The First Generation

Getting Prepared

"So... That's the idea." Izuku revealed to his two friends. After explaining his plan out loud to both of them, he wasn't sure what reactions that they would have had.

Mina had been the one to insist that they would need a lot more than just the two of them if they planned on becoming Heroes, and her arguments made a lot of sense. With just One For All, and Acid at hand, they were very limited as to what they could possibly do, and even if they had a wider range of versatility, the fact just remained that just two of them meant that they weren't going to be able to do much. If they wanted to really make an impact on society, to show that Quirks could be used for good, then they were going to need to have more people on their side. More people acting as Heroes. More people who shared their goal.

Hence why Uraraka and Todoroki were now sat in front of both Izuku and Mina, having just been told the entire Hero plan.

Todoroki was a no brainer. Mina had been the one to suggest him basically immediately, for a number of reasons. First of all, they knew that they could trust him, since Todoroki was one of Izuku's friends. He was a person who held no negative feelings towards the Quirkless, specifically because of Izuku's actions himself. And the most practical reason - His Quirk was ridiculously strong. The ability to generate ice and fire both made him incredibly versatile, and incredibly dangerous. If they ever wound up in a bad situation – Of which they would end up in a great many, without even a shadow of a doubt – Todoroki's Quirk would be fantastic for helping defuse it. Either with force, or containment, fire and ice respectively.

On the other hand, Uraraka was a less obvious choice, and one that Izuku made. Like Todoroki, she was one of the only people that he knew in the dorms that had no negative feelings towards the Quirkless. But her Zero Gravity Quirk, sure, it was useful... But compared to everyone else's Quirks, It didn't really have a great many ways to hold up. None of the outright power like One For All. None of the deadly components that Acid had. None of the versatility that Half-Cold-Half-Hot did.

Additionally, it was limited. Unlike Acid and Half-Cold-Half-Hot, it required physical contact in order to work. One For All worked in the same way, but that was a Strength-Enhancement Quirk. It had multiple uses. All Uraraka's Quirk let her do was float things, and that wasn't very useful in the grand scheme of things.

What she did have though, was the right attitude for this sort of thing. One could chock it down to naïveté to a certain degree, since she hadn't experience a huge amount of personal discrimination against her due to her Quirk, but she was optimistic and cheerful. She dreamed of a world where Quirks were accepted as a part of society, just like Izuku and Mina did, almost childishly. She hadn't experienced the gut-punch that was prejudice directly against her, since her family had been so supportive of her when her Quirk activated. She was easily one of the luckiest people in all of Yuuei in that respect.

Those qualities were what made her a good choice to be a Hero with them. Her honest heart, and her genuine kindness and optimism towards creating a new world in which Quirked and Quirkless lived side by side.

And as predicted, she was the first one to leap out of her seat, throwing her tightly closed fists into the air. "I'm in! This sounds awesome!"

"Yahoo! Mina cheered at Uraraka's decision to join in the Hero Team, throwing her own hands into the sky as her brown haired friend did, just a few short seconds after Uraraka did so. The two did a double-handed high five once they came within a close range of one another, grinning ear to ear and smiling at one another.

Izuku smiled at her decision to join them in their Hero endeavours as well, thankful for her unconditional and instant support. He'd had a feeling that she'd be the one to show her support for the idea within a matter of seconds, and she'd proven him right.