MHA: All For Me

I'm not really sure how to feel. Stunned might be the best word. One moment I'm living my best life, well maybe not the best life but it was pretty good, then the next second I wake up in the bed of a 14 year old Japanese kid named Midoriya Ken. That sounds weird now that I think about it.

I didn't wake up next to a little boy or anything like that, well I did but not in the way it sounds, I woke up as that little boy. I remember being that little boy. I remember the excitement I felt towards the heroes that were essentially worshiped in Japan, my twin brother's love of All Might, and the despair we both felt when we were told we would never get Quirks of our own.

Did I mention I was reborn in the My Hero Academia universe? Maybe I should have started with that.

Anyway, now I'm in a fictional universe of super heroes, and the worst part is that this place is scary as fuck! 

I watched the anime up to the seventh season, and then read the manga's last chapters based on where the anime left off, and while there were really cool fight scenes it doesn't mean I want to live through them. Nor do I want my new twin to live through them either. 

I mean shit goes crazy, entire cities destroyed with over powered Quirks. I never wanted to be a part of that. I always wanted a screen to be separating me from whatever was happening in this universe.

I look across the room, dimly lit from the first rays of morning sun, absolutely filled with All Might merchandise, to the other bed holding my new brother. He looks nothing like the teenager that has to sacrifice so much of himself to fight against a great evil. 

He's under a blanket but I can tell he's the type of person that could go to a costume party dressed as a twig. 

The memories of my life had integrated seamlessly with me which was a great boon for me. Imagine trying to explain why I suddenly didn't know Japanese if I didn't get these memories.

[Ding!]

What?

[Uploading Message, please wait!]

Holy shit.

[Message uploaded!]

["Hey! As you might have noticed, you've been reincarnated as the twin brother of Midoriya Izuku in an alternate universe of My Hero Academia. This was an error. Your soul kinda slipped through my fingers when I was handling it and ended up here so, Y'know, sorry about that. Anyway, since you have already been reincarnated I can't just reclaim your soul and send you off to the afterlife as I had planned. I've decided to give you an apology boon."]

Is this going where I think it is?

["Since this is a world of Quirks and you don't have one of your own I have decided to bestow one upon you. I asked a bunch of souls from your world what they would have wanted if they could be in your place and a vast majority of them wanted to have a Quirk that could steal other Quirks."]

Oh my god yes. All For One, that's literally perfect!

["There were a lot of different variations but the main thing was that they wanted to steal Quirks. So taking all that into consideration I have decided to bestow upon you a Quirk that will let you see Quirks, get a description of what they do, and reach out metaphysically and pull them into you. You can even manipulate the Quirks you steal. I call it All For Me. Well that's about it, you got lucky enough to get a second chance, don't take it for granted."]

Once I read the last of the message the words that had been displayed in my vision vanished and I was left pondering my new existence.

I'll admit that getting a Quirk like this really opens up a bunch of new possibilities for me. I don't doubt that most people would give up their first born for a Quirk like mine. 

And while I planned on using my Quirk to the best of my ability to live out an awesome power fantasy, I was also worried on how to go about it.

How would I even use it without getting caught? The description of All For Me from the message made it seem like I could only steal Quirks, which by itself is pretty awesome but also had a great feeling of weight to it. 

I wouldn't be able to experiment by taking a Quirk and then giving it right back. If I stole a Quirk that was it. No take backs. I'd also have to deal with the fact that whoever got their Quirk stolen would probably go to the hospital and considering that Quirks were essentially the main way people judge each other in our society, it would raise quite the shitstorm.

And it's not like there weren't people that didn't know that there was someone out there that could steal Quirks. I'd be drawing the attention of All Might, which I doubted I could gain enough power to beat anytime soon, and the attention of All For One, who I definitely don't want to draw the attention of. 

All Might was just a dying man, plus I think I could talk my way out of trouble with him. All For One would just experiment on me or something equally horrible if he didn't just kill for having a Quirk that was pretty similar to his.

"Wake Up! Morning is Here! Wake Up! Morning is Here!" started blaring loudly from the nightstand across the room. 

My brother pops up from his bed almost immediately and starts getting dressed.

"Where are you going? The suns barely up." I ask him as I sit up on my bed.

"Uh– I'm going to start training." He replies uncertainly, as if he hadn't really thought about how to explain his new training regimen.

I knew what he was doing, I watched the anime after all, he was going to train with All Might for the next ten months in preparation for the U.A. entrance exam. Two days ago Izuku went through the sludge villain incident that kicked everything.

"Whatever." I mumble out as I lie back down in my bed and try to sleep a little more. It's not even six in the morning yet and I don't really want to deal with my new reality at the moment.

Izuku has a slightly relieved expression on his face. I guess he didn't really want to explain to me that he had the opportunity to get a quirk and there was only enough for him.

He rushes out the room and probably right out the apartment towards that junkyard beach.

While he does that I get in a couple more hours of snoozing time. 

Let's skip that though. I doubt watching me sleep is going to be very interesting.

When I woke up, and after I had breakfast with my (new) mother, I left the house to walk around. In my previous life walking around helped me think.

While Izuku is going to have the convenient excuse of being a late bloomer, I didn't feel like I would be able to use that as well. Did I even want to try and pass off as being a late bloomer? Probably not. Izuku was able to say his body was just too weak to handle his quirk but I doubt I would find a Quirk that would destroy my body as I use it.

My memories clearly tell me that Ken and Izuku both wanted to get into the hero course at U.A. but now I don't even know if I want to do that. I still couldn't wrap my head around how I would explain the sudden appearance of a Quirk I might use.

Maybe I should try to get into the general education of U.A. High School in case I never figured out a valid reason for having a sudden quirk. That way I'd be close to the general plot and close to a bunch of cool Quirks. 

I don't think anyone would argue with me if I said that a lot of powerful Quirks were concentrated at the Hero Schools and I'm hoping that in the ten months I had left before the entrance exam I'd be able to figure out a way to start copying quirks instead of stealing them permanently.

Speaking of stealing, I'd been looking at the world through my Quirk vision. I guess it was just active naturally but I hadn't noticed I even had it before because the only person around me was Izuku who naturally didn't have a Quirk. It was only when I woke up later and had breakfast with mom that I noticed the Quirk vision. 

I had sat down at the table waiting for my daily sustenance as I usually did. When Inko set a plate down in front of me I noticed something, a faint pink orb of light floating in her chest, shimmering softly within her chest. 

As I focused on it there was a blurb of words appearing in my vision.

[Quirk: Small Object Attraction. User can pull small objects toward them with minimal effort.]

Naturally I had to test this out on my walk.

As I walked around the neighborhood I noticed that everyone I passed by had an orb in their chest. All different. Maybe the color or the intensity or the pattern but all different. And if I focused on an orb I'd get a little description of what the Quirk did.

I saw a salary man with a literal lion head pass by me. When I focused on the yellow orb in his chest I got this description.

[Quirk: Lion Head. User has a head with the features of a lion.]

That was it. It didn't really seem that useful. It was mostly the same with all the other Quirks I analyzed on my walk too. Random mundane shit that didn't impress me. Things like Heating up a person's skin or having the ability to spray paint out of your fingers. 

They were definitely super powers, and I'm sure that there would be some way for it to be useful but I just wasn't smart enough to think about how to make it useful.

Honestly there were some Quirks that I would totally have stolen if I knew I would get away with it. But that's the problem, I probably wouldn't get away with it.

I ended up walking all the way towards an empty park. Little did I realize this is where I would get the answer to a lot of my problems.

I didn't notice it at first but a little ways to the side of the path in the tall grass there was the fattest rat I had ever seen in either of my lives. I don't mean fat as in large or big. I mean this rat was straight up obese. 

It was like looking at a fleshy balloon that had arms and legs. Except those extremities were shoved so far into the fat that there was no point in it even having them. Even its head was engulfed in its own body fat. The skin was so stretched that its fur was sparse, leaving patches of grotesque visible skin.

It was just lying there. I doubt it could even move. Maybe it could tumble around but even that felt like it would be a stretch. 

How did this thing get so fat? I genuinely had no idea how this was even possible. 

That question was answered surprisingly quickly. As I stared at this crime against nature in open bewilderment an honest to god own just swooped down and landed in front of it.

It was holding chunks of meat in its beak, I don't know from what, and it was feeding the rat as if it was its hatchling.

I activate my Quirk vision and see in the center of the rats chest a dark purple sphere. 

[Quirk: Animal Control. Allows the user to control animals, either by giving them commands or possessing them. There is no limit to the number of animals that can be controlled but there is a radius in which they can be directly possessed.]

Holy shit! That's why this rat was so fat. It has a fucking Quirk. I can't imagine a better Quirk for an animal than one that allows it to take over the minds of other animals. 

This rat must be using its Quirk to make all the animals in its radius bring it food. 

Isn't it supposed to be rare for animals to have Quirks? I hadn't expected to immediately find any animals with Quirks other than Nedzu the principal of U.A. High School.

Maybe this is how I can start getting Quirks. If I can find more animals with Quirks then I could just steal those instead and it's not like an animal is going to report me to the police for stealing its Quirk.

I stretched my hand out towards the rat and mentally grabbed hold of its Quirk and immediately it popped out of the rat and flew towards me and settled itself into my chest.

When I closed my eyes I could see my main Quirk, All For Me, floating in an empty void like a brilliant star. I could also see the new Quirk I just stole, Animal Control, circling it and connected by a thin thread of light to All For Me.

Things have gone really well for me so far. I'd found a Quirk I could steal safely without any issue. I already had plans forming in my head to find more animals with Quirks. Maybe I could even try creating a unique quirk by breeding different animals with Quirks.

Opening my eyes again I realize that after I had stolen Animal Control from the rat the owl immediately attacked it. I guess the rats' influence over the owl ended and it did what a bird of prey would do if it saw an obese rat.

I'm just going to ignore that. I mentally thank the rat for its sacrifice and stop paying attention to it.

I activate my new power and my awareness expands to a 100 meter radius around me. And I could feel every creature within that radius, whether it was something as low as an ant or as high as a crow, I just instinctively knew that I would be able to command each and everyone of them. 

I command every animal within my radius to gather around me and I'm met with a thousand pitter pattering of feet rushing towards me.

Everything's coming together.