CHAPTER 1: SOME PEOPLE HAVE WEIRD LUCK

It all started in Quing Quing City, China. A child was born that radiated light. After that, these 'Quirks' started popping up all over the world…and within a few generations, our world had become a superhuman society, with 80 percent of the population having unnatural powers. As society was cast into chaos, a new profession slid to the front of the public eye…superheroes. Oh, by the way, this is the story of how I became one of the world's greatest heroes.

The sun shone brightly on a warm spring day in Japan. Cicadas buzzed, a slight breeze blew through the air…and three preschoolers had cornered another one, with a fifth standing in between them. The blonde leading the group shook his head. "Deku, why are you standing there? He should have known better than to take the last cupcake when he'd had three already!" he exclaimed, staring at the green-haired boy in front of him.

"Kacchan, I don't know why you think you need to do this…but if you don't stop, I'll stop you myself!" the greenette shouted, quivering in fear. The blonde smirked and small pops of heat and light crackled in his hand. "Really, Deku? Still playing the hero despite being Quirkless?" he asked, before turning to his lackeys. A tubby one extended two wings, while a skinny one's fingers stretched out. "Let's get him!" The blonde swung his hand, intending to detonate an explosion on his friend's face, the greenette shielding himself with his hands in an attempt to block the pain he knew was coming.

In another timeline, the blast would connect, creating a rift between the two boys that would not be repaired for over a decade, among other events both good and bad.

But instead of a blast of heat and force leaving a burn on the kid's face, the hand connected and, with a small "hiss", a little bit of fog left the blonde's hand. "W-Wha-?" the greenette asked. The blonde had a dumbfounded expression. "Deku? What was…that?" he asked, as his lackeys backed away. The boy blinked a few times, still surprised. "Was that…my Quirk?" he asked. The blonde looked on in shock for a few moments, before grinning madly. "Finally! You got your Quirk! Let's go tell Auntie Inko!" he shouted, grabbing the other boy's hand and running out of the park.

The two lackeys looked at each other. "Did we just get abandoned?" one asked. "Yeah" the other responded, before they looked at the spot where the last kid had been earlier. "Aw, and the cupcake thief got away!" the first one groaned. "Nevermind him, let's get outta here" the other said, as they left.

That day, I learned that not all men are created equal. But sometimes, some of the 'less equal' ones have really good luck…even if that luck can be really, REALLY weird.

The two boys rushed into the green-haired one's house. "Mama! Mama! I got my Quirk!" the boy said excitedly. The mother, an attractive green-haired woman, looked down at her son. "You did? I'm so proud of you, Izuku!" she said, hugging her baby boy, before noticing the other kid. "He did, Auntie Inko!" the blonde said. "Katsuki? Well isn't this a surprise! Why don't we get something for him to practice on, and some food for both of you boys. How does katsudon sound for dinner?" she asked, both of the kids practically drooling at the prospect. Inko Midoriya's katsudon was known to a select few as some of the best you could get anywhere. "Go sit down somewhere, and I'll get something to practice on."

The woman collected a candle, a pencil, a cup of water, a bag of potato chips and a sheet of paper and entered the dining room, finding the boys eagerly chatting with each other. "Let's become super-great heroes Kacchan, just like All Might!" the greenette – Izuku – said to his blonde friend. "You got it, Deku!" the blonde – Katsuki – said to his friend. "Alright boys, settle down. Let's see what his Quirk does" the green-haired woman said softly, as the two boys began to wiggle in excitement.

The green-haired boy touched the candle first, touching it near the base of the flame on it's top, but what happened next was unexpected. The candle's entire structure changed from yellow-white wax into a column of brown wood, and the candle's flame froze into an inverted teardrop of ice. The three all blinked in surprise. "That wasn't what happened last time…" Izuku noted, before looking at the glass of water. "I want to try that one next" he said, the gears in his brain starting to turn.

Inko handed the cup to her son, and he dipped his fingers in the clear liquid. Immediately, it began to turn an odd golden-yellow color, spreading outwards from the point of contact until it filled the whole glass. The woman dipped a finger in the cup and tasted it. "Apple juice?" she wondered aloud, before handing the pencil to her son. The moment he touched it, the pencil morphed from a yellow stick of wood into a bright orange carrot. Katsuki snatched it up and took a big bite, a smile lighting up his face. "That's a really good carrot, Deku!" he said, flashing a thumbs-up to his best friend.

The boy then touched the bag of potato chips…and in a really weird twist, the entire thing, bag, chips and all, morphed suddenly into a pot of petunias. "Ooooookay…" Inko said, now really perturbed. Handing her son the last item, a sheet of paper, she watched as the paper seemed to suddenly stiffen, before folding itself into a paper crane…a paper crane made of solid steel, that is. "I don't understand. How does this Quirk work?" the woman wondered aloud, while her son looked at his bizarre creations. The blonde laughed a little. "Your Quirk is really weird, Deku." Upon seeing his friend's downtrodden expression, he added a little to that. "But it's really cool too! We'll definitely become heroes together!" he shouted. The greenette's expression brightened, and pretty soon the two had gone to Izuku's room to watch their favorite video: All Might's debut.

The next day, Inko took her son to see the local Quirk Doctor. After an hour or two of tests, the woman was called into the old man's office with Izuku. As they sat opposite of him, the bald doctor with the bushy moustache began to speak, looking at some papers on his desk.

"Mrs. Midoriya, your son's Quirk is very peculiar. In fact, I daresay it's one of the oddest and yet most powerful Quirks I've seen in twenty-five years of medical practice" he said, scratching his head. "What were you and your husband's Quirks, perchance?" he asked. The woman raised one hand and attracted an All Might action figure to her hand. "My husband Hisashi could breathe fire, and I can attract small objects" she said. "That makes this even weirder then, although when it comes to your son's powers, weirdness seems to be the only constant" the doctor said. "What do you mean?" asked Inko.

"Allow me to explain. Your son's Quirk appears to have two principal facets, although they relate very closely to each other. The first is probability. You see, with every event in our universe there's a certain chance of it happening or not happening. From the looks of it, his Quirk manages to select events that have a very, very, almost imperceptibly small chance of happening, and make them almost inevitable to whatever he uses it on" the doctor said. Seeing Inko's confused but kind of awestruck expression, he continued. "The other facet is luck, or good fortune to himself. Anything that his Quirk does is beneficial to him in some way, although it may not be immediately obvious."

The bald man then finished his explanation. "In conclusion, your son's Quirk activates on touch. When he uses it, he is given four completely random and unrelated possibilities, and after one second, one of those events will randomly happen. That event will benefit him in one way or another, but it is entirely random as to how obvious that benefit will be. It is very powerful and very strange, and if he can control it, he could easily become the most powerful hero alive." As Izuku's eyes watered with tears of joy, the doctor turned to him. "Now, for the Quirk Registry, you need a name for your power. And since it's your power…what do you want to name it?" he asked. The boy thought for a few moments, before answering with two fateful words.

"Lucky Draw"

Ten years later, Aldera Middle School

It was a bright spring day in Musutafu, Japan. The cherry trees lined the streets in walls of pink, as the cool air was accented by the warm April sun. And inside a classroom of a small middle school, a teacher began his first lecture of his class's final year. "Now, you're all entering your final year here, so it's time to start thinking about your future. Normally I'd be passing around these forms for future job opportunities…" the man began, before throwing the stack of papers up in the air. "But let's be honest here, you all want to be heroes!" The students started cheering, showing off their Quirks (illegally).

A small explosion quieted the room down. "Hey teach! Don't lump me in with these rejects!" growled Katsuki Bakugo. Over the years, the ash-blonde had grown into a muscular, strong and brash young man. As complaints filled the room from his statement, the teacher looked down at some papers on his desk. "Oh yeah, Bakugo, aren't you applying to UA?" he asked, setting off a new wave of commotion. "Isn't that the hardest hero school to get into?" "Don't they only have an acceptance rate of one in three hundred?" Another explosion quieted them down. "I aced the mock exam, extras! I'll definitely be getting in!" he said.

The teacher looked down at his notes again. "Isn't Midoriya also applying to UA?" he asked, setting off a wave of laughter through the room. "Midoriya? Yeah right!" "He couldn't be a hero with that weird Quirk of his!" Izuku Midoriya cowered at his desk, before his fear was cut through by a loud explosion. Bakugo glared at the others in his class, who were now all silent.

"Listen up, extras! Deku's Quirk may be weird, but it's DEFINITELY hero material!" he shouted, as the class began to shrink into their seats. "It's damn sure a better Quirk than Sharkbait's" he said, gesturing at a kid with a shark head. "Or Schnoz's" he continued, glaring at a boy with an unusually large and somewhat reddened nose. "Or Sweet Dream's" he finished, pointing to a plain-looking girl who was asleep at her desk, her spirit floating as a ghostly projection above her. "Seriously, WAKE UP!" Another explosion, and the girl woke up. "Ugh, I'm awake, mom…" she muttered, earning a quick laugh from her classmates. The rest of the day went by in a flash, and before long, the two childhood friends were exiting the school and walking off towards home, taking a shortcut by the river.

"So, you hear about Mount Lady's debut earlier, Kacchan?" Midoriya asked of his friend, as they walked towards an overpass. The blonde scoffed. "Yeah, she certainly knows her audience." Earlier that day, a new female hero with a gigantification Quirk had made her debut by beating a villain with a similar Quirk and showing popular local pro Kamui Woods up in the process. She had proceeded to use her skintight bodysuit to show off her…endowments as best she could. "You got notes on her in your notebook, right?" he asked, looking at the greenette. "Yeah, I did" the boy said, pulling the book out and thumbing through to her entry. "Thirteen of those things now? Jeez, by the time we get our licenses, you'll have almost forty" Bakugo joked, before noticing the gurgling noise coming from a sewer grate behind them.

"Deku, behind you!" he barked, as a mass of living sewer sludge burst out of the grate and attacked itself to the greenette. "Awesome! A medium-sized skin suit! You'll be perfect for hiding from him" the sludge gurgled. "K-Kacchan…" Midoriya gasped, as the villain attempted to drown him. "Deku, defend yourself as best you can! I'm gonna light this fucker up!" Bakugo growled, as small explosions popped in his hands. The greenette nodded, before clenching a fist and activating his Quirk. "Now…DIE, YOU SLIMY FUCK!" Bakugo roared, before releasing his biggest explosion to date.

The wave of heat and force traveled down the narrow tunnel, the pressure blowing the slime into a splatter on the wall while cooking it into unconsciousness. A small square object clattered to the ground nearby, completely unharmed. Bakugo walked over and picked the item up, shaking it a few times before laughing. "A brick, Deku? Even for you, that's weird." The brick vibrated for a moment, then morphed back into Midoriya. "What? Weird is practically my middle name; you should know that by now" the greenette scoffed back, before his ears picked up a gurgling noise. The sludge had coalesced once more and was attempting to attack them again.

And then the sewer grate exploded off it's hinges, and a blonde giant stepped out.

"Shit!" the sludge burbled. "A-A-A-A-ALL MIGHT?!" Midoriya shouted. "HAVE NO FEAR, CHILDREN…BECAUSE I AM HERE!" the Symbol of Peace himself shouted. "Hey! All Might! Deal with him already!" Bakugo shouted, gesturing to the sludge. "RIGHT, YOUNG MAN! TEXAS SMASH!" And with a massive punch, a blast of air splattered the sludge all over the wall, the villain now thoroughly unconscious.

As Midoriya dumbfoundedly watched the Number One Hero scrape sludge into two soda bottles, his brain started moving at a million miles a second. "Holyshitit'sAllMightcanIgethisautographwhy'sheinMusutafuarethosehiscasualclotheshowdidhefitthatguyintothosebottles-!" "Nerd, you're muttering again…" Bakugo said, before pulling a book out of his school bag and approaching the pro, his greenette friend producing 'Hero Analysis for the Future, Volume 13" from his bag and following him. "YOUNG MEN, WOULD YOU LIKE AN AUTOGRAPH?" All Might asked, a massive smile on his face, before quickly signing the two's notebooks. "LET'S SEE…IZUKU MIDORIYA…AND KATSUKI BAKUGO…" As he handed Midoriya's back to him, however, he accidentally made contact with the boy's hand, and Midoriya activated his Quirk in surprise.

And suddenly, right before their eyes, All Might exploded in a burst of steam and was replaced by a skinny, emaciated man wearing the exact same clothes that the Number One Hero had been wearing moments earlier.

"WHAT THE FUCK?" Bakugo bellowed in surprise. "Wha-? My time limit shouldn't be up yet!" the blonde man said, almost panicking at the revelation of his true form. "All Might shrunk! Did I do this? Oh god, I shrunk All Might!" Midoriya was having a mental breakdown at that moment. "Young man, calm yourself! This is normal for me" the man said, which calmed Midoriya down a little bit. He raised his shirt to reveal a large, discolored scar on his left side. "I was badly hurt about five years ago in a villain fight, and lost several internal organs. I can only do hero work for about three hours a day now" the man explained.

"Was that the Toxic Chainsaw fight?" Midoriya asked. Bakugo laughed. "Nah, that guy was too much of a pussy to ever hurt All Might like that." The skinny blonde nodded. "That's correct; this was done by someone else. I made SURE that fight was never made public, EVER" he said, his expression darkening. "Anyway, I should get this guy to the authorities. I take it you two know you shouldn't go blabbing about this to people, right?" The boys nodded at this. The man started to steam, and in a flash he had grown back into a muscular colossus. "THEN I'M OFF. TAKE CARE, YOUNG MEN!"

The two stood in stunned silence for several moments, until Bakugo finally broke the ice. "Well…that happened." Midoriya looked at him, and retorted in a completely uncharacteristic way. "No shit." Little did they or the hero notice a hole in All Might's pocket, and a bottle of slime coming loose from within it.

As the duo made their way back home, they walked through an alley. "Well, that was a sucky experience" Midoriya said. Bakugo growled, then kicked a soda bottle down the alley, it's cap bouncing off. "Yeah, I don't want to think about what was in that slime bastard's body. Fuckin' disgusting" he said. "I'm going to have to shower twice to get the smell off of me…" the greenette trailed off, hearing an unpleasantly familiar gurgling sound behind him.

"I'm honestly sad you two punks think so little of me!" the sludge said, as it grabbed Bakugo and wrapped itself around him. "Shit, the motherfucker's got me! Get out of here, Deku!" Bakugo roared, as the slime attempted to suffocate him, while dragging him out into the main street and spontaneously activating the boy's Quirk, explosions setting fires all along the street. "R-Right, Kacchan!" the greenette said, running to get the nearest heroes.

Within a minute, the entire street was covered in flames, and a crowd had gathered. Unfortunately, the heroes 'didn't have the right Quirks' to deal with the sludge, and as Midoriya ran back around the corner, having alerted every hero agency in the area, he came to the last conclusion he wanted to make. "They're not going to save him. They'll let him get suffocated, then someone with the 'right Quirk' will step in and defeat the villain, the media will write it off as another tragedy, and Auntie Mitsuki and Uncle Masaru will never be happy again…I can't let that happen!"

And just like that, the boy dashed into the street. "Hey, get back here kid!" one of the heroes yelled. "Deku? What are you doing! Why are you putting yourself at risk like this?" Bakugo shouted, another explosion being forced from his palms. "Because…rescuing someone in need, even from impossible odds…isn't that what heroes do?!" Midoriya yelled back. A pair of blue eyes in the crowd widened at this declaration. "Shit…you're right. Get me outta here, Deku!" Bakugo roared, jerking his arms upward as the sludge forced another explosion out of him. "Stop struggling, dammit!"

The greenette reached out an arm, and swiped an arm across a tendril of sludge. Immediately, the villain's body shifted from a grey-green color to a dark brown. "What the hell? Why can't I move as easily?!" the sludge yelled, now gurgling much less. Bakugo let loose several explosions, and escaped his prison. "I'll still kill you two!" the villain yelled, raising a tentacle in the air, but much slower than usual. "PATHETIC…I'M SO PATHETIC!" bellowed the voice of the Symbol of Peace, as he snatched the two boys from harm's way. "Damn you, All Might!" the villain yelled, before the pro unleashed a massive punch. "DETROIT…SMASH!"

The sludge's body, now composed of wet clay instead of sewer slime, splattered all down the street as a gale blasted through the narrow byway and into the sky. A few moments later, it began to rain. "He changed the weather…with a single punch?" Bakugo wondered aloud. "Amazing…" Midoriya said.

The pros attempted to scold Midoriya for rushing in while praising Bakugo for fighting back, but the blonde firecracker was having none of that. "Fuck your fake-ass bullshit, you fucks! 'We couldn't do anything'? 'We needed someone with the right Quirk'? Bullshit! Backdraft could have doused Woods in water and rescued me that way, but instead it took Deku running out into danger to save me. And now you cowardly bastards are scolding him for doing your jobs? Fuck you! Let's go, Deku!" Bakugo roared with the fury of a thousand suns, before marching off, his greenette friend in tow.

"Thanks for the save, by the way. Not your fault all the pros are fucking useless" the blonde said, grinning at his friend. "It-It was nothing…" Midoriya said. As the two rounded a corner, however, they were scared almost out of their skin when All Might leapt out into the street. "I AM HERE-!" he said, before spontaneously deflating, blood spurting from his mouth. "AAAAAH!" Midoriya shrieked. "WHAT THE FUCK?!" Bakugo said, jumping back.

"I'm sorry about that, Young Midoriya, Young Bakugo…but I needed to speak to you two!" the skinny pro said, before smiling at the duo. "Young Midoriya…back there, when you ran in to save Young Bakugo, what happened? Would you say your legs moved before you could think?" he asked. "Y-Y-Yeah…" the boy responded. "Well…the truth is, most of the greatest pros, in all their origin stories, have that one thing in common. Their legs moved before they could think about what they were doing…and the two of you seem to understand and embody that more than anyone else I've ever met." The growing expressions of joy and awe on the duo's face told him all he needed to know.

"You two can both be heroes…and I deem both of you worthy of inheriting my power!"

The two froze. "Inheriting…?" Bakugo muttered. "W-W-Worthy of your power…?" Midoriya asked. "Oh jeez, you two should see your faces right now!" All Might said. "No, wait, what?" Bakugo wondered, now even more confused. "It's long been wondered what kind of Quirk you have; many have suggested it's Muscle Augmentation, Strength Enhancement or something similar, but you always deflect anytime you're asked…" Midoriya entered a mumble-storm, as All Might looked on. "Is that normal?" the pro asked. "Yeah, this usually happens" Bakugo said, before lighting a small explosion. "EARTH TO DEKU!" he shouted. "Ah! I'm awake!" the boy said, jumping straight up.

"Anyway, I make sure that nobody knows the secret of my Quirk. Society needs to believe that the Symbol of Peace who saves everyone with a smile is a natural-born hero…but the truth is far from that" All Might said, as an unearthly glow started to shine from his hand. "My Quirk is called 'One For All', and it is a sacred torch passed down from generation to generation, to give hope to the world!" he said, as the boys looked on in astonishment. "It's up to your two who should have this power, but you are both worthy!" he finished.

"No thanks" said Bakugo. "I'll pass" Midoriya agreed.

All Might spit up blood. "Wait, what? You're…declining?" he asked, clearly surprised. "No offense, All Might, but I want to become a hero under my own power…however difficult it may be to control" Midoriya said, looking at his hands. "My Quirk has always been powerful, versatile and perfect for heroics. If any of the other extras are gonna give Deku or I a challenge, then I can't take your Quirk" Bakugo said, little sparks dancing on his palms. "We're going to have to decline; I'm sorry, All Might" Midoriya said, bowing a little.

"These kids…" the skinny blonde thought, before a smile grew on his face. He started chuckling. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU TWO REALLY ARE SPECIAL!" he said, transforming back into his hero form. "VERY WELL THEN! I'LL FIND SOMEONE ELSE…AND MAYBE AFTER YOUR TRAINING IS COMPLETE, YOU CAN HELP ME TOO AT UA!" he said. "Wait…training?" Bakugo asked. "You don't mean-!" Midoriya began.

"THAT'S RIGHT! EVEN IF YOU'RE GOING TO DECLINE MY POWER, AT LEAST ALLOW ME TO PERSONALLY TRAIN YOU TO GET INTO UA!" the pro exclaimed, as the duo's eyes widened. The pro handed them two business cards with an additional number scribbled on them. "THIS IS MY PERSONAL PHONE NUMBER. ON PAPER, I'M OFFICIALLY TOSHINORI YAGI, ALL MIGHT'S RETIRED SECRETARY. CONTACT ME WHEN YOU GET HOME, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT TRAINING! YOU TWO WILL BECOME GREAT HEROES; I'LL MAKE SURE OF THAT!" All Might said, before turning and leaping into the sky.

The two teens stood in shock for a few moments, before smiles started tracing across their faces. "Deku…" Bakugo began, turning towards the greenette. "Kacchan…" Midoriya began, turning to face his friend. The two looked each other in the eye for a moment…then grabbed each other in a big hug. "WE'RE GONNA GO TO UA!" Bakugo shouted. "WE'RE GOING TO BE REAL HEROES, KACCHAN!" Midoriya began to sob. The sun set on the two joyful teens, as they took their first step towards their future…

ON THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF LUCK OF THE DRAW…

The boys begin their training! The Entrance Exam draws near! Will these two succeed or not? Stay tuned to find out!

NOTES:

And I'm writing another fic, because I'm a glutton for punishment! No, I'm not going to stop with Game Start! Hero Academia, even if I'm hitting a rough patch right now with writing it.

Now, as for this fic, I think this will be interesting to write. Long story short, Midoriya has a Quirk, but it's weird and unpredictable. Despite this, he's still going to become a great hero, no matter what. For more about that Quirk, read this chapter's installation of "Midoriya's Fact Files!"; it's too complex to explain in brief.

This fic was inspired by "Murphy's Law", a sadly discontinued fic by Plantsandpaints on AO3, where Midoriya's Quirk is that anything that can go wrong around him WILL go wrong.

Thanks for reading!

FROM THE FILES OF IZUKU MIDORIYA

Quirk Name: Lucky Draw

User(s): Izuku Midoriya

About: Lucky Draw is…a really weird Quirk. It appears to be an Emitter-type completely unrelated to both parent Quirks. The Quirk is activated by contact with the user's hands, and allows them to manipulate the probability of any four events happening, no matter how unlikely. The user has no control over what event happens to the target, other than that the effect will benefit the user in some way.

Weaknesses: Quirk can only be activated by contact with the user's hands. User is aware of what events are immediately possible, but cannot control which one actually happens. Further development or successful strategizing may render this weakness moot.

Comments: One weird Quirk…but really powerful. If I ever get it fully under control, I could be considered an honest-to-goodness reality warper. Yikes.