"Shit!"
All Might spat out a little blood in surprise while Kaminari jumped up from his seat "What!? Did Midoriya just swear?! Midoriya just swore! I thought that was illegal!"
Inko was looking at the screen with a motherly glare, and everyone was cowed by its intensity. She continued watching the screen, worry leaking into her stern gaze.
Why was this happening to him? All he wanted to do was to go on lots of adventures, maybe save a princess, and become a famous adventurer like All Might was! Sure, he never really thought that there was a chance it would happen, and he was aware of the dangers, but he really didn't think that he'd die on his first quest!
"Adventurer? Like in an RPG? Now that I get a look at him, what's up with his clothes?! And is that a sword? Who gave the green bean a sword?!"
Everyone elected to ignore Kaminari's ramblings, most of them too focused on the scene to care.
"Oh crap oh crap oh crap!"
First quests were supposed to be easy! Not giant wolfspiders!
"GIANT WHAT NOW?!" Midnight yelled out, although with the volume it was at, you could have guessed it had been Present Mic. While Midnight might exude an aura of aloofness and confidence in her hero persona, she was actually quite the Arachnophobe.
Izuku slid under a random log that had fallen and down into a ditch that was home to a small creek, just in time for that log to be shattered into splinters by a pair of slobbering wolf jaws that could easily swallow a horse! A giant spider leg slammed into the side of the ditch sending dirt flying and making Izuku ever so slightly grateful that he had brown pants.
Wolfspiders weren't supposed to get this big! Not in the slightest! They were just supposed to be the size of a cat with an abnormally large dog head! They were great housepets! Not a pet the size of a house!
"Ok. I don't know what this world is, or what exactly happened to make it THIS different from our world, but that Giant Wolfspider is scary as hell guys. Is this Midoriya gonna die?" Sero was then smacked by Mina while Inko's worried expression deepened.
"Seriously!" Izuku scrambled to his feet - mostly - and continued to run trying his hardest to avoid what was more than likely certain death. "Why is this happening to me?"
He was born under the stars of the Deku sign, that meant he was supposed to have good luck! It was a really great sign for a hero, in theory at any rate. It was good for casters, rangers, and rogues, which Izuku wasn't. He was a swordmage, which was nowhere near considered the best class in the world, as anything it could do, a fighter or caster could do better, and those were two of the most common classes in the world. Then there was his Quirk, a special ability that almost everyone had; if he had something like spell strike, or still spell, then it would have been a lot better, instead, Izuku's Quirk was probably the most boring it could have possibly been.
Tsuyu put her finger to her chin. "Seems to me like this is more of a fantasy setting, in contrast to our real life, which is, to them, more like science fiction. Classes, magic, all of these points to a fantasy world."
Logar chuckled. "You are indeed correct Miss Asui. Seems to me that this Izuku lives in a magical and medieval version of our world!"
Ambidextrous: In short, anything he could do with one hand he could do the other, it made things like dual-wielding or lock picking much easier. On its own it was fine, rogues liked it but it didn't do anything that other quirks couldn't do better.
Kirishima sighed. "Compared to the last Quirk, this is one positively boring! He's not even a rogue! Could you imagine Midoriya being all edgy and stuff? Just doesn't fit him."
A few people had to stifle chuckles at the idea of Izuku trying to be super angsty. The mental image they all got was similar to a corgi trying to intimidate someone.
The problem with all of this was that luck didn't help with swordmages, and a swordmage required one hand to be free for casting spells, so he couldn't dual wield. In short, none of his stuff worked together and he should have given up and been a merchant or a farmer like his mother wanted!
All Might shook his head at the screen. Even in this universe, where he had a Quirk, and magic existed, it seemed like the multiverse intended to screw his successor over.
Well, at least if the giant wolfspider had its way, his misery would be gone real quick.
Even if he wanted to fight back, he couldn't! He had dropped his sword and his spellbook back when the creature had first appeared and started chasing him around the forest!
He did not want to be eaten by an oversized house pet! Izuku ducked under another fallen tree and leapt over some rocks, narrowly avoiding the creatures snapping maw or it's large hairy legs that slammed down with the force of thunder. Why the hell was this thing so persistent? What did he do to earn its wrath?
"Hey dumbass! Look, there's a giant elk over in that direction!" He pointed towards the large six-legged deer with white fur and green symbols etched into its fur. Fuck, did he really just try to get the wolfspider to go attack a forest spirit? Shit shit shit!
"This version of Midoriya seems to have quite the unlucky streak, as well as a potty mouth! I thought he said he was born under a star of good luck?!" Iida yelled, waving his arms around so fast they were blurring slightly.
Logar nodded. "Under the Deku star, yes. I do not think it is a lucky sign per se, more of a... this child has a higher than average chance of becoming a hero. Or maybe this string of bad luck is to counteract the coming good luck?."
If either the forest spirit or the wolfspider gave two shits about each other, it was in the mutual understanding that the wolfspider was going to eat the loud obnoxious little shit running through the forest. As evident by the way the forest spirit calmly ate some grass and the wolfspider promptly tried to bite Izuku one more time for good measure.
It missed. Barely.
But even then, Izuku could feel its hot, moist breath snarling behind him as he continued to run along the ditch, hoping that the low angle would give him just enough space to avoid the creature's snapping jaws. This had to be revenge for that one time he squashed a spider, wasn't it?
Everyone in the room had a small montage of every spider they had killed and started sweating in fear of giant wolfspiders coming to retaliate. Hopefully, they would be safe in an alternate reality.
Hopefully.
Come to think of it. "You shouldn't even exist in the first place!"
If the creature was aware of its unusual existence, it didn't even care. Rather all it wanted to think about was having Izuku for its next meal. And lunchtime was soon.
Izuku felt his heart sink when he looked up ahead. He was running towards a cliff. Of course, there was a cliff, why wouldn't he randomly pick the direction that led straight towards a cliff where he could instead have the lovely choice of falling to his death instead of getting eaten alive. He'd probably still get eaten though. The wolfspider could easily climb down a cliff. If not, then something else would likely show up and eat him.
In short, he was probably going to get eaten today.
But he wasn't going to let this jackass be the one to eat him!
"Yea! If you're gonna get eaten, at least let it be by a dragon or something! That's so much cooler than a spider!" Kirishima yelled out.
"Or a succubus! Then we'll get to see him get a blo-" SMACK. Mineta's comment was stopped halfway by Tsuyu's tongue knocking him out.
Izuku ran faster, his legs screaming at him, and his feet were making a very persuasive argument to buy some better shoes. The edge of the forest was coming up, the cliff face opened up into a valley that looked to be surrounded by a cliff, almost like the entire area had been carved out and pushed down into the ground. The area even looked to have fewer trees than the forest he was currently running through, and the ones it did have looked smaller and younger.
It didn't feel natural.
Tokoyami perked up, something told him that he was about to see real magic for the first time, and he was excited. It was no secret that he was a major Chuunibyou, everyone had seen his room.
What did feel natural was the fear of death that was currently punching his apparent fear of heights into the ground and telling him to jump. With a very loud and very high pitched scream, Izuku jumped, narrowly avoiding the jaws of death once more. The cloak his mother had made him was not so lucky.
Nearly one hundred feet separated him from the ground. The cliff was higher than he thought it was. A lot higher. So now he had plenty of time to come to terms with his death. Well not really, he was now falling really really fast towards his death. If he got reincarnated, he wanted to come back as something more awesome than some kid that died on their first quest!
"This is his first quest? Why is he alone? Surely they do not just allow people to go into a magical forest by themselves! That's so irresponsible!" Momo exclaimed, and Iida nodded. So did Kaminari, who had played enough RPG's to know that you never go into magic forests alone.
Reality had a much different idea.
Instead of pain followed by death, he was greeted by cold water swallowing him whole and giving him just enough cushion to hit the bottom. He still got a lot of pain. And now he was wet. And drowning. Thank fuck he actually learned how to swim! Surprisingly few adventures did.
Izuku looked around the clear murky waters he found himself in and couldn't see shit. So if there was a giant lake monster ready to eat him, he wouldn't see it coming.
"Really? Learning to swim is rare? You would think it would be an important skill for an adventurer!" Mina said, and Tsuyu nodded, placing a finger on her chin.
"I guess it would be like Quirks though, there might be magic that makes breathing underwater possible, or even walking on it. With the right spells, you wouldn't need to know how to swim."
Aizawa grumbled 'so irrational' under his breath. Midnight nodded in agreement before looking back at the screen.
He swam up, desperate for a breath of air and nearly swallowed more than one breath of water on his way up. When he got to the surface, the reality that he had no time to rest was presented to him when he saw the head of that giant wolfspider glaring down at him. It started to climb down the dry brown cliff wall with a great amount of ease.
"Fuck me." Could today just be over already? It felt like he had been running for hours. With a deep breath of air, Izuku headed for the shore. Every part of his body felt like it was ready to fall off and was just begging for death. He really didn't want to die here, in the middle of nowhere, to be eaten by a giant asshole and turned into silk and/or shit.
"Wow, this one swears a bunch! To think, changing Quirks to magic makes Midoriya a pottymouth! Who would have thunk it!" Kirishima yelled, getting a laugh from some, but most were too worried about the boy to listen.
They didn't feel like watching Izuku get eaten, especially Inko, All Might, and Eri, the latter of which was noise-cancelling headphones Mei had made on to stop her hearing the boys swearing.
Izuku stumbled up onto the shore, and a glance backwards showed that the wolfspider was halfway down the cliff by now. He did have to admire the creature's desire to eat him; that was some next level tenacity at work. Almost made Izuku wish he had that kind of drive about not dying. Technically he did but he did lack important features like the whole 'being a giant killing machine' that made it possible for the wolfspider.
He was spent. At this point, his best bet was to find a cave or somewhere to hide before that creature managed to find and eat him.
That and he was fairly certain he had a broken leg and or foot.
"Izuku sweety! Please be alright! Oh, some please help my boy!" Inko yelled out, too emotional to care that the Izuku on screen wasn't her boy. He was Izuku, and that meant she cared about him.
Swallowing the pain, Izuku advanced forward intent on getting as far away from the creature as he could.
It was near the centre of the clearing that he found something.
Sitting upon a stone that was bathed in sunlight and surrounded by short grass, not even a sapling growing nearby, was a sword. A broken sword, shattered in two. It didn't look like any kind of material that Izuku had ever seen before, it wasn't iron, nor steel, not even the silver of mithril. Rather the material of this blade seemed to shift from blue at the base where the hilt was to red at the tip, blending in a lovely purplish colour where the two halves of the blade were snapped.
Tokoyami had stood up unconsciously as soon as the sword had appeared on the screen. He was drooling slightly, as Dark Shadow tried dragging him back into his seat. The people around him heard him mutter 'A magical blade fit for a hero' and groaned.
Hopefully, he wasn't gonna be like this the whole time.
The blade's beauty laid more in just the strange colour of the metal. Runes ran along the blade in a language that Izuku didn't understand, blending together and forming a kind of art. Even the hilt was a thing of beauty. He grabbed the hilt of the sword and pulled it into his grasp. It was lighter than he expected it to be and the blade was still sharp, and the awkward point made from where the two halves had broken could be used to stab well enough. Still, for a hunk of metal sitting in the sun, he expected it would be much warmer.
He went down to grab the other half of the blade; if he made it out of here he might be able to get it reforged, then he would have a sword of his own. There was even a good chance that this sword was magical. The top of the blade was warm. Warm enough to almost sting when he touched it.
"That's a magnificent sword! I must see it reassembled! Look at that fade from blue to red! It's beautiful!"
Everyone ignored Tokoyami's outburst, Dark Shadow clapping his hand(?) over the boy's mouth before he let anything else out.
A snarl from behind him startled him and he grabbed the bare broken blade and squeezed tight, he could feel the shallow cut as he spun to confront the beast, his warm blood sizzled on the hot blade's surface. There was some real magic in this fractured sword; he knew that. Probably not enough to take on a giant wolfspider, but maybe enough to make it regret eating him.
The beast growled at Izuku, its tongue licking its lips before it unleashed a great bark that was at least part roar.
Naturally, Izuku roared right back at it, feeling the blood drip from his hand and spit fly from his mouth. He wasn't going to run anymore! Mostly because he couldn't, but that was beside the point. He poured his energy into the blades hoping that they would activate.
Kirishima cheered. "Magic Sword time! He's gonna use both blades, even though one is hurting him. Definitely a Midoirya! Their pain tolerance must be a universal constant!"
"Bring it on, asshole!"
The great snarling maw of the wolfspider opened wide as it launched forward propelled by its eight large legs.
"Allow me to take care of this, Master Izuku."
Kaminari gasped. "MASTER Izuku? Lucky Bastard! Wait… should probably see if she's hot or not…"
He was then jabbed by Jirou's earphones, yelping in pain. None of the teachers stopped her.
Time seemed to slow as the right half of his body felt cold, like resting in the shade on a hot day.
Todoroki noticed that only Izuku's right side went cold. Maybe the sword gave him powers similar to his own?
A flurry of snow appeared and a woman walked out from it. Her long pure white hair fluttered in the wind, her icy blue eyes were fixed onto the beast in front of her and she wore a white and blue robe that was both simple and ornate in its design. She held up a single hand, the snow gathering around her.
Todoroki wasn't able to hold in his gasp at the sight of the woman. She looked near identical to his mother, just… his age?
"What?! No way I'm letting you have all the fun!"
Kaminari was on his knees now. "There's another one?! Is Midoriya some sort of closet ladies man?!"
The ground to his left burned, heating up his body like standing next to the fire after coming in from the rain.
That just confirmed it for Shoto, the sword granted the wielder his Quirk. And if the looks he was getting from his classmates meant anything, he wasn't the only one who had made the connection.
Another woman appeared, this one with short flaming red hair with charcoal eyes stepped out, she looked at him and smiled for a second before looking towards the beast, flame resting in the palm of both of her hands. Her clothing looked similar to the white-haired girl's, only burnt at the edges and a red-orange colour that was much shorter, closer to a tunic than a robe.
Todoroki bristled. This woman looked like a palette swap of the other girl… with Endeavours colours. He felt his left side arcing up at him as he felt a hit of anger, but suppressed it. It wasn't the time for that.
A wall of ice came from his right and a torrent of fire came from his left.
In that moment, caught between two conflicting magical forces Izuku almost felt pity for the creature that was attempting to eat him just moments ago. Almost. Both attacks blasted the beast with enough force to knock it away from Izuku and impale it onto the cliff wall, sticking it in place with the ice while it was burned by the fire. Honestly, he had no idea what the fuck just happened.
Kirishima, Kaminari and Sero nodded. Kirishima spoke up. "We're with you, Midoriya my dude, no clue what happened either, but that was cool as fuck!"
Bakugou grumbled. His biggest rival with the power of his second biggest rival. 'And if One for All exists in this stupid magic world, he'll probably get it there too.'
"Ko, you really didn't need to do that." The white-haired beauty turned to the redhead, taking a careful step in front of Izuku. Izuku only had an inch or two on the maiden, but that didn't feel like much. She carried herself with such poise and beauty that he had to suck in his breath just by looking at her. "My Ice was more than enough to handle it."
The redhead - Ko - stomped in front of him as well her arms crossed in front of her chest and pouted. "You never let me have any fun, Sho! This was our first time out in a long time!
Mina squealed. "Sho and Ko? Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?" When everyone else shook their heads, she pouted.
"How is it not obvious!? In this universe, Shoto is a girl, and also a sword! There's probs two of them cause the sword is split in half!" Shoto looked at the screen and had to admit, it made more sense than he wanted it too.
Momo seemed to agree. "That's quite a difference! Although, this is a magical world, anything could happen."
Izuku looked between the two girls, Sho and Ko. They looked really similar to each other, closer to each other than even sisters would. But they did have a fair number of differences besides the obvious hair, eyes, and clothing, Ko was also a few inches shorter than Sho was and her chest was, uhh, much less pronounced than Sho's was. They both had long pointed ears that pointed straight out from their heads. So they weren't exactly human.
Kaminari groaned. "Seriously? Midoriya is the one to get 2 super hot magic elf women? It's always the quiet ones you gotta worry about…"
He quickly ducked out of the way of Jirou's earphones and hid behind Sato, who huffed in annoyance.
"I know, and that's why you should have let me handle it. Look at yourself, you're already cutting into Izuku." Sho gestured towards Izuku's left hand where he was still very much bleeding and still very much holding onto the broken blade.
"Yeah? So? That's why we were even able to come out! Because of that, the blood contract has been sealed!" Ko puffed up her tone less rigid than her sisters.
All Might coughed at that. 'Blood contract?!'
Izuku blinked and looked at the sword he carried then at the two beautiful girls that had appeared out of nowhere. "Umm, excuse me, but how exactly do you know my name? And what are you two talking about?"
"Ahh! Where are my manners!" Sho took a step back and bowed at the waist towards him.
"Master Izuku, we are-"
"I'm Ko, she's Sho, we're that sword you found and because you put your blood on us, we're now your sword," Ko interrupted with both hands behind the back of her head, she kicked one of her long bare legs for no reason showing off her shoeless feat. Compared to Sho she looked drastically underdressed, more worse for wear, she even had a red scar that covered much of the skin around her left eye.
Mina cheered. "Look at that scar! That totally proves it! The sword is a female version of Todoroki that became a pair of twins when the sword that holds their soul in it broke in two! It makes perfect sense!"
Sho shot up and marched over. She looked a lot more put together than Ko did; she even had shoes on and her robe actually went all the way down to her ankles. "Ko, you ruined our chance to leave a good first impression!"
"What are you talking about? We just saved his life from that thing! We already made a good first impression! Your boring introduction would take too long anyway." Ko waved off Sho like it was nothing.
"I mean, yea, they made a pretty good first impression. Saving his life and all that jazz." Midnight commented, everyone else nodding in agreement.
"Maybe Izuku can figure out how to get the sword reforged!" Uraraka yelled out.
Mei's eyes sparkled with excitement. "If I exist in this world, he is now legally obligated to take the weapon to me for the reforging."
Power Loader shuddered in fear and nodded, not even bothering to argue with the girl. He knew it would end in an explosion, somehow, if he did.
"Alright," Izuku nodded and looked at the broken sword in his hand. Well, it was his sword now apparently. "So-"
The world went black.
"Did he just faint?"
"Of fucking course, the nerd does one actually cool thing and fucking conks it right afterwards."
"Hey! Casting magic is probably really tiring! And he said it was his first Quest! You can't judge him for that!"
"The hell I can't pinky! I'll judge who I want!"
"Oh dear," Sho's calm tranquil voice drifted into his thoughts.
"See I told you yours would have taken too long."
"Would you-"
Izuku dreamed about two sisters bickering over him while he finally fell asleep.
"Ok. There is quite a bit to unpack with that universe."
Bakguou snorted. "You got that fucking right High Class! Yo Logan or whatever the fuck you're called, you got any extra info on that universe? Or do you just have what we have?"
Logar grumbled something under his breath, something that sounded suspiciously like 'disrespectful brat', and nodded his head.
"I do actually, I get a longer view of the universe that you all do, as there is a time limit to what I can show you from a certain universe in one go, while I get to see it all at once in sort of a flash."
He shook himself and rubbed his forehead. "Miss Hatsume, you will be happy to know that you are the one Mr Midoriya goes to to help reforge the blade, although you're not exactly human…"
Mei's eyes sparkled. "Ooh ooh ooh! What am I Mr Government guy!"
Logar chuckled. "Well, it's odd to be sure. In this magical universe, you are half succubus, half forge spirit, and you unintentionally force Mr Midoriya into a soul bonding contract while examining the sword, making him a warlock in the process."
Power Loader sighed, his shoulders drooping. "Of course she did… Is there anything else of note in that universe that you know of Logar?"
Logar nodded. "It's quite the doozy, this universe! Shenanigans galore! Miss Kendo from 1-B is a healer with anger issues, Miss Hatsume, while she is a succubus, has no knowledge of anything sexual, and the two halves get separate handles, allowing him to use them without harm. Oh yea! And he falls in love with Sho and Ko, as well as Mei."
Kaminari had long since fallen to his knees, but now he was in front of the unconscious Izuku, seemingly praying. "All Hail the Unintentional Harem King! All Hail!" Ok, so he was 100% praying.
Logar clapped his hands and the screen above them disappeared, Izuku coming too slowly. "I will give Mr Midoriya a chance to rest for a few minutes before we start again! Oh and by the way, you will not have to tell him about the different universes."
"He got a first person perspective while he was 'asleep'. Probably should have mentioned that earlier, but, whatever! Enjoy your break!"
After a brief talk to his classmates, teachers, and a cuddle session with Eri, Izuku sat back down in his chair and allowed Eri to get comfortable on his lap while Logar placed his hand over his forehead again.
The screen above them appeared again, this time a light blue, and the next universe began to play.
AN: Hey guys! Fic suggestions are fine, but I can't guarantee that it will appear in this fic! I have to get permission from the authors first! Thank you all for reading! I'll see you all next chapter!