It was a nice and sunny day, an otherwise perfect day were it not marred by one child and his fellow group members ganging up on a little boy. As for why those kids were ganging up on this child? Well, he was simply guilty of not knowing of his place beneath the leader's shoes, so the leader decided to teach him a lesson. The leader was none other than Katsuki Bakugou, and he had gotten his quirk two weeks ago.
"Why are you doing this?" The victim whimpered.
"Because you're new here. New kids need to know their place," Katsuki stated, as he punched a sparking fist into his palm with a vicious grin on his face. As he went for the finisher, someone suddenly appeared in front of him. It was the ugly pest he keeps trying to discourage from being a hero.
"Kacchan! It's not heroic or honour to pick on those weaker than you! So please stop before you damage your future career," The pest spouted, while he was defending the brat you needed to be put in his place.
"It isn't honour to interrupt a fight now, is it? Unless you want me to put you back down to your place again," Katsuki threatened.
"Stop, I won't let you keep hurting me! I'll have to fight back if you keep this up!" the little annoyance tried to reason while they shifted into their ugly form, perfectly like a villain.
"You asked for it! You're an easy villain to beat! All you can be is someone for me to beat up!" he shouted as he lunged at the pest, who kept dodging his hits, weaving left and right, but would always go for predictable moves.
The fight lasted only for a minute before Katsuki knocked him down. He spent another minute unleashing multiple punches until Izuku wasn't showing any signs of getting up. Once he was certain, he wiped his blood stained hands on some tissues his buddies gave him. He cleaned the wounds on Izuku to the best of his abilities, stood up, and burnt all the evidence away. Katsuki marched home, satisfied with the beating he dished out.
Meanwhile, Izuku was unconscious and was recalling when his quirk first manifested. He was having a playdate with Katsuki and his followers, and Izuku was lagging behind them, walking with uncertainty. They had reached a small, narrow log crossing across a gap. The leader, Katsuki, was marching on without care. Izuku stayed and watched to ensure everyone had crossed safely. It was then that Katsuki misplaced his foot, and slipped.
Izuku immediately dashed down to help him up. As he reached where Katsuki fell, he leant his hand to the fallen boy. Katsuki only saw red when the hand entered his vision. He instantly smacked Izuku's hand away, Izuku felt something struggle inside him, making him forget what was going on..
Katsuki was confused as to why the nerd wasn't freaking out, so he turned his head to look at him, and that's when his view of Izuku changed. He started to grow taller, his fingers morphed together to form four finger hands, it was as if he lost his middle finger on each hand. His face started to stretch, and his mouth started splitting into four sections that looked like mandibles, his body grew even more lankier. And his feet transformed into what looked like hooves.
In the end, Izuku was a nightmarish abomination, something that Katsuki knew people would never be happy to see. He vowed right then and there to do whatever it took to prevent this ugly abomination from being a hero. Katsuki smacked him with the hardest punch he could, sending Izuku flying into the slope. While he was stunned, Katsuki began to launch punch after punch at him, and after he felt satisfied, turned and climbed up the slope, leaving a bruised Izuku by the river.
Izuku got up slowly, and limped home. As soon as he got close to his home, he remembered the look of fear and horror on his former friends faces, making him decide against showing his mother his quirk. Once he was alone in his room, he transformed into the monster from earlier. Needless to say, Izuku was shocked speechless at all the damage done on his current form, not to mention how it looked.
He had wondered why his mom never really panicked, only fretting slightly at the sight of his torn and dirty clothes, but it seemed like the damage he suffered from in his transformed body didn't transfer over to his normal body. The pain was there, but the visible damage wasn't. He had known that revealing his pain would've only brought more violence upon himself. Izuku hated the idea of having someone else interfere with Katsuki before he could beat him himself.
The stream of memories ended as he woke up on the ground. Izuku saw that it was getting late and rushed home, considering himself lucky that Katsuki had stopped targeting his legs as hard as he did before. It made it easier to cover his injuries without limping home. Once Izuku got home, he was fussed over by his mother. He had just shrugged her off by telling her he had been trying to find out what his quirk was before losing track of time.
Tired from the day, Izuku had a small meal before going to sleep.
Inko was wondering why Izuku hadn't shown any signs of a quirk, so she decided to book an appointment at the local quirk office, to get him diagnosed as either quirkless or quirked. With his constant dreams of becoming a hero she hoped he would get a quirk, but her motherly instincts wanted him to stay as far away from hero work as possible, so he could live without much danger and for that she wants him to be quirkless.
Izuku was brought to the doctor's office to find out his quirk. Luckily, it would be easy for Izuku to hide his quirk, he only had to lie. When they entered, they were greeted by a chubby man with goggles and a bushy mustache. He looked him over and asked Inko what her and his father's quirks were.
"My quirk allows me to attract small objects, his father has the ability to breathe fire." She replied.
"Hmm, Izuku, would you mind coming with me, so I can take an x-ray of your feet?" The doctor asked as he stood up offering a hand to the boy. Izuku stood up and followed the doctor out of the room, his mother not far behind.
They arrived in a side room, where Izuku was told to take off his socks and shoes so they could properly scan his feet. Once Izuku had removed the required articles of clothing, he was placed onto the children's x-ray machine. He stood as still as possible, so the machine would finish. After thirty seconds, the doctor announced it was finished scanning his foot, so Izuku put his socks and shoes back on and followed him out. Once they reached the room they were originally in, the doctor left to go retrieve the scans.
During the time they waited, Inko was nibbling on her bottom lip, fighting the two sides of herself, while Izuku was hoping that transformation quirks didn't give anything anyway like amount of uses causing alterations in his body. He didn't want his mom to find out he had lied about his quirk's existence, his inner self feeling terrible about lying, but he didn't want her to react the same way Katsuki had, because not everyone is as honourable as he aims to be.
When the doctor came back, he looked confused, worrying the family of two.
"So, he has shown no signs of a quirk, correct?"
"No, he hasn't. He keeps staying out way later than he should be, trying to figure out what kind quirk he has. Why, is there a problem?"
"Research was conducted, when quirks first emerged, to figure out a reason why some people were getting quirks and others weren't. After a while, they noticed a correlation between those who have quirks and those who do not. They were missing a joint in their little toes, showing evolution. Your son is missing the joint, so by all means, he should have a quirk. If he hasn't manifested a quirk yet, then he must be a late bloomer with a quirk his body can't handle yet. Either that, or he has a completely useless quirk that's a mutation that makes it so he lacks toe joints."
"How long would it be until I would know?"
"Could be tonight, or it could take years to show up, but the latest a quirk has shown up has been at the age of 14, which is around when puberty hits. So if your son doesn't show any signs of a quirk by the time he is a decent amount into puberty, then he very well might actually be for all intents and purposes quirkless. In that case, he would need to give up on being a hero."
The bluntness of the man shocked Izuku so much, that he dropped the action figure he was fiddling with. Fortunately for Izuku, that statement helped trick his mom into believing the lie he had told her. It also caused him immense guilt and annoyance at his own lack of honour. Inko grabbed Izuku's hand and said goodbye to the doctor.
A few hours later, Izuku was busy watching All Might's debut to Japan, he hears his mom open the door, so he turns and decides to ask her a question that tears her internally apart.
"Mom, can you help me train to be a hero so that i'm not going to be far behind everyone else?" Inko stands there unsure of how to respond on one hand, she wants to say no so that he will stay safe on the other some basic training in something like self defence should be beneficial anyways, so with her mind made up she responds.
"Sure I can help you start training some self defence training."
A week later was Izuku's first self defence class, he was of course put in a class with several other young kids, but most of them were obviously not desiring to be here as they were relaxing and chatting with everyone about less important topics. Like how their parents signed them up despite them not wanting to do boring training, honestly it hurt Izuku deep down to see so many people who don't want to train in his class.
"Alright! Everyone start doing some warm up stretches, then we will get you all proper form to be able to dodge or rebound hits. The end goal of this course is to be able to defend yourself from larger opponents. Now get to the stretches!" The instructor shouted at their class.
Izuku immediately went to work doing some flexible stretches he saw in videos his mother watched. He slowly stretched out his right leg as he lowered himself to the ground, he could do that much of that stretch because of how difficult it was, but he repeated it on his other leg. He could feel his body starting to feel a bit looser than it normally did. He then moved onto arm stretches, and he achieved the same progress on the arms as his legs. After he finished the stretches he looked up and decided to watch his instructor see what they were doing.
The instructor looked like a middle aged woman, with long brown hair, red irises, a slimmer body type and she wore black pants and a yellow t-shirt, and she was going around helping the kids who lacked any real form to their stretches get something from them. Once a few minutes had passed and she felt everyone was ready to start their stance learning, she blew the whistle around her neck, she had to look over her roster of kids to insure none had any sensitivity to loud noises.
"Alright everyone stand in a line, and…" the instructor droned on as Izuku paid full attention to absorb the info.
By the end of the course there was only Izuku and 5 other students, the rest had been kicked out or stopped coming in general. Izuku was the most skilled out of all of his classmates, hell, he had been the fastest learner so he often times was sent home early because he finished everything so fast and he had minimal flaws to his movements and dodges. Of course this hadn't gone unnoticed from a certain explosive chihuahua.
It was the last day of school for their first grade classes when he decided to corner him after classes.
"Hey you fucking creep!" he shouted as he landed a punch into the wall right next to Izuku, who flinched back.
"What do you want Kacchan?"
"I want to know why you are getting taught self defence? Still trying to be a hero? Your ugly quirk can't hope to be heroic, you're nothing more than a villain!"
"What about Gang Orha?" Izuku questioned back knowing the hero was rated as one of the most villainous looking heroes out there.
"At least he looks like an animal! No one knows what you look like other than an alien! I know, I will call you Alien, because that's what you look like and no one likes aliens!" Katsuki said with a massive grin glad that he came up with a nickname for Izuku.
"I'll tell the teachers about you bullying me!" Izuku threatened.
"It's not honourable to run away and have others fight your fights is it? So if you want to keep the one thing you like, then don't tell them," Katsuki said popping mini explosions in his hands.
Izuku knew he couldn't lose anymore honour than he already had sacrificed to keep his mother out of the loop. He could only hope that he could one day be victorious over him, and lose his main bully. Unfortunately that day wouldn't come for a long time…
Izuku is now 14 and he is sitting in class when their teacher shows up, and Izuku has a feeling he knows what those papers are and he isn't going to like it one bit. The teacher places all the papers on the podium a bit carelessly which means they aren't tests or assignments, and unless they are some sort of new form to be signed and handed in, it is going to ruin the decent day he has had.
"Alright students, a few days ago we had you fill out whether or not you plan to attend a University or college, and the where and what as well of the post high school education. I would hand them back to you but why does it matter after all everyone just wants to be heroes!" The teacher said and much to Izuku's chagrin, tossed all the papers up into the air, causing them to flutter to the ground in a mess.
"Hey teach! Don't lump me in with the rest of these dumbasses." Katsuki demanded as he leaned back in his seat looking relaxed as hell, knowing he hasn't lost once to anyone around him.
"Ah that's right! You wish to attend U.A University correct?"
"Yeah that's right! I am the only one good enough from this class to get into U.A, hell I bet everyone here would die to a villain a pathetic as Alien over there." Izuku knew he was better than everyone minus Katsuki thanks to his training he was given, he just no longer had any reason to prove himself to Katsuki like he had tried and failed countless times to, as a child.
"Ah! Midoriya wishes to attend U.A as well!" At that statement everyone in class started laughing even the teacher as they all believed he was destined to be a villain thanks to his appearance while using his quirk.
Before Izuku could retort Bakugou had shown up at his desk and unleashed an explosion badly damaging the desk, and burning a few of his belongings. He looked Izuku dead in the eyes and said lowly. "Don't even try to go into U.A, I want the fun and glory of killing you all to myself, I don't want the shitty heroes there to be the ones to end your villainous career. So don't even continue, if I see you at U.A at all, I will not hesitate to beat you down and force you to leave got it?"
To say Bakugou was pissed would be like calling rain wet. Izuku knew he wasn't finished but he couldn't be bothered to care about this class for the day after that, so he got up and ditched class, he knew he had been marked absent a few times already despite being present in class the whole period. So one actual skip because he literally got attacked wouldn't do much harm to his record.
Izuku decided to do some athletic training with his quirk active in an underpass quietly. After about an hour of swiftness dodging and bouncing off of the walls and small sprints, he heard something rumble. Then suddenly his world went dark...