Sorry for taking so long between chapters, I am in the honors programs at my school and that leaves little time to write.
Warnings: Harsh language from Bakugou, as to be expected
All Might sat down hard on the railing of the building, lifting up the left side of his shirt and beginning his explanation for the repulsive scar on his side.
"Pretty nasty, huh? I got this in a big fight a couple years ago." All Might said, already taking a minute to breathe.
"The fight with Toxic Chainsaw?" Izuku asked, still a little freaked by All Might's scar.
"You know your stuff alright, but no, he got some hits in, but he couldn't bring me down. The public never heard about this fight, I did everything I could to keep it quiet." All Might replied with heavy breath.
Izuku stared at All Might in disbelief.
"I'm suppose to be the one who smiles, right? The symbol of peace!" All Might continued, almost mockingly.
"W-" Izuku started but was cut off, "People have to think I am never afraid, but that smile, I use it to hide the fear. It is just a face I put on when pressure is overwhelming. This job is exceptionally difficult, even for the likes of me." All Might had stopped, now pondering his next words.
Izuku looked down at the ground, thinking about this, the reality of that famous smile and even other heroes, his heart hammered in his rib cage and an ice cold feeling in his spine had set in.
"Young man," All Might said, attracting Izuku's attention.
"The quirk is not what defines you, your character, that is what truly gives a definition for who you are as a person, so to answer your question, you can be a hero." All Might looked at Izuku after he imparted his words of wisdom on the boy.
Izuku had looked up at All Might in awe, completely slack-jawed. OH MY GOD! ALL MIGHT JUST SAID I CAN BE A HERO! Izuku went on inside his head as he just stared
All Might looked around the roof, seeing a service door, he pushed it open and is about to leave before he remembered what he wanted to ask the boy.
"By the way young man, what is your quirk?" All Might asked, he was quite interested, he had never seen anything like it.
Izuku turned back to All Might, he was quiet for a moment before he responded, "Golden Experience, I can summon this yellow human guy in armor to fight for me and protect me, I don't know the upper limits of his abilities though, all I do know is he has insane reflexes and speed, but other than that, I don't have much of an idea, that sludge villain did hit Golden Experience, but I didn't see any damage, so maybe durability as well?"
All Might stared at the fanboy muttering about his quirk. "I have zero idea why I never tried testing it before..." Izuku trailed off, realizing his mistake and put a hand to his mouth.
All Might chuckled, "That is an amazing quirk Young Midoriya!"
AND HE COMPLIMENTED MY QUIRK?! Izuku thought, seeming like he was going to faint again, All Might chuckled again before departing the rooftop. He reached down to his left cargo pants pocket, "Going to get you to the-" All Might froze, he couldn't feel the bottle, he wiggled his fingers around inside the pocket before pulling all of his pockets out and looking around before hearing an explosion.
All Might looked to the window at his left, walking up to it and placing both hands on the glass and practically fusing his face to it, spotting the explosion and feeling his heart sink...The guy got away? All Might thought, now panicking.
Izuku had also heard it, he had been a few paces behind All Might before he ran next to him and copied All Might's position and looked at the explosion. "The sludge villain..?" Izuku asked quietly, and All Might shook his head in response.
They both practically flew down the stairs to run to the scene.
Unamed Street
The sludge villain slowly woke inside his soda bottle prison, What happened..? The villain thought intently before recalling the day's events. Oh yeah, that bastard, I could have already skipped town if it weren't for him, had the perfect suit- The villain's thoughts were interrupted by his bottle being kicked, flying into a pole, the bottle breaking open.
The villain looked around some, now studying his surroundings, That moron must have accidentally dropped me. The villain then listened to the closest people, three teens as far as he could tell.
"You were a little harsh with Midoriya today Bakugou." The boy with the long fingers quirk said, he had flat features and a nearly constant lazy grin.
"Yeah, weren't you and him good friends when you were little?" The fat boy with the bat wings quirk asked, he was a squat person with a chubby face and always squinted.
Bakugou scoffed, "I hate him when he talks heroes, someone has to teach him how the world really works!" Bakugou said as he crunched the can of soda he was drinking in his hand and used his quirk to scorch it, throwing it aside for it to clank on the concrete ground of the alley they were walking through.
The three boys continued their conversation, Bakugou started to get worked up when his two friends pointed behind him, the boy with the long fingers using his quirk to extend his index finger. Bakugou turned around to end up face to face with the sludge villain. "Good, I like a skin-suit with some heat!" The villain said in a deep, menacing tone. Bakugou's two friends ran off while Bakugou was enveloped in the villain at his torso.
Bakugou let go his largest explosion yet. He felt the palms of his hands bleed, he had burned the skin on the palms of his hands off. His fingers twitched as he clawed desperately at the sludge.
After a few minutes of the struggle a crowd had formed while Bakugou kept letting off explosions, each a bit weaker than the last. Soon Izuku and All Might arrived. Izuku used his small stature to slip up to the front of the crowd while All Might hung to the back, wincing in pain and clenching his fist in rage. It is my fault! Only if I weren't so damn weak... He thought.
Izuku breaking through the front of the crowd soon noticed Kamui Woods doing his best, but he couldn't take this situation on by himself. Death Arms The Punching hero was too occupied with the crowd to save the kid, even so, he wouldn't be able to fight sludge like that. Mt. Lady was stuck at a one-lane road, unable to enter the area due to her width in her giant form. Then there was some sort of baseball hero? Never mind that for now. Izuku turned to the sludge villain and saw immediately that he had a hostage...Kacchan?
Izuku was surprised and started examining his situation and looked into Bakugou's eyes and saw something in them...something that shouldn't be there...fear. Izuku's stomach tied itself in knots as he stared in disbelief, Bakugou is an asshole, but not even he deserves something like this. Izuku looked back, seeing All Might in his weakened state, He ran out of time, he can't help...
Izuku started moving before he realized it. "SOMEONE STOP THAT KID! HE IS GOING TO GET HIMSELF KILLED!" Death Arms shouted, unwilling to watch a teenager die in front of him but soon discovered the teen outpaced him. Izuku looked down at his body, the ethereal image of Golden Experience was covering his body. Its helping me move? He thought.
The sludge villain watched Izuku run towards him. "YOU! YOU DAMN BRAT!" He screamed as he sent a tendril of sludge at Izuku. Izuku raised his arms and closed his eyes while running, expecting to be hit but he saw he was fine, Golden Experience was in an awkward looking position, it's torso had leaned to the right and made its hand flat and used it like a blade, chopping the tendril off, protecting Izuku as it moved back to match Izuku's form.
Bakugou looked at Izuku running to help him and a pool of rage gathered in the pit of his stomach, "I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP DEKU!" He shouted as a tendril lashed over his nose and mouth, restricting his breathing. His hands were now covered so he couldn't even explode anymore. Izuku finally reached his goal, his strength greatly enhanced by Golden Experience, he easily tore Bakugou out and threw him down behind him with a smile like All Might's and cocked back his left fist and Golden Experience yelled over Izuku's screams of fear, "MUUUUDA!"
All Might watched as Izuku had run in, risking his own skin for the sole reason of saving another life, he felt moved in a way. His heart fell as he watched a sludge tentacle collide with Izuku but it immediately jumped back up as his quirk had appeared and seemingly...cut? It cut the tendril off? All Might continued to observed trying to bulk up, knowing Izuku was doomed to be killed by this villain if he was left on his own. He was shocked to see Izuku tear the other boy out of the sludge, mimicking his own smile and pulling his fist back. All Might finally managed to bulk up and bolted forward, a few bystanders being knocked to the ground.
He and the quirk spoke at the same time "MUUUUDA!" "DETROIT SMAAASH!"
The two blows landed at the same time. The sludge villain rippled for a tenth of a second until he just flat out disappeared and massive winds reached the skies.
"Wait, where is all this rain-?" An onlooker said, trailing off...
"Don't tell me..." Another said
"He changed the weather?!" Death Arms shouted, he was in disbelief.
"He did that with a single punch!" A fourth onlooker said.
"All Might is amazing!"A fifth remarked as a crowd of reporters mobbed All Might.
Izuku spent awhile getting chewed out.
"You idiot, do you want to die?" Kamui Woods asked.
"There wasn't a reason anyone ever could have came up with for you running in there like that!" Death Arms said.
While Bakugou...was praised for his endurance and bravery.
"That quirk really is something else!" A hero said to Bakugou.
"Yeah, come to my agency first, I would love to have you as my sidekick while to train to be a pro hero!" Another tacked on.
Izuku was pretty upset by this but just made his way home. He walked the empty streets to his housing complex. The sidewalks looked fairly new and the walls were an eye catching stone and wood design with hedges up behind those walls. He reached the end of the street at a three way junction, the late evening sun shining down on Izuku.
"I AM HERE!" All Might yelled in his buff form before shrinking down and spitting some blood out.
"WAAHAUAH!" Izuku shouted random sounds in surprise before calming down and meeting All Might's eyes.
"Young Midoriya, I saw you, a meek boy run into the fray of a real villain attack to save another life. I felt moved by you and I knew I needed to act and so, you are the reason I moved." All Might said in a proud voice.
Izuku stared for but a moment. "I-"
"I would like you to be my successor." All Might said quickly.
"Wha-" Izuku said while he blinked rapidly.
"Okay okay, my quirk is named One for All." All Might said.
Izuku merely nodded.
"Part of the quirk allows me to pass it down through my DNA." All Might said.
Izuku just nodded again, a little more enthusiastically this time.
"Wait." Izuku said suddenly.
"How did you shake the press?" Izuku asked, not what he was going to ask but he couldn't stop himself.
"I stand for justice, not the soundbites on interviews, because I am ALL M-" All Might then coughed up some more blood.
Izuku had a bit of a callous towards this and seemed to be fine enough to ask another question.
"And what do you mean pass down your quirk through your DNA?" Izuku said, clearly confused.
"If someone ingests some of my DNA they will gain access to One for All." All Might explained slowly.
Izuku had started up his muttering again before All Might chopped him on his head with his hand.
"Owww! What was that for?" Izuku whined.
"You can't mutter like that every time you find something interesting, it freaks people out!" All Might replied.
"Oh...sorry?" Izuku replied sheepishly.
There was a moment of awkward silence before All Might cleared his throat. "But back to what I said earlier. Will you be my successor?" All Might asked.
Izuku stared into those blue orbs of his, thinking hard, about himself and his quirk.
Then Izuku realized, with Golden Experience and One for All, he could save even more people than before. The thought spurred him into action.
"Yes, I accept." Izuku said finally.
"Great! Now meet me at Takoba Municipal Beach Park tomorrow morning at 6:00 A.M!" All Might said as he buffed up and leapt away, the only sign he had been there, some small shoe indents.
Oh my god! I'm getting trained by All Might! Izuku thought as he walked his way home. The sky hadn't really changed by the time he got home, still that beautiful orange light across the yellow and blue sky. He admired it as he stood by the railing outside his apartment, staring off into the gorgeous sky. After a few more minutes of his sky gazing and being lost in his own thoughts, he turned around and used his key to open his apartment.
"I'm home mom!" Izuku called out to the rest of the apartment.
Izuku could smell something cooking in the kitchen. Katsudon? Izuku questioned himself as Inko walked out of the kitchen and into view.
"Oh my sweet baby boy!" She said, rushing him with a hug.
"ACK-!" Izuku made a noise like an animal being squished.
"Mom! Let go!" Izuku exclaimed, his voice was hoarse as he could hardly breathe.
"Of course..." Inko said, taking a step back away from Izuku, but keeping her hands on his arms.
"Its just, the villain attack was so close to home and you were late coming home!" Inko said, her eyes brimming with tears and holding back some sniffles.
Izuku by this time had taken off his shoes and walked off to his room when Inko finally ran back to the kitchen once Izuku said the food was burning.
Izuku walked up to his bedroom door and opened it. He looked around inside, a wry smile on his lips. His room was fairly small, but that didn't stop what seemed like an All Might memorabilia bomb from exploding Posters, action figures, clothes, and even more. It was a square room with a closet on the left wall, his bed sitting against the right wall, a window right above it. To the left of his bed, sat a desk, also smeared with All Might products with a computer on it.
Izuku set the bag down next to the computer desk and collapsed on his bed, waiting for dinner. It was only about five minutes before Izuku's mother called out to him, "Izuku! Dinner is ready!"
Izuku smiled just a little at this, he loved his mother and was so very thankful that she was around. He got up and left his room, sitting at the dining room table. They ate in silence for around thirty minutes. They both finished and got up, and entered the kitchen to do the dishes, which they did. Izuku, as if on auto-pilot, went back to his room and face planted onto his bed, in a deep sleep until the next morning.
6 A.M, the next morning at Takoba Municipal Beach Park
Izuku was on the beach, spotting a skinny All Might and walked over.
"Hello-!" Izuku was about to say All Might but, the man himself cut him off.
"Listen young Midoriya, you cannot just go around calling me All Might all the time, my actual name is Toshinori Yagi." All Might said, then raised his arms up, gesturing for Izuku to look around.
Izuku nodded and looked around, This is huge! No one knows All Might's real name! Then Izuku noticed the condition of the beach...trashed? He thought, utterly bewildered, for a count of three seconds, he stood thinking, then it hit him like a freight train.
"You want me to clean the beach like some sort of hardcore training while doing a service for the public!" Izuku said, still muttering about it.
All Might buffed up. They were together in a clear spot in the trash pile that stretched over the entire beach. "Indeed! Today's heroes are too busy with fame and money to do simple jobs like this!" All Might put his hand on a washing machine that was in the clear spot and crushed it down to the thickness of a building brick and picked it up and flung it into another pile of trash like a Frisbee.
"Easy as that!" All Might said to Izuku as he shrunk down.
Izuku nodded and summoned Golden Experience. All Might then raised his arms up, hands up in a 'stop that' motion. "No no! We are working on your physical state, not your quirk! If you tried to summon One for All right now, your arms and legs would shoot off and you would explode!" All Might said.
Izuku winced as Golden Experience phased into his body and disappeared. "E-explode?!" Izuku yelped.
"Yes, explode, like...everywhere." All Might said cautiously.
Izuku nodded glumly, not looking forward to such a fate. "BUT FEAR NOT!" All Might said, now buffed up.
Izuku looked up in surprise, "FOR I HAVE MADE AN EXERCISE PROGRAM WITH YOUR TWIG-LIKE BODY IN MIND!" All Might said while Izuku sputtered about not being a twig.
All Might handed Izuku three pages printed with information front and back, stapled together.
"Sleep schedule, eating, exercise, schooling...woah, you really thought of everything!" Izuku said, now looking up with stars in his eyes.
All Might shrank back down, "Alright young man, you have ten months to get in shape for the U.A entrance exams, hop to!"
Izuku nodded as All Might helped direct him around the junked up beach, what to move, what to not move. They went until the sun sank deep into the sky and the moon began to slide onto the blue and black canvas that was the sky.
3 months later, Aldera Junior High, Izuku's class
Izuku was half asleep in class, muttering quietly as his classmates stared at him. His eyes were half closed and he was shaking slightly as he scribbled in his notebook about the lecture on Japanese history.
"Freaky..." One said to no one in particular.
"He looks dead..." Another said.
Izuku didn't care, he would be fine when this training ended and made his way into U.A.
Bakugou however, looked to his back right...That fucking Deku...
Bakugou knew Izuku was getting stronger, faster, even managed to do more push-ups in P.E class yesterday than him...He's training...and getting better than me!
Izuku may have looked dead and half-asleep, but at least that last part could not have been further than the truth, his mind was going a million miles a second, each thought hitting his mind with the force of a full strength punch from All Might, but he managed to keep up. I can fit in some extra exercises in the morning and lunchtime if I eat fast...
Izuku's thoughts were cut off as a certain blonde haired bomber stood up and walked over to his desk as the teacher went silent, the lecture over, the rest of the class was about leave but decided to stay collectively to watch the situation unfold.
Izuku's hand was hovering over his notebook, almost as if it was still trying to write, which pissed Bakugou off even more. "DAMN YOU, YOU FUCKING NERD!" Bakugou yelled at the top of his lungs.
No response.
Bakugou was fuming, his palms crackling with little explosions. He raised his right hand above his head and slammed it down on Izuku's table, sending out an explosion. Bakugou was grinning furiously, he just destroyed his notes, he would have to do something now, and he could put that little shit in his place! Bakugou was then surprised as he felt a firm grip on his hand, which tightened as the smoke cleared, an ethereal looking arm was holding the bomber's hand. Bakugou was enraged, that nerd was using his damn quirk without realizing it!
Then Bakugou looked down at Izuku's table, at least I got his damn notes and hand in an...WHAT THE FUCK?! Bakugou was floored, not even a speck of dust smeared Izuku's notes...that damned quirk of his smothered the explosion in his palm? Bakugou felt the grip release as the arm disappeared into Izuku. Bakugou went on a tirade about how Izuku had to stop training otherwise Bakugou would beat him.
Izuku barely registered it as he absently packed his things and walked out of the class. Everyone stared after Izuku while Bakugou, still screaming about Izuku began leaving.
4 P.M, Takoba Municipal Beach Park
Izuku was hard at work, he felt stronger than before. Must be all this exercise. Izuku thought, shrugging it off as progress, not noticing the holographic image covering his body. This numbness towards his quirk was quickly demolished as he easily moved a refrigerator...Wha?
Izuku was freaked out, so he looked at his arms finally noticing the covering of his quirk on his body. "WHAT?!" Izuku screamed, waving around his arms, to which the quirk stayed on.
All Might arrived shortly afterwords, walking down the steps of the expertly crafted stone pier to the trashed beach. Noticing his apprentice waving his arms around like a windmill, he picked up his pace a bit. He could hear Izuku going on about a ghost, his half-asleep mind must be seeing things.
All Might finally reached Izuku and he popped his million Yen question, "Young Midoriya, what is wrong?"
"Ghost!" Izuku screamed, holding out his arms, Poor Midoriya, he is so overworked he cannot recognize his quirk...wait, overworked? How?
All Might looked on in confusion and he gave his two cents on the situation, "Young Midoriya, calm down! Your quirk has just reacted to the strain on your body and is using it's own physical abilities to prevent more damage...I think...and that shouldn't happen unless you overworked yourself some how!" All Might said while pointing an accusatory finger at Izuku.
Izuku looked down in shame while he explained his actions, "I need to become stronger! Stronger so I can be like you!" Izuku looked up at All Might now, crying tears of both passion and determination. All Might was certainly shocked, he had never seen such a strong spirit, not even his own compares to this boy.
All Might sighed and looked into Midoriya's eyes. "Young man, it is important to push your limits to become stronger so you can achieve your dreams, but...you also cannot over work yourself to the point where your body has to step in itself and prevent you from damaging it even more.
All Might paused before he continued, "Tone it back young Midoriya, you cannot over exert yourself that much!" Izuku looked back down to the ground, "Now, let us reconstruct this exercise program, huh?" All Might said.
Izuku nodded as All Might whipped out the piece of paper with the program and began writing on it with a pen provided by Izuku.
7 months later, Takoba Municipal Beach Park
It was early in the morning, the air was cold and crisp, hardly a drop of water in the air. All Might was approaching the stone pier once again for the final time, ready to give his power to his successor. Until he heard yelling, like a battle cry. All Might walked a little faster to the railing and saw Izuku, he was standing on top a mountain of trash, not a speck of filth remained on the beach.
"Holy..." All Might said.
"stinkin'..." All Might said as he buffed up.
"SUPER CRAP!" All Might shot forward, catching Izuku as he fell off the trash pile, just shy of passing out, Izuku talked to All Might, "I did it...I-" Izuku then passed out.
"Yes, you did do it young Midoriya, you even cleaned up outside the area I told you to, last minute as well!" All Might exclaimed as he walked back up to the stone pier where he spotted Izuku's things.
He laid him there and started lightly slapping his cheek.
Izuku blinked after three minutes of being slapped.
"Wha...wait...THE U.A ENTRANCE EXAM, I'LL BE LATE!" Izuku yelled, bolting up and tugging on his school shoes and the casual clothes he had with him.
"Good job young man! You have serviced your community and helped uphold nature and improved your physical state. I deem you worthy to inherit my power." All Might said in a dramatic voice as Izuku's eyes lit up, now having his shoes on and casual clothes.
All Might reached his right hand up to the right ear of hair that gave him his iconic appearance and tugged a hair out and held it out at Izuku, "Eat and inherit my awesome power for yourself!" All Might said, the hair held between his index and thumb.
Izuku's eyes blanked and his voice shrank, "Wha..?"
All Might gestured at the hair and yelled, "EAT! EAT! EAAAAAAAAT!"
Izuku screamed as he took the hair and had trouble swallowing it.
"Alright, now, the power will have about three hours before it properly sets into your system, coincidentally, you have roughly three hours before the practical portion of the U.A entrance exam." All Might said started to guide Izuku towards the direction of U.A.
"Go now! Hurry!" All Might said as he pushed Izuku, who ran off towards the city, and U.A.
U.A Entry Way
Izuku was outside the U.A gate, just staring in awe at the arch with "UA" at the top and breathed in deeply before taking a step forward and catching his feet and began falling forward. I would go become a hero...but I guess I'll just die. Izuku braced himself for an impact that never came.
He opened his eyes and looked at the ground, which was half a meter from his face. He wiggled around for a moment and yelled in surprise.
Then a feminine voice called out, "Sorry for using my quirk with permission," She said as she gripped Izuku's shoulders and righted him, the girl pressed the tips of all five fingers to the ones on the opposing hand and he felt his weight return. Izuku looked at the girl, she was
"...but I think it would be bad luck to fall before you even pass! Anyway, see you later!" She said as she speed walked into the U.A building.
Izuku was standing still for a long while, I just talked to a girl! Izuku then regained his calm and again, attempted to take his first step into U.A.
"OUT OF THE WAY DEKU!" Bakugou yelled at Izuku, stopping right behind him.
Izuku turned around and faced Bakugou, the two looking at the other. After what seemed like forever, Bakugou scoffed and walked around Izuku.
Izuku tracked him with his head and once he entered the building, finally took his first step into U.A in order to become a hero.