Winds - Prologue

-Kansas, USA, 2036-

The city lights glistened on the horizon in the darkness of the clear night. A child with short blonde hair and blue eyes leaned his cheek against the car's window while his father drove.

He was coming back to his hometown after five years of being away with his father. The boy had a quirk - he was one of only around 3,000 throughout the world; he could move objects. Various scientists were incredibly interested in him, though, and not just because he had a quirk, but because, specifically, he had a quirk that could move objects with no energy input.

The discovery of his quirk had caused a revolution in the scientific community; he could overturn the laws of thermodynamics, they said, he could produce free energy, they said. That was the working hypothesis, anyway: it didn't turn out exactly as they had planned.

Well, it did, sort of...

While they were alive...

The car was hit by a truck, the sound of ripping metal assaulted the boy's ears just before his life ended.

Turns out, when the holder of that particular quirk ends up dying, all of that 'magically created' energy turns out to be not so magically created. A wave traveled at light speed from the boy's dead body - it sucked the heat out of any air it touched to account for the usage of the boy's quirk: the ability to move objects with heat as energy input. The entirety of North America was now momentarily less than -216 degrees Celsius before convection started to kick in.

Oh it kicked in. It was a shockwave - a shockwave which had had quite a bit of force behind it. It washed over North America, killing millions upon millions within a few minutes. It was easily the largest and fastest mass-culling of humans in history. Suddenly, the land was desolate; anything standing above ground had been flattened or otherwise toppled - even mountains took a little beating, only about 1,260,000 people survived... out of over 500 million.

February second, 2036, was the day the USA, most of Canada, and parts of mexico became a junkyard - not to mention anywhere that was hit hard by the resultant tidal waves.

They took advantage of that quirk a little too much, didn't they?

Needless to say, the Earth was in for a massive climatic shift; immediate changes came about in the winds. A lot of the world - save for Japan, areas of South America, some of Saharan Africa, western Australia, and parts of Southern Asia - had wind speeds ranging from 150-290 km/h, this created some obvious problems for effected peoples.

The changes that would come afterwards were even more drastic, though; by 2039 most of Europe and West Asia was a frozen wasteland, Saharan Africa was practically flooding, the Middle East kept getting hit by cyclones one after the other, New Zealand was deforested and blanketed in snow, most island nations were destroyed by tidal waves, and most of China was experiencing a massive drought - before 2060, the total world population was 2.7 billion.

Scientists had already found a solution for making sure that something like this could never happen again, though. International teams had come up with two artificial quirks soon after the disaster: One for All and All for One were given to two individuals deemed "worthy" in 2041 - after 3,031 attempts beforehand which all ended with the death of the participants.


A/N:
I'll try to upload weekly (every Thursday or Friday, maybe?), but that might not turn out well, we'll see how it goes! Either way I'm finishing this bitch at some point!