Katsuki had trouble staying present as he sparred with Shinso at the beach after school. The past 48 hours had felt like a fucking whirlwind even before the exercise, but then it got worse when he figured out that not only had Izuku become a vigilante since the last time he saw him, but he'd also fucking trained one of the strongest people in their freaking class! Obviously, Kaminari had never said a word about being trained by Viridian, but Katsuki had spent most of last night watching every single video anyone had ever captured of Izuku fighting and he'd picked up enough to recognize his distinct fighting style. Take away the pipes and slingshot, add a taser, and what was left would look exactly like Kaminari had while fighting Yaoyorozu.

They were probably friends. In fact, Katsuki wouldn't be surprised if Denki was closer to Izuku than he'd ever been and he wasn't quite sure how to feel about that. One the one hand, he was glad that Izuku had found a friend who probably treated him as well as he deserved, but on the other, more selfish hand, Katsuki couldn't help but feel like he'd lost something important. He'd messed up and missed out on what probably could have been an amazing lifelong friendship and even if he somehow managed to somehow mend their relationship now, there was nothing he could really do to get those years back.

Midoriya: Well yeah... you probably can't...

Shinso shouted triumphantly as he managed to knock Katsuki off his feet for the first time since they'd started sparring an hour ago. He was still smirking as he helped Katsuki up and offered him a bottle of water.

"Not that I'm complaining about being able to beat you, Bakugo, but what's up with you?" Shinso asked after he chugged the entire bottle in one go. "Your head is someplace else today."

Katsuki glared at him, "None of your business."

Shinso: If you're trying to teach me then yes it's my business.

All of a sudden, his mind went blank and all the tension released from his body like he was a puppet that had just had its strings cut, "Sit down and breathe slowly."

Despite the fact that he had every intention of cursing Shinso out, Katsuki couldn't stop his body from obeying. Before he knew it, Katsuki found himself relaxing for the first time in weeks. The stress gradually started to melt away with every order Shinso gave him, but from what he could tell, the exact opposite was happening to Shinso. The longer he kept Katsuki under his hold, the more tense and insecure he became.

Shinso: You're not going to be too mad about me doing this... right?

Bakugo: Hopefully not.

It was no wonder those extras at his middle school had decided to target him. Katsuki got the feeling that Shinso could ask him to do anything in this state and he'd probably end up doing it whether he wanted to or not and as much as he hated to admit it, but there were plenty of times in his life when he would have been excited to pound someone with a brainwashing quirk to the ground. At the time, he would have seen it as a way of proving that he was stronger than them, but now it was obviously just discrimination, plain and simple. Shinso could be a dangerous villain with that quirk if he chose to be, obviously, but here he was, forcing Katsuki to meditate and proving that he could use his gifts to save people.

It was badass.

Shinso: Uh... thanks I guess.

When Shinso finally released his quirk, Katsuki felt like he'd been dumped in cold water as reality came rushing back in. He stretched and glanced toward Shinso, who looked like he was expecting to be screamed at. That wasn't gonna fly.

"Careful, Eyebags." Katsuki huffed. "Any longer of that and you were gonna have to explain to my old hag why you had to carry me home snoring. Come on, let's go another round."

(everyone snorted)

Shinso narrowed his eyes suspiciously, "You're not gonna say anything about... you know?"

"What's there to say?" Katsuki shrugged confidently. "You're gonna be a hero with that quirk, so you may as well practice it and I needed the break. Now are you gonna keep me waiting or are you gonna spar with me again now that I'm loose."

Shinso narrowed his eyes, "Why do I get the feeling I'm gonna regret helping you?"

Kirishima: Because now he's not tired anymore.

Katsuki grinned back before charging, "Because now you can't rely on exhaustion to beat me!"

Shinso: Oh boy.

"I have no idea whether I should drink more caffeine or less." Denki complained.

Aizawa: More.

Midnight: Shou!

He was currently sitting on Izuku's bed, though sitting was really more of a loose term. More accurately, he was lying with his entire upper half hanging upside down off the bed while both feet were straight up in the air, repeatedly switching his legs to cross over one another. He hadn't stopped moving since he'd shown up twenty minutes ago telling him that All Might had officially given him One for All. Not that he ever really stopped moving normally either, but today it looked like he was practically vibrating with energy. He hadn't managed to stay on one topic for long enough for Izuku to figure out exactly what he'd done with his new quirk, though he'd said something about a combat exercise before he'd started rambling about flirting techniques, so he figured the day had been eventful and he'd probably hear about it eventually, once Denki's brain finished adjusting to his new energy level. He half expected Denki to start glowing like a lightbulb from the sheer amount of electricity that was probably flowing through him right now. He couldn't imagine that suddenly receiving a new quirk like that would be comfortable.

Midoriya: Yeah it probably wasn't...

"Well, for the caffeine question, do you need to focus, or do you feel jittery?" Izuku asked. "Or is your body still just adjusting to One for All and nothing is going to help?"

Denki snapped and pointed at him, "Yes. That one. I still can't believe I caused a UA wide blackout!"

Izuku choked slightly, "You did what?"

Kaminari: It was only half the school!

Cementoss: That's half the school too much!

"Meh, it was only like half the school." Denki waved his hand like it was no big deal. "And Nezu said the backup generator kicked in, so none of the security systems or anything went down and it was no big deal. Half the school just had to have classes outside for the last couple of hours. Mina said it was pretty awesome!"

Mic: Of course she said that.

"Uh..." Izuku couldn't help laughing as he shook his head. "Denks, that's kinda a big deal. What were you even trying to do?"

"Magnetize a bomb." Denki said simply. "Or I guess I was magnetizing myself, not the bomb. I dunno. It was really cool though."

"You... you magnetized yourself?" Izuku blinked a few times before his jaw dropped. "You used electromagnetism?! That's so awesome, Denki, congratulations!"

Kaminari: Yeah I just have to figure out how to use it...

Denki stopped kicking his legs and grinned at him, "Thanks Izu! It was really cool and kinda an accident the first time. It probably would have been smarter to not use it on half a wall right off the bat."

"You... you used it on a wall?!" Izuku's eyebrows shot up. "Wha... do I even want to know how?"

Some people: Yes.

Other people: No.

"I guess it wasn't technically the wall." Denki frowned. "It was more like what was behind the wall and the wall just got sandwiched in between. I have this classmate, Yaorozou, who's like super hot and can create anything, but I guess she didn't think things through cause she used these awesome metal slat things to try and bolt the door shut."

Izuku winced, "Oof, yeah, I can see that not ending well with you in the room."

Momo: Yeah I really shouldn't have used metal...

Denki nodded seriously, "It would have been fine against anyone else, but, uh, yeah... way more electricity came out than I was planning on, obviously because, like, One for All, and I tried to pull it back, but then it ended up wrapping around me and boom! I'm a magnet!"

"That has so many possibilities..." Izuku muttered. "Can you repel metal objects as well, or just attract them?"

Denki shrugged, "No idea. I think I can just attract them... maybe? I haven't tried repelling them."

Nezu: Well I don't see why it shouldn't work the other way around as well.

"We'll have to experiment with that then..." Izuku said, pulling out a new notebook. "In All Might, One for All affects his muscles, right?"

"Yeah, it makes him super buff!" Denki flexed. "But I think that's just the quirk, because the him in my head is, like, a freaking skeleton. I didn't even recognize him!"

Gran Torino: Sure just randomly say that without context.

Izuku immediately stopped scribbling, "... What?"

Denki looked at him, "The All Might that One for All put in my head is like, super skinny, he's not muscular at all. And his bangs are all limp too, does that mean he has muscles in his hair?"

All Might(blinking): Uh... hairs shouldn't have muscles...

Izuku looked at him in shock. He wasn't quite sure what was more shocking, the fact that Denki suddenly knew about All Might's skinny form, or the fact that the reason he knew about it was not that All Might told him, but that he apparently had a version of All Might living in his head now. Between his research into All for One and what Denki and All Might had told him about One for All, Izuku considered himself somewhat of an expert on quirk transfer at this point, but nothing had ever really come up in his research about versions of the quirk's past holder living in the recipients head, so either this was a One for All thing, or it was something that people didn't talk about in their attempt to pass off the quirk as their own. Either was a distinct possibility at this point.

Hagakure: I kind of hate how normal-ish this sounds now.

Jirou: Why are our lives so weird...?

Shoji: I have no idea...

Izuku exhaled slowly and put his pencil back to the paper, "Is it just All Might, or do you have all the other past holders as well?"

Denki hummed and sat up, "They kept introducing themselves by their numbers, so yeah... I think I've got all of them, or like, leftovers of them anyway. Just whatever they left behind when they passed the quirk onto the next person. I can only talk to them when I'm shorted out though, but they said that's not normal. Apparently I'm not supposed to be able to talk to them at all."

Midoriya: Yeah I can't.

"The layer that protects you from rejecting the quirk must insulate you from them." Izuku theorized, scribbling frantically. "And you said that All Might's skinny form is the one that showed up, not his muscle form like when he activates his quirk?"

Denki nodded, "Do you think he ever looks like that irl?"

Sero(looking at All Might): Yeah, he does.

"He does." Izuku answered, then realized that he probably shouldn't have answered that quickly, especially since he wasn't really supposed to know that. "Um, what I mean is that he should, right? If One for All increased his physical strength, then he would only have those muscles when the quirk was active. Have you noticed any increase in physical strength since getting the quirk?"

Denki frowned and shook his head, "I... I don't think so? I was kinda distracted by the whole magnet thing." He jumped up, grinning as an idea occurred to him. 'But Aizawa-sensei had us do these crazy tests on the first day, and I hadn't gotten the quirk yet so we already have a baseline to compare it to!"

Aizawa: See? I told you those were useful.

Izuku returned the smile and snapped his notebook shut, "Then let's see how One for All affects your physical strength. To the park!"

Queen Bee was, excuse the pun, buzzing with nervous energy. Working for All for One had a lot of benefits. She had all the resources she could ever dream of and had her pick of interesting hosts to choose from without having to worry about pesky things like disappearances or medical abnormalities. She was always getting to meet new people and use them as her playthings and the best part was that her bees never lacked for things to do! It was easy to forget exactly who her employer was until, of course, things started going wrong like they had been lately.

(everyone stiffened. They were seeing Queen Bee's perspective.)

It wasn't her fault! There were a lot of factors and how was she supposed to know that that pesky little vigilante was going to blow up all her bees! Luckily, she'd pumped the doctor's failed experiment with enough poison to level a city, it felt like, so there was no way he'd survived that and, if he had, it would have been in the news. That, however, was one of the only positives to the whole fiasco.

(everyone sighed in relief. She wasn't going to go after Ogawa.)

All for One wasn't known for his patience. He would keep a pawn as long as they remained useful to him, but once that was no longer the case, say they had failed at their assigned goals one too many times, then... well, men like All for One didn't bother with little details like severance pay, so it was better to not fail. That, rather annoyingly, made her position the teensiest bit precarious at the moment.

Again, it wasn't as if any of her failures were her fault! She was doing her best and she thought she'd done quite well at recovering and completing her tasks considering that she was also having to adjust to an entirely new host, and not even one that was her first choice! Still, though, All for One probably wouldn't tolerate any more failures, especially one as major as her bees somehow failing to even hurt Viridian. She would be the first to admit that she'd been distracted duirng the fight and was focusing most of her energy and bees on exterminating the doctor's stupid pet, but when a few of her drones had seen Viridian on the scene, she'd ordered them to sting him too!

But then they hadn't. She was fairly certain it had to do with the way he was hacking into her hive, because she could have sworn that they'd stung him, but those signals have obviously gotten intercepted and switched up somehow, because by the time she'd recovered from losing almost 80% of her hive, which hurt a lot by the way, he was out, about, and apparently completely fine. She took back every single time she'd ever thought he was cute, because now she knew that he was a complete and utter jerk that was ruining her life!

Midoriya(blinking): Wait she thought I was cute?

Uraraka: Well um... you are?

She wasn't an idiot, she knew what would happen if All for One suspected that Viridian was able to hijack her signals like that without causing the self-destruct to engage, and she rather preferred being alive, thanks. So she'd made up some ^@#$* about him finding cover and her bees not seeing him. He'd been angry, of course, but her success at getting rid of the experiment had made up for her slip up and he'd decided she was still useful, especially because without her, he would have to find another spy at UA, which would set his plans back even more.

So she was safe, for now, but that would only last for as long as she kept bringing in good information and that would be difficult if people kept destroying all her bees! First, Viridian, then that stupid Kaminari boy. Sure, he was cute and kind of ditzy, and she'd actually enjoyed it quite a bit when he'd flirted with her while she was possessing Kohaku, but did he really have to short out half the school and fry a good chunk of her bees along with it?! He was really lucky he was cute.

Kaminari(gulping): Okay I usually would like it when girls find me cute but this is creepy!

Thankfully, pretty much everyone had screamed when the lights went out, so her screams of pain blended right in as she felt her bees get electrocuted. She'd only had a few minutes to recover, but what with the sudden darkness and the chaos of All Might ushering them to another training ground to finish the exercise, no one had noticed her acting a bit off. They might have noticed when she took her turn, but her and her partner hadn't actually even fought, they'd lost so quickly, so it didn't end up being an issue, which she was grateful for. She was really sick of her bees dying.

Hagakure(remembering the 'fight'): Yeah Todoroki took us out instantly...

It wasn't all bad, though. She had learned the true identity of the Kacchan they'd been hearing so much about and now knew to be extra careful when sending her bees around him, because he understood the significance of them and would explode any that got too close. It was inconvenient, but doable, and unfortunately unavoidable if she wanted to keep her cover and, by extension, her life. At the very least, it was better than not having any warning.

Mitsuki(growling): She'd better not hurt Katsuki even more than she already did.

The best part of the whole thing though, was the power outage itself. It had knocked out a lot of the cameras inside the school, so it had been child's play to send a few bees to figure out where the teachers kept their schedules and lesson plans and she'd been able to retrieve them while All Might was still trying to regroup the students and corral them to the new training ground. The original plan had been breaking into the school to get those, of course, but this saved time and effort later, which was always the best way to please the bosses. This way, All for One was happy about that because Shigaraki didn't have to go and do it himself, and Queen Bee was happy about it because if All for One was happy then she wasn't at risk of dying a horrible death.

She was excited. Afterall, what girl wouldn't enjoy a field trip?

(everyone stopped)

Thirteen: The USJ...

Mina: Rats, why can't we have a single world where the USJ event actually runs smoothly?

Jana: There are a few but very few of those. Anyway next story.