It has been two years since that day in the comic book store where the hope of becoming a hero was rekindled in Izumi after it was crushed by the quirk doctor.
She had learned many things about those hero group known as Avengers.
The green guy otherwise known as the Hulk whose real name was Bruce Banner. He was a super smart guy with nearly seven doctorate degrees under his belt. He became Hulk because he was trying to recreate the super soldier serum and to unlock the Erskine's formula he thought gamma rays may be helpful but it backfired. He only becomes Hulk when he is angry. The side-effect was that he got super strength akin to All might. This guy was seriously one of the best minds.
The cape guy known as Thor was from another world known as Asgard where he was known as God of lightning and he was the prince of the Asgard. He was powerful and old, very old like 1000 years old. There was not much information on him she could find in the books but according to few old web pages Thor is the name of god of lightning in Norse mythology and they both have same powers so she guessed they were the same.
The shield man known as Captain America whose real name was Steve Rogers. He was a man out of his time. He was part of a military project known as 'Project Rebirth' where he was given by super soldier serum by its creator Dr. Erskine which enhanced everything in its body. It took him from a skinny person to a muscular guy. He went into ice when he tried to protect his country from terrorist attack and was found 70 years later somehow alive. She theorized that the serum somehow helped him survive the cold and ice kept his body in stasis.
The woman known as Black Widow whose real name was Natasha Romanoff. She was a child assassin of a Russian spy program known as Red Room. She was skilled in many martial arts, weapons, spy, assassination and many other fields. She was given a chemical similar to SS(super soldier) serum to keep her in peak condition and make her age slow and can't get pregnant. She defected the Russian spy agency for American spy agency later joining Avengers.
The bow man known as Hawk-eye whose real name was Clint Barton. He had similar skills to Natasha but he was an American spy from the start, did not have serum in his body and had a perfect aim. He was also the person who made Natasha defect Russia.
Last but not least the suit guy known as Iron man whose real name was Tony Stark. He was a billionaire who could build tech in ways no one can. He was very intelligent to complete his college in his teens. When he made a mistake he tried to make it better. He was an inspiration and first modern superhero.
She read comic books too of other heroes who were more amazing & heroic than current heroes. She mainly liked Batman's detective mind, Reed Richard's intelligent mind, Power Rangers resilience to keep on fighting after a bad day and many other things of different heroes. But she could mostly relate herself with the Avengers group.
After reading many comics she decided she will be a complete hero not a specific type of hero that are seen in current pro heroes. She discovered that she has a perfect memory and was a quick learner when she started studying to advance herself. She had also discovered that she had a great analytical mind because of which started to study the quirks of various heroes and villains which included how to improve it, its strength, its weakness and how to counter them.
She wanted to start training her martial arts after coming home from the comics store but her mother somehow convinced her to wait few years to start it but didn't stop her from doing physical exercises and runs. This also helped Inko to keep herself in shape as she did it to encourage her daughter. They did yoga and meditation too. Izumi did it to get her body flexible and mind concentrated and Inko did it to just keep her daughter but it helped her in controlling her overwhelming emotions.
Though not everything has been rainbow and sunshine for her as she had been bullied by her peers and former best friend Katsuki Bakugo. The teachers ignored her and whenever she was bullied or beaten teachers would turn the other way. Whatever the bullies did it was written on her file as they said that they did not want to prospect of a future hero for to be stained for a worthless pathetic quirkless girl. Her marks were altered to make her marks average but she knew that she was a top student. She wanted not to go to school and do home studies so she can study at her own pace but she did not want to bother her mother.
Today she was going with her mother to Oliver's dojo which was few blocks away from their house. She had researched about the dojo it was very old so it did not have any student and it had an old man for sensei so they thought her quirkless status may not be problem.
We arrive at the dojo it was a building made out of bamboo. We walked inside to see a fairly large training area with few training dummies near the wall along with few weapons.
"Hello! Is anyone here?", asked Izumi looking around.
"Yes, miss? What are you doing here?", asked a gruff voice from behind her startling her and her mother. They looked behind to see a tall man with undercut black hair with few white streaks on it. He also had a brown eyes and a full beard on his face.
He also had a brown eyes and a full beard on his face
"Well uh..., are you the sensei of this dojo?", asked Izumi.
"Yes, my name is Tommy Oliver, so what do you want?", asked the man now named Oliver asked.
"Sir, I want to learn martial arts and my name is Izumi Midoriya", replied Izumi while bowing her head.
"Why?", asked Oliver after few seconds staring at her.
"So that I can defend myself and become a hero", said Izumi with a passionate and determined voice.
"Why do you want to be a hero?"
After thinking for a moment, Izumi replied, "I don't know I have this urge to save people, I know people are in the hero business this days for fame and money but they don't entice me that much I just want to help people from villains and themselves and even villains. I believe that villains and heroes are made not born. I want to be a symbol of hope to the people when they look at me but when the scums of the society hear me coming after them they should fear. I want to be hero to protect and then fight for glory because for me hero should be acknowledged for how many people they save and then how many villains they capture because in the end it does not matter how much villains you capture if you leave a body trail of innocent civilians in the wake of the fight."
"Okay, take position in the mat and let me see how you perform then I will decide whether to take you as my student or not.", replied Oliver after staring her in her eyes for a minute to see her resolve which was firm and did not waver one bit which he wanted in his students. Izumi nodded and went to stand in the mat.
Meanwhile, Inko just stared at her daughter and the man beginning to think when did her daughter matured so much. She had knew that her daughter was intelligent but not this mature. So she moved to the side and cheered her daughter mentally.
Tommy just drew a line around where he was standing infront of Izumi and said, "If you can make me move from this circle then I may consider to train you."
Izumi nodded and thought while circling around him, 'He just said to make him move out of the circle not how so I can use anything'.
She ran at him then threw a punch at him which he redirected from his body and went to punch her but she moved at last second and moved away from him.
This went on for few more minutes, Izumi trying to attack Tommy while him redirecting, blocking or retaliating her attacks.
'I can't move him from the circle, what do I do?' thought Izumi while looking around analysing her chances to do the given taask when something caught her eyes and thought,' I wonder'
Meanwhile Tommy thought,'She doesn't have any martial arts skills but she is adapting to my movements when she attacks me. She has good physical conditioning and flexibility.' His thoughts where interrupted when he saw her starting to move again.
Izumi ran towards him then slid between his legs when he tried to catch her and took the bokken from the weapons rack behind him. She turned around and thrust the bokken towards the man who side stepped her attack and caught the bokken in his hand to pull it forward to catch her and pin her down.
"Now what will you do? Will you give up?", asked Tommy.
"Only this, I win", replied Izumi by kicking his left knee with both her legs causing him to loose his footing and fall sidewards and fell with his chest and above being out of the circle.
He looked shocked but then asked, "How can you be sure?And why did you use bokken when I didn't say about using it?"
"You said to take you out of circle but not how much so if I took you out by foot or any part of your body then I win. And about you didn't either say to use martial arts specifically so I just used any and every resources available to me.", replied Izumi while she was gasping for air lying down in the mat.
"Good, that's the kind of thinking I expect from my student and congratulations on being the first person to pass my test to become my student", replied Tommy with a smile looking down at her.
That stunned her and she stared him for a minute and then it dawned on her,"Thank you, sensei" she got up and replied with bowing her head.
"So what is your quirk young lady? I'm here guessing it's some kind of intelligence quirk", said Tommy
"Actually sensei, I don't have any quirk", replied Izumi with a down expression thinking he may reject her now.
"That's very good then if that all the brain and strength from yourself and not some quirk which means I can ilteach you everything I know and more as you are clean slate and I don't have to work around a quirk to make it utilize it properly.", said Tommy making Izumi brighten up that someone other than her mother did not reject her.
Inko walked up towards them with a smile on her face to see someone atleast appreciated her daughter. "Thank you Mr. Oliver for taking my daughter as your daughter .", said Inko.
"It's no problem"
"How much I have to pay for the dojo?"
"You don't need to pay, just make sure she eats according to the diet which I give her tomorrow after training and does not overwork.", replied Tommy.
After that they confirmed her schedule how she will continue training and go to school. During this conversation, Izumi told her she wanted to be schooled online so that she can study on her own pace as teachers sabotage her marks and turn other way when someone bullies her.
Inko wanted to murder some people when she heard that but couldn't do anything as there wasn't any proof of them doing that and can say that children where being children when asked about the bullying. So the below given schedule was made up.
4:00am: Get up
4:30am: Finish freshing up and go for the run
6:30am: Return home and do some yoga and cool down exercises.
7:30am: Take bath and have breakfast
8:30am: Start your online classes
1:30pm: Have lunch
2:30pm: Head to the dojo while running
7:30pm: Return to house while running then take a bath.
8:30pm: Have dinner
9:30pm: Do some analysis of heroes, villian or some old cases and find a way that it could have been better.
10:30pm: Meditate
11:30pm : Go to sleep
Izumi went home with spring in her steps with her mother by her side and thinking how bright her future looked.
