Hey ! My Beta reader LegoMasterLord might not be able to help me ! So this chapter has been corrected by myself ... hopefully it's good enough.
Legomasterlord chapter 2
For those who wonder what a Devilartimis is, it's not a it, it's a he. He's a YouTuber on YouTube, who makes animations called the 'Cell Verses' where Cell just tends to talk and make inappropriate jokes. They have Zarbon for a reason... Most recent video he made was 'Cell vs Emo Kermit (Universe 6)'.
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Commenter chapter 2
1. I think Sensei is well beyond two decades old (20 years).
Corrected, my bad.
2. For someone with the Hi Specs quirk, Nezu sure had the idiot ball for not accounting for the gates being closed. Unless he was making a first impression by opening the gate as soon as Izuku called.
Nezu knows Izuku is kinda shy so he is trying to look family friendly, so yeah, call that a first impression.
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You could at least use 1 quirk izuku make it your main
Nop, Izuku won't use any quirk ... but his.
"Do you know who he is Izuku ? I mean our teacher, as a pro hero" Ochaco was trying to speak as quietly as possible, she didn't want to be Aizawa's victim once again ... and plus she was the first of the day AND the year.
"Nezu didn't tell me but ... this scarf, I could swear I saw it somewhere and when it comes to his quirk it's definitely linked to his eyes. I'm not sure the director would let someone as tired as him teach if there wasn't a good excuse ... signs of exhaustion, black clothes, he works during the night ... an underground pro ? ... Oh ! Y-yes of course ! It's Eraser Head !" Izuku beamed.
"... Eraser what ?" Asked Ochaco complety lost as she tried to picture Aizawa with a literal eraser costume.
"Eraser Head, with his quirk he can suppress someone else quirk just by looking at them !"
"Wow, I had never heard of a quirk that could block another quirk ... it must be rare"
"That's why he is so tired ... and that might also explain why he is so ... I wouldn't say angry ... in a bad mood ? Grumpy ? ... maybe he is bored ..."
"That explain why he don't want to see us "socialising" ... makes noises" Ochaco slowed down so she and Izuku would be a bit behind the whole class as they were walking outside. Izuku didn't notice though as they kept chatting together.
"... why did you lie ?"
"Lie ? W-what are you talking about ?"
"You can stop pretending, Recovery Girl told me while I was at the infirmary, you are quirkless Izuku ... how are you going to pass Aizawa's test ?"
"S-she told you ... you have to understand-I-I'm sorry I feared that you would treat me differently if you knew I had no power. I guess it doesn't matter, maybe everyone does this test at the beginning of the year, so the teachers can keep track on our progress"
"I would never do that !" She yelled at Izuku before she saw that she actually scared him, for real "I- sorry, I shouldn't have yelled like th-"
"Is everything okay ?! I heard someone scream !" Tenya was really quick when it came to investigating on something that didn't seem "normal" or "proper".
"Sorry Tenya, Izuku asked it I could send people to space with my quirk and I overreacted hahaha" Ochaco smiled awkwardly.
"Oh, right ... you two shouldn't slow down, we might be late" he proceeded to turn around and run back with the class.
"... H-honestly I'm glad someone doesn't look down on me for once ... thank you Ochaco"
Four years ago.
"They forgot you ?! I'm sorry but I don't see how this is even possible"
"... during our sport class the teacher asked me to stand somewhere, we were playing dodgeball ... and that's all"
"... excuse me but your story doesn't make sense, there is simply no context ... now tell me, why did your teacher asked you to stand away"
"H-he- ... he said that I wasn't- ... I wasn't resistant enough for this exercise"
"Resistant ? Did he thought that your head would get detached from your body if you happened to get hit by a ball ?"
"N-no ... he- ... he had created groups before the exercise, according to physical capacities m-mine didn't play that's all"
"And you don't happen to know who was in your group ... right ?"
Izuku shook his head which made Sensei sigh and rub his neck.
"One day you will have to accept that they aren't fair with you-"
"I know they aren't ... what else can I do ? Once I become a hero they will see that they were weong"
"And you think they are just going to let that happen ? Tell me ... do you think black and white people became equal just like that ? Do you think people with mutants quirk are treated equally today ? Equality is a lie, the funny and cute little things you are being taught, when you are like four years old, those little lessons about life ... well see ? That's garbage, if you want to be treated equally you have to be better than them, stronger, smarter ... colder"
"... Them I should become worst than them ?"
"Hum ... hahaha, at least I'm sure you will never become a bad hero ... comon now, next time I hope you will tell me how your game of dodgeball went"
"Katsuki Bakugo"
"Yes ?"
"In junior hight, what was your best result for the softball throw ?"
"67 meters"
"Then try doing it with your quirk" Aizawa threw a ball for Katuski and started looking at some device for the test.
Katsuki took the ball in his hand and made a great turn with his arm and-
"DIE !" the ball flew away with a trail of fire as if it was a missile.
Ochaco looked a Izuku, her face simply told that she expect something less barbaric.
"Die ?" She whispered
"Don't try to know if he was serious or not ... poor ball though" he answered back with a half broken smile.
"This is the most rational way to form the foundation of a hero" Aizawa turned around toward the class and showed the device he had been holding, it displayed 705.2 meters.
The whole class started talking about how amazing it was ... and then someone pronounced the word "fun".
"Fun ? You think this is fun ? ... Alright, who ever ends in last place at the end of all the eight tests will be judged to have no potential and ... will be punished with expulsion"
Expulsion ... that's it, Izuku was already in the jungle, he couldn't- or rather didn't want to believe that Aizawa did that on purpose only because he was here ... in fact he really hoped his teacher had only lied so the class would be at their maximum during the test.
And still Nezu did say that he had already expelled a whole class one year ... and that he had all the rights to do so.
Izuku felt something grab his hand, it was Ochaco ... hopefully he still had his gloves to avoid an incident.
Aizawa had finished to argue with a few students who didn't like his method "For the next three years U.A. will do all it can to give you one hardship after another ... Go beyond Plus Ultra ... Demonstration is over, now we will start with 50 meter dash"
50 meters dash ... Izuku didn't have much time to analyse each member of his class but he knew that some of them definitely had no quirk that could help them to run faster, and there was two runway ... in fact his theory about motivation could be true. Putting two runway so the students can keep track on the person in the other runway ... in the end Aizawa didn't seem like a bad person nor sounded ... and he knew a lot in this field.
... This test ... to what extent was he authorized to go in order to not be in last position ? There was still something fishy about it ... Of course everyone would use their quirks to get extraordinary results.
During the 50 meter dash he had to run with ... Katsuki ... he didn't expect this situation.
Both of them walked to the start line, there was a small camera at the end of the runway, it was here to give the time of each students but there was no way to exploit this detail and he didn't know exactly what Aizawa allowed.
"On your mark ... set ... G-" Aizawa's voice was cut off by the sounds of Katsuki's explosions which knocked Izuku away and sent him at least 3 meters away from the run way ...
He did it on purpose ... he did it on purpose, this bastard ... Izuku finished the dash in more than 12 seconds ... and Aizawa didn't say a thing. He saw that Ochaco was about to intervene but Izuku simply gestured to her to give up ...
The other students started whispering between each others, Izuku couldn't hear what they were saying but he could guess.
In the end it answered his question ... he could do anything, Aizawa would not say a thing.
"Are you okay ?"
"I have seen worse ..." Izuku got closer from Ochaco and whispered "I am the one getting expelled right ? That's what everyone said ..."
Ochaco looked behind her for a second "... Yes ... please tell me you have an idea to get out of this mess"
"I'm going to exploit Aizawa's rules ... only the last one get expelled right ?"
Two hours later.
Izuku finished last on each activities ... it was simply depressing.
"Alright, I will let you breath for a minute I need some eyes drop ..." he left the class in the gym ... and as he left Aizawa did something really interesting ... he dropped his tablet on a bench ...
What if-
"Izuku what are you doing ?!" Ochaco grabbed his hand to stop him
"I have no other choice ! If I can change my results-"
"Then he will notice ! And you will get expelled"
"... the last exercise is the ball throw ... I was last on all the others, it's not like I can just be first now ... sorry but I have to do this"
Ochaco let Izuku's hand go "just- ... please consider what I said, maybe he is lying ! H-Here ! The ball throw yes ! I'll use my quirk on the ball a-and-"
"I see what you are trying to plan Ochaco ... it would work yes, that's genius but ... Aizawa would never allow that and- ... and I really want to do this on my own ... even if it means that I get expelled"
Ochaco sighed "... Please don't go" then she went back to chat with the rest of the class.
No one was watching ... but Ochaco was right, If Izuku changed his own results Aizawa would be able to accuse him ... and he couldn't change someone else result in order to not be last ...
But then he got an idea ...
Two years ago.
"Okay ... I think I found my question"
"Good ... then I'm not completely useless to you, ask go on"
"What would be ... the very last solution during a crisis ?"
"... Any ?"
"Any"
"Hum ... Do you know what is nuclear deterrence ?"
"You mean ... with the weapons ?"
"Absolutely, today there isn't much use for this kind of weapon, now there quirk much more dangerous than this kind of toy ... well ... the lesson for today is about deterrence ... No one would be stupid enough to use it's final weapon if the other can use it too, tell me, what would be the result ?"
"Chaos ... no winner, everyone would be at the same level"
"Exactly ... deterrence, forcing your opponents to give up the fight before it even start"
Izuku took the tablet, no one noticed, he went to a locker room ... it only took him a minute, he went back and dropped the tablet exactly where he picked it up ... and again no one saw him.
Ochaco was drinking a bottle of water along with the others, the atmosphere was relatively ... relaxed, obviously all the other student felt safe ... not for long, when she noticed Izuku approaching with a satisfied smile she knew something changed.
"So ?"
"Now the odds are balanced"
Ochaco moved a bit from the group so she could tall with Izuku without being heard "what did you change ?"
"Everything" he answered still smiling
"E-... everything ? ... by everything you mean ?"
"I changed everyone score and put it to infinite, I didn't know it was even possible ... oh ! I also erased all the previous records"
At the same moment Aizawa came back rubbing his eyes at the same time, he picked up his tablet from the bench and frowned.
"... Very funny" he muttered loud enough so the whole class would hear "Alright ... so, there was a problem with your results ... so I will only count the last test" thisblast announcement started a lot of whispering but they didn't last for long "you have 2 minutes to be outside"
"So this is what you meant by balancing the odds, you put everyone on the same level so Aizawa would be forced to only count the last test"
"I hoped he would ... so far it looks like he is"
Somewhere at the same moment.
"You summoned me Sensei ?"
"Oh ... yes, come closer please, I don't want to yell across the whole room" Sensei gestured for Kurogiri to take a few steps.
"Do you need anything again ?"
"No ... not this time, I have special orders ... Tomura is already planning ?"
"As you suggested he is"
"Good ... You are to keep this for yourself and never tell Tomura, understood ?"
"Yes Sensei"
"... There is student at U.A. ... Izuku Midoriya, if you ever encounter him ... he is to be left unharmed"
Kurogiri flinched for a second ... he wouldn't ask Sensei's reason, never ... but this ... was definitely unusual.
"So ?"
"Excuse me Sensei, I lost focus for a moment, yes ... Izuku Midoriya is to be left unharmed ... b-but ... may I ask if he is part of the plan ?" It was risky but Kurogiri was simply too curious.
"... Not exactly, but I can tell you he is indeed part of a plan ... now go back to Tomura ... and remember, this information is to be kept secret, even if I disappear"
"Yes Sensei" Kurogiri warped away.
"... I wonder how Izuku is doing right now"
Izuku was supposed to be the last one to throw, at least now he had all his chances, Ochaco actually scored infinite with her quirk, he must say that this was kinda fun to watch everyone wait for almost 5 minutes until the Aizawa's tablet decided to stop tracking the ball.
Katsuki did even better than the last time, about 50 meters better.
Those who didn't have a good quirk for this exercise threw the ball at around 50 meters, it was still impressive.
"Midoriya ... your turn" called Aizawa
Izuku walked into the white circle and took the ball, 50 meters ... yes he could do that if he gave all he had ... he took his breath and with all his might he launched the ball.
"... 68.4 meters, good we are done here ... oh and by the way, I was lying about the expulsion stuff"
"WHAT ?!" Screamed everyone, excepted for Izuku a boy with an ice and fire quirk and the girl that could create tools.
"That seemed obvious, it was only an excuse so we wouldn't take this test as a simple game" she explained.
"W-WHAT THE F*CK ? WHY AREN'T YOU EXPELLING DEKU ?" Yelles Katsuki at Aizawa
"Calm down would you, and who is-"
"THIS QUIRKLESS TRASH WAS LAST ON EVERY TEST AND NOW YOU ARE JUST-" Katsuki found himself completely restrained and unable to scream anymore.
"Do that again and you will be the one to get expelled, I'm about to release you and if I hear any little kind of annoying nonsense coming from your mouth I'll send you straight to hell ... understood ?"
Katsuki didn't move for a minute and simply grunted, after that Aizawa released him ...
"Go back to the class, I'll be here in a minute" the class moved, Izuku was about to follow but Aizawa grabbed him by the shoulder "Expect you, we have to talk"
"Y-yes sir"
"... I never thought you would mess that much with the results, in fact I'm impressed you did so quickly"
Izuku was being ... praised ?! No one ... no one ever did ! Except Sensei, for once people would treat him just like anyone "Th-"
"But you completely ruined this test" it broke Izuku's hopes.
"W-what but I-"
"You didn't notice ? Everyone knew that you would be in last position until your little trick with the results, and you know what they did before that ? They felt safe ... so they weren't at their maximum, so I'm going to be clear ... if you happen to become a handicap for this class I'm expelling you immediately"
"... yes ..."
"Good, now stop wasting my time and go back to the class"
Wasting his time ? Becoming a handicap ? ... Izuku hated Aizawa as much as Katsuki ...
Once he was back into the classroom he received ... a lot of glances and heard some whispers about the exam which consisted in
"Is he really quirkless ? Damn that's ... so strange"
"Isn't he the one who scored first during the exam ? How did he do that ? He must have cheated"
The most annoying thing was that they were completely wrong, he wasn't quirkless at all, in fact he could be much more quirked than any of them and no he didn't cheat, he happened to be better than them that's all.
He kept smiling as if nothing was happening and sat at the desk next to Ochaco, so far nothing indicated that the desks were attributed to a student in particular.
"Well looks like it's not so different" he whispered to her
"I'm so sorry"
"Oh don't be ..."
"What did Aizawa tell you ?"
"... idea rather not mention this conversation excuse me ... I guess the worst part of the day is behind us now"
At the end of the day.
Izuku managed to learn the name of some of his classmates ... though they mostly avoided him and he didn't try to reach out either.
Ochaco asked if he wanted to walk with her for a while but he explained that he needed some alone time.
He didn't remember the last time he had been so angry ... the last time he felt so lost ... yet he remembered that when he met Sensei ...
Sensei, his presence was overwhelming, he simply had something that felt dead around him, an aura that could force you to give up any kind of hope and courage. And yet this man was a monster, they simply happened to find each others, Izuku was lost and Sensei was here to cheer him up. He was innocent and yet a murderer was the only person that could help him.
This man became an idol to him, he wanted to be smart like him, strong like him ... even feared like him ... a hero so terrifying that no villain would ever dare defy him.
It had been a long time since All Might disappeared from his mind, each day he would wait until he could see him once again and talk about everything, he would always be honest even when the truth was terrible or simply not a "good" one.
The only other people he had been able to rely on so far were his mom and ... and Ochaco ... she actually knew he was quirkless ... and yet she was different, she didn't judge him, he had saved her once and it was enough to prove that he could be a hero ...
He finally reached the park ... empty as always, no wonder why ... this place was filled with garbage and trash. Sensei was here already, waiting on a bench, most of the time it was Izuku who would wait, today they switched.
"Ah, finally there ... you look exhausted" stated Sensei
"I am ... and hey ! I survived !"
"Congratulations, now tell me about this first day"
Izuku went on to explain everything that happened this morning ... mostlythe afternoon wasn't so important as it was only about the regular classes.
"And that's it ... now I'm here chatting with you"
"... It could have been a better day ..." Sensei sighed and relaxed his body on the bench "hopefully I'm no the one in this hell, do you imagine having to do all that work in my current conditi-"
"I need you to train me"
"... What ?"
"I- ... I need to get stronger ... what your taught me last night ... it won't be enough. P-Please I-I need to get stronger"
"... You do know it isn't that simple if you don't use All for One ..." Izuku gritted his teeth, it wasn't deception but fear ... fear of failing "But-" Izuku immediately looked back at Sensei "If you really want to train them we will do just like yesterday ... every night until you are strong enough, I will also help you with All for One ... I didn't tell you all the secrets of this quirk"
"T-thank yo-"
"Do not ... it won't be a fun thing, when I said training I was serious, in fact I implied way more than that ... you did work a bit to get in shape but as you are right now it is simply not enough. And ... you lack of determination"
"Determination ?"
"If one day you had to kill to save people, would you do it ?"
"I-"
"Don't even try to tell me a hero doesn't kill ... I'm serious, one day this situation might happen and you will have to be strong willed enough to take someone else's life, am I clear ?"
"B-but ... how do you want me to train in order t-to kill ?"
"Simple, you will do it on me-"
"WHAT ?!"
"You could stab me a thousand time I will still be standing up ... to be honest I think it will take a small nuclear bomb to knock me out"
"T-that's insane ... that would mean that you have- ... have-"
"A terrible quantity of shock and radiation absorption quirk along with regeneration of course ... in the end they are all the same ... don't you think this is a strange fact ? As users of All for One we have no quirk factor in our bodies, which is why we are signaled as quirkless ... oh but if I remember your doctor only checked for your foot right ? An extra bone ? I have it too you know ... hahaha fools ... no one is completely quirkless nowadays"
"But ... with all the quirks in your body ... you must have a great quantity of quirk factor right ?"
"Good question ... I never checked ..." the conversation ended here for a moment ... until Izuku picked up his notebook.
"Oh also ! I changed my hero costume ... It's- It's a bit akward but you really inspired me to make it and- ... oh ... sorry, I forgot you couldn't-"
"No no ... I'm sure that whatever you designed it must be great"
Around the same time, at U.A.
"Hum ... That's unusual hahaha, hey Eraser ! Come here for a second !" Sometimes Nezu went into the teacher's room to chat a bit or simply get some coffee ... right now he wasn't really ... welcomed ... but he was still the one giving the paycheck from another point of view so the staff could deal with him.
Aizawa really needed some sleep, the afternoon wasn't enough to fully recover the long nights and now DAYS of work ... but Nezu wouldn't stop harassing him so he "courageously" got out of his sleeping bag and dragged his body to Nezu.
"What is this ?" He asked clearly showing he was annoyed
"Midoriya's costume, at first our partners who works the creation of all the students's equipment sent it back to me because they believed it was a bad joke hahaha"
Aizawa didn't pay any attention at first, he just hoped that he would soon be dismissed ... but when Nezu spoke about a joke he rubbed his eyes en found out what was wrong with Izuku's costume ... it looked very ... villainous.
"That's indeed a bad joke, a very bad one"
The whole body seemed normal, a black and green suit made to ease the movements, a pair of reinforced gloves ... this detail seemed weird but why not after all, and finally the head ... it had been replaced by a black helmet and some kind of mask with a bunch of ... tubes ? Aizawa wasn't even sure if he was looking correctly at that.
"I wonder what inspired him ... well I'm still sending it back with an excuse about this mistake"
"You are not gonna let him wear such a thing ?! ... are you ?"
"I am"
"I swear ... if you think you can allow everything only because you are-"
"Oh so that's why you are in a bad mood today ... you didn't know ?"
"I feared that you would"
"You were right ... so now tell me, why did you give him a chance if you think he can't stand up to our level ? After all you left your tablet on purpose did you ?"
"... Because I was in the same position as he was" Aizawa silently left the room leaving Mezu alone.
"Well ..." Nezu took out a bunch of paper sheets "not exactly went it comes to written results hahaha" there was a big "PERFECT" on each of the sheets.
Later that night.
"Good ... now there is something I would like to show you"
Izuku panted, Sensei wasn't physically strong but with all this quirks he was as strong as hundreds of people united "C-can- can we do a break ?"
"No, now come here and take my hand"
"Y-your ... your hand ?"
"Yes, it's a small trick but it can be useful ... I want you to pull one of my quirk slowl-"
"No ! I already said I will never do that again !"
"I said pull, I never said take ... there is a small limit between those two ... and in this gap your opponent can't use his quirk" Sensei raised both of his hand, in one of them he created a small fire ball "Now try ... and remember, I said to pull slowly, right now we are just working on mastering your control over All for One ... you never practiced did you ?"
"O-Of course no ..." Izuku gently took Sensei's other hand ... it was ... immense, so many quirks ... "I can't find-"
"Are you even trying to find it ? Do not give me any bad excuse and pull it" Sensei's tone became more aggressive.
"I-I think I got it ..." Izuku pulled ... slowly as Sensei said, as he did he could feel that the quirk became more and more resistant and at the same time the fireball was diminishing.
"Good ... now close your eyes and tell me when you feel the limit"
"... here" Izuku opened his eyes, the fireball was gone
"Good ... now release, let's see if you were right"
Izuku released the quirk and the fire ball appeared once again.
"Perfect ... the user doesn't feel anything as long as you don't try to actually take it, they will only be confused by this little trick and you will be at the same level as them ... now let's do this a few hundreds times just so you can master it"
"I'm supposed to be in my bed right now !"
"You were the one who asked for help, and I'm not letting you go until you have finished"
