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ZOOOMM BANG
Well that was lame…
Zachery Justin James, yes I have three first names, no you aren’t supposed to trust people with three first names but here I am and I go by Zach.
What just happened to me was I started crossing the street heading to my last day of high school, I mean I live right beside there's no use in driving so I usually walk and it is usually busy but I don’t really get close calls so I thought I would be fine but evidently not today..and it’s my last day of classes.
But strangely I didn’t feel any pain and in fact I opened my eyes fairly quickly and what I saw was very very alarming. It was a 6’7 white guy with 0 muscle definition somehow, he looked ancient though.
“Uh sir?” I ask trying to sound respectful while also trying to come across as someone wanting answers
“Oh. Well that’s surprising I guess you were sent to me? I haven’t had one of you yet, I thought I would be lucky to never.” he sounds like this is a completely normal thing while also being completely annoyed.
“Is this normal for you? Why am I here? Am I dead? Are you god?” I spit out a million questions.
“It’s not unexpected but no I have never had this happen before, I don’t know, no you're still alive. Sort of.” The man answers.
“Well what’s going to happen to me?”
“Well first I need to check something” after that a strange glow comes from his hand and it touches me covering my whole being.
“What are you doing!” I scream, throwing punches at who knows what.
“Stop it, and don’t worry I’m just checking what your conditions are for being here, I’ve been taught that every person sent to a different world like you has something that must be granted to you, may it be a gamer lifestyle, just simply reincarnation or maybe the power of a god with a power to attract women.”
“Wait..did I get isekaied?” Now for me things have started to make sense.
Let me introduce you to myself, I’m a school athlete who loves football, the American kind so I don’t look like it but anime and things of the sort have been a fun source of entertainment for me but I don’t really have the time to keep up, I’ve only seen a few shows, to the point that I can count on one hand but I’m well versed I’d like to feel so I know common tropes.
“Yes now…hmm luckily you don’t seem to be too overpowered for my world but then again depending…that could change, especially with the prior knowledge you seem to possess.”
Here I’m confused again but only because I’m waiting for my explanation.
“Here I am the watcher of this specific world there are many like it and even more that are nothing close, I am to send you to a different place in which you will have 5 seconds to pick your own quirk and I must inform you now this world is one ruled by quirks, you must say the name of the quirk you want and considering you’ve watched a version of this world decently enough I’d think your be fine, goodluck oh and one final thing, go plus ultra” he smiles almost mocking the last words.
No matter if he was joking or not I now know where I’m landing.
I find myself in a white space with the large words
SAY YOUR DESIRED QUIRK [5]
It’s almost like my brain goes into overdrive my adrenaline pumping I think I’m landing into a familiar world and only one quirk enter my mind, One For All, in this world this is the main characters power and he’s the strongest well actually his master is the strongest but he also has the same quirk, also I stopped watching the show it’s from at around season 4 I think the last episodes I seen was about some guy who could see the future, what was his quirk? Maybe that’ll be helpful too.
[3]
OH SHIT doesn't seem like I have that much time left and besides I’d rather punch through mountains and change the weather then be the weatherman…
“I WANT ALL FOR ONE” I scream hoping the ‘thing’ hears me as it hits [1]
[GRANTED]
It was the most nauseating disgusting thing I can say happened in my life so far, my vision blurred, twisted and stretched and then I was suddenly standing on solid ground and waves of memory entered my head.
My name, Zachery Justin James I was a baby abandoned in Japan supposedly by some American tourist but they left a piece of paper with my name stapled to my nipple. Well that sucks, But I’m 14 in the same body from when I was 14, which isn’t bad because I did football since middle school in my world and maybe that’ll let me use at least 1% of one for all.
So I clench my butcheeks, imagine an egg and draw out energy or what I think is energy andddd nothing happens but instead a red lighting or something seeks out my hand. It's small though barely noticeable and it doesn’t go far from my hand.
[REMINDER: YOU PICKED ALL FOR ONE, POWER: STEAL QUIRKS]
My brain froze and I panicked, what the fuck, theres no way.
Well it seems like I messed up majorly and now I have no idea what to do, first I should look through my memories.
“Here you go Zach these are the keys to your apartment you will now live in a foster kids complex owned by the All Might Agency." Here a woman hands the young boy well me, a key, that happened last week. Apparently all kids heading to high school get an apartment.
“He has a quirk.. but it hasn't been awakened, but by all these tests he should have one.”
“Okay, thanks doctor, now can the next kid come up?” The same lady but now she looks 10 years younger and there were like 50 other kids in the room.
So that’s pretty much all the important stuff.
Well I guess there were a few people who um this Zach used to consider friends but coincidently they were all placed in different apartments or were adopted.
I can’t help but feel like my situation is not a coincidence..
So I live in Japan, my quirk is marked as unknown and the past version of me sent in an application for UA, wait, he did what??
Why did that memory just come in, it seems I don’t get to see every memory just what is important currently.
Well this may be good, today is the last day of middle school, I will not be going but considering before this I had a perfect attendance I’m sure it’s fine, but more importantly I have time to decide, should I go to UA?
Thinking it out I do need to be strong I feel like to deal with anything I’m thrown into, I didn’t make it to far in the anime so I’m not to sure what the ending is I’m pretty sure season 4 was only like 40% of the series and even then I didn’t finish season 4, so I need to be prepared.
Also if I’m going to a hero school, which I will be, I don't want to be some hunted down vigilante and I’m not the guy to be a villain if I had the choice. I might as well go to UA, now the question is what do I do to get quirks??
I don’t want to take quirks from people who don’t deserve it, that makes me no better than all for one but also I can’t steal from every villain or I’ll be found out in no time.
Well let me think…the earliest villain I know the location of is the sludge villain OH and that giant guy, but they're both too important or noticeable to suddenly have a missing quirk.
Where will they be a bunch of villains?
Wait, in the USJ attack there are a countless amount of villains and it was technically the fault of all for one so even if the villains report their quirks missing it’ll just help in uncovering all for one.
But even that’s too far ahead in the story, first thing first I realize I’m actually in my apartment so even though I start exploring, as I walk memories of this place enter my head as well as warnings like once I turn this corner I need to dodge the table and then- OOF
And then duck under the sign I have hanging up…why do I have that anyways?
It reads ‘Never give Up!’ With All Might sticking his thumb out.
Suddenly I see me or whoever this guy version of me was holding the sign in a store and I can feel his thoughts this time…he’s sad over his lack of a quirk or more lack of skill activating it and as he’s decorating his apartment past the basics he was given he buys it to keep his morale up.
“Well that’s just sad” poor guy never had a chance till I came, or was he created because I came?
Considering he looks like me I think the latter but that also makes me wonder who has the power to do this??
Well after I’m done exploring the apartment I walk out and even more memories come back of most of the city directions and where to go but more importantly for me, where to avoid.
Down maybe a block from here is a gas station that typically doesn't have the best crowd but I’d hardly consider it seriously deadly unless you're very very dumb. Which I am, eh it’ll be fine and besides I actually want to pick up some Japanese ramen.
I’ve seen stuff like that on YouTube all the time, I’m not intentionally starting trouble.
So I head on my way.
Well ain’t this place nice..
Up ahead Is a gas station with vandalism on the side but behind the store I can see a shoe sticking out and someone yelling, I decide I should probably check it out and what I see is a group of guys standing in front of an employee it looks like who went out for a smoke break, the employee is probably a teenage as well as the rest of the guys.
“Come on Alberto you know us. not to mention you're doing it right now, go get us some cigarettes buddy!” The leader it looks like is wearing a red beanie, then he grabs Alberto around his neck and starts shaking him.
“I- really can’t this is my job!, my parents want me to make it out of he-“
“Oh so are you better than us now?” As beanie man says that I see the other three guys around him all ‘power up’ one man stretches his legs in a warm up manner and punches the air, it sort of blurs but not something I would consider fast enough to even be a sidekick maybe just a Olympic level fast which is still cool but compared to this world? Nothing to brag about.
One of the other guys' veins pop out his body and he picks up a large rock, one big enough that I would probably only think of it as a rock to sit on..but it’s clear he’s trying decently so his strength can’t be that high.
One other fellow gains a shiny look to his skin and has his arms out like he wants a punch, no doubt some low level durability.
Then finally the leader backs up and looks at him. “We both know you’ll be lucky to hit me Alberto” that makes me think of ultra instinct but this guy must have it 999x worse or maybe it’s something else like intangibility but that also means they must be familiar with the worker.
Here’s where I decide to step in as Alberto starts sweating heavily enough I can see it through his white worker shirt.
“Hey!” I call out and everyone looks at me, these guys all look like 16-17 and I’m freshly 14 roughly so they snicker at me.
“Hey little man, heroes don’t usually stay out here” the guy with the rock says, dropping it dangerously close to Alberto’s foot as he walks over to me grabbing my shoulder and squeezing.
“AGH” that hurt..but probably no permanent damage
I grab his arm and try to push it off but he’s not moving at all.
Then I get a thought, one I previously hoped for but now that it’s here I’m scared and don’t wanna do it but anyways I grab his arm and I pull, I don’t really know with what but I can tell I grabbed something and I yank it towards me and some basic thoughts enter my head, one’s not of my memory but how to activate this quirk and I grab this guys arm and pinch.
He yells and lets go. “Ow you brat” he tries to punch me but I activate it again and match his punch and his knuckle doesn't seem okay as he pulls back again and it turns red and inflates, probably nothing too serious.
Before I’m ready I’m pushed flat on my back as Mr. The Olympics ran at me pushing me flat on my back and I now can say I think he’d win in the Olympics, but probably not by an insane amount but even if prime Bolt was there he’d lose to this guy.
He stands over me and super speed punches me a few times in my stomach and I almost curl into a ball to hide..not anymore.
I activate my strength and grab his shirt as I’m then met with 4 face punches and I let go.
DAMMIT
This guy is beating my ass!
But his legs next to my head aren’t moving so while he stands above saying something like, ‘want some more’ or something I grab his ankle and yank his quirk even harder than the last guy probably more desperately.
He doesn't seem to notice as I learn his power as well, quickly kicking him square in the nuts as he tumbled over, maybe don’t stand over people specifically where their legs can reach.
Almost scared looking the shiny guy comes to me but he really wasn’t much as he threw a punch and I quickly dodged and it seems like he wants to grapple which is fine with me as when he grabs me I pull his power to and then with the strength quirk I throw him off me, luckily at the same spot with the rock his friend put down, as he then holds his back and Alberto backs away.
The last guy seems very angry as he’s red but at this point I’m confident and I rush in but when I reach out he just, sidesteps me and I’m kicked in the chest, I go to grab his leg but he already brought it back and then I use speed to rush at him but he dodges me again and this time kicks me in the leg spraining my ankle definitely.
As I'm down he stomps on me and I frantically activate the durability power as my face is kicked into the dirt but before I'm rendered unconscious Alberto jumps on the guy's back and seeing the opportunity I activate strength and rock the guy in the jaw sending him to sleep.
So Alberto who’s on his back falls on him not doing him any favors so I reach down to lift Albert up but at the same time touches the guy's hand as I yank his power towards me, a reflex quirk, useful.
As I lifted Alberto up which is something I needed strength for to make it look effortless but even then you could see some struggling as he looks around 200 something pounds and nerdy as the other guys looked like football players, and I can recognize football players.
“Thanks man! My name's Alberto” he says, shaking my hand, I smile and shake his hand back.
“Hey my name is..Justin“ until I see where this ends up I don’t feel comfortable giving my name out.
“Thanks for helping me, these guys have been my bullies for a while..ever since I refused to join them some years ago back when I played football, but I had to quit just to get away from them.” He says staring at them, one guy out cold, the other holding his back, one holding his arm but he looks angry but also too cowardly to come over and another glaring from afar as he holds his nuts.
“Oh wow, what’s the story there?” I ask
“Well their called the lowly gang around here, they hate it but it’s because they all have low quirks but useful but not useful enough to give them a place in life over any other person with a quirk, and to be honest I have a low healing quirk and when they heard of that they wanted me to join them, but I of course refused.” He says turning around back to the door of the establishment.
“If you want a free pack of gum you can come in” He says holding the back door open as I follow him in, I mean might as well.
As he hands me the gum our fingers touch temporarily until I firmly grab the gum and suddenly I have a thought, to steal his quirk. It’ll match perfectly and suddenly I feel gross and the feelings of stealing the other quirks come back and I feel disgusted and quickly I take the gum and run out saying bye.
Leaving his quirk alone of course, I wanna be a hero and hero’s don’t take everyone’s quirk, right?
I activate speed and run all the way back to my apartment but honestly feeling these other powers now I feel gross and I almost throw up but it’s getting late so I might as well head to bed.
As I get in I fully understand that I’m no longer in my world, my foster family gone, my friends gone. So I start to cry and it doesn’t help that even the thought of taking Alberto’s quirk scared me a little. So that’s how my day ended in this new world.
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All for one lays down, he has been for years as he heals but his quirk is acting up today red sparks go wild as if looking for something and he’s been feeling something..ever since this morning but now they’ve mostly stopped and he’s left confused wondering what he feels.