An Odd Morning

When Ayako woke up, one of the first things she noticed was that Kai was gone. His presence in the other room wasn't where it should be. Instead, there was merely a changeling, preparing a simple breakfast. Sensing that, she sighed with relief. After all, if he was gone for good, he wouldn't have left the changeling behind.

It wasn't quite a month since the last time, but he didn't do this that regularly, despite his jokes.

She tried to eat the breakfast Kai prepared for her by proxy calmly.

Meanwhile, in the park, Kai was already awake. He hadn't gotten much sleep, and his whole body ached, but he'd be able to get through the day. He was doing radio exercise in the park, as many people young and old did in Japan. Not only a good way to wake up with these people, but it helped to calibrate his newly reformed body. Luckily, nothing was wrong. Full of pain, but not dysfunctional.

Luckily, this wasn't his first time, and he could just push on through the pain.

After the exercise, a quick look at the clock in the park told him he had enough time to get ready for school and get there, as long as he didn't go straight home. He wasn't in uniform, but that wasn't a problem.

Kai found a public bathroom and claimed a stall. He touched the stall door and dismissed the changeling that was at home. He resummoned it through the door.

"Thank you, Porter."

After the first time that he'd put a collar on Zerglings for the Zergling Express, he realized that he could put small things through the dimension the zerg came through. Well, it made perfect sense in retrospect when he also considered that dismissing them wouldn't leave behind their stomach contents.

That would have made cleanup at the crime scenes impossible.

The changeling, or Porter, opened up a cavity in its chest, from which Kai removed his school uniform. He hadn't showered, but he highly doubted anyone in class was going to get close enough to him to find out. He changed, put his night clothes into the changeling, retrieved a few small items, and dismissed it again. He could get those back once he was home again.

Kai got some odd looks when he came out with clothes he was still adjusting and fastening, but those people didn't matter.

After all, he had somewhere to be.

Kai broke into a run. After he reached a comfortable speed, he channeled his Quirk through his feet. With the rhythm of his steps, two zerglings popped out of the ground to run beside him. He waited for a few moments, waiting for their paces to synchronize. Then, they moved to a side-to-side collision that would have sandwiched Kai if he hadn't jumped at the right moment.

He passed Ayako near UA like that, riding two zerglings with one foot on each's back, grabbing onto their scythe limbs for stability.

"You think you're being cool, don't you?" she called out.

"Nah, I'm awesome," Kai replied with a cheesy grin. He let the zerglings dive forward into the ground as he dismissed them, letting his feet come smoothly to the pavement. "Besides, it's been a while since I was able to do that, since I've been escorting you to school or wasn't going anywhere."

"So, what chaos do you have planned for the day?" Ayako asked with a smile.

"You make it sound like I'm determined to cause chaos every day."

"Aren't you? Besides, I know you have already cut together a presentation video of that kid I interviewed yesterday."

"Well, got to be ready to use it when the need arises," Kai said with a laugh. "Not that I really need too many ways to break down Bakago, but it is nice to have psychological ammo that might get him thinking rather than just raging. The only planned chaos of the day is that favor coupon."

"Do you mean the date, or the performance?"

"Performance, of course!" Kai said with a "duh" face. "You think I can get that pervert on a date with a teacher with one night's worth of thought?"

"You do a lot of things. Even if you were torturing yourself last night, I'm sure that somewhere, you were also baking cookies, patrolling the streets, and/or contemplating the vast void of space."

"That's so weird, it's like you were there!" Kai said with mock horror. He and Ayako stepped into campus and headed for the classrooms. "Besides, even if they are both perverts, it doesn't mean they should be together. Throw in the fact that Midnight-sensei has most likely heard about this, and the difficulty rises exponentially. I'll probably end up handing his card back."

"That would be for the best. I mean, imagine if things worked out between them- the kids would be perverted menaces!"

Kai thought about the two Quirks combining- two ways to restrain people. That plus perverts meant… oh no. He shook the thoughts away. Yeah, it was best to not even try on that mission. For the sake of the world. Sure, there was a chance that dating/marriage would mellow them, but it was better not to take the risk.

Kai and Ayako split off to their respective classrooms. This morning, they had arrived earlier than normal. Enough time to make some basic preparations before anyone arrived.

Kai pulled some Bluetooth speakers out of his pockets. After pairing them with his phone, he began arranging them around the room. He played "Silhouette," from Naruto as his calibration song, so that he could find an acceptable arrangement. He mumbled along and soon found places to tape up three speakers to the ceiling. It was a good thing that changelings could stretch up so high.

Now that the sound felt even and solid for each point in the room, all that was left was the rest of the deal. The snacks would wait for lunch, but an arrangement had already been made with Lunch Rush for kitchen access.

So that just left the most tedious part. Kai directed the changeling that had hung up the speakers to come to him. Turning around, he allowed it to shift its form around him just as he had for the Quirk Apprehension test. This time, he had it completely cover everything from the neck down. After a little while, it changed its color and texture to resemble human flesh and clothing.

Kai tapped his foot on the floor to summon a changeling to take a look at himself to make sure it really had the look he was going for.

"Well… it's certainly Sailor Moon, but…"

His voice could only trail off. A changeling could change its size a lot to look bigger than it was supposed to, but there was only so much it could do to shrink. So, while Kai had been covered and made to look like Sailor Moon, skirt and all, there was a rather unsettling side effect of his method.

"Way too much muscle, but I'm not sure what to do about that. Let's try green skin… yep. That's just the Hulk cosplaying, lose the color. Adjust the hair… and now I'm Sailor Hulk Presley." Kai turned around to get a good look at himself. "I'm not sure if I feel more disturbed or amused. What a weird combination. Maybe I should pick a different magical girl set, but… I guess this will be a good lesson in being careful of what you wish for. I probably owe Kaminari his coupon back, but this will be a good demonstration of my intentions. And sense of humor. Which one is more important, though…?"

Kai's thoughts were interrupted by the door opening. Yaoyorozu, trying to be diligently on time, had arrived. And then instantly stunned by the absurdity of the sight in front of her.

"What do you think? I think I make it look good!" Kai said with a smile. He didn't think so, but nobody would try to embarrass him by having him do this again if they thought he wouldn't get embarrassed. Hopefully. Psychology was tricky.

A small price to pay for salvation, but Kai would prefer to use other payments if possible.

The door slammed back closed. Whether by horror or disbelief, she decided to try to delay confronting reality. Understandable, and convenient. Kai sent the mirror changeling to the door to listen. After a short wait, he could hear her stammering to other classmates who had just arrived, and were wondering why she hadn't gone in.

3… 2… 1… Now was the most opportune moment. Start the music, turn up the volume. Kai turned around so his back was to the door. The door opened from curiosity and impatience of the other side.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome… The King!"

Kai turned dramatically with a cheesy grin and launched into an Elvis medley as the extra changeling took some pictures to remember their shock by.