Hey everybody. This will be the start of my second story for my Gohan crossover series. If you haven't already, check out my prequel to this story called Gohan's Beginnings to know how this all started. Anyways, I hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z nor do I own My Hero Academia. Please support the official releases.
Chapter 1: Heroes?
With Gohan
It had been approximately 5 minutes since Gohan had first arrived in the void. He was currently traveling through a swirling black and blue tunnel while unconscious. After about a minute of this, he started to wake up and noticed his surroundings.
"What the? Where am I now? The last place was so empty but this? This is beautiful. I wonder where it's taking me." he said as he floated there motionless and in pain.
Just then, he started to see a bright light at the end of the tunnel. And all of a sudden, he fell through it.
A few minutes earlier in Japan
It was the morning of Febuary 26th and the weather was chilly outside.
Normally most people would be at home still drinking a nice cup of hot chocolate. But, not everyone for there was a lone 15-year-old boy standing on top of a massive pile of trash that was beside a now spotless beach.
This boy was Izuku Midoriya. Izuku was currently wearing light blue workout pants, big red shoes, and no shirt exposing his now muscular torso. Izuku also had green eyes, messy dark green hair, and freckles on his cheeks.
It had taken Izuku a full ten months to clean that beach under his mentor's training and he had actually even cleaned more than was expected of him as even the area surrounding the beach had been cleaned. So, with all that done, Izuku let out a loud scream to accentuate that he had completed his near impossible goals.
While Izuku was screaming, another man got out of a small white truck. He was tall, very scrawny. He had a slightly hunched back and blue eyes that were shrouded in darkness due to them being sunken in. Also, he had messy blond with two long bangs on each side of his head and no eyebrow hair. This man was named Yagi Toshinori, otherwise known as the number one hero: All Might.
All Might was currently wearing baggy brown pants, dark brown shoes, a large dark blue winter coat, and a white scarf.
Although he was the number one hero, All Might was not on hero duty at the moment. As such, he was currently coming to the beach to check up on the training of his young successor.
But, as he approached the beach, he saw Izuku screaming on top of the trash that once covered the beach.
"Hey. Hey. Holy cow kid. You even cleaned outside the area I told you to. Seriously, there's not one speck of trash left on this beach! Only a few minutes to spare, but you've exceeded my expectations!" All Might muttered in shock and with wide eyes. He certainly didn't expect this to happen.
"Holy... stinkin'… cow!" All Might yelled as he transformed into his muscular form causing his hair to become neat and his bangs to stand straight up. His face also became a lot less angular than before and was now much more heroic looking. He also grew bushy blond eyebrows.
However, his protégé was at his limit now as he began to sway and fell from his spot. Luckily, All Might was there to catch him with his now increased speed before he hit the ground.
"Excellent work." All Might said with a smile while he looked at Izuku as he held him in his arms.
"I finished everything, All Might. I did it. Do you think I'm ready now?" Izuku asked with a weak smile. The training had been incredibly tough these past few months but, if he was ready, it would all be worth it.
"Yeah, you did good kid. I got to say, I'm impressed. I knew you had it in you, but this is beyond." Said All Might as he set Izuku back onto the ground. Upon seeing that he could stand on his own though, he decided to continue.
"Hmph. Look at this." All Might said while pulling out his smartphone only to show Izuku a picture of himself crying on the beach. "It's you, crying, ten months ago. Look how far you've come. Such improvement!" Praised All Might while he looked at Izuku's toned body. He really did come a long way from the skinny teen he met a few months ago. He was truly proud.
"There's still a long road ahead of you before you can inherit my full powerset. But it's starting to look like you can do it!" Yelled All Might with vigor and excitement while looking at his protégé causing him to form a humble smile.
"All Might, do I deserve this? Are you sure? You put so much time and energy into training me. How did I end up so lucky?" Izuku asked humbly with tears of happiness beginning to roll down his face. He could barely even believe it. He had always been told he'd be powerless and quirkless his entire life, but now, that would all change. All thanks to All Might.
"Ha ha ha." laughed All Might as he continued to look at Izuku. 'Are you really worried about that after all these months?' Thought All Might. He just couldn't understand Izuku's self-doubt. But then, he understood.
"It was your hard work that did this, not mine." Said All Might as he patted his pupil on the back in an attempt of boosting his confidence.
"Now, for your reward, Izuku Midoriya" All Might began as he pulled a long blond hair from his bangs with his right hand and held it. "Someone told me this once. There's a difference between being lucky and deserving. One's an accident. The other, a reward. Never get the two confused." All Might said with pride causing Izuku to look up at him in awe.
"Take that to heart young man. This gift: you've earned it with your own valiant efforts." Proclaimed All Might as he continued to look at the young teen in front of him as the water on the beach began to glisten along with the rising sun.
So, as Izuku looked at All Might with renewed vigor, All Might simply stretched out his right hand showing Izuku the lone hair he had pulled out earlier.
"Eat this." All Might said with a smile as Izuku's face went blank from a mixture of shock at the ruined moment and from the odd demand. All Might wanted him to eat his hair. That was ridiculous!
"Huh?" Stammered Izuku as he continued to stare at the hair in shock.
"To inherit my power you have to swallow some of my DNA. That's how it works." Stated All Might as he rubbed the back of his head awkwardly. It would have been so much less awkward if he didn't have to explain it but, at the same time, it would've just been weird if he told him to eat the hair without an explanation. Why did fate always have to be so strange?
"This isn't exactly how I imagined it." Izuku muttered nervously as he looked at All Might. It would've been so much cooler if there had been some ritual to do it or anything else really. It just had to be done by eating his hair.
"Come on! There's no time! You'll be late for the exam! Eat! Eat! Eeeeat!" Exclaimed All Might as he shoved the hair into Izuku's screaming mouth. Yep. Definitely would've been better for everyone if he would've just eaten it without hesitation or question. No doubt about it.
However, as the young boy swallowed the hair, thus attaining All Might's powers, something unexpected happened above the ocean waters beside them.
A small black and blue vortex that was rapidly starting to appear. The vortex began to grow slightly larger until it got to about the size of a full-grown man. This event would've gone completely unnoticed by all if a certain boy hadn't managed to look out at the sunrise in happiness.
"Hey, All Might, what's that in the sky over there? It's pretty far away." Izuku coughed out as he saw the vortex swirling. He'd definitely need a drink after swallowing that hair but this might be more important right now.
"I don't know, but stay on your guard. It could be a villain." All Might said with a serious tone in his voice. If it was, things could get ugly really quick with Izuku here. Nothing against him, but he'd just get in the way at the moment since he still didn't know how to use his newly acquired quirk.
As they watched the swirling vortex, it then started to grow and shrink rapidly causing the two to become alarmed.
"I think something is going to come out of it!" Yelled Izuku as he started to get nervous. But, nonetheless, he'd stay by All Might's side unless told otherwise. He may not have a lot of power right now, but he would still try to help. That's just who he was and was the reason All Might had chosen him to be his successor.
Just then, something fell out of the vortex and into the water as the vortex above faded away into nothingness.
"What do you think that was All Might?" Izuku asked his mentor while he stared out at the sea.
All Might didn't answer him though. All he did was run out to the water's edge. But he didn't stop there. He then proceeded to run into the water at high speeds until he could no longer run and started swimming.
Upon seeing this, Izuku also ran to the edge of the water.
'All Might must think it's something important if he's going out to investigate it. I have to follow him to see if I can help him.' Thought Izuku as he followed All Might's lead into the water.
However, All Might then dove underwater as he neared the spot where the thing fell in an attempt to find whatever it was leaving Izuku at the surface looking for where his mentor went.
After several seconds of waiting though, Izuku began to worry if since there was no sign of All Might. But, just as Izuku was about to dive under the water, bubbles started to rise to the surface about five feet to his left.
All Might then came to surface with a deep breath while facing the opposite direction of Izuku causing Izuku to let out a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness you're alright All Might. I was starting to think something went wrong. Did you find anything down there?" Izuku questioned with haste hoping that nothing was wrong.
"Yes." All Might simply replied while turning to face his pupil revealing an unconscious young boy in his arms that was barely breathing.
Upon seeing the boy, Izuku immediately realized the boy was injured while also noticing the boy had spiky black hair and an incredibly muscular physique for his apparent age.
"He has some serious injuries. Especially on his left arm. I need to rush him to the hospital. In the meantime, you need to get to school. I'll talk to you later." All Might said seriously as he began to swim backwards quickly to the shore with the boy resting on All Might's chest so that his head stayed above the water.
"Right." Izuku quickly said while he followed All Might back to the shore.
Upon reaching the beach, All Might didn't say anything but just jumped high into the sky towards the city leaving Izuku alone to his thoughts as he got onto the beach himself.
'I hope everything will be ok. I wonder what that was in the sky was and how that boy got there. I guess I'll have to find that out later. I have to dry off and quick or else I'll be late.' Izuku thought to himself while he air dried himself.
Finally, after a few minutes of drying off, he decided he was dry enough to put on a spare change of clothes that looked exactly like his wet ones. Once he got those on, he started running off towards the school in a desperate attempt to make up for lost time. If he didn't hurry, he really would be late for his entrance exams!
With All Might
After jumping through the air in one massive jump for approximately two minutes, All Might finally began to descend to the ground.
"Alright, I got to make sure I land softly or else I risk hurting this kid even more" Muttered All Might as he got to the ground.
When his feet finally reached the ground, the pro hero immediately did a small roll forward with the kid in his arms held closely to his chest to release a majority of the momentum from landing.
'Now I just have to run to the nearest hospital. Thankfully that's only a couple blocks away.' All Might thought while he began to run towards his destination.
Ignoring the people around him, All Might finally reached the hospital. Upon entering though, he heard the nurses inside gasp.
"This kid is hurt badly. I found him unconscious in the sea. His most serious wound seems to be his left shoulder and upper arm but there may be internal bleeding." All Might said as a nurse ran up to him to inspect what was wrong.
"I'll call a doctor here immediately. Thank you for the information All Might." Stated the nurse in a serious tone while also in mild shock. It wasn't every day that the number one hero came into their hospital after all.
"Thank you, nurse." All Might replied happily. However, he realized he couldn't stay much longer as the timer for his transformation was quickly running out. "I'll leave the rest to you. I'm going to go now. Evil never sleeps, after all. However, I will be sending an associate of mine in to check on the boy here in a bit."
"Ok All Might! Thank you!" The nurse shouted as All Might dashed out the doors and into the air.
'That was close. I was about to transform back into my regular self.' All Might thought to himself as he landed on a nearby rooftop and shrank back to his scrawny real form.
"Alright, I better wait a few minutes and then head back to the hospital to wait for the kid to wake up. Maybe he can tell me what exactly happened and how he got hurt so bad. I can only hope he wasn't attacked by a villain." Muttered the hero as he walked down a staircase that was on top of the roof.
A few hours later
As Gohan rested on a hospital bed, he began to have a dream. And it wasn't a good dream either.
"Gohan." a man in an orange gi said to Gohan from behind.
"T... That voice! Dad!" Gohan shouted as he his eyes began to tear up and he turned around in joy, only to be met with a scowl from his father.
"You let me die. You toyed with Cell and let me die." Goku said bluntly as he continued to stare angrily at Gohan.
"I'm sorry dad. I'm really sorry. I should've finished him off when I had the chance." Gohan cried out as he fell on his knees in shame.
"You're right. You should have. How do you think your actions have made your mother feel? How they made me feel!" shouted Goku in pure rage as he powered up until he became a super saiyan causing his muscles to become larger, his eyes to become teal, and his hair to turn golden in color and spike up to resemble the shape of a flame.
"I'm sorry! It should've been me!" cried Gohan as Goku stood above him.
"You're right. It should have." Goku said eerily as a large ball of golden ki formed in his hands and threw it at Gohan.
Just then, Gohan's eyes opened as he sat straight up in panic causing the only occupant in his room to jump back a little at the sudden outburst.
"Whoa. Whoa. Hey there kid, it's alright. It was just a bad dream, that's all." Said the man beside Gohan as he sat back in his chair to Gohan's left while Gohan breathed heavily.
"Where am I?" Gohan asked between breaths. 'Was that all just a dream?'
"Well, you're in the hospital kid. You were found by the hero All Might drowning in the ocean with severe injuries. Are you ok?" Asked All Might in his scrawny civilian form. He certainly didn't want this boy, a stranger he knew absolutely nothing about, to know he was secretly All Might.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just need a moment." Gohan replied as he calmed down.
"That's fine. Just let me know when you're ready to talk. I'll be outside the room. I'll tell the nurses that you've woken up and that you want a minute to yourself." Said All Might as he started to walk out of the room to find a nurse.
"Thank you, Sir." Gohan said quietly as he began to think.
'Why would I be sent to the hospital? Surely somebody would've just given me a senzu bean or taken me to Kami's Lookout to have me healed by Dende.' Questioned the demi saiyan as he heard All Might quietly talking to a nurse in the distance.
'Also, why isn't my mom or anybody else I know here? The last time we were in a hospital, my mom got here as soon as she could. Could it be she doesn't know I'm here yet?' Gohan thought as he began to worry about his mother.
So, in response to this worry, Gohan decided to stretch out his sensing abilities to see if he could sense anybody he recognized anwhere nearby.
However, he didn't find anybody. So, he decided to stretch out his senses further and further until he could sense the whole planet. But, despite that, he didn't sense anybody he knew and that scared him to no end.
'What!? Where is everybody!? Did Cell come back after I got sucked up into that vortex and kill everybody? No... that wouldn't make sense. He would've killed everybody if that was the case. Wait a minute! It must have something to do with that vortex! I need to talk to that guy. Maybe he knows what happened.' Gohan thought as he looked around searching for the guy from earlier.
After looking around for a few seconds, he finally found who he was looking for.
"Uh, hey mister?" Gohan sounded out just loud enough for the man outside the room to hear him, and upon hearing this, he turned around and entered the room.
"Yeah?" All Might questioned while standing at the entrance of the room.
"Can I talk to you about something?" Asked Gohan somewhat uncomfortable with the situation. He hoped he wouldn't sound too crazy but if anybody had a chance of answering his questions, maybe this man could.
"Of course, kid. Ask away." said All Might while walking back to the chair he sat in earlier.
"You said that some guy you called All Might saved me, right?" Gohan asked earning a small nod from the man beside him.
"Well, did he say anything else? Like, anything about a swirling black thing in the sky?" Gohan asked with a bit of hope in his voice.
"Yeah... although it disappeared almost immediately. You seemed to have fell from it somehow." Answered All Might causing Gohan to look down a little.
"Do you know what that thing was?" All Might questioned upon noticing Gohan's reaction.
"Not really. All I know is that it was the last thing I saw before waking up here." Said Gohan in a sad voice. There went his only possible way to figure out where he was and how to get home.
"It's alright. If there's any way I can help, I'd be more than glad to help." All Might said in a reassuring voice as he laid his hand on Gohan bed. He had initially reached towards Gohan's left shoulder but upon remembering how injured it was, he redirected his hand's path to the bed.
"Ok, thank you mister." Gohan said with a small smile causing All Might to smile back at him.
"Well, I better get going. The nurse told me while I was out there to keep the visit short because you needed your rest. It was nice meeting you kid. I'll be back tomorrow to see how you're doing. By the way, I never caught your name. My name is Toshinori Yagi, what's yours?" Said All Might while he reached out a hand for Gohan to shake.
"My name is Son Gohan. Son is my family name. It's nice to meet you too Mr. Toshinori." Gohan responded as he shook hands with All Might.
"Well, young Gohan, I'll let you get some rest now. See you tomorrow." All Might said as he once again left the room.
"See you tomorrow Mr. Toshinori." Gohan said as he laid back on his bed in thought. He could only hope he'd be able to get back home. If not, then maybe this could become his new home.
Well, that's it for this chapter. I felt like this would be a good place to end things. I hope you all enjoyed it! Well, see you all next time!