Hello everyone, it's me the face.
now I've worked pretty hard to fix this chapter. I've changed it alot and gone over it so many times. so I feel like I should release it. it took the place of the first two original chapters because they were literally the same thing.
please let me know what you think of the improvements in the comments. I will start fixing the other chapters right away.
6 months have passed since the sludge villain attacked and Midoriya's training with all might was becoming grueling. Midoriyas legs felt like leaves on a tree. One simple breeze is all it would take to blow him over.
The last couple of months have been nothing but constant pain and sweat,but midoriya was determined to become a hero. Nothing could stop him as his determination shined brightly through his pained eyes. He would prove to himself and all might that he was worthy of this power. To fail was a luxury he could not afford.
Midoriya awoke from his all might themed bedin a rush as a chirping ring sounded throughout the room coming from an alarm clock with an all might figurine posed with both arms flexed and on his hips. Reaching to turn offthe machine he noticed the time.
"It's 5:00, perfect I have just enough time to get a good run in before school" midoriya told himself. Leaping from the bed onto the cold hardwood floor his legs buckled from soreness. The weakness in his legs were quickly extinguished by his powerful drive as he looked at his limited edition golden age all might poster that hung above his pale dresser.
"This pain will be worth it." He tells himself. Remembering who he wished to be, a hero who will save everyone with a smile on his face.
With a speedy change into a green tracksuit that he kept in the bottom drawer of his dresser. Midoryia strode into the kitchen ready for the day and eager to get an early morning snack before his run.
"Hello hun. Areyou going for another run today?" Asked inko midoriya. A middle aged woman with green hair and chubby features who was getting ready to make breakfast.
"Yeah I should be back in an hour" midoriya tells her before grabbing a small protein bar from the cabinet over the sink.
"Alright sweetie. I'll be making omelets so hurry back" says inko as she uses her quirk to attract an egg to her hand.
*quirk: small object attraction - can attract small objects within a 10 meter radius of user to said users hand.*
A distant voice called out to him. Barely an audible whisper.
"What was that voice? Did you say something mom?" Midoriya stopped moving toward the front door to ask. Turning around he was expecting an answer.
"I said hurry back for breakfast" inko told him having brought her hand up to her mouth as a makeshift speaker.
Midoriya quickly turned toward the door "Oh alright, see you soon" he told her before opening his dark colored door and leaving.
Outside had a brisk cold about it. The chilling breeze bit at his face and hands. His mouth formed into a grin. He was used to this feeling. Midoriya walked down the stairs leading to the earth. Before making it to the white fence surrounding his home he thought back to the strange whisper.
"What was that" he thought to himself "it seemed like I was analyzing my moms quirk... but I already know what her quirk can do. Maybe it was just a subconscious thing... weird".
He took off after closing his gate. His heart rate skyrocketed and he could hear the beating like drums inhis ears. This was one thing he loved. Even though his legs felt like wrapping paper the ever present beat drove him to continue.
It was a straight path 2 miles in the making to the municipal beach where he was cleaning garbage. He didn't plan to clean right now. He needed to get ready for school and he wouldn't have enough time if he tried.
Midoryia was so busy surfing the waves of thought that he didn't notice what was ahead of him.
A child no older than 6 was playing in front of his home. It wasn't uncommon to see kids playing on the side walks in the afternoon but in the mornings it was rare. The boy was wearing a red hat that said the word HERO on it aswell as dark blue shorts and a yellow shirt. He was leaning down drawing a pattern with chalk on the side walk when midoriya ran into him.
Crashing down to earth midoriya toppled over the kid causing both of them to scrape the ground. The boys red hat flew from his head plummeting to earth mere feet in front of him.
Recovering quickly midoriya stood up. His green tracksuit dirtied with small cuts.
"Hey,are you alright?" He asked with a soft expression.
The little boy stood up from the concrete with scratches on his palms. "Yeah I'm okay." Tears were pooling in his eyes but he held them back. He was a big boy.
"You're alittle scratched up are you sure you're okay?" Midoriya asks him. Quicky checking the boys palms.
"Yeah my quirk isn't crazy strong but it can fix this pretty easily" said the boy walking over to his hat before picking it up and putting it on. He walked back to midoriya to show him his hands. "See?" Said the boy with a grin
Midoriya watched with analytical eyes. Observing as the scratches that were on the boys hands just moments ago slowly faded from existence.
The quiet whisper from before returned slightly louder than before almost demanding to be heard.
*quirk: minor wound healing - can heal small wounds within seconds and medium wounds within days. Passive effect*
"Whoa that's a cool quirk" midoriya told the boy with bright and excited eyes. Before he could trail off and ask about the quirk he remembered he still had to complete his run.
After double checking that the boy was in fact healed midoriya continued his run.
Within 10 minutes the beach was in sight. If not for the garbage piled up into mountains then the it would be a beautiful sight. The street looked like it curved directly into the beach with buildings disappearing with the curve. The sand fromthe area he already cleared out had a gentle shadow cast on it by the piles of trash and finally the ocean behind was sparkling as far as the eye could see. The sun was rising and casting a beautiful hue into the air causing the sky to turn orange pink and blue.
Midoriya was so captivated bythe sight that he didn't notice a glass bottle lying on the side walk right in his path until it was to late.
He stepped on the bottle and out of instinct he pulled his leg back only to immediately realized that by doing thathe no longer had theleg to catch himself. He brings his leg back down to earth to fast and puts all his weight on the side of his foot. He fell down and immediately assessed that he sprained his ankle.
"Damnit that hurt" he says out loud. Sitting cross legged with his hurt foot on top of his other leg midoriya stared at the appendage. A dull throb was all he felt from it. A dull throb that continued to slowly fade.
"Huh I guess I just rolled it. It doesn't hurt anymore" midoriya told himself before standing up. He took a few steps to make sure it didn't hurt before continuing with his run.
"I wonder what that voice I keep hearing is though" he thought as he continued the run
(Later at the beach)
Midoriya arrived at the beach right after school. He was looking ready for war with a Stern determined look in his eye. Today he would clean more trash than he ever has before.
"Ah you've arrived young midoriya. Have you been following the schedule I made for you?"
All might says in his small form. He's been waiting at the beach for awhile now staring at the steady waves that were slowly becoming more and more visible every day.
His determined look faltered. Even after months of talking to his idol he still wasn't used to it."Yes all m- I mean toshinori sensei. I've been following it to the letter." Midoriya says fidgeting in place while looking down.
"Hmm alright let's get started then." Toshi said turning to the side and stretching out his hand toward the trash heaps. "Begin when you're ready"
Midoriya straightened up and determination returned to his eyes before he ran forward. The sooner he got this done the closer he would be to becoming the hero he's always wanted to be.
The first hour consisted of midoriya packing as many big things as he could into the pickup truck all might brought to take the trash away.
By the time the sun had set all might thought it was about time to end today. Midoriya was covered in sweat,dirt,and sticky grime from all of the garbage, he needed to rest and have a shower.
"Alright it's time to call it a day young midoriya. If you push yourself to hard you'll never be able finish in time." Toshi said waving the young boy in. "Come on I'll give you a ride home"
Midoriya drenched in sweat and smelling like trash thanked all might. He didn't know how much longer he could push himself today.
Toshinori quickly pulled out a water bottle from his truck and tossed it toward midoriya. He was expecting him to catch it and immediately chug the thing down but that's not what happened. Instead the bottle twisted through the air toward midoriya and missed his hand entirely.
But instead of falling into the sand where it could later be picked up, it stopped mid fall.
Midoriya was thirsty. He hasn't had anything to drink since he started cleaning so when all might tossed him a bottle of water he couldn't stop himself for reaching for it. Unfortunately in his haste he over extended his arm and missed the bottle. He attempted to catch it with his other hand but as soon as he reached for it he felt a tug onhis hand. he SAW the bottle inches away from his hand. As if Captured by the very air itself. With a simple flex of his fingers the bottle levitated into his hand.
A ghostly silence filled the area. Nothing but the sound of rhythmic waves could be heard.
Midoriyas eyes were glazed over almost like his soul was taken away be god in that single moment. Finally reality crashed back into place.
"I... I have a quirk?" This was midoriya's one question for himself. He didn't carethat it was his mothers quirk. HE HAD A QUIRK. This is life changing.
(Rant warning)
"But ... how? I've gone my entire life without this ability. I've tried hundreds of times to use my mothers power... and my fathers but nothing ever manifested. How did this happen quirks dont just appear this late in life and something as small as his mothers quirk wouldn't just be able to delay itself. Maybe it has something to do with that voice I keep hearing. Is it possible that's what's causing this. If that's the cause Ishouldbeabletorecreatethecircumstancesthatcauseditbuttheresnoguaranteethatthevoiceiseveninvolvedamigoingcrazy" midoriya exploded into a storm of questions. Wondering no demanding that he figure out what just happened.
Before his young successor could carry on all might in his small form took action. He blankly stared then raised his hand and slapped midoriya."STOP I CAN'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING YOU'RE SAYING!" all might yelled with blood spewing out of his mouth.
"I'm sorry!" midoriya replied shaking his head from the pain of being slapped before looking at all might.
"So what just happened. I thought you said you were quirkless?" All might asked him with a simple tone. He wasn't angry or disappointed just curious.
Without much else to go on midoriya decided to start from the beginning of the day. Starting with the voice he heard this morning with his mother and that boy all the way to now.
"A voice? What did it say?" Toshinori was curious. He was almost itching to understand what was going on with his successor.
Midoriya paused looking up in thought. Trying to remember anything the voice said. Almost as if it heard him andwas happy to finally be noticed. Words appeared in his head. Repeating each quirk he saw today.
"So it described the quirks you've seen... this doesn't make sense though. If it just describes quirks then how did you do that just now." All might was sweating almost scared that this quirk was exactly like a certain someone's.. he couldn't imagine how heart broken midoriya would be if it turned out he stole his mothers or a young boys quirk.
"I don't know all might... it almost felt like I was just reacting..." midoriya was looking down at his hand. It felt like it didn't belong to him anymore.
"Hmm well I believe Tomorrow we should have a friend of mine give you a check up. Maybe we can get to the bottom of this quirk" all might said smiling while placing a hand on midoriya's shoulder. "For now though let's get you back home you need to rest."
The next day midoriya was taken by all might into UA to meet recovery girl.
Midoriya was in awe as he walked through UA. It was a incredible. Everything was polished and looked brand new. From the arcs they passed under with the letters UA on them to the very building they entered which was white and had clear shiny windows on every wall.
They walk into a nurse's office. It was filled with papers, xrays were hung up on a lit board, and the entire room smelled like hand sanitizer.
"It's about time you got here! Really making an old lady wake up on early on a Saturday wasn't enough for you. You had to be late aswell!" Yelled a woman who was half midoriya's size yet packed on heck of a punch in her voice. This was recovery girl the school nurse.
"Hello recovery girl. I'm sorry I called you in today but we have questions and you're the only person I trust." All might in his small form tells her gently with both hands up to signal surrender.
"Well what's happened has happened no changing it. Now." Recovery girl stops mid sentence and points to midoriya with her Cane. "Introduce yourself young man" she puts the cane back at her side to help her keep her balance while waiting for him to speak.
"Y-yes ma'am" midoriya was shaking. The last few months should have prepared him for seeing heroes up close but recovery girl was so cool. He could hardly control his energy right now. He slowly took some breaths and steeled himself and finally after a few seconds looks toward the heroine with firm eyes.
"I am izuku midoriya."
"Alright midoriya. What are you here for today. All might told me it was supposed to be a quirk test but why so late." Recovery girl said while sitting on top of a stool.
"I believe that I developed a quirk. Up until yesterday I had no power to speak of but suddenly I started hearing this voice in ny head and now I have my mother's quirk and I think I also copied a healing quirk from a boy." Midoriya told her.
"Hmm I see ... this does feel like we should experiment a bit.. hmm alright let's get started. Sit on that bed there." Recovery girl tells him while gesturing to a white and green bed in the corner of the room.
Thus began an assortment of tests that almost all involved needles being usedin some type of way. Xrays were taken, brain waves were scanned, heart rates were monitored and quirks were tested. By the end of it all izuku was worn out. Yeah his body was healing but the constant blood and tissue samples were getting insane.
"And we're done" said recovery girl after having just input all the data into her computer. She looks toward all might and izuku. "Now we just have to wait for the DNA and tissue samples to be processed. While we wait take a look at these" recovery girl shuffles over to the glowing boards and places midoriyas xrays against the bright back ground. Showing the bones of his feet clearly.
"Now your old doctor probably told you that thanks to this extra pinky joint, you couldn't develop a quirk." Recovery girl had her cane pointing at the toe. Show casing the extra joint before continuing. "In most cases he would be right. The world wide study of quirks has co concluded that almost all people with this joint are quirkless" she paused and looked at midoriya to let it sink in.
"But there is a small group of people though who do have extra toe joints and an even smaller group than that is composed of late bloomers.. now from what you've shown today is, that you belong to the latter group. 1 out of every 1 billion people are effected by it." She looks at midoriya and smiles.
Beep beeps beep skret skret
The computer finally finished analyzing midoriya's DNA and was printing off his genome chart and his quirk results.
Slowly grabbing the papers utilizing her cane to move around recovery girl returns to her chair and begins to go over the results in her head. She makes a confused face for an instant before letting it fade... minutes pass by in silence and all might was getting angsty he was about to break the silence before but before he could recovery girl began talking.
"These results are strange. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it before... " recovery girl quickly shows the genome charts to them both. "These are your Gene's and they are constantly changing. It's almost like are shifting around and are unable to sit still."
Both all might and midoriya look at the chart but all they could see is lines and letters. They had no idea what any ofthis meant so they just shook their heads up and down. Recovery girl just sighed... these two were muscle heads. There's no way they'd understand what she's talking about.
"In short your DNA is constantly shifting. It's not affecting your looks but it is affecting your quirk factors. My guess is that some kind of extreme stress must've activated the latent quirk factors in your body." Recovery girl said before looking directly into all mights soul as she said the lastbit.
Recovery girl turned around and grabbed the other paper before saying. "Now onto your quirk results... it seems it's an emitter type quirk. It almost works the same as erasure heads but with a slight change. While his eyes emits a beam at will that blocks the activation of a quirk. Yours actually takes advantage of quirk activation by emitting a type of beam constantly from from your eyes. The beam doesn't harm anyone but what it does do is penetrate someone deep enough to pass through their DNA before bouncing back out and into you. Because your DNA is constantly shifting these beams are able to alter your genetics and give you a copy of the quirk. I believe the voice you've been hearing is your quirk reacting to new information.no idea what the limits are but that is an incredible quirk" recovery girl said before taking a deep breath. That was a mouth full.
"YOUNG MIDORIYA YOUR QUIRK IS ONE OF A KIND TO BE ABLE TO COPY QUIRKS YOU SEE AND ANALYZE THEM AT THE SAME TIME. A TRULY WONDERFUL QUIRK HAHA. I MIGHT HAVE TO ADJUST THE WORKOUT PLAN TO ALLOW ALITTLE QUIRK TRAINING." All might said bursting into his hero form and flexing like the Adonis he is.
Midoriya was amazed... not only did he have a quirk... his quirk was a quirk that could copy all quirks. He was quirkless once but now he has his own power... he couldn't believe it. Tears begin to pool up in his eyes. His mouth was clenched so tight that it was beginning to hurt his. He didn't stop crying as he began to talk. Tears rolled constantly down his face.
"After all this time... I finally have a quirk of my own... I can't believe it... I... wahhhh" the information was overwhelming for him after all even though he knew he could become a hero by inheriting all mights quirk. Now he has his own power something he's always longed for sense he was a kid. His tears were leaving his face at such a high pressure that the room was actually beginning to fill with his tears.
Recovery girl acted fast and held up her cane before quickly and mercilessly bringing it down on midoriya's head and screaming. " stop the water works you're flooding my office!"
Midoriya stopped crying while holding onto a small bump on his head before thinking to himself "I really have toget ahandle on my crying"
that's it for the first chapter. so what did you think? to linear to fast? should I work on my pacing? please let me know so I can improve.
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also I'm debating whether or not midoriya should get all mights quirk. His regular one is already over powered so it would just make it nearly impossible to find actual challenges. let me know what you think in the comments.