The Intersect Chapter 3

Chapter 3: ERROR!

Izuku slowly woke up and stretched a little bit, he looked around the nice hotel room his uncle had gotten him, it was like a small apartment with a small kitchen and separate rooms, it even included a living room. Izuku walked over to the room his mother is staying in, he slowly opened the door to see she was still asleep, she had cried herself to sleep the night before.

‘What should I do now?’ Wondered Izuku as he closed the door on the room.

“An option is to find something that comforts her.” Offering the Intersect.

Izuku entered his mental area, “Yeah but I don’t know what I could give that would help in this situation.” Izuku then looked at his reflection created by the Intersect and noticed it was glitching, “Whoa what is going on with you?”

The Intersect then stopped glitching, “You’re too emotional at the moment, causing the glitching, your thoughts are all over the place. Even when you were asleep, your thoughts were so chaotic that you were barely able to get through your training.”

“Sorry, how much does simply tensing my muscles while I sleep actually help me?” asked Izuku.

The Intersect showed an image of a muscular man laying in a hospital bed, “This man here was put into a coma and while in the coma he dreamed of swimming constantly, allowing him to keep his body in excellent condition while being in a coma, it can’t substitute actual growth with a proper workout but it can help.” Explained the Intersect, “I know you aren’t in a position at the moment to do full blown workouts but you need to do this as the bare minimum to keep your body in a decent shape in case something happens.”

“Like yesterday.”

“Exactly like yesterday,” said The Intersect in annoyance, “That fool destroyed an incredible piece of technology, now there is no evidence we can give to Hideki, the greatest weapon and bargaining chip we had is gone and your enemies are out looking for you.”

“You mean like Six?” asked Izuku.

“No Six is a threat no doubt but he has no record for working with the Ring.”

“Then I have no idea who my enemy is,” said Izuku a little disheartened, “I don’t know who was the one that killed my father.”

“There are ways of acquiring that information.” said the Intersect.

Izuku nodded, “You’re right, I’m not useless, I have you. I’m sure together we can figure something out.”

The Intersect didn’t respond for a moment before quickly grabbing Izuku and pulling him close, “Izuku you need to stop that immediately for your own safety.”

“What?”

“Stop thinking of me as a person or someone else,” stated the Intersect, “I am a tool, a figment of your imagination to help process the massive amount of information that’s been downloaded into your brain. If you keep thinking of me as a person we-you will have problems.”

“That’s a little harsh.” Izuku said feeling bad, “I don’t want to think of you as a tool, you’ve helped me so much.”

“IZUKU!” yelled the intersect glitching for a moment before returning to normal. “You need to think of me as an object, I know you feel lonely and have had very few people to turn to but if you keep doing this then the Intersect maybe come something worse, your brain has already double checked the records that were in the Intersect and they have already shown that you have had more warning errors than any of the other testers, if you keep this up then the Intersect may crash or become twisted into something else.”

Part of Izuku knew the Intersect was right because the Intersect was made out of his own brain, “I understand,” said Izuku as he stepped away, “I will try.”

“Good.”

“Though I should try and figure something out for mom,” said Izuku. As he remembered how she cried herself to sleep the night before. “I want to help her.”

“There is a diner two blocks from this location, she does like pancakes.” offered the Intersect.

“That is true,” said Izuku as he exited his brain, “Not to mention the walk can help me clear my head.” said Izuku out loud as he exited the hotel room after leaving a note for his mother. Izuku then rode down the elevator to the hotel lobby wondering what his next move should be but as the elevator door opened a face in the lobby got his attention. “Izuka!?”

A girl his age with a mixture of red and dark green long unkempt hair, wearing a brown jacket and shorts, turned to him with a weak smile. “Hey cous…”

~o~

In an alleyway not too far away from the hotel a black orb appeared, a woman’s head pops out of the orb scanning the surroundings before expanding the orb, “Okay the coast is clear,” said the woman as she exited the orb revealing herself to have short black hair, round glasses and was wearing an oversized hoodie that had panda ears on it. “Welcome back to Japan, Hei.”

The Black Reaper then stepped out of the orb, as he was now no longer wearing his trench coat but wore a simple button up shirt and pants with his hair tied back on his head. “Thanks Parcel.” Said Hei as he tossed a duffel bag over his shoulder. “It would have been a pain to return here the standard way.”

“No problem,” said the woman as she gave Hei a smile. “But are you sure you’ll be alright on your own, you’re not exactly a spring chicken anymore.”

Hei gave Parcel a dry look. “You’re one to talk, you're a grown woman aren’t you a bit old to be wearing those kinds of hoodies.”

“Oh shut it, It’s super comfy, okay. I don’t need this shit from you, get enough of that  from my husband.” yelled Parcel embarrassed.

“Relax, this isn’t a serious mission,” said Hei. “This is a simple recon mission so it shouldn’t be serious.”

Parcel gave Hei a look of disbelief, “If you’re here then it won’t be simple, they don’t consider you to be the second most dangerous man in the world for nothing. This won’t be another Black Dandelion incident again, will it?”

“No, nothing that bad.” said Hei as he checked his phone. “Don’t worry I’ll be fine, return to your family, Parcel. I’ll be fine. Give Maki my best.” as he began to walk towards the street.

“Fine but I’ll be keeping my eye on you.” said Parcel as she opened another portal, “And you better come by at least once before you leave Japan.”

Hei couldn’t help but smile as Parcel left, ‘Good to see she’s doing alright.’ He thought as he walked into the streets, ‘It’s been awhile since I’ve been here in Japan, it’s changed a lot.’ Hei then grabbed a water bottle from his bag, “Enough sightseeing, time to find my target. Yin.” The water then began to move into the figure of a woman that looked up at Hei before turning away. “I know you’re annoyed that I didn’t bring you this time around, but we both know this was for the best, but that doesn’t mean you can’t help me from home, can you please track down the target for me.” The water avatar of his wife turned and gave him a nod before it returned to looking like regular water, Hei looked up and saw a ghostly figure near him as his wife’s avatar began to travel in the water that was in the air around him. Soon the avatar pointed in the direction he needed to go. “Thanks Yin. I’ll bring you back a souvenir,” The Avatar didn’t move and continued to stare, “And I’ll grab something for the kids as well.” The avatar then nodded before guiding him.

~o~

Izuku and Izuka found themselves at a small outdoor cafe, with a coffee in front of both of them. Izuku just stared down at his coffee, not sure on how he should talk to his cousin. ‘I haven’t spoken to her in months, not since.’

“Not since you two met All Might.” replied The Intersect.

‘Yeah.’

Before Izuku could say anything, Izuka spoke up. “Would you like a donut? I saw they sell them inside.”

“No thanks, Izuka.” said Izuku as he took a deep breath, “So how has UA been treating you?”

Izuka looked shocked, “How did you…?

Izuku raised his phone, “Social media, you do realize you are one of the few people who are friends with me online.”

“Right, that makes sense,” said Izuka realizing how stupid she was being, “Sorry, I-no this isn’t about me, you…how are you doing, dad told me and mom yesterday, how are you holding up?”

Izuku was silent for a moment, if he didn’t have the Intersect helping him calm down he might have broken out into tears. “I’m holding it together but to be honest, I’m not doing that well.”

“I kind of expected as much.” said Izuka, “If there’s anything I can do, I’m here. I know our relationship hasn’t been the best this past year but I am here for you Izuku, you and aunt Inko.”

Izuku couldn’t help but smile, “Thanks Izuka. I appreciate it. In fact you might be able to help me out a bit here now because I’m more worried about my mom right now more than anything.”

Izuka’s face saddened a bit, “Of course aunt Inko must be devastated right now.”

“I’m afraid it’s worse than you think.” said Izuku before taking a deep breath. “You see, last night my mom brought up something that I had forgotten and that was she has no family left.” He said, causing Izuka to gasp, “Mom’s parents died years ago during a villain attack and over the years her family has been passing away one by one, a little over five years her brother and his family died in an accident, I may actually be her last living relative.”

Izuka was now covering her mouth with her hands, “Oh my god, I had no idea.”

Izuku remembered when the officers came to their apartment five years ago, ‘Mom was a wreck back then.’ The memory then glitched.

“ERROR! SHIMURA ERROR!”

‘Huh?’

“Don’t worry Izuku, you nor Aunt Inko are alone,” said Izuka, “We’re still family, we can set up a weekly dinner or something.”

Izuku smiled, “That would be great and I was hoping for that. Someone needs to be there for my mom and I was hoping you and aunty could be there for that.” That made Izuka give him a worried confused look. “I know we both need time to grieve and I will be there for my mom, but I also need to face the reality that our main source of income is gone and I don’t want to push that onto mom or Uncle Hideki.”

“Izuku, right now your mom needs you more than the Buy More.”

Izuku shook his head, “I’m not talking about the Buy More, last night I was able to help some heroes with some paperwork and they offered to pay me money for it. I know it doesn’t seem like much now, but if this leads to something then I got to take, especially if it helps me make more money then the Buy More. I know it may not be much but I might be able to get a real job in helping heroes behind the scenes. I think that maybe enough for me and it would help my mom.”

Izuka wanted to argue but she knew just how much Izuku wanted to be a hero and he was right, they do need the money long term. She had no doubt her dad would be willing to help out but who knows about the long term, not to mention she knew what Izuku wasn’t saying out loud, ‘Getting a job nowadays being quirkless is getting difficult. He may not be able to get a better job unless he takes this, if he doesn’t he might be stuck at the Buy More for several more years, with his brains that would be a waste.’ Thought Izuka before smiling at Izuku, “Okay, I think me and my mom can do something to help. Maybe some sort of girl time to keep her occupied while you guys work.”

“Thanks, Izuka.” said Izuku with a smile knowing his mom would be taken care of. “You better not let your grades slip, or else I’ll have to give you a crash course again.”

Izuka stiffened as she remembered the days during middle school where her parents would call Izuku over to tutor her. “Don’t worry I’ll make sure to keep my grades up.”

“Good cause the last thing I would want is for you to start slipping up.”

“Don’t worry I’ll be the last thing you’ll have to worry about.” said Izuka.

‘I’ll always worry about you, cous.’ thought Izuku.

“Well well well, looks like the nerds are having a family reunion.” said an irritating voice that both Midoriya knew all too well.

Izuku looked over to see Katsuki along with two other boys their age flanking him, one had spiky red hair and the other had yellow hair with a lightning bolt black hair in it. ‘Those two are most likely UA students. I wonder if they are anything like Katsuki?’ wondered Izuku.

“Katsuki, now is not that time.” warned Izuka with her voice on edge.

Katsuki immediately became irritated, “What the hell was that you extra.”

“Whoa calm down bro.” said the red head.

“Kirishima, take Katsuki and leave now.” ordered Izuka with venom in her voice, “Now is not the time.”

“Whoa whoa let’s chill for a moment, sweetie.” said the Blonde while giving a bright smile. “How about we all relax and you introduce us to your friend.”

“I’m her cousin, Izuku.” Spoke up Izuku, “Please tell me this isn’t your boyfriend.”

“No, god no.” said Izuka as she had no desire to date the boy. “They’re just classmates.”

“Oh you guys are just cousins,” said the boy with relief before shifting to a professional look. “I’m Denki, it's a pleasure to meet Izuka’s family.” As if he didn’t just hear Izuka just saying they weren’t dating. “I do apologize for not introducing myself sooner, I thought you might have been someone else.”

Izuku could clearly see the annoyed look on his cousin’s face, ‘Clearly this isn’t the first time this guy has tried to flirt with Izuka.’ Izuku turned to Denki and spoke as politely and as firmly as he could, “Look my cousin told you to go away, so I ask that you respect her wishes and leave, please.”

Both Denki and Kirishima were shocked by how serious Izuku was and the pressure he was giving off, Izuka chalked it up to the fact that he’s still hurting, Katsuki on the other hand began to start laughing, “Nice try you damn nerd but you can’t pull off being scary in a million years, a quirkless nobody like you wouldn’t even be able to scare a cat.”

“Quirkless?” repeated Kirishima, surprised.

“What he’s just quirkless,” asked Denki before becoming annoyed, “Why are you telling me anything,” he then turned to Izuka, “Is he bothering you, asking for money or something, I can get rid of him for you?”

“HE’S MY COUSIN!!” roared Izuka who looked like she was about to pop a blood vessel.

Izuku was getting annoyed and started making calculations on his odds of winning a fight with them. “It would be ill advised for you to beat them up. You most likely could but I wouldn’t recommend it.” Suggested the Intersect.

“Why not?” Izuku heard another voice in his head and went into his mental area to see the Intersect that was also looking at another version of Izuku that was hue of red and that had a dark smile on his face, “We can disable your pain receptors for a little bit allowing you to use every bit of strength your body has to offer, which should be enough to easily take down these fools.” The Red Izuku stepped forward as an image of Katsuki appeared before him, “This one has spent years torturing us, shouldn’t we finally return the favor and show him just how powerless you really are.”

The Intersect turned to Izuku, “Izuku focus this is just your emotions getting the better of you.”

Izuku turned to the red Izuku, “So you’re my emotions?”

“Something like that, the Intersect doesn’t have any data on this happening before.” said The red Izuku as he showed Izuku the outside world, he saw Katsuki and the other two. An overlay then appeared of every action he could take to take the three of them down, “The odds are in your favor, Take them out and show them and the whole world that you are not to be messed with.”

“Izuku this could get you in a lot of trouble, think of the consequences.” Warned the Intersect.

“I know that.” said Izuku before he remembered every moment of his life that Katsuki was in. All the beatings, all taunts and insults that came from him.

Outside Katsuki just laughed, “Cousin or not, you shouldn’t be around him, he’s a super extra nobody. Just ditch him,” Izuka glared daggers at Katsuki, “Oh don’t give me that, his own father left him for the states.”

In that moment several things happened, Katsuki stopped as he noticed Izuka’s face shift from pure rage to utter shock. Katsuki then turned to Izuku who was a blur. As the second the words about his father came out of Katsuki’s mouth, Izuku had moved as his brain became dangerously clear with a single thought occupying Izuku’s mind, KICK HIS ASS!

Izuku’s fist hit Katsuki so hard the entire area heard an audible crack, Katsuki’s body crashed into the empty table behind him, out cold before he even touched it with an imprint of Izuku’s fist in his face. Izuku stood with his arm still extended looking down at Katsuki with a dark glare in his eyes.

“KATSUKI!” yelled Kirishima as he hardened his arms and went to punch Izuku, Kirishima expected to hit Izuku and take him out with one punch but instead his fist never touched Izuku. Izuku had leaned back enough to dodge the fist before grabbing Kirishima’s arm. Kirishima had hardened his body to protect himself from the attack but instead just found himself pushed to the ground and his arm in a lock but before he could do anything, Izuku pulled his arm at the right place with the right amount of force for a loud POP! “AAAAAHHH” screamed Kirishima from the pain of having his arm pulled out of its socket.

Izuku let go of the arm and stood up, only for two hands to grab him, “Gotcha.” yelled Denki has he activated his lightning quirk sending several lightning at Izuku, “How does lightning taste?” asked Denki before a pair of hands grabbed his throat and began to choke him. Denki immediately then upped the voltage to the max he could do, but Izuku didn’t let go. ‘What…what’s going on?’ Thought Denki as he felt Izuku’s hands tighten around his neck, ‘Shouldn’t he be in a lot of pain, how is he choking me? Can he not feel pain?’ Denki was losing consciousness as he began to see his vision begin to go dark in the corner of his eyes. ‘Someone…save…me…”

As Denki’s lightning began to power down Izuku was about to release him from his hold when something unexpected happened. Suddenly without warning a strong gust of air pushed Izuku as if the wind itself flicked him. Izuku dropped Denki and shielded himself for a moment before looking up and seeing a shocking sight. It was Izuka holding her hand out at Izuku with a finger that looked injured. “Izuka?” spoke Izuku as he stared at his cousin, “That’s not your quirk.”

“Izuku, what have you done?” asked Izuka as she looked at her classmates, Katsuki was on the ground knocked out, Kirishima was holding his dislocated arm and Denki was struggling to breathe.

Izuku looked around and took a deep breath to calm himself before looking at Izuka, “Thanks for catching up, I’ll talk to you later.” As he proceeded to put money on the table before walking away.

~o~

Hei watched from afar as Izuku began to walk away from the scene, he saw as Izuka was helping out her classmates, ‘This isn’t good.’ thought Hei as he pulled out his phone. “Cecil, we have a problem.”

“Don’t tell me you got caught already?” asked Cecil.

“No, but I’ve been in Japan for less than two hours and I’ve already discovered that this family is in a lot more shit than we realize.”

“What kind of shit?”

“The All Might kind.”

Cecil was silent for a moment, “You have got to be shitting me. Are you telling me this family is involved with that dumbass?”

“Most likely, I’m going to keep watching the kid for now, but tell Six we are going to need to meet up here soon and go over our findings. I also need you to tell me where that reject God of Death is hiding?”

“You mean the ex assassin apprentice?”

“That one. I got a feeling I’m going to need his skills here soon.”

~o~

Izuku was walking down the street trying his best to calm his breathing, ‘I can't believe I did that, I punched Katsuki,  I attacked those other two.’

“They deserved it.” Spoke the Red Izuku.

Izuku accelerated his brain and entered his mental area, “Shut it, what I did…what I did…”

“What you did was understandable Izuku,” Spoke the Intersect, “You simply got emotional, even with the Intersect inside your head, you are still human.”

“No I went too far, I hurt others, I did something bad, All Might would-”

“ERROR!”

“What was that?” asked Izuku as he looked at the Intersect but the Intersect didn’t respond. “What was that?”

The red Izuku smiled, “Oh, that’s a big one.”

“What is?” asked Izuku.

“Izuku, you are not in the right state at the moment.” Said The Intersect.

Izuku paused for a moment, “This is my brain, you were made the Intersect to help process information in my brain, not to withhold information.”

“That is true, you currently filled with a lot of information that is has all been compressed into your brain like a zip file.”

“Though this file of information, if unzipped, might be too much, as it shows just how much your family has been screwed over by the world.” Said the Red Izuku.

Izuku closed his eyes and focused, causing the two Intersect Izuku to merge into one, “Show me.” He commanded.

The Intersect gave a small bow as the scene changed, “Izuka Midoriya most likely has two quirks, the quirk she was born with, Fire Coat.” The scene showed Izuka as a kid setting her arm on fire, “This allows her to be immune to fire, absorb fire through her skin when doing so gives her slight physical enhancements and allows her to manipulate flames on her body.” The scene then shifter to a side by side view of Izuka after she hurt her finger and All Might, “The Second quirk she most likely has is One For All.”

“One For All?” asked Izuku.

“One For All is a quirk that allows the user to pass down their power to another person, All Might aka Toshinori Yagi was the Eight user of One For All. That is where he got his super strength from to be a superhero. Toshinori Yagi was born Quirkless.”

“What?” asked Izuku in disbelief.

“Toshinori Yagi was born quirkless. The Intersect has great details about this because it was that information about his quirk that restarted the Intersect Project that was shut down years ago, the power of a quirk that could be passed down was what resurrected the Intersect Project, a power that could pass knowledge to other.”

Pictures of All Might when he was younger appeared with him being skinny attempting to fight with a pipe. “But he told me, I couldn’t.”

As the memory of All Might appeared before him, “I’m sorry but I’m afraid you can’t become a hero.” said All Might.

“He told me I couldn’t and he gave his quirk to Izuka,” said Izuku.

“He obtained the quirk from Nana Shimura.”

Izuku whipped his head back to the Intersect, “What did you just say?”

“The seventh user for One For All was Nana Shimura.” As the Intersect showed the image of Nana Shimura.

Izuku instantly recognized the woman from memories of his past, the pictures his mom had shown him of her family. “She’s…Is this why my mom doesn’t have any family left, does this have something to do with all of the deaths in the Shimura family?”

“Yes and due to the vile and vengeful monster known as All For One.” The Intersect then showed the images of what appeared of a regular man but he was stealing and giving quirks to others, killing several people and creating monsters to do his bidding. “This man has lived centuries and has done countless evil deeds. He is the one who killed Nana Shimura and since then he has systematically killed the Shimura family, even using them to torture All Might, leaving only three survivors, two of them being you and your mother, Inko Midoriya formerly known as Inko Shimura.”

The scene shifted back to one of his earliest memories as a child, one that he had nearly forgotten about, funerals. Now looking at the memoires Izuku began to realize that his once large family had shrunken rapidly overtime, “My family has been killed by one man.”

“He might have attack you personally, without you even knowing it.” Stated the Intersect as it showed an image of a man that Izuku recognized.

“Dr. Ujiko?”

“His real name is Kyudai Garaki, he is the personal doctor to All For One. The Organization that created the Intersect kept an eye on him as he has altered quirks before and rumors of making artificial quirks. Theoretically he is also the one who finds interesting quirks for All For One to steal.”

“Are you telling me I may have been born with a quirk and some old asshole stole it from me.”

“No confirmation, but evidence do back up that theory. You are a relative to one of his most hated enemies, he has killed almost your entire family but so far has kept you alive, your brain is abnormal as if it was design to process some sort of power like telekinesis and their is evidence to suggest that while he might have taken your quirk, it might not undo certain changes to your body or your brain.”

“Let me get this straight, my family has been getting fucked over for years, because of this asshole, All For One, and All Might has now dragged in my cousin to fight this bullshit underground war by giving her a brand new quirk to fight this monster that might have also taken my quirk and ruined my life.”

“That’s the shorthand version, but yes.” Stated the Intersect, “In a way receiving the Intersect has given you a chance to fight back, a chance to save what family you have left.”

“I only have the Intersect because my father sacrificed himself and I still don’t even know the full story behind that.” said Izuku growing more and more frustrated, “Now I find out there's been a monster torturing my family for years.”

The Intersect and mental area began to glitch and static, “Izuku, your mind is becoming unstable-”

Izuku shook his head, silencing his brain as he continued to walk down the street, while his consciousness returned to the physical world, his mind was still lost in the information he had just found out. Izuku turned to see that he had stopped in front of a video store, though the window he could see that the TV was showing the news as some heroes were saving the day in Kyoto. Normally this would have gotten his attention and fill him with some sort of excitement but right now all he felt was anger. ‘My father died to send me this computer so I can fulfill my dream of being a hero and I will, maybe not the way my father imagined it, definitely not the way I imagined it or am going to do.’

“Whatever you are going to do, you need supplies and train your body to handles the situations that you will be facing in the future.”

‘That is true,’ Thought Izuku, ‘To confirm everything I’ve been told here, to move forward, I need to be prepared, I need data……I need to steal from a hero.’

A/N: Sorry This took so long, I have been trying left and right to get my stories back on Archives of Our Own, I still haven't gotten anything back from the admins. Wish me luck.