After school was over Izuwa walked over to the small fish pond near the school. Finding her hero journal, it was water logged and the cover was burnt, but mostly intact. She stared hard at the cover with a look of frustration. 'Why do I let him get to me?' She thought angrily.

She clenched her fists as she walked home thinking of the friendship the two once had. Before they even had quirks, when they were about four they had been close. As a kid young Izuwa looked up to him like a big brother. But after his quirk manifested their relationship started to change. He started to taunt her for her 'loser' quirk. And how it would never let her be a real hero.

Yeah, she could admit her quirk may not have been offensive, like she had would wanted. But it didn't mean she couldn't be a great hero with it. Did it? I mean I see people on the news with some more mundane quirks, sure they aren't very high profile, but still they're heroes. Isn't that all that matters?

Still it wasn't what she really wanted. She wanted to fight villains like All Might. The greatest hero in the world. The man she looked up to and admired with every fiber of her being. His mere presence deterred villains. And she wanted that. She wanted to be able to inspire hope and stop crime with just her presence alone.

Maybe her dreams were unrealistic. She thought walking back home.

As the girl walked back home she headed her usual route. Finding an old looking bridge she crossed under it. It was dark and smelled a bit gross but she wasn't really concentrating in that. Oddly the area felt strangely ominous to her. She couldn't really put her finger on it but she just knew something was off. It seemed too quiet. She looked around and found nothing strange. Shrugging she continued walking, almost out of the tunnel, she heard a noise. It almost sounded like a creak. She looked behind herself and saw nothing, turning back around though was different. Suddenly out of nowhere, coming from the manhole icky green sludge started erupting out of it. She backed up in terror and tried to run but the sludge latched on to her foot strongly. An ominous voice spoke to her from a newly formed mouth.

"Ha ha kid, thanks your a real help!" Eyes popped up staring menacingly down at the struggling girl being enveloped by the watery sludge. She tried fighting but every time her hands only clawed at water and slipped away, doing absolutely nothing as the sludge forced its way around her body and down her throat. She felt herself become lightheaded sooner then she imagined and felt her vision going dark.

'Was this it? Is this how I'm going to die?' Was her only thought. Her body succumbing to the lack of oxygen as she slumped down. Completely at the mercy of the villainous sludge. The laugh the last thought in her mind.

But before she could completely pass out a sudden clang alerted her. A blurry figure jumping from the sewer on the other end of the tunnel.

The Symbol of Peace stood and frowned seeing the monster harming the child. He gripped his grocery bag and cocked back a fist. Screaming as he threw his arm forward. "Delaware smash!"

The force of his blow created a hurricane force gale that ripped through the tunnel. "Can't... Hold... Together!" The villain muttered in vain as his body started to separated. Blowing him away with ease. All Might appeared instantly with incredible speed and grabbed the girls arm and stopping her from being blown away with the villain.

After putting the girl down and making sure she was alive he quickly went to work rounding the villain up. Pouring out his cola bottles to create a makeshift container for the sludge. Assuming it would hold. Otherwise he could hit it again and subdue him over again.

After he was done he went back to the unconscious messy green haired girl. He looked down at her noticing from her bag a book. Curiously he picked it up and noted the title. "Hero Analysis for the future? Huh, so the kid wants to be a hero?"

He noted she was rather fit looking and seemed to have developed quite the workout regime. From the book he glimpsed through it seemed she had taken quite the detailed notes on various heroes. He was impressed at her thoroughness. Maybe she would make it. Depending on her quirk that is. He quickly signed her book and put it back in her bag.

All Might sighed looking at her unconscious body. I can't leave her unconscious out here. So he tapped her face trying to rouse her awake. "Come on kid wake up already! Wake, up, wake up, wake up!" He tapped her face repeatedly. Careful enough to not hurt her.

Soon enough the girl started to twitch awake, batting at the offending hand bothering her. Bright green eyes peeked open finally and she blinked once, twice. Before she screamed and shot up immediately.

"Oh... My... God! It's All Might!" She shouted. She had stars in her eyes seeing the tall imposing legend of a man. "Autograph. I need your autograph." She grabbed her her of journal and found he already signed it.

"Oh my gosh I have so many questions!" She stared at him with complete adoration clutching her even more precious book to her chest.

"No time kid!" He boomed. "Gotta get this villain to the proper authorities!" He patted the cola bottle which contained the green villain.

He turned his back on her and stretch before leaning and jumping straight up in the air. The force of his jump creating gusts of wind.

Unknown to him prior to the jump Izuwa had immediately ran to him. She couldn't let him go just yet. Seeing her hero about to leave so suddenly sparked her into action. Her body moving before she could rationalize her actions and soon found herself clutching onto the mans for dear life as they moved high above the city. Regret immediately filling her. 'Oh god please don't let me die!'

All Might soon realized his unintended passenger clutching his leg. "Hey! What the-!" He shook his leg. "Get off!"

"B-but if I l-let go I'll die!" She screamed clutching his leg. Her mouth wide open from the wind battering her face.

"Oh! Good point!" All Might realized. 'Gotta find someplace to land.' He thought. Clutching the back of the girls shirt to keep her steady. He coughed hard into his fist, tasting blood on his tongue. 'Crap! Don't have much time!'

No sooner did the thought come he spotted a large building, landing on it with a audible thump. Glad it didn't cause any damage from his nearly six hundred pound frame. The girl he was carrying was dazed but uninjured and awkwardly landed on her butt. "My life just flashed before my eyes." She muttered.

"Not a very smart move." He walked away from her towards the railing. "Bang on the door for a bit. Someone will let you in. Now I have to go! See you on the flip side!"

Suddenly Izuwa jumped up urgently hearing her hero about to leave. She couldn't have that. She need to talk to him. "Please wait a second!" She yelled.

"No, I don't have time!"

"Please! I need to know if I can be a hero!" He stopped and listened to her for a moment looking away. "Please! Can I be a hero!"

She looked down calming her voice. "Please, I just need to know. Everyone says I can't be a real hero. That my quirk is just to useless in real fights. And sometimes I do feel useless. But I just want to help."

He stopped. Looking at her he could practically feel the desperation leaking off her. He couldn't help bit wonder what her quirk was that made her feel so desperate that she could be a proper hero.

But soon he felt the exhaustion in his body. 'Shit! Not now!' He felt one for all overtaxing himself and steamed pored off of him as his body shrunk back. 'Dammit!'

Izuwa looked back up and was rendered speechless at the sight. Where once the legendery hero stood. Now was a skeletal looking man, in loose fitting clothes that looked just about to fall off.

"Wha-" she gasped. "Who are you?!" She screamed. Looking around chaotically. "No way your All Might! You imposter! Where is he!"

"I assure you I am-" he suddenly couched up blood. Startling the teen further. Color drsing from her face at the blood seemingly pouring from his mouth.

"But, but. All Mints so big and your..." She trailed off gesturing to his emaciated figure.

The now diminutive All Might finished wiping the blood from his mouth to answer her. "Ya know those thugs always sucking in their gut at the pools? I'm kinda like that."

"But... All Might's a giant of a man who rescues everyone with a fearless smile."

He sighed sitting down. His body exhausted from overusing his quirk. "I assure you theirs plenty off fear behind that smile." He muttered. For some reason he wanted to talk to this kid.

He looked up and stared her in the eyes. "Can you promise you won't go blabbing this to everyone?"

She nodded, as All Might lifted his shirt, revealing the badly scarred torso, his left side completely mangled behind anything she ever saw.

"Pretty gross huh? I got it a few years back,about ten years ago."

"Ten years ago?" Izuwa muttered. "Oh! You mean the fight against Toxic chainsaw!" She said.

He raised his eyebrows in astonishment. "Whoa, you know your stuff kid. But no. This fight didn't make it to the media." He sighed lowering his shirt. "Took most of my respiratory system and my whole stomach. Nowadays I can only do hero work for about three hours a day."

All Might sighed again before getting back up. "You asked if you could be a heroine right? What's your quirk?"

"Oh!" She fidgeted with her fingers looking down. "I can heal things. And myself. It's not much and people say I couldn't be much of a hero. I get teased a lot for not having such a mundane quirk. But I just want to be a hero like you!"

"Like me? Huh? Well if you can only heal things then your quirk is kinds useless on the battle field. Sure you could heal other injured citizens and other heroes. But your would do better as a sidekick to a strong hero." She looked down. Hearing the world sidekick drove a wedge deep in her heart. So that's it. Even All Might thinks so.

He smiled hoping she'd understand. But unfortunately she looked even more bummed out. Damn. It was the truth though. The sooner she understood her capabilities the better.

"Well I gotta go." He looked back and saw she had no objections. He sighed hoping she would realize her limitations soon.

It was a while before Izuwa had the strength to go. Hearing even her hero tell her her limitations broke her. But deep down she knew. Just being able to heal people wasn't enough. Even heroes like Recovery girl knew that. She helped others, but she never fought villains. Maybe she could be a heroine, just not how she wanted.

She walked home thinking of her journals. All the notes on heroes, everything she had that showed her how to fight a villain. She had so much. She trained so hard.

After learning of her quirk she learned quickly enough that it took a lot out of her to heal someone else and soon found out she need to build her stamina. She trained every day. Building up her body, eating right. She practiced moves from her journals, moves she analyzed from many heroes.

Maybe it was useless now if she couldn't be a battle hero.

Her musing was broken when she heard a loud explosion from a nearby building. There was smoke rising in plumes.

She immediately felt her body kick into action and run to the scene. Hoping to see another hero fight a villain. She squirmed her way through and caught sight of an alley way in cinders. Nearby building were on fire as flames poured from open windows.

She potted the villain in the center holding onto a struggling kid. 'Oh god! How long has he been like that. I could barely stand it for a few minutes.' She thought in horror.

She looked around and saw heroes tense just staring at the scene. 'Why aren't they doing anything?'

'God he was going to die!' And it was her fault she thought. Realizing she must have made All Might drop the villain during his escape. 'I'm no heroine.'

As the kids struggling grew he pulled at the sludge, his face trying to get out. And for a moment his eyes shone. She recognized them, it was Katsuki! And for the first time his eyes shone true despair and absolute fear.

Something in her awakened. Seeing that look drove her on as she felt her legs spring into action, despite the protests of heroes trying to stop her.

"No stop running you idiot!"

"Save the girl!"

"Get back here!" Heroes all yelled out to no avail. As they started running after her kicked into action by the young girl running to her apparent death.

Izuwa immediately recalled her journals and training. Quickly lifting her yellow backpack off and throwing it hard against the villain. A book flew out and hit hard in to creatures eye. He screeched in pain, giving Katsuki room to move, but he was still stuck. Izuwa latched onto his arm and tried pulling him out. Feeling him start to move.

"What the hell are you doing Deku!" Katsuki screeched in pain and anger.

"I couldn't just ignore you, Kaachan." She used his old nickname, tears streaming from her face as she grit her teeth and pulled.

But the distractions only lasted so long. The villain raised up his arm to strike the girl down.

But no sooner did he raise a watery arm did a figure flash on the scene. Taking the blow easily and stooping it in its tracks.

"I really am pathetic aren't i?" All Might in all his muscle bound glory stood over the kids. The sludge trying to take him down with no avail. "I told you what it takes to be a hero, but it seems I didn't take it to heart myself."

"So let me show you a true pro at work!" He cocked back a fist and with a mighty roar he bellowed. "Delaware Smash!"

He grabbed the kids hands and an enormous hurricane force wind completely broke the liquid villain apart blasting him away, as well as the fires and smoke.

The crowd and heroes stood in shock at the sheer power he displayed. Looking up and seeing the clouds moved, slowly darkening and rain starting to pore from the swirling mass.

All a might stood, shaken from the strain but standing victoriously for the crowd as they cheered.

Later on after he left and the other heroes took care of the situation Izuwa was chewed out by them for risking her life and Katsuki was praised for surviving against the villain.

As she walked back home Katsuki chewed her out saying she didn't save him. Which he was right. She didn't save him. But she tried. And maybe that mattered.

As she walked home All Might showed up again suddenly from the sky. "I am here!" He bellowed before shrinking back once more and crouching up blood again.

"All Might! What are you doing here?" She asked.

"I was looking for you kid." He finished wiping the blood away. "I needed to thank you."

"Oh me? But I really didn't do anything. I mean I was more of a hindrance than anything." She blushed looking away.

"That maybe so. But you tried, you were scared but that didn't stop you from rushing to save that boy without a second thought to your own life. And that my girl is the essence of a true hero." He smiled down at the teen. Seeing the potential greatness in her. He knew what he had to do. He found his successor. He knew it in his bones that this kid was the next torch bearer. "I deem you worthy for my power!"

Izuwa stared blankly at him. "Huh?" 'What does he mean?'

"Don't worry I'm not gonna force it on ya!" He laughed at her nervous look. "You wanna know what my power is? Some say its a simple strength enhancing quirk or invulnerability. But that's the farthest from the truth. In fact. I wasn't even born with this power, it was given to me by my own predecessor."

"Huh?!" Izuwa looked stunned at the concept. 'No way! Quirks can't be passed on!'

"But- but that's not how quirks work! True theirs a lot of speculation on how your quirk works but the idea of a quirk that can be passed on, since the growth of quirks there hasn't been a single quirk that was able to change users."

"Hey, hey kid! Enough, adjust your reality because that's how mine works." He sighed, breaking her from her muttering. "The name of my power is One for All!"

"One... For... All?" She repeated.

"Yeah. One persons improves the power and passes it down the line, improving it further and further with each new user. This is the power that lets me be the symbol of piece! The power that lets me bring justice to those who seek injustice!"

So young Midoriya? Do you accept my power?"

Izuwa stared, hardened her face and took the first step to her dreams. "Yes!"