STUCK IN THE QUIRK WITH YOU
PROLOGUE
The day had started out great for one Uraraka Ochaco. First, she had a nice and healthy breakfast followed by a last-minute phone call from her parents wishing her good luck and then she had saved a plain green-haired boy from falling flat on his face at the entrance to U.A.
Although she was nervous at first, she had gotten a decent number of points in the U.A. entrance exam at least in her opinion. She had worked hard to get here and nothing was going to stop her from becoming a hero and helping her parents live the life they deserved. They had done so much for her and were still supporting her now so she knew that she couldn't fail them or herself.
However, everything had gone wrong.
When the Zero pointer appeared Ochaco hadn't expected it to be so big or for the giant to suddenly burst from the ground near where she was standing. Because of its size and sudden appearance, she was unprepared for a large amount of rubble to fall directly at her.
The pain had immediately surged through her leg and throughout the rest of her body, it was almost as bad as the pain she had felt inside her stomach from overusing her quirk.
With the shock and exhaustion overwhelming her mind, her rational thoughts were put on hold as she was pinned by an enormous chunk of what used to be a several-story tall building.
Her panic had only increased when she had called for help and no one had come. In fact, everyone was too busy running away from the mechanical monstrosity that they hadn't even noticed her plight.
Anxiety ensued doused with a copious amount of fear.
Her thoughts screamed in her mind louder than ever before. 'What if the teachers can't see me because the rubble is in the way?! What if they can't stop the Zero pointer in time?! What if another piece of rubble lands on my head instead of my leg this time?!'.
Ochaco's breathing grew heavy and her heart began an even more rapid pace as her grim thoughts took hold. 'Would this be her end? Would that phone call from her parents be the last time she had spoken to them at all?'
The pain of her crushed leg that was most likely broken and her queasy stomach were no longer registering in her mind as she had zeroed out any outside interactions and only focused on her morbid what-if scenarios.
The thoughts of her parents flooded her mind and how they would react to her death. The sadness and grief they must feel after losing their only daughter who died because she wanted to help. Doubts crept into Ochaco's mind about being a hero. 'If I'm this pathetic I don't deserve to be a hero; If I can't even help myself, how can I help others?'
Her mind once again flashed to how much she wanted to help her parents 'NO... it can't end this way. I refuse to allow it!'
A surge of determination coursed through her as she lifted her head from the ground and tugged on her pinned leg.
"OW!" she yelled in pain.
The Zero pointer was now so close that the dust that stirred from its treads had swept over her and covered her vision. She was undeterred by the shaking of the ground and the large shadow that now loomed over her. She would live! She would see her parents again and tell them that she had passed the test.
She prepared herself for the inevitable hurling once she had gone beyond her limits and used her quirk once more on the piece of rubble that had caused so much trouble.
But before she could act, she heard the sound of concrete cracking and the dust suddenly cleared around her. She gasped as her eyes followed the green blur that had suddenly appeared in her vision. It shot straight toward the Zero pointer at blazing speeds.
Her hair waved in and out of her vision from the green blur's sudden takeoff. It was only once the blur had made it to the Zero pointers face that the wind had calmed and she could finally see who it was that had come to save her.
Her eyes widened in surprise once she recognized the shape of the figure and his unmistakable green mop of hair. It was the boy who she had helped earlier, but her shock furthered at what happened next to the point of her mouth gaping like a fish.
"SSSMMMAASSHHHH!" the green-haired boy screamed with all his might as his right arm swung directly into the Zero pointers face with a resounding boom. The boy's entire body lit up green and blinded all of the onlookers causing them to shield their eyes from the sudden flash. The green light pierced the sky and could be seen from miles around.
Ochaco didn't want to look away from the spectacle but the light that permeated throughout the city was too blinding to look at directly and the wind that would have blown her back if she wasn't stuck underneath a piece of rubble was too intense. She had to shield her eyes from the light and pieces of dust by blocking with both of her forearms.
Once the light had dimmed, Ochaco was awe-inspired by what she saw. The entire Zero pointer was gone except for the half-molten feet that stuck to the ground. The buildings that were once surrounding the Zero pointer were nearly nonexistent and all of the windows of every building in the fake city were shattered.
Ochaco was broken from her shocked state once she realized the green light was still hovering in the air. She couldn't make out any shape within the light but it was now bearable to look at. She knew that the light had to be the boy that had just decimated the Zero pointer.
The bright green light suddenly began its descent as if it was falling. Suddenly it clicked in Ochaco's mind, the boy was falling and he clearly wasn't slowing down. Ochaco suddenly became worried and without thinking, she pushed her quirk past its limits and used it on the rubble that was pinning her leg. She immediately leaped onto a piece of a robot that was lying nearby ignoring whatever pain she had felt and activating her quirk on it to use it as transportation.
She had one goal, one focus and that was to save this boy she had never even known the name of. From the momentum and angle of her jump, she glided toward the spot where the boy was going to land. Even though the boy was currently shrouded in a bright green light that covered his form she knew that all she had to do was get one clean hit and he would be able to float to safety.
With this thought in mind, she wound back her right arm and swung at where she figured the boy's body would be within the glowing green light. To her surprise and horror, her arm felt like it hit nothing, the only thing she felt within the light was warmth. A million thoughts ran through her panicked mind at that moment. 'Had she missed the boy? Was this part of his quirk? Is he going to be alright?'
At that moment something even stranger happened, the light that she had thought was the boy and currently had her arm inside started to gather into a single point no bigger than a golf ball inside the palm of her hand. Surprised by this turn of events, she did not move an inch and just focused her vision on the ball with her mouth hanging open farther than she thought it could once again.
The ball of green light suddenly began to shift colors as if it were conscious until it settled on a myriad of colors but appeared mostly white.
Ochaco wondered if she should say anything or do something in this moment of profound confusion but before she could do anything the floating ball of colors suddenly zipped from her palm and into her mouth, which was currently wide open.
Ochaco coughed and sputtered in both surprise and disgust from eating a ball of light, not that it had any taste. She gripped her throat as if she was choking, her day was weird enough but swallowing a ball of different colors after it was just a boy earlier was too weird for her and she refused to swallow it.
Unfortunately for her, she didn't have a choice as the ball of light rushed down her throat and into her stomach. Ochaco gasped after she stopped clenching her throat, she had expected to become more nauseous from a sudden foreign entity rushing into her already upset stomach but instead, it felt oddly calmer.
Ochaco no longer felt like puking from the overuse of her quirk and with everything that had just happened running through her tired mind, she did the one thing any sensible person would do, faint.
END OF PROLOGUE
AUTHOR'S NOTES
I'M BACK! SORRY, IT TOOK SO LONG. I'VE BEEN BUSY AND PUT OFF MY WRITING FOR TOO LONG. BEFORE YOU ASK, YES I WILL CONTINUE MAMMA MIRKO... EVENTUALLY.
BY THE WAY, THIS STORY WAS INSPIRED BY "TWO IS BETTER THAN ONE". I FOUND IT REALLY INTERESTING BUT IT GOT PASSED AROUND AND NEVER COMPLETED, SO I DECIDED TO MAKE MY OWN VERSION AND HERE IT IS.