Izuku stood in front of three familiar figure, his tormentor ever since his useless quirk showed up. Behind him stood the covering figure of the kid they had been beating on previously for having a 'villainous quirk.'
''Get away from here Kacchan! If you won't stop beating on innocent kids I will never forgive you!'' He yelled at the top of his lungs. He might have been intimidating if he wasn't on the verge of bursting into tears, maybe.
The three bullies burst into laughter. ''And what are you going to do to stop us Deku?! Throw that useless hunk of metal at us?''
''Oh I'm so scared of your quirk Deku! What if I get a bump on my head!'' The kid with a plump belly jeered making the other with long fingers laughed while Bakugo continue to glare at Izuku.
''Enough of this, get out of my way or I'll blast your ass into pieces Deku, your choice.'' Bakugo said as he smirked sadistically and punched the palm of his hand creating a small explosion in the process.
If he had been smart Izuku would have ran while he had the chance. But running away when someone was in need was never something Izuku could do. No matter how much society tried to convince him there's nothing he could do, he still had to try.
So with that in mind Izuku extended his hand and a red and white ball appeared in his palm. It's shiny metallic surface glimmered in the sun before he chuck it right in Bakugo's face. Izuku's knew he had made a mistake when the ball harmlessly bounced on the ground and Bakugo was left glarring at him with murder in his eyes as a bump formed on his head.
''Die!'' He screamed before he and his two cronies rushed at him. Izuku could do nothing but close his eyes as he realised his fate was arleady sealed.
Boom!
Izuku woke up with a gasp, he looked around to see if the kid was still safe only to realise he was in his room and the event he had dreamt of had happened ten years ago. He looked down in his hand and saw the same metallic ball he had thrown at Kacchan and he scowled.
His quirk was simply called ball summoning. It allowed him to summon this strange metallic ball wherever he or it was. But despite the fact that it was made of metal it was so light that it couldn't do much more than leave a small bruise on anyone he threw it at.
He had tried for years to find some sort of use for the ball. It appeared to be much more than a simple sphere of iron. He could tell that there was some sort of mechanism to it. But no matter what he tried the ball simply refused to open. It had been stuck shut ever since it showed up when he was four.
It was so useless that he might as well be quirkless. Despite that he had still wanted to be a hero much to the amusement of everyone at school. Izuku sighed in frustration and threw the useless ball underneath his bed before he prepared himself to go to the hell that was called Aldera Junior High.
Needless to say his day had started terribly and had quickly turned into the worst day of his life. The school day had started pretty normal with student calling him useless and the teachers pretending to not notice as usual.
Then the teacher had revealed that Izuku still wanted to go to UA and the whole class laughed at him. To add insult to injury Bakugo and his henchmen cornered him at the end of the school day and basically told him to go kill himself if he wanted a quirk that was actually useful before he threw his hero analysis notebook in the koi pond.
Then Izuku was attacked by a villain which he couldn't do anything against with his useless metal sphere. But miraculously All Might appeared and save his life, but the europhia of meeting his favorite hero would soon turn sour when All Might told him he couldn't be a hero with a quirk that couldn't defeat villains or rescue people, which completely shattered Izuku last will to live.
As the skeleton of a man he once admired left him alone on the rooftop Izuku had to actively resist the urge to not walk on the railling and let himself fall on the street bellow. The only thing that stopped him was the tought of how heartbroken his mother would be if she learned he had killed himself.
Instead he merely summoned the metallic sphere in his hand and chucked it down in the street as hard as he could. The ball bounced with a clang on the street bellow, but was completely unharmed otherwise. The ball was indestructable as far as he knew. No matter how much punishment it took not a single scratch had ever appeared on it, even with Kacchan using his explosion on it pretty regularly. It would make an amazing piece of armor if it wasn't so small.
He was snap out of his tought when an explosion tore throught the horizon. Another villain attack, a wave of excitement hit him before he recalled All Might words.
'I'm sorry young man, I usually say that any quirks can be used for heroics. But even I struggle to find a way in which this quirk of your could save anyone.'
Izuku clenched his fist before he made his way down the stair and wandered in the streets aimlessly. Or so he tought, but before he knew it he ended up in front of a crowd and realised that he had walked all the way to the crime scene by pure instinct.
No I should turn back, seeing heroes in action will just make me even more depressed, Izuku told himself. But despite that he was arleady making his way throught the crowd to see the action. His movement stopped when he realised that it was the same sludge villain that had attacked him earlier that was rampaging in the distance.
''What are the heroes doing? Why are they letting the villain run around like this?!'' Someone asked.
''They can't rush in, the villain has a middle schooler as hostage and the fire and explosions mean that most of them can't pass through.'' Another responded.
Izuku stared back to the chaos that was unfolding just in time before another explosion bursted from the sludge. His eyes widened in shock. He recognised that explosion. He stared at the sludge and sure enough the face of Kacchan could be seen struggling against the villain.
Bakugo glared right at Izuku for a second but it quickly turned into desperation as he desperatly tried to breath to no avail. Before he knew what was happening Izuku was running. What is he doing?! He had absolutely no plan in mind he's just going to get killed! Think, think, think! What can useless Deku like him do?! Wait, page 25, right!
He summoned the iron sphere in his hand and threw it as hard as he could right in the eye of the sludge monster. The villain screamed in agony before finally losing some of his grip on Bakugo.
''What the hell?! Why are you here?!'' Bakugo yelled at him.
Izuku opened his mouth with a response right at his tongue. But just before he could utter a word, a miracle happened. When the ball he had deemed useless all his life landed back on the ground it suddenly opened with no explanation.
Out of the ball emerged a brown furred creature with a big tuff of white fur around it's neck. The creature looked around for a few seconds but quickly took an offensive stance when it saw the sludge monster in front of it. ''Eevee!'' It yelled before it turned around and kicked up sand right in the villain's eyes.
''Stop attacking my eyes you fucking brat!'' The villain yelled in pain before his grip on Bakugo slipped even further.
Before he could recover Izuku bolted an tugged at Kacchan's arm as hard as he could. The sludge gave way and Bakugo was finally released from the monster. ''Come on we need to run!'' Izuku yelled, Bakugo responded by slapping his hand away much to Izuku's exasperation.
But thankfully convincing his friend/bully to listen to reason wasn't necesary because at that moment All Might landed right between them and the villain. ''It's all right now, why? Because I am here!'' After saying his iconic line the number one hero proceeded to punch the villain so hard that the weather changed around them. Much to the crowd's amazement.
After that the heroes scolded him for being so reckless, or at least they tried to but the strange creature that had helped Izuku growled at them and wouldn't stop saying thing along the lines of eevee, vee, veve or any other variations that contained the word Eevee in it. It was weird that the creature only seemed to be able to say one word.
What was even weirder was the fact that the creature had randomly pop out of the ball he had tought to be useless. Had this weird animal been in the ball this whole time? And if that was the case why the hell had it waited ten whole years before coming out? There was so many questions Izuku wanted to ask but would the creature even be able to answer them?
After a while the heroes got tired of trying to scold him to no avail and just let him go. The Eevee or whatever the creature was called obediently followed behind him. Before he could reach home Bakugo appeared in his path and snarled at him angrily.
''So you think you can look down on me huh?! All those years you pretended to have an useless quirk and then you finally use it so you can show me up is that it, you bastard?!''
Izuku frantically shook his head. ''I-I didn't know Eevee was in the ball at the time. I tried for years to open it but it's the first time it ever did, I swear!''
''Tch, whatever, don't think that mean you can be a hero or anything! That thing look just as useless as you.'' Eevee did not appreciated it and it's master being insulted and responded by barring it's teeth at the rude boy and growl.
Bakugo responded by rolling his eyes and walking away at a brisk pace. Izuku sighed in relief once he was gone and looked down at his new companion. ''Don't listen to him, I'm sure you're much more powerful than your cute look make it seem.'' The Eevee puffed it's chest proudly at that.
''Vee!'' It responded.
Izuku scratched his head awkwardly. ''It's too bad you can't say anything except your name though, there's so many things I want to ask.''
The two of them continue their trek toward Izuku's home. It was getting pretty dark by now and villain's activity would become more intense as the daylight heroes retired for the day. Underground heroes did much to keep the nights safe. But there was just not as many heroes who wanted to stay out of the media's spotlight these days.
Before he could reach home another figure stepped in front of Izuku and he and his partner immediatly tensed up. The man in front of them was wearing blood red clothes and a yellow visor around his neck. His eyes were red and he had dark circled under his eyes. The only thing that threw off the intimidating look was the brigh red cap with a strangely familiar symbol on it on his head.
Was this a villain? Was he going to get attacked again? This day really wanted him dead didn't it?
''Come with me.'' The tired man said in an almost bored tone. Eevee growled at the man in response and he only sighed in response. ''I really don't have time for this.''
Without warning the scarf around his neck came to life and before they could even scream Izuku and Eevee were wrapped up in the surprisingly resilient fabric and they were dragged off into a dark alley.
Neither of them noticed the shocked figure of All Might watching all this unfolding in the distance. All Might had come to make a proposition to the young man but it look like his fellow colleague beat him to it.
As much as they struggled there was nothing Izuku and Eevee could do to get out of the grasp of the villain. He desperately tried to find any way to get out. He stare at Eevee begging it to do something but it looked like the small brown fox was out of ideas too.
But then without warning the fabric that had made them prisoners receeded and Izuku and his partner were left in front of the intimidating man alone in a dark alley. Izuku was about to bolt out of there as soon as he saw an opening but the man spoke to him before he could act.
''Relax if I wanted to hurt you, you would arleady be dead.'' The man said in a bored tone and Izuku didn't know whether to be relieved or scared. ''I'm a pro hero kid, you have nothing to worry about.''
At that Izuku let his shoulder sagged slightly but then glanced at him in confusion. ''I'm sorry but I know pretty much all the daylight heroes in Mustafu and I don't recognise you at all.''
''That's because I'm an undeground hero kid. My hero name is Eraser Red.'' Izuku cocked his head at him curiously. While Izuku was obviously more familiar with daylight heroes, he tought he pretty much knew at least all the hero names of the underground heroes around Mustafu. And yet the name Eraser Red wasn't familiar at all to him.
''But anyway I didn't drag you here just to introduce myself. I saw you on the news, problem child and I got to say that was really reckless what you did back there.'' Izuku winced, would another hero try to scold him for what he did? ''But more importantly I saw you use a Pokémon and I knew that I had to talk to you as quickly as I could.''
''Pokay what?'' Izuku asked in confusion and the tired man sighed in exasperation.
''The creature standing next to you is called a Pokémon. They're creatures that come in all shape and size, let me show you.'' To Izuku's absolute shock the man extended his hand and a red and white ball exactly like the one he could summon appeared in Eraser Red's hand.
The man clicked on the button on the front of the sphere and it opened and a large creature with spiky fur, a star-shaped tail and red and yellow eyes materialised in front of them in a white light. ''This is Luxray, just like your partner he's a Pokémon but they're obviously of two different species.''
Eevee stared at the larger Pokémon with awe on it's face . ''Eevee!'' Is cried out excitedly.
''Lux.'' The Luxray said before letting out a huge yawn that showed all it's sharp canines.
''How do you have a quirk so similar to mine? Are we related in some way?'' Izuku asked in confusion.
''I doubt it problem child, you and I are not the only people to have the ability to summon Pokémon as quirk. I knew of four other people who also could do it and I know for a fact that none of us were related.''
For a moment Izuku got excited at the prospect of meeting other people who could teach him about his quirk. But then the word of the man caught up to him. ''Wait, knew? W-what happened to them?''
''Fortunately they're still alive, if that's what you're worried about, but they were very lucky. Unfortunately the monster who attacked them somehow stole their quirk for himself. That's why I had to meet up with you kid. Someone out there is looking for people with Pokémon quirks and are bent on stealing it from them. You put yourself at great risk today by revealing yourself in front of a crowd and the media like this. But I think you should be safe, a minor villain like the Sludge shouldn't attract the attention of too many villains hopefully. But still you should try to lay low from now on, at least until you manage to make your way into a hero school where you can be protected.''
''Y-you really think I can become a hero with my quirk?'' Izuku asked with tears forming in his eyes.
''I think you have some potential, yes. That's why for the next ten months I'm going to teach you everything I know about training a Pokémon.'' Izuku gaped at him in awe but Eraser Red only responded with a sadistic grin. ''Prepare yourself for ten months of hell kid.''
So hello everyone I've wanted to try my hand at a My Hero Academia fanfic for a while now. But couldn't really think of any interesting idea to go along with it and then this idea came about.
In a lot of crossover of of MHA and Pokémon, every characters get a Pokémon and you basically get heroes that fight with Pokémon and that's fine. But what I wanted to explore was how would heroes and villains handle fighting against a Pokemon Trainer when being a trainer isn't the norm.
So as I allude in this there are a few other trainers other than Izuku but it's pretty rare. I won't spoil who it is now. But in Class 1-A there will only be two other person who will have the ability to summon Pokémon. (Not counting Aizawa obviously.)
Also I should specify that Pokémon as a videogame franchise does exist in this universe. However much of the medias we know today kind of got lost and forgotten in the chaos that was the Dawn of Quirks. So that's why Izuku isn't familiar with Eevee.
Also some franchise like Pokémon had trouble to hold onto copyrights after quirks manifested since obviously Izuku's Eevee image cannot be owned by a company since it's a living being. So good luck trying to stop other companies to do toys based on it, that would be like someone trying to hold the rights of making toys based on cats.