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Midoriya Izuku stared at the doctor in confusion.

The reason for this was simple: the doctor had just declared that he lacked the evolution evidence and the lack of visible quirk activation in his age to support that Izuku had a quirk.

This was where the confusion set in.

Midoriya Izuku knew that he had a quirk. Or quirks, if he wanted to be more precise. The doctor's declaration, however, stunned him with the casualness and the callousness. So when he came home, the night came, and it was time for him to sleep, he slept and dreamt.

And in his dream, he met his team.

"W-Why was he so mean?" Izuku asked, sitting in the lap of a foreign woman whose face he knew not but whose goal aligned with his; when he first met her in his dream two years ago, he declared that he would be a hero, and she told him that she was a hero. She said that if he wanted to be a hero, then she would support him.

Despite the helmet and black spandex suit, she was caring if a bit silent.

"Because he thought that you were useless," Alexander replied as she stroked his hair. "People are like that. If your perceived usefulness falls in their eyes, then they will ignore you."

"B-B-But that's not right!" Izuku protested.

"The world is never right," she agreed. "But it is the way it was, has been, and will be forever."

Izuku gritted his teeth and pouted. "I want to be a hero."

"You can," she asserted.

"But how? You heard the doctor. I don't have a quirk I can use."

Alexandria paused for a second before she lifted him up and turned him around. She then set him down in front of her. The black background that was always present in this dream gave away to night scene of a foreign city, and Izuku watched another Alexandria fought against a giant.

The terrible giant laid waste to the city, directing tidal waves from the sea into washing away the foundations of civilizations without a care. Izuku watched with wide-eyes as Alexandria dove in and attacked the giant with her fists.

She flew so fast that he couldn't see her. She struck so hard that he was awed by her.

"Will I be like you and All Might?" he asked out of nowhere, still watching Alexandria fight this monster with many, many other heroes.

Alexandria, the one in his dream and not the fight he was seeing, chuckled as she ruffled his hair. "Don't be like me. Be like that All Might you always talk about."

And then he woke up.

-VVG-

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The day after, Izuku walked to home from school. He had been thinking about what Alexandria told him. Why couldn't he be like her? He saw what she did. She was a hero. In fact, she was the hero of heroes if how she ordered people was anything. She was nice and listened to what he said. She never-.

"Ah!"

Izuku stopped and looked around. Someone was in pain.

"Stop it-!" It was soon followed by cackles.

The voice was coming from the park! Izuku's legs threw him across the road and into the park before he could even properly think about his actions, and he saw horrified him.

Kacchan, his friend, and two others, was bullying another kid! Izuku quickly ran around them and skidded to a stop in front of the bullied kid while facing Kacchan. "Kacchan, stop bullying him!" he shouted.

"Ah? What are you doing here, Deku?" Kacchan drawled with one half-lidded eye.

"You can't bully people, Kacchan!" Izuku tried again, but his legs and arms shook.

"I'm just telling the idiot behind you that he can't do shit, Deku," he replied.

"B-But you can't!"

"And what are you going to do about it?" Kacchan growled as he held his hands up and sparks and pops erupted. Kacchan's two friends followed Kacchan's example and used their Quirks. One grew wings from his back and the other grew whips from his hands. "You don't even have a Quirk, Deku!"

Izuku gritted his teeth and stood still, not moving out of Kacchan's way.

Kacchan's face morphed into a furious scowl. "You're not gonna move?!" he shouted. Izuku refused to move. "THEN DIE!"

Kacchan ran up to him and punched him with an explosion!

Izuku squeezed his eyes shut and …

…

Nothing happened?

Well, there was a smoke in his face, but nothing happened.

As the smoke cleared, Izuku saw the confused look on Kacchan's face.

"The fuck?" he growled. "DIE!" And punched again.

Again, Izuku felt nothing.

Oh, nevermind. He moved back an inch.

"DEKU! You LIAR!" Kacchan roared as he took a step back. "You have a Quirk!"

"I-I-I never s-said I-I didn't…" Izuku stuttered.

"...!" Kacchan growled before turning away. "Let's just fucking go. I ain't gonna waste anymore time on the dipshit behind Deku." He stopped and then pointed at Izuku and also glared. "I'm also going to get you back for that, Deku! No one lies to me and gets away with it!"

"B-But I didn't l-lie…" Izuku mumbled.

That night as he slept, Izuku came to his dream and found Alexandria looking out towards something in the black expanse that was his dream.

"Alexandria-san!" he called out as he ran up to her.

Alexandria looked over her shoulder. "Ah, Izuku," she greeted. Just as usual, she didn't smile. "I see that you're using my power to defend others."

Izuku froze at her words, but had done so in the middle of running. He tumbled forward, rolled, and then came to a stop on his chin in front of her. "Ow."

Alexandria chuckled.

He slowly got up. "I-I'm using y-your power?" he asked tentatively.

"Yes," she replied with a hum. "Invincibility." A memory that wasn't his played like a video in front of them, showing Alexandria taking a bullet to the forehead, only for the bullet to scrunch up and fall off. "Flight." Alexandria flew around in another video. "And Strength." The last video showed her punching the same hydrokinetic giant and sending it skidding back. Then the videos closed all at once. She turned to look at him fully. "You may not have a normal Quirk, Izuku, but you can be a hero."

He stared at her for a few moments before he felt his cheeks getting wet. He quickly wiped them. "T-Thank you."

She hummed.

He didn't know it at the time, but the dream came to an end and he would never see her again. Only her power remained for him to remember her by.