It gives me great pleasure to finally present you all with this title.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE INFINITY GAUNTLET!
"Hello. Can I help you?" The door opened to reveal a middle aged woman with a bit of weight on her who bared a striking resemblance to Izuku Midoriya.
"My name is Toshinori. I'm a representative of U.A. I was hoping to talk to you about your son Izuku", the gaunt man said.
"Oh. Come in", Inko Midoriya held the door open letting him inside. Toshinori walked in and sat down at the dining table when offered. "So what's this about U.A?" She had yet to hear from her son about this, so she was tad lost.
"I spoke with Izuku earlier today. We offered him a transfer into our support department and he accepted", Toshinori explained. "I just wanted to know more about him before he enters the program"
"What do you want to know?" The woman asked.
"It's my understanding that he's quirkless. Can you tell me about his childhood, what it was like for him?" He had his fears that it was similar to what his life was like back when he was young and still quirkless, before he met Nana Shimura.
"He was always a good boy. Izuku wanted nothing more than to help people, he believed it was always the right thing to do", Inko began, smiling fondly at the memory. "He grew up watching hero videos, mostly about Allmight", Toshinori swallowed nervously. "It was his dream to be a hero, he didn't want to be the best, but just being one would have been enough", it was here that Inko's face turned sad. "When he was five and his quirk didn't manifest, I took him to the doctor and he was diagnosed as quirkless"
'I know how devastating that can be', Toshinori remembered how he felt when he was a child and the same thing happened to himself.
"It was after that when people and other children started to treat him differently", she got a bit angry thinking about what her child had to go through. "They treated Izuku like there was something wrong with him, like my boy had a disability", Inko stared forward in anguish. "Even his best friend Katsuki Bakugou turned his back on Izuku and started picking on him. Izuku never told on him, but I could tell what was going on"
'I knew young Bakugou was rough around the edges but I didn't think a kid who aspired to be a hero would bully the weak', he was surprised to hear the two boys had a shared past. "If you knew why didn't you approach him or anyone else about it?" Toshinori asked.
"I tried", Inko sighed sadly. "I really did, but Izuku insisted that he was alright and the schools didn't seem to care. Whenever I called the school about the burn marks on my son's skin, they just chalked it up to kids playing. They said that children with quirks can play a bit rougher and that maybe it was Izuku's fault for not looking out for his own safety"
"Even after all that he still wanted to be a hero?" Toshinori stated with a curious tone.
"Yeah, he never gave up, until…", She trailed off.
"Until?"
"About a year ago something happened", Inko started. "He came home one evening looking much more depressed than I've ever seen him. I believe it was the same day that Katsuki was attacked by that villain", Allmight clenched his fist underneath the table trying to hold back the guilt. He remembered that day.
"He threw out all of his hero merchandise that evening", Inko wondered what was going through her son's head that time. "Actually I managed to keep it without him knowing and stored it away in case he ever returned to his old self"
"His old self?" Toshinori questioned.
"He doesn't talk about heroes anymore. His face used to light up whenever he spoke about a new or current hero", Inko teared up a bit. "He comes to visit on most weekends, he's still somewhat the same, but different in a way I can't describe"
"I understand", only someone as close to Izuku as his mother would realize that something was off about him. "You kept the hero merchandise that he threw out. Is it alright if I see it?" Toshinori needed to see for himself, before his suspicions were confirmed. Inko nodded and went into her room. A moment later she came back with a cardboard box and placed it on the table. Ignoring his apprehension he opened the box and dark sunken eyes widened in surprise. It was all his merchandise. Allmight action figures, Allmight t-shirts, Allmight mugs, Allmight pillow case, Allmight pencil topper, and many more. It looked like the kid ordered the whole damn store catalog.
'Is it possible for someone like me without a quirk to become a hero?' Izuku's question came back to haunt him again as well as the answer he gave him.
'I was the hero he looked up to the most', Toshinori's guilt continued to eat at him.
'I'm sorry kid, but without a quirk you can't be a hero. We risk our lives every day, it's not something a quirkless person can do. Try being an officer, sure it's not the most glamorous job, but it's still a noble profession', those were the words he used to crush the boy's dreams. Not just him. Toshinori realized that he was just the latest in a long line of people that stepped on Izuku's hopes.
'Who goes unnoticed in this world? Who is stepped on and forgotten? Who gets treated like an outcast? Whose hopes did you let down? Whose dreams did you crush without a second thought?' All for One's words finally made sense.
"It's surprising that he agreed to transfer to U.A", Inko said thoughtfully. "Izuku told me he no longer had an interest in going there"
"What?" The gaunt man stopped staring at the box of hero novelties and turned his attention back to the woman.
"He said he wasn't interested in U.A anymore. That it wouldn't further his goals", Inko clarified.
"I see", he sighed and closed the box shut. "Thank you for your time mam", Toshinori stood up and made to show himself out.
"He's a good boy, he's just very sad right now. Talk to him more", Inko said as he left.
"I will", he'd be talking a lot with Izuku soon enough. Once outside he quietly made his way to the car where Naomasa was still waiting.
"Well?" The detective asked.
"I had my doubts, but now I'm sure", Toshinori sounded worn out by this complicated situation. "Izuku Midoriya is the villain Apotheosis"
"How convenient, because while you were in that apartment I got a call from the team still excavating the rubble of where the Nomu warehouse used to be", he brought out his phone and showed him a picture of a white hooded coat, slightly torn up, with spots of dirt and dust all over it. "Look familiar? It's the same coat that Apotheosis wore. The team found it close to where the warehouse was located along with some very broken lab equipment"
"Don't tell me…hair and finger prints?" Toshinori guessed.
"Were a match to Izuku Midoriya's?" Naomasa continued. "I believe we have enough to bring him in for questioning"
"No", the hero disagreed. "Not now. He goes back to school tomorrow. Apprehend him after class, do it quietly without media attention"
"May I ask why?"
"To his mother and everyone else that knows him, Izuku is a good kid. A promising, brilliant young man that they all think highly of", Toshinori explained. "He still has a chance to change and turn over a new leaf. After what he tells us about the League of Villains, I want to help him. Plastering his face all over the news and outing him as a villain will make it that much harder. Not just on him, but his mother too"
"Alright", the detective agreed. "We do it tomorrow evening with discretion"
"Thank you", Toshinori thanked his friend for doing this for him.
THE NEXT DAY
Izuku walked through the halls of his academy smiling brightly and humming a chipper tune. All day he had been acting odd. While most students were melancholy about being back to school, Izuku seemed to genuinely want to be here. Teachers and other students stopped and stared at him with confusion from the start of classes until the end. As he headed back to his dorm room with a skip in his step, he was suddenly stopped in the hall by one of the school security officers.
"Izuku Midoriya", security began.
"That's me!" Izuku beamed.
"There are…some people that want to see you outside", he repeated what the principal told him to say. Keep this quite they said.
"Really? I like meeting new people", the teen said with a bit too much enthusiasm. With a hand on his shoulder the security led the boy outside avoiding the crowds of other students. After a few minutes they eventually ended up at the school's back entrance where a group of police officers were waiting.
"Izuku Midoriya, my name is Detective Naomasa", a man in a trench coat introduced. "I need you to come with us now"
"Oh! What's going on here?" Izuku grinned.
"There's just some things we need to ask you at the station", the detective gestured to the back seat of a squad car.
"Am I being arrested?" The boy asked.
"There's a difference between being brought in for questioning and being arrested, you can relax Midoriya", Naomasa lied carefully. Izuku just nodded keeping his amused demeanor and got into the car. The detective and the officer driving were silent as they drove to the station. He never stopped smiling and it honestly started to creep the two of them out. When they arrived another group of police men were there waiting for them in case Midoriya realized what was happening and tried to make a run for it. Keeping a close eye on Izuku, Naomasa escorted him out of the car and into the building.
"I've never been to a police station before", Izuku said in a delighted tone. Naomasa put him in a questioning room with a table, set of chairs and of course a one way mirror. After leaving the eerily smiling boy in the room for a few minutes Naomasa came in and placed a file on the table.
"Let's begin. You are Izuku Midoriya, age fifteen, legal guardian Inko Midoriya, first year student of Coruscant Academy", the detective read from the file.
"That's right", Izuku confirmed with his ever present grin.
"I'm now going to ask you a series of questions", Naomasa activated his quirk Lie Detector and began the questioning.
"Where were you the night of July fifth?"
"Hanging out with some friends", that was the truth. A vague truth the detective noticed.
"Then can you explain this?" He flipped opened the file and showed him a picture from the traffic camera of Izuku with a crowd of people. "That was you in Kamino the night Allmight and other heroes conducted a raid on the League of Villains. What were you doing there?"
"I was hanging out…with some friends", Izuku said again without losing the smirk.
"I'll ask again. What were you doing in Kamino Ward that night?"
"And I'll tell you again", Izuku leaned forward over the table. "I was with my friends"
"Are your friends perhaps…villains?" Naomasa inquired keeping his quirk active.
"What would make you think that?" Izuku cocked his head. The detective pulled out a few more documents from the file and placed them in front of the boy.
"We found a jacket with traces of your hair and fingerprints", he said pointing at the photo. "The same jacket that matches the costume worn by the villain Apotheosis. Can you explain that?" In response Izuku just giggled covering his mouth until he couldn't hold it in any longer and burst out laughing.
"Nope!" he continued to cackle. "Wow I didn't expect this!"
"That we would finally catch on to you?" Naomasa questioned. He was about to signal for Allmight to come in and join when he noticed something strange. Izuku's skin started to slowly turn gray.
"I didn't expect my dear Izuku to think this far ahead", even his clothes were turning gray and slimy. "Then again, Shigaraki always thought highly of Izu-kun's intelligence", the grayish sludge began to fall off. "It seems my time is up. Now I know why he picked this day", he chuckled as his voice changed to that of a young woman. Izuku Midoriya finally melted away into goop and now there sat a naked psychotic looking blonde girl. "Hi! The names Toga Himiko, but I'm sure you know that by now", the doors burst open and Allmight charged in standing protectively in front of his friend.
"Where is he!?" The hero demanded.
"Izu-kun? I don't know, he didn't tell me", Toga blushed covering her nude state. "He only gave me enough blood to live like him for one day", they weren't sure what the hell she was talking about, but figured it had something to do with her quirk.
"Allmight", Naomasa came to a shocking realization. "I think he's been ahead of us the whole time"
"Um…can I get some clothes please?" Toga asked.
"Put her in a cell!" The detective ordered as more officers came in with cuffs.
"I feel so used…", Toga frowned for a moment then grinned again. "And surprisingly turned on, I hope he uses me again", she laughed while getting arrested.
"Sir a call just came in", Allmight and Naomasa turned to face another officer. "I'm not sure if this is related but Geonosis called and said that someone locked them out of their building", quickly putting things together they realized that Izuku must be behind this. As an intern he would have access to the facility and as a villain he was probably trying to fortify himself inside. Instead of lamenting being outsmarted by a teenager the hero and detective decided to quickly act. They didn't get the suspect they wanted, but at least they captured a member of the league.
"Let's go!" Allmight rushed out of the room. "I'll meet you there!"
GEONOSIS TECH
Sirens surrounded the building as the police rapidly formed a perimeter as soon as they arrived on the scene. Allmight stood there having arrived minutes earlier. The entire building staff was outside, standing around the fountain.
"What's happening?" An officer asked Allmight.
"They said the fire alarm went off and as soon as everyone evacuated, the building's defense system activated", the hero pointed showing them the metal shielding that now covered the windows. "Midoriya what are you up to?" He mumbled to himself. This had to be the work of Izuku, but why would he hole himself up in a building that he must know won't protect him for long? Unless he was stalling so he could make an escape. Or maybe something far worse. "Evacuate the area", remembering what happened in Kamino, he wouldn't make the same mistake twice. "Cover all escape routes. I'm going in by myself"
"Are sure Allmight?"
"Yes. I will handle this. Don't let anyone else, hero or police inside the building", Allmight smiled heroically as he approached the sealed off front entrance to the building. 'I'm sorry Midoriya, but I can't allow whatever it is your doing to continue', cocking his arm back he punched a large hole through the metal plating, shattering the glass door behind it.
SECRET LAB
"Hm", Izuku stopped typing at his computer when felt the tremor coming from the lobby area. "It seems I have a guest", he switched to the security footage downstairs where he spotted Allmight himself stepping through a hole he just made. "Right on time", he smirked as he pushed a button on his keyboard.
LOBBY
The room went dark as Allmight looked around. Keeping on guard he waited for what he assumed was an attack, but nothing happened. Instead a set of double doors opened and the lights came on down the hall. Obviously Midoriya was leading him into the heart of the building for some reason. Fine, he'll play along.
Keeping an eye open for any traps the hero followed the lights and opening doors. Eventually he left the offices and entered the manufacturing area of the building. Going past the various empty labs, Allmight finally came to an entrance labeled 'TESTING'. The large metal doors slid open allowing him access. Once inside the lights switched on revealing a very large, high ceilinged room, covered in gray metal plating. This must be where Geonosis tests out their newly made devices and inventions.
"Thank you for coming Allmight", a voice rang out over the intercoms.
"Midoriya! It's over! Show yourself!" Allmight shouted. Upon the wall facing him a video was projected up taking up nearly the whole surface area.
"Is this good enough?" Izuku asked appearing on the screen.
"You're the villain Apotheosis aren't you?" Allmight said. He noticed Izuku looked very different than the wide eyed boy he met before. His eyes were now hooded and had that nasty glare again.
"I was", Izuku began. "But I haven't been since the training camp attack if that makes you feel any better"
"Just come out from wherever you're hiding", Allmight pleaded. "We can talk about this"
"Talk?" Izuku chuckled. "The guy who solves crime with his fists wants to talk?" Allmight noticed that he kept glancing off screen at something and wondered what he was planning. "We'll talk, but not now. No! Now I want you to meet a little a project I've been working on. I assume you've seen that Titan robot I designed", realizing what he was about to do the hero smiled triumphantly.
"Do you really think that bucket of bolts can take on the symbol of peace?" Allmight frowned when Izuku just laughed.
"That was the original prototype you're thinking of", the boy smirked. "I've designed several better more enhanced versions since the expo. Would like to meet version six?" Allmight didn't get a chance to answer as one of the floor panels opened and something big was elevated into the testing room. "Say hello to my anti-hero robot", standing there was a robot as tall as Allmight, but slimmer and sleeker than its original model. This version was white covered in what looked like ribbed armor, a smooth featureless face with only two glowing red eyes, and the number six printed on its armored chest. "The Titan!"
"You're going to have your robot fight me for you?" Allmight mocked.
"Cut me some slack", Izuku smirked. "I'm quirkless remember. My intelligence is all I have to work with", the robot activated, making a metallic growling noise for intimidation. Have fun" the Titan stomped forward, target in sight.
"This won't stop me!" Allmight faced the machine, meeting it half way with a punch. "Detroit! SMASH!" His fist connected with the metal torso creating a big shockwave. The collision itself made the testing chamber shake. The robot didn't even budge, not even a dent in its armored plating. "What is this?" The Titan growled, grabbed his wrist and hurled him across the room with unbelievable strength. Allmight landed on his feet and came at it again with more punches. Each one did nothing, but he noticed the ribbed armor seemed to ripple from each attack.
"Does this situation seem familiar to you?" Izuku asked through the large telescreen. "After all I did to replicate that Nomu's shock absorption. It should seem very familiar", he said with mock anger.
"You witnessed that fight first hand", Allmight pointed out.
"Yep!" Izuku nodded with a smile.
"Then you should know that won't be enough", the hero said confidently.
"You are absolutely right", the boy agreed while his hand reached off camera. "Unfortunately that Nomu was just a big meat puppet and didn't possess any intelligence", the robot suddenly got into a fighting stance. "Let's see you deal with a doll that knows how to fight back", the Titan rushed him, using a combination of punches and kicks. Allmight was able to block them all, but couldn't deliver a decisive blow back because of that shock absorbing ability. The robot hit very hard and sometimes fired some sort of energy from its fists.
"Oh come on!" The hero went from blocking to dodging when a blade slid out of the Titan's right arm and then attempted to hack him to pieces. Luckily Allmight was able to snap the weapon in half. He could end this if he could just combo the thing, but the Titan wouldn't let him. Izuku smirked watching the fight. Using his control console he ordered the robot to target the hero's vulnerable spot.
The Titan let itself be hit again, but this time when it grabbed Allmight's wrist it held on tight. Then with its right arm it fired an energy empowered punch right into the center of the hero's secret injury. Allmight gasped in pain and flung the robot away. He began coughing violently as he clutched his side.
"Oops!" Izuku taunted. "You really should be careful who you reveal your weak points to", the boy chuckled. "You never know if some kid might end up a villain in the future", he said in chastising manner as Allmight hacked up a geyser of blood on the floor. "Is this it for you?" The Titan pointed its left arm at the hero as it transformed into some sort of gun. "Fire!" Izuku ordered. Just as the robot was about to shoot its laser a bunch of branches appeared out of nowhere and grabbed its wrist, veering the beam meters off course.
"I thought I told them…", Allmight coughed. "To not let anyone in here", standing close to the entrance of the test chamber were the pro heroes Kamui Woods and Edgeshot.
"Weren't you the one who said that heroes don't have to fight alone", Edgeshot said.
"He's right, going alone is just foolish", Kamui added. When they arrived on the scene with the others the two of them were the only ones who agree to follow the number one hero inside. It seemed that it was the right choice.
"Oh that's just not fair", Izuku honestly wasn't expected reinforcements, but it still made little difference to him.
"Thanks for the help", Allmight stood back wiping the blood from his mouth. "This thing moves pretty fast. I need one of you to hold it down"
"On it!" Kamui Woods quickly used his lacquered chain prison to pin the robot in place. Once its limbs were locked down Allmight looked to the other hero for help.
"Can you to do something about its shock absorbing armor?" Edgeshot nodded shooting forward with incredible speed, thinning his body out as he moved. He was able to slip between the metal plating of the Titan's torso and knock it loose. Once that was taken care of Allmight came in to deal the final blow. "Texas! SMASH!" One hit and the machine exploded into wires, circuits and metal bits.
"Okay so the Titan isn't good at fighting multiple quirk users at once", Izuku sighed in disappointment. "I'll have to remember that for when I design the next one"
"You won't get the chance!" Allmight shouted at him, momentarily losing his cool. "Midoriya please", he regained his composure after reminding himself that the villain he was facing was still just kid. "Your robot is beaten, just surrender peacefully"
"No I don't think I will", Izuku's face lit up when he glanced off screen. "If you want to talk so badly then come up and see me in my office. You remember where it is", after he said that the screen switched off, followed by the entire building shutting down.
"He cut the power", Edgeshot realized.
"The police outside said he was a quirkless boy", Kamui Woods said. "He must understand that he's been backed into a corner"
"Even a beast with its back to the wall is still dangerous. We shouldn't underestimate him", Edgeshot warned looking at the broken pile of parts that used to be a robot that could stand up to the number one hero.
"His office is on the sixteenth floor, follow me and keep an eye open for more robots and traps", Allmight ordered. As soon as they left the darkened test chamber another floor panel opened up. This one released a small robot the size of a toaster, resembling a mechanical spider. The machine crawled across the floor, approaching the pool of hero blood spilled from Allmight himself when the Titan punched his weak spot. The spider produced a long syringe needle and sucked up a sample, then quietly crawled away as it was programed to do.
UPSTAIRS
Izuku smirked triumphantly as he held a neon yellow stone in his hand. The Time Stone. It took some awhile, but he finally managed to reach a breakthrough. He kept trying to attach so many enhancer quirks on to the time stopping quirk, but it never worked. It seemed to collapse in on itself in the computer. So he added another quirk to hopefully balance it out. A wonderfully useful ability that belonged to a famous doctor called Restoration. All he had to do was ask Geonosis to procure a blood sample for him under the pretense of research purposes, then they made a few calls overseas and just like that a powerful quirk was delivered to him.
Izuku was right in the middle of downloading the formula into the forge when Allmight showed up as he expected. He lured the hero into the test chamber and activated the Titan to stall until the machine finished processing the stone. Using up all the building's power he finally had the time stone ready to go.
'It's time', he chuckled at the pun as he took the stone over to the transparent case where the gauntlet was held. The Infinity Gauntlet was quite a magnificent piece of technological art. Izuku would even go as far to say it was probably the greatest invention in human history. After he created the reality stone, he used its abilities with the metal synthesizer he built to implant the properties and traits of multiple different metals together to create a brand new metal. Perfect in every way. Resistant to heat, cold, electricity, magnetic fields, light weight yet completely indestructible and harder than anything on the planet. Not even Allmight in his prime could dent this stuff. A shiny gold colored metal that went above and beyond all other metals. That's why Izuku named it after U.A's school motto. Plus Ultra Metal.
Unfortunately the metal was so strong that it was impossible to melt it down or cut it into the pieces he needed to make a gauntlet. Izuku however being the brilliant boy that he is, figured out a way around that. He modified the metal synthesizer to work similar to a 3D printer, in that the machine would form the metal into the necessary shapes as it was being created. Every single piece of the gauntlet was individual crafted this way. Every plate, joint, bolt, screw, wire and circuit was made of this metal and all Izuku had to do was put it all together. It took three days to build it and Izuku nearly passed out multiple times from lack of sleep.
'It's so beautiful', Izuku almost wanted to cry seeing his creation finally realized. The gauntlet looked to be made of polished gold. Each part had what appeared to be circuit board like patterns lightly etched into the surface. There were five stone slots in total. Three along the forearm, one on the back of the palm and the last on the inside of the hand. Two of the arm slots were occupied by the blue space stone on the bottom, and the red reality stone in the center arm slot. Plus ultra-metal was designed to work in conjunction with the mortal resin that the stones were made of in a way that would bond itself to it. So when the stone was placed in the slot they would be permantly fused to the gauntlet and impossible to remove.
The green haired teen gently placed the yellow stone into the third slot closest to the wrist and smiled as the bonding process immediately took place, fusing the time stone to the gauntlet. When that was done he ripped off the left sleeve of his lab coat and white button shirt underneath. Taking the gauntlet from the case with his right hand Izuku slowly inserted his left into the opening. Once it was fully in, he felt the fitting mechanism activate, compressing the plates together and tightening it to his arm enough to not cut off circulation, but just enough to make it difficult to take off.
"GAHHH!" Izuku screamed as he felt the power of the stones immediately start flowing into him. The prototype didn't fully draw out the space stone's power, but this time he got the full dose of all three at once. He came to the conclusion in his research on quirks that what ultimately controlled them and drew the abilities out was a person's nervous system, and so the gauntlet was designed to link the stones up with Izuku's own nervous system, giving him full access to all their abilities. "HAAAHH!" Izuku clenched his fists, refusing to fall to his knees. A glowing vein like pattern covered his body, changing from blue, to red and lastly yellow. A few moments later the strain finally started to dissipate as the power settled, and glowing veins dimmed away. Izuku breathed in and out, still feeling the power in him, but no longer any pain.
"What a rush", the freckled boy looked down at the arm of the gauntlet, staring in awe at the three stones. His gaze then drifted to the monitor screen on the wall of his secret lab. It showed Allmight stepping into his office followed by the two heroes that tagged along. "How exciting. Looks like I get to field test my infinity gauntlet", Izuku grinned as his eyes glowed the same red color as the reality stone.
THE OFFICE
"Midoriya!" Allmight walked into the spacious room the company provided the intern with. Looking around he didn't spot him anywhere.
"He's not here", Kamui Woods said also examining the room. "Do you think he snuck out while we were fighting that robot?"
"The entire building is surrounded by police and other heroes that have arrived on the scene, so how could have escaped?" Edgeshot wondered. Allmight walked over to desk looking for some clue as to where the kid may have gone. Finding nothing he approached the back wall. The hero looked to the photos hanging there. One was of Izuku from the tech expo with his prototype robot. The next was of the boy's mother Inko who he met yesterday, but the third picture made him pause. It was a lightly singed piece of paper from a notebook that had Allmight's autograph written in marker, placed behind glass in a wood frame.
'Is it possible for someone like me without a quirk to become a hero?' That question from that day just wouldn't leave him alone.
'I'm so sorry Midoriya. I never meant to drive you to the side of villainy', he took the picture down and that's when he saw it. Hidden behind where the frame was placed, a numbered panel used for doors was imbedded into the wall. Placing his ear against the white surface he knocked on it a few times.
"This wall is hollow", he realized. "Stand back", punching a hole through the plaster and metal, he used his strength to pry the hidden entrance open revealing a metal hallway that led to what appeared to be a big vault door. "Wait here I'll check this out", Allmight left the two of them in the office while he approached the sealed door. He figured Izuku Midoriya must be hiding behind it so he prepared to rip it off its hinges when he noticed a faint red glow along the edges of the door. Before he had a chance to ponder what that glow was the door went came flying towards, hit his body, and took him past the office, straight through the walls, out the side of the building and crashing right into the skyscraper next to it.
"WHAT!?" Kamui Woods and Edgeshot stared in shock as the number one hero went flying between them and through the building. They turned to look down the hole that Allmight and the door made wondering if he was okay.
"So this is what it's like", they whipped around as the voice behind them spoke. "To have an all-powerful quirk", at the end of the secret passage stood the suspect the police told them about. Izuku Midoriya, dressed in a white button shirt, dark green vest, matching dress pants, green tie and black shoes. What drew their eyes though was the gold gauntlet on his left hand with three different colored stones placed in slots along the arm.
Izuku took casual steps towards the two heroes and with each one Kamui Woods and Edgeshot could feel an aura of raw untamed power getting thicker and heavier the closer he got. To think a quirkless kid could make to pros freeze in fear. The teen didn't say a word, he simply walked past them and through the hole that he just created by throwing Allmight.
"Wait!" Kamui was the first to snap himself out of it. Izuku ignored him and kept walking. "Stop right there!" He shot branches out in an attempt to capture the boy who still wouldn't turn around. The last thing the wooden hero saw was a flash of yellow and in the next instant all his branches were broken into pieces and lacerations appeared all of over his body. He collapsed into unconsciousness.
'What was that?' Edgeshot was sweating wondering what Midoriya just did. Whatever it was, it took down Kamui Woods in an instant. He needed to be careful.
"Well?" Izuku spoke interrupting his thoughts. "Are you going to do something or not?" the kid stopped walking and waited for the hero to make a move. In response Edgeshot decided to get over whatever was making him fear this boy and transformed his body into a long thin cord, moving faster than the speed of sound. He never reached Midoriya, instead his thinned out form was immediately crumpled, tangled and knotted into a wadded mess and tossed to the floor.
"Wonderful", Izuku whispered walking through the holes with a dazed look on his face. He made a left when he reached one of the main halls. The teen seemed to be on a strange surreal high almost like he couldn't believe that he just took out two top ranked pros. At the end of the hall he simply pointed his gauntlet at the window covered by metal plating and watched in fascination as the glass shattered and the metal split apart, bending outwards to make an opening big enough for him to exit.
Izuku looked at the outside world, gazing at the city scape as the breeze lightly tossed his green messy locks. All those years wanting, wishing and dreaming for a quirk, any quirk. Now he finally had not just one, several extremely powerful quirks. He took a step forward through the opening but instead of falling sixteen floors to his death his body levitated into the air. Izuku floated high above the heroes and police who watched in shock that the quirkless villain was now flying.
"You were right Allmight", Izuku smirked down at them. "You can't be a hero without a quirk. You can't change the world without power", he reached out with the infinity gauntlet and brought his thumb and middle finger together. "All for One was also right. The world won't listen to you unless you show them your power", all three stones glowed brightly as Izuku snapped his fingers releasing a massive wave of energy that shook the surrounding buildings, shattered every window, blew away all the cars and sent every hero and police officer flying off their feet.
BOOM! How did you like that for a reveal? Sorry about the delay, there were a few parts I had to rewrite. Plus I live in Florida and we just got a hurricane up our peninsula. I'm fine don't worry, it only briefly grazed where I live.
This chapter was so satisfying to write. Izuku debuts and is now out in the open as a villain. Also the freaking Infinity Gauntlet is here. I know some of you are probably thinking FUCKING FINALLY! Understand this, everything before was really just one big prologue to get to this point. He's only got three stones for now and I think it's pretty obvious what the next one will be.
As for what the time stone does. Next chapter you'll see since this whole turning point is split into two chapters. That finger snap move is just a big blast of power using all the stones that gets stronger the more stones he gets. Think of it similar to Almighty Push from Naruto.
Oh and before you Toga fans all whine to me about Izuku using her and getting her arrested. Just wait until you read the next chapter first please. Yes Izuku is manipulative in this fic, but he's not a dick like that.
Thanks for reading.