When I died, I thought I had lived a good life — nothing special, no one to live for, just living day by day: eating, working, sleeping.But now, with the opportunity of a new life, I want to see how far I can go if I give it my all — if I try, for once.
"Yeah… I'd like to be reborn," I said, looking straight ahead where there was only darkness.
"I will not give you any boon or help. Are you ready for that?" the booming voice coming from everywhere asked.
"Yeah, send me. I really want to see what I can do now, with a new life," I answered, my voice steady, ready for what was to come.And with that, I started to see light. Trying to look around, I heard a woman crying and a man comforting her.I was born.
[5 years later]
My new name is Ren Takahashi.When I was two, watching TV because my mom left me on the couch to get something, I saw All Might.After my fifth birthday, I realized I wasn't going to get a quirk — but it doesn't matter. I'll do my best anyway.Maybe I could make myself a suit of armor like Iron Man, but I'll need to study and innovate because the appearance of quirks slowed down this world's technological evolution. Except for tech that helps quirks, not much has evolved.
[5 years later]
Working on the power supply, I decided to improvise, but I basically just made a variant of the arc reactor.After years of trial and error, I finally made it. My first step toward becoming a hero has been taken, and I can finally start my journey.
"Fuck yeah!" I yelled, laughing maniacally.
"You know, sometimes you scare me, honey…" a voice behind me said — my mother, who looked worried.
"Oh, sorry mom. It's just… I finally finished what I've been working on for five years straight. My first step toward becoming a hero," I said, scratching the back of my head.
"Wait… how long have you been there?"
"I just got here."Her quirk silences her steps — basically the worst nightmare when you're trying to stay up late.
"Look mom, this is an arc reactor. This thing could power a small country for at least five years, and that's just the start," I said proudly.
"You know, you could be rich with that. You don't need to become a hero."
"Mom, you know I don't care about being rich. I will be rich, but I really want to become a hero. Even if I'm quirkless, I'll be the greatest hero you'll ever see."
"Honey, in my eyes you're already the greatest hero ever. Whatever you do, I'll be proud. But as your mother, I'm worried about what will happen to you," she said, eyes full of worry.
"I'm sorry for worrying you, but it's my dream. I promised myself to be the best version of myself, always working toward my goals and never stopping."She put her hands on my cheeks.
"I know, my so-mature little hero… but you work so hard. With all the martial arts classes, the time you spend here, and how much you study… I want you to make friends and have a normal childhood." She kissed my forehead.
"I understand. I'll make friends don't worry about me too much ok"she is right but it's hard to befriend children who looks down on you for something you don't control and are not mature enough to realize it
[5 years later]
Right now I'm walking toward UA finaly it is the exam my first step in the hero world i see some familiar people izuku floating thanks to uraraka and bakugo some steps behind
for the exam I installed a Sandevistan along my spine. I had already reinforced my skeleton and joints to handle it at maximum output, but I can use it at half power without any problems. Making it was hard: it works by extreme brain overclocking + a mechanical/muscular turbocharger + a body stabilization system, all compressed into a spine.
At first, I focused on external gadgets, nothing that touched my body. But a year earlier, I took the first step and reinforced my skeleton when I broke my leg fighting a guy whose quirk solidifies his muscles — he can't move, but he's as hard as rock. He cheated in a karate competition, but it made me realize I needed an upgrade.
after acing the written part of the exam and sitting down in the amphitheatre i focused on the pamphlet with the exam instructions. Present Mic explained everything — this time without interruptions.I'm in city C. Who am I gonna be with?On the bus, I looked around and spotted plant-hair girl from 1-B and kendo met her and ojiro a few time in competions never fought them, and Tokoyami and Shoji from 1-A.
[Aizawa POV]
Like every year, people fall into the trap of waiting for the countdown — except two people: one took off with explosions and the other just disappeared.Reading Takahashi Ren's file, I hand it to Nezu without saying anything.
"Oh, I see. Don't worry, it's not an error — it's the truth. When I first saw it, I didn't believe it either. But he really is quirkless. He just uses tech he made himself. Look closely at the back of his neck — you can see he has something attached," Nezu said, eyes sparkling with obsession.
All Might turned toward us when Nezu said quirkless.
"If he isn't able to keep up with the others, he will not get any preferential treatment."
"No, he won't — and I don't think he wants one. On the psychological test from his previous school, he said he takes pride in what he is and nothing will change that."While we talked, he already got twelve points — short bursts of speed, decapitating robots.
"Wait, are you saying this young man moving faster than a car is quirkless, with a piece of tech so small we can't even see it under his clothes?" All Might asked, shocked.
"Not exactly — we can't see it under his skin. Still very impressive. Here, read this," Nezu said, handing him a chart — the support items chart.
"Let's see… reinforced skeleton and joints… something called a Sandevistan… special contact lenses… a drone with more equipment…" All Might read aloud.Everyone was shocked except Nezu — he already knew.
"D-do you know what a Sandevistan is?" Midnight asked.
"I didn't, but he kindly sent me a technical sheet after I asked. It basically accelerates his perception and body functions to a certain degree. If pushed too far, it can break" Nezu said, sipping tea before laughing maniacally.
"I have to say, he's getting better by the second. He must have analyzed the bots and adapted his strategy. I already want to throw the zero-pointer at him to see what he does — but it's too early," he muttered.
[Ren POV]
It's been seven minutes already. That means the exam ends in three.I have 80 normal points, plus some rescue points from helping people. I didn't want to take all the points — that would be mean — so I just stopped the danger and let them fix their mistakes.
Right now I'm on a roof, watching for anyone in danger. Everything seems fine. I'll just wait for the zero-pointer.
The building started to shake. From under me, a giant hand tried to grab me, but I activated my Sandevistan and moved between its fingers, jumping onto the next roof.
"Speaking of the wolf… that was a bit mean, coming out like that. You look like you found your prey," I said.It was focused on me.Nezu definitely had a plan — or he just wanted to see what I'd do.
"Since you're focused on me, follow me, trash can," I yelled, looking for a place with fewer people.
[Aizawa POV]
Between All Might and Nezu obsessing over the green-haired boy or the quirkless one, I looked at the screen Nezu was staring at.The zero-pointer was heading straight for Takahashi.
"Hey, what's going on? Why is the bot focused?"
"Because I made it follow a specific target," Nezu said calmly.
"You WHAT!? You released a zero-pointer on a quirkless boy?" I shouted.
"I want to see what he can do. And the zero isn't that strong — you're underestimating him. He's only shown us three items from his support chart. I want to see the rest," Nezu said, eyes glued to the screen.
[Third POV]
"So you want to see what I can do?" Ren muttered as he jumped from roof to roof, rolling his left sleeve up an hologram appeared i'm just gonna hack it
"why did it stop" Aizawa muttered,
"he hacked it the little shit think he can play with my toys"nezu respond going full psyco mod he started typing on the computer in front of him but before he can do anything
"The exam is finished!" Present Mic yelled.
[Ren Takahashi POV]
it was a good warm up i had fun
"Hey you — I didn't say it earlier, but thank you! This guy is the GOAT, he helped me and didn't even steal the two-pointer!" a student shouted, pointing at me.
"It was nothing, really," I said, walking away.
[Start of School]
I'm walking toward Nezu's office. He wanted to see me before class.I knocked.
"Come in."
"Hello, Principal Nezu. You wanted to see me?"
"Yes, Takahashi. Sit down would you like some tea"shaking my head"no thank you"he nods before serving himself tea
"I'm very interested in your creations, especially your implants. I want to know if there will be any problems for you, and how far you plan to go."
"There won't be any problems. I just need to make sure my brain can handle the power from the implant. And to be honest… I don't know how far I'll go."i mean i won't replace my dick"
"Then I have a proposition. I want you to follow some of the support course classes. It would be a waste to limit you to hero courses. Here is your possible timetable."
It was full — very full.But honestly, I never had much of a social life. If I'm not working on tech, I'm training or studying and sometimes hanging out with my mom but thats all.
"Can I have the day to think about it?" I asked.
"Of course. Have a great day."
Finally arriving at the 1-A classroom — still early — I walked in and saw Momo Yaoyorozu, looking excited to be here.
"Hello, my name is Takahashi Ren. How are you?" I said with a smile, looking for my seat.There was an odd number of seats… at first, I thought I was taking someone's place, but it seems they made an exception.
"Hello my name is Momo Yaoyorozu it is nice to meet you"she speaks confidently back straight looking at me in the eyes
"a pleasure"finaly finding my sit it's two row next to her i set down my bag and sit
"so how did you do on the exam"finding nothing to do the conversation
"oh i am a reccomended student i had an exam but not like you but what was your exam like i'd like to know how japan top superhero school does there selection"
"it was nothing to hard for the writing part i aced it not much to say there and on the practical one we had multiple robots each with a value it really is not much but i feel like this year practical was not adapted well like imagine our teacher midnight whoes quirk is a gaz against robots she has a clear desadvantage this year was more focused on raw power then anything else"
"oh i see so what is your quirk"
"i'll tell you mine if tell me yours"
"my quirk is creation if i know the composition of something i can use the fat in my body to make it through my skin"
"you know that fucking op what is this basicly you can make a nuke out of thin air wait can you make gases you have midnight quirk in all of its possible form just a question can you make object?"
"yes i can make items but i need to know the exact mechanism to make it and yes i can make gaz but it takes too much fat to do that so i can make some"
"what an incredible quirk, i'm quirkl" just before i could finish quirkless there is someone opening the door loudly it's ashido and behind her is kyoka
"look i told you we were not to early there is already two people here hello my name is ashido mina and this is jiro kyoka"
"hey"
"nice to meet you i am Momo Yaoyorozu and this is Takahashi Ren"
"yo"i have become an awkward dude after years of no socialisation, they start to look for there place
then kirishima walks in and kaminari just behind i think there are no change to the canon class 1-A exept for me being there things go like in canon exept for bakugo he sat down normaly and looked around i think he searching for who beat him in the exam and at the door there is izuku and ochaco talking more like ochaco talking and izuku being awkward
"hey you two get to your sit we aren't here to make friends but to make heros "looking at him like that he looks really like a hobo not be mean but he is poorly shaved inside a sleeping bag
"it took you 8 second to get silent know it every second matter so use them well, my name is shota aizawa i'm your hoemroom teacher, let's not waste more time take your tracksuits and join me on the sports field "
inside the changing room
"wow whats on your spine dude "kirishima pointing at the sandy and attracting attention
"correction it is my spine i remplaced it with the sandevistan before the exam" not bothering to look at back
"that's not all, right looking at your arms"
"yeah i remplaced them completly i tried to make them look a bit human but it was pretty hard" looking back now i see every one looking at me
"thats so cool how did you get this kind of thing" kirishima looks at me with stars in his eyes
"i made them"
"what can they do" looking at my right arm even if i tried to make it look human it was obvious it can open and had meny mechanism inside with the lines that showed a bit of metal under the fake skin it is basicly like genos's
"i'll show you after let's not keep the teacher waiting"
joining aizawa on the field he gives his speech about the fact that he can basicly do what he wants as UA encourages a free kind of teaching where the teacher chose how he wants to teach
"takahashi you scored first on the exam get in the cyrcle and throw the ball as far you can"
throwing me the ball i walk toward the cyrcle how should i do it, it is a small cyrcle so i can't really run up and throw inside it i activate the sandevistan and start spining using the boosters in the elbow of my right arm and the palm of my left to give me more speed
with my speed for them the second i was in the cyrcle sand strated to rise and flames apperaed out of nowhere
"not bad 1100 meters"showing it to the rest of the class
"wow 1100 meters we are not joking around "kaminari
"wow we can use our quirk it's gonna be great"ashido
"we are going to have a blast" sero
"so you think that the next three years are going to be fun i see the worse one of you today is going to be expeled welcome to UA"some looked dejected
"it's our first day are you really gonna expel one of us? its not fair"ochaco asks
"natural disaster, villain incident or even being born quirkless all those thing are not fair and still happen daily japan is filled with injustice i'm here to teach you how to act during these disaster while we have you at UA we'll teach among other thing pain you'll go past your limits plus ultra and all that so come and give it your all"
50 meters run
really simple using my sandy this was a breeze half a second really simple
izuku still pityful i try hard to help him but it's still early for him to use the one for all casualy so it's ok but i'll give him a bit of a training session thinking of using his feet after three season what a joke
grip strengh
my metal fingers slowly started to tighten but i said fuck it and deployed all of my strength and it broke
"sorry teach i did not know i would break it"
long jump
run up with the sandy i clear the sand and land beyond
sidestep
really the sandy is overpowered
like in the anime when it was Izukus turn aizawa interverned but finaly he throws the ball and does like in the anime , looking back i see the pomerarian with an angry look i used the sandy to go next to him discretly and put my arm around his shoulder not letting him go
"you really need to get to therapy for your anger issue seriously the first day at UA and you look like you're gonna kill him"whipering to him before he could try and attack izuku
"this is a hero school and you look like a villain and look around you what are you gonna do to him infront of a new teacher and new classmates"he seems to calm down a little at least he is a bit rational, nobody seems to have notice us as every one is focused on izuku he surprised everyone till now he was really shit
then it was time for the abdominal and flexibility test and endurance even if i did not have much to help with those i trained all of my life
"Okay, i'll quickly tell the results the total is simply the marks you got from each test, it's a waste of time to explain verbally so i'll show you the results all at once"
1. Ren Takahashi
2.Momo Yaoyoruzu
3.Shoto Todoroki
4.Katsuki Bakugo
"By the way i was lying about the expulsion"this is funny they all look at Aizawa with big eye with a few exeption
"it was a rational deception to draw out the upper limits of your quirks"izuku lost his soul just like that
"of course that was a lie it should've been obvious if you jsut thought it through"if i remember correctly it was not a lie even if he took back the 2A after expeling them
"with that we are done there are handouts with curriculum and such in the classroom so when you get back, look over them"
"so with the arms and your spine what else did you do"kirishima asked while we were all changing
"i don't have much for now they're is the arms the sandevistan some subdermal armor, reinforced bones and the bionic joints all made by me"i might have to sell some of and install them it smells like business for now just some hero like aizawa, midnight and some heroes that need reinforcing
"that's so manly"
"and that's just the stuff in me i made some other thing and plan to put more in me later, you should see the thing i had to make before installing what i have"i had to first make a robot able to operate me and then an ai smart enough to handle any problem that might happen it took me years
"yeah like you can't just operate yourself so how did you do it?"shoji looks at me curiously
"i made a robot and an ai the robot is just multiple arms on a the sealing"needs some upgrades before bigger operations
"that's so cool"kaminari with stars in his eyes
"so we did not present ourselves names takahashi ren you can call me ren"
"ejiro kirshima"
"mezo shoji"
"denki kaminari"
"i'm minoru mineta"
"i-izuku midorya"
"my name is tenya lida"a bit stuck up
"KATSUKI BAKUGO"why is he shouting
"shoto todoroki"
everyone present themselves and we got back into the class to get timetables and such
i left to go see nezu if i want to sell some implents and install them i'm going to join the support course show off some things during the sports festival knocking on his door i hear come in
"ah takahashi so did you think of my proposition"
"yeah but if i could i'd like to take now the test for math, english, japanese and all of the other subject since the support class are in the morning and the hero one are the afternoon"
"here you can take them now"taking out from his desk the exams he had prepared
"you knew i would do that"
"it was a posibility"and for the next few hours i did the exams before giving them back
"thank you tommorow you can go to the support course i will tell powerloader to exept you and aizawa to not"
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tell me if you want romance and if who?
what kind of tech and implants do you want?