Let me first cover some of the comments made.
First, yes, I am keeping it in 1st person, not 3rd person, because that is the way Izuku tells the story of My Hero Academia, and it gives a more personal take on what is happening. Secondly, I am going to have less frequent uploads so I can edit it and make it better after this upload, so you guys can enjoy better stories. Thirdly, I am going to keep four to five people in the harem, but, I am only going to include Ochako and Melissa pairing with Izuku since those are the ones that make the most sense in hindsight. If you don't agree with me, you can rage it down in the comments. Lastly, for that one guy who kept swearing and saying how Izuku wasn't an interesting character and how I didn't write him well, don't worry, he will be a lot more interesting as time goes on, as he has to face Stain, the League of Villains, and Overhaul.
But, here is something I need to make clear to everyone who will review. IF YOU ARE MESSAGING ME OR COMMENTING, TRY TO SWEAR AS MINIMALLY AS POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE, I WILL REPORT YOU.
Now, I will revise my previous works after this chapter, and I will make sure it makes sense. Since the main character thinks a lot, I wanted to make '' as thought bubbles. It makes it more clear who Izuku is, and his thought process. Now, while I only have a 133 IQ, I am going to try to make sure that Izuku, from my writing, makes sense to have a 200 IQ as I claimed.
Thank you, and thank you for opening my eyes to what I need to do better. Now, here is the third chapter of The Strongest Hero.
I was running. Faster than I have ever run before, at over 80 mph. Unlike the people running away however, I was running towards danger, all to prevent a person's death. Everyone who saw me running was calling me to stop, to turn back, but I didn't listen. Thinking of my dream, to save others and give others hope, I jump the robot's full height, and, with the power of a nuclear bomb, I raised my fist and yelled out, as loud as I could while punching the robot to the ground,
"HIROSHIMA SMASH!"
Flashback half an hour ago
I was walking to the exam location when I felt someone push me to the side. I looked over and saw Katsuki had walked past me after he pushed me out of his way. Anger flowed through me, but I calmed myself quickly since I didn't want to cause an unnecessary fight. I walked past him and inside the location, where I had to sit next to Katsuki because we were in the same school. When I sat down, I thought of some strategies.
'Should I use my strength, or use the fist of flowing water crushed rock technique? The latter would be best used against humans or people with human weaknesses, but brute strength would be used in times where I need to beat a strong enemy. Of course, there are other options, but those are the most simple, and the first to come to my mind.'
A man with blond, spiky hair, sunglasses, and a heavy speaker system on his neck came onto the stage, interrupting my thoughts. As he came onto the stage, his clothing became apparent, wearing black boots, a black jacket with beige shoulder pads, and black pants. I wrote about heroes and drew them in the hero journals I made, 1-13, so I knew who he was: Hizashi Yamada, also known as Present Mic. His quirk, called voice, makes him able to amplify his voice, either in volume or in pitch. I was interested in why he was here, but I had to hear what he said.
"WELCOME TO TODAY'S LIVE PERFORMANCE! EVERYONE SAY HEY!" He said with passion.
However, no one responded. I see he looks a little annoyed, but he discarded his expression before anyone else noticed, and said,
"WELL, THAT'S COOL, MY EXAMINEE LISTENERS! IM HERE TO PRESENT THE GUIDELINES OF YOUR PRACTICAL! ARE YOU READY?!"
More silence came from the audience. Now, many of the people could now see his annoyed expression, but he discarded it again to explain the practical exam. He then went on to explain the test, and how we had to destroy robots to get the most amount of points. One guy then pointed out how there were 4, but then Present Mic addressed it by saying that the 4th type of enemy gave no points, and was more of an obstacle than anything else, while the others gave one, two, or three points respectively.
"THAT'S ALL FROM ME. I LEAVE MY LISTENERS WITH OUR SCHOOL MOTTO! THE GREAT HERO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE ONCE SAID, 'TRUE HEROISM CONSISTS IN BEING SUPERIOR TO THE ILLS OF LIFE.' PLUS ULTRA! BREAK A LEG EVERYONE!"
After his announcement, I went to go for the practical examination.
'I remember that the test consists of us fighting robots in the replica of a city. However, it's to scale, so I would need to move significantly faster. It looks as big as the city back home, having wide streets, several stories high buildings, and other things that the city I lived in had, so I know that I would have to push 60 miles per hour to go across the city quickly.'
I then looked at the people around me, who were either talking or saying how the city looked massive.
'Everyone is in awe of the size of the city replica or they are talking to one another, so I know that they would be dazed when Present Mic had started the exam, giving me a 3 seconds headstart before the first person reacted, and around 5 for the rest of the people to react. So, I will take that as an advantage.' I thought before preparing myself for the signal from Present Mic, not wasting time talking or other things.
'So, looks like the technique and the teachings of Master Bang will not come into play today,' I thought, disappointed. 'But, what it does mean is that I can still be able to pass the exam. The strength that I have gained should come in handy when everyone is behind me.' I remember standing up for that one kid who was being bullied by Katsuki and thought of all I have gone through to get here. I smiled, temporarily weakening my stoic demeanor.
'Everything that I have done has come together to this moment. Now, I can't disappoint everyone. Mom, Master Bang, they're counting on me.' I was now ready. Present Mic then said "Go!", surprising everyone except me. I ran, 60 miles per hour, and beat up every robot in sight in three seconds, causing a temporary shock from the exam takers before they suddenly realized what was happening. One-pointers, two-pointers, three-pointers, they all fell down as soon as I saw them. I jumped off the sides of buildings, punched through them, and kept going. Every time I destroyed a robot I felt an enormous amount of power flowing through me, and right now, I wield the power of Garou.
After a significant amount of time had passed, and after I destroyed most of the robots, I began to calculate my score. 'Wait, 80 points? That's higher than I thought I would get. How strong can I be?'
As if someone had read my thoughts, one of the zero pointers showed up. Many people ran away from it. I was going to avoid the zero-point robot in particular until I saw someone was trapped in the way of the robot. She was a brunette, she had a round face, and she, at that moment, looked terrified. Her legs were crushed under rubble, and she couldn't move. I knew I had to save her.
'She looks scared. She has the same look I had when I was defending that kid against Katsuki. She must feel like her life may end before it has begun. I have to save her. Otherwise, what kind of hero am I?' I said a slightly altered quote from All Might, "THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR BECAUSE I AM HERE!" before running to the robot using my strength to make the multi-story high robot crumble.
Flashback ends.
I punched so hard that I went through the robot. I was going to fall into one of the buildings and possibly get injured, but I quickly realized what was happening, and rebounded off of one of the buildings on an angle, so I wouldn't absorb the full amount of force, and, even though the building would be weakened, it wouldn't fall. I rebounded against a few buildings, before making it safely on the ground, not totally unscathed, but I had no injuries. I then looked at where the robot once stood. The Zero-pointer, once towering over everything, now laid on the ground in pieces. Then Present Mic has said the test has finished. After I had seen the girl with her legs under the rubble calm down, I offered her my hand to help her up, and sincerely asked,
"Are you alright?"
She looked up, and, for a second, I saw her blush. I was confused until I realized that, in my act to save her, my shirt had been torn apart, and she was looking at me shirtless. Ignoring my pounding heart and slight embarrassment, I asked again,
"Are you okay?"
She then shook her face and said, in a sweet voice, "Yeah, thanks to you. "
She then accepted my hand, then tried to stand up without using me for support, but then immediately, her legs and ankle buckled with the bruising on it, and she began to fall down. I grabbed her by her arms before she could fall, and gently placed one of her arms around my neck and shoulder to support her.
"Sorry if this makes you uncomfortable, but I have to get you to the nurse, and you clearly aren't in a state to walk. Is that okay?" I turn my head towards her.
She then nodded her head, blushing again, as her face turned heavily pink as she probably realized how close she was to me and faced away from me.
'Huh. Where's the nurse?' I finally looked at the people around me.
Everyone's jaws were wide open, and they looked stunned. I didn't know whether that was bad or good. Then, the people taking the test said,
"HOW DID YOU DO THAT?! HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO TAKE DOWN THAT ZERO-POINTER?!"
With no sympathy, and with some venom in my voice, I said, "The answer is simple; because I actually did what a hero is supposed to do: save people from harm, regardless of the situation. Now, if you would be so kind as to move instead of standing around, I need to get her to the nurse's office." I said as I tried to balance the person's weight on me.
Everyone shut up and moved out of my way so I could carry the person to the nurse's office. I balanced her weight on me and started walking towards the main building. She seemed quiet, and she was blushing quite a bit, and she looked cute, but I wouldn't admit that to her.
"Hey, what's your name?" The girl I was carrying said as we were walking, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Oh, my name is Izuku Midoriya. What's yours?" I said, now realizing we were in the main building, and trying to navigate the place.
"Ochaco Uraraka." She waited for a few minutes before saying, "Thank you for saving me."
"It was nothing. I bet anyone else would be able to beat it." I said humbly, fully believing that statement. If anyone had the courage to save her, they would have been able to.
"Don't act so modestly. You acted like a true hero! What's your quirk?"
"I don't have one," I said seriously. I instantly regretted it.
"WHAT?! How?!" She suddenly yelled out.
"Please do not yell, Uraraka," I say while wincing at her loud voice.
"Oh, sorry," She apologized. "But how could you be able to take that robot down without a quirk?"
"Through a hell of a lot of training," I admitted while shivering, "and a lot of determination and drive. I worked for 10 years of my life so I could become a hero." I said as the nurse's office was in sight.
"Why did you want to become a hero?" She asked curiously, all signs of blushing and embarrassment removed from her face.
"Because I wanted to save people from harm, give hope to the hopeless, and inspire others like me to become a hero," I said seriously, as Uraraka's eyes widened from hearing that.
"Wow, that is an incredibly noble and selfless goal. It makes me feel like my reason for being a hero is pathetic." She said as the sadness crept into her voice.
"Hey, no matter the reason, the fact that you want to be a hero, and not anything else, means that you want to save others from harm, don't you?" I said with a smile, trying to cheer her up.
"Yes, I do want to save others." She said, removing the sadness from her voice. "Let's be heroes together!"
"Yeah." I smiled at her innocent personality, and her voice made me happy. My heart started beating irregularly, I felt more aware, and my breathing slowed.
'Her smile and face, it makes me feel a certain way. My body feels warm with her smile. I have no idea what I am feeling, whether it is love or infatuation. But, I know that, whether love, infatuation, or anything else, my determination must not falter. I need to become a hero. I can't have whatever I am feeling get in the way, otherwise, I would be compromised, and I couldn't be able to achieve my dream. I need to stay focused.' I slightly scolded myself for feeling whatever I was feeling, even though it was foreign to me.
"Anyway, thank you for bringing me here to the nurse's office." She said as I realized we were at the Nurse's office. I moved her arm off of me, and I saw her look slightly disappointed, before I carried her bridal style, making her entire face red with embarrassment before I placed her on the hospital-like bed.
"No problem. I hope I will see you soon at school." I said as I walked away.
'I have to ignore whatever I am feeling. It is the only way to become a hero.' I thought as I walked out.
"Hey, Midoriya?"
"Hmm?" I said, turning around to see her face once again.
"Thank you for saving my life." She said, smiling as widely as she could, despite the pain she was feeling
I was going to reiterate that anyone else could have saved her, but, instead, I said, "Your welcome. You deserve to live your life as a hero. See you at school."
She looked like she was surprised, but then nodded, and said, "Bye."
I walked back home that day, feeling calm, but uneasy. My emotions were all over the place, but I had to push through.
'I have to become a hero.'
A week later.
My mom had gotten the mail and saw 'UA High School' on the letter. She gave it to me, so, I went to my room, not entirely knowing what to expect.
I opened it up and saw a small projector. I put it on my desk in my room and saw All Might.
"THIS IS A PROJECTION!" I heard loudly. I slightly chuckled at All Might pointing out the obvious, before I stopped and thought,
'Wait, why is All Might in this? He is the symbol of peace, not a teacher at UA, who are the ones who are being recorded as they give the results. Unless...' My eyes widened as I realized why All Might would be here.
"Well, Izuku Midoriya, you have done an amazing job, and the reason I am on this, giving your exam results to you here, is that I am going to be teaching at UA!" He said, confirming my thoughts. "So, I hope that... Wait, I will have to do more of these? How many?" Someone said a number in the background that I wasn't able to fully hear, but, due to the fact that All Might sighed, it seemed like he had to do a lot of these after mine.
"Well, I guess I will get to the point. On the written portion, you had achieved a perfect score.
In the practical, you also demonstrated heroism in the face of that zero-pointer, and you have gotten 80 points, higher than any other person taking the test this year."
I was proud when I heard that score. But, it seemed like he wasn't finished, as he took a massive breath in, before saying,
"However, and I hate to say this, but, due to the nature of your power, many teachers and students showed fear of you. Others said how you weren't strong enough to be a hero. Some outright denied to have you in the school. But what many of the teachers had said was that you can't be a hero." He said somberly.
I looked downward, sort of expecting this, but not hoping it to happen. Tears slowly and softly leaked out of my eyes. My once stoic face broke down, and now, I felt empty. Tears continually poured down from my eyes, and I couldn't stop it. 'I knew this was going to happen. Why though? Why am I being stopped from achieving my dream because of the fact that I don't have a quirk?' I ask myself rhetorically. 'Why can't I just save people and give hope to the hopeless? That's all I've wanted to do. Why? What was all that work for?'
I remembered the time when I had defended myself against Katsuki's quirk, and yet, I was blamed. I then remembered the multiple times I had been separated from others because I had no quirk. I had to work a multitude of times harder than everyone else did. However, when I had proven my strength, many people acted in fear of me, unlike my goal to give hope to the hopeless. It was either that I was a weakling who wasn't deserving of respect, or I was a powerful person who was to be feared and contained, only because they couldn't understand me, or they couldn't deal with me.
I was about to shut it off, but one, I realized that there was no shut off button, and two, it wasn't done.
"But, some people, including me, felt like convincing the teachers." All Might said smugly as a screen appeared behind him and he backed away from it.
I slowly stopped crying and wiped my tears off of my face after I had realized what he has said.
'All Might... stood up for me? Wait, he said others. Who else stood up for me?' I thought, more confused than sad now.
As if the screen had read my mind, I saw Uraraka along with the other students who had taken the test with me crowding around Present Mic.
"Hello, are you Present Mic?" One student said.
"We wanted to ask about Izuku Midoriya." Many other students came in to say at the same time. I wasn't sure if that was coordinated until I saw them weirded out, and they stopped their synced speaking.
Everyone started describing me, from the freckles in my face, to my curly green hair, to a lot of other things, like face shape, and a lot of people said I looked plain, which I found to be slightly laughable that they would find the stoic, bland nature of my face to be a defining characteristic of who I was. However, I listened to them anyway, curious about where this would go.
"Will he go into UA?" Uraraka asked at once, silencing everyone around her. Everyone looked expectantly at Present Mic.
He sighed. "No." He said in a serious voice, surprising everyone. "The teachers didn't want him to be in their classroom. He is quirkless, and we can't guarantee he will go down the path of a hero because of that. Also, despite his strength, he is nowhere near the strength of a person with a quirk, so, for those reasons, he can't be a hero."
'So, their logic is that, if I ever feel like I don't want to be a hero, they can't stop me?! Why would they obstruct my dream and my work just because they don't know if they can control me?!' I was close to losing my cool, but I didn't explode yet. Everyone looked stunned, but, for a few seconds, no one said anything.
"Well," Uraraka came in, sounding serious, "if he can't be a hero, and if he isn't strong enough, then I don't deserve to be one either! Let him take my place instead!"
"Huh?" I said, along with Present Mic, confused again, the anger I had mostly evaporated.
"No, mine! He is a true hero!" More students began to speak out.
"No, have him take my place! He is nobler than I could ever be!"
Everyone who had taken the test with me had yelled out to either to convince him by saying what I had done that made me deserving of being in UA or were asking to give up their positions as long as I got in. Present Mic looked overwhelmed with the number of people supporting me, while I was inspired by the overwhelming amount of people who had sided with me, regardless of what they had been told.
'All these guys, despite the amount of hatred I showed them, they have sided with me? I should definitely apologize to them.' I felt guilty for what I had said before. 'I have a 200 IQ, I should act like I am that intelligent. But, the person I will need to thank, feelings aside, is Uraraka. Maybe I am blinded by infatuation, but she has stood up for me, inspiring others to as well, when no one would have stood up for me otherwise. I also have to make sure that I surpass their expectations of me. I need to make sure that I deserve their fight for me.'
Then, All Might came behind Present Mic, resting his giant hands over Present Mic's shoulders in the video and said to everyone,
"IF A QUIRKLESS PERSON LIKE YOUNG MIDORIYA CAN INSPIRE AND SAVE PEOPLE, THEN WHO ARE WE TO TURN THEM DOWN? THAT WOULD GO AGAINST EVERYTHING WE HAVE STOOD FOR! SO, WITH THAT IN MIND, IZUKU MIDORIYA IS ALLOWED TO GO TO UA IF HE HAS A HIGH ENOUGH SCORE ON HIS PRACTICAL AND THE WRITING PORTION!" Then, the video stopped, and then, All Might came in front of the screen, almost eclipsing it with his torso.
"AND YOU DID. NOT ONLY DID YOU GET THE HIGHEST SCORE IN THIS YEAR'S PRACTICAL TEST AND WRITTEN TEST BUT, BECAUSE, OF YOUR ACTIONS, YOU HAVE GOTTEN EXTRA POINTS! THAT ZERO POINTER WAS A TEST, AND IT WAS SEEN TO TEST THE RESOLVE OF THE FUTURE HEROES! WE AWARDED PEOPLE WHO HAD STOPPED IT RESCUE POINTS! YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO STEPPED IN, SO YOU HAVE GOTTEN AN EXTRA 70 POINTS, 10 FROM EACH OF OUR 7 JUDGES! WITH THAT, YOU HAVE THE HIGHEST SCORE OF 150! THAT IS 50 POINTS HIGHER THAN WHAT I HAD ACHIEVED! SO, CONGRATULATIONS IZUKU MIDORIYA. THIS WILL BE YOUR HERO ACADEMIA!"
I was crying again, except, instead of tears of sadness, it was tears of joy.
'Finally. All that work was worth it. Now, I can become a hero.' I thought happily.
I went outside of my room by opening the door, and I said,
"Mom, I got in."
She then proceeded to hug me tightly, with me enveloped in her. She gave the best hugs, giving me what I needed emotionally, even if she didn't know it.
"Thank you, Mom, for supporting me."
After I had hugged her, I went to bed, remembering all the people that had fought for my place in the Academy. It made me smile, even though I knew that not everyone would support or had supported me.
'I need to make everyone proud. I may be quirkless, but that won't stop me from becoming THE STRONGEST HERO.'
And that is chapter 3. Now, I realize that this story isn't necessarily the best, but, I want you guys to know that I spent a week to just thinking of the ending of this. I decided that, at first, the teachers would be against it, but, considering how popular All Might is, people would support what he would do, and side with him no matter what because of his status as the symbol of peace. I would explain the rest, but the author notes are long enough, and it is better to show, not tell, so I will try to do that. So, subscribe to the story and my profile for more stories coming down the line, and Subscribe to my theory channel, American Theorist Bros, where we play video games and make theories about video games/movies/tv shows, and we are actually making a video about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and a multitude of findings. Now, the next chapter of this story might take slightly longer than a week, but stay hopeful, because this is a story that will be very long, and deal with a lot of important stuff.
