"You see what happens when Quirkless losers try to be heroes, boys?" An ash-blond haired boy asked his two friends as they walked away from a dark green haired boy their age lying down on the ground covered in scorch marks and scratches. The boy sniffled and covered his eyes with his left arm trying to cover the tears flowing from his eyes down his head.

"Hey...are you okay?" The boy slowly moved his arm up to see a white haired boy standing over him worriedly.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine."

"You don't look fine. Come on, give me your hand." The white-haired boy said extending his hand to the boy on the floor. He sniffled and reached for his hand to stand up. "You want an ice cream?"

"..."

"I'm not going to take no for an answer, so you might as well come with me." The white-haired boy said grabbing the other boy's hand and taking him from the playground they were in to a nearby ice cream vendor. The man saw the two and smiled, waving as he greeted them.

"Hello there, what can I do for you boys today?" The elderly vendor asked before noticing the bad shape the green haired one was in.

"Some mean boys beat him up, I want to give him an ice cream to feel better."

"Then here you go, two scoops for both of you." The man grabbed two cones and put two scoops of vanilla ice cream in both of them while the white haired boy reached in his pocket. The vendor noticed this and smiled shaking his head. "No need, son. This is on the house."

"Thank you, mister!" The white haired boy said making the vendor smile and nod at them before both boys went back to the playground. They took a seat on a nearby bench to enjoy their ice creams but the green haired one sat quietly, eating his ice cream hesitantly. "What's the matter? Don't like vanilla?"

"Why are you being so nice to me?" He jumped slightly at the question before shrugging.

"I dunno, I just don't like seeing people upset or hurt."

"But...if Kacchan and the others saw you, they would've beat you up too." The boy said beginning to cry again making the white haired boy sigh before softly punching his arm.

"And you would've protected me from them, right?"

"...yeah..."

"Then it's fine because I would protect you from them too! Come on, buddy, cheer up and eat your ice cream before it melts."

"...izuku midoriya..." The white haired boy looked at his new companion confused hearing him mutter something. "My name is Izuku Midoriya." Izuku said before licking some of the ice cream dripping down the side of his cone.

"And my name is Hayato Kiryuu. And starting today: I'm gonna be your bestest friend!" Hayato said affectionately wrapping an arm around Izuku's neck.

"Gigantification? She looks like she'll be popular and it's an amazing Quirk, but thinking about the damage to the city that'll go hand in hand with that, its use might be limited? No, but whether or not she controls the size..." A familiar dark green haired boy now 14 years old, wearing his black middle school uniform, wrote into a notebook with "NO. 13" written on the front of it after watching Pro Heroes take down a villain attacking the nearby train station.

"Hey wait, you're taking notes? You wanna be a hero? That's great! You can do it!" A balding older man with three diamonds, one on each side of his head, noticed his mumbling and writing, giving him a thumbs up.

"Yes! I'll do my best!" He smiled at the older man with a slight blush before feeling a hand on his shoulder.

"Izuku. We're gonna be late." Izuku turned around to see a now 14 as well Hayato, dressed the same way he is along with his white hair in a spiky mess. He laughed sheepishly as he put his hero notebook back in his bag.

"I'm sorry! But Kamui Woods was here and then a new hero called Mount Lady showed up and-" Izuku's excited explanation was cut short by Hayato raising a finger and shaking his head in disappointment.

"Once a hero otaku, always a hero otaku. Come on." Hayato said wrapping his arm around Izuku's neck and making their way towards their middle school. As they made their way there, they began having a conversation about their upcoming entrance exam with Izuku being the most excited about it.

'Hayato Kiryuu...he's been my best friend for ten years. He didn't care that I was Quirkless that day on the playground, and it didn't affect him as we grew up either. Kacchan would still bully me and pick on me as we grew up but Hayato was there to protect me from them, even if he wound up getting blasted by Kacchan's quirk in the end. He and All Might have been the reasons why I've been able to hold onto my dream of one day becoming a hero. I don't know how I'm going to do it but I'm going to pass U.A.'s entrance exam and enter the hero course.' Izuku looked at his long time best friend happily as they made their way into Aldera Junior High and to their class to see everyone inside talking with their ash-blond bully sitting in the row in front of them with a smug smile. They took their seats as their teacher walked in with a stack of papers in his hands.

"Alright so first things first: since you're all third years, it's time for you to seriously think about your future. I'll pass out handouts for your future plans now, but you're all..." The class watched as their teacher raised the stack of papers in his hand with a lot of the students activating their Quirks as he did. "...pretty much planning to go into the hero course, right?" The teacher happily asked throwing the papers into the air as the class began to cheer with everyone cheering.

"YES!"

"Yes, yes, you all have wonderful quirks!"

'I wouldn't call stretching your eyeballs out of their sockets or looking like you had a bad seafood allergy: wonderful...' Hayato thought looking around, feeling his breakfast come up slightly seeing the quirks of the classmates sitting right next to him.

"But using your powers at school is against the rules so please-"

"Teach! Don't throw us all in the same group. I'm not gonna be stuck at the bottom with the rest of these rejects!" Hayato and Izuku chuckled seeing their ash-blond classmate look up at their teacher while offending the rest of the class at the same time.

"That was uncalled for, Katsuki!"

"Yeah!"

"You should all shut up like the extras you are!" Katsuki yelled laughing at the classmates all glaring at him.

"Oh, if I remember correctly: you want to go to U.A. High, Bakugo?" Their teacher asked looking at the clipboard on his podium.

"U.A.? The national school?!" Was the general thought among the students as all of them, save for Hayato, looked at Katsuki in shock.

"It was in the top 0.2% this year!"

"I hear their acceptance rate is really low!"

"And that's you're all extras. I passed the mock test. I'm the ONLY one here capable of making it to U.A. I'll surpass All Might to become the number one hero, and leave all of you in the fucking dust!" Katsuki yelled jumping onto his desk making the majority of the students look away intimidated.

"Oh yeah, Midoriya wanted to go to U.A. too, right?" Midoriya hid his face in his arms on his desk while the entire class erupted into laughter. Except for Hayato, who crossed his arms in annoyance, and Katsuki, who began to ball his hands into fists and grit his teeth in anger.

"No way in hell! Midoriya could never pass that test!"

"Not in a million years since all that loser does is study!"

"Oh, you too Kiryuu?" The entire class stopped laughing hearing this, while Hayato stood up from his desk.

"So you laugh at my best friend, but not me? U.A. took out that rule for their exam, you don't need to have a quirk to take their physical exam: you can enter by recommendation or by academics now too. Izuku's more of a hero than the majority of you combined, he has a better chance of getting in than I do so if you have anything to say: go ahead and say it to my face right now." This was the button that needed to be pressed. Almost immediately, Katsuki jumped towards him and slammed his hand onto Hayato's desk: destroying it and also destroying Izuku's as well, sending him to the floor.

"That fucking loser is below them! He's Quirkless! You think Deku could ever compare to me?!" Katsuki asked glaring at Hayato who stood his ground with a grin on his face. "What about you, you damn speed freak?! I'll take you out before you could even think about moving!"

"Depends on how you see it, because last time I beat YOU." Hayato said angering Katsuki even further before the entire class, especially Izuku, flinched hearing a vibrating sound.

"Enough boys, I'll ask for two new desks. It's too early to begin a fight."

"Thanks for sticking up for me in class." Izuku said as after class, the two made their way back towards his family's apartment. "I get where they were coming from though."

"Izuku, what was that lesson you taught me a long time ago?" Hayato asked shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Don't worry about what other people think. Keep your head up and plunge forward!" Izuku yelled throwing his fist into the air happily. Hayato nodded as they began to walk through a tunnel. Izuku began to laugh triumphantly before the two stopped nearing the end of it, hearing a sloshing sound behind them. The two turned around to see a blob of what looked like dark green sludge form with two giant eyes and a mouth. "A villain?!"

"Two medium sized invisibility cloaks? I think the scrawny one works better!"

"Izuku, run!" Hayato yelled pushing Izuku towards the end of the tunnel. Before he could react, he was suddenly hit by a whip made of sludge throwing him into the wall as the sludge villain lunged for Izuku, grabbing him and beginning to force itself into his body.

"Don't worry, I'm just going to take over your body! It'll only hurt for about 45 seconds."

'Damn it! Can't breathe!' Izuku tried grabbing the sludge covering his nose and mouth only for his fingers to go right through.

"You can't grab me, I'm fluid! Thanks for the help, you really are my hero." The sludge villain said as Izuku's struggling began to slowly stop. "I never imagined THAT was in this city."

"Let go of him!" Hayato stood up and knelt down into a runner's starting pose. He began to vibrate intensely, catching the sludge villain's attention. Before he knew it, Hayato had disappeared and reappeared on the other side of him, with a giant hole where he had Izuku before and the Quirkless boy was now in his friend's arms.

"Well well, you have a super speed quirk. I think I'll make better use of that instead!" The sludge villain said as he effortlessly closed the hole in his body and tried lunging towards the boys again. But right before he could, the manhole cover the villain had come from before flew up into the air.

"It's okay, young men. Why?" The two looked in shock as from the manhole, a towering muscular figure with his iconic smile and blond hair climbed out. "I am here!"

"All Might?" Izuku asked as the two watched their childhood hero dodge a whip like what had attacked Hayato before. He then ducked as the sludge villain tried grabbing him before he pulled his arm back.

"Texas...SMASH!" He threw his arm forward, punching the air and creating a blast of wind that made contact with the villain making him explode. He quickly reached into his pants pockets and grabbed two empty soda bottles and dashed around grabbing all the sludge before they stuck the wall and floor.

"Are you boys okay?" All Might asked placing the two bottles in his pockets. "I didn't mean to get you both caught up in my villain fighting. But I was in such high spirits on my first day off in a new place, that I started acting sloppy." All Might said laughing while Hayato looked at him complete surprise and Izuku looked at him with stars in his eyes.

"Waitwaitwait! BeforeyouleavecanIgetanautograph?!" Izuku yelled at a pace baffling both Hayato and All Might, while he reached into his bag to take out his hero notebook. All Might laughed and took out a marker from his pocket and gave his oversized autograph in the book before handing it to the boy.

"Well, I must be going. See you on the other side of the screen!" All Might said walking out of the tunnel and beginning to squat. "Pros are always fighting villains, I must not dilly dally in case anything else happens, and I must deliver this villain to the proper authorities."

'Wait...there are so many things...I want to ask...' Izuku thought watching his hero prepare to leave.

"Well then. Thanks for your continued support!" All Might yelled jumping away creating a big gust of wind. Hayato chuckled walking out of the tunnel as well, looking as the shadow of All Might in the sky slowly vanished from sight.

"Wow, to think we'd actually see All Might of all people. Come on Izuku, let's-" Hayato turned to talk to his best friend before noticing he wasn't next to him. He quickly turned around to see if he was still in the tunnel before the thought occurred to him. He turned to see All Might leaving again and noticed the faint sight of an extra pair of legs. "IZUKU, YOU IDIOT!" Hayato yelled grabbing his bag and Izuku's before taking off in the direction All Might was headed in a blur.

"Let go of me! Your fanaticism is too much!" All Might had already noticed Izuku had somehow grabbed onto his legs and was trying to make the boy let him go as they soared in the air.

"If I let go! I'll die!" Izuku yelled the best he could while the wind was blowing his mouth open. "I have so many things I want to ask you directly!"

"That's true." All Might said before grabbing the back of the boy's collar. "Well then, hold on tight and close your eyes and mouth." All Might said making Izuku do just that before the number one hero covered his mouth, coughing up a bit of blood. 'Shit.' The two landed on the roof of a department building with Izuku struggling to catch his breath and All Might beginning to leave. "If you talk to the people downstairs, I'm sure they'll let you down. I must really be going now."

"Wait!"

"No! I'm really out of time, I must be leaving." All Might said ready to jump again. And in that moment, all of Izuku's childhood memories came flooding in. When he first saw All Might saving people, to when he was diagnosed without a Quirk, to when his mother cried to him apologizing for his diagnosis.

"All my life, people have tried to push me down because I have no Quirk. Even if I don't have one, can I become a hero?!" Izuku asked with tears beginning to flood his eyes, stopping All Might in his tracks. "Can even someone without a quirk, be just like you?!" Izuku asked with his lips quivering making All Might turn to face him with a smile. In his eyes: Izuku grew taller and his hair went from green to blond as more blood began to drip from his mouth.

'He's just like I was back then...' A steam-like smoke began to come from All Might catching Izuku's attention.

"Izuku!" The door to the roof slammed open as Hayato appeared from it, breathing heavily. "Why did you do that? You could've been seriously hurt!" Hayato yelled trudging over to Izuku's side before noticing the smoke coming from All Might as well. The two watched as the smoke covered the hero's body entirely until in his place, a skeletal figure stood with blood pouring from his mouth.

"WHERE DID ALL MIGHT GO?!/Where did All Might go?" The two boys asked with Izuku in complete shock and Hayato without an ounce of energy left to react.

"I am All Might." The man said with more blood pouring from his mouth making Izuku scream while Hayato decided to flop down to the floor from exhaustion.