Disclaimer: I don't own MHA


What if things had happened at different times?

The events of reality affect each other on a cascade so it's only natural that if one or two things happened differently than the entire word could have changed.

What if a history changing fight happened a year later?

What if a powerless boy trained his body for an impossible goal?

Well, that might lead to a very different story indeed


"Nighty one – Nighty two – Nighty three urg Nighty four"

Because I am here!

The words ran through the young man's head filling him with determination as he struggled to the end of his set. Sweat running down his body as he lowered himself to the ground in a traditional push up before rising up to his starting position to repeat the process he was nearly done with his morning regimen today was the first day back at school and he had to get showered and ready soon.

"Nighty nine- and One hundred"

Finishing up Izuku Midoriya pulled himself into a standing position showing off his shirtless and well-toned body as he did so despite being only fourteen his body had been trained to near perfection by years of hard work and dedication and it showed in the form of the rock solid muscles that covered his body.

Izuku was ripped and he knew it having gotten this way through blood and tears, it was only natural that someone like him who lacked a Quirk would need a body even stronger than others if he wished to be a hero while not processing his own set of powers.

Stretching out to release the built up tension and stress of his workout the young man sighed with content at his session before heading inside to get ready for the day.


Hours later towards the end of school

'It doesn't matter what happens, in this world those without power are useless'

The though ran through Izuku' s head as he clutched his burn and scorched notebook in his hand, his former friend and rival had flipped out after discovering his intent to apply to U.A the number 1 hero school.

Kaachan had wanted to be the only person from there middle school to apply to U.A and had taken steps to dissuade Izuku from even applying. His method of doing so…

A demonstration of his power, his quirk explosion that allowed him to create explosions in his palms he had intimidated Izuku, told him to kill himself and all but destroyed his hero note book.

Izuku was obsessed with hero's and has been for years, his obsession lead him to analysing every detail about them, their fights, their quirk and their strategies he wrote these down in a series of notebooks always carrying the latest one in case he came across a situation that he had to note down such as his encounter with Mt. Lady and Kamui Woods that very morning. Then notes had been his work of passion and now his latest had been destroyed and he hadn't been able to do anything about it.

"When I started training, and my body started showing improvements Kaachan stopped bullying me so much I thought it was because he didn't see me as a target anymore" Izuku muttered to himself. "I thought that because I'd gotten stronger I could be a hero, but no matter how strong I've gotten he still brushed me off like I was nothing". The muttering became increasingly depressive as the boy felt his determination wavering.

His mind flashed back to his childhood he remembered his introduction to his dream, of the hero All Might saving people during his hero debut he had saved 100 people that day declaring to the world that they had no need to fear anymore because he was there.

Izuku had been inspired by that video of the idea of that man smiling while helping people and a seed had been planted inside him. All Might had looked so happy while he was saving people and the people had been thankful to him, the young boy had wanted that as well that dream of being a hero.

A dream that had been shattered by one X-ray a second joint in a toe that modern humans had evolved out of a doctor kindly telling him that he was different from all his friends that he lacked a quirk and the chance of being a hero.

His mother had broken down when he'd asked her why he couldn't be a hero sobbing and apologising to him as she tried to explain what the barley post toddler boy had no chance of understanding. That his dream was more of a fantasy.

Izuku had fallen into a multi-year long depression as a result going through life and seeing the people around him drift away as they discovered that he was different to them, he no longer resented them knowing they had stayed away due to a combination of fear of Kaachans strong quirk and a child's aversion to different people but when he was a child he had resent them and hated them.

So he decided to prove them wrong, to prove the whole world wrong he began to train his body everyday his mother helping him at every step happy to see him moving past his slump. He grew strong and could confidently say that in terms of pure physical strength he surpassed even Kaachan.

But if all it took was one push from his rivals quirk to put him down then what did his training mean. Izuku gathered his things and began to sulk home.

'If I can't even stand up to Kaachan then what chance do I have…

At being a hero'


At around the same time in another part of the city people were running from a large slim like monster or rather Villain on a crime spree. He caused vast amounts of damage before running away.

A group of people gathered outside of a supermarket and looked on in dismay with one muttering to another.

"Every day there's always another, wont this wave of Villains ever end?" He spoke with the tired voice of a man who had seen these type of events far to often and had become hardened to the thought of a reprieve.

Unknown to him the door to the supermarket had opened and a frail man had stepped out and heard what had been said and quickly tasking stock of the situation underwent an unseen transformation into a large, muscular and bulky man before speaking up attracting the attention of those around him.

"This era of Villains will end" His voice was deep and heroic and as the people looked back at him their eyes widened with recognition. He carried on regardless "Because I am here!"


Sometime later Izuku was walking home after shuffling with his head down as he was lost in his depression he was walking slower than usual and anyone that saw him would be able to tell that something was wrong with the boy.

But no one had and so he was allowed to wonder through the world lost in his thoughts until he came to a bridge that he had to pass under in order to get home.

He snapped out of his thoughts as he approached something felt out of place and he looked around the area not seeing anything out of place compared to the many other times he had taken this route home.

He turned around quickly looking around the way he had come only to see nothing brushing off his paranoia he turned round just in time to see a flash of movement out of the corner of his eye before he felt a huge weight on his back and shoulders.

He stumbled forwards as the thing seemed to expand around his body beginning to weigh him down before he heard a voice in his ear.

"Sorry Kid, but I'm goanna need your body to help me go low profile" The voice was uncultured and rough and Izuku felt and saw what he now knew to be some sort of slime spreading across his body coming towards his mouth and he began to struggle trying to free himself from the grip.

"It's no use" The voice laughed. "You're no hero kid so just give up"

Izuku stopped dead, the Villain attacking him couldn't have known he was quirkless or that he dreamed of being a hero but his words struck deep regardless, here he was powerless again brought down easily by some no name Villain who any decent hero could take down.

He really was useless then after all, his dreams had always impossible he thought back to what Kaachan had said when destroying his note and closed his eyes hoping that when he woke up he would be reborn with a quirk.

I am Here!

In an instant Izuku's eyes snapped open as the memory played through his head. How could he have forgotten the look on All Might's face or the determination in his own heart, it may be impossible but he was determined to be a hero regardless he wanted to stand tall and tell the world…

"I AM HERE!" He screamed without even realising it tensing his well-trained muscle as he strained against the sludge clinging to him and amazingly it started to give way.

"What!" the sludge monster shouted shocked as Izuku pulled away from him. "How could some kid get away from me?"

Izuku stumbled away and quickly turned to face his former captor finally getting a good look at the monster, the man's clearly mutant type quirk had changed his body into some form of slime or sludge giving him a fluid like appearance that would most likely make him hard to hit and contain. He also apparels to have the ability to process peoples bodies if what he had said earlier was any indication.

If he were watching from an outside perspective Izuku would be furiously writing in his notebook writing up all the information he could find on the villain and how he would adverse it be dealt with.

But he wasn't from an outside perspective he was the one fighting this time and he had no time to get lost in his thoughts.

The sludge villain reared up making his body look big as he prepared to pounce, Izuku got into a semblance of a fighting stance obviously drawn from a variety of movies and showing how he lacked martial arts skill regardless of his training.

The Sludge monster began to charge and Izuku tensed to jump out of the way only for a figure to jump in-between them in a split second barley giving the boy a second to recognise the figure before his world went black and he fainted.

"TEXAS SMASH"


All might raced through the city looking for the Villain it had already been a while since he had first seen the commotion and he had yet to find the monster this time wasted in addition to his patrol early that day meant that he was beginning to run short on time and he wanted to get this over and done with today.

He was on its trail though quite literally as he all but flew through the city following a path of slime towards what appeared to be the underside of a bridge. With his well-tuned and enhanced reaction speeds he took in everything in the few seconds he saw as he landed he saw the sludge villain surrounding what looked to be a young man in his mid-teens and he was just beginning to step forward to save the boy before he was interrupted by a scream.

"I AM HERE!"

He was put off for a few seconds at hearing his own catchphrase shouted by a civilian in danger and therefore could only watch as the boy pulled himself grunting and straining away from the sludge covering him.

That's quite impressive strength for someone his age his quirk must be a minor strength one." The number one hero was lost in his thoughts for several more seconds admiring the hero spirt and his obvious fan before he was snapped back into reality by the sludge monster moving to attack once more and he jumped into the fray.

"TEXAS SMASH"


Later

"Wake up, come on young man this is no time to be sleeping"

Each words was aided with a gentle slap as Izuku was slowly brought back around. He sat up groggily and looked around in a sense of half-asleep confusion before the memories came rushing back to him and he jumped to his feet looking around wildly.

"Villain, Villain!" He cried several times clearly looking for the sludge monster that was nowhere to be seen. He spun around several times before a laugh caught his attention and he slowly turned around to face his saviour.

"Ahahhaha, never fear my boy I've got that Villain all looked up right here, you see." The large man turned to show off his hip on which sat a bottle containing a lump of sludge that could only be the monster that had attacked Izuku earlier.

Not that Izuku much cared at that moment he had finally caught on to who exactly had saved him and he was now staring like a fangirl at the man.

"All...Might" he said the name quietly as if not quite believing it before his face lit up. "ALL MIGHT!" He all but shouted reaching for his notebook. "Please sign…"

He trailed off as he found that the number one hero had already signed his name a large scrawl on a double page.

As the shock wore off his mind began to run, these was so much he wanted to ask his idol about being a hero, about power and about whether or not even he could fight without a quirk when..

"Well if your all right then I should get going a hero's work is never done after all." Was it Izuku's imagination or were those words spoken with a slight nervous tint the thought was quickly washed away as All Might crouched obviously about to use super strength to jump away as the boy has seen videos of him doing time and time again.

Izuku didn't hesitate, he didn't think he had questions that needed answers so he leapt forward and grabbed on to All Might just as he jumped taking Izuku for the ride.

"AHHHHHAAA"


Izuku was walking down the street after his conversation with All Might and the secret that had been revealed to him by the hero four years ago he had been wounded and taken a grave injury severally limiting the amount of time he could spend using his quirk and forcing him into a small skinny form after about four hours per day of usage of which he had run out while talking to the boy. The hero had soon noticed that in the panic of Izuku piggy backing a ride with him that he'd lost the bottle containing the sludge hero and was now unable to fight it with his weakened body.

Izuku was going over this new information in his head repeatedly as he did with all heroes trying to determine the exact affect it would have on All Might his abilities and the way he handled Villains but he knew deep down that it was just a front for the other topic of conversation with the hero that he wanted to avoid.

I can't say you can become a Hero without power"

It was strange hearing it from his idol, in his dreams and fantasies he'd always imagined his meetings with All Might going much differently in his own world the pro had always been supportive telling him how he didn't need a quirk to be a real hero, and now Izuku had been faced with the cool reality from All Might himself.

Without a quirk he was just a useless Deku like Kaachan always said a failure who couldn't do anything who couldn't save anyone.

Even worse his actions resulted in the release of the Villain that All Might had caught using the last of his hero time for today and now he was back on the streets causing damage without the number 1 hero around to stop him.

It was at this moment that Izuku bumped into a man in front of him he had been so lost in his thoughts that he hadn't seen the crowd right ahead of him.

This caught Izuku's intrigue he knew what this type of crowd was and he found himself straining his neck more out of habit than anything else to get a look at the villain that must be on the other side.

Only for his heart to drop when he saw exactly who it was the sludge hero that had gotten away because of him and now he was throwing around heroes like they were nothing…actually why was that from what he knew of those heroes they should be able to take him easily so why weren't they?

"It's because the slime guys got a hostage" piped up a voice from nearby causing Izuku to realised he must have spoken aloud. The man carried on "Some school kid from what I can see"

This caused another spike of guilt inside of the boy and he felt his heart drop even further only for it to near stop completely as he got a look at those features he knew so well.

'Kaachan, what's he doing here?' Izuku was instantly overrun with panic just about to run to his friends aid when..

I can't say you can become a Hero without power"

He stopped dead in his tracks as All Might's words came back to him. He looked at his rival desperately realising that there was nothing he could do if even Kaachan who was far beyond him was helpless then the best thing he could do was sit back and wait for a hero to come save him.

"Urggghhh"

Izuku was running before he'd even heard the end of Bakugo's scream he was running past the heroes shouting for him to stop and gaining on the sludge monster.

The same monster that had just noticed him

'Why did I do that what was I thinking?' Izuku screamed in his head as he carried on steaming towards the sludge.

"Die in an explosion!" The monster shouted as he moved Bakugo's body towards Izuku presumably hoping to use his quirk to stop him getting close.

His plan was foiled by a school bag to the face making him flinch and letting Izuku get close and start clawing sludge of his childhood friend.

"Deku…Why?" the question made him look up briefly.

Why? He didn't really know that much these were lots of reasons really his desire to protect and his drive to prove the world wrong but most importantly.

"Because" He started tears beginning to fall down his face. "You looked like you wanted some help." The statement clearly shocked his rival given the way his eyes widened.

"Stop it!" He yelled just before the sludge monster recovered and began to bring its arm down upon Izuku causing the boy to flinch, cover his eyes and wait for the impact.

But it never came.

Izuku opened his eyes to see a large muscular figure standing before him the monsters tentacle wrapped around his arm.

"Sorry" All Might began "I told you about the risks but wasn't putting what I said into practise "He grabbed hold of the tentacles ripping them from him. "Pros are always risking their lives"

He pulled his arm back,

"Detroit Smash!"

And saved the day.


A short time later Izuku stood in the street near his home, Kaachan had just confronted him telling him that he didn't need to be saved and that he shouldn't be looked down upon by Deku before leaving.

He stared at the path where his rival had run for a second before turning around only to come face to face with.

"All Might? But just a second ago you were surrounded by reporters" The boy said confused.

"Ah they were easy to escape because I am All Mi-"

The statement was cut off by a cloud of smoke as all might reverted to his true form.

The now skinny hero looked at Izuku for a second before being a speech one of bravery and heroics of thanks and acknowledgement that left Izuku crying he told him about a touch that can be passed on and he made the boy and offer he couldn't refuse.

But most importantly he looked him in the eye as he stood there standing majestically and said the words Izuku had been wanting to hear his whole life.

"You can become a hero"


One month later

All might was shocked beyond belief as he stood on the spotless beach.

After offering his quirk to the boy he had set him to the task of cleaning the beach to prepare his body to become a vessel for his power the quirk one for all he had thought that he might be able to do it in the ten months before the U.A entrance exams but he'd underestimated his soon to be successor who was apparently already in excellent shape and who now stood atop the last bit of trash screaming his success to the world.

Several minutes later All Might stood in front of the now recovered Izuku with a proud smile on his muscled forms face.

"You've done well young Midorya" He started "You've surpassed even my greatest expectations and have earned the right to inherit my power"

He reached up and pulled a strand of hair from his head before holding it out to the new hero.

"Eat this and begin your life as a hero"

"What!" the boy gasped confused.

"My power can be inherited only be consumption of my DNA so you best open up".

With that Izuku gained his quirk and awoke his power. His speedy training meant that he'd have nearly 9 months to train with his new power breaking his body over and over again on his path to be a hero.


A further 8 months later

Izuku stood before his teacher it had been a long and painful time of training for him he had been unable to use the power well and had learned well from it, becoming well acquainted with Recovery Girl the nurse hero of UA.

It had all led to this moment his power flowed through his body the small 5% of it that he could handle being forced through his entire body at the same time an idea that had only recently occurred to the young hero.

He didn't have a muscled form and his body wasn't as strong as All Might's and so this was his answer pooling his power in a different way.

He looked up at All Might a few feet away ready to begin their spar and grinned before settling into one of his learned fighting stances.

"One for all: Full Cowl"


Thats it for now please tell me what you think.

Later,

Dreams