Well, this story got popular rather quickly. Didn't expect that in all honesty. Usually, I will respond personally to reviews, but I want to answer them here, as they are plot-relevant.
Giblenator: Yes, I do, for the most part. The only things I am unsure of are very minute, but those I usually figure out during a story as it's written.
Now, Izukus (this partly answers another review, but I will go deeper on it later) powers first, is that he can spread Malice (And this will be a bit deeper in the story) around, and like in BOTW and AOC, can, in fact, infect machines, organics, and inorganics. BUT! Like in canon, Calamity Ganon can't necessarily control a monster not created by him. As seen with Naydra, while covered with Malice, it had some control over itself, but I would assume a normal Hylian would be unable to resist its control, but that's hard to say for certain.
Again, he can spread malice like Calamity Ganon in Age of Calamity, and use it to enhance himself. BUT! The catch is that it destroys the environment, and sucks out the materials (Ability to last? Hardness? I don't know the word for it, but basically its ability to handle blows, and be usable.) weakening anything that Malice lands on, and grows onto.
(I won't say about beings like Nomu yet, as I want to keep somethings hidden after all)
Finally, and this again is a general review response, will the Blights appear as creations/puppets like in BOTW and AOC? I am thinking of it, but it won't be happening before the USJ, thats a certain. Even then, each one will be appearing when needed. Though, I am considering (more of a potential thought) making a fifth blight, based on something from the games.
Ditsie99: I explained a lot above this. Some things I am keeping hidden though, don't want to make viewers bored and not want to read after all.
Calamity Ganon, well, thats covered in this chapter.
Guerra Bored: Glad you like it!
Crazy Cavalier: Thanks for the writing compliment! I honestly am always worried that my writing isn't being portrayed correctly, so I try to make it work the best I can.
I covered the Blights, but I don't plan on having Izuku having all four (and a potential fifth one, if I decide on it) at once at the beginning, which is WAY too much power, and it would make me bored on it rather quickly.
Oh, Malice will be dangerous, and this chapter will cover it quite a bit.
Jesus nearly five hundred words on just a response like this. I usually don't do this, except for guest reviews, but I felt that doing all of it here will at least stem some questions, and prevent some questions from being asked fifty times.
I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Darkness. That's all I see. Am I dead, or am I in some area between life and death? Forever doomed to walk, but unable to go anywhere? Stuck in some limbo that only the Goddesses could create? I feel very weak, as if I have no power or control over myself, and it feels both wrong but calming. How ironic, a being born to only destroy, reduced to being nothing more than being stuck in some sort of purgatory limbo.
I have lost to the Hero and his Princess many, many times. My alternate timeline managed to trick the heroes and killed them by turning their advantage, into their greatest foe. He even brought down the might hero meant to fight the darkness. When we fused, our powers grew massively, no longer only able to cause a blood moon once a month, but whenever we felt like it.
Creating monsters, fused with Malice to make them even tougher.
Summoning Malice copies of the Champions, and even the Hero himself.
But, Astor failed to keep the Yiga loyal, due to his arrogance, and inability to realize, that I could have revived the Blights, if he hadn't gotten greedy for power. Ironic, but it's the point.
The plan was nearly foolproof, but Astor was the fool who broke it. When he failed me for the last time, as the fool became useless, I consumed his body, to create a new form for myself. Combined with Harbinger, my alternate timeline self, and then gaining a physical form, I was nearly unstoppable.
But my alternate self failed to realize what Terrako was. While it created a very cunning and intelligent plan, to trick his heroes, he failed to notice that this timeline Terrako could, in fact, be stronger than it lets on.
When it seemed like my victory over the heroes was assured, I was untouchable by anything. Not even Zelda's hidden power, or the Master Sword could stop me.
Until Terrako, using some form of magic, sacrificed itself to weaken me, and caused me to lose.
Am I shifting the blame? Yes. But at the same time, I lost because of a foolish false prophet, who was never my minion. Only a tool, meant to be a mere step, in the staircase.
My retreat failed to a degree. I died, but I am in some sort of limbo as if I am damned to an eternity of darkness, a fitting irony for me.
Then, I notice a light. A very dim light, due to the distance, but a light nonetheless. I decide to walk towards it, realizing that it's a trick or a potential way out of this darkness.
What feels like an eternity, really about three hours of slowly walking to the light, I begin to make out a shape the light is in, a Door of sorts.
Is this the path to the afterlife, I wonder. That seems odd though, as I was just the energy expunged from my original host, sent out to prevent him from being trapped permanently.
What feels like an eternity, I eventually reach the light door and find it's a square of light, about my height. How odd, it's almost as if it is teasing me with something. I poke one of my fingers into it, and nothing bad seems to happen.
Pulling my finger out, and seeing it attached, I decide to enter the light, and I get blinded.
A few minutes pass, and as I open my eyes, trying to get used to the light, I find myself in a grassy area, with a massive tree in the center of it all. Oh, and Malice Bogs are mixed in the grassland, and on the tree. Though, they look rather small, as if they are new.
Now, wherein the name of Demise am I? I hear a splash, and I turn around, to see a pond of water. I poke my finger in it, curious of where it came from when I am assaulted by memories, not of my own.
I quickly pull my finger out, but now I know an inkling of what's going on. I must be in the boy I forced my powers onto, Izukus subconscious.
Well, that explains a lot at least. But why am I here? Why did this light appear? Am I conscious inside a subconscious? Why am I getting philosophical about where the Din I am? No matter, since I exist here, I might as well figure out what I can do here.
Immediately, I get blown off some Malice I touched, and I realize that Izuku gained some scattered memories from me, mostly what the Malice is called, and the name I was given, Calamity, though from what I can tell, because it was so scattered, he only muttered the power, and the name, making it seem like his quirk is called Calamity, and what he produces is Malice. It must have also given him some knowledge to use it, and not accidentally kill himself.
Well, I get to watch this, and the chaos that can happen.
"My, own, quirk," I mutter to myself, looking at my hands as Mom drives us back home, casting glances at me from time to time.
I have a quirk, one that could let me be a hero if I wanted to be one. But why do I feel dread at the Malice? While I can use it, and it can't harm me, I don't know why it seems to make me uneasy. Maybe it's because I wasn't born with it, or because there is something about it I don't know of.
"Izuku, honey, you're worrying me." Mom says, keeping her eyes on the road.
My face feels extremely warm, I must have been sending my thoughts outside of my head.
A quirk though. I can't wait to show Kaachan!
"GET AWAY FROM ME WITH THAT FUCKING VILLAINOUS QUIRK, MONSTER!" Kaachan screams, firing an explosion on my arm, as I was showing him my quirk, and pushing me backwards. "WITH A VILLAINOUS QUIRK LIKE THAT, YOU ARE GUARANTEED TO BE A VILLAIN, DEKU!" Kaachan finishes, before proceeding to us more of his explosions on me, before leaving.
Why. Why did he attack me like that? He attacked me, just for showing my quirk off to him.
A word comes to my head. Bully. He's a bully. He doesn't care about me, or those around him. He only cares about himself, a selfish person. He believes himself to be the best, and strongest? Against other kids, he is. But against an adult? Doubtful. Regardless, I guess I am a loner now. He scared off any potential friends I could have made, not even thinking about how my quirk looks and functions.
Why did he have to act like this. I just wanted things to go back to how they were. But he just goes and treats me even worse.
He wants to be a hero? I can't see him being one with his way of doing things.
I just hope we can fix our friendship.
12 years later
Another day, another wish that Bakugo would just stop being a spoiled brat. Hard to believe I was friends with that asshole as a kid.
He's a massive bully, egotistical, full of hot air, and trigger happy with his quirk, while failing to realize how dangerous an explosion is, though what should I except from the mighty Bakugo.
The teachers worship the air he breaths, the students think he's the next coming of Jesus Christ, and some heroes have told him he could become the next number 1 Hero.
That tells me a lot about how Heros are viewed anymore.
They aren't viewed for doing good things, they are viewed based on their power, and for the female heroes, how sexual they can look.
Mt Lady, for example, grows up to 68' tall, though the exact height is about 67'7" tall. While her quirk isn't that impressive, it's her assets that made her debut popular for her, as her ability to change in height, also means her assets grew along with her.
She's not heroic though, she's more in it for the fame, not the actual heroic reasoning like All Might, or some of the unknown heroes who help people, but don't look attractive or have a flashy, powerful quirk.
Speaking of quirks, after gaining my quirk, I decided to investigate it as closely as possible, and I found a few things about it.
First: The substance I produce doesn't fit into the idea of the three states of matter, the common ones you can see, and somewhat interact with. It can be a solid, it can be a liquid, and it can be a gas all at the same time.
Unlike water, which goes from Ice to Water, to Steam, which its molecular structure changes due to its atoms increasing in speed, due to the increase in temperature, or decrease if you are turning water to ice, and slowing down the molecules to freeze water.
The substance, Malice, doesn't obey the three states and can exist in all three forms at once, while I can force them to be one state, their molecular level is at the same speed, regardless of it being solid, liquid, or gas. It can also appear as fire-like, smoke, or an ashy substance.
It's assumed that the Malice I can produce its own form of matter, due to its unique way of interacting with the world.
Second: Malice is dangerous.
Malice, if left on a surface for a while, can corrode the surface and material, depending on how long it's been on it.
For example, I left some malice on some Steel, and after a few hours, the steel cane apart, as the substance consumed the Steels qualities, to make it more powerful.
I am unsure what would happen if used on a living being, as I have no desire to try that.
Third: Malice is Moldable.
Like Putty, I can mold malice to multiple shapes, sizes, and forms. Though, I can only mold so much of it at once.
I can, for instance, make a sword and shield out of malice, and a pair of boots, but I can't make a full set of armor otherwise.
I can send out balls of Malice, that doesn't stick, and instead hits something, and causes damage akin to a punch, and I can use it at a range.
Fourth: While I haven't been able to experiment with it, I am aware of a form I take should my negative emotions like anger, overwhelm me, letting me take on a smaller form of the being that gave me his powers. Though I only accessed it once, and only have a small understanding of it, and it's very hard to reach that state.
With all that in mind, I could make a great hero if I apply it right, right?
Well, not to people like Bakugo, and my 'classmates' and 'teachers'. What jokes, they ignore obvious issues with their students and instead treat a kid with a quirk that isn't evil and acts like that he is some villain in training.
"Heh heh heh, you look like you would make a great bodysuit." A slimy, evil-sounding voice says before I get wrapped around by some green sludge. Fantastic, as if getting bullied by Bakugo isn't enough, now I got some villain wanting to use me as something idiotic.
"You know kid, I didn't know All Might was in town. Since he is, I have to get out of here. You will be my hero, right kid?" The sludge villain asks, while I form a malice-covered fist, and smash his eye, causing him to release me in pain, not expecting the attack.
"You dare!? I was going to make this easy and quick, but now you-"
"SMASH!" Suddenly, the tunnel is filled with a massive gust of wind, turning the sludge villain into small puddles of sludge, and I see All Might, standing in front of an open Sewer cover.
I won't lie, I am shocked to be in All Mights presence, but I dare not act like an idiot in front of him, unwilling to embarrass myself in front of him, Number 1 hero or not.
"I apologize for you having to deal with that citizen! He was a crafty one, combined with his liquid state, it made it harder to keep up and take him down! Thank you though, for allowing me to take care of him!" All Might says, his famous smile showing, and I swear I see a sparkle appear in his smile.
"Ahh, it's no problem All Might. I mean, it's an honor to meet you, but you couldn't control the actions of another. Especially a villain like that." I kick a small puddle of sludge, emphasizing on who I am referring to. "If you don't mind me, I have a question for you All Might."
"What's the question, young man?" All Might asks, finishing up gathering the villain.
"Can someone deemed to have a villainous quirk, be a hero?" I ask All Might, who looks over at me and grins.
"The kind of quirk doesn't matter young man, your quirk can sem villainous to some people, but how you use it, and what you use it for, is what determines his the quirk is used. If I were a villain, people would be scared out of their minds over Super Strength quirks. How the power looks or acts, depending on if you can actually control its mind you, is what makes you a hero or a villain. Quirks are just extensions of what its user does with it, not the quirk itself. You can decide if it's villainous or not, people who aren't you, can't tell you it's a good or evil quirk. I think anyone can be a hero, but they have to put in the effort to do so. Now, I must go young man." All Might says, before blasting off from the location, to turn in the slime villain.
Heh, I never would have expected to meet All Might today, but he did at least settle some of my worries.
On the way home, as I start to walk down a street, I hear a large explosion and feel the ground shake underneath me.
I look up into the sky and see smoke coming from an alleyway in front of me, with a crowd forming in front of it.
Calmly walking over, I look to see-
"Is that the sludge villain that All Might caught, and Bakugo?"
I am very sure All Might caught the Sludge Villian so how did he end up here, with Bakugo as a hostage? Why aren't the heroes doing anything? Where's All Might- Wait, why does that skinny man that looks like a weak breeze could knock him over, look like All Might?
I walk over to the man, and pull him to the side, much to his apparent shock and confusion.
"Okay, who are you, and why do you look like All Might, if he was short with anorexia?" I bluntly ask the man with a whisper, who coughs up blood in shock.
"I-I don't know what you mean." he says, even though he hides it, I can tell he's surprised and slightly nervous.
I look at his clothes and see a small bit of the slime Villians sludge on them. or looks dried out, telling me that it was discovered from the villain earlier.
"All Might, I know it's you. Maybe the Superman Syndrom makes people think you aren't All Might, but the signs are there. Now, shouldn't you be helping the hostage?"
All Might sighs, before looking at me in the eyes. "Kid, I am honestly impressed you figured it out that easily, but the problem is, is that I am out of time. I suffered an injury a while back, and now I am limited to three hours a day for hero work." All Might says before I interrupt him.
"So you are just going to stand here, and let someone come close to death, because of that? That's not very Heroic of you All Might." I am about to start a rant at All Might when I notice Bakugo looks to be nearly dead.
As much as I hate Bakugo, I rush in, uncaring of the heroes yelling at me, and I rush up to the sludge villain, hitting his eye with my fist, making him howl in pain, and releasing Bakugo, who I toss into the crowd of people, and shield myself from the counter-attack that the sludge villain is sure to do.
"DIE YOU STUPID BRAT! ALL MIGHT CAN'T SAVE YOU KNOW!"
"SMASH!" Suddenly, All Might rushes in, stops the villain's blow, and punches the villain so hard, that it changes the weather around us.
After getting scolded by the heroes, and listening to Bakugo get praised by the Heros, hypocrites, I just start walking home, when I get stopped.
"Deku, you stupid villain! This changes nothing, you bastard! I didn't need your help!" Bakugo shouts, before running to his house.
I sigh, annoyed that Bakugo is such an idiot.
"I AM HERE TO TALK!" All Might rushes out from an alleyway, before he turns back into the skinny form of his.
"I wanted to apologize to you young man. You were right, I wasn't acting the way I spoke. You rushed in, uncaring of what could happen to you, and saved that boy. You can be a hero, regardless of the kind of quirk you have." All Might says to me, making me sound better than how I really am.
"All Might, thank you. Thank you for telling me that." I start to walk away before he stops me again.
"Young man, I wish to offer you something, the ability to become the next Symbol of Peace! My quirk!" All Might says to me.
So it took a bit for me to make this chapter. I had some writer's block for this chapter, and I do plan on going over this chapter again, maybe cleaning it up a bit, I just am all fucked up as I recently had sinus surgery, so I am not feeling the best.I hope you all enjoyed this chapter tho, and have a great day!