You're just a quirkless loser!
You'll never be a hero, stupid Deku!
I'm sorry Izuku... I'm so sorry!
"Ah...!" Izuku's eyes were focused on the fast approaching ground as she fell, her flesh bruised from the impact with the giant robot she had just punched. The giant mechanism's head was completely obliterated, and the body of the robot was toppling backwards into some buildings that were still standing. She swallowed the lump in her throat, and her gaze refocused on the ground. How the hell was she falling so slowly?! Her death was taking forever. "They weren't kidding when they said your life flashes before your eyes when you're about to die..." She muttered to herself, and closed her eyes tightly, bring her good arm up to hopefully protect herself, only feet away from the ground now... "how the hell did I get in this situation anyways?!"
-10 months earlier-
"baka Bakugo..." The tiny girl muttered to herself as she walked along a path no one used anymore. This was her typical route she took home when she had a bad day... The setting sun cast a pretty orange over the scenery, a color she was too depressed to enjoy. Her long dark curls hung around her in a untameable mess, and her emerald green eyes were misty as she dragged her feet along the concrete. A soaked and burnt note book in one hand, leaving a trail of water drops on the stone beneath her as she walked. She stopped in a tunnel and stared at her bright red shoes as she thought about how her child hood friend bullied her earlier. She lifted her gaze to look at the burnt spot on her shoulder where he used his quirk.
"If you wanna be a hero, there's a sure fire way to become one, Deku." His expression had terrified her as she put out the small fire on her uniform caused by his quirk. "If you take a leap off the school building, maybe you'll be born with a quirk in your next life!"
"BAKA, KACCHAN!" Izuku screamed out in agony as she stood in the tunnel, and slumped to her knees. Her tears started to fall as she stared at her ruined hero notes, and sobbed. "I... I can too become one... I'll show you and your stupid friends..." She looked at her hands, and clenched them into fists. A metal bracelet she wore dangled from her thin wrist, and she gave it a sorrowful look, before punching the concrete side walk with both her fists.
"Well... What do we have here...? I'm no loli-con, but I'm liking the look of this disguise." Izuku's eyes widened and she whipped her head around at the sound of a disgusting voice rang through the tunnel. She choked on bile in her throat as she looked up at the horrid slime monster that loomed over her, and she scrambled to her feet and made a dash for it. "HEY NOW, GIRLY. I WONT HURT YOU!" The slime caught her legs and arms, as the villain pulled itself around her body, and sludge started to force itself into her mouth and nose. "Well, you might die! But that can't be helped! I've been chased all day by that guy, and I need a body to hide out in for a bit!" It's slime encased her body and Izuku choked on it, crying in pain as she was being suffocated. "It's too bad, I bet you'd be smoking hot in a few years, but thems the brakes, girl!" The villain laughed loudly as it continued to molest her body as it tried to take over her.
Izuku's hands clawed at the sludge monster that held her captive, tears streaming down her face as she tried to get free. Her thoughts were all over the place as she thought about how she never got to punch Kacchan in the face for all his mean words, or how when she hugged her mother this morning, it was the last time... Her eyes started to droop, and she sobbed. She never had her first kiss... she never got to go to Yuuei and show Kacchan she was better than him, that she could be a hero...
"HAVE NO FEAR, YOUNG LADY! FOR I AM HERE!" Her vision blurred she looked to the tunnel opening and saw a familiar shape. "DETROIT... SMAAAAAAAAASH!" A large gust of wind blew over her and the villain trying to kill her, before she blacked out...
"... smaaash..." She muttered out the last word she heard as some one gently nudged her back to reality. She opened her eyes lazily, being greeted with a shining white smile, and blonde hair standing on end. "Sm... smash...?" Her eyes widened in realization as she saw just who was waking her up. "A... All..."
"Thank goodness you're okay!" The man laughed as he looked down at her. He had to be 8 feet tall and 300 pounds...
"ALL MIGHT...?!" Izuku was up on her feet in an instant as she took in the appearance of her all time favourite hero and role model. Thi was the man she had always looked up too, the one who sparked her love for heroes and her need to be one!
"YES!" The mans laugh was booming and he saluted her with his right hand. "I must apologize! I was chasing this villain earlier, before I lost him in the sewer! I must be off my game today!" He laughed loudly again as Izuku scrambled for her note book.
"All might... oh my god it's all might..." she muttered to herself, her horrible bad habit of muttering coming back to the surface. "I can't believe I of all people I was saved by All Might himself! I need to get his autograph... autograph... auto-GRAAAH?!" She had found her book and opened it up, only to be given her tenth scare of the day by the two page wonder in her hands. "WAAAAAH, TH-THANK YOU SO MUCH, ALL MIGHT! SIR!" she was bowing to him now in thanks as she muttered about it being an heirloom for her family.
"HAHAHA! No problem little Lady! Now I'm off to deliver this guy to the police!" He held up a soda bottle, and walked away, showing it into the pockets of his pants. She looked up at the muscled back of her number 1 favourite hero, as he crouched down to take off.
"W-wait..." She held out a shaking hand, her voice was small.
"PROS MUST DO BATTLE WITH VILLAINS AND TIME ITSELF!" He laughed loudly.
"H-hold on... I... I have some..." She started to slowly walk towards him.
"NOW THEN, BE SURE TO KEEP CHEERING ME ON!" He said with bravado as he took his leap into the air.
"WAAAAAAAIT!" Izuku cried out, and All Might looked back, feeling extra weight.
"WHA?! KID WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" The hero was surprised to see the young girl clutching to his leg, tears in her big eyes as she looked up at him. "Let go! There's such a thing as being too enthusiastic!"
"B-BUT IF I DO, I'LL FALL TO MY DEATH!" She cried out, closing her eyes as she thought about Katsuki's words from earlier.
"BY JOVE, YOU'RE RIGHT! ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT! NO NEED TO CRY!" All Might turned his head from her, and coughed into his fist.
When they landed, Izuku was on all fours on the roof top, trying to calm her rapidly beating heart. Her curls were more wild than before, as she stared at the solid ground under her hands. "S-scary..." She muttered out, trying not to throw up.
"I Should be the one to say that!" All Might's voice boomed, "But now I have no time, so I must be off!"
Izuku's head snapped up at his words, and she looked at his back as she watched her hero look out over the city from the rooftop. "W-wait...!" she cried out, and got to her feet.
"Young Lady, I don-" All might started, before he was cut off.
"CAN SOME ONE WHO'S QUIRKLESS... BECOME A HERO!? C-can... Can even a quirkless person..." She lowered her gaze to the ground as she clenched her fists, and tears fell from her eyes. "b-be like you some day...?"
"Quirkless...?" All might turned his head to look at the distraught and meek Izuku behind him. He coughed again, and clenched the railing of the fence on top of the roof top. "sh-shit..." He mumbled as steam came off his body.
"I-I have... no quirk. I'm constantly made fun of... by everyone..." Izuku's thoughts went to Katsuki and all her bullies, even the girls made fun of her mercilessly for always sticking to him. "Maybe it's not just because I'm quirkless but... I don't really know why... I just... I THINK SAVING PEOPLE IS THE COOLEST, MOST AWESOMEST THING EVER!" She lifted her head, a determined look on her face. "I want to know no fear, and save people with a smile! I want to be a legendary hero like you and- UUUWAAAAAAAAAH!?" She stopped, and stared at a skeletal looking person who stood right where All Might was, and almost fainted again.
-Across town-
"Haha, You really over did it today, Bakugo! The look on her face was priceless, what if she really jumped?" One boy laughed, and the other lit up a cigarette.
"Isn't she your childhood friend?" He muttered out as Katsuki kicked a bottle full of gross shit.
"It;s her stupid ass fault for getting in my way!" The blonde grumbled as he thought about the shy trembling friend who always stood by his side. "That stupid Deku! She's always had that dreamy look on her face since back then, dreaming of being some top hero, but she aint got no quirk! She'd get herself killed by the first villain she came across!" He clenched his fist and it exploded at the thought. "Just seeing her think about going too Yuuei pisses me off!"
"Well, if I had a girl following me around all the time, I'd be the happiest guy in the world, quirk or not!" The first guy laughed and so did the second.
"SHE'S NOT CUTE! SHE'S A STUPID USELESS, QUIRKLESS LOSER WITH NO FUTURE IN BEING A HERO!" Katsuki exploded at his friends, and whipped around to glare at them. "AND WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT SMOKING?! IF WE'RE FOUND OUT MY FUTURE WILL CATCH FLAME TOO, YOU IDIOTS!" He shouted at them and saw the look of terror on their faces. "FOR FUCKS SAKE, WHATS GOT YOU TWO SO SCARED?!"
"B-Bakugo..." One pointed a shaking enlongated finger at the space behind Katsuki.
"Fucking speak up!" Katsuki shouted, before he heard a sickening squelching sound coming from behind him.
"Heeheehee, a new disguise, and with a fun quirk too!"
-20 min later-
"A Pro is always laying their life on the line... I can't bring myself to say you can become a hero with out a quirk."
Izuku recalled the words All Might spoke to her, after telling her about his injuries, and her
face was pale. She stared at the ground as she walked home, and clenched the handle on her book bag she carried in one hand.
"He's right..." her voice was on the point of cracking with tears in her throat as she thought about it. "He's absolutely right... what was I thinking..." She rubbed her eyes with her hand, before she heard cries of horror, and she looked up at the crowd of people she came too a stop at. She looked around at the heroes who were standing on the side lines, looks of horror on everyone's faces as they stared into an alley way. Explosions shook the ground, and Izuku moved her feet to keep herself balanced as she looked towards the commotion in the alley. She pushed her way through as the crowd shouted words of encouragement to the heroes, and grumblings of how no one could help the victim.
"How did I end up here... I must have just come subconsciously..." Izuku thought to herself as she pushed her way through to the police line that held the crowd back. She was still doing it, moving like she did before, always eager to see the heroes in action, but she wondered why she was doing it now... It was all hopeless...
She looked up at the firey scene in the alley as she made it to the front of the crowd, and saw the horrors playing out in front of her. It was the sludge monster from earlier... it had caught some one?!
"It's my fault..." she muttered under he breath as she saw the villain thrash around.
"It has some junior high kid!" A woman gasped, and the crowd mumbled.
"This has been going on for 20 min now!" a man commented.
"20 min...?!" Izuku brought her hands up to her mouth. "How?! How could some one take that pain...?! " Tears streamed down her cheeks as she watched. "this is all my fault... I'm so sorry... If I hadn't clung to All Might..."
She stared on in horror, and noticed ash blonde hair in the sludge, and her eyes made contact with the victims. She knew those ruby red orbs well, happiness, friendship, hate... She'd seen every emotion in those eyes for 10 years, except the one she saw now. The look of terror...
"ka..." She moved forwards with out thinking, and pushed the police blockade out of her way, as her feet picked up pace. "KACCHAN!" she screamed in horror, and took off full tilt to run at the villain. Those ruby red eyes widened in surprise, and she never broke eye contact with him as she avoided the rubble that crashed around her.
"WAIT KID! STOP!" Voices screamed behind her as she ran, but she ignored them, and continued to run towards her childhood friend in need.
"OOOOH, THE GIRL AGAIN!" The monsters horrid eyes looked at her, and it wound up for an attack as its sludge continued to try and swallow Katsuki whole. "Sorry, but I'm going to blow your pretty face into pieces!" As the villain threatened her Izuku gripped her bag tightly in her hand, her note book dropping out of the other onto the ground.
"What do I do... whatdoIdowhatdoIdo?!" Her thoughts screamed in her head. "gotta save him... gotta save him... but how?!" her eyes widened in thought as she remembered her hero notes. "Page 25..."
"SAY AH!" She screamed out, and whipped her bag at the monsters face. The corner of her book bag made connection with it's gross eye, and she dove towards the sludge and what she could see of Katsuki.
"KACCHAN!" She cried out, and dug at the sludge as he looked at her. The sludge slacked around him, and his mouth was finally free.
"DEKU YOU DUMBASS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? RUN AWAY YOU STUPID LITTLE DIPSHIT!" Katsuki swore at her as she dug through the sludge looking for his hands. "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HERE?!"
"M-My legs moved on their own! I don't know why but..." She looked up at him, her eyes full of tears. "B-But... You look like you wanted to be saved!" She cried out to him, as her hands finally found his in the sludge, and she wrapped her slender fingers around his wrist. "Let's get out of here together!"
"IZUKU!" Katsuki's eyes widened as he saw a sludge hand move towards them to crush her.
"AAH!" she cried out, pulling at her friend in the sludge. Katsuki cursed at himself mentally for not being able to do anything to protect her. All he could do was set off small explosions to make the villain flinch.
"DON'T GET IN MY WAY, LITTLE BICH!" the villain shouted in anger, ready to kill her.
"THEY'RE GOING TO BE KILLED!" The crowd screamed in terror and the heroes made a dash for it, but they were no where close enough to be able to save the two middle schoolers.
"K-Kacchan...!" Izuku cried out as she managed to pull his arm out of the sludge with all her might, and he started to budge, Katsuki couldn't believe her strength, he had been struggling for what felt like forever... Yet she had pulled some of him free? He could see her arms glowing softly and he looked at her face as she continued to pull him out slowly, her eyes closed as tears streamed down her cheeks. He grunted in anger as his hands grasped at her hand for a better grip.
A hand clamped down on the joined hands of the childhood friends.
"I chewed you out for something I nearly didn't put into practice just now!" That familiar voice... Izuku looked up at the mountain of a man who was holding the joined hands of Katsuki and Izuku. "A PRO AWAYS PUTS HIS LIFE ON THE LINE! DETROOOOOOOOOIT SMAAAAASH!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Izuku's hands gripped tightly at Katsuki's, almost crushing them as they were held from being blown away by the wind pressure All Might exerted on the villain, and her eyes watered as she looked from her hero to her long time friend. His eyes were glaring at her, a mixture of emotion in them she couldn't pin point.
It started to rain on them, as they were set down with great care on the ground, and she looked at Katsuki, still holding his hands in her trembling ones. She gave him a shakey smile as more tears fell from her eyes. "K-Kacchan... Are you...?"
"STUPID DEKU!" He ripped his hand from hers, and she saw a tint of red too his cheeks, but she figured it was because he was so angry. "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO-"
His rant was cut off early as the pro heroes surrounded them and began all talking at once a they were looked over for injuries. Izuku sat on her knees as she was lectured for being reckless, while Katsuki was being praised by the others for his quirk. She could have sworn she could have felt his death glare on her, and she gripped her uniform skirt as she took the words of caution from the heroes...
-1 hour later-
"Haaaa... I wanted to apologize to All Might..." She was staring at the ground again as she walked home from the scene, the sun having almost fully set for the day. She groaned a bit as she dragged her feet towards home, before she heard foot steps stomping behind her. She turned her head around, and was hit in the face by her hero note book she had dropped.
"DEKU!" That was a tone of voice she knew very well... "YOU..." She pulled the book off her face and looked up at Katsuki who looked like he was about to punch her. She gripped her note book in her hand, and took a step back in fear. "I NEVER ASKED FOR YOUR STUPID QUIRKLESS ASS TO HELP ME BACK THERE! IN FACT, YOU DIDN'T HELP ME AT ALL! YOU ALMOT GOT YOURSELF KILLED UNTIL ALL MIGHT SHOWED UP!"
"K-Kacchan...?" Izuku bit her lower lip as she looked up at him while he yelled at her.
"I WON'T LET A QUIRKLESS IDIOT LIKE YOU LOOK DOWN ON ME, STUPID DEKU! YOU THINK I OWE YOU FOR PULLING ME OUTTA THAT SLUDGE DIPSHIT!? FUCK, YOU'RE SUCH A GODDAMN NERD!" He yelled and stormed away from her, the same red color in his cheeks from earlier. Izuku stood there in shock, and smiled a bit as she thought about how he was right...
"Wait... pulled him out...?" She questioned curiously, as she thought about how Kacchan was making progress on getting out of the monster when she grabbed his hands... "Hmm," she turned to continue her journey home.
"FOR I AM HEEEEEERE!" All Might slid out in front of her, and she cried out in surprise.
"A-ALL MIGHT?! What are you dong here?! What about the press?!" She asked, waving her arms around.
"I gave them the slip of course, who do you think I am?!" He flexed his muscles for her. As he did, blood spurted out of his mouth, and he turned back into his normal form. "Haa... anyways. I came here to thank you, and to set some things straight, Young Midoriya!"
"Uhm...?" Izuku gripped her bag and notebook in her hands as she looked up at her hero.
"If you hadn't been there... If I hadn't heard your story... Then I would have gotten dangerously close to not living by my own word! I would have been all talk, fake muscle! THANK YOU!" He looked up at her as Izuku gave him a confused look.
"B-but it's all my fault..." Izuku looked down at the ground, "I... interfered with your work and..."
"BUT THAT'S JUST IT! OF ALL THE PEOPLE AT THE SCENE, YOU, AND ONLY YOU, COWARDLY, QUIRKLESS... Ah I shouldn't say quirkless... BUT YOU MADE THE DIFFERENCE! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO MADE ME ACT!" His finger was pointed at her and she jumped a bit.
"But I am quirkless..." Izuku said with a frown and All Might coughed.
"There's something thats said about top heroes when they were still students..." He continued and Izuku stood straight, confused. "Most of their stories are linked by the following line: My body moved on it's own before I could think!"
"Whu..." Izuku's strength in her legs left her as she fell to her knee's.
"I'm sorry Izuku..."
"STUPID QUIRKLESS, DEKU!"
"YOU DID THE SAME THING, YOUNG LADY!" All Might continued, and looked down at her. "You... YOU CAN BECOME A HERO!"
Izuku cried on the ground, her hand went to her face to try and hide the ugly expression she was sure she was making. It was all she ever wanted... some one to tell her she could be a hero...
"Young Midoriya... You're the one I've been looking for. The one who is worthy to inherit my strength!" All might looked down at the crying girl, filled with his own mixture of emotions.
"what...?" She dropped her hand, confused by that last statement of his.
"WHAAAHAHA!" All Might let out a booming laugh for some one of his condition, "I'm sorry, your face is priceless... Ahem. It's a suggestion right now, but I'm sure with your quirk you can handle it just fine after some training!"
"Quirk...?" She was confused as he knelt down in front of her now to look her in the eyes. "I-I don't have one, I thought I said that...?" She thought back to earlier, more than sure she said it.
"I'm sure you believe that firmly, have you been told your whole life you are quirkless?" He asked curiously.
"Yes, the doctor said I didn't have the toe joint... but for some reason I never developed a quirk..." She looked down at her hands now, and All Might took them in his large ones, holding them up to her face.
"Well if you tell a Dog it's whole life that it's a cat, and treat it like a cat, it will act like a cat! You were told, your whole life that you are quirkless... That you were weak, that you couldn't do anything right?" He asked her and she nodded her head sadly, and bit back more tears. "Young Lady... 50% of having a quirk is physical control... The other 50% is mental control. If you firmly believe in your heart of hearts that you have no quirk, you are mentally suppressing it."
"What...?" Izuku felt her head spin as she thought about that.
"I saw you use it when your friend was in trouble... You were activating it to help him, you wanted nothing more than to save your friend's life. Think about that right now." All might gave her a grin and Izuku sat up straight and looked at her hands as he continued to hold them in front of her face.
She thought about how Katsuki was in trouble, the need to save his life... She needed to be strong, she needed to help him, and she was the only one who could... "AAAAAAAH!" She cried out in surprise as her arms seemed to glow a soft green. The color would have been unnoticeable in the bright day light.
"Now clench your fists and punch that post!" All Might let go of her hands, and pointed at the post near by. Izuku, with out thinking, did as she was told in a panic, and the light post crunched and bent a little where she had hit it, and she scrambled back in a panic. "YES! MY GOODNESS!" All Might transformed into his bulky self and looked down at the surprised girl. "LOOK AT YOU! How could you know about this amazing ability considering how small and cute you are!" He laughed and blood spurted out of his mouth again and he transformed back, catching his breath.
"Wh-wh... WHAT THE?!" She looked at her hands that stopped glowing, and then up at All Might in a panic. "What just happened?!"
"Young Midoriya... DON'T QUESTION IT!" He pointed a finger at her, grinning again as blood dripped down his face. "NEVER QUESTION YOUR POWER! Its a matter of control, but I think after a strong training regimen we can get you into shape and in control of that quirk of yours! AND THEN!"
He put his hands on his hips and laughed loudly now. "YOU WILL TRY YOUR BEST TO ABSORB MY POWER!"
"huh?" Izuku was dumbfounded again as she stared at him incredulously.
"I'm talking about MY quirk!" He wiped his mouth of blood, "My quirk is POWER, dear girl! Not unlike the Olympic torch of old, IT COMES PASSED DOWN FROM ONE TO ANOTHER! Midoriya... I'VE TAGGED YOU AS THE NEXT IN LINE!" He looked down at her again and saw her standing next to a wall with her hand on it, muttering darkly to herself about the impossibility of it all.
"JEEZ, ENOUGH OF THAT!" He put a hand on her head to turn her around and she looked up at him with a stunned expression. "Don't just dismiss the possibility! There's a lot I have to explain, we'll have the time... But I'll tell you the basics right now."
He held out his hands and grinned down at her as her expression turned to one of awe. "This power is the power to transfer POWER! The name of this power I've been entrusted with...? It's none other than..."
"Plus Ultra...?" Izuku asked curiously and All Might choked on blood.
"NO! Seriously can't get any dramatics around here..." He groaned and held out his hand to her and clenched his fist. "THE NAME OF THIS POWER IS ONE FOR ALL! One man cultivates it's power and passes it to the next, and again and again, in doing so brave hearts with unwavering calls to save lives... Can wield this might!"
"Ah... B-but why give it to me...?" Izuku asked, and All Might looked down at her as she gripped her skirt. She had a point, she was a tiny thing, there was no way she weighed even 90 pounds...
"I've been searching for a successor for a long time now... And now I have finally come across some one I think has earned it. You had no idea you had a quirk, even wailed to me about not having one! But you... You were the one who shined brighter than any of those so called 'Pro-Heroes'! But... Hey it's your call to make." He gave her a shrug as he looked up at the sky, before his eyes glanced back down at her.
Izuku stared at All Might, not believing everything she had just heard. He gave her a goofy grin as he watched her make her decision, and tears started to well in her eyes again. She was being given a chance... She had a quirk... He helped her notice that, he even told her all his secrets... Her number 1 hero... Her role model... How could she refuse a proposal to achieve her dream?
"y-yes..." She was stuttering with excitement and emotion.
"HMMM?! I can't hear you!" All might held a large hand to his ear, grinning brightly.
"YES PLEASE!" She shouted with a grin.
"NOW THAT'S A REPLY!" He laughed, "LETS GET STARTED!"
-The Present-
"Ah that's right..." Izuku thought to herself, "That's how I got here..." Her memories of the last ten months flashed before her. Pulling All Might on a fridge, jogging, lifting trash off the sandy beach. She had normal muscle building training, on top of the gruelling quirk training he helped her with. She found out it wasn't much of a strength quirk over the months, but she was definitely stronger than most people... She went from being a twig of a girl to one toned with muscles, she even grew a few inches! She shared her thoughts and feelings with her hero... HER HERO. She was granted his power this morning.
"Urk..." She felt bile in her throat at the thought of the hair she swallowed. Izuku clenched her unbroken hand into a fist, as her memories skimmed over the morning. A displeased Katsuki greeted her at the gate to Yuuei... He even berated her a they listened to the presentation for the practical test she was in the middle of taking... "If only I could get some points... but... At least she's safe..."
'Are you alright?'
"I wish I could have made friends with her... even that robotic guy..." Izuku thought to herself. The girl she saved from the robot, the one who cried out and pain and made her turn around... at least she wouldn't die from this test...
'Sorry for going crazy with my quirk there! I just think it'd have been a bad omen if you tripped, you know?'
'Well good luck!'
There it was, the ground. She wound her arm back, ready to stop herself from dying. She couldn't let that happen, All Might went through so much for her, that girl might need more help to get to the infirmary, she still didn't get a chance to show Katsuki up with her new found powers!
"NOT TODA- AAAAACK!" She felt a sharp slap to her face, and the momentum made her spin in the air, before halting to a stop inches from the pavement. Her eyes wide with surprise, she looked over at a piece of robot floating in the air with her, and the girl from earlier on top. She looked sick to her stomach, and Izuku glanced at the ground.
"R-release..." The girl touched her fingers together, and Izuku hit the ground hard, but not as hard as she would have earlier.
"U-uhhh..." Izuku struggled to it up among the rubble and she looked over at the girl who saved her life as she threw up. "She's okay..." Izuku smiled, seeing she was still alive. Izuku then remembered the test, and groaned as she tried to stand up.
"Now I just... just need one point... just one..." She hit the pavement as she felt a sharp pain in her legs and arm. She looked at her limbs, noticing her right hand was shattered, and her legs were heavily bruised. She fretted for a moment and moved her toes and feet. She realized with relief that they were not broken, and pushed her torso up with her left hand and arm, moving her legs with great strain as she struggled to get to her feet. "JUST ONE POINT!" She cried out, before a horn blared.
"THE TEST IS OVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!" Present Mic cried out over the sound system, and tears came to Izuku's eyes as she stopped trying to move.
"N-no..." She cried, and collapsed onto the ground in pain, gripping her right wrist with her good hand. She sobbed into the pavement as her badly hurt legs throbbed in pain, hearing the others mumble around her about what had just happened.
"What the hell... Such a small girl took out that?!"
"It's just a strength enhancing quirk, but holy shit... that was something else."
"But she was a ball of nerves this whole time, it doesn't make any sense. If I had that quirk I wouldn't be afraid of shit!"
"Maybe she was just trying to gain sympathy points by acting like a damsel."
"That wouldn't have helped her at all, don't be stupid!"
"No matter how you slice it, that was incredible!"
"Okay everyone, time to go change! I've got this!" A small old lady hobbled her way through the crowd towards the injured. "Here have some candy, and leave this to me!" She smiled happily at everyone around her as she made her way to the sobbing Izuku.
"It's Recovery girl!" Some one cried out in admiration as the woman poked at Izuku, before she leaned down over the sobbing girl who turned her head to look up at who was standing over her.
"From the looks of things, you can't handle your quirk very well, but it could have been worse!" The old woman laughed a bit, before placing a big wet kiss on Izuku's cheek.
"UUH." Izuku's eyes widened as she was healed, and she turned her head to look up at the crowd who was slowly dispersing. She then looked back at the ground, and a wave of disappointment crashed over her as she was hit with the realization of just how badly she did in the test... She bit back a loud wail of sadness, and slowly dismissed herself from the situation, passing by the glasses boy who yelled at her earlier in the orientation.
She hobbled away from the school, and looked back at it with regret and sadness plastered on her face. She didn't know how she was going to tell All Might about this... But at least that girl was okay, and that was all that truly mattered at the end of the day, wasn't it...?
-1 week later-
"I-Izuku...? Are you alright? What are you doing just smiling at your fish?!" Her mothers voice brought her out of her week long daze, and Izuku looked up at the worried expression plastered on the older womans face.
"O-Oh my god, I'm so sorry mom!" Izuku fretted, and felt bad about worrying her mother like that. She put the fish head down, and stood up to clear her spot at the table.
'If I were to grade myself, I think I passed the written test with no problems what so ever... but that 0 villain points is going to really hurt my chances...' Izuku was lost in her thoughts as she felt into her seat on the couch, and looked up at the ceiling with a forlorn look on her face.
"O-Oh yeah! The results for your test are due today, right?!" Her mother asked nervously, trying to lift her daughters mood. "Y-you know, even if you don't make it in, what you accomplished was amazing!" Her mother leaned over the couch to look down at her daughter, and smiled worriedly. "You should be proud of yourself, you worked hard, and found out how to use your quirk finally! Your dear father would be so very proud of you!"
"Hmm..." Izuku's eyes got misty, and she leaned forwards on the couch after her mother walked away to finish the dishes from dinner. Izuku looked at her phone on the coffee table, and reached to grab it, her hand subconsciously picked up her weights. 'I can't tell mom about All Might... I have to keep his secret... I want to tell her, but I can't...' She looked down at her phone, and tears started to form in her eyes. 'I'm so sorry you wasted your time on me, All Might... But in the end... I still what was right. That girl is still alive. I should figure out another way to-'
"IZUKUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Her mother slid into the living room, and Izuku looked up in shock, almost dropping her set of weights which might have broken the floor. Her mother looked more panicked than usual as she held out a envelope with a trembling hand. "IT CAME! IT'S HERE! YOUR LETTER IS HERE!"
The weight hit the floor with a crunch, as Izuku stared at the letter in her mothers hand. Not even checking for the damage, Izuku took the letter with her own shakey hands, and ran to her room.
"Izuku?!" Her mother called out after her as she looked down at the weight that cracked the wooden floor, and then up at her daughter.
"I-I just need to read it by myself!" Izuku poked her head out of her room to give her mother a smile. "Just give me a few minutes!"
She shut her door, and sat down in her computer chair. She looked at the envelope for a few minutes, afraid to open it up. "I definitely got rejected..." she continued to stare at it for a few more seconds, before she ripped it open.
"Eh...?" She watched a metal disk drop onto her desk, and looked up as a screen appeared and she could hear some one doing a mic test.
"AM I ON SCREEN?!" Izuku cried out in surprise as All Might's face appeared in the projection and she fell back in her chair, hitting the ground.
"HUH?! Isn't this from Yuuei?!" She looked at the envelope, then back at the screen in a panic.
"SO SORRY ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO CNTACT YOU SOONER, THAT'S MY BAD!" All might was wearing a striped yellow suit and he bowed at the camera. Izuku scrambled to get her chair up right, and she stared at the screen with anticipation. "I GUESS WE'LL BE SEING A LOT MORE OF EACH OTHER, SINCE IT'S BEEN DECIDED I WILL WORK AT YUUEI!"
"Wuh..." She watched as All Might talked to a camera man, still reeling in shock from the fact that her hero was now a teacher at her dream school...
"I'm sorry I was about to tell the girl something important... ah well. Young Midoriya, you did spectacular on the written test but, but with 0 villain points on the practical, of course you failed." All might was still grinning on the screen, a grin that was blurred by the on coming tears Izuku had in her eyes. She looked down, clenching her fists tightly. "BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!"
"I WAS AN ENTERTAINER IN A FORMER LIFE, BEHOLD!" The All Might on the screen gestured to one he had with him, and the image of the girl who she saved appeared.
"Uhm, excuse me, hi!" She was wearing a middle school uniform, the light brown hair framing her bright face. Izuku leaned closer to the screen, confused.
"As soon as the exam ended, this little lady petitioned us directly! WHAT ABOUT you ask?! Don't change the channel!" All might grinned and looked back at the screen.
"UHH, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, but... Do you know the girl with the crazy curly hair? She had freckles... Looked like a lost kitten, kinda plain but with the right mascara her eyes would POP. Do you know who I'm talking about?" The girl was making a lot of gestures with her hands, and Izuku paled a bit and looked at mirror she had on her desk, wondering what exactly made her look like a lost kitten? "Would it be possible to share some of my points with her!? She said something about just getting one point... So I figured she must not have gotten any at all! PLEASE, At least give her the ones she lost because of me!"
Izuku stared at the girl who pleaded with Present Mic, and her tears she had gathered were finally spilling down her cheeks.
"So much more than any Quirk, it's your actions that have touched others.." All Might said in a regular tone for once. Izuku stood up in front of her desk, her tears dripping onto the wood.
"THAT GIRL, SHE SAVED MY LIFE!"
"THE JUDGES WERE LOOKING AT MORE THAN JUST THE SMASHING OF ROBOTS FOR POINTS, DID YOU THINK THERE'D BE A DEPARTMENT OF HEROICS THT REJECTS A PERSON, FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING?! THINK IT'S CHEESY?! FINE BY ME! IT'S IN THE JOB DESCRIPTION, MY GIRL! LAYING YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE TO DO CHEESY STUFF!" All Might had his fists on his hips, and the biggest smile she had ever seen on his face. She let out a sob of happiness as he slapped his hand on another screen behind him, causing the hologram to crack. She read the words Rescue Points Total: 60.
"SO TAKE YOUR RESCUE POINTS, THE JUDGES ALL AGREED. THEY SAW ANOTHER FOUNDATIONAL SKILL OF HEROICS IN YOU! WHILE WE'RE AT IT, THE GIRL, URARAKA OHCAKO GOT 45 POINTS!" All Might held his hand out to the camera, and Izuku gripped her desk tightly. "Meaning, you Passed. So Come on down, Young Midoriya. YUUEI IS NOW YOUR HERO ACADEMIA!"
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Izuku let out a battle cry of happiness, and her mother smashed into the bedroom. Izuku now wore a grin similar in size to All Mights, and the two women embraced in a tight celebration hug.
Izuku cried tears of joy that day, She was going to her dream school.
She was going to be a Hero!