It started from the simple video that Izuku once saw. That video gave hope, feeling of safety and warmth to many souls. Midoriya was no exclusion. In his children eyes flared up a delight and unbreakable hope. But was it so "unbreakable"?
"Your son is in the low percentage of people that don't have any quirk ".
These words broke him. Broke his faith and a will to live. He lived like that with his head down, without any wish to remember anything, until the time when something strange happened. It was a usual day. Midoriya went back from school where he was bullied. Looking at his feet, without a want to meet with a glance with passers-by.
At one moment he felt a lack of air. Someone's hands covered Izuku's face and neck, forcing to suffocate in darkness. Sidewalk disappeared under feet. But after a second a bright light blinded his eyes, a footpath returned and a fresh air started normally enter the lungs. After coughing, Midoriya looked in front of him and saw a strange man in an unusual for human eyes clothes. The hem of his long black dress fell to the sidewalk, his face was cover by a hood.
-W-what do you want from me? - asked Izuku, stammering from fear.
- Is this him? - asked the kidnapper, as if throwing the question into the void.
- Yes, apparently. Your work is done so you can go away. Now I'll figure everything out by my self, - a voice sounded out of nowhere.
Izuku looked right and saw a young man, around twenty-three years with short grey hear. His clothes were rather simple: jeans with an inconspicuous hoody. But frightening hand on the face gave Midoriya the creeps.
- W-who are you?
- Well hello, Midoriya Izuku. Wanna talk? - asked he calmly, scoffing a little.
- Talk? About what? - Izuku looked down on his feet.
- You'll know if you agree. One I am sure of: you'll get interested. So come on?
The man walked a couple of meters, then expectantly stopped. Izuku after thinking some time he understood that has nothing to lose, so the boy followed that strange person.
They showed up on the street full of people. They rapidly passed by, without looking anywhere. Nobody paid any attention to what's happening around them. They all were like in the big fast carousel.
- What is your name? You know mine, but I don't have a clue how to call you... - mumbled Midoriya timidly.
Interlocutor looked at him with a cold gaze but answered unwillingly:
- I'm Tomura Shigaraki.
- Thanks... - after few seconds Midoriya replied again. - Tomura, where are we going?
- You'll see, just walk by me.
Izuku now quietly followed Shigaraki. With each meter, people got less until the lime when nobody was around them. After two quarters they turned the corner and what Midoriya saw was above his expectations. No sound was, just a silence of death. Ruins, debris of houses, broken beams and shards of glass were around them. In the air, there was grey smoke and a smell of burnt human meat. Izuku covered his nose with a hand so that he could smell that stench, but the stink was already in his lungs.
- W-what is it? Why did you lead me here?
- Yesterday All Might was fighting against one powerful villain. Of course, he won, although he fell down and destroyed this hospital after a strong hit. Patients, nurses, doctors. They all died at one time... - he made a pause and looked at the boy. - What do you think about that, Midoriya?
- It's horrible...
- And deaths like this happen very often! - as if triumphantly said Tomura. - Now tell me: would you like to stop it?
- Me? But I don't have any quirks! And how to stop it ...
- It's another question. If you had a possibility, power, and strength... would you use them to save these people?
- Yes! - answered Izuku surely. - But... no matter what I'm weak and I can't do anything. I don't even have a quirk!
Shigaraki smiled, although it wasn't seen under a hand.
- I was watching you for a very long time, Midoriya Izuku, and I know you better than anybody else. You are quirkless, it's a fact. But you have a potential, which is stronger than any quirk. Let me develop it!
- Potential... - he pondered. - Shigaraki, if I will trust you... will I be possible to save people? - Izuku looked around.
- Certainly. I will help you and you will save a lot of people. But you should be prepared to get through many things. Are you ready to get your hands dirty?
Midoriya got silent, thinking about how to answer. A few seconds later he answered surely:
- If it's necessary I will shed blood. And the first one on my list is going to be All Might.