Prologue: Awaken

"Not all men are created equal. This was a reality I learned about society at the young age of four. And that was my first and last setback."

"Listen up Deku," Katsuki exclaimed as he set off another explosion in his palm. "You're worse than these damn rejects, you quirkless wanna be! You really think they can let someone like you in when they can have me?"

The small, timid boy backed up against the wall of the classroom in fear of the intimating Katsuki kid that was standing over him. Waving his arms around frantically, the green haired boy gathered himself to respond back to his classmate.

"No, no you've got it all wrong! I'm not trying to compete against you, it's just I've wanted to become a hero since I was little. I may not have a quirk, but I can still try my hardest, can't I?"

"You'd never be able to hang with the best of the best," retorted the spiky, blond headed kid with smoke now coming from his hands. "Defenseless Izuku! Do you really wanna embarrass this crappy school by failing so bad?!"

Later that day

As the classroom emptied out, Izuku Midoriya sat alone at his desk scanning his phone about the reactions around the town of an earlier fight that had taken place that morning.

"Wow, I better write some notes down for later," he exclaimed as he was about to place his notebook in his backpack. Suddenly, it was taken from him by Katsuki.

"I don't know what you're doing here Deku, but we're not done," Katsuki barked as he held Izuku's notebook in his hand.

"What's that his diary," a young student mocked as he and other classmate gathered behind the ring leader to bully Izuku.

"Are you seriously taking notes on heroes," the other student exclaimed. "That's so lame!"

"Really funny guys, now give it back," Izuku pleaded as he held his hands out to Katsuki.

Katsuki took the notebook and smacked his exploding fists against it and then threw it out the window. Izuki looked in utter disbelief and shock towards his bullies.

"That's so mean," he shot at Katsuki and the others as his blood began to start rising. The green haired kid was pretty upbeat despite the quirkless status and the bullying most days, but today was different.

"Most heroes show signs of greatest in earlier years," Katsuki quipped ignoring the shocked kid. "With one look they know they're destined for greatness. That's what they're going to be saying about me when I'm the first kid outta this crappy middle school to make it into UA high."

He paused for a second before putting his smoking hand on Izuku's shoulder with a frightening grin.

"Here's some advice, nerd. Don't apply, or else."

Izuku looked at Katsuki without a response. Katsuki was a childhood friend who he had always looked up to because of his amazing quirk, however the friendship was rather one sided because Katsuki was quite the bully to him.

With the three bullies leaving Izuku alone, one of the underlings turned to Izuku who was now enraged with his fists balled up and spoke up.

"That's just sad, I thought you had at least some fight in you."

"He finally gets it," the other bully chimed in. "He'll never be a hero, better to find out now than later, I guess."

As Izuku stood there with his back turned to the barrage of verbal attacks, he was now enraged. For years, these three had been giving him hell about him being defenseless, quirkless, and a loser. All he wanted to do was become a hero, like his childhood idol, All Might, and now these so called "friends" were shooting down his dreams. As he began to speak up, Katsuki stopped at the door with a sudden change of tone.

"You know there might actually be a way you can become a hero," he said with a bit of encouragement in his voice. "Just take a swan dive off the building and hope in your next life you're born with one."

Izuku finally had enough with it, gritting his teeth and turning to face the culprit of his anger.

"Is there a problem," Katsuki dared as he set off a couple of explosions in his hands.

The green eyed boy looked back at Katsuki completely unhinged at this point. He didn't care if they hurt him either verbally or physically anymore, he was going to stand up for himself. Pushing the desks away towards the side of him, Izuku charged at Katsuki with a head of steam.

"Woah, Midoriya is actually going to fight," one bully laughed at the small boy charging towards them.

"This isn't a fight you morons, this is a funeral," Katsuki bellowed as he readied his hands to explode on the green haired boy. However, as he began to ignite his attack, the three were blasted through the wall and door into the hallway.

"I AM NOT DEFENSELESS, KACCHAN," Izuku echoed.

The red eyed boy pushed away the debris around him as scanned around rapidly at what just happened. One second he was just about to kill little Deku and the next he's on the ground in the hallway.

"What the hell was that," Katsuki roared as he exploded a piece of concrete on his leg to jolt back up. "Deku, you better tell me how you did that you nerd!"

As Izuku watch the boy get back angrily with intent to harm, he looked down at his own two hands in disbelieve.

"I did cause that? T-there's no way that I did that. I couldn't have. It's impossible."

He reran what just happened in his head. Katsuki went to meet him head on, and as he put up his fists to meet his bully's, a strong force felt like it left his hand. Next thing he saw was Katsuki and the two boys flying through the wall.

I can't do that. I don't have a quirk. So if I didn't do it," he thought to himself until it became words aloud."Maybe Kachaan has some kind of backfiring ability of his quirk and it just caught him off guard but if that was the case wouldn't he have known that aspect of his quirk? It would be rather obvious-"

Looking back up from his muttering, he froze as Kachaan belted him with a forceful explosion punch to the stomach causing him to collapse on the ground.

"I don't know what the hell you were hiding Deku," Katsuki accused as he put his hands back in his pockets. "But just know you're always going to be scum to me you quirkless loser, don't you forget that."

He looked up at the desks that Deku shoved aside and noticed they were charred just a tad.

"What's wrong Katsuki," one boy asked as he rejoined with the ring leader.

"Nothing, let's just go, we're through here," he responded as he took one last look at the unconscious green haired boy on the ground before departing.

I don't remember using my quirk on those desks…This is all some freaking stupid prank that loser is trying to pull to get into UA. Pathetic.

Rubbing his head, Izuku gazed up at the ceiling of the middle school classroom that he woke up in. Disoriented, the young boy sat up trying to recall what just happened.

"Man, I had the craziest dream that I fought Kacha-" he stopped his words as he looked around the classroom. A crumbled wall, a broken door, and desk scattered around with burn marks all around him.

"W-what, w-w-wait that actually happened?! I thought, no there's no way!"

Getting up, Izuku looked at his hands again and back at the damaged wall. Replaying the words of all the people who have told him his dreams were never going to come true, the young man pushed out his fists with the same force as when he faced Kachaan. To his surprise, nothing happened. Again. Again. And again, he tried, no result.

"You have to be kidding me," he cried out in anguish. "The one time I believe I really did have a quirk, I guess Kachaan was right."

He slowly walked towards the window where his book was thrown out. Looking down, he discovered it landed in a koi pond. Angered again by his childfriend's actions and comment, Izuku balled his fists up against the wall.

"That idiot telling me I should jump," he lamented to himself. "Comments like that and he says he wants to be a hero. This world isn't fair."

Getting more and more frustrated, Izuku noticed his hand sinking into the wall. Charred stains gathered around the boy's hand as the light around his fingertips died out. Taking his hand off the wall, he examined the burn marks around the area.

"I can do it, I can be a hero."

"Oh, yeah this is the story of how I become the world's greatest hero."

A/N: I've been wanting to do a fan fic of this series for quite a while. I've been suffering from writer's block in another story of mine for a series that's been gone since 2016 (RIP bleach), so since this is my favorite current anime, I really want to give this a go! I'd really like to make this a long story as well, so please tell me your thoughts on it! It's rough, I know but it's just the prologue. Deku will have a quirk and yes, he doesn't meet All-Might…well just not yet :) Next chapter will be longer, and cover the entrance exam along with Deku's trial and error with his new found quirk. Anyways, please review and thanks for reading!