One day, long ago, a Luminescent Child in a small town in China was born. This single event would usher in a chain reaction where nearly the whole population would acquire special abilities we call "quirks".

Just like how one newborn child can impact the whole world, one slight difference can change a whole man's future. My name is Izuku Midoriya and this is the story of how I became Japan's most wanted criminal

It started with that fateful day that I had met my idol, the symbol of peace, the greatest hero the world had ever known… All-Might.

I had met him after he had rescued me and my childhood friend Katsuki Bakugo, from the grasp of a villain using a slime quirk.

But before All-Might had to leave I wanted to ask him a burning question I had. You see my whole life I had always wanted to be a Hero, protecting everyone around me. But there was an issue with my dream.

I was born without a quirk, so I had to ask All-Might if being a hero really did need the use of one, so I drooped to my knees and yelled

" YES! I WANNA KNOW IF I CAN HELP PEOPLE AS YOU DO WITHOUT THE USE OF A QUIRK." I just had to know, I couldn't let my inability to produce one stop me from obtaining what my heart yearns for.

".… No…. Without to use of a quirk you can never be a superhero. If you want to save people I would recommend you to become a police officer or a firefighter. I'm sorry, young Midoriya", his voice was soft and filled with sorrow as he spoke those words almost like he was regretting saying them. But to me those words, which were filled with such weight that my whole world came breaking apart.

Before I could muster the strength find some sort of response asking why, he leaped away, and in an instant faded from my view. So now I was left all alone with my broken hopes and broken dreams. I wallowed by myself for a few hours until I finally found the strength to get up and sluggishly made my way home.

Due to my lack of personal awareness, I failed to notice that I came home 4 hours late. The first thing I got was not a "Welcome home Izuku!", but a good stern talking to. "Izuku Midoriya DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS! I WAS SO SCARED THAT SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO-", my mother yelled to me. I rose my head to meet her eyes and whatever lecture she was going to continue creased as she stared into my deadpan eyes.

"Izuku, what happened? Are you okay? Did Bakago-kun tease you again?", her tone quickly shifted from an irate mother to a worrying one. I didn't have the heart to tell her that the man her son idolized more than anyone on the planet had single-handedly crushed his dreams. All I could do was shake my head, walk away and continue to sulk in my room.

The moment I opened my door I heard that video. It was the video that had inspired me to wanted to be like All-might.

"Never fear for I am here!." The video kept playing I must have forgotten that I left it playing on loop. I quietly closed the door behind me and threw my school bag across the room exposing the notebooks I made filled to the brim with info about quirks I discovered.

"What was the point?" I said to myself as I slid down the floor with my back still up against the door. I started to cry myself thinking about the void of a future I had. Pretty soon my thoughts started to drift into sleep still hearing All-Mights voice throughout the night.

It had been 10 months since that day. I don't really leave my room that often and my mother continues to worry. The only way she found to get me out of the house was to sign me up for a gym membership.

It was a way of keeping me active and in shape, as she couldn't stand to watch her son simply wither away. As for my future, I never gave it a second thought. Being a Hero was all I ever wanted to be, and without that goal, what purpose did I have?

One day while I was walking on my way home I couldn't help but notice something was off. I heard sounds of some sort of struggle nearby and there was something that compelled me to run over to the source of the sound, like some force possessing me to do so.

I pressed my back against the wall and peeked around the corner to see two people trying to rob some poor man. I quickly snap back away from view, and about a thousand thoughts rush in my head.

What should I do? Should I run and get a hero? Should I get the Police? What if I'm too late to do anything?

As I was overthinking with my mind, my body started moving on its own. I quickly grabbed a random pipe lying nearby, and rushed into the fray, screaming at the top of my lungs.

One Thug had a quirk that gave him bat wings; he was the first to notice my presence. I quickly swung my makeshift weapons to the side of his head, it hit with so much force that he dropped to the ground.

I quickly shifted my focus to the next delinquent and tried to take a swing towards him, but he was ready for me and he caught the pipe with his bare hands. Before I even attempt to pull my makeshift weapon free from his hands they started to glow white hot causing the pipe to distort and bend in shape.

'He's melting the pipe with his quirk!', I thought to myself.

"You're out of your league kid. Why don't you just cut your losses and beat it?", the thug snarled out a threat to me, but I wasn't going to give up and run away, not when people are in need.

So I pulled with all my strength and smeared the red hot side of the pipe on the side of his lower torso, burning right through his clothes. I had essentially branded the man. His reaction to the pain was immediate, he doubled over howling with pain and I took the opportunity to slug him directly in the face, effectively knocking him out.

Once he was out I quickly ran to the old man "Sir, are you okay?" The man rubbed his sides. "Yes but-" before he could finish something wooshed between us I jumped out of the way.

I looked in the direction of where the object was traveling. It was white, but with the looks of stone the length of a pencil and it pierced the concrete. I darted my head to look for the source of the projectile.

"Well, what do we have here? Some sort of wannabe Hero?" the voice emerged from the shadows. He was wearing some sort of open leather jacket cutting off at his upper torso, other than that he looked like your typical delinquent complete with blonde slicked-back hair and everything. 'he must be the boss' I thought to myself.

"Leave him alone! I've already taken out your friends so why don't you do yourself a favor and just turn yourself in." I tried to make myself as intimidating as possible. Another projectile was launched straight at my feet. I jumped out of the way but I don't think he was even aiming for me in the first place… he was toying with me! He didn't find me at all intimidating, and he's ready to kill me if need be.

"Ahahaha, you really think your hot shit, don't you? Do you think I care if you knocked those useless punks out? They're nothing compared to me!", he paused briefly.

"I'll tell you what, since you seem you've got Moxie I'll give you a proper introduction. The name is Spinal Tap and my quirk allows me to rapidly grow my bones in any way I see fit and use them as weapons, what's more, is that they come out hard as steel."

With his introduction behind him, he rose his palms to me, I got into a defensive stance to get ready for anything that might happen. I have to do this, I have to prove All-Might wrong, I needed to believe that I could be a hero without the use of quirks. But before any of us could make a single move the alleyway was lit up in a flash of red and blue.

"FREEZE! POLICE!" Two officers showed up with weapons drawn. "Shit" Spinal Tap shot two of his bone projectiles at the wall behind him and used them to scale the building. "NO! Get back here!" , I screamed ready to pursue him only to be tackled by one of the policemen "Stay down" the officer ordered.

"N-NO! YOU'RE LETTING HIM GET AWAY!" I tried to beg them to chase after him only to get my face dug more in the pavement.

They talked back and forth, putting me in handcuffs in the process. They checked on the old man as well after putting me in the back of their vehicle… Guess it doesn't look good seeing as I did technically assault two individuals…. But I was doing the right thing, wasn't I? I was being a hero? Why was I being punished?.

… In the end, they never caught Spinal Tap.

I was taken down to the station where I got the typical lectures of the dangers of running into confronting villains without calling for help. My mother came to pick me up while also giving me a lecture of her own after that went on all the way home.

"Honestly Izuku, how could do this? Don't you know I worry about you enough?", she continued.

I stopped dead in my tracks trying my best to hold back my tears and the cork in my throat, "Do you wanna know mom… about that day when I came home late?" I looked at my mother dead in the eyes. I couldn't hold back my tears anymore. "I got to meet him, mom."

"Wh-who?"

"I got to meet the man I idolized the most. I got to meet All-Might in person. And… I asked him if it was possible… to be a hero like him… without a quirk"

"Izuku, stop."

"And you know what he said to me, mom….."

"Izuku…."

"He told me no…."

After finally telling her, all she could do was try to comfort her son in any way a mother could. The rest of the walk was spent in silence.

We finally arrived home, both unsure of what we should do. Just as we made it home, the rain that had been threatening to fall all afternoon, finally began to fall and that's when the real storm began. In almost an instant after we stepped into our home, three projectiles had struck our door preventing it from being opened again. My eyes widened in fear, I knew what they were. And standing across from us, in our small apartment, was Spinal Tap wearing a smug smile. "Damn, you people took forever coming home. I was almost ready to give up on you..", he spoke slowly, walking towards us as I put myself in front to cover my mother.

"But how could I resist, knowing what a heartbreaking sob story you have. Oh, mother, All Might said I couldn't be a superhero, waah.", his mocking tone suddenly grew serious. "How pathetic… I can't believe that my underlings would be deafened by a quirkiness nobody. " Spinal came right up to my face.. "Why didn't you just do the world a favor…. And kill yourself."

Those words… coming out of Spinal's mouth…. With Kacchan's voice… he walked back to his original position.

"Well, guess I'll do the world a favor and take you out myself." he raised both his palms and fired out two bone spear projectiles

Everything started to feel like it was running on half speed. Fear had finally taken me, my legs felt like they were welded to the wooden floor. 'So this is it, huh, this is how I was going to die.' Maybe All-Might was right, how could I become a hero if I can't even defend myself. The spears started to come closer and closer to me. My eyes wouldn't leave the instruments of my death, I felt like my eyes were playing tricks on me because really looking at them, they seemed like they started drifting away from me... but they were! I couldn't explain it but with each passing second my certain death was looking farther and farther, they looked like they were going to miss me entirely. Then it hit me, it was my mother, she was using her quirk to try to bring the projectiles away from me and closer to her. My mother wasn't that handy with her quirk considering she hardly ever used it aside from doing simple chores but in this instant, without any sort of training or practice she was using it to the best of her abilities to try and save her only son even at the cost of her own life. I couldn't allow that to happen, I mustered all the strength to try to push my mother out of the way in time, but I was too late because of my hesitation, I was able to stop one of them from directly hitting her and only grazing my arm, and striking the wall behind us… the other spear one had made a direct hit to her chest.

"NOOOO!"

I ran to my mother's aid, completely ignoring Spinal as he slowly made his way over towards me.

"Mom, no! I'm sorry…. I didn't mean for this to happen" I whimpered, my voice cracking. I looked around panicking, unsure of what to do till I felt a warm hand on my face "Izuku… it's okay.. it's a mother job to protect her babies…", my mother said with a smile, while blood was streaming from her mouth. " Oh, Izuku… I know it doesn't mean much but… you were always my hero.. you never want to give up on people even when it all seems hopeless. You've always had a strong sense of justice, I really wish things could have been better… but know that you are going to grow up to do such great things…. I love you Izuku." those were the last words I heard from my mother.

I was so distracted that I didn't notice that Spinal had moved over to me until he grabbed me by the shoulder of my shirt and lifted me up to his level. "Whoops, did I hurt mommy? Well don't worry, I won't screw up this time". Spinal lifted up his fist and was ready to give whatever final blow he was going to deliver, but something in me snapped. I grabbed the bone spear that had missed my mother and used it to stab him under his biceps. He immediately dropped me and while he was trying to remove the spear from his arm I lunged towards the kitchen counter and grasped at the hardest object I could see, which ended up being the rice cooker. I adjusted my grip, spun back around, and used it to hit Spinal upward in his chin, causing him to fall on his back. I got on top of him and started wailing on him to the point where he was unconscious. I threw the now broken device aside, trying to crawl to my injured mother.

The neighbors were able to hear the commotion and called the police. My mother and Spinal were taken to the hospital while the police went to question me. Due to my display of violence, I spent the night in the cell. In the morning I was released and went straight to the hospital to see my mother. The doctors told me that the spear had missed all the essential organs and that she was going to make it, but that she will need to rest for a while.

Spinal Tap was finally locked up and while things were finally starting to take a lighter turn I couldn't help but think of everything that had happened in the past few months… It's enough to break anyone…

"I'm sorry young Midoriya, you can not become a hero without a quirk" "Your out of your league kid" "Why don't you just drop off the roof Deku…"

I left the hospital with a feeling of emptiness… 'Why don't you just drop off a roof Deku..' I started to run as fast as I could. I didn't care where I was running, I just ran as fast as I could, not caring about my wellbeing or anything. I'd had enough of all of it and I just wanted it all to end, just like Kacchan wanted. Everything seemed like a blur as I felt the rain stinging my face, I hadn't even noticed it has begun to rain again. And finally it all came crashing down on me, I felt so overwhelmed … until…

"Oof"

Life had given me a second wind.

"HEY! Watch where you're going! You almost broke my babies."

I looked up and saw a girl wearing what seemed like some sort of high school uniform. She had big Pink hair, that seemed to remind me of bubble gum, and yellow topaz eyes that had some sort of crosshair look.

"Hey, give that stuff back! That's school property!" We looked over and saw two people running out of a big glass building that was emanating smoke." Oh crap!" She turned to me and extended her hand. "Well don't just stand there, help me out! Please be my hero," she said with sparkling eyes. Without a second thought, I grabbed her hand and together we escaped from the school facility that I had wandered into.

"Whoo lad that was a close call", she proclaimed, full of energy, while I was having trouble trying to catch my breath. "Hey I wanna thank you for helping me out and if you ever need something made specially designed for you then you can call on me! Mei Hatsume! " she's exclaimed as if she proclaiming to the heavens themselves.

"Uh excuse me?" I asked, staring at this girl with a look of confusion of my face.

"Ah, I see we have a newcomer well let me explain. I like to make Babies"

"What?"

"That's right, I make beautiful babies and if you want, since I don't have anything else to do, I can make babies with you."

I took a step back. "W-w-w-wait hold on what!" My face flushed with red hot embarrassment. I looked around to see the bystanders watching us.

"What's the matter, don't you wanna make babies with me?" Mei began to approach me, getting right up to my face, and at this point, it felt like steam is escaping my ears.

"L-look u seem very nice, but I have to go." I begin trying to walk away, only to get my body jolted by an electrical shock. I drop to the ground once the shock stops and I looked up to see Mei wearing some sort of glove that's emitting electricity. "Sorry, but I didn't want you to go without fully experiencing what my babies do!" Mei said while slowly floating in the air through some sort of big, bulky boots. Then something came to me, an idea… was this the girl was the answer I was looking for

"So?… What do you say?" Mei asked one last time holding her hand out.

My name is Izuku Midoriya, and together with Mei Hatsume, we created a story…. A story on how I became Japan's most wanted criminal...and the world's greatest hero.