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About the Story

• Quirkless people make out only the 5% of the population currently.

•Discrimination for a particular quirk or its absence is even worse than the canon.

•There will be serious consequences for both katsuki and Aldera.

• Katsuki at the beginning will be worse than the canon one, but he will have my version of his redemption arc. One full of consequences and what I believe is the more efficient character development, (know that complaining or telling "no, do this instead/you need to punish him like i want" will be completely ignored. My story, my decisions).

ABOUT TORU

As you will notice going forward, Toru is visible, this because I changed her quirk by adding a little something to make her more suitable for the role of hero

•Quirk, Light Refraction: Toru has another layer of extremely thin epidermal tissue attached to the normal skin, a layer that is made up of cells that possess refractive properties. When her quirk is deactivated, the cells are arranged like a net, letting light pass on the deeper layers of skin, rendering her visible. But when the quirk is activated, the cells get closer to each other, putting themselves as a barrier between the surrounding world and the underlying layer, the combined structure of these cells refract light and allow Toru to become invisible. These types of cells with refractive properties are also present in other types of external tissues with small structure variations according to the surface such as eyes, hair, nails, even internal body parts such as the inside of the mouth and ears have this layer. But this is not the only thing she can do with this layer, Toru can also absorb light from various sources and store it in her external cells by trapping the photons and then releasing them from any part of her naked skin, allowing her to blind opponents, the more bright the light source is, the more quickly she can store photons.

•Surprise attack: in addition to the layer of light refractive cells around her normal skin. Toru's muscle fibers are endowed with special glands that produce a powerful stimulant that is released when she shifts from being invisible to visible, greatly increasing her physical strength in a short lasting burst, the burst of strength lasts only 2 seconds but can be slowly increased with training. This gives Toru the possibility to hit enemies with increased strength after taking them by surprise. The presence of this character is caused by her inheriting it from both her parents.

•Drawback: Toru's invisibility process is not homogeneous, the process of becoming invisible takes longer than for her to become visible. It takes about 3 seconds for her to become invisible and 1 second to become visible, making it necessary for her to calculate the time to strike and retreat, the muscles strengthening ability caused Toru muscles to get stiff, requiring a lot stretching to allow the fibers to rest, continued use of this ability beyond the limit she can currently hold causes painful spasms.

About Mawata's quirk

Fluffy Cloud: The user is given the ability to create, control, and turn small part of their body into clouds and manipulate them as they please, including their densities, allowing them to be touched, normally, the clouds she generates are extremely soft to the touch, with texture pretty similar to cotton. Mawata can also decide to attivate the *discord* mode of the quirk, allowing her to increase the densities of the clouds to the maximum to make them quite durable to impacts, this combined with their still present softness, allow her to effectively defend herself and also attack by using her clouds as a blunt-force weapon. She also can carry people or herself thanks to her quirk, giving her great maneuverability and versatility.

Drawback: The quirk's generated clouds are vulnerable to water as, when hit by great quantity of it, causes their composition to get more dense and heavy, slowing the user down and rendering the clouds almost useless. To produce clouds, Mawata must use her own hydrogen and oxygen to create the water droplets responsible of the clouds composition, overusing of the quirk causes dehydration and dizziness that can also become severe.

About Rei quirk

Frost secondary function: thanks to the internal cold temperature and the release of freezing molecules similar to liquid nitrogen into the bloodstream, Rei body cells age slower compared to normal people, as even if she is chronologically a middle age woman, her biological age is equal to a Twenty nine years old woman, comparing her aging speed with the lifespan of other young pro heroes, Rei is expected to have a similar lifespan to them. 

About the Age of characters

As the name says I want to change the ages of some characters:

• Ragdol, Pixiebob and Tiger: 25
• Mandalay: 26
• Midnight: 27
• Lady Nagant: 27
• Thirteen: 27

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• Izuku Midoriya (Kindred)

hero costume before symbiosis:

(Made by Nitro_Sugar)

Link : twitter.com/Nitro_Sugar

Iron soles: Whenever Izuku delivers a kick and the soles receive a forceful impact, the toes of the soles spring out in a blowback motion to give Izuku's attacks a powerful double impact. This gives Izuku's kicks enough force to create shock waves and break through solid rock

Air force gloves: Whenever Izuku flick his fingers to create a wind blast, the gloves' outside layer across his wrist jolts forward to funnel Izuku's air blasts to a certain point. The sights on his knuckles serve the same function if Izuku chooses to fire off smaller blasts; thank to this gloves, Izuku can focus his air blasts so he can pinpoint his target whenever he flicks his fingers to create an air gun.

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Costume after symbiosis:

Objective of the costume: Reduce physical strain on arms and legs caused by the wearer's quirks while also increasing strength and accuracy of hits.

• Ochako Uraraka (Uravity)

Objective of the costume: helping the wearer minimize the negative effects of her Quirk by reducing the stimulation of the semicircular canals through the helmet while the wrists accessories stimulate pressure points, all the objective of reducing nausea. The costume also helps with stability and movements through grappling hooks integrated into the wrists guards, shock-absorbing cushions in her soles and reinforced springs contained in her heels to soften the impact.

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• Momo Yaoyorozu (Creati)

Made by partysizedd

Twitter.com/partysizedd

Objective of the costume: offer enough skin exposure to use the quirk without create discomfort or leave too much vunerable parts exposed. An extremely durable tablet is strapped behind the lower section, offering information on possible creations.

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• Mina Ashido(Pinky)

Made by liisu_kl

Link: instagram.com/liisu_kl

Objective of the costume: Style, liberty of movement and support items to store acid for alternative uses. The costume is all resistant to acid, allowing the wearer to go all out without having to worry about damaging her costume.

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• Toru Hagakure (Invisible Girl)

(Made by m0chicakes)

Link : https://m0chicakes.tumblr.com

Objective of the costume: The material is made with the user DNA, allowing it to disappear together with the wearer. The skintight material and padded soles and heels allow for minimum sound to be produced.

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•Tsuyu Asui (Froppy)

Edited art of HatoKameK

Link: Twitter.com/HatoKameK

Objective of the costume: Focus on giving as much liberty of movement as possible, the skintight waterproof material reduce attrition with water and don't impact movements. Some areas are left exposed to give the maximum of flexibility and liberty of movement, such as the zone around the hip and shoulders while also giving more space for the wearer's mucus to exit freely.

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• Ibara Shiozaki (Vine)

Made by thelilbirdie

Link: Tumblr.com/thelilbirdie

Objective of the costume: A union of beauty and durability, made of flexible and durable material, the costume shouldn't be underestimated given its decorated appearance, roses have thorns. 

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• Mawata Fuwa (Fuwakumo) [Only the costume]

Made by hisakawasensei

Instagram.com/hisakawasensei

Objective of the costume: Minimize dehydration by reducing sweating with very breathable fabric and presence of back pockets with small water container for quick rehydration.

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• Himiko Toga (villain)

(Made by m0chicakes)

Link : https://m0chicakes.tumblr.com

Objective of the costume: Sharp and cute, like it's owner, multiple blades are hidden in the pockets. Allow safe storage of blood for later use.

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• Eijiro Kirishima (Red Riot)

(Made by ohkoh)

Link: Tumblr.com/ohkoh-blog

Objective of the costume: A sturdy and manly costume for a sturdy and manly guy. It offers additional protection to the wearer while also being very difficult to cut even while the wearer's quirk is activated.

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• Rikido Sato (Sugarman)

(Made by MTOMauw)

Link : twitter.com/MTOMauw

Objective of the costume: easy access to high energetic liquid sugar.

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• Fumikage Tokoyami

(Made by ohkoh)

Link: Tumblr.c om/ohkoh-blog

Objective of the costume: intimidating and functional, gives Dark Shadow a spot where to hide and regenerate energy. 

Chapter Text

It all started in Qing Qing City, China, where a luminescent child was born, an unprecedented event that caused extreme confusion and fear, what would have caused that....and especially.....was that the only case? The answer...was no, from that discovery, more and more people with these unusual abilities began to be born, filling the world with powers out of the ordinary.

Generation after generation, the number of so-called quirked came to exceed the number of people without quirks, now the quirkless represent only 5% of the population, most of them belonging to the older generations.....and they don't receive the best treatment.

*Sigh* the worst......

Sorry..... returning to what I was saying before, In this new era of humanity, the extraordinary has become the norm, people with quirks of all kinds with infinite varieties fill the cities, and new specific rules made for quirk bearers have been formed to keep control on their otherwise out of control potential; however some people started using their quirk for their selfish desires.....and they usually won't stop before anything to do achieve what they want. Quirks were being used by criminals to harm others for the sake of doing it or by people betrayed by society who used their gifts to fight their own personal wars; with the rise of crime, individuals started to use their quirks to fight Against these *villains*, they will be the ones that will give birth to a new profession, Heroes, a concept that seems to have been taken from comic books.... but, now has become a reality. Despite this, cracks in the new system started to form, the world wasn't black and white, many heroes were not so different from villains under their masks and vice versa. Together with the corruption and the increasing importance of quirks in society, discrimination against quirkless and those with so-called villainous quirks has become an increasingly present event behind closed doors, especially in schools.....I know it too well.

I guess that it's time to tell you my story, let's begin where it all started.....

Sounds of crying could be heard in a playground; a boy with bruises and dirty clothing was seen whimpering on the ground. A green-haired child stood in front of him in a protective position.

"K-Kacchan, p-p-please s-stop this, can't you s-see that he's crying!? H-Haven't y-you done enough? This is not f-fun!" the little green-haired kid cried while trembling, his eyes shaking as he was trying to stop shaking and be brave, but his fear was oblivious, especially considering who he was looking at

In front of him, there was a child of the same age with spiky ash-blonde hair and red eyes. A mocking grin on his face as he glared at the green-haired coward. Together with him, there were two other children, one with red wings and another with fingers stretching to unnatural lengths, all of them looking at the green-haired boy with frowned eyes and not-so-friendly grins.

The ash blonde made a step forward, causing the green-haired boy to flinch, an irritated glint creeping from his red irises.

"He challenged me and paid the price! and you want me to stop? Hahaha! come on, let's hear it, what will you do if I don't stop?" The ash blonde boy barked arrogantly, some sparks coming out of his hands as his face displayed both irritation and smugness, being challenged by someone not amazing as Deku? No way! If he doesn't get out of his way.....he can be educated to remain in his place.

"I-I-If y-you don't sp-stop, I......I....I wi-will stop you my-myself!" The Little scared boy stuttered as he shakily raised his tiny fists to try to put a battle stance, but his shaking form and the hot tears dripping from his green eyes didn't phase the blonde or make him hesitate, on the contrary, it made him madder, he was just being challenged, by Deku nonetheless!!!

"Last chance, out of my way, or you will become the next one to be taught a lesson!" the ash blonde spat back at him with even more indignation, his patience running out.

This made the green-haired boy shake harder, but after a couple of seconds, he shook his head in negation, not wanting to leave the kid behind to the wolves.

".....Fine, I warned you!!! Get him!!!" The ash blonde shouted as he charged forward with the other two in tow towards the green-haired boy, whose teary eyes could only widen in terror as his body froze in fear. He could only stand there as they got closer and closer, His green pupils shrank when he saw sparkles coming out of the blonde's hands, and he realized that they weren't going to stop......he can't escape, he need to protect the other kid, so he just closed his teary eyes and....

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"All men are not created equal" a young voice narrated, the entire scene changed, showing who the voice belonged to, a boy with the same messy green hair as the child in the flashback.

"That was one of the first lessons the world taught me" the voice narrated as the boy is seen walking through the streets of the city, his head looking down and he was deep into his thoughts.

"That's me..... Izuku midoriya....." the voice narrated, revealing the boy's name.

The green-haired boy passed the intersection. He was walking badly, limping and even stumbling a bit, his face grimacing sometimes like he was in pain. bruises and patches were seen on his face and his green eyes appeared dull as he continues on his way, his posture hunched over and afraid.

"That was the first of the many times that others have hurt me to put me in my *place*" the voice continued.

The boy raised a bit his gaze to look ahead at the passersby, revealing his appearance of full. He is a relatively short boy, with a round face framed by a short mop of fluffy dark-green hair which curls up at odd angles around his head, some short strands falling in front of his forehead and eyes. His eyes are large and somewhat circular with sad green irises and big bags under his eyes. He has a set of four symmetrical freckles in diamond formations, one on each cheek. He was being careful to not get too close to anyone near, his hands shakingly gripping the straps of his backpack.

His eyes narrowed a bit as he remembered clearly in what state he was left when the three children had finished with him on that day, they left him there on the ground with burns all over his small body, clothes slightly torn in various places, and pain all over his body, the child he had protected had left him there, alone and devastated by the truth.

*AAAAHHH*

The green haired boy stopped in his tracks and flinched when he heard a savage scream echoing from afar, it was followed by heavy thuds, which made him hastily look at the direction the noises came. what was that?! A villain attack?

*Thud!* *GET AWAY!!!* *Thud!*

Even more enraged screams and noises made the boy realize that there was possibly a villain attack. A normal person that cares about their safety would ignore this and move along, sadly, Izuku wasn't one of those people, and the fact that his thoughts process thought that a villain attack means that heroes on the scene dulled his almost non-existent self preservation instincts. The greenette's eyes regained a bit of focus as he started to painfully run towards the source, his pulsing curiosity dulling any pain or fear he has.

Some moments later

When Izuku arrived, he found himself in a huge crowd watching what was happening in front of the street that lead to a train station. The boy used his small size to squeeze between the group and hopefully see what was happening and, when he managed to get a clear line of sight, he was completely shocked.

A Giant Villain was on view, he had a rough, beastly appearance, possessing a head that resembles that of a horse or a shark, and a very wide-set, large muscular body. he was causing havoc, punching and stepping the rails he was standing on.

The villain's eyes darted around quickly, trying to keep any heroes from getting closer. his stare enraged and violent as he growled and roared with fury.

The green-haired boy looked with wide eyes at the battle. He internally wondered how this attack started or why. He glanced around, trying to hear if the others that were watching for more time than him knew something. But, he didn't dare to ask directly, just the thought makes him shake.

"A villain appeared...that's right. I'm at the train station. not sure when I'll get in...." he heard a man on his left shout to his phone. It didn't answer his question about what happened so the boy scooted away, not liking the man's angry voice.

The greenette stopped once he caught people talking about the incident.

"Turning into a monster? what a crazy quirk! what did he do?" Another bystander says, this made Izuku keep his attention at the conversation, curious if his weak curiosity was gonna be satisfied.

"Tried to steal a purse and started rampaging when he got cornered" the other bystander answered, making both the other guy and the green-haired boy understand why the giant villain was causing havoc.

Suddenly a man's voice was heard, attracting the crowd's attention.

"Everyone stay away! it's dangerous!" A hero dressed like a firefighter commanded as he put himself in front of the crowd, his back on them. He had what seemed like two fire hydrants on his arms, water bursting out of them, forming liquid ropes to keep the crowd away.

Backdralf.

The thief savagely punched a part of the tracks, causing debris to fly around, a piece of it was flying on the civilians, fortunately, the debris were intercepted by another hero, A very tall, muscular man of a wide build with slightly-tanned skin. A square jaw that juts out a notable amount, small eyes, and short white hair, spiked out behind his head.

Death Arms.

"Damn it! he's totally out of control, it's too dangerous here, we gotta get the civilians out!" Deatharms shouted as he threw the debris to the side, urging the civilians to go away.

The giant villain roared once again as he suddenly started to swing his arms around, like something fast was circling around him. The green haired boy's eyes widened once he saw something or better yet, someone swinging quickly around the villain, avoiding every sloppy desperate attack by using what seemed tendrils made of wood to grapple parts of the railing to dodge.

"Wait...is that?...." Izuku muttered as he squinted his eyes and leaned a bit forward to look better, he managed to notice a bit of the person's costume and the color of the tendrils he was using to move around, brown....like wood....

His thoughts were cut off when he saw the hero slingshot himself on top of the metallic beam thanks to his tendrils. Now he was visible enough for everyone to see his features. He was a slightly short and muscular man, wearing an outfit consisting of a dark blue bodysuit that includes a wooden belt, wooden knee pads, and wooden shoes. A small bundle of roses hangs from the left side of his belt. He was looking down at the thief, his eyes darting around as he noticed all the damage the criminal was causing and also how many people were watching.

He crouched down close to the edge of the beam as his eyes narrowed.

"Disturbance of the peace, destruction of property and attempt on civilian lives, you are under arrest, dirtbag!" The hero says seriously as he indicated the villain with one finger, which resulted in the gigantic man swinging his arm towards him while roaring like an animal, but the hero nimbly dodges the attack and lands on another part of the rail.

"I see that you resist, very well, you leave me no choice than force you to comply" the wood hero added with a narrowed gaze, dodging everything the villain could throw at him, at a certain point, his opponent staggered because of his not caring where he out his feet, giving the hero the opening he needed.

"Now it's time for my special move...." he started to say as he brought his arm back, which was quickly covered by a multitude of branches.

"pre-emptive binding , lacquered chain prison!" he shouted as the branches were about to reach the villain. Until.......

"Canyon Cannon!" A female loud voice shouted as a gigantic woman was suddenly seen on the scene, giving a devastating flying kick which impacted on the villain, throwing him back and making him fall unconscious on the floor with a loud thud. The owner was even bigger than the villain, probably surpassing 20 meters of height.

The crowd was left speechless by the intervention of the gigantic young woman, their mouth agape while they watched her land on the street with a big thud, causing the surroundings to shake.

"W-what?!!! Who is she?!" Izuku thought shocked with wide eyes. He never saw her, is she a new heroine? She is wearing a costume, could be a vigilante, but she seems to not be very....sneaky.

He didn't have to wait long for his answer as he saw the giant woman crouch a bit close to the villain, her hand grasping and lifting his limp leg a little to make sure he was really unconscious. Once she made sure she really hit the target well, she raised herself on her full height, surprising once again the boy and the crowd with her sheer size.

"Piece of cake for the world's next hottest heroine, who finally made her debut!...." she says as she finally turned her titanic body to face the audience, a friendly and a bit proud look on her face, making the boy see her appearance in full, she was a curvaceous young woman with purple eyes with white pupils and elegantly long eyelashes. She has prolonged, voluminous, creamy blonde hair reaching down to her waist with two shorter strands curled to frame her face, parted slightly to her right. She was wearing a purple and pale tan-colored skintight bodysuit, which is accented with orange stripes. She also has a pair of purple gloves with orange accents on the edge of the cuff. The design is similar to her *boots* which are cut off at the thigh in a deep v-shape. The suit also has three peculiar orange diamond-shaped dots on the purple top that are located under her chest, and she also wears a purple domino mask with horn-like protrusions on the sides.

The beautiful heroine then put a hand on her hip and gave the crowd a confident smile, ready to make her true debut, she could already see the paparazzi. She winked once she noticed them, but very attentive eyes could see some cracks in her almost sultry behavior, like it was forced? Faked? Izuku had to blink a couple of times once he noticed it, there was no one better than him to recognize when someone was faking being happy.

"Pleased to meet you all! you can call me Mt. Lady! You will not have to worry about this bum anymore, A good old kick made him quiet down!" she declared with another cute wink and a peace sign, increasing the cheer of the male audience, all of them extremely thrilled such beautiful and friendly woman as their new heroine.

Nobody noticed Kamui Woods falling on his knees with a depressed aura around him.

"She is taking all the credits...." the wood hero muttered downcast as an imaginary cloud was over him. Deatharms was beside him, patting his back with a sweatdrop.

Meanwhile, Izuku was in his own little world, muttering the details of the quirks he was lucky enough to observe. He was Writing all of that on a slightly damaged notebook, which had various points where it seemed sentences were previously written but then covered by pen writing, like its owner didn't like what others wrote, like it was.... unwanted.

"A gigantification quirk huh? can be a double-edged sword due to potential collateral damage unless she can adjust her size * mutter *" the greenette muttered as low as possible while he writes on the pages, his mind already working to breakdown this quirk, a new hero, new analysis.

A man next to him, who was busy staring at Mt. Lady, is intrigued by the boy's muttering, even managing to understand some words once he paid attention. He leaned a bit to the side, seeing the notebook content, and he couldn't help himself from whistling impressed.

"*Whistle* damn, kiddo, that's some good analysis you go there. Want to join them?" the man chimed with a friendly grin as he indicated the pro heroes with hash thumb. However, his eyes widened a bit when he noticed the boy's bruised state, what happened to him?

The boy flinched for a moment as he looked at the man with a bit of fear, but calmed down a bit when he noticed his friendly tone and not threatening body language. Naturally the greenette was still wary, but he kept it hidden as he forced his voice to come out.

"Y-y-yes......m-more th-than a-anything....." he stuttered very nervously while he looked away a little, keeping the notebook close to his chest.

The man seemed to ponder something, but then shook his head, a friendly grin made way on his fade as he laughed a bit. He raised his hand a bit and then used it to lightly pat the boy on the shoulder in a friendly way, unfortunately making the greenette flinch even more, the contact felt like it was making his nerves tense up.

"I see, I see! Well, If you ask me, that big brain of yours will get you far. I will cheer for you when you make your debut, kiddo" He concluded with a thumb up. Making the boy's eyes widened a bit, completely shocked by the man's kind words. A little light seemed to return to his eyes as he looked down with a slightly less scared posture. A small nervous smile seemed to appear on his lips, but it quickly faded and gave place to a mostly forced or fake one, like he was forcing himself to keep smiling.

"T-thank you! I'll d-do my b-best" Izuku says with a low voice as he looked down. but then noticed that he was late and immediately bowed politely to the man and walked again towards probably the place he is most afraid of and hates most of all at the same time.

Aldera junior high

Izuku opened the door that led to his classroom as quietly as possible to not to attract attention. But, as soon as he entered he was welcomed by glares of disgust, indifference, and some of them even anticipation to have the opportunity to put the quirkless garbage in his place again. They all had the not-written and not-spoken permission of doing anything they want with him. His dream was pathetic, his personality was pathetic, him being quirkless is pathetic. Quirkless tried to oppress the quirked, so, like the teachers *suggested* why not give them the favor back?! A thrilling idea!

The hurt and shaking greenette simply limped towards his seat and sat on it, trying to make himself as small as possible.

After a few seconds of glaring at Izuku, the students got back to what they were doing before. Meanwhile, the green-haired boy remembered the man's words from before, using them to give himself some confidence.

"I want to be a hero so desperately but...." Izuku thought as his lips quivered a bit as he can already feel his heartbeat increase, he was always terrified of being in this school, he changed it regularly, but it was always the same, here it was even worse and he can't change it or he will need to repeat the year.

His thoughts were interrupted by the entrance of the teacher, he was with a stack of papers in his hands.

"Calm down everyone, as you know this is your last school year and you have to decide what you will do in your future" he says as he sits behind the desk.

He remains silent for a couple of seconds until he throws the modules in the air

"But who am I kidding, you all want to be heroes" As he says this, everyone starts cheering and using their quirks to show off, izuku just looked down and tried to hide as much as possible, already knowing that this day will be worse than usual, he could feel it, considering that for ten years, almost every day was a bad day.

"Hey teach, do not include me among this garbage, at most they will be footstools for some unknown hero...... always if they are lucky" says arrogantly a boy with ash blonde hair, he had his feet on the desk.

"What do you mean by this, Katsuki? are you looking down on us?! " shouts one of the students with an offended voice.

"Katsuki Bakugo, an arrogant narcissist, obsessed with the idea that everyone is under him, he and I were once friends but since he received his quirk, explosion, he has become more and more arrogant and violent, I have become his favorite victim ever since; I have long since abandoned the idea that he and I can get along, I have tried everything, be kind, appear fearless, talk to the school's staff, everything has resulted in a stronger beating" Izuku thinks looking at him.

"Did you say something, extras? Come on let's see what you do, you have no hope, after all, I'll be the only one going to UA" he says with an arrogant grin, he then jumped and stood on his desk, sparked coming out of his hands.

"I aced in all mock tests, they will have the honor of having someone like me, future hero number one, I will become the most powerful, famous and richer hero that will ever be known, even more than All Might!" Katsuki says, pride coming out of every pore, the teacher instead of stopping his rant looked at him with a proud smile, but it disappears as he notices a certain name among the forms, he turned towards the boy responsible for his disappointment.

"Izuku Midoriya, a quirkless waste, still thinks that he can be something that he will not be able to reach, I'll better destroy this madness "he thinks maliciously.

"Midoriya also wants to go to UA, well.....this is surprising, I guess they accept everyone's requests nowadays......" he says passively but internally prepares for the show, everyone freezes on the spot including Katsuki, after a couple of seconds, they immediately looks at the mentioned boy, without loosing even a second, they all burst out laughing, some started to mock his waiting to be a hero, others were laughing too hard to even form a insult to say to the guy they consider inferior to them, a more punching bag and quirk target.

"That's what I was trying to say, I'm quirkless, and in a world like this, it means you're worth less than nothing" Izuku thinks as his almost non-existent confidence broke even more, he dared to look at everyone, all those mockeries.....all these insults....he can feel the sides of his eyes water a little while he felt his last bit of composure break. He just want to be a hero, what's wrong with that?

"T-t-they g-got rid of th-that r-rule, it's only that no one has ever tried, I.....I think I can be first to-" he shakily try to say something to defend his dream, but before he could finish his sentence, an explosion was created in front of him, his body froze immediately as his body froze up in terror, already starting to have a panic attack with just this, he saw these explosions many times and he felt them many times on his own body......which still has the marks......they never fade, just like his ever-growing fear.

He looked at his scorched desk with a pale face and shakily looked up, finding a furious Katsuki who, after stopping him from saying what was complete bullshit for the ash-blonde ears, grabbed him by the collar of his uniform and put him on the wall, the boy weakly whining on pain, his body already understanding that a new beating was coming....when will it end?

"You lousy pathetic quirkless trash!!! how the fuck do you dare to even think you can come to UA? How many times did I say to never try?!!! How many?!! do you really believe you can compete with me ?, you're even worse than these extras, Deku!!! You even sending a request is an insult!!!!!" He roar as he raised his from the floor, still holding him by the collar, class just continued to either laugh or watch the show as they enjoyed it.....they enjoyed seeing him suffer.

Izuku was even more terrorized, now full blow tearing up, fear present in every part of his body.

"I-i-i d-don't w-want to compete w-w-with you, B-Bakugo, I wan-want to be a hero since I was a kid and I'll never know if I don't try.......I just want to try" Izuku says shakily, his face displaying a fear created by constant beating and abuse, rarely he passed a week without being physically hurt to any degree, it become the norm......, Why?..... why can't it just stop? What did he do to deserve this?

Apparently, this made the ash blond even angrier, like the greenette's dream was a personal insult.

"Try?!!!! being quirkless also made you lose your mind?!! they won't even look you in the eyes as they kick you out of the exam, scum like you don't even deserve the chance!" he roared as he continued to painfully press him against the wall, not caring about how much he was scaring and hurting the green haired boy, he was a pebble that was trying to ruin his hero origin.

"Why should they even consider you when they can have me?! Me!" he finished as he raised his voice even more.

For a moment Izuku's mind went blank, these words hit him harder than any punch the blonde could give him. His teary and dull green eyes noticed the disgusted or indifferent looks everyone else was giving him while the ash blonde kept berating him. Their lips moving and producing insults or being parted to join the chorus of mocking laughter directed at him.

The green haired boy looked down, his eyes shaking as he gave up on even defending the last bit of pride he had. It wasn't going to change anything after all, this wasn't the first time they just told him to die somewhere or to give up half of the class directly treat him like he was infected with the plague. It got so mentally draining that he long reached the point where he was starting to agree with them, his self confidence twisted into self loathing.

"Alright alright, Katsuki, that's enough, solve your problems after class.....you know how it works here" the teacher interrupted the berating, his voice didn't carry that much scolding intend. It was like what happened was just an inconvenience, maybe not even one, more like when you let your kids play for too long. The man was internally satisfied with the progress of his class, their hate for weakness was evolving to reach new peaks, and their loyalty as well.

Katsuki rolled his eyes as he let go of Izuku's collar, making the boy fall on his butt, he didn't even whine this time, his eyes were hollow, he should be used to this, but it just gets worse.........he was just so tired........ someone like him being a hero was so bad?........he doesn't understand...... what's wrong with him?

Meanwhile, out in the city, people could be heard shouting, "Someone stop him, call a hero, hurry !!!" yells a shop owner that was being robbed by a criminal, the latter is completely made of sludge and runs in the streets with cash registers and various valuables taken from passers-by stuck in his body.

No one noticed a skinny man standing there with groceries in his hand. He turned his head slightly hearing the calls for help, a dull blue glow enveloping his irises.

"Did someone say there was a need for a hero?" he says as steam started to come from his skin. His body seemed to be bulging, powerful muscles growing on the previously feeble limbs. After a couple of seconds, instead of a sickly looking man, there was an extremely muscular one and imposing one, his entire form rumbling with power.

"I AM HERE NOW, ANSWERING YOUR CALL" The man laughed with a too familiar laugh, its booming words made everyone turn their gazes on him, their eyes widened like plates as realization hit them. They couldn't believe it......he....he was here!!!!

The man didn't let the crown trying to talk to him slow him down. He will think later of giving signatures, there was a villain to catch, and so he took off, running at speeds that no normal man could achieve.

Back on Aldera

Finally at the end of the usual bad school day, an exhausted Izuku was busy putting his things in his backpack. The events of a few hours ago had cracked his spirit even more. The only thing he wanted to do now was to go home and hug the only person who treated him like a human being.

However, when he was about to put his notebook with his quirk analysis in his backpack, a hand snatched it from his hand, causing him to flinch and look at his side with wide and terrified eyes, seeing Katsuki there holding his notebook.

"We haven't finished our little chat, Deku" Katsuki scoffed as he held the notebook tightly, a not so happy look on his face, his glare increasing the green haired boy's anxiety even more.

The blonde glanced at the notebook, his eyes squinting even more.

"Hero analysis for the future? Are you kidding right? the more time passes, the more you delude yourself into having even one chance to walk among the heroes" Katsuki mocked as he .

"What are you holding Katsuki?" says one of his *friends* as he approaches. After he sees what Katsuki has in his hand. A mocking smirk made way on his face as he looks at Izuku.

"I can't believe it, *hero analysis for the future?* What future? You have nothing Midoriya" he didn't hold back in his words, stabbing the green haired boy confidence with them.

"It's hopeless, I'm almost sorry for you, almost" says another of Katsuki's *friends*.

"Can y-y-you give it b-back, p-please?" Izuku Asked as he tried to keep eyes contact, he didn't want to step on dangerous territory as a missed step and he was going to be beaten up, or receive another round of insults. His fear was well placed when he saw Katsuki smile at the stuttered question, but the greenette knew that it meant only bad things for him.

"But of course, wait, since I'll be number one, all the better that I give you an autograph in advance!" he mocked as he slammed his hands together, generating small explosions that burned the notebook, much to Izuku's horror.

"Ahh!" Izuku yelped with wide eyes as he saw his precious notebook scorched without a once of regret, and to make things worse, the blonde glanced at him, at the notebook, and then.....he threw it towards the window...

The gree haired tried to hastily reach for it before it could fall out the window but it was too late....it was gone.....his eyes became even more hollow. The boy could feel fresh salty tears dripping from his eyes, his hands were twitching, still extended towards the window.

".......Why?......I didn't...I didn't do anything.........." he shakily whispered, he couldn't believe how far they can go to ruin him, every bit of happiness was destroyed by them.

"Don't look so sad, Deku, it can't be helped" the green haired boy heard from behind, making his nerves twitch and made him slowly look back, finding the blonde without a bit of guilt for what he had just done.

"I'm just trying to remove mistakes from my origin story. I don't want to talk about a quirkless failure dying in the background while I become number one hero, it gives a certain pathetic taste to the story, don't you agree?" Katsuki mocked with a fake friendly voice as he walked towards his victim, he heard his goons snickering a little about his ego, he ignored them for now to focus on the person he despises most.

"People show greatness from newborn.....do you understand? you got nothing, zero, so do me a favor, Deku......" he continued as he placed a smoking hand on Izuku's shoulder, the ash blonde's stare suddenly becoming dead serious, the fake smile and voice completely gone.

"Don't even try to put a foot on UA.....got it?" he threatened with a glare as the warmth of his hand rose and started to hurt Izuku, the greenette's body flinching and shaking as he already knew that he was going to be hurt for the amusement of others, again.

After a few seconds of silence he sighs, a disgusted expression on his face as he pushes Izuku away, a bit of smoke coming from the green-haired boy's shoulder. The greenette looked back at him fearfully, his eyes hollow and a bit watery.

"Really........nothing? I thought you weren't so pathetic and had at least some fight in you, oh well, I hope the message has finally entered your head. You-have-no-chance......" he finished as he started to head out together with his band.

Izuku even though completely devastated emotionally from what he was told at least he was happy he wouldn't be beaten today, until Katsuki stopped and looked at him again, a grin on his face

"You know, there is a way you can stand a chance" he says in a neutral tone as Izuku looks at him in shock, he doesn't know what to expect from him, so he listened, maybe it was a suggestion......

Maybe there was hope for someone like him......maybe......
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"Hope to be born with a quirk in your next life...And go take a swan dive off the roof, I'm sure no one will miss you , bye~" He concluded as he walked towards the door without even turning back, leaving a shell-shocked Izuku behind. The greenette's pupils were so small that they almost drowned in the dull green of his irises, showing that the words hit as deeper as they could.

*Thud*

With a strong thud, the door of the classroom was closed, leaving the green haired boy alone, he didn't know how much time passed after the three guys left him there, seconds? Minutes? He doesn't know. His mind was completely numb as it was not able to process all this mental pain, sadness and stress in one go. However, a single flickering of his eyes showed that the boy's mind was starting to feel again, and with that, the torture resumed....

"I....I don't understand...why?....W-why? What I've done to deserve this? I can't-....I can't do this anymore. Maybe....maybe I just have to........" He shakily cried as his whole body shook. He was gripping his head while tears kept streaming from his eyes. His last bit of sanity hanging by a thread.

But then, he stopped as his eyes widened, a lonely happy memory making his eyes regaining a tiny bit of life, just the least necessary to be still considered able to feel positive emotions.

"No...I-I can't....if I do it, sh-she will be heartbroken, I can't hurt her, I need to hold on, keep resisting. Keep it inside, stop crying...." he quietly sobbed as he tried to vent his sadness. After managing to calm himself a bit, the boy shakily grabbed the last few things and put them in his backpack. Now ready to go home, Izuku silently walked down the stairs, sniffing from time to time as he tried to stop tearing up, but he hardly kept the sadness and frustration in, luckily he was alone.

He hissed once he took a particularly heavy step on his injured leg, the pain kept him from walking comfortably, it didn't stop for all the duration of the school day. He probably needs to put ice on it and hope that it isn't broken.

With a tired and pained exhale, the boy finally exited the hell he called school, he walked past a fish tank but stopped once he caught a glimpse of his notebook in the water. The equally soaked and burned notebook was being bitten by the fish in it. The boy quickly rushed at the edge of the tank and grabbed it before it can be ruined even more.

"it's not food...." he muttered sadly as he looked at his ruined notebook, it was burned and soaked.

"You never stop destroying the only things that make me happy....." he muttered sadly as he sniffed a little, he then proceed along the road to the only place where he can have at least some peace.

Chapter Text

*Sniff* *sniff*

Weak weeping was the only sound present on the lonely road crossed by the lonely green-haired boy, who was slowly and painfully limping towards his home. His arm rubbing his puffy and still watering eyes, but new tears just kept dropping. He was still trying to metabolize what happened today, physically he had worse days than this, considering that today nobody did beat him up. But, emotionally.....that was another story.

"W-why he h-had to call me up? he did it on purpose, I s-saw his s-stare..." He muttered between sobs, teachers at Aldera were much worse than his schoolmates. They always talk ill about him, close both eyes when the students are rough with him, or even straight up give him the fault for the *fights*. A *violent and unstable kid*, that's what they call him.

The boy lowered his arm and looked down, his pace stopped as well. Every single effort to get a bit closer to his dream was either mocked or made useless by others. For example, he actually tried to do some basic workout at home, something simple to at least build some muscles in his thin body, but, the pain of the constant beating made it impossible, making him almost pass out when he tried to force his body to do even the easiest exercise.

"....What I was thinking?.....If I can't even move correctly....what hope do I have? What hope do I have if they can have him?....." Izuku thought grimly as he remembered Katsuki's words of before, as much as it hurts, the ash blonde was right, who in their right mind would prefer a quirkless coward with a scarred body over a powerful and confident boy with one of the best quirks around of his generation?

"I can't blame you for crying....mom, I would too if I had to deal with someone like me...." He muttered shakily as he remember how all of this started, the worst day of his life.....the day of that cursed quirk exam.

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flashback

A four-year-old Izuku was seen rushing into the kitchen of his home with an All Might figurine in his small hand. His steps weren't coordinated, they were more like cute little jumps than a normal walk. He was walking towards a green-haired woman, who was busy washing dishes in the sink.

"Mom, hurry! C'mon, mom! It's computer time!" The little boy whined as he stood beside the taller woman, doing some excited little jumps while standing, this made the woman turn her head to look down at her son, a sweet smile adorned her lips as she couldn't help but chuckle a little.

"Again, Izuku? okay, okay you won, honey. I just need to finish here and I turn on the computer for you" She replied as she smiled a bit wider and then turned back to what she was doing before.

The four year old Izuku nodded excitedly and tried to keep his enthusiasm at bay while looking at the little All Might figurine in his hand. He could already hear his super cool laugh!!!

After a while, he heard the sound of the sink being turned off. He looked up and, to his delight, noticed that his mother was done with the dishes, this could only mean......

"Let's go, computer time" the woman says with a smile as she follows her energetic son to another room. As soon as she entered, she could see the little boy dragging the taller chair a bit back so he could climb to sit on it. With some adorable effort, he managed to sit in front of the computer, moving back and forth with impatience.

The green-haired woman walked closer and stood beside him, leaning a bit forward so she could turn on the computer and prepare the video that her son was so excited to see once more.

"Geez, I think you've added 10,000 views to this one yourself, Izuku. I don't know why you like it, I think it's scary" The woman says with a small chuckle. With a final click, the show began.

The younger Izuku immediately leaned forward with sparkling eyes, a wide smile on his lips. Watching with laser-like attention as the video started.

The video showed what looked like a disaster aftermath, buildings were in rubble, fire was everywhere, and the screams of civilians in distress were echoing in the distance. Everyone was asking for help, for a hero......and a hero answered the call.

"HA HA HA HA!!!" A booming laugh cut the despair like a knife, making who was recording turn the camera towards the source, showing a large and muscular man on top of the rubble, carrying multiple people on his back without visible effort. A bright and wide smile seemed to be always on his lips, like a star in the night sky.

"Is that guy again!!! He already saved at least a hundred people and it hasn't even been ten minutes and he got even more. This is... this is crazy! I can't believe it!" A man was heard shouting with both shock but also growing admiration, everyone that was there was flabbergasted, that man was doing much better than a whole group of heroes.

"FEAR NOT, CITIZENS! HELP HAS ARRIVED!...." The muscular man declared with a booming and confident voice as he took a step forward, the floor barely able to not crack under his mighty strength.

"BECAUSE I AM HERE!" He concluded as his smile just widened, this was was his debut. The debut of the number one hero.....

All Might

The young boy's eyes couldn't get any brighter, he saw this video many times, but it never got old. There was just a thought that his young mind could formulate when he saw the hero helping everyone and give hope with a smile on his face.

"He's the coolest in the universe! And once I get my Quirk, I'm gonna be a hero just like him" he thought with a big smile, already picturing himself standing beside his favorite hero as they fight injustices. He want his own quirk so bad!!!

However......the excitement died quickly once the memory shifted to another location....that cursed doctor office.

"That will not happen, you'd better give up" A middle aged man completely destroyed the young boy's dream with a simple sentence told with little compassion or intent of lessening the blow.

"wh-wh-what?" Young Izuku gasped as his entire body seemed to become white as a sheet with shock present in every part of his face, the All Might action figure dropped from his hand, but he didn't even looked down at it. His pupils were small and staring ahead.

"Oh dear. So you really think there's something wrong, then? All of the other kindergartners in his class have begun to show signs of their quirks, but my son is the only one that didn't...." The green haired woman asked with a worried tone and gaze as she glanced at her son, however, she had a hard time not showing her displeasure on how the doctor just delivered the news to the little boy.

"In a way. Madam, you are a fourth generation quirk user, no? What quirk does you and the boy's father have?" The doctor asked calmly as he leaned back on his chair while joining his hands together, his eyes were covered by round and big goggles, hiding his disinterested and cold stare.

The woman nodded, putting a hand on her cheek as she noticed the dropped toy, ignored by her son, who still didn't recover from the shock.

"Ehm...I am able to attract small objects to me. As for my husband, he can breathe fire..." She explained as she used her free hand to lift the action figure and bring it to her hand, the process was a but slow, probably because she doesn't use it a lot. She then glanced at her son with a worried gaze.

"They could be useful for him, right?" She continued as she patted her son's hair, trying to give him comfort, maybe he is just a late bloomer.

"Well, madam, in normal circumstances, your son should have already manifested one of these quirks or a combination of both, but after viewing his x-rays, I don't think he's going to...." The doctor explained as he pointed at a x-ray of the boy's foot, especially on a specific point, the joint of the pinky bone.

"You see, when superpowers first began appearing there were many research studies conducted and doctors discovered a link between the bones in a person's foot and their likelihood of developing a Quirk. People with powers have only one joint in their pinky toes. Their bodies have evolved into a more streamlined version of the human form. You can see here that your son has two joints in his pinky. Like roughly 5% of the population these days. Based on the research that's available it's safe to say your son isn't going to develop a Quirk" The doctor explained dryly, killing the last bit of hope of the green haired boy of having a quirk and just being a late bloomer. So....he was.....

"Quirkless...." The little boy repeated in his head like a mantra as he looked down with a dazen stare, he couldn't believe it. How he was going to be a hero like All Might if he doesn't have a power? How?....h-how?

The woman sighed sadly as he forced herself to be polite to the merciless doctor, thanking him as she softly took her son hand and guided him out of the office, he was silent for all the trip, just increasing her worry.

Midoriya's House

Inko was walking back and forth in the living room, since they came back her son silently walked in his room and didn't go out for hours. She wanted to give him a bit of space to not feel overwhelmed. She knew how much he cared about having a quirk and being a hero, so she hoped he would go search for her once he was ready, and he would give him all the comfort he needed and some more. But after a couple of hours, she couldn't wait any longer.

The woman stood in front of her son's room, her delicate hand grasping the handle and turning it, opening the door slowly so to not scare him. When she peeked from it, she noticed that the lights were off, the rain outside hitting the window.

FEAR NOT, CITIZENS! HELP HAS ARRIVED!....BECAUSE I AM HERE!!" The same booming voice came from the turned on PC, making her glance at it, her eyes widened a bit as, even if the chair was covering him. Izuku was there, sitting in front of the computer while watching the same video, but there wasn't a lighthearted mood anymore I'm the room, there was a agonizing and sad one.

"See that, mom? There's always a smile on his face, no m-matter how bad things get. E-Even w-w-when t-things seemed *hic* i-impossible he never g-gives up *sniff*" she heard her son ask without turning his chair around to face, his voice growing weaker as he goes on whole being interrupted by weeping, showing that he was crying. It broke her heart even more hearing how sad he was. She was about to open the door more and walk towards him, but he continued talking, interrupting her.

"D-Do you think..." The little boy started to say as he finally turned his chair a bit, letting the woman see his face, which made her tear up when she saw how he was.

"I c-can be a h-hero too?" He asked shakily as he indicated the screen. His eyes were dripping with tears, his lips trying to smile, but his expression kept breaking to pieces because of the hiccups of his sobbing.

This made Inko rush to him, wrapping her arms around his small body as she tried to give him comfort. She apologized, again and again, for not giving him her quirk. Her distress just further sent the boy over the edge of the overwhelming sadness.

"No, mom, please don't cry... please....I need you tell me......I need those words..." the boy thought as his world felt like it was falling apart. That was the worst day of his life, the guilt of hearing his mother giving herself the fault for not passing at least her quirk to him and his dream being shattered.

All of this made the boy wonder if it was his fault that he was just born wrong....
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End flashback

The boy clenched his jaw as he forced himself to stop weeping. The wound has been there for ten years, bleeding fresh pain in his mind every time he remembered that day. It hurt him just to remember that doctor's face.

He looked down as he clenched his shaking fists, not caring for his pained muscles.

"I wanted to believe that others would have supported me, but they didn't. They all looked at me like I wasn't even a freak...." He muttered shakily as his gaze turned into a weak glare, some frustration bubbling from the sadness.

".....like I should just die and stop being an eyesore...." He continued as he remembered how worse his treatment got when he entered middle school. The beatings got so frequent and heavy that his body was in agony most of the time and cracked or even broken bones became almost a monthly thing.

"They did everything to hurt me, even..... faking to be my friends, making me feel something other than fear. But then they snatched it from me with kicks and punches after I let my guard down........they like to see me hurt that much" He thought as his eyes shook and his jaw clenched even more, angry tears threatening to fall. If there was something that hurt the most, it was betrayal, faking to be different, to actually consider him someone worth protecting and talking to. But they lied....they always lie, except his mother, she is the only one that fights for him, she is the one that tries to get the police involved or try to make the school act against the abusers, the only reason Izuku is still there was that they were basically threatened to stay, nobody would want a *violent and unstable* quirkless kid, wouldn't they?

"I....." He struggled to say as he looked up, his eyes still watery.

"I w-will never trust anyone again, someone like me will be always looked down upon, nobody will find me worth protecting...." Izuku muttered as he looked down at his hands, they were shaking, the strong emotions overwhelming his tired mind.

"Then I will do the protecting, as a hero.....I promised that I wouldn't give up...." he concluded as he resumed walking. His pace quickened as he really wanted to hug his mother and let some of the anxiety and pain melt away in the affection he so desperately desires. His mother never once refused to give him affection, and he was eternally grateful to have at least one person that really cares about him in this world.

He skipped under a bridge, the dark unnerved him a little, making him fear that his classmates may have prepared an ambush here. But luckily for him, he didn't hear anyone, so he continued to nervously walk forward, just to stop when he heard a noise behind him.

*Gloop!*

A viscous sound followed by a sort of sludge coming from the manhole behind the greenette. The sludge quickly formed a deformed body and by the way his yellow eyes were narrowed, he wasn't very happy.

"Just my luck!! How the fuck is possible that bastard is here in the city, I need to hid-huh?...ohh~" the living mass of sludge snarled between rotten teeth, but he stopped once he saw the terrorized green-haired boy, who was shakily backing away, his face pale and his eyes wide.

"It seems luck is on my side now, A perfect skin suit for me to hide in. Hey, kid, you don't mind giving me that body, don't you?" The villain says in a fake friendly tone, but his sadism and cruelty wasn't hidden at all, making chills run up the boy's spine.

Izuku yelped as he tried to turn the other way and run, but he didn't realize that he put all his weight on his injured leg, making him stumble and fall on his butt. He hissed in pain but quickly looked up at the approaching mass of sludge. He tried to crawl back, but his hurt leg was grabbed by one of the villain's tendrils, making him yelp in pain as the sludge squeezed the limb.

"How rude, you refuse to help someone in need?! Time to teach you a lesson in courtesy!" The villain grinned as he pulled to boy close, wrapping his sludge around him and trying to force his way in his mouth. But the boy kept struggling, adrenaline pumping in his system and dulling the pain, helping him to fight for his life.

"Stop wriggling like that. I'm just gonna take control of your body for a lil time, good? it'll hurt you for 45 seconds...then the pain will disappear!" The villain snapped irritated as he finally managed to wrap a tendril around the boy's throat, making him gasp for air and allowing his sludge to start entering the smaller boy's body so he can hide, not caring that he will kill a kid in the process.

Even with the extreme pain he felt, Izuku still tried to grab the villain and shove him away, but his hands passed through him.

"Grab all you want, my body's made of fluid. Thanks for the help. You're a real hero to me, kid. After I take over your body, I will get outta here fast before he tracks me down" The villain mocked as he noticed that the boy was struggling less, all according to plan, this wasn't his first kill, and his liquid brain didn't have space for compassion.

"I'm..... dying....I can't fight back, I can't....go home to hug you. I'm sorry mom...for being like this...." Izuku thought as he painfully suffocated, his vision becoming foggy from both the lack of air and the tears that were forming. He wasn't that scared of dying, he just felt guilty that his mother will suffer because of his death...but she will forget him and be happy again....maybe this was for the better.....

However, this wasn't the day the young man was gonna die. Because....

*BOOM!!*

The same manhole the villain came from was burst open. An extremely large and muscular man came from it, his blue glowing irises finding the villain and the boy. Both rage and concern were present in his stare, but he quickly stood straight and prepared to save the young boy.

"DO NOT WORRY, KID!! I AM HERE NOW!!" The man declared as he immediately brought his fist back, the already impressive muscles bulging slightly as overwhelming power was regulated to defeat the villain without hurting the boy.

"All Might?!! Nonono, stay away!!! You monster!!!" The Sludge villain shouted with both fear and anger. he immediately sent a liquid tendril to strike the number one hero, but the man ducked under the attack with ease and rushed forward at blinding speed.

The villain unsuccessfully tried to attack him again with another swipe. But the hero dodged time and then planted his feet firmly on the ground and clenched his fist. before the villain could even realize that is defeat was just a matter of a couple of seconds.....

"TEXAS SMASH!!!" All Might shouted as he threw a powerful punch in the direction of the villain, creating wind so strong that it completely bulldozed its way through the sludge attacks and found its target, reducing the villain to pieces and freeing the green haired boy, whose half opened eyes groggily moved to look at the imposing form of his savior.

"All Might?" It was the only thing that Izuku could mutter before his mind gave up because of the adrenaline being drained, his eyes closing and giving way to darkness.

Izuku didn't know how much time he spent passed out on the floor, he couldn't move, hear or feel. Just wait in this dreamless sleep for his body to recover and his brain to get some oxygen.

"YOUNG MAN! YOUNG MAN! ARE YOU OKAY?" The boy heard the same voice of his savior echoing in his mind, concern present in his previously confided tone. After a couple of moments, The boy could swear that he felt his legs being lifted a little from the ground.

He could feel his brain begin to work again, pain, nausea and dizziness assaulted him quickly because of his consciousness returning. His eyelids twitched a little and his face had a pained expression as he could feel his lungs hurt like they were on fire even in his slumber.

"YOUNG MA-" His savior tried to call once again. But, before he could conclude the sentence, Izuku's eyes snapped open and, because of the pieces of sludge still inside his throat, his gag reflexed immediately fired up, causing him to ignore the dizziness and sit up, coughing dryly as he faced the ground beside him, The disgusting pieces of the villain being quickly thrown out as he basically forced his body to vomit everything.

"THAT DOESN'T LOOK FUN, I WOULD OFFER YOU SOME WATER, BUT I DOUBT YOU WANT TO PUSH DOWN THAT STUFF, EWWW" he heard a man booming voice says with a slightly uncomfortable tone, making the greenette turn his head to look at him, his hand was in front of his mouth as he keeps coughing, although less heavily because he has pretty much thrown out every last piece of the villain from his airway.

What he saw completely made every pain or dizziness shut down, his eyes widened like plates as he recognized the man immediately. Very muscular and tall? Check. Blonde with two tufts that stick up above his head? Check. Chiseled face features? Check....... bright smile?...
Check.....

Oh kami.... he just got saved by All Might, wasn't he?

The Hero's smile got wider once he noticed the boy's face gaining a bit of color and overall looking more awake. He was still holding his legs up to allow the blood to flow more in the upper part, he can never be too sure.

"*Whew* YOU GAVE ME A BIG SCARE, YOUNG MAN, I THOUGHT YOU WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE FOR A MOMENT. SORRY FOR NOT COMING SOONER, THIS CITY'S SEWER SYSTEM IS A BIT OF A LABYRINTH" The hero chuckled with a small embarrassed sweatdrop dripping from his forehead, he had more than a scare, a heart attack would be more like it.

The boy blinked once, then twice, the gears of his head shifting into overdrive. Before the hero could ask if he was feeling okay, the greenette yelped as he quickly backed away with a shocked expression, his eyes having both disbelief, but also admiration.

"A-Al-All M-Might!! Y-You are h-here! Oh k-kami, A-All Might is in f-f-front of me!!! He is so much cooler in p-person!!" Izuku stuttered flabbergasted, seemingly talking to the hero and himself at the same time, confusing a bit the hero, but hey, he appreciates the praises.

Suddenly, the boy stopped in his tracks and seemed to be hastily looking around for something.

"My notebook, I need to ask for an autograph" he muttered softly to himself as he quickly grew frustrated, he had his idol right in front of him and not a notebook to beg for him to sign. What an awful day. However, he was soon interrupted by the hero, who leaned forward with a chuckle.

"ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THIS?" All Might asked as he extended his right hand towards the boy, making him see that he had his burned notebook.

"Ah! t-t-thank you so much, Mister All Might, c-could you sign my notebo-huh?! He already d-did!! T-Thank you so m-much!!!" Izuku gasped as he noticed that the hero had already given a signature on one of the pages dedicated to him in the boy's notebook. This made the greenette stop in his tracks and look up with quivering lips and a more animated stare face, the dizziness and pain completely left behind for now.

All Might let out another small chuckle because of the boy's excitement but stopped when he noticed the bruises and the patches he had on his face and hands. The hero also noticed that the boy was standing a bit off like he had problems with one of his legs.

"YOUNG MAN, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? DON'T TELL ME THAN THAT VILLAIN DID THIS...." All Might asked as he indicated his own face to make the boy understand what he was talking about, his smile was surprisingly gone. He was fearing that the sludge villain roughed up the young boy even more than he saw, making guilt build in his guts.

The greenette eyes widened for a second. But then he flinched and shook his head quickly in negation, a bit of sweat on his forehead.

"N-no, sir! I f-f-fell on m-my way here! I'm a bit clumsy!" Izuku lied through his teeth. Someone like him shouldn't bother a hero with his problems, especially All Might. He will not do anything in every case, even though the greenette admired the number one hero with everything he have, his outlet of life was unfortunately warped by his experience, for him, even someone as amazing as All Might will treat him like trash when he get to know that he is quirkless.

All Might didn't seem so convinced by the lie. He isn't the smartest tool, but he has been a hero for a lot of years, enough to know that this boy's jumpy behavior and his concerning amount of bruises weren't because of simple clumsiness.

His thought process was interrupted when he felt an unfortunately familiar pressure enveloping his body.

"Shit, my time is running out! alright, green eyes, freckles, bushy hair and he probably go to a school in the area, Naomasa can do something, but I need to go now!" All Might thought hurriedly as he mentally cursed his limited time in this form, he managed to at least memorize the boy's features for another day, signs of abuse can't be ignored.

He shook his head and cleared his throat, making the shaking boy jump a bit and look at him.

"WELL, BE MORE CAREFUL, OKAY? IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, I NEED TO GET THIS GUY TO THE POLICE SO THEY CAN TAKE CARE OF HIM. STAY OUT OF TROUBLE, SEE YOU AROUND!!" The hero says as he patted his pocket, showing that the villain was passed out in a bottle that was kept there. He nodded at the boy with a smile and started walking away, much to the greenette's surprise.

"Wait! So soon?......I didn't get to ask that question...I.....I....wait......" the boy thought alarmed as he saw the hero's broad and wide back growing smaller as he walked away, his courage was reduced to ash as he couldn't find the strength to say a word. His favorite hero was here, he could ask him that question, but his fear was holding him back.

"C-Can be a h-hero too?" His younger self's voice resonated in his mind, in a moment, his eyes regained focus as he looked at the crouched hero, who was about to jump away. He can't let his chance get away, even if he must risk his hero finding out he is quirkless, he will accept the hate, he just needs an answer.

So he rushed more quickly than his conditions could allow him, and reached for the hero, trying to pull the hem of his shirt to grab his attention. However, this proved to be a dangerous idea, because as soon as his hand took hold of the shirt, the hero jumped high in the air, dragging the greenette with him.

As the hero seemingly flew in the air like a rocket thanks to his immense strength, he could swear he could feel something on his leg, strange.

"Why do I feel something on my leg? Huh?" All Might muttered puzzled to himself as he glanced down, his eyes widened in shock as he saw the same boy of before clinging to his leg, holding for dear life.

"YOUNG MAN!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!! HOLD ON!!" he shouted shocked as he instinctively used his right hand to push the boy on his leg and hold the collar of his school uniform to not let him fall.

"I'm s-sorry, All Might!! but please I have a question, please, You're my all-time
favorite hero, I.....I won't bother you ever again!" Izuku tried to shout even with the air hitting his face. His mind was split being terrorized that he was so high in the air while the other was urging him to chase after the hero for an answer.

"OKAY, OKAY I GET IT, FANBOY, NOW HOLD ON. I'LL LAND SOMEWHERE" The hero relented as he looked ahead while still holding the boy steadily, however, he was starting to feel the pressure in his body increasing, the metallic taste of blood irritating his mouth as some drops exited from the space between his teeth.

"Shit" he cursed inside his mind, this day couldn't get anymore stressful. What he didn't notice was that the bottle containing the villain slipped out of the hero's pocket, falling into an alley.

In another location

Katsuki was walking in an alley followed by his two *friends*, lackey would be a better word for these two extras. The ash blonde had a big scowl on his face as the events of this school day replayed inside his mind again and again, that green-haired bastard never stop challenging him, always thinking he is better than him. No matter how many times he showed him he was superior, he always pursued that shitty dream of his. Being a quirkless hero? This is a straight-up insult!

"Man, I still can't believe that he is still trying to do get to UA, that head of his must be filled with rocks, or maybe we just hit him too hard last week. Who wanna bet that he is gonna die on first day? Maybe even before stepping inside" one of the two snickered as he nudged the other, who was stretching his arms above his head.

"*yawn* Not like it would be a great loss anyway, people like him are all gonna die out in a couple of generations, teach told us how they are just a step backward from us, so why worry? But I they will just kick him out as soon as he step inside, if they even accept his request, that is, but I doubt it. What an idiot" the other one mocked without a once of guilt. At this point, years of well-placed lessons and words have turned the entire class, if not half the entire school against the quirkless green-haired boy.

The same boy turned to look at the ash blonde walking ahead of thee while silently sipping from a soda can.

"What about you, Katsuki? You two knew each other since kindergarten, was he always this delusional?" He asked with a grin, if there was someone that hated that Deku, it was Katsuki, he made it clear a lot of times.

The explosion user simply sneered as he heard the two extras mock that equally pathetic bastard. These two were just stepping stones like everyone else. His hand was clenching tightly the can he was sipping from, the metal bending because under his irritated grip.

"Kacchan, y-you are s-scaring me!" A very young voice echoed inside his mind, so scared and vulnerable that it would have made many hesitate, but not him. He knows the truth behind those fake teary eyes, that bastard was always looking down on him.

"Someone's gotta teach that worthless bastard how the world really works. His still trying to be a hero just fucking pisses me off.. " The ash blonde says with gritted teeth as his right-hand releases a small explosion, scorching the can. The boy then scowled and threw the can away, resuming walking shortly after.

Both boys huffed as they were internally cursing the ash blonde grumpy behavior, but they need to tolerate him. The guy is popular and powerful, thus making them also more popular and respected than others.

"Hey, I got an idea, we should go to the Arcade. Get your mind off that freak, ya know?" The first guy suggested as he snapped his fingers, trying to do something fun for once, apart from the usual tormenting the quirkless boy, school was boring.

"Oh! Or we can sneak into the bar at the station. Pick up some ladies. Now that's a good idea!" The second one says with a smirk and doing finger guns.

What both didn't expect was the ash blonde turning around with a glare.

"Idiots! If we get caught, there's no way UA would let me in!!" Katsuki snapped with sparks coming from his hands, these two are fucking morrons, two weeks ago one of them was smoking close to him!! If someone caught him with these two, then his changes are gone. He didn't notice that he stepped on a bottle when he snarled at them, causing a strange liquid to go out.

"Oi, calm down, alright, we do what you wan-" the first guy started to say but stopped once he saw something behind Katsuki, a growing mass of sludge, the other guy's eyes also widened in horror, much to the ash blonde's confusion, at least, until he heard someone speaking behind him.

"Thank goodness I managed to escape. Huh? Hey kids, say, do you want to help someone in need?....I need a body where to hide" the voice says with growing sadistic glee, making chills run up the ash blonde's spine, making him hastily turn around and see the living mass of sludge towering over him.

Katsuki heard quick steps growing quieter by the second behind him, when he turned his head slightly to see what were the two extras doing, he saw that they were running away, leaving him there....alone.

"Hehehe~ looks like it's just us, buddy" The villain chuckled as he expanded his body even more, ready to pounce.

The ash blonde gritted his teeth as he glared up at him, sparklers coming from his palms.

"*Tch* Like hell I'm gonna get killed by trash like you!!!!" Katsuki snarled as every muscle in his body was ready to fight.

"Perfect. I like a skin suit with some fire" the sludge villain says as he smiled widely, his rotten teeth making the blonde make a small grimace of disgust.

"Oh don't worry, you will get used to this once you are rotting from the inside, I don't need your organs anyway!!!" The living sludge shouted as he rushed towards the blonde with crazy vigor.

"Die, shit stain!!!" Katsuki shouted as he charged towards too, his palms growing with explosive force and then........

With izuku

All Might landed on a rooftop of a building with Izuku still shakily clinging to his leg, his eyes still kept shut. The boy didn't know he had a fear of heights until now, or maybe it was because he was very close to falling to his death.

"WE ARE ON SOLID GROUND, KID, YOU CAN LET GO NOW" All Might's voice snapped him out of his terrorized state, making him open his eyes and notice that they indeed were on a building rooftop. After blinking two times, he flinched and quickly let go of the hero, backing away from him while looking down with anxiety overpowering any excitement, he just realized what he did, and if he could be more on edge, he would be dead right now from high blood pressure.

*Step*

The boy's thoughts were cut off as he flinched another time when he heard the hero make a couple of steps towards him, just enough to turn his body to face the boy, he stopped himself from getting closer because he noticed the boy's trembling form, sweat dripping from his face. He sincerely looked like he was in a room with a villain and not with a hero he was fanboying like some moments ago.

"*Clear throat* AS MUCH AS I LOVE MY FANS, THAT WAS A VERY DANGEROUS THING TO DO, YOU COULD HAVE HURT YOURSELF" The number one hero scolded with a more stern tone. The friendly tint was still present, at least managing to not make the boy panic even more.

This made the greenette's eyes widen a bit, he bit his lips to not yelp and give more hints that he was scared. He then bowed in apology, refusing to look up.

"I'm s-so s-s-sorry, Mister All Might!! I-I w-wanted to attract y-your attention but I m-messed up. I'm s-so sorry for wasting your time, b-but......b-but please...I-I w-wanted to ask you s-something" He stuttered as he tried to be as respectful as possible, not wanting to upset the hero even more.

The hero raises an eyebrow a bit puzzled, he thought that grabbing his leg and risking dying for a question was a bit too much, but at this point, better give him what he want. He didn't notice that a bit of steam was starting to erupt from his skin.

"WELL, YOU COULD HAVE ASKED ME BEFORE I JUMPED AND AVOIDED RISKING TURNING YOURSELF INTO A PANCAKE, WHICH IS SOMETHING I ACTUALLY CRAVE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I'M STARVING, AH! SORRY, GOT DISTRACTED HEHEHEHE" All Might dragged his words with a slightly awkward laugh and a comical sweatdrop on his head, he didn't eat anything all day, and the idea of stopping at a store to buy some soft pancake was making his almost destroyed stomach demand for something that it could actually digest, and not liquid food. His slightly more lighthearted behavior didn't seem to snap the boy from his tense state. So the hero cleared his throat and regained a more focused gaze.

"ASK AWAY, KID, BUT PLEASE BE QUICK, I DON'T WANT THIS EVIL-DOER TO WAKE UP WHILE WE CHAT AND START CURSING US OUT" All Might tried to joke a bit, but what he got was a little jerk from the boy's head so he could finally look up at his imposing form, the greenette's face was a mix of nervous and a bit of dulled determination. What the hero didn't know was that Izuku was internally giving himself every bit of courage he could muster, he can do it!!! HE CAN DO IT!!!

The green-haired boy straightened up his posture, and tried to keep eye contact as his lips parted, the words he wanted to say for so long finally having their target.

"Y-yes! I-I w-wa-wanted to a-ask.....I-I....I am....I m-mean...." Izuku tried to utter the question that he wanted to ask since he came back from that doctor's office but the words were stuck in his throat. This frustrated him to no end, only All Might can give him back the confidence to persist, no one ever gave him a simple yes, they only mocked him and hurt him for a simple dream....a dream that was on pieces. He wanted the strength to show these pieces to his favorite hero, maybe his words will be the thing that will help him cling to them.

The hero scratched his hair a little, getting a bit puzzled but also concerned, that wasn't simple anxiety or shyness, the boy was genuinely scared of him, or maybe of his answer to whatever question he was gonna ask him.

"YOU ARE? YOUNG MAN, ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE FINE? YOU ARE PALE LIKE A GHOST-" All Might asked as he could see more of the boy's features now that he paid attention, pale face, bruises, bags under his eyes and his difficulty standing on one of his legs were more apparent than before, this was getting very concerning-....

"I'm q-quirkless!!!" Finally Izuku managed to unstuck the words from his throat and shout probably the most difficult part of his question, cutting off All Might and making his eyes widen, wait what?

The boy didn't let the hero ask anything as he uses the burst of courage to shout everything else while clenching his shaking fists and keeping his eyes tightly shut.

"E-Even if I'm p-powerless, I w-want to be a hero, l-like you! E-Ever since I saw your d-debut I wanted to be o-one. E-Everyone always mocked me and l-laughed when I even tried to p-pursue my dream, I...." He kept letting out his words, knowing full well he was telling more than he should, but he could hardly stop himself. The voices of everyone that mocked him and hurt him were clawing his mind as he spoke, threatening to make him shut up, but he kept talking.

He took a couple of shaky deep breaths to stabilize himself, and he finally opened his eyes, looking up at the hero with a meek and hopeful gaze.

"I w-wanted to ask you if I could be a hero like you.... E-Even while being.... this" He concluded as he indicated himself with his finger, not referring only to him being quirkless, but also his look and personality, which in the green-haired boy's mind, after being insulted for so long, are the worst things around.

All Might was visibly taken aback a little by his words, especially on the quirkless part.

"QUIRKLESS?......I-*ack!*" The number one hero was about to say, but he recoiled in pain as he gripped his chest with his right hand, the pain he felt before increased tenfold. His skin started to emit steam and blood started to drip from his mouth.

"A-All Might!!!" Izuku shouted shocked as unconsciously tried to step forward to help the man, but the steam completely covered his vision. Before the green-haired boy could try to call again for the hero, he heard a way less booming voice, but it was still awful familiar.

"Ah....shit" the boy heard in front of him, he focused his gaze and managed to see a person becoming more visible as the steam settled down. When he managed to their appearance, he was shocked, not anymore in front of him stood the imposing All Might but a very skinny man with sharp, angular features and long limbs, with a neck long and absent eyebrows. His hair was blonde like the hero with two long strands coming down from his hairline and framing his face.

The green-haired boy was left with his jaw almost hitting the floor watching a completely different person standing in front of him, where was All Might? Who is this person?! Wait.....Could he be-...

*Bleargh*

Oh kami!! He is puking blood!!

I‐I-Wait. Who...?" Izuku started to say flabbergasted while raising his finger to shakingly pointing at the stranger.

"W-who are you?! Where is All Might?!!" Izuku asked fearfully, who was this man? An impostor? No, impossible, he was as strong as All Might, a shape-shaping quirk? A quirk coping one? Could it be-..

"I assure you that I am All Might, now don't panic" The skinny man tried to calm him down as he waved his left hand in a calming way while the right was trying to wipe the blood from his mouth.

Izuku made a couple of steps back with his eyes still wide in shock, was he really All Might? He doesn't know, the dots aren't connecting!! Okay, calm down, if this is really All Might, then he needs to discover how and why is he like this. He also noticed the blood still staining the man's mouth, against his more wary instincts, the boy took a handkerchief from his backpack and cautiously handed it to the mysterious man, who blinked a couple of times in slight surprise, but then accepted it.

"Ah, thank you, kid" He thanked as he used the handkerchief to finish cleaning his mouth, putting it aside after he was done. When he looked back at the nervous boy, he noticed that he was gazing at him with an intense stare.

"W-Why a-are you like t-this?" He asked nervously, even if quirks can do many things, this wasn't natural, especially with the way he keep clenching his chest.

The man cleared his throat as he straightened his posture. At this point, the boy already found him up, better answer what he can.

"Well, You know how guys at the pool are always suckin' in and flexin' and tryin' look buff?..." *All Might* explained as a mental Image of a man trying to hide their belly by sucking air appeared in Izuku's head.

The boy nodded.

"I'm like that" He concluded as his left hand reached for the hem of his own shirt, and before Izuku could ask himself what he was doing, the man raised his shirt enough for the greenette to see his torso, and what he saw shocked him to the core.

"See this nice scar?" He continues as he sat up close to the railing, he noticed that the boy's face paled when he saw the big scar that covered most of the left side of the man's chest, it looked painful, like someone literally tried to pierce him from one side to another, and almost succeeded.

"Pretty gross, right? I got this in a big fight five years back. My respiratory system was basically destroyed. I lost my whole stomach. All the surgeries have pretty much worn me out. And it can't be fixed. Right now, I can only do hero work for about three hours a day. Rest of the time, this is what I look like" All Might explained as he indicated himself, he didn't expect today's hero time to end with him telling a random kid about his fight and scar, what a day.

"I....W-Who.....who did t-this?" Izuku was fearful to ask, but he still did, who could do such damage to the number one hero, said by many to be invincible? It sent chills in his spine thinking that someone that could do something like this existed.

At this All Might shook his head in negation, looking up at him with a serious gaze, his blue irises staring at his green ones.

"You better not know. Most of the world has never heard of this fight and it should remain this way. I did everything I could to keep it under wraps. They can't know that I'm this...fragile man, puking blood and barely able to lift my arms. I'm supposed to be the guy who's always smiling, right? the "symbol of peace* who saves people with a smile...absolutely can't afford to bow to the forces of evil....... But honestly, I smile to hide the fear inside. It's just a brave face I put on when the pressure is high...." The man explained with a tint of melancholy, looking up at the sky with squinted eyes. he then took a small sigh and looked down at the shocked boy once again.

"*Sigh* it sucks to be honest, but it's my duty, I can't slow down because of a *small* scar and some blood. Many rely on me and other heroes, even the less famous ones......." He continued as his eyes squinted a bit, showing that he was serious, this made the boy tense, wondering where the man was going with this.

"This is why.....I cannot tell you that you should become a hero....." All Might says with a bit of regret, which increased when he noticed the boy completely going stiff from the shock, his face looking like his breath was cut away from the words.

With another sigh, the hero looked down, there are few quirkless people left in the population, and he hoped he never got to do something like this to one of them, especially considering that one of them is a person dear to him like a niece, but she got strength from her doubts and the support of a few others.....this boy was alone....and he was going to say no to him....

"I have been a hero for a long time and I fought every kind of villain from the most bloodthirsty one to the sneakest one, I know what they are capable of.....and many wouldn't hesitate to kill you. I saw villains move so fast that only I was capable of keeping up. Villains that made support equipment useless. Villains that reduced buildings to rubles without batting a sweat...." All Might explained as steadily and clearly as possible even if he felt guilty while doing so, the boy didn't say anything as he listened with increasing sadness being evident, the more he spoke, the more the boy's eyes become dull and the more his posture worsened.

"I saw many heroes die, they were killed before I could even breath their way, some had remarkable power and skills, but it wasn't enough....." He continued with a grim stare, some of the heroes that died directly worked with him in the past, it devoured him from the inside thinking back at him not being there where they needed him, no matter how much he strained himself, he was never fast enough....

He raised his gaze once again, seeing that the probably the greenette figured out where the conversation was going.

"I cannot tell you to not try it, maybe you can manage to become one, but, trust me, hero work isn't jokes and laughs, it's pretty cold and merciless if you ask me. I'm saying all of this because I'm a hero... so I need to tell you what I can to save you from putting yourself in harm way. You could find other ways to help, you become a policeman, a doctor or a firefighter. There are many ways to help, just....not this one.....*sigh* I'm sorry for not giving you what you wanted, this is what you will get from this old man" The number one hero concluded as he indicated himself. He immediately saw that the last word was the last nail in the coffin that completely drained the light from the boy's eyes, who just stood there, silently staring at the hero, until he slowly looked down, his hands shaking.

"I.....see" Was the boy's only answer, his voice was hollow, already beyond sadness, he could feel his heartbeat hammering in his ears. He didn't feel like crying, or trying to fake understanding, he was just.... empty.

"I'm sorry if this wasn't what you expected to hear. I think it's time for you to go home, come, I will drop you at your address before I take the villain to the statio-...." All Might was about to say, already preparing to turn into his buff form once again, but he stopped once he felt that something was wrong when he pated the spot where the bottle was supposed to be, keyword, supposed.

"It's gone!" He shouted shocked, making the boy flinch and immediately look at the same spot with wide eyes, the bottle was gone, the villain with it.

Before All Might could search for it, something rampaged in the distance.

*BOOOM!!!*

A big explosion made their eardrums shake as hastily turned their gazes in the direction it came from just in time to see a huge mass of smoke and flames I'm the distance.

"Oh no...." All Might thought with wide eyes, it can't be a coincidence.

"Wait...those explosions...." Izuku thought as he realized that the sound and strength of that explosion were awfully familiar.

Both their sentences were cut off by another big explosion, soon followed by more. The boy recovered first from the powerful sound, he looked down at the stairs with a puzzled look.

"I-I c-can't here! I n-need to see" Izuku muttered loud enough for the man to hear him and, before he could stop him, he ran down the stairs towards the site of those explosions, leaving the hero behind.

"Wait, young man!" All Might shouted as he chased after him, having already a bad feeling about the greenette's suddenly running towards a dangerous location.

The explosions became louder and louder as Izuku rushed with his heart hammering in his chest and his injured leg pulsing from the pain, he doesn't even know why he was running towards a dangerous area just after All Might told him that he shouldn't be a hero, speaking of the hero, he was trying to keep up with the surprisingly fast boy, even if he looked roughed up and scrawny, he was actually pretty quick in his steps.

The man was about to yell another time for the boy to stop or at least slow down, but he stopped once he saw that they arrived at the site of the attack, both immediately noticed the large crowd apparently watching the heroes trying to subdue a villain, but the line of sight was obscured from Izuku point of view because of his small stature, but All Might saw who the villain was, and his stomach dropped....It was the same sludge villain and, to the hero's horror, he had a hostage.

All Might could quickly notice that the heroes on the scene were having difficulty because of both the liquid body of the villain and the rampaging quirk of the hostage, who was trying to free himself from the sludge, but what he achieved was slowing down the take over of his body and unfortunately making things even more difficult for the heroes.

Meanwhile, Izuku managed to squeeze between the group of people, ignoring their curious looks as he finally managed to get a clear sight. He quickly noticed some heroes he already saw the same day, Death Arms, Kamui Woods, and Backdraft, there were also other heroes that he didn't have the chance to see in action. All of them were trying to rescue the hostage and control the damage, but....

"Explosions and flames are not really my cup of tea...I give my place to someone else this time!" Kamui Woods shouted as he used his wood tendrils to take civilians out of the danger zone while hastily avoiding the flames and debris from hitting him.

Backdraft made water erupt from his *hands* extinguishing as much fire as possible to allow the wood hero to get the civilians to safety while doing his best to avoid the fire from spreading.

"Don't look at me. I've got my hands full here. Where are those fire trucks?" The Firefighter hero grunted as he aimed his hose spigots and generate as much water as possible to fight the rampaging fire, the multiple explosions just made his job difficult as the new fire replaced the one he already dealt with.

He then turned his head slightly to look at a male hero to his right.

"Can you guys get to him?" He asked as he kept his attention split to not lose track of the fire.

"No, Can't get a grip on his weird body. Plus, that kid's Quirk's causing explosions left and right. This is a mess" the other hero replied with frustration, this situation was getting worse as time goes on, the villain was getting more unstable and aggressive while the boy was getting more desperate and increasing his explosions strength and quantity.

Meanwhile, the crowd was watching with held breaths, they couldn't believe a villain was giving that much trouble to so many heroes.

"This dude is a legit supervillain. The heroes can't even get close" a man commented with a bit of sweat dripping from the side of his head.

"Wasn't he the villain All Might was chasing after?" A young woman added as she remembered seeing the number one hero himself chasing after the villain, he was so cool and those muscles are godly.

"Wait, do you mean All Might is here?!!" A middle-aged guy gasped as he looked at the woman of before with wide eyes.

"If this villain is still walking freely, does this mean All Might was defeated?" Another man pondered with a slightly uncomfortable expression, no, it can't be that the symbol of peace is defeated, he is literally invincible.

"Go, heroes!!" Some spectators ignored the conversations and tried to cheer for the heroes, not noticing how both All Might and Izuku's gazes dropped when they heard people mentioning the number one hero, the first because of self-loathing, the second because of the immense guilt he felt.

The crowd conversations and cheering were cut off once they all noticed a growing shadow hovering above them and....

*Thump*

A mighty step that shook the ground was the next thing that preceded the entrance of the rookie heroine, Mt Lady, who immediately tried to squeeze into the alley in her giant mode, but after failing to do so, she blinked a couple of times and then a shocked and slightly panicked look replaced her more confident expression. She couldn't enter the zone because she was too big to fit in.

"It's too narrow for me! "Grrrr*, come here, you smelly puddle!" She shouted frustrated as she at least managed to fit her right arm in the alley and quickly extended it towards the villain with the plan of grabbing him with her giant hand and rip the hostage away from the living mass of sludge. But before she could succeed in her action....

*Boom!!!*

Another big explosion rampaged from the hostage's palm, hitting the heroine's hand directly and causing burning debris to fall on it and her arm, making her instinctively recoil.

"*Oww!*, it burns!! Hey kid, stop using your quirk! I can't grab you if you keep blowing things up!!" The heroine hissed with an even more frustrated expression as she held her now smoking hand with the other, she almost had him, damnit!!

"I-don't need- ANYONE!!!" The hostage spat like burning venom as he struggled against the villain's hold and managed to get a bit of his body out, making some of his features visible, shocking Izuku, whose eyes widened in slight horror.

"Bakugo!!!" Izuku thought shocked as his doubts were confirmed, his abuser was the one that was caught by the villain. And even worse, a small and hated part of him started to knock on his mind, dark thoughts flowing in. He tried to ignore them as much as he could while he watched the heroes trying to save the day.

He saw Death arms duck under a tendril strike, the hero charged forward immediately and tried to hit the villain, but his strong punches only passed through the sludge's body without apparent effect.

"It's no good. None of us have the right quirks to stop a villain like this! We- oh fuck!!" He cursed as he hastily backed away just in time to see a big sludge hand crush the spot he was before. He then created some distance and joined the other heroes.

"And the number of people to save just keep increasing. This crisis is becoming too much for us to handle" Backdraft replied as he created another burst of water to extinguish another blaze.

"What we can do is to reduce the damage until someone with the right powers shows up, every hero of the city is most likely on their way" A male hero added as he took some ragged deep breaths, the hot temperature and smoke making it hard for him to breathe.

The greenette kept watching as all attempts were made useless by the villain or by Katsuki keeping to create dangerous explosions because of his adrenaline and survival instincts. He didn't know what to think or do, the ash blonde always hurt him, and today was not better. But he wouldn't wish this on anyone.... however, not all parts of him agreed with that statement.

"He deserves it"

"Now he is the one that feels worthless"

"Look how scared he is when he is the defenseless one"

The boy was already feeling disguised in himself for even having a part of him not only not fearing what would happen to the ash blonde, but also enjoying seeing him so vulnerable and fearful. It made his stomach drop and want to grip his head to suppress these thoughts.

But then....he realized something, his face paled quickly as he did so.

"All Might had him captured in his pocket, if he is free right now is because I grabbed his leg.... Everything that is happening here is my fault...." He thought as his right hand instinctively cupped his mouth, his eyes shook as he was quickly overwhelmed by guilt, all this destruction was because he wanted a stupid yes from All Might.

"I must've dropped him in the air because I was distracted on worrying about my time limit. I can't believe I made such a rookie mistake, and after lecturing that kid about being a hero. I'm pathetic" All Might thought as his eyes widened, guilt forming in his scarred guts, he couldn't believe he made such a mistake and allowed all of this to happen.

"All Might can't power up because I wasted his time and energy. What I've done?!" Izuku just got deeper into his abyss of self-loathing, his breathing became erratic and ragged. He seemed on the verge of puking.

"My master would be disappointed, I'm so pathetic..." All Might thought as he clenched his chest in pain, trying to force his quirk to activate, but his body was just too drained.

"I can't do anything right!" Izuku thought as he bit his lips so hard that he was starting to taste blood, his heart was hammering in his chest.

"A disgrace!" all Might cursed himself in his mind, nothing, he can't bring the power out, the pain was too great for him to bear without losing focus.

"He is gonna die because of me" Izuku thought as he raised his eyes to look as the villain keep slowly succeeding in suffocating the ash blonde. His hands were shaking, no, his whole body was shaking, if anyone doesn't do something, he is gonna die....

"I'm not a real hero" All Might thought as he coughed some blood, having to put his hand on the light pole to not fall because of the overexertion.

"A real hero will come soon, they need to, pleas-..." Izuku was about to think with the last mental stability he could muster. But he stopped when he saw the villain starting to sadicaly cackle...

"You've got so much power, kid, I really hit the jackpot with you. With a Quirk like yours under my control, I can take All Might down with one punch. Shame you being alive is incompatible with my plans, well, a shame for you at least. Hehehehe~" the villain said with sadic glee in his voice, the hold he had on the situation was feeding his ego and confidence.

This made everyone that was watching feel a chill run up their spines, they saw Katsuki growing weaker in his struggle, indicating he was close to fainting because of the lack of oxygen. For a moment, a desperate glint appeared in his usually angry and confident eyes.

Time seemed to slow down for Izuku, his eyes as wide as they can be. Sounds became dull. Guilt, fear, and a strange determination fused together and made him take a step forward, then another, and before he could realize what he was doing....

A notebook fell on the floor and the greenette was seen rushing forward, a dazed expression on his face. His brain was still trying to catch up with what his body was doing.

Everyone was completely shocked as they saw the green-haired boy climb over the security barricades and rush towards the villain seemingly without a care.

"What are you doing, kid! Stop! You're gonna get yourself killed!!" Kamui Woods shouted as he immediately tried to send a tendril after him to grab him, but an enflamed piece of the railing dropped, cutting his reach.

"Do you have a death wish!!? Come back here!" Death arms shouted as he charged ahead and lifted the dropped pieces of the railing, but the boy was already too far for them to rush safely. Damnit!! What is his deal?!

The hero's attention was directed when he felt the ground shook a moment and a large hand hovering above him in the direction of the rushing boy.

"Stop running, you idiot! It's suicide! Stand still" Mt Lady says loudly with frustration while she tried to do the same thing as before but this time aimed at the greenette so she can avoid him getting himself killed. Unfortunately, the poor state of the buildings made her way even more narrow, so she got stuck just inches away from saving that suicidal imbecile.

What all the heroes and spectators didn't know was that Izuku was trying to stop running, his mind started barely working immediately after Mt Lady's attempt at grabbing him. The boy was panicking, the pain of his already injured body, the overwhelming heat of the surrounding and the lack of oxygen caused by the fire was making him lightheaded.

"What am I doing? Why am I running? Why can't I stop?" Izuku thought frantically while he struggled to breathe, his legs didn't stop for a moment bringing him towards the villain. His injured leg was in agony but he tried to keep himself awake and not fall unconscious.

"Why I'm doing this? Even All Might told me that I shouldn't.....so why I'm running?" Izuku thought as he raised his shaking eyes to see the villain, his vision was a bit foggy because of the tears and sweat getting in the way.

Like an electric shock, his eyes focused on two details about the villain, the teeth and the eyes, they didn't change shape at all during the attack, so they aren't liquid!!!

"It's probably a weak point, if I can hit there....maybe this isn't all for nothing" Izuku thought hastily as his brain forgot everything about self-preservation and shifted to think of a way to actually do something about the villain.

Another electric shock ran up his brain when he caught a glimpse of a piece of the railing that was small enough for him to grab and use as a weapon.

"Okay......okay, Izuku, you can do it. Do something right in your life, save someone....this is all your fault, accept responsibility!!" Izuku thought as he shifted his footing to quickly take the metal pipe that was a railing piece before and rush towards the villain once again, the living sludge finally noticed him and grinned.

"Look who is back! unfortunately, I don't need you anymore, so do me a favor and die, you good for nothing!!!" The villain shouted as he forced Katsuki's arm to aim his palm towards the quickly approaching boy and instinctively release an explosion that rampaged forward.

The green-haired boy yelped as he ducked out of the way at the last second, the heat of the awfully familiar explosions causing his body to shake, but he managed to resume running. His heartbeat was one of the only things he could hear together with the voices of the many people that mocked him during his awful life, they told him that no one will miss him, that he would be better dead and it was impossible for him to be a hero.

Part of him wondered if all of this was just a sorry excuse for him to be what he can't be, even for a second.

Izuku regained his sense of surrounding and miraculously dodged a tendril that was about to maul him into a bloody pulp, his legs hurt like they were broken but he just kept running like it was the only thing keeping his consciousness going getting closer and closer.

The villain's eyes squinted in fury as he decided to stop playing and directly pass to the slaughter.

"That's it!! I'm gonna eat you alive, you lucky bastard!!!" He shouted as he sent his own head straight towards the boy, his liquid body stretching to give it a snake-like form as he was ready to tear the annoying boy apart.

Izuku's eyes widened seeing the villain directly charging at him, he was too fast to avoid. The only thing left was fight or die. Luckily, a memory of a subject he studied came to mind.... momentum.

"I can't hit him with my strength, I must use his own against him-wait, my backpack!! Ok, here it goes, I will show everyone that my life is good for something, even for some seconds of usefulness!!!" Izuku thought with flickers of determination burning in his soul, his free hand grabbed the stripes of his backpack and removed it from his shoulders. The boy spun around and threw the object at the villain, impacting directing with his head and causing the content to impact on his rotten face, the notebook and cut disinfectant directly went into his eyes, causing him to screech in pain and slow down enough for Izuku to put himself into position.

"You fucking bastard!!! I will murder you as painful as posib-" The sludge villain was about to curse but when he opened his left eye, he saw that the boy raised the metal pipe while staring at him with a dangerously determined gaze.

The villain tried to stop, but he was already too close, his teeth were clenched together instinctively, and this was a fatal mistake because....

*Crack*

Izuku used all his strength given by his adrenaline-filled body to swing the metal pipe directly to the villain's teeth, cracking them thanks to the villain's own momentum, stunning him.

"He hit him!!!" One of the Heroes gasped, but then shook his head as he, Kamui Woods and some others rushed too towards the three, hopeful to save both the hostage and the kid that gave them the opening.

The green-haired boy's hands let go of the slightly bent metal pipe, the muscles feeling like they were about to tear, but he didn't care, he immediately turned towards the main body and rushed, finally getting in front of the trapped Katsuki, clawing his way with his aching hands.

At a certain point, the ash blonde managed to get free from the sludge, immediately taking deep breaths and then looking down at the panicking greenette with disbelief.

"What are you doing here?!! Are you fucking insan-" Katsuki was about to snap at him, but, to his shock, Izuku interrupted him with a punch on his cheek, which ironically made his dazed brain wake up immediately.

"I'm h-helping you, asshole!!! I hate you with every single fiber of my being, but I can't let you die here, no matter what!! That's w-what heroes do!!!" Izuku shouted as the adrenaline was messing with everything in his head, his mind was scrambled, not even registering that he just punched the guy he was trying to save. The guy who literally abused him for ten years nonetheless.

The shout reached the crowd and the quickly approaching heroes, earning different reactions, but the heaviest one was the number one himself, whose eyes were wide. Watching someone else throw himself in harm way while he is here watching?.....no.....he is truly at the end of his time? Who decided that?

Steam started to erupt from his skin as the Hero clenched his jaw and fists, his muscles bulging with power and determination.

"Pathetic, pathetic, PATHETIC!" He grunted as his body started to take the shape of his muscle form. He will not hesitate anymore, the time he got today can go to hell, he will force his power beyond what his weakened body can withstand!

Meanwhile, Izuku was still trying to free Katsuki, but it was too difficult. Suddenly, he heard a noise and an extremely angry hiss. When he looked up and, to his horror, he saw that the villain made his head return to the main body and he was looking down at him with a killer glare.

"You are dead meat, kid!!" The villain shouted through cracked teeth as he was raised a big sludge hand, ready to crush the green-haired boy.

Time seemed to slow down once again, the heroes trying to rush in to save him from the villain, the incoming attack, his own heartbeat......his life didn't flash before his eyes, he was just in a daze as the adrenaline settled up, his brain giving up in trying to find a way to survive. So, he just looked up at the incoming attack, mentally apologizing to his mother once again.

However, the end never came, something much faster than the eye can see rushed towards him and stood in front of him, raising his arms and....

*Bam!!!*

The attack connected with something, causing dust to cover everyone line of sight.

The heroes' eyes widened as they could feel their stomach drop, thinking that the villain managed to kill the boy. But...when the dust settled, their eyes widened once in shock, not only the greenette was alive, but he was being saved by no other than.....

"All Might?! ......wh-" Izuku gasped still in a daze as he looked up with shocked eyes, in front of him stood the imposing form of the number one hero, easily blocking the strike that was aimed to kill him.

"YOU GOT A THING TO BE AS DRAMATIC AS POSSIBLE, DON'T YOU? A METAL PIPE, HEH? YOU GOT SOME GUTS FOR A TIMID FANBOY, A LITTLE CRAZY IN MY OPINION, BUT YOU ARE THE ONE I WAS LOOKING FOR!" All Might says in a booming voice as he glanced at the boy behind him, his signature smile being as bright and confident as it can be.

The hero then turned towards the shocked villain with a slight glare, his still present smile just making him more intimidating.

"YOU TAUGHT ME A LESSON I WAS TOO SCARED TO FOLLOW FULLY..." All Might continued as he grabbed Katsuki and easily ripped him off from the sludge villain's hold and then brought his other fist back.

"PROS ARE ALWAYS RISKING THEIR LIVES! THAT'S THE TRUE TEST OF A HERO!" He continued as blood started to drip from his mouth, but he didn't care, his resolve was burning as brighter as it can be, just a few flickers from this kid were enough to make his own fire burn bright once again.

"All Might!!!" The villain shouted with hate as he tried to launch a desperate attack toward the hero before he could get capture him, but it was too late.

"DETROIT... SMASH!" All Might shouted as he punched the villain with overwhelming strength, causing air pressure so strong that completely reduced the living sludge to pieces and extinguished the fire quickly.

The heroes had to take cover from the extremely powerful wind while Mt Lady used her giant body to shield the civilians, her long hair flying while she shut her eyes because of the sheer force of the wind.

After what felt like hours but was only some seconds, the wind finally settled down, and everyone could once again open their eyes, just for them to widen like plates when they immediately saw All Might in all his glory, his fist clenched tight and raised in the air with a victorious pose.
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Silence, everyone was completely silent because of the sheer awe they felt, until....a raindrop hit the ground, and then another. Before they realized it, a faint rain started to appear and cover the scorched alley with its water drops

"Don't tell me all that wind just now was... Look at the clouds. They're moving!" A man in the crowd shouted in total disbelief, he knows All Might is strong, but that was next level.

"I can't believe it. He changed the weather!" Death arms half-shouted as his eyes instinctively closed when a raindrop landed on his nose.

"Did that really just happen?" Another spectator gasped as she looked up at the clouds with her mouth agape.

"He changed the weather with a single punch, like it was nothing!" Another one in the crowd shouted as he started to cheer loudly for the number one hero, quickly joined by everyone else.

Izuku stared up at the still-posing number one hero from his position on the ground, he couldn't move a muscle because of the adrenaline wearing off and leaving with all the pain overexertion caused. Everyone that was cheering didn't notice, but he did, All Might, the symbol of peace, was holding himself together with fumes, the blood and the steam was an indicator that the hero was trying to hold onto his image and make everyone feel secure....

The green-haired boy's thoughts were slowly cut off when his exhaustion caught up to him, but his last thought was something that the hero never received from someone that doesn't know him personally.

For the first time, someone didn't see him as an invincible symbol of peace. But as a normal man just trying to do his best, and at the same time, this new perspective just increased the admiration that this someone feels towards the scarred hero.

Timeskip, 5 minutes later

Izuku was sitting behind the ambulance, a couple of minutes passed before he regained consciousness, and paramedics were quick to check him for any injury that may require him to go to the hospital, luckily for him, the only *injury* he received because of the attack was his hands being slightly burned by the metal pipe he grabbed as it was apparently hot because of the surrounding fire, but he pretty much didn't realize that thanks to the adrenaline pumping in his system. His posture was hunched and he seemed trying to make himself as small as possible, you may ask why, well....

"Kid, what you did was reckless and dangerous, you could have seriously hurt yourself or worse" Kamui Woods scolded as he stood in front of the greenette together with other colleagues. They first made sure he was fine and then proceeded to scold the reckless greenette, who couldn't stop shaking. In his eyes, there was something worse than his classmates angry at him, heroes angry at him.

"There was absolutely no reason for you to put yourself in danger like that!" Death Arms added with a severe gaze and folded arms.

The boy kept his head down as he tried to remain calm, but every instinct told him to run away. Part of him even feared that the heroes may actually hit him in their annoyance. The other part was metabolizing the words they were saying to him.

"....Like someone other than my mother would care enough to cry if I really die there...." He thought grimly as he tried to not tear up, he always wondered if someone would actually care if he died, other than his mother, but to be honest, he think that dying would be a liberation for her, at least she wouldn't be so stressed up in taking care of a failure like him.

"I u-understand, sir" he muttered weakly, trying to be respectful, he knows that they were right. He was in the wrong and messed up, he didn't even do this thing right.

While the two were wondering what to say next, Mt Lady was standing beside them with her hand on her hip. Her eyes were looking down at the nervous boy with a slight frown, but then, she blinked as she caught a glimpse of his face, seeing probably the most scared expression she ever saw, for a moment she thought that it was because of the stressful situation of before, but no, as soon as Kamui resumed talking, the boy's expression became even more evident. He was scared of them.

She turned to look at her two colleagues, her lips parting to tell them to slow down a second. But she was beaten on time by Backdraft.

"Guys, I think it's enough" The firefighter hero stopped them before they could resume talking, making them blink a couple of times and look down at the scared boy, the sight not really sitting well with their conscience.

The first to recover was Kamui, who stepped a bit closer and crouched down to eye level, immediately noticing the boy flinching when he did it.

"I'm s-so sorry" the greenette squeaked as he didn't dare raise his gaze. He thought he was gonna get hit or punished, but to his surprise, he just heard a sigh from the wood hero.

"*Sigh* At least you are alive, this is the important thing. We will write the use of your quirk as self-defense so you will not get in trouble for using it without a license. Speaking of quirk, you got a mental one or something like that? Even if reckless, you still hold your own better than many would do in that situation" The hero asked as he scratched his helmet, trying to ease up the boy. He didn't want to terrorize him before, but maybe they got too much heated with who was only a young man that probably was too impulsive for his own good.

The boy seemed to stammer for words at the question, making the heroes not understand what he was trying to say, why was he hesitating?

"Kid, we already said you aren't in trouble. Don't need to shake like a leaf" Mt Lady says with a bit of a huff as she folded her arms and raised an eyebrow. She didn't understand why he was scared, she checked herself before, not a once of scary on her, just gorgeous ;3.

"I-I'm..... I-I'm q-quirkless..." He finally give in as he closed his eyes, waiting for the mockery. Some moments passed in silence without a single laugh. He dared to open his eyes and look up, finding the heroes looking at him with a slight tint of surprise, but overall their demeanor didn't change.

"Ah, it's that so? Alright" Kamui Woods replied calmly, quirkless people were a very small part of the population. So finding one here so young was a total surprise.

"First time meeting one, I thought they almost all lived in the United States or something" Death Arms says as he scratched a bit his head and looked at her rookie colleague, who was pitching her chin with her fingers while looking at the boy's face, seemingly deep in thoughts, she then hummed a bit and shifted a bit her position to lean more on one leg.

"Mhm, a guy in my high school used to say you guys looked deformed and ugly because of some bullshit about genetics. You look normal enough for me..." she explained as she tilted her head to the side, making her colleagues sweatdrop and Izuku splutter a bit, not expecting the *compliment?*.

"Huh? That's very ignorant...." Backdraft muttered puzzled.

At this, the young woman shrugged with a disinterested expression.

"The guy was a jerk, called everyone ugly. Not like he was a model himself" she replied with a wave of her hand.

"Why the conversation shifted to this? Kamui muttered as his sweatdrop just increased, why they were talking about people supposedly being ugly?

"Um...." Their conversation stopped when they heard the meek and shy voice of the boy they were lecturing before, making their heads turn toward him and noticing that he had a burnt notebook in his hand and a pen in the other.

"C-Could I h-have.....y-your s-signatures?" Izuku shyly asked as he showed that he wasn't scared of them anymore, it surprised them a bit.

The heroes looked at each other and then shrugged, facing him once again.

"Sure, kid" Kamui Woods replied as he was the first to take the notebook and go through it, noticing that the pages were dedicated to a hero, he searched for him. When he found it, he let his eyes wander on the writings, and let's say that was a bit impressed.

"Better angles and footing? Mhm, these notes are not bad..." He wondered as he decided to give his signature and let the others have their share.

Both Death Arms and Backdraft took more time than needed to give that signature too, sometimes giving the confused boy some slightly interested looks, apparently having the same thought process as the wood hero.

The only woman in the group raised an eyebrow watching her colleagues take their sweet time passing the notebook, making her wonder why they were so interested, they are just notes.

Finally, they passed the notebook to her. With a slightly bored gaze, she opened it and scrolled the pages, managing to find her her page pretty quickly because it was one of the most recent ones. Her eyes were quickly caught by a pretty good sketch of her, and the analysis in it were even better.....Okay, now she understands why they were so surprised, this kid is with their biggest fan or just really smart....wait, she did her debut just today!! How come he has already a couple of pages with her in it?!!

She stopped in her tracks when she noticed short sentences beside the sketch.

Faking to be seductive?

Super cool quirk.

Cute smile.

This made her raise an eyebrow and glance at the greenette with a puzzled look, which made him jump a bit and look down, just now realizing they were reading his notes. Part of him felt a tiny bit of relief seeing them genuinely interested and not particularly weirded out.

Mt Lady was about to mention the fake thing, but for the second time, she was cut off by her colleagues. Man, what rude people.

"Hey, hurry up, we need to finish cleaning, we wasted enough time" Death arms hurried as he indicated the rubble they need to remove.

"Yeah, yeah, I hear ya" The beautiful young woman huffed a bit as she wrote a quick signature under her sketch and then faced the owner.

"Here ya go! Don't forget to write 'sexy' on that notes of yours, kid" She says a bit less bored as she handed the notebook back to Izuku, even giving him a small smile as a bonus. This made the greenette blush a lot in embarrassment, but he quickly bowed his head toward the group to hide his face.

"T-Thank y-you!" He stuttered, watching the heroes walk away from him. Now alone, he could finally take a deep breath to calm himself. He could see Katsuki being praised by other heroes for his resilience, courage and quirk. But the ash blonde attention was all on him, his red eyes squinted in a glare.

Izuku quickly turned away while sweating, just now he remembered that he punched him in the face while he was trying to rescue him. This was all a mess.

He covered his head with notebook, trying to avoid any stare from reaching him.

What a day....

Timeskip, later

Izuku has finally let go to do his things. The paramedics insisted in bringing him to the hospital because of his past injures, but he managed to brush off their concerns. He can't go to an hospital or his mother would discover how hurt he is.... again, she already has so much stress on her, he doesn't want to be even more of a weight.

He kept letting some yelps of pain while he walked, what happened today worsened his conditions and it wasn't exactly funny.

His pace stopped when he heard quick footsteps approaching from behind. A bit of fear bubbling up as he tensed up. He swallowed the lump in his throat and turned his head to look behind and, to his surprise and horror, he saw Katsuki quickly running after him.

"Deku!" Katsuki breathed out as he stopped some meters away from him, the ash blonde seemed out of breath. After regaining a more steady breathing, he looked up at the greenette with a pissed off glare, making him take a couple of steps back.

"Don't.....don't think for a second that I needed your help or owe you something now, you shitty nerd!" he shouted and before the green haired boy could understand what he told him, he turned around and walked away, an angry aura around him.

Izuku stared at the leaving ash blonde with a sweatdrop.

"That.....that was something" Izuku muttered to himself, not quite understanding why the blonde wanted to say this to him so much.

The boy looked down as his gaze become sad once again.

"He is right.....I didn't make a difference.....I just messed all things up, as always" Izuku thought sadly, he then sighed and turned around to resume walking home but then.......

"I'M HERE!!" All Might shout as he suddenly appears from the intersection, spooking the boy, who jumped.

"Mister, All Might!! w-what are you doing here!? h-how did you get rid
of all those r-reporters?" Izuku asked as soon as he managed to stop his terror, confused why he was here in the first place, was he going to scold him?....he should.

The hero laughed a bit.

"I STAND FOR JUSTICE! NOT SOUNDBITES! BECAUSE I‐‐I AM ALL MI‐‐" He tried to say but then vapor started coming out of his skin and then he suddenly deflated again to that sicky-looking form that he turned before on the rooftop, he hunched over and started to cough a bit.

Izuku instinctively got closer, wanting to help the man but stopped when All Might raised his hand to block him and made a sign to wait a moment. After coughing some blood, the number one hero made a deep breath and looked at the boy again.

"Sorry about that, it's not the best of sights, now.....you asked me why I was here. Well, young man, I came
here to thank you and also to discuss about your question from earlier" All Might says seriously as he straightened his back once again.

"W-What?!" Izuku gasped with surprise, he wanted to talk again about the question?! Why?

"If you hadn't told me about your life...If you hadn't run into that fight......I would've been a worthless bystander watching from the crowd. what you did inspire me, you saved that person and me" All Might explained as his eyes squinted a bit, his voice was unwavering, showing he was dead serious in his claim.

Immediately the boy's eyes widened like plates, no, he couldn't accept this, All Might saved the day, not him! He hasn't inspired him..... meanwhile, the only thing he did was ruin everything.

"No m-mister All Might, I j-just got in the way of the heroes! I....." Izuku tried to argue, but he was cut off.

"I'm not done, apparently that question wasn't supposed to be answered by me, you answered it yourself when you threw yourself into the fray, I noticed your look when you did.....you weren't thinking, were you? every great hero has this thing in common, their bodies moved by themselves. Did you feel it too? That need to act, even if you weren't enough?" All might asked seriously as the wind started to blow, moving his hair.

Izuku couldn't say anything, just nod as tears streamed down his cheeks, he doesn't know why he was crying once again, but.....these words were making him struggle to keep his emotions in check, maybe because he was getting praised, not mocked.

Suddenly, the young man heard the sentence that he wanted to hear for all his life......

"...Young man.......I can say with certainty that you can be a hero" the hero declared, his eyes seems to shine with a piercing blue glint.

Izuku's eyes widened as his pupils shirked, his legs shook for a moment and then they gave in, making him fall to his knees.

Fresh tears were dripping from his still wide eyes....he.....he said it.....he told him...That he could be a hero..

The boy remembered how everyone always mocked him for his dream, but......their insults couldn't do anything to cover this single sentence.

The sun's rays hit both as the hero looked down at the crying teen.

"I deem you worthy of my quirk" he says.
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"W-w-what?!" Izuku muttered in disbelief, his eyes regained focus as he looked at the hero in surprise.

Dreams can come true, and this is the story of how I became one of the greatest heroes.

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Izuku was in complete disbelief at what he just heard, this day was just getting crazier and crazier, first, he get almost killed by a villain, saved by All Might, and almost got himself killed once again to try to save one of the people he hates most and now......he was being told that he was worthy of a quirk, All Might quirk!

"What do you mean worthy of your quirk? Mister All Might I d-don't u-understand" Izuku stuttered very confused, What was the hero talking about? The boy thought that maybe he hit his head during the incident and was hearing things.

"Journalists always guess my Quirk is super strength or some kind of invulnerability. And when people ask in interviews, I always make a joke

and dodge the question. That's because the world needs to believe that their Symbol of Peace is just a natural-born hero like any of them......But I'm not...." All Might started to explain as he put a fist in front of him and clenched it, some yellow lighting bolts surrounded it, making Izuku's eyes widen.

"The truth is something else....there's nothing natural about my ability, I wasn't born with this power. It's a sacred torch that was passed on to me from someone else" All Might explained seriously.

".....I.....a quirk that can be passed to others......I........I don't know what to think...t-this is a lot to process. I-It's true that there's a lot of debate about the idea

of passing on a quirk or inheriting it, but it was never confirmed..... and now being told like this that a quirk like this exists, it just doesn't make any sense to me. I always thought that powers are supposed to be unique to each individual. I mean, since the first

superpowers, no one's ever been able to just give someone else their power like an object. That's crazy. If this is true, it would cause us to rethink everything we know about Quirks to begin with......" Izuku continued to quickly explain, his eyes quickly shaking as he was completely taken over by his more analytical side, it was always suppressed to avoid bringing unwanted attention, but now it was completely brought out.

The hero was taken aback by the sudden change in behavior of the boy, wow, he sure knew a lot......to be honest he was a bit overwhelmed by the quick and unending muttering of the boy.

"Uh, sounds like you're overthinking this whole *inheriting* thing a bit too much, young man...." All Might says as he sweatdropped, this caused Izuku to stop in his track and cover his mouth, realizing that he just cut off his hero.

"I'm s-s-sorry! I didn't want to interrupt you" Izuku stuttered as he bowed in apology.

"Hey, it's okay, calm down. But now you'll have to adjust your reality and accept this new truth! I can transfer my Quirk to someone else. And that's just one facet of my secret abilities, and it can be transferred to you....." All Might says as he indicated Izuku with one of his hand

The hero then moved his hand and opened it with his palm facing up, at the hero's eyes, a multicolored star formed on it.

"The true name of my power is One For All......" All Might declared as his eyes narrowed seriously, and the star increased in brightness.

"One... For... All." repeat Izuku in awe

"One person improves the power then hands it off to another person, allowing it to grow further as it's passed along. It's this cultivated power that allows me to save those who are in need of a hero, the quirk became stronger and stronger as it is passed...." All Might continued as he clenched his fist.

"I am the eighth, before receiving this power, I was quirkless like you, my boy" All Might concluded as he indicated himself.

At this, the boy's eyes widened like plates, quirkless?!!!

"That's..... that's why you said you understood how I felt?.....you.....you were like me?!" Izuku asked shocked.

"Correct, that's why my answer when we were on the roof was atrocious for me to tell you, it was like I told me of the past, that quirkless guy who wanted to make sure that anyone could really smile without fear, that he had to abandon his dreams" says all might with a little guilt in his voice.

"I wouldn't have blamed you Mister All Might, it's not the first time I've heard it anyway" Izuku replies, lowering his voice a lot for the second part.

All Might have heard him anyway and his desire to make the offer increases even more.

"Young man, can I ask for your name?" All Might asked as he crouched down a bit, getting on eye level with the boy, who was still on his knees.

"I-Izuku Midoriya, Mister" Izuku replied nervously.

"Young Midoriya, you need to know that I was on a long hunt for a worthy successor. And then, I watched you jump into action as the rest of us stood idly by. You may just be a quirkless boy. But you tried to save that kid, You acted like a hero, in the face of certain death, you tried to do the right thing......for this I deem you worthy of this quirk, of being the next bearer of OFA" All Might declared, exposing his intention.

The boy stared at the hero with complete disbelief, he can't believe that he is offering something so precious to someone like him! Someone.....

Pathetic.

Weak

Broken

The boy looked down at the floor as a very sad expression made its way onto his face.

"I d-don't think it should be me, mister All Might, I'm n-not w-worthy of this...... there are surely so many better candidates than me...." Izuku started to say as he sniffed a bit, tears threatening to drip again.

He continued, not giving the hero the time to say something.

"Before encountering you.......I w-was just about to give up......what hero question his own dream? they were right about me! I'm just a failure! So please...... don't waste your quirk on someone like me..." Izuku says sadly as he refused to look at the hero before him, he knows that he was basically disrespecting him, he offer him something and he refused, but this was for the better, the hero doesn't know how truly weak and broken he is.....if he did, he will most likely leave him behind, like the others.

All Might hearing this just start to get closer, his steps making the boy flitch, until he saw his shadow over him, the boy just kept staring down at the ground.

What he didn't expect was to hear the hero crouch down and put a hand on his shoulder, causing the boy to flinch for a split second. but, when he hesitantly raised his head to look at the hero, his nerves calmed down the smallest bit by seeing the hero had a kind look on his face and a small smile.

"Young Midoriya, please tell me something and be sincere, what do you truly want?.....you told me you wanted to be like me....but I know that with a stunt like that, you wouldn't settle on that.....what is your dream? I want to hear everything, this time, you got my full attention" All Might asked kindly.

The boy looked at him with slightly wide eyes, he then looked down, deep into his thoughts, memory after memory of his past came back, memories of people mocking him for his dream.....this was the first time that someone asked him what he truly wanted.

He looked up again at the hero, his body shaking as he tried to say something.

"I.......I want....."Izuku tried to say but the words were struck in years of pain and suffering, at the end however they come out after a certain memory struck his mind.

"I want to be like him, save people like him, I want to make people happy!" Izuku remember the words of his younger self, that feeling of security that he saw All Might gave to everyone, the happiness, the smiles......he....he wanted to help people, there was nothing else that he wanted more.

"I.....I just want to be a hero, to save people, to make them feel safe..... since I was little I always admired how heroes gave everyone hope......security.....smiles. I......I want people to look at me like that, A smiling...Dependable...Cool hero...That's what I wanna be! I-It may sound lame, b-but........." Izuku declared with everything he has, but as he progressed, his posture worsened, and his fragile determined facade broke as he continued to reveal his true wishes.

The boy looked down as he took shaky deep breaths.

"P-p-please d-don't laugh...." Izuku whispered shakily, he lost count of how many people laughed at him when he just said the sentence*I want to be a hero*, just now he realized that he had just revelated everything without restraint, even though it was what the hero asked for, his dream was so silly....what hope he has to become someone as amazing as All Might? nobody can be like him.

He was stopped in his tracks when he felt the other hand of the hero being placed on the top of his head, the other still on his shoulder.

"I won't, there's nothing to laugh about......" All Might says kindly as he started to slowly stroke the boy's hair with the hand that was on his head.

The hero's eyes narrowed a bit as he find more and more similarities between himself in his younger days and the behavior of the crying boy in front of him, he was teased because he wanted to be a hero. But, like his master saw something in him, he saw something in this boy, his heroic instincts were marvelous, and for this, he thinks that he was perfect.

He glanced down at the boy again, noticing that he was shaking at the touch like he was fragile, scared, he wondered why.

".....And I must say, young man, that yours is a beautiful dream, it fits a future hero, a great hero" All Might kindly, still smiling at him.......it was calming.

Izuku was left completely shocked by this, not only the hero didn't laugh, he praised him! And why his body wasn't shivering as much as before at the hand on his shoulder and the one still ruffling his hair.

It was like, the hero was sincere at 100%, ..he felt....that he could trust him.

"I know I've put a lot of pressure on you with my offer. But believe me when I tell you that I find you the most deserving person to receive my quirk, what you said is true, there are a lot of perfect candidates who have heroic hearts just like yours" All Might continued.

"Then you can give it to the-......" Tries to say Izuku but All Might cut him off.

"This is the point, I don't want just a successor, I want you to be my successor, I want to help you in your dream, if you let me of course...." All Might interrupt him.

Izuku was left in a daze, All Might truly want to pass his quirk to him......him! He didn't do anything but almost get himself killed and what happened after that was just luck.

"I.....I...." Izuku struggled to say something, part of him wanted to refuse as he thinks that he doesn't deserve it, but the other part want to accept, he want to be worthy of these praises, become the hero he always wanted to become as finally.... someone actually believes in him.

However, his mind was completely torn on what to do, thoughts kept assaulting it, increasing his mental struggle even more.

Accept it, he is sincere.

I don't deserve it, I'm just weak pathetic trash.

He is offering his own quirk.....he has so much faith in me.

He is trying to manipulate me, he will throw me in the trash as soon as he discovers my true nature.

"He is offering something so important to me and he is giving me so much encouragement, but........I.....I can't live up to his expectations......what do I have to offer?....I can't make anyone feel secure...." Izuku thought as his eyes shook and moved around without being focused, so he didn't see anything, he was just so deep in his thoughts that he didn't notice the hero looking intensely at his eyes, like he was studying his expression, his gaze.....and his thoughts.

"I want to accept, I want to become a hero.....I just want to give comfort to people, to give them hope...like they did to me/I don't deserve it.... please All Might, search for someone truly worthy, I can't become a hero...I can't make anyone feel safe" Izuku thought as his mind was split into two thought processes, his lips opened and pursed continuously, like he wanted to talk, but he kept rethinking his choice, going back at the starting line every time.

The hero observed the unfocused gaze of the boy, he saw sadness, desperation, self-doubt, but even hope, determination and so much kindness, all of this hidden beneath layers of self-doubt and sadness.

He didn't need an answer anymore, he made already a decision.

"I think I know the answer now...." All Might says calmly after a while, cutting Izuku's internal war.

"Huh!?" Izuku muttered confused as his eyes refocused, he looked at the hero with nervousness and confusion.

The hero raised himself from his crouched position and looked down at the boy.

"Meet me at Dagobah Municipal Beach Park tomorrow morning. There, we will start your training in order to shape your body to allow you to inherit the quirk" All Might says calmly, increasing the boy's shock a lot.

"W-w-what?! But.....but...." Izuku asked confused, but he didn't.....he didn't accepted the offer, he didn't deserve it, why he is saying this like he could carry his legacy!?

He wanted to immediately refuse, this was no good, All Might was going to do a mistake, but.....

"!!!!!" What came out of Izuku were some nervous sounds close to words but they couldn't be understood. He couldn't refuse, why?!!! Why his body and mind refused to stop this mistake from happening?!!

"I have to refuse, I don't des......." Izuku tried to say in his mind, but a thought bulldozed its way in, cutting his internal voice off.

I want to make him proud, he has so much faith in me!!

"I have to ref......" Izuku tried to form the thought again but once again, a memory of his own dream shattered his doubts.

I want to be a hero that everyone can look up to. A smiling, dependable and cool hero

"..... I have t-to....." Izuku tried to think for a last time, his eyes shaking as he doesn't know what to think anymore, both body and mind were a mess, once again, his thoughts were shattered, this time, beyond repair.

The number one hero, a symbol like him!!!!

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"Young Midoriya......" Izuku heard All Might call for him, the boy hesitantly looked up, finding the hero still in front of him, a determined look on his face and a small smile on his thin mouth.

The hero extended his hand towards him, making the boy look at it surprised.

"Are you ready to be a smiling, dependable and cool hero?! The next Number one?!!!" All Might declared with a booming voice.

Izuku eyes widened once again, every doubt silenced by this question....he truly believed in him.....he truly wanted this.....

His hand twitched a bit.

"I want to be a hero....." Izuku thought as his mind started working again.

He shakily and slowly raised his hand towards All Might's.

"I want to be......" Izuku started to say in his mind as his eyes gained much more life, an old fire was being awakened.

His hand was almost touching the one of the hero.

"The strongest hero!!!!" Izuku shouted in his mind as he grabbed All Might's hand, letting the hero help him stand up.

"So, shall I expect you to come to the beach tomorrow?" All Might asked with a grin as he noticed the boy's much more animated eyes.

The boy looked at him and then....

"Mhm mhm!!!" Izuku nodded quickly and nervously, his decision taken, he will be a hero, he will make his mom and now All Might proud too. There is still some fight left in this broken quirkless kid!!!

"That's what I like to know!!!" All Might says as he turned for a split second into his muscles form, only to revert back to his sickly looking one and cough some blood.

Izuku sweatdropped a bit at this.

"Now it's better that I go, remember, tomorrow morning, I will wait for you, take care, young Midoriya" All Might says as he ruffled the boy's hair and started to walk away, leaving a still stunned Izuku there, immobile.

Izuku blinked multiple times, still not believing what happened, his favorite hero not only said that he can be a hero....but he also offered his quirk to him.....now he had the occasion to be a hero.....his dream.... it's possible....

A dream......

Izuku looked ahead, took a deep breath, and started to walk towards his home, his eyes much more alive, a small fire has been awakened in his sad and timid eyes......a fire of determination.....

A dream that he intend to make a reality.

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Later, Midoriya house

Izuku was in front of his house, staring at the door still in a daze for what happened today, everything was just so absurd that he still couldn't metabolize everything, he risked dying, twice, got saved by All Might, also twice, then the same hero approached him and told him that he can be a hero and the most shocking thing......The hero wants to give him a quirk.... his quirk! 

The boy passed a hand through his hair with a very perplexed expression, his eyes half closed as questioned why he couldn't refuse the offer, he had still doubts, how he can be worthy of something so precious as the quirk of the number one hero? But, at the same time, his body and mind refused to back down, as soon as All Might asked him if he was ready to be a hero, everything went blank, he didn't have hesitation....for him there was just one answer, one hidden beneath years of pain and self-doubt.

Yes! I'm ready!!

He sighed and then opened the door, as soon as surpassed the doorstep, he was instantly met with a green blur that slammed on him like a rocket, he miraculously was capable of remaining on his feet, he immediately felt two arms surrounding him in a powerful hug.

"Izuku, finally you are here!! I was so scared!!!" The boy heard a familiar female voice and he immediately looked down, finding a slightly chubby and short green-haired woman, his only beacon of hope....until now.....as he have two.

The woman raised her gaze to look at him, showing that she was frantically crying.

"I saw you on the news, why did you throw yourself in danger like that?!! You made me worry so much!" Inko asked very worried as she continued to cry.

"I-I'm fine Mom, calm down!" Izuku says nervously, but then he flinched a bit in pain as the bruises of the previous beating were starting to hurt.

Immediately the woman noticed Izuku biting the pain and let go of him, but still very close and her hand holding his.

"I'm sorry! Wait are you sure that you are truly fine?! How many fingers are these? Do you feel pain!? Do you need to go to the hospital?!" Inko says frantically, as she held her other hand in front of his face, her fingers extended.

"Mom..." Izuku called as he softly grabbed the hand in front of his face and put the other one on it too, making the woman stop to look at him.

A rare small smile was present on his face, his eyes showing love and warmth.

"I'm fine, I'm sorry to have made you worry so much......" Izuku says calmly, making her calm down a bit, but she was still worried. 

The woman looked down, gazing at his hands, seeing the patch that covered the back of his left hand.

They always hurt him without mercy, and no matter what she does, she can't stop anything, she can't keep him in her home forever, but he can't go outside either if he is being treated like this.

She couldn't hold back the frustrated tears from dripping as she looked up at him again.

"Why do bad things always happen to you!? why can't they leave you alone?! Why does a kind and sweet boy like you need to always suffer like this?!" She says very frustrated as she tightened her hold on his hands, she can't stand all of this happening to her son, first the remarks of the neighbors, then the abuse at school, yes, because what they are doing to him is not bullying, is straight up abuse. She tried to change him school multiple times, but it was always the same, the police are not helping either, the school always negates everything and in some ways, the police always side with them. In the end, schools started to straight up refuse to accept him, making Aldera the only available option for her son to have a degree, even though, she was ready to make him study somewhere else but he refused, preferring to suffer than bother her further.

Her son looked at her sadly, his irises a bit hollow and sad, so much pain hidden in them.

"...I don't know.......but it's fine...." He said after a while, making her look at him in surprise.

She felt his hands squeezing hers a bit more tightly.

"As l-long as you are okay, I will be fine, I promise that everything is going to be okay from now on...... after all....t-today was a good day" Izuku says a bit nervous to her, but he seemed even a bit more happy, his small smile widened even a bit.

This attracted her attention and curiosity.

"A good day? Did something happen?" Inko asked confused, maybe he made a friend, she would love for him making finally a real friend, strangely Izuku never talked about Katsuki, her son said that the blonde was very busy and that they don't talk a lot, it was suspicious, but even Mitsuki doesn't know why the two never meet anymore, strange....she has a very bad feeling about this, especially considering how Izuku react when she asks about him.

Izuku avoided eye contact as he scratched his hair nervously, he doesn't know how to explain to her what happened without revealing the details.

"A.....A-A h-hero a-approached me a-after the i-incident and o-offered to h-help me b-become a hero b-by training me......" Izuku says nervously, being careful not to say that this hero is All Might.

This increased the confusion of the woman, she doesn't know how to feel about this as Izuku's desire to be a hero was a difficult one to digest, she had always a heavy guilt in her stomach for never had fully supported his dream, but.....she was just so worried, if he is already suffering like this, she can't imagine how many risks being a hero, a quirkless hero, will bring to himself, she can't stand the idea of her son suffering, or even worse......not coming back home.

She looked at him with uncertainty, asking herself what hero approached her son, she was very suspicious of this, there were a lot of bad people, and she knows better than to think heroes don't have bad apples between them, this hero could be a bad person for what she knows.

"....are you sure that he's not deceiving you? you know there are some corrupt heroes who won't hesitate to kidnap a cute guy like you. Who is this hero?" She asked a bit more seriously, she need to know more if she needs to accept a stranger training her son.

Izuku hesitantly glanced at her, a bit of sweat trailing from his forehead.

"H-h-he's a pretty high r-ranking hero! don't worry, Mom, he's a good person!" Izuku stuttered nervously, cursing himself for showing so much nervousness, he knows that this will only make her more suspicious.

"Izuku, who he is?" Inko insisted a bit more sternly as her eyes narrowed a bit, was this hero threatening her son? For this he was hiding his name? She doesn't like this.

Izuku eyes darted around, avoiding hers, he was trying to find a solution, but then he stopped, an idea formed in his mind.

"He's one of All Might's assistants!" Izuku finally answered nervously as he looked at her.

Inko was surprised by this, the assistant of her son's favorite hero wanted to train him?! 

She was silent for a few seconds until suddenly she takes Izuku and crushes him with a hug twice as strong as before.

"My baby will be helped by the assistant of his favorite hero, I'm so happy for you !!!!" She shouts with tears that spill like jets of water from her eyes.

"I can't ...... breathe" tried to say Izuku with the little air left in his body.

"Sorry hehe" Inko says as she releases him.

She then cleared her throat, regaining her more stern expression.

"Returning to what I said before, I approve as long as one day I meet him, even if he is the assistant of your favorite hero, I want to see if he is trustworthy and has good intentions, is that clear?" Inko says sternly.

"Y-Yes, Mom, I will t-tell this to him" Izuku responded nervously as he nodded with an awkward small smile.

"Good, now come, dinner is almost ready, I made your favorite" Inko says happily with a smile as she goes to the kitchen.

"O-Okay!" Izuku replied as he followed her.

After having dinner together with his mother, Izuku goes to bed, for the first time in years..... he is looking forward to the next day, even though he already knows that sleeping will be difficult once again, he hopes he can squeeze some hours of sleep this night.

The next day (Sunday), dagobah Municipal Beach 

Izuku has just arrived where All Might had told him to meet him, his eyes widened as he noticed the state of the *beach*.

"Huh?" He muttered a bit surprised when he noticed that the beach was completely filled with piles and piles of trash, furniture, cars and metal pieces everywhere.

His eyes frowned a bit as he looked around, he remembered passing by a couple of years ago to avoid encountering any of his bullies, he remembered much less trash, but now not even the sand could be seen.

As he was observing the sad show before him he hear a voice calling him.

"Pretty awful, right?" Izuku heard someone say from behind him.

The boy immediately turned around, his eyes widened a bit as he found All Might sitting on a fridge in his skinny form

"Mister All Might!" Izuku says a bit surprised as he didn't notice the hero there because a pile of garbage covered his line of sight when he was climbing down the stairs to reach the beach.

"Glad to have you here young man, for a moment I thought you would have left me here hanging" All Might says with a small grin, he then got off from the fridge and walked to him.

"So, ready to start your training?" The hero asked as he pumped his fist in front of him, the boy didn't share all that enthusiasm.

"I....y-yes I do....but....." Izuku started to say confused as he looked around and then at the hero again.

"W-why did you m-make me come here?" Izuku asked a bit nervous and confused.

The hero walked towards the fridge he was sitting on before and looked at him with a side glance.

"Well, young man it is not enough to accept the quirk to have it, one for all requires a strong body capable of bearing it, so we need to train your slim body in a body capable of withstanding it, if I gave you the quirk right now your body would be destroyed by the effort to contain it "explains All Might.

Izuku can only pale and tremble as he imagines his body exploding. He swallowed the lump in his throat as he sweated a little.

"S-So I have to t-train here, using the trash as my w-workout gear and you are my t-trainer?" The boy asked as he glanced at a pile of garbage, it was really big.

"Correct!! This is the perfect place to start your first steps in being a hero" All Might says as he put a hand on the top of the fridge and turned his body towards the boy.

"Huh? W-what do y-you m-mean?" Izuku asked confused as he tilted his head to the side.

"Well...." All Might started to say as he looked around and made a small sigh, he then looked at Izuku again.

"I did a little online research yesterday. Turns out this part of the beach used to be beautiful, but it's been a total mess for the last few years. Because of the ocean currents, anything that's dropped in the water ends up here and people took advantage of that and started to illegally dump their trash here. Now, all the locals avoid this place....." All Might explained as he patted the spot of the fridge where his hand was resting.

"Heroes these days are all about showing off and capturing flashy villains. Things were different before Quirks. Service was what mattered. Back then, heroes were those who helped the community. Even if it was kinda boring...." All Might continued as he pumped his other hand into a fist.

"You will restore the coastline for this entire section of the beach that is the first step on your path, young man. Towards being a hero!" All Might declared as he turned into his muscle form, easily becoming taller than the fridge.

The boy looked around nervously, the beach was full of trash, it was too much for just one person, especially since he have just ten months.

"A-are you sure a-about this? It's n-not too much?" Izuku asked nervously with insecurity, cursing himself for questioning All Might, he was about to apologize to the hero but he was interrupted before he could do so.

"YOUNG MIDORIYA, YOU WANNA GO TO UA, RIGHT?" All Might asked still in his muscle form, his voice much more booming, this caused Izuku to slightly stare in awe at him, his fanboyism showing.

He then remembers what the hero asked and shook his head to recollect his thoughts.

"Y-yes! You went there, s-s-so I thought it m-must be the b-best school around. But, so many people will be attending the exam, so....my chances are very low.." Izuku nervously as he looked down, but then, he raised his hand and closed it into a fist, a more determined glint in his eyes.

He raised his gaze to look at the hero.

"It's a long shot. But still. I'm gonna shoot for the moon. I will give everything to realize my dream, Mister all Might, I.......I will work harder than anyone else to do it!" he declared with a little more determination, the sparks of his fire becoming more brighter.

The hero's smile widened upon hearing this. 

"THAT'S MORE LIKE IT! NOW, WE HAVE TEN MONTHS TO GET YOU IN SHAPE! BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY, KID. I'VE GOT YOU COVERED. WITH THE HELP OF MY HANDY *AIM TO PASS: AMERICAN DREAM PLAN*!" All Might says with a booming voice as he took a paper from his pocket, extending it towards Izuku.

The boy got closer and took it, he then started to read it, his eyes widened a bit in surprise.

"Even my sleep is scheduled....." He muttered a bit nervous, but if he think about it.....he doesn't have a lot to do in his free time, it's not like he has someone besides his mother to spend time with, so he doesn't mind the schedule and he doesn't sleep a lot in every case because of.....reasons.

The hero spoke again, making the boy raise his gaze.

"FOLLOW THIS TO THE LETTER AND THE PART OF THE BEACH THAT I HAVE MARKET IN THE PLAN WILL BE CLEAN WITH A COUPLE OF MONTHS TO SPARE. AFTER THAT, IF YOUR BODY IS READY, I WILL PASS YOU THE QUIRK AND WE WILL WORK ON HOW TO USE IT, EVERYTHING CLEAR?" All Might says.

Izuku nodded a bit more animated, he was ready, he waited for this for all his life.

"Y-Yes!! I w-will not let you d-down!"Izuku shouted a bit more determined.

"HAHAHA, THAT'S THE SPIRIT!!! LET'S GET DOWN TO IT THEN!!" All Might shouted as he crushed the fridge with one arm, creating wind so strong that it made Izuku almost fall.

"Wow" Izuku muttered with wide eyes, he then looked around, then at his hands and clenched both into fists.

He will not let this occasion go to waste!!

Timeskip to late afternoon

Izuku was struggling to remain on his feet as he panted and sweated like crazy, he had spent the rest of the day carrying garbage from the beach to the truck. He managed to make a little dent in one of the piles, but a lot of work was still needed.

"For today I say we have finished, good job!" All Might praised while he was sitting on a car in his skinny form.

Izuku's legs gave in as he fell on his butt, the sand softened the impact, he was so tired and the chronic pain that he always had and the pain of the bruises of two days ago didn't help, but he endured the pain for all the duration of the workout.

His eyes widened as he remembered something that he needed to say to the hero, he raised his gaze to look at him.

"Mister, All Might" Izuku called, making the hero turn towards him.

"Yes, young Midoriya?" All Might asked.

"I-I just r-remembered, m-my mother wants to meet you, she want to see who wants to train me" Izuku says nervously as he slowly start to get up, his limbs hurting.

The hero's eyes widened a little as he put a hand on his chin with a thoughtful expression.

"Really? Well, to be fair, you need to tell her why you are spending all this time away from home, we don't want to make your parents worry. Oh! But what did you tell her about me? Did you tell her who I was?" All Might asked.

"Yes and no, I t-told her that all might's assistant w-would train me" Izuku replied as he looked away, very nervous that he may have ruined his chances.

The hero nodded and cupped his own chin with a thoughtful face.

"That would do, I'm actually using this....form, as a cover, Toshinori Yagi for many is just the mostly normal assistant of All Might" All Might mused as he sighed a bit and glanced at the greenette while putting his hands on his sides.

"So, when do you want me to meet her?" He continued, better take care of this as soon as possible.

"W-well.....m-maybe next week? S-she isn't home tomorrow" Izuku replied as he removed the sand from his clothes.

"Okay then. But for now, go home and rest, you need all the energy you can recover. Same time here tomorrow, okay?" All Might says.

"Y-Yes!" Izuku says as he nodded and bowed politely to the hero, who sweatdropped a bit.

"You need to ease up a little, kid" All Might says with a chuckle.

The boy scratched his hair nervously.

"I-i-i will try, I-i go now, s-see you tomorrow, All Might" Izuku says nervously as he leaves.

Timeskip to 1 week

Midoriya house

At the door of the house there was a skinny All Might, today was the day he would meet his successor's mother and honestly he was a little nervous, from what Izuku had told him, his mother is extremely protective and very ferocious when it is about her son; even that he sincerely hopes to be able to know something about the social life of his successor,in fact he have noticed something during the week they passed together, sometimes he came with bruises and down in the dumps, and every time he tried to ask him what had happened he always invented excuses, he has finished believing it after the third time, he does not want to insist because from what he observed in the time they were together, the young man is very fragile emotionally, he continues to doubt himself, he sometimes comes with dark circles, a sign that he does not slept, and apologizes very often for the smallest things and looks at him with that look of terror, all might get it right away, it's not normal and he has to find out what's happening and he has to help him, as a hero and as a teacher.

The hero raised his hand and...

*Knock* *knock*

He knocked on the door and waited patiently, after a couple of seconds he heard approaching steps coming from the other side of the door.

The door was opened by Inko, who looked at him with curiosity and a bit of surprise, probably because of his sickly appearance.

"Hi, can I help you?" Inko asks politely.

"Ah! Good day, my name is Toshinori Yagi, I'm the one that is training your son on All Might's behalf" All Might responds calmly.

At this Inko's eyes open a little more.

"Ah! Izuku told me you would have come. Come in, do you want something? some tea? coffee?" Inko asked politely as she let the hero in the house.

"If it's not too much trouble, some tea, thank you" he respond as he removed his shoes at the doorsteps, he then let Inko guide him to sit on a chair in front of the dining table.

While Inko was making tea, All Might looked around a bit, the house was not big but it seemed and felt comfortable, he could see pictures of his successor and his mother on the wall but not a single one of his father.

"Where's his father?" All Might thinks to himself.

After a while, Inko walked out of the kitchen with a couple of cups in her hands

"Here" Inko says as she places a cup of tea in front of All Might.

"Thank you, Mrs. Midoriya" All Might thanked politely as he grabbed the cup and sipped a little, enjoying the taste.

Inko then sits in front of him.

"So Mr. Yagi, I heard from Izuku that you would train him. And, to tell you the truth, I was very skeptical, I still am. But, if you really are All Might's assistant then I don't have to worry about him right? right?" Inko says as a small glare made way on her face at the end of the sentence.

All Might didn't seem to lose composure as he looked at the woman with a calm but determined look.

"I can assure you, Mrs. Midoriya, that I have the best intentions in mind for your son. My boss has personally recognized his worth, he has a lot of potential to be a hero, and he desires to see it take shape" All Might responded, outside he seemed calm and collected but on the inside.

"Scaryyyyyy" he thinks using all his willpower not to tremble.

Inko hearing this stopped glaring at him and took a big sigh, a small grim look made its way on her face as she looked at him, this surprised him.

"I'll tell you the truth, Mister Yagi, it's not your fault, but I'm a little suspicious, this isn't the first time they try to hurt my son by being friendly, I just want to be sure" Inko says seriously.

"Not the first time? Ah, About young Izuku, where is he?" All Might asked, theoretically, today he shouldn't go to school.

"He's sleeping, he usually does when he doesn't have to go out, he doesn't like to go out, for good reasons, at least until he met you, he is always eager to go to train with you, it's good to see him more active" Inko says, her expression still serious.

At this, All Might attention was instantly taken, he was hopeful to use this to ask that question.

"Why? Does young Izuku have trouble sleeping? And why he doesn't go outside often?" All Might asked as he raised an eyebrow.

Inko looked at him a bit surprised but then she looked away, she doesn't know whether to tell him what her son is going through, but he was an assistant of a hero, maybe he can do something, maybe he can help her son to finally exit that hell.

All Might spoke before she could continue her internal struggle.

"Mrs. Midoriya, I wanted to ask you something" All Might started to say, his voice more serious.

"Yes?" Inko asked confused and to be honest, a little nervous, he seemed really serious about what he was going to ask.

"Sometimes young Izuku comes by with bruises and with a low morale, then I noticed that he is very scared of people, when he misses an exercise he looks at me as if he had committed a crime, these are signs of extreme abuse, I didn't want to insist because I didn't want to put pressure on him that's why I ask you, what's going on? " ask all might, he still remember when the young man says those words on the roof, that he was hated for being quirkless, but he needs confirmation.

Inko again remain silent, she looked down, memories of her finding her son coming into the house bloody and injured, she lost count of how many times she had to call the hospital or bring him to a doctor for how many times he was hurt, cuts, broken bones, burns, they did everything to hurt her baby, and they never stopped escalating, the worse thing is that her son stopped trying to stop it, he just closed up in himself, covering his body to hide the scars of the many times those kids destroyed his skin.

Some tears begin to spill, she couldn't back anymore, her sadness, her concern, she couldn't hold them back anymore.

"They bully him Mr. Yagi, no, they torture him, they beat him, they insult him again and again, and there's no stopping of this, I've tried everything, I went to school to try make them discipline those kids but they always tell me they were just playing, at one point I went to the police when they were starting to beat him outside the school as well, but the school always denied, they were model students they said, they said my baby was the one who started the fights, I had to see my baby being destroyed piece by piece and it's driving me crazy that I can't do anything"Inko says crying.

All Might's eyes widened like plates hearing this, he has long abandoned the cup and put both of his hands on the table as he raised himself a little, rage and shock present in equal measure.

"That's terrible! Mrs. Midoriya. To think that people are capable of this! And also the school allowed such behavior and even defend it!?" All Might asked angrily, a bit of vapor coming out of his skin, he remembered his younger years, he was teased, but this, this was straight-up abuse!!

"Y-Yes, *sniff* Izuku let it slip that also they contributed to it, they always defend them and the police always took their side, any proof was always considered not a true proof of what they were doing" She replied, still crying and sniffling.

If All Might was already surprised and angry, now he is totally furious. Doing this to a person was already terrible in its own right but even that people would incite it when they are responsible for the education of subsequent generations is totally inhuman.

"Mrs. Midoriya. Don't worry I'll take care of it. I will have to talk to young Izuku again about this, but I promise you, this will end" All Might says completely serious.

The woman looked at him in shock, her eyes wide.

"You...you will help him?!" Inko asked shocked, relief started to build as the second passed.

The hero nodded without hesitation.

"I'm his trainer, and I'm a hero too, this is what we do, I will not let them get away with this" All Might says seriously.

At this Inko cried more, finally, finally there was an end to her son's torment.

"Thank *sniff* you so much *sniff* Mr. Yagi, you don't know how much this means to me" Inko says still sniffling, a grateful smile on her face.

"There's no need to thank me, from what I've seen, you have done everything you could to help him, you are an excellent mother, now leave this to us, your son doesn't have to worry anymore about those monsters...." All Might says with a smile of his own, but when he looked down at his watch, he saw that it was late.

"I think it's time for me to go. I want to take care of this as soon as possible, take care Mrs. Midoriya, please don't tell anything to young Izuku, I want to speak to him about this personally" All Might says as he got up and walked towards the door, the woman accompanying him.

When he put his shoes back on, he opened the door, but before he could leave, he was called by the woman.

"Izuku was very lucky to meet you. Thank you so much for helping him in realizing his dream, and now he can finally be free from that hell" Inko says very grateful as she bowed her head.

"As I have already said, there is no need to thank me, I do this because I want and it is my duty. Thank you for the good tea and the chat Mrs. Midoriya, everything will be okay, because I am here now" All Might concluded with a smile on his face, and then he exited the house.

As he was walking towards his car, his expression turned into a serious one.

Now in front of his car, the hero stopped, took his phone out and goes through the contacts, scrolling a bit until he found the two that interested him.

time to make a call to a couple of friends.

Chapter Text

Monday 6:00 pm

*Ugh*............*ugh!!*

Izuku can be heard grunting with fatigue as he is seen carrying a microwave towards the truck, when he reached it, he put the broken appliance on the back of the vehicle.

After doing that, the boy took a couple of moments to regain his breathing as he forced himself to clean as much as possible, the more time passed, the more he wanted to train harder. Funny enough, the workout was actually helping him manage his pain, giving him an activity to distract himself.

*Pant* *pant*

Izuku took a couple of deep breaths and managed to recover a little, he turned his head towards the trash-filled beach, and a wave of determination washed over him.

"This is my first step in being a hero...." Izuku thought as his breathing slowed down, he then looked down at his dirty and shaking hands and clenched them into fists, he couldn't hold back his excitement, even though a week has passed since that day, he was still finding difficulty believing that all of this was real.

He looked up again towards the garbage heaps with a more determined look. He will do anything to be remotely deserving of the hero's time, he will dedicate all his energies to this, even if he has to train even harder than now.....he just wants to be worthy, worthy of this possibility.

The boy started walking towards the beach to resume carrying trash but suddenly a sharp pain in his belly made him stop and clench the hurting part. He clenched his teeth as he resisted the urge to make a sound to not alert All Might. He shook for a moment and used his breathing to at least reduce the pain. After some seconds, he shuttered as he regained his fragile composure once again.

He raised a bit his shirt, enough to see that in the lower part of his belly, there was a purple-black bruise, and a small glimpse of a very big scar could be seen as well but it was quickly covered.

"....They got me good last Friday, it h-hurt!, No Izuku, resist, All Might is close, you need to be s-strong" Izuku whispered to himself shakily. He then looked at the stairs and took a big sigh to stabilize his nerves, after doing it, he climbed down the stairs and walked to the beach, as he was wondering what he could lift this time, he saw All Might wave at him and walk towards him.

While he was walking, the hero looked around a bit and nodded to himself, and then he looked at the boy again, a small proud smile on his face.

"I see you're getting used to it, good, a developed muscle memory can help but remember not to overdo it" says All Might.

"O-of cou-course! m-mister All Might I u-un-understand, I w-will be c-careful" Izuku stuttered nervously as he fiddles with his fingers. He then looked around to search for something that he could lift, he was a bit happier for being praised by his favorite hero.

However, before he could continue, the hero spoke to him once again.

"Young Midoriya, I think we're done for the day, you already made good progress, good work" All Might says with a thumb up. After all, they need to do something else today, everything is ready.

The boy looked at him a bit surprised, as for him, it was a bit too soon to end the training.

"A-Are y-you s-sure? I c-can do a l-l-little more....." Izuku says nervously and with uncertainty, he then cursed himself mentally for questioning his favorite hero once again, he wanted to apologize but he was interrupted when the hand of the hero was placed on his head and ruffled his hair.

"Hehehe, you are really eager! But don't worry, there's no rush. You are already making good progress" All Might says with a small chuckle.

The boy trembled a little but resisted the urge to run away from the contact as he didn't want to upset him. At least the hero quickly removed his hand from his head as he noticed the boy's action.

"Don't overwork yourself, kid. We don't want the opposite effect that we want to happen, do we?" All Might says a bit more sternly, making Izuku understand that he should be more careful with his training, but the thought of doing anything necessary to become stronger was still very strong.

"I......no, mister All Might......y-you are right" Izuku says nervously as he looked down. He then looked at his backpack and walked towards it, starting to take his things to go home.

Before he could leave, he was called by the number one hero.

"Wait, Young Man" All Might called, making the boy stop in his track and look back at the hero with a slightly scared look.

"Y-yes" Izuku says nervously, thinking he has done something wrong and already preparing himself to receive the insults.

"When you arrive at your house, take a quick shower and get ready to go out" All Might says, highly confusing the boy.

"W-W-Why?" Izuku asked confused.

"I would like you to meet someone, it's important" All Might says a bit more serious, making the boy understand that this was truly important.

"O-Ok I understand, w-when should I be ready?" Izuku asked nervously, deciding to trust his hero in this one.

"I'll come to your house with the car around 7:00pm......" All Might replied as he looked at his watch.

"I need to go for now, remember, 7:00pm, see you at that hour, young man" All Might says as he entered the truck with the trash and drove away.

Izuku blinked a few times, very confused about the person All Might wanted him to meet. He hopes it's a good person, or at least not a scary one. With these thoughts in mind, he started to quickly walk towards his home to get ready as soon as possible.

timeskip 7.05 pm

The hero and his successor were in the car, the former driving and the latter in the passenger seat. The two were silent, the only sound being made was the engine and the occasional car that passed beside theirs. As the hero was driving, he felt his successor giving him occasional glances, the boy wondering whether to ask where they were going or not, he didn't want to bother the hero, but his curiosity was pretty strong.

All Might cleared his throat, attracting Izuku's attention and started to speak while still looking at the road.

"Don't worry young man, we won't be going anywhere dangerous or very crowded. I just want to introduce you to my friend, he would like to talk to you about something and I assure you he is a wonderful person, he even knows about OFA, so don't worry about it" All Might reassured as he smiled while giving the boy a quick side glance, managing to calm the boy down a little.

"O-ok, i und-understand mister All Might" Izuku responded as he nodded, he then looked at the side window, still a bit curious about where they were going, but if All Might said that it's nowhere dangerous or crowded, then he can trust his words......at least, that's what he wants to do, there was always that voice in his head telling him to not trust anyone, to get away, like he knew that they were going to hurt him, everyone except his mother does it at a certain point.

The boy shook his head and took a deep breath, putting these thoughts in the back of his mind, he felt really guilty for doubting All Might, but he can't do anything about it.

He glanced at All Might a last time with a side glance, the hero looking at the road.

"I want to believe just one more time.....that everything will be fine....." Izuku thought grimly as he took his phone and looked at the news about villain attacks to distract himself, his nerves slowly subduing.

Unknown to him. All Might was impatient. Impatient to uncover the crimes of that school and everyone in it, fortunately, there were only fifteen minutes left to arrive, and they could finally give those criminals their punishment.

Timeskip 7.21 pm

The two arrived at their destination, the hero parking his car and looking at Izuku.

"We are here, let's go my boy" All Might says as he opened the car door and exited the car, the boy doing the same.

When Izuku glanced at the building they parked close, his eyes widened a lot.

"Mister All Might, t-this is a police station, do we have to meet your friend here?" Izuku asked confused as he looked at the hero with uncertainty.

"Correct! now let's enter, young Midoriya, he is waiting for us" All Might says as he nodded, he then walked into the building, Izuku quickly following behind.

While they were walking inside the station, some policemen and policewomen gave them some curious glances, especially at the skeletal-looking man but then shrugged and got back to what they were doing before. Meanwhile, Izuku was becoming a bit more nervous by being in the presence of so many people, especially considering that the police never did anything to help him or his mother. He didn't notice that he was scooting closer to All Might, he was subconsciously starting to trust the hero. Even if he was still scared of everyone, the boy still held him in very high regard, allowing him to mostly ignore his fear.

The hero felt a tug on his sleeve and looked to the side, a bit surprised when he saw Izuku looking around with nervousness and wariness while his left hand was lightly holding the hero's sleeve. All Might also noticed that the boy was slightly shaking, and by what he heard from Inko, this was expected considering what he endured.

"He is so scared.....but that day he didn't hesitate to save someone else. He stood true to his ideals and dream even after he suffered so much...." The hero thought as his eyes frowned a bit.

He then looked ahead, his eyes widened a bit as he saw the person he was looking for.

"But it's over, because I am here now" All Might thought as he raised his right hand as he waved at the person.

"Naomasa! How are you doing? we haven't seen each other face-to-face for a while! Happy to finally see you!" All Might called happily. This attracted the boy's attention as he looked in the same direction the hero was looking, finding a tall man with short, black hair and somewhat rectangular black eyes. He was wearing a tan overcoat and a matching hat, a green tie at his neck with matching slacks, and dress shoes.

The man in question turned around and, as soon as he recognized the hero, smiled back, the boy could notice that the man had bags under his eyes, probably because he doesn't sleep, he himself is not different.

"Toshinori, I'm happy to see you too, and what i can say? few hours of sleep, exhausting work and a lot of cases to investigate, in short, the usual, but I'm still kicking" the man known as Naomasa replied with a grin as he exchanged a friendly handshake with the hero. He then noticed the nervous boy, who was slightly hiding behind the hero.

He leaned a bit to the side so that he could see the young man better.

"Hey kiddo, hello to you too, I guess you're Midoriya, right?" Naomasa asked amicably with a smile.

The boy glanced at All Might and then at the detective, after that, he made himself more visible by stopping standing behind the former.

"Y-Yes sir, I.....n-nice to meet you" Izuku responded nervously as he bowed politely, the detective's friendly smile and behavior helped the boy calm his nerves a bit, allowing him to at least look more calm.

The detective chuckled a little, confusing and surprising the boy a little, who jumped a bit.

"No need to be nervous, I don't bite" the detective says amicably as he took a step forward and crouched down a bit to be at eye level with Izuku.

"You know, Toshinori told me a lot about you, all good things, it's good to finally see you in person" Naomasa says still with a friendly smile.

"R-Really?" Izuku asked a bit surprised, he then looked at All Might, who was scratching his hair a bit awkwardly with a smile of his own.

The detective's voice made him turn his gaze again toward the man.

"Yep! And to be honest, I was very curious to meet you, from what Toshinori told me, you have remarkable courage and willingness to help. It does you honor, but maybe let the heroes or the police handle the situation next time, you are not a hero yet, okay?" Naomasa says a bit jokingly as he took the side of his hat with his left hand, rising it a little, exposing his smiling face a bit more.

The boy nodded a bit embarrassed as he scratched the back of his neck with one of his hands.

"Thank you sir, I will be more careful" Izuku respond.

All Might then spoke, attracting both of their attentions.

"Alright! Now that the introductions are over, we have important things to talk about" All Might says as his voice gained a more serious tone.

"Huh?" Izuku eyes widened a bit as he looked at the hero in surprise, what were they going to talk about? Maybe they were here to talk about the sludge villain incident, Or something else.

The detective got up from his crouched-down position and nodded.

"You're right. follow me, we can talk in one of the interrogation rooms, they won't bother us there" the detective says as he made a sign for both to follow him. All Might immediately did so, and Izuku followed with some confusion, it was becoming more and more confusing.

Inside the interrogation room.

Izuku was sitting on a chair inside the interrogation room, he was fiddling nervously because both All Might and Naomasa were sitting in front of him, their gazes locked on him while glancing at each other with serious looks.

The two were looking at him, thinking about how to start the delicate conversation, they know this will not be easy for the boy, but they need the testimony from the victim to have all the proof needed to basically start a very quick investigation.

The hero cleared his throat, making the boy jump a bit as the tension could be cut with a knife.

"Young Midoriya, I'd like to ask you a question....." All Might started to say, making the boy quickly look at him nervously.

"O-of cou-course mister All Might, wh-what do y-you wa-want to know?" Izuku replied nervously, wondering what he wanted to ask him, he hopes it was not anything bad.

"What's your situation at school?" All Might asked seriously.

At this question Izuku goes wide eyes, his face paled, he didn't expect this. Why is he asking that?! It doesn't make sense?Wait.....they were here for this?! No no no NO! He can't discover what happens there, if he does, he will discover how truly weak and pathetic he is!!

"W-w-what do y-you m-mean? situation at school? W-why are y-you ask-asking me this, mister All Might? There's nothing wrong" Izuku stuttered trying to deflect the question as he started to sweat a lot, avoiding eye contact as much as possible.

The hero put both of his arms on the table and clenched his hands together as he looked at the boy with a serious gaze.

"Young man, please don't lie. I know everything already....." All Might says as he narrowed a bit his eyes to focus on the boy's expression, the change in behavior was instant, he can't imagine how he would feel by talking about all that happened. But, they need to know from the victim side so they can have all the proof needed, stupid procedures.

Izuku felt his stomach drop hearing this. They know?!!, His mother told them?!! why?! He doesn't understand. What is happening at school shouldn't impact with the training......Why should they care?

The hero continued, not giving Izuku the time to go deeper into his fear-filled thoughts.

"When I talked to your mother, I learned terrible facts, how people treat you, how no one has ever protected and helped you. It's totally unacceptable for a school to allow all this unwarranted cruelty" All Might says seriously, his eyes narrowed as he was trying to subdue his rage against that school, the last thing Izuku needed is to see him angry as he could confuse it to be directed at him.

The detective then joined the conversation.

"Not to mention the fact that the police haven't tried to persist in the matter, in their name I apologize. I promise you that I will take the investigation into my hands and justice will be done...." Naomasa added as he put a stash of papers on the table, ready to write every detail of what is happening from the boy.

At this Izuku's pupils shrank, he doesn't understand, what was happening?! What were they talking about?.....What..what they.....What were they trying to do?

"Y-you......y-y-you don't have to!, i-it's not s-so-something y-you have to both-bother about, I-I'm fine.....I p-promise that this w-will not slow me down in the training, I promise!" Izuku stuttered in a mix of panic and extreme nervousness, thinking that maybe they were interested in this because his training may be hit by the abuse, but he can bite the pain if it will make him worthy of All Might's quirk; his nervousness increasing at every word, his heart was hammering in his chest.

They can't!!! They can't go there! Why did his mother tell them about what happened?!!! If they go there, All Might will see how weak he truly is, the school will make them go against him and he will be alone...... again.

Everyone will leave him behind eventually...

The boy could feel his panic increase, everything was crashing down, what he could do? They can't.....they can't help him, why they wo....

"Young Midoriya" All Might called, making Izuku look at him with shaking eyes and body, he seemed on the brink of a panic attack.

The expression of the hero turned into one of concern, concern towards him, making the boy shake more, he couldn't understand, why he seemed concerned for him, he can't do anything in return.....

He can't.....

"You are not fine, look at your conditions. I have noticed that you are trying to hide the bruises, we want to help you, but you have to tell us exactly what they did to you, so we can stop this" All Might says immediately, cutting him off, his voice kind and gentle, like........ genuinely concerned for him.

Izuku slowly lowered his gaze to look at the table, his hair hiding his eyes now.

"Why?" Izuku asked with a voice devoid of emotion, completely changing the temperature of the room.

"What?" All Might asked confused and a bit surprised.

"W-why do you care?, w-why do you want to help me? out of pity? I......i.....nobody helped me except my mother..........and I wasn't deserving of that much in every case and......and....you will not gain anything by doing this........." Izuku says in a broken tone, his gaze still on the table, at every word, his posture slightly worded, showing the extent of his pain and despair, but the two knew that this was just the start.

After a couple of seconds, tears landed on the metal table, dripping from the boy's face.

"I c-can't give you a-anything..........so why?" Izuku asked as he raised his gaze, his eyes extremely sad, but at the same time, they were begging for help. A call that All Might didn't wait even a second to respond.

All Might straightened his back as he looked at him with eyes that hold no lie or hesitation.

"You want to know why I do this?......" All Might asked, making the crying boy look at him with hollow irises.

"It's simple, my boy....." The hero continued.

"That's what heroes do, right? From what I see, in front of me, there is a person who needs my help, and now...... I'm here to save your smile, there's nothing else I may want" All Might ends with a smile.

Izuku stared at him with slightly wide eyes, those words could be a lie, he thought, but there was a part of him that just wanted to let go, to get help from him and make one last attempt to trust someone, finally, he decided to try, in his eyes a little light returned as he hesitantly prepared to explain everything.

"I......O-Ok....*sniff*" he says hesitantly as he tried to remove the tears from his eyes. At this point, there were no more secrets, if they were lying or not....it doesn't matter anymore.

He took a shaky deep breath and then, for the following minutes, he proceeded to say everything, everything that happened since he entered elementary school up to middle school. The insults, the looks of disgust and hatred, the constant beatings, the hidden malicious comments from the teachers, every time they closed an eye for what was happening to him; the worse thing is that it started even before that, since he was four years old. No matter where, he was hated and shunned like he was the black sheep, and the times he came home covered in bruises, burns or cuts.

The longer he talked, the more horrified the two men became, just the thought that a person can be inflicted all this suffering just for the amusement of these monsters is excruciating.

While the boy was talking, Naomasa was writing down everything he said, finding it shocking since he was also using his quirk, a quirk capable of detecting if a person was lying. And, surprisingly, it never detected a lie, the boy was totally sincere from the first word to the last.

Meanwhile, the hero couldn't believe how far monsters like them could go. What Inko told him was horrifying by itself, but hearing every single detail from the victim made the feeling 10 times worse, such abuse, such cruelty, it was all making his blood boil like a volcano.

*Sniff* *sniff* *hic*

The boy stopped at a certain point, now in tears again, suffocated by the pain of remembering all the pain he suffered, he couldn't hold back anymore as he just cried his heart out openly in front of someone after so long.

Seeing this, All Might immediately gets up from his chair and goes around the table, he got closer to the boy and hugged him to hopefully give him some comfort, the boy shook more at the contact, the crying worsening as mixed feelings overwhelmed the green haired boy, both terror and relief for being touched, but this time without being hurt.

"I know it hurts having to remember all of this. But, I want you to know this, everything will be fine from now on, we'll take care of them and we will make sure they won't hurt you anymore" All Might says softly but with determination.

"* sniff * * sniff * r-re-really? *Hic*" Izuku asked shakily, he couldn't believe that they were really going to stop all of this, just because his suffering was wrong, they were going to save him, he waited and waited, maybe finally his mother will not have to worry about him anymore if he will not suffer. He doesn't care for his own well-being in every case. Realizing his dream, protecting his mother and making All Might proud were the only priorities he was following until now.

"Yes, I promise!" All Might responds without hesitation.

The boy looked down still while being hugged, sometimes the number one hero patted his back. Izuku didn't remember the last time he was hugged like this by someone that wasn't his mother, it was.... calming...... almost..... almost like a father.

Nobody would be your father, weak as you are, you are just a weight to others!

The boy's eyes shook for a moment as some more fresh tears started to drip out of his eyes, he just couldn't stop, he was feeling so many emotions.

".....I.....Tha-thank you, I'm s-so sorry to be like this, I would understand if you decided to find another one" Izuku says still sniffing, his tears never stopping but calming down a little.

"Never say sorry for being yourself, my boy, be proud for remaining true to yourself all this time, my decision doesn't change, on the contrary, I'm even more sure of my decision, you stayed true to your ideal even after all of this, you are a hero to the core" All Might says as he patted his back.

This caused Izuku's eyes to shake once more as he cried even more, this time in a mix of relief and sadness.

He was sincere, he wasn't going to throw him away.

They stayed like this for a while, the hero letting Izuku cry to his heart's content, he could feel that he needed this moment. When the boy finally calmed down enough to continue, the hero sat back on his chair.

He looked at the boy who still was sniffing and removing the rest of his tears, but it was hard as new ones immediately dripped out, he looked so tired and sad, it twisted the guts of the number one hero.

"Young Midoriya, I'd like to ask one last thing if it's okay with you..." All Might asked calmly, making the boy flinch and turn his head to look at him with a hesitant gaze.

"W-w-what do you want to ask me, mister All Might?" Izuku says nervously as his body hunched a bit, his mind was tired of revealing all this pain, part of him was relieved of finally letting go of everything, but the other was filled with shame to be so weak in front of the man who gave him a chance.

"The day we met, when I was about to approach you, a young man yelled at you, calling you Deku, as if he knew you in particular, and not in a good way, tell me.......who is he?" All Might asks seriously, he already doesn't like the signals that the blonde gave when he yelled at Izuku, that's not something that you say because you were worried, that was straight-up anger and hate.

Izuku started to sweat as he gazed down at the table, his face paled even more.

"H-He's just a c-classmate, nothing special......" Izuku answered extremely nervous.

Both men frowned a bit at this, that was an oblivious lie, the detective didn't even need his quirk to know that.

"You're lying boy" says Tsukauchi.

Immediately the boy raised his gaze to look at the detective, his eyes wide and shocked.

"W-w-what?" Izuku says shooked, how did he......

"My quirk allows me to detect lies, you just said one, obviously he's not just a classmate, right?" the detective says a bit more seriously.

Izuku looked away, his face even more nervous as his lips quivered, his mind was racing with thoughts, what should he do?

"Young Midoriya, we need you to be honest, we just want to help" All Might says, making the boy struggle even more difficult.

Izuku looked down and took a shaky deep breath, he then looked up again.

"H-His name is Katsuki Bakugo, t-the t-two of us were friends when we were children........but when he manifested his quirk, he gradually changed.....he became more and more aggressive with everyone, even attacking those who opposed him and he considered weak....at the start, I m-managed to remain friend with him.....b-but then....but then when I started to get in his way too....he didn't hesitate to turn me into his favorite victim, w-whatever I said about my class do to me, he is the one who gives me the h-highest dose of it" Izuku says sadly, years of torment returning his tired and sad mind.

"Does his parents know about what he did?" Naomasa asked with a focused frown.

"......No" Izuku replied with a low voice as he looked down.

"Does your mother know?" Naomasa asked again.

".............No" Izuku replied, his voice even more weak and sad.

"Why did you try to lie about him before? And why didn't you tell anything to his parents or your mother?" Tsukauchi asked.

The boy kept looking down, he started to clench his fists against his thighs.

".....His mother and mine are childhood friends, I didn't want him to get in trouble...or...... I.......I didn't want to make her sad or.......angry........part of me think that she wouldn't care about what he did to me..........she is one of the few together with her husband and my mother that treat me kindly......but...." Izuku says with a sad and broken voice.

He raised his gaze, both men were talking aback by his dull and extremely sad eyes, so much pain hidden in them, years of suffering bubbling below the surface.

"At this point......I don't know who is lying or not anymore..........at one point, someone would be kind to me....and then the next day would proceed to step on my arm until I can feel my bone crack......I don't want to anger them....and end the lie......" Izuku says in a broken way.

The two men looked with a more sympathetic look at the broken boy, they can't imagine how he must feel right now.

"Young Midoriya, This is not the solution, he must answer for his actions like everyone, there's no lie, we will make sure that you receive just the truth from now on" All Might says with a more determined voice, causing a strange feeling of relief to spike into the mind of the green haired boy.

"Can you tell me how serious is your feud? This is not normal abuse" Naomasa asked as he kept writing on his notes, having enough material to speed up this investigation to some hours, they had everything right here.

The boy flinched a bit and then hunched over a bit more.

"H-He hates me, and I-I hate him too, he did everything to break me, he beats me, insults me, uses me as a quirk target and then .... then .... he" Izuku chocked on his word as he bit his lips, the pain too much to say.

"What did he do?" Naomasa insisted, he already knew that this was extremely important but painful, but they need to know to fully help him.

The hero turned towards the detective with a slightly worried gaze.

"Naomasa, please don't pry too much, let him breathe..." All Might says, trying to make the detective slow down a bit but he is interrupted by Izuku.

"He told me......he told me that if I wanted to be a hero that bad, I could jump off a roof and hope to have a quirk in the next life......that nobody would miss me!" Izuku says in a broken tone, and broke down in tears again.

This completely left the two of them speechless.

"What!?" The two of them shouted.

Izuku just remain silent, crying as he couldn't hold his emotions stable anymore.

The hero immediately raised himself from the chair and put a hand on the boy's shoulder, patting his back with the other to make him know that everything was okay.

While he was doing this, he heard the other chair being pulled back, he turned his head and noticed that Naomasa has got up.

"So many laws have been broken by these criminals, they will be lucky if they are only blacklisted for the majority of School of Japan.....and regarding the staff, well they will go behind bars for a long time, this was basically abuse on a minor" Naomasa says seriously as he locked down at his note, child abuse us something that revolted him to no end....he will personally deal with this.

"I wonder what this Katsuki Bakugo wants to do in the future" Naomasa muttered to his breath, but Izuku and All Might heard him.

"He Wants to go to UA to be a hero.....he told it multiple times.....a lot of times, he based his entire personality on being the number one hero" Izuku respond in a low voice without thinking, he immediately covered his mouth.

The detective looked at him immediately.

"After what you told us....I doubt it, don't worry, we will take care of this" Naomasa says .

Izuku's eyes widened, understanding what this meant.

He raised himself from the chair on instinct while his eyes were very wide with a distraught expression.
This attracted the attention of the two men.

"What's wrong, young Midoriya?" All Might asked, surprised by the sudden movement.

The boy remained silent as memories of the blonde began to return to his mind.

"I'm gonna be number one"

"The strong never lose"

"Deku, if you don't become strong, how can you be a hero?"

"Quirkless?! .......you.....you are quirkless!"

"Don't stand in my way, you weak Deku"

"W-wait!........c-can't you make an exception for him?" Izuku says, shocking the two adults.

"what? why?" All Might asked shocked.

The boy remained silent once more, he doesn't know why he is asking, but there was something odd about Bakugo's words about strength and his sudden aggressive behavior, he knows that all those praises and what the teachers said to the blonde just amplified that behavior..... maybe.....maybe if things were different....he would be a better person.

The others were different, rotten to the core, but he.....he is the most rotten.

Izuku ignored this strange thought and pushed forward with his request. Probably it was the memory of the times they were friends to make him even consider saying these words, maybe it was just him being messed up in the head.

"I......I t-think he b-became like this because of the praises that he received since he got his q-quirk..... He always told everyone about him being stronger and that he h-hates weakness, something my teachers always said to him in secret.......I think this gave him the impression that he was the b-best of all and that he should h-hurt others to show who is stronger, it's their fault that he is like this...........so maybe....m-maybe the teachers at UA can change him for the better....." Izuku explained as he looked down once again, old memories of the blonde actually being a friend to him when they were very young returned but they were quickly drowned by the ones of abuse.

The two adults were once again surprised.

".......Are you sure you want this?" Naomasa asked, surprised by the boy's willingness to help someone who hurt him so much.

"....Y-yes sir...." Izuku respond as he shook a little in place, part of him ensure about this.

The detective put a hand on his hair and scratched with a perplexed look.

"* sigh*We'll decide later what to do with him, but I think that's enough for now...." Naomasa says.

"Eh?" Izuku muttered surprised as he noticed that All Might was beside him now.

"You're right it's late, I have to take young Midoriya home, see you Naomasa, let me know when we have to act, I want to be there when we unmask them" All Might says and then looks towards the window of the room and nod, why he did that?

The hero turned towards the boy.

"Come on, my boy" he concluded as he made sign for Izuku to follow him, which he did.

"by-bye, mister detective" Izuku says nervously as he bowed towards the detective with respect.

"See you next time, kiddo" The detective says with a hat sign watching as the hero and the boy walked away.

without the boy noticing, behind the window there were two people, one of them was very short and looked like some kind of anthropomorphic mouse and the other was a man whose look has seen better days, they heard everything and were thinking about what to do next.

"I have to admit I'm surprised how low the school system has fallen, at least it will be fun to destroy that school" The rat person says with a smile, but the words were very far from friendly.

"Try not to kill anyone, too much paperwork...." the black-haired man says as he closed his eyes and sighed.

He then opened his tired eyes, glaring sternly at the window facing the now-empty interrogation room.

"Asking for one of his abusers to be spared, this is not normal, that boy is either too kind, naive or has Stockholm syndrome, most likely all three combined, I saw how he acted when he asked. He doesn't even know what he is doing" The man continued as he rubbed his eyes with one hand, trying to remove the sleep from them.

"I understand how you feel. I want to judge this boy myself, maybe we can get something out of his request.  For the others however, I will not be so... kind. I always heard about people being cruel to quirkless people, but this.... it's a new record" the rat person replied as he put his hands behind his back, a more focused aura around him.

The black-haired man then turned toward the rat person, his eyes squinted a bit.

"So he chose him? That blonde oaf found a problem child to give his quirk to, I can see if from a mile away that he is gonna be hard to train......" black haired man sighed with a tired exasperated look in his eyes.

"And it's a bad thing?" The rat person asked with a happy and curious voice, wanting to know what the stern man thought of All Might young successor.

The man shrugged as his stare didn't change a bit.

"Bad? Not necessarily. Difficult? Yes" the black-haired man replied without missing a beat, not giving his boss a definite answer, having a boy that was mentally damaged with a quirk capable of destroying city blocks could be troublesome. Naturally, all of this was to be reconsidered after he will see how the boy reacted to the teaching, him being fit to be a hero wasn't off the table in his logical mind, just already tiring.

"Aizawa, don't be like that, I'm sure if All Might chose him it's for a good reason, if you heard what they said at the beginning, that boy is the one who tried to save the hostage from the sludge villain, very heroic I must say" The rat person says with a smile as he tried to cheer the underground hero into giving the green haired boy a chance.

"And stupid" Aizawa added with an irritated sigh.

"You say this every time you see All Might do one of his speeches, maybe being stupid is what a hero needs " the rat person says as he closed his eyes and nods.

"If you say so....*sigh* if he shows at least some potential, put him in my class, a boy like him needs to be sharpened by a capable person" Aizawa sighed but when he saw how Nezu looked at him, he knew that his boss was going to annoy him.

"My my, you've never requested to have a particular student in your class, okay Aizawa he's all yours, just try not to overdo him, you've seen how nervous he is" says the rat person in a friendly tone at first, and becoming a little serious at the end.

"If you say so, principal Nezu. But I'm not gonna be a babysitter...." Aizawa says neutrally as he shrugged, being harsh on the students was a lesson for them to grow, but it's not like he enjoys making them suffer, but he knew what Nezu was telling him with those words.

Please treat him a bit nicer.

The rat person chuckled a little and then looked ahead, his black eyes narrowing a bit as a more focused expression on his face.

"It's strange, isn't it?" Nezu said after a while, his entire behavior becoming much more serious and calm.

"What?" Aizawa asked a bit confused.

"Discrimination against quirkless is unfortunately a growing presence these days, but.....this is too much radicated to be casual hate, the students are being pushed and encouraged to hate on what they consider someone weaker..... someone that doesn't have a quirk.....or like some like to call them, a meta-ability........what if this wasn't so casual and aimed to simply cause harm, what if it was to cultivate the new generation hatred......." Nezu explained.

At this the underground hero's eyes widened a bit, he already knew what his boss was talking about and....he had a very good point.

"So....you think it's a recruit tactic done by that group?" Aizawa asked neutrally as his eyes narrowed with focus.

Nezu turned towards the taller man with a calm expression.

"We can't know for now...... considering I initially planned to make a couple of calls and make sure than that school never sees the sunlight ever again, but now, with this possibility on the table........we must crush every possibility of this happening again....in my way" Nezu says calmly still with a smile as a dangerous aura seemed to ooze around his small body. Aizawa knew that whoever directed that school was done for, they attracted the ire of one of the smartest being alive and at the same time one of the most sadical ones as well.

Nezu looked at the black-haired hero with a side glance, his smile returning as the dangerous aura subdued a little.

"What about you? All Might is already coming, but why don't you accompany us too? It's always good to have more heroes in case they have a plan B" Nezu asked with a smile.

"I have nothing to do, so okay, I'll come too" Aizawa responds neutrally as he shrugged.

The two men then left the romm, one of them already plotting on what to do to the school, some of these ideas were not very ethical.

Timeskip Wednesday
Aldera junior high

At Aldera junior high it was all quiet. Students were following lessons, today it was another special lesson about the dawn of quirks. The teacher always explained how people in those times used their quirks without restraint, they were free. The students began to wonder why they have to restrain using their *awesome* quirks because of some stupid rule, if they wanna use them, they will use them. These thoughts became stronger and stronger, just like the hate for the quirkless, for them, they were just old human-like creatures that were destined to die, the teachers made it clear, why be considered human when you don't have something so normal like a quirk?

Some were very disappointed that their quirkless punching bag was not there today, many thought of ways to make up for lost time. The extra credit for beating him was always nice to have, but it became a sport, who cares about him in every case, he was going to be a nobody, they were going to be heroes with their awesome quirks.

Unlucky for them, their little bubble was going to be shattered by cold justice.

Entrance

Behind the reception, a man was sitting and checking his computer to spend time, at a certain point he heard the entrance door being opened and then he heard a squeaky voice.

"Good day!" Nezu says in a happy voice, he couldn't be seen from the receptionist position.

The man turns his head to see 3 men in front of him, Aizawa, Naomasa and All Might in his skinny form.

"Mhm?" He muttered confused as he leaned a little forward, now he was able to see Nezu.

"Hi, can we help you?" The man asked.

"Of course you can, but where are my manners? my name is Nezu, principal Nezu, the principal of UA....." Nezu says happily.

hearing this the man was completely shocked.

"Oh! I-It's an honor! what we owe your visit sir" the man says seemingly excited, but the heroes and the detective could see that nervousness was bubbling from the man, he seemed scared and nervous that Nezu was here.

Aizawa walked forward, now beside Nezu.

"We want to see every teacher, student and staff member" Aizawa says nervously as his eyes frowned a bit, making the man behind the reception jump a bit, the underground hero noticed that the man behind the reception was trying to reach his phone, surely to warn someone.

"Can I ask why? And who are you, sir?" The receptionist says as he looked at Aizawa, not recognizing him.

Nezu patted the underground hero's leg and stepped forward, attracting the receptionist's attention once again.

"I heard so many good things about this school, I couldn't resist the need to get to know all these future heroes and especially the amazing staff members that are making them grow into such young and strong future heroes possible. Even thought of working at UA? I need people like you all" Nezu says happily, on the inside, however, he was darkly snickering by noticing how the man's posture became relaxed and more proud. It only required some good words and now their wariness decreased a lot, now they got them in the trap.

It's easy to manipulate such garbage.

"We are honored by your praises, sir!!! I will immediately call the director, you will be amazed by our students" the receptionist says excitedly as he starts using the front desk phone to call the school principal.

The four men walked away from earshot, planning how to move from there.

"Why do you want to bring them together in the courtyard?" All Might asked as he looked at Aizawa and Nezu.

"To prevent anyone from escaping while we question them. I made a lot of research on this place, they are spotless, and they have a lot of funding. The probability of this place being a recruit center for that group is becoming more evident. But now we have them in our clutches, I will have so much fun playing with their evil minds" Nezu chuckled with a smile, already enjoying the *nice* words he will tell everyone in this school before handing them to the police.

The principal then turns toward the detective.

"Are your colleagues in position?" He asked.

Naomasa nodded as he showed that his radio was turned on, he then put it into his overcoat.

"Yes, I'll keep radio contact on so they can listen to what we hear and thanks to my quirk, we can immediately know if this is an MLA recruit center" the detective says, inside his mind he was still thinking on how the police never did anything even when the midoriya's shown them evidence, scars like that are impossible to be ignored as evidence, this means that maybe there was either a spy that was hiding this building activity or even corruption, both were very likely to be true.

Nezu clapped his paws together a couple of times with a smile, it was time to start the show.

"Perfect! now gentlemen, let's go, we have a job to do" Nezu says with a tint of malice in his happy face, he was rubbing his paws together, already looking forward to the show.

In the courtyard

Both students and staff members were gathered in the courtyard, in front of them stop the four men in front of them.

The students were whispering to themselves, asking each other who these men were, they were silenced by the principal of their school, who started talking with a happy voice as he walked in front of the huge group.

"I know it was a bit sudden to make everyone come here, but i have splendid news, the principal of UA decided to do a surprise visit to our little school!!" The principal says happily, immediately everyone goes wide eyed and look at detective and four heroes, they wondered why one of them was dressed as a detective, but maybe he was a hero, they can't never know.

Nezu smiled and walked a bit forward, making everyone eyes to land on him

"That's right! It's me, Nezu, the one who could be a dog or a mouse or a bear, but more importantly... I'm the principal of UA!" Nezu says happily with a ever present smile, but malice was hiding behind it.

The shock of the students and staff members increased a lot, the former even started to cheer.

"No way! UA staff is here!!/ I need to make a good impression, I will be the best of UA/ he is the principal!/This awesome!" Students started to cheer and shout excited, their occasion to be heroes that graduated at UA was right there. Part of them internally scoffed seeing a tiny and weak looking principal instead of a powerful monster that the teacher always pictured him to be, but they didn't say anything as they want to make a good impression to hopefully be admitted to his school.

Nezu chuckled hearing all these cheers and shouts, this was going to be fun.

"Hehehe~ you are all so lively, and your eyes are so full of determination....just like i expected you all to be. So many future heroes...." Nezu says making the students stop their loudly cheering but they were still agitated , especially because they were being praised, but some of them noticed that something was off, why the other three looked so serious at them, it made some shake at the intensity of their gazes.

Aldera principal grinned as he turned towards the four with his hands folded together.

"We are honored to hear this, almost all of our students are prodigies, especially our Katsuki, if i can say, he got the potential to be next All Might!" he says happily. He didn't notice the skeleton looking man to scoff at this, his stare narrowing as his fists clenched, looking to be getting angry.

"Oh? Can i see him? Surely this young man need to come to my school, we can't miss this opportunity, can we?" Nezu says with a chuckle, now he was dull blown laughing inside his head, every bullshit that he was saying, the more hopeful and proud they became......the more shattered they will be when he will start his little show~.

"Of course! Come here Katsuki?" The principal says excited as he waved the ash blonde to come closer.

Katsuki walked over to stand beside his principal, he scoffed when he put a hand on his shoulder, shaking it off. he then turned towards the small chimera.

"You heard him! I'm Katsuki Bakugo, future number one hero! I'm ready to ace your entrance exam and every single thing you throw at me!" Katsuki says loudly as he arrogantly indicated himself with his thumb.

"Ah, a pleasure meeting you, i heard a lot about you, about all of you" Nezu says as he looked at everyone with a smile, the staff got confused at this, they have a bad feeling about this, they felt chills in their spines.

"Really? From who?" The principal asked cautiously.

Nezu looked at him with a smile on his face.

"A student of yours, you should have heard him. He said a lot about this place, and to be honest, I'm surprised now that i see all of this in person. these friendly faces, the enchanting building, special lessons" Nezu start to say with a smile.

Everyone in the school has smiles on their faces but they dropped quickly when they hear what Nezu says next.

"Incitement to bulism, discrimination, refusal of medical treatment to a student, manipulation of grades, manipulation of personal school conduct, sabotage of application forms, and from what I see also corruption" Nezu says with a fake happy voice.

The eyes of students and staff members widened like plates, what did he say?!!!

"Wh-what d-do you m-m-mean by that?" the principal tried to say, he was sweating profusely.

Nezu looked at him once again, this time, that smile was terrifying, like they were being played from the start.

"Sorry, did I not explain myself well? Then let's make more understandable for you, I was saying that I've never found a more disgusting school than this one, I thought I knew about human cruelty, but you surprised me, congratulations" Nezu says still smiling as he clapped his paws. At this Naomasa comes forward, standing beside UA principal.

"Your list of crimes is pretty large. Your recruit tactics is becoming sloppy, don't worry your friends of the MLA will reach you soon" the detective says seriously.

"Crimes?! MLA?! What are you talking about?!! We are innocent, who told you these lies, we aren't member of those terrorists!!!?" a teacher says indignantly, but he was pale, they got them, they need to escape from this situation.

Naomasa narrowed his gaze as he took his radio out, his quirk picked up that lie very quickly.

"Everything you have done counts as child abuse and incitement of illegal quirk usage to bring harm to an innocent. And every evidence prove that this place is a MLA recruitment ground, every one of you is a member of that terrorist organisation. So you will all be behind bars for a while" Naomasa says seriously.

Some students now understood who the detective was talking about, it's his fault!!!

"Are you talking about the quirkless kid? What do you care about him, he'll kill himself sooner or later, it will be a liberation!" shout a student.

"He is just jealous of our quirks!!! He said a bunch of lies!!!" Another student shouted as she glared at the detective.

"Don't believe that bullshit, he is a evolutionary gap, he should just be put down for good!!!" One of the most aggressive students shouted, he fully believed in the strong rule over weak rule already.

This was a big mistake, Nezu immediately looked at them still with that smile, but it made their heart stop and their face pale, so much malice hidden behind that seemengly friendly smile and little black eyes.

"My my~ what little rascals we have here, and I thought I would leave you with hard but just punishment, apparently I'm entitled to have more fun, good for me~" says Nezu happily.

"Wh-what?" the principal says fearfully.

"But first of all, Naomasa" Nezu says simply.

"Roger" says Naomasa as he raised his radio and talked in it.

"come on guys, we have some fresh criminals for you" he says seriously.

Immediately various policemen and women started coming from the door of the school and walked in the country yard, they immediately started handcuffing the staff.

"Let me go!! you are making a mistake!" yells one of the professors.

"I refuse to be arrested because of that human garbage!" shout the nurse.

"You can't do it!" shouts the principal as he struggled against.

"Too bad I already did, in theory a trial would be necessary, but the files I found, the bribes to the police to turn a blind eye, such high and mysterious funding are proof enough of your involvement in the MLA, you are really a disgrace, i wonder if you even studied to be a principal or if you were put there just to be a puppet. Ah, by the way forgot to mention that even if you serve your sentence, you are banned from any school career, or maybe better say the majority of careers, bye bye~" Nezu says as he waves with his fingers while the police took the staff away.

He then turned towards the terrorized students, making them shake even more if it was possible.

"Now it's your turn little villains, we know all those who have participated in the abuse of the student that spoke to us. so it is useless to lie or cry. i made some calls, and you can't believe what they told me. You are officially blacklisted by any hero course that are in Japan, and even of many courses of other schools, they surprisingly don't like criminals, who would have thought of that, heh?. But naturally it's not over, you will all be judged separately in the police station, we don't want future criminals to walk in the streets, wouldn't we?" Nezu says happily as he noticed the students shocked expression, it's ironic that they seem so sad even though they were so eager to beat and insult someone that was innocent, but this sad world work like this, it's easy to hurt others but hard to take the punishment.

The chimera then turned towards the ash blonde that he particularly wanted to talk to, the boy was in shock too, so many things happened in a short span of time that he couldn't process fast enough.

"Apparently you are a lucky one, Katsuki Bakugo" Nezu says as he kept his smile, after he heard of Izuku's request of spare Bakugo, he thought a lot about it, the chimera always thought if it was possible to redeem a rotten person if they are given the right guidance, he always thought it was a bit naive, but maybe.......hope was what made the green haired boy make that request and...... maybe hope is what this naive idea need to be turned into reality.

"Wh-what?" The blonde asked shocked, what he was talking about?!

"Unfortunately your victim has asked for you to be given a second chance, he thinks you can improve. And I thought about it, I always wondered if a villain could be redeemed if they are taught correctly....." Nezu says as he snapped his fingers, making Naomasa walk over to him, he was holding something small in his hand.

"So i decided to do something a bit naive, I will give you one chance in good faith, of course you will have conditions to follow, you will have to follow some meetings with our lifestyle guidance counselor....." Nezu explained as he then indicated the bracelet that Naomasa was holding.

"And you will have to wear this, so we can know where you are, we don't want you attacking students. I wonder if you will last long enough to be redeemed, but this is the good of the game, right? Ah, returning at what i was saying before, if we see you attacking students inside and outside the school, you'll be left to me, of course if you manage to pass the entrance exam, you understand?" Nezu says with a predator smile, making Katsuki actually shake.

"y-y-yes" Bakugo responded, he was trying to be brave, but his legs were shaking, that chimera have so much malice hidden behind that smile that the blonde could feel his entire life being in danger.

"Good, well you others have to wait here to be questioned, your parents have been warned in advance, never to see you again" Nezu waved as he leaves with All Might and Aizawa in tow. Naomasa remained behind to interrogate the students.

As the three were walking Aizawa and All Might noticed how Nezu had a very satisfied face.

"Well sir you sure left the message in their minds" All Might says as he scratched his hair, his new boss literally crushed their spirits like nothing.

The chimera looked at him this time with a true small friendly smile.

"They are children but that doesn't make them immune to the consequences, what they did doesn't make them very different from the villains, let's not talk about the school staff, I must say it was funny, did you see the face that the principal made? So amusing , I love to punish humans ahahahah "Nezu said cracking like a mad man or mad rat.

"I still don't understand why you agreed to give Katsuki Bakugo a second chance," Aizawa says.

"In time you will understand, but now enough to talk about this, we have to prepare the entrance exam" Nezu said as he turned to look ahead.

The underground hero turned to look at All Might with a tired look.

"Your successor will be ready for that day?" Aizawa asked neutrally.

"Ah! Yes! Of course he will be, he doesn't show it but he's very motivated, sometimes too much" All Might says with a closed eyed smile, showing how proud he was, he sweatdropped a bit at the end tho.

The underground hero sighed tiredly as he looked ahead.

"I'll will come to see how does he manage his training one of these days, after all he will go to my class if he passes the exam. Considering that you don't have experience as a teacher, someone capable need to make some of this will be not be a waste of time " Aizawa says bluntly without missing a beat, not even moving his gaze to look at them.

Surprisingly, he got a chuckle from of his boss.

"Be careful All Might, Aizawa wants to steal your student" Nezu jokes as his squeaky voice made the underground hero grumble.

"You'll have to snatch him from my dead hands Aizawa" All Might worsened the black haired man's irritation by joking back..... great.

"*sigh* I hate my job" Aizawa grumbled exasperated as the three of them leave the now closed school.

Chapter Text

Izuku was sitting on his bed with his blanket over his head. A slightly troubled expression on his face as he stared into the void, his eyes moved slightly sometimes, changing to look at a direction to another, indicating that the boy was so deep in his thoughts that he wasn't focusing on what he was looking at. He was just so shocked.....so surprised, what was the reason? Well.....

It was over.

Finally his eyes focused a little as he looked down and raised a bit his hands, looking at them. He frowned a bit as his eyes shook a moment, he still couldn't believe it.

It......it was over, the beating, the suffering, the insults from teachers and students.......it was all over.

He turned his head to the side, looking at his phone, which was beside him, its black screen reflected the boy's face. A few minutes ago he received the news from All Might. The hero's words shocked the boy to the core when he explained that they took care of the school. The place where he has been tortured again and again was finally closed. All the staff members were arrested and almost all the students was heavily punished, most likely now be in some juvenile institute; the rest were heavily monitored as they didn't actively participated in the abuse, but they still didn't try to report the atrocities that their schoolmates put Izuku through , probably out of fear, or they simply didn't care about the *quirkless freak*.

Izuku blinked and took a deep breath, he then looked ahead again, his stare becoming more grim and troubled, there was another issue that was bothering him....... Katsuki. All Might told him that his request to give the blonde a second chance was surprisingly accepted. But, he will have to follow very strict conditions and will be monitored to ensure that he wouldn't attack anyone inside school grounds.

He looked down as his pupils shrinked and expanded as conflicting thoughts filled his mind. He knew that he was the one that asked for the blonde to be given another chance to be a hero and be a better person. Maybe it was because they were friends in the past, maybe it was because he knew that a lot of the fault is of the teachers as they always told him that he was a prodigy and everyone should be proud of being in his presence, and when they weren't, then they have a problem and he should *show* them how awesome he is.

The boy put a hand on his own back and felt his back, finding a portion of skin being more rougher to the touch, marks of old wounds.

He wondered if it was those encouragement that pushed the blonde to do what he did or if it was his true nature from the start. The only thing that he knows now, is that no matter how much of a bastard Katsuki is, his conviction to be number one hero was very strong, too strong. It made Izuku wonder if he has even half of the blonde's determination.....

He is just a prideful bastard.

Number one hero? He doesn't deserve it.

Doesn't deserve it!

I will show him that his dream will never be true, I will be number one, not him!!!

I can make him feel worthless, leaving him in the dirt.

Izuku's posture hunched over as he scratched his hair frustrated, putting these hateful thoughts in the back of his mind again, this time making sure that they are locked up there. These thoughts aren't fit to a hero, he must have hope for others and this also mean Katsuki. He knows that his strong desire to be number one can be used to force him to interact with the teachers of UA, and this means that he will be forced to listen and maybe become a better person. But....he knows that this will bring problems, he hated him, his face bringing both terror and even very strong hate in Izuku's heart. But, maybe if he avoids him, he will be fine......maybe.........but.......

The boy raised his gaze, showing that his irises lost a bit of light, a grim thought in his mind.

"But.....when does things can be considered fine?...... Am I truly fine right now? Is everything really okay?........" Izuku muttered as he raised his arms and looked at them with a troubled and sad look. the upper limbs were covered by his long sleeves but the boy didn't need to see his skin to remember that his skin hides very deep remarks of his suffering, they will never fade and will follow him....... always.

"How does it feel to be happy? Should..... should i feel differently?........I don't know what to think....." Izuku muttered as his eyes frowned a bit, his irises shook as he felt that the initial warm happiness be dampened and made stale quickly. He was so relieved when All Might promised that nobody would have hurt him again....But, he didn't know how to keep this feeling going, how to keep it alive. It was slowly going out like a small flame, making him slowly descent in his dark cold sadness once more.

"Maybe.....maybe i should smile more...... that's how happiness works.....I think" Izuku muttered as he used his fingers to force his lips to curve in a smile, for him it was hard to smile, not because he wasn't able to, but because his face morphed into his nervous expression very quickly, his body refused to be happy.

He removed his hands from his face, his expression quickly going to his usual one.

He sighed, his gaze lowered as his thoughts moved elsewhere, his expression became thoughtful.

"In just a week my life changed completely, all thanks to All Might. maybe........maybe he is not like the rest. And his detective friend seem like a good person too.......maybe....maybe my life will get better, mom always ruined her own health because of me. If I'm fine, she will be fine" Izuku thought, he then looked towards the window, his eyes a bit closed.

He sighed once more, passing a hand through his hair.

"Now I just need to focus on the training plan that All Might gave me, I must not let him down after all he did for me, I......I will make my dream come true!" Izuku says to himself, boosting a little his small faith on himself, his dream to be a hero and his guilt about leaving his mother alone was always what pushed him to go forward, but now he has a chance, he will not be a weight to his mother anymore.

But then a thought comes to his mind, making him stop in his tracks.

"But where am I going to go to school now? I was still in my last year, I still need to graduate in middle school to be allowed to UA....." He thought confused, he already feared where he will be sent this time, but before he could thinking about it more, A notification popped on his phone, making the boy jump a little. He then turned towards it and took it. When he opened it to see what was about, he saw that he received a message from All Might.

"Young Midoriya I forgot to tell you, my dear friend Nezu is the principal of UA, he gladly helped me punish that school and its students, in one of our conversation I may or may not have told him about your notes about heroes, and about your intelligence, he has developed an interest in you so he wants to teach you directly, so don't worry about looking for a new school ,he has indeed prepared courses for you to follow online so you can feel more comfortable, I will tell you the details in person, I wait for you at the same time on the beach, stay safe young man "he read.

The boy blinked a couple of times, Nezu? principal? UA? Teach me directly?

His eyes were staring blankly ahead, he slowly put the phone on the nightstand, his mind in a daze.

"Well that answers the question......me.... taught by the principal of UA.....so.....so c-cool!!!!" Izuku muttered as his eyes gained a small glint of excitement, his fanboy side helping in brightening his mood.

When he calmed down, he let himself drops onto the bed, now staring the ceiling.

"At least mom will be happy. And, maybe it's better this way, I don't think I can endure another year in a class of those schools" Izuku muttered to himself tiredly, he didn't sleep at all last night, and the other....and the other one, the insomnia pills doesn't work as they should, or maybe his incapacity to sleep is too severe that even medication doesn't help a lot.

His eyes were half closed as he realized that he was actually starting to look forward to the future, his favorite hero is training him to be a future hero, the school where they tortured him has been closed. And, he won't have to see Bakugo for a while hopefully, things seemed to go for the right direction, at least for once.

But.....a dark thought started to creep in his mind.

"Do......Do I deserve all of this? This help? This chance could be useful to someone who really deserved it, so why a cowardly and broken quirkless like me got all this help? I......do i really deserve this quirk?....what did i do other that throw myself into certain death just to fail to save someone? What kind of hero material I am?...... I.....I....." Izuku muttered as his voice grow shakier by the second, his eyes shook as his old doubts came back with a vengeance.

".......what can i give to others? I can't even smile correctly! I fail in everything i promised, I'm not smiling, I'm not dependable and I'm not cool..... I'm nothing......." Izuku thought as he shook a bit in his bed, causing it to shake as well. Years and years of torture have destroyed the majority of his hope for the future, and suddenly receiving all this kindness feels like as if he were dreaming. It created a question, was he really deserving of a chance of this importance? was it better to step aside to let someone that can actually make people feel safe and become a number one hero that All Might can be proud off?

By now the boy was already thinking that maybe all the insults that were addressed to him were somehow true. His traumatized mind couldn't hold back the extremely painful memories from destroying the speck of happiness that he managed to cling on.

Quirkless trash!.

Why are you still trying?

You, a hero?!!! What sick joke is this??

"P-P-Please s-stop...." Izuku whispered weakly as he closed up in himself, clenching his head as his eyes teared up, he could feel his chronic pain spike up in intensity, furthering increasing his descent into his memories.

Just die already, you'll do us a favor by keeping us to see your face!

Out of my way quirkless maggot

Midoriya you should give up, after all those like you have no place in this world

"Stop, ple-please stop" Izuku whispered even more weakly,

Lousy pathetic quirkless trash how the fuck you dare to even think you can come to UA

Weak....

Pathetic....

DEKU!!!

scum like you don't even deserve the chance

What future? You have nothing, Midoriya.

At this point Izuku was in vain trying to cover his ears but unfortunately the voices were those of his memories, they never stop, they never have mercy on him. But, what really broke him was one of the most hurtful phrase that he even heard directed to him, spoken by the person he despises the most.

Hope  to be born with a quirk in the next life and take a last  chance dive  to the roof, I'm sure no one will miss you.

No one will miss you.

Miss you

Miss you

"STOP!!" Izuku shouted desperately, causing the memories to be silenced, now the only sounds audible were Izuku'd sobs and his gradually speeding breathing pace, his pupils shrinked as his body and mind refused to calm down. Every time he opened his eyes he finds himself in that damned classroom while everyone is cornering him, their bodies completely black like shadows and their eyes blood red. All slowly getting closer and closer and he couldn't do anything to stop it.

"Please.....no, someone help" Izuku managed to whisper, he know it would be useless, at that time, nobody helped him, so he just accepted that he was going to undergo a panic attack, and he couldn't do anything to stop it....

Until.....

Suddenly quick footsteps were heard from outside the door as Inko suddenly opened it and immediately enters, quickly looking for her son with her gaze. As soon as she sees her son, breathing frantically, shaking and crying, she immediately knew what was happening and ran towards him and pull him into a hug tightly, making sure to not force him.

"Izuku everything will be alright, take deep breaths, mom is here" She says in a soathing tone.

Unfortunately Izuku couldn't calm down, all those painful memories, he could feel the burns that Katsuki caused him, the cuts and bruises that other students' quirks caused, the scars felt like they were opening again, it was all coming back at once but while he was remembering all this, he couldn't even speak as his mind was going from one painful memory to another, until words came crashing in his mind like a hero would and stopped all the pain.

Every great hero have this thing in common, their bodies moved by themselves. You felt it too? That need to act, even if you weren't enough?

Izuku eyes widened a bit as he found himself in his room again, his shaking eyes found the side of his mother's head, the woman hugging him and trying to give him comfort as much as possible, this helped a lot as his breathing was starting to get a bit calmer and slower.

What you did inspired me, you saved that person and me.

The boy's arms shakily wrapped around his mother, his face found her shoulder as he let the warmth came in and soothe his unending pain.

Young man I can say with certainty that you can be a hero

All Might's words made Izuku recover from his panic attack, but he is stil extremely stressed but at least calmer.

After some moments, Inko pulled her head back from Izuku's shoulder to look at him.

"I-Izuku are you okay?! Do you feel better?" Inko says very worried with a excessive amount of tears in her eyes.

"I-I-i'm-m fi-fine mom, th-thanks for hel-helping me" Izuku stuttered as he hiccuped a little, his eyes still full of tears.

"Do you want me to make you something? A chamomile tea?" Inko ask frantically.

"yes tha-thank you mom" he whispered as he nodded a bit, very grateful for all the help his mother gives him whenever something like this happens, he would lose counts.

"Okay I'll go get it ready, I'll be right back, take deep breaths and don't worry about anything" Inko says as she left the room, not before glancing at him a last time with a worried gaze, and then she smiled at him reassuringly.

As he waited, Izuku listened to his mother advice and took slow and deep breaths to calm down, luckily it was working a little, he was still very shaken by the panic attack, this one was particularly violent.

He looked down as he hugged his own body, his eyes shaking.

"T-This time it was much worse than usual, it seemed to me to living it all over again. I think it's better that go sleep early or at least those hours of sleep that I can scavenge" he muttered in a low voice.

A few minutes later Inko returns into the room with a cup of chamomile tea in her hands.

"How are you Izuku? Did you calm down a bit?" she asks worried as she walked over to him and handed the cup to him.

"Y-y-yes! thank you, mom, I a-a-appreciate you d-doing all of this for me, I always bother you with this" Izuku says nervously as he takes the cup.

"You never bother me, It's normal for me to care for you, sweetie, you call me and I'll always help you" she says with a sweet smile as patted his knee in a comforting manner.

Izuku then look into the cup, staring at his reflection, all his doubts, all his insecurities came back seeing the person he hates most.....and he was staring at it thanks to the reflection.

"Mom......can i ask you something?" Izuku asked in a neutral tone, his eyes closing up a little.

At this the woman was a bit surprised.

"Yes of course sweetie, what is it?" Inko asked, worried about her son sudden cold tone, even his posture worsened, already making her have a bad feeling about the question.

"Do I deserve all of this ?, I never fought back, I never tried to save myself from their torture, I was too cowardly to do it, it was always you who tried to protect me and give me so much more than someone like me needs and deserves; So do I really deserve to be a hero?, deserve all this kindness? "Izuku asks grimily, his dull eyes were looking at his mother's worried ones.

Inko was completely shocked by this, what he was talking about?! Of course he deserves it all of these things. He shouldn't have endured all of this pain and suffering in the first place!

She took his hands in hers as she looked at his eyes with a more determined gaze.

"Izuku you shouldn't even ask this! of course you deserve it! don't think for a second that you are a coward, those monsters were too strong for us but we always got up, that's the important thing. And don't put yourself down like that, you are smart, strong and very gentle, never doubt that, in my eyes, there's nobody cooler than you........." she says without hesitation.

Izuku's eyes widened a bit hearing this, he then looked down in contemplation, still unsure about it, he doesn't think he is any of those things, but her words carried no lie or hesitation, making him hesitate to deny them.

The woman continued to speak.

"And let's not forget how cute and adorable you are" she says lifting Izuku's head with her hands then pinching one of his cheeks, making sure her words will stick in his skull.

Izuku's eyes widened once more, confused by what she was saying, he didn't like the glint that his mother had in her eyes.

"I'm sure people will love you, especially girls, you know that they love strong but innocent people like you?, I'm sure you'll get fangirls in no time~" she says calmly then a little teasing at the end.

"Huh?!" Izuku spluttered as he blushes quite a bit, embarrassment taking over and replacing the insecurities.

He looked away as he covered his face with his hands.

"M-Mom w-what a-are you s-sa-saying?!! P-Please don't tease me!!!" he stuttered embarrassed.

Inko laughs a little, satisfied that she managed to distract her son.

"Sorry, sorry, but I wasn't lying. I really mean what i said" she says as she smiled calmly at him.

Izuku blush faded as he looked at her again, his face still thoughtful.

"I......I-I will t-think about it, thank you mom......I think it's better that i sleep now, i don't w-want to be late for my t-training" Izuku says nervously.

"Anytime sweetie, sleep well my little hero" she says as she kissed his forehead and then leaves.

As Izuku lies down on the bed, he wondered what he will have to do in tomorrow's training and how the principal of UA it's like. He heard that he was the first case of a animal with a quirk, he want to ask so many questions.

His eyes were struggling to remain open as the panic attack tired him out enough to maybe sleep sooner, his last thoughts were hopes that he will be able to prove himself worthy of all of this kindness.

timeskip 8 months

In these 8 months, Izuku trained hard to be able to inherit OFA, It was very hard, but the boy could see the results gradually showing quickly, his body becoming more and more fit as he goes on, but he never complained.

He fell because of exhaustion multiple times, but he always got up, even when All Might told him to take it easy when he noticed that the boy was giving more that his body could manage.

He want to be worthy!! To be a hero that anyone can look up to!!

He even noticed that his appetite became surprisingly high because of all the exercise that he did, he always ate little bits of food but now he needed to stuff himself to even remain awake. He felt guilty making his mother cook more food for him, but she always said she doesn't mind and likes to see him happier and healthier.....

Happiness eh?....... speaking of happiness, the boy was very shocked when he started studying under Nezu himself, not in a bad way. The small chimera was very nice to him, a little eccentric, but he happily answered every question the boy had about him, quirks and UA. His teachings were way above normal school difficulty, forcing the boy to actually develop a sort of thinking phase where he just let his thoughts flow very quickly while focusing on something or someone. Thanks to that, he managed to increase his focus while trying to analyze a quirk, situation or person, he even managed to improve his body language reading skill by his own.

About his mental state.....well, that's still a very delicate subject. It barely improved in these months, the only thing that surely improved was Izuku's capacity of hiding his fears and broken emotions. Putting a more relaxed face to not make anyone worry about him. but behind closed doors, he still have horrible nightmares and despite the suffering being technically over, the memories of them remained, the chronic pain, the scars. Sometimes he happens to daydream and see their faces once again while they insult him and hit him while smiling. The training has been a good distraction to at least reduce the mental strain of the continuous flashbacks.

What improved a lot however was his bond with All Might. The two of them have been talking a lot in this period. The boy learned a lot of things about his hero and honestly these talks are one of the things he was the most looking forward to do, talking like this with someone other than his mother, Mitsuki or Masaru is something that made him less lonely.

Speaking of Mitsuki and Masaru. Unfortunately things between his family and theirs are not going very well, since his mother discovered that Bakugo also participated in the abuse towards her son, she was extremely angry and disappointed that Katsuki would have hurt someone that he knew since childhood. The Bakugos tried to call them to apologize for all that Katsuki did. Feeling responsible for all that their son caused to Izuku. The only thing Inko said to them is that she needed time to metabolize everything, because she knew that she wouldn't be able to look at Katsuki without going into a rampage.

18 December 4:40pm

All Might was walking towards the beach, today was most likely the day his successor will finish cleaning the beach and with it, his training. But there was still a long way to go, especially since all of this was only to inherit the quirk, All Might was capable of using the quirk since day one, but he doesn't know how stronger OFA got, time to find out he guesses.

In all these months that the two have spent together he has learned a lot about his successor, unfortunately his shyness was still the same but at least they managed to talk to each other without too many problems , the boy was determined perhaps a little too much, he had to correct the boy several times for his desire to increase the difficulty of his training, after all those who go slowly go far, it is useless to accelerate progress, after all they would have the opposite result to what they would like.

Suddenly he is startled by someone shouting, and that scream was very familiar to the hero, immediately he started running towards the parapet overlooking the beach and what he saw made his eyes go wide.

(He is not shirtless)

Izuku stood on top of the garbage pile, sweating and screaming at the sky, his determination was burning intensely, that's what Izuku really was, unstoppable .

Although All Might already expected that Izuku had finished cleaning the beach by today, he noticed something that was even more astonishing, he had in fact marked specific areas that Izuku had to clean so as to allow the boy complete in the estimated time while gaining enough muscles to handle the quirk. The rest could be cleaned later. The fact was that the whole beach was now completely clean. The young man had not only cleaned the areas All Might had told him to clean but had demolished all his expectations too.

"Seriously, you cleaned everything, there's not even a speck of dust left!" All Might says shooked.

"Oh my...oh my...GOODNESS!!" He shout.

After Izuku finishes screaming he starts to stagger and then falls forward, before hitting the ground All Might in his muscular form catches him.

Izuku opened his eyes weakly and looked at All Might.

"All Might.....I did it......I cleaned everything, do you think I'm ready now?" he says very tiredly, struggling to remain awake.

"TO SAY YOU ARE READY WOULD BE A MINIMUM, YOU HAVE EXCEEDED ALL MY EXPECTATIONS. CONGRATULATIONS MY BOY!!! YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF WHAT YOU DID TODAY!" all Might congratulated with a booming voice as he puts the boy on his feet.

Izuku staggers a little but this time remains standing, he looked down at his own hand. Old thoughts of being unfit for the role started to drown his hopeful ones. They always haunted him, making him train harder to prove them wrong. What if this was a mistake? could he really be worthy of receiving this quirk? This legacy? He always felt unworthy but he kept it to himself, deciding to let the hero finally understand that he chose a bad successor, but to his surprise, the hero kept training him, mention how cool he will be and mentioning future training when he will inherit the quirk. He wasn't going to change his mind ,like he said at the station months ago....he wasn't going to change his mind.

Now they are here, at the dreaded moment, and Izuku's insecurities couldn't be kept hidden anymore.

"Mister All Might" Izuku called, his voice downcast and barely more that a whisper.

"HUH? YES MY BOY?" All Might asked curiously, a bit confused by Izuku sudden change in vibe.

"Am I r-r-really w-worthy of this ? I d-didn't do anything to d-deserve it, I just f-found myself in the right place at the right time. I think s-someone else should have it, a real hero...." Izuku says downcast as he rubbed his right arm with the other hand.

The hero remained in silence for some moments, looking as Izuku avoided to look at him.

"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? I AM GIVING IT TO A REAL HERO, WHO IS HERE IN FRONT OF ME, UNLESS I HAVE VISIONS I BELIEVE I'M OFFERING THE QUIRK TO THE RIGHT PERSON, ARE YOU MIDORIYA IZUKU RIGHT?" All Might says trying to make a joke to ease up his successor.

Izuku looked up at him with a hesitant look.

"A-are you s-sure you want this?, i d-don't kn-know if I can be worthy of it.......i don't have an-anything special.......m-maybe it's better that you search for ano......." Izuku tried to say, ignoring All Might's bad joke, but before he could continue, he was cut off by the hero, who put his hand on his shoulder.

"YOUNG MAN LOOK AROUND, YOU SAY YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING SPECIAL, I SEE ALL YOUR QUALITIES LIKE AN OPEN BOOK. THIS, MY BOY, IS ONLY THE FIRST STEP IN YOUR STORY, AND YOU HAVE ALREADY SURPRISED ME WITH YOUR PROGRESS, SO ENOUGH WITH THAT LONG FACE BECAUSE BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU THAT YOU DESERVE IT "All Might says without hesitation.

Izuku look down at his feet, fidgeting a little nervously, a small bit of pride warming his chest. Even if he feel unworthy, even if he shouldn't take it.......All Might believe in him, he will do anything to make him proud now, to fight for that shattered dream that he clinged for all his life.

He wants to fight for it.

"I und-understand, i w-will do my b-best" Izuku says nervously as he sweated a bit for the importance of the moment.

"* sigh * SOONER OR LATER YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT YOU DESERVE THIS WITHOUT DOUBTING, BUT THAT'S OKAY FOR NOW MY BOY, REMEMBER THAT I'M ALWAYS HERE IF YOU NEED ADVICE OR A HAND" All Might says as he removed his hand from the boy shoulder.

"..I.....T-thank y-you........i c-can't bel-believe it.....that I'm so lucky......i...." Izuku respond as his eyes shook a little, he was fighting back the urge to cry, he still can't believe that someone would believe in him, and here it is....... finally someone gave him a chance.

"REMEMBER THIS, MY BOY. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LUCK OR REWARD, ONE IS RANDOM AND THE OTHER IS DESERVED. I THINK IT IS USELESS TO TELL YOU THAT IN YOUR CASE, YOU DESERVE THIS AFTER ALL THE WORK YOU HAVE DONE, YOU HAD TO SWEAT FOR A LONG TIME FOR THIS QUIRK AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE REWARD "All Might says as he put one of his hands on his head and removes a hair

Izuku raised his gaze to look at him, trepidation in his mind as his eyes seemed to have stars for how excited he was.

"NOW MY BOY..... " he continues.

Izuku straightened his back, ready for the moment......

All Might trusted his hand forward, presenting his hair in front of Izuku's face.

"EAT THIS!" he says as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

"Huh?........" Was the only thing Izuku could mutter, his face completely left confused.

He looked at the hair and then at All Might, repeating the process a couple more times, his mind trying to process what was happening......

But then it hit him.

"W-w-wh-what !!!! "Izuku stuttered in shock.

All Might uses his other hand to scratch the back of his head "HE HE, I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE DISGUSTING BUT TO PASS THE QUIRK YOU HAVE TO INGEST THE DNA OF A CARRIER WHO WANTS TO PASS IT, A HAIR IS THE LESS DISGUSTING THING I CAN USE" he says embarrassed.

Izuku looks at the hair in front of him and hesitantly takes it.

"Okay Izuku, it sucks but I have to do it, don't think about anything and swallow it, this is the first step to be a hero" Izuku thinks as he slowly put the hair in his mouth, after having done it not with little effort he swallows it.

"WELL IT WASN'T THAT BAD, WAS IT?" All Might says but goes silent when he sees his successor's face turn green.

"MY BOY ARE YOU OK? COME ON GO PLUS ULTRA ,THIS IS YOUR FIRST OPPONENT, DEFEAT THAT HAIR" All Might cheer.

After a while Izuku manages to hold back the nausea and completely swallow the hair "I did it, and now what? I don't feel different" Izuku ask.

"WELL YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT A FEW HOURS, YOU HAVE TO DIGEST THE DNA FIRST AND THEN THE QUIRK WILL BE PASSED" All Might says.

"I can never thank you enough for this opportunity mister All Might" Izuku says sobbing a little.

All Might then approaches and ruffles his hair, if it is possible to make them more messier than they already are "AS I ALREADY SAID YOUNG MIDORIYA, DON'T THANK ME, I DID NOTHING, ALL OF THIS IS ALL THANKS OF YOUR HARD WORK, AND PLEASE CAN YOU AVOID CALLING ME MISTER ALL MIGHT? CALL ME YAGI WHEN I'M IN MY OTHER FORM, AND IF YOU REALLY INSIST IN FORMALITIES, CALL ME ONLY ALL MIGHT" he says.

"Okay mist .... All Might" says Izuku.

All Might then comes back in its skinny form "okay young man, soon it will be dark, I think you better go home, as One For All will take a few hours to adapt to your body, I will show you how to activate it tomorrow and we will move from there, understand? " All Might says.

"Yes All Might" Izuku respond.

"Good now come I'll accompany you, i suggest you take a shower, you stink" All Might says as he and Izuku go towards the latter's house.

Timeskip next day

19 December 8:57am

With Katsuki

Katsuki was walking through his neighborhood street towards his house, he was returning from the quirk gym. He glanced at his wrist with a scowl, he was still wearing the fucking tracking bracelet, allowing the heroes to know his movements, it was so fucking humiliating, like being a dog on a leash, but he can't voice his disapproval..... because of him.

His eyes glared ahead even more as he kicked a empty bottle to the side, this time glancing at it for a second to make sure it was really empty, he doesn't want a second surprise. He removed his eyes from it and looked ahead again as he started to think about that rodent.

In just a day, his life took an extremely bad turn, that shit school where he studied in was closed up, he's forced to wear this fucking tracking bracelet and he is *recommended* to behave. All of this said by that rat who happened to be the principal of the school he so ardently wants to go to. Just thinking about him made the blonde slightly shake, even though he is Katsuki fucking Bakugo, he is scared of a mouse, a mouse that could throw him behind bars and destroy any hope for him to go to UA or any hero course across japan, and that would be the least of his problems.

He snorted as he clenched his teeth, a angry expression on his face. feeling his arms sore for training very hard in the quirk gym, the more he stays away from home, the better, because of his complicated situation with his parents. After they discovered what happened in school, their disappointed could be felt from kilometers away. They tried to ask him of the motive of this....

"You two were friends!!! Why Katsuki?!! Why?" The voice of his mother returned inside his mind.

"Katsuki....... I'm disappointed didn't think that you would have done something so evil, you.....you aren't the boy i saw grow up wanting to be a hero" The voice of his father returned too. But, his words were ten times heavier than his mother's, he was always this nervous wreck who could barely manage both Katsuki and Mitsuki explosive behavior, but....he was dead serious this time, he truly scared the blonde and actually made him shut up.

"Why should they fucking care about him anyway? He is not awesome, I am!!!" Katsuki muttered angrily.

Now that was the worst thing he had in his mind......him, the one who made all of this shit show possible, Izuku.

He clenched his fists tightly, some smoke coming out of them. He remembers clearly when he and that weak bastard were actual 'friends'. He always followed him around, but instead of treating him like the future number one hero as everyone does, he treated him like they were equals, like he was as strong as him. It gradually increased the dislike that the blonde felt towards the green haired boy. but it was an event that completely turned that dislike into straight up hate.

He remembered clearly, he was what, Four, five? It doesn't matter, he fell on a river, he was okay, he couldn't let a lame fall to stop him, but someone thought differently.

"Kacchan, are you okay?!" The little Izuku says worried as he extended a hand towards the blonde.

The younger Katsuki was initially completely surprised by this, but seeing how worried Izuku was caused a completely different feeling than gratefulness.

"Why are you trying to help me, are you out of your mind!"

"Don't look at me like that! I'm not so weak to be hurt by a fall like this!

"Are you looking down on me!!!!

"Don't touch me!!! I'm not weak!!!!!" Young Katsuki says as he slapped Izuku's hand away, the green haired boy slightly scared and hurt expression just made him angrier, so it was like this. He thought he was so weak all along, but it's the opposite.

His strength will be unmatched!!!!

Katsuki returned with his mind to the present. No matter how much he put him down, he always spite him by keeping to chase a dream that doesn't belong to someone weak like him. It drives him crazy! Now that bastard not only almost ruined his chance to be the next number one hero, but he *saved* it by having pity on him. He poured salt on the wound!!!!

Just the thought was driving him crazy, he needed to break something, the training was just making him stress more.

He was almost arriving at the intersection. But, before he could, he saw the very same person that he was hating on right now. The green haired boy was walking quickly somewhere, looking animated.

"Where is that bastard going?! If i get my hands on him, I *beep*" Katsuki grumbled very angrily but he was interrupted by his bracelet beeping. He couldn't get near Izuku or this fucking bracelet would first warn him to back off and then call someone to the place.

The blonde became even angrier as he grabbed his hair and resisted the urge to scream bloody murder. Veins were visible in his forehead as he clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles became white.

"You quirkless wannabe...." He says hostilely with gritted teeth, part of him wanted to go to that nerd and make him see how much he appreciates his fucking pity, with his fists.

But then he made a very angry deep breath and his angry look became a scowl.

".....*tch* he is not even worth it, he will never became a hero, weak bastard" He grumbled as he decided to just go home and forget about that quirkless trash or he will go into a rampage.

What he didn't see were three figures walking the same way Izuku took, and they did not seem friendly.

With Izuku

Izuku was walking fast towards the beach with a excited look on his face. He couldn't wait to try his new quirk. When he woke up this morning he felt a little different, he felt that there was something more in him now, the boy knew it was the quirk. But, he didn't dare try to activate it alone, who knows what would have happened.

As pauses for a moment to check the time on his phone, he felt someone hastily grab him and throws him on the wall, as soon as his back impact with the wall, the green haired boy opens his eyes, finding three guys that he never saw before.

"Wh-what?! W-w-who are you?! What do you w-want?!" Izuku stuttered as his face palled a lot, who were they?! He didn't recognize them. They seemed older that him, maybe 18 years old or more, wait...Were they going to rob him?! Nonono, this was terrible!

"Hi.....Deku...." The one that was in the front says seriously, a hostile look on his face.

"Wh-what?!" Izuku stuttered shocked at the mention of the name. He palled even more, they know him by his derogative nickname?!! But they are too old to be ex-classmates!

His body was shaking, his fear growing by the second.

"You did a pretty big mess at Aldera, you know...." The one in front says as he grabbed Izuku by the collar and pressed him on the wall more, making the boy whine with pain.

The boy shakily looked up at the taller guy, his eyes shaking as old wounds were being opened by this extreme stressful situation.

"I-I-I......" Izuku struggled to talk, his heart hammering in his chest, his body was stiffening from the fear, but before he could say something, the guy interrupted him.

"My little brother got sent to a fucking juvenile institute and was blacklisted by the majority of school of Japan. All because of you, you quirkless piece of shit!!" The guy says angrily.

Izuku was tearing up now, he couldn't react, his body refused to move.

"So....." The guy says as he grinned sadicaly, making Izuku terror increase.

The older male looked at his two friends.

"I talked to a couple of friends who don't like people like you and we thought, *why don't take a little revenge for my lil bro, mhm?*" The guy says with malice as he threw Izuku to the side, making the boy fall on the ground on his stomach some meters away.

Izuku shakily tried to get up but his body was refusing to move a lot, it was closing up, it was useless to run, they would get him.

"M-Move... p-please!" Izuku begged inside his mind, trying to force his body to move, he has to run! he needs to find All Might.

Flashback of the countless beatings he received in the past just increased his panic and despair, impacting his ability to move even more.

Why can't he react, why can't he fight back?!

He heard the guy speak again, followed by a heavy sound. The boy managed to look behind him and his eyes widened in terror as his irises shook. The one that was speaking had a baseball bat on his hand.

"We're gonna beat you so much that you gonna forgot today even happened...." The guy says with a grin as he slowly got closer.

Izuku body shook as he looked ahead, he tried to get up but his body was completely immobile for the fear and panic, more flashbacks assaulted him, filling with despair.

Why is he so weak that he can't even fight back?!

How can he be a hero if he freeze's at the first fight?!

Please someone, help.

"My little bro told me a bit about you. You want to be a hero, what kind of bullshit is that? A quirkless hero, i never heard something so pathetic........" The guy mocked as he put the bat on his shoulder.

Izuku eyes widened hearing this, more tears dripped from his eyes.

"You are just a pathetic, weak imbecile, a fucking crybaby who can't do anything.....nobody would ever consider you hero material....you are just scum...." The guy shouted as he made another step.

Izuku pupils shrinked, insults of his past assaulted his mind, they always mocked him because of his dream, they hurt him again and again without reason, because it was fun.

But......

"You will never be a hero!!" The older guy shouted as he made another step, ready to beat the green haired boy, the three were at three meters of distance now.

Izuku's mind goes blank hearing this, his eyes lost light......he was about to just give up and accept the pain. But....hearing this sentence once again, joining hundreds of memories of the same sentence being spat to him like venom, it awoke something in him.....

*Snap*

Something snapped in him, his body stopped shaking, his expression became a dazed one..... more and more memories of his past assaulted him, but this time, they didn't bring pain and fear....

His hands clenched into fists as he pushed his body upward, the boy now on his knees.

They brought anger.

The three older guys stopped as they felt their bodies hesitate to get closer.

"Huh? W-What?" The boy with the baseball bat muttered confused as he felt sweat building up on his forehead, what is happening? He glanced towards the boy and he noticed that he was slowly getting up, the strange pressure increased more and more as the seconds passed.

".....I'm pathetic.....so?" Izuku says in a cold tone, emotionless...... hostile.

"H-h-huh?" The leader of the group muttered surprised as he felt himself take a step back, he noticed that his body was slightly shaking, what was happening?!!!

Now Izuku was on his feet, his back still on the three punks.

"....I'm weak and a crybaby, so?..." Izuku continued still with a cold and hostile tone, his fists clenched tightly.

Break them

Take your revenge

Izuku didn't push away these thoughts this time, they just amplified his anger, his emotions couldn't be controlled anymore.....

They aren't going to walk over me anymore.

Before the three could actually charge at him, Izuku turned his head towards them and the three froze, their hearts stopped as chills ran through their spines.

A red glow enveloped the green haired boy irises, and his stare, cold, angry...... dangerous, it made their body react in fear even though they were more than him.

"Y-y-you...." The leader tried to say, but that killer stare was making him full blow tremble, the pure malice that the boy emanated was enough to freeze his body to the ground.

"Does me being these things gives you the right to hurt me? To decide what i will be, like you get to decide anything?" Izuku says coldly as he turned his body towards them, his hate and anger accumulated for ten years finally having free reigns over the green haired boy thoughts and actions.

The boy remember the words of his hero, the praised, the encouragements. He then remembered his own hopes and dreams. He will not allow these bastard to tarnish them!!!

He took a step forward, his eyes glowing more in red.

This caused one of he group to fall on his butt, the pure malice making the three of them tremble.

"I always wanted to be a hero that anybody can look up to....." Izuku says coldly as he takes another step forward, resulting in three backing away.

"But everyone always mocked me, shunned me and hurt me again and again because of this! Like you are better......... I could see my dream fading from my hands, together with my capacity of feeling happiness......" Izuku continued as he glared more, suddenly, green colored lightning bolts surrounded his body, something was answering these dark feelings.....

And was welcoming them.

Inside Izuku's body

Inside his body, a sort of green energy star was visible, hovering into a immense abyss of black. But, something was off. The star started to shake and then.....a black energy tentacle teared through the surface of it from the inside and started to maul and pierce its prison, more and more of these tentacles started to sprout like the first and they flailed like a savage beast trying to obliterate everything around them. They wanted their new master.

Meanwhile the star seemed to be changing, white glowing liquid similar to blood dripped from the new opening as the surface of the entire star started to change color, alternating between green and black quickly.

Outside

Izuku glared at the three with pure hate, letting every single ill feeling out, not caring about anything.

"Until, someone believed in me, he saved me!!! he encouraged me!!! He gave me the words that i wanted to hear for so long!!!!! He gave me more that i deserve!!!" izuku shouted as his rage was getting into critical levels.

The green lighting bolts that were dancing around his skin died out but then.....they came back..... different, they were black with green outlines, coating the boy in a dark and dangerous aura.

The three were extremely shocked by seeing those lighting bolts surround the boy, wasn't he supposed to be quirkless?!!!

Izuku gritted his teeth as veins were visible on his forehead, his eyes glowed more as the strange black lightning bolts got even more frantic and present.

"I will not allow you to make those words worthless!!!" Izuku shouted as he made another step, making them tremble even more as they tried to back away more, their faces full of sweat.

"I don't care how you see me........I......." Izuku started to say as he then shouted the next words with all his heart.

"I WILL BECOME NUMBER ONE HERO!!!!!" Izuku shouted with everything he had as his malice increased ten fold, making the attackers completely freeze up in fear, they couldn't move and their breaths were stopped short.

Their hearts were hammering in their chests as the pure pressure was crushing them until.....

"Young Midoriya!" A familiar voice was heard behind the green haired boy.

"Eh?" Izuku muttered in a daze as his angered state stopped, the red glow in his eyes, the malice and black lightning bolts vanished as soon as his rage subdued.

The boy slowly looked behind and saw All Might in his skinny form looking at him with a shocked and worried look.

"Al....mister Yagi*ugh*" Izuku tried to say but suddenly an extremely sensation of pain surrounded his body, making him fall on his knees and almost fall forward.

"Young Midoriya!" All Might shouted as he ran towards and luckily grabbed him before his face could impact with the ground.

The three recovered from their frozen state, their faces full of sweat as they quickly got up.

"Let's go!!! This kid is a monster!!!! A freak!!!" One of the group shouted as all of them ran away from the scene, leaving the hero and Izuku alone.

All Might noticed the baseball bat on the ground and he frowned, he already knew what happened and he memorized their faces.

He heard Izuku's body twitch and he immediately shifts his attention to the boy, who was with an extremely pained expression.

"Young man are you okay? What's happening to you? How can I help?" The hero asked frantically as he made Izuku sit up.

"I-It h-hurt so m-much, please help me" Izuku whispered as his entire body seemed to be on fire, he was suffering so much that he was surprised that he didn't pass out instantly from the pain.

All Might immediately goes into his Muscle form and picks up Izuku in his arms and runs at abnormal speed to the UA where there was a person he hoped could help him.

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"*mumble*mhm?" Izuku mumbled tiredly in his mind as he struggled to open his eyes, his memories were blurry, his focus dampered by this extreme drowsiness.

He tried to move, but he noticed that he couldn't feel his fingers. he could also hardly feel his arms and legs, all his body felt strange, like it was light, very light.

"*Ugh* huh?" He muttered in his mind as he managed to open his eyes and look up with half closed eyelids, but what he found wasn't something that he expected. It made his eyes immediately widen like plates. The sky was totally black without a single star, it looked and felt unnatural.

"*Incomprehensible whispers*...?" Izuku tried to say *what*, but not even a word came out from his mouth, he can only hear some creepy and faint whispers, this greatly increased his confusion and started to creep him out, was this a nightmare? It's not the first time that he had something like this.

He looked ahead, noticing that there was a infine landscape with nothing but a kind of stone-like gray floor to at least give some dimension to the strange place.

"Where am I?" Izuku said in his mind, he looked around, There was nothing but an endless extend of this gray desert.

He tried to call for someone but once again, only creepy and faint whispers came out, but Izuku noticed that something was even more off about this......

He couldn't feel his mouth....

He looked down at his body and his pupils shrunk in shock seeing in what state his body was.....

Almost all of his body was covered, or formed? By a black-green mist, the boy raised what he felt like was his arms, noticing that his hands were Covered/formed by this mist as well, not even his fingers were recognizable.

"What is happening?! Where am I?! Why I am like this?!" Izuku panicked inside his mind, he knew that this was most likely a nightmare, but it felt so real, he could feel the wind move his hair and that mist that formed the majority of his body, he could feel it on his skin, this was too real.

Something interrupted his thoughts process.

*Whispers*

*Whispers*

"Huh?!" Izuku mumbled surprised inside his mind as he heard whispers came from all directions, They seemed to come from different people, both females and males. They became more clear as time passed, increasing the boy's fear and confusion.

"He is here/Hate bringer/ more rage in his heart/ give us more/ progeny of evil" The whispers creeped from the darkness, making chills run down Izuku's misty spine.

"What? Who?!! Wh-Who is there?!" Izuku shouted inside his mind as he tried to speak but once again, it was useless.

Suddenly the whispers stopped, and something even more creepy happened, the entire landscape started to shake like a earthquake.

"Whoa!!!" Izuku muttered surprised as he struggled to remain on his misty feet, what was happening?!! This didn't make sense!!!

Before he could continue to at least get a hang of everything that was happening, a spot of the floor cracked.

The boy looked at the spot with surprise and fear, he thought that the floor was breaking down because of the earthquake, but instead, something was coming out of it.

*Bam*

A pitch black tendril emerged from the ground, standing tall and mighty like a feral beast.

The boy eyes widened in both shock and terror seeing this, the only flesh part of his head palled in horror, what......

Before he could even think about running, the tendril turned its tip towards him like a blade. And, faster than the eye can follow....

*Pierce*

The tendril impaled the boy across the chest, easily passing through his misty body.

Izuku was left completely in horror. His face palled like a blanket as he saw the tendril impale him. But......he didn't felt pain, was the shock? Or maybe the state of his body didn't allow for pain to be felt.

The tendril, still impaling the boy, started to wrap around him, blocking his movements. He then raised him from the ground and then quickly withdrawing in the spot it came from, dragging Izuku with it.

"Aaaaaahhhh!!!!" Izuku shouted in his mind with extreme terror as he was dragged in the floor with the tendril, he closed his eyes, hoping to wake up from this nightmare.
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He doesn't know how much time has passed, probably a couple of minutes of being slowly dragged into the void, even if they are theoretically*underground*, the underground part of the floor felt like a sort of ocean made of dense air.

Izuku was very confused and still very frightened, he doesn't know why a tentacle basically impaled him and it's now dragging him underground, or why this underground felt like he was floating in space, he just knows that he was going deeper and deeper in this abyss, in the dark......alone.

But then, it stopped, the tendril stopped dragging him. It was still wrapped around him, but it didn't move anymore, keeping him immobile.

The boy hesitantly opened his eyes and what he saw shocked him further more, his eyes widened like dinner plates.

In front of him there was a completely black colored energy star with a white outline. The strange condensed sphere of eerie energy having fire like tendrils and surrounded by occasional green lightning bolts .

Izuku began to hear whispering in his brain, his eyes shocked as he felt himself struggle to keep his focus as his mind seemed to be shaking like the ground before.

"W-W-What is t-this?" Izuku thought terrified and confused as he struggled to understand what this strange dream was showing, his mind was struggling to think because of the whispers. It sent mixed feelings in him, like....he secretly knew already what it was. Like......it was a part of himself. His eyes scanned the pitch black surface, and they widened noticing a detail on this star. There were cracks on the surface, like if someone or something damaged it from the inside. Like some kind of blood-like black liquid with traces of white was dripping from these cracks and was falling into the abyss, quickly disappearing.

He used all his focus to ignore the whispers and actually understand why he felt so familiar with this place. He remembers All Might telling him that he had a dream that the boy could recognize that it was very similar to this, but he never mentioned tendrils.

"So.....this is my OFA.....but, why is it so strange, why does it seems to be bleeding?" Izuku thought as he looked at the star with a more focused and troubled look, what is the meaning of this? If this star represent OFA, why it does seem so dark...so eerie, and it looks like it's suffering.

Before he could continue to analyze the situation, he felt everything begin to shake once again. The teal lightning bolts presence and size increased a lot. The cracks on the star were shining white as that weird 'blood' was oozing from them even more.

"What is happening?!" Izuku thought shocked and confused, but then he stopped, his eyes widened in horror as black tendrils like the one that was holding him emerged from the cracks. Multicolored eyes on their surface, they immediately looked at a particular direction......They were looking at him.

They started to get closer to him, their speed increasing as they got closer.

The boy immediately started to struggle against the tendril impaling him but he couldn't break free. He looked in terror as the tendrils got closer and closer.

"No!!! Stay away! Stay away!!!" Izuku shouted in mind as he tried to shout these words outside too, but only muffled sounds came.

The tendrils were about to reach him but before they could touch him......

Infirmary

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!" Izuku screamed in terror as he sat down on the bed he was laying to. his eyes shining with a green-red glow.

"Gaaaaaaah!!!!" All Might screams in surprise as he spat some blood and fell from his seated position beside the boy's bed, his chair falling backward with him

The boy was breathing quickly as he looked around frantically with shaking eyes and speeding heartbeat, the image of those tendrils getting closer and closer without him being able to do anything to stop them was too frightening.

"Where am I?! Where are they?! T-The black star!? The t-tendrils with the eyes!!!?" Izuku says frantically as his mind was still half dazed by the violent awakening, his pupils were small as the image of those pitch black tendrils getting closer sent a strange terror in his heart.

Before he could try to get up and panic more, a calm and old voice spoke to him from the side of the bed, attracting his attention.

"Calm down, dear, take deep breaths. You're safe and sound in my infirmary" a old female voice says in a calming tone from the side of the bed.

The boy quickly looked at the side, he couldn't see very good because his eyes still hasn't adapted at the light. But his panicked mind was quickly calming down as he realized that he was awake and considering that he thought that he heard All Might's scream after he awoke, he was also safe.

He blinked a few times as he took deep breaths to calm his still shaken nerves, that nightmare was terrible, and so strange, he doesn't know if it was something related to OFA or not, it looked like something All Might mentioned, but it was much scarier that he thought it would be. After some seconds, his eyes adapted at the light and he focused his stare towards the owner of the voice that managed to make him came back to his senses.

His eyes widened as he saw a short, elderly woman with gray hair styled into a netted bun, a large syringe poking diagonally out of it to the left. She has a notably small nose and eyes, and a long mouth with defined nasolabial folds. She wears a doctor's lab coat and a dress with yellow and red vest-like designs on either side, two yellow buttons, and a belt with a pink R-shaped buckle. She wears pink boots and has a helmet around the sides of her head, a purple-tinted visor joining it over her eyes. In addition, she was using a cane designed like a syringe.

The boy immediately recognized who she was, and his fanboy side didn't wait even a second to make itself know.

"Y-y-you are the Youthful Heroine: Recovery Girl!!! W-Wait.....if you are here....t-then that m-means that I am at UA!!" The boy shouted surprised as he became a bit more excited as he looked around, noticing the high tech medical machinery in the infirmary, his usual sad eyes having imaginary stars on them.

The old woman chuckled a bit seeing the boy so happy and excited.

"I see what you meant when you said he was a big fanboy, Toshinori. Youngsters are always so lively" Recovery girl says calmly with a small smile as she looked at the side, towards the number one hero, who was still on the ground.

A hand was placed on the side of the bed as its owner used the handhold to push himself up, now with his upper body visible from the boys perspective.

"Yes he is *ugh*, Young Midoriya I'm glad to see that you are ready for everything, but screaming from the moment you wake up seems a bit exaggerated to me" The hero says as he managed to get up and he put the chair back, sitting on it once again.

"how do you feel?" he continued as he looked at Izuku. He was worried for his health as the boy did pass out while the hero was bringing him to UA to be checked by recovery girl. He didn't look like he was badly injured when be picked him up, just some scratches on his face.

"Huh?" Izuku muttered as he blinked a couple of times a bit confused but then his eyes widened a bit as his memory started to focus and come back very fast. He remembered a very strong pain assaulting his body and then All Might picking him up in his arms and running at blinding speeds towards a place where they could help him.

The boy checked his covered body. Stretching his arms a bit, opening and closing his hands and moving his toes, he felt fine, the excruciating pain of before was completely gone. The only pain that he felt was the normal one that he felt continuously, but it was mostly dulled by painkillers.

"I-I feel fine, mister Yagi, t-the pain disappeared" Izuku says nervously as he glanced at the hero, he luckily managed to call All Might by his surname as he doesn't know if the old nurse knew about his predicament. they seemed to be pretty acquainted with one another.

The hero sighed a bit in relief, but then a more serious expression made way on his face as he looked at the boy again.

"That's a relief. But, Young Midoriya, can you tell me what happened there? who were those people? I know for a fact that they they didn't have any friendly intentions" All Might asked, they could be robbers or maybe just some gang members that wanted to hurt someone to have some fun, in every case, he will very hardly let them go like this, even more now that he noticed that they brought tools to hurt or threaten the boy even more.

Izuku looked down at his thighs as he can feel more of his memory of the event coming back. His body started to shake a little as he remembered their intentions, they wanted to hurt him for the fun of it....like Aldera, and he couldn't do anything to stop them, his body and mind just froze and refused to work in front of something so familiar.

We're gonna beat you so much that you gonna forgot today even happened....

A quirkless hero, i never heard something so pathetic........"

You are just a pathetic, weak imbecile, a fucking crybaby who can't do anything.....nobody would ever consider you hero material....you are just scum

His pupils shrunk as he resisted the urge to hide under the blanket, that event opened nasty scars and they weren't going to close again so easily. But then, he remembered something.....a strange feeling enveloping his mind when he heard the older guy shout that he can't be a hero...........hate.

Pure hate

He remembered his own words when he snapped at them.

.....I'm pathetic.....so?

....I'm weak and a crybaby, so?

Does me being these things gives you the right to hurt me? To decide what i will be, like you get to decide anything?

What happened during that moment was like a blur, but he remembered the feeling clearly. An intoxicating feeling of fury and hate filling his mind and removing any control on his emotions. he just blacked out and shouted everything in his mind while walking towards them with pure black hate in his heart. it was something both liberating and terrifying, he hate that side of him, so much hostility and anger hidden beneath pure will power, he always had these dark thoughts rummaging in his mind whenever his emotions get unstable, but this time, he was just too angry to refuse them, he just let them in.

A troubled look made way on his face as he kept looking down.

"I d-don't know.....one of t-them said that I c-caused his b-brother to be put in a juvenile i-institute because of what happened at Aldera....a-and wanted to get back at me for that. I was so scared...." Izuku says shakily as he grabbed a hold of his sleeves with the opposite hands.

The hero put a hand on the boy's shoulder, making him understand that everything was going to be fine. Izuku didn't flinch as much as he used to a long time ago, but he still was very wary of touches. However, this didn't stop his mind to slightly relax at the sensation of safety of being in the presence of All Might and now Recovery Girl too, the old heroine gave a aura of calmness and wisdom.

The boy slightly turned his head towards the two heroes, his eyes a bit more closed up as it was a bit painful to remember something so stressful, but if he wants to be a hero, he needs to stop fearing everything, he needs to be strong, to show All Might that at least he is worthy of all the time he wasted on him.

"T-They wanted to h-hurt me to take revenge. But then something happened.......I.....I got angry, I was so tired of being mocked and then......they....t-they suddenly looked so scared, everything is blurry in my head but...It....it looked like i was the o-one scaring them" He says in a low voice with a nervous tone, still a bit torn on what exactly happened to him during that time, it wasn't only his own emotions to go out, there was something forcefully pushing them out.

All Might raised an eyebrow as he remembered something that he wanted to ask about that event, when he found Izuku, together with managing to hear the last words that the boy spoke, he managed to see something surrounding the boy like a sort of aura, black lightning bolts with green outlines, these strange bolts were simply dancing around the green haired boy's skin. the hero doesn't know if this is related to OFA or not, he remembered briefly himself producing yellow lighting bolts when he goes beyond his limit, but in Izuku's case, it could be directly connected to activating the quirk in general.

"You don't remember the lighting bolts?" All Might asked curiously as he scratched lightly his chin with a hand.

At this Izuku's eyes widened with both surprise and great confusion as he turned his body towards them quickly, what was the hero talking about?

"H-Huh?! l-l-lighting b-bolts? W-What are y-you talking about?" Izuku asked very surprised, he doesn't remember something like that, to be fair, he was probably to angry to care about anything expect those bastards.

The hero scratched his hair with a slightly confused look.

"Well, when I found you, you had these black and green lightnings bolts all around you. They disappeared as soon as I called for you" All Might says as he moved quickly his hands all around himself to imitate the lighting bolts that he saw on Izuku.

The boy stared at him for some seconds and then looked away with a thoughtful expression, he tried to focus more on the memory of the event and then.....he remembered them, he saw them with the corner of his eye.

He turned towards the hero.

"I....I don't know... I-I didn't notice them a lot, i was...so angry that I d-didn't care about a-anything....." Izuku says nervously as he fiddles with his fingers a little.

Before All Might could say something, Recovery girl walked closer and spoke while lighty pushing the boy's legs to make him lay down on the bed correctly.

"It's most likely OFA, Midoriya. Toshinori had yellow lighting bolts surround his limbs in his younger days. and the tests didn't show that you have another quirk. This means that you most likely unconsciously activated OFA because of the stressful situation as a mean to defend yourself" Recovery girl explained calmly as she dragged another chair and sit on it, making her be much more visible to the boy, she was much shorter than his mother.

Izuku's eyes widened a bit as he looks at the nurse with a surprised look, she knew? All Might seemed to read his mind as he spoke again, attracting his attention.

"Don't worry young Midoriya, she knows about OFA as well. After all, she was the one who healed me when I suffered that very nasty injury and she is the one that keeps an eye on my conditions from time to time" The hero says as he scratched the back of his head, making the boy quickly glance at him, then at the nurse and then back at him again, a more calm but also curious look on his face, he wanted to ask about it, but he thought it wasn't his place to ask about the hero's injury.

"That's right, this big idiot was in a really bad shape after that terrible battle. and even after that, he still refuse to rest despite his precarious condition, you aren't the only hero, Toshinori, you must rest" Recovery girl says not very happy as she gave a slight hit to the number one hero's shin with her can.

"I know, I know, Chiyo, you don't need to say this in front of young Midoriya like that" All Might whispered a bit embarrassed as he rubbed the spot where Recovery girl hit him.

The older heroine made a slight sound of irritation but then shifted her attention to the slightly confused boy, who looked back at her.

"Like i said, I made some tests while you were unconscious, and it turns out, there's a reason for that strong pain that you felt. It has something to do with OFA" Recovery girl explained as she gets up and goes behind her desk, rummaging as she searched for something.

"R-really?! It's s-something bad? Was m-my b-body not ready? I-I didn't train correctly, I..." Izuku asked a bit worried, thinking that maybe he didn't train enough to contain the quirk, but before he could say more, he was interrupted.

"No, your body is fine, you are perfectly healthy and the quirk transfer did go smoothly" Recovery girl says calmly but firmly, cutting any self doubt that the boy could create.

Both Izuku and All Might took a small sigh of relief hearing this.

"The pain was caused by something else..." Recovery girl continued, making the hero and his successor look at her with a bit of surprise and intrigue.

The nurse took out some ultrasounds prints and a small container, she then walked towards them again, putting the small container on the chair she was sitting before.

"Here are yours and Toshinori's ultrasounds. Now, look at Toshinori's carefully, focus on the lines, those are nerves and blood vessels. Do you notice something?" Recovery girl asked as she showed one of the paper to the boy, indicating some part of it to show what she was talking about.

Izuku squinted a bit his eyes as he looked carefully at the image, he doesn't exactly know what to look at, he saw some sort of filaments that he recognize to be blood vessels or nerves, he doesn't know a lot. But he noticed that there were some bigger filaments on the central part of the arm and legs, was that what recovery girl was trying to show him?

"I see that you noticed. Toshinori's peripheral nervous system is slightly more evolved than normal. His nerves are bigger and there's more of them. All of this to allow his body to manage both its movement and channel OFA power efficiently, it would collapse otherwise, In a way, it became his quirk factor......." Recovery girl explained, she then took the other ultrasound print, showing it to Izuku.

The boy immediately recognized that something was different, together with normal nerves, blood vessels and Lymphatic vessels, there was something else, a strange network of cells that branched in his body, their width very similar to the other systems, they were especially focused near his spine and limbs.

The boy's eyes widened a bit as confusion made way in his mind, what were those nerve-like tubes? He studied anatomy under Nezu, and he knows that those weren't something ordinary.

"In your case, your peripheral nervous remained unaffected. And Instead, an entire new system has grown in your body, most likely to completely separate your quirk functions from your PNS. Allowing more specialized cells to make the process more efficient. The strong pain you felt was probably caused by OFA forcefully evolving your body to compensate for the sudden activation" Recovery girl explained calmly as she put a hand under her chin with a more thoughtful look, analyzing this more unique situation.

She then looked up at him again.

"To summarize all of this, OFA caused your body to create its own quirk factor, probably taking nutrients stored in your fat to create it...." Recovery girl concluded as she put one hand behind her back, keeping it in place to reduce her back pain.

The boy eyes widened in slight awe by the discovery, he looked at his hands, his own quirk factor. It's so strange, so this is how a quirked person feel? The un-ordinary becomes the ordinary.

"I also took a small sample. At first their color worried me a little as i thought they were in necrosis, but after i analyzed them in laboratory, I discovered that this is how they are supposed to be, no necrosis or decaying, these cells are perfectly alive and functioning....." Recovery girl continued as she took the small container and opened it, both Izuku and All Might leaned forward to look better, finding a small sealed plastic bag, a strange black colored piece of those small *nerves*

"Woah!" Izuku muttered as he looked intensely at the small sample, it was so strange looking and that color was very weird for a body part, he doesn't remember a body part being pitch black in color.

"Mhm, These cells are very bizarre, their anatomy could be summarized as a hybrid between a blood vessel and a nerve cell, but i didn't find anything flowing in them, they are empty, how mysterious indeed. they also don't respond to your body's movement or stimulus. This adds more to the theory that this is indeed your quirk factor and will probably start to function while OFA is active" Recovery girl explained as she placed the sealed bag in the container once again, she then took another ultrasound paper.

Izuku passes a hand through his hair with one hand with a thoughtful look, this was surprising, a bit confusing, but he still wanted to know more to hopefully manage the quirk more easily. Knowing more of what process OFA work on could help him in the first steps, especially since he still doesn't know how to activate it, he huffed a bit internally for not having his notebook here with him.

He noticed that Recovery girl was taking another print, of who it was?

"However there is something else that is concerning me, and it's very delicate....." Recovery girl says after a while, a more thoughtful look on her face.

Both All Might and Izuku's eyes widened hearing this, especially the boy's, worry filling his head.

"W-What do y-you m-mean, miss Recovery girl? T-There's s-something w-wrong?" Izuku managed to ask nervously, the nurse tone suggested that whatever she was going to say, it was something very serious, he have a bad feeling about this.

The nurse looked at him with a more serious look.

"It's hard to explain as it comes from a more delicate area to analyze. As you can see...." she started to say as she showed a ultrasound that showed only the boy's brain.

Initially the boy couldn't see anything weird until be saw them, the same nerves-blood vessels that formed his quirk factor were anchored to some areas of his brain, they then seemed to then descend until they reached the spinal cord, entering through it and probably starting their branching in his body.

By seeing this, Izuku's eyes widened a bit in confusion and nervousness, they were there too?!

"T-They are a-also p-present on my brain? But....why?" Izuku asked confused and nervous, why go that far? If these nerves manage OFA, why they couldn't connect only to the spinal cord? Why go as far as expand to his brain?

"I don't know exactly why, dear, I've already done some tests as soon as I found them there. Your brain activity is perfect, so I don't think they are harmful. Considering that this new system is very likely to be connected to OFA, it's either a way to receive your brain stimulus much faster or.....or maybe something else...." The nurse explained more serious.

"Something else? What do you mean, Chiyo?" All Might asked confused as looked at her with a bit of surprise and concern.

Izuku was sitting on the bed now, fiddling with his fingers nervously as he already had a bad feel about this.

Recovery girl put away the print and took another one, this one showed the boy's more internal part of the brain, two specific parts can be see completely surrounded by these black nerves.

"E-Eh?!" Izuku made a sound of surprise seeing this, those nerves were completely covering those parts of his brain, this was becoming more unsettling and confusing as it continues, ok let's rationalize this, maybe it has something to do with OFA being activated on command, there's nothing dangerous, there's nothing dang-....

The nurse interrupted his thoughts once again as she resumed explaining.

"These nerves seem to be particularly connected to areas of the limbic system, especially on the Amygdala and on the Hypothalamus, besides this I have found some gathered towards your raphe nuclei "she explain .

She then looks at All Might who had smoke coming from his ears and a blank stare.

"Uhhhhh.......could you explain it in a more.....uh, simplified way? I'm not really good with these things" All Might says embarrassed with a sweatdrop.

At this Recovery girl pitches the bridge of her nose and sighed a bit.

"You're right, I'm going a bit specific with medical terms but we need all the information we can have. try to pay attention, it's your successor's health we are talking about. I'll give you a simple summary, The Amygdala and the Hypothalamus are two internal structures of the brain and are part of the limbic system. The first if stimulated causes intense emotion, such as aggression or fear, The second regulate hunger, thirst, response to pain, levels of pleasure, sexual satisfaction, anger and aggressive behavior, and more" she explain, her words worried both the boy and the hero when she mentioned the importance of those parts of the brain.

"So One For All c-can control my e-emotions?" Izuku asked with a very worried edge in his voice.

The old heroine shook slowly her head in denial.

"Not exactly, the innervation is not ingrained enough for total control. theoretically, the most it could do is modify some biochemical processes to amplify or reduce some of the emotions or sensations that these structures regulate. Also, the presence of these nerves even in the raphe nuclei can tell us what aspect of your personality OFA is trying to control...." she explained as she put the ultrasounds on the chair and looked at the boy again.

"W-Would them be?" Izuku asked nervously, control? Wait.....that time with those three....he felt his rage being forcefully pushed out, amplified......

The boy eyes widened as he realized what emotions OFA reacted to.

Recovery girl confirmed his suspects as she explained once again.

"Aggression, all three of these part of the brain have this in common, but aggression is not an emotion, it's a consequence of the body in response to anger, which happens to be regulated in the Hypothalamus, it cannot be a coincidence" the nurse explained calmly.

"W-What a-about the ot-other part? t-the raphe nuclei?" Izuku asked nervously while he memorized everything in his mind, luckily Nezu trained his mind to be capable of keeping track of all these informations.

"The raphe nuclei regolate the release of serotonin in the body, Its function is to modulate mood, cognition, learning, memory and other things, as you can see everything always brings us back to the same thing, emotions, above all anger, if this evolution is really caused by your quirk, it means that now it interacts directly with your emotions, so you have to be careful okay sonny? "she says kindly at the end.

"I...I g-guess.....I ....um, yes, I-I w-will be c-careful, thank you, Recovery girl" Izuku nervously nodded as he tried to hide how worried he was about this sudden change of plans.

The heroine smiled a little as she strokes his hair, actually making the boy's body not flinch, it was like it recognized that she was genuinely concerned for him and his health.

"There, there, don't be so nervous, sonny, you have this big idiot to help you, so don't worry, you just have to be more careful at how you feel while using the quirk, it won't be easy but you will do it" she encouraged, she then removed her hand from the boy's head and backed away a little to give him space to get up if he wanted to.

All Might chimed in, his right fist pumped in front of him.

"Don't worry, young Midoriya! we will find out how to overcome this obstacle, we just have to not give up. Like the motto of this school say, go beyond plus ultra!!!" All Might shouted with a grin to give his successor more fire.

Izuku looked at him surprised for a couple of seconds. His eyes gained a nervous excitement glint as he was about to shout in affirmation but he was anticipated by a fourth voice.

"Plus ultra indeed" a familiar squeaky voice said from behind the two heroes.

"Gaaaahhhhhh !!!" All Might scream as he fall from the chair once again.

Izuku and Recovery girl turned surprised towards the owner of the voice, finding no other that Nezu, the chimera was sitting on a chair close to the desk.

"Principal Nezu, how long have you been here? You could have knocked" Recovery girl asked calmly, not really surprised by her boss's antics.

The chimera smiled at her amused as he got up from the chair, waking close to them.

"Ever since you started talking about Midoriya-kun's evolutions, it's been quite funny to see that you didn't notice me even though I was standing in front of you" he says laughing a little, be then look at All Might on the ground " Hey Yagi-san are you all right down there? " He says with amusement.

The number one hero made some grumbles of pain and irritation.

"Today seems like the ground is my only friend" All Might grumble as he stand up again "since you are here what do you think of this?" All Might ask.

The principal put both his arms behind his back and he straightened his posture, it didn't took long for him to think of a situation to help the two OFA users.

"Well, It seems obvious to me that this unusual mutation needs to be monitored to make sure that it's not a danger to Midoriya-kin. And i have the perfect solution, you two need a place where to continue Midoriya-kun training, so you can do it here at UA, the training grounds are the perfect place!" Nezu says still with his smile as he looked at All Might.

At this the boy's eyes widened a bit surprised, train at UA?! Even before being accepted to it, wouldn't that be kinda of cheating?

"W-What, train h-here?! Is that r-really o-okay? I-I don't w-want to disturb the staff" Izuku says surprised and nervously, thinking that he was taking advantage of the heroes even more, occupy an entire training ground for himself is too much.

The chimera put a paw on his fur covered chin as he looked at him

"Always so thoughtful of others. But, you don't have to worry, be selfish this time and have fun, you can train freely here and you will always have Recovery girl around the corner if you get injured" Nezu said as he closed his eyes and smiled more.

The boy couldn't resist the urge to bow his head as a lot gratefulness filled his mind.

"I-I, thank you v-very much, P-Principal Nezu, I'm s-sorry to always be a bother" Izuku stuttered nervously.

"*Chuckle* you aren't, we are happy to help you to make things easier. You have a lot of time to catch up compared to other students, and I'm glad to help. But, i would tell you two to be careful not to make too much noise, Aizawa gets pretty grumpy when he's woken up from his nap" the chimera says with amusement at the end.

"Y-Yes sir!" Izuku says nervously as he nodded, wondering who this Aizawa was, he remembered someone visiting and talking with All Might while he was still cleaning the beach, he didn't manage to get a good glance at him tho. He wonder if he is this Aizawa.

The boy looked at Recovery girl.

"Ms.Recovery girl, c-can i go n-now?" He asked.

The nurse nodded.

"Yes Midoriya, you are completely healthy now. But, before training again, i suggest you to eat something, your body need nutrients after your quirk factor appearance. And always remember to not to force yourself too much and stay calm, stressing yourself too much is not good for your health" she says with a calm smile.

Izuku nodded as he got up and started to get his things from the side of the bed, but before he could leave the room together with All Might, he is interrupted by Nezu.

"Before you go, All Might mentioned to me that you had a unhappy encounter with three young men, there's something i must know?" Nezu asked calmly still with a smile, but the boy knew that he need to tell him about what happened, he didn't want to bother him. He already got in trouble a member of one of those guys family, put the other one in trouble was a bit too much, but he knew that what they were trying to do to him wasn't different from villains or his ex-classmates, it was always the same thing, hurt others for amusement.

They were going to hurt me, they had it coming!

He glanced at All Might, the hero giving him a nod with a serious face, telling him that he should be the one to say it.

The boy looked at the chimera again, a bit nervous as he put his backpack on the bed.

"O-One of them is a family member of one of my ex c-classmates......he and a couple of f-friends wanted to get back at me. They h-had weapons too" Izuku says nervously and a bit shakily as he avoided eye contact, the old mental scars still open and bleeding.

Nezu hummed as he glanced at All Might.

"You said that you saw their faces, right, Yagi-san? Do you remember them?" Nezu asked calmly.

The number one hero nodded.

Nezu clapped his paws together, a bright smile on his face.

"Perfect, more humans to torture!" Nezu says happily as he lightly laughed, it was..... unsettling, a lot.

All three sweatdropped by this.

The chimera them looked at the boy again.

"You don't have to worry anymore about them, Midoriya-kun, I will take care of it, in the meantime, try to come to UA together with All Might from now on, it's more safe for you, we don't know if more family members of the staff members or students want to cause problems" Nezu says with a smile but with dangerous glint in his eyes.

Izuku swallowed the lump in his throat and nodded. He then bowed towards both Nezu and recovery girl. After doing it, he stuttered an goodbye and left the room together with All Might.

An hour later, UA training ground

The boy and the hero were on the UA training grounds now, it was an open area with a lot of space, perfect to train quirks.

Izuku was busy looking around in awe, be at UA for the first time was completely amazing. And when they arrived outside, he saw the building in its entire glory, it was so much better than photos that he saw on the internet!!!

The hero clapped his hands together, attracting his attention.

"Alright! Now that the boring part is finally over, we can finally start the true training. QUIRK TRAINING!!!!" All Might declared as he buffed up quickly at the end as he flexed in his muscle form.

"Q-Quirk t-training!!!" Izuku nervously cheered together with All Might, to be honest he was both nervous and excited. He was finally going to actually use the quirk that he has been training to inherit for all this time!!!

All Might reverted back to his small form and he coughed some blood on his hand, when he managed to wipe it from his mouth, he turned towards the boy.

"Let's not waste anymore time my boy, time to do the first step, are you ready?" All Might says as pumped his fist to the side.

"Y-Yes All Might!" Izuku shouted nervously, he was as much ready as he can be.

"First of all, tell me, do you feel something different in your body?" All Might asked as he crossed his hands, he was sweating a bit as to be honest, it was really difficult to teach these first parts considering that he was capable of using the quirk very quickly, it was natural for him activating it, but to teach that to someone? It was very hard, but he will try to do his best.

Izuku blinked a few time and then looked a bit down with a thoughtful face. He then glanced his arms, they were covered by a blue long sleeved gym uniform, courtesy of Nezu It was really comfortable and it covered all his body expect hands and head.

He indeed felt something different in his body, something dormant, a strange sensation worming in his body and wrapping around it. However, the boy didn't know what to do with this feeling.

"I feel something......like....like something c-coiling in my b-body, but i don't know what to do w-with it, w-what s-should I do?" Izuku asked nervously as he looked at the hero for help.

"Try to focus on that feeling, young Midoriya, don't be scared of it, the quirk is yours, it hurt you only if you allow it to do so" All Might suggested, he internally congratulated himself for remembering this sentence from his old sensei.

Izuku eyes widened a bit hearing this, he calmed down a little as he raised his right hand and looked at it, he felt like that strange sensation stronger now as he was focusing on it. He felt like there was a sort of switch on his hand, ready to be pressed.

He keep focusing on that feeling only on his hand, the sensation becoming more clear and strong as the time passed and bis focus increases. He was mentally reaching for that switch... grazing it with his fingers, accepting the feeling.

Immediately the boy could feel something different now. He could swear he was feeling something similar to liquid electricity flowing in his hand, it was like feeling your own blood flowing in your vein. But, he could feel pure power flowing instead of blood, wait.....the black nerves-veins, this was the sensation!!! His quirk factor was channeling OFA power in his hand!

He held this feeling stable as he felt the power filling his hand. After a while he saw black and white vein-like lines course throughout his hand as more energy was channeled. It stopped after a while, making him understand than that was the full power, it was overwhelming, the boy kept the limb still to not risk causing a mess. But he was so giddy and excited now, he was doing it!!!

His eyes took every single detail of the strange energy lines covering his hand. It was a scary feeling, but a exciting one, his heart was beating with joy as he realized that he managed to actually activate OFA consciously for the first time.

He was about to turn his head towards All Might but a strong sensation of pain enveloped his entire hand, making him wheeze in pain as h get on his knees and clenched the hurt limb. His focus broken and causing OFA to be deactivated.

"Young Midoriya, are you okay?!" All Might says surprised as he started to get closer to help him but he was interrupted by Izuku.

"Y-Yes!" Izuku half-shouted with a lot of pain in his voice, still looking down and clenching his hand with the other.

"I'm fine, I'm...I'm fine, i swear, I just need to try again, i know how fo activate OFA now....." Izuku breathed out as he raised himself from the ground, his right hand still shaking, bit the boy bit the pain head on and looked at the hero with a more determined gaze, his eyes shaking.

"I'm r-ready to continue sir!!" Izuku says more animated, he doesn't want to stop every time something goes wrong.

The hero was surprised by Izuku more determined behavior, he knew the boy was hiding the pain of that activation behind will power. Maybe he can try to teach him to limit the output first.

"Alright. You said that you know how to activate it now?" All Might asked after a while as he noticed Izuku posture being more straight, probably the pain was fading.

Izuku nodded nervously.

"So you think you know how to reduce the power output?" The hero asked as he crossed his arms once again.

"Huh? I d-don't know, why?" Izuku asked confused as his eyes widened a bit.

"Well naturally i don't use my full power every time or i would be making a mess after another. We don't know how much stronger OFA got, so your body probably can't handle it at full power without receiving heavy damage. To resolve this issue, you need to keep the output of power as low as you body can withstand, understand?" All Might explain as old lessons with his teacher came back in his mind, helping him in his role as a trainer for his successor.

The boy eyes was a bit surprised by, he then looked down as he thought about it, after a couple of seconds he looked at All Might again

"I-I u-understand, i w-will do m-my best!" Izuku stuttered a bit more determined.

The hero grinned at him but then he found a way to help Izuku, using his own analytical skills as a way to make the boy find the solution himself. If the hero can't teach him how to do something, he can always help him learn it himself.

"Take me for example. In your opinion how do you think i let OFA energy flow in me? How do I use the quirk when i do hero work?" All Might explained as he backed away a little, giving space to the boy.

Izuku nodded and then looked at his hands again, thinking about what All told him. He imagined All Might transforming into his muscle form.

"All Might told me that OFA is a stockpile quirk and from what I have seen. it gives him super strength, single part? Whole body? When he is in his small form, is OFA still active? ........ wait, he gets into his muscle form when he uses the quirk, so he uses it all over his body even when he needs a single limb to attack, he distributes it like ..... like.... "Izuku muttered in his own little world. His mind going further and further into more complex

"Save me!" A familiar happy female voice returned to his mind, his mother....he remembered when she faked being a hostage just to be saved by a hero.

"I am here!!" A younger Izuku shouted as entered the door with a big smile on his face.......he miss being capable of being this happy and carefree.

He looked down as he descent more in his happy memories, after all, they had more informations about his dream, it could give him the motivation to find a way to use the quirk, to be the hero he want to be.....he wants to help people, it was something that he always admired about heroes, they help everyone, gives them smiles......now the question was.....

How he want OFA to feel on him? To help him reach his dream?

He remembered once again the memory of him playing hero with his mother, he used to blanket to cover her so she can be safe.....

Wait.....was that the way he wanted to make others feel when they are in his presence?

".....A cloak to make people feel safe, a cloak to let people know that everything will be okay, because I am here...... it's that how it is? How it feels.....to be hero that can save anyone with a smile" Izuku thought as his eyes widened, without him noticing the same black and white energy veins were starting to appear on lower legs, expanding up to his knees.

All Might noticed this and smiled a bit, his successor was doing it!!!

"Like this young man I knew you would do it in no time" All Might cheer in his head so to not make him lose focus.

Izuku felt a strong sensation of pain assaulting his body, he flitched a bit and glanced down at his body, noticing the same black energy veins covering a part of his legs, which were shaking from the pressure of the quirk.

He narrowed his eyes as he fought the pain with his determination to surpass this challenge.

"All Might told me that 100% of OFA is out of my reach......I need to focus, I need to find my limit!..." Izuku says in his mind as he slowed down his breathing and tries to ignore the pain. even though he wasn't moving,just having it active was excruciatingly painful.

He narrowed his eyes as he hunched a bit his posture, his fists clenched tightly.

"All Might gave me something so precious, i need to do my best to carry it........to at least be worthy of all the time he used for me, i need....." Izuku thought as he gritted his teeth, more pain assaulting him, he made sure not to show it, he doesn't want to worry All Might.

He want to be worthy!!

He want to be a hero that anyone can look up too!

A dependable and strong hero!!!

These thoughts assaulted his mind like hammers. his heavy sense of responsibility for having this quirk entrusted to him destroyed the previous thought about OFA. From a cloak, the quirk shifted to feel like a heavy armor that was being forced on the boy's body, he has been entrusted with this quirk.....he can't play hero like he did in his past, he need to be strong to carry this legacy.

"I will become a hero, no matter the difficulty, I made a promise and I will keep it......i can't let All Might down, i can't let anyone down, no more, not anymore, my weakness will not stop me...to reach my dream!!!" Izuku thought seriously as he focused even more, forcing more power through his body.

The black energy veins started to expand on the rest of his body.

The boy was making progress, he was using the pain as a way to regulate how much power he needed to channel on his body.

"You almost did it young man, and in just 5 minutes, you're just something else" All Might says in a low voice as his eyes widened a bit, be surprised on how quickly Izuku was catching on.

Izuku irises gained a crimson glint as his posture straightened. He breathed out, and in a second, the energy veins vanished, small black lightning bolts with green outlines began to appear in their place, dancing around his skin.

"I......I did it" Izuku muttered shocked as he panted a bit, he looked at his hands, which were passed by occasional small black lighting bolts.

He clenched his fists as he explored the feeling, it was hard to keep it active and the pressure was not low. He could feel the power enhancing his muscles. Like wearing a armor that makes you stronger.

He flitched when he heard clapping and when he turned his head, he saw All Might walking towards him with a grin, clapping his hands.

"Good Job young Midoriya, how do you feel?" the hero congratulated.

The boy looked at his arms again and them at the hero.

"It's s-strange......I feel a little stiff, but I also feel a little stronger and lighter, it's........good.....i guess" Izuku replied still in awe for what he managed to do.

"How you will call it?" All Might asked.

The boy looked at him confused.

"Mhm? What d-do you mean?" Izuku asked confused as he titled his head to the side.

"This form of yours. I think it deserves a nice name" All Might says with a grin as he glanced at the black lightning bolts.

Izuku thought for a while and then remember the feeling of weight and responsibility that the quirk put on him.

"I'll call it.......black armor" Izuku says.

"Uuu mysterius and cool, good job young Midoriya" All Might says.

The boy looked down, he could feel that the amount of power he was using was very, very small compared to what all Might was capable as soon as he received the quirk.

"All Might is this good? I don't know if this is at a high enough percentage, what if I can't master it?" Izuku says uncertainty as he rubbed his arm with the other hand.

The hero gave the boy a couple of pats on the back, he noticed that the boy didn't move a lot from the pat.

"Don't worry about that! this is only the first step and you are already doing well. There's no need to rush!" All Might says as he started to walk towards a part of the training grounds, making sign to Izuku to follow him.

"Now come, I think it's time to see how far you can push yourself, we must go beyond plus ultra!!" All Might says with a booming voice as he turned his head to look at the boy with a side glance.

"Y-yes sir!!!" Izuku says as his eyes glowed more in power and trepidation, he doesn't want to slack off.

These are going to be two tough months.

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"Y-yes sir!" Izuku shouted as he followed his teacher, now that he got at least a feel of this power, he was ready to work even harder, his body shaking with a rare trepidation to test his new quirk.

The boy looked down as he raised a bit his hands and glanced at them, OFA black lightning bolts passing around them. Their color was strange, it reminded him of that black star he saw in his dream/nightmare, he was still trying to understand what it meant, he was kinda sure that it was related to OFA, the color of his lighting bolts confirmed that. But, it was still a mystery, a creepy one considering that he got impaled and almost attacked by those scary tendrils.

He shook his head as he sighed, blinked a few times and glanced at his hands again, opening and closing them a few times, feeling OFA energy flow in the muscles of his fingers. Even with this little power, he needed a lot of focus to keep it barely active and stable, it was like his body was being engulfed by a very heavy armor that he had to carry, his body sometimes felt heavier as the power flickered from one intensity to another as soon as Izuku's focus faltered even for a second, making him flinch a little and stiffen his muscles to keep the pain at bay. He knew that the quirk was going to deactivate at the first distraction, so he kept the feeling going to hopefully adapt to it.

He looked ahead as he lowered his hands and blinked a couple of times, his slightly glowing irises staring into space as he goes deeper into his thoughts, his body following All Might like it was on autopilot.

He still couldn't believe it.....he have a quirk now, the feeling of something new in his body was something that was keeping him shaking in excitement. And, the feeling of his quirk factor pumping energy in his entire body sent a feeling similar to adrenaline in his system, he was ready to overcome anything, he will fight to be the hero he always wanted to be.

The boy raised his gaze as he looked at the hero's back, even in his thin form, All Might still gave a aura of heroism and hidden overwhelming power. The boy's eyes gained a more bright color, imaginary stars in his irises as he resisted the urge to pump his fists excited at the thought of training with the quirk.

He took a deep breath as he composed himself, well....if his usual mannerisms can be considered being composed.

He looked at the side, his eyes a bit more squinted as he glanced at UA main building. He still couldn't believe that he was here. But, he is not a student yet, He have still have the entrance exam to pass if he want to study here. And he will do his best, no....... beyond his best.

"This is just the beginning........all the training I did was to only receive this quirk........ there's so much that I still need to do......." Izuku thought as he raised his right hand and looked at it, he could feel still bit of pain for what happened before. But, his growing determination to prove himself worthy of this quirk dulled any sensation of inadequacy or physical pain.

He closed it into a fist once again, the black lightning bolts flickered for a moment, feeling their new master internal turmoil.

"The real challenge start now. After all, Everyone else had their quirks for almost all their lives....compared to them, I am beneath a novice. If I want to compete, I need to work harder that everyone to catch up.....this is the condition of being number one hero, i want to be up to the task, they were wrong about me......i can be useful to others...." Izuku thought more determined but still insecure at the end. But then his eyes glowed more, a slight red glint appeared together with his usual green color, his fist clenched more as he remembered everyone who said he couldn't be a hero, that his dream was pathetic and impossible......he could feel a bit of that burning anger retuning to the surface, his emotions getting unstable, but he bit his tongue to not make his internal turmoil be know by All Might, the last thing the hero need is to be bothered by this poor excuse of a successor that Izuku think himself to be.

The boy shook his head once more as he sealed this problematic emotions beneath walls of will power. The red glint quickly fading and leaving his nervous and kind emerald eyes free of any remnant of anger.

"No.....I......I can be a hero. And I will fight with everything that i have to be worthy of this chance to be one. All the time All Might used for me wasn't for nothing, I will become the strongest hero!......" Izuku thought as he felt himself sweat a little and his face gain a more nervous expression, a bit of anxiety creeping in his mind as the insecurities stabbed his resolve like knifes, but he held tight, shattering any doubt........for now at least.

He didn't notice the hero stopping walking as arrived at a area of the training grounds with a whiteboard and some training gears.

The hero clapped his hands together and looked at the whiteboard in front of him.

"Alright! Better we organize your training properly like that time at the beach, ready?!!" All Might says as he glanced behind to look at Izuku, the mentioned boy jumped a little as he was brought back from his thoughts, but he immediately straighten his back and paid attention to the hero's words, nodding at the question.

"Y-Yes!" Izuku said nervously as he quickly grasped again OFA before it could slip, sending another wave of pain in his body as the energy refocused again, but he could feel he was growing more used to it, the black lightning bolts returning to the previous intensity.

The hero grinned a little and looked at the whiteboard, he took a marker and got close to it.

"First of all, like i said, we have to plan ahead to manage these two remaining months as much as we can. What you did for 8 months was just a taste of what awaits you, now we have to train you into actually using the quirk, we did the first step, but we have to train you into getting a hang of part of this OFA. Luckily I managed to divide your training into three fundamental points that we can focus on to get yourself ready for the entrance exam, got it?" All Might says as he put the marker on the whiteboard, internally, his mind was struggling to remember all these things, he was lucky that Nezu and Aizawa helped him. Teaching was hard!!!

The boy eyes widened a bit hearing this, but immediately a more determined expression made way in his face as he nodded.

"Y-Yes sir!" Izuku shouted nervously as one of his eye twitched a bit because of the pain of keeping OFA active, but he could feel he was adapting a bit more.

"Alright! Then let's start with the first one, power, you have to reinforce your body in order to increase your control over OFA and make sure you can hold more and more of its power. from what I have seen, I think you are currently using a very small percentage, it seems little but if you ask me it's already a good milestone for the first day!" All Might says as he wrote the first fundamental point on the whiteboard, the boy looked to the side a little thoughtful, mixed feelings on his mind at the poor percentage he has reached now, he must do more, he need to do more.

"There! Now, Second point! speed, I think you have seen the great speed at which I move, well the weak point of this advantage is that you have to know how to manage it. You have to think how, where and when to move, a high speed means that you have much less time to think about how to attack and move so we will focus on your ability to adapt to your current and future speed, and in any case it will also be a good support for the first point since using OFA more will got you more used to it sooner, we will kill two birds with one stone!" All Might says writing the second point, mentally congratulating himself for adding some of his words to this explanation, Nezu kept him a lot of time to make these words stick to his skull, but he can add some of his own advices to it.

He glanced behind towards the boy, noticing that he was listening attentively. The hero also noticed a detail, one that cemented the idea that they needed to work on this third and last point.

He turned towards the whiteboard again.

"Last but not least, the third point! Focus! We will surely need to work with this one first ......" All Might explained

"F-Focus?" Izuku asked a little confused.

"Yes, my boy. Focus, you were trying to keep active OFA for all this time, but tell me, did you deactivate it right now?" All Might asked as he turned towards the boy, who looked at him surprised and confused.

"Eh?! W-What do you m....huh?" Izuku started to say confused but he stopped when he glanced down at his body

Izuku at the start is confused by this question, he does not remember doing something similar to turning off the quirk but looking at himself he noticed that the black lighting were gone, pain and fatigue was the only things remaining.

"But I....I-I was k-keeping the f-feeling that m-made me a-activate it!" Izuku stuttered shocked, he tried to make his quirk factor start to channel the quirk again, the black energy veins were slowly coming back. but then a strong sensation of pain engulfed him, making his focus falter and negating any progress.

"I-I can't bring it b-back!" The boy said with pain and a bit of panic, if he can't keep this little power active, how he can hope to even train with it?!

"Young Midoriya calm down! this is what I'm talking about, you have to practice activating OFA and keeping it active. It's natural that it's hard for you to keep track of the quirk, but don't worry, you will get in no time!"All Might explained as he crossed his arms, making the boy look at him a bit more collected.

"...O-Ok....I w-will do my b-best!" Izuku says nervously as he pumped one of his fist, more fire in his sad eyes.

All Might nodded with a grin as he wrote the third and last point on the board, he then make a poor attempt to draw Izuku, which if you ask everyone it seems more like a stickman with a brush head.

"There! now that we have listed the main points, we can concentrate on managing your training, when we are done in two months you will have a good idea of how to use One for All, it won't be easy but we have to go PLUS ULTRA!" All Might says buffing up at the end.

"Amazing!" Izuku muttered in awe seeing how All Might has broken down their training with such precision.

All Might meanwhile deflated again and finally turns around but strangely with one hand behind his back, if you look closely you can see a small notebook that the hero has put in his pocket.

"He he he come on my boy did you think I only knew how to throw punches? Obviously I'll give my plus ultra in your training ha ha ha" All Might says laughing but in his head "Thanks goodness that Nezu and Aizawa helped me make this program, it would be embarrassing if i tell him to just punch the air until something happens " he thinks internally sweating.

He then shook his head and looked at the boy.

"Now let's get started, we have so much work to do, I'm sorry to tell you that saying it will be pleasant would be a lie, do you feel ready?!" All Might says as he raised an eyebrow with a small grin, trying to fuel the fire of his successor.

Izuku thought back at everything he's been through. His dream was the only thing besides the affection for his mother that kept him sane, and now after all this time he had a chance to make this dream come true, he would never miss this chance, he can't waste it.

"I....Y-Yes sir!!!" Izuku shouted nervously as his eyes became more bright, his mind completely burning with determination.

"Splendid! You remind me more and more of myself when I was your age. But, now let's stop chatting and let's go back to training, you have a entrance exam to pass!!!"All Might shouted as he pumped his fist in the air.

"Y-yes sir! I'm ready!!" Izuku shouted as he did did the same thing, mentally preparing himself for another two months of hell.

Focus

21 December

All Might and Izuku were seen on the central part of the training grounds. The boy was being surrounded by black lightning bolts, indicating that he was channeling OFA through his body.

Izuku gritted his teeth slightly as he clenched his fists, sweat building up on his forehead and body as he kept forcing his body to endure the strain. As All Might suggested, they were starting by training his focus and this meant adapting him to OFA, to achieve this, he needs to activate and keep active OFA in a short span of time, similar to a anaerobic exercise, a very strenuous one as that.

"And stop!" All Might shouted as he made an X with his arms.

The boy released a breath he didn't knew he was holding and deactivated OFA, his body aching because of the energy pumped by his quirk factor, he could feel himself be slightly more used to it as time passes, he was also getting faster.

He glanced at All Might, who was holding a timer in his hand.

The hero was looking at it while making numbers on the other hand, silently counting. At a certain point he closed his free hand into a fist and looked at the boy again.

"Okay, again! Charge OFA!" All Might ordered as he pumped his fist in the air.

Izuku immediately looked ahead got into position again, clenching his fists as he channeled OFA through his quirk factor and letting the power engulf him once again. He was a bit faster, but not enough, he still required too many seconds and focus to channel it.

His body was slightly shaking as he was growing tired, the strain of repeatedly using the quirk taking a tool on his body now, but he bit the pain and fatigue and let his determination fuel his resolve.

"And off!" All Might said after some seconds, Making the boy exhale once again and deactivated OFA, sweat dripping from his chin and impacting with the ground.

"Just one more, my boy!! Go beyond plus ultra!!" The hero cheered as he pumped both his fists in front of him

"*Pant* yes *pant* sir" Izuku says with difficulty, his body begging him to take a break. But, he couldn't allow himself to slack off, not when everyone else is ahead of him. If he want to be the number one hero, he needs to work harder than everyone!

He clenched his fist, gritted his teeth and channeled OFA, but this time....

"Black armor 3%!!!" Izuku roared as he charged OFA, it was much faster than before, talking only five seconds instead of the previous ten/eighteen.

The hero's eyes widened a bit in surprise, that's a very big gap compared to the previous channeling. His successor was surely speeding things up.

After a while, the hero's eyes widened even more as he remembered something important.

"Ah!" The hero made a sound of realization as he quickly glanced at the timer, realizing that Izuku was keeping OFA active more than usual, but luckily, this was the last turn.

He immediately looked up at the boy and....

"Aaaaand, stop!" All Might says as he waved his hands quickly.

Izuku immediately deactivated OFA. His body leaned forward as he put his hands on his knees and hunched his posture, his breathing heavy and ragged, he was exhausted and his body ached all over.

The hero walked towards him with a small grin but also with a internal panic for forgetting about stopping his successor sooner.

"Fifteen consecutive activations, not bad young Midoriya! And you also are getting faster, good work!!!" All Might congratulated as he patted the boy on the back, who stumbled a little as he was still trying to recover.

"Yes..... thank you *pant* All Might" Izuku says between heavy breaths, his gaze still locked on the ground.

"Alright, Let's take a break!" All Might says as he turned to leave, he thought the boy was following but he didn't heard steps behind so he turned his head and was a bit confused when he saw the boy was standing in the same place.

The boy was still looking at the ground, a thoughtful and tired look on his face. His eyes squinted as memories of all the months he spent training just to be strong enough to inherit this quirk came back inside his mind. he has just two months left to be strong enough to pass the entrance exam, he trusted his mentor words that he would be ready enough to pass it......but.....this was frustrating him a little.....

Because he doesn't just want to get into UA......

The boy raised his gaze a little, his eyes looking ahead with a more troubled gaze, his body slowly stopped shaking as he could feel himself recover.

He want to excel! he want to be truly worthy of a legacy much more important than himself.

His eyes reflected all the times he watched All Might on TV. Faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than anyone, his smile brightening the day.

*Pant* *pant*

Izuku panted as he straightened his posture, sweat passing close to his eyes, which were more wide but not focused because he was deep in his thoughts.

"I managed to reduce the time that it takes for me to bring OFA out.....but If i want to even hope of being like him....this......." Izuku thought as his eyes squinted, he then looked at his right hand and clenched it into a shaking fist.

"It's not enough!" He continued in his mind as he looked a bit down, his hair shadowing his eyes.

"All Might, let's continue please!" He shouted suddenly with slight nervous tone but also firm, attracting the hero's attention.

"...Huh?! Why? We can continue later, we...." All Might says surprised, he knew that his successor was eager but this was too much.

He was cut off by the boy.

"I k-know b-but I f-feel f-fine and not t-tired at all!" Izuku says nervously as he regained his breathing, making sure to not show a bit of tiredness.

"Young Midoriya, I know you want to master the quirk as quick as possible, but we have the time..." All Might says as he waved his hands in front of him, trying to convince his successor to take it easy.

The boy paused a moment but then slowly raised his head to look at the hero, who was surprised when he saw a more fiery and determined glint in Izuku usual sad and nervous eyes.

"It's f-fine.....I-I can go for l-longer, don't worry about me, I.....I n-need to go plus ultra, sir...." Izuku says shakily with a nervous small grin, his eyes shaking and his sweat drenching his forehead.

The hero looked at him with uncertainty, they should stop, but Izuku seemed mostly fine and that eagerness was getting on him.

"Okay.....Just two more, and we go take a break, recovery girl will kill me if she know about this, so be careful, okay?" All Might says as he put a hand on his hair and scratched, still very perplexed of what of to do, his master allowed him to decide his training himself from time to time, but he doesn't know if this will bring repercussions. But he should trust his successor, he wouldn't hurt himself deliberately.

Izuku nodded as he looked ahead again, he bit his tongue to stop any sensation of aching to go out, he will become stronger, no matter the hardship.

He put himself into position again. His stiffened muscles causing more pain to stab him as soon as he started to channel the quirk again, but he didn't care, he can't stop every time his body hurt.

He clenched his fists as he let his quirk factor pump energy in his entire body like electrified blood, the pain worsened a lot. But, he kept holding himself together, his drive to become as strong as possible dulled the pain and allowed him to go further.

"Hold on, hold on! Carry it....you....you need to carry it!" Izuku said in his mind as he boosted himself up, forcing his way against the pain and continue to bring the quirk out, the black energy veins covered his entire body, the black lightning bolts with green outlines followed after, ending the process and making the boy

The boy was breathing heavily, but after a little, a ghost of a smile marked his face, a bit more a happy that he managed to force another activation, but it was short lived....

*Thump thump*

"Argh!" Izuku breath was cut off as he heard his own heartbeat and extreme pain assaulted him immediately after, his muscles stiffened as he felt his focus break.

OFA turned off as the boy got on his knees and hunched his posture, clenching his stomach with both hands, the pain making him his vision blurry.

"Young Midoriya!!!" All Might shouted surprised and worried as he ran towards him, crouching down to see if he was alright.

"*Pant* I'm okay! I'm okay to continue!" Izuku managed to say but his voice was hoarse for how much pain he was feeling. But, he still wanted to continue, if he doesn't force himself to become even stronger, how he can hope to be an hero as amazing as All Might?! He need to get up, he wanted to get up, but.....he couldn't!

"Young Midoriya..." All Might says surprised by his successor perseverance to continue even if he literally wheezing on the ground. This was a bad idea, Aizawa gonna strangle him for sure.

He shook his head and looked at his downed successor again.

"Making you go overboard was a great mistake by me, i didn't thought you were hiding the pain so well, you can't force progress, you will have the opposite effect!" All Might says as he extended his hand towards the boy to help him but he was cut off once again.

"I-I have..." Izuku tried to say as his body shook, his voice still hoarse and strained, showing how truly in pain he was.

He slightly raised his head, but his eyes were still not visible.

"I have to work h-harder. Or I won't stand a chance a-against the other applicants. I don't just want to get into UA, I w-want to excel. I want... to be like you!" Izuku says with pain as he looked at All Might with tearful eyes, one of them half closed because of the extreme pain, but he bit it to continue.

"I want......to be the greatest hero in the world! So I'll keep on trying until I've got what it takes to do that!" He concluded but then another wave of pain interrupted him and made him lean forward once again.

The hero was very surprised by these words, he remembered how Izuku was the first day....now he was different, he had a lot of fight in him, too much that his body can hold.

He scratched his hair with a more serious look and sighed.

"You have a lot of spirit there, fanboy. But, it's useless if you can't even stand on your feet after, we need to take it slow or your body will not be able to endure all of this" All Might says seriously as he put a hand on the boy back.

Before Izuku could protest, he was interrupted.

"Now, we will take a break, and i don't want to hear anything from you..... that spirit need rest to burn brighter" All Might says a little more friendly as he used the other hand to get a hold of one of the boy's arms

"B-but" izuku tried to protest, but he was cut off once again.

"No buts, Young Midoriya, i appreciate that you want to learn quickly, but in this way, you will only hurt yourself. You don't have to push yourself so much, it's okay, you can do it slowly" All Might says as he helped the boy to get up, who was still looking down, his hair shadowing his eyes.

The hero continued to help him stand, looking down at him with a more stern gaze.

"You understand what I'm telling you?" All Might asked a bit more sternly, hopefully to make Izuku understand to take it easy.

".......Yes" Izuku replied in a whisper after a while, his internal thoughts messy and full of mixed feelings, part of him still felt unworthy of all of this and wanted to prove himself, the other part was shameful of making All Might worry about him.

He looked up with a tired look as he walked beside the hero, who looked back at him with a small grin and a thumb up.

The boy looked away, his thoughts recollecting.

"But it's okay?...to take it slow when I'm so weak?...." He thought as he entered UA together with the hero.

24 December

*Ahh!* *Punch*

"Try again, young Midoriya! Don't let that air villain go unpunished!" All Might cheered as he watched Izuku punching the air while being in black armor status, now that the boy have a decent hang on it and it wasn't that difficult to keep it active, they were trying to sharpen his focus during intense activities like battles or quick movements to make Izuku adapt to both move and keep OFA active without problems.

"Y-Yes!" Izuku shouted as he nodded, he put himself into position again, took a deep breath and.....

"OFA: black armor 3%!" Izuku chanted as he channeled OFA through his entire body, it was much easier compared to the first times, he was getting starting to get a hang of his power and he wasn't going to stop!

He shifted his position to the side and extended quickly his left arm forward, his fist clenched.

"*Ahh!*" Izuku grunted with clenched teeth as he punched the air with his left arm. But, he noticed that OFA slipped from his reach halfway during the attack.

".....I was so close this time, But it keep deactivating, i need to focus more!" Izuku muttered a bit downcast as he looked at his left fist, the black lightning bolts were gone. Once again OFA stopped being active halfway through the punching motion. it still gave him a boost in speed and power during the time it was active, but it was dulled by being deactivated at the end.

"Don't worry! you just have to get used to it, for me it was like flexing a muscle, try to do the same thing!" All Might suggested as he raised his fist in the air.

The boy's eyes squinted a bit as he closed up his left fist, he was slowly figuring out how to connect the feeling of OFA with the one of simply moving his body, it was slowly coming together.

"He is right, keep trying, i can't let this stop me!" Izuku thought as he boosted himself up, he put himself into position again, this time more firm and calm. He focused on the feeling of his muscles contracting and OFA power pumping through his body, letting his body move by its own.

He clenched his right fist, OFA lighting bolts dancing around it and the rest of his body, increasing his strength and speed.

"Now!" Izuku shouted inside his mind as he moved forward and extended his arm, letting OFA enhance his muscles without worry.

"Smash!!!!" Izuku shouted with all his heart as he punched forward with his right arm, the quirk not leaving him at the last second, resulting in some very small wind to be generated in front of him.

The boy looked amazed as he noticed that black armor was still active, he did it!

A small smile made way in his face as he pumped his left fist a little.

"Yes!" He cheered to himself.

"Good job!! I told you would have done it, come on, try again, get an hang of it!" All Might cheered from afar, internally proud that Izuku was using his own chant when he attacks.

The boy looked at him and nodded nervously.

"Y-yes sir!" Izuku says as he recomposed himself and prepared to resume the training, his body immediately covered by OFA power again.

He punched the air again, keeping the same feeling going. The muscles of his arms roared with power as OFA was being spreaded around his body.

He kept practicing, alternating between each arm to get used to the feeling, a pattern started to form in head, allowing him to easily repeat the process

1) Charge OFA

2) Contract muscle

3) And punch

"Smash!" Izuku shouted again as he punched the air, his movements better than before, he was getting more precise and he could feel that is was becoming easier to keep track of OFA, allowing him to use more of his focus to make his strikes less sloppy.

He immediately put himself in position again, he was internally impressed with the added speed and strength than OFA gave him, even at 3%, the gap in performance was noticable.

"This is only 3% of OFA...." Izuku thought as he punched the air with his left arm, black lightning bolts moved together with him, accompanying his movements like he was wearing the quirk like an armor.

The boy remember the punches All Might used to save him from the sludge villain a lot of months ago, they were so strong that the wind pressure they generated was enough to obliterate the villain and even change the weather!!!

"All Might's strength is so great that his presence alone cause Japan crime rate to drop by 3%.........there has never been a hero like him before" Izuku thought as he prepared to punch with his right arm, the motion already started.

"I want to be as strong as him, for this i have to do more than my best!!!" Izuku thought as he unconsciously caused a burst of adrenaline to be released through his body and a unconscious desire to hit as hard as he could, making OFA go out of control and overcharge the attacking limb, black veins covered it as the sleeve started to break down, the black lightning bolts increased a lot in intensity.

All Might noticed this, his eyes widened like plates.

"Wait, that not 3%, YOUNG MIDORIYA, DON'T!" All Might shouted as he tried to make him stop but it was too late.

"Smash!!!" Izuku shouted as he punched the air with his overcharged limb, causing extremely powerful air pressure to rampage all around the training grounds, blowing training gears away.

All Might immediately turned into his muscle form and crossed his arms at X, tanking the strong wind head on, he actually had to put his feet firmly on the ground to keep his footing.

"That's young Midoriya 100%!?, It's stronger than I thought it would be!" All Might think surprised as he waited for the wind to subdue, when it did, the hero looked up, finding a lot of dust flying, covering his line of sight. The hero then turned into his skinny form and ran towards the place where he remembered Izuku to be.

After a couple of seconds he found him, sitting on the ground and looking ahead with wide and shocked eyes, indicating that he too didn't understood what happened.

"Young Midoriya are you oka-.....?!" All Might was asking but stopped when he noticed a very bad detail about the boy.

Hearing the hero voice, Izuku blinked and looked at him, his stare more focused.

"All Might? W-what happened? W-what w-was that?" izuku asked still a bit dazed, that sudden burst of power left him completely shocked. His body sensations were a mess, his heart was slightly pounding, his mouth dry and his right arm was tingling a lot.

"Young Midoriya, listen to me, don't look at your arm and take deep breaths" All Might says a bit frantic as he waved his hands forward.

"Huh?" Izuku muttered confused as his adrenaline induced mind made him do what he shouldn't. He looked down and his eyes widened in horror seeing the condition his right arm was. The limb skin was completely red, the bones on it broken and the majority of his finger disarticulated, it didn't help that after the adrenaline settled, a great wave of pain fired up his nerves.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!" Izuku screamed in pain holding his broken arm.

"Young Midoriya !!!" All Might screamed panicked as he frantically try to calm down the boy without success. he then immediately decides to pick up Izuku and run like crazy towards Recovery Girl's infirmary.

In the teacher lounge

Aizawa was in the teacher lounge with bloodshooted eyes and a cross popping vein crossing his forehead. His mind was formulating various types of torture to inflict to those two idiots who woke him up.

"I hate my job, i hate my life, i hate everything, there's something else that can ruin this day even more? " he says with an annoyed and tired voice.

Present mic then barges into the room.

"Oi Shota! Did you hear that giant whirlwind!? Do you think we should go check it out?! oi are you listening to me!? *ow!*" Present Mic shouted, shifting from one sentence to another, but was interrupted by a book that was throw on his face.

"Stop shouting, it's nothing to worry about, just idiots who don't know how to do things properly and above all. in silence, I can't wait to have them in my clutches, nobody interrupts my naps" Aizawa says calmly but then a sadic grin appeared on his disheveled face, a dark aura around him.

Present mic started to sweat and with his hands raised he started to back up towards the door, once outside he ran with all his might away from the monster called Shota Aizawa.

In the infirmary

"You poor dear, this power is truly merciless on someone so young, *kiss!*" Recovery girl says calmly as she kisses the boy on the arm, the broken limb glowed green as it starts to quickly heal and return to its normal color, after some seconds, it was completely healed.

"Wow" Izuku muttered in awe as he looked at his now completely healed but still aching arm. But then his eyelid became to grow heavy as he felt himself growing very tired all of a sudden. His arm was then calmly grabbed by recovery girl and wrapped in some bandages and then casted to make sure the limb get enough rest to adapt to the rapid healing.

The nurse then glared at the side towards All Might, who stiffened in terror.

"So, care to explain why Midoriya got a broken arm? Are you putting too much pressure on him?" Recovery girl says calm but irritated, already raising her free arm and clenched it into a fist.

"Nononono Chiyo! it was an accident!" All Might says scared as he quickly waved his hands, comically sweating.

Suddenly the nervous boy chimed in the conversation, avoiding the nurse to scold the number one hero more

"It w-was my f-fault, miss Recovery girl! p-please don't give All Might t-the f-fault. It's me w-who messed t-things up" Izuku says very nervously as he looked down, his left fingers grasping his thighs.

He then raised a bit his gaze to look at her, a nervous sweat forming on his forehead again.

"W-while i was training, I-I th-thought of h-how s-strong All Might is.....and that I wanted to b-become as strong as he is..." He continued nervously as he looked a bit at the side a couple of times. When realized that he couldn't look at her in the eyes for how guilty he felt, he decided to look down once again, his mind frustrated for causing his hero to be scolded for his mistakes.

"I t-think I used OFA at 100% because i w-wanted to be l-like him, so it w-was my fault!" He stuttered as he shook a bit nervously in place, he even closed his eyes.

The nurse glanced at him and then at all Might, after a couple of seconds, she sighed and passed a hand through her temples.

"Good grief, you youngsters have too much energy for us to keep up. But, i guess it can't be helped, don't be sorry, it was an accident, be careful next time" Recovery girl says with a small smile as he patted the boy knee, making Izuku open his eyes and look back at her with a surprised look, he then gradually calmed down, nodding to her nervously.

The nurse then glanced at All Might again, making him jump a bit.

"And you....." Recovery girl says still a bit irritated as she pointed at him with her cane

All Might stood to attention, his body shaking in terror.

"Y-y-yes?" All Might asked shakily, fearing that she gonna hit him, he fear her almost as much as his old teacher.

"Keep a closer eye on him. If he tries to go overboard, you need to make sure he understand that what he is doing is not healthy and you need to be stern while you do it. You are spoiling him too much" She says sternly as she lowered her cane once again, a more relaxed expression on her face, no irritation remained.

"Yes ma'am!" All Might says with a nervous salute, internally happy that he dodged a bullet.

The nurse then walked towards her desk, putting the bandages bag back into her kit.

The boy glanced at his casted arm with a sad look, this was unfortunately familiar, half of the reason he screamed when he found out he broke his arm was out of habit, he doesn't feel that much pain anyway.

"I'm s-so s-sorry All Might, I'm a-always a bother to e-everyone" Izuku stuttered nervously as he looked down with a downcast look, his eyes seemed on the brink of releasing frustrated tear. He always do this, he is always a weight to everyone.

But then he felt someone ruffling his hair, he raised his gaze surprised and found All Might smiling at him.

"Don't worry, my boy, just be careful next time. And maybe let's avoid going too much plus ultra. Better we don't make Chiyo angry, she is worried about your health, so follow her advices, alright" All Might says with a grin a thumb up in his other hand.

"...O-Ok, I......I w-will be m-more c-careful" izuku says nervously as he he scratched his casted arm with his free one.

"That's the spirit!" All Might says happily.

"Alright you two, go out and rest, no training until Midoriya is fully recovered, my quirk consume stamina, so you should eat something" Recovery girl says calmly from the desk.

"Yes miss Recovery girl!/ Don't worry Chiyo, leave it to me" Izuku and All Might says together. The two then got up and left the infirmary, leaving the old pro heroine alone.

After a couple of seconds, she sits on a chair and puts a hand on her forehead.

"*Sigh* Something tells me these two are going to drive me crazy" she says to herself, already preparing herself for the migraines.

Speed

8 January

The training moved into a new location, a sort of recreation of an industrial site compiled by many factories that form a labyrinth. Tons of heavy machinery including cranes and pipelines being present as well.

It was all calm until.

*Woosh*

Izuku was seen jumping from one pipeline to another, using his enhanced speed to easily maneuvers throughout the training ground by swiftly jumping from one area to another. his percentage fixed to 5%, and that little was enough to help him greatly.

He was wearing a more protected version of the UA long sleeved gym uniform, so he couldn't hurt himself if he fell.

As the boy was continuing to jump from one platform to another, he was a bit deep in his thoughts.

"Nezu allowed us to continue my training here, in the training grounds that UA use to train its students. I still feel like this is cheating, but i don't want to offend him by going against his choice, after all he has done for me, i can't stop, I need to do my best to make sure all of this isn't wasted" Izuku thought as he decided to focus more on jumping, so to not fall again.

The boy landed on top of a crane, his eyes quickly moving to scan the area, his eyes glowed when he saw a pipeline close enough for him to jump.

He immediately started to run towards the edge of the crane rooftop and when his foot grazed it.

"Black armor burst 8%!" Izuku said in his mind as he changed his percentage to 8 at the moment of the jump to gain more strength, as he was in the air heading towards his new landing place, he quickly lowered his percentage to 5 before his body could receive heavy strain.

"I managed to increase my max percentage to 5, but it's not enough...." Izuku thought as he landed on the pipeline, he didn't waste time to jump on another, using a burst of power if he needed it.

"But Recovery Girl and All Might will get worried if i try to get stronger faster, even if i say that i will be fine and that i don't mind the risks" Izuku continued to say in his mind as he grabbed a smaller pipeline and used it as a handstand to jump on a bigger one.

"So....i must do what i can to make the most of what I can do right now" Izuku thought as he jumped on a rooftop and then stood on a rail on the edge of it.

He looked at his right arm, which was passed by some black lightning bolts.

"But even with this little, I feel so strong, it's like my body is on fire but in a good way" Izuku thought, but then he heard a sound behind him, he turned his head and saw a hovering small green drone with a single red lens, following him.

"You are really learning fast, young man! You are agile as a cat!" All Might voice was being reproduced by the robot, showing that it was being used to watch Izuku movement and comunicate with him.

The boy scratched the back of his head as he looked away, an embarrassed look in his face.

"T-thank y-you mister All Might! I just w-want to do my b-best to m-master the quirk" Izuku says nervously, still very nervous to receive all of these praises.

"And you are making a lot of progress, so don't worry! You gonna obliterate that exam!" The voice of All Might cheered from the drone, it even got up and down like it was trying to cheer, probably All Might was controlling the drone remotely in this moment.

Izuku nodded nervously and then turned around, looking at the labyrinth of metal and concrete, his eyes a bit more determined and focused.

"There's so much that i need to do before that, i can't stop" Izuku thought as he jumped down, ready to continue, black lightning bolts surrounding him quickly.

February 4

Izuku exited the changing room and quickly walked towards the training ground while wearing the more protected version of the gym uniform, he was a bit anxious as All Might told him that today they would actually do some combat training. Until now he just practiced against targets that don't fight back so he was both a bit excited but also nervous.

"Who will All Might make me fight with? It's a s-student? A teacher? A hero? wait, every teacher here is a hero! Then, who will be? What kind of combat training will they make me do? Will it hurt?!" Izuku thought quickly a bit panicked, the prospect of actually fighting someone was something still extremely scary for him, considering that he was used to receive one way beatings. But, He knew that this day had to come, because many times heroes need to fight villains to protect bystanders, and UA will surely have lots of lessons where they need to fight each other or others.

The boy smallowed the lump in his throat, a single trail of sweat forming on the side of his head because of his nerves. But then he calmed down slightly, a new thought breaching his mind.

"But i guess...... if i want to be stronger, I need to be ready to be also beaten...... especially since i don't have experience fighting......." Izuku thought a little more calm, if he needs to be hurt to become a hero.....he needs to bite it and accept, it's not like they can hurt him more than his ex classmates already did, his body is already a mess.

He looked ahead, his nervousness slowly settling down as a more troubled but also calm look made way in his face. He then took a deep breath and speeded his pace a tiny bit.

"There's nothing to be scared about..... I'm not...... I'm not anymore the weak quirkless Deku that they used to beat up.....i can do it!" Izuku thought as he closed his fists slightly, a bit of pain returned by remembering that nickname but he used those painful memories to boost himself to train harder, to prove that he isn't anymore that little scared kid. At least, that's what he tell himself to keep that minimum of control of his sad emotions going, it worked fairly well until now, using the training as a way to dull his mental and physical pain. He just kept bottling up everything,his insecurities and doubts continuesly bubble below the surface, assaulting his mind sometimes, but he just kept going to hopefully prove them wrong, but they were growing just louder.

He shook his head to free his head from this thought, took another shaky big sigh and searched for All Might with his eyes. He found him at a certain point, waving at him.

The boy eyes quickly started to slightly running towards him but his eyes widened a bit noticing something.

The hero was standing on the center of the training ground but he was not alone, something metallic was close and, when Izuku got close enough, he could could see more clearly who or, more precisely, what was around the hero, more than a dozen of turned off robots were lined up close to the hero, ready to be used. These robots were all fairly big, with light green bodies and red lenses as eyes.

"Robots? A-Are these the same that UA use for their training sessions? I never saw them up close, they look strange" Izuku thought a bit confused, his eyes glancing curiously at the deactivated robots as he got closer, now at some meters from the hero.

The hero grinned slightly at him, his arm crossed, his baggy clothes dangling slightly.

"There you are, young Midoriya! ready for your first combat session? Gonna flex that burning spirit of yours!!" All Might says as he pumped his fist, a bit of vapor coming out of his skin indicating that he was almost transforming but he luckily stopped himself, Recovery girl already scolded him severely for overusing his time limit again yesterday.

The boy looked at the hero and after a couple of seconds, smallowed the lump in his throat and nodded nervously.

"Ehm, Y-yes s-s-sir! But.... uhm..." Izuku says nervously bit then trailed off as he glanced at the training robots again.

"A-Are we g-gonna use t-these robots for my t-training?" Izuku asked nervously as he glanced at the hero again, he was a bit more calm because fighting robots was better that fighting a person. But, it was still his first time actually clenching his fists and hit a moving target, so he was understandably anxious.

"Correct! I wanted to train you myself but Nezu said that it would be too much. I don't know what's wrong with me sparring with you. I know how to hold back my power, it's not like i would go overboard" All Might says a bit frustrated as he crossed his arms.

Izuku shook a little at the prospect of sparring with All Might, his face pale as he imagined himself be sent flying by just one punch from the hero, and he wouldn't need to use his full power for that. He suddenly felt very lucky of training with training robots instead of the number one hero, who can obliterate city blocks with air pressure alone......yes, he was having a mini anxiety attack just thinking about that scenario.

".......I feel like I've d-dodged a bullet!" Izuku thought as he sweatdropped a little.

All Might took something from his pocket, it was sort of small device, probably the controller of the robots.

"These will be your training partners, my boy, meet the OFA Adapted Training Robots!!!" All Might announced more lively as used his arms to indicate the robots with a dramatic mannerism.

This made the boy glance once again towards the cold metallic machines that will apparently spar with him. He noticed that they were a bit more than a dozen and that they divided into town groups that were diverse in structure.

The first group had a more slim body, with big rectangular arms with what seemed grappling hooks present at the end of them, a single wheel acted as the transportation method.

The second group were a bit smaller but seemingly much more agile suggested by the four legs. The also had a sort of tail similar to a scorpion, a long head extending from the center of their bodies.

As he observed them, he realized a detail that All Might said about them. He turned towards the hero with a slightly surprised and confused look.

"W-wait, All Might, what do you m-mean with *OFA adapted*?" The boy asked confused as he titled a bit his head to the side.

The hero walked towards one of the robots of the first group and put a hand of it, he then looked at the boy.

"Well these training bots were modified just for you, my boy, Nezu had Power loader built these with your OFA output in mind" All Might says as he patted the spot his hand was.

At this the boy eyes widened in slight shock.

"M-modified just for me?! By Power loader!!! His i-inventions are so cool, he is the one who made the reinforced beams that k-kept multiple skyscrapers from collapsing in the villain attack a couple of years ago, i saw it on TV! Should i ask for an autograph!? But w-what if i bother him by a-asking? I don't want to be always a bother but maybe if i talk to him while he is in a good mood he will not get angry*mutter*" Izuku continue to mutter with squirmy eyes as lose himself into his admiration for heroes, the fact that UA staff is completely made of pro heroes is something that excite him to no end, he want to ask for autograph or even ask something, but he always hesitate, he doesn't want to be annoying.

"Stop nerding out a second, fanboy, my brain can't keep up" All Might says with a sweatdrop, he lost track at the third words, at least he seemed calmer.

This made Izuku come back from his mutter storm, cover his mouth and look at All Might with a nervous and apologetic look.

"Sorry!!!" the boy says embarrassed as he looked away, curing himself for muttering once again, he doesn't need to creep out his mentor.

The hero sweatdropped a little more, his successor can go from a fierce lion to a scared kitten in a heartbeat, it was a bit funny to an extend, but it was also very sad, because he always looked at him with a glint of fear in his eyes, like he did something that he must be punished for, this hasn't changed much since that day, and the boy still refuses to tell him what's wrong.

He cleared his throat as he decided to shift the conversation towards the robots again.

"Don't worry about that. Now, Returning to this little guys, Nezu said that they are special bots that can adapt to your current power, hitting lighter or harder based on how much power you are using so they can avoid hurting you or be too easy to beat, they're also much sturdier than normal so you don't have to worry too much about being a little rough, he said that you can even destroy them if you want, Power loader can built these ones with closed eyes" All Might explain as he stopped leaning on the robot.

Izuku looked surprised and intrigued by this, Nezu made training robots just for him?! He felt very grateful. But...... a familiar sensation crept in his brain, the feeling that he was wasting everyone time and resources because of his being weaker that a normal and perfect successor. first be allowed to train at UA, then using the training grounds reserves to the students and now this......he doesn't know what to think, he felt that he was taking advantage of their kindness, it was making him go crazy.

"This is too m-much, he u-used money and r-resource just for me, I don't know what to give back....." Izuku whispered as he glanced a bit down with a sour expression, his self doubt continuing to slowly come out of his mental shell, he tried to stop these thoughts, but there was so much to contain.

All Might managed to hear the insecurities filled words and looked at his successor with surprised eyes.

"Wait..... is he thinking that he should give something back? But......oh.."All Might started to say in his mind but then stopped when he remember some words that Izuku said to him when they asked him about the school a lot of months ago.

"I can't give you anything....so why?" The sad and broken voice of his successor retuned inside his mind, making him understand why the boy seemed so downcast.

"He is still thinking like that, he doesn't perceive genuine acts of concern and kindness as acts done without second motives. What can i say? I'm not good with this....." All Might wondered frustrated in his head, but then, a idea came to his mind.

He looked at Izuku, who was still thinking of what he can do to repay them.

"Oh! but he said that he wanted something from you, naturally all of this isn't free" All Might says with a small grin, making the boy quickly look at him with surprise, but then his look became nervous and more frantic.

"Ahh! Y-y-yes of c-course!! W-what i can give to him?! I don't have much m-money but maybe i c-can....." Izuku stuttered, not understanding that he just let his doubts be out on the open, ready to be pushed back where they belong.

"He said that he just want to have a game of chess with you after you are done" All Might says as he grinned more, cutting the boy off.

"Ehm?! J-j-just t-that? but w-why?" The boy asked confused and nervous.

The hero crossed his arms, looking down at him with a more serious look.

"Maybe because some people genuinely want to see you succeed, my boy. Nezu, like me and Recovery Girl, see the qualities of a great hero buried inside of you, for this we will help you dig them out. So, no self doubt here, fanboy, Accept the gift, it's time for your fire to come out AND BURN THIS EXAM!" All Might says in a booming voice as he turned into his muscle form and flexed, making the boy jump, the hero then returned in his skinny form, coughing some blood.

"Ah.... Recovery girl is gonna kill me" All Might says to himself with a strained voice.

Meanwhile The boy looked at the hero with wide eyes, the words stabbed his insecurities like knifes, causing them to temporary retire inside his brain.

He glanced down with a thoughtful look for some moments, he mentally cursed himself for even causing this issue, all of this because of his self doubt, he can't allow this to interfere with the training, so he bottled up the last remnant of his sad emotions and look up at the hero, a more calm expression on his face, but it was just a facade.

"I u-understand.....i guess.....sorry for always d-doubting, I.......I w-will try to be more s-silent....." Izuku whispered, especially quiet on the last sentence, still ensure, it was still very hard for him to thought positive, always thinking at the worst case scenario, it was imbedded into his brain, part of him desired to stop fearing everything around, but it was hard.

"Don't worry, young Midoriya, just relax, we are here for you. But now, are we ready to start? It could distract your mind" All Might says as he looked at the device in his hand, it was similar to a phone, with a screen which showed the robots status.

"Y-Yes sir" Izuku says as he mentally prepared himself for anything, already making his quirk factor pump some initial power to get ready, but not enough to fully go black armor.

"Alright!....ehm, maybe we should start with just one then if it goes well we can go with more than one at a time, after all, the entrance exam have you fight multi robots, so learning to fight more than one opponent at a time as soon as possible could help you" the hero explained.

Izuku hummed in affirmation as he nervously tried to put himself into a fitting battle position, it was sloppy, but it was better than nothing.

"Alright! Ehmmm......what was the button to activate just one?......ehm....." All Might muttered confused as he comically sweated, imaginary smoke coming out of his ears.

The boy sweatdropped by seeing this.

"Ahh! There is it! Get ready!" All Might says more lively as he finally found the buttons for activate the robot separately.

As soon as he clicked on it, one of the robots of the first group started to shake a little and then its red lens lit up, its head immediately turned towards Izuku.

"Target acquired, training mode initiated" The robot said with a mechanic voice, its body turned towards the boy and readied itself to charge.

Izuku's eyes widened for a split second but then, he closed them up and took a deep breath, relaxing his nerves. He opened his eyes, a more serious and focused look on his face, he dulled the anxiety with pure will power and will to prove himself to be not so weak.

"OFA: black armor 5%" Izuku chanted in his mind as he charged OFA through his body, black lightning bolts surrounded him quickly, his muscles roaring with power.

As soon as he did that, the robot quickly shifted its body towards the boy, its wheel started to spin as it darted towards him.

The boy eyes widened a bit in slight fear by seeing how fast it was, his mind threatened to block because of his fear of fighting and get hurt without reason other than amusement, but he managed to stabilize himself. he indeed was in a battle situation, but this time he could fight back.

The robot raises its long arm to hit the boy with a downward attack.

Izuku immediately focused as his eyes gained a more firm glint. He used his enhanced reflexes and speed to quickly dodge to the side, the robot's arm slammed on the floor, cracking it.

The boy immediately looked to the side, towards the impact site, seeing that the robot was strong too, but he didn't let this interrupt his focus.

"Focus, Izuku! show All Might that all the time he used for you wasn't in vain, you need to do this!!!" Izuku boosted himself in his mind as his stare became even more fierce, he noticed that the robot removed its arm from the floor and used it to sent with a horizontal sweeping blow against him.

The boy ducked under the attacking arm and got close to the robot, now at its side, his heart and quirk factor pumping respectively blood and OFA power in his body.

He clenched his right fist, OFA lightning bolts focused around it.

"Smash!!" He shouted as he punched the side of the robot, knocking it away slightly, a visible dent was left on the plate that the boy hit.

"I hit it!! but it's not enough! I need to be careful, keep your tempo!" Izuku thought as he put himself in position once again, he tried to control his breathing to both keep his nerves in check and not exhaust himself.

The robot mechanically turned towards the boy, its eye lit up as it charged towards him, faster than before, it raised its arm once again and sent a powerful attack towards Izuku, the boy decided to block this time as he want to see if he can withstand the robot blows. He crossed his arm at X and stood firmly on the ground, ready for the impact.

The attack slammed against his arms but Izuku managed to remain on his feet, his arms ached because of the strong hit but he glanced at the robot with a more focused gaze, silently studying it.

"It's strong, but its attack pattern is very simple, it's child play compared to heroes that i saw on TV. I just need to create myself an opening to defeat it......" Izuku thought as he immediately noticed that the robot was trying to hit him once again, its arm almost slamming on him.

The boy stopped blocking and dodged the attack at the last second, he glanced up at the robot's small head, his pupils shrunk as he found a way to win quickly.

"If i can hit the head as hard as i can, i can shut it down completely, i can't lose time, i need to create an opening" Izuku thought as he repositioned himself to counterattack.

"Smash!!" Izuku shouted as he punched the central plate with a upward punch, denting it and sending the robot back, but the he didn't stop there, before the robot could counterattack, the boy charged forward and hit the middle plate with a left punch, making the robot hunch because of the hit in its middle section, leaving its head vunerable.

"Now!!" Izuku shouted inside his mind as he clenched his right fist, he charged OFA beyond his current percentage, hoping to finish the robot off.

"10% burst Detroit smash!!!" Izuku shouted as he hit the robot's head with a upward punch, putting all his heart into it. The punch deformed the metallic head severely, the neck curved because of the impact and the single red eye cracked and then shattered, its pieces dangling from the half destroyed head.

The boy backed away, glaring at the still dazed robot, he prepared himself to continue the fight, but he stopped when he noticed that the robot head was basically dangling from its back, almost completely detached from its body.

"It isn't moving, did i defeat it....." He muttered confused but then his eyes widened as he saw the robot fall backward and.....

*Thumb*

The robot impacted on the ground, its body twitched for some seconds but then it deactivated.

The boy blinked a few times but then he realized that he won against his first opponent, his eyes brightened up a little as he unconsciously pumped both his fist, but then flinched because of the pain in his right arm.

"I-I did it!!" Izuku says still shocked and also a bit happier, he did it, and it wasn't so hard, he actually felt ready for more, even though he felt a bit guilty for destroying the robot as they were technically a gift.

The sound of clapping cut him off from his thoughts, turned his head to the side, seeing his mentor giving him a proud grin.

"Amazing job!!! That was truly a beautiful punch, i felt that smash!!!" All Might congratulated.

"T-Thank you, sir!" Izuku says nervously with a small grin, surprised himself for actually managing to smile a little, it quickly faded.

The hero looked at the device again, ready to continue.

"It seemed that these guys are relatively easy for you to deal with. Do you want to try to fight more than one or fight another one to get an hang of it? they are programed to pin you down at most, so we don't have to worry" All Might says as he looked at him.

The boy looked at the destroyed robot on the floor and then glanced at the deactivated ones that were close, his eye frowned a little. Even if they were pretty sturdy and strong, he still want to raise the bet and learn how to adapt. In the entrance exam he will need to fight multiple of them and fight his way alone. There's less than a month remaining, so he need to do his best to learn to fight as quick as possible, even if he could get hurt or loose, he will get up for more .

He looked at All Might once again, a bit less anxious in his voice, he was ready to go to the next level, he just need to put together everything he learned.

"I t-think I can m-manage more than o-one, sir, I'm r-ready!" Izuku says nervously he rubbed his right arm with his left, feeling the pain settling down.

The hero nodded with a grin.

"You really want to go plus ultra, that's the spirit!! Prepare yourself! show them what you got!!" All Might cheered as he activated five robots, three of the first group and two of the second.

Izuku immediately put himself in position once again, his posture more refined than, he remembered some battle positions he saw some Heroes used, he was unconsciously imitating them, especially All Might.

The robots charged at him, the first three wheeled ones were in a sort of line to not hinder each other attacks, this was noticed by Izuku, who didn't waste time to rush forward towards them, black veins covering him.

"5% percent isn't enough to do enough damage, if i want to beat them, i need more strength......." Izuku thought as he charged OFA around his body, his irises glowed as he glared at the approaching robots.

"OFA: black armor 8%!" He chanted in his mind as he felt his body grow stiff a bit because he wasn't used to use this percentage yet, but he endured it and completed the channeling, black lightning bolts surrounded him as he blitzed towards the robots.

"Even if it hurt...." Izuku started to say as he noticed that the first robot was trying to hit him with a downward attack.

"I can still move!!!" Izuku shouted inside his mind as dodged to the side, his eyes darted around as his mind was working on overdrive to find an opening, he noticed that the second of the wheeled robots was prepared to attack and that the two four legged ones were flanking, but they couldn't attack as long as he was between the others.

His eyes moved quickly to the farthest one, he noticed that because he was close to the other two, the robot wasn't preparing a attack to not hinder the other two, this was an occasion!!

Izuku immediately looked at the second robot, who was about to attack him, his eyes darted at the attacking arm, he heard a click when the robot move its arm, and he saw a sort of little bolt shifting.

"It's that the joint that allow its arm to move? maybe i can hit it to incapacitate it" Izuku thought as he clenched his fist and he ducked under the attack, his fist aimed towards the point he heard the click.

"Smash!" He shouted as he punched the middle joint of the attacking arm, causing it to bent and break, rendering the metallic limb useless.

"Alright! 8% is enough to do heavy damage, now...." Izuku thought as his eyes darted around, studying what to do, his brain working quickly as adrenaline pumped in his system, making everything move both slowly and quick.

He remembered his initial goal and he changed his footing to quickly turn around, his head spinning a little as a vulcano of emotions rushed in it, but he quickly stabilized himself and quickly turned towards his target

"This is my chance!!!" Izuku thought as he immediately turned towards the farthest robot and rushed, the reinforced glass lit up in red as it rushed towards him.

The boy eyes widened in realization as the two quickly got closer to one another.

"They are so fast, maybe i can use it against them, the momentum could add force to my attack and maybe i can pierce its armor, here goes nothing!!!" Izuku thought quickly as he clenched his right fist, OFA lightning bolts surrounding it.

"Steady....steady....." He thought as his forehead was full of sweat as he got closer and closer to the robot.

When it tried to start an attack, Izuku knew this was his occasion, adrenaline rushed once again as his eyes gained a small red glow, his mind completely focused on destroying the robot, any fear or nervousness completely obliterated.

"Now!" He shouted inside his mind as he suddenly increased his pace and immediately reached the robot, which couldn't stop its pace fast enough.

"10% burst Detroit smash!" Izuku shouted as he punched the robot on the chest plate, the momentum caused the robot entire body to curve as the point it was hit deformed a lot but the attack kept going deeper in its metallic husk and......

*Pierce!*

The boy fist managed to pass through the robot's chest plate, damaging its internal components, causing the robot to become limp.

After blinking a few times in shock, the boy shook his head and teared his arm from the robot's chest, causing it to fall on the ground, deactivated.

Izuku panted as he felt a bit more pain rushing in every part of his body, especially his right arm, his nerves on fire.

He gritted his teeth slightly, dulling the pain with will power alone, the fact that he was particularly numb to it helped a little.

"Resist, keep your focus, don't stop now!" Izuku shouted inside his mind as he used pure determination to dull any sensation of strain and pain, he heard a sound behind him, causing him to immediately turn around, just in time to see one of the four legged robots jumping at him.

The boy's eyes widened in shock seeing this, his body immobile.

"Move please! Don't freeze!" Izuku begged as his extreme fear of confrontation came back, making him shake but then.....

"You can be a hero" All Might voice returned inside his mind.

The red glint in his eyes came back as his body stopped shaking and his mind focused again.

"I will not give up!!! Black armor 10%!" Izuku shouted inside his mind in a burst of fiery determination as he caught the robot upper legs with his hands and planted his feet in the ground, stopping it. Without missing a extra second, the boy turned his body around, dragging the robot with his movements.

"Fly away!!" The boy shouted as he three the robot at one of the wheeled one, causing both to be damaged and fall on the ground.

"*Ugh*" Izuku grunted in pain as he felt his body growing stiff and heavy, he was getting used to the pressure of the battle, but his body wasn't ready yet. But, he will make it be ready right now, he can't give up just for some pain.

Sweat dripped from bis face as he looked at the two robots that were still on up. The other two were trying to get away from each other, but their different bodies didn't allow for coordination, resulting in them hindering each other.

The wheeled robot charged forward, its only functional limb ready to attack.

Izuku looked at the approaching robot with a slightly nervous but more analytical look, his eyes immediately moved to its head.

"The eye isn't as durable as the body, if i hit it with something, i may be capable of blinding it, but with what? I can't get close enough without risking being surrounded" Izuku thought as he tried to find a way to hit the wheeled robot head without getting too close, as he was getting too slow because of the strain, he even noticed that the two downed robots were getting up, and soon they will charge at him.

His eyes widened in realization as he remembered a smash attack he created a week ago, it was very risky but if he fail, he will not get damaged too much as it required a smaller area.

"I need to try, if i destroy its eye, i can focus on the other one!" Izuku thought as he jumped back to gain some distance, as he was backing away He put his left hand in a flicking position, his ring finger ready to be flicked.

"Focus! You need to focus, at the moment of the impact, like you practiced before!" Izuku thought as he increased quickly is percentage even beyond the current percentage, his body screamed in pain but he didn't care.

"Black armor burst....." Izuku thought as he aimed towards the robot eye, time seemed to slow down as his mind worked on overdrive, his pupils shrunk in focus.

"15% Delaware sma*huh!!" Izuku was about to shout but he stopped when he saw something in the corner of his eye, a metallic hand connected to a chain was being quickly throw towards him, it belonged to the four legged robot, which shot it like a grappling hook from its front plate.

"Ah!!!!" Izuku made a sound of shock and fear as he dodged to the side, this caused him to unconsciously flick his finger but the air bullet missed its target.

"Even the smaller ones have grappling guns?! *Ugh!!!*" Izuku thought shocked, his composure broken by the close call, he was about to refocus himself to hopefully reposition himself to try to perform a Delaware smash again but.....

*Thump Thump*

He once again heard his own heartbeat as his vision got momentarily blurry, the stressful situation has divided his focus so much that he couldn't manage to lower his percentage of power before it could cause heavy strain, and now he was suffering the consequences of this. his body stiffened as he struggled to breath correctly, holding his stomach in pain as he felt his nerves on fire.

The boy gritted his teeth as he lowered the percentage, but the damage was already done, he couldn't move as before, his body shaking and very heavy.

"Resist!! It's not over yet!!*huh?!*" Izuku shouted inside his mind as he tried to force himself to fight once again, but he stopped when he saw a shadow cover him, he immediately turned towards the direction of it and his pupils shrunk in terror, the wheeled robot that he tried to shoot his air bullet of before was in front of him, its arm already close and about to hit him.

The boy eyes widened as he tried to raise his arms to block but unfortunately his body couldn't move in time and.....

*Bam!*

"*Argh!!*" Izuku as attack connected it slammed on his stomach, knocking the air out of his lungs and knocking him on the ground, his breathing and movements even more difficult as the pain just increased.

He didn't even had the time to recover as his only opened eye saw the four legged robot leap at him.

"Black armor 8%" Izuku chanted hastily in his mind as he quickly charged OFA once again, ignoring any pain as he used one leg and his hand to push his body our of the way, he then managed to painfully get up, his eyes half closed but he was ready to go back into the fray, but then.

*Grab*

His left arm was grabbed by the grappling hook of the second wheeled robot, which managed to get up.

The boy looked at it in shock but quickly positioned himself to pull against the hold, actually managing to slowly overpower the robot, but then....his blood froze as he heard a sound behind him.

He didn't even had time to turn his head as he a force slammed behind him, the second four legged robot was flanking him while he was distracted and tackled him from behind, its metallic body keeping him on the ground.

"*Ugh**grrrr*" Izuku grunted as he tried to push against the robot but his body was growing too much weak from the strain that he put himself into by forcing more power that he was used to.

He put his hands on the ground as he struggled even more, managing to slowly raised the robot from his back, but then....

*Click* *click*

He heard metallic sounds close and his face palled, his eyes moved to the side, finding the rest of the robots looking down at him, their eyes glowing red.

Before he could even try to struggle more, they threw themselves at him, using their arms and bodies to pin him to ground, forming a metallic prison around him, forcing him to the ground, their strength kept increasing as their systems kept adapting to his power, so the more he struggled, the more their metallic servo motors reached their limits, using all their strength to contain the green haired boy.

"I need to....*ugh*...get up, If i want to be the strongest hero, i need to get up!!" Izuku thought with gritted teeth as he ignored every single pain in his body, forcing his mind to focus as he pushed against his opponents with pure adrenaline, managing to slowly push them off, the black lightning bolts becoming bigger as he increased his percentage gradually.

He was actually managing to slowly forcing his way out of the metallic prison but then....

*Thump thump*

The boy heard his own heartbeat once again, an extreme wave of pain assaulted him much stronger than before. His body couldn't resist against the strain anymore and the boy could feel his strength leaving him, allowing the robots to slam him back on the floor, cracking it slowly.

"I can't.......I can't win.....they are too strong for me......." Izuku thought with frustration, his consciousness slipping,

But then his eyes widened in realization.

"Or....maybe it's just me being too weak" Izuku muttered with a grim and very quiet voice, his only visible eye looking in the void with a dull stare. If he managed better his percentage of power without straining his own body so much, he could have managed to battle better. If he hit better and smarter, he could have destroyed them without too much problems.....Or maybe.... someone better would have done this easily, showing All Might actually good results...... someone deserving.

He could feel himself unconsciously stop fighting, his mind letting the self doubt overwhelm every thoughts. something that he has blocked inside his mental shell recognized this as something very familiar......sadly familiar.

His shaking eyes widened as for a split second, the group of robots surrounding him and the floor of the training grounds changed into a familiar classroom, legs with a familiar black uniform all around him, their owners casting heavy shadows on him.

"W-What?!" Izuku muttered shocked as his pupils shrunk, what was happening?!!

He blinked and the vision of the classroom came back, this time it stayed.

"No....i-it can't be!" Izuku panicked horrified inside his mind as he hesitantly raised his gaze, finding his old classmates all around him, their eyes of a eerie red color, their sadical smiles opened old wounds in his broken mind.

"I can't believe he tried to escape us, with that scrawny disgusting legs!" One of his ex classmates says with amusement, his voice was distorted, like a broken radio.

"That's Deku for you" Another student mocked, her voice sharp like a knife cutting his old metal scars until their bursted open, old pain dripping from it.

The boy tried to get up to run away, his mind going into overdrive, he could feel his breathing speeding up qnd his heartbeat sounding more like a hammer hitting his chest, he was almost having a panic attack. But, he couldn't get away, his body was blocked.

"Keep him still!! This is going to be fun~" A student says with a sadic grin as he and the rest started to get close, coating the boy in their shadows.

"N-no, p-p-please n-no" Izuku managed to whisper shakily, his eyes shaking with a old fear, they seemed to ignore him as their hands slowly extended towards him.

"Last time we broke your arm, that cast look really bothersome...why don't we break the other?~" One fo the students says even more sadicaly.

"P-please no.......no m-more......" The green haired boy whispered as he started to tear up, his body shaking.

"Did you hear that? He is begging! How much more pathetic can he get??!!!" One of the students mocked, his voice roaring like a broken record in his ears.

They all started to laugh at him, their laughing sounding like a distorted choir resonating in the room.

Izuku closed his eyes as he tried to ignore the dreaded sound, his body shaking more.

"Always the fearful worm you are, Deku, you never change" A student mocked.

"............." Izuku just made a small sound of fear as he tried to close his body to shut himself down from the world.

"Your dream is the most pathetic thing, If you shake like this, how All Might gonna notice this pathetic waste of space" the same student mocked.

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*Snap*

Suddenly the boy's body stopped shaking, and with that, the laughter stopped too, the faces of the students seemed confused as smoke started to come out from the walls.

They looked with shock at the downed boy, who was still looking down, his hair shadowing his eyes, his entire body language changed completely in that instance, from fear to pure hostility, like a monster ready to devour its preys.

Slowly, Izuku raised his gaze too look at them, the students backed away, looking terrorized, and in an instant, black colored fire bursted from every corner of the room, burning everything expect from the green haired boy, who found himself back in the real world, however , his traumatized mind started to play with him, the robots were replaced by images of his old classmates, which just made him even more hostile, the desire to prove himself became something else, a desire to hurt anyone nearby that hurt him in an unrepairable way, it burned as hot as lava, bubbling below his weakened mental defenses.

He closed his eyes as he took a deep and slow deep breath in a last effort to resist against the wave of rage.....but....

"Deku!!!" Voices of his old classmates came back inside his mind.

"Go die somewhere else, your corpse will only stain this place" more voice came back.

*Snap*

Izuku opened his eyes, a dark thought came in his mind.

If they don't shut up......i will make them shut up.

".................Shut.....up" Izuku whispered darkly as a red light engulfed his irises, dark and powerful emotions were being awakened once again, forming cracks on his mental shell, all of them bursting out like a rampaging vulcano.

Meanwhile, All Might was looking concerned at the robot surrounding Izuku, the battle was a bit too much violent for a first time, Nezu assured him the robots were programed to not seriously hurt the boy. But, watching the battle, he wasn't worried about the robots hurting his successor, it was the fact that his successor go overboard on purpose.

His eyes widened as he noticed that the black lightning bolts that his successor has when he activate OFA were gone, this concerned him a lot, thinking that the boy passed out.

"Young Midoriya, are you okay!?" He shouted to make sure he was awake, but when he received no answer, he immediately took the remove and prepared to deactivate the robots. But, before he could do it.......he noticed a single black lightning bolt appearing from the cluster of metallic bodies, and then another one, and another, quickly more black lightning bolts surrounded it, bigger than before.

"Wha-" All Might was about to mutter confused but then.....

*Boom*

A powerful shockwave knocked the robots away, making them impact hard with the ground.

"What?!" All Might managed to say shocked as his eyes widened in surprise, what was that?!

His shock increased when he saw Izuku at the point the shockwave generated, his green hair shadowing his eyes, his fists clenched so hard that his knuckles were white.

The boy's body started to shake as his mind descended more and more into the painful memories, his hands slowly going up and gripping his head, his teeth clenched together as he tried to silence the many insults coming back, bringing him to the absolute limit.

"I........said........shut up!!!!" He shouted as he raised his gaze, showing tearful eyes with glowing red-green irises, his pupils small as he was completely lost in a explosive fury, his bottled up emotions bursted out like hot lava from a vulcano.

His gaze quickly moved to a downed robot that was trying to get up.

His eye glowed in red as he rushed forward must faster than before and then leaped at it, his feet crushing its metallic body on the ground, deep dents formed on the impact zones as debris flied everywhere.

All Might was completely left in shock at the sudden shift in behavior of his successor, and that glow in his eyes, it actually made his crippled body shake for a split second, this was the same aura he felt when he found him being attacked by those three older guys!

His thoughts were cut when he saw his successor raise his right leg and.....

*Crunch!*

He stepped on the head of the robot he was pinning on the ground, crushing it. The boy then look at the rest of the robots with a dark and hostile gaze, his pupils still small.

The remaining wheeled robot quickly looked at the deactivated ones, its eye lit in red.

"Quirk out of control, emergency code alpha, reinforcements required" The robot says in a mechanical voice.

This caused All Might to look at it in shock, before he could realize what was happening, the rest of the training robots activated by their own and didn't loose time in charging at Izuku, who looked at them with a hostile look, in his eyes, he was seeing his old classmates charging at him, ready to hurt him.

His rage escalated, clouding his fear.

"It's.....your.....fault........ your fault that my mother had to suffer to take care of something as pathetic as me........" He muttered darkly as he extended his right arm forward, his fingers in a flicking position, black energy veins covered his ring finger.

"Delaware smash!" He shouted as he flicked his finger at full power, causing a big shockwave to be throw forward, mowing a good chunk of the robots by sending them flying meters away, crashing on the ground and break because of the powerful force behind their momentum.

The rest kept rushing at him, his answer was to turn his body towards them, raising his right arm, his ring finger broken.

He clenched his right hand into a fist as he made a step forward, ignoring the pain of his broken finger.

".......Who is the pathetic worm now, mhm? Who is the waste of space and oxygen?..I am waiting...." Izuku says darkly as he slowly stepped forward, the black lightning bolts giving him a dark aura.

His eyes moved to one of the wheeled robots, veins were visible on his forehead.

He bent his legs a little and then, he rushed forward his speed and strength seemed to be increased a lot, together with his violence.

He clenched his fist as he punched the robot in the middle section without hesitation, Tearing it apart easily, cutting the robot in two.

He immediately noticed a four legged robot leaping at him, he caught it and then....

*Crunch*

He pulled and smashed it against another robot, but he didn't finish it there, he continued to slam it on other robots or the ground, throwing the remains away when all that was left was a destroyed leg.

He them and charged forward as he continued to vent his anger on the metallic punching bags.

All Might could watch in total shock as his successor kept destroying all the robots with cold and merciless attacks, he looked like a different person, his hits were so strong that they were tearing the robots armor like paper, but this wasn't without consequences as the boy knuckles started to get red for the blood that was staining them, cuts being opened because of how hard he was hitting the robots, he wasn't increasing his percentage, he was just hitting as hard as he can, and if the robot survived that, he just hit it again and again until it didn't stop moving.

But then blinked, managing to move his body and his mind started working again as he tried to make Izuku stop.

"Young Midoriya, it's enough!!" All Might called but Izuku was in a trance like state, just hitting anything that moved, now only a robot remained, it quickly charged at Izuku and tried to grab him.

*Grab* *crunch*

Izuku grabbed the arm and quickly crushed it, glaring directly at the red robotic eye. In the boy eyes, the robot was replaced by Katsuki, his cocky grin sending in the green haired boy another wave of hot anger.

Before the metallic automa could do something, Izuku used his leg to break its wheel and making it fall on the ground, quickly being pinned by the boy, who raised his right arm.

*Punch**crunch*

"Shut up, shut up, shut up....." Izuku kept repeating as he raised his left arm and punched the robot again, he raised his right one and did the same

*Punch**Punch**Punch**Punch*
*Punch**Punch**Punch**Punch*

"Young Midoriya!" Izuku heard a fait familiar voice call him, but he just kept punching, his frustration, fear and especially anger all guided his actions, he could hardly comprehend what was happening, his mind basically working on autopilot.

*Punch**Punch**Punch**Punch*
*Punch**Punch**Punch**Punch*
*Punch**Punch**Punch**Punch*

"Young Midoriya!!!" The voice called again, this time more louder, but he still ignored it, keeping to hit who he saw was Katsuki, he still kept mocking him even while he was being punched, his face stained in blood, even after so many OFA enhanced hits, he was still silently mocking him, bringing his rage to critical levels.

"Stop..... looking at me like that.....i just wanted to help you, this is how you treat me, then you can suffer" Izuku mutter darkly as he charged OFA at 100% on his right arm, ready to finally remove that grin on the blonde's face, but he was interrupted.

"Izuku!!!!" The voice screamed directly in front of him, making him actually stop, his eyes widened as Katsuki disappeared from his vision, his eyes unfocused as his mind focused more on the voice.

"I....I....what?" Izuku muttered completely confused as his mind regained control, his rage slowly returning inside his mental shell.

He could also feel someone holding his shoulders, he raised his gaze, finding All Might in front of him, a concerned look on his face.

"All Mig-" Izuku was about to mutter confused, his brain still in a daze.

"Stop it, you are hurting yourself, i don't know what came over you, but you are hurting yourself" All Might says, a bit of relief on his mind as he finally managed to get his attention.

The boy's eyes widened a bit, what he was talking about? He wasn't hurting himself, he was.........wait, what he was doing? Everything is blurry, he remembered being pinned to the ground, but after that, everything was blurry, he could just feel his heartbeat speeding up when he tried to remember.

"W-What h-happened?" Izuku asked in a quiet voice, his head was a mess, what happened after he got pinned down?

"You don't remember?!" All Might asked a little shocked, his eyes a bit wider.

"N-no.....I...*huh?*" Izuku started to day but he stopped when he saw something at the corner of his eyes, he turned his head and his eyes widened in horror.

The surrounding area was filled of what remains of the training robots, all of the were completely destroyed and had some blood on them.

"What....." Izuku muttered confused and shocked as he unconsciously moved his leg a little, he heard a metallic sound when he did and, when he glanced down, his face paled.

Instead of Katsuki, there's was a completely obliterated robot, stained with some blood, what happened....wait....was that him?

As the realization slowly made way in his brain, he caught a glimpse of his hands, he raised them and what he saw made him even more horrified if possible l, they were stained with blood and heavily bruises, a couple of his fingers were also broken, but he couldn't feel the pain as his mind was too overwhelmed to receive the stimuli.

"I........I d-did this?" He finally managed to say with a quiet voice, his eyes started to shake slightly.

"Hey, It's okay! like i said, Power loader can always make more, but we better go to Recovery Girl first, we can hope she is in a good mood" All Might says with a small grin, trying to ease up his successor, but, they way his expression and posture worsened, this meant nothing good.

"I.....l-lost c-control, i-if.....if there was someone else instead of these robots I.....I could have killed them....." Izuku says with a low voice, his pupils shrunk as a horrible realization came to his brain, his breathing quickened.

The hero eyes widened a bit hearing this, he was about to say something but Izuku cut him off.

"Me...... being a hero while failing like this.......Who was I kidding?" He continued as he brought his bloody and bruised hands to his hair, his body started to shake even more.

"Hey, don't talk like that, it was only an accident, come on...." All Might tried to say but he was cut off by the shaky voice of his successor.

"Just.....s-stop" Izuku says shakily as he looked a bit down, his hair shadowing his eyes.

"Huh?!" All Might hummed surprised as the boy turned his gaze towards him, showing fresh tears dripping from his eyes, his irises dull and assaulted by extreme sadness.

"Stop trying to comfort me......how can you be nice to me after witnessing all of this? why can't you realize how much of a failure i am? Why you keep pushing?...." Izuku says shakily as he backed away a little, his hands shaking as he could feel himself descent more into his self doubt and hate.

"You all are so kind to me, you gave me more that i could ever deserve, not only you gave me your quirk, you are wasting your time to train me, endure my problems without even getting angry....and now......" Izuku continued as he looked at his shaking hands.

"Young Midoriya, stop a second, calm down....." All Might tried to calm him down but the boy kept backing away from him when he tried to get closer, he wasn't listening.

"And now I even lost control, how I can be a hero in these conditions?" Izuku says as he gripped his head with his hands, ignoring the pain as his mind was focused elsewhere, what happened during the battle opened an old scar I his brain. His insecurities, his doubts, everything that was assaulting his mind for all these months, bubbling below the surface, they were all coming out.

"Young Midoriya, listen to me..." All Might says as he tried to once again made his listen but the boy was completely out of it, his eyes seemngly looking at the void.

"Maybe we can search for someone else, I maybe added a tiny bit of power to OFA,
It's the least i can do....." Izuku says as he shakily hugged his own body, he didn't realize how much he was bottling up, he couldn't keep any thoughts hidden.

"He is not listening! what can i do?" All Might panicked inside his mind as he tried to find a solution, he didn't realize how much his successor was suffering without showing, and now, he doesn't know how to make him stop and listen. But, after a couple of seconds, he remembered that Izuku asked him how can he be so kind to him, maybe.... being harsh just his time will make him listen.

As the boy was continuing to descent more and more into his panicked state, his eyes fixed on the ground as the insecurities and self doubt became unbearable. but, at a certain he heard a voice.

"Texas...." He heard All Might start to say, the boy had just the time to stop his thoughts for a second as he felt a slightly pain in his cheek.

"Smash!" All Might says as he punched Izuku on the cheek while being in his skinny form, resulting in only the boy being knocked on the ground, a small bruise on his cheek.

"*Ow*" Izuku whined weakly as he held his cheek with one hand, his thoughts completely silenced as he was literally knocked out from them.

"Do i have your attention now? Sometimes you are a hard listener!" He heard the voice of his mentor, making the boy flitch and then hesitantly look up, being meet with a more stern gaze from All Might, but which still transmit concern.

"Can't you see that everyone see your hero quality, you always work hard because you want to help others, so why always doubt yourself,

Izuku was too shocked too actually say something, he always thought that he didn't deserve kindness. But, receiving a hit was so sudden, his brain couldn't begin a new self deprecating thought process as he heard the hero sigh.

"*Sigh* You are really difficult to cheer up, you know? Always so doubtful of your own qualities, and you always overthink things, failing isn't so much of a big deal if you got the spirit to get up...." All Might says calmly as he got closer to him.

Izuku closed his eyes in fear as he thought that the hero was going to hit him again. But, the hero just crouched down and wrapped his left arm around his head while grabbing his shoulder with the right one, giving him a comforting hug.

The boy's eyes widened in shock, he couldn't understand why the hero was hugging him after all the problems he gave him, why he is giving him comfort instead of a punishment?!

His thoughts were cut off by All Might, who resumed talking.

"You should really stop with this, you gonna grow white hair if you stress yourself so much for a single mistake. Cool and dependable heroes don't panic so much, if you wanna be the next number one, you must at least be more confident in yourself " All Might says in a more calm voice, his words causing the boy's eyes to shake in surprise, he....was still talking like this?!

The hero kept talking, not giving Izuku a moment to deny anything.

"You know.....while I was training to inherit the quirk, I had this feeling in my head, the feeling to be unworthy of OFA. I wanted to make sure everyone could smile without fear. But, at a certain point I started to feel like I couldn't be the one to actually achieve that dream, you know what my master did when i said my doubts to her? She just smiled at me, knocked me upside the head and told me words that i will never forget and now i want them to be yours, take them to heart" All Might says calmly as he remembered his younger days, his master was really the best.

The boy didn't know what to do or say, so he just hummed weakly, his mind confused of what was happening, why he was telling him about his master?

"*Clear throat* It starts with a question......, Tell me, young Midoriya, What's the good thing about failing?" All Might asked, confusing the boy, who didn't know what to answer.

".....I d-don't k-k-know" He stuttered perplexed, not understanding where All Might was going with this.

"Mhm, I said the same thing. The answer was that the good thing of failure is the fact that you can use it as a lesson, you are the student that can only learn from it" All Might says as he remembered every single word of his master, her smile giving him a bit of happy memories, she was like a mother to him.

The boy's eyes widened more hearing this, he didn't understand, if he fail every time, how he can learn from them? He is the problem, so how he can fix something that can't be fixed?

"She was really wise, i couldn't argue back. Now, another question, this time i will answer it for you. So, do you know the difference between failing and not trying?....Failure is an occasion to learn, not trying is nothing, literally nothing, you will not experience the bad things of the failure, but at the same time you will not have the good things, you will stand still, with nothing...." All Might says, these words actually pierced Izuku self doubt a little, making him think about it.

The hero patted the boy's shoulder, attracting his attention once again.

"So, in your opinion, what is the best option? take a step back and then take three steps forward later? or stand without moving because you are too anxious to move on and at the end making no progress?" All Might asked as he backed away a little, looking at Izuku with a serious look.

"I........I....." Izuku struggled for words, his mind a mess on what to do, wrestling on what to say next, at the end, nobody won, and it showed in the next words.

"I w-w-want to k-keep t-trying but......d-does a m-mess like me d-deserve the c-chance?" Izuku stuttered at the end as he his self doubt knocking in the back on his mind once again.

The hero looked at him with a small smile, seeing that at least he was beginning to get through him.

"It depends if you give up, young man, If you ask yourself what you want to do, i think you will find the answer at this question...." All Might says calmly.

"Huh?!" Izuku muttered surprised as he looked at the hero with surprise.

"Can't move forward if you give up everytime, do you get it? I understood after some time, she really beated this lesson in my skull...." All Might says as he knocked his head with one hand in a joking way.

The boy looked away with a thoughtful expression, it's really okay for him to continue? Even after the multitude of problems he has, the risk of giving in to his pain and possibly hurt someone.....was all of this truly worth it?

But then, he remembered his own thoughts that he has while he was training, he felt so alive, like he had finally a purpose, even with his self doubt, he felt that he could actually fight for his dream, he doesn't want to waste it......he really want to become the strongest hero, but if he wants to do it, he needs to hide this dangerous emotions, he can't let this happen again.

His thoughts were interrupted when he saw All Might get up and extend his hand towards him.

"So, you finished with this nosense? We have a old nurse to hopefully not make angry, just in case, give her the puppy eyes, she is fond of you, so it may work" All Might asked jokingly.

Izuku looked at the hero's hand, then he looked down, this felt familiar, it was like the time the hero offered OFA to him, it seemed the start of a new promise....

The boy reached and grabbed the hero's hand, letting him helping him to get up.

The promise to become stronger.

25 February

Izuku spent the remaining two and half weeks training intensively in using OFA in combat situations and even to use it in new creative way, for example he managed to learn relatively quickly to use his newly developed move, the Delaware smash, to make up for his lack of medium range options.

He also managed to increase his limit to 8% without extraneous load on his body, even tho the strain was still present which was troublesome with prolonged fights.

Regarding his mental state after the incident of the first combat training session, Izuku finally decided to dedicate a part of his time that he spent training to visit UA school counselor, Hound dog himself, to try to reduce the mental load on the traumatized boy, luckily, some progress were being made, a lot of tears were shed and sadly the boy had more panic attacks during his training section, he has bottled up so much pain that it was easy for him to snap. But, he managed to get a small hang on himself, at least enough to hopefully live his future scholastic life without passing out immediately.

Now, All Might and his successor were at the training grounds, the boy had some bandages around his fingers, probably because of a previous training section, but his stare was more bright, he was ready to prove himself.

The hero smiled widely at him as he turned in his muscle form, a booming laugh followed.

"MY BOY, I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT YOU ARE READY!!! YOUR PROGRESS ARE TRULY AMAZING!!!" All Might says with a booming voice.

The boy jumped a bit as a shy expression made way on his face.

"I-It's all thanks to y-you, All Might, i......I couldn't even hope of finding the strength to chase my dream if you didn't helped me" Izuku says in a quiet voice but he stopped when he felt the hero ruffle his hair.

"HAVE MORE PRIDE IN YOURSELF, MY BOY, ALL OF THIS WAS THANKS TO YOUR DETERMINATION AND HARD WORK. YOU WILL ACE THIS ENTRANCE EXAM, I KNOW IT IN MY BONES" All Might says with a thumb up.

"I w-will be first!! All Might, I'm n-not g-gonna let you d-down!!" Izuku stuttered with a rare feeling of excitement and small confidence, but it quickly reverted to his usual self.

"HA HA HA, THAT'S THE SPIRIT, FANBOY, NOW GO HOME, TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY!!" All Might says as he pushed Izuku to go home and rest.

"Y-Yes!!!" Izuku says as he walked away, the hero looked as he left with a smile.

The hero reverted back to his skinny form.

"*Sigh* Do your best young man" All Might says quietly, his eyes widening the smallest bit as he just realized that he said perfectly his master's words that he said to him a lot of time ago.

"Hehehe, I'm sounding just like her now.......hope you are watching......master......." he chuckled a bit as he gazed up at the sky, his blue eyes showing a bit of sadness.

Watch us

To be continued

Chapter Text

26 February, day of the entrance exam

Izuku stood in front of the big gate that led to UA, his stare fixed on the massive building, even if he saw it a lot of times in his last two months of training, it was still astonishing to see.

"T-This is it.........after all that training.....I am actually here to do the exam, this feels completely different........" Izuku thought very nervously as he could feel a bit of sweat dripping from his cheek, he was still metabolizing that the dreaded day actually is today, the day that he would put to the test all the training he undergo to be ready for the entrance exam.

The true starting point was here.

"I feel so n-nervous!! What if I fail it!? All Might will be so disappointed!!! After all the time he used for me....." Izuku panicked inside his mind as his nerves were taking over, his heart hammering in his chest, that feeling of being not enough never died out, no matter how many times others tell him otherwise or how many times he tried to boost himself up with promises to become stronger. He always wanted to do more to prove himself. But, now that he is actually here, his insecurities were coming back with a vengeance.

He closed his eyes as he took a couple of deep breaths.

"Come on, Izuku, Y-you need to stop it! there is no time to be nervous, stop being weak...you.....you need to prove that all of this wasn't useless! All the training, the encouragement he gave you, they will not be all for nothing!" Izuku thought as he managed to mostly subdue his shaking, he couldn't help being nervous, not only this was the day of the exam, but there was also something else that was assaulting his resolve........

The boy shyly glanced to the side, seeing boys and girls from diverse schools walking beside him, slowly entering the school, ready to prove themselves to enter the best hero school in Japan.

"T-There's so m-many people!! W-well.... it's expected but s-still......so many!" He thought nervously as he can feel his anxiety spike up again, after Aldera was closed up, he didn't interact with people his age so he felt completely lost, his body flinching every time a gaze touched him even for a second.

The boy closed his eyes once again, trying to muster all his determination and his courage to get his body to move forward, the memories of his training and promises helped a lot.

"You need to stop! Stop shaking, stop fearing..... heroes don't shake in face of difficulties, you need to....." Izuku started to say in his mind as his nervousness and anxiety were being dulled by his will to realize his dream.

He made a step forward, a more intense look on his nervous face, more life in his irises.

"Go beyond what you can manage!" He concluded in his mind as he was about to walk forward, determined to pass the exam. but then, he heard an awfully familiar voice behind him.

"Are you fucking serious?! What the fuck are you doing here!?" An angry voice snarled from behind him, causing the boy to freeze in place, his face palled as his body started to shake once again, no.....not him!! not now!!!

Izuku slowly looked behind, his pupils shrinking as he saw Katsuki standing at some feet away, the ash blonde didn't look very happy to see the green haired boy, meanwhile, the other applicants glanced at the two, feeling the tension.

"Bakugo?" Izuku finally managed to say in his mind, he didn't see the ash blonde in months. He could feel his body reacting badly to his presence, every instincts telling him to flee. But......something was different, the boy could feel a pounding in the back of his head, it wasn't nervousness, it wasn't fear.......It was......

Izuku felt the veins of his forehead pooping out as he unconsciously clenched his fists, his body now being enveloped by two emotions.....fear.....

And Hate.....

The blonde glared at Izuku as he made a step forward, his fists clenched tightly, he did notice the strange change in behavior or the green haired boy, but he didn't particularly care, what he cared now was that he was here, not only he almost ruined his chance to be a hero, not only he humiliated him by having *pity* on him, now he was mocking him by being here in the first place!!!!

"Deku......so you are really this braindead?....." Katsuki scowled as he glared even more, veins being visible on his forehead, his fucking bracelet was deactivated today because it would be impossible to stay away from Izuku, and now having him in front of him increased the hate he feel for the quirkless loser even more!

"...What did i said about going at UA?" Katsuki continued as he gritted his teeth slightly.

Izuku took a shaky step back, terror present in every corner of his body, the words were stuck in his throat but when Katsuki mentioned about him not wanting him to go to UA, his mind got blank, his pupils dilated as he could feel a dreaded feeling coming back.....

"Don't ever think about coming to UA" the words that Katsuki told him returned inside his mind, many more times that the blonde mocked his dream returned too, the burning feeling increasing at every words and Burnin his fear away......hatred, anger and frustration, emotions that Izuku locked away for a long time, but keeping them under bars wasn't so easy. So a small part of them managed to escape and they were going to make their presence know.

The green haired boy eyes lost light as that strange feeling in the back of his head exploded in intensity. The feeling of burning anger scorching his restrains.

Another one who think he can decide what he can be.....

Another one that think he can tell him what to do with his dream......

That's enough!!!!

Before his mind could stop, his emotions spoke, words that he always wanted to tell to the ash blonde but always too scared to do. But, now he didn't care, he doesn't want to be put down anymore by him.

".......And?" Izuku says in a surprising cold and hostile way, making Katsuki stop in his tracks.

"Haaa?" Katsuki made a sound of surprise as he actually had to stop for a moment to look back at Izuku, finding him glaring back, this time without fear present, there was just hostility in those green eyes, the blonde could swear he saw a red glint in them, but probably was the sun, before he could think further, the green haired boy continue, that cold tone never leaving him.

"So what about you saying that i can't go to UA?...." Izuku continued as he turned completely his body towards him, even more applicants stopped to watch, they felt a strange shiver grazing their spines, and it was coming from the green haired boy, who ignored them completely, prefering to continue glaring at Katsuki.

"Do you think you have a say in my decisions?" Izuku concluded as more veins were visible on his forehead, showing how truly angry he was becoming, his fists shaking as both fear and burning anger was assaulting his body, the second was slowly winning him over.

Katsuki recovered from his surprise and clenched his teeth, not very happy to be talked this way from a weak quirkless bastard like him, veins popping out from his cheek as he glared back.

"Pretty late for you to grow a backbone, Loser" Katsuki snarled as he narrowed his eyes even more, when did this quirkless wannabe actually talk back to him.

Izuku couldn't stop himself in time as he spat back the words with equal irritation.

"Pretty late for you to grow a brain, asshole" He spoke before he could stop himself, part of him was extremely terrorized of what was happening, he couldn't stop himself, he was just so tired of being walked over by everyone, he couldn't stop his frustration to be turned into words, he wanted to just be left alone!!!

This caused even more rage to be present into the ash blonde mind, more veins popping out, his teeth clenched so tight that Izuku wondered if they were going to break, but then he seemed to calm down, a very irritated look on his face but he didn't gave sigh of hostility, the motive was that the ash blonde remember that he couldn't pick a fight with the same fucker that almost deleted his possibility to go to UA and become the number one hero. So, he bit the spite he had and decided to just ignore this peddle, he will never pass the exam anyway.

"*Tch* you aren't even worth it, you better stay out of my way, or I'll kill you" Katsuki says irritated as he resumed walking forward, moving Izuku out of the way with his shoulder.

The boy looked as the ash blonde entered the building, his stare a mix of thoughtful and hateful, but then he blinked, his stare became confused and nervous, what happened?!!

"What was that!? that w-was me? I.....I talked back to Bakugo.....and i wasn't scared!!!" Izuku panicked in his mind, what happened?!! He felt angry. But, act as hostile as he had a few seconds ago, it was strange.

But then he remembered Recovery girl words about OFA and its connection to his brain, could it be.....

"Could it be OFA?....it can't be me.......I can't ever hope of standing up to someone........." Izuku thought as he glanced around, noticing that people were still staring at him, but they resumed walking in the school quickly.

The boy looked ahead and sighed, his stare troubled.

"Not worth it huh?.........same thing everyone always said to me, why it always hurt?" Izuku muttered sadly as stopped any memory from coming back, he doesn't need anymore of his issues now.

He looked up as he took a deep breath, a more calm expression on his face.

"You aren't looking for anyone approval expect for All Might's, he is the one who gave you the chance to be hero. I can't let anything stop me!!" Izuku thought as he started walking forward with shaky legs, he wasn't going to let hesitation stop him anymore, nothing could stop him until......

He tripped, his face quickly going towards the floor.

"I think this can stop me....." Izuku think with a blank face as he mentally accepted that he was going to break his nose without even having put a foot into UA *sigh* how clumsy and embarrassing he can become?

But, before his face could make a close encounter with the floor, his whole body stopped abruptly, the boy could feel a tug on his backpack and someone touching his elbow, his body felt strange, like he was weightless.

"H-huh?!" Izuku muttered very confused as his eyes focused, seeing the floor his shadow hit the floor that he was going to plant his face into, his eyes moved down and he noticed that his legs weren't touching the ground either!

"Wh-" he was about to say confused but before he could continue, he heard a voice from his left, a femminile one.

"Are you alright?" The person that was at his left asked, her voice friendly.

"Huh? W-what!" Izuku muttered confused as he tried to turn towards the voice. But his strange predicament caused his resulting to rotate in place, messing up his already bad sense of balance. As he rotated, he at least managed to caught a glimpse of the person's feature, noticing auburn eyes and hair, he also managed to get a small glimpse of her face.

The unnatural positions caused his body to panic a little as his balance felt very off, resulting in him nervously trying to move his legs to reach the ground as he didn't want to look too ridiculous in front this person that probably is the one that is making him float like this.

He was interrupted by her voice, who made him stop panicking.

"No need to panic *giggle*, I know it's a bit difficult to move without gravity, but don't worry, I'll help you" the mysterious girl says with a small giggle as she got a bit closer to him, the boy didn't notice that from his new position he could actually look at her, he turned his gaze just in time to see her take a gently hold of his arm and his backpack and adjust his position so his feet were pointing towards the ground, making his body face her.

The boy blinked a couple of times as he stopped any panicking and actually was surprised that his body didn't react badly, her hands were off him as quickly and as gently as they touched him.

His eyes focused on her face as he finally could get a good look at her, and the results were pretty much immediate. He blushed a lot as he found himself in front of a very cute girl a little shorter than him with fair skin and auburn hair with eyes that match in color. She has perpetual pink blush on her cheeks, and her eyes are large and round with thick upper lashes, two more extended and more prominent ones on either side and fewer but more individually pronounced lower lashes. Her hair is shoulder-length with short bangs, and the style is bobbed with two long strands framing her face.

The girl closed her eyes and smiled at him, joining her fingers together after doing it, as soon as she did that, Izuku felt his weight return.

"It's my quirk. sorry for using it without asking first, but...well, it'd be a bad omen to trip and fall, right?" She says in a friendly way as she opened her eyes again, her auburn irises staring at his green ones as she put a hand on her chest while she talked.

Izuku blinked a few times and then he realized that he was just staring at her without speaking a words, he started to sweat cold as he found himself completely stuck on what to do. He hasn't interacted with people his age since his school has been closed, with the exception of Bakugo some moments ago, she was the person of his age he spoke too and it didn't help his shyness that it was a girl he was talking too.

There was a problem regarding this *conversation*.....he wasn't speaking at all, this made him panic more, he needed to say something!

"I-I n-n-need to say something, c-calm yourself, y-you can't shake everytime you m-meet someone, look up at her, don't stutter!!!" Izuku said in his mind trying to give himself the courage to speak in a understandable way and then he finally spoke....

"I-I...t-thank you for t-the h-help, I-I....I don't mind you using your quirk on me!" He stuttered after a couple of seconds, he cursed himself mentally for stuttering but that was the most he could do, he was too nervous for a lot of reasons to do otherwise.

He was surprised when the girl didn't seem weirded out and instead kept smiling at him.

"That's a relief! and It's no problem, I guess you were so nervous about the exam that you didn't notice where you were putting your feet, can't blame ya!..." She says as she put both of her hands on the straps of her backpack, the boy noticed that she had pads on her fingerprints, like those that cats had.

"Aww, I'm so nervous too, this exam is so nerve-wracking!" the girl continued as she raised her head a little and closed her eyes, her smile and voice a bit more cheerful.

The boy looked at her weirdly, not used to having friendly interaction with people his age, but then he noticed that she was slightly squirming in place, it was barely noticeable but he was still capable of notice it. He quickly caught why she was doing that, she was as nervous as he is to be here, but she was doing a better job than him in hiding it.

He looked at her friendly face with a nervous and thoughtful face, something in his mind was nudging him to try to cheer her up, the fact that she helped him not breaking his nose was a great help to make him act quickly.

"Keep talking!!! But what should I say? Maybe...... something that i would like to hear?" He wondered nervously, deciding to just go for it, he smallowed the lump in his throat and parted his quivering lips to speak again.

"Y-Yes it is.......but.....w-we are g-gonna p-pass it for s-sure........right?"! Izuku stuttered, trying to do the closest thing to giving someone an encouragement, he hopes at least he didn't seem ridiculous, he doubt it.

The girl looked at with a tiny bit of surprise but then, to his surprise, actually beamed at him a little more.

"Yes of course!! Let's do our best, falling boy!!*giggle*" she says as she pumped her fists, a cute giggle following the nickname.

Izuku hummed while looking away, not trusting his voice one bit as the shyness was slightly taking over.

Suddenly, they heard the bell that announced that the exam was close, making them jump a bit.

"Ah! we should go, I see you there!" She says with a hurry as she started to walk towards

But then she slowed down her pace, turned he body slightly towards him and started to wave.

"Good luck to both of us!" She says cheerfully as she turned away and disappeared in the crowd, leaving Izuku *alone*

The boy stood there with wide eyes, his mind slowly working to metabolize that something truly shocking happened today......

"I.....I talked to a girl!!!.....was i weird? Did i stutter too much?! Calm yourself, you are being ridiculous in front of others!!" He panicked in his mind as he sweated a bit, his face going from one emotions to another, he can't believe he managed to talk with someone outside of Aldera, and a girl nonetheless!!

But then his eyes widened in shock as he realized he was going to be late.

"Ahh!! The exam, i need to hurry!!!!" He shouted panicked in his mind as he started to quickly walked into the school, he shut down any thoughts about the conversation, it was probably a fluke, it's impossible that someone would like to talk to him in a so friendly way unless they are adults.

Five minutes later, Written Test

Izuku was sitting behind one of the desks of the big classroom where the written test would take place, he was still nervous, even if this was theoretically the least important of the two tests that formed the entrance exam, it was still nothing to sleep about.

He glanced around curiously to distract himself, noticing the other applicants talking between each other, sharing some jokes, some quiet laughs, he even heard a couple talk about how cool they will be when they become full fledged heroes.

his eyelids lowered the smallest bit, his stare full of shy curiosity.

"They look like they are having fun......" He said in his mind, an even more curious expression made way on his face as he glanced at another group, he saw a boy and a girl very close to each other, the boy at a certain point kissed the girl on the nose, which made her blush a bit and giggle.

The green haired boy tilted his head to the side a little, confused by the display of affection, but he deep down asked himself how close they must be to do this kind of stuff, are they friends? Or maybe a couple?

"It seem nice to be this close to someone......wonder if I will ever make friends here...." Izuku wondered in his mind as his eyes darted slowly around, noticing more groups, he admittedly was a bit envious as a part of him always wondered what having actually friends felt like. Would be like being with All Might? Be actually at ease and not constantly wary of betrayal?

The boy shook his head and scratched his cheek as he looked ahead, he realized that he was staring at others and he didn't want to attract attention to himself.

He sighed a bit downcast as he shifted from scratching his cheek to his hair.

"Who I am kidding? It's impossible for me to actually talk to someone without shaking, and i doubt anyone would be willing to talk to me after seeing me closely" Izuku thought sadly as he looked a bit down, his mood becoming sour, it was hard, both craving and fearing interaction with others, he was a walking mess, who would be happy to talk to him?

"Let's do our best, falling boy!!!" He remembered the cute girl that stopped his fall, it was very strange talking to someone his age who actually seemed friendly, maybe there's hope that others will be like that.

"Maybe.......maybe it will be different this time.....All Might promised that everything was going to be alright from now on...... maybe i am worrying for nothing....." Izuku thought as his mood seemed to brighten up a little, a bit of hope growing in his chest, a bit of light returned in his eyes as he could feel himself actually be a bit curious and eager to be in a class again, actually make friends.....be a normal boy.

But it was quickly killed off as memories of all the people who faked being his friends and used him came back, they were initially nice like the girl of the gate, but then they destroyed him as painfully as possible. The happy light disappeared, returning his eyes to their usual sad, nervous and slightly dull state of before. The wariness came back, his want for friends remainded but also being entrapped by fear and anxiety.

He looked down once again, his fingers tapping the desk in nervousness.

"That was probably a fluke....nobody would ever be happy of being in presence of someone like me...." He thought sadly as his lips quivered a bit, this was the sad truth, true happiness was very far from his reach, at this point, he just prefer to chase his dream, hoping to not break during his journey.

He shook his head once again, slapping his cheeks lighty, what he is doing?!! It's not the time to get sad, he have to focus on the test, not on his silly desire for company, which was very useless if he consider that he is scared of his own shadow.

His thoughts were interrupted by the door opening, making the boy look up, his eyes widened the smallest bit as he saw a man enter in the room with a big stash of paper in his arms.

Izuku's eyes scanned the man carefully as he walked towards the teacher desk, he is a slender and tall, pale-skinned man with messy, shoulder-length black hair, that partially hangs in front of his face and half-opened black eyes. His appearance is worn-out and he looked exhausted, He was wearing a baggy black outfit that consists of a long-sleeved shirt and matching pants that tuck into his boots. He also wears a utility belt and a strange scarf around his neck.

The conversations in the room immediately died out as soon as he walked in, a severe and cold around around him.

Meanwhile Izuku was looking intensely at the tired man, he swear he saw him somewhere....wait, he now remember!!!

"He is the one who spoke to All Might while i was cleaning the beach! Does he know about me and OFA? is he a hero? I don't recognize him......" Many questions formed inside his head but were quickly shut down as the man spoke.

"Finally quiet down, good, as you know, this is the written test that preceded the practical exam. Make good use of your brain and if i see you copy, it will be hell to pay, understand?" The man says in a neutral and stern voice, his glare making the applicants tremble slightly in fear.

The man gaze then fell on Izuku and the boy swear he saw his eyes squint slightly, like be recognized him as well, but as quickly as he looked at him, he looked away.

"Now, come pick up a test, one at a time, hurry up" The man says neutrally, making the students take the paper where the test was written.

After Izuku took his, he looked at it with a thoughtful expression, reading the questions, it was very hard but......

"I know this one...and this one too, I-I can do it!" Izuku cheered inside his head, his mind already going into thinking mode, studying under principal Nezu was possible one of the best thing he could hope for, not only because he was a very good teacher who actually cherished his education, but because he didn't hesitated to bring the teaching to the next level everytime the boy adapted to that level of difficulty.

His green irises took a more bright color as his more determined side started to come out.

"Start" the tired man announced to everyone with a tired voice, signaling the start of the test.

"I will excell, all of this will not go to waste!" Izuku thought as he took his pen and started to answer the questions, ready to prove himself.

Timeskip 2 hours

After the written test, all the examinees were instructed to reach the auditorium where they will learn about the practical test.

Izuku walked between the seating rows searching for his assigned seat, theoretically, examinees coming from the same school will be seated together. But, considering that he doesn't exactly have a school to belong anymore, and apart from Katsuki, his ex-classmates weren't allowed in this school. The boy hoped that he wouldn't sit next to the ash blonde. He was barely able to stabilize his thoughts after what happened at the gate and now he would prefer to not have a second bad experience before he can even finish the exam.

He glanced at the seat number written on his pamphlet, together with it, informations regarding the practical exam were written on it, including the robots they will fight, the mock city they will go to perform the test and so on, they were assigned to person and had their names signed on it.

"It should be in this row, it's not this....this one is occupied......" Izuku muttered as he glanced at the number of the seat, many examinees have already found their seats, so he was trying to hurry up as he didn't want to be the only one up, it would be so embarrassing and also terrifying, being watched by so many eyes is something that he greatly fears, luckily he was getting closer to his assigned seat.

"It should be here.......ah!" He muttered but when he raised his gaze to look at where he believed was

It was surrounded, all the seats in that row and the one behind were already occupied except for one seat in the row in front, in the middle of a green-haired girl and a boy.

The green-haired boy sweated a bit as he noticed that all the examinees around his seat had the same uniform, so he was going to sit together with people from a school that doesn't know him, which meant gazes......and those brought attention, and that attention could bring many things that the Izuku greatly feared.

He swallowed the lump in his throat and he then took a deep breath, steadying his nerves as he walked toward the group of people, his nervousness increased but he made sure to try to seem casual, keyword, try.

At some steps from his seat, some of the examinees turned their gazes towards him, this worsened his nervousness but with a last-ditch wave of courage, he simply sat on his seat, looking ahead with a nervous stare and quivering lips.

He could feel even more stares from the examinees close to him, which became curious as they finally got the answer of why there was an empty seat in their section, the green haired could also feel that the girl at his right also turned to look at him curiously.

"Ah, I wondered why there was an empty seat here, it's that a school uniform? I don't recognize it...." He barely managed to hear the whisper of one of the examinees two rows behind. Luckily he managed to avoid his posture hunching or flinching as he realized they were talking about him, he doesn't want to seem fragile in front of strangers, it never ends well........at least, most of the time, considering what happened with All Might.

Luckily for him, the door on the right part of the stage opened by being opened by a kick and someone entered the big room with a knee slide, a big grin on his face.

"Yeahhhhhh!!! Little zygotes!!! Present mic is here to start the show!!!!!" The hero shouted with great energy as he got up quickly, making the audience look at him more clearly. He was a tall, slim man with long blond hair spiked upwards in a large tuft behind his head, and a small brown mustache. He has rectangular eyes with concentric pupils and greenish-yellow irises. He was wearing an outfit consisting of a black jacket with a very tall collar, upturned and complete with studs, and matching black pants and knee-high boots. He sports tan shoulder pads and a red belt and elbow pads, all studded, and black fingerless gloves. On his neck, there was a strange gadget similar to a directional speaker. He was also wearing a pair of headphones with the word *HAGE* written on the headband and a pair of orange-tinted shades.

He then stood on the tip of his toes and spun in place, stopping after a couple of rotations to dramatically point at the stunned audience.

"Welcome to my live show!! Are you ready to go crazy?!!!!! Let me hear a Heyyyyy!!!!!!" Present mic shouted with extreme energy as he walked towards the stand and put a hand on his ear.

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"Keeping it mellow, huh? That's fine, I'll skip straight to the main show. Let's talk about how this practical exam is gonna go down, okay?" Present Mic says as he makes hand gestures similar to a DJ.

"Are you ready? Yeah!!!" Present Mic shouted excitedly, trying once again to rile up his audience, but.....
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"Ow, tough crowd, don't be shy!" He continued, as he crossed his arms with a sort of pout on his face.

Meanwhile, Izuku was watching the hero with more lively and bright eyes, his fanboy side taking over and making him forget that he wasn't alone.

"The Voice Hero, Present Mic, so cool, I always listen to his radio shows, his quirk is one of the rare cases of quirks that manifest since newborn, I couldn't let it out of my notebook, it's also so strong and cool, he can create sound waves so powerful that it can destroy steel, all of this thanks to his voice....." Izuku muttered as his eyes shook a little in excitement, he unconsciously straighten up his back as he had a more excited look on his face, his voice was very quiet but those sitting very close to him managed to hear him.

"Kero?" The green-haired girl at his right made a sound similar to a frog croak as she turned towards him with curiosity, noticing the mysterious green-haired boy making some strange movements with his hands, like he was writing on one of his palms with the other fingers, his face both nervous but excited.

"His decibel range should be way more than 200db I thought at the start, but there are no informations about that, I want to ask him so badly but he will surely not like me asking, this is an occasion, but I am so nervous" Izuku continued to mutter as he sweated some more from his face, his nervousness increasing as he really wanted to ask a signature to the voice hero, but he was so scared of rejection that he was stuck.

He was brought back from his mutter storm by a little female giggle, it was a little weird, having sounds similar to frog croaks being mixed with the giggle.

*Giggle* you seem to like him a lot, why don't you ask him after the exam is over? He would be happy to have a fan so interested in him *kero*" A calm voice said in a quiet volume, it was slightly nasally and, strangely, a kero followed her sentence.

This made Izuku flinch a bit as he realized that he muttered all his thoughts out loud once again, this was something that he was desperately trying to stop doing as it was an attention bringer, unfortunately, if he get too excited or distracted, the tic always comes back.

"I did it again!! Wait, if I don't look at her, they will get angry at me, calm down Izuku, like at the gate, stay calm!!!" Izuku thought as he mustered to courage to look to his right with a nervous gaze, as soon as he locked eyes with the girl that talked to him, his face got red once again as he caught her appearance in full, She was a short girl of a relatively slender build with notably large hands. Her appearance is rather frog-like with a very wide mouth, which dips down a little in the middle just like that of a common frog, and oval-shaped eyes with large, black irises, their lower eyelashes visibly pronounced. Her hair is a dark sea-green color and is very long, reaching all the way to her waist with the ends tied together at the bottom in a large bow of hair. She has two shoulder-length clumps framing her face and shorter bangs between her eyes, some of them partially swept to each side.

She was looking at him with one of the fingers of her left hand tipping her mouth, her face was blank but she was slightly smiling at him.

"Huh? I....w-well...I mean...." Izuku whispered-stuttered nervously as he struggled to say something, finding himself stuck once again to talk to another cute girl, even if he couldn't read her emotions because of her blank expression, so he didn't know if she was irritated by his mutter or was actually having a friendly exchange with him.

His eyes quickly darted to look at Present Mic, who was trying to find the remote to start the presentation, he then looked at the girl again, who was still looking at him, her black eyes looking at him calmly and with a bit of curiosity.

He swallowed the lump in his throat, he need to say something, wait, she asked about him being a fan of Present Mic, heroes are one of the things he likes most talking about, he just needs to say what he thinks, and let his mind do the work.

He awkwardly gave the frog girl a small smile, his cheeks very red in embarrassment.

"W-Well.... y-yes, h-he is so cool, while he does hero work he can use his q-quirk to both fights and also warn c-civilian to escape, s-saving a lot of p-people in one move, and I like a lot his radio shows....." He explained nervously as he fiddles a bit with his fingers, even more sweat forming on the sides of his head as he was getting a bit more nervous, but, at least he was getting somewhere and the girl seemed to be interested, so he wasn't making a fool of himself yet. He didn't notice that the guy at his left and a couple of other examinees from the row behind were listening to the conversation, mostly because they wanted to distract themselves and the way Izuku talked about heroes was interesting.

The girl actually smiled a bit more at him, she seemed to enjoy the talk even if it was with a nerd like him, this surprised him, he expected her to be weirded out.

"*Kero* Me too, I usually listen to his radio shows sometimes with my siblings, they like him a lot *kero*" She says as she tilted her head to the side, causing the boy to blush a bit more, realizing that he was having a friendly conversation with a cute girl for the second time today!!!

She then seemed to think about something and then spoke again, her face still blank and calm.

"You talked about his quirk earlier, you seem to know a lot about him and his quirk" The girl asked calmly, she noticed that he likes talking about heroes and quirks, she doesn't mind talking more about the subject, she also having a bit of fun and if it will easy him up as he seemed very nervous right now, even better.

The boy looked surprised once again, his mind then got to work to find a way to socialize more, okay, this was going somewhere, he was having a conversation like the one he had with the girl at the gate, he just need to not panic.

He hummed and nodded shyly as looked away a bit, he could feel a bit more courage returning because they were talking about one of his favorite subjects, but it was still hard making full sentences without stuttering, he is so not used to this that he is surprised he is managing to talk to her.

"........O-One time he saved ten b-bystanders from a glass rain c-caused by a villain, he blew the glass away with a scream......and he is funny, heroes need to be like that I guess, they need to put a smile on your face, that's how I see it at least......" Izuku continued as he looked ahead, raised a bit one his hands and looked at it, he was stuttering less as he was getting more and more in his element, the fact the girl was giving a calm and collected aura helped a lot, he didn't notice that his voice got a lot warmer, showing how much the words he spoke meant to him.

However, his eyes widened a bit as he realized he was talking too much, he covered his mouth with one of his hands and blushed a lot in embarrassment as he quickly looked at the girl again, finding her simply staring back with a slightly more pensive expression, like she was actually thinking about what he said.

"That's a very nice thought, I agree with you, that's why I am here, and I guess it's why you are here too, so don't be nervous *kero*" She says with a small smile, surprisingly calming him down very fast, what was happening to him?!

He slowly removed the hand from covering his mouth to scratching slightly his hair, avoiding eye contact as he was still embarrassed, he can't really be less nervous, not while being surrounded by strangers that could easily the cause of a new scar on his body and mind.

He didn't expect a couple of examiners actually talking to him.

"Wow man, that's deep, I never looked at it like that" The boy at Izuku's left says as he stretches a bit on his chair

"Eh?" Izuku muttered surprised as he looked to the side in surprise, wait, were they listening!!!? Then Why they didn't stop his creepy hero explanation storm?

"Why did you stop? I wanna hear more anecdotes, come on, I like how you talk about them" The girl behind him says as she leaned forward, her seat just behind the frog girl's.

The boy turned towards the other direction, even more shocked, having a girl with pigtails and the green-haired frog girl he was talking to earlier in his field of vision, he was speechless, what was happening?!! Why do so many people want to talk with him?!

The green-haired girl smiled a bit at him, she put her finger on her lips again, still wanting to talk more.

"*Kero* I agree, ever heard of Selkie? He is my favorite hero" She says.

After a couple of seconds of staring at her with wide eyes and agape mouth, finally, the boy's mind started working again, panicking to find the strength to speak again.

He didn't notice his eyes brightening up a little as he pumped a bit his fists, looking actually excited.

"Ehm...I.......I-I.......Y-Yes he-" he was about to say but was interrupted by someone in the row in front, who turned towards the boy with a slightly irritated and stern look.

"Present Mic is about to start the presentation, please don't make noise, is distracting," The boy says sternly, he was relatively tall and with a muscular physique with a wide frame. He has short dark blue hair, flattened neatly down and parted on the right side of his head, a small patch completely shaved near the base of his head, and rather square eyes which match the notably pointed shape of his jaw. his eyebrows seem to be permanently pointed inwards, quite thin and long in length, the far ends sharply hooked inwards, and he wears glasses with rectangular lenses.

Izuku immediately covered his mouth with his hands, realizing he made someone irritated by his rants, he didn't want to attract attention in the first place.

"S-s-sorry" Izuku stuttered with a muffled voice, his face a little pale as he was scared others would actually be aggressive with him now that the tall boy voiced his thoughts.

To his surprise, the dark blue haired boy's stare became less irritated and stern, after a couple of seconds he simply turned ahead, not giving him any insults that the green-haired boy expected to receive.

Present Mic's voice interrupted any more conversations from happening.

"Finally found it! I swear they should have made voice-commanded ones, but they always refuse because they think I would break it, they are spoilsports, my little listener!" Present Mic whined with crossed arms.

Everyone sweatdropped at this.

The hero seemed to receive a call as he tapped a button on his headphones, he palled shortly after, apparently, someone with a scarf wasn't so happy by his colleague wasting time.

"Okay, okay, let's check out your targets. There are three types of faux villains in every battle center. You'll earn points based on their level of difficulty, so better choose wisely. Your goal in this trial is to use your Quirk to raise your score by shredding these faux villains like a mid‐song guitar solo. But, check it! Make sure you're keep'n things heroic. Attacking other examinees is a UA no‐no, ya dig?!" Present Mic began to explain as made some hand gestures or poses to be dramatic and keep the flow his way, behind him, the screen showed something similar to a videogame, a small pixelated Present Mic jumped over three types of robot, destroying them and gaining points.

However, as the hero was explaining, the same boy that made Izuku shut up raised his hand.

"Excuse me, sir, but I have a question!" The tall young man asked stiffly.

"Hit me!" Present Mic says with a grin as a spotlight appeared on the tall boy, who didn't seem to mind as he raised his pamphlet.

"On the printout, you've listed four types of villains. Not three. With all respect, if this is an error on official UA materials, it is shameful. We're all here today in the hopes of being molded into model heroes. We expect the best from Japan's most notable school. A mistake such as this won't do!" the boy says with a slight frown, indicating his printout with one finger.

But he didn't stop there, suddenly he turned around, facing Izuku.

"Also...." He continued as he began to raise his free hand, seemingly to point towards the green-haired boy.

Izuku's eyes widened in terror as he realized that the boy was most likely going to call him out for talking earlier, humiliating him in front of everyone. He already apologized!! So why add more salt to the wound?!! He didn't want to disturb, he always messes up things, he just had to shut up and not mutter!!

The tall boy raised his finger to point at someone, Izuku's heart was beating very fast as everything seemed to move in slow motion, he was already preparing himself to be ridiculed in public but he was even more surprised when the dark blue haired boy instead of pointing at him, he indicated someone else that was some rows behind Izuku's.

"You with the spiky ash-blonde hair!" The stiff boy called, revealing that his finger was pointing toward a not so happy Katsuki.

"Haaa? Are you talking to me, Four eyes? What the fuck do you want?" Katsuki says with an angry frown, what the fuck does this loser wants? Does he search a fight?

Izuku was surprised by this and looked back to see that it was Katsuki that was called out, what? What was happening?!!

The dark Blue haired boy frowned more as he stood straight.

"What I want is that you stop cursing and grumbling to yourself, it's not only distracting but it's also making the people around you uncomfortable, this is not a behavior worthy of a hero, I would like you to stop and if you can't, then you should just leave this building if you dislike being here so much" The tall boy says as his glasses reflected a bit of light, the only visible eye showed that he was irritated.

The ash-blonde left eye started to twitch as veins were visible on his forehead, his anger increasing several times

"Why don't you just mind your own business and shut the fuck up before I blow up your mouth to pieces?!" he says with hostility, what does he think he is to talk to him like this?!!! Extras should know their place in front of someone powerful like him.

Before the dark blue haired boy could answer he was anticipated by Present Mic.

"All right, all right. Stop it, both of you, you with the foul mouth, don't threaten other examinees or you will be disqualified, we don't like that type of behavior, are you on tune? " Present Mic says without smiling this time, already recognizing the special student that Nezu warned all the teachers about.

"*Tch*, whatever" Katsuki scoffed as he sat again while lol away, it was not worth it to argue with these extras.

The hero turned towards the tall boy now, his grin returning.

"Examinee number 7‐1‐1‐1. Thanks for calling in with your request. The fourth villain type is worth zero points, there are three robots that in order of difficulty and points they will grant you at their defeat, Victory, Imperial and Venator. The fourth robot, Executor, is just an obstacle we'll be throwing in your way. There's one in every battle center. Think of it as a hurdle you should try to avoid. It's not that it can't be beaten, but there's......kinda no point. I recommend my listeners to try to ignore it and focus on the ones toppin' the charts" Present Mic explained as he indicated behind him, the screen showing every single faux villain that will be present in the exam.

The tall boy nodded and then bowed.

"Thank you very much. Please, continue" the dark blue haired boy says as he sits down, satisfied by the answer.

"Too stiff, ease up a little, little listener*clear throat*" Present Mic muttered as he then cleared his throat and looked at everyone with his excited aura back to full gear.

"That's all I got for you today. I'll sign off with a little present. A sample of our school motto! As General Napoleon Bonaparte once laid down. *A true hero is one who overcomes life's misfortunes* Mm‐hm. Now that's a tasty soundbite. i got one better, Are you ready to go beyond? Let's hear a Plus Ultra!" Present Mic shouted excitedly as he put a hand on his ear.

"PLUS ULTRA!!!!" Many examinees cheered this time.

"P-plus ultra" Izuku weakly tried to cheer too, but it was barely noticeable, he cursed himself once again for being ridiculous.

"Good luck! Hope you practiced hitting more than just books, on your sheets there's the battle zone you are assigned to plus the bus number, so don't get lost, I know how it feels, hahaha!!" he says at the end, after that, the examinees started to get up from their seats.

Izuku got up too, ready to change into his workout gear so he can go to the bus and finally end this exam, but he was stopped when he felt a little tug on the shoulder part of his *uniform*, making him flinch a bit as he quickly looked to the side, finding the same green-haired frog girl of before.

"Just wanted to say good luck, you helped me relax a bit, hope we can both pass *Kero*" the girl says with a little smile.

The boy immediately blushed in embarrassment as he covered his face with his arms

"G-Good luck to y-you too....." Izuku stuttered as he saw the girl walk away, he did the same, trying to metabolize that he actually talked to two girls on the same day, it was surreal.

In the bus

"*Phew* I thought I was gonna pass out, if he pointed at me in front of so many people, I would have done it for sure....." Izuku muttered to himself as he let his body lean on the side seat of the bus, what happened at the presentation left his head in a blur. First, he actually had a full-blown conversation with a person his age for the second time, who also was a cute girl, again for the second time, but he also wasn't ridiculed in public when the occasion was present, even though he muttered and made a fool of himself with his tics, nobody made a big deal out of it, which was greatly unfamiliar as everyone always made sure to tell him that whatever he does or whatever personality trait or tic he have are pathetic and useless.

He remembered the same thoughts that he had before the written test......be so close with someone, talking about silly things with friends as he saw in movies. He wanted that so desperately, be normal.....be accepted.....but.... that's impossible.

He will never be normal or loved for who he is.

The boy took a deep breath as he steadied his still scrambled nerves. A more thoughtful look on his face as he glanced to his right, seeing that the seat beside him was empty to his relief, he also saw some people pass close, searching for someone to share the seat. He doubts that someone may want to sit next to a plain-looking nerd like him, but maybe this was for the better.......

He looked a bit down at his shaking hands, nervousness from what happened at the presentation still present. He also remembers what happened when those students talked to him, this brought mixed feelings, because, to be honest with himself......he is scared, that was undeniable, being so close to someone he doesn't know was very stressful. For this he prefers to be away from others and slowly come to terms that he will be forced to interact with many people his age in the future, this was both a good thing and a bad thing. The first was because he admittedly craved to have friendly interactions. What happened at both the gates and the auditorium was still impressed in his mind, no self-doubt or fear could dull the fact that he actually had fun talking with the frog girl and found strangely relieving that someone his age used their quirk on him to help him instead of hurting him as the auburn girl did to prevent him to suffer a bad fall. But, there was the other side of the coin..... himself, the long years of abuse had molded his mind and subconscious into reacting to everyone like they were an enemy or a possible source of pain and suffering, they were like self-preservation instincts and it's because of these same instincts that he can't help himself from flinching or pull back in terror at the minimal touch. But.......he would lie if he said that he wasn't also touch starved as opposed to his fear of physical contact. Silently appreciating All Might's direct way of expressing his fondness for him through hair ruffling, pats on the back or even hugs, he just took it all and tried to ignore the instincts that screamed at him this was just fake happiness, some flukes that kept happening and will end at last and bring him back to the starting point.

He shook his head and lightly slapped his cheeks, stopping his mind to go further and managing to suppress these hope and sadness-filled thoughts once again, the last thing that he needs right now is his own fear or useless cravings for company to hold him back. His sad and traumatized mind now working on his perceived logic again and not with hopes or desire for warmth. The thought of what happened on those two occasions were just flukes. Everything that he ever lived can't change that much......It's not like someone would sit beside him and actually talk to him like he is someone worth talking to...... right?

Speaking of talking....there was a last thing that surprised him.....the tall boy of the auditorium. frankly, he had surprised him, he had confronted Katsuki directly for his behavior in front of more than a hundred people, it takes courage and the green-haired boy is sure that he wouldn't even have a fraction of that. But, he also almost had a heart attack when the dark blue-haired boy interrupted everything and seemed about to point at him and ridicule him for talking earlier even though he apologized profusely. Luckily, he wasn't the one being, but....he was so scared of being the object of insults once again, it didn't happen.....yet, he hopes it stays that way, at least for a little more.

"At least I won't have Bakugo in the same area as me, I think in this way I can focus more on the exam" Izuku muttered to himself, he could hear gradually fewer people walking in the bus, suggesting that many had taken their seats already. He felt both lucky and a bit frustrated that nobody sat next to him, he preferred it that way, after all, he was too shy to try socializing on his own. In his mind, it's better to be alone than hurt, well considering that he is hurt even by being alone, he is a bit at a dead end. Nothing new.

The boy shook his head once again, putting his hands on his thighs and looked down, a more serious expression on his nervous face, he used his small resolve to dull any bad feeling like he always did, managing to finally put these thoughts and feelings in the back of his mind, hopefully not distracting him from the exam any longer.

"You are not here for attention or company, Izuku, you are here to be a hero, to be the strongest hero......I can't be distracted.....keep your focus..... it's different now, maybe you will make friends now that you have a quirk..... that's how it works..." Izuku muttered as his hands gripped his pants a bit more tightly, using his thoughts related to his dream dull the ones that were keeping moving to those three that attracted his curiosity and attention.....and maybe.....desire to get to know more about them.

He didn't realize that he was thinking again about the possible friendships he could form instead of the stressful exam.

"..... I wanted to talk a bit more....." Izuku muttered shyly as his hands stopped gripping his pants and instead, his fingers started tapping nervously against the clothed legs. A bit of frustration in his heart as he realized he didn't manage to get the names of the two girls or even managed to talk with the tall boy at all, wait, why he wanted to know this badly? Was this his desire for friends talking?

"Maybe....if we are in the same class....we could talk more....All Might always encouraged me to try to get to know someone......" He muttered as he glanced down once again, a small embarrassed blush on his cheeks, already feeling his chest filling with hope, it's ironic that some moments ago he managed to suppress both negative and hopeful thoughts about his future situation at this school, always if he gets in as that dreaded feeling that he may not pass was always present, but now they sneaked up in his mind once again, this time the hopeful one got the upper hand, making the shy boy fidget a bit in place, letting his imagination do the work of creating possible friendship scenarios with the two cute girls and maybe also that tall boy, even if he was scary. But strangely he could feel himself become curious if he could get along with scary people like that.

But then his eyes widened like plates, realizing a strange details of his thoughts.

"Wait......c-c-cute?! W-Where this came from?!!" He shouted inside his mind as his face became red in embarrassment, he just now realized that he has been mentally addressing the two girls as the *kind and cute girls that didn't hate my existence for just breathing* he never called someone cute, so why now?! Was it because they weren't from Aldera?

While he was trying to subdue his embarrassment and calm his racing mind, he failed to notice a girl walking beside the empty seat next to him, she stopped, noticing the empty seat and then glancing at the nervous boy, who has mostly calmed down his embarrassment and blush on the face, now muttering to himself on a low voice. She tilted her head to the side, a bit curious about what he was muttering, but strangely, her expression was neutral, not giving away her internal thoughts or curiosity.

Her eyelids dropped the tiniest bit as she hummed to herself and then....she sat next to him, not finding sitting next to him a bad idea at all, he seemed friendly and the expressions he was making right now were a bit funny, even tho her expression didn't change, she just calmly looked ahead, patiently waiting for the bus to start, she didn't say anything as she didn't want to bother the boy beside her, but it didn't take long for him to notice her, only a couple of seconds were enough.

The movement of the seat made Izuku stop in his tracks, his thoughts stabilizing instantly as he could something, or better yet, someone at the corner of his eyes.

"Huh?" He muttered confused and a bit surprised as he glanced to the side and his eyes widened in shock seeing a girl sitting on the previously empty seat, was he so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't notice her? More importantly.....a girl was sitting beside him again!!!

Once again his cheeks lit up in heavy embarrassment, some muffled sounds were about to escape his lips but he managed to not make himself audible, after making sure he wouldn't scream and make a fool of himself, he let emerald eyes focus a bit more, the girl surprisingly seemed to not notice him staring, but she was turned enough for him to see her face, he didn't realize his eyes scanning her with shy curiosity, his mind trying to throw away the thoughts of before to prepare for any interaction that may ensue.

The girl had shoulder-length, bob-shaped hair, side-swept to her right with some shorter strands hanging above her eyes. She has fair skin, an athletic build, and a neutral expression on her face. Her eyes are cerulean, he was particularly caught by her stare and irises, so much that he couldn't stop the unfamiliar thoughts from barging into his head, just like the other two times, he had just thing to think.......

"So pretty!......W-Wait, I did it again?!!! What is happening to me? This is the third time!! Stop it Izuku, stop staring!!!" Izuku panicked inside his head, steam coming out of his ears as he was about to look away and make himself as small as possible. But, before he could look away, his panicking eyes caught a particular of the girl, the very same pretty eyes that caught his attention were also staring at his own now, the girl's expression still neutral.

The girl was just about to part her lips to greet him but she wasn't fast enough as she saw the boy's face lit up in red and....

"!!!!" Izuku made a muffled yelp as he quickly turned his eyes towards the window, his face completely crimson and with a panicked expression, damnit!!! He has messed up again!!!

"Hmm?" She hummed in confusion as she slightly tilted her head to the side; why did he turn away? He seemed that he wanted to say something to her by the way he was staring, she saw it as an occasion to talk to someone as she doesn't exactly know a lot of people here considering that only she and her best friend were attending the exam from her middle school.

"Don't worry Yui! You just need to be more forward, don't think about those idiots at your old school. If you wanna talk with someone, just do it" She remembered the pieces of advice that her orange-haired best friend gave her in order to make more friends as she didn't have a lot of them. The boys of her old school always stuttered or ran away while having red faces when she tried to talk to them, and many girls didn't seem to like her for some reason. Maybe this could be an occasion, he isn't exactly running away right now.

The black-haired girl hummed softly to herself, internally giving herself a little push to try to socialize with someone by herself. She turned towards the shy boy once again, her eyes a bit more closed up.

"....Hi" she greeted in a calm voice, almost sweet.

This made the boy flinch, much to her confusion, did she say something bad? Before she could think more, the boy nervously turned towards her slowly, his face partially red.

"Huh?!.. Ehm-ehmm...H-h-hi" Izuku greeted back nervously, his self-preservation instincts flaring up at her speaking to him, he immediately thought it was because she was angry at him staring at her, his mind already working on the right words to create stuttering apologies for his creepy behavior. His capacity in being in huge groups while not being nervous or awkward was basically none and he couldn't ever stop from cursing it, how can he make friends if he keeps doing these mistakes?! his classmates were right, he is destined to be alone and friendless. However.....the girl was going to surprise him like the other two girls did, with a genuine intention of socializing with someone as shy and plain as he is!

The boy's eyes struggled to look at her as he was already putting the apology on the tip of his tongue, but before he could say it, he noticed something.......the girl seemed totally calm, her expression didn't change, he could swear he saw a bit of eagerness in those attractive eyes, was she truly angry at him or he was overthinking again?

But when he finally managed to look at her, he was surprised by the fact that the girl's attractive face was devoid of any irritation or disgust towards him, making him hesitate to apologize long enough for the hero to think of something to break the ice, she noticed how nervous he looked, so she thought it was because of the exam and could use this to calm both of them as she was very nervous too, even if she didn't show it.

"Are.....are you nervous about the exam?" She asked calmly, she seemed to hesitate at the first word for a second but from the boy's point of view, she simply stopped from continuing the sentence and then started it over, she just was so calm that it was very hard to understand her state of mind or if she truly hesitated to speak or simple was measuring her words.

His useless internal analysis of her true intentions was interrupted by the realization that she asked him a question and he has been staring without saying anything for a couple of seconds. What he is doing?!! he needs to answer, like that time with the green-haired girl, he can't be rude or he will be hated before he can even get in!

He internally boosted himself with a bit of courage, funny that he found harder to talk to strangers than fight robots. He opened his eyes and shyly glanced at her and scratched his hair nervously, a small awkward fake smile on his face, he understood that smiling was very important in a conversation, he can't look so fearful in front of others.

"Y-Y-yes I a-am, even if I trained a lot for this..... it's still so s-scary....." He stuttered as he scratched the back of his head nervously, he could feel himself growing the littlest bit more comfortable talking to others, but it was still very hard, the fact he talked only to girls didn't help.

The girl nodded, turning her body a bit more towards him like she had the intention of continuing the exchange, the boy could feel himself almost yelp once again as her leg almost brushed against his, and her face didn't ease up his nervousness.

"*Mm-hmm* I am too, fighting robots is a bit scary......" she says calmly, the fact that her voice and neutral face remained the same made it hard to believe that she was nervous, Izuku sweatdropped a little at this, more confused than anything.

"It's kind of hard to think that she is scared right now......she kinda looks like a doll....." Izuku thought a bit perplexed, a little curious of how can she look so calm on the outside, he was a little envious.

"W-we-well fig-fighting ag-against robots can be ind-indeed nerve-wracking, they don't exactly look.... f-friendly, but.....we can do it....." Izuku says nervously, remembering his own training that he did while having them as opponents, after he lost control the first time, he made sure to control his emotions as much as possible to reduce the risk to snap again, but it was very hard.

The girl hummed softly another time, but then, Izuku noticed something in her demeanor, some cracks in the calm and collected exterior, he noticed that the girl shifted to look ahead instead of at him.

"I hope we can....I am kinda doubting that my quirk will be enough...." The girl says calmly, her voice even more delicate than before, surprisingly making the boy scared mind mellow for a second and actually making him take a double take, when he turned to her, he noticed that her eyes were a bit more closed up and her hands were squeezing softly her pants, barely holding the fabric with her delicate fingers.

"Huh?" He tilted his head to the side as his eyes scanned the girl's expression, he could swear that he actually felt nervousness from her, even if her face was still neutral and calm, but her slight shift in body language caught his attention, she looked more closed up, more fidgety, even if it was very small, he caught it. He didn't know why, but he didn't like that she was nervous, like....he wanted to do something to ease her up, maybe it was his way to repay those that don't treat his existence like an insult, it's weird, add it to the pile. But, he wants to do something for her.

"Your q-quirk? W-What about it...ehm" He asked nervously but then he stopped, realizing that he doesn't know how to address her properly, should, meanwhile the girl turned her head towards him again, tilting it a bit confused, wondering why the boy stopped but then she understood that he stopped because they both didn't know each other names, an important thing about socializing with someone, this embarrassed her a little, but she still didn't show it.

"My name is Yui Kodai.....nice to meet you" She interrupted him still with a calm voice.

"Ahh! Ni-nic-nice to me-meet you Kodai-san, my nam-name is Izuku Midoriya...." Izuku says nervously, mentally relieved for not having to ask for her name.

He then remember what he was asking before and resumed it, he took a deep breath to boost himself up and look at her again.

"W-Why do you s-say it may n-not be e-enough? What....what does it do?" He asked nervously, part of him very curious about her quirk, he was basically surrounded by so many people with so many different quirks and he can't really ask because of.....well....his poor social skill.

Her eyes widened the smallest bit, barely noticeable, a small hint that she was either confused by the question or maybe surprised.

This made the boy's nervousness spike up a little bit more as he didn't know if it was okay or not to ask for someone's quirk, he doesn't know anything about socializing!!!

"Ahh! If it's o-okay of c-course, you don't have to tell me if you want, I'm sorry if I was rude" He stuttered nervously not slightly panicked because he doesn't know if he was too direct and maybe he was overstepping, but before be could continue, she nodded without saying anything, a small hum accompanying her previous silent gesture, making him stop and look at her.

"I don't think it's rude, I don't mind" She says simply as she put a hand in her pocket, the boy glancing at her with curiosity.

She took something from her pocket and hold it in her palm, presenting it to the boy, who leaned a bit closer, recognizing the object as a small metal bolt.

He looked up at her a bit confused and her answer was to glance down at the bold, making the boy look at it once again

Izuku's eyes widened a bit as he noticed something, the bolt was starting to vibrate until....it changed size, becoming two times bigger, now covering a bit less than half of her palm.

"I can make any non-living objects bigger or smaller, and then I can make them go back to their original size if I press my fingertips together" Yui explained calmly.

"Woah..... c-can I?" Izuku asked a bit more interested but still shyly, his right hand twitched a bit as he hesitantly pointed to the bolt, asking if he could examine it, becoming calmer and at ease with time.

"Mhm" she hummed softly as she handed the slightly bigger bolt to him. The boy examined it, the weight accurate to its new size,

"It's a-amazing, Kodai-san, y-you could c-change the size of t-the r-robots or even their l-limbs so....why do you say t-that you aren't sure that it will be e-enough?" Izuku asked confused.

The girl seemed to think about something, at least, that is what he could understand by her not speaking for some seconds, but then she spoke again.

"I'm not used to using it in more.....stressful situations...." Yui started to say calmly as she looked ahead, her eyes closing up a little. The boy looked at her while tilting his head to the side a little, his eyes widened a bit as this confirmed his suspects earlier, she was really nervous and now he knows precisely why, with this, the feeling of before came back too, he wanted to do something to ease her up, but he limited himself to listen for now.

"My best friend is a martial artist, she helped me a bit to be more attentive during fights, but I am still a bit nervous, I can change their size, but I still need to get close to do that..... it's a bit silly..." She continued, thinking she was just overthinking things. But, what she heard next surprised her.

"Not at all...." She heard the boy say, making her turn her head to look at him a bit confused, her eyes finding him looking at her with a calmer face, his fear or nervousness dulled by instincts that he never knew he had, they didn't scream at him to run away from her, they told him to get closer and make her feel better.

He shifted a bit his body like she did, facing her more, his mentor's words and encouragement returned in his mind, making him stop for a second, feeling even himself becoming a bit less nervous from the exam too, but he wanted to share this with Yui.

"It's n-not silly, I'm v-very nervous too, e-even if I have a strength enhancing quirk t-that will most likely a-allow me to destroy the mock villains, I keep thinking that I could have trained harder to be stronger and I am s-scared of failing because of it. But, I guess it can't be helped. This doesn't mean that we not gonna make it, I....no....We....We just need to do to our best with what we can do right now.....we must squeeze everything out...." Izuku says still a bit nervous, but his more fiery side was slowly leaking out from the cracks of his fear.

The boy's left hand twitched a bit but then he hesitantly softly grabbed the girl's hand and made it face upward.

"So......" He continued as he placed the bolt on her palm, internally panicking by feeling how soft and warm her hands were, his cheeks extremely red and his body shaking a little. But, he held on as much as possible.

"Let's o-obliterate this exam, Kodai-san" He concluded as he mustered his more positive emotions and gave her a small smile, much less fake than before, the girl just remained to stare at him, her emotions completely unreadable this time, but after some seconds.....
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"Yeah" She says calmly, a small sweet tone adding to the neutral voice, even if little changes of her body language, Izuku could swear he felt her easing up, her fingers closing around the bolt, speaking of her hand......he was still holding it, and realizing this made his fragile composure completely shatter.

Izuku's entire face became red as he removed his hand from her like she was on fire, covering his face in extreme embarrassment and confusion about what he have done, why did he touch her?!!! What's wrong with him?!!!

He didn't notice that a ghost of a smile appeared on her lips after he cheered her up, but he didn't notice it because of his panic.

The girl's voice interrupted him and made him jump a bit.

"I think Itsu would like you a lot....." Yui says as she put the bolt aside, now even more interested in having him as a friend, he is very sweet and he didn't hesitate to cheer her up, making her feel much more at ease into talking to him.

"I-I-Itsu?" Izuku stuttered confused, finally managing to remove his hands from his face, showing that it was still red.

"My friend that I am making the exam with, you two have the same stare and you behave a lot alike...." She says calmly, not bothered by him touching her hand earlier by one bit.

This shocked the boy even more, wait, were they behaving as friends right now? He could feel part of him protesting, telling him that this was a fluke. But, then it hit him, like him? Like him a lot? Someone?!

"But I like your face differently...." She continued as she tilted her head to the side, making lzuku blush worsen if possible for how cute she looked like this, wait!! Cute!!! Again?!!!

Before they could continue this strange but sweet conversation, they both heard an irritated whisper from the row beside them.

"Urgh! Look at them, I wish I could sit next to a cutie like that, and they held hands too, I am so jealous" a boy of the row beside them whispered to the other, he was trying to not be heard by the green-haired boy and the quiet girl, but probably didn't realize that they managed to hear him.

The other boy nodded while comedically crying, seeing a hottie like Yui sit next to a plain-looking guy was so frustrating, they saw so many cute girls in this exam and they didn't manage to hit one off.

Yui shifted her position a little and looked towards them, making the two boys flinch as they realized the two heard them, but the girl was more confused than angry, just staring at them until they looked ahead while sweating, fearing the neutral expression of the cute girl they were talking about.

But then, she turned towards the green-haired boy again, her eyelids dropping the smallest bit.

"I think they want to sit next to you..." Yui says calmly, mistaking who they were referring to.

"H-Huh?" Izuku made a sound of confusion, what she was talking about?

But before he could think why she was referring to him, she spoke again.

"They say that they want to sit next to a cute person, and you are here...." She says without missing a beat, indicating him with her finger to enforce her point.
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"HUH?!!" Izuku squeaked as steam started to burst out from his ears, did she just call him cute!!! No it's impossible for a plain-looking nerd like him, but why he can't remove the heat from his almost-melting face?!

Yui wanted to say something but the bus stopped, making both her and Izuku to be confused until.

"Okay! We are here, go to the gate for the mock city, impossible to not notice it!" the bus driver says to the passengers, who started to get up and gradually exit the bus.

"Oh....we are here" Yui says as she turned her head towards him.

"I hope we can both pass the exam, I would like to talk a little more when we are students, see you, Midoriya-kun" She says with a small nod as she gets up and gets off the bus.

The boy was flabbergasted by the fact he had for the third time a friendly conversation with someone, this was unreal, completely new for him, and he wanted more, but at the same time, he was scared to try on his own.

"I hope it too" He muttered as he got up and exited the bus, even more determined to pass the exam.

Outside the mock city

Izuku stood in front of the gigantic gate leading to the battle center B or ground beta in short, a massive mock area that emulates a standard urban area, with streets and buildings, from the map that he have in his pamphlet, the area was as big as a small city.

"This is just another of UA training grounds, An entire mock city.... I've never been here before, only on the industrial one.....UA is amazing" Izuku muttered awestruck as his eyes trailed all the height of the gate, making the green-haired boy feel even smaller than he is, and the fact this massive mock city is all filled with robots made his nervousness come back, the bigger issue wasn't the robots, it was the others, this is a full-blown competition which didn't help to ease up his performance anxiety, on the contrary, it just made it worse every time he boost himself up, a new wave of anxiety and fear of being around others was generated and slightly eroded his resolve, but he held tight.

"This might as well be a whole town! how many replica sites like this exist on this campus!? UA's nuts!!!!" A tall boy at some meters at his right shouted in awe, making the boy come back from his thoughts and quickly look around a bit nervous, his anxiety started to skyrocket when he noticed that he was surrounded by the other examinees.

The green-haired boy backed away a little until he was in a less crowded part of the zone. He scratched his hair and he sweated a bit, very nervous for both the huge group around him and the always present and growing anxiety of the exam.

He shook his head and took a couple of small and quiet deep breaths to try to calm his flaring nerves and relax. When he calmed himself from the attack of anxiety, enough to have a minimum of fragile composure, he raised his gaze, noticing that he had a more clear vision of many of his fellow examinees, this attracted his nervous but curious attention. His eyes glanced around to shyly scan the many examinees that were waiting like him, some had support equipment attached to their bodies.

"So many different quirks, they even brought support items to use them better....., I don't have anything, could a support item help me with OFA?" Izuku wondered in his mind, he patted a spot on the back of his pants workout, checking if the medical supplies were in his pockets, from what he read on the pamphlet, you can't bring weapons or gadgets that aren't compatible with your quirk. But, you can bring supplies or other things to use during the exam that aren't specifically to destroy robots, like food or in Izuku's case, medical supplies. He brought patches and bandages, in case he hurt himself with OFA or even if someone need his help.

As he kept checking the other examinees, he noticed all kinds of mutations, horns, additional limbs or different body types. All of this spiked his curiosity even more, his passion for quirk dulling his previous nervousness.

His stare focused from the other applicants' bodies or support items to their faces, he didn't realize that, unconsciously, he was trying to find the ones that he meet so far, he doesn't know why, but having someone that he recognize in his field of vision was something that he thinks will ease him up a little.

"Maybe the girl of the gate....or the one from the auditorium, they were so friendly with me, or maybe Kodai-san, I liked talking with her and her voice is strangely calming......." Izuku muttered quietly to himself as he glanced around more, his legs shaking a bit as he was pondering that, if he recognize someone, it might be a good idea to walk to them, he wanted a fourth good experience, then a fifth....a sixth.....okay, he not so secretly was growing more and more curious of all these new situations he is finding himself in. But, the idea that these were just flukes was still predominant, easily blocking these hopeful thoughts away. Who he is kidding? It's impossible.

His thoughts were cut off when his eyes noticed the same tall boy with glasses from the auditorium.

"He is here too?.... better to avoid him for now..." Izuku muttered a bit more nervous as he made a mental note of not make himself noticeable, even if he wanted to see if it was possible to get along with more stern and scary people like him, he pretty much was terrorized by trying right now, or.... maybe in any moments, he is kinda torn between trying or give up.

As he looked away from him to resume his search for someone he may recognize, his attention was caught once again when he saw a girl that stood a lot to his eyes, maybe it was the energetic aura she have around her, or it was the way she looked like. The girl was a little shorter than him and with an athletic body, her skin being a light shade of pink, and she has somewhat square shaped eyes with black scleras and yellow irises and notably long eyelashes below and around the sides of her eyes. Her face is framed by short fluffy and unruly pink hair which is slightly darker than her skin. She also has two thin pale yellow horns protruding from her head, hooked squarely and leaning diagonally to opposite sides. She was wearing decorated purple gym clothing.

What confused the green-haired boy a bit was that the girl, instead of being nervous, seemed strangely excited and pumped up like she was ready for anything.

He unconsciously tilted his head to the side, both curious and, to be honest, a little envious of everyone else being so calm while he is shaking in his boots.

"I guess not everyone is scared of this exam....or maybe it's just me......" He muttered, noticing that she was stretching her arms in the air while leaning a bit her body forward, giving the boy a better view of her cute horns. Her look intrigued a lot Izuku, she looked like.....

Like an alien beauty.....

"Her horns are so tiny, and her skin and eye color, it's because of her quirk?....she is so pretty and she didn't stop smiling a second, maybe she is friendly....." Izuku thought curiously, his cheeks heating up a lot for mentally calling a girl cute a fourth time, but he managed to keep himself from freaking out as he was surrounded by other people, last thing he needs is attracting attention and mockery on himself.

He noticed that the girl was about to turn towards him, so he nervously looked away, but then his eyes widened in relaxation as the direction he turned allowed him to see one of the people he was unconsciously looking for, the girl from the gate that stopped him from falling....

"The nice girl of the gate......maybe I should wish her good luck, All Might said that I should try to make interact more on my own......." Izuku thought hesitantly, he just realized that those shockingly positive exchanges weren't started by him, so maybe.....if he truly want to get along with others, he should try to start the interaction himself. With this thought in mind, he nervously started to walk towards her, a bit of sweat forming on the side of his head as his heart hammered in his chest, this was his true attempt to socialize, so he was completely panicking.

Before he could get close enough to her, a hand was placed on his shoulder, stopping him and making his body becoming stiff immediately.

The boy could feel all his nerves instinctively flaring up, his body flinching from the physical contact as he quickly turn around and fearfully backed away from whoever touched him, his eyes widened in surprise and terror seeing the same dark blue-haired boy of before.

"W-W-What?! W-why did he stop me? Did I do s-something wrong? w-wasn't I s-supposed to talk?! No no no, I m-messed up things! He looks irritated, I need to a-apologize like last time...." Izuku panicked inside his mind, his face displayed even more anxiety as sweat trailed from his forehead as he paled.

The tall boy crossed his arms, looking stern and irritated like that time, but he raised an eyebrow noticing the smaller boy's complete state of terror when he touched him, making him hesitate for a moment. But then he recovered and regained his stern look.

"That girl is trying to focus like everyone else, are you planning of distracting her? It's not a fair behavior according to the rules" he asks sternly, now that he looks closely, he recognized the green-haired boy as the one who was sitting behind him and talking when he told him to be quiet, he apologized and seemed truly sorry, so he didn't think a lot about it, but now he wonders if he was trying to damper others focus.

This made Izuku even more nervous and scared if possible, confirming that he just made someone angry without realizing it, he quickly waved his shaking hands nervously, stuttering his motives.

"N-n-no yo-you're w-wro-wrong, I just wan-wanted to w-wish her goo-good luck, she...she helped me at the front gate, so...so I w-wanted to see if everything w-was okay....." he stuttered as his posture worsened a little and his voice grew weaker as he kept speaking, he could feel the stares of the other examinees and it was making every single nerve and instinct flare up in fright.

The tall boy kept staring at him, probably to see if he was lying. But, despite the green-haired boy shaking form and his very nervous eyes, he seemed sincere.

"I understand, sorry if I interrupted you, I just want people to follow the rules and not to hinder each other" he says bowing in apology.

This greatly surprised Izuku, the boy at a loss for words having someone apologize to him instead of demanding that he apologize for something he didn't do anything or didn't mean to do. Usually resulting in insults or/and beatings.

Before he could stutter something, he began to hear not-so-quiet whispers of the other applicants, all of them redirected at him.

"That's the kid who's been acting like a weirdo since he arrived at the front gate......" A big boy whispered with a small amused grin, not believing he got in the same area as the *shaking weirdo*.

"The kid who can't quit shaking in his boots, like, have you seen how he flinches everytime they touch him? surely he is really weak " another examinee whispers to another, the green-haired boy could feel relief in her voice....like he wasn't even worth the worry of a competition.

Izuku looked ahead with a blank and grim expression, his eyes lost a bit of color as he didn't even have the mental strength of shaking or making himself smaller to make them stop staring at him, he didn't have the mental strength of even crying....he just let it happen.... it's faster this way.

"I wondered when it was going to happen.....I had my hopes out......" He thought grimly as his hands and eyes shook, he didn't notice that the tall boy was trying to get his attention as he noticed the green-haired boy sudden change, from nervous, to almost cold and emotionless, but the truth is that all the sadness and anxiety was happening on the inside of his scarred mind.

"He's shaking like a leaf, seriously and should I be careful about people like him as competition?" Whisper a female voice.

"Well, that just means there's one less rival to worry about, no? Lucky me that we got a wimp in our area" another boy straight up say without even trying to whisper.

All of this brought a small reaction in the green-haired boy, who looked a bit down, resisting the urge to hide and cry. It always ended this way, why did he even think that it was going to be different? Him, making friends among all these mocking words and gazes? It's impossible.

While many looked at him with relieved or even superior gazes, thinking they got lucky having a weak and fragile weirdo in the same area as them, reducing completion. Some looked at him only with curiosity that became slight concern once they kept hearing the comments of the other applicants, who weren't even trying to be quiet anymore.

In particular, there were some that had more prominent reactions compared to the curiosity or indifference of the others.

Yui silently walked between the group to see what was happening, getting curious at the whispers and the crowd, but when she could see who they were talking about, her eyes widened a bit, and when the whispers started growing harsher, she looked at who made them with a slight frown, she knew she didn't have the courage or social capacity of stopping them. But, she turned towards the green-haired boy and started walking towards him, planning of grabbing his hand and drag him away in a less crowded part of the zone so he could at least stop hearing these mean comments and stay with her.

But she wasn't the only one, the same pink girl that Izuku was making a mental note to interact with in the future was watching too. She noticed the interaction between the green-haired boy and the dark blue-haired one, but when she began to hear the comments of the other applicants, she turned her head toward them with a frown. She had defended a lot of people from bullies in her middle school, heavily disliking the prospect of someone being mean to others for amusement. She also can't believe that in a hero school people would still be so mean to someone that didn't do anything to them and was simply nervous. So, She was going to tell them a piece of her mind.

Lastly, the same auburn-haired girl that he was trying to approach quickly noticed what was happening, and,when she approached to know what was happening, she saw the same boy she had prevented from falling at the front gate being mocked and ridiculed by others, making her eyes widen in surprise hearing them, they were being so mean to him.

"But.....w-we are g-gonna p-pass it for s-sure........right?" She remember the nervous stutter that the same green-haired boy said to her, he seemed a good person, even if a bit anxious, and she is good at recognizing them, and the fact he was there, looking down with a very sad look while being put down by others made her legs move her body to approach him, her mind quickly catching up. Settling on speaking to him to cheer him up.

But, before anyone could do what they wanted to do or say something more, the gate opened, attracting everyone's attention.

"Huh?" An examineer muttered confused but then....

"Aaand start!" Present Mic shouted from the top of the side of the opened gate, just increasing everyone's confusion.

Everyone was perplexed, no countdown started. So do they have to go or wait?

Izuku was equally confused, his sadness dulled as he tried to understand what was happening, but then, he remembered something that he read on the pamphlet.

"Simulation of a real-life villain attack....this means......" Izuku thought as his eyes widened in realization, he looked at the open gate and made a step ahead, already silently drawing OFA out.

"That's there's no countdown!! I hope I didn't mess up even this time, at least I can go away from them" Izuku thought as he started to run into the mock city, leaving the other examinees surprised by his sudden action, OFA being channeled at 8%, increasing his running speed even more.

At the entrance of the mock city

"What is that idiot doing? Besides being weak now he's also crazy" says one of the applicants.

The three girls that wanted to help the green-haired boy and the tall boy with glasses were still looking at the direction he went, seeing his figure grow smaller and smaller, they were starting to have the same thought process that made the boy run into the mock city but it was instantaneously created when Present Mic spoke again.

"What's the matter!? There's no such thing as a countdown in a real battle! that listener got the right idea it, run! ruuun!" The hero shouted, causing everyone to widen their eyes and rush too.

A couple of minutes later

With Izuku

*Bam!* *crash!*

Izuku ducked a one-pointer arm, black lightning bolts dancing around his skin as he adapted to the tempo of the multiple small fights, he didn't have the time for nervousness or anxiety, his mind just had space for one thing only.....

Excel at this exam, prove them wrong!!

The boy gritted his teeth as he dodged another attack from the slim robot, he punched the middle section, the metal plate easily breaking and deforming, making the robot lean forward, exposing its vulnerable head.

Izuku quickly bent his legs and jumped enough to be a little above the robot, his arm raised and his fist clenched.

"Detroit smash!" He shouted as delivered a downward punch directly at the one-pointer head, easily destroying it, resulting in the robot going limp and impacting with the floor.

The boy landed immediately after, moving some small metal fragments out of the way with his shoe to avoid stumbling. He took some small deep breaths, more to slow down his thought process to better articulate them, wanting to count his own points.

"I have nine points, it's nowhere enough if I want to be first....." He thought as his eyes narrowed with focus, he was about to go look for more robots but he stopped when he began to hear loud sounds all around him, like something was approaching fast.

"Huh? Wh-" He muttered confused as more sweat formed on his forehead, a bit of fear creeping out. And, before he could put himself in position.....

*Bam!!*

The wall of a building at his right was breached open by a three-pointer, its armored tracks rumbling as they spun, bringing it closer and closer to the surprised boy.

"Target locked" its emotionless voice says as it raised its giant arms, ready to fight.

Izuku yelped a little as he was surprised by the sudden entry of the three-pointer, it was bigger than the other ones, primally its arms and torso.

He was trying to rush into a battle position but was interrupted once again when he heard sounds from both his right and left, he glanced around and his eyes widened a bit.

Two one-pointer were approaching from the street at his right. A two-pointer and another one-pointer were approaching from one at his left, their robotic eyes locked on him.

The boy was starting to get anxious as he realized he was being surrounded, having problems even during his training in these moments. He was about to raise his left leg and bring it behind to back away in slight fear, but then....he stopped.

His eyes widened the smallest bit as he remembered what he was trying to do here, he.....he was here to be a hero, All Might gave him the tool to do that and he was cowering in fear before some robots. His fears always get in the way, dulling his progress, and him trying to suppress them with everything he had was just worsening things.

So....

The boy clenched both his fists and put himself into a half-decent battle position, black and white energy veins covering his body.

He will use them to fight, to remind him that this was nowhere as painful or terrifying as all the experiences he had for the majority of his life, this.....this was nothing compared to it, the pain wasn't going to be even remotely close.

"The ones I fought while I was training were scarier, and being outnumbered isn't something new to me....." Izuku muttered as his eyes narrowed, OFA lightning bolts quickly being brought back as his focus returned stronger than before.

"So.... let's go, I'm not gonna give up and cry this time!" Izuku half-shouted as he charged towards the three-pointer, his battle spirit reignited even stronger than before, his nervousness of before dulled by pure fiery determination.

The robot's shoulder-mounted rocket launcher fired a couple of non-lethal rockets toward him, but he lowered his body while running, and when they were close to him, almost going to explode and stun him. But, he jumped at the last second, using the explosion to propel himself forward toward the three-pointer. He felt a bit dazed by the close purple stunning explosion and the concussive force hit him in the back hard, but he gritted his teeth and bottled up any whine of pain that he may produce. Using it as a mean to get closer to the robot before it can even react.

Izuku was quickly descending towards the robot and when he was about to slam into it, he raised his arm, his eyes flashing in red for a single moment.

"8% Wyoming Smash!!!" He shouted as he spiked the robot with his arm, easily deforming and tearing the metal like paper.

After he got his feet on the ground, the boy had the time to take a single quick breath before he heard something approaching fast from his right, he immediately turned his gaze to look at the direction of the sound with his glowing eyes, seeing a one-pointer ready to attack. A battle plan quickly formed inside his mind feeling the metal under the arm he used to destroy the three-pointer.

With his arm still placed over the destroyed metallic body of the three-pointer, Izuku opened his hand and closed it, grabbing a piece of the destroyed scraps of the robot, crushing it with his enhanced strength to make it slimmer and longer. He then turned his body towards the approaching robot and rushed forward, his eyes showing nothing close to fear, just burning determination.

"Ahh!!!!" He roared as he used the scraps as a makeshift knife, his enhanced strength making it able to pierce through the one-pointer body, he then pulled the *knife* to the side, tearing a good chunk of its middle section.

The boy didn't there, he let go of the scraps and clenched the now free hand into a fist.

"Smash!!!" He shouted as he punched right through the hole he created and then grabbed the robot power source, tearing it out of the metallic body and throwing it away.

"Alright! Three robots left, keep your tempo!" Izuku thought as he immediately repositioned himself to face the other robots, his mind working fast to coordinate both his footing and keep OFA active.

His eyes moved towards the closer one-pointer, which raised its arm and tried to hit the boy, but he quickly dodge by jumping back, his eyes immediately focused on the robot's single red lens.

The boy's eyes narrowed a bit as he landed and put his hand in a flicking position, he heard the other robots getting closer but he put all his focus on the one he was aiming at.

"Black armor ....." He chanted inside his mind, getting himself ready to throw one of his most difficult attacks.

"Burst 15%: Delaware smash!" He shouted as he flicked his finger and successfully created an air bulled which hit the one-pointer right in the eye, the force of the air pressure was enough to both shatter the lense and severely damage the head, making it lose its coordination and rush forward without a pattern.

Izuku ducked to the side, avoiding being hit by the damaged robot, it slammed against the one-pointer that was trying to attack the boy from behind, causing both to crash on the ground.

"*Urgh*" Izuku grunted quietly as he felt a sharp pain on his finger. But, he didn't care, he just kept forcing his mind into a battle-focused state, nervousness was ignored once again as he descents more into this newly forged side of him.

He noticed a shadow over him and he immediately understood what was about to happen, with quick movements and reflexes, he put himself in position and turned his head to look up at the two-pointer that was leaping at him. He dodged the side, watching as the robot's four legs slammed on the floor. But, it wasn't over, it tried to continue its assault by using its tail/head to deliver a whipping strike, but he caught it, his feet sliding a little on the ground as the momentum slammed into him and made him back away.

"I got you, and now!!..." Izuku says with a nervous grin, trying to imitate All Might to boost himself even more. He fixed his footing and got ready.

"We finish this!!!!" He shouted as he pulled the tail/head, lifting the robot and making it spin around, after a couple of rotations, the boy turned to his target and pulled the robotic extension, dragging the robot with him and....

*Smash!!*

He slammed the two-pointer on the two one-pointers, destroying all three in one move.

The boy was panting as he backed away a little, putting his hands on his knees and letting his heartbeat settle down.

"With this, I have 17 points....not that bad I guess, but I need much more...." He muttered as a small nervous smile made way on his face, he couldn't help himself from being happy that he is doing something, happy that he is not a complete disaster and that he managed to avoid his fear and anxiety to slow him down.

He stopped panting as he straightened up his back, adrenaline still pumping in his system, making him jumpy and ready for action. It's hilarious that he seemed kinda battle hungry now, searching for a fight himself.

"Alright!! I'm getting more used to this.....maybe I'm not that terrible...." Izuku muttered as he started running through the city, destroying some occasional robots that got in his way, now having 22 points, he could feel his hopes getting a bit up, but he didn't slow down, the memories of his training and those of his promise to be first at the exam kept his determination pumping.

"Gonna search for more robots, still not enough, keep your focus.... huh?" Izuku muttered but then his thoughts stopped when he began to hear sounds of battle all around him.

"That must be the others fighting, this means there's going to be fewer robots here, that's not good, I need to find another area quick.....I just need to pass this street and go around them, I don't need to talk or interact, simple enough, I hope......." Izuku thought as he kept running, the noises got louder, meaning that he was getting closer to the other examinees, the boy kept his focus high to not get nervous and not allow his fear of others to dull his focus.

After some moments, he entered a more open area similar to a small square, both examinees and robots present there, the first dispatching of the seconds without too many problems. This made the boy stop for a moment to glance as his fellow examinees destroyed the robots, quirks being used to the maximum, attracting a lot of his curiosity.

But then he shook his head, remembering that many of them were mocking him just some moments ago, not considering him even a rival worthy of consideration, so he shouldn't be so interested in them. But, a part of him wanted to impress someone so they actually see that he is capable, where did he start to search for others' approval? Maybe it was his messed up way to attract possible friends, showing that he is strong enough to be cool.

Before he could go away in search of a more isolated area, his eyes caught a glimpse of a familiar girl between the battle, the same girl who he wanted to talk to before the gates opened.

"Her again? Huh?" He muttered but then he stopped when he noticed that she was surrounded, his newborn protective instincts flared up as he was about to shout at her to be careful. But, she surprised him with what she did to get herself out of the situation.

The auburn-haired girl quickly touched the robots around her with her hands, a faint pink glow emanating from her fingerprints, after she did that, every robot started to float in the air, getting at some meters of distance.

The girl then brought her fingertips together as she did with him on the front gate and the robots stopped floating and then started to fall towards the ground, crashing on it and being reduced to scraps.

The girl seemed to be tired due to the strenuous use of her quirk, panting a little as she put her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath.

Meanwhile, Izuku was left with a slightly agape mouth, and imaginary stars around his head as his interest was completely taken.

"Does she have a gravity manipulation quirk? or maybe she can just remove it and give it back? it doesn't seem telekinesis to me, I felt strange when she made me levitate, my ears felt strange....." Izuku thought as he gave himself into a bit of quirk analysis, he doesn't do this often, but the combined presence of a cool quirk and a friendly person made his curiosity Almost impossible to contain.

"It's so cool, she destroyed them with a couple of moves......" Izuku muttered but then he stopped when he noticed that her eyes were open now and she was staring right at him.....oh......

The robots in that area were mostly dealt with, so the noises were greatly diminished, allowing the girl to mostly focus on him. Her eyes scanned him for a couple of moments and then they slightly widened in realization.

"Huh?....wait, it's him, falling boy!" She thought a bit surprised as she recognized him once again, she became even more surprised when she noticed the black lightning bolts dancing around his skin, his slightly glowing eyes staring at her like a deer in headlight.

Meanwhile, Izuku was panicking a bit as his cheeks got a little red, should he say something? He doesn't trust his lips right now and they kinda have an exam to do, but if he wanted to interact in the future, he should at least do something to make himself not look like a total mess.

His right hand twitched a bit but then he raised it and nervously waved at her, a shy small smile on his face, trying to be friendly, but his difficulty in doing even this little was evident.

He was surprised when the girl smiled back and gave him a wave of her own, which turned into a thumb-up.

Izuku was a bit taken aback by the friendly gesture and then swallowed the lump in his throat. But, then he remembered that he should go or he wouldn't be first or even worse, not get in at all.

So he turned to his left and ran, leaving the girl to him scooting off.

Sometime later

"Delaware smash!" Izuku shouted as he flicked his finger and launched an air bullet right on a one-pointer head, damaging it, the robot staggered, having severe difficulty with its coordination now that it was blind and its control point was damaged.

He narrowed his eyes and didn't wait for another second to put another finger of his right hand in a flicking position.

"Smash!!" He shouted as he flicked the second finger and launched another air bullet, finishing the job and causing the robot to fall limp, smoke coming out of the damaged head.

The boy panted as he held his right arm with the other, his fingers twitching.

"32 points, not......enough....*urgh*" Izuku started to say between pants, but then he flinched because of a sharp pain assaulting his hand, he looked at his palm and noticed that his middle finger had a bad bruise on the middle section, and the ring finger he used before was starting to change color too, signs that his body was starting to suffer the recoil of so many activations and battles.

The boy put his left hand in his back pocket, taking his bandage roll and wrapping some around his two injured fingers, hissing and flinching a little every time he touched the bruised skin.

"Even if my control improved, I'm just a rookie with this quirk, so....." Izuku thought as he finished bandaging his fingers.

"I can't whine for some half-broken fingers, All Might wouldn't let this stop him, he would smile and go forward like he always did, so I need to do the same thing!" Izuku thought as lowered his arms and resumed walking through the streets. After a while, he found destroyed robots on his path, their metallic bodies half-melted and still emitting smoke, like they were hit with a strong heat or a very corrosive liquid. This made him momentarily stop, a bit of confusion creeping out.

"Hm? A fire quirk? Or something else? It smells strange, like aci-" He was about to mutter, but he stopped in his tracks when he heard a sound similar to liquid being splashed followed by the familiar mechanical sounds of the mock villains.

He quickly looked towards the direction of the sound, noticing a small trail of corroded floor leading to the source of what he could quickly deduce was a fight between the one who created this damage and the mock villains.

"Maybe.....a quick look will not hurt, I'm not finding any robots in this direction anyway.....just a quick look!! That's all!" Izuku said to himself as he once again let his curiosity control his actions once again, it was a sort of method to cool off his mind, managing both his quirk and his nervousness wasn't easy, and a part of him wondered if the person needed help, he didn't like the thought of someone being hurt in his vicinity while he can do something, what kind of hero ignore people in need? Not one he wants to be.

So he changed direction and followed the trail, going turning right to the intersection, going closer to the source of noise, maybe it was the same feeling he had when he stopped to wave at the girl with the gravity quirk, he just wanted to measure himself with others, or maybe he just wanted to distract himself from the oppressive sense of unworthiness that he always has.

His thoughts were luckily interrupted once he arrived at his destination, and the sight surely took his mind away from the anxiety and self-doubt.

His eyes widened a bit in realization as he saw the same pink-skinned girl that he saw at the entrance of the mock city, she was fighting with a group of robots, holding her without being scared, on the contrary, she still kept her confident and energetic grin.

He stood there just observing how she dodged the strikes, noticing that a strange gray viscous liquid was being expelled from her soles, the pink girl using it to slide between the attack with very sharp reflexes.

"Wait...." He thought with realization when he saw her duck under a one-pointer arm by sliding on the ground, now he found out what the way she moved and dodged reminded him, it was like....

His eyes widened as he saw her lowering herself on the ground and put her hand on it, lifting her body on a handstand. When two one-pointers got close enough, the girl put her other hand on the ground and quickly lowered her upside body to make her upper back touch the ground, after doing it, she started to rotate her body around, her legs slightly extended to the sides. Effectively break-dancing.

"She is dancing!!!" He shouted inside his mind surprised, but the surprise didn't stop there, he noticed that the same viscous fluid was violently thrown around from her soles like she was secreting it, when it landed the robots, they started to melt, being corroded by the mysterious liquid. After destroying the two one-pointers with her break-dance move, the pink girl quickly stood on her feet, turning towards the rest of the robots.

"Take that!! And that!!!" She shouted as she secreted the same corrosive liquid from her hands and threw it at the remaining robots, hitting a three-pointer on the chest and a two-pointer on the leg and then on the head, ending the battle.

"Acid! She secretes acid from her skin!! And the way she dodges and moves is much better than me..... amazing!" Izuku said in his mind, he couldn't help being very impressed by the girl's performance, having that sort of reflexes coupled with integrating dance moves into a fighting style left him in awe, a few imaginary stars in his usually sad eyes.

He didn't notice the girl stretching her arms in the air and behind her head, already getting ready to move on.

"And with this, 27 points are all for me, But better get more, it would suck a lot to not get in....huh?" She says but stopped when she noticed the green-haired boy in the corner of her eye.

"Huh?" She muttered curiously as she turned her head and then body towards him, her exotic eyes scanning his frame while he was completely in his little word, not noticing that she saw him.

After a couple of seconds of pondering, She snapped her finger as she finally recognized him. He is the green head those bullies were throwing the insult at, what a coincidence!

"Fancy seeing him here, what he is doing tho? Doesn't seem the type to steal points and he is just watching me" She thought as she tilted her head to the side. the boy looked completely taken by what he saw, his lips moving fast in a mutter storm, so deep in his thoughts that he didn't notice her staring back. Knowing this, a small mischievous grin made its way onto the girl's cute face, already having an idea how to snap the boy from his stupor and having fun while doing it.

"Hey hey, Admiring the show, green head?! If you continue to look so awestruck, you are gonna make me blush, tehehehe~" she teased as she put a hand on her side, winking and sticking her tongue out while giggling.

The effects were immediate, the boy was kicked away from his thoughts, and his eyes focused quick enough to see her joking wink, they widened immediately as his face became deep red in embarrassment, realizing he has been staring at her for so long that she noticed him, too deep in his thoughts about her super cool way of fighting and quirk that he was muttering to himself without acknowledging what was in front of him.

He was about to stutter an apology for bothering her but he stopped in his tracks, his eyes widening in terror as he saw something behind the girl.

The girl noticed this and was confused, why he looked so scared out of the blue?

"What's wro-" she was about to ask but stopped when she heard familiar mechanical noises behind her, and then saw a shadow over, she had just the time to turn her head to see the three-pointer she hit earlier with its arm raised and about to hit her, its frontal plate half melted but it was still active.

The girl couldn't move fast enough both because of the surprise and the robot already starting the attack, it got closer and closer to her, she was already preparing herself for the ugly bruise that will form because of it and the uncool patches that she will have to wear. But, before she could get hit, she was tackled out of the way, by a black-colored blur made of lightning bolts.

The girl and her savoir who was revealed to be Izuku rotated for a moment on the ground until the momentum stopped. The green haired boy panted and bit his cheeks containing the hiss of pain that he was instinctively about to produce, he had pushed past his normal percentage to a burst of 15%, managing to tackle the pink girl before she could get hurt.

"That was close, I wouldn't ever forgive myself if was the reason someone got hurt, wait where she is?! I held onto her when I tackled her-" Izuku thought quickly with panic, but when he opened his eyes, he found himself staring closely at a pair of gorgeous gold irises, the same eyes of the pink girl he tackled......same girl that was below him right now......

The boy's cheeks gradually turned redder and redder from the compromising position they were in, his hands were ok the ground at either side of her head, almost touching her. The girl stared back shocked, actually blushing purple for being under him, everything happened so fast and even she can't keep a straight face while being in this position while having an admittedly cute guy on top of her after said boy saved her!!!

Both were frozen in place, neither having the mental capability of moving right now for how fast it happened, her yellow eyes looked at his completely red face, her own embarrassment subduing quickly as she noticed that he was much more flustered and nervous than her right now, she couldn't escape her mind coming out with a way to ease up the tension.

"Well, even if you didn't score villain points with this, you surely scored lots of cutie savoir points, and you are also taking your sweet time to get up. Maybe you are waiting for a thank you kiss" She teased with a mischievous grin, taking amusement in the way his face became even more red if possible, steam coming out of his ears.

The boy raised himself from the ground like the area around her was hot as lava, his mind couldn't formulate coherent speech, managing just to splutter some words that he was trying to use for an apology.

"I-I-Im so s-sorry! I-I panicked and tackled you! I'm s-sorry!" Izuku continued to apologize as he bowed at a fast rate, he couldn't believe what was happening to him, first, he touched a girl's hand on the bus, now he tackled another and got on top of her without realizing it.

He was interrupted by the girl's giggle, not a once of malice or mockery present, it send a strange feeling in him, like, it was a good-natured giggle, like the one the cute green-haired girl from the auditorium had when she heard his mutter storm.

"Don't feel bad, you saved my horns, and what was that?! You were so fast, like, I was there all shaking and in a second I'm here under a cutie! so thank you, green head!" She says energetically as she waved her hands excitedly.

This made Izuku look at her in surprise, not expecting her to be grateful for him tackling her, the cutie comment made his embarrassment kick in again, second time he was called cute by an attractive girl, either he hit his head and was hallucinating or the world was messing with him.

They were interrupted by the three-pointer, its movements were getting slower because of the acid, but it still had enough power to prepare its shoulder-mounted rocket launcher.

Izuku was about to put his body in front of the girl to protect her, but she anticipated him by rushing beside him and throwing an acid projectile at the robot, hitting it directly on the rocket launcher, causing it to explode and destroy the mock villain.

Izuku was once again left surprised by the girl's quick reflexes, if only he could get as good as her.

"Pretty cool right, can't let you do all the rescuing, wouldn't be fair" She says with a grin as she looked at him.

"Eh!? Ehm....Y-yes, v-very cool!" Izuku squeaked embarrassed as he struggled to look at her. But, his eyes stopped when he noticed something about the girl, he focused more and noticed that the girl's hand and forearm had a visible burn and not only that, the skin was lighter, like it was losing color.

Worry immediately replaced the embarrassment and shyness, making him actually look into her eyes without much fear.

"W-What happened to y-your hand? Are you o-okay?" He asked in a less nervous tone as he faced her completely, worry evident, this surprised the girl who glanced at her burned hand and then looked at him once again.

"Aw, don't worry, I got a little overboard with my quirk and I got a lil burn, I will be good as new after the exam" The girl says sheepishly as she waved her other hand, brushing off the burn. even if it ached, she is a big girl!....okay, maybe she wanted to look cool and was secretly keeping the whines of pain from being made.

The boy didn't seem convinced as his eyes closed up a little, he can recognize a person hiding injuries from a mile of distance, considering he do it every time to not make others worry about him. He didn't like people being hurt while he can do something. So, he wasn't going to go away until he at least made sure her injures were bandaged.

He rummaged through his pockets, the girl looking at him curiously, her eyes widened a bit when she saw him take a bandage roll and then get a bit closer.

"Hey, wait a second-" she was about to say, but before she could ask him to stop a second, he shakily grabbed her injured hand in the part where the skin wasn't burned, making her jolt a bit in surprise.

"P-Please stay still, it w-will take just a moment..." Izuku says as he started to bandage the girl's hand while being careful to not hurt her, his mind was focused on helping her, so he surprisingly didn't panic at the closeness or feared that she was gonna insult him. He just focused on being as gentle as possible.

The girl was taken aback by the boy's shift in behavior, first he seemed so shy and nervous to be close and now he was getting very close while patching her up, it made her actually embarrassed for how gentle he was, making her feel hardly any pain by the contact. His focused and blushing face being so close to hers didn't help, especially since he seemed to not realize it.

"Hey.....I don't think it's that bad, besides....With my quirk, is kinda difficult to keep bandages in one piece, green head, you seem to need them more" She says in a more low voice, actually a bit embarrassed by the sudden closeness. Funny, she was the one teasing him some moments ago.

"D-Don't worry, these b-bandages are pretty sturdy, they are custom ones that my doctor gave to me in case I hurt myself..." Izuku says nervously as he what he was doing, his instincts to help others were luckily dulling his shyness. He will panic later, now there's someone that needs his help.

"And besides.....I like to help, sorry to take away time, but I can't let you go like this..." He continued, a bit guilty for wasting someone else's time.

"Alright! This should be enough to reduce the pain, mhm?" He says as he attempted to smile a little and look at her, his shyness returning, but then he stopped when he noticed something about the girl's face.

"What's wrong, I know I'm pretty but-" she tried to tease a little to joke around, but she was stopped when his stare became focused again and looked intensively at her cheek, the boy saw a cut there, but he didn't notice it before because it was from a blind spot of his vision earlier, it wasn't very deep, but it could be a bit painful if not covered.

"You got a c-cut here! wait, I should have a patch" He said as he took a patch from his pocket and opened the envelope, and then he got his hand closer to her cheek while scouting a bit closer to have a better view.

This made the girl actually be even more embarrassed, strangely, not even trying to back away, this guy was all sweet and helpful, so she didn't even reject him being closer, but he was killing her with this cute and gentle behavior.

"Hey, timeout a second, I can put it myself-" she spluttered as her eyes were swirly, what was happening!? Why she was getting flustered by this little?!!!

"You c-could put it wrong and easily get dirt in it, I k-know for experience, l-let me h-help, you already helped me after all" Izuku says nervously as he got a tiny bit closer, which was a lot, he didn't know how he managed to remain relatevely calm even by being so close to such an attractive girl. It was probably something to do with her aura and actions of before, his ever-present fear wasn't assaulted him as much as before, probably because of her cheerful and friendly aura that he felt when he saw her the first time, coupled with the fact he was honestly worried about her helped a lot in dulling his fear.

He didn't realize that his kind and sweet worry and actions was doing wonders to the girl, who, even if she didn't even know his name, didn't do anything to stop him or back away, didn't mean she wasn't embarrassed, speaking of embarrassment.....

"So close! This guy is gonna kill me if he continue like this!" She shouted in her mind as she feel the boy gently take her chin with one hand to turn her head to the side so he could put the patch, at this point, she just let him do what he wanted.

"There, this should be enough so the cut doesn't get dirty, it could hurt really bad if you don't cover it...." Izuku said softly as he carefully put the patch on her cheek, after doing it, he backed away from her, giving her finally some breathing room from his gentle healing attack.

"Do y-you feel any p-pain?" He asked with a small nervous smile.

She was staring at him with a blank gaze, just a thought in her mind.

"......He.....is........so.....cute!!!!" She shouted inside her mind, her cheeks actually becoming purple like before, he actually made her flustered!! She needs to take control of the situation, her pride as master teaser can't allow for a cutie to overpower her!!!

"Aw...ehm...yes-ehm! No, I mean no! thank you, hotshot, maybe I will really give you a kiss if you continue to be this cute" She spluttered at the start but quickly recollected herself to actually tease him with a smirk, it widened when the *hero* side of the boy disappeared and gave room to his shy and nervous self, his face becoming much redder than before as he just now noticed how close they were.

"I-I-I am happy t-that you a-are fine!" He squeaked as he was internally screaming for what he has done, he didn't realize because he was focused on helping her, but he touched her chin!! Her face!! ....so soft and warm, aaaaaahhhh! What are these thoughts all of a sudden!!?

Before they any of them could say something, they were interrupted by present mic voice that came from the speakers.

"Four minutes remaining!!!" Present Mic voice was heard from the speakers, making both jump and then panic a little.

"Ahh!!! I-I-Im so sorry for taking so much time, I will leave you alone now!!" Izuku panicked as he bowed a couple of times, he then activated black armor and ran away in full speed, guilty for having let his need to help to take another person time.

"G-Good luck!" He stuttered-shouted as he quickly for away from the area.

"Hey wait!" She shouted but he was already gone. After seeing that he didn't heard her, she pouted and snapped her finger irritated.

"Damn, didn't get his name" She muttered a bit irritated, she always make friends with everyone and didn't manage to get a friendly and cute guy name, oh well, she will take it later.

"Better that i hurry too" She says as she run into another area too, ready to take more robots out.

Observation room

In a dark room lightened only by the multiple screens, The judges were watching the examinees' performance thanks to the many cameras and drones dispersed in the Battlegrounds. They were methodical in observing how the examinees that attracted their attention behaved in various situations. The darkness of the room partially covered their features, leaving their identities difficult to see.

Nezu was between them, the chimera sitting on one of the seats with a calm smile on his face.

"Clearly, the examinees have no idea how many villains are present or their locations. They have limited time in which they must cover a vast area, and hunt down every last target" He said as some of the judges, who will be the examinees' future teachers, if they pass the exam of course.

His black eyes glanced through the screens, his sharp mind working very fast and efficiently to break down his future students' abilities and skills.

"Some use information‐gathering abilities to plan out strategies" He says as he looked towards a screen that shows a tall boy with multiple arms on top of a building, his additional arms turned into ears and eyes, increasing the examinee's perception.

He then looked at another screen, the judges followed his stare, silently listening to the principal explanation.

"While others rely on speed to pull ahead of their peers" He continued as they watched the same dark blue-haired boy destroy a robot with a quick kick, his speed made a couple of judges nod and hum, impressed by the boy's quick thinking and speed.

"Of course, remaining calm under pressure can be a huge advantage, you can't let fear overshadow your own goal" Nezu says as he looks at another screen, A girl with vines as hair was seen facing a group of robots, behind her stood a fellow examinee sitting on the ground while holding his arm. Even if the girl was outnumbered, she didn't lose her calm, she simply narrowed her gaze, and immediately after, her vine-like hair moved seemingly on their own, a part of them forming a wall to protect the other examinee and the other group of vines crushed the robots without too much difficulty.

"As well as pure power and combat ability. Even, if the heart should be strengthened before anything else, but that's why we are here..." Nezu continued as he looked at a screen showing Katsuki in the center of a mass of destroyed robots, their metallic bodies reduced to smoking scraps heaps.

The chimera looked ahead and took a little sigh of satisfaction, this year they have an interesting crop of future students. Considering they have a rehabilitation student and then the successor of All Might, this year is gonna be interesting.

"The most successful students use a combination of all these tactics. These tactics and skills need to keep the peace in the streets, and they are turned into points in this test!" Nezu explained with a smile as he put his paws together, there's just one more thing to test his future students....the most important quality.

He was brought back from his thoughts when he heard someone quietly grumbling at his right, the chimera turned his mouse-like head to look at the source, finding Aizawa looking in particular at two examinees, Izuku and Katsuki.

"Something wrong, Aizawa?" Nezu asked still with a smile, curious of what was in his fellow hero's mind.

The underground hero glanced at him with his usual unamused expression, his eyes particularly tired as he didn't get any sleep because of all the noises.

"The difference between those two is obvious...." Aizawa says neutrally as he looked at the two examinees through the screens, Nezu doing the same.

"One can't stop himself from protecting others, hindering his own villain point intake...." Aizawa continued as both glanced at Izuku currently bandaging the pink girl, they heard one of their colleagues gush about young love, making Nezu chuckle and Aizawa groan, already expecting the headaches the green-haired boy will give him.

He then took a slightly irritated sigh and glanced at the screen that showed Katsuki, the ash blonde glaring when someone got close to complain to him that he is destroying too many robots, making him back off.

"The other didn't get a single rescue point, your plan of rehabilitating him will be hard and annoying, you know that, right?" Aizawa says as he glanced at Nezu with a furrowed gaze.

The chimera didn't seem to mind the doubt one but the doubt of his employee, choosing to feed the tired underground hero irritated curiously.

"Of course I know this will not be easy, Aizawa. But, you need to admit the possibility of seeing if the right guidance can truly change the path of a violent and cruel person is something truly intriguing" Nezu says as he glanced at both examinees, many ideas on how to break down this particular situation he accepted to create.

"So this is just an experiment?" Aizawa asked as he raised an eyebrow, curious about the principal plan.

The chimera shook his head, his smile still present.

"A test, for both, there's another and delicate motive for the victim to protect his own abuser, we just need to find out what and cut it. Then, we can work to improve both's journey through this school if possible...." Nezu says as he looked down and took a satisfied sigh.

Aizawa was about to say something but Nezu whispered again, but it gave a more eerie vibe.

"Naturally, all of this depends if Bakugo will pass the exam, if he doesn't, he will not have a second chance and the little test will be forgotten in favor of making him face the ordinary consequences of his illegal and cruel actions. But, given his capabilities, he has very good chances, this means that we must be extra vigilant towards him" Nezu says calmly as he clapped his paws together and looked at Aizawa again, his friendly smile returning.

After a couple of seconds, the underground hero grunted in acknowledgment, making the chimera understand that he was at least satisfied with the explanation.

As more and more examinees were shown fighting with everything they had to pass the exam, some judges started voicing their thoughts.

"Oh my, doesn't this year's group look promising?" A sultry female voice says with a small chuckle at the end, the owner crossing her long and attractive legs as she leans her head on her hand, looking at the screen with a smile as she saw the students give their best.

"Well, we can't know for sure yet...." A male gruff voice says, its owner being a tall, wide-set man of a bulky, muscular build.

"They all are making interesting progress, for now....but....." Nezu started to say, making the judges turn towards him.

The chimera looked towards at the judge beside him, who looked back, the light of the screen revealing All Might in his skinny form.

"The real test has yet to come. Let's see how they react, Yagi san, activate our special guest" Nezu says with a smile.

The number one hero nodded and pressed a button, the name *yaruki switch* under it.

With Izuku

Izuku panted as he placed his shaking hands on his knees, his body hunched forward as he tried to regain his breath, sweat trailing from his forehead. His hands hurt a lot, especially since he tried to increase his proficiency in using the Delaware smash during the exam, resulting in the majority of his fingers being bruised, but he did get more used to changing percentage quickly.

"52 points *pant* *pant* It's not *pant* enough.." Izuku managed to breathe out, he was exhausted, and when he opened his eyes, looking down at his bandaged fingers, his frustration grew. He tried to straighten up his posture but found himself a bit dizzy.

He raised his hands, trying to close them into fists to test how much damage he suffered because of the recoil. He winced as soon as the fingers moved, increasing pain assaulting him.

"I can barely form a fist, but.... I'm sure that everyone has more points than me....you suffered worse" he muttered as he forced his fingers to close and form fists in both hands. He then turned towards the open street, ready to continue without letting anything hold him back, but he stopped when he heard terrorized screams coming out from the front.

His eyes widened, instincts kicking in immediately, urging him to rush forward and see if there was someone in danger. But, before he could do that, the ground started to vibrate.

"Wh-what is happening?!" He thought starting to get very scared, what could create so much vibration on the ground?

He didn't have to wait for the answer as he saw smoke coming from behind the building at the end of the street in front of him. Other examinees were seen coming from the T intersection, running towards him terrorized. The smoke became closer and closer to the building until a titanic robotic hand was placed on the top of the building, and then, it pushed down, completely obliterating the building.

The boy made a step back as his face paled, his pupils shrunk as he saw the owner of the hand reveal come forward over the rubbles, an enormous faux villain, a 0 on its massive head. Even if Izuku was very far, he could see that the robot was extremely tall, much more than the building of this city.

"It's that....the zero pointer..... it's not a little too big?" Izuku thought as his blood froze, he couldn't ever find himself able to face it at his current rookie level, especially in his poor conditions.

The robot clenched its fist and punched forward, creating an enormous quantity of small debris to be thrown forward together with a very strong wind, diapering the smoke. This made the examinees that were running stumble, some even fell, but they dodged the rubble as much as they could and continued to run towards Izuku's direction.

He was about to turn around and run too, but he remembered present mic saying this robot wasn't expected to be fought, it wouldn't have granted any points. But still, he wanted to be a little slower than the others, so he could make sure that everyone would run away. Before he could start running, he heard something that made his entire body stop in his tracks.

"Ow!!!" He heard a whine of pain coming from the zero pointer direction, it was muffled by the other examinees screaming, the rumbling sounds of the zero pointer and the distance between the source and the boy. But, it was enough to bring his body to a stop, his eyes widened as he quickly looked back and his pupils shrunk finding who it belonged to......

The same auburn-haired girl that he meet at the front gate and briefly exchanged a wave during the exam was on the ground, a piece of rubble over one of her legs. She had a pained expression on her face, her eyes closed as she tried to dull the pain in her leg as she tried to her up, but she just managed to push herself a little from the ground.

Everything seemed to slow down for Izuku, the vision of the titanic zero pointer getting closer, the examinees running beside him, his own heartbeat being audible and the kind girl being blocked and at the mercy of the zero pointer.

"It'd be a bad omen to trip and fall" The memory of what she told him at the front gate crossed in his mind and....

*Snap*

He heard a snap inside his brain, his pupils dilated as his nerves seemed to be on fire and.....His eyes glowed red, and every single part of his mind shifted from fear to burning determination to rush forward.

Izuku's entire body was immediately surrounded by black lightning bolts as he rushed forward without a once of hesitation, his instincts weren't a voice urging him to help others, it was his own aspiration, one he will never question!!

He didn't notice that the same pink girl that he nursed before just ran past him but stopped when she saw him standing there immobile. She didn't see the auburn girl so she immediately thought Izuku was simply scared, she tried to reach for his arm and drag him with her so they could run, but he just speeded towards the zero pointer, running past the dark blue-haired boy in the process, who also stopped, leaving both shocked by him running towards the titanic robot.

Izuku skipped past the other examinees, using his increased speed to avoid butting into them, his eyes a mix of green and red as he can feel the burning determination to help the girl dull any pain that his strained body was feeling, adrenaline started pumping in his system once again, making him increasing the percentage of OFA beyond the limit feel less painful.

After dodging a couple of debris by using the wall of the building to the side as a surface to jump towards the girl, he finally reached her, the girl opened her eyes when she heard someone in front of him.

"Wh-what?! it's you, Falling boy!" She says shocked as she recognized him unconsciously using the nickname she gave him to joke a little. After she fell, she remember seeing red dots staring right at her from afar, and she now realized that those red dots were the green-haired boy's eyes, same eyes that were staring at her with concern and also shaking because of the adrenaline and stressful situation.

"Don't worry, I will get you out of here!! Everything is going to be okay, sorry for not coming sooner..." Izuku says frantically as he quickly walked around the girl and crouched down close to her trapped leg, he grabbed the debris with his hands, gritting his teeth as he lifted the debris thanks to his enhanced strength. He then crouched down in front of her, planning on making her use his body as anchorage.

"Does it hurt? Can you walk?" He asked quickly as he reached towards her with his arms, but not touching in case she didn't want someone like him to get so close, he didn't have the mental capacity of being embarrassed to be close, he was just focused on getting both out of here.

The girl reached and took hold of his arms and tried to get up, but she fell down immediately, the boy slowed down her fall by putting his hands below elbows, his body instinctively flinching at the close contact, but his mind easily shut down any fear that he may have.

"*Urgh* I c-can't, I think it's sprained!" She says with pain, one of her eyes closed as her leg hurt a lot.

Izuku heard the zero pointer getting closer and closer, damnit!!! What he can do, he can't absolutely force her to walk, let alone run, she would trip and get hurt. What he can do?!!

An idea crashed inside his mind if she can't walk.......then.......

The girl felt herself being lifted and then held into the boy's arms.

"Huh?! Wh-wh-what?" She spluttered as she quickly glanced around, wait....the way he was carrying her was....

"He's carrying me like a bride?" She shouted inside her mind, her cheeks heating up in embarrassment. She glanced at his face, he didn't hesitate to come here and help her. And, somehow, this thought made her blush worsen.

"Please, hold on me, We will get fast!" He says as he locked gaze with her, causing her to squeal a bit once more.

"O-o-okay" She stuttered as she did what he asked. Wrapping her left arm around his torso and grabbing the back of his gym shirt, and then putting her right hand on the crook of his neck. Getting a little more embarrassed, but she didn't protest.

The boy took a last glance at the now close zero percent, his eyes narrowing. He then looked ahead and started running with the girl in his arms, determined to bring her to safety, the exam points completely forgotten.

However, before he could continue, a giant piece of a building was thrown in front of him, blocking his passage.

Both he and the girl's eyes widened in shock as the boy stopped running, they glanced behind and found the robot with one of its arms deep into a destroyed building to take another piece.

"We can't continue this way!" He says as he quickly looked around, searching for a way out.

"There!" The girl in his arms shouted as she indicated a hole in a building at their left, forming a passage to the adjacent street.

The boy didn't waste time running through the hole and getting on the other street, he felt the zero pointer following them, destroying the buildings at its side with his size and movements alone.

This made Izuku shudder as he started running through the free street, holding the girl tightly to not risk her falling, not caring how badly his body was reacting because of the induced fear, he just kept ignoring any sensation in his body and focused on getting out of there.

He managed to get a lot of distance from the zero pointer, enough to not risk it throwing more debris but he kept his guard up, and he and he was right to have it, multiple robots blocked the way, probably attracted by all the noise the zero pointer was making.

Their eyes widened in shock as they realized that they were surrounded from behind by the approaching zero pointer and from the front by multiple fair villains.

"Damnit, there's no way out without fighting, I could try to run past them but the risk of them surrounding us is high.." Izuku muttered as a bit of his artificial composure started to crack.

"Leave me here for now, You could get hurt if you don't free your arms!" She says as she quickly looked at him, trying to make him put her down so he could fight without risk of getting hurt for her.

The boy looked at her surprised, no, with her leg in that condition, she can't defend herself effectively, and if debris flies over there, she could get hit and get injured.

"No, you could get hit by one of the robots or debris could fly on you...." He says as he reinforced his resolve, a small nervous grin on his face, trying to put on a brave face.

This made the girl speechless, surprised by the boy's refusal of letting her go out of his reach, his previously scared eyes were completely shining with determination now, determination to protect her.

"So....." He continued as he looked at the approaching robots, cutting her thoughts.

"You will stay right here with me, you d-don't have to worry, it's my turn to help you" Izuku says as his eyes glowed more, green and red mixing together on his irises. What he said made the girl blush more if possible, every nervous word he said was strangely conforming, like they were spoken by a breed and born hero.

As she looked as her savoir prepared to fight, she got an idea, at least to help.

The boy noticed that the girl in his arms became completely weightless, making his movements a bit easier. He glanced down and noticed that she had a hand on her chest, a pink glow emanating from her fingerprints.

She glanced back at him, sweat trailing from her forehead.

"I've removed my gravity, I will be less bothersome this way" She says, trying to keep her nausea under control.

"So c-c-cool....ehm, I mean, t-thank you! I will get us out of h-here!" Izuku stuttered as he looked back at the robots, he bent his legs a little and then rushed forward, already close to one of the robots.

"Whoa!" The girl says in surprise because of his speed.

"Hold tight!" Izuku shouted as they got closer to a couple of robots, the girl immediately wrapped her arms around him to hold tight.

"Even if my arms are busy...." He thought as everything seems to slow down, he always used his fists to fight, but now that they are busy, he must do a small change.

"I'm still capable of fighting!" He shouted inside his mind as he raised his leg, arched his back and.....

"Smash!!!" Izuku shouted as he kicked a robot with his right leg, the attack destroyed the metallic body and continued, the boy spun his body to the side, gaining more momentum and allowing him to destroy a second robot that was in his kick's trajectory.

"Two down, three more to go" Izuku thought with a more determined expression as he regained his footing, he immediately noticed a two-pointer charging, preparing its tail to attack them.

The boy dodged the robot's attack by jumping back, his back against a building, but stumbled a little because of his growing exhaustion, his heart was hammering in his chest as the shaking ground caused by the approaching zero pointer was filling him with terror and anxiety, but he forced himself to be calm, for both himself and the girl in his arms.

But then.......he heard something behind him, he had just the time to turn around as both saw the wall tremble until a three-pointer emerged from it, taking them by surprise and getting dangerously close, its arm already prepared to hit both teens.

Izuku knew he couldn't dodge in time with these conditions, so he was about to close his body, using it to shield the girl, but before he could do that...He saw the robot floating, losing its balance and getting higher and higher.

"Wh-What!?" He spluttered in surprise, wait, floating?

The boy immediately looked down, noticing that the girl had her hand extended, making him understand that she used her quirk.

"That was close, if y-you don't want to put me down, then I will fight too!! Let's do o-our best!" she says with a nervous smile as she looked at him, trying to be determined as him, she wants to help as much as she can, he is already doing so much alone.

He looked at her in surprise, not expecting her to help him, she should just let him help her, so why? She doesn't need to overextend herself for him!!

He looked up at the approaching three robots, he also heard the zero pointer getting closer. So they had to hurry.

"Can y-you use it t-three more times?" He asked as he narrowed his eyes, already forming plans to free the passage, even if he didn't understand why she wanted to help even if it will worsen her conditions, he can't stop and question it. He needs to move fast.

"Yes, just get me close, I need to touch them with my fingers!" She says as she looked at the robots too, she could feel her nausea rising, but she held on as much as she can.

Izuku hummed and immediately rushed forward once again, dodging the two-pointer and stepped on its leg, blocking enough for the girl to touch it.

He turned towards the other two, recognizing them as two one-pointers.

He ducked under the arm of one of them, letting the girl touch the side of the attacking robot, and then kicked the other one on the wheel, making it fall on the ground, the boy quickly delivered a half-decent axe kick on its head, destroying it.

Now they had a free road and Izuku didn't hesitate to start running again, the girl joined her fingertips together, and the three robots fell to the ground behind them.

While the boy was running trying to put distance between them and the zero pointer, the girl held onto him tightly, not so embarrassed to do so this time. But, from this position, she could feel his panicked heartbeat, her auburn eyes looked up at his pale face and his nervous expression, noticing the cracks in his determination that he was holding together with willpower alone.

"He is scared, but he is forcing himself to be brave for me......" She says in her mind, strangely, this made him seem even more cool in her eyes. He was hiding his own fear for her.

She didn't notice him glancing back at her, the red glow disappear as his mind resumed began working normally again.

"I am s-sorry for h-h-holding y-you like this, and you also h-helped me, t-thank you a lot!" He stuttered as his face gradually began to get redder, now that his mind could focus on other things, he could finally realize the way he was carrying her, making him internally panic a lot, he noticed from the corner of his eyes that they were getting closer to an open square, many examinees there, they were almost safe!!

"Huh?....oh" she muttered confused but then realized what he was talking about, she blushed as she looked away, more shy than uncomfortable.

"I-It's o-okay, I s-should be the one to thank you for coming back for m-me, it's the least I could have done...." She says a bit embarrassed, she then turned to look at him, wanting to ask for his name but before she could do that, she noticed the boy's eyes widen as he looked ahead.

She looked ahead too and saw two people running towards them, wait, why they were coming this way?

Izuku recognized them, they were the same pink girl of before and the dark blue-haired boy of the entrance of the mock city, but what were they doing here!?? They need to run!!!

When they crossed paths, they stopped as soon as they reach him, making the green-haired boy understand that they were actually looking for him.

Immediately the pink skinned girl walked close and waved her arms to the side slightly irritated.

"We finally found you! You zipped faster than I could reach you. And when I saw you running towards that big guy, you made me worry!!!" The pink says with a pout but stopped when she saw the auburn-haired girl in the boy's arms, making her understand why the boy charged towards the zero pointer.

"As much as I admire your altruistic action, we must get out of here, we must find the exit quickly, we're preparing a coordinated evacac-" The dark-Blue haired boy started to say but he is interrupted by the pink skinned girl, who skipped in front of the tall boy, she immediately looked at the auburn-haired girl with an excited aura.

"Woah, sis, you got the cutie ride! I wanna be carried like that by him too!!" She says as her pout returns, to tell the truth, this was just to joke a bit to ease her nervousness as the growing closeness of the titanic robot was making her very nervous.

Both Izuku and the girl blushed a bit, being reminded of their embarrassing predicament, the boy even more as a girl pretty much asked him to be carried bridal style.

A heavy thud interrupted them, making them turn towards the direction, finding the zero pointer getting closer, other examinees running from it, but some seemed to be paralyzed by fear, their legs shaking.

Izuku could feel the same sensation of before coming back, his vision being focused only on the zero pointer now, as long as it's active, nobody is safe, they don't have a map, so how they all can run to safety?

After what felt like hours but only some seconds for him, He turned his body towards the two, adrenaline started pumping once through his system, making him a little jumpy, even more sweat trailing from his forehead and sides of his head and his face paled a little. He realized that he had a last resort to try, it was extremely dangerous for himself, but, if it will avoid any more injuries, then he need to try.

"you t-three need to get out of h-here!" he says quickly as he looked around nervously, noticing that everyone was running away, but some just stood there. He then immediately looked towards the surprised tall boy and walked closer, planning on giving him the auburn-haired girl so the three of them can run away while he.....buy time.

The three looked confused for a second, but quickly realized what he wanted to do.

"Oi, stop a second, no us three, you come too, don't do anything crazy!" The pink girl says as she got closer with a frown, not liking the way Izuku looked at the zero pointer, like hell she will let him do what she thinks he want to do.

The boy flinched because of this, his body reacted and shook for a moment because of the loud voice, he didn't understand why they wanted him to come with them so badly, it isn't something they should be concerned about.... it's just him that will be in danger.

He felt that the brown haired girl had tightened a little her hold on his shirt as she looked at him equally as intensely as the pink girl, she will not let him run towards danger like that. Even the tall boy showed no acceptance of this plan.

Their refusal to let him face the zero pointer made him even more nervous and confused if possible. Both his protective instincts and brain fighting to decide what he should do, he sweated a little more as he couldn't find anything better than facing directly the robot to buy time for the others to escape. He glanced behind, noticing the titanic robot close to the square they were in. He closed his eyes for a moment as he tried to settle his racing mind, wondering what All Might would do in this situation.

He....he would save others without hesitation....

He quickly opened his eyes and looked at them, a little red glint in his eyes. No, He can't run away when he can help others, he promised....that he would save everyone.

"T-there are other people in danger and I can't save them all individually......." Izuku says more seriously as he gives the auburn-haired girl to the tall guy, they were surprised by the sudden action.

He backed away from the three, his mind already fixed on saving everyone, after all....this is the hero he want to be.

"Thank y-you for y-your concern....but....that robot isn't going to stop, everyone is in danger as long as it's active....so....I will try to destroy it and if I can't....I will b-buy time so you can all run, I can't stand and w-watch, I just can't..so.....p-please go somewhere safe......" he concluded as he turns around and starts running towards the robot, the dark blue-haired boy and the girl he was carrying screamed for him to come back while the pink girl tried to grab his sleeve to stop him but by now he immediately got too far thanks to his speed. Other examinees stopped running and turned to look at the black blur rushing toward the zero pointer.

The green-haired boy didn't realize that he was being watched by not only other examinees, but everyone had their eyes only on him.

At the professors' observatory

"Look at the green haired one, he saved that girl from the rubble, he also nursed the other examinees some time ago" The same female judge with the sultry voice of before pointed out as she indicated the screen that showed Izuku talking with the pink girl and the tall boy while carrying the auburn-haired girl.

"He had been rescuing a lot of fellow examinees for all the duration of the exam, We should give him some extra rescue points, an aptitude towards rescue like that should be rewarded!" a seemingly robotic female voice says, its owner being seen wearing a very big outfit similar to a space suit, hiding all of her features, a black helmet covering her face and reflecting the screen that showed Izuku.

Before anyone could say something else, they saw him give the auburn haired girl to the tall boy, Nezu quickly clicked a button on his chair, activating the microphone on the camera, he had the feeling this was going to be interesting.

'Thank y-you for y-your concern....but....that robot isn't going to stop, everyone is in danger as long as it's active....so....I will try to destroy it and if I can't....I will b-buy time so you can all run, I can't stand and w-watch, I just can't..so.....p-please go somewhere safe......" They heard the green-haired boy say as they saw him turn around and start to run towards the zero pointer, the examinees that he was talking to tried to stop him but to no avail.

This immediately attracted every judge's attention, who now focused on the screen that showed him with laser-like focus.

All Might grinned as he could see the determination to save everyone from his voice alone, and when started running towards the zero pointer, he was sure everyone in the room felt it too. That's what he saw in him, a truly indomitable hero.

"There are no combat points rewarded for taking on the titanic villain. But, there is...Opportunity. A chance to shine" He says quickly as he watched Izuku bending his legs and crouching, preparing to jump.

With Izuku

Izuku doesn't know where the bravery to face such an overwhelming foe come from, but he knew something, he wasn't going to back off, even if his heart seemed about to burst out of his chest or his stomach seemed on the brink of making him vomit whatever is left on it. He kept running.

His scared gaze moved to the robot head, realizing that he need to reach that if he want to have a chance, so....he need to jump, and unleash his full power, he doesn't care if he will hurt himself, he need to try.

He tried to increase the percentage as much as he can, extreme pain assaulting him but he kept channeling, his focus unbreakable.

13%.....Not enough

14%.....not enough

17%!!......NOT ENOUGH

It's not enough, NOT ENOUGH

With adrenaline pumping in his system and his mind racing with panic, the boy didn't see any other choice but to give absolutely everything, ignoring every small concern for himself he may have, they were deleted, everyone else were the priority!!

He raised one of his legs, standing on the other one, black energy veins covered the limb and black lightning bolts converged around it.

"I'm sorry Recovery girl, I'm sorry All Might, but...." Izuku thought with gritted teeth and then.....he jumped, using 100% of OFA to propel himself quickly towards the robot's head.

"I need to muster everything!" He thought as his eyes started to glow red once again, slowly replacing the green.

Everyone, from examinees and judges, was watching as the boy flew closer and closer to the zero pointer.

"To show what you're really made of....." All Might continued to say, his eyes fixed on his successor.

Izuku clenched his right fist and brought his arm back, black and white energy veins covered it. The raw power tore his sleeve, showing his scarred skin.

"YOU NOT GONNA HURT ANYONE!" he shouted as his eyes were completely red, his voice heard by everyone close and making their eyes widen even more.

"That's right, everyone's eyes are on you, show them who you truly are. Embody what it means to be a hero" All Might continued as he leaned forward, his blue eyes seemed to glow like his successor's.

"Because...." All Might continued.

"DETROIT...." Izuku started as he passed through the robot's fingers, now just in front of the robot's head, black lighting bolts converging around his attacking arm as he extended the limb and.....

"SMASH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Izuku roared as he punched the zero-pointer head with everything he has, destroying it and causing the titanic robot to fall backward, explosions rampaging all around its body as its internal components broke because of the extreme damages.

"Nothing is nobler......than self‐sacrifice" All Might's voice concluded as Izuku is seen with a broken leg and arm in the air, his eyes glowing with eerie and awakened energy.

To be continued

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Everything was a blur, one moment he is trying to save the nice girl from the zero pointer, and the next he charged head-on towards the titanic robot with unnatural courage that he didn't think he had. He also didn't register his scars opening up and blood churning out of them a few moments after the punch connected, his scarred and fragile skin not managing of handling the stress, resulting in the already red bruised skin of his broken arm being coated in crimson. The skin of his knuckles was busted open in a messy bloody display, but his face didn't show any pain, he just glared ahead, his eyes half-focused as his racing mind was both working on overdrive and was dizzy at the same time, adrenaline still pumping in his system and dulling any excruciating pain his nerves were detecting, they felt like they were on fire.

His still red and glowing eyes watched as the titanic zero pointer collapsed backward, the ground shaking because of its massive metallic body. Everything seemed to go in slow motion for him, his heartbeat and the zero-pointer limp body impacting with the ground being the only things he could hear.

His irises glow flicked as his mind managed to start working again in a dizzy but also rational manner, making him utter a single phrase out of instinct.

"....Everything will be okay.... because I am here...." He managed to mutter to himself, he didn't know why he said that. It just felt right, but it also felt funny because, for a moment, he felt like All Might, an unreachable dream for a pathetic excuse of a successor such as him. Wait.....

He blinked as the red glow disappeared completely. Now without adrenaline, a goal to focus his latent determination, and the growing pain in his body, Izuku began to realize what situation he was in......and it was bad.....

He looked down with wide and terrorized eyes, realizing he was still in the air, and he didn't have a way to get down,, his terror increased tenfold when he began to feel his body being brought back down by the gravity finally overpowering his dying momentum.

"AAAAAAHHHH !!!!!!!" Izuku shouted terrorized as everything comes crashing into him, the fear, the pain, everything. His eyes started to quickly create tears because of the wind blowing on his face while he fell down onto the hard floor.

Moments Before the fall, Observation room

The judges looked with extreme interest as they saw the zero pointer being destroyed by a single punch from the same examinee that attracted their attention. All Might was at the edge of his seat, his grin even wider while watching his successor's hero instincts for a second time, much better than the first. Nezu was cheering happily beside him, extremely satisfied at the display of courage, heroism and strength.

"Such power. Totally the one that stands more among the already promising crop of this year...." A calm voice says, belonging to what appeared to be a humanoid block of cement with black, seemingly shut eyes and gray hair tied into a short ponytail. His body shape is evenly blocky all around his body. He was wearing an outfit consisting of a sleeveless brown suit that includes yellow stripes, shorts, and an elongated collar. He also sports gray shoes with yellow soles. His tiny eyes were a bit wider, impressed by the display of overwhelming strength.

"I agree, even the way he behaves is something that we should keep track of as his response to underwhelming pressure was to rush forward to protect the other examinees, not hesitating to use his quirk to its fullest to do so, it isn't the same level of power he displayed during the exam until now, so that level of strength hurts him" another judge says seriously as he nodded, the light of the screens hitting him and revealing his features, he seemed to be wearing a tan cloak that covers most of his body, the area over his torso, and the high collar resembling that of a double-breasted trench coat. His head was covered by a black helmet with a jaw-guard attached over his nose and around his jaw and circular mufflers. He also seem to have lightweight prosthetic legs, his arms weren't visible, possibly because they were kept under the cloak.

"Ehm guys, we got a little problem....." The same sultry-spoken female judge of before called as she indicated the screen with wide eyes. Thanks to her more leaned forward position, her features were a bit more visible but not completely, just enough to recognize her beautiful blue eyes, long thick spiky dark purple hair and a part of her gorgeous face.

The judges immediately looked towards the screen again and noticed two very problematic and worrying details. The first was the boy's right arm was completely broken with blood churning out, the leg he used to jump was bent in an unusual way, indicating that it was broken as well. Second thing.....he was starting to lose momentum and now he was just starting his descent towards the not-so-soft ground.

"Oh....." A tall man with some dog-like features started to say, his sharp teeth hidden by the muffle parted as he was completely shocked.

"Fuck....." Aizawa finished the curse, his tired eyes both exasperated and shocked, great, he got himself the king of the problem children, with less self-care than that blonde oaf! Now how the fuck they can avoid having a dead king of the problem children!!!?

"OH SHIT!!!!!!" All Might shouted in panic as he raised himself from the seat and put his hands on his hair, his eyes wide and his face pale.

Nezu didn't waste a second to put his paws on the panel on his chair, quickly ordering the flying drones in the surroundings to catch the falling boy, they were prepared for this situations and will surely reach him in time. But, the chimera then noticed that the same people Izuku has interacted with were running towards the green-haired boy's direction, their eyes fixed on him, wait..... they were rushing to save him?.....interesting, this crop of future students is becoming better and better.

mock city

The three teens that Izuku had spoken to before were completely left in awe at the display of overwhelming strength, many examinees also were watching with wide eyes and gaping mouths, he.....he just one shotted the zero pointer!!!

"That.....was...... AWESOME!!! Did you see how he destroyed it!!!? He got some heavy weapons hidden under that cute face!!!" The pink-skinned girl shouted excited as she pumped both her fists in the air, stars in her eyes as she couldn't believe the strength of that sweet guy, didn't mean she will not pout at him when she speak to him again, he still made them worry by rushing like that.

"I've never seen such a high destructive potential from someone my age, and he didn't hesitate to rush forward to buy us time...." the tall boy muttered in dismay, the way Izuku talked and looked at them, there was nothing but pure desire to protect them. He had greatly misjudged his intentions before.

The auburn-haired girl, now standing thanks to the help of the other girl, was silently watching with her mouth agape and her eyes wide. She knew her savior was strong by how easily his attacks destroyed the smaller robots. but now, She was completely left shocked by how much strength his punch packed at full power......amazing!!!

But then, she noticed him panicking in the air, making her understand that he didn't plan a safe landing.

"Wait, how he is gonna land? It's too high!" She says very worried, concern bubbling at every word, immediately the other two's eyes widened as they noticed the green-haired boy losing momentum and then falling, panicking as gravity pulled him toward the ground.

"Aaaaaahhhh he is falling!!! What do we do?!" The pink shrieked in panic as she shook the tall boy quickly with her hands, no no no, what they can do to avoid the cutie becoming a pancake!!!? Maybe they could use her acid if she dilutes it enough.

While the tall guy was trying to come up with a plan quickly while being shaken, the auburn-haired girl, who was still holding herself by holding on the pink girl back, managed to quickly create a scratch of a plan to avoid Izuku from splattering on the ground, she quickly looked at her hand, nodded and looked at them.

"You have to throw me at him!" She shouted, making the two look at her in shock.

"What? Why?!" The pink girl asked confused, her concern increasing with the second as she kept moving in place, they don't have much time before the green-haired boy get too close to the ground.

"I can remove my gravity, so if you two throw me at him I can get quick enough to reach him and then take his gravity away too, now hurry!!" She explains quickly as she touched her chest with her free hand's fingers, a pink glow coming out of them.

As the two get into position, The pink girl's eyes darted immediately to the green-haired boy, who was dangerously getting closer and closer to the ground, she then looked at the other two ready to follow this plan, but she stopped when she noticed the muffles similar to those of engines on the tall boy's calves, her racing mind actually improving the auburn girl already possible plan.

"You got rockets on your legs?! Okay, then we can use my acid to slide and go faster! Come on! Let's save that broccoli idiot!!!" The pink girl shouted, the tall boy nodded quickly as both got to either side of the auburn-haired girl, holding her, the pink girl quickly secreted the same grey very weak acid she uses to slide around, and then.....

*Drrrrrrrrrn!!*

The tall boy muffles emit smoke and then fire, propelling the three at high-speed thanks to the pink girl continuing to reduce inertia thanks to her weakened acid.

They were getting closer and closer, their pupils fixed on the falling boy, their faces full of sweat as they tried to keep themselves focused on the task at hand, someone was at life risk and they weren't going to stay still and watch.

At a certain point, the auburn girl's eyes widened as her pupils dilated, they were close enough, and they need to hurry!!!

"Now!" The auburn-haired girl shouted. Immediately after shouting this, the other two spun their bodies and threw her towards the boy, the lack of gravity increasing a lot her speed, she hoped she was fast enough to catch him.....

With Izuku

Izuku's heart was hammering in his chest as he was desperately trying to come up with a way to land without dying, half of his limbs were unusable and the dizziness coupled with the massive stress and the strong wind being thrown at his face was threatening to make him pass out, but he kept himself awake by continuing to bite his tongue, almost making it bleed.

"I need to find a way to stop my fall or everything will go to waste!! I can't die with All Might quirk in me!!" Izuku thought desperately as he tried to find a way to survive, he can't die now, not with All Might's legacy in him, not after all this preparation, he promised his mother that everything was going to be, he can't die and break the promise!!!

His teary eyes widened as his racing mind started to work on building a last-ditch plan to survive.

"I-I need to activate OFA again! So my body will be more resilient, I can maybe survive the fall like this!!! Focus now!!! ; Bring every ounce of strength out!" He thought with gritted teeth as he focused as much as he can, black veins crossing his body, black lightning bolts following short, the power coursing through his body worsened the pain even more but he held tight, bit any pain and muffled the grunts of pain that were escaping his lips.

"It's just a gamble, It's not enough, I need to stop the fall altogether. Not going to waste, not going to waste!!!!!" Izuku thought as his eyes then moved to his unbroken hand, especially to his bandaged fingers.

"That's it!! A 100% Delaware smash will surely cushion the fall, I need to time it perfectly or I will ruin everything!!" he quickly thought as he put his left hand in a flicking position, his fingers hurt a lot and the blood that he was loosing was making him lightheaded, but the remaining adrenaline in his system managed to keep him focused.

"Not yet......not yet.....Okay, now!" he shouted in his mind as he extended his arm forward, the finger ready to be flicked, 100% of OFA power coursing through it.

"Delaware sm*ack*!!!" Izuku started shouting but is interrupted by someone slamming on his chest. The person immediately wrapped her arms around his and touched him on the back with her hand, a pink light coming from her fingertips, immediately after, the boy could feel the familiar sensation of his gravity being taken away, and his fall stopped altogether as he started to float at some meters above the ground, his body slowly going down thanks to the dying momentum.

"Wh-what? What happened?" Izuku thought confused, his adrenaline quickly leaving him because of exhaustion, resulting in his dizzy mind struggling to understand what was happening. He looked behind, noticing that he was floating with his back toward the ground, now a couple of meters away.

"I....I'm floating.....like that time, wait...does this means-" Izuku started to say in his mind but then stopped when he started to suspect who just saved him, he could still feel his savior's arms still wrapped around his torso. He tiredly looked down at his chest and recognized the same auburn-haired girl that he helped earlier, the same one who just saved him from his dangerous fall, her face was pressed on his chest, not letting him go for a second.

"W-w-w-wh-wh-what?!!!!!!" The boy screamed in his mind, his mind completely awake as he goes red in the face, wait....did she come back for him?!!!.....why? His safety wasn't anyone's concern!

After a couple of embarrassing seconds for the boy, the girl lifted her head from his chest and looked over at him, their eyes meet, their stared at each other silently, until the girl realized the embarrassing position they were in for a second time, her face turned almost as red as his as she threw herself off him to the side, floating like him.

"S-s-sorry! I h-had to g-grab you to use my quirk on you! Ah! We are still floating, w-wait I get you down now" he hear her stammer a bit with some embarrassment, but he heard her make some sounds of discomfort like she was feeling sick. He didn't see her bring her fingerpads together.

"Release" she muttered as both she and Izuku gained their gravity back, resulting in both falling on the ground, a bit rough but not further harmed.

"*Ugh* Izuku hissed in pain as his now bloody broken right arm and his broken leg impacted moved roughly because of the fall, resulting in extreme pain to assault him, at least he is lucky that he is kinda used to this, and his exhausted mind could hardly process stimulus right now.

"So-Sorry!" Izuku hear the girl say, a bit of worry and guilt in her voice.

".... It's okay...........but you shouldn't have put yourself in danger for me....." Izuku muttered tiredly, he didn't have the strength to look at her, limiting himself to look at the sky with half-closed eyes. His voice was very faint and barely audible, but the girl managed to hear him, her eyes frowned a bit hearing that he didn't want to be saved, even while seriously risking being seriously injured, maybe her savior was a bit too stubborn.

As she thought what to say back, the boy just kept staring at the sky, feeling his broken arm pulsating because of the pain, he also could feel a bit more of blood slowly dripping from the opened scars, funny enough, this was positive, at least they were covered and no one would easily see how truly ugly and pathetic he is, at least a consolation in this. Coupled with his heartbeat and the pulsating arm, he could also hear quick footsteps getting closer and closer. He didn't notice that the auburn-haired girl was also getting closer, slowly crawling towards him to make sure he was truly okay as the sight of blood staining his clothed broken leg dulled her nausea and made her concerned for his well-being.

"Hey are you oka-huh?!, you are bleeding!!! Stay still, I will call someone as fast as I can!" He heard a familiar male voice ringing in his ears, wait.....was he the boy with glasses of before? Did he also come for him? Izuku wasn't able to understand, why did they come back for him!? They could have been hurt by the debris, He was going to be fine on his own.....probably.

His tired thoughts were interrupted when a familiar set of gorgeous golden irises entered his field of vision, making his eyes focus a bit more, allowing him to recognize the same pretty pink-skinned girl of before, her too?

The girl kneeled next to him, she seemed both worried and relieved. Immediately after, the auburn girl entered his field vision too, crouching at his left, her stare the same as the pink girl, worried and relieved, they saved him! Thank goodness.

"*Phew* We reached you in time, you really like to be flashy and exaggerated, don't you, greenhead?" the pink girl says with a slight pout at the end, her eyes glanced looked at his broken arm that was close to her, it's in very bad shape, it made her stomach turn a bit.

"....Why?" He asked after a couple of seconds, his eyes moving slowly to look at both, genuinely confused by them actually being concerned about him, it seemed so authentic that it made him question if someone may actually care about him in that way. So, he couldn't understand, he was so tired that he wasn't even embarrassed to have two girls so close, he didn't even know why he was asking in the first place, probably the adrenaline messing with his brain.

"What?" The auburn-haired girl asked surprised and confused, the pink girl equally as confused as she is.

"...Why did you come back? I told you guys to go somewhere safe....." Izuku asked tiredly, he could feel the remnants of the adrenaline fading away, making staying awake difficult for him. He closed his eyelids for a couple of seconds, enough to not notice the two girls being even more surprised if possible.

"And let you become a little cute green pancake on the ground? That's 100% a big nono..." The pink girl says without thinking too much about it, what he was talking about? She knew he was very kind, but this was exaggerated!! He should think of his safety too!!!

"Why did you have to rush like that? Everyone was running away from the zero pointer, so why did you have to hurt yourself like this?" This time the auburn asked, attracting his half dizzy-half surprised stare, his confusion just increasing.

He thought of the answer with difficulty because of the dizziness, but he managed to utter his thoughts out, he doesn't even know why he is arguing his point like someone should care about what he wants or think.

"...I guess that I don't like probabilities.......I just saw how scared everyone was....and......I... I couldn't ..... stay ... still ... and do.... nothing about it..." Izuku muttered as he blinked another couple of times, his eyelids very heavy, the pain increased as time passed, and every nerve seemed to be on fire.

"At least you could have told us your plan, we would have helped you" the pink girl says as she leaned a bit forward to be in his field of vision, her eyes looking intensely at his green ones as she pouted once again, damn, this guy is so sweet but also so frustrating.

Help.....me?

The boy quickly removed the thought from forming and focused on giving an answer, to be honest, he didn't have even a scratch of a plan, he just acted on instinct.

"........I didn't have a plan.....I just did what I could at the moment, but I broke my arm and leg.....it's so embarrassing......" Izuku muttered as a bit of embarrassment started to bubble in his words, he knew he made himself look like a moron, a weak imbecile that was about to die by his own, what a shitty first impression. He didn't even care that he broke his limbs, he cared that he did in front of others, showing his inability of controlling All Might's quirk, *his* quirk.

"Then you should have told us your intentions without running away while doing it, I would have helped you right away!" This time the auburn-haired girl says with a more narrowed gaze, showing that she was serious about helping him.

Another shock to the green-haired boy's brain, another thing he couldn't metabolize or understand about these people, why it's so different? Why do people now want to help him?! Too strange! Too sudden!

Before he could muster some form of answer, he began to see dark spots in his vision, his ears ringing while his head felt even lighter, and before he knew it, his eyes closed and he lost consciousness, the pain and shock of his broken limbs finally taking effect on him.

The two girls' eyes widened as they saw the green-haired boy lose consciousness, panicking a bit.

"Ahhh, is he dead?!!!" The pink girl shouted in panic as she becomes comedically white.

The auburn-haired girl quickly put her ear on Izuku's chest and calmed down quickly feeling the boy's still a little fast heartbeat.

"No, he just passed out, he seemed very tired, and with injuries like these, I don't blame him" she says calmly as she realized that she had her hands on his left shoulder and abdomen, but she didn't pull away, limiting herself to stare at his sleeping face, his lips parting and closing as he softly breathed.

"*Plew* Seriously, this guy is gonna kill me, first him getting close with that cute face while he bandaged me and now this, and above all, I still didn't get his name" The pink girl says a bit frustrated with a bigger pout, man this guy is a handful.

"Huh?" The auburn-haired girl looked at the pink one with a sweatdrop, wondering what she was talking about.

They heard the tall boy's voice becoming louder, they turned their stares and saw him coming closer with Recovery girl in tow.

"There he is, ma'am!" The tall boy pointed towards the unconscious Izuku, the old heroine started walking towards the three, the two girls made room for her.

"Oh dear, this exam is getting more and more violent, and look how hurt you got" Recovery girl says calmly as she put some bandages on his arm to stop the bleeding. After doing it, she kissed his arm, controlling her quirk so it mostly put the bones in position and close the opened scars. She will finish healing him at the infirmary so she can manage his recovery better as she didn't know if his stamina is enough to not be dangerous.

Small robots carrying a stretcher came immediately after, lifting Izuku and carefully putting him on it, and carrying him toward the infirmary.

She turned towards the three teens, noticing that they were still worried about Izuku, she gave them a small smile.

"Don't worry for him, I just need to take him to my infirmary where I can heal him completely, he will be good as new" She says calmly, managing to ease their worry.

She then looked at the still-sitting auburn-haired girl, who was still holding her leg with a slightly pained expression.

"There there, you all did a good job" recover girl says as her lips extended and kissed her leg, a green glow enveloping it. In a second, the pain completely disappears, allowing the girl to get up.

"Now I go to see if someone else needs me, take some sugar, my quirk could leave you exhausted" She says as she handed some candies to the girl, then walks away to check if anyone needed her before going back to the infirmary to finish healing the unconscious but now stabilized Izuku.

As the three looked in the direction the robots took Izuku, a neutral female voice was heard behind them.

"Do you think he will be okay?" the voice says asked neutrally, hiding the worry that was hidden in the words.

"Ahhhhhhh!!" the three screamed in fright as they jumped, they quickly turned around, just to see the same black-haired girl Izuku made friends with on the bus.

The girl tilted her head to the side in confusion, her face still displaying a calm and neutral expression.

"what?" she asks simply, did she says something wrong? She was just worried about her new friend, oh maybe because she just talked behind them without making herself known, maybe that was it.

The first to recover from the fright was the tall guy, who cleared his throat.

"Of co-course, recovery girl is one of the best medical heroes, he'll definitely be fine" he says as he pushed his glasses up, his heart hammering in his chest for the scare.

The girl hummed, then glanced at the direction the robots took Izuku, her eyes a bit more narrowed, hoping he will recover fast and that maybe they will meet again.

Unknown location

Izuku opened his eyes just to find himself in the same gray stone desert that he dreamed of two months ago.

"I am here again!? ......So I passed out again, huh? mhm....." Izuku thought surprised and confused as he looked around, quickly noting that the place was empty, like last time, there was nothing in sight, except an infinite extent of gray desert.

"It's been two months since the last time I've been here.....I wonder if I will see something else about OFA..." He thought perplexed, his eyelids dropped a bit as he looked down at his own body, noticing that, like the last time, it was made off of black-green mist, completely hiding his scarred body, or maybe in this *dream* this was his body.

His eyes narrowed even more, confusion increasing as the seconds passed, he looked up, deciding to test something.

"*Incomprehensible whispers*" He tried to talk, but, like he expected to happen, nothing but creepy and faint whispers came out of his non-existent lips.

"I can't talk like that time, and my body feels even more weird, mhm?!" He started to say in his mind but he stopped after he unconsciously flexed the fingers of his right hand.....wait......flexed? Fingers?!

The boy quickly raised his hand and looked at it, noticing that his fingers were actually made of flesh and blood this time. Quickly calming his surprised mind, Izuku curiously flexed them a little, feeling a strange tingling as he did so.

He observed this new development in his body with curiosity, some small theories forming in his brain, he was sure that only the upper half of his head was flesh and blood considering he could feel his hair flow with the unnatural wind, this could mean anything and nothing at the same time.

"Could this mean that my control over OFA is increasing? Maybe this is why my body is like this in the first place...." He theorized in his mind, the strange puzzle becoming a bit clearer.

He clenched his half mist half flesh hand into a fist and lowered it, looking ahead with a more focused gaze. If this is all connected to OFA then those black tendrils may be here as well, in that case, he need to be careful as he doesn't know if they are something positive or negative, the fact one of them impaled him last time didn't help to ease his suspects.

Any further theory or thought he could formulate was forgotten when he began to feel strange sensations building up in his body, a tingling enveloped his entire most-formed body and his head felt like it was burning from intense heat, The boy flinched a bit at the sudden sensations as his body was almost completely devoid of any sensations just a few seconds ago, he failed to notice his irises quickly flickering between red and green, an eerie glow enveloping them.

The boy put a hand on his forehead as his vision got foggy for a second, the ground seemingly spinning, his mind was getting dizzy and unfocused, but at the same time, he was kept wide awake. He also began to hear whispers coming out from every direction, they barged into his mind like hammers even while being so faint, further decreasing his capacity of focusing on a single thought.

*Whispers*

His eyes darted around as he clenched his head, he didn't see anyone, but these unsettling whispers kept coming from both everywhere and nowhere at the same time. They just keep being sent directly to his brain, making him dizzier and dulling his focus even more.

*Whispers*

*Whispers*

"What is happening to me?! I can't focus on anything and my head feels like is on fire...." He thought still a bit dizzy, he tried to ignore the debilitating whispers as much as possible as he was about to step forward to search for the source of them, he need to find answers before he woke up. He was stopped when he felt the ground shake but this time it wasn't because of dizziness, it was really shaking.

Thanks to his body being almost all made of mist, he didn't have to worry about stumbling or falling considering he didn't have legs to stumble with in the first place. So he just steadied himself with a nervous look until the ground stopped shaking, having to wait just a couple of seconds for it to happen. But it wasn't the only bizarre thing happening, after the ground stopped shaking, the invisible light allowing the boy to see his surroundings started to grow weaker, coating the landscape in darkness, just a limited zone around the boy was still visible. strong unnatural wind started to blow into the dream world, the mist forming the boy's body blowing with it.

Izuku's eyes widened a bit seeing all of this happening, the wind hitting his hair and making them flow, he couldn't understand what was happening, asking himself why he was here in the first place or why the landscape was changing so suddenly. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard a sound coming from behind him, making him jump and immediately look back, not seeing anything. Immediately after, similar sounds started coming from every direction.

*Rustle* *rustle*

The boy hastily looked around, finally managing to notice something slowly coiling around, something slim and sharp....like a snake, wait.......oh no.

"N-No..... it's one of them! The tendrils that bursted out of the black star!!!" He thought terrorized as his eyes widened with fear, he tried to activate OFA, but nothing happened, this just increased the terror that he felt as he realized that he couldn't defend himself from whatever was hiding in the shadow.

"*Incomprehensible whispers*" Izuku unconsciously tried to whimper nervously, but only the usual creepy whispers were generated, increasing his panic, he doesn't know what to do, he was harmless, mute and alone, he doesn't know if he can have a panic attack in a dream, but he could feel that he can make it possible with how much stress he was feeling.

He backed away as he can see the tendril slowly approaching, its tip sharp like a blade. But, unlikely last time, the boy could see teal outlines on the otherwise pitch-black tendril, and it gave a strange aura of familiarity, one in which he couldn't point his finger out. He decided to put these thoughts aside and focus on how to get away from it, not wanting to be attacked like last time, he doesn't know what those tendrils with eyes were going to him if they managed to reach him, probably tear him apart, as they don't seem so friendly.

The boy tried to activate OFA once again, nothing and he couldn't talk compressible speech, his stress increasing

"It's useless! Nothing works!!" He panicked inside his mind as he looked as he backed away some more, his shrunken pupils saw the tendril come out of the shadows, it was smaller than the one that impaled him and it got no eyes on it, so maybe something less scary, but it was still a tendril with a blade-like tip.

Izuku's upper part of his face paled when he felt himself stopped in his tracks, his body refusing to back away more, no matter how much he forced it to make a *step* back, his eyes darted from, every weird sensation in his body shut down, he couldn't even feel his heart, but he was sure it would be hammering in his chest if he could feel it.

He was surprised when, this time, the tendril calmly approached him, not giving any sign of hostility, like an animal getting closer to something it doesn't know. Strangely, Izuku could feel himself becoming less afraid and more curious about it, the feeling of familiarity coming back, he doesn't know why, but he felt he was looking at his own reflection or one of his limbs, maybe this is why his body was calming faster than his mind could, it felt this tendril as a part of itself, and the boy mind was catching up.

The boy observed as the tendril got slowly closer, he didn't try to run away, but he was wary, ready to duck in case of attack.

"What are you?......" Izuku says in his mind, trying to actually ask this question, but only incomprehensible whispers came out, making him groan internally, frustrated by his inability of speaking.

However, the tendril seemed to react, getting even closer with more quick movements, but not enough sudden to make the boy withdraw, but it still made him flinch a bit, the green-haired boy's nerves all out of place because of the confusing environment.

Against all his instincts telling him to back off, the boy actually extended his hand towards the strange tendril, curiosity taking him over as he dulled his fear in favor of discovering more about OFA and these strange tendrils that made him feel at home, it felt like he was about to touch his own arm.

The answer of the strange tendril was to wrap around his arm made of mist, strangely giving it a sort of form to hold on like when a similar tendril wrapped around him. It continued to coil around it until it reached his body, quickly wrapping around it, making the boy quickly start to panic.

"(H-Hey! W-What are y-you doing?) *Incomprehensible whispers*" Izuku tried to say as he looked down with a terrorized look, not expecting it to quickly rush to wrap around him, what he was going to do?!! Kill him? Crush him?! Impale him again?!!

What he didn't expect was the tendril to carefully lift him up, not putting pressure on him, the strange feeling of familiarity came back, calming the boy as his body felt like it was being wrapped in its own arms.

However, before he could think that maybe the tendril wasn't so bad, it suddenly quickly withdrew in the shadows, bringing Izuku with it.

"(AAAAAAHHHH!!!) *Loud snort*" Izuku exclaimed in surprise as he was quickly brought in the shadow, the trip was extremely quick, both moving at a speed that he saw only being achieved by All Might. As he kept getting dragged further and further into the abyss, he saw something in front of both, something that sent chills down his misty spine.....

A wall.....

"(Stop stop stop STOP!!!) *Loud snort*" Izuku tried to shout but the tendril keep dragging him closer and closer, he closed his eyes, preparing for the impact but it never came, as soon as both slammed on it, they phased through it instead of being hurt, and, as soon as they got to the other side, the tendril let go of the boy.

He immediately opened his eyes as soon as he felt the tendril let go of him, his equilibrium felt completely out of place and when he looked around, he realized why, he was technically standing on the other end of the wall, like the entire landscape just rotated in place.

He shakily got up, his head still spinning from the big scare he received. He then remember that he was still in unknown territory, so he forced his mind to focus.

"That was close, Wait where is the tendr-....oh...." He was about to say on his mind but stopped when he noticed that his situation was just getting worse, his pupils shrunk as saw that he was surrounded by a legion of the same tendril that are currently tormenting him in these strange OFA-related dreams, sharp tips like blades pointed at him.

His eyes darted around in search of a way out, but he just found even more sharp black tendrils welcoming him, he was sure that if he could feel his heart right now, it be almost bursting from his ribcage, he doesn't know anything, if they are friendly, enemies, OFA or not, he doesn't know anything, and this was the scariest thing, he doesn't know what to do.

He unconsciously raised his hands and something surprising happened......

The tendrils pointed their tips upward, mimicking his gesture, the boy could also feel his mind being hit by many sensations at once, like by raising his hands, he just raised every tendril with it, like.....like he was the one to make them do it.

His eyes widened and then looked around with less fear and more curiosity, could it be that this sense of familiarity that he had was because they are part of OFA?

Izuku shakily moved his left hand to the right, and the tendrils mimicked. The boy's perception was once split between all these black tentacles, like, he was subconsciously controlling them as if they were extra limbs.

"Wait....." He thought as his eyes widened, his fear once again dulled by realization.

He extended his right hand forward, the tendril doing the same, the feeling of control increasing, he felt almost like he was more places, extending the tendrils like they were his own arms.

"(You all are not gonna hurt me at all, are you? Because you were controlled by me all this time.....Maybe I was so scared that I made you do these aggressive things on instincts, but it's okay now, I'm sorry for being a bad successor....again) *incomprehensible happy whispers*" He tried to say as he actually stepped forward, feeling much more at ease as he understood this strange feeling. His eyes narrowed as he tried to focus, moving some of them separately, and he actually managed to do that, he didn't notice a part of his scleras gaining a black coloration, a small red glint in his irises.

"It feels so weird, It's like.... it's like I can feel and move every single one of them independently, If only I could use these outside of here, I could help so many people with so many limbs" he thought as he made the tendrils come to him, he was still a little scared by them, but he kept himself from running away as he made a couple of them wrap around his arms, using his trained mind to try to grasp the strange feeling of controlling so many *limbs*.

But then he remembered why he was here in the first place, the star, OFA. What he was doing? Playing? He got no time to waste.

"I need to find the black star but where it could b-....huh?" He thought as he was about to go search for the black star, maybe using the newly acquired limbs to help. But, as soon as he blinked, he found himself in front of the same Black Star he was starting to search, how he didn't notice it? Wait, it's impossible that he didn't notice, did he just teleport here? Or maybe he teleported the Black Star here.

"What?!! It wasn't there before!" He said shocked in his mind, well, at least he doesn't need to search further, but the more he is here, the more he gets confused.

He shook his head as he removed the stupor and focused on the condition of the Star, he saw the same cracks cover its surface, a white glow emitting from them. He noticed also that the star was even bigger than last time, pulsating with power. A lot of tendrils were exiting from the cracks, piercing the glowing wounds and keeping them open and bleeding.

"If this represents my version of OFA, why it's like this? why it's damaged? And those tendrils.....what is going on?" Izuku wondered inside his mind, too many unanswered questions, too many things happening consecutively, he can hardly keep up.

*Whispers* *whispers*

"(Mhm?) *Exhale*" Izuku muttered confused as his eyes widened, the whispers were coming back, echoing in his mind as they came from there. However this time, Izuku could slowly begin to understand what these whispers actually meant, his pupils shrunk and the upper part of his face paled when he finally managed to understand the whispers.

"Hate bringer/progeny of evil/ Ours/ Corruptor/ Cursed blood" He heard many voices echoing in his mind at the same time, these whispers were completely emotionless, cold, like whoever was calling for him was completely devoid of any emotions or feeling, it sent chills to his misty spine.

"(W-W-What?!) *Scared incompressible whispers*" Izuku tried to splutter as his eyes widened even more, it was like that time and once again he doesn't know who was talking, the cold and emotionless tone of these whispers was extremely unsettling.

Before he could try to rationalize any of this, he began to hear another chorus of whispers, but these gave a completely different vibe.

"Hold it together/ ninth, resist!!/ Don't give up!!!/ keep fighting, little buddy/ Don't fall to your fears" Whispers cheered him up, their voices carrying experience and burning determination, it felt like people actually trying to help him.

The boy couldn't be more confused, the duality of the first wave and the second was staggering, not metaphorically, his mind was really staggering, like before, a tingling assaulted his body made of mist, his head felt lighter and lighter as Izuku could feel himself growing dizzier with the second.

"Wh-....wait" he tried to say but as soon as he blinked, the entire landscape changed, and something shocking was in front of him, the same tendrils that he discovered being sorta controlled by him were converged around something, piercing and molding what seemed to be a wolf-like creature made of dark energy, sleeping or maybe not even alive.

Before he could ask himself who that creature was, he saw the creature open his sharp maw, and a clawed hand sprouted from it and then another, they grabbed the edge of the jaw, and whatever was inside ripped its way open, revealing a deformed creature of teeth, dark energy and eyes.

The boy pales as he backed away, something similar to a gasp being heard from the lower half of his face, this was enough to attract the attention of the creature, who savagely free itself from the tendrils and charged at him, its red eyes getting closer and closer until......

At the infirmary

"AAAAAAHHHH !!" Izuku screeched in total terror as he sat on the bed he was laying on. He was clenching his chest with one hand trying to calm his quick heartbeat as his eyes darted around with shaking panic, his mind still mostly asleep and scared of the mysterious encounter. His head was pulsating and if not for the panic, he would be clenching it right now for how much it was pulsating.

His shaking green eyes caught the familiar walls and medical equipment present in the infirmary, the boy shaking form slowed down as his eyes widened a bit in realization, his pupils slowly returning to their normal size, his heart slowing down as well.

"I'm in the infirmary..So...The dream is over...and I didn't discover anything..." he managed to mutter, his eyes quickly widened even more as what happened in that dream was still fresh in his mind. His attempt to calm down was forgotten as his mind started to race into trying to rationalize everything that happened there, this dream was much worse than the first one, and, being one related to OFA, caused it to be much more stressful than a common nightmare.

He quickly looked down at his lap with a very troubled expression, his thoughts not stopping for a second to cool down, this gradually increased his already burning headache, but he didn't notice.

"What was all of that?! The tendrils! The whispers, they called for me! And those two creatures, what could they b-*ack*" Izuku says very quickly inside his mind, passing from one thought to another, But he stopped and hissed in pain when finally the headache became strong enough to make him flinch and stop in his tracks, resulting in him clenching his head with a slightly uncomfortable expression, it was like it was literally set ablaze.

He didn't notice that his hiss of pain attracted's Recovery Girl attention, who walked towards him and stood beside his bed.

"Finally awake? You yelled really loud, Had a nightmare? You poor dear " The nurse says calmly as she lightly poked him with the handle of her cane, more similar to a pat.

"Ahhh!" He squeaked startled as he was so focused on getting this pain under control that he didn't even notice her, resulting in him jumping a bit with a scared look on his face. But, as soon as he recognized her, he calmed down fairly quickly, now scratching his hair with an embarrassed and nervous look, a sweatdrop on his forehead.

"M-ms. Recovery Girl....h-hi..." He greeted nervously, now that he think about it, why he was here? He was still a bit dizzy because of the rough awakening, so he was still struggling to put the memories together. But then, He caught sight of his right arm and his attention was taken, he looked at it and saw that it was covered in bandages with some blood staining it.

His eyes widened a bit, and then, it hit him. The exam, the auburn girl, he was saving her from the zero pointer, then they met the pink girl and the scary tall guy with glasses. He remembered giving them the injured girl and ran to stop the titanic robot on his own, so that's why he is here!

"I used 100% of OFA to destroy it, I broke my arm and leg...." He muttered, but stopped when he remembered he wasn't alone, When he looked up at her, he was met with a slightly unhappy look, showing that the nurse wasn't happy about what he has done.

"I saw the registrations of what you did.....you couldn't help it, mhm? That was very dangerous, your life was on the line..." She says as her eyes frowned a bit, her voice a bit less friendly, but, he could feel that what she was saying carried genuine worry towards him, it made him conflicted, a big part of him still doubting that all this worry was genuine, it said that they are trying to keep him alive because he had OFA. He doesn't mind this idea so much as he also hates the prospect of wasting all the trust All Might had in him and his quirk by dying pathetically.

He looked down as his hands were placed on his lap, his stare sad as he thought he was bothering her.

"I'm s-sorry...." He says with a quiet voice, guilt present in his voice, he bothered her so much since he started training, and even now he kept being a bother, wasting everyone's time.....

His self-loathing thoughts were interrupted when he felt the old heroine's hand pat his left arm, this made him turn towards her once again, seeing a little calm smile on her face.

"There there, don't apologize, just be more careful, okay?" She says with a patient and soft voice, managing to actually stop his doubt momentarily.

He looked at his lap again, and then scratched his cheek with his bandaged right hand, he felt a bit of pain doing so, but he hardly cared right now.

"*Mm-hmm*" He hummed after a while, bringing a hand to rub the sleep out of his eyes, luckily he was starting to regain even more memories of the events, but still, what happened after the punch was pretty much a blur, maybe the adrenaline pumping made hard for his brain to memorize everything.

"Now, how do you feel? Any pain?" Recovery girl asked as she backed away, taking some fresh bandages to replace the dirty ones, sometimes the scars opened again after healing his bones, probably because when she healed him in the mock city, there was only a thin layer of scar tissue forming, requiring more time to heal completely.

"No.....j-just very tired.." he replied nervously as he stretches his arms a little, making the blood flow better and allowing his body to wake up faster.

The nurse hummed as she took his right arm, replacing the dirty bandages around it.

"That's normal, I used my quirk to both close the bleeding wounds and the broken limbs, it will take a lot of energy, which was already low because of the exam. You have been asleep for one hour and I've healed you gradually while you were sleeping" Recovery girl explained as she then moves to replace the ones on his leg, she was still very sad to see someone so young having such a damaged body. She noticed the extent of his scars from the many medical checks she performed on him, but she knew that this wasn't anywhere to the full extent, the boy was especially very protective of his torso, who knows what he is hiding there.

This surprised Izuku, whose eyes widened in surprise as he glanced at her.

"O-One hour! T-T-That long?" He asked surprised, did he really sleep for that long?

The old heroine nodded, finishing wrapping the fresh bandages around his leg, it was more to keep the still sensitive healed skin from being damaged once again before forming the full layers.

Izuku brought his now clean bandaged arm in front of him, closing and opening his fingers, there was still something that he wanted to know, even if he felt like he was about to fall asleep at any moment, he wanted to clear those foggy memories. He glanced to the side, seeing the nurse taking something from her desk.

"Ehm....Ms. Recovery girl" He called, making the nurse turn towards him once again.

"Yes?" She asked calmly, noticing that the boy seemed perplexed.

"Ehm...M-my memory is s-still a bit foggy but....how did I land?...I remember jumping and using 100% of OFA to destroy the zero pointer. But, I don't exactly remember what happened a-after that...." Izuku asked, if she had seen the video of his embarrassing exhibition, then she probably saw what happened after that, however, he was slowly starting to recover his memory of it, remembering that he was floating.....and pretty eyes looking at him with concern....more pieces started to come together slowly.

"Three examinees saved you before you could hit the ground, and I need to say, their teamwork was exceptional, maybe they were that determined to save you. They also wanted to see if you were fine after the exam was over. Also, another young lady joined in wanting to visit you. Are they your friends?" She explained and then asked, a small smile on her face appearing as she hoped that he made some friends.

"Saved me....wait...." Izuku started to say in his mind but stopped as the information that the old heroine told him completely finally settled in his brain and made him woke up instantly at the realization, the blurry memories became clear as a crystal. He immediately remembered, he was gonna use a Delaware smash to cushion his fall, but he was tackled by the auburn-haired girl that he saved earlier, who used her quirk on him to make both float. He also remembered that the same girl and the pink-skinned girl reached him after they saved him, actually being upset that he risked his life, like they didn't want him to hurt himself.

"At least you could have told us your plan, we would have helped you" the pink-skinned words came back inside his mind, increasing even more his surprise and internal conflict, she was so friendly with him, even if they just meet, she started to joke with him like they were already friends.

He looked down as his eyes were wide, sweat starting to form on his forehead, What....what is happening?! Why he was so troubled by this? It was a fluke, it can't be possible!

"You should have told us your intentions without running away while doing it, I would have helped you right away!" This time the auburn-haired girl's words came back, hitting his doubts like hammers, she didn't help him just one time, she avoided him breaking his nose at the front gate, and she strained herself to help him while they were running away even if she could have left the work to him, and then....she saved his life together with the others.

What were they trying to achieve with this?

The boy also remember the tall guy with glasses, he was the one who probably sent recovery girl to him, avoiding the bleeding to get worse while the two girls kept an eye on him.

"That guy called recovery girl for me...." Izuku thought with shock, the conflict in his head becoming a war. For him, every single interaction was completely new territory, every smile, every joke, every help, this was too much, too much different, how it's possible that things can change so much?!

"I....." The boy started to say in his mind as he looked down at his lap, his hands gripping the cover tightly.

"I don't understand......" He muttered with a low voice, with no exam to distract him, he could finally realize the extent of the interactions he had, many of these were actually positive ones, and this just increased his confusion, this couldn't be real.

"Sonny? It's everything okay?" Finally recovery girl's voice was registered in his brain, making him flinch a bit as he looked to the side, seeing the old heroine walking towards him again as she noticed that the boy was shaking slightly and seemed uncomfortable.

"Y-Yes! E-Everything is o-okay! Ehm...I was just saying that....." He stuttered as he tried to return to what she said before, hopefully changing the argument without giving his useless mental doubts.

He looked away, the troubled expression returning, the faces of the examinees he actually managed to get along with returned inside his mind, even too much considering that some of them saved him from splattering on the floor. However, he suppressed any positive thoughts about them, no, too soon, he doesn't know them, not their names, their intentions, nothing......

So why does he want to know more?

He shook his head and took a deep breath, finally settling his brain into giving the old heroine an answer.

"They.......They aren't........We just talked a little......." He answered with insecurity, he doesn't know their names, a part of him doubting that they will want to have anything to do with him in the future, especially by seeing his shaky behavior and inexperience with his quirk. However, the other part was dying to meet them again, craving something that he didn't have for a decade.

But then he stopped in his tracks, just now noticing a detail of the question.

"Wait, Did y-you say another girl wanted to visit me? I r-remember only two girls and a guy close to me.....who is the third girl?" He asked as he tilted his head to the side, it was useless denying at this point, those examinees he *made friends* with had attracted his shy curiosity.

"Very sweet, wanted to wait for you together with the others, also very calm, Only Cementos and Ectoplasm can keep a straight face like that without showing their thoughts" Recovery girl explained, even if the boy said the contrary, she noticed his interest when she mentioned those examinees.

"Does....does she have blue eyes and bob cut black hair?...." Izuku asked nervously as he made some gestures with his hands to explain better what he was talking about, The description immediately made him think about the girl he met on the bus.

His theory was confirmed when he received a nod from the nurse. Making his eyes widen a bit.

"Kodai-san?......she was worried about me?" Izuku thought surprised and confused, the thought of before came back, the concept of someone outside of his mother and All Might worrying about him was completely alien. The memory of the two girls and the boy that saved him also came back inside his mind, once again reigning over the internal conflict of before.

"Even them....were worried?" He thought as he looked down with pursued lips, he found it hard to believe that people his age would actually worry about him, but, remembering how kind they were to him, and the fact he felt normal for a split second while he was with them....he at least need to considerate this new reality, but not now, he felt completely exhausted right now and the headache just worsened.

"Ehm....So I'm h-healed? Can I go? I don't w-want to bother you f-further" Izuku says nervously as he sits up on the bed, stretching his legs to get the blood to flow.

"As I said, you don't bother me, and yes, you can go, before you do, here..." The nurse says as she takes something from her pocket, a sort of slim container with Kamui woods' face on top.

Izuku opened his palm and made it upward, noticing that the heroine took some candies from the container and put them on his palm.

"Take these, Need to get some sugar in your blood..." she says with a small smile, making him nod nervously.

The boy tiredly got up from the bed, eating one candy to wake up a little more. He then bowed in gratitude towards the heroine and took his things, exiting the infirmary together with his thoughts.

A week later, Midoriya's house

Izuku sat silently in front of the dinner table, staring blankly at his plate while slowly moving his chopsticks through the food, almost playing with it. There was just so much going on in his head right now that he didn't notice himself drifting off into thought again. the results of the exam, OFA, and now also those nice people he met a week ago. It was hard not to go off track and forget what he was doing, in this case, eating.

"Izuku?" He heard a sound coming from the front. Apparently, he forgot or simply didn't register that his mother was sitting in front of him while eating, and from the sounds the boy heard before, those weren't his memories, but his mother's voice calling him, this made him blink and look up at her, noticing that she seemed a bit concerned and confused.

"Izuku hey, what's wrong? You don't like it? I can make you something else if you want..." Inko asks with a bit of worry, she noticed some moments ago that her son had stopped eating halfway and was just staring at his plate with a confused and thoughtful expression. She tried to call him to see if everything was okay, but he didn't answer the first two times, her son zoomed off a lot. But this time, he seemed particularly out of it, and by the way he was looking at his plate, maybe it was because he doesn't like the food.

"Huh? Ehm...N-no no no, Mom! e-everything is fine, the food is good, I'm j-just a bit d-distracted, that's all!" He says nervously as he quickly waved his hands nervously, being careful to let go of his chopsticks to not cause a mess. He needs to be careful with these mind-storms, especially in front of others.

Inko slightly tilted her head to the side as her eyelids dropped a bit, that's not being simply distracted, he seemed to silently panic to himself, his expression changing continuously like he was fighting a war in his head.

"Something is bothering you then, you can talk with me" She says as she placed her chopsticks beside her plate, wondering what was bothering her son so much to make him zoom off so much.

"Well, it's nothing important, I'm just worried about the results of the exam...." It wasn't all the truth, he was still very perplexed about the intentions of those people his age he met during the exam, the more he thought about them, the more he can feel himself grow anxious as he remember how physically close he was to some of them, how he actually had friendly conversations, and what recovery girl said about them being his friends, all of this was basically plaguing his mind since then, it was hard to forget about his first positive experience with people his age, and he found hard to believe it actually happened.

"Oh, don't worry about it, you have been working and studying so hard, I find it hard to believe that my little hero didn't catch the teachers' attention. So don't worry, I'm sure you passed!" She says with a small smile, trying to encourage her son to be more confident.

The boy was silent for a couple of moments before going back to stare at his plate.

"I guess you are right...I made as many points as I could....I hope it's enough....." He muttered still uncertain, but at least it seemed that her words managed to ease up his anxiety a little. Without saying anything else, he took his chopsticks and resumed eating, his face lighting up as he could feel the taste in full, sometimes he lost his sense of taste, but he was happy that it didn't happen again in months.

Late afternoon

Izuku was sitting on his bed, looking down at his open notebook with a thoughtful stare. He didn't hear from All Might for the duration of the week, the last time he heard from him was just after the exam, the hero telling him that he was busy with something and that he would contact him as soon as possible, he sounded happy so maybe he wasn't so disappointed as he expected. But, this didn't ease up the green-haired boy's worries for long, spiking in his self-doubt making him start to think that his mentor was simply avoiding him because he saw how he failed in saving the others without risking dying in the process, by his own hand.

"Maybe he is busy with hero work or something else, He is the number one hero after all, I can't imagine how busy his life is.....he even found the time to train me....." Izuku muttered to himself as he put the notebook aside, trying to be positive. His eyes slightly closed up as he remembered how much the hero must have stressed himself to find the time for him, even if he could only do hero work for three hours a day, he surely have a lot of duties besides that and he was unconsciously expecting to be paid attention? He needs to stop being so clingy and let his fear of being forgotten bother others, again.

He took a deep breath as he rubbed his eyes with his forehead, trying to remove the sleep from them, he saw himself in the mirror, the bags under his eyes were still present, and he hardly changed since he met All Might, except for his body becoming much more muscular, and his eyes becoming a little more animated and alive, he also was less hunched over and visibly afraid, managing to hide the majority of fear and anxiety in his mind most of the times.

"Maybe he is-....." Izuku was about to mutter with curiosity but stopped when a single thought crept inside his mind, making his eyes widen, his worries not managing to be held back before they could create a single sentence in his thoughts, shifting them to completely self-loathing one......

".....Is he looking for a new successor?" He thought as his pupils shrunk, maybe this was the motive he sounded so happy in last time he heard him.....he finally came around and understood that leaving OFA with Izuku was no good. He gave him so much proof that he was a disaster in being a hero, just carried by his want to help people....but that's not enough, he doesn't have anything else to make him a worthy successor.

His posture worsened as his eyes started to shake. What if he actually failed the entrance exam, what if the teachers decided that he was too self-destructive to be let become a hero, what if they saw how nervous and scared he is around others that they considered him not worth the effort, it wouldn't be the first time. He didn't want to disappoint All Might, after all he have done for him, but now.......

"I made a fool of myself against the zero pointer, without those nice people helping me, I could have died....what kind of hero I would be in these conditions, he surely wants his quirk back and will throw me aside, I never stood a chance! I-..." He kept panicking as he put his hands on his hair, but, before he could continue, he managed to hear heavy steps rushing towards his room, followed by some panicked sounds from his mother.

Before he knew it, his door was shoved open by Inko, who was comically sliding on the floor as soon as she entered his room, something in her hand.

"Izu-lzu-lzu...! Izu-lzu-lzu...I-I-I-Izuku! It's here! It came! It's here!" Inko says quickly as sweat comically flew from her head. She showed that in her hand she had an envelope with the UA symbol on it.

Izuku stared at her blankly before blinking and recovering from his stupor, raising himself from the bed with an even more nervous and panicked expression as his brain just registered that the results of the exam are here!!!!

"Ah! T-Thank you Mom!" he says as he takes the envelope, noticing that it was a bit heavier than he expected, there was something hard inside.

"I-I will wait for you here, don't worry about anything, Honey, I'm sure you have passed!" She encouraged him as she raised herself from the floor, a less nervous smile on her face, she is sure he passed, nobody would be blind not to see what she see in him, the kindest and sweetest hero around!

Izuku hummed and he nodded, still very nervous but trying to put on a more confident face to boost himself up. Inko closed the door to give him some privacy while he see the results of the exam.

The boy turned towards his desk and walked over to it, sitting on the chair in front of it and placing the envelope on it, his anxiety and eagerness mixing in a shaking and sweating mess.

"Okay....this is it....I just need to....open it.....I can't move, I'm so nervous!...." He muttered as he nervously stared at the still-closed envelope, in it, there was his future at UA, positive or negative.

He kept staring at it for another few moments, building the courage to finally see the results, the anticipation was killing him. So, he decided to bite the bullet and get it over with, he shakily grabbed the edges of the envelope and opened it, but he was surprised and confused when he saw a metallic disk inside instead of a written message.

"Eh? W-What is this?" he muttered confused as he grabbed the disk and looked at it from various angles, noticing a button on it.

"Maybe it's a tape recorder? But it's so weird, why not a simple letter?....." Izuku muttered confused as he, seeing that there was nothing else on this disk, decided to press the button and see what it was. Immediately after, the upper part turned on, and then, a beam of light followed, revealing that this wasn't a tape-recorded but a holographic projector!!!

"Woah!" Izuku gasped in surprise as he dripped the projector on the desk, his eyes glancing up as he saw the light form a rectangular shape similar to a TV, the *screen* was black at the start until.......

"I AM HERE AS A PROJECTION!" All Might's booming voice was suddenly heard from the projector, the hero being seen up close on the hologram.

"Ahh! All Might!!! Wait, what?! But t-this is from UA!" Izuku shouted in shock as he raised himself from the chair, his tired eyes completely wide and awake, he didn't expect this, not in the slightest. Before he could think further, the hologram kept talking, attracting his laser-like attention.

"RECOVERED FROM THE SHOCK? GREAT! FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR NOT BEING AVAILABLE DURING THIS STRESSFUL WEEK, I HAD TO DO SOME PAPERWORK THAT TOOK SOME TIME, SO I COULDN'T CONTACT YOU. BUT, YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT NOT HEARING FROM YOUR FAVORITE HERO ANYMORE! BECAUSE WE'LL BE SEEING EACH OTHER A LOT MORE SINCE I'M NOW A TEACHER HERE AT UA!!! IT'S NOT AMAZING?!!" All Might explained with a wide grin, just increasing the boy's shock.

"All Might.....working at UA?!...." Izuku muttered with wide eyes, now his question about why the hero was busy was finally answered, killing off some of the panicked thoughts he was having some time ago. He quickly noticed that the hologram was still talking, making him understand that this was a prerecorded message, not a video call, knowing this, the boy swallowed the lump in his throat and silently paid attention, nervously wanting to know his results.

"NATURALLY THIS GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE OUR AWESOME TRAINING WITHOUT PROBLEMS. SPEAKING OF TRAINING MUSCLES AND BEING AWESOME, THAT SMASH YOU GAVE THE ZERO POINTER WAS FANTASTIC!!!.... BUT YOU KINDA ALMOST GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK WHEN YOU ALMOST SPLATTERED ON THE FLOOR, SOOOO...... AVOID DOING THAT AGAIN, THERE'S ONLY ONE OF YOU! AND WE BETTER NOT ANGER CHIYO HEHEHE" The hologram of All Might continued to say in a booming voice, however, it became a bit quieter at the end, the hero also visibly comedically sweatdropping a bit while saying the last part.

Izuku raised an eyebrow with a slight sweatdrop, his anxiety slight subduing seeing his mentor's antics, it got a slightly embarrassed chuckle out of him, which became less amused and much more self-loathing as he remembered that he indeed was about to die by his own hands during the exam, wasting All Might's quirk because of his ineptitude.

"NOW LET'S MOVE ON TO THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, YOUR SCORE!!!" All Might shouted dramatically as he made a posed, making Izuku sweatdrop a bit.

"Stop your favoritism and get it over with, you blonde oaf, you got a lot of messages to make after this one, that problem child doesn't need your theatrics" A tired voice was heard out of screen, sounding irritated. Wait, it was familiar.

All Might coughed on his fist and then smiled again as he ignored the remark. He took a remote from the desk and looked towards the camera again.

"LET'S START WITH THE WRITTEN TEST, YOU GOT THE MAXIMUM, YOU REALLY STUDIED HARD UNDER NEZU, HE ALWAYS PRAISES YOU FOR YOUR ADAPTIVITY AND INTELLIGENCE. AMAZING JOB, MY BOY!!" All Might congratulated with a thumb up, his smile widening as the boy could feel that the hero was actually having pride in him....it made him feel.....good.....like he was actually happy of being successful.

Izuku scratched behind his scalp with one hand as he looked down, feeling a bit more happy to be praised, he just wanted to work as hard as possible while being helped, staying under Nezu was a privilege and he used every once of focus to be worthy of it and not slack off.

"NOW FOR THE PRACTICAL EXAM, YOU SCORED A TOTAL OF 55 VILLAIN POINTS, WHICH WOULD BE ALREADY ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU PASS. BUT, I AM HERE TO TELL YOU, THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS THAT THE JUDGES KEPT TRACK AND GAVE POINTS TO!" All Might started to explain.

"Huh?" Izuku muttered surprised as his eyes widened a bit, other factors that gave point?! No way!

"I'M TALKING ABOUT RESCUE POINTS, HOW COULD A HERO COURSE IGNORE HEROIC ACTS DONE WITHOUT EXPECTING ANYTHING IN RETURN? IN YOUR CASE, MY BOY, YOUR ACTIONS HAVE TRULY IMPRESSED ME AND THE OTHER JUDGES. YOU NOT ONLY HAVE BEEN GRANTED 40 RESCUE POINTS FOR THE MULTITUDE OF HEROIC AND SELFLESS ACTS YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED FOR ALL THE DURATION OF THE EXAM, BUT YOU ALSO GAINED A TOTAL OF EXTRA 40 POINTS FOR BRAVELY FACING THE ZERO POINTER, YOU SEE, THE CAMERAS ALL AROUND THE MOCK CITY HAD MICROPHONES, AND WHEN YOU CHARGED FORWARD, WE HEARD YOU DECLARE YOUR DESIRE TO PROTECT EVERYONE, UNLESS TO SAY THAT EVERY JUDGE IN THE ROOM WASN'T GOING TO LET THIS ACT GO ON UNREWARDED. SO....MY BOY.....THIS BRINGS YOU TO A TOTAL OFFFF....." All Might explained as he raised the remote and clicked a button on it, the screen behind him lit up and showed the ranking......with Izuku in the first place.

"I.....I.....no way.....I..." Izuku was at a loss for words when he saw his score, his eyes shivered as tears threatened to fall, but this time, they were of relief because......

"135 POINTS!!!! CONGRATULATIONS YOUNG MIDORIYA!!!! YOU ARE FIRST IN THE RANKING. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, YOU WANTED TO EXCEL AT THE EXAM AND LOOKS LIKE YOU DID IT.....AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?" All Might asked as his smile widened even more like he already knew his Izuku was feeling right now, he was right, every word was making his knees weak and his emotions difficult to contain, relief and happiness finally started to dominate his mind for once, his vision getting a bit foggy because of the tears dripping.

"MY BOY, YOU PASSED WITH A PERFECT SCORE, I AM SO PROUD OF YOU, GUESS YOU ARE ALREADY THAT DEPENDABLE AND COOL HERO YOU WANTED TO BE, DON'T YOU THINK?" All Might says as he put the remote on the desk and turned towards the camera, ready to say something that Izuku wanted to hear all his life.

"WELCOME, YOUNG MIDORIYA, TO YOUR HERO ACADEMIA" The hero concluded as he held his hand forward as if to invite Izuku into his dream. The boy unconsciously rising his hand to reach for his mentor's, he couldn't believe it, he not only passed, but he also excelled like he wanted......he proved those that doubted him wrong.

"THE UNIFORM AND YOUR SCHOOL ID WILL BE DELIVERED TO YOUR HOUSE SHORTLY, BE CAREFUL NOT TO LOSE THEM OR DESTROY THEM, I WILL WAIT FOR YOUR CALL IF YOU WANNA MET UP, BUT FOR NOW I MUST CUT OFF THE VIDEO, STAY SAFE YOUNG MAN!" All Might concluded as he made a salute gesture, the hologram turned off immediately after, leaving Izuku silently starting ahead with teary eyes and something plastered on his face, something he rarely did......

Outside the room

Inko was walking back and forth outside her son's room, worry and anxiety oozing from every pore. Even though she was sure no teacher would not see her son's heroic qualities, this world is cruel, especially considering how the teachers of the other schools Izuku used to go treated him. But she had hoped this time will be different....

Her anxious thoughts were interrupted when the door opened, and her eyes darted towards it just to see her son there, his eyes were teary and he was shaking, but there was something that immediately surprised her......

He was smiling, not a fake one that he gives her to reassure her that he was okay. He was the happiest she ever saw him in years.

"Izuku you ....." Inko started to say, her eyes wide as she realized what this meant.

"I did it, mom.......I did it" Izuku whispered with his smile widening the smallest bit, his heart much more light as he realized maybe, all this training didn't go to waste, he can be useful to others, to All Might, to his mom, he can be a dependable cool hero like he always wanted.

Inko immediately started to tear up as she couldn't hold her happiness too.

Immediately she rushed to him and hugged him as tightly as possible, even if he felt that his ribs were about to snap, he accepted it, he was so happy to care about anything else.

"My baby did it!!! ahhh! I'm so happy, Izuku !!!" Inko shouted as she happily cried rivers of tears.

He returned the hug. finally.....their life was going to the right way.

Later that night,Dagobah Municipal Beach

All Might was waiting for his successor's arrival at the now-cleaned beach, his body leaning on the railing that faced the beautiful landscape. Izuku had quickly called him the same day the letter of acceptance was delivered and nervously asked if they could meet. The boy sounded so excited over the phone, stuttering while continuing to repeat *I did it* and *thank you* to the hero while he asked for a time to meet at the same time, it brought a small chuckle out of the man even now, his successor had a unique over-the-top way to show excitement, It's good, it shows that he is happier now.

His silent waiting was interrupted when he heard quick steps behind him and a familiar voice calling him.

"Mr. Yagi!!!!" He heard the voice of his successor calling him from behind, the hero turned around and saw Izuku rushing towards him, visibly a bit out of breath and excited/agitated.

When the boy reached him, he stopped and hunched a little, putting his hand on his knees as he tried to catch his breath, a bit of sweat trailing his forehead.

"Hehehe, energetic as always, you need to ease up a little, kid, ..." All Might chuckled as he walked towards the boy, stopping in front of his out-of-breath form.

"Congrats on getting accepted, My boy, you really put on a show for everyone to see!" All Might congratulated with a grin as he held out his hand up with its palm facing the boy, asking for a high five.

Izuku initially looked up at him with a slightly confused gaze but then understood what the hero wanted and shyly returned the gesture, showing much less fear of physical contact, at least towards All Might.

"T-Thank y-you sir!" Izuku says nervously as he stiffly straightened his posture, he still couldn't believe he actually passed with so many points, part of him was starting to wonder if All Might being there was the motive he got so many points.....

"Ah! Just so you know, I didn't tell the school about my connection to you, only three people know about us. You're the type that would think that my presence between the judges would be cheating, right? I wasn't one of the judges, so, everything you did and accomplished was just thanks to your hard work!" All Might explained as he made an X with his arms, quickly breaking the thoughts that plagued the boy's mind, he knew the hero was telling the truth, so, his self-loathing thoughts became silent for now.

"T-Thank you for your concern sir! I'm sorry for a-always being a b-bother!......" Izuku stuttered as he bowed his head a little.

"Come on, young man, stop being so stiff, today is a good day, you made an amazing score, and you made a very big step towards your dream!" All Might says as he ruffled the boy's fluffy green hair, making him close his eyes tight as he both was reacting negative and positively at the contact, he tried to suppress both opposite reactions.

When the hero removed his hands from his eyes, Izuku looked down with wide eyes, the word *dream* made him remember something that he should have mentioned to All Might sooner the first time it happened, and now with a second time, he needs to talk to him about it, he is talking about the two OFA related dreams. These memories still plagued his mind with their mysterious meaning.

"Young Midoriya, What's wrong?" All Might asked as he noticed the mood change in his successor.

The boy looked up at him and then started to fidget a bit, nervousness evident as he started talking.

"Well.........w-when I p-passed out during the e-entrance exam..... I had some kind of d-dream.....and, I had a similar one when I passed out after OFA manifested...." Izuku begin to explain as he lightly scratched his scalp behind his head with one hand.

"Really? What kind of dreams?" All Might asked confused as he raised an eyebrow.

"Well.....In both, I was in total darkness in a sort of desert m-made of stone.....my b-body was made out of this strange mist, I also c-couldn't speak, or f-feel my own heart...."Izuku explained as he remembered as he looked up at the hero with a nervous look, wanting to explain these dreams as best as he could, for what he knows, this could be just stress or his messed up mind playing pranks on him.

"Mhmm, something else?" All Might asked confused as he scratched his hair with one hand, a bit intrigued by his successor's dream.

"I......I was a-attacked by a black tendril the first time and a-approached by another the s-second, both brought me in front of a s-sort of.....black star....it had cracks on it....." Izuku explained as he made some movements with his hands, trying to copy the tendrils' movements, especially the impaling one, which made the hero's eyes widen a bit.

"Wow, timeout, A star, black tentacles cracks? Young Midoriya, you really got interesting dreams. If I remember correctly, I also saw something similar in my dreams a few times, my star was yellow, I think it represents One for all within you, but the black tentacles, I don't remember anything like that, scary!" All Might says, but then his eyes widened a bit as he just metabolized what the boy told him.

"Wait, what do you mean cracks? there were cracks on the star? " he asks as this new information shocked him a bit, cracks on OFA? What could it mean?!

Izuku nodded nervously, still perplexed by whatever this meant, but then, he remembered the creepiest details about these dreams.

"Also.....I could hear whispers calling for me all around me, I never saw the owners of them.....But, I managed to hear something before waking up both times...." Izuku continued as he glanced down, his eyelids closing a bit as he took a deep breath, trying to recompose himself.

"They called me..... Hate bringer and progeny of evil...." He says as he unconsciously clenched his shaky fists, the way those whispers called him troubled him to no end, not helping to ease up the already high stress that he

"Huh?!" All Might muttered even more surprised, okay that was nothing he ever saw or heard from OFA, this was getting scary. However, before he could ask Izuku to clarify, he kept talking.

"The second time, they also c-called me cursed blood......B-But this time I heard other whispers with different voices, they called me ninth and told me to resist, to hold on....I don't know what this is, Mr Yagi, it's all confused in my mind....." Izuku explained as he looked up at the hero to search for answers for all of this, just to be met with his mentor shivering form, sweat on his face.

"S-Scary! What the heck!!!! There are ghosts in OFA!!?" All Might says shakily as he comically shivered in fear.

"M-Mr Yagi!!!" Izuku shouted shocked to see his mentor so scared.

The hero coughed on his fist and sweatdropped a bit, regaining his composure as he tried to understand this whole dream situation.

"*Cough* What I meant was....I don't know what to tell you, young Midoriya, nothing like this happened in my case.......But don't worry, We will surely discover what this means. So don't sweat it!" All Might says a bit uncertain at first but soon regained his grin and big enthusiasm. However, he was extremely confused by what his successor told him, this was a big change from whatever vision or dream he ever had! Scaryyyy!!!!

Meanwhile, the boy looked away and silently nodded, he doesn't know why, but he feel that he is missing something that happened at the end of the second dream, it was all confused, the last thing that he remembered being red eyes staring at him, they felt like he was staring himself at the mirror, glaring at it with hate when he saw his own body.

He was cut off by his thoughts when the hero started talking again.

"Now, putting aside scary dreams, there's something else that I wanted to talk about with you, something important...." All Might says with a more calm and serious voice, his expression also hardened a little.

"Eh? W-What is it?" Izuku asks curiously, wondering why the hero changed his tone, it was something serious so he was ready to listen to everything he may tell him.

"Well, you may want to sit, because I don't think you will like it..." All Might says as he gestured to a bench that was close.

"Ehm....O-Okay...." Izuku says ensure as he sat on the bench and looked at the hero with a nervous look, he already was starting to worry about the thing All Might wanted to talk about, it sound very serious.

"Okay young man, as I think you remember, Nezu accepted your request to give Katsuki Bakugo a chance to study at UA as long as he follows rules and naturally, if he passes the entrance exam" All Might started to explain, the mention of Katsuki immediately making Izuku flinch a bit and starting to get nervous, okay this was a serious talk and an uncomfortable one, but it's sorta expected, it's his responsibility after all that the blonde was allowed to study there in the first place.

Izuku nodded hesitantly as he remembered when he met Katsuki at the front gate, and the encounter wasn't a happy one, but he doubts that something positive will come out of an interaction with the blonde for now. He hardly changed after the last time he saw him.

"And I think you noticed that he is in second place in the ranking, meaning he has passed the practical exam, he also made a very good score on the written one, this leaves us with a last thing to decide about him......" All Might continued, receiving another nervous nod from his successor, pushing him to continue.

"His placement....." He continued, just increasing the boy's confusion.

"Huh? W-What do you mean w-with his p-p-placement?" The green-haired boy asked nervously. But then, his eyes widened as he quickly understood what the hero was talking about, he is referring to.....

"There are two classes in the hero course, A and B, you have been assigned to class 1-A. Now, Nezu would like to know your input about Katsuki Bakugo's placement in either of these two classes..." All Might explained seriously as he crossed his arm and took a deep breath.

The boy's pupils shrunk, and his face palled a little while he tried to settle down his panicking mind, his nerves were starting to flare up when Katsuki first got mentioned, but now, his whole body was reacting on instincts, shaking and sweating like it knew that this conversation was going to be an extremely stressful one for him.

"W-why ask m-me? I d-don't think I s-should h-have a say in t-this, I'm j-just a student" he stuttered while he still tried to settle down his increasing anxiety as he remembered that he is gonna share a building with the ash blonde, it was easy to forget about him thanks to the stress of the exam, using it as a distraction.

"You are the student that was seriously affected by his villainous actions, for this your opinion is important. Him being in class A is considered an option because the homeroom teacher of that class, Shouta Aizawa, is not only aware of you having OFA and being my successor, but he was also present when your old middle school was closed. Nezu believes that having Aizawa be the one to keep an eye on him would be the most effective option, naturally, he wants to know what you think of it, being in the same room as him would be very stressful for you. So it all depends on how you feel about this, he doesn't want to force something like this on you....." All Might explained as he crouched down to eye level to look in the face of his very nervous successor, he noticed that the boy was very uncomfortable with this. So he waited for him to calm down before continuing.

Meanwhile, Izuku was internally panicking, having Katsuki in class with him, Again?! Flashbacks of all the pain the blonde caused him returned and squeezed him like a vice, his breathing starting to get a little erratic, anxiety completely taking over.

He parted his lips as he tried to shakily say something, but he couldn't get the words out. He looked down as his face palled even more, what should he do?!! What is the right decision?! He doesn't want to hinder the teachers, but, him so close, where he can burn him again. His eyes lost focus as he tried to rationalize this but his painful memories flooded in like a battering ram.

"Bottle up! bottle up! don't show weakness! Stop crying!! Stop bothering others with your pathetic self! Stop being weak!!!!" He repeated these words in his mind as his hands gripped his lap while his body continued to shake. After some moments, he finally managed to utter something, his voice faint and vulnerable.

".....W-Would.....would t-this help the staff to k-keep an eye on him......to m-make sure he doesn't hurt anyone?" He asked with a low voice, almost a whisper, his eyes slowly looking up at All Might.

The hero's eyes initially widened a bit, his successor shaking words making him hesitate a little to get closer as he didn't want to overwhelm him, he then regained his serious expression, one of a determined hero. His hand was placed on the shaking boy's shoulder.

"He can't hurt anyone, Nezu made him wear a bracelet with a quirk sensor and dampener in it, he will be always monitored physically. The homeroom teacher of class B is also an amazing teacher, but considering Aizawa's personality and quirk, he can make sure Katsuki Bakugo behaves the best, for this Nezu pondered the idea, but I guess it would be best to not add useless stress...." All Might says as he smiled reassuringly at the boy, but he didn't know that these words caused his successor to stop panicking and actually realize something.

They are making all of this because he wants to help the blonde realize his mistakes, they are putting with the idea of someone like him.....who he is to trouble them? they are already doing so much, and above all, this is his responsibility......he is the one that asked this in the first place.

The boy's eyes narrowed a bit as a troubled but also determined expression made way on his face, he knew what he wanted to do now, and every scar in his body ached at this, but he need to do this if he want to be a hero, help everyone, no matter the cost on himself. So, he ignored his panic, his mental and physical pain and looked at the hero in the eyes with an intense gaze, surprising him with his change in behavior.

"....P-Please put h-him in my c-class!" Izuku says as sweat trails from the sides of his head, but, he held every fear and anxiety down, he needs to stop bothering others with his weakness, if they said that Katsuki being in class A will make it easier to keep him in check, then so be it, he will resist and bottle up, as always.

"H-Hey! remember that you don't need to feel forced to choose this we..." All Might tried to say, he was surprised by his successor's words, even with his change in gaze, he could see from his pale face and body language that the boy was completely terrified at the thought of sharing a class with Katsuki. Before he could continue, he was cut off.

"N-No...... it's not f-forced.....h-heroes need to b-break through difficulty.... right?..." Izuku started to say with a nervous voice as his confidence quickly broke, revealing his usual stuttering mess, but even with that, he kept going, sure of his selfless decision. So, he continued, his pallor still present, his eyes a bit unfocused as he was having an internal crisis akin to a panic attack, but he kept pushing.

"If y-you and Nezu b-believe that this is the b-best choice......then please do as you see f-fit. I've already b-bothered you enough, I c-can handle him!" He says more loudly, clinging to the thought of being in the same school as All Might to calm himself, his hero will be close. So, he needs to show him that his successor is capable of following up his own decisions.

"Are you sure?" All Might asked with more wide eyes, not expecting his successor to agree with this so eagerly, especially since he was showing a lot of uncomfortable vibes from the idea.

"I handled him for ten years without anyone backing me up.......I t-think I can go t-three more years with a bit of protection....." Izuku says with a shy smile ignoring how his scars ached, but his mind was made up for now.

The hero was about to say something but Izuku kept talking, his body managing to hide the anxiety and fear as the seconds passed.

"After all, y-you are there!!!" The boy concluded as his smile widened and he gave the hero a thumb up.

"Huh?" All Might muttered surprised.

"I can do a-anything with you close, All Might!" Izuku says with nervous determination as he pumped both his fists, his smile widened a bit, Katsuki can't ruin this moment, he can't ruin his happiness for being accepted at UA, he can't ruin anything.

The hero stared at him with even more surprise, the way the boy behaved, his stare, everything showed how strong his heroic instincts were, to the point that being in the same room as one of his previous abusers was worth it if it means that the chances of said abuser changing, it was staggering, and he couldn't help himself from grinning.

The hand that was on the boy's shoulder moved on his hair, ruffling them, causing Izuku to close his eyes and make some surprised sounds, after a couple of seconds, he managed to open his eyes and look up at the hero.

"Look at you right now, you don't just act like a hero already, you also speak like one. You don't have to worry, you will surpass everything, OFA drawbacks and also this, we just have to go PLUS ULTRA!" All Might says with a booming voice as he turn into his muscle form, it would have caused Izuku to light up in awe but before that......

"Wait, is that All Might?!" A male voice shouted shocked, what the hero and the boy and the hero didn't notice was there was a couple relaxing on the beach, and they noticed All Might sudden appearance.

"No way! When did he get here?!" The woman shouted equally as shocked.

"LET'S RUN MY BOY" All Might says suddenly as he start running away, sweatdropping as he forgot they weren't alone.

"Huh?! Y-Yes, sir!" the boy shouted nervously as he followed behind.

As the two were jogging away a thought entered All Might's mind, he turned his stare to look at the boy following him.

"I can feel it, the power I have left is gradually diminishing like a faint dying flame, but I've succeeded in igniting another fire of immense potential, the one inside you. At the start, they were just sparks, but one day, they will become a rampant inferno capable of illuminating the whole world, in that moment I will be able to consider my task done, ....... Hooo, that's was very deep " The hero thinks as they run away.

4 April, Start of the school year

"Izuku!? did you pack some tissues?" Inko says as she watches her son rummages in his backpack

"Yes Mom" Izuku responded as he made sure to have everything, he can't believe that today is the first day of school, he could feel himself shake in both trepidation and anxiety. Now that he glanced at his hands, he noticed that he was physically shaking, great......

"What about your handkerchief? you can't leave without a handkerchief, dear, in case your nose....you know......." Inko says as she peaked over his shoulder to see if he was bringing everything that he may need, she was so proud of him getting into his dream school, but she was also worried, so, she want him to be prepared for everything.

"Don't worry, my nose didn't start bleeding for a long time and the doctor said that my blood vessels aren't so weak anymore. But I will bring it in every case, thank you for reminding me" Izuku says as he glanced at her and gave her a small reassuring smile. then glanced down at his backpack again, okay, this must be everything, it's impossible he didn't bring everything, he was 100% sure he brought everything, notebooks, handkerchief, pens, and a bandage roll, he can never know if a scar open up, it already happened in the entrance exam, he doesn't want to risk a second time.

"Alright! I packed everything!" The boy says to himself as he closes his backpack and grabs it, he glanced at the clock and his eyes widened in shock.

"Ah!!, look at the time, gotta hurry!" He gasped as he quickly walked towards the door. But, before he could open the door and say bye to his mother......

"Izuku!" Inko called another time, making the boy stop in his tracks with a slight flinch.

"What?" Izuku asked as he quickly turned his head towards her, he was surprised when he saw his mother looking at him with a warm smile and a few tears dripping from her eyes, they showed how proud she was of him.

"You look so cool" Inko says softly as her smile widened a bit, her baby is all grow up now.

Izuku's eyes widened even more, his anxiety temporarily forgotten as he stared at her.

"Thank you, mom...... I'm off" Izuku says with a small smile and more bright eyes as he exits the door, ready for his first day, nothing could go wrong now!!!

UA corridors

"Of course something wrong was going to happen!!!" Izuku shouted in his mind completely panicked while scurrying through the corridors completely lost, unfortunately, he had forgotten the sheet with the indications of the location of his class. Even though he trained at UA for two months, of the main building he just visited the Infirmary, making him completely feel lost in a maze of corridors, it was awesome being here, but he was lost and was becoming more and more frustrated for being late.

"Why did I have to forget one of the most important things?! I was so careless because of the hurry, and now I'm gonna be late! What can I do?" Izuku says panicked inside his mind, the fact he was lost wasn't the only thing that was unnerving him, there was something else much worse than being lost.....

"So many people!!!" Izuku thought nervously as he noticed the great number of students walking through the corridor just like him, he doesn't doubt that UA would be filled to the brim from how famous it is, but this was overwhelming him, too many people and he doesn't know anyone! He fears even getting closer as he doesn't know how they will react.

How much he wish those nice people were here right now, he would have been able to stutter something at least.

The boy shook his head, deciding to use this occasion to ask someone for direction but as soon as he parted his lips to speak, nothing came out, he was paralyzed by anxiety, and his words were stuck in his throat, damn!!!!

"I can't get the words out! Come on Izuku, stop!!! You just need to ask for directions, it's not so complicated! It's not so complicated!!! Just....ask!" Izuku repeated inside his mind even more frustrated, he noticed a couple of students walking in his opposite direction, perfect! He just needs to get the words out and....

His body instinctively got out of the way, the boy's back leaning against the wall as his face palled a little, he doesn't know what happened, just a brief glance from them made Izuku panic so much that he thought of being in Aldera for a second, he doesn't know what force was avoiding him to have a panic attack.

"It's useless! Why I'm like this? Why can't I be normal?! Why do I need to react like this" He thought grimly as he closed his eyes and passed his hands on his temples, Trying to get his nerves under control and build the courage to ask someone for direction.

However, his thoughts were interrupted when he heard someone stop in front of him and actually speak to him in a friendly voice.

"Hey lil buddy, everything okay down there? You look a little frustrated" The friendly voice asked, drawing Izuku's attention.

"Huh?!" Izuku muttered surprised as he opened his eyes and looked up, just to find a tall young man with a very muscular build, He has blond hair, the top part of which is arranged in a cowlick, while the bottom section is worn swept backward. his facial features were a bit odd as his eyes lacked scleras and seemed straight from a comic book, they were blue in color. Also, his nose was strangely rounder than usual.

"Yo!" The blonde tall boy greeted with a friendly wink and a wide grin on his face.

"Ehm....I.....Hi.....C-can I do s-s-something for y-you?" Izuku stuttered as he stopped leaning on the wall while his whole body goes stiff, this guy was tall!!!! Even more than the guy will glasses he met at the exam, strangely, he wasn't intimidated that much because of the friendly behavior, his body relaxing a bit.

"I was thinking about the contrary, I saw you here all gloomy, so thought I give you a hand, need help?" The boy asked as he folded his arms, his grin still present and giving an aura of goofiness and energy, funny enough, it actually helped the green-haired boy to be more at ease.

"I...yes.....d-do you k-know the s-school building?..." Izuku asked nervously as he tried to relax his posture a little, at least he will manage to get help to go to his class.

The tall blonde boy nodded and then pointed himself with a finger.

"Like my pocket! I am a third-year hero course student after all. If you are asking me this, then this means you are a new first year, struggling to orientate here, right?" He asked, receiving a small nervous nod from the smaller boy. however before Izuku could tell him where he needed to go, a third voice interrupted them....

"Mirio! There you are?! What are you doing? Ah!? Who are you talking to?! Is he friendly?!" A cheerful and energetic girly voice called, quickly asking question after question curiously, it seems that whoever was talking has quickly noticed Izuku.

Both turned to the side to look at who called, the tall boy grinned once more and waved at her while Izuku's entire face goes nuclear red, his mind completely short-circuited once he saw the owner of the voice. She is a fair-skinned girl of average height with wide, curious eyes. Her upper eyelashes are long and thick, and her irises are a royal blue. Her hair is periwinkle, and it reaches all the way down to her knees, twisting around itself at her waist and curving inwards around her legs. She has side-swept bangs, tucked behind her ears on the right and hanging just over her eyes on the left, and two short clumps of hair on either side of her face, curved towards her face on the right and behind it, under her ear, on the left. She had a big smile on her face as she skipped towards them, her eyes glanced at him when she got closer, increasing the green-haired boy flustered state even more. Does UA have only smiling.... beautiful and seemingly friendly girls?!!!!

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While the boy started to sweat and look away shyly, his face still very red, the tall boy greeted her with the same energy.

"Yo Nejire! I was just helping this freshman by giving directions..." The boy now identified as Mirio replied to her, then, he turned towards the nervous boy once again with a smile.

"So, you were saying that you wanted to go somewhere, where do you need to go?" Mirio asked, returning to what they were talking about before and making Izuku look up at him again, his blush quickly fading.

"Ah, r-right! I...-" Izuku was about to say, but he was interrupted when the same girl got in between both and faced him, blue irises staring at his sad green ones with both excitement and curiosity, maybe too much for him to remain calm in presence with.

"Hey hey! nice to meet you, my name is Nejire Hado, what's yours? Mirio said you are a first year, what course!? What is your quirk? It's strong? Hey, why are you so red? It's because of your quirk? Do you need to go somewhere? Where?" The girl asked question after question to the green-haired boy, both the closeness and the overwhelming curiosity of this extremely cute girl had made a swirly-eyed Izuku press his back on the wall to gain some distance, luckily for him, Mirio came to the *rescue*.

"Hey, come on, let him breathe a little, can't answer your questions if you don't give him the time" Mirio says with a slight chuckle as made his friend give the green-haired boy some breathing room, earning a slight whine of disappointment from her. He then noticed something, he doesn't know how to call this freshman, and Nejire already told him her name, at this point, why not do it too?

"Now that I think about it, we didn't introduce ourselves properly, my name is Mirio Togata, nice to meet you!" Mirio says with a grin as he stood beside one of his best friends. At least the girl didn't seem that she was going to overwhelm the new guy again.

"I-I-Izuku M-Midoriya, n-nice to meet you Togata-senpai, Hado-senpai" Izuku says nervously, not expecting to exchange names with two seemingly friendly senpais on his first day, this school was surprising him more and more.

It seems that the mention of his name stuck something in both senpais, their eyes widened a bit as they stared at him with intrigue now.

"I remember that name, the first of the ranking, 135 points is something amazing, Midoriya, you must be very strong if you managed to attract the teachers' attention that much" Mirio praises with an impressed whistle, what a coincidence.

"I d-didn't do a-anything special s-senpai!....I j-just did what I had to do" Izuku stuttered embarrassed as he tried to decline the praises, he didn't do anything special, everyone could have done it and more.

He was interrupted when the girl got close once again, maybe even more energetic and curious about him, she wasn't directly in front of him like before, but she was slightly to his side, enough to have her face in his field of vision.....so close!!!

"Ohh! I wanted to meet the one who ranked first so badly, you earned so many rescue points, you must be so nice!! And you also did a lot of normal points! Now I want to know about your quirk even more!!" She says excitedly as she pumped her fists up and down, looking even more cute to his eyes, and this didn't help his embarrassment.

"Come on, I know you were curious about him, but you gonna make him miss his first day if you keep him in place" Mirio says with a sweatdrop as he scratched his hair with a awkward expression.

This knocked most of the embarrassment out of the green-haired boy mind as he looked at his male senpai with a more intense look.

"Ah! Togata-senpai, w-where is class 1-A? I need to go there" Izuku says a bit less nervous as the worry of being late made him temporarily more capable of speaking without stuttering so much.

"Oh, of cor..." Mirio started to say but is interrupted by Nejire, who, putting herself in front of the younger boy again with a rekindled excited look, took both his hands in hers.

"I know where your class is! I can take you there!! Can I ask you some questions during the trip?! Please!!!" she begged excitedly as she started to slightly jump up and down a bit childishly. The boy noticed that she was so curious about him that it made him blush like crazy at the sudden and soft contact. His mind couldn't keep up and his body didn't help considering he didn't even flinch away, she was so innocent and energetic that she literally overruled his self-preservation instincts, and let me tell you, that's some skill!!!

With a short-circuited brain and under such an innocent and curious look that could make the evilest villain hesitate. He could just say one thing....

"O-o-o-ok-okay...." He managed to stutter with a low voice as he struggled to look at her, just to be dragged by her through the corridors, the curious girl keeping to ask questions from time to time. That will be an interesting trip.

Meanwhile, Mirio remained with a blank face staring at the way Nejire took the shy boy, wow, at least she is opening up to others more eagerly, he hoped at least she will not kill him with her questions.

"Ah......Well, that was something...." Mirio says simply as he shrugged, Izuku will be fine..... probably.

Some minutes later

"Bye Midoriya-kun!!! Thank you for the chat!! Let's talk more another time!!" Nejire waved cheerfully as she skipped away, she kept her promise to accompany Izuku to class 1-A. But, she didn't hesitate to ask him questions about his quirk, his appearance and even some questions about his favorite hero once she understood he likes them a lot, to be honest....he enjoyed the talk, even if he spent the majority of the time trying to get a bit of distance from her and stutter answers to her questions, hey at least he didn't pass out.

The boy waved back shyly, even though he was embarrassed and very, very reluctant to trust others, he need to admit that he is starting to like interacting with people his age again, before with those nice people at the exam and now the two senpais, he is starting to have his hopes bright up and become stronger.

He shook his head as he glanced at the huge door that lead to his class...okay, this was worse than he expected, he was already resuming shaking and sweating.

"Okay, this is it, calm down, don't show weakness, everything will be fine....maybe you will meet the nice people of the exam, you just need to stay calm and above all.....ignore him, don't show fear and it will fine" Izuku repeated inside his mind to boost himself up, he shakily reached for the handle and slowly opened the door, trying to make as little noise as possible.

As soon as he entered, he was greeted by the sight of Katsuki and the tall boy with glasses arguing.

Take your feet off of that desk now! It's the first day and you're already disrespecting this academy by scuffing school property!" The tall boy with glasses says seriously as he made some gestures with his hands, similar to hand chops hitting the air.

Katsuki didn't seem to be happy to be bothered by the other boy, grumbling as he glared at him.

"Your old school put a stick up your ass or were you born with it?" Katsuki mocked as he dismissed the scolding, why should he care about what this guy has to say? The fact that he doesn't seem to falter at the glare just increased his irritation.

The dark-haired boy took a deep breath, trying to ignore Katsuki's comment and tried to be polite, but this guy was insufferable.

"Let's start over. I'm Tenya Iida from the Somei Private Academy" The boy now identified as Tenya said in an attempt to shift this conversation to more amicable terms, but the blonde didn't care about being polite or friendly.

"Somei?! So you're a damn elite, huh Looks like I'll have fun crushing you!" Katsuki says with an arrogant grin, those of higher school always are full of themselves, but the true protagonist is him, all of them are side characters of his story.

Tenya didn't like this as he recoiled a bit with an offended look.

"Crush me?! You are terrible! Do you truly aim to be a hero?!" Tenya says in irritated disbelief, resuming the arguing.

Izuku could only stand and watch the show with a blank gaze, many in the class doing the same, not even noticing the new arrival, at least until now. The green-haired boy didn't notice two familiar girls looking at him, their eyes widened a bit as they recognized him. They then got up from their seats and walked towards him, well, one walked, the other.....

"Broccoli head!!!" A familiar pink-skinned girl called with excitement as she skipped towards him, happy to have the freckled boy in her class.

This caused everyone to look towards the green-haired boy who had the eyes of a deer with headlights, completely frozen in place for being the center of attention. However, he strangely managed to not panic as much when the two girls stopped in front of him, shifting his terror with fluttered embarrassment, probably the less troublesome.... probably.

He struggled to form a sentence, only stuttering embarrassed, okay, first of all, he need to say hi, he got lucky, he got the nice people here!! He just need to seem normal....an impossible task.

"H-H-Hi" he greeted nervously with a small shy wave, mustering a small smile to look less scared and more approachable, people smile all the time when they get along with someone and he trained himself to create very convincing smiles, at least he think so. But his blush was impossible to hide, especially since the uniform looked so good on them!!!! Ahhh what is happening to him?!!!

"Hi! I'm so glad that you are here too, I was afraid they have put you in the other class, I never had the opportunity to thank you for saving me! So thank you!!! You were amazing!!!" The auburn-haired girl says with a cheerful expression, making Izuku's eyes widen a bit, thank him?

"I-It's o-o-okay....ehm..." Izuku stuttered as he didn't expect the cute girl to actually thank him, especially since she and the other two saved his life. But he stopped when he realized he didn't know her name, she noticed this and continued for him.

"Ah, I'm Ochako Uraraka, nice to meet ya!" The auburn-haired girl says cheerfully as she pumped her fists, admittedly a little too close to Izuku's comfort zone.

Before he could stutter something, the pink-skinned girl got completely in his field of vision, making him blush even more at the closeness.

"I'm Mina Ashido, I also have to thank you for saving me from receiving a bad hit and also patching me up. But you also left without telling me your name, two times, hmph, that was mean you know, I was worried!" The pink girl says with a cute pout at the end, making the boy actually be surprised at the implications, worry......she was worried about him? The four of them were......

"S-Sorry....." Izuku stuttered embarrassed as he fiddles with his fingers, not used to so many people showing worry about him.

"You better be! mean cutie, I'm gonna get angry if you do something like that again!" She says in a mix of amusement and genuine irritation/worry as she comically punched Izuku's arm with very fast but very faint punches, strangely, they didn't make the boy recoil, just stare at her in embarrassed confusion.

But then she stopped as she remembers that she still didn't gotten his name, this time she will get it.

"Ah, your name! Come on, I literally got ditched two times" Mina says as she got even closer, her fists placed under her chin in a pose that mimicked the action of leaning one head to a surface.

"I-I-I-Iz-Izuk-u M-M-Mido-riya!" Izuku stuttered, internally he was both panicking but also jumping with happiness because he realized this was the closest thing to having a friend that he ever had.

"Midoriya-kun, that punch was awesome! you destroyed that giant robot with one hit! And then that jump, it was all great" Ochako says excitedly as she imitates his punch, which resulted in her looking even cuter to the boy, making him splutter a bit and try to cover his face, whispering that he didn't do anything amazing.

He heard someone marching towards him, making him remove his hands from his face and look behind, seeing the same dark blue-haired boy with glasses marching towards him in an almost robotic way.

"Good morning!! Midoriya-kun, right? I'm Tenya Iida, a pleasure to meet you! I wanted to congratulate you for your incredible heroic act, I'm sorry if I misjudged you, i was nervous and didn't think logically" Iida says bowing his head in apology at the end.

"N-n-no, th-that's o-okay, I und-understand the feeling!" Izuku says nervously as he waved his hands, sweating a bit as the surprises kept building up, now people apologize, praise him, and want to talk to him, what's next? hug him?

Their conversation was interrupted by a familiar voice full of venom, the same that gives Izuku nightmares.

"Deku" the voice growled.

Izuku flinches while his face palled, both him and his new *friends?* turn towards the voice, seeing Katsuki slowly raising himself from the chair, a furious look on his face.

"What the fuck are you doing here?! And above all, what did you do to bribe the teachers? Someone like you miss everything to be here and you certainly wouldn't be able to pass the exam. so-how-did-you-do it!? " he asked hostilely with gritted teeth, surprising everyone with the extreme display of aggressivity towards someone that seemed meek, wait....Deku?

What the blonde didn't expect was the three people that were beside Izuku to glare back at him, actually seeming like they were going to protect him, but they aren't going to defend that weak pathetic dek-....

"Oi! What's your problem?! And what are you talking about? he passed the exam fair and square like all of us! " Mina says annoyed, that was uncalled for! She saw what Izuku did, and this guy just called it fake? That was a big no!

"He destroyed the zero pointer by himself with one punch, I saw it with my own eyes, do you think such a thing can be made up?" Ochako chimed in equally irritated.

"That was truly uncalled for, apologize to Midoriya!" Tenya says as he hand-chopped the air.

Katsuki's glare intensified, they are defending him?! Are they stupid?

"It doesn't concern you extras!! stay out of this !!!" Katsuki barked and redirected his gaze toward Izuku. But flinched when he saw familiar slightly glowing eyes glaring back at him, making him hesitate for the second time.

The majority of the other students noticed the blonde stopping in his tracks and followed his stare, when they looked at Izuku, their eyes widened in surprise as they saw the green-haired boy glaring perhaps ten times more hostilely than Bakugo, irises slightly glowing with a slight red glint emanating from his pupils. They didn't know that as soon as Katsuki raised his voice at the two girls and Tenya, something snapped in Izuku, something that pushed the same hateful feelings of the exam to reemerge, this time even stronger. Small Black lightning bolts flickered on his body, giving him even more of a push to lose himself in his negative emotions.

"Bakugo" Izuku simply called, his voice cold, angry, and dangerous.

Katsuki actually trembles for a moment but tries to keep a angry and arrogant face, his bracelet started to beep as soon as he tried to create some sparks, fuck!!! This damned thing!!!

His thoughts were interrupted by Izuku, who didn't wait for a second longer to demolish Katsuki's mockery, he didn't cheat!!! And he will make sure he doesn't question his determination to fight for his dream.

"Do you really think anyone can bribe the best school of heroes in Japan? I think you're not that stupid to think so, so stop saying I've cheated.....I gave my best on the exam, you also gave yours. Look like you are the one that is missing something to be here.....the knowledge of what the heck we're doing here, since you haven't earned a single rescue point. You like to point fingers......ever tried to shove it in your throat and get a good look at yourself?"Izuku says coldly, OFA guiding his troubled mind like an invisible hand, fueling his hate by simply allowing it to fuel itself.

Silence, the tension in the air was so thick that it could be felt by everyone, the two boys were staring at each other with hateful looks and seemed ready to pounce on each other at any moment. However, the silence was interrupted when Mina chimed in, trying to ease up the tension.

"Does anyone have a fire extinguisher? Someone has been burned hard" She said jokingly in hopes of easing the tension as she glanced at Izuku, who was still glaring at Katsuki.

They didn't notice a girl with shoulder-length hair evenly split between two colors, white on her right side and crimson red on her left. Her eyes also were split between two colors, as her left eye's iris was turquoise, while her right one was a brownish-dark gray. She also had what seemed to be a burn on the left side of her face. She was indifferent to the commotion until Mina joked, making her glance at the group with a cold look and emotionless expression, but in her mind, she was a bit confused.

"Burned? I don't see fire, and he doesn't look like he has been burned....." She thought confused, not understanding the metaphor.

Everything was interrupted when a tired voice was heard behind Izuku.

"First day and you're already making too much noise for my tastes" the voice said, everyone glanced in the direction of it and saw someone inside a yellow sleeping bag.

The surprise made Izuku deactivate One for all without knowing, his emotions quickly shattering and leaving him dazed, he felt a burning sensation in his head but was also very scared for some reason.

The person inside the sleeping bag unzipped it and walked out of it, revealing the same man that watched them during the written exam. His tired eyes glanced at all of them, his stare remained on Izuku for a bit more but then he glanced at all the class.

"I'm your homeroom teacher, Shota Aizawa, nice to meet you" Aizawa says neutrally without a once of enthusiasm while he rubbed his eyes with his forearm.

"Homeroom teacher?!!!!!" Everyone minus Izuku and some others think shocked.

"He was with the rodent in my old shit school when he closed it" Katsuki think irritated as he glared a bit at the man.

"He's the hero All Might told me about, but I can't recognize him" Izuku thought confused, managing to get his emotions under control once again.

"Now since some of you are already up, let's not waste time...." Aizawa says as he pulls out blue and white uniforms from the sleeping bag, putting them on the teacher's desk. He then turned towards the still-shocked class.

"put these on and go to the training ground... don't be late" he concluded as he exited the classroom without another word, leaving everyone speechless. One thing was for sure.........

These certainly won't be boring years.

Chapter Text

Some moments passed since the man, who students now knew as their homeroom teacher, asked them to wear what looked like blue gym uniforms and join him at the training grounds, leaving the classroom without further explanation. Many of them were still perplexed both by the strange teacher's request and about the fight between the ash blonde and the green-haired boy, especially by how venomously the first spoke to the second, and how the behavior of the shy boy completely changed, spatting back words with maybe even more venom than the first.....

*Tch*

The silence was broken when said blonde sneered irritated, walking towards the desk and taking the gym uniform. Without another word, he started walking out of the classroom, not before moving the green-haired boy out of the way with his shoulder, cursing under his breath words that only Izuku heard, the way his eyes shook for a moment made clear that those words weren't friendly ones or an apology.

Once he was out of the room, some students looked at each other, silently asking what happened with their eyes. Meanwhile, Izuku looked in the direction Katsuki went with a troubled look, he should have expected the blonde to not be happy about being in the same class with him, not that he was any better, on the contrary, he already could feel already himself getting even more agitated and anxious than before, but, he remembered why the blonde was here in the first place, it was his responsibility, so whining and cowering was a bit no. He needs to suppress his fear from now on, the last thing he needs is attention on himself. Speaking of attention, He was also extremely surprised that the Ochako, Mina and Tenya actually tried to defend him, nobody ever did.

The boy shook his head, ignored the curious looks some gave him, including the ones of the three nice people, and walked towards the desk, noticing that the gym uniforms had a name attached to each. After rummaging a bit, he found his, and to his surprise, the sleeves were longer on it. Perfect for hiding his arms. He was surprised that the chimera actually followed his request, he didn't need to do that, but he is still giving him an easier time. He needs to profusely thank him if he meets him again, which is very likely to happen considering that, well, he is the principal of this school.

After taking the gym uniform, the boy glanced at the other students and flinched when he noticed that many were staring at him, not finding his words, he just stuttered a good morning and quickly scurried out of the classroom without waiting for his new *friends*, not used to the concept of slowing down to do things with others.

"Hey! Wait for us, Midoriya-kun!" Ochako tried to call for him as she leaned on the open door, a little surprised by the boy leaving them there as she expected him to well.....stay with them and go together. However, she didn't see him and he's probably already too far to hear her.

She frowned a bit, confused and a bit concerned after witnessing what happened, she saw how scared Izuku reacted as soon as that blonde guy shouted at him, making her frown even more, what's wrong with him? Izuku literally risked getting himself killed to destroy the zero pointer and protect everyone, and he assumed that he cheated? She already doesn't like the loud blonde.

"Why did he react like that? Also....that other guy, they both looked like they knew each other, but the way he talked to Midoriya, and the way he reacted, I don't like this......" she muttered as she removed her hands from the door frame and rubbed her thumbs' finger pads together, something that she does when she is embarrassed or deep in thoughts. It wasn't only the sudden bad blood of her new two classmates that puzzled her, but also how the green-haired boy's behavior changed, she saw how scared he looked, to the point he seemed to want to run away. But then, in just a moment, he became even more aggressive than the blonde, spatting back to him words filled with even more venom backing them up, making it hard to believe that he was the same boy that moments ago was stuttering a storm while blushing......But, if she thinks back at the day of the exam, on how he was when he saved her, when he protected everyone....then, she realizes he may be hiding many things in that nervous exterior.

"You will stay right here with me, you d-don't have to worry, it's my turn to help you" For a moment she remembered the boy saving her, holding her in bridal style while he nervously smiled at her, she doesn't want to admit that remembering what happened there still made her blush, the way he held her as close as possible while risking everything to protect her, useless to say that it was something that actually made her blush a little when she think back at that moment.

"He was so cool......" She muttered with pursed lips, happy to have that kind guy in class with her, she is sure they will get along and have a lot of fun in this school and there was also the pink girl and the tall guy, they could all be a funny group of friends!

Now that she thinks about it, she had the occasion to look at him more closely while he was awake, during the exam she was either in a dangerous situation or was worried when he passed out to take note of his features, but now she got a good look at him, some thoughts actually started to wander to him and think about his features with curiosity.....

"His eyes look very tired, and his face is a bit baby-like....but his freckles are pretty cute.....and I like his hair....wait....where does that come from?!" She started to say in her mind, but then she realized that she just considered the features of a guy that she hardly knew cute, okay, a very selfless guy and that basically saved her and was so cool doing it, no matter if he was scared like her, maybe even more, he still fought it for her sake. Her eyes shrunk and her already rosy cheeks reddened a bit more as she spluttered to herself, now waving her hands to blow air on her face so she can cool it off before anyone can see her.

She heard the other two walk to her, making her jump a bit but luckily allowing her small blush to settle down. She turned towards them, noticing they were as puzzled as her about what happened.

The pink girl's eyes moved to the open door, the look that Izuku had when he took the gym uniform and looked back at them still fresh in her mind, he looked so nervous, she already knew he was one of the shy ones, but scurry away like that? He was more skittish than she imagined him to be.

"He always run away.....maybe he is even more shy than I pictured him to be, didn't hesitate to put his face close to mine though, *hmph* he do it on purpose" Mina muttered with a slight pout, remembering how that boy got so close that the only thing both could see was each other. Especially when he patched her cheek while staring at her with totally focused eyes, that was something that still made her blush if she thought about it a bit too much. And......and she could kinda admit that she actually squealed embarrassed with her face into her pillow the night after the exam ended because of what happened, can you blame her? Having a cute guy (who also can be cool as hell, that punch was awesome!!!) on top of her with his face inches of hers, and to add fuel to the fire, that guy also made sure to be as gentle and helpful as possible while surprisingly not overstepping given how close he was, not touching anything he shouldn't, not trying to get something out of her. It's not something you just brush off!

Now that she think about what happened some moments ago, at how mean the other guy was and the way Izuku reacted, it both sent wrong signals. She isn't the most focused tool, but she isn't stupid, she can recognize a bully from miles.

"What problem does that guy have anyway? Midoriya was awesome back there!!" Mina huffed a bit irritated while folding her arms, she was still a bit surprised by Izuku's change in behavior, she felt how angry he was, and every part of that anger was directed towards the blonde.

"They seem to know each other. But not in a good way, not at all! Also, that guy called him Deku, and the way he said it. Should we ask Midoriya-kun if he is okay? he seemed very uncomfortable" Ochako says ensure as she rubbed her right arm with the other, that nickname doesn't really hit sweet spots, no, that was a hateful one, especially with the quantity of venom the blonde spat while he said it.

"We surely should! As classmates, it's our duty to ensure each other's comfort!!" Tenya says as he made hand gestures while saying his *inspirational words*, making both girls sweatdrop a bit.

"You are a bit stiff, dude, ease up" Mina says a bit deadpan, this guy is a bit too dramatic. But then she stopped when she noticed that someone was approaching, the other two noticed as well, it was a girl but Ochako and Tenya didn't notice Mina lit up with a grin, recognizing the girl as her best friend.

"Wow that was something, everyone's okay?! Also, Mina, who was that guy you were talking to before? You stopped everything to greet him, never saw you so cheery to greet a guy...." The girl asked as she joined the conversation, she first glanced at the auburn-haired girl and the dark blue-haired boy and gave them a small friendly smile and a wave, and then glanced at the pink girl with a tilted head and curious look, wondering about her best friend's enthusiasm.

"I'm always cheery sis, I-... wait a second!! I just forgot!!" Mina was about to shout excitedly but then stopped as she realized something, confusing the two girls and the guy, Before anyone could ask what was wrong, the pink girl grabbed her best friend's arm and started to drag her towards the desk to take the uniforms. Surprising her.

"He is the guy I told you about! You struggled to believe that someone could destroy the zero pointer with one punch, I got the guy just now! let's go! I will show you I was telling the truth!" Mina says excitedly as she took both her and her best friend's gym uniform and dragged her out of the classroom, onward to Izuku!!!

"Ow ow, okay okay, I get it!! Don't drag me!" The other girl's voice was heard from the corridor.

While Ochako and Tenya sweatdropped by seeing this, they didn't notice that another student was watching the interaction from the moment she noticed Izuku, her oval-shaped eyes with black irises shining with curiosity.

"Kero?" The girl croaked with a tint of curiosity as she put a finger on her chin, she recognized the green-haired boy from the exam, she was happy that the nervous boy managed to pass the exam, and they are also in the same class, lucky them, she wouldn't mind approaching him to greet him.

Training grounds

The students gradually began to arrive at the training grounds, being quickly met with the sight of the two classmates who made a strong first impression. Both boys were wearing the gym uniform like them, but, Izuku's was different, the sleeves were longer, almost reaching his hands, and his collar was a bit higher, covering the lower half of his neck. Also, both were very far from each other, the tension could still be felt, with the green-haired boy's posture and fidgeting form indicating a mix of actual fear and distress.

As the students got closer, their presence was noticed by both, earning opposite but also similar reactions. While the Ash blonde quickly scoffed and turned his head away, ignoring their stares with an irritated look, not caring what these extras were thinking. The fact that some actually defended weak cheating Deku infuriated him to no end.

While Katsuki steamed to himself, not giving the arriving students a minimum of attention, Izuku glanced in their direction with a curious look. But, as soon as he saw them, he flinched a bit and shyly looked away, fidgeting a bit in place as he tried to hide his facial expressions as much as possible, he didn't know what they thought of him after his outburst, and he didn't want to find out so soon, not in the first day, maybe it's better he avoid attracting too much attention on himself.

Unluckily for him, or maybe also luckily, between the first wave of classmates, there was his new pink-skinned energetic *friend?* (He still doesn't know if he can call her that) and she didn't take long to notice him, she was previously talking with another girl. But, as soon as she noticed the boy being all alone and skittish, almost looking like he was brooding to her. She quickly lit up and skipped to him with a grin, planning on messing a bit with her new friend, he could use some encouragement of running less and talk more.

"Hey, why are you brooding all alone over here? whatcha thinking?!!" Mina half-shouted excitedly as she wrapped her arms around his upper torso from behind in a surprise hug to get his attention and talk with her new cute friend, internally surprised when she felt how actually fit the guy was....wow, now she is curious, cute looks and rock hard muscles? call her impressed and curious. However, what the girl didn't expect was how her new friend reacted to her energetic and cheerful approach, her friendly touch causing an opposite reaction to what she expected him to have.....

The boy quietly squeaked in fear as he tore himself from her arms like she just burned him with her acid, quickly facing her and backing away. This alone could make the girl awkwardly smile and cheekily apologize for the scare. However, what she got from him was different from what she expected, she expected him to be surprised, maybe scared a bit. But, she didn't expect his current reaction. His face was pale, pupils small and distant, like he hardly recognized her, and slightly ragged breathing. This wasn't a normal scared reaction, No....this was actual terror. This actually worried the girl, she knew that he was shy and wanted to ease him up, not scaring him so much and being mean to him.

"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you like this, you okay there?" She asked a bit worried as she raised her hands in a calming manner while awkwardly smiling at him. Surprisingly, This made the boy quickly snap out of that state, the friendly aura of the smiling pink girl actually having a slight calming effect on him, making him quickly realize why she seemed worried in the first place. He blinked a couple of times as his pupils dilated into normal shape again, his face regained color and he looked much less scared and more shy. This further surprised the girl a little, he *calmed down* So fast that it looked methodical, trained.

"Y-Y-Yes!! E-Ev-Everything is o-okay, d-do you need s-s-something?" Izuku stuttered as he gave her a very small shy smile, fidgeting a bit in place while he blushed a bit in embarrassment, not expecting the girl to wrap her arms around his torso.....like a hug, the contact immediately activated every instinct and made him back off, not giving him enough time to properly control his emotions to at least appear not completely terrorized. He didn't expect the girl to be so friendly with him, especially in the physical department.

The girl nodded with a grin as she reached forward and took a slight hold of his sleeve, making the boy's eyes quickly widen once again and his cheeks heat up. This time at least he didn't feel an excessive amount of anxiety and wariness, part of him wanted to back away from the energetic and cheerful girl, not trusting his capacity of being so close to someone his age without showing fear or overwhelming nervousness. The other, his shy and touch-starved side wanted to stay put in place and see what the girl wanted, secretly hoping that she was looking for his company, luckily for him, she was not only looking for it but also to introduce him to her best friend, trying to make the shy introvert boy open up a bit.

"Of course you can! What I need is you to stop brooding here all alone and have fun with us! Also, I want you to meet someone, She is my bestie and I'm 100% sure you two will get along!" Mina says excitedly as she starts to lightly drag him with her by the sleeve, making him almost stumble on his steps as he didn't expect to be dragged.

"Okay...." Izuku managed to whisper nervously after a couple of seconds, letting the girl lead him to where she wanted him to go, fearful or not, he can't upset his new *friend?*, So, he must play along, and he was curious about who the friendly and energetic girl wanted to introduce him, will she be as friendly as the pink girl? Wait....was he looking forward to interacting with Mina and this girl that she wanted to introduce him to? Also, where were Ochako and Tenya?.......he......he kinda wanted to talk more with them but didn't know how to resume the approach.......

He stopped in his tracks when a realization came crashing down.

"Wait, she?!!!" He shouted inside his mind as he realized he is gonna meet another girl, his weak point between the weak points basically, okay he needs to be calm, he needs to be calm!! He needs to be....

"Midoriya-kun, meet Toru Hagakure, my bestie!! I told her about what you did on the entrance exam, but she didn't believe me that someone could one shot the zero pointer! Even after I told her how cool you were! Tell her yourself" Mina cut his thoughts off as she stopped walking, standing beside him as she looked ahead, the boy at the start looked at her in surprise, still a bit shy of being so close to her, but then looked at where the pink girl was looking, finding a girl a little shorter than Mina with fair skin, long and wavy chartreuse hair, with pink specks. Big round eyes with beautiful pupils being violet on top, teal on the bottom, and yellow on the inside, and light yellow bushy eyelashes. Like Mina, not only the chartreuse-haired girl was very pretty, but also had a similar vibe around her, a friendly and cheerful one, less energetic than Mina but more bubbly.

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The girl in question jumped a bit when she heard the last part, looking at her pink-skinned best friend with a slightly offended look.

"Wait a second Mina, I didn't say it like that, don't make me seem like I'm grumpy! I just said I thought you were exaggerating, not that it wasn't true...." The chartreuse whined as she waved her arms a bit irritated and with a pout on her cute face. She then looked at the green-haired boy, her expression shifting to an awkward smile and a sweatdrop.

"Hey, sorry for this, ehm.... like she said, I'm Toru Hagakure, nice to meet you, and also sorry for her, it is hard to make her stop talking and she always exaggerates with her description. She said that you jumped so high that you reached the zero pointer head and punched it clean off, I'm not saying that you couldn't do it, but I know my bestie like my pocket, she is too excitable....." Toru says sheepishly as she scratches her wavy hair a bit, her body shifting a bit in place.

"Hey! I never exaggerate, he really did that" Mina chimed in irritated with a pout while putting her hands on her hips.

"Not so sure, sis, you always put too much energy in everything you do, except studying, bakaaaa" Toru says as she leaned a bit forward with a smirk, taunting her best friend.

"That was a low blow, Toru!" Mina argued back with a comical cross-pooping vein on her head, her pout becoming bigger for being teased by her best friend.

Izuku sweatdropped as he watches the two best friends bickering, the two girls being strangely adorable as they waved their arms and pouted as they argued back and forth on things that he stopped keeping track of. Also, He noticed something regarding the chartreuse-haired girl, he already pretty much understood that both girls were very energetic given their expressivity with their body movements and way of speaking. however, he noticed that Toru was even more expressive, the boy trained a lot in his capacity of reading body language before being saved, so to recognize when someone was trying to ease his defenses to then betray him and hurt him, few people can hide their body language and the boy was proficient enough to catch small signals, not that it was some mind reading power, it was just something that helped the boy to know what people feels. Returning to his new acquaintance, her body language and movements were even more expressive than the pink girl's, like her body was unconsciously mimicking her facial expression, to be honest, it was kinda.....cute.

He shook his head quickly as soon as he noticed he was staring at both while thinking about strange things once again, taking a deep sigh, he glanced at both, confused by their way of bickering, it was completely devoid of

"So this is what friends do? What best friends do?" Izuku said confused inside his mind, but what he didn't realize is that he quickly muttered out loud, not enough to be understood, but enough for the two girls to stop what they were doing and glance at him.

"Did you say something, Midoriya?" Toru asked confused as she didn't get what he said. This made the boy flinch, internally cursing himself for muttering.

"Ah! Ehm, I m-mean......" Izuku struggled to find something to say to cover for his muttering, but then, he found a way to move the conversation to what they were talking about before. He scratched his cheek embarrassed as he made the effort to look at her beautiful multicolored eyes, not helping much in suppressing his shyness, especially since he has Mina on his field vision as well.

"I s-said that....well, yes, I did d-destroy the z-zero pointer.....but I h-had to use my full p-power to do it, but it wasn't to prove something! I w-wanted to protect Ashido-san, Uraraka-san, Iida-kun and everyone else f-from that robot....." he stuttered as he sweated a bit from the side of his head, his eyes darting a bit as he struggled to look at both of their pretty faces, this will be harder than he thought!!!

Toru blinked a couple of times as her thoughts shifted to the things Mina told her about this guy, one punch a robot that size is insane, and she would lie if she said that she wouldn't be left with her mouth agape if she saw it happen. This guy seemed to be telling the truth, considering he isn't boasting added a bit more points towards the truth meter.

An excited grin quickly made way on her face as she quickly skipped close to him while pumping her fists, imaginary stars in her eyes,

"Wow, Really?! So Mina wasn't lying! that's awesome!! I saw how big the zero pointer in my mock area was, and it was so big! I immediately ran away, but you destroyed it! So cool!!" Toru says excitedly as she looked up at him, if this guy really destroyed the zero pointer like Mina told her, then this guy's power is awesome.

Izuku blushed even more at the praise, holding his collar with one hand as he looked away.

"Well, it w-wasn't that a-awesome....I really r-risked a lot with that a-attack.....too much" Izuku glad whispered as he scratched his hair with one hand, not really sharing her enthusiasm regarding him being awesome, he risked wasting All Might quirk there!

This made the girl blink a couple of times, a confused look on her face.

"Wait what? What do you mean by that?" She asked as she frowned a tiny bit, risked a lot with that attack?

"Midori here was risking becoming a cute green pancake on the ground. But, me, Uraraka and Iida made squad to avoid him from kissing it, we made the ultimate combo!! Seriously, I'm 100% sure that if he told us his plan, we four could have made that big guy bite the dust even harder!" Mina says as she indicated the green-haired boy with her thumb while also giving him a side glance, a small pout on her face, still not very happy about him risking his life like that.

"*Hum* s-sorry...." Izuku whispered embarrassed as he nodded a bit, not really knowing how to act while having someone show *worry* about him, he didn't know if it was genuine, the girl has been nothing but friendly with him, so he tried to force his mind to think that her concern and actually want to interact with him is without second motives.

Wait......how did she call him?

The boy quickly turned his head to look at the pink beauty with wide eyes, genuinely surprised by the *nickname?*.

"M-Midori?" He says surprised as he turned his body to face her, surprised by the nickname.

"Yup, your surname is a bit long, so, zac, now you are Midori, it means green, pretty fitting for a cute greenhead like you" Mina says cheekily with a joking wink once she noticed that he was getting flustered once again, giggling a little to herself when his cheeks turned completely red when she called him cute.

"Me? Cute?! Midori? A nickname for me? But..... It's not like Bakugo.....I...." Izuku panicked inside his mind but stopped and jumped a bit when Toru got into his field of vision too, standing beside her best friend with a grin and stars in her eyes.

"Ohh, It's cute! I like it! Can I call you that too?! Pretty please!" Toru says as she found the nickname simple but also cute, like the reaction of the owner, she was no teaser like Mina, but she would lie if she said that his reactions aren't cute.

The boy looked like a deer in the headlight, blushing bright and imaginary steam coming from his head as he was trying to get a hold of the situation, but two teasing and pretty girls calling him an admittedly innocent nickname made it hard to think of possible negative repercussions if they even existed, so he gave in.

"I-I don't m-mind if you t-two call me Midori" he stuttered as he fidgeted a bit in place, but stopped once he caught sight of Tenya and Ochako walking towards them.

"Hey guys, what you are talking about?" Ochako asked curiously as she joined the group together with Tenya.

"Just making this brooding greenhead talk a bit more and run less, also, Toru didn't believe me when i told her about the zero pointer so i made him tell her directly, and now it seems Midori got a new fan" Mina joked as she lightly nudged the embarrassed boy. Toru rolled her eyes with a small smile.

"Ah, I see, speaking of the exam, I'm curious about one thing, your quirk, Midoriya-kun, it's a strength enhancement one?" Tenya asked curiously as he glanced at the nervous boy, who flinched a bit as he was again brought to the center of attention.

"Yes, I was curious too, like, you were super fast and strong, and you were all sparky as well!" Ochako says with a smile as she waved her arms in an effort to imitate the way his lighting bolts moved, they were very cool for her.

"*Hum*, my q-quirk is called Berserker, it's a strength enhancer quirk that m-makes me s-stronger and faster, and it gets even stronger if I feel angry, I a-also have....l-limits of what I can handle" Izuku explained nervously, remembering the description that he and All Might made to cover for OFA. It was simple and effective and it also seemed that it satisfied them, if the fact that Tenya nodded and Toru and Mina seemed interested had something to do with it.

"Are those limits what caused your arm and leg to break? I can't imagine how painful it must have been. I was hurting so bad with just a strained leg" Ochako says, she remember how badly he was injured after that attack.

"Wait a second, caused your arm and leg to break? Is that bad?" Toru asked surprised as she quickly glanced at Izuku, her eyes a bit more wide as she didn't expect to learn about this thing. she can get bad spams from her own quirk, but break your limbs? That's the next level of ouch. Her body shifted a bit uncomfortably, mimicking her thoughts about breaking an arm and a leg for using your quirk.

Izuku scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

"Well, Y-yes, but if I go over the limits....my body can't h-handle it. So......it break, I'm trying to i-increase what I can handle, b-but it's harder than I thought" he says as he sweated a bit from the side of his head, feeling a bit embarrassed of talking about the limits of his quirk, pretty much telling others *hey look, I'm a glass cannon that can't handle his own quirk*.

"It's unfortunate to hear that Midoriya-kun, but I believe here we can all learn to master our quirks further, this is the best hero school after all, it's expected!!" Tenya says as he adjusted his glasses with a straight posture, once again appearing a bit too formal and stiff to the group.

"Y-You are right. B-But it's not that bad, it hurts, but I don't think about it that m-much.......it s-stop hurting after a while...." Izuku says, his voice growing quieter as he continued, being barely audible, but they still managed to hear pieces, and It wasn't exactly something reassuring.

"What do you mean by tha-?" Ochako was about to ask but was interrupted when Aizawa walked in front of the students and spoke, cutting their conversations off.

"Quiet down, now that you are all here, we can start the test......" Aizawa announced neutrally as his tired eyes scanned the group of students to see if someone was missing and in need of a scolding, seeing that everyone was in place, he signed and slowly blinked a couple of times to relieve his eye pain.

The majority of the students gasped a bit as their eyes widened, a Test? On the first day?

"Ehm....I'm sorry to interrupt, sensei. But, what kind of test?" A beautiful and tall girl with black hair tied into a spiky ponytail asked politely as she raised her hand. Making the mysterious pro-hero glance at her.

"We are going to do a quirk assessment test. We need to evaluate where your capacities stand" Aizawa explained as he rummaged through his pocket, taking a device similar to a merge of a remote and a phone screen.

"But what about the entrance ceremony? The orientation?" Ochako asked a bit surprised as she stood beside Izuku, she didn't expect that they would do a test the very first day, especially before orientation.

"If you're going to become a hero, you don't have time for such leisurely events. You need to be sharp as swords when we are done with you, so, every moment needs to be used to temper you" Aizawa sharply replied still with a tired and almost emotionless voice, a stern tint also present. This teacher wasn't going to be a fun one, that was for sure.

"Until now, you have all been taking
standardized tests most of your lives. But you never got to use your Quirks in physical exams before. The country's still trying to pretend we're all created equal by not letting those with the most power excel. It's not rational. One day, the Ministry of Education will learn......" Aizawa continued as he took a pitch ball from a container nearby, glancing at Katsuki shortly after.

"Bakugo, we take you as an example. You scored more villain points than anyone, earning second place, what was your farthest distance throw with a softball when you were in that sorry excuse of a Junior High?" Aizawa asked neutrally as he tossed the pitch ball at the ash blonde, who caught it with an irritated look. Meanwhile, some students were a bit perplexed by the last thing their teacher said, except Izuku of course, he knew perfectly why he said that, and he was a bit surprised to feel some actual dislike in the tired hero voice when talking about the school.

"67 meters......wait......second? Who scored more points than me?" Katsuki barked as he gritted his teeth, when he received that fucking holographic projector and saw the message, he was basically told that he passed, what special rules he must follow and nothing else, he always thought he was first by the way he obliterated every single opposition, but now he just discovered that he was second, SECOND?!

While many were once again taken aback by the ash blond's excessive aggressiveness, many of them also asked themselves who was the first one in the ranking, knowing the name but not the face. Tenya, Mina and Ochako pretty much already know that it was Izuku, not only because they have seen his performance firsthand, and also because they remembered his name being in the rankings, knowing his name in the classroom just confirmed their suspicions. However, Toru, who was the last one to meet him, just now realized that she has the first one just beside her. She tried to hide her excitement as she scooted a bit closer to him and whispered something, trying to contain the small jumps she was doing.

"Yo Midori, just now I realized that you are the one with the highest points. Now I kinda understand why Mina talked that way about you, you must be super strong!" She tried to whisper as quietly as possible, but those that were closer heard part of it, causing them to turn to look at the green-haired boy with a slightly surprised gaze. Unfortunately, Katsuki heard it too.....

The ash blonde robotically turned his gaze to look at the green-haired boy, his eyes putting one of the hardest glares he could muster. Making the shy boy flinch and start sweating for both this and the fact he was being stared at once again.

"Dek-" Katsuki was about to spit like venom but was interrupted by Aizawa.

"I said quiet down. Bakugo, look at me, go to that circle and use your quirk to throw the ball as far as you can, You can do whatever you want as long as you stay in the circles, don't lose anymore time" Aizawa says sternly with a slight glare, actually intimidating him with ease, the blonde understood that he can't play with his luck with this fucking teacher.

Katsuki put himself into a pitching position, stretching a bit to get ready to throw, his eyes moved to glance at Izuku with a side glare, ready to show that sneaky bastard how inferior he is, The blonde doesn't know how much money that fucker used to buy the first place and he doesn't care. What he cares about right now is to show that Deku how outclassed he is compared to him, with a bang!!!!

"I'll add a little heat to my pitch and drop their jaws. Watch and learn, you weak loser" Katsuki thought as he turned his body in place and started to throw. But, as soon as the ball was about to leave his hand......

"Die!!!!!" Katsuki shouted as he caused a very big explosion to rampage from his throwing hand's palm, sending the ball very far.

"Die?" most students thought extremely confused, but still a bit impressed by the display of power.

"He is scary" Ochako muttered a bit unnerved by this guy's aggressivity for even throwing a pitching ball.

"Seriously, die? I think he got a few loose screws...." Mina whispered to Toru as she made a lunatic gesture with her finger.

"I think he got more than a few loose screws...." Toru whispered back, that guy was a bit too hardcore.

"Was he talking to me? He looked at me before throwing....." Izuku thought with wide eyes and a pale face.

"His quirk is powerful, but his attitude is totally wrong" Tenya thought with a hand on his chin and holding a bottle with the other.

Meanwhile, Aizawa simply waited for the distance to be counted, he heard a beep from the device in his hand and looked at the screen. Nodding to himself, he turned to the other students and raised it, showing them that Katsuki's pitch ball has reached 705.2 meters of distance.

"All of you need to know your maximum capabilities. It's the most rational way of figuring out your potential as a pro hero" Aizawa continued as his eyes frowned a bit in focus. Noticing that many actually were excited.

"I wanna go! That looks like fun!" Mina cheered as she waved her arms excitedly, looking forward to using her quirk to do some good exercise and having fun with new friends.

"We can use our Quirks as much as we want! As expected from the hero course" A boy with black hair says pretty excited too.

The black-haired man's left eye twitched as a stern glare was directed at all students, making them jump under that irritated and tired eyes.

"*It looks fun* huh? You have three years here to become a hero. You think it's all gonna be games and play time?...." He started to say as his eyes squinted even more, irritation evident in his passive voice, he grabbed the hem of his scarf and pulled down a little, showing his unkept face in full, a red glint in his eyes.

"You are all naive, I will give you the first real lesson on hero work. Today you'll compete in eight physical tests to gauge your potential. And, let's add something to push you to take this seriously, whoever comes in last will be considered as having no potential and will be expelled immediately" Aizawa declared as almost all the students gasped and/or palled, wait what!!? Expelled?!!!!

"We're free to do what we want about the circumstances of our students...." The hero continued, he then put a hand on his long hair and removed the strands that were on his face, a semi-mocking gaze on his tired eyes.

"Welcome to U.A. hero course" He concluded as a wide and unsettling smile appeared on his face, making the students understand that even in the first day they were being tested, and the punishment for failure was harsh!

Teacher longue

All Might was sitting in front of his desk with a slightly exasperated face, stashes of paper all around his desk, the hero was trying to read them and actually understand something, students' profiles, rules, schedules and other things he should know on how to move in this school. He is lucky he did those quick lessons with Nezu about being a teacher, mostly to train Izuku as effectively as possible with the very little time they had. But, the real deal was totally different, his brain was basically melting.

"Being a teacher is hard! I feel my head is about to crack" All Might muttered as he massages his temples, trying to subdue the headache, it's two hours now that he had been here reading, but hey, at least Nezu passed by and gave him a cup of tea, not so bad.

With a big sigh, the hero leaned back on his chair and stretched his arms, deciding to take a break from this mental torment. He wondered what class A was doing right now, from what he heard, the underground hero was making them undergo a test, on the first day.... that's a bit too much.

"Aizawa sure doesn't hold back with his methods, I heard he expelled entire classes, I can't imagine what he will do now. Wait, he isn't going to expel this class too, is he?! He-" All Might started to think a bit unnerved, actually starting to panic a tiny bit. But, Before he knew it, a voice called from behind.

"Got something in your head, big guy?" A sultry female voice asked from behind, a hero like him shouldn't be scared by surprises like these, he shouldn't-......

"AAAAAAHHHH!!!!" All Might screeched as he jumped from his chair, blood comically flying off his mouth as he turned hastily to look at the owner of the voice. Finding a tall, curvaceous young woman with sky blue eyes, which are tilted downwards in the center; framed by a set of rather long eyelashes. long thick spiky dark purple hair, which is made up of layers of varying lengths, the longest ones reaching down below her waist. Her chin-length bangs are split into three sections; two swept to the sides and one over her face, going diagonally down to the left between her eyes. She also has a small beauty mark below her left eye, as well as red-painted nails. She was wearing a not-very kid-friendly costume composed of a breastless, black leather leotard, similar in style to a corset, over a thin, skin-tight, white bodysuit that accentuated her voluptuous figure. The center strip of her leotard is embellished with red gemstone-like accessories in a vertical pattern, extending from her collar to her midriff. She also wore translucent, black, thigh-high garter stockings, which are attached to a burgundy utility belt decorated with gold studs around her hips, a matching pentagonal buckle in its center, and black knee-boots. Concluding the look with a small red mask outlining her eyes, and a handcuff on each wrist.

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"Kayama-san, Y-you scared me!" All Might gasped as he put a hand on his chest as he felt his heart about to burst from the scare.

"Hehehe, Sorry sorry, didn't think you were so out of it" The woman giggled as she walked to the end of the desk All Might was sitting on, and sat on it, she then glanced at the number hero once again with a slight curious gaze.

"So what gotten you so worked up?" She asked with a small smile, curious about what made the number one hero so thoughtful.

All Might scratched the back of his head, he can't say exactly that he was worried Aizawa was going to be too harsh on Izuku, maybe he can say the truth without going into details.

"Well, I know Aizawa is making Class A undergo a test, and, knowing him, I'm worried he is gonna go a bit too hard on them. Like, you know, expelling them..." All Might explained as he looked away, his voice getting a bit quick as he said the last part.

The woman's answer was to lean her chin on her hand while crossing her long and beautiful legs, a sight that would make many men blush, but it didn't bring a particular reaction out of All Might. He, like everyone that works at UA, pretty much knew that this was simply Nemuri's way of behaving.

"Mhmmmmm, and you didn't happen to be worried about a particular student?" She asked with a teasing smile, amusement evident in her voice as she tested the number hero's reaction.

"W-what? What are you talking about?" All Might asked surprised, his reaction making the heroine's eyes squinted a bit more and her smile widened, jackpot.

"The green-haired boy, what was his name? Ah! Izuku Midoriya, you were focusing on him during the exam and you panicked when he fell, ring any bells?...." Midnight teased as she already can feel victory against the corner, this is too much fun!!!

The number hero just waved his hands around as he tried to form a sentence, not expecting Nemuri to be so interested in Izuku and his relationship with him, he needed to find a good explanation, not everyone knew about OFA and the green-haired being his successor. Unfortunately and fortunately for him, the heroine mistook what kind of bond the two had.

"Someone got a favorite~ I didn't expect the ol mighty number one hero to be so interested in a student so soon, not that I blame you, that little guy really put a show for everyone eyes" Midnight teased as she shifted her body to face ahead instead of facing him, but still keeping to look at him, this time with an amused side glance.

"So, wanna sneak up and watch how Aizawa scares his own students into shape? You can also watch your favorite in action" Midnight asked as she resumed leaning her chin on her hand, wanting to watch the students herself, she was a bit bored and seeing how the new batch was capable off is a good distraction.

"Huh? Ehmmm, are you sure? I don't think Aizawa will appreciate us being there" All Might says uncertainty, he actually wants to watch, but, let's just say that Aizawa isn't exactly his biggest fan.

"Then we will be extra sneaky, I wanna see how your favorite move around, if it attracted your attention, it will be interesting" Midnight beamed as she raised herself from the desk, the hero got up from the chair too and both walked out of the room.

Training grounds

Everyone still couldn't believe what they heard from their teacher, the last one will be expelled! Just like that?!

"B-but, you can't send one of us home! I mean, we just got here! Even if it wasn't the first day, that isn't fair!" Ochako protested nervously as she sweated from the sides of her head, her eyes shaking a bit because of the stressful circumstances the teacher put them through.

Aizawa glanced at her for a moment, but then turned around, giving his back to the students and resumed talking, silencing any further protests.

"Ah, is that so....but, tell me, you think natural disasters are fair? Or power‐hungry villains gonna play by your rules? Hm? Or catastrophic accidents that wipe out whole cities will stop because you said that it's not fair? No, the world is full of unfairness....." Aizawa explained sternly, making some students stop to think about it.

"It's a hero's job to try
to combat that unfairness. If you wanna be a pro, you're gonna have to push yourself to the brink...." The underground hero continued as he turned to face his students, his stare not wavering for a moment.

"For the next three years, UA
will throw one terrible hardship after another at you. So, go beyond. Plus Ultra‐style. Show me it's no mistake that you're here" Aizawa concluded as a small challenging smile made way on his face while he made a sign for the students to come closer with his finger, as to challenge them to prove him wrong.

"This is too serious to be hazing. However, this is the best of the best there's no choice but to do it" Tenya thought as he drank the content from his bottle a thoughtful expression on his face.

Izuku swallowed the lump of his throat as sweat trailed down his forehead, if the exam was the first step in the right direction......

Then this is the first obstacle.

50-Meter Dash:

Tenya and a girl with long dark green hair were seen in a four-point start position behind the starting line, their feet positioned on the start blocks as they prepared to run as fast as possible. While the others were simply waiting for the test to start, Izuku was staring with slightly wide eyes not at Tenya, but at the girl, he immediately recognized her, she is from the exam!!

"Wait, she is the nice girl of the auditorium! She is here too...." Izuku thought surprised as he didn't notice her before, and it was surprising that he didn't, considering that her features stand up to the eyes.

His eyes moved down to glance at her hands, once again noticing that they were a bit larger than normal and then he glanced again at her face, admiring her facial frog-like features.

"I wonder what quirk she has, maybe is related to her features, a frog-related quirk? Or maybe it's just a normal mutation.... should I talk to her?......she wanted to talk about Selkie, maybe she wants to start where we stopped...." Izuku wondered a bit shyly inside his head, even if he was still very nervous about being around so many people, he discovered that being close to someone he know were nice people at least ease his worry, making him feel less alone. Naturally, there's always the problem with how to start the approach. He doubts the frog girl remembers someone as ugly as him.

"On your mark!....." The robot standing on the finishing line said, cutting his thoughts off and making him immediately look up at the two, his internal debate completely forgotten.

"Get set..." The robot continued, and both Tenya and the girl slightly raised their midriff to adjust their position and run even more effectively.

"Bang*

The sound of a gun being fired was heard from the robot, starting the test, and the two didn't waste time, As Tenya ran using his engines to quicken his pace, the girl leaped like an actual frog, covering a lot of distance with every leap.

"Wow!" Izuku muttered as he saw how fast Tenya was for the first time, he also noticed the smoke coming from his calves, so that's where his quirk factor is located, cool!!!

The tall dark blue-haired boy quickly made it to the finishing line, his muffles still emitting smoke.

"Tenya Iida: 3.04 seconds" the robot announced, earning some impressed looks from some students.

The girl caught up after a couple of seconds, landing on all four at the finishing line.

"Tsuyu Asui: 5.58 seconds" the robot announced, the girl in question turning to look behind with a calm expression, the tip of her long tongue being outside of the corner of her lips.

"So that's her name, okay, calm down Izuku, it's just an introduction, you did good so far, well, *good* it's a big word for it" Izuku said inside his head with a sweatdrop as he glanced at the three girls standing beside him and then at Tenya, not knowing if he can technically call them friends, like, what's the point where it became a friendship? He has basically been alone since the age of six.

"Alright, don't just stand there, Ashido, Aoyama, you are next" Aizawa called as he indicated the tracks with his thumb.

"Alrighty, my turn, watch closely and be awestruck!" Mina says to the green-haired boy beside her with a grin, earning a shy nod from the blushing teen.

The pink-skinned girl and a boy with blonde hair and purple eyes walked to the starting line. While Mina removed her shoes to use her acid to slide, and then crouched into position, the boy stood straight and faced away from the tracks, earning some confused looks from the others, they noticed a big belt with a mirror-like plate in the front.

"Everyone, you're not being creative enough" The boy says with a suave voice, earning a quick confused look from Mina, but as soon as she heard the robot start talking, she quickly tried to focus, not wanting to face plant on the floor if she misses her steps.

"I show you what it's like..." The boy started to say as he put his arms behind his head and bent his leg a little.

"Get set" the robot warned as it was ready to announce the start of the test.

*Bang*

"To use your quirk!" He concluded as he made a small jump and fired a laser from the mirror on his belt, sending him at some meters before deactivating, making him impact on the ground.

"Owie" The boy gasped with the same expression, but the sweatdrop indicated that he felt the impact and the whine was genuine.

Immediately, he heard someone rush beside him and saw the pink beauty quickly sliding using her diluted acid to increase her speed, a grin on her face as she quickly closed the distance with the finish line.

Meanwhile, the blonde boy quickly got up and did the same thing that he did at the start line, again covering a lot of distance but falling on his back again, he repeated the process until he reached the finish line, the back of his uniform dirty but he still had that slightly weird expression and smile, confidence covering it like glitter.

Mina Ashido: 4:98 seconds

Yuga Aoyama: 5.51 seconds

"Way to go, sis!" Toru cheered as she clapped. Izuku glanced at her for a moment and then at Mina, then glanced down at his hands and up once again, and then....he started to clap two with an embarrassed face, trying to be as quiet as possible but still wanting his new friend to know that he thought she did well.

Unfortunately for him, or maybe fortunately, Mina noticed his attempt to be more sociable and winked jokingly at him, making his cheeks turn red and causing him to look away. Not noticing Toru glancing at him and snickering a bit.

"Relax Midori, if you want to survive us, you need to get used to this!" Toru whispered as she nudged the nervous boy, causing him to look at her quickly with wide eyes, blushing even more at her small amused smirk, oh no.....now he gets it, he is not only friends with a mischievous girl, but two!!!

Gradually the test continued, everyone using their quirks to be as fast as possible, Ochako using her quirk to remove the gravity from her clothes and shoes. Izuku was curious about what quirk Toru has, and he was answered when he saw her on the starting line, his eyes widened in surprise when her body became completely invisible, resulting in only her uniform being seen floating. And, as soon as the gunshot was heard, the girl returned visible, but that wasn't the only thing that happened, she was much faster than he imagined her to be, easily surpassing the red-haired boy with sharp teeth, but as soon as she was close to the finish line, her speed decreased to normal levels. After surpassing the finish line, she started to stretch a bit like her muscles were stiff. So she has invisibility and enhanced speed? Or maybe her muscles became stronger considering her after-run stretching?

In the end, only two were missing, Izuku shakily put his feet on the start blocks and put himself into position, he heard the sneer from the ash-blonde boy standing beside him, making him flinch, secretly hoping to find again that strange confidence he had in the classroom.

"Here we are, ready to be left in the dust, cheating fuck? And don't be so sad if you lose, it's not so bad, you will just get kicked out, not a waste" Katsuki whispered without even looking at him, cracking his hands as he stood straight, ready to unleash his explosions to destroy the green haired boy with a crushing defeat.

This actually caused Izuku to stop shaking, the word *cheating* still making his blood boil, he fought for this! All Might wasted so much of his important time for someone like him, all for this.....all of this isn't cheating! It isn't fake! He didn't pay anyone to be here!

The green-haired boy didn't notice his hands clenching the ground like he wanted to break it, or his teeth clenched together tightly, or even the feeling of having his heart beat with so much strength that felt like it was about to burst, pumping hot blood in his system, he hated it, he hated feeling like this!!!

But then he stopped seething, and took a deep breath, raising his gaze to look at the tracks with a more hard and severe gaze. ignoring Katsuki completely, much to the ash blonde surprise and irritation.

"Time to shift to next gear" Izuku thought determined as he took another deep breath, as soon as did this, black lightning bolts started to circle around his skin, his eyes slightly glowing.

"Look, look! he is using his quirk, cool right?" Mina pointed out as she pumped her fists, even if she already had a taste of how fast Izuku could be, but still wanted to see it again.

"Wow, creepy, but cool" Toru muttered as her eyes widened a bit, imitating the pink girl gesture, equally as excited to see what the boy that scored first in the ranking could do.

"What?!!! What in the hell-!" Katsuki was about to scream inside his mind when he noticed the black lightning bolts, how?! He is quirkless!! How is this possible?!!

"Get set..." The robot announced, making the blonde grit his teeth and look at the tracks, not letting this distract him from winning.

*Bang*

"Black armor, burst 15%" Izuku muttered as his pupils glowed red for a second. His hands instinctively clenched, shattering the ground below him as he used the start blocks to give himself the push to run, completely destroying them with his enhanced strength.

"Explosive Speed!" Katsuki shouted as he put his arms back with his palms facing his opposite direction, unleashing small explosions to propel himself forward at high speed, he thought that he was completely surpassing Izuku but.....

*Whoosh!*

A black electric-like blur entered his field of vision and quickly passed beside him, surpassing him and covering more than one third of the tracks in a few instants, it was Izuku, his speed completely overshadowing Katsuki's.

"What!!!!??? oh no, you bastard! I won't let you overtake me" Katsuki thought angrily as his explosions got bigger, going as fast as possible to catch up to the green-haired boy.

Meanwhile, Izuku began to feel his body growing stiffer from the excessive burst of power, and, before it could start to seriously damage him, he quickly lowered the percentage to 8, using the momentum of his previous power level to do long steps to preserve it as much as possible, keeping a slower but still very impressive speed.

*Whoosh!*

*Boom!*

Both hastily passed the finish line without turning around or caring about anything, their breaths ragged and their minds racing with similar but also opposite thoughts, both didn't see who arrived first, and before they could glance around......

"Izuku Midoriya: 2.57 seconds" the robot announced making Izuku's eyes widen in shock, surprised that he managed to pull off such speed, his body ached a little, but he didn't care.

"Katsuki Bakugo: 3.87 seconds" The robot continued making Katsuki's eyes widen too but also shook, pure disbelief in his mind, he.....he was beaten by Deku, again! And by using a quirk that he never showed before! Was he hiding all this time?!

"I won! *Urgh*" Izuku internally cheered a little happily for being the first in this test, even surpassing Tenya, but flinched when he felt some pain assaulting his body, his muscles feeling like they were about to tear in some places. Ouch, he should be more careful with the way he moves or he could lose his tempo.

Katsuki couldn't still believe it, he really couldn't, someone he always considered inferior, someone that always wanted to prevail over him even though being this weak..... someone that now has beat him.

"This quirk....he didn't have it when we were four, or any year beyond that.....did he hide it for all this time........did he consider me not worth using his quirk? even after what happened? I don't accept it!!! I DON'T ACCEPT IT" Katsuki thought completely furious, taking Izuku's sudden quirk as a way for the green-haired boy to look down on him further, he was just a weak trying to overcome the strong, that was it! Yes, that!!!

Izuku's friend group was very surprised by his performance, that speed was insane.

"He is even faster than me, no wonder he took all those villain points, I need to keep up" Tenya thought as he scratched his chin with a more determined expression.

Meanwhile, the three girls were smiling and cheering, impressed by their friend's results and cool quirk.

"Midoriya...." Aizawa called neutrally, making the mentioned boy flinch and straighten his posture as he looked at the man with a nervous gaze.

"Ah! Y-yes sensei?!" Izuku almost squeaked as he tried to be as respectful as possible.

"You broke the start blocks...." Aizawa said without missing a beat, making the boy's eyes widen in shock as he quickly looked at the starting line, seeing the state the start blocks were, Not only were they broken, they were thrown meters back and the ground where they stood was cracked as well. This made him pale as he quickly faced his sensei and bowed continuously, sputtering many apologies, just to be interrupted when the underground hero raised his hand in a stopping manner.

"*Sigh* Just join the others, we move to another test, hurry up" Aizawa says as he moved to another part of the training grounds while being followed by his students

Grip Strength

Everyone was holding a hand-held device to measure their grip strength, some were either using their quirks or their strength, some, like a blonde boy with a muscular tail was using the mentioned tail to grip his device, or some, like Toru and a tall boy with full lips were using their enhanced strength and so on.

Izuku was staring at his own grip measuring device, pondering what percentage should he use, a 8% could be the most efficient one, but using a burst of 15% could allow him to do the maximum possible, but his muscles were still recovering from the previous test.

"Whoa, 540kg, awesome!!" He heard someone gasp, he turned his head and saw a guy with big elbows and black hair staring at another guy, this one being very tall and buff and having three pairs of arms, he was also wearing a mask that covered half of his face. He was using three hands to grip the device, obtaining a very good result

"You are like an octopus or what?" A short guy says as he looked up at the taller boy, the other two sweatdropped at this.

Meanwhile, Izuku looked at the device again, a plan forming in his mind.

"Maybe If I'm quick enough, I can use 15% at the end and obtain the maximum, okay I need to hurry" Izuku muttered as black lightning bolts surrounded him, black armor now active, he then took a quick breath and used 8% to grip the device until he was about to reach the maximum and then jumped to 15% increasing his strength even further.

*Beep*

Izuku immediately deactivated OFA as soon as he heard the device measuring his strength, he looked at the screen and was surprised by seeing an impressive 605kg of grip strength.

"Yes!" He mentally cheered but still winced a bit at the pain, his hand shaking because of the strained muscles.

"I need to train my control more, I can't stay at 8% forever" Izuku thought as he glanced at his shaking hand and turned it into a fist. Not caring about the aching anymore.

Standing Long Jump

While Katsuki completely cleared the sandbox, other students passed it or otherwise made a good distance.

Izuku bends his legs and with Black armor at 8%, he takes a big leap, imitating the frog-girl movements to use his leg strength as much as possible, managing to land on the other side of the sandbox. Apparently she noticed this and stared at him curiously, much to his embarrassment.

Repeated Side Steps

Izuku managed to get a decent score, but he was amazed at the speed of an extremely short guy and with what looked like purple balls instead of normal hair, balls he had detached from his scalp and placed side by side, he then lunged to the side and bounced quickly between the two piles.

sit-ups

The students were divided into pairs, one did the execution while the other kept their legs still so they would not accidentally move them, Izuku, helped by Ochako to keep his legs in position, tried to do as most as possible.

seated toe-touch

"*Urgh*" Izuku grunted as he performed the exercise, Aizawa crouched in front of him and noted his maximum flexibility. not so bad, but not good either.

Long distance run

I'm lucky I did all that stamina training while using OFA, but my muscles felt like they were about to tear apart, but hey, at least he managed to keep up with Tenya, but the dark blue haired boy had an edge, at least until he seemingly ran out of fuel.

Ball Throw

Everyone tried to use their quirks to throw the ball as far as possible, being as creative as possible, some had an advantage more than others, for example, A girl with dual-colored hair created an ice pillar to push the ball as far as possible, but when she turned to walk away, Izuku couldn't help but flinch at her gaze and expression, both cold as that ice she generated, maybe even colder. Now it was Ochako turn, the brunette walking on the circle, her throwing hand finger pads glowing pink for a moment and then she prepared to throw it.

"Yay!" She shout as she throws the ball, it starts floating in the air and then disappears from view.

Aizawa looked up at the sky with his usual neutral expression, not seeing the ball coming back anytime soon, so he just sighed and raised the device, showing that Ochako got infinity.

"Infinity!!!" Almost everyone gasped in shock, surprised by the auburn-haired girl destroying any score they got on this test.

The hero glanced at the green-haired boy with a more focused stare, prepared to test more than his control with his quirk.

"Midoriya, it's your turn, stand on the circle and throw this as far as you can with your quirk" Aizawa says as he tossed the pitch ball to the green-haired boy, who caught it and nervously nodded, the green haired boy was particularly taken aback when he heard the word *as far as you can*.

As Izuku walked toward the circle to start his throw, he could feel everyone staring at him, skyrocketing his performance anxiety beyond anything he ever felt, he tried to ignore them, at least to slow down his speeding heartbeat or stop the sweat to ooze from his forehead and sides of his head, but it was useless, he was internally freaking out. Especially considering the point that others achieved.

Arriving at the circle, the boy took a couple of shaky deep breaths, trying to calm his nerves, but it was hard, very hard.

"Okay, focus Izuku, focus!!" He ordered inside his mind to create some remnant of confidence, enough to start thinking about how to proceed.

"If I use 8%, I can avoid breaking something, but I will never be able to generate enough force to do a good score, should I use 15%? I could make more distance, But I don't know if I can hold more of it right now, I didn't even recover from using it in the other tests! so if I need to break something.....I could use 100% to throw the ball as far as I possibly can, but then my arm will break but I will have more points" Izuku erratically thought as he tried to find a balance, using the least amount of power to play safe? Use the maximum to try to surpass everyone and with the cost of breaking his arm? Or use 15% to increase a bit his score but also risking to get hurt? What should he do?! There are no secure choices, for what his fear suggests, Aizawa could expel him just for shaking like a leaf right now!!

He didn't notice that Aizawa was attentively observing the way Izuku's posture worsened and the way his gaze kept going to his right arm with an uncomfortable stare, like an open book,

"He doesn't know how to act and is panicking because of his indecision, like that time during the entrance exam, He always sacrifices his body when he is forced into a stressful situation, like it's disposable. This will become problematic in the future if that mindset isn't taken care of" Aizawa thought as his eyes squinted, already thinking of a way to change his new student mindset.

Meanwhile, Izuku put himself in a pitch position, but he was still hesitating, his mind still completely lost on what to do, a growing part of it thinking that using 100% wouldn't be a bad idea to desperately show Aizawa that he wasn't so weak to throw away in the trash. But before he could panic further, he felt his body growing stiff, OFA deactivating as he felt a glare being directed at him.

"Midoriya...." He heard his sensei call for him with a stern voice, making his nervousness just increase, he shakily turned his head, just to be met with an irritated Aizawa, his eyes red and his hair levitating, just increasing the green-haired boy's fear if that was possible, he knew the man was angry at him, but why? He didn't do anything yet, maybe because he is taking so much time? He wanted to apologize but his words were stuck in his throat.

"What were you trying to do right now?" Aizawa asked sternly as his eyes squinted even more, his red irises glaring at his green ones.

"W-what?" Izuku spluttered nervously and with a tint of confusion, more sweat trailing from his head.

"Just now you were considering breaking your arm to pass this test, weren't you? and then what? Pass out on the spot and make yourself an easy target? Is that what you want? Is that the hero you want to be?" Aizawa asked as his glare intensified, All Might cuddled him too much, if this boy want to be a hero, he needs to be cut into shape.

"I-" Izuku tried to deny, but he was quickly cut off by the lecture, making him flinch and keep listening.

"Like the entrance exam, you broke your arm and leg to destroy the zero pointer. But you did it without regard for your own safety, didn't you stop to think of an alternative way? Was breaking your own body the only way? Was that the most logical and effective solution in your opinion, mhm? Couldn't you at least think of a way to reduce the injuries?" Aizawa asked as he walked in front of the shaking boy, looking down at him with a stone-hard glare.

"Ask yourself this, how you can be a hero if you can't take care of yourself first? The way you act could cost your life and those of the people you are supposed to protect..." Aizawa continued, making Izuku's eyes widen like plates in shock, his pupils small, even in his fearful start, the boy knew he was right, in the exam he had to be saved by others, he couldn't save himself effectively......he was risking his life for real, and it would be his fault alone.

He looked down, eyes shaking as tears threatened to spill because of the frustration, but not because Aizawa was being harsh, but because he was right. The boy recognized that not only he was a mess in the head, but he was also a bad hero in the making, just good because he doesn't care about hurting himself. He could still feel the man glaring at his scalp, making him feel much smaller than he already feel.

"If I wasn't clear enough, I want you to show me that you can actually think of yourself and others at the same time. Find a way to be actually useful on the battlefield, your body isn't something to throw away in the trash, understand? So show me how you behave in extreme situations, reduce injuries while using your head to go beyond your limits; I want to see you on your feet after that throw......or you will go home, did I make myself clear?" Aizawa says sternly, earning a fearful nod from the scolded boy.

"....Y-y-y-yes s-s-sir" Izuku whispered as he swallowed the lump in his throat, his sensei's words completely shattering his previous thoughts on what to do, but also giving the new ones an objective to follow.

"Good, now hurry up" Aizawa sighed neutrally as his eyes returned to normal, his hair framing his head once again, he then backed away, giving him space.

"What do you think sensei told him? Midoriya looked terrified" Ochako asked as she looked at the others, a little worried about how terrified of Aizawa Izuku looked, it wasn't simply fear, it looked so uncomfortable to watch without being able to do anything without attracting the ire of the hero.

"I honestly don't know, I hope it's nothing serious" Tenya replied equally as concerned, part of him wondered if Aizawa was maybe trying to calm him down, but by the looks of it, it was the contrary, however, after the black haired man back away, the green haired boy looked much more determined and calm after some moments.

"He probably told him to get the fuck out, that loser can't even throw a ball without shaking like a fucking leaf, pathetic coward" Katsuki grumbled as he glared at the two, not noticing, or better said, not caring, about how both Ochako and Tenya frowned at him, some students close to them doing the same, especially Mina and Toru.

with Izuku

"What can I do in an e-extreme situation?....like......like that time with the zero pointer, I would have to use 100% of OFA, b-but my arm would break and I would most likely pass out from shock. He said that I need to keep my body safe, but how? What do I do? I don't want to fail...I don't want to be......I don't want to be thrown away, I don't want to waste all the time All Might used for me! But how can I do what he asked me!?......I need to-" Izuku thought desperately, trying to find a way to go beyond his limits without breaking his body as much, but how? What would he do if he was facing the zero pointer once again?.....he doesn't know, he doesn't know!!!

His shaking eyes landed on his right arm and for a moment, he stopped, his eyes widened in realization, thoughts started to form.

"Reduce injury while using my full power....." Izuku repeated inside his head, the gears inside of his brain starting to work by using this simple sentence, forming a plan to surpass this test .

"To increase my strength beyond the limit I can hold, I could use the same system I used in the race but by doing the opposite, like I always did with the Delaware smash......." Izuku formulated in his mind as possible scenarios begin to form, using 8% and then 15% at the very end. It could surely reduce the strain and increase his strength but that wasn't enough.

The boy looked at the pitch ball in his hand and then at the sky, his eyes squinted a bit as his desire to impress his teacher and show him that he can be useful destroyed a bit of his nervousness, he needed to do this! He will do this!!!!

"I can start with a low percentage only on my arm and then gradually increase it as I move my arm until it reaches 15% at the time of the throw, but it's not enough, if it was a life on the line and this wasn't enough......I would need to use my 100%, but where? Aizawa-sensei said that I should reduce injuries, so I can't use my whole arm, so I need to use something else..........." Izuku thought as his eyes rested on his hand and then, at his fingers. The boy's eyes widened instantly as he realized that he can actually give his all without hurting himself as much as before, a finger is much more tolerable than a whole arm!! Yes!!!!

"My finger, the last point of contact, I should be able to stay on my feet even if I break a finger, okay!! I have to move......" He concluded as he glared ahead with a more fiery gaze, his more focused side taking over. With his mind cold as ice, and his determination burning like a fire, he put himself into a pitching position once again, his change in behavior being noticed. He squeezed the ball as he could feel his heart hammering in his chest, he needs to do this, he will show his sensei that he can be useful, that he deserve to be here.

"I will not be thrown away..." Izuku thought as he began the throwing motion, and while he was doing this, the lightning bolts gradually increased in power, every moment, every contraction of his muscles was calculated for maximum efficiency.

"I promised......" Izuku continues as black and white veins formed on his ring finger, raw power pumping on it.

"That I would become a hero no matter the challenge !!!" Izuku yelled into his mind as he threw the ball with the combined strength of his 15% enhanced arm and his 100% enhanced finger.

"SMASH !!" He shouted this time outside as he threw the ball, creating shockwaves on his path, making many classmates gape as they saw the pitch ball be thrown with roaring power.

"That's amazing!!!" Toru gasped with wide eyes.

"That's what I'm talking about!! You got it, Midori" Mina cheered as she made some small jumps excitedly.

"Watch how it flies" Ochako muttered as she tried to keep track of the pitch ball but it was too far to see clearly, the only indication were the shockwaves.

What the students didn't notice was that they weren't the only ones watching and being in awe, from a corner, there were no others that All Might and Midnight, watching the display with wide eyes as they saw everything, from the 50-meter dash, to the ball throw, and they were impressed by the students' performance, especially at the green haired OFA holder.

"Wow All Might! you found yourself an interesting favorite, and he is also a cutie pie, aww! The power of youth!" Midnight grinned as she resisted the urge to cheer, limiting herself to nudge the older man with her elbow. But the number one hero didn't seem to notice as his eyes were wide

"Apparently I've been worrying about nothing, but what the heck Young Man, that was so cool!!" All Might internally cheered, proud of his successor.

Meanwhile, Aizawa was staring at the path the pitch ball took with a slightly surprised glint in his eyes, but then....

*Beep*

heard his device beeping, indicating that the ball landed, the hero looked down at the screen, and his eyes widened the smallest bit, Heh, not bad....call him impressed.

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"Hmm, not bad, maybe passing that much time with that blonde oaf didn't dull your reasoning skills....." he quietly muttered, maybe this boy wasn't that hopeless.

"S-sir!" He heard the green-haired boy call for him, making him raise his gaze, finding Izuku holding his right arm with the left, his right ring finger broken and swollen, but the boy didn't seem to care as he nervously grinned, even biting his lips to dull the pain as he stared at the underground hero.

"I-I am still on my feet, do....d-do I deserve to be here now?" Izuku asked shakily as his eyes squinted a bit, showing that he was less scared of him, and being able to keep eye contact.

The black haired man actually made the smallest of grins. This kid, heh, maybe there's room for actually teachings in that head of his.

"If you keep this up, then yes. Don't expect to be cuddled by me, kid, you are gonna earn your place here, every day" Aizawa says neutrally as his grin faded, hiding the bottom half of his face with his scarf once again.

"Yes sir!!!" Izuku shouted a little less scared, obtaining poor results, but his attempt was acknowledged. Both didn't notice Katsuki glaring in the distance, his eyes wide and his hands shaking.

"He surpassed me even in this, first he pulled a quirk out of his ass and now he manages to surpass me! What is happening?! What is this bullshit!!!" Katsuki thought in a mix of disbelief and fury, the quirkless wannabe that he hated for half his life was suddenly the owner of a powerful quirk. This isn't right or normal.

His thoughts were interrupted when Aizawa spoke again.

"Alright, we are done, you got a couple of minutes to rest, reach me where we started the introduction after you are all done wheezing" Aizawa says neutrally as he walked away, giving a bit of breathing room to his exhausted students.

The green-haired boy's posture relaxed as he took some deep breaths to calm his nerves and reduce the pain, ok, it was over, not so bad, his sensei didn't look disappointed, so probably even today he didn't mess up. After some moments, he heard someone approaching and then.....

"*Kero* Midoriya, Everything is okay?" He heard a nasally female voice asking from behind, making him jump a little and answer on instinct without realizing that the voice was familiar.

"Y-yes it's fin-" Izuku quickly began to say in a slightly robotic manner as he didn't recognize the voice at first, but when he turned to face her, his eyes widened like plates as he found himself in front of no other than the cute girl of the auditorium, the same one he was pondering how to approach, he didn't expect she would be the one to approach him first.

Apparently his pause was noticed, making the girl tilt her head to the side and tap her chin with a finger, which inadvertently made her even cuter. Also, now that she was in front of him, he could notice that she was particularly short, even more than Toru, but considering that he was short himself, their heads were more or less close in height, so he was forced to stare at her face, which further increased his embarrassment.

"*Kero*?" She croaked in a confused way. This made him snap out of his thoughts, resulting in him waving his hands nervously.

"Eh-huh-..... It's fine! I can h-hardly feel it" he stuttered, internally groaning because the movements caused his finger to hurt more. Also, the girl didn't seem to be very convinced, well, it was pretty damn hard to know it, her expression was blank and her gaze was vacant, making her pretty much the opposite of Toru.

"I would still make someone look at it if I were you. Do you want me to call recovery girl?" She offered with her voice still calm, her black eyes glancing at his swollen finger again.

Once again, Izuku was left flabbergasted, not only did someone his age showed concern for him once again, but the fact the girl approached him, part of him wondered, and secretly hoped, that she remember him.

"Ehm, I-I will go to her after Aizawa-sensei dismissed us, don't worry" He stuttered, trying to put his thoughts at ease. It was impossible for the girl to remember him, maybe it's better like this, he was so embarrassed at that moment.

He then jumped a bit as he realized that he should introduce himself, he better start with something now that she is here and isn't walking away disgusted.

"Ehm, I'm Izuku M-Midoriya-...." Izuku was about to stutter an introduction, but stopped when he realized that she already knew as she called him by his surname before.

"Ah! you a-already k-k-know it, sorry, so embarrassing, I-" He says nervously as he scratched the back of his head and sweatdropped, already messing up the first interaction, but before he could continue, he heard her giggle a little, it was similar to a soft and more feminine version of a frog croaking mixed with a normal giggle, the same she did when he started muttering in the auditorium. Strangely, it made him blush a little instead of completely cursing himself, it was completely lacking any malice or trying to mock him, so it was just increasing his innocent embarrassment.

"Relax, don't need to be nervous...." She says as she finishes giggling, now looking up at him with a small smile.

"I'm Tsuyu Asui, it's good to see you again, *kero* lucky us, we are in the same class" Tsuyu says calmly, her aura was completely different from Mina's and Toru's energetic ones, hers was calm, almost like a river.

Wait....

"She remember me!!!?" Izuku shouted inside his mind, just now noticing what she said, she remembered him?

Before he could panic more, he noticed that the girl was once again looking at him a bit confused, probably Curious about what he was thinking. So, he hushed his thoughts and tried to focus on moving the conversation, he needs to get along with everyone if he wants to avoid being shunned again.

"Ehm, y-yes! m-me too" Izuku stuttered as he nodded, not lying, she seemed very nice, and until now she pretty much shrugged off his weird behavior, so that was a plus.

"*Kero* Did you ask for that autograph?" The girl asked curiously as she tipped her chin again.

"Huh? W-what?" Izuku asked even more confused, wait was she talking about....

"To Present mic, did you ask him for an autograph as I suggested you?" The girl cut his thoughts off, making him remember the pleasant conversation they had.

"You.....you remember?" Izuku asked before he could stop himself.

"*Kero* The girl croaked as she nodded, but internally, she was a bit perplexed by the boy's shock into knowing she remembered him, not so easy to forget someone that talked so passionately about heroes and helping people.

"Ah....I-I see, y-yes, I a-asked him for an a-autograph and he gave it to me, and he was v-very nice with me....." Izuku stuttered as he looked away, indeed after exiting the infirmary, he stumbles onto no other that Present mic, the green haired had to use all his courage to do the dreaded question, and he was greeted by a friendly and energetic yes, a signature on his notebook and a pat on the head, not so bad all things considered.

"See? You don't need to be nervous to ask something to others, relax a bit..." the girl says as her smile returns, making him blush a bit more, especially since she is seemingly trying to make him be more at ease, which was doing wonders to him.

"So I don't need to be nervous to ask something...." Izuku wondered a bit as a thoughtful expression appeared on his face, actually making him forget about the broken finger for a moment.

"Well.....then....I w-wonder......if we....if we c-could....." Izuku struggled for words as he fiddled with his fingers, inadvertently making himself adorable to the frog girl, who resisted the urge to giggle another time, he was so shy.

"*Kero*?" She croaked curiously, wanting to know what the green-haired boy wanted to ask her.

"If w-we could r-resume that talk about Selkie. Ah! if you w-want of course, it's fine if y-you don't, sorry I'm rambling aga-" Izuku tried to change argument, but he was cut off.

"Of course! but maybe another time, we should go or sensei could get mad" Tsuyu says as she glanced at the spot Aizawa was.

"Y-yes, you are right!" Izuku stuttered as he nodded, but then noticed that his friends were walking towards him to go together to see the results, it didn't take long for him to be assaulted by questions and compliments from the three girls, and Tenya kept asking if he had a special running routine, all of this watched by the frog girl with an amused glint on her blank eyes.....this was going to be a looooong day......and maybe he want it to last that long, but his bring red cheeks and his embarrassed mind would disagree.

Later

The students were waiting in front of the screen that will show their results, many had their hearts hammering in their chests, scared that they may be the ones who will go home, it didn't help their stern teacher walking in front of them, standing there with a remote in hand.

"Okay, I'll quickly tell you the results. You should probably have a good idea of your standing already. It's a waste of time to explain each one verbally so I'll show you the results all at once..." Aizawa explained, and as soon as he did that, he tapped a button on his remote, causing a holographic screen to be shown to everyone, the rankings on it, and what the students saw shocked many of them, especially one.....

1: Izuku Midoriya
2: Momo Yaoyorozu
3: Shoka Todoroki
4: Katsuki Bakugo
5: Tenya Iida
6: Fumikage Tokoyami
7: Mezo Shoji
8: Mashirao Ojiro
9: Eijiro Kirishima
10: Mina Ashido
11: Ochako Uraraka
12: Toru Hagakure
13: Koji Koda
14: Rikido Sato
15: Tsuyu Asui
16: Yuga Aoyama
17: Hanta Sero
18: Denki Kaminari
19: Kyoka Jiro
20: Minoru Mineta

To say that Izuku was shocked was an understatement, he? First?! Again, wow....so maybe.....he is doing something right.

"Fourth?! fourth ?! How the fuck is this possible? it must be a fucking joke" Katsuki thought flabbergasted and angrily, resisting the urge to put his hands in his hair, not only he has been surpassed by Deku, but also by other extras.

"Noooo!" The students jumped a bit as they heard the short boy with purple balls as his hair shouted, getting on his knees as he comically cried as a storm. Many of his *ex-classmates now?* felt a bit bad about him, thinking he was going to be expelled and in their opinion, no one should have suffered this the first day, the empathy died fast when the midget boy spoke again.

"I can't get kicked out the first day! it will be a blow to all the girls here to miss all of this" The midget shouted as he indicated himself, still crying.

This caused all the students to either sweatdrop or/and give him blank gazes. However, they were all interrupted by Aizawa, who had a shocking news for them.

"Oh yeah, that whole *expulsion* thing was a lie. Nobody will go home..." Aizawa says neutrally, causing all the students to freeze in shock, wait......

"What!!!!" Almost all of them gasped, turning a new shade of white.

"It was a rational deception to draw out the upper limits of your Quirks" Aizawa added with a slightly mocking grin, shocking them even more.

"Of course that was a lie. It should've been obvious if you just thought it through." A girl, that Izuku remembered was the one who was capable of creating a lot of objects seemingly from thin air, chimed in with a very small sweatdrop, making everyone look at her. Izuku couldn't see her in full before, but considering that she was beside him now, he could see her features clearly. The girl who spoke was tall and with a shockingly mature physique, even more than the other girls. She has long black hair that is tied into a spiky ponytail with a large strand hanging on the right side of her face. Her eyes are big yet sharp, dark in color and paired with short eyebrows set in a determined expression.

"I didn't notice...." Some students muttered a bit downcast, thinking that they were fooled so easily.

Izuku instead started to stare at the teacher, his eyes squinting as the gears inside his head started spinning quickly, there was something that didn't fit right in the man's words. The green-haired boy could feel it in the moment the teacher told them the *lie* that they would be expelled if they were at last place, and for a moment, his body language hardened and his stare was totally serious. In that moment, Izuku knew......he wasn't lying, it wasn't a deception.

"He....he wasn't lying....." Izuku thought out loud, causing everyone to hear him and turn surprised towards him, especially the black-haired girl .

"What?" She asked a bit surprised by his interjection, but apparently, the boy was too focused on his thoughts, because he seemed calm, still staring at the teacher while he said his thoughts out loud, not realizing that he was being watched.

"I heard that an underground hero worked as a teacher at UA, they are pro-heroes who avoid the media and any method to make themselves known as much as possible in order to catch criminals by surprise. This teacher was also known for having expelled entire classes as in his words, didn't have potential, but he also re-enrolled them shortly after, as a lesson....." Izuku thought out loud, the majority of these informations were mostly discovered during his time training at UA before the exam as, one day, he managed to hear Present Mic and the same Aizawa talking about that event, or better said, Present Mic was annoying him by teasing him about it.

But he wasn't done, he looked up at the black-haired man, who was staring back with squinted eyes, wondering where the boy was going with this.

"Your quirk....your scarf and goggles.....I know who you are....." Izuku continued as he blinked a couple of times, his eyes focused more as a shocked expression made its way onto his face.

"Erasure Hero: Eraser Head!!" Izuku spluttered as he pointed at him with a shocked look, which then changed to awe, he remembered hearing about the hero, he basically fought quirkless, which for an ex-quirkless like him, it was so cool.

But then, he realized something, first, he had been talking all this time, and he wasn't quiet. Second, he was being watched, his classmates looking at him with impressed stares, surprised by his knowledge about their teacher.

Meanwhile, Aizawa sighed loudly as he pitched the bridge of his nose.

"*Sigh* I don't know if I should be slightly impressed by your spying, or if I should be irritated that you just did what I don't want others to do......*sigh* not bad, you got the problem child stamp, in the first day, that requires ability" Aizawa says neutrally as he started to walk away, but stopped for a moment to say something.

"Your curriculum sheets are back in the classroom. So give them a once-over. And Midoriya...." Aizawa says neutrally without turning around, and then calls Izuku, causing him to flinch and straighten his back.

"Y-yes sir?!" The boy nervously asked.

"Go to Recovery girl and get yourself patched up" Aizawa says simply, and with that, he left. But as he was walking away, he ironically passed right by All Might and Midnight's hiding spot. The two watched as the black-haired man walked beside them without even glancing in their direction.

"AIZAWA, YOU LIAR!" All Might shouted in a booming voice as he turned into his muscle form, immediately standing beside the underground hero, who stopped, already starting to curse himself for even approaching this spot.

"All Might, Midnight, I didn't notice you two, Oh wait, I did. Why are you two here?" Aizawa asked with cold sarcasm as he sighed, giving both a side glance.

"All Might was worried about his favorite, aww! you should have seen him" Midnight teased as she noticed All Might deflate for a moment with a shocked look, just to go into muscle form again. The hero turned towards Aizawa once again and coughed in his fist.

"LIKE I WAS SAYING, YOU ARE SUCH A LIAR, *RATIONAL DECEPTION*, APRIL FOOL'S WAS A WEEK AGO! YOU EXPELLED AN ENTIRE NEW CLASS OF FIRST-GRADERS LAST YEAR!!" All Might says as he looks down at the underground hero with a wide smile, trying to both socialize and get why Aizawa backed down from his *lie*.

The answer was simply looking at him without words, his face blank as he blinked slowly, an annoyed glint in his tired eyes.
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"......OKAY.....I WAS A TINY BIT WORRIED THAT YOU WOULD PUT TOO MUCH PRESSURE ON HIM...." All Might admitted with a sweatdrop, earning another giggle from Midnight and a tired sigh from Aizawa.

The black-haired man then looked at the beautiful woman with the same stare, ignoring the blonde number one hero.

"And you?" He asked without enthusiasm, but still perplexed by the heroine being here too.

"I just wanted to see what our students were capable of, ohh, that youthful energy left me completely starstruck!" Midnight semi-squealed as she shifted in place like a teenager girl being excited about something, earning an even more exasperated sigh out of Aizawa. The man then glanced back at All Might.

"If you are worried about him, you don't have to. Luckily that boy isn't you, he is very grounded, maybe too much, and has ears to listen, today he did good, way above zero, for now at least. Hope he can keep it that way" Aizawa says neutrally as he walked away, leaving the two heroes alone once again.

"SHOULD I BE HAPPY OR INSULTED?" All Might wondered as he scratched his hair with a sweatdrop.

"With Aizawa, you have to be both, don't worry, he is gonna take care of that cute favorite you got" Midnight giggled as she patted the hero back with an amused smirk, it widened when All Might spluttered as he kept being teased about having a favorite.

Later, outside of UA building

"*Urgh* I'm exhausted, Recovery girl quirk tired me out a lot, probably because I damaged my muscles plus the broken finger" Izuku muttered as he glanced at his right ring finger, now wrapped in bandages to help the bruised skin to heal properly.

The boy looked ahead, he couldn't believe he was really here, and he actually made what he could call friends, saying that this was a good day was an understatement, but it was also a very stressful one, he was still shaking from the nerves.

"Today was tough, and it will get even harder. I have to train even harder if I want to be at the same level as everyone, they weren't that tired after the test, meanwhile, my body was bruised. This is not good..... Aizawa-sensei was right, I can't be a hero in these conditions" Izuku muttered, he was about to exit the front gate but heard someone calling for him.

"Hey Midoriya-kun, wait for us!" He heard Ochako's voice calling him, making him turn around to see the girl followed by Mina, Toru and Tenya, all of them skipping towards him.

"Huh? D-do you n-need som-something?" Izuku asks nervously as his four classmates reach him.

"Are you going to the station?" Ochako asked with a smile as she adjusted the straps of her backpack, which was falling off before.

"Y-yes, w-why?" Izuku replied with a small nervous nod, wondering why she was asking.

"So we can go all together, silly!" Mina cheered as she raised her arms up in the air, making Ochako copy her gesture with one arm with similar enthusiasm. Making the green-haired boy splutter a bit by both seeing how cute the two looked while cheering but also by the fact they wanted to walk with him to the station.

"Mina you don't need to cheer for everything" Toru says with a sweatdrop and an amused smile, making the pink girl look at her still with her arms up.

"Sis this is our first day of school and now our first hanging out as a class, we need to be cheerful!!!" Mina Cheered once again, making her best friend giggle but then return the enthusiasm.

"Okay you got me, let's go all together! *Giggle*" Toru cheered as she did the same as Mina, Making tenya sweatdrop a bit and making Izuku blush further.

While they walked, Izuku felt Ochako getting a bit closer to his size, her eyes on him.

"Midoriya-kun" Ochako called, making him turn his head towards her.

"Y-y-yes?" Izuku asked nervously, he forgot how it was to talk like this with people his age, what was the last time? Six years ago? Seven?

"I was wondering, do you and that blonde guy know each other? He was very rude to you, it's everything okay?" She asked, not really liking how that guy behaved with her new friend and how he badmouthed him.

"Wha-?!" Izuku was about to ask surprised, but was cut off by Mina.

"Ah! Yes, that guy was like, really mean to you, what's his problem?" The pink girl chimed in as she skipped to be at his other side, making him flinch and widen his eyes.

"*Hum* *hum* That bully dislikes you a lot in particular" Toru pointed out as she walked beside Mina, leaning a bit forward to see Izuku better.

"It surprises me that one with such an attitude was accepted in such a prestigious hero school" Tenya added as he put a hand on his chin, he remembered the attempt he did to go along with that boy before Izuku arrived, always meet with rudeness.

To say that Izuku was shocked and panicking right now would be an understatement, he can't tell them about Aldera, or they will discover what kind of weak and pathetic person he is, they can't know about it!!! They could even hurt him for what he knows.

"W-We a-are.......I m-mean.....we w-were old c-classmates, but I changed school, I-I don't know why he d-dislikes me, but it's n-n-nothing, he was like that b-before!" Izuku stuttered as he tried to make up an excuse to cover any correlations between him and Aldera.

The four looked at each other with perplexed and slightly concerned gazes, what Izuku didn't notice was how scared he looked when Ochako mentioned Katsuki, and how pale he looked when their attention was on him, that....that wasn't something reassuring, Mina especially because that reaction was similar when she hugged him. They decided to accept the stuttered answer for now. Meanwhile, Izuku was internally wondering if this was real, were they sincerely trying to be nice to him, or they were faking it? The boy doesn't know, but he will be careful.

History will not repeat itself, he will make sure of that.

To be continued

Chapter Text

Midoriyas house, late evening

Izuku was quietly eating dinner together with his mother, at least, the latest was eating. The green-haired boy instead was slowly scraping the food from his plate, giving an occasional small bite when he managed to remember that he was still eating. His eyes were half closed and unfocused, making it evident that the boy wasn't really paying attention to his surroundings. He couldn't help himself from getting distracted, especially considering the crazy day he just had. First, he gets surprisingly aggressive towards Katsuki, for the second time nonetheless, and he was the one that was most shocked about it!! Second, he actually made the closest thing to friends he could ever hope to make, with actual friendly interactions!! A thing that pretty much broke any mockery-filled scenarios he created in his mind before stepping into the class, basically throwing him into unknown territory. Third, he got to know the teacher, he was scary, very scary. But, the words he spoke to him during the ball throw test were true, in a way, he helped him where he wouldn't necessarily need to. He could have expelled him there and there after he witnessed his multiple flaws, but instead, he gave him harsh words that helped him understand how a hero behaves, something that earned the green-haired boy confusion and surprise.

With a small sigh, Izuku shifted a bit in place and put his left elbow on the table, cupping his cheek and chin with his left hand and leaned his head on it, taking satisfaction of removing a bit of weight from his aching neck. Today sure has been a truly exhausting day, stress, excitement, fear, anxiety, giddiness and determination, all of these fused together into a chimera that was scratching the corner of his mind, demanding to be let out and not bottled up.

The spoon in his right hand made circles on the rice that was on the plate, his eyes glancing down at it with an even more perplexed stare. To be honest, He.....he was kinda.... excited? Happy? He doesn't know precisely how to feel, he just knows that he is feeling a bit lightheaded when he thinks back to some hours earlier, when he walked with the three girls and the dark blue-haired boy to the station, when he talked again with the cute frog girl, even when he met that upper, what was his name? Ah, Mirio! And let's not forget about the too energetic for him to keep up, but also extremely cute, blue-haired girl that he has as a senpai. All these interactions completely left him clueless about how to move right now.

"They were so nice......even if Ashido-san and Hagakure-san are a bit too for my heart to keep up, they get along so well, so that's how best friends behave....." Izuku says in his head, the memory of the two pretty girls *bickering* but then acting like sisters the moment after. They were so friendly with him, but also teased him, mostly Mina, a wink here when he was staring too much, a raspberry there when he, the two girls will be the death of him, and they seem to already have taken a liking in playing with him. He could feel that all of that was simply playing like they were friends and they genuinely were trying to have some fun with him, not from him.

"Maybe Hagakure-san was right, I should get used to this if I want to survive....... I don't mind getting used to this......maybe I can also get a best friend....or more than
one....." Izuku thought as he closed his eyes with a small blush on his cheeks, he huffed a bit tired. His right hand lowered a bit as he started to unconsciously tap his index finger on the table while his thumb still held the spoon in place together with the other fingers.

He didn't notice that he was shifting in place a bit, his free hand grasping the clothed left leg and going back and forth with a slightly more lively expression on his face, his eyes were still closed in focus as small imaginary flowers seemed to float around his head.

"They were so cool during the tests and their quirks are amazing, even if I scored first, it's oblivious that I'm just a rookie with my control. Would they mind if I ask some questions about their quirks?" Izuku keep analyzing in his mind as he let himself go a little. He was giddy, giddy to talk more, giddy to know more. On both the entrance exam and his first day, he realized that he had his first taste of actual friendly interaction, and he wanted to explore more of this territory. However, every thought stopped like a broken record being fixed, his mind drifted to the other side of the coin......

The boy's excited shifting stopped, his eyes opening a little as his giddiness quickly died down once his doubts started to creep in. He remembered the stress and anxiety he felt, he was still. One major source was well....Katsuki, to be honest, Izuku feared that things there would have played out much, much worse, not that any scenario he creates every time he interacts with someone are any less stressful, compared to any of them, what happened today was probably one of the best days of his life.

He scratched his unkempt green hair as a small sweatdrop trailed from the side of his head, his lips pursed as he could feel his half stomach turn a bit.

"They asked questions about him. If I slipped out my old school name, they would figure out who I am quickly......and if they discovered that I was quirkless......how would they react? I don't want to think about it" Izuku this time muttered in a very faint voice, his gaze glaring down at his place. His mood became even more sour if possible. He has been thinking about the good parts of these interactions he had. But, on the other side of the coin, there was an entire ocean of insecurities, fears and doubts. These easily dulled and made stale any positivity that he was feeling. He can't just trust all of this like it will be different, for what he knows, they may be friendly with him only because his quirk is powerful, or because he helped them, there's nothing about him that can justify people wanting to get to know him personally apart from his quirk.

What the green-haired boy didn't notice was that his mother noticed his melancholic mood and turned her head to look at him, tilting it a little to the side. She noticed him stopping eating and looking down for some time, his posture and expressions very confusing, torn between two sides, but it seemed that the bad one was winning. He becomes like this a lot, especially when he thinks she isn't paying attention. But now he was so out of it that he didn't even notice her staring back, the only times she saw him so thoughtful was after the entrance exam before the acceptance letter came.

She cleared her throat a bit and gazed at him once more, curious to see if her son had a good school day.

"So how was school, Izuku?" Inko asked with a small smile, hoping to remove that sour mood from her son.

This seemed to snap the boy out of his thoughts, he blinked a couple of times and looked up at her.

"Huh? Ah! Ehm....It w-was....good I g-guess, we did a test and I s-scored first" Izuku says as he passed a hand through the unkept strands of his fluffy hair, internally a bit dazed by the thoughts of before, at least she distracted him before he could start to truly panic.

"Really?! good job sweetie! my little hero is so strong!!!" Inko beamed up as she joined her hand together with an even bigger smile.

"Thank you, hehehe" Izuku muttered with a small awkward giggle, being praised by All Might, his mother, Recovery girl and Nezu felt believable, usually compliments directed at him were just a method to lower his guard, on one occasion they say your face is cute, the other they are punching it until he is full of bruises and he is bleeding from his nose. However, Tenya and the girls' compliments felt somewhat right as well.....but he wasn't going to trust it, he can't lower his guard and melt at the attention, not anymore.

However, the woman's smile disappeared, a troubled look making way on her face. It made Izuku raise an eyebrow, already not liking the meaning of this change.

"And him.....did he give you problems? You are in the same class now...." Inko asked as she furrowed her brows, she didn't have to say the name, the boy immediately understood who she was referring to. He looked down, his gaze hardened as his hands closed up to clench whatever they were holding.

"He is not h-happy to see me, nothing surprising.....but he didn't try to attack me and kept most of his insult to himself...." Izuku replied with a more meek voice, picking his words carefully, if there was something that was delicate to talk about in this house, was Katsuki, and it's understandable, finding out the child of your best friend basically tortured your son isn't something to brush off, the worst part was that Izuku hid it from her, making her feel worse, he already decided to remain at Aldera because of the lies they spread about him, staining his records as a violent person who even hospitalized someone, deleting any chance for other schools to accept him and they tried to plead his innocence, but Aldera staff wanted Izuku to stay there, and they did everything in their power to ensure it. But the boy also accepted the torture that his ex-childhood friend put him through so that she couldn't fight with her best friend.

".....Are you sure it's a good idea for him to be there with you? Izuku, why are you putting down your comfort for him? You deserve to be free from him, from anything that school put you under" Inko asked, when Izuku mentioned that Katsuki was going to study there, she couldn't believe it, and it was even more upsetting when he slipped out he was the one that asked for it.

This made the boy widen his eyes a bit in shock, he hoped his mother would drop the subject after the first question. But, unfortunately for him, she cares about his happiness and comfort, unlike himself.

He looked away as a bit of sweat trailed from the side of his head, he was trying to pick his words carefully, wanting to end this subject as fast as possible.

"......I...." Izuku started to say, but he stopped as he didn't know what to say to appease her. After some seconds of contemplation, he looked at her with an awkward smile.....a fake one, he was still not capable of smiling like a normal person, too many broken emotions to hold him back.

"I'm s-sure that the staff can remove what the teachers in our old schools engraved into him with time. And above all....It's not so bad......I a-also met some nice people..." Izuku says nervously, his thoughts shifting to the nice people he met at UA.

"Oh?" Inko muttered in confusion, her eyes blinking a couple of times as her son's words finally were registered in her brain.

"You mean that you made friends!? Oh sweetie, I'm so happy!!!" Inko exclaimed with a happy face, momentarily forgetting about the ash blonde as she stared at her son with comedic tears.

"C-Calm down mom, it's nothing too amazing, really.....I d-don't even know if w-we are friends or not, it's probably only a fluke...." Izuku stuttered as he sweatdropped a bit, waving his hands while he tried to calm her down. He failed to notice how much sadness he unconsciously put in those words, which made his mother stop in her tracks and stare at him with wide eyes, for then assume a concerned look.

"What do you mean, Izuku?" She asked as she furrowed her brows, now very attentive as she was starting to understand why Izuku seemed so sad before.

"N-Nothing!" Izuku squeaked a bit, trying to change the subject, looking away to avoid her inquisitive gaze.

"Izuku..." She called, making the boy close his eyes and flinch, knowing very well that he could hardly keep something hidden from his mother. After a couple of seconds, he opened his eyes and sighed, looking down at his plate with a bit of melancholy.

"... it's just......I'm scared..." Izuku whispered as he put the spoon down, scratching his hair once again, refusing to look at his mother in the eyes.

"Why? What's wrong?" She asked as she tried to get a look at his face, but he kept turning away.

"T-They are f-friendly with me.....but...." He trailed off, trying to find the right words, it wasn't easy to put into words what he felt about them.

"But?" Inko continued for him, trying to encourage him to continue.

With a small sigh, the boy finally looked up at her, showing slightly dull eyes, which surprised her greatly, she didn't see that look for months.

"I guess I'm too scared to be positive, I know not everyone are like them. At least, I try to think so....but, I can't stop thinking, what would they do once I stop being wary? Will they use the occasion to have fun with an easy and shivering prey? Or are they only around me because now I awakened a quirk, one that I suck at using, and what will happen once they will realize what sort of pathetic mess I am? That's what I'm thinking, mom, that's what I fear, that's why I can't be sure.......That's-....... That's why I can never be at peace...." Izuku explained with a slightly delirious voice, venting his frustration without regard for the words he was saying, he doesn't remember the last time that he just let go some of his internal turmoil, this was one of these rare moments.

The woman was left with her hands covering her mouth, shocked and saddened by her son's outburst. She was about to say something, but then, he kept talking.

"But it's okay, you don't have to worry. I'm studying to be a hero! A-are you happy for me? I'm gonna be cool like All Might!" The boy cut her off. He then blinked one time, his dull eyes returning to his usual nervous ones, hiding any sadness he was feeling before. His lips were being forced to form an awkward fake smile. He wanted to calm his mother's concern. But what he got was silence, the woman simply stared at him with an unreadable gaze.
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The woman suddenly raised herself from the chair, dragging it back as a fierce gaze appeared in her eyes.

"Izuku!" She called with a slightly louder and sterner voice.

"Y-yes?" Izuku says as he jumped a bit, not expecting her to

"It's normal for me to worry. You are my baby and I will always worry about you and want you to be happy, nothing in the world will change that!...." Inko started to say as she put her hands on the table, her small frame leaning a bit forward, as her eyes demanded to be watched, so he did, carefully listening to her with a nervous and curious gaze.

"For this I want you to listen to me, I know you are scared, you have every right to be. After what those monsters did to you, I'm worried sick about what others could try to do with a gentle boy like you, but you have your life and deserve to live it. There are bad people, Izuku, horrible people, but there are good people too, like Mr. Yagi, or Mr. Naomasa, That principal who taught you, and I can feel that those classmates you were talking about are good people as well, I saw how you talked when you mentioned them, you were truly happy to befriend them!" Inko explained with a firm voice, not giving Izuku time or will to rebuke, she could feel it, hee baby found someone that could make him less lonely, this wasn't a coincidence, the fact he called them *nice* already gave an insight on how he felt about them, usually he would say *suspiciously nice* or *I guess they are nice*, this was something else, something better.

She reached forward and touched his hand with a kind smile on her face.

"I'm not forcing you to trust them, approach them at your time. What I ask is for you to open your heart to them, just a little. Have fun and make a lot of friends!" She concluded with a hopeful and beaming smile, completely leaving the green-haired boy to stare at her with wide eyes, the gears inside his head going into overdrive to process these words without being distorted by his fears. At that moment, he remembered how those same people sided with him, how they tried to hang out with him and make conversation, trusting them wasn't going to be easy for his mind to achieve, but.....maybe he can try.

"I.....I-I w-will try" Izuku says nervously as he withdraws his hand from his mother's grasp, internally missing the physical contact but not wanting to make her stand up to keep comforting him.

The woman seemed to be satisfied by this and sat down on her chair once again with a smile, which turned into a teasing one, an idea on how to cheer up Izuku even more.

"Who knows, you could get a cute girlfriend before the semester is over" She teased, earning a shocked look from her son, the boy was about to take a bite of his food.

"huh?! W-what?" He asked surprised, a small blush spreading on his cheeks.

"A mother knows her baby like her pockets, with how sweet you are and with your cute looks, you are gonna get a girlfriend in no time, let's not talk about fangirls" Inko teased even more, if there was something that embarrassed Izuku was the mention of him being popular with girls, call it woman intuition, but she could see him conquering hearts left and right, he is that type of guy.

"S-...S-Stop t-teasing me!!!" Izuku shouted embarrassed, not wanting to be teased.

"Never!!!" Inko screamed back with an amused giggle, the room mood becoming more lighthearted. This was going to be a looooong dinner.

Next day

Izuku once again stood motionless as he nervously stared at the towering door of his classroom, a single drop of sweat trailing from his left cheek, this was his second day, and it wasn't less stressful, the first one was simply a test and participate the orientation, at least, what they managed to hear as they were very late. Now he should see where to sit, make sure anyone close doesn't want to strangle him and stay the hell away from Katsuki, pretty simple rules.

The boy closes his eyes and takes a small deep breath, managing to give himself a bit of courage. His mother's words were still fresh in his mind, he will try to open a bit more, if she thinks he should, then so be it.

"Alright, remember what happened before, they are not bad, they are friendly...." He muttered as he grabbed the handle of the door, his eyelids a bit more closed, forming a nervous glare.

"Now you just need to go to them and say hi, just that, open your heart a little, just a little" Izuku muttered nervously as he opened the door and walked into the classroom, unconsciously being as quiet as possible as unfortunately, habits die hard. Once he looked ahead, he noticed that the majority of his classmates were here, sitting and standing in small groups, Talking as they used to occasion to get to know each other. Some noticed him and, to his surprise, actually waved at him or gave a small sign of acknowledgment.

The green-haired boy shakily raised his hand a bit and waved back, a small fake smile on his face as he tried to be as warm as possible, it seemed to be enough as the ones that turned their head towards him returned to what they were doing. As he scanned the room in search of a free desk for himself, Izuku noticed Katsuki at the corner of his eye, the ash blonde was arguing? Interacting? With a muscular guy with red eyes pointed slightly inwards with a small scar just above his right eye, He also has small eyebrows, pointed teeth and long bright red hair spiked away from his head. It seems that the red-haired guy was trying to make conversation but Katsuki was being.......himself.

"Come on, man, don't be so grumpy, I was just saying that those explosions were so manly, like, super flashy!" The friendly and loud guy complimented with a small awkward sweatdrop dripping from his forehead, wow, this guy was intense.

"I'm not grumpy, leave me alone! shitty hair!" Katsuki snapped back as he folded his arms and looked away with an annoyed look, an imaginary cross-pooping vein on his head.

"Hey! That's rude!!! And why are you insulting my hair, bro, we got the same ones!!!" The red-haired guy gasped with a comical white face.

"Don't call me bro!!" Katsuki snapped once again with imaginary steam coming from his head, suggesting that he was very angry, but he surprisingly didn't attack him or use more colorful language.

Izuku actually sweatdropped as he witnessed his childhood abuser getting his first interaction with the classmates, he doesn't know what to think right now, a part of him is glad that at least this could take the blonde attention away from him (and the less Katsuki look in his general direction, the better) the paranoid one was wondering if this will mean that he was going to try to turn others against like at Aldera.

"In our old school, he could insult and scream like that and everyone would smile and treat it as if he was spitting gold. Will it change here?" He thought with a more perplexed tint, but he quickly shook his head and easily removed the ash blonde from his thoughts. He was about to resume looking around, but was interrupted by someone calling him.

"Midori!! here!" He heard a familiar and energetic female voice call for him, making him jump a bit and turn his head to the side, noticing Mina waving at him as to tell him to come closer.

The boy swallowed the lump in his throat, made himself courage and marched towards the pink girl, who was sitting over her desk, he also noticed that Toru, Ochako and Tenya were all sitting there, the first sitting on her desk like the pink girl while the other two were sitting behind their desks, all of them forming a group.

Now close to Mina, Izuku mustered his courage and made a small fake nervous smile and stiffly raised his hand, comically looking like a shaking statue.

"G-Good m-morning!" Izuku managed to greet his new *friends* surprisingly managing to stutter much less than expected. But, if he could see himself in the mirror, he would cringe at how silly he looked. Luckily for his nerves, this seems to just earn some cute giggles from the girls. Tenya naively didn't see anything strange with how stiff the greenette acted, probably because Izuku was unconsciously doing an imitation of him.

"Heya, Midori" Toru greeted as she stopped to giggle, the expression he made when he greeted them was so funny to keep a straight face.

"*Pfffff* Hi Midoriya-kun!" Ochako greeted too as she removed her hands from her mouth as she previously covered it to avoid bursting into a small laugh, his expression was priceless.

"Midoriya-kun good morning" Tenya greeted without missing a beat, a bit confused at what the girls were finding funny, it was all normal here.

"You are so stiff, come on, ease up!!!" Mina chuckled as she nudged the green-haired boy with her elbow, making him flinch a bit, but also removing his stiffness.

The pink girl then grinned as she indicated the empty desk behind her.

"We saved you a seat" she continued, making the green-haired boy quickly look at the desk and then back at her, a bit surprised by another friendly gesture. He blinked as he visibly relaxed a bit, his worries being put aside for now.

"T-Thank you" Izuku says a bit awkwardly as he nodded, walking around her and sitting behind the desk, and, as he glanced around, he immediately noticed that he was pretty much surrounded by the classmates he got to *befriend*, Mina was sitting on the desk in front of him, Toru was at his left, and Ochako behind him, with Tenya being behind her.

(Toru is visible and there's Shoka instead of Shoto. couldn't make a edited one)

He turned towards the pink girl and his face turned red as his position initially caused his gaze to be directed at the girl's athletic legs, his stare quickly being raised up towards her face before she could notice the accidental look. He wanted to see if he could get included in whatever they were doing before. If he wants to follow his mother's suggestion, he needs to take some initiative, he just hopes his nerves will hold on.

"Ehm...what w-were you guys t-talking about?" He asked nervously as he straightened his posture a bit more to hide the anxiety, he was holding himself better than the other day, but it was still hard to resist the urge to just shut up and avoid interacting to avoid being hurt.

Mina scoffed as a pout made way on her face, the subject of before returning to mind.

"We were talking about how boring it is that we need to do normal classes most of the time, like, we're gonna be heroes, we should do movement and cool stuff!" The pink girl says as she waved her arms in the air, ironically looking adorable at the green-haired boy's eyes, who used all his focus to not blush.

"Come on, stop whining, a little bit of education will do you nothing but good" Toru joked with a small grin, earning a small glare from the pink girl.

"Hey, are you calling me stupid?" Mina says irritated as a cross-pooping vein appeared on her head.

"You said it, not me" Toru joked once again as she stuck her tongue in a joking manner, just increasing her best friend's annoyance.

"You are so mean sometimes, I'm better at moving around than studying. And don't act like you don't remember who taught you how to dance for that competition in middle school, if it wasn't for me, you would keep falling on your face" Mina huffed as she stuck her tongue out in a slightly mocking way, a smirk following immediately after when she saw Toru eyes widen as a visual embarrassment was visible on her face.

"Hey that was a low blow, I wasn't good with my footing! You don't have to keep using that, I got better!" Toru retorted with a pout as she waved her arms in the air in the same way Mina did before.

Izuku sweatdropped as he once again found himself watching the two girls making fun of each other, he still hardly understood the concept of making fun of someone so casually and without a spec of malice, it was so weird, but it also attracted his curiosity.

After a couple of moments, he shook his head and looked away from the two cute arguing girls and turned his body and head to look at Ochako and Tenya, planning to keep his objective of getting to know them. He found both of them sweatdropping too as the two energetic girls' playfulness keep clashing.

"Ehm....H-Hey" he attempted to attract Ochako's attention, making her turn her gaze away from Mina and Toru and look at him. Once her gaze was placed on him, a small bubbly smile adorned her lips.

"Hey!" She replied back. At the start Izuku struggled to find something to talk about, but then remembered what they were talking about, so he thought of using that plus to share some of his enthusiasm.

"A-Are you guys excited, even if we have to do normal lessons, everyone here is a hero!" Izuku says nervously as he glanced between Ochako and Tenya.

"Indeed I am, as heroes, we must have excellent knowledge, I'm sure UA will give us the best education we can hope for" Tenya replied in his own version of being excited, pushing his glass up a little. Meanwhile, the auburn-haired girl nodded as her grin widened a bit.

"You bet! I was so excited when I discovered that I passed the exam. I didn't expect to manage to do it, especially since my quirk is not that cool compared to others, yours for example, you destroyed that big and scary robot with just one punch!" She says excitedly as she once again imitated his punch and then brought her hand to her hair, scratching them lightly. This class was truly full of flashy and strong quirks while she can only float things, so awkward.

This made the green-haired boy tilt his head to the side and his eyes to close up a bit. Not that cool? That's the contrary of what he thinks, Removing gravity with only the touch of her hands is an amazing quirk, and she saved his life with it.

"....That quirk saved my life...." Izuku said without missing a beat, surprising both himself and the girl, who looked at him with slightly widened eyes, her hand stopping the embarrassed scratching movements. The green-haired boy didn't know how he found the courage to say those words without even stuttering. And now that his brain offered to go into autopilot to say his thoughts on the matter without having to worry this time , he decided to go with the flow for the first time. He swallowed the lump in his throat and blushed a bit in embarrassment, having a hard time looking at her.

"So you shouldn't call it uncool, because it's actually amazing! I saw what you could do with it, and It's so cool that I had to stop by to see it. So, now that we are talking about your quirk, can I ask about it in the future or see it more in a-action? maybe you c-can use it on me. I-I-If you want of c-course!" He continued as he waved his hands nervously at the end, his voice getting a bit more nervous too as he tried to take a step back to not get too comfortable.

The girl was left a bit flabbergasted at the sudden praises of the shy green-haired boy, her eyes blinking a few times as the pink dots on her cheeks got a bit redder in slight flustered embarrassment.

"Ehm...huh..I...." She actually was at a small loss of words, she didn't expect him to jump to praise so suddenly, her other hand moved to her hair too, both resuming passing through her auburn strands in a slightly embarrassed way.

"Yes of course, if you want, I can do that! hehe" she said with a small chuckle.

"People try to do it during hero excise, I doubt UA allows us to use our quirks without having trained them enough" Tenya chimed in, making both look at him, it also attracted the other two girls' attention, who joined the conversation.

"Ah, speaking of hero exercise. Midori" Toru called, as she tilted her body a bit to the side, making the green-haired boy glance at her.

"Huh? Y-yes?" He asked curiously, trying his hardest to keep his composure and look at her stunning multicolored eyes.

"Yesterday you recognized our teacher, how did you do it? Like, you knew every detail" Toru wondered as she placed a finger on her chin, very curious about the green-haired boy's knowledge, knowing about an underground hero was a thing, but knowing about the teacher's activity was another.

"Yes, you got all nerdy about it. You 100% impressed him, well, if that scary face can be called a impressed face. He should lighten up a bit" Mina says as she nodded, also curious about how her new friend know all of that stuff, she was also slightly worried about a piece of information he revealed, being expelled and re-enrolled would be so scary.

"Well....I w-wanted to be a hero since I was little, and a family friend works here...so I asked about it, teachers, classes and subjects. But that's it, I don't know so much" Izuku replied as he scratched his cheek with a finger, a bit embarrassed to talk about how obsessed he was to study here.

"So you know what teacher we got?" Toru asked curiously.

At this, Izuku put a hand on his chin as he tried to remember exactly what teacher will be part of their classes. He was so excited when

"From what I k-know, we have Midnight teaching art, Present Mic teaching English, Ectoplasm teaching math and Cementoss teaching literature. Then we should have another teacher that teaches Foundational Hero Studies, b-but I don't know who they are.." Izuku explains as he scratched his hair with one hand, now that he think about it, All Might said he was gonna be a teacher here, but in what subject, wait....... it's he the teacher of Foundational Hero Studies?! He hopes so, it would be so cool!!!

Before they could continue, the bell rang, and like a swiss clock, the door opened, a familiar man with blonde hair and entered the classroom, sliding on the floor until he was in front of the classroom.

"Hey, little listeners!!! Are you ready for...!!" Present Mic started to shout excitedly, dragging his words as he spun in place to then indicate the flabbergasted class once again.

"For our first English class?!!! CAN I GET A YAY?!!!" Present mic shouted with a wide grin, hopefully to pump up his class. But....
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"No? Ok, I give up. Let's just start the English lesson...you all need to ease up, zygotes" Present Mic huffed a little depressed.

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Timeskip

"Before noon we have normal lessons for all the required subjects, it feels just like a normal school" Izuku thought as he paid attention as he Present Mic wrote some sentences in English.

"All right, class, Which of these English sentences is wrong? There's no bad answer.... except where there is, oh well, but don't be shy! I'm not gonna make fun of ya!" Present Mic says excitedly as he indicated the, wanting to lighten up the lesson as much as possible, who said that you can't join work and fun together?!

"So normal" Some students thought, it was both usual to be taught by a pro hero, but also so normal.

"So fucking boring..... it's the fucking fourth one, the past participle is misplaced as some students here" Katsuki grumbled inside his mind as he leaned his head on his palm, a bored look on his face.

"Oh, I know! the past participle is in the wrong place, so the wrong one is the fourth" Izuku thought as he quickly noticed the wrong sentence, he was lucky he knew English by self-learning.

Present Mic stuck a pose, raising his hand high.

"Who knows the answer? everybody hands up and raise them high!!" He shouted, trying to motivate his students, earning some sweatdrops instead.

Lunchroom

"At noon we gather at the main cafeteria, where we can buy gourmet food for reasonable prices, I can't believe we got lunch rush to prepare meals for us" Izuku thought as he brought his bowl closer to him, sitting together with him there's was his new group of friends, all enjoying their meal.

"Is sho good! And it's all cheap" Ochako says happily while chewing, showing that she was enjoying the meal.

"I know I should keep in shape, but sis, this is amazing" Mina says as she takes another bite, man, this stuff is awesome!

Izuku glanced around and then looked down at his bowl. He then took the chopsticks and chomped a bite of his food, an explosion of flavor covering his taste buds. He didn't notice that his face naturally lightened up, showing a small blush of satisfaction and the closest thing to a closed-eyed smile. It wasn't as good as his mother's, but strangely his taste buds were more alive than usual.

"You are right, Ish good" he unconsciously said with a more relaxed and warm voice, making his friends turn towards him and giggle a bit at his slightly puffed-cheeked face, he even was called cute by both Mina and Toru but he didn't hear them, or he would probably suffocate from his food.

Later, Classroom

"And then, in the afternoon, we finally have.....Foundational Hero Studies. Who will be the teacher could it be that it's him?....I hope so" Izuku wondered inside his mind as he patiently waited for the teacher to finally arrive. Before he knew it, the door was opened, and, his doubts were pretty much laughed off....

"HA HA HA HA" A booming laughter was heard from the other side of the opened door, making all the students turn their heads towards it and....

"I AM..." A booming voice was heard as two extremely muscular hands grabbed the corner of the door, immediately many students' eyes brightened up as they recognized his voice, but no one was as happy as Izuku.

"...COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!" All Might shouted as he pushed his body forward, entering the classroom with a not-normal pose.

"I can't believe it! All Might's really gonna be teaching us...!!!!" A guy gasped excitedly, he had short gold hair, parted to the right with a black lightning-shaped streak on the left of his side fringe.

"That's a costume from the Silver Age, isn't it?" Tsuyu says neutrally while tapping her finger on her chin, she seems calm, but if they knew what she was thinking, they would know that she was actually pretty excited to have All Might here to teach them.

"I'm getting goosebumps. It's so retro!" The same red-haired guy of before gasped excitedly, bumping his fists together.

"Finally someone that I can learn something from! Watch me, I will surely surpass you" Katsuki thought as his interest was finally taken, learning from the number one will finally give him the free way to surpass him.

"I was right, he is our teacher! That costume is so cool!!!" Izuku cheered inside his mind, his usual nervous behavior forgotten as he showed a more cherry and happy side of himself.

The number hero put his muscular hands on his hips as he looked at the students with a wide smile.

"I WELCOME YOU, YOUNG HEROES, TO YOUR FIRST CLASS OF FOUNDATIONAL HERO STUDIES! FOR THIS CLASS. WE'LL BE BUILDING UP YOUR HERO FOUNDATION THROUGH VARIOUS TRIALS! YOU'LL SET TONS OF CREDITS FOR IT" All Might explained as he stuck another pose to be dramatic, increasing his class's excitement to do this lesson.

"SO LET'S JUMP RIGHT IN WITH THIS!! TODAY WE WILL BE DOING A....." All started to say as he spun in place and took a piece of paper, showing it to the classroom, whose eyes widened.

"BATTLE TRIAL!!!" All Might concluded in a booming voice, the same words written on the piece of paper.

"That's what I'm talking about, finally I can blow up some steam" Katsuki thought as he grinned, ready for the rush of adrenaline of this exercise, the beeping of his bracelet making him scoff because he just made some sparks with his quirk.

"Battle trial?" Izuku thinks nervously, so they will fight against robots?.....or against each other, this will be even worse. But, he is ready for it, mostly at least, heroes always fight with human villains, so this was going to happen, so he just clenched his teeth, kept his fear under lock and key and prepared to brawl.

"AND TO GO WITH YOUR FIRST BATTLE..." All Might continued as he took a remote, and by clicking a button on it, the wall at the left of the classroom opened, suitcases being seen into it.

"WE'VE PREPARED THE GEAR WE HAD YOU SEND IN REQUESTS FOR TO MATCH YOUR QUIRKS!" All Might announced, the students started to get up and take the suitcase with their names on it.

"AFTER YOU CHANGE, GATHER IN GROUND BETA!" All Might says as he put the remote in his pocket.

"Yes, sir!" Many students replied.

The hero smiled more and started to walk towards the door, the students all prepared to follow him, but then he stopped, looking back at them.

"AND DON'T FORGET! FROM HERE ON OUT, YOU'RE ALL OFFICIALLY HEROES" All Might says as he ran at blinding speed out of the classroom, soon followed by his students.

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Locker room

The guys were changing in the locker room, using the time to chat a little or showing off their hero costumes to each other, the costumes were all unique, all adapted to the wearer's personality and quirk.

"Man, this costume is awesome, I thought they were going to make it plain, happy to be wrong, we all got the best stuff" a tall, lean guy with chin-length black hair spiked downwards, Almond-shaped eyes with small pupils. His elbows were unusual, being cylindrical in form, similar to tape dispensers. He was holding his helmet in his right hand while he talked with the same red-haired boy that tried to interact with the aggressive ash blonde.

"Hell yeah, we all look manly, bro, I can't wait to get into action!" Eijiro cheered as he once again slammed his fists together, his sharp teeth forming a grin. His costume was a dark red sleeveless suit with two dark red gear-shaped shoulder pads, and armbands reinforced by armor covering his elbows and the upper section of his arms. In the lower section of his costume, a red "R" is set into the center of his belt, below this, he wears baggy black pants and a half cape with a ripped hem. He also sports dark red boots. To complete the costume, a jaw armor protected the lower part of his face. It looked...Very manly.

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The sharp-teethed guy then glanced at Katsuki, who had just finished putting his grenade-like gauntlets on, the ash blonde's costume had an aggressive design while also being functional, multiple parts being a potential weapon.

"Wow, Bakugo, that's your costume? The gauntlets are so cool, but aren't they heavy?" Eijiro complimented as he shared his enthusiasm about costumes. This made the explosion user turn towards him with a glare, a scoff on his face.

"I'm no weakling! Fuck off" He snapped at him, completely mistaking the good-natured compliment. Every time someone said something like this to him, there were only three possibilities. A weakling trying to get in his graces, fans that know who is the strongest one, but are still pathetic, and....Deku, his praises made him angry, like a constant challenge.

"You know you could be nicer, he gave you a compliment" Denki chimed in while he was sitting on one of the benches of the locker room, he was currently putting on his black jacket that was part of his costume.

The answer was a particular finger of the ash blonde's hand to be raised in the air.

"That's not cool, dude" Denki sweatdropped, man, this guy is the definition of a jerk.

While everyone else was finishing putting their costumes on, starting to exit the locker room. Izuku was in a corner with Tenya standing beside him with his own costume on, which was composed of a black one-piece suit with a high collar, over which he wears various pieces of armor, all in a pale silver in color, including a chest plate, a metal collar around his neck and another around his upper arm, metal vambraces that extend past his elbows pointed at the ends and knee-high boots with gold accessories covering his legs. He was also wearing a helmet that covered his entire face, its sharp bevor full of holes and its upper piece rounded over his head with two larger holes on either side, two curved horns just behind and a single spike sticking out of the back of his head.

"Midoriya-kun, come on, you are still in your school uniform. Heroes must be ready to prepare as fast as possible, why are you standing still?" Tenya asked as he made some hand chops with his hands. Indeed Izuku was still dressed in his uniform, not even the blazer was off, the motive was simple but also terrifying....He can't show his body, not to his new friend, not to anybody here.

The mentioned boy turned his head towards him with a nervous look, some sweat trailing from the sides of his head. He didn't know what to do, he can't even remove his blazer as the scars extend to his forearms too....and more. He is lucky that he doesn't have anything on his face, neck or hands, a bonus for always closing his body around himself during dangerous moments, protecting those areas until they were done.

"Y-yes, I.....I-I will be quick..ehm....you s-should start going, I don't w-want you to be late b-because of me" Izuku says nervously as he started to open his suitcase, he wanted to wait for everyone to go away before removing his clothes, but he needs to make Tenya go away first.

"Are you sure? I can wait if you are gonna be quick" Tenya says as he scratched his helmet with one hand, confusion evident in his gaze.

"Don't worry, I w-will be there in a flash. It's j-just a bit hard to put this c-costume, some zip p-problems" Izuku lied with a fake awkward smile, using an excuse to remain alone, he wanted to use the bathroom of the locker room at first, but they were closed, probably they were doing some repairs or cleaning.

"Ah...I understand, Alright then, don't be late, we must make a good impression on All Might so we can show him our heroism!!" Tenya says with his version of excitement, which was as stiff as him.

Izuku nodded and with that, Tenya marched out of the locker room, now only a few remained. The green-haired boy turned towards his now unlocked suitcase and opened it, looking inside to see his hero costume, and, to his great surprise, it was completely different from what he expected, not only in color but also design.

"What? It's different from the design I sent! I hardly recognize it" Izuku muttered in shock as his eyes widened a bit, he put a hand in the suitcase and grabbed a part of the costume, which was a black and slightly bulky glove, it was completely different from the project he sent and also of a totally different color scheme. As he analyzed his unexpected costume, he noticed something in the suitcase, a letter, the green-haired boy placed the glove aside and took it. He then opened it and started reading.

"Hey hey, if you are reading this then you are the owner of one of my cutest babies, created by me, the future owner of Hatsume Industries!! the project you sent was cute but could be improved from every point of view, and so I did! The darker color scheme is perfect for night operations. They told me you have a very powerful strength enhancement quirk, which also allows you to create shockwaves, your simplicity is my stepping ground, I created so many ideas just for you, so be prepared to be amazed!! I equipped the costume with reinforced gloves that focus your wind blast into a precise air bullet, and they also got a heating system in the palms! And that's not all, I installed armored iron shoes around your boots to increase the power of your kicks. I already can picture your amazement, this is only the best for the student I was assigned to, make sure to say to everyone who built this baby, because I got more. Now I have to stop writing because I got so many babies to build and so little time. If the suit gets damaged or you want to upgrade perfection, go to the support department and ask for Mei Hatsume, which is my name by the way, I don't remember yours, ops. Oh well, my babies will speak for themselves, make sure to use them, byeeee" Izuku muttered as he read the letter, a sweatdrop forming on his head because of the enthusiasm that every word gave together with the admission that whoever wrote this letter doesn't remember his name, well, he can't blame them.

"Well, I guess it can't be helped. They are in the support department so they know how this works better than me. And the design I sent was ugly in every case, I don't have a lot of creativity. *Sigh* oh well, I guess I should try it" Izuku muttered as he glanced down at the costume in his hands, to be honest, the costume was much cooler than the ugliness he created. And it's also functional, he would have preferred a brighter color, but a part of him actually started to get kinda attached to black, probably because of the lighting bolts that he generates when he uses OFA, at the start, he disliked their eerie color, but he grew used to it, he would say that he feel a bit cooler when he is surrounded by them.

The boy glanced back and noticed that he was alone in the locker room, perfect!!! He didn't lose time to take off his blazer, showing cuts and gashes being permanently marked on his skin. And, when he removed his shirt altogether, his torso was shown to be even worse than his arms, with big and small scars tarnishing his skin, some burn marks also being present on his back. He stayed in silence as he hurriedly put the costume on, putting the gloves on his hands, a mechanic click being heard as soon as it was completely put on. When he put the iron soles and proceeded to completely cover his body, he felt his heartbeat settle down, the scars not being in view anymore. The boy searched for a mirror and made the unusual action of looking at himself through it.

His eyes widened as small and previously almost dying stars seemed to shine in his eyes, the costume completely blew his expectations. It consists of a black sturdy full-body jumpsuit, dark green outlines adorning his sides with teal-green edges, dark green shoulder pads and a black utility belt around his waist. The arm parts were reinforced by robust arm braces that clung tightly to his scarred arms. His hands instead were protected by the gloves the mysterious support department student gave him, it was black with green palms and grey sights attached to each of the knuckles. They also featured a dual-layered band around the wrist decorated with a green seam and bright green bolts present on the sides. On the lower part of the costume, there were dark grey knee pads that covered his legs up to his thighs and black boots covered by the iron soles. Finally, The costume was completed by a black and green diamond-shaped respirator and a big hood with what resembled bunny ears at both sides, green triangular spots simulating eyes on the frontal part of the hood.

The boy raised his gloved hand and looked at it, closing and opening it to test the feeling of the costume, it was comfortable. He then looked back at the mirror, his eyes half closing as he felt his cheat get another wave of happiness? Astonishment? This wasn't a dream, he was really here, and this was....

"This is my hero costume" Izuku muttered as he put the hood up, covering half of his head, he sweatdropped a lot as he saw that he technically had bunny ears on his hood, but it can't be helped.

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"A dependable smiling hero....." He muttered as he adjusted his gloves to see if he put them correctly while thinking back at everything that happened until now, he knew that he was very far from being even remotely close to what he wanted to become, but he is here, at the starting line.

"I still need to prove if I can be either of these three..." He continued as he looked away from the mirror and at the door, a bit more light in his eyes. He then started walking towards it, he was already late, he needs to hurry.

"And I need to prove it right now" he concluded as he exited the locker room and sprinted toward group beta, ready to take this test head-on.

Ground Gamma

Izuku rushed out of the tunnel that leads to ground gamma, the same mock city where the boy and some of his classmates did the practical part of the entrance exam. The light hit him as soon as his armored boots left the covered passage, lighting up his costume, a total contrast with the black color that dominates the suit.

The boy quickly noticed his classmates standing in groups in the plaza in front of him, some features of their costumes being a bit recognizable even if he was a bit far.

"There they are! Huh? I don't see All Might, so I'm not late, okay, " Izuku thought as he skipped towards the group, and, as soon as he reached the plaza, he let eyes glance around to search for his friends, planning to see what costume they add, Tenya already had a very cool costume. The question he asked himself was where the taller boy was. However, before he could search for him and the others, one of them found him first.

"Ah! Hey, Midoriya!!!" Ochako called as she stopped adjusting her headgear and quickly started to walk towards him with a grin. This made the boy turn towards her.

"Urar-....!!!!" He was about to say, but he stopped in his tracks, his words completely stopping in his throat as his eyes widened like plates. Meanwhile, the girl looked the boy up and down as she got closer, an impressed look on her face.

"Love your costume! Gives ya a mysterious vibe, ya know?" Ochako completed as she was now in front of him, which made the boy's eyes widen even more if possible, his face becoming completely red.

The auburn-haired girl tilted her head to the side when she noticed that the green-haired boy was struggling to talk, only stammering incomprehensible words as his face was completely red. The motive was her costume, which was composed of a black, full-body suit with a pale pink design down the middle of her torso, topped with two black semi-spheres on her chest, pink stripes starting at her midsection, a deep pink choker, and two-toned pink sleeves with cuffs. It also has matching pale and deep pink colored accessories, including round gauntlets with four raised openings each and with protruding handles, chunky, knee-high boots, and a two-piece belt with a thin round buckle. She also has a matching headgear that covers the sides of her head and ears.

She then realized why the boy was stuttering and looked down at herself, now remembering why she was a bit nervous about her costume and became self-conscious once again. As she looked at him again, she started to shift a bit awkwardly.

"I should've been more specific about what I wanted. This bodysuit is skintight. Not really my style. Does it look very weird?" she says as she scratches her hair with one hand, trying to be as cheerful as possible, but there were tints of embarrassment peeking from her voice.

Izuku jumped a bit at this. She wanted his input!! What does he have to say?!! He can't look anywhere without getting his face burning in embarrassment, in his panic, he accidentally pressed the honesty button.

"I-It doesn't l-look weird, I t-think it looks g-good on you.....y-you-.....Y-you look v-very cute!" Izuku stuttered for them covering his mouth as he realized what he said, he thought, but to his surprise, the girl didn't seem creeped out, on the contrary.....

The girl seemed to blush a bit, looking away for a moment for then looking back at him with a slightly shy smile.

"Ah, ehm, is that so? T-Thank you" she says as she scratched her hair a tiny bit, once again taken aback by the boy's sudden sincerity, it was cute and actually kinda sweet considering he was even more shy than her after the compliment.

Izuku looked away this time, still very embarrassed from his slip-up, at least he felt calmer knowing that she didn't react negatively. He now was wondering where the others were, so turned his head to look at the auburn-haired girl once again.

"Ehm, w-where are the others?" He asked as he was curious to see their costumes and genuinely stay in company, something that he himself was surprised to want. But, Before the girl could answer him, Izuku felt his hood being pulled a bit down, covering his eyes.

"Right here, hot stuff" He heard Mina say from his side and then heard her steps going around him to be in front of him.

"Wow, Uraraka, like your costume, space themed, right?" The pink girl continued, meanwhile, Izuku removed the hood from his face, just in time to see Mina look at him with a grin.

"Ashido-san?! Ehm..." Izuku stuttered as he was still unfamiliar with being touched, even if she only touched his hood, she was still so close, it brought mixed signals in his spine.

He glanced left and right before looking back at her face, noticing that she was wearing a multicolored visor.

"Where is Hagakure-san?" He asked expecting the two best friends to be together. He didn't have to wait for the answer, because the multicolored girl was there with them.

"Boop" Izuku heard as soon as he felt something slightly press the tip of his nose. This made his eyes widen as he was met with the beautiful face of the girl he just asked for, who backed a bit away while still close as she stuck a pose.

"Stealth attack!" She joked as she winked and made two peace signs, Mina laughing behind her because of Izuku's reaction.

Izuku blushed severely at the closeness, hastily backing away as he felt his heart about to explode, he didn't even start the test and he already wanted to go home!!

"They are going to be the death of me!!!!" He shouted inside his mind as he covered his face to hide his embarrassment.

"Sorry sorry, sometimes I can't help myself, invisibility got Its perk, ya know?" Toru giggled a bit as she looked up at him and smiled more brightly and less jokingly, even a bit apologetic because she thought she scared him too much.

This made Izuku remove his hands from his face and look up, but before he could say something, his eyes once again widened like plates and his cheeks got red once more, even more than before. He just now noticed the two energetic girls' costumes, which were as eye-catching as Ochako's.

Mina's costume was a purple and turquoise skin-tight bodysuit with a camouflage pattern, ending just above her breasts and below the midsection of her calves, being plum violet on the sides, legs and knee pads with beige lines separating the two different color palettes and framing the chest part. On the upper part, she has beige shoulder pads and white fluffy fur covering her neck and part of her shoulders with beige strings with turquoise ends dangling from the neck part. She wears custom-made plum violet and beige boots with turquoise lines adorning the upper part and with fur decorating the upper shaft. On her right forearm, she has a small support gadget similar to a cannon, a small oval turquoise tank on top of it. Around her waist, she wears a beige and turquoise belt (the P will be added when she chooses the hero name). Lastly, she has a neon purple/light blue protective visor, just adding more color to her gorgeous eyes.

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"What? Never saw an alien kidnap your awe? Tehehe" Mina teases with a grin, winking at him when she notices how shy he was while looking up and down at her costume, his innocent gaze making him seem like he was admiring her, which was admittedly a bit flattering.

"I say it again, that fur is cool, Mina, I should put something like that in my costume, not that I dislike it, it's still cute" Toru says as she looks down at her own costume and grabbed the fabric to feel the material. It was a three-colored skin-tight bodysuit, the color palette being white, pink and cyan, which are distributed in the costume through stripes, the white ones crossing downward from her chest to her belly, and a *V* stripe being present on the waist. The pink ones are present on the sides and thighs with the cyan ones framing them. On her hand, she wears grey gloves with cyan-colored palms and a line of the same color extending from them until they reach the other end of the gloves. On her legs, she wears grey high boots reaching all up her lower thighs, while also having cyan stripes similar to arrowheads on her knees section. The lower section of the boots has heels and is cyan on the soles part. To complement the costume, she wears a grey belt with a blue buckle, a crystal motive present on it.

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Izuku was at a loss for words, his face completely red as he found himself in front of three very attractive girls that were wearing costumes that just accentuated their cute looks and personalities. He didn't know what to say! He complimented Ochako's costume before because she did it first and he blurted out his own thoughts. But, now he was even more clueless about what to do, in his panic, the honest button was unconsciously slammed once again, pretty much his brain was going into auto-pilot right now, probably because he remembered that people like being complimented regarding their looks, especially girls, that's what he managed to hear while he tried to make himself as small as possible in his old school.

"Beaut-....AH! I mean, the c-costumes look very good on y-you all, you are all very c-cute wearing them. Ah! I'm not saying that w-without them you aren't, just saying that they fit you, especially your-....t-the colors and support gadget, Yes that!!! V-very good c-costumes!! Hahaha" Izuku stuttered as he passed from one compliment to another, from costume to the wearer, his blush worsening as he realized he was losing that little of composure he had. In the end he just weakly chuckled awkwardly, hoping that he didn't throw everything in the toilet.

"Wait, He was about to call me-......" The three girls thought at the same time with widened eyes, stopping just before finishing the sentence, okay, that was something surprising, one thing was being hit off, one was getting such compliments from someone that wasn't even trying to flirt.

"Ummm...." Ochako was at a loss for words being the one of three that couldn't get her composure together, her own self-consciousness of the costume plus the assault of stuttered compliments from her new friend were a bit too much for her cute little mind to form a thank you, so she just blushed more and looked away.

"Ohh, someone is trying to be a flirt, didn't take you for one, but flattery will get you nowhere, unless you up your game" Mina teased as she grinned and leaned forward a bit while putting her hands behind her back. Flirt attempt or not, she didn't mind the compliment, on the contrary, getting called cute in such an honest way felt actually nice.

"Come on, let him off the hook, he was being sweet, I think it was cute of him" Toru says as she rolled her eyes and lightly nudged her best friend with her elbow, she and the pink girl didn't seem bothered or think too much about it. However, they were internally squealing at how cute he was behaving. They also couldn't deny that they were feeling a bit flattered, so much that small embarrassed blushes were actually adorning their cheeks, showing that maybe, those good-natured and honest compliments weren't simply brushed off, what a usual cute guy.

The two girls' attention was taken once they took a good look at him, especially at his costume. Their faces brightened up as they observed his cool costume.

"Wow, Midori! Looking good, that's an awesome costume!" Toru complimented as she whistled, impressed by the boy's costume.

"Didn't give me the impression of someone that want to be edgy, or you want to be the bad boy type? the cute one is okay too" Mina half teased-half complimented as she got closer, giving him a small joking wink at the end, earning a bigger blush from the boy, who was about to raise his hands to wave them nervously. But, before he could do that, they were grabbed by the energetic pink girl.

"Look at this, dude, there's an area you didn't get cool stuff?" Mina says as she looked closely at the gloves, not noticing how close she was to Izuku, who at this point was holding his breath with steam coming out of his ears.

"I like the hood, and the color, you wanna be stealthy like me?" Toru says as she circled around the boy to his back, her eyes widening a bit as she noticed that some parts of the costume clung nicely to him, making her see his back muscles. Cute face, meek personality and shredded body! What a combination, not an unwanted one.

Suddenly, Izuku felt something wrap around his right arm and before he knew it, he was dragged away from the two girls, almost causing him to stumble but he luckily kept his footing. When the thing stopped pulling, the boy quickly looked at his arm, finding a grabbling hook and, by looking to the side, he found that it was Ochako who pulled him away, the grabbling hook coming out of her wrist accessory.

"Let him breathe, he is uncomfortable" the auburn-haired girl scolded as she pouted, a strange unpleasant feeling was tickling her guts when she saw the two girls so close to Izuku, especially when they started to what she recognized in her head was light flirting, but she ignored it.

This made the two girls realize that they may have acted too excited and overwhelming, so they turned towards the now calmer green-haired boy with apologetic smiles.

"Ah sorry, Midori" Mina apologized as she joined her hands together while imaginary sweatdrops comically flew from her head. She likes to joke, but she didn't want to be mean, especially since the guy has been pretty sweet to her until now.

"Yes, sorry, didn't want to make you uncomfortable" Toru also apologized as she scratched her cheek with an awkward smile. Equally as sorry as her best friend.

Izuku's eyes widened a bit as the two cutely apologized to him, a blush marking his cheeks as he looked away, he wasn't really angry, part of him actually liked being at the center of positive attention this time.

"I-It's okay, ehm....t-thank y-you for the c-compliments, I l-like it too, I need to t-thank the one w-who built it" He shyly says as he looked at his covered palms, he was really grateful that this costume covered everything.

Unknown to all the students, All Might was on top of a building, waiting for the perfect moment to do his entrance, and it was now. He put his imposing boot on the corner of the roof and jumped down.

"HA HA HA, YOUR TEACHER IS HERE!!!" All Might shouted as he landed in the plaza, many students jumped in surprise, looking at the hero with wide impressed gazes.

The number one hero raised himself from his crouched position and looked at his students with a wide smile, noting their costumes.

"THIS IS GETTING ME ALL REVVED UP. YOU ALL LOOK COOL! NOW. SHALL WE GET STARTED, YOU BUNCHA NEWBIES?" All Might says as he was already looking forward to seeing his students in action.

"Yes sir!!!" The majority of the students answered as they formed a group in front of the hero, waiting for the explanation.

"THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO HEAR, SO LET'S START, THE BATTLE TRIAL!!!!" All Might declared excited as he raised his fist, being mimicked by some students.

"Sir!" Tenya interjected as he raised his hand, his voice being slightly muffled by his helmet. This made the hero look at him with a slightly curious gaze.

"YES, YOUNG MAN?" All Might asked as he jokingly put his hand behind his ear, as to say that he was listening.

"This is the fake city from our entrance exam. Does that mean that we'll be conducting urban battles again?" Tenya asked as he looked around at the plaza they were standing on.

"NOT QUITE..." All Might started to say as he shook his head in negation and thrust his hand forward with two fingers raised.

"I'M GOING TO MOVE YOU TWO STEPS AHEAD!!!" All Might continued with a booming voice.

"Huh?" Some students mumbled surprised and confused, what does he mean by that?

The hero closed his open hand and coughed on it, trying to look more teacher-like.

"YOU SEE, MOST OF THE VILLAIN FIGHTS YOU SEE ON THE NEWS TAKE PLACE OUTSIDE. HOWEVER, STATISTICALLY SPEAKING, RUN‐INS WITH THE MOST DASTARDLY EVILDOERS TAKE PLACE INDOORS. THINK ABOUT IT. BACKROOM DEALS, HOME INVASIONS, SECRET UNDERGROUND LAIRS. TRULY INTELLIGENT CRIMINALS STAY HIDDEN IN THE SHADOWS. FOR THIS TRAINING EXERCISE, YOU'LL BE SPLIT INTO TEAMS OF GOOD GUYS AND BAD GUYS AND FIGHT TWO‐ON‐TWO INDOOR BATTLES!!!" All Might declared as he excitedly indicated a building near, one of the places their training exercises will take place.

"Isn't this a little advanced?" Tsuyu asked as she tapped her chin with one finger, a tint of confusion in her calm voice. Izuku noticed her voice and turned towards her, but could barely see her because of the group.

"THE BEST TRAINING IS WHAT YOU GET ON THE BATTLEFIELD! BUT REMEMBER, YOU CAN'T JUST PUNCH A ROBOT THIS TIME. YOU'RE DEALING WITH ACTUAL PEOPLE NOW!!" All Might explained with a booming voice, ready to start the next step, but before he could do that, he was filled with questions.

"Sir, will you be the one deciding who wins?" Momo asked politely as she adjusted her ponytail, not wanting it to get loose during the training.

"How much can we hurt the other team?" Katsuki asked seriously as he frowned, making those close to him do a double take.

"Do we need to worry about the losers getting expelled like earlier?" Ochako asked with a slightly worried look, fearful that basically every test has such high stakes.

"Will you be splitting us up based on chance or comparative skill?" Tenya asked as he made a couple of handchops

"Doesn't this cape look killer on me...?" Aoyama asked as he struck a pose and flexed his cape.

All Might was comically sweatdropping as he waved his hands trying to placate his curious students.

"SETTLE DOWN, I CAN'T HEAR YOU IF YOU SPEAK ALL AT ONCE!!" All Might says as he managed to make everyone listen to him. He then coughed in his closed hand and regained his composure.

"OKAY, LISTEN UP" All Might continued as he took a small notebook from his pocket.

"A script?" Izuku thought with a sweatdrop.

"ALRIGHT! THE SITUATION IS THIS. THE VILLAINS HAVE HIDDEN A NUCLEAR MISSILE SOMEWHERE IN THEIR HIDEOUT. THE HEROES MUST TRY TO FOIL THEIR PLANS. TO DO THAT, THE GOOD GUYS EITHER HAVE TO CATCH THE EVILDOERS OR RECOVER THE WEAPON. LIKEWISE, THE BAD GUYS SUCCEED IF THEY PROTECT THEIR PAYLOAD OR CAPTURE THE HEROES!" All Might explained while reading from the script, scratching his head with one hand when he finished.

"Sounds like a classic action movie setup" Izuku thought as he cupped his chin with his hand, so he will have to collaborate with someone?....wait.... please not Katsuki, please not Katsuki! Please not Katsuki!!!!

"TIME'S LIMITED AND WE'LL CHOOSE TEAMS....." All Might dragged his words as he changed his footing and ran out of sight, being so fast that he was impossible to follow with the naked eye, before anyone could ask themselves where he was going, the hero immediately came back, standing in the same spot as before and placed two boxes beside him.

"BY DRAWING LOTS!" All Might declared as he indicated the two boxes.

"Sir, may I ask why? Wouldn't it be better to be paired up with one you are most compatible with?" Tenya asked confused as he once again raised his hand.

"OF COURSE IT WOULD BE, YOUNG IIDA. BUT, HEROES MOST TIMES DON'T CHOOSE THEIR ALLIES. BY DRAWING LOTS, YOU WILL GET A TRUE FEELING OF HERO WORK!! ADAPT TO YOUR PARTNER" All Might explained as he raised his fist close to his chest.

"I.....Yes, I see. Life is a random series of events. Excuse my rudeness!" Tenya shouted as he stiffly bowed in apology toward the hero.

"NO SWEAT. NOW, LET'S DRAW!" All Might announced as he put his hands in the boxes, drawing numbers for every team. And after some moments, all teams were formed.

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•Team A:
Izuku Midoriya & Toru Hagakure

•Team B:
Shoka Todoroki & Mezo Shoji

•Team C:
Momo Yaoyorozu & Minoru Mineta

•Team D:
Katsuki Bakugo & Fumikage Tokoyami

•Team E:
Yuga Aoyama & Mina Ashido

•Team F:
Rikido Sato & Koji Koda

•Team G:
Denki Kaminari & Kyoka Jiro

•Team H:
Tenya Iida & Ochaco Uraraka

•Team I:
Mashirao Ojiro & Tsuyu Asui

•Team J:
Eijiro Kirishima & Hanta Sero
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Izuku's eyes widened as he could feel a small weight being lifted from his chest, not only he will not be in a team with his childhood*friend* but he will also be with someone he likes. His thoughts were interrupted when he felt someone lightly bump his shoulder with their own, and when he turned his head, he saw Toru with an excited smile, just beside him.

"So cool, Midori, we are in a team together, we are gonna kick butts!!!' Trou cheered as she pumped her fists, her body language making him blush at how cute she looked when she was like this.

"Ehm, y-yes, let's our b-best" He says nervously as he nodded, prepared for his first true team experience. Meanwhile, the others were looking around for their teammates.

"AND NOW, LET'S SEE WHICH OF THESE TEAMS WILL FACE EACH OTHER!!" All Might attracted their attention once again as he draw the letters this time and......

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• Team G vs Team Team C

• Team E vs Team F

• Team B vs Team I

• Team J vs Team H

• Team A vs Team D

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In a moment, the green-haired boy's excitement to work with someone died instantly, paled instantly, this was probably even worse!!! He need to fight the one who hurt him so much, his body was already shaking remembering the burns, the noises. Okay, take deep breaths, you are panicking, you can't let them see you pan-.....

his panic was temporally stopped as he felt someone lightly tug the shoulder part of his costume, attracting his shaky gaze, to his surprise, it was his teammate, a face of concern on her pretty face.

"Hey, what's wrong? everything okay?" She asked with a surprisingly soft voice, so as to not attract more attention, the concern made a bit of his instinctive panicking melt away, allowing him to regain a fragment of composure.

"Mhmm, y-y-yes, j-just a little n-nervous, it's my first time f-fighting someone" Izuku lied as he surprisingly managed to put on another fake smile, making her tilt her head to the side, part of her wasn't convinced, his smile and reassurance felt odd, but she brushed it off, for now at least.

Meanwhile, the boy looked to the side and, to his horror, Katsuki was staring right at him with a glare that could kill.

This made Izuku look away while sweating and he noticed that his eyes had landed on the other guy he will have to fight. The bird-headed boy, who he didn't have a moment to even talk with, stared back at him, his gaze serious and unnerving. His costume was as equally as *dark* as Izuku's, maybe even more. It was formed by a black elegant shirt with a foldable cloak covering its upper section, the neck part having extensions similar to feathers. He had red armored wrist guards and black gloves with spiky fingertips. In his lower section, he was black pants with elegant boots, a singular red feather decorating both sides of them.

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However, the mysterious boy's gaze moved to look at Izuku up and down, seemingly analyzing his costume, and then, his sharp eyes rose to look at his face once again and.....
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To Izuku's surprise, Fumikage gave him a thumb up and, to further the boy's surprise, a third hand made of a substance similar to solid darkness peeped from the bird-headed boy and did a second thumb up.

"Reverly in the dark" Fumikage says cryptically as he gave him a small approving nod.

"....Huh?" Izuku mumbled confused, part of him was interpreting this as a compliment? Good luck? Maybe both? He doesn't know, but by the way the bird-headed boy nodded and the fact he gave him a thumb up, it's at least something positive..... right?

"THE FIRST TEAMS TO FIGHT WILL BE TEAM G AND TEAM C, WITH THE FIRST BEING HEROES AND THE SECOND BEING VILLAINS" All Might explained as he indicated the two teams and then the building behind him, the place where the two teams will fight.

"BAD GUYS, YOU CAN GO ON IN AND GET SET UP. IN FIVE MINUTES, THE GOOD GUYS WILL BE LET LOOSE AND THE BATTLE WILL START!" All Might explained, receiving a nod from the four students, he then looked at the rest.

"EVERYONE ELSE CAN HEAD TO THE MONITORING ROOM WITH ME TO WATCH!" All Might concluded as he dramatically pointed towards another building close and made sign for everyone to follow, which they did.
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First battle
Team G (Heroes) vs Team C (villains)

*Clang*........*clang*

Heavy metallic sounds echoed in the hallways of the building, all of them coming from one room, the one where the villains put the bomb to protect.

Momo was seen slightly sweating as her belly glowed with a multicolored light, a lighter version of a steel beam coming out of her glowing skin. After creating the material, she put it together with the others to block the door. Her costume was a bit different from the other girls, showing more skin, it's formed by a red crop top with two white stripes to the side, a gold zipper at the center of her chest. To cover her arms and hands, she wears elbow bands and red gloves. In the lower section of her costume, she wears red shorts with two gold utility belts around her waist, and calf-length red boots.

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"This should be enough, we also put some traps on the way here...." She analyzed quietly to herself, they mostly used Minoru quirk to create some sticky traps, but it was quite difficult that they would fall to see them, even after she used her own quirk to make her own traps. They just need to barricade themselves here and prepare to fight in case.

She cupped her chin with her hand, her beautiful face assuming a pensive expression. Too many factors, but they can win if they put their brain to use. There was a problem....

"We don't know about Kaminari-san's quirk, and the only thing I saw of Jirou-san's was her extended earlobes, it's probably related to sound...." Momo mumbled to herself as she turned around and found out that , to her great displeasure, Minoru was more focused on drooling over her and her costume than helping her.

"Mineta...." She called with serious annoyance, causing the short boy to jump a bit and pale once he saw how sharp her glare was.

"Would you kindly stop staring and help me?" She asked still with a not-so-hidden annoyed tone, making him sweat, realizing he has maybe..... surely made his teammate angry with his *innocent* admiring.

Team G

Denki and Kyoka just reached the door that lead to the door the other team was fortified in, they managed to avoid getting stuck in the traps, the blonde boy almost remaining without a jacket because of one hasty trap.

"So they are here?" Denki asked as he looked at the purple-haired girl and pointed to the door.

The girl nodded, one of her earphone jacks stuck in the wall.

"Yep, they are here, and I don't hear traps on the other side, just talking, they don't know that we are here. Open the door, we are going to barge in" Kyoka instructed as she kept the earphone jack planted in the wall to be careful of sudden noises. Meanwhile, Denki walked in front of the door and took the handle and.... nothing. The door didn't bulge.

"It's blocked" he says a bit surprised.

"Huh? So it's key locked or something?" Kyoka asked as she peeped from the side, she kinda expected them to lock themselves in, but it's better to be sure that they aren't going to walk in a trap.

"Yep, doesn't open, something blocking it" Denki repeated as he stepped to the side, making the girl stand in front of the door.

"Alright, let's see" She muttered as One of her earphone jacks pierced the side of the door and then she lightly kicked it, hearing the metal bars on the other side slightly clanging. She paused for a moment, thinking of a plan, and then, she snapped her fingers.

"So you got an electric quirk" She asked as she glanced at the blonde boy, she saw some sparks coming out of his hands before.

"You got it, pretty cool, right?" He replied while doing fingers gun and giving her a grin, trying to be cool, but this earned a blank look from the punk girl.

"Yeah yeah, do me a favor, grab the door and zap it when I tell you, we gonna breach In together" Kyoka says as she walked on a close wall that closed the room.

"Oh.... alright" Denki muttered as he did as asked, grabbing the door and preparing to unleash her quirk.

With Momo and Minoru

The two were starting to hear sounds coming from the other side together with the door being pushed a bit.

"They are here, what do we do?! What do we do?!' Minoru panicked as he realized he didn't know anything about fighting, okay, maybe he just need to throw some balls.

"Compose yourself, they don't have a way to-" Momo was about to say while creating a metal staff, but before he could do either, sparks came from the door and then...

*ZAAAAAP!!!!!*

Electricity rampaged from the door and into the room, immediately reaching them and shocking their bodies, their nerves convulsing as they were immobilized.

*Bam*

The wall at their right started to vibrate more and more, until cracks formed and then, it collapsed, Kyoka coming through the opening.

"Rock concert coming right up!" She shouted with a grin, her eyes immediately moving from them to the bomb, luckily the electricity stopped, allowing her to rush towards the objective while her opponents were half unconscious. Her hand quickly grasped the massive fake bomb.

"THE HERO TEAM WINS!!!!" All Might voice was heard from all speakers that were present in the building, putting a stop to the exercise.
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Monitoring room

All Might nodded to himself as he saw Team G helping Team C to get up while making sure they were alright. He then turned his head towards his students, curious if they were paying close attention.

"SOMEONE WANT TO TELL ME WHY TEAM C LOST? LET'S SEE THAT YOUNG BRAIN OF YOURS WORKING" All Might says as he looked between his students, some of them muttering to themselves or not talking at all, some trying to come up with an explanation and the rest either didn't care or didn't want to answer.

Izuku didn't know what took over him when he shyly raised his hand, probably it was because it was All Might asking it, and he had his version of an answer. This made the hero turn his gaze to look at him with a wide smile on his face.

"YES, YOUNG MIDORIYA? GOT THE ANSWER?" All Might asked, already knowing that he was going to have a good answer given his successor's extremely good analytical capacities.

"Ehm, It's the l-lack of i-information, sir" Izuku answered nervously, he felt everyone's eyes on him, which didn't help him to be more confident. He noticed that the hero made a sign for him to continue, which he shyly did, he focused only on All Might, ignoring his classmates staring at him to lessen his nervousness and give his best.

"They b-both reacted like they didn't know their opponent's quirks, considering Yaoyorozu-san's quirk, she could have made isolated m-material to fend off the electricity, and also maybe do something about Jirou-san, maybe with something to disperse the vibrations. Mineta-kun should have put his traps together to form a rope to increase the area covered, and maybe use it as a short-range weapon. I......I t-t-think they would have prepared better if they knew their opponent's quirks beforehand" Izuku explained as he gave free rein to his thoughts, internally surprised that he managed to be relatively crystal clear.

"Yay!!" The green-haired boy heard someone cheer from his left, snapping him out of his focused state as he turned his head to look at who talked, finding that the four classmates he was talking about were at the door, staring at him with slightly wide eyes, blinking a few times, except for Denki, who had a silly expression on his face, giving two thumb up for no reason.

Izuku realized that they had most likely heard him and he was fearing they may take his thoughts in an insulting way.

"Ah! I d-didn't mean anything bad, you w-were all amazing there! I just-" Izuku stuttered as he waved his hands nervously, trying to reduce any damage he may have made, but before he could do that, All Might interrupted him.

"THAT'S CORRECT!!!! THIS SHOW THAT WE MUST BE ALWAYS PREPARED TO RESPOND TO SITUATIONS WHERE THE VILLAIN'S QUIRK IS UNKNOWN! NOW, NEXT TEAM BATTLE!!! TEAM E AND TEAM F WILL FACE EACH OTHER, SAME ORDER AS BEFORE, FIRST ONES AS HEROES AND SECOND AS VILLAINS" All Might cut him off with a booming cheer, attracting everyone's attention and saving Izuku from the embarrassment.

The boy internally thanked his mentor as he exhaled in relief. He also felt a bit happier, his mentor's praises never fail to make him happy and the fact he managed to explain his thoughts without becoming a total stuttering mess was a very big plus.

"Welp, time for me to show some of my moves" Mina says with a smile as she looked at to the side at her friends, stretching a bit her hands to warm up.

"Madam, I'm ready to show my light" Aoyama chimed dramatically as he made another pose beside them, how did he get there?

"Well, at least I like your enthusiasm" Mina muttered while she sweatdropped, she was about to walk towards the door to prepare to do the exercise, but he heard Izuku calling for her.

"Ehm, I-I'm excited to see y-you in action again...." Izuku says nervously as he made some steps towards her so he didn't have to shout. This made the girl turn her head to look at him, not facing him completely.

"You better be, gonna leave you with your jaw hitting the floor" Mina teased with a wink, earning another adorable reaction, and with that, she left the room with her teammate.

Izuku groaned a bit as he rubbed his forehead to remove the small blush, he wasn't really used to winks, smiles and good-natured teases. He moved a bit to have a better vision of the screens. After some moments, he heard someone walk towards him, a familiar Kero being heard when the person was close.

"*Kero?* Didn't expect your costume to be like this, but It looks good, did you design it yourself?" Tsuyu asked as she stood beside the green-haired boy, her head tilted a bit to the side.

"Asui-sa-...." Izuku was about to say as he turned his head to look at the frog girl, but just like Ochako, his words were completely pushed back in his throat, being left with wide eyes and an agape mouth.

"Hi, Midoriya-chan" Tsuyu greeted calmly without minding the boy's speechless state. Her attire was the thing that made him so nervous. It was formed of a bright green turtleneck sleeveless leotard, being also dark green on the sides and around the neck. On her arms section, she wears tan-colored gloves with large buckles on each wrist guard with skintight sleeves reaching from within the gloves to the upper arms. To adorn her leotard, she has two matching belts, one above her breasts, a strap at either side going around her shoulders, and one around her waist, little green dots embedded into it all the way around. Two black lines run all the way down her waist, each framed with yellow, separating the bright green from the dark green. On her legs, she wears tight high black boots with markings in the shape of a "V" on the upper part, green webbed flippers resembling frogs' toes on her feet. She also has a small dark green pouch strapped to her right thigh. Lastly, she wears a headband with a color matching that of her gloves, and goggles with dark green-tinted lenses attached on either side.

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The green-haired boy's face quickly went completely nuclear red seeing the cute frog girl's costume, not only being pretty tight on her, but also having part of her strong legs being visible and also part of her shoulders. Why does everyone need to look so cute in their costumes?!!! Why is he even bothered?!! They aren't that close, why he was so flustered?

The girl seemed to quickly catch why he was so nervous, her blank face still present, not giving anything she may feel.

"It's a bit embarrassing to be honest *kero*" She says, making the boy jump a bit as he tried to keep his eyes on her cute face.

"They said that having free skin eases my movements and gives my mucus more room to exit, they probably took Mirko as an example" Tsuyu explained as she glanced at her legs, the exposed skin being visible on her upper thighs, but not more than that, it was comfortable at least.

"Ehm....I-....y-you look cute- I mean you look very beauti-cute ah, Ah!!! The costume looks cute! The c-color fits you a lot, wow those goggles are very cool-" Izuku tried to use praises to mask his embarrassment once again, but he kept stumbling in his words, he wanted to compliment the costume, but in his panic, he actually filled the owner with a compliment on her appearance. It was so embarrassing.

"*Kero* Thank you, and no, I'm not upset for the compliment" Tsuyu interrupted his rambling, like she knew that he wanted to stop. And, to his surprise, a small smile traced her unusual lips, indicating that she wasn't upset

The girl then looked at the screen, the boy doing the same while trying to remove his thoughts about her from his mind.

"So, who do you think will win?" She asked calmly while stealing a glance at him.

The boy stood silent as he watched the villain team prepare as much as they could while Mina and Aoyama got ready to go in and do sparks.

"I c-can't tell yet.... Ashido and Aoyama have the range and s-speed, Sato and Koda have the strength. I'm really excited for this, Ashido quirk is s-so cool" Izuku replied as he let himself go into a rare excited mood, now staring at the screen with his hands in the same air note gesture he made during In Auditorium, making the girl giggle lightly for then look at the screen like him, the start of the exercise getting closer.
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Team E (heroes) vs Team F (villains)

*THOOM!* *THOOM!*

"AAAAAAHHHH" Koji screamed in panic as he fearfully avoided Yuga's navel laser, the light beam almost grazing him as he kept running away.

"Mossier, don't run away, my victory should be watched by yourself too" Yuga says with his typical smile as he kept firing low-powered shots to try to hit the running boy. Meanwhile, Mina was fighting with Rikido, the bigger boy trying to hit her, but she kept dodging by sliding with her acid.

"Damn, Ashido, can't stay put for a moment?!" Rikido shouted a bit annoyed as he supped from his sugar canister a little more, his muscles bulging as his quirk took effect.

The mentioned girl grinned as she kept a low stance, a bit of sweat on the side of her head, but it was obvious she wasn't worried, on the contrary, like her teammate, she was confident.

"Nope, I'm into the flow! Whoa!" She was about to say, but stopped when Rikido leaned forward and tried to hit her, dodging his powerful strikes with moves similar to dance ones. What her opponent didn't know was that the pink girl wasn't just dodging, she was preparing a surprise.

With a last punch, Rikido cracked the floor, but Mina luckily managed to back away a lot, which was noticed.

"I'm not so...slow now for you, hm?" Rikido says with some difficulty, his capacity for speech hindered a bit by his quirk. His eyes widened a bit when he saw Mina grin back at him.

"Not really, you should just look down" Mina says as she put her hands behind her head, the boy did as she said and he noticed that the floor beneath him was melting on the corners, creating a circle where he and Koji were standing.

"Oh.... shit" Rikido muttered as he realized both he and his teammates have been played.

"Bye bye" Mina winked as she waved at them, Yuga doing the same. Immediately after, the floor beneath team F collapsed, making both fall on the lower floor.

"AAAAAAHHHH!!!" Both Boys screamed as they impacted with the lower floor, luckily, it wasn't very tall, so they weren't so hurt. But, before they could try to get up.

"THE HERO TEAM WINS!!!" All Might voice was heard from the speakers, making both boys groan as they let themselves fall on the ground.

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"S-so cool, if only I c-could m-move like that" Izuku muttered as he was once again impressed by the pink girl's movements, if he could be as half as good as her.

"Why don't ask her to teach you" Toru says from beside him, her hands behind her back as she twisted her body a little so she could both lean forward and slightly face him. This made the boy look at her in surprise

"Huh? B-But...I can't ask s-something like this...." He answered with uncertainty, he doesn't want to waste someone's time.

"Trust me, she likes to teach people, she taught me and we had a blast. Maybe I can also teach you, we cut you into shape" Toru cut him off with a smile.

"Ehm...I will t-think about it...." The boy blushed a bit as he looked away, still not believing how welcoming this class has been.

"ALRIGHT ZYGOTES, LET'S MOVE WITH THE BATTLES!" All Might says as he made sure everyone was okay from the cameras. He then looked at the students once more, ready to announce the next team battle.

"TEAM J VS TEAM H, FIRST ONES AS HEROES AND SECOND ONES AS VILLAINS, DO YOUR BEST!!" All Might announced as he nodded at the ones that will fight next.

This made Izuku's eyes widen a bit as he now realized that it wasn't only Tsuyu's turn to fight, but also that someone that he found a bit scary will fight against her.

His eyes moved to look at the source of his thoughts. Finding her, the girl that until now has been as silent and cold as ice, Shoka Todoroki. From what he saw, she didn't interact with anyone and for all the duration of the exercise, she kept to herself, not even trying to talk with anyone, the maximum she gave to someone was a cold glance.

The boy glanced to examine her costume, seeing a plain off-white shirt with matching pants and boots, with two gold-colored straps going over the girl's shoulders. She also has what appears to be a material resembling ice covering her whole left side, even her head.

"Her eyes are so cold, it's scary" Izuku thought nervously, he is a little unnerved by loud people. But her silence was probably even more scary. If she wasn't so intimidating, he would probably blush for how pretty she is, or admire her quirk and who knows, try to Interact with her in the future, but his brain urged him to back off.

He noticed Mezo getting close to the dual-haired girl, saying something that he didn't hear, but what he did get was a nod and probably a disinterested hum. They both started to walk out, preparing to be the hero team in the exercise. A chilling aura follows the girl at every step.

"Well, I guess I will go with Ojiro to prepare to defend, I will see you guys later *kero*" Tsuyu says calmly as she walks out too while being followed by Mashirao. Izuku silently wished her good luck, he had a very bad feeling about this.

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Team B (Heroes) vs Team I (villains)
Team I

"This will be difficult" Mashirao sighed as he and Tsuyu made sure to put the bomb in a defendable area, the tension was high because of Shoka's presence in the opposing team.

"*Kero* I can try to ambush them, but I can't answer you while I put myself in position, I saw Shoji make an ear on one of his arms. If I stick to the wall, I can avoid making my steps heard" Tsuyu formulated as she look at the door. Her face was blank, not losing her composure even under a difficult situation like this.

"Okay, be careful Asui-san, I can maybe try to walk around to make them go away from the bomb" Mashirao says as he walked towards the door too, their plan created. Unfortunately, it will be frozen and made useless.

Team B

Mezo was using his arms to create multiple ears, scanning the building from the entrance to search for minimal sound. The girl was patiently waiting for her teammate to finish while leaning against the wall, some cold air being released from her lips.

After some seconds, the multi-armed boy lowered his multiple arms, one of them turning into a mouth and directed it towards the girl.

"One is in the hall on the north side of the fourth floor, walking from one room to another. I can't hear the other one's steps but I managed to hear some sounds, they are probably on the same floor" Mezo explained through the arm-formed mouth.

The girl stopped leaning against the wall and started walking forward, passing beside her teammate.

"Go outside. It's dangerous" She spoke, her voice surprising the masked boy, but he obliged, walking out of the building, just in time to see the girl touch a wall with her right hand.

"I'm sure our opponents intend to fight a defensive battle..." Shoka says coldly, her eyes narrowing a bit. Ice started to form on her hand, expanding on the wall.

"...But that does not matter to me" she concluded, suddenly, a great quantity of ice bursted out from her right hand and foot, expanding quickly in all the building, freezing the halls and rooms with cold and merciless ice.

Team I

"W-What!? The ice is everywhere" Mashirao gasped shakily, his body trembling because of the cold, even the air was difficult to breathe.

Suddenly, he heard steps slowly approaching, and ,when he looked at the frozen half-open door, he saw Shoka entering through it. Her covered left eye seemed to glow with an eerie red.

"You can move if you want..." She says as she slowly got closer, her look causing even more chills in the tailed boy's spine. He tried to move, but he was stuck, and his body was starting to lose sensitivity.

"...But your body will quickly slow down because of the cold, so you won't be able to fight your best" She continued as she passed beside him and walked towards the bomb. Her words made him understand that he was completely outmatched, his teeth clenched tight.

Meanwhile, the girl placed her hand on the bomb, freezing it and declaring her team the winners.

"Sorry. The difference in our ability was too great" she concluded as she heard the speakers going off.

"T-THE H-HERO T-T-TEAM W-WINS, *ACHOO!!*" All Might declared shakily from the speakers, the cold actually reached the monitor room and also made him sneeze at the end of the sentence.
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Monitor room

All Might and his students were comically trembling because of the cold, the students couldn't believe their eyes as they saw Team I being easily overwhelmed by the dual-haired girl, who was now using a bit of her left side to melt the ice that was covering the building.

"W-Wow!" Rikido gasped with an agape mouth, completely speechless.

"What's up with that Quirk?" Denki says in shock, finally recovered from his electrocuted status.

"As expected of someone who got in through recommendations" Tenya muttered, not believing his eyes, first Izuku, now this girl, this class is full of powerful people.

"They didn't have a chance to do anything...." Izuku thought with wide eyes while cold sweat trailed from his forehead.

"What the hell!!!" Katsuki thought equally shocked, his eyes wide and pupils small, even he was shocked by the amount of power. He even began to doubt that he could defeat her in his current state.

All Might stopped shaking as he turned to face his students, an imaginary icicle attached to his chin.

"WELL THAT WAS A COOL BATTLE, HUH?" He tried to joke with a finger gun, resulting in blank looks directed at him.

Suddenly, the door was shoved open, and Mashirao and Mezu rushed in with slightly panicked looks.

"Sir, there's a problem with Asui!" Mashirao says hurriedly, Mezu just behind him, many of his arms were behind his back, like they were holding something.

"HUH?! IS SHE FINE?! WHERE IS SHE?!" All Might asked as his smile flickered and dropped, forgetting the goofy behavior and going into hero mode.

Mezu quickly showed that the arms that were behind his back were actually carrying Tsuyu, the frog girl had her eyes closed and slightly her pale skin. The majority of the students quickly rushed close to the boy as soon as they saw her, worried about their classmate.

"I don't know what happened, I found her lying on the floor, she is still breathing, but she isn't waking up" Mezu explained as he shifted the girl so he was holding her in the front.

Izuku was staring wide eyes at the frog girl he was just enjoying talking to just some minutes ago. He was worried, no matter how much distrust he had, he was still very worried. His instincts flared up like the entrance exam, but this time, they weren't itching, they were burning.

Before All Might could suggest that they better bring the girl to the infirmary, the green-haired boy stepped forward and took the girl from Mezu as gently as possible, making her lay down with her head being supported by his left hand, so he could see what was wrong. He was fairly good at patching up injuries or even finding internal damage, all of this because of his past, he just hopes he can do something to help his friend.

"Midoriya, what are you doing?" Mezu asked very surprised, which was shared by everyone in the room, not expecting him to do something like this.

Izuku ignored his words and the stares of everyone else, limiting himself to biting the edge of one of his glove's fingers, using his teeth to pull it off. Now with his right hand free, he turned his head to look at the frog girl and placed two fingers on the side of her neck, feeling her worrying slow heartbeat and the coldness of her skin.

"Her pulse and breathing are very slow, she is also very cold and pale. I never saw something like this" Izuku says in a surprisingly collected voice, his eyes narrowing slightly with frustration, she doesn't have injuries that may suggest a head trauma, and not even a bruise was on her. The camera that showed her location was frozen, so he couldn't know why and when she passed out.

What no one noticed was Shoka entering the room, her cold eyes glancing at the group. But, when they landed on the passed-out girl, her cold aura flickered for a moment to let tints of actual guilt to show. But it faded once she saw that the frog girl was being taken care of and will surely be okay.

"Wait! Don't tell me she is dying!" Mina asked worried as she rushed forward, crouching beside Izuku. She didn't know a lot about anatomy or stuff like that, and admittedly, this caused her to panic easily about it because of her inexperience.

"No" Momo replied seriously as she crouched down to be on the other side of the frog girl, her fingers touching the same spot Izuku checked before to feel Tsuyu's heartbeat. Her eyes narrowed a bit in focus as she maybe found out what happened.

"Her quirk is related to frogs, so she is mostly likely hibernating. Frogs let themselves be frozen when under harsh climates, slowing down all their biological functions. Asui-san must have this characteristic" Momo explained as she looked up, finding the green-haired boy staring back with realization evident in his face, some worry melting away as his thought process adapted to hers.

"So if we warm her up, she will wake up?" Kyoka asked as she stepped closer, her sensitive ears catching the frog girl's heartbeat. Momo looked up at her and nodded.

Meanwhile, Izuku looked back to see some benches against the wall, they may as well lay her on something more comfortable.

He turned again to look at the sleeping girl and, by mustering his courage, he diligently lifted Tsuyu with ease, carrying the smaller girl in his arms and brought her to the bench, laying her there, taking his glove with him. The others were a bit surprised by his change in behavior, being completely different from the shy stuttering mess of before.

Once the boy made sure Tsuyu was in the correct position to rest, he looked around to find a way to warm her up, his answer not being far as Momo once again walked up to him. Her arm glowed with a multicolored light and a couple of heating blankets, plus a pillow were created by her quirk.

"Here" The raven-haired girl handed one of the blankets to Izuku, who shyly smiled, his composure cracking once he made sure that Tsuyu would be okay, with one blanked each, the two proceeded to cover the frog girl like a cocoon and lay her head on the pillow, leaving only her head and upper body visible, making the green haired boy blush even more for how adorable she looked. His embarrassment further increased once he heard the beautiful girl beside him softly giggling once she saw the previously diligent OFA user become his soft and shy self once again, the fact that others were staring at him didn't help.

"S-so e-embarrassing, I shouldn't have got in the w-way" he muttered to himself as he put back his right glove, his voice so meek that it was almost impossible to hear, apart from the girl beside him, who looked at him with a tilted head. The gear shifted in her head to understand why he was so cautious to even speak?

"I think you did good, and don't worry, now that we know what is going on, she is gonna be okay" Momo whispered back, earning a shocked look from Izuku as he completely forgot that she was beside him. He then nodded shyly and looked away with a small blush, becoming more embarrassed by being so close to the raven-haired beauty.

"Are you two close?" She continued as she tilted her head a little, by watching how caring Izuku was toward the frog girl, it was hard to imagine the two weren't close, she noticed the two talking during the quirk apprehension test. So maybe they know each other.

The boy seemed to ponder what to say, looking away, he then glanced at his gloves and to, To her surprise, Izuku shook his head with a more grim face.

"No....she just has been too patient with me...." Izuku muttered as he got up from his crouched position, he looked again at his gloves and then remembered something.

"Heating gloves!!! The letter said that the palms could be heated" Izuku thought as he hastily turned towards his teacher/secret mentor.

"All Might sensei" he called, but just now noticing that he already got his attention.

"HUH? YES, YOUNG MIDORIYA?" All Might asked as he regained his signature smile, impressed by Izuku

"I think my gloves can heat up.....c-can-...can I use them to help Asui-san?" He asked nervously as he fiddles with his fingers, hoping that his classmates will not consider him a creep.

"OF COURSE, YOUNG HERO, DO WHAT YOU MUST. ALL OF YOU, TAKE THIS AS A FIRST AID LESSON, WATCH AND LEARN" All Might says as he indicated everyone in a dramatic way, making them sweatdrop.

"I would have preferred that no one watches me...." Izuku thought a bit downcast as he turned around towards the girl, and looked at his gloves, fiddling with them to find the button to turn the heater on.

"Hey, why did he get to touch her like that?" Minoru protested with a jealous aura around him, why the shy guy was covered in chicks?

Suddenly, something connected to his head and vibrations were inserted in his body, making him almost blackout. The thing then retracted from him, showing that it was Kyoka's earphone jack.

"He is trying to help her, you cretin..." She huffed as she was already tired of this guy, admittedly, she wasn't 100% okay with it, but until now, the green haired didn't do anything remotely perverted and he seemed genuinely concerned, so she didn't voice her doubts.

"WHILE YOUNG MIDORIYA TAKES CARE OF YOUNG ASUI, WE MOVE WITH THE FIGHTS, TEAM J AND TEAM H, YOU ARE ON!" All Might says as he pumped his fist, interrupting everyone's thoughts, the mentioned team composed of Ochako and Tenya from one side and Eijiro and Hanta from the other looked at each other with slightly determined gazes, ready to give their best. Ochako and Eijiro seemed especially pumped up.

Meanwhile, Izuku managed to find the button and, by pressing it, he immediately the wrist part slightly warming up. He looked at his covered palm and brought it closer to his face, feeling the warmth without even having to touch it.

"Alright, don't think about anything, you are helping a friend, just that, don't look at her face and don't think about anything else" Izuku repeated inside his mind as he crouched once more beside the sleeping girl and shakily placed his right hand on the uncovered part of her left shoulder.

*Kero*

This made him jump a bit as the girl seemed to react in her sleep, a very faint kero escaping her lips.

Izuku swallowed the lump in his throat as he brought his left hand to her right shoulder, leaning a bit forward, but he tried to stay as far away as possible. He could notice that her skin was starting to regain a bit of color, and her breathing was also getting a bit faster.

While Izuku dotted over Tsuyu, Mina, Toru and some other students were close, sometimes walking beside him to check on the frog girl or ask Izuku how he was, receiving some stuttered *I'm fine* or *I will do my best to make her wake up*.

"Wow, Midori seemed another person before. Did he act like this during the entrance exam?" Toru says in a low voice as she glanced at her best friend beside her, finding her staring at the boy they were talking about, and, to the chartreuse girl's surprise, she was actually blushing a bit.

"*um-hum*....." Mina hummed as her eyes widened a bit once when Izuku shifted his position so he could keep helping Tsuyu while being a bit more comfortable, allowing his face to be visible, what made the pink girl stop in her track was the way his face morphed into a very rare serene and genuine expression. The same he gave her while he patched her up during the entrance exam.

"Do y-you feel any p-pain?" Like a swiss clock, she remembered his genuinely concerned words during that moment, no overwhelming nervousness, no second motives, just concern. It was like helping others was his element.

With a small sigh that turned into a pout shortly after, the pink girl looked towards her best friend, managing to settle her blush, she doesn't know why she was in the first place, seeing him like this made her a bit hot in the face.

"Oh, You have no idea. Had him on top of me, he was so cool there, you need to try it" Mina joked with a grin as she put her hands behind her head. More of a slip-up than a true attempt of a joke. She could watch the gears shift inside Toru's head, the chartreuse blinked a couple of times and a shocked look immediately made her way on her face.

"I'm sorry what?! He was where?!!" Toru asked shocked as she couldn't believe what he heard, Mina didn't mention her and Izuku being in such position. What did they do there?! Could it be this was the motive the pink girl teased/flirted with him so much?

"Why don't you ask him to do it? I think you noticed that he is pretty bulky under that cute face, you can't lie to me, sis, you are curious......" Mina just further teased her best friend, earning an irritated look from her, but the blush that adorned her cheeks spoke louder than her glare. It seems she wasn't the only one testing the waters with the cute powerhouse.

"I'm not!" Toru protested as she folded her arms under her chest while looking away with a pout, yes, that guy was cute and sweet, but she isn't interested like that......

Meanwhile, Ochako skipped to her teammate with a grin.

"Let's do our best, Iida! Let's win this" Ochako cheered as she pumped her fists, ready to fight.

"Yes, of course, Uraraka" Tenya replied with his version of excitement, a bit stiff, but the spirit was there.

"G-Good luck" they both hear from their green-haired friend, who was sitting beside the covered frog girl, looking at them with a shy but interested look.

"Thank you, Midoriya-kun, we will incarnate justice or evil with all our souls" Tenya quickly thanked with some handchops, which earned a sweatdrop from everyone near.

"We will win for sure! I'll show what my quirk can do, like you wanted" Ochako says excitedly as she punched the air, giggling a little after doing so.

"Can't w-wait to see it" he says a bit embarrassed as he scratched his cheek, remembering that he expressed the desire to see the auburn-haired girl's quirk more, and he wasn't lying, but thinking back at it, he didn't know why it slipped out.

While he watched his two friends and the other two guys walk out of the monitoring room to prepare for their battle. Izuku glanced at his other two friends, who seemed to be bickering? More like Mina was saying something while smiling while Toru seemed to be giving every signal of a no through her body language, either with her arms or by shaking her head.

"Mhm?" Izuku muttered confused as he tilted his head to the side, his confusion only growing. At a certain point, the two girls noticed that he was staring at them, while Mina waved at him with a wink, Toru blushed a bit and looked away, seemingly a bit embarrassed by something he didn't catch up.

"Huh? Did I do something wrong?" Izuku thought a bit worried, thinking he may have done something to upset the girl. However, his worry turned into confusion once again when he saw Mina start approaching him with a slightly protesting Toru in tow, who was being dragged by the pink girl.

"So, how is she?" Mina asked with a smile as she and Toru were now standing in front of the nervous boy, who blinked a couple of times at the sudden question, but then shook his head, looked up at her again and gave her a nervous fake smile.

"Y-yes, her t-temperature is rising and she is s-stirring more in her sleep, she will get up in a m-matter of minutes" Izuku replied as he shyly glanced to the side, his right hand was over his lap while the left one was on the frog girl shoulder with his thumb brushing the hem of her neck to better distribute the heat without overextending his boundaries.

"You are a natural in this, ya know?" Mina added as she leaned a bit forward while putting her hands behind her back, making the boy blush for how cute she looked plus the closeness.

"W-What?" Izuku half-stuttered surprised, not expecting her to say that, especially considering that it didn't seem like she was teasing him. She was being direct with her thoughts her way.

"You jumped into action the moment we saw her passed out, You were all calm and doctor-like. Guess it's really your thing, huh?" She continued with a grin as she tilted her head a tiny bit, flustering the green-haired boy further because of her honest praise.

"I j-j-just l-like to h-help, If it was one of you, I would have done the same. For me is hard to stay still" Izuku admitted as he blushed a bit in embarrassment, he doesn't consider himself anything close to a hero yet, he just feels the need to help,

"Awww, you are so sweet, you are gonna give me diabetes. Guess you got your own way to be cool, not complaining" Mina giggled as she spun around and let herself fall to sit next to him, causing him to jump a bit and instinctively scoot a tiny bit away to give space to the pink girl.

"Ehm...Do you think so? B-but I'm not doing a-a-anything s-special. I...I actually feel guilty for t-touching her while she is s-sleeping. I really need to apologize when she wakes up..." Izuku says shyly as he sweatdropped a bit in embarrassment, the praises were

"Come on, I'm trying to give ya a confidence boost. Meanie" She whined as she pouted while leaning a bit towards him, which caused him to back away in the opposite direction embarrassed, almost causing him to fall on Tsuyu. Luckily for him, the pink girl stopped leaning towards him, allowing him to return to his previous position and notice that Toru was still silent, she simply stood in front of their bench with her arms behind her back, staring at him, her gorgeous eyes having a curious and intrigued tint, this made his blush heavily, Mina so close was already sending his heart in a speedy pattern. Now that Toru was staring curiously at him, his face couldn't stop from burning red.

"Hagakure-san, Is e-everything okay?" He asked confused with slightly quivering lips, wondering why the two girls were behaving a bit too confusing, at least for him, considering he doesn't have experience being in company, all behaviors are strange for him.

This seemed to snap the mentioned girl from her thoughts, her eyes blinked a couple of times as she awkwardly gave him a closed-eyed sheepish smile

"100% fine, Midori......just thinking that I have to agree with Mina on this one..." She continued as she opened her eyes and leaned to the side with a cute pose, her hair following her movement while.

"Huh? W-would t-that be?" Izuku stammered a bit while being even more confused, his face fully showering it. He failed to notice that Mina was smirking, which caused Toru to roll her eyes and huff, for then look at him once again.

"You are pretty cool.......for a cupcake" She half praised-half teased with a small wink. It was like her strange reluctance to get closer to him that she had before was completely vanished, replaced by the polar opposite.

"C-Cupcake?! Me?" Izuku squeaked as he indicated himself with a flabbergasted look, his face completely red because of the comparison and the wink.

"You tell him, sis!" Mina cheered as she raised her hands with a victorious face. Both she and her best friend started to giggle at the bizarre and silly but also lighthearted mood. The fact that the blushing boy's eyes were starting to look less sad and more lively was a huge plus in their books.

"They are gonna be the death of me!!!" What he didn't notice was that his heart was beating slower and calmer, and his posture was also improving, showing that even if he was flustered by the two girls' teases and praised and also the fact he got the cute frog girl so close to his lap that if he got a bit closer, she would lay her head on it, he was actually starting to get in the flow of things. What for his mind was an embarrassing situation was also a new and captivating experience. He feared to say this but........he could and would like to get used to this.
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Team J (heroes) vs Team H (villains)

"So, are we sure we wanna go in like this?" Hanta asked in a low voice as he and Eijiro were at either side of a closed door, ready to burst in. They unfortunately didn't find the bomb yet, they couldn't even hear both opponents' steps, it was all silent for a while, but the two were sure that the villain team was on this floor.

"Huh? Why hesitate, man? come on, let's go in with style" Eijiro hurried with a pumped-up grin, his arms hardening, creating sparks, but before he could barge in, he was stopped by his teammate.

"If they are waiting for us on the other side, I don't want to get a kick in the face. You can harden your body, I can't. So you go in first and I follow you in, prepare to block, okay" Hanta explained as he tried to make a more strategic entrance. Eijiro barge in, and he uses his tape to capture the villains, pretty easy.

"Alright, I will show you a manly entrance!" Eijiro says excitedly as he stood in front of the door and backed away a bit.

"Don't scream-" Hanta was about to say but the red-haired boy charged forward and shattered the door with his hardened body, making the black-haired boy sweatdrop a bit but he quickly followed suit.

Both boys put themselves into battle positions once in the room. But.....there was no one inside, not even the bomb.

"Huh? But, we checked everywhere, did they leave this building with the bomb? not fair" Hanta muttered downcast as his shoulders dropped. Where they could have been? It's not like they got an invisibility quirk, Hagakure has it, not them.

"Not very manly, I wanted a good fight" Eijiro huffed as he and his teammate looked around the room, no trace of the other team. What both didn't notice was that, floating above them, there were Ochako and Tenya, both holding onto the pillars to prepare to push themselves toward the unaware opponents. The bomb was floating close to them, strapped to a pillar by the two's capture tapes.

The two ambushing teens looked at each other, Ochako pumped her fist with a grin, making Tenya understand that it was time to attack. They both prepared themselves and then pushed their legs, descending toward their opponents.

The faint noises were enough to make the two boys of team J look up, their eyes widening as they saw their opponents coming down on them fast.

"Release!" Ochako shouted as she put her finger pads together, causing both her and Tenya's gravity to return. The engine user immediately put his leg back as smoke started coming out of his mufflers, ready to kick Hanta.

"Perish, Hero!!!" Tenya shouted in a fake murderous tone, trying to sound as villainous as possible while his engine turned on. Pushing his leg to hit the black-haired boy, who barely dodged at the last second, causing the kick to impact with the ground and crack it.

"Whoa!!" Hanta yelped as his eyes widened like plates, he immediately tried to raise his arms to fire his tapes, but his surprise made him too slow to avoid another kick from the engine user, who sent him back, the black-haired torso aching a little from the blow.

"Sero! I'm coming, ma-" Eijiro was about to go help his teammate, but he was kicked behind the head by Ochako, the momentum of the fall increasing the strength, allowing her to stun even the sturdy boy, who backed away because of the blow.

"*Ack!* A surprise attack?! not cool, I expected a manly fight" Eijiro grunted as he shook his head, narrowing his gaze as he slammed his hardened fists together with a challenging grin.

"Ehm..... I am a girl...so It doesn't make a lot of sense" Ochako says as she sweatdropped a bit, her cheeks were puffy both because she was trying not to burst laughing at the boy's fixation with a manly fight and because of her nausea.

This made Eijiro comically stumble for a moment, but he regained his composure, grinning once more.

"Well, villain, I'm not gonna lose!" The Red-haired boy shouted as he charged forward, his right arm aimed at the girl's face for one hit knockout.

Ochako yelped as she dodged to the side, the boy's fist almost brushing her cheek and hair. Her eyes darted to look at a pillar close, her arm rising towards it as her wrist guard fired a grappling hook, pulling her away from the hardening user's reach.

"Hey, stop running!!" Eijiro shouted as he chased after her.

Meanwhile, Tenya was swiftly avoiding Hanta tapes while also being careful to not stumble and keep his footing.

"Man, you got me good before, but it will not happen again!" Hanta says as more tape burst out of his elbows, one managing to wrap around the engine user's arm, whose' gaze immediately fell on the caught arm.

"Got you!" Hanta as he shot another tape to any pillar nearby to stop the engine user from freeing himself. He then immediately turned towards Tenya intending to restrain him. But to his shock, fire starter to erupt from the armored boy's mufflers.

"Engine Boost!!" Tenya shouted as he increased the strength of his quirk, tugging hard against the tape, causing Hanta to struggle a lot to keep him still even with the added leverage of the pillars.

"*Urgh* not gonna let you go so easily, pal!" Hanta grunted as he kept his feet planted on the ground, sweat dripping from his forehead because of the struggle.

At the same time, Ochako and Eijiro were still trying to find a way to defeat the other. The girl for now was focusing on dodging, knowing that the red-haired boy had her beat in strength, her eyes glanced around as she used her grappling hook to get out of the way of a tackle, resulting in Eijiro slamming against a pillar, destroying it. The boy shook the dust from his hair and looked back at her with a slightly frustrated look.

"Come on, Uraraka, give me what ya got!" Eijiro shouted frustrated. What he didn't realize was that his missed attack gave an idea to the auburn-haired girl, her eyes darted from the destroyed pillar to Tenya and Hanta doing a tug battle, for then return to the approaching red-haired boy.

"I need to use my quirk on him, I can help Iida this way, come on Ochako, you can do it!!" Ochako thought as she resisted the nausea and steadied her nerves, ready to jump into action. She backed away to be close to a pillar and quickly touched it, her finger pads glowing pink for a moment. Instead of using her grappling hooks to dodge, she remained put as Eijiro charged at her.

Her eyes flickered as she saw the red-haired boy prepare a punch. She managed to dodge at the last second, this time the punch managing to lightly scratch her arm and damage a bit her costume's sleeve but she didn't get distracted. She hastily looked back just in time to see the boy's punch impact with the pillar, breaking it, she grinned with quivering lips as she noticed a particular of the debris.

The red-haired boy was about to turn around and resume his assault, confident that he was slowly getting closer to hitting her, but he was distracted once he saw that the pieces of the pillar he just destroyed were floating.

"Huh?" He muttered confused, just a second of distraction was enough for him to feel a hand slap him on the back, and a sensation of lack of weight disturbed his equilibrium. His body was floating and he wasn't good in to swim in the air.

"Oi Oi, what!" He panicked as he tried to run around, causing his equilibrium to be worsened even more. Before he could float more, his legs were grabbed by the girl. Making him glance down, seeing that the girl was holding him like.....a bat? The auburn girl's cheeks were puffy, her nausea at the limit of making her puke her stomach out, but she still continued with her plan.

Eijiro's thoughts were cut off as the girl swung him with ease towards the floating debris, his arms instinctively going to protect his face, doing exactly what she expected and hoped him to do.

"Comet Home Run!" Ochako shouted as she made Eijiro impact with the debris, sending them through the air towards her target, Hanta.

Both Tenya and Sero looked to the side and their eyes widened seeing a barrage of debris flying towards the formed, who could move because he pinned himself to capture the engine user.

"Oh no-" Hanta was about to say before the barrage stormed on him, some hitting him, and, more importantly, hitting his tape, weakening or snapping them. This was all that Tenya needed, the boy immediately put himself into a position to rush and....

"Engine boost" He shouted once again, his mufflers taking life with fire bursting out, Hanta couldn't do anything as he got forcefully dragged by Tenya, losing his footing and helmet on the way.

Ochako meanwhile spun around and swung the stunned Eijiro once again, this time throwing him forward. She then put her finger pads together and released her quirk, just in time before she could puke.

"Aaaahhh!!" The red-haired boy screamed as he flew across the room, impacting hard on the ground as his gravity returned.

Before he could try to get up, Tenya rushed towards him while dragging Hanta and then changed direction hastily, launching the black-haired boy towards Eijiro, making both fall on the ground. But it didn't end there, the engine user rushed around the room, talon any tape he could grab and quickly wrapped it around the two stunned boys, who just now realized that they were extremely close to default, they didn't know if this counted as a capture, but they didn't want to find out.

"They got us, damnit" Eijiro grunted as he tried to force the tape open, but it was sturdier because of the multiple ones that have been used.

"Ahh! Come on, man! cut the tape!" Hanta hurried. But, before the red-haired boy could do what he said, Tenya walked towards them, his voice attracting their attention.

"I wouldn't do it if I were you" Tenya started to say, still deep in his villain play, he took a bit too seriously this villain vs heroes thing.

He pointed to Eijiro with a sharp look.

"I've put Kirishima's arms very close to your chest, if he tries to harden his arms, he will risk hurting you. Heroes are supposed to not hurt each other, right? So, what are you gonna do now, hero?" Tenya declared with a dramatic pose, earning a laugh from Ochako, who couldn't resist the silliness of his villain's imitation.

This made both boys' shoulders slump, understanding that they were basically trapped.

"They got us..." Eijiro muttered flabbergasted with slightly wide eyes.

"You are very serious about this villain thing, man..." Hanta found the time to joke, a sweatdrop on his head.

"What are you talking about?" Tenya says in a dramatic tone, turning around and giving his back to the two boys. Increasing their confusion.

"I am..... extremely evil!" He dramatically says as he gave them an *evil* glare, the three could strangely picture his face under the helmet, and it was more hilarious than intimidating.

"Pffffff hahahahahahaha!" Ochako started to laugh, followed suit by the other two. However, the girl stopped as her face became green because of the nausea, the others didn't seem to notice.

"Hey, my interpretation is not a laughing matter!" Tenya shouted offended as he broke character and hand-chopped the air.

"THE VILLAIN TEAM WINS" All Might's voice came from the speakers, cutting their laughs and announcing Team I.

"We won, but we were the villain, this is a victory that we should take as a lesson from" Tenya says, trying to be wise, everyone seemed to be quite content with that, until....

"*Blearghhh!!*" Ochako vomited rainbows behind a pillar, making everyone sweatdrop with awkward smiles while looking away.
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"*Whistle*, they got them pretty good" Kyoka says with a hand on her hip, impressed by the ambush Team I prepared, she is sure that she too would struggle a little to hear them if she was in the hero team.

"What's the deal with those poses?" Denki commented as he scratched his hair confused.

"They hid in the shadows and stuck like true night creatures, I'm impressed" Fumikage muttered to himself as he folded his arms.

"The bomb seems light, It's still dangling" Minoru pointed out.

While the others were commenting on the battle. Izuku, Mina and Toru were looking impressed at the screens, which now showed Tenya glancing at the other side of the pillar Ochako vomited and recoiled in visible disgust, okay, the imaginary rainbows were a lie!!

"Whoa, Iida is so fast. I don't want to be him if he slips while running, imagine the fall, ouch" Toru lightly joked from her seated position, her eyes glancing at her two friends. After getting more comfortable with the green-haired boy, the girl didn't hesitate to join him, Mina and the still-sleeping Tsuyu on the bench. Causing Izuku to scoot away a bit more to give the two girls as much space as they would want, thinking they may not like him sitting too close. This made the green-haired boy make an extremely embarrassing decision to avoid making the frog girl uncomfortable or risking making her fall, and the idea was to shakily put the pillow on the edge of his right upper thigh and lay her head on it again. His right hand was still doing its job to lightly press the heated palm on her shoulder or neck to finish warming her up. The occasional amused looks both girls gave him didn't help his embarrassment to settle down.

"Pfffff Uraraka sure knows how to do a home run!" Mina laughed a bit as she whipped a small tear from the corner of her eye, she and Eijiro knew each other already as horn buddies! But she can't help but laugh seeing Ochako using him as a baseball bat, but hey, at least he took it well.

"Amazing...." They both heard from the boy sitting with them, making them glance at him, finding him with slightly sparkling eyes, his posture and mood seemed to improve at every fight, like he was getting distracted from whatever terrified him when the teams were chosen.

"Uraraka-san used her own disadvantage to catch Kirishima-kun by surprise, and she helped Iida-kun to finish the job. So, cool, if only I had my notebook here" Izuku muttered with awe, adorably blushing a bit for the excitement of seeing quirks in action. He didn't notice that he muttered loud enough for the two girls sitting with him to hear him, both starting to lightly giggle, his old classmates would find his passion creepy, but the two found it actually cute.

"He really likes quirks, huh?" Toru asked as she nudged Mina, who gave her a side glance with a small smile.

"Yep, and he is kinda cute without that moody face. Like, look how sparky he got, if only he could smile more" Mina whispered back as she glanced back at Izuku, who was muttering to himself, words seemed to float around him, making her sweatdrop.

The boy's muttering was stopped once he felt Tsuyu stir more in her sleep, some soft ribbits escaping her lips. This made the boy glance down at her, noticing that her face was slightly changing, giving signs of waking up but also looking adorable, there was something in her usual vacant expression now showing more emotions, especially a seemingly happy one like this.

"C-c-cute!" Izuku couldn't help his mouth from muttering those words, and blushed because of it, luckily the two girls beside seemed to not have heard him. However, the was a tiny small issue that he noticed a bit too late.....

Tsuyu's eyes were open, her black irises staring back at him with a vacant gaze.

"H-huh.....A-Asui-san!" Izuku half-shouted, attracting everyone's attention, making them turn towards him and notice that Tsuyu was awake.

Meanwhile, the frog girl was still a bit drowsy, the first thing she saw was the face of the fellow greenette, just in time to hear something from him that made her eyes widen a bit.

She moved her gaze a bit, noticing the pillow her head was laying on and the fact that said pillow was against Izuku. She looked down and saw the comfortable cocoon of blankets wrapped around her body, making her quickly understand what happened.

"*Kero*" with a calm ribbit, the girl slowly raised herself from her laying position, causing her arm and shoulder to brush against the boy chest, who even tho he was trying to give her space to move, they were still pretty tight, not that she mind too much.

"Hey" She greeted as she rubbed the sleep out her eyes with the back of her hand. Many walked closer with smiles or with relieved faces.

"You are awake, what a relief/ Welcome back, Asui/ You gave us a scare/ Finally awake, heh? / It's nice to see you up and ready....." Were some of the words that the students said to her, earning a small smile from the frog girl, who was grateful for their concerns.

"*Kero* Sorry for worrying you, I should have said something before, I thought that if I ambushed them I could have avoided getting cold" Tsuyu says as she looked at the classmates that converged around her, she wanted to know what happened while she was sleeping. But, before she could ask, Momo stepped forward with a small smile.

"How do you feel?" The raven haired girl asked, wanting to know if the hibernation didn't cause lasting damage.

"*Kero* I'm okay, usually It's hard to move after I wake from hibernating. But now I feel like I just took a nap" Tsuyu replied as she nodded a bit, feeling actually refreshed, she was also curious of why she was laying against Izuku, the answer being quick to arrive.

"You should thank Midoriya for that, he was the one that warmed you up" Rikido says as he indicated the still seated boy, who blushed for being called out.

"*Kero?*" The frog girl croaked in slightly surprise and intrigue as she turned her head to look at the green haired boy. Even while she was sleeping, she could feel something warm caressing her neck and shoulders, so it was him?

Before Izuku could open his mouth and stutter something to explain himself in hopes to avoid being called a creep by her, Mina chimmed in as she covered his mouth, she knew what he was about to say so she stopped him because, in her opinion, he shouldn't apologize for being sweet and helpful.

"He stayed with you as soon as they brought you here, you should have seen him. He used his gloves to help you!" She explained in his stead while smiling, she felt a gentle tap on her hand and saw that Izuku was asking her to let go so he could talk, which she did but then stared at with a pout, silently telling him to not apologize.

Now with his mouth free and still blushing for the pink girl intervention, Izuku struggled to look at the frog girl, his anxiety at its peak considering that everyone was paying attention to the conversation. He scratched his cheek with one finger as he forced his mouth to open, stuttering what he felt was the best version of the truth.

"I-I just w-wanted to give a h-hand, and I-I was w-worried....I-" He explained nervously as his body language was all over the place, first he tries to cover his face with his arms, then the next he wave then nervously. He trailed off at the end, he was wondering if it was better to say something else or apologize. But before he could do either, he noticed that the girl was approaching.

"You worry too much, you should take it easy...." She says calmly as she now stood directly in front of him, the green haired boy looked up at her with a confused and nervous gaze, panicking because of the closeness. He didn't have time to think of the answer as the girl leaned forward, making the boy flinch and widen his eyes, his cheeks burning bright as he couldn't move an inch of his body because of the nerves. But then, she brought her face to the left side of his face and, in a span of a couple of moments, The boy felt something warm and soft press on his cheek, going away as fast as it came. He could hear some of his classmates gasping a bit.

"Huh?" Izuku thought flabbergasted as he saw the girl back away from his, a small smile on her extremely cute face.

"Thank you, Midoriya-chan *Kero*" She says with a tint of warmth in her calm voice, tapping her lips with her finger as she always does, she figured out that giving a more direct thank you wasn't a bad idea.

"Oh my" Momo gasped quietly as she put her hand on her mouth.

"Why didn't I think about doing it before?!" Mina shouted with comically wide eyes that seemed to want to go out of her eye sockets. She felt a bit annoyed by what she saw, a pout forming immediately after her shocked expression settled.

"Are you kidding me?!" Minoru screamed with bloody tear, first he get flooded in girls, and now he get a kiss? This is so unfair.

Surprisingly, Izuku didn't react at all, he was staring ahead with a blank gaze.

"Ehm, Midori? Earth call Midori" Mina says confused as she waved a hand in front of his face. But the boy still didn't react, everyone that was paying attention could see the gears shifting in his cute head, his eyes gaining a bit of focus as he finally understood what the frog girl did. First his face became completely red. Then steam started to erupt from his ears. And to conclude.....He passed out, falling on Mina.

"Kyaaaa!" The pink girl squealed surprised as the boy fell to the side and landed with his face landing on her collarbone, the fur of her costume tickling him. Her cheeks quickly gained a bright purple color as she instinctively put a hand on his shoulder, although without pushing him away.

"What gotten into you? At least give me some sweet talk before doing th-....ehm, Midori?" She half whispered-half shouted embarrassed as she looked down at the boy face, just to stop when she noticed his swirly eyes, and the fact he wasn't responsive.

A snicker from her left cut off her thoughts.

"...Are you having fun with your boyfriend?" Toru joked with a smirk, taking amusement in her best friend having the boy she likes passed out on her. A small part wanted to pout with a bit of jealousy, but she ignored it. This made the pink girl turn her head to glare at her, her cheeks still pink because of the boy standing so close.

"Now you can't tell me he doesn't do it on purpose!!!!" Minoru shouted even more angry as he keep tugging Denki's jacket collar.

"Hey, calm down, man!!" Denki protested with wide eyes as he tried to pacify the grape menace.

All Might was looking at all of this chaos with slumped shoulders and a sweatdrop.

"So this is what it feels to be a teacher? Now I understand why Aizawa drink all that coffee...." All Might thought steepishly as he wondered if he should let his students have *fun* or calm them down.

His thoughts were interrupted when he heard the door being opened, Team J and Team H entering through it.

"Sensei we are here-....ehm...what happened?" Tenya asked confused as he saw a swirly eyed and probably passed out Izuku limp on a heavily blushing Mina with his head on the crook of her neck.

Ochako entered just after him, she noticed her friend stopping in his tracks and leaned to the side to watch past him, noticing Izuku.

"Midoriy-....." She was about to call excitedly for him but stopped once she saw his condition, a blank expression quickly crossed her face. She blinked twice, and finally, she recovered from the shock.

"Hey, Ashido, what are you doing to him?!" Ochako asked hurriedly as she quickly skipped towards the two, taking Izuku away from the pink girl, a frow on her eyes as she thought that the girl was teasing him too much and making him uncomfortable.

"Nothing!! I was letting him recover, don't put this on me! I-" Mina panicked a bit as she waved her hands, still flustered for what happened before. Both Tsuyu and Toru were giggling seeing the two girls not so secretly fighting over Izuku.

Before the pink girl could say more, they heard Izuku mumble. His dazen state made him lean on the auburn haired girl, especially towards the hand holding his head. This caused Ochako to blush heavily as she didn't realize she pretty much did the same thing Mina was doing before.

"So soft, like a cat..." He muttered as he squeezed his eyes shut and then slowly opened them, finding himself face first with the auburn girl's round jaw, he then looked up and found her slightly red face.

"Urara...... AAAAAAHHHH" he was about to say, but his brain completely snapped awake as he yelped and tore himself from her hold with a crimson color on his face.

"I'm sorry!!!" Ochako apologized as it was her time to be embarrassed, what happened to her to take him away from Mina? She didn't like it a lot and wanted to help him.... right?

Now All Might looked exasperated, nobody was paying attention to him anymore.

"It seems you became quite popular, young Midoriya...." He sweatdropped, well, he should be happy, these distractions will be good to take Izuku's mind away from the next fight. He will fight with his ex abuser, and All Might hopes that his successor will have the mental fortitude to not fall under pressure....

He cleared his throat and attracted his students' attention as they needed to continue the exercise, but what he didn't notice was Katsuki standing away from the group, his eyes narrowed as he glared at Izuku And his group, his clenched fists were shaking.

"Katsuki, quirks are our tickets to greatness. You were born with the most amazing one, take your place on the top of the mountain, it's your rightful place!" A male adult voice resonated in his mind like poison, dulling any positive thoughts for forming, for him, all of this was an insult.

"Then why he is here?! He hid his quirk and made a fool of me. I....I will not let him get away with this" He thought venomously as he some sparks were created from his palms, but then he calmed down, he will have his chance im a few minutes.
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Some minutes later.

Team A (heroes) vs Team D (villains)

"So embarrassing" Izuku muttered as he covered his extremely red face. He and Toru were standing outside of the building, waiting for the start of the exercise.

The girl beside him was stretching her arms over her head. She then glanced to look at him with a smile, memories of what happened before still making her giggle.

"Awww, don't worry, it was funny, you really should have seen Mina's face *giggle*" she says with a small giggle. Her best friend rarely gets flustered, and by the way she didn't push away the green haired boy, there was more in Mina's pink head that simple her liking teasing him.

She then put her hands behind her back and shifted her body to face her friend.

"So Midori, got a plan? you are all smarty-smarty, so you must have something for us to use" Toru says curiously, deciding to focus on the exercise at hand. This seemed to snap the boy out of his embarrassment as he looked at her, nodding nervously shortly after.

"S-sorta, ehm.... c-could you t-tell me your quirk in d-detail? Mine is a simple s-strength e-enhancing one. I k-know you can become i-invisible, b-but you have limits? Any weakness? Do you get any side effects when invisible? Is-" Izuku keeps firing slightly stammered questions, his passion about quirks making him a little too excited. Luckily he stopped once he saw the girl struggling to keep up with him to answer, imaginary sweatdrops flying from her head as she waved her hands with a slightly panicked expression

"Midori, keep them slow, I can't keep up with ya, it's cute and all, but I'm not Iida" Toru says as she finally made his stop a second, wow, for a shy guy, he sure talked when you get in his element, good for him.

"S-Sorry!" Izuku apologized as he joined his hands together and bowed his head a bit.

"Just take it easy with me, I'm not smart like you. Now, you were asking about my quirk, well, as you can see...." She started to explain. But suddenly, her body quickly started to fade, becoming invisible, only her costume remained visible, at least until the girl rotated the buckle on her belt, the costume disappeared together with her.

Izuku's eyes widened as he stared at the point Toru was before, thinking she was still there but then, he heard her voice behind him.

"Or better yet, can't see. My quirk makes me invisible at command...." She explained, making the boy jump a bit as he turned his head to look at the direction her voice came from.

Izuku was a bit surprised by the fact he didn't manage to hear the girl change location, probably because of her costume's boots. Before he could ask something else, his hood was suddenly put over his head, and then invisible hands lighty pitch his cheeks, making him blush. In a couple of seconds, the hands let go of his face and the girl appeared in front of him shortly after, a slightly amused smile on her cute face.

"Ta-da! Hehehe. This is not the only thing I can do. I can trap light and release it, and I also get super strong for a while after I become visible" Toru concluded as she jokingly flexed her right arm like a bodybuilder would, just increasing her cuteness at his eyes.

The boy shook his head to regain composure and looked at her with a nervous but also impressed gaze.

"That's a a-amazing q-quirk! It's p-perfect for stealth!" Izuku nervously praised as he once again cursed him not having his notebook. Last time he showed his notebook to someone his age, it was burnt....

"You think, aww, it was a bit of hassle when I was younger, couldn't turn visible in that period. So not so amazing" Toru replied as she blushed a bit in embarrassment, remembering how boring she was considered before. It made her a bit sad, but she hid it with a awkward smile. To he surprise, her teammate shook his head in negation.

"It is s-still amazing, e-even if it's just invisibility, stealth missions are very important, and you w-would be perfect. I'm so e-envious" Izuku surprisingly insisted with sparkling eyes, looking directly at the girl's own eyes with honesty.

The chartreuse haired girl blushed a little bit because of the cute greenette's insistence in praising her quirk, especially considering that he found even the prospect of her being capable of only being invisible amazing, the last part hit more deeply that Izuku realized, which was the motive of the girl was blushing in the first place.

"Oh, you adulator!!" She managed to regain her composure and joke a bit, lightly pushing him with one hand, which made his realize what he said.

"I wasn't trying!-" Izuku was about to stammer, but the speakers turned on, cutting him off.

"TWO MINUTES AT THE START OF THE BATTLE, PREPARE TO BRAWL, HEROES AND VILLAINS" All Might's voice was heard of the speakers, making both teens realize they are loosing too much time talking. They at least need to create a plan.

The boy immediately looked at Toru, his stare becoming more focused as he dulled everything else, his mind putting a plan together with the informations he had, the girl stared back with a tilted head, but didn't say anything as she understood what he was doing. After a few seconds, Izuku finally parted his lips, starting to explain his plan.

"I think I know what we can do..." Izuku started to say as he blinked and focused his stare on Toru's face, the girl straighten her posture and looked more attentive.

"I'm all ears, Midori, lay it on me" she says with a small smile, once again a bit surprised on how much the boy can change his attitude.

"During the quirk apprehension test, I n-noticed that Tokoyami's quirk doesn't like light at all, like it's sentient, I even heard him talk with it.....so, his quirk have a mind of its own, and it seems to be scared of light..." Izuku begins to explain, he remembered seeing a sort of bird headed creature connected to the boy, and it seemed scared of Katsuki explosions. Connecting these informations with the memory of what happened before with the creature giving him a thumb up, he understood that there was someone else in Tokoyami's body, and this was both amazing, and scary.

"So if I can store some light, I can fire it at him and scare his quirk off, yes I can do it! I could become invisible before doing it so he can't see me" Toru added more to the plan while shifting her body around to imitate what she want to do.

Izuku nodded, but then he realized something and stopped. His face palled instantly as he realized that now that they planned on how to deal with Tokoyami, there was another problem to focus on.....Katsuki.

The girl seemed to notice his change in mood, and before she could ask what was wrong, Izuku spoke with a slightly hasty voice.

"Hagakure-san, If we meet Bakugo, l-leave him to me, okay?..." He says as he frowned a bit, but the slight pale face and the sweat trailing from his forehead showed that he was nervous.

"Why?" Toru asked confused and a bit concerned, the conversation of the other time returning in mind, he looked so terrified when her and the others asked about Katsuki.

"His q-quirk, reflexes and technique is dangerous. I can k-keep up with my quirk, if you remain with me, you could get caught by his e-explosions....." He explained as best as he could without giving in the complete reason, which was that he was dreading the thought of Katsuki even laying a finger on Toru, no!!! He can't allow him to even get near her. He doesn't know if the ash blonde will be excessively violent against people that aren't him, even if forbidden by the rules, he doesn't want to take the chance.

He swallowed the lump in his throat as he managed to get the words going, using his previous explanation to convince Toru to let him fight alone.

"Your quirk can c-counter Tokoyami's, so if we meet Bakugo before him, p-please leave me behind. I will r-reach you in no time" Izuku concluded as he tried to put a brave face, hoping it will be enough to remove Toru from Katsuki's reach.

The girl stared at him perplexed. She couldn't get why he didn't want her to fight with him, like, wouldn't they defeat the blonde and the bird haired boy faster if they were in two? She could see that there wasn't a way to change his mind easily, so she accepted it.

"Alright, Midori, we do it your way, but keep your comunicator on, okay?" She says with a small sigh, maybe it's better like this, that blonde is very scary and she already saw that Izuku isn't weak. She could trust that he wasn't going to leave her alone in the battle.

"It w-will be always on" Izuku nodded nervously, relieved that she accepted his plan. The other side of the coin was that he will fight Katsuki.....alone.

As it always has been.....

Team D

Katsuki and Fumikage were standing in one of the rooms of the building, the bomb safely placed close to them. They both were silent, one because he wasn't a talkative person, the other was busy with his venom-filled thoughts, he just couldn't pinpoint all of these discovering since he entered this school, first he found someone that is stronger than him, people have the guts to talk back to him, and even worse, Deku has a quirk that he never knew about. It was sending him into a spiral of self doubt, and when he is insecure about himself, HE GETS ANGRY AND TAKE BACK HIS PLACE.

"He took all the beatings, all the quirks that they could throw at him, but he never used that fucking quirk..... He always got in my way and he even considered me not worth using his quirk against....." Katsuki thought with gritted teeth as he clenched his fists. He could barely keep his anger and spite in check, but he was beyond losing control over weak Deku.

He turned his head a little to give the extra behind him an irritated side glance. The gears inside his head working to find a way to use this extra to defeat Deku, he naturally will not let him get in the way of his battle against the greenette, but the other extra needs to be dealt with.

"Bird brain, is your shitty quirk vulnerable to light or bullshit like that?" He grumbled, like Izuku and others, he noticed Fumikage's quirk recoiling when a strong light was present, only a idiot wouldn't notice that.

The bird headed boy furrowed his brows at the unnecessary rudeness, but decided to do an effort to go along with his teammate.

"*Hum* Dark shadow doesn't appreciate light, why?" He replied seriously with a small nod, have his quirk weakness discovered so easily didn't sit well with him, but if he think more about it, it's better like this. At least they know what to do if he loses control.

"Then you are useless if we are against Deku. No matter, I will crush him myself" Katsuki scoffed as he looked ahead once again. This made Fumikage narrow his eyes even more, not liking this unjust aggressivity.

"Your heart is full of spite and rage towards him. Why do you dislike him so much? Is Midoriya really deserving of this treatment?" The bird headed boy asked seriously, this caused Katsuki to look at him a angry glare, which didn't intimidated Fumikage at all.

Seeing that his teammate wasn't backing down or flinching at his might, the ash blonde scoffed, a scowl made way on his face as he turned his body to face the other teen.

"Mind your fucking business, bird brain, it's between him and me" He spat like venom, glaring fiercely at the other boy with sparks coming out of his palms. If people get to know how Izuku had pity on him and asked for him to be spared, they all would think he is weak, that's not going to happen.

The bird headed boy slightly glared back, but after some seconds, he closed his eyes and sighed. He then opened his eyes again as he frowned at the ash blonde.

"Very well" Fumikage says without a tint of fear, letting the subject go for now, he can't risk fighting with his teammate before the fight even started. Doesn't mean he will forget this conversation.

Before both could add something, a sound came from the speakers.

*BZZZZZ*

"START!!!" All Might voice boomed from the speakers, which declared the start of the exercise.
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Without a word, Katsuki started to walk towards the door, which confused Fumikage.

"Where are you going?" The bird headed boy asked with a tint of confusion, this made the blonde stop for a moment, but he didn't turn around to face him.

"You are useless to me, you stay here and defend the bomb like a good extra, I'll go take care of Deku" Katsuki scoffed as he was about to resume leaving, but his teammate's voice interrupted him once again.

"You shouldn't undestimate him...." Fumikage started to say as he folded his arms, his words making the blonde's shoulders to go up, like he just heard the most absurd thing in the world.

"Ha?" Katsuki muttered as he turned his head to glare at the other teen, who didn't hesitate to finish his sentence.

"He hides a darkness greater than my own...." The bird headed boy concluded as he turned around and closed his eyes, not wanting to explain himself further, he saw it, the red glint in that kind boy's eyes. Beneath that shy and fearful exterior, there's something that even Dark Shadow commented to be terrifying.

He received a sneer as an answer, his warning wasn't being taken seriously.

"Then I blow it to pieces together with his ugly face" Katsuki mocked as he kicked the door open and rushed out, leaving Fumikage alone.

The boy sighed to himself in slight annoyance. Suddenly, something started to form from his torso, dark colored energy converged together and formed a creature with features similar to the boy it was connected. Its glowing eyes glanced at the door and then at the bird headed boy.

"He is so rude! Can't believe we are paired up with someone like him!" The creature whined as it folded its unnatural arms.

"I don't like it. But whining will not win this battle, we must be watchful in case he fall" Fumikage says as he started to patrol the area. Curious of the outcome of the incoming fight.

Team A

The two teens successfully managed to enter the building through a window. Now they were walking through the corridors, staying on high alert to any surprise attack from the rival team.

"There are a lot of blind spots, we need to be careful. They could be hiding in any corner" Izuku thought warily as his eyes glared at any blind spot he and his teammate were getting close to. For now, they didn't meet resistance.

Toru was quietly walking behind him, her steps behind extremely quiet compared to his armored boots. Her eyes were shifting from looking past Izuku, looking back to see if they weren't followed, or give some quick glances at the greenette's back, his hood was raises, which makes it seem like she was following a humanoid bunny. The girl was having a hard time not touching the ears of his hood.

"We are like spies in those old movies, should we make some code names?" Toru joked a bit in a whisper, trying to ease a bit the tension. She felt a bit of delight when she heard the boy in front of her release a very weak chuckle, but it died out pretty fast. After a couple of seconds, the boy gave her a quick side glance to then look ahead and continue walking.

"So y-you are s-storing light, right?" He asked as he stopped just before a corner, putting his ear close. After he made sure that he didn't hear a noise, the boy did a full turn to look at on the other side, still nothing. He turned his head towards his teammate and nodded, both resuming walking.

"Uh-huh, there's not a lot of light here, but I managed to take some when we were outside. I think I can fire two or three shots" Toru replied to the question of before, her skin felt a bit tingly, which was a good thing because it means that she has a good amount of light stored in her cells.

The two were getting closer to another blind spot, but before Izuku could check if there was someone.....Katsuki came out from the adjoining corridor, eyes immediately darting to them with a menacing glare.

"FOUND YOU, EXTRAS!!" Katsuki roared with a savage grin as he raised his right hand, opening it as his palm started glowing. He was quickly closing the distance

"Waaaa" Toru yelped as she was tackled out of the way by Izuku, just in time to feel a scorching explosion rampaging from the spot the two were before. The two landed on the ground some meters away, the boy on top of her to shield her, black lightning bolts quickly started to circle him once they landed as be didn't manage to activate OFA when Katsuki ambushed them.

The girl's closed eyelids twitched a bit, and, when she opened them, she found herself face to face with her teammate, who was on top of her. The boy was basically pinning her to the ground, his hands placed the floor close to both sides of her head, his face showing a mixture of fear, stress and relief.

"That was close...." He gasped as his eyes shook for a moment and regained focus. He stared down at the girl beneath him, searching for injuries on her face. He could hear the debris of the destroyed wall falling on the ground. He was lucky his reflexes weren't so bad.

"Are y-you okay?" He asked with concern, making the girl snap out of her shock and blink a couple of times, nodding shortly after as she didn't trust her words for now. Her cheeks quickly tinted in red, both for the position and the closeness, which was so narrow that they could feel each other breath. Okay, maybe she needs to agree with Mina even this time, maybe adding something else, this was more than nice.....

"Ha? You dodged? Spineless coward, stop running away and fight me!!!" Katsuki's voice was heard, causing chills to run Izuku's spine and making him turn his head to look behind. Shortly after, the ash blonde walked out the hole he created on the wall, a glare immediately being directed at two downed teens.

The green haired boy quickly looked down at Toru, his stress visibly increasing, he needs to get the girl out of here before she could get hurt.

"You n-need to go to the bomb, I'll take care of Bakugo, quick!" He hurried as he tried to get up, but the girl took a hold of his sleeve and mask, a worried and uncomfortable expression on her face.

"Ehm-w-wait! We ca-.." the girl was about to protest, seeing first hand how aggressive the ash blonde was. Leaving Izuku alone with him was a big no! However, her protests were quickly shut down once the boy gently removed her hands from him and raised her from the floor with ease, his touch gentle but she could feel his hands shaking, making her look up at his face.

"We n-need follow the plan, it's going to be okay..." Izuku says as his eyes squinted a bit, begging the girl to do as he said. However, before she could answer, he turned his body to face the approaching ash blonde, whose hands were releasing sparks, his stare promising anything but mercy.

The greenette glanced back at her with a nervous smile, sweat started to build and drip from his face, showing that he was as nervous and scared as she was.

"Let's w-win this!" He says as he gave her a thumb up. He didn't wait for a response as he turned towards his childhood*friend* once again, he was feeling his body trembling in fear. But, the thought that if he refused to fight, the blonde may go after Toru caused unnatural determination to flow in his mind, dulling the fear away.

The girl stared at him, then at Katsuki, who surprisingly didn't get closer, as to wait for her to go away, if he simply didn't get about her and wanted Izuku's focus. After some moments, she reluctantly nodded and rushed away from the fight, the ash blonde didn't even gave her a glance, just grinning savagely as he faced the greenette.

The ash blonde sneered with a mocking look on his face. But Izuku knew better than not to notice that his childhood abuser was hiding his anger beneath a clenched jaw and venomous mocking.

"*Let's win this*? Are you so sure of your victory? Let's change that..." Katsuki mocked as he took a step forward, making the boy instinctively flinch a little, just like he remembered, this will be easy.

Izuku's eyes instinctively shook for a moment as he resisted the urge to take a step back.

"Ready to be crushed like old times?" He continued as he raised his hands with their palms facing up and created bigger sparks.

The made the green haired boy stop a moment, his focus returning once more as he forcefully drowned his overwhelming fear, his body instincts becoming silent once he remembered what he has done to be here, how much training he did.

He raised his gaze to meet Katsuki's with a defiant look, surprising the ash blonde once he saw the weak crybaby glare back at him.

"Not like old times...." Izuku muttered as he clenched his shaking fists, the veins in them bulging. He focused on his quirk factor, making raw power pump in his system, black lightning bolts erupting around him as his eyes started glowing.

"This time...." He continued as he put himself into the best battle position he could, it wasn't anywhere perfect or as refined as heroes or other students, but it symbolized something....

No more cowering, no more hesitation.

"I bite back" he concluded as his eyes narrowed, a red glint shining in his eyes extremely quick, disappearing as soon as it appeared. He would be lying if he said that he wasn't having a hard time keeping himself focused and not being overwhelmed by memories. But he was here to fight, his team depends on this.

They stood glaring at each other, sparks cracking from one side and eerie lightning bolts in the other.
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*Boom*

Katsuki suddenly aimed his hands in his opposite direction and caused explosions to rampage from them, propelling him forward at very high speed. Once close to the greenette, the ash blonde, shifted his right arm, preparing for a devastating swinging attack, the heavy gauntlet adding just more force to it like it was a warhammer.

"I'll blow you away. but just short of getting this interrupted!" Katsuki shouted as he swung his arm towards the boy's side, but to his shock, Izuku caught the attack without recoiling from the impact, his body shaking the smallest bit but he easily regained his footing.

The green haired boy looked up to him while still holding the attacking arm in a tight hold. His enhanced strength overpowering the ash blonde momentum.

"You always start with a big right swing. I'm not so stupid as to forget every time you used it on me" Izuku muttered with some dark tints bubbling from his timid voice. His eyes flickered red for another split second, OFA was slowly worming its way into its user's emotions, every crackle of the quirk disrupting his focus.

before Katsuki could do anything, the green haired boy pulled him over his shoulder and slammed him on the ground. The blonde wheezed as the impact sent painful shocks in his nerves, his eyelids were closed and shaking while his teeth were clenched together in both anger and pain.

Izuku didn't wait a second to hastily try to use the capture tape to tie the explosion user up. But as soon as he got closer, Katsuki suddenly opened his eyes and glared at him.

"Oh you don't!!!" He shouted as he raised his hand and launched a close range explosion, barely grazing the other boy, who recoiled a bit because of the shockwave and heat but his increased durability mostly brushed off the attack.

Izuku let out a slight frustrated gasp as he watched Katsuki swiftly get up, the mocking facade brushed off as he showed a pissed off face. Seeing the boy that used to cower from him now challenging him and now even damaging him. It was too much for him to contain, he will not let him humiliate him like this!!!

"Now I'm really pissed!!!" Katsuki shouted as the veins in his forehead bulged, his teeth clenched together hard while his body shook at the sheer anger and indignation he was feeling. No way he is gonna lose to Deku, not to him!!!

With this anger fueling his muscles as much as blood does, the blonde charged forward, but this time he paid attention so to not give openings again. He was surprised when the green haired boy this time charged forward too, cutting the distance between them.

Katsuki's eyes widened as he saw Izuku prepare an attack before he could.

"Smash!!!" The green haired boy shouted as he sent a right punch directed at the ash blonde head, unfortunately for him, his opponent was capable of skillfully dodge at the last second, the attack almost brushing against his cheek.

"His reflexes are too good even for 5% of OFA, I-" Izuku was trying to think but his eyes caught sign of the blonde raising his left hand, his palm aimed at the green haired boy, ready to fire a explosion.

"OFA 10%!!!" The greenette chanted in his mind as he increased his percentage and pushed the attacking arm up from below, causing the explosion to rampage above them. Izuku's ears were whistling because of the strong noise, but he didn't let it bother him as he immediately took a hold of both of the blonde arms and directed his palms away from him.

What he didn't see coming was the blonde quickly kneeling him on the gut, the knee-guard just further increasing the strength of the blow.

"*Ack!*" Izuku wheezed as the blow left him temporary stunned, which gave the blonde time to bring his head back and...

*Bam*

Katsuki headbutted him without hesitating, causing the green haired boy to stumble for a moment and let go of his arms. But, what the explosion user didn't expect was Izuku regaining his footing, open his eyes with a fierce glare and....

*BAM!!*

The green haired boy headbutted him even harder, causing his nose to bleed and his head to spin.

"*URGH!!*" This time Katsuki recoiled for the pain, backing away while holding his bleeding nose. He shook his head to remove the dizziness and glared back at his opponent.

"You bastard!" He spat as he quickly propelled himself towards the green haired boy and raised his other hand, sparks coming out of his glowing left palm.

"Here he comes!" The still slightly stunned Izuku hurried in his mind as he bent his legs a little and quickly jumped out of the way of Katsuki's attack. But, he didn't end it here, the green haired boy quickly put his right hand in a flicking position, the glove quickly activated and redirected the air in a focal point.

"Black armor, burst 15%" Izuku started to chant in his mind as OFA lighting bolts got stronger around his body.

"Delaware smash!!!" He shouted as flicked his fingers, sending a air bullet towards Katsuki, whose eyes widened in shock as he instinctively raised his arms to block. The air bullet impacted with his arms, being strong enough to bruise his skin and pushing him back a little.

The ash blonde hissed with gritted teeth as he looked down with wide eyes at the bruised skin on the area he was hit, what the hell?! That hit like a fucking hammer.

"An air bullet?! It's not like that time in that test and he isn't breaking his body this time. So he is holding back and it's still enough to create air bullets?!!" Katsuki analyzed as he saw Izuku rushing forward faster than before, actually causing the blonde to go to the defensive.

"Damn it!!! I can't let him hit me then. This fucking annoying Dek- fuck!!!" Katsuki was about to say in his mind, but he came to a halt when he barely managed to dodge a left hook directed at his head. He didn't expect Izuku to get faster all of a sudden.

He tried to use his explosions to reposition himself, but he had to avoid an even more dangerous jab directed at his face. However, he didn't notice Izuku using the remaining momentum to send another punch with the other arm, hitting the blonde in the gut and pushing him back.

Katsuki coughed as he stumbled back. He hated to admit than that bastard's punches hurt like hell. But, he will be damned if he let Deku of all people overwhelm him.

"Let's see how you can dodge this, you damn nerd!!!!" Katsuki shouted as he jumped back and brought his hands close, aiming both palms towards the greenette, a orange glow enveloping them.

Izuku's eyes widened in terror as a massive explosion was thrown at him, the distance was enough to not be dangerous, but it was going to hurt a lot and the blast didn't leave any opening to duck.

"I can't dodge this!! Then, I have to disperse it! You can do it, Izuku!!!" Izuku boosted himself to reignite his courage, charging OFA to the limit as he lowered himself and then sprinted head on towards the incoming explosion.

"Black armor, burst 20%" Izuku chanted as he increased his percentage of OFA to the absolute limit, his body felt like it was being crushed, but he grit his teeth and held. Now that the power was stabilized, he prepared his right arm, the black lightning bolts converging around it.

"Texas smash!!!" He shouted as he threw a direct punch in front of him, generating a powerful shockwave to be thrown forward, right against the explosion.

The shockwave and the burning blast meet at the center of the corridor, dispersing each other and causing both teens to be hit by hot wind and smoke, obscuring their vision.

Katsuki tried to have a free line of sight as he swept the smoke away with his hand, he thought he would find the weakling unconscious, but to his surprise, he saw two glowing eyes glaring at him from the smoke and, when it dispersed, Izuku was seen standing there, so burns and dirt on his costume, but he was still on his feet and pretty much unharmed.

"What?!" The blonde though shocked with his mouth agape, he brushed off one of his strongest explosions?!!! One so powerful that even his arms were getting stiff because if the recoil.

Meanwhile, Izuku exhaled with a bit of pain. His body was aching a lot, especially his right arm, which felt that was very close to cracking, making him bite his lips and making his eyelids twitch.

"I hope Hagakure is doing okay, I need to reach her fast!" He thought as he prepared once to face the blonde, who did that same....

Both didn't wait a second longer to charge at each other once again.

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Another zone of the building

Toru managed to infiltrate in the room where Fumikage and the fake bomb were thanks to her invisibility. She was behind a pillar with a hand cupping her ear because her communicator couldn't become invisible like her and her costume. She could hear multiple explosions rampaging from the building, worrying her as she didn't hear from Izuku.

"Alright, maybe I can just touch the bomb, no need to fight" She thought as she peeked from corner of the pillar, watching Fumikage scanning the room, his sharp eyes being so focused that he looked like a hawk looking for his prey. It unnerved the girl a little, but she had an advantage over the bird-headed boy, the element of surprise!!!

She walked out of her hiding spots, her hand still hiding her communicator. Her steps were slow, the padded boots making them silent.

"Steady, steady" she thought with a bit nervousness as she was at few meters from the bomb, she just need to walk around Fumikage and......

*BOOM*

A enormous explosion was heard, so powerful that it made the whole building shake, which made the girl stumble in her feet and let out a yelp. Unfortunately, this was enough to make Fumikage notice her. His eyes snapped at her location, glaring with focus.

"So you are here, creature of transparency" The bird haired boy says seriously as Dark shadow erupted from his body, charging on the spot he heard her.

"I got you!" The sentient quirk roared as he tried to grab her with his big clawed hands.

"Kyaaaa!" Toru squealed frightened as she ducked out of the way, which unfortunately made the creature find her new location, not wasting time in charging at it.

The girl quickly ran away from the creature as it tried to grab her even while not being able to see her.

"What do I do? What do I do?! Ah! The light!!! I got three shots!!! Here I come with a flash!!" Toru thought as a newfound confidence eased up her worries, she turned to face towards the approaching creature and prepared to release her stored light.

"Flashbang!" She shouted as her invisible hands released pure light in front of her, hitting both Dark Shadow and Fumikage, making the later cover his eyes as the strong light temporary incapacitated his eyesight. Dark Shadow was another story.

"Aaaahhh!!" The creature screamed with fear as the light drained his energy and reduced his strength, this gave an opening to the girl to attack the user.

The bird haired boy rubbed his eyes to regain his sight, he quickly looked up once he could see, being still blurry, but he still managed to notice that his quirk was still distracted because of the light. Before he could try to call for his quirk, someone appeared right in front on him.

"Surprise!!!" Toru shouted as she clenched her right fist and punched the boy right in the gut, her strength being higher than a girl her size may suggest.

"*Ghaaaa*" Fumikage gasped in pain as he was pushed back by the attack, dragging Dark Shadow with him.

The girl's gaze immediately fell on the fake bomb, and she didn't waste time to run towards it while activating her invisibility once again, one touch and her and Izuku will win. But before she could that, Dark Shadow blocked her way, even if she was invisible, he still saw her path.

"I know how to get you, without floor, where are you gonna walk?!" It shouted as it clawed the floor, destroying her way to the bomb. If they can't find her, they will remove her

"It's not fair, I can't fly like you" Toru says frustrated as she managed to get the creature's attention, who once again tried to grab the girl. But she put her hands forward once again, light shining from her invisible palms. But then, she saw Fumikage in her peripheral vision, he and his quirk were trying to do a double attack.

"I need to be quick!!!" She panicked a bit as she used two aspects of her quirk together, her body became visible once again and her palms shining intensified.

"Surprise Flashbang!" She shouted as she first blinded both opponents and then rushed to the bird headed boy and grabbed his arm, throwing him over her shoulder. What's didn't expect was seeing Dark Shadow charging at her even while being weekended, causing her to jump back in shock and stop her from capturing Fumikage, who got up once he recovered from the attack, breathing a bit hastily, but he was pretty much still on high performance.

This made the girl realize that even if she had the advantage with her quirk, she couldn't secure the victory, especially with just one shot left and her muscles starting to get stiff, she needs a lil help. So, she tapped her communicator while avoiding the attacks of both, luckily invisibility had its perks even while fighting.

"Midori where are you?" She asked as she avoided a attack from the sentient quirk, luckily, they couldn't pinpoint where she was, but the problem was that they were making sure she couldn't get near the bomb.

She didn't get an answer for some seconds, which worried her, thinking he may be unconscious, but then...

"I'm.... I'm still fighting, are you okay?" She heard Izuku's voice, it was raspy and breathless, but at least he was still awake and kicking butts

"Not a scratch, but Tokoyam- ah, is-kyaaa, rude!!" Toru tried to explain as she had to avoid a series of attacks from Dark Shadow, the last sentence made Fumikage sweatdrop, did she just call him rude?

"Do you have a way to take the bomb?" Izuku asked.

Toru looked around, the room was very messy, but she couldn't see a way to run around the two, she needed to create it.

"I'm trying, but he is keeping me away from it, I have one last shot" she replied with a bit of frustration, running away from a area targeted by the sentient quirk.

The boy was silent at first, apparently thinking about something. After a couple of seconds, he resumed talking.

"Save it, I will create an opening, where are you?..." He says in a more serious voice, surprising her.

"Huh? Fourth floor, the big room on the right. Why? A-Are you gonna come here?" She asked as she hid behind a pillar, trying to regain her breathing.

"Not exactly, don't worry about it, when I give you the signal, you grasp anything you can hold yourself on" Izuku concluded as he cut the call, leaving the gasping girl to prepare for their joint attack.

She took a deep breath, her invisibility turning off to absorb some light.

"He seemed like another person" She muttered breathless as she was about to see if they knew where she was, but suddenly, the pillar she was hiding behind was destroyed, Dark Shadow standing on the other side, looking down at the shocked girl.

"Ehm.....You know you look like a plush?" She joked with a small smile, making the creature narrow his eyes and then rushed at her to capture her.

"It was a compliment!" Toru squealed as she ducked out of the way with imaginary sweatdrops falling everywhere.
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Some moments earlier
Izuku

Both Izuku and Katsuki stood breathlessly in a now destroyed corridor, their costumes full of cuts and burns. They both battles without end, Katsuki with his powerful quirk and top notch reflexes and technique, and Izuku with his superior physical strength, speed and durability. They were matches and this was infuriating for the blonde. The one that always trembled in fear was giving him problems.

"*Tch* Pretty big change, huh?" He says with a angry scoff, earning a slightly confused look from the other teen.

Katsuki straightened his posture, looking back at Izuku with a mocking gaze.

"Before, you would cower in fear while crying like a weak bastard, but you always stood in my way, you thought yourself to be better, huh? That shitty praises, those looks, you were laughing behind my back!" He says angrily as he glared with hate, that was he was taught, the strong comand the weak, but now they he discovered that one of the weaks has been mocking him for all this time, he wasn't going to accept it.

He didn't know that this made old wounds to open and bleed inside the green haired boy vulnerable mind, weakened by OFA. He could hear his own words of when he was just a naive kid, just wanting friends and be a hero.

"Kacchan, it hurts!"

Izuku was starting to breathe quickly with a dazed stare.

"P-please stop!"

His eyes started to shake as his fists instinctively clenched.

"T-This is wrong, Kacchan!! I know you aren't like this"

Veins started to bulge in his arms and forehead, the memories just fueling this burning desire to make them stop, starting from the source.

"Now I understand why you were all happy to be a hero. You thought you were better than me this whole time. Hiding your second class quirk like it was something more special than mine. I bet you were all happy and proud of stealing my spot two times. You even had pity on me to rub this on my face. Now I make you see where your *kindness* will bring you, TO THE GROUND" Katsuki snapped as he swept his arm to the side, mind was closed by the praises he received and by the promises of greatness his teachers gave him. But, why is that damn nerd still here?!!

What he didn't realize, was that the words had a deep effect on the green haired boy. His eyes widened and he felt a familiar sound resonating in his mind.

*Snap*

In that moment, Izuku saw red, his teeth gritted together, heartbeat thundering in his chest and pumping hot blood in his system. The memories of the countless times the ash blonde hurt him drowned his mind in fear.....and anger.

"Kat-su-ki" the green haired boy says slowly, cold, dark and dangerous. He was shaking as he said the blonde name, like his tongue was being stung by the venom of every word.

"Huh?" Katsuki muttered confused as he saw a strange aura coming out of the greenette, one that was making his skin crawl. The boy's eyes were shadowed by his hair. But then, he raised his head, showing a familiar red glow enveloping the previously kind green.

"Shut up!!!!" Izuku shouted as his irises completely flashed red and, before Katsuki could react, he charged forward, tackling the ash blonde and slamming both himself and him on the wall, breaking it and passing through the hole. His unnatural violence making those that were in the monitoring room to gasp.

The ash blonde back impacted on the floor hard, making him hiss. He opened his eyes and found a furious Izuku standing over him. They now were in a big room full of pillars, which gave a lot of movement space.

His eyes widened once he saw the green haired boy raise his arm to hit him while he was pinned to the floor, his eyes in a sort of trance state. But, before he could get hit, he raised his hand and blasted the greenette point blank, sending him away. He then quickly got up, which made him hiss even more at his aching body.

"What gotten over him, that glint-..." Katsuki was about to think but he stopped once he saw Izuku standing straight, apparently uncaring by the point blank explosion that hit him fully, limiting himself to glare at him.

The only signal that the blonde got was a stronger glow in the greenette's eyes before he rushed towards him without sign of fear.

"You damn nerd, go down!!" Katsuki shouted frustrated as he raised his hands again and fired a explosion once again, the smoke covered his vision. It's impossible he didn't hit him, and now he was surely on the ground.....Until a fist came from the smoke and hit him right in the gut.

"*Ghaaaa*" the blonde wheezed as he stumbled back, seeing the green haired boy with very light burns on his face and costume, which was releasing smoke because of the heat, but he didn't seem bothered. He just charged forward once again, not giving Katsuki a moment to breathe.

The explosion user tried to use his explosions to flank the boy but like a hawk, Izuku's red eyes darted precisely where he was going and changed direction.

"Fuck!! Take this!" Katsuki shouted as he used one hand to propel himself forward and the other was raised together with the arm for a devastating downward attack. As soon as he was close, he swung the arm, using his heavy gauntlet as a mace.

What he didn't expect was the attack to be caught..... without the greenette even giving signs of difficulty.

Izuku narrowed his eyes as his irises glowed more, and, before Katsuki could react, he grabbed the attacking arm with the other hand and hauled the blonde on a pillar.

The air was knocked out of Katsuki's lungs as the ash blonde fell on his stomach after being slammed against hard concrete. What was happening? How he became so strong and durable in a moment?!!!

His thoughts were cut off once he saw a shadow over him, he quickly looked up, finding Izuku with his arm raised up, an even more violent look in his eyes.

"Wyoming smash!!!!" The green haired boy shouted angrily as he sent a downward hit towards Katsuki who luckily rolled out of the way. The floor where the blonde was before was cracked by the mighty strike.

"That was fucking close, another hit and I'm done!" Katsuki thought with widened eyes, which immediately darted to look at his opponent, finding him still in the same position, his attacking arm still stuck on the ground and his face shadowed by his air.

"Not anymore...." Izuku muttered shakily, both anger and fear twisting together into his words, he wasn't completely here, he was reviving his memories as he fought and was trying to keep the bottled up. But, he was losing control, OFA is driving him to new peaks of violence.

"I will not stand still and take it" he continued as he made some shaky deep breaths and raised himself from his crouched down position. He was about to turn towards the blonde and resume the fight, but, his communicator went on, Toru's voice coming from it.

"Midori where are you?" She asked with a bit of agitation, signaling she was probably fighting.

Izuku eyes widened as OFA was deactivated instinctively, that voice.....Toru!!!

The boy blinked a couple of times, the realization of who was calling him managing to snap him out of his trance and let him put the memories and emotions in a cage once again. After regarding his focus, he tapped the device and answered.

"I'm.... I'm still fighting, are you okay?" He asked, his voice was raspy and breathless, showing how exhausted he was. He managed to avoid hissing in pain as his whole body felt it was tearing up.

"Not a scratch, but Tokoyam- ah, is-kyaaa, rude!!" He heard Toru try to say as she squealed a couple of times, her voice followed by sounds of broken concrete, confirming his suspects that she was fighting.

"Do you have a way to take the bomb?" Izuku asked as he glanced at the downed blonde, who was slowly getting up.

"I'm trying, but he is keeping me away from it, I have one last shot" she replied.

Izuku pondered their choices for a moment, he undestimated how strong Fumikage would be, but by the fact that Toru wasn't injured, the two were on equal ground for now.

"Save it, I will create an opening, where are you?..." He says in a more serious voice, surprising the girl on the other side of the call. He may have a way to help her.

"Huh? Fourth floor, the big room on the right. Why? A-Are you gonna come here?" She asked as her voice seemed breathless, it was oblivious that she was giving her best, and he was going to give his to help her.

He glanced around and realized that Toru was basically on the floor above him, this was perfect.

"Not exactly, don't worry about it, when I give you the signal, you grasp anything you can hold yourself on" Izuku concluded as he cut the call, leaving the gasping girl to prepare for their joint attack.

Meanwhile, Katsuki managed to get up, breathing heavily with a tired and angry face. He was pissed, no, beyond pissed.

"Going away so early? we just started" he says aggressively as he made a step forward, making Izuku take a battle stance once again, black lightning bolts returning once his focus was regained.

However, before they could resume fighting, Katsuki's right gauntlet made a noise and temporarily glowed red in some spots. This made the ash blonde grin savagely as he realized what this meant. He turned towards the slightly confused boy and aimed the gauntlet at him.

"Heh. Since you're such a stalker, by now you probably know how my Quirk, explosion, works. I secrete nitroglycerin‐like sweat from my hands and make it blow up...." Katsuki explained with a savage grin, his hand moving to the gauntlet pin, putting one finger through the small metallic hole.

This made Izuku take an instinctive step back, he had a very bad feeling about this.

"Imagine what I could do if I had a lot of it. That's right, these gauntlets aren't just for show. They've been storing up my sweat inside for one monster blast" The ash blonde continued as revealed what he was about to do, making the greenette's face pale with a horrified expression.

Immediately, the speakers turned on, and All Might's voice was heard.

"YOUNG BAKUGO! DON'T DO IT! YOU'LL KILL HIM!" All Might shouted from the speakers, demanding the blonde to stop, but he didn't listen. What no one noticed was that the explosion user changed the trajectory just slightly.

"What are you talking about?! He won't die if he dodges!!!!" Katsuki shouted as he pulled the pin, a massive explosion much stronger than the other one was launched forward, obliterating anything in its path.

Time seemed to slow down for the green haired boy, his pupils were small, heart hammering in his chest. His mind was going into overdrive to find a way to escape or at least counter the massive blast. But, when he felt the fingers in his right hand tense unconsciously, he realized that he may have a way out.

He hastily raised his right hand in a flicking position and put two fingers this time, black and white energy veins crossed them as the glove started to tear in those areas.

"100% Delaware Smash hydra!!!" He shouted as he flicked both fingers, causing a equally massive shockwave to be thrown against the explosion, piercing it like a spear and dispersing it. Smoke covered the entire destroyed room.

"What?!!!" Katsuki shouted completely shocked as he was hit by the remaining wind, making him stumble. It's impossible!!! He countered even this?!!!

Suddenly, the green haired boy emerged from the smoke, his right gauntlet was broken on the glove part, and two of his fingers were broken, but he didn't care as he closed the distance before Katsuki could react.

"Burst 10% Detroit smash!!!" Izuku shouted as he punched the blonde right in the face with a direct hit, sending him tumbling on the ground and knocking him unconscious thanks to the already high fatigue taking a toll of his body.

The green haired boy stumbled as he tried to remain standing, he was breathing heavily, trying to reduce the pain that was coursing through his nerves. His mind was like a broken record realizing that he actually beaten Katsuki in a fight.

He stood to attention once he remembered that Toru was in need of help, so he forced his body to move and look up at the ceiling.

He ran to the center of the destroyed room, put the remaining fingers of his right hand in a flicking position and aimed above, not before tapping his communicator.

"Hagakure-san, stay away from the center and prepare to grab the bomb!!!" He shouted as his eyes narrowed with sweat dripping from his face, black lighting bolts returning to circle his body.

With Toru

The girl was breathing heavily as she stared at both Fumikage and Dark Shadow, a bit of dust on her face, hair and costume, some cuts present on the former.

"I'm sorry, Hagakure, but victory is far in the abyss for you" Fumikage says seriously as his eyes narrowed.

Before the girl could answer, she heard her communicator turn on, Izuku's voice immediately following after.

"Hagakure-san, stay away from the center and prepare to grab the bomb!!!" The boy shouted at her, making her eyes widen.

Toru immediately looked around and found a pillar and rushed to it and grabbed it, which confused Fumikage but he didn't let this distract him.

"Dark Shadow!" The bird headed boy ordered.

"On it!!!" The creature answered as he rushed forward, but, as soon as he was on the center of the room, something happened. The floor started to crack and then....

*Boom!!!*

The floor in the center of the room was pierced by a massive shockwave, which hit Dark Shadow and made him slam on the ceiling and shatter it, passing through it. Fumikage was pushed back by the shockwave while Toru was still on her feet because she clinged on the pillar.

Her eyes widened once more in shock but she quickly shook her head and waited for the shockwave to sentle down and then started rushing towards the bomb. She noticed Fumikage raised his shock gaze to see her very close.

"Stop he-" he was about to call for Dark shadow, but before he could do that, the girl's body started to emit light from every part.

"This is my last shot, flashbang, full body!!" the girl shouted with a grin as her whole body sent light everywhere, it was as strong as the focused version, but it completely made both opponents incapacitated long enough for her to hug the bomb.

"Saved!!" She says happily as she hugged the bomb like it was her favorite plushy, securing her team victory.

"THE HERO TEAM WINS!!!" All Might declared from the speakers, making the entire battle stop and declaring Izuku and Toru the winners.

The bird headed boy sighed as he sat on the ground, impressed by his two classmates' performance.

Meanwhile Toru was making some small jumps while waving her arms in the air.

"Yay!!!" She cheered happily with a big smile on her face. She stopped once she heard a sound behind her and, when she turned her head to glance at the source, she saw her teammate standing at the edge of the hole, walking towards her with a relieved expression.

"G-Good job, Hagakure" He says as his normal self took control once again, he has seen better days, he was bruised in multiple places, all of his right fingers except the thumb were broken and his costume was broken or scratched on multiple points.

The girl immediately started happily rushing towards him while waving her right hand in the air. But when she was about to stop in front of him, she stumbled on a small debris on the ground and fell forward..... on him.

Both teens yelped as the girl fell on Izuku and made him fall with her on the ground, his arms instinctively ensuring he take the impact by clinging to her.

"*Ow*" the green haired boy hissed in pain as his back impacted with the ground, this was going to hurt for a while. However, he stopped in his tracks once he felt something soft all over his front. His eyes snapped open and his pupils shrunk in shock once he saw the position both were, the girl was basically pinning him to the ground, her left hand holding on his arm and the other was on the floor beside his head. Her gorgeous multicolored eyes were equally wide and shocked as she stared down at him.

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"Oh?" The girl made a faint sound as she blinked flabbergasted. Her words couldn't go out, in normal situations, she would joke about this accident. But this was the cute guy that tackled her before, looking cool while doing so. So, she was frozen in place as she stared at his face with a embarrassed blush on her cheeks.

Izuku was not holding better than her. his entire face was crimson with steam erupting from his ears. So soft, so pretty....SO EMBARRASSING!!!

He didn't know why the girl didn't move, or why she was staring at him with a cute blush on her face, or why she seemed to ponder something. But, before he could keep panicking, he noticed the girl's eyes squinting a bit, looking away for a moment and then glance at him again.

"A lil revenge for before...mhm....hey, ya know....y-you are cute when you stop hiding your face with your hands, you shouldn't hide it so much....." She whispered her thoughts in the heat of the moment, embarrassment evident, but it had an effect on him. If he could blush more, he would.

Before he could stutter something, anything, he suddenly felt something akin to an electric shock cross his brain, his eyelids growing extremely heavy immediately after, his consciousness slipping as the fatigue finally hit him. But it wasn't the only thing that was happening. Something was forcefully bringing him to unconsciousness, he had just the time to see Toru's concerned look before his eyes closed suddenly, and lost consciousness immediately after.

Something in OFA pulsed and twisted, moving like a snake, ready for the boy's arrival.

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Chapter Text

OFA dream world

Pure darkness drowned the place where Izuku's consciousness went, this time, there was no floor, no unnatural light, no wind....and for now, not even a body for the green-haired boy to look around or even interact with the void, until.....

*Crack*

Cracks appeared in the dark void apparently without a surface to lean on, they glowed white and expanded and...

*Boom*

In a flash of light, the air around the cracks was shattered like glass, and Izuku's distorted body was sent flying out of the *portal*, landing seemingly on nothing, his eyes were wide while his irises kept darting around erratic. His mind was in an erratic daze and he couldn't breathe to calm himself down, with no mouth, nose or lungs to take air, he felt like suffocating, but like before, he felt no pain from the lack of oxygen, just a lot of discomfort.

His panicked eyes started to show signs of focus after he started to recognize the awfully familiar void. He looked to the sides, up and down, seeing nothing but an eerie extension of darkness, just like last time. He also noticed the absence of a stone floor, meaning he was literally walking on *air*.

"I....I'm here again?..." He thought dazzlingly as he looked down at his own body, noticing it was mostly covered by mist, his hands being once again the only things made of flesh other than the upper half of his head.

He brought his semi-normal hands to his hair, trying to focus and remember what happened before coming here.

"I was....I was fighting, Hagakure, Tokoyami...... Bakugo. We...we won, I guess, but I passed out. *Urgh* it's all confused" Izuku thought a bit frustrated, he would have huffed if he had a mouth or lungs.

"Wait!-" He suddenly thought with more energy as his eyes widened. He quickly began to hastily look around, seemingly in search of something.

"The fact I'm here can't be a coincidence! There must be something OFA-related that I can discover...." He analyzed in his mind, a plan of action being pieced together in his mostly awake mind. Some quiet whispers and snorts were occasionally generated by the lower half of his face as he unconsciously tried to mutter his thoughts.

He stopped in his tracks once he felt a strange sensation enveloping his body followed by something glowing at the corner of his eyes.

"(Huh?)*confused snort*" Izuku instinctively tried to mutter as he turned his gaze to look at the source of the usual light, his pupils shrunk a bit as he finally saw something other than pure darkness, in front of him now stood eight medium-sized cocoons that seemed to be made of solid dark energy, black tendrils wrapped around them with spikes dispersed on the tentacles, some even directly stabbing the cocoons. The only thing that allowed the green-haired boy to see them was the same thing that caught his attention, a glow coming from each cocoon's core, all of them having a different color, white, blue, red, green, orange, purple, pink and yellow.

"(They weren't there before!!!) *Incomprehensible whispers*" Izuku tried to gasp shocked, ignoring the strange tingling coming from his few flesh body parts and the strange sensation coming from his eyes. Unknown to him, his irises were glowing red from the moment he laid his eyes on the cocoons.

The boy's eyes darted to each cocoon as he tried to memorize any detail that may give him any insight into what their nature and meaning were. He also was creating a more precise trail of thought, he noted that the black star wasn't present but the familiar tendrils were, all of them tightly wrapped around those strange cocoons like they were trying to either protect them or crush them. He could also feel himself be subtly drawn towards them, like an invisible chain was impaled on his chest and was trying to drag him towards them, but he squinted his eyes in discomfort and resisted the urge to get closer.

After some moments of this invisible and silent war, the glow of the cocoons started to flicker and the greenette's own irises followed suit, seemingly resonating with whatever was into those cocoons.

"Wh-*ack!*" Izuku was about to say in his mind, but a sharp pain assaulted his whole head, causing him to instinctively try to yelp, but what he generated was a quiet huff.

His hands grasped his head and hair as he tried to resist the overwhelming pain, which was increasing as the seconds passed, like he had a jackhammer inside his skull pounding his brain. And after a few moments.....he heard something echoing in his head....or better yet... someone.

"Cursed blood....." a chorus of voices called in unison, a chilling aura washing over the greenette, whose eyes widened like plates and pupils shrunk. What?!

The boy quickly forgot about the extreme headache and raised his gaze, being met with the same sight as before, only the void, him and the cocoons. This just unnerved him more, he remembers those whispers calling for him in the previous two OFA-related dreams, they were always multiple voices calling for him, using nicknames that just increased his confusion. Now...they were all together.

"Hate bringer......" The voices called for him once again, resulting in the greenette flinching a bit and raising his wariness to the maximum. Okay, he wasn't alone here, and that wasn't good given the previous encounters!! He needs to be reasonable, this is a dream, he can't die here.....he hopes.

A mighty thud cut his thoughts off, more following shortly, they were too many for a bipedal creature. Something far more monstrous was approaching him from the void, and it wasn't small!!!

Izuku tried to search for the one that was approaching, but his eyes found only darkness. After some moments, he unconsciously brought his stare to a particular direction, his warped body screaming at him that that was the direction the enemy was coming from.

*Thud* *thud*

The steps just grew closer, making the boy panic a bit internally, but he didn't try to run, he doubted he would go far given he was so slow with this mist-made body. So he clenched his few muscles and prepared for anything. What he saw..... deleted any mental preparation he did, crumbling the shaky determination and replacing it with pure uneasiness and terror.

Standing over ten feet tall, the creature he saw was little more than a deformed and eerie wolf-like skeleton with little hanging flesh that seemed to act like fur. Its face had dry and almost crumbling flesh and skin, barely able to hide the bones beneath and with empty eye sockets. As it got closer, the greenette could quickly notice that the creature's movements were difficult for it to perform, its thin limbs shaking with every step, like its body was on the brink of falling apart.

If Izuku had a mouth right now, he would have gasped with his lips grimacing in a scared expression. His little skin visibly paled as his pupils became as small as possible. He had seen many terrifying things in his infinite nightmares, but this....this wasn't anything he had ever seen, his uneasiness was at its peak, especially considering he could see uncovered veins and half-rotten organs hanging from the creature's few fleshy body parts.

The creature stopped a few steps from the boy, its monstrous face leaning down to let the empty eye sockets face him. It remained like that for what felt like hours, silently *staring* at him, just increasing the unsettling aura plaguing the landscape.

Izuku's eyelids dropped a bit as black-colored sweat trailed from his forehead. He tried to force himself to be the one to break this silence, even if he wasn't sure if this creature was an ally or an enemy, he would not achieve anything by remaining silent, he still needed answers. However, he was immediately cut off by the same creature, its skull-like head started to shake extremely quickly, leaving only the blur of its movement to prove that it was moving.

"You are here/We are here........./listen/talk" a chorus of four voices spoke like one, barely enough for Izuku to understand what each one of them said. Easy to say that the greenette was surprised by the sudden assault of voices, his mind felt like it was shaking with every word.

The boy shook his head and grasped it with one hand, trying to settle down the vibrations assaulting his brain. After a couple of seconds, he forced himself to glance up at the creature and be the one to say something, especially since those words of before didn't make sense.

"(Who.....w-who are you?)*incomprehensible whispers*" Izuku tried to say, but like every time, nothing comprehensible left the lower half of his mouth, just some quiet whispers that he couldn't understand. How he was supposed to communicate now?

He noticed that the creature actually seemed to react to what he tried to say. It brought Its clawed hand to its rotten face, harshly grasping it with a couple of clawed fingers impaling the empty eye socket. It then started to pull, like it wanted to tear its own face apart.

"Incomplete/broken/one/many!" It said with multiple voices, each one of them having a misc of despair and rage imbued in their words.

"(H-huh? W-what do y-you mean with *broken*?) *Confused exhale*" Izuku pressed the subject, visibly disturbed by the creature self-harming behavior.

"Clamped together, we scream in the dark for freedom-/ Our birth has been broken, your darkness was too much to contain/ OFA was shattered and put back together in an echo of rotten hate" The creature's multiple voices replied, each one interrupting the other and hardly answering any doubt the boy had. OFA shattered? Broken birth? Rotten hate? This doesn't make any sense!

The greenette shook his head as he caught a glimpse of the cocoons again, the same feeling as before returning, it was like he had an invisible chain pulling him towards them.

"One thing at a time, Izuku, I don't know how much time I have before waking up..." He thought as he looked at the creature once again who, to the boy's surprise and slight horror, has suddenly cut the distance without him noticing, towering over him and making the disgusting sight of his rotten body more visible.

After a couple of seconds of unnerving staring, Izuku blinked and did the closest thing to a deep breath he could, only resulting in him releasing some mist from the lower half of his face, his nerves were on edge, but he must press on. This is OFA, the quirk of All Might, he shouldn't be fearful.

"(What....what are those? Why do I feel strange when I look at them?) *Curious exhale*" he asked as he looked up at the creature's face and indicated the cocoons while trying to not reflexively gag for the upsetting sight, not that he could puke anyway.

The creature looked behind at the things he was indicating, small red dots the only thing present in those empty eye sockets.

"Echoes of lost battles stained with blood....." This time a singular male voice answered while the creature looked back at the boy, who noticed the red dots staring back at him, unknown to Izuku, his own eyes were still glowing red, slowly getting brighter as time passed.

The greenette's eyes widened slightly, echoes of lost battles?....wait.... All Might! his injury! Could it be that this creature was talking about the other bearers? The ones that obtained the quirk before him? If his star was black and green, these cocoons could represent them, with their colors.

His thoughts were cut off once the creature lowered his head to be face to face with the boy, who flinched and backed away a little, still very wary of this

"The war is still going, and you are the next and last one to fight it...." Another voice continued the story of the previous one, it was younger and with a calm edge.

Its skull-like head then started to eerily shake quickly like before, its maw opened and bit its own paw. It was like it was fighting itself with every sentence and action. After tearing a rotten chunk of flesh from the damaged limb, the creature seemed to stabilize, its red dots increasing in size, filling the eye sockets with red.

"For this....OFA will not let you go now that it finally took the enemy's own blood for itself.......You are property now" The male voice concluded with it becoming distorted, sending chills in every flesh part of the boy's body, who just now realized the words, did he just call him-.....

"(W-What are y-you talking about? E-Enemy own blood!!!? Property!! You-...I...) *Growls*" Izuku couldn't help himself from losing his fragile composure, the word *property* making very bad memories to resurface, where some senpais at Aldera literally called him an object that they owned, that they could break without consequences.

He felt in himself the need to clench his teeth or contract every muscle in an attempt to keep the growing tension and aggressivity in check....but it was useless. In this new and twisted OFA, anger was as essential as blood, and the quirk wanted more....

"(I-...)*hesitant whispers*" He tried to say with his fists clenched tight. He didn't notice that some of the mist from his hands was starting to dissipate, proving that the sole act of seething with anger was expanding whatever was warping his mind and body to gain more ground.

"I'M NOT PROPERTY!!!" He shouted while his eyes glowed even more in red, this time, the words were actually heard echoing in the dark, but only that. His snapping actually caused the creature to be pushed back by an invisible shockwave, its body showing cracks and damage with just that little outburst as only the irritation of being called property was enough for the boy to make OFA resonate with twisted power and glee.

The creature's body was barely holding itself together as it shakily got up on four legs, its rotten face full of cracks immediately turning towards the boy, whose hostility was still bubbling from every corner of his few possible body language.

"Yessss, this is what it want/ more, more rage!!/ More hate/this is what you are!!!" A cluster of voices rampaged from its lipless mouth, its sharp teeth smashing together in an unsynchronized mess.

This made Izuku calm a little as confusion managed to dull his rising irritation.

"(What it want? Are you talking about OFA?) *wary whispers*" Izuku asked as he squinted his eyes, he didn't know how he shifted from being scared to demanding answers, probably because his mind was a mess due to the constant influence of the quirk clawing at his brain.

The boy's eyes widened as he saw lightning bolts surrounding the creature, they were of a dark blue color, their light so faint that seemed more of an echo of his own lighting bolts, speaking of them....

To increase the greenette's surprise and confusion, his own body started to be surrounded by his own OFA black lightning bolts, dancing around his body, an uncomfortable pressure enveloping him as they appeared.

Izuku looked down at his hands, noticing that the mist had partially dissipated, letting him see his palms. Every question he could ask himself about the meaning of this was cut off before they could even be formulated when he saw the wolf-like creature point a deformed finger toward him.

"What it wants is for you to let it in/ to stop resisting/To become one with it/ But your connection is damaged/compromised...." It spoke with a more manic and erratic edge in its voices. The cocoons' glow intensified immediately after it finished talking while the tendrils wrapped around them squeezed more, cracking their dark shell.

This seemed to dissipate the last of the greenette's irritation as he glanced up surprised, wait, was it only him, or there were eight pairs of eyes staring at him from the cocoons? Each pair of eyes having the glow of their respective shell's core.

"But that's gonna change very soon..." A singular female voice cut off the boy's thoughts, making him look up. But, before he could ask for an explanation.....

*Clank*

A metallic sound resonated in the dark and spiked chains darted all around him, wrapping around his body and restraining his movements.

"(W-What?!! *Ugh* I c-can't break them!) *Panicked exhales*" Izuku panicked as he tried to struggle against the restraints, but it was useless. His eyes darted to look at the direction they came from, and to his surprise, he saw the same *portal* he came from at the start of the dream.

"OFA is still bleeding, pure hate dripping like rivers and devouring everything near..../ Quirk after Quirk, all of the hopes and dreams of the previous users have been devoured and corrupted....." The voices continued without giving, the creature's body fully raised as its eyes glared at the chained boy, who looked back with a wide gaze, quirk after quirk?!!! Plural?!! What is he talking about?!

Suddenly, everything started to shake while the chains started to pull the boy towards the cracks of the invisible wall. Izuku tried to resist, to force himself to remain in place, but he was slowly dragged away with his body feeling like it was about to rip apart from the sheer force of the chains. Meanwhile, The rotten body housing the multiple voices resumed speaking, not bothering to even listen to anything Izuku would have to say, whatever life it was behind those empty eye sockets, it was as cold and dull as the empty void around them.

"...Hate bringer must bend them to his will/ he must fight/ he must kill their will/ or die and become a husk/ a mindless weapon..." They continued, just increasing the boy's urgency to resist the restraints and try to find a complete answer to such a fragmented puzzle.

"(W-wait!) *Panicked exhale*" the boy tried to say, but he stopped in his tracks once a chain impaled him across the mist-made chest and dragged with such violent strength that the greenette was surprised that he wasn't ripped apart.

As he disappeared into the shattered invisible wall, he managed to hear a last thing before he was hauled away.

"Keep feeding OFA's flame of hatred until it burns you from within/ become the tool you are destined to be/.....or keep resisting....and turn to ash" Was the last thing he heard before his consciousness was completely taken away from the dream

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Infirmary

In the real world, Izuku was lying on one of the infirmary beds. But, his was far from a peaceful rest, he kept tossing in his sleep while OFA lighting bolts rampaged around. Suddenly his eyes snapped open as he hastily sat up on the bed.

"Wait!!!!" The boy shouted hoarsely as he quickly extended his hand forward, his thought process stuck between recollecting what happened in the dream and being still asleep, making him stay in the same position even after he didn't receive an answer or even after he noticed that he wasn't in the dream anymore., he just sat there in the same position with sweat drenching his face and body with his breathing ragged and panicked.

His shout attracted the attention of the old nurse, who walked beside his bed with a calm expression on her face, used to the boy's rough awakening, but that didn't mean she wasn't a bit concerned about them.

"Oh dear, this isn't the first time that you wake up like this. Take deep breaths, you are awake and safe" She says as she patted his knee, making him jump and hastily turn his head towards her, his eyes regained a bit of focus as he recognized her. She silently waited for his breathing to stabilize, and when it did, she lightly pushed him to lie down again with her cane and then walked towards her desk, opening the drawer under it.

Meanwhile, Izuku managed to get his thoughts together after some moments of staring at the ceiling. Frustration started to bubble in his chest when he remembered his dream, he hardly managed to discover anything at all, just more questions. With a quiet sigh, he turned his gaze to look at the old pro heroine, who was rummaging through the drawer, searching for her candy container.

"How.....how m-much did I s-sleep this t-time?" He asked as the events of the Battle trial returned to mind, he and his partner had won the match, but he suddenly passed out shortly after the end.... lying on the ground with one of his friends pinning him on the ground because of a unfortunate fall.....okay, he was blushing a little right now remembering how soft it felt........okay, he was blushing a lot.

"A couple of hours. Ah, there you are" She replied, cutting off his thoughts. At the same time she said this, she managed to find the candy container. She took it and faced him, then walked to stand beside his bed again.

"Now you can sit down, slowly" she instructed, and the boy did as said, sitting again on the bed and letting his legs touch the floor, making him notice that he was still wearing his damaged hero costume, his right glove was still open, exposing his now bandaged fingers.

"I-..... I'm s-sorry" he muttered a bit downcast as he looked down at his legs, clenching the sturdy material with his left hand, he hated the fact he always got injured in a way or another, not because he minded the pain, no, some parts of his body were insensitive to it. He was frustrated that he always bothered the old and kind nurse, who had been nothing but nice to him.

"For screaming or breaking your fingers?" She replied with a calm voice as she opened the candy container and looked up at him, already knowing where the boy was going with this.

"....Both...." He replied after a couple of seconds of pondering, he knew already how she would respond to him apologizing, but, seeing the mess that was around the bed he was sitting on, he realized that he wasn't exactly an angel while he was sleeping.

He felt the end of the woman's cane hit him lightly on the top of his head, just enough to make him wince a bit and stare at her while reflexively putting a hand on the stuck part.

"No, no, Midoriya, no apologizing for getting injured this time. I already told you that it's my job to heal and take care of the students, you aren't an exception. I'm not that old to forget we had this conversation already, so you now-...." She scolded as she poked him lightly on the rib with her cane, making him stand to attention just like All Might do when Recovery Girl tell him to take care of his health.

"Stop worrying, eat, and run around like boys your age" she continued as she brought down the cane once again to help her stand, hopefully the message was clearer now.

"O-okay, I g-get it, I get it!" The greenette whined as used his arms to cover any weak spot in his torso she could poke to get her point straight to his thick skull.

"We will see if you really get it. I can't believe I'm saying it, but you are even worse than Toshinori" She sighed with a slightly exhausted face. She then handed a couple of candies to him from her candy container. Internally She was already grumbling, telling herself that indeed she was right, the two of them will make her go crazy.

Izuku awkwardly chuckled with a sweatdrop, not really understanding how he should take the comment. At least the subject is dropped. Speaking of finding something else to think about, he wondered who brought him here this time.

He lowered his arms once he made sure that he was safe from the scolding and looked at her with a small head tilt.

"Ehm, R-Recovery girl, who brought me here?" He asked curiously, the last thing he remembered was Toru calling for him, and then....well, what happened in that dream.

"Oh, Hagakure and Tokoyami did, they were such dears" Recovery girl replied with a small smile, even letting a small chuckle, which confused the boy a little, if only he knew what happened when they brought him to the infirmary, he would have blushed like a tomato....

Flashback

The door of the infirmary was hastily opened, causing the old nurse to look curiously at it, seeing a slightly restless Toru entering the room with Fumikage in tow, Dark Shadow was outside from the bird-headed boy and carrying the sleeping greenette in his clawed hands.

"Recovery girl, help us with Midori!" The girl shouted with her arms flailing around in a panicked manner, a comedic volume of tears jetting like rivers from her eyes.

"Oh dear, what happened to him?" Recovery girl asked calmly as she used her cane to get up from her chair behind the desk and walk to them.

"I don't know, one moment he was under m-......" Toru was about to explain, but stopped in her tracks and put her hands on her mouth, her cheeks quickly burning with a soft blush.

She quickly shook her head and shifted from one position to another while trying to remove the memory of him being on top of her and her accidentally returning the favor from her mind, pretty much giving away her embarrassment if her face wasn't proof enough.

"He was where?" Recovery girl asked as she adjusted her visor, she already was suspecting the motive of the boy's refusal to wake up.

This seemed to shake the chartreuse from her embarrassment, she awkwardly smiled and gave a worried side glance to the sleeping greenette.

"Well, hehe, I mean, he was on the ground one second awake and the next he was sleeping, even after I shook him, he refused to wake up..." she explained as she turned back to recovery girl, it wasn't exactly a lie, just hiding some.....*minor* details.....kami, Mina was right, the guy was built like a wall.

Fumikage sweatdropped, knowing why she was reluctant to speak at first, he will do her a favor and take it from here. So he walked forward with Dark Shadow in tow.

"He was pretty roughed up when he reached us, could it be exhaustion?" He added and folded his arms, making the nurse look at him.

"Oh, then it must be the adrenaline settling down, we don't know how exhausted we truly are until it happens. Don't worry, I will take care of him now, lay him on the bed" Recovery girl says with a small smile as she pointed to one of the beds in the room.

Fumikage nodded as he was about to step forward and make Dark Shadow lay down his classmate on the bed, but, before he could do that.....

"Fumi!! Help me!!!!" The panicked shout of Dark Shadow made the three jump a bit and quickly turn their gazes to look at the creature, and well, there was a pretty interesting sight awaiting for them, an amusing, and if you ask Toru, super cute one.

The still sleeping Izuku was rubbing his cheek against the lower side of the creature's beak with his arms wrapped around his torso in an iron grip, Dark Shadow's bright eyes were comically releasing tears.

"I'm getting cuddled!!! And I like it!!!" The creature shouted dramatically, earning a *awww* from Toru, a chuckle from the nurse and an exasperated sigh from Fumikage.

Turned out, Izuku was a big cuddler in his sleep.

End of flashback

Imaginary question marks seemed to float around the greenette's head while he watched Recovery Girl release another small chuckle. What was so funny?

She seemed to notice this and smiled a bit amused at him.

"Don't worry about it, sonny, just an old lady having a bit of fun" She says calmly, not exactly answering his silent question, but it's better to not reveal what happened while he was sleeping.

"Umm...I see" Izuku muttered still with confusion present in his tone, but willing to let go of the subject.

The boy then noticed something at the corner of his eyes, and he turned his head to look at it, he saw a small scorch mark staining the curtains of the bed beside his.

"Bakugo was brought here by my bots, he woke up half an hour later. *Sigh* I always say that young ones are full of energy, but he almost charred the curtain as soon as he woke up" he heard Recovery girl answer his unspoken question, making him turn his gaze to look at her, the thought of Katsuki laying on the bed beside his while he was sleeping wasn't very comforting.

"After I patched him up, he left in a hurry" she continued, keeping hidden the quantity of curses that the ash blonde said once he remembered he lost to Izuku and Toru. She is lucky that she can't hear like she used to, or she would be deaf by now.

The boy hummed without giving any of his thoughts out. After a couple of seconds, he sighed and looked up at her.

"Umm, c-can I go to class? I don't want to lose a-anymore lessons" he asked a bit more at ease, but then remembered that he was still in his damaged hero costume.

"If you feel better, then yes, there's your uniform on the bed that is closer to the window, you can change in the locker room" She replied with a small nod.

Izuku did just that, he got up from the bed, took his school uniform, thanked the heroine like he always does and exited the room. While he walked through the halls, he wondered what his classmates were thinking of him after witnessing him losing control, he dreaded what faces they would make when he entered the classroom.

He shook his head and quickened his pace, the sooner he arrived, the less he could worry.

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A couple of minutes later, class 1-A

"*Ugh* So tiredddd" Izuku groaned as he stumbled to stand in front of the door leading to his class. He didn't realize how truly tired he was until he arrived at the locker room while dragging his feet and constantly rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He noticed that the sun was starting to set, so the school day was almost over.

His hand grasped the handle and opened the door because he could at least fix his tie or swipe his even messier hair out of his forehead and eyes, too tired for that and he always looked ugly anyway, no need to take care of how he looked.

However, As soon as he entered the classroom, he was noticed very fast by his classmates.

"Oh hey Midoriya, finally up!!! Nice job back there!!" Eijiro shouted as he quickly walked towards him with a friendly grin.

and before he knew it, he was surrounded by many of his classmates, his friends included. His brain snapped awake because of the sudden attention, making him look like a deer in headlights.

He blinked a couple of times as his eyes darted to look around for a moment before settling on the red-haired boy, ok, this wasn't what he expected, especially since he was getting praised.

"Huh? Umm I-I....t-thank, but it was Hagakure-san w-who t-took the bomb" He replied nervously as he scratched the back of his head with a bit of a nervous sweat starting to trail from his forehead already.

Immediately after saying that, his pink-skinned friend entered his field of vision.

"Are you kidding me, right? Midori, you were a blast in that match, I still got goosebumps!" Mina chimed in with a very small pout at the end, which made him avert his eyes, stuck between being flustered for how cute she looked while doing it or very nervous because her doing this meant she wasn't liking something that he did, but what? Telling them the truth? He was just a distraction, she was the one who touched the bomb.

Before she could continue, however, Toru skipped in front of him too, lightly butting the top of her head on her best friend's back.

"Mina's right, there's no way I would have won without you. Also-" The chartreuse says determined, pretty much shut any of Izuku's attempts of brushing off the praises.

She then removed her head from the pink-skinned back and stepped closer to him with a small pout appearing on her cute face, causing the greenette posture to stiffen with his eyes getting even wider.

"What's the deal with suddenly passing out? you worried me a bit!" she scolded with a bit of frustration as she puffed her cheeks and flailed her arms in an adorable way, imaginary angry smoke seemed to puff from her head as she kept scolding her green-haired friend.

"S-sorry!" Was the only thing the greenette could squeak out as he covered his head with his arms, mostly to hide his red face, now he was really questioning why he blushed so easily with a bit of closeness or by watching their cute actions. Was he sick or something?

"A bit? You were crying like a fountain! But don't worry, this broccoli head made me panic too, it's his thing" Mina chimed in with a smirk while leaning forward with her arms behind her back.

This made Toru immediately stop in her tracks and freeze in place, her eyes quickly darted to look at the boy she was scolding just some moments ago, her cheeks gaining a red tint as her embarrassment grew. So she did the only thing her slightly flustered brain could think about, unleash rightful angery towards the traitor who revealed her embarrassing action to the one who shouldn't have known it.

"MINA!!! I told you to not tell him!" She quickly hissed as she jumped back and headbutted her best friend back once again, this time enough to make her stumble a bit.

The pink girl spun around still with her smile, her best friend's reaction was just amusing her further, especially considering this was the first time she ever saw her act like this.

Many sweatdropped seeing this, especially Izuku, who also could be seen with imaginary question marks floating around his head, a bit stuck in a broken record state when he was reminded that there were people outside his mother, All Might and Recovery girl who actually take his well being in consideration....even enough to panic?

The imaginary question marks became exclamation ones when the rest of his friends and classmates shifted their attention back to him.

"Man, you literally used Bakugo to breach a wall. Remind me to not get on your bad side, heh?" Denki says with a small sweatdrop on his head, he would prefer to not be pummeled to the ground if he ever does a training against the greenette.

Izuku was about to stutter some reinsurance that it wasn't necessary to be careful around him, mistaking the blonde's joke as him actually being wary of him. What the green-haired boy dreaded was to be feared, he wanted to be a hero who can give people smiles, not a monster. However, before he could do that, Tenya chimed in, making the greenette lightly bite his own tongue as he was cut off.

"Your heroic poses should receive improvement, this is the same for everyone here. But there's no need to worry, I will help everyone to the best of my capabilities!!" Tenya declared proudly while putting his right hand on his chest, making everyone sweatdrop even more.

"No way we are gonna do those silly poses, dude..." Sero says as he scratches his hair with one hand, chuckling a bit as he remembers how devoted the engine user was during their match.

An imaginary thunder seemed to strike the dark blue-haired boy, who gasped a bit too much dramatically as he turned toward the black-haired boy with a betrayed look.

"Silly?! Poses are fundamental to strike terror in evildoers and to show discipline!" Tenya says offended with a couple of handchops hitting the air.

"Man...I think you watch too many anime" Denki snickered, causing an even bigger imaginary thunder to strike the taller boy, who became as stiff as a statue.

"What are you guys talking about!? I liked them!" Eijiro actually sided with Tenya, causing him to smile in a very funny way.

"Of course you did..." Sero muttered with multiple sweatdrops on his head.

Izuku jumped a bit once again when he saw Ochako skip into his field of view with a wide smile, her auburn eyes sparking with excitement.

"You were awesome, Midoriya! I know you were strong, but flicking an explosion like that with just your fingers?!! I'm so jealous!" She praised loudly while pumping her fists, causing the greenette's confusion to turn into embarrassment once again, making him cover his face with one hand as the bubbly girl's excitement washed over him like a bright wave, considering that she was kinda close, he couldn't keep his blush from reigniting.

The girl was about to say something else, but stopped in her tracks when she caught sight of his bandaged fingers, her smile fading.

"Oh..." She muttered as she looked down at his hand, so it was like that time at the entrance exam and quirk apprehension test. To harness that awesome strength, he needs to shatter his own body.

"Sorry....I forgot, hehe..ehm....do they hurt?"She asked as she looked up at him, a small awkward smile, internally She tried not to cringe imagining how much painful breaking your body would be, her nausea wasn't even close to that level.

Izuku blinked a couple of times, but then his eyes widened. He quickly hid his right hand behind his back, but found out that it was too late because the others noticed the bandages, even Mina and Toru finished their arguing to join the group standing in front of him.

The green-haired boy bit his lips and cursed himself internally, looking away for a moment from her eyes to search for a way to direct the attention away from his inability to use his quirk correctly.

"N-no, Recovery Girl p-patched m-me up, s-so I'm g-good as new, no pain!" He says nervously with a fake small smile, trying to keep his best mask. His fingers didn't hurt anymore, that wasn't a lie, but his body?..... well, that was another story...

Nothing he wasn't used to already....

He noticed the auburn-haired girl's eyes squinting a bit, like she noticed he was hiding something. This caused a bit of a nervous sweat to trail from the side of the greenette head while he tried to hold his fake smile as wide and believable as possible. After a couple of moments, he noticed the girl's posture relax, and her smile returned.

"That's a relief! When I saw Bakugo use that big explosion against you, my breath stopped for a moment, It was so scary!-" She whined as she threw her arms in the air to reinforce her point.

"And loud, my ears are still ringing after that last blast you and that other guy created" Kyoka chimed in while passing her earphone jack around her finger. That blast was so powerful that it made the monitor room shake a bit.

Izuku muttered an apology while awkwardly chuckling, at this point, he was going into autopilot, his brain was ripping apart from the anxiety, so he tried to not think at anything.

However, his thought process restarted when he noticed that Katsuki wasn't in class. His posture relaxed a bit now that he knew the ash blonde wasn't around.

"Where did he go?" He asked to no one in particular, even with his quiet tone, the ones closest to him managed to hear him.

"He left early, and dude, I don't think I ever saw someone so angry in my life, his veins seemed on the point of bursting!!" Sero replied, Katsuki pretty much ignored everyone as soon as he came back to class, he just sat behind his desk while seething.

"Ah, Speaking of him, does he have a bone to pick with ya or something? Because dude, you should have seen the way he looked at you, did you piss in his ramen?" Denki half-joked, curious of why the angry blonde was so focused on hating on this guy, he seemed pretty friendly until now, very, very shy, but friendly.

"*Ugh*, gross..." Kyoka rolled her eyes at the allegation.

He reminded himself that there were his friends here, so he was pretty much forced to use the same lie he used on them or he would risk putting himself in a corner. Part of him wondered why the ash blonde didn't say anything yet to anyone, it would be so easy to expose him and resume the cycle of pain. Probably he should thank Kami for that, the less they know, the better.

"We...We aren't friends.....j-just old classmates. He dislikes me because-..... because....." He started to say but stopped at the last part, biting his lips as he tried to find a good excuse to justify the hate the explosion user got for him. He can't just say *hi, I was a student who got hurt emotionally and physically by his previous schoolmates, and Katsuki was among the ones that gave me the worst treatment. Ah, I also forgot to say that I asked for said bully to be allowed to study in my same class because I'm messed up and believe that his potential as a hero shouldn't be hindered by someone as pathetic and weak as I am, nice to meet you!!!*. Yes....who would stick with him after hearing something like this? No one.

At the corner of his eyes, he saw that his friends were particularly paying attention, which didn't help his nerves.

Just a slip up and you are done...

"We h-had a d-disagreement shortly after I changed school, so h-he is not h-happy with me b-being here I guess" Izuku explained while he scratched his cheek with one finger and avoided eye contact.

I'm not too....

He didn't notice the slightly perplexed stares he received from some, especially his friends. although the greenette this time managed to hide his instinctive fear, the way he spoke about him was still off, even Tsuyu, who wasn't present the time Izuku's friends asked the boy the same question, tilted her head in slight curiosity.

The green-haired boy was sweating even more as all the attention focused on him, really putting to the test his capacity to keep a minimum of composure. Unknown to him, a faint yellow glint appeared in his eyes, covering an extremely small part of his green irises, but it was enough for his classmates to notice.

"Hey, Midoriya, what's wrong with your eyes?" Eijiro asked while he indicated the greenette's face, making him tilt his head in confusion.

"Huh? W-what do you m-mean?" Izuku asked confused, nothing was wrong with his eyes, maybe he was pointing out how dull they were, or maybe how ugly his bags were.

His trail of thought was cut off once Ochako got a tiny bit closer, stood on tiptoe to be at his same height and leaned a bit to the side so she could have a complete vision of his face, her eyes scanning his.

"You got a bit of yellow in your eyes!" she says a bit surprised.

"Yellow?! Red? Wh-" Izuku was about to say in his mind in surprise with embarrassment bubbling out because of the closeness, but he was interrupted by Mina joining in, now both girls' heads were covering most of his field of vision.

"Hey, I didn't know you could do that! We match like this! You just need to grow a pair of horns!" The pink girl gasped with an excited grin, bringing her hands closer to her face while she literally jumped in place, hoping for a new horn buddy.

"It's just me or they are glowing?" Toru added as she leaned forward too.

"Interesting, is this a secondary aspect of your quirk?" Tenya chimed in as he joined the girls to stand with his face closer to the stunned greenette.

"Hey, I wanna see too!!" Eijiro shouted as he joined too, grinning widely as he literally dived into the staring crowd.

"*Kero*" Tsuyu croaked simply while leaning to the side to peek too, due to not invading Izuku's space.

Meanwhile, Izuku was completely stuck on what to do, the attention he was receiving was sending his nerves into a blaze. His heart was pounding and his hands were shaking. He knew what was happening but still tried to resist the urge to run away while hiding his rising panic attack from being noticed. All of this stress was mysteriously fueling that strange glow, making it cover even more of his irises.

His face was getting pale and his breathing erratic. He couldn't hide it anymore, he was about to give in to the overwhelming pressure. However, luckily for him.....

*Riiiing*

The bell that signaled the end of the school day interrupted anything, making everyone jump and make those that were close to Izuku to scoot away, giving the greenette enough space to quickly move to his desk and take his things with his last burst of stable thought capacity.

"O-oh l-l-look! It's so late!! Aww, sorry I need to r-rush home, s-see you tomorrow!!" He stuttered very quickly as he rushed outside with his things, ignoring his friends' words. He just waved with his face twitching and struggling to keep the fake smile he was giving them. So, he just rushed outside and hid in the bathroom to wait for his panic attack to subdue, while his body shook and he choked on air and his own saliva, his mind could think of one thing only.....

The mask needs to be kept on, they can't see the boy under it....
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Next day, principal office

"So I think you know why you are here, right?" Nezu asked calmly as he sat behind his big desk. In front of him, Katsuki sat on one of the chairs with a scowl on his face.

"No" The ash blonde grumbled, it was a lie, he pretty much knew why the chimera called him in his office. That fucking battle trial, the defeat still corroding his pride, he was overwhelmed by Deku of all people, and not even the strongest explosion he could muster was enough to send that bastard flying.

Nezu just smiled, which in turn made Katsuki even more irritated, it was pretty much obvious that the principal was either mocking his indifference or simply being irritably polite, probably both.

"Oh, is that so? Then let me refresh your memory" The chimera says calmly as he turns his gaze to the screen on his desk, he puts his paw on the mouse and clicked the button a couple of times, after that, he used the other paw to turn the monitor so the ash blonde could see, it was a recording of the final section of his match against Izuku, mere seconds before the final blast.

"YOUNG BAKUGO! DON'T DO IT! YOU'LL KILL HIM!" All Might's voice was heard, clearly, an order from a teacher should have been respected. But....

"What are you talking about?! He won't die if he dodges!!!!" Katsuki heard his own video-self brush off the order and release the massive explosion, before he could see more, Nezu stopped the recording, just before the air pressure and the explosion met.

"You disobeyed a direct order from a teacher, and used an unnecessarily powerful attack against a fellow student. A normal student would be punished harshly..." Nezu started to explain, making the ash blonde look at him with slightly wide eyes, an uneasy feeling already shaking his spine when he saw the usually friendly principal not smiling.

"But you aren't a normal student, you are a rehab student..." he continued as he lowered both his paws and put them together on the desk while his black eyes stared directly at Katsuki's red ones, which widened even more, did he just call him a-....

"Do you understand how lucky you are? Your future as a hero is hanging by a threat, and you seem to be making anything possible to cut it yourself..." Nezu continued without a ounce of restraint, not giving the ash blonde's thoughts time to continue.

"Huh!?" The explosion user gasped in disbelief, his scowl broke into a shocked expression. Lucky? Him? He wouldn't have needed fucking luck in the first place.

"In normal circumstances, you would be in a juvenile institute, your criminal record is pretty stained after all. A possibility to step into the hero world would be impossible for someone like you..." Nezu explained as he studied the blonde reactions, his words were all chosen carefully to both make them stick to his skull and also for the chimera's personal enjoyment, the way Katsuki was clenching his teeth was making him internally chuckle and wonder how much more pressure they would need to crack. It would be a very, very funny sight considering how much he loves to intimidate others.

"But...." the principal continued, trailing his words and enjoying how the boy was reacting at every word, like he was going to announce he was expelled at every corner.......he was very tempted to make those fears a reality.

"You are here, in one that many consider the best hero school in Japan, what a very bizarre arrangement we found ourselves in. A villain in rehab in my prestigious school-" Nezu was about to explain, but as soon as the word *villain* left his mouth, Katsuki raised himself from the chair and slammed his hands on his side of the desk.

"Villain?!! I'm-....I'm not a villain!!!! I-" The ash blonde snapped with outraged anger, but, before he could say anything else....

"Sit down" two words, two words said in such an icy and stern tone that it completely froze the ash blonde's anger and made him step back. The chimera didn't change his expression, his smile still present, but his eyes.....his eyes promised severe consequences if he didn't do as he said.

Katsuki swallowed the lump in his throat and actually did as he said, sitting down on the chair.

"I'm not gonna beat around the bush anymore, Bakugo. What you did to Midoriya was abuse, abuse with quirk use added to the list. So yes, for me, the police and everyone else, you are....a villain....." Nezu explained after a couple of seconds of silence, his words were delivered mercilessly, hitting the boy as hard as reality could.

A villain? Him?......how!? He-....He was supposed to be......

"The perfect hero, Katsuki....no one deserves it more than you, and who say otherwise, well.....is a problem..." A voice stabbed his mind like a knife, unlike the other times, he tried to ignore it, but he could feel his rage rising once more, the chimera's words just amplifying it.

"If others got to know that someone like you is here, it would be very....unpleasant, it's not only Midoriya that is sacrificing his own comfort for you to be given a chance, but also us are biting our own paws here" Nezu explained as he noticed that the ash blonde was shaking in anger, meaning that he was able to snap, and surprisingly, the principal just leaned back in his chair and waited those couple of seconds that blonde would take to snap again, which he did just as expected.

"Then why am I here in the first place?!! You and that bas-....imbecile are rubbing this on my face everytime, for what?! Eh!?" Katsuki shouted while clenching his fists as tight as possible. This was straight-up humiliation, first Deku beat him with a quirk that came out of nowhere, and now he is also constantly reminded that he is here because of pity! What do they want? A tearful thank you? He will die before he does th-

"Oh it's very simple, your rehabilitation isn't that sought up by us, you are here to be useful" Nezu replied calmly, taking some documents from the desk and piling them to make a bit of order.

This made the ash blonde stop in his tracks once again, the anger replaced by surprise and confusion. This was picked by the chimera, whose smile only grew.

"What?" Was the only thing that Katsuki could mutter, wasn't this whole shit show about him getting *rehabilitated*? What does being useful to them mean?

"I was always curious if there was a way to turn people who took a dark path into accomplished and productive members of society if given the right guidance and support. But, how can I know how much restrictions and liberty I should give them to balance between security and comfort? Simple, use someone as a crash test-...." Nezu explained as he tilted his head a bit to the side, his words making the ash blonde understand what he was to this school.

"Take it as an experiment, a way for you to actually help someone by being yourself. Naturally, not every misguided villain is like you, they may be more cooperative, but, this is why restrictions are put in the first place, prepare for the worst. Do you get it now?" Nezu concluded.

Katsuki looked down with serrated teeth and fists, a whole inferno of disbelief and anger rampaging in his head, how couldn't he? All of this....was a FUCKING TEST!

"Now that you understand where you stand, let's get at what is gonna happen to you after your little stunt...." Nezu continued after a few moments, making the explosion user's head dart up, his eyes quickly forming a glare.

The chimera didn't particularly mind as he leaned forward again and placed his paws together on the desk, his eyes slightly squinting.

"I was tempted to follow Aizawa's suggestion and expel you, very tempted. But when I rewatched the recording, I noticed something" Nezu continued, using the mouse to zoom the recording to focus on Katsuki, and when he saw that the Ash blonde was paying attention, he started the video again, and then stopped it when the boy pulled the pin.

"I noticed that you changed the trajectory of the blast at the last moment and if my calculations are correct, with that apparently small change of the angle, the explosion wouldn't have hit Midoriya with its full strength. For that little detail you are here and not in prison, you did it on purpose, to not kill him, but the question is....what were you trying to do by risking everything with that? Wait, don't tell me, were you trying to prove something? Or even scare him off the hero course? Your pride doesn't allow for someone you deemed inferior to surpass you, hm? so much that you must prove yourself that you are actually superior to him, that every single idiocy those teachers told you at your old school weren't just to feed your confidence..." He concluded with a small smile, not hiding the partial mocking intent in his voice, or maybe purposely making it even more evident.

Every word felt like a stab in the ash blonde's brain, even if he was totally furious, he couldn't move or shout. He just sat there helplessly, even before such a physically weak rat, he was forced by his own body to sit and take this *mockery*.

After some moments of silence, the boy heard the chimera sigh and turned the screen to its original position, then looked at him with a more serious gaze, which made him hold his breath without him knowing.

"Okay, here is what we are gonna do. Your cuff will receive a modification that will make it act as a quirk restraining cuff, it will monitor your quirk factor and stop it from you going overboard unless given special permission from a teacher. And, your gauntlets will also be modified to release only small bursts instead of a big bang, we should have considered the risk of a bad temper like yours before giving you such liberty" Nezu explained as he waited for the ash blonde response, not taking long for him to have it.

"So you are handicapping me...." Katsuki muttered with burning disbelief, glaring at the chimera as he did so, to his confusion, he received a head shake, signaling negation.

"Mhmm, You remember that Midoriya used his full power on two of his fingers to disperse that big explosion? I want you to think.....what would have happened if he used that attack at short range or even used his arm to strike you with that level of strength?" Nezu asked, answering the ash blonde's question with another to see if he could understand by himself.

The silence he got plus the rarely troubled face he got from him was the answer he needed, he would have been red paste, as real and gory as it can be.

"But he didn't, that's something called holding back, he knows how to do it, you don't. These restrictions will force you to learn that heroes need to always measure their strength to not hurt civilians or kill villains when there's no need to, can't go around blasting like you own the world, can you?" Nezu says as his smile returned, hopeful that the lesson stuck to Katsuki's thick skull.

"Obliviously this isn't all, like I said, you disobeyed an order for a teacher. So, you got a big detention ahead of you, and I know already who you can spend time with..." Nezu says as his smile widened, before Katsuki could ask what he meant by that, he heard the door behind him open, and he immediately felt a chill run up his spine.

"Oh, you are here, he is all yours" Nezu chuckled, causing the chilly sensation to become even greater.

Meanwhile, Katsuki turned his gaze to see the one who entered, and, to his shock, it was a very, very unamused-looking Aizawa, his eyes already glowing red because of his quirk.

"Fuck...." The ash blonde cursed in his head moments before being wrapped in the hero's scarf and mercilessly dragged out of the room while Nezu watched with amusement.

"Bye bye" the chimera chuckled as he waved playfully, watching as Katsuki was dragged out by the underground hero.

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Two weeks later, flashback

In the rest of the week that followed the battle trial and the next one were both everything and nothing at the same time, for others, these two weeks could be considered relatively normal ones, the students would learn normal subjects that other schools may teach, do a healthy amount of physical oriented classes, and have time to get to know each other better during lunch or in between classes. However, a particularly shy greenette had to disagree with the thoughts of his classmates regarding the normality of such activities, don't get him wrong, he actually loved every moment spent in his dream school, but this was the problem, all this normality that everyone else would brush off was instead sending him into a loop of confusion and disbelief, because that was the point with him....He wasn't normal, his way of thinking wasn't normal, the way he saw others' actions wasn't normal. He was basically not used to normality, not at all. He was grateful that the teachers were always understating with his shyness and constant zooming off, or he would die of embarrassment.

Now, you would ask why normality was so hard for him to swallow, well, the reason was how much the interactions with his classmates were different from his time at Aldera, and above all, how quickly he started to behave *weirdly* around them.....

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First he started limping out of his comfort zone, like a moth to a flame

"When I looked up I saw that the remote was floating and was bouncing on the ceiling, you should have seen my dad's face while he tried to jump like a rabbit to get it. Pffff!" Ochako says before letting a muffled laugh, she and Izuku were sitting at opposite sides of her desk, surprisingly it was the boy who tried to talk a little to the auburn haired girl.

The greenette let out his own chuckle, but it was very, very faint compared to her more lively laugh.

"Yeah, I need to be careful when I touch objects or people because my quirk can easily activate without me knowing. I also sleep with mittens, can ya believe it?" Ochako joked as she put her elbows on the desk and laid her head on her open hands, smiling brightly at the greenette.

"R-Really, t-that's cute-*!!!*" Izuku blurted out before he could stop himself, resulting in him blushing and put his hands on his mouth.

The girl blinked a couple of times with a slight surprise expression, which morphed into a smile once again, her left hand scratching her hair lightly.

"Eh? You think so? Hahaha" She chuckled, not bothered by the boy's comment in the slightest.

This made him take a sigh of relief as he adjusted his position on the chair, before he had one leg moved to the side, a sort of nervous tick, now, he wanted to fully face her. After he did that, he quickly caught sight of the finger pads of her right hand, he couldn't hold his curiosity back and he moved his gaze to look at them, this was quickly noticed by the girl.

"Are you curious about these, aren't ya?" Ochako asked as she raised her hand a little, causing Izuku to jump a bit and look at her with a nervous sweatdrop trailing the side face, was he that obvious?

"Ehm....M-m-maybe..." he admitted as he looked away and blushed a bit in embarrassment, he had been curious about them since he first saw them, but he was too nervous to ask.

"Do you know that they feel like cat paws? it feels so weird when I touch my face, like I got an invisible cat!" She explained as she pondered something in her mind, her constant blush becoming a bit bigger as she continued talking.

"Do you wanna touch them?" She asked, her tone becoming less cheerful and a tiny bit more shy, remembering how he snuggled to her when he was passed out in the monitoring room.

This completely surprised him, his eyes becoming wide, was she.....was she offering to let him touch her finger pads? him?

"Huh?! I-I can?" He asked surprised, failing to hide his intrigue.

"Of course, I don't mind if it's you" She replied cheerfully with a nod, and cue to her words, she presented her left hand to him.

The greenette blinked a couple of times, looked between her and her hand multiple times, and then bit his lips slightly. He blushed a bit but hesitantly raised his right hand and extended it towards the girl's, when it was close enough, he closed all his fingers except for the ring finger and then....

*Squish*

The tip of his finger pressed against the pad of her ring finger, immediately noticing how soft it felt to the touch.

"It's soft!" He gasped as he marvelled at the feeling of her finger pad, it was just like she said, a cat paw.

"Hehe, see? Told ya" The girl chuckled at his expression, finding it a bit cute too, he was so shocked for simple soft finger pads?

He seemed to ignore her words while he looked, unknown to her, his thoughts have drifted away from their softness. These cute and innocent looking pads saved him from splattering on the floor, they were just like their owner, soft looking but strong.

He could swear he heard a quiet yelp, he wasn't very focused on his surroundings, however, after a while, he felt the familiar sensation of his equilibrium being disrupted and the feeling of weightness enveloping his body. This snapped him out of his thoughts and when his eyes focused again, they widened immediately after seeing what happened, his entire face lit up in red quickly after....

He didn't realize that when he got deeper in his thoughts, his body had moved on instinct, like when you scratch your back when it itches, in this case, all his fingers had gradually opened and joined the ring finger in leaning and softly pressing against the girl's finger pads, which caused her quirk to activate and remove his gravity, luckily he wasn't floating because of his legs being under her desk, keeping him in place.

The greenette gasped with an agape mouth as he hastily turned to look at the girl's face, finding her looking back at him with a slightly shy expression, her cute cheeks more red that normal.

They blinked some times as they stared at each other without moving an inch, after some moments, the boy's brain started working again, he immediately tore his hand away from hers like she was on fire and back away a little.

"S-sorry! Whoa!" He tried to stutter an apology but realized too late that he was still without gravity, resulting in him floating while comically flailing his arms.

"Midoriya-kun!" Ochako shouted as she regained her voice too, immediately trying to grab him just like her dad did with the remote in her story, making everyone who noticed what was happening laugh a little.

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Then, he became anxious at the thought of them falling or hurting themselves by accident, his body moved before he could comprehend what he was doing....

"Ok, let's see if you still remember what you have learned in middle school, I know this one isn't the prettiest of math questions, but... anyway, try to " Ectoplasm explained as he looked at the blackboard behind him and then at the students once again, all of them already starting to scribe in their notebooks to try to resolve the math problem.

Izuku scratched his scalp and lightly bit his lips while his eyes darted to every single number, putting his time as Nezu's student to use. It didn't take long for him to finish, barely a minute or two to find out that x=2/5 was the answer. He took a content sigh and raised his gaze, noticing that many of his classmates were still working on it while a couple of them raised their gazes from their notebook shortly after, meaning that they resolved the math problem too.

The greenette then looked ahead and noticed something that made his sweatdrop a little, Mina's entire body was comically shaking with imaginary smoke coming out of her head, if he could see her face, he would have been able to see her swirly eyes.

"Numbers and letters everywhere" The pink girl muttered like a broken record, pretty obvious she was having difficulty.

Izuku noticed at the corner of his eyes that some of his classmates were helping one another, and Ectoplasm didn't seem to mind, so it was okay to help others huh? With this reassurance in mind, he put his hand on his desk and pushed it forward the slightest amount and then leaned forward so he could look over shoulder, it wasn't so bad in his opinion, she pretty much did the calculations right, but was struggling on the final but still complicated parts of the problem.

He hesitantly raised his free hand and extended it so it passed beside her head and pointed to a part of the problem, the girl jumped a little and turned her head slightly to look at him, a bit surprised and confused by his action.

"Y-you n-need to turn the exponentiation into a square root and b-bring it on the other part of the e-equation" he whispered, this made her blink a couple of times but then realized that he was helping her, with a small happy grin, she looked down at the notebook, letting her friend point out the next step.

"Oh! Here? Oh right! Aww, this stuff is so brain melting. I'm so jealous of you and your brain, Midori" Mina whined as she resumed solving the problem, and after another couple of suggestions given by the greenette behind her, she managed to finish too.

Immediately she started pumping her fists excitedly with a wide toothy grin on her face, happy to have defeated her worst enemy.....math. she was about to turn toward the boy to ask for a high five, but was interrupted by Ectoplasm.

"Ashido, you look happy, did you manage to pull it off?" The hero asked calmly, his face couldn't be seen because of the helmet, making him a bit scary to be honest.

"Yup!" Mina nodded still with her smile.

"Then what is the answer?" He asked.

"x=2/5?...." she replied, crossing my fingers as she really hoped that the answer was right.
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"That's correct, everyone else found the same result?" Ectoplasm nodded before asking the whole class for affirmation, receiving it shortly after, all of them at the end arrived at the same solution.

"Aww, that's a relief, I was sweating buckets" Mina moaned quietly as she stretched in her seat and leaned back, unfortunately causing her chair to lose balance, and her with it.

"Whoa!! Eeeeep!" The girl yelped as she stumbled back, her eyes instinctively closing, this was going to hurt!!

*Scrape!*

However, the back of her head and shoulder blades hit something hard but everything was wrong, her panicked brain immediately caught up three things, first she wasn't on the floor, second her head didn't impact with the desk behind her, and third....the thing her back was leaning too was relatively comfortable even while being robust, she could also feel an heart beat-....oh

"Are y-you okay, Mina?!" She heard Izuku's voice from just the top of her head, and just now she registered the fact that she was basically with her back pressed on his muscular form, the lower half of his jaw was brushing against her hair because of the closeness, and, as a big plus, she noticed that his arms were wrapped around her, keeping her chair and her from falling.

She noticed something at the corner of her eyes, the desk of her greenette friend, it was basically on the wall, did he just pushed it away to catch her? Speaking of catching, she still didn't answer his question regarding if she was okay. She still was in a bit of a daze right now and the fact her face was growing hotter didn't help, this was a bit like the entrance exam, Kami, having such a gentle and protective way of touching others should be illegal! The girl could bet her horns that she was blushing purple right now, could you blame her?

The girl looked up, brushing more of her hair on his jaw and neck to finally see his face, noticing that his pupils were a bit small and that his cheeks were red. She blinked a couple of times, but her eyes widened a tiny bit realizing she didn't answer his concern yet.

"Ah, y-yes, 100% fine, didn't realize how light t-these chairs are, hehehe" She replied as she grinned at him, her eyes surprisingly focusing to look at every detail of his cute face, wait, did her voice just crack a little? Was she getting that shy just for being this close with a friend? The same friend who literally threw his desk aside until it reached the wall and stopped her fall with his body, he could have more simply stopped her fall by holding the back of her chair, but, ironically like the entrance exam, he took things up a notch. What the girl didn't know was how much the boy was really panicking.

"So soft! Should I let go?! Why she didn't pull away yet?! Her hair smells so nice! And her eyes are so prett-No, bad Izuku!! What are you thinking?! That's not what friends do!....I think" He panicked inside his head, blushing even more, what he was thinking all of sudden? He just now realized that they were still staring at each other in the same position, both not knowing what to do, until a voice interrupted them, making them jump.

"As much as I cherish affectionate gestures between students, please do take your seats again. We need to continue class" Ectoplasm says, making both teens snap out of their dazed states and sit down, the boy putting his desk in position again. They were still blushing a bit, embarrassed by both what happened and the fact that their classmates were starring.

Mina stopped a groan from escaping her lips when she noticed that Toru was smirking at her from her seat, silently teasing her about her little shy moment, it wasn't her fault! He got the strong and gentle arms, not her, smirk at him!

She seemed to ignore that Izuku called her by first name, or she secretly didn't mind, for now she didn't want to be teased more by her best friend over her strange weak point.
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Before he knew it, he was the one to follow them to talk, even if he still sucked at holding a conversation without getting nervous and awkward, they don't make a big deal out of it.

"So....umm....why do y-you like Selkie?" Izuku asked as he looked at the frog girl sitting on the other end of the lunchroom table, after the battle trail the two had a couple of occasions to talk a little, today being the day he actually sat close to her by his own initiative. There was something unique about her that makes him particularly less nervous to talk to her, how calm and patient the girl was with him, don't get him wrong, his other friends didn't make fun of his habit of stuttering or trail his words, they mostly either encouraged him or pretty much said the words for him, something that he was grateful, but not her, she just stare at him with her little smile until he find his word pattern again. Even if he was a bit shy around her because of the kiss she gave him on the cheek during the battle trial.

"*Kero?* Well, water is my element, so a hero that operates in that area was interesting to me, and he is very kind, when I see how he acts around children I was so happy. My little sister also likes his cute poses*giggle*" Tsuyu explained calmly while staring right at his eyes, even giggling a bit at the end. Her expressions were a bit of a mystery for the green haired boy, mostly because she was usually with a blank face and her calm demeanor just added more difficulty to read her. It reminds him of the black haired girl that he met in the entrance exam bus, Yui, he wondered and hoped she passed the exam. Maybe she was in class B.

He shook his head to refocus his thoughts on actual conversation instead of how the frog girl was or his hopes of meeting Yui again, it was rude to get distracted.

"You have a little sister?" He asked curiously and tilted his head to the side a bit. He remembered the girl talking about her siblings in the auditorium during the entrance exam, something about them liking Present Mic radio show.

"*Kero* I have two younger siblings" The girl replied as she nodded, smiling a bit wider when she started talking about her siblings. This just increased the boy's curiosity, she seemed so happy when she talked about them.

"It sounds like y-you get along with them...do you s-spend a l-lot of time t-together?" He asked a bit more interested, to be honest, he was always curious on how it feels like to have a brother or a sister, he was a only child after all.

The frog girl nodded, tapping her lips with her finger.

"*Kero* My parents were always busy with work, so I had to take care of my siblings when they were away" She replied, remembering how panicked she was when she first learned how to cook, she and her mother had to do multiple baths to remove the food from their hair.

"Whoa.....it m-must have been hard, take care of them while a-also going to school..." Izuku says surprised, no wonder she was so calm, having all those responsibility at their age would be very stressful if don't adapt to them.

"At the start it was, but with time I managed to split my time between my siblings and myself without . I learned a lot of things thanks to it. Sometimes they don't make things easy, but they are very good kids, and I like making them happy *kero*" Tsuyu concluded, closing her eyes at the end while sticking the tip of her tongue from the side of her lips, which extended into another small smile again, the boy tried really hard to not think about how cute she looked.....and failing in doing so. Awww, what's wrong with him?!!

He shook his head and took a small sigh, opening his eyes shortly after to look at her, finding her big eyes staring back at him. Oh kami, what should he say now?! He is just staring at her like a stunned and blushing fish, gasping for something to say instead of water to filter!

He looked away and bit his lips while thought a little, the fact she was waiting for him made him feel a bit worse, so much for a pleasant conversation partner. After a while, he just decided to tell her his thoughts, maybe being blunt like her will help him or......maybe it will result with him being strangled by her tongue.

"...They are v-very lucky to have you, Asui-san, you are a very k-kind and dependable older sister..." He praised as he put on a special mask he made, *the bubbly Izuku*, he even managed to fake a bright smile, he would lie if he denied he really wanted to smile for real, giving this kind girl the deserved praises with a genuine positive expression, but he ran out of those, he got only masks.

Meanwhile, the frog girl seemed a bit taken aback from the genuine fondness in his tone, but then, her small smile returned, even wider. But then she taped the corner of her lips once again and tilted her head to the side.

"Midoriya..." She called, making him jump and return to his usual expression.

"Y-yes?" He asked nervously, thinking he may have overstepped, she seemed happy, but he never knows, maybe he should apol-

"Call me Tsu" she says simply,
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"Huh?!" He squeaked as his eyes widened like the place of food he had in front of him, did she just tell him he should call her by her first name? No, even worse, a short version of her name, basically a nickname!

"B-but....I....we.....-" He struggled for words, how did they shift from talking about her siblings to her wanting him to call her by a (very cute) nickname?!

"W-Why you want me to call you by name?" He finally managed to ask after a couple of moments of recollecting his thoughts, maybe he heard wrong, there was no way for her to ask him tha-

"I prefer friends to call me that" Tsuyu replied calmly, still smiling at him.

Oh kami, she really asked him to call her by first name and she also basically called him her friend....

Izuku's blinked multiple times with an slightly agape mouth. That was way out of what he managed to get kinda used to. However, against his fears telling him to not get closer by doing what she wanted, he did just as she asked, ignoring mental conflicts and trying to push down the nervousness a bit.

"As-ts-asu-T-T-Tsu-chan!" He stuttered with a red face, finally managing of saying her name at the end. The boy covered his face after that, steam coming from his head.

"*Kero* You weren't that nervous when you made me sleep against you, *giggle* if you keep blushing that much, I may want to kiss you again on the cheek to warm up a bit, you don't mind doing it a second time, Midoriya-chan?" Tsuyu says bluntly, but if the already embarrassed paid attention to her tone, he could find a small and hidden teasing tone in her voice, she was being both blunt but was also teasing him!!! NOOOO!!!!

The tease basically finished him off, even more imaginary steam erupted from his head while he literally tried to wrap it in his arms.

"*Giggle* Cute" She giggled in her head while she tried to calm the steam-covered boy, some quiet happy croaks escaping her lips while she did so.

Who said frogs can't tease their friends a little?

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However, as soon as he lowered his guard, he discovered that his true enemy was from within..... He could feel it even now, something dark and violent was growing in him, or maybe....it was always there.

Izuku and Tenya were walking through the hallway to return to class. They didn't talk a lot, probably because the taller boy knew that his friend preferred to listen instead of talking most of the times, but he still tried to start some conversations with him regarding the classes they did in this first week. What he didn't know was that the greenette was actually pondering something in his mind, something that he wanted to ask him.

Izuku gave him a sideglance, sweatdroppimg a little when his eyes landed on the boy's collar instead of his head, reminding him on how short he was compared to the dark blue-haired boy. He quickly removed his own self consciousness about his height to look up to the other boy's face, he then took a sigh, steadied himself and went along with his plan.

"Umm, so....ehm, Iida-kun?" He called hesitantly, resisting the urge to scoot away when his friend turned his head to look back at him.

"Huh? Yes?" Tenya asked, not expecting him to be the one to start the conversation.

"I w-wanted to ask y-you something....if you don't mind of course!" Izuku says nervously, kicking himself mentally for sounding so anxious, he should have stayed quiet.

"Yes of course, ask away" The reply of his friend made the greenette visibly relax, he wasn't used to asking things to people directly, just like Tsuyu and her siblings, or Ochako and her quirk shenanigans, the conversations got there by their own, and he used the occasion to satisfy in his curiosity regarding his new friends. This time he was the one going his way to know more.

The green haired scratched his cheek with his right hand, looking away for a second. Okay, he wasn't mad, they were not at Aldera, here it's different.

"I was wondering, is ingenium a relative of yours? You h-have very similar quirks and.....well.....the same surname" He asked, but as soon as he finished, he clenched his jaw, what sort of question is that?! Did he wanted to talk with him so much that he literally asked the most stupid question of all? To his surprise, Tenya smiled a bit, raised his glasses a bit and puffed his chest proudly.

"That's correct, he is my big brother, he is everything I wish to be, a beloved pro hero who prizes the rules and guides the people!! I aspire to be like him one day" He proudly explained, showing how much he respected and admired his brother.

But then he relaxed his posture a bit, looking ahead with a slight thoughtful expression.

"But I'm very far from being as worthy or even a fraction of the leader he is" he says calmly as he sighed, this was the first time the greenette saw him so..... doubtful.

"He admires him so much....just like me with All Might" Izuku thought as he looked curiously at the taller boy, he felt the same way, but at the same time knew that they were different, Tenya could reach and surpass his older brother, but him? Reach All Might? That was a whole different situation.

"What about you, Midoriya-kun? Do you have any relatives in the hero world?" The dark blue haired asked as he turned his gaze towards him.

"I-!" The greenette was about to answer the question, his lips barely parted before something cut him off.....

*Thump* *thump*

He suddenly heard his own heartbeat followed by a skull-splitting headache. The boy bit his tongue because of the pain while he gripped his head with his hands, his eyes shutting close instinctively.

"Midoriya-kun! What's wrong?!" Tenya shouted startled as he put a hand on the smaller boy's shoulder, but he didn't receive a reaction from him, he just kept shaking while gripping his head.

What he didn't know was that Izuku was battling more than a headache, unnatural sounds, images and smells invaded his senses. This wasn't like during his panic attacks, all of this felt too real, the smell of blood, the screams and images of destruction....

And he was the one at the center of all.

Suddenly, he heard a familiar chorus of voices assaulting his mind like claws, making him hiss with great discomfort.

"Not a hero......evil incarnate/your heart is cruel deep down/rotten blood flows in your veins" the voices echoed inside his mind, worsening his headache even more.

Izuku bit his lips as his will clashed against who he recognized being the creature that visited him in his dream.

"Kill, maim and destroy until the quirk stealer is whipped out from the face of the planet and anyone that will get in the way will join him" The voices pushed even more against his limits, trying to drive him insane.

"Shut up!" Izuku shouted inside his mind as he managed to overpower the dark feeling, the headache disappeared immediately after, leaving him a panting mess, his pupils almost not existent for how little they were.

"Midoriya! Do you need to go to the infirmary?!" He finally managed to hear the worried shouts of his friend.

Izuku looked at him a bit in a daze and groggily shook his head in negation.

"No.... I'm fine, let's go to class, I don't want you to be late because of me" He said surprisingly calmly as he walked away before Tenya could even say something, after a few moments of disbelief, the dark blue boy followed behind, trying to catch up with the greenette, who was anything but calm.

Izuku felt the metallic taste of blood in his mouth and when he passed a hand on his lips, he saw the crimson liquid staining his fingers a bit, he probably bit his lips so hard that he made them bleed.

As he uses the hanky to clean himself, fear was bubbling in his heart as he remembered those visions that OFA caused him, unless to say that they shook him to the core. His face was still pale and his stomach was so close to make him vomit everything, all that blood on his hands, all that destruction, what does that mean? And why does it keep calling him evil incarnate? He wants to be a hero......not that.... monster.

You don't have a choice....

He shook his head and took a shaky deep breath. When he heard Tenya getting closer to his side again, Izuku forcefully hid his fears and worries under his usual behavior, which was anywhere but normal, but it was better than the terrorized expression he was having. Last thing he needs is his friends see him as the lunatic he is.

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Another thing that worried him was how much of his actions were becoming out of his direct control. His body and subconscious desired more and more of these friendly touches, and he had a hard time containing his desire for contact.

"*Giggle*, you should have seen Tokoyami face when I became visible in front of him, I was like *surprise!* and he was *ghaaa!* Toru explained while mimicking the way she punched Fumikage during the battle trial and also a very exaggerated imitation of said boy at the moment of the blow. The girl was in company of the mentioned bird headed boy and Izuku, all of them were wearing the gym uniforms and standing in the training grounds.

Fumikage sweatdropped as he scratched his beak with his finger.

"I didn't know you could produce light, you took me by surprise" he muttered as he looked away, not exactly proud of his ability during the battle trial, one thing was fight against someone that has a power directly opposite of yours, but another was being that inefficient in moving around the disadvantage.

The chartreuse haired girl then turned to look at the quiet greenette, skipping backward so she could be beside him.

"And you, mister *I casually pass out*, that shockwave you used to destroy the floor was so strong! My hair was a mess after it settled down" she half joked half pouted, jokingly giving him a nudge with her shoulder, which made him blush a bit and look away.

"*Nervous giggle* I k-kinda panicked a l-little there....I didn't k-know how much time we had left, I-I had to think of a plan to help you quickly-" Izuku says a bit embarrassed as he internally enjoyed the closeness, didn't mean it wasn't having a negative effect on him because of his shyness.

"And we made that plan work, we are a good team, Midori!" Toru cheerfully finished the sentence for him as she pressed even more her shoulder against his. This made the boy hide his face with the other arm.

"Y-yes, w-we are" The greenette stuttered nervously, his voice muffled by his hand. To both his relief and actual disappointment, the girl gave him some space after that. When he looked back at her, he saw that she was looking at the others finishing their exercise, meaning their turn were coming soon.

Izuku first looked at Fumikage and then settled to stare at the girl, puzzled.... troubled, it's like he wanted something from her or ask her something but couldn't find the words to do so. After a couple of seconds however, his eyes drifted down until they settled to her left hand, which was free on her side.

Maybe.....

He didn't realize that his right hand was twitching. Embarrassing thoughts worming in his brain, there was no denying that he was becoming fond

A little more....

His hand now was slowly approaching hers, he didn't know what he would do once he got a hold of her. He was panicking now, his eyes half swirly, like he was hypnotized.

We are friends...so it's okay?

No turning back, he was going to either score a miracle and not make her disgusted in him or he was gonna ruin everything. His hand was almost brushing against hers, But-....

"Ah, sensei is signaling for us!" The girl says as she quickly spun her body to face the two boys. Izuku was still with his hand stretched towards her, but before he could withdraw it and curse himself in his mind a thousand times, he was cut off by the girl, who quickly got closer to him and just did what he was trying to do.

"Let's go Midori!" She hurried as she grabbed his hand with her own, dragging him with her, much to his shock.

Fumikage was left behind with slightly wide eyes because of what happened, he managed to notice Izuku reaching out for the girl's hand before she grabbed him herself, something in his gaze at that moment changed a little the idea the bird haired boy had on him.

"So he hides more than overwhelming darkness, a kindred spirit indeed" He muttered as he folded his hands, a bit thoughtful.

"I wanted more cuddles...." he heard his quirk whine beside him, making him turn his head slightly to look at the bird-like creature made of darkness.

"Oh please, have some pride" Fumikage mumbled with a sweatdrop, dark shadow pretty much became addicted to cuddles after that little accident with Izuku.

"I have pride, in wanting cuddles!" The creature argued back like a little kid, he was even pouting, well, the closest thing he could do to mimic a pout.

Fumikage sighed with frustrations as he just walked ahead to join his two classmates, ignoring the complaining creature.
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End of flashback

At the start of the third week of school, Izuku was seen walking alone in the direction of the main gate with his stare fixed on the ground, a troubled expression marking his face.

"This is terrible.... it's all wrong..." he muttered distraught as he put a hand on his forehead, removing some strands of hair from it, showing more of his eyes.

"I'm getting attached too quickly. I had so many close calls while I was with them, and it has been only two weeks. what's wrong with me?" He continued as he bit his lips. He always suspected that he was more affectionate and clingy than the normal, he was always alone, so anyone that he may like, he was going to cherish them more than a normal person would. Considering how much attached he got to All Might, Recovery Girl and Nezu, it was expected that friends his age may completely overdrive his crave for attention. And this was bad, extremely bad, because this attachment ment he was becoming less careful of what he said or do, he may like them, but the thought that theirs was an act was always present, undying and ever present.

He sighed and started rubbing his eyes with his hands frustrated. The way he felt every time he was with his new friends was even worse than his doubts, curiosity, fear, comfort, discomfort, axienty, calm. A whole chimera of emotions scratching his skull, just one was missing, true happiness, that was something he could never achieve without it being dulled by other emotions.

His thoughts were cut off once he started to hear loud noises and voices coming from the way he was walking to. He looked up and his eyes widened when he saw a crowd of reporters swarm the gate, basically cornering any students they could get their cameras on and filling them with questions.

"W-what? Why so many? W-what is happening?" He muttered confused while growing increasingly nervous, there was not way he was gonna keep his cool if he walk there and be questioned to death.

His attention was caught once he saw Ochako amongst the students getting interviewed, she, like the majority of the students, seemed a bit uncomfortable with the cameras on her.

"Young woman, lend us some of your thoughts on what it was like having the symbol of peace standing before you at the podium of education" A man in his thirties asked as he put the microphone close to the auburn girl's face, making her jump a bit, she looked to the sides with a nervous sweat on her forehead, but then she looked at the camera in front of her.

"My thoughts? umm... he was really muscly!! And he is f-funny" she replied as she scratched her hair with one hand with a awkward smile.

Meanwhile, Izuku was still staring from a distance, he didn't know what to do, go alone there was a big no no. But now that he saw the auburn girl, maybe he could discretely go to her and at least have someone he knows and like close while going through this sea of questions.

The greenette barely got closer to her before he was stopped by a female reporter, his body immediately went stiff, he was sure that he was sweating from his face too.

"Hey kid, just a question, what kind of lessons does All Might teach?!" The reporter asked loudly as she basically shoved the microphone in front of his face.

Izuku's eyes darted between the pretty reporter and the microphone, his quivering lips barely making a sound, what he was supposed to say? That he was the best teacher he personally could have? He was never interviewed, so the reflecting objective of the camera pointed at him was much more than simply making him uncomfortable.

"Um-ehm....I-I....he-" he stuttered as the words got stuck in his throat, he just need to say that they do foundational hero studies with him, just that. After swallowing the lump in his throat, the boy parted his lips, just about to say these few words and scurry away. But before he could do that, a second microphone was shoved in front of his face, making him jump a little, a second reporter!

"How is he during lessons? The symbol of peace must be the peak of education and heroic values!" The male reporter asked that joined to interview him, just worsening the greenette's anxiety, how he is supposed to remain calm with all these people in his field of views.

His jaw was serrated as more and more reporters joined in, finding him an easy prey because of him not trying to escape, more because he felt trapped in a cage of loud words, eyes and camera objectives, all locked on him. What he didn't was a familiar yellow glint starting to slowly drow his green irises, like that time after the battle trial, the mysterious color seemed to grow in presence as his anxiety and agitation grew .

Suddenly, the boy felt something wrap around his torso, and before he knew it, he was lifted and then pulled away from the reporters, who looked.

"Hey! Wait/come on kid, one question, don't run away!/ damnit, here goes another one" the reporters shouted frustrated as they saw the greenette being dragged away by something pink, like a tail, wait, no, it wasn't a tentacle or a tail, it was a tongue!

Izuku was finally settled on his feet after a couple of moments, stumbling a bit as he was still a bit shaken by the experience, he hated groups...a lot. He was curious of who saved him from having a panic attack in front of all those people, wait, he knew someone with a tongue that long.....

"*Kero* are you okay, Midoriya-chan? They really surrounded you there" He heard a familiar nasal voice say calmly just in front of him, this snapped him out of his thoughts and made him look up, being met with the cute face of his frog-like friend.

"A-Asui-san!?" He muttered surprised, not registering her question initially, was he that out of it that he didn't notice her standing right in front of him?

"Call me Tsu-chan" She says neutrally without missing a beat, making him gape like a fish for a second, but he managed to regain his fragment of composure again.

"Umm, right...As-...Tsu-chan, yes, I'm o-okay, ehm...thank you, I was k-kinda t-trapped there *nervous laugh*" He says nervously as he scratched his cheek with one of his fingers, it felt more like trapped, he felt like he was being suffocated, but the girl didn't need to know that.

"Don't mention it" The girl replied with a small smile. She seemed about to continue, probably to tell him that they should hurry inside, but a whine of relief coming from behind the boy interrupted her.

"Awww, finally free!" Ochako whined as she skipped away from the reporter mob, her eyes were closed so she didn't notice her two friends yet, when she finally looked up and saw them, she visibly cheered up.

"Oh hey guys, big crowd here! I was so nervous" She greeted as she joined them, walking with them to enter the school, however, they noticed their homeroom teacher standing outside the gate while being pestered by the same reporter that spoke with Izuku some moments ago.

"Give us some insight on All Migh-... cut the feed!! why don't you get a little more presentable, your hair looks like a bird nest" the woman was about to question, but then stopped the recording to comment about the black haired man state, which made him squint his eyes more, even more irritated that he already was.

"The man is off duty now and you're interfering with our lessons here, so kindly vacate the premises" Aizawa says dismissively as he waved his hand to shoo them away. He didn't wait for her response, just limiting himself to turn around and walk in the other direction, towards the entrance of the school.

"We just want to speak with all MIGHT directly!!/And aren't you a little TOO sloppy looking!?/ that guy looks familiar but i can't place him/ All Might!/ Let us see All Might!" the underground hero heard the crowd shout after him, but he didn't turn around. *Sigh* Media were the worst, he was lucky he wasn't well know, deal with just 1/10 of this was already too much to endure without him not wanting to tear his own ears out.

"Why are you going to such lengths to shut us out!? Just a word or two would be enough!!-" the female reporter of before tried to push her luck further, but as soon as she got closer to the gate, a fortified gate stood between her and the campus.

"Uwaaaaa! What the!!!?" The woman yelped as she looked up at the mighty gate, her eyes comically almost burst out of her eye sockets by the shock.

"For kami's sake we've been here for two straight days and they don't even have the decency to give us a lie or a platitude to report!!" A man in the crowd shouted with great frustration. Did they come here for nothing?!

While the crowd was protesting in front of the security gate, a lone figure stood on the back away from everyone, a black hoodie hiding the majority of his features, except his silver hair and red irises, which were glowing with overwhelming malice.

A huge eerie smile crept on that mysterious young man face, his hands twitching in anticipation.

It was time to send their little....greeting.

Homeroom

"Today we will be doing something important that will decide your future..." Aizawa declared neutrally as he stood in front of his students, the words immediately sent alarms in their brains. The quirk apprehension test was still fresh in their mind, if his reaction at the greenette basically exposing his lie was a hint that the boy was right, then he truly does expel students.

"Another activity that will be punished with expulsion?!!" Many of the students thought on the edge in their seats, what kind of activity will they do? Will it be difficult? Will he actually expel one of them? At this point, all of them had a personal mental image of what kind of test the hero will make them do, some were a bit silly, like a tyrannical-looking Aizawa sending armies of zero pointers after them, others were more grounded, but it was still unnerving.

"You will have to pick a class representative" Aizawa continued, stopping his students' thoughts, the mental images they created disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"A normal school activity!?" Many of them shouted shocked, not expecting such words about normal school activity to leave the man's lips. It didn't take long for them to grow excited and raise their hands high.

"Ohh! ohh! I wanna be class president!! pick me!!" Eijiro shouted with an excited grin, wanting to be the manliest class rep around.

"Oh, you mean the position that exists for me" Aoyama says dramatically as he winked to apparently no one.

"That's like a leader position!! I'll do it! me, me!" Mina shouted as she did some small jumps to get more visible

"I wanna do it too" Kyoka says less loudly than the others as she raises her hand too.

"My manifesto as president: all girls must expose 30 cm of thigh!! So take me!!" Minoru shouted as he jumped on his desk, just to get slapped by Tsuyu's tongue, making him fall from his footstool and drop to the ground, knocked out.

"I am the only one with a spine that can lead this class of extras!! I will do it!" Katsuki surprisingly joined in the shouting chorus, his damaged ego secretly guiding him into a way to become more important than anyone in this class.

Izuku sat silently as he watched everyone be so excited to be the class rep. He was kinda jealous of how natural they make it seem, naturally he wasn't going to propose himself to that role, he already got problems talking to others, being a leader? That's way worse. However, part of him wondered if being a class rep may help him become used to this new normality faster.

"Silence, please!" A voice shouted among the chorus of excited cheering, managing to attract the students' attention and make them turn their heads towards the owner of the voice, seeing Tenya raised from his seat.

"It is a job with the serious responsibility of leading others! It is not a job for just anyone who wants to do it! It is a calling that requires the trust of those around you! If we want to use democracy to decide on a true leader..." he explained with a serious voice and expression.

"...Then we should hold an election to choose one!" He concluded much more loudly as he raised his hand too in an exaggerated way.

"He really wants to do it..." many students thought with sweatdrops, but after some moments of pondering, they accepted the idea and nodded at him or gave him thumbs up. The dark blue-haired boy quickly turned to look at Aizawa after getting the approval of his classmates.

"It's that alright, Sensei?!" He asked with his own version of excitement, which was as stiff as his usual attitude.

"As long as you all decide before the end of the 5th period, anything's fine. You have the rest of the homeroom for yourself, don't make noise or we will be doing a special test" the underground hero replied neutrally as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, which were still bloodshot with sleep deprivation.

"Thank you very much!" Tenya bowed in gratitude, getting a wave of hand from the man as a way to say to move on. Aizawa then crouched down to rummage under the teacher's desk, taking a sleeping bag from it. Before they knew it, the man slipped into it and laid down to sleep...in front of them.....in class....

Everyone sweatdropped even more, does every teacher straight up sleep in class?....well, that's UA for you. They just sat in their seats, glancing at each other, wondering who would be a good class rep amongst them.

Izuku was silently looking at Tenya with a discreet side glance.

"Iida seems to really want the role, and after he talked about being a leader like his older brother, I want to give him a hand" He thought, turning his gaze to look ahead. Now he knows who he will vote for instead of himself like others will surely do, after all, he doubts he would be remotely fit for the role. No one would vote for him.... would they?

Lunch

"Soooo, who did you guys vote?" Mina asked curiously as she rested her chin on her hands and glanced at the group, which was bigger since Tsuyu joined, all of them looked back at her.

"I still didn't decide, and no, you can't buy my vote with a plushy this time" Toru says as she shrugged, the last part causing the pink girl to snap her fingers in frustration.

"I think I will vote for Mido-" Ochako was about to say, but before she could finish saying the surname, she was cut off by Tenya.

"We shouldn't reveal our vote until the end of the deadline, it could create unnecessary internal conflicts that wil-" the boy started to say, but just like he did with the auburn girl, he was cut off too.

"Iida.... it's about voting for a class rep, not voting who will be king of the world, so ease up a little, will ya?" Toru interrupted him with a sweatdrop on her head.

The engine user was left with a agape mouth as he saw Mina and Ochako nodded and Tsuyu letting a quiet croak in agreement, even Izuku looked away while scratching his cheek, silently agreeing with them.
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"Hai" he sulked as he looked down with a blue depressed aura around him.

Meanwhile, Mina laid her crossed arms on the table, resting her head on them with a huff.

"Aww, I'm still having problems deciding, like, should I vote for myself? The one with the second most votes is going to be the vice rep, right? I wanna have one of you with me, or it will be so boringggg" Mina whined a bit irritated with a small pout, her eyes seemed to land on Izuku with the last part, weird.....

Tsuyu tapped the corner of her lips with one finger as she looked as she tilted her head to the side.

"*Kero* What kind of class representative or vice rep would you like, Ashido-chan?" the frog girl asked calmly with a tint of curiosity, making Mina look at her with a slightly confused expression, blinking a couple of times before putting a hand under her chin in a thoughtful way. She then snapped her fingers when she found the right words.

"Ah! One that knows how to have fun. I know that sensei said we are here to be all serious and boring, but come on, we need some good music, a stage and we got a school party!" She cheered while throwing her hands in the air in a childlike manner, which made the other girls snicker a little, Tenya sweatdrop, and Izuku, well, he was just staring with imaginary flowers around him with a small blush on his cheeks, most likely because he secretly really wanted to see the pink girl dance for real, but she doesn't need to know that, if he want to survive the embarrassment or course.

"You, Uraraka?" Izuku snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Mina ask the question to the auburn girl, who tapped her chin with her finger as she took a moment to think too.

"I guess they would need to be easy going to get along with everyone" Ochako says after some moments of pondering. Unknown to her, Izuku has been paying extra attention to his friends' opinion of the best class rep, wondering if he is those things. Wait, he doesn't want to be class rep!...so why does he care if he fit those criteria?

"A class rep needs to be the peak of education and integrity-..." the greenette heard Tenya added, causing him to ask himself if he does have integrity.....no....not at all, he was the definition of unstable.

"And super confident in what they do, so everyone will listen to them" Toru added with some unconscious hand gestures which added more strength to her words.

At this point Izuku was sulking in his seat with a depressed aura around him. Okay....maybe, just maybe, he wanted to be the class rep a tiny bit. If he wanted to be like All Might, then he needed to get used to be at the center of attention, but it was easier said than done. Better leave this chance to someone that deserves it.

"What about you, Midori? What is the kind of class rep you would like to have?" He jumped a bit when he heard Mina addressing him, his eyes immediately darted to look at her, noticing that everyone at the table had their eyes on him....great, he zoomed off again.

He looked both ways as he passed a hand behind his neck, his quivering lips still didn't open to give an answer to the pink skinned girl. What kind of class rep would he want?

"Well....ehmm-" he still struggled to answer but at least managing to relax a bit when he noticed that they weren't going to rush him, like always. After some moments of quick pondering, he looked up at Mina while scratching his cheek with the hand that was rubbing his neck before. He knew now who he would like to have a class rep, someone he wanted to be capable of being.....

"I g-guess t-they need to be... reliable, it's a leader role, so everyone should feel that t-they can...well, rely on him or her. They also need to be a c-calming and inspiring presence, the k-kind that makes you feel like doing your best....." he started to explain while passing a hand on his hair, stopping for a moment and looking away a little as he felt a bit self conscious of giving his own opinion.

He didn't wait long to continue, looking at them again while faking a small awkward smile.

"It's a big r-responsibility and managing a class would mean t-they need to put our comfort and s-safety as priorities. I guess they will have to be f-firm, not fearing to be h-hasty or even stern to those that don't listen to them, b-but also offer a kind hand when needed, maybe even a simple smile c-could make a difference...." he concluded, after he noticed that no one was talking, he glanced around and noticed that his friends were silently staring at him with slightly surprised expressions. Did he say something wrong?

The answer to his question was different from what he thought, as it was unknown to him that he didn't manage to hide the longing behind his words, even his expression softened.

"Wow.../*kero*" Toru and Tsuyu respectively muttered and croaked, genuinely impressed by how secretly passionate he was about it. This raised the question, does he want to be that kind of class rep?

"That's so cool! Like a personal mini All Might!" Ochako praised while pumping her fists, that was so deep! The green haired boy sitting beside her got a unique and emotion filled way of speaking the few times any of them managed to make him open up a bit.

"See? You should talk more, Midori, you look so happy when you do" Mina added while resting her chin on her closed hand, visibly happier that her friend is finally talking more.

This made Izuku blink in surprise before looking at her with slightly wide eyes, somehow, the friendly comment really threw him a bit into a loop.

"Did I look happy?" He thought puzzled, like, he felt more at ease since he came here, but happy? Where was the last time he felt truly happy without it getting dulled by his own body and brain.

He noticed that Tenya was about to say something, but before he could do that-....

*RIIIIIING!!!*

The security alarm was set off, immediately shocking everyone in the lunchroom.

"The siren!?" Izuku gasped, his eyes darted to look up at the direction he was hearing the alarm.

"SECURITY LEVEL 3 HAS BEEN BREACHED. STUDENTS, PLEASE PROMPTLY EVACUATE" A robotic female voice was heard shortly after, making the students understand that there was an emergency. Immediately everyone hastily got up from their seats, Izuku and his friends doing the same. A million panicked questions assaulted the greenette's head, what's a breach of security 3? Were his friends in danger? What kind of danger? A fire? A villain attack?

His thoughts stopped when he noticed Tenya at the corner of his eyes stopping another student.

"What's security level 3?" The dark blue haired boy asked in a hurry, making sure to keep an eye on his friends so they will not get separated.

"It means someone's infiltrated the school grounds! this hasn't happened in three years!! Shit, shit!! We need to run!" The student shouted as panic made him quickly rush towards the exit, many had his same idea, and an attempt of organized evacuation became an agglomeration of panicked teens, causing a major traffic jam in the outside hallway.

"Ow! Ow!!/ Lay off, or i'll fall!/ Quit pushing!!/ You hit my cheek!/ Make way!" Were some of the many shouts Izuku heard all around him while he was tightly stuck in this sea of students, luckily his friends were still near, stuck like him.

"Oww!! what is this all of sudden!!?" Ochako yelped as she struggled to move, her short stature didn't help this time.

"As expected of the pinnacle of education, their crisis response was swift!-*ack*" Tenya commented with effort, stopping short after someone carelessly elbowed him in the gut.

"It was too swift. it triggered A panic.." Izuku thought agitated as he tried to force his way through to reach the rest of the group, he didn't want to use OFA and risk hurting someone, but he needed to reach them, at least he was close enough to hear their voices.

"I can't squeeze through, guys, are you still there?!" Mina shouted frustrated, her vision obstructed by the multiple students trying to rush between them.

"Yes, I see everyone, but if they don't calm down a little, we can't move!" Toru shouted in reply as one of her eyes instinctively closed when a second year student basically pushed her to the side to squeeze in and go forward.

"*Kero!* We need to stay close, or the crowd will separate us!" Tsuyu says in a rare display of distress, but she was still collected, how she could keep a cool head in this situation was unknown to the other greenette.

Izuku tried to squeeze in between two bigger students to get closer to his friends, but it had the opposite effect as the one behind him was pushed by the others, resulting in the green haired boy to stumble and get dragged away by the rushing crowd. He could hear his friends calling for him, but their voices were easily dulled by the multiple shouts, yelps and grunts of the crowd.

"Guys!*ugh*" He tried to shout after them, but grunted in pain when he was literally shoved around by the crowd of panicking teens, he could feel his heartbeat in his ears, this was beyond stressful, and he didn't even had a friendly face to help stabilize his thoughts.

At a certain point, he was being pushed quickly towards the wall next to the window, with another push, he stumbled forward. The boy closed his eyes as he prepared for the incoming impact with the wall's surface, but, to his shock, his front hit and was pressed on something incredibly soft, too soft to be a wall, and above all....

"Eeeeep!" He heard a familiar female voice squeal with surprise, this made the boy's panicked mind come to a halt.....Wait a moment.....walls don't squeal....

Izuku's face paled as he raised his head to what , being met with a gorgeous face and obsidian eyes staring at him.....oh no, this soft sensation was no, oh no!!! OH KAMI!!!!

"M-Mi-Midoriya-san?!" Momo gasped surprised to see her classmate there, it was oblivious she was uncomfortable with the position they were in, considering the greenette was technically pinning her to the wall, Izuku's relief to have found a classmate in this mess immediately turned into horror.

The boy didn't waste a second to try to pry himself from the slightly taller girl, but it was useless, but the students behind him seemed to not notice what they were doing, resulting in them just pushing back harder and press the greenette further in the girl, his hands instinctively were placed to the wall at either side of Momo to take the blunt of the wave of pushing teens.

"D-Don't move so much, Midoriya, you'll make things w-worse!" he heard the girl's voice from the left, making him open his eyes and realize that his head was beside hers and that one of her hands was on his chest and the other on his shoulder, probably to help him in his effort to not get pushed even more on her than he already is.

His body was shaking, he was stuck here, he couldn't even begin to think on how much the raven haired girl will insult him after this is over, it was even worse for him because he was hoping to befriend her one day or another, but he was too scared to try. Now he literally burned his chances to do that.

"I-I'm so sorry" he whispered with quivering lips, the fact that part of him was enjoying this 'hug' just made him feel worse.

"It's o-okay, I know it's not y-your fault" The girl reassured, still embarrassed, but less than before seeing that he was as upset as her about this. The lack of malice completely surprised the boy, not expecting her to be understanding.

His eyes caught a glimpse of the window besides them, and when he leaned a bit to the side to see better, his eyes widened after he realized that there were reporters inside the campus, so that was what triggered the alarm, no villains, no fire and no danger. With a bit of relief washing over him, he forced his body back, managing to face Momo.

"Yaoyorozu-san, i-it's just the press, they are the ones t-that trespassed! We need to warn the others so they can calm down!" Izuku shouted, hissing at the end when a guy's shoulder bumped on him.

The girl's eyes widened for a moment before sharpening in focus, her mind already finding a way to warn the others.

"I can create a megaphone, they will hear me this way! It will take a moment" Momo explained and quickly got to work, rolling up her sleeve with the hand that was on the greenette's chest, a multicolored light quickly engulfed the naked skin of her arm and a red colored handle started to emerge from it.

"Whoa!" Izuku muttered with awe, even in this harsh situation, seeing her quirk closely was still amazing for him. He wanted to ask about her quirk so bad, wait, does she need naked skin for that? For this her costume is so revealing- no! Focus Izuku! Don't think about her hero costume now! Especially since you don't have much choice on where to look, her face was a big no, his own face was already burning, didn't need to get more flustered, look down was another big no for....big reasons....and If the soft sensation on hus muscular chest was enough for him to understand that he shouldn't look down. So, he just closed his eyes and tried to calm his nerves, now Momo will resolve everything, he will apologize for what happened and hopefully she will not hate him-

"Ow!!" A whine of pain completely interrupted him out of his thoughts while his eyes snapped open. His head instinctively turned to the direction of the voice, he saw a girl that he doesn't recognize painfully holding her face with some tears at the corner of her big eyes, even with all these people, the greenette could see that her appearance was animal-like just like Tsuyu and she was scared, probably she was separated from her classmates like he was before.

Izuku's pupils shrunk when he caught sight of a trail of crimson dripping from the girl's muzzle-like nose, in that moment, the boy became sensitive to all the yelps of pain that were echoing in the lunchroom. The students' panic were causing them to hurt each other, what if they stepped on someone that fell? What if one got seriously injured?......

Why no one was caring that someone got hurt and was scared?.....
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The greenette could only hear his own heartbeat as the blood in his head thrummed and pounded, causing a violent urge to envelope his whole being, this wasn't like the battle trial, no......it was worse, like that time with Tenya, but this time......

He was losing....

Izuku gritted his teeth and shut his eyes tightly while trying to resist the violent thoughts that keep clawing their way in his head, this was terrible! Why now?!!

They are in the way.....remove them....

They will listen after having some of their bones broken or their skull shattered.

Don't resist, they must pay the price of their pathetic cowardice .....with blood....

"Shut.....up! Shut up! I don't who you are, but shut up!" He kept repeating in his mind, but unknown to him, OFA was secretly twisting his thoughts, making them return to the injured girl and the multiple groans of pain echoing in the room, causing his stress and anguish to turn into boiling rage, there one thing that truly triggered him, and OFA knew his weakness all too well now.

The constant shoving, screams and ringing of the alarm was too much for him to bear, and shortly after, his stress exploded into a violent burst. His eyes snapped open with crimson enveloping every single part of his irises, black lighting bolts started to gradually rampaging around his body, confirming that OFA was forcefully pushing his rage to new violent peaks.

Meanwhile, Momo has just finished to create the megaphone and was going to raise it close to her mouth so she could amplify her voice. But she stopped when she noticed that the boy close to her was shaking, clenching his teeth and keeping his eyes shut, like he was suffering an invisible injury.

"Midoriya-san, what's wrong-*!!!!*" she was about to ask with a bit of concern, but her words died in her throat when the boy suddenly opened his eyes, glowing crimson orbs staring ahead like she was invisible. Black lighting bolts followed soon after, some of them hitting her directly and sending chills in her spine.

Izuku suddenly turned his gaze to look behind with a furious stare, the boy couldn't control himself, or better yet....he didn't want to.....

With OFA enhancing his strength, the greenette easily backed away while sending back the teens that were trapping him, turned his body towards tbe crowd, took a deep breath and.....

"STOOOOOOOP!!!!!!" He shouted with every single particle of air he have in his lungs, completely overwhelming the sounds in the room and the alarm.

Everyone in the room completely stopped in their tracks as they turned their gazes to look at the green haired boy with wide eyes, completely flabbergasted at how loud and angry the shout was. Meanwhile, Izuku was regaining his breathing, his throat was burning, his lungs hurt like hell, but he got their attention, and he had a lot of anger to vent.

"Do I have your attention now? Funny that you heard me but not those begging for you to calm down?! Do you have any idea of what you all did while panicking like brainless chickens!? Look around, SEE HOW MANY GOT HURT BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T FORM A STRAIGHT LINE!!!" Izuku shouted even more aggressively, even now he was trying to keep OFA's influence at bay. His shaking hands were a clear hint of what he would do to all these students if he let the quirk mess with his head further.

The students looked around in disbelief, their eyes widened when they noticed that some of them were hurt and scared, probably because they got separated by their classmates and basically shoved around, guilt burned their guts, how they didn't notice?

Meanwhile, the greenette was still fuming, his jaw clenched tight as he tried to keep himself composed. This feeling of release, of power and confidence, was terrifyingly addicting. He wanted to scream more, vent more, but....he realized that he was giving in to OFA violent nature, and he wasn't going to allow that. So, he forced himself to take a deep breath and put his nerves on ice, resulting in the black lighting bolts to disappear and his irises to go back to their original color.

"It's just the press...no one is in danger and everything will be okay,...I promise. And above all, We're UA students, so, let's act as such!" He explained surprisingly more calmly and collected, even with his outburst of some moments ago, they seemed to relax at his words, now that they knew that it was just the press, their panic was subdued.

"As Midoriya said, please let's form well-ordered lines and exit one class at a time so we can avoid any more accidents. You should have a classmate assigned as the first in the line and one as the last one, make sure to follow this plan to not risk getting lost" Momo continued while standing beside the boy, the megaphone in her hand helping her voice to be heard by everyone, her presence managed to help Izuku to calm down even more, his emotions were in pieces, the only reason he seemed normal now was because he was being stared, so he must keep the mask on.

Seeing that the students were doing as told earned a little sigh of relief from the black haired girl, they managed to calm everyone down. She looked to the side, expecting her green haired classmates to still he beside her, but to her surprise, he wasn't there. She searched for him with her eyes, spotting him shortly after walking towards a blonde girl with animal features.

"H-hey a-are you okay, d-does it hurt?" Izuku asked nervously as he approached the girl he saw before, who jumped a bit and warily looked up at him, allowing him to see her features in full. She was a short girl with a round face and a short equine muzzle, framed by thick, wavy blonde hair that reaches halfway down her back, some shorter bangs hanging down her forehead. Her eyes are large and round, Prussian blue, and she has a pair of tall, lyre-shaped pale tan horns on her head. Her calves looked notably rounded, shaped similarly to those of a horse, and her shoes indicated that her feet were most likely shaped like hooves, the boy also noticed that a short horse tail poking out from the end of her tailbone and sticking out from the backside of her skirt. He would blush at the fact he was talking to a cute girl he doesn't know, but right now, he was more concerned about her, the corner of her eyes still had tears, and her left nostril still had a trail of blood dripping.

"Huh?!" The girl was visibly surprised by his question, even confused, like she didn't understood him completely. The boy thought that it was because she was still scared, so he morphed his expression to look as gentle as possible to mimic his intentions with his face and hopefully calm her down, he then rummaged through his pocket and took out his handchief.

"Here, It's c-clean" he says more softly as he extended the handchief towards her without getting too close, he knew too well how to deal with someone that was scared, considering that...well, he was on the other end more times he can count.

The girl looked at his hand and then up at him with a bit puzzled, but then seemed to understand what he said, visibly relaxing shortly after. She took the handchief from him and used it to clean the blood off her nose, apparently less wary of him. After cleaning herself completely and wiping out the tears out of her eyes with the still clean parts of the handchief, she looked up at him, a tiny bit less nervous than before.

"Ehmm....t-thank you, if I stained my u-uniform, it w-would be l-like so uncool" She says with a very soft voice, almost not audible. The greenette noticed that she was struggling to say the thank you, stumbling on some words, like she didn't know how to pronounce them correctly, and to the boy's surprise, spoke in English in some parts of the sentence.

"Was that English? For this she didn't answer me before? Wait, is she a foreign? An exchange student maybe..." he thought curiously. He saw the girl look around like she was searching for someone, while also giving him a glance from time to time to make sure he was still here. Now it makes sense, her being particularly scared, not speaking correctly, and now probably looking for her classmates, most likely a fish out of water, well, like himself a little.

//Author Note: I will use language codes between brackets in case an exchange contain more than one language. Example being [Ja] for japanese or [En] for English. If there's a * present just before the code, it means that the character is speaking a broken version of the language//

"Ehm....Are y-you an exchange student?" He asked before he could stop his curiosity, he was quick to shut his mouth when the horned girl looked at him again, blinking a few times as she took a moment to translate his question.

[*Ja] "Ah! Y-yes.....I m-moved here a couple of m-months ago. It's a bit h-hard to get used to be h-here because....well-..." She replied with a small nod, looking away for a second as to think of what to say next, probably to find the right japanese words.

[*Ja] "I'm s-still very b-bad at speaking japanese , s-so I can't talk a lot with the majority of my classmates, I f-feel a bit l-lonely" She continued with a small frustrated pout while looking down at her hooves. Izuku was listening silently to her 'venting', he didn't expect him simply approaching her to see if she was okay to evolve into a full blown conversation, but hey, he didn't mind, he was here to calm her down, and from her relaxed posture, he was doing it. Plus, he was kinda surprised that he was holding his own composure this nicely for so long, maybe because her shyness made him instinctively relax in order to cheer her up? Who knows, these days his own behavior was a mystery.

He was about to say something to maybe cheer her up, but he stopped when he saw her huff from her nose, ironically like a horse would.

[En] "I should have taken extra japanese lessons before coming here, stupid me-..." the blond girl muttered softly with some frustration, unconsciously fully switching to speak her native language, she seemed to realize it shortly after, making her stop talking and bit her lips. She was about to excuse herself and search for her classmates, thinking that his silence was a hint she was annoying him, but-

[En] "D-Don't worry, you will learn, it's j-just a matter of time before you get used to b-being here.... p-practice is i-important" The greenette says nervously in English as he scratched his cheek with his finger, the burst of confidence starting to fade and make the awkward shy boy return to twist the 'mask'.

Him speaking her native language completely surprised the blonde girl, who quickly looked up at him with an agape mouth and wide eyes.

[En] "Wait....you speak English?!!!" She shouted flabbergasted, scooting closer with expectation in her prussian blue eyes, making him blush a bit and look away.

[*En] "N-not that w-well, but e-enough to u-understand you" Izuku replied as he looked at anything but her, his growing nervousness making him mess up some words. Regarding his capacity of speaking another language, well, during his.... unhappy times, he had a lot of free time, so, he got into many hobbies to fill the void created by not living like a normal and socially active boy. One of these hobbies was learning english by his own, thanks to the many videos of All Might during his time in america, he managed to pinpoint a good quantity of words from the multiple videos he saw, it was like a game.

Apparently his confirmation just energized the girl further, who smiled with stars in her eyes, happy to have found another schoolmate that she can actually talk without tripping over her words left and right.

[En] "That's awesome!! Until now only Itsuka and Juzo speak it in my class. What's your name? Mine is Pony! Ah, and what's your class? I didn't see you around a lot!" The girl asked excited as she jumped up and down like a little kid, much less shy and awkward now that she is in her element.

The boy's posture stiffened as he started to sweat a bit, now the roles were reversed, he was the nervous one now. He was still avoiding looking at her face, his eyes on her long horns, which were moving a lot by her excited movements. He realized he still didn't answer her questions, so he coughed on his closed fist and looked to the side awkwardly.

[En]+[Ja] "I'm I-Izuku Midoriya f-from class 1-A" He replied shyly as he used the right pronunciation in his language while saying the rest in English to make sure she understands. He was internally a bit happier that he managed to cheer her up. Strangely after he answered her he noticed that she was mumbling something under her breath while tapping her chin with her finger.

[*Ja] "Iz-izu-....uhmmm, Mi-Mido-" He heard her mutter under her breath, making him tilt his head to the side in confusion, but then it hit him, she was trying to imitate the way he pronounced his own name. After some moments of exercise, she finally looked up at him with big stars in her eyes.

[Ja]"Izuku Midoriya!" Pony exclaimed while pumping her fists, a wide content smile on her face.

The greenette was left staring down at her with a surprisingly blank look, however, what he was thinking was another question.....

"Cute!!!!!" He shouted in his mind as he kept his blank expression while smoke erupted from his head. What he didn't notice was that some of his classmates were watching him, seemingly impressed by how he handled the situation before, and how caring he was under that shy exterior.....

Pretty good qualities for a class representative, weren't they?

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Meanwhile, U.A.' main gate

Aizawa and Present Mic were standing in front of the crowd of reporters that trespassed into the campus, how they did that was a mystery. The security gate was just gone with a pile of ash on its place. The crowd was even more loud and agitated than before, making the black haired man grumble even more as he glared ahead at them.

"Go bring all might out here!! He's gotta be in there!!" A man in the crowd shouted while trying to get ahead of his rivals.

"We told you, he's off duty!!" Present Mic say loudly with exasperation rising in his voice, now he kinda get why his grumpy best friend here hate media.

"Come on, Just a single word from him and we'll go away!" Another man in the crowd shouted, trying to convince the two heroes to let them interview All Might, but to no avail.

"You'll just want another statement from him after you wring the first one out, and so on. Go away, now" Aizawa says with hidden irritation while his eyes narrowed even more.

Present Mic got closer to the underground hero and leaned to the side with his hand close to his mouth so only his fellow hero could hear him.

"They are trespassing. That means they're kinda like villains. Why don't we just beat 'em up?" He proposed in a whisper, hoping to resolve this problem as quickly as possible.

"Don't bother. Unless you want your name dragged through the mud. Let's wait for the police" Aizawa whispered back with a groan while pitching the bridge of his nose. He want to take a nap so bad, instead he is here, listening to this chorus of reporters like ...great.

His eyes moved again towards the pile of ash that was their security gate, he already had a bad feeling about this.

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5th period

"Alright, now that everyone has given their vote, we can finally decide who will be the class representative and their vice" Aizawa says neutrally as he looks at the students while holding the multiple small papers with the votes in his hands. Present mic was standing beside him, rolling his eyes at how boring he was making it.

"So who will be the lucky listener to command this class with the iron fist?!!!" Present Mic added loudly with a big grin, earning a frustrated groan from the underground hero.

"Anyway, following these votes, the class representative is....." Aizawa was about to say, causing many of the students to lean forward from their seats while holding their breaths, the tension was killing them.
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"Midoriya, with seven votes, congratulations or whatever" Aizawa announced neutrally as he raised his gaze to look at the mentioned boy, whose eyes widened like plates, shock and disbelief evident in his expression.

"Wait... what....me, why? How?!!!" The greenette panicked in his mind, who voted for him?! Why would they vote for him?! He literally threatened other schoolmates, how is that class president material?!!!

"The vice representative is Yaoyorozu with four votes" he heard Aizawa continue while he panicked, his instinctively gaze turned to glance at the girl, who seemed happy about it, good for her....but why she wasn't elected class president?! She is perfect for it, even Tenya would have been perfect, anyone would have been perfect....okay, maybe not Bakugo. Speaking of the blonde, he was equally shocked by the green-haired boy receiving the role, he was about to complain loudly, but he shut his mouth when he saw Aizawa give him a menacing gaze. If the rat doesn't like him, the underground hero literally despises him.

Before Izuku knew it, he and Momo were standing beside Aizawa in front of the whole class, saying that he was anxious was an understatement, a small yellow glint was even present in his eyes, but luckily no one noticed it.

He swallowed the lump in his throat as he glanced at everyone, the majority of his classmates were giving thumbs up and smiles to both him and Momo. They were happy with him in that role, but he wasn't!!

"Little listener, something's wrong?" Present Mic asked as he noticed that the greenette was secretly upset. If you are friends with Aizawa all this time, you learn how to recognize when someone is upset.

Izuku turned his head towards him with a surprised look, struggling with what to say. He glanced at his class again, okay, he needed two things now, remove suspects about how he was feeling and answers on why he was voted, so, he put on his best mask and lightly scratched his cheek with his finger to fake being just a bit shy instead of completely terrorized.

"*Nervous giggle* n-nothing is wrong, sensei, I'm j-just c-confused, I didn't expect to be v-voted" He explained nervously as he sweatdropped a bit, he wasn't a leader, so why did they choose him?

He jumped a bit when he saw Eijiro basically jump up from his seat with a wide grin.

"What are you talking about, man? The way you handled everyone in that lunchroom was so mainly, got a vote out of me!!" The red-haired boy cheered loudly with a fist pump.

You are wrong, I was dangerous!....

"You took good control of the situation, even if a bit too aggressive, I couldn't think of a better way to make them stop, you were a leader" Tenya added with a nod, a leader need to make sure everyone respects their authority, the greenette fit that position perfectly.

I hardly had control of myself, even less the situation....

"Uh-huh, you got into 'serious Midori' mode and left them with their jaws hanging, plus, we need a cute face to represent our class, you got the whole package. Just remember to let us have fun!" Mina cheered in an effort to make her friend more happy about his new role, however, it didn't work, nothing worked.....

I'm not a complete package, I'm a moving disaster, I was lucky that I managed to calm down.

"Alright, that's enough-" Aizawa shushed everyone from going further, his gaze then turned towards the two teens standing beside him.

"Do you two accept the role?" He continued, receiving a nod from the black-haired girl, but the greenette was silent, pondering what to do next.....

Izuku knew he could back down, but when he glanced back at his classmates, the way they talked about him made him realize that they were expecting him to accept. Even if they don't know or ignore how unfit he is for this role, they still want him as a class rep.....but, does he want it?.... being a class rep means that he needs to protect them, and take care of his class....does he want to have this responsibility?.......
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After all, heroes don't back down from a challenge.... right?

To be continued

Chapter Text

Midoriya's house

Izuku groggily opened the door of his room and walked in, his hands already working to remove his poorly made tie and his school blazer. His eyes were squinted, glaring at nothing, showing that he was thoughtful about something and it wasn't hard to understand what that something was.....

"So I'm a class representative now, huh?....." He muttered under his breath as started unbuttoning his blazer, just stopping at the last button. The boy's hands found his hair, lightly scratching his green strands in frustration.

"*Frustrated groan* What gotten over me? I can barely talk to others, being a good class representative is totally out of my reach!" The greenette continued to vent while putting one of his hands covering his face, muffling his voice in the process. Naturally, he couldn't express the majority of his enormous disbelief during class, not wanting to sound ungrateful or rude, which is the last thing he wanted.

After a couple more seconds of pondering, the boy finally opened a little the fingers that were covering his face, letting his right emerald-colored eye poke out.

"So many voted for me, and after all they said to me, I didn't want to disappoint them by saying no...." He continued as he raised his hand from his face, pushing some strands from his forehead and showing his eyes even more, which squinted a bit shortly after with a bit of suspicion staining his dull green irises.

"What did they see in me that justified voting for me? It's so weird. Wait....what if they wanted to see me struggl-no! No no no, Stop right there, Izuku. You promised that you would be positive and not jump to conclusions, They have been nothing but nice to you and you know it, you are being an idiot! An idiot" the greenette scolded himself while lightly pressing his knuckles on his temples. Unfortunately, what was being said from his mouth continued in his head....

Not being an idiot, you are being smart. They will turn their back on you.... it's just a matter of time....you-

Izuku bit his thumb as he hastily blocked that thought from continuing further. This time he didn't want his own bad habits of overthinking to dull his positivity. All in all, it was useless to even be hesitant about this, he already said yes, and to be honest, the prospect of using this occasion to grow some social skills made the thought less scary.

The boy stopped biting his thumb and shifted his hand to cup his chin instead, imaginary clouds appeared above his head, all of them showing the greenette talking to his classmates with more life and confidence in his words, and everyone cherished him like he was their best friend, bad thoughts and doubts would be silent in those moments, allowing him to have a perfectly normal and fulfilling student life.

Imaginary flowers seemed to float around Izuku's head, hinting at his more relaxed and dreaming mood. However, It didn't take long for him to snap out of these disgustingly optimistic imaginary scenarios. His eyes frowned a little as he swayed away the imaginary clouds and flowers with his hand.

"O-okay, maybe I should start with stopping freezing when I'm in front of a crowd, then maybe we will have.....that. t-that sounds like a good start! I can do this, from now on, only Positive thoughts!" The greenette cheered himself up while pumping his fists. He just needs to think positive and bottle up any negative one, it's not like he isn't used to doing that, he has been doing it since he was little.

Positive thoughts? Look at how thinking positive brought you, burns, slashes and broken bones. No matter how good they are to you, once you are done being entertaining, you will be thrown away like a child's used toy, or even better....you will be broken....

"Uh-uh, not listening! It's all in my head, and it's all wrong in there" Izuku cut off his thoughts once again while covering his ears, an action that isn't exactly useful considering he was trying to shut down something that came from his head.

After a couple of seconds, the greenette could feel his head and thoughts quiet down once again, giving him a bit of peace. He removed his hands from his ears, stared into the void for a few more seconds and....

"Heh, pffff..." He.....chuckled? Something that he rarely does, especially now that there wasn't anything that a normal person would find funny to laugh about, and that was the funny thing....

"I'm really arguing with myself? I bet that I sound like a lunatic right now, what is wrong with m-*ack*" He started to mutter while he pitched the bridge of his nose. But before he could finish the sentence, a sharp pain assaulted his brain like a million needless were stabbing it. The pain then shifted to feel like hot lava while it spread and enveloped every single nerve in his body before vanishing as fast as it came.

The boy jumped with his eyes as wide as they could be. What was that?!! Wait, that feeling of his nerves being on fire, it was like that time in the lunchroom, when he snapped at everyone. The good thing is that it lasted just a second, the bad is that this time it caused him pain for apparently no reason.

"It must be OFA, it's getting worse since last time. And with what happened today when they tried to make us evacuate, I can't afford to lose my focus even for a second" he hissed with uneasiness while rubbing his right arm with his left hand, the nerves in there were still aching, giving no little discomfort.

Izuku frowned while remembering what happened during the lunch. Nothing of this was natural, he felt angry, yes, but he always did his best to bottle up his more dark thoughts with good enough results. This time, they ripped apart their way to the surface, even worse, it was his quirk to cause this mess.

"It doesn't make any sense, why does a quirk that was used only by heroes act like this?-" Izuku started to say but stopped once he remembered the dream he had two weeks ago, the way the creature referred to him as mere property. Or even the occasional voices calling him evil followed by headaches.

"Why does it keep calling me evil? W-what did I do?" He continued as he looked at his hands. For the duration of these two weeks, he tried to not think about OFA or that creature while keeping the quirk's influence at bay, he didn't even say anything to All Might yet because part of him believed that everything he saw and heard was all hallucinations and nightmares. With what happened today, he was finally sure that this was OFA's doing, with that knowledge, what was left for him was figuring out a way to put a stop to this before it got worse.

However, the greenette stopped in his tracks with a blank stare as he realized a little problem....how he is gonna enter in connection with OFA? The only time he managed to do that was during those 'nightmares', which happened only on specific occasions, so going to sleep wasn't a solution.

"There must be a way *mutter" *mutter*..." He muttered under his breath while touching his chin with his hand with his eyes closed, after some moments of thinking, he opened his eyes and snapped his fingers.

"Maybe I just need to focus while using it, I feel strange every time I do it, so If I try to focus on those sensations, I may discover anything useful to become less volatile" He mused while nodding to himself a couple of times. He then took a calming deep sigh and straightened his back. Like he was just putting an armor on, OFA was drawn out slow and steady. The boy felt his quirk factor pump a minimal quantity of power through his body, the veins in his hands glowed with black/white energy briefly.

"Okay, steady, 1% is enough. Now, I need to focus, don't think about anything, Izuku, you need to fix this" Izuku muttered as he closed his eyes and tried the closest thing to meditate. He focused on the soft feeling of his quirk factor pumping the raw power around his body, on the way his brain itches at every contraction of the quirk factor's veins, wait....were they bigger than last time or he was just imagining it?

He stopped focusing on them once he felt a new sensation spreading in his chest, right where his heart was. Wait no, it wasn't new! He felt something like this already when he snapped at everyone in the lunchroom, his heart felt like it was burning, even more scary, he remembered feeling his own blood vessels getting hotter as well, like they were about to burst from anger alone. Now it was much more tame, comfortably warm he would say.

"Could it be that my quirk factor touched my heart too? I felt.... strange, like tiny ants are crawling on it. *Shiver* weird" He says in his mind with a bit of agitation and uncertainty, it was bad already that this violent OFA was engraved in his brain, but not also his heart? This was getting too eerie for his tastes.

The greenette kept dwelling on the warm feeling in his chest. He noticed that he could feel his own veins contracting and the electric signals coursing through his nerves, the latest were synchronizing with his quirk factor, like they were connected. It was a bit relaxing if he was gonna be honest, like he was in line with his quirk.

His attention was taken when he felt resonating in his head, a presence that he had grown to recognize. OFA, it was responding, but it was different, calm and gentle. It sent energy into his body with a strange pattern, like it was.... humming?

Izuku tried to get more in sync with the 'humming', even doing it for real with his lips and to his surprise, OFA seemed to stop, like it just noticed him. To the greenette's surprise, he felt like the quirk was asking him to come closer, even offering a hand that wasn't real, but it felt like it.

With some hesitation, the boy reached too, even if his instincts told him to get away and deactivate OFA immediately, he tried to have hope. How disgustingly kind of him....

If only he listened....

Like a bear trap snapping its jagged teeth into its prey, OFA claws serrated around Izuku's kind, its 'humming' shattered into a distorted and violent laughter-like pattern.

"*Ugh!*" The boy grunted as he grasped his head in pain and serrated his teeth and eyes. The smell of blood immediately assaulted his nostrils even if there wasn't a single drop of it around. Images of bloodied battlefields were burned in his brain. The warmth in his chest started to become hotter and painful while his breathing became increasingly agitated.

Izuku felt a hot rush of anger washing over him. He tried to resist....until the faces of his old classmates replaced the Images OFA was forcefully making him see. The smell of blood was replaced by the one of burned flesh....his burned flesh, the one that left nasty scars that he currently hides. The greenette couldn't understand what was going on at first, but then it hit him. OFA right now wasn't only trying to draw out the anger and dark thoughts he repressed for so long, it also was trying to escalate them by making him see and feel the things he hated the most, like a person spicing their meal! Why it became s-so-....so evil!

Izuku bit his lips when another wave of pain assaulted his head, OFA was forcing its way into his thoughts, and not only that. The boy's blood froze once he felt his nerves flaring up followed by his hand closing into a fist without him wanting to. His body was moving outside of his control!!

"Ours/Property!!" Was the only thing he could hear just before his arm moved back and then quickly extended forward, making him punch the wall of his room with all the strength that 1% of OFA could give him, creating a visible crack.

The greenette winced in pain while quickly removing his aching fist from the wall. When he looked at it, he saw that he was bleeding a bit.

"That tainted blood of yours/our to shed/ stop fighting it, we own you..../ The more you fight, the more you hate, the stronger we become/ The sooner you will fall in our claws" he heard a million voices resonate in his head, making him stop in his tracks.

"Why do you keep saying that I'm tainted, what I've done!" Izuku hissed with pain and anger, what could he have done that justified all of this?? And why does it keep demanding for more hatred? It was extremely hard to believe that All Might had this quirk. The violence and bloodlust could be felt in his very bones, nothing that the number one hero ever showed.

"Hatred...give us more hatred...../ it's you who cursed our flesh/ since that day, your evil blood sharpened our claws and teeth/ You are not innocent/ your memories are as fake as your Innocence" Whoever or whatever was talking continued, the temperature of the room seemed to drop below zero immediately after......what?

Izuku paled like a sheet hearing this. And to make things worse, images of the day he used OFA for the first time flashed inside his mind. That hate he felt at that moment was too much for him to bottle up, causing him to snap at those guys. But why OFA was showing him this?

The images suddenly shifted to show a green star vibrating with power and hope, his OFA before the evolution. The greenette felt chills in his spine when he saw black tendrils pierce the surface while an eerie mist enveloped the entire star, like the quirk was fighting itself to contain its own rising violence..... losing in the process. That was the reason, he made the quirk snap just like he did! For this it hates him, or maybe there was really something wrong in his DNA, he wouldn't be surprised, he was wrong in every way since birth.

"You always knew deep down/ you are evil/ you inherited his cruelty/ It will not remain hidden forever... it's already leaking out" OFA keep attacking him with words and visions. This time it brought him back to the time he was attacked for the first time by Katsuki and the others. But something was wrong. The event wasn't like he remembered....why was he holding a rock stained with blood? Why couldn't he see his younger self's face? A-and why Katsuki seem scared of him? No no no, this wasn't real!

The greenette couldn't handle anymore of this and immediately tried to deactivate OFA before it could aggravate him further. But it was useless, its influence was just getting stronger. Black lightning bolts were flickering all around him, growing more violent by the second.

"It's my fault, oh kami, what have I done? I-*ackkk!*" He started to say with panic, but was cut off by the feeling of his entire body being constricted by a chilling sensation, like claws were holding his whole being. That urge, no, that dark urge that compelled him to destroy anything near in a fit of violent anger was stronger than ever, and it was harder to resist it since he now knew it was a weaponized part of his psyche that he was fighting.

The greenette grunted with fatigue as he kept fighting against the dark urge, the black lighting bolts were getting dangerously big. Their outline in a fraction of a second shifted from being green to red and-

"*Scream!/roar!*" Izuku suddenly arched his back and screamed in agony, his voice seemingly splitting while the lighting bolts exploded, creating a powerful shockwave that made a mess of the boy's room and causing the light to shatter, leaving only darkness, Izuku's ragged breathing was the only thing that could be heard until....two glowing red orbs lit up in the dark, replacing the greenette's irises while he stared down at his hands. Only one question was in his mangled mind.....

"What am I?" he asked eerily to no one in particular, OFA was silent, his thoughts were silent. The only thing left was the growing guilt, he was the one....

He was the monster who did this....

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Next day, Homeroom

It was another day in the best school in Japan for the promising group of kids who form class 1-A. Usually during the homeroom, they were all energetic and ready to go, but this time, one greenette was the opposite.

Some students curiously gave quick glances to their class rep, the reason? Izuku didn't exactly look well , with even more disheveled hair, very evident dark circles and bags around his eyes, he was even a bit pale. He basically looked like he didn't sleep at all, and they were right in thinking that, the latest OFA user didn't sleep even five minutes the previous night. The cause was his own quirk, after discovering the length that it would go to have its bloodstained way and the discovery that he was the reason for it being that way left him unable to sleep, fearing that if he closed his eyes, OFA would continue where they left.

The boy's eyes kept closing and opening in an endless struggle to remain awake against the stabbing urge to surrender to sleep deprivation. He was so out of it that he didn't notice that there was someone in front of him, one that ironically looked as tired as him.

"Problem child, snap out of it. If you are sleeping already, you will just waste your and our time" He heard the familiar voice of his teachers resonating in his ears, it took a couple of seconds for the greenette to process those words. He raised his gaze just to meet the underground hero's own tired but stern gaze. He quickly noticed the man's disheveled state and the bags under his eyes. It was incredible how the hero could go on while looking perpetually tired.

"Sensei, whatever you take to remain awake, please, can I have some?" Izuku mumbled slowly and groggily before he could stop himself, too mentally tired to be nervous.

Aizawa just quirked an eyebrow, but quickly regained his more cold expression.

"I doubt someone your age can handle that much coffee. Now, pay attention and keep those yawls to yourself, this is not a kindergarten where you can just nap where you want.... unless you are a teacher" he sighed as he walked back so he could stand behind his teacher's desk once again. He then rubbed his eyes and looked at the class again.

"As I was saying, today we will be doing something different for the rest of the homeroom...." he started to explain, immediately earning the curiosity of his students, who quickly started to internally wonder if what will they be doing of different.

"Today you will meet the support department student you were assigned to" the man concluded, cutting off the students' thoughts and making them even more interested, even the still half-asleep Izuku was surprisingly attentive.

"Ehm, sensei, that seems awesome and all. But why do we need to do that?" Denki asked confused while raising his hand, but hey, maybe his student is a cute chick. That would be a huge plus in his book.

"Next week we will be going out for a special training session. So if there's a time to make some changes to your costumes and support gadgets, this is the moment. Try to not waste their time, it's not a social event, understand?" Aizawa asked a bit more sternly, earning nods from almost every student. Good enough for him, at least he can take a nap while they are with Power Loader.

"Good, now hurry up, they are waiting for u-.." he was about to say, but before he could finish....

*Thud*

Some students jumped when they heard a pretty hard thud coming from the right side of the classroom. When they turned their gazes toward the source, they found Izuku out cold with his face on the desk, letting out some muffled snoring.

"*Sigh* and someone carry problem child, I don't get paid enough for this" The underground hero grumbled with a bit of irritation while he walked out of the door, the sooner he gave the students to Power Loader, the better.

The students sweatdropped a little at their teacher's dry and direct behavior. But nonetheless quickly got up from their seats and followed him, Tenya being the one to carry Izuku in a piggyback position.

UA hallways

"Sooo, have any idea of what you are gonna ask?" Denki asked to Eijiro while walking with his hands behind his head, the redhead glanced at him

"Mhmm, what about a metal fist helmet to put on my head? nothing better to hit with two fists than hit with three!" Eijiro replied with a bit too much enthusiasm, which made Denki sweatdrop, even if his idea wasn't anywhere more complex......a taser on his glasses...hey! It's a cool idea, okay?

Meanwhile, Tenya with Izuku on his back, Ochako, Fumikage, Mina, Toru and Tsuyu were at the back of the group, mostly because the engine's user was a bit slower because he was carrying the sleeping greenette. Katsuki and the mysterious dual-haired girl were completely away from the group, the first grumbling to himself while the second was just not interested in anything that involved her classmates.

"I want some gadgets too! My suit is cute, but it's so boring" Toru says while walking backward so she can face her friends. Maybe a visor like Mina's? Or maybe she could ask to have something similar to Aoyama's costume, With mirrors and stuff?

"I hope they can make my costume a bit less....tight, hehe" Ochako chimed in with a slightly embarrassed chuckle at the end. She likes the costume, she really does, but...well, she really doubts that astronauts have skintight bodysuits.

The auburn-haired girl then glanced at the frog girl and the bird-headed guy walking beside her.

"What about you, Tsu? And you, Tokoyami?" She asked curiously, making the girl glance back at her.

"*Kero*, I want to see if I can add a heater to my suit, and maybe change some parts a little" Tsuyu replied while tapping her chin with her finger. Meanwhile, Fumikage folded his arms and closed his eyes while he kept walking.

"My costume already satisfies my needs-" he was about to say, but was stopped by an excited-looking Dark Shadow that emerged from his torso.

"I want to wear something too! Let's ask them if they can give me a cool costume!" The sentient quirk shouted as he got face to face with his user, making him sweatdrop. After a few seconds, Fumikage looked away and face-palmed. His quirk was becoming really demanding lately.

"*Sigh* fine" The bird haired boy begrudgingly relented. A small cross-poping vein appeared on his feathered head when he heard his classmates snicker a bit at what just happened.

The group chatter was interrupted once they heard the contagious giggle of their pink-skinned friend, followed by Tenya's slightly frustrated voice.

"Ashido-san, please refrain from touching Midoriya-kun, he is sleeping" They heard the dark-blue-haired boy urge in a loud whisper, making them turn their head towards them. They saw that Mina was running her hand through Izuku's green hair while he was asleep, much to Tenya's slight annoyance.

"Ashido, what are you doing?" Ochako asked while her brows furrowed a bit, strangely feeling not very happy with what she was seeing. She even puffed her cheeks a bit...mhm.....weird.

This made the Pink girl glance at them, her toothy grin returned immediately after.

"I'm feeling his hair, obliviously. He always backs away when I get this close. He got fluffy hair like me, so how could I resist?" She cheekily replied with a small giggle. She got a small feel of those green curls when Izuku passed out against her during the battle trial, and from that point, her curiosity was too much to contain!

"Shhhh, you are gonna wake him up, and cut it out with that. Him having hair like yours shouldn't hype you out like that" Toru shushed them with her finger in front of her lips, making them lower their voices. She ignored the urge to join her best friend in touching the boy's hair, because she would prefer for him to let her do that, and maybe so she could see his cute reaction.

"Uh-uh, sis, you can't imagine how soft they are. I'm serious, they completely leave mine in the dust. And don't tell me you never thought about touching them. Also, he seems to like it, so I'm just returning the favor" She replied back while crossing her arms and finally leaving the sleeping boy alone. A small groan escaped his lips when he felt the nice sensation leave the top of his head, making his arms twitch and then wrap around the closest thing he could reach...that would be Tenya's neck.

Before Toru could deny her words, the light wheezing of the engine user made her and everyone in the group turn their head again to look at him, their eyes widened when they saw that Izuku was hugging the taller boy's neck in his sleep, putting a bit too much strength into it.

"Midoriya *wheeze* as much as I appreciate the gesture, *ugh* you are choking me" Tenya begged between obstructed breaths. His friend sure has strong arms, too strong!!

The girls and Fumikage were trying to pry off the greenette's arms from the dark blue-haired boy's neck, but it was surprisingly difficult. How much strength does he have? He must be using his quirk. Luckily for them, Aizawa stopped walking because they had arrived, and when he turned his head to look at his class, he noticed the predicament the group found themselves in.

"Alright, this is the support workshop, let's get this over with. Huh? You all, stop playing around, and Midoriya, wake up or you will lose All Might's classes...." Aizawa says with a bit of irritation and exasperation, fully knowledgeable on how to immediately attract the class problem child's attention, and indeed it did. Izuku's bloodshot eyes snapped open as he raised his head to look around, All Might class?! Where?!! Wait, why they were in the hallway?

"Huh? Why are we here? Where is All Might?" the greenette mumbled groggily while he released Tenya's throat from his iron grip, whose face was just starting to turn blue.

"*Kero* We need to meet the support department students, remember? You fell asleep before you could get up. You must have been very tired" Tsuyu replied as she stepped in his field of view while taping her lips. Her words managed to make Izuku regain most of his awareness, especially regarding the fact that he was still on Tenya's back.

"Ah, T-Thank you, Tenya! S-Sorry ab-about this" Izuku stuttered as he quickly pried himself off the taller boy with a nervous sweatdrop on his head. When did he fall asleep? He remembered being in class and suddenly it was all black, no strange dream or anything like that. He also remembered something nice patting his head while he was sleeping, probably just his imagination.

The only answer from the engine user was a thumb up, he was a bit out of breath after all. New rule when someone gets close to a sleeping Izuku, they need to be careful of his monstrous strength.

Meanwhile, the greenette was stretching his back and arms a little to get the blood flowing and stop this overwhelming fatigue from taking him again. The closest classmates now could see the very poor state of his face, with eye bags that surpassed Aizawa's and his body keeping to go back and forth like he was about to collapse. He basically looked like he didn't get a second of sleep.

"Dude, everything's okay? You don't look that pumped up" Eijiro asked with a small awkward chuckle.

"Huh?" Izuku mumbled with confusion and surprise as he glanced at the redhead. His eyes widened when he noticed that the majority of his classmates were looking at him. Damnit, why did he pass out like that?! It wasn't his first time going a night without sleep, so why he was so exhausted? He attracted attention like this, but at least it wasn't hard to lie regarding the reason.

"He is right, you look a little like sensei, no offense!" Denki added, whispering the middle part to not make the man hear him, unfortunately, he felt a piercing glare directed at his back...oh no.

"Maybe you should go to the infirmary" Momo suggested with a bit of concern for her class rep's health, that pale skin doesn't look healthy.

Having others feel 'sincere?' concern towards him really did a number on Izuku, who couldn't stop his face from heating up. He wasn't that naive to think that saying 'I'm fine' while looking like a zombie would remove the attention to himself. Luckily for him, his eyes noticed the signs beside the door of the Development Studio, perfect!

The greenette put bis best friendly mask with his best fake smile and waved his hand embarrassedly, some sweatdrops dripping from his forehead.

"Aww, everything's fine, your class rep is 100% healthy and ready to go. Oh is that the support workshop? Sweet! Come on, let's go!" He says quickly while skipping forward and ignoring any look or word his classmates were directing at him, passing right beside an unamused and suspicious-looking Aizawa to stand in front of the door, his hand already rising to grab the handle.

"I can't w-wait to meet everyon-" he was about to continue talking while his hand was just starting to turn the handle to open the door. but before he could do that.....

*BOOM*

The door was violently shattered by a big explosion. The shockwave hit Izuku in full, sending him flying while smoke covered the area.

"Midoriya/Midori!!!" Some of them shouted completely shocked as they literally saw their class rep getting caught in the explosion. Many had their eyes wide like plates, and some even had their mouth agape. Oh dear kami! is Izuku even alive?!! They couldn't see him with all the smoke. Before they could search for him further, they heard a very angry man shout from the now free doorway.

*cough* *cough* You!...just because an idea pops into your head doesn't mean you should go and build it...!!" The man scolded loudly as he came into view from the smoke. He was a short and skinny man with spiky ginger hair, reaching just past his shoulders, and dull blue eyes, as well as a notably large mouth. He was wearing a yellow helmet in the shape of a rectangular excavator claw which covered a part of his face. He was completely covered in soot, most likely because of the explosion that just occurred.

Before anyone could question who he was talking to. A giggle was heard coming from the smoke.

"Failure is the mother of invention, Mr. Power Loader. it's just like Thomas Edison said, 'just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless'!" A gleeful female voice replied, making everyone finally pinpoint where the owner was. A couple of silhouettes were finally visible lying on the ground, or more precisely.....one was lying on the other.

"This is not the time for that nonsense! just this once, can't you listen to what I'm saying?!...." The short pro hero scolded even more sternly. He paused a bit to regain his breathing and...

"HATSUME!!" He concluded just in time for the smoke to disperse and show what was inside. A very dazed Izuku was lying on his back against the ground, mostly unscaled except for a bit of soot clinging on his uniform and skin. but the thing that immediately attracted everyone's attention was the person that was on top of him. She was a reasonably short girl with salmon pink hair styled into thick dreadlocks and side-swept to her right. Her eyes are wide and sloped upwards with some notably long upper eyelashes, their irises green-yellow with a cross in the center, making them look somewhat like scope lenses. She was wearing a plain black tank top with workshop coveralls tied around her waist and with steampunk-like goggles on her head.

The mysterious girl noticed the greenette below her, but surprisingly didn't have an uncomfortable or any major reaction at all, just curiosity. The fact she was basically on top of a guy she never met didn't seem to bother her.

"Huh? When did you get there?" She asked like it wasn't a big deal, not even getting up from their position. Meanwhile, Izuku was gradually regaining his awareness. His ears were still ringing because of the explosion, making it hard for him to hear anything besides his thoughts. After some moments, his brain started to register a weight on his torso, it was soft, very soft. Wait?....was that weight moving like a person? and those he feels on his upper chest seem very similar to hands....oh Kami.

In a second the greenette immediately snapped from his daze while his eyes darted to look at his chest, discovering two things. First, a very attractive girl was on top of him, second, the soft sensations he felt on his abdomen were her.......her

"B-B-B-B-B-" his mind became a broken record while his face became completely crimson, oh kami!! Not again!!

"Boobs" Ochako, Mina, Toru and Tsuyu finished his sentence in their head, their gazes were blank while they looked at the two. They didn't know why, but the sight irked them a little.

Aizawa sighed and pitched the bridge of his nose. Of course problem child will get in such a predicament.

His tired eyes then glanced at the shorter man.

"Mhm, I presume that's your problem child..." The underground asked, earning an equally exasperated look from the support department teacher.

"You have no idea, why, you got one too?" Power loader asked as he gave the salmon pink-haired girl a side glance, noticing that she was scanning the guy she was on top of with her eyes, most likely to find a way to promote her inventions.

"Yes, the one she is on top of" Aizawa replied as he pointed to the embarrassed boy, whose face was starting to emit steam.

"Ah, speaking of problem children. Oi Hatsume, get up, will ya!" Power loader shouted while looking at the two teens. This made the girl remove her eyes from Izuku to look at her teacher.

"Okay" she says cheerfully as she finally got off the red-faced greenette to stand up with a grin, uncaring of what just happened or the oil and soot staining her outfit.

Meanwhile, Izuku was still laying on the ground with swirly eyes. Luckily for him, Ochako snapped out from her dumbfounded/annoyed state and helped him to stand up.

"Everything's okay, kid? Nothing's broken?" He heard Power loader ask, making him blink and then look at him. He quickly started to get nervous and excited as this is the first time he saw the hero. If he didn't hit his head and wasn't on the spotlight right now, he would ask for a signature. Wait, why was Mineta crying blood? And why Denki seemed depressed? What was going on?

He shook his head and recollected his thoughts, returning to look at the hero, some a nervous sweatdrops dripping from his head.

"Y-yes, I'm f-fine, and glad that no o-one got hurt, hehe" he says with an awkward small chuckle while glancing nervously between the hero and the support department's girl.

"Good to know. Unfortunately for us, Hatsume here lacks the common sense necessary to see that mixing everything she can get her hands on is a bad idea" Power loader replied as he indicated her student with his thumb.

"Pff, it was just a minor accident. I just need to find the right combination" The girl dismissed her teacher's words with even more excitement than before, which caused a cross-popping vein to appear on the hero's head.

Class A sweatdropped at the exchange, and funny enough, Aizawa was strangely glad he didn't have a problem child that.....well, problematic. Meanwhile, Izuku blinked a couple of times when he heard that girl's surname, and immediately after, he looked at her with surprise.

"Hatsume?" Izuku half asked/half called, managing to attract her attention, her unusual eyes seemed to see every detail of his face and expression by a glance alone, scary....and cool.

"The one and only Mei Hatsume. Are you a fan? I haven't advertised my babies yet and my name is already known!" Mei proudly exclaimed as he puffed her chest, instinctively making the greenette look away from her because of the still fresh memory of having that chest squished against his.

"Ehm....k-kinda, I know you because y-you made my c-costume, and you left a letter telling me your n-name" Izuku says shyly with a small sweatdrop dripping from his cheek. Ochako glanced at him and then at the girl, so she was the one who made his cool costume.

The salmon pink-haired girl perked up at this. Like he just flipped a switch, she suddenly got a lot closer, standing almost nose to nose with him.

"Ohh! Why didn't you say that sooner?! Now that you are here I can finally test some of my babies that I made for you. And we can also make more! Say, how do you handle heavy lifting?!" She exclaimed with an even bigger grin. Unless to say that Izuku was completely taken aback by her complete escalation in tone and sudden closeness.

"Babies?!" Many of the students of class A thought completely dumbfounded. Mina and Toru were staring with deadpan looks and a scary aura. Tenya was speechless at such words being spoken so casually, even the usually collected Momo was left with her covering her mouth with a small blush on her cheeks.

Izuku's brain was one step away from shortcutting. Did she just ask him that? But why would she want to know how he manages heavy lifting? This was sending all mixed messages in his brain.

"B-b-babie-whoa!" He tried to ask for a clarification, but was interrupted by the girl grabbing the collar of his uniform and started dragging him into the Development Studio under the shocked eyes of his class.

"Come on, we have much work to do you and me!!" That was what Class A heard before losing sight of their class rep.

"*Sigh* poor kid. Oh well, everyone, follow me, we gonna get you some good upgrades!" Power Loader instructed as he entered the development studio with the class in tow. Aizawa just walked away, determined to have his nap. Some of the students like Ochako or Mina basically rushed inside to search for their green-haired friend, but their attention was immediately taken by the big room full of students, tools and very cool inventions.

"Wow, look at that stuff!" Toru gasped in awe as she reached her two friends with Tsuyu in tow, the frog girl was silently looking around for then releasing a small kero, probably she was very impressed too.

"Forget the tasers, I want an electric robot!!!" Denki shouted as he saw all the crazy cool stuff they were building in there.

"I want a bigger hammerhead!!!" Eijiro shouted even louder while pumping his fists, which made some sweatdrop.

"This place is so big" Sero says with a whistle while looking around. This room was probably four times bigger than their classroom, maybe even more

"And loud, I'm feeling all those hammer hits" Kyoka hissed a bit while rubbing her ears. The girl really hoped they got headsets to reduce the noise.

While class 1-A was exploring the workshop. Izuku was still getting dragged by the eccentric girl, who didn't stop mumbling to herself about 'some cute babies to make?'. Heh, if the greenette wasn't still very confused about the girl's choice of words, he would kinda marvel that they got the same speedy and messy mumbling.

His thoughts came to a sudden stop just like the girl that was dragging him, her eyes looking at a mostly scorched table completely covered by a lot of inventions and scrap metal.

"There we are! The place where the magic happens!" She proudly presented while placing her closed fists on her sides.

The greenette was silent as he stepped forward and looked around with curiosity, noting that the other tables had way fewer inventions, he even managed to see some of his classmates walking around or talking with the support department students. His eyes then moved to look at the table again, scanning the well-built inventions, noting the soot staining them and the surroundings, most likely for the explosion of before.

"You came really at the right time, I had some ideas for some babies that really needed you here...." He heard the girl speaking right behind him, making him flinch a bit and turn around to face her.

"Mhm? What?" She asked while tilting her head a bit when she noticed his stiff and flinchy behavior.

"Ah! W-well, it's j-just....." The boy stuttered as he tried to find the right words while scratching his cheek with his finger. Even if he has grown more used to talking to people his age, meeting and talking to new people was still a very big thorn in his side. At least he felt relieved that he was sweating and flinching less.

He gave her inventions on the table a quick side glance and then looked back at her. He was very perplexed about the quantity, like, they started school a little more than two weeks ago, how did she make so many in so little time? Especially with other classes to attend.

"I-I was j-just thinking on how m-many inventions you got there. School started two weeks ago, a-and you build all of this already? Some look very c-complicated. Well, m-many look complicated. Did you make all of this?" He asked with a nervous fake smile while scratching the back of his head. It's impossible that a student made all of this in just two weeks.

"Fufufu, All these babies were done by my hands and love only. Quality and quantity are guaranteed with the future head of Hatsume Industries" she says while folding her arms and smiling even more widely.

"Mhmm, so babies is the way she call her inventions? A bit strange, but she seems happy about it, so it's fine, I guess" Izuku thought with a small sweatdrop dripping from the side of his head. He then moved to look at the table, now that he looks more closely, he kinda recognizes some of these gadgets.

"Something that attracts your fancy?" Mei asked while peeping from his shoulder to see where he was looking. It just delighted her more when she noticed how bright his eyes were getting.

"Can't really decide *nervous chuckle*, it all looks cool. Wait, is that Airjet's jetpack? It's so similar..." Izuku replied initially with an awkward tone, which broke once he noticed an awfully familiar jetpack standing on the pile. Immediately he stepped closer and carefully grabbed it. He examined it and oh kami, it was seamlessly identical.

"Yup, sometimes I re-create gadgets of pro heroes as a warm-up. There's nothing that stimulates the mind more than doing what you love" The girl explained while closing her eyes and tapping her head with her finger a couple of times to prove her point.

When she opened them, she was greeted by the sight of the greenette stalking around her table, easily discovering many of her inventions' functions with a few touches. It surprised her to be honest, his enthusiasm was very well welcomed however.

"I can see that you can't decide on just one, they are all pretty amazing and cute, aren't they?" She smirked even more, it was impossible that she didn't score a future client right now, especially not with how taken he was by her work.

"Not only the inventions...." She heard him mutter without missing a beat. From the way he flinched immediately after saying that, he didn't mean to be heard.

"Mhm? What do you mean?" Mei asked, she doesn't often become curious about other people talking to her unless it is the strict necessary. But something told her that this time she had to pry a tiny bit.

"Well....It's l-like with a-artists and sculptures, t-they are as good as the person who makes them. Doesn't it make sense?" Izuku stuttered after a while of trying to find the right word to say his opinion. He was still with his back turned as he really doubted he would be capable of saying this to her face. If he did, he would have noticed that the compliment managed to do two things deemed impossible by many in the room, the first was actually shutting her up for a pretty long time, and the second was making her lose her smile to make way for a small surprised expression. Very surprising indeed.

Her silence sent the wrong signals to Izuku, who quickly placed down the gadget on the table and turned to face her again. A bit of sweat was present on his forehead, most likely from the stress of talking to someone new.

"Ah s-sorry for that, wasting time and all. We s-should talk about my costume. (*Whisper*: kami I always trail off). Ehm, you have it, right?" He asked with the hope of changing the subject. Luckily for him, this seemed to snap her out of her current state. She perked up immediately, joining her hands together as she grinned at him.

"Of course I have it!" She replied loudly as she rushed to stand in front of her table, just passing beside him. She rummaged a bit before tearing a familiar suitcase out of the pile.

"Here, as new and cute as the day I made it!" She says as she presents the suitcase to him.

The greenette gently took it from her hands, but then noticed that she was looking at him with expectation.

"Ehm, nice" he says with both nervousness and confusion, why she was looking at him like that? The answer wasn't far from being presented to him.

"Now....STRIP!!!" She commanded with the same expression, like it wasn't a big deal....
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"...Excuse me?" Izuku asked with a dumbfounded face, did he hear her right? No, he must be mistaken.

"I told you to strip, why that confused face?" She repeated still with the smile and face of someone who just doesn't get how.... inappropriate that sounds.

Oh Kami, he heard her right....

"What do you m-mean with.....strip?" He asked still with his mind getting around this request, maybe she was just asking for him to remove his shoes or something like that, maybe he was just getting worked up over nothing.

"Remove those boring clothes so you can try my amazing baby, of course. I need to see if there are places that need a bit more perfection" she clarified while raising an eyebrow, wondering why he was so confused about it.

"Here?" He asked with a deadpan voice, his expression the same as his voice.

"Yup" she confirmed with a nod.

"Now?" He asked with the same voice, steam was starting to erupt from his head. But surprisingly he wasn't blushing.

"Yup, come on, less talk, more babies-ow!" She started to incite, but was interrupted by someone hand-chopping her on the head.

"Stop messing around, everyone can hear you!" Power Loader strictly scolded and cue to that, Izuku noticed that everyone near was staring at them. His cheeks got very hot when he saw that some of his classmates were staring too. The glare that Toru and Ochako were directing in their direction was very scary to be honest.

"*Sigh* I know she will keep bugging you until you do what she wants. There's a small changing room behind me, you can change there" Power loader says as he indicates the door with his thumb.

"Ehm..y-yes, thank you, I do it immediately!" Izuku stuttered as he was growing very unnerved by the stares, making him basically rush into the changing room with the suitcase.

A minute later

Izuku exited the changing room fully geared up. And just like the first time, his armored boots weren't light, which blended perfectly with the workshop ambient noise, so not so bad.

The boy didn't waste time and walked towards Mei, who was looking at him up and down.

"Absolutely handsome. You make me so proud" Mei praised while clapping her hands, this made the boy stop in his tracks and blush a bit.

"Huh? Do you r-really think so?" He muttered while scratching behind his head with his gloved hand.

"Of course. Among all my babies, this one is the most handsome one with a lot of personality. And look how good it fits on you, perfect" She praised with a bigger grin.

"Ah...." Izuku muttered with a sweatdrop, she was talking about the suit, not him.

Of course she doesn't mean you. You look like you just climbed out of a grave, not like your best is any better....

With a big sigh while keeping his eyes closed, Izuku recollected his thoughts and put on a more calm and serious mask. He opened his eyes and looked at Mei, a couple of requests already on the tip of his tongue, ready to be proposed.

"So...I would like a couple of upgrades. If it's okay with you" he asked surprisingly calmer than before. The girl perked up even more.

"Oh? Tell me everything!" She says happily while grabbing a notebook to write anything he may want.

"Well, first of all. Would it be possible to make my gloves easily removable?" He proposed his first request. 100% easily broke the gloves even before he could actually attack, the pressure was enough for that. He needs a way to avoid breaking his costume as much as possible, both to respect her work, but also to hide as much skin as possible for....good reasons.

"Mhm, there's nothing easier, why?" She asked while writing on her notes and earnestly adding some ideas on how to modify the gloves, maybe some powerful magnetic bands would do the trick.

"When I exaggerate with my quirk, I tend to break anything I'm wearing. The damage to my costume was because of that. So a way to remove the gloves would reduce the time I make you waste to repair it" he explained while using some hand gestures to show how he broke the gloves during the battle trial.

"Mhm, alright, you take care of my baby and my babe gonna take care of you. I like how you think, greenhead" She praised with interest, few would care about breaking inanimate objects that would get fixed for free. Another positive point in his favor.

"Now for the second request..." Izuku spoke again, taking her attention from the notes to look at him. He seemed nervous, his mask slipping for a couple of seconds before he recollected himself.

"I was wondering....if you have something that can knock someone unconscious, and I mean something very powerful" he explained with his eyes narrowing a bit and his lips pursing a bit.

"Ohhh so you want something to help you catch bad guys?" She nodded while tipping her chin with the pen. Just that? Then why was he so troubled by the request? She noticed him looking away with a slightly grim aura around him.

"Not exactly. It's for me" he clarified with a tint of bile on his voice, which made the girl lower her notes and look at him with slightly wide eyes.

"Huh? Do you want something to knock yourself unconscious? Why would you want that?" Mei asked a bit dumbfounded, this was the first time that someone asked her to create things to affected themselves negatively.

The boy finally looked at her, making sure that no one heard him. It wasn't easy to say it to someone, especially with one that he barely knew. but she may be one of the few who can help him with OFA.

"I don't know how to say it.....My quirk isn't normal, at least, not in the way it affects me. It makes me violent and agitated, things I don't want to be, especially with my classmates around. I want something that can put me out of commission before I can hurt anyone. Anything is fine if it works.....even a shock collar would be okay" he explained with a coldness unlike him. Secrets weren't necessary when the safety of the people around him was in danger everytime he got a bit upset or OFA decided to become loud again.

The greenette had to bite his own tongue to keep himself from groaning once he started to feel every single instinct in his body rebel against this idea with bile seemingly burning in his torso.

The girl's silence didn't make it easier, for a moment he thought she was gonna call him a freak. Luckily for him, she resumed speaking, and not in the way he was dreading.

"....You know that's gonna hurt? and harming clients isn't my modus operandi" She says surprisingly less upbeat and loud.

"Well, yes, but it's for a good reason. A very good reason...ehm...so?" He asked with a bit of sweat dripping from his forehead. It wasn't a big deal if he asked for it, right?

Another small silence drowned their strange exchange, she stared at him with a passive gaze while he stared at her with his own. His worries were eased when he saw her smiling again, it seemed she saw that he needed it. That's a relie-

"I refuse" she says happily with a closed-eyed grin, completely shocking him.

"Huh!? What?" He asked dumbfounded. Why would she care anyway, he is the one that would get shocked.

In his shock, he didn't notice the girl walking past him to search for something on her table. When he snapped out of it, he looked at her, finding her giving her back to him.

"Come on, if you are as smart as you sound, you know that quirks are like machines, a bit of tinkering and you can figure out a way to not go crazy. Also, if you hurt yourself with that stuff, who is gonna fix you, mhm? My babies are to help, not harm. So tell that boring masochism of yours to go bye-bye and help me find something that actually helps you. I need you in one piece for my babies to be famous, alright?" She says as she turned around and wriggled a little her wrench in his direction.

".....Alright" Izuku replied quietly after some moments of silence. His eyes were shadowed by his hair.

Before she could open her mouth to ask what was wrong, the boy raised his gaze, showing a totally different expression, happy and energetic with a big smile on his face.

"Sorry sorry, I was being stupid~ But now I'm inspired, so why don't we add something equally shocking to the costume?" He asked with his smile becoming cat-like, his words being said with a tone very similar to Mina's.

The boy skipped to the confused girl and wrapped his right arm around her shoulders. Neither blushing nor flinching, Izuku seemed another person while he made Mei turn towards the table again.

"You mentioned something to knock bad guys unconscious. What about some taser knuckles? Pretty cool... right?" He asked with his cat-like smile only widening when he saw that the girl was considering it.

"But..." the salmon pink-haired was about to say something about him possibly using them to himself, but he interrupted her with a small tug, so she was being cheek to cheek with him.

"And to be honest, I would feel a bit nervous swinging my fists while having the risk of shocking myself, so why don't we make something to make them turn off as soon as they touch my suit or get close to my head? Some sensors maybe, What do you say, partner?" He proposed with an enthusiasm similar to hers. After a couple of seconds, the girl visibly perked up a lot with her own grin returning.

"Now we are talking! the gloves surely have space for that. Fufufu, See? Not so hard to think of good ideas for new cute babies to create!" She giggled, meanwhile, Izuku let go of her and stepped to the side while looking at her with a challenging/teasing gaze.

"Yes, you are totally right, luckily I scored the best inventor around. I bet they will be very powerful~" He says while crossing his arms.

"Hehe, Who you take me for? Of course they will be powerful! I will start making some projects right now. You can watch the magic happening if you want" she says as she takes some empty papers to start

"I wouldn't miss it in a million years" he chuckled as he watched her get to work. But something was off.....The girl couldn't notice how Izuku's expression completely changed. His eyes became colder, his smile long forgotten. Just like his emotions at that moment, the color dissipated from his irises to the point of becoming of a dull grey color. The boy felt so repulsed by himself right now, one thing was using his masks to get closer to his friends, and another was straight-up lying to have what he wanted, while using a mask created by copying one of his first friends nonetheless. The plan was branded in his brain, he would break the sensor in a way that she wouldn't notice, and then, if the need arose, he would do what was necessary. So much for trust...he may have scored the best inventor in the room, but she scored the worst hero student at the same time.

The boy's eyes narrowed while he bit his lips. He could feel it, a very small part of himself wasn't feeling remorse, on the contrary, it was satisfied. And that was the scariest thing, the more he got used to interacting with other people, the more his masks got better, the less he stuttered, and the better he lied. It makes him wonder if the remorse he felt from the other part of himself was as fake as his personality.

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Lunch

You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil. You are evil.

"Midori?" Izuku heard someone calling him, which snapped him out of his broken record. His eyes focused, noticing that he was staring at his plate, how long was he out?

"Hey, everything's okay?" Another slightly concerned voice.

Oh right, someone called him, he should at least raise his head. And so he did, finding his friends staring at him. He doesn't remember when just lowered his gaze and stopped being aware of anything around, OFA's spiteful words entered his thought process and never got out, until now.

"Yes, I'm okay" The greenette mumbled while rubbing his left eye with his free hand. His body felt like it was on the brink of collapsing, his mind kept bugging him with worries.

"You sure? Like, you have been acting a tiny bit odd today" Mina says with a small tilt of her head. Since the visit to the workshop, Izuku has been very quiet and reserved, well, more than usual.

"Am I? Ehm... If I'm b-bothering you, I can go s-somewhere else..." The OFA's user says while surprisingly quirking an eyebrow with confusion instead of getting very nervous or looking away. This didn't mean that he wasn't feeling like he was being unpleasant by being 'odd', and the last thing he wanted was to drive away his new friends.

"No no no. What Mina was saying is that you are acting a bit different, quieter and you are zooming out a lot. We just wanted to know what's up" Toru chimed in to clarify what Mina meant. The pink girl nodded after her best friend finished, confirming her words.

"........." Strangely Izuku didn't reply, looking away from them with a bit of sweat dripping from the side of his head. His silence just concerned them more, like he was hiding something.

"*Kero* Also, You didn't answer us in the hallway, why do you have even more bags under your eyes?" Asked as she leaned to the side so the boy would at least see her.

"Uh-huh, you banged your head on the desk quite hard when you fell asleep in class, Midoriya. Are you sure you are alright?" Ochako added with a bit of worry. Everyone could see how much of a mess their class rep was today.
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"...It's nothing, I just made a mistake and I paid the consequences....." Izuku finally answered after some time of pondering. His answer just raised more questions, especially on how he said it.

"Consequences? What did you do, Midoriya-kun?" Tenya asked confused.

The greenette bit his lips and narrowed his eyes, a bit of grey staining his green irises. The reason, well....the first thing he thought after this question wasn't a happy one.

Not dying in that villain attack....

He sighed, adjusted his expression and put on a more happy-looking mask. He then looked back at his friends with a small embarrassed smile.

"I used my quirk in my sleep and punched the wall, *nervous chuckle* ouch. My hand was hurting all night so I couldn't sleep a lot. I know, I know. pretty stupid, isn't it?" He surprisingly joked as he showed his bandaged hand.

He noticed that they were about to say something, most likely about him taking it easy or going to the infirmary. Healthy concern than cuddle his soul as much as it poisons it. With all the thoughts flooding in his brain and stabbing his sanity, he really needed as little attention on himself as possible.

"Don't worry about ol me, I'm just very tired. I will take a looong nap when I go home, so you all can you stop looking like that?" He says 'cheerfully' while leaning his head on his closed fist, smiling brightly at his classmates sitting on the table with him. Naturally, it was just another mask, another layer of lies.

The group glanced between each other and him. It didn't take a genius to see that they were stuck between believing him or not that all of this was because he was tired. Especially on how he seemed to change behavior. However, Their doubts remained to themselves when they noticed that he wasn't paying attention to them anymore, eating his food with a 'happy' smile and irises split between green and gray.

The food tasted bland in the greenette's taste buds, another thing going out of control...how lovely.

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Two days later

Dagobah Municipal Beach

All Might sat on the bench facing the beautiful beach that his successor cleaned up as training. The sunset made the sand have that gold/orange color that could make anyone's stress melt away.

"Good thing that they are keeping this clean now. Master loved it here" the hero muttered to himself as he remembered the good old times when he and his master took some well-deserved breaks after strenuous training. Ah, speaking of training and

All Might took his phone out of his pocket and looked at the screen, the message that his successor sent him was still on first page which was a request to meet up, naturally he accepted, Izuku basically never asked to spend time directly, but always gave hints that wanted to be in company. Even with that, he hardly opened up. The man hoped that today the boy was gonna either say something positive or at least open up in case it wasn't. After all, he is his sensei.

"*Sigh* And now I feel old" he muttered with a sweatdrop, feeling like one of those old sensei with a cane and full of wisdom.....okay he may lack those two, but he is not that young, so a point in his favor!!

Suddenly, his hair stood on alert as he felt an eerie aura behind him, making him jump and turn his upper body to meet what was behind him. He saw someone standing some feet away from him with a slightly slumped posture and face obscured by the shadows of his hair. Two red dots were staring right back at him. Okay, he was the number one hero, it's impossible he would be spooked by this-

"AAAAAAHHHH!" The man screeched with blood comically coming out of his mouth. SCARY!!!!

Whoever was behind his bench seemed surprised by the hero's shout, making him straighten his posture and raise his head, revealing the confused and innocent face of his green-haired successor.

"All Might, uhm....hi, why are you screaming?" Izuku asked with confusion and a bit of concern while tilting his head to the side. Why did he scream all of a sudden? He actually spooked him as he was a little distracted by his thoughts that he didn't notice the hero looking back at him.

After a couple of seconds of staring stuck into a pretty funny position, the hero stood straight and coughed on his closed fist with a sweatdrop on his head.

"Nothing, I was just...ehm... training my inspirational shouts!" He shouted while trying to make a similar pose to his muscular self. He hoped that he dodged the embarrassment this time, some colleagues already teased him that he was always on edge. If only they knew why.

"Ah...I see...." Izuku says, blinking a couple of times at the pretty confusing explanation. How do you train your inspirational shouts by screaming?

The boy shook his head, no matter. He got closer and walked around the bench so he could face All Might completely. His expression changed into a happy one, with a bright smile included.

"Thank you for accepting to meet me! I know you are always busy with your hero and teacher work. But I-" He was about to say just to be interrupted by the the man ruffling his hair.

"Nonsense, I will always have time for you. What kind of sensei would I be otherwise?" All Might chuckled as he removed his hand from the boy's scalp, which was even messier than the usual now, whoops.

"But..." He continued as his face grew serious and a bit stern, which immediately alarmed Izuku.

"As much as I appreciate your attempt. You don't need to hide your face from me. I can already tell you are very, very troubled. What's wrong?" He concluded while crossing his arms. The reaction was as expected, surprise, hesitation and then....

Izuku's mask crumbled away, a grim expression taking its place. The boy had to resist the urge to chuckle mockingly to himself. All Might sometimes mentioned that he never saw him smile for real, of course a happy-go-lucky mask wasn't going to be enough for him. That's the number one hero for you.

"Sorry... it's just...I really needed to talk to you. And I didn't want to look desperate...." Izuku says frustrated while scratching his own hair a little too forceful, already hating how much he was starting to shake with his voice barely holding together.

"Wow calm down, young man. Take deep breaths and tell me everything, you will feel better" All Might reassures as he puts a hand on the boy's shoulder, which calms him down a little.

Izuku looked up at him, back at the hand on his shoulder and then away, taking deep breaths to recollect himself. After some moments taken to calm down, he stabbed back, turned his body to the side and then flopped down on the chair. He didn't waste time to lean forward and place his face on his open hands.

"*Sigh*....OFA has been talking to me..." Izuku finally let the elephant out of the carpet, and judging by All Might's reaction. It didn't happen to him, great, another thing that was unique to him only.

"Talking? Like that time with that dream of yours?" All Might asked confused as he sat beside the boy.

"No, it talks to me while I'm awake too. It call me, mock me and toy with my thoughts. It keeps saying that I'm evil, that I'm tainted and that I should just lay my head low and do what it wants. It even tries to make me do bad things, hurt people for no reason like it's just a game" Izuku explained without raising his head, limiting himself to move his hands to cup his own cheeks, freeing his nose, eyes and mouth.

"That's surely concerning. Did it say something that may allow us to understand why is it trying to make you do these things?" All Might asked while pitching his chin with his hand. It didn't make any sense, how can an evolution change a quirk so much, even giving it a voice?

Izuku shook his head in negation. He then looked forward with a tired gaze, the nights of sleep he was losing because of OFA were eroding his health, and it was visible.

"No, just a war that I should fight and a 'quirk stealer' that I should 'wipe from the face of the planet'. It also like to make it clear that I'm just a tool, a property....heh, it's like being back at Aldera" Izuku says with a dry chuckle. He is pretty sure that what happened some days ago finally broke him, maybe for that he stuttered rarely and his mask got much better.

The boy passed a hand through his face and groaned, not noticing how pale All Might became when he mentioned the 'quirk stealer'.

"It showed me something else...." he continued, which snapped the hero out of his extreme horror, not that Izuku could notice. He would have stopped otherwise.

"It showed me what happened in the day after you gave me the quirk. When those guys tried to take revenge for what happened at Aldera...... it showed me what happened on the inside. There was a very bright green star, probably mine before this mess started. And then.....it showed my hate somehow corrupting it, with tendrils tearing it apart and tainting it, making it as black as night. I knew something was off, OFA didn't simply evolve, All Might, it adapted to me. Maybe for this it's so messed up..." The greenette explained with his irises gradually losing color and becoming grey.

The boy then covered his face once more with a big sigh. At the start he didn't know why he wanted to say that to someone so badly, but now he does. He was stressed, angry, scared and frustrated and needed to vent all of that or he would truly go insane.

"There's something really wrong with me, All Might, and I mean, very wrong. I just can't figure out what outside the oblivious, (whisper: I'm even starting to doubt that my memories are true or not)...." He concluded with his voice muffled by his hands. He felt like crying or screaming, but his eyes were dry and his throat barely allowed him to talk quietly.

He felt the hero scooting closer and wrapping a hand around his smaller frame, basically giving him a side hug. He hated how much he needed one right now.

"Nothing is wrong with you, young man, you are just confused. We all have good and bad in us, that's completely normal. What happened with OFA was outside of your control, and you shouldn't feel responsible for that. Also, don't tell me a hero fanboy like you don't want to be a hero anymore" All Might says with a friendly and warm voice, jokingly at the end. He hoped that this could reignite some of that determined side he always saw in the greenette. What he got was a sad sigh from the boy.

"I still want to be a hero, that didn't change one bit. But I'm starting to believe that I'm just incompatible with it. All of this is frustrating. But you don't have to worry about me quitting. I didn't come here to search for a solution and I doubt It even exists. So don't stress yourself into helping me search for a non-existent answer to all my problems. You have your hero work, I will figure something out to go around this......" Izuku replied calmly while raising his head to look at the beach. Hot and cold, that's how he felt, like his emotional state lately.

"Don't be so negative, you gonna stress yourself too much" All Might tried to at least cheer him up while patting his back, but it only caused the greenette to flinch instinctively. He didn't like that the boy made a point, anything that had happened regarding OFA was a mystery to him as much as it was to Izuku. He couldn't help him more than Nezu or Recovery Girl could, most likely they would help him even more than him. So much for being a good sensei.

The youngest OFA's vict-user looked down again. After some moments of pondering, he sighed again.

"Stress myself too much, huh?...." He mumbled with contempt. Stress pretty much is part of his routine.

The boy straightened up his posture to lay his back on the bench, gazing at All Might with a side glance.

"It's funny that you say that, stress is so normal to me, I either feel that or nothing. You know this better than anyone else, even more than my mom" He continued. Even though they knew each other for little more than a year, the hero figured out things about him that not even his mother knew.

Before the hero could reply, Izuku turned his head completely to look at him, immediately noticing that his irises were different, having grey, red and yellow together with his normal green.

"Stress over my quirk. Stress over how my health will affect my Mom's happiness. Stress over learning to behave like a 'normal' person....." The greenette says with a dry joking tone while numbering every stress reason with his finger.

"....And stress over trying to get along with everyone. Probably that's the thing I worry about more....." Izuku concluded with his grim expression and tone returning.

"What do you mean by that? Last time I checked, you seemed to get along just fine with everyone. You seem happier as well, it isn't a good thing?" All Might asked as he quirked an eyebrow. He saw Izuku being more open to his classmates and teachers.

The boy shook his head in negation with an even more grim look on his face. The grey overwhelming the other colors in his irises.

"It's just making everything worse..." Izuku interjected with a slightly hostile tone, which surprised the hero.

"Worse? How so?" All Might asked for clarification, how does being closer to someone make it worse?

".........." Izuku didn't answer at first, probably to recollect his thoughts and calm down. He didn't want to sound hostile, but the stress and sleep deprivation were really putting him on edge.

After a couple of seconds, he sighed once more, rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand and looked at the hero with a sad and troubled gaze.

".......It's just.... I'm g-getting sloppy. I keep having slip-ups. Sometimes I p-prolong touches or find myself staring and reaching without realizing it. I'm even starting to feel agitated whenever I'm left alone. And......I.....I keep thinking that they don't really like me. That as soon as I slip out too much, they will dislike me. It's pretty obvious that no one would like.... this...." He explained. Indicating himself at the end, no good-natured gesture was enough to remove that simple sentence that was engraved in his brain; Nobody truly likes Izuku Midoriya.

Silence enveloped the surroundings except for the occasional bird. Izuku was silent because he had nothing left to say that didn't involve getting agitated and angry, which would trigger OFA. All Might instead was dumbfounded as he pondered over his successor's words, especially the way he said them. Naturally you can't be liked by everyone, but the fact the boy genuinely believes that everyone will dislike him in the end really hit him.

The hero looked towards the beach too, sighing deeply even with his only lung hurting a little from this. He hated that he couldn't help him even after he opened up so much to him. This was probably the first time Izuku ever willingly vented to him.

"I doubt I can make you change your mind, and I'm not good with this stuff. Besides, I can't even say that I understand how you are feeling right now, but I tell you this. You are probably one of the kindest souls I have met, you know? I always hear you worry about other people. Even in the entrance exam, you focused on everyone else, never to yourself, that's something very likable about you. And I bet your classmates find it likable too, They like you, and they want to hang with you. Besides, if they didn't like you, why they chose to hang out with you? That's because they cherish you!!!" All Might explained as he glanced back at him. Judging by the way the greenette's eyes widened, it was working a little. Good work Toshinori!!!!

The hero quickly shook his head to quiet down his internal cheering and then tapped the boy's forehead with his slender finger.

"Don't listen to this bad boy all the time, enjoy yourself. Someone young as you shouldn't worry about these things, alright? I bet your mother would say something similar. Enjoy youth, and if you want, you could find yourself a girlfriend, or a boyfriend, don't know what you like. They say that love cuddles the soul" the number hero concluded with a reassuring smile, hoping that this was enough to put some positiveness into the boy's thick skull.

The greenette didn't answer, looking very deep in his thoughts. His hands were tightly gripping the cloth of his pants.

"He is right....they choose me to hang out, me" Izuku thought with growing hidden agitation. Two sides of the same brain were fighting for the right to give meaning to those words. A more positive and empathetic one wanted to cheer this sentence as hope for fewer lies. The other.....the other was far more desperate and uncanny. Registering the words as a fact that them choosing him should be ensured at 100%.

The boy looked a bit down, his very heated internal turmoil was hardly kept from breaking his mask. He didn't know what to do or think, until a side finally overwhelmed the other. His thought process became colder and more calculative.

"....I need to figure out a way to keep them around. Mom does it because she is amazing and I'm her son and All Might because he is an amazing hero and mentor. They will all leave if I'm not careful. Especially with what OFA showed me..." He thought while looking to the side and scratching his cheek. He couldn't remove what he saw from his mind.

"It's just trying to confuse me. I would never act like that on my own......I think....I hope...." He internally groaned as he closed his eyes and sighed frustrated with his nose. He then realized that he was pretty much ignoring All Might, making him open his eyes and glance at the man.

"..ehm...I g-guess you are right. I will try to relax about it" Izuku stuttered a little while faked a more relaxed and happy expression. He then looked ahead and pursed his lips, his mask changing into a more joking one, almost teasing.

"But, I doubt I will ever get a girlfriend. I'm far too ugly and boring for that. (And I doubt I can feel anything close to that type of love)" He says half-jokingly, earning an unamused stare from his mentor.

"What did I say about being dramatic?" All Might scolded while lightly hand-chopping the boy on the head. The greenette chuckled in response, pursing his lips once again very similar to how Mina does when she wants to tease someone.

"Yeah yeah, 'be more confident, save the drama for when you miss your favorite TV show'. Jeez, All Might, If I didn't feel unworthy of it, I would have asked you to be my dad already...." Izuku made full use of his jokester mask. Part of him wanted to die in a hole for the embarrassment of saying something like this to his favorite hero, but luckily his mask held on.

"Huh?! I-I don't know about that. Y-Your mother and I don't know each other that well. B-But she surely has that c-charm, so-*!!*" All Might surprisingly was thrown out of rail by the joke and stammered anything he could think of...and this was a mistake. He immediately closed his mouth once he noticed a tiny detail....he made a little (big) mistake.

Like glass being shattered, Izuku's mask broke. A very serious and unhappy expression now being seen on his face. His eyes were not so subtly glaring at the hero.

"....Excuse me? What did you say?" The boy asked with a dangerously calm voice. His protective instincts basically flare up one hundred percent harder when his mother is involved.

"Ehm, n-nothing!" All Might shakily denied while waving his hands. Something told him that he should really consider running away.

"All Might, don't worry, tell everything to your successor......I insist" Izuku 'happily' insisted while giving him an 'innocent' fake smile. Wait, were his irises always of an eerie glowing red? And why shadows seem to cover the boy's face?!

"SCARY!!! HE IS EVEN SCARIER THAN MS.MIDORIYA!" The hero panicked in his head while comedically shaking like a leaf. Okay, maybe it's not only Inko that is very protective, it's in their blood. And it was scary!!!! At least Izuku wasn't thinking anymore negative, instead he was gonna mercilessly interrogate him....

Yay.....