A/N: Here we are ladies and gentleman the sequel to breaker of the Mighty. This story hasn't been far from my mind, and now that I'm finally getting after it, so I hope you enjoy.
In a darkened room a shape moved under the covers of a full sized bed before a shock of green hair appeared followed by the face of an unusually pale woman in a deep purple nightgown. She crawled out of bed looking back at the small body that had been sleeping next to her as she tucked in the covers and made her way to the bathroom.
Turning on the light the face of this woman was revealed. Her pale skin and bloodshot green eyes staring back at her in the mirror, but her most noticeable feature were the scars that ran along the side of her mouth stretching it into an unnaturally large smile. "Always smiling." She giggled to herself as she began her morning routine before changing into a purple suit with a pinstripe green shirt and polished shoes. "Can't forget the most important part." She whispered to herself as she placed a flower in her breast pocket.
This woman was The Joker one of the most dangerous villains in Japan second only to the man who'd broken a city. She was once called Inko Midoriya, but that name no longer holds any meaning to her anymore. As Joker inspected herself in the mirror she heard shuffling as her young charge got out of bed in a white nightgown speckled with tiny red hearts. "Joker what are you doing?" Asked young Eri holding onto Joker's pant leg.
Joker kneeled down petting Eri's head. "I've got an important meeting with Izuku so I need to leave early, you stay here and I'll be back." She whispered kissing Eri on the forehead as the young girl pouted.
"I want to see Izuku too." She said sniffling a little as Joker petted her head.
"You will Eri, but this is something the two of us need to do." Joker said picking Eri up and settling her in the bed again before making her way to the door and stepping outside before locking it again. She looked at the hallway with its playing card symbols carved into the walls and spray painted with Ha Ha down the walls. She smiled at this. This was the joker family Hall all her girls were in the rooms on this hall. She walked down the hall hearing whining from behind one door as something pounded against it. Joker leaned against the door stroking it.
"Shhh it'll be better soon just let it happen." She whispered the only response she received was soft crying that brought a smile to her face as she left exiting the UA dorms. Apparently before Bane kicked their teeth in UA was thinking about initiating a full dorm system. "Oh well at least they didn't go to waste." She grinned as the first rays of morning appeared in front of her as she burst into laughing skipping along to the main school building. She stepped up onto the entrance seeing the guards there immediately take a defensive stance to her presence.
She smiled walking past them as both men looked at her giving a shudder. The Joker was terrifying they didn't know why the boss let her stay here she was crazy! Joker walked through the main halls of UA making her way up the stairs to her son's office. Izuku spent most of his time here, she wished he would take better care of himself, but she wouldn't nag, nope she wasn't that kind of mother.
Joker knocked on the door to the office before pulling it open her face splitting into an unnaturally wide grin as she lay eyes on her son. He was sitting on the couch in the office curling a huge dumbbell in his hand as he looked at the screen of the TV. She took notice of everything about Izuku and the man he'd become as if he was liable to disappear….again. Joker clenched her fist as if strangling that thought. Not again I won't lose him again! She thought walking into the room.
Izuku turned to her his green eyes a mirror image of hers, but whereas his were filled with cold dominance hers danced with the light of madness. The two stared at one another for what seemed like ages. Inko taking in Izuku's light brush of green hair, he'd need a haircut soon, but she wished he would grow it out again. His body was like stone hardened muscle bunched beneath his skin filled with explosive potential. "You're here." He said to her drawing Joker from her memorization. She smiled again.
"Of course I am Izuku. I'll always be here for you whenever you need me and sometimes when you don't." She said reaching to tap his nose, but he turned away from her. Joker felt a stab in her heart as she grit her teeth. I want to touch you! She hissed mentally as Izuku stood up.
"Don't call me that. I'm not Izuku Midoriya and you are clearly no longer his mother Inko Midoriya." Bane said as Joker gave and angry hum.
"Your mother." She whispered her eyes hidden behind her light green hair as her fists shook. "I'm your MOTHER!" She shouted looking at him as tears of blood ran down her eyes, but still the smile never left her face as she looked at him. A dichotomy of sadness and joy. Izuku looked at her his eyes never changing even at her outburst. Such a reaction would have shocked some, but Izuku simply stared at her.
"What happened to you?" He asked simply as Joker wiped her face smearing the blood away from her eyes.
"I know I failed you Izuku. I-I wasn't the mother you needed, but now that we're here, and we've both clearly changed maybe we could start over and be a family again. I want to be there for you. Just give me a chance." She said smiling as she grabbed his hand. "You worked so hard to get where you are and so did I to get closer to you admittedly my way was more fun. We're at the top of the food chain, but if you have no more use for me, then kill me." She said placing his hand on her neck.
"It should be easy for you, and I have no purpose without you." She whispered as Izuku snatched his hand away from her.
"I don't need a mother, that ship has sailed, but I do need your expertise, but first I need to know what happened to you, how did you get here?" He asked gesturing to her entire body. "My men don't trust you and frankly neither do I. The things you've done are hardly trustworthy, so before we go any further tell me what happened." He said sitting down on the couch with Joker sighing in relief before taking the spot next to him and looked at him.
"I had a good day…"
Inko Midoriya walked out of the hospital doors looking back and forth as she walked up to an ambulance opening the door and after searching around found the keys. She smiled feeling the sting of her cuts as she looked back at Rei. "Well come on Rei we need to scram." She said helping the other woman into the passenger side before climbing in herself. "Safety first!" Inko said gleefully clicking her seatbelt before turning on the ambulance and punching the gas as the ambulance roared out of the parking lot.
Inko always living within walking distance of most things she needed and not having a job never got her driver's license this showed with her reckless driving if not for the sirens atop the vehicle people would have taken bigger notice of the novice driver. "Hahaha!" Inko shouted as she rounded a corner feeling the ambulance tip to the side before dropping back onto four wheels as she roared down the street.
"Um I-Inko where are we going?" Rei asked having braced herself against the manic twists and turns. Inko looked at Rei.
"Oh well I need to drop by my house obviously I can't meet Izuku like this!" She said gesturing to the straight jacket and scrubs and bare feet. "Don't worry I should have something that fits you too." She said as she clicked off the siren and parked the car a block or so away from her home and climbed out. "Come on Rei I'd love to show you my home." She said reaching in the back of the ambulance and grabbing several scalpels which she held in the sleeves of her straight jacket as the two women made their way to the Midoriya household.
Hisashi Midoriya was watching the news and shook his head. "I can't believe this is happening." He said as the news showed a destroyed building where heroes were fighting some kind of monsters straight out of a horror flick. Hisashi then heard the front door open and stood up immediately. He knew that he'd locked the door, so someone must have picked the lock and with all the escaped villains he knew what he'd need to do.
"I don't know who you are, but you picked the wrong home. He said walking around the corner with a bat and breathing fire as he saw who was at the door. The bat fell from his hands as his fire breath sputtered out. He was looking at his wife whom he had committed only a few days ago. "I-Inko." He whispered as Inko's eyes flicked to him the smile never leaving her face.
"Hisashi what are you doing here? I would have figured you'd be back overseas by now." She said apparently excited to see her husband as she walked up to him and wrapped her arms around his waist. "Especially after throwing me in the Psych ward." She whispered harshly against his ear causing the man to step back.
"How are you here, no one called me about you being released." Hisashi said as Inko smiled at him before walking past him.
"Come on Rei I'll show you my clothes." Inko said waving her guest into her home as Hisashi took notice of the woman for the first time.
"H-hello." Rei whispered slipping around him as Hisashi looked her over the gaunt face the seemingly dead eyes; no doubt she was another missing patient from the hospital. Hisashi couldn't let this go on.
"Inko that is enough you are not well. I'm taking you back to the hospital." He said walking back to the living room in order to call the police, but felt the phone be yanked from his hand and fly into Inko's.
"I'm not going back to the hospital Hisashi. I need to find Izuku. He's out there somewhere and needs m-!" Hisashi felt his patience snap as he walked up to Inko and grabbed her shoulders.
"IZUKU IS DEAD INKO!" Hisashi roared as he shook his wife. "He's DEAD don't you understand that Inko? He's been gone for months and there's been no sign of him. He is GONE, and he's not coming back Inko. He was my son too and I loved him just as much as you did, but I can't keep denying what's in front of me anymore. I've planned to have Izuku's funeral soon, so we can all say goodbye and move on with our lives." He said his eyes pouring with tears as he gripped Inko's shoulders.
Hisashi wiped the tears from his eyes and felt a chill run through his body as he stared into Inko's dark green eyes. These weren't the beautiful leaf green eyes he'd fallen in love with during college, no these eyes were dark and filled to the brim with hatred. Hisashi grunted as he felt a pain in his stomach. He looked down seeing Inko had stabbed him in the gut with a scalpel only to pull it out and stab into him again.
"How could you say that Hisashi? You loved him as much as I did that's ridiculous!" Inko growled stabbing Hisashi again. "I was here with him every day, I changed his diapers, helped him with his homework, cried with him when he found out he didn't have a quirk. He is MY SON!" Inko shouted wrenching away from Hisashi and went to stab him in the neck only for Hisashi to block her blow the two falling to the ground in front of the TV with Inko sitting on top of Hisashi the scalpel in her hand inches away from Hisashi's throat as the two struggled.
Normally this would be a no contest between the two parents. Hisashi was stronger than Inko, but feeling his blood draining out of him and with it his strength. Hisashi felt the tip of the scalpel break the skin of his neck as a large boom was heard on the television drawing both away from their life and death struggle. Inko stared at the screen as the cameraman climbed free of the helicopter and zeroed in on Bane's face having finally been revealed. It was a young man with green eyes and freckles upon his face, but to Inko it couldn't be anyone other than her son.
"Izuku!" Inko shouted dropping the scalpel as she rushed to the TV screen staring at her baby boy. He looked so strong standing there covered in wounds, but still standing strong. At this moment Inko remembered something from long ago a memory she had up until this point tried to forget and erase, but came back to her with startling clarity. It was the Video of All Might's debut that Izuku loved to watch so much. Back then she'd found it scary all the fire the wounded people and even All Might himself standing there covered in injuries and smiling while carrying injured people.
It scared her, but seeing her son now standing there smiling brutally as he faced All Might. Hisashi stared at the screen the pain he'd felt from Inko stabbing him was a distant thought as he stared at his son as he did the unthinkable and broke All Might across his knee. Hisashi's head fell to the floor as tears clouded his vision. In this moment he'd lost everything. His wife was insane and his son was a murderer. He'd failed as both a husband and father.
"You were right Inko, but is this really what you wanted? Are you happy?!" He asked looking over to his wife and the smile of pure joy on her face made his stomach twist and knot.
"So happy Hisashi, my baby is alive and he's living his dream." She whispered moving over to her husband and wrapping her hands around his face as Hisashi coughed.
"He wanted to be a hero Inko, that right there is a villain!" Hisashi shouted before feeling Inko's hands slide around his neck and squeeze as she laughed.
"Nonono Izuku is a hero, Izuku is always the hero, and if you can't understand that or get in his way you're a villain!" She shouted as she began to choke her husband. Hisashi struggled fruitlessly his body weak from blood loss. "Izuku doesn't need you. He never did, all he needs is me!" She hissed as Hisashi began losing consciousness.
"Inkooo." Hisashi stopped moving as Inko slowly let go of his throat and stood up. Her hands covered in her husband's blood as she turned to the TV seeing a blown up image of her son and she smiled.
"Don't worry Izuku I'll be there for you this time I promise." Inko said moving away from her husband's corpse and rounding the couch seeing Rei holding her hands against her ears her eyes squeezed tightly shut and her knees to her chest. Inko crouched down in front of Rei. "Sorry about that Rei sweetheart, just a lover's spat. We've decided to see other people." Inko said with a smile as she held out a hand to Rei helping her to her feet and quickly turned her head away from Hisashi's corpse.
"Look let's get ready we need to look our best for our sons." She said as she took Inko to her room and threw open the closet yanking shirts, and dresses down before reaching the back of her closet and pulled out a large hanging bag and unzipped it showing off a purple suit with a green tie and dress shirt and purple pants. She smiled as she pulled it out and looked at it.
"I'm going to tell you a secret Rei." Inko said as she tore off the straight jacket and scrubs before getting dressed in the suit. "Before I met Hisashi and became a housewife. I was in school to become a psychiatrist. Can you believe that, but after I met Hisashi I left that behind." She whispered as she buttoned up her shirt. As she spoke Rei began to get dressed in some of the things Inko had thrown around the room.
"But I still remember what I learned, and I think it's going to come in handy Rei." She said as she moved to the mirror and fluffed her hair a couple times. Her once dark green locks having lightened from stress turning a sickly lime green as she took the brightest red lipstick and applied it to her lips. She smiled her scars drawing her smile even wider. "You know my son Izuku idolized All Might because he never stopped smiling and now neither can I!" Inko shouted happily laughing out loud as she turned away from the mirror.
Inko flipped her mattress and reached for the gun she'd kept under the bed. Hisashi had bought this for her when he first received his overseas assignment. Inko had been terrified of the weapon, but kept it just in case and now seemed like the perfect time. "I think you'll come in handy." She said as she loaded the gun and slammed it shut before putting it in her inner coat pocket.
"I'm armed and dangerous!" Inko shouted happily as she looked at Rei who was in one of her light blue sweaters and jeans. "Don't worry Rei we'll be getting you something a lot better looking in fact I know the perfect place to do a little shopping, I've been meaning to pay a visit to my old friend Mitsuki after she did me such a kindness!" Inko growled tracing the scars on her face as she walked out of her room going to the living room. She looked around the home she'd shared with her son for so long before going into kitchen and turning the gas on the stove all four burners releasing their deadly fumes before reaching into drawer and grabbing handfuls of silver wear and shoved them in the microwave before turning it on and sauntering out the front door with Rei right on her heels.
Taking one last look at Hisashi she waved and slammed the door as she and Rei walked away to the ambulance they'd stolen and climbed in. Inko started the machine as an explosion rocked the block as fire blazed from the top of the apartment building. Inko began driving off not even looking back wearing a morbid smile of joy as she laughed into the night.