Chapter 14
As I ran towards the front doors of the school, the alarms were going off. I needed to find a teacher fast before the halls of the school got filled with students that were rushing to get to safety from little old me. I got to the front doors and quickly rushed inside, not knowing where anything was. I picked a hallway at random and started to run, calling out for help. As I ran, I heard a voice coming from behind me.
“STOP THERE LITTLE LISTENER!!!” someone shouted way too loudly. It was even worse with my enhanced hearing. I hope I don’t get tinnitus from this, or I will prank whoever it is until I can cure it. I turned around and saw Present Mic standing in the doorway. He is a slim man with blond hair standing up, dressed all in black leather clothing with yellow glasses and headphones.
“OUCH! STOP SCREAMING SO LOUDLY!” I screamed back at him.
“Why did you break into U.A. little listener?” He looked a bit cheapish, but he still acted professionally.
“I just came from the USJ after coming there accidentally, a group of like 100 villains are attacking the class there.”
“Are you sure, little listener?” He asked me in all seriousness.
“YES! It’s an emergency!”
“ALERT ALL TEACHERS, 100 OR SO VILLAINS ARE ATTACKING THE USJ!!!” Present mic shouted. I could feel the vibrations, and the school windows were almost breaking from the vibrations. I was lucky enough to see him take a breath and cover my sensitive ears.
The entire school went quiet for a while, and I expected something to happen when a receiver activated somewhere on Present mic.
“Copy Present Mic, but in the future, use the bloody communicator!” A female voice came over the communicator.
"Erm, sorry guys,” he said before remembering what was happening.
“All teachers come to the principal's office with due haste." came over the loudspeakers.
"Sorry, little listener.”
Present Mic picked me up and quickly ran toward the principal's office, where all the other teachers were going to meet up. As all of this was going on, I got a running commentary from Fluffy on what was going on, and it was not good. Fluffy was doing great, helping Aizawa fight and hold off the worst of the criminals, but this also drew the attention of Shigaraki and Kurogiri, both problematic at this stage for me. I had nothing to stop Kurogiri from teleporting us or Shigaraki from using his quark to turn us to dust. After Fluffy joined the battle, Shigaraki went on a tangent that we were cheating, and it did not help when Fluffy antagonized him further. Tho I wanted that footage later so I could brag. I mean, keep it for learning purposes… yes…
We soon appeared at the principal's office, where there were a few other heroes waiting for us to appear. Present Mic set me down, and I saw Nedzu sitting by his desk typing on a computer and talking on the phone with someone while giving commands to the staff of U.A. over their communicators. He is multitasking and still keeping everything straight.
"Ok, good, everyone is here. I have confirmed that something is wrong at the USJ. I have called for emergency services, and the transport for us to get there is going to be here any minute now. All Might have run ahead and will meet us there. Any questions?" No one said anything as they were getting ready to rush over to save their students.
“Young man, you will stay here with a teacher and give us any relevant information you can give us on the way to the USJ.” Nedzu said this without his calm expression as he got down from his chair and made his way out of the office with the rest of the teachers. I really thought of going back to the USJ, but I needed to stay and give them information on what was happening, and this was totally not an excuse to not go back… I really don’t like fighting, but the joy I felt from Fluffy tells me he is the opposite.
The teacher who stayed back did not waste any time and got down on a knee beside me and made me comfortable by getting on my level. The teachers here are really good at their work and know how to handle a kid who might have just experienced something traumatic. I did not recognize the woman, but she was very friendly.
“Hello, my name is Miyahara Tomoko. What's your name?”
"Erm, my name is Leo.”
"Hello, Leo, Can you tell me what happened at the USJ?”
"Eh, well, I accidentally teleported there by mistake.” Her eyes widen.
“Can you teleport someone else with your quirk?” she asked quickly.
“Ehh no… Sorry.”
“It’s ok,” she said, tapping on her ear and listening to something over her earpiece.
“Can you tell me what happened when the villains appeared?”
"Well, first a black fog cloud appeared, and then a lot of criminals appeared from the fog.” I said getting flustered.
“Then what happened?”
“The homeless teacher and Fluffy went down to fight them,” I said, and with my enhanced hearing, I heard loud laughter from her earpiece as she winced.
“Who is Fluffy?”
“Fluffy is a fox. He looks like a big fluffy fox; he is fighting the criminals right now. I can talk to him from over here.” The teacher looked shocked at that but quickly got herself under control as she put her hand to the earpiece to listen to something.
“What is Fluffy telling you?”
“He told me that the guy with the hands on his face said we were cheating, and a man made out of shadows teleported away the students.”
The conversation went back and forth as I relayed the information from Fluffy as the fight went on, but this time Aizawa had Fluffy helping him, and when the Nomu attacked them, Fluffy held him off while Aizawa took down the criminals. When I was describing the Nomu to the teacher, I could hear the teachers react when they heard that the Nomu had multiple quirks and was overpowering Fluffy. He might be a big, fluffy fox, but without any combat experience, he was at a disadvantage. But luckily we got to U.A. quickly, so All might get to the USJ faster and be able to take on the Nomu. Fluffy was complaining the whole time about how much it hurt getting punched by the Nomu. He was created with my power and could not die, but it would take some time to heal from the wounds. I think he was crying from the pain but seemed to have taken it better than if we had switched. I might be older mentally, but my emotional control is shot to hell, and I would have been crying in his place.
The fight was soon over and seemed to have mostly gone as cannon with a few differences. Aizawa was not as hurt, and some of the students had help from Tenya Ida, as he could get around the battlefields and help more of the class. Izuku had been watching the fight and was gushing on the side and taking notes. The hero 13 was still hurt but would make a full recovery, if I remember correctly.
It was now safe, as Shigaraki and Kurogiri had left the battlefield, vowing to kill Fluffy for interfering and cheating. I told the teacher that the fighting was over and that I needed to go to the bathroom, but as soon as I exited the room, I opened a rift, jumped to the USJ, and landed beside fluffy. He was in his big form, lying on the floor, watching what was happening around him, but he perked up when I arrived, and I gave him a big hug and kisses.
"Oww, oww,” Fluffy complained, with the bruises all over his body.
"Oh, it’s the little listener,” I heard from behind me, and I saw some of the staff and police had came running over when they had probably heard me coming. My rifts are not really stealthy, and I was now coming to the realization that I was surrounded by police and heroes at an active crime scene… I am so happy that they can’t contact my parents, or I will be doubly screwed over.
"Oh, eh, hello there... Eh hee,” I said sheepishly as I burrowed closer into Fluffy, like that would hide me from their view.
“Why are you here, little listener? Did we not tell you to stay with the teacher?” Present Mic said to me while getting down on a knee.
“I ehh could not let Fluffy be alone…” as I hugged the big head of Fluffy. I hear a lot of aww’s from the people all around. I am so thankful I am such a cute kid now. Praise me more, my minions, I thought in my head…
“Leo shut up. I am hurt, and your inner monologue is hurting my already low opinion of you,” he said mentally.
"Oh, you love me!” I thought back to him, giving him a kiss.
"Oww, stop that, it hurts,” he said out loud.
"Sorry,” I said out loud.
“HE CAN TALK!” The police overreacted, and it made me snicker.
This is when Nedzu walked over from the side of the half circle the police and heroes had made when I had appeared.
“Hello again, young man. Am I a mouse? A dog? A bear? No, I am the principal Nedzu of U.A.," he said with a big smile.
"Oh, hello, principal Fluffy!” I answered back, and the entire group of heroes and police looked surprised before the words registered, and the first one to laugh was Present Mic. Then the dam broke, most police started to laugh, and I could see the heroes holding back their laughter the best they could.
Fluffy noticed that some of the 1-A students were walking over to us and notified me about their approach. I hoped to get some pictures taken together with everyone so I could show my mom, dad’s and Alfred. Soon the laughter died down, and principal Nedzu took their laughter with a jovial smile.
"Haha, guess I do look like your friend Fluffy. I have not met any other talking animals; it’s nice to meet you." Fluffy raised his head and looked at the principle.
“It’s nice to meet you too... But I am not technically an animal. I am this brats quirk if you can believe it.” Fluffy said as he nudged me with his nose. The heroes and the police jaws dropped. None of them knew that Fluffy was my quirk, and their reactions were hilarious.
“Wait, wait, wait, I thought your quirk was the ability to open portals?” Present mic shouted in disbelief.
“Yupp and much more look,” I said as I pulled out my all-mighty onesie from my inventory and then put it back.
“HOW MANY QUIRKS DO YOU HAVE?” Present Mic shouted and thank God Aizawa was close by and turned off Mic's quirk, or I would have gone deaf.
“Ehh… Rift, inventory, Fluffy, super strength, speed, durability, agility, senses… ehh I think that's everything."
“You forgot the snowflake and the rift protection; then there is the fusion power we have." Everyone reacted overwhelmed by the little kid with so many quirks. But I was also shocked.
“WHAT fusion quirk???”
"Leo,” Fluffy said, giving me a big sigh.
“Look at the first line in the description of the power again” this he said mentally.
I opened the shop and was about to open the basic power section when I saw that the advanced power section was also unlocked. When did that happen? I first went to the basic power section to look over the description it read.
Description:
Cosmic Summoning - Fluff Fox Companion empowers and shares the user(s) power(s) and can be summoned. The Companion is a loyal and versatile cosmic entity known as the "[Redacted]."
The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
I read it but did not see it saying fusion, and when I told Fluffy as much, he gave me a sigh and read it to me while emphasizing the one word I overlooked.
Description:
Cosmic Summoning - Fluff Fox Companion --->empowers!!!<--- and shares the user(s) power(s) and can be summoned. The Companion is a loyal and versatile cosmic entity known as the "[Redacted]."
I thought that meant some sort of buff or something. I told fluffy, and he answered with a question: Do you feel any buff sense you got me? No? Well, there you have it; it's not a buff. Oh well, that is so cool! I wonder how it will look, and Fluffy spoiled it by telling me it’s kind of like Naruto’s cloak when he fuses with Kurama, but ours is white, and Fluffy also has control in this form to give me support; he can literally watch my back for me.
I navigated back to the menu and looked over my shop again.
World Walker Shop
Point accumulation
* You only gain one point of energy once a day, around high noon.
Shop Categories
Basic Powers: These are fundamental powers that are relatively affordable and provide essential skills or enhancements.
Advanced Powers: These are more potent and stronger powers that build on the basic powers.
Ultimate Abilities: [Locked] Unlocks with appropriate skill from the previous section.
Utility Powers: These are non-combat powers that provide practical benefits out of combat and quality of life powers.
Essential Powers: (0) These are the essential powers that the user interface highly recommends the user(s) get first before using said powers.
I opened the advanced power section, and there was only one power there for now until I created more powers.
Advanced Powers
Enhanced Physical Mastery:
Cost: 300 points
This advanced version of enhanced physical strength, speed, durability, and agility combines all these traits, elevating the user's physical prowess to new heights.
Will this power make me a mini-All Might? I thought to myself as I really wanted this power, but it would take a while, and I probably needed other powers first before I could get it. But…
“Leo” Fluffy mentally nudged me.
“Huh what?” I said it out loud.
“You zoned out; they were talking to you.” He said it out loud.
"Oh, sorry, what did you say?”
“We asked you if you were okay." I must have really looked zoned out reading my shop and made them worry.
“Oh ya, I'm sorry I made you worry,” I said while giving a big jawn I had been awake for so long that I really needed a nap or sleep for a while after the adrenalin rush I had today.
“You look tired; do you know your parents phone numbers so we can call them to pick you up? I really don’t want you to be alone right now.”
I shrugged my shoulders. I really did not know my parents phone numbers or our home phone number. I didn't even have a mobile phone yet. My parents did not want me to be hooked on phones until I was older. I did, however, have them written up in a phone notebook I had started when traveling, and their phone number is in there with Alfred's, Dick's, and Dad’s numbers. But I knew they could not contact my parents, so I pretended to not know.
"Well, no worries, we will find their phone numbers. What's your last name?”
"Nakamura,” I said. I really need to make a last name for when I travel.
The police and heroes dispersed after this, and I curled up with fluffy and quickly fell asleep from the exhaustion and a nap sounded really good right now to me, and big fluffy made for a really good bed. I awoke lying on a couch. I blearily wiped my eyes and felt fluffy curled up in his chibi form on my stomach as I looked around and saw that I was in a break room and noticed a yellow sleeping bag beside the couch on the floor. I think I was in the teacher break room at U.A.
I laid on the couch for a while scratching Fluffy and was thinking about today's event. I made new plans. I was going to take some time off traveling to new worlds and work on learning how to fight. Fluffy was a natural at fighting and seemed to have fun fighting the villains. While I had not gained any fighting experience from this, I really did not want to learn through trial by combat that sounded like it would hurt… a lot, so next year plan get dad to train me and visit the Minecraft universe, and collect a ton of materials I could use in my adventures. Wait to visit Marvel for a while longer. Hmm, maybe a quick visit to see if I butterflied something. And get a superhero suit that can keep me safe while I travel.
Fluffy woke up while I was making mental plans and was sending me happy emotions from the scratching I was giving him. He started to cuddle up to my face, and it tickled and made me giggle. This woke up the yellow sleeping back as we stopped and looked over, and saw that it was Aizawa.
“Had a good nap?” He said still looking dead tired.
"YA,” we both said.
“We still haven't found your parents phone numbers, so we brought you back here instead of leaving you cooped up at the police station.”
“Oh… that’s ok." I was now rested and ready to travel back home, but I wanted to take a photo together with the teacher to show the version of him in my world some time in the future.
"Ehh, Aizawa, sir, are you a hero?”
"Yes, I am Eraserhead.”
“Oh cool, erm, can I take a photo with you? And can you sign it… please?”
I gave my best puppy eyes. He looked at me for a while before relenting. I was a bit sad I was going to pester him until he gave in oh well. He was not prepared for me to pull out my Polaroid camera. I found a good spot to place it and put it on a 15-second timer as I ran back to the couch and took a photo with him making silly faces with fluffy. While he sat beside us on the couch, After the picture was printed and developed, I had him sign it. I put everything in my inventory and got ready to leave for my own version of MHA, but before I did, I bookmarked this world as MHA future.
The door to the break room opened, and the teachers all walked in. Present Mic loudly greeted me, and I got everyone to take a picture with me and sign them and one group photo taken by one of Ectoplasm clones. I was really happy with the photos, and I was going to put them on my wall when I got home… And when I say I, I mean my parents.
I thanked everyone for their help and for taking care of me, but it was time to go. I had walked to a corner as far as I could get from everyone and opened a rift, and jumped through backwards. I saw Aizawa's eyes light up red, but his quirk did not work on me with my special little snowflake power. If I did not have it, I would have jumped backwards into the wall and then had them lecture me.
I was soon home again, for real this time, and shouted out to my parents that I was home. I followed their voices and found them in the living room. I walked over to them and sat down in between them.
“How was your trip to Bruce?” Mom asked me
"Oh, it went well. I got to meet some superheroes there, and I got to test my strength at one of their machines on the watch tower that orbits Earth." My parents stopped watching their TV show and looked at me like I had grown another head…
"You... where in space?” My dad asked me in disbelief.
“Yupp!” I got to meet a Martin; he was green.
“Is he... a real Martin?" dad asked
"Ya,” my parents just took it in strides and changed the subject.
“So you got to test your strength? So how strong is my little man?"My mom asked me ruffling my hair.
“The heaviest I could lift was 10 tons. But it was reaaally heavy.”
“Great, now you can carry in all the groceries and do the heavy lifting,” my mother said, cooing over me even more. I think I regret saying anything now. Next thing she is going to ask me to carry everything when shopping, like some anime guy with 1000 boxes… Wait, I have an inventory… Oh, wait, she is going to do it to show off her son or something I sighed.
"Oh, that reminds me, look at what I got,” I said, pulling out all of the photos from the U.A. staff.
“I even got them to sign the backside look.” I turned the photos around, and you saw their hero titles. My mother grabbed them out of my hand and looked through everyone excitedly when she stopped and looked at one photo before showing it off to dad.
"Sora,” my mother asked me in that tone, saying, You better tell me what I want to hear right now.
“Ehh ya…”
“How did you meet these heroes?”
“BUSTED” Fluffy cackled in my mind… I might have never told my parents that my rift power sometimes misfires, and now it’s coming to bite me in the ass… OOPS!
"Eh, well, I was on my way home from Bruce, and eh, well, my quirk kind of misfired, and I appeared at U.A.” I said while ducking my head, and it was only after doing so that I thought about it, and it would only make me look even more guilty.
“Son, what happened?” Dad asked me
“I ehh…” I did not know what to say. Should I lie or…
“Tell them the truth. When are you going to learn that you are a horrible liar, and somehow they will learn about the truth sooner or later anyway?" I looked at Fluffy in my lap… and he was right.
“You are right… and stop being so smug about it.” I could feel the smugness radiating from Fluffy.
“I kind of forgot to tell you that sometimes my quirk misfires and that I get transported to the wrong place. This time I happened to be transported to U.A. Just before a major villain group attacked, I helped the students by getting to the teachers at the school while Fluffy helped the teachers fend off the villains.” I said it all rapidly to get it off my chest quickly.
My mom pulled us onto her lap, gave me a big hug with one arm, and pulled Fluffy closer with her other hand. It was really nice to be hugged by her, and I don’t know why, but this makes me really happy. The satisfaction I feel from Fluffy makes me happy that he is part of our family. I give Fluffy and Mom a hug.
Mom soon let go of the hug and held my head in her hands, making me look into her face, and I saw the determination.
“My little darling son I love you, but please tell us everything. We are your parents, and we are here to help you, but we can’t do that if you don’t tell us. Can you do that for us?”
“I’m sorry, mom; I will do better.”
“And fluffy, you keep an eye on Sora too.”
"Yes, mam,” he said, giving a salute.
"Ahh, why do my babies have to be so cute?" as she cuddled us closer.
After that, mom interrogated us about what had happened, and we both helped fill in what happened. I told them that the teachers were very nice and that I couldn’t wait to become a hero. My mom showed me the picture of Vlad King and told me that I met him when I was very young. I remembered him. I must have been like two? Or three years old, maybe at the time. We had dinner together with him. I wonder what had happened had he moved away? I must remember to ask them… later.
I woke up the next day to Fluffy using his tail to tickle my face. After rubbing my eyes, I saw him giving me a foxy smile, and I knew he did it intentionally, so I pulled him closer to me with his tail and shoved him under my blanket before farting. With his sensitive fox nose and the enhanced sense power I got, it was extra effective, and he shot out from under the blankets like a rocket while hearing my cackling over the mental link.
The entire breakfast, he was giving me death glares until my parents asked what happened, and I told them what happened this morning, and my dad almost snorted out his coffee out of his nose as he was laughing so hard. My mother tried to be stoic and not laugh, but I saw through it. She forced us to make up, but Fluffy clearly was against it, but gave in to our mother. You can’t win.
Fluffy told me mentally that he would have his revenge, but I told him that he started it, and if he wanted to play pranks, he had to be willing to get pranked back. He only grumbled and walked away to lay down in the sun and rest some more while I watched some TV. After having a nap, he calmed down and came back to me and snuggled up in my lap as I stroked his back.
“Are you feeling better now?”
“I guess”
“Want to do something?”
“Like what?”
"Hmm, want to go back to Minecraft and do some more stuff on our base?” Fluffy’s tail started to wag faster, and I knew he wanted to go.
“You should tell mom or dad.”
“Why can’t you tell them?”
“It was your idea.”
“Ohh true”
I picked up Fluffy and went to find my parents. They were doing laundry together.
“Mom, dad, can I go to the Minecraft world?”
“The what now?”
“You have not told them about it,” Fluffy said out loud.
“Oh yeah, I forgot about it,” I said sheepishly.
“I ehh might have forgotten to say I found a world entirely made out of blocks that seems to work like a video game like the one Dick plays." Yes, I'm going to blame my meta knowledge about Minecraft on Dick, and that is some type of game in the DC universe. Cause that can surely never bite me in the ass in the future… Well, that’s the futures me’s problem.
“Tell us more about this... minecraft world,” my mother glared at me, probably thinking of a suitable punishment depending on what I said. I gulped and went for an explanation.
“It’s a world made out of blocks like this." I pulled out a block from my inventory in its shrunken state, as I did not want a huge block of wood in our house to appear. Dad took a closer look at the block in my hand.
“That’s a cute little wood block,” my dad said with a chuckle.
"Ehh, it’s shrinks after you break a block in that world; it’s actually really big, like THIS BIG.” I put the block in my inventory and tried showing how big it actually was, and it took my parents a bit to understand how big an actual block was, but soon it clicked after some gesturing and pointing at the cloth washer and saying that every block is bigger than the washing machine.
“So how many of those blocks do you have?” My dad asked me. I looked over the inventory, and because my storage did not have a stack limit like in Minecraft, I saw I had 623 wood blocks.
“I have 623 wood blocks that can be split into 4 wood planks, and that would mean I can make 2492 wood planks, but I also have stone blocks and dirt blocks,” I said.
“Sweety, when did you learn to count like that?” my mom asked when she got down on a knee in front of me. I was at first very confused why my mom asked me, but it then clicked. I had done very advanced math for a 7-year-old. In my previous life, I could not have done this math as easily as I could now. Had my system made me smarter, or was it because it was my inventory?
“I… I don’t know," I said, tilting my head to the side and putting on a confused expression.
“It might be the inventory helping you,” Fluffy piped up. For all I knew, it might be it, but hey, I won’t complain if the math is easier for me. Math is already my worst subject, and I already planned to make some type of power to help me in school for an easier future.
I ended up just shrugging my shoulders because what else could I say?
“Is the world dangerous?" my dad asked me while my mom was looking like she was trying to stave off a headache.
“Maybe? Fluffy hunted some animals and got meat from them." I showed them the meat from some of the animals Fluffy killed before putting them back into the inventory.
“You may go there, but if you see ANY monsters, please come back directly and please stay safe. I don't want to worry about you every time you leave, ok?” mom asked me with concern.
“I won’t make you worry… too much." I said the last part as cheekily as I could.
And the next few minutes were pure torture for me. My mother had lunged for me, calling me a cheeky brat, and tickled me remorsefully. I could have broken free of her grip easily, but I did not want to hurt her, and this was kind of my fault anyway. After that, I left for the Minecraft world and appeared by my house there, and... ya, it looked horrible, but it was only a quick building made for my protection for when it became night.
My plan was to dig a staircase down to bedrock… Wait, would there even be a bedrock in this world? Well, I would find out. I wanted to find 9 gold ore, melt it, and make one gold brick because having an entire square meter of gold would be an insane amount of money. What I wanted to do was take it and make it all into golden coins. I was going to make my dream of swimming in gold a reality, one gold brick at a time.