The Kaiju Hero; Titan Monarch

Bakugou Gets Kicked In The Face

From a very young age, Izuku Midoriya was intimately familiar with the idea that all men are not created equally. Time and time again, he saw those with power stomp upon the necks of those deemed beneath them. More often than not he was on the receiving end, all because fate decided he would be one of the very few without power in a world filled to the brim with it.

From the minute Izuku was diagnosed as quirkless, it had felt like the end. His society acted as if it was. After all, quirks were everything. Quirks were what made you, you. And if you didn't have one? Were you even human? His society told him no. His best friend told him no in the form of an open-handed slap over his eye that crackled with miniature explosions and permanently disfigured him. His mother was furious when she saw him and came very close to pressing charges, and was only stopped by Izuku's reluctance.

Inko Midoriya and Mitsuki Bakugou never spoke again.

His mother told him yes. She told him that quirks were just an advantage; just tools, like a knife or a gun. When it was broken down like that, it was easy to get his hope back, even though his once flawless, brightly smiling face was now marred with a constant reminder of his society's opinion.

However, he still had a brain and a fully functioning body apart from the occasional blurriness in his foggy left eye. His mother was still with him, and she supported him no matter what. The very day he got his scar, they decided that he would need to make his own tools since he wasn't born with one like everyone else. He would have to work twice as hard to get half as far, but they would do it together.

It took a while to find a dojo that didn't care about his quirklessness or his age, but after searching for a few days they found one that interested him greatly.

Equipped with his outstanding intelligence and ferocious support from his mother, Izuku Midoriya started learning Krav Maga at four years old and took to it like a fish in water.

Krav Maga caught his eye in particular because it is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extreme efficiency. It's a military self-defense and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli security forces derived from a combination of techniques sourced from aikido, boxing, wrestling, judo, and karate. It's a brutal fighting style that doesn't concern itself with the opponents' well-being, but when bringing martial arts to a quirk fight, you're already at a disadvantage.

At five, he could defend himself against all his other peers his age at the dojo. At six, he overtook peers double his age. At seven, he was comfortably fighting adults. They all laughed off their defeat and chalked it up to him having some crazy fighting quirk. He couldn't help but feel a twinge of bitterness at the idea. Of course, his skills would be written off as if he didn't work himself to the bone every single day to earn his victory.

Twice as hard, half as far.

Only him, his mother, and his favorite sensei, Kamei Tatsuo, knew the truth. They understood his feelings and they knew it wasn't fair. They knew he was angry at the world, and getting more so every day. They conversed in private about it often, and just hoped they could be there for him when the dam finally broke.

By his last year of middle school, Izuku has completely mastered Krav Maga and has serious grasps on Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, and improvised weapons fighting.

Yet despite all of his training, he still suffers from relentless bullying from his peers who think he's utterly powerless against them. He knows it would be child's play to put them in the dirt, but he knows his mother would be disappointed.

In Izuku's opinion, people like Katsuki Bakugou didn't deserve power. The constant praise raining down on his oversized head left him with an ego larger than the sun and temper like a bomb waiting to go off at anyone who dared look at him a little bit funny. Izuku just happened to be one of the ones whose mere existence peeved Bakugou.