Hey, So I'm William Sloan, and for the first time ever, (As far as I know of) I have plans to write a My Hero Academia/Pokemon crossover Fanfic. It's actually the first English multi-chapter My Hero Academia/Pokemon crossover in the archives, so I'm hyped.
I got the idea from doing my main story, A Fairy's Heart, and by watching My Hero Academia. Think of it as a 'What if? Story'.
What if a Pokemon got accepted into UA, the most prestigious hero school? Sounds 'normal' right?
But what if the Pokemon isn't human? What if it's of a paranormal level?
A universe where Rick's Chandelure joins UA, as a Lampent, The Luring Heroine: Flashfire
EDIT 12/4: When I said that it was the first multi-chapter My Hero Academia/Pokémon crossover, it was when I first got the idea, but another story, beat me to the punch. Just to clarify.
EDIT 12/9: Had to fix some errors I saw. I thought I fixed them before submitting, but I guess not. Oh well.
Chapter 1: Flashfire: Origins
A peaceful atmosphere and a sea's sky. A boat horn roaring out in the distance, signaling its departure. The passengers were already leaving the shipyard, except for one unique passenger, and I'm using the term loosely. The passenger in question was more lamp than a human. No joke, it was a floating lamp with paper-thin arms and a pointed bottom. A red and black fireproof two-tone bag was being held in of its 'hands'. And in the other was a folded map and an opened letter.
"Well, I'm here guys." The lamp said in quiet manner, its voice indicating its was a female. Her face was showing all the fear and worries of her life leading up to this. All her life, she never strayed from the path she chose. Opening the sheet of paper, she reread the letter given to her prior to leaving.
Dear recipient,
Upon hearing of your unique Quirk and getting a recommendation from an anonymous someone, we've decided to allow you, Flashfire Thyst, to enroll at UA High. The choice is your to accept or decline, but we at UA always strive to bring out the best in someone's Quirk and mold them to be the heroes of tomorrow. Please take the ticket inside for a paid trip to Musutafu, Japan, where UA High stands proud.
Make both us and your family proud.
Sincerely,
UA Principle Nezu
Plus Ultra!
Honestly, Flashfire was a little embarrassed by the letter, but her family was very proud of their girl making it to the big leagues. The only problem was that her 'Quirk' wasn't a Quirk at all, but Flashfire knew that the principle of all people should know that, or else she probably wouldn't have made it.
Flashfire did some research about UA prior to leaving. The acceptance rate was .2%, so she knew she worked hard for this. The alumni was a who's who of heroes, including the number one Hero, All Might, the Hero with the most arrests and the number two Hero, Endeavor, and the number four Hero, Best Jeanist.
"I'm on my way." Flashfire turned to finally leave, her new journey starting.
The only problem was that the entrance exam was a long time away, and by that, I mean it was 10 months away.
"But, now where do I start?" Flashfire asked herself. By now she was floating down the street as people were going about their lives as normal as they could. "I guess I should start by finding a spot to train..."
A sudden roar echoed in the area, causing Flashfire to snap herself out of her thinking. Looking up, she noticed a giant sharkman in the nearby distance.
"I guess it would hurt to try and help the Heroes." Flashfire assumed. She began her pursuit, only for another boy to follow a slightly different course, but they ended up in the same area. The boy in question wore a black school uniform and had a mix of green and black hair. Flashfire honestly thought for a second that it was a bird's nest before realizing.
"What happened?" Flashfire asked.
"The usual." A spectator said, nonchalantly not even looking back to ask. "A villain got cornered and he panicked."
"It's sad." Another spectator said, "A Quirk like that and he's a petty villain."
Both Flashfire and the boy were squeezing their way into the front to get the action. Flashfire caught a glimpse of someone jumping overhead.
It looked like a human wearing a black unitard, a wood helmet, wooden gloves that reached past his forearms, a wooden belt, and surprise, wooden shoes.
'What's with this guy and wood?' Flashfire thought.
The man in question landed on top of a guard rail, but then had to jump again to avoid a punch that shattered the rail.
"GET AWAY FROM ME OR I'LL BREAK YOU YA TOOTHPICK" The Villain yelled, his voice booming.
The boy and Flashfire both finally managed to get to the front, and the man that they had to squeeze past looked a little shocked to see Flashfire, but not too much. They were blocked off by a solid stream of water, which is something that Flashfire tries to avoid.
"This is gonna be good!" The boy said excitedly.
"Guess I won't be helping out much." Flashfire said dejectedly. She opened her bag and pulled out a notebook and a pencil, as did the boy next to her.
The shark villain took another swing at the tree Hero, but he managed to avoid him by wrapping a branch around a metal support beam.
The boy immediately knew who the Hero was, and he was excited. "It's Kamui Woods! The Arbor Hero!" (I know they didn't reveal his Code Name, but I figured it sounded fitting.)
Flashfire looked at the fight in front of her. "He seems like a new face, but he does look like he's making a name for himself, doesn't he?" She looked at the boy next to her and her face was one of curiosity. "You're a fanboy, aren't ya?"
"A little." The boy said, looking away out of embarrassment.
Kamui Woods dodged a downward swat and climbed up the arm, extending his arm out and wrapping a branch around the villain's wrist. He let of the villain's wrist and he landed on a stopped train car, using only his hand to slow himself down.
"Assault, Robbery, and the illegal use of a Quirk during rush hour traffic." Kamui listed off the offenses the villain had accrued. "You are the epitome of evil." He stretched his left arm outwards and it began to unravel and grow a multiple amount of branches.
"Woah." Flashfire was amazed at what he could do.
"His special move!" The boy in the school uniform pointed out.
"Show us something flashy!" An older spectator yelled out.
"Lacquered Chains Prison!" Kamui Woods shot the branching attack at the villain, but what the villain wasn't ready to counter was…
"Canyon Cannon!" A giant (And I do mean giant.) lady kicked the villain, causing Flashfire and the other spectators to be greatly shocked by the mountain of a Hero. The Heroine in question has long, voluminous blonde hair with two curled strands. Her eyes are a violet color with white pupils. Her costume is a purple/cream colored skintight bodysuit accented with orange stripes and a unique domino mask with two horn-like protrusions sticking out on the sides. The paparazzi swarmed the heroine, and Flashfire caught them muttering 'money shot', whatever that meant.
"A piece of cake for the world's next hottest hero. Hi, I'm Mt. Lady." The heroine, now known as Mt. Lady said. "I don't think you'll need to worry about this bum anymore." That last sentence made Flashfire giggle a little.
Most of the people walked away, but Flashfire and the boy were still there. The boy was still jotting down notes while Flashfire was taking time to relive the experience.
'To think people can resort to such belittling standards.' Flashfire thought, 'It's just more incentive to become the world's first Pokemon Hero.' Flashfire turned to see that the boy was scribbling down some notes in a notebook, the same thing that Flashfire was going to do. 'He's showing great initiative.' "Excuse me?"
The boy turned around to see a floating lamp in front of him, which she thought was weird, considering that he wasn't freaking out when she asked if he was a fanboy.
"You about finished?" Flashfire asked, and the boy slowly stopped screaming and he looked at Flashfire with some look at that meant that he was wondering about what exactly she was.
"Y-Yeah." The boy said uneasily. He turned to see the time, "Oh, crap! I'm late for school!"
Flashfire felt a wave of shock, and she felt a little sorry. "C'mon! I'll go with you!"
"Okay!" The boy said, picking up speed as he was racing to get to school on time.
Later…
Flashfire was in a wooded area near the school yard where the boy was. Her bad was hanging from a branch of a nearby tree, and Flashfire was serious about her training.
"Flame Charge!" Flashfire cloaked herself in fire and began charging at a target she had thrown together. Upon making contact with the target, fruit had began to fall, which was what she had planned on.
"Psychic!" Flashfire's eyes glowed a light blue, causing the fruit to stop falling. Using her mind, she shot the fruit at the same target. The fruit splattered on contact.
The Lamp Pokemon was panting as she had spent the last half-hour training on her attacks. She wasn't ready as of yet, but she knew that she was getting there.
"One last attempt." Flashfire said to herself. Flashfire began rotating, and she was building up speed. A blue ember began forming at the tip of her head, but the flames dispersed, causing Flashfire to fall to the ground, exhausted.
Usually, this would be where her brother would have stopped training for a bit so that Flashfire could relax. Flashfire picked herself off of the ground and she went towards her bag. Opening the bag, she pulled out a small pod that housed a small bush. The bush in question had small, blue berries growing on it. Flashfire plucked one of the berries off of the bush and she snacked on it, feeling her strength returning to her.
'That was a great workout.' Flashfire thought. She looked at her hands and she folded them inward. "Someday, I'll master it." She murmured.
Flashfire heard an explosion in the distance, and Flashfire knew that it would be good. Without a second thought, the Ghost/Fire-type advanced towards the source of the blast: Aldera Junior High.
Aldera Junior High School
After a good five minutes, Flashfire found herself in the school's courtyard. It seemed normal enough, but she also knew that a villain could pop up anywhere, so she had to be on her guard.
"I don't get it." Flashfire said to herself, "I heard a blast coming from here, but I don't see anyone here." She scanned the immediate area, but had no luck. "Could this villain have a camouflaging Quirk as well?"
She heard another blast as well as a scream, and Flashfire looked up to see a charred notebook hit her. The notebook landed with the cover facing Flashfire.
"'Hero Analysis for the Future'?" Flashfire used Psychic to peer inside the book. Inside it were sketches of different Heroes, as well as some info about them. "Who ever did this must know a lot about Heroes." Flashfire looked up to see an open window. "I guess I know where to return it."
Flashfire set her bag on the ground as she began to float upwards. Floating upwards, Flashfire got to the open window, and what she made her mad to the point. Inside the room, the train station boy was being bullied by three people, but mainly by an ash-blond boy, about the same age as the train station boy. The train boy was scared shitless as the blonde advanced.
"You really think they would let a Quirkless freak like you when they could have me?!" The blonde said. "You know people only need one look to know that they're destined for greatness." The blonde and his lackeys walked away leaving the train boy alone with Flashfire hiding form sight.
"So the train station kid's Quirkless?" Flashfire asked herself. It was the first time she had seen a Quirkless person before, and the things she had heard about Quirkless people weren't the greatest.
"You know." The blonde male said. "There is one way for a Quirkless person to get a Quirk." That had Flashfire curious, but what the blonde said next got her pissed.
"Pray that you'll have a Quirk in your next life and take a swan dive off the roof." The way he had said it almost sounded like he had a sense of joy out of saying it.
Flashfire felt the fire inside her flare, and that only happened when someone got her pissed, and she had to be pissed. "HEY!"
The group turned to see Flashfire cloaked in a raging fire, and her eyes showed no a single shred of fear or mercy.
"What the hell are you anyway?" The blonde asked.
"I'm sorry, but I don't listen to bastards." Flashfire said, causing the blonde's friends to back away.
"What did you call me?" The blonde asked, his anger spiking quickly.
"You heard me." Flashfire said. The fire faded away, but her facial expression never left her face. Advancing towards the blonde, Flashfire was getting closer and closer, and angrier and angrier. "What exactly gives you the right and the nerve to even think about telling someone to kill themselves?!"
"I don't need to explain myself to freaks like you." The blonde said. He was about to turn when he realized he had no control over his body. "What the hell?!"
"What?" Flashfire asked. "Don't you like my Psychic? It's a very nifty attack that allows me to take control of my opponent's body." The angry look got even sourer and her voice was filled with distaste and spite towards the blonde. "I will say this once, so get this through your ears. If I EVER find you that you're picking on my friend again, I can make sure that you know what it's like to be on the receiving end of being bullied. Do you understand?" Using Psychic, she made the blonde's head shake up and down. "Good." Ending Psychic, Flashfire pushed the blonde away from her and the train station boy. The boy didn't say a thing as he turned around and he walked away, his lackeys following behind. Flashfire's anger faded away and she turned to the only other human in the room. "You okay?"
"Y-Yeah." The boy was scared, and it was understandably so. Not a lot of other people had seen that side of Flashfire in a while.
"I'm sorry you saw that." Flashfire apologized. "But that guy! Ugh! He's the kind of person that really burns me up!" The fire inside her was raging. After a while, the fire calmed down, and Flashfire did as well.
"It's okay, really." the boy said, looking down. "Kacchan always does that."
"So that's his name?" Flashfire asked.
"Well, it's a childhood nickname." the boy explained, which Flashfire immediately understood. "My name's Izuku Midoriya."
"It's nice to meet you, Izuku." Flashfire said, grabbing his hand and shaking it vigorously, scaring the boy. "My name's Flashfire Thyst. You know, like amethyst?"
"I understand." Izuku said. Before he could say anything, both Flashfire and Izuku hear a monstrous growling, and Flashfire knew where it was coming from.
"Sorry, I'm a little hungry." Flashfire admitted, looking everywhere and anywhere to avoid making eye contact.
"A little?!" Izuku was shocked by the middle stage Pokemon's version of 'a little hungry'.
"Hey." Flashfire caught Izuku's attention, her embarrassment over. "You want to come with me? I'm paying."
"S-Sure." Izuku scrambled to get his backpack. "Let me just grab something that Kacchan threw out the window and we can go."
"You mean this?" Flashfire showed Izuku the charred notebook and the teen grabbed it out of her hands. "I'll take that as a 'yes'."
Musutafu Cafe
The pair were at a cafe not far from Aldera. The pair found an outside seat and Flashfire kept her word, buying both her and Izuku a slice of pie, even giving a tip.
"So this 'Kacchan''s name is Kasuki Bakugo, and you were friends with him until he found out you were Quirkless?" Flashfire said, running through what Izuku told him. "And on top of that, he's been bullying you for years and nothing changed?!" The last part made Flashfire peeved.
"It's not his fault." Izuku tried to reason with the angry Flashfire.
"Yes it is!" Flashfire said, slamming her hand down on the table. "You've done nothing wrong to him and this is how he treats you." Her tone of voice was serious.
"He's not the only one." Izuku reasoned quietly.
"That doesn't change a thing!" Flashfire shouted again. "A real friend is someone who sticks up to people bullying other people!" The fire inside was raging again, but Flashfire took a deep breath, and she decided to change the topic, and try to help her friend. "So, you want to go to UA?"
"Y-Yes." Izuku said quietly.
"And you want to become a hero?" Flashfire asked.
"Yes." Izuku said, his face showing slight signs of happiness. "More than anything."
"Then don't let someone let Bakugo tell you otherwise." Flashfire said, grabbing ahold of Izuku's hand. "It's your life, and I think your dream's possible." Flashfire looked to see a bird flying by. "I want to become the world's first Pokemon Hero. That's my dream, and I'll accomplish that." Flashfire pulled her chair back and got up. "I hope that we meet again at UA, Izuku. I really do." She floated away, but turned her body to somewhat face Izuku. "Because I think you can become a Hero."
That part stirred inside Izuku, and it was in a good way. For the first time in his life, someone didn't try to shelf his dream, but rather encourage him to succeed. It felt nice for a change, but deep down he knew that it would be next to impossible to even get into UA without a Quirk.
"Yeah. Maybe." Izuku got up and he left the cafe in another direction, leaving with him a newfound friend and a dream.
And that's a wrap! That took a lot out of me than I had originally thought. I got the idea from watching My Hero Academia and while thinking about how I'm gonna work on my other pet project: A Fairy's Heart.
I also read a lot of My Hero Fanfics made by SevenRenny, including Scorpions and Chains, Doors, Mornings, and Been There, Done That. The first two tackle problems like depression, and honestly it warms my heart knowing that people can shine a ray of hope through something like this. It honestly makes me feel good.
I was always getting thoughts in my head about having Pokemon in other anime crossovers, and I actually decided to put pen to paper and decided to do this.
I thought that having a lead character being a Pokemon would give the story a kind of different feel to it. I chose Flashfire because I she was mostly the one who would be there, and I decided to use her as a Lampent because of the fact that a Chandelure would probably burn everything and I wanted a different feel to it. I gave Flashfire a different moveset, with Flame Charge and Psychic so far.
Thank you for reading and I'll continue with both stories as scheduled, but they will be slower because of the fact is that now I'm doing two stories and I also have a job.
I'm sorry for rambling, and I'll see you later.
-WS