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An Unexpected Awakening

(Inspired by Amphibia)

This story would be a take on the classic 'Izuku gains a quirk aside from One for All/Overpowered Izuku' fic, as well as typical 'Classmates meeting before U.A.' fic. In this fic, Izuku would meet Ochako before U.A., and the two of them would become childhood friends throughout their time at Aldera.

Things would go on as typical aside from that, right up until the Sludge Villain Incident, where Izuku would undergo a late awakening of an extremely powerful quirk and defeat the Sludge Villain all by himself...

Destroying much of Aldera in the process.

That's right, this fic isn't a typical 'Overpowered Izuku' fic. It's a deconstruction of the entire genre.

During the brief fight, much of Aldera High School was brought down by Izuku and Bakugo is crippled in the fight. Realising what he has done and how much destruction he has caused, Izuku goes into a panic and runs back home as the heroes try to pursue him, his quirk firing off wildly and causing massive amounts of property damage in the process.

As he reaches home, Izuku begins to suffer from a panic attack, and as the heroes arrive to arrest him, his quirk wildly fires off once again.

His home is destroyed, and his mother is killed in the process.

When All Might arrives at the destroyed house, he finds a dead civilian, a dozen wounded heroes, and a catatonic Izuku holding the corpse of his mother, eyes empty and welled up with tears. When he takes the boy away, none of them say a word.

Izuku is briefly held in a cell, accused of being a villain by the media, but it is All Might who is able to free him from custody before he is put on trial and sent to prison. Realising his mistake in turning him away because of his quirklessness, as well as seeing how damaged the boy has become because of events that he cannot control, All Might agrees to train Izuku in better handling this new quirk of his, all the while trying to understand how it came about and why, as he is physically too late to be a late bloomer for a quirk.

However, in the ten months that follow, it is clear that this new quirk of Izuku's is both monstrously strong and horrifically impractical. Every movement of his has been increased tenfold. He cannot take a step without breaking the floor, and he cannot hold or grip on anything without shattering it. In fact, almost all of his time with All Might is spent not building up his strength, but toning it down, trying to dial it down and make his quirk more manageable. All Might soon realises that he can't do this on his own and is forced to bring in other teachers as well.

Worse yet is the public response to Izuku's quirk awakening. Many in the media have already touted him as a villain, and many more in the public have joined suite. Many quirkless people have seen his quirk awakening and begun to try and awaken their own quirks as well, resulting in a rise of incidents in which many quirkless individuals would throw themselves into dangerous confrontations between heroes and villains in order to try and gain their own quirks, immediately resulting in more damage and spikes in violence. Not only all of that, but many ambitious heroes have begun to try and take Izuku into their own agencies, seeking to use him to strength themselves or take him into custody themselves, earning him a kind of attention from heroes that he never wanted.

When Izuku is placed into U.A., it is a bittersweet feeling. Because of the monstrous strength of his quirk, he is forced to stay away from the rest of the students in his year and is giving Aizawa as a personal trainer/tutor. However, it soon becomes clear to everyone, Aizawa especially, that their usual methods will not work. Izuku's quirk is already beyond Plus Ultra, so their job would be to get it back down to Just Ultra before he accidently hurts someone else. If he can't be a hero, then they can at least teach him how to control his quirk and progress normally in regular life.

At least he still had Ochako in U.A., though he kept himself as far away from Bakugo as he could.

However, things in U.A. would begin to take a dark turn. The League of Villains' attack on the USJ was more devastating than in canon, and the Sports Festival is interrupted by an attack from the LOV, resulting in numerous students being kidnapped. The faculty of U.A. are forced to deploy Izuku against the growing power of the Leage of Villains as the situation worsens every single day.

As he is sent into Hosu alongside a trio of heroes, Izuku is met by Ochako and Bakugo, deployed to find the Hero Killer Stain with their aligned agencies. However, when Stain attacks Iida in the alleyways, and the Leage send in their Nomu to join in the chaos, the city descends into anarchy. Heroes mistakenly attack Izuku, Ochako is forced to defend him, only to be double-crossed by Bakugo as he rages against Izuku for crippling him, the Nomu attack everyone, and Stain is recruited into the League upon seeing their successes and the folly of the heroes around them, earning Shigiraki and the League a wellspring of new recruits.

After the messy battle concludes, the HPSC steps in and orders U.A. to hand over Izuku to them. A wide political gap between the HPSC and U.A. begins to form, and Izuku is forced into the middle. All the while, the whispers of a traitor within U.A. continues to grow, the League continue to somehow sneak spies and recruiters into the school, and public opinion against Izuku continues to sway further and further away from him. His small circle of allies begins to grow smaller still, and only Ochako chooses to stay by his side.

But things finally begin to take a turn when the training camp is attacked, and Bakugo is kidnapped. Izuku runs away to try and save him, and in the ensuing chaos of Kamino Ward, he is the one to bring down All for One, not All Might. At his victory, and with his new restraint and control of his quirk, public opinion slowly begins to swing back into his favour.

However, his actions earn him even more attention from corrupt Pro Heroes and the HPSC. Eager to take advantage of the mentally wounded boy, many agencies begin to flood U.A. with recruiters and opportunistic invitations. Worse yet, the HPSC continues to request control of Izuku from U.A., widening the gap between the two organisations and intensifying an already worsening situation.

Izuku soon becomes desperate to get rid of his quirk, and upon discovering the existence of the quirkless bullets, he becomes eager to get his hands on one of them. However, when he discovers that the bullets were being made from Eri's skin and flesh, he goes ham on Overhaul and brings him down, almost destroying his organisation and surrounding property in his rage in the process. Everything since then continues to go downhill from there as Eri is brought back to U.A. but is scared of Izuku because of how badly he beat down Overhaul and everything around them.

When the Paranormal Liberation Front comes to call and the war between heroes and villains begins, the combined forces of the new League of Villains is enough to break All for One out of Tarturus and bring him to the frontlines, escalating the situation and bringing the fight to U.A.'s doorstep. Eri and the civilians are forced to evacuate, and Izuku is sent to the frontlines in order to even the odds.

However, hardly anyone trusts him, and he is forced to fight on his own to prevent any casualties. When he is thrown against All for One, he tries to fight him once more, but All for One snaps his finger-

And Izuku burns up.

As Ochako runs to his side to try and aid the wounded boy, she looks up to All for One and calls out something that no one had expected:

This wasn't part of the plan.

Ochako was the traitor. Ochako was the villain within U.A.

As everything comes crashing down around them, All for One reveals the truth of them all: that a year before they had gone into U.A., Ochako had found and approached All for One, begging for help with her parents' company - which was filing for bankruptcy - and for Izuku to be granted a quirk - the strongest one possible. All for One had agreed to help, but only if Ochako agreed to be his man on the inside of U.A.

All for One had been the one to give Izuku his new quirk and had been the one to save her parents' company from bankruptcy and poverty. As Ochako would soon explain, she had done it for them, and for Izuku: she had seen how miserable he was, how worthless he felt in the wake of all the quirkism and ableism that he faced every single day, and she had wanted it to end. So, she granted him a quirk that was so powerful that it would put an end to the misery that he felt and allow him to become more than he had ever thought possible: it had allowed him to finally become the hero that he had always dreamt of.

However, Izuku's reaction is of horror, not gratitude. His new quirk has done way more damage than good: it has effectively destroyed his life and killed his mother. It had ruined so much for him, and it had all been because of her. He's not grateful, he's furious.

But before he can act on his anger, All for One steals back the quirk that he gave Izuku and leaves him for dead, reducing U.A. to rubble in the process.

Now with Hero Society on the verge of collapse, Izuku is forced to step up to the plate, quirkless once more, and defeat All for One once and for all. His awakening has come and passed, and now a new one is needed.

For them all to survive, Izuku must finally accept his quirkless nature and understand the destructiveness that quirks can bring.

It is an unexpected awakening, to say the least.