The Avatar 2 ~ Izuku Midoriya

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Mirio fell into the floor again.

"He went under!" Sato said.

I turned around and saw Mirio coming from the ground.

Zuku also predicted this and went to kick him.

It didn't work again. But Zuku did get punched.

He went back under as Zuku fell to the floor.

"Zuku!"

"Midoriya!"

Mirio appeared behind Iida and punched him in the gut before punching Kirishima, too.
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He started appearing left and right, while punching them.

It was hard to see where he was going next. But not anymore.

He knocked O down and I was the only one standing.

He disappeared again and I knew he wasn't going to appear behind me again as he did last time.

I stayed looking in front and I was correct. He appeared right in front of me.

I made a hole in front of me and jumped in.

I then appeared behind him but then I was falling to the floor.

He swept my feet off my floor.

I hit my head on the floor and let out a groan.

"Power!" Mirio yelled.

I sat up and held my head in pain.

"Too much power." I said.

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"I tried to make it so you wouldn't see my willy. Sorry if you got a peek. But, anyway. That's a taste of what it's like to fight me." Mirio said.

"Well all just got punched in the stomach without ever knowing what was going on." Zuku said.

I looked around and everyone was shaking while holding their stomachs.

Why did I have to hit my head?!

"Right, so, whaddaya think? Isn't my quirk strong?"

"Yeah, it's too strong!"

"That's not fair!"

"How can you slip through things and warp? Do you have more powers like Todoroki and Mai do?"

"Nope. Just the one."

"Just one."

"Ooh. I know! I'll tell you what his quirk is. Hey, hey, can I say it? Permeation! Cool, right?" Hado said not letting Mirio answer.

"Hado. Let Mirio explain his own power." Amajiki said.

"Yup! I've got a sweet quirk that's called Permeation. What you guys thought of as a warp was, you guessed it, simply an alternative application of that power. Oh, sorry, Hado."

"So, how exactly do you warp, huh?" Zuku asked. I grabbed my little notepad I had and a pencil and took notes.

Not for me. For Zuku.

"I activate my quirk on my entire body. Then, I can pass through anything I want, no sweat. Everything! That includes solid ground." He said, tapping his foot on the ground.

"So that was you falling through the floor of the gym?" O asked.

"That's right. I went deep underground. And then, whenever I release my quirk while I'm falling, something super strange happens. Apparently, things with mass can't overlap. That's called physics! So, I get repelled upward! Think of it this way. The ground spits me out, and I fly up into the air. That's how my warp works. By adjusting the direction I'm facing or the pose I'm holding, I can change the angle I come out at, so I can aim at different spots."

"That sounds like a buggy video game." Mina said.

Mirio let out a big laugh,

"Hey, that's pretty funny!"

"You're able to avoid any attacks. And you can move where you want in an instant. Awe! You were born with a really strong quirk." Tsu said.

"Not true. My power's only strong because I made it that way. While my quirk is activated, my lungs can't take in oxygen. Even if I breathe in, the air will just pass through. In the same way, my eardrums don't work. And light can't go through my retinas. I can pass through everything. But that means I can feel anything when I'm in that state. Even though I have a body, I can't stop falling. I could probably keep going down forever. Does that make sense? That's why, if I wanna go through something like, say, a wall. I have to concentrate really hard. I'll activate everything except one leg. Then I release the other leg and land on it. And then the first leg is the last one to go through. Even for a simple action like that, there are a bunch of little steps involved."

I finished writing the last part of what he said in the notepad.

"Growing up. I was always behind, as you might expect. In no time, I'd dropped to dead last. I dropped my pants a lot, too. In order to get to the top with this quirk, I couldn't just hope that things would get better. I had to think! I learned to make combat decisions! And picked up a few new tricks. But above all, I learned to predict what would happen next. And what made those predictions possible, in the first place was experience. I based my predictions on what I'd learned. This was kind of a roundabout way to get the point across, but that's why I wanted to fight. To show you through experience rather than words."

Makes sense.

"In our work studies, we're not treated as guests like in our internships. We're regarded as one of the sidekicks, or even as a pro! That can be super scary. Pros can get hurt. And sometimes they end up watching people die. But every scary and painful thing you go through is an important experience that you can't get inside a classroom, even at UA. I transformed the experience I got in my work study into power. That's how I got to the top spot! And... it's why I think they're worth it, even if you're scared. Y'with me, first years?"

We nodded and started to clap.

"He even gives pep talks like a pro." Ojiro said.

"I can't believe he went through all this for us, even though he could've just explained it." Yao-momo said.

"So, these really are different. I did kinda feel like I missed out on stuff in my internship." Kaminari said.

"Yeah, they tried not to let us do anything too dangerous." Jiro said.

I walked from the back of the students to the front, next to Zuku and holding his hand.

"Let's get back to class now. Say, 'thank you."

"Thank you very much!"

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