Reading Time: 17 Minutes Chapter 12: Clearing the Way Very interesting indeed. Izuku hadn’t been entirely sure how this whole thing would go—but he certainly hadn’t expected the experience he actually got. For one, he thought the pro heroes chaperoning the project would lead and organize the effort. After all,…
Reading Time: 15 MinutesChapter 11: Coming of Age (Age 14) Izuku was very excited—and for once, it had nothing to do with quirks. Not his own or someone else’s. No, today he turned fourteen and that meant—finally—he had access to the Climbing Wonder. A towering vertical structure at the edge…
Reading Time: 14 Minutes Chapter 10: Fire and Steel (Age 12 to 13) Izuku was very excited. He’d just turned twelve—and that meant new quirk limits. He could now keep one ghost visible for a whole half hour, or two for fifteen minutes each. And best of all? He only…
Reading Time: 12 MinutesChapter 9: Forge and Fire (Age 10 to 12) The mindscape dawned like it always did—quiet, white, and waiting but Izuku could feel it approaching. Change. There was a hum beneath the stillness, like something important was about to start. Desmond stood near the center, arms crossed,…
Reading Time: 19 MinutesInterlude – Inko, The wind at his back When Inko learned she was pregnant, she was elated. The idea of being a mother filled her with a joy that rivaled—if not surpassed—the happiness she’d felt on her wedding day. And her husband had seemed just as overjoyed.…
Reading Time: 14 MinutesChapter 7: Vindication (Age 10) Izuku was very excited. Tomorrow would be his tenth birthday—which meant he would get another ghost. And just like every year before, he was determined to be there when they arrived. So he’d done the smart thing: he asked both Obi-Wan-shishō and…
Reading Time: 20 Minutes Chapter 6: Eye of the Devil (Age 9) Mido Ban didn’t know where he was—though, to be fair, he hadn’t expected anything normal. He’d lived a long life, maybe too long. After Ginji’s passing, he’d spent decades wandering—adrift, unanchored. He never really connected again, never…
Reading Time: 16 Minutes Chapter 5: The Jedi and the boy (Age 8) Obi-Wan Kenobi knew where he was. He had spent the past twenty-five years as a Force ghost—reunited with his master, reunited with his fallen and redeemed padawan. He and Anakin had made peace, and it had been…
Reading Time: 14 MinutesResilience of the Wolverine (Age 7) Logan Howlett didn’t know where he was. He figured he’d finally bit the bullet—Magneto, that rude fucker, had literally torn him in half. Even with his healing factor, that wasn’t the sort of thing a man walked away from. So standing…
Reading Time: 12 MinutesFire in the Dark (Age 6) Portgas D. Ace didn’t know where he was. In death, he’d found himself in the afterlife—back with the nakama who hadn’t made it. Back with his brother Thatch, who gave him a thorough talking-to for daring to carry guilt over his…
Reading Time: 12 MinutesWick’s Silence (Age 5) John Wick did not know where he was. One moment, he was dying on the steps in Paris—Caine’s blade in his gut, blood spilling onto the stone. The next, he was standing in an endless white void. There was no pain now. No…
Reading Time: 6 Minutes Over the next few hours, Desmond learned quite a lot. For one thing, despite never having learned Japanese—even with his extensive genetic memory—he could understand and speak it fluently. Then there was the location, apparently, he was in Japan (hence the language). Just yesterday, he’d been…
Desmond Miles went from dead, but not so dead in a gray immaterial space, to dead, if not so dead in a white immaterial space. He had no idea what was going on, but from the little he’d seen, it would be interesting.
Midoriya Izuku’s quirk isn’t anything fancy or flashy. But it has the potential, if exploited correctly to make him one of the best heroes the industry had even known. It comes with a serie of mentors, that only he can sees, that all bring that little edge that’ll make him great, eventually.
