Total Command

Chapter 40: From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.

Moments before the flex that changed it all...

Ragdoll started giggling as the guy made it to the podium again, attracting the attention of the rest of the team.

They only heard her giggle like that when she figured out someone else's plan.

"Kitty looks kinda stiff doesn't he?" She giggled softly again, "almost as if he has a plan."

Toshiko looked at Inko, who was fidgeting slightly as her son made it to the field, clearly worried out of her mind about his current opponent. Her hand moved on top of hers, trying to calm the fretting mother, causing Inko's eyes to slowly click onto the taller woman's. "Midoriya-san... we probably should have told you this sooner but..."

She knew she was blushing slightly, even in her emaciated skeletal form. "While- while training your son, we... discovered something..."

She could feel Miruko's eyes on her back, clearly curious about what she was talking about. If the now-familiar sound of a glacier forming was any indication, they both were about to be enlightened.

Starting today, it was no longer going to be a secret anyway. "Your son..."

The glacier started leaking green light.

"He has a quirk."

Inko blinked, not fully understanding the reality of the situation. Then, the glacier cracked, and Toshiko's words hit her like the chunk of glacier hit the floor. Her eyes started watering. "He... I always knew he was special- I just thought that was just what a good mother would think..."

Miruko hadn't moved since the words left Toshiko's mouth. Her eyes slowly turned to the glacier shattering by the force of nature that was Izuku.

Toshiko smiled, hugging the sobbing woman gently. "You are a good mother."

Inko couldn't help but hug back and let out a happy sob as the building-sized glacier shattered.

You gotta be kidding me- you have to be fucking kidding me...

Miruko jumped to the railing as the glacier shattered to bits, leaning down to get a better look at the ring.

Her legs grew weak as she watched the green electricity he was producing dance over his body, as well as his shining back muscles flexing and contorting with his labored breathing.

He flexed off a glacier .

She crumbled to her knees, head resting against the poles that kept the railing up, eyes still on the source of her distress- and dare she admit, arousal.

Dammit, Rumi, get it together, you can't get horny in front of his mom.

As Izuku's muscles rippled in the sunlight and glistened with exertion, she feared that she might have a difficult time keeping her newfound feelings a secret.

Izuku thanked the heavens that he had managed to shut his eyes before the glacier encased him; he really didn't need to know what frozen eyeballs felt like.

With the mass around him, he decreased his metabolic efficiency, just like he had done last winter, his core temperature rising rapidly.

"You know ͈t͙ẖis͇ ̩co̖u̞l̨d̟ ̱c̨ọok y̥o͟u f̠ro͜m ̪the ins͙id͉e͕ ̥oͅu͓t ̘rig̹h͈t͔?͔" Nana berated from inside his head again.

Not with the ice siphoning heat away from me faster than I can generate it- He let his body grow flushed, blood vessels transferring the heat away from his core to the surface of his skin.