Chapter 2
Izuku stepped into the testing room, looking over at the window where the others were watching. He gave a small, shy wave, his mom and Kacchan returned it, Lariat giving him a thumbs up and a wide grin, before mouthing something while a nurse wrapped something around his arm, checking her watch… before looking up at him in confusion and whispering something in Dr. Tsubasa's ear.
"Alright, Izuku," the doctor said, "You can… you can start with whatever you've figured out on my counter. Ok?"
Izuku nodded, chewing his lip and reaching out. There wasn't as much light here, just a few strands leaking from under the door and the vents. black, mostly, with a couple of orange. Slowly, the green light came towards Izuku, sparkling as he pushed it towards the little ball that the nurse Summoned. It pushed into the Crystal ball… and the ball shattered.
Maybe things would have gone better if he had Control?
"Hmmm…" the doctor said, his lab coat swishing as he tilted his head towards the nurse as she said something in his ear, nodding, "Don't worry, Izuku. We have a spike in energy and some malfunctions on our end. Your Quirk was probably just too strong on my analysis quirk. Try again, with A new crystal ball that can contain as much strength as you can."
Izuku closed his eyes, breathing in and pulling as much of the light towards him. Even with his eyes closed, he could sense the swirl of energy build at his arm until it hurt, and then he opened his eyes and saw the light of the crystal ball. It sparked and cracked, before falling over, shuddering again into the ground as the Nurse fell down. Izuku's arm fell, hurting. Ow….
The Nurse in her 10 years of experience she had never gotten hurt with her analysis-type quirk but then her quirk felt like it was going away but she fought it with sheer willpower to keep it. She said that to the doctor but not to Izuku or the moms
"Good job, Izuku," Dr. Tsubasa said, "Now, you said you could create a fire-like aura? I'm gonna send up another crystal ball. This time with my power, which is another analysis-type of quirk, try that out."
The doctor switched with the nurse. He was now in the room with Izuku, then touched the crystal ball and started floating. The crystal ball has special properties if I can help analyze subclass quirk and analyze power levels and types of classes for kids who have gotten quirks.
Izuku nodded, holding out his left hand and pulling the green light towards him. After a minute, he had enough light to cause the green fire-like aura to light around his hand. Maybe one day he'd be able to make fire around his entire body like Endeavor… -That'd be cool.
Izuku held out his hand, trying to push the fire-like aura towards the crystal ball, and nothing happened. The fire-like aura didn't move, it just kept flickering around his hand. Izuku tried again, pushing the green light towards the crystal ball, it moved maybe an inch forward before the fire-like aura disappeared and vanished into his hand again. Aw..
Just then a coin-like thing glowed like Salmon color, started floating then dropped to the ground. The doctor picked it up and said "I will do a scan on it" "Don't feel too down, Izuku,"
Dr. Tsubasa said, "You just got your Quirk today. You'll have years to practice with it. Maybe try punching the crystal ball?" jokingly the doctor said, "Banjo, we're gonna need a blood sample if you don't mind following me to the phlebotomist." The nurse said.
"Yeah, sure," Banjo nodded, before shooting Izuku a thumbs up, "He's not wrong, kiddo. Sometimes the strongest Quirks are the ones that take a bit of time to build up steam with your ability to use them. We'll get it down, even if it takes a while!" Banjo was leaving, but a chill fell down his spine when he got near the doctor, and a weird feeling with him, but that feeling went away when he was not in the room with the doctor
Izuku nodded, turning, running towards the crystal ball and punching it… and immediately clutching his hand in pain as it clanged against the rock-like surface, "Ow!"
"Well, that was unexpected," Tsubasa said snickering, "Come on out, for now, Izuku. We'll take what notes we have for now and schedule a follow-up in six months. Hopefully, you'll have made enough progress and we'll be able to tell a bit more. Ok?"
"Ok," Izuku said, lowering his hand.
- X Analysis, Izuku Midorya - Dr. Tsubasa X-
Izuku Midoriya:
Quirk: Soul Summoner (Name Tentative). Emitte- Type Subclass-Summoner.
Causes lights to appear in at least two colors. black appears to cause minor amounts of Damage to the Quirk. 3 testing crystal balls, enough to cause loss of control of the Quirk. Ex: The Nurse has Quirk malfunctions. The Green one causes the ignition of a fire-like aura of the same color. Then, with the help of my crystal ball, I saw multiple colors purple, red, orange, amethyst, and many more. Izuku can also see the different colors as well and appears to have the ability to say this can steal someone's Quirk. Further information is unknown at this time. Two sub-notes, pinned below.
Sub-Note 1: Izuku found a coin in his pocket when he first activated his thought nothing of it. He left it there in his pocket until he saw the color salmon, the person's face is on the coin and their name on it on the backside When we went into the testing ground. Then I scanned it. The name is registered to a villain, So we have it our "care".
Sub-Note 2: Banjo "Lariat" Daigoro:
Quirk: Blackwhip, Emitter Type.
Releases black tendrils from the hand and makes Izuku very tired while using his quirk.
BPM: 0
Blood Type: N/A.
Appears to be animated by Midoriya's Quirk, registered as dead in 20XX from severe trauma after combat with an unknown villain. Appears to be, for lack of a better term, a "ghost". No heartbeat, blood, or true body, only a glowing red type color It appears to be its "soul/quirk". The limit of this ability to resurrect the dead is currently unknown and will require authorization from the QRA to examine further.
The doctor said all that with a dark tone and a serious face.
-X ? X-
"You're sure it's him?"
"I can't say with absolute certainty, but I strongly suspect it. He matches the images you sent me. If I could have gotten a sample of DNA to test against his Quirk Factor, I could say with certainty, but unfortunately…"
"I see…" flat, white hair was meticulously combed to the side.
"Should I prepare some subjects? I can have them ready within-"
"No," The mystery man said, "it would be a waste to reveal our trump card for something as simple as a particular corpse. He no longer has my Brother's Quirk, and so it shouldn't be too hard to eliminate him. We have two gangs within a distance of the hospital. I will encourage them that a clash that just so happens to catch the boy and Lariat would advance their standing within my graces. Delay their leaving, Doctor."
"Will they do it? Hospitals are generally avoided by low ranked thugs because of the retaliation from the 'Heroes'-
"Oh," The mystery man said, "They will do it if I order it."
-X Katsuki X-
Katsuki watched Izuku trudge out of the examination room with a pout on his face, giggling slightly, and wincing as his mom slapped her upside the head. Ow!
What, it was funny? He was moping for not having control of his Quirk on day one! Didn't that new guy, Best Pants or whatever, say it took him years to get his Quirk going? But he was already in the top fifty years outta a sidekick gig! Sure, part of it might have been because the older you are the weaker your quirk gets for some people, but he had some really cool tricks!
Not as cool as All Might or Endeavor, but it was really hard to be when your Quirk let you control string (or, well, 'fiber', which sure looked like string). Izuku at least had a chance to become like Endeavor, if he could ever figure out how to shoot his fire-like aura.
Still, he probably shouldn't be laughing until He can get his awesome Quirk in control to unlock its full power, in case he fails to wield his power. Bakugo has lost control of his power and he starts exploding random things after he touches That'd be embarrassing.
They made their way through the hospital and into the parking garage without anything interesting really happening- and then the banging went off below them. Everyone locked up, familiar with the sound. It wasn't as common here as it was in some other parts of Japan, but it was still a sound that you got used to.
Gunfire. Someone was shooting a gun in the street below.
Daigoro looked over the edge of the garage, face growing pale and seemed to shrink until it wasn't anything more than a thin layer over his skull, the rest of his skin doing the same.
Holy crap, what the hell was going on!? Banjo said in his mind
"Get the kids inside," Lariat said, slipping on his goggles over his eyes, "I'll deal with this." The moms were inside of the hospital and the security guards are blocking the exit.
Lariat jumped over the edge, wrapping his Quirk around it with one hand as he lowered himself and another on his left side to Armor his arm. Katsuki shared a look with Izuku before he helped Izuku climb up onto the hood of his mom's car, helping Izuku up right after so they could look down and watch the fight. Izuku was looking with an excited face.
"Didn't anyone ever tell ya fightin' near a hospital is kinda frowned at?" Lariat asked, "Good way to get-"
"Shut up!" One villain said, pointing his gun at Lariat, only for Blackwhip to launch forward and rip it from his hand.
"Thanks," Lariat said, disarming the gun and throwing it away, "Make it easier for me. C'mon, let's go! I haven't fought in a while and you seem like a good way to break a sweat!"
"You," the leader of one of the gangs growled, the red and black skin around his arms changing into a pair of massive swords, "The boss wants those guys taken down and we're doing it! Outta the way!"
"That'd be the weird thing to do, huh?" Lariat said, cracking his neck before more tendrils of Blackwhip came out of his arms, "Too bad for you I didn't become a hero to do what was sane! Let's go!"
-X Daigoro X-
Unlike many of his fights, there was little obvious reason for Daigoro to be wearing his goggles at the moment, he knew that. He didn't have a gun, didn't see any flash grenades on either side, they hadn't shown any Quirks to irritate his eyes (assuming they even had a Quirk. What was the ratio of Quirklessness nowadays? One in three? Four?), and they weren't high enough for the wind to sting his eyes.
"Do you think we care about stupid rules the government put in place!?" The leader of the other gang said, four sharp-tipped limbs bursting through specifically cut holes in his salary man's suit on the left side , and lifting Daigoro into the air and said "Using our Meta Abilities is a human right!" as he stabbed Daigoro with another, but Daigoro used his right arm to create a shield with blackwhip
Meta Ability. That wasn't a term he had ever expected to hear again. Pops had used it when he was really mad at people with Quirks. Meta Freaks. A relic from back when most people didn't have Quirks, and those who did were monsters.
Anti-Quirk lynchings hate groups and distrust had run rampant. All played a role in the rise of All for One as the ruler of Japan in the shadows. The legacy of the Torchbearers and the clash that continued to this day. This made him a bit nostalgic.
Had there been some sort of pushback while Daigoro was away? People who hated the term Quirk, for some reason?
Questions for later, now it was time to fight. A step and a half turn let him dodge the limb coming down for his chest. Black whip launched from his arm, wrapping around the salaryman before reeling back in and destabilizing him, sending him crashing to the ground in front of Daigoro. Combat boots met cartilage and the man skipped away across the street with his nose broken.
"Boss!" one of the others called, before he pointed a fist at Daigoro. It exploded off his arm in a burst of flame, rocketing towards the undead. Blackwhip lashed around it, and he spans the missile over his head even as the man regrew a new arm in front of their eyes, bones appearing before a framework of muscle crawled up it before finally a layer of skin finished the job, "You mother-"
"Did you forget about me!?" The boss of the other gang snarled, leaping towards Daigoro with both blade arms bared.
Yeah, kinda, "Nope! Here's a gift!"
And then, using the force of his spin, he slammed the missile arm into the man's stomach, letting go of the missile with Blackwhip and watching him go flying back into his small gang. Daigoro grinned, raising his arms as Blackwhip swung around them, "Who's next!?"
"Don't,'" Blade-Arm said, turning his right arm back to normal and injecting something into his neck. The muscle exploded along his entire body, wrapping around him as he glared at Daigoro, "DON'T YOU DARE LOOK DOWN ON ME!"
"Why shouldn't I?" Daigoro taunted, "all I see is an angry kid throwing a tantrum."
"Boss!" One of the goons said, "We shouldn't-"
"Shut up!" Blade snapped, two more blades sprouting from each arm, "I'm killing this guy! It's what the boss would want anyway!"
The boss? There was only one person who would want Daigoro dead if he popped back up…
So how had All For One found out he was back so quickly? Unless he had some tie to the hospital, which Would make sense when you found that chilling sensation near the doctor, Daigoro was gonna have to look up when he got his Hero License ba-
Ah, crap. This was Vigilantism, technically, wasn't it? Whatever, he'd deal with that hurdle when he came to it.
"But using our own supply-"
"SHUT! UP!" Blade snarled before the hardened muscle covered his face, leaving only a pair of erratically jumping eyes, and he charged at Daigoro. Drugs that amped up Quirks, eh?
That was new. And it was "fun".
- X Bakugo and Izuku X-
Bakugo and Izuku watched the hero- no vigilante stare down the villains he was fighting with wide eyes. Black tendrils of energy slid off his arm as the angry villain charged him, blades flashing as he did. The hero wrapped his Quirk around the side of a building, using it to pull himself up and away from the attack.
Izuku and Bakugo wanted a closer look at the fight, so they quickly went down, but just then the Vigilantes' power was turned off. He tried to turn them back on, but it felt like his body was trying to stop him because if he tried to use his powers, he would start degenerating himself.
The Vigilante started running away with a look of a scared (silly) face. Daigoro said "The hell is wrong with my abilities, why can't I turn them on" The Villain is trying to stop him until he got his powers back then he used his blackwhip to create a shield- a dome-like structure on himself. The villain tried to use his blades to pierce it with multiple attacks, but it was in the veil that the blades started to Villain said "ow".
Izuku and Bakugo got into the streets. The Villain realized what the mysterious man said to him about the Izuku and Daigoro. The mysterious man said that " The boy has a summoning quirk; he summoned Banjo Daigoro. Kill both of them and bring me the boy's corpse. He realized the vigilante did not have his powers because the boy was out of range or sight; Summon Quirk was fueling Daigoro's abilities, so if he killed the boy the Vigilante would lose his powers. Six blades slashed into the ground where he was standing, before the villain growled, wild black eyes jumping around the street near Izuku and Bakugo…
And locking in Izuku and Bakugo, the villain charges towards them, blades aiming for them both. Izuku's brain shut down, watching the blades head towards their neck with wide eyes. Was… was he about to die? "You want to hide and seek!? Fine, but the kids are paying the price! Got it!?", but just then Kacchan used his explosions to push Izuku and himself away.
Then the vigilante wrapped his Quirk around the villain, dragging him back even as people on both sides of the villain fought aimed pistols at the villain. They didn't have time to fire, the hero letting go of the building and landing on the ground as his arm lifted, sending the armored villain into the air.
With his right hand, he wrapped around Izuku and Bakugo raised them to the third story of the parking garage and dropped them off on top of Mitsuki's car, before his free hand wrapped around the villain too, "it was fun and games before now, buddy, but attacking kids? I don't care how tweaked out you are, that doesn't fly!"
"Shut!" The muffled voice of the man howled, struggling against the bindings, "U-"
"Meteor impact!" the hero yelled, Both of his arms are covered in his black whip and it looks like they've hardened then slamming the villain into the ground so hard his armor cracked. Wow…
"That was pretty cool," Bakugo said to Izuku while his hand started to produce explosions a little bit, leaning his arms against the edge as he continued to watch the fight, "but he's not done yet."
"I," the armored villain struggled up, baring his arms, "WILL. KILL-"
A spike limb burst through his chest from behind, sending blood flicking across the pavement as the leader of the other gang rose, "Meta Abilities are gifts! To use drugs to change them-"
The bladed villain slashes through the limbs, turning towards the other boss.
"They're being dumb," the green-haired boy said, "if they worked together, they might be able to beat Lariat, but instead they're fighting each other just as much! Heroes will get here soon…"
- X ? X-
"In hindsight," The mysterious man said, "Sending two groups that wanted to fight to the death to work together might not have been the best idea. Still remind me to punish any survivors, Doctor. Lariat was their first goal, to see his strength. The second goal will be to figure out how this coin works because it had a villain's name not just any villain but one of The mysterious man's top henchmen. His name was Crossfire, real name is Satsujin Shi. His quirk was the ability to absorb energy within a certain range and use its own energy against his opponent. And while you're at it, begin work on the Combat Modification Agents. Clearly, just Trigger isn't enough anymore. If those don't work; you have authentication to begin the project in earnest, but don't skimp on the ones I suggested first. I'll know if you did." "Of course, but…" The doctor got interrupted.
"He hasn't used the Quirk," The mysterious man observed through the hospital cameras, a smirk spreading across his face, "Which is enough information that this wasn't completely for nothing. Those brought back by Midoriya's Quirk don't bear it anymore. Capturing Midoriya is something to do in the long term, as his Quirk would be a wonderful addition to my collection." But first, your first project job is to awaken Crossfire and his mission is to kill Midoriya's protector: Banjo "Lariat" Daigoro.
- X Daigoro X-
A smirk split Daigoro's face as several of the gang members turned on each other, practically forgetting he existed as the bosses focused on each other. Dumbasses.
Black whip launched from both arms, thicker and stronger, and wrapped around the pistols some were holding, ripping them from their hands and towards Daigoro, where they fell around his feet, except for one, which he caught, hand wrapping around a familiar grip as he pressed his index finger against the side of the slide to keep it off the trigger. He'd prefer a revolver, double-action preferably, but this would do for now.
There was a reason, nearly two centuries after its introduction, knockoffs of the M1911 were still being produced. Seven in the clio and one chambered. More than enough to drop anyone without a powerful defensive Quirk.
Aiming for the legs of the armored druggie, Daigoro shot one out of the knees, watching him collapse. His muscle… armor… stuff… shattered under the shot, before healing. Another shot hit the same spot a second later.
"See, here's the thing," Daigoro drawled, continuing to fire as then regenerate, "Healing like that takes a lot of energy, so sooner or later, you're gonna tire out-"
Before he could finish, a tide of sand wrapped around him and the villains, a middle-aged hero dropping down seconds later, a group of police officers aiming weapons at them, "You're all under arrest for illegal Quirk use!"
Great. This was just what he needed on an already hectic day. How was he supposed to explain that his license was so far out of date?
-X Notes X-
Before someone jumps down my throat, yes, I know that the Villain Factory stuff canonically takes place after All Might's injury. However, given the fact that the entire thing reeks of AfO, I decided to move much of it too before because that just makes more sense to me. All Might is still not injured yet, but he will be soon.
Also, did you really think I was gonna send them to a hospital still implied to have ties of AfO and not have something come out of it? A bit of a goal for this chapter was touching on what is only briefly mentioned in canon, just how much power AfO had over Japan prior to his fight with All Might. It will be part of the story later. I made Kacchan a little bit stronger here and definitely be a lot stronger than Cannon because I feel like Bakugou would definitely get stronger cuz Deku will compete and obviously they will both get stronger.
P.S. It's going to be a few more original characters as well as Canon characters coming into contact don't want to spoil anything too much but it's really pretty chaotic. Also, tell me if you would like the text changed for a different context. I hope you guys stick around.
Thank you for reading my story. The next chapter is going to come tomorrowish have a great day.
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