Max is here
A computer screen lit up brightly in a dark room.
A folder was opened revealing countless pictures of a green haired boy, the curser moved above one of the picture and opened it.
The boy in the picture had bruises on his cheeks and blood flowing down his nose, with a look of fear on his face.
A pair of shiny eyes stared at the screen in wonder for a long time before a ringing snapped the person out of their haze.
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“Marinette! Your friends are here!”
“Who?” She shouted, not leaving her desk.
“Me.” Max’s voice filled the room as he climbed into the room, pushing the door open.
“Oh, hey Max.” Marinette turned towards him with a big smile that dimmed as she noticed Kim behind him.
“…Hey DC.” Kim, who was smiling awkwardly waved his hands.
Marinette didn’t speak as she turned her eyes towards Max.
The boy sighed, “…he insisted on coming, after I told him about Lie-la.”
“...Yeah, sorry for not believing you.” Kim rubbed his head, avoiding her gaze.
She took a deep breath before opening her mouth. “it’s fine, and I didn’t expect you to believe me when Max didn’t.”
“...but it isn’t!” Kim exclaimed. “I knew you for much longer then Max and I still believed the witch over you!!”
Marinette snorted.
“…there might be a problem there.” Max interrupted, catching both their attentions.
“What?” Marinette asked confused.
“I think she might be Meta.” Max spoke, pushing his glasses. “It isn’t logical for everyone in class to believe her ridiculous claims, and the fact that even some adults believe her is highly suspicious.”
“…you think she has a Meta ability that make people believe her?” Marinette asked.
“yes, Rose personally knows Prince Ali. We all know you designed for Jagged Stone, not talking about all the celebrities that Adrien and Chloe knows.” Max pointed out. “it is illogical for them to believe her words that easily.”
“It is possible.” Marinette sighed.
“so the witch used her powers on us?” Kim asked with a frown.
“I said possible, we don’t have any proof.” Marinette sighed, she will need to talk to Tikki about this.
Ding!
“DC, you got a new phone?!” Kim exclaimed moving his hand to pick it up.
“I don’t recognize the model.” Max frowned as Kim tried to turn it on.
“Uhh, it is broken!”
“No it isn’t.” Marinette sighed as she snatched it from him. “It has a very advanced privacy system that make that no one will be able to turn it on besides me.” She explained, it wasn’t really a lie since the phone had that kind of feature.
“really? Where did you get it?” Kim looked at her eagerly.
“I don’t know.” She shrugged as she opened the notification.
It wasn’t from the group chat.
It was from the Uni-Mission app.
She opened the app and instantly regretted it as Max and Kim exclaimed in surprise.
“Whoa!”
She looked up to see Max with a new brown phone in his hands.
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Hiccup has sent 93 attachments
Hiccup: This is the Dragon Manual
Hiccup: I just thought to send it here if anyone of you were curious about it
Midoriya: well, a translation app just showed up in the Uni-phone
Midoriya: so there is no need to ask you to translate the photos for us
Hiccup: I oh I didn’t think about that
User6 has been added
User6 changed their name to Max
Marinette is online
Marinette: Max whatever you read in here will not leave the chat
Marinette: I don’t need to tell you how important this is
Marinette has gone offline
Midoriya: Oh shit
Hiccup: Hi?
Max: Hello
Midoriya: Hi, we don’t need to tell you what the consequences of you revealing any information about Marinette that you read here, do we?
Max: I haven’t read the chat history yet but I already have an idea to what I will learn about her
Midoriya: Ok, just a reminder that I will inherit a power that rival a nuclear bomb in three months, so be careful
Max: I have so many questions but message received
Hiccup: Izuku you will what?
Midoriya: oh I haven’t told you
Midoriya: remember when I said I was born quirkless, and that the number one hero is training me
Midoriya: well he is training me to inherit his quirk
Hiccup: … so you will get the power of the strongest hero in your world
Midoriya: yes
Hiccup: and you just used it to threaten Max
Midoriya: uhh
Venom is online
Venom: …
Venom sent a new attachment (Toothy_smile.jpg)
Venom: do anything to hurt Marinette and I will have your head for dinner
Max: again Message received
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“Kim, I am serious, you can’t tell anyone about these phones!” the look that she gave Kim was deadly, and Max can now clearly see how she is ladybug.
“I know DC, you told me three times already, I just want to know why?” Kim whined, looking at her pleadingly.
“The phone is magical, and connect me to people from other worlds.” Marinette sighed. “if people knew, there is a chance that Hawkmoth will also know when he akumatize them, and then he will start targeting me.”
“Why would he target you?” Kim frowned.
“Because as we learned, Akumatizing someone who already have powers result in far deadlier akumas.” Max decided to speak. “the people Marinette talk to have their own powers.” He explained. It was true but not the full truth.
Kim’s head snapped into his direction. “and how did you learn that?”
“I read the chat history.” Max answered and Marinette groaned. “You have some interesting friends, Marinette.”
“…what did they do?” Marinette asked with wide eyes as she took out her phone in a hurry.
“One of them threatened to eat my head for dinner if I hurt you and the other implied that he will kill me or at least beat me up half to death.” Max shrugged.
“They what?!” Kim exclaimed.
“I know the first one but who is the second.” Marinette mumbled as she opened the chat. “god damn it Izuku!!” she cursed.
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Toshinori coughed heavily as He looked at Izuku in wide eyes. “w-where…where did you hear that name?” he asked, wiping out the blood from his chin.
“ok, there is something I need to tell you, but you have to promise to believe what I am going to say.” Izuku said as he took his Uni-phone.
Toshinori nodded and almost jumped from his place as he saw tentecales pop out of his successor’s phone’s camera and put a golden apple gently on his hand. “young Midoriya….”
“Ok, now for the explanation.” Izuku pocketed the phone and started telling his mentor about the phone. When it popped out of thin air, how it connects different world, how it gave him the quest to tell his mom about Aldera and how it was the one to tell him about Gran Torino.
He spoke about his friends and their situations, even though he kept it a bit vague.
“…t-that’s a lot.” Toshinori breathed.
“I know, I myself find it hard to believe sometimes.” Izuku sighed.
“I didn’t say I don’t believe you, in fact this explain a lot of things.” Toshinori put a hand on the teen’s shoulder.
“it does?” Izuku was confused.
“Yes, it explains why you decided to suddenly tell us about Aldera’s situation, it explains why your mother doesn’t remember giving you that phone, it also explains why you are always on it when you aren’t training or studying.” Toshinori grinned at him.
Izuku rubbed the back of his head embarrassingly. He didn’t think he was that obvious.
“Anyway, you said that this is a healing apple?” Toshinori asked, pointing at he golden apple in Izuku’s hand.
“Yes, but I don’t know how effective it is.” Izuku responded, passing the apple to the hero.
Toshinori took it and bit into it without hesitation.
“All Might!” Izuku exclaimed in surprise and horror.
He didn’t know if the apple was truly beneficial. It could easily cause more harm!!
Toshinori didn’t reply as he finished the entire apple, not even leaving the core.
Cough! Cough!!
Izuku’s eyes widened in horror as the hero knelt to the ground and started coughing out huge amounts of black blood.
“A-All might!” he quickly knelt beside the Hero, patting his back gently. What should her do? Should he call an ambulance?
“I…I am okay.” Toshinori breathed out, panting.
“You don’t look okay!” Izuku exclaimed, tears slipping down his cheeks.
“I- It is painful, but I c-can feel it doing its work.” Toshinori wiped off the blood and slowly moved his body into a sitting position.
He lifted his shirt and Izuku gasped as he saw the black scar changing. No it was healing
“…it is healing.” Izuku whispered.
“It is.” Toshinori took out his phone with a trembling hand and dialed a number. It was healing, but the pain was the worst thing he had ever felt in his entire life.
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“You are a fucking idiot!” Recovery Girl swung her can at the hero who dodged it.
Toshinori smiled sheepishly as the old heroine glared at him.
Izuku stood awkwardly near the door as he watched his mentor run away from Recovery Girl who kept trying to bash his head with her cane.
Well, at the very least All Might’s injuries were better. It wasn’t completely healed but it was much better then it was.
“I am quite curious about the origins of such an item.” A squeaky voice called making Izuku flinch.
“Nedzu, I already told you to not ask that.” Toshinori frowned at the humanoid mouse only to get smacked by Recovery Girl’s cane.
“Don’t be silly All Might, I won’t force your successor to expose his sources if he doesn’t wish to.” Nedzu smiled as he turned towards Izuku.
“…I am a bit uncomfortable with sharing the source but…. I have another apple if you are intrested.” He said with a hesitant smile.
“hmm, there is no need, you can keep the apple in case of an emergency.” Nedzu smiled at him. “I will be waiting until you are comfortable enough to share your source.” He added as he left the infirmary.
Izuku watched until the principal left before he turned his head to his mentor. “so when can I meet Gran Torino?”
He didn’t expect the huge grin Recovery girl shot at him, but he kind of expected the fearful look on his teacher’s face.
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“Today is all about attack! Nadders are quick and light on their feet! Your job is to be quicker and lighter!” Gobber spoke from outside the arena.
Hiccup slipped beside the man and spoke. “So I read the Dragon Manual last night but I couldn’t find anything about Nightfuries.”
“I am starting to question your teaching methods!!” Fishlegs shouted from the arena.
“Look for a blind spot, every dragon has one.” Gobber instructed as he leaned on the bars, looking bored.
“so is there another book? A sequel?” Hiccup asked.
“No.” Gobber said not looking away from the teens. “aren’t you supposed to be in the forge?”
“I finished all the work, and thought to come by.” Hiccup shrugged causing Gobber to snort.
“Didn’t you refuse dragon training?” The man pointed out.
“Yup.” Hiccup shrugged. “anyway, hypothetically how would someone sneak up on a Nightfury?”
“They won’t, because no one met one and lived to tell the tale.”
“They probably take the daytime off? You know, like a cat? Has anyone ever seen one napping?”
“Hiccup!” Gobber huffed.
Hiccup sighed and left the arena.
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Eddie: I don’t go online for one day and Izuku start threatening people
Midoriya: Hey!
Eddie: anyway, welcome to the chat
Max: Thanks, and before I forget
Max sent an attachment (Inventions_part_1.zip)
Max: here is the file that Marinette asked me to make
Max: I can see why she wanted it
Hiccup: Thanks!!
Marinette: So I got a new quest
Marinette: which is why max got the phone
Marinette: the quest basically tells me to make an app with max’s help
Marinette: the app need to be used to warn people if someone got akumatized and gather information about it.
Eddie: that sounds complicated
Marinette: it is if you don’t know a thing about programing
Marinette: but Max knows
Max: so it will simply take some time to create
Max: We might need to speak to the mayor though
Marinette: Ugh, I will try asking Chloe
Marinette: But she will most likely refuse
Marinette: In that case we will try to approach him on our own
Midoriya: why would she refuse?
Marinette: beside the fact that she used to bully me
Marinette: she is an ex-hero
Marinette: she got a miraculous by mistake and used it, I took it back
Marinette: and I did give her the miraculous at a later point as I needed help
Marinette: long story short
Marinette: Hawkmoth managed to manipulate her into joining him and that was the battle where we lost the previous guardian
Max: Chloe is still bitter at Ladybug, and she hate Marinette so it will be hard to convince her
Midoriya: ok that is a lot
Midoriya: you are sure Hawkmoth manipulated her?
Marinette: yes, Sabrina, Chloe’s friend told me about it
Marinette: Hawkmoth made her believe that I as ladybug thought that she didn’t deserve to be a hero and that she didn’t trust her
Eddie: talk to her in the end she is just a kid like you are, she could be just misguided
Marinette: …seeing how her mother treat her, I can say you are very right
Marinette: I will speak to her tomorrow