4. Denki, Don't Do It!/A Talk Between Two Defenders Of Justice
Story Start: Five Years Before UA, Denki Residence, Early Morning
Kaminari Denki, formerly Rear Admiral Kano Yamidoshi, was ten years old and in his parents' opinion absolutely terrifying. When his quirk came in it took him a week to get the random surges of electricity emanating from his body under full control and another week before he was turning on a lightbulb sitting on one end of the kitchen table from his seat on the other end with nothing but a string of electricity connecting them, no wires, not even something to hold the bulb in place on the table!
If that display of control was all, his parents would have been downright proud of him, but then you had to take into account his hobbies. He was constantly picking fights with the toughs of the surrounding area, not giving a damn about how much younger he was as he somehow found the exact buttons to push to turn the delinquents and never do wells into frothing mad people more than willing to beat a kid unconscious only for him to knock THEM out, and it was equal odds whether it was his quirk or his limbs that delivered the finishing blow.
If that wasn't bad enough, the kid had somehow 'fixed' then hotwired an old junker he had found when he was six (His parents did NOT want to know where he got the gas for it) and driven it back to the house in the middle of the night to in his words 'Upgrade into an appropriate Hero's Transportation'. Oh sure, he didn't get in any accidents but the Police were understandably concerned that a SIX YEAR OLD had been driving a multi ton pickup truck that looked like it should have been melted to slag years ago in the middle of the night.
Said truck was looking MUCH better after a few years of off and on work (Don't ask the adults how he managed to keep the police from confiscating it, the story STILL gave them headaches even now) but it wasn't Denki's current project. That dubious honor went to the four foot tall collection of scrap metal plates and hinges he had somehow managed to scrounge up last night without his parents' knowledge (Again). Denki had used his quirk to heat the metal plates to their melting points before pressing the hinges into the softened metal, letting them cool down then sticking duck tape of all things over the hinges to keep them in place. Now he was cackling as he taped a pair of old boxing gloves onto the 'hands' of the monstrosity he had created.
It was that cackling that alerted his parents and they came out in trepidation to see him standing in front of his misshapen golem, hands sparking with electricity before he shot strings of the energy at it. A few twitches of his fingers later and he let out an excited cry and said "YES! It's alive, it's alive!"
Said excitement was due to how he was now making the golem walk around in at first shaky but rapidly surer steps. Cackling again, Denki exclaimed "Oh, wait until those wannabe gangsters get a load of this!"
"Denki don't do it!" His father said, more desperately than sternly.
Denki wasn't having it though. With one last cackle, he hopped on the monstrosity's back and it immediately ran to the fence surrounding the back yard and leapt over it, the sound of metal on asphalt soon moving away.
His frazzled parents gave each other a LOOK for a few moments then said "Not It!" Denki's mother was just SLIGHTLY faster and his father cursed as he went to get his shoes.
(He would later find Denki soaking in the admiration of the younger kids at the local park who thought having your own personal boxing bot that you built yourself was just the coolest thing ever! On a related note, one particularly unlucky would be mugger was found with several broken bones and swinging from a lamp post, his belt hanging from the hook used to hold excess cable.)
Time Skip: Four Years Later, Midoriya Household
Inko took one look at Toshinari Yagi and said in no uncertain terms that he WOULD be having breakfast with them and began to make a kettle of tea for him. All Might gave Izuku a baffled look and Izuku chuckled as he said "Don't try to fight it sir, she WILL get her way on this."
Toshinari sighed and said "Very well, but I really can't eat much."
"Because of that gaping wound in your side?" Izuku asked, eyes locking onto Toshinari's left side with a massive frown.
Inko stiffened then turned her gaze at Toshinari with an intent look as well before gasping and brought her hands to her mouth as she said "Oh my goodness!"
Toshinari had wide eyes as he glanced at the pair of them and asked "How do you know about that?!"
"Observation Haki." Izuku said with a frown.
"Never heard of it." Toshinari admitted.
"Not many people have, at least, not the people of this world. The only one I taught it to was Mom. And while the girls have taught their families as well, we haven't exactly made a habit of spreading it around. We've all agreed that if any Heroes are going to be taught Haki and the Six Techniques then we need to be Heroes ourselves to be taken seriously." Izuku said before he chuckled and said "Though Kano certainly hasn't taught his parents, said it would make slipping out for his projects too hard."
"'People of this world'?" Toshinari said, even more lost now.
"Guess I'll give my story first." Izuku said as he sat down at the table. When Toshinari sat down across from him, he started "The first thing you need to realize is that this Earth isn't the only planet that supports life. Now, I don't know if I came from another dimension or simply another part of this universe, but I'm originally from a world that has a LOT more ocean then this one does. Me and three others were part of an experiment dealing with reincarnation..."
All Might listened in awe about the world the young man in body but definitely not in mind described. It was both fantastic and horrifying, which could be used to describe this world as well when one thought about it. And Izuku's brief albeit detailed description of his Marine Career was also impressive.
After Izuku finished speaking, All Might was silent for a few moments before he grinned and said "Vice Admiral, I must say that after hearing your story, the decision I reached yesterday has most definitely been reinforced! You embody what it TRULY means to be a Hero! But before I explain to you what that decision is, you must have some back ground information."
Toshinari then glanced at Inko, his smile lessening just a moment before he turned back to Izuku and said "However, before that explanation, well, I hate to ask this, but your Legal Guardian, can she be trusted to keep what we will talk about a secret from ANYBODY else?"
Inko's brows furrowed at that but Izuku didn't even hesitate, instead nodding decisively and said "She won't tell a soul without your permission."
"Very well." Toshinari said before he sighed and stood up from the table (Which was now clear thanks to Inko having washed the dishes during Izuku's tale). Standing across from Inko with the table between them, Toshinari said "Misses Midoriya, what I am about to show you will be rather shocking, I ask you to remain calm."
"Okay?" Inko asked with a cocked head and placing her hands in her lap. A moment later, All Might was standing in her kitchen and Inko Midoriya's eyes bugged out and her jaw dropped. She looked about a second from fainting in shock only for Izuku to say "Mom, think about that story you told me about the time you and dad went to Disneyland Tokyo!"
Inko's face went from absolute shock to extremely amused in 0.05 seconds, the greenete bringing her hands over her mouth even as she loudly snorted and laughed out loud. At All Might's questioning look, Izuku pointed at a picture on the fridge. All Might glanced over and at the sight of the man in it standing next to Goofy giving him bunny ears while wearing a Goofy hat, a shirt that said "In a toon off between Donald and Daffy, I think Donald's funnier", and holding one of those big foam fingers that said "Disney All The Way!" complete with a silhouette of Mickey on it, the #1 Hero couldn't help but let out a snicker.
After thirty seconds, Inko stopped laughing at whatever memory accompanied that picture and said "Ah, thanks Izuku, I needed that." Izuku gave her a nod and the pair turned back to All Might as Inko said "Alright, I'm ready for this explanation of yours."
All Might turned back into the form he entered the house in and sat back down in his chair as he said "Many people have wondered what my Quirk is, claiming that it cannot simply be Super Strength given the feats I have accomplished with it, and they're right." Holding his right hand cupped in front of him, Toshinari's hand filled with a multi colored pulsing orb of light that somehow made his hair sway in a wind that wasn't there. Toshinari stared down at the orb in his hand with a fond grin before he looked up at the other two and said "This is my quirk: One For All, however, to call this MY quirk is misleading. I was not born with this Quirk, I was given it."
"Given a Quirk?!" Inko asked in shock.
Izuku showed off his analysis skills as he said "One For ALL, it's a Stockpile And Transfer Quirk! That's, that's so beyond rare, to even REALIZE the second part, for someone to KNOW that they could transfer the Quirk to someone else." Looking up from the orb of pulsing light in Toshinari's hand to the man's eyes, Izuku said "That isn't a natural Quirk, it's artificial."
"An artificial Quirk? How's that possible?" Inko asked, completely shocked right now.
Toshinari though grinned and as he let the light show fade away he said "Close Vice Admiral, you are right that One For All is not a natural Quirk, but it did not come from nothing. It came about when two Quirks were fused together." Toshinari's grin turned into a grim expression as he said "One For All is nearly as old as Quirks themselves. When they first came about, humanity as a civilization ground to a halt as the world struggled to deal with the chaos they caused. One man in particular took advantage of this chaos to rise to the top of a massive criminal empire. So large was his power base, he almost took over all of Japan."
Inko gave a sharp inhale and said "Almost took over Japan? But we were never told such a thing ever happened in school..."
"Wouldn't be the first time a Government has covered something up that they didn't want the public to know. Hell, the World Government made an entire CENTURY illegal to learn about back in my original world, this is nowhere near as hard for me to believe." Izuku said with a scowl.
Toshinari nodded at Izuku before continuing his tale as he said "This man went by the name of his Quirk: All For One, and as you can guess by the name, it allowed him to steal other people's Quirks, and either keep them for his own use or give them to someone else. That is how he came to be in charge of such a large criminal empire, he would give Quirks to his minions to make them both stronger and loyal to him, though not everyone survived the process intact.
"One of the people who tried to stand against All For One was his brother. Thought to be Quirkless, the brother still had Justice in his heart, and tried to fight his brother. I am unsure WHY All For One used his power to grant him a Quirk, maybe he thought it would make him submit, or maybe he was a cold enough bastard to hope that the brother wouldn't survive the process. Either way, the result is the same, the brother was given a Stockpiling Quirk.
"If a person was given a Quirk that was compatible with their original Quirk, the two were likely to combine. Unknown to anyone else, the brother DID have a Quirk, albeit a rather useless one: the ability to pass the Quirk to someone else. However, when mixed with the Stockpile Quirk, his Transfer Quirk went from something useless to something incredible. And so, One For All was created, and has been passed down from Hero to Hero, eight generations of them."
Toshinari's expression turned even grimmer as he said "But just as One For All has been growing over time, so too has its creator remained a factor. The Brother was unable to use the Stockpiling function to defeat All For One, and so he passed it on in the hopes of a future user being able to do it. I was able to finally accomplish that task, but I didn't walk away without injury."
Toshinari lifted up his shirt and both Izuku and Inko hissed at the massive scar tissue on his left side. Sensing the wound with Observation Haki was one thing, but actually seeing it was an entirely different thing. A few moments later, Toshinari dropped his shirt and said "My Respiratory System is basically destroyed, and I lost my whole stomach. All of the surgeries pretty much wore me out, and it can't be fixed. Right now, I can only do Hero work for about three hours a day. Rest of the time, this is what I look like."
"Damn." Izuku hissed and it was telling that Inko didn't even make a token rebuttal for the language.
Toshinari clenched his fist tightly as he said "One For All is too important to be allowed to disappear, it MUST be passed on so that it can be used to help protect as many people as possible. And so, I've begun looking for a successor. The plan was for me to teach at UA next school year, to find a worthy individual to pass the torch to, but then I met you. When that Slime Villain had captured your schoolmate yesterday, you dealt with him so easily in a matter of moments, then claimed to be Quirkless. I found that rather hard to believe so I did some digging. First, I found your school thanks to your uniform. A description of you got me your name and from there it was just a quick check with the Quirk Registry to confirm your status."
Toshinari gained a giant grin as he said "You are already incredibly capable without a Quirk, imagine how far you'll go when you have the stockpiled might of eight generations of Heroes backing you up!" Toshinari stood up and held his hands to either side as he continued "So I ask you, Midoriya Izuku, well you accept One For All?!"
END
Author's Notes: Yes, I know I'm evil. Your screams of anguish and rage amuse me.
Don't worry though, I'm not going to leave you hanging for months. I decided after doing the Racheil portion that I should do the other two as well so we've got one more chapter before I move on. (Maybe) Also, anyone who says that Izuku shouldn't have told All Might his origins, HELLO, it's ALL MIGHT! If there's anyone who you can trust with that information, it's him.
On the wider Fanfiction front, I've decided that I'll make a spinning wheel with all of the stories on my roster and everything else I'm working on (Including a massive MHA one shot that covers Izuku actually having a Quirk from the start) and will use that to determine what I work on next. I'm doing it this way because while I have a Pat-reon, no one's actually USED it and I don't think it would be fair to make you guys do so just to decide on what story I work on next.
So until next time, this is Tac signing out!