In a world where nearly everyone has some sort of superpower, almost everyone wants to be a superhero. The thing is, only those with powerful superpowers, (or quirks as they're commonly called) are allowed to be heroes. Those with relatively useless quirks, or not flashy ones are dropped and thrown to the wayside in favor of those with bright, colorful, and most importantly, powerful quirks. It's even worse for the 20% of people who don't have any quirks to speak of.
Lucky for our protagonist, he was gifted with an immensely powerful quirk. Imagination Is Power. It allows him to grant himself any power he wishes.
He first discovered his quirk when he was in his final semester of Kindergarten. He was showing off his amazing baby muscles by holding himself up on the monkey bars, and in his arrogance decided he could hold himself with one hand. Things didn't go so well after that. His hand slipped and he fell to the ground. He landed on his neck and it almost snapped, it also fractured his arm. Everyone thought he was done for, but then a few seconds later, he jumped up off the ground like nothing was wrong.
He and everyone else thought it was some sort of super healing, but this was contradicted when he was playing in his backyard, and claimed he could speak with the baby deer that were nearby. Then again when he got bored in a waiting room one day, and pulled a ukulele out from behind his back.
He then realized that whatever he had wanted to do, he could make it happen. The perfect time to test that would be now, so he thought that he wanted to be outside of the boring waiting room. Then in the blink of an ewe, he was teleported outside the building.
Now, you might say, "Wow, this quirk is super OP, isn't it?" and you'd be right. But I think that's the fun of it.
Anyway, after a hecking time skip, our Main Character is now in his final year of Junior High. (Boy, time sure does fly when you skip past it like that.) He was sitting in his chair in class dutifully not paying attention, when suddenly a wild noise appears.
"DANIEL!"
(Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that our MC's name is Daniel, or Dan, or Danny if you'd prefer.)
Dan looked up from his dreamy dreams, and saw his teacher looking at him with an annoyed expression on their face.
"Huh, oh hey." Dan said while looking into the teacher's ewes.
"What the hell is 'Oh hey' supposed to mean!?" The teacher spoke back, clearly angry about his wordage. But before Dan could answer, they continued.
"Whatever, I was trying to hand out these career aptitude papers. Since this is your last year of Junior High, you should think about what direction you wanna take your life in." The teacher said as they calmed themselves down, and continued explaining while handing out the papers to the rest of the class.
"Oh thanks, but I won't be needing this." Dan said after taking a quick glance at the paper. "And why not?" The teacher asked. "I'm gonna be applying at UA, so it's pretty much useless to fill this out now." He answered.
Everyone in the class stopped what they were doing, and looked at him. "Whoah, you really think you can get into UA? That place has a steep acceptance rate." A few people around the room started saying that and similar things.
Dan looked around at everyone, then with a confident look said, "Yeah. Getting in isn't all that complicated. It's only two parts, written and physical. They even have practice tests you can take for the written. And since I have the brain of a genius who had sex with an even geniuser genius, I think I'll be fine. With that out of the way the only thing I have to 'worry' about is the practical part. But I'm not worried about that part either. For you see, my badassery is too legendary to be cockblocked by a few mindless robots!"
Normally someone talking like that in the middle of class would get in trouble, but everyone was kinda used to it and just ignored him after realizing his answer was gonna be another one of his dumb speeches where he keeps shoehorning in how awesome he is every five seconds.
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It was now after school, and Dan was quietly walking to his apartment. He got to an overpass, and heard what sounded like a boy about his age boldy laughing for seemingly no reason. He was going to ignore him and continue on his trek home, but he then heard a rumbling and saw a horrid green slime monster crawl out from a manhole cover in the road.
He was stunned for a second as he saw this creature form itself. He then heard the creature say something before pouncing on the boy he had heard earlier. Seeing that snapped him out of his dazed state, as he ran over to where they were and saw the creature trying to force his way down the boy's throat like this was some sort of hentai.
Dan wouldn't stand for this disgusting activity going on in broad daylight, and with an underage individual no less! He knew he had to do something, so he yelled out to the creature as he ran over to it.
"HEY YOU SLIMY MOTHERFUCKER, I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO'S ALLOWED TO SHOVE MY SHIT DOWN OTHER PEOPLES THROATS!" The creature was confused for a minute because of his sudden appearance,(and bizzaro word choice) and it definitely didn't expect what happened next.
Dan leaped at the slime creature and started choking it out. The creature didn't know how this was working since it didn't have any lungs to speak of, or even a neck. But damn was it working.
Dan's plan was to get the slime to go down for long enough to drag out the boy, but he got interrupted by a loud voice saying, "I AM HERE!" before it could pan out.
Suddenly the loud sound of changing air pressure was heard as a hulking figure came souring down the tunnel. Dan only caught sight of his blonde hair and big smile before hearing him yell out his attack name.
"TEXAS SMASH!!!!"
The figure punched the slime monster into smithereens. He went around and collected the bits of the creature, and put them into a plastic bottle, as Dan went and checked on the currently unconscious boy.
Dan concluded that the boy would be fine, and turned to the tall blonde man to see him signing his name in a burnt notebook that was laying on the ground. He looked over and saw it said 'ALL MIGHT'.
That's when Dan did a classic double take and really looked at his assistant savoir. It really was All Might, the number one hero, the living legend and symbol of peace!
All Might suddenly looked over to where Dan and the boy were sitting, and asked, "How is the young child doing?" He then looked at the boy, and then back to All Might. "Uh, he's doing fine… see!" Then he places his hand on the boy's chest, and with what looks to be sparks of electricity coming from his hand, the boy suddenly jerks awake.
Probably not the best decision, because as soon as hes awake he starts freaking the fuck out about All Might being there.
"Whoah, calm down man!" Dan put a hand on the boy's shoulder, and he looked at him. "Oh sorry, who are you again?" The boy asked, as he didnt realize someone else was there with them. "The names Daniel, but you can just call me Dan, or Danny if you're feeling particularly spicy."
As he says that he extends his hand to the boy, who returns the proposed handshake, "Hi Danny, nice to meet you. I'm Izuku Midoria." "Nice to meet you too, Izuku." Dan said back. Izuku looked surprised about Dan using his first name for some reason. Something about Japanese customs, I'm not exactly sure.
All Might then did one of those fake coughs you do when you want to get someone's attention, except a few drops of blood came out of his mouth when he did it for some reason.
"Whelp, looks like you two are good to go, so I'm going to head out and catch more baddies. See you boys later." All Might said with no real intention of seeing them later. Izuku then started panicking because he wanted to ask All Might some questions, so in a desperate attempt to get more time to talk, he ran and latched himself to All Might's leg as he jumped away.
Dan was left on the outside of the tunnel to look at them yelling at each other and struggling in the sky. "Wow, that was a dumb idea." … " And so is this, probably." Dan said out loud to no one in particular before disappearing into thin air.
No wait, nevermind. He just teleported… onto All Mights back. *Facepalm* Of course, where else would he go. Gotta follow the plot I guess.
"AAACHHH!!" All Might was clearly stunned to have a weight of over 100 some pounds applied to his back out of nowhere. "WHOAH!" All Might, unsteadily landed on a random rooftop. "Jeez, where the hell did you come from, kid?" All Might asked Dan as he picked himself and Izuku off the ground.
"Well, if I remember correctly it had something to do with my mother and--" Dan was about to finish his answer, but All Might cut him off in the middle of his sentence. "OK, that's not what I meant, Young Daniel." "I know." Dan replied with a cheeky look on his face.
A weak "Ahem" was then heard. The culprit was none other than, MRS. DONOVAN! wait no, that's Izuku. Sorry, common mistake.
Both All Might and Dan look over to see Izuku standing there with a worried, yet determined look in his ewes. "I need to ask you something All Might!" All Might, silently sputtered blood again, and hurriedly turned around to leave. "Sorry Young Midoria, but I don't have any time for this right now!"
Fearing he might be losing his chance he suddenly yells out his question. "Can I be a hero!... Even if I don't have a quirk."
Everyone stopped in their footsteps, (Even though there were only three of them, and only one of those three was walking) and let the question sink in.
Izuku started explaining his situation about always wanting to be a hero even though everyone always told him he couldn't, based on the fact that he's quirkless. In the middle of his rambly explanation, All Might starts smoking. And not the Snoop Dogg, SCP 420-J, 1940's phat cigarette smoking. More like you drove your car through the desert for a month without any coolant, and expect it to continue to run smoking. And here I thought engines were Ingenium's thing.
Dan interrupts Izuku's talking, and points to the malfunctioning All Might. "What the hell is up with thaaaaaaaaa…" Dan's sentence trailed off as he and Izuku gazed upon the new figure in front of them.
Where the huge mountain of a man, hulk ass guy was just standing, was now a short shriveled old skeleton of a man. The only remnants of who he was is the yellow blonde hair (and even that was sad and droopy), and the clothes he was wearing (very big and baggy on this shriveled guy though).
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!""HOLY SHIT! WHO IN MT. LADY'S ASS CRACK IS THAT GUY!!"
I'm sure you can guess who said what.
They were both considerably confused, and panicky. Izuku is the second to put their confusion into words. "T-t-there's no way! Where did All Might go? YOU M-MUST BE AN IMPOSTOR!!" Dan then starts choking on dumb amogus memes in the background.
All Might, (or No Might as I should call him in this form) ignored Dan's suffering and looked straight at Izuku. "I assure you Young Midoria, I am All Might--BLAAARGGG!!"
One might have thought that was Dan finally puking up the amogus memes he was dying on, but unfortunately it wasn't. It was just No Might projectile vomiting his blood everywhere.
Having enough of Dan's sputtering and rambling about vents and meetings, No Might finally walked over and unlodged the bullshit from his throat.
"Izuku, I am All Might." No Might said as he was walking back to the edge of the building to sit down.
"How in the hell are you All Might! You look more like a 90 year olds ball sack!" Dan said, still a little salty about his choking situation.
"Y-yeah, what he said, but less vulgar. There's just no way that you're the unstoppable, All Might!" Izuku said, having been buried in disbelief.
No Might sighs as he begins his long winded, tragic backstory of an explanation.
"The reason I'm like this is because of a fight I got into 5 years ago. The outcome wasn't good, I ended up having to have multiple surgeries. I even lost my entire stomach." No Might pulls up his shirt to expose a huge red and purple crack like wound on his side, where his ribs would be.
"Oh, so now thanks to that asshat, you can only handle exerting so much of your epic power at once." Dan said, as he used his Einstein of a brain to fill in the very obvious blanks.
"Precisely, I can only handle being 'All Might' for about 3 hours a day. The whole rest of the time I'm like this."
This was a shock to everyone. Except it was less of a shock to Dan, who figured it out right before he said it, and No Might, who already knew… obviously.
Dan put his hand on No Might's shoulder and said, "Jeez, that must be rough man." He was trying to be considerate, but not entirely succeeding.
No Might then looks at Izuku, and finally answers the question he dragged him down to ask.
"Heroes risk their lives every day, and come close to death all the time. Some villains are too strong to be beaten without a quirk. So I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to say no. You can't be a hero, not without powers."
Izuku's world was destroyed, for the second time in his life. The first was when the doctor told him he would never have a quirk and therefore never be a hero. And now it was happening again, except this time it was being said to him by his idol, and not some doctor, and definitely not by some school bully with a superiority complex. This time it was different. If All Might said he couldn't, then all was lost.
No Might started walking towards the door of the roof, and says some bullshit about becoming a police officer, that does nothing to ease Izuku's mind.
Dan was low key kinda pissed. He went from being sympathetic towards No Might for powering through his injury and continuing to be a hero despite the pain, and obvious weakness. To hating his fucking guts for spilling this poor kids dreams like that. As someone who has the same dreams as him, it kills him to see Izuku standing there with a dead inside expression and tears in the corners of his ewes.
Dan knew he should probably cheer Izuku up somehow, but he didnt know how he would go about doing tha--
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOM, INSERT EXPLOSION SHIT HERE, MORE HECKING BOOOOOOOOOOMSSSS!!!!!!!!!*
They both looked in the distance and saw a huge cloud from what was obviously a villain attack-type explosion.
Dan saw Izukus ewes as he tried to decide whether he should go investigate the explosion for his notes, or forget it all and abandon everything hes ever worked for.
Dan made the decision for Izuku as he led him towards the scene of the crime. A plan already brewing in his head on how to make Izuku, and everyone else realize he can really be a hero.
