Chapter 4: Standing Out From The Rest! (3)

I was walking back to my house with a slight pep in my step. It was nice to have an actual friend now, or… well wife?

That was still a bit confusing, but you know what? I can work with it. Maybe… hopefully.

So, I walked down the streets, and decided to not go into that alley again, very quickly walking past it. Not wanting to get into trouble again today.

“Aaaaah!!!”

But as I was walking down the street, I heard something that sounded like a scream in the distance… and well, I just had to investigate it.

So, I quickly jogged over to where I heard the scream, and saw a little girl with red hair getting surrounded by a trio of men, who looked to have nefarious intentions.

The first man had several tentacles growing out of his back that were swaying left to right, the second was covered in what looked like hatches, and the third had snakes for arms which were hissing at the girl.

Looking closer at the girl, I noticed that she wasn't a little girl… unless her quirk made her have the curves of a grown woman, that is.

She looked honestly scared of the three men, and was trying to back away from them, but they kept getting in her space.

"Come on, lover girl! Weren't you just saying how much you loved Shokushu, and now that we want to have some fun you're tryin' to run away!?" The man with hatches all over his body said incredulously, as he worked to corner her in front of a building.

"Yeah! Weren't you saying that you were going to 'love me forever' or somethin'!? Where'd the love go, honeybuns!" The tentacle man asked with a wicked grin, as a tentacle appeared under her and wrapped around her leg.

The third man just stood there silently, as one of the hatches opened up, revealing the barrel of a gun, of all things.

"I- I know what I said, but honestly I don't think we'll work out…" The woman said, as the men continued hovering around her, as she looked around desperately, "S-someone help me?"

With that, I started to walk up to the woman, quickly formulating a plan of action in my mind.

I walked up to the three men, fists clenched tightly, as I glared at the three of them.

One of them, the one with hatches over his skin turned to look at me and opened his mouth to speak.

"Your next line is 'Stay out of this, brat!'" I said, continuing to walk up to them.

"Stay out of this, brat!- What the!? Oh, you're dead!" The man shouted angrily, as he walked towards me, several hatches opening in his skin, as barrels came out and all of them were aimed directly at me.

Quickly, he fired… bean bags and different pots and pans out of the barrels, intending to hit me, but for the most part? I managed to just barely dodge out of the way of them.

That was, at least, until one of the pans hit me in the shoulder, staggering me for just long enough for him to hit me with several different household appliances, from toasters to blenders, to even a skillet.

Eventually though, he seemed to run out of ammunition, as I continued walking toward the man and eventually got in range.

Once I was in range, I quickly grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt, and threw him into one of the other men, the man with snakes for arms went toppling to the floor, as his snake arms hissed angrily... but then they disappeared and were replaced with normal arms when he fell unconscious.

"Huh, so it's a Transformation Quirk and not a Mutant one" I muttered, before quickly looking at the final man, who still had his tentacles wrapped around the woman, "Let go of the woman now"

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"I- alright! I… just let me go, alright?" The man said, as he quickly dropped the woman and tried to run away.

Tried being the operative word, as I honestly just… despised the fact that these men thought they could just assault a woman in public, even if it was getting rather late.

So, I quickly tackled the man from behind, dodging the sudden tentacle strikes, and kept punching him until he fell unconscious.

I then noticed the first man was still conscious… but a swift kick to the head fixed that, knocking him out nearly instantly.

Green energy began to coalesce around them, but I willed them to stop forming, at least until I was in private. I didn't want to be accused of unlawful Quirk usage, after all.

With that done, I walked up to the woman, and helped her up off of the ground.

"Are you alright?" I asked with a smile, as a small blush rapidly formed on her face.

"I-I yeah… I am now~" The woman said as the blush deepened further, and her eyes darted around shyly, not meeting my own.

"Okay then. I'm going to call the police, do you mind staying so we can make a proper report?" I asked, "But if you're not comfortable, I can do it myself…"

"No, no. I want to make sure that these bastards get the justice they deserve!" The woman said, as she glared at the beaten men, "Oh! Where are my manners? I'm Manami Aiba, thank you for helping me"

"Just doing what any good samaritan would do. I'm Izuku Midoriya" I said, as the woman quietly muttered my name a few times, as if she was memorizing it. Likely for her own testimony.

Eventually, I had gotten around to calling the police, and the two of us just sat there, waiting for them to arrive at our destination.

When they did, I was somewhat surprised to see Detective Naomasa again. Huh, he must patrol around this area a lot.

"Izuku, right?… didn't I just see you yesterday?" The detective asked confusedly, as he walked up to me.

"Yeah, that's right. I saw a group of guys accosting this lovely woman" I said, gesturing to Manami, who had a light blush, "And of course… I couldn't just stand there and watch her get assaulted, so I decided to help. Don't worry though, I didn't use my Quirk!"

Eventually, he got both of our information, having jotted down everything I said, but before he left, he had one last thing to say to me.

"Oh, right. Izuku Midoriya, I highly recommend you get your Quirk Registration updated as soon as possible… there's a bit of leeway for today to allow you to actually figure out what you're capable of, but you should get it done by tomorrow at the latest, otherwise you'll be in quite a bit of trouble" Detective Naomasa said with a slight smile.

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"You've got it, sir," I said, making a mental note to do just that tomorrow.

With that, he left to go and get testimonies from the criminals, and I was free to go.

But before I left, I was quickly stopped by a pair of hands grabbing onto my own, causing me to turn around and see Manami with a smile on her face.

"Um, thank you Izuku Midoriya… for saving me," She said, and for just a moment, my heart swelled up in joy.

"Y-you're welcome," I said with a slight blush. After all, I've always wanted to save people… and just like with Mei, I saved this woman, like a Hero would, "A-Anyway. I have to get home"

With that, I hurriedly started walking away, it was already quite a bit late.

But thankfully when I got home, I saw that mom was still awake, and had a smile on her face when she saw me return home.

"Welcome home, Izuku" Mom said as she gave me a quick hug, "Dinner's in the microwave"

"Thanks, mom," I said, as I kissed her on the forehead ever so slightly, before going into the kitchen in order to grab my dinner, that was at least… before mom quickly stopped me.

"So… I heard that you got married?" She asked with a teasing grin, causing me to groan into my hands.

Damn it Mei!

"I- I uh… yeah, and I'm honestly happy to be with her," I said with a shaky grin, as mom placed a hand on her hip and raised a brow.

"Well~ That's nice to hear, Izuku! Oh, I can't wait to get some grandbabies!" Mom said with an impish grin… where had my normal loving mom gone, and why was she acting like Auntie Mitsuki!?

After around half an hour of teasing from my mom, I quickly finished my dinner and returned to my bedroom.

That was exactly when my Quirk, having decided that it was finally private enough… caused the green energy to pool out of my body and into my room.

The verdant green energy swirled around me, before swiftly separating into three distinct forms, before each coalesced into their own Stands.

The first, transformed into a giant tentacle… creature that wriggled and writhed, it had a vaguely humanoid body, with two tentacle-like arms, a large purple-tipped tentacle above its head, and three legs on which it stood.

Looking at it, I was fairly easily able to tell what its ability was. The tentacle-like Stand was capable of creating tentacles on anything within its range, along with being able to walk up walls due to its suction ability.

It was honestly kind of disturbing, but I could still see some usage out of it, especially that wall-walking ability…

The second Stand that showed up, looked like a fairly generic treasure chest… if I discounted the hundreds of tiny feet that it ran on, and the teeth and long tongue that made up its 'face'.

It was both a comical, and kind of disturbing sight. I could feel that its ability was… definitely interesting.

The treasure chest-like Stand was capable of storing any non-living thing into it, and spitting out fusions of those objects. For example, I could put a pillow and a brick into it, and get a super soft brick, or a super hard pillow. Though from what I could tell? Things can only be fused once. But it was still a good Stand.

And finally, there was the most… normal-looking Stand of the three. It took the form of a semi-humanoid albino snake creature, with spikes along its body, and a suit of blue chest armor that it wore on its upper body, arms, and waist.

The snake-like Stand slithered up beside me, and rubbed against my body as its forked black tongue flickered in and out of its mouth.

Looking at it, I could tell that it had the ability to transform into a plethora of albino snakes, all under my command. They weren't venomous, but they could do a decent amount of damage with their bite.

And, even if a couple of the snakes are killed, they can be regenerated if the Stand returns to its base form. Oddly though, when the snakes are killed, instead of simply dying they would instead transform into broken statues… it was peculiar, but definitely interesting.

But now, I had to just figure out what I was going to call these Stands…

Looking at the three Stands in front of me, I eventually decided on their names.

Firstly, was the tentacle-like Stand, which wriggled and writhed in front of me, its tentacles moving around in various directions, secreting goo… it was kind of gross, to be honest.

"I'm going to call you… [Kraken]" I said, causing the tentacle-like Stand to start wriggling more, before I eventually dismissed it, as the sheer strain of having three Stands around at once was getting to me.

Now that I only had two Stands around, I felt that I could breathe a little easier… though it was still rather painful.

So, I looked at the next Stand, the one which resembled a treasure chest with feet and a wide gaping mouth…

"[Treasure Planet]" I said, as the chest-like appearance made me remember the old Disney movie that my mom and I had watched a few times as a kid.

With a guttural laugh from the Stand, it was swiftly dismissed allowing me to breathe easily.

And now, I was just left with the snake-like Stand, which was content to rest its head on my lap… I never thought that I would be the one giving someone a lap pillow before.

But, looking at it, I knew that I had the perfect name for it and its ability.

"You're going to be called [Snake Farm] now, alright buddy?" I said with a smile, as I gently stroked the scales on its head, as the Stand leaned further into my touch.

It seemed to have an animalistic mindset… but that still meant that it was sentient, even if it was in a rudimentary manner, and wasn't truly sapient.

But eventually, I decided to dismiss the serpent-like Stand, because I was practically exhausted from just… everything that happened today, and just wanted to sleep.

So I simply collapsed into my bed, and fell unconscious nearly instantly.

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Merry Christmas. You Filthy Animals.

Hope you all enjoyed the chapter, this was just the remnants of Chapter 2 from the fiction.live version… and even then it was two thousand words. Fucking hell past me, what the actual hell was I on? Crack or something!?

But now, we’ve got our best snek, [Snake Farm] on board!