Because I was born into this world
Freedom is my birthright
Then be free in another world
Because not all men are created equal
I don't have power in this world
That's only a matter of perspective
You are only weak because you were born into this world
A flash of memories, flowers, titans, blood. Someone was talking to him. What happened—
Izuku awoke with the sun assaulting his eyes, and his bed felt uncomfortable as he struggled to move around. He was wrapped in a blanket in a way that felt unusual, like that of a burrito. Actually, he could really go for one right now. The boy took a moment to stretch, before eventually standing. He felt his bare feet touch the wood floor as he stared at his surroundings.
This wasn't his room.
Izuku's eyes darted all over the room in a panic, as he walked around, trying to find out where he was. Coming across a small dresser and a mirror, he noticed that it looked dirty, and didn't seem like it was made recently. But when he turned to look at his reflection, the face he was met with wasn't his own.
The person in the mirror was a young black-haired boy, who looked to be maybe around the same age as himself. Izuku raised his hands, staring at the foreign fingers as they touched the foreign face. He noted how the boy had features common with those who lived in the western part of the world. Izuku himself was predominantly Asian with some western ancestry, but most information on his distant heritage was lost to time as quirks became prevalent.
Wait…did this boy have a quirk? Were quirks even a thing here?
Izuku stood up and walked around the mostly empty room, finding no clear sign of any quirk usage. To be fair though, he barely had an idea of what it would look like. The only other room he had seen the inside of that belonged to a quirk user was Kacchan's. It felt so strange compared to his own room full of All Might merchandise. The feeling of the hardwood on his bare feet was hard but comfortable. He walked around the room inspecting small things he was fascinated by, before opening the door and walking through it.
Izuku caught sight of two people; a man and a woman, who had kind looks on their faces as he stared at them.
"Mother."
"Father."
A voice in his head whispered to him as he looked around in a panic, but saw no one who could have said it. The home felt like something out of a fairy tale. Almost all the furniture was made of wood and the lights were all low tech solutions. All of the windows in the area had sunlight piercing through them, and lit up the woman who stared at him.
"Eren! Did you sleep in again?" The woman said sternly, before walking over and placing a hand on his head. So this was Eren's mother. She didn't seem particularly nice, but she reminded Izuku of his own mother, at least when she was trying her hardest to be strict.
"Relax Carla, the boy needs his rest," he said softly before turning to look at Izuku. His eyes looking through Izuku before he spoke up again, "Eren, do you want to come with me to the Ackermans' check-up today? They have a girl your age you could talk to."
It took Izuku another second to get used to being called that name. His face was overcome with a flush as he thought about what the hell was happening. From what he could gather, he was in the body of a boy named Eren, who lived an entire life here. Was he able to go back? Izuku mentally sighed, barely able to understand the situation, as he nodded his head to the father's question. He was met with an approving smile and nod in response, and 'Eren' walked back into his room to change.
Eren was confused. One second he was at home sleeping, and the next he woke up in a 'superhuman society' where he's powerless. Though unlike his counterpart, he was much less quiet about it.
"Ok, um, 'Eren', please tell the doctor what you told me," His "mother," said in a calm and scared voice as Eren turned to face the doctor. The bald man was staring at the child like he was about to explode.
"I'm not Izuku, my name is Eren and I'm from Shiganshina, this isn't my body, and something is wrong." He said with determination. Inko felt her eyes tear up. She had never heard her son speak with such conviction before.
The doctor, however, was not impressed. He simply gave the boy a glare before turning back to the mother. "It's probably some kind of make-believe game that children play. He should be all right soon enough, just play along for now." The doctor gave a smile as he reached over for a jar inside a drawer. "As for you, 'Eren', would you like a lollipop?"
"What the hell is a lollipop?!"
As Izuku walked with this 'father' he began to notice just how dire the city was. People packed like sheep into tight spaces, no, like cattle. Izuku felt disgusted. The number of people waving to his father seemed to do good enough but what Izuku didn't understand was those walls. Those massive walls holding everyone inside. He considered asking the man he was walking with but didn't' out of fear of being exposed. Izuku was anxious about all of this and frankly already missing home. It wasn't until they got out of the walled city and into the open fields of grass that he was able to relax.
"You're being awfully quiet, Eren," The man said, walking with a calm but brisk pace. Izuku didn't trust most of the people he had seen but something about this man and his eyes made him feel at peace. Maybe Izuku would actually ask about it.
"Hey dad," Saying 'dad' made Izuku's lips feel strange, he hadn't said it in a while. "Why do we have to stay inside these walls?" Izuku asked, staring at the older man as he slowed down his pace slightly. He looked down at the child below him. His face thinking as he answered.
"Because there are large man-eating titans outside the walls," He said bluntly as the words just phased through Izuku's body, his mind conjuring up images of monsters and demons that eat people. Izuku had seen villains before but an entire race of them dedicated to eating people sounded absurd. He almost didn't believe him until he put together all the details from the city. The man noticed the scared expression on the boy's face before continuing to speak, "Don't worry we have the walls protecting us,"
It didn't make Izuku feel any safer.
Eren tasted candy for the first time. Sure, there were limited amounts of sugar he got his hands on back home, but here the doctors just handed it out. It was absurd, to say the least. The 'lollipop' even had some kind of fruity taste. He didn't really pick it up, but based on the colour, he had to assume it was an orange, which were also very rare. Did someone just put an orange into this small, hard piece of rock?
"Eren, we're almost at school, the doctor's appointment set us back for some time, so it's lunchtime right now," Inko stated with a sigh, as she almost forgot to say his 'name'. Eren could notice himself how worried she was and was starting to feel bad about it. From her perspective, he would have just shown up out of nowhere in her son's body.
He felt a pang of guilt before he spoke. "Mom… I'll be alright," He replied nonchalantly, as he tried not to notice the woman crying when he got out of the car. Did she always cry like that?
His questions were soon forced out of his mind as he bore witness to the building in front of him. It wasn't like anything he had seen. There weren't any bricks he could see, and it had windows all along with the building. He had seen multistory buildings before and even knew about. There was even a plaque nearby that clearly stated what its name was.
"Aldera Junior High," he muttered. Why was he able to read this strange language? He didn't remember seeing it anywhere or learning it. Now that he thought about it, a large amount of information had been provided to him out of nowhere. He just didn't know anything else actually important.
"Hey! Deku!" A loud voice shouted out. As Eren turned towards the hostility, his green hair getting in the way before he caught sight of the angry blond staring at him. "Got here just in time to get your ass kicked!" The boy shouted as Eren stared in return. Was this guy being serious? Eren had seen his fair share of bullies and got his ass kicked more times then he could count. But fighting a boy his own age wouldn't stand a chance! Eren took up a fighting stance.
"That's the spirit!" the blonde shouted as he lunged at him swinging his right fist.
BANG!
"Eren, stay here! Don't go inside and just wait outside, I'm coming back with help."
They just got to the Ackerman house and found the bodies, and Izuku felt like throwing up. He didn't get a chance to get a good look before his dad yelled at him to look away, but what he did manage to see disgusted him.
"They must have taken the daughter," his father said, who was packing his things up before running off. The words rang in Izuku's ears as he thought about what the man had said. Someone came to this house to kill the parents and take the girl. His chest felt tight. He didn't know or hear about any heroes in this world. For all he knew, those men probably weren't even villains with quirks or powers. They were just people. Horrible people. Izuku found his eyes drawn back into the house. His breathing slowing down as he peered through the door and walked inside. His body was numb as he saw them laying on the ground. They actually reminded him of his own parents.
The stab wound in the man whose face says he died in agony. A massive gash on the woman who died in a struggle. Izuku had seen some violence from videos of heroes but nothing to this extent. Nothing this human. People were capable of something like this and they managed to take their daughter. He saw the food left uneaten on the dinner table before,
He felt his legs start moving.
BANG!
The final large explosion went off on his body as Bakugo slammed his hands into him, the blond getting increasingly angry the longer this went on. Eren was bruised but it wasn't like this hadn't happened before.
"Just give up, Deku!" the boy screamed going in for another punch before dodging another one of Erens attempts to hit him. Eren could only grunt as he felt pain everywhere. This body was weak. Back home Eren would have to lift and carry heavy objects, but nothing on this boy's body was remarkable. The boy he was fighting could also create an explosion in his hands. It was like the sound of a flare gun going off as he tried to stand up again.
But he couldn't; his ears were ringing with the only sounds being his own heavy breathing, and the breath of the boy he was fighting. It didn't seem like his body was in shape either. The clenching of his arm meant all those explosions had some kind of effect on his own body.
Eren got to his feet to see the other body also heavily panting. The blond rushed forward with another shout and a right haymaker before Eren put his everything into shifting his head out of the way before slamming an elbow into the boy's chest, sending them both to the ground as Eren laid a few feet from him. The solid ground against his face felt comforting as he closed his eyes and just relaxed. If he was being honest, this went better than most of his fights with bullies. This time he left a mark.
It was about a minute before a teacher saw the boys laying there, nosebleeds and bruises galore, as the boys were dragged to the nurse's office. Were nurses like doctors? The questions hurt to think about, but he doubted they could help.
Izuku ran. He ran as fast as he could. He used all of the knowledge he had and he kept running into the forest. He didn't know this girl and he didn't even know if he could save her but he had to do something. Sitting around like this would be a lie to himself.
So he ran.
The wind pushed onto his face as he pushed himself and walked along the various paths. There was a recently made footpath in the forest. The only sights of life were the crushed leaves and cut branches. Izuku had to slow down his pace before he caught sight of something. He walked the remainder before he saw the cabin sitting in a clearing. There were no windows, and there was a bloodstain on the ground by the door. Izuku hid in the bushes looking around, before he caught light reflecting off a knife that was stuck into a tree near the path.
They must have put it there before going inside.
Izuku's mind was racing as he approached it, and wrapped his fingers around the blade. He pulled it out inspecting it and seeing the haphazardly wiped blood still left on it. He felt tears well up in his eyes as he held it close to his chest. An idea started to form, but he was almost certain he couldn't do it. His mind wandered to the large trees as he thought up a better solution.
Not knowing what to do with the blade, he placed the knife in his pocket carefully. He walked forward as he approached the cabin. Leaning towards a left wall as he tried to listen inside.
He heard some talk about Asians and selling her, and he remembered that the mother left dead was Asian. Was that why they took the girl?
He took a deep quiet breath as he walked over and grabbed the axe resting against the side of the cabin. His heart beating out of his chest, he took his steps back into the forest surrounding the house. Izuku moved a bit farther off the path before bringing the axe to a small tree. This body was stronger then Izuku's regular one, so taking a tree like this was simple. With a few large swings a few grunts it fell. He began quickly cutting down a smaller one with thin branches. As the small tree was a single swing from falling Izuku screamed from the top of his lungs,
" Someone help, I'm stuck, someone please, help! " He could feel his voice in pain as he swung for the weak spot and knocked the second three over, the clearing made from the first tree gave space for the second dry tree to fall much much louder than the first one. The snaps and cracks of tree branches almost like fireworks as Izuku dropped the Axe and ran around the forest moving to a spot in the bushes where he could watch carefully.
It was only a few seconds before the two men left the cabin and began exploring in the direction opposite of Izuku. Calling for someone to respond as they caught the sight of the axe and began speaking. The men ventured further into the forest as Izuku took the chance and ran as fast as he could towards the cabin. He felt the wind on his face and his lungs losing air as he reached it and opened the door, praying to God someone didn't notice before shutting it as softly as he could in his panicked state.
He leaned against the door, before turning and locking it as he walked into the main room, the sight of which both relieving and terrifying him. The sight was of a small girl laying there with a fabric gag in her mouth, and rope tying her hands and feet together as he approached her. She had some bruises but she was otherwise fine.
"You're safe now," Izuku didn't know that, not for sure, at least. The girl didn't struggle at all; she barely moved. Izuku pulled out the knife noticing how it had pierced his pocket during the run and thankful it didn't stab him in the leg. His hands moved to turn the girl over as he began cutting with the knife. This knife didn't have teeth nor very sharp sides. It seemed like it was purely meant for stabbing and nothing more. Nevertheless, Izuku pushed on and managed to pierce the knots freeing the girl as he grabbed her shoulders and brought her up, "Are you ok?".
No response. Shit.
"Can you walk? We can run together, I'll help you," he pleaded into those empty eyes. Izuku hated how those eyes looked. In the All Might video he used to constantly watch as a child, there was this boy who was interviewed afterwards, and no matter what anyone said he had those same dead eyes as he talked about exactly what he had lost. "Please come with me," He begged as he wrapped an arm around her and pulled her up. Ignoring the ominous feeling, he began to drag her with him towards the door.
"What about the third?" She mumbled as Izuku left her standing to open the door. The lock clicked, and with a bang, the door slammed open hitting Izuku in the head and knocking him slightly backward as a large man with spiky hair looked down at the two. Izuku in his panic held the knife tightly and blindly thrust it forward pushing into the man's knee as he fell and screamed out in pain.
"We have to—" Before Izuku could finish the sentence, he felt a hand thrust onto his neck as the man wrapped his hand around Izuku's throat.
"Little shit!" He yelled, tightening his grip as he pulled the knife out of his knee and tossed it to the ground. He was on his knees as he strangled the child now using both hands in full anger and intent to kill.
Izuku flailed his arms wildly, trying everything in his power to make him stop, scratching the man's arms until blood was drawn, shouting, slapping. Everything he did only caused the man to increase his grip, and the man's face grew redder and redder as he screamed at the boy about how he didn't have to do this. Izuku could feel his vision leaving him as he whimpered out a final message to the girl.
"Help...me…"
The sound of a step.
The sound of a grip.
The sound of the floorboards creaking.
The sound of the man yelling.
The sound of a young girl grabbing the knife off the floor.
The sound of the wood shattering below her as her body moved.
The sound of speeds that were inhuman.
The sound of a knife stabbing through a skull.
The sound of a scream of pain that was cut short.
The last dying sound of a man and his head slamming into the ground.
Those were the only sounds Izuku heard as he came back to life, as his vision returned to the sight of the girl tugging his arm. Her face was more alive and that look in her eyes was gone. Izuku simply stood up, grabbed her hand and began to run.
He didn't know why but he smiled as he ran with her.
Authors Note.
I was thinking for a long while about how to write a My Hero Academia and Attack On Titan crossover. I went through various versions and found too much of the same. I decided to do something a little different and I hope it works out well.
Some questions as I move forward from the first chapter.
1. Which ships would you like to see in this story that doesn't involve the main four of the story (Izuku, Eren, Mikasa, Bakugo)
2. Which events in each story are you tired of seeing again and again. Conversely which ones do you want to be expanded on?
