Red Lights
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Last published Sat, Jan 24, 2026
Izuku had a quirk, the dancing flames in his memories that blur by tell him so, but..where did it go?
In which Izuku loses his mother and becomes a vigilante/hacker to save people when he couldn't be saved and along the way he discovers some secrets that powerful people wanted to keep locked away forever.
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