In the darkness of space, two spaceships were engaged in a dogfight of sorts, one ship of massive proportions compared to the much smaller ship it was firing at. The larger ship unleashed a barrage of red lasers. Most missed, but one hit, causing a small explosion. The smaller ship spiralled out of control for a few seconds before regaining its control and firing back its own green laser cutting into the haul of the enormous ship.
Inside that said ship a short mechanical humanoid with colours of copper like orange and black body was reading and tapping away at a screen in slight urgency.
"Haul damage 20%, but Weapon systems still operational" The mechanical figure stated, its voice mechanical and cold.
"I have come too far to be denied" a deep grated voice warned, venom in every word.
The Robot glanced at its master—an imposing behemoth with deep red eyes that burned with hatred. His squid-like face twisted into a snarl, his very presence suffocating the room with a palpable aura of menace.
"The Omnitrix must be mine, and there is not a being in the galaxy that dares stand in my way!"
As the creature's words echoed in the room, the ship unleashed another barrage of red lasers, this time blasting a hole into the smaller vessel.
"Defensive systems have been destroyed" another Robot identical to the other informed
"Prepare to board! I want the Omnitrix now"
Before the Robots could follow orders, the smaller ship let loose its final beam in desperation, one much bigger than the previous directly into where the squid-like being sat, an explosion blinding all within.
While at the same time, the bigger ship shot a beam directly into the much smaller ship blowing it apart, from within the now in half ship shot a small bullet-shaped object before coming apart and letting a much smaller ball-like object out, falling towards the colourful planet below.
"You cannot be a hero"
To say young Izuku Midoriya, a teenage boy a bit on the short side with dark green curly hair and freckles, was having a bad day would be an understatement.
First, his once childhood best friend told him to jump off the roof in hopes 'he'd get a quirk in his next life' and also threw his hero notebook into the water.
Then on his way back from school was attacked by a villain, nearly suffocating him to death, before being saved by his favourite hero of all time, All Might!
Just when Izuku thought his luck was finally turning around, his favourite hero told him he couldn't be a hero due to his quirklessness...
After All Might told him the secrets of his injury and told him he couldn't be a hero all might walked away leaving Izuku alone. That's how he now found himself walking aimlessly throughout the city before making his way to a beach if you could even call it that, with it being covered in scrap and rubbish making it resemble more of a scrapyard than an actual beach.
'Even all might said I can't be a hero..' face down ridden, his chest empty and heartbroken.
' I guess it's time I start thinking realistically, guess Kachaan was right after all' staring into the sky with a sad stare, noticing a shooting star in the afternoon sky.
'it's not fair, why couldn't I get a quirk?!' taking a glance at the shooting star a childish idea comes to Izuku.
"I wish to be a hero..." After a moment of nothing happening the young man snorted to himself, thinking of how childish he was being. Looking once more at the shooting star he noticed something, it seemed to be... Getting closer? No that's impossible.
Or so he thought until the shooting star makes a complete 90-degree turn right towards Izuku.
'Just my luck!' he thought letting out a high pitch yelp as he jumped out of the way, getting buried in the sand that exploded up from the impact of the collision.
"Owww" unburying himself and spitting the sand out of his mouth with a grimace, he quickly Walks towards the massive ditch that was made. Looking down to see what fell from the stars.
'Please don't be Aliens please don't be Aliens'
Noticing the metal sphere in the middle of the ditch he hunched over trying to get a better look.
"Looks like a satellite or something!" Wondering if he should contact the police or something Izuku reached into his pocket for his phone, unfortunately, this slight movement caused the ground he was standing on to give out and cause him to fall down into the ditch once again letting out a high pitch scream.
Quickly recovering and running his sore bottom from the fall Izuku made his way towards the sphere, as he got closer it let out a loud his as it seemed to open up admitting a green glow.
Looking in Izuku saw a...
"A watch?" Granted it was a cool-looking watch with its green glow, if not a bit bulky but still a bit underwhelming.
"What's a watch doing in outta space?" Curious, Izuku reached towards it with his left hand, only to immediately freak out when the watch seemed to unfold into a slime-like appearance and launch itself onto his left wrist.
"AHH GET OFF ME GET OFF GET OFF" Swinging his left arm like a madman and spinning around in circles before slipping once more on his butt.
'why'd I just decide to grab a watch from space, am I a idiot?!'
Quickly hopping back up and climbing out of the ditch, Izuku tried pulling the watch off but to no avail, looking around he found a small steel poll. Jamming it in between the watch and his wrist he attempted to play it off, only for the poll to immediately snap.
"Oh man this is so not good"
Looking closer at the strange device he noticed a couple of green buttons, also taking note of the lack of time.
'definitely not a normal watch'
With seemly no way else to get the watch off, Izuku tapped the green button, the watch in response let out a very Sci-fi like noise before the cylinder in the middle popped up along with a silhouette of a humanoid shape.
'Huh?!'
Taking a quick glance around, Izuku slowly pushed the cylinder back down with his index finger.
FLASH
Izukus's vision was blinded by green, his body felt hot, boiling, if not painful for a split second, it felt like a crunchy stretch, his body transforming, red rocks covering him and fire erupting.
Opening his eyes Izuku felt very different, but also familiar in a weird instinctual sort of way, looking around he noticed one thing first.
"I'm taller?!" A very deep and smoker like voice that Izuku could only dream about having came out of his mouth.
"My voice?!" Looking down he noticed something very different.
"AHHHH IM ON FIRE, IM ON FIRE!" Running around like a headless chicken it took Izuku a couple of seconds to process that he wasn't actually burning, well he was, but not in pain.
"W-wait I'm on f-fire, and I'm okay!" Looking at his much bigger hands, he finally paused and took a look at his body, seeing his entire form seemed to be covered in rock and fire. Noticing a strange hourglass symbol on his chest he finally seemed to realise the cause of his new body.
'The watch! It had the same symbol! Did it give me a quirk? Is this even a quirk? Was the green glow some sorta radiation and now I'm a mutated monster!!!?'
His mind raced—panic, awe, disbelief. The sensation of heat crackled over his rocky skin, but the fire didn't hurt. It felt… natural. Alien, but natural. But how was this happening? This wasn't a quirk; it couldn't be. It was something else entirely.
Quickly realising he was panicking he took a moment to calm himself, seeing an old cracked mirror in one of the scrapyard piles he walked up to it and got a good look at his face, he had to admit, he looked pretty damn cool, and the voice certainly helped.
'I gotta get home! Mum will know what to do, or at least take me to a hospital!'
Quickly making his way home he got quite a lot of curious stares his way but no one seemed too worried about him, after all, mutation quirks come in all sorts of ways.
"Looking coo- eh, hot man!" A random bystander said as he walked past.
'well I guess this isn't so bad' Izuku said with a small smile, kinda enjoying the attention.
Suddenly a huge explosion blew into the sky from close by, hearing police sirens in the distance Izuku could only guess it was another villain attack.
Although he had this whole watch situation going on the fanboy inside Izuku couldn't refuse the chance of seeing heroes in action.
"You cannot be a Hero"
The sudden memory at the mention of heroes brought Izuku to a sudden halt remembering the sad truth told to him by All Might.
Shaking his head from these thoughts he made his way towards the explosions, something oddly familiar in the sound, before finally making his way towards the crowd, trying to see the action he moved in between the crowd, people quickly making way for the walking bomb fire in fear of getting burned from touching him.
What he saw made him shake, it was the slime villain from before with some hostage whose face was covered by slime.
'How!? All Might captured him!'
a flash entered Izuku's mind, when he grabbed him he must have dropped the bottles holding him! This was all his fault...
Looking around he saw the heroes holding back, none of their Quirks fit for the situation, then he saw him, the Skinny man that if you told Izuku yesterday was the symbol of peace he woulda laughed in your face, was clutching his wound, steam coming off of his body.
The situation hit the green-haired teenager like a train.
'I'm the one to blame, he wasted his energy on me, he can't power up yet and none of the other heroes have the quirks to stop this monster!"
'it's my fault, I'm sorry, so sorry! Help will show up to save the day I'm sure! Someone, a real hero will come soon!'
The man in the slime's grasp managed to pull his head up, opening his eyes to show -oh no...
Running past the crowd towards the villain, the heroes and civilians could only watch as this Stange fire mutant with an apparent death wish ran towards the Slime villain.
"NO YOU IDIOT STOP!" a muscular hero by the name of DeathArms yelled "YOU'RE GONNA GET YOURSELF KILLED"
"What the?!" The slime villain reeled ready to defend itself as it saw a fire man sprint towards him, his slime bubbling from the heat already.
'W-who?' Katsuki felt the heat before he opened his eyes and saw it, some fire extra was running towards him looking at him with familiar green eyes he felt like he's seen before.
'what am I doing? Why am I running? Why can't I stop? What do I do? What would a hero do?!'
Memories of his page on Endeavour flashed into his brain, clenching his fingers going off pure instincts he span around before hurling a fireball right towards the Slime villain, exploding on impact and splattering the villain into steaming goop puddles all over.
Staring in disbelief for a second at what he just did, he quickly recovered from his shock and pulled Kachaan out of the puddle, said boy let out a grouchy hiss from the scolding hands touching him and singing his uniform.
"S-sorry! Are you okay?" The fiery form asked quickly letting go
"Why'd you do that?!"
"I couldn't just stand there and watch you die!" Stated the fiery mutant, his words striking something in the symbol of peace who was watching from the crowd.
"Don't worry, you don't have to watch, you die along with him!"Turning around the two boys spotted the Slime villain already reformed, the slime bubbling and steaming letting off a putrid sewerage-like smell, raising a blob of slime he got ready to smash the two annoyances into bloody puddles.
"SAVE THE BOY, THIS THING WILL KILL HIM!" The heroes who were watching now getting ready to interfere before it's too late.
Only for the blow to never land, for taking the blow for the boys was the Number 1 hero himself All Might.
"I really am pathetic, pros are always risking our lives, that's the true meaning of being a hero!"
Pulling his arm back, clenching his first.
"DETROIT SMAAAAAASH!" All Might's punch roared through the air, obliterating the villain in a spectacular burst of force, even extinguishing Izuku's flames momentarily.
All Might standing tall raised his arm into the sky as the crowd began to cheer.
"He changed the weather with one punch!"
"All might! All Might!
"He's the goat!"
'So cool!' thought Izuku completely geeking out, trying his hardest to ignore the empty feeling deep down from having his dreams broken by this man. Suddenly he started feeling something though, pain.
Looking at the steam raising of him he and the slight burning that seemed to be getting worse by the second he realised he must be weak to water or something.
'of course I am, I'm a walking campfire!' quickly running away from the crowd as they all fanboyed over All Might, he ducked into a nearby ally that seemed to have a bit of protection from the rain.
'Great now I'm a quirkless weirdo and can't go out in the rain... Wait a minute, I can be a hero! This watch, these fire powers are incredible! Apart from the weakness to water, but still!' just as Izuku was about to go in one of his iconic mumble storms a loud beeping noise brought his attention to his chest, which was currently flashing red.
BEEP BEEP BEEP
In a flash of red light, the watch retracted its energy, and Izuku found himself back in his normal form. Bewildered, he stared at the watch, now a deep crimson.
'Eh? I'm back to me again!' quickly looking at the watch only to see it was now red instead of the green from before.
"Did I break it?! No, I can't lose this—it's my chance to be a hero!" going into a small panic before a gruff voice interrupted him.
"Hey, kid! You see a guy covered in fire come down here?" The gruff voice belonging to DeathArms
"N-no!" Izuku yelped quickly putting his hands behind his back and a strained smile on his face.
"Tch" The hero then walked away back towards the scene of the crime seemly giving up on his search.
'I gotta get home' The green-haired teen said letting out a sigh of relief for getting away with possible vigilante charges.
"What do you mean it's not there?" A pained voice grasped out
The voice was pained because the creature it belonged to was in a bacta tank floating, missing half his body, damaged heavily from the explosion.
"This nearly cost me my life and you say the Omnitrix is no longer aboard the transport?!"
"Our scans have shown use of the Omnitrix being activated, it seems one of the natives of the planet below must have found it my Master" a white figure with a skeletal appearance and fin apon its head, with deep red demonic eyes informed its master
Vilgax clenched his fists, his breathing harsh. The Omnitrix was within his grasp, and now it had slipped away to some backwater planet. He would not be denied again. Whoever had taken what was rightfully his would pay with their life.
"Psyphon, send the Mother Drone, I will have the Omnitrix"
"Of course Master Vilgax" Psyphon bowed before going to do his master's bidding.
"Whoever is in possession of my Omnitrix, will soon be hanging on my trophy wall." Vilgax sneered, his red eyes glaring at the blue planet before him.