Quirkless Rejects

It Has Begun

A knock came at Katsuki's door. He didn't reply. The blonde hadn't uttered a sound since Deku disappeared. His days were shrowded in in guilt that he felt he shouldn't be allowed to feel. He lived in constant fear that his words would cause another to...

Either way, Katsuki doesn't speak. His mother opened the door. "Are you done with your UA application?" She had been softer after Deku disappeared. Sure Mitsuki still cursed like a sailor and yelled for no reason but she was always more tame around Katsuki. Somehow that hurt more.

-Yes,- signed Katsuki. Make no mistake, he was still going to be the number one hero. He was going to be bigger than All Might himself, mute or not. It seemed that guilt and empathy came as a package deal. He decided to try to reach out to the less fortunate, try not to be violent to everyone around him and instead help. Katsuki learned quickly that he wasn't better then anyone and that they had every right to look down on him.
After all, no one like him could possibly be above others.

"Alright, food is ready." She closed the door. Katsuki out his application in an envelope addressed to UA and sealed it. He made a mental note to take it out after dinner.

They had spicy curry and made small talk over the dinner table, Katsuki signing where he say fit.
"Oh well would you look at that?" piped his father suddenly referring to the TV. The news was covering a fight.
"Oh yeah, that video is all over the dang internet," said Mitsuki.

-What video?-

"You don't know? Some group has started. Apparently it's a group of quirkless people trying to prove a point or something. Multiple videos of the fight are all over the web but this one takes the cake."

She handed her phone to Katsuki who pressed play. It had editing to make it look more intimidating, and it worked.

A close up came to a masked boy's face. "The world has wronged the quirkless-" static surfaced and showed him kicking a force field.
"forcing them to be in the shadows". Static, then it showed his masked face again for less than a second before flipping it to when he knocked the hero out. The boy grabbed Uniforce by the hair and held his head up.
"I am quirkless and have taken him down-"
It flashed then came back on, with several dressed figures behind him.

"I am Deku,"

Katsuki almost had a heart attack.

"leader of the Quirkless Rejects!"

No way... Only he... Only Izuku would know that name...

"To all you oppressed, weak, angry quirkless out there..."

But the hair, shorter but still green. Freckles... The voice...

"JOIN US!"

Katsuki shook his head. No. I-its not possible!

It fizzed into a close up of Deku's face, tinted in red. "The time for heroes and quirks is over."

The screen went black for a few seconds, then red words faded in with static in the background. The distorted voice of the speaker sounded loud in clear about the static.

"The age of the quirkless has come..."

It ended. Katsuki dropped his mother's phone.

-I am not hungry right now- he signed with quaking hands. He got up and left, his parents didn't try to stop him and Katsuki knew that they knew just who that really was too.

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He punched the punching bag hanging from his ceiling till his knuckles bled.