Second chapter lets go. I honestly did not expect to finish this so soon.
In the last chapter I said Izuku looked less than ten years old, I only recently learned he was closer to 4 which is still technically under ten so ha. Another thing, I'm not sure what month we start on in bnha but the entrance exam is february and izuku trained for 10 months so we should start around April might come into play later so i thought i'd mention it.
WARNING : FAILED SUICIDE ATTEMPT AND SUICIDAL THOUGHTS
The Maximum Hero
Chapter 2: The discovery
10 years pass in the blink of an eye and Izuku is now 14 years old in Aldera junior high.. Since he doesn't have a quirk all of his classmates never stopped teasing him, over the years it only got worse and worse.
The most constant and damaging of this came from Kacchan, over the years his once friend saw Izuku as less of a playmate and more of an insect in his path.
His Heterochromia didn't spare him any abuse, if anything it made it worse as everyone believed Izuku was wearing a contact in an effort to fit in. So All that changed was instead of being seen as a quirkless loser they now saw him as an attention seeking quirkless loser.
When not at school Izuku can be seen wandering the city hoping to see some heroes in action, even if he is quirkless he still holds onto hope that he can become a hero. Yuuei allow quirkless applicants so he has to at least try!
Izuku loves seeing heroes save the day he lives through them vicariously; it is very often the only form of joy he gets these days. Even when at home Izuku will spend hours on his computer looking for hero videos or watching All Mights hero debut.
Izuku is in school scribbling some hero notes in his journal, he just saw some new hero debut this morning. Her name was "MT Lady" so he was writing everything he saw about her quirk in his journal while it was fresh in his mind.
"Her quirk was gigantification and it looks like she can grow to around 20 meters but can she control her size or can she only go from her normal height to max height? If its the second one then using her quirk could be a hassle in the more crowded areas of the city. Her attack was called Canyon Cannon, but it looked like a rather normal type of kick or drop kick. If she transforms during an attack will the damage transfer? If she can then she could transform from max to normal size she would be a normal person hitting with the force of a giant. That woul-"
The teacher then interrupts Izukus thought process, " Izuku quiet down your muttering is distracting"
"I-Im sorry teacher ill quiet down" Izuku sputters as some students sitting near him laugh.
"Anyway as middle school seniors its time to start thinking about your futures so i'll be handing out papers on your wanted life courses buuut".
The teachers face breaks into a grin as he turns around and tosses all the papers to the air. " You all want to be heroes don't you?"
At these words all the students activate their quirks and start cheering, there is some fire being thrown, rocks flying, and some kid pulled his eyes out like a snail.
Izuku wonders if everyone here is going to try to be a hero if some of them have admittedly useless quirks when they all treat him like trash for trying to be a hero without one.
Oh well it doesnt matter to them, all they care about is that they have a quirk and he doesn't.
The timid teen isn't listening too hard since he noticed Kacchan gloating. While izuku is trying his hardest to go unnoticed by sitting quietly at his desk, Kacchan is the polar opposite.
Loud and bold in his actions with a level of confidence gained from years of worship and ass-kissing from students and teachers alike Kacchan is currently boasting that HE will be the one to surpass All Might until the classroom teacher decides to cut him off
"Now that you mention it bakugo, didn't Midoryia also want to attend Yuuei?".
Just like that poor Izuku was forcibly brought to the center of attention, thrown to the wolves when he was trying so hard to be left alone. As if on cue students loudly voice their harsh opinions.
"Midoriya? There's no way!"
"All you can do is study, how are you going to be a hero?!"
"Dont you know you need a quirk to go to a hero school!"
Midoriya decides to at least try and defend his dream, " Th-Theres no rule against it , and while it hasnt been done before its not like I cant-" Kacchan then slams his hand on the shy boys desk with his quirk active giving him a blast of heat, while quirk use is technically not allowed in class, the teachers look away whenever it is directed at Izuku.
"YOU ARE EVEN WORSE THAN ALL OF THESE OTHERS REJECTS, FORGET STUPID QUIRKS, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A DAMN QUIRK."
"WHERE DO YOU GET OFF PUTTING YOURSELF ON THE SAME LEVEL AS ME?!
"Th-Thats not it all all Kacchan" Midoryia quickly retorts before continuing in a much quieter voice, "Id never even think to compete with you. Its just that I've looked up to heroes since I was very young and….and… you never know until you try right?"
"TAKING THE HERO EXAM IS HOPELESS FOR YOU, WHAT CAN A QUIRKLESS LOSER, A DEKU LIKE YOU DREAM TO ACCOMPLISH?"
The rest of the class is without distribution, he didn't bother finishing his notes, his mind was too downcast for that. In an attempt to lift his mood he goes through his phone for hero news while standing up to leave the class. He is about to leave his desk when Kacchan swipes his hero journal away.
"Where are you going deku , we aren't done yet. What's this? Hero analysis, for my future", Kacchan corners Izuku with his goons as everyone else leaves the classroom.
"Give that back Kacchan"
Instead of replying Kacchan holds the journal between his hands and blows it up with his quirk.
"You know in all the top hero interviews Ive seen there's a pattern," the blonde boy tosses the scorched book out the window, " They all say I went to some average middle school and was the first! The only! To make it to hero school and become a hero"
"I want to keep that pattern going, i'm a bit of a perfectionist you know" the arrogant teen places his hand on the weaker teen's shoulder.
"What I am trying to say is, give up on Yuuei you nerd, forget about it" He then activates his quirk for good measure, burning and boiling Izuku's skin under the heat
With this the bully and his followers turn and walk away, laughing and gesturing at Izuku who just stays there too intimidated to do anything.
Before leaving, Bakugou decides to say one final thing to torment Izuku, "Actually, I take it back. There is a really great way for you to become a hero." the boy smirks as he finishes his sentence.
"Just take a swandive off the roof and pray to be born with a quirk in your next life"
Izuku turns his head to Kacchan anger painting his features. Bakugo just keeps smiling and lifts a hand with several bright explosions, "Something wrong?" Kacchan questions.
All of Izuku's temporary courage vanishes on the spot and is instead replaced with the overwhelming sensation of weakness, of despair
"That's what I thought", with that the bullies finally leave the room.
A handful of minutes pass with the now defeated teenager standing in silence.
He can't summon the will to leave the classroom and the longer he waits the more his mind fills with poisonous thoughts. He was tired, there hasn't been a day in the past few years he hasn't felt tired. Maybe. Maybe he was right.
Maybe it would be for the best if he just…disappeared. It's not as though he hasn't considered it, after years of torment the idea has passed his mind before, but he always overcame those thoughts with his willpower and concern for his mother.
Izuku mindlessly walks to the stairs and begins going to the roof.
All he has to do is jump, or swandive as Kacchan put it, off the roof. A fall headfirst at the height of 4 stories would surely be fatal, it would be almost instant. It's the best idea he's had all day.
Izuku remembers all the torment he had gone through in his life, the cuts, burns, and bruises he would receive for the sin of existing. The lack of friends or human interaction since he learned he was quirkless at 4. The fact that he can't talk anymore without a stutter.
He gets to the roof and walks towards the edge. Sure his mom would be sad but she'd survive, hell she might even get back with his father if he isn't around anymore. Without him to take care of she will be free to live her own life. Izuku steps onto the ledge of the roof
And jumps
Wind fills his ears as he begins to fall 4 stories to the cold concrete, then something happens. As Izuku is falling a robotic voice suddenly speaks in his mind
90% FATAL DROP DETECTED. OVERRIDING MANUAL CONTROLS.
MAXIMUM ARMOR
Right before Izuku hits the floor a slight chill covers his entire body and a heads up display appears in his line of sight.
Izuku hits the ground with a heavy THUD, but without any pain or injury, if not for the fact he very clearly remembers jumping he would think he'd only tripped.
Before he can piece together what just happened the voice returns.
Energy depleted. Thoooom
The same feeling of a chill covers his body again but in reverse and he can no longer feel whatever had covered his body on his skin, the only thing kept the same is the heads up display.
There is a compass on the top center of his vision, he is facing north apparently. On the low center of his vision he can see a small gray bar with a 0% next to it and the word 'energy' over it .A few seconds pass then the energy bar begins to fill with a light blue color until reaching 100%
"What the fuck" Izuku usually never swears but without thinking these words leave his mouth.
What happened? He should have died from that height but something saved him. A strange voice entered his mind and declared it was overriding manual controls before the same voice activated something called Maximum armor. If it had to override manual controls does that mean normally maximum armor had to be activated intentionally? Energy was reading full now so it was worth a try.
Deciding to test out his theory Izuku thinks to himself that he wants armor on, but nothing happens even if he thinks about it numerous times. Maybe it has a required passcode? He decides to try again but this time he mimics the voice. MAXIMUM ARMOR
The change is immediately noticed this time as he again feels the sensation of something covering his HUD moves as well, instead of being semi transparent in the center of his vision, it is now more solid colored and the energy bar is in the left of his field of view with the compass in the center top. Maybe having the armor active changes it somehow? He also feels a bit more tense but his movement is not impeded; it's a strange feeling but not uncomfortable. Izuku looks down at his arm and almost falls down in surprise but catches himself , he does not however stop himself from loudly exclaiming , "WHAT IS ON MY ARM?".
The now very confused and honestly kind of curious boy took a moment to compose himself and take in the details of the strange addition to his arm.
A black material now coated his arm. It appeared similar to muscle or tightly wound rope but much denser and made of tiny black hexagons. Small rectangle shaped sections of silver circle the lower part of his forearm, bicep, and lower shoulder. Small red pyramids are on top of his arm, one on the side of his bicep and the other on the anterior and posterior of his forearm. He looks to his other arm and sees it is practically a mirror image of his right arm.
Both his hands have the same silver material as the rectangles but instead are bumps found on his knuckles and joints, with his left arm having the silver wrap around his wrist, almost like a watch. Midoryia looks down and learns the rest of his body is also wrapped but decides to wait until he has a mirror to look at the finer details.
Izuku's mind is working overtime now. What was this strange armor? It appears to be a suit of some kind. What was that voice? Is it sentient? How did it protect him from that fall? How long has this been a part of him? Can anyone else see this or is he crazy?
That last thought gave the boy pause. He didn't want to be found like this right now; it would lead to questions he simply does not have the answers for. Deciding it best to contain his curiosity until he got home, Izuku chooses to remove the strange suit before anyone sees him. But he does not exactly know how.
Well this isn't good
If there was a mental trigger for activating maximum armor then maybe it functioned the same way to remove it?
Instead of using the mental activation phrase he instead thinks that he no longer wants maximum armor active. Once the thought is completed he feels himself loosen up and no longer feels stiff at all looks like that worked after all.
Oh wait. The suit is still on. The suit is still on. The suit is still on! Izuku begins to panic, his breathing getting heavy before he grabs his head and takes an extra deep breath.
He figures since that armor thing needed a mental command perhaps this…suit functions similarly.
Izuku firmly envisions the armor going back into his skin, and mentally repeats his desire to have the suit removed. After a few inhales and exhales he feels the substance leave his skin and by the time he opens his eyes it is gone. Since the situation is now less dire he takes a moment to understand why even after deactivating maximum armor the suit remained, he comes to the conclusion that the armor mode and the suit itself are two separate things.
Izuku manages to get his internal crisis under check and begins to run home so he can learn more about this sudden development in the privacy of his room.
On his way home Izuku hears explosions off in the distance, he would normally run to them in hopes of seeing a hero saving the day, but today he has something much more exciting to do at home.
Arriving at home Izuku greets his mom since he was a bit more late coming home from school today. He quickly comes up with an excuse to why he was late instead of the truth.
"Mom sorry i'm late i got caught watching a Hero fight"
Inko gives him a nervous smile before speaking, "Thats ok izuku just be safe I don't want you getting hurt by being too close to them"
Izuku walks towards his room before giving his mom another excuse so she won't walk into his room or disturb him "Okay mom I'll be safe don't worry, but I feel a little sick so I'm going to head to bed early today". At this Inko turns to her son looking worried.
"Oh no honey do you need me to take you some food or medicine?".
Izuku opens the door to his room before turning back to his mom, "No thank you mom, just some extra sleep and I'll be fine trust me I don't need medicine".
Inko sighs, "If you think you only need sleep then I wont bother you but if you start to feel worse don't hesitate to tell me".
"Sure thing mom thank you".
Izuku closes his door before moving to his bed and taking a seat on the edge, now that he was safely home he had time to truly reflect.
He had tried to kill himself and he fully intended to succeed at it. What is wrong with him?
Izuku takes a shaky breath and rests his forehead on his hands as his mind begins to replay the moment over and over in his mind. His mind becomes a jumbled mess as his arms begin to shake and his eyes glaze over. He j-jumped but got saved by that strange suit that absorbed the impact. What-What was it, how did he obtain it, how did he never notice, how-how-how.
Izuku suddenly slumps over and his vision turns black.
The first thing he notices when his sight returns to him is that he is no longer in his room, instead he is viewing a beach he has never seen before and he has no control of his body stuck only as an observer. A deep masculine voice speaks .
"The nanosuit, the greatest tactical combat machine the world has ever known."
Izuku sees a figure covered in the same type of suit that protected him before or as the voice stated the "nanosuit" . Now that he can get a better look at it he sees that the entire body is covered in that black muscle-Like material. Patches of silver decorate the body with 3 especially large portions covering the clavicle, on the lower ribs and protecting the groin. Those red pyramids also are placed all over the body. The helmet is the same silver connecting to a red visor with a gas mask looking portion covering the mouth and nose, no part of the body is left uncovered.
The figure then gains a yellow hue as it rushes towards two men patrolling the area with incredible speed and shoots one with what appears to be an assault rifle.
Izuku recoils in utter shock, he just saw someone get killed! Why did the figure in the nanosuit kill that man, it looked like a soldier of some sort? Was this some military conflict?
The nanosuit warrior places the AR on his back before glowing a bright red and grabs the second soldier by the throat and throws him hard into a tree 15 feet away. The man bounces off the tree and lands on the floor. He doesn't get up.
The scene shifts again, this time Izuku is swimming as hard as he can to reach the surface, his lungs burn and his vision is getting dimmer with each heartbeat. He feels his lungs about to pop before he finally reaches the water's surface.
Taking deep mouthfuls of air he hears someone to his right," Hey it looks like lady liberty took some heavy fire". He turns to his right and sees the statue of liberty in a state of ruin torn apart and ablaze.
There's some other voices but Izuku was too confused to listen. What was going on? Next thing he knows he is being shot at by some ship and the people next to him in the water are all shot dead. Izuku feels his chest take several shots and sees black yet again.
New location a bald British man facing him speaking to him in an angry tone, "Whose face are you wearing under that helmet these days!"
Now he is being dragged through a fiery landscape, a man in a different nanosuit is the one dragging him, "Alcatraz? That's your name Alcatraz?"
Before he can adjust he jumps to a new point of view, this time there is a strong looking dark-skinned man with a full silver bodysuit pointing a gun to his own temple, "They used to call me Prophet, remember me". The gun goes off.
Izuku wakes up screaming.
I'm not sure how to write nightmare sequences so I hope I at least did an acceptable job. Don't worry, in the next chapter we get some genuine nanosuit action. Izuku is going to explore some suit functions.
I feel a bit bad for putting Izuku through the grinder but I feel like being the subject of intense bullying by literally everyone with even his mom not having any faith in him would have him be worse off then he appeared in the show and the nanosuit gave alcatraz some of prophets memories in the form of the prophets journey extras (at least that's how I interpret those extras) so It makes sense to me that Izuku being the 3rd host of the nanosuit 2.0 would gain some of their memories (and possibly ptsd) as the suit merges with him over time.
And final 2 things of note, are these chapters a good length or should I add like an extra thousand words or so it would take a bit longer but if it meant a better viewer experience its worth it and if i include a friend for izuku who should it be i have some ideas in mind but nothing concrete and if it ends up being a girl they could end up becoming the love interest but that is even less concrete of an idea. Ill try to have the next chapter out in under 3 weeks until next time and i hope you enjoyed