Show Yourself
As ironic as it sounds, Hakagure was the one to pick the next title using the holographic tablet. The title catching her eye kinda reflects herself if it had anything to say.
Show Yourself
The invisible quirk user blushes a bit red in embarrassment and laughs a little awkwardly. "I thought I would be kinda cool to see what this world is about," she tells them softly.
None the less, everyone is excited to see what this world will show them. The adults of the room ready to find meaning in this world that could help them figure out how to better their own home in terms of helping the next generation and its current.
The screen glitches to a new setting. A television screen with a female reported present behind her desk with a serious expression. A screen beside her showing a wrecking devastation of Kamino in shambles.
"This just in!" A reporter exclaims on a television channel in her studio. "Reports of the U.A. student, Midoriya Izuku, was finally found after the villainous battle a week after the wreckage in Kamino." His image appears on screen, healthy and well as he's dressed in his hero costume.
"Information gathered tells that he was rushed immediately to a hospital to be taken care of by the best of the best. Leading us to believe Recoveray Girl could also be on the team." The reporter shuffled their papers for further report. "His current state is said to be in a coma while he heals. Family, friends, nor teachers from U.A. has made a comment."
The new channel glitches out to a black screen. Their taken to a shot of Izuku standing in the middle of the dark void.
His green eyes flutter open to meet the darkness of the void. A small moment of surprise before looking around.
"Hello?" Midoriya says carefully.
The sounds of echoing whispers lightly surround him. He's concerned and takes a tentative step forward.
His first step sets off a chain reaction to his surroundings. The darkness bleeds away to be replaced with a familiar forest. The same one the audience saw in the first world they saw upon getting settled in the theater.
"That's the same forest we saw in the first verse we watched," Present Mic points out as he was keen to taking in the setting of the verses shown so far.
"Ah, it seems we get a continuation from their first one." Nezu hums in interest to see where Young Midoriya has ended up in his wandering.
"Every inch of me is trembling," He begins singing progressing forward. "But not from the cold~" The audience can see his breath from the cold air surround the area.
"Great, another song..." Shiragaki sarcastically says before behind smacked behind the head by Toga to shush. "Ow!"
Izuku looks around. "Something is familiar, like a dream, I can reach but not quite hold." Something shines to his left where he turns to follow. The path leading up to a moth of a cave.
"I can sense you there, like a friend I've always known~" He reaches out to rest his hand against the entrance of the cave. "I'm arriving and it feels like I am home~" His curiosity gets the best of him as he takes to entering the cave. "I have always been a fortress. Cold secrets deep inside~"
"Are we sure this isn't a Todoroki song?" Tokoyami comments with a few people agreeing nodding their heads in agreement to him.
The topic was had to disagree from, especially Todoroki Shoto himself when he is emotionally stunted per say.
Carefully Izuku walks through the tunnels, his eyes looking around as if searching for something. "You have secrets, too~ But you don't have to hide!~"
He takes a turn as he steady expresses his steady excitement. "Show yourself... I'm dying to meet you." He calls as out with knowing he is not alone here. It's just this feeling that surrounds him that feels like home. "Show yourself, it's your turn~"
The real Izuku, sitting in the theater with the heroes and villains feels confused. 'Just what is my other self dealing with here,' he thinks to himself.
The teen enters a small cavity, looking around with spread out arms. "Are you the one I've been looking for all of my life?~" he sings looking up and around for any sign. "Show yourself, I'm ready to learn~ Ah-ah, ah-ah~" He sings softly and ready.
His call is finally answered hearing a familiar echo behind him. "Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah~" Izuku turn as around quickly to his shadowy double with his wispy green eyes smiling back at him.
"It's Shadow Deku!" Uraraka points out quickly while hitting the side of a shocked Iida's arm.
Midoriya on screen grins back as he starts to chase after the shadowy figure through the tunnels. Those different speckles of light lighting the way for him. His smile remaining as he has to jump through the obstacle course to chase after his double.
"I've never felt so certain. All my life, I've been torn!~ But I'm here for a reason, could it be the reason I was born?" His quirk alights around his body and the moving lights glow brightly in tune with him.
"I have always been so different!~"
Flashback show to his childhood. Him shown to have no quirk due to his toe joint and then displaying his late blooming quirk at the entrance exam.
"Deku!" A young Katsuki being shown to use his quirk on young Izuku who cries in pain before being left behind.
"Bakugou, not cool man!"
"Tch! Whatever..."
"I'm sorry Izuku! I'm sorry!"
Inko can't help but curl up by her friend who pays her shoulder in comfort at the painful memory. She could only apologize in that moment. The encouragement leaving her in fear that her son would get even more hurt if he continued to persuade a hero career being Quirkless.
"Normal rules did not apply!~"
Then sitting at his desk crying after All Might in the hologram video congratulates him for passing the exam to study at U.A.
"Come, Young Midoriya. This is your Hero Academia!" All Might on the hologram video acceptance letter encourages.
Izuku on his desk chair crying tears of joy.
Some of the heroes and students are a little tearful at their friend/son/student's dream come true.
The audience is brought back to present time Izuku in this dream like setting. "Is this the day? Are you the way, I finally find out why?~" He stops for a moment to rest his hand against the wall of the cave. Yet he can't as the lights usher him to follow as they spin in place before him. Using his quirk he pushes himself to continue forward to follow his shadowy double who had taken a second to look back at him with a green smile.
Phasing through a jumble of ruble that blocks the entrance to another cavity. The lights who were guiding Izuku also phase through after him. No hesitance as the boy ignites his quirk in to his arm to bring a smashing blow to open the entrance.
"What a manly entrance!" Kirishima excitedly exclaims.
"Show yourself!" He walks inside to find himself in a corridor filled with stone pillars parallel to each other. Leading him to a gated door. "I'm no longer trembling! Here I am! I've come so far!~"
"He's not wrong," Grand Torino comments with a justified nod.
"You are the answer I've waited for, all of my life!~" Izuku sings passionately as he strongly pushes the gate open. "Oh, show yourself!"
He re-enters the dark void and looks around for the lights and the shadowy double of himself. "Let me see who you are!~" Determinedly walking into the darkness.
"Oh yes, show yourself dark Deku," Dabi drawls in amusement. Spinner can't help but chuckle a little to the comment.
"Come to me now~" He sings as one of the lights reappear before him. Then taking a form of a woman with dark hair in similar resemblance to Midoriya's mother.
"Oh Nana..." All Might can't help but say seeing his mentor again.
Grand Torino has a sad smile on his lips to his old friend. No matter how many times he sees her in these different worlds, she has that gentle smile.
Her ghostly figure smiles at Izuku welcomingly as she floats around the boy. Coming close to give him a brief hug before stepping off to the side, but not disappearing.
"Open your door~" Another light comes to him in form of a bald man with a rhythmic beat. Giving him a smile, hand in a thumbs up position. He does the same as the first light and stands off to the side next to her.
"Don't make me wait~" One after another more of the lights take their place to greet Izuku in ghostly form and stand in line to those off to the side who guided him. "One moment more~"
All for One quiet as each past holder of One for All shows themselves to the boy in spirit. Their expressions are only smiles of acceptance and encouragement.
He wonders and has a small hope to his brother in spirit again among them.
Confidently Izuku makes his way towards the white light hovering in the center of the darkness. "Oh, come to me now~" He sings strongly coming closer. "Open your door!~" Izuku stops before the light. "Don't make me wait, one moment more!~"
Izuku takes a moment to looks back at the ghostly figures and then at the white light who offers a pad of light for him to stand in. Not waiting a second more he steps into the lighted circle.
The room bursts into light, a dome like room with memories playing on the crystal walls around them. Different ones ranging from a white haired men to the ghostly figure battling against one man out of two. Series of hands passing down a torch of hope from one person to the next that greeted the teen.
"Whoa..." Someone seemed to breath out as they watch these series of events before them.
Izuku looks around in awe as the voices of the ghostly figures fill the room.
"Where the North wind meets the sea!"
"Ah-ah, ah-ah!~"
Izuku turns around to see a white haired young man in one of the old memories playing largely on the walls of the dome. Surprise on his face as he utters one word watching the older teen of the two white haired males. "Dad?"
"But isn't that-" Ojiro says but is cut off by the booming voices of the spirits on screen.
"There's a river~" The predecessors move smoothly to take a spot around the edges of the room.
"Ah-ah, ah-ah!~"
Izuku turns around once more to see his shadowy double standing next to All for One. He takes a step back in fear but his back bumps into a lean frame of someone he recognized as the first, the original holder of One for All.
The man holds him by the shoulders gently. His smile a bit apologetic before looking back to the other two determinedly.
'Little brother...' All for One thinks to himself seeing his brother there by the boy's side. He looks the way he did so long ago.
Izuku looks back at the evil figure and his possibly evil double. All for One takes off his helmet revealing his face. Not the one where he was injured by All Might but the familiarity of a kind familiar face of his father. Short white hair with crimson red eyes that look back at him softly.
The heroes and students again deny the connection that All for One is Midoriya Izuku's dad. He just couldn't be to the sweet sunshine child that is their classmate.
Even if Inko claims that how her husband looks their is no evidence the two are related in their world.
Next to All for One, Midoriya's shadowy double loses it's dark cover. Revealing himself to be an identical match to Izuku if it weren't for his white hair. All for One resting a hand on the double's shoulder like it's normal.
"Another Midoriya, but again with white hair?" Iida says while holding his chin in thought. He's really trying hard to figure out what this world's connection to both Midoriyas are there. Why the shadowy double? Was it represent a villainous side of his friend?
"How climatic!" Aoyama exclaims while posing.
"Full of memory~" Nana sings while the others echo her.
All for One, or Hisashi, extands a hand to beckon his son over. "Come, my son, homeward bound!~"
Everyone in their theater is entranced but can feel the tension by the beckoning of the most evil villain on screen calling for his son.
With a gentle, guiding hand, Izuku is pushed forward by the first. He takes a hesitant look back to the older, white haired male who nods his head in understanding encouragement.
Izuku walks forward towards them.
All for One gives the double a gentle push as well. The white haired Izuku walking at the same pace to meet the other in the middle. He smiles at his counterpart who shows a hesitant smile in return. So he brings his hand up.
Izuku copies the action and his double presses their hands together.
Nezu hums in amusement, "I see... A reflection of each other but with a missing component."
"What do you mean principle?" Midnight questions curious.
"It seems this Midoriya doesn't realize he was missing something that been with him all this time." The cryptic principle tells her and the rest of those seated around him. He chuckles to himself behind his tea cup seeing as they are even more confused.
"Home," A single word uttered that shocks Izuku for a moment until it melts into understanding. The greenet's eyes soften looking at his counterpart.
That one word seemed to click for some people in the audience. The meaning of this doppelgänger and the acceptance when Izuku smiles in understanding.
The greenet gets tearful and throws himself at his double to hug him close. Crying into his shoulder while said counterpart get teary as well.
"I am found!~" The white haired teen exclaims happily as he hugs the other back tightly with a tearful look.
All for One and One for All smile at the boys who hold onto each other tightly.
"Show yourself!" The First sings proudly.
"Step into the power!" One for All sings back to the boys. "Grow yourself-"
"Into something new!~" The two men harmonize as their forms disperse back into light form, one light and one dark. Flying into the boys hugging before they part.
"What?-" Someone voices in the audience as the screen starts to fog up.
"You are the one you've been waiting for!~" White haired Izuku sings looking at the other with a tearful, but happy smile.
"All of my life!~" Izuku sings.
Followed by his counterpart once more in repeat. "All of your life!~"
"Oh, show yourself!" Izuku holds his counterpart's hand, looking at him with a new resolve.
'That nerd, I know that look,' Katsuki thinks watching the two other versions of his childhood playmate on screen.
The predecessors around the room smile and nod at the new outcome as if accepting or acknowledging him in some sort of way some of those in the theater could not understand. One by one their they raise a fist in the air.
"Ah-ah, ah-ah!~" They sing before disappearing into their light forms and entering Izuku.
"Ah-ah, ah-ah!~" His counterpart sings loudly as he hugs Izuku once last time before entering the teen as well in light form.
Izuku gives one last hurrah as he raises his own fist in the air. "Ah-ah, ah-ah!~"
The teen reopens his eyes to see the white of a ceiling above him. Slowly taking in his surroundings and aware he's in a bed in a hospital somewhere.
"Oh! So he was dreaming this time after what happened to him." Sato comments seeing his classmate on screen sit up on the hospital bed.
Carefully Midoriya sits up on the bed and holds his hands out, palm up on his lap. Staring at them until the sound of the door opening breaks the spell of his attention.
He looks up to see Katsuki holding a vase of flowers in his arms. Those red eyes wide seeing him awake.
"Kacchan..."
"I swear it's always-"
"Hush Blasty!" Mina shushes her squad leader who glares her way at the quiet he placed on him. How could she not when this scene seems kinda tense.
"Deku, you're-"
"Yeah..." Izuku takes in a shakes breath while the blond comes closer to the bed.
Katsuki sets the vase of flowers he had been carrying on the bedside table and pulls up a chair to sit on. "Alright nerd, what's up with you? How did you wake up? You've been out for almost a month."
Mirio made a soft 'o' sound. "He must have gone unconscious during that fight from mentioned earlier."
"I... I just had a very strange dream." He sighs and looks at his hands again. Midoriya moves his left hand to hold out in front of the other teen. "Do you mind if I try something?"
"What?" The blond looks skeptic of the previously under patient sitting on the bed.
"Please Kacchan.... I promise to explain the best I can if what I'm thinking works."
A moment of silence is there, even in the theater, besides the muffled noise from the outside through the windows. Even the audience is stunned quiet.
"Fine, but you better explain this shit even if what your doing doesn't work." Bakugou gives in as he lets the other take one of his hands in his own.
"I don't know if this will hurt, so please relax."
Katsuki's shoulder visibly sag to show him relaxed. Not until there is a twitch and his eyes are opened wide, staring at Izuku with surprise. A moment where his breath escapes him in a paused gasp.
"So he felt it," Nezu muses.
"What?" Kota asks the small principle as he leans over in his seat to glance at him.
"Why Midoriya-kun's quirk."
"Deku," Bakugou starts out evenly. The look in the boy's red eyes are akin to terror or fear.
The real Izuku freaks out a bit in his seat reading the expression on Bakugou's face on screen. He had never seen such an expression on his rival's face.
The real Bakugou seated with his squad even gives some semblance of a twitch knowing whatever Deku did there was worrying.
Midoriya gives a small smile as he raises his free hand up just enough to let a series of sparkles pop in his hand.
"Oh my God," Someone breaths out.
Midoriya closes his eyes and squeezes Bakugou's hand for a moment before relaxing.
The blond holds his free hand up and starts up his quirk in the same fashion Izuku had done moments ago with horror.
"I," Izuku, on screen, starts out softly. "I know Kacchan... That strange dream made me realize I did have a quirk to begin with after all."
The screen darkens and Nezu takes the opportunity to explain the world they just saw.
"So it seems the shadowy double we saw from the this world is none other than Midoriya-kun's original quirk he did not even know he had." His black beady eyes slightly glance at the feared villain on the other side of the theater who remains silent. "His father, All for One there, is the one who let his quirk continue through him, his son."
"Damn," Kamari whispers only to be knocked on the head by Mina who heard him.
Izuku takes glances at the feared villain with the thought that they really should have no relation as far as they know. He takes even breaths to keep himself from thinking too much about the possibilities unlike a certain conspiracy theorist a seat away from him.
The screen alights again with familiar words.
Next Chooser please!
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