The Dark Knight Of J.A
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Chapter One: Bruce Wayne
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Hello... My name is Bruce Wayne. Yes, the billionaire, play-boy, philanthropist. However you also know my alter-ego quite well. The Batman. A hero without a quirk, but still manages to beat those with the most powerful. In a world where 90% of the population has one, it's quite rare not to have any. My story started when I was seven. My parents just took me to see the Mark of Zorro. Then we left the theater, and went down a certain alley, Crime Alley. My parents were shot and killed... by some punk with a gun. On that night, a fire ignited. Bursting forth into a passion that drive me to become the greatest hero of all time... Batman.
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"So Doctor, when will Bruce be getting his Quirk?" A tall man with dark black hair and grey eyes asks another shorter man with a balding head.
"Mr and Mrs. Wayne... I don't know how to tell you."
"Will it be my magnet Quirk or his under water breathing." Martha, a woman with pale skin, blue eyes and black hair asks.
"Mister and Misses Wayne, your son has an extra joint in his pinkie toe. This means he won't have a quirk, not even as a late bloomer."
The look of the child's face instantly becomes one of disappointment and sadness.
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"Ha! Evil Doers beware my sword of justice! Ha, take that!" A little boy with black hair and blue eyes yells out pretending to be engaged in a legendary sword fight with an invisible foe. His parents are smiling and walk beside him; a tall and somewhat muscular man with black hair, grey eyes and a pencil thin mustache, alongside a woman with black hair and blue eyes, with a pearl necklace around her neck.
"Hello there." A voice says from the shadows and then an ugly looking fellow steps out and points a revolver at the family.
"Let's start with the lady's pearls."
"Listen punk, I don't care if you have a gun, No one-Agck!" The Father begins to walks toward the crook only to be stopped by two bullets being placed in his head.
"The pearls... Now!" He yells quickly looking and the woman holds onto her pearls.
"Mrwow!" A cat hisses starling the thief and he pulls the trigger, causing the pearls to go flying.
"Damn." He cusses and runs off.
The young boy falls to his knees sobbing, holding his mother, until the police come and have to forcibly drag Bruce away from them. Their bodies are being loaded into ambulances as Bruce is being placed in a squad car, a blanket wrapped him, still sobbing.
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6 years later...
"Hmm, Vigilante, a Hero with a transformation Quirk, with the power to turn his hand into an old six shooter, which is cool, but not exactly helpful in this situation." A young man with messy black hair, piercing blue eyes, and caucasian skin, mutters to himself whilst writing in a notebook.
A cowboy themed hero making a hand gun is shooting a large Godzilla like creature without any effect.
"Oh, wow it's Atomsmasher! He can convert radiation into strength and size! He's the perfect hero for a fight like this!" Bruce shouts while frantically sketching an accurate portrait of the hero and listing his abilities and possible abilities.
"Ha! This is no Matter for me!" The radiation themed hero shouts as he turns a dial on his belt and radiation surges, and he grows almost as tall as a house and punches the villain into submission. He turns and smiles for the cameras as they rapidly snap at him posing heroically.
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"Alright class it's almost time to send in applications for high school, so think long and hard about what kind of career you'll want to go in." Their teacher a bald man with a mustache, explains holding out pamphlets.
"Ah who am I kidding, you're all going for hero course right!" The teacher joyfully yells tossing the pamphlets in the air.
"Hell yeah! I'm going for JA you losers!" A blond haired boy with green eyes yells and the rest of the class silences.
"Oh yes, Oliver I forgot you wanted to apply for JA, to think two of our students are taking the exams."
"What the hell do you mean two!"
"Wayne, you wanted to try for JA right?"
"Er... Yeah, I am." A black haired teen with piercing blue eyes says standing up.
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"What the hell Wayne you think cuz you're some rich kid you join JA? Think again, you don't even have a quirk!" Oliver yells at our protagonist, ripping the note book out of his hands and tosses it into the fountain below.
"You want some advice? Quit now. Learn business and run Wayne enterprises. Otherwise you'll fail, and your parents will be twice as disappointed in you as they are now." Oliver says walking away and Bruce's fists clench in anger, looking at the notebook sinking in the fountain.
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"Maybe Queen's right. I'm not cut out for this thing, I'm not the Shadow or Crimson Avenger, maybe I can't be a hero." Bruce says while walking under a bridge holding his soaking wet notebook and looking through the soggy pages. He tosses the notebook on the ground and walks away.
"Hey kid." A voice cries out, thinking it's some stranger offering his book back, he continues walking, wondering if his parents would be proud if they saw him today.
"Hey! Don't ignore me punk! I have a gun!" At that combination of words Bruce turns around snarling and sees a man that appears to be made of clay holding a revolver at his face.
"Yeah, you're form'll do just fine. Almost a shame I have to kill you." The clay man shifts to a more gelatinous form and charges Bruce, enveloping him in the brown goop.
"Stop... Struggling... Damn It!" Clay-Face shouts wrapping himself around the teen and trying to choke him out.
Suddenly a rattling sound is heard from the sewer as smoke slowly rises.
"Who knows what Evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" With the final word a man with a wide brimmed black fedora, crimson scarf, and a black double-breasted trench coat appears through a haze.
"Hands off of him Villain! Crime bears a bitter fruit!" The Shadow yells snapping his finger and the clay-faced man stops trying to kill Bruce.
"Release the boy! And get in the jar!" Shadow commands snapping his fingers once more and the villain does as asked.
"Sh-Shadow! You're the hero of hypnotism! With an emitter quirk simply called Hypnosis!" Bruce says instantly geeking out, and fumbling for his notebook.
"I already signed it kid." Shadow says pulling down his scarf to reveal a smile.
"Wait! Sir! I have a question!" Bruce asks as Shadow turns around once more.
"What is it?"
"Can... Can I be a hero without a quirk!" Bruce asks as Shadow sighs and slumps down against the wall gesturing for Bruce to follow suit.
"Kid... I won't lie, you seem smart, and pretty determined. But those who abuse their powers... they're dangerous. Look at what just happened, this villain caught you off guard and almost killed you. It's alright to have dreams as long as their within reason. So no, you can't be a hero without a quirk... I'm sorry." Shadow says snapping his fingers and he's gone.
"Even Shadow says I can't do it, that's it... I give up." Bruce yells tossing his notebook aside once more, shoving his hands in his pockets and storms off, not noticing police sirens and a couple of heroes whiz by.
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(Bruce P.O.V)
'Is he right, can I really not be a hero without a quirk? Is Queen right, if mom and dad saw me today... would they be disappointed? I mean, The Shadow himself said I can't have this dream.' A million thoughts racing through my head, these are simply the most predominant.
'Huh, a crowd of people weird.' I shrug and continue walking ignorant of the danger ahead.
"AIIII!" A scream pierced my thoughts and I look up and see man with a horrible disfigured face holding something against a woman's head, whilst yelling at the police for money. The woman has Blonde hair, emerald green eyes, and a lithe figure.
'Wait, I know her. Moria Queen! Oliver's mom, shit and there's Oliver. Why aren't the heroes doing anything! Vigilante, Atom-Smasher, Hell even Hawkman's Just standing there! Is... is that a gun pressed against her head? Damn it, I... Can't just sit by can I. I have to do something, it doesn't matter if I have a quirk or not! No kid, not even an asshole like Queen is becoming an orphan because of some punk with a gun!' I race forward throwing my backpack at the man's head, knocking him off balance. He releases his grip on Moira, whom I push into the crowd and watch Oliver hug her. Then I feel a gun press against my neck and an arm wrapping itself around my chest.
"Trying to play hero huh punk? Well you just cost me some payday!"The gun barrel clicks and I drive my elbow into his stomach, jumping back I kick the gun out of his hand and into my mine. I unload it tossing it at the ground.
"Sorry, but I can't just sit around and let you kill a woman, I don't care who it is. I might not have a quirk, but I'm not a coward!" I yell channeling the anger in my heart into my voice and the crowd gasps, after hearing I'm Quirkless.
"You're gonna regret that!" He says rushing towards me, I roll to the left and his fist dents the brick wall behind me.
I leg-sweep him, knocking him to the ground. However he quickly recovers jumping back to his feet and launches a powerful right jab to my stomach.
"Hmmph!" I cough out, a little blood coming out too. 'This guy is strong, really strong. He clearly has some sort of a strength enhancing Quirk. So that just means I can't let him touch me. Maybe if I can distract him I can get close enough without him realizing... but how?'
"Not as good as you thought huh kid? Gonna take more than a little foot work to stop Dr. Death!" The criminal monologues, an Opening, perfect! I sloppily throw a right hook, covering up a simultaneous left jab, knocking him off guard.
I throw another right hook, sinking into his jaw, a left hook, an audible crunch is heard from his nose, and I drive my elbow into his teeth, knocking a few loose.
At that point the heroes finally overcame their shock at watching a middle schooler take down an armed criminal.
"That was brutal."
"Hard to believe a kid did that."
"Did you hear what he said?"
"Quirkless?"
"Quirkless?"
"Quirkless?" My ears ringing from the aftermath, I cough out more blood. I definitely have internal bleeding. Still one more kid still has his mom. That's all that matters.
"Kid." I hear one say and suddenly I see spots.
"Are Y#% {}_~_?" However the ringing grows stronger, and the pain becomes unbearable, crying out, I fall to my knees, then slump to unconsciousness.
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2 days later, Wayne Manor.
"Master Bruce?" A thin white man with thinning black hair softly says, as my eyes open.
"Alfred?" I respond taking a moment to take in my surroundings, the infirmary at Wayne Manor.
"What happened? I remember feeling angry. Then blood and ringing noises." I say after a minute of silence.
"You were engaged in a fight, with a dangerous man with a strength Quirk and a gun... that was two days ago." Alfred explains handing me some clothing as the altercation comes rushing back to me.
"I couldn't just let a woman die Alfred! My legs started moving and I pushed her to safety, no one else was doing anything Dammit!" I yells slamming my hand into the bedside table angrily.
"Master Bruce, what you did was noble, but very dangerous, I know you have combat training, but it was reckless for you to rush in." Alfred responds calmly while handing me a cup of tea, hmm... Earl Grey, I give Alfred a nod while taking a sip.
"Thank you Alfred. I'm sorry... it just brought back that night." I say clenching the tea cup tightly, and Alfred gives me a knowing look and smiles sadly.
"I know Master Bruce, their deaths affected both our lives greatly, you far more than me." Alfred says after a moment bowing his head.
"Bzzt! Hello? My name is Kent Allard... I'm here to talk to Bruce Wayne." A voice calls over the buzzer and Alfred walks over.
"Master Bruce, do you know a Kent Allard?"
"No... but his voice sounded familiar. Let him in." I say taking a moment to go through my mental contacts, and match the voice to one I had heard... one I will never forget.
Alfred presses the buzzer and goes to greet our guest.
I sit up wincing at the chest pain, before getting out bed and putting on the black shirt, jeans and brown leather jacket Alfred got out.(Kudos if you know whose ensemble this is). After a couple minutes just sitting there I wondered what Kent wanted from me.
"Master Bruce, this is Mister Allard." Alfred announces walking with a man with black hair, steely grey eyes, a black sweater, and grey khakis, with a familiar red scarf wrapped around his neck.
"Pleasure to see you again Mr. Allard." I say walking over and shaking his hand and he smiles.
"Mister Wayne, the pleasure is all mine." He responds returning the handshake. I then gesture for him to join me in sitting down, he does so and is silent.
"Alfred, would you mind getting our guest here a drink? Tea Mister Allard?"
"Earl Grey would be lovely, thank you Alfred." Kent nods and Alfred walks off to the kitchen to fetch some tea.
"Alright, Shadow, let's drop the pretenses. Why are you here? I thought I wasn't cut out to be a hero." I coldly say and he bows his head before looking me in the eyes.
"I saw the news, you rushed in without hesitation, while everyone else was standing there. Even the heroes when they found out you were Quirkless. You fought on, saving that woman's life. I'm sorry Bruce, you can be a hero, and... I'd like to offer to train you, unofficially of course. As my student, I'd teach you stealth, recon, and honing those instincts of your along with improving your knowledge." Kent replies and tears well my eyes.
"Thank you. I've waited my whole life to hear those five words." I say after a moment, wiping the tears from my eyes, grinning like an idiot.
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Alright That's it Chapter One!
Chapter 2 is him training under the tutelage of the Shadow, one of my all time favorite heroes!
Chapter 3 is the U.A exams, in this case J.A (Justice Academy)
Chapter 4 is first day.
Chapter 5 is class elections and the beginnings of the fights. I'll be focusing on Bruce's Fight.
Chapter 6 will be shorter, as it's the rest of the fights and etc.
Class 1-A Roster
Wayne- Quirk: None
Prince- Quirk: Amazon
Kent- Quirk: Solar Charged
Queen- Quirk: Never Miss
Allen- Quirk: Speed Force
Curry- Quirk: Atlantean
Jordan- Quirk: Green-Make
Lance- Quirk: Canary Cry
Stewart- Quirk: Will-Power
Hol- Quirk: Hawk
Jones- Quirk: Shift
Smith- Quirk: Tornado
Dibney- Quirk: Polymerization
Ramone- Quirk: Vibe
Snow- Quirk: Ice Queen
Raymond- Quirk: Firestorm
Zatara- Quirk: Magic!
Palmer- Quirk: Dwarfstar
Batson- Quirk: Shazam
Heywood- Quirk: Steel
Also Izuku or any other MHA characters do not exist without in this universe. However Izuku will make cameo appearances along with Ochako. I also need more Pro-Heroes for later chapters, so please submit your favorite DC comics character, I will be posting Class 1-B next Chapter and the Pro-Heroes I have so far and the teaching staff. Anyways enjoy the next few chapters!