Chapter 1: A God Among Us
"Hurry Inko!" All Might exclaimed as he and his partner rushed through the burning debris of the forest where the unidentified object they had learned All for One was tracking had crashed.
The hero and his heroine partner Gravity Girl had no idea what was in the crashed object, but if All for One wanted it, they knew they couldn't let him have it.
"I found it, Toshi," she said, looking what looked like a rocket, that was barely damaged from the crash. She saw an odd-looking diamond crest with a strange pattern on the front. "Is that an S?"
She touched it and it glowed red for a moment before the hatch opened. "T-Toshi!" she gasped, and All Might rushed to her. Inside the rocket was a baby clutching a green crystal.
The baby began to cry, and Inko lifted the baby up into her arms and began to softly hum to him, quieting him down.
"Why would someone put a baby in a rocket?" she asked the Symbol of Peace.
"I'd like to know that as well, my dear…" the two looked up to see All for One hovering over them.
"Inko, take the child and run," All Might said, standing between them.
"But what about…" Inko argued.
"I'll be fine, I'll find you later," All Might flashed her a thumbs-up, "just run."
She ran as All Might began to battle his enemy, and she did not stop till they found a small town.
She found a hotel, and went up to check in. She booked a room under her name Inko Midoriya, and when the hotel clerk saw the baby in her arms, she gushed and asked his name.
"His name?" Inko blinked, caught off guard, "It's… it's uh…" the green haired baby smiled up at her. "Izuku. His name is Izuku Midoriya."
-S-
Several years later…
15-year-old Izuku Midoriya scribbled in his notebook labeled "Hero Analysis for the Future #13" while seated in the corner of the lunchroom, nibbling on his sandwich as he finalized his notes from watching Mount Lady, Backdraft, and Kamui Woods.
"DEKU!" Izuku winced at the yell. Katsuke Bakugou was storming toward him with his friends close behind. "What the hell is this?" Bakugou asked, jerking the notebook away from him.
"It's my notes, Kacchan…" Izuku said, and gasped when Bakugou used his explosive quirk to catch it on fire.
Izuku grabbed it back and patted the flames out. Had Bakugou been more observant at the time and not laughing, he would have noticed the boy had grabbed the flaming book by the hand without any burns.
"Why did you do that!" Izuku let his temper flare for a moment, and got in Bakugou's face, which amused the blond hot head.
"Oh, finally gonna fight me, Deku?" Bakugou smirked.
Izuku took a deep breath and tried to walk away. Bakugou growled and shoved the boy down, "Why won't you fight me, huh, Quirkless?"
Izuku just sat there on the ground with his head down, till Bakugou and his friends got tired of mocking him. Once he was sure they were gone, Izuku got back up, and took his notebook and snuck out of the school.
Once he was clear, he looked around to see if anyone was paying him any attention. Finally, he gave a little smirk and took a flying leap, landing on the roof of a fifteen-story building.
"You should be more careful with that, Young Midoriya," a voice spoke from behind him, and Izuku turned and smiled at his hero and mentor All Might, who suddenly deflated with a poof, and a coughed-up blood.
"You should stop pushing yourself so much, Toshi…" Izuku smiled.
"Touché…" the weaker form of All Might nodded. "You seem upset."
"I could break Kacchan in half with two fingers…" Izuku replied, looking out over the city, "I could have. I wanted to."
"And yet, you didn't," All Might noted.
"I didn't…" Izuku nodded.
"Why not?" All Might asked, standing beside the young man, both leaning on the guard rails.
"Why not?" Izuku asked, "Aren't you supposed to say I'm not supposed to think like that?"
"Why wouldn't you think like that?" All Might replied, "Listen, Izuku… When your mother and I found you in that ship. We don't know who put you in that or why, or how you got your growing abilities, or why. All We know is it is not a quirk. Quirk manipulating quirks have no effect on them. You're something else entirely. Something new."
"What am I then?" Izuku asked sadly.
"You tell me," All Might said, "I made the decision when I got One for All to be the Symbol of Peace for the world. Maybe you'll be the next. Maybe you'll not. What you do with your life and your powers isn't up to me. You have to decide who you are."
"I wish I knew where I came from…" Izuku said, pulling the crystal from his pocket, "All I have left is this."
"Inko and I have done our best to protect you, and you've done well to hide your abilities," All Might stated, "I am certain that pediatrician was confused when your mother seemed surprised when he said you were quirkless, when you bent a steel beam not even an hour earlier with your teeth…"
"I'm going to go do some more patrolling," All Might transformed back into his muscle form, "You head on home, and tell your mother to sit a place for me as well."
"Sure thing," Izuku nodded, as All Might took to the air, and he also went to leaping rooftop to rooftop himself.
What am I? Where did I come from? How did I get these powers if they're not a quirk? Izuku had some many questions. But because of the uncertainty of his origins and the fact that All Might's oldest enemy, One for All seemed to be interested in him, he had to learn to keep his powers a secret. But it was getting harder to do this. He wanted to stand up to Kacchan. He wanted to be a hero like Toshi, like All Might. But most importantly, he wanted to know who he was.
He barely managed to hide as several heroes jumped over him, headed for a nearby alley way. "There's pros there… they've got it… I need to head on …" He said to himself but stopped when he heard Bakugou's yell. "Home…"
Izuku dropped down into the crowd and went to see what was going on. And indeed, there was a slime monster attacking his friend. "Kacchan…" Izuku gasped.
He didn't even realize he was moving, but he was almost literally flying toward him, his feet weren't even touching the ground as he ran. "Deku! What the hell are you doing?" Bakugou gasped through the slime.
"Trying to save you!" Izuku replied, "It looks like you're in trouble." He said pulling at the tendrils wrapping around him, and the monster was surprised by the level of strength from the young man.
The monster swung a tendril and knocked Izuku back, but the young man rebounded, grabbed Bakugo's shirt, and threw a massive punch that dwarfed even one of All Might's smash attacks. The force of the blow created a hurricane and blew the monster apart.
"I told you to be mindful, Young Midoriya," All Might said, standing over him, with his fist thrusted outward over him, "I just hope they buy my cover for you…"
"What?" Izuku said, still holding on to the unconscious Bakugou.
"Just play along, we'll talk at home…" All Might said through the gritted teeth of his smile.
"Haha!" All Might laughed, "I am glad I made it just in time to save the day! You two young people should not have allowed yourself to get in harms way! But I made it just in time to Smash that monster so that he'll not be able to harm anyone else for some time! Haha!"
"Uh… right…" Izuku said, as the other heroes pulled him and Bakugou away.
"Right!" All Might nodded.
Once they were checked out, Izuku made his way home, and he awkwardly waited at the table for All Might to arrive.
"It'll be fine, dear?" Inko smiled lovingly at the boy she raised. "You know Toshi just worries about you. We'd both rather have harm fall on himself then you."
All Might arrived, and it was fine… after a long lecture on responsibility and exactly why they had told him to keep his powers a secret. As far as any of them knew, he was a government experiment and that they'd want him back, or the Japanese government would want to continue what someone started. Until he was fully prepared to protect himself and others in his life, he had to keep it a secret.
After dinner, and Toshi bidding them goodbye, Izuku went to bed. He removed the glasses that All Might had made for him to help him control his vision abilities. As the young man laid in bed, he noticed a green glow from his nightstand, as well as an odd voice that seemed to be coming from nowhere.
He got up and found his crystal being responsible for the eerie green glow. It's time… the voice said.
"Time for what?" Izuku asked.
Come…
He quickly got dressed, took the crystal and disappeared in the night.
For three months he was no where to be seen. All Might had searched all of Japan, missing person reports were made, and heroes and police searched frantically for the missing boy, while Inko was going through a near emotional breakdown.
Had someone found him? What happened to him? It was so unlike Izuku not to leave a note at the least before leaving, and to be gone for that long. She and Toshinori's hope of finding him was wearing thin.
Three months to the day, Inko walked into the living room and found her boy sitting silently on the couch. "IZUKU!" She exclaimed, running to him and throwing her arms around him, "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"
"I know who I am, mom…" He said, with a look of struggle in his eyes.
Inko quickly called Toshi and he rushed over. "Start again at the beginning," Inko said, and All Might nodded.
"My name … is Kal-El. Well, my name is Izuku Midoriya," he touched his mother's hand, "But I was born Kal-El. From the planet Krypton. The Planet was destroyed a long time ago… and my parents put me in the rocket to save me. I was the only survivor… They sent me here because the yellow sun here would give me abilities that would give me a better chance at surviving… and the quirks had already started to show up, so they figured I would blend in…"
"My… my father…" Izuku said, "He told me to live among the people here… so that I could see how to use my gifts as they are meant to be used…"
"What do you think about that, Young Midoriya?" Toshi asked.
"I… I don't know…" Izuku smiled softly, "I always wanted to be a hero… but … This is big. I … I need a long time to process this… And it's not like they're not plenty of heroes already…"
"So, what are you going to do now then?" Inko asked curiously.
"I guess… I'll watch…" Izuku nodded.
-S-
Several years later, at the Deiripuranetto, one of Japan's finest newspapers, staff were running all over the place trying to make deadline. "MIDORIYA!" Kohei Horikoshi yelled across the Bullpen.
"Yeah, chief?" Izuku Midoriya looked up from his desk, pushing the glasses up on his nose.
"Where is the analysis of that heroine who helped get all those ritzy people off that sinking yacht last weekend? Froggy or something…" Kohei asked, "And don't call me chief!"
"Froppy, sir," Izuku said, "And I'm almost finished. I do have an idea for a story, thinking it could be front page worthy."
"I'm listening," Kohei narrowed his eyes.
"The life of a hero, what's it like being a pro," Izuku spelled out for him. "What do you think."
"Think you can arrange a meeting with a pro for that?" Kohei asked.
"DEKU!" a voice screamed from the entrance of the Bullpen.
"Already asked an old… friend to meet me…" Midoriya smiled sheepishly.
-S-
"First, I don't have time for your bullshit," Bakugou said sitting across from Izuku's desk, his feet planted firmly on top as he reclined. "second, I can't even if I did."
"Why not?" Izuku asked.
"Shit," Bakugou snorted, "apparently my agency thinks I curse too much. So I'm not allowed to do interviews anymore. Can you believe that bullshit?"
"That… is a surprise!" Izuku faked a smile.
"I know someone who might be willing to help your pain in the ass out though," Bakugou said, grabbing his phone, and texting. "Hold on… Alright, you're on. You can meet her at the coffee shop across from the agency's main office on 5th. She'll be in pink. You won't miss her." Bakugou said, standing up.
"Thanks, Kacchan!" Izuku smiled.
"Oh, and Deku," Bakugou said, stopping just past his desk, "Bring pink roses."
"Huh?" Deku blinked.
"Trust me, Nerd," Bakugou smirked as he waved and left the office.
To Be Continued…
Disclaimer: My Hero Academia is property of TOHO and Bones
Superman is property of DC Comics and WB Entertainment
Deiripuranetto = Daily Planet
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