Chapter 1
"Who are you?" he asked the nine figures standing before him. Izuku had been looking through Dagobah beach to find some trash he could feasibly lift to start off his training for UA. After that day with the Sludge Villain he decided it would be best if trained so he could at least do something at the entrance exam or at least transfer to the Hero course via Sports Festival. But somehow, while searching for something small enough to start him off he found a weird black rock jutting out from the sand, it had strange circular patterns in what looked to be gold. He traced the edge of the rock to see if he could take it home to maybe keep or sell, who knows. While trying to find the end of the strange stone, which was much bigger than he thought it would be, it opened up and he fell through.
He landed in a dusty hallway filled with the same golden patterns that spread on the outside of whatever this is. He followed the wall until he walked into a room with a red statue of some sort of deity, maybe. That's when a golden orb, roughly the size of a ping pong ball, floated down from it's place on the deity's cupped palm and to his face. It stopped before colliding with his nose, somehow he got the impression the ball was analyzing him, for what, he had no clue. That is until it decided to ram into the space between his collarbones. It was like someone poured molten lava into his veins and electricity into the rest. His mind was bursting with pain as whatever the orb did settled down and he fell to his knees, suddenly exhausted.
That's when he saw them. Nine figures that weren't there before were suddenly staring at him, some with surprise, others with frigid apathy. They all stood proud and regal, their clothes looking not of this world and engraved with the same strange symbols he saw all over the place. A woman with a strange headpiece stepped forward.
"We are imprints, memories of the people you see before you," she spoke with a strange accent Izuku hadn't heard before, "My name is Ajak, we are the Eternals."
"What's that?" he asked suspiciously, inching for the door behind him.
"Eternals are a race of beings created by Arishem, a Celestial," she gestured to the statue in the middle of the room, "in order to help the evolution of intelligent beings and civilizations. We were sent here to protect humanity and destroy Deviants, monsters that eat any and all sentient life."
"Uh huh," the teen said, he was almost to the doorway...
Suddenly, one of the women, a dark haired beauty with dreadlocks and an orange suit appeared infront of him when he turned to run. He froze as she lifted an eyebrow at him, she twirled her finger in a gesture he's sure meant 'turn around.'
He gulped before doing as she ordered.
"There's no need to be afraid. We won't hurt, we'd never hurt humans."
"You say that but you're not letting me leave." he looked at them with suspicion and fear in his eyes.
"Because you were trying to run away when I hadn't finished explaining everything. I promise, once I've finished speaking you may leave, but if you have questions then we will answer them." she tried to sound comforting but there's not much one can do to comfort someone they're essentially keeping against their will.
"Fine then, keep talking." she nodded.
"Arashem bestowed each of us with a power in order to help us fight the Deviants. And with those powers we protected humanity for seven thousand years. That is, until we were sealed away. Once the last Deviants had been defeated we no longer had a purpose on Earth, so we returned to the Domo, the ship in which we are currently in, and went back to our stations from where we first woke up."
A man with what appeared to be an Irish accent that he only recognized by watching american movies spoke next. "But apparently, once Arishem doesn't need us anymore he kills us. And that's what the stations did, they killed us. Ikaris was the first, he faded away into nothing and there's nothing we could do to bring him back. Luckily, Phastos here is a genius." he nodded to the bigger dark skinned man, "he found a way to link us to the Domo, so when our bodies died our minds would still be here. We're alive because of him, kind of, we can't leave the ship and the only person who can see us is well... you."
"How? Why me?" Izuku was so confused. What started out as a normal day evolved into whatever the hell this is.
"Why can only you see us? Because of the orb, it's known as the Celestial Orb. A device that allows one to contact the Celestial Arishem. It decides who leads the Eternals, it also allows the user to control the Domo because it's a part of the ship. Since it's a part of the ship it contains part of us, therefore allowing you to see us." A pre teen with red hair explained.
"Now. I've introduced myself, so what might your name be?" Ajak cut in.
Now, Izuku knew that you shouldn't give your name to strangers, especially to magically appearing strangers with weird futuristic clothes who look like they could kill without breaking a sweat. But he doesn't have much to live for at this point that isn't revenge so he might as well.
"I'm Izuku Midoriya." His voice was surprisingly even for the amount of fear he was feeling, earning an intrigued eyebrow from the pale blonde woman at the edge of the semicircle.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Izuku. Behind me, from left to right are Druig, Makkari, Sprite, Sersi, Phastos, Kingo, Gilgamesh and Thena."
They each nodded or waved when their name was called. Izuku gave them all a wary nod at the end.