(A/n: Thank you guys SO MUCH for 631 total views on both sites and 2 votes(wattpad), 12 favorites(fanfiction), and 19 followers(fanfiction)! You guys are amazing, I didn't think I would get so much traction of those first two chapters, but I was obviously proved wrong.
Thanks to AjsnsnDjesj for being my first comment on wattpad and to GreyMask 57 and Cameolon to being my first reviews on fanfiction. You guys are truly amazing! To Cameolon, Kaminari will definitely be stronger in this story, but due to his position in society he might be a little different. More on that in the future.
Also, this chapter may not be super interesting because I'm really just setting some things up, but Chapter 3 is where stuff really kicks off, so stick around for that.
And lastly, most updates won't be this fast, I just had half this chapter written by the time I released the first two so it just ended up being finished early.
Again, thank you guys so much for the support on the first two chapter, and I'm going to stop mumbling like Izuku now. Enjoy!)
After the fight with the Color Changers
When All For One saw the seven heroes walking up to his doorstep, he expected it to be a good fight, but he honestly thought he would win. So you could imagine his surprise when the giant flaming ball of obsidian smacked into his body. Even so, he had to keep his cool. When word gets out that the number one villain was defeated, that would give society too much confidence in the heroes. And that would definitely mess with his plans.
He knew what happened after he was hit, the group he was fighting formed their seven quirks into one extremely strong quirk. To give context on this quirk's strength, when fighting the users of his younger brother's quirk, One For All, he could sense it's possible potential and that was strong enough for All For One himself to track down the holders, instead of sending his followers to do so. This quirk was at least triple the possible potential of One For All.
This left him with two problems, when society figures out that he was defeated, his followers would start to lose faith in him and stop being loyal to him, and there is a quirk out there that could show up at any moment and was more than strong enough to defeat him. Neither of these things were events that he could stop from happening, so the only thing he could do is play off of them to lessen the blow.
He would without a doubt have to go into hiding and find one of his followers with a healing quirk that he could either steal, or make them use on him. Then, his best bet on stopping this new quirk, is to make the user turn to his side, and he knew from experience that the best way to do that is to make society turn their backs on them. So, who does society need to turn their backs on?
From what he could tell, the leaders of the group that attacked him were Inu Midoriya and Nyoko Uraraka, if the quirk would be bestowed to anyone, it would most likely be to one of their future family members, due to their kind-heartedness and will to do good(he had to visibly shake himself after saying that). So his best bet would be to exclude them from what he would tell the world altogether.
And for how he would tell the world, it's simple. He has many followers with foresight quirks, so he could write a "prophecy" describing how this group of heroes combined their quirks to beat the number one villain, and by doing so they created the strongest quirk in existence. And that this quirk will be bestowed upon the strongest of their family members when the world needs it most. He made sure to only list the Todoroki, Kaminari, Izumi, Hassakai, and Shuzenji families and exclude their leaders.
Now he could only hope things turned out the way he wants, no needs them to.
Today was their first day back at school.
It's been a month since Izuku's dad attacked his mom, and today marks the day where he gets over his fears and marches back into the school year! But, truthfully the only reason that he could walk back into his school is because Ochako's right there next to him.
After the emotional roller coaster that happened that day, from being declared quirkless, to his dad attacking his mom, and to him finding out that he is a candidate for the strongest quirk, he just needed time to take it all in.
He asked himself things like 'How can I be so weak yet be considered strong' or 'How could someone strong like me be born weak'.
And after a month, he came to the conclusion that since he was born with a handicap, it just meant for him to truly live up to his 'strength', he really just needed to work twice as hard as everyone else.
So, Izuku decided to start training and after telling Ochako, she decided to help him(and also train herself), and their first day of training was after today at school. Focusing on the fact that he would start training at the end of today definitely helped him make it through the day.
"Where have you been you damn nerd," were Kacchan's first words after not seeing or hearing from Izuku or Ochako in a month.
"Since when did you care," Ochako spat back, she couldn't just stand by and let her friend get attacked by the person he considers a friend.
"I don't," said a fuming Kacchan.
"Then why did you ask?" Ochako asked, purposely pushing his buttons.
"Because I wanted to know what made you nerds come back here, you should've stayed gone," Kacchan said with spite, but if you listened hard enough you could tell that he was just trying to cover up for what he asked earlier.
"Then why didn't you say that?," Ochako asked, pulling the final straw out of Kacchan's patience.
"DO YOU WANT TO FIGHT ME ROUND-FACE, YOU KNOW I HAVE A REALLY STRONG QUIRK THAT'S LIKE THE STRONGEST CANDIDATE'S QUIRK, NOTHING CAN BEAT ME!" Kacchan yelled, finally coming up with a spiteful nickname for Ochako.
'We actually are candidates,' thought both Ochako and Izuku at the same time.
"Oooh, Round-Face, good one, though I was thinking more along the lines of Pink-Cheeks, but you take what you can get, right?" said Ochako sarcastically, knowing full and well what she was doing.
Then Kacchan charged at her with his explosions, but just when he was about to set off one of his most powerful explosions at Ochako, Izuku pushed her out of the way and took the hit. After the smoke cleared, everyone was expecting to see Izuku on the ground in a bloody mess, but what they found surprised them.
A red and yellow haired Izuku was found standing in the same spot he was when the explosion hit, and he was seemingly unharmed.
"Sorry for pushing you down, are you okay Ocha?" Izuku asked Ochako while holding out his hand for her to take.
After taking his hand Ochako said "Why are you asking me if I'm okay dummy, you're the one who took the hit. Are you okay?"
Then Izuku searched his body for any signs of injury or pain and said "I guess I'm fine," with a hint of surprise in his voice.
"HAHAHAHA, YOU'RE QUIRK IS FIRE RESISTANCE, WHAT A USELESS QUIRK, YOU'RE SUCH A DEKU," Kacchan yelled/spat at Izuku.
"A-actually, I'm q-quirkless," Izuku said, shrinking and curling up into a ball to hide himself from his classmates while his hair turned to blue.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA, YOU'RE EVEN MORE OF A DEKU THAN I THOUGHT!" Kacchan exclaimed.
"Shut up Kacchan! Izu's already a better hero than you'll ever be, if I were you I would start begging for mercy now before the future number one hero speaks about how you bullied him," said Ochako defending Izuku.
Kacchan was about to say something when the teacher walked into the room, and knowing that he could get in trouble, he decided to settle for a cold stare at Ochako before walking away.
The rest of the school day played out as normal, it may have included some extra people trying to bully Izuku for being quirkless, but Ochako handled them quickly. Pretty soon, it was time for them to leave and start their training!
"So, where do you want to go for training?" Ochako asked Izuku as they were walking home.
"Well, since we're too young for a gym membership, I was thinking we could try to train at the junkyard by your house," Izuku said.
"Is that the one by the water?" asked an excited Ochako.
"Yep!" Izuku confirmed.
"Then yeah, that sounds awesome!" Ochako agreed.
After stopping by Ochako's house to drop off their backpacks and eat a snack, they started on their way to Dagobah Municipal Beach.
"So what should we do to train today?" asked Ochako.
Then to her surprise, Izuku pulled out one of his hero analysis books that he started earlier this year. Then he opened the book to her page, and again to her surprise, he showed it to her. He NEVER showed his book to ANYONE!
"I thought since you really stood up for me today and you helped me the past month, I could help you with your quirk with my analysis," Izuku said.
On the page there was a section called 'Quirk Analysis' and it read 'Ochako's quirk is the ability to remove the gravity of an object by touching it with all five fingers. Then she can release it by putting her fingers together and saying "release." Her drawbacks include a weight limit that is currently at half a ton and holding things with her quirk causes her to become nauseous, the heavier the object, the worse the headache. A way I could think of to minimize these drawbacks is to see if she could touch and object, but only use her quirk on part of it. A way this could be used in full effect, is if she touched the ground, but only used her quirk on certain parts of the ground, essentially making holes and creating ammo for herself or a telekinesis user to use.'
"Wow, I never thought of that," a flabbergasted Ochako said.
"Sorry if it was creepy," a suddenly(but at the same time, not so suddenly) self-conscious Izuku responded.
"No it wasn't creepy, it was a great insight on how to improve my quirk! I think we should try it out!" said Ochako, easily swatting away Izuku's worry.
Then Ochako touched the ground. The first reaction was an immense headache appearing on her head that almost knocked her out instantly, however she closed her eyes and focused extremely hard on the spot Izuku was standing on. And after 2 seconds, the pain magically disappeared as quick as it appeared. Then when she opened her eyes, she saw the Izuku in the air, as the ground he was standing on lost its gravity.
Ochako suddenly had the feeling that her training with Izuku was going to be awesome!
(A/n: If you were confused on what candidate means, it just means those who are candidates for the strongest quirk based on the prophecy, Izuku and Ochako are on that grey line because they weren't included in the prophecy, so they wouldn't be considered candidates by society, but since the prophecy was created by AFO and they were excluded for reasons explained in this chapter, they still have a chance of getting the quirk, so they still technically are candidates.
Also, this is the start of opochako which is a tag on Wattpad, when watching her use her quirk in the show, I always wondered if she could focus where and what part of something she affects her quirk with, since Shigaraki ended up learning this in the manga with his similar activation, I decided why the heck not, let's add it. So here we are.
Thanks so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed it. If you see anything I could improve on, please don't be afraid to comment on it! And if there is anything that you would like to suggest to happen, do the same. Thanks!)