Disclaimer: I do not own MHA or Jojo's bizarre adventure, obviously.
For the longest time Midoriya Midoriya had been alone, for twelve years in fact he had no one to stand beside him. Ever since his quirk had failed to manifest he had lost his friends and his mothers confidence in him had been shaken. She still loved him of course, she was still his mother but there was now this hole in their relationship that left him alone. Midoriya took the train to school alone, he walked back alone, and after he returned he sat in his room studying, alone. However things would change for Midoriya Midoriya very soon. Forces were working in the shadows to destabilize the world he had come to know, and he would be introduced to a world where there would always be someone to stand beside him.
Midoriya was walking back to his family's apartment with an absentminded expression on his face. He had already missed the train due to Bakugou's torments, no need to rush such a long walk back. Midoriya was so lost in his own thoughts however he had failed to notice the rattle of the manhole cover behind him. Suddenly the slight rattle became a thunderous clang as it was launched into the roof of the underpass as a torrent of sludge burst forth from beneath it. Spreading along the ground and into the air two eyes formed from within the sludge focusing on the now horrified boy. A smile formed across newly revealed teeth.
"What luck, a perfectly unremarkable new disguise, you're a real hero kid." The liquid then surged forward, enveloping Midoriya. Sludge had already made its way down into his throat by the time he could react attempting to tear it from his face.
'My fingers keep slipping into the sludge, I can't get it off! Someone please, help me.'
"SMASH!"
Instantly the sludge was ripped from his body by a surge of wind, clearing his airway. Now able to breathe, Midoriya began coughing his eyes darting around him for the man he knew to be his savior.
'That voice, I know that voice!' His eyes quickly landed on the one and only All Might. Quickly scrambling for his notebook Midoriya rushed to get an autograph only to find that-
"You already signed it!" Laughing at Midoriya's response, All Might stepped toward Midoriya and patted him on the back.
"That's right my boy! Sorry for getting you mixed up in all this. This one was sneakier than expected, now I have to take my leave, goodbye!" Leaping into the air All Might rocketed into the sky before noticing an odd weight on his leg.
"What on earth! Hold on tight my boy I'll set us down quickly!" After landing on a nearby rooftop, All Might turned to Midoriya.
"Now what was so pressing that you went and something so reckless." Hearing such a curt response Midoriya slightly blushed before quickly spewing out what he wanted to say.
"Well I wanted to know if someone without a quirk could be a hero-what the!" Before he could finish however a cloud of steam exploded on top of All Might obscuring him from view.
"Damn it! Now don't panic when this clears, stay calm alright." Breath stuck in his throat, Midoriya waited as the steam cleared before witnessing- "A Skeletal All Might, What happened to the real one!" Rolling his eyes, All Might responded with a huff.
"Skeletal seems a little extreme but I assure you I am the real All Might, I got injured in a nasty fight a while back. Now I can only be a hero for a few hours everyday." Midoriya took in the information with rapt attention, waiting for him to finish.
"Now to answer your question. No, I dont think someone without a quirk can be a hero, it's too dangerous. Try being a police officer or a doctor. They still help people. Dreams are nice, but you need to be realistic. " Struck by such a thorough denial of his dream, Midoriya stood still as his hero jumped off the building in his hero form. He was so out of it in fact he didn't notice the glimmer in the sky shooting towards until a golden arrow had skimmed his shoulder before sticking into the door on the roof.
"Ow!" Rapidly turning his head Midoriya searched for the cause of his injury holding his hand against his shoulder. When the source was not readily apparent he turned to leave before spotting it stuck under the handle.
'Well this must have been what then.' pulling it out of the door Midoriya held it in his hands testing its weight. 'But why would someone shoot an arrow in the middle of the city? Especially this one, it looks so expensive.' Thoroughly exhausted by having what was probably the two craziest that will ever happen to him, Midoriya resolved to just go home.
On his way back an explosion rumbled in the distance as smoke billowed from a street a few blocks away.
'While that looks fascinating I don't have the energy for that right now.' Turning his back ahead of him, Midoriya trudged his way back home. Lazily pushing open the door, Midoriya stepped into him and his mothers apartment.
"Mom, I'm home." Midoriya raised an eyebrow at the lack of a response and walked further into the apartment.
'That's weird she always comes to greet me when I get back.' As he walked into the living room he noticed the reason for her distraction.
"It would appear that the villain somehow managed to escape All Might's grasp and take a local teenager hostage; however as the situation grew more dire, All Might made a triumphant return, saving the boy and capturing the villain." Midoriya flinched at the story on the news.
'Oh, that was my fault isn't it' hearing a noise behind her. Inko Midoriya turned to her son, eyes widening slightly in surprise.
"Oh I'm sorry Midoriya, I didn't hear you come in. What happened dear you have a cut on your shoulder, and is that an arrow why on earth would you have that?" Slightly overwhelmed by so many questions, Midoriya quickly reassured his mother.
"It's nothing. I just fell down on my way back from school and found this on the way and thought it looked cool." Holding it in her hands, Inko examined the arrow.
"Well it is quite pretty that's for sure. Well why don't you get cleaned up for dinner and I can work on sewing that shoulder back together afterward." Midoriya smiled softly.
"That sounds great mom." As Midoriya went back to his room he examined the arrow again. Its head was quite broad, made of gold and a greenish material he couldn't quite place. Its most striking feature however was the intricate motif of a diving falcon on both sides of the head. Made both by raised metal features and lines carved into the metal it made a stunning image, and must have been quite expensive.
'Not that I can sell it, of course I don't want to be accused of stealing it.' Setting it on his desk Midoriya took off the shirt of his school uniform and looking at his shoulder in the mirror he noticed something strange.
'The cut it's gone like it was never there, how strange.' testing the skin on his shoulder Midoriya was suddenly startled out of his mind by his mother.
"Midoriya honey dinners ready!" Still studying his shoulder, Midoriya grabbed another shirt before heading out of his room calling to his mother.
"Coming mom!" As they sat down to eat they sat in silence for a while before Inko cleared her throat.
"So Midoriya, what have you decided to do after middle school?" Midoriya looked up from his meal thinking for a short moment before answering.
"I know it will worry you but I still want to be a hero, it's what I've always wanted to do." Inko gave a soft smile, gently grabbing one of Midoriya's hands with one of her own.
"I know honey and I will always support you no matter what you do.
"I know mom." The rest of their meal continued in a comfortable silence enjoying eachothers company.
"Thank you for dinner mom. It was very good, I'll be going to bed early. I've been feeling a little weird today." Inko looked up at him with a small amount of worry.
"Okay dear I hope you feel better, if you're still feeling off in the morning we'll take your temperature alright." Midoriya nodded in response before heading into his room. Laying in his bed he looked at his hand before rubbing his shoulder.
'Ever since I got hit by that arrow I've been feeling off, maybe it's just my reaction to meeting All Might like that though. Can't be a hero without a quirk huh." That's when Midoriya tried to do something he hadn't done in a long time. He reached deep inside himself trying to draw on a well of power he knew wasn't there. Only this time something did happen, as he focused a figure materialized in the air in front of him. Sensing something happen due his attempt to use his power Midoriya leapt from his bed looking in front of him he saw. It looked like a robot of some kind. It reminded Midoriya of a kind of futuristic knight with a glowing visor and reflective chrome armor, but it didn't appear to have an actual body, instead being a collection of bright green energy that sometimes came out between the cracks in its armor. Quickly backing up to the wall of his room, Midoriya trembled while pointing in front of him. He spoke to the stranger, careful to keep his voice down so as to not inform his mother.
"Who are you and how did you get into my home!" The stranger proceeded to do exactly nothing and continued floating there. Greatly confused by this, Midoriya tried something else.
"Well if you're not gonna say anything can you just leave." The figure began to move, floating through Midoriya's window and proceeded to float there looking at him.
"Did you just listen to me? Are you following my commands?" Midoriya thought for a moment before coming up with a plan.
"Alright come back in here." the figure did as such floating back through the window and staying still.
"Okay, okay, put your hands above your head." Again it did as constructed.
'Okay let's see if it follows mental commands too, put your hands down and spin in place.' the figure did as such slowly rotating in place.
"This is absolutely crazy! Did I somehow develop a quirk? But I have the toe joint, and why now nothing has happened that would-wait a minute" Midoriya's head slowly turned toward the arrow on his desk and as he thought to grab it the figure rushed forward grabbing the arrow by its shaft and bringing it back to him.
'Well that tells me it responds to my wants too, I better be careful with that if I don't want to reveal it to other people' with the arrow in his hands Midoriya studied it.
"It's exactly the same as before, and looks just like a normal arrow, how could it give me a quirk, does it change the dna of those it strikes?" Midoriya proceeded to check his feet.
"That's still the same so what could possibly be different about me now." Midoriya looked back at the figure for a moment before willing it to disappear, and in a flash of light and a few small bolts of electricity it disappeared. A small smile appeared on Midoriya's lips as he laid down on his bed putting his fist toward his ceiling.
'I can be a hero.'
In a dark room a man kneeled before a desk, the person in front of him sat in a chair facing toward the window of their office overlooking the city.
"How could you possibly lose such an important item so easily?" Their voice was harsh, filled with unconcealed malice, dripping with ill-intent. The man swallowed hard, sweat dripping from his forehead onto the floor of the office.
"I-I tried to find it, my lady I swear, someone must have found it." The man could hear her gritting her teeth clenching her fist.
"You do realize just how important that was to our operation, correct? I entrusted that to you because I thought that with your ability you could retrieve it after it found a target and grab our new recruit." She sighed heavily, eyes falling to the cars driving down the main road following each one as it passed.
"Clearly my trust was misplaced, do you have anything else to say in your defense." The man shivered at her cold tone, his eyes rapidly darted around the room.
"Um, uh, a-a-All Might! All Might was in the city and I was worried that if he saw me try and get the new recruit he would capture me and force me to talk about what I was doing!" The woman sat in her chair for a few seconds thinking over his response.
"All Might huh? Well then I guess you aren't entirely stupid if you're worried about him. Is what I would say if I wasn't the one who single handedly finished off his nemesis All for One and destroyed all his plans for the future, then crushed the Paranormal Liberation Front beneath my heel." Her voice rose with every word growing more and more aggressive. The man grew paler and paler as she spoke, sweat flowing from his every pore.
"My Lady your strength has never been in question, I promise that I will retrieve the arrow immediately, I won't fail you again." She then stood out of her chair and walked around her desk before standing in front of the man.
"You are absolutely correct. You won't fail me ever again. Black Hole Sun." A woman formed behind her seemingly made from a crack in space staring at her you could see into the endless expanse. The man began to panic, begging her to spare him holding his hands in front of him pleading for forgiveness.
"My lady please!" Her lips cracked into a smile filled with glee at his cries for mercy. She leaned down to his head whispering into his ear.
"I've always hated that word, 'please'. It sounds so weak, and I have no patience for weakness." As she finished her sentence the man was crushed into a ball of flesh half his original size, his blood pouring onto the carpet. The woman's smile faded as she watched the blood pool across the floor. She pressed a button on her desk.
"Get someone up here to clean up a mess,and have them bring some air freshener too."
The next day
It was the first time in a long while that Midoriya was excited to go to school. Not to actually go to school of course but for what came after it. Midoriya was convinced that he had finally somehow developed a quirk.
'Now if only I knew what it could do, the ability to essentially have a separate entity follow my commands is already really strong but its appearance indicates that it has abilities beyond what I've seen so far-'
"Oi Deku shut up with your damn muttering already the rest of us are trying to focus here." Midoriya blushed as the rest of the class softly laughed at Bakugou's comment. The teacher attempting to stifle their own laugh calmed the class back down.
"Now Bakugou, well your statement was correct. Let me handle it next time, okay." Bakugou just rolled his eyes in response and went back to working on his assignment. Midoriya looked back down to his own assignment thinking to himself.
'I really need to solve that mumbling habit, but I do wish Kacchan could keep his mouth shut every once in a while.' In response to these thoughts Midoriya's quirk proceeded to manifest itself and float over to Bakugou, placing its hands on top of his head and under his chin and proceeded to hold his mouth shut. In reaction to this Bakugou began to thrash around attempting to free himself from the figure's grip.
"MMF, MMMMF!" seeing the class began to laugh at his predicament as Midoriya's face grew more and more horrified with the situation. Only to grow somewhat confused at the class's reaction.
'Can no one else see my quirk, otherwise you think they'd be freaking out at what's going on, and it seems that Kacchan can't , what's going on?' Breaking out of his thoughts after one particularly loud sound from Bakugou Midoriya quickly recalled his quirk. Bakugo reacted quickly, turning to the rest of the class, holding out his hand and causing small explosions in his hand.
"Okay which one of you shitheads decided to play a prank on me huh!" The class quickly quieted down and shook their heads at his threat. The teacher swiftly took back control of the class at this small break, attempting to reassure Bakugou.
"Alright Bakugou, you can calm down, the school will find out who did it and they will be properly punished." Bakugou turned back to the teacher and glared at him for a few seconds before throwing himself into his chair with a huff.
"Fine, but I wanna know who did it ya hear me." the teacher gave a lopsided smile and nodded in response before going back to his desk. Midoriya looked around for a few seconds before looking back to his work. Making sure that he wasn't mumbling under his breath.
'Okay, that proves that I need to get this under control as soon as possible.' Midoriya proceeded to take out one of his notebooks and write down all he had learned so far.
'The figure seems to be some kind of manifestation that I create and listens to all my commands, it appears to be invisible to everyone but myself and intangible to them as well unless maybe I can control that too. I need somewhere safer to practice this, and it really needs a name too.' After the first incident the rest of the school day went without a hitch with Midoriya being careful not to summon his quirk again. With a quick message to his mother about some excuse for being home late Midoriya went to a place he knew anyone would be unlikely to go.
"Dagobah Beach, the perfect place to test out my new quirk and all that it may or may not be able to do." Midoriya summoned his quirk in front of him, looking it over while walking around it and studying all its features.
"While you're definitely not organic I can say that much but what actually are you? While first things first you need a name, I can't exactly keep calling you the figure all the time." Midoriya put his hand under his chin and began pacing back and forth muttering under his breath.
"InvisiMight? No, that's dumb, Maybe this one? No, that wouldn't work. Ah, I've got it from now on you shall be referred to as You Say Run!" In response to this declaration You Say Run proceeded to simply float exactly as it had before. Midoriya made a disappointed expression at his new quirk.
"This would be a lot more exciting if you could react to what I say. Well it's time to get to work then." Midoriya then tested out everything he could possibly think of, You Say Run showed some pretty impressive strength able to bend metal poles and punch through car doors without taking any damage, its speed was alright Midoriya was fairly certain it would be capable of keeping up with Bakugou in a fight. Midoriya did figure out that his quirk did have the ability to become intangible at his will but strangely didn't seem to have the ability to get any further than 5 meters from Midoriya before it underwent a massive decrease in its physical capabilities.
"This all seems pretty good although I should probably do a bit of physical conditioning if I really want to think about being a hero. My quirk can't do anything if I can't do a bit of exercise without tiring out." As Midoriya began to run back and forth across the beach he failed to notice a piece of garbage sticking out the sand causing him to trip and launch himself into a pile of garbage.
"O, man I really need to start paying better attention to my surroundings too." while he was picking himself up the pile he had fallen into began to topple over on top of him. More aware of his surroundings Midoriya called on You Say Run to protect him. You Say Run threw out a blindingly fast round of punches but much to Midoriya's surprise instead of being sent flying the garbage proceeded to fall slower giving him plenty of time to get out the way. After walking a short distance away Midoriya looked over at his quirk with a raised brow.
"You just keep getting weirder don't you, well at least this gives me more to test. could you speed it up now?" The quirk proceeded to punch the garbage again only for it to shoot down to the ground far faster than it should have. Midoriya proceeded to spend the rest of his time at the beach testing out this new found ability.
"As far as I can tell You Say Run seems to have the ability to alter something's movement through time slowing it down, speeding it up, and even turning it back too!" Midoriya's mind began to race through the applications of such a versatile ability. Eventually however he realized as he looked to the horizon that he would need to head back home. But for the first time in a while he would head back home with some pep to his step. He was confident this ability would help him get into U.A and eventually become a hero.
Author's Note: this is technically my second work on this site but I think this will end up working much better. To be clear, All for One and the PLA are completely gone in this AU and this new organization of stand users will be taking their place in this story. There will still be many similar situations such as the USJ but I wanted the freedom to be able to have more stand user enemies in the story along with some quirked baddies. We'll see how this goes. Another clarification You Say Run is in fact a stand and not a quirk, its referred to as a quirk because thats what Midoriya thinks it is right now quirks and stands will be different things and quirks that don't affect someone's mind cannot affect stands, as alway you can just beat the hell out of the stand user though.
Constructive criticism is welcome and encouraged I want to get better at writing