Izuku Midoriya learned a harsh lesson at the age of 4, after finding his friend Katsuki Bakugo (Kacchan) looming over another child who was lying on the floor crying stood between the victim and Kacchan shaking in fear before stating, "Stop it Kacchan, He's already crying."

"So Deku the quirkless wonder thinks he can play hero, huh?" Kacchan sneers while creating an explosion in his hands before he and his two lackeys rushed at him pinning him down in a flurry of punches and kicks. Meanwhile, the earlier victim of Kacchan's bullying got up and ran away, not even looking back to the boy who became his human shield.

That day Izuku learned that not all men are created equal and Kacchan was no longer his friend.

/ 10 Years Later /

Izuku is sat with his head down making notes in his 'Hero Analysis for my Future No.13' notebook when his teacher comes in saying, "Now that you're all third years its time to start thinking seriously about your futures, but who am I kidding, you're all aiming for the hero course right?"

Everyone except for Izuku and Bakugo begins displaying their quirks and shouting about how they're all going to become heroes until Bakugo silences them by leaping onto his desk and exclaiming "You'll all be lucky to make it as a D-List Heroes sidekick, whereas I'm going to be the next number, one hero. I'm going to surpass All Might and be the richest, most famous hero."

"That's right Bakugo, you're aiming for U.A. right?" states the teacher, without a sliver of emotion in his voice. The other students are then in another uproar about how U.A. is almost impossible to get into and that you have to have a powerful quirk to get in.

"Oh yeah, Midoryia, aren't you also applying for U.A?" Interjects the teacher, essentially feeding Izuku to the wolves. The whole class then burst out laughing and one student says, "You can't get in you're quirkless."

Midoryia then defends himself saying "There's no rule stopping me from applying-"

"Deku! You're worse than the rest of these extras, you're quirkless. You think you can compete with me!?" Bakugo exclaims while firing off an explosion on Izuku's desk causing him to fall backwards out of his chair and onto the floor. He then looms menacingly over Izuku causing him to scramble backwards till his back hit the wall.

"No. I'm not trying to compete with you, I've just wanted to be a hero since I was little and there's no harm in trying, right?" stuttered out Izuku as he began to pull himself off the floor.

"TRY! You're taking the entrance exam just to try? What can you even do?" Bakugo yells as he throws a fist into Izuku's stomach causing him to slump back down to the floor in pain.

After class ended Izuku was quickly packing up his things when Bakugo grabbed his hero notebook saying, "We aren't done here Deku." He then looked at the cover, "Hero analysis for my future? Seriously Deku, writing notes isn't going to make up for you being useless."

"Come on Katsuki, please give it back," Izuku began to beg, hoping to just end this awful day until smoke began to pour from Bakugo's hands as he burnt the book before throwing it out the window.

"All the best heroes showed signs of greatness even as students, that's why I'm going to be the only one from this shitty middle school to get into U.A, just call me a perfectionist," Bakugo then placed his hand on Izuku's shoulder adding more and more pressure while slowly burning him through his uniform. "In other words, don't you dare get into U.A."

Bakugo then started to walk out the door leaving behind Izuku with tears slowly forming in his eyes, "If you want to be a hero so bad I've got a time-saving idea for you," Bakugo said with an evil smirk on his face "If you think you'll get a quirk in your next life... go take a swan dive of the roof."

As Izuku was fishing his burnt notebook out of a coy pond it landed in he had a flashback to the night after he was diagnosed quirkless, he was 4 years old watching a video of All Might's debut when he turned his chair around to face his mother with tears streaming down his cheeks before asking, "No matter how bad it is he's always saving people with a smile on his face, can I be hero like him, Can I Mum?"

"I'm sorry Izuku, I'm so sorry," Inko whispered softly while clutching her bawling child knowing how the world has just destroyed his dreams. Unfortunately, that wasn't what he wanted to hear, what he needed to hear.

When Izuku came out of his flashback he was in a tunnel about halfway to his house, when he had the thought that Bakugo was right about one thing, at the moment he wasn't going to pass the U.A. exam, I need to up my training. If I increase my strength training I should be able to finish cleaning Dagoba Municipal Beach by the entrance exam. A Sudden Klang shocked Izuku out of his mental planning, looking down he noticed a man-hole cover to his right. He quickly spins around to face a towering pile of sentient sludge who simply said "A medium-sized body to hide in. I should be able to escape that bastard with you," as he lunged towards Izuku.

Thinking quickly Izuku ducked under a couple of slime tentacles about to grab him while lifting the man-hole cover as a make-shift shield and blocking another tentacle. The sludge villain then reared back ready to engulf Izuku and get this fight over with when Izuku flung the sewer cover straight at the villain's face, figuring it was the only solid part of his body. This enraged the Sludge villain further but before he could lunge again at the now shield-less Izuku a powerful gust of wind flew down the tunnel blowing the villain to pieces and making Izuku cover his eyes and fall backwards onto the floor.

When Izuku regained his bearings he was face to face with All Might asking, "Are you okay? My apologies, for getting you caught up with that villain. Who knew the sewers were so hard to navigate." All Might then held up a bottle now containing the sludge villain and began making his way towards the exit of the tunnel ready to leap away, "Anyway since you're fine I need to get going and get this villain to the police."

"WAIT!" Izuku shouted, "I'm sorry I just need to ask you this, ever since I was little I've wanted to be a hero like you and save everyone with a smile on my face. So I just wanted to know, can someone quirkless like me be a hero like you?" He then looked up with determination gleaming in his emerald eyes to see All Might no longer smiling.

"I'm sorry but no, I don't think you can be a hero without a quirk, it's just too dangerous. Its good to have dreams kid, but you've got to make them realistic. If you really want to help people you could always be a police officer or firefighter." All Might then leapt into the sky with a small amount of blood trickling out his mouth. "Glad I got away before he saw me change forms."

Meanwhile, Izuku was left in the tunnel with the earth-shattering realisation that no one, not even All Might believes he can be a hero. He then began his slow walk home, as he reached his apartment complex he made a decision; no one believes in him, no one thinks he can be a hero, then he will just have to prove them wrong. He will be a hero, the first quirkless hero and he's starting at U.A. and he has 10 months left to train.