Chapter 2: Quirk: Stand
"A lot has happened since then, huh, everyone?"
"It really has."
Midoriya Izuku is now 8 years old. After having received his quirk and met his unexpected friends four years ago, they began training him on how to use their respective stands, as well as the Spin. Izuku was fascinated by all of their abilities and how they applied them in their lives.
They are all so creative about the use of their stands!
Izuku had, of course, shown off his quirk to the class the day he received it, though he kept his friends a secret as per his agreement with them. Even now, only his mother really knows about the friends he has inside of his head. He was happy that it was well-received by the class, with Katsuki affirming his promise that the two of them will become heroes.
When he approached the quirk doctors about his quirk, they said that it was very strange. The quirk is clearly there, as is his quirk factor, but it's not acting like how the usual quirk factors would be. His quirk factor is... spread out all over his body instead of being firmly in his genes. It acts more like a virus than anything, though of course it is beneficial to Izuku instead of harmful. It was also revealed that his quirk factor has a mind of its own, so the quirk is considered sentient.
According to the Joestars, in their world, stands actually come from a virus, so they assumed that his quirk factor is somewhat related to this.
On a somewhat related news, it turned out that there are actually seven Joestars there and not just six, with the seventh Joestar, Joseph Joestar, sleeping on the piano when Izuku first appeared on his Stand Realm (which is what they collectively called that place). He was actually Jotaro's grandfather and Josuke's father (which made Izuku question the complicated nature of the Joestar family tree) who has the ability Hermit Purple and can also wield Hamon. Naturally, both Hamon and Spin were taught to Izuku, hoping that he can use it and master it to help with his ambition of becoming the greatest hero.
Izuku, as it turned out, was more naturally talented in Spin rather than Hamon. He was also proficient in Hamon, but he finds himself having more of an affinity towards the Spin instead. He also used these powers in conjunction with his Stands, producing interesting results.
As he was in his bedroom, smiling as he reminisced his memories, he pulled out the notebook that he had painstakingly been writing on for the past four years.
Quirk Notebook: Midoriya Izuku
"You really wrote a lot in there, eh?" Josuke remarked.
"It is quite astonishing how much he wrote. He is very intelligent, and creative as well." Giorno said, praising him.
"All of your stands are fascinating, as well as how you used them! I mean, Jolyne-san managed to make a mobius strip with her stand!" Izuku whispered.
"I had to do it out of necessity." Jolyne said.
"But it's still so cool!"
He then opened his notebook and looked at the general contents, written in code.
Izuku Midoriya, Quirk: Stand
Description: This quirk allows him to wield the stands of seven members of the Joestar family, who comes from another universe. He can only use one different stand per day, and there's no other way to switch between stands in that day. Here is the list of each of their stands as well as their interaction with Hamon and Spin.
- Hermit Purple, User: Joseph Joestar
Power: 2/10
Speed: 4/10
Durability: 2/10
Range: 3/5
Potential: 8/10
This stand produces purple vines from the wrists that can be use for restraining or grabbing onto objects. Besides that, it has the ability of divination, which allows the user to obtain any sort of information he wishes through a medium, like a television, a camera, or even dust on a street.
Effects of Hamon: Hamon can be transmitted through the vines.
Effects of Spin: Spin has no noticeable effect on Hermit Purple.
- Star Platinum, User: Kujo Jotaro
Power: 10/10
Speed: 10/10
Durability: 10/10
Range: 2/5
Potential: 6/10
Star Platinum is a close-range stand of about 2 meters. It has super strength, super speed incredible precision and durability. It is a powerful stand reminiscent of All Might, though I still can't tell which one is more powerful (I think it's All Might).
It also has the ability to stop time for a maximum of 5 seconds. While Jotaro-san remarked that I can make that longer, the only person that he said could do that was a man named Dio, who can stop time for 11 seconds. However, he was a vampire, and he didn't know if normal humans could stop time for that long. It's something worth testing about.
I have also discovered that I can use these stands as a sort of pseudo-armor that I can use to protect myself, and given Star Platinum's incredible durability, I'd say that this is one of its best uses.
Overall, an incredibly strong stand.
Effects of Hamon: Enhances overall physical capabilities, but nothing else.
Effects of Spin: Imbuing Spin on Star Platinum's fists and legs results in an increase in overall power, but nothing else.
- Crazy Diamond, User: Higashikata Josuke
Power: 10/10
Speed: 10/10
Durability: 10/10
Range: 1/5
Potential: 8/10
Crazy Diamond is a close range stand used by Higashikata Josuke. The base stand has very similar capabilities to Star Platinum, so their power is very comparable. However, it has a different ability than Star Platinum.
Crazy Diamond can restore things to a previous state. The only restrictions it has is that it cannot be used on the user, and it cannot bring back the dead.
It will be assuredly useful in healing others.
Effects of Hamon: Crazy Diamond's restoration capabilities takes the form of energy. Hamon allows for that energy to flow outwards, increasing the range of it's restorative powers. However, a solid or liquid medium is needed for it to be spread.
Effects of Spin: Same as Star Platinum.
- Gold Experience/Gold Experience Requiem, User: Giorno Giovanna
Power: 5/10 | 8/10
Speed: 6/10 | 10/10
Durability: 6/10 | 10/10
Range: 2/5 | 2/5
Potential: 9/10 | 0/10
Gold Experience is a close-range stand, though it has a longer range than both Star Platinum and Crazy Diamond, with around 5–10-meter range. Its base capabilities are overall weaker than the previous two stands, but it makes up for it with sheer versatility with its ability.
Gold Experience's ability is to imbue anything with life energy, essentially turning any inorganic objects to organic objects, like animals, plants, and even human tissue. Naturally, such an ability has many uses, from scouting, tracking, support in battle, and healing.
Its evolved form, Gold Experience Requiem, has all of Gold Experience's abilities enhanced, plus has the ability Return To Zero, which essentially erases the effect of an event from the cause, resetting a person's will from before they even executed an action. It is an incredibly overpowered defensive power, but I do not want to be so reliant on it.
Effects of Hamon: Same with Crazy Diamond. Its life-giving ability comes out of its hands, but with Hamon, it can be extended to the whole body, plus to medium as well.
Effects of Spin: Normally, Gold Experience can imbue a limited amount of life energy into an object. With Spin imbued into said object, he can charge it with an infinite amount of life energy, increasing the possibilities.
- Stone Free, User: Kujo Jolyne
Power: 7/10
Speed: 8/10
Durability: 8/10
Range: 3/5
Potential: 8/10
Stone Free is a stand that can produce and manipulate strings from the body. These strings are more durable than normal strings but are not indestructible. If the strings are unraveled too much, it can result in the user dying.
Effects of Hamon: Stone Free's strings are a great medium for Hamon. Hamon can also be used to increase the string's durability.
Effects of Spin: When the strings are imbued with Spin, their striking power is increased immensely, giving Stone Free better offensive capabilities.
- Tusk Acts 1-4, User: Johnny Joestar
Tusk is a stand that can only manifest around 3-5-meters away from the user but can shoot in a long range.
Tusk Act 1: It can shoot nail bullets multiple times without much break, but the bullets are extremely weak.
Tusk Act 2: The nail bullets are increased in power, but they take longer to reload, 1 minute per nail. The bullets have a tracking capability based on the golden ratio, and even if the nail bullet misses, the bullet hole will move and shoot the target.
Tusk Act 3: When the user shoots himself with the nail bullet, the user is sucked into a spatial wormhole where only the user can enter. The user can use this power to reposition himself or various parts of his body, giving him a three-dimensional control over the battlefield.
Tusk Act 4: When the user achieves the Golden Spin, the most perfect version of the Spin, Tusk Act 4 can be used. It can shoot bullets imbued with infinite rotation, allowing it to break through any barrier and inflicting infinite rotation on the opponent, making it so that all of their cells rotate infinitely, incapacitating them immediately.
Effects of Hamon: Hamon has no noticeable effect on Tusk. This may be due to the stand being heavily reliant on Spin instead.
Effects of Spin: Tusk's ability is heavily reliant on knowledge and mastery of the Spin.
Unfortunately, I have not mastered Tusk Act 4 yet.
- Soft and Wet/ Soft and Wet: Go Beyond, User: Higashikata Josekage (His name is actually Josuke, but to prevent confusion, all of us have taken to calling him Josekage as an homage to the two people he's supposed to be a fusion of: Kujo Josefumi and Kira Yoshikage)
Power: 8/10
Speed: 7/10
Durability: 7/10
Range: 2/5
Potential: 9/10
Soft and Wet is a close-range stand that can generate and manipulate four kinds of bubbles:
1. Normal Bubbles - These bubbles do not have any special abilities of their own, though they are of course a lot tougher than normal bubbles. There are multitude of uses for these bubbles, such as lifting objects, cushioning, and blocking attacks. These bubbles are whitish in color.
2. Plunder Bubble - These ones, when getting into contact with an object, takes anything from that object, from the object itself to its properties. The only thing that the Plunder Bubbles cannot take are quirks. It can steal anything else, from temperature, eyesight, friction, even sound. The abilities of these bubbles cannot be applied to the user. These bubbles are bluish in color.
3. Bomb Bubbles - These bubbles are essentially mini-bombs that explode on contact. The explosive yield and size of these bubbles can be controlled. These are pinkish in color.
4. Go Beyond Bubbles - These bubbles are generated through the use of Spin. Essentially, these bubbles "do not exist in the world". What this means is while they can still affect the world around them, it cannot be affected by the world itself. These bubbles cannot be controlled manually, and can only be aimed, essentially turning them into projectiles. These are capable of exerting great explosive force and can erode anything it touches. Since it does not exist, it is invisible and intangible, only affecting what the user wants to target.
Effects of Hamon: Hamon can be stored through the bubbles and can be wielded through them to make them into a much weaker version of the Go Beyond Bubbles, something that Joseph remarked is similar to a friend of his, Caesar Zeppeli.
Effects of Spin: The effects of the Spin can be seen through Go Beyond Bubbles.
As Izuku finished rereading his notes, he smiled to himself in satisfaction of what he has learned so far. He hummed in contentment while going to school.
"Let's spar again, Izuku!"
"Will this guy ever stop?" Jolyne remarked in his mind.
Kacchan won't stop. He's just like that.
"Well, we can't blame him for being so passionate!" Joseph chimed in.
"Annoying is what he is." Jotaro said.
"Let's do this later, Kacchan. We're still at school." Izuku said calmly.
Out of everyone of his classmates, Bakugou Katsuki was the one most excited about Izuku getting a quirk, and he showed that excitement by constantly asking Izuku for spars. It was a form of bonding between these two friends at this point, but neither minded it.
"Tch! You're right! But don't you dare chicken out, Izuku!" he shouted.
"Have I ever chickened out of our sparring matches before?" Izuku said
"Y-You're not wrong." Katsuki stuttered out.
"Then wait. Once we get home after class, we have more than enough time." Izuku told him, leading to him nodding furiously.
"I'll hold you to that, Izuku!"
"Here it is! I'll win, no matter what stand you have this time!" Katsuki said with a feral grin.
"Oh really! I beg to differ, Kacchan." Izuku also said with a smile.
"Why do you always do this, you brat...?" his mother, Bakugou Mitsuki, asked in an exasperated tone.
"Shut up, hag!"
"You shut up, brat!" Mitsuki shouted back to her son, then turned to Izuku's mother, Inko. "I'm sorry about this, Inko."
"It's fine, Mitsuki. It looks like the two are enjoying themselves anyway." Inko simply smiled.
"Hah, yeah, I guess I should be glad that the kids are enjoying themselves."
"Now then, the sparring match between the two of you will begin right... NOW!" Izuku's father, Hisashi, started off the fight.
Katsuki charged forward, launching a right hook at Izuku. The boy quickly evaded, having seen this move too many times already. The green-haired boy then caught the fist with his hands, then two more ghostly hand appeared, punching Katsuki right in the gut. Katsuki used his quirk to blow away Izuku, making him let go of his hand.
The stand user then used this small sliver of rest to launch something at Katsuki unnoticed.
It may have been a quick moment, but Katsuki knew exactly what Izuku has this time.
"Soft and Wet!" Izuku shouted. Katsuki growled, then he charged forward, attacking him again with an explosion. However, Izuku simply smirked.
"Be careful throwing those explosions around, Kacchan."
Katsuki raised his eyebrows in confusion but then saw a stray pinkish bubble in his path just as he was about to launch another explosion. He knew what it was.
It's a Bomb Bubble–!
It was too late, and the bubble exploded, sending Katsuki backwards. Izuku then used this time to go on the offensive this time, running towards his opponent with his stand unleashed.
"ORA!" he launched a fast jab at the blonde, making him cross his arms to block it. While the hit was painful for Katsuki, he endured it and launched a counter with another explosion. It landed on Izuku this time, causing him to stagger.
"Die!" Katsuki tried pressing his advantage, sending explosion after explosion against Izuku, but the boy used his stand to block all of his attacks.
"Seriously, how unoriginal can you be with your battle cries?" Izuku said, sneakily producing another bubble, this time bluish in color, against Katsuki.
Katsuki noticed it too late, letting it approach his eyes and plundering his eyesight, causing him to go blind.
"Again?!" Katsuki screamed. He raised his guard, knowing that flailing around would be playing in Izuku's hands.
He regained his eyesight a few second later, only to see that Izuku was nowhere in sight. Making a split-second decision, he leapt out of his position, inadvertently dodging a punch from Soft and Wet.
"That was better than last time!" Izuku said.
"Like I'd fall for that again!" Katsuki replied, preparing for another explosion. He then tried to blow Izuku up again, but... nothing happened.
"Wha–?! Wait, don't tell me...!" Katsuki stared at Izuku, who smirked.
"Unfortunately, I have already plundered your sweat." he said, then Soft and Wet lunged at Katsuki, peppering him with punches.
"ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!"
"Argh!" Katsuki tried jumping away, but the stand was a little faster than him, leading to Katsuki being punched multiple times by Soft and Wet.
He only took the sweat I have from that time, which means I can still produce more!
Immediately, Katsuki planned to produce as much sweat as he could, and he did this by moving around as much as he could, dodging Izuku's blows and Bomb Bubbles.
While he still received more damage, he knew that he would win for as long as he gets all of his sweat back.
When he felt some sweat on his hands, he used this opportunity to stun Izuku. He leapt towards him then clapped his hands to create an explosion.
The flash of the explosion did its job, as it stunned Izuku for long enough that it allowed him to counterattack Izuku.
"Finally! I told you I'm going to win this time!" Katsuki said gleefully, feeling more of his sweat return and bombarding Izuku with explosions.
Izuku tried his best to block them with Soft and Wet, but Katsuki was too relentless. However, he noticed that Izuku was taking too little damage from his explosions, and then he stared at Izuku closely, determining why that is.
He had surrounded himself with multiple bubbles, particularly in places where Katsuki attack him in. The numerous amount of bubbles cushioned all of Katsuki's explosions.
Before he could even process what he was seeing, Soft and Wet appeared once more, attacking Katsuki with another jab that he dodged, then proceeded to dodge and evade more attacks. Katsuki tried to counter with more explosions, but Izuku's makeshift bubble barrier absorbed most of the damage. Katsuki tried to fall back but was shocked to suddenly bump into... something.
He used more bubbles to prevent my escape!
Katsuki braced himself as he endured another barrage of punches. This time, though, Katsuki managed to create a large explosion, driving Izuku back. Izuku then sent another Bomb Bubble at Katsuki, but knowing what would happen if he blew it up, he dodged it instead. Izuku grinned, something that Katsuki did not like.
"I wonder where that bubble containing your sweat is right now, Kacchan." he said.
Katsuki's eyes widened as he turned to see the Bomb Bubble that he just avoided about to collide with a Plunder Bubble, the one that stole his sweat earlier.
His sweat with the same properties as nitroglycerin.
"Shi-"
That was all Katsuki could say as a massive explosion rocked the area, ending the fight.
"Damn it! I lost again!"
"I'm so sorry I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!I'm so sorry!"
While Katsuki grumbled about his loss, Izuku apologized profusely for endangering their lives with that massive explosion earlier.
"I-It's fine, Izuku. Katsuki's resistant to explosions anyway. He has to be, having his quirk after all." Mitsuki said. "Though you sure showed him!"
"Don't support him, hag!" Katsuki shouted from his bed.
"I would support you if you stopped being rude, brat!" his mother fired back.
The Midoriya family, plus Katsuki's father, Masaru, can only chuckle sheepishly at the interaction between mother and son. Izuku couldn't resist, though. He just had to goad hi friend.
"That's 116 wins to me and 107 wins to you!" Izuku said, angering Katsuki further.
"Damn you, nerd! I'll make sure that I win next time!" Katsuki said with a grin.
That's right! I can't keep losing to Izuku like this! I need to train harder.
"Good luck, Kacchan!"
"Shut up!"
"...And that's how I won against Kacchan again!" Izuku finished his narration as he walked with a friend of his. A girl with green hair and shark-like teeth.
"Hahahahahahahaha! I'm sure that guy would still be feeling that today!" she grinned.
Tokage Setsuna. The way these two met was actually quite bizarre in Izuku's opinion. Around a few months ago, the girl moved from her hometown of Yokohama all the way to Musutafu because of her mother's job, causing her to be transferred to a nearby school. Deciding to be a little mischievous, the girl decided to detach her head from her body courtesy of her quirk and mess around with people. Unfortunately, the first person she targeted was Izuku.
*****
Setsuna looked around with a grin, trying to look around for a victim for her prank. Eventually, she spotted someone. A green-haired boy around her age.
"I'm sorry to do this to a fellow greenie, but I want to have some fun."
She descended her head from the sky and sneaked up on the unsuspecting boy. Grinning to herself, she said one word.
"Boo!"
"WAH!"
She got her desired reaction of him being startled.
However, she also got her undesired result of being punched in the face almost instinctively by a giant arm.
"DORA!"
Her head was sent flying a few meters, while Setsuna winced in pain.
Horrified by what he had just done, Izuku ran towards the girl and started healing her with his stand, Crazy Diamond.
"I-I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to...!"
"It's f-fine... It's my fault for trying to prank you like that..."
Setsuna couldn't help but grimace at her luck for targeting someone who could punch like that first. Her grimace then turned into a shocked awe as she felt her wounds heal.
"Y-You can heal people?!" she asked.
"N-Not exactly. I can just restore things to a previous state. Wait, does your quirk allow you to split your body up?" he asked.
"Yeah! It's called Lizard Tail Splitter!"
"That's so cool!" Izuku said, then he got an idea. "Wait, can I test out an idea? It wouldn't hurt, I promise."
Setsuna looked at Izuku before smiling.
"It's fine! Think of it as a payback for trying to prank you!" she said.
"Okay!" Izuku beamed before using Crazy Diamond again. This time, he held onto Setsuna's head firmly. At first, the girl was confused on what he was doing, but then she felt it.
"Wait, is my body-?!"
Before Setsuna can continue, they both saw Setsuna's body levitating towards their direction. The body then shot towards Setsuna's head, attaching it to her body, and the girl is now whole again.
"That's... so cool!" she gushed in excitement, causing Izuku to scratch his head in embarrassment.
"T-Thank you..." he said.
"Hey, I'm Tokage Setsuna! Let's be friends!" Setsuna offered, catching Izuku off-guard.
"W-Wait, what?! But we just met!"
"I don't care! We're going to have fun together, I know it!" she said with a grin.
Izuku hesitated at first, but then he smiled back.
"My name is Midoriya Izuku, let's be friends!"
"Hm!"
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"Hey, what's your stand today, Izuku?" Setsuna asked. Izuku grinned as he showed off Crazy Diamond.
"It's Crazy Diamond today!" he said as Setsuna grimaced.
"Ah, that." she said, still remembering the pain of being punched by it when they first met.
"Can't blame her for not wanting to see it. I'm sure that shit must have hurt her." Josuke said in his mind as they both watched her react like that.
"It's weird seeing someone who doesn't like this stand... A lot of my classmates like this stand." Izuku remarked.
"I also think it's cool! It just sucked being punched in the face by it, even if it was my fault." she said.
"Haha..." Izuku chuckled sheepishly.
"Oh, Izuku-!" Setsuna was about to say something, but they were interrupted by a kid their age screaming.
The two immediately ran over to where the kid was screaming and saw a bunch of older kids bullying what looked to be a classmate of Izuku's.
"P-Please don't hurt me...!"
"Oh yeah, what are you going to do about it?!"
Izuku, not liking this at all, decided to intervene. He went towards the victim and quickly used Crazy Diamond to heal his wounds.
"M-Midoriya-san..."
"Calm down. I'll heal you, okay?" he said gently. Setsuna also went to comfort him, while the bullies glared at Izuku.
"Who the hell are you? You want to end up like this little shit, huh?" one of them said. Izuku didn't say anything, simply glared at them, and turned back to healing the boy. The bullies got angry by this, and they charged at Izuku.
"I'll beat you up, you trash!"
Just as they approached him, Izuku knew what he had to do.
"CRAZY DIAMOND!"
The stand appeared from behind him, and in an instant, it struck one of the bullies in the nose.
"DORA!"
The fist collided, and Izuku used his restoration to heal the bully's nose, but not completely, to the point that the nose looked flattened and ugly.
"Wha-!" the other bullies were shocked, and one more glare from Izuku caused them run away in fear. After that, he continued healing his classmate until it was finished.
"Thank you, Midoriya-san!" he said.
"Don't worry! I just wanted to help. That's what a hero would do, right?"
His beaming smile caused Setsuna to feel happy as well. As someone who also wanted to be a hero, she related to Izuku's sentiment pretty well.
After that, they all left again to walk to their school.
"Oh yeah, Izuku! I have something I want you to eat!" Setsuna said, continuing what she was about to say earlier, presenting her bento to Izuku.
"...You cooked bento again?" Izuku said, remembering what happened to the last one. He was sure that the last one had poison on it, that's how bad it was.
"Yeah!" she said. Izuku took it with her permission and took a bite.
Without even saying a word, he summoned Crazy Diamond again and punched the bento box, restoring the prepared food to its raw ingredients.
"I'm sorry, Setsuna-san, but this is an affront to the concept of food."
Setsuna didn't know whether to laugh or cry about this.
The pro-hero Ingenium was currently feeling a lot of stress right now.
It had been a regular patrol for him, helping out with the people in the city and assisting with a lot of community service. They were very small tasks, but he enjoyed them nonetheless. This is all he'd ever wanted to be when he became a hero, after all. Helping out with whatever he could.
A few hours into his patrol, he got a call saying that there was someone being taken hostage around a few blocks from his location. Given his exceptional speed, he immediately went on his way to save whoever was in danger.
When he reached the location marked on the GPS, he saw a villain holding up his claws against a girl's neck. The girl had green hair and looked to be the same age as his younger brother, Tenya. Strangely enough, the girl was wearing a male's school uniform instead of a female's.
"Oh! It's the Turbo Hero: Ingenium!" the girl excitedly said, as though she wasn't being taken hostage.
"Don't come any closer or I'll slice this brat's throat open!" the villain said threateningly. Ingenium tried to look for a way to free the girl. He tried to use his quirk to increase his speed and grab the girl to pry him out of the villain, but the villain's reflexes were faster than he thought, and he managed to move out of the way before he can grab the girl.
"Oh no!" Ingenium said as he saw the villain's hand come closer to the girl's throat.
"I told you! One wrong move and I kill this girl!" the man said. Just as Ingenium was about to find alternative ways to save the girl, she spoke up.
"Ingenium, please allow me to use my quirk!" the girl shouted.
"I'll allow it!" Ingenium said, hoping that she could make this easier for it, despite his reservations.
"HUH?! And what the hell can you do, brat?!" the villain said. The girl didn't respond, though. She simply produced strings around the villain without them noticing.
"Stone Free."
The strings immediately tightened up, causing the villain to stop moving.
"Wha- I can't move!" the villain said as he struggled against his restraints. Meanwhile, Izuku carefully removed himself from the villains clutches and immediately approached Ingenium excitedly.
"Autograph, please!" the girl pulled out a notebook, which Tensei didn't know where it came from, and offered it to him.
Nonplussed by the whole situation, Tensei moved in to arrest the villain first before acquiescing to Izuku's request.
"Here." Tensei said as he gave the notebook back to Izuku. "I'm sorry if this is rude, but... why are you wearing a male uniform?"
"Ah! Well, I'm... actually a boy! This is a side-effect of my quirk!"
While Ingenium was wondering about what his quirk is for it to have a side-effect of turning him into a girl, Izuku thought about the first time he had Stone Free.
It looks like I take the features of whoever's stand I am currently using. It doesn't really affect me much with the other five, but I turn into a girl with Stone Free, then I get four testicles when I have Soft and Wet. This is... so weird and unnecessary, but I don't mind it too much.
Excited about having acquired an autograph from a rising star, Izuku went home.
"You really like All Might, huh, kid?" Joseph spoke into his mind.
Of course, Joseph-san! He's a great hero!
Izuku replied to him as he watched that video of All Might again. His debut video.
I really want to save people like that when I become a hero... Right now, though, I wish I can do something to help All Might...
Just as Izuku wished this, Joseph had an idea.
"Hey, kid, why don't you use Hermit Purple to try and help him?" he said.
Can I do that?
"Of course, you can! I mean, I don't know how important this knowledge is going to be for All Might, but whatever you get from Hermit Purple's divination will still help him no matter what."
Then, I'll try it!
Izuku then summoned Hermit Purple, connecting it into the monitor he's watching from.
"Please, I want to help All Might. I want knowledge that can help All Might..."
The stand began to spark, and the monitor turned into static. His stand's ability triggered, and the divination begun. Immediately, scene after scene began to flash on the monitor only to say one sentence. Something that confused Izuku.
"All..."
"for..."
"One..."
"is..."
"in..."
"Kamino..."
Chapter 3: Do You Believe In Gravity?
"What could it mean...?"
As Izuku laid in his bed, ready to go to sleep, he begins wondering on the events that had happened earlier.
Who or what is All For One? How is he or it important to All Might? Is All For One a villain of some kind that All Might is trying to find, but why?
That little experiment did prove that Hermit Purple is effective enough in its divination that it can pinpoint such specific information like its nothing. Izuku now began to wonder what he's going to do with said information.
Should I approach All Might with this information? While I would love nothing more than to help All Might with anything, I don't know if he's even going to believe me... After all, not only do I get all of these stands in random, but I also do not get one stand in a consecutive number of days. That means that I will not get Hermit Purple tomorrow, so I can't immediately prove it to them. Besides, I don't know how truly important this information is to All Might currently, so I may just inform that to All Might all for nothing. It's better to keep this information to myself and just watch out for the future.
With this decision in mind, Izuku fell asleep.
The next day, Izuku walked to school as per usual and saw a sight that has now been a common occurrence for the past few weeks.
"Damn it! That's not it, Shark Teeth!" Katsuki shouted.
"I told you to call me Setsuna or at least Tokage! We've known each other for months, Bakugou! You remember Izuku's name, right? Why can't you remember mine?!" Setsuna complained.
"Me and the nerd had been together since we were zygotes, Shark Teeth. You can't exactly compare that." Katsuki said.
"It takes you more than a decade to remember someone's name, Bakugou? Aren't you supposed to be smart?" Setsuna said with a teasing lilt in her voice.
"I am smart! It's just that you have no right to be called by your name by me ever since you made me test that toxic waste you call a bento!" Katsuki fired back.
"Why are you and Izuku bullying me and my bento?! He called mine an affront to the concept of food!" she whined, and that's when Izuku came in and chuckled.
"I'm sorry, Setsuna-san, but I stand by that statement. I never want to see you in the kitchen ever again." Izuku said. "Are you really sure you didn't put poison in there somehow?"
"Izukuuuuu!" Setsuna whined jokingly, causing both Katsuki and Izuku to chuckle. The bomber then turned to the stand user.
"What do you have this time?" he asked.
"Gold Experience." Izuku simply answered, while showing the arm of the stand.
"The life-giving stand!" Setsuna exclaimed. "That is honestly my favorite one out of all of them."
"It's horrible to fight, though. It sucks to get hit by it, and don't get me started on Requiem!" Katsuki complained.
"Wait, Kacchan, I don't even use Requiem just yet!"
"The fact that it exists is already absurd enough!"
"Can the two of you just tell me what Requiem is already? You two just keep dancing around it!" she said.
"It's better if you don't know it just yet, Shark Teeth." Katsuki said seriously.
"I'm sorry about this, Setsuna-chan, but I can't say it right now." Izuku also said, though he was more sad that he had to keep it from her.
"Fine, but I'll get it out of you someday!" Setsuna said. "Anyway, I have a question. Can you make other humans out of that stand?"
Both Katsuki and Izuku froze at this question, as if they hadn't thought about it until Setsuna asked.
"I... never tried." Izuku said before putting his fingers around his chin. "I mean, the biggest animal I tried creating with Gold Experience is a dog, and it took a lot of time and effort just to do it. While I probably could do it, I... don't want to attempt doing it."
"So, Giorno, have you attempted it before?" Jotaro asked from inside his head. Giorno shook his head.
"No, I have not." he said. "That would be akin to playing god, and I do not want that. My father may have attempted to do such a thing had he acquired my abilities, but I won't. Never."
"Do you think that Gold Experience could?" Johnny is the one who asked a question this time, and Giorno frowned.
"Theoretically, it could. However, I don't know how that would apply in reality. In all likelihood, I can create a human, but it would have little to no intelligence. If it does have intelligence, it would be that of an infant's." Giorno theorized.
Meanwhile, in reality, Izuku had the same thoughts as Giorno when it comes to attempting to create humans with it.
"Imagine having this ability as a villain, though. You can create an army of animals that can reflect damage." Setsuna said, shivering slightly at the thought.
"That would be a massive pain to fight." Katsuki said with a frown on his face.
"Well, at least we don't have to worry about that, since the ability is with Izuku, who's probably the most heroic person that exists right now!"
"No, that would be All Might." both Izuku and Katsuki said at the same time, causing Setsuna to giggle.
"Of course you would say that you fanboys!" she said, causing Izuku to look down in embarrassment while Katsuki looked away in a huff.
It was then that they heard the bell ringing.
"Let's go! Class is about to start!" Izuku said, and the three of them headed towards their classroom.
"Thinking about something, nerd?" Katsuki said as both he and Izuku walked back from school.
"It's just... something that I learned with Hermit Purple..." Izuku said as he looked incredibly confused about something. Katsuki raised his eyebrows.
"Didn't you have that yesterday?" he asked.
"Yes. Last night, I decided to use divination to find out any information that would be helpful to All Might. When I used Hermit Purple to do it, one sentence just repeated in the TV over and over again." Izuku replied. "All For One is in Kamino, is what it said."
"Who the hell's All For One, and how will that be helpful to All Might?" Katsuki asked gruffly. "Is he like, All Might's nemesis or something?"
"Everyone would know if All Might had a nemesis, Kacchan." Izuku shook his head. "It's so odd, though."
"Eh... maybe it's nothing." Katsuki said.
Just as he said that, the two of them overheard someone saying something disturbing.
"Please, All For One, don't hurt my parents, please..."
After hearing that word, the two of them immediately went quiet, and tried to find the source of the voice. They then found themselves on a secluded alleyway, listening in to a girl calling someone named All For One.
Izuku knew that this was a very significant moment, so he decided to pull out his phone, turn on the video recorder, and turn it into a fly using Gold Experience to watch over the conversation sneakily.
The girl was around their age, had brown hair with weird pads on her fingertips. The girl was someone they didn't recognize, but they thought that she wasn't from the city given her countryside accent.
"I'll do it. I'll do what you want, just please don't hurt them, please." the girl pleaded. After that, she simply nodded to whoever was calling her, then she hung up. The girl then slumped into the ground with a defeated look on her face.
"How... can I be a hero like this...? Why am I... following the words of a villain?" she said quietly, but the two can clearly hear her. "I don't want to, but... Mom and Dad are going to be hurt..."
So All For One is a villain. Why are they trying to threaten a parent's child? What's going on? Something is not right here. Something big is going on.
As he retrieved his phone and confirmed that he had indeed recorded the entire conversation, Izuku felt incredibly sorry for the girl. Both he and Katsuki looked at each other, nodded, and sneaked away from there. There was only one thought running in their minds as they left the area.
They wanted to help that girl.
Now all they have to do now is find out how they're going to do so.
"What should I do, everyone?" Izuku asked the Joestars as the boy entered the Stand Realm.
The seven individuals all looked at each other, clearly confused as well, before turning to Izuku with a tense expression.
"To be honest, kid, we don't really know. As much as we want you to help, we can't have a kid out there fighting a villain, even if you have our power." Joseph said.
"We're not really used to a situation like this. Sure, we fought all of those bad people without the help of the police, but that's because the authorities in our world doesn't have the same powers as us. We were the only ones who can handle it. In all honesty, I was kinda glad that Kira had died from an accident, because if we had captured him, we don't kno how we could have had him convicted in court." Josuke said.
"That is true. All of the conflicts we've been involved in are all relatively secret to the public, one way or another." Jotaro confirmed. "All of the help we have gotten were all gotten from a private organization."
"For me, I was admittedly doing it for a selfish purpose of saving my mother, and I couldn't know who to trust, so we also had to settle it on our own." Josekage chimed in. "You, however, have that option. Go to the heroes about this information."
"I want to, but... I have to be careful." Izuku said. "The fact that this is information that All Might needs, and I don't even know who All For One is means trouble."
"We'll just have to think up of a way to deliver this information to All Might then. That's who you want to give this to, right?" Giorno said and Izuku just nodded."In that case, all we have to do right now is watch the situation with that girl while we think of a plan."
"Thank you, everyone." Izuku said. "I'll do whatever I can to save that girl, I promise."
"And we'll help you do it." Jolyne said.
"Hm? I know that girl. Her name's Uraraka Ochako. I've seen her around the school sometimes. She's honestly very quiet." Setsuna said.
It was the next day, and Izuku had asked Setsuna about the girl they had seen yesterday. He nodded at Setsuna's answer.
"So, why are you asking, Izuku?" Setsuna asked.
"I just heard something... concerning about her earlier." he said. "She's probably being harassed by a villain right now."
"Really? Have you called any of the heroes yet?" she asked.
"I... haven't. We only have one piece of evidence, and it's possible that the heroes wouldn't even believe us." he said.
"I mean, surely they would still take this seriously even if we're kids, right?" Setsuna said.
"I know that, but... there's just something not right about all of this. I'm feeling it." he said.
"Izuku, you're not the kind of person to follow instincts of all things." Setsuna remarked. "You're a guy that follows logic and his heart. Right now, both your heart and your mind are telling you to help this girl right now and call for the heroes."
Izuku internally agreed with her, but still, he didn't know what to do. He knew that he couldn't just approach the heroes to tell them that a villain was harassing a girl even with the recording he has. There would be nothing else to work off of. Besides, even if the heroes did believe him, he only has a vague location to work with, Kamino.
Izuku did his research on Kamino, and it was a large area. It wasn't something that the heroes can just search in a day. Besides, he couldn't just take it to any hero, he has to take this to All Might.
Besides, I only have Star Platinum today. It won't be useful in sneaky communications with anybody, especially with its short range. Wait, but I have Tusk. I can definitely use it to send a message to someone, I'll just have to use Act 3. But now I have to wait for him... For now though, all I can do is...
He pulled out something from his bag and gave it to her. It was something he always had in reserve.
"Isn't this...?!"
She gasped as she saw a human eye surrounded by skin, the telltale sign of the Spin technique being used on it.
"It's a spare eye I got from Gold Experience. Use this to replace the eye you detach when you spy on her. I used Spin so that it would be kept intact even when I'm not using Gold Experience. We'll tell this to proper authorities soon."
"Fine, but you owe me one, Izuku!" she said in a tone that basically said that she did not mean what she just said.
The girl then detached her right eye and replaced it with the eye Izuku gave to her, then she winced as the eye attached to her head.
"Ouch! This actually hurts...!"
"Sorry, Setsuna-san, I forgot to tell you that Gold Experience's healing hurts." Izuku said.
"I-It's fine. It's fascinating that I can still see with and manipulate my detached eye though." Setsuna said. "I'll be keeping an eye on Uraraka-san now, Izuku."
"Let's hope nothing too bad happens..."
"I just had to jinx it, huh?!" Izuku couldn't help but mutter that out in frustration as Setsuna just informed him of something dire using a mouth she detached.
"Uraraka-san had just caused an apartment building to catch on fire!"
Did the villain make her do it?!
Izuku and the rest of the Joestars were incredibly furious about what the villain had forced that girl to do.
"That bastard!" Jotaro shouted furiously.
"I would say to watch your language around a child, Dad, but I'm too angry to care right now." Jolyne said.
"I didn't think that the villain would make her act this early!" Josekage said in a deeply concerned voice.
"Apparently, whoever this villain is, they are vile enough to use children for their own selfish ends..." Giorno muttered angrily.
"Regardless, we have to do something!" Izuku said.
"Wouldn't the heroes take care of this problem?" Johnny said.
"I know, but... I feel some responsibility about this issue! I'm the one who hesitated and didn't call the authorities until it's too late! I don't care what happens to me, I need to do something about this!" Izuku said.
As he reached the scene, there were a large number of policemen, firemen, and even some heroes. The building was already a large inferno, and it was doubtful that those still inside will survive if they stayed there for longer.
Izuku then met up with Setsuna, who was looking at the building with worry.
"Are you still watching her?" he whispered.
"She's still there, trying to save as many people as she could with her quirk." Setsuna whispered back. "However, she's not trying to leave herself."
"Why would she not want to leave...?" Izuku asked, but before he or she could say anything more, they heard an explosion coming from the upper floors.
"No!" Izuku said, and immediately called out Star Platinum.
"Wait, Izu-!" Setsuna tried to stop him, but it was too late as Izuku stopped time and leapt towards the second floor using Star Platinum's legs.
I have time stop of three seconds and a cool down of two seconds. I can't be affected by heat during time stop, but I still have to be careful. The strength of my Star Platinum pales in comparison to Jotaro-san's Star Platinum, but it should be enough for this...
Time then resumed as Izuku stepped into the burning building. From the looks of it, it was a typical apartment building, which made Izuku confused as to why a villain would make a child his age do this.
He then used time stop once more to navigate the building, clearing out debris and obstacles along the way and clearing a path for the people still inside to cross.
As he glanced around the interior for any possible individuals still trapped there, he noticed some sort of purple mist coming from one of the rooms. It was so miniscule that he thought that his eyes was playing tricks on him, so Izuku decided to ignore it and look for victims to save.
When time resumed once more, Izuku heard the screams of someone coming from farther into the second floor. He then pulled his hood up and put a face mask on to hide his identity before running there with Star Platinum floating beside him.
He reached the source of the voice in no time, and saw a woman and a child holding on to one another as the ceiling was about to collapse on them.
"Star Platinum!" Izuku said as he rushed towards them just as the ceiling did collapse.
"ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!"
The stand punched away all of the debris falling on them, protecting both Izuku himself and the two below him. As Star Platinum finished punching away the destroyed ceiling, he looked at the two who had just breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
He then used his ability to move them away from that area and into the corridor that was now cleared by him.
"Please, go straight that way and head for a window. I've already cleared it so it should be safe. The heroes outside will get you soon!"
"Thank you!" the mother said as her and her child did as he instructed. Fortunately, they managed to make it safely, just as another scream was heard by Izuku, this time on the first floor.
Before he can move, an explosion happened from beside him, with him barely being able to react using Star Platinum to cover himself. He was sent flying by it, though, and crashed onto one of the neighboring rooms.
"Agh!" he gasped in pain when his back hit the floor. He immediately got up, checking his body for injuries.
A few bruises, but that won't stop me...
"Be careful, Izuku. That explosion may have been no Sheer Heart Attack, but it would still be dangerous for you to take in so many of them." Jotaro said.
"Sheer Heart Attack?" Izuku asked.
"We'll explain later." Jotaro said.
Izuku just nodded and went on his way.
A few more time stops later, he reached where he heard the screams, and this time, he was shocked by what he saw.
He saw a group of people huddled together in a corner, as well as the person of interest, Uraraka Ochako, touching a bunch of falling debris and letting them float in the air.
"Please everyone! Get away!" she pleaded to them as she struggled to keep the debris floating in the air.
"No, you need to come with us!" one of the others said, but Ochako shook her head.
"N-No, I can't leave! I won't leave! I need to atone!" she said, tears running down her cheeks.
"W-What?! No, we need you to come with us as well!" the man said.
"I don't want to! Please leave me!" she said, her voice straining from holding on to the debris.
Izuku decided he couldn't watch anymore and moved.
"ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!"
Izuku punched at the floating debris, letting them levitate harmlessly away from the civilians. Using his time stop, he also moved away the civilians from the room onto the corridor, which Izuku also cleared of debris.
Ochako was shocked to see him there, but felt relieved that there was someone saving the victims.
"Everyone! Please go to the front door, I've already made sure it's safe for everyone to pass through there!" Izuku said.
All of them thanked him, then they all ran towards the front door as Izuku indicated.
All of them but Ochako.
"You need to leave as well!" Izuku said, but Ochako shook her head.
"No! Please let me stay! I need to be punished for my crime!" she said.
"What crime?"
"Following a villain and setting this building on fire!" she shouted.
"A villain?!" Izuku pretended to be shocked. "Then tell the heroes about them!"
"The villain has my parents! He said that they'll let them go once I'm done here, but I can't live with the guilt of being a villain!" she replied, her voice tinged with so much remorse and sadness.
"What about your parents?!" Izuku shouted in frustration.
"I'm sure they'll be happy to be rid of a villain like me..." she said sadly.
"But I won't!" Izuku replied back. "What kind of hero will I be if I can't even save someone in front of me?!"
"But I'm a villain!" she fired back. "And a villain likes me needs to die! Release!"
Izuku knew that something bad was about to happen.
"I'll save a villain if I have to! Star Platinum: The World!"
Time stopped as intended, but Izuku saw Ochako's eyes widen in shock, even though she shouldn't be able to.
Can she at least still sense things in stopped time?!
"Is this how Dio felt...?" Jotaro muttered.
Izuku then ran towards at Ochako, only for her to move slightly. He was shocked by this, but didn't let that get to him as he reached out with Star Platinum. Izuku then grabbed Ochako and jumped back, just as time once again resumed. More debris then fell into where Ochako was initially, telling Izuku exactly what would have happened if he hadn't intervened.
"Wh–" Ochako turned to him, intending to complain, but Star Platinum appeared from behind her and knock her out gently, putting her to sleep.
"I won't let you die, Uraraka-san." he whispered, then carried her with him to the exit where a bunch of firemen were waiting.
"Are you two okay?!" one of them said, and Izuku just nodded.
"I'm fine. Please check on her, I found her knocked out there." Izuku lied.
The firemen then went to work, just as Izuku fled the scene hastily. The stand user took off his mask and removed his hood, only for Setsuna to smack him in the head.
"Why did you do that, Izuku?!"
"I had to save them..." Izuku said sheepishly, knowing that there's really no excuse for this.
"You didn't have to charge in there! You could have been hurt! I couldn't watch you because the eye got burnt badly! Thank goodness I didn't feel any pain from it... And thank goodness you're okay!" she said.
Izuku felt relieved at that, just as he stared at the building one more time.
Once I get Tusk, I'll need to move.
"Let's do this." Izuku heaved a deep breath as he pointed his finger to his head, standing behind a police station. "Thankfully, I got this almost the next day..."
"Remember Izuku, if you waver..." Johnny said.
"... don't shoot." Izuku whispered out. "Tusk Act 3."
Izuku then shot himself with Tusk, leaving a swirling hole in his place where Izuku entered in.
He then moved the hole towards the police station. Once he was there, he heard them discussing.
"...said it's All For One?" one of them asked.
"Yeah." A cat heteromorph replied.
"Unfortunately, we can't find him still. Let's just chalk it up to another case of terrorism for All For One. We won't be pursuing charges against the girl."
They know about All For One. That's a relief. It's time.
The hole moved near the police, catching their attention.
"What is that?!" the car policeman shouted, causing the other to turn around and point a gun at the hole.
"Be careful..."
The hole stopped at a nearby desk, then a hand came out holding a piece of paper then dropped it. The hand then retreated back into the hole and it moved away, leaving the two officers stumped.
"What was that?" the cat police officer asked.
"I don't know, but let's check on this paper first." the other one, Tsukauchi Naomasa, opened the paper up to see its contents. He read what was written there, and was stunned.
After reading it in full, he pulled out his phone and called someone.
"I am here! Hello, Tsukauchi?"
"All Might, we have a lead on All For One."