Had… Had Mina eaten this much back at dinner at her house? Come to think of it, she might have. He had been too in-depth with a talk with her dad to have really paid attention.
...
Once they were done, Mina looked absolutely satisfied, like she had just eaten the best meal ever.
Black cat had a somewhat similar look on her face. Then she turned to Izuku.
"Alright then, Izuku. Before I leave you two alone, to watch anime or whatever, I had two questions for you."
She pulled out a small writing block and a pen from the bag that had until very recently been absolutely stuffed with food.
She scribbled something down.
Then she held up the block for him to see what it was she had scribbled.
Mina leaned over to look, obviously curious.
"Tell me Izuku, have you ever seen this symbol before?"
Izuku looked down on said symbol.
It took him a few seconds before he recognized it.
Then, with a spike of alarm, his body was jogged with a bolt of sudden energy.
It was a cartoony buglike symbol. The same symbol he had seen in the bathroom mirror back during the tournament. During the first vision.
"And judging by that reaction, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that you have seen it?"
"What is that symbol?" Mina said curiously. "Looks like a tailed bug."
"It's actually supposed to be a spider."
"Really? It really doesn't look like it."
"Not TOO surprising. The woman who designed it is blind, so there is that. Anyway… Tell me Izuku… When did you see it?"
He swallowed. At his side, Venom's head was watching Black Cat with a curious look.
"Well… During the tournament, while in was in the bathroom, I… Kinda had a…"
"Psychic vision? Dream? Seemingly picked out of where you were to some creepy old lair?"
He blinked.
"The first one…"
Black Cat's eyes narrowed, and she flipped over a page on the writing block and held up the pen ready to write.
Mina looked at her mom confused, then to Izuku, a mixture between worried and confused.
"I see… So tell me Izuku, what did Madame Web tell you exactly?"
Umm… What… What had the vision said?
Venom, thankfully, came to his aid.
The first Vision had 4 different messages. The first was that: March 17th - 2218. The end of all races. The second was: White hair and red eyes, shall bring doom to all the world. The third: The Abyss has teeth. And finally, the fourth one was just a quote from the Dragon Age franchise."
"The first time eh? That means the crazy old bat has contacted you several times then?"
"I… Had a second vision. After I woke up after the tournament."
"... Of course you had… So what did this one say?"
He swallowed, but once again, it was Venom who came to his aid.
"Well, unlike the first time, this time she made a bunch of glowing rocks appear in the air forming the message: A child shall be blooded, from her doom shall spring. He who lays with the jester, the man with red eyes, a bullet thrown, a bursting eye, a severed leg, a crippled man, a destiny you must not deny. Let him fall, leave him to fate, else wings so large they block the sun, the demon king a paltry speck, in shadow large as this. Flee the field, leave the battle, don't go there that day. March 17th, 2218, the year of Gods, the day the seers failed. Please… Don't go."
For a moment, there was silence, save for the sound of scribbling.
It was Mina who broke the silence.
"I'm… Really, REALLY confused here. Who the heck is this… Madame Web."
"Well… To answer that question in short Mina… she's a crazy old woman with psychic powers who thinks she's way more important than she is."
She kept scribbling, though Izuku did not miss the disdain her voice took on as she began speaking directly about this enigmatic "Madame Web".
"She's a woman with precognic abilities, who really, really likes to get involved in other people's business. She also really likes acting like her visions are unavoidable, or only has one damn alternative, when they can go off rails in so many ways."
"If they're so inaccurate, why are you writing this stuff down?"
"I didn't say she was inaccurate Mina. Just that she has a tendency to be really smug about everything , even when she's proven wrong."
She finished scribbling.
"Anyway… Let's go over these before we move on. March 17th - 2218. The end of all races. So, basically, a doomsday warning. Great. The last time she gave one of those, was in the time leading up to the damned clone saga."
Izuku piped up.
"Wait, this woman predicted the clone saga? The Era where-" "Yes. She predicted the whole, sorry affair."
"The clone saga…" Mina scrunched her face, obviously trying to remember something. "That was that time a villain in New York tried to kill everyone in the world and replace them with clones right? The Jackal I think his name was?"
"His name was Miles Warren, Mina. But yes. His stupid, stupid scheme to try and eradicate the human race and replace them with clones is pretty much the only thing anyone remembers about that whole damn mess anymore. There was a lot of stupidity going on back then that was not related to him, trust me."
It was… Kinda weird how Black Cat was dismissing the Clone Saga, an epoch that had defined New York for decades to come, as such a footnote. Then again, he hadn't lived through it, so maybe he was missing something.
"But forget about the damn Clone Saga. Warren is dead. What is way more important right now, is this supposed apocalypse next year."
She contemplated it.
"The second vision you had… It spoke of a battlefield. I don't really get the whole, a child shall be bloodied part, but there was at least one part that was pretty obvious. A guy with red eyes who "Lay's with the Jester.""
She snorted.
"That can only be Eraserhead and Ms. Joke."
"Wait, I thought he said he didn't have a romantic relationship with Ms. Joke."
Black Cat just looked at him, then got an amused grin on her face.
"Did he now? Well then… In that case, he is a filthy, filthy liar."
"Wait, he WAS together with someone? Were they cute together?" Mina piped in, obviously interested in this new revelation about their sour teacher.
"I'd say they were more hilarious than adorable, to be honest, Aizawa the straight man, and that girlfriend of his, the comedian who played off of him."
Mina looked absolutely ecstatic and adorable, as she contemplated the idea of Aizawa in a relationship, though to be honest, Izuku didn't quite see why she was so happy about the idea.
Either way, the mood was quickly deflated by the next line from her mom.
"Anyway… so according to Web, Aizawa is the key to this coming disaster."
"She… She said we should leave him to his fate."
"Yeah… probably something terrible will happen if we don't. Or something like that. Or… We could just take out the guy who will bring Doom upon the world early, and thus completely derail this entire prophecy."
Mina clocked her head.
"Red Eyes and White hair… Wasn't… Wasn't that how the leader of the league of villains looked?"
"It was. This… Shigaraki. All for One's protege, or son or… Whatever he is. It seems he's pretty obvious he's the herald of this supposed apocalypse. We take him down early, and thus derail the entire thing."
"We doubt it will be THAT easy."
"Yeah… That's kinda the problem with prophecies. Either you completely derail them early, or you do all you can, and then, surprise! Everything you did only lead up to the outcome you were supposed to prevent in the first place."
She looked down at the block, and what she had written.
"Well… there's a lot here. I'll look into it. You kids don't worry so much about it all. We still have plenty, and plenty of time to handle it all."
Izuku was about to protest, that they should probably discuss it more, only to be blindsided by Black Cat's next line.
"And now, unto the second question, I had for you Izuku. How exactly did you break the jaw and a finger from a teleporter from the Caribbean League?"
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