-Izuku POV-
The first week was very strange.
After we got back from our trip, one of the first things my mother and I had to do was register the watch as my Individuality. A plan made so that we could explain how I had gotten hold of that object. We had thought about it, because no one would believe that it had come from outer space.
Which is ironic given the world we've been living in lately.
It was one of the hardest things we had to do. Although we made this plan, neither of us are good at lying. Unfortunately. They looked pitiful when they tried to lie, being too nervous to do such a thing, and they even had to practice a lot about what they had to say. And they fortunately succeeded after almost an hour of trying to explain.
And that was strangely the easiest part for him. It was the days at school that were strange.
His classmates and teachers started treating me differently from what I was used to. They talked to me more, treated me with a little more respect. And the teachers no longer interrupted me when I started mumbling a lot in class, at least not the way they used to, when they would slap me upside the head to make me shut up. All this only happened after I was given my 'individuality'.
The only one who didn't act so strange was Kacchan.
He didn't treat me so differently from before, except that he complimented him, in his own way, when he found out about his new power: 'Hmpf! At least you're no longer useless, Deku. Only you'll never surpass me!' And their interactions became lighter than before. He no longer attacked or offended him, and the rest of the class started talking to him more.
This was supposed to be a good thing... but I have a strange feeling about it.
Not about Kacchan. He was normal, it's just that the others kept coming up to him. Many just wanted to know about his new power and how it worked. Of course, I showed them, with the permission of the teachers in the powers training class, and was able to present one of the alien forms to my classmates. Which only made them even more excited than before.
But I think I've already thought too much about it. The focus was different now.
Today, a week later, I'm here on Dagobah beach; this is a beach that was abandoned by people after the tide started bringing garbage onto the beach and some people took the opportunity to get rid of their disposable items as well. The once beautiful landscape was now replaced by piles of garbage of all kinds.
A perfect place for training.
Since I found the watch, I've spent more time trying to learn its basic functions than using its present aliens. Not entirely by his choice, but on his mother's advice to help him stay in the dark at first. He had to wait until this week to register for Individuality. With the registration completed, as a student, I was given permission to train and use my powers in restricted places, away from public places with people around who could get hurt.
Which makes this the perfect place.
An abandoned place with discarded objects that could be used for training without any problems with the law. It's time to train. With only eleven months to go until the AU entrance test, it would be time well spent figuring out how the clock and its aliens work.
And obviously, like any good nerd, I brought one of my notebooks with me.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always carried a few notebooks with me that I use to write down the powers of heroes and villains so that I know the best way to create strategies based on their unique powers and abilities. They're called: Records for the Future. I always imagined that I would gain some kind of power, so I prepared myself to know how to use any kind of ability that came along.
Now, a notebook especially for recording the use and discoveries of the watch and its aliens. Already having a few things written down in relation to.
[-{ANNOTATIONS ABOUT THE CLOCK}-]
[Page 1 - Clock]
-{Basic Information}-
Use: Pressing the green button makes the ring rise, turning it makes the figures of the aliens change and allows you to transform by lowering the ring to the bottom when you have made your choice. Appearance: Clicking with one finger activates the chosen alien, and hitting it hard seems to activate the random mode when choosing the alien.
Duration and recharge time: The duration of each transformation appears to be 10 minutes each, regardless of the transformation chosen. When all the energy is used up or I choose to return to normal, it takes around 5 minutes or less to return to normal and allow the next transformation.
Aliens: So far, only ten usable aliens have been shown. It has not yet been revealed whether there are any other unlockable aliens.
Little information to start with, just enough to begin researching how to use the watch. It was the kick-off to start researching how to use it. In addition to the first page, two others (up to page 3) were saved for use as new notes on the watch, in case new things were discovered.
Now to work: time to test the transformations.
This is exciting!
-Izuku POV OFF-
And so, a month passed with Izuku carrying out various tests on the aliens in the watch. Each of them being cataloged in his special notebook and their abilities recorded for posterity. Starting with one of the most basic...
[Page 4 - Beast]
Physical Description (given by outside spectators): A large orange dog-like creature with no eyes, ears, nose or tail. It is a simian quadruped. Its teeth are very defined and its lower jaw protrudes, having several spines found all over its body and functioning similarly to whiskers with tactile detection.
Abilities:
-Enhanced Hearing and Smell: His "sight" is composed of a monotonous 3D mapping of where his senses originate, similar to a thermograph. Seeing through them since he has no sight. Using it like a sonar/radar, allowing it to perceive its surroundings clearly and being great for tracking.
Sharp Teeth and Claws: It has razor-sharp teeth and claws, which are very useful for digging or cutting against almost anything tested so far.
-Physical Attributes: He has great physical abilities, focused on: Strength, endurance, agility and speed above any average human.
Strengths: He is perfect for tracking and hand-to-hand fighting. His skills, especially agility, allow him to be an excellent combatant in fights that take place in open places.
Weaknesses:
Has sensitive hearing: He can easily be incapacitated by extremely loud sounds, which cause his "sight" to fail, and he can no longer see without his sense of smell or hearing.
Inability to Speak: It is unable to communicate in a conventional way, only being able to let out occasional beastly grunts unrecognizable to ordinary humans.
[Page 6 - Insectoid]
Physical Description: It has an insectoid body and four crab-like legs and two arms with three-clawed hands. It has four small eyes on long prehensile stalks connected to its large head, which can be moved independently of each other. On its back are two very fragile greenish-yellow dragon wings with veins running through them, and its limbs are greenish-brown in color.
Skills:
-Slime Shot: Able to shoot a greenish slime from its eyes or a jet from its mouth, solid enough to stick to and pull something out. It has different properties and can choose the type of slime expelled.
Sharp Tail: It has a tail with a stinger-shaped tip that is sharp enough to tear through anything almost effortlessly. It is also an ultra-sensitive receiver, making it an antenna. In addition to the sharp claws on its paws.
-Physical Attributes: It has quite powerful physical abilities, being good enough to handle light weights.
Strengths: Thanks to its wings, it can fly at high speed and has versatile physical abilities and powers for combat.
Weaknesses:
Vulnerable wings: He has fragile wings that can incapacitate him if they are caught.
Water: Has an extreme weakness to water.
[Page 8 - Aquatic]
Physical Description: It shares many similarities with terrestrial aquatic animals. It has an almost all gray complexion and possesses hands with four fingers, having a pair of legs and transforming into a fishtail with triangular lines.
Abilities:
-Expanding Mouth and Powerful Bite: It can enlarge its mouth, expanding it, having enough strength to destroy things with its bite, in a single blow. The force capacity being enough to crush even a microwave as if it were nothing.
-Sharp Teeth and Claws: He also has claws sharp enough to cut through various things.
-Aquatic Abilities: He is an aquatic species that allows him to breathe in water, moving faster in it and having more underwater battle abilities.
-Enhanced Physical Abilities: It has enhanced physical abilities like other aliens, being only a little above human level.
Strengths: Possesses superhuman physical abilities underwater and a super-powerful bite force.
Weaknesses:
Land: Can't use all its abilities out of water.
Heat: If exposed to intense heat, it dehydrates and becomes extremely weak and vulnerable to attacks.
[Page 10 - Flame]
Physical Description: A plasma-based life form whose body is composed of a body of superheated internal plasma covered in dark reddish-brown volcanic its collarbone resembles a volcano that generates a "hair" of fire. that covers its head, leaving its mask-like face visible, with no nose or ears. As a fire-based entity, its body radiates large amounts of heat. Its feet have a slightly oval design, with only two toes and a back toe. Its tongue is also made of fire.
Abilities:
-Pyrokinesis: Can generate and control powerful flames, capable of shaping them into various forms such as: lightning, balls, a plank, etc. Probably in the same way as the hero Endeavor and shaping himself in any way he prefers. The heat is intense enough to melt a small fridge in an instant.
-Physical attributes: Possesses agility and very high speeds, especially with the flame board he can create.
Strengths: He radiates a large amount of heat, which allows him to carry out powerful attacks with a large scale of destruction and versatile abilities for movement and attacks. His abilities allowing him to have great agility to carry out attacks.
Weaknesses:
Water: If he gets wet or is exposed to some kind of heat nullifier, his abilities are deactivated and he ends up becoming nothing more than burnt rocks. It also takes a while to warm up again and return to full power.
[Page 12 - XLR8]
Physical Description: It resembles a semi-armored Velociraptor. It has black orbs on its feet, a black tail with five blue stripes and bulky claws on three fingers that can only open and close. He wears a black cone-shaped helmet with a protective visor that slides over his face (which I discovered is not mechanical but biological). When the visor is raised, you can see his blue face, green eyes, black lips and stripes running under and between his eyes; the rest of the features of his head are unknown. XLR8 wears black overalls and a turtleneck shirt with a white stripe down the center.
Abilities:
-Enhanced Speed and Agility: He has enough speed to see the world around him in slow motion, and is fast enough to move on various surfaces such as walls and even water.
-Vortex generation: It can move in a circle so fast that it can generate a mini-vortex or even a mini-tornado that sucks in the things around it.
Strengths: Thanks to his super speed, he is fast enough to resolve issues quickly, as well as having a capacity for perception and analysis as fast as his speed. With his speed, he is also able to cause a lot of damage on impact.
Weaknesses:
Tail: If the tail is caught, the alien loses the ability to move until whatever is holding it is removed.
Slippery Surfaces: Whether it's ice or something sticky like goo, it's capable of trapping its legs.
Straight Line: Most of the time; when in motion, he tends to keep running in a straight line, even around bends, only changing when jumping to avoid them.
[Ghostfreaker]
Physical Description: A ghostly alien with a gaseous appearance and claw-like hands, and gray skin with black lines running the length of its body on it.
Abilities:
-Intangi/Invisibility: He possesses the ability to become both intangible and invisible to his targets, being able to dodge physical attacks easily and pass through physical objects or living beings easily.
-Possession: He can possess and control objects.
-Ghost Abilities: Can induce knockout and cold. As well as being able to float/fly a few meters above the ground.
-Tentacles: It has black tentacles with white stripes, can throw them at various targets and are sharp enough to create holes in metal or stone.
Strengths: It is perfect for missions or actions that require acting in total silence.
Weaknesses:
Physical strength: Despite being quite strong, he is still physically weak compared to other aliens.
Sunlight: Becomes weaker when exposed to sunlight and stronger in dark places.
[Page 16 - Four-armed]
Physical Description: A humanoid alien three meters tall. le has well-developed muscles, two pairs of arms with four fingers and red skin. A black stripe runs from his chin to his lower lip, and he has four eyes: a main pair and a smaller pair below them, but no ears or nose. He has moustache-like spikes on each forearm.
Skills:
-Enhanced Physical Abilities: He is quite a physically strong alien, being also quite tough and fast (via jumping) and with enhanced agility. His four strong arms are equally strong.
Sonic Boom: With a flick of his hands he can generate a shockwave powerful enough to cause large-scale destruction.
Strengths: It's a great alien for hand-to-hand combat and destructive capabilities are great enough thanks to its enhanced physical strength.
Weaknesses:
Size: Because of its large size, it is sometimes unable to enter or deal with tight spaces.
[Page 18 - Diamondhead]
Physical Description: A life form based on silicon. His body is made up entirely of light blue/green crystals, which are made of a very resistant and durable diamond-like substance. He sports four crystal shards on his back and has a sharp head. Yellow eyes and wore a sleeveless uniform that was black on the right half and white on the left with a black patch on the left shoulder.
Abilities:
-Crystallokinesis: He is able to create and manipulate the same material his body is made of, being able to create barriers or even throw skewers with his crystal powers.
-Body Change: He can shape his body with the crystals present in it. It can create spikes on its back or shape its limbs in different ways, generating blades or weapons like hammers or things like a flail.
-Regeneration: Even if the crystals are destroyed, it can regenerate.
Strengths: He is a very strong alien with enormous stamina and durability to deal with long combats.
Weaknesses:
[Unknown so far]
[Page 20 - Upgrade]
Physical Description: It has a black exterior with green stripes that resemble circuits all over it. The green circle on his head is his eye, which glows whenever he speaks. The front torso being white in color.
Abilities:
-Technological Possession: Can possess the technological equipment of any medium. When he unites with something, he can use it as if he were part of it from the start.
-Technological Enhancement: When you possess technological devices, you can enhance them to their peak and beyond. And you can improve anything by coming into direct contact with it.
Strengths: Can merge with any technology and improve it to a level never seen before, being good enough to improve even weak devices into powerful weapons. His alterations last even after the transformation is complete, provided the work is done correctly.
Weaknesses:
Defective Technology: When its constructions are made with imperfect or defective materials, it is capable of malfunctioning and self-destructing after a few moments of separation.
[Page 22 - Grey Matter]
Physical Description: A bipedal, gray-skinned, frog-like alien only 15 centimeters tall with large green eyes that have rectangular pupils and horizontal eyelids. He wears white overalls with a thin vertical black stripe down the front, his eyes were yellowish-green , his forehead had a larger version of the stripe on the overalls.
Abilities:
-Super-Intelligence: Gifted with super-intelligence, capable of surpassing beyond the basic limit. With the ability to build all kinds of technology, even those with no previous experience, his skills focus on building super-objects.
-Physical Abilities: It can stick to walls or other surfaces and has sharp enough teeth to bite and cause minimal damage, as well as doing well enough underwater.
Strengths: Can create very useful objects for combat or other various situations.
Weaknesses:
Physical abilities: Because of its small size, it is physically weak for combat.
These were all the notes Izuku had taken since the start of his training, almost a whole month of training to be able to handle each transformation. He hadn't been able to test all the strengths and weaknesses of each alien. But he had made some very interesting discoveries, especially in testing the last two aliens, which had proved very useful for some of his future training.
And after another day of training, Izuku was tired and wiping himself with a towel after training again with the Diamond.
"Haha! A good day's training, young man?" a voice asked him as the greenish man climbed the steps to the beach. Izuku looked at the figure with surprise. It was a very thin man, with angular features and long limbs, an extended neck and absent eyebrows. His hair is wavy, with two long strands coming down from his hairline and framing his face, wearing a white blouse and green pants. He walked up to the young man, "I see you've worked hard again today." He commented, crossing his arms.
"Huh, hummm? Yes, I did." Izuku replied nervously.
The man looked at the beach: "You chose well to take this place to train." He said: "People have started to take advantage of this place to throw away their garbage, haven't they? You must have known that, right?" he continued.
"Yes. I knew that." He looked at the landscape. "I thought it would be good since a lot of people started to stop coming after it got full of garbage. And I decided to use this place, since most people wouldn't mind this garbage being destroyed." He answered the man's questions "Oh, I'm sorry, but who are you? And have you ever seen me training here?" he asked.
"Hahaha! I'm sorry." The man scratched the back of his head as he laughed. I've seen you training here. One day, I was passing by, checking the place out, you know? Since it always made me sad to see the state of this place. I even thought I'd start cleaning up after myself, and that's when I saw you." He revealed, his smile becoming more animated. I've seen how hard you've worked this month.
"Oh, yeah." Izuku scratched his head nervously, "It's just that I'm training. I don't know if you know, in ten months' time there'll be the UA entrance test. And-"
"And you want to train to get in, I see." He laughed, amused and excited to hear the young man's words. Keep training and you'll get in soon, of course, if you work hard enough. And what is your power, young man?" he asked. "I've seen your transformations and some of your abilities, but I still don't quite understand. Would you mind explaining? Just to make this old man curious?
"Of course." Izuku animatedly showed the watch on his wrist. "This is my way of using my... power." His expression almost fell when he had to lie about it. "I activate it, spin around, choose a figure and I can transform into ten alien forms... as I like to call them, you see." Quickly and nervously, he re-explained the transformations, lying about the aliens. "I stay like this for ten minutes and then I have to wait a while before I transform again.
"Impressive," the man said with surprise, taking a closer look at his watch. I found your abilities quite impressive, young man, especially with your powers for different situations.
"Thank you." The greenish man blushed at the words.
"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Yagi Toshinori." The blond extended his hand in greeting.
"Izuku Midoriya." He extended his own and shook his hand in return, both hands clasped tightly.
"Do you want some advice?" Toshinori spoke again, Izuku nodding as they released hands. "You still have some things you need to practice, young Midoriya. Here..." He pointed to his head "here..." Then to his body "and here." And then he pointed to the young man's heart.
"Hum?" The greenish man was confused.
"As I said, I've watched you train over the last few weeks and I've noticed a crucial flaw, young man: You're becoming dependent on your powers." He crossed his arms. "If you want to become a hero, you first have to learn some important fundamentals and the importance of training beyond your powers. Your body must be as strong as your powers in order to become stronger. You know what I mean, don't you?" he asked.
"My body..." Izuku looked at himself, until something clicked in his head.
When Midoriya stopped to think about all his training during this month, or even before he received his watch, he never stopped to train his body. What would happen if he didn't have his transformations to help him? It was foolish not to think about it beforehand, even though there were heroes who also did the same thing.
Eraser Head, the undergroud hero, was someone with a powerful but not fully functional Individuality. He could erase Individualities of the Emission type or others that can be switched off, but not mutants. Powers that cause permanent physical mutations could not be deactivated. To this end, he trained his body to be able to fight against villains of this type.
Even with his power, he would still be considered a normal human physically and he was someone inspiring for being able to do something like that: "I... understand." He nodded, finally understanding what the man in front of him meant.
"Great. Quick thinking, that's good." Toshinori nodded excitedly "And you already have a good place to train." He pointed to the rubbish dump. "Here, there are several kinds of things, light or heavy, good enough to train your body. To start with, you can work on your arms and legs." He began to speak and then noticed the young man with a notebook in his hands.
"How could I not realize this before? Not only need to learn how to use the watch and the aliens, I need to be able to deal with threats even without the transformations, it is necessary to have a well-trained body to deal with the situation. Could this affect the transformations too? And if I train with them, would my body change too? Mumble, mumble, mumble." He started to say the word mumble over and over again.
Yagi stared at him for a while and listening to him mumble intensely for a few moments: "Young man...? " He poked him in the head "Young man...?" He continued to poke him in the head "YOUNG MIDORIYA!" He shouted, making him stop talking when he was startled by Toshinori's scream "What was that? Did something go wrong or something...?"
"Oh, no, no." Midoriya laughed nervously "It's just that sometimes I get so focused on things that I end up doing that, you know? Talking uncontrollably about the same subject until it turns into just a pile of mumbling. But, I thought about what you said: It makes sense to train my body to adapt to the challenges that might come. I'm just thinking about how to do it right." He explained.
"Hahaha!" Yagi laughed with an amusedly laugh, excitedly "Young Midoriya, I like you." He patted the green-haired young man on the shoulder "If you allow me, I would like to help you in any way I can." He said.
"Help me? Why?" The young man asked in confusion.
"As I said; I've been watching you, I've seen your effort and I see potential in your skills and in your heart. What kind of person would I be if I didn't polish that raw potential?" Yagi laughed, excited, patting him in comfort "Sure, if you allow this old man to help you." He said.
"Hmmm. Sure." Izuku nodded, accepting "Will I have to pay or...?"
"With money? No. I'll just ask that you try hard and don't give up on my training, no matter how intense it is." Yagi asked.
"I promise not!" Izuku nodded in acceptance, before realizing something with wide eyes "I need to go now, I'm sorry. I have to go home early, understand? Can we start tomorrow?"
"Sure, of course. I'll come back tomorrow, at the same time you showed up today and we can start training your body." Toshinori said, accepting the request "Come home safely." He said.
"I understand, thank you." Izuku waved as he said goodbye and ran away.
Yagi waved too, saying goodbye. The man found that interesting and amusing with an excited look at the young man who ran away. He had seen some young people like that before, many, but this one was different, there was something about that young man that reminded him of himself when he was younger.
Maybe he has the potential to become a great hero in the future.
Moments later, he heard a small explosion a little far away and he turned his face towards it: -Well, service calls.- In an instant, his body began to grow; He went from his skinny body to a muscular state and his fallen hair rose and pointed upwards.
Yagi Toshinori, the great hero: All Might.
