The Hulk
izuku midoriya walked down a dark dangerous road in the middle of the night a hoodie covering his messy green hair and a mask covering the lower side of his face, did he know where he was going? no. did he have any plans for what he was going to do when he got there? he was working on it. did he feel remorseful for what he did? absolutely.
he walked, ignoring everything else on the road too deep in thought to notice much of anything, he probably should've paid attention but he was just really obsessing over his mistake and he hated how much he hated himself right now.
eventually izuku wandered his way into a pretty empty bar, he didn't want to be here, he didn't wanna stop, but he was human he needed water just like the rest of us.
he sat down in front of the bartender dropping his money on the counter
"can i get a pepsi please" the teen asked his face obscured by the shadows of his hood and the mask
"whats with the getup, are you on the run?" the bartender asked as he swiped the money off the counter going over to the fridge
"im not really on the basis to tell you that information" the greenette said not willing to talk about it
"hmph yeah I get it." the man said as he slammed a pepsi down in front of the kid who didn't react to the slam at all
izuku simply grabbed the soda not speaking a word and started chugging down on it like it's the last thing he'll ever drink
how did his life go so wrong he just didn't understand it, he should've been a normal kid, maybe one like bakugou, but he wasn't, he could never call himself normal that would be disingenuous, he was a freak at best and a monster at worst.
as izuku finished chugging down on his coke he gently placed the bottle down on the table
he stared at the bar wall for a second trying to contemplate, what happened? where did it all go wrong? flashes of bloodshed and carnage rampage through his memories despite how much he tried to forget. he could still remember it, the memories, they were so vivid, so real.
he stopped his thoughts right there, if he didn't need to think about it he shouldn't be thinking about it but for some god damn reason he was still thinking about it.
suddenly the man turns on the tv at the corner of the bar turning it to a news channel.
"we have gained information on another hulk attack at aldera junior highschool-" izuku flinched a bit when he heard those words his muscles tensing up just a bit. " thankfully there were minimal casualties as heroes arrived on the scene fast enough to keep the hulk at bay while the students evacuated safely."
"what'd he do to you" the bartender asked
"what ?" deku was confused
"the hulk, i saw the way you flinched when they mentioned him that didn't just come from fear, that came from personal experience. so im asking what'd the jolly green giant do to you." the man asked wanting to try to make the kid feel better
"i... everyone i ever cared about is dead because of him." the boy explained in a rather somber voice.
"hmph that's rough buddy, he killed my daughter, or at least she died because of him" the man says feeling it best to give his sob story since the boy gave his
"you know if I were you i would take this" the man says sliding a gun accross the counter towards the boy much to his shock
"what the, why are you giving this to me?" izuku asked kinda panicked seeing the gun right infront of him.
"simple, because if you ever see the hulk again i want you to take this here gun, and I want you to shoot the hulk, right between the eyes. that monster doesn't deserve life."
izuku took a good second to think about the man's words his hands hovering over the gun before eventually, he picked it up, having made up his mind he put it in his pocket saving it for later use.
"thank you mr..."
"creel, car crusher creel" the man introduced as he put his hand out for izuku to shake to which he did
" izuku midoriya" the younger of the two introduced
"well izuku midoriya, if the time ever comes i do hope you get your revenge on the hulk."the man said
"yeah ill make sure i do" izuku said as he suddenly felt a massive headache come on
"anyway uhh thank you for the talk but I gotta go, can i use the bathroom before I leave?" izuku asked as he kinda struggled to stand up his speech slowly slurring.
"depends how large of a load do you need to let loose." creel asked as he watched izuku struggle
"i don't need to do that i just need somewhere to get my thoughts together"
"alright then go but you better not take too long you look like you need to go to a hospital" the man warns
"im fine really just a headache" izuku dismisses the man's concerns and walks to the bathroom
as he shuts the door he immediately rushes to the sink, splashing water on his face to calm himself down. why? why? why was it happening now, he thought he had it under control he should have had it under control so why now. was it the bartender? he did feel something weird when he was near the guy, maybe it was his quirk? izuku looked up into the bathroom mirror to see his eyes glowing a lime green which was a bad sign.
"hhhrnngah" deku could feel it starting he could feel the unending rage and he could not stop it.
he slammed his noticeably larger fist into the mirror breaking it.
as the mirror shards fell to the ground their reflection still showed the truth, after a second passed the only thing being reflected in these shards of mirrors was the color green.
outside people walked just minding their own buisness they probably expected today to just be a regular day unfortunately for them this is a fanfic there are no regular days.
suddenly the bar had been blown apart but there was no fire or brim stone in sight just pure concussive force.
carl knocked himself free of the rubble using his quirk to absorb the stony material and push a bunch of debris off him.
as he managed to get up on his feet he found that a large shadow was looming over him and as he looked up to see what was casting the shadow his eyes widened both in fear and excitement, however as the creature roared two words out the excitement was very quickly wiped off his face replaced by absolute primal fear.
what were the two words that caused him to drop his confidence?
Hulk Smaaash
so I know a lot of you may be wondering how this all ended up happening how did I, izuku midoriya, become the most feared and hated monster this world has ever known. i promise you there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this but you see my story has a beginning middle and end so let's start with the beginning.
-10 years earlier-
when i was four years old i was diagnosed as quirkless, the doctors told me i could never become a hero because I didn't have a quirk, and I believed them.
when i went to school the next day people made fun of me and treated me like dirt because I was quirkless, even my best friend at the time Katsuki Bakugou joined in and he really just made it so much worse.
in an attempt to make me feel better my parents drove me to my dads workplace, I-island's Japan branch in Saitama prefecture, and while it wasn't the most inviting place on the planet when my dad showed me around the place it was really cool, it felt different, it didn't make me feel the same way that seeing heroes did but, it felt special, and i really liked seeing all the science experiments and technology they were creating cause it was like they were changing the world no powers needed and something about five year old me really loved that.
eventually my dad took me to the main crux of what he was working on, the Superpower Manifestation and Activation System Harness, he told me that it used gamma radiation to activate the quirk genome allowing for quirkless people to be given the power that was their birth right.
i was pretty excited to hear this and I probably would've gone home with the biggest dopy smile on my face... would've being the operative word.
someone came to my dads lab that day, someone who refused to just stay out, it was a man, a white haired man with a black formal suit. he barged into my dad's lab throwing myaround like they were ragdolls he came for the machine, he wanted to use it i don't know why but I doubt it was for a good cause. when he grabbed the machine i jumped at him, cause little me thought I might've been able to do something but that would end up being my worst mistake. when i jumped at him my head fell on the most fragile part of the machine breaking it and releasing an immense amount of gamma radiation, and this was when he was born.
i was knocked out but then i woke up, no, the hulk woke up, and he was so much bigger, so much stronger and so sooo much angrier. i didn't remember anything after i woke up, just found myself in some random alley and when I found myself back home i checked on the tv and saw something that made my heart stop.
raiken research laboratories destroyed after the attack of a rampaging villain, sadly there were no survivors. that's what the news said no survivors, not a single one, and you wanna know the worst part? the villain they said did it, it was me, err well the hulk but, even though he didn't look anything like me, i could just just tell, that's me, im the reason my parents died.
after that day i was put into foster care where my auntie mitsuki, bakugous mom, adopted me. no one knew i was the hulk and I wanted it to stay that way, so using whatever i had on me at the time i created a bunch of machines that could suck the gamma right out of me and turn me back into a regular human but none of them worked, so then I started building whatever i could to just hold off the hulk but second verse same as the first.
eventually though the universe did decide to give me a break, last week i met a group of recruiters from the recently re-opened i-island japan branch now in hosu city, they were looking for people with exceptional intelligence to recruit into their program and on coincidence they found me, they saw one of my machines and invited me to join their program and of course I said yes because I wanted to be apart of something cause I knew i couldn't become a hero, not with the hulk still active.
and that brings me to today where smartest man on the planet bakugou katsuki decided that bullying wasn't enough and then went ahead and told me to go kill myself, his adopted brother by the way, just wanted to remind you in case you forgot cause he sure did. so as you can imagine that had me kind of pissed and hulk made an appearance, luckily no one saw me change, but i still did- hulk still did a lot of damage and alot of people got hurt because of it.
and now we return to our regularly scheduled programming
-present-
izuku walked home dejected, why did things always have to end up like this, izuku walking home with the blood of innocent people on his hands wearing a shirt that isn't his, he hated the fact that this had basically just become routine for him, but he couldn't fight the reality he just had to accept it.
as izuku entered his home he dropped to the floor and started crying.
"why, why did it have to be me? what did i do to deserve this? was it because im quirkless? is all of this just some cruel punishment for being born wrong? why, why, WHYYYYY!"izuku sobs as he questions why he had to be the one to deal with this and not someone "if this was supposed to be some kind of gift please just take it back, take it back i can't deal with all the bloodshed. im not the person who should have this power i should be an ordinary kid, who shouldn't have to hope and pray that I don't accidentally kill someone after i get angry." izuku said in-between sobs, hating himself more and more with every word.
after a few more minutes of crying izuku was all out of tears left to cry so he just got up and sat on the couch trying to drown out his sadness by watching something he enjoyed like something about heroes. as izuku flipped through channel after channel the only thing hero related that showed up was about the hulk, the hulk rampaging twice in one day, can the hulk be stopped? what is the hulks motive? every time something related to the hulk appeared on screen izuku just shrunk further and further into the depths of his sadness and as he did he felt something in his backpocket, and as he grabs it and whips it out he sees that it's the gun that carl creel gave him.
Take a swan dive off the roof of a building and pray that you'll be born with a quirk in your next life, because if you ever see the hulk again i want you to take this here gun, and I want you to shoot the hulk, right between the eyes. that monster doesn't deserve life
"maybe they're right, maybe i will" izuku says to himself as he gets up out off the couch and enters the bathroom before looking into the mirror staring At it for a moment before whipping the gun back out and aiming it directly upwards towards his chin and as he's about to pull the trigger.
he stops. he looks into the mirror and he stops, would this really accomplish anything? after everything that he- that the hulk did, wouldn't this be getting off too easy? wouldn't auntie mitsuki miss him? would this even work? he put the gun down on the sink and looked in the mirror but unlike how a regular person would see their own reflections, izuku saw the hulk, the rage filled angry monster that he was.
"puny deku not strong enough to pull trigger. Pull trigger, hulk want free" the monster growled as it looked straight at him with hate filled eyes "hulk will smash puny Deku, till hulk get free"
"oh so you want me to pull the trigger do you, cause ill tell you right now if I die ill drag you right down to hell with me, because that's where your supposed to be after everything you've done. infact, fuck all my doubts, im taking you there now." izuku says as he picks up the gun and puts the barrel right in his mouth.
'what are you doing izuku this is stupid were supposed to become scientists tomorrow, remember, your being recruited by i-island tomorrow you can't just throw your life away like this, think about what you could accomplish' said the rational part of izuku's mind trying to make sure he didn't genuinely kill himself 'my accomplishments will be nothing compared to my failures'
suddenly throughout the entire neighborhood a loud sound rang out
Bang
-elsewhere-
toshinori yagi sat in the break room of the police station waiting for his good friend tsukauchi to start talking.
"sigh, listen toshinori this is a very stressfull case and with everything were putting into solving it i doubt we could do what you're asking"
"look i understand that Im not the most well versed when it comes to police work but I still believe that it's worth your time to atleast hear me out," the small skeleton like man said
"listen just, we cant do what your suggesting okay, the hulk is difficult enough to pin down on his own your strategy involves us actually figuring out who he is which unless he slips up and transforms right in front of us, we can't do" tsukauchi explains
"Yeah i get it" all might says as he looks to the sky stressed out
Tsukauchi, noticing how stressed he looked decided to point it out" are you okay toshi? you don't seem to be in the best mood."
"im fine, it's just frustrating, the hulk's motives just don't make any sense. attacking a student and a bartender who have nothing to do with each other in the same day? that doesn't make any sense to me and as if that wasn't bad enough, hes managed to evade my capture for ten whole years, everytime im about to get my hands on him he dissapears. I just really wanna take this guy down alright, the things he's done, they're unforgivable." all might says
"I hear you all might I really do, and I know most of hero society and the police force would disagree with me, but I have to come out and say it, we can't catch this guy. Unless you manage to get your hands on him I know for a fact that we aren't bringing him in, not even endeavor stands a chance against the hulk, your the only shot weve got at putting this guy away but since you can't seem to catc-"
"I'm not sure about that" all might mumbles, interrupting naomasa.
"What do you mean your not sure"
"I mean I'm not sure I can stop him, from everything I've heard about him and his strength and with the things people have seen him do, I estimate that he might just be as strong as I am, I'm not sure id be able to win that fight nor am I sure I'll lose, but what o can tell you for certain, is that it's gonna be a damn hard fight, and it'll probably take a lot out of me, so yeah while I do want to bring him in and I'll still go plus ultra to try, don't expect to see him dropped at your doorstep anytime soon" all might says, expanding on his previous statement.
...
"Toshinori, why are you so hung up on catching this guy." The detective asked having had this question stuck in his head for about a year now "I mean yeah he kills a lot of people but, so do a lot of other villains that don't get caught, he doesn't even have that high a body count compared to all for one so why are you just as hung up on taking down the hulk as you were with taking down all for one"
"Sigh, ten years ago, when the hulk first appeared, he destroyed I-island's Japan branch, a lot of people died because of the hulk, not least of whom was David shield
he's the one who created all of my suits and he was my best friend during my time in the states." All might starts up
"Oh I see" naomasa said as he thought he understood why toshinori was always hunting the hulk
"I wasn't finished yet." All might said as he shushed naomasa so that he could finish explaining "David's death wasn't the only reason I got hooked on this case. While I was looking into the hulk I found a kid named izuku midoriya, his parents were there when the hulk attacked, they didn't make it out. I went to go check in on the kid and the child I met, he was more than just some random kid I didn't know, it, it was like I could see myself in him, i just looked at him and saw a kid who was just like me when I was his age, he was quirkless but he still wanted to be a hero than anything even with the curve balls life through at him, he didn't give up. I genuinely believe that kid has the potential to be a better hero than I could ever be, and the hulk ruined his life. I want to stop the hulk to make sure nothing like this happens again, not just to midoriya, but any child like him."
"Okay yeah I can understand that" the detective said now understanding the full context. "Wait, if he was as good a person as you say he is then why didn't you choose him to be your successor?"
"I didn't want to burden him with the responsibility. the kid,s quirkless, he lost his parents to a villain who's still out there, from what I could gather his adopted brother bullies him just as much as everyone else, and he's striving to reach an impossible goal even when everyone else in his life is pulling him back, and despite the fact that he keeps up a smile through all of it I can tell a fake smile when I see one, that kids mental stability is something to be worried about and I don't know if I can give him one for all knowing how much more that'll put on his shoulders"
"I think I made the best call giving it to someone else" all might says as he sags his shoulders "besides the current holder is also perfect to wield one for all, I know giving it to her was a good decision"
-elsewhere-
izuku lay on the bathroom floor unamused with his current situation, he had fired the bullet, but unfortunately the hulk started manifesting after the bullet hit before changing back to normal after the wound healed, it was like a defense mechanism to keep the body alive.
Izuku had known about this before he just really wished that it didn't work, he had hoped that maybe his body would recognize that he didn't want it to protect him, but unfortunately life never works th way you want it to.
Izuku sat up on the floor thinking about life. "Sigh, well look at the bright side of things izuku, your gonna go interview for a fancy science school tomorrow and your gonna knock em dead, hopefully not literally....What the fuck is wrong with me, killing myself won't help, it won't do anything, cause thats just how my life works, I try my best to be a good person, try my best to help people, try to be a hero, but none of it ever matters cause there's a green asshole in my head who keeps cancelling out All the good I'm trying to do."
Izuku stood up, left his house, and walked outside, he needed some air, he desperately needed to not be alone with his thoughts that were somehow getting darker as the seconds passed, he needed to talk to someone before he inevitably tried to do something to himself that he would regret, something that was worse than just suicide, he just needed someone anyone.
as he's about to grab at a guy to get him to talk a gentle hand reaches out grabbing his shoulder.
Izuku looked around to see that the person who grabbed him was a girl, she wore a black jacket over a blue and orange dress that had a belt strapped around her waist, she wore her orange hair in a ponytail and stood at about the same height as izuku if not just a half an inch taller.
"Hey are you okay? You look like you've had a really heavy day." The girl asked kind of concerned.
Oh wow, a female, haven't talked to that half of the species in a while.shes also really cute.
"Well I mean... Yeah, yeah you're right on the money." Izuku says tiredly
"Wanna talk about it?" The orange haired girl asked.
"Why would you wanna take time out of your day talking to someone you don't even know?"
"Well my parents used to tell me that strangers are just friends you haven't met yet, and I still kinda agree with that philosophy. Plus I want to become a hero, and heroes don't just leave people who are struggling." The girl explained.
"Oh your trying to become a hero?" Izuku asked
"Yeah it's kinda been a life long dream of mine And I'll never give up till I reach it"
"You know I used to have that same dream, to become a hero even better than all might and save people with a smile just like him."
"Used to? What happened?" The girl asked
"Eh life I guess"
The girl stayed quiet for a second after he said that, she was contemplating something before she grabbed his hand and started dragging him somewhere.
"Woah okay where are you taking me?"
"What's your favorite food?" The girl asked with a smile on her face
"Umm katsudon, why?" Izuku asked as he didn't see any correlation between her dragging him and his favorite food but maybe he was just dumb
"Cause I wanna help you so im gonna buy you your favorite food and we can talk about your problems over that, plus I know a great katsudon place." She said before picking her phone out of her pocket and lowering her voice to where he couldn't hear. "Siri find the nearest restaurant that sells katsudon."
Okay izuku guesses he wasn't supposed to hear that.
"Who even are you" izuku asked
The girl then stopped dragging him for a second before turning to him looking sheepish.
"Oh sorry I guess I forgot to introduce myself.
"My name is itsuka kendo"