Katsuki Bakugo sat at his desk, around him were extras who chit chatted while they waited for the teached.
"Have they found Death Arms yet?"
"Nope, they've checked all of Musutafu, no sign of him"
"Hope he's ok, he always offered me highfives"
"That's nothing, have you guys been seeing our roads? they're all cracked and shit"
"Yeah, you think they could be linked"
"Nah Death Arms was last spotted far from them so-"
Before anyone could continue, the teacher walked in with a smile.
"Settle down everyone, we have an announcement regarding a member of this class" he looked towards the green haired Izuku who stood up.
"Izuku here has apparently manifested his quirk" he laughed as the class joined in.
"Ha Midoriya has finally lost it"
"Yeah Midoriya, you don't have a quirk, stop faking for attention"
Bakugo had heard enough, and went to 'talk' some sense into Izuku, the teacher decided to look away as always.
Bakugo stood up and went for a stomach punch with a hint of explosion.
But unlike usual, Izuku still stood, almost looking down on Kacchan with his smile.
"Come on Kacchan, put your back into it" Izuku encouraged as satisfaction crept into his smile.
Another explosion, nothing.
"Wow Kacchan, you must be losing your touch" Izuku laughed as Bakugo began to lay into him, explosion after explosion yet Izuku still stood, seemingly unaffected.
"Look, not even my uniform is harmed" Izuku continued to laugh.
And Bakugo fucking had it, he used a full powered explosion that was aimed at Izuku's face.
Bakugo smiled, those were weak explosions compared to what Izuku was about to get.
"Let's see if your shitty quirk can take this Deku!"
Bakugo woke up 5 minutes later with a bruise that covered half his face.
And all Izuku did was flick him.
For some reason, people didn't seem to believe Izuku manifested his quirk, but it wasn't like Izuku was going to tell them, Izuku personally would've preferred not to tell anyone, but he had to update his file and naturally the school and his mother were informed.
Izuku walked down the school hall, satisfied with the mutters he heard.
"Did you hear? Midoriya has a quirk, he even took down Bakugo"
"Midoriya? You mean that freaky guy? What's his quirk?"
"I don't know but I heard he took explosions like they were nothing"
In actuality, Bakugo's explosions did do something, it was mostly Izuku's weight that kept him anchored to the ground, but some on his biomass got destroyed with each blast, it was small considering the amount Izuku had, but that powerful explosion to the face was a still an explosion to the face and left it heavily damaged by the heat, fortunately the smoke covered most of it and he healed.
When Izuku got further down the hall he suddenly got pushed into an empty classroom, well he let himself be pushed into a empty classroom, he was used to this, after all Bakugo wasn't his only bully.
"Well well well, looks like the freak has a quirk" Jamiki, Izuku's more physically abusive bully said, his quirk gave him faster arms, he was able do anything fast with his arms and that included punching, sometimes with a chain wrapped around his fists.
"Heard he took a explosion and didn't flinch, lets see how true that is"
With him were his friends who Izuku never really caught the names of, obviously beating up the quirkless freak wasn't exactly a formal affair so names were never important.
Their quirks were mostly defensive in nature, one having heavily durable skin which assisted in, say punching someone in the face multiple times with little pain in the knuckles, Izuku called this person 'durable skin', not creative but it was more for the sake of having a name to put to the face.
The other one, who Izuku called 'strong bones' had slightly stronger bones, surprise surprise, apparently he once fell down the stairs and only got a bruise or two, it may not sound like a cool showing of his power, but when Izuku 'fell' down, he had to go to hospital for 3 weeks.
Strong bones closed the door as the other two surrounded Izuku.
Izuku wanted to grab strong bones and durable skin and smack them together and who would last longer, but he had a funner idea.
Just let them hit him like usual but build some hardened biomass below the skin.
Jamiki began by going for Izuku's face, he loved that even with Izuku's supposed quirk, he still didn't fight back.
Jamiki unleashed a hail of punches, so fast he didn't notice his fingers breaking and being destroyed until it was too late.
"Ahhh!" He cried as he looked up to Izuku.
He was smiling, not happy smiling but the smile that Jamiki usually wore.
The smile of satisfaction at the pain of others.
"Wow you guys are pathetic, honestly you guys should probably train a bit and maybe, just maybe you will last a couple seconds against a villainous granny" Izuku laughed as he knew he pressed all the right buttons.
Strong bones and durable skin were always insecure about their quirks, they wanted to pursue heroics after all and so they didn't even think about what happened to Jamiki before they went for Izuku in rage.
Durable skin wailed on Izuku's back while strong bones went for the face.
All the while Izuku didn't even show signs that he was even getting hit, while strong bones and durable skin were tiring from their own assault and eventually they stopped.
"I take it back, you will never be heroes, most likely you will be accidental casualties of a banana peel" Izuku continued to laugh, he knew how most people worked, especially those in his school.
"That does it" strong bones went for a punch, but this time Izuku caught his wrist.
"By the way, what is your name? I never found out" Izuku asked as strong bones tried to wriggle out of his grasp, unsuccessfully.
"Let me go-aghhh" Izuku tightened his grip, bones were still bones after all, they would crack, then fracture, then break but right now they were just struggling under the pressure.
"What. Is. Your. Name?" Izuku said as he progressively tightened his grip with each word.
"Its-aghm….it's Marikuma, Hakito Marikuma" he said between breaths as Izuku let him go, he began to nurse his swelling wrist.
"And yours" Izuku turned and turned to durable skin.
If it wasn't what just happened to Marikuma that scared durable skin, it was definitely the smile that Izuku had as he seemed to break his neck just to look at him.
"It's Drikata, Vita Drikata" he said, sweating bullets.
"Well it's been fun guys, but I gotta go" Izuku said as he went to leave the class.
On instinct Marikuma stuck his foot out, and he paid the price, and this time it was more than a bruise.
Izuku struggled to keep his smile at bay as he listened to the cries of Jamiki and his group, it took alot to let them live but Izuku was feeling good, though he did wonder how long he would need to drag Drikata around till his skin would eventually rip from the friction, this was more for curiousity than torture.
Izuku left the school with a smile for what seemed to be the first time, but his thoughts eventually turned to that man.
Ever since that quirk stealer, Izuku had spent all his free time looking for information on him, but even after consuming 3 bases full of well connected criminals, nothing, the man was a ghost, no one knew of him, only rumours of people becoming quirkless but no names nor actual proof so Izuku was at a dead end.
"DEKU YOU FUCKING BASTARD" a phrase Izuku was used to hearing, usually it was followed up with a
BOOM!
But unlike usual, Izuku still stood as he turned around, he knew Kacchan would be curious, especially after Izuku practically one hit him.
"Hey Kacchan how's your head, sorry I didn't think a flick would be so effective against the future number one" Izuku used his most innocent smile, knowing that Kacchan hated it.
"How the fuck did you get a quirk?" Bakugo demanded an answer, as expected.
"Simple, I took your advice" Izuku said as he walked past Bakugo, who was currently processing that before his eyes widened.
"Maybe if you take a swan dive off the roof, you may get lucky and come back with a quirk"
Bakugo quickly turned around, but Izuku was already gone.
'he wouldn't he w-' Bakugo couldn't finish his thought as he was hit with nausea, his heart began to pound in his ears, his legs started wobbling, he had to lean against the wall to stabilise himself although he couldn't seem to breath correctly.
'Did he actually jump?'
Izuku was a bit saddened that he couldn't see Kacchan's reaction but he had bigger fish to munch on.
For the next 3 hours, Izuku went around the bases in Musutafu, for every base he consumed, he would found three more and not a thing about the quirk thief, but he would have to start looking in other cities.
Because the news began to notice the extreme drop in crime and if the news noticed, the police noticed.
He was thinking of maybe going to Hosu, that place had a high crime rate, but with that came the number 2 hero and he was no joke, it seemed that high temperatures were one of Izuku's weaknesses, mainly because carbonised biomass was pretty much useless, sure a second would be fine, but a constant stream?
Aside from that issue, there was another one, the amount of people Izuku had consumed really made it difficult to live normally, he did weigh probably a couple tonnes by now and Izuku couldn't properly sit in his seat at school as the chair would most likely collapse under his weight, he couldn't even go on the train without having it screech on the side he was on.
So he had to walk, which wasn't so bad, but but he was having trouble thinking because of a woman talking to him as she stood on his way, and honestly Izuku was not in the mood.
"Ha ha, it is I, Lady Mystic, and I have come to rob you" she sang as a gun just poofed into her hand.
"Who are you?" Izuku said as he tried to contain his rage, killing someone in broad daylight was risky, especially if they were on a public street, it was currently deserted but there was still risk.
"You don't know me?" She deflated before going back to her sing song voice "well I am the most notorious thief in Musutafu"
"Then why are you robbing me, a student? instead of a bank?" Izuku replied.
"Well I'm not just a robber" she sang as she shot Izuku in the chest.
"So high calibre rounds are a weakness, that's annoying" Izuku said as he now had a hole in his body, you could see right through him if you got the right angle.
"What the fuck!" Lady Mystic shot another bullet into Izuku, blowing off a part of his shoulder.
"I am in a good mood, but if you shoot me again, you will regret it" Izuku let the biomass build in his shoulder to heal it, he also formed a layer of compressed biomass under his skin but focused it more under his clothes, this would at least add a bit more protection.
"Hmm I choose...shoot you again" she sang as her gun disappeared and a much bigger one took its place with another poof.
Izuku began moving once she said "shoot".
He got her and she got him.
"Oh god" she said in fear.
Izuku was holding her up by the throat, she couldn't feel her arms anymore, but his arm.
Half of Izuku's body was gone, from his shoulder to his pelvis, but it was inside what scared her.
Hundreds and hundreds of tendrils were heavily packed together, they were almost liquidly but she could tell, she was getting tired and cold.
"I've broken your arms, that should count as self defense considering the damage I have taken" Izuku said as tendrils covered his missing body parts before retreating, his body now restored.
The police came soon after, Izuku was right, there were a couple calls that told them what was happening, so they let Izuku go.
"Please someone, do something!" Framiji screamed, her stalker had begun to get violent ever since she reported him, and now he branded a knife along with his bloodshot eyes.
"We were meant to be together, ever since you gave me that pen, but no, you were too good for me you stup-gah" suddenly his head got smashed into the wall, his brain matter landing on Framiji who screamed.
"Sorry, but you were in the wrong place at the wrong time because I am really annoyed right now, and really low" The boy said as he closed his hand around her throat.
She tried to fight back but the grip was too strong, she couldn't even scream anymore, she looked into those green eyes, looking like marbles were there instead of eyes, those were the last thing she experienced.
As tendrils consumed the bodies Izuku caught something in their memories, a lady, she was found quirkless in the street, but the name and details weren't known, it must've been heard but then ignored.
That was it, whoever had that memory obviously wasn't paying much attention.
"Goddamnit! Why were you so useless?!" Izuku stomped on the ground where his victims stood, cracking it.
Izuku had a chance to learn something, to get a lead, but no, these idiots were too busy being stalker and stalkee to care.
Izuku walked home, he wanted to travel somewhere and his weight would be a problem on the train.
When Izuku got home, he went straight to his room, ignoring his mother's look of apologetic guilt.
When Izuku was found to be quirkless, although his mom didn't abandon him for being quirkless, but she didn't really support him either, when he first came home with a limp she didn't say anything, didn't even acknowledge it.
Izuku knew she was too nice to abandon someone, but that was as far as it went with her, Izuku can't remember the last time they properly talked and honestly, he didn't care.
And now that he had a quirk, she suddenly wanted to talk, but Izuku just did what she had done to him for most of his life, ignore her existence.
Izuku sat on his bed, pouring all his biomass into a ball, he first made a small one, then disconnected it from his body and put on a stopwatch.
After 10 minutes, it still hadn't gone, just hardened.
"So I can store my biomass, but can I reabsorb it?" He held the ball as it dissolved back into his skin, bringing another smile to his face.
"I wonder" Izuku focused and let the biomass spread to his fingers, each finger had a different amount of biomass on it and before long, Izuku had a set of rudimentary claws, they wouldn't cut but with Izuku's strength behind them, it wouldn't matter.
"So I can shape the biomass, but it's going to take some practice" Izuku said as he began to create a large ball of biomass that he disconnected from his body, and he nearly dropped it due to its sheer weight.
He went to leave but his mother stood Infront of the door.
"Izuku, can we talk?" She asked as tears pricked her eyes.
"No, I'm busy" Izuku went to continue but she didn't move.
"Please, I just want to talk-"
"You had 14 years to talk! And now I have a quirk, suddenly you become chatty? Get out of my way!" Izuku practically shoved her out the way as he left, she didn't get back up, just cried as usual.
This was probably the most Izuku had spoken to his mother in years and he was happy that it caused so much suffering, and that his mother finally faced the consequences of her actions.
But there was someone else that had to face the consequences of their actions.
Unfortunately a villain had destroyed the train lines, well he destroyed it after he got kicked into it by Mt Lady, but the fact remained that Izuku couldn't continue with his plans, he couldn't visit anymore bases unless he wanted to bring more attention to Musutafu's rapidly diminishing crime rate.
Izuku could try running instead of using the train but that was too risky, especially since Izuku didn't know exactly how fast he could run nor how much distance he could cover in the 3 hours he had before his mom would call the police, she may not have supported him but she was still a mother who got worried if her son didn't return on a school night.
However, Izuku learned something from that random encounter with the screaming lady, maybe he could learn something from another, criminals don't have all the information after all.
Izuku did what he saw heroes do, patrol, and these heroes were onto something because he patrolled and he began to form a map in his mind of all the criminal locations in Japan that he learned from those who hid in alleyways.
Izuku was learning at an advanced rate, he had the combined intelligence of all those he consumed.
He had learned of a new organisation, only the name, not much else, but they had a benefactor, apparently he was heavily damaged but he had a scar on his face.
It wasn't much but it was possible.
The man may come back for him when he's able to.
So Izuku is going to get him first.
Heyo, this chapter was more to show that Izuku isn't all powerful against some quirks and does have weaknesses.
So how is my characterisation of Izuku, any areas that I should improve on?
Feel free to leave your thoughts.
Have a good day.