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“I AM COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LI-“

“ALL MIGHT?!” Izuku stood shouting, cutting the hero off in his dramatic entrance “Oh my god, when they said you were teaching at UA, I didn’t realise it would be here and now!!” He finished off with an overly long high pitched squeal.

All Might stood in the doorway, slightly taken aback. Clearly his whole entrance performance being interrupted had thrown him off “Takami? Umm… sit down please. Thank you for the umm warm welcome!” He gave his trademark smile “I am here, as young Takami said, to teach you Heroics!!”

The class chattered excitedly and the energy in the room ramped up even more as the cases with their hero suits were presented to them. Twenty students were soon running off to the locker rooms to change and show off their personal heroic style, Izuku just as excited as the rest of them.

Meanwhile, across town, one very rapidly moving hero was desperately trying to wrap up a villainous robbery and civilian rescue as fast as possible.

“Don’t you guys know I have somewhere to be!!” Hawks called out to the two villains, now pinned to a wall with a few feathers each as he swooped back into the bank to finish clearing out the panicked staff and take care of the third pesky robber. He could hear the shouts and grunts of the two men outside in the alley, as they struggled to free themselves. 

“Why can’t I have poison tips on my feathers, knock them out real fast” he mumbled as he pulled in his wings tight so he could spin and barrel into the final thief feet first, sending the guy flying into the vault wall. “Hmm I suppose it would be tricky with rescue work though. I’ll bet my Zu has some ideas” he stroked his chin in thought as he watched the man crumple to the ground unconscious.

He casually walked out to see the police cuffing the men on the wall, so he recalled his feathers “the third is inside the vault, kinda knocked out” he shrugged “But can you just forward any paperwork to my agency? Ive really REALLY got to fly! Its my boy’s first heroics lesson and I’m SO excited!!” He squeaked, clenching shaking his fists in front to show just how enthusiastic he was. And when the officers called out and waved him off, he shot into the sky. Being the fastest hero there was, he would get there in time… right? Heroics starts at 1:20pm and its… “Shit shit shit, its 1:25pm now and I’m…” he looked around “Its ok… I’m only 5 minutes away… I can make it in 3… sure” he panted as he raced furiously towards UA “I’ll call Nezu… find out… ARGH SHIT! STUPID ASS SEAGULL!!!… find out… which training area they’re at…”

Izuku sat lacing up his boots, he could feel the stares of his class mates as he finished getting ready. And he was so so desperate to make some cheeky remark, maybe push close to Kirishima because holy fuck, that costume ‘deep breaths Izuku, don’t start drooling, its just his chest and abs’. He tried to sneakily look at the boy from the corner of his eye ‘just a crazily defined set of abs, and the pecs…. Fuck’

Kirishima caught his eye, more specifically caught him hungrily staring, a warm smile slowly spread on his face “Your hero costume is looking good Takami”

Izuku squeaked in embarrassment, then fully face palmed because was it a squeak or a chirp like a goddamn bird? He felt his cheeks flooding with heat, looking up, Kirishima, Kaminari and Sero were all grinning, looking at what they were doing but slyly looking at each other and occasionally at the bright red boy “So did you just get caught ogling Kirishima’s pecs then cheep? Like a bird?” Kaminari asked with a broad teasing smile.

“Ha ha no…. Ahem… Oh wow, love your jacket Kaminari, so cool hehe, hey Todo, really leaning into that Ice King theme huh, hey I bet All Might is waiting huh” ok so he was panicking a little. 

“Izuku, its ok. You don’t have to be ashamed of things like that, you do have wings after all” Todoroki said from the other side of the room in a smooth monotonous voice, ever reading the situations wrong bless his heart. 

“Thanks Todo… I’m not ashamed, its all good pal” he smiled, standing up and pulling on his jacket, feeling like he got a little payback as the boys spotted and gawked at the skin tight teal coloured crop top. 

Bakugo slammed his locker shut and turned with his usual scowl as he finished closing up his gauntlets catching Izuku’s attention as the boys scrambled at the noise and hastily walked out.

“Oh wow, they’re sooo cool!! What are they used for? I’m guessing they have a purpose beyond looking cool because they’re so bulky” he reached out to grab one of the grenades but the angry blonde pulled back.

“Don’t touch bird brains! They’re for storing excess nitro to make a bigger blast” he growled, holding his arms close to his chest like a greedy child with a toy. 

Izuku laughed “Whatever you say hot stuff”

The future heroes lined up in front of All Might, admiring each others costumes. Izuku was very pleased with his. Knee high combat boots, black baggy trousers, his skin tight green crop top with gold line details just like his dad and then his favourite part, the jacket which was a carbon copy of his Hawks’ hero jacket but black instead of beige. He had been torn about what colour for his glasses. He needed them for when he was flying but struggled between getting yellow like his dad or keeping with his green theme. Ultimately he went with clear with a very light teal just at the top. ‘Maybe I could get a few colours, change them up for different days…’ he thought as he zoned out.

“…TTLE TRIALS!” 

‘Shit, what was he saying?!’

“Hey” Izuku whispered and nudged Bakugo “What was he saying?”

“Tsk pay attention idiot. Battle Trials, two vs two” he replied quietly with a growly voice

Izuku smirked “Sorry, I got lost daydreaming about your delts” and then to further embarrass the suddenly blushing blonde, he bought his fist up to his mouth and dramatically bit his knuckle. He couldn’t help but giggle as the boy’s palms began to spark. 

“Team A vs-“

“IZUKU!!!” A blur of red and blonde flew in at high speeds, colliding with the boy in a pile of cheers and laughter. 

“DAD!!” Izuku squeezed on tight, the pair bouncing around, wings fluttering “You came! I can’t believe it!”

“As if I’d miss my baby bird’s first hero lesson! And your costume looks great!! Lemme look, come on” he pulled back as Izuku fluffed out his wings proudly, a gigantic smile on his face (making several girls in the class coo) “My boy! I love your jacket! And the glasses, so cool!! All Might! Look at my boy!”

Izuku then came back to earth and realised he and his dad not only held up the lesson, but that the entire class was now staring at their antics. He blushed and shook his hands out in front “No no, sorry All Might, we uhh let’s carry on” he elbowed his dad as subtly as possible.

“R-right… Very good to see you Hawks. So as I was saying… Team A as the heroes, Team D as the villains!! Oh for your benefit Hawks, the villains defend a bomb, the heroes have to either incapacitate the villains or reach the bomb before the time is up! And first up we have Izuku and Uraraka vs Bakugo and Iida!” 

The explosive blonde looked to his side at Izuku, setting a determined, almost vicious grin on his face. It might have intimidated anyone else, but Izuku simply winked “See you soon Hot Stuff”

He watched as the boy stomped away, turning to his dad who laughed “You spend too much time with Nemuri, and I’ll bet she had a say in your costume if that crop top is anything to go by.” He looked out to the boys of the class, eying Kirishima with his barely there costume “Zuku, how many boys do I have to give the shovel talk to?!”

“DAD!!!” ‘Oh my god can I just die now’
“That’s for you too Bakugo!” He shouted to the blonde before he was out of earshot “I saw those bed eyes!!”

“Daaaaaaaad!!” Izuku whined as everyone else snickered and began to walk to the monitor room.

Izuku landed on the roof with Uraraka, the pair used basic hand signals to look around the edges of the building so see if there was any sign they had been seen. Then it was time to exact their plan. Izuku flew back down sending diamond feathers flying out as he landed at the entrance, smashing through several windows to drown out the noise of Uraraka’s entry through the roof door. He could hear Bakugo yelling, obviously at least 3 floors above him. He turned the diamond back into normal soft feathers, crouching down to concentrate, sending more out and try get a better location on the villains.

“Uraraka” he whispered into the communicator “I think Iida is on a high floor, Bakugo is below him, I think around the 4th floor. I’ll go up and engage with him. There should be at least 4 diamond feathers near you, grab them and use them however you need to. Even if its to just toss to the other side of the room to distract Iida, just be careful, they’re kinda sharp”

“Gotcha! Holy shit, kind of sharp? They’re like razors!”

“Are you ok?!” He whisper shouted as he quietly ran up the stairs, his wings flapping a little to help speed him up.

“I HEAR YOU TAKAMI! GET YOUR ASS UP HERE AND FIGHT ME!!”

Back in the monitor room, the students, teacher and hero watched intently, excitement growing as the heroes began to converge on the villain team. Bakugo at this point was now running with no regard to stealth “Wow Bakubro is really set on fighting him!” Kirishima looked over to Hawks.

Keigo laughed “Ah yeah Zu just can’t help himself around blondes.” 

Kaminari whispered “yes!” With a clenched fist

“And he just loves to tease people who are emotionally stunted” he let out a hearty laugh at some inside joke or memory making a few class members look around in confusion “But don’t worry Red, he’ll be fine, he’s got more hand to hand combat experience than you’d expect. He had a lot of respect for Aizawa and his almost quirkless fighting, so they trained together a lot.” 

Izuku sent out a few feathers ahead of himself as he drew closer to the yelling, flinching a little when two of them were explosively sent through the wall.

Bakugo dived out with an explosion, bouncing back off the diamond wings Izuku had wrapped around himself protectively. 

“Hot stuff, good to see you!” He said as he drew his wings back behind himself.

“Stop calling me that, Asshole!” Bakugo dived forward with a right hook, but Izuku caught it, turned to the side and threw the boy over, smashing him into the ground with a wide grin. 

He dived back with a laugh, grabbing a long diamond feather as sword, several smaller ones floating around his head “You ready?”

“Wow Takami read that right hook like a book!” Shouted Hagakure.

“Yeah and that throw was amazing!!” Ashido joined the cheers.

Keigo beamed with pride at the praise his son was getting, all well deserved of course. He watched in awe as his once sweet, tiny baby, now a brave teenager, used his sparkling wings to both manoeuvre and shield as he bounced around in combat.  Bakugo moved swiftly, pushing forward with violent explosions, using them to change direction when needed, firing smaller ones off to keep the deadly diamond feathers at bay. But Keigo could see what was really happening “How long left on the exercise?”

“About 4 minutes, why?” Questioned All Might.

Keigo smirked “Izuku is playing with the explosive brat. He’s been slyly communicating with his team-mate, setting the end in motion. He knows she has the situation under control and is ready to finish it, so he’s just riling up the blonde.”

And sure enough, the class mates watched as every time Izuku created a shield with his wings, we would talk into his communicator, Uraraka on another monitor doing the same. 

Izuku stood after a particularly large explosion deflected off his wings and smiled at the manic glint in Bakugo’s eyes “This has been fun huh?”

“I guess you like having your ass kicked!” Shouted Bakugo

“Ooooohhhhhhhh is that what’s been happening” Izuku tilted his head back and laughed, purposely leaving himself open to lure the faux villain in. And of course his opponent took the bait, lunging forward. Izuku dipped, leg swiped and pulled the blonde down in a rapid confusing motion, the back of Bakugo’s head thunking onto the concrete floor. But before he could even retaliate, Izuku straddled him, quickly grabbed the blonde’s wrists and holding those explosive hands over his crotch “Might want to be careful with those blasts if you still want to use your tools ~Katsuki” he practically purred his name. Bakugo was silent, obviously furious but also a little shocked. 

Meanwhile on the floor above, Uraraka had thrown the feathers across the room, narrowly avoiding Iida and embedding into the wall. She took the momentary distraction to push herself off the pillar she had been floating behind - at ceiling height, over towards the bomb. The moment the feathers had hit the wall, Izuku had shot out a further 5 feathers, through the windows to converge on their location, making Iida yelp and lose his balance as he had set off at speed to intersect Uraraka. It caused Iida barely a second of delay, but it was just enough.

“HERO TEAM WINS!!”

“No hard feelings?” Izuku got up with a smile and held his hand out to Bakugo.

Of course, the look of absolute disgusted fury on the blonde’s face made his smile falter, even more when the hand was smacked away as Bakugo got up and stormed out of the building. When he got back to the monitor room, his dad was there (along with many of the classmates) to bring that smile back.

“You did great baby bird! I’m so proud” he beamed, pulling Izuku in for a big winged hug.

“I think I pissed off Bakugo” he whispered looking back over his wilted wings. 

“Well, from what I’ve read, he’s got a massive ego and needs to be knocked down a notch” he pulled back to see his sons suspicious, narrowed eyes “What?! So I read up on all your classmates and did full background checks when I was at work… What?! Don’t give me that look! You’re my baby boy!”

Izuku scoffed and shook his head “Yeah yeah”

“Look, he’s probably just never been beaten at anything before, never been told he’s anything but the best. I’m sure the rest of the matches will be an eye opener for him and once he’s calmed down you can go back to flirting with him” he finished with a sly grin

Izuku laughed “Nah I’m good, it seems like more trouble than its worth, he’s got too much emotional baggage… besides, I’ve got my eyes elsewhere” Izuku looked over his shoulder again, this time to Kirishima who gave a bright smile and a thumbs up and Kaminari who winked and finger gunned. 

“Oh god, two!? Oh help me… someone please” Keigo said, staring up at the ceiling in exasperation.