Happy New Year, everyone! Happy to see all the positive responses to this, it really helps.

Now, before we continue, I'll explain which parts of the source material (ex: manga, show, etc.) I'll be using. It's going to be a mix of the Japanese and English shows and the manga. The story (for the most part, kinda) will stay the same but the lines will interchange from either format to better suit this story. Whatever lines from either source I feel would the story better I'll include is what I'm saying.

Anyway, thanks for the support, favorite, follow, and review if you so please. Enjoy.

(New York City, U.S. – Two Years Earlier)

Eddie, through the eyes of the monster staring back at him in the reflection, tried to power through the shock and terror he felt in order to speak.

"M-my prayers? You heard me?"

"Heard you. Bonded with you. Saw your memories. I've invaded every corner of your mind and, in doing so, you have access to mine."

"Wait, s-so you can see into my mind. What did you see?"

"Sadness, pain…anger." Its smile grew wider at the last part. "It's what drew me to you, Eddie." The creature began to move up the side of the building.

After a moment of trying to collect himself Eddie spoke. "Ok, so you know my name. What's yours?"

"I don't have one. My people aren't ones for birth names."

"People…so, there are more of you. But, what are you exactly?"

"Your race called me a Symbiote."

"Symbiote…and you called humans 'my race' so that rules you out as a person with a Quirk."

"My people don't have Quirks. At least, not in the sense that you've come to understand. I have abilities but they are not the mutation that you've grown accustomed to."

"So, you're a newly discovered species on Earth that eat people. Yeah, I didn't forget about that. Why the hell did you eat those guys?! Who were they?!"

They made it to the roof and perched themselves on the edge. "First: I'm not from this Earth."

"…What?"

"Look into my mind, Eddie. You'll find your truth."

Eddie tried doing so and after a moment saw flashes of different corners of space. Clusters of planets, strange looking humanoid creatures being devoured by the creature bonded to him and a large battle across a patchwork of different planes before finally stopping his search through the Symbiote's mind.

"Oh…oh my god, those were aliens. You're an alien."

"In your eyes, yes. And those guys that tried to kill us were the ones that prodded and tortured me for their experiments. Like some damn freak!" It said, raising its voice at the end. "And we ate them because that is how we survive. Like how you eat macaroni and cheese every night to keep you from starving to death."

"I don't eat macaroni…every night." He said, his tone touched with a semblance of embarrassment. "Sorry, I'm still trying to get over the fact that I've been…um…"

"Bonded."

"Bonded, thank you, bonded to a man eating alien from outer space. I'm gonna need a minute to process all of this."

They looked up to see a helicopter flying closer to them. When it was close enough to them it turned to let the left side face them. The door opened and a sniper rifle was then pointed at them.

"We don't have a minute."

They immediately jumped out of the way as a bullet impacted at the spot where they were perched. They started swinging through the city as the helicopter gave chase.

"Holy, shit!" Eddie shouted as they barely dodged another bullet. "Bullets don't hurt you! Can't you just climb in there and stop this."

"I could…but I want to send a message."

(Musufatu, Japan – Two Years Later, U.A. Entrance Exam, Battle Center B)

"God, orientation was an ordeal." Eddie said.

"That microphone man will cause us harm in the future with his noise. And what better way to shut his mouth than by biting it off?"

"No. The point of coming here is to blend in, graduate, and get paid for doing the things we already do."

"Because reporting is no longer an option for us. And they'll pay us for every good deed?"

"Well, the tamer stuff at least. We'll keep our late night 'snack runs' a secret."

"People won't stop talking about justice but the moment we end the people who cause injustice we're suddenly worse than they are. Earth is so backwards."

"Oh, gee, where have I heard that before?" Eddie said sarcastically.

"Painful trip down memory lane, Eddie?"

"Let's just stay focused." He said, ignoring the question. "You remember what I told you?"

"Yes."

"Repeat it back to me."

"Don't reveal myself while in U.A. and don't kill anyone in front of teachers or students."

"Good." Eddie looked around and saw the other people around him staring at him.

"Is he talking to himself?" Eddie could hear from within the group.

"He's probably nuts."

"That's so weird."

Eddie heard the last comment and looked at the person responsible. "Yes, I'm weird for speaking out loud. That's rich coming from the guy that looks like his candy cane hair has a boner." He pointed to the individual's pointed red and white swirl patterned hair.

"What did you say?" He said angrily.

"You heard me, you cheap ass Christmas confection." Some of the surrounding students began to chuckle.

As the student berated Eddie for his insults Eddie tried to ignore him and looked around to find anything else that could grab his attention. He saw, a few feet away, two familiar individuals. One was tall and wore glasses, he remembered him for interrupting Present Mic's presentation, and the green haired one that the taller one berated in front of everyone walking towards the ensemble of students.

"Perfect distraction from this idiot." Eddie thought as he walked towards the two.

He saw the taller one stop the other and as he got closer he realized that, even if it wasn't antagonistic, it wasn't that friendly of a conversation.

"She looks like she's trying to focus on the trials ahead. What are you going to do? Distract her and ruin her chances to succeed?" The taller one said.

Eddie sighed in annoyance while the green haired one tried to explain himself. "Ok, know it all-assbag, I think he gets it. Now why don't you piss off to the front of the line like a good little nerd?"

He put his hand on the green one's shoulder and guided him away while the other one was shouting about 'vulgar language' and 'improper behavior'.

"Don't worry about him or the other jerks. Just focus on yourself during the exam and you'll be fine." Eddie said smiling.

"Well, I-" The other boy was then interrupted by Present Mic.

"Right, let's start!" Eddie winced at the loud booming voice. "Get moving! There are no count downs in real battles! Run, run, listeners! You're wasting air time here!"

When the announcement was over everyone began running through the doors and into the battle center. Seeing that they were already behind Eddie pulled his new companion as he ran and once they were inside he pushed him forward to give him a boost as he ran.

"Good luck, Green!" Eddie shouted as he ran in another direction. As he ran he came across two three-pointer robots and one single-pointer. "Let's make up for lost time."

"By ripping them all apart."

Eddie pulled up his hood and his speed picked up at an inhuman pace. He charged faster at the incoming robots. When they were close enough he leapt through the air, grabbed a turret arm from a one-pointer, ripped it off, and threw it through the face of a three-pointer next to it. He landed on the shoulder of the one-pointer, ripped its head off, jumped onto the wall of the nearby building as he dodged an attack from the remaining three-pointer, ran across the wall and threw the head straight through its chest.

"I'd say we're doing well." Eddie said to himself standing on the wall.

"But we still need more points."

They could then hear the sounds of battle and saw smoke rise a few buildings in front of them.

"And I know just the shortcut."

Eddie then jumped from the wall, through a window of the building in front of them, demolished the office furniture they ran through, jumped through the wall at the end of the building into the wall of the adjacent building, and jumped out the far window. They landed on and crushed a three-pointer as glass and debris fell around them. They looked up to see students fighting off the other machines and three two-pointers converging behind a student who was preoccupied with trying to defend himself from a three-pointer to notice.

"Look out!" Eddie shouted as jumped onto a two-pointer and ripped the head off from the neck with both hands.

As the other two-pointer was about to attack the student Eddie jumped over to it, allowed the Symbiote to manifest through his face, bit off its tail, and stabbed it through its back. The Symbiote receded back into Eddie's body just in time for them to look up and see that the student was pinned by the same three-pointer. They ripped off a leg from one of the downed two-pointers and stabbed it through the face of the tree-pointer.

They then helped the student to his feet.

"Are you ok?" Eddie asked.

"What the hell, man?! They were mine! You cost me my points!"

"You've got to be kidding me."

"Now I'm gonna have to run through and hope to find some bots that aren't scrap. Thanks a lot!"

Eddie huffed in annoyance, picked up a piece of scrap in his left hand, and threw it in the direction of the student. He yelped, closed his eyes, and shielded himself from the debris but was only met with the sounds of metal hitting metal and the sounds of machinery whirring down. He opened his eyes to see a two-pointer directly behind him with the same scrap metal embedded into its face.

"On your right, douchebag." Eddie said as he turned around and walked away.

After spending some time taking down robot after robot he crawled up the wall of a nearby building and perched himself on the edge.

"Jesus, that's got to be enough."

"If they say it isn't then we can eat their legs and see if they can crawl through the course any better than we did."

"Let's avoid causing harm to the faculty."

"You're no fun today."

Their conversation was then interrupted by the ground shaking violently as dust clouds erupted from the street. Their attention was drawn to the large fifteen story tall robot moving toward them.

"Holy shit." Eddie said in disbelief. "These people are frickin' insane!"

"Maybe we should move."

"You don't have to tell me twice."

As Eddie was about to move he noticed something in the street below. He saw a girl trapped under rubble in the path of the oncoming behemoth.

"Great, another person that needs saving from a robot. I'm sure she'll be just as thankful as the last one."

Just as he was about to jump into action he saw the same green haired kid from before running towards the zero-pointer. They watched him leap into the air, charge up his arm, and deliver a final blow.

"Smash!" He said as his fist collided with the large machine and decimated it completely.

"Holy shi-" Eddie was interrupted when he was hit by the shockwave of the collision.

The wave sent him flying backwards, across the roof to the other side, and impacting his head on the edge knocking him out.

"Excuse me, are you alright?"

Eddie was awakened by the question and looked up to find a short older woman in a doctor's coat looking down at him.

"What?" Eddie asked as he held the back of his head.

"I said, are you alright?"

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Thank you."

Eddie then stood up from where he was and began walking to where the large robot laid destroyed. The older woman looked at where Eddie had hit his head and saw blood where his head impacted.

"Are you sure you're alright? There's blood where your head was over here."

Eddie didn't look away from the machine. "Yeah, I'm good. I just heal it away like nothing ever happened."

"Well, it's nice to see someone who can heal away their own injuries but that shouldn't excuse you from acting recklessly. If you need any further assistance feel free to come find me." She said as she headed for the roof exit.

"Will do." Eddie then smiled at the scrap heap. "Glad to see that kid show up everyone here. He was probably the only non-arrogant prick in this whole place."

"And the most powerful."

Eddie smirked. "Losing confidence in ourselves?"

"No." The Symbiote chuckled. "I'm looking forward to the challenge."

"You think we're going to fight him?"

"That's how things usually go for us. The strongest guy in the room shows up, we beat him, and then we either let him wallow in defeat or we eat him. I like the second part better."

"I don't think we're gonna eat this kid. Besides, he seems nice."

"Ugh, you sound like you're in love."

"No, but he is interesting."

"Ah, you think there's a story there don't you?"

"Call it reporter's intuition. Let's see if we can find him."

They then jumped off the roof to find their new source of interest.

(U.A. Entrance Exam Monitor Room)

The teachers went over the results and their points given to the students while Principal Nezu looked at a screen away from the main display. All Might noticed this and walked away from the busy teachers over to the principal.

"Everything alright, sir?"

"Yes, All Might, everything is perfectly fine."

"That's good. I was just wondering seeing as how you're over here and not with the other judges."

"I'm just reviewing some footage from one of the Medium Villains destroyed by one of the participants, Edward Brock. I believe I saw something peculiar and I wanted to see if it might have just been distortion."

"Oh, was it?"

"I'm not sure to be perfectly honest."

"Well then, I'll let you get back to it."

"I might need you to stick around a little while, All Might. I'm going to ask a rather…difficult question to the board and having you there to support my decision would be very helpful. If you agree with my decision of course."

"What are you going to ask them?"

"I'm going to ask for a twenty-first seat in all of our first year classes."

"What?! But that's…why? It's always been twenty seats. It's an even number and easy to pair students with one another. To add an extra seat would exclude the students that couldn't be paired. And I don't know if the board would allow you to make this change this close to the start of the school year."

"Yes, I have considered all of those things. But take a look at this."

All Might watched footage of Eddie dispatching robots at different points during the exam. He dragged robots into the shadows, ripped through ceilings to pull them through, and ripped off the machines' weapons before dispatching them.

"He's pretty good."

"He utilizes stealth and disarms enemies before they have a chance to attack. These tactics are very vital in not just the quick dispatch of a villain but also in hostage situations. This could limit damages and casualties."

"I see." All Might looked at the sheet of paper with Eddie's scores.

Villain Points: 63 Rescue Points: 56

"I still don't see why there needs to be extra seats when he has better scores than some of the others. He could take their spots, couldn't he?"

"That is true, however, I still wish for the selected students to attend U.A. without being demoted or excluded entirely. After this display I feel we need students who are not just formidable fighters but we need those who can quickly end a dangerous situation like Brock has. I feel that the other 1-A students could learn a few things by observing him."

"That explains the twenty first seat in 1-A but why extend that to the other classes."

"To be fair. We can't have just one class with an extra student."

All Might rubbed the back of his head and sighed. "Alright, you have my support. I'll let the others know so they don't omit any potential 'twenty first seaters'. We don't want to end up with no one to fill the seats if we get the ok for this." He said before walking over to the judges.

Nezu turned back to the screen and replayed footage of Eddie. The image was that of Eddie jumping toward a two-pointer that was about to attack an unsuspecting student from behind. Nezu paused the video to the moment Eddie reached the tail and Nezu zoomed in on Eddie's head. His face was obscured by his hoodie but Nezu looked closer to see what appeared to be large sharp teeth about to bite down on the tail.

Nezu allowed the video to continue playing until image went static.

(New York City, U.S. – Two Years Earlier)

They continued to swing through the city trying to evade the pursuing helicopter and the bullets that were fired by its sniper.

"Isn't this plan a bit much?" Eddie asked.

"When this plan succeeds, and it will, it'll show them that we are not to be trifled with."

"What about the people on the street below?"

"They better move if they don't want to die."

The Symbiote began shooting tendrils at the buildings they were swinging past and firing the ends at the opposite buildings until an entire cluster of them was left waiting for the incoming helicopter. It successfully avoided the first few but eventually the craft's landing skids were snagged, tilting it forward, catching the rotating blades in cluster, and sending it falling toward the street below. It hit the street, skidding through cars in traffic, and narrowly avoiding passersby until it eventually came to a stop crashing into a bodega.

The sniper, covered in blood, crawled out of the wreckage and onto the sidewalk. He was stopped by a foot pressing into his back. The figure turned him over and moved closer to his face to the point that their breath fogged up the sniper's goggles.

"You smell delicious." The large creature used its long tongue to lick up the blood across the sniper's vest. "And you definitely taste it."

"Oh, god, what the hell are you doing?" Eddie said.

The Symbiote didn't answer. Its interest peaked when it saw a camera on the sniper's helmet.

"Is it live?" The sniper nodded frantically. "Good. See this as a warning: We will rip, tear, slaughter, and devour whoever you send our way. You've seen only a fragment of what we are capable of so do not think you can defeat us so easily. And to the man that tortured ME…" The Symbiote pointed to itself. "…We will see that your death is painful and that everything you've built is raised to the ground. See you soon and…thanks for the snack."

The man screamed as the large creature brought its jaws down upon him. The connection to the helmet cam cut off. Everyone in the room observing the feed was speechless until one of the operators spoke.

"Jesus Christ…"

A man in a deep blue suit stood in front of the large screen that was now filled with static. He was an older man with neck length black hair with gray at the sides.

"I know…" He said adjusting his glasses. "Remarkable, isn't it?"

The staff all looked at each other in confusion.

"Any time it spoke to us it said 'I' but now…" He turned to face his staff. "It's saying 'we'. It seems that SYM-1 has found a host. Pull up footage from any camera pointing at that church. Find out who has my Symbiote."

"Yes, sir." One of the operators said.

The suited man turned to a man in a lab coat with a worried look on his face standing near the door.

"Walk with me." The suited man said as he walked past him and out the door.

"Yes, Mr. Drake."

"You were the one tasked with keeping it contained."

"Yes, sir. And it was contained but it managed to weaken the glass enough to-"

"I don't want excuses; I want to know how it managed to escape the containment unit without setting off the alarms."

"I-it chewed through the wiring, sir."

The suited man stopped and looked at him quizzically for a moment and then began to chuckle.

"It's smart. The fact that no one was observing it needs to be addressed. Why was no one watching it?"

"The s-staff went home for the day. I was by myself reviewing the research notes."

"Hmm. One person can't do everything by themselves. It wasn't so much negligence as it was diverted attention." The man in the lab coat looked at him confused. "Meaning it sounds like you were alone working and not sitting on your ass doing nothing. Congratulations, you're not fired."

"O-oh. Thank you, sir."

"And enough of the sir. Mr. Drake is just fine."

"Of course, Mr. Drake."

Drake smiled. "You're a fast learner. We're gonna get along well…" He looked at the name tag on the man's lab coat that read Jacob Emerson. "Mr. Emerson. Let's go, you're being reassigned." He began to walk again with Emerson catching up.

"Reassigned? To which project?"

"It won't be too far of a departure from the previous one."

"Another SYM project." He realized. "Alright, which one? 2? 5? Please don't let it be 3 or 4."

"None of them. You're being reassigned to SYM-6."

"But there isn't a SYM-6. That pod was dormant…" His eyes widened as they stopped in front of two large doors. "It's not anymore, is it?"

"We didn't want to make anything official until we knew what we were dealing with. Now that we do…" Drake swiped a card over a panel, typed onto a keypad, and opened the doors to reveal a containment unit with a yellow and red Symbiote moving around inside. "We can get to work on bringing SYM-1 home."

Eddie watched through the creature's eyes in disgust as he spat out the sniper's helmet.

"Nothing like a quick snack before a swing."

Eddie didn't answer back still shocked by all the death and destruction he experienced in a short amount of time. He looked at the crushed cars nearby and saw an unmoving and bloody arm hanging out of one of the cars' windows.

They were shaken from their silence by the sounds of sirens heading towards them.

"We need to leave."

"Agreed."

After making their way to a rooftop the Symbiote receded back into Eddie. Eddie held his head in his hands and began breathing heavily in anguish and panic.

"What's wrong?"

"You."

"That's a strange way of saying thank you."

"Thank you?! You dropped a helicopter on innocent people and you want me to thank you?!"

"In case you forgot, I SAVED our lives! I killed those men to stop them from killing us."

Eddie took a moment to calm himself. "No one else."

"Excuse me?"

"Until we separate from each other, no one else dies."

"You cannot be serious."

"If we need to take people out we knock them out, that's the deal."

"Or what?"

"You'll have to deal with a very pissed off host."

The Symbiote laughed. "Let's get something straight here…" Tendrils shot out of Eddie's hands, onto the rooftop beneath them, and pulled him down to kneel. "If I wanted to I could take over your body and bury your consciousness in the deepest part of your mind. I'm letting you stay above ground so that we can make this go smoothly."

Eddie tried struggling to no effect. "What does that look like? Taking control."

"What you just saw 24/7."

"So, that means 'black suit' all the time?"

"Yes."

"Which means the people hunting you will be able to always track you." Silence met Eddie's ears. "Which also means you can't blend in, mingle in the crowds, which makes you easily visible to everyone on the planet."

The Symbiote grumbled. "You've made your point."

The tendrils absorbed back into Eddie's body. "So, if you don't kill anyone else I'll act as your camouflage and get you home."

"Fine."

"Good. Um, where is your home exactly?"

"Billions of light years away in one of the deepest parts of space."

"So…not a place we can get to by taxi. Got it. How the hell are we supposed to get you home then?"

"The people who held me had a ship that could warp to different parts of space. It's how they were able to come to the planet I was on at the time."

"Wait, you're saying humans had a spaceship that could travel to other worlds in unexplored space?"

"Yes."

Eddie laughed. "Hate to break it to you, pal, but humankind has been in a state of stagnation for over a hundred years. What you described is where we're supposed to be at but after Quirks started showing up things just kinda stagnated."

"Well, I'm afraid there are those out there who have progressed without you."

Eddie sighed deeply. "If that's the case, then we know there's a way to get you home. All we need is to find out where and how to get you a ride. You ever figure out who took you?"

"Yes, they call themselves the Life Foundation."

(Musufatu, Japan – Two Years Later)

Eddie ran to catch up to the green haired boy walking home by himself.

"Hey, Green!" Eddie shouted catching the boy's attention.

"Oh, hello again."

Eddie eventually caught up to him. "Man, you really are something. The guy getting picked on by everybody turned out to be the most powerful person in the whole exam."

"What?! No, I wouldn't call myself that!" He said waving his hands in disagreement. "I wouldn't say that I'm the most powerful person, there were way stronger people than me in that exam, especially the-" He continued on in a fast and almost jumbled pattern of speech.

Eddie grimaced. "Oh, god, he's one of those people." He thought.

"Oh, god, he's one of those people." The Symbiote said right after.

"Ok, ok!" Eddie interrupted. "You've made your point. But you definitely stole the show."

"I suppose I did but I didn't score any points during the whole exam. I more than likely won't get accepted into the school."

"A guy who sacrificed getting any points to take down a giant robot with one punch to save a girl who needed help. Yeah, sure, the judges will absolutely pass that up." Eddie finished sarcastically. "Besides, even if you don't get in, rubbing in the fact that you were stronger than the kids picking on you will definitely be worth it."

"I wasn't thinking about that at all, actually. And, speaking of which, I appreciated you standing up for me but I think you were a little too harsh on that guy."

"Who gives a shit? He deserved it so I gave it. If someone has to go out of their way to bring someone else down to show how much of an 'intellectual' they are then they're assholes who don't deserve your time or respect."

"I don't know…"

Eddie sighed. "Obviously we're on different ends of the spectrum when it comes to the treatment of others so let's agree to disagree."

"Get to the part where we find out about his powers already. I'm getting bored."

"In a minute." Eddie said.

"I'm sorry?"

"Oh, nothing, just thinking out loud." Eddie extended out his hand. "I'm Eddie Brock."

The green haired boy shook his hand. "I'm Izuku Midoriya. It's nice to meet you, Brock."

Eddie grimaced at that. "Actually, just call me Eddie. I don't like being called by my last name."

"Oh, well alright."

Eddie motioned Midoriya to continue walking in the direction he was earlier. "Well, Midoriya, one thing I know for certain after seeing you take down that giant robot: You know how to send a message."