The Greatest Hero
Chapter 1- Training
A world where pretty much everyone had superpower and heroes and villains were common place, this kinda of place may seem amazing to some people but to those that were powerless or quirkless it was almost a living hell. In such a world we meet Izuku Midorya, a 4 year old with messy green hair and freckles who dreamed of nothing than being a hero and help people, he just got back from the doctor, having been told the devastating truth that he was quirkless, he was in his room crying while watching his favorite video when his mom entered his room, when he saw her he asked,
"Mom, can I still be a hero?", crying all the while.
His mom was conflicted, on the one hand if she was honest she would crush his dreams, but if she lied she would just fill him with false hope. She thought about it for a long time before finally answering.
"Izuku honey, I am not gonna lie. A quirkless hero was never heard before, and that's because being one without a quirk is consideraded pretty much suicide…"
While she was saying that she could see her son's hopes being crushed.
"But, if you are willing to work harder than anyone else, if you are willing to not let the world bring you down, if you are not scared of the hardships and danger then… it's gonna be hard but, you are the smartest, most determined and most wonderfull boy I know, so I think you would make a great hero."
When she finished she started crying as well and hugged her son with all her might, Izuku then returned the hug.
"Thank You, Mom! Thank You So Much!"
They stayed like that for while until his mom realized that it was almost time for dinner, she said bye to her son and went to the kitchen. He was alone again but Izuku wasn't sad instead he felt determined. He went back to his computer and started searching about quirkless heroes that appeared , aside from some that tried and got killed or gave up instantly he found pretty much nothing but while he was navegating he found some old comics of fictional heroes. These heroes didn't have super power but were still considered great heroes, they used their brains, equipment and martial arts to fight off the bad guys and come off on top. Although they didn't exist it still light a fire inside Izuku and he spent the entire night reading and searching about them.
The next day Izuku was incredibly tired, he practically didn't sleep the night before, and in his way to pre-school he found something that was pretty much common, Katsuki, a spiky haired blond with a nasty personality who thought that the whole world revolved around him, picking on a innocent kid. He am Izuku used to be friends but after he got his explosive quirk he treated Izuku like his very existence was a insult to his almighty presence. Izuku tried to stop this kind of behaviavor every he saw it and every time Katsuki blasted him but that never stopped him before so why would it start now.
"Hey Katchan! Stop It!"
As soon as he said that Katsuki lost interesse in the other boy, who ran away as soon as he got the chance, and turned to his favorite punching bag.
"Ah Deku! Seems like you didn't learn your lesson last time, so I guess I should ten times more rough for you to understand that a quirkless nobody like you should just go ahead and die!"
Katsuki lanched himself forward extanding his hand planning on blasting Izuku away like he did every time, but this time Izuku was different. He started rmenbering about all the heroes that he read about and in the story of one of them, Batman, he remembered a fight sequenced that could be useful in this situation.
As soon as bakugou's hand was in grasping distance Izuku caught his arm spun it and threw bakugou back first on the groung. Bakugou was to surprised to react, Izuku never fought back when Bakukou picked on him, unfortunately that surprise was all izuku needed, as that gave him time to plant a kick in Bakugous's neck with just enough strength to make him gasp for air. Izuku took the opportunity to run away as fast as he could before bakugou got back up.
On a empty street Izuku felt a adrenaline rush and excitement unlike anything before in his life. He felt like a true hero, he saved a person in need from someone who was oppressing her, and beat the bad guy(kind of). He realized at that moment that even if he didn't have a quirk that didn't matter he could still be a hero, no even better he would be the greatest hero this society has ever seen.
After that incident Izuku decided that he should martial arts, but not just one or two every single one of them, if he was gonna be the greatest hero he needed to be prepared for every kind of enemy and every enemy required every martial arts. He asked his mom to search for dojos close to home, there were very few since in a world with super powers very few still follow the way of martial arts, but there still existed some. The professor were amazed, Izuku had a talent for martial arts like they have never seen before, he would learn the techniques faster than they could teach him and besides his talents he trained harder than anyone they knew. By the age of 8 Izuku was already black belt in karate, judo, kung-fu and jijutsu, being able to beat his masters with extreme easy, but he still wasn't satisfied. He searched for foreighn styles of fighting like kravmaga and kick-boxing and self taught himself since there wasn't anyone to teach him. He also mastered all kinds of weapons from the sword to the bo-staff and even projectile weapons like shurikens and the art of sthealth, for covet and scout missions, and also because se one of his favorites comic book characters, Batman, was a master of stealth.
It seems ridiculous to think that he could even have a education with all this training but, perhaps because God felt bad for not giving a quirk to such a great kid, Izuku was blessed with a genius intellect. When he was 10 his mother took him to do a IQ test and he scored 260, and the examiners told her that his intelligence would grow over time, making him one of the if not the biggest genius of the human race, they wanted to take Izuku to a science base where he could study with some of his peers but Izuku said that he didn't want to, thinking that it would get in the way of his hero training. That is not to say that he didn't used his brain, when he wasn't training he was inventing gadgets to help him with the hero work, after all he recognized that as a human being he had his limitations so he would compensate for those with technology.
Unfortunately his schedule made having a social life pretty much impossible so he didn't have any friends to speak of, which worried his mother a lot but he always said that he would have a lot of time to make friends when he was at UA, the greatest hero high-school in the country.
Now that we got his growth period out of the way lets go back to the story. Izuku was 14 and in his last year of middle school and running his usual training route, although he was quite young his well sculpetured physique, gained through his years of brutal training, made him look a lot more mature, actually a lot of girls in his school had a huge crush on him but decided to not act on it because he mostly kept to himself and in other cases because they didn't want to date a quirkless person. He was wearing workout clothes and a belt that really stuck out from the outfit. He was passing through a tunnel when he felt something very wrong, during his training he developed a sort of danger sense in case of ambushes, and now that sense was firing up. He quickly jumped back from the spot that he was and instantly from that same spot appeared a slimy creature with nothing human except his eyes.
"Damn! You are really lucky kid! Or not since you will soon be made hostage!"
The slimy villain created tentacles and launched them at Izuku but the boy was slippery and dodged every single one of them with a air breath, doing some crazy acrobacies but he still seeming completely calm and in control something that really infuriated the slime villain.
"DON'T GET COCKY YOU DAMN BRAT!"
He formed even more tentacles and attacked Izuku with all of them at once but to no avail. When he got tired and eventually slowed down Izuku pulled a strange ball out of his belt capsule and prepared to throw it at the villain but before he could the slime exploded in a million piecies and where he once was stood the world's greatest hero and Izuku's idle.
"All Might!"
"Never Fear For I Am Here!"
Izuku was amazed, his favorite hero was there to help him as if on magic.
" You did well young boy! Now I need to take this villain to the proper athorites!"
He seemed to be in a hurry, because as soon as he secured what was left of the villain in a jar he seemed ready to jump off. But Izuku still wanted to talk to him.
" Wait AllMight, can I just ask you something before you go?"
"Sorry young man, but I really gotta go maybe next time! Maybe next time!"
And just like that he did a super jump and flew hundreds of meters in the sky before he descended and landed in the rooftop of a building, but what he didn't noticed was that Izuku had clung to him before the jump. The boy was determined and he wouldn't let go until he asked what he needed to ask.
When they reached the building Izuku let go of the hero, who seemed to noticed his presence but still didn't turn back to face him. But that didn't matter he just had to ask.
"Sorry for bothering you so much Allmight, but I don't know when I am gonna have a opportunity like this again, so I am just gonna say what I need to say… I am quirkless and my entire life I wanted to be a hero just like you and save people with a smile, but pretty much everyone I met told that it was impossible for a quirkless nobody like me. But you always said that all it took to be a hero was spirit and courage so I have to ask… Can I be a hero even without a quirk?"
There was a long silence between the two and it broke in the most unexpected way. Smoke stated coming out of the body of the hero and soon afterwards his muscular body transformed into that of ridiculously skinny man with no muscle to speak of. This shocked Izuku but he was still sure that this man was the same Allmight he talked to seconds ago.
"I am sure you must be confused. You see in a fight with a really powerfull villain I ended up losing my stomach and due to the injury I couldn't use my power freely anymore. I can only stay in that form for a couple of hours a day and the time limit seems to be getting shorter and shorter. Very few people know this and I would appreciate if you didn't tell anyone about this since society would spiral out of control if this got out."
"O-Of course! I swear I won't tell anyone!"
"Thanks. As for your question…"
He tried hard to find the right words as to not hurt the kid so much.
"Look, you seem like a really nice kid and I saw your moves when you were fighting the slime but…I don't know if it's enough."
As soon as he said that Izuku stopped breathing for a second.
"This is a really dangerous job. I mean, there some villains with quirks that could literally explode a person. You would probably just get yourself killed if you tried."
At this point Izuku lowered his head, as if to not let the hero see his eyes. Allmight felt terrible but he felt like he needed to be honest or the kid would forever follow a impossible dream.
"Look if you still want to help people you should go into law enforcement. It's not as glamorous but you would still be doing some good to your community."
When he finished speaking there was another long silence. Izuku's head was still lowered the entire time. Allmight half-expected the kid to cry but what happened next was the complete opposite.
"Ha-ha…HAAAAAA-AHHHH!"
Izuku started laughing silently then out loud like a mad man. Allmight thought that he broke the kid at this point.
"Haa…You know I half expected that this would happen but it still pretty disappointing.I thought you would at least practiced what you preach Allmight but I see now that you are like all the rest. Blinded by the arrogance that came with your power."
The hero was extremely offended.
"Now listen here young man-!"
"No you listen! My whole life I thought that the image of the perfect hero that you showed to the world was too good to be true and now I see I was right. You still decided that I wasn't cut to be hero without even seeing what I could do. You just heard the word 'quirkless' and automatically concluded that I wasn't gonna make it. Isn't that right?"
"…"
The hero couldn't muster the words.
"Yeah, that's what I thought. Now I am gonna go, but before I do I just want you to know that your little speech didn't dismotivated me in the slightest in fact I am more pumpet up than ever. The number 1 hero is gonna be one of the people I am gonna prove wrong when I take his spot."
"Wha-!"
"I am gonna take the UA entrance exam in 10 months from now and since you are gonna be teaching there next semester you are gonna be one of the examiners."
"How did you know that?!"
The school hadn't made this information public yet.
"I have my ways. Just a friendly advice: Watch me! Because I am gonna blow everyone away!"
After saying that he ran to the edge of the roof and jumped off the building.
"KIIID!"
Almight was terrified, thinking that the crazy kid just killed himself. He was getting ready to transform again in a attempt to save him but the same kid appeared before him floating midair with strange metal boots that generated flame thrusters like the ones in combat jets.
"I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU DIND'T HAVE A QUIRK!"
"And I don't! I made these myself! See you soon!"
And just like that Izuku flew off to God knows where.
"What just happened?"