(Note: This is my first time writing a fanfic so I'm not sure how often I'll be able to update, seeing as I'm not too experienced at this and I'm not 100% sure what direction the story will go in, please bear with me, and I'll do my best.) :)

Chapter 1: Helplessness

"All right now, listen up all of you. You guys are all third years now, that means you have got to take your futures seriously!" boomed the loud voice of a man.

This was the voice of a homeroom teacher at Aldera Junior High School. Currently he was informing the students that they had to start thinking about their futures as the end of the school year was around the corner.

"So, you will now be getting your career aspiration forms!" the teacher said. "But... seeing as you all want to be heroes, that won't be needed!" the teacher shouted, breaking his professional tone and energetically throwing the papers up in the air.

As he said this every student in the classroom cheered and put on a display of their quirks, every student but one. This one student was named Izuku Midoryia, currently he was trying to keep his head down, as this class was not a crowd that was on his side.

"Oh please, why do you gotta rope me in with all these extras!" exclaimed Katsuki Bakugo, Katsuki was Izuku's best friend, check that, former best friend and he had long ago set his eyes on becoming the number one hero and had become more aggressive towards Deku ever since.

"I have no intention of making friends with these weaklings! I'm sure you can understand!" Bakugo said smugly.

"Hey, what the hell is that supposed to mean!" one of the other students shouted angrily.

"Oh yes, you were planning to go to UA High School, right Katsuki Bakugo?" the teacher asked.

As Katsuki went on with declaring his intentions and arguing with other students Izuku tried to tune him out and subtly glanced up at the clock. Class would be ending soon, all he had to do, was keep his head low and hope nothing would…

Before he could finish that thought he was called out.

"Oh yeah, didn't you want to enroll into UA too, Izuku Midoriya?" the teacher asked while looking at his papers.

Before any words were said, the whole class erupted into laughter.

"What are you even thinking? That's Impossible for you!" one kid said.

"What is this! Are you trying to make me laugh?" said another.

Izuku tried to say something in his defence, but before he could Katsuki let loose an explosion on top of Izuku's desk, and Izuku was knocked to the ground by the blast.

"You don't even have a quirk you shrimp!" Bakugo screamed at Izuku. "So why would you even try to compete with me!"

"Wha- I don't want to compete with you I just want to- to-!" Izuku stammered.

"Shut it nerd!" Bakugo yelled, not even letting Midoriya speak.

The bullying continued a bit longer, as it always did. It wasn't that today was an especially harsh one, it had started out with the road being blocked off due to a giant villain attack, even though a giant villain, one with malicious intent was in his line of sight area, Izuku was not afraid, few people ever were as sights such as these were common occurrences. Actually Izuku was thrilled, as he got to see two heroes make their debut. Of course then he had to go to school, where he found himself getting bullied. All these events were not uncommon, this was his life. To an onlooker it may seem like Midoryia's life was not worth living, but Izuku still had hope, hope that he could realize his dream, and become a hero. Afterall All Might, the number one hero had said it himself, All Might had said it countless times on TV "YOU TOO CAN BECOME A HERO!". Thanks to those words uttered by his idol, he could believe in himself, he would not give up..

After class finally ended, Midorya reached for his notebook that was resting on his desk, when suddenly a hand entered his view and grabbed the notebook.

"What's this Deku? Hero Analysis #13." Bakugo said plainly while keeping his eyes on the notebook.

"That's nothing! Give that back Kacchan!" Izuku cried.

"NOPE!" Katsuki said as he incinerated the collection of pages with his quirk.

The contents of the notebook that Katsuki destroyed were several months worth of sketches, notes, and information that Izuku had worked on, and they had been burnt to a crisp in front of his very eyes. Izuku took his earlier thoughts back, this was an especially terrible day.

"Well, there is still one way you can become a hero." Bakugou said as he tossed the notebook outside of the window. "You can always take a swan dive off the roof and hope you get a quirk in the next life."

Izuku was walking back home from school while in his hand he clutched his soaking wet, burnt notebook that he had fished from the school koi pond, moments after it had been thrown in initially. Currently he was thinking about what Kacchan had said to him today, he thought about it for a moment.

"Would things really be better if I were to just kill myself, If I left this life behind in the hope that the next one would offer me a better chance?" he thought to himself.

"Of course not! What am I even thinking!" he shouted to himself as stopped walking as he was beneath the underpass of a bridge.

"I have to stop listening to what other people tell me! I need to believe in myself" he said out loud again.

Before he could get on the move again, Izuku Midoriya had now found that his entire body had quickly been developed in some kind of sludge that had seemingly come from nowhere,

"Ugh… stop… struggling." a strange voice muttered.

Izuku had tried to ask the voice who he was and what was happening to him, but before he realized it his mouth was completely enveloped with the sludge. As Izuku was slowly being devoured he tried to escape, he clawed at the sludge but it was all to no avail. By this point the sludge had almost completely had him encased, it was in his mouth, ears and in his nose, all five of his senses were screaming with revulsion toad the vile sensation. Izuku was starting to suffocate as it was becoming impossible to breath, he tried to fight it but there was no escape and he was beginning to fall unconscious. Izuku felt more fear than he ever had in his life, this was nothing like the villain he saw earlier that day, he was afraid for his life, afraid that he would die here without doing a damn thing in his life.

The last thing he saw before everything went black was the sight of a man wearing a white shirt, green pants, and signature blonde hair, that even half a conscious Midoriya, could recognize by heart.

"ALL MIGHT!" that was the first thing that came out of Izuku's mouth as he suddenly woke up.

"My BABY! I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE OKAY!" Izuku's mother, Inko Midoriya said with tears flowing from her eyes as she ran over and hugged her son.

Caught off guard and still very confused and unaware of his present situation, Izuku returned his mother's hug and took in his surroundings. He appeared to be in a hospital room, was sitting on a bed.

"What happened? Where am I mom?" Izuku asked his mother.

Inko relaxed her grip on him and took a minute to clear most of the tears from her eyes before he spoke.

"You're at the hospital, you were attacked by a villain, but All Might saved you. I was so worried, but now you're okay." she said.

Izuku breathed a sigh of relief after hearing that, he could feel his nerves calming down, when suddenly…

"I AM HERE!" shouted a booming voice.

Both Midoriyas jumped in surprise at the sudden outburst, and looked in the direction the voice had come from. Standing in the door frame stood the powerful figure of All Might, as Izuku saw this his eyes lit up.

"I came to check on you my boy! How are you feeling?" All Might asked.

"I-I'm feeling great." That was all Izuku managed to say, and it was true, not only getting to seeing his idol, but also being able to speak with him, this was turning out to be an amazing day, eventful, but nevertheless amazing."

"Yes, thank you so much for saving my son, this is a debt that I will never truly be able to repay" Inko said as she bowed her head in respect with tears still in her eyes.

"Don't say that, I was simply doing my job." All Might said reassuring the boy's mother. "But I'm truly glad, that you're okay, my boy, now take a look you even made it on the news."

As All Might said this he gestured up at the hospital room TV, and Izuku looked up at it. Just as promised Izuku could see video of All Might talking to press reporters with All Might carrying an unconscious Izuku Midoriya in his arms, and handing him off to a paramedic. Of course, all the attention was on All Might, and Izuku's name was never spoken, but the fact remained that his face was on a broadcast that half of Japan would see.

"Well seeing as you're now safe and sound, I must be off, there's no telling who could be in need of my help as we speak." as All Might said this he began to walk out of the room.

Izuku was happy that he got this once in a lifetime experience of talking to All Might, but something inside himself could not just leave it at that, there was something he just had to ask.

"WAIT!" Izuku shouted as he leapt from the bed. "There's one thing I have to ask. Can somebody become a hero, even if they're quirkless?"

"No." All Might responded. "But if your wish is to save people you can always become a police officer, it's a fine job." as he said that he walked off."

Hearing that, Izuku fell to his knees, the only thing that had kept him going for so many was the hope that his dream could come true, because All Might had said that anyone could become a hero. But now that his hero had told him to give up, straight to his face, he felt that hope crumbling at the foundation.

Inko knelt down next to him and hugged her son, "I'm so sorry." she said. It was the same as that day all those years ago. He didn't have the willpower, to say or do anything, right now all he wanted to do, was curl up in a ball and go to sleep.