A few moments earlier, a huge chunk of sludge was dashing around corners in the sewer system, frantically avoiding his pursuer, a large man with tons of muscles. The villain had been barely maintaining a thirty second lead on him, if he made one slip up, his capture was all but certain. As he neared a manhole opening, he heard the sound of someone jumping and landing on the concrete above.
Thinking quickly, he dashes up through the cover, and sees a tall creature dashing side to side, clearly training. The form of the creature weirded him out and he just hoped this wasn't a mutation quirk, otherwise this would be a less than ideal host. So snapping out of his mind, he quickly lunged on top of the creature, and felt himself easily spread open it's jaw and felt absolutely no resistance to his form entering through the creature's mouth.
He was excited, but also constantly paying attention to the cover he escaped through, for when that blond idiot finally caught up. He was too busy thinking his target would let him easily take over, like sure he felt the creature trying to grasp onto his semi liquid body, but he paid no mind to him. Suddenly, the cover blew off of the ground, and in the sludge's haste to get into a stance to dodge any possible blow from the hero in front of him, he made one mistake.
Unfortunately for the villain, his hostage took advantage of his lapse of judgement, and stabbed his eye with his long fingers, loosening his hold on Izuku, and Izuku fell to the ground hacking and coughing up all of the sludge. He was so busy hacking away that he barely even noticed the breeze that blew over top of him and the villains shout. Not too long after that he passes out, unconscious.
(All Might's P.O.V.)
I was just enjoying my first day off to get used to the area I am going to be working in, when I hear someone scream about a purse snatcher, so I slowly stalk my way outside to see if other heroes were going to show up and help them. As I left the store with my bags in hand, I saw the menace, he had the form of some disgusting liquid body type, which are a pain for most quirks to deal with. The civilians started questioning the heroes and why none were appearing, realizing that I must step up to the plate as I still have some time left in my buff form, I transform.
"Fear not, for I AM HERE!" I shout with my usual camera smile. Seeing everyone gasp at my appearance and the villain panicking, I launch after him.
The villain was extremely clever, he lead me into the sewer system forcing me to hold back a ton to not cause gigantic amounts of property damage with my punches or dashes. Add on the fact on how I am stuck in an unfamiliar area I end up in a chase that lasted far too long, as I turned the corner, I notice he had vanished suddenly. So I quickly check every close by corner or anything he could hide under or behind.
Realizing he went up the manhole, I do a small 4% leap to burst through the manhole. Once I emerge, I see a sight I hoped I could prevent, the villain had a hostage, one with four? Fingers. He has seen some really weird quirks, but this one definitely took the cake if it was a transformation that had less fingers than normal. It was during his study of the hostage's quirk that something happens.
The man pokes one of the villain's eyes and in the yelp of pain frees the man, who looks like an ugly alien. Add onto the fact on how his mouth split open to cough up the sludge, honestly it creeped me out a lot witnessing. I then immediately remembered I had a job to do so I let out a 20% Smash against this villain, and I took a bit of pride in the fact on how I prevented a civilian's life from ending at this monster's hand.
I go to question him, when I notice he has passed out. I decided to look at his body and see if any wounds were present, I also wanted to see his appearance as well. So I look him over, and I see he has a very lean build, a bit thin but that appears to be his body type affecting that rather than his health. He has one of the weirdest faces he has seen, his mouth is split into four sections, his face is slightly extended, hands that appear to be missing a middle finger, and hoofs?
As I was observing the young man, his features started to morph back into a normal human with messy green hair, freckles, normal hands, normal feet, normal everything. I stand back assuming he is starting to wake up, I feel my limit drawing near letting me know I have a couple of minutes until I lose my form. So with unmatched speed I quickly empty the bottles of water that I bought from the store not too long ago, and stuff the villain inside the bottles, eyes and mouth included.
Satisfied with my handywork, I turn and decide the quickest way to wake this boy up is to pat him awake, so I proceeded to pat his cheek until he woke up, after a bit of time, he finally starts to stir. I lean over top of him as he starts to slowly open his eyes, moments pass as he groggily stares back at me, I am flashing him my signature smile. Then my presence finally gets registered, as the boy yelps as he scoots far away from me, honestly surprised he didn't cause any friction burns from that.
(Izuku's perspective)
I had groggily woken up after my close call with that disgusting sludge villain thing, and the first thing in my vision was a blond haired man with his hair pointed up in a v, a gigantic smile, and a calming aura, very similar to my second favourite hero All Might. It was at that moment when I realized that it wasn't someone similar to All Might it was the hero himself, so in a small panic I rapidly scoot away from him.
"A-A-All Might?!" I shout shocked and confused at his presence, of which he only laughs in his signature tone that I remembered from all the videos I watched of him.
"I'm sorry citizen, normally I am much more careful and avoid people getting caught up in my hero work, but today was my day off in a new place, so I was kinda lost in the sewers for a minute! Thanks for holding the villain in place though!"
"C-Can I have an autograph?" I ask as I whip out my secret hero journal that I never take out in school so that Bakugou doesn't destroy it.
"Sure thing!" All Might says as he pulls out the pen and quickly and swiftly writes his name down with a smiley face at the end. "Well if that's everything I need to go take this guy to the police."
As All Might was crouching down, getting ready to do his leap, I notice the bottles becoming loose, knowing how dishonourable it would be to leave them unfastened, I grab some tape, go to call for All Might to wait, he tells me he can't. So doing something a bit reckless, I swiftly latch onto his legs and the bottles. Realising I can't properly fasten them to his legs I tape the bottles together while holding onto him with my legs.
All Might starts trying to shove me off, as soon as his hand lands onto my shoulder I wrap myself fully onto his left leg, while securely holding onto the bottles. Seeing him trying to get me off of him, I tell him to land me somewhere so we can be safely on the ground. Finding no reason to disagree with me he angles himself so he will land safely on a rooftop. Once we land I have to pause to catch my breath after that fearful moment.
"Young man, that was incredibly risky and stupid! Now if you excuse me I really must be off now!"
"All Might! Wait!"
"I can not wait!"
"I have the villain in my hands!" I shout back at him trying to get him to stop.
Seeing him stop and turn made me sigh in relief, as I bend down to pick them up, I realize I had unintentionally moved away from them so walking back I pick them up and turn. And instead of All Might there is this extremely thin dude, extremely frail, I know I could beat him with just my feet, which confuses me.
"Where did All Might go?" I ask the weird man.
"I am All Might" He states calmly, then proceeds to cough into his fist.
"All Might is an extremely muscular dude who obviously never slacked off once in training, I aspire to be like him, you look like you are allergic to gyms, so there's no way you are him."
"You know how some people flex at the pool by puffing up their chests, it's like that."
"Why do you look like that?" I ask curious as to why the symbol of peace looks so goddamn frail.
"I got this wound in a battle against a villain a few years ago." All Might says as he lifts up his shirt showing his grotesque wound.
"The only villain I can remember who did decently against you was none other than Toxic Chainsaw, I doubt you were wounded this badly by him, when I have seen videos where a villain has landed worse hits on you and yet you appeared to be fine."
"Yeah, it wasn't him, he did land a few hits, but he was nothing, I was as good as new a day later. The battle I had against the culprit for this wound wasn't televised, as people can't see that their symbol of peace was wounded. So if that's all you had, we can exit the roof and I ask that nothing mentioned up here is told to anyone."
"Actually I have two questions."
"Ok, what do you want to know?"
"Do you think with my hideous quirk, I can be a hero that calms people down by showing up?"
"My boy! What makes you think your quirk is hideous?"
"Well, everyone always calls me ugly or an alien because of my transformed appearance. So I know you're not my number one favourite hero, Gang Orca is, but I want to know if it's possible for someone with my quirk's appearance to be a well liked hero?"
"Of course you can, as long as you always smile and assure others that it will be alright because you are there! I am sure you will be just fine in serving as a calming figure in times of battle. Now what's your other question?"
"What happened to the villain who gave you that wound? Are they in prison? Or are they still out there, because this is valuable information to consider seeing as how unless he's dead, we will likely end up fighting each other."
"Let me ask you this, depending on your answer is whether or not I will tell you. Why do you want to be a hero?"
"Well, I want to be a hero for three reasons. Reason one is because I want to be a symbol that no matter your appearance, you can be a symbol others can be happy to see, and that your appearance won't make or break your life. Reason two is because being a villain is very dishonourable, and all those who lack honour are those who shouldn't be causing trouble. Reason three is because I like helping others, no matter the challenge, if I can help I will help." I said with a serious expression to show that I'm not kidding about my reasoning to be a hero.
'I think I finally found my successor! He nearly perfectly fits the bill too!' All Might excitedly thought.
"If you want to know about him, it's better to know about my quirk and its history. It's a bit of a history so we might wanna get this guy to the police and then we can have this chat at Dagobah beach, it's a nice and quiet location, so let's get going young…"
"Izuku Midoriya."
"Young Midoriya. Now if you see me like this please refer to me as Yagi. That way we have no risk of you calling me All Might if we were in public and saw each other."
"Alright!" I said as I started walking to the door with All Mi- no Mr. Yagi right behind me.
After we calmly made our way to the police station, I texted my Mom telling her I am going to be out doing some training for a couple more hours tonight, as I want to start upping the intensity of my training. Which isn't a complete lie, as I do plan on doing just that, just not tonight. Yagi and I made our way to Dagobah Beach, after having some small talk between the two of us, we arrived there, and needless to say it was a massive dump, literally.
Yagi made his way somewhere barely in sight of the walkway out of the beach and sat down, I joined him shortly after. Yagi sighed as he got ready to tell the story of his quirk.
"Young Midoriya, I must stress that whatever you are about to hear must never be repeated to anyone else."
"I promise, I will not tell a soul about it."
"Alright, so my quirk is a quirk known as One for All, it has the abilities to store power and be transferred onto someone else. I am the eighth wielder of One for All, and this quirk was passed onto me."
"Interesting quirk, seems like the quirk itself defies all we know about quirks because of its two very different power sets. I am sure there is a perfectly sound reason for this?"
"Yep, this quirk's origin is told as the tale of two brothers, one was born with a wicked quirk, the other was born seemingly quirkless. The brother with the quirk had the ability to take other people's quirks and use them for himself, or if he doesn't like them, give the quirk to someone else. With this quirk, he quickly took over all of Japan and gained more influence than the government held."
"The brother became quickly known as a man named All for One. And not a single person contained any power to even rival him. Any heroes who tried he just took their quirks away from them. Of course, during his rise, his quirkless brother started to try to rebel against him, the brother had the most heroic heart and saw what his brother was doing. Sure, from an outside perspective his actions of taking away the quirks from those who didn't want the quirks and giving them to those who wanted a quirk, is really heroic. His brother saw right through his plans and knew it was just to gain a massive following and to breed chaos in the public."
"That's not very honourable of him." Izuku muttered, hating people who are manipulative.
"I agree, manipulating people to become your allies is a dishonourable skill, but it is often very useful. Anyways, once All for One realized his brother was rebelling against him, he decided to force a quirk on him, the ability to stockpile strength. And that quirk fused with the unknown quirk his 'quirkless' brother had which was the ability to pass itself on to others. Those two quirks created one for all. Now I wish to pass it onto you, do you accept it?"
"What happened to All for One? Then I will answer."
"Fine, I have no idea what happened to him, he was indeed the one who inflicted this wound on me, but after I dealt, what I thought was the finisher on him, his body vanishes. So he could be dead or he could still be out there. Now what's your answer?"
"I decline this quirk."
"I KNEW YO- Huh? What do you mean you decline?"
"It has nothing to do with All for One still being out there, I just don't want to become a hero thanks to the assistance of your quirk, while indeed it would be extremely powerful with the bonuses my quirk gives, it would be dishonourable of me to take this quirk. Now if you would like, I can keep my own eyes and ears out for a possible candidate. How long do you have until this quirk will be gone?"
"I don't know a few years in all likelihood. Like maybe your second or third year of U.A if you are going there."
"Well, considering how I am almost into high school, just a school year left then I enter high school. How long roughly off of that time?"
"I was right with my guess, although I am disappointed, I hope that if I cannot find a successor in time, you will allow me to transfer it to you so we don't lose it while you just hold onto it until you are satisfied with your heroic career."
"Fine, if it ends up in that scenario I will gladly incubate the quirk for one generation. However I am confident that while on this search I can help you find one."
"Alright well, give me your number so we can communicate about this."
After exchanging numbers, they both went their separate ways, Izuku going back to his house planning out using that beach as a workout, while Yagi went to his apartment saddened but proud, knowing that Midoriya proved how worthy of a candidate he is. Yagi also knew that if he wanted to keep his promise of being able to last till his second or third year of U.A, he will need to keep within his limits and never push up to his limits.
While Izuku was taking a detour home, he was walking past the front of a house with the sounds of power tools being used, when he heard an explosion and something flying right into him. The object letting out a groan. But all Izuku noticed was the feeling of something soft being pressed into his sides, as he lost consciousness he heard someone say something about a baby being hurt...