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When Izuku found himself in a black void with a partially formed body and only shorts he was barely fazed, it was a sign that he was getting better at using his ancient, ghost inhabited quirk.
It was becoming more and more common whenever Izuku would get a vision or memory from One For All, but whenever he got a vision he made sure to make the most of it, the vestiges were something akin to family at this point.
In front of him was Banjo, En and Hikage, Banjo had an excited smile on his face, En looked happier than usual and Hikage looked as if he was done with life.
"So what are we seeing today?" Asked Izuku enthusiastically, with a slight pitch in his tone due to his partially formed vocal cords.
Banjo put his arm around his de facto nephew and with a flourish of his other arm proclaimed, "Something magnificent!"
"And also the incident that caused me to actually seek out Senpai as my mentor when I got into Shiketsu."
"Then why does uncle look like he's done with life?" Izuku asked gesturing towards Hikage.
"Because this incident was on the news for weeks and was also the incident that caused the government to actually seek out Banjo for the newly created hero program, I was still in the woods at the time so I didn't really know of it but when I manifested within One For All and looked into Banjo's memories this caused me to somewhat regret giving the quirk to Banjo, he made up for it by being a great hero and giving All For One slight hair loss but this incident is still something I'd like to forget."
"Then why are you here?" Asked Izuku.
"Because these two bastards dragged me in here to torment me with this memory." He said as he pointed at the aforementioned bastards who had adopted looks of mock hurt.
"Do you really think so low of us you lowly hermit?" Said Banjo with a barely hidden smug smile on his face.
Izuku watched this back and forth with a fond smile on his face, these moments were rare in the dorms with Aizawa being more judgemental since he came back from his visit to Tartarus.
"Can we just get this over with? I have to get back to reading those pre-quirk novels Yoichi manifested for me." Hikage's expression became slightly more happy at the mention of his novels.
"Yeah, yeah, now Izuku a bit of context, the government had accepted quirks and kept us in check at this point at this point but the world in general didn't full accept us yet, so some of us came together in meetings to discuss and showcase our quirks, speak about any improvements and for some psuedo-therapy."
The void around them changed to something akin to an AA meeting, there seemed to be four seats in front of her, a T.V on one of three desks, a set of what seemed to be various ores and rocks on display and a bottle of liquor on the third desk. In front of the desk stood a fair skinned woman with long black hair presenting the ores.
"And that's when I discovered that the magma I produced could be rapidly cooled with enough concentration and be turned into igneous rocks." The woman explained. The T.V showing a video recording of that incident in question.
In the seats there was a lady with yellow lightning symbol on her black hair, a tall man with glasses who reminded Izuku of Iida, a well-built man with a red haired ponytail and Banjo.
"Ooh." The others wooed.
"Now let me just turn the T.V off." The lady said while approaching the T.V.
"Oh wait, allow me." Banjo raised his hand and stood up but something was different about him....
"You used to have hair?!" Screamed Izuku.
"Uh...yeah, I'll tell you about it later OK." Said Banjo, embarrassed. Hikage gained a smug grin at the mention of that incident.
Banjo manifested a new version of Blackwhip, it was thinner, slicker and all around more whip like, it radiated a slight aura due to the concentration of energy.
"How did you do that?" Asked Izuku, in awe. Already scrambling for something to write down.
"I take a large amount of extremely small and thin variations of Blackwhip and I have them stitched together like rope, it's a complex process trying to stitch each individual strand with each other, but with the parallel processing technique you learned with Endeavour it should be pretty easy, it doesn't seem like much but the tensile strength of Blackwhip using that technique was almost as close to a needle thick rope of spider silk, now that it's been marinating in One For All for seventy years...well who knows how strong it is now." Banjo explained.
The others stared in awe.
"Whoa Ban, is that a new whip?" Asked the ponytailed man.
"Sure is Chikara." Replied Banjo.
"Wait is that Destro?" Screeched Izuku in surprise. He never liked the Meta-Liberation Army, while he wasn't quirkless any more there were some incidents where people who followed their ideologies tried to hurt him for being a "lower being" in society. His old school holding a faction of it didn't help.
"Yeah, but he was never a bad person, he just wanted the quirked to have equal rights as the quirkless, whilst gaining some level of freedom to use their powers." Said Banjo defending his old friend. "He never hated the quirkless, hell his own mother was quirkless and he loved her to bits, not to mention Mrs. Yotsubashi was one of the kindest women I ever met. It was the damn HPSC framing a somewhat disliked figure of the time with their own crimes, the current ideologies you see of the MLA was twisted by their more fanatic members and the HPSC to fit their own quirkist views on society. Hey you should probably mention that during your history classes."
"You know what happened last time I pointed out something during class, Aizawa gave me three weeks of detention for making "false conspiracy theories", granted Nezu basically turned those into extra lessons behind Aizawa's back during the third week but it still hurt me....emotionally." Izuku had a slightly feral grin as he planned his revenge against Aizawa it would require some of that tape Yaoyorozu made during the final exam and Todoroki to act as a vigilante during one of Aizawa's patrols.
"This is the real deal guys, got the idea in a dream and I gotta tell you guys life's gonna be easier with this whip. Yah!" Banjo whipped the T.V remote completely shattering it.
The group screeched, startled.
"Jesus fucking Christ, Ban!" Exclaimed the lightning lady.
"Whoa, sorry this guy's got a little more juice than I realise." Banjo said completely unfazed.
"I'll just turn of the T.V myself." Said the rock making lady.
"Wait, wait, I got this. Yah!" Banjo whipped the T.V itself and completely destroyed the screen, startling the woman.
"Wow." Said Banjo, surprised.
"Why are you so surprised? You made an actual whip." Asked Izuku.
"I didn't think it would be that loud." Answered Banjo.
"Were you really concerned over the volume over everything else?"
"What do you mean everything else?"
"God put that away you psycho." Said the lightning lady.
"How do you turn the volume down on this guy." Wondered Banjo, surprised at the intensity of the whip, but completely ignoring his friends reactions.
"Could you please put it away? You're stressing me out." Asked Chikara. The telltale signs of his quirk forming on his forehead.
"Oh so he seems to have some stress related quirk?" Izuku noted it down in the notebook, En had manifested for him. He still wasn't able to manifest things in the void.
"Yeah it basically allowed him to gain higher level of strength and gave him those dark spots. Plus the energy it gave off had some weird properties." Said Banjo giving Izuku more to write down.
"Oh you got a headache? Yah!" Asked Banjo whipping the pain medication in the counter and shattering the container.
"No, no, you're stressing me out." Said Chikara. The spots were getting bigger.
"You need a drink. Yah!" Whipping the liquor on the desk and breaking the bottle.
"No, no, YOU are stressing me out." Chikara pointed at his friend.
"Oh you need some weed? Yah!" Lighting the weed on the counter with his whip.
"Ah, God just put it away." Said Chikara, exasperated.
"Why didn't you stop?" Asked Izuku.
"I was on a whip-high." Answered Banjo.
Izuku gave him a confused expression.
"You'll get it eventually."
Suddenly the man with glasses began choking on some Pringles he was eating.
"Oh really, Tentarou?" Deadpanned Chikara.
"Iida's choking on another Pringles chip again." Said the lightning lady.
"You tried to help him with the whip, didn't you?" Asked Izuku, losing some respect for his no longer favourite uncle. Unsurprised at the fact that was an Iida, only that family could ever choke on Pringles.
"Yeah and it worked!" Said Banjo completely oblivious to his nephew's actual reaction confusing it for intrigue.
"Just because it worked doesn't mean it was a good thing." Said Hikage, even En who was quiet so far looked somewhat annoyed at his Senpai.
"Oh I got it." Said Banjo.
"No, no, no."
Banjo didn't listen as he whipped Iida's hand startling him out of his seat, Banjo proceeded to whip his back despite everyone's protest causing Iida to spit out the chip.
"Oh it worked." Said the lightning lady, surprised.
"Augh, just use the Heimlich you idiot!" Said Iida as he turned around revealing a large, bleeding wound. You could see some bone from the way the wound seem to angled.
Everyone recoiled in disgust.
"Auegh!" Everyone but Banjo held their mouths as some bile rose in their throats, he had a strong stomach.
"No more, no more." Said Chikara, activating his stress quirk and grabbing Banjo's hand harshly causing him to recoil the whip into his hand.
"Well I guess I'll showcase my meta-ability's improvements." Said the lightning lady as she proceeded to get up but stopped as she heard a menacing slow clap.
"Well, well Ms. Yaoyorozu, it seems you have led me straight to our new source of funding." Said the newcomer who looked to be wearing a mix between a weird looking priest outfit and a Neo-Nazi outfit. He activated his summoning quirk to equip a gun and pointed it at Yaoyorozu.
"Is that a Creature Rejection Clan Member? And is that Yaoyorozu's ancestor?" Asked Izuku.
"Yeah back then, the factions actually consisted of some Neo-Nazi factions and some KKK looking motherfuckers, from what I understand they were trying to hire Erika over there to fund there actions." Said En, with hatred in his eyes, he had a great disdain for the CRC some of his good friends who were mutants were killed unjustfully by them before he became an Underground Hero.
"Wait I can't please, I have a family. I can't help you." Said Yaoyorozu.
"Oh really, well I guess I'll just take them for now." Said the CRC member.
"But those are diamonds."
"Oh diamonds you say, I won't take them then, psych. I will take them."
"Psst, Ban." Whispered Chikara towards his friend.
"Hm?"
"Whip."
"Whip?"
"Use the whip."
"Use the whip?"
"Yes use the whip." Whispered Chikara slightly annoyed.
"The whip is good now."
"Oh, fuck you."
"How can one be this petty?"
"Oh you've met All For One don't act like I'm worse than him." Said Banjo.
"Eh, fair." Said Hikage.
"Remember when you said no more?"
"When I said no more, I didn't expect a fucking Creature Rejection Nazi to come here. Just stop being an asshole."
"Say that the whip is good and that I look cool using it."
"I'm not gonna do that." Said Chikara shaking his head. "Just activate the whip, you're a piece of shit, use it." He said slapping Banjo's hand.
"I'm not gonna make it. I'm not gonna make it. I'm not gonna make it."
"Fine. Fine. The whip is good and you look cool using it." Chikara whispered.
"I'm sorry, what?"
"The whip is good and you look cool using it." He said slightly louder.
"Loud and proud."
"I'm not gonna say it any louder, he's gonna hear it." Chikara said, gesturing at the Nazi.
"He's very busy."
"The whip is good and you look cool using it." Chikara said as loud as he could at the moment.
Izuku and Hikage couldn't help but chuckle at the back and forth, while Banjo could get annoying he was still fun to be around.
Banjo looked at them with a fond smile.
"Hell yeah!" He activated his whip. He called out to the Nazi fucker, "Hey shithead."
"What?!" Exclaimed the Nazi.
"Whip this. Yah!"
"Really?"
"It was a good line and I'm sticking by it." Said Banjo.
Banjo whipped at the Nazi's hand and grabbed his gun and used the gun on the Nazi, shooting him dead.
"Heil!" Said the Nazi as he fell.
"Did you just kill him?"
"Are you defending the Nazi, Izuku?" Said En.
".....fair point."
"Yeah." Celebrated the group.
"You know what they say. One man's whip is another man's IIDA." Banjo spoke trying to sound wise but looked over at Iida to find him dead, having choked on his Pringles. Banjo put two fingers on Iida's neck to check for a pulse. "He's gone."
"Wait but if Iida's ancestor died, he looked like he was in his twenties if he died the-"
"Oh no that wasn't Iida's direct ancestor, he was the brother of his ancestor. Plus he was a bit of a klutz idiot."
"And now you know why I don't like this incident." Said Hikage.
"Yeah why did the government consider you for the program? You killed someone, a friend died on your watch and you refused to help immediately, that doesn't seem like good incentive for a Hero program." Said Izuku.
"Well, they didn't really care about the Nazi and no one really knew about me refusing to help immediately other than Chikara who didn't really say anything, then again the government did train my refusal to help immediately out of me eventually. Plus it wasn't my fault Iida died."
"Wait the HPSC actually made you a better person?!" Exclaimed Izuku, surprised.
"No, no, the government not the HPSC, both of those are separate, still are, the government is till semi-competent."
"Oh yeah, I keep forgetting that."
The void began shaking slightly.
"Well looks like it's time for you to go, Izuku. See you tommorow night." Hikage waved goodbye.
"Bye guys, I'm gonna test that whip and see how strong it is now that it's been marinating within One For All for so long, Kirishima has been asking for help with his quirk lately. I wonder if Kayama Sensei would give me some tips on how to...." Muttered Izuku as he went on a mutter spree.
Izuku woke up from his vision and immediately began trying to manifest the technique with Blackwhip, it took him three hours before he was able to shape and conserve the shape properly, thankfully it was a saturday so he had time, it looked to be a lot more darker and seemed to give of an almost evil aura.
He slung the whip at one of his empty soda cans, thinking it might crush into itself, instead the can was sliced clean in half, as if a sword cut right through it.
Izuku gained a feral grin on his face, oh he was gonna have so much fun with this.