Calm Before The Storm
A New Hero

"It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before."
- Carli Lloyd-

Key
'Hey' - Thoughts
"Everyone!" - Normal Speech
"Thanks" - Electronic
*For* - Sound Effects or Actions
"Reading!" - Super Moves or Author

~ A new story has begun ~

The next day, Izuku went through the same old, same old, boring classes before he was finally let out and went to the police station to find whoever Detective Tsukauchi is. But when he entered, a receptionist at the desk already asked him if he needed something. "Young man, how can I help you?" She asked as the woman had black hair and hazel eyes, but would blend in with most crowds of people.

"Yeah, I need to meet with a Detective Tsukauchi. Are they here?" He asked as the woman pulled up a phone a dialed a quick number. Shortly after, a black-haired man with black eyes who wore a tan or beige colored trenchcoat and hat, but some slacks and a dress shirt underneath that.

"Izuku Midoriya? *Izuku nods* Follow me then." He said as Izuku followed him to a simple and slightly messy office where Tsukauchi (that's his last name) sat down behind the desk while Izuku sat across the desk from him. "You're here to get that form for your license, right?"

"Yes," he said before being given a few papers on a clipboard.

"Fill these out and I'll give you your license."

In a matter of minutes, Izuku filled out some basic information about himself like his date of birth, address, and many other things. And he received his license which somehow got a mug shot of him, but everyone knows it was through anime logic and fanfiction realism. Though, he decided to just walk home without questioning the picture but kept on the lookout for a villain. Of course, there was a villain who just stopped downtown traffic with a giant flytrap sprouting in the middle of the street.

"Come on, where are the heroes!?" He called out from the confines of the flytrap's jaws or leaf objects. "At this rate, I should've just taken the bank!" He joked a bit as Death Arms tried to get close, but another flytrap burst from the ground and almost snapped him in half, had he not kept the jaws open.

Out of instinct, Izuku went into an alley and changed out of his uniform into a hoodie and jeans, leaving his clothes in his oversized backpack in the alley. Bursting through the alley, Izuku was encased in his Star Shroud as his hoodie only left his eyes to be seen by their green glow, but he jumped onto a lamppost before he stood on it calmly.

"Hey, Green Thumb! You want a hero, well here I am!" Izuku shouted before jumping towards the giant flytrap but went over it as he reeled his fist back and punched right when he was above the monstrosity of a plant. Which not only released its jaws but caused the villain to fly towards the ground and break apart the stem until he was unconscious on the ground. "Death Arms, you okay?" He asked as the other hero broke the flytrap still trying to bite him.

"Yeah, kid. Thanks for the save, but didn't we tell you to stay out of trouble." He replied as Izuku just laughed a bit.

"I'm a hero, my job is to help people. And I hope you aren't mad about me taking down the villain for you." He said as he jumped into the alley and grabbed his stuff, but was stopped by the cops who didn't see the fight.

"Hands in the air! Right where we can see them!" One of them called out.

In response, Izuku turned around and put his hands in the air. "Sorry, you need to see my hero license or something?" He asked almost sarcastically as he grabbed his new license and threw it towards the small group of officers.

They caught the card and looked it over before giving it back to Izuku. "Sorry for the mistake. You seemed a bit shady just jumping into an alley after that villain was defeated." Then, they left without any more questions and so did Izuku.

Izuku went home which was uneventful as always, if not for that flytrap guy. Though he wasn't very difficult to defeat, at least Izuku would be getting paid for it and could possibly get himself and his mom out of that cramped apartment. But by the time he got home, his mother was in the middle of working out... in the living room... in yoga pants and a sports bra... you see where this is going?

Note: Not sure if I said this, but Inko will be skinny from now on.

He just kind of... stood there until she noticed him and didn't seem bothered at all, compared to Izuku who had a light pink blush across his cheeks. "Oh, Izuku. I didn't see you there." She said happily as she got up from doing the splits, and her body was nearly on full display.

"I-I suppose so..." He said uncomfortably as he used his quirk to go to his room. 'Can't even talk to Kaa-san without stuttering... if I'm going to get a girlfriend, it's gonna be awkward.' He thought as he put his bag down and noticed a black and green trimmed messenger bag sitting on his desk, with clothes folded right next to it.

The clothes were a simple pair of form-fitting pants, a green hooded cloak, a normal black tee-shirt, armored gloves, and a pair of boots. All of the clothes were black besides the cloak, but everything except for the shirt and pants was trimmed in gold. Quite a simple design that would be sure to make an impact.

A/N: If you've watched Bakugan, this is Shun Kazami. Focus on the outfit, he just kind of popped up in the search results.

'Might as well try it on, Kaa-san must've bought it for something important.' He thought, not giving too much time to think about it as he slipped the clothes on, which were form-fitting but was easy to move in. Once he left his room in the clothes, Inko was squealing like a girl in high school seeing their celebrity crush.

"You look so cool, Izuku!" She squealed as she hugged him, which made Izuku stumble back and hit the wall. She immediately stopped hugging him and controlled her excitement. "I made you those clothes for your hero outings, aren't they great?" 

Though he didn't respond immediately and activated his quirk for a few seconds, examining if the clothes could survive his 5% form because his normal clothes couldn't last too long with the stress. But the clothes didn't even start to get stressed as it stretched to fit Izuku's body perfectly. "It's perfect, Kaa-san. I think I might go out for a field test later."

"Oh, then don't forget your wallet and ID. Also, remember to hand the villain to the authorities to get the pay." She doted as Izuku grabbed everything he would need and put it in a cloak pocket. And once he was done, he headed towards the door but was stopped by Inko again. "You're a hero now, Izuku," she said before bursting into tears of joy.

"You're right." He said as he looked at his over-affectionate mother. "And I'll make you proud too!" He shouted before jumping out of the apartment and towards the bustling city just as everyone went calmly about their day. But they would point at the young hero as they recognized him, though few did, Izuku was just happy anyway.

~ Time Skip ~
~ Brought to you by Izuku jumping through the city ~

Jumping around the city, Izuku's first official patrol was uneventful... until he... nevermind it just wasn't interesting. Of course, he saw a few other heroes casually walking around town with their sidekicks like Mt Lady, Kamui Woods, and Death Arms. They seemed quite happy though, gotta admit that if anything is going on for them.

"What to do?" Izuku asked himself as he sat on the edge of a roof, peering over a peaceful city from maybe 20 stories high. "I don't have to worry about UA, school is simple and boring, then training is left. I need to get just 10% of what I have under control, but who knows if all I have now is only a fraction of One For All's true power."

And breaking him out of his broody monologue was the sound of police sirens zooming across the city. So he shut up and started running along the rooftops to follow the authorities, eventually arriving at a bank robbery. "Come out with your hands up!" Shouted an officer with a megaphone.

In response, a bullet was shot through a window and whizzed passed one of the officer's head. Which left the officers to hide behind cover and wait for heroes to arrive on the scene, so Izuku jumped from whatever rooftop he was on to the top of the bank. But as he landed, 4 cat-themed heroes arrived who called themselves the pussycats, though they all wore dresses... even the guy...

"Villains, we have you cornered! Come out peacefully and no one gets hurt!" Shouted a woman in a red dress. This woman was Mandalay, a woman who can use telepathy to send someone a message, but not the other way around. "Ragdoll, how many civilians are in there?" She whispered to a green-haired woman with a yellow version of the cat-themed outfit.

"About 20 inside the bank, but someone's on the roof." She replied as the team looked at Izuku who saluted them as if to declare that he was working with them.

Without any words, Izuku activated his 5% Star Shroud as he gently opened the door to the roof and climbed down the stairs warily and as silent as possible. Once he got close down, he could see two men; one guy with a submachine gun holding the civilians hostage while another man who held a handgun near the bank tellers. Though both wore black clothes and were armed, Izuku was more concerned that the vault was open since other villains could be in there.

Yet before he could analyze the situation further, the submachine gun guy whipped his head around to look at the young hero and aimed his gun at Izuku. "Hey, get rid of your quirk. We don't need some kid playing hero here, alright?" He said nervously as Izuku didn't heed his warning. Instead, he jumped from the stair and onto the wall to get a boost before tackling the villain who went to the ground without a fight.

Then, Izuku was left crouching down on the man as he grabbed his shirt and rolled to the side, throwing the villain through the window and into the range of the authorities. "Too bad, I'm not playing hero." He said as he heard someone scream, only to turn and see the other villain holding his handgun up to a teller's head.

"Leave us be and I'll let this lady live. Maybe even get a few shots into you too." The man said as Izuku saw a blonde woman in the blue pussycat outfit move in his peripheral. 

"Fine, I won't attack." He said as a being of cement appeared out of the ground behind the villain. "But I had some backup." He said as the being grabbed the villain and started to suffocate him before leaving him on the ground, unconscious. 

But out of the vault, another man in all black came out as he shot a laser out of his palm and hit Izuku's left forearm. Though he didn't say a word as the villain hid behind the counter and Izuku crouched down to fake pain as the armor on his left forearm was slightly burnt by the laser while the Pussycats cautiously entered the bank.

Quickly, he used his quirk and crept to the other side of the counter while the Pussycats kept watching the villain. Using his senses, Izuku could subtly hear the villain shivering and moving around just across the counter from him. In an instant, Izuku jumped over the counter and punched the villain's gut, knocking the air out of him before Izuku grabbed his head and slammed it back into the counter, which knocked him out.

"Pussycats, that's the last of them." He said as he threw the unconscious men over the counter before letting the authorities handle their sentence or whatever. While he gave his ID for them to check as well before the Pussycats stopped him from leaving, particularly Pixie-Bob who wore the blue outfit. "Something you need?"

"Nice teamwork there, what's your name?" She asked with her right hand or paw glove on her hip.

"You can call me..." He paused a bit to think of a name, but couldn't be All-Might so he needed something that is simple. "Deku. Call me Deku. Though I'm glad you caught on to my plan, Pixie-Bob."

"Deku? Doesn't that mean one who cannot do anything?" Asked Mandalay as Izuku scratched the back of his head a bit nervously.

"Well, yeah. I want to inspire hope to those who can't help. Since I used to be useless, but I found my use, just took a little more time." He said as Pixie-Bob grabbed him and traced his toned body. "Is this normal?" He asked a bit creeped out at the older woman's behavior.

"She does it with people she likes. A bit desperate for love now." Answered Ragdoll as Izuku pried the woman off of him and threw her away, but Tiger the only man of the group caught her. "We have to go, but maybe we'll see you later, Deku!" She said as the team left and Izuku continued running along the rooftops and finding some work to do.

~ Time Skip ~
~ Brought to you by Pixie-Bob chasing Izuku ~

It's been a little more than 10 months and Izuku's daily routine would be dealing with school, go on patrol, spend time with Inko, then sleep and repeat. Though everyone including Katsuki knows this and is pretty pissed that the previously useless train wreck became a hero before all of them. To be fair, he was called out by some other heroes and heroines to go on patrol with them so he got to skip school, which would make most people envious.

Although it wasn't all great, Izuku had to avoid the obsessed fangirls and media almost every day. While a run in with the Pussycats and a few other hero groups or heroines would end in Izuku running for his life or being strangled by a woman. Though he'd had two certain girls on his mind, he wouldn't admit it to anyone.

Now, he was getting ready for a day at UA, so he got up at the crack of dawn and was ready three hours ahead of schedule. 'Might as well go on patrol for a bit.' He thought before leaving breakfast for Inko and leaving their new suburban home in his hero suit with a black and green-trimmed messenger bag that had all his stuff including his uniform.

As if on cue, a roar rang out through the city so Izuku started to run towards it with a 5% Star Shroud activated, but its power has increased quite a bit as One For All grew in power. Back to the matter at hand, Izuku ran through the streets and leaped from building to building until he saw a man with bones shaped into a spike on his right hand while he held a hostage with the other.

"I'm having a sense of Deja vu," Izuku said to himself as he was crouched down on a rooftop. From there he could see officers waiting for heroes and trying to negotiate with the villain. Without a second thought, he jumped down and landed right behind the villain. "Hey Mr. Bone Spike, say hello to your cellmate for me!" Izuku shouted as he grabbed the bone spike and shattered it just by gripping onto it, but didn't stop there when he grabbed the man and threw him into the sky. "Planet Punch!" He shouted as he jumped up and punched the villain back into the street, face first.

When he landed back on the ground, he saw the hostage a bit more clearly. They were a girl with orange-auburn hair in a side ponytail wearing UA's uniform. "Thank you, Deku!" She said with a bow before she looked at Izuku's face. "Wait... you're that guy who saved me two years ago, right?" She asked excitedly as Izuku could see some reporters making their way through the crowd.

"Yeah," he replied as he picked up the girl bridal style and jumped onto a roof. "But let's talk later, we shouldn't be late for school on the first day." He said before jumping onto a moving train while still holding the girl in his arms, but he quickly leaped towards UA before anything weird happened or would happen with a bunch of fangirls and heroines.

Once they made it to UA, he let the girl on her own two feet before he heard his phone ring. Which he quickly answered before turning around, though the girl grabbed his shoulder before he could start leaping around town.

"My name is Itsuka Kendo! Don't you forget it!" She shouted as Izuku turned around with a bright smile.

"Izuku Midoriya, I'll see you later. But I'm in Class 1-A, so don't get your hopes up." He said before leaping off into the city, not even caring about missing a bit of school since he already knew his homeroom teacher.

While he left, Itsuka watched him leave before walking towards the vast maze of UA buildings. 'Class 1-A, huh? I'm in 1-B, but I'll see him, I know it.' She thought as she entered the first building UA had to offer.

~ Sadly, all stories must end ~

A/N: Sorry, this story is going to be on hiatus for a while. Maybe until late September or Early October, but I know I stopped this super early. Though I might just squeeze it into my schedule...

Anyway, do you have any ideas for this story? It'd be helpful to have a bunch of ideas by the time I start writing again.