Chapter the First

You Died

Let's make something clear right away.

Dying sucks. It sucks balls. Particularly when it's a somewhat violent and painful death. I'd known this, somewhere in my mind, from all the countless hours I'd spent playing video games and watching movies. I'd also learned that while movies and tv shows use a cute little sound effect for the audience, it's next to impossible to actually hear a bullet.

Let me tell you, feeling it is a completely different issue. It hurt like fucking hell, taking a bullet through my shoulder. But so did the next couple of bullets that hit my gut.

The one thing about this that made it worth it?

The little kids these selfish little shits had attacked the mall for? They were safe. I'd seen to that.

Oh. I thought as the punks pointed their guns at me again. They're swearing at me... I think. I can't hear them anymore...

I'm... not entirely sure what happened next. I think there was another muzzle flash, but my eyesight had dimmed so much it's hard to say. What I did know was that I found myself floating in some kind of endless void. Nothing but some strange light emitted from me, and even that I had a very hard time seeing. Aside from that, nothing.

There. Was. Nothing.

The light I was giving off was fading. Was time passing? Was I moving? I don't know. All I knew was that there

Was

NOTHING.

It struck fear and terror deep, deep into my being. This place was wrong on just so many levels and the sheer longing for a tactile, real response from anything made it so hard to bear and understand why there was just

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For the longest time (so much and yet so little time), I could feel this void bearing upon me. But I fought, clinging desperately to all of my memories, even as the darkness tried to erase them. Until there was a small flash of bright light from within me.

It felt... warm. Safe. And most importantly, it felt alive.

The next thing I knew was a sensation of being small, much much smaller than I remembered. And I was being held by someone. My vision slowly faded into focus, and I found two adults that I'd never seen before bearing over me. A woman and a man. From what I could tell, I was being held by the woman.

The woman had... wings? Looking around, I saw a few other people with strange abilities active and stuff.

Was this... My Hero Acadamia?

Then I noticed that the woman and man were speaking to each other, but my ears failed to fully register the words. It sounded like cooing, or at least speaking very softly. I looked around as best I could. That's when I put the pieces together.

I was in a hospital.

As a baby.

I had only one real means of reacting.

What. The actual. Fuck.

A/N: This is my first attempt at an SI/OC. So give me some feedback as I go along, please! Constructive criticism is preferred, rather than flamethrowing, if you could, please.