Monoma Netio is fourteen years old, and All Might is asking to talk to him, and he is very, very, very tired. Though, honestly, who wouldn't be if you'd just come out of medical?

The symbol of peace had jumped out from behind a corner when Monoma was walking down the hall, making his way to the exit of the school. Monoma had stared at the symbol of peace from a minute before sighing heavily.

"YOUNG MONOMA, MAY YOU COME WITH ME TO HAVE A TALK?"

He nodded wordlessly, following the loud hero back into the school. They ended up in front of the principal's office, and All Might beckoned him in.

"Hello Mr. Monoma, we need to have a light talk with you!" The mouse-bear-hamster principal beamed, motioning for the student to sit down in front of the desk.

All Might stood next to the principal, his face serious. "Young Monoma, we must ask you a question. Please answer truthfully."

"I will answer to the best of my ability," Monoma said, his eyes focused on the two adults, though in the inside, he was thinking he'd rather go back to the dorms.

"Are you in any way, related to a man called 'Suzuki Canoni'?"

Monoma thought for a moment, pondering the strange question, before nodding. "He's my great-great-great grandfather from my father's side. Why do you ask?"

"Just the fact he's my arch enemy and you had a very similar quirk."

"What?"

"S-rank mission, escort of Yamada Formica, completed by Team Hound."

"WELCOME TO THE U.A SPORTS FESTIVAL!"

Monoma cringed lightly at the volume of Present Mic, tapping his fingers on his legs as he watched students file out of large doors.

"MIDNIGHT, THE RATED 18+ HERO, WILL NOW CONDUCT OPENING CEREMONY!"

Rated eighteen? Wasn't this a high school? The only person who would actually attempt to make a move on that hero would probably be that gross kid Class B that Monoma had met. Seriously, who knew someone could be that perverted...

Midnight cracked her whip, and the crowd fell silent. "Now for the first year first place speech, give your hand up to Bakugo Katsuki!"

The spiky-haired seemed strangely subdued as he walked up to the podium, before- "I'm going to be the number one."

"I'm going to be the Hokage, believe it!"

An obstacle course as the first activity, the zero-pointer that Monoma had sent crashing down, a rope-balancing cliff thing, and a minefield.

Watching Todoroki ice the zero-pointers and sending them almost crashing down onto other participants- "That was pretty cold of him."-But other than that, that was pretty dangerous of the teen. Other students might've been injured if- Did TetsuTetsu and Kishirama just meet?

Midoriya was having some trouble if seemed, but Kendo seemed to be doing fine. Her gymnastic lessons from him must've paid off seeing as she easily sprinted across the rope over the chasm. Bakugo and Todoroki were tied, each one racing neck and neck over the cliffs.

Now, the minefield sounded interesting, actual mines?

He'd gotten his hopes up, the mines exploded like an E-rank explosion tag done by an amateur. And the smoke was pinkish-purple, kinda like the kind Naruto had used when he was pranking someone.

Midoriya seemed to be doing something interesting, what was he using the piece of metal for?

At least watching Midoriya get blasted thirty feet in the air was amusing.

"When I looked at him, I saw what I could've been."

A human calvary? Everyone formed teams, and at one point Midoriya started to cry. Really hard, like really hard. The green haired boy had formed a team with Ochako, as well as Tsuyu and Tokoyami. Monoma was slightly surprised that Iida didn't team up with Midoriya and Ochako.

The blond sighed, before standing up from his chair, and creeping to the back of the announcement box as Present Mic yelled into the microphone. He paused near the back of the stadium box for a second, before slipping out. Neither Present Mic or Aizawa noticed as he crept away, the door swinging shut behind him.

Monoma trotted down the stairs, sighing as he rubbed his temples. The noise was a bit too much for his senses, and he took a much-needed break in the hallway. Hearing a sudden muted roar from the crowd, Monoma sighed again.

'This is basically a chunnin exams, except more showy and flashy. And dialed down.' He thought, continuing to move down the stairs. Scratching a bandage winding around his arm, the blond moved silently through the hallways, eventually finding his way down to the first floor.

Turning around a corner, Monoma paused in his steps as another man came up the hall. It was a pro-hero, one the Copycat had recognized on the spot.

Endeavor.

Continuing after the slight pause, Monoma walked past the number 2 hero, his gaze forward, his gait as normal as he paid little to no attention to the fire user.

Just as he thought he had escaped, the hero spoke.

"You're the one that Shoto told me about aren't you?" The man growled, and Monoma stopped. "The one that was so injured in the USJ attack that they couldn't do the festival."

"I might be." Monoma's tone was emotionless, his eyes stone hard, "I don't know why you need to know. It's none of your business."

"Don't speak to me that way, boy."

Monoma stands stalk still and carefully doesn't think about how much he would like to murder the number two hero, send a senbon right into an instant kill spot that Genma taught him, doesn't think about how irritating human interaction is.

But instead, he turned around and beamed as wide as he could, curving his eyes in crescents. He purposely made his voice upbeat and bounced in place. He channeled his inner Gai/Naruto, and sweetly ground out-. "Why, I'm sorry! I shouldn't talk to heroes like that! But I can't help myself, it's how I act whenever I meet living trash."

Then he turned around, and stalked away, walking around the bend in the hallway, and of course, walking into the one and only Shoto Todoroki.

"Why hello there Todoroki-san." Monoma nodded to the other boy, "Nice job so far."

Ignoring the fact that the other boy was wide-eyed and staring forward in shock(he had probably heard Monoma call his father trash), Monoma clapped a hand to Todoroki's shoulder, and strode away, humming a little tune that Genma had always sung when they were doing an easy mission.

"Kakashi-senpai, we need him alive." "Noted, precede,"

Honestly? He was pretty sure Midoriya and Todoroki fighting was going to lead to disaster, and sure enough, it did.

After Aizawa had dragged him back to the announcement box, Monoma had sat there for thirty-something minutes, waiting for something interesting. Well, Todoroki creating a glacier on spot to trap Sero was a bit overboard.

Midoriya breaking his fingers to get out of purple kid's quirk(mind control?) was mildly interesting. The pink-haired support student fooling around with Iida for ten minutes was interesting seeing the number of strange inventions.

Monoma wondered if he would be able to commission her for some weapons other than the standard ones he always had on his body(Tanto, Kunai, Shuriken). It was also pretty interesting the other day he'd figured out how to explode his paper butterflies the other day.

But Tetsutetsu and Kishirama fighting it out with an arm wrestle? Hilarious. Unfortunately, Kendou is knocked out the round, and her opponent proceeds to face Bakugo.

But Midoriya and Todoroki? Due to disaster, most likely even more that Bakugo and Midoriya. And he was right, seeing as Midoriya broke all fingers in both hands, broke them again, broke his arm, landing a 3% kick to Todoroki's jaw, lit Todoroki on fire, and caused a giant explosion.

Disaster, Monoma could make a bigger explosion. Sakura could make a bigger explosion using her bare fists. (Was Sakura stronger than All Might? ... Yes)

Bakugo quickly takes out Tokoyami and fights Todoroki for first place. For some random reason, Todoroki refused to use his fire in a battle against Bakugo, resulting in the red and white-haired boy to get second.

And hilarious enough, Bakugo had to be chained to take his medal as first place.

"Don't let him get above two tails, it spells for disaster,"

How'd he get recommendations? He didn't even participate in the sports festival! Sighing as he looked through the short list he'd somehow revived, he already chose his selected hero company.

Why not try the Endeavor Agency? It'd be funny to fuck around with him.

"I'll bring Sasuke back!"

"Hmm? You're going to Endeavor's agency too?" Monoma leaned back on the subway, staring straight at Todoroki's face. "I didn't think he would offer considering I insulted him straight to his face."

Todoroki slowly nodded, still looking confused. Monoma privately thought he looked like a lost puppy.

As the subway doors slipped open, Monoma followed Todoroki as the other teen led the way to his father's agency.

Honestly, did the agency need to be a giant skyscraper? No, but it was obvious that Endeavor did it anyways. Walking into the building itself had the same reaction as the outside, exasperation and mass sighing.

"Is your father really this flashy?"

"Midoriya's dad is more,"

Mirodyia's dad? Wh- Oh...

"I'm 50% sure that All Might isn't Midoriya's dad."

"I'm pretty sure he's All Might's secret love child."

Who put this idea into this poor teen's head? Sighing again, Monoma marched straight up to the front desk. "Here for hero interning, Todoroki Shoto, and Monoma Netio."

"Alright, you've been expected. Head up to floor 27, Endeavor is there."

"Thanks," Todoroki says, before leading Monoma over to the fancy elevators.

Cue awkward elevator music as the floor numbers ticked up. When they reached the 27, Monoma ducked, pulling Todoroki down with him as a wave of fire goes over their heads. When it stops, he pops up, looks Endeavor in the eyes and says. "What the fuck, sir?"

Surprisingly enough, the madman grins and sends another wave of fire at the pair.

"The Rasengan was never completed,"

Endeavor is not a bad teacher, but not the best either. Monoma would say he was a little better than the man, considering he didn't beat up his students/interns every day. Hey, at least interesting enough to watch Todoroki almost burn his father's paperwork.

Patrolling was something familiar, he did it as well back when his mother was alive. Stalking around the neighborhood and beating up the gangs and criminals who wandered there(was it vigilantism?), and watching over the area.

One week after interning at the place, and everything already spelled to disaster. What looked like the strange monstrosity he'd fought at USJ showed up out of nowhere, and Todoroki and he had gotten a text from Midoriya that said nothing but his location.

Todoroki instantly left, Endeavor shouting after him as Monoma followed behind. They arrived at the right time, Todoroki sending a wave of fire flooding at the man hovering over Midoriya.

"Hero-killer Stain, huh?" Monoma says, and a wave of ice spreads out from his right foot. As the ice strikes upwards, Todoroki turns to give Monoma a look, that screams you stole my move. Monoma shrugs, with a watcha gonna do attitude back.

Iida is lying on the ground, shouting at them and a Pro-hero is lying against the wall, a dismayed look on his face. He hears Todoroki reply to something Iida says and turns just to see Iida be stunned into silence.

Hero-Killer Stain is still at the back of the alleyway, and Monoma rushed to meet him in combat, drawing his tanto to deflected the sword swinging down at him. "Midoriya-san, what is his quirk?"

"Some sort of freezing quirk!" Midoriya shouts, and Monoma smiled at the sight of Midoriya swooping down with a punch stronger than he last saw. "I think it involves blood or something?"

Blood? Alright, he can work with that. He lunges forward, ducking under a stream of fire(Todoroki), lets his quirk fade, come back to life, and uppercuts Stain up his jaw.

Skin-to-skin contact. He whirls around, and slashes a knife at Stain's cheek, and jumps back. "Keep him occupied for a minute or two!" He shouts and gets to work calculating the new quirk he had gained.

When he gets a new quirk, he has to spend a few minutes to analyze it, or else it won't work to it's the best potential with him. Sure, you can copy the handseals to a jutsu, but can you perform it?

He can still hear the grunts of battle, can feel the cool and the heat. Monoma hears electricity crackling, a woosh of engines, and shouting. Something narrowly misses hitting his face, but yet, his eyes are still closed.

"Clear!" He shouts, opening his eyes only to see the Midoriya has fallen bleeding out onto the alley floor, Stain attacking Todoroki, and Iida is in a different place than before with a knife stabbed through his hand. Without hesitating, he brings his kunai up and licks the blade.

Gross, it tastes exactly how he remembers.

Stain meanwhile stiffens and falls face first to the floor. Monoma trots over to the hero-killer and quickly knocks the man out, and Midoriya, Pro-hero guy, and Iida can then move.

"Alright," He says, propping his hands on his hips. "Who's the most injured?"

"Iida," Midoriya says, and Monoma makes a face.

He'd done the same thing before, saying somebody else was more injured than he, resulting in him passing out in blood loss. It wasn't fun, and he had a hell of a headache when he woke up.

"No," Monoma says, "Todoroki, can you tie Stain up while I do some field healing?"

He doesn't know much about healing, but he did copy Recovery Girl's quirk, so that should work. He leans over, pressing a quick kiss to Midoriya's forehead, making sure that he healed Midoriya as much as he could without sapping too much of the other's stamina.

He combines another quirk with the other, and it saps his stamina too instead of just Midoriya's. He does this too with Iida, Todoroki, and the Pro-Hero.

He's left lightly swaying on his feet while bandaging the lighter wounds he didn't heal. Todoroki supports him as they limp out the alleyway. Iida holds Stain, the hero-killer thrown over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

Then something wooshes by, Monoma startles, and Midoriya gets kicked in the face. It's a short old man that is currently lecturing Midoriya so hard that even Todoroki is lightly grimancing.

Endeavour also rounds around the corner, an unreadable expression on his face as he catches sight of them. Other pro-heroes head over, and Monoma almost lets himself relax.

And then-

Midoriya is-

His body moves on its own, and Kaminari's quirk slides into place. Various strength and speed enhancements are applied, and he's moving. His mask slides into place, and instinct takes over.

Hound bounds after the creature with Midoriya in its talons, jumping over rooftops and gaining fast. He jumps, high, and a crackling ball of electricity lights his mask. The Sharingan gleams, and he cries out in a forgotten language, long dead.

"Chidori!"

His arm plunges straight into the creature's heart, liquid splashing onto his face and Midoriya is dropped from talons, only to have another person catch him, and a knife finds it's way into the creature's exposed brain.

It's dead, and Hound leaps in between Midoriya and the hero-killer, who somehow woke up and escaped his bonds. His tanto is drawn, and his Sharingan is spinning. Blood drips down his mask, and he is already calculating what it takes to kill.

"I won't let any of these fake heroes kill me!" Stain shouts, and Hound frankly doesn't care. "The only one who can kill me is All Might!"

It's silent for a few seconds, and the Hound realizes that the hero-killer had passed out. He sighs, tucks his tanto back into its sheath, and turns to crouch near Midoriya.

"Hey," He says, and shifts his mask back to the side of his head. "Already got more injuries?" His stamina is low, but there's enough where he can heal Midoriya's injuries. He'll have to take a nap that might be one or two days long, but he has to make sure his... comrades are fine.

Midoriya sits up, Monoma helping. The blond leans over again, pressing a mask-covered-kiss to the other's forehead, and the injures evaporate.

Then Midoriya has to help Monoma back, the other leaning on the shorter. Iida, Midoriya, Todoroki, and he are ushered into an ambulance. Sighing, he leans back, doesn't think about the blood covering his hands, and sleeps.

Before he's fully asleep, he feels someone tuck what feels like a blanket around him. The sirens are blocked out, and he fades.

"I'm going to kill you!" I can't convey how much I don't give a fuck.

When he wakes up, Monoma keeps his breathing even and listens. The only thing he can hear is the beep of a heartbeat monitor.

He's in a hospital room(He immediately makes plans to escape), and he's really thirsty. He's wearing the classic hospital gown, and someone had cared enough to put a hospital mask on him.

There's a glass of water on the stand next to his bed. He looks over the room, and he sees Kendou and Tetsutetsu sleeping by his bedsides, sees Midoriya, Todoroki, Iida sleeping in other hospital beds.

Monoma smiles, sets down the water, tugs his mask up, and leans back. As he falls back asleep, he thinks;

I am Netio Monoma, I am almost fifteen, and it appears I have new comrades...

I hope I can protect them this time.