Cheat Like Progress

Waking up feeling energized, Izuku gets out of bed and heads to the bathroom to brush his teeth. Once there and his teeth brushed. He looks into the mirror and discovers his lack of freckle. Deciding to ignore it and accept it. Its not like he will know the reason anyways.

Walking down to the kitchen, He notices his mother is nowhere in sight. Looking at the clock he sees that the time is 6am. A whole hour before his own alarm rings. Shrugging, he grabs a banana. Eating it in four bites, throwing away the peel. He goes back to his room.

Taking this as an opportunity to get started on his road to power. He begins with most overpowered workout regimen that his little mind can fathom. Pushups, sit ups, and squats. Izuku may tell you that it the most basic plan one can do. However, if you were to show him a video of a bald man turning a monster into a pile of goo with one punch. He will change his tune almost immediately.

Getting down into a pushup position, Izuku decides that going until you can't do it any more would be the best way to determine his limits. Going down until he is about an inch off the ground and shooting straight up with his arms fully locked out. Widening his eyes because of how easy that first rep was. He shakes his head and continues.

After getting up to 30 push ups without even feeling fatigue. Izuku pushes on, reaching up to the 70s he finally feels the tension. Getting to 82, he finally hits his limit. Immediately dropping on his stomach and rolling onto his back and pressing on with sit-ups without any rest. He gets past the 100s till he feels the burn and then finally stopping.

Jumping onto his feet, He begins his squats. With feet at shoulder width, back straight he descends. His knees bend and with him going low enough to break parallel with the ground with his thighs. Izuku blasts off out of the squat and extends his legs completely. Doing the same thing over and over, He reaches to the 90s until his legs refuse to move.

Standing at full height after all of this. Izuku proceeds to the bathroom to shower off the worked up sweat. After his shower and the usual brushing of teeth. He begins getting ready to school. Deciding to get there early and eat breakfast there.

As he is walking, he reviews his workout. 'That was too easy. Suspiciously easy.' He continues his way to school. As Izuku crosses the street, he hears a car roaring down the road with sirens in the background. Looking to his right he is greeted with a scene straight out of the movies. With a dark blue car with tinted windows. So tinted it was pitch black. The car was barreling down the road leaving a trail of money flying out of the trunk. Behind the truck three police cruisers are racing with the car. The cops trying their best to stop the crooks.

Izuku still being in the middle of the road, the car is heading straight to him at full speed. His eyes widening to the point his eyes are about to pop out of his skull. Stricken with fear, He unconsciously takes a deep breathe. That breathe being the catalyst for his brain to immediately kick into overdrive. With his heart pumping furiously, adrenaline floods his veins. Everything starts slowing down around him. Like everything is in slow motion. Izuku's brain demands his legs to start sprinting. Faster than anything he has experienced in his life.

Izuku lands on his hands and knees on the sidewalk. Five meters away from his previous spot on the road. Seeing this his brain cuts off the switch. Everything speeds back up to normal. Taking huge gulps of air, trying to get his breathe back. Izuku hears a loud crash. Looking behind him he sees the same blue car lodged inside of the side of a green pick up truck. Thankfully the driver of the truck appears to be fine. As he gets out of his truck and proceeds to run to the driver door of the blue car. Rips out the criminal of the car and throws him on the pavement. The mighty truck driver begins to deliver a swift and a well deserving ass kicking on the crook.

The authorities soon arrive and detains both of them.. Poor truck driver gets to share a seat with the bastard that wrecked his beautiful truck in the same squad car.

Getting up off the ground. Izuku stands at full height. His heart still pumping hard. With shaky legs, he runs off to school.

Being the first to arrive at his classroom, he sits at his desk to calm his still rapidly beating heart. Taking calming breathes. He begins to analyze what exactly happened. Thinking back, all he can remember was seeing the car about to wipe his existence from the living word. Then suddenly being on his hands and knees on the sidewalk.

Closing his eyes and calming his breathing even further. Izuku clears his mind. Only focusing on the accident. 'I see the car heading towards me. Then..' Reliving the memory, Izuku sees with his imaginary third eye. Everything slowing down and himself not effected by the mysterious event. Then he sees his memory self quickly running to the sidewalk and diving onto his hands and knees.

After seeing it for himself, Izuku slowly opens his eyes only to see his favorite bully. Katsuki Bakugo, glaring at him hatefully. "May I ask why you are staring at me?" Izuku asks with his hands folded on his desk.

"CRAM IT NERD! I don't need any permission from you! I can do whatever I want, DEKU!" Saying that last word with a heavy amount of distain.

Not bothering to reply, Izuku begins to look out the widow.

For Bakugo, this was offensive in his eyes. Getting up from where he was staring Izuku down. He stomps his way over to his targets desk. Slamming an explosive powered hand on the desk, making shake violently. "DON'T you DARE ignore me!"

Reaching out to grab Izuku's collar with his right hand. Reacting faster than Bakugo could even think. Izuku snatches the bully's wrist his own right hand. Pulling Bakugo's arm towards his right, turning him around. Izuku, in a flash uses his left arm to wrap Bakugo into a head lock. Slamming his upperback onto the desk. Letting the bullies legs dangle from the opposite side of the desk. With Izuku forcing half of Bakugo's weight on the ground and onto the desk. Forcing the desk to dig painfully into the bully's spine.

Leaning into the potential tormenter. Izuku with a calm and quiet voice, "don't even think that you can touch me. You have no authority over me. I don't care that you have a powerful quirk. Do something like that again and a I will do something worse."

Bakugo with wide eyes and in tremendous pain nods his head rapidly. Once seeing this Izuku lets him go. Getting up, Bakugo walks back to his desk in silence. Obviously in a state in shock that someone that was deemed weak in his eyes is actually strong. Stronger than him. He grits his teeth hard. Furious that a quirkless loser is stronger than him. He vows to himself to train so something like this will never happen to him again.

After this, the class starts filling up with Izuku's classmates and they all get their own desks and start preparing for the best day of the week for school. Friday. They all begin to converse with one another, not once attempting to interact with Izuku, because of his quirkless status. Not caring one bit, he begins to look out the window and loses himself in la la land.

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With school over and done with for the weekend. You can see Izuku in a handstand leaning his body against the tree for balance. Doing handstand pushups since regular pushups are too easy for his tastes. With the increased weight. Izuku gets half the number of reps in compared to the reps he did this morning. Not even feeling sore, he gets on his feet and runs to the nearest playground. Once he arrives, he goes to the monkey bars and climbs up them. Sitting on top of them he goes to the side of the bars. Leaning back to a fall and catching himself with his knees. He is now hanging upside down on the monkey bars.

Doing his advanced sit ups, He is unsure what to call this. He begins his reps. Much harder than normal sit-ups as you can imagine. While doing his reps, Izuku hears a young voice, "What are you doing?"

In Izuku's case he looks up from where he is hanging. Seeing the owner of the voice, The person seemed to be about Izuku's age. The person was wearing a sky blue hoodie with the hood up and sunglasses. Preventing Izuku from seeing their hair and eyes. The person had their hands in their pockets and wearing dark blue deans with black sneakers. Not sure whether or not if this stranger is a boy or girl. Not really caring anyways, he ignores the person and continues his reps.

"Hey!" the young childish voice shouts out.

Izuku for his part finishes the monkey bar workout. Gets up into a sitting position, still on top of the monkey bars and looks down to the kid. "What do you want?" Izuku askes with a curious tone. As if this was the first time the random kid questions him.

With a frown, "Why are you doing that? That's not how you climb those bars."

"I'm training to become a hero." Responds the hero in training.

"A HERO!?" The kids hollers out, "That's so cool! What's your quirk!"

"My quirk?" Izuku parrots the question.

"Yes!" The kid screeches out, a little too fast.

"Don't got one." Izuku says as he starts climbing off the monkey bars and landing on his feet.

Once registering what Izuku's words, the hoodie wearing menace drops their jaw in shock. "There is no way you can be a hero without a quirk! All heroes have a quirk. How can you be a hero if you are quirkless?" Genuinely curious to know Izuku's plan to become a hero.

Izuku calmly looks into the sunglasses of the no name kid and says, "Being a hero is not about the strength of one's quirk or becoming famous. Being a hero simply means doing the right thing where it counts." Walking up to the stunned child, Izuku pokes the kid's chest where their heart is. "Putting one's safety above yours is important. Saving their heart is what truly matters."

With his piece said, Izuku runs off to go home.

The child watches Izuku's retreating back, truly awed about what was said. Storing this moment into the memory banks. The hoodie wearing stranger realizes that they have never exchanged names with the electric green-eyed boy.

'Oh well, maybe when I see him again, I don't think I can ever forget his words, especially those eyes.' Then the hoodie kid leaves the park and goes back to once whence they came.