Quirkless Rejects

Hero Provisional License Exam Attack

He zigzagged around until he came to a small ravine-type place where he found balls of... meat? Kacchan and Kaminari were in the fray and some kid with tiny eyes wearing a costume he had seen quite frequently while running around. It most likely belonged to a certain hero school. There were a few other test takers there as well. About 100 to 150 of the Quirkless Rejects surrounded them.

Kacchan was growling and spewing off some venomous words as another round of Quirkless Rejects jumped in to attack. Only about ten minutes in and he could already see that Kacchan and the other students were pretty well worn out. Izuku grinned. So this is what having this many in numbers can do.

He reached down and picked up a ball. Izuku grinned and with full force, he threw it at Kacchan. On sheer reflex, the blonde body reached out his arm and blew it up. Izuku took the covering of smoke to jump down. He landed behind the tiny eyed kid and grabbed him by the throat.

The kid made a sort of strangled sound as Izuku pinned him to the ground.

"What the hell was that?!" he heard Kacchan scream. The smoke cleared and he whipped around only to meet red eyes to sunglasses with Izuku. "Deku..." Izuku grinned. "Don't let your guard down, Kacchan." "Say wha-!" His eyes went blank. Behind the blonde came Cateye strolling up. Izuku had simply just moved his mouth and Kacchan got brainwashed.

Izuku surveyed the scene. Around twenty of the test takers that were here were knocked out and/or being held captive by Quirkless Rejects members. Some with minor wounds, others with more major ones.

Izuku walked up to the frozen Kacchan.

"W- wait!" He stopped and turned to see the yellow-haired Kaminari reaching out for him. "Oh?" Izuku said aloud. "What do you want... Kaminari?" The electric boy stopped. "I- I'm not the smartest, I know that... but I am not dumb enough to see that th- this isn't good."

"Isn't good?" Izuku scoffed.

Kaminari nodded. "Y- yes? Like, I understand your motives and all b- but, is this all really necessary?" "Kaminari," Izuku said, turning to face the kid head-on, "you're quirk makes you a total dud if you overuse it, am I correct?"

"H- how do you know that?" the electric boy asked timidly.

"Let's just say that I have done my research. Have you ever been made fun of for that?" Kaminari hesitated. "W- well yeah but I've kind of just accepted it now-"

"Accepted it!?" The boy took a step back. "You, Kaminari, have let people run over you, that's what you've done. You say that what we are doing is unnecessary but let me tell you why it is not. Just like you, every single one of us has been relentlessly tried and abused by the world for something we couldn't change. This?" Izuku widely gestured to the scene around them. "This is our way of changing it. Because of what the world has done to us physically and psychologically," he tapped Kaminari's head, "and even when they wouldn't back down, we were forced to move. Otherwise, we would never get out of this endless cycle of pain and torment. You can understand that, right, Kaminari?"

Kaminari averted his gaze. "I- I mean, like, I guess, and all."

Izuku began to circle the electric boy. "Think about it, Kaminari. Every single jab and insult they throw at you. Every time they call you an 'Idiot' or 'Dud.' Even though you have made it all the way into UA High, the most prestigious hero school, they have been still calling you those names, haven't they?"

He stopped behind the boy and placed his hands on his shoulders. Izuku leaned in close to Kaminari's ear.

"Don't you wish you could just, I dunno, make it stop?"

There was a long moment of tense silence before... *ZAP!*

Izuku gasped and leaped backward, hands feeling raw and muscles in his arms tense from the sudden shock. Kaminari spun to face him. "No! W- well, yes. But not this way!"