It all started when Izuku was four years old. The day his world turned upside down. The day he asked the question.

"Mom… can I be a hero too?" Izuku age four asked his mother this question sincerely hoping that she would say that he could.

"Izuku…." Inko, Izuku's mother was almost crying but smiled, "it won't be easy… but I think you can become a hero." Inko said to start training harder than anyone else.

From four years old Izuku begins learning as much as can trying his best to learn about others quirks, his mumbling never changed and his notebooks remained the same. From an outside perspective the only thing that changed was Midoriya was fitness, and while that was true externally he also changed in one other way he was slightly more confident, so he took his mother's applied words to heart. 'You can be a hero'.

-Izuku Midoriya fourteen years old-

Izuku was getting better at drawing attention away from himself he never really did anything to cause Kaachan to notice him except sometimes when he mumbled sometimes but today he managed to get through the whole day without mumbling he had mixed martial arts match today so he really did not want to get caught up. The dojo was within walking distance of his house which was very nice. The dojo was Izuku's safe haven, even if most of the people from the martial arts he learned didn't bother him or mention his condition, as they liked to call it, they never acknowledged his skill always claiming he was lucky. They thought that was the only way a quirkless person could beat them. Izuku entered the dojo for his match so many conceding eyes locked on him, but he didn't care he had to focus on his match. His opponent was Ojiro Mashirao a mixed martial arts black belt with his quirk and an advanced brown belt without his quirk, Izuku was a black belt without his quirk. In this fight there would be three rounds based on the combatants, in this case, one round with no quirks allowed, one round with quirks allowed, and a round decided by the person with least points (or in the case of a tie a coin flip decides) points are given based on the actions of the fighters ten points per second with a pin all other moves give one point. Midoriya was known in the ring under two nicknames the Mumbling martial artist to the commentators and Lucky Star by anyone and everyone he ever faced. Midoriya was in his waiting room alone mentally preparing himself, his room was completely barren except for the bench Izuku was currently sitting on.

"And now the moment we've all been waiting for!" That was Izuku's cue to get up and head into the stage, "welcome to stage, on the left, 'The Mumbling Martial Artist', Midoriya Izuku!" did they really have to remind him of his mumbling issue?, "and on the right, 'The Underdog Tail', Ojiro Mashirao!" Izuku ignored all the eyes glaring at him and the silence when his name was called compared to the roar of cheering when Ojiro was called. Izuku was more focused on the words of wisdom his sensei gave him:

Step one: Criminalize

Izuku never fought seriously without reason, so to fight seriously he had to imagine his opponents doing cruel things. Izuku Imagined the blonde boy with the tail kicking a dog to prepare mentally for this fight.

Step Two: Analyze

Izuku listened to the referee

"Each round will last one minute, and during the second round Ojiro's tail will be considered a leg, all illegal moves will come at a ten point penalty if you reach negative points you lose."

"A leg, huh?", "do both fighters understand?" Izuku nodded silently. "Meet in the middle for a handshake." Izuku compiled, as did Ojiro with his right hand. "So he's right-handed".

"Ready? Set?"

Step Three...