This story is going to change a lot of things you might like about Hero Academia. Also, I'm too lazy to come up with Hero names for OCs not relevent to the plot, so they will be filled in with random Pokèmon names.
I don't own anything. I'm just a jobless ARMY.
There will be BTS in this, starting in Chapter 2. Chapter 1 is something like an intro to set up my version of the BNHA universe.
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The people of the general public are typically aware on some level that there are goings-on behind the scenes they aren't aware of. The secrets of their idols, the private relationships of celebrities—
the secret life of superheroes.
However, with the establishment of the laws and agencies overseeing the actions and identities of heroes, a lot of that mystery has been eradicated. Identities are accessible by anyone with a brain and internet access. Heroes are regular guests on TV shows, else they might host their own show or radio channel. Their lives are open books set out for the enjoyment of the people they protect.
For the most part, anyway.
There are still a few people who disregard the set rules and regulations that govern society, even while still acting like so-called "heroes". People like the infamous Tempus, who once saved an entire island from a tidal wave using his Time Manipulation quirk. Or Synthesis, whose hands hold immense healing power...or the power to cause grave injury. Of course, the new face Barricade can't be overlooked. Despite the fact that he was unheard of not even a year ago, his is now a household name, spoken in awe of his immovable strength.
And then there's Illusionist, the most elusive and popular of them all.
They're technically criminals, the lot of them, and if they are ever caught by a hero that hero is required by law to arrest them.
The vigilantes of the world are given a bad rep by the authorities, but - among the GP - they're often held in higher regard than official heroes. Why, you may ask? Simple.
They don't get paid. Or recognition. Or fame. Not the way Heroes like All Might or Present Mic do.
Of course...there's not just heroes and vigilantes. One would have to be dangerously naive to believe that. Where there is good, there are those who wish to destroy that good.
The villains.
Villains like Sun Flare and Morpheus. They've never been caught. Not by hero or vigilante. Ever since they first appeared two years ago, they've committed countless crimes all across the globe. It's unpredictable, where they'll spring up. One week, they'll be in Paris robbing a bank, the next they'll be in Beijing holding a politician for ransom.
The media dubbed them The Untouchables. They'll fixate on a random hero or vigilante, and hound them until they get bored, then slip away like a bad dream. To be honest, even other villains shy away from meeting The Untouchables, particularly after the villainous duo starts after new prey. If another criminal makes a move on a target of the Untouchables, Sun Flare and Morpheus have been known to turn their wrath on the villain instead. Entire gangs and mob sections have been known to disappear, only to show up again weeks later...split up and scattered across the world mysteriously placed in random prisons with no explanation.
As far as villains go, they're as dangerous as it gets. Not even All Might had managed to put a scratch on them. The hero Endeavor once got close, but before the Flame hero could subdue them, Morpheus had simply snapped his fingers and the giant of a man had collapsed on the spot.
He was in a coma for nearly two months.
Izuku Midoriya had been studying people like these for as long as he could remember, even before he'd learned he was doomed to be forever quirkless. But, in the past two or three years, it seemed as though villains and vigilantes had been catching up with the heroes in terms of power and- even more concerning than that- popularity.
It was almost unthinkable, but toy companies and merchandisers were capitalizing on well-known villains and vigilantes, glorifying them in a sick way. The effect this had on society was apparent. Now, little kids could dress up as Morpheus or Tempus for Halloween. There had been a noticeable drop in applicants for hero schools, and a rise in vigilante activity.
Of course, most aspiring vigilantes were arrested almost immediately. The vast majority of them were, after all, high schoolers who otherwise might have gone to be heroes.
It was...tragic, because once you were caught acting as a vigilante, a mark was put on your record. Not only did you have to pay a hefty fine, perhaps spend some time in prison and give long community service hours, but you were branded for life as a reckless criminal who thought himself above the law. While it wasn't impossible for an ex-vigilante to receive a heroes license...it was rare. Very rare.
Otherwise, Izuku might have been tempted to become one himself. But, he couldn't do something like that to his mother. She couldn't afford to pay the fine for him, let alone hire a good lawyer for him.
Even still, sometimes he would hear about Barricade on the news after the immovable vigilante was hailed for saving countless lives from a toppling building in the aftermath of a vicious hero vs villain battle, and wonder if he trained hard enough...if he could make a difference like that?
But then he'd catch sight of his fretting mother out of the corner of his eyes, and go back to muttering under his breath about the possible uses of various quirks his favorite heroes had.
No. Izuku would leave the vigilante work to people like Synthesis and Illusionist. Meanwhile, he'd quietly keep plodding on towards his own goals. There was a chance he could make it into UA. He just knew it.
There had to be.
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Eraserhead, a.k.a. Shota Aizawa, had been tracking the villainous duo The Untouchables for going on two years now. Never before, in his entire career, had his prey eluded him for so long.
Aizawa had enlisted the help of countless other heroes (something he avoided when he could help it) to help search with their various quirks and skillsets. He'd even swallowed his pride and shared what he knew with the insufferably optimistic All Might.
Even the mightiest hero couldn't help him which was...concerning to say the least. But what baffled Aizawa wasn't how their attacks were seemingly randomized - many villains acted on nothing more than passing whims. It wasn't how they could cross oceans in days, sometimes less - teleportation quirks were far from unheard of. All it would take was a silent ally with transportation abilities, or perhaps one of the two had a secondary quirk? Also, not unheard of.
No, it was the Ghost which confused Aizawa the most. That...and the sheer lack of destruction the two villains caused. Because, despite what the media claimed...they always lost.
Sure, they'd never been brought in, but there was more than one way for a villain to lose. For example whenever Morpheus and Sun Flare, say, rob a bank, they never manage to escape with the money. Yes, they escape, but they always vanish empty handed and so in many people's books that's not a win.
Not to mention there has never been a casualty. Never. Not once. They have a lower kill count than most HEROES. Even Aizawa, unfortunately, has accidently let civilian and villain lives alike slip away from him. But no one - not hero, not rival criminal, nor innocent bystander - has ever been killed by The Untouchables.
They've been known to save heroes from other villains on occasion.
For the two most powerful and terrifying villains in history...they sure are bad at being evil.
And then there was the Ghost. No one outside of the Pro Hero community knew about this guy, to the best of Aizawa's knowledge. Ghost was the best kept secret he has ever been privy to. Nearly every Pro Hero knew he existed and this has been the case since his "debut" two years ago.
The same day that Morpheus and Sun Flare appeared for the first time. As far as the GP knew, it was the rescue hero Gengar who stopped them from lighting the city of Chicago on fire.
Unknown to the public, Gengar had retired quietly earlier that week and had been in the Bahamas at the time of the attack.
Similar circumstances like this had occurred time and time again, where The Untouchables were stopped by a hero who would swear later that they were somewhere else at the time. It didn't happen all the time, however. Endeavor certainly fought them in person, apparently managing to frighten them enough to scare them away from whatever dastardly deed they'd been planning before Morpheus had snapped his fingers and toppled him like a modern day Goliath.
Aizawa had only seen them in person once, and it was enough to set him more firmly in pursuit of them than ever. They'd just defaced a public monument of a fallen hero...literally as they'd stolen the head. It was such a random thing to do, that Aizawa had hesitated in stepping in to fight them, despite having recognized them instantly.
Luckily, he managed to regain his wits quickly, and erase Morpheus' quirk before the villain could knock him out. The villains had looked around them in shock, Sun Flare clutching the head to his chest like it was some kind of morbid teddy bear. They couldn't find him, but they couldn't use their powers either.
Just before Aizawa was about to reveal himself with a well-placed kick to Morpheus' face, somebody beat him to it.
Himself.
He saw, as clear as day, someone who looked exactly like him tackle the villain out of nowhere. This clone moved and fought exactly like Aizawa. Watching the fight was dizzying. Surreal. And all too soon it was over, the villains were gone and the statue head was recovered almost before he knew what was going on.
His double was nowhere to be seen.
Ghost was smart about what he did, only choosing heroes to mimic who he knew were either out of the service, or were unlikely to make a statement denying their involvement. Because of this...Eraserhead had been "seen" a lot more in the past two years. Which was annoying...and slightly flattering.
Aizawa was certain that Ghost was the unmentioned third member of The Untouchables, perhaps being the most untouchable of them all. The leader even.
Aizawa wanted to be able to just sit Ghost down and have a conversation. Make sure that they weren't a bigger threat than the villains...the last thing they needed was another One For All... and if Ghost could really copy any hero they wanted...
And yet, no matter how cynical Aizawa knew himself to be, he just couldn't see Ghost nor The Untouchables as a whole as that much of a threat. Most of their "horrible" and "villainous" acts amounted to little more than pranks.
They'd pick a hero whom they'd then stalk for a week or two; leaveing vaguely insulting messages, pretending to try to cause harm to innocents or vandalizing something easily repairable. The most harm they did was cause entire areas to fall unconscious, or capture and imprison massive numbers of street thugs and gangsters who apparently got on their nerves.
To be honest, most heroes quietly applauded them. Many of the crooks the villains apprehended didn't have enough evidence on them for prosecution. But after they were imprisoned? Often with proof of their guilt gift wrapped and sent with them? Almost every thug they imprisoned were quickly confirmed to belong right where they were.
There were too many strange things about The Untouchables to write them off as villains. Not that they were innocent, but they definitely weren't the kind of people the GP thought they were.
But then, even Aizawa barely had a clue, and he was the only one looking in the right places. He just hoped that he wasn't playing right into their hands...
***A/N****
I'm going through and editing to make things cleaner.