Shoot For The Stars! [NEW]

I checked my watch as I tried to dig up memories of MHA. Living a whole new life added with the fact that I last saw it years before I died does make remembering things hard you know?

This is it, my chance to be the heir to One For All, a powerful buffing quirk that should theoretically also enhance my quirk itself and not just my physical specs. Do I need it?

I brought up my hand, toned for my age, and with a thought, it turned silver-gray with a crystal-like texture to my eyes with blue patterns emerging, half reminiscent of tribal tattoos and circuit boards.

I felt my connection strengthen and dismissed the transformation.

No, I didn't need it, the power it will bring will be temporary at best in effectively enhancing me, should I be right in my thoughts I'd outgrow it in a dozen years and it'd be a paltry amount to the sum of my power.

Do I want it though? Well yes, yes I do.

The main thing to do here is to prevent Izuku from pouring his heart out in front of All Might, All Might didn't pick a random quirkless kid that ran headfirst into danger, he first heard Izuku's life story. Without that connection? He'd be a courageous kid that won his admiration, a highly likely candidate should he somehow appear in his immediate future as a teacher.

Without that heart to heart Izuku stands no chance. Sure the next highest on that position should be Mirio and Kirishima, and I don't nearly mind as much giving up OFA to either of the two.

Is it just be being petty then? Highly likely.

Glancing around I decided to make things easier for myself and turned into a gray fog to the human eye and promptly slipped into the cracks between reality, caught between the void and the world I flew over Mustafu keeping an eye out for some sort of tunnel under a bridge or a rooftop with fences.

I watched impassively as the sludge villain caught Bakugo. I failed and that irritates me. I am not that powerful, true I may be more in tune with my racial abilities than my literal ancestor (possibly) but that doesn't mean jackshit if my raw specs are leagues lower than his. Chaos Entity doesn't have amazing movement speed and it doesn't inherently jack up my own speed.

Enough self-pity. I just need to decide now if I should attempt to make my own connection with All Might and steal Izuku's thunder. Without this vital encounter, his chances are null. No way he'd get into UA without All Might's training regime and OFA.

Glancing at the crowd after the entertaining attempts of the Heroes died off I spotted him.

A step found me near him as he started gripping the pole and at his own chest or sides, the baggy clothing makes it a little hard to tell.

I adjusted my glasses and approached him, my feet clacking deliberately. "Do you need help?" I didn't attempt to fake a smile or anything like that, my race changed me and my own callousness didn't help.

He looked at me and shook his head no. "It's fine young man…" I rose a brow at this and he just gave a wry grin. "It just acts up sometimes. I already took my medicine if that helps." I dropped the topic and turned towards the scene spotting Izuk-?

I schooled my features but god if that didn't throw me into a bit of a loop. He, or rather, She hadn't jumped in yet, but thank the void and my race as I spotted her arrive with my Mark.

"This is a bit pitiful." He rose a brow at that and answered me. "Young man the heroes are trying their best. The sludge villain is just a bad matchup for them."

I didn't acknowledge his reply beyond giving my own. "Death Arms, his raw strength can shatter concrete as easily as it would a normal person to crush chalk yet when he attempted rescue instead of aiming for the hostage relatively near the surface he attempted instead to pummel the villain's amorphous body. And immediately gave up attempting rescue after that one attempt."

"Kamui woods is doing well given the fact that fire is his bane and the own hostage sending off panicked blasts every so often but he could theoretically team up with Death Arms where Death Arms would grab the hostage and with the combined efforts of both, yank him out where Kamui Woods can pull the two towards safety."

"That water guy, it may be rude of me to say this but how exactly did he become a hero with that level of water control and generation. Mt. Lady also can't just jump in all willy nilly as she hasn't shown a level of control over her quirk that'd allow her to make use of her great physical specs to easily pluck the hostage free."

"The Villain himself is playing with his food, he is lapping up the attention, if a tentacle strike can crack concrete he should be able to easily force his sludge into the victim's nose or mouth and according to what I heard, possess the body."

I glanced at him and saw him comically agape as he thought through what I just said.

"It is a pitiful display all around."

He made noises and what sounded like an attempt at disagreeing or at least protecting some of the dignity of the heroes before the crowd gasped at a fool breaking through and the heroes somehow malfunctioning.

"Where did the water guy's fence go. How come they didn't react when that civvy cannot even be considered fit, didn't they train for unexpected scenarios and handling them? Also, why did that civvy jump headfirst into danger? Oh look, it seems like she has a useless quirk or is quirkless herself."

I commented lightly as if talking about the weather and All Might for the most part just gaped at me.

The horrified gasps and screams were my cue as I breathed out a sigh and audible. "Fuck it."

Itsuki didn't know what in the hell she just did but she couldn't just stand back and watch Kacchan's pleading eyes. She knows this is her fault and she knows deep down she may not accomplish anything but her legs moved on their own!

A throw of her bags and hitting one of the only actual vulnerable spots of the sludge villain didn't do as much as she had hoped and that was made apparent when it only reeled back a little before a tentacle came crashing.

She could only stare at it in horror when suddenly from nowhere a man with silver-gray skin that had deep blue patterns as if tattoos on his skin popped out, his medium short silver hair dancing like a flame. He is tall she noted absentmindedly he stood at what seemed like 5'9. She wanted to say something but her mouth wouldn't make any sounds.

But then something happened. The tentacle fell, but without any of the power she had been expecting. It just fell apart as it had been cut. The slime monster itself having been severed from one side to another and briefly lost structure. The source?

The outstretched finger of the man traced a diagonal line.

He seemingly walked but instantly appeared before Kacchan and without much fanfare pulled her free before he was once again before her. his obsidian-like sclera and intense white eyes in the shape of rice almost in its oblong shape stared at her. She only realized he turned into another form when the eyes turned normal and black instead.

His skin is fair he was muscular, highlighted by his form-fitting long-sleeved black shirt and fitting pants, he found his face handsome, it was symmetrical and free from any blemishes as far as she could spot, his hair silky black, and his own hand brushed it back before she was brought out of her reverie when he put on simple black glasses stylish and fitting him perfectly.

She blushed cherry red when she noticed him quirking a brow and she stammered but was cut off by her noticing the monster fuming and once more about to attack. "Watch out!" she screamed but he just smirked. He turned around while letting Kacchan stand on her feet still supported by him and he turned slowly.

"Hurry up," he muttered.

She could only stare at his audacity yet with a blur All Might parried the incoming blow.

"Excellent work young man! It is fine now, Why? Because I am here!" he cocked his right fist back and with a roar, it shot forward.

"ALL MIGHT!!" The sludge villain roared yet it was in vain as it was snuff out by All Might's own scream.

"DETROIT! SMAAAAASHHH!!" The wind kicked up and formed into a cyclone before her very eyes. She was nearly caught off balance when suddenly space itself grew heavy around her and she could make out some hard to spot borders around her and the mystery man.

I have to admit, seeing the MC being bewitched by my looks is an ego booster, I don't care if it might be because of the situation but I'm running with it. I glanced up at the darkening sky as rain soon started to fall and dismissed my own barrier that protected my two damsels in distress from flying off like a leaf.

Why am I in a fucking AU?

Oh well.

"That's crazy! He just changed the weather with a punch!" A man's scream tore through the shocked into silence crowd and cheering roared to life. I had to stop myself from instinctively shooting out my hand for a quick distortion as manslaughter is bad for my image.

"HA! HA! HA!" All Might cheered on his own after he briefly stumbled that is. I saw him spit out blood earlier and I knew he was putting on a bravado. He was already burnt out earlier this is literally killing him faster.

Heroes and the media alike approached and bombarded us. I was tempted to leave the scene but All Might grabbed at my shoulders.

"That was splendid work young man! The fact that you stepped in with no hesitation to save those two young ladies made by blood boil!" Is this fucker trying to use me to lure away the media?

"Right! Young man why did you jump into the fray?! were you just that confident in your abilities?" One of the particularly loud ones tried to shove a mic in front of my face and I could only school my features and not swat it away. That doesn't mean I didn't look like I had to swallow something sour though. I knew my body well enough.

"What and watch someone get pulverized? I had the power, and my want to help outweighed the cons such as being at odds with the law. But the Good Samaritan has been altered since quirks came into power, and I can't be legally be deemed a Vigilante who attempted hazardous risk to oneself and another's by using my quirk.

I stopped using my quirk the instant I defused the situation and launched no further attack."

I have some knowledge of tidbits of information regarding quirk usage if only due to a boring evening and several internet searches later.

The most I'll get is a slap on the wrist if that even.

"But how exactly did you muster up the courage to do that? Were you just that confident in your own abilities?" He repeated his second question that I didn't answer. Son of a bitch.

"Is it wrong to want to save someone in danger? And I know my quirk." an ambiguous answer, I won't give him or anyone else for that matter a way to bend my words and picture me as an overconfident reckless boy.

They attempted to hound me even more and I think it was obvious I was near my breaking point as All Might stepped in to take the heat off me. I still think that dick purposefully fed me to the wolves.

I started walking off when Izuku or whatever her name is in this verse approached me.

"U-uhm! Thank you very much!" She stuttered slightly and gave a frankly uncomfortable to witness bow and yell. The other heroes that were scolding her and praising Bakugo or something like that started to approach us.

"Stop that, it's cringy. And you're welcome, just don't attempt any more half-assed rescue attempts in the future." I had no hesitation to critique her. I, after all, didn't like Izuku in my past life, and even know with her subpar fitness it still showed she didn't do jackshit to aim to be a hero despite her lack of quirk.

She had no reply for that but one of the heroes did.

"You too for that matter young man. You have a powerful quirk that much is true but you are still not licensed for this." I rose a brow at Death Arms, momentarily wanting to tear into him with the observations I made but that would cause some trouble at the very least, so I decided.

I am going to do so. I am that petty.

"You super strength, amorphous blob of non-Newtonian fluid. You attempted to slug him instead of tearing away at the hostage where she was much nearer to the surface and after one attempt didn't attempt anymore."

I pointed at Kamui Woods "admirable effort considering the fire and the random blasts but you could've proposed a plan where Death Arms did the exact thing I just said but with your help to pull free the hostage and towards safety."

"Mt. Lady could create a way for you to either bungee or for Death Arms to land from with greater momentum to cause possible damage or at least scatter the body of the villain to save the hostage but instead stood there dumbly. Good job protecting the civvies from the wind though."

The heroes looked at me shocked that I'd tear into them, sure I didn't become crass but I think they'd have dealt with it much better if I was. Izuku for the most part was looking at me like I was some sort of alien. I mean I technically am so whatever.

I glanced at them then snorted and without looking back started walking back. Ignoring their calls towards me. I doubt any one of them would be dumb enough to physically hold me back.

"Wait! What's your name?!" I turned my neck to look at Izuku who seemed like she summoned a great amount of effort to shout that.

"Kurogane Ryūsei." (AN: If I don't use ū just think of it as me being lazy.)

I already know I won't be selected as the heir but this day wasn't as bad as I would've thought should I have failed to secure said position.

AU huh? Wonder what else is different.