(everyone scowled, remembering the clerk from the last chapter)

Izuku's stomach sank and he fought to stay upright as he gripped the table, "What?"

The clerk looked like he was holding back a smile, "Go back the way you came. I'm not sure who told you that you could come in here and get a license, but they obviously made some sort of mistake. Now if you'll excuse me, I have other people to help."

Mitsuki(growling): That stupid-

"Excuse me?" Ochaco slammed her hands down on the table, "Deku's name was on that list, I know it was, just because you don't want a quirkless kid to be a hero..."

Izuku grabbed her arm, "Ochaco, stop, it's not..."

Mirko: Oh don't you dare finish that sentence!

Ochaco turned on him, "Don't you dare say it's not a big deal, Deku! You earned that license and if this stupid little bigot isn't gonna..."

"Oi! What's the hold up?" Katsuki stormed back. "We're all waiting for you two idiots!"

Izuku tugged on Ochaco's hand, "Let's just go, we'll figure this out later..."

Tsukauchi: And someone will get that clerk arrested.

All Might: More than arrested, actually, if I have anything to say about it.

Gran Torino: Now you're talking.

"No!" Ochaco glared at the clerk, who stared back unflinchingly. "We can't leave until this !*(@#^$ gives you your license. You passed that test, Deku. You earned it."

"Wait, this guy is refusing to give you your license?!" Katsuki's hands started letting off sparks. "What the hell is your problem?"

"At the moment, it is children who are holding up my line and preventing me from doing my job." The clerk replied smoothly. "Now, please. I have actual heroes to attend to."

Uraraka: Deku's an actual hero!

Izuku grabbed both of them by their collars and physically dragged them away before they could attack the clerk and make an even bigger scene than they already had. Multiple kids from other schools were staring at them as they made their way toward the rest of the class, "Guys, stop. It's not a big deal."

Iida: Yes it is!

Todoroki: Midoriya you can't just let him do that to you!

"Like hell it's not, Deku!" Katsuki yelled. "That clerk is a quirkist, bigoted, prejudiced peice of..."

"I know." Izuku cut him off, seething with quiet rage. "Which is why we're going to go sic Eraserhead on him. We're gonna make him regret it."

(everyone stopped shouting and started grinning like Nezu.)

Toga: That's more like it! Can I stab him?

LOV: Sure.

Heroes: Uh...

Aizawa: Make it nonlethal.

Shouta leaned against the wall, watching the students mill around and waiting for the last of his kids to get their licences so he could go back to UA and take a nap. Emi was standing beside him, joking with some of their students and giving vaguely cryptic hints about their relationship to an ever persistent Mina, all while not actually telling her anything besides jokes. It was kinda funny to watch the poor girl get more and more frustrated at the lack of real answers, but she was going to have to learn eventually that no one was obligated to tell her about their personal affairs. May as well make the experience entertaining to the rest of them.

(everyone giggled while Mina pouted)

Mina: Aw come on!

Joke(laughing): Sorry not sorry.

Suddenly, he heard a commotion and looked up to see Deku, Uraraka, and Bakugo storming toward them. Emi grinned, oblivious to whatever weirdness seemed to be going on with his problem children. She pushed herself off the wall as the kids reached them, "Hey kiddo! Let's see that license!"

Deku's expression soured, "They wouldn't give me one."

"Why not?" Shouta grit out.

Midoriya: Because I'm quirkless...

"Why do you think?" Deku snapped. "Because I'm quirkless and there's no possible way I could have passed the exam."

"That's !(&%^#!" Emi exclaimed. "You passed the exam just like the quirked students! They have no right to withhold a licence you earned."

"Why do you think we were about to fight him?" Bakugo growled. "Deku dragged us away before we could do any damage though. Spoilsport."

Deku rolled his eyes, and smirked, "I figured it was more effective to leave it to the heroes. After all, it is their job to resolve injustices. And even underground heroes can't avoid the spotlight sometimes, right?"

Aizawa(grinning): Oh yes. It is our job to resolve injustices.

Bakugo(scowling): Why couldn't I have a turn?

Shouta gave a creepy grin, "Exactly. Now which of these guys needs to learn a lesson about discrimination?"

Izuku trailed behind Eraser and Joke as the crowd parted to let them through. Most of the class was following as well and Aoyama had pulled out his phone to record the whole thing. They'd attracted the attention of about half the room by the time they got back to the table. The clerk rolled his eyes when he saw Izuku, "Kid, I already told you, there must have been some mistake. I'm not giving you a license."

Shoda: And now everyone's watching.

Monoma(cackling): Public humiliation!

"Really?" Eraser hummed thoughtfully. "You're refusing to give a license to a student who passed the provisional exam?"

The clerk gave them a patronizing look, "There's no way he could have passed. Now as I told the boy already, there's a lot of kids getting licenses today, so if you could please step aside and let me do my job."

"Oh, we're helping you do your job." Joke smiled sweetly. "Now run and get your manager and let's see if we can't get this resolved, sound like a plan?"

Momo: I hope he doesn't so he can get some sweet karma.

The clerk sighed in frustration, "Who even are you? The kid's parents or something?"

Inko(sputtering): Oh come on! Him too?!

"Even better." Eraser slammed his license down on the table with a smirk. "We're the heroes who recruited him."

It didn't take long after that for Mera to arrive, eying Aoyama's camera apprehensive as he got a feel for the situation, "What seems to be the problem?"

Hawks: Ah, Mera. Oh, this'll be fun.

The clerk gestured to Izuku in frustration, "This kid keeps insisting that I give him a hero license even though he didn't pass the exam."

"I did pass the exam." Izuku said, a fake smile on his face. "Just because you decided you don't want someone like me to be a hero doesn't mean I didn't earn my license."

"I'm not sure what the problem is, Midoriya did pass the exam. And what do you mean someone like..." Mera trailed off and he went pale. His eyes flicked toward the camera and he shot an angry glare at the clerk before smiling at Izuku, "My apologies, Deku. We'll get that license processed right away."

(everyone cheered)

"What?!" The clerk looked betrayed that Mera wasn't backing him up. "You can't really be considering..."

"Be quiet." Mera hissed under his breath. "Do you have any idea of the PR nightmare you potentially just caused? We're talking about this later."

(several people glared at the screen)

Endeavor: Ah yes, PR.

Jirou(scoffing): That's the biggest problem here.

Shoji: Well we all knew the Hero Commission is very quirkist.

Dark Shadow: Understatement.

Izuku held his head up high as the clerk put in his info and printed off his license, practically throwing it at him as soon as it finished printing.

"Congratulations, Deku." He spat. "You're a hero."

"Yeah. I am." Izuku grinned and turned around holding his license in the air as his classmates cheered. "I'm a hero!"

Ojiro: Yeah you are!

His cheeks were starting to hurt from how wide he was grinning, but he couldn't wipe the smile off his face as he looked around at his classmates, each of which fully believed he could be a hero and had fought alongside him, despite him being quirkless. He wasn't alone anymore. It was oddly fitting to have gotten his license from someone who didn't think he could be a hero. He'd been told he couldn't so many times, but he'd just have to keep proving them wrong. Izuku looked at his license, quirkless written in red letters beneath the quirk section. He'd done it. He'd become a hero and he hadn't even needed a quirk to do it.

Mei: Eh, call it poetic if you like.

"So kid." Eraser ruffled his hair. "You're finally the pro we all thought you were when we first met. How does it feel?"

Izuku grinned, "It feels like I'm just getting started."

Jana: Speaking of that, this is the last Deku chapter.

Everyone: Wait what?

Jana: Yeah, it's over. Now the only one left is Viridian, which has a hundred and twenty chapters.

Ectoplasm: So we have twenty six chapters to go.

Jana(going to the last story): Yup.