A/N: This is a recap of events from Chapter 1-18. This is mainly useful for quick a reminder or for anyone jumping in who might want to save some time!

The Beginning

Izuku Midoriya was born in a world5/ where most people have special abilities known as Quirks. His dreams of becoming a Hero, like the #1 Hero All Might, were dashed early on when he was deemed to be completely Quirkless.

Still, despite nobody believing in him, Izuku wished to attend the most prestigious school where the greatest Heroes were realized: U.A.

One day, after the usual bullying incident with his childhood friend Katsuki Bakugo, Izuku had a chance encounter with a girl named Mei Hatsume, when she crash landed behind his Middle School after a failed experiment.

Mei was a genius inventor who was aiming to attend U.A in order to make lots, and lots, of money. Her personality was loud and proud, and her visionary mind (and lack of sleep) left her with many wonderful inventions.

After an encounter with a villain has them get saved by All Might, Izuku realizes that this his best chance to achieve his dream, was to get Mei to help him. Thus he decided he would try to join—

The Support Class.

At U.A, there were four courses: Hero, Support, Business, and General Studies.

Izuku believed that, if he could make it into the Support course, he may be able to use his creativity and ideas for Hero equipment to use.

After convincing Mei to help him, who may or may not have just wanted a guinea pig for her experiments, they began their roughly ten months of training in preparation for the U.A Entrance Exams.

Training

Izuku begins to train his mind and body. For the first time, he did intense exercises, which took a heavy toll on him for at least the first couple of months.

Beyond physical training, Izuku opened his mind to different sciences and knowledge he hadn't pursued beyond school. This included aerodynamics, metalwork, electrical engineering— It wasn't easy to grasp in a little less than a year, but he managed to learn thanks to Mei as well.

Before he knew it, the holidays came and passed, and there was little time left before the Entrance Exams.

Under Mei's guidance, Izuku had finally created his first invention all for his own— The Flow.

Using special gloves, Izuku could send a pulse of electricity into a unit on his back that compressed and fired air from his boots, connected via metal tubes designed to not impede his movement.

Izuku got his perfect chance to test his Flow when he accidentally ran into Bakugo weeks before the entrance exam.

When the blonde-haired boy with the explosive temper tried to attack him, Izuku worked up the nerve to dodge using his Flow, proving it was effective.

Entrance Exams

Then it became time for the Entrance Exams. The Hero and Support Courses had separate exams, though those who failed them could always be accepted into the General Studies class either way.

Izuku and Mei went to the orientation, where the pro hero Drama Boss put on a dramatic display, and a surprise Hero from America, Paper Mache, made an appearance, along with the Hero and Support Course teacher Power Loader.

The first test was set to put two people against each other in an invention creation contest. Izuku was matched with a short and sly girl named Shiro, who didn't seem to care for peoples personal space. The winner of this phase got an advantage in the next round.

After racing to gather the limited supplies they were allowed, Izuku was tricked by Shiro, forced to give her half of what he had gathered. The girl did this due to the fact that she wasn't very athletic and could make him do all the work for her.

With that, the challenge was on, and in the end, Izuku came out victorious for creating EMP bracelets for the strength hero Death Arms. Shiro was also passed for her invention, and due to Izuku's EMP messing with other peoples creations, he wasn't given his advantage.

The second phase involved a race through a perilous cityscape, where they'd need to use their inventions and their witts to make it to the end before anyone else, all while protecting a Pro Hero, who was a clone made by a hero named Miss Negative.

Shortly after beginning, Izuku was attacked and confronted by Paper Mache, who believed that Izuku, as a Quirkless person, could never succeed and should quit.

Izuku wasn't having it, determined to fight for his dreams. After a scuffle with Paper Mache, he managed to knock the Hero out of the building he was trapped in, continuing on as Paper Mache decided not to pursue him any longer.

Unbeknownst to Izuku, a boy named Yuki had seen the entire thing, and this would become relevant a bit later.

A large electrified wall cut off the entire city, and everyone had to use their creations to get around it, though mysterious living cardboard creatures, made by Drama Boss' quirk, were set to attack them if they tried to merely fly over.

Mei utilized a special sludge-like compound she had been working on, one that would protect them from the electricity. It was based on the sludge villain whom had attacked her and Izuku a year prior, and she was saving it as a surprise for Izuku, since it could be useful for his future encounters with Bakugo.

Izuku utilized his EMP bracelets he had created since his Flow was nearly ruined by Paper Mache. He managed to climb the wall and continued on, only to be attacked by a giant cardboard creature, forced to dash away with only one of his boots being powered by his Flow.

The test was set to end, but Izuku made it at the last second, giving Mei a well-deserved and tired fist bump as they had both made it on their own.

A week later, Izuku received two letters— One held a message from U.A, and the other was a hand-written letter from Paper Mache.

Paper Mache's letter apologized and stated that Izuku may be able to become a Hero after all, though it was incredibly rough and snarky as Paper Mache was known to be.

The letter from U.A held a hologram device, creating a message from the pro hero Power Loader who explained Izuku's test results and the fact that he had passed.

Power Loader's Support Course

School was beginning, and Izuku and Mei were set to be a part of Class 1-H, with Power Loader as their homeroom teacher.

Power Loader explained that it would be a difficult course, and that he has a special plan for them: Challenges. These challenges could be issued by any student to another student, and would affect their overall grade. Everyone is set to only being challenged once, but can challenge as much as they wish.

The tall and broad boy named Yuki was quick to challenge Izuku, finding his secret Quirklessness to be a detriment, thus he was an easy target.

Their challenge was a best of 5 of five different games: Table Tennis, Chess, Jenga(yep that's right), Pool, and Darts.

Yuki's quirk gave him eyes that allowed him pinpoint accuracy and instant coordination with his nervous system for great reaction times. Luckily Izuku was still able to win two of the games, taking them to the final one— Darts.

With no chance to win, Izuku was able to turn the tides by revealing his secret to everyone that he's Quirkless. This changes Yuki's mind, and he decides to call the challenge a draw, feeling newfound respect for Izuku.

Soon after, they were set to have team battles using robots they create, and Izuku is paired with a bored-looking kid named Ryuken, who prefers Ken.

However, Mei discovers All Might walking around the school building, and makes an excuse to drag Izuku there in order to let him finally confront his favorite Hero.

Once there, they manage to run into All Might, and Izuku is finally able to ask him the question he needed answers to: "Can I become a Hero without a Quirk?"

All Might tells him that he believes he could, especially since he's already made it into U.A. All Might is in hurry however and rushes off after giving him and Mei some words of encouragement.

Instead of leaving it at that, Mei wants to know what All Might is up to. While spying, she sees him transform into his true, scrawny self. However, they are caught by the principal of U.A, a mysterious animal-like person named Nezu.

Now forced to confront All Might after being caught, Principal Nezu explains that Quirkless students often struggle at U.A and leave, but that Izuku has lots of potential, as does Mei. Nezu decides to leave the punishment up to All Might.

All Might tasks Izuku and Mei with going to the first year Hero classes and taking at least three requests for Support items.

Izuku is sent to 1-B, where he's glad Bakugo isn't in, but he's also nervous under so many unfamiliar eyes. After a bit of a struggle, he manages to get three requests from some of the 1-B class, given one week to complete them.

After this, Izuku is forced to go back and face a pissed Power Loader and Ken. Luckily, the heat dies down and Izuku and Mei can continue like normal.

Soon after, Izuku challenges Ken due to a semi-petty argument and the fact that Ken is afraid to handle a pen over a pencil.

They conduct a base-building competition along with a single partner. Ken gets Sae, a kind motherly girl whose Quirk allows her to sing to blow and create glass fixtures. Izuku's partner is Konoda, a boy whose head is in the shape of a hammer tool and is as hard as the strongest metal.

Once completed, their bases seem very competent— At least, until Konoda accidentally destroys theirs, leaving Ken as the winner. However, he wishes to prove himself even further, and its revealed that All Might was coming to test their bases strength.

Using a very weak punch but still sending an intense gust of air at the base, it withstands it, and Ken, who was still on top of it, proudly declared himself the winner.

Now with many friends, Izuku's school life seemed to be looking up, until….

The Tale of Miss Negative

While Class 1-A was attacked by villains at the USJ training ground, a separate front was set to occur within the U.A main school building.

While the school was on lockdown, the door to 1-H was blown off, and the lights were taken out. Several mysterious cloaked figures rushed in, grabbing Yuki, Izuku, and Mei, nearly grabbing the bespectacled boy Taka but Yuki saved him.

The three are taken to the gymnasium, where they are surprised to find Miss Negative from the entrance exams there, looking very weak. She explains that she's fading and they're the last hope to save her, as she can't go to a Pro Hero nor have any medical experts been able to assist her.

Yuki isnt having it and decides to fight, with Izuku backing him up. They fight off the clones Miss Negative created to kidnap them, while Mei examined the woman and told her that she was most likely going to fade away.

This causes a change in Miss Negative, her and her clones becoming unstable masses of energy after blinding the room with a flash of light. Yuki, blinded from the event due to his eyes being more sensitive, tells Izuku to go to Mei while he fights off the clones.

Izuku goes and saves Mei, but they're cornered. Izuku is willing to sacrifice himself, but Mei insists they do their best work when they improvise, running at the rampaging Miss Negative.

Luckily they are saved when Paper Mache arrives, using his quirk to control tons of paper that can pierce through Miss Negative and her clones with ease. He reveals the reason he came to Japan was he was hired by two parents to find their daughter, Hiyumi Hitaka, to which he states Miss Negative killed her.

Izuku and Mei go to Yuki, saving him from a fatal attack, leaving him with just a cut in his side. Paper Mache gets them to leave, while he handles the situation.

Using sticky notes in his trenchcoat, Paper Mache begins to try and question the rampaging Miss Negative, using the notes like bullets to keep her at bay.

As it turns out, Miss Negative is not who she seemed to be.

There was once a girl named Hiyumi Hitaka. She was able to create clones of herself who were always super happy, reflecting her positive attitude towards life.

Her life wasn't very happy, but she made the best of it, hiding her deep emotions from having abusive parents and being constantly put down.

One day, she created a clone to keep herself company— But this one was different. She was anxious and moody and didn't smile. This clone held all of her negative emotions she had bottled up.

Hiyumi was killed by this clone, in a lash of anger. This left the clone scared that she would then vanish into nonexistence— But she didn't. This clone managed to cling to life, and assimilated herself into Hiyumi's life.

After graduation, she became the pro Hero known as Miss Negative.

Paper Mache manages to calm her down, getting the truth from her: She was supposed to attack the school building, but when she started to lose control of herself, she changed the plan. She says her regrets, and Paper Mache tells her it's alright, that he'll let her parents know.

While Paper Mache watches her fade away, he's shot in the back as a villain appears— Kurogiri, a villain who is able to warp with a mysterious black fog.

Izuku arrives back on the scene and ignores Paper Mache's words to hide, attacking Kurogiri. The villain is ready but luckily Paper Mache tackles Izuku out of the way before he's severed by the void portal closing.

Kurogiri is ready to combat them, but the others are coming to the gym, so he warps away. Izuku wants to pursue, but Paper Mache convinces him to stop.

When everyone arrives, Paper Mache is giving Izuku final words of encouragement before dying.

The Sports Festival Approaches

In the wake of the attack on U.A, Izuku must reconcile his feelings for becoming a Hero, while preparing for the upcoming Sports Festival, where he plans to make his big debut and try to join the Hero class.

Worried for his childhood friend, he seeks out Bakugo, finding Iida Tensei from 1-A first. When Bakugo arrives, he's pissed to see Izuku wearing a U.A uniform, and he tries to attack him. Izuku hides behind Iida. Luckily, so many people are around due to heightened security, that Bakugo decides to drop it for now and leaves.

After classes one day, Izuku finds a crowd in front of 1-A's door. There a boy named Shinso declares war on the Hero class, saying that he will remove them from their pedestal.

Izuku defends the Hero class and declares that he wishes to join as well, but he won't defame them in any way. This causes some ire from Shinso, who seems to already know about Izuku.

Now with even more people out to get him in the festival, Izuku prepares with Mei, who gives him the sludge bombs, which work great to prevent heat and explosions, thus working well against someone like Bakugo.

Izuku has to get his devices approved. This includes his new device, the Drift, which allows him to have more free sudden movement, as well as the bombs from Mei which he calls Firestoppers, and special goggles that look like the top half of a kabuki mask that can detect heat signatures.

It's difficult to convince the teacher of 1-A, Aizawa, who feels targeting Bakugo is unheroic, but Izuku tells him to mention "Deku" to Bakugo to see how he reacts.

Later that day, Aizawa does just that, eliciting an angry response. Thus he realizes Izuku is truthful about his rivalry with the blonde haired boy.

And now, the stage is set, and the day of the Sports Festival has finally come—-