew straight for gentle, steams in the form of two snakes, one pink and one blue, swirl around his arm before merging into a golden king cobra that hissed, which soon dissipated as Izuku's fist enlarges and heads straight for Gentle, who proceeded to throw his Gently Super-Lover to stop the boy.
"Raaaaaaaaah!" Both Gentle and Izuku screamed at the top of their lungs simultaneously as their attacks reached one another. King Cobra Smash hit Gentle in the stomach, with enough for to make him vomit up blood while Gentle Super-Lover squashed down on Izuku, smashing the boy slowly into the ground.
A great shockwave ruptured from the attacks, sending a massive burst of air pressure through the forest where La Brava, Hound Dog, Ectoplasm and his clones felt it as they saw a massive tornado of air spin around, ripping the trees from their roots and the ground apart before it dissipated into another huge burst of air pressure.
The blast stopped and at the scene of the attack, Gentle was now defeated, with La Brava's Lover Mode turned off as the steam started to dissipate from him.
His eyes were just barely opened before he heard footsteps and turned to see Izuku coming towards him, out of his Fourth Gear Snake-Man transformation.
"Of all the people I faced... You're up there with them, Gentle." The boy said while looking like a mess since he got squashed before proceeding to restrain the man with Blackwhip. Restore started to do its job in healing the boy, who then heard footsteps coming to them.
"Gentle! There are Heroes just over there—" La Brava came out from the bush, looking over her shoulder to check on how far the Heroes were before turning around to see the horrific sight. Gentle was down for the count, while Izukj had him restrained with Blackwhip.
"La... Brava..." The man muttered. "Run away..." Unfortunately for Gentle, the power up from Love lasts for only a short time and can only be used once per day.
La Brava's eyes shed tears as she dropped the laptop. "No, stop... Let go..." She slowly walked before full on charging to the boy. "Let Gentle go...!
She began to hit Izuku on the shoulder and his back, but with how small and fragile La Brava was, she didn't have any strength. "Let go! No! Gentle had his heart set on this scheme! He even forgot about the tea breaks he loves to get ready!"
Izuku watched as the tears fall from her eyes as she said that. "Let go! What 'bright future'?! Gentle is my only light! Don't take my Gentle away from me! Don't take him away!"
Gentle's eyes opened up slightly from hearing her words. "La Brava. Even though I knew that you wouldn't run away... I told you to run..."
"You can't help me." Gentle said to Manami, back on the day they met. "That would just make you an accomplice to my crimes."
"Please! I've already committed a crime with my hacking." Manami pleaded. Gentle put his tea back onto the plate as he thought about it.
"It's fine, Gentle! If I can be with you, then I'll be happy no matter what I'm doing or where I am."
"Would you have been happy to escape alone?" The man questioned in his head before shaking it off, knowing the outcome of that result. "No..."
"I'LL DIE BEFORE I'M GOING TO BE SEPARATED FROM YOU, GENTLE!" He heard her scream out in her sadness.
"I'm sure you would've gone on to commit crimes much worse than what we've done." A small bit of Lover Mode started to emit the heart-shaped smoke from his body while Ectoplasm's clone and Hound Dog closed in.
"The one who brought you here, who accepted you and made you my partner—is me!" More pink smoke started to emit from Gentle while he remembered her smile from that day.
"La Brava, I was happy, too!" The last bit of power came through, which was signalled by the smoke near him, on the shoulder. "If I get caught by the Heroes like this, then it'll be obvious you're my accomplice. In that case, even though the scene of a fight is obviously known, at least..."
Gentle powered up once more, which Izuku didn't notice since he looked at La Brava before he felt a kick punting him into the air, where he landed on the leftocer air membrane and bounced away from them. "I can make it so you won't be join in prison with me."
With Izuku gone, Gentle powered down and embraced La Brava in for a hug, where she never let him go.
"Just go away like that, Midoriya D. Izuku. Vanish. I'll just lie and say that two strong people other than us fought here and I just got caught up in the mess. For the sake of her bright future. You know, you should be proud. You protected everything you stood for and won."
Hound Dog and Ectoplasm's clones made it to the scene, while La Brava hugged Gentle tighter. "I'm afraid I took a little tumble in the park... U.A.... I'm turning myself in."
A few moments ago, before they arrived on the scene...
"A student went out shopping hasn't returned?" Ectoplasm said while getting the news from his earpiece. "Got it. I'll look into it."
"Ectoplasm!" Two second-year students shouted to him. "If you're hungry, come over to our stand, okay!?"
"Thanks. I'd love to..."
"Over here... Grr.... Something's happening over at site c-16! I'm going to borrow 4 of your clones at E-4." Hound Dog stated over the mic of the earpiece.
"Roger that. Is it an emergency?"
"I'll check it out right now... This scene... 3 people... They deviated from their original route. They aren't moving anywhere now. Just staying in place. Extreme perspiration and agitation. Is it a lost child? An injured person? Or just a fool?"
"Everyone, be on high alert... In the event we comfirm a hostile party... be prepared to cancel the festival and evacuate all students!" Ectoplasm stated as all of U.A.'s staff listened in.
"Turn yourself in?" Hound Dog questioned in confusion.
"I've seen him before." The clone of Ectoplasm on his right said. "He's that Villain who's quick to escape—The one who poses these impertinent videos."
Hound Dog walked up and grabbed Gentle by the collar of his coat, making La Brava let go of him while she was worried. "Gentle!"
"Anyone else with you?" Hound Dog asked the man, who put his hands up.
"No."
Hound Dog sniffed around him. "What are those injuries and this scene?"
"I happened to get in the crossfire between two people, very powerful, that were fighting."
"Just the two of you?"
"That's right."
"That's right?! Well, guess what? I don't believe you. I smelled three people, and the ones I see here right now are you and her! So who is the other one?! I can smell one of our students!"
Izuku jumped onto the ground, landing after being bounced away from Gentle. He proceeded to dash straight for the scene.
"Where is our student?!" He asked before hearing footsteps. Hound Dog looked to his left to see Izuku, a bit dirty after their fight which made the dog man calm down.
"I have committed many crimes up until now..." Gentle began to mutter while La Brava got up. "But my greatest crime was to kidnap and brainwash an innocent girl. Giving myself a nice-sounding reason for my self-interest, I've lived this whole time for myself. Hmph. Betting my feelings, fighting, reduced until all that's left at the bottom of me... is a heart that can feel... for someone else. Midoriya D. Izuku, I'm glad that you were the one I was able to trade blows with last. All the blame lies on me. So, please, pardon Manami Aiba."
La Brava grabbed onto his coat while the tears followed down her face as she realized what he was doing. "Gentle...! For my sake...! No... No... I... I love Gentle! That's not fair, Gentle. Even though you know that I wouldn't want to cause you any trouble...!"
She continued to cry while Gentle put a hand on her head. Ectoplasm's clone looked to Izuku. "What about your injuries?"
"Were you fighting?" Hound Dog asked as well.
Izuku was silent before giving his answer. "I realized that he was going to play a joke on U.A., so we had a small disagreement. And yeah, I know that it may not look like a small disagreement, but it was. It was just rage and power that caused this. But... it's fine now."
La Brava bawled while dropping to her knees, crying. Hound Dog heard a phone go off, and it came from one of Ectoplasm's clones.
"Hound Dog, Ectoplasm C, any irregularities?" Snipes voice came through the phone as he asked that question.
"Snipe."
"Please report."
Ectoplasm looked at his other clones but Hound Dog snatched the phone away from him. "Some video streamer who was being a nuisance wants to turn himself in."
"What the heck?"
"I don't get it either!"
"Huh?"
Hound Dog just tossed the phone back to him. "Anyway, this is not an emergency. Please continue to be vigilant."
"You can tell us more at the police station!" Hound Dog said, taking both Gentle and La Brava, who still kept crying.
"Midoriya..." Izuku's head perked up as he heard Gentle speak. "I was once in the Hero Course at school, too. Gentle Criminal is the mere shadow of someone who was once a Hero dropout."
"Why? If it's for your dream, then you can steal people's hard work and passion, along with the smile of a girl who doesn't know how to smile yet?!"
"I'm in no position to say this, but I hope your feelings reach those you want them to reach." He replied before continuing with Hound Dog and the three clones of Ectoplasm.
"A bright future, huh?" Gentle thought as he looked into the sky.
"Class A's performance starts at 10, right?" The fourth clone of Ectoplasm asked, which snapped the boy out of his trance. "Right now, it's 9:16... 9:17, actually. Well, from here, you can get to the university school in five or six minu—"
"Wait, I left the bag of things I came out to buy..."
"Where is it? I'll go with you." Ectoplasm's clone said before following the boy. From a different perspective of the forest, the man that followed them looked at the outcome with his camera, recording the whole fight.
"I think I have every thing I need... Time to go." He thought before making his leave with his camera.
As they ran together to the store, which left Izuku to pick up Ectoplasm with Blackwhip before flying with Float and One For All, as it was now 9:25 a.m.
"Gentle Criminal.. you were a very good opponent to fight." The boy thought while he flew with his sensei.
"Midoriya's not back yet?" Aizawa asked as he was with Mirio and Eri, who stood in front of Class A.
"Why's that guy taking so long to buying one thing?" Sero asks in frustration as it was almost time to start.
"For real!" Hagakure pouted, although it was invisible.
"The mere shadow of someone who was once a Hero dropout... I figured out why he was kind of hard to fight."
After making their way back to the store, getting his bags back, Izuku and Ectoplasm flew through the forest, but something caught his eye.
It was La Brava's camera, the one that Gentle told her to use and not stop filming. He snatched it with Blackwhip, grabbing it.
"Because I could've turned out like him. Because Gentle and I had a lot of the same thoughts and feelings. He did it thinking of La Brava... As for me..."
It was now 9:35 a.m. Izuku and Ectoplasm ran together as Aoyama stood at the gates.
"Oh! There you are! Midoriya, you're late!"
"Sorry, Aoyama!"
"Sacré bleu! You look terrible! Why are you so beat up?" He asked, seeing the dirt on his face.
"Uh... I'll explain later!" The boy replied, making his friend sigh.
"What are you doing, clumsy boy? Here, change your clothes... Everyone's waiting!"
"Thanks! I guess we both gotta get going. Hold onto me!" Aoyama grabbed his arm before Izuku flew off for Gym Gamma.
"Wait! Do you plan to perform cover in dirt?" Ectoplasm asked. "If you do, then everyone will be worrying about you rather than enjoying the show."
"Don't worry. I healed up these wounds back there. I can clean my self up in a quick jiffy." He replied.
"I wonder what Class 1-A's performance will be like."
"I'm kind of excited to see." Two students said to each as they passed by the two General Studies students that Katsuki saw, who just grunted.
"Aizawa, he's back!" Midnight said as she walked over to him.
"Yeah, we haven't started yet either..." He replied while Mirio looked at the stage from backstage before feeling a tug on his pants to see it came from Eri, who frowned.
"Is Papa not going to dance?"
"Don't worry, he'll dance." He replied with a smile.
Ochaco looked behind the curtains to see how many students were in the gym, where were a lot. "There are more people here than I thought there'd be!"
"Everyone seems to be in a good mood this morning." Sato commented.
"They've been looking forward to it, dummy."
"Dekiru's not here yet?!" She asked, turning her head back.
"Oh, I am!" A voice spoke from above, which made them look up to see Izuku, now changed into the same clothes as the dance team, putting the replacement lightbulb into the same spotlight that the original one broke in.
"Dekiru!/Hot stuff!/Izuku!/Midoriya!"
"You made it in time, Midoriya!" Iida said with a cheer. "And in just five minutes left before we start!"
"Yeah, sorry. I caught up in something, but it's all good." He said, floating down to his partners. "You guys ready to put some smiles on people's faces?"
"Yeah!" They replied. Soon, everyone came out onto the stage. They greeted him before getting into their places.
Once the clock struck and it was now 10:00 a.m., the lights shut off. While there were a bunch of students, on top from the sides were seats created by Cementoss for people that were granted special VIP seats to watch the show.
Those people were, the Straw Hats, Uta, Hancock, Margaret, Aphelandra, Vivi, Rebecca and her family, Shirahoshi and her family too, along with Inko, along with her grandbabies aka Izuku and Rumi's children, Mitsuki, Rei, Fuyumi and Natsu. Next to the mother of Izuku was Horie, who was two months pregnant.
A buzz went off and the stage curtains slide open. The silhouette of Kyoka wand the others was shown as the students cheered.
"There it is!"
"First years, do your best!"
"Show us what you've got, first years!"
"Yaoyorozu!" A bunch of people, mostly boys who were fans of Momo like Itsuka because of that commercial Uwabami made them join in, shouted her name from the crowd.
"Eri-chan, can you see?" Mirio asked as he carried the girl on his shoulder, giving her a high seat.
"Yeah..." She muttered in awe from seeing Izuku standing with the dance team.
"Father-sama, it's starting!" Shirahoshi jumped in joy while sitting next to her father and siblings.
"Yes, I see-jamon..." Neptune muttered, a bit unfamiliar to see his daughter not act like her usual self where she would break down into tears.
"Lucy's show is about to start!" Rebecca cheered with a smile as she sat between Vivi and her father, Kyros.
"Sorry, we're late..." A voice behind them spoke as they turned to see Sanji, Pudding and Viola, who all appeared to be... sweating?
"Sanji! Where were you? You're gonna miss this SUPERRRRR show!" Franky said in his usual manner.
"Viola! Where were you? You just up and disappeared..." King Riku asked, a bit worried while also noticing how wrinkled her dress was. "What happened? Why are you sweating?"
"Let me guess... you were for it?" Rebecca asked, and her aunt nodded with a smile and blush on her face while the rest were confused.
"Oi, pervert cook." Zoro called out to Sanji. "What did you do?"
"Uh... we just had fun. Nothing more." He replied with a smile on his face, which made Viola and Pudding blush with a smile.
"Hi, everyone! Sorry, I'm late!" Another voice made them see Carrot come in, with six babies strapped in baby harnesses on her body.
"Woah! Carrot!" Nami said in surprise while she was also about three months pregnant. She looked and saw the six babies. Three of them were like Rumi's children, humans with traits of a rabbit. The other three were Minks like her.
They were all asleep on their mother.
"Are those your kids?"
"Yeah. I gave birth to them when it was September, a month ago." She said, patting the heads of her children.
"They looked adorable." Robin cooed, looking at the sleeping babies before at her stomach. She was three months into her pregnancy like Nami.
"I hope mine are just as adorable." Yamato and Hancock said simultaneously, rubbing their pregnant bellies. However, unlike Nami, Robin, and Hancock, the white-woman's stomach was just a bit bigger.
"Uh... why is Yamato's belly bigger than you two?" Carrot asked in confusion.
"Chopper believes that since Yamato is part of the Oni race like her father, Kaido, her pregnancy may be different, which showed signs at the first month of pregnancy. He made the prediction that she will possibly give birth in 6 months from now."
"Wow... all because of your traits, huh?"
"Indeed. That just gives me more chance of seeing my children sooner~" Yamato replied before looking back at the stage. "But perhaps we should enjoy this. I'm wondering if Izuku, or Luffy, and his friend will have a concert better than Queen's back in Onigashima."
From the stage, while the crowd continued chanting Momo's name, Izuku noticed Eri with Mirio in the crowd, making him smile. "As for me... I want to see you smile!"
"Now... I wonder how it'll go." Aizawa commented as he stood with Midnight, Present Mic and Mt. Lady.
"What do you mean 'I wonder how it'll go'?!" Present Mic asked in shock. "I'm super looking forward to this!"
"Oh, don't be such a party pooper, Shota." Nemuri said with a frown.
"Honestly, I agree with her." Yu said while standing next to her. "I'm excited for this."
"I don't care about you. Anyway, you guys should be on patrol."
"Hey! I'm only gonna watch a little! Just a little!"
"Knowing you, you probably are gonna stick it out for the whole concert, Hizashi." Nemuri said, knowing how her old friend is going to act.
Aizawa turned back to the concert. "There are some students who have been discontent and grumbling, blaming Clas A for U.A.'s current situation. They're not here to have a good time, they're here to evaluate Class critically, so they don't see this as entertainment..."
"A band and dance performance?" The girl of the General Studies Course, Chukchi Togeike, said as she stood along side her classmate, Tsutsutaka Agoyamato. "Even if you do a decent job, in the end, you're just satisfying yourself, aren't you? Just showing off..."
Smokescreen began to release from Izuku, covering the whole stage as the lights in the back died down while things were silent. While being engulfed in the smoke, Kyoka remembered her father's words during a talk they had on the day of Parent Day.
"Kyoka... you can do what you want."
"Let's go! Start, damn it!" Katsuki roared from the drums.
"Let's make the opening showy!" Kirishima said while standing from above the stage.
"Get ready, all of U.A.... For we'll kill 'em with our sound!" Katsuki blasted an explosion, which cleared the smoke away and surprised the people, including the two General Studies students.
The drums were before the guitars were heard while the dance team began their work. Eri covered in her ears but was still in awe while Mirio smiled.
"Thanks for coming out today!" Kyoka shouted as she began to sing her original song, Hero Too.
"What am I too be?
What is my calling?
I gave giving up, I'm ready to go~
The future's left unseen,
It all depends on me,
Put it on the line to follow me dreams- Yeah!"
Everyone in the audience was left stunned by this and Kyoka's singing voice.
"Tried all my life
I've tried to find,
Something that makes hold on and never let go
Oh~"
The dance team jumped in the air, showing off their moves while everyone cheered for the show.
"Hero, too
I am a Hero too
My heart is set and I won't back down"
While everyone dances, Iida showed off his robot moves to the crowd.
"Hero, too
Strength doesn't make a Hero
True Heroes stand up for what they believe
So wait and see"
Izuku ran with Full Cowling as Mirio pointed and Eri watched in awe to see Izuku and Aoyama joined their arms together before he tossed the French blonde up into the air bye fired off his move, Navel Laser Buffet.
"Lasers!"
"Smart move!" Sanji said with a finger under his chin.
Vivi, Rebecca and Shirahoshi yelled in joy from seeing these while Margaret, Hancock and Aphelandra watched in awe from seeing the show.
"Amazing..." Margaret muttered before smiling. "Go, Luffy-sam-"
"Not that loud, Margaret!" Hancock shouted, putting a hand to her mouth to keep her from shouting Izuku's secret.
"I'd say, this is something comparable to my concerts~" Uta said with a giggle while also rubbing her stomach, which signalled that she got was she wanted when they rescued him from Impel Down back then. Meaning that she was pregnant.
"Human fireworks?" One of the students questioned in awe.
Aoyama was caught by Ojiro while Izuku ran off the stage. Before he left, he turned and gave a thumbs up.
"He was barely in it!" Mirio said with a smile on his face.
"He went away." Eri said, a bit sad.
"But keep watching. I'm sure he'll come out again."
"What do they think me?
Who do they think I'll be?
I could not care less, I don't wanna know.
Am I doing right?
Am I satisfied?
I wanna live my life like it's meant to be
Yeah!"
All the girls of Class A, minus Shoko since she was on special effects, gathered up in a line before pulling apart to show Camie, who gave an air kiss to the audience for she was gonna be a special person for this next bit.
Chukchi and her classmate held in their smiles and cheers, but with the way the show was, it was impossible. Her classmate nearly let out a laugh of joy which he struggled to contain.
"Here it comes!" Kririshima shouted as he and others got ready.
"Tried all my life
I've tried to find
Something that makes me hold on and never let go
Oh~"
Shoko released her ice from her hand, Sero released his tape while Koda sent out some birds. Momo created some confetti poppers from her arm, firing them off into the air, which made the crowds more pumped up.
Camie then used her Quirk, blowing a colorful gas into the air, which gave the ceiling of the northern lights, and added with the bits of ice that Kirishima chipped from Shoko as he carried that block of ice, it gave everyone that Christmas vibe.
"Hero, too
I am a Hero too
My heart is set and I won't back down"
Everyone in the crowd including Chukchi and her classmate started to dance along as the dance team did the same while Aoyama was lifted in the air, giving off the laser effects.
"Hero, too
Strength doesn't make a Hero
True Heroes stand up for what they believe
So wait and see
Hero, too~"
As this happened, Kyoka's mind flashes back to the moment she had that talk with her parents, the same day her some of her friends and harem sisters went off with the Straw Hats, Kuja Pirates and Koby's crew to save Izuku from Impel Down.
"Mom, Dad, I decided that... I want to be a Hero. I'm not gonna become a musician. I'm sorry." She said, having an apologetic look on her face. Her father put a hand to his daughter's head.
"Is that something to cry about? C'mon."
"But—I couldn't decide... Fighting for other people seemed so cool...! I always admired it... But I didn't want the music you taught me to go to waste, and I love music, too, so... and my boyfriend supports it... but I wasn't able to decided. I couldn't tell you..."
"Kyoka... you can do what you want. Your mom and I became musicians because that's what we love. At first, it always starts out as something as trivial as thinking, 'It's so cool!' or 'I did it!'"
"Think about what you'll be able to do for a long time." Her mother, Mika, said. "What can you do for others with your own sound? In that sense, being a musician and being a Hero are the same, huh?"
"Yeah I'll be!
Hero, too!
I am a Hero too
My heart is set and I won't back down
Hero, too!
Strength doesn't make a Hero
True Heroes stand up for that they believe
So wait and see!"
Tsuyu used her tongue to carry Ochaco, who proceeded to use her Quirk to make people weightless.
With all of this and the people's joy and cheer, the dark bird of Overhaul's evil acts broke apart, and Eri... smiled for the first time in her life.
"Can you see this, Midoriya, Sir?" Mirio asked mentally as the little girl's smile was enough to bring him to tears of joy. "She's smiling! Little Eri is smiling! She's actually happy! We didn't it!!"
"I have met so many Heroes in my life
Gave me the strength and courage to survive
Gave me the power to smile everyday
Now it's turn to be the one to make you smile!~"
With the final note, the cheers roared through the gym. Aizawa was impressed, Present Mic was having a blast, Nemuri was happy with the show while Yu was happy things went.
Things ended for the concert, and it was time for, what Monoma called it, 'Class 1-B's 'original' play of Romeo and Juliet and the Return of the Prisoner King of Azkaban'.
Tetsutetsu wore a cloak and sword as he was about to strike down on Shoda, but it was blocked by Romeo, who was played by Monoma.
"My name is Romeo! Ghost of Azkaban, Count Paris! You will return Juliet to me!"
"I honestly wish it was Izuku saving me instead of Monoma's dumb face..." Yui thought as she wished for Izuku instead of the blonde. Unfortunately, he was in a concert, and she was in the play.
"Romeo... You must have heard about your father from your mentor, Gandalf, right? That he was the king of Gondor. That was a lie."
Monoma gasped dramatically as Tetsutetsu removed the hood of his cloak. "I am your true father! Join me!"
"You're lying..." The blond muttered before dropping the sword as his knees became weak. "No... No... NO......!!!!"
"They stuffed too much in!"
"It was amazing in a lot of ways."
"Still doesn't help that they ripped off of Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Romeo and Juliet. So much for an 'original play'." A student criticized as the play was now over.
Meanwhile, Izuku was in front of Hound Dog, Aizawa and Principal Nezu.
"So this is the man you encountered in your way to the store?" Nezu asked as he got the mug shot of Gentle Criminal.
"Yes. He stated that he planned to have U.A's security system shut down so he could sneak inside." He said before getting Hound Dog a up in his face.
"Don't think what you did was 'correct'. You weren't really injured, and in the end, the school festival is continuing. But that's just the result!"
"Hound Dog, enough." Nezu said as he stepped forward.
"But, sir-!"
"Enough, I said. Midoriya may have done some things, but you're wrong. He saved the school festival from being closed if this Villain managed to sneak it."
He walked over to Izuku before bowing in front of the boy. "Midoriya-kun, you have no idea what you have just done for us. With the situation in his hands and none of his knowing the Villain's plan, if it wasn't for chance that you encountered this Gentle Criminal, we would've had to shut down the festival. Thank you. You have no idea what you have just saved this festival from cancelling."
"Thank you, Principal Nezu." The boy thanked as he bowed before the festival.
"Hmph. Fine. You saved the festival and did the sort of right thing, but don't act all gloomy. The festival is still on, so you better enjoy every minute of it!"
"Yes, sir!" Izuku said before running off, making to the gym where his classmates were putting out multiple hunks of ice.
"Hey, good work!" Mirio said as he saw Izuku walk up to them.
"What an amazing performance, Izuku!" His mother said with a smile.
"You know what?" Izuku looked to see Eri with an excited smile on her face. "At first there was a loud noise and it was scary, but then everyone was hopping with the dance and then there was a flash and Papa, you went away, but then it got cold and then there was a spinning light and a girl's voice said 'wow' and I said 'wow' too..."
She stopped speaking when she saw her father wipe the tears from her eyes. "I'm glad you had a great time."
Eri replied by giving her father the most cutest smile she ever showed. It was enough to cause his mother to pass out.
"Hey, Midoriya! Mind helping out here?" Sero asked, pointing to a tub full of broken ice.
"Sure!" He activated Third Gear and grabbed a large tub of leftover ice before putting it near Katsuki, who was using his explosions to melt the ice.
"Class A!" They turned to see multiple students with smiles on their faces.
"We had a lot of fun!"
"Oh, great! Thanks!"
"Yeah... It was fun... Good job." Chukchi's classmate poked his head out from the crowd. However, Katsuki's glare was enough to get them to admit it.
"Sorry!"
"We washed it to criticize it! I'm really sorry!" They shouted before running off, causing Katsuki to have a smug smile.
"They didn't have to come to say that..."
"We won."
"Oh, Katsuki, that is enough!" Mitsuki came in and slapped her son across the head.
"Ow! What the hell, old hag?!"
"You really did give an outstanding job, Izuku." Fuyumi said while she and her mother said while standing in front of him.
"It was enough to make this little one smile." Rei bent over and patted Eri on the head, making her smile.
"Anyway, next up soon is the beauty pageant." Mirio said, looking at the pamphlet he had in his hands. "Waddya say, Midoriya? You gonna check out how your girlfriends do?"
"I'll be there to cheer for them." He said, picking Eri up as she rode on his shoulder while being carried before heading off.
They walked until making it to the stage where the beauty pageant took place. Izuku saw a bunch of people there, and some of them were annoying, mostly because they were chanting for his girlfriend.
"Kendo!"
"You can take out the competition in one punch!"
Itsuka chops through a bunch of wooden boards with her right hand. "She tears her gorgeous dress in a martial arts demonstration! The perfect coexistence of strength and beauty! What a wonderful performance!"
"How dull! You don't know anything, do you?" Bibimi Kenranzaki stated as she came in with something. "To try and compete with me with that!"
She rode in a giant tank that was in the shape of her face and head, along with long ass eyelashes and the hairpins and mini arms.
"Support course third year and beauty pageant queen! Bibimi Kenranzki uses advanced techniques to show off her face! A stunning performance!" The announcer stated.
"What kind of performance is this?" Eri asked in confusion as the robot tank head began to spin around very fast.
"It just got harder to tell, right?" Mirio replied.
"You know, if this was the same thing she did to stay beauty pageant queen, wouldn't it have grown just dull over the past two years?" Izuku questioned.
"I think you may be right, Midoriya." Mirio replied to his question.
"Dazzling splendor is the goal of beauty!" She said before laughing as her tank robot left off the stage.
"Oh, third year... not bad..." Monoma said while feeling like he might have just been turned on.
"I heard your play went good, man! Good job!" Kirishima said to Tetsutetsu, who proceeded to activate their Quirks and have Hardening and Steel fist bump.
"You too, man!"
"Next up, we have third year, Nejire Hado!" The announcer announced as Nejire floated down from the sky, and instead of the dress she wore before, she had pale white dress with feathers on them.
"Nejire!" Yuyu muttered while gripping her hands tightly.
"Hado... People are just animals... Just think of them as mammals, and you'll feel more relaxed..." Tamaki muttered while feeling nervous as he held up a thumbs up.
"Nejire lost last year because she tried to be flashier than Kenranzaki. Kenranzaki's strength is being flashy. But Nejire has her own strength!" Yuyu explained as Nejire flew up in the air, using her Quirk to leave paths of her life force.
"It's Uraraka! And Tsu, too! And there's little Eri... and Izuku!" Nejire thought as she smiled seeing the four of them. "Everyone looks so surprised. It's so strange..."
"Looking at her like this... Hado really looks like... an innocent fairy." Tamaki thought as he looked at the wave of energy left behind by Nejire, who danced in the sky.
"So pretty..." Itsuka muttered while standing next to Kenranzaki and the other competitors. Nejire lands on the ground and bows, making the crowd roar into cheers.
"What a magical dance in the air! She pulled me in!" The announcer said as the other competitors had their turn and then it was over.
"Vote for one of these competitors! Results will be announced at 5 p.m.! It's the closing event!"
"Kendo from Class B! Vote more than once for Kendo from Class B!" Monoma yelled while Awase tried to get a hold on him. "A vote for her is a vote for the future!"
"Dude, stop! She'll be disqualified if you keep this up!"
Thankfully, a stretching fist came in and knocked the lights out of Monoma, courtesy of Izuku.
"Woo-hoo! Tonight's gonna be great!" Camie cheered.
"Class C's haunted maze looks crazy! Wanna go?" Denki asked.
"Yeah!" Mina replied.
"I'm not going to that." Kyoka replied.
"There's an obstacle course!" Kirishima said.
"Crepes!" Ochaco said in delight while Tsuyu stood next to her.
"We've still got a lot to enjoy!" Mirio said while Eri was still carried on Izuku's shoulder.
"Yay!" She shouted cheerfully.
And so, the day went by. Shoko and Iida took a picture with a cute out of Nezu and the U.A. building, Katsuki beat Kirishima in the obstacle course race, winning by hitting the button, Eri got to try out crepes with Ochaco while Tsuyu and Izuku got other stuff, along with the snacks he got, Denki, Camie and Mina got freaked out when entering Class C's haunted house, getting spooked by Shinso, Mei and Melissa showed off their robot to the others, which thankfully didn't explode this time, and in the meanwhile, Izuku asked Sanji's help for a little surprise for Eri.
After 5 p.m. came, the results of the beauty pageant came in, and it turned out that Nejire had accomplished her goal and became the new beauty pageant queen, taking the crown from Kenranzaki.
Monoma screamed in utter shock as Nejire was giving a ribbon and crown by Kenranzaki, who respectful took her lost and get her place to her.
"Thanks for today! It was fun!" Izuku said, standing at the gates of U.A., where it was now turning to dusk.
"Yeah." Eri replied with sadness. She had fun, but now it was over.
Izuku smiled before pulling something out. "Eri." He showed her a candy apple, which had Mirio shocked. "A little surprise for my snowball!"
"Huh?! A candy apple? They were selling them? But I couldn't find any!"
"Well, looking at the program, I thought maybe there wouldn't be any, so I also bought ingredients for it when I went out this morning. I had help from Sanji, and although the store didn't have any food coloring, Sato pitched in and let us borrow some of his. It was easier to make than I expected."
Eri took the candy apple before biting into it, her taste buds were then filled with the delicious flavor of the candy apple.
"Well, you should be able to see her again soon." Aizawa said while the girl had another big smile on her face from eating it.
"It's even sweeter!"
Izuku smiled at her reaction. "I'll be sure to make it again. Oh! How do you feel about apple pie?"
"Apple pie?"
"It's this thing that's baked in the over, and it's super good!" He said, which made his daughter drool at the thought of an apple pie, which made her take another bite of her candy apple.
"Anyway, look forward to it! And some candy apples!"
"I will, Papa!"
Meanwhile, at the local police station on another island, La Brava, or Manami Aiba, was being interrogated by the police in one room while Gentle, aka Tobita, was in the other.
"You taught yourself how to do this?" The officer asked as he looked at the laptop La Brava had.
"Yes." She replied, though her tone was more dull.
"I can't believe it! What's your job??"
"La Brava... The partner that helps Gentle."
"Do you feel like using this talent for the good of the world?"
"No. I only want to help Gentle."
"You know, you can test for brainwashing really easily?" A detective with a mutant Quirk that made him a gorilla said in the other room with Gentle. He put the paper with Gentle's information and everything down on the table. "Don't tell stupid lies. She really does love you. You had a lot of failed attempts, but with all the crimes you committed, both you and the girl—"
"Manami Aiba has nothing to do with this. She has never been involved directly." Gentle said, cutting the detective off. "We are not equally guilty."
"Hmph. So your love is mutual, huh?" The gorilla detective said before shaking his head. "Oh, dear. High school dropout, former Hero Course student, twisted until you became a person who uploaded videos of crimes, huh?"
"I couldn't help but remember my dream. Even if I took the wrong path..."
"Then, it's a good thing that we stopped you today." He said, catching Gentle off guard. "Guys who say that there are no do-overs in life are either those who don't want to, or those who're impatient and want results fast."
Gentle looked at the man in shock before looking down at the floor as he proceeded to slowly breakdown into tears.
The detective looked at him before putting his head to his face. "Hey. You want some tea?"
"Black tea please..." Gentle muttered while still crying.
"It's just cheap tea! And you'll get whatever we have here!"
Next time: "Fun Time Between Pinky and Invisible Girl and Two Genius Inventors (Lemon)".
After that: "The Interview with Mr. Taneo Tokuta".
After that: "Spending Fun with Three Princess and One Full-Body Weapon Woman (Lemon)".