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‘Welp, this isn’t how I thought my day would be going,’ Wukong thought as he fought another Jade Emperor guard after guard, Lieutenant after Lieutenant. He even fought some of The Jade Emperor's personal guards; he fought almost everything in heaven, hell, and everything in between.
‘I just wanted to be left alone on my island with my subjects, with the title ‘The Great Sage Equal To Heaven,’ and get acknowledged by Heaven. Is that too much to ask?’ Wukong thought as he either knock out or kill them as he led his army against all of heaven, with his battle brothers taking their fair share of heaven guards.
“Sun Wukong!!! The so-called Monkey King: The Great Sage Equal To Heaven, you dare mock us by coming here, setting your filthy paws with your demon trash, fight us?!?” The one and only blowhard: The Jade Emperor.
“Yeah, I dare; I also dare you to kiss my monkey butt while I take down the rest of your army,” Wukong said as he smacked a squadron away without looking with his staff as he willed it to
enlarge and stretch enough to take them all out of the fight.
“Such insolence will not stand! Erlang!” The Jade Emperor yelled out, and not even a second later, Erlang Shen came out of nowhere to attack Wukong from behind with his hound right beside him.
‘Damn it! I thought Macaque was holding him back,’ Wukong thought as he quickly look around for his battle brother to see him fighting Nezha with some difficulty to fight back.
‘Of course, they have a child fighting here; better finish this fight before I look bad when everyone else finishes their fight,’ Wukong thought smugly as he blocks and redirects Erlang's blows.
Wukong gained some distance before pulling some of his fur out and blowing on them to make clones of himself to distract and attack Erlang.
“Have fun fighting them! HA! Now, where were we, Mister Emperor?” Wukong mockingly asks.
The Jade Emperor did not seem phased at all by Wukong’s action; instead, he smirked before an explosion of orange smoke and magic being dispersed, and Erlang staring down the Monkey King.
The Monkey King stared back at Erlang before sighing in mild annoyance and quickly showing up in front of them, readying a swing with his staff.
Erlang's expression didn’t change as he quickly blocked The Monkey King’s hit with his spear before returning with his own.
“You should know that there’s no way for you or your brothers to leave without losing your lives, even for someone like you,” Erlang said, almost sounding sympathetic to The Monkey King.
“It’s you and the Celestials that attacked us first, along with trying to burn our home to the ground and kill my subjects,” The Monkey King said, glaring at Erlang.
“I do regret that they did that, but that was done behind my back by some of the younger immortals in the army! I would never involve innocents, even those under your rule,” Erlang said, blocking another attack.
Wukong swung again and again before putting in more force and pushed Erlang back far enough to get a look at his brothers and saw they were doing alright before seeing Macaque finally got the hound down.
“Wukong, I might be able to help with your brothers and guarantee that no one else will die or be hunted by the celestials. Your people will be safe,” Erlang said as he went back to fighting Wukong.
They went back and forth for an hour straight before Erlang was surprised by a shadow from beneath him suddenly grabbing his legs and dragging him down, “Is the great Monkey King actually having a tough time fighting this guy?” Said a mocking tone that Wukong was very familiar with.
Wukong looked around before landing on his best friend, “Ha, nah, I was just enjoying the fight a bit too much,” Wukong said, not wanting to admit that he was making a deal with Erlang.
“Get going; I’ll handle this elite while you take down that old clown,” Macaque said before disappearing into the shadows and appearing behind Erlang before starting a fight away from Wukong.
‘Time to put our names down in history,’ Wukong thought before jumping onto his cloud and flew toward where he last saw the Jade Emperor.
Several of his army and sworn brothers looked up and saw Wukong again heading directly toward the Jade Emperor’s throne room.
‘Go Wukong!! Make our dreams a reality!!!’ Thought Azure, the lion.
‘Show what we lowly demons can do and destroy this oppressive society!!!’ Thought the Bull King as he threw a jade guard at another group.
‘You better finish this, monkey, or I will finish it for you,’ Peng, the roc, thought as he flapped his wings hard enough to blow the surrounding guards away from him.
Wukong couldn’t hear their thoughts, but he knew what each one would say to him.
He felt their hope, dreams, and desire for a better tomorrow for them and his subjects.
“I won’t fail you. I will bring a better tomorrow for everyone!!!!!!” Wukong yelled as he destroyed the doors to the Jade Emperor's throne room.
“I see you have made it past Erlang and my army,” The Jade Emperor said distastefully.
“This could’ve ended if you actually acknowledged me and my brothers with the titles we claimed, but you have to be a stubborn old fart, and now here we are,” Wukong said as he casually spins his staff before stopping it and slamming it into the ground, clearing any dust still floating and creating a small shockwave.
“You are nothing but lowly, ugly demons who deserve nothing but to be stepped on and used as target practice,” The Jade Emperor said as he got up from his throne.
“You and the rest of your bottom feeders don’t even deserve to set foot here, a mistake I’ll fix right now,” The Jade Emperor grew to the size of a giant amongst giants as he towered over Wukong and pulled out his sword that grew proportionate to him.
“I guess we’re doing this the hard way then. Good, I’ve been itching to fight you since you attacked my island and my people,” Wukong said as he jumped up to The Jade Emperor faster than the eye could see, but was blocked just as fast.
Several hours later
Wukong was on his knees, and his army was defeated, shackled, and in chains, along with his sworn brothers.
“Tch, can’t believe I got dirty over a simple monkey, Nezha!!” The Jade Emperor yelled out.
An eternal 12-yr-old showed up next to The Jade Emperor. “Yes, sire,” “Contact The Great Buddha; they will know what to do. I’m sure they have already heard about this debacle by now,” The Jade Emperor said as he returned to his throne.
“I am here,” said a voice everyone recognized.
Everyone, including Wukong and his sworn brothers, looked at The Great Buddha themselves in awe as they were here.
The Great Buddha appears translucent, yet is larger than the Jade Emperor in his entirety.
“Ah! Great Buddha, your quick action of coming here humbles me,” The Jade Emperor said as he bowed along with everyone else except for Wukong.
The Great Buddha notices this and stares at the stone monkey.
“Oh, Wukong, you have done a lot of wrong here today,” The Great Buddha said as they looked down toward Wukong.
“They attacked us first!!!” Wukong yelled out.
“You could’ve let it go, rebuilt, and lived peacefully next to the heavens,” The Great Buddha said.
“They would’ve seen it as a sign of submission and see us as nothing more than something to stomp on,” Wukong said.
The Great Buddha refused to think their followers would ever do that.
The Great Buddha sighed before thinking, ‘I think he will fit better while learning some things in a different era with a certain boy,’ The Great Buddha held out their hand for Wukong to jump onto.
Wukong didn’t jump onto their hand but instead slowly pulled out his staff, ready to fight The Great Buddha themself.
The Great Buddha saw this coming and let it play out before slamming Wukong to the ground on an island near China.
“Ah!!” Wukong yelled out in pain as The Great Buddha’s hand formed into a cavern with talismans and chains, keeping The Great Sage Equal to Heaven: The Monkey King in place.
“This is where you will remain until someone of my choosing frees you. Only then will your lesson begin. Until then, you must wait,” The Great Buddha said before disappearing.
When Wukong’s sworn brothers and army saw what had happened, they started to worry for him. He had tried to fight Buddha and had been slammed into the earth so fast and hard that it was impossible to believe that he would’ve survived.
“Wukong!!!!! Where is he?!?! What happened?!?!” Macaque yelled out as he tried to get free, along with his other sworn brothers.
“Wukong!!! You must get back up!!! Please!!!” Azure yelled out as tears threatened to run down his face.
“Don’t you dare give up, Wukong. You are my sworn brother, and I know that a hit like that wouldn’t even be enough to daze you!!!” The Bull King yelled, not believing someone as strong as Wukong is dead or had given up.
“ENOUGH!!!!!!” Yelled the Jade Emperor.
“Execute these pathetic demons ,” The Jade Emperor spat out with as much venom as he could.
“No! Please, my Emperor. They have no leader anymore and have lost the will to fight; surely they have been punished enough,” Erlang begged as he kneeled down between The Jade Emperor, his guards, and Wukong's tied-up army.
The Jade Emperor looked at the army and only saw how pathetic they are, “Fine, no reason to dirty our weapons with their filthy blood.
The sworn brothers looked at Erlang in surprise, and they asked why he had stopped their execution. “Why did you spare us?” Azure asked.
“I promised Wukong that his army and his people will be protected by me, including you 6,” Erlang answered.
They were later transported back to Wukong's island with the rest of the army and Erlang.
“Erlang, what has happened to our brother and leader?” Bull King asked.
“He has been trapped under a mountain in a cavern until someone chosen by Buddha themselves could release him,” Erlang said.
They stared in silence, with some clenching their fists in anger. “If you want to start your own kingdom far from here, I understand, and I can help with that. Whatever you do beyond that, I’ll leave it to you,” Erlang offered.
“That would be nice, but I’m staying here; these guys need protection. I don’t think Wukongs old ‘friends’ won’t try and destroy this place when they hear about him being imprisoned by Buddha themself,” Macaque said as he left through the shadows.
“I shall stay nearby. I don’t think staying like a newborn calf in the wild would be wise, waiting for danger to strike. I shall travel where Wukong has been imprisoned and build my own kingdom from there, " The Bull King said.
“I… I can’t be here, not after everything we’ve been through; there’s too many memories of Wukong here. I need to go deeper into China and start anew,” Azure said, feeling sick and depressed.
“Not with us, you're not,” Peng said with Marmoset behind him.
“Are you sure? I’m sure you’ll be more useful here,” Azure said.
“We may have lost Wukong to those fat elites, but we’re not gonna lose the one that fought along with us,” said a gruff voice that belonged to Marmoset.
“And you?” Erlang asked the last member of the sage 7.
“I think I’ll go back to the ocean and try to keep it safe for our kind and maybe some humans; I’ll visit if I can,” Flood said before slithering toward the ocean.
And so our warriors went their separate ways, waiting for their leader, their friend, and their brother to return.
1,251 Yrs later
It was a warm July when we see our main character running down the street over several puddles and stopping in front of a giant crowd that was gawking at what was happening above them on a train overpass.
“Ugh, another one? This is the fifth time this week,” said a strange-looking man with a spray bottle for a head.
“Woah!! It's Kamui Woods!!! He’s a new hero, but he’s rising in the hero rankings fast despite that!!!” said a dark green-haired teen, writing down in a notebook that came out of nowhere.
“Huh, hey kid, you wanna be a hero?” Asked a man with multiple star-like protrusions coming out of his head.
The green-haired teen flinched in surprise when someone noticed him. “Is that why you're writing down in that notebook, wanting to become a hero?” the man continued.
The teen smiled and confirmed that that is what he wanted to do.
He turns back to the fight and sees a giant on the train tracks fighting against Kamui Woods, whose Quirk is Arbor, which allows him to control the wood his body produces on his arms.
The fight suddenly ended when a giant, never-before-seen heroine drop-kicked the villain into unconsciousness.
“The name’s Mt. Lady; happy to be of ass istance,” Mt. Lady said as she showed off her giant butt to the reporters.
Midoriya wrote down his findings and analysis of the Heroine before realizing he will be late for school if he didn’t leave right now.
Under the alleys of Japan, Musutafu. We see our Monkey King still trapped in a cavern with Talismen and chains untouched by time.
“Hey, bud, been a while since I last saw you; how’s life above ground?” Wukong asked to a somewhat faded drawing of his brothers.
“Yeah, ha, figures those silly humans haven’t changed that much, still living in small villages…” Wukong looks at the two drawings before hanging his head in defeat.
“This is hitting beyond rock bottom; I can’t believe I’m even pretending these two drawings are my brothers!!!!! But I suppose I deserve it for what I did to them,” Wukong said, depressed.
“At least they left you drawings of them so you won’t go completely crazy,” said a voice Wukong haven’t heard since he was imprisoned the first time.
Wukong immediately shot his head up to look around and saw The Great Buddha themself, translucent with golden wisps as usual.
“Huh, wasn’t expecting to see you again,” Wukong said in astonishment and surprise.
“It is time for your release, my chosen will be here soon, although, after all this time, I have begun to see the errors of the Celestials and their arrogance. I should’ve listened to you back then, but I still left you here with a lesson to be learned, only for it to be for naught when, after you finished your journey, the Celestials decided to test your dedication by attacking your kingdom. After everything you’ve done, I’m sorry. And now you are in a different age, much like your own, but also very different,” The Great Buddha said as they circled Wukong.
Wukong had a lot of questions about this chosen, but decided to ignore that and asked what he really wanted to know, “What about Bull King and his family? Are my subjects still protected against the Celestials?” Wukong asked in rapid succession.
‘Hehe, even now, after all these centuries under the world, he still cares about his family and subjects,’ “They are all fine, and they are still protected,” Buddha said.
Wukong sighed in relief, “So, when is this ‘chosen’ supposed to get here?” Wukong asked.
“Soon, but I need to inform you of how much has changed in the centuries,” Buddha said.
“Ok, I mean, it couldn’t have changed that much; it’s only been, like, 5 or 600 yrs… Right?” Wukong asked, unease in his voice.
“It’s been 1,251 yrs since your second imprisonment,” Buddha said, looking sad that they had to tell Wukong this suddenly.
Wukong looked past Buddha into nothing as the full extent of what they said was being processed, ‘...I haven’t seen my brothers in over a millennium; I screwed up so bad,’ Wukong thought.
“I’ll transfer all the history that has happened to the human race in the past 1,200 yrs; it will be a bit overwhelming, so do brace yourself,” Buddha said as they lifted their hand in front of Wukong's face as a thin line of energy from their hand to Wukong's head.
Wukong absorbed all the information about what had happened over the years and felt multiple emotions at what he saw.
The wars, the cruelty to his kind and to other humans, the amount of wrongs done for progress; It was cruel and wrong; so many things more.
Musutafu: Underpass. 10 Minutes from Aldera High.
We see a familiar green-haired teen walking toward an underpass while clutching a soggy, burnt notebook.
“That idiot. You can’t go telling people to kill themselves,” He said to himself as he stopped to process what has happened today.
“What if I really jumped? What would he do then?” He asked the air before remembering the day he was diagnosed Quirkless, and he told the rest of his class.
After that day, he would watch a video of the number 1 hero, All Might.
It was a video about All Might’s debut as a pro-hero, saving hundreds of people in less than an hour.
“Even when things look impossible, he never gives up,” He said, laughing loudly like All Might before ending it with a sad ‘heh’ as he passed under the bridge.
He didn’t notice a sewer grate rattling before bursting off the ground and embedding itself into the roof of the underpass.
“(Gasp) A villain!” The Green-haired teen said.
A green, slimy substance burst out of the sewers, smelling like it had been swimming in it. “Ah, you’ll make a perfect skin suit,” said the living sewage slime.
The green-haired teen screamed before trying to run away, but failed as a tendril caught one of his legs and dragged him toward the owner of the tendril.
“For me to hide in, kid,” The living sewage finished as he covered the teen in the slime and sewage before going through the teen's mouth.
‘Is this how I die!?!? Choking on living sewage before I get to save anyone.
“It’ll be easier if you don’t fight back!” Yelled the living sewage.
‘I’m sorry, Mom. I’m sorry I was a disappointment. I’m sorry I was such a burden to you and everyone else,’ He thought as he slowly faded from consciousness.
The teen prayed to any deity listening to help him.
When he opens his eyes again, he sees that he is in a cavern lit by blue torches.
He looked around and sees gold chains with countless talismen covering every 5th chain.
He looked around until his eyes landed on a figure at the cavern's center.
“H-hello? Uh, W-where am I?” The teen asked the stranger in the center of the cavern.
“Huh? Oh, I guess you’re the one who’ll release me,” said the stranger.
“What?! What do you mean ‘release,’ you?” The teen asked.
“Hm? Oh, you were chosen to release me from The Great Buddha themselves. Apparently, I’m supposed to be more welcomed in this Era,” The stranger said, mumbling the last bit.
“W-who are you?” The teen asked, afraid they had been thrown from one dangerous situation into another.
“Did they not tell you? Or talk to you… at all?” The stranger asked.
“N-no, I was being choked by a villain made of sewage before being brought here,” The teen said.
“Hm, yeah, that sounds like them,” said the stranger.
“Welp, anyway, my name is,” The stranger was about to say their name, but nothing came out.
“Huh? It’s________! It’s ________! I am The __________ _________ ________ _________!!!!!!” The stranger yelled, but nothing came out.
“Wha?” The Teen questioned.
“Hmmm, maybe if you release me, then maybe I could tell you,” The stranger said.
“B-but how will I know you won’t attack me?” The teen questioned anxiously.
“Why would I attack you? Unless you want to fight, then sure,” said the stranger.
“N-no! I don’t want to fight. So, how do I release you?” The teen asked.
“You just have to rip off one of those talismen, and the rest should follow. Just, uh, be careful not to be too close to them when they disappear, alright,” The stranger said.
The teen walked toward the closest talismen and ripped it off the chain before tearing it in half.
As soon as he did that, the rest of the Talismen burned up by blue flames coming from the talismen themselves.
“AHHH!” The teen screamed as all the golden chains retracted into the cavern walls and heard the sound of solid rock breaking.
The stranger's eyes glowed a bright, solid golden orange before that same glow traveled through the cracks, and some of the glow was floating in the air.
“Graahhh!” The stranger yelled as the rocks holding him in place burst away from him and flew toward the walls.
‘Ah! Woah! Gah!” The teen dodged the boulders that were bursting away from the stranger before falling face-first into the ground, avoiding the last boulder.
“Whew! You have no idea how cramped your muscles can become after being trapped for over a thousand years. Ugh, I'm gonna need a minute,” The stranger said as they stretched in ways the teen didn’t think was possible.
“So, what’s your name, kid?” The stranger asked.
“Wha? O-oh, I-it’s Midoriya, Midoriya Izuku,” Midoriya said, rubbing the back of his green-haired head.
“Hm, nice name, anyway, since I wasn’t able to tell you before, my name is Sun Wukong, The Great Sage Equal To Heaven!” Sun Wukong said, pulling out his staff at the end of his stretching and twirling it around.
“Huh?” Midoriya stared at Wukong questioningly.
“Not surprised you haven’t heard of me; I have been gone for almost two thousand years,” Wukong said.
“No, I have heard of you, but I thought you were just made up, just a legend from B.Q.E (Before Quirk Era),” Midoriya said.
“Oh? My legendary feats survived for this long?” Wukong asked while he was posing and flexing.
“But in the stories, you were released long before Quirks manifested, so why were you still underground?” Midoriya asked.
“That’s a long story that I’ll tell you once we’re out of here,” Wukong said as he remembers his journey with the monk and his friends.
“Anyway, I’ll find you soon, just stay alive as long as you can; you said you were being choked by a villain that was made of sewage, right?” Wukong asked.
Midoriya nodded, confused about what he meant by finding him. “Yeah, but why do you need to find me? I’m right here,” Midoriya asked.
“You seriously haven’t noticed yet?” Wukong asked before pointing at Midoriya’s hands.
Midoriya looked down at his hands and saw that he was slightly orange and see-through. “AHHH!!!!” Midoriya yelled out in panic.
“You’re fine, but I don’t know about your body, though. I’ll send you back with a bit of my power so you can fight off that villain. Don’t die before I get there!” Wukong said before flicking Midoriya’s head, sending him back to his body at high speeds.
Back at Midoriya’s body.
Midoriya woke up to find himself on the ground, being gently slapped by a hand the size of his face.
“Wah!!! What happened?!?! Where am I?!?!” Midoriya yelled out in fear.
“You are fine, young man! Now that I AM HERE!!!!” Yelled a voice, Midoriya recognized from countless views, and following his number one hero.
“ALL MIGHT!!!” Midoriya yelled out in surprise at seeing his idol.
“YES, IT IS I, NOW, YOUNG MAN, ARE YOU FEELING OK? YOU ARE NOT INJURED ANYWHERE?” All Might asked.
“I-I think I am fine, but thank you so much for saving me!!” Midoriya screamed in excitement and gratitude.
“YOU ARE VERY WELCOME, YOUNG MAN. NOW, IF YOU’LL EXCUSE ME, I HAVE TO GET THIS VILLAIN TO THE NEAREST POLICE PRECINCT!!!” All Might said before getting ready to jump away.
‘I’ve got to hurry; I don’t have much time left!’ All Might thought as he didn’t feel a sudden weight on his leg.
As he was soaring through the air from his jump, he heard screaming from below him and sees it’s Midoriya clinging tightly to his leg, the wind blowing his face back.
“HEY, HEY, HEY!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?!?!” All Might asked as he tried to push Midoriya off of him.
“LET GO!!! I LOVE MY FANS, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!” All Might exclaimed.
“No!! We’re flying!!! If I let go, I’ll fall to my death!!!!” Midoriya yelled over the wind.
All Might realized this and decided to land on the nearest rooftop.
“Oh, my goodness, I almost died again today,” Midoriya muttered to himself.
“Sorry, All Might, I’ve just got (pant) a really personal question to ask you,” Midoriya said, still winded by another near-death experience.
“I’M SORRY, BUT I HAVE NO TIME. KNOCK ON THE DOOR, SOMEONE WILL EVENTUALLY LET YOU IN,” All Might said as he walked toward the roof's edge.
“Wait!! I have to know!!! Can someone Quirkless become a hero?!?!?!” Midoriya asked loudly.
All Might paused before slightly turning his head toward Midoriya.
“I’m a normal kid without any powers. Could I ever become someone like you?!?!?” Midoriya asked.
“People think I don’t have a chance. Because I don’t have any power, I would be nothing more than a target for the villains to shoot at while the real heroes take them down. My classmates bully and make fun of me just because I dream of becoming a hero. I want to prove them wrong; I have wanted to save people since I was little, because I think saving people is the coolest thing! I want people to see me smile and think that they are safe. I want to be the hero that inspires everyone to keep going,” While Midoriya was talking, he didn’t notice All Might’s form shrinking into a skeleton-like form.
“I want to be what everyone looks up to!” Midoriya finally looks at All Might and sees him as a skeleton.
“Huh?.... Wha!!!!!” Midoriya screamed in surprise and fear.
Underpass: Musutafu.
“Where did he go?” Wukong asked nobody in particular.
Wukong looked to the ground before activating his Fiery Golden Eyes to track Midoriya and found him talking to a skeleton-looking man on a rooftop.
“There he is! He must’ve gotten help from that guy,” Wukong said before jumping onto his cloud and rode it toward Midoriya.
‘Wonder how he got up there?’ Wukong thought but quickly dismissed it as the distance between Midoriya and him shortened.
“...I’m supposed to be the guy who’s always smiling, right? I’m the symbol of peace. People everywhere have to think that I’m never afraid… But honestly, there’s a lot of fear hiding behind that smile, and I have to put on a brave face when the pressure is high,” All Might said as he slid down against the railing.
“Pro heroes are always putting their lives in danger, and some villains can’t be beaten without powers. So, can you be a hero without a Quirk?” All Might stayed quiet for almost a minute before answering.
“No, I don’t think you can be a hero without Quirk,” Midoriya looked at All Might in shock at his answer.
“If you wanna help people, there are plenty of other ways, like being a doctor or joining the police force. I know they get crap because the heroes capture the villains, but they actually do the work, and people trust them,” All Might said before standing up and heading toward the door.
“I think you’re wrong,” A voice Midoriya recognized, but All Might didn’t.
What appeared before them was a sunset-orange-haired monkey with peach-colored markings covering his eyes. He’s wearing a yellow, long-sleeved kimono with red trousers, topped with a tiger pelt, and a white tie belt to keep them up. He wore black and white boots. On his shoulders is a red scarf.
They both turned toward the voice to see, “Sun Wukong! Y-you’re here!” Midoriya said in surprise.
“Yup, and I have to say that this guy is wrong; you can become a hero, Midoriya. Even if you don’t have those weird powers that everyone has,” Wukong said as he jumped off his cloud and onto the roof.
“Y-you do?” Midoriya asked with hope in his voice.
“Yup, and I’m going to help train you,” Wukong said as he put his hand on Midoriya’s shoulder.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea. Being a hero is dangerous, especially if you don’t have a Quirk,” All Might said.
“Please, as if that stopped anyone before. Plus, who are you to judge when you obviously aren’t a hero?” Wukong said, not knowing he is talking to the number 1 hero.
All Might wanted to disprove that, but realized that this ‘Sun Wukong’ didn’t hear the first half of the conversation between him and Young Midoriya.
“...I may not be a hero, but I work with All Might very closely and know he wouldn’t forgive himself if he didn’t try and convince this young man to try and take a safer career path,” All Might said.
“Then he doesn’t remember what it was like starting out. He doesn’t remember the first time he fought someone way above his skill level and had to find a way to win,” Wukong said, staring straight into All Might's eyes.
“Anyone who wanted to be a hero knew the risks and the dangers. Telling someone else who has the same dream as you to give up and choose something else because they don’t have the same level of power you do now is biased and idiotic,” Wukong said.
All Might looked into Wukong's eyes and processed what he said before realizing that Wukong was right.
“(sigh) You are right, I shouldn’t have gotten in the way-” All Might was interrupted by an explosion in the distance.
The three looked toward the explosion and grew concerned.
All Might reflectively went to his pants to make sure the villain was still there, only to realize they were not there.
“Come on, kid, let’s see what’s going on and consider this a little preview into what the training will be like,” Wukong said as he motioned for Midoriya to follow.
Wukong jumped onto his cloud and flew away, leaving Midoriya on the rooftop.
“...W-wait up!!!” Midoriya stared up in surprise before realizing that Wukong had started his training already.
All Might stood there as he saw Midoriya and this Wukong person approaching the explosion.
All Might decided to follow them and rushed down the building stairs to catch up with them.
Over at the explosion, heroes are scrambling to contain the villain and limit the destruction caused by the hostage the villain has taken.
“Damn, kid, calm down; we can’t get near you if you don’t cool it with your Quirk!” said a hero wearing a dirty light blue leotard with his chest exposed and blue jeans; he also had safety tape colors around his wrist and head.
This hero is named Deatharms; his Quirk is a form of super strength.
‘I don’t have the right Quirk for this. Sorry, kid, you’re gonna have to hold on for a bit longer,” Deatharms thought as he tries to keep falling debris from the civilians who came to gawk and stare at the destruction.
“Let go of me!!! You damn piece of shit!!!” Yelled the hostage with the explosive Quirk.
“Hahaha!!! That’s good, kid! Keep using that Quirk to keep these heroes away. Hehe, with this power, I’ll be able to take down All Might in one hit,” The living sewage said, directing the hostage blasts toward the heroes and surrounding buildings.
Above them was a stone monkey on his cloud, watching the heroes doing nothing to help the hostage, but instead were just standing around.
“Hmm, I thought that blue guy would go in there to pull that kid out, but I guess he isn’t brave enough,” Wukong said.
Wukong turned his ears toward the crowd before fully turning his head and saw Midoriya in the crowd, slightly panting and looking past the crowd to see what is happening.
‘W-w-wait, isn’t that the villain that All Might captured?’ Midoriya thought as he made his way to the front of the crowd.
Behind Midoriya was All Might, at the back of the crowd, watching the same villain he had captured attack again, and grab another hostage. ‘Must’ve dropped him while I was in the air! I was too distracted about my time limit! Can’t believe I made such a rookie mistake,’ All Might thought as he scolds himself.
Especially since he told Midoriya what it took to be a hero, he thought how pathetic he is in that moment.
Midoriya also blamed himself for distracting All Might and letting that villain escape.
While Midoriya continued to blame himself, Wukong thought about approaching this before seeing Midoriya's eyes widen and run toward the villain.
‘Huh…Wasn’t expecting,' Was all Wukong thought before seeing Midoriya throw his backpack at the sewage villain's eyes and went to grab the hostage.
“What are you doing, Deku!?!” Yelled the hostage.
“I dunno! My legs just moved on their own!” Midoriya said, clawing at the sewage off of Bakugo.
All Might and Wukong heard this; they were both surprised and smiled at what Midoriya said.
“I couldn’t just stand there and watch you die!” Midoriya said.
“GRAAAHHH!!!!! That’s it!!! I’M DONE PLAYIN WITH YOU!!!!” yelled the villain as he formed a tendril and started to whip it at Midoriya, but didn’t get the chance.
“AH!” Midoriya screamed before he could see the tendril was being blocked by a golden Chinese magic circle with a few letters being a neon green.
It then repelled the tentacle away from Midoriya. Midoriya was caught off guard by the sudden shield that he didn’t react fast enough to block the second tentacle, but someone else blocked it for him.
“...I REALLY AM PATHETIC… I TOLD YOU THE TRAITS THAT MAKES A GREAT HERO, BUT I SEE THAT I WASN’T LIVING UP TO MY OWN IDEALS!!! THAT MONKEY PERSON WAS RIGHT; PROS ARE ALWAYS RISKING THEIR LIVES!! ” All Might said as he pushed the tendril away from himself and Midoriya, “ THAT’S THE TRUE TEST OF BEING A HERO!!!!!” All Might said before readying a punch.
“Gah! Not this time, All Might!!!” The villain screamed before forming more tendrils to hit All Might with.
All Might quickly grabbed the hostage and Midoriya before shouting, “DETRIOT….SMASH!!!!!” The punch sent the sewage villain, dust, and some heroes and civilians flying, but they were protected by the heroes and their quick thinking, allowing them to stay on the ground.
After a few moments, a drop fell from the sky, followed by another, and it was full-on raining in the district.
“He-he changed the weather with a single punch,” Said a bystander in the crowd in amazement.
The crowd roared in amazement and awe at the show of power.
All Might nearly toppled over but was quickly steadied by Wukong, who flew down to check on everyone.
“You did good, skeleton man. How about you take a rest?” Wukong said.
All Might looked down behind him and realized that Wukong probably saw him transformed before he stopped that villain.
“You!!” One of the heroes yelled as they angrily pointed at Midoriya, “You are in trouble!” The heroes drew closer to Midoriya and the boy All Might had saved.
The Ambulance set the two boys on a gurney to check up on them while the heroes berated Midoriya while praising the kid who was causing explosions and being held hostage.
“Are they serious? Are they scolding a child for doing their job?” Wukong asked All Might incredulously.
All Might turned toward where the other heroes were and saw that they were scolding Midoriya for doing their job better than them.
“That’s enough!” Wukong yelled at the heroes before they turned toward him.
All Might didn’t notice Wukong left as soon as he turned toward the other heroes. “I think you should be praising the kid instead of projecting your own incompetence at him,” Wukong said as he got between Midoriya and the heroes.
“Stay out of this! This kid could’ve made things worse or gotten him and that promising young hero dead because he wanted to play hero!” Yelled Deatharms.
“He wasn’t playing hero; he was being a hero; that ‘promising hero’ was causing more damage than that sewage villain ever was and probably would cause more if this kid didn’t step in.” Wukong stared down Deatharms with his arms crossed over his chest.
“We had the situation handled just fine,” said a talking tree.
“Pfft, as if, toothpick. None of you could get close because that brat tried to free himself violently instead of trying to work with you, and he didn’t get a scolding,” Wukong said.
“My name is Kamui Woods, and you should be more respectful towards us heroes,” Kamui Woods said.
“Or what? You're not gonna save me next time there’s an attack? Or maybe you’re gonna arrest me for giving you lip?” Wukong asked, knowing that Kamui can’t do anything.
“S-S-Son Wukong, maybe that’s enough; I-I-I think they get it,” Midoriya said, trying to stop this from escalating.
“No! They need to know what they are doing is wrong! Praising someone for destroying and nearly getting everyone killed while scolding the one person who actually did something when everyone else at the time did nothing,” Wukong said, getting angrier and angrier at the heroes.
“I believe the young man is right; I believe they have learned their lesson,” All Might said as he placed his hand on Wukong’s shoulder.
Wukong quickly looked at the hand before looking up at All Might, who gestured toward the crowd and the news team who were filming the conversation between him and the heroes.
Wukong huffed before sighing. “Fine, come on, Midoriya. I still have to thank you for helping me out of that mountain,” he said, holding out a hand for Midoriya to grab.
Midoriya hesitated for a second before grabbing it and felt himself being pulled into the air and landing on a soft cloud.
“Point me in the direction of your home, and I’ll drop you off; then we’ll start planning your training for you to be a hero,” Wukong said as he and Midoriya floated higher in the air before flying in the direction Midoriya quickly pointed to.
‘I need to find Young Midoriya so I can properly apologize and ask him-’ All Might’s thought process was interrupted by the three heroes Wukong was scolding.
“Can you believe that guy?! He’s telling us off when that Quirkless brat wouldn’t have been any help whatsoever!!” Yelled a new heroine.
“But he was right,” Kamui Woods said.
“What are you talking about?” Asked the heroine.
“That kid was more useful than all of us combined, and we were scolding the wrong person,” Kamui said before turning toward the other teen.
“We shouldn’t be praising you at all since you caused more property damage and made it harder for us heroes to actually help. You also could’ve sent the debris to hit someone or kill one of us heroes who were trying to protect the citizens,” Kamui said, crossing his arms as he stared down at the teen.
“IF YOU COULDN’T PROTECT THOSE SHITTY EXTRAS FROM A FEW STRAY PEBBLES THEN THAT’S ON YOU, YOU SHITTY TWIG!!!!” yelled the explosive teen.
“...” Everyone stayed silent as they heard this teen insult the heroes and civilians.
“What’s your name, young man?” Kamui asked as he pulled out a notepad and pencil.
“Bakugo Katsuki!!! Remember it because I’m going to be the next number 1 hero!” Bakugo yelled out.
Kamui wrote something down before tearing out the page and handing it to Bakugo, who angrily snatched it out of his hands.
Bakugo looked down at the note and saw it was a ticket fine for misuse of Quirk, Illegal use of said Quirk, and not corporating with the heroes in a deadly situation, “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!!!!” Bakugo yelled out in indignation.
“It’s a fine for all the crimes you have committed while being held hostage and making it harder for us to rescue you because you kept firing off your Quirk illegally,” Kamui Woods said before walking away to fill out the police report and continue patrol.