Hey guys, I wrote this because I noticed a lack of Alt Izukus, like a quirkless Spin Izuku. I read Anyone can be a Hero after I wrote this, a bit glad since it would have colored my vision to the max, especially that Iida scene. I was busy writing this other alt izuku where he gets his mother's quirk grafted on to him. In the process of writing a Hamon!quirk Izuku since no one has written it yet. Hoping someone writes Izuku with mandom, little feet, or Crazy Diamond's power (no super strength, just the power to restore things), mostly leaning to little feet.

Also this was inspired by the sub or dub video about the series on youtube by Explanation Point. He brought up the argument that the dub makes Izuku's dream seem like it's something difficult but something he more or less have plan to achieve while the sub makes his dream seem more like fantasy he uses to escape his harsh reality. This one is the later.

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All Might…

Quirks…

It was all too much for Izuku to process. He was mindlessly shuffling back home, clutching onto a recently dried but obviously burnt, wet, and slight smudge notebook. The same notebook with All Might's signature on it. The same hero he worshipped, the same hero who said a quirkless kid like him couldn't be a hero….

He then noticed a crowd, out of relfex he stuck his battered book in his backpack. All Might crushed his dreams but even so...even so he-

BOOM!

His skin crawled as he got closer to the crowd standing behind a group of heroes. His eyes went wide. It was that sludge villain!

"Wha-why-" He stopped his muttering as it began. It was his fault.

Back when he grabbed onto All Might, the villain must've fallen off! And now he was attacking a person because of him. It was his fault.

He heard explosions go off accompanied by lights in the, he flinched when he heard them. Bakugo.

The sludge villain was attacking Bakugo of all people!

He looked around, the heroes, couldn't do much against the sludge villain, they simply didn't have the right quirk to deal with the villain not to mention he had Bakugo hostage.

Then he got a good look at Bakugo's face.

Help

"What the fuck?" A tall thin man with long blond hair said as he walked out of a building holding a glass bottle of what was definitely beer.

In front of him was a bunch of cops and costumed adults, "heroes" no doubt, surrounding the mayhem done by a single "villain" who had a boy who was making fancy explosion hostage and none of them were actually doing anything.

"...I might need another beer," the man said as he eyed the bottle in his hand. "Tch, this is what I get for not picking."

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!"

"Huh?" He looked up to see a kid with green hair rush towards the weird muck monster and used his backpack to hit the monster, causing the monster to flinch. The man's eyes went wide. "Holy shit," he said with awe in his voice, "a top grade retard!"

There was already one kid captured who was blowing shit up and struggling desperately to escape the villains grasp and failing, what the hell makes this kid think he could just run straight to the villain and rescue the kid? He's not even using a quirk.

Though to be fair, he did let the other kid breathe a bit more…. The man thought to himself. He shrugged, finished his beer and tossed it over his shoulder. He looked around, none of the heroes doing anything, he thought for a second or two, then he shrugged. "Meh, my day's ruined, least I can do is keep it from getting worse."

He walked towards the muck thing who said "Stay back All Might! I got two Hostages!"

All Might? Ah there he is. Oh gawd, he's about to say some corny speech!

"HEY UGLY!" the man yelled before All Might could.

"HUH?" The villain turned an eye to look at the stranger.

"Do you have any idea what you just did!"

"Heh, I scared-"

"YOU RUINED MY DAMN AFTERNOON!"

"...Huh?"

"Sir," one of the heroes yelled, someone covered in wood, "Get away from him! He's dangerous!"

"HAHAHA! ANOTHER HOSTAGE!"

"Nyo ho ho ho, funny guy," the man said with a smirk.

Izuku was stuck but he was able to get a good look at the man who approached the Sludge Villain. He was tall and thin, white, had long blond hair just like a girl, he wore blue jeans, a belt with the tip not in the pant's loop and was instead hanging off his body, he wore a grey shirt, and wore a black leather jacket with purple lining.

Who is this guy, Izuku thought with tears in eyes.

He moved his hands to his jackets and spread them apart revealing the gun belts hanging off the sides of his body, but the guns belts were odd, instead of guns they had oddly designed metallic green colored balls.

"HA HA HA, you think steel balls can hurt me!?" The Sludge Villain yelled with glee. "YOU'RE A BIGGER MORON THAN ALL MIGHT!"

"True, steel balls would be nothing against that body, but you made a couple of incorrect assumptions," the man said. Then he did something that caught Izuku's eyes, without any obvious movements, the steel balls in his hands began to spin! "One it's not the steel balls that are dangerous, it's the force behind them. Two it's not All Might you pissed off. It's me."

"HEH! NICE TRY HERO!" Sludge Villain rushed at the man, but the man kept grinning.

"HEY!" Some hero yelled, no doubt to try to help the stranger who was about to be attacked.

"Ho, looks like we're up to three, I'm not a hero." Izuku manage to hear, then he found steel ball hit the villain right next to his face! However, rather than bounce off or something, the ball kept spinning and then something strange occurred!

The Sludge Villain's body began to contort and ripple around the spinning ball! It wasn't just that that Izuku noticed, the balls somehow killed the villain's momentum!

"What! What is this!" The villain shouted in surprise.

"That would be the force behind the steel ball," the man said with a grin as he calmly walked forward. Suddenly Izuku felt something force him off the villain.

"Ah? AAAAAAAHHH!" Izuku yelled as he jettisoned backwards!

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!" Bakugo yelled as he too was shot backwards.

Both boys were sent flying by the contorting villain's body, passing the stranger! Izuku ended up rolling before stopping on his belly, quickly turning around to see what the villain would do and to look at the man who saved them. In that time Bakugo had used his explosive quirk to land gracefully.

"WHAT IS THIS QUIRK!" The villain cried as its body continued to contort.

"Boy, you don't listen well, do you?" The man said with an amused smile. He put both hands up and as he did, the steel balls were shot back right at him. However, they seemed to have landed into the palms of his hands as if they were baseballs and he was catching them with mitts, almost as if he was playing a friendly game of "catch" with the villain. "That was the force behind the ball, not an actual quirk."

"Don't think that'll work again!" The villain shouted. "I bested All Might, hero! I can best you too!" The man simply put his hands out.

"Again, I'm not All Might," he said as he dropped the steel balls. However when they hit the ground they, for the lack of better words, "bounced" back up to his hands and he bounced it back down and kept repeating the action as if he was playing around with basketballs.

But they're steel, I can hear that it's steel hitting concrete but it's bouncing like a toy! Is this his quirk? Izuku questioned. Bakugo was just stunned at how easily he was saved by a guy with two steel balls while his quirk couldn't really do much against the villain.

"Also, I've already said it," the man continued. "I'm not a hero."

"Then what are you, a villain?"

"Nope. I'm just your average executioner." He said it so calmly, it was pretty hard to take it seriously. But Izuku felt a chill run down his spine, he got a feeling the man wasn't joking. Even Bakugo believed it.

"Exe-you expect me to believe that?"

"Ho ho ho, oh boy, looks like we made it up to four," he laughed.

"Four?"

"Yep, you're a moron," he laughed. "Believe it or not, I have actually executed someone with your kind of body before, the trick here isn't a mortal wound or suffocation, it's individuality. If I were to blend that body with say...sand or something it probably wouldn't hurt but you'd lose self-awareness wouldn't you? You'd lose control over that body, you're mind would shut down, and eventually, you'd be practically dead, wouldn't you?"

"Y-you think I'm scared!?"

"No I think you're a moron," the man said he stopped bouncing the balls and put them back into his gun belts(?).

"Oh yeah, why's that?"

The stranger brought up his right hand and started listing off reasons with his fingers.

"One, you're not worth it, two, you're in the middle of the road with burning buildings, three, All Might is only a few feet to your left, and four, you have no hostages thanks to talking to me while the heroes moved everyone back."

"...ah." The villain let out as he turned to look only to find that indeed, the heroes had evacuated all the civilians and anyone who could have been trapped by his quirk has moved back to fair distance and All Might kept his signature toothy fearless smile while cracking his knuckles.

"All Might is here ya know, nyo ho~" the man joked loudly.

"RIGHT YOU ARE!" All Might shouted as he braced himself, slowly preparing for what looked like a sprint.

"Ah-hey-wait," the villain began as he backed up, "can't...can't we-" All Might appeared next to the villain as if he was teleported and unleashed a punch!

"[DETROIT SMAAAAAAAAAASH!]" The force of the punch sent a shockwave that tore the villain asunder! Bits and pieces flew everywhere along with with a shockwave that threatens to blow away the trio the villain was focused on and even the crowded who were hidden behind Mt. Lady's arms!

"Goddamn," the stranger said with toothy smile, "this power! What a monster!"

This, this is All Might! Bakugo thought to himself, in sheer of awe of All Might's power, the power he wants to surpass.

In-incredible Izuku stuttered even in his thoughts, the sheer power all might could force. Then he saw All Might's smile.

"I smile to show the pressure of heroes and...to trick the fear inside me."

Those words ran through his mind as he saw, from the corner of All Might's mouth, blood leak, but it was quickly wiped away.

Then it started raining. Izuku looked up and saw the clouds swirling around them.

"HOLY CRAP!" Someone yelled. "ALL MIGHT CHANGED THE WEATHER WITH A SINGLE PUNCH!" Suddenly the crowd started Cheering.

"ALL MIGHT RULES!"

"That villain never stood a chance!"

"If it's All Might he would have found a way no matter what!"

The crowd cheered as a few lesser known heroes and sidekicks kept the crowd at a distance.

"Quick! Everyone," a hero covered in wood shouted, "Recover every piece of that villain as quick you can!"

Pretty soon all the heroes and the policemen who arrived starting running looking for pieces of the villain, well most of them anyway.

"Ha Ha Ha!" All Might gave a hearty laugh, "that was nice of you to step in help, but… well..." All Might sort of fumbled as he scratched his chin. "You, your not..."

"I'm not a hero," the guy who saved both Izuku and Bakugo shrugged, "I just got annoyed that my day was ruined."

"I see that said though...while Japan does have Capital Punishment-"

"Not Japanese," the man said with a wave as he began to walk, "just here for some downtime is all."

"I-I see," All Might said.

"HEY!"

"Hm?" the guy stopped in his track and turned to see three heroes running up to them, The wood guy, some hulk looking guy, and Mt. Lady.

"AH! Kamui Wood, Death Arms, and Mt. Lady," Izuku shouted in surprise.

"Hm? You know these guys," the guy asked as he walked back.

"They're all brand new heroes!"

"Figures," the guy said with shrug and a small smile, confusing Izuku.

"Sir!" Kamui Woods began, "What you did was reckless! And that goes for you too kid!"

"Eep," Izuku let out in fear.

"Yeah," Death Arms added in, "There was no need to put yourself in danger!"

"Meh, lay off the kid," the blond stranger said, "he was a retard for jumping in but at least he tried to save the other kid. You guys just kept leaving it to someone else."

"It-"

"FUCK ALL OF YOU," Bakugo shouted, catching everyone's attention. "I didn't need your help," he let out with glare, "I was just fine! I'll be a bigger hero than all of you! I'm gonna rip All Might's-" his rant was cut short by steel ball colliding into his chest! He was instantly pinned on his back! "Wha-what the hell," he struggled to say.

"HEY!" Mt. Lady shouted while the other heroes gasped in surprise.

What speed, Izuku thought to himself, he took out the ball and threw it Kacchan in an instant. Huh? The ball! I-it's still spinning!

Bakugo tried to cause an explosion but… Shit! I can't move, it's like there's a ton of weight on top of me! I can't even move a muscle! My quirk won't activate! What the fuck did this blond rag do!

"Hero?" the blond rag in question said. "Take a good look around you, brat." Everyone who wasn't pinned did so. They noticed all the damage caused by the fire. "That villain didn't do any of this, YOU DID!"

"Urg," Bakugo struggled.

"Tell me kid, what kind of hero loses his shit and goes off firing explosion? You even scared off the heroes! They couldn't do dick because of you!"

"Ah hey!" Mt. Lady cut in, "He was held hostage and that villain was doing weird things to him! He can't be held responsible!"

"She's right," All Might cut in, "This young man-"

"CLEARLY said he was 'just fine', isn't that right?" The stranger said. He put his hands up and the steel ball bounced off of Bakugo and went back to his hand. Once the ball was back in his hand it began to spin again, but the stranger put it back into his gun belt(?).

Bakugo quickly sat up with heated glare, bearing his teeth, "you piece of shit I'm gonna fucking-"

"Take responsibility." The stranger cut in.

"Huh?" Bakugo let out with a confused look.

"You said you were 'just fine', that means you fully accept everything, don't you? All these burnt buildings, these destroyed stalls and smashed windows, you accept that it's all your fault since you clearly stated you had some sort of plan. Then that means you'll pay for all the damages, right?"

Izuku gasped and looked around. The whole was street burned and wrecked! No matter how you looked at it, if Bakugo was forced to take responsibility for the damages then….

"Ah," Bakugo's eyes went wide as he came to the same conclusion without having to look around, his rage replaced with fear.

""The strong consumes the weak" mentality doesn't particularly work with heroes. The stronger the quirk you have, the more collateral damage you do. In this case, both the strong and the weak live in a system designed by the weak to consume the strong who step outline, you get it?" The stranger said with narrow eyes. "Well, "hero," can you pay for all this?"

"STOP IT!" Mt. Lady said loudly. "He was held hostage, practically being smothered to death before our eyes! He was panicking and can't be held responsible. He has a hard edge but that's no reason to scare him!"

"Nyo-hohohoho," the man chuckled, "the kid wants to be a hero, better to show him the reality now then to let him keep on wrecking shit. By the way…" the blond stranger let out a toothy grin, "as the hero who was here and simply let the villain do as he pleased with a frightened hostage, does that mean you're taking responsibility for all the damages?"

"Ah," Mt. Lady let out in surprise, her mouth slightly hanging open as her eyes darted around, no doubt surveying the damages done. Then she went a little pale, her eyes slightly growing wide with sweat leaking out from the visible parts of her face. "N-no way, silly," she waved as she slowly crept away backwards, "I'm just a late arrival who couldn't do much in single lane, there's no way I can be held responsible~"

"AH!" Kamui Woods let out as he realized what she was doing.

"H-hey wait a minute," Death Arms began as he too realized what she was doing.

"I'll cover it," All Might said, catching everyone's attention, "Originally, I was the one who was pursuing the villain. When I finally caught him I failed to properly contain him, resulting in him escaping. Had I restrained him better, none of this would have happened. So the blame falls on me, my insurance will cover it."

"Ah….ALL MIGHT!" All the heroes, including the ones within earshot who were about to do some play to shift the responsibility, cried out with tears in their eyes.

"If you ever want to do adult things please let me know, I'd be happy help!" Mt. Lady said rubbing tears out of her eyes.

"Ah-hey! N-no need to go that far!" All Might quickly let out with his hands waving, clearly flustered by the proposal.

"Hohoho, well I'm out," the stranger waved.

"Wait, hold it," Death arms said. "I know you helped out but the unsanctioned use of a quirk is still illegal." The man looked at them with a bored expression, he rolled his eyes and reach for what seemed like a wallet, he opened it and showed them his ID.

The heroes glanced at each other before Mt. Lady stepped in and looked at it. She gently grabbed it, but the guy didn't let go, to her annoyance, but still she read on and- "EH! That-that's impossible!"

"Huh, what is it," Kamui Woods asked.

"This guy, he-He's quirkless!"

"AH!" everyone gasped.

Quirk-quirkless? But he saved us! Izuku thought in surprise. How could he be quirkless?

Bakugo was also in a state of shock, not just one but two quirkless people saved him. "What the hell is going on," was basically the main thing going through his mind.

"But that's impossible!" Kamui Woods said.

"Yeah there's no way he could have manipulated the balls like that without a quirk," Death Arms said.

"But it's reals, it's got the seal and everything," Mt. Lady said, taking her hands off the thing.

"Tsk, impossible," the stranger said, pocketing his wallet. He turned around and started walking away. "Impossible this, impossible that, impossible to save a kid yada yada. Did you guys forget? All Might changed the weather with a single punch. That sexy lady there can turn into a giant," said lady blushed at the comment. "The guy sneaking away through the crowd, probably because he probably didn't hear that All Might said he was taking responsibility, has a jetpack."

"Ah," everyone turned see that a hero with a jetpack was indeed sneaking away through the crowd.

"Decades ago," the stranger continued catching everyone's attention, "people would have said that all this was impossible, especially the jetpack. The way I see it...we're living the impossible. We're living the fantasy people had dreamt of decades ago! I can't help it if you guys don't think that way, but at the very least you guys shouldn't forget..." The stranger stopped walking, he quickly turned and pointed at them. "You guys are the heroes, the stars people like these two kids pin their hopes and dreams on! If even you guys can't think of making the impossible possible, then how can the kids who look up to you ever expect to make their dreams reality?"

Everyone within earshot was stunned for second there. Everything the stranger had said was true. If even the heroes whose job was to be heroic and do the impossible was incapable of even thinking of doing the impossible, then just what good are they at their jobs?

The stranger gave a charming smile, "Well that's my piece, later," with a lazy wave he turned around and started walking again.

"Damn," Death Arms said with a bit of respect, "talk about a gut punch to the pride."

"Yeah," Mt. Lady agreed while All Might stayed quiet and contemplated what the man said. He turned to look at the two boys before for a bit.

"Uh guys," Kamui woods began, catching everyone's attention, "not that I don't feel the same way but...is it me or is he walking a bit too fast?" They turned to see that, yes, the stranger is walking fast, suspiciously so.

"Actually, now that you mention it, he is," Death Arms said. He then turned to face Mt. Lady, "Hey Mt. Lady, what was his name?"

"Oh um," she looked to the side and began pressing her index fingers together, "I uh...I didn't actually see his name or address. He kinda had them covered with his fingers. To be honest I was more focused on the fact that he was quirkless."

"HEYYYYYYYY!"

"Eh?" Everyone turned to see a middle-aged man with a Flat Iron with eyes for a face and a white apron with a chef hat coming out from the only intact building.

"THAT MAN DIDN'T PAY HIS TAB! SIX BEERS, TWO SHOTS OF GIN, AND ONE BOTTLE OF SAKE!"

The heroes quickly turned to see that the man was already turning the corner with a fading "nyo-ho-ho-ho!"

"AAH! GET BACK HERE!" Kamui Wood's yelled as both he and Death Arms started chasing the man down.

"YEAH! I'LL MAKE YOU REGRET HURTING MY PRIDE!" Death arms shouted.

"Imma stay right here," Mt. Lady said watching the two male heroes run.

"I'll pay his tab," All Might said, hunching over to the Flat-iron chef-guy.

"Oh-oh, there's really no need," the man humbled down as he shook All Might's hand.

"I insist," he said.

"Wel-well if you insist, hahaha," the chef said with a light-hearted laugh.

"Now then-"

"ALL MIGHT! OVER HERE"

"NO! OVER HERE!"

"ALMIGHT A WORD!"

All Might was suddenly swarmed by a bunch of reporters that made it passed the heroes and policemen.

"Ah hey-I-" All Might tried to excuse himself but the reporters kept asking questions. Heroes who had already finished cleaning came up to try to get in on the spotlights, others tried to recruit Bakugo early on, promising a spot in their hero agency. The boy himself was still in a state of anger and confusion.

While All Might struggled against the reporters he was able to quickly scan the area...Izuku was nowhere in sight.

The man was leaning against a building of an alley, the opening of said alley was basically a road overlooking a garbage-ridden beach.

"Goddamn, I thought they'd never quit," the man said as he caught his breath. "I need a drink," he said as he pulled out a small green glass Sake bottle. "Everyone at work has been talking about it, fermented rice can't be that good, can it? Whelp, one way to find out!" He opened it the bottle and smelled it. "Huh, smells fruity."

"HEEEY!" He jumped when he heard it. He turned to see the same green-haired kid who used his backpack to try and save the other kid.

"Oh great," the man said as the kid rushed to him, clearly almost out of breath. "Whaduya want kid, an autograph?" The kid still out of breath shook his head. "Well whatever it is, you better spit it out soon. I'm headin' home." The man started walking out of the alleyway.

"PLEASE!"

"Hm?"

"That trick you did with the ball. PLEASE, TEACH ME!" The green haired boy shouted as he bowed.

"Newp. Later."

"Eh?" The boy looked up to see the man casually walking out of the alleyway while drinking sake. "Wai-wait please!" The boy rushed up to the man. "You said you were quirkless right?"

"Never said it," the man said before he sipped his sake, "but yeah I'm quirkless, what about it?"

"My-My name is Izuku Midoriya and…I'm quirkless!"

"...Cool Story. Later," he said as he took another swig.

"Ah-wait! I-I WANT TO BE HERO!"

"Hm?"

"I, I, I've always wanted to be a hero, it's my dream and I'll do anything to be a hero and-" Izuku began but the man cut him off.

"You want to be a hero, fine, go be a hero; what the hell does it have to do with me?" The stranger said walking to the other side of the street, up to the guardrails overlooking the trash littered beach. Literal hills of garbage filled the small public beach.

"Ah," Izuku quickly looked both sides before following the stranger across the street. "I-I don't know what it is, but back there, when you saved me and Kacchan, it was amazing. I...I still can't wrap my head around it. You're just like me, you're quirkless. But...I...I got a good look. You said it wasn't the ball or some quirk, it was the force behind it. The trick is the spin isn't it?"

The stranger didn't say anything. He just rested on the guardrail, the sun setting behind them, and drank his sake.

"Earlier today...I asked All Might if I could be a hero."

"Let me guess," the stranger said, "he said no. Not surprising. A quirk is basically a weapon, you can't exactly run into battle without a weapon. And you want me to teach you how to use the Steel Balls as a substitute."

"Y-yes! I...I understand why he told me I couldn't, but that thing you did, with that-"

"Don't get any foolish expectations, kid," the man said, cutting Izuku off. "I don't know your situation, but I'm not gonna waste my time-off training some dreamer. You clearly don't have any gunk in your ears, so I know you heard me. I'm an executioner. The reason I stepped in back there was to let off some steam for the guy who ruined my afternoon and because I didn't want to accidentally be responsible for someone's death or lose all my money. Simple as that, nothing heroic to it."

"Huh? Responsible?"

"Yeah. I may not have been involved, but seeing murder happen and not doing anything about it...in my book that makes you just as responsible. I got enough of it at work, I don't need it on my downtime. Besides if you ask me, the way you rushed in, you'd make a good fireman. Aim for that, you can still be a hero, just not the flashy kind."

"...It's not your fault...it's mine."

"Huh?" The man looked back in surprise. Izuku had his head down.

"...When I met All Might," the memory still fresh in his mind, "it was my fault the villain got loose. All that damage, what he did to Kacchan. It's my fault, I'm the one responsible for it." The man didn't say anything. "I...I always wanted to be a hero, but I can't create explosions, I don't have super strength, and I can't turn into a giant or manipulate wood...but all the same, when I saw Kacchan, when I got a good look at his eyes I felt like he was crying out for help. I was already running before I realized it. I knew it was my fault, I knew I might have made it worse, but I couldn't just leave it alone. I had to help. I want to be a hero, I want to help people," Izuku started crying, the memory of All Might telling him it was impossible running through his mind, the doctor telling him to give it up, his mother telling him she was sorry. "I'm not disrespecting cops or firemen, I just want to help people with a smile on my face, I want to bring peace and hope to anyone who needs it, just like All Might! So please, I-I don't know what'll take or if I have anything you want but please, teach me!" Izuku bowed his head once again, eyes shut, tears still leaking out of his eyes.

"...You're gonna keep annoying me, aren't you?" Izuku didn't say anything. The man just sighed and rubbed the back of his head. "Fine, I'll train you."

"Ah," Izuku opened his tear stained eyes and looked forward in surprise to see the man walking down the stairs to the garbage littered beach.

"But on a few conditions!" The man shouted. "I'm tellin' you now, don't pin your hopes on me." The man kept walking down but he stopped when he didn't hear any footsteps. He turned slightly to look up at Izuku who was standing next to the stairs. "You comin' or what?" The man shouted.

Izuku flinched, "Um..." Izuku began, "you, your-you're not gonna murder me and hide my body here, are you?"

"Uh? NYO HO HO HO!" The man laughed, holding his chest. "Nah you ain't worth it. Hurry up!" The man said as he turned around and threw his empty bottle at the nearest garbage heap. Izuku quickly followed behind while wiping away the tears with a small smile. "Ho ho ho, murder you and then hide your body, you, you're funny, kid."

"That-that's wasn't supposed to be a joke, heh heh heh," Izuku chuckled nervously as he followed the man.

"Where is he?" All Might muttered as he walked the streets. After he escaped the paparazzi, he did his best to find Izuku, but he couldn't find him anywhere. He sighed as he released his form.

"..." The way the kid ran out to save the kid from the villain, it reminded All Might of what he said, of how he wasn't living up to his words. He wanted to apologize to the kid, and maybe, maybe even...

"Stop," he told himself. "That power...I have nothing to contribute, I earned this power but in the end when I pass it on, nothing from me will be inherited…." he sighed as he decided to head home. "He's passionate, a good kid no doubt, and with training he might even be a good inheritor…" he muttered, "but I too have to be realistic. The inheritor must have something to pass on too. I like that kid...but I can't pick someone who doesn't have anything to contribute." He turned to look off into the sunset. "That said though..."

Kid, He thought to himself as the wind began to blow his hair into a mess, if by some chance I see you again, at UA, I'll keep my eye on you. You deserve that much at least...

After walking along the concrete walls, the man had led Izuku out of the beach. They were still below the streets but they were walking to an Area Izuku didn't know about. The concrete had ended and the walls became natural cliffs with guard rails on top.

"I didn't know there was a path here," Izuku said, noting the narrow path, the sea crashing in on his left, cliff to his right.

"Meh, I saw it on a run," the man shrugged. "Here we go," the man said as he turned to face the cliff face.

"Huh?" Izuku turned to look at the particular area of the cliff. It had a lot of crevices and footholds.

"Get up there," the man pointed at the top where the guardrail was.

"HUH?" Izuku turned to look at him with a shocked expression. It was pretty high!

"You want to learn, right? Then pass my first lesson."

"Your first lesson!?"

"Yeah, I gave it to you. That's how it works, you get one lesson, show you know it, then we move on to the next. If you don't pass the first lesson then I don't have to see you again. Now get up there. A kid like you, it shouldn't take you more than five minutes to get up there. I'm not nice per say but I'll cut you some slack. I'll give you fifteen minutes to get up there. You got a watch?"

"Oh um," Izuku took out his phone. "It's-"

"Don't care," the man said taking out his own phone to look at the time, "at the start of the next minute, get up there. I'll watch your stuff and keep track of time."

"MM!" Izuku nodded he took off his backpack. He got close to the wall and kept his eye on the phone. He probably should have taken his middle school jacket off but at the moment he didn't care. The minute changed!

Now! Izuku thought to himself as he started climbing! He understood right away, this was a test! No doubt the man wanted to see if Izuku had what it took to use those steel balls! Izuku was determined to climb all the way to the top!

Then he slipped down.

"AH!" he yelped as his feet touched the ground. He glanced behind him a bit in fear at the man. The man wa sjust standing there with his arms crossed.

"Hm? What're you lookin' at me for? I ain't helping you! Get going!"

With a brief nod of acknowledgement he went back to climbing.

He fell a few more times before he finally starting making some progress. It was slow. Izuku was not physically built by any means but that didn't stop him!

About halfway through he was tired, his palms sweaty and caked with dirt. He tried to glance behind him but he couldn't do it without falling down and losing all the progress he made.

So instead he steeled himself! "Arrrrg!" He continued to climb!

He hasn't shouted or given any time indication, I should be fine, I can make it! Izuku thought to himself.

He was nearing the top!

I CAN DO IT! Izuku grit his teeth! His hand reach the top! I CAN BE A HERO!

He made it to the top with everything he had left in his body he hoisted himself over! "UUUUURRRRRGGGG!" His body was at the top body he slowly crawled passed the guard rails with a smile on his face.

"I," he huffed as he stared at the grassy ground, tears leaking out of his eyes, "I did it." he said. His school uniform was more than just messed up, it was torn in a few places. "I did it," His hands had scrapes and blisters and his fingers were either smoothed out or bleeding. "I DID IIIIIIT!" He cried out in victory with tears at the corner of his eyes while ignoring the pain he was in.

"Damn, gotta hand it to ya kid, that's some drive you got in ya," Izuku heard the man say from his left. He turned to look at the man, his eyes went wide as his pupil shrunk. "Sadly, you didn't make it." The man had his phone out showing Izuku the time. It took him eighteen minutes to reach the top.

"No-no way," Izuku let out as his body collapsed from a mixture of shock and exhaustion. "Why...why didn't you-"

"Give you a time warning or something? I told you didn't I? "Don't pin your hopes on me." Unlike the people who stood around in tights earlier, I'm a not hero." He put his phone away and dumped Izuku's backpack in front of him. Then Izuku noticed something, he didn't see the man climb.

"H-h-how-how did you," the man jerked a thumb behind him. Izuku looked at where the man pointed. It was a grassy hill.

"Detour, a steep hill but an easy climb. Ya know, when I said to get up. I never specified how." Another shock ran through Izuku's mind. He never had to climb the entire time! "It did give me an opportunity to observe how you think, how you use your body, and go through your stuff. You got some pretty decent quirk notes," the man praised. "The notes could be better and your drawings are basically doodles but I can tell you did your best. You got a real drive in ya, kid, I can see that. That's why, when I got a real good look at your body, I was disgusted."

"Huh?"

"Do you know why kid? It's cause I couldn't see it."

"It?"

"Yeah...so where is it?"

"..." Izuku didn't say anything he had no idea what the man was talking about.

"I said where is it? WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR EFFORT!" The man shouted while pointing at Izuku with an angry expression, the sudden shout causing Izuku to flinch in fear and start to shiver.

"My-my...effort?"

"I saw it, I clearly saw it when you were climbing! Determination! And those notes of yours, your dead set on trying to be hero aren't you? Then where the fuck is your effort! HUH? TELL ME!"

"I...I," Izuku began but he didn't have a clue about what the man was saying.

"YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! YOUR BODY! THAT PATHETIC UNDEVELOPED FLESH! DID YOU REALLY THINK YOU COULD BE A HERO LIKE THAT! AS FUCKIN' BEAN SPROUT?"

"Uh," Izuku finally realized what he meant.

"You said you always wanted to be hero, right, that you'd do anything? Then why are your muscles weak? If I'm not mistaken, you're in your last year of middle school right? You probably want to get into some Hero academy high school shit, right? Then why the fuck haven't you made an effort? Were you hoping god himself would come down from heaven and crap a mighty quirk on you? Were you hoping you'd get some late quirk out of your ass and that would magically fix everything? Were you hoping someone like All Might would magically turn you into Hercules? WELL? WHERE'S YOUR ANSWER?"

"I..." Izuku began to cry, he had no response. Try as he might the best he could manage was, "I..."

"Did you even try? Did you ever think that maybe you should do what you can with that body of yours?" Izuku didn't answer him. "I'm not liking that tone of silence. You know what. You know what really irks me? You had the gall to ask for help, to ask ME to teach you to use how to use spin when you never even tried! ….Hundreds of kids want to be heroes, not just as weird people dressed in silly tights running around with goofy codenames playing cops and robbers like some web novel or a comic book; they want to be heroes in their own rights, do what they can with their own strength! The ones who'll make it, how many of them are wasting their time dreaming, hoping someone else would fix all their problems?"

Izuku didn't say anything, he just let silent tears out. The man just glared at him. "Do you even know my name?" Izuku barely shook his head.

"I..." Izuku finally said as he stared at the ground, no longer able to stand the man's glare, he was still crying, "I never asked."

"Imagine that. This entire time, you never asked..." In a flash, the man threw a steel ball at Izuku! The ball went downward before it curved upwards into Izuku's chest!

"GAH!" he let out in pain as blood lurched out his mouth, the wind knocked right out of him! He keeled over! The ball stuck spinning to his chest! Right away he felt all his muscles tense and contract! "ARRRRG!" Escaped his throat, he tried to suck in air but he couldn't breathe! The ball was keeping his lung from expanding!

"I told you didn't I, "don't pin your hopes on me." Keep the ball. I'll be back on Sunday, same time. That's your last chance. It's not my problem if you don't get the lesson. But if you want to learn spin then you better do it." With that, the man turned around and started walking. "Run home kid. You got two good legs, use 'em while you can." And like that, he was gone.

After what felt like an eternity, the ball fell off of Izuku's chest before rolling forward. Izuku fell, his body sprawling on the ground as he took a deep breath. He laid there breathing, tear's leaking from the corners of his eyes.

After a while, he looked at the green steel ball in front of him. Now that it was close he got a better look at it the design engraved on the ball. It was a diamond hexagon with six lines lining up with the tip of each corner, no doubt another hexagon was at the other side of the ball.

He stared at it for a while.

With his right hand, the palm dirtied, blistered, and caked with blood, fingers skinned, smoothed and sliced with stone fragments embedded in the cuts, he slowly reached out and grasped the steel ball...