New content: Teen Titans: Stormborn
Background: The Rift
The story begins far from Earth. In the Monster Hunter Universe, Izuku was the son of a small village hunter family. He never got the chance to grow into the life of a hunter—the village was destroyed in a hunt gone wrong, a storm-wracked battle between legendary monsters. Caught in the chaos, Izuku was dragged toward a rift in the sky that had torn open between worlds.
The rift was unstable, violent. Energy from the monsters—Zinogre’s thunder, Lagiacrus’s storm, Astalos’s plasma—lashed out and fused into Izuku’s body as he was pulled through. He fell screaming into the void, his body cracking with lightning.
And then, silence.
Arrival on Earth
He crashed down into Tongass National Forest, Alaska, carving a crater among the pines. For days, he lay unconscious, his body cycling between monstrous flashes of scaled forms and the fragile shape of a boy. His presence warped the woods: storms brewed above the treeline, animals fled, rivers surged unnaturally.
It was Inko Midoriya, a widowed wildlife researcher living near the forest, who found him. She should have been afraid. Instead, she saw a child—alone, lost, terrified even in sleep. Despite his strange power, she reached out. Against every instinct of survival, she brought him home.
The Protector’s Training
Raising Izuku was no easy task. He would wake in the night screaming, his body glowing, claws tearing at the air. His powers reacted to emotions—fear, anger, sorrow—and every storm threatened to bring disaster. But Inko never wavered. She taught him discipline, grounding, meditation. She taught him not just how to hide his powers, but how to own them.
Her philosophy was simple:
“The storm destroys, but it also protects. Decide what you want to be, Izuku.”
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