Chapter 4

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Twilight is being helped up by Sunset Shimmer as I arrive through the portal, not flying forward like she did because I actually stopped just before entering the portal and simply walked through.

It’s only after Twilight mentions to the girls she has bad news about the Sirens that the girls seem to notice me.

The portal either has a sense of humour, or was trying to be helpful, as I’m now holding my hero uniform with some of the other clothes.

I’m now wearing a simple white t-shirt with some Japanese writing on it I can’t read, a pleather skirt and sneaker with some white socks.

“Hi, there,” I grin, before getting a shit-eating grin even bigger. “Nice to meet you. I’m not a bad slime, slurp.”

Confused or suspicious looks are the only reactions.

I sigh, shaking my head. “Some in jokes are just totally wasted.”

Twilight decides to end the awkwardness. “This is Deku. She comes from a world like yours, but different too.”

That gets curious looks aimed at Twilight, before they’re redirected at me.

I nod. “Twilight speaks the truth. I’m from another human world. However, I think it better we find somewhere else we can talk about this. We have to deal with both the Sirens and the main reason I’m here.”

We’re about to move, when suddenly a loud beeping causes us all to look around frantically, before one of the white patches on the shoulders of my uniform, the left side, flies up into the air and shifts into a cube shape.

An image appears before me, like a hologram. It takes a second before I recognize it as the older Hatsume I saw in Nana’s memory.

“Why, hello there, little Nana,” she gives a huge warm smile. “I’m sure you’ve a lot of questions, huh?”

My face is blank.

Um, fuck yeah, I’ve a lot of questions! Like, how the fuck are you communicating with me now and why haven’t you before this point?!

“I’m just a hologram, so if you have questions, I can’t answer them directly,” Hatsume continues on. “You see, your grandfather was aware you’re kinda going in blind. We don’t know how many stolen Quirks the League of Villains have or how many members made it to that other world. So, I invented my lovely new baby: The Present Mic Quirk Analyser! Or, as I like to call it, the Mini Present Mic Analyser, or MMPA, for really short!”

I glance to the others to see them giving me questioning looks, to which I just shake my head. I’m just as clueless.

“The way it works is pretty simple, really,” Hastume goes on, an image of the box appearing next to her, it projecting a hologram of Present Mic’s head. “Anytime you’re within three feet of someone with a Quirk, active or dormant, that the Analyser hasn’t scanned before, it’ll activate and tell you all the details. The Quirk User’s name and whether they’re a villain or hero, their Quirk and what that Quirk does, etc. It only works once for each new person though, so be careful you never miss whatever it says, okay? It won’t repeat it a second time, got it?”

Well, thank you Hatsume, but why exactly am I only learning about this now?

“Good luck against the League, Nana,” Hatsume winks, before blowing me a kiss. “We all believe in you.”

The hologram of Hatsume disappears, but, instead of the cube changing back into a patch and returning to my uniform, a beam flies in a wide arch to my right, near some kind of bush.

“New Quirk user detected,” Present Mic’s voice says, the beam returning to the cube and a hologram of Present Mic’s head appearing above the box, another hologram appearing in front of it, this one being… Wallflower Blush? The fuck?

I look to the others, just as baffled, before Present Mic starts talking again.

“Wallflower Blush. Quirk: Invisibility. She can turn herself invisible at will, BUT, it doesn’t affect her clothes. She can only stay invisible for a limited amount of time, however, before she has to go back to being visible.”

The hologram of Wallflower also has stats about her written next to her, including name, age, weight, height and so on.

Seconds after Mini Present Mic finishes explaining how the Quirk works, both holograms vanish, the cube shifts back into a patch and returns to my uniform, looking like it had never left.

There’s a very long pause.

“Um, what in the world was all that about?” Rainbow Dash asks. “Who was that lady? Why was there a floating head? And what’s this about invisibility and a League of Villains?”

I stare at the patch, an eyebrow raised, before looking to Dash. “Well, like Hatsume said, this thing can detect new Quirks so I know what I’m up against. It’s a long story and I’m going to tell you later. I’m guessing it took Wallflower’s Quirk being active and close by to first get it working and…”

I stop, my eyes widening as it registers what I just said.

“WALLFLOWER BLUSH HAS A QUIRK?!”

My head immediately darts in the direction the beam had scanned, tossing my clothes aside and frantically looking through the bushes.

According to the MMPA, I should see clothes just floating in the air like whenever Toru Hagakure was on screen in the anime.

How? HOW does Wallflower Blush, of all people, have a Quirk?

And, talk about poetic irony. The girl who was always so quiet no one noticed her in the background, essentially making her invisible and sings a song about being invisible, gains a Quirk that makes her turn invisible?

After several moments of not finding anything, I walk back to the others, who’re all giving me confused and worried looks.

I sigh, rubbing my face. “Let’s just go talk. It’ll make more sense once I explain.”

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“This is so awesome!” Dash practically squees as we make our way towards the school, specifically where, if memory serves me right, the Dazzlings should be before the big party they plan on having for everyone taking part in the Battle of the Bands. “We’ve a real life superhero and she’s here to fight real super villains!”

“Awesome is not the word Ah’d use,” Applejack says, arms folded. “Dash, Deku’s made it clear we don’t know what, urm, Quirks this League o’ Villains have, it could be really dangerous. She’s one hero, while there’s no tellin’ how many o’ them.”

I’d sarcastically thank her for the lack of confidence, but, I’ve had similar concerns.

I may have One For All, but I can only use 22% max right now and, as pointed out, I’m just one hero against the entire League.

Not to mention I now need to find out how and why Wallflower ended up with a Quirk.

“So what?” Dash shrugs. “We’ve used our magic to kick dark magic’s evil butt. I don’t see why we can’t use it to kick this league of Villains’ butts.”

We all hush as Spike sniffs, before nodding his head towards a corner of the school.

We head in that direction, a trio of voices becoming clearer as we near the building.

“… worth setting all that stuff up, Adagio?” an simultaneously annoyed and bored Aria’s voice is saying.

“It will be worth it if we can use this party to not only gain more power, but weed out the ones with the most magic in this pathetic school,” Adagio’s voice replies.

“Yeah, that’s not happening,” I say as we round the corner, causing the three Sirens turned human to jump, their expressions showing they genuinely didn’t expect anyone to come by.

Adagio looks us over, her eyes pausing on Twilight and myself, the former with a weird look of recognition.

Will have to remember that. It suggests she’s at least seen Sci-Twi, so I might have to watch out for her til Friendship Games is over.

Adagio gains a smirk, folding her arms, her fellow Sirens mimicking her. “Oh, really? And just what are you going to do about it?”

I aim my fingers at a nearby tree and flick.

The tailwind alone throws them and the other girls off, back when the top of the tree pretty much explodes, their faces immediately pale and they slowly look towards me.

I hold my fingers up. “That was a power I have that doesn’t use magic and that wasn’t even 2% of my power. Now, you’re going to do this Battle of the Bands fair and square. No tricks. No spells. No nothing. Try to pull anything and, well…” I nod towards the tree.

With that, we walk off to where the party is going to be. We need to find Wallflower and find out just how she got her Quirk. It could give us a clue to find the League of Villains.

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“Yer sure she’ll be there?” Applejack asks as we walk down the hall the next day.

Thanks to Twilight not making the dumb mistake of confronting the Sirens at the party and failing to activate the girls’ magic, there was less hostility (though still the amount caused by the Sirens’ earlier work), making it a little easier to navigate the party to try and find her, since I know she was there.

However, either she didn’t go or knew we’d be looking for her and was using her Quirk the whole time, because we never found her.

That’s not to say it was a total bust, of course… though not for the reasons we’d intended.

Turns out, Wallflower isn’t the only person at CHS who miraculously has a Quirk.

Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon and Derpy also have Quirks.

However, we weren’t able to talk to any of them or actually learn what their Quirks were due to having drawn too much attention to ourselves.

Present Mic’s holographic head suddenly appearing and pretty much yelling three Quirks off one after the other wasn’t exactly subtle and we’d had to hightail it out of there like the group had in the movie after all, just for totally different reasons.

With the Find Wallflower Plan a bust and no chance of chatting with our other three surprise Quirk users at the time, we’d gone out to the steps and discussed how to stop the Sirens completely, resulting in Twilight joining the Rainbooms and myself suggesting the Counter Spell Song could be just about anything as long as their hearts were in it… though Twilight decided that would be a fall-back plan, thinking a song specifically written for the spell would be better.

We’d then gone to Pinkie’s house for the slumber party and that went about as you’d expect.

Now we’re on our way to the room where the Year Book Committee works, myself knowing Wallflower will most likely show up there.

As for the other three, I convinced Sunset to dust of her skills to send texts to the three while making them think someone else was texting them instead, like she pulled off with the Humane 5 before Twilight arrived in the first movie.

We get there and, at first, it looks like Wallflower isn’t there.

However, aware of just how her Quirk works, I take the time to scan the room more thoroughly and spot a pair of shoes that seem like they’re just laying by a corner of the table, but their position is a little too forced.

Walking around the table, I fold my arms as I look at the pair of jeans and brown sweater laying there, seemingly filled with air.

“Wallflower, I know you’re there,” I say flatly. “I know your Quirk is invisibility and you know we all know.”

There’s a pause, before Wallflower becomes visible and gets up, watching us all wearily.

“I don’t know why this is happening, okay?!” she says, sounding both scared and angry. “It just started happening! I’m not a freak!”

Sunset holds up her hands quickly. “Whoa, whoa. No one is calling you a freak.”

Wallflower just scowls at her. “Not yet, but I know you will.”

“Hey, Sunset’s not like that anymore!” Dash shouts, getting in Wallflower’s face, right before it disappears.

I sigh, rubbing my head. “Dash, we’re not going to get anywhere if you scare her like this.”

“She insulted my friend!” Dash rounds on me.

I nod. “And I’m not saying she isn’t wrong for doing that, but, like most of the school, Wallflower wouldn’t expect Sunset has fully changed after such a short time. It’ll take a while. But you lashing out at her isn’t going to make her come around any faster.”

“What’re you doing here?” Diamond Tiara’s voice says from outside the door to the room.

“I got a text from Principal Celestia to come here,” Derpy’s voice says.

I nod to AJ, who goes over and opens the door, startling the three standing there.

“In,” she says flatly, it apparently being intimidating enough to make them do so without question.

Once instead and the door’s closed, they notice me, Diamond’s eyes narrowing.

“Hey, aren’t you that girl who had the giant head with you?”

I nod, folding my arms. “That was my MMPA. It let’s me know when a new Quirk User is nearby.”

“Quirk?’ Silver Spoon asks sceptically.

I look to Wallflower and nod.

She hesitates, before nodding herself and turns insivble.

The other three cry out in alarm, making Wallflower quickly stop.

“A Quirk is a special power,” I say, easily noticing the look of recognition in their eyes, but continue on. “I’m here because a group of criminals came to your world from another human world. They have Quirks and, somehow, you three and Wallflower here ended up getting some of those Quirks. How, I have no idea, but that’s what I’m trying to find out. Now, tell/show us your Quirks.”

There’s a long pause, before Diamond scowls at me. “What? you expect us to do tricks, like your own personal circus animals.”

Annoyed, I grab a stapler and throw it at her.

She cries out in alarm and her skin suddenly changes, looking more like diamond that skin. Well, it wasn’t just her skin, her eyes and hair too. The stapler just bounces off it. Phew, good thing it didn't break on impact. I would rather not be responsible for destroying school property just to make a point.

I nod. “Thought so. Didn’t quite here the MMPA, but I heard it say something about your skin, so I had a hunch something like that might happen.”

Like Wallflower, Diamond Tiara’s Quirk has a bit of irony to it. She can turn her skin hard as diamonds, like Kirishima’s Hardening and Tetsutestu’s Steel Quirks allowed them to harden his body like rock and turn his skin to steel respectively.

“You could’ve hit me with that!” Diamond shouts, still in what I guess I’ll call her Diamond Form.

“Diamond, you have a Quirk! That could make you a target of the League!” I growl, not wanting to beat around the bush and very aware of her pony counterpart’s personality prior to season five and having no time to deal with that shit. “I don’t know how you got a Quirk, but the fact you did means the League of Villains could be planning on using you!”

Diamond pauses. “The League of… what?”

Sighing, I explain everything within my ability to tell them, including how I’ve no clue how long the League’s been in this world or what exactly they could be planning.

As I explain, fear enters their eyes as it properly starts to sink in what them having Quirks and likely being given them by the League without them realizing it means.

After all, Aoyama was forced to be a spy for All For One in exchange for his Quirk, so there was no telling what the League had planned for the four of them.

The fact the League gave them their Quirks without them realizing only making the matter more disturbing.

It’s why, aside from briefly returning to help Twilight deal with Starlight, I plan on sticking around here for a long while.

Mostly, I’ll just be commuting from Equestria, but most of my time will be spent here, trying to help the four of them get a better grasp on their Quirks as well as figure out how they got them to begin with and where I can find the League to plan their downfall.

Once I’ve finished explaining, Silver Spoon and Derpy show us their Quirks.

Silver Spoon can absorb matter around her, forming a type of armour, like Kevin Levin in the Ben 10 Alien Force and onwards series. She can also enlarge parts of her body or form them depending on the matter, like Kevin could after season four of Alien Force.

Derpy’s Quirk allows her to fire beams of bubbles from either her mouth or hands. The bubbles don’t really have much going for them, but, Bubble Girl was able to make her similar Quirk useful for hero work, so it’s not something to knock.

I assure them I’m going to help them figure out their Quirks more and do my best to keep them safe.

I won’t let the League of Villains use these girls for their own ends. I’m going to make them regret giving the four of them their Quirks.

The four of them stick with myself, Sunset and Spike throughout the rest of the Battle of the Bands, where, like they’d said, the Sirens didn’t try anything tricky.

I mean, they still tried to gain more power throughout the contest, something my fellow Quirk users realized as they stayed with me, far enough away not to be effected and actually see it playing out.

As happened in the movie, the other students try to sabotage The Rainbooms, but this is where I decided to test my new team.

Well, Derpy and Wallflower, anyway.

I have Derpy blow a beam of bubbles up at Photo Finish and her group, distracting them and keeping them from messing with Rarity and I have Wallflower go invisible and stop Snips and Snails from messing with Fluttershy by pantsing them right before they tried, then spooking them when they saw just some clothes floating there, furthering throwing off Photo Finish’s plans.

Granted, the performance still had issues caused by the Rainbooms themselves, namely Pinkie’s party canon’s confetti getting in Twilight’s throat, but it still goes way better than it did in the movie and so there’s no reason for Sunset to run on stage to stop Rainbow Ponying Up or cause more animosity from the other students due to it making more sense that the Rainbooms win.

However, we aren’t able to go with the girls later when they’re sent falling under the stage by Trixie.

Why?

A villain.

It’s as we’re walking out of the school an hour or so after the girls leave to set up.

Diamond’s asking me what exactly my Quirk is, since I haven’t shown it yet, when a familiar beeping makes me stop and glance to my shoulder.

The patch morphs into the cube and a beams flies forward, scanning a guy who’s just crossed the street to the school side.

He has short blue hair and brown eyes. He’s wearing a brown shirt, pants and a grey jacket, the latter having a speech bubble

Present Mic’s head appears. “Steel Forge. Villain Name: Infusion. Quirk: Meld: He can fuse objects together at an atomic level, although he needs to be touching both objects in order to fuse them.”

Huh. That sounds similar to the Quirk of that guy from Class 1B. Can’t remember his name, though.

The man named Steel Forge looks at us, before turning tail, clearly intending to run.

“Get him!” I yell, charging up 15% and rushing forward, quickly moving around and blocking his path.

He turns to run, only for the other three to surround him, Silver Spoon absorbing the concrete and enlarging her hands, Diamond going Diamond and Derpy holding her hands out.

I can tell from the look of recognition in his eyes that this Steel Forge has figured out that, while Derpy’s stance looks the least intimidating at first glance, it means her Quirk can come from her hands and he has no clue what her Quirk actually can do.

“Alright, Steel Forge,” I say, pointing at him. “Time to be smart. Tell us where the League of Villains is and why they gave these four girls Quirks? Are they planning to force them to be moles for the League? Who’s in charge of the League? I know it’s not All For One or Shigaraki, so tell us who it is, or else.”

“I can bet being hit by a fist made of diamond, even from a little girl, can be pretty painful,” Diamond says, punching a fist into her palm, catching on to my plan to intimidate to get answers.

“And a giant concrete hand would be pretty painful, too,” Silver Spoon clenches a giant steel fist.

Derpy and Wallflower glance at each other, before both saying, “And you don’t even wanna know what we can do to you.”

The guy looks between the five of us.

“Five of you?” he whimpers, before shaking his head. “I lost five Quirks already? I’m dead no matter what I do. Damnit, Smart Mouth.”

Wait, lost? And who’s Smart Mouth?

“Hold on, you didn’t know these girls had Quirks?” I ask, taking a step forward.

He reaches into his pocket, pulling something out. “Stay back! I’m a dead man now anyway! I swear, I’ll do it!”

It takes a second to realize he’s holding some kind of metal tube… and second later to realize it’s a bomb!

“Everyone, get back!” I yell, charging up to my max. “Dude’s got a bomb!”

The others cry out in panic, quickly backing away.

“Steel Forge,” he looks to me, his eyes frantic and I hold up my hands in a calming gesture. “Listen, I don’t know what your situation is, but, if you put down the bomb, we can work things out —”

“No, you can’t!” he yells, cutting me off. “No one can! If that dumbass Smart Mouth hadn’t lost those Quirks, I wouldn’t have had to come here. But five of your already have some. The rest must already be with other Heroes. There weren’t supposed to be Heroes in my world!”

“Dude, you have to chill,” This is too dangerous. I don’t know how far the range of that bomb is and this guy’s lost it.

“If I’m going down, I’m taking at least some of your Heroes with me!” he yells, shoving the bomb at his chest, it taking a second to realize what he’s doing.

“Dude, you have to chill,” This is too dangerous. I don’t know how far the range of that bomb is and this guy’s lost it.

“If I’m going down, I’m taking at least some of your Heroes with me!” he yells, shoving the bomb at his chest, it taking a second to realize what he’s doing.

I rush forward, flicking the bomb out of his hand.

I use his moment of confusion and land a Smash into his chest, knocking the wind out of him.

His eyes roll into the back of his head and he goes limb.

A loud beeping turns my attention to the bomb.

I barely have time to act.

Diamond Tiara rushes forward and jumps onto the bomb, covering it with her whole body.

“Diamond, no!” Silver Spoon and I cry out in unison, before the bomb goes off.

To our relief, while an orange light flares from under her and she winces, Diamond doesn’t vanish from our sight.

She gets up a few seconds later, dusting soot off her as she turns off her Quirk, revealing nothing. Her Diamond Form was just strong enough to contain the blast. Although, the front of her clothes are shredded.

Silver Spoon hugs her friend, while the rest of us try to ease our breathing.

Once we have, Diamond looks in disgust to the prone form on the ground. “What do we do with this sick fuck?”

I look down at him. “I’ll take him back to Equestria. I know somewhere his Quirk won’t be dangerous and he can be held there until we can make a plan.”

By the time we make it to the Battle of the Bands, it’s in time to see the Rainbooms beat the Dazzlings with the Rainbow Alicorn Spirit Bomb. The Sirens clearly thought, since they hadn’t seen me for a while, they could get away with it.

As the saying goes: Karma’s a bitch.

Once everything’s done, we inform Twilight and she and I return to Equestria to put this villain in a prison he won’t be able to use his Quirk to escape from until can figure out what to do with him.

Tomorrow, I’ll return to the EQG world.

We need to start training the girls to better control their Quirks and start figuring out where the League of Villains are and what they’re planning.

The good thing for now is, we know from what Forge said, he hadn’t known about the girls’ Quirks, nor did he realize my Quirk wasn’t from the ones the League brought with them.

Somehow, the League lost several of the Quirks they’d had and, by sheer luck, Wallflower, Derpy, Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara got them.

At least that’s good news.

Author's Note

PHEW! Almsot didn't get this done today.

i'd originally intended to start writing after getting lunch, but, while i was boiling noddles, i lost my grip on the pot and the water spilled all over the counter and the floor, leaving me to have to clean it all up, made all the more nerve wracking because some of it went under the microwave, so i had to turn off the powerpoints to make sure a short circut didn't happen.

took way longer to wipe it all up than i'd like to admit. hopefully i got it all.

Anyway, interesting development, no?

Four CHS students have Quirks, but the League didn't give them to them.

How'd they get them? Are there more? Will Deku and her new team find them before others get mixed up in the chaos?

With the Humane 7 get Quirks? And, if so, what would they be?

You'll have to wait and see, because it's already after 6pm, i need to eat and i wanted to finish Supergirl Season 1 tonight so i can start season 4 of Flash tomorrow.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter and, til next time, stay safe, stay clean and see you later everybody