DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA

Prologue: A New Beginning

In some cases, quirks are known to develop when in extreme distress. Instinct conquers logic, DNA mutates, adrenaline and cortisol are released. Fear and desperation take over, until all that's left is survival. Fight and flight response kicks in, but why fight… when you can evolve?

'I know that people are born unequal. Even at 4 years old, I knew that. What society is like. It all began in the town of Qing Qing, China with the news of a mysterious 'luminescent baby.' Shortly there after, similar phenomena popped up all over the world. The trigger for these new found powers was never determined, but as time progressed… what was once considered extraordinary became ordinary. And 'dreams' became reality! Of the planet's population, around 80% have developed unique abilities, or 'individualities' called 'Quirks!' We have entered a new age – a society of super humans! And in the world of whirling chaos, a certain profession that people used to aspire to only in daydreams… has stepped into the light of day!'

I was going to die.

That one sentence circled around my head like a whirling storm, sands of thought turning my mind to grit. This desperation surging up through my body turning my organs hot with the feeling and bringing wetness to my eyes.

I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe.

The smell and feeling of this slush suffocated me, it was everywhere, taking away my breath, my oxygen, carbon dioxide building up in my body. Maybe its better this way, a quirkless idiot like me… a Deku. Maybe everyone's right… I have no place in this world… not anymore… I'm sorry Mama.

I such an idiot, why did I have to go this way home? Why did I stay behind? Stupid Bakugou, stupid, stupid, stupid. It's his fault, his fault DAMN IT.

I'M DYING.

A villain, a villain who was not made of the physical but instead a liquid. A villain who was as slimy as his personality. This idiotic green mush was going to kill me, here underneath the bridge, he is going to use my body for his own means, own disgusting slimy means. He's going to gorge my insides out and use them as his own until I'm not me and he becomes me. My mother, my dreams, my everything.

No, no, no, no, no, no…

NO!

I felt something twist inside me and snap, I pushed and I pushed before I couldn't push anymore and then I could breathe. Gravity conquered and I fell onto my knees, the hard concrete slamming into my skins causing agony to rip through me, but nothing matters, I can breathe. I can feel it… this feeling. Something has grown within me, something my own, powerful and protective…

I can hear this dripping… I turned to look behind me and I gasped in horror at the sight. Particles of green were everywhere, on the walls, on the ground. Green covered every visible surface, oozing on downwards.

Did I do that…?

I looked down at my hands only to see them glowing green and the rubble around me glowing an eerily green and levitating the air, humming with pure energy.

What happened to me?