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2019-02-15
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2019-05-26
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The Mystery of Student No.18

Summary:

Getting crushed by falling building whilst shielding a little girl wasn't the worst way to die. Only, Midoriya's not quite dead yet.
He still has so much to prove - to do - to finish! All Might gave him his power, but now look at him... how is Midoriya meant to be the next symbol of peace if he's stuck in a coma?!

 

Meanwhile, his future classmates are left to wonder...
Who is student 18?
And where is he now?

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I wanted to write a comedy about accidentally creating multiple identities and then having them all fall in on one another - so here it is

Notes:

(What am I doing now? Say hi at: https://cloud9-77.tumblr.com/)

Translations are welcome with permission. Podfics are not. Do not repost any of my stories on any other site. I will copywrite claim.

(See the end of the work for more notes and other works inspired by this one.)

Chapter 1: 19 out of 20

Chapter Text

“A vlog?” Sero grimaced.

“That’s just sad, Kaminari,” Jiro interjected.

“Oh, come on!” Kaminari exclaimed, leaping out of his seat, eager to give them his reasoning. “I think it would be awesome! Just think about it – in the future most of us are going to be pro heroes –”

“– or half-witted side-kicks,” Jiro smirked.

“– and maybe they’ll be super famous! Think about what it would be like, looking back and seeing what we got up to when we were at UA!” he finished, ignoring Jiro’s snarky comments. He hadn’t even involved her in the conversation to begin with! I mean, come on!

“Kaminari!” Iida exclaimed.

Oh boy, here we go…

“Publishing videos of life within UA walls would be unacceptable considering the privacy of our teachers and fellow pupils! It is important that our school remains dignified and further more that –”

“– Relax, Iida!” Mina interrupted, expertly swooping in to save Kaminari. “He doesn’t have to publish them online. We could store them up and release them when we’re pro heroes!”

“Hey, that actually sounds super cool!” Kirishima joined in. “Imagine what the reactions would be like? The famous class 1-A – before we became heroes.”

“You guys realise that we’re not actually heroes yet, right?” Sero pointed out.

“Don’t spoil my fun, Sero!” Kaminari exclaimed. “Anyway, we can delete them later on for whatever reason if we want.”

“So... what do ya say?!” Mina asked Iida excitably.

Iida contemplated this for a moment, the light shining off his glasses in a weirdly studious way as he thought. “Yes, I don’t see why not – it could be an excellent way of advertising our in-class dynamics and studious life style during our time at UA! Moreover, we could look back at the videos and learn from –”

“– oh, oh! We could do one video on each class member!” Uraraka suggested eagerly, bouncing up and down. “Wouldn’t that be cool?”

“As student numéro un, I would be honoured to be your rising star!” Aoyama grinned brilliantly.

“Well, if we’re going to do it that way, we might as well do it in number order to make it as fair as possible,” Yaoyorozu agreed.

Kaminari shot excitable glances between his classmates, not actually believing that they were agreeing with his idea!

“Ooh! What number does that make me?!” Hagakure asked eagerly. “Will my video be soon?!”

“Don’t you know your own student number?” Jiro responded, “You’re seat 16, so that must be your number too.”

“16?! But that’s ages away!” the invisible girl moaned, the sleeves of her uniform flapping around in obvious irritation.

“Woohoo! That means I’m second!” Mina suddenly realised. Man, the girls really were into this idea!

“We’ll have to do them all more than once though,” Tokoyami acknowledged, who was perched on top of his desk and listening in from across the classroom. Iida had given up on telling him off from doing that. “We are likely to change as the years progress.”

“Yeah, but that makes it fun to, like, compare them and stuff – like what Iida said!” Uraraka pointed out.

“You don’t mind being number 20, do you Momo?” questioned Tsu.

“Not at all,” Yaoyorozu replied quickly. “By that time the process would be more proficient anyway.”

The conversation continued for some time, with most of the class swapping ideas and suggestions eagerly. That was until Tsu hopped into the centre of their circle to bring to their attention something very interesting.

“Momo, why are you number 20 if there are only 19 of us?”

There was a sudden silence as a joint confusion washed over the class.

“Oh yeah…” said Mina. “That is a little weird. Which number’s missing?”

“Well, the desk behind Bakugo’s empty – but I thought that was just because no one wanted to sit next to him,” Kaminari replied.

“WHAT DID YOU SAY, BASTARD?!” was the explosive retort.

They ignored him.

“Bakugo’s number 17 – which makes the missing guy number 18, right?” Kirishima concluded.

“Or girl,” said Jiro.

“Or girl,” Kirishima quickly agreed.

“But we haven't really been at school for very long yet. Perhaps it’s just a mistake, or someone hasn't been able to arrive yet, ribbit,” said Tsu.

“Maybe Mr Aizawa doesn’t like the number 18?” Hagakure suggested.

“I could imagine that being Midnight’s fault,” Mina giggled.

“Well then,” Kaminari interjected, pulling out his phone and turning on the front facing camera, “looks like we’ve got the topic of our first video…”

He clicked play and zoomed in on the back of Bakugo’s head, or maybe just the empty chair that was collecting dust behind him – it wasn’t very clear.

“The mystery of student number 18!”