For anyone who read my first and second stories, the character in those was also named Endo, like the OC in this one. This is for two reasons, one which may or may not come to pass (I don't want to spoil anything for my second story), the second is just cause I love the name, but he will have a different first name. If you have read my other fics then you know Endo has an intriguing backstory, this Endo doesn't have that same backstory, this is a completely separate person for all intents and purposes. Of course here is the obligatory disclaimer, I do not own anything involving the manga or anime My Hero Academia. Either way, I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 1: I don't need it

Darkness was the only thing Reiji Endo could see, but it was self-imposed blindness. His sky blue eyes were hidden by his eyelids as he took calming breaths, there was a light breeze and a static flowing through the air only he could feel. The people around him made it hard to focus on that power, that electricity, that voice. It was faint, fleeting, but it was familiar, Endo regarded it as an old friend.

"Hey!"

Endo's scrawny form stumbled backwards as a loud voice emanated right in front of him. His eyes snapped open, the light of the sun causing them to sparkle like sapphires. A spiky red-haired kid was standing in front of him, a huge grin on his face, "Uh, hey?" His vocals were meek and quiet compared to the boisterous bass coming from the teen in front of him.

"Are you ok man?" The smile never left his face.

Looking down at his clothes Endo saw nothing awry and asked the obvious, "Yeah, why?"

"Dude, you're super pale."

"Oh." Was all Endo could say as he ran his hand through shaggy black hair, "Yeah, I guess I am." He decided not to add that's just how he was, the guy seemed nice enough.

"Ok cool!" The energetic teen stuck out his hand, "Ejiro Kirishima."

Endo took the hand, which began to crush his like tinfoil, "Reiji… Endo." He said through grunts of pain.

"Are you so stoked for this or what?!"

"Um." Endo couldn't say he shared his enthusiasm, but wasn't too worried about this exam, after all, he knew what the opponents were and before his quirk, they would be nothing. "Sure."

Somehow managing to smile wider, Kirishima turned towards the enormous fake concrete city. "This is it, our first step to becoming heroes!"

Endo glanced around nervously at such a loud exclamation and immediately spotted another set of eyes overlaid with glasses fiercely inspecting them, "Would you mind to quiet down, this is an important moment for all of us and I would appreciate if you had the same respect for us as we do you."

"Sorry." Mumbled Endo to the straight-laced tester, he was the same guy who had been overly polite and eloquent in the briefing room.

The teen was about to turn away, but Kirishima, still unfazed, had other plans, "Sorry man! We are just so pumped for this!" He wrapped his arm around Endo's neck pulling him close as if they were the best of friends.

Suddenly being dragged into the spotlight was not something Endo appreciated as he tried to wrestle out of the iron grip. But of course, he wasn't exactly built to resist the unnaturally beefy Kirishima.

The guy with the glasses seemed like he was about to retort, but before he could a certain loud voice came from a tower behind them. Present Mike, the overly loud man from the briefing, struck a pose and yelled, "What are you doing standing around like that? Real fights don't have countdowns!"

Endo instantly understood the implication and forced his out of shape body to sprint for the door which was slowly opening. Being as weak as he was, almost everyone shot past him like a bullet. That didn't matter though, he didn't want to be the first one in anyways. By the time he did reach the battlefield, robots were strewn everywhere, mangled corpses ripe for Endo's picking. He darted to the nearest one tearing through the wires and other inner mechanisms until he found it.

Inside the judge's room, Nezu the principal brought to light the teen currently digging through the already broken bot. "Perhaps he is simply dense." The animal said happily.

Another teacher chimed in, Midnight, the female 18+ hero, "No, he's doing it with purpose, he knows what he is doing."

The battery was torn open and Endo began to memorize every piece he could see, when it was adequate he raced off. This was it, time to kill some robots. He noticed a green-haired kid standing in the center of the mess, a terrified look upon his face as a robot flew straight at him.

Endo pointed his finger at the mechanical menace and yelled, "Duck!" Milliseconds later the robot instantly exploded, peppering the cowering kid with metal, but not enough to hurt. And there it was, that rush of power, that electricity. He ran off repeating the tactic multiple times, with each robot, however, more blood fell from his nose, and more pain erupted from his head, but he pushed on.

Pushed maybe too far, he ended up surrounded by five of the bots, he clenched both his fists and mind. As his hands flowered open, the robots all detonated, this act put Endo on his knees gasping for air.

As he tried to regain his focus, he counted the points in his head, "35, 38, 41, 42, 45, not bad." He still had a couple of minutes, in front of him was a girl with brown hair and an extremely round face, to his left was Kirishima, to his right was a blonde-haired demon, who kept screaming as he blew up the robots, and behind him was that guy he saved earlier. Endo pushed himself to his feet but was immediately knocked back onto his ass as an explosion tore through the street up ahead.

Rubble went flying overhead, threatening to crush everyone around him, so Endo reached out his hands feeling the gears and controls inside the robots and pulled them to shield everyone, well everyone, but himself. Apparently, he also missed Kirishima because when Endo opened his eyes he saw the red-haired bodybuilder shielding him with a rock solid body. "Don't worry bro, I got you!"

Eight red eyes cut through the dust, towering above them, "Oh shit." It was the zero point villain, Endo expected it to be bigger than the others, but this was ridiculous, it towered above the buildings.

"Help!" A feminine voice cried out, nearly silenced by the rolling of the robot's tank treads.

It was the brunette trapped beneath the stray rubble, "I guess I didn't do as well as I thought I did." He took control of the only two robots left nearby, but they were torn to pieces by that one kid's explosion.

"THOSE ARE MY KILLS!" He screamed before jumping away.

Everyone suddenly began to run the opposite direction of the mech, "They wouldn't let a kid die here. Right?" But there was no slowing down for the titan, it stopped just behind her, its hand reaching down to crush her.

She closed her eyes, waiting for the impact, but nothing happened. Her eyes reopened to see a skinny pale kid holding his hands above his head, they were a good foot from the villain's hand, but he was shaking, struggling to hold it through whatever his quirk was.

It was like the weight of a building on his back and his mind, threatening to crush him, he was about to collapse, but suddenly Endo felt the pressure lifted from him and an enormous impact could be heard followed by many explosions in quick succession. He fell to his knees once more, his head pounding and his shirt covered in blood from both of his nostrils. He looked up to see an unbelievable sight, the green-haired kid who had originally been cowering in fear, now hovered at the height of the robot, he was the one who had thrown the punch.

The only problem was the guy was now falling, but Endo couldn't do much except watch, he was done, his energy spent. Suddenly the girl beside him was up and running beneath their savior. He didn't see what happened next, the strain on his brain made him nearly blackout and he regained consciousness minutes later to find an old lady standing above him. Her lips extended a scary length to kiss his forehead, instantly stopping the blood from flowing through his nose, and easing his headache. "Wha…"

The woman dropped something into his palm, "Here have some candy."

Kirishima was suddenly beside him, "That's Recovery Girl, the school's nurse, she obviously heals people with her quirk."

Endo nodded trying to shake off sudden tiredness.

"Make sure to go home and get some rest young man." The lady had already moved onto another person by the time she had finished the sentence.

"Yes, ma'am." He stood shakily, with Kirishima helping to support him

"Dude that was so manly of you! You just jumped right under that hand and stopped it! What is your quirk even?"

Endo sighed, he was really tired now, he was confident he passed, so all he wanted to do was go home and take a nap. But Kirishima had insisted on making sure he was ok, so Endo supposed it was fair to tell him. "Technopathy."

A blank stare was the only response.

"Long story short I can control machines."

"Ohhh." Kirishima screwed up his face suddenly, "Wait, then what were you doing digging through that robot."

Endo tried to focus on taking one step after the other, "I have to… understand the inner mechanisms of whatever I want to control. I was digging through it to find the power source, the easiest way to take the robots down, but when we encountered the zero point villain it had a different power source, that's why I didn't just kill it right away. I understood enough to stop the arm thankfully." He gave an example by making a billboard flash off for a moment, "The only downside to my quirk is if I overexert it, then I get a bloody nose and a crazy bad headache. Like the one girl from that superhero movie in America, what was it called… Fantastic Five? Maybe."

"That's crazy! Especially when we use technology so much."

Endo nodded as they arrived at his house, nothing special just another suburban building, "Well, I'll see ya later."

Kirishima's huge grin returned, "Yeah, I'll see you in class."

Endo didn't bring up the very obvious possibility there weren't going to be in the same class and walked into his home.

He didn't bother calling out, his parents were on a business trip for the week, for the second week this month. Endo waved a hand at the tv, switching it on, while he went to the fridge for something to eat.

"The new particle accelerator in America has just been completed by-" The woman was cut off as Endo changed the channel, despite his love of all thing tech, he wanted the news for Japan, not America. He quickly ate while he watched the usual reports, All Might, All Might, and more All Might, seriously the guy was everywhere. Afterward, he showered and threw himself into his bed, letting the tension in his body melt into the sheets.

When he awoke six hours later, his eyes cracked open to see his computer monitor displaying an image. Endo groaned and closed his blurry eyes trying to readjust to being awake. After about ten minutes, what it took him to normally get up, he walked over to his computer to see his drawing program open. The scene was photorealistic, two sets of eight eyes towering over a small figure pleading for his life. This happened sometimes, Endo's dreams would push themselves into his powers, which would push them into his computer. It was interesting sometimes to see an exact frame of a dream, but it could be awkward, like that one time he had a very perverted one, his father had walked in as Endo woke up and saw the computer screen. Nothing was ever said about that day, they had just silently agreed to never speak of it again.

Endo shook his head to jolt himself out of the memories and walked downstairs, there was a letter at the mail slot, excitement, nervousness, joy, and terror all coursed through him at once. "I didn't know they were that quick with results." He snatched the envelope and tore it open, revealing a small circular device. He took it out and set it flat on his kitchen table, there were certain parts inside it he could feel. He thought of his power as if he himself was inside the machines, he could see parts he knew and parts he didn't know were spots of darkness he couldn't illuminate. He could feel the computer chips, wiring, and some sort of illuminator, he also felt a switch on the outside, which he flipped with his powers.

The dark kitchen was lit up by the towering figure of, "All Might?"

"AHA! I am here as a projection!"

Endo groaned, he didn't hate All Might, in fact, he was pretty admirable, it was just the overall cartoony feel of the guy that he always winced at.

"You passed the written exam with an excellent score, and you excelled at the practical, your villain kills totaled to fifty points, but those were not the only points given during this test. Rescue points were awarded for the saving and protection of others around you, and for your heroic acts, you earned an extra twenty points! Congratulations Reiji Endo, and welcome to the Hero Academia!"

Three days passed, and suddenly just like that, it was Monday, time for the first day of class. Endo grabbed his backpack, about to step out his front door, but paused as he recalled the black cylinder on his desk, "You don't need it, you don't need it." But the mantra was in vain and Endo swooped back up to his room to snatch the device and store it in his pack.

Endo walked through the pristine halls, feeling technology all around him, from lights to motion sensors. He was fifteen minutes early and was struggling to find his class, "God damn, why isn't there a map in this place?"

"Need help?"

"Gah!" Endo nearly fell on his face but managed to catch himself on his hands and knees. "Don't sneak up on a guy like that." He stood and brushed off his uniform before turning around to see a pink skinned girl with yellow horns trying not to laugh.

"Sorry, sorry. That was just kinda funny."

Endo shook his head, embarrassed by the fact he had gotten so scared like that in front of a girl. "You class 1-A?"

She nodded, "I'm Mina Ashido by the way."

Endo offered his hand, "Reiji Endo. You know where you're going?"

Mina scratched the back of her head, "Kinda."

Hesitantly Endo decided he didn't want to wander around anymore, so he used his powers to access the cameras lining the hallways, in a way he asked them where 1-A was. Images flickered through his mind directing him through the maze of a school. "Let's try this way."

"Are you sure you had no idea where you were going? We went pretty much straight here." Mina glanced at Endo skeptically, who just shrugged.

"Lucky guess?"

The door slid open for them, revealing a cavalcade of unique faces, but one stood out to him, "Kirishima!"

"Endo!" The guy ran over grinning like crazy, "Good to see you here man!" He looked at the girl with him, "Mina! You know Endo?"

She smiled, "I do now."

"And you two know each other I presume?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, me and Mina went to middle school together Endo." Kirishima led them into the classroom.

Endo looked at the arranged seats, four rows of five, "So do we just pick seats?"

"I'm… actually not sure."

The door behind them slid open once more to reveal that green-haired kid who took down the zero pointer. Endo smiled, the guy looked nervous as all hell, so he took it upon himself to be the first to greet him. After shaking his hand he learned his name was Izuku Midoriya, "Ya know Midoriya, I gotta thank you for that save, without it, myself and that girl would've been squished."

A high pitched, "I agree." Echoed from behind Midoriya, who turned around, his face rapidly turning bright red.

It was the brunette from the test, "I'm Ochaco Uraraka and I would like to thank you both for saving me."

The lithe Midoriya began waving his hands in front of his face, nervously exclaiming, "Oh it was nothing really, I mean, I couldn't just do nothing, in fact, I should be thanking you for saving me!"

Endo just chuckled before the straight-laced kid with glasses could approach Midoriya, giving him an apology for how he had treated him earlier. Endo had no idea what that was about, he did, however, catch that his name was Iida. But he also couldn't help but notice a yellow figure on the ground behind Uraraka. "Um, guys?"

"If you want to play friends, go somewhere else." A black haired scruffy man inside the yellow sleeping bag said, sounding beyond tired.

Everyone turned to him, completely silent at the sight.

The man stood, "I will be your homeroom teacher, Shota Aizawa. This is the hero course of class 1-A, and I will not tolerate anything I deem unnecessary."

Endo felt a spike of fear run through him, the guy had been here ten seconds and he was already threatening students. The four standing there were about to rush to a seat, but Aizawa stopped them, "Don't bother, we are jumping straight into it." He pulled a stack of clothes from beneath his desk at the front of the class. "Change into these and meet me on the P.E. field immediately."

Uraraka seemed like she was about to ask him something, but held her tongue after thinking about his harsh declaration.

Endo stood in front of his locker, staring once again at the black cylinder, "I don't need it, I don't need it."

"Endo you coming? We gotta hurry!"

The technopath shouted back to Kirishima, "I'll be right there!" He screwed off the top of the container, revealing an almost liquid-like black ink and after a second of hesitation shoved his hand towards it. The thing moved seemingly of its own volition, creeping up Endo's arm and sinking into his body through his pores. He shivered as it happened, feeling the coldness creep through his body. He shook his head, trying to clear his mind, and ran out to meet the rest of the class.

"A quirk assessment test?"

A weary Aizawa sighed, "Throughout middle school, all of you did physical assessments, without using your quirks, this time, you have free reign to use them." He juggled a softball in his hand, "Bakugo, you scored first in the practical exam, why don't you go first." The softball changed hands, "Just don't step outside the circle and throw as hard as you can."

Bakugo pulled back his arm, a smirk on his face and he pitched forward, "DIE!" An explosion erupted from his hand and the ball went flying off.

At the first bounce, a beep emanated from their teacher's phone, he raised it to the class.

"750 meters? Seriously?" A kid with electric yellow hair looked on in shock.

Another with oddly thick elbows smiled, "Oh wow, so we can finally use our quirks as much as we want!"

Mina clapped her hands, "This sounds like fun!"

Aizawa glared at them all, "Fun huh?" A creepy smile suddenly covered his face, "Alright, how about this, 21 of you are present. Two people tied in the practical exam, causing an imbalance, so whoever comes in the last place of all eight tests… will be expelled. No second chances."

Many outbursts could be heard, but Aizawa silenced them all, "Demo's over, time for the real thing."

Test 1 was a simple fifty-meter dash and Endo was paired against the explosive Bakugo, who looked at Endo's pale scrawny figure and smirked, "I bet you won't even be able to finish the race before collapsing!"

Endo said nothing and just stared straight ahead. A gunshot rang out and Endo similarly shot out of the starting blocks, moving faster than he ever had before, in fact, he nearly managed to keep pace with Bakugo, who held his hands behind him to propel himself with explosions. Despite his best efforts, however, Bakugo finished just ahead of him scoring 4.13 seconds, while the technopath scored 4.35 seconds.

He stopped at the finish, not even out of breath and most everyone stared in shock, the guy had absolutely no indications that he would be able to keep up with a turtle, much less Bakugo.

Next was a grip test, the six armed towering hulk, of a kid Shoji won out with 560 kg of force. But as people soon found out, Endo was not to be left behind, he scored 330 kg of force.

Five more tests followed, funny enough only the toe touch managed to mess up Endo's streak, then it was time for the whole class to participate in the ball throw.

Aizawa gave Endo a beady eyed stare, "You're up."

Endo took to the circle, barely worried, he had outperformed several classmates, even if he was beaten here, he was guaranteed a spot above the bottom. He hauled back his arm, but as he threw forwards, something felt wrong and he collapsed to the ground, shaking furiously as the black ink forced its way out of his body into a puddle.

"I knew something was off about you." Aizawa stood above the student, his irises glowing red and his hair floating upwards. "From the very first test. I thought it might've been a fluke, just a fast runner, but things got progressively more unbelievable. Your quirk is technopathy, which doesn't enhance your body in the slightest, so what is it?" He asked gesturing to the liquid, "A drug?"

Endo stood, "Let go of my quirk, and I'll explain." Earlier when Midoriya had thrown the ball Aizawa had revealed his own quirk, one that canceled others.

Aizawa released his hold and stepped back.

Endo held out a hand to the liquid, and it floated into the air, hovering next to him, but it wasn't a liquid at all, "Nanobots, I built them to… augment my body. I control their functions with my quirk when they are in my body. They make me, well, a superhuman."

"Then why did it leave your body?" Mina asked, slightly grossed out by the explanation.

"I designed them so that if my quirk every stopped working, they would flow out of me, that way they wouldn't get stuck in my body." Endo stared at Aizawa, a pit forming in his stomach, he hadn't expected to be exposed so rapidly.

But Aizawa just stared expectantly, "Well, go ahead." Endo's confused face made him roll his eyes, "I just had to make sure it wasn't some sort of drug. Aoyama has his belt, I suppose you would need something in the field yourself. So go ahead."

Endo let the machines flow back into his body, shivering from the experience. He grabbed the ball from the ground, and once more hauled back his arm. Letting it go the ball flew for a good 300 meters.

A purple haired kid began to complain, "That seems unfair though if he gets to use those, shouldn't we be able to enhance ourselves as well?"

Aizawa glared at the midget, "He did it naturally using his quirk." He sighed, "Alright gather around let's do this." His phone projected a blue scoreboard.

Endo quickly scanned this list, finding his name rapidly at the number 6 spot. Satisfied his eyes went down to number 21, finding the name Koda stamped there. Endo looked around to find the person, his eyes resting upon a tall kid with a head shaped like a rock. His eyes were moist with tears.

"Aaaaand you're not expelled. You're just getting moved down to 1-B, they only have 19 people there."

The class exclaimed, "WHAT?!"

Well, all except one girl with a ponytail large enough to rival the biggest afro. "I knew that it was a logical deception from the beginning, it was only so we pushed ourselves, sorry I guess I should've said something."

Endo looked at her puzzled, "That assessment is based entirely on chance."

Her eyes widened, "I'm sorry I don't understand."

"We didn't know that class 1-B only had 19, and since our class only had twenty chairs, it was the logical assumption that someone would get expelled. Besides, it's not like the bottom spot is free from punishment."

The girl paused, then proceeded to bow to Koda, "I apologize, I meant no disrespect."

"Enough, pick up a syllabus from the class and Midoriya, here." He handed the kid a pink slip of paper, "Take this to the nurse to take care of your finger."

Midoriya had indeed broken his finger in order to throw the ball as far as possible. It seemed like he had so much power, he couldn't control it.

As Endo grabbed a syllabus he was intercepted by the same girl from earlier with the ponytail.

"Endo right?"

"Yeah… look I'm sorry about back on the field, I didn't mean to be such an ass about that."

She seemed to recoil at his use of foul language, her onyx black eyes slightly squinting, but continued nonetheless, "No, that's not it at all, I wished to thank you for preventing me from making such a mistake. I didn't mean to insult him."

Endo was taken aback, he had expected to get cussed out, shouted at a bit, not a thank you, "N-No problem."

"Out of my way Ponytail!" Bakugo came stomping into the classroom, bumping the girl from the side, causing her to stumble and she started to fall over.

Instinctively Endo used the Nanobots still in his body to fly out and catch her just before hitting the ground, they then gently helped her back to her feet, all while he glared at Bakugo. "What the hell was that?!"

"Not my fault she was in my way." His hand sparked with explosions.

The Nanobots hovered behind Endo, ready to jump into action

"Tch." Bakugo stalked off.

Endo turned back to the girl, "You good?"

"Yes… oh how could I forget, I'm Momo Yaoyorozu." Instead of offering her hand she bowed to him.

Endo returned the favor, giving his full name.

"Well, I suppose we must get to our next class."

The classes following homeroom seemed incredibly tame by comparison, English, Math, History, and Biology.

After Math, they got to have lunch in an expansive and clean, food court type setting. After sitting down with a tray of food Endo pulled out his drawing tablet, instructing the computer to draw from his memory while he ate.

Minutes later Mina and Kirishima found him, "Woah, did you draw that?" The pink girl stared at the drawing of their whole class, some of which were showing off their quirks.

"Technically, the computer did it I just told it what to draw."

"Can you draw me." She asked with wide eyes.

"I did." He pointed to the painting of the class.

"No like just one of me… please?"

Endo chuckled, "Ok what do you want?"

"Just draw something!"

He pulled open a fresh canvas and waved his hand over it, a mountain appeared, with a pink figure at the top spearing the snow with a flag that had Mina's face on it.

"Hmm, not what I was expecting, but I like it."

"Glad to hear that, because it's on your phone now."

Mina looked confused, "But I never gave you my number."

Endo smirked, "True, but when I was 10 my parents had me learn the inner workings of smartphones. Since they were everywhere my parents thought it would be best if I learned how to use my powers on them."

Her face turned bright red, "D-Did you look at my photos?"

"No wh… ok well that's that." Glad to have not looked at the photos Endo turned back to his tablet, constructing an image of a towering monster with red glowing patches all over its body.

"Ok draw me now!"

Endo sighed, "Ok." The picture was of Kirishima in a military uniform holding an M16 and lobbing a grenade. "I also sent this one to you, but I made sure not to look in your pictures."

"Dude that's so manly, I love it!"

Suddenly Yaoyorozu and another girl with a slight green tinge to her dark hair appeared behind the others, "What are you guys doing?"

Kirishima snatched the tablet, "Endo's drawing us."

The other girl he didn't know leaned in, "Wow that's really good! Could you draw us?" Her voice was very nasally, it made Endo think about the times his nose got stuffy.

"Ok if I draw you two as well, everyone's gonna want me to draw them." But the two girls gave him a pleading look and begged him. Yaoyorozu and the other girl, Tsuyu, wanted him to draw them in their hero costumes in action. "Well, I don't know what your costumes look like." Both began searching their phones with Tsuyu finding hers first, its design was based on a frog, that much was obvious. "Ok, I can do that, Yaoyorozu?" She held her phone screen in Endo's direction and everyone stared wide-eyed, "Um, Yaoyorozu, I think if I drew you in this, I would literally go to jail." Her costume was just a leotard, not only that, but it was a leotard that exposed her chest quite a lot.

She blushed furiously, "It's because of my quirk, I convert lipids into anything I want, but I have to have exposed skin."

"Ok, well let me try it a bit toned down." The next image to appear was Tsuyu jumping from building to building, chasing a dark shadow from alley to alley. Then he drew Yaoyorozu pulling a katana out of each arm, but her outfit was a bit less revealing, it was basically a top with no sleeves and short shorts, with combat boots. "There, and this way I won't get arrested for it." He sent them both their respective drawings.

"What's this I hear about getting arrested?" Iida had poked around the corner after overhearing the conversation.

Kirishima grinned, "Oh Endo was just drawing-"

"NOTHING, I was drawing nothing, in fact, I'm a horrible artist and you should just go back to whatever you were doing." He shoved his tablet in his backpack right next to his Nanobot container. "I don't need it, I don't need it."

Thank you for taking the time to read this far, this is my third story and second OC, so I hope it's so far so good. FYI I'm not sure if I'm really going to do any shipping, this was just cause I liked the idea of a technopath in 1-A. Any comments or reviews are very much appreciated, I hope it was enjoyable.