My Hero Academia: The Reject Society

by ParadoxxFoxx

Emmet wasn't always the most prime candidate for becoming a hero, but he thinks now is better than never. Emmet, believing he's instrumental in taking down an elite group of supervillains, applies to the most prestigious school he can, only to get rejected. The school he gets into instead is an alternative program, meaning he has to work even harder to become who he needs to be.

1. Prologue: The Case of Emmet Blake

Chapter One

The Case of Emmet Blake

All men are created equal.

The five words that have haunted me since the day my quirk didn't develop. Who said it? I'm not sure, but I'm not sure that they had the proper foresight here. It's not like I can blame them, it's just that I have the luxury to know better. I also have the luxury to know that no one actually believes it — how could they?

Anyways, it doesn't matter who said it or why. What matters is that I said it because they said it and it's not true.

Let's just start from the beginning.

I was born into a superhuman society, I'm sure you get the gist of it. Eighty percent of the population has a fantastical power called a quirk. When I was four years old, doctors told me that it was likely I would never develop a quirk. They were right. The kids around me would begin to shoot smoke from their fingertips, create fire from nothing, and manipulate people's moods.

It was around that time that schools would gather all of the quirkless kids together to give them the spiel about all men being created equal as if a bunch of five year olds could understand it. All we saw around us was the opposite. Quickly following that, quirkless kids would get pulled from school to either get homeschooled or placed in schools specifically for quirkless children. My mom didn't have that option for me, so here I stayed and there they went.

School years passed and adults kept asking us what we wanted to be when we grew up. You can guess what most kids wanted to be. When it came to be my turn to speak up in front of the class about what I wanted to be, I would almost never have an answer. Being a hero would be nice, but I'm me. I did always want to be one deep down but I would never admit it. If there was anything I could do to make sure people like me could stop feeling as helpless as I do, I'd do it immediately.

If there was any way for me to become a hero, I would make sure I could do it. I'd just need a push.

Hey all, this is a redux of the first chapter (that's probably more of a chapter zero or prologue) for this story that I feel works and flows a lot better and characterizes Emmet a lot better. I think he seemed kind of whiny before. Anyways, if you're a new reader then consider following and favoriting or reviewing, and if you're returning here then also consider reviewing and letting me know what you think of this new chapter one!