This is my first fanfic and I've been a fan of Crysis for years and after I played the remastered games my love for it grew, my hero academia as an anime has so much crossover potential, this site supports that lol so I thought I'd toss in the nanosuit in there
The nanosuit will have all of the abilities it has by the end of Crysis 3 and possibly more ,but they will be either nerfed in the beginning or unlocked as the story progresses. Im too lazy to do the math or research so the nanosuit will possibly be more powerful than in-game canon, and as of writing this story crysis 3 is the most recent crysis game available.
Also the start of this chapter is in prophets 1st person POV detailing what happens after crysis 3 before shifting to 3rd person POV in japan but that won't happen much outside this chapter. Probably. idk no promises.
The Maximum Hero
Chapter 1: The bond
It's been more than 2 centuries since I killed the alpha ceph and stopped the ceph invasion. I'm... not sure how I am still alive, if you can even call it that, but the suit is probably preserving Alcatraz's corpse. I don't like to think too hard about it.
After spending some years on Lingshan island taking some well-deserved R&R I decided that in order to prevent any possible future fuck-ups with the ceph I needed to destroy all links to them.
Thankfully killing the alpha ceph also killed anything linked to the hivemind including most ceph forces on earth and a fair amount of ceph technology in the hands of C.E.L.L, but there was still much to do.
Destroying all data relating to ceph technology and nanosuits was the easy part. All I had to do was find C.E. primary headquarters that held the most information, use my suit to destroy all data there, and then utilize their network to hack and erase all other information in places like Korea.
The hard part was tracking down the stolen nanosuits and remaining ceph weaponry, it took years to locate and destroy them, then I had to locate any C.E.L.L personnel that had knowledge of these things. Those things alone took nearly a century and during that time humankind managed to return to how it was before the ceph and C.E.L.L. took our planet and used it like a public restroom.
It was around this time that Alcatraz's conscience surprisingly returned to accompany me, so we would now share control of the body. I saw no reason to object. Together we scrubbed the earth clean of alien tech and nanomaterial the best we could, and we also learned just how evil C.E.L.L truly was.
They released their own non-lethal version of the Manhattan virus just to see how it would affect human anatomy and physiology . Not until the general halfway point of our mission did we learn that C.E. experiments did bear fruit, human and alien DNA somehow merged to create…superpowers, for lack of a better word.
Powers that once seemed impossible even with advanced tech, and for a time we worried of the consequences of such abilities and the price that would come with them however it seemed these powers, these… "quirks" were not going to make humanity collapse in on itself, at least not with some alien virus, we didn't concern ourselves with the battles waged between people and nations we had other matters to tend to afterall.
The past century or so has been locating any remaining ceph outposts ,and destroying them. I also had to locate any ceph stalkers - ceph that were not connected to the hivemind when the alpha was killed and became very animalistic and aggressive - and hunt them down. I was able to accomplish this in the North and South Americas, and even more years later I did the same in Europe, Asia and any other locations that held stalkers.
That brings us to the present, where in japan after 200+ totals years of work I am nearly going to complete my mission . With my predator bow in hand I silently track the final 2 ceph stalkers in existence, I don't even know what I'll do once this is done. Once it's done I am free from my past, my responsibilities, free to live. Maybe go back to Lingshan island or just live a quiet city life and catch up on centuries of sitcoms and movies I've missed out on.
*POV change to 3rd person
Prophet sets his predator bow to max strength and grabs a basic arrow,carefully pulling back the heavy drawstring he takes precise aim and then shoots the first stalker center mass, killing it instantly, the impact of the body hitting the ground alerts the 2nd stalker to the hunters presence and runs.
Prophet groans in annoyance, he was hoping the other stalker wouldn't notice the death of its partner so he could kill them both at the same time , buuuttt now he must continue following it. That's when he hears something in the distance, activating cloak mode to go invisible, he listens. "フォワードマーチ 爆豪ヒーローチーム", 'I forgot we were in japan for a while' Alcatraz mentally notes.
The nanosuits Semiautonomous Enhanced Combat Ops: Nero-interaction Delivery AI- or SECOND, gives Prophet the translation, "March forward Bakugo hero team". Kids then, and far enough that they should be fine, Prophet decides to ignore them.
After more than some minutes of sneaking through the forest focused only on the stalker, with cloak almost always active, the hunter once again locates the ceph. Pulling back the bowstring he points his arrow at the head of the beast, preparing to fire.
Without warning the stalker goes from standing still to bolting right and charges at something behind a tree in the distance. A high pitched scream of terror fill his ears so activating maximum speed Prophet runs to investigate.
Izuku was sad. His best friend Kacchan was so mean now! When he got his quirk he started to be more and more mean to their other friends and sometimes Izuku too, but when he found out Izuku was quirkless it got even worse. Even his own mother doesn't believe in him and only cries when he talks to her…, he also hasn't seen his dad in a long time now, not since the fight.
The night before he lay curled up in bed, Izuku gently weeps at the sudden shifts in his life. The young boy just wishes he had a quirk so everyone would be nice again and his friends would go back to normal, any quirk at all would do like grass hair! Or shrinking hands! or even glass tears! any quirk at all. He just want to be like everyone else , and Kacchan to be nice again.
Even if they can be mean at times they are still his friends and Izuku loves hanging out with them! Today, all 5 of them are in the woods playing heroes. Kacchan is the team leader with Izuku and the rest of the kids being his sidekicks.
Kacchan uses his quirk to make explosions in the front of the line while everyone follows behind him through the forest. Kachhan suddenly shouts, "DEKU, you are slowing us down HURRY UP!".
Izuku quickly replies," SORRY KACCHAN I'M GOING".
Izuku sees something in the distance as he runs to catch up .He briefly wonders what it was but decides it was probably nothing. Finishing that thought he hopes Kacchan isn't too upset at him, that would be bad.
They start to cross a river on a slippery-looking log and Izuku isn't sure they should be doing this, but he doesn't want to get made fun of….besides izuku is sure that Kacchan knows what he's doing-'"WOAH!", Kacchan screams as he falls off the log. OH NO KACCHAN FELL! IS HE OK?!. Izuku goes back to the start of the log and climbs down to help him, he hears his friends, "I bet he's fine he is so strong".
He caught up to Kacchan, ignoring the others, "Do you need help, can you stand?" Izuku asks, his small features pinched together in concern . "Hope you didn't hit your head!" he reaches out his hand when suddenly the blonde boy slaps his hand away, then stands up and angrily states, "I-I don't need your help DEKU", Kachhan shoves him hard into the river and walks back to the other side with their friends and leaves deku crying out in pain and confusion…he was just trying to help.
After crying for a while, Izuku gets out of the water and quietly mutters, "I just wanted to help…". Walking back home the trails are confusing and Izuku may or may not be a little lost but he can't be that far from the main road (he is). The mini broccoli boy decides to cut through the forest to get back to the river, the one place he knows the location of, and starts trekking away from the path.
5 minutes or so of walking passes and Izuku hears what sounds like metal creaking and looks to his left. He sees a sickening humanoid beast and his heart stops, thin iron-like legs similar to an insects are tensed, ready to launch at incredible speeds.
Metal frames and rods protect a pinkish-purple jelly looking core and a thin head molds into the chest with horrifyingly long arms that connect to thin razor sharp arm-blades as long as its legs.
Izuku stays as still as he possibly can but feels his fear unravel and his eyes water. Once all his bravery is gone he tries to run, screaming as the beast tackles him to the ground after a few steps. Izuku holds up his arms to protect himself but loses consciousness once the first attack lands.
Hearing screams, Prophet bolts towards them until he notices a broken and beaten child underneath the stalker. He decides to first defeat the enemy before looking further into the boy's wounds. Channeling the suit's power mode he throws a heavy right cross that slams the stalker into a tree.
Continuing the attack his arm cuts through the stalker and breaks the tree trunk into splinters. Without losing any momentum he slams the stalker into the ground and crushes its head underneath his boot. The now dead stalkers flesh loses its color and begins to crack, in a few short minutes all traces of it will be mere rust and dust. Now to see the damage caused to the boy.
Shame floods Prophets mind as he knows that the condition of the child was on his hands. He had gotten sloppy and made a damn rookie mistake and because of that this boy is going to die
The boy was young, likely not even ten years old with big fluffy green hair. S.E.C.O.N.D instantly takes in all information,the child lay covered in injuries, his right hand is gone, nowhere to be seen, sliced off just above his elbow. Possibly lost in an
attempt to defend himself.
Two large gashes decorate his midsection one starting on his left rib and ending at his right shoulder revealing torn tissue. The other reaching from his belly button to his left eye leaving useless. On the right of his chest there is a large stab wound, no doubt destroying his lung. There are also many other cuts and stabs in his body and no doubt some broken bones.
It took Prophet less than 3 seconds to reach them and another 3 to kill the stalker and it was those first 3 seconds, three seconds that this happened to the boy.
Prophet allows his thoughts to focus; he notices something that he thought impossible.
A heartbeat.
It was faint but still there. The boy is alive. He can save him. Prophet and Alcatraz come to an unspoken understanding, they are both already dead, just the suits saved personalities of 2 dead soldiers , 2 ghosts that have completed their mission and have nothing left, no more enemies to fight, no more orders to complete, no more responsibilities. No responsibilities, except this boy, it was because of them that this happened so it is because of them that he WILL survive.
In any other situation the boy would die no doubt, sadly in the centuries Prophet and Alcatraz have roamed the earth technology has not had much improvement. Having to rebuild after an alien invasion and the emergence of superpowers slowed technical progress remarkably, not to mention his own work erasing ceph and nanosuit tech.
In those centuries however the two men became masters of the suit. When the suit's blockers were removed centuries ago it made it possible for the suit to take any form imaginable and the suit could do anything: create blades, replace organs, new limbs, or in this case, save this boy's life.
Prophet holds his hand on the boy's chest and wills every inch of nanomaterial to move from his body to that of the boys, closing his wounds, fixing broken bones, replacing his missing arm, eye, and lost blood, returning a healthy glow to his skin.
As the nanomaterial moves from Prophet to the boy he feels his own body weakening and he knows that without the suit holding his corpse together it would crumble and decay at a rapid rate, possibly becoming unrecognizable within the day, but that is unimportant, the boy will live.
Nearing the end of the transfer the suit melds with the child's nervous system and brain, allowing prophet to learning his name: Izuku midoriya. Izuku's eyes open lazily in a haze and Alcatraz decides to take control for a minute since he had something he wants to tell the boy.
Alcatraz speaks to the half-conscious boy in Japanese, "Izuku, right, that's your name? Izuku...Destiny's a bitch, huh? It'll be on you now, son."
Izuku nods slowly and has a confused look in his eyes, then Alcatraz continues ,"What is currently happening to you is too complicated to explain now so all i will say is that we are giving you a gift to save your life, it"ll also make you one badass mother fucker. And don't worry, you wont remember any of this until the suit integration is complete, you don't need to remember any of this for now, it'll just cause you intense trauma ".
Before the process is complete Prophet uses the last of his connection to the suit to cause Izuku to fall asleep and allow the suit to complete repairs, while the suit will replace and heal all damage, He won't have access to any of the abilities of the suit for years, since he is the first host in generations and the vast changes to both mankind and the suit will take time to properly integrate. And even then he wont notice anything until he first experiences the abilities.
This will also cause Prophet and Alcatraz to go into hibernation. Most likely why Alcatraz is going to
lock these memories until then, by that time he will be intelligent enough to properly process this.
The last of the nanomaterial connects to Izuku but since there was so much material Izuku appears a bit chubbier than before, though not enough to be very apparent, the appearance will fade with time as the suit merges more with his growing body.
With his final task done the body of the past host falls to the ground next to Izuku and begins to crumble. After centuries of work, the hero known as Prophet with the body of Alcatraz is truly dead, while the saved personality files remain, the body is finally allowed to rest.
Izuku wakes up in the evening with a slight headache and confusion to his current situation. Did he fall and hit his head? It looks like there is some chunky, weirdly colored mud next to him so maybe he slipped? The last thing he remembers is cutting through the forest to go back to the river, but now its late in the day with the sun setting . Izuku becomes tense with worry his mom is going to be mad! He needed to be home before the sun started to set!
Little Izuku runs as carefully as he can to the river and from there he manages to find the correct path and runs home, very worried at what his mom's reaction will be.
Getting home in record time Izuku takes deep breaths before knocking on the door.
Inko opens the door with a panicked expression on her face, "Izuku where were you, I called Mitsuki and some of the other boys you were with, and no one knew where you were! I was about to call the cops!".
Izuku fills with anxiety and explains himself through his tears, " I-I-Im sorry mommy I-I got lost and tripped and fell asleep a-and-and I just woke up and ran home as *hic* as fast as I could Im s-s-sorry mommy!".
Inko kneels down and hugs her son tight and sighs,"Im just so glad that you're ok, but please be more careful from now on".
Once they hug for a short while Inko pulls away looking slightly confused, "Izuku you seem… bigger now, did you eat? You seem full and." Inko pauses as her mind catches up with what she was seeing, "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR EYE?!"
Izuku's left eye is no longer the green it used to be, it now is an almost bioluminescent blue and resembles a camera lens.
Izuku runs to the nearest mirror to look at what his mom was talking about and leaps in joy and screams, "Its my quirk its my quirk it has to be!" forgetting his earlier panic.
Inko grabs Izuku and puts him into their car to go to the doctors office, they dont have an appointment but this should be impossible so she'll take her chances with a walk-in. The entire car ride Izuku is bouncing with joy , ecstatic that his quirk has seemingly manifested.
After getting to the doctors office and luckily securing a check up before closing they decide to do some simple tests. They take another X-ray of Izuku's pinkie toe, have him take some vision based exercises, and draw some blood before leading izuku and his mom to a room to wait for the doctor and results.
30 or 40 minutes pass before the doctor enters the room and sits down on a chair in front of izuku."So Izuku you say that you slipped on mud that knocked you unconscious and when you got home your eye color was changed to what it currently is".
Izuku nods, " Yes sir".
"And have you noticed anything different than normal when you took those vison based exercises?". The doctor questions, "can you see better with that eye, change its color at will or maybe see things you couldn't before, anything you consider noteworthy?".
The young boys grin begins to fade as he answers," ….no sir... nothing like that ".
The doctor sighs and pulls out the new X-ray images, "You appear to still have the 2nd pinkie toe joint, though that wasn't likely to change, and almost all quirk's abilities are active when first manifested, for example someone first manifesting a fire quirk would set something aflame or someone with a strength quirk would accidently crush a door handle".
The doctor flips through his papers before finding the correct one "Then there are your blood tests , while we would normally take longer on the tests and call you back another day the lab was excited and went ahead and did the tests before anything else that was scheduled"
Inko looks confused at this and decides to voice her question, "Is this really so surprising that they would halt other work until this was done?"
"Honestly yes" the Doctor answers , "Something like is not a common occurrence and it is the first time some of them have ever seen a situation as strange as this one"
"Anyway back to the results, the tests done were meant to stimulate and reveal any dormant quirk genes ,while they cannot reveal the type of quirk they can find if a quirk is at all present, and the tests
did not show any active Quirk genes"
"With the new information from both the X-ray and blood tests, along with your previous diagnosis of quirklesses , I am sorry to say that you are still quirkless."
At these words Izuku's facial expression freezes in place.
Nothing has changed.
This is exactly the same as the first time. He got his hopes up and now they have been crushed. It almost hurts him more now than it did before.
"While we are not certain what caused this change in eye color, there is no reason to look into it at this time seeing as nothing negative has come of it, however if this changes we will conduct further exams. Personally, I believe the fall he experienced could have caused some of his iris fluids to mix".
Izuku stops listening, ignoring the conversation between his mother and the doctor, only lightly acknowledging what he assumes are more apologies.
The ride home is silent and once they arrive Izuku doesn't bother changing, eating, or showering and heads straight to bed, not understanding why this had to happen again and goes to sleep.
Once Izuku is asleep, in the deep corners of Izuku's unconscious mind a robotic voice speaks, "Nanite Integration beginning…..: Process….5% complete".