the new Ironman

season 2 chapter 6

Author note: Finally got my new portable battery, so y'all get an extra chapter this week. What happened to my old one? I had a bad day and I smashed it against the wall. (I'm the throw-things type of angry) But hey, new chapter  so yay └( ﾟ∀ﾟ)┘

*We are immediately after the last chapter, where Togata and Kyoka both ask Izuku at the same time if they want to fight him. Izuku looked at the two of them a bit confused, his permanent smile always stuck on his face, so they could only see the confusion if they squinted and looked very carefully at his eyes and eyebrows. Izuku was confused as to why they would want to fight him, I mean he gets his suit is nice and shiny and it looks cool, but this thing is still in beta, it needs more time to be tested before he can confidently fight with it.*

Izuku: I'm sorry. You want to what?

Kyoka: Ignore him, he's just a washed-up nobody. I want to fight you.

*Kyoka said with an amused smile as she pushed Togata out of the way, so Izuku's attention was only on him. She wants to be the one who fights against Izuku, I mean, he made his hero suit that allows her to use a greater percentage of her new powers, she wants to see what he can do with a suit he made for himself. Togata hearing what Kyoka said, gave a big laugh, and Izuku knew it to be fake since it sounded like the laughs he gives out when he's annoyed. Togata then pushed Kyoka back with his usual smile.*

Togata: Ha ha! Good one Kyoka! If I were to lower myself to your level I would say that you are a punk freak whose daddy is a washed-up nobody

Izuku: Pfff damn. Good thing you are not going down to her level.

*Izuku said with a small laugh looking at these two who wanted to fight him, is his face that punchable? Well. Yeah. It is. Izuku can admit that his smile makes it so people want to punch him so that they can say they wiped that smug smile from his face. At least that's what his former tormentors used to say. He has made peace with that. So he cracked his neck as Togata and Kyoka were pushing each other's shoulders, trying to make the other stand down. Izuku felt like he was watching an older sibling and a younger sibling bicker together.*

Togata: Ha ha! Quite right. So! How about a quick spar?!

Izuku: better idea. How about you two fight each other and I get the winners?

* Izuku said with his usual smug grin, as his smugness returned from hiding, from when he fought Rumi. That was then, that was fighting against an angry top 3 pro hero, with a hero suit with a weak power system, now? Now that he had the Mark-3? Now that he ripped open the door of heaven and stole its energy source it? Yeah. His confidence was growing back to the point that it was pure smugness. And I'm talking early, before the bomb bleach shrapnel into Tony's chest levels of smugness. Toshinori who has been watching all of this quietly, didn't want his students to fight this man.*

Toshinori: I don't think...

Izuku: That's right. You don't think. So happy you can admit that. That's terrific progress. How shhh. The grown-ups are talking.

*Izuku said with a dismissive wave at the hypocritical man, honestly he doesn't even want to hear him talk, since all he'll talk about is how many people had died since that blackout. And all Izuku can say about that? "So what?" Izuku did not care about their death, their lives, since they wouldn't care about his so why should he care about theirs? No. Izuku doesn't regret his choices, the opposite really, he's happy about them. Togata snapped his fingers as he figured out the solution to this problem. *

Togata: Better idea! How about a 2 vs 1?

Izuku:.... Now that's interesting. The 2 of you vs little old me? Surely I get some kind of handicap, right? I mean. I am just a kid in the support course, going against a girl in the hero course who's the next holder of OFA and a second-year hero student who is the leader of the Big 3