Chapter 8: Can You Survive, Future Heroes?
Can You Survive, Future Heroes?
"Those are villains.." Aizawa placed on his golden goggles as his scarf began to float ominously off of his shoulders. The students tensed up, all of them looking over the edge of the staircase to the villains that were occupying the fountain area, a giant villain with dark skin and a bird mouth seemed extra frightening to all of them.
Izuku looked at the monster's eyes, they looked… lifeless. They were still and red. Looking nowhere but forward. All of the villains held this menacing feeling in the air that made the students shiver, but the bird beast held an aura of death.
It made all of the students afraid, well all except one.
"SO?! BRING 'EM ON, I'LL KILL ALL OF 'EM!" Bakugo yelled as he knocked his fellow students around to get to the front of the group and stare down the villains.
A man, with pale skin, light blue hair and hands covering and littering his body stared back at Bakugo. Crimson meeting crimson, the hand man cackled quietly to himself. Aizawa sighed as he activated his quirk and placed a hand on Bakugo's shoulder, activating his quirk had become a precaution with this certain student.
Though none of his students knew who he was even with his quirk so that was a plus.
"Bakugo, get back now!" He ordered with a firm voice, the underlying message of his expulsion very clear.
The boy clicked his tongue and rolled his shoulder to get Aizawa's hand off before standing back, no need to risk his hero course spot. Still, he hoped he'd get to see some action, he needed to vent out his frustrations on something and he couldn't use Deku.
The teacher nodded. "All of you go back to the bus with Thirteen." He ordered the students.
Izuku quivered, with the golden goggles, all black attire, and combat scarf it was obvious who the teacher was. The Erasure Hero. "B-But Eraserhead, your combat style is primarily to focus on singular opponents while they're confused about why their quirks aren't working, you can't fight so many at once!"
Class A looked at Izuku in confusion, after all they had no idea who Eraserhead was as a hero. But this guy knew all about him, and apparently his fighting style too.
Tokage whistled. "Quirk nerd doesn't even cover it."
Yanagi placed a finger on her chin, "Perhaps a hero otaku would fit the bill better, no?"
The teacher looked back at the greanette, they couldn't tell due to his goggles but his eyes were wide. None of his students this year had known who he was as a hero, but this kid did. He was strange, but interesting…
The pro eventually let out a sigh, "To let you know Midoriya." He crouched, Izuku was a little surprised that Eraserhead had addressed him by name and didn't sound angry or annoyed with him like usual, getting ready to jump into the sea of villains. "No hero is a one trick pony."
He jumped and instantly began taking out villains as he erased their quirks and beat them down in their moments of confusion. Even those with mutant quirks were easily taken out by him as he used his combat scarf and skill to overpower them and their quirks.
He grit his teeth as he put extra force into a throw and knocked a villain unconscious, "I need to keep this up for as long as I can." He muttered to himself.
Izuku clenched his fist, he nodded to himself, he'd follow Eraserheads orders. "A-Alright! Class B back to the bus!" He yelled. He needed to assume a leader role for this, he'd do his best. Kan-sensei believed in him, Aizawa needed the students out of here. He was being relied on and he wouldn't fail.
The students were still in a stunned state however. Tokage smiled, "You heard the man, Class B move your asses!" The class shook out of their stupor and began taking off, 1-A followed after them despite neither Iida or Yaoyorozu telling them anything.
The students ran to the metal door, until a mist covered their path. The purple smoke had yellow eyes and it made Izuku shiver. The eyes narrowed a bit as the villain seemingly laughed, "I apologize on the behalf of our union for breaking into a place such as this facility, but we've come here with a mission-"
"-The Symbol of Peace dies today."
Izuku quivered as he clenched a fist. They had a teleporter. That's probably how they got in, so it would be beneficial to take out the teleporter so they couldn't make it out and when the heroes got here they'd be able to-
'Do the heroes even know what's happening?' He wondered. He turned to one of the 1-A students, the blonde who seemed to have a radio device on his ear. He was tapping at it furiously with a look of worry. 'Ok, communication systems are cut off.' Izuku concluded as he turned back to the mist.
"Now, do you mind telling me where the man of the hour might be? He's not here and that does put a slight damper into our plans." He asked with a voice of elegance.
Thirteen stood in front of the students as she pointed her finger at the villain. "He's not here!" She yelled, ready to use her quirk. Sadly she didn't get a chance to use her quirk as three hero students jumped in front of her.
"LIKE YOU'RE STRONG ENOUGH TO KILL ALL MIGHT YOU SHITTY VILLAINS!" Bakugo yelled as he jumped at the villain using his quirk.
"Attacking a bunch of students, totally not manly!" Two voices said as Tetsu and Kirishima both charged towards the villain with their quirks activated.
Monoma cursed under his breath, "Those idiots!" Tokage activated her quirk to try and pull Tetsu back to the group.
However before anyone could do anything they were all covered in a deep smoke. Izuku coughed as he felt his feet stumble and then he felt like he was sinking. 'W-What's happening?' He wondered as he felt himself enter a free fall.
The next thing he knew he was falling into a rainy city, he yelled and closed his eyes, waiting to hit the ground. But the pain never came.
"Hey, you alright Midoriya?" He heard a male voice say as he opened his eyes. He was lying down, half stuck in the ground that for some reason felt kind of like a water bed and looking up at a boy in a black and orange hero costume, however without his helmet he could clearly see Honenuki's skull resembling face.
He sank further into the ground he was in, gasping for air before nodding, "Y-Yeah.." He said with a little bit of confusion before he shook his head. "T-Thanks for the save, Honenuki-kun…"
The boy gave him a nod as he grabbed his helmet, which was held next to his waist, and put it on. Looking out into the streets. Izuku got up and noticed that the ground was soft, allowing him to enter it like quicksand which was how it broke his fall. 'He used his quirk…. Cool!' Softening was a very interesting quirk and had many applications, that's why Honenuki was a recommendation student.
"I think we should walk around for a bit, see if there's anyone else and then head back." Honenuki said to which Izuku nodded.
The boy stood next to each other as they walked around. Throughout the rainy city they hadn't seen any signs of life, no sounds of people being around and no signs of any of their fellow classmates. So far at least.
It was just… rain. That's all there was for a while. Izuku brushed his glove over his face and then checked to make sure he still had his bracelet. "Still there.." He muttered. He still had it.
Honenuki walked around and Izuku followed but it was obvious that they weren't going to find anyone or anything. "I think it's about time to head back then, there's nothing here." He sighed and started walking in a different direction.
Izuku moved to catch up and looked to the sky and saw the dome barrier of the USJ, he followed it with his eyes until it was a wall, he looked in the opposite direction and guessed that the fountain plaza was that way.
He looked at Honenuki and swallowed before tapping his shoulder. The boy turned to him, "Is something the matter, Midoriya?"
Izuku pointed to where he knew the fountain was. "We need to go that way… the fountain is in that direction." He answered.
The boy looked at him and even though he was wearing a helmet Izuku could tell he was raising an eyebrow in confusion, "You want to go to the fountain?" Honenuki asked, "We're heading to the stairs, isn't that a better place to go to?" He asked.
Izuku sighed as he looked around the rainy city, his hair drenched in water. He didn't get to say anything as they heard laughing coming from an alley. Honenuki grabbed him and both of them behind a car as a group of what they assumed were villains came out of the alley.
Honenuki covered Izuku's mouth and put a finger to where his lips would be on his helmet. Izuku nodded.
They peaked out quietly from the car and observed the villains. A small lone figure came running out and was followed by other figures. A bunch of them. There was the girl in a sort of rocker punk outfit, she was fighting all of the others on her own.
Izuku remembered seeing her on the bus, she had earphone jacks connected to her ears. He didn't know exactly what her quirk was but he knew that it didn't help her much as she looked like she was fighting a losing battle.
Izuku gripped the car they were behind. "We have to help…" He muttered as he charged One For All into his fists at three percent, cracking the car's shell a bit. Something changed as his brain clicked; the situation he, and all of the other students, were in. They'd have to adapt, they'd have to change.
They'd have to become more than what they were now and go beyond their limits. 'We have to fight back…' Izuku thought as he looked out. The girl was losing the fight, she was vastly outnumbered as at least two dozen villains tried to attack her.
She was using sound based attacks to keep them away, yet the villains were pushing through it. He stood up to go and help, but Honenuki laid a hand on his shoulder. "Those are real villains Midoriya. We can't." The boy said.
Izuku looked at him and shook his head. "If we can't help those who are in trouble then how can we call ourselves heroes?" He asked. Honenuki seemed to flinch. "Go to the fountain, assist Eraserhead, if you can get someone out of the building and have them run back to the main campus then go that instead." He said before he took a breath and charged.
The small glow that his quirk created showed where he was as he charged into the group of villains and began punching them. He ran to one and punched their chest before dodging a retaliation strike and punching them again, this time in the face. They stumbled and got ready to attack again before they were hit by a sound wave that forced them to their knees, Izuku took one more strike with as much force as he could and knocked the villain out.
He turned to a new one as they leaped at him with what seemed like kangaroo legs, he ducked and grabbed their leg before straining his muscles and throwing them into a big group of villains.
His strength and All Might's quirk hurt the villains badly, making up for his lack of a fighting style. It took him a while but he had managed to take down two.
He and the earphone jack girl stood back to back as the villains circled them. "T-Thanks for the save. 1-B, right? Midoriya?" She asked as she gasped for breath between each sentence. Staring at the villains.
Izuku nodded. "Y-Yeah…" He muttered as he wiped some rain off of his were still dozens of villains that they still had to take care of.
"Alright boys!" A man with red skin and a stature the size of Endeavor stood at the front of the group. He smiled with shark teeth as he yelled. "CHARGE!"
Izuku tightened his fists and upped his percentage to four. His body could handle it, he could do this!
"Not so fast!" Before they took even two steps forward all the villains began to sink into the ground.
"W-What!" The red skinned villain yelled, his partners yelling out similarly.
Izuku looked around, a path of concrete was visible that didn't look like quicksand, and Honenuki was there. "Come on!" He yelled, having a hand locked on the road.
Izuku and the earphone jack girl both left as fast as they could. Honenuki let go of the ground and the ground seemed to harden, trapping the villains in it.
Izuku smiled a bit as he collected his breath, "Thanks again… Honenuki-kun…"
The boy was silent as he slowly nodded, "No problem.. Midoriya…" Honenuki turned away, "So, to the plaza, right?" Izuku nodded. "Alright.." The recommendation student started walking away, "Then we better hurry."
Izuku smiled a bit in relief and followed after him, the earphone jack girl doing so as well. The girl raised a brow at the two "So, Midoriya and..?"
"Honenuki, Juzo Honenuki.." The helmeted boy responded as they jogged through the streets. "You?"
"Jiro, Kyoka Jiro." She said, "Thanks for helping me by the way."
Honenuki nodded. "No problem… after all it's what heroes do…" He said, turning to stare at Izuku for a moment. "So Midoriya, what's the plan?"
Izuku raised a brow. "W-Why are you asking me?"
The boy shrugged. "You've always got plans. Just figured you'd have one for now too." He responded. Midoriya was a strategist, by his plans in the Battle Trial and the way he broke down Kamakiri's quirk and analyzed Kendo's during the quirk showcase, that was obvious. "Do you?"
Izuku chuckled and rubbed his neck as they neared the fountain more and more with each step. "I'm halfway there with one…" He muttered. They needed to relieve stress that Eraserhead was facing. His quirk was strong but he couldn't keep it up forever.
Or they'd need to get someone out of the facility, need to restrain both the mist villain and the giant bird, and assist Eraserhead in any way they could, perhaps by gathering all the students and making sure everyone was safe?
Izuku nodded. "Honenuki-kun, I need you to go to the entrance actually. I need you to help someone escape or escape yourself and then run back to the campus to call the heroes. If someone has already escaped then stay there and offer assistance to those who are there. Jiro-san, I need you to help cover Honenuki-kun and with his help set up a safe space for everyone to come to, use your quirk to listen out for anyone in trouble as well."
"Alright- wait how'd you know my quirk improved my hearing?" Jiro asked.
Before Izuku could answer, as he was rather embarrassed, Honenuki did. "When it comes to quirk analysis, Midoriya is unparalleled. He broke down one of our classmate's quirks in front of the entire class and I'm sure he's done the rest of the class in private."
Izuku simply blushed in response.
"So, what's your part of the plan, Midoriya?" Honenuki asked.
Izuku's face turned serious as his blush disappeared. "I'm going to see if anyone around the fountain area needs help, or even Eraserhead himself, though I'm a bit reluctant to do that. I'll gather all of them and bring them to the entrance while hopefully also taking out villains, getting some pressure off of Eraserhead" He answered.
Honenuki nodded, but he also wondered. 'He's so… intense… he's so different from before. You're a strange one Midoriya, that's for sure … but that's not a bad thing' He stared as Izuku wiped his face, getting water off of it as they approached the entrance and the plaza. "Alright, let's do this."
Izuku nodded as he stared at his friendship bracelet, he closed his eyes and breathed slowly. "Please… be ok you guys…"
Aizawa had no idea how much time had passed, he just knew that he was fighting right now. Punch after punch. Kick after kick. He was taking down villains and hoping that his students had made it out.
He lost sight of one specific villain, one that seemed to be the portal that got the rest of the villains here in the first place, and he cursed. What if he got to the students? What if he kidnapped them? He was so angry with himself that he put more force into his blows against the villains.
He punched a long haired lady in the face and captured her in his scarf before throwing her into a group of villains.
What the annoying part was though was the two standing in the back. Small thin, pale guy covered in hands and a giant bird monster. They exuded an aura of danger and Aizawa knew he had to take care of them as quickly as possible.
Thankfully he was almost down with the small fry.
He winced as his eye stung. 'Damn quirk overuse, if only I could use my eye drops!' He blinked for a second, one mere second, and the hand villain was on him.
"Eraserhead! It's Player 1 v Player 2, and I'm looking to get a high score."
'So yeah, don't I feel stupid and useless.' The steel teen felt terrible. He had done the unmanliest thing of all. He had gotten his teammates trapped by acting rash and stupid. And now he was trapped in an area with two 1-A guys while getting ambushed by villains. Well ambushed was a stretch. He was punching villains in the face, so at least he got to iron out his anger. "Heh, iron…" He chuckled.
He took a blow to the shoulder courtesy of a thin villain with sunglasses, but shrugged it off and smirked as he threw the villain over said shoulder. "These guys are kinda chumps.." He said with a sigh.
"Yeah, I know what you mean.." The red version of him replied as he sucker punched a villain in the gut, the man slumping over onto the ground and holding his stomach. "What about you, Bakubro?" He called out to the ash blond of the group.
"SHUT THE HELL UP SHITTY HAIR!" The blond yelled in return as he used his explosion quirk on the face of a villain.
Tetsu winced, 'Man, that guy's an ass…' He thought in his head as he decked a villain in the face, ruining the man's teeth and jaw. Of course, he already knew that. The idiot had attacked Midoriya in the middle of the cafeteria. But still, seeing it first hand, so up close, made him realize he was an ASS ass.
He sighed, he needed to get back to the main plaza, see if he could help out, he wasn't doing anyone any favor by sticking around here. Being here and not doing anything to help his classmates who he had put in danger, that was unmanly. He looked at the two 1-A students as they pounded more villains in, the blond guy seemed to be enjoying it actually. "Yeah… they got this!" He said before running out of the building.
"Just you guys wait!" He yelled as he ran through the streets. Decking stray villains now and again. He'd get back to the main plaza and help out as much as he could, after all that's what heroes did!
"Of all the people to get trapped in a life or death situation with… it had to be you…" Monoma sighed as he got up and stretched. He had fallen on his back and now he wasn't feeling the best.
"Aww come on, ya know you love me!" Tokage pouted as she dusted off her outfit. Monoma huffed as he turned away, Tokage grinned at his reaction. She was getting to him and she loved it.
The last member of their group deadpanned, "Would you two please stop doing that kero, we're in trouble." Both of the 1-B students turned to a member of 1-A, the girl looked like a frog, Tsu.
Monoma sighed and straightened himself out, "You're right, now where are we?" He looked out to see water. Lots of water. He looked down to see a wooden deck. He put two and two together. "We're on a boat."
"That's kinda obvious kero." Tsu added.
Monoma grumbled as he fixed his jacket sleeve. "I was just making observations."
"And those observations are obvious, Neito-kun." Tokage smiled as she slung an arm over his shoulder. "But anyways, got any plans in that big head of yours?"
Monoma scrunched his safe. "My head is not big!"
"I'm talking about your brain blondie." She said and tapped his forehead with her index and middle fingers.
Monoma sighed and creased his brows as he started thinking, he liked to think himself as smart and a strategist so he hoped he could think of something. "Tokage, we could just use your quirk to float away, carry Tsu while doing so." He said while looking out into the water. Seeing a bunch of villains leering at them.
"Come on, let me eat you!"
"Hurry up, I wanna kick some ass!"
"I call dibs on the blonde!"
Tokage deadpanned as she and Monoma looked away from the water. "We could do that… I don't see any other solutions.." Tokage muttered.
"Well, I can just swim away, pretty fast too kero. But I think you guys will be kind of noticeable if you just float away." Audi was blunt, it was just how she was. If she saw a flaw in something she would immediately point it out.
Tokage grinned and threw a shoulder over Monoma again, "Don't worry Froggy! Just let us do our thing!" She smiled.
"Our thing?" Monoma asked.
"Yeah!" Tokage cheered. "Now, let's get started." She grinned as her entire body split, forearms, biceps and triceps, torso, pelvis area, thighs, calves, head and all. They were all separated. "They'll be too distracted with all the parts to realize it's us!"
Tsu tilted her head, "Well, that works kero."
The telepath of 1-B was not having a good time. "Stay back." She said in monotone as she used her quirk to push villains back as they attempted to come up the stairs. They had to deal with both these guys and trying to get someone out of the USJ. They needed to call the heroes.
"T-Thirteen, are you alright.." Komori was checking over the pro. She had been injured. The mist had used her own quirk against her.
The pro nodded albeit slowly. Bondo had used his quirk to patch up Thirteen's suit, it was haphazard at best but it was the only solution they had for now.
Now both Bondo and Iida were standing, ready to face the mist villain, while Yanagi couldn't do anything to help as she was busy with the staircase. She was pushing back more and more villains as time went by, it was obvious that 1-A's homeroom teacher was getting tired and he was distracted by what seemed like one of the main villains.
Iida shivered as the villain seemed to laugh. "Your teacher is a fully fledged pro hero and is now in need of medical attention, what do you think you can do?" He asked.
Yanagi moved a hand towards him and activated her quirk, she expected it to be in vain as gases were something she couldn't really do much with using her quirk. However, she felt the familiar hold of something. She looked at the man and squinted her eyes, seeing shines of something metal under the smoke.
The villain himself squinted his eyes as he felt something tug at his metal collar, but he ignored it. After all, these hero students couldn't do anything against him.
Yanagi turned back towards the staircase and focused on all the villains and pushed. It wasn't doing much, too much attention spread around, too much power needed. She looked back at Iida and Bondo.
"Bondo-san, if you don't mind, would you assist me by swapping places, I believe I have an idea." She called out, the boy nodded and soon they were running to swap places with each other. Passing by him she whispered. "Shoot the mist villain when I give you a signal."
The boy nodded with a thumbs up.
She stood with the 1-A boy against the villain, not something she was too joyous about but it was the situation they were in. "Run for the gate." She said, getting ready to use her quirk on the villain.
The boy flinched, "How can you expect me to do something so cowardly! To leave behind my fellow students in a moment such as now!" He yelled back.
"No, you are to get help from the staff for us, nothing about that is cowardly." She responded. The boy was stubborn, he just needed to do what she said and they'd be fine. 'I hope Midoriya's alright..'
Iida seemed to think about it for a second before he nodded. "Alright… very well." He muttered.
Yanagi nodded and they both stared at the mist villain. "How foolish, to say your plan right in front of me, so very foolish!" He yelled as he got ready to expand. However he felt something constrict around his collar and he felt like he was choking.
"Bondo-kun, now!" Yanagi yelled and the boy fired his quirk. Yanagi used her own to assist the trajectory and accuracy, the glue hit the collar and solidified.
The villain's yellow eyes widened. "What is this?!" He had been too distracted by this feeling of pain that he hadn't been able to teleport the glue away when they shot it at him.
Iida nodded as he activated his quirk and quickly ran out, the villain was too occupied with his pain and Iida easily made it out. The mist seemed to get angry as it turned to Yanagi and Komori. "You, you're not going to live another day-"
"Not so fast!" Two figures appeared out of the floor, it looked weird like it was see through, it hardened back to normal and in front of Yanagi stood Honenuki and Jiro.
The 1-A girl plugged her jacks into her shin amps and blasted, the villain wincing as the sound hit him. He ended up teleporting away soon after.
Honenuki panted as he placed his hands on his knees. "Tired me out a bit, using my quirk for so long." Jiro nodded, massaging her jacks.
"Same feeling, took a while using my sound wave attack for him to get the hint and leave." She said as she looked at Komori and thirteen, she saw Yanagi standing and then Bondo holding off the villains. "I'll work on the staircase, make sure no one else is in trouble. Go head down and help Midoriya."
Honenuki nodded as he took his helmet off and threw it to the side.
Yanagi perked up, "Is Midoriya in trouble, did something happen to him?" She instantly asked.
Honenuki waved a hand, "No, but he went to the fountain plaza on his own. I know you're rather attached to Midoriya, do you want to come with me?"
Yanagi instantly nodded, "Yes, I want to make sure Midoriya is safe." She said as they both turned towards the stairs, trying to spot his green locks anywhere, while others would say he looked "plain" . His green hair was something that made him stand out from the crowd. That and his freckles. And his smile.
It took a while but they found him. Both him and Tetsu. "Down there, on the north east side of the fountain area, near the lake." She pointed out the location. Honenuki looked there and squinted before nodding.
"Alright, let's go."
"Yes, let us assist our friends."
The duo of men had found each other when Izuku had come to the fountain to see if Eraserhead had needed help; he had seen most of the villains already taken care of and Eraserhead fighting one on one with another villain. He didn't want to interfere as the man's quirk was a tricky one to use in group scenarios. Tetsu had run in one direction for a while and had ended up here as a result.
"Midoriya! Oh man am I glad I found you!" The steel teen yelled out to the greanette after decking a villain in the face.
They were both located in the plaza.
Izuku smiled a bit, "T-Tetsu-kun, I'm glad you're alright, do you know where the other two are? Kacchan and t-that guy with red hair that's sorta like.."
"Me..?" Tetsu asked with a raised brows.
Izuku sighed, "yeah."
"Yeah, they're both in the ruins area, they're fine. Just beating up a bunch of villains to iron out their anger. Or anger in the blond guy's case, the red dude seems pretty chill." He saw Izuku nod as the boy looked at the closest zone, which was the shipwreck zone.
He motioned Tetsu to follow him as he walked a bit to the shoreline. He pointed at the boat. "Three people are up there, from the looks of it I think it's Monoma-kun and Tokage-chan along with someone from Class A. I think they're going to leave the boat soon and come here, we need to be here when they do and take them to the staircase."
Tetsu nodded but he had to wonder. "Why do we gotta do that, just wondering?"
Izuku looked at him, "Well, Monoma-kun can get a little unhinged and with all these villains around I believe he'd try to fight by copying a bunch of their quirks. While Tokage… I think she'd follow him into the fight, they seem close to I think she'd want to make sure he's ok. As for the 1-A member, I think they'd go to help their sensei. But that's a bad idea, we need to formulate a plan before we go in, make sure they don't do anything rash." Izuku explained.
Tetsu just.. nodded. "Y-Yeah alright. You know Midoriya, you're kinda freaky."
"F-Freaky?!"
Tetsu smiled, "Yeah, but not the bad kind, like scary freaky, or scary smart!" He said with a smile, making Izuku sag in relief. He thought that Tetsu meant he was weird.
The boy shook his head as he looked at the boat. Dozens of small silhouettes were visible and Izuku instantly figured out what the plan was. Monoma and Tokage were using Lizard Tail Splitter and were floating all of their body parts to the shore separately.
He didn't know what the third person was going to do to get back to shore but he saw a third, bigger, silhouette jump off the boat and fall into the water.
"Let's do this Neito!" Tokage smiled as their body parts soared across the sky. The villains looked on in confusion as dozens of limbs and other assorted body parts flew across the sky, they were so confused that none of them noticed the frog swimming past them to shore.
That and on top of the fact that Tsu was using one of her frog abilities to camouflage herself, changing her color to blue to match the water of the man made lake. The frog croaked with a smug tone as she passed all of the villains, none the wiser to her doings.
Izuku let out a breath, they'd have to be ready to make a getaway as fast as they could, on top of that they'd have to make sure to not get into trouble with the people in the fountain area. They were sandwiched in a hard spot and he didn't have the best idea of what to do.
"I win!" Tokage smiled as she reconnected her body.
Monoma huffed as his own body reconnected itself. He dusted his suit. "It was neither a competition nor a race, thus you cannot "win" Setsuna…" He said.
Tetsu whistled and raised his eyebrows before looking at Izuku and whispering. "Setsuna…."
Izuku's own eyes went wide before he shook his head. 'No time for that right now..' He muttered before they moved to join their two friends. The duo of strength teens ran down to where Monoma and Tokage had arrived on the shore. Soon after a third figure joined them.
And out of the corner of his eye, Izuku saw that more figures knew where they were. A group of the lake villains were racing towards their location. 'God….freaking darn it…' There was no cussing in this household.
Izuku pushed three percent of One For All into his legs as he went to his friends. He grit his teeth, he knew what he'd have to do to get the villains away.
No one had the kind of power to get a group like this away. Plus they were too strong, too bulky for Tokage's quirk to be of much use taking them down. Escaping, probably, but taking down? No.
Did they have to take them down, yes, because then they would have less villains to worry about coming to the plaza. "Get away from the lake!" He yelled. The trio of hero course students turned to him. "Get away from the lake!" He yelled again.
Monoma creased his brows but nodded, grabbing Setsuna's wrist and pulling her along.
Izuku stopped in his tracks and turned to Tetsu. "Get back." He said. The steel teen nodded as he stepped away from the lake. Izuku took a breath, he could feel his heart beating in his ears. He felt the adrenaline pumping through his veins as he put an arm forward. All of his fingers out before curling his middle finger and pulling his thumb in and pressing the two together, his fingers ready to do a flick.
He charged up and felt the power go to three percent before he forced it to do more. 'One For All: 100%!' He grit his teeth as he felt the bone and muscle strain. Then he looked at the coming villains, they were coming for his friends.
And he wouldn't allow it. He smiled just a bit before yelling. "SMASH!" A gust of air came from the small movement he did, tearing the lake in two and taking the villains with the wind. Izuku gasped for air as his finger throbbed. "Definitely…. broken…" He muttered.
Recovery Girl would have his head. He turned to his group of friends and the one 1-A student. "We need to go… now!" He said, grunting as he clenched his broken finger into a fist, biting the inside of his cheek to ignore the pain.
The three 1-B students already knew how bad Izuku's quirk could mess him up but the one 1-A student didn't. She turned green, like her costume for a second, before swallowing. "That's disgusting, kero."
Izuku chuckled to hide the pain, "Y-Yeah.. it is…" He shook his head. "L-let's go!" He yelled.
The students nodded and began moving towards the stairs. Izuku caught sight of the plaza and froze. They had Eraserhead pinned on the ground, he had… lost. More than that, the man was…broken. His bones looked pulverized.
AND THE HAND GUY WAS RUNNING TOWARDS THEM!
Izuku knew he was the only one with possible ranged attacks so he ran forward without uttering a word. The guy was fast, crazily fast, Izuku thought he had a speed quirk. The man reached for Tokage as Izuku tried to get closer, but he wasn't fast enough and the man gripped her arm.
Tokage gritted her teeth and immediately disconnected her arm and jumped away. Izuku saw the girl's arm in the man's hands as it slowly turned gray and then to dust.
"He… disintegrated it.." Monoma muttered before gritting his teeth in anger.
Tokage put a hand, or the one she had left, on his shoulder. "Hey, don't worry. I can regenerate it just fine.." She whispered to him. Monoma looked at her and nodded but still glared at the villain before them.
The man cackled a bit before dropping the dust that was Tokage's arm onto the floor. "Next will be your head! Oh how will All Might feel when all his precious students are nothing but dust!" He ran towards them again.
Izuku moved and did another finger flick before he could reach them. The outcome was the man being knocked away. Izuku gasped as both his right index and middle fingers were broken and hurt a lot. He gasped as the man got up with a wince. The man dusted himself off as he glared at Izuku.
'I didn't put as much power as I did power… why?' He clenched his fist, thanking the adrenaline that was in his system. 'Is it because I'm using my quirk on a person?'
He remembered Thirteen's words, his quirk could easily be used to kill. Was he subconsciously holding himself back so he didn't kill this person? It didn't matter because he started running at them again, gaining Izuku's attention.
Behind him Izuku could see the giant creature from earlier still beating down on Eraserhead. He wanted to help the save, to save him, to do something, anything, to make everything end but he was useless right now. He couldn't do anything.
On top of that there was another villain, the mist one, though he seemed to be staying out of fighting. And from the way his eyes were bulging and the small amount of glue Izuku could see, it looked like he was in pain.
The man was cackling and running at them again, he just wouldn't stay down! Izuku clenched his right fist, two fingers were already broken, so what did the rest matter? "E-Everyone behind me now!" He yelled. The group did so, Monoma starred as Izuku raised his right hand up.
"Tetsutetsu! Please, let me use your quirk!" He asked.
The steel teen instantly nodded before letting out a hand. "Whatever you need it for, I trust you Monoma. You're a manly man." He said.
The blond took the outstretched hand before activating the quirk and grabbing Tokage. Using his body as a shield for her. He knew what Izuku was about to do, and the wind that his quirk produced was strong, amazingly so.
Tetsu activated his quirk and did the same for Tsu.
Izuku stepped forward and activated One For All. 'Go higher, past my limits, beyond it. Go to 100%' His forearm to his palm to his digits glowed with red veins as the man covered in nothing but dirt and hands came closer.
Izuku gritted his teeth. "S-Stay away!" He yelled, silently cursing his stutter, and pulling his arm back. He remembered how All Might told him to use the power when he first got it.
Squeeze your buttocks and from the deepest part of your soul yell!
The villain was as close as could be as he was reaching his own arm for Izuku, but he wouldn't get the chance to use his power as Izuku threw his own arm forward. "SMASH!" He yelled, closing his eyes and waiting for the familiar pain to invade him.
But he didn't get it. With hesitation he opened his eyes only to see a pair of black abs. 'E-Eh..?'
"Great job Nomu." Izuku could feel the smile in the man's voice as the black beast that he called Nomu raised his own fist. The thing towered above Izuku and it made the boy weak in the knees. He peered into it's dead eyes and it made Izuku shrink even more. The beak of the monster seemed to grin, as if was going to enjoy Izuku's demise.
Monoma wanted to help his friend but he was frozen as well.
Tokage couldn't do anything while being down an arm.
Tsu knew they couldn't win.
And Tetsu was already moving to save his friend.
"Honestly, wasting your life becoming a hero with such a strong quirk.. how pathetic." The man's words were the last Izuku was going to hear.
"MIDORIYA!"
"MIDORIYA!"
Two yells were heard at once as both Izuku was pulled out of the way of Nomu's fist by an unknown force and the beast began to fall into the ground as if it was quicksand.
The villain and the groups of hero students turned to see Yanagi and Honenuki near them. The girl's hands outstretched and Honenuki's arms on the ground. "Stay away from him!" The boy yelled.
Izuku smiled just a bit, idly noticing that his arm wasn't broken, his two fingers still were but his arm wasn't, and thankfully his friendship bracelet was still there too. The leather strap that was the actual bracelet part was very sturdy. He had no clue what his still workable arm meant but it wasn't something to think about now.
Before Nomu could get out of the ground Honenuki hardened it again. "Get away from him!" He yelled. Yanagi used her quirk and clenched down on the other villain covered in hands and threw him away. He landed on his feet though and recovered quickly.
The students got away, Monoma covering for Tokage as they hid behind Honenuki and Yanagi. "Midoriya, what the hell happened, why didn't your quirk damage it?!" Monoma yelled. "Your strength is beyond imagination!"
Izuku gulped, there were two answers really. Either one, he pulled his punch without knowing it or two, the villain had a way to counter his super strength. "I-I don't know.. he might have a quirk that cancels out mine? Or t-that may have been my f-fault…"
Tetsu turned to him as he activated his quirk and got in a stance, "What are you talking about man?"
Izuku got into his own stance as the hand villain seemed to finally get up. He idly glanced at Eraserhead, they needed to get him out of here and to someone that could help him. He was broken, bleeding, and most likely on death's door.
He turned his attention back to what was in front of him while thinking who could help Eraserhead the most. "I… might have held back.. I don't know. I've never used my quirk on a person at full power so my brain might be limiting me… I don't know if that's the reason though, it's just speculation.." He answered.
His classmates all nodded as they each got ready to fight. Tokage was still focusing on her arm and Monoma was still acting as her shield.
"Midoriya, Aizawa-sensei needs help kero." Tsu said as she gazed at her broken teacher.
Izuku sighed and nodded along. "Tetsu-kun… go with Tsu-chan and get Eraserhead to the entrance, see if anyone can help him there."
The steel teen's eyes widened. "W-what! But- I can't just!"
Izuku stared at him and smiled, "Please… he needs a hero right now Tetsu. And I know that you can help him.."
"B-But…"
Honenuki cleared his throat and Tetsu and Izuku looked at him. He turned to Tetsu. "Tetsutetsu-kun, would saving a pro not be the manly… thing to do?"
By the way he shook and clenched his fist both Izuku and Honenuki knew that the words had gotten to Tetsu. The boy nodded, "Alright, fine.. but I'm coming back as soon as I can, come on frog girl!" He yelled as he turned and ran towards the pro.
"Call me Tsu kero!" The girl followed after, glancing at Izuku for just a second before focusing on her teacher. 'What a weird guy…' She thought.
The villain straightened himself out, but he didn't go after the two. He stared intently at Izuku and Monoma. "A copy quirk….very similar to Sensei's… and a strength quirk like yours… you remind me of that bumbling blond Symbol of Trash!" He yelled.
The students didn't flinch but that didn't mean they weren't afraid. "Monoma-kun… take Tokage-chan and go…" He muttered as the villain laughed.
"Oh, you all reek of this hero sickness! You're all so annoying, just a bunch of NPCs, no you're worse than that! Tutorial minions for me to kill!" He yelled. The beast next to him remained impassive as it stared them down with its dead eyes.
Monoma held Tokage as she grit her teeth, "I can't just leave! Especially when there's a creep like this around!" She yelled at Izuku's back.
Izuku knew what she meant. She didn't want to sit back and watch when her friends could be getting hurt. When there was a chance that they could die. Izuku knew that feeling all too well.
He remembered the fire, the green sludge, the feeling of his body moving without him telling it to do anything, throwing his bag, clawing at the sludge. Kacchan's face of desperation…
And then All Might made it all go away.
All Might wasn't here… not yet. They needed to stall as much as they could and wait for reinforcements. Honenuki was done here so that meant that someone had managed to get out! Now it was just a waiting game…
"Tokage-chan…. I'll be fine, I-I'm your green buddy after all…" He smiled just a bit at the villain who hid behind a hand.
The man sneered at that smile.
"And Monoma-kun… just like you promised to be the greatest friend you could to me… I-i promise to do the same..!" He crouched down and activated his quirk, in his legs, and then his arms too, 'Do it all… do all of it…! Maximize both my ability to fight back and my ability to dodge, up my durability too, come on One For All!'
Yanagi's eyes widened in shock.
The smell of ozone filled the air as green lightning birthed off of him. 'We need to stall, but I can't fight them, but I can't just dodge either. I need to both dodge and fight back at the same time… with the way I've been using All Might's quirk I can't fight them… I need to adapt!' His body felt lighter, but he felt stronger.
Every part of his body had the quirk active and he knew even the slightest slip in concentration would deactivate the power. "B-But I want you two to be safe… you guys… are in no position to fight right now… so please…" He begged as he spread his arms, feeling the power in all his limbs, in the entirety of his body.
Monoma grit his teeth but conceded with a nod. He pulled Tokage back, and the girl looked back at him. "You can't be serious…"
He shook his head. "Midoriya's right…"
"B-But-"
"Setsuna.. please…."
Yanagi raised a brow. 'Setsuna? Since when are they on a first name basis?' She wondered before shaking the thought away and returning her attention to the task at hand.
The girl huffed as she conceded, "I- alright… be safe Izuku… I won't forgive you if you die on me alright!" She wiped her face with her one good arm, clearly tearing up. Izuku looked back and smiled, his quirk died as he lost concentration as he stared at his two friends.
"I wouldn't do that to you, either of you, now… go…" He turned back and activated his quirk again and pushed it to five percent, all over his body. Yanagi and Honenuki stood up to stand by his side.
Monoma sighed and picked up Tokage in a princess carry. "Good luck… my friends…" The next second he was running away.
The hero students had no time to think as the villain in front of them yelled, "NOMU!"
On pure instinct Izuku jumped back, thanking Kacchan's countless beat downs that had built that instinct in him as he saw a crater where he had just been. His body hurt but he knew he could handle it.
He saw the beast called Nomu get back up, ready to charge, only to fall into the ground again.
Honenuki hardened the ground and they put space between them and the monster. The hand villain rushed again and Yanagi used her quirk to push him away, Izuku dodged using his new power, and Honenuki used his quirk on the man, sinking him into the ground.
Soon Nomu broke out of the ground and jumped at them.
Izuku had a slight plan. 'It appeared when I attacked the hand guy… and it doesn't seem to have any free will. It doesn't speak, it doesn't do anything except for when that guy says "Nomu."' His face scrunched as he nodded.
He jumped at the hand guy and threw his arm forward. "Smash!" And just like he thought Nomu appeared there too. He felt his body get grabbed by Yanagi's telekinesis and was thrown away before Nomu could hit him.
He rolled to a stop and got to his feet, Nomu didn't charge them and instead seemed to wait for the hand guy to tell him what to do. Izuku smiled just a bit. But he knew they couldn't keep this up forever. Prolonged uses for emitter types quirks when they weren't trained to handle such things was never good.
He could already feel his body protesting at prolonged usage of his new technique and five percent. He had no idea how the others were fairing but he figured it wasn't good.
"Nomu!" He heard the yell and tensed, ready to dodge at a moment's notice. The man looked at him before harshly turning to Yanagi. "THE GIRL!"
Izuku cursed as Nomu rushed her, he wouldn't be fast enough! 'Go for the hand guy! Nomu will rush to save him instead!' His plan set in motion he pushed off with his foot, putting more power into it than he could handle and feeling something cracking.
Honenuki was trying to stop Nomu by softening the ground under him but he was leaping, not touching the ground as much.
Yanagi was trying to push the villain away but he was pushing through her telekinesis!
Izuku pulled his arm back as he winced, his foot wasn't broken, but something was definitely wrong! "Sma-"
"SMASH!" Izuku's yell was cut off as a louder, much powerful voice said the exact word he was going to. He landed on his foot and jumped away, noticing that Nomu had paused in his attack against Yanagi.
He looked to the entrance, where the yell came from, and smiled.
The familiar tuft of blond hair in the shape of a V, the giant figure that was tearing the clothes that constricted it, the….smile… that was absent and replaced by a scowl. A scowl that showed nothing but pure anger. The Symbol of Peace did not have a smile on his face as he tore off his suit tie.
"Everything is fine now, why? Because I am here!" He yelled, but without the usual enthusiasm. Izuku blinked and he was suddenly by the stairs with Honenuki and Yanagi. All Might was walking away towards Nomu and the hand villain.
He took a step toward the pro and winced as his foot protested, "A-All Might!" He yelled. The pro turned to him. "I punched him with 100% of One- of my quirk! And it didn't do a dent!" He corrected himself quickly.
The man smiled and gave a thumbs up, "Thank you Young Midoriya, but this is a fight for the pros so please stay out of it from now on." He turned to Nomu and the other villains. Those who Eraserhead took out seemed to be getting up, even the mist villain seemed to have recovered now.
Yet in a second the villains so seemed to be just minions were down again, leaving the three that Izuku deemed important. Izuku gulped, he didn't know how much time All Might had left, or if he had any at all. But this thing, Nomu, took a punch from him at full power and if the power got stronger with each generation then it could definitely take a punch from All Might.
But he still backed away. Grimacing as his foot and fingers throbbed. His digits were doing much worse but they both still hurt.
"Midoriya… we should retreat, you're in pain, we cannot be of much assistance here." Yanagi said. Izuku knew she was right but..
His thoughts cut away as large gusts of wind came at them, barely able to open his eyes he saw All Might making battle with Nomu.
With each punch each fighter made gusts of wind were spawned, the two seemed to be equals. All Might's suit jacket tore easily as his bulging muscles were pushed to their maximum. Nomu's skin rippled as All Might's punches made contact but it moved through it and attacked the pro.
Izuku grimaced, 'Just… like I thought..'
All Might's punches were strong, Izuku knew that each could be changing the weather if he wasn't enclosed in the dome that was the USJ, he punched Nomu in the face, the beak and most of the head caving in as it was thrown away.
All Might smiled as he felt blood building up in his throat. Sadly the feeling of triumph didn't last long as the villain got back up, it's face.. regrowing. "W-What?! I thought his quirk was a form of shock absorption or nullification!"
"You're right!" The blue haired villain yelled, attention turning to him as the mist villain appeared to get ready for something behind him. "He definitely has shock absorption, but that's not the only quirk he has, Nomu's not just a tank, he's a healing tank!"
As the man finished Nomu rushed forward again and All Might grinned. "Fine, if punching won't work then I'll have to do something else!" He ran forward, his pants stretching and tearing at his power as he got behind Nomu and got ready to suplex him.
"Midoriya, Yanagi is right, All Might has this handled." Honenuki's words didn't reach Izuku as he saw All Might pick up Nomu from behind and start the motion.
Only for a portal to open up under him. "YANAGI PULL HIM AWAY!"
The ghost girl was startled at the sudden yell but did so, grabbing onto All Might and pulling him apart from Nomu. The pro was confused as he was suddenly thrown to the side. He got up to see Nomu getting out of a portal on the ground.
"Tsk… well plan B failed… thought combining our skills with that mindless puppet could be useful. Looks like it wasn't…"
The pro turned to his students who still hadn't left. He knew the voice that yelled, he'd spent ten months with it, "Young Midoriya, I told you to stay out of this!" He yelled.
Izuku seized up, he knew what his mentor said but… He cleared his throat, "It was a trap All Might!"
"I can see that now, but students should not get involved in the affairs of their teachers!" Nomu got up and was ready to charge in again. All Might crossed his arms, ready to take the monster's punches and strike back with his own.
He could feel his body steaming, begging him to stop, to give up. But he wouldn't do that! He was the Symbol of Peace!
"NOMU!" At the yell the beast started to move, only for it to be trapped in ice.
"Alright, glad I got here in time.." A cool and elegant voice said as the surrounding people looked to find Todoroki a ways away. Not a second later explosions were heard and Bakugo had tackled the mist villain.
"Nomu! Kurogiri!"
Well they had one of the villain's names now.
"HAH! I GOT YOU, YOU MIST BASTARD!" Bakugo was ecstatic with himself as he grinned manically at the yellow eyes that widened in what looked like fear. He was so fucking happy right now.
"Hey Bakubro… that's not… manly…" Kirishima arrived and sighed out. Bakugo wasn't that manly at all. It was kind of depressing how unmanly he was. And on top of that what he did to that Midoriya guy.
It was making Kirishima second guess his offer of friendship to the blond.
"And I'm back!" Tetsu yelled as he fell down the stairs. Standing up to stand by Midoriya. "Sorry, I took so long. That Aizawa guy's heavy…"
Izuku creased his brows. 'Explosion, what looked like an ice quirk, Softening, Poltergeist, Steel, whatever the red head guy had which might've been similar to Steel, and two One For All- Two For All?' He shook the thought away.
"Young Todoroki, thank you for your assistance but I must ask that you leave, you as well Young Bakugo and Young Kirishima." The pro stood up as Nomu seemed to be breaking out of the ice that Todoroki had trapped him in.
Though it seemed to be… breaking him.
Izuku narrowed his eyes. 'Todoroki-kun's ice is damaging him, it skewered him. But also… breaking out of it too is causing more damage. Maybe because the limbs are trapped in place and to move them he has to break them? Perhaps…' Pseudo plan initiated.
"Honenuki-kun, sink him into the ground and trap him! Todoroki-kun, once he's done that, overlay it with your ice and trap whatever is still sticking out of the ground! All Might once he breaks out do the most you can, he'll be regenerating so that'll be your moment of opportunity!"
"B-But Young Midor-"
"EVERYONE ELSE KEEP THE OTHER TWO OCCUPIED!" He yelled, he felt adrenaline pumping through his system, making him act on thoughts that he would always have but that he'd always keep in. This time, it was thoughts on leadership and plans that would always form.
Honenuki did his part quickly, the beast falling into the ground and only his upper torso sticking out. It clawed and bit trying to escape. The dual haired teen, Todoroki, sighed with a mist of frost as he decided to do it anyways, despite not wanting to take orders from anyone but a teacher, All Might not counting.
He slammed a foot down and swiped his arm forward, a miniature glacier spawned and raced towards Nomu, skewering it again and trapping it in ice.
Bakugo clicked his tongue, when the hell had Deku grown a fucking spine! But he was enjoying himself standing over this piece of crap villain. He'd just have to wait. 'For the Sports Festival….' He smiled.
He wasn't sure when it'd be, he didn't care about the date, he was just waiting for when he'd get to ki-
"Bakubro! Watch out!"
A sudden yell made Bakugo jump back, a pale hand swiping at where he was just at. He clicked his tongue, "Fucking damnit.." He got too distracted in his day dreaming about beating the shit out of Deku.
He stood up and glowered at the pale guy. "You good Bakugo?" He heard someone ask, he didn't care about damn extras though. A hand landed on his shoulder and he shrugged in forcefully before pushing the person onto the ground, all without looking at them. He still glared at the hand guy.
"I thank you Tomura Shigaraki. Now, what's the next course of action?" The mist, Kurogiri, asked. They were running out of options, that much was clear.
Tomura, though, didn't respond. He stared intently at the ice Nomu was trapped in, it began to crack and so did the ground around him.
"It's getting out, All Might get ready!" Izuku yelled as he stared at the other two villains. 'Ok, think, think, think, think! A disintegration quirk and a portal quirk equals…. Oh….' Izuku realized "That's not good.."
Yanagi turned to him, "What isn't Midoriya?"
Izuku's brows creased and she didn't like his look of worry. He turned to her. "I-If you see a portal I need you to push." He said, his stutter coming back slightly.
Yanagi raised a brow and tilted her head. "What do you mean?"
"Just… trust me… if you see something that looks like a portal push." He said before turning back to the villains. 'One For All: 5%' He winced as he covered his entire body with the body, just in case anything would happen. Though he doubted he'd be able to fight right now.
All Might sighed as he got ready to strike Nomu, he saw Young Midoriya getting his own power ready for something, he wanted to ask what but.. he had greater matters to attend to right now…
So with a grimace as blood and pain in his side invaded him he ran forward. "NOMU! KUROGIRI!" At the yell the ice seemed to crack more and then it exploded. All Might smiled as he pushed One For All to his limit and then beyond it.
He didn't notice the portal in front of his abdomen. "Yanagi now!" Izuku yelled.
The ghost girl nodded and grabbed onto the hand and threw it back. The portal closed soon after. "The fuck?!" Tomura yelled as his hand was thrown back at him. "Kurogiri again!"
"Yeah, not happening fuck face!" Bakugo yelled as he stood away from them. His arm forward with his one gauntlet, his finger on the pin. "DIE!" The explosion rippled and both villains were caught in it.
The dust and smoke cleared for Bakugo to see a large portal covering the villains. "WHAT THE FUCK!" He yelled.
"Young Tomura, are you alright?" Kurogiri asked the other villain.
"I'm fine Kurogiri- SHIT!"
Nomu and All Might finally clashed, the blow that All Might sent to the villain's chest produced large winds, pushing all the spectators away.
Tetsu stood his ground as best he could, which wasn't that good, using his quirk while grabbing onto Midoriya and Yanagi to make sure they didn't get blown away. Honenuki sunk into the ground and hardened it. Kirishima did the same as Tetsu but was being blown away easier as his weight wasn't increased like Tetsu. Bakugo was blown away as his explosion couldn't counteract the winds as they were too strong. And Todoroki was blown a little bit away before he produced an ice wall behind him to make sure he wasn't pushed away more.
All Might continuously landed blows, one after another, each shaking Nomu. Tomura simply cackled. "Didn't you hear me earlier?! Nomu has shock absorption!" He yelled over the gusts of wind.
All Might simply smiled, "Yeah? So what about it!" He yelled with a grunt as he ducked onto a retaliatory strike from Nomu before thrusting an arm forward, blowing the beast into the air. All Might crouched down and blasted off the ground, leaving a large crater.
"A hero must always be ready to go beyond what they can!" He yelled, the scream vibrating throughout the USJ, as a yellow streak climbed into the sky after a black one.
All Might grappled the villain and threw him into the ground before landing in front of him. "I don't know if you've heard these words before but let me remind you!" He pulled his arm back and grit his teeth, even as blood came out. His arm caved in Nomu's stomach as All Might pushed One For All past what it was capable of, "GO BEYOND, PLUS ULTRAAAA!"
And then the villain was gone and a new sky light was installed into the USJ, courtesy of Nomu blasting through it. All Might smiled as he tried his best to keep the blood in his mouth. He turned his head to the villain, knowing that if he moved he'd be done for. "So? Give up?"
Tomura clenched his teeth, they felt like they were going to crack. Slowly he lifted his arms up to his head and scratched just under his jaw, fiercely. They all saw red adorn his fingers as he tore into the skin. "No! Nonononono! Sensei said you were weaker! He lied!"
The words made All Might and Izuku pause. Izuku was wondering who this 'Sensei' was and how he knew All Might was weaker while All Might was grimacing, there was only one person who both knew that he was weakened and evil.
"Young Tomura, he seems tired. I'm sure we can still use the combination you came up with, or you could simply use yourquirk. He seems tired." Kurogiri whispered into the man's ears, making him pause in tearing his skin off.
The man stared at All Might, he wasn't moving, his smile was strained, he was shaking. Tomura giggled before breaking out into a full laugh, "YOU'RE RIGHT KUROGIRI! YOU DIE HERE, SYMBOL OF TRASH!" Tomura yelled as he ran forward.
'ONE FOR ALL: 10%' Izuku winced, he felt it breaking, all of his body creaked and he was sure that small fractures were birthing across his bones as he jumped.
"W-Where'd Midoriya go?!" Tetsu yelled.
Izuku's speed matched Tomura's and even surpassed it as he ran in front of All Might and went to meet the villain. "STAY AWAY.. FROM ALL MIGHT!" Izuku's fear was great, immense, more so than Kacchan had ever caused him, but he smiled.
Tomura felt like throwing up when he saw that face.
Izuku made a finger flick with his right ring finger as his full body One For All died and he charged 100% into his arm. "SMASH!" A gust was born and Tomura was blown away, Izuku winced seeing his three purple fingers.
"Y-Young Midoriya!" All Might wanted to move to help his student but he knew he couldn't.
Izuku stood defiantly in front of All Might as Tomura got up. He brought his arms up and activated his full body One For All again, though it was at two percent, he couldn't handle any more than that now.
"I'll kill you SMALL MIGHT!" Kurogiri opened a portal and Tomura threw his hand forward.
BANG BANG
"SHIT!" Tomura retracted his hand, seeing bullet holes in his body.
"Yeah! That ain't happenin' partner!" Izuku smiled as he and all the students looked toward the top of the staircase seeing Snipe there spinning his revolver.
Iida was standing off not too far, "I've-" He gestured to the other heroes, including Midnight, Present Mic, Ectoplasm, Cementoss, Vlad King, Nezu and more of the UA teacher. "-brought backup!"
Snipe brought his gun back up and fired off more shots at Tomura, the villain retreating soon after but with a couple more gift bullet holes in his body than before.
Nezu cleared his throat. "Alright! Teachers! Clean up all stray villains and bring the students here!" The pros quickly moved out, running to help all of their students.
Izuku smiled dumbly as he felt his body sway. His face was filled with confusion as his legs gave out from under him, his eyes closing, his arms losing all of their strength and will. The last thing he saw was All Might looking at him in worry but also pride.
"Good job, Young Mido…."
With a thud Izuku passed out, from pain, overexertion, or exhaustion he didn't know. Maybe it was a combination of all three. But he knew one thing for sure.
Recovery Girl was going to murder him.