A Glitch In The Matrix

Eri...

...

"I guess I'll show you around"
Dabi sighed.

Midoriya nodded his head and followed Dabi around the entire place.
Midoriya already began to commit things to memory.

Eventually, Dabi leads him to the final forbidden entry room.
The girl's room.

Midoriya peered inside, his eyes widened at the sight.
It was...

"ERI!?
what is she doing here!?
How did she get here?!
Is he experimenting on her!?
How did this happen??!" He internally screamed.

"You good?
You're glitching in place". Dabi asked.

"I'll tell you out in the alleyway..."

"Ok?"

Midoriya glitched them both out of the Shie Hissaikai base and into a neighboring alleyway.

"So?
What was it?"

"The girl...

Back at the commission...
She was brought there to be trained but...
They don't see her fit and sent her over to the lab...

What's she doing here...
How did she get her..?" Midoriya asked in confusion.

"The commission brought her out of all people in...?
What even is her quirk to be able to repl-" Dabi cut himself off, how eyes widened.
He said a little too much.

"Replace...

Replace who Dabi...?
Or should I say...

Toya?" Midoriya sighed as he stared at Toya right in the eyes.

"I- I have no idea what you're talking about" Dabi tried to cover it up but it was far too late.

"There's no point in lying anymore.
I already knew.

Everything added up way too much.
My only question is how you managed to escape and are alive, they told me, and Hawks you died.
I already see why you didn't reach out..."

Dabi sighed, "fine.
You got me.
Stupid Twerp.

I'm explaining how I escaped once and only once so listen up, and don't call me Toya.
I can't have my cover be blown yet".

"Okay"

Flashback-

It was the day of the Entrance Exam.
Toya was all prepared...
He had removed his tracking chip the night before and was clutching it in his hand.

All the exams were different per kid, it was all measured based on quirk strength.

Toya was in an open field to do his test.
He was very well prepared, he had studied the fields layout in books Midoriya gave him in his free time.

He knew that there was a secret hiding spot right behind the bleachers.
The spot was an underground tunnel that lead to an underground room.
The underground room then led to a staircase far from the facility.

All the superiors knew of the hole, they made it.
They used it for themselves for whenever it was needed, emergency escapes.
They never let the kids get anywhere near it.

Toya asked Midoriya the day before the exam to make him a couple of things without context, Midoriya being a 7-year-old blindly listened to what his older friend wanted.

He asked him to make compact smoke bombs, a bag, and hair dye.
It was blue hair dye, however.

It was soon time for Toya's test.
The superiors stood far away they wanted him to blast out as much of his power as possible from every point in his body and knew his capability.
If they were too close they'd be incinerated.