Izuku felt betrayed. Betrayed by who? Well…everyone. Literary EVERYONE. Since the day it was said that he wouldn't be getting a quirk was the day that Izuku had been betrayed. And the betrayal didn't stop there. After the world came his mother and his best friend. He had lost it all. The fact at his mother was still allowing him to live with her was a blessing. But he knew that she didn't want to look bad for kicking him out or giving him up. He knew that she no longer loved him, and he was okay with that. Even if her love for him wanned his love for her didn't. He would still treat her as his mother and was forever grateful toward her. He did the house chores for her, he did well in school and even did a few odd jobs around the neighborhood to help earn a little extra money incase they needed it. Being the perfect son for a woman who no longer loved him, that was his life. He was content with his life despite he dreamed of having a quirk and being a hero. A dream that could never come true, but at least he still had faith in himself in the face of everyone directly or indirectly destroying it.
There is always hope. You just have to find it. I can be the hero I have always dreamed of being. I can't give up, I can't give in, I can be strong, I can be brave, I can be something, I can do something!
A mantra of his goals, hopes and dreams he would repeat constantly. He could write it out on paper and say it with his eyes close, he knew his own mantra so well. That was how he kept his faith was from that mantra. It helped him through his darkest of days when everything felt too much.
Something very exciting was happening today. Something that would have had Izuku jumping up and down like a little kid if he was taking part. This exciting something was that Principal Nedzu of UA academy was coming to Aldera High. Unfortunately, only the students that showed any possible potential would be attending the seminar. And Izuku other than his analytical skills had no real practical potential that was required for attending a school like UA. As Izuku sat in his classroom alone he looked over the worksheet that all the students had been given before they would head to the auditorium. Izuku knew that this was given to him as a sick joke by his classmates. Adding insult to injury. But it wasn't like this hadn't happened before so Izuku paid it no mind and kept how he really felt.
"Why hello there." A new voice spoke startling him. He looked and gasped to see a mouse standing beside his desk.
"P-Principal N-N-Ne-Nedzu!?" Izuku shouted nearly jumping out his chair.
The mouse laughed softly, "Yes, it is. Terribly sorry for startling you."
"N-No! It's okay." Izuku promised moving his hands in the hair. "M-My name Izuku Midoriya."
"Nice to meet you Mr. Midoriya." Nedzu smiled. Nedzu then noticed that the young man was working on a notebook. Before Izuku could react Nedzu had taken the notebook and looked at the cover. Hero Analysis for the Future: Volume 10 was that it read. Even more curious than before Nedzu began to flip through a few pages reading over them. Nedzu was simply, impressed. The book contained well detailed notes of heroes that had debuted in the past 11 months. The notes included discussions of application and weaknesses for each hero that was on each page. Even a few note cards of new information that the boy had come across since the hero's debut. Nedzu as so conflicted on handing the book back to Izuku afraid of that the book falling into the hands of the villains.
"These are incredible notes Mr. Midoriya. You seem to really like heroes."
"Of course, I do! Heroes are amazing." Izuku said.
"Now tell me, do you want to be a hero?"
"I do, it's been of dream of mine for a long time. Cliché, right?" Izuku looked embarrassed.
"Not at all. My I ask why you aren't at the auditorium then?"
"O-Oh I…We-Well you asked for the students who showed the most potential and I'm quirkless, so I wasn't allowed to go." Izuku answered honestly. There was no reason to lie to the Principal of UA. Izuku noticed the disgusted face on Nedzu's face. At first Izuku thought that face was for him. However, the facial expression changed.
"What if I told you that having or not having a quirk didn't matter?" Nedzu asked. Izuku's eyes went wide making Nedzu smile.
Meeting Nedzu? A possibility. Having a conversation with Nedzu? A daydream. Sitting with Nedzu at his office in UA? In his wildest dreams! And yet here he sat in UA and in Nedzu's office. Was he dreaming? Izuku had to take deep breaths and fought the urge to pinch himself. His mind just couldn't believe his eyes right now. Nedzu sat before him with a freshly poured cup of tea.
"So," Nedzu took a sip of his tea. "what do you know of my heroic career?"
"You have been active you over forty years. During the first ten years you spent most of it on the field and took down hundreds of villains along with their organization. And then at the twenty-year mark where you had gone missing for a total of five years then returned with no memory of what had happened over the five years you had disappeared." Izuku answered.
"Well that is the official story isn't it?" Nedzu said taking another sip of his tea. "However, the sad truth is, I've been feeling my age. In other worlds it means I'm finally getting old."
"Wha…?"
"Shocking isn't it?" Nedzu chuckled. "And as to the main reason I had you come with me. It involves those five years I had been missing. You see I lied about not remembering what happened during those five years of absence."
"Y-You lied? Why?" Izuku asked.
"It was the order of someone I had met and have great respect for this man. His name is Nick Fury." Nedzu said. "And he recently contacted me about asking me to join a team he's been trying to put together. But as I said I'm getting old and there is no way I'd be able to handle being on the team. Which is why I purposed of finding a successor and then having them to join his team."
"And this team is?" Izuku asked interested.
"Not a villain team I assure you, they are simply a group of remarkable people. Not heroes, but they are the people who are willing to put everything on the line to protect the Earth and her people." Nedzu explained swirling the tea in his cup. "And this brings me to the next topic of why I chose you. I took a look at your school records." Izuku felt himself pale greatly hearing that. "So, you see after having read your Hero Analysis for the Future, I see just how sharp and analytical your mind is. And with a mind like yours you would make a great addition even if you would no doubt be the youngest of the group."
"A-Are you sure that they would be okay with a Quirkless Kid like myself?" Izuku asked looking down.
Nedzu shook his head, "No, they wouldn't care if you had a quirk or not." Izuku looked up at the mouse before him in shock. "What I see, what Fury and his team would see, is a young man who was born with an incredible mind, one of near limitless potential, who has been abused and underestimated his entire life because of one, single factor of which is decides everything about a person in this world. Curious to know what that makes you?"
"Y-Yes…"
"Dangerous."
"D-Dang-DANGEROUS!?" Izuku was completely stumped and terrified. He was dangerous? That wasn't a good thing! So why was Nedzu making it sound like one?!
"Indeed." Nedzu laughed. "And that is why I choose you to take my place on Fury's team. You want to be a hero? How dull. Why not be an Avenger? Heroes have to follow all these rules and compete for popularity. But Avengers aren't bound by those stupid rules nor care for the public opinion. Avengers serve to protect the Earth and would gladly sacrifice for the chance to be normal to save it and her people. If I could and I would… I would have taken Fury's offer but as I've said I'm getting old. So, Midoriya would you like to take the chance at being more than you are and escape the injustice of this world?"
"Yes!" Izuku answered immediately. "I will gladly take the chance to be an Avenger!"
Nedzu smiled, "Wonderful. We best get started; we don't know when Fury will call for you after all." Izuku nodded.