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Izuku Midoriya was a normal boy of his age. His skin had been rather pale but it was overgrown with freckles. His hair was green and fluffy. He was a bit thin and shy. Not many people liked him.
He was too normal. In a world were the paranormal has been the norm for decades a quirkless person was a being that always had eyes on them. Some eyes however wanted to ignore him. The teachers looked away from him. His own father suddenly went on a business trip just a day after he got diagnosed.
This day was normal too. His mom had left to work. He was making the same lunch he made everyday and headed out. People didn´t pay much attention to him. It was a normal day. Kachan was using him as his personal punching bag again. Not that anyone was paying attention to it. People didn´t care. One of his notebooks he worked so hard on to write ended burned in a pond. It was a normal day when Bakugou Katsuki told him to jump off the roof to get a new quirk in his new life.
It was a normal day when he wasn´t doing this. When he walked home with his head low. Tears in his eyes. The sound of something sloshing and moving. What came next was not normal. Izukus eyes widened as green sludge was pushing down his throat. It got hard to breath. He was starting to get tired even as he tried to struggle away. The laughter of the sludge villain was the last thing he heard.
Izuku woke up. Not in a hospital. Not in his home. He was laying under the bridge the sludge villain attacked him. The sludge laid beside him and was slowly getting in form again to attack. “You little piece of useless garb-” A torrent of air blew the sludge away “Don´t worry for I am here” The well known hero All Might looked at the green bean boy with a smile. He put the sludge in bottles. “All Might” the boy said excited while coming closer. A bit wobbly on his legs though. “I have a question.” All might shook his head and cut him off. He leapt in the air and away but landed seconds after on a rooftop as Midoriya held onto his legs. “Please All Might. Just one question” His eyes look a bit confused as he saw the symbol of peace shrinking and steaming. He was surprised. All Might sighs and looks at Midoriya. They talk about the situationthat caused All mightswounds with the young boy knowing a few more details than the Pro Hero would expect.
“I am quirkless but can I be a hero?” was the question the boy asked at the end of it. All Might looked down. He shakes his head. “You can´t be a hero without a quirk. Maybe police would be something for you instead.” The symbol of peace left the heartbroken boy on top of the roof.
It took some minutes before Izuku went down the building. He sighs and was back on his way home. He heard an explosion. It was a familiar sound. Screaming. flashes of light and the smell of smoke. Izuku didn´t know why but he just moved. He just ran. His legs carry him to the sight of Katsuki struggling and being used by the sludge Villain as a weapon. The surrounding Pro Heros were just watching. They think they are not strong enough to do it. But the boy just ran. Izuku runs in and his weak arms pull the blonde struggling boy out.
All Might had been watching the whole time in his skeletal form. This assumingly quirkless boy was fighting a Villain while Heros just stood by. This brought him into action. He buffed up and readied a Detroit smash. Easily dealing with the monster and capturing him without any problem.
All Might was fleeing from the press as he could only watch the heros scold the young hero while praising the boy with the Explosion quirk. The boy clearly got All Mights interest. It didn´t take long for him to find young Midoriya again. The boy looks tired and walks home.
Izuku looks up at All Might. He shakes and was taken back as the Skeletal man had a genuine smile on his Face. “You too can become a hero.”. All might explained the whole thing about One for All to him and that he would train the boy to become the number one Hero. It seems to be the same talk like in many other universes. Leaving Izuku to go home excited. His mom never saw him any happier in the last few years. She decided to have his favorite Katsudon for dinner today. She tried to pry some info out of him at dinner. It didn´t really work out the way she wanted. Izuku just told her that he met some Pro heros. He didn´t tell her about All Might or the sludge. He didn´t want to worry her and just said that he was gonna work out some more.
Izuku went to his room tired. It was filled to the brim with All Might merchandise and his books about Heros. He set his bag down and changed into his sleeping clothes. The adrenaline of this day had finally fully died down. He was looking himself over. He didn´t know why or how he survived the Sludge. Maybe it was All Might. Maybe the sludge didn´t see his body worthy of being a weapon. He was lacking a Quirk after-all.
He stared at his hand in a mix of shock and surprise. It was transparent now. It was still there and he could see through it. He checked for any wounds on his body. Maybe he hit his head or such in the battle with the sludge. Maybe it was the sludge itself.
He tried to calm himself and reached for one of his notebooks. There were stories of Quirk activation when certain Triggers happened. The notebook from his desk flew into his hand. It was telekinesis like his Moms quirk. He yelps in surprise and shakes a bit. “No. This can´t be happening. How? Why? But non is invisibility?” Izuku started to mumble to himself. He tried to remember. He tried to remember what happened with the sludge Villain.
His Vision turns dark. Before him he saw his body. It was being taken over by the Sludge. His breath had stopped and his eyes were white. He could feel that his heart had stopped. In an explosion of green Flames the slime gets pushed out. Izukus body was burning in the green flame. The flames darken and form into a new body. A body that looks pale and slightly transparent. Izukus vision stops.
“Did I die? Did I come back? What happened to me? Did I have a quirk and this activated on it”
Izuku said to himself. He started to take notes. He had telekinesis like his mother. If he concentrated he too could float a bit around.
Next he held his hand open. He tries to breath into it and nothing happens. He concentrates on heat. He tries to remember the moment he died. A small green flame appears in his hand. He breathes in and out and with him the flame shrinks and grows. Even though it was fire it did not hurt him. He takes a small bit of Paper and it burns inside of the flame. After a bit of trying the fire dies down.
“Calm…..Calm….Everything is calm. I just got a quirk today after dying. Nothing to panic about” He was clearly panicking in a state of mumblng. He tries to calm his breath. “One...Two….three…..In and out….Nothing bad happens….I am alive…..well somewhat….I am gonna figure it out.”
After five more minutes he calmed enough to write it back down. He hardly ever had a chance to write of a quirk that was this close to him. It was his own Quirk afterall. When time for sleep came he atleast got a few notes down. He knows he can float, can use telekinesis though he didn´t know how strong. He could get transparent though for now only with parts of his body. The fire was a bit tricky. His room wasn´t the best to train so he gotta figure that out later. One of the more interesting things was when he went to sleep and his left leg went through the Matress. Maybe it´s because he is tired he assumes. He would need to do many tests in the morning.
As he was laying down finally he decided not to tell his Mom or others for now. It felt weird to talk about. He had images of the sludge in his mind. It made him shudder. It would probably scare People. Maybe even All Might. To all that would not know it it was a normal day. To him however it was a very Paranormal day.
In this world not all People are created equal. Some have powers beyond ones Imagination. But as People were gonna find out not all People died equal either. Some certainly were a bit more of a Special case.