So, THIS was an idea that just popped into my head.
I've always been a fan of the French comic series/animated movies named "Asterix and Obelix" and I thought to myself, "What would happen if one green-haired cinnamon roll had ended up with the same abilities of the larger of the two.
If you're wondering how Getafix the Druid is still alive after all this time? He's a druid, they can live forever if they want to.
This is more of a one-shot idea I had, though if people enjoy it enough, I may write more as the possibilities and fights for our lovable green giant are almost endless.
[MHA and Asterix and Obelix all belong to their copyright owners, as I do not own any of them.]
Chapter 1
The Dismissal of a Grape
"If you're here to make friends, you can pack up your stuff and leave." The yellow "caterpillar" Shota Aizawa spoke while looking up at his new class of hero students. Slowly standing up and unzipping the sleeping bag covering his body, Aizawa emerged from the cocoon with his tired eyes scanning the room, watching as many of the students were whispering amongst themselves for a few moments before all of them quieted down, realizing their instructor was waiting for them.
"Twelve seconds, that is far from acceptable," Aizawa said with a stern tone of voice, causing a few of the students to flinch. The underground hero sighed heavily as he moved towards his podium and pulled out a rather large box, grunting slightly from the weight of the thing before opening up and bringing out a sealed clear package with a standard UA gym outfit inside, "grab the one with your name and then go and change and report to Ground Beta, you have fifteen minutes."
"But what about the first-day orientation?" Someone had asked from the slightly bewildered and confused class. Aizawa couldn't tell who had asked but sighed just the same before leveling a deadpanned look to them.
"Frivolous events like those are illogical, now grab your uniforms and head out; you have thirteen minutes."
The new students quickly clamored up from their seats, rushing towards the box, and immediately found and dashed out of the room. Aizawa was about to head out when seen that one of the new students had remained behind, "Yes?"
"Um… I-I am really sorry to ask this, sir." Spoke the young brunette woman with an ever-present blush on her cheeks, "B-But did a boy with green hair make it? H-he saved me during the entrance exam, and I know Present Mic said not to worry about giving him my points. Still, I didn't see him on the way here. We had an empty desk… and I um…" she quieted down when the constant staring of her teacher made her more nervous, thinking she was being a problem for her tired-looking man.
In reality, Aizawa did not think she was annoying or a problem. While on the outside, it looked like he didn't care; within his mind, Aizawa was actually happy that someone had noticed the missing student or even managed to ask.
But still needing to push the "ruse", Aizawa just turned from his podium and headed out the room, speaking as he did so, "It's pointless to worry about things out of your control, go get changed; you have eleven minutes."
The sudden gasp and worry of the girl dashing past him caused Aizawa to smirk under his scarf.
"Man, I'm hungry… I knew I should have had that third helping of ham this morning." said Izuku Midoriya, stretching his arms over his head before bringing them down to pat his stomach, sighing gently as he went to fix his gym outfit, "and I hope I don't trash this uniform…."
"It cannot be helped," Spoke a rather wizened looking man beside him, looking up to the towering young adult, "It is rare for most articles of clothing to hold in not only your strength but also your size as well. It's one of the reasons why many of the Gauls and especially Obelix refrained from wearing sleeves."
"I mean…that makes sense, but Getafix, what about my pants?" Izuku said with a tinge of a blush running along his cheeks as he looked to the older man with some slight worry, "I don't want to moon my new classmates!"
"Not to worry, Nezu wanted me to assure you that the pants he provided for you would survive any sort of punishment you could dish out."
"And my top?" Izuku asked with an inquisitive look, though he had a feeling he already knew the answer.
Getafix merely shrugged, causing the boy to sigh heavily, "I had asked him about your upper garments as well, but all he did was laugh hysterically."
"Of course he did…." Izuku rubbed the bridge of his nose while shaking his head, only to look up when he heard the sounds of shoes against the track coming towards the pair. Izuku smiled brightly as he strode over to one of his favorite people in the world, "Uncle Aizawa!"
"Problem Child." the rugged man spoke as he watched the much taller and larger teenager make his way over to him, "I didn't see you when the others came into the classroom." continued the tired teacher, leveling a deadpanned look on his student and pseudo nephew.
"Y-yea... sorry about that; I was finishing my breakfast and morning training when Getafix told me to head here and wait for everyone." Izuku said as he and his teacher looked back towards the older man and saw Getafix make his way towards them, "Is this going to be one of your quirk assessment tests?" Izuku asked, looking back towards Aizawa with an inquisitive look.
"Yes, but don't mention it to the others when they get here, and you know what I'll be watching for?" Aizawa said with a side glance.
"My control over my strength, I know Unc- I mean sir!" Izuku said with a quick backpedal when Aizawa had given him a glare of his quirk.
"Good, watch with the 'familial' ties, Problem Child, and we should be good…Now, go stand away and wait so that the others don't get suspicious." Aizawa had said with his eyes returning to normal, seeing Izuku give a quick nod and move a reasonable distance from his teacher and mentor; Aizawa soon looked towards Getafix, "I take it he's already prepared?"
"He's had a big breakfast if that's what you are referring to, so we won't have to resort to your emergency stash of jellies this time." The older man chuckled to himself, causing Aizawa to grumble into his scarf, "Oh come now, nothing to grumble about, young man, we did replace all of the ones Izuku had taken as well as adding some of the 'special' ones I made you for when you are galavanting on the rooftops at night."
The smile hidden under the older man's long white beard could be heard in his voice as Aizawa grumbled. Despite how he lived his life, the underground hero knew he would be far worse off had he not had a local supply of the supposed "druid's" magic potion in the form of his jelly snacks and hidden in a secret place not even Izuku could ever find. He could hear Getafix shift slightly as Aizawa looked back at him, "What is it?"
"Truthfully, I'm worried about Izuku." Getafix said while staring at the young man who had his back turned to them and doing some light stretches, "Despite his experiences living here at UA, he has seldom interacted with people his own age."
Aizawa leveled a look at the old druid before sighing gently, looking back to his nephew and remembering the first time he had met the green-haired young man, "Was it not at your suggestion to keep him like that until practically now?"
"I had my reasons, as you very well know, young man; I doubt you would agree to let Izuku be around any child with the strength to defeat legions of Roman soldiers with zero control." It was Getafix now to give Aizawa a stern look, "Or do you need a reminder of what he did to that one man who he thought was going to hurt Nemuri?"
"Not really, no, and I still stand by how illogical it was that a ten-year-old could just backhand an adult male so hard that there was nothing but their shoes left until he came back down," Aizawa said as he squinted his eyes when he could hear the various shouts of excitement coming from the University's doors.
"I thought it was funny, to be quite honest," Getafix said with a shrug and a goodhearted chuckle, "Reminded me of old times, as well as showing that ruffian what for."
"And to think Death Arms still has a restraining order against the problem child to this day…."
"Come on, 'Chako!" The pink-skinned young woman named Mina Ashido, arm slung around the downtrodden brunette who had come pretty late to the changing room, "You said that one of the teachers told you he'd be fine getting in. So what's to worry about?"
"I-I know Ashido…." Ochako Uraraka said softly, tapping her fingertips together, "But I never got to thank him for saving me during the entrance exam! And if he didn't make it, I don't think I ever could…."
"While I also agree with Ashido's assessment, I do also have to point out it would be quite unreasonable for a prestigious university such as UA let someone with that amount of talent and strength to not be in the heroics course," Tenya Iida had said while moving his arm up and down similarly like a robot, being followed behind by a few of the other men.
"What did he do exactly?" The redhead known as Ejiro Kirishima spoke up suddenly.
"It was truly inspiring!" Tenya had turned his head towards his classmate while the others were looking at him while listening, "During the practical portion of the exam, he saved Uraraka, who had been pinned down by some debris when the Zero-pointer had emerged from behind some buildings."
"How did he do that?" Asked a blond boy with a streak of black running down one side of his hair.
"Well, he first ran up to the monstrosity, then leaped into the air before delivering a single punch to the zero pointer's head!"
Everyone looked at the blue-haired young man like he had grown a second head for a few moments, many of which due to having come across their own zero pointers in the exam and remembering just how big the damn thing was. It was at this point that Iida continued, "After dispatching of the robot, he descended down its body and made his way to Uraraka, effortlessly tossed the boulder that had pinned her down and then carried her off towards, I'm assuming, the entrance to the battle zone?"
As Iida had said this, everyone looked towards the now red-faced Ochako, who timidly nodded. At this point, Mina and another girl who was invisible named Toru squealed lightly to one another as everyone had exited out of the main building to head towards the field. It was a sound similar to a croak from a frog that caught Ochako's attention after she had been trying to deal with both Mina and Toru, "Say, Uraraka, that guy that saved you, did he have green hair, kero?"
"H-Huh? O-oh yes, yes he did!"
"Well, I think you don't need to worry anymore if that's him." Spoke the quirk-altered girl pointing towards another student who was finishing up some squats with his back turned towards the oncoming class. Ochako smiled brightly and looked relieved as she and the others began to make their way to the lone man, but as they got closer, some of the students looked flabbergasted at what they had come upon.
Now, it wasn't strange for someone's body to be altered by their quirk, or they had to put a lot of work into getting their body into top shape, especially when it came to heroics. But, to say that the boy was large was an understatement.
While most, if not all of the students, had to look up to look upon his face, it was hard not to point out that he was on the larger side. While he didn't look as fit as someone like All Might, they could see how built up his muscles were underneath the gym outfit as the cloth strained to hide what was underneath. As they were approaching him at a more subdued pace, they watched as the larger student stopped in what he was doing and turned around, only to be met with more confused faces as while the class was expecting to see a man with possibly a few scars and a grim look, only to be met with the almost baby faced, yet plain-looking boy with bright emerald eyes that held so much wonder when he looked upon his new classmates.
And while it didn't look like he could run fast, they watched as he sped towards them with such haste you'd think it would be supersonic, especially with the dust cloud that trailed behind him and flowed past and caused many of the other students to begin coughing, "I knew I'd see you again!" the boy said in an excited tone of voice and beaming a smile down at the still coughing gravity girl.
"H-huh?" Ochako said after she finished coughing, waving a hand in front of her face to clear the air of the dust. Her brown eyes looked up into his emeralds, and she immediately began to fidget and blush again, remembering the last time they had seen one another and the phantom touches of how he had carried her towards the medical area. Ochako snapped out of her daydreaming as she finally registered what he had said, "Y-You knew We'd see each other again?"
"Yep!" Izuku said with no shame and a big grin on his face, "How you handled the robots and helped out others during the exam really showed how great of a hero you can be! And your quirk is just so cool! Like is there a limit to how much weight you can remove? Or is it possibly just negating a certain field around the objects you touch? Also-"
As the others watched the exchange going on between the still embarrassed but now completely lost-looking Ochako and the mystery boy bombarding her with a dozen or more questions about her quirk, Mina was smiling wildly as the thoughts of how cute the two looked to one another sent her 'shipping' senses into overdrive, even if nothing happened out of it. Plus, she had to admit the mystery boy was pretty cute himself, and if Uraraka wasn't going to move in and claim the big guy… Well, she couldn't be blamed for what she would do.
"Midoriya, enough, you can badger your new classmates after we are finished here." A stern voice spoke from behind the large student as everyone shifted around him to see their homeroom teacher, along with another older man walking towards them.
As the two stopped a reasonable distance away, Iida had raised his hand up, "Excuse me, sir… but who is that beside you?"
"I am one of the university's health administrators; you can call me Getafix." said the old druid with a big smile and a gentle chuckle coming from him, considering how a few of the students had tried to do their best not to snicker at the man's name, "I am here mostly to oversee your health and make sure none of you go too overboard with what is to come."
"W-what's going to happen?" asked a diminutive young man with purple balls on his head.
While the students couldn't see it due to his scarf, Aizawa was smirking to himself as he leaned back on the ball of his heel and gave the most dead-eyed stare to the twenty students before him, "A Quirk Assessment test."
Izuku was feeling good about himself right now, stepping away from the ring with a very impressive 120-meter ball toss. The smirk he could see coming from his uncle while hiding the look from the rest of the class further solidified that notion as the more oversized teenager made his way back to his classmates.
Admittedly, what was causing him some worry was the looks from his fellow classmates. Now, Izuku would happily admit he had some trouble reading people at times, given his interactions with Tamaki when Izuku could hang out with him, Mirio, and Nejire over the last couple of years.
But the way some of his classmates had looked upon with, he guessed, 'disbelief' or something as they had progressed through the various tests only to finish with the ball toss. Granted, a few of his peers were talking to him at least, the brown-haired girl Ochako Uraraka and the glasses-wearing boy Tenya Iida had introduced themselves during the preparations between each test, and he was able to ask them about their quirks as well.
But he had learned the names of the rest of his classmates, thanks to Aizawa calling out their names, and as Izuku had watched them, he could see all of their quirks in action as well as think up all of the possibilities they could do.
Heck, he also thought what would happen were they given some of Grandpa Getafix's magic potion.
But there were some outlier's to be sure, many of whom just wanted to steer clear of him. Some of which was the boy named Todoroki, who just kept either glaring at Izuku or just always had a stoic look on his face. The other was another blonde boy who could fire out explosions from his hands named Bakugo that was definitely glaring at him with a bit of a snarl to add to the look.
For some reason, that name was bugging Izuku, like something he should have remembered or something. But, Izuku was sure it would come to him eventually.
However, one classmate of his rubbed Izuku the wrong way, and that was one Minoru Mineta.
He had watched the more petite boy try to leer at their female classmates, many of who noticed and did their best to hide away from the purple-haired pest. Now, Izuku was not blind. He could appreciate the form of a woman as much as the next person would. Admittedly, all of his female classmates were drop-dead gorgeous, invisible or not.
But being raised by his mother Inko and Aunt Nemuri and taught about the finer points of the fairer sex by the latter, even if her sex education classes gave a little TOO much information. At least the green-haired boy understood boundaries, so Izuku huffed to himself before walking over and blocking the diminutive lecher's view from the women, much to their appreciation.
Admittedly, he did notice Ochako grumbled something when the bubblegum-skinned woman named Mina Ashido was talking to him, although he couldn't understand why as he thought the quirk-altered woman was only being very friendly towards him. But he would admit that she looked pretty cute when she blushed purple after she grabbed one of his arms and gave it a squeeze.
"Alright," called out Aizawa as Izuku came out of his inner thoughts, "Here are your results."
And as the giant scoreboard flickered on, Izuku began to smile to himself when he saw that he had placed eighth overall. That was a vast improvement from the last time he took tests, and he was happy with his results, unlike some people.
"NOOOO! I don't want to be kicked out!" shouted Mineta while wailing, snot and tears running down his face, which was kind of disgusting. As the smaller boy brought his head up, there was a look of pure outrage as he scrambled up to his feet and pointed his finger at Midoriya, "These tests are utter garbage! How the hell did that fat oaf place higher than me!"
Mineta didn't relent as he was clearly seeing red, stomping his way towards the shocked Izuku, while everyone else took a tentative step back, not fearing what the small boy would do to their massive classmate, but more for curiosity as they too were wondering how Izuku got so high.
"Not once was he trying! He did worse than me on several of those tests and even dead last on a couple of him, and YET he's fucking eighth?!"
Izuku blinked, frowning slightly as he looked down at Mineta, "I can ex-"
"And then, you keep blocking my view! What the absolute hell! And don't try and deny it!" Mineta squawked out, tears of blood flowing out of his now beady eyes, "Just because you're some seven hundred pound gorilla doesn't mean you can hog all the tail in class!"
The pint-sized student was now standing up to Izuku, panting heavily before continuing on his rant, poking the larger boy's stomach while he was shouting more and more about how Izuku had been cockblocking him the entire time as well as a few other comments about his weight. Everyone was starting to get agitated or disturbed at the way Mineta was acting, and Izuku merely looked up from staring down at the boy to look at his tired Uncle, a silent exchange going between them for a moment before Izuku returned his eyes down to the wailing child before him.
Without a moment of hesitation, Izuku simply lifted his left arm up, smacking Mineta upside the chin, but despite it looking like a casual sort of movement, the diminutive boy was launched high into the air, his shoes literally falling off as Mineta screeched overhead, soaring into the air before there was nothing but a speck in the distance and disappeared past one of the many distant buildings on the university grounds.
"Problem child," Aizawa spoke up suddenly to cut the tense silence in the air as said problem child looked to his teacher/uncle.
"Yes, he should have landed at the waste disposal site… F… I think, given the wind resistance?" Izuku said while licking his finger quickly to check for the wind, and as he felt the cool breeze, he smiled, "Yep, F."
"Good, I'll make sure to have Cementoss grab him and have him checked over by Recovery Girl before we toss him out for inappropriate behavior unbecoming a hero student." The teacher said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a cellphone. However, as he was doing this, Iida had been the first one of the students to snap out of what they just saw and rushed over to Izuku.
"Midoriya! While I understand what Mineta did and said went too far, there was no reason to launch him into the air, especially that high!" The bi-spectacled boy shouted while waving his arm up and down robotically once again before he spoke in a more subdued tone with a stern glare that caused Izuku to flinch, "And what he spoke about you not trying during the tests, while I have personally seen you demolish the zero pointer, I will admit you didn't seem to actually put in your all."
Just when Izuku was about to explain himself, which he was having a difficult time too when everyone began to give him hard stares as well, it was the clearing throat of Getafix to get everyone's attention, "If Izuku is alright with it, I can explain the circumstances as to why it seemed he wasn't trying as hard as the rest of you."
When the older man got the silent nod from his adopted grandson, the old druid smiled as he spoke, "You see, Izuku's quirk is unique, where his strength, stamina, and speed are far past that of even quirked individuals. It is called 'Gaule Verte'."
A few people gasped gently, looking now to the still slightly embarrassed man, who was rubbing the back of his head with a soft chuckle as Getafix continued, "When it first awakened, his strength was so great that he couldn't grip anything lest he utterly destroyed it, even the smallest of movements was difficult for him, and the fact that his strength is always at that level made him very dangerous."
"He needed to learn control while also interacting in a world that was basically like tissue paper to him," Getafix said with a somber tone of voice, remembering some of the more troublesome times.
Izuku looked down to the ground softly, remembering those exact times and what he said gasped a few of his classmates to gasp in shock and sadness for the larger boy, "I couldn't even hug my mom when I was young as there was a fear I could crush her."
"Hence why his test was different than yours." Aizawa had said, closing his cellphone, and leveled a hard stare at the other students, "Midoriya's was to see how much control he was able to use and hold back his strength, which made it look like he wasn't trying at all."
"Dude…" Kirishima said with a look of awe on his face before smiling brightly, "Your quirk is freakin amazing and manly!"
"O-Oh.. thank you, Kirishima," Izuku replied with a bright smile, the blush still somewhat evident on his cheeks, and as he was about to try and reassure everyone that he wasn't trying to undermine all of their own hard work, his stomach let out a loud gurgling cry for food, which caused him to go red once again and earn a few snickers from everyone else.
"That is the other d-downside, my body is constantly b-burning through all of my energy, and I need to eat at regular intervals… otherwise, I just pass out from exhaustion until I get some food in me."
"Speaking of, your syllabus is on your desks; I wasn't going to actually expel anyone today as you all had potential, and the threat was to motivate you." Aizawa said as he turned around and began to walk away with his hands in his pockets, "But now I need to fill out some forms for a new student. Getafix-"
"Already on it, Aizawa." Getafix said with a smirk and shaking of his head before turning his attention back to the students, "Alright everyone, you heard your teacher; once everyone is back in class, I can show you to the cafeteria and the dorms you'll be staying in and then you'll have the rest of the day free."
As everyone cheered about the promise of food, especially Izuku, the entire class of 1-A began to head back to the changerooms. As they were doing so, Izuku was smiling to himself about the new experiences he would have with his new classmates. However, there was still one thing at the back of his mind, one worry that would forever haunt him should his classmates find out.
What would happen if they found out that he was actually quirkless, and his "quirk" was really just an accident that took place many years ago.
When four-year-old Izuku Midoriya had fallen into a giant cauldron filled with a magical potion.
