Stolen Chances

Oh, look who's here

After he woke up sore and tired, All Might took him home where he promptly collapsed in a fitful sleep. His mother was still sick, but that didn't hinder her innate power of knowing instantly when to open the news to find an article that could be transformed into a life lesson. Which was how now Izuku found himself the next day with a huge breakfast and a sick mother worrying over him about how he almost died.

He meant to spend his free day relaxing and making sure all is classmates were OK, but with his mother still out of comission, his father had to take over the worry-scolding-trying to convince him to give up heroism. The moment he reached his room, the obnoxiously loud ringtone of his father went off.

"Hello?"

"Izuku, are you alright? I heard what happened on the news and I was sure something happened to you."

"Just some scratches and bruises" he said, patting his still aching ribs "Wait, since when do they put Japanese news on your television?"

"I am capable of using the internet, you know?"

"I'm surprised."

"I see what you're doing there; stop stalling. These methods may work on your middle school teachers, but not on the person you learned them from."

"They apparently work on villains too." he said before slapping a hand over his traitorous mouth. Damn his tired, sleep deprived brain.

"What?" a dangerously neutral voice asked

"Yeah" Izuku rubbed his neck, trying to find a way to phrase his next words without letting out any information that might affect his future career "See, some villains were going to kill our teacher, and I'd been thrown there by a warp gate" after defeating a few villains and almost getting killed a couple of times "and they said they were going to us attack anyway" kill us, but what does it matter "and I remembered what you said when we were watching those movies, a long time ago. You know, villains and their love of monologuing? I took a chance and I managed to keep talking until the teachers arrived."

"Don't you turn this on me, you know I would have wanted you to run. You had every chance to do it too."

"It wasn't that dangerous!"

"Then what about the monster that went toe to toe with All Might? Not at all dangerous, I'm sure."

"That's not...wait, how do you know about the Noumu? The police didn't release the information to the press."

"People talk, Izuku. It's easy to find information if you look on the right forums."

"How did you know what forums to search?"

"Never underestimate the drive of an irate father."

Izuku knew that this particular conversation was over, so he said. "Well, all in all, I'm fine. Mom is sick and so I can't really talk right now, is there anything else you wanted to tell me?"

"Yes, remember Kitanai Tatakai?"

"Yeah, she taught me martial arts when I was younger, why?"

"Well, from what you told me, you still don't have full control over your new Quirk-don't know what person in their right mind would give you a Quirk right before the exam- and you shouldn't be totally defenseless without it. All that power means nothing if you can't properly throw a punch."