AN: Here we go! Chapter 2! The beginning mini-chapter got a lot more attention than I thought it would! Thanks so much! I hope you guys continue to enjoy what I put out, I have a lot of ideas that I'm really excited to get started on.

Disclaimer: I do not own DC comics or My Hero Academia.

Chapter 2

Inko Midoriya sighed sadly as she cleaned up her son's room again for the fourth time that week. It wasn't that her son's room was in any particular need of cleaning. In fact, the room was mostly tidied up to perfection except for the mess that Inko kept creating for herself to clean.

Her son hadn't been home in almost a week. And so, here she was at her wit's end cleaning up and messing up his room over and over again in an attempt to have some semblance of his presence in her life again.

Inko sniffled as she recalled the last week's events.

She nearly had a panic attack when her son was not home by the time she got back from work one day. Usually, Izuku would be muttering away to himself in his room as he scribbled into one of his notebooks when she came home, but she arrived at an empty apartment devoid of all activity.

It wasn't like Izuku to suddenly have plans after school - even doubly so for the normally respectful teen to have any without informing her way in advance. So she was at the brink of developing an aneurysm when her phone calls didn't even ring when she called him.

Inko immediately called the cops and rushed over to file a missing person report and demand that they find him immediately. The captain was trying to placate her and told her it was way too early to file a missing person report and that they had to wait until tomorrow to see if Izuku turned up.

It was just then when another officer came in and interrupted the mother from biting off the Police Captain's head.

"Ma'am...you said your son's name was Izuku Midoriya, right? We found a notebook with his name on it in the building that was set on fire earlier."

That sentence nearly made Inko pass out in fear before the policemen quickly assured her that they did not find any evidence of him perishing in the flames. The fire was taken care of quickly and there was no one was injured.

Ok, so her son was possibly still alive, but still missing. With renewed vigor, she started to demand the Police Captain to send out a search party to find her son.

Unfortunately, she still had to wait 24 hours. So, she returned the next day when her son had not shown up and she had driven herself crazy with worry all night. The police, finally relenting to her concerns, started an investigation. They even managed to get All Might involved once they had questioned him - the police saw that his autograph was the most recent entry in the notebook and thought to ask him about Izuku's whereabouts.

Her son met All Might?! His greatest Hero? They were even talking on the rooftop that was set on fire! What on Earth? She would be elated that her son managed to meet his favorite hero if not for the fact he was now officially missing.

All Might even came to her home and promised to do everything he could to find her son. He admitted that he felt somewhat responsible for not making sure that Izuku had made his way back home after their conversation.

Inko was grateful for his efforts, the man had run all around Musutafu to find any trace of her son - to no success, unfortunately. Even so, she could not help but be curious about why he was so invested in her son's return. Hero or not, this wasn't exactly something she expected the number one hero to dedicate so much time to. Even if he felt guilty for not telling her son to go home, that wasn't exactly his responsibility. Was there something else? Nonetheless, she was somewhat relieved that he was helping in the search.

'Izuku-chan...where are you? Please be safe,' she internally hoped as she once again started to make a mess in his room.

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Katsuki Bakugo grunted as he released another explosion on a pile of garbage at the junkyard he went to practice using his quirk. The U.A. entrance exam was in about ten months so he had to start seriously training to get in. He could see it now: Katsuki Bakugo, annihilating the entrance exam and being the only student from the shitshow middle school he was from getting in.

The blonde grinned in anticipation "DIE!" he blasted a pile of busted up tires.

'Take that you fucking nerd' he spat on the ground, he couldn't help but imagine Deku's crying face on each one of his targets - the bastard really did help in getting him fired up.

'Though...the idiot hasn't been to school in a while' he thought.

He would never admit it to anyone, but he was slightly concerned about Deku. He was usually always present in school, muttering to himself and scribbling in that damn notebook everywhere. For him to suddenly not show up raised alarm bells in his head. Of course, he couldn't bring himself to look into Deku's disappearance.

'It's not I care about whatever happens to that loser, he probably realized how fucking worthless he is and is moping around in his room' Katsuki sneered internally.

The explosion quirk user couldn't help but recall his words to Deku the day before he went missing.

USELESS NERD. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE A HERO WHY DON'T YOU JUST JUMP OFF A ROOF AND HOPE YOU GET A QUIRK IN THE NEXT LIFE

'Tch, he'd never actually do that. The nerd was a useless shit stain, but he would never do that…' Bakugo clenched his fists.

'Deku you better be back soon so I can smash your goddamn face in!' another explosion rocked the junkyard.

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"Agh" Toshinori Yagi shuddered out a pained groan as his Muscle Form dispersed, transforming him into his true shriveled up appearance.

He had just gotten back from another patrol, word had spread about his presence in Musutafu so crimes started to decline in the area. Even so, apparently some criminals thought they could still get away with their activities and so he had spent most of the evening cleaning them up.

It seemed a good amount of criminals thought he had left or just really didn't care. Nonetheless, they wouldn't be seeing much of the world for a while. Yagi imagined most criminals would move away from Musutafu after he went public with his intent to stay close to the city.

The shriveled up blond shook his head as his thoughts shifted to the real reason he was pushing himself.

'Still haven't found that kid…' Yagi was surprised when he was asked to come in for questioning by the police a day after he met Izuku.

Apparently he was the last known person to have talked to Izuku before his Mother reported him missing. He couldn't help but feel incredibly guilty. He knew it wasn't directly his fault that Izuku was missing, but he could have at least walked him down the roof and sent him home or something.

It didn't help that the roof they were on just so happened to be set on fire by a stray bolt of lightning after he had left. There was no trace of Izuku or anything suggesting what might have happened to him. All that was left was his charred notebook.

'He really adored heroes too…' He asked Inko if he could peruse the notebook for any clues about where Izuku might have gone. All Might couldn't help be impressed, if not a little creeped out, by the detail Izuku's notebook went into about different heroes and quirks he had seen. He was a true fanboy, but beyond that, he was clearly a genius when it came to quirks.

There were few people that All Might knew that was able to pick apart quirks as Izuku did, and it seemed Izuku did it all within seconds of observing his subjects too! And all without the aid of some intelligence-based quirk, All Might was really impressed.

Yet, he had still crushed the boy's dream. The number one hero frowned 'I really should have let him down easier.' His conversation with Izuku wasn't one of his best moments.

And so, he spent as much time as he could spare in his muscle form to jump around the city to go find the green-haired youth. Unfortunately, he hadn't come up with a single lead.

He couldn't help but think his words had something to do with Izuku's disappearance.

'No, that can't be it. Even if the kid decided to run away because of my stupid words he would have still left a trail or something. There's no way a kid like him could just disappear on his own without a trace.' Toshinori shook his head.

Taking a seat on his couch, he stared at the stormy skies through his living room window.

'There's something unnatural about his disappearance...I hope you're safe, kid.' the shriveled up blond thought before coughing.

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"That's mean Kaachan! Look you made him cry!"

'Huh?' Izuku jolted awake.

"Wh-where am I?" He swerved his head around.

The space around him kept swirling around him rapidly. It was as if he was in the middle of a hurricane full of spinning colors and lightning.

"A-am I d-d-dead?!" He panicked. Where was he?

"I won't let you hurt him anymore!"

Izuku snapped his head towards where he heard a familiar voice.

"W-what? Is a-anyone t-there?" He called out in alarm, his voice echoing across the bizzare void he found himself in.

"You playing hero Deku?! You don't even have a quirk!"

"Deku? K-Kaachan? Are you there?" The green haired boy called out, hesitantly taking a step towards the voice. How the heck was he even walking? There was no floor under him! Just more swirling colors and lights zooming by.

"Get out of way Deku! Or else I'll blow up your face too!"

Izuku faintly made out an image in front of him. It was a bit blurry but he saw himself as a toddler being beaten up by Kaachan and his cronies.

Biting his lip at the bad memory, he raised his hand towards the image and widened his eyes when it became more visible and clear.

"What on Earth is happening? Where am I?"

"I am here!"

He stepped back in surprise as the image changed to one of him in his old All Might onsie.

"Sorry miss, but your son's quirkless, see? He's got two joints on his pinky toe. Latest research shows that linked to being quirkless"

Izuku grit his teeth as the image changed again to show another memory. The one where he found out how could never be like All Might.

Suddenly, multiple images appeared and started to bombard him.

"I'm so sorry Izuku!"

"YOU USELESS DEKU"

"I heard Inko-san's son is quirkless. How horrible for her!"

"Hahaha Midoriya get in U.A.!? Yeah, maybe when hell freezes over."

"You mean you've been the blur all this time! Izu-kun! How could you not tell me?!"

"My son's gone missing! Please, I don't know where he is!"

"Meddling when you don't need to is the essence of being a hero!"

"You'll make a fine skin suit!"

"Run Izuku! Run!"

Izuku took another step back, startled. "What the..."

Even more images and voices started to appear all around him before whizzing away. He could barely keep track of any of it.

A shark man tearing down a bridge.

A giant gorilla looking over a large crowd of people.

A strange bird-man creature smashing someone's bloodied face into the ground.

An explosion rippling out of an Island in a wave.

"Wh-what! What is this supposed to m-mean?" Izuku felt as if his head was about to burst and covered his ears. A ringing sound started pound into his head.

His mother hugging him with the proudest smile on her face.

A cartoonish blonde teen grinning as he gave him a thumbs up.

A young girl with white hair and red eyes giggling as she licked an ice cream cone an older version of Izuku handed her.

A bloodied All Might limping away from a battlefield.

A young cyan haired woman beaming at him with the brightest smile he had ever seen.

"I-I...wh-why can't...my h-head" Izuku collapsed to his knees as he covered his ears in pain, unable to continue to look at all the images.

Tears started to leak out of his eyes.

'I don't know where I am...someone...help'.

"Sniff...Izuku...my son. Please...come home...be safe."

Izuku blinked in surprise as he heard his mother. Cautiously, he looked up again. The pounding in his head started to fade.

'Another...vision? Mom?'

Inko Midoriya was sobbing to herself softly as she held a picture of a young Izuku in her hands.

"It's been a week now...please Izuku. Come back home. Did something happen to you? You're all I have left...sniff...please, don't leave me."

"Mom" Izuku called out softly.

"Izuku?!"

The vision of Inko looked startled and swerved her head around.

"Mom?!" Izuku shouted in alarm. She could hear him?

"Izuku! Is that you? Where are you?" Inko ran out of her room.

"Wait, mom!" Izuku rose and reached out for the image of his mom. He grit his teeth when the image moved away from him.

"I'm coming Izuku!" Inko rushed over to her front door.

Izuku started to run towards the image of his mother.

"I'm almost...there" he gasped. The image kept getting faster and faster as the vortex of lightning started to swirl around him chaotically.

Izuku paid no attention to just how fast he was running after the image of his mother. If he had taken a look back he would've been shocked at the bolt of green lightning trailing after him.

Inko struggled with rushing to open the locks on her door.

"I'M COMING HOME MOM." Izuku shouted as he ran even faster, everything around him started to fade into a blank whiteness.

"Izuku!"

"I'M ON MY W-"

BOOM

Izuku felt something in him SNAP as the world around him exploded and he saw black.

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"Izuku!" Inko shouted as she swung open her door.

"Izu..ku?" She trailed off as she stared into the empty hallway of her apartment building.

'I...I swore I heard him...d-did I imagine it?' she shut the door and slowly slid down to the floor.

"Izuku...where are you?"

XXXX

FLASH

A giant bolt of lightning split the sky.

BOOOM

"Mommy! I'm scared" a young girl shouted in fright as she pressed herself against her mother's legs.

"Don't worry honey, it's just lightning. Come, let's get home and get out of the rain, 'kay?"

"B-but what if the l-lightning hits us? Shouldn't we wait in the store?"

The mother smiled in amusement "Not to worry Akane-chan!" She pointed to a metal rod at the top of one of the tallest buildings around them to her daughter.

"See that long rod? They're called lightning rods! Men like Daddy built them to protect other buildings and people like us from the lightning! Lightning strikes the tallest thing around you see!"

"Oo! So the lightning can't hit us!"

"That's right Akane-chan! Now let's head home! Make sure to stay under my umbrella so you don't get wet!"

"Okay mommy!" The little girl smiled as she followed her mother into the streets.

BANG

A bolt of green lightning slammed into the middle of the crosswalk the woman and her daughter were just about to walk onto.

Lights from the buildings around them flickered as another trail of lightning zoomed away from the scene to an unknown destination.

The woman and her daughter simply stared at the smoking spot lightning had just struck at right in front of them.

"...Mommy I don't think Daddy and his friends are good at building things" the little girl mumbled.

Her mother didn't respond. After all, anyone being so close to a lightning strike was bound to lose their hearing for a good amount of time.

Fortunately, it was only temporary, and both of them would be just fine.

'THAT'S NOT EVEN POSSIBLE' the woman shouted internally.

Well, everything aside from the woman's faith in physics.

XXXX

Izuku didn't know where he was running. He couldn't really see where he was going, everything was simply a blur to him as he zoomed around. All he could think about was getting home to his mom. To get her to stop being worried about him.

He was coming home. And nothing was going to stop him from making his mom happy again.

Izuku suddenly felt his eyes roll into the back of his head.

CRASH

To an onlooker, it would have looked like a bolt of lightning just smacked into a young boy and caused him to trip over a ledge and land into a heap of trash across the street.

None would have expected that he himself was the bolt of lightning. Fortunately, or perhaps, unfortunately, no one was around to see such a thing. It wasn't until half an hour later when a couple was walking home from a date when they spotted Izuku sprawled out on the trash.

"Tanzuko-kun...is that a half-naked kid passed out in the trash?" One of the young men asked the other, his partner.

"Uh...yeah, is he...okay?" They drew closer to get a better look at Izuku.

The green-haired boy was still wearing his Aldera school uniform. Or, at least, what was left of it. The only thing that really remained was his right sleeve and a few strands of thread that kept the shirt on his back.

"He's all scratched up! I think he fell or something! Shiba-kun! Call the ambulance! He's got a really nasty bruise on his shoulder!"

"Got it!" They started to take a look at Izuku's injuries and sent him off with the authorities once they had arrived.

Izuku Midoriya had returned to the real world.

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A man dressed in a lab coat quickly ran through a dark room filled with faintly lit monitors and TVs. The man took extra care not to crash into anything as he made his way to an office in the back.

Knocking at the door, he bit his lip in concern at the flashing red alert blinking on most of the monitors in front of him.

"Come in" a smooth voice called out.

Taking a deep breath, the man stepped into the room, an office, which was even darker than the previous room. He could barely make out the edge of a cherry oak desk and the figure sitting behind it. His face was completely basked in darkness.

"Report" the man behind the desk demanded.

"Thank you, sir, there's...a bit of a problem".

"Out with it" his boss drawled causing him to sweat in nervousness

"W-well...a-after our...a-attempts last week...we s-shut d-down the experiment since it was a f-failure."

"Hmph."

The man took a deep breath "B-but. A few moments a-ago. Our instruments detected a surge of energy similar to...to the explosion that d-destroyed the cannon".

"How is that possible?"

"W-we don't know s-sir. The cannon was d-destroyed and so i-it not p-possible t-that it was u-us".

"Curious. See if you can track where the energy signature came from. Get some men to scope the area. Discreetly."

"Y-yes, sir. Immediately" the man in the lab coat bowed and swiftly left the room.

"What could this mean?" The boss asked himself out loud.

XXXX

When Tsukauchi Naomasa knocked on her door alone, Inko Midoriya was worried that he was going to tell her the worst. That her son was gone. Fortunately, the detective that was assigned to her son's case had potential good news.

Someone that looked her son was found. The only thing was...he was in the hospital.

So naturally, Inko did everything in her power to make Tsukauchi abuse his authority to speed on the road to get to the hospital as fast as possible. She launched herself out of the car as soon as he had parked.

"IZUKU!" Inko shouted to the hospital receptionist, as she threw aside the hospital doors.

"You see me, and what?" The receptionist asked back dumbly.

Inko growled and was about to leap across the desk and choke the receptionist when a hand reached out and gently grabbed her shoulder.

"Uh, she's looking for her son. Izuku Midoriya? He might not be listed on the system with his name. We got a report saying that someone matching his description was admitted to the hospital last night?" A man with short black hair in a brown coat smiled at the receptionist as he finally came into the building himself.

"O-oh. Sorry...do you have a description Mr…"

"Tsukauchi Naomasa, I'm a police detective." He whipped out his badge. "And this is Inko Mido-"

"He has messy green hair! Same shade as mine! His eyes are also emerald green and he has the cutest freckles on his face. He's only 14!" Inko impatiently interrupted.

"Ah! Yes, we did have someone admitted like that! You sure he's 14 though? Looked more like h-"

Inko reached over the desk and grabbed the desk and shook the receptionist around by her shoulders "ROOM NUMBER NOW".

"437!"

Inko disappeared towards the stairs in a blink of an eye.

Tsukauchi simply looked at the receptionist sheepishly "sorry about that, her son went missing a week ago" he admitted before walking after Inko. Hopefully, Izuku was in fact here and Inko didn't end up mauling some random kid.

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"Izuku! Naomasa-san! It's him!" Inko called out to the police detective down the hall.

Tsukauchi smiled in relief for the woman. He understood her concern, but Inko was very much a handful. She came to his office nearly every day hoping for some news on her son. Everyone in the station felt bad for her and did their best to console her.

Even so, they had a lot of cases to tackle and managing Inko and her worry for her son, while they understood her position, was really stressful. Tsukauchi had to stay overnight multiple nights this week to keep up with the work he had to push back due to Inko's visits.

Though, he was sure it was all going to be worth it once he saw the two reunited.

"Ma'am? I'm sorry do you need somethi-"

"GET OUT OF MY WAY YOU DAMN DOCTOR THAT'S MY SON!" Inko pushed a doctor to the side as she rushed into room 437.

Tsukauchi sweatdropped at the mother's antics.

Sighing, the detective pulled out his badge to show the doctor once he glanced over and confirmed that was, in fact, Izuku Midoriya and not some other green-haired kid that Inko was kidnapping.

"Sorry about that, that kid's name is Izuku, he went missing a week ago. That's his mother. Please excuse her."

The doctor nodded "I understand. No worries. I guess I should probably talk to her then."

Tsukauchi smiled and gestured for the Doctor to enter the room before him.

"Izuku? Can you hear me? It's your mom! Please, wake up!" They found the green haired woman holding the hand of the similarly green haired teen.

Tsukauchi couldn't help but grin at the scene. The family was finally reunited.

Though, he idly wondered if the picture that Inko and sent them to use as a reference for Izuku's search party was outdated. He could clearly tell that it was very much the kid in the picture Inko supplied them...but this Izuku seemed a lot older than in the picture.

Not a whole lot, but he had none of the baby fat he did in the picture. Izuku's face a lot more slimmed down.

Tsukauchi inwardly shrugged. Well, it didn't really matter.

"Doctor? Why isn't he waking up? Is he okay?" Inko rounded on the Doctor.

"He's been asleep since he was brought in last night! The tests and scans we ran didn't show anything off. Izuku is in peak health. I expect him to wake up sometime soon. But we should let him get his rest." the doctor assured Inko that Izuku was fine before turning to Tsukauchi.

"I understand that he was missing, but I would suggest we wait until he wakes up on his own and he regains his bearings before you question him about what happened to him."

Tsukauchi nodded and thanked the doctor "No worries. I just came here to escort Inko-san. We'll make sure he's left alone" the detective and the mother nodded causing the doctor to smile.

"I have a few more patients to check up on, Call me or a nurse using that button if you need anything!" She gestured to a button on the side of Izuku's hospital bed before excusing herself.

Inko grasped her son's hand and smiled happily "Thank you Naomasa-san. Thank you for finding my son!"

Tsukauchi smiled back "Of course Inko-san, it's what I'm here for." Thinking that he should probably leave them alone, Tsukauchi noted, "I should call All Might. I'm sure he'll be happy to know we found him safe and sound.

Inko nodded and replied without taking her eyes off her son "Tell him I appreciate all his efforts in helping me too."

"Of course" the detective stepped out.

"Izuku…you came back" Inko let out a tearful smile as she gently squeezed his hand.

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"You found him?" Toshinori sighed in relief "Thank god. Thank you for telling me Tsukauchi."

"Of course. Inko was grateful for your help too, by the way." His friend's voice noted through the phone.

Toshinori rubbed the back of his neck "Er...yeah. Of course...not that I really did anything."

"If you can spare any time, you should come by in person too! Knowing you, you probably want to see the kid alright for yourself, huh?"

"I- y-yeah. Maybe" Toshinori frowned, guilt lining his voice.

Sensing his friend's guilt, Tsukauchi sighed, "Oh come on Toshi, it's not your fault he went missing. We've been over this! There were definitely other forces at play. We'll find out for sure after he wakes up".

"I know... it's just...I killed that kid's dream...I don't think...I don't have a rig- no it's not that." The number one hero paused.

"I don't think...I have the courage to face him."

"Pfffhahahaha" Toshinori gained a tic mark on his forehead.

"Don't laugh at me! I'm serious!"

"The number one hero afraid to see a kid hahaha" Tsukauchi continued to chuckle through the phone.

"It's not that simple, okay! I really hurt that kid. I could see it in his eyes. How can I go there and pretend to be all buddy-buddy when his last memory of me is destroying his greatest dream?"

"Toshi. Look. I know you. And I know that until you get over this and face the kid yourself and talk to him again, you're going to kill yourself over and over again. Maybe the kid will be mad at you. Who knows? We'll deal with that if that's the case. But we both know that you're definitely not going to feel better if you just avoid them altogether".

"..." Yagi stayed silent.

"You know I'm right. Anyways, I didn't mean you come by right this instant. Let him and his mom make up for lost time. Then think about it."

"Dammit Tsukauchi, why are you always right?" The blond sighed as he rested his forehead against his hand. He could feel his friend's smirk through the phone.

"It's my job as your friend...anyhow, I've got to go. Think about what I said. See ya".

"Yeah...bye" Toshinori grumbled as he hung up.

Leaning against his couch the number 1 hero felt a huge weight lifting off of his shoulders.

"I guess I can now go back to what I came here for…" he raised his right hand and lazily stared at it "finding a successor".

He probably should go talk to the Principal of U.A. but he couldn't help but feel exhausted for some reason.

'Maybe tomorrow' he thought as he rested his eyes.

XXXX

Izuku groaned as his eyes jolted at the bright light shining on his face.

Rubbing out the bleariness in his eyes, he took a quick look around himself 'Am I... in a hospital?'

Zzzz

Sitting up, he looked to his left and noticed his mother passed out in a seat next to his bed.

Smiling at her concern at first, his face shifted to confusion 'but how...did I get here? Or better yet, why am I here?'

He tried to think back on what happened 'That sludge thing attacked me and then...All Might saved me and...right'.

He closed his eyes as he remembered All Might's words.

'So...someone quirkless like me really can't be a hero...I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.' he frowned.

'That still doesn't explain how I ended up here…did I get attacked again?'

"Mmhrm" Izuku turned to his mom as she started to wake up.

Rubbing her eyes, Inko muttered out a confused "Izuku?"

"Hey Mom, good morning...or...afternoon?" He glanced out the window to his hospital room and noticed the sun past it's apex 'Was I out all night?!'.

"IZUKU!" he felt air escaping his lungs as his mother frantically smothered him "You're okay!"

"M-m..om..c.. ca..n't.. ..the" he gasped.

"Oh! Oh my god! I'm sorry Izuku! I was just worried about you" she jumped off him. Before giving him a good look.

Grabbing his face with her hands she started to turn his head around and inspected him "You're not hurting anywhere are you dear?"

"Yeah mom, I feel fine!"

Inko sighed in relief and smiled "Thank goodness. You nearly scared me to death Izuku!"

He blushed "sorry…"

Inko frowned "Now…what on Earth happened to you?"

Izuku blinked "You mean… you don't know?"

Inko twitched "Izuku you've been gone for a week without any notice or anything. I thought you had been kidnapped!"

His eyes bulged out "A WEEK?" He shouted in alarm.

His mother frowned "What happened Izuku?"

"I...I don't know. The last thing I remember was talking to All Might and then...maybe a flash of light but...the next thing I knew I woke up here?" He said in disbelief. He had really been out for a week? And on top of that he was apparently missing? Where did he go? Why couldn't he remember?

"Ugh" Izuku grabbed his head as a wave of nausea washed over him.

'I feel like I forgot something important' he internally groaned. The more he tried to remember the more his head pulsed.

"Izuku! Are you okay? Should I call a doctor? Izuku?" He was shaken out of his thoughts.

"Ah, mom. No. I'm okay now I think... it's passing" he breathed slowly as he regained his bearings.

"Are you sure?" his mother placed the back of her hand on his forehead.

Frowning, she carefully guided him back to bed so he was laying down again "You're burning up sweetie. Take it easy."

Izuku couldn't help but frown "I don't remember what happened this past week, but I'm sorry I worried you mom."

Inko shook her head and smiled, "You came back safe, that's all that matters to me sweetie. Just rest up and I'm sure we'll be back home soon!"

Knock Knock

The mother and son duo look towards the door to Izuku's hospital room where Inko saw the doctor from earlier knocking on it with a smile.

"Ah! So you're finally awake! You've been knocked out since you were admitted last night."

Inko got up and bowed to the doctor "Thank you so much for taking care of my son!"

The doctor nodded "Of course, I'm glad he's finally awake! I just wanted to check up on him and see how fit he is to go back home!"

Izuku sighed in relief, he didn't really like hospitals so getting out as soon as possible would be fantastic. Carefully stepping out of the hospital bed, he paused when his mother gasped.

"Izuku!? Did you get taller?"

"Huh?" he blinked.

He looked down at his mother. Wait what?

He became taller than his mother about a year ago when he started his 2nd to last year at Aldera, but only marginally.

He was now a whole head taller than her and then some!

"What happened to you in that week?!" his mother cried out in shock. There was no way he could just hop to 5' 7" in just a week! Puberty or otherwise!

Dumbly staring at his hands, he thought, 'what…happened to me?' Not that being taller was something that he would complain about. He couldn't help but notice his body just felt different in general...like it had gotten stronger.

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A few moments later and Izuku's doctor was done checking all his vitals "Well...you're all fit to go to be honest. You had a few bruises and scrapes when you were admitted but it seems you've healed overnight...some regenerative quirk? She questioned the duo.

Izuku and Inko blinked in surprise, "huh? Izuku's quirkless though?" his mother responded causing him to slightly wince.

The doctor tilted her head in interest "Huh, you sure about that? I mean you didn't have any serious injuries, but still, bruises take several days if not weeks to fully disappear."

"Y-yeah, I-I had the x-ray done when I was a kid...no single joint in my pinky." Izuku frowned.

'She must be mixing me up with some other patient. No way my pinky toe would have suddenly lost a joint and gave me a quirk' he shook his head at the ridiculous notion.

"O-oh...well...sorry" an awkward pause. "Anyways, you're fit to go, I can let the nurses get started on the discharge paperwork and you'll be out in a few moments" the doctor gave one last smile before walking out of the room.

XXXX

After Izuku and Inko returned home, Izuku had internally groaned upon entering his room. All Might paraphernalia littered every inch of it, reminding him of the conversation he had with the number one hero. His room did seem cleaner though.

No longer feeling comfortable with all his posters and figurines anymore, he started to clear out his room of all his hero collector's items, much to Inko's shock.

He wasn't going to be a hero, and while he still thought they were cool, he really didn't want to spend most of his time in a room that kept reminding him of what he would never be able to achieve.

A few days later.

"Okay, Izuku! Make sure to call me once you arrived at school okay? I don't want you to go missing again! And then call me when you're on your way back! And when you get on the train! And when you've gotten home, okay!" his mother hovered around him.

"M-mom, I-I'll be okay! Don't worry!" He tried to calm down his frantic mother.

Inko bit her lip "Okay Izuku, b-but if you see anything weird, make sure to run and hide. Naomasa-san gave me his number so call him too if anything happens!" she texted him the police detective's number.

"Okay mom" he smiled at her, she really was overprotective sometimes.

"Oof" Inko grabbed him into a hug and squeeze "Mom...can't...br"

"Oh I'm so sorry Izuku!" his mom rubbed the back of her sheepishly.

Gasping for air slightly, Izuku sighed "I'll be careful. I'll you when I get to school. Don't worry!" he smiled and then opened the door to leave. Best to leave soon before she panics again.

"Stay safe!" he heard as he shut the door behind him.

XXXX

"Class! Welcome Izuku back! He just got out of the hospital a few days ago and is finally able to come back to school!"

Silence

Izuku awkwardly stood in front of his class as they stared at him uncaringly.

Coughing, his teacher waved him off, "Uh, right...why don't you go back to your seat Izuku."

"Heard he went missing until now...loser probably tried to run away or something" Izuku grimaced a he started to hear whispers from one of his classmates.

"Pfft, nah, he probably just tried to be a hero and knocked himself out or something" another snickered.

"Did he get taller though...he's like the tallest in the class now" he heard another whisper.

Izuku sat down in his seat and internally agreed. He did somehow grow taller in the week he didn't remember. But not all that. He hadn't noticed at first, but when he got home and took a shower for the first time in who knows how long, he got a good look at himself in the mirror.

Now, Izuku was not particularly unhealthy, he did want to be a hero back then so he made sure to be somewhat healthy and fit during the past few years.

But that didn't mean he was fit-fit. But when he looked at himself in the mirror, he nearly freaked out when he saw a lot more definition on his muscles.

He had abs too! He wasn't super muscular by any means, but he definitely put on some muscle mass. It was as if he was a pro runner or swimmer or something. It just added to the mystery of what happened to him in the week he couldn't remember a single moment of.

"Do you think he's taking steroids or something? I know he wants to be a hero or something even though he's quirkless, but that's just pathetic."

Izuku internally groaned, knowing it was going to be a long day. He glanced over towards the board and tensed. Bakugo, who sat in a row in front of him, had turned his body to face him and glared.

'Uh...did I do something to him?' he sweated nervously at former childhood friend.

"Hmph," the blond's glare intensified and became murderous just before he turned away.

'K-Kaachan? W-what'd I do?!'

A few hours later

The entire school day was extremely slow for him. His classmates kept whispering around him, during lunch, halls, and even in the bathroom. It was driving him insane.

He tried to go through the day on autopilot but even then, everything just felt too slow for him. He could have sworn he saw a bee's wings fluttering in slow motion through a window when he started to doze off.

"Oh! Izuku! Don't forget to get your plans for the future sheet back to me when you can! You have a lot of catching up to do!" His teacher interrupted his thoughts.

'Plans for the future...haven't even really thought about that at all' he had been doing everything to avoid thinking about that. All he wanted to do was to be a hero...but now...he obviously couldn't go for that. He didn't know what else he could do.

He packed his things and started to make his way home, 'I should call mom before she starts freaking out…' he thought.

"DEKU!?" Izuku flinched at the voice and slowly turned around.

His angry, former best friend, came stomping up to him.

"YOU DAMN BASTARD, HOW DID YOU GET SO FUCKING TALL?!"

"I-I-I d-don't kn-know?!" the green-haired teen backed up nervously.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW!? YOU SOME KIND OF IDIOT? WHAT'D YOU DO TO YOURSELF?" Bakugo grabbed Izuku by his collar and pulled him down.

"YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME BECAUSE YOU GOT LONGER TWIGS FOR LEGS? WELL FUCK YOU DEKU, YOU'RE STILL THE SAME QUIRKLESS LOSER I GREW UP WITH. WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU THE LAST WEEK?!"

If Izuku wasn't so afraid of Bakugo's anger, he probably would have sweatdropped at the now shorter blonde teen having to pull him down to be on the same level as him.

"I-I don't know!"

"WHAT KIND OF IDIOT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE DID THE LAST WEEK. WERE YOU IN A COMA OR SOMETHING?!" Bakugo shoved him back.

"I-" Izuku's eyes widened slowly as a mild feeling of vertigo overtook his senses. He could feel himself falling, but he couldn't move his body to catch himself.

Bakugo's face seemed to be frozen in sheer disgust and anger as Izuku felt himself slowly falling further away from him.

He managed to shift his eyes around and notices everything else also seemed to be frozen. Even the trees that reached over theme seemed stuck in time, the leaves on their branches completely still.

The feeling of vertigo suddenly vanished..

Ow!

Izuku fell on his butt, 'What...what was that just now?!' he thought.

"YOU IDIOT, YOU BETTER NOT DISAPPEAR FOR NO REASON AGAIN OR I'LL KICK YOUR ASS."

Izuku paid no attention to Bakugo, more confused with himself 'Did time just freeze? Did I imagine that?'

"YOU HEAR ME DEKU?!" Bakugo let out a small explosion near the green-haired boy, causing him to snap out of his thoughts.

"Huh? Oh y-y-yeah." he stuttered distractingly.

Bakugo huffed at him and growled, "Dumbass." Turning around, the blonde left Izuku on the ground.

The green-haired teen stared at Bakugo's back blankly 'What's up with Kaachan?'

Getting up, he shook some dust off of him 'I...I should get back home,' putting the weird feeling of vertigo behind him, Izuku started his walk back.

XXXX

"IZUKU?! WHERE ARE YOU?" Izuku flinched as he held his cell phone away from his ear, his mother's voice nearly imploding his eardrum.

"M-mom, I'm on my way home now," Izuku lied. He actually took a detour, not really wanting to go home yet. Normally he'd start browsing the web for hero news as soon as school ended but he really wasn't in the mood.

He heard a relieved sigh from his phone "I got worried, you got out of school ten minutes ago!"

"Yeah, I was going to call but Kaachan kind of...wanted to talk?" Izuku furrowed his eyebrows at his own worried. In a weird way, Katsuki Bakugo did seem worried about him, even if he was a lot more yell-y with his concerns.

"Oh, I see. Well, make sure you get home safely! Call me when you arrive" his mother demanded.

"Of course" he sighed, idly wondering when his mom would relax a little. He understood why she was being such a helicopter, but he really hoped she knocked it off soon.

Sighing, he hung up and stared at the sky 'More importantly, I really have to figure out what happened to me last week...maybe All Might knows something? Mom did mention he was helping to look for me' he thought.

He didn't really know how to feel about the number one hero right now. He still felt depressed every time he thought about their conversation, but Izuku did know the reasons for why All Might said what he did.

'After all, if anyone was in trouble, and I was in charge of protecting them...there's not much I could do…' he simply had been ignoring the obvious his entire life. He was never meant to be a hero. That was decided for him the moment he was born quirkless.

"Ah! Oh nonononno, not again!" Izuku was broken out of his thoughts as he heard someone yell from...above him?

Focusing back up at the sky, he saw something falling...a person?

Izuku's eyes widened, it was a person! They were falling from the sky! They were going to land onto the ground and hurt themselves!

Just then Izuku felt another wave of vertigo wash over him. This time, it only minorly disoriented him.

Everything slowed down again. He looked around in shock as the person falling in the sky slowed down too. It was if they were sinking into a pool of molasses.

'This...again? What's...happening to me?' he thought in confusion.

Feeling a little jittery, he looked down at his hands 'What...the..' his hand was vibrating?! Shaking?

'What's happening to me?!' and suddenly the feeling left him as time caught up again.

"Aiiieee!" Izuku's eyes widened as he saw the person falling again.

He suddenly broke off into a run towards them, the feeling of time slowing down once again overtaking him.

'I got...them' he managed to get directly below them.

'Wait...is that a girl?' he thought as he looked up at the woman falling, she was still a good ten feet above him. Her face showing fear as she slowly fell face first towards him.

'She's...pretty' he thought.

Suddenly time resumed at normal speed.

'Oh, shi-'

CRASH

AN: And done! This chapter wasn't very action-packed, but it certainly had to be written to get things rolling. I hope you guys enjoyed it! Let me know what you all thought in a review!

I should get a beta-reader though, I tried to go through and get rid of typos and such, but I've always been bad at catching my own mistakes...I also tend to skim through things when proofreading because it's not a very fun part of writing for me. It doesn't help that some of my laptop's keys are a bit funky and don't always register. If anyone is interested in the role, shoot me a pm!