5,306Hello everyone I know it's been a while since I have updated anything. My life has gone over some major changes lately and I have had some time to reflect on my past writings. After which I was inspired to writ this one and I hope to keep up with it as best as I can. I hope to update at least once a week but there is no confirmed update schedule. I really hope you enjoy this latest work of mine.
Important Author's Note and end of chapter.
Ch.1 Izuku Midoriya's Time
"People are not born equal. That's the hard truth I learned at age four. But that was my first and last setback."
"It all began in Keiki City in China with the news that a bioluminescent baby was born. After that the "exceptional" individuals began popping up all over the world."
"The cause was unclear. There are many theories from rats carrying a mutating virus, to human evolution, even vampire bees… or it could have simply been an accident that was beyond our control or knowledge."
"Time passed and the "exceptional" became the norm. Fantasy became reality! At present 80% of the world's population consists of superhumans with special abilities. The world fell into chaos. And a new profession that everyone once only dreamed about entered the spotlight! Along with the exceptional abilities came an explosion in crime rate. While nations struggled to overhaul their legal systems, brave individuals took up the mantle of heroes straight out of comic books. Protecting the people from evildoers! With public support, some quickly acquired the right to serve as heroes in an official capacity."
"Fantasy became reality."
"My name is Izuku Midoriya and this is the story of how I became one of the world's great hero… and arguably the greatest hero of other worlds as well."
Izuku Midoriya happily writes about the newest hero that debuted that same morning into his notebook, titled "Hero Analysis for the Future #13". This is a little, or big, hobby of his: to analyze quirks, fighting techniques, and even the personalities of any and all heroes that he is able to find. Hopefully, a lot of this information can help support his dream and if not it's a great way to keep his mind active.
While he's engaging himself, his homeroom teacher swats a stack of papers across his desk and proclaims how it's time for the third-year class to start taking their future careers seriously. He, however, assumes that most of his students wish to become heroes. The students cheer in response proving his assumption correct.
One of his classmates, an old childhood friend named Katsuki Bakugou, scoffs at their classmates' cheers. He proceeds to spout on about his own superiority by declaring how he'll enter U.A. High, the birthplace of heroes, and surpass even All Might, the Number One Hero.
Meanwhile, Izuku tries to be as invisible as possible, but that proves difficult, especially as the teacher carelessly mentions that he too wants to attend U.A. This, of course, results in the entire class laughing and mocking him. Not exactly the best way to start the day.
As Izuku tries to explain his reasoning, Bakugou slams his hand down setting off an explosion that knocks the cinnamon bun off his desk. "COME ON, DEKU!" The maniac towers over the cowering Izuku. "You're totally Quirkless. And you think you can rub shoulders with me?!"
Izuku futilely scoots away. "Wa-wait, no, Kacchan. I wasn't trying to compete with you! Not at all! It's just… been my dream. Since I was little, and well… there's no harm in trying…"
"TRY?! Try what?! The Entrance Exam?!" Sparks and smoke from Bakugou's palms threaten to end Izuku's very existence. "What can you even do?!"
It's always like this ever since Izuku was classified as Quirkless. This only justified what Bakugou had already known. That he's better than everybody else, especially Izuku. Bakugou had always had a giant ego thinking that he's the most important and best person to have ever walked this goddamn planet. Because he was lucky, lucky to be born with a powerful quirk, a gift that he didn't earn and arguably didn't deserve. But that's reality. Sometimes those undeserving are given what others could only dream of having. However, there is always a chance that something will change one's destiny.
In a galaxy far, far-actually in a galaxy very, very close… so close in fact that it's the same galaxy, two spaceships are locked in an epic chase.
A large menacing ship with lava red sacs around the temples and a forward gun that makes up the frontal half of the main haul is firing lasers upon a small blue ship with green markings. The tiny spacecraft swiftly dances around the shower of lasers. However, despite its speed the large cruiser is able to keep up and land a few solid hits. That said the tiny ship is not without its own means of attack. The speedy spacecraft simultaneously aims two lasers at the large haul carving into its side resulting in a few explosions.
From inside the battleship's bridge many black and red humanoid drones monitor and operate the ship's functions and guns.
"Haul damage 20%," a drone turns to its master from its post at a monitor. "but the system is still operational."
The commander of the battleship leans forward in his throne his red eyes following the flight of their target.
The commander of the ship is a real freak of nature especially since his head resembles that of an octopus. His tentacles dangle from the front of his face, like a beard. His skin is pale-green with yellowish spots, noticeably he doesn't have a nose nor visible ears. He dawns a black and red-brownish armored suit with spiked shoulder and arm pads.
The commander smashes his fist against the armrest. "I have come too far to be denied. The Omnitrix shall be mine, and there is not a being in the galaxy that dare stand in my way!"
The battleship continues its onslaught; however, the little ship is clearly having trouble keeping its lead. A single shot hits the rear engine causing the end of the blue ship to explode.
The commander watches from his throne. "Prepare the cannon! We will salvage the Omnitrix from the remains."
As the enemy's large frontal cannon charges, a green sphere from atop the tiny ship fires a green energy beam right at the bridge of the cruiser. The impact sets off a chain reaction of explosions that decimates the tower of the battleship with the commander inside. The octopus-faced being is sent flying back screaming in pain as flames and shrapnel tear his body apart.
Meanwhile, the cannon finishes charging and fires a large beam at the blue ship. 80% of the ship is blown away leaving the main haul somewhat intact. Just before the haul is ripped apart by the vacuum of space a silver pod is launched out of the haul. The pod flies through space until reaching the atmosphere of the blue and green planet below. The spherical pod crashes into the ocean, a large cloud of steam rises from the water as the pod floats back up to the surface. As the spherical pod bobs about the water the ocean currents begin to push the pod towards where it's meant to be.
The school day finally ends. Izuku scrolls through his phone reading up on the incident from that morning. He reaches for his hero notebook only for it to be swiped away.
Bakugou holds the notebook up. "We ain't done here, Deku."
Bakugou's cronies laugh and jeer upon seeing the title of the notebook.
"C-come on. Give it back!" Izuku begs.
Bakugou sneers and claps his hands together destroying the journal with a burning explosion. Izuku yelps in surprise as Bakugou unceremoniously throws it out the window.
"The best heroes out there, well they showed signs of greatness even as students. I'm a perfectionist. I'll be the first and only hero from this crappy public middle school! The first to win the honor of becoming a student at U.A. High." Bakugou sneers and grabs Izuku's shoulder. Smoke rises from his grip. "In other words, don't you dare get into U.A." A vindictive gleam from Bakugou's eyes dares Izuku to challenge him.
Izuku is shaking, sweat dripping from his face, he can't even look Bakugou in the eye in fear of what his tormentor would do. Even so he tries to say something; he opens his mouth, but words fail to form giving Bakugou and his cronies an opportunity to belittle him.
From seemingly nowhere a firm hand grabs Bakugou's arm and flings it away while also pushing the blonde backwards.
Bakugou screeches, "WHAT THE FUCK!?"
A cool mocking voice sneers back at the bomber. "Sheesh, you really think you can be a hero when you act like that?" The newcomer combs back his greasy black hair. "Not to mention that foul mouth of yours."
The mere presence of this person is enough to snap Izuku out of his daze. "Henzu?"
Bakugou growls as he eyes the intruder, behind him his cronies back off in fear of the new arrival. "Uuichi, what are you doing here."
Henzu Uuichi smirks in response, as if looking for trouble is fun for him "What? Just because I'm in a different class doesn't mean I can't visit my best friend." With that Henzu slings an arm over Izuku's shoulders.
Henzu Uuichi is a tall and fit young man with shoulder-length black hair, pale skin, and dark brown eyes with black-discolored marks around them, almost as if he hasn't slept for a period of time. His attire screams degenerate with his shirt untucked and unbuttoned, even the sleeves are ripped off, and his pants are ripped, he also wears a padlock necklace with the number 11 on it.
Bakugou's growl deepens as his hands begin to spark and smoke. "Back off, Uuichi."
"Now Blasty, that's no way to greet a friend." Henzu lets go of Izuku and pushes him back away from the hothead. As he does this, his other hand reaches for his back pocket.
"Shut up, you BASTARD!" Bakugou blasts the taller teen.
Izuku and the cronies are blinded by the flash they cover their eyes from the smoke and dust.
Bakugou smirks in satisfaction but it quickly turns into shock. Henzu stands there completely unscaved, well his clothes are slightly burnt but his uniform is so messed up already that it makes no difference, his entire body appears to have changed from skin and flesh to iron.
Bakugou tsks and balls his fists, his glare is so intense you would think that he's trying to blow Henzu up with his mind.
Izuku begins mumbling to himself. "That was Henzu's quirk: Osmosis. It can absorb nearly any type of solid matter that he comes into contact with and it allows him to transform his entire body into the substance. He can also absorb energy, mainly electricity, and discharge it. But admittedly he does become more erratic and unpredictable when he does absorb energy. It's both a power and versatile quirk wi-"
"SHUT UP, DEKU!"
"AH, sorry!"
"Sheesh," Henzu jabs a finger into his ear in an attempt to recover his hearing. "do you ever stop shouting?"
Sparks fly out of Bakugou's palms. "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
Henzu glares at the blonde "Go home, Blasty."
"Huh?!"
"I said hit the road." He slides a large steel wrench out from his back pocket. "Or are we going to have a problem?"
The sparks from Bakugou's hands die down as he eventually balls them into fists.
Izuku watches from the sidelines. 'Henzu's amazing! He's probably the only one at this school that can rival Kacchan. The only reason Bakugou doesn't go after him is because Henzu has no desire to be a hero. In fact… he's a thug! Seriously, the first time we met he actually threatened me for my money! He can also pick locks! Locks!'
"Hey, Izuku."
'I'm pretty sure he's stolen a car before… maybe… 40% sure.'
"Izuku."
'Also, there was that time he walked in with a blood stain on his shirt. He said it was fine since it wasn't his.'
"Hey."
'And there was that other time-'
Thump! Thump! Thump!
"Quite spacing out!" Henzu shouts as he bangs his knuckles against Izuku's skull. While Izuku was spacing out he had placed the wrench back into his pocket and his skin had returned to normal.
"Oh, sorry Hechan!"
"Dude, don't call me that."
"Oh, right sorry. Hey where's Kacchan?!"
The black-haired teen jabs a thumb at the door. "They left already."
"Oh, okay…" Izuku's eyes fall back to the floor as an awkward silence falls over them.
Henzu takes a breath before looking Izuku in the eye. "So, you going to tell me what that was about?"
And like that Izuku is reduced to the cowering Deku from before. "O-oh, um, nothing! It's just Kacchan being Kacchan."
"Izuku?"
"Y-yeah?"
"Why do you call him that?"
"W-what?!"
"Blasty, why do you call him Kacchan?"
"Well… um, he's-"
"Not your friend." Izuku's eyes snap up to look at Henzu. "Come on Izuku why do you defend him? Do you think he's going to pay your respect back? Do you think that you owe him something?"
Izuku can't come up with an answer.
"I mean, I get it. It would be useless to report him to the teachers or the principal." Henzu's face scrunches up in anger. "This society will bend over backwards to please those that they view as perfect… as hero worthy. And they'll trample anyone who doesn't fit that mold."
Izuku's heart drops as he lets those words sink in and he does have to agree. Even if he went to a teacher for help, he'll most likely be ignored or called a liar. And it would all be so Bakugou could be a hero.
"I know it sounds harsh but face it dude." He points directly at Izuku's chest. "You don't have a quirk," Using his other hand he touches a nearby outlet on the wall. "you can't do what Blasty and I can do." He pulls his hand away from the outlet and electricity sparks out from his fingertips. "You have to face reality, alright?"
"Yeah… but I can… try." A tear falls with Izuku's spirit.
Silence occurs between the two. Neither, knowing what to do or say.
"Sheesh, I can't take this!"
That's enough to distract Izuku from his depression. "Huh?!"
"Come on, let's get the hell out of here. I got a friend who can hook us up with some sweet car parts, that may or may not have been stolen. Though I have to admit the guy's a rat and I mean literally he's actually a rat, but with porcupine quills."
Izuku thinks about it but decides against it. He's just not feeling up to hanging out right now. "Thanks, Henzu. But I should head home."
"You sure?"
Izuku simply nods his head in response his eyes don't meet the taller teen's gaze.
"Alright, I'll see you later dude. And try not to let Blasty walk all over ya, kay?"
"Okay…"
And with that Henzu takes off to who knows where leaving Izuku to his thoughts. As Izuku heads home and retrieves his notebook from a fish pond, his thoughts recount his latest encounter with his former friend and his current friend the entire time. Admittedly they have some very good points. Why bother trying? He's quirkless. How can he ever hope to become a hero let alone pass the U.A. Entrance Exam? How can someone so powerless so useless hope to become a hero?
He remembers an old video that he loved to watch as a kid. Where All Might saves a hundred lives and all with a gigantic and inspiring smile on his face. And he remembers that despite how hopeless, despite being quirkless, no matter how many people doubt him, he must continue to smile.
With a determined look he straightens up and tries to mimic All Might's laugh. 'I have to keep my chin up and keep moving forward!'
Unknown to the turmoiled youth, a green sludge begins to ooze its way out from the sewers and reform itself into a monstrous shape.
The sludge gurgles as eyes form from the top of the abomination. "A medium sized skin suit to hide in…"
And just like that Izuku found himself surrounded by the nasty substance. The sludge swirled around his body clawing towards his face.
The villain's mouth forms above Izuku's head. "Don't worry. I'm just hijacking your body. It'll only hurt for a few seconds. Then It'll all be over."
Izuku's notebook falls to the ground as he claws at the villain's fluid body but it's no use. 'I can't breathe! My body… getting weak… I'm dying! I'm gonna die?!' His struggling weakens. 'Someone help! I'm dying!' Tears stream out from the poor boy's eyes as sludge and despair consume him. His vision turns to black.
Suddenly a manhole cover is launched away and from it appears a man that is the epiphany of heroism, All Might!
"I AM HERE… TEXAS SMASH!"
The Sludge Villain never stood a chance as his entire body is blown away by the sheer power of All Might's punch. The hero moves so quickly he is able to siphon the villain into a soda bottle he happened to be carrying.
"ANOTHER JOB WELL DONE. HM?" All Might looks over and notices Izuku unconscious on the ground.
"OOPS, I HOPE I DIDN'T HURT HIM." Bending down the muscular hero checks the kid's pulse. 'HE'S BREATHING. THAT'S GOOD AND I DON'T SEE ANY INJURIES.'' Doing a quick scan of the area All Might notices a notebook. 'WHAT'S THIS?' All Might grabs the burnt journal and opens it up. 'AH, SO HIS NAME IS IZUKU MIDORIYA.' He continues to scroll through the pages and reads a couple of entries. 'WOW, THESE ARE WRITTEN IN GREAT DETAIL. MY THESE ARE VERY IMPRESSIVE. HE MUST HAVE SOME KIND OF ANALYSIS TYPE QUIRK.' After checking out a few more pages All Might suddenly slams the book closed. 'WAIT! I CAN'T GO THROUGH HIS STUFF, ESPECIALLY IF I WAS THE ONE WHO KNOCKED HIM OUT. HMMM, HA, I KNOW. I'LL GIVE HIM AN AUTOGRAPH! YES!' All Might skips to the first clean page he finds and signs it. 'BUT SERIOUSLY I SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT HE'S OKAY.' The giant bends down and begins to lightly slap Izuku's face.
"HEY! … HEY! … HEY! OH, THANK GOODNESS."
Izuku's eyes fly open and in front of him stands the greatest hero known to man, the Number One Hero, the Symbol of Peace, ALL MIGHT! He's absolutely amazing, he's larger than life with an immortal smile and amazing hair. He's even drawn differently. And it gets better, All Might even signed Izuku's hero notebook already.
"Wowww! Thank you so much! It'll be my family heirloom!"
'I SHOULD HAVE FIGURED THAT HE WAS A FANBOY.' All Might waves him off. "NOW I MUST BRING THIS FELLOW TO THE STATION! SEE YOU ON THE FLIPSIDE!"
"Um! Wait… I…"
"A PRO BATTLES NOT ONLY ENEMIES BUT ALSO TIME."
"Wait! I need to ask you something!"
"SORRY, NO TIME. TRY SENDING A MESSAGE THROUGH MY SITE." And with that the Number One Hero launches himself into the air. "THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!"
While in midair All Might can't help but notice some extra weight. "HM?" The hero takes a look. "HEY, NOW!" Clinging to his leg is the green fanboy. "Hey, LET GO! I LOVE MY FANS BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH!"
Izuku struggles to speak in with the wind. "If I… let go now… I'll die!"
"OH, THAT'S A GOOD POINT."
"I… need to ask you… something… All Might-GAH!"
"OKAY, OKAY, JUST COVER YOUR EYES AND MOUTH." Izuku shuts his eyes and uses All Might's leg as a shield to block the wind.
As All Might grabs the kid's back, he can't help but feel his throat scratching at him. "Ahem… NN…" A trickle of blood forms from the side of his mouth. 'DAMN!'
After a few minutes of falling with style, the two of them land on top of an apartment building where the greenette keels over wheezing in fear while All Might instructs him on knocking on the door until someone lets him down. And with that All Might prepares to jump once again.
"Wait! Um…"
"NO! I WILL NOT WAIT."
Mustering what little courage he has Izuku asks the fated question. "Can someone without a quirk… become a hero like you?!"
All Might pauses, considering the young man's question. "WITHOUT A QUIRK…" Suddenly a sharp pain courses through All Might as steam begins to pour out of his body. 'OH NO… DAMN IT ALL…'
"I'm a kid without any powers. That's why… maybe that's why… I think that saving people is just about the coolest thing someone can do." His speech and fondness for heroes gets to him and finally he smiles cheerfully at his hero with great admiration. "The way you save people with that fearless smile! I want to be a great hero, just like y-WHAAAAAT!?"
Slouched in front of the surprised teen is a skinny blonde-haired skeleton. After freaking out for a minute the crippled All Might explains his condition. He explains that he was injured 5 years ago and now he can only do hero work for about 3 hours a day. Even now this information is strictly classified and not known to the public if that were to occur chaos and villainy would surely ensue. So Izuku promises not to go blabbing about it. At the end, All Might brings the conversation back to Izuku's question.
"A Symbol of Peace who saves people with a smile must never be daunted by evil. The reason I smile is to stave off the overwhelming pressure I feel."
This revelation is a major shock to Izuku; the hope in his heart begins to fade.
"A hero should always be ready to risk his life. As for your question…"
Izuku's heart cracks as despair begins to take root. His mind reels back to the years of torment he's faced by the hands of Bakugou, the laughter and mocking of his classmates, the indifference of strangers and his teachers, the lack of support from his mother, and how his father is no longer present in his life. One can only assume why he left.
"…No, I don't think you can become a hero without a quirk."
And just like that Izuku's dream is crushed. "…Ah…"
All Might tries to give the boy some comfort with little effect. He says something about how noble it is to help others and that if he wants to do good then he should just join the police, but nothing really registers with Izuku's broken spirit.
Except for the last thing that the Number One Hero says to him. "It's not wrong to dream. But you need to be realistic."
And with that the injured hero leaves the boy to his inner sorrow and pain.
All Might rubs his head sighing in grief. 'That could have gone better. Maybe I should have been a bit easier on the kid, afterall I know where he's coming from.' All Might reaches for the bottle in his pocket. "Now to get you to the station… huh?" Swiveling back and forth All Might becomes very aware that he lost the sludge villain. 'Damnit!'
The bottled villain moans in pain as his vision returns "Where am I? What happened?" The Sludge Villain realizes that he's still under the same bridge. He recalls attacking the green-haired kid and then getting beaten by All Might. "Oh, yeah he showed up." He shakes with rage from within his plastic prison. "Damn you, All Might!"
"Well, what do we have here?" asks a sarcastic male voice.
The villain peers up and sees a kid with greasy black-hair.
"Hey, kid! Let me out will ya!"
The kid's grin mischievously. "Sure, I'll help you out. You villain."
"Thanks kid I really-wait what did you say?"
"Please you're a pile of sludge and your stuck inside a bottle. Obviously, a hero must have done this to ya. Am I right?"
"So, what if they did. Listen if you don't release me then I'll-"
"You'll what?" The kid grabs onto a nearby light post, electricity sparks out of the pole and flows towards the teen's body. "Kill me?" The kid raises his other hand and from it electricity discharges striking the ground and metal nearby. The teen's grin widens with malice. "You can go ahead and try."
The villain doesn't respond now that he understands the full scope of his situation. Electricity is one of the few things that can actually hurt him.
"To be honest if you are a villain than I'm more inclined to help ya."
"Huh? Really?" This honestly take the Sludge Villain by surprise.
"Yeah, you bet. But there's something you gotta do for me."
"Sure, anything you want."
"Hehe, There's someone I want you to get rid of for me."
Izuku is in a daze as he stumbles home. He's too stunned to notice what direction he's walking in. He's so out of it that he barely blinks an eye when he falls over the ledge of the local beach. He lands roughly on the sand below, luckily without getting to many bruises. Sitting up Izuku hazily peers at all the garbage towering over him. Sighing he pushes himself up and slowly trudges his way through the mounds of trash.
'Even… the best of the best said it…' His tears refuse to stop flowing. 'Don't cry! You knew already, right?! This is reality… It's because I knew… that I tried so damned hard.'
Izuku eventually makes it through the junk and arrives at the ocean. Looking out towards the sunset his mind begins to wander. 'Everyone was right.' He turns his head towards a nearby trash pile. 'I'm like this beach, nothing but useless junk and a waste of space.' He rubs his nose in an attempt to stop the tears. 'If… if only… I had a quirk.' He starts walking towards the nearest trash heap which also happens to be the one closest to the ocean. 'If I had a quirk than maybe I wouldn't be so useless…' He peers down at the lowest part of the junk pile which sits within the shallow water. His fist balls up as he stares down at the scraps of metal. 'Maybe people would care about my dreams if I had a quirk.' He scowls and his fists tighten. 'Maybe Dad would still be around if I had a quirk!' Izuku screams at the top of his lungs. "WHY CAN'T I HAVE A QUIRK!?" He kicks the trash as hard as he could, putting all of his anger into it.
Unfortunately, it did not have the desired effect. "AAAHHHHH!" Izuku grabs his, possibly broken, foot and falls backward. He screams in pain as he rolls across the beach in agony.
"That… was not… the best idea!" Izuku leans forward. "What the heck did I kick?"
He wobbles and brushes away the surrounding trash revealing a spherical metal orb underneath. "What is this?"
The strange sphere shifts slightly and steam spews out from the metal gears and shafts. Izuku flinches in response. The orb opens and a bright green light emanates from within.
Izuku cautiously peers inside and is very surprised by what he finds. Izuku is rightfully confused for sitting inside the sphere is a strange wristwatch like object.
The watch is rather large in size, it's primarily black and grey in color with white trims. A black faceplate is centered in the middle which has a green hourglass shape within it. The green hourglass is what's illuminating the eerie green light.
Izuku grabs a metal pipe in his right hand and uses it to poke the watch. 'Could it be radioactive?' He brings the tip of the pipe back towards him and probes the tip that touched the strange device. 'It's not hot so it must be safe. Right?'
The green light seems to illuminate brighter as if tempting Izuku. Curiously, the green haired boy uses his left hand to grab the watch. The moment Izuku's hand enters the sphere the watch seemingly springs to life and wraps itself around his left wrist.
"Ahhh!" Izuku flails his arm about trying to fling the device away. He bangs the pipe against it. "There isn't even a scratch!" The glossy surface of the watch gleams as if to tease its new host. Izuku throws the pipe away and tries to wrangle the watch off of himself. "Come on. There's got to be some kind of button or switch to get this thing off."
The teen presses down on two points on the black faceplate causing a dial to spring up out of the watch. Izuku gazes down at the dial and that's when he notices that the hourglass symbol from before has changed to that of a diamond; inside the green diamond is a strange black silhouette that appears to have four arms. Izuku cautiously grips the dial accidently turning it causing a new silhouette to appear. The new figure has its head floating above its body with horns curving up from its shoulders. He turns the dial once more and this time it becomes a tall silhouette that has tendrils on its head and a tail.
He's not sure what it is, maybe it was fate or simple curiosity, maybe even stupidity, but the unsuspecting teen places a single finger on top of the dial and pushes down. The dial clicks in place and a blinding flash of green light envelops Izuku's entire body.
Izuku goes blind, all he sees is the flash of bright green light and although it lasted less than a second, a strange convulsion surges throughout his entire being down all the way to every single one of his cells. He can feel his arms and legs stretching as if being pulled, his skull is shifting like someone is remolding it, and an electrical feeling circulates through his insides.
In less than a second, the odd sensations stop.
Izuku grabs his head as a headache begins to form. "What just happened?" Izuku asks himself noticing the staticky sound of his voice. "Huh, what's wrong with my voice?!" He checks his wrist, looking for the watch, but finds a slim black hand with gold colored plugs at the end of his fingertips. "Aaahh, my hand!" He looks down at the rest of his body and takes note of his black skin and tall stature. "Aaahh, where are my clothes!?" He tries to cover himself up, but the weirdness of the whole situation gets to him. "What the heck is going on?!" Izuku is so freaked out that he begins running in circles crashing and bumping into abandoned appliances and trash as he goes. He eventually arrives somewhere in the center of the unofficial garbage dump. There he tries to figure out his bearings and glances over at a trashed car. "Aaahh!" The frightened teen screams at the face looking back at him. After a moment of screams he grabs his face and realizes that he's looking at his own reflection. "What happened to me?"
He takes a good hard look at himself. Somehow, he has transformed into a single green-eyed being with black skin. He notices the change in height as well as the two tendrils on his head and that he has a tail now. He takes note of the gold plug like appendages on his tendrils, tail, and fingers.
"What the heck am I?! What did that thing do to me?!"
Izuku tries to clear his mind by shaking his head, the tendrils whoosh behind him. "Okay, okay… calm down Izuku just analyze the situation. I-I went to the beach, kicked trash, and then found that wat-THE WATCH!" The transfigured Izuku pats himself until he finds the faceplate of the watch embedded in his chest. He grabs the device and starts yanking it as hard as he can. "Get… off!" Izuku is thrashing about so much that he trips over his own tail and crashes into a nearby trash heap. "Ouch, well that didn't work." He rubs his head as he sits up. "Oh, how am I going to explain this to everyone?" Izuku kicks his legs in the air and falls back. "Forget that! How am I going to explain this to Mom?!" Taking a breath, he calms himself down. "I guess it could be worse… Hmm?"
Looking over Izuku notices that one of his tendrils is waving its plug as if it's attracted to something in particular. Curiously Izuku follows the seemingly conscious tendril which leads him towards the hood of the trashed car from before. The black tendril shakes above the hood, curious to see where this goes Izuku pops the hood of the car allowing the tendril to latch itself to the car's battery. Almost immediately electricity surges through the golden-plug up the tendril and into Izuku's body. The teen can feel the electricity charging up within him. The current is stopped when the battery completely runs out of juice.
Izuku can feel the electricity coursing through him, raising his hand sparks fly out from his fingertips. "H-how… how is this possible?" Izuku begins to mumble up a storm. He throws around theories from having been mutated by a radioactive watch, to some sort of weird nightmare, and so on. Eventually one consideration sticks in his mind. "Do… I have a quirk?" A grin spreads across his face. "Did that watch give me a quirk?! An honest to goodness quirk?!" The sparks in his hands increase.
Izuku's grin widens as he extends his hands and a stream of electricity shoots out frying a junked refrigerator. "I… I can't believe it. This body, this power. I wonder what else it can do."
The antennas on his head curve upward as if reacting to something. Izuku hears static but a clear message comes through that almost sounds like it's coming from a radio. "Requesting backup. A villain is attacking the shopping district at Tatooin Station."
Izuku holds the side of his head as if adjusting an earpiece. "Wait, what's happening? I must be picking up a radio signal."
The radio signal continues. "Requesting backup for all available heroes. You are needed at the Tatooin Station shopping district. A villain has captured a child. The villain's body is made of fluid that prevents on the scene heroes from detaining him and the victim's quirk is setting off explosions causing a great amount of damage and fires."
'A fluid body… a person that can make explosions… No, it can't be.'
"The hostage has been identified as Katsuki Bakugou."
"Kacchan!" Izuku begins running towards the street. "Tatooin Station is close if I book it maybe I can-Woah!" Izuku accidentally leaps into the air. "Wow, I can really jump." Izuku lands on the concrete street and immediately begins running. He can't help but take note of his agility. "Huh, I'm fast too. At this rate I can make it there in less than a minute or two."
If Izuku had continued to listen to the radio broadcast, he possibly could have picked up the latest transmission. "This is Thirteen I'm on my way."
Somewhere else in Musutafu the skeletal All Might had back tracked towards the bridge, but he didn't find anything, so he made his way towards the station to report a missing villain. However, before he can get there, he spots smoke rising in the near distance along with the resonating sounds of explosions and sirens.
He starts to make a dash towards it. 'Please, don't let it be what I think it is.'
Henzu Uuichi laughs from his perch atop a nearby building. Below him the heroes are struggling against the Sludge Villain and Bakugou's explosions are definitely not helping. "Ha! This is so great! Look at all these morons tripping over themselves!"
Behind the black-haired teen is a humanoid rat with black quills on his head. "Yeah, a real show." He sounds rather uninterested and would rather get somewhere that's far away from the heroes. The rat pulls up the collar of his orange jacket. "So, hey, I helped you track the brat down. Now you got to hold up your end of the deal." He jabs an accusing finger at Henzu.
Without looking, Henzu casually slips the rat man a large roll of cash. "Come on, you know I'm good for it, Argit."
Argit smiles and begins his descent down the fire escape. "It's always a pleasure doing business with you." The rat leaves while Henzu continues to watch.
Henzu's malicious smile widens as Bakugou's explosion causes so much damage that a barrier of fire and smoke prevents the heroes and witnesses from even seeing the futile struggle below. 'Goodbye, Blasty. This world will be better off without ya.' The twisted teen breaks into another fit of haunting laughter.
While Henzu takes time to appreciate Bakugou's flailing about, Argit makes his way down to the ally below. Luckily for him there are no people there to see him, they are all to busy watching the situation. Argit tucks the cash into his jacket when something tall and fast rushes past him. "Huh?" The rodent looks over and sees a tall black figure staring wide eyed at the Sludge Villain.
The rodent mutters to himself, cupping his chin. "What's a Contuctoid doing here?"
All Might finally arrives on the scene. Unfortunately, he can't see a thing amongst all the smoke and flames blocking his view. Around him heroes are trying to keep the civilians calm while they also deal with the fires. He overhears a few civilians talking about a sludge-based villain and how it captured a child, one civilian even points out that All Might himself was chasing after the villain earlier.
All Might's gaze falls downward as he grabs his injury. 'Pathetic…' His hand tightens around his wound. 'Pathetic! How can I call myself a hero… especially after what I told that boy.' All Might can hear the sounds of explosions dying off. 'I'm sorry… hopefully a hero with the right quirk will arrive soon.' All Might gazes up towards the flames and for a split second amongst the smoke and fire he notices a strange symbol moving beyond the inferno an illuminating green hourglass within a black circle.
Neither Bakugou nor the villain notice as a tall black-skinned being peers out of the ally and stares at the scene in front of him. 'It really is Kacchan and that same villain from before…' Covering his mouth, tears begin to form in his single green eye. 'It's the same one… so that means… it's my fault! I distracted All Might and prevented him from doing his job.' His mind flashes back to All Might's injury. 'And All Might's weak… he can't… do anything. It's my fault.' Bakugou's explosions stop. 'This guy can't be caught. We have to wait for someone with the right quirk to show up!' Bakugou has his eyes shut as he tries to pull himself away from his attacker. 'Hang in there, Kacchan… I'm so sorry!' Bakugou's struggling decreases dramatically. 'A hero's bound to come…' Bakugou is clearly losing his breath. 'I'm so sorry! Someone will come to save you soon…' In a moment of pure desperation Bakugou's eyes shoot open begging for mercy… begging for a hero to save his life.
And in that moment, Izuku's mind went blank as pure instinct took over. He charges head first towards Bakugou. 'What am I doing?! Why am I running?!'
The living pile of sludge notices the stranger charging at him.
He gurgles out a roar. "Get away from me!" The villain takes a swipe to fend off the intruder.
Despite the oncoming attack Izuku keeps charging. "Eep!"
'What do I do?! What do I Do?! At a time like this…' Izuku's mind flashes to page 25 of his hero notebook and gets an idea. Izuku's tendrils wrap around a garbage can and flings towards the villain's face. "Hiyah!"
Garbage flies out from the can and jabs the attacker's eyes. The villain screams in pain as Izuku's grabs Bakugou and with one swift motion he pulls the blonde free from the sludge's grasp. "Kacchan!"
Bakugou coughs, breathing heavily, as he's pulled free. "Who… the fuck.. are you?" He asks between gasps.
As Izuku pulls Bakugou away from his capturer he tries to explain himself. "Kacchan it's-Oof!" Izuku's whipped so hard that he tumbles down, Bakugou falls with him.
The villain sends out several tentacles towards the two. "You're in my way!"
Acting fast, Izuku grabs Bakugou and tosses him towards a nearby ally way that's clear of people and fire. "Quick get away from here!" A large tentacle knocks the morphed Izuku into a burning food stand. "Aaahhh!"
Bakugou rolls on the ground a few feet and when he looks up, he sees his black-skinned rescuer getting knocked around by sludge attacks. The blonde hesitates for a moment but shakes it off, despite nearly dying, he moves as fast as he can away from the scene.
From further down the alley the hero Thirteen appears. The hero notices the wobbling Bakugou and grabs his shoulders to help steady him. "Hey, it's okay now I got you."
Bakugou's eyes snap up in temporary fear but he visibly relaxes when he recognizes the hero. "Yeah, well who's got that other guy?"
"What other guy?"
Bakugou gestures behind him and Thirteen takes a look. Their eyes widen as the rescue hero witnesses an alien-like being doing its best to avoid being whipped, honestly, it's not doing a very good job of dodging. 'A Contuctoid?! What are they doing here?! Why would it take such a risk?!'
Before the rescue hero can get their answers, they're hailed over their radio. "Thirteen are you engaged with the enemy?"
Thirteen tries to come up with a reply. "Um, ah, please keep the area clear. The villain is resisting." Thirteen leads the injured blonde away from the battle. 'I'll have to deal with the Contuctoid afterwards.'
The Sludge Villain roars as he continues his onslaught against the wannabe hero. "Stop getting in my way!"
Izuku's body has really taken a beating. He's covered in dirt and grime and although it's hard to tell he's pretty sure that he's covered in bruises.
Izuku uses his slim yet strong arms to block the attacks, it's not much but it's something especially considering how battered he is. 'Why did my legs move on their own?! Why did I jump in to help?! I Dunno!' Izuku endures the quick and powerful blows. 'No… I know why. It's because he looked like…'He can't help but remember the look in his childhood friend's eyes. 'he needed saving!'
The villain's sludge begins to swirl around making a spiral like motion above the villain's head. The slime screeches as he sends out a powerful attack of spinning sludge. "Die, HERO!"
Izuku's tendrils and tail stretch out and latch themselves onto a nearby powerbox. Electricity immediately begins to course through him. "I won't let you hurt anyone else!" Izuku balls his hands together allowing the electricity to charge up. "It's time... to be a hero!" He aims his hands out towards his attacker and a thundering beam of lightning rushes forward.
The villain's attack is blown away as the lightening thunders straight for him! "AAAHHH!" The villain screams in pain as watts of electricity begins to surge through him.
All around him metal and other electronics are getting similar treatment. The blast is too much, the villain's body rips apart sending bits and pieces of sludge flying all across the burning street.
Izuku cuts off the flow of electricity as slime and embers fall around him. "I did it… I really did it!" Izuku wobbles backwards towards the alley he originally entered from. 'I did it and with a quirk no less!'
Just as the unlicensed-hero stumbles back into the alley the dial on his chest begins to beep and flash red, but it goes unnoticed by the teen even as a red flash of light envelopes his entire body.
Izuku falls onto his knees just as he turns back to normal. He gazes at the red illuminated watch on his battered yet human wrist. Finally, exhaustion from the day's events catches up to the teen; he's so exhausted that he falls face forward onto the pavement. And with that he begins to fade out of consciousness the last thing he sees other than the red glowing watch is a pair of yellow shoes approaching him. "I can be a hero…"
Thanks for reading please comment and/or leave helpful criticism. I do want to make my writing better, however, this is still just for fun. Anyway I have some things to say:
*To clarify Izuku will not be getting One For All. I don't like it when someone gives Izuku an already OP Quirk, great control over said quirk, and One For All that to me is too much and thus someone else will be getting One For All.
*The Ben Ten Aliens within the Omnitrix will come in sets of 9 rather then 10 as a homage to Deku (cannon) as the 9th-holder of One For All.
*Henzu Uuichi is essentially Kevin Levin from the main Ben Ten Series: appearance, personality, and powers. I gave him a different name as to not affect his new backstory.
*As for my descriptions of all future Ben Ten Aliens I will be keeping the descriptions very vague. That is because most of the aliens have different versions of themselves so I will be keeping the descriptions vague as to allow you, the reader, to envision which version of the aliens that you prefer.
I will also be somewhat expanding weakness for Ben Ten Aliens, as to not make them OP.