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Title: Operation Doomsday Begins
Category: My Hero Academia
Pairing: mentioned Midoriya/Todoroki Aizawa & Nedzu Aizawa & Midoriya Nedzu & Midoriya
Rating: T
Summary: There is no summary as Doomsday is upon us.
Disclaimer: I own zero rights to the My Hero Academia franchise. I just own a crazy messed up mind that doesn’t know when to stop creating plot bunnies
~~Story Begins~~
Nedzu was bored. He wasn’t bored in his field of heroics, oh no. He had three cases going with his hacking skills and five cases in court that were almost complete. He was bored in the sense of teaching. He wanted to have a personal student again.
His first and so far only personal student graduated years ago and is the homeroom teacher of Class 1-A. Nedzu wanted another mind to teach, to dig his claws in to expose their knowledge to the behind the scenes of heroics where the nitty and gritty take place. Nedzu wanted to teach another hero that didn’t care about fame beating up the villains that the propaganda media spins around in tales.
He knew exactly who to ask over his opinion on who would thrive in his teaching style and while his own personal student has a protege of his own, Nedzu hopes that he doesn’t suggest him. Hitoshi Shinsou would not survive Nedzu’s teaching methods as he would give in to the rumors that would surely start about him using his quirk to get special treatment. As if Nedzu would fall for a simple quirk like Brainwashing when he hasn’t even fallen to Midnight’s quirk.
There was that one young female from that all-female hero school whose intelligence went up depending on what type of tea she drinks and while that would be fascinating, Nedzu does not care for her ‘behavior’ as one might call it. She lets her classmates do all the work according to her plans, doesn’t account for any number of variables, but gets all the credit.
Nedzu crawled through the vents as his fur bristled at that. She was too clean in a sense while Nedzu prefers getting dirty and getting the hard work of gathering evidence and teams together so to speak. He found the vent opening he was looking for and smiled as he saw the class was taking a pop quiz over Heroic Law & Ethics.
Nedzu then sighed. He really wants someone to take his own test over all the curriculum that U.A. has to offer. Oh well, he has some students to surprise and he needs his daily dose of chaos. He’s starting to feel the withdrawal effects.
Like why would Nedzu look outside of U.A. for his second personal student? He was the Principal of U.A. himself! And the audacity of having to share HIS tea just for a quirk to work? The horrors. His tea is reserved for those who he knows he can trust can handle the surprises in it and no one ever thinks of blaming him for their sudden trips to the bathroom due to him slipping some low dose laxatives in them.
He opened up the vent and jumped down, landing feet first on the teacher’s podium. He enjoyed the usual reaction of Kaminari, Sero, and Uraraka jumping, the grape balls being thrown aimlessly at him which he didn’t even dodge because Mineta’s aim is so bad, the way Yaoyorozu and Iida frowned as their handwriting became sloppy from them twitching, and Bakugou’s tiny explosion which he tries to play off.
“Am I a dog, a bear, a mouse? I am -”
“A stout, actually,” a voice said from the classroom.
Nedzu didn’t even finish his line as he looked over at the person who spoke in the tone that said it was just a reflex, an automatic response that they didn’t even think about what they were saying.
“Midoriya,” Aizawa said in a low voice which caused the one student who was still taking their quiz to stop writing and look up.
“Did I say that out loud?” Midoriya said with his eyes going wide.
“Yes, you did,” Todoroki said, nodding his head even knowing that his friend couldn’t see it. “What’s a stout?”
“It’s some stupid make believe animal that Deku made up because he knew he couldn’t get a passing grade,” Bakugou said.
“A stout was actually real at one point,” Midoriya said with expersation in his tone. “They went extinct around 250 years ago, just shortly before quirks started to come into focus.”
“Interesting,” Nedzu said with a sharp smile. Aizawa groaned because Nedzu saved those smiles for students who were in deep trouble with him. “I have never heard of stouts before. Do you mind explaining them to me?”
“They used to be primarily in Britain before they were said to be extinct and are from the same family as otters and ferrets. Stouts have a longer body than them and going by your pristine white fur, your family history would show that you are from the colder regions of North America or any tundra areas,” Midoriya said. “I wish I could remember more, but I do know that when I did find information about them, I found that you shared 95% of characteristics of being a stout. It was one of those speech projects where we had to do a debate over it and I really wanted to do it over heroes but the teacher said something about that already being used. So I was going to do it over extinct animals and why the endangered ones should still be protected, but then I saw stouts. So my presentation went from that to ‘Is Principal Nedzu a Stout?’ I had references and citations, even did my own drawing of them and a drawing of you to compare them.”
“Fascinating, you wouldn’t still happen to have the file for that report, would you?” Nedzu said hoping over to Midoriya’s desk by jumping on the other desks. “I would love to see it.”
“I wasn’t allowed to even use the Aldera school issued laptops for homework,” Midoriya said. “A quirkless person wouldn’t know how to take care of something so expensive and technological, they said. So I was only allowed to do a paper format which then got ripped into shreds by the teacher putting it in the shredder and then allowing Kacchan to burn it into a crisp before giving me an F.”
“Because it was a stupid ass report,” Bakugou said.
"Quirkless?" Aizawa and a few others asked.
“I see. I had merely come here to annoy your teacher as I was bored in my office, but you have given me a little project. Thank you, Midoriya. Would you like to come by my office sometime and drink tea?” Nedzu said.
Midoriya blinked at Nedzu. “I would love to stop by sometime to talk? Discuss? Analyze? Chit-chat seems good. I would love to stop by sometime to chit-chat, but does it involve having to drink tea? My mom has slightly made me paranoid about drinking other people’s tea.”
“Oh? Why is that?” Nedzu said with a glint in his eyes. Yes, yes, a parent of a heroic student would make for a challenging personal student.
“Plausible Deniability of Illegal Pharmaceutical Testing,” Midoriya said.
“I see, how wonderful. Well, I now have a lot to do so I shall be on my way,” Nedzu said as he jumped off the desks and walked into the vent opening that was in the back of the room.
“Why do you keep on insisting to live up to your name of being a Problem Child?” Aizawa said.
~~
It was a week later (and a very disappointing meeting with Inko Midoriya who does not poison her tea with experimental drugs or laxatives, but instead mutters about what the tea leaves are reading. She did laugh when Nedzu told her what her son said and apparently one time he even told someone who said she needed to lose her weight that she poisons her tea and that since they took a drink, they only have thirty minutes to live.) when Nedzu leaned back into his chair feeling at home with himself.
He finally found his answer which was that he was indeed a stout. It was about thirty years ago that the latest kin of a family who secretly bred and kept stouts as pets sold a pregnant stout to a science company. That was his mother and because of all the experiments they did on her, Nedzu was born with his High Specs quirk. His siblings were also born with quirks, but they couldn’t live past the experimentations or their own quirks.
Nedzu had found his new personal student and he didn’t care that he was stealing him away from All Might. All Might wasn’t even teaching Midoriya his ways over anything and really, at this point Aizawa should have been informed about One for All. Nedzu has kept quiet long enough and he will protect his new student, just like how he will always protect Aizawa.
Nedzu giggled as he thought back to the grading of his written final exam which Midoriya had done as fun during their last week's office chat. He scored the same level as Aizawa did! That means Midoriya, if he wanted to at this moment, could test out of U.A. with a diploma for business, support, or even general education. That also means, three years of Nedzu teaching Midoriya advance materials and that excited Nedzu, but first -
Nedzu needed to get Aizawa so they could burn down a school.
~~
“Wait, Midoriya is still in your class?” Snipe said. “How is that possible?”
Aizawa shrugged, “I don’t know, but he is. The rat has been shaking with happiness since that day so I’m just doing the obligated normal thing that humans do. Which is giving everyone a warning.”
“You make it sound like it will be the end of the world,” All Might said while drinking his tea. “Midoriya knows better than to go with anything that could be villainous.”
“Nedzu is a genius for a reason,” Aizawa said with a sigh. “He will make the plans seem heroic, but in reality, we are taking over the world.”
“We?” All Might asked.
“The first rule of being Principal Nedzu’s personal student,” Yamada said. “You follow his plans. He takes care and protects you, you do as he says. Aizawa was his first and so far only personal student. And since Midoriya hasn’t been kicked out for even trying to tell the rat what he is, I’m guessing -”
The vent opened above All Might’s table and Nedzu landed on it.
“I’m a stout and the Principal!” Nedzu said. “Aizawa, we must collect Midoriya! He is to be my next personal student because he scored the same as you did on my test. He loves chaos because his mom is not testing illegal medicine on people, that was a lie. But he was absolutely correct! I am indeed a stout AND I found out more about my mother. We have a school that needs to be burned and we need to talk to him about his quirk.”
“What? Principal Nedzu, there is no need to talk to Aizawa about Midoriya’s quirk,” All Might said. “Why in fact -”
Nedzu had grabbed a knife from somewhere and was holding the blade against All Might’s neck.
“All Might, I did not stutter nor did I speak in a foreign language. You no longer have any say in how Midoriya gets his training or his quirk training. Why, in fact, as of today, Midoriya has graduated from U.A. business, support, and general education! He is now my second personal student and the three of us have a school to burn,” Nedzu said.
Nedzu pulled the knife back and turned to face Aizawa.
“Let’s go Aizawa, we have a school to burn. I already sent you all the evidence along with our lawyers so we can start a quirk discrimination case on behalf of Midoriya against Aldera school district,” Nedzu said. He clapped his paws together. “Oh, this is going to be so exciting!”
~~
“-and that is how the world will end,” Todoroki said as he folded his pointer stick up.
Iida pinched the bridge of his nose as he let out a tired sigh resembling that of a father. “Todoroki, I do appreciate listening to your theories but how much time and effort did you put into this compared to your homework?”
Midoriya let out a small giggle. “I really don’t think -”
The door to the class 1-A dorms was kicked open by Aizawa who looked furious with his floating hair and red eyes.
“Midoriya, you are coming with us. We have a school to burn down!” Aizawa said, shooting out his capture scarf to wrap around Midoriya.
“Wait, what?” Midoriya said before getting pulled away.
“Congratulations!” Nedzu said, peeking his head out from Aizawa’s capture scare. “You are now a personal student of mine! There is nothing to worry as you will still have heroic foundations, but you have tested out of your other classes, Aizawa is going to take over your quirk training and yes he does know about your late bloomer status.”
“Oh my god,” Mina said with her eyes wide.
“It is really happening!” Kaminari said as he let out little sparks of electricity.
Todoroki looked at Aizawa, Nedzu, and a scared looking Midoriya. “I request to join this crusade and I won’t be taking no for an offer,” Todoroki said with a nod.
“Oh? I might have to test your knowledge and I might even have two personal students this year,” Nedzu said.
“I’m not ever going to get rid of you two brats am I?” Aizawa said, looking at them.
“Where Midoriya goes, I go,” Todoroki said.
“And where Todoroki goes, I go as well,” Midoriya said with a nod. “It’s a pact we made.”
“The burn baby pact,” they both said as one.
“That terrifies me,” Aizawa said before leaving the common room dragging Midoriya along while Todoroki followed.
“I can’t believe it,” Iida said.
“Neither can I. Who knew that Todoroki was a prophet this whole time,” Hakagure said.
~~The End~~