Chapter 2

Bunch of police officers and ambulances entered the crime scene.

"Breaking news, a terrible incident has occurred when a wife and husband has been shot dead on a concrete road by a man with a gun based on the boy's description. If you identified this man, please contact the nearby heroes or police immediately." Showing a sketch of a young man. The camera shows the police officers comforting the boy who is streaming down with tears on his eyes. "The boy is lucky to be spared and later to be identified to be the son of Rick Knight, the vice president of the hero government agency who is now officially deceased from the crime scene." The doctors wrapped the dead bodies and put them to the ambulance car and drove away from the crime scene. "It must be a very sad for the young boy to spend his last moment with his parents. In other news, a group of the criminal organization known as the penguins has been taken custody for stealing rich valuables in recent theft activities throughout Japan-"

Sitting alone on a chair traumatized in the police station, hearing phone calls while the police officers are teeming around the station with papers and escorting common criminals. Hasn't spoke a word when the police arrive the scene, Alan still has red puffy eyes while looking every corner of the station. Deep into his thoughts and looking down at the floor, everything went silent. The police officer footstep touched the floor...*BLAM!* A gunshot echoes the young boy's mind and ears. Another police officer's foot touched the ground.. *BLAM!* Gunshots still echoes the poor boy's mind, everything looks slow when another foot from the police officer touched the ground. *BLAM!* Expecting another foot to touched on the ground. "Excuse me."

Alan's dark thoughts was interrupted by a police officer. "You're grandfather's here." Alan's grandfather walked in a hurry to see his grandson is ok. When he stared his grandfather with his sad puffy eyes, the officer left for not interrupting. Alan's grandfather walked slowly to his grandson and keeled down to his height. Received a call from the police that they found his daughter and son-in-law dead on a street, excluding his grandson. Reached the police station as fast as he can, to see if his grandson is okay.

The old man kneeled in front of his grandson and gave him a warmhearted and comfort hug, "I'm so sorry, Alan. I'm so sorry what happen - I promise you... I will take good care of you."

A tall figure wearing a suit, an appearance of a dog that is black and white made his appearance and caught their attention, "I have great news to announce."

"What is it?" Alan's grandfather asked.

"...We got him."

Alan's face didn't change a bit when he heard that. That murderer killed his parents.

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In the sad and rainy day of attending the funeral for Mr. and Mrs. Knight in the cemetery. The only people there are Alan, Alan's grandfather, and Rick Knight's workers and friends wearing formal suits from the hero government. A lot of them felt bad for Rick's son for witnessing his father murdered up close from a low life thug. The saddest person of all people is Alan, who is crying silently and mourning.

After mourning the loss of the Knights, others with umbrellas started to leave while Alan and his grandfather stayed for a while to mourn.

"Excuse me?"

A sad little boy and his Japanese grandfather looked back from a voice being called. A tan skinned bald man in a suit and holding his umbrella. He walked towards Alan slightly, "...Are you Alan?"

The little boy nodded in response.

The man closed his eyes for feeling bad for him, and opened his eyes, "I wanted to say that I am very sorry for what happen - I'm Kaito Santos by the way." Offering him an handshake of which Alan did and now knows that's Jake's father. "...Your father was a great man - a friend. And its unfortunate that he's gone." The father of Jake continues, "We will make sure that this will never happen again." The head of hero's technician company promised as Alan hoped for that to happen.

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(Later during the day)

In the Knight's residence, the E-Haul men are taking every properties in the house to sell and move to Alan's grandfather's house of which he lives three blocks from this expensive house. The old man walked around the house as he'll remember this for a long time. All he has to do, is to wait for his grandson and other things to be moved away until this house turns empty.

In Alan's room, the environment is very cold as the little boy sitting on his chair looking down by having his expression sad, grim, and sorrow. A boy who's gonna have his birthday tomorrow without his friends and his loving parents. No longer going to a family trip to Hawaii with them. This feeling...

Regret and anger. Those powerful emotions is consuming the innocent child's heart. If only...

If only he has a quirk, he would've saved them. The anger in his eyes as he look at his notebook of where he made his future costumes of being hero and acquiring a quirk. But it didn't happen, he furiously shred the each papers of his drawings and throw it out of his sad sights. He stood up as he looked at his posters, action figures, and comics of heroes.

Enraged, he pushed his toys out of his shelves. Pulled out each comics he stored in his bookshelf. Looked at his hero posters, he ran and ripped each posters as he shred it into pieces.

'Its all their fault!'

Blaming the heroes for not saving his parents in that night, Alan ripped one last piece as he dropped both knees on the floor crying. While crying silently, he looked at his hands and gripped that he didn't inherit his mother's quirk. Alan spoke quietly, "Its not fair..." Couldn't bear the reality this world is.

The door opened and revealed to be his grandfather, he looked concerned at his grandson. Everything in the room is filled with toys, comics, and shredded papers. "Alan, what in the world happen? Why your room is a mess?" Putting a harsh tone to his grandson, the boy looked down and ashamed of his anger. The old man wanted to take back what he said earlier for making the boy sadden even more. He completely understood of what he's feeling after losing his parents

"...I see. After you're done cleaning, we're leaving." Exiting the room.

"G-G-Grandpa..." The elderly man looked back at his grandson. Alan stood up and holding back his tears. "I-I-It was my fault (sniff)."

"No, Alan-" His grandfather tries to stop.

"I could've save them!" Alan said.

"Listen." His grandfather kneeled to his height, "Nobody's blaming you of what you did. It was him. Not you or the heroes, you hear?"

Alan then said, "I miss them, grandpa. I miss them so very much." As he hugged his grandfather.

His grandfather returned the hug to his grandson, "I missed them too, Alan." Embracing an emotional hug, "I miss them too." The old man slowly letting out his tears as he remembers his beautiful daughter in her wedding day with her husband.

Later in a dark cloudy day, Alan carried his school backpack as he entered his grandfather's car to sit and put on his seatbelt. Ready to go, his grandfather started the engine to start as the lights in front of the car turned on. One small E-Haul truck drove to the destination to Alan's grandfather's street and house, Alan's grandfather drove to follow to E-Haul truck. Alan slowly looked back to see his house one last time as the house has the sign.

'For Sale'.

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The door opened by his grandfather as he and Alan carried boxes to enter. Flicked the light switch on, Alan's grandfather gently placed the boxes on the floor. Alan knew what his house look like, so he wont have any trouble of where he's going. The house itself is very clean and basic, but no where near as great to Alan's parent's home.

"Put your stuff and belongings in the guest room while I prepare dinner." Alan's Japanese grandfather said.

Understood, the half Japanese and American boy carried two boxes and on his way to go upstairs. After reaching the second floor of the house, he opened the guest room as he entered slowly. The room is not bad but its bigger than his old room, and the table is included. Without wasting any time, he placed his black backpack against the wall and opening two boxes of his belongings.

A few minutes of organizing, he had his clothes in the closet, comic books in the mini bookshelf. One last thing he took out of the box that is so important to him.

In his hand, is a beautiful portrait of his parents.

Contemplating the portrait on his hands as he staring at his parent's heart warming smile.

A tear dropped at the picture while Alan wiped the tear off his eye. He also wiped the tear off the picture and placed it on the table to remember them by.

All of that is done, he leapt on the bed and wait for his dinner to be done.

A minute later, the door opened by his grandfather and Alan looked at him, "Alan, dinner's ready."

At the table, his grandfather and Alan are eating curry and rice for dinner as they're eating silently. The food Alan is eating is very delicious and at the same time, he missed his mother's cooking. Living with his grandfather is something he needs to get used to. Eating his meal quite fast for not eating anything recently. With every piece of rice he ate, he is finished.

"Your done?" His grandfather kindly asked.

"Hm-hm." Alan nodded.

"What do you say?" His grandfather said.

"Thank you for the food, grandpa." Alan said and bowed his head slightly.

Liked his manners, the elderly man said, "Your welcome - Wash your plate and be ready for bed, you have school tomorrow."

Completely understood, he brought his plate to the sink and clean it with soap and water. With that done while his grandfather is about finishing his meal. Alan spoke while heading upstairs, "...Goodnight, Grandpa."

"Goodnight, Alan. Be sure you brush your teeth. And sweet dreams." Alan's grandfather said.

In the bathroom, Alan is brushing teeth in many circular motions to clean his teeth. After that, he changes his clothes of wearing a black shirt and black basketball shorts. Going to his new room to sleep, and before doing that, he opened the window to let the cold air to go in. Alan loves cold air in fall and winter and it helps him to go to sleep. He reached his bed to lay down and grabbed his blanket to cover himself.

Laying on the bed in a relaxing position, his eyes closed and going to sleep.

Minutes later, he keeps on moving in many positions to sleep but he couldn't. Why cant I go to sleep? He looked at the time and its 9:52. Its been almost thirty minutes of him trying to go to sleep. But how can he go to sleep? He's facing up where he can see the roof, he realize something back then. Oh yeah, my mom once told me that to have a perfect sleep without thinking, just think of the color white or nothing. Closing his eyes of thinking a white room, it took Alan five minutes as he drifted off to sleep.

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Light post flickering.

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The light post shines the road that the whole environment is dark. Where am I? Walking the road that has mist everywhere. "Hello! Anybody there!?" The quirkless boy shouted in case anybody hears him. His voice echoes everywhere as Alan is aware that there's no one there. Alan walked towards for some reason, and it felt odd that he might the only one.

The can rolled from the alleyway.

The boy immediately stopped himself from walking as the light post flickered and turned off.

Seconds later while Alan prepares himself, the light post turns back on as the black figure stood in front of the boy.

Alan's heartbeat started to process in a fast rate. The light post flickered off again and seconds later, it turns on but this time he has a gun in his hand.

The boy's eyes can be seen reflected as the figure pointed and clocked it.

Alan turns back and ran as fast as he can to get away from the figure carrying the gun. Huffing and gasping air to run fast, "Help! HELP!" Shouting as he running to an endless road.

"Alan! Over here, buddy!"

"Come here!"

The voices. Its his parents! He saw them, waving at him with their scared expression. Putting every foot he step on to go faster, and desperate to go to them. "MOM! DAD!" Extending his hand.

"ALAN!" Extending their hands to his. "Hurry!"

Something's off, he's no where near getting closer to him as if the road is extending even more. Alan is not giving up, he tries going as fast as he can.

(Slo-mo) Alan's foot touched the ground (Slo-mo end) it breaks and falls down to the pit.

"AAAHHHH!" Falling and rolling down to the pit. "OoF!" Alan hit the ground to the very bottom of the pit. Terrified, he looked up and by the looks of it he fall down in almost one hundred feet. He got up and tries to climb up but found no climbing obstacles to climb up the surface.

A water drop can be heard behind. "huh?"

His heart is getting faster in each five seconds, he looked at the pitch black area. The pit space's is very tight as he got nowhere to go.

...A lot of pair of red eyes glowed and Alan went pale. "*GASP!*"

Hundreds if not thousands of bats swarm towards Alan as they are attacking him. Surrounding him while hearing screeches and wings flapping, "RAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Screaming of agony while covering himself.

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His eyes went wide open and gasping while sweating, Alan has woken up from his nightmare. Bats are his worst fear to be encountered with. Sitting and gasping, he looked at the time and its 5:35 in the morning. Didn't want go back to sleep, his scary thoughts are all over his mind. He turned on the lights as he hated the dark, he went at the table and snatch the picture. Laying on the bed and hugged the picture for having them watching over him. He always hated of having nightmares. Besides, he only has two hours of going to school. Alan cried silently and hoping he wont another dream like that.

The moon shines as the bat flew.

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Over two hours later, birds chirping and flew in the nice sunny morning. During recess for about ten minutes, a lot of cheerful kids are playing and having fun in the nice weather. Every kids of course but not Alan. The boy is wearing a simple white zipless sweater and black cargo shorts. Sitting against the wall while holding his knees looking all depressed. He remembered the night he had, it was a scary dream he ever had.

And today is his birthday.

Some of the kids looked at the Alan who is lonely, "Hey, I heard his parents died."

"Yeah, I've felt bad for him." They dropped the subject and continued playing ball.

Alan's friends: Chosuke (the lizard), Ken, Hideo, Daiki, and Yuki showed up as a group to see their troubled friend. "...Alan?"

The depressed boy looked at his friends and never said 'hi' this morning. He stared at his friends and looked down of not wanting to see them for today, he just wanted to be alone.

"I'm so sorry what happen, Alan." Yuki said softly.

"Is there anything we can do for you?" Ken said.

"Do you want to play?" Chosuke said.

Alan simply ignored them and the only thing he wanted is to leave him alone. "Come on, Alan, say something." Daiki said

He has two choices: stay quiet or reply. His choice is reply. "...-"

The bell rang as the teacher stood and shouted, "Alright everyone! Back to class!" All the kids stopped playing and excitedly going back to class. Saved by the bell, Alan stood up and walked away from his friends in a fast pace, and looked relived for not being bothered by them.

The rest of his friends are saddened that he ignored them like that.

In class after recess, a lot of kids took their seats as Alan moves his chair to a different group table where he can sit by himself and away from his friends. The teacher saw him in an different table and completely understood of her student wanted to be alone. She heard the tragic news on tv and felt horrible for the young boy for witnessing his parents die in front of him. Alan is sitting while putting his head on table with his arms

"Guys, we cant let Alan to be like this." Yuki said with deep concern of her friend.

"Just leave him, Yuki, its no point talking to him." Hideo said.

"Can you guys drop it?" Chosuke said as his friends looked at him. "Look, we all know that is Alan is sad that his parents are gone. But we have to leave him alone, just give him time."

"..." All of his friends looked at the sad Alan.

Today is a free day so that means a lot kids could spend their time with their friends or play while Alan is doing nothing.

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The bell rang as the teacher said, "Alright kids, enjoy your Monday night!" All the kids are happy to go home as they ran to get their backpacks and leave. Each kids are trying to get their backpacks, Alan got his and left without saying 'bye' to his friends.

There is a lot of kids in each classroom leaving, some getting pickup by their parents, going to the bus, and some walking. Everyday for now, Alan is getting a ride home by his grandfather. Walking on his way to a certain spot to get picked up.

"Alan?"

The quirkless boy looked back and already knows whos voice belongs to. Behind his back, its his friends with quirks. All of them are standing together, Yuki said, "...Since today is your birthday... We wanted to give you this." Handing him an origami of a dragon. Alan quietly accepts his gift as he gazes the red origami dragon. Overall, its a cool gift to have. "Happy birthday, Alan." Ken said as the rest nodded while smiling.

Alan looked at his friends while holding a origami, his friends are waiting for his response.

The boy paused for a moment and pushed his negative emotions away, "...Thank you." Said with a small smile.

All of them nodded of liking the gift, "If you needed something, just let us know and we'll be there." Daiki said while leaving with Chosuke and Ken. "See you later, Alan! And happy birthday!" Said and wave while others did the same.

The only person left is Yuki, both Alan and her looked at each other, "I should probably get going now. Bye." Yuki wave and left to go a certain spot to get picked up by her dad.

Alan stood still as he staring at the red origami dragon for a while, then left while having his sad expression on his face.

Walking towards the spot, he found his grandfather and arrived on time. Alan opened the door in the back seat and sat while putting his backpack and putting on his seatbelt. "How's school?" His grandfather asked.

"...Good." Alan said.

Alan's grandfather could tell that Alan is still saddened that his grandson changed after his parent's death. He hoped that Alan will get over it and accept it. He started the engine and drove the car towards home.

Minutes later after leaving school, Alan is still in the car while looking and playing with his origami he looked at the window and saw the park and playground. He noticed that the kids are playing with each other and they looked very happy. What's worse for him, he saw some kids playing with their parents by playing catch, he also saw a kid holding his parent's hands while walking. That made his heart hurt as they passed by and going home in the next two miles.

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Later...

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In the quiet night, Alan sits on table while the lights shines the table. Already has his day for a long time but now, he's waiting for his cake to be brought here. Alan didn't bother to bring his friends to celebrate his birthday because his birthday party was cancelled ever since his parents died. There's nothing here to celebrate his birthday in his grandfather's house. Its only him and his grandfather.

Finally, his grandfather arrived as he opened the front door while holding cake he bought in the grocery store. Walking towards the table as he placed the cake on the table. Removed the cake plastic container, after that, he placed six candles on the vanilla cake that Alan likes. Used his lighter from his pocket as he lighted up six candles.

The vanilla cake is labeled in red: Happy Birthday!

Alan remained seated as he staring at his cake for a while.

"...Make a wish, Alan." His Japanese grandfather is waiting.

He wish he can say 'bring my parents back' but he knows that it wont be true. Alan has only one wish that will make his life great. The boy stood up from his chair, and spoke his wish, "...I wish I have a bright future."

He blew his candles with his strong breath... and hoped that his bright future will be true.

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(Next chapter: Middle School days)

I've seen Batman Ninja and I loved it. The art style and everything in it is awesome, I highly recommend it to watch it, so please, watch it!

Now, I've been thinking of putting Batman villains in this story like Bane, maybe killer croc and riddler. Oh, especially Scarecrow and of course Joker, I mean there cant be Batman without Joker. I may not put every batman villains in this story, only the major villains with unique backstories.

And yes, Batman wont appear WAY LATER so expect that to happen very soon. I just wanted to explore my character's life story, surroundings, and motivations. Basically, a slow build up of becoming Batman.

I love doing this story and My Hero Academia needs to have the Batman in this universe.

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