Twenty Four

"T-TWENTY-FOUR?!" Izuku stuttered out. With Hypno-Tan simply nodding and smiling, the fearless hero who defeated the most evil villains Japan has ever seen devolved into a rambling mess of vague noises, with the closest thing to a word soundly like "why?"

"Why?" She asked on his behalf, assuming she heard him right. "Well, part of it is because of how you're reacting. This is great content! But secondly, well I'll explain later." The greenette was lost in his own thoughts. "But I upheld my end of the bargain." This brought him out of his stupor, but with her putting her arms (and sweater) around him, he became hazy one again. "Now you have to come with me and meet the babes!"

"W-wait," Izuku said sleepily, although he didn't resist her moving him in the direction they were going. "Are... are you one of them?"

Hypno-Tan giggled. "I'm honored you think I could be one." He felt her moving one of her fingers up his arm. "Frankly, I'm starting to wish I was. It's easier to see why some women find scars attractive now. But alas, no. I'm the hostess, remember?" She then swung her hip into his again. "But if you want to have some fun with me during your stay here, it's absolutely fair game."

That hip poke rattled his brain enough to question her again. "You... you have a hypnosis quirk." He found it within him to stop moving forward. "Is... is that how you trapped so many?"

Man's a fighter, most of the ladies were putty to me by now. "You're not wrong." She took her arm off him and moved herself in front of him. "And we're already behind schedule. so be a dear," she placed her hands on her breasts, causing Izuku to blush, and began to move them around, "and focus on these for a bit." Izuku quickly lost his ability to look away, but clenched his fists as he made a hell of an effort to do so anyway. "Come on, now. I'm not dangerous. We both know I'm not dangerous. I'm just a cute girl with large, enticing breasts."

"N-no-"

"Yes. They're here for relaxing. They are relaxing. You're relaxing. Relaxing as you stare into them, and think of nothing but what I say and how they feel. Focus on how soft they are. How soft my voice is. How smooth my voice is. How smooth they are. How inviting they are. How warm they are. How warm my voice is." Has Hypno-Tan continued with her sweet nothings, Izuku's fist eventually unclentched as hit eyes became spirals. "That's better. Don't worry, you'll have yourself back soon enough."

As Izuku once again came through, he had vague recollections of what happened. He noticed he was in water - really nice, warm water at that - although he was clearly still nude. He could hear a small waterfall right behind him. "Wait, were's that woman?"

"Which one?" a very familiar, teasing voice came. Izuku turned to his left, and his hazing vision came into focus that the voice belong to a smiling Mina Ashido, who was right next to him, less than an inch separating their shoulders, and she was just as underdressed as he was. His face turned nearly as pink as she was.

"Nice to have you awake, Green Bean!" Turning to his right showed Setsuna Tokage with a matching smile and lack of clothes. Looking around suddenly, he soon realized indeed there were well over a dozen women here. With words failing him, he started muttering nonsense as his eyes sunk into horror and his body sunk into the water, bubbles escaping as he refused to stop speaking anxious nothings.

"Oh, I knew he was the right call." Everyone looked up to see Hypno-Tan sitting atop the rocks the waterfall came from. "So, everyone enjoying the hot tub?"

"Why are we here?!" Momo, the creation hero, asked defiantly.

"Well, how about we get our man to his senses again so I don't have to answer that twice?"

There was no denying that having Izuku not drown in a pool of woman would be ideal. Ochako Uraraka carefully covered herself as she stood up and walked over to him. Lowing herself to eye level (and her nipples below water level), she simply asked "Are you okay, Deku?"

Izuku's face had gone from pink to red, but getting a good look at her reveal a flustered smile trying to be confident. Izuku raised his head to where his chin met the water's surface. He couldn't stop himself from occasionally staring at Ochako's hunched-over, dangling breasts, so he just nodded to give her an answer.

Ochako covered herself with her arms again as she stood up. "Come on, you two. Let's give him some space." Mina and Setsuna both sighed but complied although neither of them seemed to be concerned with their exposure to him.

As his mind started working again, he looked around as modestly as her could. Twelve of the ladies were from 1-A and 1-B. Pony seemed to be the only girl from 1-B not present. Mei from the support course was here, and his American friend Melissa was here. Nejire and Yuyu from 3-A were here as well. Two villainess were present as well: Himiko and Kaina. Neither seemed to be too upset around here, and no one else seemed too bothered by their inclusion. To be fair, there's bigger issues right now. Finally, two students from other schools were here. Camie was someone he recognized but hadn't properly been introduced to, given it was really Himiko. And there was this other girl with periwinkle hair who he simply didn't know.

"Wait..." Izuku started counting everyone there. "Twenty... she said twenty four. Did she not get everyone here? She spoke like I was the last one. It would make sense-"

"The other four are pro heroes." Kaina casually responded.

"Yep!" Everyone turned back to Hypno-Tan, who was still above them. "Don't worry, I gave them the down-low on all of this. So they won't be missing anything we say here, and they'll be back shortly." She then turned her attention back to Momo. "You asked a very good question, but to answer that, we need to answer two more. First, why is here here?" She rubbed her hands together, and suddenly the water became a bright pink. A few women stood up in panic, much to Izuku's fluster. "This island we're on is a little pocket dimension that I've been granted control of."

"So it's like that one villain who kidnapped Bakugo that one time?" Kendo asked. "He could put people into pocket spaces, right?"

"Basically." Hypno-Tan affirmed.

"How does that affect time?" Yui asked bluntly. "Because people will come looking for us."

"Also correct. And a perceptive question. By the way, I literally just changed the water's color. There's nothing wrong with it." A few women were willing to lower back in, but Ibara wrapped herself in her vines and held out a little while longer. "But the official answer is that you ladies have an all-expenses paid trip for a week-long cruise to America and back. And Melissa happened to have invited Izuku Midoriya when she was given an extra ticket, not knowing who all would be there. So no matter how long you stay here, only a week will pass in the real world when we leave."

"So this exists because it's cheaper than a real island?" Himiko piped in.

"Yes and no. It could be anything I wanted it to be, but the desert island paradise is what we're stuck with now that it's set." At this point, Izuku started muttering to himself about how projection and dimension quirks operate, something many of the ladies found cute. Hypno-Tan snapped her fingers to get his attention, and he sunk back into the pink pool to hide his embarrassment. "But the space itself exists so we won't be bothered."

"Next question," Hypno-Tan announced, "I why am I here? The answer is simple: because I've wanted to be for quite some time!" There was a deafening silence as the sole sound of the still-pink water flowing down the rock she sat upon made it clear that they weren't going to accept that as an answer. "More accurately, I've wanted to host one of these for some time, and a lot of people had Mr. Lean and Green here as their bachelor of choice."

Hypno-Tan enjoy the scene that unfolded: Izuku's literal descent into a puddle, the gasping from the more "proper" amongst them like Momo and Ibara, to Mina and Setsuna happily nodding in agree while Ochako looked almost angry. Such a diverse group. "And that brings us to why you're all here: this is my season of Harem Hotel!"

The reality of why they're here sunk in, leaving all of them jaw-dropped (save for Himiko, who looked like Christmas came early).

"You... You can't really think..." Melissa swallowed hard and **** her sentence out, "You don't ACTUALLY think Izuku could keep up with twenty women, right?"

"Oh, of course not!" Hypno-Tan nearly scoffed. "Normally, a minimum of six are choosen, but given Mr. Macho Man here was one of the big damn heroes during your war, a lot of you were more than a little smithened by." She crossed her arms as she smugly smiled at them. "Am I wrong?"

There wasn't an answer right away, but soon Tsuyu chimed in with "If I did have to pick a man to be here Ribbit, it probably would be Midoriya." Tsuyu speaking this out loud gave the rest a little more confidence to give some "yeahs," some "sures" and plenty of embarrassed nodding.

"I thought so. That's also why Pony isn't here, by the way. Izuku just isn't kind of man, it turns out."

Kinoko had some suspicions that Pony's less normal anatomy might have also played a role into it, but Pony was the only girl in 1-B that wouldn't talk about Izuku beyond that of a pro-hero.

"There were some choices I skipped over for Tabuu reasons-"

"Choices?" Jiro said. "What do you mean by that."

"Another great question!" She snapped her fingers towards the petite heroine. "You see, a lot of people wanted to host a season of this show with him, and as rude as this may be, some of them were freaks!" She then slyly rubbed her legs together and put a finger on her chin. "Not that I'm not one either, mind you," she the placed her hands on her lap and got an invested grin on her face, "but some of these people wanted some truly crappy stuff. One of them wanted Izuku to have a harem of women for people who have attacked him, so Bakugo's mother and Todoroki's sisters were on the list."

Izuku woke up, stood up, and stared at her with a combination of disgust and anger in his face. "Hey, I'm with you on this one, Deku." This was the first time Hypno-Tan addressed him by his actual hero name. "But getting back to Jiro's question, I was given a massive list of everyone they would accept, which was basically anyone around Izuku's age."

"And since Midoriya's 19..." Toru said, result in Izuku realizing she wasn't actually invisible right now, "That means anyone going to a hero college was fair game?"

"And some of the younger pro heroes." Hypno-Tan airily said. "But you all seemed to be the most fitting."

"Then why am I here?" Saiko asked quietly. "I know of him, but we have never met face to face before."

"And why do you keep treating this like a game show?" Kendo said.

"And how lewd is this about to get?" Setsuna asked a question several of the women were thinking but too self conscious to ask. Set wasn't excited or concerned, just asking.

Hypno-Tan hide her concern fairly well. Explaining the interdimensional nature of all of this would both be overwhelming and quickly dismissed. Plus, thinking about the nature of the multiverse can drive people mad, and she could tell her guests were clearly still out of their comfort zone. So she decided to make up her own story to give them the general idea, and maybe make them more comfortable around this.

"We are making a game show here, yes. We want to make movies, lewd movies, and we need a variety of personalities and body types." Hypno-Tan got up and float down to the ground right next to the hot spring. "And I believe I made some good choices."

"But why Deku alone?" Ochako asked. "Ignoring the movie thing for a moment, why only give one male body type but several female builds - most he knows?" She then turned her face away from everyone and turned a bit red. "Especially if we're... ya know..."

Hypno-Tan smiled. "Two fold. First, why mix and match if there's one everyone would be okay with? And second, quirks." Hypno-Tan sat cross-legged at the edge of the makeshift pool. "I could have some control over your quirks here, but have largely left them alone with three exemptions. First is Toru." Everyone looked to the teal-hair girl. "She's too cute to not be seen if you ask me."

Toru, Mina, and Setsuna actually started to giggle at that. "Second is Momo. Your creation quirk has been limited to creating tools and raw materials for now." She then winked at her. "You can make any toys that come to mind too." A couple of women blushed at the possible implications of that, but Momo herself just pictured her making toy train sets and chess boards.

"The final one is Izuku himself. Our little Green Soon-To-Be-Love Machine here inherited one hell of a quirk, right?" The loss of the secret to Izuku Quirk was still a sore spot to him, but he was still giving Hypno-Tan the stink eye for more than a touchy subject: she's not to be trusted, as far as he was concerned. "Well in this pocket world, I decided to mix and match his abilities. He gets to keep Full Cowling, Black Whip, and Regeneration. But I've given him some nifty ones as well."

"Why'd you mess with my quirk?" His voice had a tone that even Hypno-Tan knew not to tease.

"Relax," she said in a more soothing, almost motherly tone that no one had heard from her yet. "I know what it means to you. A gift from your hero than many more have trusted you too." None of the other girls quite knew what she was going on about, but it was clear he was holding onto every word as she got up and floated over to him. She whispered "I know more about it than most of the women here do. I haven't removed any of the former heroes from you or anything. They're basically asleep." She floated slight away to the center of the spring, raising her voice for all to hear. "Your quirk will be back to normal once we call wake up on the cruise ship. That goes for everyone."

Izuku refused to break eye contact, but nothing about her seemed malicious. Then again, the best villains are the ones who don't come off as such. "Why should I believe you?"

"You don't have to." She had the most genuine smile he had seen her wear since arrive. "But believe it or not, I will stay true to what I said. Trickster or not, I can be sincere, like your friends over there." She then pointed to Mina, Toru, and Setsuna. Izuku had to mentally agree: they can enjoy gossip and joking, but they were honest people. "Now, unless you plan to show these fine ladies your manhood some more, maybe sit back down?"

Izuku turned Mina-shades of pink as he went back down. For some reason he everyone to laugh... but nope. A few of the usual suspects were giggling, but most were just as blush-tastic as he was, although some of them were smiling instead or being concerned.

Ah, this will be fun. "So, let's go over you new quirks! First is Clone!" Everyone perked up and looked at her. "Oh yeah, that got you attention! Just focus on the desire to be in more than one place at one time, and you'll have your own clone for a short time. Just remember they at most only last a few hours. Next is Bulk! Think of it as a version of Full Cowling that ca increase your size. Third is Chameleon" She did a playful "brush away" gesture with her hand. "I gave you this one because I thought it'd be cute, but it lets you change the color of you hair, skin, eyes, that sorta stuff." Then she clapped her hands together. "Finally, you last new quirk is Connection!"

"What does that do?" several ladies asked at once.

"Oh, we'll keep that secret for now. This little dork works better when he doesn't have all the answers, anyway." All the ladies begrudgingly nodded in agreement; Izuku didn't seem to be listening, as he was looking at his fist while clearly being lost in deep thought. Suddenly, Hypno-Tan brought a finger to her ear as if she had a communicator. "Oh, it seems they're ready!"

"Who?

"The Pros!" With a single snap of her fingers, a massive puff of smoke appeared behind her. Once it began to clear out, everyone could see four nude pro-heroines behind her. Hypno-Tan then smiled as she looked at her finger. "Man, this instant transmission thing is pretty cool! I might have to keep this after this is all over!"

Izuku still felt himself shrink and rise at the same time when seeing these women, but the selection of Pros Hypno-Tan went with was... surprising, to say the least.

First was a woman was Moe Kamiji. While Burnin helping Todoroki, Bakugo, and himself turning their internships, he wouldn't have guessed her to be one of the picks if pro heroes were up for selection.

Second with shoulder-length green hair: Emi Fukukado AKA Ms. Joke. A woman he honestly hadn't spent too much time around, and probably the "least obvious" pick of the bunch.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, to her right was Shino Sosaki (better known as Mandalay). Ironically, Izuku probably seen her the most of any of these pro heroes.

What made that ironic was the final woman next to her: Rumi Usagiyama. Known as her hero name of Mirko, Rumi was the youngest of the pro heroes (only being three years older than Izuku himself was), was regularly placed with Izuku during the war, and made her attraction to him fairly known (not helped by her licking her lips slightly when she showed up).

There was another thing about Rumi's appearance that Izuku wouldn't take note of until Toru spouted it out. "Mirko! Your arm!" And like that, Rumi gave a thumbs up with an arm that she isn't suppose to have.

"Oh yeah, I decided to give her back her arm and ear. I think she's much cuter with them. I'll even let her keep them."

There was some quiet mumblings about this, but Ibara soon spoke up "So you can permanently alter us? Even outside of whatever this place is?"

"Yep. So long as I follow certain rules." Ibara was about to ask more, but Hypno-Tan floated over and placed a finger on her lips. No one else noticed her eyes glaze over at Hypno-Tan's touch. "I'll explain teh rules shortly, we still have things to work out first." She then floated back to where she was, with Ibara coming to her senses but no longer feeling the needed to know more right now. "Now, Melissa asked a good question earlier about 24 ladies versus one man. No matter how much of a man he is, one man is just one man."

"Yes," Kaina dryly added. "One is one. That's how math works."

Hypno-Tan laughed fairly hard at that, alivating the nerves of anyone concerned that she couldn't take a joke. "Anyway, these four were off talking over the final idea: breaking off into teams of six!"

"Four teams of six?" Ochako asked.

"Yep." Hypno-Tan said. "That's how math works." Ochako got flustered at some giggles flown her way, but tried not to take it personally. "These four lovely women will each taken turns picking a woman from the pool-" Yui audibly groaned as she picked up on the pun, making Hypno-Tan grin, "-for their team. It'll make keeping track of everyone easier. And it'll make everything less overwhelming for everyone."

Izuku, having ended his deep thinking, had to agree. It's not just for me. Having a regular group to check up with will be quite nice.

"Oh, by the way, Izuku will not be in any of these teams. Just wouldn't be fair!" Planting both feet on the ground, she proudly pointed to herself with her thumb. "He and I will be completely impartial judges towards any challenges when needed!" She then gestures for the pros to head into the pool. "But enough about us, you four have selections to make! And I imagine you've made your mind about selections?" All four gave what amounted to a "yes," and so Hypno-Tan floated up to the top of the waterfall again and let them make their choices.