Firstly I wanted to thank everyone for the kind support you have given me and hope that you continue to enjoy what I write. By the way, if any of you don't know, I try to upload weekly and new chapters will likely come out every Sunday or Monday.

If you want to know what Izuku's transformations look like, just go to pinterest and search his form, for example, 'Form One: Evolution'

Thank you and I Hope you enjoy!

"Oh, no!" = spoken out loud

'Oh, no!' = thought in head

- insert song name here - = play or switch to the song

"I am here!" = All Might (Hero Form)

"I am here" = All Might (Normal Form)

"Save" = Unknown

I do not own "Boku no Hero Academia"

Izuku and All Might landed atop a building safely. Izuku had gone fast through the air before, but the journey that All Might's leg had taken him on, was disorientating and headache inducing, mainly because of the wind that was beating down mercilessly on his head. Not being the one flying was a totally different and surprisingly enjoyable experience.

As Izuku got his bearings back, All Might walked towards the opposite end of the roof, but Izuku was less worried about his disorientation and more that All Might could be injured. The blood that had fallen out of All Might's mouth earlier was the main indicator, but as Izuku looked closer at All Might, Izuku noticed that as he walked, he favoured his right side, meaning that All Might had sustained an injury and it was likely on his left side. The way All Might favoured his right side was so minuscule that unless you had a quirk or were as adeptly perceptive as Izuku, you never would have noticed it. It lightly comforted Izuku that with the way All Might was so lightly favouring his right side, it likely meant the injury couldn't be too bad or severe, but the fact that All Might had sustained an injury at all, kind of frightened Izuku.

Izuku knew that no one was immortal, including the great All Might. It didn't take a genius to realise that All Might's activity had slowed down over the last few years, to a miniature amount of what it once was. Izuku had a theory that about his diminishing appearance and how it related to his still unknown and unexplained quirk, but that didn't matter right now.

As Izuku continued to closely observe All Might, he noticed that All Might seemed to be getting ready to leave once again, "Wait!" Izuku shouted with urgency.

"Look kid, heroes don't have a lot of time, so I need to be going" Said the powerful and deep voice of All Might, but as he turned around to face the boy, he noticed that the child was holding a large soda bottle filled with a dark green slime that seemed painfully familiar, 'Wait, when did he?'

Izuku could barely see through the fearless smile but still noticed the confusion lining All Might's face so he quickly explained, "Earlier I noticed that your pocket was loose, and I knew that the bottle was going to fall out with how fast you fly" Izuku hastily said so All Might understood.

"Huh, well I must thank you again, young one!" All Might boomingly said as the confusion that was previously sprinkled on his face had now disappeared for a more grateful smile, "In such a short amount of time you have helped me out twice!" He loudly continued as he let out another thunderous laugh, 'The boy must have a sharp eye for noticing my pocket being loose' He mentally assessed as he held out his large hand towards the boy, prompting for the bottle to be handed to him.

Izuku walked forward towards All Might with the bottle in hand but as he handed the bottle to All Might he felt himself become increasingly nervous as he stood in front of the mountain of a man. He was not only nervous about the fact that he was directly stood in front of the greatest hero in all of history, but also because he didn't want to accidentally offend the towering and fearlessly smiling man with what he planned on saying, but he had to say it anyway because he cared too much, "All Might?" Izuku rather meekly asked.

All Might looked down onto the boy who had his head facing away, as he handed over the slime bottle, "Yes?"

Izuku felt a sweat droplet slide down his forehead as he spoke, "W-Where are you injured?" Izuku weakly but determinedly asked.

"What did you say, young one?" All Might asked, probably not hearing what Izuku had said.

Izuku looked back up to All Might and looked him in the eye, "Uhm, I a-asked where you were hurt" Izuku repeated, but slightly louder and with more resolution behind it. All might could see the burning determination in the boy's bright green eyes.

Izuku could see the confusion from before coming back, onto All Might's always fearlessly smiling face, as he looked up to the larger man.

"Why would you think I am injured, young one?" All Might asked with his powerful voice.

"Oh! Well, before when we were going through the air I heard you cough rather badly, and when I looked up I saw you coughed up some blood…" Izuku partially explained.

'The boy must have impeccable hearing if he was able to hear me coughing over the fierce wind rushing past us' All Might once again mentally assessed.

"…Also, when we landed here, I noticed as you walked you favoured your right side, meaning that you're injured on your left" Izuku finished explaining.

All Might was slightly astounded but showed no sign on his face, 'Perceptive indeed' All Might mentally thought in surprise.

Izuku didn't know if he could, but he had to try, "So, I was thinking that if you told me where you were hurt, I might be able to help?" Izuku hopefully said but seemingly questioned as he continued to look up towards the attentive All Might.

All Might let out another booming laugh, "Do not worry, young one! I appreciate your concern, but I can assure you I'm fine!" All Might bellowed with his ever loud voice as he continued to boisterously laugh.

As Izuku continued to look up to the towering All Might he noticed something, 'He's lying' Izuku mentally realised. Izuku knew All Might was lying, but he still felt reassured by what All Might had said and assumed that the injury definitely couldn't be too bad, and that All Might would be fine without his probably pointless help.

"I apologise for being rude before, but I really must be going now" All Might suddenly announced.

Izuku momentarily felt himself panic as he still had a lot he wanted to say to his favourite hero, but most of all, he desperately wanted to ask a single question, "All Might, there's just one more thing that I need to ask you" Izuku hurriedly said. He noticed that All Might was going to say something and likely stop him, but Izuku felt like he needed to say this, so he pushed on, "I wasn't able to do anything…"

Izuku could feel his emotions start to grow, "…I couldn't do anything against that single slime villain…" A weight on his back started to grow as he turned away from All Might, "…and I know that if I ever came across him again, I wouldn't be able to do anything other than run" Izuku started to feel like he was being crushed, "C-Can someone…"

Old memories rose as Izuku remembered. The time as he was slowly losing his best and only friend, Kacchan. The time he waited on a dim day, in a silent, locked car, as it loudly poured down outside, and an innocent young Himiko was being brought to a cold, dark and run down orphanage. The time he was losing consciousness as the vicious viscous villain stalked towards him, coming to kill him.

He felt useless, he felt as if he couldn't stop any of it from happening, "…as useless as me b-be a hero?"

Izuku could feel tears well up in his eyes and a huge sadness made itself apparent as it heavily weighed down on him, "Can someone…"

He remembered the time where Katsuki fell to his impending demise and all he could do was watch. The countless times he watched Himiko die to the knife wielding villain in his secret nightmares. The time he pointlessly thrashed against the putrid villain as it forced its way inside him.

He felt desperate, he felt as if there was no hope, "…who is as desperate as me, be as great as you?"

'I promised, didn't I?'

'Useless'

'I promised I'd never feel like that way again'

'Desperate'

'So, why?'

'They're going to die'

'Why do I always feel that I'm never good enough?!'

As Izuku battled his inner turmoil he failed to realise that right next to him, All Might began to smoke as he swore under his breath.

As Izuku held his tears, he heard his choked breaths as he tried to breath, but he also noticed that All Might gave no reaction to his question, so in a moment of need, he looked up to All Might's face to hopefully get an answer, but instead…

…All Might was gone.

Izuku stared upward in a frozen state as he tried to process what had happened, because where All Might once was, there was now stood, but slightly hunched over, a very sickly looking, skinny, lanky and frail looking man who was not smiling, had the same clothes, but they were now baggy, and had the same golden hair, but instead it was messy and the two iconic golden tufts of hair that stood straight up like bunny ears, now drooped down and framed a gaunt, sharp featured and hollow looking face that was currently staring at Izuku.

All that Izuku did, as the two people stared at each other, was say a few surprised words, "Oh my god, my theory was right?" He gasped as the new surprising predicament made him momentarily forget about his earlier question.

The man raised an eyebrow as he stared at Izuku, "You don't seem as surprised as I thought you would" The lanky man said in slight surprise, with a calm and normal volume voice but with an obvious roughness behind it as he spoke.

Izuku suddenly realized that the man had spoken to him "Oh! Sorry All Might, I'm kind of more surprised that I was actually right" Izuku weakly explained in slight bewilderment as the tears that built up in his eyes stayed.

'He somehow figured out about my injury and now he's telling me he already knew that this would happen to me? Just what else did this kid figure out about me?' The now named All Might, but smaller, curiously questioned in his head, "So, what is this theory of yours, and how is it correct?" The frailer All Might asked in his more normal voice.

Izuku was slightly caught off guard by All Might's request but proceeded anyway, "Uh, so your quirk is actually highly discussed and debated by all of your fans and just about everybody really, because no actually knows what your quirk is. People have predicted it to be anywhere from a simple but really strong strength enhancement quirk, to a secret force field around you, or actually a transformation quirk. No one's theory had any proof though and they never fully fit all of the abilities you have, such as your incredible speed, defence or strength. But my theory was that your quirk was actually an extremely strong stockpiling quirk and when you use it, it enhances your muscle fibres explaining why your both extremely strong, defensible and fast. Usually stockpiling quirks have a very limited amount of energy, but my theory was that yours actually had an incredibly large stockpile. This also explained why you've been showing up less and less over the last few years, and it's because you've been limiting the amount you use due the stockpile running out over the decades you've been using it. The only problem with my theory is that with your muscles being enhance, you'd likely buff up as well, meaning that you'd have a kind of deflated state, but this also explained why you aren't constantly recognised in public, since you don't use a mask to hide your appearance" Izuku efficiently explained / in-depthly described / rapidly rambled / what the fucked?

All Might just kind of stared at Izuku in bewilderment as he word-spewed his theory all over the place, but All Might only had a single thought going through his head, 'Holy shit?!' He thought, astounded at Izuku's accuracy.

Izuku once again waited for All Might's answer as he stared at the still taller man.

'This kid got almost everything correct? He is either a genius, or his quirk is actually intelligence based. I thought his quirk had something to do with perception though? Doesn't really matter, cause in any case, this kid's ability is frightening' The frailer All Might thought as he tried to decide what he should do, "Okay, kid, listen" He said getting Izuku attention, "You can't tell anyone about this, anyone at all. Don't post this on the internet, even accidentally" All Might said in a serious tone, making Izuku listen even closer.

"About five years ago, I was injured fighting someone" The weakened version of All Might said as he lifted his shirt to show a large twisting mass of purple and blue scar tissue, that grimly covered half of the left side of his torso making Izuku gasp in surprise, "I lost the majority of my stomach and half of my respiratory organs were destroyed"

Izuku stared in astonishment, he knew it was possible to live while missing such things, but what Izuku was surprised by, was the fact that All Might felt such an intense constant pain but somehow continued on and hid it so well.

"Wait, five years ago, was it toxic chainsaw who did this?" Izuku questioned.

"You're well informed, but, no. A brat like that could never do this to me" All Might replied, "The fight was never made public and so were my injuries" All Might further explained, "The symbol of peace can never be daunted" He stated with a serious and steely will behind his words, then coughed roughly into his skeleton of a hand.

Izuku listened to what All Might said, but in the back of his mind he still wanted his previous question answered, so as Izuku felt his sadness resurface, he re-asked All Might his question, "Thanks for explaining all of this to me, but I still want to know…" Izuku looked the skeleton of a man in the eyes and Izuku could see that the none smiling All Might was taking this seriously and paying attention, "…can someone like me…" Izuku could feel his fear and nightmares resurface like his sadness.

Kacchan lost to arrogance, Katsuki pierced upon a stone spike, Himiko forgotten in an orphanage, he and Himiko dying in an alley, suffocating to the slime villain and dying in an underpass. Night after night, the nightmares only getting worse,pushing the light that shone from both him and his quirk further into the darkness. In the back of his mind he knows that they're not dead, but his brain constantly reminds him of how easily they could be, and how easily it would be for him, not to be able to do anything to stop it. It plagued him and tortured his reinforced resolve, and makes the confidence he has in his power that resides deep within him, crumble and wither until he doesn't believe he can save someone at all, "…someone as powerless as me…" Izuku felt like he wanted to back out, but something still burned within him, "…be a hero?"

All might could tell the boy wanted to be a hero so badly, but with the way the kid acted as if he wasn't capable of anything, kind of confused All Might. Within the short time he knew the boy, he could already tell the kid was exceptional. Unless, 'Is he actually Quirkless?' He mentally questioned.

As Izuku looked up to the gaunt All Might, he could tell that the man was in deep thought.

Then he spoke, "I'm not gonna lie. Being a hero is a dangerous job…" Izuku couldn't help but remember the horrific scar, "…we risk our lives daily and I can't simply say "those without power can win", so if what you told me is true…" All Might took on a slightly solemn expression, "…I don't think you can be a hero"

Izuku knew that receiving such an answer was possible, but actually hearing it, tore something up inside of him. All Might could see the burning passion behind the boy's eyes dim and he regretted saying what he told the boy immediately, but he knew that he couldn't let the boy get himself hurt because of such a dream.

All Might continued to look the boy in the eyes as he tried to comfort the teary eyed boy, "From what I've seen so far, I think you'd make a great detective and I know that the police aren't as popular, but they still help people and work closely to heroes" All Might turned away from Izuku and started walking towards the stairway door on the other end of the roof, "You wouldn't be as active as heroes but you'd still be helping them"

As All Might began opening the door to the stairway he turned around to face Izuku one last time, "I'm sorry, I still think that your abilities could be useful and it's alright to dream, but you have to be realistic, young man" Then the shadow of the powerful All Might was gone.

Izuku stood on the rooftop in silence, and as he questioned why he was such an idiot for getting so emotion so suddenly, a single, cold, sadness filled tear, fell from his face that he didn't notice.

Izuku noticed something else though, and it was as All Might left, he noticed the man only had one soda bottle, but, 'Shouldn't he have two?' The downtrodden Izuku questioned before a loud explosion went off in the far distance that he could hear and see with his enhanced senses.

Izuku ran to the stairway door to inform All Might but stopped halfway realising that once again he could do nothing, since All Might had wasted his precious and limited time talking to a worrying child.

Izuku grew his wings and flew towards the commotion, but as he started to take off, in the stairwell the baggy clothed man realised that he only had one of two bottles.

As Izuku flew onto the scene, he noticed that the hero from the morning, called Mount Lady, was also just showing up, but couldn't fit into the wide but still too narrow one-way street. Izuku realised at that point, that she was not able to manipulate the size she grew to.

He landed at the back of the crowd and luckily no one seemed to notice him fly in above all of the commotion, but as he was in the air he could see the disaster that unfolded below him. Izuku saw a large alley way that on either side had the walls of the adjacent buildings turned to burning rubble because of the explosions that were coming out of the slime villain, 'He wasn't able to do that before' izuku mentally noted before sneakily landing in a different nearby alleyway and ran over to the back of the crowd.

From a few other spectators, Izuku could hear chatter about how the monster had captured and taken two people as hostages.

Izuku tried to move his way through the crowed and out of the corner of his eye he noticed the lanky All Might clutching tightly onto a pole with one hand and with the other he was clutching tightly onto his left side where his wound existed. Even with his advanced hearing he could barely make out the mumblings of the man, but after listening for a short time, while he moved through the crowd, he slowly understood the man was repeatedly saying, "Pathetic" As he tightened his grip on his egregious wound.

Izuku got close to the front of the crowd and understood from observing for a couple seconds, that none of the several present heroes where trying to stop the slime villain. Death arms was keeping the crowd at bay, Backdraft was trying to put out the endless fire, Kamui Woods was stood on top of an adjacent building away from all the fire, Mount Lady was stood at the end of the one way street and wasn't doing anything, much like the last two heroes that looked more like sidekicks and weren't doing anything at all.

Apparently, none of them were doing anything about the villain that was currently suffocating two people because, "We don't have the right quirks for this. We need to wait for someone more suited" Izuku overheard death arms say.

They were waiting.

Izuku had only been within the slime for about one minute but he felt like he couldn't live much longer when he himself was captured. It took him almost two minutes to get over there and land, 'They must be really strong to make it so long' He thought. So, why though? Why were the heroes waiting? What were they waiting for? Were they waiting for the likely desperate people, who were thrashing against the slime, to die!?

Izuku knew he couldn't do anything himself, so maybe he was being a bit hypocritical. He knew he wouldn't be able to hurt the slime, let alone defeat it.

But, as he turned his head back towards the powerless looking All Might and heard him repeatedly saying, "Pathetic" He couldn't help but feel the same.

"Hey! Death Arms!" Izuku called out.

"What?" Death arms said under his breath as he looked around until his eyes fell onto the smaller boy in front of him, "Kid, I've got a pretty bad situation right here, so can you save it till after" He replied.

"No, I can help, I just need you to give me permission" Izuku confidently told the close to seven-foot man who was amusedly looking at him.

"Huh? What do you need to permission for?" The pro hero questioned as he confusedly looked down to the boy.

"To use my quirk! I can help!" Izuku explained and repeated with determination.

"How can someone like you do anything? This is really dangerous kid" Death Arms told the boy with slight annoyance, while disregarding him as reckless.

"None of you are doing anything, and if you don't, then the ones in the slime are going to die!" Izuku, filled with apparent determination, sternly told the muscular hero.

Death Arms looked at the boy with a serious expression as he thought about what to do, then he sighed, "Okay, but what's this plan of yours?"

Izuku smiled, "First I'm going to distract the villain and with my quirk, try to put out some of the fires near to the guy, then I want you to get a large piece of concrete, use it like a shield, so the slime can't hurt you, and get Backdraft in close, so he can put out some more of the fires near the villain. Next, once all the fires near the slime guy are out, I want Kamui Woods to use his lacquered chain prison to get the hostages away from the monster. Finally, I need Mount Lady to reach over the buildings and literally squash the guy with her hand, since no one else can hurt him"

Death Arms listened, giving serious consideration to Izuku's plan and he couldn't find any really bad problems with the quickly made plan, but he didn't agree.

"What?! Why?!" Izuku hysterically asked the strong hero.

"Because its too dangerous! I'm not letting a kid like you get hurt, or worse give the villain another hostage to kill!" The Hero explained to the boy, denying him the chance to stop the villain and save the desperately hanging on hostages.

Izuku could feel his hope drain from him as he looked over to the thrashing villain while it set of numerous explosions, turning more of the adjacent walls into rubble and creating only more fire.

'Useless'

Izuku knew he wouldn't be able do stop the villain on his own, he believed he could do it with the help of the heroes, but he can't do it on his own.

'Desperate'

He wants to help them so bad, but he knows he can't. If he did try to help he'd just get himself killed like the first time he fought the slime, he knows he can't help them.

'Pathetic'

All Might would have been able to save them, he wasted All Might's time though. This is his fault. He can't save them, he couldn't even save himself.

Izuku looked back to All Might once more and he actually caught his eye. They looked at each other in mutual understanding of feeling desperate and useless, knowing they are both powerless to save the dying civilians.

Izuku turned back to the slime villain as he remembered the feeling of having the air from your lungs disappear as you die, and the feeling of fear as the world around you starts to go black. Izuku didn't know who the hostages in the slime where, but as he looked over towards the villain, it finally turned to him, and he caught a glance of blond hair.

Izuku froze. The explosions made sense now. Because, as he looked over to the slime villain, he saw the face of Katsuki, who had the same look on his face as Izuku and All Might. Crying, tear filled eyes, that showed how desperate they were, that showed how useless they felt. They were eyes calling out, "help!"

"Save him"

'Form One: Evolution' He reached out to his inner power.

Izuku moved.

- My Hero Academia OST- You Say Run + Jet Set Run (You Say Run v2) -

"Hey! Get back here" Called out the voice of Death Arms pointlessly, since Izuku kept running forward, and with each stride, he got faster.

The slime villain finally noticed him and shot out a viscous hand, much like it did with All Might in the underpass. Izuku within an instant dodged to the left, avoiding the disgusting arm, but accidently stepped into some brightly burning fire, with hot charcoal like rocks, but he was unharmed thanks to his now sharp black scaled legs. Undeterred, he once again ran forward.

Izuku could hear the heroes calling out to him, but he didn't care, because he was determined.

As he ran forward while his body constantly changed and morphed, he could feel his steps get lighter and his body get stronger. He could feel his wings grow larger and his tail grow longer.

The slime shot out a second hand as it scowled, and reeled the first one back in. Izuku in retaliation stopped, felt his talon like toes dig into the stone floor and brought his huge, nightmarish wings backwards. He then suddenly brought them forward, causing the flying fluid hand to be repelled away, back to the main mass. Some of the closer fire was quickly blown out and some of the smaller loose rubble rolled away from the high amount of wind force created by the single flap of Izuku's magnificent wings. He didn't slide backwards as his sharp feet dug further into the concrete ground.

Izuku ran forward once more and he noticed a considerable speed increase as he basically bounded towards the grotesque villain. The powerful transformation was finished, he realised.

As Izuku got closer, the slime used a considerable amount of its mass to try to slap Izuku away, with a large wall like amount of condensed putrid liquid coming towards him, he had to think quick. Izuku remembered a certain page from one of his hero analysis books, entailing blinding the enemy, so Izuku lashed out his tail which was now longer and slimmer and was covered with sharp black scales, that were less like Form Zero's thick armour plating, and was more like thousands of keen obsidian Knives.

The slime villain wailed in agony and slightly released its grip on Katsuki, allowing him to take a gasping breath. While the slime was distracted, Izuku bolted forward and jumped in the air, then delivered a skilful drop kick to the viscous villain's other eye with his keen clawed feet, effectively blinding it.

As the monster screamed in excruciating pain, Izuku softly landed, and immediately reached out inside the slime, and tried to grab Katsuki. Izuku was successful, and with his increased strength and speed, he quickly pulled Katsuki out before a dark green tendril, that lashed out, could hit the humanoid dragon looking boy.

"Why" Came the extremely strained voice of Katsuki.

Izuku hastily jumped backward with Katsuki, away from the dark green sewage slime, who was obviously enraged as it wildly thrashed about, while screaming and shouting angry swear words into the un-listening air. As Izuku jumped back, he accidentally hit a mound of rubble and stumbled slightly, consequently leaving him wide open, for the thick tendril that was currently slashing through the air so fast, it started to blur.

Izuku was quicker though, 'Thanks, Hayai' He mentally thanked as he once again wiped his tail through the air and severed the speedy tendril in two, causing a large clump of slime to whiz past his head and land just behind him.

"Because, you looked like you were calling out for help!" Izuku shouted back to the struggling Katsuki.

He planned on ending the fight soon, so he hastily scouted the slimes body and found another weak point. The solid teeth in its mouth. He planned on literally punching its teeth out but realised that it would be hazardous to get close to the absorbing slime.

Izuku then felt something creep up his leg and gave a glance downward. What he saw was the clump of sentient slime gripping onto his leg, and when he tried to move he was unable to. The blind slime villain could probably tell the position of his removed slime, which was likely why he was maliciously smirking at Izuku.

The villain knowing where he is, was frightening, but being pinned in place was terrifying, due to the fact that several terrible, putrid, tendrils were rapidly shooting out towards him with killing intent.

Izuku failed to notice, in the distance, the large amount of steam that was radiating of the emaciated All Might while he tightly clutched the metal pole and began crushing it, while he got larger.

Izuku gave his own smirk in response to the slime though, he brought his powerful wings backwards, and as strongly as he possibly could, flapped them forward with incredible speed, creating such immense winds within the funnelling alleyway, that it not only put out all the fierce fire in the area, completely knocked over some of the larger close rubble walls, made the heroes and civilians that were far away at either side of the alleyway stumble and even Knocking some of them over as well, but pushed away all of the rocketing, writhing tentacles and obliterated the villain forcefully away, scattering him into hundreds of tiny pieces, exactly like All Might's punch did in the underpass.

Silence filled the air as the smell of smoke started to recede. He defeated the slime villain. In the corner of his eyes, he could see the open jawed and surprised faces of everyone. Then everyone triumphantly cheered and roared, filling izuku with a new sense of pride.

Izuku heard harsh coughing, so he turned around to check on Katsuki, but what he found was All Might in his iconic muscular self, with one arm reeled back, held in place, and the other arm holding a loudly coughing Katsuki as green slime was ejected from his lungs.

- Stop Playing music -

"It seems my assistance was unneeded!" Loudly exclaimed the mountainous All Might, "Well done, young man! I must thank you for helping me fix this problem!" He bellowed and then thunderously laughed before looking around at the approaching camera men and reporters, "I will leave this to you then, since I am needed elsewhere" He announced before setting Katsuki down and quickly jumping away.

'I thought he ran out of time?' Izuku questioned in his mind.

Quickly after that, a lot of reporters flooded in and started to rapidly ask question to the boys, but to the rescue where the heroes who guided the boys away to the paramedics that were waiting. While the boys visited the medics, the police came and collected the slime villain in several big, black, plastic bin bags. It didn't take long for the paramedics to let Katsuki and Izuku go, but before they could leave, the heroes apparently wanted to have a word with them.

Izuku received a scolding from Kamui Woods and Death Arms for his reckless actions, and Death Arms repeatedly saying that if he didn't lie and say that he gave permission for the use of Izuku's quirk, then he would be in jail right now.

Katsuki on the other hand was praised glowingly by the sidekick heroes, that didn't actually do anything, for his resilience and strong and powerful quirk. They even asked him to be their sidekick when he becomes a pro.

Katsuki was intervened by a couple reporters but quickly left. Izuku wasn't as lucky though, cause the pro heroes still wanted to talk to him more. Luckily, it wasn't all scolding though, because they actually complimented him on his skill, intelligence, strength and quick thinking. Death Arms told Kamui Woods about Izuku's plan after the fact, and Kamui actually complimented Izuku on it, telling him it was a good plan and told Death Arms off for not going with it. They let him go, but not before also asking Izuku to come work in their agencies when he becomes a pro. Izuku thanked the hero, then left.

Well, he planned on leaving, before he was swarmed by reporters that is. They asked him tons of questions and kept taking his picture, and only after a solid half an hour he was finally able to leave. Apparently, he was a hero for stopping the villain and was really impressive with his powerful feats. Well, according to the reporter anyway.

Izuku made his way home, silently and calmly walking. After such a long stressful day, he just wanted to eat and sleep.

But that wasn't going to happen. Izuku expected Katsuki to confront him and say something along the lines of, "I don't need you" or, "Stop getting in my way" Instead, the shrivelled-up version of All Might came around a street corner.

At first Izuku was surprised but took it smoothly, "Young man. I come to you with thanks, a correction, and a suggestion" He told Izuku, "I wanted to thank you for taking care of my problem, that I should have taken care of myself" He explain.

But Izuku still felt guilty, "No. Its my fault in the first place that you wasted your time on me, and if I hadn't had been there, you would have just easily saved the day. But, instead I got in your way. I'm sorry" Izuku meaningfully apologised, while bowing.

"I think you have it all wrong. The reason I was able to act, was because of you" Izuku stood up, felt bewildered and surprised by what the pro hero said and listened to All Might as he spoke, "You. Someone who didn't believe they could do anything, believed more than anyone else there, that they couldn't stop that villain, acted more like a hero than even me"

All Might stood tall as the setting sun behind him brightly shone down, lighting up the area, "Top heroes have stories about them from their school days. Most of their stories have one thing in common: Their bodies moved before they had a chance to think", Izuku stared in awe at All Might.

Old memories started to resurface. Not fears. Not nightmares. Not sadness. The memories of him and Kacchan playing, Katsuki smiling which Izuku actually didn't miss after he got the All Might alarm clock, him and a young Himiko re-meeting after she was brought to a warm new home, him, his mother, and Himiko all hugging the day after the back alley attack, and the cheer of the crowd as the slime villain lay scattered and defeated.

All Might spoke once more, and he spoke the word that Izuku always wanted to be told, just so he knows that he can protect, help, and save everybody, "You can become a hero"

A single tear fell from Izuku's face once again, but this time he noticed it, this time it was filled with happiness, this time it felt warm.

Wow, this chapter is pretty close to 6,600 words long and I somehow found this chapter to go really smoothly while writing. Now sleeptime!

*Looks out the window and sees the sun coming up* ...shit.

If any of you were confused by why Izuku feels so weak or "powerless" It's because he was feeling really emotional at the time and he kept remembering the times where he wasn't able to do anything. His fears/nightmares where the worst possible outcome happens and basically watching his friend die over and over again for years also played a large role in this. Hopefully this clears the problem up a bit.

I wanted to especially thank TheKursed for the continued support and worrying about me, but don't worry, I can assure you i'm fine, thank you though.

Hope you enjoyed!

I ask that you please review what you thought about this chapter, your own ideas, how I could improve and etc.

Thank you for your time, I'll be taking my leave now.