Author's Note: Glad a few people are still interested in a Spider-Man Izuku story. And it's a Kyoka Jiro pairing, underrated, underused, and my favorite. Now, taiwoeretan1 asked about Izuku's powers being the same as Miles Morales, and the answer is yes. Let's face it, Miles is a stronger Spider-Man than Peter Parker ever was, and I'm hoping that since Into the Spider-verse is a thing, now, we'll see some live action flicks staring Miles.


2: Birth of a Hero - 2: A Mother's Prayer


Toshinori Yagi had never felt like such a hypocrite in his entire life since becoming a Hero. The hypocritical part of his career being that having watched the entire portion of the U.A. entrance exam he had seen a young man that he had met on the street, begging him to tell him that he could be a Hero even though he didn't have a Quirk. Naturally, thinking of the boy's own safety, he had told him no, in no small amount of words, even going so far as to show him the grievous wound that had been inflicted upon himself not so long ago, which was now leading him down a speedy path to retirement.

But that young man had aced the written exam, and tried so hard during the practical that it was damnably painful to watch as his Quirkless fists battered, bruised and bled themselves all over the mechanical Villains. True, he had scored Rescue Points, several in fact, but when it was let known that he was Quirkless, the majority of the teachers had vetoed his acceptance out of cncern for his own safety.

And so, Toshinori Yagi, the man known throughout the world as All Might, the greatest Hero of all time, watched a Quirkless version of himself crumble as his dreams of being a Hero were utterly crushed.

True, he had argued for the boy to be accepted to Principle Nezu, seeing as the boy had managed to craft a near deadly weapon in the Support Course portion of the test in less than half an hour, and it worked perfectly; Powerloader himself stating that if he had been allowed to use it, it was powerful enough to put All Might on his back. But it was a lost cause. Even though he understood the man's argument, Nezu was adamant about the boy being rejected, no matter what Toshinori had promised, because, when it came down to the very heart of the matter, Izuku Midoriya's body simply would not hold up against the rigorous training that U.A. put its students through.

Toshinori frowned at that.

He himself had gone through absolute hell to gain his own power, and he was still going through it, all things considered. [He would have been perfect,] he thought to himself, [If I had just seen it from the very start, then I could've helped him.]

His Quirk, known as One for All, was a very special Quirk compared to others. Special in the regard that it could be passed along to another, a successor of a sorts, to inherit the power of the previous wielder, and make it stronger for the next inheritor. [And I spurned the perfect successor.] The man sighed to himself as he stood outside of the police station. [He probably wouldn't speak to me now, no matter how much I tried to make it up to him.]

As he entered the building, he was met by his long-time friend, a detective by the name of Naomasa Tsukauchi. The man was standing next to an angry-looking young man with ashen blond hair. When he saw the shrunken Hero, he smiled, "Ah, Toshinori," he smiled, "Glad you could make it so fast."

"Of course," Toshinori said with a skeletal smile as he shook his friend's hand, "You sounded quite urgent over the phone that I just had to rush right over," he said, and turned his attention to the young man, "And you seem to be in quite fine company. This young man was the top scoring student on U.A. practical exam."

The blond gave the man a snarling look, "And just how the hell do you know that?"

"I'm a bit of a talent scout for the school's recommendations," he said bashfully, "Along with yourself, the school seems to have quite the impressive crop this year."

"Tsk," the blond snorted, "It won't do them any good, 'cause I'm gonna be the best they've ever had since All Might!"

Toshinori just chuckled at the boy's confidence. It wouldn't do well for him to take him down any just yet. Having seen the boy in action, he knew of his Explosion Quirk, and knew that it was very versatile in battle. He would do well, provided he lost his overconfidence. "But why are you here at the police station, young man?" He asked with a look toward his friend, "The boy's not in trouble, is he?"

The detective shook his head, "Not really, we're just questioning him on an incident that he was involved in," he said, "You see, a friend of his - " {"HE AIN"T MY FRIEND!" Exploded the blond.} "- acquaintance of his was involved in what points to a long-term kidnapping and child abuse case."

Toshinori palmed his faced and brought it down to his chin, "Dear God, anything but that." He said mostly to himself, though the blond and the detective heard him quite well enough. "And where is his frie - er - acquaintance?"

"He was in a clinic in the Shizuoka district," Naomasa said, "Apparently he suffered a gunshot, and another youngster accompanied him to the clinic to make sure he got there alright." He frowned at the blond, skeletal man, "The boy is Quirkless, and the wound was very bad. He was transferred to the hospital about an hour ago because of a severe fever that popped up not long after he was treated. We're thinking that the wound was either infected, or the bullet used was poisoned."

"Poisoned?" Toshinori gasped.

"The doctors found traces of both black widow venom and...Devil's Breath in his system." The detective said making both of them look at him in horror. "Yeah, hence why we thought that he'd been poisoned."

"The hell he was," the boy snarled, "He was weak from blood loss when I ran into him, but he wasn't acting like he'd been poisoned!"

Toshinori nodded, "And Devil's Breath is a very fast-acting virus, so if the bullet was coated in it, then he wouldn't have made as far as he seems to have."

Naomasa shook his head at that, "From what the doctors are saying, the boy, even though he's Quirkless, is very strong." He said, the blond boy next to him scoffing, "The girl that was with him stated that he was only showing signs of a severe fever before she left to phone her parents and look for a nurse to check him over, but when she returned with the nurse, the boy was drenched in sweat, and had vomited all over the place before he was rushed to the hospital. His mother supposedly was able to meet them there after being notified. The girl is still with him, as far as I've been told."

"What about the child you mentioned?" Toshinori asked, feeling that they had gotten off of the main topic. "Was the little one hurt?"

The detective's face twisted into a look of pure rage, "The child, a six year old little girl, was...unharmed...but that doesn't mean she isn't hurt." He pinched the bridge of his nose, "That poor little girl, she's so introverted that she's too scared to let anyone but this young man near her." He jerked his thumb at the boy, "Her arms and legs were wrapped in gauze, so I had him take them off to make sure that she wasn't injured..." he shook his head, "...all four limbs are covered in scars...and they appear surgical in nature, meaning that she wasn't just harmed, she was surgically tortured by her captors."

The boy's hands started smoking as his palms released the nitro-sweat that powered his Quirk, "That ain't all."

"He's right," Naomasa said with a distinct tremble in his voice, "She's psychologically damaged to the point that she believes that everything that's happened to her savior is her fault, and that the bad people will find him and kill him right in front of her as a punishment."

If not for the young man in their presence, Toshinori would have shed his skeletal form and bulked up to his normal state of All Might in anger, "Jesus," He shook his head, "Do we have any leads on these people?"

Unfortunately both the boy and Naomasa shook their heads. "The little girl says they all wore masks that looked like bird faces." He said, "I assume she mean's a beak, so I can only guess that she may mean a plague mask."

Toshinori frowned in thought, "I don't know of any active Villain groups that don such masks, but I know someone who might know," he said with a deep sigh, "Though I am loathed to call him, he and I did not part on...amicable terms...anyway, I think I would like to meet the young man that saved the little girl. Do you know his name, by chance?"

"It's Izuku Midoriya," the blond boy said, "He's been my neighbor, and my classmate for as long as I can remember."

The look on Toshinori's face was as if someone had just plunged a shard of ice right through his chest. [Izuku...Midoriya...] He thought with guilt heavily on his heart, [I should have known...]


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Inko Midoriya had arrived at the hospital as fast as she was able without the use of a car, and was certain that the few she paid for the cab would set her back quite a great deal with how she managed her bills. But that did nothing to stop her from getting to her son as quickly as possible.

But when she arrived it was to find her son in the throes of agony.

The doctors and nurses were all doing their best to keep him from injuring himself further by strapping him to the hospital bed, and sedating him. But the pain racing across his pale features kept him from a peaceful rest. Outside of the room where he was being kept, she saw the young girl that she was told had accompanied him, along with a couple whom she assumed were her parents.

She was talking with them animatedly the entire time, giving Inko little else to do but watch the nurses working over her son. So she sat down outside the room in a seat across from the girl and her family so she wouldn't disturb them, and started praying with all her might that her son would recover, and soon.

[Dear God, I give my only son who has been so badly hurt to you. I ask that you give comfort to my son who has suffered by my hands and those of others.] She prayed silently, [Reach out your hand and heal save him from the pain that plagues him. Let my son look upon me with forgiveness for the pain I have caused him over the years, so that I can be his mother again.]

"Mrs. Midoriya?"

She looked up and saw the girl looking at her with a look of pity, "Are you okay?"

Inko nodded, "I'm fine, thank you, dear." She said as the girl offered her a handkerchief. She took it and dabbed at her eyes, not even realizing that she had been crying. With her and her son, it was usually obvious. Tears tended to flow from them like water spouts. "I was told you helped my son when he was trying to get to the clinic; thank you for that, too." She said as she smiled up at the girl.

She shook her head, the jacks on the ends of her earlobes tapping together, "I didn't really do anything special," she said with a hint of embarrassment, "All I really did was keep him company."

The worried mother smiled at her, "And that is enough in my opinion," she said to the girl as her parents stepped up behind her, "My son has always had a low opinion of himself since he was pronounced Quirkless, and he doesn't really have many friends because of it. So something as simple as keeping him company when he's hurt is more than enough to raise you up in my eyes."

The girl's father grinned as he placed his hand on her shoulder, "That's our little girl," he said, "She comes off with a attitude, but she's got a heart of gold!"

"Dad! Not cool!" The girl blushed deeply and shoved her father away.

Inko couldn't help but smile at their antics, wishing that her son and her husband could have had such a relationship. Just then one of the doctors exited the room, looking heavily disheveled as he adjusted his coat back onto his shoulders. "Uh, Mrs. Inko Midoriya?" He asked, looking from Inko to Mrs. Jiro.

"That's me." Inko said with a step forward.

"Right," the man sighed as he adjusted his tie, "Regarding your son...well, as you've most likely seen, whatever he's been hit with has been causing him an extreme amount of pain," he shook his head in utterly bafflement, "And I'm afraid we've maxed out the amount of sedatives we can safely give him."

Kyoka looked into the room where Izuku was just barely holding himself together from screaming and thrashing about, "Doesn't look like it's helping that much."

"You would be right, young lady," the doctor said, "Blood samples have revealed some startling results. He not only seems to have black widow venom in his veins - "

Inko made a strangled sound in her throat at the mention of the deadly arachnid as Kyoka's mother supported her shoulders.

" - but he also seems to have been exposed to the Devil's Breath virus." The doctor finished as Inko gave a forlorn cry and sank to her knees, bawling her eyes out.

"Jesus Christ, Doc!" Kyoka's father snapped, "Try being a little more sensitive, will ya?! The poor woman's already stressed out enough!"

"He's going to be alright, isn't he?" Kyoka's mother asked worriedly.

The doctor sighed, "In all honesty, the boy should have been dead by now." He said while Inko wailed, and gained more glares from the Jiro family, "When he was shot, the bullet all but destroyed his liver, and then there's the added effects of the virus, and the venom in his system." He went on, "However, from what we've been able to to examine, the boy's body is fighting back on all fronts like a...well, it's almost as if he has a type of Cell Regeneration Quirk."

"But my baby doesn't have a Quirk!" Inko said after finally calming herself down enough to speak, "My baby's never shown anything like Cell Regeneration!" She sobbed, "I should know, I've treated his injuries from bullies for years!"

The doctor sighed, "Your son may have been Quirkless, Mrs. Midoriya, but from what we have observed in the last half hour at the least, he has exhibited signs of enhanced strength, rapid regeneration, and what seems to be a form of bio-electricity." He lifted his sleeve to show the group a small scorch mark on his left wrist in the shape of a hand. "Whatever is going on with your son, at this very moment, it has activated a dormant Quirk Gene."

"Quirk Gene?" Inko parroted.

"Everyone has this gene," the doctor explained, "Whether or not they are born with an active Quirk Gene, or an inactive one is a complete coin toss, however, depending on how strong the gene is in an offspring is determined by how strong it is from the parents. Since your Quirk and his father's Quirk are, technically, weak, his Gene was inactive at birth, marking him as Quirkless."

"So this virus is making his Quirk activate?" Kyoka asked.

"Not quite," he said, "You see, if his Quirk was Telekenesis or Fire Breath like either of his parents, then I would say that the virus caused the Quirk to activate as a defense mechanism." He explained, "But this young man is displaying multiple abilities that neither one of his parents have, which means that there is another factor at work. My theory is that the spider venom in his system and the virus were introduced at the same time. Meaning the spider was infected with the virus and then bit him, causing his Quirk Gene to mutate into what we're seeing now."

"Aren't we missing something here?" Kyoka's mother asked, "You said that it was a black widow that bit him, correct?"

"Indeed, and I'm well aware that the species is not indigenous to Japan," the man said, frowning, "Which begs the question, where did this arachnid come from?"

Kyoka was quick to answer, "The clinic!" She yelled, startling the others, "That whacked out doctor that treated his wound jabbed him with some kind'a cocktail he said was antibiotics, and steroids. But he started feeling sick almost right after he got stuck with it!"

"Why would he do something like poisoning the young man?" The doctor asked.

"A test?" Inko wondered out loud, "He used my son as a guinea pig!"

Before anyone could comment, one of the nurses was suddenly flung through the door. The doctor hurriedly returned to the room to help restrain the boy before he did anymore damage while a second nurse helped her comrade up.

Inko was devastated. "He's the same man that told us that Izuku was Quirkless," she blubbered, "How could he use my baby like a lab rat!"

Kyoka's mother was already on the phone to the police to report the man, while her father was blubbering right alongside Inko. A few moments later, however, the doctor was sent sailing through the door by a massive blast of electricity.

"GAH!"


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By the time the police arrived at the clinic that Izuku received treatment for his wound, the place was already shut down, and the doctor was gone. Nothing remained of the man's files, nor was there any evidence of the serum used on Izuku to make him suffer as he was.

Detective Tsukauchi arrived on the scene himself, having a vested interest in the case seeing as the little girl, Eri, had kept asking for her savior. He would later visit the hospital with the little girl at his side, only to find that the boy that she wanted to see was knocked completely unconscious by dangerous levels of sedatives, but there was little the staff could have done otherwise.

Izuku's new powers were on automatic defense, and were lashing out at anyone nearby that his body viewed as a threat. With Izuku in his present state, he was in no condition to tell friend from foe, so the doctors had no choice but to use larger doses.

But the fact that he was a danger to those around him at that moment did nothing to deter little Eri from wanting to see him. And so she was met with not her savior, but his mother instead.

The woman was so like Izuku that Eri felt safe around her immediately, and she recognized the girl with her from when the boy had passed her off to the loud boy. And, while she was being held up to the window so that she could look into Izuku's room, she asked something that was going to make things extremely difficult for Naomasa in the coming days.

"Is Daddy going to be okay?"

With that one innocent sentence, the man knew that separating the little girl from the boy was going to be impossible. Especially with how introverted she was thanks to the long-term abuse she had suffered.

Inko, not knowing how else to react to the child's question, simply smiled at her and said that he would be fine. The little girl seemed happy with that, (no one could tell since she didn't show any emotions) and fell asleep a few moments later in the woman's arms.

In the end, the doctors could only make sure that the boy was comfortable, and let whatever was happening to him run its course until the very end.

Naomasa, seeing no other alternative for Eri, asked that Mrs. Midoriya take the girl for the night, which she was happy to do, having grown attached to the little girl. When returning home, however, she was greeted with two guests that she did not expect.

One was a skeletal man with blond hair and sunken eyes, and the other was a small white animal...

Naomasa introduced them as Toshinori Yagi, a talent scout for U.A., and the U.A. principle himself, Nezu.

She invited them all in as she placed the sleeping Eri in Izuku's bed. The little girl snuggled up under Izuku's All Might themed blanket. Meanwhile, Toshinori was grinning at all the All Might themed merchandise. "Quite the fanboy, isn't he?"

Inko giggled, "Well, yes, Izuku's admired All Might since he was just a little boy." Unaware of the stabbing spike of guilt that she had sent into Toshinori's chest.

"I can imagine that things haven't been easy while raising such a boy in today's day and age," Nezu said sympathetically, "A child that's born without a Quirk must have brought on a great deal of ridicule."

Inko nodded as the small rodent admired the volumes of handwritten notes her son had taken over the years. "Yes, and I'm sure you've heard about Katsuki Bakugo by now?"

Nezu nodded, "I have, and his mother was quite adamant that should we accept him, that we put the boy through counseling to curb that horrendous attitude of his," he said in a soft tone, "Now, normally, I would have told them that such behavior was intolerable, but seeing as they brought it to my attention before he was enrolled in our school, I agreed to take him in as a student, and put him through therapy. If he doesn't improve, then we'll have no choice but to expel him."

"ACK!" Toshinori yelped as he was fiddling with one of Izuku's inventions and was rewarded with the device's contents spraying all over him, "What the heck is this stuff? Spider webs?"

Inko giggled again at the sight of the man covered in the stuff, "Izuku based it on spider's silk, and it's just as strong as steel cables." She boasted proudly, "He even made it from cheap and recycled materials so that it wouldn't hurt our budget!"

"That is something I would like to talk to you both about, ugh, blast it, this stuff is sticky!" Toshinori grumbled before Inko floated a spray can toward him, the label reading "Web Dissolvent". "Ah, thank you, Mrs. Midoriya." He said before spraying himself down with the surprisingly pleasant smelling chemical that melted the web-like substance away in just a few seconds. "Ahem," he said as he freed himself, "Now, during the practical exam, your son displayed a great deal of what it means to be a Hero, Ma'am, and, though he was unable to get any Combat Points during the practical exam, he did rack himself up quite a few Rescue Points, enough to make sure that he was placed in the Hero Course."

Inko blinked, "He...he did?" She stammered, "Then why wasn't he - ?"

"It's because he doesn't have a Quirk that we can't safely enroll him, Ma'am," Nezu stated, "While the boy did exceptionally well in the written exams, as well as the Support and General Studies courses, the fact that he doesn't have a Quirk - "

"There are plenty of students that have Quirks that will be ill-suited for U.A.'s training courses," Toshinori told him, "They themselves may as well be Quirkless. However, you blatantly disregarded the fact that the school has Rescue Points for those very students, since their Quirks aren't suited for combat, and tossed this boy aside because of geneticism."

"Both of you stop," Inko said, worried that their raised voices could wake the sleeping child, "Thank you for telling me that, Mr. Yagi, I had no idea that the faculty in U.A. were so unfair. However, the doctors say that Izuku has now developed a Quirk, so you had better take this chance and rethink about his acceptance, Principle Nezu."

Both of them looked at her in shock, "A Quirk? How?" Nezu asked, and Inko quickly explained what had been found out while she was at the hospital.

Naomasa nodded, "She's right. When we went to apprehend him, this Doctor Tsubasa was already gone, as well as all of his notes, data, or anything we could use against him."

Toshinori growled, "First the little girl, and now this." He said with some anger laced in his voice, "Needless to say, the boy will be placed in U.A.," he looked down at the principle, "I was being nice when I pleaded his case earlier, Nezu, but now I'm threatening." He glowered, "He goes to U.A., or else I'll pull all of my funding from the school, and I'll make sure that All Might teaches elsewhere."

The mammalian looked at him with unease, "I-I assure you that there is no need to go that far, Toshinori," he said hurriedly, "I'll gladly place the boy in our best class so that he will be made into a fine Hero!"

Toshinori smiled and turned to the boy's mother, "Does the boy have a costume design he wanted to use?"

Inko bit her lip as she looked to the shelf where her son kept all of his notes, and blueprints. Unerringly, she reached out and pulled a thick binder from the row, and began flipping through it. "I hope you that you won't read too much into this, Mr. Yagi." She said as she flipped through the pages, "His father...is a Vigilante, and Izuku used to be quite proud of him for that fact," she said, smiling fondly as she remembered watching him draw it out, "So he wanted something that resembled his father's suit." She handed him the binder, allowing him and Naomasa to have a look at the design on the page.

Naomasa shared a look with the skeletal man, Toshinori smirking at him. "His father, you said?"

Inko nodded rather proudly, "Yes, I did."

Naomasa was pinching his brow, "The reason he doesn't come home isn't because he's ashamed of his Quirkless son, is it?"

"No, it's not...at least, not entirely, I hope." Inko said before giving both men a look of fear, "Please, I haven't spoken with him in so long, but I know that he's doing honest work, now!"

The detective just sighed, "I'm not here to investigate a Vigilante that's been silent for the last ten years," he said, "But I would like to ask you a few questions at a later time, provided you don't mind talking about him in general?"

"I don't." Inko shook her head.

Toshinori chuckled, "I'll have to make a few changes and tweaks here and there to make sure it's not too obvious, but I think I can have our company make him an excellent Hero Suit."


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Izuku awoke to an urgent buzzing at the back of his head, and he blearily opened his eyes to see a familiar figure standing over him and taking blood from his arm, "Doctor Tsubasa?"

"That is the name I have often used, yes," the man said as he raised up and injected the blood sample into a tube, "As I've said before, I am quite impressed with you, young man, yes, indeed." He said, looking down at him, "Not only did you survive having your liver basically blown to pieces, but the serum I injected you with gave you the gift that you've always wanted. You should thank the spider if she were still alive."

"Gift?" He asked a little more clearly.

Tsubasa smiled at him with evident pride, "Yes, my boy, a very special gift." He explained. "While I'm not sure how far it will extend, you now have all of the abilities most spiders have. Though, I highly doubt that you can spin webs of your own." He said before placing the sample in his pocket, and retreating from the room as Izuku began to drift away again. "I can't wait to see what you're capable of, little spider-boy."


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Author's Notes: Here's a continuation of the previous chapter. It's revealed that, although Izuku did acquire Rescue Points, due to the fact that he was Quirkless at the time, he was rejected from being put in the Hero Course. Eri has also formed an attachment of her own, how could anyone pass that up? Bakugo is on thin ice with U.A. already, and the doctor seems to have plans for Izuku's blood. (Pure aggression, anyone?)

Update: Did a little more with Izuku's suit, and it's background.

If ya wanna see what happens next, ya know what to do! Adios Amigos!