Chapter 1
There was a time where a baby was shined in the hospital of Keiki in China. Each individuals were given special and unique abilities called Quirks. It began to increase slowly when time has passed. Beginning to form the society of heroes, like many people dream of being one by stopping villains and criminals alike. Getting approved by the government of their heroic acts. Getting the credit and money is what the people with Quirks wanted. Certain people with quirks often refer themselves as the best of all heroes from earning their popularity, which is taking over of the hero society. Sometimes bullying and abusing their quirks to the people who are quirkless is often seen throughout the years. The real question is. Can a person without a quirk can be a hero? This...is the story of the quirkless vigilante turn hero among super powered heroes called...
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...The Batman.
(16 years before Izuku is born)
(Morning)
In the nice and comfortable neighborhood where many young kids can visit local parks, schools, and temple shrines. A nice brown house that is two stories, new, and quite expensive. Inside the house, it is very decorated and well organized in many ways. In the kitchen, a young Japanese woman with long black hair is cooking a delicious meal for her family to eat breakfast. Her husband, who is reading a newspaper while drinking his coffee. An American man that is well built, black hair, broad shoulders, looking formal for getting ready to go to work. Reading a newspaper about heroes saving people from the burning building, drinking his coffee when his wife putting the food on the table. "Kiyomi, what should we do for our little boy's birthday next week?"
"Well, Alan wanted to invite his friends over for a birthday party." His wife replied. "Why?"
"Because I wanted to take you both to Hawaii."
In Alan's gray colored room, has posters on the wall, tons of comics stored on his shelf, action figures of certain heroes he likes. But the hero he truly admired is the gray hooded hero called The Gray Ghost. His quirk allows him to turn into smoke to sneak through vents, phase through objects, and teleport. But the hero retired of his old age, but it didn't bothered Alan for him to quit as a hero. Today is the day where his mom is taking Alan to the doctors, so they can check on Alan for checking his blood of whether or not he posses a quirk. His mom has the ability to create fire smoke in any shape or form. Unlike heroes who are skilled, his mom doesn't have any experience using her quirk for self defense. She's just an ordinary mom with a quirk.
On the table, drawing his future costume on the piece of paper. Alan is a five year old boy with light peach skin. Like his mother, he has a sharp soft black hair, hazel eyes, wearing a black long sleeve and shorts. Since he's half American and Japanese, his face and eyes has a feature of an American like his father.
With the pencil pressing on the paper, his first costume is a black cloak, a silver skull mask, and red armor. His hero name is The Reaper. "Hmm. Beware evil doers, you will be feared by the Reaper!" Putting a deep tone in his voice with little effort. Thinking about, he didn't like it. "Nah." Getting another piece of paper, he drew another costume he has in mind. This costume has a gray hooded cape, gray armored boots, a hockey inspired mask, and black suit. This hero he calls it, The Phantasm. Putting his voice into a deep tone, "Halt, you scum. Your angel of dea-"
"Alan! Your breakfast is ready!"
"Coming!" Alan was about to say death and found that to be out to be brutal for a hero. He put his papers back at his drawer and left his room to go downstairs in a rush. At the table, his parents are glad that Alan can join them to eat breakfast. "Good morning, sport. Sleep well?" Alan nodded multiple times of excitement when he's eating his rice and veggies. "Alan, your father and I have something to announce." Alan looked at his parents of confusion and silently gulp of what they gonna say and might be predictable of what they're gonna say. His guest is getting a brother or a sister.
"What is it?" Alan asked.
His parents looked at each other and nodded. "We're about to take to Hawaii after your birthday party." His father revealed.
Alan went speechless when he stop himself from eating his rice . Coming out from his father's mouth, Alan doesn't know how to respond. His parents are waiting patiently for his response.
"For real?!" Alan is shocked of the revelation.
His parents smiled of his loud comment and nodded. Alan is surely excited to go on a family trip to Hawaii. "That's so cool!" Alan continued, "So that means we can go to the beach and many other places?!"
"That's correct, Alan." His mother replied.
Alan feels like a lucky boy. "Wow. First my quirk, my birthday party, and going to Hawaii." Alan smiled of excitement, "..It gets even better!"
Alan's parents enjoyed their son's kind innocent nature. They truly loved their son in every part of their hearts. They hoped that Alan will have a very bright future of happiness.
At a place where young children can learn and play, Alan is in class with many young kids who are playing with toys, coloring with chalks, and talk about their favorite heroes. Many kids in school, they talked about heroes everyday when see them in morning patrols, the news, and pretty much they see them everywhere. Alan likes to share his friends of his favorite heroes but personally his favorite is the Gray Ghost. Alan's friends really like to hang out with him, he's smart and knows the knowledge of heroes, after all, he is a smart kid.
Gathering themselves in a circle, Alan's friend, Chosuke, is showing them his quirk. "Check this out." Chosuke shows off his green textured hands to show his camouflage quirk. His green hands turned into multiple colors and turned himself invisible. "Whoa." Alan and his friends were in awe of their lizard friend. Chosuke disabled his camouflage quirk, "What's your quirk, Ken?"
"Mine's goo." Ken turned himself into a blob. Alan's friends wants to show off their quirk.
"Fireballs." Hideo displaying his quirk on his palms.
"Earth." Daiki turns his arms intro hard rocks.
Lastly, a girl part of Alan's group, Yuki, shows off her quirk. "I have sparkles." The electricity popping on her soft hands. All of Alan's friends show their quirk for the first time to each other and amazed of their powers. One thing's missing is Alan. "What's your quirk, Alan?" Ken asked.
Thinking a way to answer Ken's question, Alan says, "Well. I have fire smoke, but somehow I cant use it. After school's over, I'm going to the doctors to check if I have a quirk."
"Oh. I hope you have a quirk, Alan. It will be so cool to see." Hideo said, kind of admitting that his 'fire smoke' is better than his fireballs.
"Yeah." Alan's friends agreed.
"If you do have a quirk, show us next week!" Daiki said while the rest nodded.
Speaking of next week, the school bell rang when the teacher informed the kids, "Alright kids, enjoy your nice lovely weekend." The kids are excited to go home, they grabbed their backpacks and exited out. Alan and his friends grabbed their stuff and left. Alan's friends told each other to have a nice weekend and separated each other to home. All kids walked and picked up from their parents. Alan's house is not too far from school, it will be a nice stroll. Its a good thing for Alan that his neighborhood is very safe and quiet. Walking pass the park, a faint sound of thud can be heard. Alan stopped himself for making sure he heard that correctly. A grunt by someone is nearby. Jogging to the source of the grunt, Alan hide behind a tree and shocked what's he seeing.
A boy with glasses in Alan's age is being bullied by a third grader, "Come on, you nerd! Give me your lunch money so I can buy more trading cards!" Wanting the poor boy's money to buy heroes cards to show off his third grade friends. The boy in glasses is holding his stomach from the punch while hiding his tears. "..I-I don't have any." A third grader bully put his shoe on the crying boy. "Don't you lie to me, nerd. I know you have some money deep in your pockets." Putting his foot on the nerd looking boy pretty hard. Satisfied, the third grader smiled by showing off his shapeshifting hands. "You know, its funny to see a quirkless boy like you have no chance against someone like me." The bully pressed his foot a bit hard while the boy started to cry even more.
Sickened of that disgusting bully, Alan did not even think what's he up against. He made his first move, to confront the mean kid and defend the weak. "HEY!" The bully instantly looked what's calling him, the boy looked at Alan with a sad expression and shocked of what Alan is up against. "Leave him alone, you jerk!" The bully took that insult as a joke, "Aww, the little boy is trying to play hero." Alan stood his ground of keeping his distance, "Wanna hear something about heroes, little boy?" Alan lets the bully talk about heroes, "Because I want to be a hero, too." Shocked from the bully's mouth, Alan is furious in the inside that a jerk like him wants to become a hero.
"..Heroes help people, not harm!" Alan yelled of making a point while the crying boy is shocked. The bully had enough of Alan's little mouth and he will enjoy this personally. "You know what, how about I give you a knuckle sandwich and join with that crying baby." Alan is already feeling scared of what the bully is gonna do with him. Fear is the main emotion he's already feeling. The third grader is in front of Alan, and immediately delivered him a punch in the stomach. Alan spat out some saliva from his mouth. Now he's holding stomach from that punch.
"You know, standing up to me like that, I already felt bad for you." The bully said. "Do that again or else I'll give something to remember by." Putting his hands into his pockets and left the playground with no money, he'll just have to find another little pipsqueak.
Both kids are on the ground while holding their stomach, the boy in glasses slowly got up. Walking towards the boy who stood up to the bully, Alan slowly looked up and noticed that the boy wants to grab his hand. Accepting his hand, Alan got up with the boy's help.
"-N-Nobody stood up to me like that, thanks." The boy said.
Alan basked of the boy's statement, "I always wanted to help people when I become a hero."
The boy in glasses was amazed of the confrontation, "...I believe you will be a great hero." The boy's statement will be in Alan's mind forever and grateful for the support. "What's your name?"
Smiled of his question, "Alan. Alan Knight." Fully revealed his full name.
"Jake Santos. Nice to meet you." The Filipino boy said. "When I grow up, I want to develop technologies like my father."
Alan really liked Jake's goal, "Cool. Like making computers and all that stuff."
Jake nodded, "Yeah, like making cool inventions, and costumes for heroes. When you become hero, me and my father can make a costume for you."
Alan felt like he wanted to explode, "Really! You mean it!" Jake happily nodded when he looked at his watch, "Oh no. I need to go home or else my mom will get me mad at me."
Alan totally forgot about being home a bit early, "Oh yeah, I need go home, too. Well, see you around, Jake!" Alan ran to his home and waved.
"You too, Alan!" Jake waved back at him and left. Both kids are glad that their officially friends.
A minute later of running, Alan is a bit tired and worried that his mom will get mad at him. He hoped that his mom wont yell because he was never late to go home. He opened the door with his own his key, and said "Mom, I'm home!"
"Oh there you are, Alan. Leave your backpack here and brush your teeth, because we're about to be late to the doctors." Alan's mother is getting ready to go.
"Okay." Alan left his backpack and immediately went upstairs to go at the bathroom. In the bathroom, Alan quickly grabbed his tooth brush and put some tooth paste. Brushing his teeth in a fast pace, he is ready to get his quirk. With his teeth clean, Alan left the bathroom and went downstairs to leave. His mother asked, "Ready?"
"Uh huh!" Alan nodded while smiling.
Opening the door, Alan shouted in his mind, THIS IS IT! I"M GETTING MY QUIRK!
Alan and his mother left the house when the door is closed and locked.
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In the evening, the door is unlocked and opened by Alan's mother and a very sad and broken Alan. Slowly putting off their shoes, Alan slowly walked while looking down, went upstairs and never bother eating dinner. "Alan. Is there anything I can get you something? Kiyomi asked in a soft tone. Ignored his mother's kind words, Alan reached his room and silently closed it. Deep in her heart, she is so severely felt bad for her little boy. She just want to see him smile, not having a sad face. Feeling the tears in her eyes, she let it out and started crying. "I'm so sorry, Alan. I'm so sorry."
In Alan's room, Alan is sitting down on a chair thinking about his future. But the sad part is that he doesn't know what he'll do in the future. Looking around with his sad eyes, seeing posters of heroes and the Gray Ghost, action figures, and comics. All he can think of is heroes. Just him alone, Alan silently started crying of his dream being crushed. The words that came straight out from the doctor's mouth is.
He cannot become a hero because he's quirkless.
Quirkless defines a person that cannot access their quirk. Yes. Alan is quirkless. Crying even more of thinking about what his friends react of him being quirkless, will they laugh or disappointed. Because Alan repeatedly saying to his friends that he's gonna get a quirk. But it didn't happen. Alan is left sad in his room with only his lamp shined on the table.
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In 8:40 PM, Alan's father is nearly a few blocks away from his house. Working with the hero association government, Mr. Knight believes that Japan needed a hero to stop all crimes and villainy. The crime rates are very rampant. But it will be all over soon. Eager to go home to see his wife and son. He wonders that his son has a quirk, and if he does, Mr. Knight will surely support his son. Finally home at last, Mr. Knight parked his car and locked it. Walking towards the door and unlocked it. His wife looked at her husband while watching TV in the living room. "Kiyomi, is everything alright? You look a bit brooding. Did something happen?" Mr. Knight said while walking towards his wife.
Kiyomi slowly got up from the couch to reveal something about their son, "..Alan's quirkless."
Mr. Knight is left a bit speechless and surprised, "..What?"
"...The doctor told us that Alan somehow completely cant inherit my quirk, because they check on his DNA and found nothing. I just don't understand, I told them that it must be some kind of error. But the doctor is so certain that Alan cannot access his quirk in any other way, so it confirms that Alan is quirkless." Mrs. Knight wiped one tear of thinking about it, "After that, me and Alan went to the car to go home, I know that he wanted to cry, but he's holding it back." Kiyomi continued, "Then we went inside the house, he hasn't spoken one word or even look at me. So I asked him 'is there anything I can get you something?' Alan ignored me and went to his room." Kiyomi is saddened to her son like that, "I felt really bad for him, his dream to become a hero is gone, and him being sad." Feeling the tears in her eyes, "..I-I just want our little boy to be happy again." Kiyomi wanted to cry again when she hugged her husband. Mr. Knight hugged his beautiful wife back for comforting her struggle with Alan.
"Its okay, Kiyomi. I'll go talk to him." Mr. Knight said. "I'm sure he'll accept being quirkless."
"And if he doesn't?" Kiyomi asked.
"He will, Kiyomi. He will." Mr. Knight assured his wife while they don't want to let go of their hug.
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(A few minutes later)
With the lamp still shine on the table, Alan is on the bed while hugging his pillow. Still thinking negative thoughts of him being quirkless, he doesn't want to admit to his friends that someone like Alan is quirkless. Guess being a hero is not an option for him, but Alan refuses to believe that. He just doesn't like being quirkless! Alan's negative thoughts was interrupted by his door opened by his father. "Alan," His father spoke softly. "May I come in?" Alan slowly nodded in reply. Alan's father slowly entered his son's room and sat on Alan's bed, "You mother told me what happened." Alan looked away slightly of his father knowing the truth. "You're feeling angry that you're quirkless." Alan is shocked of what his father just said.
"...H-How did you know that I was angry?" Alan sadly asked his father.
"Because, Alan. It's written all over your face." Alan's father said.
Alan slightly moved his head and asked another question. "...Are you mad that I cant be a hero?"
"Of course not, Alan. Why would I be mad at you?" Alan's father asked.
"...Because I don't have a quirk like my mom." Alan said.
"Alan." Mr. Knight called his name when Alan directly at his father's soft eyes, "Being a hero doesn't mean that having superpowers and do things what other people cant. Its about doing the right thing." Alan continued listening his father's words, "Before quirks exist, Alan, who saved people from the burning building?"
"Fire fighters." Alan answered.
"Exactly. Who takes the bad guys to jail away from people?" Alan's father asked.
"Police officers." Alan answered.
"See. These people are considered to be heroes because they save other people's lives." Mr. Knight said. "Quirkless or not, all of us can be heroes."
Alan attitude changes when his father proved a point about heroes, he is glad to hear that statement. "Dad, what makes a hero so perfect?"
Mr. Knight started to think about and answered, "Their mistakes."
"Mistakes?" Alan tilt his head slightly.
"Everyone makes mistakes. You, me, your mom, everyone and I do mean everyone. And do you know why, Alan?" Alan's father said.
"Why?" Alan asked.
Mr. Knight paused for a moment. "Why do we fall, Alan?"
"Umm. I don't know. Why?" Alan said.
"So we can learn to pick ourselves up." Mr. Knight answered.
Alan finally gets the meaning in a full effect, he did once get punched by a bully and Jake helped him get up. Learning that mistake, he will be aware from that next time. "Is making mistakes a good thing?"
"Of course, because that is how we learn in life." Mr. Knight said.
Alan felt really happy from hearing his father's words and didn't have any negative thoughts in his mind anymore. He accepts himself being quirkless, and being a hero is something he can forget. Alan yawned for having his day pretty long.
"Tired, buddy?" Mr. Knight asked his son politely.
Alan nodded while rubbing his eyes.
"Alright, let me tuck you in." His father puts a blanket on Alan to make him feel comfortable. With Alan ready to go to sleep, Mr. Knight gets up and walked over to Alan's lamp to turn it off. Heading to exit his son's room, Mr. Knight stopped for one moment before going to bed. "Hey, Alan?"
"Yes, dad?" Alan asked.
"Do you want to watch the Cloaked Rider tomorrow?" Asking his son to go watch to the movies.
"Uh huh." Alan nodded a bit wildly. "When?"
"Tomorrow, I'm getting out of work a bit early. Like somewhere between 6 or 7." Alan's father said.
"Is mom going, too?" Alan asked.
"Yes, Alan. All of us are going." Mr. Knight answered softly. "Good night, Alan."
"Good night, dad." The door closes softly and leaving Alan a bit excited to watch a movie tomorrow. Its a official, Alan puts his goal as a hero behind and now focus something he's good at. For now, Alan's motivation as a hero has ended, never bothered being quirkless, his eyes slowly closed, and finally went to sleep.
(Tomorrow)
At exactly 6:44 PM, Alan and his mother are waiting for his dad to pick them up to go watch 'The Cloaked Rider'. The movie was released weeks ago and surprisingly available to watch. Its a about a man who wears a cape, rides a motorcycle, and beats up thugs for the name of justice. Alan is the only person who is excited to watch that action packed movie. Kiyomoi is very glad that Alan is finally happy again for having a talk with his father. Loved seeing her son excited to watch the movie, Kiyomi is patiently waiting for her husband to return home. Until she sees her husband's car arrived and honked. "Alan, your father's here, lets go." Alan followed his mom to leave the house, his mom closes and locked the door. Since its quite chilly outside, Alan and his mother are wearing jackets for the cold weather to keep themselves warm. Both of them went to the car where is warm inside. "So, Alan? Are you ready to watch The Cloaked Rider?"
Alan nodded rapidly, "Lets hurry! We don't want to be late!"
Alan's chuckled of his excitement when Mr. Knight pulled the car lever and put his foot on the pedal and driving their way to the movies.
While driving, Alan is gazing at window looking at other places, Mr. Knight quietly spoke to his wife. "Since Halloween's next month, do you remember that I scared Alan with my Bat mask last year?"
"Honey, that wasn't funny." Kiyomi turned serious. "You nearly sacred him half to death, and you should know that he has a phobia of bats."
"Sorry, I didn't know he was afraid of-"
"Promise that you wont scare him again?" Kiyomi asked.
Mr. Knight couldn't say no to his wife, "I promise that I wont scare our son like that again?"
"Good." Kiyomi happily said.
"What?" Alan is confused of their conversation.
"Its nothing, Alan. Look we're here." Mr. Knight doesn't want to bring up that scary memory. Parked at the street where the movie theater is 11 minutes by walking, but couldn't park near the theater because all the cars were parked. They have to walk to get to the theater. The Knight family stepped out of the car and on their way to the theater.
Almost eleven minutes by walking they finally reached the theater booth, "Hi, what movie would you like to watch tonight?"
"Can I get three tickets to The Cloaked Rider, please?" Mr. Knight asked.
"Two adults and one child?" The theater worker asked.
"Yes." Mr. Knight said.
The worker pulled out three tickets to The Cloaked Rider, "That will be 2,985.25 yen."
Mr. Knight puled out his wallet to give the worker money. The worker gives him the tickets, "Here you go, enjoy the movie."
"Thank you." Mr. Knight said.
With that done, Alan and his parents went to the door so they can enjoy the movie together. Alan is totally excited to see some action scenes in the movies... It will be the day that Alan will never forget.
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(Two hours later)
At the night, The knight family stepped out of the theater while Alan is talking to his parents about the cool and awesome scenes in the movie. Its only five people who were watching The Cloaked Rider. Mr. Knight noticed something different, "Wow. Did the streets have a power outage or something?" The streets there in is nearly dark while some of the light post were flickering on and off.
"And its quiet too." Kiyomi commented while she hasn't seen one person in those streets.
"Don't worry about it, the lights will turn on any minute." Mr. Knight said. "Come on. Lets go home."
They all walked to the street where Alan's father parked his car. While walking their way, Alan said, "Hey mom, dad, what's your favorite part in the movie?"
"Hmm. My favorite part is where he fought over thirty bad guys." Mr. Knight answered.
Alan's mother nodded and agreed, "Yeah, that part was cool."
"Wanna hear my favorite part?" Alan said.
"What is it?" Alan's mother asked.
"The part where he chasing the bad guys with his awesome motorcycle and they were all scared of him."
"Yeah, that part was also cool." Alan's father agreed.
Alan loves holding his movie ticket, and it might considered his favorite movie. A bit far from the happy Knight family, there was a young guy in the messed up hoodie, watching them walk towards him. The young guy walked towards the Knight family with a suspicious looking walk.
A minute later, Mr. Knight noticed a guy is walking towards him. Alan's father is getting a weird feeling about this. Immediately, the guy pulls out his gun and said in a nervous tone, "Give me your wallet...Now."
Kiyomi immediately shield her son while Alan's heart rate started to increase very high. From up close, he never seen a person with a gun before and now he threatens his parents for his father's wallet. Mr. Knight can tell that a nervous person with a gun is over 20 years old and it must be the first time for him using a gun on somebody. "...A-Alright...Just take I-It easy."
Alan and his mother are terrified while shaking, Alan tries to calm himself while saying these words in his thought. A hero will come. A hero will save us. Alan gripped his mother's jacket while looking around for a hero to come.
Alan's father slowly pulled out his wallet from his pocket and handing it over to the thug, "...H-Here you go." Giving his wallet to the thug, he accidently dropped it.
The wallet dropped on the ground, the thug grips his gun tightly while shaking. "..Its fine...Just take it...and leave." The moment the thug looks down at the wallet, Alan's father decided to attack the thug with a yell. The scared thug instantly pulls the trigger at Alan's father.
(BLAM!)
The bright flash shot Mr. Knight in the heart, killing him instantly.
"AHHHH! ALAN! RUN!" Kiyomi screamed at loud at her son.
The shocked and scared thug shot Alan's mother to shut her up. (BLAM!)
A fully scared Alan stares at the killer with his sad scared little eyes. The thug is also scared as well, he took the wallet and sprinted away from the scene. And never looked back at the scared little boy. Alan is trembling, breathing, crying while looking at his dead parents in front of him. Horrified, Alan dropped his ticket and kneeled in front of his dead parents. "...M-mom...D-d-Dad..." The tears is all over his cheeks.
The chefs from a restaurant came out a door from hearing a gunshot. They are all shocked that a crying little boy is in front of his dead parents. "Quick! Call the police!" The chef said while the other chef went inside the restaurant to contact the police. The other chefs walked towards the crying Alan. "What happened?" The chef spoke softly. Alan couldn't say a word right now.
A hero didn't come to save them.
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The light post shines on Alan and his dead parents.
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This is how happen.
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This.
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Is how the Batman is born.
(To be continued)
Yes. This story is finally here. The original plot of Batman and My Hero Academia is about Joker steals the machine that can go to other dimensions and accidently sucked both Batman and Joker into the My Hero Academia world. With Batman capturing criminals as a vigilante while Joker teams up with Tomura. For a sec, I thought the story will get confusing, so I deleted it. My OC Batman will have the characteristics as Bruce Wayne's Batman, but except for Bruce Wayne because my OC is not a billionaire play boy. This story will have Batman Begins vibe to it, and the truth is that Batman Begins is my favorite Batman movie from the Dark Knight Trilogy.
For the followers who followed me, I haven't been updated my stories for a while because there were things were in my way, so sorry about that. But I will promise you this my followers! The New Green Lantern chap 3 is next, so keep an eye on that.
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