After Izuku's mother had passed away at the hands of a villain, he had earned her life insurance pay. Left him with a sizeable amount that could almost pave way to anything he could've wanted to do in life. Using the money, making the right investments, Izuku had all the wealth he needed. Though money is money, it's something that Izuku knew that won't be able to bring back what he lost so dearly those years ago.
The young teenager had to make one quick stop before going to his apartment.
After that night 5 years ago, his old home had been vacated ever since. No one, from real estates to banks didn't want the old home. It didn't matter to Izuku.
He made it to the place he once called home. He went in, using his old key that still worked after all these years.
Dusty. The whole place was filled with dust as he entered. He had been here before, a couple of times actually. Izuku can still remember the night, the horror, the fear and the anger. An image of his mother, of him, of the villain, all still lingered in his mind as he made his way to the living room.
There was a bookcase. Like everything else, they were dusty and dirty- all but one. Izuku pulled the book and like that, a secret passage had opened.
Using the vast resources he had accumulated over the years, he had this installed. A secret he had kept, even from the likes of All Might.
The secret passage led to an abandoned underground substation to his surprise when he discovered it after acquiring some blueprints of his old home. And much to his surprise, the substation underneath his home was the central substation, connected to every other one to the city for his liking. An easy passage way for him to venture through if he wanted.
He had his own hideout. A high paced, fast super computer he had built from scratch, with many monitors, connected to many servers around Japan and many surveillance camera systems. Izuku was a savant when it came to technology. He didn't have a quirk, he'll make do with his vast intelligence. He had everything he needed in his hideout, from various gadgets he still tinkered with to even a microwave, why? Ever so often he got hungry.
He also built an AI, helping him with his day to day duties.
Izuku was greeted by a male humanoid robot he himself made as well from scratch, having this AI have a body if you will. He wore a suit, just cause it looked well, almost like a Butler.
"Master Midoriya." The robot greeted.
"Arc-bot." Izuku nodded.
ARC stood for Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Consciousness. Arc was just short for abbreviation.
"Would you like me to prepare your favorite tea, sir?" Arc-bot offered as his master made his way to a table where some of the projects his master had been working on for some time had laid.
"I'm not staying for long, so it's not necessary," Izuku opened his bag and took out the burnt and destroyed watch he had been working on.
The AI stood next to his master, noticing the watch his master had dearly been working on since his last visit. "Was that fellow boy, Bakugo, the one who destroyed your gadget?"
"Yes." Izuku now started to mess with the other gadgets.
"That fellow sure has a short fuse, pun intended." The AI had some humor in him.
"Ha, he does, like always," Izuku couldn't help but chuckle at the AI's pun. "Any new updates that I should know of?"
Arc-bot stood there for a moment, scanning itself with the new information. "A new hero under the guise of Mt. Lady has made her debut, real name Yu Takeyama. With her debut, she actually makes it to rank 23 as of now." It revealed. "Quirk: Gigantification, being able to make herself as tall as buildings at will. There seems to be no time limit on how long she can stay tall."
"Hmm, I see," Izuku was impressed. During the early stages of developing the AI, the young teenager managed to hack into the security surveillance around Tokyo, making the AI pretty much big brother. "Will you update me for any weaknesses?"
"It will be in your databook that has been accumulated with all the other heroes and villains strength and weaknesses." Izuku had a log book of everyone's quirks, their strength and weaknesses. It didn't matter if it was friend or foe, call it a contingency plan if you will.
Finally tinkering with his gadgets, he got one of them be finally be complete. "Yes!" He said excitingly, enthusiastic for it. This gadget was a small, nano tech infused bomb maker. Essentially, using nano technology, the small tape player thing self regenerates bombs, and sets elements on it as it did.
"Is that the miniature ball bombs you've completed master?" Arc-bot had asked, seeing his master spark with joy.
"Yes," Izuku walked to the testing range. "Depending on the button I press, the bomb will have different aspects." He pressed the first button from the right edge. He then threw it and, BAM, a smoke bomb.
He pressed the next button, this time, the small pebble like bomb turned to a flashbang. Izuku threw the ball far enough that it didn't blind either him or his AI.
The next was an EMP bomb, disabling a few of surrounding test subjects. The effect lasted for about a minute before the subjects rebooted themselves.
The next one was now a shock bomb, stunning the subjects in the target range for a good minute as well, having a pretty large blast radius for a small ball bombs.
And last but not least, were the explosive bombs. As he threw the bomb, the first impact had blown it up. The blast radius was remarkable as was the destruction it made- a huge crater in the center of the testing range.
"My, my," the AI was most certainly surprised with the development. "Do be careful master."
"I know, thanks for your concerns." Izuku was impressed at how well they switched from element to element. It's revolutionary to say the least.
"And what about the other one?" Arc-bot looked over to the table, where his other project laid.
Izuku walked over to the table, where more of his gadgets laid. He picked out another small set, this time these were experimental eye contacts where they are actually hooked up to his supercomputer. Essentially, he would be plugged into his network via his eyes. Though, he still tried figuring it out how to use them without having to go blind.
He placed them back. So many projects he had and with the help of his AI, he knew everything would come along so nicely.
Izuku looked at his time, 5:47. "Oh, I better get going."
"I see, shall I continue with your projects?" The Arc-bot asked.
"Yes," Izuku put his book bag on. "Give me updates on anything new."
"Yes Master Midoriya, I will see you on your next visit."
"Hopefully that's sooner." And with that, Izuku dashed out.
…
Toshinori, also known as All Might, had arrived at UA High, having a scheduled meeting with the principal about his interest of the job he was once asked about.
It had been awhile since he set foot here. When he was at his peak, they would ask of him to come and do a lesson about heroism here and there.
A lot of the staff knew about All Might's current state of transforming into the symbol of peace and his regular civilian form.
"Yo!" A familiar hero greeted him at the door. A male with long messy black hair, fairly skinny, wore all black and had a scarf and goggles that hanged around his neck. Aizawa Shouta, also known as Eraserhead, a pro hero and a teacher at UA.
"Aizawa," Toshinori greeted back, shaking his hand. "Its been awhile hasn't it?"
"It has been," Aizawa can see that the man in a formal wear. "I'm guessing you're finally taking up Nezu on his offer, correct?"
"After sitting on it for awhile, I think I'm ready for this." Toshinori confirmed the man's suspicion.
"What changed your mind?" Aizawa knew the man had some ulterior motives for this sudden move, at least par his concern.
"Well," the two began walking to the Academy, the main building. "Do you remember the boy that I took on a couple of years ago?"
"Izuku Midoriya," Aizawa, memory of an elephant he had. "How can I forget, you practically blamed yourself for what had happened to him and his mother."
"Yeah," Toshinori still had images of that night, that looped in his head whenever anyone brought up that incident. That wasn't the topic at hand though. "Well, he's applying for UA and I was hoping I can come here and still be able to watch over him as he grows."
"I see," the two went through the main entrance, waking over to the elevators as they conversed. "Are you still trying for him to be your heir for your One For All?"
"I've been trying, he's not entirely sure if he wants to shoulder my responsibilities and I completely understand that, especially from where he came from." Toshinori explained.
"Smart kid, maybe he's just trying to figure stuff out on his own and maybe you should be encouraging him on that," Aizawa commented on Toshinori's predicament. "He's a teenager, and he's one of the fewest who can actually decide what kind of hero he would like to be."
"You're probably right about that," Toshinori mentally noted Aizawa's advice. "I should still give him time."
"Speaking of his application," the two continued to wait in the elevator. "How does he plan on doing the Entrance Exam?"
"You should see all the inventions the kid can make," Toshinori highly praised Izuku. "I'm sure, if he still doesn't want to take One For All, he'd come out with something. Like I said, Izuku is a savant when it comes to technology, if I didn't know he had a quirk, I would've assumed his quirk was intelligence."
"I see."
They finally made it to the head floor.
"Well, I see you later." Aizawa said his goodbyes, about to walk the opposite direction.
"Of course, happy to see you again, Aizawa." And with that, Toshinori made his way to the main office, where Nezu, the principal of UA awaited him.
"Oh, All Might, happy to see you sir, Mr. Nezu is waiting for you." One of Nezu's assistant's notified Toshinori.
"Thank you." Toshinori opened the door to the office and saw Nezu, a Chimera of a kind, being a combination of many animals, mainly feline, canine and rodent.
"All Might, please come in, have a seat," he shook the man's hand over the table. "Would you like something to drink? Water, coffee, tea?"
"I'll take a tea." All Might sat across from the hybrid, as he prepared tea for the two.
"With pleasure."
After a couple of minutes, the two had steaming, hot tea, to which the two enjoyed as they shipped and conversed.
"I see you reconsidered my offer at becoming an instructor." Nezu was grateful to hear the news.
"I did, and which much consideration." Toshinori finished his tea, satisfied with it.
"Great," Nezu pulled a drawer out, taking out several pieces of paper he had prepared prior to Toshinori's arrival. "Here's the paperwork." He placed the papers in front of Toshinori, handing him a pen as well. "Take your time."
"Thank you." Toshinori thanked him for the stuff.
"You know, I think I know why you're suddenly taking my job offer for the Foundational Hero Studies." Nezu poked, knowing the reason why All Might suddenly wanted to take his offer.
"I know nothing goes under the radar for you, Nezu," Toshinori wasn't going to lie to him of course. "Yes, the reason I wanted to take you on the offer now, is because one of your applicants, Izuku Midoriya, is someone I'm anxiously wanting to see grow."
"Oh, I thought it was because of the beautiful scenery we had," Nezu completely had it out of the park. "But that's also pretty commendable."
"Ha! That was a good one actually." Toshinori chuckled, continuing to write.
"Was that the boy you took in? If I may ask, if I'm not stepping on any lines." Nezu asked, being cautious of his questions.
"Not all, and yes," Toshinori flipped through the paperwork, making sure he didn't miss anything. "Here you go." He stood up, handing the Chimera the paperwork.
"Why, thank you." Nezu skimmed through the paperwork work, making signatures here and there as well.
"Well, if that is it, I can get going now, correct?" The blonde, skinny man asked him.
"Yes," everything was done. "I just want to let you know that you will start as soon as the next semester starts, which will be in the next month or so."
"Once those who applied and take the exams, I presume?"
"Yes, and now you're all set to go."
…
Izuku arrived at the apartment, having moved in with Toshinori after he had taken it up to himself to help him grow up.
Izuku was grateful for everything Toshinori has done for him through the last 5 years.
The sun was setting in and Izuku was taking out his keys to open the apartment door when he heard footsteps approaching from his right. He turned to look and saw that it was Toshinori with a bag of takeout.
"Hey."
"Hey."
The two greeted each other.
Izuku had opened the door and the two made their way inside the apartment.
After a long day, the two enjoyed the sound of being home.
"So, how'd school go?" Toshinori asked as he went into the kitchen.
"It was fine," Izuku made his way to the living room, where he sat down, taking in a yawn as he did. "Remember the watch I was trying to build?"
"Yeah, I know," Toshinori had said from the other side of the apartment. "What about it?"
"It got wrecked." Izuku let out a wry laugh.
"Did it now? You were investing a lot of time with it, pun intended." Toshinori couldn't help but throw in the joke.
"Yeah, tell me about it, I'm working on fixing it again." He told the hero.
Toshinori came to the living room, with some clean dishes and the take out he had brought. "Well, knowing you, I'm sure you'll fix that thing in no time, again, pun intended."
The two gave a good laugh, as they say on the couch. One in school clothing, the other in a business casual attire.
"How about you? How was your day?" Izuku dug in on his food.
"Well, I finally took on that offer at UA." Toshinori revealed the highlight of his day.
"That's amazing!" Izuku was glad to hear about the news. "What changed your mind? Was it because of me taking up an application there as well?"
"Part of it, I just want to make sure I see you grow into an amazing hero as well," Toshinori answered, eating his take out. "Which reminds me about our earlier conversation we had. About One For All."
"I realized that I know you're still growing and that suddenly giving you powers would just shoulder you with a lot of my burdens," Toshinori began. "I completely understand why you would want to take it slowly before you finally made your decision. Until you realize for yourself, what kind of hero you want to become."
"Wow," Izuku was grateful for hearing those words come out of Toshinori's mouth, understanding where Izuku stands as is with his decision. "I am really thankful for completely understanding my point of view of this."
"I just want you to know that, whatever you choose, wherever life takes you, I'll be standing right there next to you, Izuku."
"Thank you, especially for everything you have done for me."
And with that, they continued to enjoy their meal through the night.
Author's Note: I hope you enjoy this chapter.
I want to take it slow, build up the characters from their new perspectives and what not.
This story is also going to follow, with major changes of course, some of the arcs of the canon source material.
Well, that's pretty much everything I have to say. See you next time!