Over the years the newly named Izuku Midoriya would grow up in a home where he wasn't experimented on or threatened to be fed to monsters. To avoid any suspicion from the neighbors, Inko Midoriya, quickly and quietly sold her house, even if it was under market value, packed up and left to a smaller town where none of her old friends and acquaintances would find her.

When people asked about the boy's father, she would give the excuse that he was no longer with them, which typically worked to get people to stop asking questions. Enrolling him in school was the most difficult, but she had been able to buy herself sometime by saying the documents got destroyed in the move and she just needed to wait for the replacements.

She felt so sickened as she forged documents for her "adopted" son, but they would be accepted into the system with the danger that any person doing an investigation into herself or him would reveal the lies and there was no way she could explain what she did and why to an acceptable degree. Meaning she had to decline each and every marriage contract offered for her son. No matter how much they could pay, what benefits it would provide her personally to sign him away, she couldn't risk the chance that someone would discover what she had done.

On the other end, Izuku who had previously been one of the most popular students in the school, to his amazement as one of less than half a dozen other boys, suddenly found that the other girls didn't want anything to do with him. They didn't want to play with him, they would make fun of him and call him names. The worst of all was Katsumi Bakugo who told him that since he was a boy he could never be a hero, despite how much knowledge he had of them and that he would be better served just being married off to one of the ugly bitches in class.

Katsumi didn't have many friends, but what she did have was followers, people who recognized her strength for what it was. Her quirk was easily one of the strongest Izuku had ever seen and applied correctly would be very versatile. When he tried to show her his notes on her quirk, she called him an idiot and a loser who wouldn't understand what a quirk could do because he was a boy and that everyone else should ignore his advice.

For years this led to Izuku having a very lonely childhood, but he tolerated it because it was what his mother could provide for him.

"And just because you're applying for the support department doesn't mean jack shit, Deku," Katsumi spit on Izuku's face as he lay on the dirt outside the school. "Stay away from UA."

The walk home that day was difficult as he felt the bruises on his body. "Ooh, a useful hostage and if I manage to get away with him, a valuable commodity to sell to the right people, after I get my fill of course," a sinister voice warbled behind him. Izuku didn't even have time to turn around before he was slammed into the wall of the underpass and felt some slime ooze around his flesh and probing his orifices for entrance. Izuku struggled and pushed against the wall resulting in him being completely engulfed in the sludge. "Come on, just let me in, I promise it will only hurt for a little while, then you'll wake up later and we can have some fun," the slime-woman said as her eyes rotated inward to look at Izuku whose thrashes began to slowdown. "Good, just relax, boy," the sludge smiled, showing gnarled teeth.

"Never fear, for I am here," All Might roared as she launched herself out of the sewer system. "Texas Smash," she shouted as her fist connected with the slime, the force of the blow scattering the villain all over the underpass.

Izuku's vision began to clear up as he took deep gulps of air. He rolled over and began hacking, finally throwing up his lunch from earlier. "Okay, take it easy there, you've had a bad experience," All Might calmly said as she rubbed circles in Izuku's back.

"Th-thank you All M-Might," Izuku coughed before he whipped his head up so fast it cracked. "Oh my gosh, All Might," Izuku cried out. "I'm your biggest fan," he beamed a smile at the Amazonian looking woman. "Could I please have your," Izuku said as he pulled out a journal.

"Oh yes, of course," All Might said as she took the journal and signed it. "If only I had cute boys like you around me when I was younger," All Might rested her cheek in her palm as she looked down at the young boy in front of her, wistfully thinking about years long past. Shaking herself from her thoughts, she quickly handed the boy back his journal. "So what's a delic-, cute young man doing out here all on your own," All Might asked.

Izuku nervously scuffed his foot on the ground before quietly responding. "I was walking home ma'am."

"Oh don't call me ma'am, it makes me feel old," All Might giggled down at Izuku.

"S-sorry Ms. All Might," Izuku whispered, just loud enough for her to hear.

When All Might took off as she neared her limit. She felt an extra weight, as small as it was. "What the hell are you doing kid?" she cried out at the teen.

"I'm sorry, but something made me grab you," Izuku apologized. "I just acted without thinking." He bowed low towards the hero, not sure why his body was telling him to move when the hero had turned her back to him.

"Kid, you almost died, but I'm not going to punish you for doing something rash," All Might waved off his action, as most of the guys she knew tended to act rashly.

"Um, Miss All Might, I wanted to go to U.A., but everyone around me says I shouldn't," Izuku started to ask. "I know that if I took a contract I could pay back my mother for all the kindness she showed me, but something draws me to heroes, what should I do," he finished his question.

All Might sighed. "Kid, I don't know the first thing about contracts, but U.A. isn't an easy school to get into," she admitted.

"Well I have all this information about heroes, I even know how your quirk works," Izuku said as he pulled out the same notebook that All Might had signed earlier. "See, I figured out that since you never get seen in public outside of fighting villains or in prescheduled events, and based on your attire right now, your strength comes from your quirk which alters your appearance, likely bulking muscles as a woman of your size would need somewhere around ten thousand calories a day and hours training to prevent muscle atrophy."

All Might spewed out blood and reverted to her smaller form in shock at how this boy took publicly available information and pieced together how her quirk protected her identity. "That's, wow kid," she said as she wiped her chin as Izuku smiled at her that his hypothesis was proven true. "Okay, maybe you could make it into the support course if you can apply that to finding ways to help heroes do better."

Izuku smiled at the woman. "You really think so," he asked earnestly.

All Might nodded, "Yeah, I know so, you'll knock'em out of the park kid." She walked over to the door and popped it open so Izuku could get off the roof, before she launched herself away.

Izuku was proudly walking down the street on a different route home, taking major roads as they were more familiar than the odd location he had ended in after grabbing onto All Might. When he heard an explosion, a familiar explosion. He saw a plume of smoke rising in the distance. "Oh no," he whispered as he hurried over towards who he suspected was causing the problem.

"Someone do something," a woman shouted from the crowd.

"Our quirks can't hurt it, not without hitting the girl," Death Arms shouted. "Best we can do is keep her contained and hope backup gets here soon," the large woman keeping the crowd away from the fires and out of range of Bakugo's quirk.

Izuku looked in horror as he saw his bully struggling to free herself. "This is my fault," he muttered as he realized that the villain must have gotten free when he messed with All Might's jump. He looked anxiously at the heroes who were just standing around. "No this isn't right," he whimpered. "They can get her out they just need an opening," he thought as he formulated a plan based on the quirks he knew.

"Holy shit," a woman screamed. "Somebody stop him," she pointed as she watched a small boy with green hair run into the inferno.

"Stay low, the heat is more intense, but less smoke allows me to keep a clearer head," Izuku mentally thought. "With Bakugo struggling to free herself, the villain won't be able to move as quickly," he muttered as he spun around a highly telegraphed swing.

"Oh the boy from earlier, no All Might to help you noWWWWW," she howled in pain as Izuku hurled his backpack into her eye.

"Strike the only solid part of the body," his voice raspy as the heat singed his skin and dried his throat. "Scooping motions will work to move the slime better than pulling," huffing as he felt himself getting lightheaded from the effort.

Bakugo sucked in a breath as the slime loosened enough around her so she could get some air. "Fucking Deku get out of here," she roared at him.

"But, Bakugo," Izuku protested, pausing as he wasn't expecting the person he was saving to reject his help.

This moment was all it took for the slime villain to reassert control over Bakugo. "Die you little shit," she screamed in anger as her gellatenous form wobbled.

"Detroit," All Might shouted. "SMASH," her voice drowned out by the sound of rushing winds. For a few moments, everyone stood still before the first drops of rain started falling down.

"She changed the weather," Kamui Woods gaped as the crowd turned into a sea of cheering fans.

Despite the destruction she caused Bakugo was getting praise for her power, as she had been taken hostage. Izuku got berated by the heroes for what he did, how reckless it was, how he needs to think things through before acting rashly. Izuku didn't feel too great, as he hung his head low, walking home.

"Hey kiddo," All Might said as she slid up beside him. Startled by her presence Izuku jumped. "Heh, sorry about that," All Might apologized as she rubbed the back of her head. "Look I just want to apologize, for them," she pointed back to where the confrontation was earlier. "They weren't doing anything and then get mad when you tried to do their job."

"Yeah they were right, I have no business getting involved. I almost screwed up everything," Izuku sighed.

"Is THAT what you think," All Might said in shock. "Kid, you almost single handedly saved the day."

"But I didn't, I almost got myself killed," Izuku replied as he pulled his backpack tighter to his body as he sped up to get away from the hero. "My plan fell apart."

"I want you to be a hero," All Might said to his back.

Izuku stopped walking and looked back at her. "What?"

"I want you, to be a hero," All Might reiterated. "You're smart, you act and best of all you can think while you act."

"But men can't be heroes, we don't have quirks," Izuku bluntly said as if she had forgotten that fact of reality.

"You can have mine," All Might smiled. "I have a story to tell you," she said as she led Izuku to a secluded area and explained her quirk to him.