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Musutafu, Japan, 22XX
“ EAT THIS! ” All Might, the Number One hero in all of Japan, said to the boy in front of him, holding out a strand of his blond hair.
“…Please tell me you’re joking, All Might,” Izuku Midoriya, the young lad whom he was training for the past ten months, said in an exasperated tone.
“ UNFORTUNATELY NOT, YOUNG MIDORIYA. IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE POWER OF ONE FOR ALL, YOU MUST DIGEST A PIECE OF MY DNA. ”
“Ugh, well, bottom’s up, I guess.”
“ ITADAKIMASU, EH? ” the muscular hero tried to alleviate the situation, though not to any great effect.
“Not helping, All Might,” he said, before gulping down the piece of hair. “Eugh was that Uwabami’s shampoo that you used? It’s disgusting.”
“ I USE THAT WASH EVERY DAY, YOUNG MIDORIYA! IT’S AFFORDABLE YET STYLISH! ”
“Eck, whatever. I need to get back home and get some food before the Entrance Exam.”
“ I WISH YOU LUCK ON THE EXAMS, YOUNG MIDORIYA! ” All Might said, before he took off to U.A. University.
“Eugh, I guess it could’ve been worse…”
-Elsewhere, Inside One For All-
“ Lady and gentlemen, the time has come once again. ”
“ Don’t cock up on him, Jeremy. ”
“ Shut up James, I’ve got twice the smarts as you two combined! ”
“ No you don’t, you orangutan! You haven’t got any since that Darth Vader rip-off put us in this god-forsaken place! ”
“ You want to argue with me, Hammond?! Bring it on! ”
And the three vestiges within the quirk began to devolve into what would be the equivalent of a bar brawl, but instead of anything that would be found at a pub, they just used objects within their section of the Void Castle™.
Meanwhile, the other vestiges just boarded up the door to their section, praying to whatever god, gods, or ripened fruits that they wouldn’t get out and make themselves known to the new holder of One For All.
Later, at U.A. University
“Gosh, I’m finally here…” Izuku muttered to himself, standing outside the front gates of the one school that was always on his mind since he was four years old.
“Outta the fuckin’ way, Deku ,” Katsuki Bakugo, the bully and former friend of Izuku, growled as he walked past him.
Izuku breathed a heavy sigh, “He never changes…”
“ What a pillock ,” an unknown voice spoke in his head, causing him to look around frantically to find whatever the source of it was, only to see nothing.
“M-must’ve been the wind…”
“ Let’s just leave it be for now, James ,” a new voice spoke, and he once again turned to see wherever it came from, but to no avail.
“ We’ll assess Ninth’s troubles later, ” another new voice spoke, though more wispy than the others.
Just then, Izuku tripped on something and began to fall, uttering out apologies to everyone that mattered in his life, before he suddenly stopped in midair.
“Whoops, sorry about that! I should’ve asked first if I could use my quirk…” Izuku turned his head to see what was quite possibly the cutest girl he had ever seen in his life. She had permanent blush marks on her cheeks and short, brown hair.
After helping him up, she turned to see the university’s main building, “I guess this exam’s got us all on our nerves, eh?” she asked. Izuku, meanwhile, had a million thoughts going through his mind, and he could only stare dumbfounded at her. “Well, I guess I’ll see you inside! Good luck!” she said, before going into the building.
‘I TALKED TO A GIRL!’ he shouted in his mind, only to hear snickering coming from his head.
“ Need to talk to her first, mate. Unintelligible sounds don’t count. ”
“ Lay off him James, he’s trying his best here! ” yet another new voice called out from his head, this time being that of a woman’s.
‘ Either I’m going crazy, or I’m going insane ,’ Izuku said to himself, causing the cacophony of voices to stop arguing.
A beat of silence passed, before the wispy voice from earlier spoke up, “ You can hear us, Ninth? ”
‘ The fact that you’re responding to me is very concerning, ’ Izuku responded.
“ Out of all the time we’ve been around, it’s this one that can finally hear us? ” a new voice asked, sounding gruff and a bit miffed.
“ Still, it could’ve been worse, and at least we got this lad before anything happened, ” the first voice from earlier spoke up.
“ I guess little Ninth has that going for him, ” the wispy voice spoke up.
‘ Ninth? ’ Izuku thought, before he came to the sudden realization of what he was dealing with, ‘ Wait, are you…? ’
“ The previous holders of One For All, yes, ” the wispy voice responded, “ Our personalities, strengths, and memories have been passed down through each new holder. I am Yoichi Shigaraki, the first holder of this power. ”
“ Nana Shimura! Seventh! I trained Toshi! ” the female voice from earlier spoke.
“ And we’re [ redacted for legal reasons ]! Richard Hammond, at your service! ” a new voice piped up, sounding much more genial than the others.
“ James May, cultured British citizen, ” the first voice spoke up.
“ Jeremy Clarkson, genius extraordinaire, ” the old voice from earlier responded.
“ Daigoro Banjou, fifth! I was the pro hero Lariat! ” a new voice introduced itself.
“ I am Hikage Shinomori. I was the Fourth, ” another introduced, sounding older than the previous one.
“ En. Sixth one to have it, ” a younger voice said.
“ Mates, ” Hammond interrupted, “ hate to be the breaker of this moment, but shouldn’t we be getting to the exams? ”
Realizing what he was here for, Izuku immediately took off towards the building, to the snickering of the past users plus the trio of Englishmen.
Later, after the Written Exam
“ Well, that was just as awful as the Exams from school, ” Hammond spoke up, sounding sour.
“ At least he was smart enough that he did it for the most part on his own, ” Yoichi retorted to the Englishman.
‘ I feel like I cheated… ’ Izuku thought to himself, only to feel a small slap on the back of his head, ‘ Yeouch! What was that for?! ’
“ No self-doubt, lad! You’re the next holder of this power, so might as well build up your confidence! ” Jeremy shouted to the boy.
“ Ease up on him, Jeremy! 14 years of abuse doesn’t go away with a slap! ” Nana berated the man, and Izuku could hear a slap come from his head. Deciding to ignore that, he made his way to the school’s changing room and changed into his workout clothes.
Hammond was the first to speak up, " Alright lad, so me and James have been discussing in your head on how to use your quirk- "
" -While making sure we found no hammers so the Orangutan wouldn't break anything. "
" And that, and we have reached a conclusion that One For All works like a supercharger for an automobile engine. "
"Uhh..." Izuku was confused at the automobile analogy, since he had next to no knowledge of cars besides the research he did on quirks that related to cars.
" Here, let us explain it to you… "
Izuku listened to the Englishmen’s car analogy, trying to follow it as much as he could. After he finished up, he took a deep breath and focused on the power within him, feeling it coming into his left arm, before a sharp, stinging pain came through it and he dropped the power.
"S-so, how have I been using it wrong?" he asked the users.
" Listen closely, lad. In theory, this power is like an engine, and an engine distributes power to the drivetrain, which is your body in this case, and you've been using it on only one wheel, which is your arm, " Hammond explained.
“So… I need to just focus on spreading the power to the entire drivetrain instead of the one wheel?”
“ Yes! Exactly that! Now, try again, but this time, distribute the power through the entire drivetrain. ”
Focusing in on the metaphorical drivetrain, Izuku took a deep breath and once more drew from the power within him. Sparkling green lightning soon appeared around his body, and instead of a stinging pain, a dull but manageable aching was felt around his entire body.
“ Bloody good job lad! I reckon that’s about five percent, more or less, ” Hammond congratulated him, causing tears to prickle Izuku’s eyes.
‘ Thank y-you, Hammond-san! I know I probably don’t deserve to be treated this nicely, but still… ’
“ Now, now. None of that rubbish, lad. We’re with you for the full ride now, and you’re a part of us. ”
“ I agree. You’re not alone anymore, Ninth, and we’re here for you no matter what, ” Nana spoke to him, and he felt the sensation of a warm, comforting hug wash over him.
“ I still think the hammers could’ve worked… ” Jeremy grumbled to himself.
“ Now you can shut up, you overgrown ape, ” James said.
“ Anyways, off to the practical! ” Daigoro spoke, and Izuku went on his way to the buses that were waiting to take the other examinees to their respective locations.
‘ …Maybe I should come up with a proper strategy in order to get through this. I could salvage the weapons from the robots, or hotwire them to- ’
“Are you trying to sabotage us?!” the blue-haired glasses guy from earlier shouted, causing Izuku to snap out of his mumble storm.
“S-s-sorry! I-I was just t-trying to work out something for myself! I’m just r-really nervous r-right now!”
“ Stand up for yourself, lad! Never falter! ” Hammond encouraged him.
“ Let’s insult him to assert your dominance! ” Jeremy suggested, before he used the power of One For all, he delivered the greatest insult that the Idaten Family had ever received.
"Sounds like you don’t have just a single quirk, it looks like you carry other people’s toxicity as well. Do you visit Twitter much?"
A moment passed, before the bus’s riders burst into laughter at the absolutely scathing insult. And it was from that day forward that Iida Tenya, successor to the Idaten Family, learned to never mess with the Midoriya family ever again.
The bespectacled guy, after having gone through the equivalent of the Vietnam War, then stood up, turned to Izuku, and bowed at a ninety-degree angle.
“I’m sorry for my rudeness! I myself feel very anxious, so I apologize!”
“O-oh. Th-thanks. A-and sorry if I went too far there myself.”
“None taken, your insult was perhaps warranted for my actions.”
“Well, how about we make it up. Izuku Midoriya, pleasure to be of acquaintance.”
“Iida Tenya, and to you as well.”
A few minutes later, outside the Exam Grounds
“Hey! It’s you! From the gate entrance!” the short-haired brunette from earlier shouted to Izuku, who immediately came over to where she was.
“Yeah! Thanks again for helping me back there. Izuku Midoriya!” he said, extending his hand.
“Oh! Ochako Uraraka!” the girl introduced herself, accepting his hand and shaking it.
The duo were then interrupted by the area’s P.A. speakers.
“WILL ALL THE EXAMINEES GATHER AT THE BATTLE ARENA ENTRANCE, THE PRACTICAL PORTION WILL SOON BEGIN!” Present Mic’s voice spoke out
“Anyways, good luck!” Ochako said.
“And to you too!”
“ Don’t forget to get her number after this, mate, ” Jeremy said cheekily.
‘ Not now, Clarkson-san. ’
“AAAAAND GO!”
“ Go! Run like the rozzers are on your tail! ”
“ GET GOING! ”
Taking the words to heart, Izuku called up One For All and made a mad dash to the Battle Arena, leaving the other examinees in the dust.
“Woooooaah! Awesome!” he shouted excitedly while running through the faux city.
“ Gush later, fight now! ”
“ Watch it! Terminator ripoff at two o’clock! ” James alerted the verdette, who in response turned and drop kicked the robot with his right leg, punting it into the sky with the sheer force of it.
“Oh my gosh! I got one!”
“ Don’t be so sure of yourself now, kid. There are others elsewhere and I suggest getting a move on before the others get ahead of you, ” Hammond reminded him, and soon, Izuku began his rampage across the grounds.
“Did that kid just kick that one-pointer like a softball?” Higari Maijima, otherwise known as Power Loader, asked incredulously to his fellow teachers.
“Indeed he has, Maijima-san. Quite the quirk he has on him,” Nedzu, the mysterious mammal principal of U.A. University spoke up, sipping from a cup of Sencha tea mysteriously.
“Most of these young’ns are lookin’ promisin’, ‘specially that one kid with th’ explosive quirk,” the American western-themed hero known only as Snipe pipped up.
“Holy shit! That green head just picked up a two-pointer and smashed it onto a three-pointer!” Hizashi Yamada, known better as Present Mic, pointed out at one of the monitors in the room.
“Kid looks promising, as well as cute~” Nemuri Kayama, the R-Rated Hero: Midnight, cooed at the sight of our protagonist, and I will leave it at that.
Back at the Battle Arena
“ THE BLOODY POWER FLOWS THROUGH YOUUUUU!!! ” Jeremy shouted, more excited than ever in his afterlife.
“SWEEEET!!” Izuku shouted as he performed a German suplex on a three-pointer, throwing it quite a few yards away from himself, and accidentally landed and crushed a two-pointer as it almost got to a blonde examinee.
“Merci beaucoup, mon ami! Bonne chance!” the girl thanked him, before getting up and running to somewhere else.
“ Oh god, the French are here, ” James said worryingly.
“ Now now, none of that talk here, ” Nana warned the Englishman.
As Izuku turned a corner by a building after saving yet another examinee, he noticed that there were multiple robots hanging in the air, before they suddenly came down. Looking down from where they were, he saw Ochako pressing her hands together, and quickly connected the dots inside his head.
‘ She can negate the gravity of anything she touches! ’
The trio were silent for a moment, before they screamed loud enough to hurt his ears. The screaming died down a short while later, and he heard an exhausted sigh come from a few of the vestiges.
“ Ugh, those stooges will be at it for a while. That gravity girl broke their brains, ” Nana uttered out.
‘ I feel like I should be concerned, but I’ll ignore it for now. ’
“ You do that, kid. ”
Just then, the arena’s ground shook as if there was an earthquake, and Izuku turned to see a building-sized robot rising from the main road of the faux city.
‘ Shit! It could crush the other examinees! Gotta do something about it! ’
Looking at the fleeing examinees, he notice Iida and Uraraka from the crowd.
“Iida! Uraraka! I need your help!” he called to them, and they thankfully noticed him out of the chaos and quickly made their way to him.
“What is it, Midoriya-san?”
“I need you both to help me take down the zero-pointer!”
“What?! Are you insane?!”
“It’s only insane if it doesn’t work!”
“What are you even planning to do?!”
“First, I need Uraraka to negate my gravity, and I need you, Iida, to use your quirk and kick me towards the zero-pointer’s head!”
“How are you sure this will even work?!”
“I don’t! I’m taking a chance here, and it’s the best one that I got!”
Agreeing to help with his plan, the three made their way to the middle of the street and began to set the plan in motion.
“Uraraka! Screw gravity!” Izuku shouted, and the brunette made contact with his back and negated his gravity.
“Iida! Flip kick!”
The blue-haired speedster jumped into the air before shouting “Recipro Burst!” and flip kicked Izuku to the robot.
Drawing the power of One For All within him, Izuku pulled back his fist before his entire body was covered in green lightning and glowing red marks.
“POWEEEEEEEEERRRR!!!” he shouted before he shot his arm forward and his fist collided with the green metal, causing the entire head of the zero-pointer to detatch from its body and fly quite a distance away to a different part of the arena. His right fist and arm, meanwhile, were mangled to the point of looking like red spaghetti.
“ Good job, but what about the landing? ” Yoichi asked.
‘ Ah crud, I’ve made a grave error. ’
“Iida! Uraraka! Anyone! HELP!” Izuku shouted as he fell to the ground.
“ Right, so, we need to prevent you from becoming a metropolitan painting, ” Daigoro said frantically, trying to come up with something.
‘ Would a flick from my fingers at 25 percent work? ’
“ A risky maneauver, but it could work if we timed it right, ” Yoichi said, concerned at the situation.
“Alright… three… two-” Izuku began.
“Midoriya!” Uraraka cried out of nowhere.
He turned in time to see her flying right towards him, arms outstretched and ready to catch him. She grabbed him, quickly activating her quirk, and the two slowly descended to the ground, before she let go of him and uttered “Release” under her breath, and they touched the ground gently.
“Whew, almost was a gonner there. I owe ya for saving me twice today,” he said to her, a smile on his face.
She blushed a little bit, “I-it’s nothing! Tell you what, let me know of any cheap restaurants nearby and we’ll call it even.”
“ How about home cooking? ” Jeremy gave a decent suggestion for once, and the others quickly agreed with him.
“Hmm… how about you come over to my place? My mom makes killer katsudon, and I guarantee all the others you’ll taste will be ruined,” he said, a bit of red flushing to his face.
Uraraka, in turn, blushed even redder to the point of looking like a tomato, “W-well, I don’t know…”
“ It’s good to build up your confidence starting now, so pull her in! ” Hammond spoke up.
“It’s no problem at all. I insist you join us, and I’ll be sure to walk ya back.”
“ You’ve nearly got her! ” Digoro said triumphantly.
“B-but–!”
“ Make your final move! ” Nana encouraged him.
Izuku held up his hand, “No buts. It’s no trouble at all on us, and we appreciate the company.”
“I-I guess I-I’ll go…”
“( Victory! ),” the vestiges all shouted in unison.
“Now now, let me get the both of you looked at before you lovebirds get on your way,” an elderly voice spoke up, before the two turned to see a short, elderly woman in a nurse’s outfit approach them.
“Ah! The Youthful Heroine: Recovery Girl! Could I have your autograph?” Izuku asked her, before she tsked and shook her head.
“What you need, my boy, is to get healed. Watch yourself next time before you injure yourself even further.”
The heroine then extended her lips and kissed Izuku’s arm, which then reformed itself and looked good as new.
“Eat these pills here dearie,” the elderly woman said, putting vitamin gummies into the palm of his hand.
“ Gotta say, Chiyo’s aged quite well, ” Nana spoke.
After getting her autograph, Izuku, Uraraka, and Iida made their way to the changing rooms, and met outside the university’s entrance gate.
“Good job on the exam today, Midoriya-san and Uraraka-san! I hope to see you two in the future!” Iida said robotically, before he turned and made his way.
“Wait! Iida!” Izuku called out to him, and he turned to face him.
“What is it?”
“Could I have your contact info? In case we want to keep in contact with one another?”
“Of course! Give me a moment.”
“Oh! I’d like to trade mine too!”
After the three quickly exchanged their info, Iida went on his way and the other two made their way to the nearby train station.
“ You know, me, James, and Richard have come up with some ideas to do with that girl… ”
‘ If it involves disregarding the Geneva Convention or even putting a scratch on her, I will find a way to kick your asses. ’
Jeremy opted to choose caution for once, and scratched away 70 percent of the ideas he and his two compatriots had come up with in their brainstorming.
Getting back home with Uraraka in tow, they were both met by Izuku’s mother Inko, who nearly crushed both their bones in a bear hug. After being freed and drying up her tears, they had her famous Katsudon and chatted quite a bit before Izuku walked Ochako back to her apartment and then returned to his own, kicking away his shoes and passing out before he hit the bed.
“ Welp, seems we have a long trip ahead of us, ” Jeremy said, to which the other vestiges agreed.
“ Let’s just hope that you three dunces won’t cause Izuku to get expelled ,” Yoichi said.
“ You seem to take our genius for stupidity. ”
“ That’s because you three are stupid. ”
“ Just you wait until we get the lad’s hands on some equipment. ”
“ Clarkson No. ”
“ Jeremy YES.”