Izuku really didn't have the best life.

That much was obvious, maybe even an understatement. Quirkless, physically weak, a huge hero nerd, or just a nerd in general, bullied and rejected by almost everyone he knew, his life really sucked.

Ever since that day when he was diagnosed as Quirkless, his life had spiralled downwards. His best friend, Bakugou Katsuki, or Kachaan, as he called him, had taken to using his 'Explosion' Quirk on him as 'practice'.

Apparently, that was 'all he was good for' as a 'Quirkless wannabe'. For almost a decade, Izuku had the idea that he couldn't be a hero drilled into him by everyone in his life.

But today had been the worst day for a while. His teacher had revealed to his class that he had applied for UA, and Kachaan was not happy about it.

Izuku still thought that the teacher did it on purpose. Over his entire life, he had 3 teachers who were actually good to him. Seeing as he shifted classes almost every year, they were definitely the exception, not the rule.

And it was all because of his damn Quirklessness. He wouldn't even mind having a minor or weak Quirk at this point. That would put him on par with classmates at least.

Kachaan would probably still make fun of him for having a weak Quirk, but at least he would be thought of as a Human. Not just some worthless relic from an earlier time.

Izuku wasn't the happiest person around. With all the bullying and constant abuse, the only lights in his life were his Mum, All Might, and his Hero Notebooks.

So when Kachaan had threatened him not to go to UA, burned his most recent notebook, #14, and then threw it into the pond outside, it was a real blow to him.

He had managed to salvage the notebook, it wasn't in too bad of a condition when he found it. Some drying and TLC would bring it back to usable condition again.

Unfortunately for him, he wouldn't be able to go home to give it such a treatment. But what he would be given, was a new opportunity, one that would change his future entirely…

There was just one teeny-tiny thing he had to do first.

It started on his walk home.

He was getting this weird feeling like someone was watching him, but he couldn't spot anyone. It was weird. Normally he would probably feel paranoid about such a feeling, but he wasn't?

It was confusing.

He saw on his phone that there had been an accident on his usual way home. He turned down a different street and eventually came to an underpass.

"I can't let what they say get to me! Just because there hasn't been a Quirkless Hero before, doesn't mean I can't be the first one! I'll just have to keep my head up and smile, like All Might!"

As he lifted his chin and put a smile on his face, he started walking through the underpass, imitating All Might's laughter. It was because of this that he didn't hear the manhole beneath him moving.

He was still a bit distracted when a gurgling voice appeared behind him. "Ah, look at this! One small sized skin-suit for me to disappear into! Stay still kid!"

Izuku had turned around to see a giant pile of goo in front of him, eyes looking over him as it rushed towards him, grabbing him and surrounding him.

As he struggled against the villain, because he was now sure it was a villain, not just some unlucky person with a mutation Quirk, he felt something enter his mouth.

"Sit tight kid, this will only hurt for about 45 seconds. I'm going to take over your body and use it to hide from HIM. You're my hero kid."

Izuku started panicking at that, willing for a hero to come to his aid, for anyone to come to help him. He struggled and struggled, screaming both mentally and out loud as his limbs started moving even when he couldn't move them.

"Hmm, seems like I'm safe for now! I wonder what kind of Quirk you have, kid, I might need to be able to use it if I have to fight All Might after all…"

Izuku's vision went to black. He was almost laughing on the inside because of that last comment. Izuku's weak, Quirkless body would just get the villain captured once All Might arrived.

Just before he lost consciousness, he felt his body move and heard a rush of air from the manhole. He felt it stand up and face the noise, only to punch the wall beside him in what he assumed was anger.

He couldn't see it, but he could feel that All Might had arrived. The rumbling of footsteps proved that to Izuku.

All Might was only a few seconds too late, but it was enough. He quickly grabbed Izuku's body, now controlled by the sludge villain, and jumped off towards the nearest police station.

He was forced to watch as the last of the sludge went down Izuku's throat, unknowingly losing his perfect successor forever.

It was dark when he opened his eyes again, the only thing in sight the chair in front of him.

Although, there was also the absolutely stunning blue-haired girl currently sleeping soundly on it, hugging an unmarked bottle. Izuku was extremely confused with this whole situation.

He was fairly certain he was dead, the sludge villain that had attacked him had made sure of that, although this could just be one big prank, lord knows plenty of people target him for things like this.

He realised that he should probably be in pain right now, or panicking, but something about this space calmed him, soothed him.

Without anything else to do, he stayed sitting in his chair, silent, letting the blue-haired girl sleep. It would be rude to wake her up after all, and Inko raised a very polite boy.

So he waited, and waited, and waited. After waiting some more, he pulled out his phone from his bag to discover he had no wifi. That was fine, he expected that. That either meant he really was dead, or that the pranksters were very thorough.

He played some games on his phone as he waited. He couldn't get GPS coordinates for his location, and he couldn't connect to the internet, even using his data.

All of this just made him more and more sure that he was dead. But why was he here? Why did he have all of his school stuff with him? Is it because he died in it?

Eventually, he got out of his chair and started looking around. He walked as far away from the chairs as he could until he eventually reached an invisible wall. It felt soft, like rubber, but no matter how much he pushed, it didn't budge.

Although that could just be because he's a super skinny twig.

Eventually, he started getting sleepy as well. Watching the girl in front of him sleep, as well as seeing that he had been here for over 3 hours at this point had notified his body on how tired it was after getting attacked.

So he placed his bag on the ground, laid down and placed his head on it, and went to sleep. Hopefully, it wasn't rude to do so wherever he was. 'Well, if she's doing it, why can't I?'

Eventually, he did fall asleep, unaware of what would happen when he woke up.

"Yo! Izuku Midoriya! You can't sleep here! Wake up!"

He woke up in a start, his dreams having being filled with his crying mother, a laughing Kachaan, and the image of All Might punching his body now that it was under the villain's control.

He quickly sat up and rubbed his eyes, briefly forgetting where he was. After it came back to him, he looked over to his right to see the beautiful blue-haired girl that had been sleeping when he got here moving back to her chair, and sitting down.

He quickly stood up and bowed to her. He had never really talked to a girl before, outside of the necessary talk during group projects.

"I'm sorry! When I arrived here you were sleeping and I thought it would be rude to wake you up, but after a while, I started getting tired as well and I assumed we were allowed to sleep here because you were and I-"

He was cut off by the girl snapping her fingers. He blushed and looked down, doing a half bow. "My apologies, mumbling is a bad habit of mine. I've never been able to get rid of it."

The girl sighed as she waved her hand, a bored expression on her face. "You know what? You let me sleep, so we're cool for now."

Izuku bowed again before following her lead and sitting down on his chair. "May I know why I'm here? Is this one big prank or did that sludge guy really kill me?"

The girl nodded, and suddenly a book appeared in front of her. "Izuku Midoriya, Quirkless, oof, tough luck, pure of heart, killed by a villain."

She looked up at him and shrugged. "You can think this is a prank if you want, but you're super dead. Although technically your body is still in use, It's just locked in a cell right now. They're bringing in some big-shot detective with a lie detector Quirk."

Izuku was less scared at the thought of being dead as he thought he should be. "You can get all that from that book? Is that your Quirk?"

The girl laughed, shaking her head. "No, it's not, I don't even have one!" Izuku was shocked at that. This was the first Quirkless person he had ever met!

"Your Quirkless too! Wow, with how rare we are nowadays, I sort of thought I might be the only one our age!"

Now she burst out laughing at him, and he couldn't help but feel a little upset at that. He had been nice to her and now she was laughing at him!

He thought she might have been nicer to him that his classmates were since she was Quirkless too. Maybe it was just something about him as a person, not his Quirklessness?

"Sorry, but you misunderstand! I am Quirkless because I'm not from your world." She stood up and spun in a circle with her arms outstretched, water shooting out of her hands.

"My name is Lady Aqua, the Goddess of Water, and guide for young souls!"

Izuku froze in shock. If he was dead, which he was like, 99% sure he was, that would mean that Aqua was an actual Goddess?

He stood up and bowed as deep as he could. "My apologies Lady Aqua! I wasn't aware that you were a Goddess! Please forgive me!"

Izuku stayed bowed while she stared at his quick change in position. He thought he heard her mumble something like; 'oh lord not this shit again' before she stood up as well.

"Dude! Sit down so I can explain some stuff to you! I wanna go back to sleep and I can't while you're here!" Izuku nodded and quickly sat down, waiting for her to speak.

"Look you're dead, but being dead gives you options now. The elder gods have deemed you worthy of going to heaven for various reasons"

"This means you can either ascend to heaven, or you could get reincarnated back into your world, without your memories."

Izuku thought over those options. Going to heaven sounded pretty nice, but if he was reincarnated, he might have a Quirk he could use to help people.

Aqua could see him thinking and knew that if she wanted him to go for the upcoming offer, she would have to make the other choices less desirable.

"But I do want to let you know that heaven is really boring. Just a bunch of people floating around for all eternity! You can't even do… well… you know."

She said the last bit to mess with him but was only met with a confused look. She was surprised, a 14-year-old boy that stayed in his room a lot didn't get what she was implying? And here she thought he was some degenerate shut-in.

"Whatever. Also, reincarnating to get a powerful Quirk isn't really how it works. Most people get something only marginally stronger, and with your Quirklessness, you start right at the bottom for usefulness."

She could see that her tactics were working as he looked crestfallen at the thought of 2 bad options. Now was the time to strike!

"But there is a third option for you!" Izuku snapped out of his mumbling and thinking immediately, looking over at Aqua. She just smiled at him.

"You see, there is another world out there. It's similar to those MMORPG games you have in your world." She was met with another confused look. "You know? Magic, elves, demons, those sorts of things?"

She saw his eyes light up in understanding. "Currently, it's under attack by a villainous Devil King. Because of the war going on, no-one wants to reincarnate there, leading to a massive drop in their population."

Izuku just listened, nodding along. He was curious why she was telling him this. She pulled out a small pamphlet.

"Because of this, we gods have decided to send young people like yourselves to that world, while allowing them to keep their old bodies and memories! Isn't that cool!"

Izuku thought over this as he reached out for the pamphlet. 'The Kingdom of Belzerg needs your help!' was written in large red writing. He read through it a bit. Apparently, he would start in a town called Axel, near an adventurers guild.

He had heard some kids at school talking about things like this before, so he had a fairly good idea of what he was expected to do. Appear in the world, join the guild, pick a class (which the pamphlet didn't have much information on) and go adventuring.

"Um, Miss Aqua? Won't I have some communication issues? Or do these people speak Japanese as well?" He flicked through the pamphlet before reaching a page with languages on it.

He saw something that looked a bit like a warning, but Aqua had come over to him and placed her hand over the box before explaining.

"Well, us gods expected this problem, and have come up with a solution! We just download the language into your brain! No problem!"

Izuku tried to pull the pamphlet out of her hands to look at the warning box but she just took it off of him.

"There you go, language barrier crisis averted! Now there is one more thing." Izuku nodded and watched as she pulled out a giant stack of paper.

"We used to have a rule where people got a special item, or ability when they did this for us, but ever since we started getting people from your world it became a non-issue. Your world is already full of superpowers!"

"But! Seeing as you're Quirkless, the gods have agreed that you may get 1 weapon or ability and take it with you!"

Izuku couldn't believe what he was hearing. He got to live again, have a power, and become a hero? Sign him up! Sure it wasn't exactly how he imagined becoming a Hero, but at this point, he would take what he could get!

"Really? You would let me do that? I could have my own power that I could help people with?" Izuku's eyes were sparkling. This was a dream come true!

"YES! All you have to do is choose from these and I will send you on your way!" She threw the stack of paper at him and he watched as they all fluttered to the ground.

"Why would you do that!? Now I have to pick them all back up and sort them properly!" Izuku said as he crouched down and started picking pages back up.

"What!? No! Just look around and pick one!" Aqua yelled, surprising Izuku. He wanted to make sure he did this right! "You don't even have to choose one from the pile, they're just examples!"

That surprised Izuku even more. Why not tell him that in the first place? He thought about what he had read in the pamphlet before Aqua had taken it off of him.

The Kingdom of Belzerg seemed medieval in nature. Izuku remembered the time period from history class. They were about 1.2 thousand years ago, and everything was pretty crude.

He doubted he'd have access to the type of quality of living he'd had his entire life, and he probably wouldn't have any of its amenities either.

But neither would anyone else (except maybe royalty).

Izuku was smart. He knew that this deal sounded too good to be true. He could ask for All Might level strength, but they might not like giving him something so obviously powerful.

He would have to be smart about this, just in case.

Aqua was bored with this boy now.

Sure, he was nice and polite and respectful of her divinity, but had been looking through the different possible powers and abilities for a while now, and hadn't seemed to like most of them.

She groaned, and he looked up at her for a second, before going back to his pile of options. He had been sorting it into 2 piles. No, and Maybe.

Aqua used her special chair to summon a clock. This boy had been going through the pile for 2 hours now! She guessed that when he got into Belzerg he would have a high wisdom stat, as well as Intelligence stat on his adventurer card, which was good for him.

Didn't stop this from being so boring though.

"Uh, Lady Aqua? I really don't think any of these suit me very well." Aqua looked over to him to see him holding the last sheet of paper and sighed in relief.

He had gone through all the options and hadn't found anything, so now he was going to make something up, right?

"That's fine!" she used her chair to summon a piece of paper for him but found him already holding a notebook, somehow.

She shrugged. "Just write down the ability you want, and us gods will grant it to you! It can be anything you want, so let your mind run wild!"

Izuku looked at her and nodded, before writing something down. He then spent the next 20 minutes erasing certain words and re-writing them.

Now, Aqua had dealt with people who liked specifics before, but if this boy had lived, he would have made a fantastic lawyer.

After about 30 minutes of revisions to his wish, he ripped the page out of his book and held it out to her, seeming apprehensive and worried.

Maybe she had been wrong about him? He seemed pretty worried about it, maybe he wanted something really perverted or evil.

But grabbing the page and reading it showed that she had been right about him. Honestly, it was a fairly weak power. She would have thought that Izuku, being Quirkless, would choose something absurdly powerful.

"Really? That's all you want? Knowing how to, and being able to make anything from your old world? That's fairly basic."

Izuku nodded, seemingly relieved. Was he really worried about such a minor power? He really lacked confidence. A few months as an adventurer would probably help fix that though.

"I mean, sure, I can grant that for you, but are you sure?" Izuku nodded, and it intrigued her. He was like no other 14-year-old that had been sent to her.

"Alright then, if you're sure, here I go!" As blue light appeared around her as she started the process of giving the gift to Izuku when a different light appeared above her.

Izuku looked up as well and was shocked to see someone appearing from the light. Floating in the air, was a literal angel. He could tell. The wings and the Halo made it obvious.

"Lady Aqua! The elder gods have discovered your mismanagement of the souls of the young! Sleeping on the job, Withholding information, rushing through the proper processes!"

Izuku was confused. "Withholding information?" Then his brain flashed the image of her covering the warning box to him, and he realised what the angel meant.

"What the hell are you talking about!? I have done nothing of the sort!" Even he could tell she was lying. She was shaking softly and was sweating, although as she was the goddess of water, it looked like she was being rained on.

"And now lying to the elder gods! For your actions, the elders have decided on your fate." At this Aqua got visibly afraid.

"Wait please no! I've only been Goddess for 15 years! Please don't erase me from existence! I don't wanna stop existing, it's fun, for the most part!" She fell to her knees in a begging motion.

She was going to get erased? Even if she did what they say she did, that was still a very harsh punishment.

"Wait!" he didn't even realise he had yelled out until both Aqua and the angel had turned to look at him. He took a deep breath.

"What if she came with me to the Belzerg? Surely helping me kill the Devil King and bringing that world back into balance would be enough to pardon her from being erased!"

Izuku didn't even really know why he had suggested it. Maybe it was because she had offered him a new life, or maybe because he wanted to be a hero, but he couldn't just let Aqua get erased.

Both of the divine beings were silent for a second, shocked that a mortal would interrupt the elder gods judgement. But after a second, Aqua jumped up and ran over to Izuku, clinging to his arm.

"YES! Let me do that! I can go down and learn about respecting mortals or something like that while I help defeat the Devil King!"

The angel turned her head and held her finger up to her ear as if talking into an earpiece. Wait, no, she was talking into an earpiece! What kind of divine beings needed radios to communicate?

After a bit of talking, she lowered herself onto the ground in front of them, and Aqua ducked behind Izuku, holding onto his shoulders. It was the closest he'd ever been to a girl, and he was internally freaking out.

The angel stopped in front of them and the same blue light from before appeared around her. After a few seconds, Izuku could feel the influx of knowledge flooding into his brain.

It felt like he knew everything! Which, he guessed, was sort of true. The way he had worded it, anything that Humans had made, he knew how to and was able to make it.

The angel spoke. "Your request has been accepted, Izuku Midoriya. The elder gods, Aqua's creators especially, have deemed your suggestion a good learning experience for her."

She bowed to them. "Along with your gift, which you have already received, Lady Aqua will accompany you for the entirety of your journey. Once the Devil King has been slain, I will send an escort to return her to her home"

And with that, two circles of light appeared at their feet. Izuku yelped as he was slowly lifted off of the ground, but calmed down a bit after Aqua let go of him.

"And you, Izuku Midoriya. After the Devil King has been slain, the elder gods will grant you any wish your heart desires!"

As they started picking up speed, heading towards a giant ring of light above them, Izuku was shocked into silence while Aqua screamed. He had no idea what he had just gotten himself into, but if he succeeded he got get any wish?

White light invaded his vision, and he decided then and there that he would work as hard as he could until the Devil King was dead.

Then he could return home, with all of his new powers.