Midoriya Izuku: Origin

The morning sun broke over the horizon, steadily engulfing the looming shadows of night. To see this sight was Midoriya Izuku, who had completed his morning exercises. Today, he didn't feel as much fatigue as usual. Looking at his stats page, Izuku found that the fatigue bar had only increased to 20%. The young Gamer assumed his body was more accustomed to the now normal morning rituals, as well as all the stat increases helping him tremendously. The vertette arrived back home with the time only being 7am, that left him ample time to level up his "Meditation" and "Mana Manipulation" skills. Coming through the front door, Izuku noticed there was a letter in the landing, clearly it was posted by hand, instead of being sent through the postal service.

Picking up the letter, Izuku used Analyse on it, but gleamed nothing more from it, other than it was mail. Sitting down on his couch, the young boy opened the white envelope. As there was no clear indication on the envelope for who it was for, Izuku was surprised the letter was addressed to him. Izuku noticed the logo for the Korean Gaming Company, InGenius. This was certainly a surprise; he didn't remember singing up for anything from their company?

Taking the letter out and unfolding it fully, Izuku read the letter, very carefully.

Dear,
Midoriya Izuku.

You have been selected as one of ten people who have been fortunate enough to test our latest release slated for next year: Valkyrja. The game itself is set to use new technology developed by us that goes beyond Virtual Reality. We will let you fully dive into this world, using your entire body with the stats and attributes of your character.

This letter is a formal invitation to our Headquarters in Seoul, Korea. Your travel and accommodation will be paid for, alongside anything else you may need. Please pass this letter along to your Parent/Guardian as you are not of Legal Age to make this decision. However, we do hope to hear from you soon.

Let us know your response by replying to the email address we have provided above.

Izuku stared at the letter in bafflement. What was going on in his life? As soon as he got the power of The Gamer, his life sped up dramatically. He stood up to Katsuki, gained new friends, people who accepted instead of tormenting him. The vertette had become so much stronger because of this ability, and now he was given an opportunity like this? The boy could have cried if not for the fact his mother came into the living room, startling him with a "Good morning". Inko had come into the room, noticing her son on the couch. The TV wasn't on and he didn't appear to have his phone in-hand. Coming up behind him, she noticed he had a letter in hand. She made herself known with a greeting, which looked like it scared the daylights out of him. He must have been really absorbed in the contents of that letter for that to happen.

"O-oh, good morning mum. Um, I got this letter in the post, but I think it'd be best if you read it over as well." Izuku gave a sheepish smiles as he handed the letter over to his mother. The woman looked confused but accepted the piece of paper and started reading. By the time she was finished reading the letter she wanted to throw it out, this was something beyond sketchy. But at the same time, it was a good deal, an amazing offer. Inko wavered, she knew Izuku loved playing games growing up, and he was invited to test a new game? She knew that it would be selfish of her to deny her son this opportunity. But at the same time, she was his mother, born and raised by her, and Inko wanted to protect her baby if possible.

The Midoriya Matriarch looked up from the letter at her son. His calm expression and the patience in those green orbs was something that made her hesitant once more. Inko had heard her son crying to himself at night sometimes, and it broke her heart. The first time it happened, the next day, he told her why. He didn't want to be a Hero anymore. Her son's greatest joy in life, was watching Heroes, and he gave up on that. The only thing he hadn't given up on, was Games. He would come home, do his homework and play on his consoles or on the computer. The smile on Izuku's face playing games was like the smile he once had watching All Might. The aged vertette made her decision.

Placing the letter back down on the coffee table, Inko started walking towards the kitchen to prepare her breakfast.

"I'll send them an E-Mail after breakfast honey, what are you going to be doing today?" Inko queried in a somewhat, recovering groggy tone. Izuku himself was surprised; his mother was considering that thing with InGenius? This was new and exciting!
"Um, I don't know to be honest, I was just going to relax today." Izuku scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. The Vertette really had not known what he wanted to do for today. Although, now with the idea of possibly being able to play Valkyrja, the Quirkless boy wanted to do some research on the company and see their discography of Games.

With his mind made up, Izuku lifted himself from the couch, the low seating of the furniture making the standing process slightly more difficult. The youth quickly made his way to his room, powering on his Computer. Sitting down in his chair, the operating system had already booted, and he was looking at an all too familiar desktop screen. The default background for Windays 10 sitting there covered by a horde of application icons. The green-haired youth moved the mouse over the icon for the web browser on his taskbar. Clicking it once, it opened to the set homepage of Boogle. Hitting the search bar, Izuku quickly typed into it. The boy had always typed fast, but now with the stat improvements from the gamer, it looked like his fingers blurred across the keyboard, letters and words instantly forming.

After hitting the "Enter" key, the first page of results showed for his search "Game Company InGenius". Using the scroll wheel, the vertette clicked on various hyperlinks, all of them opening in new tabs. Izuku was never more thankful for finding out the scroll wheel could do that. It was too much effort to right click then select open in new tab.

After doing copious amounts of research for over an hour, Izuku found that he owned and played a fair amount of their catalogue. One of them was his favourite MMO of all time. Closing all the various tabs, the vertette wanted to relax by watching some new videos from his "Subscriptions" on YoTube. Finding only two new videos had been uploaded today, the vertette opened them in new tabs whilst clicking on the "Trending" page. The video at the top of the trending page was of great interest to the boy, it was titled.

"QUIRKLESS Middle Schooler DESTROYS in DODGEBALL GAME"

His curiosity piqued, Izuku clicked on the video. It started off with being pointed at someone's Gym Shoes but was then moved up so you could see what was happening. And the vertette instantly realised just who was in this video. It was himself! No wonder everyone in School was looking at him yesterday, this video was uploaded and instantly made its way to Trending. This was just for Japan, so deciding to see if any other countries had the same video in their trending page, the vertette activated his VPN, changing countries and refreshing the trending page seeing the language change every time, but always seeing that same video at the top.

He was a globally trending topic. Pressing the Home Button at the top of his browser, Izuku found himself back at the search page, and typed in the title of the video. After the results came up, he filtered them to the "News" section to see if there was anything being reported about it. There was! Countless articles about him, if he was Quirkless or not, and about how impressive a feat it was that the youth did that. Closing the browser, the boy grabbed his phone and ran down the hall to his mother, who was now sitting watching the morning news.

Just as the youth was to open his mouth, the story on the news got the better of him. It was the news story about him.

"And now, for the final story of the Morning. A video has surfaced online and has become a global topic. The Title of the video is "Quirkless Middle Schooler Destroys in Dodgeball Game", for those of you who haven't seen it, we shall show it now." The image went from the News Anchor to the sight of someone's shoes. The video played out and then returned to the image of the Anchor.

"As you can see, it is hard to believe that these are the actions of a Quirkless person. Furthermore, it has been found that this video and the student are from Aldera Middle School. The student's name is Midoriya Izuku. We will wait until Monday to get a statement from him or his parents."

Whilst it was a shock to Inko, Izuku was annoyed that his name was given out so easily. The person who uploaded it did pin a comment to the top, stating his name, so he knew as well from reading the articles that everyone knew him. Clearly the News Stations lacked the integrity to keep his name a secret. Izuku shook his head and sat down beside his gobsmacked mother. She looked towards him and could barely stutter out a letter.

"You know, I was actually coming in here to show you that myself. I'm so embarrassed so many people saw me doing that." Izuku rubbed the back of his head as his cheeks dusted with blush. His mother stared at him, tears forming in her lashes. The only thing she could think of her son was, that he was amazing. She enveloped him in a hug, her tears finally flowing. Izuku was surprised for only a moment before he returned the warm embrace with his mother. After Izuku successfully stopped himself from crying and his mother having finally let go, the youth got up from the couch to go back to his room.

"I-Izuku?" Inko's voice reached his ears, prompting him to turn around to look at her. Her voice still sounded hoarse after she had cried her eyes out there, but she looked, resolute about something.

"Yes, Mum?"

"I'm sorry, honey."

Izuku could have thought of anything in that moment, but the young boy was reminded of the night of his diagnosis. Crying in the chair in front of the family computer as Inko consoled him after asking her if he could still become a hero. It was a night that left him a fond distaste of asking others about what he could become.

"Sorry? For what?" The young vertette queried his mother.

"All those years ago when you were diagnosed. You asked me if you could still become a hero. At the time, I was so distraught about it all, I think I ended up hurting you."

Izuku didn't say anything, he felt something clog up his throat. She did hurt him, but he would never admit to her.

"At the time, I should have been more encouraging of your dream. With the letter from that company, it's made me realise I should have been more accepting and supporting of your own dreams. I know you gave up becoming a Hero, but when I see you play your games on your computer, you have that same excited smile you had when you would watch All Might." Inko's eyes began to water up again, but she quickly shook her head to rid herself of those tears. "What I'm trying to say is, if you want to become a Professional Gamer, or something else, I'll support you fully, no matter what it is. You're my son, and you mean the most to me in the entire world, and I want you to be happy."

Izuku was left with a shocked expression on his face. Mouth agape and his mind blank. Today was full of surprises, the youth thought dryly. For the first time, in his life. Izuku had positive validation, and support for his dreams. But the youth was also confused, Izuku didn't know what he wanted to become. He was only 12, and still had no earthly idea about any career path that could be pursued. In his own opinion, he was somewhat good at games. Maybe he could focus on polishing his skills up more in a different genre and become a Pro Gamer?

That also reminded Izuku again, of his powers. The Gamer. Having all these skills, all this new power, it stirred something inside himself, something he couldn't identify.

"M-mum, I… I don't know what to say.."

"That's fine Izuku, you're still young, you have your entire life ahead of you! You can decide on anything you want to be, and you'll have my full support." Inko smiled at her son, a gentle and loving expression that shook the boys' heart. He felt tears soak up his lashes, but quickly rubbed them away. Instead he opted to hug his mother instead. The two members of the Midoriya family stood in each other's arms in their living room, failing to hold in their tears.

It had been several months since, and Izuku and his mother were now leaving for Korea. Izuku had told many of his new friends – Nozomi and the rest – about the trip and they were all excited and happy for him, saying he deserved it. Ever since the day Izuku had retaliated against Bakugou, the now explosive teenager hadn't bullied him, but still sent that condescending angry glare in Midoriya's direction. That hadn't bothered the green-haired youth much, what unnerved him was Bakugou's somewhat subdued demeanour. He'd still snap at people who annoyed him, but, Katsuki would never say anything to Izuku.

That aside, Izuku felt sad as well about his departure. He was going away for the Summer Break, not being able to see his new group of friends. Granted he would be spending the summer testing the new game of InGenius which was exciting in its own way, but Izuku would still miss his new group of friends.

Currently, Izuku was waiting in the airport with his mother, waiting for his flight to be called. In the past couple of months Izuku had only gone up 4 levels, as he really hadn't received any grandiose quests. Although, the quest about his "Ancient Lineage" was still ongoing. Thinking of that Quest, Izuku overlooked his Inventory, to see "Excalibur" sitting there. It was something his mother had been adamant about taking, apparently it was a family tradition to always take this wherever the family went. After reading it the first time, Izuku hadn't really known if the sword was good or not, aside from the rarity, but looking it up afterwards, the youth almost shit himself.

In his inventory was the real Excalibur, a sword of Myth and Legend. Of course, the boy wasn't fully concluded on the item, it could be a false one for all he knew. Izuku was roused from his thoughts by his mother rubbing his shoulder.

"Huh?"

"Izu, weren't you listening that's our flight! Let's go! Chop-chop young man!" Inko made a chopping motion with her hands as the youth quickly picked up his belongings. Whether or not it was the real blade or not, Izuku had more pressing things to think about. Like, why the hell his singing skill was already at level 10!? His shower ballads had somehow levelled up that god forsaken skill! Oh, how Izuku despised that skill!

AN: Beep-boop, I'm back, this ain't over or abandoned, nor are any of my fics. Hope you enjoyed, don't really care for reviews. Hope the Valkyrja thing bamboozled you. Chapter was short cause yeah.