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Izuku Midoriya, a quirkless 14 year that wants to be a hero. It was looking good for him. Well if you could call being beat into oblivion practically everyday. Just as usual Izuku wasn’t having a good day. His hero notes were burned and tossed into a small pool just outside his classroom window. His tormentor that just so happened to be his childhood friend Kacchan had told him to end his life per usual as well. As Izuku went under a bridge he started awkwardly laughing a sludge villain started to rise out of the sewers. Izuku oblivious to all of this stopped and cringed at his attempt to feel better the villain grabbed him. The scared quirkless boy tried to get away but sadly to no avail. Tears streamed down his face as the world started to slip away. Izuku thinks he hears a laugh and someone saying “I -M HE-” but he couldn’t make sense of it as his world went black.
Waking up to a someone lightly slapping his face. Reluctantly opening his eyes he realises the person slapping him was none other than All Might. I was so star struck he couldn’t say anything and just mumbled about how much he loved All Might. All Might said something else and prepared to jump away. Izuku hadn’t even gotten to say a word to him and he was leaving. So Izuku did the only sensible thing he could think of and grabbed onto All Mights leg. When the number one hero actually realised he was there he almost pulled him off. Fortunately All Might realised that he would die and stopped. When they finally landed and Izuku could breath All Might looked like he was ready to take into the air again. But Izuku couldn’t let him go not again. So Izuku asked All Might the one question he asked himself everyday.
“CAN I BE A HERO?! EVEN WITHOUT A QUIRK!” well it's more like yelled it. Izuku’s heart raced waiting for the number one hero to respond. Izuku was on the brink of tears. They both just stood there not saying a word. The rest his encounter with All Might was a blur. He only really remembers his hero deflating into a living skeleton and saying he can’t be a hero. It didn’t really matter now because the very same villain that had almost killed him under a tunnel was out and had a hostage. Getting a closer look Izuku sees just who the hostage is. Yet again Izuku’s world disappears but this time Kacchan is there. Kacchan was scared. He could tell Kacchan was terrified. The greenette couldn’t take it when their eyes met. Kacchans terrified eyes that usually were filled with anger were staring into his soul. Izuku ran straight into the hellish seen that was once in front of him. The heroes couldn’t stop him in time. Throwing his bag at the villain Izuku grabbed Kacchan out and pushed him out of the way and at the heroes. Unfortunately the villain had already recovered and grabbed him.
The villain that had his childhood friend just a few seconds ago now had him. Kacchan was safe now but now Izuku wasn’t as lucky and took the place of hostage. Without a quirk Izuku couldn't hold back the villain as well as Kacchan. Izuku was gagging and sputtering but still somehow breathing. He still wasn’t getting enough air so he was being suffocated even slower than before. Despite being on the brink of death he can still think and see all the heroes just standing there. They were just watching him die. If they wouldn’t do anything to save him then they shouldn’t even be here. It made him angry. No! It filled him with rage for the fake heroes for the heroes watching him suffer. They could do something to save him after all he was just a quirkless boy but he still went and saved someone. Surely someone who has trained to do this can save him as well. Izuku doesn't cry, doesn’t whimper, all he does is glare at the heroes that failed him in his time of need. Izuku has long stopped struggling as he already accepted he was gonna die. His death would be caught on camera, he would be on the news, everyone would get angry at the heroes for not saving such an incapable child. No they won’t care about him, they only care that the heroes failed. What a shitty world we live in. Quirks weren’t a gift they were a curse. The people with strong quirks were either villains or fake heroes. If you had a weak quirk or didn’t even have one you would be ridiculed. They only cause pain. The world is slowly fading into black. He was gonna die for real this time. No Izuku can’t die here. He hasn’t done so many things. He hasn’t said goodbye to his mom, he hasn’t grown up, he hasn’t become a hero. He doesn't want to die not here not now. So in a desperate attempt to live Izuku grabs one of the villains eyes and tugs. The eye comes off with ease and Izuku crushes and it pops. His face is now covered in blood as well as his hands. The villain screams in pain and throws Izuku into the air. Izuku might die here despite that he grins and lets himself fly. He hits the ground with a sickening thud while the heroes capture the villain. One of the heroes picks him up and talks to him. He starts getting frantic when Izuku starts to close his eyes. He’s tired. He wants to take a little nap. He hears sirens the distance before he drifts off into unconsciousness. Izuku may have been rushed to the hospital but so did the villain. When the villain lost an eye it started to bleed out. Well if you could call it that. Black sludge just spewed out from where its eye once was. Izuku had lost too much blood and the villain was dying. Things weren’t looking good for the both of them. Despite that Izuku miraculously got stabilized and was expected to make a full recovery. Unfortunately the villain died in order for Izuku to live. They took the villains blood and put it through a centrifugal. The blood was safe just a different color so they used it to save Izuku.