My Hero Academia: Power Paint

Summary: Despite being born with a quirk, many times Izuku Midoriya has been told he isn't good enough to be a hero. But when The Symbol Of Peace All Might himself gives Izuku encouragement and an opportunity, his seemingly weak quirk will become a powerful asset to help him with becoming the world's greatest hero.

First fanfic, helpful feedback is welcomed.

As an aspiring writer and a fan of anime, I figured this could be a good outlet for me and my imagination. I hope some people happen to enjoy this. As for the quirk I'm giving Izuku in this story, it's something that I thought of and is completely original (quite proud of myself for the idea if I'm being honest). However, it's up to you guys to decide if it's as good as I think. Now, onto the first chapter!

Disclaimer: I obviously do not own the rights to My Hero Academia.

Izuku Midoriya's day had started well. On the way to school, he managed to personally witness a few minutes of a hero battle starring Kamui Woods confronting a thief who could grow their body to an impressive height.

As the wooden hero prepared to land a finishing blow, a feminine giant hero made an appearance with a surprise attack. Despite the sudden attention change, Midoriya used the event to quickly update a section of his notebook he named "Hero Analysis For The Future" before having to continue his way to school.

Once in class, Midoriya quickly took his seat and daydreamed about his future. Midoriya's pleasant thoughts changed when the classroom teacher questioned his hopes and dreams.

"Don't you want to apply to U.A as well, Midoriya?"

Midoriya instantly sat up straight after absently hearing the question, and frantically stared at the teacher as the classroom became silent. After the majority of the students took a few seconds to register what the teacher asked, the room erupted with laughter directed at their classmate Midoriya.

"Are you serious? Has the nerd lost his mind?"

"Why in that nerdy mind of his he thinks he's got what it takes to be a hero?"

"But he's so weak!"

"He doesn't stand a chance, but it could be worse. He could be quirkless."

"With the weird quirk that he has, he might as well be."

The laughter and insulting comments were silenced by a small explosion in the room specifically placed on Midoriya's desk, startling him and causing the boy to fall out of his seat. The one that caused said explosion was a wild blonde student named Katsuki Bakugou.

"What the hell were you thinking Deku? You fanboying over heroes is one thing, but this is too far", Bakugou said while he glared down at Midoriya, who was scared out of his mind about the confrontation.

"Well um I've been analyzing heroes for a very long time, and I think it's helped me prepare for various hero situations. So I figured that I could have a shot at U.A with my mind and quirk", Midoriya replied as he subconsciously quivered while trying to explain himself.

"Could have a shot at U.A with your mind and quirk? That's a shitty joke. By that quirk of yours, do you mean you being a damn human paint dispenser?", Bakugou said while towering over Midoriya in both a figurative and literal sense.

"Listen here, and keep it inside that weird ass brain of yours. I'm the only one here that will make it big and become a Pro-Hero. The higher-ups at U.A know it, this whole school knows it, and you know for a damn fact that I know it. The only difference between you and them is that you're too much of a bitch to admit it. But believe it when I say that there's no point in you guys applying there, not when they can have me."

Midoriya was speechless after Bakugou's harsh remark, and so he watched as Bakugou made a scoffing noise and returned to his desk as if nothing occurred. Midoriya didn't have the courage to make it back to his seat until after the classroom teacher demanded for the remaining snickers to end.

Midoriya felt like time sped forward without his knowledge as the school bell rung, signifying that its students can leave.

'Maybe it had something to do with being called out and ridiculed for having dreams', Midoriya gloomily thought within his mind as he stuffed materials inside of his bag. Before he could completely finish, Bakugou quickly approached upon Midoriya with two teenage teasers behind him, intending to talk once more to the green-haired boy.

"We're not done yet, Deku", Bakugou said while slamming a hand on Midoriya's desk in order to gain his attention. However, Bakugou noticed a certain notebook that belonged to Midoriya afterwards. "Hero Analysis For The Future, Vol. 13? You gotta be kidding me, Deku", Bakugou said before he tossed the skinny book behind him for one of the two followers to catch and observe.

"Know what? Doesn't matter, we gotta talk", Bakugou said as he quietly signaled Midoriya to walk away from the other two individuals in the classroom, and started talking in a hushed voice after the duo received distance from the idiots chuckling at the notebook.

"I know it seems like I'm being too harsh on you", Bakugo said as he placed a hand on Midoriya's shoulder, "But I'm trying to help you out, believe it or not. I'll be a man and admit that you're not as useless as the other dumbasses in the school. I know you've done some training in your spare time, you usually shrug off shit people say about you, and you've got more balls than anyone I've ever met. Since your quirk isn't exactly combat-based, you're willing to basically fight quirkless to become a hero. Not even I can try some shit like that."

Bakugou sent a small grin at Midoriya after the compliment, which Midoriya quickly returned.

"But", Bakugo continued, "you gotta remember that determination will not always get you what you want. Even with your notes, free training and your quirk to help you out a bit, you can be considered defenseless if the day came where you have to face a villain. It sucks, but being a hero just isn't for you." Midoriya's face started facing the ground while he sulked.

"Don't get me wrong Deku, that doesn't mean you can't help out. Putting that head to use, you could probably be a damn good sidekick. I just don't want you on the frontlines, where you could be seriously hurt or worse, if you can't handle it. Got it?", Bakugou said, and quickly received a head nod from Midoriya afterwards. The lackeys started walking towards Bakugou, interested on seeing how much he was chewing out the useless Deku.

"So don't even think about being a hero if you know what's good for ya, Deku", Bakugou loudly said as he returned to his bully persona once the followers got within hearing range. Both of the bully admirers purposely bumped against Midoriya's shoulders, nearly knocking him over as he tried walking back to his desk. After grabbing his book bag, Midoriya felt like he had something to say as well.

"Kacchan!", he yelled out, grabbing the attention of the three students. "You're wrong about me. I will get stronger, I will get into U.A, and I will become a hero. The words that you said won't change that, and I'll remember them when I prove you wrong." After the declaration, Bakugou released a full grown grin at Midoriya that the two behind him couldn't notice. "You're not gonna say anything back to Deku?", one of them responded to Bakugou as he was looking at Deku. "I already spoke my mind and shit hasn't changed, so he can hold onto his hopes for now", Bakugou replied and sent a undetected wink at Midoriya.

"I am gonna need my notebook back now", Midoriya said, talking to the two Bakugou admirers in particular. "Sure. Catch, Deku", the one holding his notebook responded with an obvious sneer. In an attempt to impress Bakugou, the bully threw the notebook to the other side of the room, missing Midoriya's hands and flew out of the open window.

"Oops. My hand slipped." Both of the lackeys started laughing, nearly missing Midoriya's actions as he approached the window, then quickly hopped on and out of the same exit his notebook flew out of moments earlier.

"WHAT THE HELL!?" The followers spoke with wide eyes after thinking that they just witnessed the class nerd attempt suicide. The two instantly rushed towards the window to view Midoriya's health, while Bakugou casually walked over to take a peek, already having an idea of what Midoriya had planned.

The three students looked down from the window and saw Midoriya not only alive and well, but was holding onto the windowsill on the lower floor of the building. Midoriya then descended after letting go of his hold, only to latch onto another on a previous floor with immense skill and dexterity. The young man repeated the unexpected process as he got closer to the ground.

"How is he doing that? There's no way he should be doing something so dangerous!", the notebook launcher exclaimed while he thought of what could happen if Midoriya's hand slipped.

"The nerd is fine and is taking his ass home, so I'm going too. Later, losers", Bakugou said as he turned to leave the classroom and finally lose the tag-alongs.

Once Midoriya safely landed onto the ground, he picked his notebook up, and placed the object in his book bag. Afterwards Midoriya started the path to his house, and explored his thoughts as he walked.

'It's been a while since Kacchan and I talked, besides the times where it looks like he's pushing me around', Midoriya thought as memories rushed from the back of his mind to in front of him.

Midoriya and Bakugou used to hang out all of the time, but their childhood friendship took a turn when their quirks activated. Bakugou's powerful Explosion quirk, along with his personality that made it impossible to back down, turned him into a target. Bakugou got into fights often at school, even with older students, and as a result, Midoriya became a victim of bullying and torment due to being a known friend of a boy that couldn't be defeated.

The solution to the problem was simple. Bakugou pretended to break the friendship, and become Midoriya's biggest bully for his safety. After all, when someone as powerful and ferocious as Bakugou was believed to despise Midoriya, hardly anyone wanted or needed to pick on him more.

'He's been pretending to be a brutal bully for so long, I've actually grown to be scared of him', Midoriya thought, 'But today was different. Today Kacchan talked to me like old times, and showed that he's still a good friend. Many people have told me I can't be a hero to bring me down, but he obviously doesn't want me to get hurt. He even complimented me!'

'I know Kacchan can and will make it as a hero, so I can't just fall behind. I'm sure that if I give it my all and then some, I can reach up to Kacchan, and one day…', Midoriya paused his thought and raised a clenched left fist to the sky, mirroring a pose of his favorite hero, '...maybe even to him.'

Just the thought of making it so far in his dreams caused Midoriya to get extremely giddy.

'Damn it', Midoriya thought after he forced his body to calm down, 'I got myself all fired up. I guess I'll throw in some extra training today!'

Midoriya laughed at his own antics as he walked into a large shady tunnel, but stopped after hearing a strange rattling sound behind him, followed by a strange and somewhat gooey sound. As he turned around, Midoriya witnessed a large being assumed to be made up of sludge slowly oozing out of a sewer tunnel.

'I...think it's time for me to go now', Midoriya thought to himself as he slowly walked backwards and extended the distance between him and the unknown body of liquid. Suddenly, a large pair of eyes appeared from the sludge and focused on an lonesome and seemingly helpless boy.

"A nice body for camouflage", the sludge villain said as a disturbing smile from a mouth formed on his body. "Now be a good boy and stay right there." The sludge unexpectedly lunged at Midoriya, but the teen managed to bypass the shock of the situation and used a side jump to avoid the attack.

'This is bad', Midoriya thought while trying to consider a method to escape the current situation safely. 'Very bad. This guy is quick despite his size, so I don't know if I can just run. I can't even use my quirk effectively for self-defense, the damn thing is liquid!'

The personified sludge quickly faced Midoriya's direction and threw a liquid arm as another attack. Resolutely prepared to be defensive, Midoriya executed a side jump once more to the tunnel wall on his right. Midoriya then used the wall as a foothold to launch higher in the air and leaped over the villain. Turning while airborne, Midoriya performed a somersault before landing flawlessly behind the villain.

'As I've seen this villain move, I can safely assume that his body is sticky. For now, I have to make sure he doesn't touch me.'

Midoriya continued evading the sludge villain with a back flip followed by a combo of handsprings before he could be defeated by another attempted lunge. Enraged and frustrated at the thought that his chances of escape could be ruined by the likes of a mere child, the sludge villain picked up and concealed the manhole cover within himself without knowledge to Midoriya. A concrete plan in mind, the sludge villain charged again at Midoriya in a predictable pattern.

"I said stay still, you little brat!", the villain exclaimed before swinging a slimy arm towards Midoriya. The strike failed as the boy fending him off sidestepped out of range. While focused on dodging the initial attack, Midoriya didn't pay enough attention to see the sludge villain pull out the manhole cover off his body from behind him.

The villain grinned before he swung low and finally inflicted pain on Midoriya as the manhole cover smashed against his right leg.

"AAHH!" Midoriya screamed in pain as he fell on his back, not being able to catch himself. As the sludge villain slowly approached to consume him, Midoriya desperately completed a body roll to prevent his capture and pushed himself up to his feet after some struggle.

'His attack definitely lowered the chances of me outrunning him. The risk is high, but I gotta slow him down somehow!', Midoriya thought as he quickly looked around his surroundings for possible options. After finally choosing an idea, Midoriya took off his large and bulky yellow book bag and held it near his chest as if he possessed a shield. Once in position, Midoriya looked the cocky sludge villain in the eye and charged towards him while keeping most of his weight off of his right leg.

Rapidly approaching the villain, Midoriya shoved his book bag into the villain's torso area. The book bag started sinking through like quicksand, with the slime's adhesion making it nearly impossible for Midoriya to pull it out. He smirked, before quickly placing his good leg on top of the stuck book bag. Before the villain realized what he was planning, Midoriya used the space of his book bag as a boost and jumped as high as he could achieve with his injured leg. He ascended over the sludge villain's head and did a front flip to possibly create distance from him.

Once landed, Midoriya tried fleeing from the villain but felt a strange weight on his foot somehow holding him back. He soon realized that the villain used his flexibility and wrapped an arm around it to prevent his retreat. After foiling Midoriya's plan, the sludge villain started lifting the boy by one of his ankles.

"Leaving someone without saying goodbye is very impolite, you know", the sludge villain said while hanging Midoriya upside down, despite his attempts to break free. "You need to learn some manners!" The sludge villain then flung Midoriya's body into a tunnel wall with great force, his back crashing into the cement and knocking any oxygen out of Midoriya.

After collapsing against the wall, the boy Midoriya tried rising from the ground with little success. 'Damn it, he's gonna kill me at this rate!', Midoriya thought in a panic as he watched the villain move closer and struggled commanding his body. 'I won't let him take me down so easily. I figured trying it would be useless, but I don't have many options left', Midoriya thought while he tightly clenched his fists.

Midoriya managed to get on his knees as he continued his thoughts, 'It might not hurt him at all, but it should at the very least distract him.' Midoriya's determination was shown through his eyes as he raised his hands towards the villain who covered him with his shadow, longingly staring at his prey with a smile. Midoriya mentally stated his resolve, 'I'm going to be a hero one day! I will not let this damn sewage monster do me in!'

Midoriya glared at the villain and prepared to release his quirk from his arms, but was suddenly disrupted with a powerful gale of wind. The intensity forced Midoriya to shut his eyes and place his arms over his face for support. 'How in the hell is he doing this!?', Midoriya asked himself, thinking that the villain he encountered was responsible for such force.

Suddenly, as quickly as the high pressure wind arrived, it disappeared. Midoriya thought that his efforts were for naught and that the villain would attack him as he pleased, when someone placed a hand on his shoulder and a voice interrupted his fears. "Everything is going to be fine now, young man. Wanna know why?" Midoriya paused all previous negative thoughts once hearing the familiar voice. He had heard that same voice many times in a video his mother had played for him years ago. Midoriya slowly lowered his arms and opened his eyes and realized that he was still covered by a large shadow, but currently was of a man. Not just any man, but a hero he had always cherished. "Because I am here!"

"ALL MIGHT!? Is that really you?", Midoriya asked in confusion and awe, and briefly wondered if he was in a dream. "Yes, it is I! I've been following this villain for quite a bit, but managed to track him through the sewers, hit him with a Texas Smash, and trap him with these bottles!", All Might answered as he showed Midoriya the two plastic bottles filled with sludge, then set them within his pant pockets.

"Now I believe that is your book bag on the ground, correct?" All Might asked while looking at a yellow book bag and some materials that spilled out. "Ah, yes! Hold on!" Midoriya instantly responded and rushed up to reach his book bag, and digged within to pull out his hero notebook.

"Can you please sign this? If it isn't too much trouble.." Midoriya politely asked his hero while trying to remain calm. "No trouble at all, my boy!" The tall hero quickly snatched the notebook out of the excited boy's hands, pulled out a black marker from his back pocket and signed his name over two blank pages before returning the book.

"THANK YOU SO MUCH!", Midoriya screamed after seeing the autograph in his notebook and carefully placed it back inside of his book bag. After watching Midoriya gather up his stuff, All Might said "Young man, I am truly sorry for you getting hurt before I got here. Had I not focused so much on avoiding the horrible smell in the sewers, I would've stopped him sooner." Midoriya looked down and noticed that the injury the hero talked about was shown through a tear in his pant leg; a lengthy red cut on his right leg where the metal cover had hit him. "It's just a scratch, it'll be fine. My favorite hero saved me today, and I am forever grateful to you for that."

"That means a lot to hear that from you, young man. Tell me, what's your name?" Midoriya nearly collapsed after hearing the question, but managed to remain standing. "Izuku Midoriya, sir."

"Before using my Texas Smash, I saw the look in your eyes when you fought back as best as you could, by yourself no less. I could tell you want to be a hero. Perhaps one day we'll meet again, young Midoriya. Until then, stay safe!" All Might threw a huge smile before he squatted down and took a great leap into the sky.

All Might was slightly confused while in the air, feeling somehow heavier than usual, but by looking down realized that the boy he recently saved was tightly holding onto one of his legs.

"Young Midoriya I love your support but this is a bit much! If you could let go, that would be much appreciated."

"IF I LET GO NOW, I'LL DIE!"

After admitting that the boy had a very good point, All Might permitted him to hang on his muscular limb, with one hand one the boy's collar to keep him steady, until he landed on a nearby rooftop. The boy sighed in relief as he let go and sat down to take a break.

"Now, young Midoriya", All Might said as walked towards him with no smile present on his face, "Please tell me why you would think to try something so reckless."

"I'm really sorry about that All Might, but I did it because I need to ask you a very important question. People have wondered it many times about me throughout my life, and I even asked myself during my encounter with that villain", Midoriya said while All Might wondered about the incoming question. "If I am stuck with a weak quirk, even if almost everyone I've ever met has considered me powerless…Even so, can I still be a hero?"

All Might was silent for a few seconds as only the sound of wind blowing near was heard. He then opened his mouth and asked, "Well tell me this, young Midoriya. What is your quirk?"

"Well", Midoriya began, "my quirk allows me to release-" The explanation was interrupted when immense amounts of steam abruptly started discharging from All Might's body, so much that within seconds his entire figure was covered. 'Ah shit, this is bad! I was talking to the kid for too long and now my time's up!' All Might internally panicked as he felt his hero form change.

The steam finally dispersed from the rooftop, and Midoriya clearly witnessed the true appearance of Toshinori Yagi, a skinny man with baggy clothes. With wide eyes, Midoriya realized that the man looked exactly as his hero All Might would, if he was deflated.

"WHAAAAAAT!?" Midoriya shrieked into the air knowing that the fragile looking man and his savior All Might were one and the same person. "How is this possible?"

Toshinori sighed at the explanation he knew he would give the boy and said, "The muscular form you just saw is like the equivalent to men at pools flexing their muscles to look better. I hold it to save people whenever I can, but as you have seen, I cannot do it as long as I used to." "What do you mean, All Might? Hasn't this always been a part of your quirk?", Midoriya asked, curious about the hero's current condition.

"Unfortunately not, young Midoriya. You see, I was not always a hero limited by time, but rather it was a price I had to pay in order to bring down someone during my hero career", Toshinori explained before he lifted up his over-sized t-shirt.

Midoriya gasped in shock as he witnessed a large scar that covered the left side of his hero's chest.

"This happened five years ago in battle with a powerful foe", Toshinori said explaining his wound. "In the end, I lost my entire stomach and the damage to my respiratory system is irreversible. As a result, I can only be a hero for a few hours a day."

"Did this happen with the villain Toxic Chainsaw?" Midoriya asked as he thought back to All Might's previous battles. "Clever guess, but no", Toshinori said. "I made sure that the fight wasn't made public. I didn't want anyone to know that The Symbol of Peace was permanently injured. That being said, can you promise me that you will not tell a soul about any of this?" Midoriya immediately responded with, "I promise, All Might! Your secret is safe with me."

"Good, young Midoriya", Toshinori replied as he sighed in relief and calmed down significantly. "Now with that out of the way, about what you discussed earlier. Do you truly believe that your quirk is weak?"

"No All Might!" Midoriya responded, "at least, not completely. It's just that my quirk isn't as powerful as super strength and explosions, or as combat oriented like the abilities of telekinesis and fire breath. I've always wanted to be a hero, but that means my quirk has always been competed against and compared by others. It just seems a bit silly to place mine on the same level as any of those quirks."

"Don't put yourself down so much, you're looking at a man that only has super strength for a few hours", Toshinori said as he used his situation to attempt lifting Midoriya's spirits.

Before Midoriya could respond, an explosion was seen residing from further into the city. Shocked, Midoriya looked at the altered All Might and asked, "What do you think that was?" "I have no idea-" Toshinori started, but by chance looked down and noticed that his pockets, the holder of the captured villain, was empty. "Shit!"

Midoriya was confused before he had the same realization that Toshinori received seconds earlier. "Oh no, the villain!" He paused before asking the hero, "Do you think the explosion is because of that same villain?" Toshinori stood in silence before saying, "As much as I would hate to admit it, I have a bad feeling that it is."

Midoriya suddenly turned to the closest roof railing before he jumped over the object and stopped his descent by grabbing the windowsill on the side of the building, then let go to catch the next one.

"Young Midoriya!" Toshinori shouted after the the boy, watching him move further down the building. "What are you doing?"

"I need to know if the villain is loose back there!" Midoriya yelled back in response while using the same method he used for his school building to land onto the sidewalk. Once on ground level, Midoriya started running in the direction of the earlier explosion.

'If that villain escaped, then it's my fault that he's free. The bottles he was trapped in must've fell out when I grabbed onto him! If I could be responsible for people that got hurt, then I can't just sit around and hope that everything goes well!'

As Midoriya ran to his destination, Toshinori turned to the roof entrance and rushed through and down the stairs, hoping to eventually catch up to the boy.

Midoriya stopped running to reclaim his breath as he approached the crowd of people watching heroes deal with a villain situation. Due to Mount Lady being too large to help, Kamui Woods being too busy helping trapped civilians and staying away from flames, and Death Arms being seen flying into a wall, not much success had been made. Through the pile of people however, Midoriya was able to see the unmistakable sludge villain cackling beyond the flames without anyone to stop him.

"Can you tell me what's going on?" Midoriya asked a nearby civilian who has been watching the hero and villain struggle much longer than he has. "The villain over there took a kid and has been using the combination of his slimy body and the boy's quirk to fight back against the heroes. Right now, it look like we'll have to wait for a hero with a more suitable quirk to show up and take this villain down", the observer told Midoriya.

Ironically, the shrunken form of Toshinori appeared to the back of the crowd, slowly restoring his already low stamina after running after the young boy Midoriya. Looking at the current situation as the heroes fail to injure the villain in any way, Toshinori cursed himself. 'I shouldn't have dropped the damn bottles! Because I was so careless, heroes can't put an end to the villain's destruction and all I can do is watch! So useless!'

Midoriya thought to himself, 'Someone is being held within the villain and used to wreak havoc! That's what the villain wanted to do to me before All Might interfered, but now he's not able to help anyone! He wasted his time with me, and now the villain he already defeated is putting other people's lives in danger! Damn it, I'm so pathetic!' Being forced to watch as the liquid criminal slipped through any attack belonging to the heroes, Midoriya noticed that from the hands of the victim controlled by the villain, bursts of fire blasted towards the heroes intending to capture him.

'Wait, that isn't just a regular fire quirk!', Midoriya realized during observation. Midoriya's body started shaking in fear and horror, now knowing that his greatest friend Katsuki Bakugou was trapped suffocating inside of a villain hijacking his body. Witnessing his friend's desperate struggle in the evil fluid, Midoriya guessed that Bakugou may soon reach his limit. 'If somebody doesn't do something...Kacchan will die!'

Midoriya's body suddenly stopped quivering and slowly pushed himself deeper into the crowd. Once close enough to clearly see the villain abusing his friend, Midoriya broke into a full speed sprint after completely breaking through the group of bystanders.

Death Arms and other Pro-Heroes on the scene shouted for the kid to return to safety, but was ignored as Midoriya's mind was solely on the fact that his friend will die if he doesn't receive help soon. The shouting for the boy reached the rest of the crowd, which tore Toshinori's attention away from blaming himself and caused his eyes to widen while witnessing the young boy he interacted with earlier sprint straight into danger.

'I probably should be letting a Pro-Hero handle this, but I refuse to watch Kacchan suffer anymore!' Midoriya charged with the thought of saving his friend himself, before he quickly devoted his mind to forming an effective plan. He briefly remembered to analyze and aim for any villain's weak points in his hero notebook, and believed that his quirk would be very beneficial for the plan.

Quickly reaching the villain who had remembered not being able to take over a green haired brat, Midoriya sent a small blast of black paint out of both palms, which he aimed at the villain's round eyes. The fluid wrongdoer was suddenly blinded, and while confused as he both attempted recovering from the unknown attack and wondered what the brat did to him, the villain couldn't defend himself when a familiar book bag smashed against his jaw.

Affected by the sudden attacks, the villain had lost some grip on Bakugou's body, which allowed him to free his mouth and finally breathe. Noticing that Midoriya started pulling his body out of the villain's clutches, he asked "What are you doing Deku? Don't you know that if this guy gets his hands on you he'll kill you?" "Can't help it! After seeing you like that, it was as if my body moved for me!", Midoriya responded while pulling on Bakugou's hand as hard as possible. "Besides, it looked like you needed a hand."

"In a minute, you're gonna need a damn coffin!", the sludge villain screamed at Midoriya as he finally removed the paint from his eyes and tried connecting with two tendril attacks. The first missed completely as Midoriya ducked under the appendage and quickly stood up, while the second attack grazed his shoulder as Midoriya tried spinning out of the way. The attack tipped Midoriya off balanced and caused him to fall, but he quickly performed a kip-up to further protect himself.

'If I can't pull kacchan away', Midoriya thought to himself as he placed his arms outwards once more, 'then I'll make kacchan useless to him!' Pressing his palms close to each other, Midoriya secreted a dark green coloring substance and launched forward a basketball sized paint blast. The sludge villain was on his guard and prepared to protect any of his vulnerable body parts, but did not realize that the blast was not aimed at him. Bakugou was suddenly covered in the paint when the blast burst, and somehow the paint started rapidly absorbing into his body, giving the trapped boy emerald skin where the paint landed on him.

Not knowing why the brat attacked his friend or what effect it had, the sludge villain decided to end the rescuer's life before he got anymore ideas. The villain used Bakugou's right hand and quickly shoved it into Midoriya's face, intending on using the quirk of the boy he trapped to blow the teenager away with a point blank attack. The villain grins wickedly before triggering the quirk, not noticing the fact that Midoriya was wearing a smile as well.

The full power of the explosion quirk was replaced with tiny sparks hitting Midoriya, to the shock and confusion of the villain, and the relief of everyone else watching Midoriya's actions. Midoriya slightly recoiled from the pain inflicted to his face, but he knew it was nothing compared to the original effect.

The sludge villain became frustrated as his main power source was reduced to mere flickers of the power he possessed earlier, and in response threw Bakugou's body from his fluid and towards an alley wall. Bakugou rolled to the ground and safely stopped his momentum. Once away from the sludge villain, Bakugou mentally acknowledged Midoriya's clever planning. 'You did good Deku. You did good.'

Still outraged about what the brat took away from him, the sludge villain said, "I'll just take you as a replacement!", and rushed towards Midoriya with unexpected speeds. Knowing that he wouldn't be able to move out of the way in time, Midoriya placed his arms in a defensive position as best as he could on such short notice and braced himself. Immediately afterwards, he felt a short burst of air just ahead of him, and noticed that it felt familiar to what he had felt in the tunnel earlier. Looking ahead, Midoriya saw that in between him and the sludge was his favorite hero All Might, stopping the villain's desperate lunge.

"You do remember how this ended last time, don't you villain?" All Might asked the villain whose eyes were now widened in fear. "Let's switch it up this time", All Might declared as he brought back his muscular right fist, and let loose a punch at the sludge villain as he shouted "DETROIT SMASH!", producing vigorous winds around the area that even Mount Lady had to shield civilians from. Seconds after the wind dissipated, many people was shocked as they felt raindrops coming from the sky.

"HOLY CRAP, HIS PUNCH JUST CHANGED THE WEATHER!"

"That's All Might for ya!"

All Might raised a fist towards the sky as the civilian's cheers were magnified, but the hero kept his eyes on the two now safe and sound middle school students.

Midoriya slowly walked down the street as he thought about what happened after All Might have saved the day. 'The Pro-Heroes all scolded me for jumping in, but praised Kacchan for his powerful quirk. Not like they were wrong, I could've gotten killed if my plans were a bit off. I just wish I could've talked to All Might to apologize.' Midoriya lowered his head until he heard someone familiar call out to him. "Yo Deku!"

Midoriya turned around to see Kacchan running towards him, and stopping once next to Midoriya. "I never got to thank you because of all of the annoying heroes gathering around me." "Thank me?", Midoriya asked. "You and them were right, I just got in the way and-" "And you also saved my life", Bakugou quickly interrupting Midoriya. "You did what those heroes couldn't and did something!"

"But All Might saved you Kacchan", Midoriya stated, still thinking that the entire incident was his fault. "Wrong, All Might saved you after the villain had a tantrum about being outsmarted by a middle schooler", Bakugou corrected Midoriya. "You saved me." He paused for a second before leaning in and embracing Midoriya with a tight hug. "So thank you, Deku." After letting go, Bakugou turned around and started walking home. Before he got too far, he turned around with a smile and told Midoriya, "Maybe you're fit to be a hero after all." After the last statement, Bakugou left a surprised Midoriya.

Midoriya recovered from what he heard after a few seconds and started walking as well. 'Today was totally bonkers, but I ended up meeting All Might, received praise from Kacchan, and felt like I truly made a difference, despite what those heroes said.' Feeling the beautiful light of sunset as he walked, Midoriya mentally declared that his day couldn't get much better, before suddenly seeing All Might appear before him from a corner.

"All Might!", Midoriya screamed, surprised again by his appearance. "What are you doing here?" "I figured that I had to find you and tell you something", All Might said. "But first", a sudden wave of steam surrounded All Might until it disappeared with Toshinori's true form shown. "Now I can relax."

"First off, I should apologize." Midoriya was immediately about to refute, but was stopped before words spilled out of his mouth with Toshinori's palm facing towards him. "Please let me finish, young Midoriya. I apologize for not acting sooner for saving your friend, and for not answering your question earlier. I don't know much about your quirk, but it was essential towards the freedom of the hostage today. After seeing you in action today, using both your quirk and your courage, I can proudly tell you young Midoriya, that you can be a hero."

After hearing All Might's declaration, Midoriya was forced to wipe away tears from his eyes and gave his hero the biggest smile he could form.

"Besides", Toshinori said, "It helps to know that you are much stronger and skilled than I was when I was your age." After this statement, Midoriya was completely flabbergasted. "That should not be possible, All Might. How is that possible?" "Well young Midoriya, earlier today you said your weak quirk can't compare against others. However, I knew that you were better than I was, charging into danger with a quirk you yourself considered weak to save someone from someone stronger than you. I doubt I would've been able to do the same, considering the fact that I was among the weakest of the weak."

Midoriya took a few seconds to figure it out, but still could not believe what he thought. "All Might...Do you mean that you were-?" "Yes, young Midoriya. At a time that feels like a lifetime ago, I was quirkless. Truth is, the power that resides in me today was actually a gift I received from a past mentor."

"I'm confused", Midoriya said very bluntly. "I would be surprised if you weren't, young Midoriya!", All Might said with a chuckle. "What I'm saying is that I now possess a powerful quirk that can be passed down to another person, while cultivating and stockpiling energy and makes the quirk holder stronger than the previous. The quirk is call One For All, and the very reason I'm telling you all of this is because I believe that you are worthy to be my successor and become the next wielder of One For All."

Authors notes

I hope everyone enjoyed this first chapter, and I truly thank whoever went through the time to read this. There were a lot of changes to canon, and I plan on making a lot more (cue diabolical laugh), but hopefully all will be good and enjoyable. The next chapter will explain Midoriya's quirk in detail, because I'm sure some of you were confused, and will begin Midoriya's training. Some time skips will be added, so by the end of it Midoriya will be getting ready to tackle the good old U.A entrance exam.

If anyone decides to review, please tell me what you thought of the chapter and stuff I could fix if you didn't like it, not just "This story sucks!", because that doesn't help. Hope you stick around for more chapters!