The unnamed man started to approach us slowly, but I wasn't going to give him a chance to catch us. I scrambled around, looking for something to defend ourselves, grabbing whatever I could, thinking it would be useful in one way or another.

One of the devices I took was some kind of green gauntlet that looked like a grenade. I put it on and took some vials that had the word "samples" written on the side of it.

"Stop grabbing shit that you don't know anything about; you might break it," our would-be attacker said nonchalantly, not really willing to change his slow pace towards us. I loaded one of the sample vials into the gauntlet and aimed the gauntlet at him, ordering him to back down, only for him to smirk a bit at me.

I figured he wouldn't take my threat seriously, so out of pure desperation I pulled the pin located at the top of the gauntlet. What followed was a huge explosion that caught all three of us off guard, yet the assailant was able to dodge the attack despite being surprised by the force of the explosion.

Taking this opening I grabbed Mei's hand to make a run for it. We ran past the attacker and out the door, thinking we'd be home free until I felt something wrap around my leg . It was his scarf, he pulled hard causing me to be swept off my foot and fall face first on the cold, hard ground. He dragged me towards him, Mei stopped in her tracks worried about the situation I was now caught in.

I was now tangled in his web.

Still on the ground he walked over to me and kneeled down on my stomach while putting one hand on the gauntlet, preventing me from using it and his other hand on my throat. He looked at me straight in the eyes, they looked red, like blood, and they felt like they were staring right into my very soul.

"You know I really was trying to be the nice guy here. I just got done filling out a mountain of paperwork for the new students coming in and I'm just way too beat to deal with low lives like you two," he muttered and scanned his eyes over both of us.

"And what are you guys doing? You both look old enough to be one of my students." With nothing to lose I tried to take a swing at the U.A. teacher, as expected he simply swatted my arm away like it was nothing.

"Knock it off, I'm trying to give you idiots one last chance. Now return everything you took and leave and that will be the end of it," he said

"That's not an option!" I responded as I struggled desperately against him, attempting my hardest to escape.

"Come on kid, don't bother trying to get up. I'm a teacher at U.A. and a part time pro hero, do you really think you have a chance? I hope you don't think you're going to get out of this by trying to use your quirk, cause mine allows me to erase yours," he said while tightening his grip on me. His eyes started to glow a bright red, probably trying to use his quirk to erase my non existent one. I couldn't help but smirk a bit at this.

"Well you're in for a surprise."

"Batter up!" Mei threw one of her cushion baseballs at us, her aim was directed at our attacker's face, only for his quick reflexes to go into effect, allowing his to catch the ball in his hand before it made impact with his face. He studied the device in confusion, trying to discover its purpose.

"I don't have one!" Using this opening I was able to use my free hand to smack his hand holding the ball causing it to hit his face and allowing the ball to trigger its cushion mode. The deploying force was enough to send us flying in the opposite direction, finally freeing me from his grip.

"That was a close one, Izuku." I stood back up grabbing the cushion baseball as it deflated and ran with Mei down the hall to find an escape. Every door we tried was lock, our means of freedom was running slim.

"Crap, I think we might be trapped!" Mei frantically tried searching in her bag for one of her babies that might get us out of our current predicament, but she was buckling under the pressure and losing her focus.

I had to think of something quick or Mei was going to lose it completely. Searching the area I found what I was looking for. A window, but as I expected it was locked, but that didn't matter. I raised the gauntlet to the last barrier of our salvation.

"Screw that, we'll just have to have to make our own exit then!" I pulled the pin, blowing the window apart and revealing our exit.

"Nice job Izuku!" Mei said as she felt a sigh of relief finally wash over her. Our ordeal however was far from over because wherever there's a shining light, a shadow is sure to be there. I turned around to better hear the sounds of footsteps approaching us, it was our mystery attacker. He was able to recover from our surprise attack and he was downright furious.

"What the hell did you just do!? How do you expect me to explain this to Principle Nezu?"

I threw some of the items that I had grabbed from the lab, the assailant put his guard up trying to expect some sort of reaction from the unknown items. This gave Mei a chance to hop down out of our makeshift door, just as I was about to make my exit, a knife struck the floor near my feet.

"Wh-what kind of teacher just carries a knife!?" I yelled

"Shut up. I gave you plenty of times to end this nonsense, now you're starting to really piss me off." I could feel the venom that laced those word, he was dead serious now.

"What exactly do you plan on accomplishing here tonight? Selling these tools made for and by students to big support corporations, or maybe you're here trying to gain info about the new students being enrolled? Or maybe your just a bit of idiot kids who can't stand heros and what they stand for? Either way, I can't let you leave, you've done to much damage for me to simply let you walk away." Finishing his speech, he lunged at me, I readied the gauntlet and was ready to fire. The attacked figured I would do this as he used his scarf to grab the device and rip it off my arm.

Now defenseless I quickly rolled out of the way and scurried to the other side, thinking of a plan. As the U.A. teacher was doing his best to subdue me I was looking at what I had on my person or at what I had thrown on the floor as a distraction.

I finally had a plan of attack and was ready to act on it. I turned around to face my attacker and readied myself for whatever he was going to throw at me. I ran and leapt at him, trying to get a direct hit, of course he swatted my hand out of the way like I was nothing. I kept trying to hit him but each hit was more or less just giving him a cool breeze.

The U.A. teacher had finally reached his limit of dealing with me and found the opportunity to deliver a quick jab to my stomach, knocking the wind right out of me. Wincing from the pain I looked up only to receive a strong backhand causing me to spin around. His counter was not over however because before I knew it he wrapped his arm around my neck, putting me in a hold.

"This stops now, call your little girlfriend over here or the next thing you're going to experience is complete and utter darkness." He was dead serious. Every second I could feel the light fading as my struggles where in vain, running out of options I reached in my pockets and pulled out a yellow capsule and threw its contents into my attackers eyes.

The assailant gasped and quickly jumped back to avoid the white powder, and freeing me from his grasp. The assailant starting putting in eye drops in case some loose particles fell in his eyes. Curious to what I has thrown I read the label on the container. "SUGAR".

"What kind of hero needs sugar?" Ignoring my own question I ran to one of the objects I had thrown at the teacher prior, it was a glass jar that contained what looked like giant grapes, the side of the jar read "CAUTION STRONG ADHESIVE". With haste I opened the jar and poured out the purple orbs around the teacher's feet, hoping they would attach. I wasn't done though, I ran to another one of the hero items, this next one was some sort of small speaker that wrapped around someone's wrist with a small microphone. The label on this one read "DANGER: Point speaker away from person.", sliding the the speaker near the messy haired teacher, he was finally able to look at me.

"You're wrong by the way."

"Huh?"

"There's nobody I respect more than heroes. Its my dream to be one, in fact I am going to be one."

"You think stealing, breaking in, vandalizing private property, and assaulting a pro hero is what's going to make you a hero… then you going to be in for a rude awakening," he spat back.

"I'll tell you what... I know that All-Might is the symbol of peace that's keeping a large mass of villains from rising up and wrecking havoc everywhere. But I know for a fact that there are villains out there who like to hide in the shadow, hidden from the eyes of justice who still terrorize innocent people, and for those people it's too late for the police or even any hero to come to their rescue. So I'll make it my job to take them all out, and when I do I promise that I will personally turn myself in and face any punishment that comes my way!" With that I had just made my proclamation and I had laid it out as clear as day.

"So let me get this straight you going to try to become some sort of vigilante, with no quirk, and skills? … You really are an idiot!, a regular problem child"

I couldn't help but snicker a bit before responding, "Probably… but I'm not broken yet." I told him with new found confidence in myself, I flipped the switch on the speaker device and yelled as loud as I could into the microphone. The sound emanating from the device was way more powerful than i could have imagined, the actual building started to shake and the glass from the doors shattered to bits.

The fellow U.A. teacher screamed in pain as he tried desperately in vain to escape from the torrement but was unable too due to the adhesive grapes. Feeling like he'd had enough I ceased my attack, ran over to the knife that he used to stop me from escaping and freed the grenade gauntlet, thinking it may still be useful and made my way to catch up with Mei.

"There you are! I was seriously getting worried," Mei said sounding like I had abandoned her. "S-s-sorry Hatsume, but I was unfortunately stopped by one of the teachers." Mei started to scan my being and noticed a freshly formed bruise on the side of my face and on my neck. I could see the worry in her eyes starting to form. "Come on Hatsume, let's get out of here."

After finally regaining some sort of focus, the pro hero wasted no time and removed his combat boots to continuing his task of capturing the two intruders. Although he was stumbling a bit, he had barely any problem rushing towards us with ninja like speed. I turned around to see he still had the strength to capture us, and quickly put on the gauntlet and began firing it at random directions, hoping to deter him away from us.

The strain from the gauntlet started to get to me, my arm grew weak and felt like it was being ripped apart by the shoulder. Firing the gauntlet had such a strong kickback, using this regularly would require some serious strength, and I didn't know how much more of this I could take.

Mei had obtained an extra grappling hook out of her bag, she threw it as hard as she could and for a time it looked like our freedom was almost secure. That is until the hook was snatched by the hero's scarf.

"ENOUGH OF YOUR GAMES!" He shouted and with just his bandages alone he crushed the hook to scraps. Cursing under my breath I turned to Mei, looking for a back up plan, but she was too stunned with fear to do anything. Mei's gaze would not leave our assaulter, I kept calling out her name hoping to snap her out of it.

"Hatsume! Hatsume!" It wasn't working, without any options left I dumped what explosive samples I had left into the gauntlet and hoped for the best.

"Mei." I grabbed her hand, this was finally enough to snap her out of her fear. I wrapped my free arm her and pointed the device to the ground. While all this was going on I didn't bother paying attention to the hero charging at us. The only thing that mattered was trying to ease Mei into a better state of mind.

"Come on, you and me together, all the way remember? Plus Ultra!" I reassured her as she pulled the pin.

"NOO!" The raven haired hero leapt at us to get one last attempt to bring us in. The last thing I saw was a giant blinding light as we were rocketed high into the sky.

"We did it Izuku!" Mei cheered

"Not quite" The attacker went for broke and at the last second had used his scarf to wrap around the gauntlet. I tried to get the the device off only to have the scarf crush the piece of armour down on my arm.

"Damn!" I cursed as the pain of both using the device and its destruction while still being attached to my arm probably broke some of the bones in my hand. Using quick thinking Mei was back to her old self and used the high power laser to breakthrough the device, freeing my arm and causing the attacker to descend in to the trees. The explosion had propelled us a good distance away from the school.

The next thing we had to worry about was the upcoming fall, I took out the cushion ball I saved from the fight and threw at the ground. I shifted our position so that Mei could land on top of me again to cushion her landing even more. Since the impact was greater than simply falling from a 25ft wall the cushion finally gave way and pop under the pressure. Thankfully the only pain I felt was from my back, having Mei land on top of me.

"My hero," she joked, having found her old sense of humor

"A-alright I think we're finally in the clear, c-could you please get off me.." Mei rolled off of me laughing, we both took a sigh of relief.

"So what did you think of my babies, Izuku?" Mei giggled while looking to me for an answer.

"W-well I th-thought they were pretty cool Hatsume, your inventions are amazing and they really came in handy during our 'mission'."

Mei proceeded to get back on top of me, her famous crosshair eyes looked like they were replaced with stars.

"REALLY!? You thought my babies were cool!?" My face was full on red. Seeing Mei so happy just by simply complimenting her 'babies'

"Y-y-you bet Hatsume, I can't wait to see what you make next, I bet the next one you make will be even cooler than the last!" This caused Mei to give out a very happy squeal. She rolled back off me again all sprawled out, and I couldn't tell for certain, but I was pretty sure that I saw her blush, but I couldn't understand why she would.

"Well Izuku you can bet your butt I'll work nonstop to build your hero gadget!" I felt the smile on my face wasn't enough to show the amount of immense gratitude I had for her.

We continued to lie there for a while till I could muster the strength to get back up, so we stared at the stars for a while before Mei reached into her messenger bag to pull out the kinetic battery. It had a light green glow that pulsed and it was mesmerizing to look at.

"I promise you Izuku…. I will do whatever it takes to make you a hero…" The golden eyed inventor muttered. I turned to look at her as she stared at the battery determined to make my dream a reality, she looked so anxious to start working on whatever invention she had planned.

I turned my attention to look at my right arm that I had used to wield the grenade gauntlet, I could see large cuts everywhere, and could felt the broken bones in my hand, and to make matters even worse, my fingers looked deformed. It would most likely scar like this giving me a permanent reminder of the choice I had made today.

I held it close to me covering it with my other hand wincing at the pain. 'Do I really have what it takes to be a hero? Even with Mei's help, do I really have what it takes to be as great as someone like All-Might?' I closed my eyes and thought to myself as all my doubts and fears came crawling back to me.

"Izuku." My eyes shot open to look at Mei who gave me a caring and sincere look with those golden eyes, her voice was so soft as she told me..

" You will become a hero."

They were the words I longed to hear from anyone. My heart felt so light as this girl that had just come into my life out of nowhere told me what I had wanted to hear since that day I found out I was quirkless.

They were the word not even my own mother had the heart to tell me. My eyes started to water, I couldn't even find the words to say to her.

"You really think so huh?" I finally said, looking away while trying my best to not break down and start crying in front of her.

"I know so, you've already saved my bacon plenty of times... you really have what it takes to be an amazing hero, Izuku."

We lied there in silence for the remainder of our time together thinking of the future we were going to carve out together.