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Not everyone is born equal, that is the most prevalent thing in this world of insane abilities. It is the year 2277 and over 200 years since Quirks appeared in this world and nearly 150 since the profession of Hero took center stage in this world. People all over wish to be them for the sheer image of one. That doesn’t mean everyone cares about saving people though, the current Number 2 in Japan is a great example of this but we won’t talk about him yet.
It's March and the children of Japan have started their first days of school. A number of children within Saitama Prefecture in particular are beginning their first days of Middle School, the best times of their lives as some would say. This school is nothing special but holds the story of a group of young friends who will soon meet and rise to the top of the heroic world they live in.
Outside we see a number of noticeable children we will see grow into the greatest heroes this world will ever see but let’s let them introduce themselves since it is currently the start of their first classes and their homeroom teacher is having them introduce themselves along with their quirks both superhuman and personality wise. Let’s start our more in depth viewing of students with a punk rock looking girl starts their introduction "My name is Jiro Kyoka, I love music, my Quirk is Earphone Jack and it is pretty self explanatory, but with it I dream is to become a pro hero in the future." with strong and cold conviction. This thought is given some chuckles from her classmates due to the nature of her Quirk but she doesn't care.
Soon after her is a boy with blonde hair with a black lightning bolt within it who was visibly angered earlier when people laughed at their fellow student over their dream but calms down before getting up and introducing himself "My name Kaminari Denki! I love anything cool, hamburgers, and the ladies! My Quirk is Electrification and it allows me to discharge energy through my body like a stun gun! I also plan to be a hero in the future!" He gives a bright smile and soon sits back down after he is given more respect for having what sounds like a heroic quirk to his classmates.
Next is a short boy with purple balls on his head who sat one seat next to Denki who comes to the front of the class clearly nervous at having to do this. He soon speaks up "My name is Mineta Minoru and I like fruit and gardening. My Quirk is Pop Off and it lets me throw the sticky balls on my head which last depending on my health. My dream is to become a cool guy!" He says it with so much conviction it almost stops the class from laughing at him. That's almost though since they all soon laugh at him dashing the little confidence he had coming to the front of the class.
Denki seeing the saddened boy pats him on the back “It’s fine man. They are just jerks for reacting that way. For you though it was pretty cool of you to do that.” This makes the Grape Boy perk up and give the much taller boy a nice smile.
Finally, the last out of the students, the kid next to Mineta at the window gets up and heads to the front of the class. They have nice dirty blonde hair in a messy bob slightly covering their eyes and no real noticeable emotion. Their skin seems more yellow than the regular person and somewhat scaly looking along with a decently sized tail coming from behind their legs. Their eyes are seemingly closed when they move their hair out their face to present themselves, making it impossible to discern their eye color. "My name is Nymphis Prota, I love watching anime with my Moms and when I can, play video games. My favorite musician is Mettaton. My Quirk is called Bleeding Heart. I want to be a Pro Hero like The Monster King one day. Oh also I go by They/Them." There are a few quiet murmurs at that but they start to move back to their seat.
Before they can return to their seat the teacher speaks up "Um Nymphis, you didn't explain what my quirk does. You were supposed to do that along with the introduction."
They stare at them for a few seconds and just say "I know" and sit back down. This makes the room sweat drop and just continue with the day with classes going on like any normal first day. That is until an extremely Busty English teacher got the attention of both Kaminari, Mineta, and Prota less noticeably. The reactions of the closest pervert to Jiro led her to use her quirk to show why you don't fuck with her.
It was soon lunch and Mineta was sure he was going to eat alone due to seeing that everyone was practically already paired up. He plops himself down at an empty table in a corner and soon begins to eat. Soon though the two weird blondes come up to him asking if a spot is taken. This truly confuses the guy for obvious reasons but he allows them to so and they start talking like friends would, or at least what he'd think friends would do at his age, he's never really had friends before but he just rolls with it.
His curiosity soon gets the best of him though and he asks the thing that has been nagging at him this whole time "So why are you guys sitting with me? I mean I'm not the most popular guy and you have that Jiro girl as a friend right Kaminari?"
Kaminari laughs at that, "Yeah we're friends but she has other friends that she hangs out with so she decided to spend lunch with them instead."
The seemingly emotionless kid soon speaks up as well. "Well I wanted to sit away from people who seemed annoying."
"Ha! You mean awesome dudes!"
"I regret my decision immediately."
He first feels pretty bummed out for being the second choice but if they at least wanted to sit with him. Kaminari speaks up though
“So what’s that thing about your Quirk? You didn’t use it to introduce yourself so I doubt you being a lizard is your Quirk.”
'IS THIS MAN AN IDIOT!?' He clearly doesn’t want to talk about it so why would you do it?!
“I don’t want to talk about it, please Kaminari.” He looks to Kaminari, finally opening one of his eyes to glare at the Electric Idiot. His eye is a glowing piercing golden brown darker than Kaminari’s own golden eyes.
Clearly intimidated, Kaminari nods but tries to fix the situation by running damage control “Hey it’s fine my Quirk while being awesome and all has a kinda annoying side effect. Use it too much and I turn into a complete idiot.”
“A bigger idiot than you already are?”
Kaminari finches at the snide remark but he doesn’t notice the slight change in the color of the other student’s eye with it gaining a red tint to it before quickly returning to normal. They then continue lunch in an awkward silence until their next class that’s gym. They all go down to the field outside to do their physical exam and also show off their quirks. This would normally be just a fun idea for the beginning of the year but when a teacher needs to go and let them off their leashes…
"Hey Midget!" a ball going at high velocities soon smacks the ball headed boy in the face sending him flying into a wall. Soon after that 5 more strike him in quick succession with the same boy laughing his ass off.
"Oh my god that was awesome!" Another boy that the previous student seems to be friends with takes great joy in the short student's misery.
Yeah the fun doesn't apply to them. Especially when their teacher had to leave a bunch of first years alone to talk to the principal for some reason. Mineta didn't really care about this at this point because of his injuries.
Mineta soon tries to get up with his face incredibly bloody with his mouth gushing blood. Everyone seems to either be trying to ignore him or laughing at him for being injured. He starts to cry from both pain and the humiliation he's received until a blonde electrokinetic walks between the two jerks and smiles "You shouldn't mess with your peers like that. Though I have to say that skill you have is pretty electrifying!" He lets his charge out, shocking both students and making them spasm but they reel around to attack the blonde but their attacks are blocked by the reptilian student. His blank look turns into a vicious grin as his eyes turn scarlet red with his hair following suit. Quick dual punches to their guts has them fall to the ground.
Prota then walks over and gets down on the injured victim's levels. They soon put one hand on their shoulder and then open their other hand allowing for a green heart to form over their palm with them letting their eyes change once again to a nice bright shade of green with his viscous smirk turning into a kind smile. They appear to be glowing the same shade of green of the heart. "Hey Mineta, it's going to be okay. They won't hurt you again." They allow for the heart to let out light that bathes over Mineta and they slowly allow the injuries to be healed.
Kaminari soon walks over after kicking one of the two students and puts his hand on the other student's shoulder "Yeah man! We plan on being heroes so we can't allow for something like that to just pass us by and not help! Don't worry dude, we'll be here for you." He gives their short friend a wide smile and that seems to fill him with hope.
Once Mineta is healed enough the light from the heart fades and that same heart soon fades to a bright red along with Prota's eyes and hair shifting to the previous shade of red. They get up and head over to the two boys who fucked with Mineta earlier and talk to them while they are down. They look up and Prota moves in to whisper in their ears something the rest of class is unable to hear but they can tell just from the look on their faces that it was enough to make them remember what was said for the rest of their school lives. The redheaded student looks to the rest of the class with a sickly sweet smile with their piercing red eyes with the strange red heart sending out waves of energy to the class, everyone knows not to say anything when their teacher returns after they see that.
The day is soon over and Mineta is leaving the building. He is soon called over by the two students who have been there for him all day. He has a wide smile as he runs to them to head home together. This is the start of something great between them and they will aim for the top together, but they haven't decided on that yet. They're just 3 Middle Schoolers who are going to be there for each other.