Happy New Year's!

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Izuku got off the subway at 10:43 pm. On a normal night, the streets would have been pitch black but because it was, in fact, New Year's Eve, all the restaurants were open and packed.


Izuku ducked into an alleyway and dug through his backpack. He pulled out his cover-up items that were too suspicious for a subway ride. They consisted of a black medical mask with a white "X" over it and the digital pair of sunglasses that show your emotions.
Basically, if you are happy it shows the " ^ ^ " on the lens. Confused it shows swirls, angry it had red dots, and anything else it was just blank like a regular pair of sunglasses.
Izuku put both on. He left the third item in the bag deciding they'd be better for when the group actually got to "work".


He looked at himself in a nearby window.
"Alright. Here we go."

Izuku stayed in the alleys till he came to the back of the café to which he promptly crawled through the vents like last time.
Two heads whipped around when Izuku dropped from the ceiling air duct.

"What the heck!"

One had long black hair with her tips dyed pink pulled into a ponytail. Her face was covered by a neon red veil.

The other was what seemed like an older man, Grimlin if Izuku had to guess, with a purple mask that covered his hair and the top half of his face, stopping at the nose. Izuku assumed it was see-through.

"Hey guys," greeted Izuku.

"W-which one are you?" asked the veiled girl.
"Deku. Considering you aren't with a boyfriend in tow, you are most likely LittleLife and you are obviously, no offense, older, you are Grimlin?"

They both nodded and smiled at each other! Izuku's sunglasses showed happy eyes.

"I would have expected our leader to get here first, eh Deku?" Deku rolled his eyes, unseen, and lightly knocked the man on the shoulder. "Give me a break. It was a long day."

"You can say that again," said a voice coming from the back. All heads whipped around towards two people crawling in through a window.
One, a male with brown hair, had a bikers mask over his face that had a skull smile. The other was a girl with blonde hair that wore bright pink sunglasses that were big enough to cover most of her upper face and bright pink lipstick.

"ReadySetDIE," said the male, holding out his hand.
"I'm Bubblegum," said the female doing the same.

They all shook hands and addresses themselves.

At 11:38 pm, a shorter boy waltz right through the front door. He had ginger hair, yellow headphones around his neck, and a yellow bandana over his eyes. "Hiya! It's me, Cheese!"

Grimlin went right up to him and whapped the boy upside the head.

"Hey! What was that for!?"
"Do you want us to be found out walking through the door as loud as life?"
The boy frantically shook his head. "N-no, Sir!"


Izuku chuckled. After they all introduced themselves again, a few divided to change the names they'd be called by. LittleLife didn't want to be called LittleLife. Likewise for SpliTtHeCheeSe and ReadySetDIE. Bubblegum decided to go by Bubble.

"Animation, like the digital form of life," said LittleLife. "But, like, Anima for short." They all nodded and continued.

"How does Jester sound?" asked Cheese. "I mean, I have been using a lot of knives in training so I'd be like some sort of dude just whipping them out from nowhere like magic!"

They wanted to comment but didn't have the heart. Izuku, having been semiforced to take on the leadership role, smiled and nodded. "Sounds great!"

"Doom," is all Ready said.

"Still carrying that theme then," commented Grimlin getting a nod in reply.

"Okay," announced Izuku. "We've got Deku, aka myself, Grimlin, Bubble, Jester, Anima, and Doom." He looked around and got confirmation nods from everyone in the party.


While they could not see the smile under his mask, Izuku's sunglass eyes showed happiness as her joyfully proclaimed, "Welcome, Quirkless Rejects, to the starting block of a new era!"

*BOOM POP BANG*

The inside of the café was illuminated by the fireworks in the sky filtering through the windows.

"Happy New Year, friends."

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