A/N: I figured I'd balance the scales a bit. I've already got Izuku as a villain so why not write him up as a hero. So I got this idea awhile back when it was revealed that Deku would get six new quirks from the previous holders of One For All. What if the previous holders were other Anime/Manga heroes? I picked out some of the top heroes from anime and manga as the six candidates, so let's see how Deku handles these awesome powers.
The world isn't fair I learned that at the ripe old age of four years old. "Sorry kid it's not happening, you don't have a quirk." Such a callous way of dashing a child's dream thought young Izuku Midoriya as he sat at the computer table playing the old video of All Might's debut, that great smile of his lighting up such a dark time in the world's history. Izuku wanted nothing more than to be like him, there had to be a way right? Izuku turned to his mother standing in the doorway. "I can still be a hero right mom?" He asked his mother Inko who stepped forward into the light of the computer screen unshed tears in her eyes before she spoke as she kneeled in front of her.
"Yes Izuku, yes you can, but you'll have to work hard, harder than everyone else. Can you do that Izuku?" Inko asked her green eyes staring into her son's. Izuku didn't hesitate shaking his head violently.
"Yes mom I'll work hard, so hard!" Izuku said looking into his mom's eyes with renewed vigor and hope. Inko nodded as she wiped Izuku's face of tears before doing the same to her own and standing up.
"Come with me Izuku we're going to visit an old friend of mommy's." Inko said as she grabbed hold of Izuku's hand and led him out of the house and after a cab and train ride they arrived at a small home dojo. Inko walked up to the front door and gave several knocks. They waited a few moments before the door opened and a man in his forties stepped forward. He wore a maroon Gi with what looked like a turtle symbol on the left part of the chest. He had black hair and amber eyes, and boasted quite the physique. He carried a cane with him topped with a roughhewn Jade stone. Izuku cocked his head looking at this man and then at his mother.
"Ah Midoriya-san it is good to see you after so long. How have you been?" The man asked Inko who waved her hand.
"Yoshi I told you to stop calling me that Inko is fine. I'm sorry to trouble you, but I was hoping I could ask a favor of you?" Inko asked as Yoshi smiled waving parent and child into his home.
"As you wish Inko, now what can I do for you and your son I presume?" He asked looking at Izuku who held tightly to his mother's pant leg as they followed Yoshi into a living area and was promptly served tea.
"Yes this is my son Izuku he's four years old, and wants to be a hero when he grows up. Isn't that right Izuku?" Inko said prompting her son to speak.
"Y-yes sir I want to be like All Might." He said trying to smile bravely as Yoshi smiled back.
"That is a fine dream young man I'll be rooting for you, and what quirk do you have if I may ask?" Yoshi said watching as sadness filled the boy's eyes.
"I-I don't have a quirk, but I-I still want to be a hero!" Izuku said defiantly. Yoshi leaned back looking over at Inko getting a sense of what his old friend wanted.
"I-we were hoping you could help with that Yoshi after all you're quirkless yourself, but that never stopped you from doing what was right." Inko said staring into Yoshi's eyes before bowing before him. "Hamato Yoshi please help my son achieve his dream." Izuku looked at his mom before mirroring her gesture.
"Please Mr. Yoshi I don't want to give up, I promise I'll work hard, I won't quit!" Yoshi looked between both greenettes and sighed.
"Izuku this will be hard work, it'll be painful and you will get hurt. I'm not a gentle teacher." Yoshi said standing up as Izuku raised his head. "If we do this, there's no going back, this will take all you have and more. Do you understand?"
Izuku stared into Yoshi's eyes. "Yes Sensei!"
Yoshi smiled and looked to Inko. "I will do what I can Inko, but I can't make any promises." Inko rose from her position and smiled shaking Yoshi's hand and kissing him on the cheek.
"Thank you Senpai!" Inko said before looking around. "I never asked how are the boys and Miwa doing?" Yoshi rolled his eyes.
"Being teenagers and driving me crazy. They should have been back already!" He said grabbing his walking stick and smacking it against a table leg. "They will feel my disappointment!" He growled before looking at Izuku. "Starting tomorrow you will come here every day after school and train under me is that understood?" Izuku promptly saluted.
"Yes sensei!" Both adults chuckled as Inko left with her son. It was just then that Yoshi heard a creak and threw his cane smacking someone in the head.
"Ow dad!"
Yoshi walked forward. "If you think that hurt just wait until you see the training I'll put you through!"
(Ten Years Later)
A boy moves through the crowd like water without so much as jostling a single shoulder until he was at the front of the crowd watching as a Giant Villain was about to be apprehended by the upcoming Hero Kamui Woods. He's wearing a school uniform with red sneakers on the straps of his bag were four different colored wrappings red and blue on the right and orange and purple on the green haired boy whipped out a notebook with "Hero Analysis for the Future #13" on the cover. An older man with a trio of three pointed protrusions coming from his head jumped not having noticed the boy until he heard the mumbling, and wondered when he'd gotten there? "What are you kid a ninja fanboy?" The guy asked as the young boy turned looking at him and smiled brightly.
"Believe it or not you're not far off the mark." He said turning back to see Kamui Woods' Preemptive Binding Lacquer Chain Prison be cut short as a new Heroine stole his thunder.
"Canyon Cannon!" Izuku turned away as to not be blinded by the army of Paparazzi taking pictures of Mt. Lady's best feature. He began taking notes on the heroine as the man who'd spoken to him before began speaking.
"Let me guess kid you want to be a hero don't you?" He asked to which Izuku looked up and smirked.
"I will be a hero." He said simply before disappearing into the crowd heading to his middle school. Izuku walked into class without any notice except by one boy with spikey blonde hair and red eyes. Izuku took his seat as the teacher came in to start class.
"Alright class this is your last year of middle school it's time to start thinking about your future professions…Oh who am I kidding you all want to be heroes right?" The teacher asked as the class exploded with their quirks. Izuku just continued taking notes as the commotion was cut through by the voice of Katsuki Bakugou.
"Oi teach don't lump me in with this gutter trash, I'm the only person coming out of this school as a hero!" This immediately started a backlash among the other students.
"That's right Bakugou you applied to UA right?" The angry retorts were replaced by awe at the fact Katsuki was applying to the hardest hero school in the country.
"Yeah suck it wimps I'm going places you plebs could never reach!" He laughed arrogantly.
"Izuku also applied to UA." The teacher spoke not having noticed Izuku until right at that moment and felt guilty for outing the poor boy. The class immediately turned to Izuku not having noticed he was there until then. Izuku looked up from his notebook. The class didn't know what to make of Izuku. It was common knowledge the boy was quirkless, and yet he managed to keep stride with the top students, and even more impressive he survived Katsuki's bullying without ever getting injured. The kid was a walking miracle, so maybe he did have a chance to get in.
"That's right Sensei." He said simply ignoring the disbelieving looks on his fellow student's faces. Class continued on after that until the final bell rang, and Izuku began gathering his things before kicking his leg out from under his desk and tripping Bakugou making him explode the floor rather than Izuku's desktop as he gathered his things and stood up.
"Where do you think you're going Deku I've got something to say to you!" Katsuki shouted standing up angrily his palms smoking. "You're making fun of me right, thinking a quirkless shit like you could ever get into UA." Izuku looked at Katsuki over his shoulder gripping his bag tightly.
"Contrary to your belief Katsuki not everything everyone does has something to do with you. I'm applying to UA because I want to be a hero simple as that. You don't factor at all." He said walking towards the door only for it to be blocked by Bakugou's goons. Izuku sighed as he heard running footsteps behind him before dodging to the side at the last moment as Katsuki's hand exploded shrouding the room in smoke. The three boys coughed as the smoke cleared out of the room from an open window revealing Izuku to be long gone. Katsuki ran to the window seeing Izuku walking out of the school gates as if nothing had happened.
"I'll get you, you fucking nerd!" Katsuki shouted.
Izuku couldn't help, but chuckle at the pissed look on Katsuki's face as he left the school grounds. "I really wish Katsuki would get his head out of his ass and think about what he says more." Izuku spoke as his phone rang announcing a text. He pulled out his phone in its All Might case. He'd received a text from Mikey. Dude we're getting pizza wanna hang? The text read and Izuku smiled typing a quick affirmative he looked around deciding to take a short cut to the Dojo by cutting through this tunnel. "Ten months left and I'll be at UA I should up my training." Izuku said pondering how exactly to do that. For the past ten years he'd been training with Yoshi sensei to increase his overall physical capabilities. Strength training, endurance, and martial arts. His training was already extreme to say the least. Yoshi sensei was as good as his word all those years ago. "Maybe I'll finally take Raph up on his offer of extra training." Izuku said as he heard a rumble coming from the manhole cover he'd just passed. He turned seeing living sludge spew up from it and shoot straight towards him.
Izuku's training kicked in immediately as he gripped his backpack and ducked under the tendrils rolling to the side as he reached into his bag and pulled out a pair of long, slender, blunt wooden sticks. They were nondescript to be sure, but that didn't make them any less effective. Izuku stood up as the sludge coalesced into a single form and took notice of the armed young man in front of him. "You're making this way too hard kid, but if that's how you want it!" The sludge spoke a thick tendril of sludge shot towards him. Izuku spun both sticks in his hands at full speed eviscerating the slime as it splattered across the nearby walls before hooking his foot into his bag and hurling it at the sludge villain who swatted it aside only to find his quarry gone before he was hit in the eye with some kind of powder. "AAAHHHH!" The sludge villain reeled back covering his eyes as he began swinging sludge tendrils in a blind rage slamming into the walls and ceiling of the tunnel as Izuku skillfully dodged the tentacles. I can't believe it I'm actually taking on someone with a quirk and winning! Izuku thought to himself as he took a deep breath focusing only on the villain in front of him.
Izuku rushed forward before taking notice of the person standing behind the villain and took action by dodging to the side hugging the wall as "TEXAS SMASH!" rang out in the tunnel. The slime villain was plastered across the asphalt instantly as Izuku detached from the wall of the tunnel. Izuku knew that voice anywhere as he came face to face with All Might. "Young man I must say you handled yourself quite well against that villain. I must apologize for letting him escape, but navigating sewers is quite difficult." All Might said as he began gathering the unconscious slime into a two liter empty soda bottle. Izuku was floored this was his hero the hero All Might standing in front of him and apologizing no less.
"I have the perfect apology!" All Might spoke taking notice of Izuku's bag on the ground and the notebook there in with his name on the front. He flipped through the pages looking for some empty space and casually glancing through the notes the boy had made about certain heroes before finding two empty pages and scrawled his autograph across it and handing it back to him. "There you are Young Man." All Might said handing over the autographed journal and stowing away the villain for the police. "Now if you'll excuse me I'll hand this evil doer over to the police." All Might said before Izuku spoke.
"I-I don't have a quirk, but I'm still trying to be a hero, do you think I can?" Izuku asked looking into All Might's eyes. The number one hero looked at this boy with wide eyes. He took on a villain even though he was quirkless, and did a hell of a job as well. All Might bit his lip as he looked the boy over. "You're skills are indeed impressive, but there are some things that skill alone can't overcome. I'm sorry young man." All Might said before jumping into the air unaware that the captured villain had fallen from his pocket as he landed on a rooftop exposing his weakened form. "That kid was really skilled, and he could definitely go places. Maybe he could-!" He thought rubbing his chin as he reached down to his pocket finding that his prisoner was gone. "Oh no!"
Katsuki Bakugou walked down a side alley still ranting about Deku's escape. "Fucking nerd thinks he's so smart the next time I see him I'll make sure to blow him inside out!" Bakugou said as he saw a bottle on the ground and kicked it sending it slamming into the wall and spilling its contents across the ground only for said contents to turn into a sentient slime creature.
Izuku walked along shaking his head. "I know he was only saying what he thought was right, but still." Izuku said clenching his fist as an explosion went off across the street from him. "Oh what now?" He said crossing the street and slipping to the front of the crowd and what he found shocked him. It was the slime villain again. "What's he doing free I thought All Might had him?" He whispered as several heroes worked to subdue the villain.
"He's got a hostage and with all these explosions going off nobody can get close." A couple of spectators said.
"Wait explosions?" Izuku asked as the Sludge Villain turned around revealing he was trying to possess Katsuki. Izuku grit his teeth as he rushed forward past the cordon of heroes towards the villain.
"Stop kid!" Someone shouted but it fell on deaf ears Izuku was focused only on the task at hand as he grabbed his two sticks and hurled them at the villain's eyes watching as he recoiled from the blows to his eyes and releasing Katsuki some as Izuku gripped Katsuki and pulled with all his might.
"You again, damn kid your luck just ran out!" The villain yelled as a giant sludge hand came to smack Izuku into the concrete only for it to be blocked at the last moment by All Might.
"We have to stop meeting like this young man." All Might said before striking back at the villain. "DETROIT SMASH!" The wind from All Might's attack blew away any and all sludge from the two boy's as All Might kept them from flying away. The crowd looked at the hole punched into the clouds before it began to rain.
"Amazing!" The crowd cheered as All Might let go of Izuku.
"You might want to get out of here young man those heroes don't look too happy with you." Izuku looked behind All Might seeing Death Arms and Kamui Woods coming for him and took the pro hero's advice and made a run for it before either hero could stop him.
Izuku sighed pulling out his phone seeing several missed texts from the guys and a dozen missed calls from his mother. "Yeah guess I'll have to miss out on the pizza this time." He said sending an apology to his sibling disciples before preparing to call his mother as All Might zoomed out in front of him like a living freight train.
"I am here!" He shouted before suddenly shrinking into a much smaller and frailer man hacking up blood.
"OH my god are you alright sir, do you need a hospital?" Izuku said reaching towards him. "Umm are you…All Might?" Izuku said looking the man over seeing similarities besides the fact this guy looked like a walking corpse.
"You would be correct Young man I am indeed the Symbol of Peace All Might, and this is my true form." Izuku was reeling at this revelation trying to connect the mighty Symbol of Peace to this frail skeletal figure.
"H-how is this possible?" Izuku asked as All Might wiped his mouth.
"You see this?" He asked raising his white t-shirt to reveal a gruesome wound in his side. "I got this about five years back, lost my entire stomach and half my respiratory system. I can only do hero work about three hours a day now. I rushed off without giving you a proper answer before because I was short on time. By the time I got to the scene of that incident with the sludge villain I was already out of time, and then there you were in the thick of it trying your hardest to help that boy and it moved me to action. You Izuku Midoriya shall take on my quirk and succeed me as the symbol of peace. Do you accept?" All Might asked holding his hand out to Izuku.
Izuku was in shock, could this really be happening? The hero of peace offering him his quirk? How was that possible and why him? All these questions buzzed through Izuku's mind like a kicked beehive. After all this time all the hard work I've put in. The blood, sweat, and tears have given me this. Izuku grabbed All Might's hand tightly. "Yes I accept!" All Might smiled and nodded clapping the boy on the shoulder.
"No hesitation I like that. Meet me tomorrow at Dagobah beach I'll explain everything and then your training will begin." Izuku nodded as he let go of All Might's hand the two parting ways. Izuku headed back home to his worried mother and explained that he simply lost track of time wandering around the city, it was better than the alternative of telling her the whole truth and possibly have her pass out from shock. He went to his room doing the last of his workout routine and homework for the day before calling it a night.
A/N Alright first chapter done, so confession I only have about three maybe four heroes I know for sure, so if you want leave a suggestion on what heroes should be in the One for All pool. As always rate and reviews welcome.