Hey there ya bastards, I'm still writing this thing for some reason!

My kinda weekly update is a bit late because new year's came along and kept me being a busy boi and I'm also dealing with some writer's block, but what can ya do? Even if it sucks dick I gotta put stuff out, that's the only way to get out of the plateu I think.

But yeeeee, I'm trying to kickstart some things finally, you know, get some action going finally. I know, about fucking time, but I'm a slowpoke when it comes to pacing, and it sucks, I'm trying to get better.

Also, heads up, you guys shouldn't expect me to follow the canon events too closely, as a matter of fact I'm gonna try to add new stuff and change things up as much as I can so that it isn't too similar to the original because then, I mean, you might as well be just fucking watching/reading the original. I want you guys to actually get surprised by stuff when you come read my trash fire.

So yeah, daddy loves you, hope you guys had a good new years and keep those reviews coming or else my life means nothing òuó

The pressure in Izuku's mind was making him a wreck. It was a mixture of emotions that stormed within his gut and wrestled against his insides hard enough to make breathing uncomfortable in a way. He was happy, scared and above all, just anxious. Anxious to see what would happen.

Anxious to find out what having a quirk was like.

Today was the day after all. The day his life changed. On a sunday morning, the quietest day of the week. Was that good or bad?

He couldn't stay seated for long, quickly abandoning the ceaseless tapping of his foot on the floor as he lunged up from his seat at the small locker room in All Might's personal gym.

Said gym had a mirror, full body too. Izuku stopped to gaze at his reflection for a few moments before taking a deep breath as he slowly removed his shirt and hook it around his neck before pulling out his phone as he flipped through the pictures. There were some good memories here, pictures he took with Uraraka, Asui, Mina and even some he had taken more or less against Kacchan's will. It made him smile as he remembered the specific days, but there was one in specific he was looking for.

There we go, a picture from about one year ago. A puny, scared looking green haired boy, fear and worry evident in his eyes and a poor, scrawny frame. He would hold the phone out and drift his eyes from the image to his reflection in the mirror, only then did he truly realize the progress he had made. Long gone was that scrawny kid that was lost in the world, now he was different. His smile held a great deal more confidence in it, his gaze was brighter and focused with determination and his body was toned and chiseled with a lean layer of musculature. The only thing that didn't change was his mess of a hairstyle. That thought earned a chuckle from the boy.

This was the reward for all that hard work, all the frustration that made him sleep poorly at night, all of the sweat he had dripped working himself to his limit, all of the things he thought he'd never do in his life he had gone through. It was all for this. For that young man that looked back at him from the mirror.

And he'd be lying if he said that it didn't make him feel good.

Now he just hoped it was enough.

Enough to be a hero, enough to inherit the power of the symbol of peace, enough to be a shining beacon of hope for each and everyone that needed it, whenever they needed it and enough to face All Might today when the time came.

And by the sound of the door being unlocked, the time was right now.

Izuku almost yelped as he quickly slipped his shirt back on and straightened it in front of the mirror as well as attempting to try and get his hair in check...yeah right, like that was even possible, he gave up on that end really fast.

Midorya quickly dashed out of the bathroom to meet the scrawny blond man that had entered the building, carrying in his hand a cardboard tray carrying a pair of disposable cups. "Oh, hey there, young Midorya...when did you get here?"

"O-Oh, a couple of hours ago, I decided to come in a bit early and...you know, get ready!"

Toshinori glanced at the clock on the wall and then slowly brought his eyes back to the boy "It's 6 am."

"Hehe…" Izuku laughed awkwardly as he scratched the back of his head while looking away from the number one hero "O-Okay, maybe I overdid it a little bit…"

"Nervous?" the bony All Might asked as he took a few steps towards a bench by the wall before sitting down and patting the spot next to him

"A little...okay, a lot." Izuku admitted with a sigh as he sat beside the man, his foot immediately going back to tapping the ground anxiously as he took the cup he was offered. "Coffee?"

"Cocoa. I had a feeling you were going to be a little on edge." the thin man flashed him a smile and a thumbs up.

"T-Thank." Izuku smiled as he sipped on the hot beverage, letting the smooth, chocolatey flavor envelop his tongue and the welcoming warmth sooth his nerves, even if just a little bit. "Today is the day huh?"

"Yup!" All Might smile, though soon his expression changed as he put two and two together from the teen's demeanor "I know it's...scary and all, but you'll be fine. The process doesn't even hurt."

"I know, I'm not scared...I'm kind of...excited, in a way." zuku took a deep breath as he straightened himself on his seat "It's like a rollercoaster and I have that cold feeling in my belly when it finished climbing to the top and it's about to go down, you know?"

"Hehe, that's a good analogy." the number one hero patted the kid on the back with a smile "You'll be a great hero, Izuku. I know it."

"Thanks...so, how does this work? Is there some kind of ritual we have to do or something?" the green haired teen pondered aloud

"You just have to eat my hair."

"Whu...What?!"

"You have to ingest my DNA in order to inherit One for All. Hair just seems like the most...hygienic choice." Toshinori explained with a soft chuckle as he proceeded to rip out a stand of his blond mane with a soft wince and holding the shining, golden string in front of the boy's face

"Really? Hair is the most hygienic way you came up with…?"

"Would you rather eat a toenail?"

"Bleh…" Izuku wretched at the thought as he awkwardly took the strand of hair, trying to think of what the best way to eat this thing would be before he rolled it up in his finger, inserted it in his mouth and downed it with a large gulp of hot cocoa...and then another set of big chugs once the line became stuck in his throat "Argh! Ew!"

"Just calm down, it won't kill ya." Toshinori laughed at the teen's reaction before patting him on the head "It won't take effect just yet, you still need to digest it, so give it an hour or so before you start noticing the difference."

"R-Right…" Izuku muttered with another 'bleh' as he shook his head. "Just, wait, I guess…"

Toshinori chuckled as he took a sip of his warm drink before letting off a steamy sigh as he laid his back against the wall "How are you feeling?"

"Weird...part excited and part scared to death, I think?" Midorya attempted to explain with an awkward and nervous laugh "No going back now."

"No going back." All Might repeated with a smile "Hey, grab your gloves, some jabs will knock that crappy feeling out of ya!"

Breath in...breath out...that's what he was supposed to do...supposed, being the key word here.

"Izuku?"

"Yes, Ochako?" the boy asked without opening his eyes as he attempted to focus on his meditation

"You're frowning again." the girl pointed out with a disgruntled expression as the boy huffed before letting out a long groan as he fell backwards, landing his back against the soft grassy ground of the park.

"I'm never gonna get this down."

"You will, you just have to stop worrying so much about….stuff." the girl tried to reassure her friend with a soft shrug of the shoulders "What is it this time? Something happened?"

"I mean...in a way…" he admitted, trying to wrap his poor, overworked mind around a way to properly explain the situation without spilling all of the beans in the universe. "Um...n-nevermind...I guess I'm just in a bad mood, don't worry about it…"

Izuku would ten feel a soft and warm palm clasp comfortably against his chest while its owner looked down at him with a soft smile that held with it a faint tinge of concern evident in her facial expression "You know you can talk to me, right? If you want, I promise I won't tell anyone."

"I know...it's just...complicated...and a little embarrassing…" his words came out slurred and meek as he struggled to open up through the blush on his face as he lifted a hand, looking at his palm as his fingers flexed ever so slightly

"I won't laugh." Uraraka reassured the green haired teen as she slowly clasped his opened hand within her own before gently squeezing it in a comforting manner, earning an even brighter blush from the boy and a large tinge of red in her own cheeks. "Or judge, I promise. You're probably just overthinking it anyways."

"M-Maybe…" Izuku breathed in with a soft sigh as he tried to keep his heart from melting as he locked his gaze with Ochako's gentle and reassuring smile as he finally decided to release the cloudy storm that stirred his stomach "It's my quirk…"

"Argh…" the green haired teen snarled as he gripped his right arm with a hiss, his muscles constricting uncomfortably as his skin reddened from the intense strain leftover "W-What happened?!"

All Might knew the answer to that. The man took another look at the punching bag, currently snapped lean off of its chain and sent rocketing to the wall where it currently rested with a few small rips in it, letting the sand inside seep out.

"Just calm down, Izuku...here." the symbol of peace patted the teen on the back as he placed an ice bag over the teens arm and proceeded to slowly and carefully remove his boxing glove to expose the strained and twitching hand of his student as he let off a soft sigh "You're lucky your arm didn't get broken…"

"B-Broken? Wasn't the training supposed to make me ready for it?" Midorya asked through clenched eyed as he tried to weakly clench his fist, only to give up on it once it began to hurt too much.

"The training made it so you could hold the quirk, but your body needs to get used to it bit by bit. You can't use it at one hundred percent yet." All Might explained as he pressed the ice against the teen's arm, trying to help him ease the pain as he massaged the strained, reddened and slightly swollen skin.

"B-But...it just came out...how do I even make it not be one hundred percent?!" Izuku asked frantically with a hiss as his arm was fiddled with.

"It's your first time, don't worry so much." All Might attempted to reassure the boy as he patted him on his back with a soft, worried sigh escaping his lips "We still have a few months until the UA exam. Plenty of time to get you used to One for All."

"I-If you say so…" the teen huffed through gritted teeth as he leaned his head back against the wall with a long sigh as he felt the pain in his arm slowly but surely begin to fade bit by bit as the ice nudged it along "I didn't think it would actually hurt…"

"You're going from having no quirk to having one that has gotten stronger through many generations, it's a lot to take in at once." Toshinori explained "You just need to give yourself time to adapt."

"Izuku...Izuku! You're spacing out again!" Ochako clapped her hands in front of the green haired boy's face to snap him out of his flashback induced trance and bring him back to reality as he blinked a couple of times.

"O-Oh...s-sorry…" Midorya laughed awkwardly with a faint blush on his face as he scratched the back of his head "What was I saying?"

"Something about your quirk." Uraraka reminded him before her expression would transition into one of thought as she prodded a finger against her cheek "Come to think of it, what is your quirk? I don't think you ever showed me!"

"Well, uhh...hehe...how do I explain it…" Deku muttered to himself as the alert sirens started sounding in his head. He had to admit, he wanted to tell Uraraka about it, he felt like he could use at least one person who knew about it that he could vent to...but this was bigger than him, bigger than his desires. He had made a promise to All Might to keep this secret "It's kind of...just a general physical enhancement quirk but...it's a little unique…" he explained with a meek shrug

"I mean, physical enhancement sounds pretty useful and flashy too, which is good for going pro...unique in what way?" Ochako asked as she brought her knees to her best before resting her chin atop them as she gazed over at her friend

"Well...it...it hurts me if I use it too much." Izuku explained, earning himself a raised brow from the girl beside him, making him sigh before continuing the explanation "I can't really explain why, but...it damages my body it I put too much force behind it. I damn near broke my arm the first time I used it...I guess…" he ran his hands through his hair with another sigh "I guess I'm worried about it getting in the way of the exam…"

"Izuku…" the brunette scratched her neck awkwardly as she thought of ways to comfort the teen before scooting closer to him "That does sounds a bit tricky, but you just have to hold back a bit on it, then. I'm sure you can manage." she said with a smile "Plus, I'm gonna be mad at you if you don't make it into UA with me!"

"Heh...don't worry about it, I'm not about to give up on it!"

"Good!" Uraraka clapped her hands together with a determined smiled held proudly on her face "Maybe our meditation can help you out with it. I mean, it helped with my quirk." she shrugged before setting herself back into her cross legged sitting position "As long as you don't let your mind run at full speed, it should help you at least relax."

"I don't know…" Izuku scratched the back of his neck a bit awkwardly "I don't think meditation is for me. I tend to...think a little too much."

"I know that...maybe that's the issue." she said with a reassuring smile "Just try to think less or...think slower."

"Think slower...okay…" the boy said sheepishly with a deep breath

"Still, it's weird that your own quirk hurts you. I don't think I ever heard of something like that before." the anti gravity girl commented as she leaned back in her sitting position "Are you sure that's normal? Maybe you should get checked up."

"N-No, d-don't worry...I'm sure it'll go away eventually...hehe…" Izuku said as a sweatdrop slid down the side of his face along with a nervous gulp "It's just...you know, puberty, I think."

"Well...heh, I guess that is a little embarassing…" Uraraka said apologetically as she playfully jabbed the teen on the arm with a giggle "Come to think of it...it does make a bit of sense. Puberty did make my quirk act up a little as well…" the girl blushed faintly as she remembered the few night she had woken up by landing face first onto the floor after levitation off her bed in her sleep.

"Well...crap, look at the time." Izuku looked at his watch with a grumble as he quickly got up "I have to get going, talk to you later?"

"Sure, you have my number!" the girl smiled as she waved the boy off before going back to her meditation with a peaceful sigh while Midorya dashed off.

Just because he was dealing with the new...ahem...speed bump in his path it didn't mean he could just put his usual training on hold, that would make his life even harder. Right now he still had strength training to get to at the gym and today was leg day. You don't skip leg day, only losers do that.

"All Might shouldn't be there today, I'm pretty sure he had hero work to do, so I'll be able to think of a strategy to deal with the backlash of my quirk while I exercise…" the teen mumbled as he walked, nearly on auto pilot to the private gym "Hmm...maybe it has to do with how I approach it? Maybe I'm putting too much weight in my arm...I can't realistically make one shot count and leave it at that. This is a mess...I need more information about One For All before I can really plan this out…"

Maybe this was what Ochako was talking about, but it was hard for the teen to keep his mind from going a mile a second when so much was changing in his life so quickly. From a quirkless dork to having evident muscle and possibly the strongest quirk on the planet in less than a year...things moved too fast and it was taking a tow in his mental most of all.

He just couldn't stop thinking. About what he was doing, what he was going to do, what he has already done. If it was all worth it, if he could handle it better, there was just so much at stake.

It was thinking so much at once that kept him from spotting the two animalistic looking men at the usual alley where the gym was hidden, one being covered in thick fur while the other had large horns atop his head, their shadows enveloping his body as the teen looked up at them in nervous surprise.

"U-Uhh...hello?"

"Hey kid. Payback's a bitch." was all Izuku could hear before he spotted a smudge of a descending fist coming at him before everything went dark.