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Before this story starts, I want to go over some information that might be needed. The reason is that I would like to avoid having to type out long paragraphs of information before certain paragraphs.

For the people who don’t usually read the tags or notes at the beginning of chapters, there will likely be stuff in this book that you aren’t/may not be comfortable with. I say this because I know some people are sensitive to certain subjects, so to sum it up, most of the warnings that will be mentioned throughout this story are 

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• Abusive relationships (parent & child type relations)
• Mentioned blood
• Fights (physically and mentally)
• Character death
• Beatings
• Locked up
• Torture

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• If anything was missed, or is added later on, I will try to mention it at the start of the chapter as well as add it to this chapter. 
• At the start of each chapter, there will be a small reminder that there could be something possibly triggering to some people.
• If I ever have anything to say or add, I will add it to the notes at the start of the chapter. I will not post a new chapter every time I have an announcement unless it is something related to the update schedule.
• Chapters will be coming out randomly. There is no guaranteed schedule, mainly because I will be posting around my school schedule. Chapters are most likely to come out when I am on a break, or if I have enough free time to write them out, then they will probably be posted after school has let out.
• I know different authors do different things, so I am letting y'all know that I will be using Military time in this book, mainly because I like military time more, but also because I'm like 98% sure that's what Japan uses to show their time.

Chapter Text

It was a peaceful day in Musutafu, all things considered. Izuku was walking home from school on this sunny June day. School had just let out, and he even ran to the convenience store to grab his mom some ingredients for dinner tonight! Although that peace didn’t last long.

When Izuku got home, he went and set the grocery bags in the kitchen and sat down in the living room to do his schoolwork. Izuku had done this hundreds of times: get home, do school work, go on a quick walk or run, wash up, and sit down for dinner with his mom and dad. Today, however, things were different… Izuku sat down to do his schoolwork and saw that his dad had left the news broadcast on before heading into work, while reaching for the remote, something caught his attention.

“–Newborn just came out glowing–” Everything around him stilled, glowing? How could a baby be glowing? Surely they had to mean figuratively? How else could a baby be–

Then he saw it. A baby. A glowing baby. A bright white light literally radiates off the newborn's soft skin. How is that even possible? Why? Why is this just now appearing? Why is it happening?

He had apparently been sitting there longer than he thought, because he didn’t realize what was happening till he felt a hand placed on his shoulder.

“–zu? Izuku? Baby, are you alright?” His mom? When had his mom gotten home?

“Huh? U-uh yeah, I’m fine… how long ago did you get home?” He turned to look at the clock in the corner of the room, 18:37… He had been spaced out for an hour?!

“Oh! Honey, did you see the news?” His mom turned to look at the TV, seeing that it was already on. “Isn’t it amazing? I mean, I don’t know how it's possible, but it's got to be a miracle! I hear that they are thinking of calling this baby a ‘Meta-Human’. Probably because of the unnatural powers…” Izuku just nodded along with his mom. Sure, it was great, but was this just a one-off thing, or was this going to become the world's new normal?

“Y-yeah… it's… great?” But was it? “I’m uh… I'm gonna go wash up ma… I’ll see you in a bit.” Izuku saw her nod to him, so he packed up his schoolwork and started heading upstairs.

Once Izuku got upstairs and to his washroom, he started the shower and looked at himself in the mirror. “How is this even possible… I mean, come on, A GLOWING BABY!!?” Izuku couldn’t tell if he was mad that some random newborn had a cool ‘superpower’ or if his ‘small mind’ wasn’t able to wrap around the idea that this could happen. But there wasn’t anything he could do about it, so he might as well just get over it…

The rest of Izuku's evening went as it usually did; he got out of the shower, got dressed, and went downstairs for dinner. That was the normal part anyway, that changed slightly because once again his mom brought up the glowing baby, apparently his dad had already heard all about it through work gossip. But again, he had decided to ignore it, sure it was cool, but it’s not like he was the one with the power; it's also not like he could change the fact that it happened.

The next day, Izuku woke up at his normal time and started getting ready for school. He brushed his teeth, got dressed, tried to tame his hair, and went downstairs to grab breakfast from his mom and head out. 

It was just another normal day… Right?

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As soon as Izuku got into class, it was pure chaos. Students were yelling about the glowing baby, talking about how they wished it had been them to get such amazing powers. Yeah, being able to be a human glowstick was cool, until you almost blind someone in a dark room, sure you'll be able to walk home at night without worry, but what about if you're trying to hide or something? So, while yes, the power was cool, Izuku didn’t really think he would want that power. 

When the teacher got into class, five minutes late as usual, he didn’t think anything of it. Well, that was until his teacher started a lesson about the glowing baby and what he thinks will happen because of it. 

90 minutes… An hour and a half was dedicated to talking about the glowing baby. Why were people making such a huge deal about it? Hopefully, it would blow over and people would calm down… Hopefully…

But still, he focused on doing any schoolwork he could, trying his best to tune out this conversation until…

“Midoriya? What do you think about this phenomenon?” Izuku looked up from his desk and up to his teacher.

“H-huh?” He panicked, “It... um, it’s cool? I guess…” He whispered the last part as if his life depended on a good answer. Well, it did, didn't it? Everyone thought this glowing baby was some amazing, superior being. It’s a baby for crying out loud! His teacher looked at him strangely before turning and talking to the class again. That exact moment is when Izuku decided that he didn’t really like school right now, constant glowing baby talk, and no actual learning… You know the main reason they were at school to begin with. He wanted school to be over and wished he could go back in time to a couple of days ago and somehow stop the baby from being born glowing.

Don’t get him wrong, Izuku isn’t mad that the baby was born. He was mad that it was born glowing, and now no one will shut up about it.

When school let out, Izuku slowly started packing up his things, anxiously waiting to get home, finish his schoolwork, and relax for the rest of the evening. Hopefully, nothing would screw up that plan. 

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Of course, something had screwed up his plan!

As soon as Izuku got home, he heard the TV, which meant his dad had left it on again. It wasn’t bad that his dad had left the TV on, just slightly annoying since he still had to study, but there was a very easy fix. Turn it off. But of course, with the way the last couple of days have gone, something happened… 

Another one…

Another baby was born, but this one had tiny horns. Two very prominent dark horns.

But again, he turned the TV off and did his school work. The first one had been shocking, and this one was too, but they were born only a day and a half apart. Maybe this really was becoming the world's new normal.

~~~~~~~~~~~A MONTH LATER~~~~~~~~~~

It had only been a month.. And yet there were now around 996 meta-human babies. And likely more to come. The world had changed a lot over the last month, including the reveal of an ADULT meta-human, which means these abilities have been around much longer than originally assumed. However, despite the world being very open and accepting of these new abilities, this man was not. Although he had powers, he made it very clear that he thought other people didn’t deserve these powers. 

At first, people had assumed he was either lying about being a meta-human, or was simply just trying to scare people… until the ‘accident’. This man had approached one of the meta babies and placed his hand on the baby's head. Luckily, people were filming, mainly because it was weird that this man was approaching one of the babies after claiming to be a meta-human. 

Then they saw it.

The light

A bright, white light.

The light was coming from the man's hand and connected with the baby's head. Then a light blue started mixing with the white, blue moving towards the man and white moving towards the baby. 

The baby had spikes that went down her spine and a small stump of a tail at the base of her tailbone.

That man had suddenly grown large, grotesque spikes down his spine, and a gangly tail grew from his bone.

The world collectively held its breath as they realized that his man had taken the babies' meta-human power. 

After that day, news channels, blogs, YouTube channels, and podcasts, everyone had taken to calling him All For One.

After that incident, Izuku had heard that scientists were noticing that meta-human abilities were randomly appearing in adults. This had shocked the world even more. Especially because All For One had taken the powers of five other people. Not just a baby this time, no. Three adults and two babies had lost their powers, no, not lost… been robbed of. 

Izuku may not have loved the appearance of these abilities, but from what one of the victims had said on the news, it hurt to lose a piece of you, even if it wasn't originally there.

So it wasn’t right. All For One didn’t deserve to take these powers from people, even if he thought they ‘didn’t deserve them.’ 

But it’s not like Izuku could do anything. So instead, he started doing what the rest of Japan was currently doing. Fearing that they would be the next ones hurt. Even if you don’t have a power, that doesn’t make All For One unable to hurt you. In fact, he had done it last week. All For One had attacked a mall.

So instead of walking to school peacefully and enjoying the scenery, he walked warily as if waiting for someone to strike him across the face. Instead of sitting in school all day and doing his schoolwork while absently wondering what his mom might make for dinner, he sat in school, hoping that his mom and dad would be okay. Instead of walking home in peace and doing his schoolwork, he walked cautiously and hastily turned off the TV and rushed through his schoolwork so that he would be able to tell when his parents got home.

So here he was, sitting in class, worrying about his mom and dad and hoping that his family would make it back home safely. 

Izuku was just working on a little bit of math work when the TV turned on. Some students turned to look at the teacher because Mr. Tachibana didn’t usually turn on the TV.

But when Izuku saw the screen, he knew something was wrong. Not because it was the news channel. Not because it was an urgent report. But because All For One was on the screen. Floating in front of Aldera, in front of his middle school.

The only thing Izuku saw was All For One shooting up into the sky while the camera followed him. He was a small dot in the sky… a dot that was slowly getting closer and closer to the camera. A fast black flash. And everything went black.

He felt like he was floating.

Was it water? Or was he flying?

Maybe he had died?

How else would he be floating? That had to be the only explanation, right? He felt a slight, distant, stinging pain. But he was able to easily ignore it. 

He could move. Not stand. No. He hasn’t been able to stand for a while now. But he could roll over and turn his head. He didn’t know what he was floating on, but the sky looked like a pool of stars and light. 

For a while now, there has been a noise(?) in the background. No, not a noise… a voice. It was static and unintelligible, but it was there. 

For a while now, he had been slowly moving towards the voice. He wanted to find out who it was. 

  Maybe it was his mom… maybe his dad? 

He was close now… so, so close.

Almost close enough to touch…

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“Time to wake up, Izuku.”