Slap me around and call me Susan... (Blankman reference)

Once upon a time when someone was known as 'quirky' it meant they were eccentric or possibly suffering from something like OCD or had very specific views on things.

That changed when the first known superpower appeared. It was a baby that was born with bio-luminescence. A glowing baby was so far from the norm that the world didn't really know what to think of it.

What started as an unusual birth soon became much more commonplace as other children of that generation started developing special abilities of their own. Some were physical changes, others were extraordinary powers.

The world soon fell into chaos as societies all across the world revolted or were upturned.

It took almost 300 years and a method of self policing known as Professional Heroing to stabilize the world once more.

Not everything about these powers were understood yet. Sometimes these powers, or 'quirks' could combine, other times they were passed down and slightly altered from one generation to the next.

What started as something that affected only a small part of the overall population has now become the majority where less than 1 in 5 people were known as 'quirkless'.

The world was now facing the fact that normality was a minority even though people were punished for abusing their quirks against standard societal norms.

No world is perfect, but this particular world is the one where we begin….

Izuku Midoriya was the name bestowed upon the main focus of this story. A child who unbeknownst to everyone had actually inherited a mutation of his two parents quirks that gave him huge advantages in life.

That is, once it actually manifested.

Izuku could be considered a textbook case of being a 'late bloomer'.

Life was not easy for the quirkless. That was a lesson Izuku learned day after day in his short life. He was ostracized and bullied at school due to his 'condition' people he'd known since preschool were now some of his greatest tormentors. They only real good thing is that the most dangerous of them all, Katsuki Bakugo at least knew how to pull his punches.

Well, that was the thought at the time. The truth was a different matter entirely.

"Come on, just give it back." Izuku said to the gang of bullies after Bakugo had snatched his most recent notebook where he kept ideas and profiles on various heroes.

"Nah, I kinda want to see how far I can make this thing fly." Bakugo said with a fierce grin. "I'm going to throw this off the roof." He said before taking off at a run with his friends following after him.

"Man I just put new stuff in there today." Izuku muttered as he chased after his property. If it had been a regular notebook it would be one thing, but this was something he'd spent decent money on. He needed that back.

The roof of Aldera High School….

"Just give it back. I paid good money for that." Izuku said with a sigh after catching up to the others.

"I'd say make me, but you can't." Bakugo said with a sneer.

"Seriously, do we have to keep doing this? Doesn't this get old to you?" Izuku asked.

"Proving I'm better than anything you could hope or dream to be? Never." Bakugo said as he held up the notebook. "Come get it."

If he hadn't run like he had, Izuku wouldn't have had a loose shoelace. He also wouldn't have tripped over the railing.

By the time the boys on the roof actually looked down to see if Izuku was dead, the boy was long gone. The only evidence he'd even been there was one lone red shoe.

In fact Izuku was running at speeds he'd never been able to reach before, surpassing even some of the vehicles on the road.

Midoriya residence….

"What was that?" Izuku asked himself as he felt over his whole body. He remembered falling and hitting the ground, but there wasn't any pain.

In fact, he felt like that one time he'd had two energy drinks in a row but only like times ten. He'd also run way faster than normal without even getting winded.

"Do I... do I have a quirk?" He asked himself before slamming the back of his hand into the kitchen counter.

It didn't hurt. Actually, it felt like he'd just drunk a refreshing glass of water.

"I need to talk to my mom." Izuku muttered as he opened his notebook and started taking notes on everything that had happened from the moment of the fall until now.

At heart, our protagonist is a mama's boy.

"We need to get you reevaluated honey." Inko Midoriya said to her son after he had showed his mother what was going on by having her hit his hand with a ruler. "I don't want to know what happened on that roof do I?"

"I fell mom. I was trying to get my notebook back from some bullies." Izuku said as he looked at his unmarked hand. "Then I ran as soon as I got up from hitting the ground."

"Fine. But we'll be talking about what's been happening at school down the road." Inko said. "Do you think you can sleep tonight?"

"Maybe?" Izuku said. "Still feel really awake."

"Try. We'll both call in sick tomorrow and we can see a quirk specialist. A different one than that guy we saw when you were four since he was apparently wrong." Inko told her son.

The next day….

It had taken a few early morning phone calls and a longer than average train ride but they were able to be seen and evaluated by a younger and more competent doctor who determined that Izuku had a quirk after all.

"So what is it?" Inko asked. "I can draw small objects to me and my husband could breathe fire."

"Well, given I don't have all the exacts specifics of your husband's quirk it still looks like a mutated combination of the two. Your son absorbs both kinetic and thermal energy and his body translates that into increased strength and stamina. Once he hits a certain saturation point he is actually capable of releasing a blast of energy out of his hands. Though at least right now that seems to require a rather high threshold to pass first."

"Can he be hurt?" Inko asked.

"Electricity maybe." The doctor said. "We'd have to do more thorough testing but your insurance won't cover it since he's past the standard age range for it. I can pull some strings but it would still take a few weeks to get approval."

"Do what you can." Inko said. "If you get approval let me know. In the meantime... we'll figure it out."

The next day….

"You didn't sleep did you?" Inko asked her son.

Izuku looked a little bleary eyed but shook his head. "Doing some research online. Homeschooling. Can you ..." He trailed off.

Inko sighed. "Just once." She said before slapping her son in the face.

That did the trick and Izuku looked a little more peppy.

"Thanks mom. I feel better. I can apply to be home-schooled. A latent quirk awakening is still a viable reason in the books in our area even if it hasn't been used in some time."

"Do it. I trust you. Well, especially since you can't really hurt yourself unless you stick your finger in a socket while I'm at work. We'll talk to your school principal tomorrow." Inko told her son. "I still have to work."

Izuku nodded.

"Go take a nap son." Inko told him

Izuku nodded again before heading off to this room.

"What am I going to do with him?" Inko mused before heading out the door.

She didn't want to be late for work today on top of being out yesterday…

A few weeks later...

One of the requirements for homeschooling was that Izuku be evaluated by a third party to see that he was indeed keeping up with the standard curriculum.

This required standardized and ultimately boring testing.

And that is where his life changed once more.

Somehow, there was an explosion in the testing room, causing the door to be blown off its hinges and hitting him directly in the face.

Kinetic impacts barely fazed Izuku anymore. Ever since his powers manifested he'd somehow become a trouble magnet of some sort. Whether it was falling pianos, runaway cars or even one crashed satellite... Izuku was there.

He usually ended up running away from these incidents after making sure no one was hurt because he didn't want to get in trouble for 'unauthorized quirk usage'.

Izuku sighed as he picked up the door and leaned it against the wall and heading for the only fire extinguisher he knew of in the office. He headed into the room and put out the testing area which was currently on fire.

"I don't know what went wrong." A girl with pink hair and goggles said.

"What happened?!" The Overseer asked.

"My pencil blew up." The girl said.

Both Izuku and the Overseer sighed.

"Of course it did." Izuku muttered. "You another home-school kid?"

"Just for the last year so I can focus on building stuff for UA." The girl admitted.

"Let's just start over with regular pencils instead of whatever you modified shall we?" The Overseer said. "After we get the smoke out of here." He looked over to Izuku. "This is going to eat into your time. If you're okay testing behind her at another station we can move things along."

"That's fine by me. Why was she being tested by herself?" Izuku asked.

"Optical quirk." The Overseer said. "Did that door hit you?" He asked Izuku. The tester was briefed on all quirks of his cases in order to ensure there was no cheating on testing.

"Yeah. Let's just say I'm itching to go." Izuku said with a somewhat shy grin.

"I bet. Let me report the damage and we'll start up again in fifteen minutes." The Overseer told them.

"Hey. I'm Mei." The pink haired girl said to Izuku. "Did that door really hit you? You look fine. Well besides the smoke damage and stuff."

"Izuku." He said after a moment to get over any embarrassment he felt at the girl staring at him so intently. "My quirk allows me to absorb kinetic energy and converts it to strength and stamina."

"Neat. So can you get cut or scraped or anything?" Mei asked.

"Not since it activated." Izuku admitted. "I'm a late bloomer. That's why I'm home-schooled. I had stuff happen when I was 'quirkless'."

Mei nodded. "My stuff tends to explode sometimes. If those can't hurt you we should hang out. I could always use a set of hands that can't get hurt."

"I'll think about it. I'm planning on attending the hero course so I need to start training soon for UA."

"OOH! Two Birds! I can build stuff to help you and you can survive alpha testing!" Mei said. "Please! Please!"

Izuku sighed. He had a feeling this girl wasn't going to take 'No' for an answer.

"Let's just take today's test and talk about this afterwards." Izuku told her. He needed to contact his mother. She wasn't going to believe this.

Or worse, she might.

A few weeks later….

"I can't move." Izuku said as Mei wheeled the other teen outside on a hand truck.

"Give it a minute." Mei said with a mad laugh. "Let the solar cells get enough light!"

Just then the sun broke through the clouds and the odd contraption Izuku was wearing started to have small pieces start to move around, hitting his body in regular intervals.

"Now move." Mei commanded. "Training suit Mark 1 is active!"

"This is a full body tension suit right?" Izuku mumbled as he started to lurch forward. The more he moved the greater the impact he could feel from the two hammer like devices hitting his shoulders. "This is great! I can train everything and keep going thanks to the suit transferring more energy to me! Can this run on batteries too?"

"Nine volts." Mei confirmed with a grin. "Right now everything is about 25% harder for you to do. In order to do more I'll either need more parts or more money. Or both."

"There's a beach-side park that is pretty much a scrapyard we can use." Izuku offered. "I've been thinking about going there to clean it up but I haven't made the time."

"We can sell the scrap we can't use. I know a guy who lets me browse his junkyard." Mei said with a nod. "Let me call him and tell him our idea. If he's up for it we can load up a truck a few times a day."

Izuku nodded and then began moving about Mei's workshops back lot. His movements were uncannily similar to Frankenstein's monster, but as he went along his movements got smoother. By the time Mei had finished talking to whoever it was on the other end of the phone he was almost walking normally.

This was going to get weirder before it got better.

By the third iteration of Mei's tension suit, Izuku was able to wear it under a slightly baggy jogging outfit. The fact that the outfit was a couple sizes bigger than what he would have needed a few months back wasn't lost on either of them.

He'd gained a significant amount of muscle from his training but hadn't lost any speed. He'd had to take up yoga on the side to maintain reasonable amounts of flexibility but that hadn't been that big of a burden either.

He still hadn't been able to summon energy blasts very easily. He needed to be hit with the impact equivalent of a wrecking ball before his hands even started to glow at all.

As Izuku began his cool down routine after jogging his daily 10 miles, his attention was diverted by the frail looking man who was just sitting on the beach while watching the sun rise.

He'd finished cleaning up the beach about a week ago and people were already taking advantage. After he and Mei started working on it and clearing out the larger pieces of junk, other people began helping out here and there and in almost no time at all the entire beach was cleaned up.

It took two city workers with metal detectors combing the whole beach before it was officially declared 'safe' to use once more.

Something about the blond man seemed familiar to Izuku but he couldn't place it.

Shrugging to himself, Izuku began working on his vertical leaps again. He had another two hours of exercise before he needed to study again. His mother always made sure he made equal time for it.

Thankfully he needed less sleep than he used to due to his quirk.

He nodded at the frail looking man as he walked past and kept doing his vertical leaps until the device on his wrist prodded him to do something else.

He was beginning to get diminishing returns on his current exercise plan but he was running out of ideas that didn't involve taking up sports or joining a gym. Both of those he was a little adverse to due to his experiences growing up in the area.

He'd talked to his mom about it but her only real idea she could think of was boxing. both thought he couldn't really do that easily since it could tread upon the whole quirk usage restrictions if he drew too much attention.

Quirk usage laws was tricky sometimes. Provided he didn't try to do any competitions he might be able to. He'd have to ask around at some of the gyms to really find out.

He needed something more, he only had two months left until the entrance exams….

Boxing, or at least sparring wasn't the best of ideas. It took less than an hour inside the boxing studio for both the teacher and Izuku to realize it was not the best fit. After taking just a few hits Izuku was able to blow past any potential guard and knock his instructor off their feet in one blow.

"I can show you the basics but it looks like sparring is right out." The teacher said with a grin. "You already seem really light on your feet despite your build but anything in the ring is a no go."

"Regulating my strength has gotten easier, but that's because I've stopped progressing much." Izuku told him.

"Self training plateau huh?" The instructor mused. "It happens. I know a hardcore quirk gym that might be able to help but you need to be sponsored by a hero to get in there."

Izuku explained the whole tension suit he was wearing and the instructor was a little floored.

"You're wearing that right now?" the instructor asked. "What's it set to?"

"Basically it's set to about four times the amount of effort it would take to move normally. I don't even really notice it anymore." Izuku said.

"Let me make some calls." The instructor said with a sigh. This kid was a monster.

An hour later….

"Heads up!" Someone shouted as a green haired kid walked through the 'Iron City' gym entrance. A moment after that he was hit flat in the face with a flying kettle-bell that in turn landed on his right big toe.

Izuku sighed. Stuff like that kept happening.

"You okay kid?" A gruff voice asked as a guy who was clearly the hero 'Gang Orca' asked as he came forward. "Did you even feel that?"

Izuku blinked as he stared at one of the top ten heroes. "I…."

"Take a second kid." Gang Orca said with a laugh. "You the one we got a call about?"

"Yes?" Izuku said "Izuku Midoriya."

"The plateau kid wanting to get in UA." Gang Orca said. "What can you do?"

"My quirk let me absorb kinetic energy to enhance my speed, strength and stamina. It also seems to make things happen around me." Izuku said as he held up the kettle-bell with a hint of a shrug.

"There has been a low key thing going on where we're supposed to look out for a green haired kid around accidents. You're not in trouble but you've been noticed." Gang Orca said with a grin.

"Those weren't my fault!" Izuku said. "That Satellite came out of…. Well out of nowhere."

Gang Orca laughed. "Get in here kid. Let's get you in some normal gym clothes and out of that tension suit. I need to see what we've got to work with."

Izuku nodded and followed the hero further inside the building.

"I'm ready." Izuku said as he came out of the changing room.

"I'm sure you are. Let's just get your basic stats and go from there. How much energy do you have in reserve right now?

"After that hit to the face I'm probably at about 5%?" Izuku said. "I ran here."

Gang Orca nodded as one of his sidekicks ushered Izuku towards a corner that had a scale and a few other instruments.

"Height is okay for your age but your muscle mass and bone density are on the high side. What you've been doing is good but we need to break past those limits." Gang Orca said. "That means heavy weights when you're not energized. The stronger your base, the stronger you are when powered up. We'll also teach you grappling and more passive methods of take-downs. You need to be able to stop those who can't take heavy hits."

"Thank you for the opportunity." Izuku said before bowing.

"Take it easy kid." Gang Orca said with a grin. "Had one of my guys do a background check on you. Late Bloomer huh?"

"Yes sir." Izuku said with a nod. "I'm doing home schooling right now."

"Planning on going to UA right?" Gang Orca laughed. "They won't know what hit them!"

Later on down the road….

Training under Gang Orca had been rougher than anything else Izuku had ever gone through.

On the plus side he'd put on another twenty pounds of muscle and another inch of height.

Downside was he was pretty much always hungry these days. Thank goodness for his quirk supplementing some of his energy requirements or he'd be eating his mom out of house and home.

Another oddity was that his hair had started to grow faster as well. Trimming it didn't seem to help so he ended up keeping it in a ponytail with his green locks reaching about halfway down his back.

His mom thought it made him look more regal, and Mei… Mei got excited about the whole thing.

Wandering hands….

Izuku fought back a shudder. He'd try to sort out just what he and Mei were later. They both had to focus on school first.

He grinned to himself and headed towards registration. He had a test to take. He thought he'd spotted Bakugo but decided to keep quiet. The last thing he needed was to draw the overly explosive teen's ire right before the testing.

The hardest part about the written test was trying to sit comfortably in the testing area. Izuku swore that those chairs and desks were designed by super-villains.

Now came the hard part... The Practical.

When he'd told Gang Orca of his concerns about the whole thing, the hero just laughed.

"You'll do fine kid." Gang Orca told him. "Just be sure to smash your way to first place."

When he realized the practical involved taking out robots armed with various weapons Izuku had to grin. This was going to be easy.

The only real issue he had was the clothes he was wearing were a gift from Gang Orca. Thankfully he'd had the foresight to wear some running shorts under the pants of the suit he was wearing.

Once he'd gotten to the designated area he was assigned to, Izuku made sure to carefully fold up his clothes and place them in his backpack and then change into some running shoes.

He didn't notice some of the other applicants looking his way either in lust or envy of his physique. He was trying to get charged up for the test.

"You there!" Someone shouted. "You're being distracting!"

Izuku turned and saw a teen about his height pointing at him. "What do you mean?" He asked.

"You're parading around half naked!" The teen shouted while making a chopping motion with one arm. "Are you trying to distract the other applicants?"

"No, I just didn't want my clothes to get too damaged." Izuku said with a shrug.

"Well… just put a shirt on!" the teen half yelled.

"Aww…." someone said.

"I'm gonna say no." Izuku told the teen. "I checked the rules and there's nothing against it."

"Yay!" someone else shouted.

"Are you guys ready!" An overly loud voice shouted over the numerous conversations that were taking place.

"Yeah!" Izuku said as he turned and saw Present Mic, their exam overseer standing nearby.

"Then Go!" Present Mic said.

Izuku took off like a shot as robots began to come out of the ground.

"See, he's not wasting any time." Present Mic told the others "Clock is ticking Listeners!"

The other potential students quickly got moving as the teen in the lead took out a robot after having a missile explode in his face.

The exam was starting with a bang!

The Observation Room….

"What the hell has that kid been eating?" The R-rated heroine, Midnight asked. "And can I get some for my sidekicks?"

"Hmm.." Nezu said as he checked the student's file. "Late bloomer with a kinetic and thermal energy absorption quirk. Gives him increased strength and stamina. Light file. Says he's been training under Gang Orca."

"That explains a little." Another teacher said as they continued to observe the testing. The kid was far out front, with points and how far he'd gone into the simulated city.

Nezu nodded as he manipulated a few controls and let several more robots loose around the green haired teen to see how he would function with multiple opponents. He and one other paid close attention to the fact the teen quickly used parts from the first robot he took out to disable the others that were nearby.

"He's good." Toshinori Yagi said softly.

"He is." Nezu said before he hit a button causing all of the robots around the teen to self destruct, engulfing the teen in fire.

The teen deftly leaps out of the fireball with grace born from hours of intense practice. He landed with a slight skip and Toshinori could have sworn he saw the kid laugh.

"Are his hands glowing?" Midnight asked as the green haired teen caught her attention again.

"That they are." Nezu said as he fought back a mad grin. "Let's just see what this year's crop can do!"

"They still have…" someone began as Nezu pressed a large red button. "A few minutes left."

"It'll be fine." Nezu said as he grabbed a joystick. "I know what I'm doing." He said before pressing a button on the joystick rapidly.

The gathered teachers watched the giant robot begin firing several lasers at the green haired applicant even as it was still rising out of the ground.

Nezu laughed a little maniacally as the giant robot picked up one leg and stomped on the teen.

"Should we stop him?" Toshinori asked out loud.

"No. He's really scary when he's like this." Midnight said.

Nezu stopped laughing and toggled a switch that seemed to pick up audio from the monitor he was focused on.

"Smash!" someone screamed as the foot of the robot glowed crimson before an energy blast literally bisected the mechanical monstrosity..

The green haired teen pushed his way through the molten foot and the whole staff could hear the tired laughter coming from the teen.

"I want him." Midnight said. "I'm calling dibs."

"Not happening." Nezu said with a glint in his eye. "If anyone can call dibs on this powerhouse…"

"It's me." Toshinori said softly. "And I am."

TBC…..

This is Izuku with the quirk equivalent of Sebastian Shaw's powers from X-men first class