Legion

Brotherhood

"Where we are going always reflects where we came from.."

It started with a dream.

A single man next to him, whispering. At first, he didn't even remember. But then the voices started appearing in his head. Just one, then two, then more. Until all day he was plagued with them.

He was already quirkless...he didn't want to be known as crazy too.

But the voices comforted him, stood by him. When nobody else would, when his best friend became his tormentor, and when his mother denied him.

They whispered comforts, appreciation, encouragement, and approval. Constantly reminding him.

You can be a hero. You will be a hero.

Then one day, he appeared.

Izuku was 4 when he got his quirk. But he was 10 when he finally found out.

Izuku was at first scared, as all children are when a random person who looked exactly like you appeared in your room.

Naturally, Izuku's innate curiosity overwhelmed that fear.

"Who are you?"

"Well, finally I'm outta there! Hi Izuku, I'm your quirk!" The doppelganger said, only to pause as Izuku immediately froze, and fainted.

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"Well, that could have gone better."

After getting over the initial shock, happiness, tears, more shock, happiness, and tears from Inko and then even more tears. They all managed to sit together in the living room and talk.

"So let me get this straight, my son, has been listening to voices for years and never told me, and it turns out it's his quirk?" Inko was devastated, her own son hadn't trusted her enough to talk about what was happening for the last six years of his life.

"Yep, we've been inside his...I guess you could say mindscape? Most of them are 'asleep' I guess you could say. Right now Izuku's only strong enough to bring me out but eventually, we might be able to summon others. Who knows? Maybe even an entire army! No villains gonna want to mess with that!" The clone said as he started chuckling.

Inko felt like the experience was surreal, it was as if she'd had twins instead and both with completely opposite personalities.

"But I always hear their voices?" Izuku asked as he leaned forward, he had grabbed a fresh journal for this one but had yet to name it, too excited at the idea of writing about his own quirk.

"Some of them wake up from time to time. They like seeing through your eyes...we've always been in your corner Izuku." The copy said with a sad smile on his face. Izuku immediately knew what exactly that smile meant.

"Okay...do you have a name?"

"Mm...not really? I have a designation, like a number that popped into my head. One time when you were looking through some American military-based heroes I came up with an entire thing. CT-00-0001. CT for clone trooper, since I'm a clone and well...I liked the word trooper." He explained with a grin.

"Yeah...no way am I calling you that! You're not just a clone! You're not just my quirk! You're me! Just...a bit different. So you gotta have a name!" Izuku said passionately, he didn't want to be like other people with sentient quirks who disregarded them.

01 was surprised but smiled at the thought.

"Alright then, but what should my name be? And it better not be a reiteration of All Might! I saw enough of those when you were a kid, Mighty Boy." He teased.

Izuku flushed red, as much as he admired All Might, even he had to admit that those names were kind of cringey.

"I don't know...I think you should decide. I mean...it's your name." Izuku mumbled out.

01 nodded at the good point and started to think about it. Unfortunately, he also had Izuku's mumbling habit.

'Is this what it feels like?'

'So similar.'

"Hm!" He snapped his fingers and smiled at both of them. "I choose Jango!"

"Jango? That's so cool!"

Inko just smiled at the two, though now she did wonder if she was going to have to take care of two growing boys instead of just one...or more if Jango was right.

'Oh dear.'

"Anyways, in celebration of finally getting your quirk! How about I make katsudon!" Inko was immediately met with the excited cries of two ten-year-old boys for their favorite food.

The following visit to the doctors was a very joyous event for the family. Officially labeling his quirk as "Clone", with the understanding that it could be updated later if it proved true that more clones could come out and the added note of him being the second oldest late-bloomer recorded. The first being some Yagi kid 40 years ago. Despite this, however, kacchan was not so excited at seeing "worthless deku" with a quirk. It seemed to have shaken him because immediately after class he confronted Izuku with his lackeys and started to bully him.

"You think that just cause you gotta quirk you can stand up to me, Deku!? You're nothing!" The blond went with his hands already crackling.

Izuku was already crying, his hopes of finally being accepted by his childhood friend being shattered in front of his eyes.

On that day, things stayed the same, and yet things changed.

Katsuki's prejudice stayed the same, as well as his assumptions. Automatically assuming that a clone of Izuku would mean the same weakness to violence.

Unfortunately for him, Jango was not Izuku, even though he was a clone.

And he did not like Bakugo Katsuki.

So in true fanboy fashion, he copied a move that both boys saw All Might do on tv.

And cold-clocked Katsuki in the jaw.

The young boy was out like a light and seeing their illustrious leader unconscious on the ground lost any courage they had and ran away.

"Blasted pomeranian," Jango grumbled as he shook his hand. Turning to Izuku, who could only stare in shock and pant as the adrenaline left his system. He had fallen on his rear while backing away and was still shaking.

Jango grimaced at the sight but promised to himself that he would help Izuku get better.

"Come on vod, let's go home." He said while pulling Izuku up and then walked him home.

Once reaching their room, with promises of explaining everything to mom later, Jango set Izuku on the bed and let him weep for the friendship that was lost, and the dream that came with it.

Later, after explaining everything to mom, Izuku and Jango sat together in bed, Izuku taking comfort in who was probably his only friend.

How sad.

"What was it you called me earlier? Vod-something?"

"Hm? Oh, vod. I was thinking of the future ya know? If we're gonna be heroes, and we get more clones we're gonna need to come up with strategies and stuff, and I was thinking of creating a language, just for us."

"What's it called?"

"I'm callin' it Mando'a."

"Cool...what does vod mean?"

"It means brother."

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"Teach me?"

"Of course.