251"Ahh, young Midoriya! Glad to see you could make it!" A booming voice rang out as a green haired boy named Midoriya walked up to the edge of the forest, where his blonde muscular mentor All Might stood with a grin on his face.
"H-hi All Might! What's g-going on? Why did you want us to skip the beach today?" The boy asked as he tightened his bag around himself. The man laughed as he powered down into his skinny form.
"Ah, your training is very important of course, but after three months of non-stop work, your body will need at least a little rest. So I figured a nice little sight-seeing trip could be a good bonding experience." All Might said as he turned and started to walk, gesturing to follow him. "I haven't been here in a while, busy with work and all. Even I need a break every now and again and this is where I come when such a moment strikes and I'm in town, thought I'd share it with my favorite student!"
"OhahthankyouAllMightthat'sreallynice!" The boy squeaked out, face going red at All Might's words. The coloring in his check died down a bit as his head perked up, noting the blonde's choice of words. "Wait, favorite student? But I thought I was your only student?"
"Oh uh…Well yeah! You're my only student so you're my favorite." The blonde said, laughing nervously. "Don't get me wrong though, if I had more I'd have a bias towards you probably."
"That seems unfair to the other students though…" The greenette muttered as he twiddled his thumbs. All Might laughed as he stopped near a clearing.
"Well, let's forget that for now. We're here, my boy!" The blonde announced, as he walked forward to a set of seats that had apparently already been set up, presumably by the pro. Both took a seat and the boy turned to his mentor when he started to talk again. "So, how has the training been going at home? Sticking to the schedule?"
"Uh…Yeah, of course!" Midoriya said nervously, feeling slightly guilty. He had actually calculated to allow for more training, but somehow he felt like that wasn't what the man wanted to hear so he didn't mention it.
"Glad to hear it, so how's life been despite that?"
And so the mentor and student continued to talk about their lives and the mundane, neither knowing of the even waiting for them later that day that would change everything.
Red lights flashed.
Screams were heard.
Gunfire sounded.
A solider felt their body tense, the lights flash into darkness and back into the red glow.
A towering figure stood at the end of the hallway.
Another flash.
The figure stood above them.
The solider last thoughts were of their family.
"How did he even find out about it?! The project was supposed to be sworn to secrecy!"
"It's him, anything's possible!"
"What do we do?! If he gets it we're screwed!"
"Are those scanners working?!"
"Yeah why?"
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"Drop it. DROP IT NOW!"
"-And that's why everyone started calling me the fudge doctor in my second year." All Might finished a story he was telling with a smile as Midoriya tried his best not to get lost in a fit of laughter.
"S-so…Oh god….So, these forests All Might…" Midoriya began as he recomposed himself. "You said you come here to r-relax? Is there anything other than this area?"
"Well, there's a river over that way if you want to have a look, following it down leads to this really pretty area with a lot of wildlife." The blonde said as he pointed off further into the forest. "It's a bit far though. Tell you what, you walk on ahead a bit while I finish something here."
"Oh ok. You won't be long?" The boy asked as he packed a candy bar into his pocket. The older man give him a smile as he waved him off.
"Just a minute or two, don't go too far though! If you can't see this clearing anymore turn back and re-trace your steps until you can see it again. Your mother would kill me if you got lost." The pro said as he pulled out his phone. "See you in a moment, young man."
"See you." The greenette said as he turned and made his way into the forest. Most of the trees were thin and pretty sparse, not having many leaves at all. Midoriya knew it to be a side effect of an odd quirk from a pro hero who frequented this particular part of Musutafu a few decades past.
As the boy walked he reflected on the training he had down so far with his mentor, the many hard days on the beach, some of which had ended with him collapsed on the ground once the man was out of sight.
He flexed his arm idly as he looked at it, he felt like he should have been stronger than he was from the exercise he had done, yet at times it felt like he had regressed somehow.
The gym had never been his thing so he had no idea if that was normal or not. Sighing he stuck one of his hands into his pocket to protect it from the slight nip of the cold.
It was nice knowing, sometime soon he would finally have a quirk after so many years of being powerless. Still, a part of him did feel slightly bitter that everyone else was lucky enough to just be born with powers while he had to put his body through hell just to have a chance at having a power.
He stopped at the top of a small cliff. Turning to check that the clearing was still in sight a single thought ran through his head.
'Life is a jerk sometimes.'
Noting that he had walked too far he sighed and started to make his way back when the floor beneath him crumbled and his eyes widened as he suddenly felt the world spinning as he fell. He felt his head bang against the grass. He groaned, dirt covering him.
'Yeah, like that.'
Pushing into the ground and lifting himself into a sitting position he held his head as he let out a small hiss of pain. Shaking his head lightly he cursed his luck and hugged his legs to himself. He'd walk back in a moment when his head didn't hurt as much. Looking down he saw a few flecks of blood from something he must fo cut open and sighed.
He berated himself slightly for his negative thoughts as they turned to all might and all the man had done for him over the past few months.
"I need to stop complaining and just get on with it. So One for All's hard to get, it's not like another option is going to fall out of the-"
BOOM!
His eyes widened as he looked up into the darkening sky, a bright light in between the dark barreling down. At first it seemed to be a shooting star…and then the light got bigger. And bigger.
And then it got way too big and the boy could feel the heat picking up. He immediately jumped off to the side, barely avoiding the collision the apparent meteor made.
Looking back, jaw opened wide and eyes blinking slowly he watched as the glow died down and saw the crater left behind. Then he finished his sentence. "-Sky"
At this point, he was sure SOMEONE was messing with him.
"All Might! Can you hear me?! You should get over here please!" The boy shouted as he carefully edged closer to the crash site, which glowed a soft orange. Upon closer inspection he was surprised to see the mysterious object that had almost left him in pieces was actually something metallic and not a space rock. "ALL MIGHT! I'M OVER HERE! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME YOU REALLY SHOULD GET OVER HERE!"
He took step forward to get a closer look, misjudging his step and accidentally stepping over the hole of the crater and falling in. It didn't hurt nearly as much as his last two dives to the ground but he was starting to notice a pattern with the day.
Rising to his feet he cautiously edged to the mysterious object, his natural curiosity peaked. He was in for a surprise when the object actually opened up, revealing it to be a storage for something inside.
"Is that a…watch?"
The boy got closer to check and he was certain, it was a definitely a watch that had fallen out of the sky. Its face was in the shape of a square with rounded corners, the strap had a black trim on the outside with the inside of the strap being a dark green. The watch face itself had two white bars that gave the illusion of an hourglass with the green color of the face, while the other side of the bars on the outer edges of the face where black. Midoriya didn't even notice the glow it was emitting had turned green.
"Weird, what the heck was this doing falling through the sky?" The greenette wondered as he stuck his hand out over it. He wasn't intending to touch it, just to hover his hand over it and see if it was still warm.
The watch had other ideas. Suddenly without warning the device flew up, out of its storage and unraveled its strap before it lunged onto the quirkless boy's wrist.
"Ahh! What the heck, get off me, get off!" The boy shouted as he started flailing his arm and prying at the device to no avail, ultimately slipping on his feet in his panic and ending up on the floor once more.
He quickly got up and climbed out of the hole, looking for a way back to the clearing. The way he was fallen was too high up for him to climb back and there was no obvious quick way around. 'Dammit!'
He stopped looking around as he let out a heavy sigh, looking down at the device on his wrist, bending down and picking up a stick in his line of sight. 'Why is he taking so long?'
He tried to pry the watch off but its surface seemed to stick to him, refusing to budge. The boy gave up on the stick idea when the piece of wood suddenly snapped in half. 'Maybe there's a release button?'
Tapping around the edges of the watch he probed for such a button, eventually he had both his fingers over the left and right edges of the watch where there was no strap as he could feel that they were lose and able to be pushed in. 'There, that should be the release….if this is like an actual watch at least…'
Pressing in the sides the watch didn't let go of his wrist however something else did happen, the watch face popped up, revealing itself to be cylindrical in shape. In the middle of the green hourglass shape, parts of the lights turned off to make a black silhouette of a muscular looking person with flat round feet and a tail, as well as a square head.
"What the heck?"
Ok, he was starting to feel like he was just repeating himself at this point. Shaking his head, he placed his hand over the face. He only intended to push it back in to turn it off, he probably should have realized that just because it was what made sense didn't mean the watch would actually turn off.
As soon as the watch face clicked back inside, his body went numb for a moment before a bright green light exploded from the watch, making the boys eyes go wide. "AHHH-"
The light engulfed him for just a moment before it dissipated and where a green haired and wide-eyed 5 foot tall teenager once stood there was now a hulking 12 foot tall dinosaur-like creature with brown scales and green eyes, and the symbol of the watch the boy had on his wrist now was placed upon his chest. His voice was much deeper as well as he continued to scream. "-AHHHHH!"
Looking down at himself he saw he was now eye-level with the top of most of the tree's. Looking down at his hands he saw there were now small claws at the end and his palm was big enough to completely wrap around most people. He felt his new tail swish around behind him as he looked over his new body. "What the hell is this watch?!"
Turning around his tail tore through one of the trees and he flinched as it was completely torn out of its place in the ground, falling over and causing a large thud. 'Oops…'
He turned to check the damage and in the process knocked over another two tree's, causing him to twirl back around and once more destroy another tree, half the forestry next to him was on the floor by the time he realized he should just stay put. "Why is this happening?! What even am I?!"
"I AM HERE!" A new booming voice announced and the giant let out a sigh of relief as he turned to his mentor who was in his muscular form, sunken eyes and wide smile prominent.
"Oh good. All Might!" He said as he took a step forward. 'At least now it can't get worse.'
"What have you done with Young Midoriya?!" The blonde demanded as he raised his fists into a fighting position to show he was serious. The boy's new mouth went dry. 'I just had to jinx it.'
"Wait All Might, it's not what it looks like."
That was a bad choice of words, especially as the hero looked past him to where the boy knew the massive crater to be. The crater that he had fallen next to and banged his head on, where some of his blood was.
And of course, because he was amazing, the man noticed. The smile disappeared off his face.
All Midoriya could do was gulp as the man turned to him, and clearly was preparing to fight.
'Crap…'
