Aizawa's concern for Suzuki has escalated far beyond that of mental ward patients within the span of a few hours. First there was his home life, then there was the danger of villains, then Suzuki managed to empathize and talk down the 'boss' of the operation. Now, the boy was proving his almost incredible level of stupidity. "Please stop hitting him, Mr Nomu!"
Suzuki ran up to Nomu, which thankfully paused for a second, apparently taking the order to not kill the kids seriously, before returning to crushing his skull into powder.
"Wait, does it not understand me? Is it deaf? Where's Koda, he knows sign language!"
"Iruma, that's clearly not the problem!" Jiro thankfully shouted at the boy. "Whatever this is, I doubt it can be right in the head, so it's just going to follow the hand villain's order!"
"Okay, there's only one thing we can do." Yes kid, run! Run away and avoid the danger, it's the only part of you that was rational! "Run away!" Yes, he was doing the right thing. For a second he thought- "Come on sensei, let's go!" Wait what?
The boy picked up his beaten body, beginning to make his way to the entrance. "S-S…" He couldn't yell at his problem child, the monster already smashed his jaw to bits.
"I understand sir, we'll get you to safety!" That wasn't what he was saying at all!
"Look out!" Asui shouted, the beast coming at them fast
"On it!" The boy somehow, SOMEHOW evaded the blocky fist that he couldn't even register with all his years of evasion skill. "I thought it wasn't going to attack me!?"
"You're carrying the only one around here that's not a kid, obviously the thing found a loophole!" Mineta yelled out.
"Damn it, I hate lawyers!" How the fuck did the conversation come to that?! "This'll get a little shaky, so sorry if you're in any pain!" The boy tucked and rolled avoiding the monster with the grown man still being carried on the kid's shoulders, any pain he was feeling being replaced by the absolute insanity of it all!
"Iruma, if you really got a quirk, how's the time to use it!" Jiro shouted.
"If I use it, I'll break, and I don't think now's the best time for that! I'll just keep dodging like always!"
"It's either that or he does THAT!" The Nomu stopped its assault, reaching into the ground and forming cracks along it, slowly pulling out a massive rock as it growled.
"Okay, I see your point! Just got to cook the chicken. Just cook the chicken just right! Cook it until it's nice and tender!" Great, Aizawa was going to die both confused and hungry. "Just cook the chicken!" From the corner of his eyes, he saw a faint red glow around Suzuki's right arm as he turned it towards the beast, a short overflow of wind being felt for a moment.
"LEFT HOOK STRAIGHT!" The blow landed … and the Nomus's body twitched! Considering his own blades snapped on impact, it was saying a lot.
"...you really don't have a quirk, do you Iruma?" Asui slapped her head. No, the monster just seemed to have some form of shock absorption, but it was hard to tell from a distance.
"Hey, my arms didn't break!" Suzuki shouted with a smile. "I cooked the chicken!" The growl caused the smile to freeze on the boy's face, looking up to their combined death.
==
Nomu noticed the impact. Why wouldn't Nomu notice it, his body told him it absorbed a hefty amount of shock. That shock felt strong. It tickled Nomu. It was actually kind of a nice tickle. Made it feel warm and fuzzy inside.
"Hey! My arms didn't break! I cooked the chicken!" Now the boy was just taunting him. There was no chicken for miles, other than that rainy place.
Nomu looked down on the boy and growled. "Iruma, get out of there!" The purple haired girl with weird ears shouted. "It's too dangerous for you to be here!" Nomu did their best to ignore her, he still needed to crush the hobo. It was annoying he couldn't crush the others, but at least he could crush the boy holding the hobo.
"Of course it is! It's been like that for most of my life!" Nomu was about to drop the rock down until a blast of loud noise hit him. Nomu roared in irritation.
"I'm not going to let you hurt him or anyone else!" The weird ear girl was kneeling, the annoying noise coming from her boots. He couldn't kill the kids, but the master didn't say anything about not crushing loud noise machines.
Nomu threw the rock at the girl, only for the frog girl to wrap her tongue around the loud noise girl and pull her to the pile of water. "Weiii!" The blonde guy had a point. That did look like fun. Maybe the master will do something like that for him once he is done.
"The fuck is wrong with dunce!?"
"Overused his quirk, we think he'll be okay."
"You THINK!?"
"More pressing concerns." Frog girl spoke as he turned back to the broken face man being held by the blue running child. "Iruma! Can you keep dodging!?"
"Of course! It's what I always do!" Yes, the kid kept dodging, and it was really annoying.
"Mineta, throw your balls at the ground, Iruma, lead him there!
"Got it!" Grape boy threw purple orbs on the ground. Why did that matter, he'd just step over them and...oh wait, he was stuck now. "Haha you freak, good luck getting out of my sticky balls, they're extra strong today!" Grape boy laughed. "We did it guys, we survive-" Nomu finally got free. "…Holy fuck."
Nomu looked at the torn off leg, feeling sad. He really liked righty. "I'm not good at understanding hero and villain rules, but should we get him first aid?" Blue hair boy asked. Aww, he was concerned. No need to be, cause the new leg was already growing.
"Iruma, dude, this might not be the best time to ask you this, but...HOW ARE YOU IN HIGHSCHOOL!? You sound like you haven't had a day in pre-k!" Grape boy bawled.
"What's pre-k?" Nomu wanted to ask the same thing, but it has more important concerns, like running after goggles. "Ah, it's leg is back!" And Nomu may have caught the kid by surprise too, if it wasn't for the explosions in his face.
==
"DIE!" Bakugou shouted. Hitting the monster square in the face. He didn't know where the other bosses were, but he could at least take one on. "Move it extras! The main character has finally arrived!"
"Are we reading a manga or something? What main character?" Dodger asked like the moron he was. He definitely wasn't De-Midoriya. De-Midoriya would've known what he was talking about instantly.
"It means get a move on or-" Bakugo was cut off as the beast came back, unphased, running back at Dodger. He clicked his teeth. "Don't look down on me." He begins assaulting the creature that managed to ignore every strike like a beast.
"Bakugo! It's after Aizawa! It's been ordered to ignore everything else that doesn't get in the way of that!" Earlobes shouted from the water. Guess that made sense, their sensei was on Dodger's back.
"Don't worry, I can keep him safe! He hasn't managed to lay a finger on me!" Bakugo wanted to call bullshit to the cocky bastard, but the idiot did manage to dodge his explosions, and somehow, SOMEHOW, the moron avoided every strike the monster threw at him.
"I'm here as well!" Shitty hair ran in between them. "Come on you giant bastard, you won't get past me!" The beast literally walked straight through the guy like a bulldozer, a sickening crack heard as it stepped on him. "FUCK!"
"KIRISHIMA!" Most of the people called out, worried for his safety.
"That's what happens when an extra tries to be more than what he is." He had his quirk active, it would hurt like a motherfucker, but Bakugo was forty percent sure Shitty Hair would live. That was better than the usual two percent he gave most extras.
The problem now was getting the beast to even flinch. It ignored most of his explosions like they were fire poppers, and Shitty Hair hardening actually had a visible crack from it just rushing and stomping on him. They needed an edge. "Stand back." Or Peppermint being a prick.
A pillar of ice enveloped the Nomu's right side, stopping the beast in its tracks as it growled in confusion. "Iruma-kun!" Invisilign shouted from somewhere. "Are you alright, do you need help?"
"Nope! I haven't taken damage yet, I even cooked the chicken right!" The fuck was Dodger on about? "Glad you aren't hurt either, Toru. You probably avoided the danger better than me."
"No, I could never take that trophy away from you, Iruma-kun!" He was going to throw up, someone take the conversation away.
"Guys, I love the fact you all can get along so well." Shitty Hair spoke, slowly getting up. "But that beast is still moving, shouldn't we, you know, do something?"
"Relax Kirishima." Peppermint spoke in that calm tone he had. "It's half frozen, I just need to keep the other half down and-" The beast … ripped it's fucking arm off. "Or it has the opposite level of self preservation as Suzuki."
"Thanks! I take my survival very seriously!" Says the guy who admitted he'd jump off a roof if someone asked. Who the fuck in their right mind would jump off a roof just like that?
'Deku probably did.' The fuck?
That sudden turn in his thinking was completely abandoned when the monster continued chasing the blue haired boy in question. "Ah, please stop!" The boy shouted, running and avoiding punches.
"... Any plan B to counter super regeneration?" Frog face asked them.
"Just hit it harder until it stops moving!" Their teacher was unconscious and even HE gave a grunt of disbelief at the stupidity of Shitty Hair. That sounded like one of Dodger's plans.
"That sounds like a great plan!" See, the boy agreed with your plan, that's how you know it's bad.
"Don't worry, Help has arrived!" Bakugo's never been more grateful to have someone try to help him before now. It actually hurt like hell to admit it, but he was WAY too fucking out of his depth with this one, and the extra's were only slowing him down. "Why? Because I am here!"
==
Nedzu sipped his cup of tea with disappointment. Toshinori ran off, again, because he felt something needed to be done. The man ran on motivation and saving others, never thinking about his own health. Times like this made him question why he decided to give Toshi the position to begin with.
Okay, maybe it was slightly due to the fact it was funny as hell watching him trying to teach a class with nothing but short bursts of motivational speeches, but even he should have a limit somewhere. Then again All Might was just copying Gran Torino, being funny and serious at different times. And it allowed the man to be closer to his successor.
Iruma Suzuki, age 15, was the next wielder of One For All. His first genuine concern after searching up every student by name, before he even knew of the connection to Toshi, was the sheer HORROR of his grades. He's seen toddlers with higher SAT scores, and those were the ones without intelligence boosting quirks.
It was almost as horrifying as his lack of school to begin with. The first time the boy appeared on any school registry was the third grade, and even then the boy appeared sporadically, spending one month at a time before disappearing on a fishing boat for another, then appearing for another month of school ad nauseum.
It finally stabilized sometime around middle school, where through use of security cameras he was … graciously given access to, the boy managed to pick up multiple around the town odd jobs. It seemed most of the boys' free time, if you could call it that, was spent on hours and hours in retail, factory, construction, janitorial, just about every menial labor task you could think of.
He already had to put together the necessary warrants for an investigation, and would hand them out to a responsible person … or Aizawa, the man was a teacher and thus had the rights to observe the situation first hand. There were hardly any mentions of the Suzuki elders on any record, aside from one notable purchase of a book that he happened to own a copy of himself: 'Demon Summoning for Morons'.
You'd think it would be fake … and you'd be mostly right. A whopping seventy percent of the book was written by a guy who assumed Demons lived on Mars and were working with Nasa to use radio signals to control the public. However, his meticulous research for the crackjob conspiracy gave some merit. Nedzu met some interesting fellows through it; Sullivan's Hellgrey tea was splendid.
But since that was going to be a standstill until the investigation in question, he would focus time and effort into other tasks. Such as Business students with controversial taste, Support students who blew up the lab, and did sexist work, General students with high potential, and Hero students with many issues. Like the volatile Bakugou and possibly wrecked home life of Todoroki.
His emergency phone rang, a teacher was reporting a crime on campus. He answered it without hesitation. "What's the problem?"
"Iida came back, there's a villain attack on the USJ." What the hell, why weren't the alarms going off earlier!?
==
"Bunny-sensei! You're here!" Young Suzuki cheered, and while it eased the aging hero greatly that the boy was alright and seemingly unharmed, the fact he was saying it while carrying a near-dead Aizawa while at the same time dodging a monstrous villain was very concerning. "Bird guy here was told by a hand-man to hurt everyone that's not a kid, so I've been keeping Aizawa-sensei safe!" He didn't want to hurt children? Was it an image thing? If so then only the heroes had been in danger, that was a relief.
"I'm glad to hear, now stand back, this could get messy." He ran to the beast before anyone could blink, hitting it square in the jaw … only to not feel anything, even the usual shockwave. "Tough little fella aren't ya?" The beast growled in response.
"All Might! The thing's called a Nomu! It's super strong and can regenerate!" Young Asui yelled from the water. "I-I don't know how it's possible, but..but I think it has multiple quirks!" NO, that couldn't … that couldn't be possible, the man was dead , he was sure of it. Even if he could survive, creating a group of this size would be asking too much.
"That would explain why it keeps taking my explosions." Young Bakugo looked like he agreed with a student for a change. "It's completely unphased by anything we do. Probably some form of shock absorption."
"Oh, like a sandbag!" Young Suzuki added. "Oh that's why punching it didn't work even when I cooked the chicken." He should've gotten him to pick another metaphor. "Hey wait, that's it! We just need to cook him!" Anyone that wasn't All Might, who was busy keeping the beast in lock, looked at him strangely. "You know, burning him?"
"I don't use my left side." Todoroki bluntly stated.
"Don't you feel THAT is a good reason to use your left side!?" Kirishima asked with a raised voice.
"Oh, I was thinking about Bakugo with that sweaty gauntlet attack." Suzuki clarified.
"Just call it a gauntlet bomb, not a sweaty gauntlet." Young Bakugo growled, but got his gauntlet ready regardless. "All Might, give me breathing room and a clear shot!"
He wanted to tell them to get out of the way, but All Might would be trying to do the same if the situations were reversed. "Fine, but back away immediately afterwards! Young Asui! Get everyone out of the water! Young Suzuki, make sure to get everyone at a safe distance!"
"YES SIR!" "YES BUNNY-SENSEI!" "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" Well things seemed to be shaping up fine so far. He grabbed the beast by the arm, giving it a spin before tossing it into the air.
"NOW!" He shouted, knowing that while the creature was strong, it had no wind pressure abilities for air movement.
"DIE MOTHERFUCKER!" Bakugo released the pin from his support item, sending a stream of fiery explosions towards the monster, scathing it just every so slightly, more than enough to keep the regeneration held back as he finished it off.
"Thank you for the assist … now then … let me show you what a real hero can do!" He shouted, jumping into the air with a series of punches, each faster and stronger than the last. "You think you can keep up with me, foul villain? You're nowhere near the level of commitment it takes to be a pro!"
"Whoa, he's so fast I can barely see him move!" Kirishima said in awe as he and the rest tried not to fall back from the wind pressure that was now spreading out to the entire facility.
"Bunny-sensei's that strong?" Suzuki looked the most starry eyed and silent. Right, this was probably the first time Suzuki ever saw him in action before.
"The best." Bakugo spoke seriously, calm and not yelling like usual. "He's punching hard enough to get past shock absorption and fast enough to get past super regeneration." A feral grin took his place. "That's what makes him the number one hero."
"Number one…?" Wait, did they never talk about that while they were training? Nana was probably shaking her head somewhere, he could feel it.
"You think you can best me?! You think you can match me at one hundred percent!?" He increased the speed of the punches, the Nomu no longer being able to attack back, and All Might was going to make sure it never had the chance again. "THEN I'M JUST GOING TO HAVE TO SURPASS MY LIMITS! AFTER ALL, I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD THE SAYING, BUT NOW I'LL SHOW YOU EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS TO GO BEYOND….!" He reeled back one final throw, steaming and wind colliding together as he threw every sap of energy and strength into this final punch. "PLUS….ULLTRAAA!"
The Nomu was sent hurtling into the air like a rocket, crashing past the dome, crashing past the clouds, past the point where he swore he saw it twinkle out of orbit. "Plus Ultra.." Suzuki repeated, remembering the words correctly for the first time since All Might's known him. "Heroes are … really cool." That little sentence warmed his heart. It was nice to know that-shit, time limit.