Chapter 1: And Then There Were 10
In the vast darkness of space, two ships clashed in a brutal dogfight. One was a massive warship, dwarfing its much smaller adversary, unleashing a relentless barrage of crimson lasers. Most shots missed, but one struck its target, triggering a fiery explosion. The smaller ship spiraled wildly for a few moments before stabilizing, quickly retaliating with a precise blast of green energy that carved into the massive ship's hull.
Deep inside the warship, a short, mechanical humanoid with a sleek copper-orange and black body tapped urgently at a control panel, glowing screens reflecting off its cold, metallic frame.
"Hull damage at 20%, but weapon systems remain fully operational," it reported in a flat, mechanical tone.
A deep, grated voice responded, each word dripping with venom. "I have come too far to be denied."
The robotic figure turned, glancing at its master—an imposing behemoth with burning red eyes filled with seething hatred. His monstrous, squid-like face twisted into a snarl, his very presence suffocating the room with raw malice.
"The Omnitrix must be mine, and there is not a beingin the galaxy that dares stand in my way!"
As the creature's words echoed in the room, the ship unleashed another barrage of red lasers, this time blasting a hole into the smaller vessel.
"Defensive systems have been destroyed" another Robot identical to the other informed.
"Prepare to board! I want the Omnitrix now."
Before the Robots could follow orders, the smaller ship let loose its final beam in desperation, one much bigger than the previous directly into where the squid-like being sat, an explosion blinding all within.
While at the same time, the bigger ship shot a beam directly into the much smaller ship blowing it apart, from within the now in half ship shot a small bullet-shaped object before coming apart and letting a much smaller ball-like object out, falling towards the colorful planet below.
"It's not bad to have a dream, young man. Just make sure your dreams are realistic."
To say young Izuku Midoriya, a teenage boy a bit on the short side with dark green curly hair and freckles, was having a bad day would be an understatement.
First, his once childhood best friend told him to jump off the roof in hopes 'he'd get a quirk in his next life' and also threw his hero notebook into the water.
Then on his way back from school was attacked by a villain, nearly suffocating him to death, before being saved by his favorite hero of all time, All Might!
Just when Izuku thought his luck was finally turning around, his favorite hero told him he couldn't be a hero due to his lack of a Quirk...
After All Might told him the secrets of his injury and told him he couldn't be a hero, All Might walked away leaving Izuku alone. That's how he now found himself walking aimlessly throughout the city before making his way to a beach if you could even call it that, with it being covered in scrap and rubbish making it resemble more of a scrapyard than an actual beach.
'Even all might said I can't be a hero..' face down ridden, his chest empty and heartbroken.
' I guess it's time I start thinking realistically, guess Kachaan was right after all' staring into the sky with a sad stare, noticing a shooting star in the afternoon sky.
'it's not fair, why couldn't I get a quirk?!' taking a glance at the shooting star a childish idea comes to Izuku.
"I wish to be a hero..." After a moment of nothing happening the young man snorted to himself, thinking of how childish he was being. Looking once more at the shooting star he noticed something, it seemed to be... Getting closer? No that's impossible.
Or so he thought until the shooting star makes a complete 90-degree turn right towards Izuku.
'Just my luck!' he thought letting out a high pitch yelp as he jumped out of the way, getting buried in the sand that exploded up from the impact of the collision.
"Owww" unburying himself and spitting the sand out of his mouth with a grimace, he quickly Walks towards the massive ditch that was made. Looking down to see what fell from the stars.
'Please don't be Aliens please don't be Aliens.'
Noticing the metal sphere in the middle of the ditch he hunched over trying to get a better look.
"Looks like a satellite or something!" Wondering if he should contact the police or something Izuku reached into his pocket for his phone, unfortunately, this slight movement caused the ground he was standing on to give out and cause him to fall down into the ditch once again letting out a high pitch scream.
Quickly recovering and running his sore bottom from the fall Izuku made his way towards the sphere, as he got closer it let out a loud his as it seemed to open up admitting a green glow.
Looking in Izuku saw a...
"A watch?" Granted it was a cool-looking watch with its green glow, if not a bit bulky but still a bit underwhelming.
"What's a watch doing in outer space?" Curious, Izuku reached towards it with his left hand, only to immediately freak out when the watch seemed to unfold into a slime-like appearance and launch itself onto his left wrist.
"AHH GET OFF ME GET OFF GET OFF" Swinging his left arm like a madman and spinning around in circles before slipping once more on his butt.
'why'd I just decide to grab a watch from space, am I a idiot?!'
Quickly hopping back up and climbing out of the ditch, Izuku tried pulling the watch off but to no avail, looking around he found a small steel poll. Jamming it in between the watch and his wrist he attempted to play it off, only for the poll to immediately snap.
"Oh man this is so not good"
Looking closer at the strange device he noticed a couple of green buttons, also taking note of the lack of time.
'definitely not a normal watch.'
With seemly no way else to get the watch off, Izuku tapped the green button, the watch in response let out a very Sci-fi like noise before the cylinder in the middle popped up along with a silhouette of a humanoid shape.
'Huh?!'
Taking a quick glance around, Izuku slowly pushed the cylinder back down with his index finger.
FLASH
Izuku's vision was blinded by green, his body felt hot, boiling, if not painful for a split second, it felt like a crunchy stretch, his body transforming, red rocks covering him and fire erupting.
Opening his eyes Izuku felt very different, but also familiar in a weird instinctual sort of way, looking around he noticed one thing first.
"I'm taller?!" A very deep and smoker like voice that Izuku could only dream about having came out of his mouth.
"My voice?!" Looking down he noticed something very different.
"AHHHH IM ON FIRE, IM ON FIRE!" Running around like a headless chicken it took Izuku a couple of seconds to process that he wasn't actually burning, well he was, but not in pain.
"W-wait I'm on f-fire, and I'm okay!" Looking at his much bigger hands, he finally paused and took a look at his body, seeing his entire form seemed to be covered in rock and fire. Noticing a strange hourglass symbol on his chest he finally seemed to realize the cause of his new body.
'The watch! It had the same symbol! Did it give me a quirk? Is this even a quirk? Was the green glow some sorta radiation and now I'm a mutated monster!!!?'
His mind raced—panic, awe, disbelief. The sensation of heat crackled over his rocky skin, but the fire didn't hurt. It felt… natural. Alien, but natural. But how was this happening? This wasn't a quirk; it couldn't be. It was something else entirely.
Quickly realising he was panicking he took a moment to calm himself, seeing an old cracked mirror in one of the scrapyard piles he walked up to it and got a good look at his face, he had to admit, he looked pretty damn cool, and the voice certainly helped.
'I gotta get home! Mum will know what to do, or at least take me to a hospital!'
Quickly making his way home he got quite a lot of curious stares his way but no one seemed too worried about him, after all, mutation quirks come in all sorts of ways.
"Looking coo- eh, hot man!" A random bystander said as he walked past.
'well I guess this isn't so bad' Izuku said with a small smile, kinda enjoying the attention.
Suddenly a huge explosion blew into the sky from close by, hearing police sirens in the distance Izuku could only guess it was another villain attack.
Although he had this whole watch situation going on the fanboy inside Izuku couldn't refuse the chance of seeing heroes in action.
"Make sure your dreams are realistic."
The sudden memory at the mention of heroes brought Izuku to a sudden halt remembering the sad truth told to him by All Might.
Shaking his head from these thoughts he made his way towards the explosions, something oddly familiar in the sound, before finally making his way towards the crowd, trying to see the action he moved in between the crowd, people quickly making way for the walking bomb fire in fear of getting burned from touching him.
What he saw made him shake, it was the slime villain from before with some hostage whose face was covered by slime.
'How!? All Might captured him!'
a flash entered Izuku's mind, when he grabbed him he must have dropped the bottles holding him! This was all his fault...
Looking around he saw the heroes holding back, none of their Quirks fit for the situation, then he saw him, the Skinny man that if you told Izuku yesterday was the symbol of peace he woulda laughed in your face, was clutching his wound, steam coming off of his body.
The situation hit the green-haired teenager like a train.
'I'm the one to blame, he wasted his energy on me, he can't power up yet and none of the other heroes have the quirks to stop this monster!"
'it's my fault, I'm sorry, so sorry! Help will show up to save the day I'm sure! Someone, a real hero will come soon!'
The man in the slime's grasp managed to pull his head up, opening his eyes to show -oh no...
Running past the crowd towards the villain, the heroes and civilians could only watch as this Stange fire mutant with an apparent death wish ran towards the Slime villain.
"NO YOU IDIOT STOP!" a muscular hero by the name of Death Arms yelled "YOU'RE GONNA GET YOURSELF KILLED"
"What the?!" The slime villain reeled ready to defend itself as it saw a fire man sprint towards him, his slime bubbling from the heat already.
'W-who?' Katsuki felt the heat before he opened his eyes and saw it, some fire extra was running towards him looking at him with familiar green eyes he felt like he's seen before.
'what am I doing? Why am I running? Why can't I stop? What do I do? What would a hero do?!'
Memories of his page on Endeavour flashed into his brain, clenching his fingers going off pure instincts he span around before hurling a fireball right towards the Slime villain, exploding on impact and splattering the villain into steaming goop puddles all over.
Staring in disbelief for a second at what he just did, he quickly recovered from his shock and pulled Kachaan out of the puddle, said boy let out a grouchy hiss from the scolding hands touching him and singing his uniform.
"S-sorry! Are you okay?" The fiery form asked quickly letting go
"Why'd you do that?!"
"I couldn't just stand there and watch you die!" Stated the fiery mutant, his words striking something in the symbol of peace who was watching from the crowd.
"Don't worry, you don't have to watch, you die along with him!" Turning around the two boys spotted the Slime villain already reformed, the slime bubbling and steaming letting off a putrid sewerage-like smell, raising a blob of slime he got ready to smash the two annoyances into bloody puddles.
"SAVE THE BOY, THIS THING WILL KILL HIM!" The heroes who were watching now getting ready to interfere before it's too late.
Only for the blow to never land, for taking the blow for the boys was the Number 1 hero himself All Might.
"I really am pathetic, pros are always risking our lives, that's the true meaning of being a hero!"
Pulling his arm back, clenching his first.
"DETROIT SMAAAAAASH!" All Might's punch roared through the air, obliterating the villain in a spectacular burst of force, even extinguishing Izuku's flames momentarily.
All Might standing tall raised his arm into the sky as the crowd began to cheer.
"He changed the weather with one punch!"
"All might! All Might!
"He's the goat!"
'So cool!' thought Izuku completely geeking out, trying his hardest to ignore the empty feeling deep down from having his dreams broken by this man. Suddenly he started feeling something though, pain.
Looking at the steam raising of him he and the slight burning that seemed to be getting worse by the second he realized he must be weak to water or something.
'of course I am, I'm a walking campfire!' quickly running away from the crowd as they all fanboyed over All Might, he ducked into a nearby ally that seemed to have a bit of protection from the rain.
'Great now I'm a quirkless weirdo and can't go out in the rain... Wait a minute, I can be a hero! This watch, these fire powers are incredible! Apart from the weakness to water, but still!' just as Izuku was about to go in one of his iconic mumble storms a loud beeping noise brought his attention to his chest, which was currently flashing red.
BEEP BEEP BEEP
In a flash of red light, the watch retracted its energy, and Izuku found himself back in his normal form. Bewildered, he stared at the watch, now a deep crimson.
'Eh? I'm back to me again!' quickly looking at the watch only to see it was now red instead of the green from before.
"Did I break it?! No, I can't lose this—it's my chance to be a hero!" going into a small panic before a gruff voice interrupted him.
"Hey, kid! You see a guy covered in fire come down here?" The gruff voice belonging to Death Arms
"N-no!" Izuku yelped quickly putting his hands behind his back and a strained smile on his face.
"Tch" The hero then walked away back towards the scene of the crime seemly giving up on his search.
'I gotta get home' The green-haired teen said letting out a sigh of relief for getting away with possible vigilante charges.
"What do you mean it's not there?" A pained voice grasped out
The voice was pained because the creature it belonged to was in a bacta tank floating, missing half his body, damaged heavily from the explosion.
"This nearly cost me my life and you say the Omnitrix is no longer aboard the transport?!"
"Our scans have shown use of the Omnitrix being activated, it seems one of the natives of the planet below must have found it my Master" a white figure with a skeletal appearance and fin apon its head, with deep red demonic eyes informed its master.
Vilgax clenched his fists, his breathing harsh. The Omnitrix was within his grasp, and now it had slipped away to some backwater planet. He would not be denied again. Whoever had taken what was rightfully his would pay with their life.
"Psyphon, send the Mother Drone, I will have the Omnitrix"
"Of course Master Vilgax" Psyphon bowed before going to do his master's bidding.
"Whoever is in possession of my Omnitrix, will soon be hanging on my trophy wall." Vilgax sneered, his red eyes glaring at the blue planet before him.
Chapter 2: Aliens Vs Robots
SLAM
"Im home!" Izuku yelled alerting his mother to his presence.
"Welcome home! You hungr-"
"No, I don't feel well..." Izuku mumbled, half-stepping into his room. His mind was too overwhelmed to manage a full conversation. "I'm just going to bed."
"O-oh okay" a very confused and worried Inko Midoriya replied.
'C'mon C'mon' Izuku thought as he walked in circles tapping the button on the side of his now red watch.
'Did I drain the battery or something?! No way that was like 11 minutes at most!'
Taking a seat on his bed and letting out a sad breath, Izuku could only stare at the watch in utter despair.
'great, I finally get a chance to become a hero and I waste it on burning a giant booger... At least I saved Kachaan, not that he'll know it was me, which now I think about it is probably a good thi-'
BEEP
Snapping his head towards his left wrist a huge smile enveloped his face as he saw it was green once more.
"YES!" Happiness replaced the cold pit of worry that had engulfed him as he looked at the glowing green watch, Izuku tapped the button on the side of his watch popping the hourglass up. Just as Izuku was about to turn into the fiery form of his a sudden thought reached him.
'What am I doing? I can't just turn into a walking volcano while in my room, not to mention i'd give Mom a heart attack!'
Deciding to test his new powers out tomorrow Izuku tapped the button on the side of his watch once more watching as the hourglass sunk back into its original position. Hopping into bed Izuku decided to look at the recent news to see if anything was said about him and his little daredevil stunt he pulled earlier today.
'No Way!'
At the very top of his feed was from one of the biggest news publishers in the country 'Harangue Nation' with the thumbnail close up on All Might next to Izuku in his fire form. What really caught Izuku off guard was the title.
"ALL MIGHT SAVES THE DAY, FIRE VIGILANTE ESCAPES!"
"A vigilante?!" Izuku's heart raced. He clutched his phone tightly, his mind spinning. Would this ruin his chance at UA? What if the authorities came after him? The realization weighed on him—was his dream slipping away before it even began?
Deciding to just bite the bullet, Izuku clicked on the video to watch it, skipping past the intro and to the part where a middle aged man sat, he wore glasses and a clean suit, his brown hair greying on the sides. Izuku readied himself for whatever may be said.
"Welcome back to the Will Harangue Nation, our top story's gotta be All Might earlier today in downtown Mustufar saved a young student by the name of Katsuki Bakugo from not one, but two villains!"
"What!?" Vigilantes are one thing but at least it can be looked at in a positive light! Where'd he get villain from?!
"Okay, excuse me I mean 'Vigilante' but is there any difference?! Not only is this fiery menace breaking the law by using his quirk he also got in the way of actual real heroes from saving a young man, Katsuki Bakugo. Who from our investigations, seems to be a model student with a promising career ahead of himself."
Izuku rolled his eyes at Kacchan getting his ego fed on live television. "Those heroes weren't doing anything though!"
"And get this! We got reports from the medical team that was there that the kid had been burned!" The screen changed to a picture of him from when he had pulled Kachaan out of the slime, his uniform smoking a bit.
Izuku jaw dropped in disbelief at such a minor detail. "That was a mistake! And even then he didn't get burned that badly! Not to mention I put him down immediately!"
"Unbelievably some people defend Vigilantes and this hot-headed menace"
The screen beside Harungue showed some tweets.
PinkToon #AllMightMustufar #Vigilante I back him! Those heroes weren't doing anything anyway!
InkTank #Vigilante That fire dudes quirk seemed strong, the heroes were lucky he showed up.
PeanutLover #AllMightMustufar #FireGuy #Vigilante That guy was amazing! One fireball and he blew the slime guy apart! A true hero!
"Obviously ridiculous, but that's not for me to say, no, I leave that to you the viewer on tonight's poll. Vigilantes, Threats or Heroes? Vote now."
"W-well at least I have some supporters" a smile growing on his face and a warm feeling in his chest.
'A true Hero' may have come from some random guy called PeanutLover but damn did that make Izuku feel giddy.
Deciding to finally go to bed Izuku closed his eyes with those words in his head...
After waking up, taking a shower and getting dressed, Izuku told his mother he was going for a walk Izuku found himself at the same beach where he originally found the watch, intending to spend all Saturday here testing out his new abilities.
Tapping the button and watching the hourglass pop up, grabbing it, Izuku decided to twist it, watching as the fire form changed into a bigger much different form... Wait what? "There's more!?"
Twisting it once again, Izuku watched another silhouette slide in, and another, and another...and another, on and on before it finally seem to go back to the fire form.
"T-Ten....There's ten!" Izuku's jaw nearly hit the floor. "Ten forms?!" The thought sent waves of excitement through him—ten different forms, each with unique powers. His mind raced with possibilities. What could they all do? Could one of them make him as strong as All Might? Or maybe even...stronger?
Deciding on just learning the one he knows for today, Izuku once again dialed up the familiar form and pressed it down.
FLASH
Once again the familiar feeling of boiling, though only for a split second, and being stretched in a way that could only make Izuku think of one word, crunchy. After the green light died down Izuku looked upon his firey transformation.
"Man, I look so cool! Or should I say hot? Hahaha" Laughing at his terrible joke, Izuku took notice of a glass bottle sitting perfectly stop an old rusted fridge. A smirk crossing his rocky features Izuku made a finger gun, conjuring up the feeling of the familiar instincts he had yesterday he used to blast the slime villain. The fireball shot from his finger, cutting through the salty air like a missile. The sound of crashing waves faded into the background as it collided with the glass bottle, shattering it in a burst of fire and smoke.
"Oh yeah! Who's bad, that's right I am!" Doing a silly little victory dance that if you asked one certain pink-skinned girl, she would say it was worth jail time. Firing some more fireballs at more random pieces of junk Izuku was having the time of his life.
'Is this what Kacchan feels like when he's destroying stuff? No wonder he does it, this is amazing!'
Noticing some more smoke than from when he was blasting the small fireballs everywhere, Izuku quickly turned around and his eyes? Rock holes? Widened in shock. Before him was one of the scrap piles he had shot at now completely engulfed in flames.
'OH NO!' in a panic, Izuku made his way to one of the smaller flames and began stomping it trying to snuff it out, only for the flame to come back instantly and twice the size.
'Right, I'm made of fire myself, of course, that didn't work!' Shaking his head angry at his stupidity, Izuku quickly looked around before a sudden thought hit him.
Pausing, Izuku wasn't sure why he thought of this but it just felt so right, raising his hands towards the flaming pile, Izuku thought of breathing in and closed his eyes. His hands suddenly felt like they were being put in a nice warm bath, Izuku opened his eyes and watched in amazement as the fire from the flames was being sucked into his hands and throughout his body.
'Incredible!' as the final of the fire was sucked away, Izuku felt as though he was on a bit of a sugar high, laughing to himself in amazement at the action he just performed.
'I can absorb fire?! I could beat any fire villain in the world! Heck, even Endeavour wouldn't be able to do anything to me!'
"I really can be a hero!"
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Psyphon's lips curled into a sinister smile as the monitor beeped. "The Omnitrix is active." He turned to the drone army at his disposal. "Go. Find it." As the Mother Drone shot through space towards Earth, Psyphon's confidence grew. Soon, his master's prize would be back where it belonged.
Said Mother drone landed a little of course, crash landing in a nearby forest scaring away nearby wildlife. Legs and arms protruded from the body and a head popped out, taking a couple of steps and scanning the area. After a minute or two of scanning and seeing no sign of the Omnitrix, two pods on its shoulder popped up letting loose two smaller scout drones that flew away towards the last location the Omnitrix was activated. As they flew away the Mother Drone took time to scan this planet's data, observing its society and inhabitants sending the information back to its master who was watching with great interest.
Back on the ship, Vilgax watched the data with awe, a whole society where every single being has evolved to develop a different ability, a society based on heroes and villains wasn't that rare throughout the galaxy, Vilgax himself has conquered such planets before, bit normally said planets only have a few Champions while the rest of the species is insignificant. But a whole society filled with champions was dangerous even for him, yes, he'd have to be careful how he goes about this, especially considering how his last encounter with a human went...that damn fire-breather.
Looking at the area of the Omnitrix, Vilgax observed the local 'News' finding quite an interesting observation, a Pyronite playing hero, that's not all, directly on the chest of the creature almost as if to tease the Tyrant was his Omnitrix.
'It seems the being using my Omnitrix has taken to playing hero, very well then, I'll give him something to play hero with.' The conqueror thought with a glare as he sends the Mother Drone towards civilization.
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Wondering exactly how he had previously turned back into his normal self, Izuku had walked away from the scrapyard and further up the beach waiting for the watch to timeout assuming that's how it happened, noticing how much less rubbish there was, it seemed people were actually here spending their Saturday relaxing, not many but definitely enough were he was getting a few stares, probably wondering why a man made of fire would be anywhere near the ocean.
Feeling daring Izuku walked towards the water's edge, bending over he slowly put one of his fingers into the water.
HISSSSS
"OUCHH" Pulling his finger out and jumping back away from the water, he waved his now-only rock finger in the air before it ignited once more.
"Jeez, don't know what I expected"
"AHHHH" a shriek pierced Izukus eat as he turned around to see.. a robot?
That's right, a drone-like robot orange in colour was flying into bystanders' face seemingly scanning them with an orange glow before moving on to spook the next unfortunate civilian just trying to enjoy their weekend.
Suddenly another one flew from outta nowhere right in Infront of him, an orange glow shining on him before seemingly zooming in on his chest and turning red. Immediately floating back and pointing a small claw with a red-like circle in the middle directly at him.
"Eh?"
PEW
"GAHH" A red laser firing directly into Izuku's chest sends him flying backwards onto his back.
The on-lookers immediately started panicking and quickly flee apart from a few on-lookers who pulled out their phones to call for help, some even recording.
Izuku groaning quickly looks up just in time to see the robot once again aiming its red claw at him. Moving quickly he rolls out of the way from once again being blasted in the chest.
"W-what the hell's your problem!?" Izuku yelled scared out of his mind.
'Whys is there a robot shooting at me?! Why's there a robot here in the first place?!
The robot in question seemed to pause or was just recharging its laser, before letting out a very robotic voice.
"The Omnitrix" it said before once again firing upon Izuku, who quickly once again moved out of the way by using his hands to fire a jet of fire and blast him out of the way.
'The Omnitrix? What the hell is that-...the Watch! It must be after the Watch! Did this belong to a villain or something? Some mad scientist? If it was government property there's no way they'd just send bloodthirsty robots out!'
Seeing no other option Izuku got into a defensive stance ready to dodge once more if he needed to, clenching his hand into a fist as it seemed to ignite somehow even more.
"Okay, you asked for it!" Letting lose the flames as he opened his hand and watched as fire erupted towards the small robot before exploding on impact.
"S-stay back!" A panic voiced yelled
Turning to the sound of the voice Izuku sees the previous robot now seemingly in a defence mode from having its fellow bot destroyed and was now aiming its claw towards a pink-skinned girl with horns while her friends backed away with scared faces afraid to for both their friend and being caught in the crossfire.
Putting his hands behind his back remembering Kachaan doing this once and blasted off towards the aggressive tin can, within seconds he was on it, grabbing it with his hands and watching as it melted from the pure heat radiating off him.
"Why don't you pick on someone with some realfirepower!" Quipped the fire being while igniting the robot exploding it instantly. The fire man then looked towards the girl and her friends with a straight face and determined eyes.
'Ow Ow Ow, note to self do not hold things that explode with bare hands!'
"You saved me! Thank you so much!" The pink girl said slight years in her eyes from nearly being vaporised.
"That was so manly!" A boy with straight black hair yelled, awe in his eyes.
"Your quirks so badass man!" A young man from the forming crowd said with a big smile while recording.
While more people joined the growing crowd and started thanking him and complimenting his 'Quirk' Izuku's eyes were drawn to the many phones now pointed at him and recording their saviour.
'oh man I gotta get outta here, I do not wanna be on the news getting called a villain again!'
"G-gee it was no biggy guys, I w-was happy to help! Now I ehhh gotta go...think I left the oven on!" 'perfect' just as Izuku was about to make his way through the crowd and to the safety of home the pinky girl from before ran in his way.
"WAIT what's your name!"
'My name?! I can't tell them that! Er quick think of something'
Izuku's eyes darted between the smoldering robot corpses. Burnt to cinders. He didn't have time to dwell—
"HeatBlast! I'm HeatBlast!" he blurted, before panic-marching through the crowd like a man on fire, leaving onlookers to part before him in awe... or fear.
"Heatblast..?"
"Yup! H-HeatBlast! My name's HeatBlast!" The panicking fire creature yelled before bawling his way through the crowd, who quickly moved in fear of what would happen if they touched the walking bomb fire.
'My hero' The pink-haired girl thought before being comforted by her two friends meanwhile the boy in the group could only stare at the retreating figure of the fire hero.
'So manly' noticing some hair covering his vision the boy grabbed it before once again looking at the fire man.
'hes sorta red like crimson riot, all the cool guys are red!' he thought before his eyes went back to his hair, an idea brewing in his head.
As the crowd began to disperse and return to some more beach fun or just simply returning home shaken from the attack. A lone boy a bit on the short side with dark skin and short hair stared eyes wide and mouth open.
'H-he's like me'
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As he made his way from the beach and back into town causing a few people to stare once again, he ran as fast as his legs could take him away from the scene of the fight.
BEEP BEEP BEEP
Looking down at his chest to see the red flash of the dial a small made its way onto his face.
'Perfect timing!'
A massive flash of read and Izuku was back to his regular self, looking around to make sure nobody saw he continued on his path home.
BOOM
The ground shook and a loud boom echoed through the air, with smoke rising in the distance over the buildings ahead.
"Great now what!?" Deciding to run towards the commotion knowing he probably shouldn't but the fanboy inside Izuku couldn't miss out on the opportunity to watch some heroes in action.
Making his way past the building and rounding the corner to where all the smoke is Izuku froze in his steps, standing in the middle of the rubble was a roughly 40ft giant of a robot similar in colour to the ones that had attacked him earlier, Izuku watched as it fought the local Musutafa heroes firing at DeathArms and Kamui Woods while backdraft kept the fires under control along with keeping the crowd safe.
'T-this is all my fault! It's after my watch, the Omnitrix? And now it's hurting people!'
Looking down at the watch ready to help only to grimace as it was still red, Izuku could only watch as DeathArms picked up a car and throw it only to have it be shot by a laser and immediately explode in his face and throw him back hitting Kamui Woods.
"GAAAH, Where is Mt.Lady?!" DeathArms grunted out struggling to stand.
"She said she's on her way! We just got to hold out until then!" Kamui Woods explained helping the much heavier man up.
Unbeknownst to them the Mother Drone froze, suddenly detecting the sole reason it was here, rotating its head it quickly zoomed into an arm of a native that was near a building out of site from the heroes and crowd. Aiming its arm at the native determined to eliminate it and retrieve the Omnitrix.
BEEP
Looking away from the giant death bot for a second and looking towards the sound Izuku could have cried tears of joy from seeing the familiar green of the Watch.
'Sweet! That was way faster than last time!' excited and eager to help Izuku dialled up HeatBlast determined to get rid of the robot that was only here because of him, taking a glance up towards the robot in question Izuku let out a yelp as he now saw it fire a yellow laser towards him.
Panicking Izuku slammed the dial down just in the nick of time as the laser hit directly into him.
Something felt off though, the transformation didn't have that split-second feeling of boiling, no it felt a lot more different yet familiar as the rocky-like build of HeatBlast. As the flash died down no longer stood Izuku, nor HeatBlast for that matter.
'Wait, this doesn't feel like HeatBlast... what the hell am I?'
Instead stood, well not 'stood' as he was on his ass from being shot by a laser, was a crystal-like being with spikes on his back and the back of his head, standing up he looked at his giant bulky crystal arms. Looking at his chest he noticed the Omnitrix dial was no longer in the middle of his chest but more towards the left of his pec, speaking of which he had an entirely new set of clothes!
'wait a minute, I didn't realise before... but was I naked as HeatBlast? Maybe that's why people were staring, oh god!' Shaking the thoughts out of his head happy he was made out of crystal and not flesh so none could see him blush, he looked at the strange yet kinda cool looking black and white suit.
'It's kinda like a hero suit'
Hearing the charge of another laser Izuku looked up just in time to see a laser explode on the ground right in Infront of him blasting him high into the air, the heroes and crowd now turning towards where the robot was shooting could only watch in horror as Izuku was sent flying through the air and into a truck only to watch in horror as the giant of a machine fire a second laser exploding the truck and crystal-like man.
"NOOO" The heroes yelled in rage having just seen an innocent bystander lose their life.
SHLINK
The heroes looked towards the wreckage where a now blade-like crystal arm penetrated through a piece of metal that must have blown off the truck and sliced a hole before the crystal man from before popped out.
The heroes quickly let out a sigh of relief before getting ready to intervene only for DeathArms to fall down with a grunt.
"That explosion from earlier really messed me up" The muscular man stated letting out a hiss of pain
"It's okay! I got this, protect the civilians!" Kamui Woods said before letting out a branch a swinging towards the robot only to immediately pause when he hears a scream for help.
"HELP PLEASE! MY BABY!" A panicking mother screamed in fear as she was in the nearby apartment that was currently half destroyed and burning.
'Damnit! I'm sorry, but you seem durable enough to survive for a second!' he thought as he left the Crystal man to defend himself as he went to help the family in the burning apartment.
Seeing DeathArms unable to get up and Kamui Woods being busy helping evacuate the building, Izuku quickly realised he was on his own against this Tech beast. Looking at his now spiked right arm he had used to cut himself free from the truck wreckage, Izuku once again felt an instinctual familiarity as he conjured even more spikes on his arm.
"Cool" Glaring his eyes now at the giant robot and figuring that the laser from before and a literal exploding truck didn't seem to hurt he rushed in toward it right arm raised back before swinging at its legs.
PSH
Only for it to immediately jump over his swing and 60ft into the air, Izuku could only watch in awe as it spun its legs around with incredible speed before stopping and falling directly towards him.
"Uh oh" was all Izuku could get out before getting literally pile driver into the ground, thankfully it seemed this transformation was durable enough to tank it.
The crowd watched in horror and some with excitement surprisingly some even recording, Backdraft trying his best to keep the crowd safe and fires from spreading, taking a glance at the battle Backdraft watched as the robot walked off the crystal quirked man allowing him to get up, just to instantly grab him in its giant hands and throw him directly into a nearby car, glass shattering and flying over the crowd.
Thankfully he seemed durable enough and crawled out of the wreckage, the crowd couraging him on as he was what appeared to be their best hope.
"Get him, Diamond-headed dude!"
"Yeah, you got this!"
Said Diamond-headed dude immediately jumped to the floor dodging another blast from the giant and immediately got back up to run to cover and direct the robot away from the crowd only to once again have to dodge lasers each zap closer than the one before. One laser blasted into one of the trees planted on the street to make it look nice, immediately the tree began falling the crowd quickly panicked and fled, except for one kid with bright orange hair and holding a bag of peanuts.
But just as he was about to be crushed Izuku came in for the save hopping in Infront of the child ready to take the full blow for him, only to seemingly accidentally grow even more spikes from his back and into effective protection as the tree instantly sliced in half upon impact. The orange-haired child could only watch in awe his eyes for a split second glancing at the dial on his chest.
"You okay?" The crystal man asked in a deep yet almost perfect for hero work voice.
"Y-yeah thanks!" The Orange haired kid replied still in awe of the crystal hero.
His awe was quickly broken though as a giant metal claw wrapped itself around the crystal being's torso.
"Uh oh" was all said before being picked up and having his left arm grabbed and pulled on, seeing what the robot's intentions were Izuku quickly panicked and grew spikes on his left arm similar to what he had done before. This proved quite effective as the robot's left hand exploded showing the components beneath.
Not liking having just been made one-handed, the robot shot a laser with the hand it was still holding Izuku blasting him straight into a nearby building.
Seeing the spikes have been effective so far and actually seemed to hurt it, Izuku made his right arm spiked as well, rushing out of the rubble of the poor apartment building he just crash-landed into he made his way once again in Infront of the robot. Seeing it shoot a laser once more Izuku braced and put his arms up to protect himself, only for the lasers to shoot off the crystal of his arms and spray into a nearby car.
"Oh yeah, it's all coming together now," Izuku said staring at his spiked arms, a plan forming in his head. Running even closer towards the robot Izuku stopped and returned his arms to their normal shape.
"C'mon burn one right here!" He yelled tapping at his chest.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, RUN!" DeathArms yelled from the sidelines, still unable to stand.
The robot more than happy to oblige his request fired right towards his chest, Izuku seeing this quick shot spikes out of his feet digging into the grown and holding his hands out, the laser hit directly into his hands slowly pushing Izuku back.
"What comes around goes around, let's see how youlike it you Technofreak! " The diamond-looking being yelled as he morphed his hands to redirect the laser directly into the robot cutting it in half and exploding it instantly.
"..."
After a moment of silence, the crowd broke Into cheers at their new hero.
"WOOO!"
"HELL YEAHH!"
"That was so cool!"
"Way to go Diamond-headed guy!"
Izuku, will never truly be sure why he did this, either it was from the pent-up adrenaline coursing through him right now or just simply because he got hit too hard in the head during his fight, the crowd could only watch as he did probably the most embarrassing thing in his life.
"Oh yeah! Who's bad!" He yelled doing a weird air thrust before leaping into the air with his fist above his head and slamming into the ground with his heavy body.
Noticing the crowd got noticeably quieter he look up from his little celebration to see the crowd with strange faces and Backdraft shaking his head in disappointment.
Happy they couldn't see him blushing Izuku quickly let out a cough before straightening up and looking around arms on his hips like he didn't just make a fool of himself.
"W-well, I think my work here is done," he said before breaking out in a goofy run down a nearby alleyway, the heroes either too busy or injured to chase him.
Someone in the crowd could only look on in disbelief at what just happened before asking a question everyone in the area was thinking.
"Who was that guy!?"
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Izuku dragged his feet through the door, every muscle screaming in protest. His mom's worried voice was a distant hum as he collapsed at the kitchen table, exhausted but alive. The warmth of the meal calmed his frayed nerves, though every bite felt like it weighed a ton. Later, under the scalding water of the shower, he stared at the bruises crisscrossing his body—reminders of the chaos he'd barely survived.
'Maybe I should start working out, would definitely come in handy if I'm gonna have killer robots after me'
Stepping out of the shower and putting on his PJs Izuku crawled into bed and pulled out his phone to see what the news was making out of him this time. What he saw made him happy he wasn't drinking because he would have spitted everywhere.
'NEW VIGILANTE TEAM FIGHT ROBOTS' it read.
'Vigilante team!?' quickly tapping on the video Izuku once again watched as the familiar man of Will Harangue appeared on his screen.
"Welcome back to the Will Harangue Nation, our top story, it's gotta be Vigilantes fighting Robots throughout the city earlier today". He said as the screen next to him played videos of him as both HeatBlast and his Crystal form.
"Not only that but we have a confirmed alias of both these Vigilantes," he said as it played a crappy quality video of him as HeatBlast yelling the pink-haired girl his name.
'Okay that's HeatBlast name yeah, but I didn't name the crystal dude yet?' Izuku thought
Only to have the screenplay a clip once again of DeathArms in an interview being asked about the Vigilante.
"Thoughts on the Vigilante speaking of which do you know his name?"
"eh some punk interfering with hero work, will say he was helpful this one time, but that doesn't mean he can interfere with hero work! His name? I don't know someone in the crowd called him DiamondHead or something"
"WHAT!? that's what they called him?!" Izuku said with a grimace, granted he probably wouldn't have come up with anything better, but still!
"There you have it ladies and gentlemen these two Vigilantes, one of which was involved with the slime villain situation from yesterday, go by the name of HeatBlast and DiamondHead... Yeah"
"Hey!"
"Not only that but we're fighting Robots which I believe they made in the first place, they just so happen to be the only two in this country to fight these things while also wearing the same badge, obviously indicating they work together."
"That's what they think? I'm two different people? I guess it would make sense to think that"
"Not only are these Vigilantes getting in the way of the real heroes, but the destruction they cause during their blind pursuit for attention is madness!" He said as it showed clips of DiamondHead being thrown into the truck and car.
"It's not like I wanted to be thrown into them!"
"Still though, somehow these hooligans have attracted positive attention and are being complimented and thanked, claiming they're are 'real heroes' once again, ridiculous."
The screen once again brings up some Tweets
@PeanutLover #Vigilantes #DiamondHead Diamondhead saved my life! He's the coolest! a real hero!
@AlienQueen #Vigilantes #Heatblast HeatBlast saved me! Hey hotty if you're reading this, thank you! xoxo
@FireKid #HeatBlast HeatBlast is cool...
Izuku smiled with a slight blush from reading one of their tweets, it was always heartwarming to be called a hero, even if it's from some random people on the internet.
"Be sure to visit tonight's poll and vote for tonight's topic, DiamondHead Idiot or Attention Seeker?"
He said before playing the embarrassing clip of his celebration, Izuku could only watch in horror as he could only assume how many people were watching him make a fool of himself.
"..."
"I'm going to bed" With a grimace the tired boy turned the light off.
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Master, I beg your forgiveness. The Mother Drone... it failed." The skeletal figure's voice shook, each word weighted with fear. He dared not look up, though he could feel his master's eyes—cold and calculating—boring into him.
"Failure... is expected"the voice above him purred, soft and deadly.
"But tell me, Python, how do you intend to make this right?" The threat hung in the air like a noose.
Python shuddered, clutching his robes tighter. 'Bounty hunters, Master. I will send them. The Earthling... he won't escape again.'"
"Very well...Do not fail me again." The threat clear.
"Of course Master! The Omnitrix will be yours, thank you for showing mercy!" Pysthon bowed before hurrying out of the room in fear of his master's wrath even now while heavily injured he is still a threat....