All For Them Ch. 40 (MHA/Dispatch) (Patreon)

(Every character depicted in the story below is a consenting legal adult over the age of 18)

A/N: Izuku is suspicious!

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Look, there’s no denying that all three women are looking good right now. Malevola’s workout clothes are red and white and match well to her natural demonic skin color, Courtney has a similar assemble in her signature purple and violet tones, and even Ochaco is wearing pink and white workout clothes.

… They must have stopped by an athletic wear outlet on their way back from patrol, because otherwise Izuku isn’t sure how they would have coordinated this so well.

And yet, despite how good they all look, despite how utterly ravishable they appear… something tells him that not all is as it seems. There’s something more going on here. Something lurking beneath the surface.

How does he know? Simple, while he can certainly sense arousal wafting off all three women, even Ochaco… he also senses something else. Ochaco specifically has her arousal somewhat muted by a poorly concealed sense of desperation. And even Courtney and Malevola feel like they’re being somewhat deceitful and trying to hide something from him.

Look, Izuku wasn’t entirely against the idea that he might be able to redeem villainesses through the power of his dick or something. It had certainly worked with Malevola and to a lesser extent Courtney. But at the same time, he wasn’t about to leap headfirst into this sort of thing when it was obvious that there were ulterior motives at play.

And so Izuku crosses his arms over his chest and arches a singularly unimpressed brow as he stares all three slightly glistening ‘gym bunnies’ down.

“Want to try that again?”

Ochaco blinks while Courtney and Malevola exchange uncertain, worried glances with one another. After a moment, the brunette sandwiched between them squirms a bit before replying.

“I just… I thought if you were willing to fuck them y-you might be willing to fuck me too…”

Izuku scoffs.

“I am willing. But are you?”

Now Courtney and Malevola start to look a little hunted, as if realizing that this plan of theirs, whatever it is, might be in danger of going haywire. Ochaco, meanwhile, jolts as if struck, looking shocked for a moment before quickly reverting to offense.

“O-Of course I am! You can’t be-!”

Izuku lifts a hand and cuts her off.

“Let me rephrase. Are you interested in sex with me for the sake of it… or do you have an ulterior motive?”

All three of them go still at that blunt question, Ochaco’s eyes widening as she finally catches up to Courtney and Malevola’s level of realization. She goes to speak, perhaps to deny it, but before she can Courtney covers her mouth and answers for her.

“She has an ulterior motive.”

Ochaco whips her head in the direction of the other woman, looking positively outraged. But Courtney just stares at Izuku, spilling the beans.

“We thought it would be easier if we could get you in a better mood first. More… predisposed to Ochaco here and all that. But you saw right through us.”

Izuku simply dips his head in acknowledgment. Meanwhile, Ochaco finally gets her mouth free of Courtney’s hand enough to scowl angrily at both her and Malevola.

“You both told me this would work!”

She’s bright red in embarrassment and anger alike, looking torn between curling up and dying and starting a fist fight right then and there. The main thing stopping her from the latter is probably Malevola’s size, the red-skinned heteromorph looking over her even as she shakes her head.

“No, we told you it couldn’t hurt. And we were right, Midoriya isn’t going to let this failure stop him from helping you, just watch.”

Well now, that confidence… was that a calculated bit of manipulation or completely genuine? Either way, Izuku can’t deny that it works at least somewhat. He can’t help but appreciate that Malevola seems to have that much faith in him already.

Still, he’s pretty sure he knows what this is about by this point.

“Let me guess… Ochaco, you were recruited by Shroud and inserted into the Phoenix Program to spy on him, but you’ve since realized you don’t want to keep working for him.”

Courtney blinks and Malevola adopts a rueful smile. Ochaco though… Ochaco surprises him for a second.

“No! I mean… yes but that’s not why I was willing to try and s-seduce you!”

Huh? Izuku arches a brow, actually a little confused at this point. What other reason would she have for going along with the others’ antics? What other reason would Courtney and Malevola have for doing all of this in the first place?

Malevola snorts.

“We wouldn’t have dressed up like this and offered a foursome if it was just that, obviously. We know that if we just told you, you would have been willing to give Ochaco a break just like you gave me and Courtney.”

Courtney slowly nods, grimacing.

“It’s… a bit of a bigger ask than that, Izuku. Ochaco here… she’s got someone. Someone who Shroud has close to his side.”

… Oh. Now he’s starting to get a better idea of what’s happening here. Izuku considers for a fraction of a second whether he should play dumb or not… but in the end, he realizes he doesn’t have to. More importantly, he probably shouldn’t. Instead, he simply looks at Ochaco with a level gaze and says the name.

“Himiko Toga.”

Ochaco’s eyes bulge out of her skull and even Courtney and Malevola both look surprised.

“Whoa, how do you already know about that?”

Malevola voices the question all three of them want answered now, prompting Ochaco in particular to lean forward with a particularly intense expression on her face. Izuku just stands his ground though.

“I helped put this program together, ladies. Or at least, I thought I did. It’s starting to seem like Shroud had more of a hand in all of this than I would have liked. Regardless, I still read all your files… the dossiers that PDN was able to put together on each candidate of the Phoenix Program. Toga is mentioned in yours quite a few times, Ochaco. The two of you have been frequent co-conspirators for around a decade now.”

Ochaco chews on that for a moment before huffing and crossing her arms over her chest in a clear defensive move. By this point, the three women have fully come apart, with Courtney and Malevola standing off to the sides and just watching the proceedings.

“I’d ask why she wasn’t recruited into the Phoenix Program alongside me, but I suspect I already know the answer. Shroud made sure of it, didn’t he? He recruited us together after all. He said I’d be a perfect fit for the Phoenix Program, but that Himiko would be better off at his side.”

While it was tempting to blame it all on his villainous alter ego, Izuku wasn’t sure if it would be particularly helpful in the long run. In the end, he goes with a half-truth of sorts, tilting his head to the side.

“… She was only briefly considered for the Phoenix Program, but ultimately it was decided that her past actions disqualified her. She’s killed quite a lot of people, Ochaco. And maimed many more. I can’t say whether Shroud had some hand in our ultimate decision or not, but I can say that I personally didn’t believe she was a good fit for what we were trying to do here.”

Even before she responds, the way Ochaco bristles at his words makes it clear she disagrees.

“Himiko is a survivor! You don’t understand what she’s been through, how hard she’s had to struggle just to last as long as she has! If anyone deserves a chance at redemption, it would be her… and if all you’re going to do is try to reform low hanging fruit, then maybe this program deserves to fail!”

Silence reigns for a second in the wake of Ochaco’s outburst. The brunette is let panting a bit by the time she’s done, glaring angrily at Izuku all the while. That glare falters in surprise at his response, however.

“You’re right.”

Ochaco looks startled and visibly taken aback by his easy agreement. Izuku just shrugs.

“You’re right that I don’t understand everything Toga has been through. We have a dossier on her as well of course, but action reports and psych write-ups are just words on a paper. And even those don’t paint a very pretty picture. I know she’s been through a lot and I also know I can never truly know how much she’s managed to survive.”

Of course, the fact remained that Toga was a loose cannon in every possible meaning of the words. She wasn’t just dangerous, she was deadly. That was why Izuku had split her and Ochaco up like he did, leaving Toga with Shroud and Ochaco to join the Phoenix Program. He didn’t intend to throw Toga away or anything like that, he wanted to try and help her in the end… but he simply hadn’t believed the Phoenix Program was the way to do it.

Or rather, he’d believed that the Phoenix Program would be hurt more by her presence within it than anything else. Put bluntly, the legitimacy of the experiment would have undoubtedly damaged by trying to redeem a murderess and the Hero Commission would probably have tried to put their foot down in some way to stop it from happening.

But all of that rational thinking and logic didn’t mean much in the face of Ochaco’s glistening eyes and impassioned speech. Only now is Izuku realizing just how deep the connection between her and Toga really ran. In fact, it was possible that the two were intimate with one another… or maybe just wanted to be, he couldn’t say for certain.

That said…

“What do you want from me, Ochaco? What would you have asked of me if your little seduction plan had worked and you three had managed to ‘loosen me up’ a bit first?”

Ochaco squirms for a moment and looks to Courtney and Malevola for support before she can think better of it. Funnily enough, she looks surprised when Malevola flashes her a toothy grin and Courtney gives her an encouraging nod.

Bolstered by the two of them, Ochaco straightens up as she looks back to Izuku.

“… I want your help in getting Himiko out of Shroud’s clutches. I want you to give her the same chance you’ve given me.”

Izuku slowly nods.

“I understand.”

Then he arches his brow.

“But is that what she wants?”

Ochaco flinches again in the face of such a hard question. After all, there was another reason Izuku didn’t bother trying to recruit Himiko Toga to the Phoenix Program and instead left her with Shroud and the Red Ring.

“Is Toga going to be willing to turn on Shroud for you, Ochaco? Is she willing to try and put in the work to change and become a Pro Hero?”

The fact was, as much as Izuku wanted to give most villains a second chance, some of them didn’t necessarily want to be redeemed. Himiko was in a strange grey area where on the one hand, he didn’t believe she was fully responsible for everything she’d done. She deserved some grace and he did fully intend to help her one way or another, similarly to how he’d helped Kaina.

However, at the same time… Himiko tended to revel in villainy. More so, she liked being the monster these days. But then again, maybe that was just an act. Maybe Ochaco knew differently. That said, judging by the uncertain expression on the brunette’s face, it’s not so cut and dry.

That uncertainty only lasts a bit longer before Ochaco’s features firm up into a determined expression, however. Clenching her hands into fists at her sides, she sets her jaw.

“She’ll do it. I can convince her; I know that I can. I just need some time.”

Under normal circumstances, Izuku would probably be a lot more hesitant to sign off on something like this. If he wasn’t also Shroud, then allowing Ochaco to offer Toga this opportunity would represent an unacceptable security risk. After all, so far Shroud didn’t ‘know’ that they’d caught on to his little infiltration scheme. But if Toga betrayed Ochaco’s trust and told him, they’d be up shit’s creek without a paddle.

… Well, normally they would be. In this case, Izuku literally was Shroud and so it cost nothing at all to give Ochaco this chance. The risk wasn’t real.

“Very well. If you believe you can do it, then do it. If Toga can be made to turn on Shroud, then we might be able to use her to take down him and the entire Red Ring… and if she’s instrumental in their defeat, that would go a long way to giving her a shot at redemption as well.”

Ochaco looks cautiously optimistic and nods determinedly as he finishes speaking. Without hesitation, she says her goodbyes and heads for the door, all thought of seducing him falling from her mind. Though, Izuku does wonder if she’s going to go and confront Toga wearing her current attire or if she’s going to change first. In the end, he decides it’s none of his business.

… What is his business are the two women that Ochaco has left behind. Izuku turns his gaze back to Courtney and Malevola once she’s fully gone. The former at least has the good grace to look sheepish, but Malevola of course is grinning wickedly with her hands planted on her hips.

“Well, now that she’s gone… no sense in letting a solid moment go to waste, right? We’ve been bad, bad girls… so punish us, sir~”

He would be lying if he said he wasn’t tempted… and it might be worthwhile to blow off a little bit of steam. On the other hand, he had other things he should probably be doing…

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