A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
~~Bob Dylan
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10 Years Later:
Izuku Midoriya sighs as he zips up his green hoodie before leaving the house. Once again, his mother refuses to tell him who is his father is. Always saying that he is working abroad and that his quirk is to breathe fire. As he walks to Aldara Junior High, he hears a loud commotion. His face lights up in awe as he sees a huge man being defeated by a costumed giant and Kamui Wood! One of the new upcoming heroes! He flips his notebook to a page where all of his knowledge of Kamui Wood is proudly displayed.
"Thanks for the support!" the giant woman shouts with glee as photographers start to take pictures as she poses over the defeated villain.
"That'll be me when I become a hero." Izuku determinedly speaks to himself as he starts to write his analysis over Mt. Lady announces herself and takes the villain into the van. He equips Danger Sense to check for any enemy. Nobody around here has any sense of danger for him. Good.
He pockets his journal and continues his journey to his school, now with a more peppier step as he got the chance to see a Superhero fight.
The rest of the walk is uneventful.
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In school, Izuku has been both the target of jealousy and awe with his Jack of All Trades Quirk. He was able to change his quirk's name to Jack of All Trades after his mother realizes how ridiculous the name her sleep-deprived state of mind made up was.
After Katsuki found out about Deku's Quirk, he proclaims Deku as his rival to being All-Might and the two shares an intense rivalry between the two with their friendship somehow reinforced by ridiculous competitions.
For example, one time, the two friends had a fight over who can eat the spiciest food, with Katsuki finally collapsing after consuming a 350,000 Scoville Phall that they found in a nearby Indian restaurant. Izuku himself had to result in taking an Enhanced Constitution quirk in order to survive the ordeal and later was forced to use a Vomit quirk to expel the dangerous contents of his stomach out into a urinal. The restaurant was never able to fix that one toilet, due to the sheer acidity within the vomit constantly disintegrating pipes.
"Now class." Mr. Morimoto, the teacher, says, "We have two students here applying to UA, and both are in the classroom. Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugan."
"Yes!" Katsuki screams out, "The nerd and I will be able to rule the school of fuckheads within a week. I will have so many sidekicks that you will be lacking shithead!" He crows as his hands start to ignite in miniature explosions once again.
"Please, Mr. Bakugou." Mr. Morimoto pleads, "We don't want the Chemistry Explosion Incident to occur again." Everyone shivered at that, including Deku. It took him 3 hours to clean it, even with his Super Soaker and Perfect Cleaner Quirk.
"Tchh, fine," Katsuki grumbles as he folds his arm and throws his legs over the desk.
The teacher once again signs, happily knowing that next year, the two most destructive students that the school has ever seen will be leaving. Hopefully channeling their destructive tendencies into more helpful activities.
The school bell rings as the teacher finally cries in ecstasy for the last time, "Class dismissed!" Mr. Morimoto excitedly grabs his briefcase and hat, leaving the classroom in dealing with this class for so long, he is finally glad that he had to deal with these students for so long.
"Che. See you later, Deku." Katsuki grumbles as he lousily slouches out of the room along with the rest of the classmates. Deku is left behind as he continues on his in-depth analysis on Mt. Lady's Quirk. After a short while of intense muttering and quick usage of an Analysis quirk, he feels satisfied enough with his new entry to leave the classroom.
Humming a tune from one of the Silver Age heroes themes, Izuku gathers his materials and carefully piles them into his bag. The school does not appreciate him staying in the classroom without teacher supervision oftentimes, so they will often kick him out of the classroom politely. As he slings the backpack over his shoulder, the janitor walks in. "Leaving?" the wizened cleaning man grumbles in inquiry as he drags the yellow cart with the ratty mop into the classroom.
Izuku nods as he walks out before finally reaching the front door of the school. "Hmm, maybe I should take the shortcut." Despite the underbridge being in a shady area, it's usually safe due to its close proximity to the more populous streets of the city. However, today, there houses a certain slime villain looking for a meat puppet.
Mire lay in the darkness of the underbridge. "I need a new body to hijack if I can buy this week's groceries." He ponders as his stomach grumbles. "It's not like some goon will randomly walk into here…. Well, I guess the gods smile down upon me today." He notices young Midoriya walk into the dark and damp overpass, absentmindedly reading his 13th notebook.
Izuku absentmindedly flipped through his page, once again admiring all of his notes on All Might, the role model of all up and coming superheroes. Heck, Midoriya still has all of his All-Might Merchandise sprawled across his room along with his impressive collection of cloaks. He has a cloak for every occasion. He learned about this neat idea from an old comic about a quirkless superhero that had a costume for every situation, so Izuku decided that he should have that as well. A winter cloak, a summer cloak, a reaper costume, an overcoat of any kind, and other such clothing.
As he once again tries to theorize just what All-might's quirk is, he hears a soft rustling behind him. He quickly equips Danger Sense and almost dodges to the side. The key word is almost, seeing as the slimy appendages have already grappled him.
"Biscuits!" Izuku internally yells as he tries to struggle, knowing that super strength nor long-ranged firepower will not be able to affect a slime. What can punish a slime-like entity? Then, the slime entity started to force itself down his throat, "Don't worry. I'm just hijacking your body. Calm down. It'll only hurt for about 45 seconds... then it'll be all over."
Izuku tries to tear the slime off with super strength, he tried to blow it up, he tried to freeze it solid, he tried to create shockwaves to force the slime to lose its viscosity. Nothing works and Izuku isn't naive enough to try an use one of the more collateral damage Quirks. "It looks like my new host has a wide range of Quirks. Interesting." The slime villain muses as more of it kept on going down Izuku's throat. Izuku finally relaxes realizing that he cannot do anything without destroying the entire block. Then, one of his radar quirks starts to blare.
"It's fine now. Why? Because I am here!" All-Might came into the overpass, punching the slime villain into the wall. Is his punch capable of breaking physics, Izuku muses, seeing as it is just a punch that rendered it unconscious? But how. That's the primary question, seeing as how Izuku's own super strength did zero against it, maybe it's because Izuku was trying to tear it rather than punching it?
All-might grappled the Slime and stuffed it indignantly into a plastic bottle that is lying around. Midoriya then realizes that All-might is going to leave.
"Wait. Wait!" Izuku cries as he grabs the leg of his all-time idol. Since he didn't have a signature of All-might, Izuku knew that he needed to have that signature. All-might stops and looks at the green-haired boy. "Yes, citizen?" He moves to leave, but then notices a gleam in the young man's eyes. Something that inflamed his own passion of heroism.
"Can this boy….be the successor for One For All?" All-might muses. It could have been an illusion, but he swears that there is a passion for heroism that can only be matched by his own. He completely gets so lost in thought that he forgets that his All-might form is starting to expire. He suddenly feels the surge of loss of energy that signifies the end of his form. "Oh, crap." Toshinori thinks as smoke engulfed the small overpass and Izuku uses a Wind Quirk to blow away the smoke.
"What was that?" Midoriya asked, before realizing that his idol is now replaced with a scrawny man. "Ummm, are you All-Might?"
"Yes. Yes, young man." Toshinori awkwardly looks away when he realizes that a random fan is able to see his real face. He then starts to cough explosively as blood gets violently expelled from his mouth. Instead of jumping back, the young boy went forward to help him.
"Are…. are you okay, Mr. All-might?" Izuku asks in worry, using a Medical Analysis Quirk to determine what is wrong with his idol. He then gasps in shock at the skeletal man appearing before him.
"Are…. are you All-Might?"
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So, I was like, I need to post something, even if the week was like oh fuck you, let's throw a bunch of tests, musical practice, and projects. Sigh. Oh well, perseverance.
Tata!