Chapter 1

People are not created equal…

That was a lesson that Izuku Midoriya learned at a very young age. Even at 4 years old, he knew what Society is like.

Despite knowing this, it would not stop him from doing what was right. Sure, his Quirk had yet to manifest although he was already four years old, and the majority, if not all of his classmates, had their Quirks.

"Enough Kacchan! Why do you have to be so mean!?" He said bravely despite his whole body trembling while standing with a raised fist in front of another kid who was laying crying on the ground, "You already made him cry! I won't let you… hurt him anymore!"

"You playing hero for this Loser Deku, huh?" replied the spikey ash blonde kid with mean-looking red eyes as he smacked his fist into his palm, activating his quirk to make a small explosion, "Even though you're an even bigger loser than him, you don't even have a Quirk…"

This boy was Katsuki Bakugo, who... was Izuku's friend until he awakened his quirk.

"Let's get him!" shouted another child, his fingers extending until it was twice as tall as his own body. Another chubby child with red bat-like wings that allowed him to hover above the others nodded in agreement as the three boys charged at Izuku in order to attack him.

After quickly ganging up on the dark-emerald-haired boy, with the long-finger boy holding his body hostage with his Quirk while Katsuki and the chubby kid pummeled him, they went off to declare themselves the hero while identifying Izuku as the villain. After all, the heroes always won in Katsuki's definition of a hero. With a derisive scoff, they left him lying on the ground without caring about his well-being.

Izuku managed to crawl back up and away from the playground as the child he had been defending had already run away without even trying to help him. Yet he didn't regret his decision to help, he would help anyone in need, as it was just in his nature to do so. After all, that's what heroes do! Izuku wants to become a hero, just like his Idol All Might, helping anyone with a smile on his face! His definition of a hero was those who could save others, even at the cost of his own. That video of All Might's hero debut certainly made an impact on young Izuku, as he watched it countless times, adding probably over ten thousand views himself. It was his source of inspiration after all.

"Ah, that burns," He cried out as he gently probed his injuries with his small hands.

Kacchan had been amplifying his punches with explosions upon impact, as his quirk allowed his sweat to excrete a chemical similar to nitroglycerin from his palms allowing him to ignite it at will to create explosions.

The chubby one merely had weight behind his punches while the last skinny one merely held him, preventing Izuku from escaping or even defending himself.

"One day, I'll get my quirk," He declared with raised fists up to the blue sky, "One day, I'll show them that I can be a hero!"

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It all began in Quing Quing City in China with News of the birth of a mysterious 'Luminescent Baby'! Shortly thereafter similar phenomena popped up all over the Globe. The trigger for these newfound Powers was never determined, but as time progressed what was once Extraordinary became ordinary…

And Dreams became Reality! Around 80% of the Planet's Population has developed unique abilities - named Quirks. The World entered a new age— A society of Superhumans! An Age of Heroes!!!

As a kid, Izuku wanted more than anything to become a hero. He wanted to save people. In order to become an inspiration and help guide the generation of heroes after his own.

He and Bakugo used to play hero all the time. Sometimes he'd be the hero, and Bakugo the villain. Other times it'd be the other way around. Every time they would pretend to have a different quirk– or superpower– with their only limit being their imagination.

One day, the dream of having a quirk became a reality for Bakugo. One day in class, he showed off his new explosive power to everyone. When he was little, it wasn't very destructive, but over time, it grew to be a rather dangerous and powerful quirk.

For Izuku that Dream crashed with the harsh Words, "You should give up. It's impossible for him to develop a quirk," said the doctor heartlessly, not even trying to be gentle with the news as he leaned back in his chair.

At this moment Izuku dropped his All Might action figure in shock as the doctor dropped the news on him like a ten-ton anvil on his little head.

"Wha... Is there something wrong with him, doctor?" asked, his Mother Inko Midoriya, a nice looking slim green-haired woman, with a worried tone, "Other children his age have already manifested their quirks, but my Izuku is the only one in his kindergarten that has yet to show."

His Mother was, of course, visibly annoyed by the doctor's crass behavior, but pushed through it for Izuku. The doctor began to explain that by the age of four, said child should manifest a quirk that belonged to one of his parents, or a composite of both, or in special cases even a Mutation completely different from both parents. During the early years of quirk research, it was found that anyone with a quirk did not have a second joint in the pinky toe. The proximal interphalangeal joint was rather useless in the pinky toe for humans, as it wasn't used. This was used to represent the next stage of evolution.

"And since Izuku has two joints in his pinky toe," concluded the doctor with a bored tone as if the young green-haired boy was a waste of his time, "The chances of him developing a quirk is zero, no matter how old he is. We've had late bloomers before, but Izuku will never be one of them."

Crestfallen, Inko guided him while he was completely frozen in shock back to their apartment, unable to bear the fact her child's dream was shattered. As the young boy sat in the room motionlessly, she quickly pulled up the All Might debut video probably hoping that it would cheer him up.

She was aware that he was already being bullied despite his attempts to hide it. But she saw the bruises the small boy was coming home with lately, but he would always try to calm her worries saying it was the result of just playing with others. But even he knows she isn't believing him. She probably can even guess who is responsible for his wounds based on the burn marks around the bruises.

Izuku never wants to make her ever worry about him but at this moment he just felt empty, the world became so bland in his eyes as if it lost all its radiance. His ability to think clearly was lost at this moment.

"Mom," He said with an emotionless voice just as Inko ordered Katsudon to be delivered in hopes of cheering Izuku up, "No matter what trouble you're in, he'll save you with a smile."

Izuku slowly turned his chair and head towards his mom, his eyes already watery and filled with tears, ready to be unleashed, "A super cool hero...That's what I want to be. Can...I still be-"

Izuku didn't get to finish as Inko rushed to her son with tears streaming out of her eyes as she tried to comfort him.

"I'm sorry," cried Inko, "I'm so sorry!"

'That's... not what I wanted you to say,' said Izuku in his mind as waterworks poured out his eyes, 'Mom... I want to be a hero.'

As Inko was forced to update Izuku's quirk registry as quirkless, the news about him being quirkless spread quickly among Izuku's peers despite Inko's pleas to keep it silent. One of the kindergarten teachers was careless to talk to another teacher in front of several children that Izuku was quirkless. The said teacher didn't even bother trying to do damage control, due to a slight bias that quirkless people were placed lower than others from his point of view. The news spread among all the children in the same school, causing Izuku to be a loner, not because of his personality, but because of how different and weird he was.

Quirks were now the norm, and anyone without quirks was identified as weird. Now Izuku had to suffer through his school because of one teacher's tactless mistake that he never apologized for. Even the kid that Izuku protected joined the bandwagon of bullying Izuku as he got his quirk a few days later, not wanting to be seen as part of Izuku's friends.

What was even more depressing was that most of the teachers ignored Izuku in favor of Bakugo or anyone with a quirk. Anything Bakugo did, including bullying, was ignored in hopes of gaining favor. It was not intentional, but the fact was people with powerful quirks were more likely to become heroes, and to be able to brag to others saying that they helped raise a hero or they had one in their class was something in human nature. There was nothing really to gain for siding with Izuku, though few tried their best to make everything fair. Unfortunately, Izuku received the least amount of attention, and any toys he wanted to play with were given to those with quirks.

From a young age, he learned how unfair the World was. But Izuku Midoriya was not someone to give up from a bit of adversity, because that's what heroes do.

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