Abandoned: Humanity's by Driftshansome

Summary:

They could come back tomorrow, or never. All he could do was prepare.

Or: Izuku Midoriya wakes up one day to find all of humanity gone.

Except him.

(This work is ongoing.)

Notes:

(See the end of the work for other works inspired by this one.)

Chapter 1Chapter Text

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Everything seemed normal at first. 

Izuku Midoriya woke up late. His mother hadn't woken him up, but she probably just went to work already. 

He went through his daily routine. Breathing out in an attempt at fire breath, focusing on the All Might figure on the desk in case he had telekinesis. Even testing for teleportation. 

Nothing.

Izuku tried not to let the disappointment get to him at yet another failure as he started his trek to school. According to the quirk doctor, he had an "invisible quirk", complete with the extra toe joint. The doctor had been confused by the test results. No one was quirkless by this generation. It had been 9 years since he was diagnosed however, and Izuku Midoriya was still powerless, and had nothing.

Defenseless.

Useless. 

Every other kid at school had an ability, ranging from relatively weak things like an intelligence enhancer to powerful quirks known for combat, such as Explosion. If only he could have something cool like that. A normal person would have probably given up on their dream, especially when it required fighting supervillians. 

But Izuku didn't give up easily.

Izuku was drawn out of his thoughts by a strange feeling. Something was missing, but he didn't know what. Maybe he forgot something at home? He checked his bag, but nothing was forgotten. His phone, wallet, and lunch were all there. But then it hit him.

It was too quiet. He couldn't hear the sound of chirping birds, the bustling of cars as they zoomed by, or any soft conversations around him. Izuku looked around, but there were zero people. There were cars, but none of them were moving.

Izuku took a deep breath to calm himself, his analytical mind racing. Clearly, he wasn't in any immediate danger, and there were no villains nearby. 

Maybe he had been transported by some kind of quirk? Or this was a dream? Nothing seemed different, the city the same only missing people. The second possibility was ruled out after Izuku pinched himself and nothing happened.

Izuku checked Aldera Junior High just to be sure, but there wasn't a single soul in any of the classrooms. So instead of him being gone, everyone else was.

Meaning someone with some kind of warp quirk had kidnapped everyone. Everyone but him. Which didn't make any sense, why was he left behind? His mom wasn't picking up despite his attempts to reach her, something he was doing his best not to dwell on. 

She was all he had after all.

It was getting dark.

Izuku had been wandering for hours, but he still had no answers, only gaining more questions. There was nothing new in the news since yesterday, meaning that an incredibly powerful warp quirk had been used on an entire city and no one outside had even noticed! Which was impossible. Warp quirks were already extremely rare, and one this strong would have been docum-

Izuku paused, drawn out of his muttering spree by a flash of purple. He had zoned out, and in his walk back from the school Izuku had ended up at the neighborhood park. Turning to the left, he saw her.

She was sitting on a bench, watching the stars as they started to grow visible. Izuku's eyes were drawn to the pink kimono the girl was wearing first, but then he noticed her hair. It was shimmering, stars shifting in her purple hair. What an interesting quirk!

The realization that this was another person, finally, that might know what happened hit him a second later.

"E-Excuse me?"

She turned to him as he approached, her eyes widening in shock. 

"Do you know w-where everyone went?" Izuku asked. 

She stood up, still staring at him. Izuku was about to try English when she finally spoke.

"Are you a human?"

Izuku took a second to make sure he heard that right. Obviously, he was human. Even if he wasn't always treated as such. Did that mean she wasn't human? Or maybe she was one of those UFO watchers? Was she an alien?!

Izuku looked at her face again. She was beautiful, astonishingly so, but she didn't seem like an extraterrestrial. That had been flawless Japanese after all.

"Ah, so you are human. I'm not an alien by the way."

Izuku blinked.

Did he just say all of that out loud?

"Yes."

Izuku blushed, shutting his mouth.

"You must be quirkless then," The girl commented. His first instinct was to deny it, but the words stopped in his throat. He was clearly powerless. And for some reason, Izuku didn't sense any of the distaste of the word he was used to. She used the term as a fact instead of a terrible medical condition. Izuku hadn't even met anyone who treated something so hated normally besides his mother.

"W-Who are you?" Izuku gathered up the courage to ask.

She smiled, and the dimly lit park got a little brighter. 

"I am Aurora, goddess of light."

"I'm Izuku Midoriya. It's nice to m-meet you Aurora-san." Izuku wasn't too sure about the goddess thing, but with how bizarre his world was he just decided to think about it later. A thought struck him then.

"W-W-Wait, is that y-your family name?" he stammered out.

Aurora seemed to be confused at his embarrassment for a moment, before understanding showed in her eyes. 

"Right, using someone's given name is considered rude here. Still, Aurora is fine." she said. 

Izuku still felt a bit odd, but it wasn't like he had anything else to call her.

"Aurora-san, H-How did you know I was q-quirkless?" he asked, tilting his head.

In response, Aurora motioned for him to sit down on the bench next to her. Izuku took the seat, getting a better glance at her clothes in the process. The pink kimono was intricately designed, but unlike anything he had ever seen before. She looked up at the stars, her expression growing thoughtful like she was wondering how to phrase her next words. It was now night the stars fully visible.

"Humanity is gone. They've all been transported." 

Aurora spoke softly, as if she didn't say billions of people had been moved. She continued, sensing his shock.

"Your dimension is set to collide with another soon. This normally would not be much of an issue, but this other dimension is filled with dangerous creatures." She paused for a second, in thought. "I suppose you would call them monsters."

Izuku vaguely thought this sounded like some sort of video game. Then again, hundreds of years ago the idea of everyone having superpowers would have seemed crazy. Now the most famous celebrity was a giant man in red and blue changing the weather with a punch.

"Humanity was sent to different fantasy worlds based on their quirks and dreams to prepare. Combative humans were sent to fight monsters, such as heroes. The rest had more peaceful lives, but still had the opportunity to get used to monsters."

"That's why I'm still here isn't it? And how you knew I was q-quirkless? I couldn't be transported because I had no quirk."

Aurora nodded.

"W-What about children? Wouldn't they be alone?" Izuku asked.

Kids separated from their parents in a strange world. What would happen to babies? The thought made his gut clench. 

She shook her head, not bothered by the barrage of questions. The stars in her hair twinkled from the motion. "Depending on the parents, they'll either be sent with them or put into an...orphanage of sorts until they are sent back to Earth."

"Where w-was my mom sent?" Izuku finally asked the question that had been burning inside him for hours.

If she was in danger, then there was nothing he could do to help her. Izuku doubted Aurora was allowed to take him wherever she was.

"Give me a moment." Aurora closed her eyes, before turning her gaze towards him. 

"Inko Midoriya was sent to the dimension Nourishment. It's a world focused on hunting monsters, but all of the ones there are relatively harmless. It's peaceful too."

She was safe. 

Izuku let out a breath, the weight on his shoulders feeling lighter.

"When are they coming back?" Izuku questioned hopefully. He'd have to wait here a few months maybe, but he cou-

"I don't know."

Aurora sighed.

"Earth has been frozen in time until they come back. Humanity will spend 5 years before returning, however time passes slower there. Meaning while they have an adventure, it could be ten or a million years before they return."

Izuku's eyes widened. Then what about hi-

"You will have to wait for them."

Her beautiful eyes grew softer in sympathy.

"Izuku Midoriya, you are the only human left on Earth."