In Loving Memory

Hi, I'm Chip Mulaney, I'm your father

Thinking was a rather slippery slope, like sledding down a snowy hill in a particularly large greased frying pan, and Izuku Midoriya found out that truth around the same time as Katsuki. Once one found something to think about that happened to be of particular importance to their soul, they would ponder, and it became impossible to ignore the world. Izuku had been sitting on his rooftop for the past hour, an endeavor that became easier without human limitations like the discomfort of the concrete or food or a particularly tired office worker deciding to come up to the roof for a break and wondering why a kid was sitting on the roof instead of being in school where he should be. He could just lie in the air and ponder for as long as he liked, a small joy he found in being dead, one of the only ones he had, for that matter. His rooftop that had so many bad memories connected to it had become a second home of sorts. Yes, he almost had a panic attack if he came close to the edge, but otherwise, it was familiar and a place he tended to go when he wanted to get a little sunlight or a few thoughts in.

"Hey kid, it took me forever to find you."

"Miss Shimura!" Izuku sat up in the air, recognizing Nana's voice.

"Please, just call me Shimura. The 'miss' makes me feel old." Nana chuckled. "What brings you up here?"

"There was an attack on U.A earlier today."

"What?!"

"The league of villains. They found a way to teleport into the cafeteria."

"But weren't they arrested yesterday?"

"They were, for the most part, but Shigaraki brought some weird monsters. He called them nomus. They looked like they had been made in a hurry. Shigaraki was arrested, though, and so was his foggy assistant."

"Hm." Nana pursed her lips. "I'll be back. I have to look into something."

"What? But you just got here!" Izuku protested.

"It's important. If you want to come, you can, but I have to check it out."

"Then I'll come with! I want to talk with you."

Nana nodded. "Come then. Stay close by." She motioned for him to come closer and Izuku floated down closer to the ground. Nana scooped him up in her arms and took off running, hopping off the building and gliding through the air. Izuku was more used to it this time, and was less nervous than he had been when Nana first took him jumping from roof to roof.

"Where are we headed?"

"Tartarus."

"We're going to Tartarus?" Izuku exclaimed.

"You'll see what I mean," Nana said, running and jumping to another building. The journey was relatively quick, as it was made by ghosts, and it was filled with conversation.

"So this is Tartarus,"

"I've been a few times. Some ghosts come to visit, but many others haunt the place. Many of the villains here have made a lot of enemies in life. Some of them have killed people, and the ghosts of their victims or the families of the victims have taken to haunting the prisoners. Sometimes the torment is worse than the punishments in Tartarus. It's a terrible fate, but almost all of the employees at Tartarus believe in ghosts now. It's hard to find any other reason for the things that happen there."

"The prison is haunted?"

"Very much so. You can barely walk through the place without bumping into a vengeful spirit or poltergeist. So stay close when we walk through the prison, alright? I don't want to lose you in the crowd. And after I check out the thing I'm looking for, I need to meet somebody."