At the end of our last class, our teacher says to the class, "I'm supposed to hand out these papers to help you choose your future career. But, I know all of you want to become heroes!" and then throws the papers in the air. The class explodes into cheers and all start using their quirks. "Remember, use of quirks in school is not allowed."

"Don't group me with all these extras!" Katsuki shouts at the teacher, feet on the table and the class yells at him. "Shut up extras! I'm going to get into UA."

"But the entrance exams are hard!" the rest of the class shouts.

"I'm going to get in and surpass All Might and become the number one hero!"

"You won't if you keep bullying!" I shout at him.

"Shut up Shadow freak!"

"Oh! Izuku, Hizuki, and Hitoshi didn't you guys want to go to UA?" the teacher says directed at Izuku, Hitoshi, and me. The whole class bursts out laughing.

"You can't get in just studying," the class taunts.

"I know but ..." Izuku starts to say.

"Don't put yourself at that same level as me you Quirkless freak! You can't compete with me!" Katsuki yells setting off an explosion.

"I'm not trying to compete against you. I'm just ... trying to follow my dream that I've had since I was a child ... to be someone people look up to. I won't know if it's impossible unless I try."

"The exam will be impossible for you, you damn nerd!"

"How do you know?"

"And you shadow freak you'll be a villain!"

I laugh. "Shut up Katsuki," I say.

"What did you say to me?"

"I said, shut up Katsuki."

I get up walking to Katsuki's desk. "You wanna fight? You'll never get into UA. You needed your boyfriend to come to save you yesterday!"

"Why does everyone think he's my boyfriend! If only you knew. I am getting into U.A."

"How?" Katsuki shouts.

I push his feet off the desk and sit on it. "We have people in high places. You don't want to get on my bad side."

"That's enough. Class dismissed."

All of the kids leave except a few leave the room. Izuku is still at his desk on his phone.

"Hey, Izuku, what are you looking at?" I ask as I walk over.

"Just some reports of today's villain attacks. I'm going to take notes when I get home."

"That's cool," I say as Katsuki comes over. "What do you want?"

Katsuki ignores me and takes Izuku's notebook off his desk and explodes it, throwing it out the window. Izuku gets up and just stands there.

"If you want to be a hero, why don't you take a swan dive off the roof and hope you're reborn with a quirk in your next life?"

"That's not very hero-like telling people to kill themselves is it Katsuki?"

"Whatever. Have you seen all the reporters in front of the school? They're probably all here for me."

I laugh. "You wish. Come on Izuku. Let's get your notebook," I say as we walk out of the class and outside.

Once we get outside we walk over to the koi pond and I see Izuku's notebook in the water.

"Shoo! This isn't fish food," Izuku says grabbing the notebook out of the water. "Thanks for earlier."

"It's no big deal. Come on let's head home. A reporter must have followed me. I'm going to surround us in shadows."

I wrap the shadows around us, turning us invisible, and we sneak through the reporters. Once we are out of the reporters view, I make us visible again. As we pass under a bridge with graffiti, a slime-like monster comes out of the sewer and comes charging at Izuku.

"Ah! A perfectly good body for me to possess," the slime monster says wrapping its body around Izuku's struggling body. "This will be easy."

"I don't think so," I say, solidifying the shadows into a sword.

As Izuku is struggling the sewer grate pops off and All Might jumps out.

"I am here! Texas... Smash!" he shouts before I can get to the villain.

The slime monster explodes from the punch and Izuku falls to the ground, passed out. I rush over to make sure he's okay.

"Sorry about that," All Might says. "I made it on time right?"

"Yeah, you did. Now pass me one of those empty soda bottles so I can help you collect the villain," I say.

"Sure," All Might says as he tosses me the bottle.

I get to work collecting the slime monster into the bottle and hand the bottle back to All Might who had already collected the rest of the slime monster.

All Might goes over to Izuku and starts to slap him in the face to try and wake him up.

"That's not how you're supposed to wake someone whose passed out."

"What would you know? You're just a child."

"If only you knew."

Izuku wakes up and says, "Wait, All Might!" as he picks up his notebook and opens it finding out he had already signed it. "Wait," Izuku shouts running to All Might and grabbing onto him as he jumps into the air.

Izuku and All Might go into the air and it's as if All Might's gliding in the air. Izuku. I shake my head at his stupidity as he grips to All Might for dear life.

How can someone be so smart but stupid at the same time? I should probably head after them.

As we run off I let the shadows wrap around me blocking out all of the light thinking of Izuku. I walk through the darkness and emerge on a roof with Izuku and All Might in front of me. All Might has steam coming off of him.

"You can't tell anyone about this," All Might says as he coughs and turns around turning into a normal very thin person.

"What? Where's All Might?" Izuku asks frantically, looking all around. "You're an imposter. Where's the real all might?"

"Hey, kid, I'm the real All Might. You can't tell anyone about this," he says sitting down against the railing, lifting his shirt to show the giant wound. "This wound is from a villain fight a while back. A hero must always be ready to risk his or her life."

"Which fight was it? I don't remember it being on the news."

"It was one I kept down from the media as I was hurt bad," All Might says getting up and heading to the stairwell not spotting me hiding in the shadows.

"Wait!"

"Yes?"

"You're my idol. Can I... Can I still be a hero without a quirk?"

"No. You can't," All Might says and walks away.

"Why?" Izuku cries.

"Izuku. You can still be a hero without a quirk. Don't give up on your dreams," I say as I rush over and pull him into a hug.

An explosion is heard and smoke starts to rise from a distance.

"Come on, let's go collect notes."

"Okay!" Izuku says, his spirits lifted.

•••

Once we get to the attack site, we see that there are tons of explosions coming from the one-way street.
As the smoke clears, we notice it's the sludge villain from earlier.

"All Might must have dropped the bottles," I whisper to Izuku.

"It's my fault. If I hadn't grabbed onto him, the sludge villain wouldn't be back."

"It has a kid!" someone yells.

"It's Katsuki," I say.

Where'd Izuku go? I then notice that he had run towards the villain.

As Izuku runs towards the villain, he throws his book bag at the villain's eye and starts to claw at him.

"Why aren't the heroes doing anything?" I say and teleport to Izuku, not waiting for an answer.

I summon two swords and toss one to Izuku, my hair defying gravity and I know that my eyes are glowing purple.

"The eyes!" I shout. "You go for the eyes, I'll cut Katsuki out."

Izuku takes the sword, already used to it from training with each other for fun, and stabs the villain's eyes. It loosens its grip just enough that I can cut Katsuki out of the sludge villain and he falls out into my arms.

"Zu. Keep an eye on Katsuki," I say as I push Katsuki to Izuku.

I build a wall of shadows behind me and the villain. I wrap the shadows around the villain. As soon as he's fully encapsulated by the shadows, I solidify them. I add walls into the solidified shadows, solidifying them, separating the villain into multiple parts. I separate the shadows parts, having them float around me as I take down the walls of shadows.

"Katsuki."

"What?"

"Come on. Let's get you checked out. You too Izuku."

"I'm fine," they both say.

"You need to get checked out."

"Don't tell me wh-" Katuski starts and I glare at him.

"Fine."

"Good. You two head to the paramedics and I'll hand this villain off to the police. No detours."

After I hand the villain off to the police, they put him in multiple garbage bags. Then, I head back over to the paramedics.

"Why do I need to get checked out?" Izuku asks me.

"Earlier you were attacked by the same villain. You lost consciousness from a lack of oxygen," I say as the heroes come over.

They start to praise Katsuki and then they come over to Izuku and I. When they get to us, they start to criticise us.

"Really? You're criticizing us? Do you even know who you're criticizing? We charged in when you good-for-nothing heroes just stood idly waiting for someone else to do the work. If you're looking for someone to criticize, criticize yourselves. I am Persephone. Me and my friend here can do you're job better than you can. Bye," I say grabbing Izuku's arm and we start to head to his apartment complex.

On our way there, Katsuki come up behind us.

"Oi!" We all turn around. "Shadow freak, Deku! Don't think you're better than me!"

"Don't worry. I don't think. I know."

"You wanna die?" he shouts setting off an explosion with his hands.

"You could technically be called a villain for improper use of your quirk. I've actually been pretty lenient on this since I haven't reported you already."

He turns around and stomps off walking around the corner. When we turn back around, All Might comes running out from another alleyway.

"I am here!" he shouts turning back into his small form with a coughing fit. "Hizuki. My power can be passed down and I choose you to be my successor."

"That would change quirk theory if you can do that," Izuku starts to mumble.

"My quirk is like a sacred torch that is passed down through generations. You could become stronger with my quirk."

"Thank you for your offer, but I must decline. If you're looking for a successor, he's right next to me. Izuku was the one who ran in first."

All Might turns to Izuku looking at him. "Izuku, you can be a hero. You can be my successor if you want."

"Yes!" Izuku shouts.

"Izuku, you know you could still become a hero without a quirk right?"

"I wouldn't be able to be a good one. Having a quirk increases my chances."

"Okay. That's your choice."

"You'll need to train up to become a worthy vessel for the quirk One For All so you don't die," that was all he said before he walked away.

"Why would you decline that?" Izuku asks me.

"Because I'm already powerful and I have two quirks. I don't need three. If giving quirks is possible, what if stealing quirks is possible?"

"That could be possible."

We drop Izuku off at his apartment and head home.

•••

After dinner, I teleport to Shigaraki, sitting down at the bar.

"Can I have a diet coke, please Kurogiri?" I ask setting my elbows on the bar with my head in my hands.

"Tough day?"

"Yup, two villains, and six stupid incompetent heroes."

"You good."

"Oh don't forget that guy from yesterday, he was bullying again. Why does everyone think we're dating?"

"So no."

"I hate All Might!" I shout and take a sip of the soda. "Hero is just a title. They just stand there as a child is literally being suffocated! Then All Might goes telling a teenager who looks up to him, 'no you can't be a hero' when the kid asked if they could be a hero if they're quirkless. What's more, is that he then left the child on the rooftop! A fucking rooftop alone! Then he has the audacity to ask if I want to be the successor for One For All when I just followed after my friend when he charged in to save Katsuki from the villain. I told him that Izuku should be the successor, not me. But then he was like 'Izuku you can be a hero' just after he told him he couldn't. Also, quirk theory is now entirely different if someone can pass on a quirk to someone they're not related to. But then you take that into account, could someone steal quirks?"

"Master," Shigaraki says walking over to the television next to the bar. "After hearing all that, should we let her know about you?"

"Yes, I will tell her. Hizuki, I am All For One. I'm able to steal quirks and give them to others."

"Just like I was saying!"

"All Might is a user of One For All. All the users have been fighting me since the emergence of quirks. I gave my brother a quirk thinking he was quirkless, not knowing that he had a useless quirk where he can pass his quirk down. All Might has now weakened after our battle a couple of years ago."

"That's the battle he talked about."

"Tomura is my successor."

"Interesting. You have a lot to live up to Shigaraki."

"You finally used my name."

"I call you Shiggy in public since I told my parents that your name is Shiggy."

"Oh. Well, we can't use your regular name when you join us. You'll need an alias."

"Queen of Darkness."

"Nice ring to it. Sounds like a boss in a game."

"Thanks. It is wordy though. How about you guys call me Hel and heroes will call me the Queen of Darkness?"

"Fine with me."

"I'm probably going to still be a hero though. Just thought I'd let you know."

"Better to have someone in the heroes that we trust," Shigaraki says. "Here," he says handing me an earpiece that has a small mic attached. "You tap the earpiece to turn it on and off. And this," he says handing me a pendant that was black with a red oval stone in the middle. "Is to send your coordinates. You send them by clicking the stone twice. The red and black match your style."

"Thank you," I say as I put the necklace and earpiece on. "Who will monitor these?"

"I will since I already have one on."

"Oh, okay," I say tapping the earpiece. "Can you hear me?" I whisper as I teleport outside the base.

"Loud and clear," I hear through the earpiece and teleport back to Shigaraki.

I then double-click the necklace and Shigaraki looks down at his phone and so does Kurogiri.

"Guess it works. I should head home now. Bye," I say as I teleport away to my room.

"Bye," I hear through the earpiece and I tap it taking it out for the night.