Izuku's Christmas Caper

Christmas was in the air all around the city as Izuku walked through it, "Man, I forgot how much Christmas spirit there was outside of the Trash Pit." said Izuku as he made his way through the city.

Izuku was on the better side of town to get his mother a present, one that is long overdue to return to her. He quickly made his way to a small mom-and-pop shop near his old home, Lee's. An old shop that sells old nick-knacks and Izuku's favorite comic books.

Izuku entered the shop and made his way to the counter, "Hey Mr. Lee, you here?"

"Fraid not, kid." Izuku turned to see a man in his mid-thirties, "Mr. Lee has officially retired, he went back to New York. Names Daisuke, what can I do for you."

Izuku gave Diasuke a look. "I'm Izuku Midoriya, I'm here to buy back something my mom sold to Lee a few years ago."

"Midoriya?" said Daisuke as if trying to remember the name. "Oh, you mean the pre-quirk era tea set?"

"Yeah, that's the one."

"Oh, I sold that thing last week."

"WHAT!?" Izuku went wide eye, "But Mr. Lee agreed he'd sell it back to me when we had enough money."

"He did, he even left a note saying don't sell it to anyone but the Midoryia's, but an old rich guy came in here offering to buy the damn thing for triple the price Mr. Lee bought it for, and that was already more than double the price that tea set was worth."

"That's because Mr. Lee was trying to help us with our debt problem," seethed Izuku as he tried to control his anger. "Who'd you sell it to?"

Daisuke chuckled. "Kid, what makes you think I'm going to tell you?"

"So you know who it was then."

"Of course I do," said Daisuke. "I always keep files of all large transactions."

"Okay, but you’re not going to tell me who bought it are you."

Daisuke turned his head slightly and hummed. "Well that would be unethical so are you going to make it worth my while." Izuku glared at him. "Look just match the amount the guy paid and I'll tell you who he is."

Izuku slowly breathed, "Let me get this straight you want me to pay you for the information on the person who bought my mother tea set, the one we sold to your former boss under the deal we could buy it back later, which by the way I am well within the time frame we agreed upon, at a price that is six times the amount it is worth."

"Your mother's happiness isn't going to keep the lights on kid," said Daisuke with no hint of remorse whatsoever. "So do we have a deal or not?"

~o~

"I swear to god I have no idea how that cocaine got into my apartment," yelled Daisuke at the police officer.

"Yeah and how about the meth we found in your car?" said the officer.

"Meth? What?!"

"Sir," said another officer, "We found some illegal weapons under his bed sir."

"WHAT!!??"

"Alright put your hands behind your back." said the officer as he arrested Daisuke.

Izuku watched from afar as the police raided Daisuke's apartment, "Merry Christmas asshole and thanks for the ledger." as he left the scene holding the man’s ledger under his arm.

~o~

Izuku quickly tracked down the location of the man on the ledger, the only problem was the dude lived in the rich part of town. Izuku climbed a tree just outside the property line to get a better view, "Holy shit, this guy is loaded," Izuku scanned the area with his pocket binoculars. "And it looks like he's hosting some kind of party." As Izuku focused his binoculars and noticed the staff were all wearing holiday-themed outfits and the party-goers were all wearing fancy suits and dresses." He then noticed the men in suits patrolling the party area, "Security looks standard, they shouldn't be a problem since I'm just heading inside and grabbing the tea set the problem is I have no idea where it is." A man quickly walked out of the mansion towards a limo, Izuku followed him as several servants followed the man, the man looked over his shoulder before the servants opened the door to the limo as the man grabbed a box from the limo, it was an old-looking box, but it was one that Izuku recognized from his childhood. "The tea set!" Izuku followed the man as the servants took the tea set around back and out of sight.

Izuku quickly hoped down as he quickly brainstormed away inside, he then saw as a catering truck was rolling up to gates around the mansion, Izuku quickly ran up behind the truck and jumped on the back of it. The truck then started to move as the gates opened and the truck rolled inside, as the mansion got close Izuku jumped off diving into the bushes. Izuku quickly made sure the coast was clear, he quickly saw as security checked the truck while they were distracted, Izuku saw the perfect tree to climb that was right next to the building.

Izuku quietly moved as he ducked behind the guards towards the tree, then when he made it to the tree he quickly climbed up into the tree before he stopped as he heard one of the guards notice the noise.

"Hang one second," said a guard as he looked around. "I could have sworn I heard something."

The other guard looked around before his eyes landed on the tree, Izuku was covered by the branches but held his breath as the two guards approached the tree. Izuku thought quickly before he noticed something else was in the tree beside him as he turned his head to see a squirrel looking right at him. It was too far away but Izuku swiped at it anyway scaring it to jump out of the tree over the guards.

"Oh shit," yelped a startled guard.

"Oh it’s just a squirrel." said the other one.

"Scared me for a second."

Izuku breathed a quiet sigh of relief as the guards and caterers went back to work. Izuku then quickly climbed the tree a bit more before jumping towards the mansion, landing on the stringcourse, the lip around the mansion that supported the balconies.

The lip was rather large and gave Izuku more than enough room to run if needed, but he kept himself low as he tried to stay hidden. He continued on the lip for a bit passing a few different rooms that were mostly empty since they were most likely downstairs for the party.

Izuku then stopped and came to a balcony window to what was a large office or study where he heard a man’s voice. He peeked through the clear glass door to see an old man with several boxes in front of him, "No not this one," as he signaled the servant to put the red box down. As another presented the blue box, "It's nice but too small for the whole set, uh do we have another one in that color in a bigger size."

"Uh excuse me, sir," said a butler at the doorway.

"Yes, Sasuke?"

"Master Yaoyorozu is here sir."

"Oh let him let him in."

The butler nodded as he stepped back as a man walked in wearing a clean suit. "Mito comes here." said the older man as he hugged Mito Yaoyorozu.

"Hello and Merry Christmas Mr. Yen."

"Oh come now, Mito you've been married to my daughter for years now, call me father."

Mito laughed, "Sorry father old habits die hard."

"indeed also that movie is a classic."

"Uh yes..." said Mito slightly confused. "So what is all this then?"

"I found the perfect gift for Momo this year, an old pre-quirk era tea set."

"Oh that sounds fantastic, my daughter does love her tea."

"Yes, I even found it cheap too, I only had to pay 600,000 yen for it." he opened the box on the desk showing the set for Mito to see.

Izuku almost fell, 600,000!!! Are you fucking kidding me, Lee gave us 100,000 yen for it and that was just him being generous, that tea set is nothing fancy, made with cheap long-lasting materials, and how the hell is 600,000 yen cheap?'

"Oh that is perfect, did you get them polished?" asked Mito as he picked up one of the cups.

“Yes Indeed, I found a guy who was willing to touch them up, he finished them this morning, just in time.”

"Momo will love this."

'Yeah that's not happening,' Thought Izuku, 'I'm taking that home with me tonight,' as Izuku took out his phone, keeping the light dim. 'Now then Yaoyorozu is a rich family with several companies tied to them and I have a few clients that work for them, that's good then I might be able to blackmail my way out of this if worse comes to worst.'

A man quickly entered the room getting everyone's attention even Izuku as he noticed the man was a guard. "Excuse me sir but your nephew is here sir."

The two men's faces frowned as Mr. Yen marched towards the door, "I'll deal with that parasite personally, if you all can go and assist the others that would be grand, I should be back in a moment, but just in case, Sasuke lock the door."

"Yes sir," said the butler as they had all left the room locking the door behind them.

'That is lucky, too lucky.' Thought Izuku as he climbed up to the balcony and took out his lock pick, it took him a few seconds before he was able to open the glass door. Izuku quietly entered the room as he closed the balcony door behind him. He slowly made his way towards the desk, as he was about to grab the tea set, Izuku heard someone trying to open the door, this forced Izuku to quickly hide behind the balcony curtains.

Izuku peeked through the curtain to see a butler enter the room, but as he did Izuku noticed that the butler was holding a lock pick.

'Why is a butler using a lock pick.' wondered Izuku as the butler entered the room, shutting the door behind him. The butler took a few steps forward before falling face-first onto the ground, unmoving. 'Uh is he dead?'

Suddenly the fallen butler glowed for a moment before the light stood up taking the form of a man, then color filled the man. Izuku saw that this man was wearing a grey skin-tight suit and full face mask that hide his features. He somewhat reminded Izuku of a cartoon ninja. "Thanks for the ride, Jeeves." said the man in the ninja suit as he took out a taser and put it to the back of the butler’s head. "Sleep tight." as he tased the butler making sure he was out cold.

'Oh shit this does not look good," thought Izuku.

"This is Spectre 1, I have reached the man office of sir money bags," said Spector 1.

"Confirm Spector 1," said a voice over his radio. "procced to the computer to install a hacking program, and please confirm you have an exit strategy."

"Oh yeah, don't worry Tower," said Spector 1 as he made his way to the computer, putting his taser down on the desk, "I have a butler unconscious here with me, I'll use my possession quirk and use him as a meat bag out of here." He then plugged a USB drive into the computer.

'Well fuck this is not good, this is some serious spy cloak and dagger bullshit right here.' thought Izuku. 'Dammit, sometimes I have the worse luck.'

As if it was a Christmas miracle an idiot came to his rescue. "OPEN!" came a flamboyant voice as the door to the study unlocked and opened as a young man came twirling inside who was wearing a suit, sunglasses, also wearing a small top hat and his hand was some sort of key, "Hellooo~ grandfather, I'm sorry to interrupt but I have been a very good boy this year and was wondering....if...you." The idiot then saw Spector 1 behind the desk, "You're not grandfather....." He then looked down and saw the butler was on the ground. "Is that a butler?"

Spector 1 then took out a pistol with a silencer and before he could pull the trigger the idiot fainted causing his hand to morph back to normal. Spector 1 quickly stood up and went to the door to shut and lock it again, before inspecting the boy. "Spector 1 what was that?"

"An idiot brat just barged inside using some kind of morphing quirk," explained Spector 1 as he checked the kid. "Dumb ass kid passed out when he saw my gun."

"Did you eliminate him?" asked Tower.

"Negative Tower." said Spector 1, "Kids out cold."

"Would the child provide a better exit than the butler?" asked Tower.

"Negative, while my quirk allows me to commandeer other people’s bodies, it doesn't allow me to use their quirks, not to mention this kid has a unique personality, it would be odd if he suddenly started acting normal."

"Then return to the mission," said Tower.

"Copy," said Spector 1 as he returned to the desk as he sat down though he noticed something was wrong, "Wait a minute, my Taser!"

Izuku then pressed the taser to the man’s back and pulled the trigger causing several thousand volts of electricity to course through the man, causing him to scream slightly before collapsing to the ground. "Holy shit, this thing is awesome, I am keeping this thing."

"Spector 1 what is happening, Spector 1." Repeated Tower over the comlink. Izuku grabbed the small earpiece and put it to his ear without saying a word. "Spector 1 is out Spector 2 go to plan B."

Izuku then dropped the earpiece and slammed his foot on it. "Don't know what plan B is but I am out of here." Izuku grabbed the tea set when he took one last look at Spector 1 and noticed something on his utility belt. "Is that a grenade?" Which gave him an idea. "Can’t-miss a tea set if it blew up with the room," He then noticed the monitor that something was being uploaded, "And it would stop the bad guys from getting what they want, but how would I escape in that confusion dressed like a street kid," he then noticed the idiot on the floor. "He's about my size."

~o~

"Greetings to all and happy holidays," announced Mr. Yen as he held a glass of champagne. "I am happy to announce that we've gone through another incredible year, not only company-wise but family-wise as well, but personal affairs aside I am also very happy to announce that we have tripled our company donation goal this year raising over one billion yen for hospitals across the country." causing the audience to clap and cheer slightly. "I would also like to thank my son-in-law, Mito Yaoyorozu for matching each yen of our donations for our Christmas charity." this caused even more cheer. "Now before I hand the mic over to my wife, I just want to say thank you all for coming, I wish you all well next year, not only with business but in health and I hope you extend a helping hand to others in need because in these times you never know when a something might happen."

BOOOOM!!!

Everyone turned to see as an explosion went off inside the mansion causing many in the crowd to start panicking. "MY OFFICE!!!" screamed Mr. Yen in horror.

Izuku could see that some people were already running towards their vehicles as some had already gotten to the conclusion that villains were attacking, which to be fair wasn't inaccurate, as Izuku ran away from the building wearing the suit and sunglasses, following the crowd that was panicking. Those who weren't running were watching the mansion as a small fire started in the office.

'This is perfect now time to slip out before anyone notices as he ran towards the gate, as he did something in the corner of his eye caught his attention, he turned to see two figures running past the vehicles into the surrounding woods near the fence. "I really should just ignore that, I really should just ignore that. Fuck." he said under his breath as he followed the two figures.

The two shadow figures were running along the fences as they were running Izuku could see that one of them was carrying a large sack, as a resident of the Trash Pit Izuku knew what was inside.

'They couldn't sneak the data, so they’re going to take a hostage instead.' thought Izuku as he followed them till they reached a hole in the fence that one of them cut, on the other side, was a white van, no plates or decals. Izuku followed them through the fence while slowly putting the tea set box down next to the fence.

"Hurry up and put her in the back I'll start the car," said the man in front as he opened the driver’s side of the door.

"Okay," said the one in back as he opened the back of the van and tossed the sack down without much care, after pushing the feet inside he was about to close the door when he heard something behind him, but it was too late as Izuku used the taser knocking the man out cold.

"What the?" said the other man as he hopped out of the driver seat gun drawn. Izuku hides on the other side of the van.

"Spector 2, what's happening?" asked Tower through his earpiece.

Spector 2 saw the other man on the ground. "Spector 3 is down."

"What!?"

Izuku slowly reached down and grabbed a rock-throwing it over the van far away from Spector 2, this caused the man to follow his instincts and turn around, he quickly saw nothing and realized his mistake but it was too late, as he turned Izuku pushed the taser into the men left cheek. With the volts so close to the brain the man went down quick.

"Spector 2, Spector 2," yelled Tower over the earpiece. Izuku reached down and grabbed the earpiece and gave it a flick. "Who was that? Spector responds." Izuku gave it another flick to just mess with them. "I don't know who you are but you have just crossed the wrong person you hear me, you will regret getting in our way. You hear me you will rue the da-" Izuku then flicked the earpiece away.

Izuku then walked up to the sack and lifted the person over his shoulder and carried them towards the fence, where he sat the person down and took the sack off of the person revealing a young girl that was roughly his age. The girl was groggy and disoriented. "I have no idea what they gave you, hey can you hear me can you tell me your name?"

"Yaoooo moooomoo" said the girl not able to say anything properly.

"What a minute, your Momo."

"Saaaaaanta?" asked Momo.

"No I'm the Grinch and I'm taking you back Whoville." joked Izuku before he turned to see the two other men that were still unconscious. "I also need to tie them up with something, I wish I had some cuffs." Izuku then heard a small clanking of metal as he looked down to see Momo making handcuffs from her arms. "Holy shit, your family has the best quirks," said Izuku as he took the cuffs and cuffed the two men to the fence. "They are going to feel that tomorrow." as then looked up and saw flashlights in the distance. "Oh crap," Izuku quickly grabbed his mom's tea set and went to Momo. "Okay, looks like your people are here, take care, try not to get kidnapped again, and Merry Christmas."

"oookay, green Santa." said a still very delirious Momo.

Izuku then ran and hopped into the van where lucky the keys were in and drove off down the road as fast as he could leaving the scene. With the mansion far behind him, he pulled out his phone and dialed Kenta. "Kenta."

"Yo what up Izuku, what can I do for you, man, happy Christmas."

"Please tell me you aren't drunk yet."

"Not yet why?"

"I got a van, I need you to dump it."

"I'll call the guys."

"Yeah and tell Benta to bring his computer they may have low jacked this thing."

"Gotcha, meet us at the abandoned gas station."

"Alright, I'll do a few laps around the Trash Pit to throw anyone off and it will also hide the fact I don't have a driver's license."

"Oh yeah, you kind of need that outside the Trash Pit don't Cha."

"Yeah it's kind of important," said Izuku as he was ready to hang up. "Anyway, I'll see you later."

"Sure thing and merry Christmas man.

"You to man, Merry Christmas."

~o~

Izuku returned home to see his mom sitting at the table drinking hot chocolate. “Izuku, Merry Christmas,” she said with a smile.

Izuku smiled back, “Yeah mom,” as he put the box on the table causing Inko to gasp. “Merry Christmas.”

“Izuku, is that what I think it is?” asked Inko as she stood up and walked around to the box.

“Yeah mom, it is,” said Izuku as she signaled her to open it.

Inko took a deep breath as she opened the box revealing the old but in very good condition tea set. Inko carefully picked up one of the cups and held it. “Great-great grandma’s tea set.”

“Yep.”

“Izuku, how'd you get this?”

“Oh, I framed a guy then broke into a holiday party at a rich guy's mansion, stopped some sort of secret spy agency, and stopped a kidnapping.”

Inko slowly put the teacup down. “Okay you are going to get a cup of hot cocoa and you're going to sit down and tell me everything.”

“That sounds like a plan.” Izuku quickly got a cup and poured himself a cup of hot chocolate and then proceeded to tell his mother about the day he had. “After me and the guys made sure the van wasn’t being tracked we dumped it and I came home.”

Inko smiled at her son, “You know you were a real hero today.”

Izuku raised an eyebrow, “I’m sure framing a guy, breaking into someone else's house, and blowing it up might not be what a hero does.” Izuku took a sip of his cocoa.

“You still saved someone's life today and stopped some sort of hack. For years you have been spying on people, sure now and then a marriage gets ruined or someone loses a job but a good chunk of the time you are stopping bad people.” pointed out Inko. “You should be proud.”

Izuku thought over her words, “So were that close to finally being debt-free aren’t we?”

“Yep,” said Inko with a smile as she slides over a piece of paper, “We have paid off almost all of the debt, even all those interests and curveballs they’ve thrown at us. We’re almost done.”

“Highschool mom,” said Izuku. “I’ll stop when I get into high school, those loan assholes have used everything to keep us in debt and I want a bit of a buffer to help us out just in case anything happens in the future.”

Inko nodded. “Okay, but afterward you might be able to go to a good college, maybe get out of here.”

“We live in the Trash Pit mom, not many miracles happen around here.”

“No but they do happen now and then,” said Inko as she walked into the kitchen and brought a box to the table. “Merry Christmas Izuku.”

Izuku opened the box and almost fell, “My old All Might figures, and my kid All Might hoodie,” Izuku kept digging seeing his old posters and toys and at the bottom was something really special, a dream that he had long forgotten, his Hero Analysis Note Books for the Future. “Mom, how did you get this? This was all thrown away.”

“I went back to the old apartment building a few months ago to make sure all debts to the apartments were paid off, our old landlord remembered an old box of old stuff he found in our apartment when we had to leave, I told them if they ever found it again to give me a call.”

Izuku was about to cry as he held his old notebook. “Thank you, mom.”

Inko hugged her son while rubbing his back, “Your dream may not have come true in the way you had hoped but today you can look back and see that your Christmas capper has at least made you a hero for at least one person.”

“Yeah,” said Izuku as he wiped a tear from his eye, “Can’t do much more can I,” Inko remained silent. “I know my limits and you know what I think I’m good with that.”

Inko gave him a weak smile. “You know I’m sure after tonight you made Santa’s nice list.”

Izuku chuckled. “Mom, I think I am a long way away from the nice list. You and I are far from law-abiding citizens.”

“Hey what laws have I broken?” asked Inko before Izuku was about to open his mouth, “Besides the church. We don’t talk about that.”

Izuku smiled. “Okay okay, I guess you have done alright.”

“Oh yeah, I’m the one with a law-breaking son.”

“Oh so now I’m the criminal.”

“You bring up my wrap sheet, I’ll bring up yours, where should I start, your dumb deal with Turk or how you met Kenta.”

Izuku grabbed his box, “Okay, I’m going to bed. I’ll be up tomorrow after Santa comes. Merry Christmas Mom.”

“Merry Christmas Izuku.”

A/N: Happy holidays everyone and I hope you have an even better year next year than the one last year.