The day Minoru came back and had his meltdown on his classmates went by rather silently. Everyone either went into their rooms and didn't come back out or they just sat around silently thinking to themselves. Minoru words had pierced them like a dagger. Truth be told they had no idea how to react to the way he went off at them. Simply because Mineta wasn't one top push back or get genuinely angry.

They were just dumbstruck. However at the same time, they truly realized just how much this event has affected Minoru as a whole. This realization also made Jirou and Toru feel kinda bitchy, yes he was a pervert but he literally died trying to save Momo and lost an arm...and they just insulted him after finally recovering. True Minoru had made some very poor choices but he didn't deserve anything like this.

They honestly wanted to go apologize but they were honestly too afraid to after Minoru's outburst earlier. Not only that, they had heard about his new quirk. From the way Momo described it, it sounded pretty strong. They didn't want to run the risk of pissing him off any worse and having him freak out and use it on them. They weren't entirely too sure about Minea now. Sure he wasn't the violent type but...this new him was NOT the old Mineta. Not one bit. This one was a lot more wild and unpredictable.

They really had to think long and hard before they tried tackling this again, not just for their sakes but for Mineta's too. Something they've neglected for a while.

"Hmm...hmm?" Minoru slowly opened his eyes. Had he fallen asleep?

He was still curled up leaned against the wall on his bed in the same position. He looked over at his alarm clock to check the time. "Yeah, I definitely fell asleep. For an hour and half at least."

Minoru yawned and stretched as he got off his bed ready to clean up the mess he made earlier. However when he looked around his room, to his surprise the mess he made was already cleaned up.

"Okay...weird. I don't remember cleaning anything up and my door was locked too." The boy then glanced over to his stump.

"( Did the quirk do this? I was asleep though...it can function while I'm not conscious? That is what Momo told Aizawa. Okay it's official. This quirk has a mind of it's own. )" He rubbed his stump.

"I guess that's kinda cool. Hey thanks for cleaning up." The boy didn't get much of a response.

"Tch, you know if you're gonna free load in my body you could at the very lease respond back to me." Minoru said in an annoyed tone.

His words were only met with silence. "Sigh. Get a grip Minoru. You're giving your own quirk that's done nothing but help you thus far attitude." He rubbed his temple and just took a moment to calm down.

"Sigh. Okay, alright. Better." The boy then looked around his room just to see how much he had destroyed.

"Jeez, I just about destroyed all my posters..." Minoru checked around his room. "Tore up all my mags too and smashed all my figurines. Jesus I was pissed off..."

"Agh, whatever. That kinda stuff is really the last thing I need to get into right now." He then started scavenging for something not lewd related to possibly pass the time. He would go for his laptop but it would be pretty hard with one hand.

Minoru groaned in annoyance knowing just how much of a hassle things would be now for him with just one arm. That is until he got his replacement. Which he wasn't really looking forward to. True it would be a replacement arm but it wouldn't be his arm. It just wouldn't feel natural at all, call him ungrateful whatever but...it would just be a piece of metal and nothing else. He wouldn't be able to feel it. Not only that he would more than likely have to have it inspected and repaired every so often which was already an annoying thought.

Minoru gritted his teeth all the hindrances that this loss would soon bring. "Maybe..." He thought as he looked at his stump.

"If I could get this quirk figured out...it could be my replacement arm. Sure it wouldn't be the same but...it would feel a Hell of a lot more natural then and piece of scrap metal dangling from my stump." Just then his hand grabbed something in a bag he was searching in. Something metal.

He pulled out and in his hand was a silver harmonica. "Oh wow, my old harmonica. Haven't seen you in a while...why did I stop playing yo-" Minoru stopped mid sentence knowing the exact reason why. Becoming obsessed with girls.

"Whatever, I'll take any kind of distraction right now. Besides, I used to really have fun playing this old thing and I was pretty damn good at it too." Minoru said walking to his bed and sat down on the edge of it.

"At least this only takes one hand. I hope I still know how to play this thing." The boy then licked his lips and placed the instrument to his mouth and began to play it a little. It sounded a little off key and scratchy but as he readjusted to his normal groove his sounded a lot better.

"Still got it. Okay, okay. Time for some fantasy escape relaxation." This was one of Minoru's most favorite things to do when he was having a bad time long ago.

He would close his eyes and play his harmonica and drift off into a fantasy if his own making depending what kinda song he was playing. Then he'd let his imagination run freely forgetting the troubles of his life behind.

He played a tune to an old song he used to listen to. Country Roads he remembered it being called. Minoru's mind had transported him to a long road with lush green grass on each side of the street. The sun was shining bright and the breeze was just right. Minoru smiled and walked down the seemingly endless road just enjoying the scenery around him. The boy could feel himself calming down, forgetting about all the crap he's been putting up with lately, the loss of his arm, his classmates trying to make a fool out of him and just....overall his own self loathing.

He's heart was somewhat at ease looking up at the pretty clouds, the birds they flew by chirping. He also enjoyed looking at the lush green trees surrounding him as he walked down the empty street. It was just perfect until....

Knock, Knock!

Minoru was torn away from his fantasy world and spat back into reality. Minoru groaned loudly in anger as the knocking at his door presisited. He placed down his harmonica and got off the bed and angrily stomped to his door and opened it.

There stood a girl he hadn't met before. She was in the UA uniform but she had her own mods to it. The vest shirt was a leathery black and had multi colored poker symbols on it. She had on a gold ring on each of her middle fingers, two earrings that were shaped like ace of spades, she also had on a long red scarf, her nails were painted black, dangling from the collar of her shirt were a pair of 3D style sunglasses. One shade was red and the other was blue. she had a D cup sized bust, she had a rather pretty face, her eyes were a azure green, her hair was mediumly long, curly and in a ponytail, her hair was an amber orange and she had a small mole on the top of her left cheek and she stood at 6'5 feet tall.

"Yo." She spoke out to Minoru with a smile. However Minoru wasn't too happy with this. His relaxation just got ruined by some stranger and no he did not care it was a cute girl.

"Do I know you?" Minoru asked with a rather annoyed tone.

The girl smiled. "Unfortunately you don't but don't worry, that's about to change.~" She winked.

"Listen can you please tell me what you want?" Minoru rolled his eyes, not even humoring her flirting.

"Yeesh, you are in a rough mood." She shoved her hands onto her pockets.

"Oh really? What gave it away? My attitude or my missing fucking arm?" Minoru looked even annoyed with the mystery girl.

"Okay, okay. Look sorry okay? I'll get to the point. Look man, you may be in trouble." She said in a earnest voice.

"What?" Minoru opened his door wider with a confused but still annoyed face.

"Can I come in to tell you? I'd rather us be in private. Look I ain't here to pull any funny crap. Hand to my heart." She placed a hand to her heart and placed one hand in the air.

Minoru groaned and gestured her to come in. "Cool beans, thanks dude." The girl smiled and walked in, Minoru swiftly shut the door as she entered.

Minoru sighed and leaned against his door. "First things first. Who the Hell are you?" Minoru raised an eyebrow.

"Well Mr. Grouchy, I'm Yuki Hoshi buuuuuut you can call me Ace." She winked.

"Right. Okay ACE...what's this trouble you were talking about?" Minoru asked.

"Straight to the point I see. Alright bucko, listen up. I think someone is trying to get you expelled." She said with serious eyes.

There was a very brief silence as Ace finished her sentence. Minoru's face was unreadable for a few seconds...then it slowly turned into a calm face of rage. "WHAT?" Minoru spoke, raising his voice slightly.

Ace raised her hands up. "Hey man, don't shoot the messenger. Let me explain."

"So listen, a friend of mine came to me today and showed me a video on her phone of you in my room going through my panties an-"

"Fucking what?! I don't even know you! I've never even gone to any other section of this fucking dorm building besides my classes area!" Minoru erupted with fury.

"Wow, wow, dude. Calm down okay? Easy. Let me finish." Ace motioned her hands down to gesture him to calm down. Minoru took a deep breath and calmed down but his eyes still burned with anger.

"Now at first glance the video seemed legit but then as I rewatched a few times I started to see flaws in the video. 1, the video seems to cut at certain instances. 2, my alarm clock was caught in the video and it read 3:23 PM. That's a head scratcher cause I know for a fact I was in my room at that time. My friend says this happened 5 days ago and I know I was in my room that day at that time in the video."

"3, there are no cameras in the dorm rooms. So why was there one now? Someone could argue someone filmed you secretly but from the way the camera was angled and on you....the camera or person filming you literally would have had to have been right next to you."

"Finally 4, tell me. Do your eyes just randomly change color?" Ace asked.

"No." Minoru answered honestly.

"Then that's another flaw with the video. The person in the video looks 100% like you but for some reason if you look very closely, your eyes change color 3 times in the video. 4 solid reasons why I thin-no not even think. KNOW that the video is fake. Another thing...if this was taken 5 days ago, why is this video coming to my attention just now?" Ace explained.

Minoru stayed quiet but could tell Ace was being honest. "How did your friend get the video? Did she make it?" Minoru questioned her.

"I was just getting to that. She said she was sent this video by someone else but she wouldn't tell me who and that just made things even more fishy. Look bottom line, someone's trying to put the screws to you my dude and they tried using me as a pawn in they're scheme. Ace don't take too kindly to trying to be played for a sucker." Ace crossed her arms with a scowl.

"So dude, you may be called out by the staff soon. Whoever this person is, I'm sure they won't stop there. I'm not gonna try and snitch on you for a fake vid, but whoever made it may try slipping it to the teachers. If so make sure you call for me. I got ya back. Trust." Ace smiled and gave a thumbs up.

Minoru just stared at her, his rage slowly subsiding. He lowered his head breaking their eye contact. "Why are you helping me? You don't even know me." The boy spoke softly.

"Well, I know what it's like to be the outcast, believe it or not. I know what it's like to feel like you don't belong somewhere you should feel like you do. I know what it's like to be looked down on for your past actions and more importantly....I'm not gonna let some punk kick someone who's already down suffering just because it's easy or because they just don't like you. It's not cool." Ace said sternly.

"Look before I came here to speak to you, I asked around about you. I didn't hear a lot if not any good things about you but....then some of your classmates here vouched for you. That Midoriya boy, a Kaminari, and that Momo girl. They even told me about your um...sacrifice for Momo and you know what? That was enough for me to believe in you. If you were truly the selfish shithead other students say you are, then you wouldn't have done what you did for that girl and the fact that you two aren't even friends really drives it home too."

"You took one for the team even though they didn't like you. That takes real guts man. I respect that shit. Ya you've done stupid stuff but you don't deserve this. You just lost something that can never be truly replaced and whoever this coward is decides to try and kick you while you're down? That's just fucked up dude. Yes you may be a pervert but someone who would do this to someone is even worse than a pervert." Ace came over and knelt down to him.

"They probably think they're in the right because of the things you've done in the past. They probably think you deserve to suffer and it's okay to be cruel to you because they think it's them dealing justice. It's not. It's just them giving themselves a reason to act upon cruel intentions and not feel guilty about it. Cause you see...as shallow as it sounds, people like to judge and look down on others because deep down they're ugly on the inside. So they seek out someone who is flawed as well and cut them down and judge them for being flawed so they seem less flawed by comparison." She gazed deep into Minoru's eyes as she spoke her mind.

Minoru couldn't help but be silent and listen. This was...the first time anyone has truly spoke up for him genuinely

"When they do this. They think it's them giving a shitty human being they're just desserts by being God awful to them but in reality...they're just showing the ugliness inside them that they try so desperately to hide by demonizing other flawed human beings, thus counter productivity showing how shitty they really are." Ace placed a hand on Minoru's shoulder.

"Flawed people are still people too. Yes. PEOPLE. Like me, you and everyone else. Just because you have problems doesn't me you ever stopped being that. I don't care what ANYONE'S bullshit moral dogma says. Tell me...everyone in your class has flaws, yes?"

Minoru slowly nodded.

"Uhuh, uhuh and tell me. Do the others come together and help each other overcome them?" Ace asked.

"Yes..." Minoru mummbled.

"I thought so but....do they ever try to help you, when you fuck up?" She raised an eyebrow.

Minoru simply shook his head.

"Let me guess. They either harm, insult, or chew you out, then leave you to suffer in silence and isolation." Ace said flatly.

"Heh...sad but true." Minoru said with a sad smile.

"Typical. No really. That's just funny. People who preach to the choir about being a good person but don't really take their own advice. It's hilarious. Don't let my bland face fool you, I'm actually laughing." Ace then sighed.

"They're not your friends Minoru. Hell, I don't even care if this makes me sound like a bitch but, they're not even people you should really rely on either. Look I can understand they're dislike of you, but God damn step off the high horse." She scowled.

"Sigh, what I'm trying to say is dude. Don't let all this crap drag you down. You've got a lot to offer, you just need help bringing it out and since no one is willing to help you reach it..." She then placed a fist to his chest.

"I'll help you get there bud. Ya see in this world, what you need is a partner that can really lift you back up when ya fall. A partner that can bring out the best in you. A partner that's gonna put forth real effort to stick by you. Because they want to and not because they're required too. I got your back dude. Trust." Ace gave the biggest smile she could.

Minoru's very being trembled. Her words pierced him like a bullet. They cut deep. Deeper than any knife could. He wanted to feel happy, he really did but...he only felt his rage boil up higher and higher. He was so confused, why was he so angry? She was serious, he knew she was. So why? Why is he feeling this way? His face showed his emotional turmoil and Ace quickly noticed.

She did the only thing she could think to do. She brought the boy in for a tight embrace. Minoru was shocked but quickly returned the embrace resting his forehead on her chest. His fist clenched her jacket very tightly. His voice whimpered as he tried to form words.

"Just let it out dude. You'll feel better. I got ya. Go on." Ace reassured him and patted his back.

Minoru's eyes shut tightly and from the depths of his bleeding soul he let out a pained and angry howl. The scream was loud and gut wrenching, but Ace didn't flinch. She held him tighter as Minoru let out wail after wail of pure anger and sadness. He did shed tears, however they were tears of frustration. Minoru just shouted all the anger and rage of this whole event out into the open. Ace accepted it all, never easing up on the strength of her hug.

After a good 20 seconds, Minoru had finished his wailing. Although he had finished Ace didn't release him and Minoru did not release her either. They stayed there embracing each other in silence for a few seconds before slowing looking each other in the eyes.

"Better?" Ace smirked.

"Sniff...Y-Yeah. A lot better actually." Minoru said with tears in his eyes. Ace chuckled and wiped his tears.

"Told ya my dude." Ace winked.

"Thank you so much. Really." Minoru smiled for the first time since this whole mess.

"No problemo amigo.~" Ace patted his shoulder.

Now that he was actually paying closer attention to her...he realized Ace had a rather odd accent.

"Say um, not to be rude or make fun of you but, you talk kinda funny Ace." Minoru commented.

"Ah, get that a lot. It's cause I ain't from Japan. I'm from the US dude. New York, born and raised. I'mma yankee and I'm God damn proud." She pounds her chest.

"Wow, I don't think I've ever met a foreigner. So you speak English?" Minoru pondered.

"Is the Pope catholic ya punk?" Ace spoke in perfect English.

"I dunno you tell me Mac." Minoru smirked speaking fluent English himself.

"Holy fuck knuckles! You speak English?!" Ace's eyes went wide in surprise.

"Yeah, after watching so many um...adult American films, I just decided to learn the language." Minour said nervously.

"Didn't need to know that, but I won't lie, I've watched a few pornos in my spare time and I'll admit to that. I mean come on...who hasn't at least once or twice?" Ace rolled her eyes smiling.

"I KNOW right? Seriously, people can get so defensive about it. Dude, no one's judging." Minoru shoved his hand into his pocket.

"Wow, I've yet to meet anyone at this school who could speak English. You get 5 extra cool points Grape Dude." Ace cackled switching back to Japanese.

"Happy to please." He smiled.

"Heh, ah um. Can I ask something?" Ace's tone dropped a bit.

"Sure?" Minoru was a little off put by her sudden change in demeanor.

"Sorry if this question comes off as rude but...what are ya gonna do about ya arm? It'll be pretty hard to practice bein a hero with just one arm." Said Ace.

Minoru let out a sigh and glanced down at his arm. A small bit of anger slowly came back but he took a deep breath. "My teacher says he's getting a replacement made for me..."

"Ah, I see. That's good to hear. I mean it'll never be the same as a real arm but hey, it's something to help and ya don't even gotta pay for it." She tried to get him to see the bright side.

"I know, but if I can somehow master or figure out this new quirk of mine...I may not even need the prosthetic arm." Minoru's eyes seemed hopeful.

"New quirk? A latent one?" Ace looked interested.

"Yeah..." Minoru then proceeded to tell Ace all that's happened with his smoke quirk thus far.

"Hmmm. I see. It seems to have a mind of its own, which can be good and bad. However from what you've said, it seems to be protecting and looking out for you. So I'd say you're good." Ace explained.

"I thought that too, I'm grateful for that...I could use someone to have my back at all times." Minoru looked at his stump.

"Hey you got me too! In fact. I'mma help you get this quirk mastered!" Ace vows.

"You'd really do that for me?" Minoru looked perplexed.

"Hellz ya pal. You're a pretty cool dude. Why not? Also heard ya playing Country Roads on a harmonica. Nice dude, nice.~ Maybe next time you play, I can join as a vocal.~" Ace coed.

"Oh wow um...sure! That'd be really cool." Minoru rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

"Then it's settled! Hey man, let's meet up again. We need to chill." Ace smiled taking out her phone.

"If you say so." Minoru took out his phone as well and both of them exchanged contact info.

"Rad. Okay I'mma get stepping for right now, I gotta look more into this fake video crap. I'll call or text ya if I find anything." Ace quickly put her phone away.

"Oh right, I totally forgot about that..." Minoru was surprised how easily he forgot.

"I tend to have that effect one poeple.~ It's hard to focus on bad things with the old Ace around.~" She bragged.

"Hehehe, way to toot your own horn but...I'd believe it." Minoru said with a grin.

"And don't you forget it either." She gave her trademark wink. With that Ace placed her 3D shades on. "Arlight, I'm out. See ya later dude. Remember, you can call me if ya need me. I'll come running. Tch, tch.~" Ace gave the finger gun hand gesture with a toothy smile.

"Hehehe, I'll without a doubt keep that in mind." Minoru chuckled.

"Awesome sauce.~" With that, Ace left the room shutting the door behind her.

Minoru was feeling so many emotions at the moment, but he didn't care. Because every emotion felt good. He couldn't help but laugh to himself. He looked at Ace's contact on his phone and smiled warmly. It was nice to have someone who truly got him.

Knock, knock.

Minoru quickly opened the door with a small hope it would be Ace again but...there stood Iida at the door. Minoru's face became blan and unreadable.

"Can I help you?" Minoru spoke in a cold tone.

"Hello Mineta. Ahem. I just wanted to check on you and say sorry if you misunderstood our intentions earlier. We didn't mean to upset you." Iida tried to sound as earnest as possible.

"Oh no. I didn't misunderstand anything. I was right on the money." Minoru replied.

"No, no. Mineta listen, we really did want to help yo-"

"I know you did, BUT....you wanted to help for the wrong reasons. You wanted to help because you saw something horrible happen to me and your moral instincts kicked in and said "Be nice to him." that's all. Not because you care about my well being. It's so you feel like you did the right thing." Minoru scowled a bit.

"Mineta you're really taking this out proportion. Yes, we feel bad for you but that's not the sole reason. You are a part of this class and one of us. We are like a small community and w-"

"Okay pause right there Four-eyes. "I'm a part of this class and I'm one of you?" Hahahahahahaha!" Minoru bursted out laughing.

"Oh my god....ahahaha and here I thought you didn't have a sense of humor Iida wow. That's a really funny joke. You're killing me Iida, hehehe.....you REALLY ARE.." His eyes went back to being cold and distant.

"Do you even listen to yourself? How many times have you guys excluded me from group activities or study groups? Or just going to hang out together? How many times did you guys brush me off when I asked to hang out with one of you? I've honestly lost count." Minoru leaned against his doorway.

"Mineta! We have never excluded you from anything! We....." Iida really tried thinking of class group activities that Minoru was included in...not one thing came to mind. They really had excluded him. Iida cursed in his head, as much as he didn't want to believe it Minoru was truth to his words. The only time they really worked with him was when they were paired with him via the teachers.

Iida just felt horrible and couldn't even muster up the strength to finish his sentence.

"That's what I thought. Tch...ya know? 1-A is like one big happy family and I'm just the unwanted child in it." He rolled his eyes.

"Mineta...I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Iida bowed his head.

"Save it. If you really are sorry and want to make up for it, then give me my space and maybe we'll talk. Because right now, I really don't want to put up with any of you." Minoru said flatly.

Iida raised his head and simply nodded, the confidence drained from his face.

"Are we done?" Minoru placed a hand on the doorknob.

"Just one more thing...who was that girl?" Iida asked.

"Why do you need to know? It's none of your business." Minoru spat.

"Mineta, I'm just asking out of concern." Iida replied.

"Concern? What the Hell is there about someone coming to visit me that could call for conce-...Oh you son of a bitch..." Minoru's face became enraged and he stepped forward.

"You think just because it was a GIRL that came to visit that I've done something perverted again." Minoru glared up at Iida.

"That's not what I'm concerned about!" Iida protested.

"Then what is it? Tell me." Minoru placed his hand on his hip tapping his foot.

"I just...I was just checking incase....." Iida couldn't find his words...once again Minoru had called him out and won.

"Unreal. No really unreal. Do you honestly have THAT LOW of an opinion of me? Do you despise me THAT MUCH?! To think I can't have a normal conversation with a girl!?" Minoru yelled, gaining the attention of a few of the classmates.

"Listen to me, I just misphrased it, what I really mean i-AGH!" Iida then doubled over in pain as Minoru leaped up with a hard knee to Iida's groin. Minoru didn't stop there and grabbed Iida's head as he was hunched over and gave him a solid headbutt in the nose making it bleed.

"AH!" Iida held his bloody nose and hung his head down and his glasses fell off. As he opened his eyes to see his glasses on the floor, Minoru stomped on them and grinded his foot on them.

The others watching could only stand there in disbelief at what they just saw.

"GET AWAY FROM ME." Minoru's voice dripped with venom.

Iida could only look at him with shock and a small slimmer of....fear. This was by no means the Mineta he knew. Or more accurately thought he knew. Not wanting to test him any longer, Iida grabbed his shatter glasses and limped off.

Minoru then went back into his room and slammed the door again.

Iida had his head down as he passed the others.

"Are you okay?" Ochako spoke out in a concerned tone.

"No. I'm not...I messed up. I have failed Mineta. I have failed at my duties as class rep, and this is my punishment." Iida said weakly.

"Iida you didn't fail him, he failed you for not getting his act together." Jirou commented.

"No Jirou! I should have helped him become better! I should have given him the time and attention he needed! Not ignore him and deny his existence! We all have our problems...but we all accept them and each other and work together to better ourselves and each other...but we didn't do any of that for Mineta...we simply turned our backs because his behavior displeased us and God I've been so blind to see the truth." Iida clenched his fists tightly.

Jirou folded her arms and looked away with a repensive face. Iida was right, she couldn't deny it. No how much she wanted too.

"This is going to take so long to mend, if we even can mend it." Momo said.

"I've never seen Mineta act like this, it actually kinda scares me a bit. I can't read him at all, normally I'm forward and say what's on my mind but, with the way Mineta is now...I'm honestly afraid to. Ribbit." Tsu spoke up.

"It frightens me how much Mineta has changed as well Tsuyu, but I'm not going to give up. Deep down...I kinda knew this was going on but I didn't say anything or even try to reach out to him." Midoriya hung his head a bit.

"He doesn't even feel like talking to me and pretty much the only one here who hung out with him." Kaminari said. "And I feel you on that Midoriya, I kinda knew too but he always seemed okay. So I just assumed everything was okay. God I'm effing stupid." He cursed.

"I think we all were a little stupid when it came to dealing with him." Mina chipped in.

"Either way, further pressing will only agitate him more at the moment." Momo said.

"I think the best thing we can do right now is give him space until he's willing to talk to us." Ochacko suggested. "And in the meantime we can think of ways to fix this."

"That might just be our only option Urakaka." Iida agreed.

"As much as I hate to leave him alone...guess we gotta. Don't wanna piss him off more." Kaminari said.

"Then it's decided." Momo said.

The others all nodded in agreement and sat down together to discuss this situation.

Meanwhile with Minoru, he furiously grabbed his harmonica and began to play again. He needed to leave this world behind. He needed to get away from it all. This time as he drifted back off into his own little world, he thought of Denki and Ace briefly to really set his mind at ease. Minoru didn;t have much in this life but...

He sure as well was grateful for those two.

To Be Continued...