Midoriya Izuku : Advocate of Revenge
It had been a month since Izuku had become The Gamer. In that time nothing special occurred. Izuku had gone to school, and done his daily quests, which tired him out a lot of the time. The green haired youth had gained nine levels from doing those daily quests and the others he received from his teachers. That had gotten Izuku to laugh, homework was rewarding, giving XP and very rarely, rewards.
Also, during that time Izuku had abused the power of The Gamer. The boy always had a thirst for knowledge, at first, it was a knowledge about heroes, but now Izuku had wanted to get his hands on any kind of knowledge. In the span of the month, the boy had learnt 6 languages, all the skills that could be taught in Middle & High School, crafting skills and martial arts. The green haired boy had learned multiple forms of martial arts, because of that these forms became skills, each "skill" was sitting around at levels 15-20.
Because of his Gamer's Body skill that was always active, Izuku was free to do all the muscle heavy exercise he wanted. The boy had built a lot of muscle and it was easily visible if he had no shirt on, but it was similarly easily concealable with baggy clothing or bigger jackets. Hiding his new power had been very easy, for the simple fact that he had started Middle School recently and was a regular unknown like most of the students that didn't stand out. This was partly due to the boisterous behaviour his former friend, Bakugou Katsuki. From the get-go, Bakugou had sought to express his "dominance" over everyone else by showing off his Quirk, Explosion. His quirk is simple, effective and flashy. Bakugou can ignite the sweat he secretes from his palms. To add on top of all that, Bakugou is the one who has bullied Izuku all his life.
In a somewhat ironic turn of events, Izuku had been using Bakugou's bullying as a means to level up his physical endurance skill. It was the bullying in the first place that had raised the stat to level 37, and now in the past month it had gone up 5 levels. This now meant that 42% of the damage was mitigated. On anything that hit him. Because of this the green haired boy had been lying & acting to his bullies, which, in turn had become similarly named skills. They were skills that relied on his Charisma stat, which sat at a whopping 80. This caused two things, the first was, his lie and acting skill almost always succeeded because no one had anywhere near the required amount of charisma to see through the skills. The second part was, his skills levelled tremendously fast, to try and compensate their real ability in relation to the CHA stat. As a result of this, Izuku's "Lying" and "Acting" skills were his highest level acquired skills.
Lying – Lvl 77
By activating this skill either by word/thought or carrying out the action of lying, your words and tone become sincere in response to what you are trying to lie about.
Effect – As you have reached Level 75 with this skill, the signs of your dishonest body language and functions are massively reduced. These include Heartbeat, Twitching, Sweating and more.
Acting – Level 77
By using this skill you can portray yourself as someone else. You are able to display false emotions as real emotions to an astounding degree.
Effect – As you have reached Level 75 with this skill, your expressions and body language are massively increased to be more realistic.
For this entire month, Izuku was building his skills for today. Today would be the day that Izuku escaped his "Bullied" attribute and life. The youth had put a lot of points his strength stat for this, because he needed the "Strength" to push back against his tormentors.
Quest Alert!
Quest name: Crush your oppression
Today is the day you become free of your bullies. Show them what it means to be Midoriya Izuku, The Quirkless Child.
Rewards: 10, 000 XP + 10, 000G, Loss of "Bullied" Attribute
Bonus Objectives:
- ? - Rewards - ?
- ? - Rewards - ?
- ? - Rewards - ?
Failure: Continued to be Bullied, Loser Attribute, -100 CHA
Izuku smiled at the quest notification, he believed, for once in his life, in himself. The boy had also been looking at Bakugou's stats with Analyse, and compared to his own? They were pitiful stats. After all, Bakugou was only an above average 12 year old with a quirk. At the moment Izuku's class made their way towards the gymnasium, in P.E, today was a class game of dodge ball. This was perfect for what Izuku had wanted to do, obviously, he was going to put on the opposite team of Bakugou. This is where the green haired boy would show up Bakugou. Because of how long they knew each other, Izuku knew that Katsuki would confront him later about this, trying to express his anger for being "looked down on".
Once the team captains chose their teammates, it was time to begin the 10 vs 10 dodge ball game. Bakugou was already giving his team "Instructions" as their Captain.
"Listen up you bunch of extras, leave Deku 'til last. I'm gonna enjoy destroying that nerd!"
A lot of his teammates looked bewildered by what he said. They didn't know who "Deku" was, and they were also appalled at the language their team captain used. Bakugou's cronies were quick to inform them that Deku was Izuku. A lot of them didn't understand why they were going for Izuku last, but they didn't question it as they were afraid of Bakugou. Once the game had begun it only took 2 minutes for Izuku to remain by himself. Whilst some of Bakugou's had been eliminated, they had been able to get them back in. Now it was a 1v10 and Bakugou couldn't look any happier about it. Izuku stood calmly in front of the enemty tmea, his eyes were glowing a dim crimson. He had already thought of what could happen and was perfectly prepared. With a signal of "DIE!" from Bakugou, seven dodge balls came towards the green haired youth. It looked like the balls were a moving wall, to the other students, to Izuku it looked like it was in slow motion. Before the balls could traverse the full length of the vertette's side, he started moving towards the projectiles. This surprised everyone, but the most surprised was Katsuki.
Deftly avoiding the first six dodge balls, the youth leaps into the air, and begins to spin, catching the last ball firmly with a two-handed catch. During his aerial manoeuvre, Izuku's orientation flipped, placing the youth upside down, yet still spinning like a pin top, the rapid spins seemed to draw in wind towards him. With his sights set, Izuku put his full body into a throwing motion, having done a few spins to get used to the speed, he aimed perfectly for the moment when the ball would go straight to Bakugou. With all his power, the foam ball ripped away from Izuku and clearly sailed towards the still stunned explosion user. Despite the ball being made of a soft foam, the force put into it from Izuku was enough to knock Bakugou off his feet as the ball carried him into the soft mat covering the walls. Despite the padding, the young Quirked child was still knocked out from the force behind the ball and the added impact into the mat.
Izuku smirked at his handiwork, unfurling from the pin top spin, landing cleanly on his feet, remembering it was still him versus nine people, he took off to the other balls and quickly eliminated everyone else, albeit far less powerfully. The teacher was stunned for only a moment, before he told everyone to get back to the changing rooms as class was over. The middle-aged teacher picked up the unconscious Katsuki and took him to the Nurses office to have him checked. He would have to go to the principal of the school on this matter, Izuku Midoriya was supposed to be a Quirkless child, so how did he do something, so, spectacular?
As the students were all leaving to the changing rooms, Izuku couldn't help the feel-good smile that burst across his face. On the way to the changing rooms, and even in them, Izuku was given a wide berth, some felt intimidated by him, but the overwhelming majority were thankful that someone put Bakugou in his place. After he was done changing, Izuku made his way towards the school cafeteria as the school bell rang, indicating it was lunch time. Once entering the food court, Izuku received a notification from The Gamer System.
"Due to actions you have performed, a new skill has been created."
Skill name: Aerial manoeuvres.
Type : Passive
Effect When you are in the air you can perform extra movements to either, evade, move or build attack power. Efficiency increases as you level. Effects of Gravity are also reduced; dependant upon Skill Level.
Izuku perceived it to be a great skill, at higher levels it would be utterly fantastic. After getting food from the cafeteria, the green haired child continued the course to his isolated table. Truthfully, Izuku hadn't meant to knock the explosion user out, only eliminate him from the game. But, Izuku would be remiss to say that he didn't enjoy, nor, would the freckled child want the outcome changed. Now all that was left was to deal with Bakugou after school. Before he could tuck into his meal, Izuku heard the patter of footsteps behind him. Turning his head, Izuku spotted a crowd of people he didn't recognise, each holding a tray of food. A lone droplet of sweat trickled down his forehead as one of them, a brunette, stepped forward. She bit her lip in nervousness before speaking.
"Midoriya-san, c-could we sit at this table with you?"
The nervous glint in their eyes portrayed no bad intentions, Izuku looked at the crowd with apprehension for only a second before giving them a shy smile, and a nod. The group bowed in appreciation before filing the table immediately. Once everyone was seated, they all nervously began to eat. Izuku could practically taste the awkward atmosphere that had enveloped the table, clearing his throat to get their attention, they all jumped in pseudo shock and surprise.
"So, why have you all decided to eat with me today?"
Izuku's question made some even more nervous, embarrassed in some cases. The brunette who had spoken up before, decided to become their voice once again.
"M-Midoriya-san, we just wanted to express our gratitude to you. Bakugou-san has been very… rude to a lot of us."
The green haired boy smiled to her before someone else spoke up.
"Yeah man, what Nozomi-chan said, although we haven't been here for that long, he's been terrorising us all for having different quirks."
More of the people at the table spoke their thanks and reasoning until the brunette, Nozomi-san, asked Izuku another question.
"You must have quite the amazing Quirk to apply that much power to the ball, not to mention your reflexes and agility. I'm surprised you weren't scolded by the teachers."
"Well, Nozomi-san; I can address you like that right?"
Nozomi nodded. A dusting of blush on her face at someone who was a stranger, addressing her by her given name. Izuku acknowledged her permission with a nod and continued on.
"The reason I wasn't reprimanded for use of my quirk is because... I am Quirkless."
The table grew silent at the freckled boy's reply They all regarded him with wide-eyed shock filled faces. The Gamer saw their expressions and picked up his tray of untouched food. His eyes downcast as he walked away from the table. If he stayed any longer, they were probably going to laugh and make fun of him too. The members of the people at the table saw the expression of hurt flash over his face, but they were still too stunned by to properly tell Izuku what they thought of him. That he was amazing.
It was 3pm and the final chime for school had just rung, Izuku was making his way out of the school gates when he noticed Katsuki was waiting for him. Bakugou made a gesture to Izuku telling him to follow, which Izuku complied. They made their way to an area where no one would bother them for what was to come. Admittedly, Izuku was in a foul mood because of what had happened at lunch. He had imagined coming into school tomorrow and seeing everyone laugh at him, Nozomi-san and the others from lunch at the front of the crowd. Imagining that had sent the freckled boy further down his negative spiral. When Bakugou had stopped moving they were in an alleyway, where he would sufficiently "question" Izuku about what happened at P.E. Katsuki turned and faced the vertette slamming his knuckles into his open right palm, adding a few explosions for extra scare factor. Yet, Izuku remained unaffected, he stood there with his head down, expression obscured. Katsuki had seen this before and knew the vertette was trying to hide his fear, evident by the youths quivering frame. Finally, Katsuki spoke.
"Oi, Deku. What the fuck was that about during P.E? Don't get cocky because you got lucky, you fuckin nerd!"
The explosion user sauntered over to the Quirkless boy and placed a crackling hand on his left shoulder. A cruel smirk danced across the blondes lips.
"An Extra like you shouldn't be getting in the way of my Origin Story. Stick to the sidelines like the Quirkless Deku you are."
Bakugou wound his left arm back, ready to punch his childhood friend in the gut. That's what was supposed to happen until a searing pain erupted from Bakugou's stomach. The ash-blonde felt a warm liquid pool in his throat whilst Bakugou's head throbbed in agony. The warmth from Katsuki's throat spilled over his lips as bile dribbled out whilst he slipped into unconsciousness. The last thing he saw before fainting was Izuku, looking over him with cold-hearted fury in his eyes.
As Bakugou wound his left arm back, the freckled gamer immediately sent a right straight that connected with his bully's solar plexus. Following onwards, an uppercut connected with the young blonde's chin, followed by a spin kick to the temple then, a roundhouse that launched Bakugou into the cold brick of the alley wall. The green haired youth looked down upon his bully with burning fury. Despite being practically unconscious, the blonde still managed to look at him with his usual condescending glare. That sent Izuku over the edge. Walking towards the now unconscious form of Katsuki, Izuku cracked his knuckles loudly, before beating on the boy. By the time Izuku left the alley, Bakugou's face was swollen, beaten black and blatantly unrecognisable.
After Izuku returned home, walking into his room he collapsed onto his bed and shut his eyes. Going over what happened to Bakugou, a smile started to encompass his face, until he broke out into spontaneous laughter. Sure, it was cruel, it would take Bakugou weeks to heal properly, but, Izuku felt nothing but righteous vindication. The vertette sat up on his bed and came face to face with another screen.
Quest Complete!
Quest Name : Crush your Oppression
Rewards Given: 10,000 XP + 10,000 G, "Bullied" attribute removed
Bonus Objectives: Knock Bakugou out at P.E
Knock Bakugou out in the alley
Vent Years of Anger on his Body.
Bonus Rewards: 10,000 XP, 15,000 XP, 25,000 XP
You have Levelled up!
You have Levelled up!
You have Levelled up!
You have Levelled up!
You have Levelled up!
Izuku's face showed nothing but excitement as he looked at the screens before him. Once again going over the completed quest, soaking in the elating feeling of losing his biggest negative attribute. This also led Izuku to realise his Charisma stat was now over 100. Another window appeared in front of him.
Skill Acquired!
Skill Name : Larger than Life
Skill Effect: Your presence dwarfs that of others, due to his you naturally stand out in social situations and are deferred to for leadership. (Passive)
Any Skills that require use of your CHA stat again +100% effectiveness.
The Gamer was perplexed. When his Strength stat exceeded 100, he didn't get any bonus skill. Maybe it was due to the world? Because of how strong quirked individuals are it demanded a higher level of strength before a bonus could be given? With a shake of his head, Izuku strayed away from those thoughts, instead using logic that dictated it was dependent on the skill. It was easy to gain a stat point in "Strength" by exerting your physical body, but "Charisma", whilst it can be acquired, is much harder to gain.
For Logical reasoning on an aspect of The Gamer System, you gain + 2 Points to WIS
Izuku was glad for the affirmation of the Skill System, looking over his stat page, he had 25 points from levelling up 5 times, but had no plans to spend them at the moment. Instead, the green haired boy wanted to check out what he could do with that 10,000G. Recalling back to the Tutorial he received about The System, 1 Gold was worth $1. Quickly plugging $10,000 into a converter for Yen, the youth found out he had ¥1,000,000. The freckled boy could only look on in shock, beating up your childhood friend got you a million Yen?
"Well… Shit!"
The vertette was surprised, an understatement, even still he remembered there was a use in the system for Gold. Thinking of the Store brought up said place. The boy looked over the homepage, after searching it for a couple of seconds, he came across a banner that had a beginner's bundle. Izuku checked the information of the items and was pleasantly surprised. The items for sale certainly seemed useful for only 700G. Despite one of them being absolutely useless in Izuku's eyes, he would buy the bundle.
You have acquired (3) new skill Books!
Book of Mana Manipulation Acquired!
Book of Elemental Manipulation Acquired!
Book of Singing Acquired!
Izuku couldn't help but give an annoyed smile at the reminder of his last skill book. Regardless, he accepted all the skills, their knowledge of what they were and how to perform them, the only problem was, they required meditation, something Izuku had no idea how to do. Yes, he had seen it in movies and comic books, that was it. Unlike those people, the young vertette had no clue how to even begin meditation, his mind was always active. It was why Izuku mumbled, because he couldn't control the pace his brain handled information and thoughts. The boy decided to leave it alone for now, he had dinner to eat that his mother had lovingly prepared for him.
Izuku exited his room and went downstairs to the Dining room, after washing his hands in the bathroom. Immediately the smell of Inko's cooking wafts to his nostrils. Before his mother could look up and register her son's presence, the freckled boy had set the table. The chubby woman looked away from the pot of food to check if she had remembered to lay out the cutlery. The Midoriya Matriarch was pleasantly surprised to see her son at the table, chopsticks and eating mats laid out perfectly, and extra condiments in the center of the table.
"Oh! Izu honey, I didn't hear you come down! Did you set the table?"
Izuku answered the question with a smiling nod as he walked towards the kitchen.
"And I'll dish up dinner for us as well, you sit down and relax whilst I do this, okay Mum?"
The younger vertette guided his mother towards the dining table. Inko was taken aback by the thoughtfulness of her son, he was never a delinquent or a bad child by any means. No, he was more of a shy child who had a strange aura of melancholy that engulfed him occasionally. But, the boy in front of her now, radiated an overwhelmingly happy aura, like he was on top of the world. When Izuku had finished dishing up and serving the meal was when Inko snapped out of her stupor. They both gave their customary grace, and then tucked into their dinner.
During their meal, Inko asked Izuku about his day at school, which, got her an enthusiastic and energetic reply, completely different from normal.
"It was amazing! We had a dodgeball game in P.E and my team managed to beat Katsuki's!"
The proud grin on Izuku's face caused a chain reaction, making Inko smile warmly at her precious child.
"You all beat little Kit-Kat? That's great news Izu! Anything else good happen?"
Izuku briefly thought about what happened at lunch and what went down with Katsuki; he quickly cleared his head of those memories.
"Not much, just a surprise test they gave us, I got full marks!"
Lie Successful, "Lying" has advanced one level.
"That's my Baby boy! I can't wait for you to be going to high school, then college. And hopefully by then you'll have a girlfriend and then you'll get married after you leave college and you'll have kids and …! Grandbabies for me to spoil!" Inko squealed in joy just thinking about that future.
Izuku laughed heartily at his mother's mumble rant. The boy was only 12, so he didn't understand why having a girlfriend was so good, but if it made his mother happy, he'd try to get one for her. With a very innocent exuberance, Izuku responded to his mother's mumblings.
"I'll try my best to bless you with many grandbabies Mum!"
The smile on his face caused Inko to faint from the thought of a sea of grandchildren coursing towards her screaming "Grandma!" and "Gwandma!"
The morning air was crisp and catering to the needs of Izuku's happy mood. Many hours after last nights dinner, countless tutorials on YouTube, NicoNicoDouga, a webinar with the Dark Brotherhood; a group of Bethesda enthusiasts, he had finally been able to do proper meditation. This in turn created a skill for it and finally allowed him to start his Mana Manipulation. Because of his high INT & WIS stat and the knowledge learned in how to manipulate and expand the Magical Core from the skill book, Izuku was able to raise the Mana Manipulation skill to Level 8. Alongside this, his Meditation skill reached Level 4, which granted him 2 extra points into INT and WIS.
That productive night had left Izuku in a great mood even after his daily workout. It seemed awakening his Mana had given him a greater recovery time, Izuku didn't know how that worked, but would figure it out later.
Walking through the gates of Aldera Middle School seemed to make everything and everyone come to a stop. Izuku was unperturbed by the invasive silence that permeated the air and casually walked through the front door to the school. Once Izuku was out of sight everything seemed to resume. The silence was broken by a female voice.
"Even the way he walks is dignified and cool!"
By the time it was lunch, the freckled boy had noticed that everyone was practically observing him, maybe it was because of that skill "Larger Than Life"? Or maybe word got out of what happened to Katsuki and that he was Quirkless? Well regardless of any of that, it was lunch time and Izuku had a bento made by his mother. He was looking forward to his lunch because Inko also included some of the leftover Katsudon from last nights dinner.
Taking a seat at his customary table, Izuku pulled the cloth away from the bento box to reveal a small black case with a golden engraving of a Sakura Blossom branch on the lid. Before he could open his food container, Izuku was interrupted by the foreign pitter patter of footsteps approaching him. Looking over his shoulder, Nozomi-san and the others from the previous day were there. Instead of looking condescending, malicious or even nervous, they looked happy to see him. With a standard greeting of "Good Afternoon" from everyone, they all took their seats around Izuku. The vertette was too stunned to react, what were these friendly greetings? Where was the jeering? The bullying for his Quirkless status. Maybe they were waiting for him to do something, so they could shove it back in his face and make him feel worse?
"Midoriya-san? We would like to apologise for yesterday." Nozomi spoke in a serious tone.
"Here it comes…" Izuku thought bitterly, awaiting the incoming barrage of hate to come his way.
"Yesterday, when you said you were Quirkless, we were shocked. You can understand, right? Doing that amazing stuff, and, showing that kind of courage to someone so, spectacular like Bakugou…" Nozomi-san took a moment to catch her breath and rearrange her thoughts.
"What i'm trying to say, is that, we're sorry for hurting you yesterday, and that we're grateful to you for showing us, that even if you have no quirk, you can still be a courageous and strong person!"
Izuku was stunned into silent shock. Everyone had bowed their head to him, and was thankful to him? What did he do to deserve to be on the end of such a cruel joke? All he did was throw a ball! And after that he beat the snot out of Bakugou! Where was it!? The slew of insults and jibes!? Where was the oppression of his character, of his self!?
"Why are you all doing this? I don't deserve any of this…" Izuku muttered out in a small voice. "I don't deserve to be the punchline of this horrible joke." His bitter thoughts were not heard by the other members at the table. Nozomi-san raised her head and smiled to the vertette with a dazzling smile.
"Because, to us, and many others, you're our inspiration! Our Hero!"
That word, "Hero", caused Izuku to properly raise his head and look at everyone at the table without his own pessimistic turn of events blocking his judgement. From years of being lied to by people around him, Izuku could tell when someone was being dishonest. So, when Izuku properly looked at all the people at the table, he could see that they all rallied behind what Nozomi-san said and agreed with it. They weren't going to backstab him; that thought alone, made Izuku tear up. With the tears pooling in his eyes, he clutched the fabric of the school blazer on him and whimpered out a sentence in a strained voice.
"Thank you! … Thank you so much…"
In a conference room, with many in attendance. A video from YouTube's Trending page was on a playback loop. The video itself was filmed on a smartphone, but still had astounding quality to it. The video showed a green-haired child accurately step into and evade several balls sent towards him by leaping into the air and spinning. The video was slowed to show that before he leapt in the air, the child grabbed one spare ball that was coming towards him and gained massive momentum before letting the ball go and hitting another child, sending that boy into a padded wall and knocking him out. The video then continued and showed the green-haired youth eliminate the other members of the team before the game was concluded.
When the video ended, the title of the video was shown, as the loop and playback had ceased for the moment. This caused conversation to start in the room, until the one at the head of the table silenced everyone.
"I understand that we are all curious to see if this is true. Regarding the child, his records have been granted to us. I can confirm that this boy is Quirkless."
All those at the table, smiled. They were very, very pleased with that information.
"An offer will be sent out immediately to his family, and when they accept, we will begin the testing of Valkyrja."
AN: I'm not going to tell you anything about the upcoming arc. All you need to know is, it's completely separate from Canon. So if you don't like that tough luck.