The Evil Within/ Virgo with Cheer depending on your viewing platform, proudly presents another new story! I don't know why I do this to myself, but this idea just wouldn't leave me and it'd be a shame to keep it cooped up in my brain. Who knows, maybe this one'll reach the top of a fandom like my other popular story? I dream big. Lets see if you all agree for what I want this fic to be.
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'Internal speaking/thoughts'
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"Attack Names/Spells/Chants"Chapter 0
Last Breath
"MIDORIYA!"
"Detroit- SUMAAASH!"
The ground cratered and muscles strained, both from pressure and ungodly manipulations.
Despite the sheer strength present from both party's, it was quickly becoming clear what the outcome would be.
"THAT WAS WEAKER THAN BEFORE!" Muscular roared as he began to press his fist downward. Just a little more, just a little more-!
"...Fine...it's FINE!" Muscular was able to make out from under his fist, before the kid started yelling again.
"I...will not let him pass me! So RUN!" Midoriya screamed to the little runt behind him, daring to turn away.
"This kid..." Muscular muttered for a moment himself, before his shit eating grin got even bigger.
"MAN, YOU'RE THE BEST!" And the muscles doubled, pushing the kid up to his ankles in the dense rock and cratering the rest surrounding them.
Muscular grinned as he felt the blood burst from the kid's strained arms, even as he called for him to 'shut up'. WHAT A RIOT!
Finally though, Muscular had enough. With an instant thought, legs burst from flesh and expanded, and his fist becoming nothing more than tons of meat to crush the brat who thought he was strong.
"SHOW ME YOUR BLOOD!"
SCENE CHANGE: Midoriya
' A Hero... can always break out of a tough spot!' The words of All Might filtered through your head in that moment, but even they didn't help you in this literal tight spot. You had to put everything you had towards keeping Muscular from enveloping and crushing you whole, teeth clenched and beginning to drip blood from the side of your mouth.
Visions of your mother went through your head, your teacher having to tell Mom the news, that she'll never see you again...
'Mom...I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.' You gasped in your mind, eyes now shut in concentration, barely keeping up with the pressure now.
'All Might! All Might!' You weren't going to become the next Symbol of Peace! You couldn't even carry All For One for a year... You failed...
The muscle began to creep closer to your face as Muscular gave a sharp cry.
"I'M GOING TO CRUSH YOU!"
The ground broke before you did, and you felt All For One finally slip from your grip.
This... was i-!
"St...STOP IT!"
Water soaked your face and the form above you, snapping you back awake. What!
It seemed Muscular was also taken aback, as he stopped crushing yuo for a moment, giving you a moment of literal breathing room, as well as letting you turn your eyes to... Kouta with dripping hands! You told him to run! To save himself! Not...save you...
SCENE CHANGE: GENERAL
"Hah? Water?" Muscular asked the air, confused. He was expecting a shower of blood, not cold water.
He got his answer by looking over to where the water blasted from.
"St...STOP IT!" Kota shouted, bringing a light to Midoriya's eyes as he too saw who was shouting.
"Kota!" Midoriya tried to scream, but only coming out as a harsh whisper. He had to save Kota!
"Hey! Later, kay! I'll kill you later! Just wait a-uh?" Muscular yelled at the boy before feeling something move beneath him. The kid was still alive?
An arm began to push back, starting to crackle like a live wire. Soon another arm came to the ground, bracing the body as it rose like a man possessed. Kota gasped at seeing the badly injured form rise.
Kota however wasn't the only one shocked at the miraculous recovery.
"As if-!" Midoriya growled as he began to force himself to his knees, feeling the weight above him and how he would not fall like this with someone to save!
"Wait, are you getting stronger?" Muscular yelled in disbelief as he felt himself be pushed back. Even with adding new muscles every few seconds, he was being pushed back. How, HOW!
"I'D LET YOU KILL HIM!" Midoriya finished, all but growling as he finally stood up, drawing back his other fist and looking Muscular eye to bloody eye.
The static was getting intense, acting like lightning trapped in a cage even as muscles were torn and thrown away.
Within his minds eye, Midoriya could only see a single star of color. Moving faster and faster with every second, every color and every motion before it settled in his fist.
"ONE FOR ALL! 1,000,000%!" Midoriya screamed as the pressure grew to its peak, veins glowing red with power and blowing away the muscles previously holding him in place from power alone.
"Detroit...DELAWARE SMMMAAAAAAASSSSHHHH!" He roared as the power released itself in that one swing, impacting Muscular.
It shattered anything that stood in its way, flesh and bone once so terrifying all but liquefying before the horrifying force.
The fist hit Muscular's face in short order, and in that moment, he went flying, massive form shattering the cliff-side firmly and truly unconscious, eyes rolled back and trailing blood, now once more a man.
"I... did it." Midoriya muttered tiredly, falling to his knees and then face in short order from exhaustion.
SCENE CHANGE: Midoriya
The screaming from Kota however, did not stop.
"Izu-nii!" Kota yelled as he ran close to you, still looking afraid. Why? You beat Muscular. You...
"Oh...my arms gone." You muttered, trying to feel for your oddly not-aching arm with your left hand. Instead, all you felt was blood and a small stump just over your shoulder, life source gushing out in alarming amounts.
You knew you were in shock at the moment, but you couldn't help but chuckle a little at the injury.
'Guess All Might wasn't kidding when he said using too much would blow off limbs.' You thought with a sort of gallows's humor that only comes in the last moments.
Though you didn't have time for your thoughts for long, not with Kota now down on his knees beside you, looking like he was about to have a panic attack.
"N-no, not again! Please, don't leave Izu-nii! We..we'll get help!" Kota hiccuped and sobbed as he tried to get your blood to go back, washing it back into the wound with water.
"I-I'm losing a lot of blood Kota. I...I probably won't make it." You gasped out, the water making you so much more aware of the pain in that side now, but you needed it. There was still something you could do.
Even as he sobbed and broke down and pleaded, you forced your remaining arm to rise to Kota's face, taking note of the blood staining it and thankful this could be a bit easier.
"I...I *GACK!* I n-need y-ou to do two things for me K-kota. Ok-ay?" You managed to wheeze out, choking and starting to feel light headed. You didn't have much longer.
Kota stopped his water for a moment, paying you every bit of attention he could. What a good kid...
"Fir-st, I want you to re-re*HACK!*remember what a hero looks like. Wit-thout you, i'd be even deader n-now. You're a hero, Ko-ta." You struggled to get out between new mouthfuls of blood, most swallowed back down but still some escaping through cracked teeth.
"No, I'm not a hero! a hero could help you! A HERO WOULD-!" You draped a hand over Kota's mouth, partially to stop his ramblings, partially because it was getting harder to hold up.
"L-lick my blo-ood." You tried to command as hard as you could, not able to take much more.
"Wha-"
"DO IT!" You screamed, nearly rupturing your throat to do so, but it worked. Kota took a solid lick of your bloody and bruised palm, drawing at least a good sip worth, and swallowed with a grimace and a look of confusion.
You felt any tension you had leave your body.
"I...I jju-st gave you my-y-y-y, QUI-rk!" You managed to gasp out again, trying to sit up but failing at the pressure in your gut.
The confusion gave way to disbelief and shock.
"WHAT! But, what, how, WHAT!" Ha, it was like when Toshinori told you...
"You're young, so n-noone'll notice if you ge-tt, a str-onger Quirk out of -nowhere." You began to slur, eyes going dark in the corners.
"Wait, Izu-nii! I don't know what you mean! What's happening!" Kota shouted again, trying desperately to get your attention again, but it was so hard to focus. Now seemed like a great time for a post-workout nap...
"Find All Might...With One For All...You'll be a Great Hero..."
"Kota."
With these last words whispered in a young boy's ear, Izuku Midoriya, age 15, passed away beaten but unbroken, with a smile on his face on that blood-stained rock.
He might not have become the World's Greatest Hero, but to one young boy.
There couldn't be a better one. That was good enough.
EYE'S SNAPPED OPENEND OF CHAPTER! So, hooked yet?