Two men are seen climbing onto a boat via a dock. A carnival was going on nearby.

"Knocking over that yacht was a piece of cake," the first man states.

The two men laughed together as they prepared to leave. However, the man with the red cap noticed something in the water and leaned over the boat to check it out. Glowing green eyes peer at him from beneath the water, making him raise a brow. Then a clawed hand grabbed his face and pulled him into the water.

His partner becomes confused as he looked down in the water. He saw his partner's red cap floating above the water before something burst further from the water. It was the head of some sort of creature with razor shap fangs, six eyes, and an angler fish-like antenna.

"Hey," the creature looked at the man.

Terrified, the man runs off as he climbs the latter back up to the docks. Then he runs off to find someplace to hide. He passes by multiple people at concession stands and bumps into a hotdog cart. He looks around to see if the creature was following him, but there wasn't anything front of him. Then a pillar of water exploded from the side of the docks and the fish creature landed in front of the criminal.

Like a fish, he had light green scales on his body with darker green fins, with claws on his hands that could rip through steel. His chest had some sort of natural armor and his feet had two toes webbed together, and a large tail. Right below his shoulder was a grey hourglass symbol connected to a piece of black fabric.

(Sorry. This guy isn't someone I can describe well. Anyway, art by Fiqllency on DeviantArt. Credit to them)

The fish creature stepped towards the frightened man as the people watched from the sidelines. They assumed this was some sort of new Hero taking down some criminal. Which it technically was.

"Don't make this harder than it has to be, pal," the creature told the criminal. "I don't think you wanna be... fish food. Heheh."

The criminal dressed in black ran behind the hotdog cart and pushed it down, spilling gasoline onto the docks. Then a spark from a loose wire hit the oil, igniting it into flames which circles the Hero.

"Gotta love a good ol' fashioned fish fry!" the criminal declares.

"Hey! Can't breathe!" the creature stated as he held his throat. "Water... water..."

The creature fell to the ground. The fire was heating him up too much and drying him off. He couldn't survive without water or proper moisturization. However, he quickly got an idea and punched the wood beneath him, opening up a hole. He jumps through it and into the water below.

Back above, the criminal smirks as he turns to walk off. However, the alien fishman smashed through the wooden floor and grabbed him in his powerful jaws. Then he threw him into a game with cans stacked on top of each other, knocking him out. The alien grinned.

"Booyah," he says.

[‐‐‐‐]

Shinso: "Alien name: Ripjaws. This aquatic alien may look like a fish on legs, but he's more than that. He has super powerful claws and fangs that can break metal, and he's faster than most boats when he's in the water. Hell, he can even use echolocation! But leave him out of the water too long, or he gets too hot, and it's game over."

[‐‐‐‐]

Police sirens the catches Ripjaws attention, and his eyes widen.

"Welp, time to make my leave!" he says and backflips into the water below.

●●●

It was the day after the Sports Festival. In a car, M/n sat in the front driver's seat with Y/n in the passenger next to her. Shinso sat in the back, along with Gwen. They were all together going to a circus to celebrate Y/n getting in third place in the Sports Festival. Gwen was tagging along since M/n wouldn't stop nagging her son about inviting her.

"Zombozo's Traveling Circus of Laughs?" she reads a passing sign. "Cool!"

"I haven't been to a circus since I was a little girl," M/n states. "And I heard good things about this one."

"Can't wait to see it," Shinso stated, bored.

"I love the circus!" Gwen exclaims.

"That's because you belong in one," Y/n taunted.

"Y/n..." M/n warned her son.

"Sorry, I just can't believe how you guys talked me into this," Y/n stated. "Circus is kids' stuff."

"Aren't we, like, fifteen?" Shinso asked. "Besides, can't we still act like kids sometimes?"

Y/n yawns. "Yeah, but isn't it super late or something?"

"Y/n, it's eleven in the morning," M/n states.

"Alright, fine!" Y/n crossed his arms. "You guys want to go to some stupid circus. Whatever."

M/n sighs as she realizes this may be a long day.

Later, the L/n Family with Shinso walked up to the entrance to the big tent that held the circus. M/n couldn't believe so many people were there.

"Looks like a lot of people are coming to see this show," M/n pointed out.

Y/n looked around, gazing at all the signs advertising the show. All of them had pictures of creepy looking clowns, especially one with a white face, a blue nose, purple lips with yellow teeth, and red hair. It unnerved him.

"It's probably sold out," he says. "We're probably just wasting our time."

A light turns on and everyone looks to see a man on top of a tent. He had a black mustache and a hat.

"Step right up and see the fingerless freak of nature, whose strength knows no bounds!" the carnie announces. "Thumbskull!"

A giant of a man walked out with a metal pipe on his shoulders. His skin was pale and had no hair on his head. In fact, his head looked like a thumb. He then bent the pipe with a grunt and people started applauding and cheering for him.

Then Thumbskull threw the bent pipe into the air. A woman catches it with her tendril-like red hair.

"And presenting Frightwig!" the carnie says. "When this beauty lets down her hair, no telling what could happen."

Frightwig bends the pipe even more with her hair before setting it aside on se anvil. A man walks out, wearing a muzzle on his face.

"And last but not least, the freak whose unique skill is as vile as his attitude. Acid Breath!"

Acid Breath takes off his mask and lets out a breath. Green gas flows out and melts the metal pipe, making everyone gasp.

"Whoa," Shinso says.

"Gross!" Gwen exclaims.

Meanwhile, with Y/n, he was walking off and stops in between two carnival stands. There he finds another tent that was slightly opened, and he walks forward to peer inside. When he sees what's inside, his eyes go wide with terror.

It was a clown.

"Hahaha! Howdy, folks! Ready to laugh?" the clown practiced talking to his audience in his mirror, seemingly like a normal clown. Then his happy voice turned sinister. "Perfect. You're gonna knock them dead."

He puts his hat back on and his tongue slithered out of his mouth as he laughs. Almost as if he was some kind of monster. Y/n backs away in horror before bumping into someone.

"Hey!"

Y/n screams and turns around, only to be met with his cousin. He lets out a breath of relief.

"Don't do that," he tells Gwen as he holds his stomach.

"What is your malfunction?" Gwen asks.

"What do you mean?" Y/n asks.

"Ever since we've decided to go to this circus, you've been acting weird. Well, weirder than normal," Gwen states. "Shinso said you were scared."

"I'm not scared of anything," Y/n states.

"Oh, there you guys are."

The cousins turns to see Shinso and M/n.

"Come on, the show's about to start!" M/n announces.

Gwen grinned at her cousin. "After you."

She motions with her arm for Y/n to walk frowned. He does so with a glare in his eyes.

The four soon make it into the giant tent and found seats. Soon, a spotlight shown down on the man introducing the Circus Freaks from before.

"Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages," the man started, "the Circus of Laughter is proud to present the sultan of smiles! The clown prince of chuckles! That rib tickler himself, the star of our circus! Zombozo the clown!"

A new spotlight shined down on a small red car that was driving forward. It stopped as the door opens, and the clown Y/n saw earlier stepped out. People cheered and applauded for the clown who smiled at his audience. They were even laughing already. But not Y/n. He was terrified.

The car zooms off before turning to face Zombozo. It revs its engine as the clown taunted it before taking out a red flag. He waved it around a bit, as if he was a matador. The car drove at him and hit the flag, exploding into a cloud of confetti.

Y/n looked all around him. Everyone was laughing wildly. He didn't understand why. Nothing truly funny even happened. Hell, even Shinso was laughing!

"If you love clowns, then this is the place to be," Zombozo declared. "You're gonna die laughing."

No one noticed the massive machine behind the clown. It activated and glowed brightly as Zombozo grinned.

"That's a Zombozo guarantee."

Y/n stood from his seat. "I got to go...! Get some popcorn."

He walked off as his mother, cousin, and friend watched him leave.

"Is Y/n alright?" M/n asked.

"You're asking me?" Gwen asked.

"I stopped trying to figure Dial-Up a while ago," Shinso states.

Back at the ring, Zombozo started his show.

"I was never good at math, but I believe I have your undivided attention," he smirked. "Now how about some volunteers?"

M/n, Gwen, and Shinso started laughing again. Almost as if it was an automatic response to whatever Zombozo said. The clown grinned.

"Ahh. So full of life!" he said. "For now."

Outside the circus tent, Y/n had ran out before stopping to breathe. He wasn't tired, though. He was instead scared. He didn't know why he agreed to come to the circus. It was a terrible idea.

"There is nothing funny about clowns," he stated.

The sound of glass shattering gains the UA student's attention. He runs forward and makes it to a parking lot where he gasps in shock. The three Circus Freaks he saw earlier were breaking into some sort of jewelry store.

"Whoa. The freaks are felons!" Y/n told himself.

He hid behind a car as he watched the freaks do their work. Thumbskull walked inside and grabbed a whole load of expensive jewelry as Acid Breath stepped to a car. He breathed on it, melting the roof off to reveal the interior. He ripped out the radio and walked away.

Frightwig then stepped toward an ATM and slammed her hair into the wall all around it. She ripped it out with ease.

"It's payday!" she laughed.

Y/n narrowed his eyes at the crime scene.

"Time to play fetch," he states.

He hid back behind the car again and activated his watch. He knew what he was about to do was technically illegal, but he couldn't just let the Circus Freaks steal all that money and jewelry. So Y/n cycled through his aliens before finding the one he wanted. He slammed down on the watch's dial.

Thumbskull was walking out of an electronics store with two TVs in his arms. However, he stopped when he heard the sound of an animal growling. He then gasped as an orange, doglike creature leaped onto a car and roared at him.

Y/n had transformed into Wildmutt!

[‐‐‐‐]

Shinso: "Alien name: Wildmutt. This dog-like alien is fast and strong. However, he's blind since he had no eyes. But he's not completely blind. Using his enhanced senses, like smelling and hearing, along with the gills on his neck, Wildmutt can create a 3D map in his mind to track movement. And with his enhanced reflexes, agility, and strength, he's a proper predator."

[‐‐‐‐]

(Art by Fiqllency on DeviantArt. Credit to them)

"Good doggy! Down, boy!" Thumbskull said as he backed away in fear.

Wildmutt made some grunts and noises before leaping at Thumbskull. He tackles him to the floor and leaves him there as he charges at Acid Breath and Frightwig. The alien dog slams into Acid Breath and sends him to the ground. Wildmutt then turns to run off as Frightwig sent her hair at him. They wrapped around him, only for Frightwig to be pulled along with him and get sent to the ground.

Wildmutt leaped onto a car and ripped off the roof. The contents spilled out, consisting of the stolen goods of the Circus Freaks.

"Hey, that's our stuff!" Thumbskull announced.

"No mutt's gonna steal my loot," Acid Breath stated. "Get him!"

He let out a breath, making a green fog blow from his mouth and towards Wildmutt. However, he sensed this and leaped away just in time. The car was melted instead.

Wildmutt landed in the middle of the trio and sent Frightwig and Acid Breath back. He then swung at Thumbskull, sending him back. Wildmutt then began to approach Frightwig and Acid Breath turned to Thumbskull.

"Don't just stand there like a sore thumb," he said. "Get the boss!"

Thumbskull nodded as he ran off.

Back at the circus tent, everyone was still laughing as images of food and games flashed around them. Zombozo was laughing as he knew his plan was working.

"Laughter truly is the best medicine!" he stated. "For me."

Everyone laughed, though Shinso was confused. Why was he laughing? He wasn't entertained at all!

Thumbskull approached Zombozo. "Uh, excuse me, boss. Excuse me."

Zombozo scowled as he turned to his employee. "How many times have I told you not to bother me whole I'm eating?"

"Uh... we ran into a bit of trouble," Thumbskull told the clown.

Zombozo frowned even more.

Back at the street, Wildmutt had sent Frightwig to the ground and pinned her down, along with Acid Breath. Then a puff of smoke and confetti appeared behind him, making him turn to see Zombozo.

"I hear you're full of tricks, little doggy," he approached Wildmutt who was backing away. "Let's see if you know how to play dead."

It was too sudden. Too fast for Wildmutt to react in time. He was kicked in the jaw before smacked away by Zombozo, sending him skidding across the road. He slammed into a tower and got back up to see Zombozo approach him. He started to whine as he backed away.

"This isn't a mad dog. It's a scaredy-cat!" the clown exclaimed.

Thumbskull scratched his head as Frightwig put her hands on her hips, and Acid Breath slumped his shoulders.

"Bring the curtain down on this little sideshow," Zombozo ordered.

Acid Breath obeyed as he spat acid onto one of the tower's legs. Then Frightwig wrapped her hair around the tower and pulled. Thumbskull then ran at another leg and bashed his fists into it, bending it with every punch.

"It's over, Fido," Acid Breath grinned.

The tower fell over, crushing Wildmutt underneath. Zombozo smirked as Thumbskull walked up to the fallen tower and picked up a piece of debris.

"Dog gone!" he laughed.

"Come on! We got bigger laughs to get!" Zombozo before disappearing into a cloud of confetti.

The Circus Freaks begin to run off. However, inside the rubble of the tower, beeping can be heard before a flash of red light peers through the cracks. Then Y/n crawls out through a hole behind him and panted in exhaustion. He turned to see the Circus Freaks retreat and sighed. Then he collapsed, unconscious.

●●●

At some steps, M/n and Shinso can be seen sitting together. They were still laughing, along with others who were walking by. However, Gwen wasn't with them.

"Mom?" Y/n called out as he walked forward. "Shinso?"

He called out to them again as he ran to them. He shook them before Shinso shook his head in confusion, but M/n just looked at her son with a smile.

"Oh, Y/n," she snorted a bit. "Where'd you go?"

"Where'd I go? Where'd the circus go?" Y/n asked.

Shinso looked around a bit before narrowing his eyes. "I don't know."

M/n looked at Shinso with a smile before realizing something. Her head was foggy, so she wasn't sure. But she lost her smile as she heard some sobs instead of Laughter.

"I remember we were laughing," M/n stated before she chuckled again. "It was so funny."

"N-no, it actually wasn't," Shinso rubbed his temple.

M/n suddenly closed her eyes and leaned forward.

"Mom, are you okay?" Y/n asked as he caught his mother.

"Heh. I just... feel kind of glum, that's all," M/n admits. "Heheheheh..."

"Then why are you smiling?" Y/n asked.

Shinso was quiet for a moment before he and Y/n realized something.

"Wait a minute," they said together. "Where's Gwen?"

Some miles away, Thumbskull was at the wheel as he drove a truck. Zombozo sat next to him.

"Did you pack me a snack for the road?" he asked.

Thumbskull smirked as he reached behind him and pulled back some blinders. Inside the truck, a handful of people were sitting there. Gwen was among them, laughing just like the others.

Meanwhile, on the road, M/n was back at the wheel in her car with Y/n next to her and Shinso in the back. Y/n was furious.

"Zombozo must have zoned out everyone there during the show while his Freaks robbed everyone blind," he said.

"But why kidnap your cousin?" Shinso asked.

"I-I don't know," M/n shook her head. "But don't worry. We'll catch that clown."

"Wait, but shouldn't we call a Hero for this?" Shinso asked.

"No. They wouldn't believe us anyway," M/n shook her head again. "We have to save Gwen ourselves."

"Yeah. Besides, we got ten Heroes here," Y/n laughed nervously as he showed off his watch. "And besides, who would be afraid of a silly old clown?"

"You," Shinso said.

"Dude!" the (H/C)-haired student glared.

"What?" the purple-haired student asks.

"What's this now?" M/n asked.

Her son was quiet for a moment. Then he sighed.

"I'm... afraid of clowns, Mom," Y/n admitted.

"Why haven't you told me before?" M/n asked.

"Because I thought it was stupid!" Y/n stated. "Look at me. Some fifteen-year-old scared of some stupid clowns."

"Everyone's got their own crazy fears, son," M/n stated. "When I was a girl, I was terrified of heights. But then I had enough, and I climbed to the top of a water tower. Sometimes you just got to scare the fear out... of... you."

M/n's vision suddenly became blurry as she suddenly felt weak. Then she fell forward on the steering wheel.

"Mom!"

"Miss L/n!"

Y/n unbuckled himself and grabbed the steering wheel. The car went out of control as Y/n tried to reel it back in. Then Shinso's eyes went wide.

"Look out!" he pointed forward.

Y/n's eyes also went wide as he and his friend screamed before smashing through the road's side railings. They then all start driving down the side of the small mountain they were on. Y/n fought with the steering wheel to make sure the car didn't crash into any rocks or trees, but a ledge soon started to come up. Y/n then slammed down on the brakes, making Shinso hit his head on the ceiling as the tires screech to halt the car. Thankfully, it stopped before it could crash through another railing and fall down the edge.

Y/n and Shinso sighed in relief as they sat down. Then Y/n turned to his mother.

"Mom, you okay?" he asks.

"So... sad..." she mumbled out. "So very... very... sad..."

"What the...? Shinso, what happened inside the bug top after I left?" Y/n asked his friend.

Shinso grunted as he struggled to remember. He was becoming weak and tired himself. But he tried to remember anyway. He recalled Laughter and bright lights. Then he remembered something leave him, like some kind of energy. Then he remembered Zombozo's laughter.

"I love the sound of laughter!"

"It feeds my soul."

"L/n... I think Zombozo robs people of more than just their valuables," Shinso says. "I think he steals people's happiness until there's nothing left. It has to be his Quirk."

"And he's got Gwen," Y/n said in horror.

●●●

Hours later, Zombozo's circus tent can be seen pitched up with boxes and crates littered around. Y/n quietly snuck up to the tent as he hid behind some crates. He watched as the three Freaks he fought earlier that day carried some crates off somewhere, completely unaware of his presence. He had left his mother and Shinso in the car since they were weak and needed rest. He would take care of Zombozo himself.

Y/n turned, only to gasp when he sees a sign with Zombozo's face. He bumps into the stack of crates he was hiding behind, knocking them down and alerting the Circus Freaks of his presence. Frightwig chuckles as she sets down her crates.

"Looks like we've got somebody who wants to see the show without buying a ticket," she says and rips the mask off Acid Breath's face.

Y/n hides behind the remaining crate of the stack he was behind earlier as he brought his watch up. He activated it and picked an alien. However, when he went to slam down on the faceplate, nothing happened.

"Ugh! You never make this easy, do you?" he asks the alien watch.

The Circus Freaks charged forward and attacked the crate Y/n was behind. However, when it was reduced to splinters, Y/n was nowhere to be seen. However, a flash of green light behind them and the sound of it gains their attention.

"What was that sound?" Thumbskull asked.

Crates behind them suddenly exploded, and the trio turned to see a giant cloud of smoke and dust. Out of it walked some sort of machine with a black and silver color scheme, added with green lines all around it. Y/n's watch dial was on it, and it seemed to have a round green eye.

"I don't know what you are, but I'm gonna tear you apart," Thumbskull tells the machine and runs at it.

"You wanna play hardball?" the machine asks with Y/n's voice. "Game on!"

The machine suddenly fired dozens of baseballs at Thumbskull. The onslaught of them sent him flying back. Then Frightwig ran forward, blocking the baseballs with her hair. Then she sent the machine flying into some crates.

"That all you got?" she asked.

"Just warming up, lady!" the machine exclaimed.

He opened fire again, but Frightwig swiped her hair through the air and sent the baseballs back. The machine dodged them and fired again, making Frightwig trip and spin around. She gets tied up with her own hair and falls to the ground.

Acid Breath lands on some stack of crates and breathed acid at the machine. It runs away, making the Circus Freak spread his acid and melt dozens of other crates.

"Didn't your mom ever tell you it's not polite to spit?" the transformed Y/n asks his opponent.

"Who do you think taught me in the first place?" Acid Breath responds.

The man opens his mouth to release his acidic breath. However, the baseball machine leaped from the shadows and fired a baseball into his mouth. Then he fired more baseballs at Acid Breath, sending him to the ground.

"Strike three!" the machine quips.

Then the bundle of green, black, and silver flies off of the machine and lands on tbe ground on his feet.

(Art by Fiqllency on DeviantArt. Credit to them)

[‐‐‐‐]

Shinso: "Alien name: Upgrade. This alien has the ability to cover any machine or piece of technology with its body by turning almost gelatinous and taking it completely over. And just like its name, he not only controls the machine but makes it even better."

[‐‐‐‐]

Upgrade begins to walk towards the circus tent entrance. However, he was terrified. But he tried to calm himself down.

"You can do this. He's just a guy with a big nose and rubber shoes," Uprgade tells himself. "Nothing Upgrade can't handle."

The hourglass symbol beeps before it covers Upgrade in a red flash. Then it dies down to reveal Y/n back as a human.

"Okay, what's with all these problems?!" Y/n asked himself. "Whose side are you on?"

He groaned and walked into the tent. However, he stopped and screamed in fright when he came across a mirror. However, it was just that. A mirror showing his reflection.

"Just great," he says. "Now you're afraid of your own reflection."

Y/n walked further into the tent, finding himself inside some sort of mirror fun house. Reflections of himself were everywhere. They were tall, short, wide, thin, upside-down, and everything in between.

"Hiya, son!" Zombozo's voice came from everywhere. "Something tells me you'd be a barrel full of laughs."

Y/n ignored the clown. Then he bumped right into a mirror, rubbing his nose. He backed away from it before all of his reflections took on the face of Zombozo who looked at him with a sickening grin.

"Hey, Mr. Serious. You do know that you attacking me and my crew is illegal, right? Especially with your Quirk," he asks as the head spins around and grin at Y/n. "How about we all calm down and have a nice laugh?"

Y/n begins backing away in fear as every reflection showed Zombozo. He was left, right, and all around the teenager. Then the Zombozos all reach out to grab him, making Y/n run away in fear as he shielded his face. Everywhere he went, Zombozo's hands were there to grab him.

"I recognize you! You're that watch kid from the Sports Festival," the clown stated. "Was that your mutt that gave my Freaks such frowns?"

Y/n found himself running through some sort of world that was all over the place. Things were spirals and held such bright colors.

"And what about that weird blob outside?" Zombozo's head sprung forth on a spring from the floor. Y/n turned to run, but another Zombozo head sprung forth. "If it weren't for you..."

Y/n turned to run again. However, a third head sprung up and sent him flying.

"Are you some kind of freak?" Zombozo asked.

"I'm not a freak!" Y/n exclaimed as fire formed above him, becoming Zombozo's laughing face.

Y/n fell for a bit longer before he grabbed onto a trapeze bar and swung with it. He jumped forward and an illusion of Zombozo bit him, but Y/n only passed through him. He grabbed a other trapeze bar, but it suddenly snapped and sent the boy falling again.

He landed on a web and tried to get himself free. However, he was unable to. He was stuck.

"Come on, kid! You've got to learn to loosen up," Zombozo told Y/n as a spider approached him. It had Zombozo's face. "Laugh a little."

The spider suddenly appeared to be just as big as Y/n, if not larger. It grabbed his prey's face and looked him in the eye with a sickening smile.

"It's what keeps me going."

The Zombozo spider sliced at its webs and sent Y/n falling again. He screamed as he spiraled down into the black void all around him. He was scared. Down right terrified! What was he going to do?

Y/n finally slammed into the ground and a spotlight shined on him. He was in the circus ring, and carnival music began to play. Zombozo approached him with a grin, and Y/n suddenly heard distressed moaning. He looked closer at the clown to see the gem embedded in his sleeves and in his hat. The stolen souls of people he's tricked flew around inside them, featureless.

"Now, don't tell me you're afraid of old Zombozo," the clown grinned.

Y/n suddenly looked closer and gasped. Inside the gem in the Villain's hat, Gwen stood inside. She was surrounded by fire with wrinkles all around her body. However, she didn't care. She was laughing like nothing was wrong. As if it was all some elaborate joke.

"What do you want?" Y/n asked.

Zombozo grinned and snapped his fingers. A new spotlight appeared, illuminating the strange machine behind him. Souls were trapped inside it as well. Then a wire flew out from the machine and lodged itself into Zombozo's back, making green sparks fly before fading away. The wire lifted him up into the air as he laughed, and then he went over to Y/n again.

"Just what every clown worth his floppy shoes wants. To make them laugh!" Zombozo states before his form becomes monstrous. "Then drain their positive energy like a sponge at a pool party!"

He returned to normal. "Is that so wrong?"

"Is that the machine you use to suck the happiness out of your audience?" Y/n asks.

"I call it the Cyclown! Clever, eh?" Zombozo grins. "It amplifies my power to where it can give me all the strength I want. And soon I'll be able to take my act to the big cities! Millions of people laughing for me, feeding me, making me stronger."

Y/n gritted his teeth as he glared at the clown. "Give me back my cousin!"

"Cousin?" Zombozo grinned. "Didn't you hear? She ran away with the circus!"

Zombozo was pulled over to another spotlight. It revealed Gwen unconscious and lying on the floor. Her body was wrinkled, and she was softly laughing to herself. Y/n looked at her in shock and fear. And then he narrowed his eyes. He turned to Zombozo in rage as the clown chuckled.

"You think you're funny?" he asks as he activated his watch. "Let's see who's laughing after I beat your ass!"

He slams down on the watch and gets engulfed in green light. Then it fades to reveal that he had transformed into Ghostfreak.

"Nice try kid, buy I sell tricks, not buy 'em," Zombozo grinned, not impressed.

"You know, I realized something. There's something I'm more afraid of than you," Ghostfreak stated as he eye traveled along his body.

He punched Zombozo in the face, sending him spinning as the wire attached to him wraps around him. Then Ghostfreak vanished and Zombozo spun himself free with a scowl.

"Losing my family to some goofball emotional vampire," Ghostfreak stated. "In other words..."

Ghostfreak become visible again just as Zombozo turned in his direction. Then he punched the clown in the face.

"... You're going down, clown."

Ghostfreak vanished again and Zombozo gritted his teeth in anger. He looked around for his enemy before a wood plank flew at him and sent him crashing into his Quirk amplifier. It malfunctioned and imploded, sending the trapped souls free as they all fly away to their rightful owners. Even Gwen's soul returned to her in a flash of blue light, and her skin returned to normal.

Zombozo groaned as he pushed himself out of his machine. Ghostfreak floats down to him and the clown becomes angry.

"I'm warning you to back off," he says as his wire makes him hover above the floor.

"You wanna see something really scary?" Ghostfreak asks the clown.

The ghost alien grabbed the lock on his skin and pulled it off. He then pulled apart his skin, making it flare wildly with his tendrils and reveals the horrifying contents of what was beneath.

Zombozo screamed in terror as he was flung backwards by his wire and slammed into his machine before falling onto the ground below. He grunts in pain before looking back up at Ghostfreak who had closed his skin again and placed the lock back in its proper place. The clown backed away in terror.

"Now, don't tell me you're afraid of old Ghostfreak," the transformed teen says, referring to what Zombozo had told him earlier.

"Please..." Zombozo whimpered. "No more!"

Ghostfreak gets in the clown's face. "Boo!"

Zombozo became even more terrified as he screamed. Then his body inflates and explodes into a cloud of confetti. Ghostfreak looked down at the remains of his enemy before he realized what was happening.

"Whoa... That even freaked me out," he said as his watch beeped.

Ghostfreak vanished and Y/n returned to normal in a burst of red light. He shook his head for a moment before running over to Gwen. He kneels down next to her and places a hand on her arm. His cousin groans as her eyes flutter open and Gwen looks up at Y/n.

"Wha...? Y/n?" she questions tiredly before sitting up. "Hey... where's that popcorn you said you were getting?"

Y/n only smiled at his cousin.

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Later, M/n is seen at the driver's seat with Y/n next to her. Gwen and Shinso sat in the back, and everyone was back to normal.

"You feeling okay, Mom?" Y/n asks his mother.

"Happy as a clam," M/n smiled.

"How about you two back there?" Y/n asked his friend and cousin.

"All good here," Shinso states and yawns.

"Thanks, dork," Gwen smiles as she reaches for something next to her.

"Pretty clever, you scaring away your fear like that," M/n told her son.

"Thanks," Y/n smirks as he crosses his arms.

"Boo!"

Gwen and Shinso lean forward with clown masks on their faces, attempting to scare Y/n. However, he only smiled at them.

"Hey. Trying out some new makeup?" Y/n asks them. "Looks good on you two."

"You're no fun anymore," Shinso grumbled as he took off his mask.

"Lame," Gwen stated as she also took off her mask.

The two sat back in their seats as M/n smiled at her son. Y/n smiled back.

Meanwhile, in some sort of meeting room, the faculty of UA High all sat around a table together. They had been discussing something earlier, and they had finally finished.

"So, have we come to an agreement?" the Pro Hero Snipe asks.

"I think so," Cementoss leans forward. "These two will make fine additions to the Hero Course."

"And they both have amazing power and potential," a skinny man with droopy blonde hair states. "They will make great Heroes."

"Then I guess it's settled," Erasure Head, now free of his bandages, says.

"Indeed," a small mouse creature with a scar over one of his eyes nods. "Y/n and Gwen L/n will be transferred over to the Hero Course."