Hey guys, for reasons you guys will understand soon the usual Q&A section is at the end of the chapter. Also, get ready to meet my first OC in the story I hope you guys like him. He's the only OC I currently have planned that will be a reoccurring character. The others that may or may not pop up are mainly just one or two time villains that will pop up during patrols stuff like that.

Thank you to the 207 followers for staying this far, even with overwhelming negative response to last chapter.

Midoriya sat staring at the phone processing everything that he just saw occur when All Might finally spoke up.

"Young Midoriya, are you all right?" Midoriya looked up at the concerned man.

"He killed them, all those pros. He's going to come for me." Midoriya looked back of the still image of All For One and the world seemed to get darker around him.

He's going to kill me.

"What the hell do I do?" Midoriya looked at his teacher whose expression hardened for a moment before becoming his normal smile.

"Don't worry, because I am here. As long as I still breathe, he will never touch you." All Might stood up and began to walk towards Midoriya. "Which is why you're stuck with me."

"What?"

"Because of the broadcast claiming you as my successor I, along with several other pro heroes and the Hero Public Safety Commission believe you will be targeted by villains wanting to make a name for themselves. For that reason, you will be guarded by at least one pro at all times, and you also are temporarily being given a provisional license so you can gain more practical experience to prepare for if All For One truly does come for you. The license will be revoked after he has been apprehended unless you pass the exam necessary to get it in normal situations." All might explained as he pulled out a small license with a picture of Midoriya, the only part that was blank was the hero name.

"Why are you all doing this? I don't think this is exactly normal." Midoriya looked up at the suddenly nervous teacher.

"Oh, well, you see being the number one hero comes with a few perks, so I just pulled a few strings, and well, you know." All Might started stumbling over his words. "Let's just get you home, I'm sure your mother is getting worried." All Might turned and walked towards the door.

Midoriya said goodbye to Uraraka and made his way home will All Might, only to see the apartment complex surrounded by news crews and pro heroes. Best Jeanist, Kamui Woods, Sir Nighteye, and several others were watching the surrounding area as Midoriya arrived with his teacher.

So many people, I can see what All Might meant about me being a target. I hope mom's handling this all right.

"Don't worry Young Midoriya, the heroes are just to make villains think your living at home. We need to act like you live here, but when you get inside, we have heroes on standby that will teleport you to Gran Torino's home. Your mother already arrived there yesterday." All Might explained, trying to reassure his nervous student.

They got out of the car and began to walk towards the building when the whole world seemed to turn into a raging inferno that shook the ground, knocking Midoriya over as a second explosion came from the already damaged frame of what was his apartment.

Midoriyas vision blurred and his ears kept ringing as he tried to get up. As he tried to get his bearings he heard a voice almost like it was crying right next to him, and it made him shiver. It was Urarakas voice.

Midoriya looked around the gathering crowd as he tried to compose himself trying to find the source of the crying that quickly faded away when he saw something else that caught his eye. On the roof across the street a lone man stood, not watching the burning building, or the pros that were starting to evacuate everyone but instead watching Izuku. Midoriya turned back towards All Might as he prepared to blast into the sky.

"Take care of the wounded, I'll be back." Ignoring his teachers protests Midoriya used jet to close the gap between him and the man that simply stood there, watching the angered teen with an expression of interest, and slight annoyance.

The man had long grey hair that ran down over his shoulders and down about halfway down his back. His eyes were hidden behind a pair of aviators. A long black trench coat went down almost to his feet, opened to reveal his green button up shirt, the same shade as Midoriyas hair, and a pair of torn jeans going down to his black combat boots.

"Sup nerd." His voice sounded gravelly, not at all matching the way he was talking as he continued to watch the teen that landed next to him. "I was wondering how long it take for you to finally notice me."

"Who are you? Did you do this?" Midoriya pointed at the flaming building that was once his home.

"Well I had to get your attention somehow, don't worry the building was evacuated before I blew it sky high. As for my name, call me Bridge."

"You blew up a building, just to get my attention?" Green energy started to dance around his body before going out. "What the heck?" Midoriya looked down at his body and tried to use Kirishimas hardening, but nothing happened, no explosions, no jet. No quirks.

"Relax, I mean you no harm kid. I'm here because your education is sorely lacking. You want to be a hero like blondie down there, and you have the power to be a hero with more physical training, and you got a great moral compass, but you need a healthy dose of reality, which is why I'm here." Bridge gestured to the world around them and Midoriya realized that everything stopped, literally. The flames across the street weren't moving, the people stared in horror at the scene before them, and All Might was frozen in his attempt to jump after Midoriya.

What's with this guy, some sort of time control?

"What exactly do you plan on doing, you want to train me to fight All For One?" Midoriya looked at the strange man who looked disappointed at the question.

"You really want to face that guy? Why, so you can get yourself killed."

"He's killed dozens of heroes and needs to be stopped." Midoriya said without thinking.

"And you think you're the right person for the job? You haven't even graduated high school yet. You beat his mindless minion out of luck, All For One is a tactical genius that used to rule the criminal element of the entire country. What are you supposed to do against that?"

"Whatever I can." Midoriya responded, trying to sound confident, Bridge just sighed in response and face palmed.

"All right then. Guess it's time for lesson number one." Bridge looked back at the teenager and snapped his fingers disappearing into a cloud of smoke, leaving a very confused Midoriya alone on the roof. The world remained frozen until a sudden booming sound resonated through the air and Midoriya was thrown back as a hurricane of force blew him back from the roof, revealing a very confused All For One. They looked at each other and All For One tensed up seeing the child laying before him.

"Is it not enough for you that you trapped me here, now you challenge me, alone? I see All Might has hardly taught you anything. Once I defeat you, I'll be sure to take this quirk of yours for myself. It will make my next encounter with the so called symbol of peace even more entertaining." All for One raised his voice at Midoriya, lacking the usual calmness Izuku noticed from all the times he heard him speak before.

Trapped?

Before Midoriya could ponder the meaning of the man's words he was thrown back by a blast of air from the man's hand, going through buildings before landing in a new crater several blocks away. As he landed he could have sworn he heard All Might calling for him, but all the people except him and his enemy were still frozen in time. Midoriya stood up as his enemy began to hover over him.

"If you had simply tried to live your life as a hero you could have lived for a few more years, I even gave you a chance to prepare for your death, but your recklessness knows no bounds. Now you will die here, all alone." The masked man pointed his hand at Midoriya, who closed his eyes and braced himself for another blast that never came. He slowly opened them again to find empty air where his opponent once was.

"Lesson one, don't try to take on an opponent you can't hope to match in power without a plan. That's how you get yourself killed." A voice came from behind Izuku, who turned to see Bridge yet again.

"What did you do?" Midoriya looked back and forth between the empty air and the man who was trying to teach him.

"I just sent him back to his base. If I'm gonna make a great hero out of you then I can't exactly let you die."

"No, how did you do that? He's supposed to be one of the most powerful people on the planet, and you were able to take him away while freezing everyone else. Why not just teleport him to prison? He killed dozens of people on live tv."

"Have you seriously not caught on yet? Geez kid, now I really understand why Kacchan calls you Deku." Bridge let out a laugh as he walked up to the teen. "Tell me, how's All Might doing? I saw he got teleported around by the smoke villain a lot. I'm sure he could have saved those other heroes if he just used his head."

"What does that have to do with any of this, he did the best he could. There's no way he could have done anything to stop that guy without-"

Without generating wind to keep the mist from his portals away like I did at the USJ, and like he did with the sludge villain.

"Now you're getting it."

"What did you do to All Might?"

"I think you mean "What did you do to me?" Deku" Bridge let his smirk grow into a smile as he looked down at the even more confused Midoriya. "Come on, I know I didn't do that good of a job. Think about it, your normally calm teacher was stumbling over his words, told your friend his secret without you asking, and speaking of your friend. Hasn't Uraraka seemed a little more hostile since you woke up from the USJ incident." Midoriyas eyes widened as he slowly started to put the pieces together. "Honestly, I'm surprised you didn't suspect anything I tried to make things different enough that it should have been noticeable." The gears began turning in Midoriyas head as he thought about everything that happened to him recently. The voice from the USJ attack, the changes to the way everyone he knew acted, the seemingly calm villain making a statement on television and killing dozens of pros, making him the most wanted man in the country, and the mysterious man that could freeze time standing before him. The man that he didn't know anything about.

"What's your quirk." Midoriya looked up and down the man, hoping his suspicions were at least partially wrong.

"Bout time you asked that. I said you could call me Bridge, but that's actually my quirks name. You'll find out my real name later. My quirk destroyed my physical body, but it allowed me to make this." Bridge gestured to the world around them. "I call it The Mirage. Think of it like being in a dream, except I made it, and it's shared between multiple people. As far as the outside world knows, you're in a coma due to some unknown factors from the fight with Nomu. You only wake up when I want you to, and I can bring you back in here any time you fall asleep in the real world."

A shared dream?

"Wait, don't tell me, the person I'm sharing it with is-"

"All For One? Yep. I figured that would slow down the League of Villains while I train you. I might not be able to help you physically in the real world, but I can make sure you're mentally ready for whatever gets thrown at you."

Midoriya felt like his head was going to explode with all the information he was being given.

"Why are you doing this? What do you have to gain?"

"Look kid, I've been stuck like this for decades, going from person to person trying to find someone that might actually be worth helping, and at least for now we want the same thing, plus I was getting really REALLY bored. As far as I'm concerned, we both get something out of this. You get to be a great hero, and I help prep you to take down the asshole that gave me this quirk. And before you ask, no you don't have a choice. If you agree to help me willingly, then I'll let you wake up and go about your business during the day, and we'll just have our epic training sessions while your body sleeps at night. Or we could keep arguing and your already worried friends get to panic even longer." Midoriya thought about the man's words and came up with one final question.

"Why me?"

"That's easy kid. Since I don't have a physical form, I can jump from person to person undetected while they sleep. Helps pass the time. By luck or chance, I ended up on you after that incident with the sludge monster and you caught my interest. I've been studying ya for a while and I agree with what blondie had to say. "You can be a hero", and a damn good one at that, but like people keep telling you, your reckless, the only reason you're even alive right now is luck. I happen to like you, so I don't feel like letting you die when I can do something to stop that. Because of that quirk you copied you made yourself a target, and you're gonna see a lot of shit nobody should ever have to deal with. If I make you deal with worse stuff here, then you might not die in the real world. That's why I chose the man I did to join us here."

"He thinks I'm the one trapping him! He's gonna try to kill me the second he sees me."

"Ehhh, occupational hazard, you were gonna fight him eventually anyways. At least in here he can't really target your family and friends, and I can keep him from actually killing you. Since he thinks you're the one doing this he might not realize I'm still alive, which gives you an advantage."

I don't see how being targeted by the guy that almost killed All Might years earlier than I normally would be is an advantage.

"Anyways, that's enough explaining for now. What's it gonna be kid. Ya gonna train with me willingly and go back home, or ya gonna keep whinging?"

If everything he's saying is true, then I can't leave, and he hasn't actively tried to hurt me. Well aside from almost killing me to prove a point. It's not like I actually have a choice. Midoriya took a deep breath.

"I'll do it." Bridge started beaming at the response.

"Smart kid. All right, let's get ya back home. Also, take Yagis advice from earlier with your girlfriend. She won't be as hostile in real life, but you still screwed up big time." Midoriyas cheeks went red and he felt the world around him start to fade.

"Girlfriend?"

Bridge started laughing.

"It's obvious you like her, now grow a pair and ask her out Deku!"

Midoriya once again slowly woke up to the white panel ceiling of Recovery Girls office.

Around him were many concerned and familiar faces. All Might, Nezu, Recovery Girl, Iida, Kirishima, Mina, Mirio, and Uraraka.

Bridges last words replayed in his head and he felt his cheeks go red as he looked at his best friend.

"He hey guys, how long was I out?"

For obvious reasons I'm putting this at the end of the chapter. I was hoping more people would put together some of the clues I put in the last couple chapters, but obviously I didn't make them noticeable enough since only one person messaged me asking about the two clues they picked up on and one person mentioned it in a review, plus there were A LOT of negative responses to the ending of last chapter.

I actually have a question for you guys. What did you guys think of Bridge? I've been planning his entrance since I first started hinting at Gran Torinos arrival but wanted to wait until later in the story before introducing him. (More specifics about his abilities, origin, and what he's doing with AFO will come later.) Originally I was going to introduce him after the internships were over, but the USJ just seemed to fit better in the overall story.

Anyways, thank you to those of you that didn't give up on the story after last chapter, which is what almost every review and message I got was saying.

I only got one question that wasn't answered in this chapter or will be answered in an upcoming chapter, so I'll just answer this one.

From Ingegud

What's your writing process?

Well, I started by making an outline of the overall story, there's about an equal amount of original story arcs and adapted arcs. The outline included things like any major deaths, what quirks Izuku gains and when he gets them, when key moments happen, and who any battles occur between. Then I started writing from the beginning of the story, however if I randomly think of something I want to do in a later chapter I write that before going back to where I am currently. I just repeat that process over and over.