01 ✦ Video

[mightdoriya]

[It could have all been a dream, given the way Izuku wakes up in a bed that isn't his own. It could also very well be the hospital- a fact that wouldn't have been surprising- but the stark lack of a sterile atmosphere leads him to believe otherwise even as he sits up with a start. His heart is hammering in his chest and between his ears with such ferocity that believing this is anything but reality would be difficult...

He isn't afforded much time to collect himself, because someone has noticed he's awake and immediately lept up onto his chest to greet him, his fluffy tail wagging excitedly.

Okay, maybe this is a dream after all.

Everything happens pretty quickly after that. Your usual fair of arrival: Izuku's "mom" comes in the room upon hearing his Eevee chirp at him, ushering him up-and-at'em even as he's stammering questions and trying (and failing) to get her to give him a straight answer. She is in fact not even remotely his mother but she doesn't seem to know that or care, and before he's able to get a word in edgewise he's out the door with a bag over his shoulders. Eevee had taken advantage of the chaos to climb up Izuku's back, sitting pretty on his shoulder as if he belongs there. So what does Izuku do? Well...

He starts to walk, hoping he'll be able to come into a town and maybe someplace more familiar than the route ahead of him. ...only for a Pineco to drop from a tree and attack both him and his Eevee pretty much immediately. It's a pretty sudden and surprising introduction to Pokemon battling before he's even finished reading up on it, leaving him to find a tree to sit down under for a while before anything else can happen. He has the PokeGear, so let's just try to contact someone. Anyone.]

Hello? I don't know if anyone can hear me on this, but it's worth a try...

[He pauses as Eevee pushes his head into the screen's view, hello he's here too.]

My name is Midoriya Izuku. I'm not sure what's happened, but I'm really not where I'm supposed to be right now. My only guess is this all is due to the effects of a Quirk, but I don't remember anything that could have lead to that.

[Unless Shigaraki had some tricks up his sleeve he really wasn't prepared for. Doesn't explain how his injuries have ceased to exist, either.]

I've been reading the guidebook, but it's really just giving me more questions than answers. Not only that, the pet the lady had in her house where I woke up followed me outside and I can't get it to go back home to her. She won't answer the door now so I'm not really sure what to do about that.

Comments

[mightdoriya]

[Uhhh-]

I don't think so? I don't feel like I'm hurt or anything...

[Even though he should be VERY hurt right now, he isn't. But he doesn't need to know that.]

I wonder why that's so common...if it's really common then that feels too specific to just be a coincidence.

[forsaintcecilia]

Um... I think a lot of the people that end up here are kinda-- exceptional? In some way? I'm kind of an outlier, actually. But there are a lot of folks here that are from really rough worlds, or they're someone really important, or they used to have really cool powers... Stuff like that.

[mightdoriya]

Exceptional...

[That makes Izuku wonder...it's an interesting way of looking at things, if nothing else.]

I wouldn't worry about that too much. Even if you don't have any powers or special abilities, that doesn't make you any more or less exceptional than anyone else who comes here. Especially if we're all on the same playing field now when it comes to powers in the first place...you know?

[forsaintcecilia]

Oh, I'm okay! I know. It's just something I've noticed, that there's a kind of pattern to how people show up here.

[mightdoriya]

[Oh good...it pays to make sure.]

It is interesting that there's a sort of pattern to it, I guess...I wonder if it means anything or if it's just more of a coincidence.

[forsaintcecilia]

You might even meet some people you know, or they might show up later. That's pretty common too. You seem like you know how the Gear works pretty well already, so I'd suggest doing a search on the Net for some names you know to see for yourself.

[mightdoriya]

[And lo and behold that happens not long after Izuku's talk with Kazuki here, which is a positive coincidence.]

Oh! I'll do that...this "Gear" isn't too different from some technology back home, thankfully. The electronic encyclopedia works a bit different compared to what I'm used to, but I like it.

[It's not quite PokeGoogle, the Pokedex, but it's honestly no less fascinating to Izuku with the way it can keep track of information on Pokemon as effortlessly as being in their vicinity long enough to pick up a reading on them. It's revolutionary, honestly.]

[forsaintcecilia]

You name sounds Japanese-- Is that where you're from? And you've got stuff like smart phones there too?

[mightdoriya]

I am from Japan, yes. Smart phones have been a thing for quite a while, now.

[Curiosity: piqued]

Are they new to you?

[forsaintcecilia]

So there's a Japan out there where people have, uh, "quirks!" That sounds really cool!

Oh, nah, I know about them! But there are a lot of people that don't! There are people here that don't even know what a steam engine is!

[mightdoriya]

That far back, huh...

[It's wild for Izuku to think about, but- as he will soon learn- it's going to be more common than he realizes.]

People have been telling me that even with how long some of you have been here, you still don't really how what brought you here, or even how it could have happened. Is that true?

[forsaintcecilia]

Yeah, you're right. There are people who've been here for a really, really long time, and they still don't know. It's the one thing that's the same about all of us, I guess.

[mightdoriya]

[It's...sad to think about. But what can be done about it now? Even if Izuku tried to find a way to get everyone back to their homes, he wouldn't know where to start.]

I'm glad that everyone is able to be connected like this then, even if we're in completely different cities. It would have been a lot more stressful to wake up in this situation with no help at all.

[forsaintcecilia]

[There are plenty of people that want to stay here too. There's that to deal with as well.]

Yeah. It's good that it's set up this way, so us other-worlders can get in touch more easily. There's always someone looking out for the newbies.

[mightdoriya]

I'm going to try to be that person, if I'm here for a long time.

Thank you for your help too, by the way. I appreciate it.