The Light Hero: Beacon

 "I refuse."

"Wh-What!?" Toshinori spit out blood as he heard the green haired boy's response.

He had seen the boy leave and talk to the blonde-haired boy who the slime villain had captured before sulking to (presumably) his house.

So, he followed the boy, showed him his real form which got a jump 2 feet behind and question whether he was an impostor.

He explained everything to the boy, One for All, his injury and his time limit.

He then held his hand to the awestruck boy and declared that the boy was worthy of his power and could be the greatest hero to ever live.

"Why would you refuse ??" the blonde questioned.

"I'm not planning to be a hero All Might"

"But your movements back there! And the swordsmanship you showed, no regular person can just do that!"

"I trained to be a hero when I was younger but then I realized something, and stopped"

"…"

"Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to refuse"

Toshinori looked thoughtful as he said "Would you please come with me on a walk young man?"

"Forget about One for All and that I'm All Might, right now I'm just Mr Yagi. There's a park nearby, tell me your story at the bench."

"Even off duty you're saving people huh?"

"There is no off duty for me I'm afraid. It's either All Might or Small Might, as Recovery Girl once said. Anyway, I would like to ask you a personal question Shonen, if you don't mind"

"Go ahead."

"What is this realization you say you had?"

"That I can't save anyone. The one thing a hero has to do above all else is to save people, but I couldn't even save my own father when he was right in front of me. He died because I couldn't do anything."

"Midoriya-shounen, Do you think that I've saved everyone I've ever met?"

"Y-yeah. You're the symbol of peace!, it's never happened that you arrive at a scene and anyone ends up hurt!"

All Might had a sad smile now.

"What if I told you that the one person I cared for more than other, the person I saw as my mother, died to save me from a villain. The same villain who gave me this scar funnily enough."

"I-I'm so sorry"

"Don't be. She died being herself. A hero."

Izuku looked down now, lost in thought.

"Just because I couldn't save one person doesn't mean I can't save anyone. Trust me when I say I understand what you're going through, but I kept going. Because that's what Nana wanted, she's the one who made me into a hero."

Izuku looked up to the sky now.

'Would dad be happy with the way I am right now?'

'Dumb question. He would be proud no matter what I do, because that's just what he was like.'

"I'll do it All Might" he said, finally looking straight at the man "That's what my dad would have wanted, no it's what he wants me to do. I'll make sure no one else has to feel this pain again."

All Might was grinning now, and even in his skeletal form Izuku could see the smile of the symbol of peace.

"All right then my boy, meet me at Dagobah beach tomorrow morning by 7 AM."

AT DAGOBAH BEACH NEXT MORNING AT 7 AM

Small Might was inspecting Izuku's body, asking Izuku to flex his arms and do some stretches.

"I must say my boy, your uniform is quite deceiving."

"Yeah, I stay fit"

"Honestly I was expecting this to take much longer than it will. My original plan was for you to clean up this beach by 10 months and have the physique to handle one for all, but I guess that doesn't really matter now. Your current body could handle it, albeit barely."

"How about we make sure it's not barely sir?"

"Yes that would be good."

Izuku walked through the gates of UA, his friends beside him as he walked through the front gate.

He could hear the idle chatter around him, his friends wondering what the practical portion would be, Katsuki saying he'd get the number one spot and Itsuka bonking him on his head with a textbook she was revising from.

He didn't pay attention to any of that though, all he could focus on was the top of the building, where he could see the shadow of a man. Izuku could almost feel the man's gaze as it looked over each and every one of the applicants, until it landed on him.

The man's eyes seemed to widen before he vanished so abruptly Izuku wondered if that actually happened.

Since he was too focused on the random guy who vanished, he didn't notice a rock on the ground, which he managed to slip on.

He closed his eyes and braced for impact, but the impact never came.

"Eh?"

"I'm sorry for using my quirk on you without asking" said a Brown bob-haired girl " But I feel like falling before the exam would be bad luck"

"uh- thanks" Izuku said as he righted himself while she touched all 5 of her finger-tips.

"No problem, good luck on the exam" she gave him a smile and then she was gone.

In front of him, his friends were staring at him while Katsuki was holding his phone, recording Izuku's great fall.

UA TESTING GROUND-GAMMA

Izuku was a flash.

A 2-pointer here, a 3 pointer there.

He was breaking them the moment he was seeing them.

This was the result of his training with All Might and That man for the past 7 months.

One-for-all circulating inside his body while his quirk flowed over his body, like a second skin but constantly moving: [FLOW STATE].

[FLOW STATE] wasn't much of an attack as much as an enhancer. A boost for his physical and quirk state.

It was a simple idea; have ofa circulate at 8% inside his body in a constant flow to enhance his body while his quirk (Glint) flowed over his body, matching the pace of ofa inside his body.

He was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard a crash to his left along with a scream.

By the time his brain had finished thinking the thought ' I should check that out' his body was already at the site.

2 2-pointers and a 3-pointer were chasing 2 boys.

[Flash Step]

He was there in an instant, with a fist in one robot's face and a kick for another.

The last robot (one of the 2 pointers) shot its lasers, but him being literally made of light meant he was out of the way in a flash.

'Physical attacks are completely nullified' he thought to himself bitterly 'but attacks like those lasers or Katsuki's explosions are still very much painful'

He used [Flash Step] again to appear behind the 2-pointer before punching its head off.

He looked back to see the 2 boys on the ground, terrified. Judging by the smell, one had peed himself.

He was going to tell them to get out of there when he felt an impact so strong he actually jumped a bit.

Without as much as a glance he was out of there, rushing to the main street where he could see people getting the hell out of there.

He looked to where they were running from to see why.

'oh'

A Huge killer robot would indeed inspire him to run away.

He was going to follow through on that when he heard a tiny 'Ouch!'

He turned around in a flash to see the same girl with her legs crushed under rocks.

Right in the robot's path

There was no contemplation. No thinking.

One second he was there, the next he wasn't.

Izuku was running at the girl so fast he was practically a blur with his fist cocked back.

[15% DETROIT SMASH]

The rock crumbled like a sand castle.

The girl looked up at him in shock without crying out in horror.

"LOOK OUT!"

Izuku wasn't stupid. Considering the fact that a huge killer robot was nearby earlier he assumed it was that.

There was no time to hold back, or to think about options.

He put everything he had in his right fist and punched it straight up towards the incoming hand.

The giant robotic appendage was pulverised within seconds in a beam of bright white light.

It didn't stop there though. Even thought the rest of the robot wasn't even in the path of Izuku's attack, it was thrown back with such force it actually looked like a giant bowling ball.

His arm hurt. He stumbled and fell on his butt as his vision blurred as well.

"Shit" he muttered under his breath. He had overclocked his body.

Whenever he used ofa at 100% through any of his appendages, it would cause an impact stronger than any All Might could produce without going 'Super Plus Ultra' as the man said.

He had been warned that if he had tried using it that day 10 months ago, his arm would be broken immediately. He wished that's all that happened.

He looked down right now to see the damage.

Due to his unique body, rather than break his arm, the cost for using one for all at 100% was his arm literally being used up to counter the recoil.

In other words, below his elbow was nothing.

He had to physically will his arm to go back to how it was, to its natural state of having 2 arms.

He had to push the energy inside him towards his elbow, and remind it of the shape it was supposed to have.

He didn't know if it was the adrenaline, or if he was just going numb, but it was going much better then it had last time. Like all he had to do was give the shape, the energy would be supplied from somewhere.

He looked up, startled, to see that Recovery girl was kissing his newly formed (and shining) right arm.

She looked like she was going to hit him, but before he could even make a case for himself he was out like a rock, his body done with his bullshit and forcing him to get some much needed rest.