Ashes to Ashes, Power to Power: Chapter 1.2

'Holy shit, I'm...I'm about to die...' I thought as I watched the stone rubble slowly falling towards me, realizing that I was about to go even as I raised my right hand in a feeble attempt to try and stop it.

'If only I had gotten a Quirk, then a situation like this would have been nothing for me.' I could still remember the look on my mother's face when the doctors had announced me Quirkless, the sheer audacity of my sperm donor when he just left us because his son was 'faulty' in his own words.

After that, it was nothing but fifteen years of bullying and ridiculing until people learned one thing about me.

If they drew on my clothes, I would drench them in paint. If they beat me up, I would bring a bat the next day and beat the shit out of them. If they broke my arm...

'The last guy that tried that is still in the hospital for a broken spine and even though I got expelled from that school, it felt oh-so-good to know I was the reason he will never have any biological children.'  I thought with a wry smile as I felt the stone touching my fingertip, preparing myself for the pain only for my eyes to widen as I watched my skin transform.

The more the stone pushed down on me, the more my arm itself took on the same colour and texture of the stone itself before I watched in shock as it shattered against my fist, the fragments of it falling down and making me hiss as some of them gave me shallow cuts around my body.

'W-Woah, I...I don't have the words...' Staring at the stone-like arm that just saved me from death itself, I couldn't help but feel excited about the fact that I, Kevin, had a quirk despite the inferno blazing around me.

All those years...all those fucking years...and all of those peoples were fucking wrong!!

'Wait! First, I need to get the fuck out of here! I can celebrate later.' My breathing was shallow as I looked around, keeping low to stay out of the dark smoke above me while looking around for an escape.

I had thought of jumping through the hole made by the explosions, but the flames I was seeing outside was enough to make me reconsider that decision, leaving me to look at the only option left.

'Hah...hah...It's just like the movies, Kevin. Just don't think about it...and just do it.' Hyping myself as I stared at the door, I crouched while taking a deep breath before charging forward, turning my right side to be forward as I grunted and charged shoulder-first into the door.

With the stone arm and shoulder, it didn't take any effort before the door was sent flying from its hinges, but I hissed as a burning piece of rubble fell down and onto my neck, quickly swatting it away before holding a hand to the injured area while kneeling down with gritted teeth.

"Fuck!" I cursed as I kept down, coughing a bit as I had inhaled some of the smoke with my hiss before looking at the devastation in the centre of the little shopping area I lived in.

In the centre of the long shopping path stood a teenager that looked to be 14 or 15, his eyes wide with panic and his blonde hair matted with sweat and some kind of slime as the origin of said slime had him in a tight hold.

The Slime Villain looked pleased with himself as he lifted the boy's arm to the side and I watched in awe and horror as another powerful explosion shot from the boy's palm, destroying the shop as well as unleashing another wave of scorching heat that fanned the flames.

Looking past the two, I could see the heroes wanting to help, that new Mt. Lady chick looking hesitant to go forward as she barely managed to fit her leg in the pathway while Backdraft kept the flames at bay and Kamui Woods struggled to get the other injured out of here.

'Fuck! Fuck! What do I do?!'