In a dilapidated and abandoned apartment building, seven criminals were in the middle of a sale.

And the product being sold, Midoriya Industries hardware.

"Why'd the price go up? It's almost twice as fucking much as it was last time!?" One of the buyers asked, clearly not happy about the increase in price.

"Hey hey calm the fuck down." One of the sellers said. "Ever since that prick Overhaul snitched on us and told Midoriya what was going on, he's made a lot fucking harder to sneak this stuff out."

"Less supply, more demand." One of the other sellers summarized.

"Don't help that the fucker is going around in a goddamn suit of armor hunting down any fucker with his tech." The third seller said.

"Ah, bullshit that rich fuck probably can't fight his way out of a paper bag." The buyer who said that leaned up against the wall and tried to light a cigarette with fire that came out of his finger. "I bet that bastard won't last another day before some villain worth his salt kills him. I could probably do it."

Crash!

Suddenly Izuku's armored arms smashed through the wall the villain was standing behind and grabbed him, before pulling him through the wall and throwing him through another wall.

"Shit! He's here!"

Izuku's targeting system went to work, and before the villains could recover from the shock of Izuku's arrival, he had already raised his arm. Firing three blasts that hit the villains head-on, sending them flying back and into unconsciousness.

One of the villains tried to use his quirk, spitting at Izuku.

Boom!

The saliva landed on Izuku's chest plate and immediately exploded, creating a small amount of smoke that covered his upper body.

"Did I get him?" The villain asked.

In response to that question, Izuku walked forward through the smoke. Barely even a scratch on his armor.

"Ah shit." The villain said, he tried to get himself ready to spit again, but Izuku suddenly rushed forward at astonishing speeds and grabbed him by the throat. "Ahh!"

The other two villains got out their guns and fired at Izuku, however it predictably did nothing to him as the bullets simply bounced off his armor.

Izuku backhanded the guy to his right, sending him flying, before punching the other guy in the face, sending him through a wall.

With only one goon conscious and gasping for breath in his grip, Izuku decided it was time to get some answers.

Izuku let him go, and the goon fell on his knees gasping for air.

"Where did you get these?" Izuku pointed to the crate full of his tech.

In response, the villain tried to use his quirk, but before he could spit at him, Izuku light kicked him in the face, causing him to fly back and smash his head against a wall.

"Ahh!" The villain cried out in pain, both his nose and head were now bleeding. "Shit! You fuck!"

"Just tell me where you got them and we can get you to a hospital," Izuku told him.

"Fuck off I'm not telling you shit!" The thug said, before again trying to use his quirk.

Pew!

Izuku blasted the thug with a repulsor blast, knocking him out.

He sighed. None of them are talking. Maybe I need to ask Kacchan for some advice on interrogation...outside of the suit.

There were a few things that Ochaco said he had to do if he wanted to keep being Iron Man. One of them was that she had unrestricted access to his helmet's camera feed. Although Izuku would have done that anyway.

And if she saw him talking to Bakugo right now...oh boy. It would not be pretty.

"Hero incoming. Sun-Eater."

Izuku sighed. He had a feeling he knew what Tamaki wanted to talk about. And it was not a conversation he was looking forward to.

After a few moments, Tamaki walked into the room. Entering through the hole Izuku had made in the wall.

"You know you're going to have to pay for this right?" Tamaki asked.

"I bought the building the second I saw them walking into it," Izuku explained. "I'm planning on tearing it down but I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet. Maybe a new office for my legal team. They've been working overtime lately."

"Izuku." Tamaki tried to speak up.

"Oh! Looks like the police have found a warehouse full of my stolen tech and are engaging with a firefight with the villains inside!" Izuku couldn't believe his luck. "I gotta go let's talk later bye!"

Tamaki tried to say something but Izuku simply charged through the wall and flew away.

The hero sighed, before growing wings and following the C.E.O.

A few minutes later at the warehouse.

When Tamaki caught up to Izuku he found him flying above the crime scene in question. Staring down at the police and criminals engaged in a firefight.

He felt conflicted.

It was obvious that Izuku was analyzing the situation which was good. Given what he knew of Izuku, he expected him to come flying in headfirst to try and save as many people as possible.

Izuku was a smart man. That much was obvious, but he was incredibly passionate about saving people and was rather careless when it came to his own safety. And while it wasn't a bad thing to want to save people, that kind of recklessness could often make things worse.

So he was glad that his friend managed to restrain himself.

On the other hand he still really didn't have any business being here.

Sure, he had that fancy suit. But power was not all it took to be a hero. And Izuku had none of the training required to be a pro-hero.

But he did manage to take down the Yakuza, even if he had help. And Blizzard too.

Maybe I should give him a chance. Tamaki thought. I don't think I would be able to convince him to go away right now.

With his mind made up(?), he flew next to Izuku. "What's the situation?"

"Four police cars are blocking the way out. Seven policemen are still fighting and one is injured and hiding behind the car. A total of thirty hostels in total with eleven outside firing at the police and the rest are inside loading up a truck with as much tech they can fit in there. They've got one guy strapped to the front of the truck, I think they're going to try and use his quirk to break through the police barricade." Izuku summarized.

"You take the people outside, I'll stop the truck," Tamaki said ready to start fighting.

"No need." Compartments opened up on Izuku's shoulders, and missiles launched out of them towards the villains outside.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"AHH!"

"WHAAAH!

The rockets crashed into the villains, hitting their marks and sending the shooters flying.

"Let's go get that truck," Izuku said before flying towards the warehouse.

Tamaki followed suit and quickly looked for an entrance other than the front door. After all, it might be trapped and-

CRASH!

Izuku had already made an entrance by just flying through the concrete wall.

The armored billionaire opened fire with his repulsor blast, first striking the truck's wheels. Making sure it wasn't going anywhere.

"Crap he hit the truck!" One of the thugs said. "AHH!"

Tamaki flew in and grabbed a villain with his tentacles, before swinging him around to hit some more of the goons.

Izuku started shooting out repulsor blasts at the villains, hitting and knocking most of them out with ease.

One of the villains suddenly bulked up, and took the repulsor blast head-on, only getting minor burns.

"Rahh!" The villain charged towards Izuku.

"Endurance quirk. You got him?" Izuku asked Tamaki as he flew into the air to keep from getting attacked.

"Yeah." Tamaki shot out his tentacles at the villain, which wrapped themselves around his upper body. "Oceans Wrath!"

Suddenly electricity surged through the tentacles, shocking the villain in their grasp.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The villain shouted out in pain as he was shocked to hell and back.

Once he was sure the villain was unconscious, Tamaki stopped his attack and unwrapped his tentacle from around the villain, letting him fall to the floor.

Another villain tried to sneak up behind Tamaki while he was seemingly not paying attention, however, Tamaki wasn't in the top ten heroes for nothing, and when the villain went to punch Tamaki, the hero simply turned his hand into a hardshell and backhanded the villain in the face.

Suneater decided to watch as Izuku took care of the three remaining villains.

To be fair it's not like I'd take long, they were all shooting at him but it was clear it was a losing battle for them.

A few blasts later and all the villains were taken care of.

"Is that everyone?" Tamaki asked.

"No, there's still the one on the truck pretending to be unconscious." Izuku raised his arm and blasted the last villain. "Now that's the last of them."

"Alright. Then let's let the police handle the rest." Tamaki advised. "I uh...need to ta-"

"How are things with Nejire?!" Izuku asked suddenly, desperately to prolong the inevitable conversation they would be having.

"Nejire I…" Tamaki blushed slightly before shaking his head and refocusing. "Izuku, please don't try to change the topic-"

"Wait!" Izuku shouted. "I have to go to therapy! I have an appointment in five minutes and Ochaco will kill me if I miss it! Sorry, gotta go!"

Izuku took off, flying through the hole he made and into the sky at max speed.

Tamaki sighed. At least he's going to therapy.

He wouldn't be able to follow him at that speed. He doubted anyone but Hawks, Iida and Mirio would. Meaning that all attempts to talk to him while he was wearing that armor would most likely be met with the same kind of evasion. Meaning he would have to talk to him while he was outside the armor.

As Tamaki was thinking of the best way to go about that, he suddenly felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.

He took it out and found a text message waiting for him. A message from Ochaco.

"I'm sending this message to all of our friends. I'm sure you're all probably trying to talk to Izuku and he's definitely avoiding you like the plague. I'm having a dinner party at the manor tonight. Be there at eight. We'll all talk. P.S. Izuku doesn't know about this yet." The text read.

Yeah, that seems about right. Tamaki thought.

Ochaco was typically not one to beat around the bush. If she wanted something done then she pursued that goal relentlessly and wasted no time doing so.

Unless of course, it was a matter of her personal feelings. In which case she might just put it off for as long as possible.

I'll have to get my good clothes. I hope there aren't too many people there. Tamaki nervously thought as he left the scene.

Sometime later.

Izuku walked into the bedroom. Tired as hell.

As it turns out, doing hero work was extremely physically demanding, especially when said person had little experience doing such work. Who knew?

The moment he reached his bed he collapsed and fell face-first onto his sheets.

Oh, Ochaco's going to get mad about me getting sweat all over the sheets. Gosh, maybe I should try going down to the spa for once. Ohhh I've never been so happy to be rich! Izuku groaned.

He closed his eyes, and slowly drifted off into unconsciousness.

A few hours later.

"Izuku." Izuku heard as he started to wake up. "Izuku."

Ochaco? Yep, that's definitely Ochaco. Ahhh. My body still hurts. I want to sleep. Izuku thought.

"Izuku! Wake up!" Ochaco said, louder than before.

Slowly Izuku opened his eyes and was met with a sight that swiftly woke him up.

Ochaco was dressed up in her casual party wear. The clothes she wore when they had friends over. Expensive, yet comfortable, the white dress only enhanced her already obvious beauty.

Of course, Izuku was always happy to look at Ochaco in that dress, but that did beg the question of why she was in it.

"Come on you need to get dressed." She gently nudged him. "We're having a dinner party. I invited all our friends over so no need to get too dressed up."

Well if the dress didn't wake Izuku up, that certainly did.

He jolted up with eyes wide. "Dinner party!?"

This was not good. This was very not good. Izuku was never a fan of parties, even ones that were attended by his friends. He just wasn't good at dealing with people.

And this was a party where basically every attendant was very interested in having a conversation with him. A very specific conversation he had been trying to avoid.

"What? When? Why!?" Izuku asked in rapid succession.

"I started planning it after we agreed to let you keep doing the Iron Man thing," Ochaco explained. "I was just waiting for an opening in my schedule."

"Why didn't you tell me!?" Izuku asked his mind in full panic mode.

"Because you would have tried to avoid it or argue against it or something like that." Ochaco put her hands on her hips and gave him a scolding look. "Like you've been avoiding everyone else for these past few weeks."

Izuku cringed and turned away from Ochaco's gaze. "I haven't been avoiding everyone, I've just been busy."

"Oh don't give me that!" Ochaco instantly called out his lie. "You didn't want to hear everyone tell you what a bad idea this is, so you've been avoiding all of our friends. Don't think I didn't notice you not picking up anyone's calls or responding to anyone's messages."

Izuku didn't have a defense for that.

"Listen, these conversations are going to happen, so instead of each one of our friends individually hunting you down and scolding you, we can save everyone some trouble and all come around a table, and talk like adults." Ochaco took Izuku's hand, calming and comforting him slightly. "And you'll have me and Eri there to support you."

"Eri's coming to?" Izuku knew Eri wasn't good with new people. Or people that weren't them in general. So he wasn't sure taking her to a party was the best idea right now.

"She needs more exposure to people. Good people." Ochaco told him. "And if it gets too much for her, then you two can leave and you can put her to sleep. It'll give you a good excuse to leave early too."

"Mmmmm." Izuku still wasn't sure about that. He was super protective of Eri and the thought of her being uncomfortable for even a second caused him to want to usher her away and hold her in his arms and tell her that she's safe.

"She'll be ok. We can't keep her locked up in the house like a princess forever. Eventually, she'll need to talk to go outside and talk to people." Ochaco reassured him. "And she's gonna have to get used to these fancy parties if she decides she wants to inherit the company."

"Do you think she'll want to?" Izuku asked her. Of course, Izuku and Ochaco would gladly hand over the company to Eri one day. But that was only if she decided she wanted to become C.E.O. of Midoriya industries. If she wanted to become something else, anything else, they would support her. If she just wanted to live a peaceful life doing absolutely nothing they would support her still. It was all up to her.

"I don't know. We'll see." Ochaco told him. "Anyway, their attention will probably be on you for the most part so she'll probably just sit there and watch us for the most part."

Somehow that only barely gave Izuku and comfort.

"Now get dressed!" Ochaco pulled him up off the bed. "Or do you want the Katsudon to get cold."

Well, at least there would be Katsudon.

Sometime later.

Sat around a large dining table in the dining room of Midoriya manor, were a whopping sixteen people.

Going to U.A. and being the biggest creators and suppliers of support gear, you tend to make a lot of pro hero friends.

Izuku and Ochaco were of course sitting close to each other with Eri right in between them. And right next to Ochaco was Asui.

Tsuyu was a friend Ochaco had made back in their first year of U.A... They had been grouped together on a project involving both the hero course and the business course, and they had remained friends ever since.

Next to Izuku was Kirishima. Izuku had been tasked with making support gear for him back when he was at U.A. and Kirishima decided to befriend him...mostly out of pity.

Mina was sat next to him, she was Kirishima's girlfriend and a friend of Asui so it'd only made sense that'd she befriend the two of them at some point.

Tamaki, Mirio, and Nejire were all sitting next to each other with Tamaki right in between the two of them.

Shoto Todoroki was also in attendance. Izuku had also been assigned to make gear for him as well. The two of them didn't get along at first. And they really didn't get along for a while, but one day, something changed, and the two were suddenly good friends. Izuku had kept the reason a secret for the most part, with the sole exception being Ochaco, who he told basically everything.

Momo was sat directly next to him, due mainly to Ochaco's and Mina's insistence. Momo had actually met them due to business. She had seen great potential in Izuku's gear and invested in them. This led to them eventually becoming close friends, mainly due to Ochaco wanting to secure a business relationship.

Jiro was someone they had met through Momo. Izuku and Ochaco had been fans of her music and when they heard Momo was close friends with her, they(and by they I mean Ochaco) were eager to meet her.

Kendo was also someone they had met through Momo, back when Ochaco had been trying to make as many hero friends as she could to bolster the company's sales and image.

Kaminari was a friend of Jiro, and therefore a friend of theirs.

Toru was friends with Mina, Asui, Momo, and Jiro, so again it was only natural they would become friends as well.

Shinso was the only friend Izuku had actually sought out on his own. He wanted to help him get into the hero course, and thanks to Izuku support gear, he did. Naturally, the two of them were very good friends, although Shinso was a teacher at U.A. now on top of being a pro-hero, so he was busy most of the time.

Lastly, sitting as far away from Izuku as possible, was Mei. Izuku had insisted they invite her, as he considered her one of his friends. To her credit, she did clean herself up, but only because it's been a long-established rule that Mei was not allowed inside their house unless she was sufficiently clean.

"Alright." Ochaco started the conversation. "So now that everyone is here lets-"

"Where is it!?" Mei couldn't hold herself back anymore. "I need to see it! What does it run on! How does it maintain such incredible structural integrity while maintaining such high mobility! How-"

"You can see the goddamn suit after we're done Hatsumi." Ochaco sighed while she rubbed her head.

Mei seemed unsatisfied with that, but she decided to sit down and stay silent anyway. Last time she annoyed Ochaco too much she kicked her out the house, literally.

"Before we address the massive armored elephant in the room, can I just congratulate the two new parents here!" Mina said, gesturing to Eri, making the horned girl shrink into her chair.

"Yeah I knew you two would probably have kids at some point, but you go to skip the baby phase and go right into the cute kid phase!" Toru squealed. "And she is sooooo cute!"

"I suppose congratulations are in order," Momo said politely. "I am very happy for the two of you...and I must agree with Toru she is very adorable!"

"Like Toru said I thought you two might have kids but I thought you'd have...well you know…" Kirishima tried to find a way to explain it, without doing or saying anything inappropriate in front of Eri.

"Well just because they adopted a kid doesn't mean they're not gonna have one the old fashion way." Kaminari pointed out. "I mean they have the money and we all know they're doing it on the -Ack!"

Jiro stabbed Kaminari with one of her jacks. "Not in front of the kid."

"Thank you Jiro, thank you all. Eri is a precious new addition to the family. She's a bit shy right now so let's move on shall we." Ochaco said, taking the focus off of Eri.

"I think it's time we stopped dancing around the reason we're all here." Shoto turned directly to Izuku. "What the hell are you thinking?"

"Yes as both your friend and as someone who has vested interest in your company, I have to address my concerns with Izuku going around committing what is basically vigilantism, and only not getting arrested because of a legal loophole," Momo explained.

Ochaco looked like she wanted to laugh. "Come on Yaomomo. You know we'll be fine. Sure the increase in security has caused a significant decrease in revenue, but we're still making more money than any of our "competitors" could dream of making. And as for Izuku's Iron Man thing, surprisingly enough, while many people have predictably gotten upset, there is an almost equal amount of people that are actually praising Izuku for taking responsibility for the harm out tech has caused and trying to help, and even more, people just don't care. And even those people who are against Izuku's not-vigilantism, still buy our products. So in the end, any changes made to our sales because of Izuku, are negligible."

"Well I'm glad your sales aren't hurt, but Izuku definitely will get hurt, if he keeps doing this," Kendo added.

"Yeah we may make it look easy, but hero work requires a lot of training and hard work before you can even think about going onto the field!" Nejire said.

"Didn't Class 1A gets attacked by an army of villains and defeat all of them in, like, the first few weeks of their training?" Ochaco asked.

"And we all almost died!" Kaminari pointed out. "Because of that freaking Nomu!"

"A Nomu which is a genetically designed villain. Not something you're likely to run into, especially because you destroyed all the Nomu's and killed their creator." Ochaco reminded him. "Izuku's fighting criminals on a level with the guys you fought at the U.S.J. except he's doing it in an invincible suit of armor that has enough firepower to blow up a city block."

"Wait can he actually do that?" Kirishima asked the question that interested many of the people present.

"Well no in one attack. Although the Uni-beam would be capable of taking down several skyscraper-sized buildings in one attack, assuming the buildings are right next to each other and don't have any properties that would allow them to survive nuclear attacks. Although an attack of that scale would completely drain the suit of power and leave me a sitting duck."

"Does that count for both the primary power source and the backup power source or just the primary power source?" Mei asked.

"There is no secondary power source," Izuku said, surprising Mei. "Adding a secondary power source would make the suit bulkier, causing it to become both less maneuverable and easier to hit. And due to the potency of the...primary power source, adding a secondary power source just causes more problems than it solves."

"Ok, we're getting into crazy tech talk and kinda straying away from the topic." Mirio chimed in.

"No no, Izuku, why don't you explain the suit's capabilities," Ochaco told him.

"Well, the suit is powered by a classified piece of technology more potent than anything else available in the world, especially at its size, and is capable of powering the suit for a full three days provided that the suit doesn't make use of the repulsor beams, flight systems or Uni beam. Speaking of the flight system, the suit is capable of flying at around supersonic speeds, however control over the suit at such high speeds would decrease drastically. While not flying the suit is still capable of going at around 90 miles per hour at max speed although it would still require about two minutes of running in order to reach max speed. As for offensive capabilities the suit contains two wrists mounted repulsor beams, which at full power could cause significant damage to Kirishima while he's not using his unbreakable form, and are greater in power than Ground Zero's ap shot, twenty homing rockets which are capable of taking out any opponent possessing average durability instantaneously, a missile possessing the power of the average Ground Zero explosion, shin flares that can cause minor burn damage to close opponents but are more meant to flash and cause temporary loss of sight, the suit also possess enhanced strength, allowing the user to lift about 15 tons and punch with the force of five elephants, not accounting for any added force from acceleration. Lastly, the Uni Beam is a weapon capable of, on average, dealing damage comparable to Ground Zero's most powerful blast, and at full power could even match the power of a single one of All Might's full power punches. Although it uses up a lot of power. Durability wise the armor is itself could take one or maybe two hits from Mirio before being completely destroyed, however the person inside would likely take serious damage after one punch from Mirio, and the person inside the armor could only safely take one full power blast from Ground Zero before they start getting hurt themselves. It's immune to heat any level below the surface of the sun and is capable of functioning even through extreme cold. It's completely waterproof and has its own oxygen supply that could last for about a day, and is highly resistant to electricity as well as other elemental attacks. Lastly, the helmet contains a highly advanced H.U.D. capable of showing the full status of the armor and giving access to all the scanners, including-" Izuku was talking at such intense speed that the only people who could understand him were Ochaco, Mirio, Nejire, and Mei.

"Ok stop! Stop!" Mina shouted. "It feels like my brain is going to explode."

"Yeah I'm gonna be honest dude, I only got like half of that," Kaminari said.

"But we get the point. It's an extremely powerful suit." Shoto said. "But that only begs the question-"

"Where are our super suits!?" Toru asked

"Yes I'm aware that you are halting the production of new products, but shouldn't you still allow custom orders of these armors to trustworthy heroes like you have in the past?" Momo asked.

"Well, there is a big problem with the armor that keeps it from becoming purchasable anytime soon," Ochaco explained. "In order to properly operate the suit, you'd have to be a genius yourself. It would take years of training for even the most intelligent heroes, excluding Nezu, to learn how to safely pilot the armor."

"So Denki's not getting one anytime soon," Jiro commented with a smirk.

"Hey!" Kaminari said, sounding offended.

"In time we could find a way to simplify the controls and the H.U.D., but that would take many years of development and testing," Izuku explained. "Sorry."

"That aside, it doesn't matter how powerful your suit is, if you are inexperienced that power, you'll end up causing more harm than good," Asui said, making a very good point.

"Oh, I took that into account when I decided to do this," Izuku said. "The armor informs me of any possible dangers my actions could pose to people or objects around me."

Todoroki spoke up. "Yes but-"

"Guys, I didn't bring you all here so you could try and talk Izuku out of this." Ochaco interrupted. "I tried that, and it didn't work. So what chance do you think the rest of you have?"

That actually caused them to quiet down. They were all well aware that Ochaco was the one who wore the pants in their relationship. Izuku rarely ever objected to what she said, and it was even rarer that he ever won an argument with her. So if Ochaco was adamantly against this, and Izuku was still doing it, it didn't bode well for their chances.

"Uh, can I say something?" Tamaki spoke up, much to the surprise of everyone else.

"Of course! What's on your mind Tamaki?" Mirio asked his friend.

"I...I was with him today. While he was fighting. He was pretty good. No innocents got hurt. No unnecessary property damage. He didn't even get hurt." Tamaki informed them. "He's been doing this for a few weeks now. And nothing went wrong. I think he at least deserves a chance at least."

Everyone stayed silent and took that in.

The statement held a fair amount of truth. In the few weeks Izuku had operated, he performed with absolute efficiency and achieved complete victories. No civilians got injured, he himself never got injured, no villains ever escaped him, and while there was a little property damage, it was ultimately minor, and Izuku had paid for it all.

All and all, it seemed like Tamaki had a point.

"I mean, we're not gonna convince him anyway so I don't see anymore point in arguing," Jiro said, finally taking a bit out of some of her food.

"Well if there's nothing we can say to convince you, I guess Jiro's right. No point in arguing." Mirio shook his head. "But if your fancy scanners tell you that an enemy is too tough for you, then don't fight them. Call for help."

For the most part, it seemed like many of them had accepted this. With a few exceptions.

"I still don't like this, kero." Tsuyu said.

"Neither do I," Momo added.

Todoroki didn't say anything, he just sat there with his arms crossed looking very unsatisfied.

"Well, you're not gonna get anywhere moping about it," Ochaco told them. "Now come on eat up! This meal cost more than most of you makes in a month! And more than Hatsume will make ever!"

"That's because you don't pay me." Hatsumi pointed out while digging into her meal.

"Your payment is still having access to our resources despite the fact you keep blowing things up!" Ochaco reminded her.

"And despite the fact that you make her hella jealous," Mina smirked.

"For the last time, I am not jealous!" Ochaco pouted, her face red with anger.

"Oh, boy here we go again," Mirio said, with several others having similar thoughts.

"I have no reason to feel jealous! He's MY husband!" Ochaco said, emphasizing that Izuku was her's.

"You really don't." Mei sighed. It took her a while to figure out that Ochaco was jealous of her(And by a while I mean years) and she still wasn't sure why. Apparently, it had something to do with all the times she'd taken Izuku's measurements. According to...well most people, you weren't surpassed to touch a member of the opposite sex in their private areas. Especially if they were married.

God she still remembered when Ochaco had caught her in an intimate position with Izuku after they'd gotten married. She both sent her to the hospital and made her work to pay her hospital bills. That woman was ruthless.

"Right! Isn't that right Eri, OUR daughter!" Ochaco turned to Eri.

Eri seemed very uncomfortable, but was keeping herself together by scooting next to Izuku.

Seeing this snapped Ochaco out of her, totally not, jealous rage.

"Uh, Izuku, why don't you take Eri to bed," Ochaco told him.

"Right," Izuku said, also noticing Eri's silent distress.

He picked her up and started walking out of the room. "Sorry I have to leave so soon."

"No, it's fine. Goodnight Eri, sorry for making you uncomfortable!" Mirio apologized.

Everyone else gave similar goodbyes as Izuku walked out of the room completely.

Once they got far enough away, Izuku asked Eri something. "Why didn't you tell me it was getting too much for you?"

"I'm sorry. I didn't want to disappoint you." Eri said in a quiet voice.

"Eri. The fact that you came out and went to the dinner in the first place makes me very, very proud." Izuku told her. "You've been so strong, so if you feel like it's too much for you, please tell us. We love you so much and we want you to be happy."

Eri started crying from the amount of affection she was being given. She felt like she would never get used to all the love her parents gave her. And that she would never be worthy of it.

Eventually, the two of them reached Eri's room.

It was, as to be expected, extremely large. It was filled with toys, most of which were unplayed with, and a large, luxurious bed. And of course, the room was right next to Izuku and Ochaco's.

As Izuku laid Eri down in her bed, Eri asked him a question.

"Can you sleep with me tonight?" Eri hated that she had to ask that. She still felt a little overwhelmed and shaken from the dinner, but she didn't want to inconvenience Izuku anymore.

"Of course Eri." Izuku took off his shoes, and some of his more uncomfortable overwear and laid down next to her.

There were a few moments of silence, Eri asked him another question.

"Daddy?" Eri asked him. "Why don't they want you to be a hero?"

"Well...there's a lot of reasons. But...mostly because it's not safe." Izuku told her.

It was at this moment that Izuku realized, that he never asked Eri what she thought of all this. Would she think that he's cool for taking down bad guys like Overhaul? Or would she want him to stop because she didn't want to risk losing him?

"Eri...What do you think? Do you want me to keep being Iron Man?" Izuku asked her, somewhat fearful of the answer. If Eri told him she wanted him to stop...well he'd never feel right putting on the armor.

Eri stayed silent for a few moments, before giving her answer. "I don't want to lose daddy...but. Overhaul was strong. Really strong. I didn't think anyone could beat him...but you did. You're stronger than Overhaul...I think daddy can beat anyone."

Tears started washing down Izuku's cheeks, as he held Eri closer to him. "Thank you."

Well, now he couldn't stop. No matter what. If his daughter thought he could beat anyone. Then he'd just have to make sure to prove her right.

And he would never give up.

If you're tired of people telling Izuku to stop being Iron Man. Don't worry, over the next two arcs Izuku is going to prove his worth to both the public and his friends, with challenges worthy of Iron Man.

Also just remember, people in the MHA world seem to be naturally stronger than people in the real world, even if their quirks don't have anything to do with body enhancement. Remember Stain could cut through blocks with a sword, and Bakugo survived getting punched into a building by All Might. Just remember this later on.