There! I wanted to get this chapter out by Saturday but I some problems with my sleep schedule, so I had to push it back. Because of that, I couldn't explain everything I wanted to in this chapter. So if you guys have any questions, please feel free to ask.
I am also thinking about getting a Beta Reader, so if your interested, send me a private message.
With that said, on to the disclaimer.
"I do not own Boku No Hero Academia, please support the official release.
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"Talking"
'Thinking'
"All Might talking"
'All Might thinking'
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Chapter Three
First Step
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"You are worthy to inherit my power." All Might told the green haired boy before him.
"Huh?" Izuku was not expecting the hero to say such a thing. "Inherit…your power?"
"Hahahaha! What's with that face? It's just a suggestion. The real show starts after this. Listen, young man. You need to decide whether or not you will accept my power!" All Might said while an explosion of blood came from his mouth…again.
'Wh-What is All Might saying…?' Izuku was very confused at the moment.
"I'm talking about my power, young man. The tabloids called it 'superhuman strength' and a 'boost', and I constantly dodged the question during interviews with a funny joke. Because the Symbol of Peace, All Might, had to be a natural-born hero. But young man, I will tell you the truth. My Quirk was passed on to me like a sacred torch." All Might explained further while apparently readying his mind.
For his part, Izuku looked more confused than ever. And you really can't blame him.
"It was…passed on to you…?"
"That's right. And next, it is your turn." All Might said as a breeze revealed his wound for all to see.
"W-Wait a minute! What do you mean your Quirk was given to you? Is such a thing really possible?!" Izuku was slowly falling into a muttering storm, something he had tried to stop after many years with little to no success.
"You always start with denial, huh? Nonsense! I may hide a lot of things, but I never tell a lie!" All Might said, stopping the muttering. "The power to transfer power…That is the Quirk I inherited! I was crowned with 'One For All'!"
"One…For…All…" Izuku mumbled in awe.
"That's right. One person cultivates the power and passes it to another person, who also cultivates it and passes it on. It is the crystallization of power that spins together the voices of thouse who needs help with a courageous heart!" The walking skeleton of a man said in a very dramatic way.
"Why are you…Why are you giving me something so great?" Izuku needed to know why he of all people was chosen for such an honor.
"I have been looking for a successor. And when I found you, I thought it would be all right for you to inherit this power. You are a hero fanboy with what you claim to be a useless Quirk, but you were more heroic than anyone else back there!" The man answered.
Izuku for his part could not believe it. For the first time in his life, his dream of being a hero could finally come to fruition.
"Well, it's up to you, though. What will you do?" This was it. Izuku was at a cross-road. Now, he had to choose his path. Become the hero he always wanted to be or stay as plain old useless Deku.
'He said so much to encourage me, and even told me his secret…Is there…? Of course there isn't…There's no reason for me to turn him down!' Izuku stood up from where he sat and wiped the tears from his eyes. He stared straight into his hero's eyes with pure determination.
"I'll do it!"
"An immediate reply. That's what I thought you'd say!" All Might said with a genuine grin, full of joy and faith. "Your training will begin soon! Prepare yourself young man!"
"YES!"
/
It has been two days sense that fateful encounter that forever changed Izuku's future. It was an early morning where we can now find our future hero, on a junkyard of a beach. Desperately trying to pull a fridge that was now serving as All Might's (In his buff form) chair…And failing.
"Hey, hey, hey! This is such a comfy fridge to sit on!" All Might called to Izuku, just before he collapsed on the ground, "If you could move it even a little, it would be a little easier you know."
"Well yeah, but you weigh, like, 270 kilograms (~600 pounds), right?" Izuku asked, looking up towards his idol.
"No, I lost weight, so I'm only 255 kilograms (~562 pounds) now, in this form." All Might answered.
"That…That doesn't really help much. Anyway, why am I dragging trash at the beach park?" Asked in despair.
All Might started to take pictures of him on his phone while answering.
"Hahaha. It's 'cause you're not a proper vessel yet."
"What you're saying now is the opposite of what you said before!" Izuku yelled at the number one hero.
"I'm talking about your body. My Quirk, One For All, is the fullest physical ability of many people gathered into one. An unprepared body cannot inherit it fully. The limbs will come off and the body will explode." All Might clarified.
"The limbs will what?! Then…I'm picking up trash to further train my body…?" Izuku came to realize.
"Yes! Even with the training you already do, I fear it may not be enough. But that's not all. After some research on the internet yesterday, I discovered that part of this beach park's coast has been like this for many years."
"Yeah…For some reason, because of the currents, objects drift here a lot, and people take advantage of that to hide their illegal dumping…The local residents don't come near here, either." The future ninth user of One For All said while scanning the piles of trash surrounding them.
"Heroes these days are all after the showy stuff. Originally, being a hero meant doing volunteer service. Even if people called that boring or whatever. You can't waver from those roots. You will restore the horizon for this whole section! That is your first step toward becoming a hero!" All Might said while effortlessly crushing the fridge from before to reveal the rising sun.
"My first step…? Clean…this…All of it…?!" Izuku said in shock. Wondering if he could complete it in the time he had.
"Young Midoriya, you want to go to U.A., right?"
"Yes…Yes! Because it's where you went! So if I'm going to go…I thought…it would definitely have to be U.A…. That and it's the top hero school in the country." Izuku answered.
"You're a go-getter fanboy! But I've told you this before. It's not something you can do without a useful Quirk. It's sad, but that is what the reality is. And U.A.'s the hardest hero course to get into. In other words…"
"In the ten months until U.A.'s entrance exam, I have to complete my vessel!"
"Correct! Now, I'm in the middle of creating a workout plan that will maximize the little time we have. But before I finish it, I'll need to know three things. First, I'll need to know your current workout schedule. Second, I'll need to see your current limits of your abilities, so we know where start from. And lastly,…I'll need to know what your Quirk is." All Might carefully said, not wanting to upset his successor. After all, according to everyone who knew what it was called it so useless that it would be better off with him not having one at all.
"My…my Quirk…. Well, for starters, I don't really have a workout regimen. Now-of-days I mostly do light workouts with my mom." Izuku mumbled loudly.
"Your mother?" All Might asked.
"Ya. After my Quirk manifested my mom became worried about how I would be treated by my peers. After a while she found out I was being bullied and started to stress eat. So I forced her to join in on my exercises to keep her mind off my situation. For the most part, it worked. She still worries for me, though." Izuku said with a grim face.
"…I see. You care deeply for your mother." All Might said.
"She's all I have. I never meet my dad and we have no other living relatives. I will do anything to protect her!" Izuku said with a fire in his eye.
"YES! That's how it should be! Mothers for the win!" All Might yelled while giving the boy a big thumbs up.
"…Thanks." Izuku was incredibly embarrassed.
"That will make it easier to make a workout schedule for you, young Midoriya" All Might paused for a moment to stare at the young man in front of him. "…Look, I know you don't like to talk about it, but for this training I need to know what your Quirk is."
"I…I know, it's…it's just hard to talk about after…so many years of being bullied for it. I guess I'm a little hesitant to talk about it." Izuku said with a somber tone.
"It's okay. I wont judge you about your Quirk." All Might reinsured the boy.
"…The name of my Quirk is…'Limiter'." Izuku said after a moment of hesitation.
"Limiter? That's an…interesting name. If you don't mind me asking, what does your Quirk do?" All Might asked.
"It's…a little hard to explain. Uh, think of the dial on a speaker. With it you can control the speakers sound out-put. My Quirk allows me to choose how much of my strength I use at any one-point. But it doesn't give me any strength boost, so all it does is make me weaker." Izuku said in a slightly depressed voice. "That's all it does. It makes me weaker. What kind of hero could I have been if all I could do was make myself weaker? That's why I was bullied."
"I…I see. I have to admit, that seems a little…" All Might suddenly stopped as a thought entered his head.
'Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi! What is up with this kid?! He still wants to be a hero after years of abuse, he trained for years even after being told he couldn't be a hero, he would even help his main tormenter if he was in trouble, he was practically born with every quality that makes a good hero, and he was born with a Quirk that would allow him to instantly regulate the amount of One For Allhe uses without months of training! What the hell kid! It's like you were BORN to be my successor!'
"-ight! All Might! ALL MIGHT!"
The sudden yelling that interrupted his line of thought surprised him and promptly caused him to deflate in a vomit of blood.
"Wh-what is it?" All Might askes.
"You spaced out there. Is anything wrong?" Izuku asked in worry.
"No, no, no. It's just that, I will be able to give you One For All much sooner than I originally thought." All Might reinsured Izuku.
"What? What do you mean?" Izuku asked.
"Your Quirk. It would allow you to use my Quirk much faster than normal." Upon seeing the confusion in the boy's eyes he clarified. "Normally, when you first receive One For All it takes months to properly regulate the out-put. It takes years to build your body up to handle the full power of One For All. The full power would break and heavily bruise an unprepared body after using it."
"I…I don't like the sound of that…" Izuku mumbled.
"But your Quirk will allow you to instantly regulate the power down to a level your body can handle. With that I can grant you One For All five months from now! From there we can see how much you can handle so we can work to increase it!"
"Are…are you saying my Quirk can actually be used help others! It can be useful?!" Izuku asked in a joyous voice.
"Yes it can young Midoriya! Now, let's get to work!"
"YES!"
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So began Izuku's ten months of hell! The next day All Might showed up with a schedule he named the 'Aim to Pass: American Dream Plan'! Everything from dietary and sleep was considered in the making of this hellish plan, but Izuku never once complained. Saying he had to work many times harder than anyone else to become a hero.
All Might proved to be as rigorous a trainer as he was a hero and would never accept anything but Izuku's absolute best. Not that Izuku would ever accept giving anything less than 100%.
Izuku also put everything into his studies. After all, what's the point in having the strength to pass without having the intelligence to pass the written exam. Or the wisdom to properly use such power.
But Izuku still believed he had to push himself farther and farther, which led to him overworking his body. Of course All Might was so moved by Izuku's burning dedication to his dream that he adjusted the workout regimen.
And after five months, it was time.
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It was another early morning for the number one hero. He was heading down to the beach to check on his protégé's progress. All Might expected Izuku to be hard at training, even after he told him to take it easy today. But to his surprise, Izuku appeared to be writing in one of his notebooks while looking threw an older one. He decided to think about it later, after-all, today was the day he would pass on his Quirk to his pupil.
"Young Midoriya!" All Might called out to the boy. Causing said boy to suddenly look up after hearing someone calling him.
"All Might!" Izuku yelled in surprise. All Might transformed into his buff form.
"It's time, young Midoriya! After five long months, it's time for you to become the ninth holder of One For All!" All Might said in a dramatic tone.
"I won't let you down!" Izuku told his mentor with determination burning in his eyes. All Might smiled while plucking a single strand of hair from his head.
"I know you won't! Now, lets begin! This is something I was once told: 'Something that you receive because you're lucky and something that you are given because you are recognized are different in essence'. Take that to heart. This is power that you earned because of your own effort." All Might said to Izuku, granting him a few more words of wisdom before the passing of One For All. He then held out the strand of hair from before and said two words. "Eat this!"
"Huh?"
"It doesn't really matter what it is as long as you take in my DNA." All Might nervously explained.
"It's too different from what I imagined!"
"Come, come, come! Eat, eat, eat!"
Izuku forced the hair down his throat. It strangely had a sour taste to it for some reason. Now he just had to keep it down.
"How…how long…till…I am able to use it?" Izuku said between choking and coughing.
"It will need to digest in your stomach first, then you'll be able to wield it. But I must ask…what were you doing when I arrived?" The now deflated All Might asked in curiosity.
"Hmm? OH! I-I was, um. Well, I was working on designing a hero costume should I be accepted to U.A. The last time I did that was when I was six, so they are…heavily...inspired by you. I figured I need to update them and sense I had some time this morning, so I figured I had time to do so, but you showed up earlier than I thought." Izuku explained while embarrassed.
"Well the costume is an important part of being a hero. A hero costume must bring hope to the innocent and strike fear into villains. That's not something that can be easily achieve. May I see what you have so far?" All Might asked.
"Sure." Izuku handed his notebook to the hero.
"Mm. Interesting design. Very practical. Your utility belt inventory will need some work but that will come with time. But…what is this on the next page?" All Might asked.
"Oh, that's a support device I designed years ago to make being a hero easier, but I lacked the resources and technical knowhow to make it." Izuku answered with a downtrodden voice.
"Mm. I think you should present this with your costume, maybe the support course can build it for you." The man said, he was sincerely impressed by the device this young man designed. If it works like intended, it could be a game changer.
"Really! That's…" Izuku suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong, young Midoriya?" The man asked in worry as his protégé suddenly stopped speaking.
"I…I think…It's finally digested…" Izuku said while holding his stomach.
"That's great! Now reach deep within yourself and draw out the power of One For All!" All Might yelled while transforming into his hero form.
Izuku did just that. He felt the over-whelming power flowing from within and brought it forth threw out his body. Izuku's eyes started glowing bright green and red lines snaked around his body with two big ones forming an 'X' on his forehead. Then green lightning started to seethe off his body as proof of the devastating power One For All held. But it was too much, Izuku could not control it.
"I-I…can't…control it…it's too…much…any move…I make…feels…like I'll…break every…bone in my…body!" Izuku said threw gritted teeth, unable to move in fear of breaking his body.
"Then use you Quirk! Use Limiter to see how much of One For All your body can handle!"
"Okay!" Izuku responded while he activated his Limiter. He started lowering One For All slowly.
89%. 75%. 70%. 62%. 57%. 50%. 42%.
'Almost!'
31%. 29%. 20%. 19%. 15%. 10%. 5%!
'THERE!'
"I…I did it!" Izuku announced. There was a definite difference in Izuku at 5% than at 100%. There looked to be less of a strain on his body and the red lines disappeared. But the lightning stuck around, just not as large or as numerous as before.
"Excellent! Tell me, how much are you currently using?" All Might asked while having a very proud look in his eye.
"At the moment, 5%. I might be able to go higher, but that would increase the strain on my body. So I better stick with 5% for now." Izuku answered while getting a feel for his new power.
"Mm. 5% is not a bad start. But let's get you up to at least 10% before the Entrance Exam. Come on, young Midoriya, let's get to training!"
"Right!"
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So, what do you guys think of Izuku's Quirk Limiter? I thought it would be fun for Izuku to be able to use Full Cowling earlier than in canon. But don't worry about Limiter becoming obsolete in the future. I will be giving it new abilities soon. What are those new abilities? I'm not telling. You'll just have to wait.
You have spoken, so I will deliver. Izuku Midoriya will NOT have a harem and will only be paired with Ochako. Now this won't be an instant paring, nor will it be a long drown out pairing. They will start to have feelings for each other sometime between the entrance exam and the invasion of the USJ. I haven quit figured it all out yet. I'm planning for them to confess their feelings during or after the final exams for their first year or at the camp. That gives them a whole school year to fall in love. Maybe sooner if I need to.
One last thing. Now that you all know what Izuku's Quirk is, you can decide whether or not I should change his hero name. If you have any suggestions, make sure they have something to do with his Quirk.
With that said, I hope you all spent time with your mother on Mother's day. Bye!