I think this is the last My hero Academia story I'll do. For a while at least. I find them fun to write, but I'll get sick of it after a while, and I don't want to abandon a story. So this is about Izuku if he never met All Might at the right time and place, and if All for One found him first. Also Izuku had a much more traumatic past with bullies in his life.

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Chapter 1: a proposition

The Boss

I don't go around town much, not because I'm scared someone will recognize me, no, but I tend to scare people. My face is mostly scar tissue and I need respiratory assistance. When I do go out and about, It's generally recruiting for my cause. I've amassed quite the army of small time criminals with quirks. They're really just cannon fodder, to be honest. That's what I'm doing today. I'm really careful where I go, though. It'd be really bad running into Toshinori, I likely wouldn't win, even with the new arsenal of quirks I've acquired, and everything I've built up to this day would be for nothing.

I'm walking down an alley, and when I get out, I take a look to my right and see a kid walking under an overpass, he has green hair and a school uniform on, ot at least that's what I think, My 'vision' consists of seeing in infrared, but I can see some color. Children are easy to manipulate, I wonder what type of quirk he has, any quirk could be of value if used right. I should know.

I notice that the manhole cover behind him is starting to rise, and is launched into the air. Out of it rises a mass of sludge and slime. Unfortunately, I know this blob. He's part of my army, and also a massive pedophile. Before, When we met, we made an agreement: never harm the children physically or mentally. I think he's going to run the opposite direction of the child, but to my dismay, he grabs the child and encases him in his slime. I can't hear what he's saying but I know It's not pleasant, at all. I walk towards them and when I'm close I say:

"You disappoint me Yushi." The slime man turns back to look at me, his face drops and he stammers:

"B-B-Boss, umm, this isn't what it seems, I'm just using him to escape. Yeah! That's it, All MIght was chasing me and I needed a disguise!"

"I've been alive for a long time Yushi, I've seen people lie before. I don't need a quirk to tell you that."

"Well- here!" he tosses the kid aside, whose form is limp.

"Please, don't kill me." he backs off a little bit.

I stand there for a moment, to make him think that I'm debating the topic.

"Too late." I say and flick my arm toward him.

"NOOO!" he screams and a torrent of wind flies toward him. The wind is enough to slice him apart, and break chunks of concrete off the walls. I then snap my fingers, which pulls all the liquid together, and disintegrates it. Leaving no trace of the monster behind.

I walk a little farther and kneel at the body of the child. He's breathing. Barely. I put my hand on his forehead, to find that he has no quirk. I take a look at his bag, and rifle through it a little bit. I find a paper that's for entrance into high school. I have a hard time reading it, with my condition, but I can see that he wants to go to U.A, and the Hero course, at that. I have people in several places. But U.A isn't one of them. And besides, Toshinori is going to U.A to teach, and most likely find a successor. It occurs to me now, that having someone in U.A is a win-win situation. On one hand, I can get information about what will happen, It's perfect for killing Toshinori. On the other hand, Depending on who the spy is, they could be a great asset to me for years to come. But this kid, he's in way over his head. I don't even know what to think about that. That's when I get an idea. I pick him up in my arm and begin to walk back to my base. To avoid suspicion, I use my gate in an alley and step through it.

On the other side, I'm met with my doctor, who's fast asleep in a chair. I can only warp to people that I know, having a coordinate based teleportation gate would be much better.

I walk into the living room and place the kid on a couch. In the meantime I make some tea for him, It's best to seem inviting, I know I can get him on my side, I've done it before, countless times.

When the tea is done, I keep some heat on it and tend to some other things, such as the news and some small time criminals who I might be able to make join my cause. During some research, I hear a grumbling. I suppose he's waking up. I go to the living room and pour some tea.

"Wh-Where-"

"Don't worry about it. Drink this." I interrupt and hand him a cup. He graciously accepts it and drinks some.

"That guy had an awful quirk, are you okay?" I ask and sit down in a chair across from him.

"Umm, yeah that just hurt, that's all."

"Interesting." I say

"What?" he asks

"Normally people get scared when they see me." he looks up at me and says:

"Compared to what I've been through, and what I've seen, you're Santa Claus."

I think about the thought of me being santa, it makes me smile a little bit.

"What's your story, kid?"

"Y-You actually want to know?"

"Yes, I don't get to hear from many people at all, Company is nice." I'm being truthful with this, I get a strange feeling from this kid.

"Okay then." he takes a sip of his tea and begins."

"I wanted to be a hero for the majority of my life, but I'm quirkless. I even met my role model at one point, All Might, but he shot me down on my dreams. I had this guy I called 'Friend' for a while, his name is Katsuki, I've known him since we were kids and we would always hang out together, that was until his quirk manifested, after that, he changed, he could make explosions out of the palms of his hands and burn them."

He rolls up his left sleeve and shows me scars, running up all along his arm.. Burn marks, of the third degree.

"He did that when we were twelve, and he's toned it down, only with the threat of him being arrested. It's not just him though, everybody in my school's gone with him. They call me 'Deku'... Useless. I hate it. I hate him, I hate everyone, most of the time. One time I was hospitalized because a few kids ganged up on me and broke three of my ribs and my jaw. I just get this feeling that even the people who are behind me, who do seem to appreciate me are just waiting for me to die. Katsuki's always shown me up, he in particular is the worst of them all. He wants to be a hero but he's-He's like that. I even went as far as to apply for U.A just to show him up, to which he nearly destroyed my studies."

I tilt my head slightly, urging him to go on.

"I keep notes on pro heroes, Their strengths, weaknesses. Even how to beat them."

He takes out a half-burnt notebook that says:

'Hero analysis for the future."

This piqued my interest, someone like that, huh?

"That's my life, I guess. If you can call it that at this point. I really don't know what I'm going to do with my life."

This kid intrigues me. On one hand he seems like he was a pure soul at some point. On the other, it seems his life threw all the bad things it could, and that turned him into, well, this. This is kind of a gamble, but if it goes wrong for me, then I would just teleport him somewhere in America, where nobody would know what to do with him, or be able to understand him. It wouldn't kill him, and someone would take care of him, so he'd be fine.

"Tell you what kid-"

He looks up at me.

"-What if I told you that you could get a quirk."

"I'd say that that's impossible, you can't give people quirks, or obtain one in some strange way."

"And again, what if I told you, I could."

I look him dead in the eyes, and somehow, he is too.

"How." it didn't sound like a question, more like he was telling me.

I stand up and spread my arms, showing him the palms of my hands.

"My quirk allows me to take the quirks of others and use them for myself. I can use and even combine them." I stick out my left arm and activate two quirks: Bonespear and Dark Lightning. A Pointed tip made of bone starts to emerge from my hand, slowly. It extends about six inches before black electricity starts to zap the tip. Loud Cracks! Can be heard until the bone overheats and explodes.

"Woah."

"But another part of my quirk allows something else- to grant a quirk to anybody."

He sits in silence for a moment. I can tell he's thinking, he's thinking hard.

"And what good would it do me? It's not like I would do good with it. Besides, with the people trying to be heroes today, it's not like it'd go into a direction in which true heroes are formed."

"So how about reforming it?" I ask him.

"What do you mean?"

"For the past decades, I have been testing heroes with villains and they do not do it out of the good in their hearts. They do it for self gain, money, popularity. They are not the type of people to be heroes."

"So you've been a crime boss." he says. He figured me out immediately.

"You're a fast one."

"I'm not stupid, that's what it is. But at this point, Bringing down the hero society sounds like a pleasant idea."

He took me by surprise there. I totally thought he was going to walk out on me after he figured it out, but is he on board?

"What? Do you know what you're saying, boy?"

"I do, and what I'm doing is asking you to sign me up. I want in." he rises to his feet and looks up to me. There's more to this kid than meets the eye. I can 'see' it in his eyes. He's determined to do this, one way or another.

"I like you kid, I'll let you do this." I tell him.

"Thank you."

Now, what quirk shall I give him? Dark lightning? No. Nuclear ray? Definitely not. I get an idea. About three years ago, I picked up a quirk a lot like mine. By touching somebody, I was able to gain their quirk, but they kept their quirk. I'm able to keep it indefinitely, and I can mix quirks with it too, not to mention that it works through one layer of a fabric. It's not right for me, I need to be able to make sure I'm the powerful one around here, if they keep their quirk, the point of 'All for One' is meaningless. The amount of hatred and rage inside this kid, and yet his intellect and quick thinking, not to mention the fact that he's quirkless. He deserves power after all that he's gone through in his life. He needs to get his revenge. The fact that he's spoken to Toshinori, who shot him down, could be to my advantage. Toshinori is becoming a teacher, probably to pass on One for All. If he's this kid's teacher, and knows that this kid despises him for his words, it would make him vulnerable. This kid here, HE is my spy.

"I shall give you this power on one condition." I tell him

"What is it?"

"You will go to Yueii, and you will be my spy."

He looks away and thinks about it and says:

"Deal."

"Very well, once you walk down this path, you cannot walk off, You know this?"

"I started down this path the day I was born." he says, looking back to me.

"Close your eyes." I tell him. He does so and I put my right hand on his head. I transfer the power to him, the power to take power, and let others keep it. I take my hand off him and he opens his eyes. He looks at his hands and asks:

"What power did you give me?"

"A power much like mine. By touching somebody for a few seconds, you can obtain their quirk, and use it. Get as many as you can, and learn to use all of them. Be creative. You can even combine and destroy quirks at will."

"Thank you." he says.

"Yes, I also gave you another ability. You can communicate with me in your dreams. While you sleep."

"That's helpful if I'm to be a spy, huh?"

"Yes, now, We will not see each other for a very long time. You are to gather information and relay the important things to me. I have a group that will focus entirely on U.A, they will know that there is a spy, but they will not know who."

"Isn't that kind the point of a spy? So the allies know who it is?"

"Normally, but they will hesitate against you if they know, and I know they are not good actors. If the spy works alone and relays information to one person, and that person passes it onto the group, then you will know, and you will not go easy on them, but always let them get away, always."

"That makes sense." he says and looks at the palm of his hand.

"What's your name."

"Midoriya, Izuku. Most people call me Deku."

"Hmm, not fit at all for my spy, how about… Agent Hale."

"That seems… Random."

"Hale is the last name of Nathan Hale, an American spy who was crucial to their independence."

"Oh, okay."

"Now, go and collect quirks and train. Get powerful and crush the competition, and we'll crush the world of heroes, one at a time if necessary."

"I won't let you down." he tells me.

"Good, now, I will put you to sleep, You'll wake up on a train, go home from there."
"Okay." I touch a finger on his head, and he's out cold. I pick him up and warp to one of my allies.

"Boss!"

"Take this kid and put him on a train, nearby. He'll wake up in about fifteen minutes. Put him on a train and get out at the next stop."

"Yes boss!" I give him Izuku and warp back to base. I go into the warehouse, where I keep the Nomus, most of them are unfinished, there's only one that's nearly complete. I guess it's time to get to work.

The Traitor

I didn't get much sleep, I was thinking about this sudden turn of events. A quirk that allows you to take quirks and give them to people, huh? He's supposedly given me a quirk like that, except the person's power I take stays with them. I don't feel any different, that's for sure. I guess I wouldn't have a quirk along with it Immediately. I need to collect them. I look over to my alarm clock and see it's 6:30. I have a half hour until I need to get up for school, but I can't sleep, so I get up and get ready now anyways. I take a shower, get dressed and get my school stuff together. I get out my room to find mom's making breakfast.

"Oh, good morning Izuku, how did you sleep?"

"Not well enough, what are you making?"

"Some eggs, that's all. Ready for school already?"

"Yeah, I got some tests today."

"Oh, well good luck."

I get an Idea, I walk up to my mother and give her a hug, to which she gives me one back.

'Take her quirk' I think

"Have a good day, honey."

I start to head out the door and say:

"Don't worry mom, I think I will." I head out and lock the door behind me. I take my keys and drop them on the ground. I extend my hand above them and try to will them into my hand. The keys start levitating, stopping for a second and come into my hand. I grab onto them and smirk. It worked. I wonder if there's a cap on how many I can acquire, and what combinations I could use. He made it sound like I can acquire a lot. I wonder if I can just go around the city touching people and getting their quirks. I should rethink how I said that. I head out of the building and make my morning commute. I'm tempted to just make contact with anybody around here, but it would be weird if I just touched everybody I came across. I get on the train and wait till my stop. I take out my phone and just browse around until I notice the guy on my left. I recognize him, he's a big figure in the support Items business. He's foreign and moved here to start a business, which he did. He's made over a thousand support items on his own, they're top quality.

"Hey, sir are you August Stein?"

"Why yes, I am."

"Wow! I'm a huge fan of your work, not a lot of people know about it unfortunately."

"Yeah, well It's nice to meet a fan. What's your name?"

"Midoryia, Izuku Midoryia."

"Well nice to meet you Midoriya."

"Now, , what's your Quirk, if I may ask?"

"Oh, well I can disrupt electrical currents in a wide range. Shutting off electrical devices. I call it EMP"

"Wow, that's pretty cool, so could you stop the train?"

"I don't know. I haven't tried. But I can control the area that's affected."

"It's cool that all your support ideas have some sort of power required, despite your quirk."

"I guess, now what's yours?"

"Well, if someone allows me, I can copy their quirk and use it for myself." It's a half-truth, I suppose.

"What? How does that work?"

"Well, If I Make physical contact with someone, and ask if I can Have their Quirk. If they say yes, then I can permanently acquire their quirk."

"That's amazing, how many do you have?"

"Just one, or two, if you count my base quirk."

"Oh, how about you take mine? Just don't go shutting down trains."

"Really?" I really didn't think I would get that like that. He's kind.

"Yeah, I want to see it in action."

I stick out my hand and he takes it.

"Now, May I have your Quirk?"

"Yes."

'Take his quirk' I think.

I let go of his hand and take out my phone and turn it on. I put my other hand over it and activate the quirk, turning it off. I push the power button several times, to no avail. When I deactivate the quirk, My phone restarts and powers back on.

"Looks like it worked, that's cool." he says.

"Yes, thank you. This is my stop, It was awesome meeting you!"

"Yeah, same. See you around Midoriya."

I get off the train and look at my hand. Something in me tells me that I shouldn't abuse this power I've been given, while everything else is screaming at me to gain Every quirk I can. He didn't even tell me something to call him, so why should I accept this power? Because you have it.

Why should I use it?

Because you can.

Why should I do what he says?

He gave you the ability to do what they've all done to you, he gave you vengeance on a silver platter. So why NOT use it and do as he says?

I don't have an answer to that. If I have the power to make them all bend down and plead for mercy, then why not do it.

I walk to school, looking at my phone when I bump into somebody.

"Sorry! I wasn't paying attention!" I put my hand on his shoulder and he says:

"Don't worry, kid, just pay attention." and he walks off.

I keep walking and notice that my mouth feels like it's getting heavier. I touch my face and stick my fingers in my mouth, to which I cut my left middle finger on something. I open the camera on my phone and look at my mouth. My canines became longer and sharper, in fact, the whole structure of my mouth has changed.

It even works on Mutant-type quirks. I think about my mouth and how it was before, and the canines shrink and my mouth returns to normal.

"Impressive." I say to myself. And keep on walking.

Throughout the day, I amassed three more quirks, one of which allows me to see the rate at which people's hearts are beating, one Allows me to take my eyes out of my head, although, Only for a certain distance. Not sure what I'm going to do with that, and the other turns my skin into some type of rock. Only my skin, though. Unfortunately, I didn't make contact with Kacchan.

The next week

I've gotten quite the amount of quirks now. None of them are too combat heavy, Like on the train one time, I went to sit in an empty seat only to sit on a man's lap who appeared a second later. He explained to me that if he stops moving, he becomes completely invisible. I got another from a cashier at a local shop, it took me a couple days to find this out, but It allows me to be invisible to thermal cameras, by disguising my body temperature. I was able to combine these two and basically become a stationary predator.

I've also gained more just from being on the train, but by far the most powerful one I've gotten so far, is the ability to change and manipulate matter. I got it from an old man in an alleyway. He definitely gave me the creeps, but his quirk is spectacular. For example, I can turn concrete into gold. What's more, I can turn a slab of concrete into a golden knife with this. It's not just concrete into gold, though, All the materials I've tested have worked into turning them into elements I manipulated them into.

But By far the most useful quirk in the long run, is supercharge. The original owner of this quirk could only supercharge other people's quirks, but when I got it, I was able to supercharge the EMP quirk. I caused a blackout in the city for two days.

We've already taken written exams to get into U.A's entrance exams, which only two people in this school passed. Me and Kacchan. I avoided telling anybody, or letting anybody know that I've got a quirk. The longer they think I'm useless the better. The more scared they'll be when I destroy them.

I'm walking to the station, Just like usual, when a figure, just out of my peripherals slams me into the wall. It's Kacchan, and he doesn't look happy at all.

"The hell do you think you're doing you little shit?! Getting Into U.A like that. You know, I ought to just fry you right here and now!"

"You know Kacchan, I'm done being your punching bag." I grab his arm, tightly.

"I've gone my whole life taking shit from you and your cronies, I'm sick of it." I slowly take his hand off me.

"I'm going to show you who's boss, and then, you'll be on your knees, wishing you were a little bit nicer to me."

"SHUT UP!" he sets an explosion off in my face, It hurts like hell, but not like the time my jaw was broken, but it'll leave burns.

"I better not see you then, or I'll leave more than a burn." I can hear him walking away, but I can't see because of the smoke.

I keeps walking away until I know he's out of earshot.

I smirk and stick out the palm of my hand, setting off explosions like firecrackers.

"Watch out Kacchan, Karma's on her period, and she's pissed at you." I say

So here's my take on Villain Deku, tell me if you like it, hate it, or whatever.

Criticism is welcome!