Pony Hero Academia: New Generation

Prologue

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I cry out in pain as my head slams into something, hard.

Groaning, I push myself up, looking around blearily.

What the heck just happened? One moment, I’m lying in bed watching the Ranma ½ episode Am I Pretty? Ranma’s Declaration of Womanhood after finally getting season 3 on DVD and now… I’m in a field of trees.

Um… what?

Pushing myself up, I frown as I notice my hands. Why in the world am I wearing white gloves?

Again, wasn’t I lying in bed in my pyjamas just a few seconds ago?

Standing up, I look around, frowning.

Wherever I am, I didn’t get here of my own accord. Something odd’s going on.

I glance down to see what in the world I’m wearing. I can tell it’s not my pyjamas, this is full body suit and my PJs are just an old shirt and boxer shorts. The more disturbing questions that brings up (who undressed me and put whatever I’m wearing now on and why), I’ll save for later.

I feel… perplexed at what I’m seeing.

Best I can make out, I’m wearing the main Hero outfit Izuku Midoriya wears in season four and onwards of My Hero Academia?

Why the heck am I…? Oh, no. Please don’t tell me I’ve somehow been turned into Deku and sent into the MHA world for some reason?

Glancing around quickly, I frown as I notice all the trees around me have pears on them.

Am I in some kind of pear orchard? Why?

Not only that, as I move my head, my hair comes into view. It’s the same green colour, but it’s seriously long. Why’d Deku let it get this long before I somehow found myself in his body?

“Deku’s body feels weird for some reason, too,” I think out loud, stretching my arms against each other… and frown. “Um… that’s not Deku’s voice. I sound like Rimuru Tempest from That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime. Huh? Why do I sound like him?”

The hell? That doesn’t even begin to make sense.

Quickly feeling myself over, wondering if I’m maybe actually Rimuru (and ignoring how the only explanation for looking like Deku would mean Rimuru somehow ended up in the MHA anime and ate Deku, because that’s really disturbing) I push, my hands on my chest... the response far squishier than expected.

My eyes slowly move down to where my hands are, which are stretching out more than they should for being on Deku’s chest and I give a small squeeze.

Instantly, a flurry of sensations run through my brain that don’t add up to Deku or in general.

Moving my hands away from my chest, I slowly lower one down where something else should be.

When I feel nothing, my blood goes cold and I drop to my knees.

“Hey, Diddle Diddle, there is no fiddle,” I murmur dejectedly.

What the flying fuck is going on here?

Why am I Deku? Why do I sound like Rimuru Tempest? And WHY THE FLYING FUCK AM I A GIRL?!

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“Okay, okay. Calm now? Keep it that way,” I firmly tell myself.

I’ve just spent I’d guess over an hour freaking the fuck out about my current situation.

Thankfully, running around like an idiot chicken with its head cut off and yelling at the top of my lungs somehow calmed me down.

Either that or the adrenaline just ran out.

Regardless, I’ve managed to calm down, so I can at least take stock of the situation.

“So, you’re somehow Deku, you sound like Rimaru and you’re a girl,” I tell myself. “Well, at least the being a girl part explains the long hair. And, I guess, if MHA is involved, it could’ve been worse or weirder.”

Folding my arms, flinching as I end up squeezing my new breasts, I sigh.

“This literally makes no sense. Did Deku get hit with some kind of Quirk that changed his gender and this is how Deku sounds as a girl? I do remember a fan comic about that kind of Quirk, but I never looked too much into it and seriously doubt that something similar would be a real part of the show for more than a quick gag, like that Zombie Slave Quirk.”

Talking to myself might seem odd, but it was a way I kept my thoughts organized in my old life and it could also help keep me calm in uncomfortable or worrying situations.

And, suddenly finding yourself somewhere that is not your home, in a gender flipped version of a My Hero Academia character, is definitely what I’d qualify as a worrying situation.

Question is, where do I go from here?

I’ve no clue where I am and appearing in front of anyone as Deku could cause a multitude of problems.

Plus, there’s no telling how much distance I’ll need to travel before finding anyone to talk to.

Sure, I’m in a field of pear trees, so I’m likely in someone’s orchard, but how big is said orchard and how long would it take me to go through it on foot?

Blinking, I look down at my hands and flex them.

Wait. If I’m Deku, a girl version or not, could that mean…?

Closing my eyes, I remember what Deku said to Gran Torino in season two, thinking about power moving through my body.

At once, my body feels hot. Opening my eyes, I blink in confusion as I see blue electricity crackling around me.

Wasn’t that supposed to be green?

Shaking it off, I try to see if I can lower the temperature of the heat moving through my body, focusing on that thought alone.

It works at once, as I feel an immense decrease in the heat until it feels just above lukewarm.

Okay. If I’m right, I’m now channelling 1% of Deku’s Quirk, One For All.

Even if this body is Deku’s, I don’t want to risk injuring myself too much using his… urm, her (?) Quirk until I know more.

Looking ahead, I brace my legs, take a deep breath, then move forward.

It’s instant. I suddenly find myself flying just above the ground, propelled by the power of, well, I guess, my Quirk.

I see a tree coming towards me and find myself able to move my body to turn away from it easily, landing against another tree and rebounding off of it.

Man, this feels kinda cool, actually.

I keep it up for a few minutes, before finding myself coming out of the trees onto a dirt road, where what I see shocks me so much I lose focus and my Quirk stops, causing me to flop forward, skidding in the dirt for several moments, before coming to a halt.

Pushing myself up, I find myself torn between being excited and wanting to deadpan.

Ahead of me, not too far into the distance, is the old rustic looking town of none other than Ponyville. Even if there’s no sign of the Castle of Eyesore, as some in the fandom like to put it, anyone who’s watched FiM til at least season four can recognise that town.

I right myself, sitting down, one knee propped up, just staring in bewilderment.

“I’m in a situation like one of those stories where a random person gets sent to Equestria as a character from another franchise? Seriously?”

I blink.

“Wait. Is that how I got here?”

Closing my eyes and frowning, I shake my head.

“Hmm, no. I don’t remember anything about some being talking to me before finding myself slamming into that tree. Nor running into the fabled Merchant. And I know I didn’t have any papers or anything explaining why I’m Deku, if a female version. What’s going on here?”

And that’s definitely a good thing. At least I don’t have to worry about whether or not I ticked off some being who wanted me to fight for them in some kind of battle, only for me to turn them down because they changed me beforehand.

After a few moments of sitting in the road, thinking, I decide to through caution to the wind.

A human randomly walking into town would draw a lot of attention, but, hey, the quicker I get Princess Twilight’s attention, the better, I guess.

...

Provided Twilight IS a princess. For all I know, this Equestria could be pre-Equestria Girls or even pre-Magical Mystery Cure.

Glancing behind me out of curiously, I see Sweet Apple Acres not too far off, along with the fields of pear trees I just came out of.

Those must be from the Pear’s farm, what’s left after the family itself left, anyway. Doubt it will be getting any TLC until Grand Pear comes back. Was Granny secretly doing her best to keep it going all this time, in memory of Pear Butter?

Deciding to forgo One For All this time, I get up and make my way into town.

As expected, the moment I walk through the boarder, pony heads turn in my direction.

I just wave and call out “hi” or “hello”, even throwing in a few “How’s it hangin’”s in there too, for good measure.

Either I’m at a point in the series where the ponies don’t care anymore, or it works, because they slowly go back to what they’re doing.

It seems, despite being Deku, I arrived in an ordinary version of Equestria.

The ponies look like, well, just ponies.

The pegasi are flying overhead. Earth Ponies are tending to flowers or doing some manual labour. Unicorns levitating stuff as they go about their day to day lives.

Nothing really out of the ordinary aside from myself.

As I’m walking along, pretending like it’s just an ordinary day for myself, my blood runs cold as I suddenly remember something. More specifically, somepony.

I silently start praying to whatever deities are out there that I do not run into the mint green unicorn known to be obsessed with humans.

“Hi, there!”

I scream in fright... suddenly finding myself several feet in the air.

Blinking in confusion, I look down to see gravity is quickly reasserting its hold on me and I brace myself for the impact… but don’t feel it.

Opening my eyes, I look down to see I’m… floating? My face is maybe an inch from the ground. Huh?

Soon as I’ve notice it, it’s like whatever force was holding me up vanishes and I flop to the ground.

“Wow! That was so amazing! How’d you jump that high? What are you? What’s your name? Where do you come from? Do you like chocolate cake? Would you like that at your Welcome Party?”

I deadpan into the dirt.

Okay. I know I don’t need to fear Lyra Heartstrings having found me, because that voice and rapid fire questions could only be coming from one pony.

Pushing myself up and standing, dusting myself off, I look down to the pink Party Pony with balloons for a Cutie Mark that is none other than Pinkie Pie herself.

“Hello, Pinkie Pie,” I say, finishing dusting myself off. “And, in order, used my Quirk out of fear, human, I suppose Deku will do for now, Earth, yes and I suppose.”

If my way on answering her confused the pink pony, she doesn’t show it. She simply salutes. “You got it, Nana. See you later, after your talk with Twilight.”

With that, she bounces off, a bouncing sound effect happening each time she lifts from the ground.

I watch her go… more puzzled than anything else.

Did she just call me Nana? Huh? I just told her to call me Deku.

Sighing in slight frustration, I head off towards where I can tell Golden Oak Library is, since the top of a tree is just barely visible above a building nearby.

A few minutes later, I’m standing outside the sadly fated to be destroyed old tree and knock on the door.

“Coming,” Cathy Wesluck’s voice calls from the other side.

A few moments later, the door opens to reveal a little purple dragon with a green stomach and spikes on his back.

“Hey, Spike,” I wave, not able to hide the grin that forms at the dragon’s open mouthed stare. “Is Twilight home? I kinda need to talk with her about something.”

Spike slowly shakes his head. “She’s… not in right now. She’s helping Applejack over at Sweet Apple Acres.”

I blink, before deadpanning. “Seriously? I just came from there. You’re telling me I missed her by moving away from where she was?” I facepalm. “Well, isn’t that irony for ya?”

Spike lets me in and we move into the kitchen, where he makes us both a cup of coffee, myself adding a lot of milk to cool it down quickly, as I prefer my coffee cold.

“So… why’re you dressed like some character out of a comic book? Your costume kinda looks like Mistress Marevellous, but her outfit isn’t green, ” Spike asks, before blinking and smiles sheepishly. “Oh, right. Uh, what’s your name? You know mine, but I don’t seem to know yours.”

I frown down into my mug. “Well, I’ve turned into a female version of the character called Deku, but, for some reason, Pinkie Pie called me Nana.”

Spike raises an eyebrow. “That is odd. Pinkie doesn’t ignore somepony’s name and give them her own. Well, unless you count Nightmare Moon the day we first got here, but that’s not the same.”

I nod, putting my hands together and resting my chin on them. “It does feel weird for Pinkie Pie to do. I mean, Nana was the name of the person who had Deku’s Quirk before the guy who gave it to Deku, but that doesn’t explain why Pinkie would call me that when I’m clearly Deku, if a female version of him, for whatever reason.”

To the odd look Spike gives me, I answer with a brief summary of My Hero Academia, some of the characters and the basics of Quirks and how they work. And how One For All works.

He frowns, rubbing his chin. “So, is this Deku person still in that body with you?”

I shake my head. I’ve definitely tried to hear if Deku was in my body. I even tried mentally calling out to the Vestiges of One For All, thinking they might help me figure this out a little, even though I had no clue how to actually do that, but there was nothing.

Spike hums, rubbing his chin. “Rats. That could’ve helped a little. Hmm. So, you’re not from the human world Twilight and I went to, but a totally different one?”

I nod.

“And this body is from another different human world from yours, where everyone has some power called a Quirk?”

I shake my head. “Like I said, not everyone. It’s rare, but, sometimes, someone will be born without a Quirk and never develop one throughout their whole life. Deku was such a person, so was All Might. The guy who had Deku’s Quirk before he did. ”

“So… is it possible, before you somehow ended up in his body, this Deku guy ended up effected by some Quirk that switched him from a boy into a girl?”

I shrug. “That was my best guess. But, in truth? I’m clueless on this, Spike.”

Twilight arrives back at the library a few hours later.

To say she was stunned to see a human in Equestria is an understatement. She was flabbergasted. Since Rainbow Rocks has not happened yet, the idea of a human somehow being in Equestria is understandably shocking for her.

We spent most of what was left of the day going over what we could, explaining the character I’d become, Quirks, pretty much anything we could think of to try and figure out WHY I became Deku at all.

I also used that time to secretly see if I could figure out where in the MLP timeline I ended up. Twilight being an Alicorn already confirming at least after season three and her knowing what a human is meaning after Equestria Girls.

Thanks to an offhand comment from Spike about the Flim Flam brother’s fake miracle cure tonic that almost got Granny Smith killed, I’m able to figure out that I arrived in an Equestria just after the events of that episode, but before the finale with Tirek.

We get interrupted not long after I pieced that together in my head by Pinkie Pie bringing us to my Welcome to Ponyville Party and weren’t really able to keep talking during said party, myself being occupied with meeting other ponies and constantly having to explain who I was, what I was and whatever else I was asked that I could actually answer.

At one point, I did run into the dreaded mint green unicorn, but her secret agent future wife thankfully kept her restrained, though I fear it is a temporary relief.

The party lasts into the night, at which point, Twilight offers to let me stay at the library, informing me she’ll send a letter to Celestia in the morning and we can properly start trying to figure things out.

Unfortunately, due to Rarity not having known about me beforehand and having no time after the party, I have no nightwear, so find myself embarrassed as I sleep in the nude, being sure to keep the covers over every inch of my body that I can.

I do have a sports bra and panties, but I don’t like the idea of sleeping in anything I was wearing all day if they’re not my pyjamas on a day where I spent the whole day relaxing in bed.

It takes a while, but, I eventually fall asleep.

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I’m facing some kind of blue… thing.

Best I can describe is it looks a tear of blue in the middle of the air before me, with multiple machines of some kinds of varying sizes. There’s a woman kneeling over a projector-like device in front of the blue... thing, seeming to be working on something within the mechanics of the device.

It takes a second for me to realize it’s an adult Hatsume, clearly in her forties or early fifties.

“Do you understand, Nana? This is a one way trip.”

[I feel myself nodding.

I’m not in control of my body, someone else is. What the hell?

Wait. Did she just call my Nana, just like Pinkie Pie did?

“Your father and mother would be proud of you in they weren’t buying us as much time as possible. Your siblings sure were angry at the idea,” Hatsume goes on, sounding genuinely sad as she continues to work on the device. “Too bad you had no time to pratice with that Quirk that was forced onto you.”

“But, what about grandpa?” I find my mouth asking. “He said I should be okay learning it on my own. No ill side effects have happened with the other victims so long as they were compatible. Dunno how I was, though. Did they find out anything?”

Hatsume nods. “Yeah... and no. You likely will suffer no ill effects... but we can’t be sure, since we will lose all contact with you after this. Sorry your family couldn’t see you off. A kid should never be forced to leave without being able to say one final goodye.”

I feel myself frown in annoyance and fold my arms. “But, I wanted to follow in grandpa footsteps.”

Hatsume chuckles, pausing in her work and standing up, putting hand on my head and ruffling my hair. “Yeah, yeah, I know. You’re so much like your grandfather was at your age. And, if not for the League of Villains traveling through that warp, I’m sure Izuku would’ve been glad to have you succeed him. As it is…”

I feel myself sigh dejectedly. “I know, I know. I just wish grandpa could’ve seen me off, if no one else.”

“If it weren’t for the massive mess those damn bastards left, I guarantee you he would,” she grins. “It will take a while, but we can get back to the peace from before. With the League’s main heads gone, we can end this new League well before it gets to what happened when your grandparents and I were your age.” I can see a crease in her brow. “Now, once you pass through the warp, it’ll close for good, understand? The League were determined to not be followed, so us getting this one chance is a miracle in and of itself.”

I nod. “Got it. This is what I’ve been training for.”

Wait a sec. New League? So, this isn’t the same League of villains? And what was that earlier about Nana having a Quirk forced upon her? They can’t have meant One For All, so... does Nana have a different Quirk? It doesn’t sound like she had it prior. Did she get it before she got One For All?

“We don’t know what kind of world you’ll end up in, so be on your guard,” she returns to working on the device. “With all those stolen Quirks at their disposal, the damage they could do to a world without Quirks is incalculable, even if the number of Quirks they have is limited.”

My body nods again, while my brain’s going a billion miles a minute.

Hold up, hold up, HOLD UP!

The way my body and this figure are talking, they’re making it sound like Deku is a grandfather now and… that he’s my body’s grandfather?

Did I somehow end up in the body of Deku granddaughter? What the flying fuck? I thought the Manga was still ongoing and was still in a war arc? What the actual hell?!

Suddenly, a massive explosion goes off nearby.

My body turns to face where the explosion came from. A bunch of people who look deformed, before I realize it’s just how their Quirks must’ve manifested, coming our way.

“Damnit! What the hell’s keeping you?!” Hatsume yells, several devices sprouting from the ground and firing lasers, missles and bullets towards the people coming towards us. “Move it, kid!” she yells at me, her eyes obscured by her goggles as she glares at me for a second. “I don’t know how much longer my babies can keep this up!”

My head nods and I feel One For All briefly passing through my body, before I propel forward, heading for what I now realize is a portal.

“Not so fast, little Midoriya,” a familiar, if deeper voice says.

My body glancing to my right, I can see a rocky wall and someone moving out from within it.

It’s Monoma from class 1-B at UA, but older. What the hell?

He starts rushing towards me, his hand outstretched, a manic grin spreading across his face.

My eyes would widen if I were in control of my body as it dawns on me.

He’s trying to stop, they keep calling me Nana, so I’m guessing Nana, from getting through that portal and Hatsume just said Nana needs to go through it to stop the League of Villains.

Monoma is a villain?! I called it. I fucking knew he’d turn to the dark side. No one with an attitude as despicable, condescending and projecting like that could be a hero.

I just knew, after the way he spoke with Shinso in season five, that he would eventually stop pretending to be a hero and would go villain.

Why was he not the UA traitor instead of Aoyama again?

Judging by the way he came out of that rock, he must’ve copied Lemillion’s Quirk or one very similar. But, how’s he going to use that to stop Nana?

“It’s a good thing I copied this before those pesky heroes killed her!” he yells, a large white, translucent tendril flying from his mouth, aimed right at Nana.

My body speeds up and I lose sight of Monama as he ends up behind me.

I watch helplessly from within as the tendril slams through Nana’s chest, a translucent image of a girl who looks just like Deku with longer hair seeming to be pushed out of my body, before vanishing.

Next thing I know my vision goes blue as my now Nanaless body continues with the momentum it had built up and falls through the portal and into the void.

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I gasp, collapsing to the ground, my breathing heavy.

“I have seen some truly disturbing dreams in my long lifetime, but never to that extent.”

My head snaps up to see a blue equine with deep blue fur , piercing blue eyes and a mane and tail that look and move like the night sky itself phase into being before me. Princess Luna.

Glancing around, I realize I’m… not in a field of stars. I’m on some kind of… open rocky field in a world of darkness?

“Correct,” Luna says, as if reading my thoughts. “This is a dream, but not a dream. It would seem this scape was created by both yourself and another.”

“Nana’s soul,” I lift my hands, looking down at them as they shake before me. “That image of her I saw leaving her body… it was her soul. Monama copied a Quirk that allowed him to literally force her soul out of her body?!”

Luna nods, her expression grim, before glancing around. “I am unclear how long I can be here. This is not the Dream Realm. I do not think I am welcome here. However, know this, Nana Midoriya; you must not blame yourself for somehow finding yourself in possession of her body. It could be that, when her soul was forced out, another was needed to fill the void and the universe chose you.”

I look around, wondering if the Vestiges will be angry at my being here.

Luna scowls. “Do not pretend I did not just speak, human. Until we meet in the waking world.”

With that, the Alicorn of the Night fades away and I briefly catch a glimpse of a girl's figure, before everything goes dark.

Author's Note

Don't you freaking hate it when the writing bug suddenly bites and you HAVE to deal with it before it gets too annoying?

I literally came up with this idea while relistening to Might+U today.

seriously don't know why. the idea just suddenly popped into my head after i finished listening to it it and i was like "Whelp, that's gonna keep annoying me all week until i write down at least a prologue", so, here we are.

i promise, i have no clue why this showed up in my head like it did, including the part about Nana's name, but it happened.

honestly don't know how well this works. if it goes badly, i'll ditch it, but i needed to at least get this out of my head once it nawed it's way in there.

hope you could at least somewhat enjoy it and it doesn't suck too much.

will try to update it again before August, but don't hold me to that. i'm honestly unsure with this one.

~~as a little help for those not too familiar with MHA, here's a list of the Quirks within One For All Nana Midoriya has waiting in the wings, what with her being the 11th(?) holder.~~

~~Nana Midoriya’s (Known in the Anime and Manga as of 12/10/2022) All For One Quirks:~~

~~1. Transference – allows the user to pass their quirk to another through willing consumption of the user's DNA.~~
~~2. One For All - basically the energy push throughout the body. a stockpiling quirk that gathers energy over time, which in turn feeds into all the other quirks within it, making them more powerful than they were originally.~~
~~3. Float - allows the user to levitate and suspend themselves in mid-air. With the added enhances of the stockpiled energy from One For All, Float becomes drastically more powerful, allowing the user to fly at high speeds.~~
~~4. Blackwhip - Energy ropes burst forth from the user, they can use these energy outputs to not only assault opponents with, but also trap them within their insanely strong vice and can come from literally any part of the body.~~
~~5. Fa Jin - allows its holder to build up kinetic energy within their body by repeating motions over and over and release it all from any part of the body they wish or even through other quirks (combining One For All 45% it can result in speed and strength on par with One For All 100%, minus the backlash 100% would normal cause) in an instant or in spurts. When used, it dramatically increases the user's speed and power, but, once Fa Jin's energy is used up, the energy will need to be restocked in order to be used again.~~
~~6. Smokescreen - Originally used by En, it Allows the user to generate large amounts of smoke in an area to obscure the vision of their opponents and catch them by surprise or make a quick getaway.~~ ~~(As of the most recent chapter, as of 25th February 2024, this Quirk is no longer part of One For All., so likely will not exist in this story moving forward and any previous hints of it have been removed for the time being)~~
~~7. Danger Sense - The Quirk wielded by the fourth user, Hikage Shinomori. This Quirk allows the user to detect nearby threats or even simple actions with malicous intent behind them. However, if intents by those with no malicious thoughts are deadly, they cannot be sensed.~~ ~~(As of the most recent chapter, as of 24th December 2023, this Quirk is no longer part of One For All., so likely will not exist in this story moving forward and any previous hints of it have been removed for the time being).~~
~~8. Gear Shift – Originally the Quirk of the 2nd User of One For All, the user can shift the speed of themselves anything they touch by a max of quintuple speed and, when switching back to a lower speed (Low Gear), the user's body can ignore the force of inertia. It has a time limit of 5 minutes, however as the backlash is so severe it is a last resort only.~~ (As of the most recent chapter, as of 26th January 2024, this Quirk is no longer part of One For All., so likely will not exist in this story moving forward and any previous hints of it have been removed for the time being)
~~9. Cell Activation – Nana’s father’s Quirk, activates cells to increase the regeneration of the body's cells and healing. can be used on the user themself as well as others. With a boost from One For All, this Quirk can heal almost any injury or ailment and can subconsciously heal the user~~

MAJOR REWRITE HERE!

So, since Deku literally does not possess One For All by the end of the war, only Embers, Nana's actual Quirk in this story is going to be changed too.

It will be similar enough, just missing basically everything that was waiting in the wings.

Nana's Quirk is called One For All: Flying Embers.

This means she has dual layered Quirk, due to genetics, a stockpiled Crystallization of power thanks to Deku, raw energy.

One For All Embers - basically the energy push throughout the body. a stockpiling quirk that gathers energy over time, which in turn feeds into all quirks within it, making them more powerful than they were originally.
Levitate - an evolution of a Quirk from earlier in the user's bloodline, allows the user to levitate and suspend themselves in mid-air. With the added enhances of the stockpiled energy from One For All, flight is achievable through subconsciously manipulating of the air around the body.
Cell Activation – The Quirk forced upon Nan, further explained later on in the story, activates cells to increase the regeneration of the body's cells and healing. can be used on the user themself as well as others. With a boost from One For All, this Quirk can heal almost any injury or ailment and can subconsciously heal the user