Tentative (And Lame) Title: Resident Hero Academia
Disclaimer: This is a crossover fanfiction story/idea of Boku no Hero Academia and Resident Evil (Game Series). I own nothing of the two series other than the crazy idea I have thought of. I hope you enjoy my contribution. Be warned, there may be spoilers.
Story Start
"Men are not created equal. That is the tragic truth of the world, especially in a world where superhuman abilities known as quirks exist."
A boy with green hair, green eyes and freckles on his youthful face named Midoriya Izukuwept as he ran away from a horde of monsters. A few hours ago, an infectious mutagenic outbreak occurred which caused all infected individuals to suddenly mutate into mindless mutant monsters. Although he had no idea how the outbreak started, his keen observational skills allowed him to realise that infected victims experienced mutations based on their original superhuman abilities known as quirks. For example, a new hero known as Mount Lady mutated into a massive and formless mound of flesh, a perverse mutation of her original quirk, [Gigantification]. Izuku could still remember how her once-beautiful body mutated into a rapidly-expanding mound of flesh which proceeded to produce maws that had tentacles to capture and devour any unlucky nearby victims. As for the mutants that were currently chasing after him, the two of them had elongated tongues, exposed brains with no eyes and skin so transparent that he could see their muscles flex as they leapt and crawled on all fours. Speaking about exposed brains, many of the mutated victims had that feature although most of them still had their eyeballs.
Barely dodging one of the monsters which tried to impale him with its tongue, Izuku could only hope that his suicidal attempt to draw their attention would allow his mother and a few other survivors to escape to U.A. High School, a well-known hero school and one of the most secure places in all of Japan. As for why he decided to do so, he knew that no one other than his own mother would miss him. After all, who would care about someone without a quirk like him?
As Izuku made a sharp turn into an abandoned alley, he suddenly twisted his right ankle. Screaming in pain, Izuku looked back in fear as the two seemingly skinless monsters with long tongues slowly approached him. They did not have eyes or lips but he could tell that they "saw" him as a plaything to torment like how a cat would play with its food that could no longer run away.
While Izuku desperately crawled away from the two monsters, memories of the bullying and harassment he had to endure for years ever since he realised that he was quirkless flooded his mind. His former childhood friend, Bakugou Katsuki, became his chief tormentor, his dreams of becoming a hero was so out of reach that not even his own mother believed that he could become a hero and he was going to die soon because he was a worthless nobody who did not have even a weak quirk to defend himself with. Laughing and crying at the same time, Izuku thought to himself, "At least, I did one heroic thing before dying like this."
His world was soon consumed by agony and crimson-red as the two monster lunged at him and bit his left arm…
--A few days ago…--
"In a world where quirks exists, there are two types of people. Heroes who use their quirks to uphold justice and protect the innocent and villains who abuse their quirks for selfish gain or to hurt others instead."
A certain powerful villain known as All For One asked his doctor, "You wish to acquire Fujimi Romero, why?"
His doctor and research associate, simply known as Doctor Tsubasa, grinned as he replied, "His quirk, [Zombie Virus, would make an excellent component for a pet project of mine."
Quickly realising what the doctor was planning to do, All For One grinned in return as he replied, "Very well, I will send Tomura and Kurogiri to capture him for you. It would serve as a good experience for my successor to learn how to deal with someone with a difficult quirk."
Little did either villain realise that by turning Romero into an artificial human with multiple quirks known as a nomu, they had effectively caused a viral outbreak which would spread across the world…
--Back to the present after Izuku was attacked…--
When Izuku ran away from the rest of his group of survivors to act as bait for the two monsters with long tongues, he was expecting to die a gruesome death. The fact that he was somehow still alive enough to be able to see light and feel a dull pain in both his left arm and his right ankle made him briefly wonder if the events of the outbreak was simply a bad dream. As he raised his left arm to rub his drowsy eyes, he noticed something about it which woke him up instantly. The last time he looked at his left arm, it was not covered in black skin which resembled hardened leather and red skin which almost resemble raw muscle. He also remembered that his left arm was not supposed to have black talons in place of normal human nails and should have five fingers instead of just four fingers. Understandably, Izuku was shocked screamed like a little girl.
After Izuku had calmed down, and realised that the rest of his body was thankfully unchanged since the mutation only affected the left side of his chest, the left side of his upper back, the left side of his neck, his left shoulder and his left arm, he could not help but wonder why he was not some mindless monster with an exposed brain like the rest of them. He knew for a fact that getting bitten by one of them was supposed to be a sure way of becoming infected and then mutate into a new monster. Mount Lady's mutation after getting bitten was proof of that.
"If I have to guess, it is either because I am quirkless or I actually have a quirk which somehow prevented me from becoming a mindless monster, like some kind of mutation-limiting quirk or something like that," mumbled Izuku who then looked around as he thought, "Speaking about monsters, where did those two go?" There were no signs of the two monsters responsible of mutating his left arm.
Seeing no reason to stay, Izuku got up and limped towards U.A. High School. He could only hope that the people there would allow him to enter.
"However, this begs the question on who has the right or authority to decide that a person is a hero to be admired or a villain to be reviled. While personal opinions can be biased even in the best of times, society as a whole is anything but free of bias or prejudice."
--A short while later…--
While Izuku was making his way towards the high school, he noticed that the monsters with exposed brains were actually ignoring him. Well aware that he was actually infected himself, he assumed that the monsters simply ignored other infected regardless of the fact that he was still self-aware. As he limped past them, he noticed that the way ahead was block by a massive growth of apparently mutated moulds and mushrooms. Having enough common sense to realise that he should stay away from the massive growth, Izuku was about to turn around to find another way when he suddenly heard a sobbing voice, "Mother… father…"
Realising that someone was alive within that mass of fungal growth, Izuku made a decision which would determine the rest of his life. He grabbed a piece of cloth to cover his nose and mouth before limping into the fungal mass to rescue whoever was in there…
--Meanwhile…--
U.A. High School, once a well-known hero school where the late Symbol of Peace himself, All Might, graduated from, was currently a heavily-fortified shelter for the survivors of the [Nomu Outbreak]. Among the survivors were civilians, heroes and even a number of villains who were all united under the common cause of survival from the vicious and powerful monsters that lurked outside the walls of the high school.
One of the survivors was a boy with blond hair andsharp red eyesnamed Bakugou Katsuki. He was touching his sore right cheek as he recalled what had happened the previous night…
--Start of flashback…--
Bakugou Katsuki always knew that he was powerful and gifted. He had a powerful quirk known as [Explosion] and, in spite of his delinquent attitude, was the smartest boy in his class. It was therefore a great shock to him when his seemingly perfect world was suddenly shattered by a terrible outbreak which caused infected people to turn into monsters which sought to kill or infect everyone else around them. Already, it was confirmed that a number of heroes had fallen including Mount Lady, Death Arms, Hound Dog and, the most shocking of all, All Might himself.
Thankfully for him and his family, they were able to safely reach the school for shelter before it closed itself off from the rest of the world to protect its occupants. The same could not be said for many other families, including Midoriya Inko who had just lost her son who was also Katsuki's former childhood friend, Midoriya Izuku.
"Why the fuck did you let him run away?!" demanded Katsuki who then added, "He's a fucking quirkless weakling who won't even survive five minutes out there on his own!" Although Katsuki hated Izuku and feared his determination to become a hero in spite of being quirkless, and had told him to kill himself, he had never expected Izuku to actually do something as stupid as using himself as bait to lure the mutated monsters away.
The hero whom Katsuki was yelling at, a man known as Native, looked away in shame as he explained, "He was convinced that a quirkless person like himself would only drag the others down and said that he would rather die than let someone else die for someone as worthless as him. I… couldn't even tell him to forget about using himself as bait when those two monsters attacked us and killed one of the survivors under my care. The only reason why we even got away was because he got their attention by throwing a can at them and insulting them. When they started chasing him…"
A calmer person would realise that Native was deeply ashamed of his inability to protect the quirkless boy who, in spite of being meek and powerless, had proven himself to be a brave boy who was anything but worthless. Katsuki, whose temper was as explosive as his quirk, only saw red as he yelled, "You're supposed to be a fucking hero! Heroes are not supposed to fucking lose!" As Katsuki continued to yell at Native, memories of all he had done to Izuku, which had never bothered him before, suddenly filled him with emotions that he had never felt before, remorse and guilt. "And that stupid, worthless Deku! When the fuck did he start to think that it's okay to actually get himself fucking killed?! He was supposed to be just another pebble in the road just like any other side character that I should not care less about!" Tears welled up in his eyes as he spoke with a hoarse voice, "Why… the fuck… does knowing that he's fucking dead… hurts so much?"
"It was you… wasn't it?"
Surprised by the familiar sound of Inko's voice, Katsuki looked up and got slapped in the face…
--End of flashback…--
Inko, who was basically comatose after losing her only son, overheard Katsuki's admittedly loud outburst and, understandably, was furious at the mere implication that Katsuki had bullied Izuku. When Katsuki was forced to confess the full extent of the bullying, which Izuku had adamantly refused to tell anyone, including his own mother, Inko was sorely tempted to actually kill him with her own bare hands. Considering how meek she usually was, the fact that she wanted to kill him spoke volumes of how much his bullying had harmed Izuku which in turn broke her heart.
"Some hero I am…" thought Katsuki as he realised that Inko was right for claiming that he was no better than a horrible villain who enjoyed bullying the weak.
"I see that I'm not the only one with a lot on my mind."
Katsuki turned around to see the number two hero, Endeavour. A muscular man with a flaming beard, red hair and sharp turquoise eyes, he was an intimidating person in spite of being a hero. Well aware that he should be polite to him, Katsuki said, "If you want me to sulk elsewhere, you only need to ask me to go."
Endeavour shook his head and replied, "That's not necessary. Like I said, I have a lot on my mind myself."
Katsuki could just leave on his own but he had a feeling that Endeavour had a reason to speak to him personally and asked, "Are you here just to sulk like me or are you here for another reason?"
"A bit of both, honestly," answered Endeavour who the continued to speak, "I heard about your relationship with that boy who offered to sacrifice himself to save the rest of the survivors under Native's protection. Not many would willingly do that, especially not a quirkless."
Katsuki snorted derisively in response and said, "So I've been told, many times already." He then glared at Endeavour and asked, "Is that why you're here? To say the same thing everyone else who knew me already fucking said?"
"No, I'm here to tell you that you're not the only one who has made decisions which he is now regretting," said Endeavour who then explained about his past obsession to become the next number one hero.
After Katsuki heard Endeavour's shocking confession, all he could say was, "Fucking hell…!"
"That's one way to describe how screwed up my family life had become," agreed Endeavour.
Katsuki calmed himself before he asked, "All right, you have told me about your screw-up. I still don't understand why you wanted to tell me about it."
"To be perfectly honest, I probably just wanted someone from outside my own family to talk to. I… felt nothing but disdain when Touya ran away one day and never came back or when I decided to send my wife to the mental hospital after she scarred Shouto," said Endeavour who then laughed mirthlessly as he added, "As far as I know, my youngest son and I are the only ones in our family left alive in this insane new world and the only reason why he's alive is because I knocked him out before he could do anything that would put himself in danger. To make matters worse, the only reason why I'm the current number one is because All Might died to protect as many people as he could from the infected, not because of my own merit or even my son's achievements."
"I guess we both fucked up big time then," said Katsuki who then added, "-and are hated by basically everyone still alive who knows what we have done including our own families."
"Yes, we did," agreed Endeavour who then said, "The question is, are you going to sulk here forever or are you going to take action and help the remaining survivors?"
Katsuki, who had already failed as a hero for Izuku and to everyone who actually cared about him, was determined not to fail again as he spoke, "Do you even need to ask?"
"Men are not created equal, but that does not mean that no one can challenge the status quo, for better or for worse."
--Elsewhere…--
Izuku had just realised three things. One, the mass of fungal growth was caused by a single infected person whom he was assuming to be a girl. Two, the girl was grieving over the what Izuku assumed to be the decomposed remains of her family. Three, the fact that girl could grieve at all meant that it might be possible to actually reach out to her in spite of her infection.
Looking at the girl who was completely covered in incredibly tough fungus which was periodically venting out fungal spores, Izuku was at a loss on how to reach out to her. Ripping the fungal growths was out of the question as he did not want to risk harming her. He had tried to call out to her but she seemed completely oblivious to his presence. As Izuku pondered on what to do, a number of slender tentacles emerged from his left arm and wiggled past the fungal shell which covered the girl. By the time Izuku realised what was going on, his mind blacked out…
--Start of Flashback…--
Komori Kinoko, a girl with honey-brown hair, a thin build and cat-like eyes with brown irises that resembled cross-sliced shiitake mushrooms, was fleeing from the chaos caused by the Nomu Outbreak together with her family. Thankfully, her quirk, [Mushroom, allowed her to keep the mutated monsters at bay by covering their eyes, noses and ears with mushrooms. However, as they were fleeing, they were suddenly attacked by a huge monster which seemed to be made of black slime. Her parents pushed her out of the way before the monster engulfed them.
Desperate to save her parents, Kinoko covered it in various mushrooms to make it dry up by absorbing its fluids. Tragically, by the time she was able to subdue the monster, her parents were already partially digested by it. Consumed by grief and infected by the slime-like monster during the fight, the girl's mutated quirk went out of control and caused various kinds of mutated mushrooms and moulds to grow around her…
--End of flashback…--
When Izuku regained his senses, he realised that he was still connected to the girl who was still inside her fungal shell. He was wondering what he should do when he suddenly heard a familiar voice from inside his own head, "Why… why do you want to help me?"
Recognising Kinoko's voice, and realising that his tentacles had somehow allowed him to mentally connect with her, Izuku honestly replied, "I… just can't walk away from someone who needs help."
The plates of the fungal shell shifted as thought Kinoko was turning to face Izuku as she asked him, "Even after everything you have gone through for being born without a quirk?"
"Wait, you saw my memories too?" asked Izuku. After Kinoko nodded, for the lack of a better term, Izuku sighed and said, "Honestly, for as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a hero who can save people with a smile on my face." He could not help but laugh in self-depreciation as he added, "I guess I have never given up on that dream, not even after hearing the news that All Might has fallen."
"I… also wanted to be a hero but… with All Might gone… there's no hope left."
"Maybe there isn't," admitted Izuku who thought about all the people who did not believe in his dream of becoming a hero, including his own mother and especially Katsuki, before adding, "-but that does not mean that we should give up on becoming the kind of heroes… no, the kind of people we want to be."
"Being the kind of person I want to be won't bring my family back," argued Kinoko.
"No, it won't," admitted Izuku who then smiled at her and said, "-but you don't have to become that person alone either… BECAUSE I AM HERE!"
A moment of silence passed after Izuku did his best "All Might Impression" before Kinoko suddenly laughed and said, "You really are an All Might fan boy, aren't you?"
Izuku blushed in embarrassment and said, "Yeah, I guess I am." His embarrassed smile changed into an expression of shocked amazement as the fungal plates that grew all over Kinoko's body started to fall off to reveal her mutated body. Unlike the hardened fungal shell, the frilly fungal growths on her body were soft and translucent. Izuku started to blush as he realised that Kinoko was actually naked and only appeared modest due to the frilly fungal growths which covered her breasts and groin. Besides the frilly fungal growths, Kinoko also had a plate-like fungal growth which grew from the right side of her forehead, thus exposing her right eye while her other eye was hidden by her bangs.
As Izuku's small tentacles retracted back into his left arm, Kinoko smiled at the blushing boy and said, "I'll be in your mushy care, Izu-kun."
"To be perfectly honest, I'm still not really sure what a real hero really is. Most of the time, just I do the very best I can, if not more, and hope that it would be enough to protect and savethe people whom I care about including the innocent."
--The following day…--
Katsuki, who had recently started training to become a skilled fighter, was shocked to discover that Izuku was not only still alive but had secretly left a message at the gates of U.A High School which had been renamed as U.A. Shelter. After reading the message, Katsuki look up at Endeavour and asked, "Are you going to make them join us?"
"It would be ideal if they joined us willingly," admitted Endeavour who was already thinking of how Izuku's unique condition could be used to create a vaccine or even a cure for the infection. He then said, "But between the dangers of going outside unprepared and the fact that the two of them are both infected and currently unwilling to join us, it may be best that we let them go for now. If nothing else, we can be rest assured that at least two nomus will not intentionally bring us harm and may be able to convince more to not attack us."
Well aware of his past actions towards Izuku, and realising that Izuku's reasons for remaining outside the shelter made sense, Katsuki nodded in understanding before asking, "Has… Midoriya-san been informed about the letter?"
"Not yet, but I do plan to give her the letter soon. She deserves to know that much at the very least," answered Endeavour.
"Please do so. You know why I cannot give her the letter myself," said Katsuki as he gave the letter back to Endeavour.
"I know, Katsuki. I will have Native come to my office to take the letter to her."
Katsuki thanked Endeavour before leaving the office which used to belong to Nedzu, the former headmaster of the school before he became Endeavour's chief strategist.
After Katsuki left, Endeavour sighed as he thought about Izuku's reasons for not wanting to enter the shelter, "While there is no denying that he and that girl are a biohazard risk, the fact that he has decided against joining us in spite of wanting to do so also shows how little he trusts us."
"I'm surprised that you have decided to let Midoriya-kun and Komori-san go. I thought that you would do whatever it took to find them and bring them here to be experimented on to find a cure or at least a vaccine," said a quirked animal of unknown mammalian species known as Nedzu.
Looking at the large mouse-like quirked animal who was having a cup of warm water, an admittedly pitiful replacement for warm tea which was being conserved for special occasions, Endeavour said, "The biohazard risk will be too great if we force them to join us, especially that Komori girl with the fungal quirk. Also, you and I both know that as soon as we have them we will be running experiments on them and keep them isolated from the rest of the population as much as possible. While Izuku's fears may be exaggerated, I cannot call his fears completely unfounded either."
"There is also the matter of Midoriya-kun wanting to use his mutant quirk to save the other infected, isn't there?" asked Nedzu who had a knowing glint in his beady eyes.
Endeavour nodded in confirmation before he explained, "I'm sure that you are aware of it by now but many of the active heroes, civilians and even a few villains have been traumatised by the events of the past few days. I am not sure if they will be able to step up to the challenge of facing against those monsters again, especially after the loss of All Might. That is not even counting the fact that our supplies and facilities will not last forever even with the help of the Yaoyorozu family. If that boy's quirk can really be used to help the nomu regain their minds or at least lose their aggression towards non-infected, the dangers that we will face when we inevitably have to leave the shelter in the future will drop significantly."
"You are not wrong to assume such, Endeavour, but have you considered what might happen if that boy somehow manages to create a new society of nomus for himself? Before his infection, he was essentially a quirkless boy who was deemed as a worthless nobody by his peers. If he succeeds in saving more nomus to the point of forming a functional society, he will be deemed as a hero and possibly even a leader by them."
"What is your point?" asked Endeavour.
"Just a simple warning that some people will rather rule over demons than serve angels and that even the kindest of intentions can unintentionally bring great harm."
"You're implying that Midoriya-san will refuse to help us develop a cure or even a vaccine," said Endeavour.
"He will refuse to help if curing him will render him quirkless again," replied Nedzu.
"That… is something I will have to think about," said Endeavour who realised that Nedzu had a point. Midoriya Izuku had suffered years of being deemed as worthless simply because he did not have a quirk. As much as Endeavour hated to admit it, he himself would have been inclined to agree with the people who looked down on Izuku just for being quirkless. Also, as twisted as it was, being infected by the nomu virus was arguably one of the best things to have happened to Izuku as it gave him a quirk which he could actually use to help other people. Endeavour sighed as he rubbed the bridge of his nose and thought, "Convincing him to help us develop a cure may be even harder than I thought!"
--A while later…--
Midoriya Inko wept happily as she realise that her beloved son had somehow avoided becoming a mindless monster after getting infected and even gained a quirk which he was already planning to use to help the infected regain their minds. Although she was saddened by the fact that he decided against joining the rest of the survivors, she could at least understand his fears of spreading the infection further and the possibility of being locked up as a test subject to be exploited. She was also glad that he would not be alone as he would be travelling with a new friend named Komori Kinoko, someone whom Inko hoped would be a kind girl for the boy. The last thing Izuku needed as another false friend like Kaccha-… Bakugou.
"Do you really think that Izuku will be able to save the other infected?" asked a frog-like girl named Asui Tsuyu. She had lost her parents to the nomu virus and had, until recently, lost any hope of ever being reunited with them. If Izuku could really restore the minds of the infected, then there was hope for her and her younger siblings to see her parents again even if their appearances had changed due to the mutations.
"I'm not sure," replied Inko who then said, "That Kinoko girl was not completely mindless by the time Izuku found her but if there is anyone who might be able to save them it will be him."
Tsuyu nodded in acceptance and prayed that Izuku would be able to save her parents.
--Some distance away from U.A Shelter…--
"You know, I used to dream about of attending that school one day," said Izuku who had a look of longing on his face as he gazed towards the former high school.
"I used to have that dream too, but we both know that we need to move on from that dream," said Kinoko.
Izuku nodded as he replied, "I know, Kino-chan." He then turned around and wore a hopeful smile as he spoke, "Let's go and save the infected!"
Kinoko smiled in return and was about to reply in affirmative when a large muscular person suddenly appeared behind her. Both Izuku and Kinoko almost soiled themselves as they stared at the intimidating nomu who wore a wrap-around bandana over the top half of his head, had hardened bones protruding from his knuckles, lacked a nose and had exposed gums and teeth. Visible steam came out of the nomu's mouth as it spoke to them, "You… help… my… daughter…"
Knowing that refusing to help the huge nomu who was at least partially self-aware was a very bad idea, Izuku thought to himself, "Why do I get the feeling we off with a VERY rough start…?"
"This is a story of how I, along withmy friends and companions, somehow managed to bring hope to a world ruined by a terrible plague. This is a story of heroism and being the best we can be to save and inspire others."
--End Chapter--
Author's Notes:I recently watched Resident Evil: Vendetta and had a sudden urge to write a story related to it. I figured that I might as well as create an A.U. of Boku no Hero Academia with a "localised dash" of Resident Evil. I hope you guys appreciate this story.
Just a few notes to clarify:
- It is not confirmed if All For One is alive or dead.
- All Might is infected. Whether or not he is self-aware or has already chosen a successor before getting infected is up to debate.
- The two Licker inspired nomu will make a comeback later in the story.
- Izuku will form a community of nomus.
- The huge muscular nomu who scared the crap out of Izuku and Kinoko is actually Knuckleduster.
- This story, as well as the rest of my one-shots, is up for adoption by anyone who is interested in continuing it.
Until next time and cheers.
