//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Powerful Stranger // Story: My Hero Equestria // by XLR8 Fox //------------------------------// Chapter 1: Powerful Stranger Izuku Midoriya, destined to be the number one hero on Earth, the ninth holder of One For All and one of the most powerful students in U.A High School, didn’t exactly expect what would happen today for him. He honestly thought things would finally be normal for once, no villain attacks, no fighting, no do or die situations, just a normal school day where he can train to become a hero. He had left his dorm for a morning workout before getting ready for another day of class, he met his unofficial sister, Eri before heading to class. Everything was normal so far, so maybe Izuku could finally catch a break. Or so he thought… The school day was finally over as Izuku and his friends, the Dekusquad as some people called them, were walking to their dorms, Eri following right next to Izuku. “Man, Mr. Aizawa is so stern, I thought he was staring into my soul during that test,” Ochako Uraraka said as she looked mentally exhausted. “Well after so many things that have happened to us in our school year, he must think we are ready for more advanced stuff” Tsuyu Asui said bluntly. “Perhaps we should be doing the advanced tests, it would be beneficial for our future” Said Tenya Iida while doing his robotic hand gestures. “I-I don’t know guys, maybe he just wants us to work hard and seriously” Izuku said as they kept walking. Shoto Todoroki, who was near the back of the group, stopped walking as he heard something nearby, the others noticed him stop walking and looked to him. “What is it, Todoroki?” Izuku asked. “Someone's spying on us” Shoto said as the heroes in training tensed up and assumed defense stances, Izuku making sure to keep Eri safe. Just then they see a black blur zoom across the sky before landing right in front of the group, forming a dust cloud on the ground. The group waited for the dust to clear as they saw the person who was spying on them. The person was wearing a black tattered outfit, a brown satchel on their side, a hood covering their face with a bandanna as well, but then could get a glimpse on the person's skin, it was charcoal grey and their eyes were dark red, they saw the person also had black bird wings on their back, but the wings didn’t exactly look bird like, they almost matched the length of Pro Hero Hawks, but were shorter and one wing looked damaged, the wings feathers were charcoal grey like the person's skin. Shoto was first to speak, “Who are you?” he demanded as ice slowly formed on his right side and slowly spread on the ground while smoke and fire slowly formed on his left. “...” the person was quiet, but they pointed in Izuku’s direction. Everyone looked at what they were pointing at, Izuku didn’t understand at first but realised Eri was with them, he can only think that perhaps someone, maybe perhaps Overhaul, sent someone to take back Eri, so he activated his Full Cowl. “We’ll give you the chance to leave now, you don’t know what you're dealing with,” Izuku said as he stood in front of Eri, ready to protect her at all costs. The person slowly started to walk towards the group, Shoto took the first move as he shot ice towards the person, but then what the mysterious being did next shocked them. The person simply flapped his wings and the ice melted instantly, even the water it turned into turned into vapor before disappearing, but he just kept walking. Shoto kept with the ice as Iida charged with a engine powered kick, however the kick did nothing as the being used one of its wings to act like a shield, instantly blocking the attack. Izuku analysed the person's powers and thought of one thing now, ‘Are they a Nomu?!’. The only beings who can wield multiple quirks were Nomu’s and All For One, and the criminal mastermind was still locked up in Tartarus. Izuku turned to Ochako and Tsuyu, “We need the teachers now! Me, Todoroki and Iida will distract them” Izuku said as the girls nod and quickly make their way to find a teacher nearby. The person kept walking while deflecting the attacks, Shoto even went with using his flames, which the person wasn’t affected by, Izuku then aimed his right hand and made a flicking motion before flicking his finger, sending a burst of wind at the being. Izuku would think that would cause them to step back, but...it did nothing, the person kept walking, Izuku desperately did it again, and again, and again, but the bursts of wind did nothing as Iida stopped kicking because his engines had stopped working and Shoto was getting exhausted, Izuku then formed a fist, thinking this would at least stop the person. ‘DETROIT...SMASH!!!’ Izuku then unleashed the punch which made an even bigger burst of wind, even pushing Shoto and Iida away, but the person kept walking, and now he was standing in front of Izuku. Izuku quickly grabbed Eri and leapt back, putting distance between him and the stranger. “If you came to take Eri, then I won’t let you!” Izuku said with determination. “...Eri...important…” the person said, sounding like a young man. Izuku however focused on his words, important, he must've been a Nomu, did Overhaul somehow get a Nomu when the League of Villains were at their base? “...Midoriya...important...save...world…” those words, confused Izuku, what was he talking about? Save world? Was this Nomu sending a message? “...Save...My...World…!” the person said before suddenly thrusting their arms out, Izuku then felt wind picking up behind him. “Deku!” Eri said, sounding scared, Izuku turned around and quickly saw what made Eri scared, it looked like a portal, it was made of blue energy and it was sucking in wind like a vacuum, Izuku was about to jump away before the person grabbed him and Eri, and with strength he didn’t realise, the person threw them into the portal. “MIDORIYA!” Iida and Todoroki shouted in alarm and shock as their friend was just thrown into a portal to somewhere unknown. The person was suddenly then kicked to the ground by Aizawa, known as the hero Eraserhead, he tied up the person as the portal closed up. “Where is the kid?! Where is Midoriya?!” he asked angrily, he had just arrived in time to see Izuku and Eri get thrown into the portal. “...My...world...safe...Deku...Eri...save...home” the person said. Everyone was on edge, this person was speaking nonsense and Izuku and Eri were missing. Uraraka, who had arrived with Aizawa was very concerned, Izuku was her friend and, she wouldn’t admit it, crush, and Eri was only just rescued recently and was still getting used to things. Before anyone could question the person more, the stranger opened the same portal below him as he fell through, it closed up right after, cutting Aizawa’s scarf. Now everyone was on even more edge, the only person who knows where Izuku and Eri are had escaped, Uraraka was tearing up as she thought to herself. ‘Deku...please be safe’ Meanwhile, Izuku held Eri close to him as they fell through a strange multicolor tunnel, going faster and faster and they traveled through it. “Hang on Eri!” Izuku said as he held the little girl close to him. “I-I’m trying!” Eri said with a whimper as she kept her eyes shut, holding onto Izuku for dear life. Soon Izuku managed to see something at the end of the tunnel, but he didn’t know what to expect. “Hold on Eri! I think we’re about to have a rough landing!” Izuku said as he held her tight as they fell through the hole, everything then went pitch black. Meanwhile in Canterlot castle, Throne room. Celestia and Luna, the royal sisters of Equestria, stood in the hall of the throne room, normally Luna would prefer sleeping during the day so she could hold her duties of the night, however they had been called to the throne room for whatever reason. “How much longer do we have to wait sister? I need my rest for my duties of the night” Luna asked her sister. “I do not know Luna, but it must be important” Celestia said, soon the doors to the throne room had been pushed open, some guards walked in with 2 unconscious ponies the sisters did not recognize. “Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, we found these two intruders inside the relic vault next to the magic mirror left by Starswirl The Bearded” one of the guards informed them as the sisters took a look at the ponies. One looked to be a stallion, but he didn’t even look old enough to be a full grown pony, he must have been a teenager then, he had freckles on his muzzle, dark green fur and green and black messy and oddly, fluffy mane, his tail was short and his cutie mark was strange, they couldn’t identify much from it or what it meant. The second pony is what intrigued them even more, it was a small filly, probably not even older than 5 or 6 yet, she was a unicorn, or so they guessed, as her horn was more on the side of her head rather than on top of it, her fur was almost as white as Celestia’s, whitish grey mane that was as long as her body and a tail that was half as long as her mane, she had no cutie mark as expected of her age. “What shall we do with them your highness?” another guard asked. Luna walked to the new ponies and observed them, for some odd reason, she felt something, some type of connection with them, mainly the young green stallion. “I think we should see if they are injured, if they are, restore them back to health and see if they have family nearby, these are merely children and might have been exploring where they shouldn’t” Celestia said, she saw how her sister was acting when looking at them and came up with an excuse, “You may leave them with me and my sister”. “Are you sure your majesty?” a guard asked. “I am”. “Very well Princess, we shall leave them with you” the guards then left, closing the massive doors behind them. “I see you take a liking to them sister” Celestia said. “I don’t know what it is Tia, but I sense some type of, kinship with them, I am not sure” Luna said. “Well, we can find out what those feelings are when they wake up” Little did they know, this would be only the beginning of a new adventure, one where a mighty hero will rise in Equestria.