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"A demon was trying to follow me and said it was interested in me. Then there is this strange presence that I can feel sometimes, like someone watching me. But it's not That demon, I'd know about it. When I feel it, I sense something like… Colors. A big rainbow of thoughts from something which is following me for months. And That demon is surely not the only one. There might me even more looking for me as well." Izuku muttered while walking.
"Midoriya-Kun."
"Endangering the lives of other people because of me." This thought brought a wave of shame and guilt over him.
"Midoriya-Kun."
"And there is also this policeman who seemed to know about The Demon whom Asui-san talked about." This one brought worry.
"Midoriya!" Tsuyu almost shouted to the boy.
Surprised she was beside him, his face flushed in red, "Aha… S-Sorry I was m-m-mumbling to myself…"
"How often do you do that?" She asked, really concerned by the way her friend was mumbling, which in a way she found quite uncomfortable.
"M-More times that I can count…" He answered, embarrassed and trying to look away from her.
A hand went on his shoulder, surprising him, "How's your finger?" Ida asked Iuzku from behind.
"Ida! It's fine thanks to Recovery Girl!" He answered, thinking back at how the nurse hero didn't really seem happy to see him back so quickly, the first day of school on top of that.
"Aizawa Sensei sure fooled us. He made me think this is how it is at the top." Ida said, moving his hands as stiffly as board. "Our own instructor deceived us like that."
Suddenly the behavior of Ida was less intimidating to Izuku, now that he understood that he is just really serious all the time. Explaining his way of talking and moving so hung up. And his approach by behind, also made Izuku realize that even thought he can feel when anyone is coming close to him, he still can be surprised when he's not focused.
"Even if it was to test us, it wasn't very honest of him." Tsuyu added to his remark, gaining an approving nod from him.
"You three!" Someone called from behind the group, "Headed to the station? Wait up!" It was the brown-haired girl from the entrance exam, who was running to catch them.
"Ah! Infinity girl!" Ida called her.
'Infinity Girl?' Izuku thought about the surname. Then remembered of her unbelievable result during the test of their new teacher.
Tsuyu placed her finger on her chin, in a thinkable manner, "I think it's Uraraka, isn't it?" She corrected.
She stopped and presented herself to the group, "I'm Ochako Uraraka! Hum, you're Ida Tenya, Asui Tsuyu and Midoriya… Hum, Deku, right?"
"Deku?"
"During the test, that Bakugo yelled 'Damn you Deku!'." Ochako imitated with her best mad voice.
"M-My real name is Izuku… 'Deku' is just Kacchan being a bully…" Izuku shamely admitted, correcting the girl.
"Oh! Gotcha! Sorry!" Ochako excused herself, not meaning to insult him, "But 'Deku' well, it just screams 'You can do it!'" She admitted with a bright smile.
At those words and this sunny face, Izuku's will melted away and his face reddened as a fresh tomato, he replied with a dumb smile, "Deku's fine!"
"I'll keep Midoriya." Tsuyu said, surprised by the change of attitude of her friend and not really understanding him either.
"Midoriya!" Ida almost shouted, "Show a bit of backbone! It's an insult!" He scolded him, now making Izuku embarrassed of having said that, "How can you take it like that with the results you
scored today?!"
Earlier, on the sport school grounds.
"Natural disasters, highway pileups, rampaging villains… Calamity is always right around the corner. I'd say Japan is full of unfair things." Aizawa, the new teacher of the class 1A, said to his class of newbies, "Heroes are the ones who correct all that unfairness."
"If you were hoping to spend your evening hanging out at McDonald, I'm sorry to tell you that for the next three years…" He looked at them with somber eyes, making quiver some of the new high-schoolers, "U.A will run you through the wringer."
He smirked at them, "That's Plus Ultra." He pointed his finger toward the sky, "Use your strength to overcome it all. So bring it."
"The demonstration is over, now it's for real." He announced the beginning of the real test. A series of eight physical event to see if those children are worthy to be students here, at U.A, and see if they have the thing to become heroes.
The first event was a 50 meters dash. As the name spoke for itself, the students had to reach a point the faster as possible while trying to use their quirk to do so.
The firsts to pass were Ida Tenya and Asui Tsuyu. When the race began, Ida rushed to the point using his quirk which seemed to be in his legs where several tubes were coming out. Tsuyu did her best to hop the faster she could after him but she wasn't able to catch him. The chronometer robot shouted 3.04 seconds for Ida and 5.58 for Asui.
Before he knew it, Izuku had to get ready to race against someone. Once settled, he turned his head to see who it was, 'It's Kacchan…' Seeing him besides him, clawing the dirt and gritting his teeth, Izuku swallowed hard. He shook his head and focused, he couldn't fail, not now.
At the moment the start was declared, Katsuki crossed his arms and placed his hands so they were facing behind him, he then shouted, "EXPLOSIVE SPEED!" Before he used his explosions to accelerate him.
Izuku was surprised by this technic and he internally recognized it as the best for this event. But he still couldn't stay behind, not this time. Izuku used all the natural strength in his legs and rapidly caught Bakugo, who for a millisecond, stopped his explosions, so much he was stunned that Deku just passed in front of him. Making him slowing down drastically as Izuku was reaching the line.
"3.22!" The robot shouted as Izuku rapidly past it and had to plant his heels in the ground to stop himself.
"4.13!" The robot shouted again as Bakugo past it without showing signs of slowing down.
"What the hell Deku?! Explain yourself!" He shouted to the boy, still propelled by his explosions and aiming for him until something came around his arms and head to stop him from going further, "What the...! This clothe… Is stiff!" He tried to reach for Izuku and light up and explosion on his face but weirdly couldn't, "And I can't… Use my quirk!"
"It's a capture weapon made of carbon fiber and a special alloy wire." Aizawa answered as he pulled the bandages which were restraining Bakugo, "As for your quirk, I erased it." He said as his eyes shined with a bright red and his hair was floating up.
Around his neck, were yellow googles, 'This googles… Of course!' The eyes that showed the used of the quirk, the yellow googles. It ticked in the mind of Izuku, "It's the erasure hero, Eraserhead." An underground hero who is known for always avoiding medias. His quirk is among one of the most powerful existing: Erasure, permitting Eraserhead to nullify the quirk of the person he's looking at. Making him an extremely dangerous foe to fight against.
"Stop using your quirk already, I'm getting dry eye over here." The eyes of Aizawa dry off very fast. That sucks considering how awesome is his quirk.
"I can do it without one For All… But then…" Izuku anxiously thought as he passed the next event. Grip strength.
Izuku squeezed the grip machine with all of his might. He heard something break and was worried. He looked at his machine and saw that the screen has cracked and the handle has been bent by his hand. Aizawa assumed he scored at least 1 ton. Every other students stared at Izuku, not believing the score that he realized. Even Mezo Shoji, a student with four muscled arms wasn't able to do more than 540 kg.
All those eyes on him made Izuku extremely nervous and he began to sweat profusely as his anxiety suddenly rose. He tried to think about something else to distract himself.
The rest went about the same way: he made incredible score at the standing long jump and the side-stepping events. With every eyes set on him and with some whispers he could hear because of his super hearing, Izuku felt really uncomfortable. He really thanked the skies to not have given laser eyes to Kacchan because he was sure he was glaring at him all the time. But another thought came to him, making him forget about the others.
"What's the point?" He said to himself. All Might gave him a quirk which he doesn't need to use. So, what's the point of having it and learning how to use it if he doesn't need it?
Soon, he was up for the fifth event: Throwing the ball. "For the moment, everything looks great…" He muttered. The fact that he doesn't need to use it doesn't mean that he shouldn't use it. "Let's try to regulate it here." So, he will use it anyway, "But if I use the full power on my arm it will break it." Izuku thought back at the entrance exam and the first time he tested it with All Might. "So how could I do to use it and…" He thought the faster as possible of a way to control all of that power, how control it without breaking something in his own body. Even if his endurance allowed it, he couldn't let himself get hurt each time he uses it, he'll just be an inconvenience, so… "That's it!"
Izuku took a deep breath and cocked his right arm with the ball. He threw his arm with all of his might, and at the last moment activated One for All in his index, at the moment the fingertip touched the ball and pushed it. The ball flew with a boom in the air, clearing the ground from the dirt around Izuku and destroying some clouds in its way in the sky.
Aizawa had to look at another device, one that could show a bigger number, "12,821 meters."
"A- Almost 13 Km…" A blond boy in the group of students said, shaking in front of the number showing. Other students began to whisper among themselves.
'So, that the quirk of Midoriya-kun…' Tsuyu thought, watching the sky, where the ball had disappeared.
Aizawa as well was looking at the now clear blue, 'He learned a new trick since the exam,' He thought recalling the end of the Entrance exam. Aizawa wasn't one of the judges but he was still present to have get an idea of who had potential or not. At first, the boy seemed to handle the robots until the appearance of the giant robot where he ended with his arm gravely damaged and his legs injured. His eyes drifted to the hand of the boy: his index was bruised and it twitched slightly, 'He used the full power of his quirk in his fingertip and waited for the last second.'
'Maximizing the power while reducing the damages.'
In an office at Tokyo.
At the last floor of a twenty-stories building, was an enormous office, which is almost taking the whole floor by itself. The office had a white carpet covering the whole floor of the room, on the three walls of the room, one was entirely composed of glass, giving a nice view of the city center, while the others were simply blank. "Well of course, Sir. I'm sure my society and yours will be good friend after this deal." Conquest said in her earphone as she walked in the middle of her office, the sound of her heels was muffled by the soft floor as she passed back and forth while talking in English to a foreign businessman.
Her ears peeked as she felt something coming on her way, "Would you excuse me for a second." She excused herself before putting him on standby and lifting her arm toward the window. Suddenly, one of the windows shattered as something passed through and Conquest stopped it. It was a ball and it kept rolling fast in the hand of the Horsewoman, the heat caused smoke to come of her palm until it stopped. Conquest looked at the projectile with indifference until she understood where it came from. She scowled and walked to her desk, where there was an intercom, a sophisticated office computer and beside it a family photo with four people on it. On her way she threw the ball in her basket, she activated the intercom and switched to Japanese, "Yamada-san, send the janitor to my office right away. And while you're at it, call someone to replace one of my windows." She ordered her secretary, then she loosened her red tie and took off her jacket, leaving her in her white shirt.
She retook the call on her earphone, in English, "So, where were we, Sir?"
"Yeah! That was amazing!" Ochako and exclaimed as she flexed her arm in accentuation, "You're super strong!"
"Super even seems like an euphemism!" Ida commented.
"You scored first and even seem like to have impressed Sensei." Tsuyu added.
"P-Please, stop… It's not that much…." Izuku muttered, embarrassed and trying to cover his face with his hands.
They walked together to the Train Station and took the same ride. Ochako and Ida stations were the firsts so they get out sooner, leaving only Tsuyu and Izuku alone. "Earlier… You were thinking about what I told you." Tsuyu said, surprising Izuku, "I shouldn't have. I can see it's troubling you." She frowned when she said that.
Not seeing why she would feel bad about his, Izuku retorted, "You don't have to be sorry about anything, As- Tsuyu-chan." She looked at him with surprise, "I'm… I'm just trying to figure some things in my life."
"It is that complicated?" She asked, growing more curious about Izuku's life.
"More than you would think." He answered, It was his turn to frown.
The next day.
In a hero school anyone would think that a simple English class would be boring for young apprentice hero. And they would be right, except for a green haired nerd who take every subject very seriously, hero school or not.
Until the afternoon.
"Here I come…!" Resonated the strong and powerful voice of All Might in the school hallway, "Through the door like a normal person!" He kept shouting as he showed himself by the class's entrance.
He walked to the blackboard, showing off his flashy costume. A red and yellow suit with a blue cape, the costume which was he begin his hero career. Under the admirative eyes of the students, not believing that they are going to be taught by All Might himself.
"Hero Basic Training! The class that will put you through all sort of special training to mold you into heroes!" The number one hero announced, presenting proudly the subject of his class.
"No time to dally. Today's activity is…" He shouted as he pulled out a card, written on it… "Battle Training!"
A chorus of excitement echoed through the class at those words. Katsuki seemed really happy to hear that he could legally beat up other students with his quirk but Izuku didn't seem so cheerful to take part of this class, even if All Might was the one teaching it.
"And for that, you'll need these!" All Might pulled out a command and activated it, opening one of the wall of the classroom from where several cases went out, showing several numbers, "In accordance with the "Quirk Registry" and the special request forms you filled out before being admitted…"
"Our costumes! Yeah!" The students cheerfully exclaimed.
"After you change, come out in ranking order to Ground Beta!" All Might told his students before flashing off to the Ground Beta.
"Looking good is very important, ladies and gentlemen!" "Look alive, now! Because from today on you're all heroes!"
It was some weeks before the beginning of classes and Izuku had to fill out so informations about him. Fearing what might happen if he had to fill the quirk information, he called All Might to look for advice and information.
"Hey, Izuku." Inko called, surprising Izuku who hung up his phone immediately, regretting it and thinking of calling back later, he turned to his mother, "Congratulation on getting in!" She said as she presented a green clothe to her boy, "This may be too soon but…"
"A jumpsuit?" Izuku said, stunned at what his mother was showing him: a handmade jumpsuit, a hero suit.
"I realize it's not the coolest costume out here." She said, with a sad tone, "One time, when you fell asleep while studying, I noticed your open notebook."
"I…" She brought the suit to her mouth, trying to gain the courage to speak, "I said something awful to you… I've always regretted that." She said, regretting what she told her little boy when he learned that he was quirkless, "Back then I just gave up on you. But you never quitted, Izuku. You kept chasing your dreams."
"I'm sorry, Izuku." Inko excused herself, for all those years where she had lost hope for her son to be a hero like he wanted. But now, everything was different, "So, now I'll be cheering on you with everything I got."
'This jumpsuit symbolizes my mom's love.' Izuku muttered as he admired himself in a mirror in the locker, 'Who cares if it's not efficient or cutting-edge. How could I possibly wear anything else?' His eyes drifted to another piece of clothing on the bench. "And then we have…"
Izuku recalled how he got that other clothe: It was after he met All Might on the beach and after he found Tsuyu-chan and helped her get home. He went back to his apartment discretely, "War-san?" He called quietly when he entered his room, hoping to not get surprised once again, "He really left…" He whispered to himself, quietly closing the door of his room. He switched on the light and saw a paper bag on his bed, "What's that?"
On the bag was a little note, quickly written with one of Izuku's pencil and one of his paper sheet. He took it and read what seemed to be a note of War-san.
I was here earlier to give you this but I didn't really have the time to do so. I let it here in this bag, you can keep it.
The bag, I meant the bag and what's in it too.
For having literally blew out her mind, Death insisted you deserved something for your first heroic act during the Entrance Exam, when you saved Uraraka Ochaco.
Wear it as a reminder of your mission and for what you fight for.
W.
Izuku took the bag and pulled out what it contained. It was a black leather jacket, with white fur around the collar, "It looks exactly like War-san's…" Izuku remarked, clearly seeing the resemblance between the two clothes. The only differences are that the one of Izuku is cut at the middle of the waist, making it shorter than War's and more practical. And in the inside of the jacket was a pentagram in a circle of what seemed to be fire.
"What is this symbol?" The boy asked himself. Even if it not really known, a pentagram must not be really appreciated by the public. Fortunately, it's in the inside of the jacket, "Maybe I could wear it on my first suit…"
Izuku went out last of the locker room. He was wearing his hero suit: The green jumpsuit his mother made for him with kneepads and protection for his elbows, and over it the black leather jacket of War. Complemented with a mask looking like a smile and a hood giving him the same look as All Might, all with his big red shoes.
"Shall we begin, my wards?" All Might announced as he admired his students, all in flashy and stylish costume
"Ah! Deku!" Ochako called him, "Cool costume! With the jacket and all!"
When he turned toward her, his face reddened brightly under his mask, "U-Uraraka?!" He exclaimed, stunned by her look.
"I wish I'd been more specific about on my request form…" She said, lightly blushing and scratching behind her head, "This suit's so puffy and curvy." It was indeed: a black and white tight suit showing off the natural curves of her body, plus the puffy and round look of her boots and wristbands accentuating her looks.
"Being in the hero course is the best." A smaller looking grape like student said with a thumb up.
"Midoriya." The familiar voice of Tusyu called behind him, "That's really you under that mask? I wouldn't take you for the type to wear leather jacket." She said with a finger on her chin.
"Me neither." He absently said. He was looking at her costume, all green with black boots going from mid-thigh and ending in frog form like heels, giving a good impression of her in fact long legs.
'I should stop staring… Like right now!' Izuku scolded himself for staring at his friends like that. Like any boy he'd get curious but normally he wasn't who would be staring. Why did he do that?
Since Midoriya was the last one to come out of the lockers, All Might saw him only now. He coughed a light laugh when he saw his mask and his hood, clear reference (or copy) of himself. 'Way to make it obvious!'
"Sensei! This appears to be the same field used in the entrance exam. Will we once again be performing cityscape maneuvers?!" Ida asked All Might, while Izuku admired how cool his costume was like. A sort of armor with several exhaust pack on his back and his calves.
"Nope! You'll be moving on to step two!" He announced in response, "Indoor antipersonnel battle training!"
"Villain battles are most commonly seen outdoors, but statistically, the most heinous villains are more likely to appear indoors." He explained, clearly showing his experience in these kinds of things, "Between confinement, house arrest, and black market deals in this hero-filled society of ours… The cleverest villains out there lurk indoors!"
"You'll be split into villain teams and hero teams and face off in two-on-two indoor battles!"
"So, no basic training?" Tsuyu asked.
"Practical experience teaches you in the basics!" He answered firmly, "The distinction here is that you won't be fighting disposable robots."
"What determines victory?" Yaoyozoru Momo seriously asked.
"Can I just blast everyone away?" Bakugo menacingly wondered.
"Are you threatening to expel someone, like Aizawa sensei did…?" Ochako apprehensively demanded.
"How do we proceed to divide ourselves into teams?" Ida stiffly questioned.
"How fabulous is my cape?" Aoyama Yuga asked while shining literally.
"One at a time! My quirk isn't super-hearing!" All Might said, showing clear struggle at his first class and first day of teaching.
All Might pulled out a little note he made earlier and began to read, "Listen up! Here's the deal: The villains will be hiding a nuclear weapon in the hideout. And the heroes have to go in and take care of it! The heroes have a limited amount of time to either capture the villain or secure the weapon. The villains must either capture the heroes or protect the weapon until the time is up."
"Your partner will be decided by…" He took a little box with marked "Lots" on it, "Drawing lots!"
"Is that really the best way?!" Ida questioned.
"Well, pros often have to team up with heroes from other agencies on the spot during emergencies…" Izuku explained the reasoning behind that choice.
"I see…! I apologize for getting ahead of myself!" Ida stiffly apologized.
"It's fine! Let's just get to it!"
Team A: Midoriya Izuku and Uraraka Ochako
Team B: Todoroki Shouto and Shoji Mezo
Team C: Yaoyorozu Momo and Minoru Mineta
Team D: Bakugo Katsuki and Ida Tenya
Team E: Ashido Mina and Aoyama Yuga
Team F: Sato Rikido and Koda Koji
Team G: Jiro Kyoka and Kaminari Denki
Team H: Tokoyami Fumikage and Asui Tsuyu
Team I: Ojiro Mashirao and Hakagure Toru
Team J: Kirishima Eijiro and Sero Hanta
"Nice! Must be fate! Let's do this!" Ochako happily exclaimed.
'Seriously! I can barely say two words to her!' Izuku thought with a great panic.
"Moving on, first are…" All Might pulled two balls, each with a team letter on them, "The heroes are team A and the villains are team D!"
Izuku will have to fight Kacchan in this first hero training. If there is a God, he really doesn't like him.
"The villain team goes in first!" All Might announced, "The timer starts in five minutes, when the hero team sneaks in. The rest of us will watch via CCTV!"
"Ida. Bakugo. You boys need to adopt the villain mind-set! This is practical experience so, go all out. Don't hold back!" He ordered to the boys but end with a warning for them, "Though, I will stop you if you take things too far…"
In the room of the nuclear weapon
"Training or not, assuming the role of villain pains me…" Ida said, clearly upset to be the villain but still accepting to play his part, "So, we merely have to guard this?" He followed, speaking about a well-made paper-mache replica of an enormous missile.
"Hey." Katsuki called, not having heard a single thing of what four eyes just told him, "So, Deku has a quirk?"
"You saw this monstrous strength, no? Although, it seems to put him at great risk at some occasions." He explained to his "villain" partner, "I'll ask you to not charge straight at him." He told him, hoping to not fail their mission stupidly.
'He's been punking me the whole time?! That damned nerd!' Katsuki thought with anger rising the more he thought about it as he showed a madman grin.
Outside of the building.
"Better have to memorize these." Ochako commented as she looked at the blueprints of the building they were going to infiltrate, "There's no punishment for failure like with Aizawa sensei so, I'm not too worried." She added with a relieved smile and turned toward Izuku, who's whole body was shaking, "But you look really worried!"
Izuku tried to regain his composure, "Well, we're up against Kacchan… And Ida too…" He worriedly explained.
"Oh yeah… Bakugo's the one who bullies you, right…?" Ochako detailed, remembering what Izuku had told her yesterday when they went to the station together.
Izuku nodded, "He may be a jerk but he's amazing… With his strength, confidence, his goals and his quirk." Izuku eyes shifted, becoming more serious as he put on his mask and added, with confidence, "But I've changed… And that why I won't lose to him."
"So, you're like his fated rival or something?" Ochako amusingly asked.
Noticing how serious he just turned, Izuku flushed and excused himself, "S-Sorry I must be boring you with all this…"
"Not at all! We're a team! Come on!"
Ochako and Izuku infiltrated sneakily the building by floating to a window. Once they were in, they began to wander through the silent hallways of the building, trying to find the weapon they're supposed to secure.
In order to have a better view of the large building, Izuku focused, 'Soul Perception, 20%.' As expected, his range of view and hearing had increased, 'With this I should be able to tell where they are before they find us.'
'I still can't regulate One for All and if I use my full strength, I might kill them.' He thought, trying to find out how they are going to handle this task, 'So, we have Uraraka's Zero Gravity, my perception and strength.' With those, they should be able to handle the situation. But just in case, Izuku remembered the notes he made about indoors scenarios, especially in tight space like the corridors of this building.
Izuku and Ochaco reached a two ways corridor but Izuku felt a soul near them. He put his arm in front of Ochako, signaling her to stop.
Recognizing immediately Katsuki, Izuku warned his partner, "He's right there… Waiting for us…" He whispered to her, pointing at the left way, which was leading to another corridor, from where Bakugo was waiting, ready to jump on them once they get too close.
"How do you know?" She asked, intrigued by the confidence of her partner.
"A… An intuition…" He quickly lied. He focused on his frequence and saw what he was feeling, 'He's boiling with rage… As usual…' Meaning that his intuition of him coming straight at Izuku had high chances to be correct.
"What do we do, then?" Ochako asked, fearing what could happen if this intuition was true.
"If we show up, he will come straight at me. I'm not sure but I think he may forget you and you could go to the weapon." Izuku theorized.
"And what will you do? You'll fight him on your own?" She asked him, "You know I can't do that, it's not really… Heroic."
"We'd lose too much time sneaking past him." Izuku explained. He felt that she was not truly confident in this plan, "You'll have to trust me, Uraraka-san." He asked, looking at her straight in the eyes. She hesitated a bit before confidently nodding.
"At my cue." He told her before he went alone in direction of the ambush of Katsuki. He didn't even walked in front of it, that Kastuki already jump and aimed an explosion in direction of his head.
Izuku quickly dodged backward and shouted, "NOW!" Giving Ochako the signal to continue on her own. Meanwhile the explosion had destroyed a great part of the wall, where Izuku's head was supposed to be.
"Nice dodge, Deku!" Katsuki said with sarcasm as his right hand was fuming, "Now, I'll mess you up just enough to not be disqualified!" He said as he launched himself, ready to throw another blow.
Izuku swiftly moved to the right and grabbed the right of Kastuki before strongly pulling him and throwing him on the floor, with his back knocking against the concrete ground, 'Did he just read my moves?!' Katsuki thought, stunned of what this nerd just pulled on him.
"You always lead with a right hook!" Izuku explained as he straightened himself, "I've seen it enough to know…"
"You see, I've analyzed heroes I think are awesome in that Notebook of mine!" He continued, "The one you blew up and chunked out the window!" He recalled fiercely, "I'm not gonna be your worthless punching bag Deku forever!" He shouted with a great determination.
"I'm the Deku who always do his best!" He ended, standing proud and ready to fight back this time.
"You're sprouting all that crap… While scared out of your mind…" Bakugo said, his rage heating up, as he got back on his feet, "It pisses me off!" He shouted with vigor.
"Run, Uraraka!" Izuku shouted to the girl that didn't move, too astonished by the scene that has been played in front of her. At the order, she focused and followed the plan, running away from what seemed to be a fated duel.
Bakugo used two explosions to jump on Izuku, before throwing mid-air, a kick in direction of his head, which he blocked, "Worry about yourself!" He shouted before noticing that the nerd had placed something on his leg, 'The capture tape!' A tape given by All Might which can be used to proof the capture of the enemies.
Because of his strength, the tape of Izuku was torn off, 'I pulled too hard!' He scolded himself, then he saw Bakugo ready to strike again, 'If I know him enough, he will throw…' Izuku quickly avoided a explosion coming from the right by diving head first, 'His usual right hook!'
He quickly replaced himself and got ready to fight, 'It's time to show what I'm made of!' He thought with determination.
"Must have been fun, uh? Hiding that flashy quirk of yours?!" Katsuki said, gritting his teeth, clearly getting infuriated even more second by second, "Bring it on! I'll still crush you!" He shouted as his palms exploded and he propelled himself once again toward him.
He followed with a quick series of many punches, with supplements explosions, all directed toward Izuku's head.
At this assault, Izuku repelled and dodged his hits, the best as he could and at the same time trying to come up with a solution to beat Katsuki. His aggressivity did not show it but Izuku could feel that he got his guard up and that he would punish the slightest mistake of placement.
Katsuki suddenly shoved both of his palms in front of him, causing Izuku to jump backward to avoid the double explosion.
"Deku!" Izuku heard in his earphone.
"Uraraka! What is it?" He asked her, not leaving Katsuki out of sight.
"Ida found me. Sorry!"
"Where are you?"
"Fifth floor! Right in the center!"
"Stop talking like I'm not here!" He jumped toward him aiming for his head but the nerd quickly pushed himself three meters backward, causing the hit of Katsuki to destroy the floor where he had been previously, "I'm loaded up! So, why not use it…?" He said as he stretch his shoulder, "You're mocking, Deku?"
"I'm not afraid of you anymore!" Izuku shouted back.
"Guessing you know this all from your stalking, but the sweat glands on my palms secretes something like nitroglycerin. That's how I make my explosions." Katsuki said with a grin as he raised his arm toward Izuku.
'Why is he telling me that…? He's preparing something…' He thought, clearly sensing something dangerous.
"Assuming they honored my design requests… This gauntlet's been storing that fluid." He grabbed what seemed to be a pin on his grenade gauntlet.
"Bakugo. Stop it now, kid." All Might's voice sounded from the speakers in the building, "You're trying to kill him?!" This question rose Izuku worries even more.
"HE WON'T DIE IF IT'S NOT A DIRECT HIT!" Katsuki shouted to the speakers as he pulled the pin.
A huge explosion came out of the gauntlet, Izuku was back at a wall, he couldn't dodge, it was too big and he was too close. He put his arms in cross in front of his face, trying to protect himself.
In a huge boom, the whole facility shook and an enormous part of the building has been blew away. Leaving only dust, fire, smoke and debris of what seemed to be four rooms that were in the explosion.
"C'MON DEKU! USE YOUR QUIRK! I WILL CRUSH YOU AT YOUR STRONGEST!" Bakugo taunted to the smoke in front of him, knowing that the boy was still in there but not really caring if he has been reduced in ashes.
Katsuki stared at the place where Izuku was standing, he trailed his eyes to the smoke and saw a shadow. Suddenly the smoke cleared out as the shadow launched itself quickly toward Katsuki, not even able to stop it. He received a hit in the mouth and was strongly pushed backward with the shadow. The shadow and himself rolled until he found himself, stunned and on the floor on his front. As for the shadow, it tried to stand up but tripped, but it used its hands to jump on Katsuki's back and tying up his hands together. The smoke cleared out, showing a panting Izuku on the blond's back, with some burn marks on his cheeks and arms, where the jacket and jumpsuit had been ripped off, as well as the mask.
"Vi… Villain… Captured!" The voice of Izuku shouted, hoping for anybody to hear it. He had an unsupportable ringing caused by the explosion in his ears, preventing him to even hear his own voice. He checked his ears, and besides blood coming out of them he noticed something else, "No… I lost my earphone…. Must have been blew by the explosion…" He tried to stand but quickly tripped and fell again. He strongly planted his fingers into a wall to have a grip and raise himself, 'I must join her… Before I pass out.' He thought, with his head aching, banging and turning. His vision was blurry but he could make out the big forms of his environment.
Unable to accept what just happened, Katsuki ripped of his bounds while shouting, "NO FUCKING WAY!" And he stood rapidly behind the febrile Deku, using his left palm to provoke an explosion in his head. This time, Izuku's body acted on his own and went behind Bakugo so quickly that it was like he teleported, and he hit him with his elbow in the boy's neck. Katsuki stood stiff with rolled up eyes then fell on the wall, not ready to get up again for a moment.
With his head aching even more because of that sudden movement and still turning, banging, ringing, Izuku used the wall as a support as he walked towards Ochako's position. Where Ida and the weapon might be located.
He barely heard, what seemed to be shouting, muffled by his ringing, coming from a room he was getting close to. He stayed by the entrance, still pushing himself against the wall and watched the scene in front of him.
"You'll never get the weapon, hero! Mwahahaha!" Ida mocked with what seemed to be his representation of a villain as he carried the weapon quickly out of reach of Ochako.
"No!" She shouted, missing once again the opportunity to grab the weapon. She put one of her fingers I her ear, activating her microphone, "Deku! Are you alright? Please, answer!" She asked for the third time after that big explosion that shook all the building.
'My ears are still ringing a bit but I can still do something.' Izuku thought as he saw Ida run to another place with the weapon in his arms. He forced his mind to work, even though it was making his headache grow, 'Read him… Read his soul…' He focused until he read Ida's future moves until he found one where he had his window of opportunity, 'Got him!'
Ida sprinted and stopped in front of the entrance, with the weapon in his arms. But he wasn't aware of Izuku presence, so, he jumped with the energy left he still had and snatched the weapon from Ida's arms. Izuku flew a bit until he was on his back and slod to the wall with the replica in paper-mache in his arms until he hit the wall stopping him. With his last bit of strength, he exclaimed, "Weapon… Secured!"
"The hero team wiiiiins!" All Might shouted in the speakers of the building, "The battle end with one villain captured and one hero injured."
Ochako quickly rushed to the boy and knelt beside him, "Deku. Are you alright? You're injured everywhere!"
"Please… Don't be so… Loud." He weakly begged as she took his right arm over her shoulders to help him get up.
With his super speed, All Might appeared in front of the students, "Time for your grades, kids!" He looked over the injured Midoriya and told him, "Midoriya, I think you should go to the nurse's office."
"No!" Izuku exclaimed, surprising his teacher. He straightened a bit but was still held by Ochako and now Ida, who had joined her, "I mean, I want to hear how I did first."
All Might seemed unsure of that but seeing how he insisted and personnaly knowing how stubborn the boy could be, he reluctantly accepted, "If you think so but don't overdo yourself. I might have to send young Bakugo, thought. Looks like you knocked him out."
Izuku stared at him with big round eyes, "I… I did what…?"
"You can get up?" Ida asked him.
"Yes, I'm just a bit dizzy, that's all. No need to worry over me." He said to his friends, even though without them he would actually be laying front first on the floor.
Once they arrived to the monitoring room, Midoriya was almost immediately surrounded by people.
"Midoriya! That was so cool!" A bug guy exclaimed to him.
"I'm Mina Ashido. Did you really take the blow or in fact you dodged?" Asked Maina Ashido, a girl with curly pink hair, flashy pink skin and big black eyes with yellow pupils.
"I'm Eijiro Kirishima. Man, the way you jumped out and that punch! That was so wild!" Exclaimed Kirishima, a boy with spiky red hair and sharp teeth.
"What is everyone talking about….?" Ochako asked until her eyes fell on one of the monitors who recorded the explosion and clearly showing Deku taking it at point blank range, "EEHHH!?" She shouted of shock, "You took his explosion directly and you're still alive!?" She asked him amazed and worried.
Tsuyu approached him, "Are you really okay, Midoriya-kun?"
"I-I-I assure you, I-I-I'm fine!" He exclaimed embarrassed that he's making everyone worry about him, "It seems like my costume took the main damages." He said looking at his arms, completely in display and red from the burns, 'Too bad for the suit and the jacket though.' He didn't notice Tsuyu and Ochako looking at his muscular biceps and at the bit of pectorals he was unconsciously showing off.
All Might entered the office with a sad looking Bakugo, seeing him conscious filled Izuku with relief but a certain tension was still up, 'He just took an explosion in the face and he's acting like everything is fine.' All Might though while looking at the behavior of his successor toward the other students, 'But he won a one to one against young Bakugo, so it seems normal he's feeling well.'' Young Midoriya had talked about him, how they know each other for a long time and how they didn't really get along anymore, 'No, time to think about that. I still have a class to teach.'
"Let's get to the analysis of the round." All Might ordered, "I'd say, the V.I.P in this battle was Ida."
"Why not Midoriya or Ochako even though they won?" Tsuyu asked, truly wondering why it wouldn't be Midoriya after such a fight.
"That's a good question! Anyone knows?"
"I do, All Might sensei." Yaoyozoru said as she lifted her hand to answer.
"It's because they were the most able to adapt to the scenario." She began, surprising Ida himself, "From what I saw, Bakugo's every actions were motivated by an obvious personal grudge. And as you mentioned before sensei, using destructive attacks indoors is foolish." She explained, as Bakugo silently gritted his teeth, "Even though Midoriya seemed to act for the good by coming to help Uraraka, he put himself and Uraraka in danger after being hurt in such a violent battle. If it wasn't for the effect of surprise, he would have been a burden for Uraraka during a battle." She detailed, as Midoriya seemed really embarrassed to see his actions in that way, "As for her, even if she lost her focus halfway, she tried to take the weapon from Ida with the less she had. But a real retrieval mission would have failed at the moment she's been noticed." She analyzed, with Uraraka getting the same embarrassment, "And Ida formed an actual counter-strategy and he envisioned what the actual struggle would be like. He was only too unaware to react at the very end." She ended, as Ida looked very touched that someone would praise him like that.
There was a silence until All Might spoke up, "I-I'd also add Ida was a bit stiff but yes you're correct." He added with a thumb up, shaking a bit at the perfect explanation of this first year.
"We've got to start at the bottom and work up! And if we don't honestly cheer each other on we'll never be top heroes." She honestly huffed.
"H-Holy…" Izuku muttered, completely stunned to hear such detailed analysis. He thought that he must surely sounded like this when he mutters to himself but with way less charisma.
It was the turn of the second group, as the Team B for the Heroes and the Team I for the villains. The start has been barely announced that suddenly, the building where was guarded the weapon, entirely froze. The villains were unable to move, only leaving the heroes the weapon to retrieve.
"Without harming his ally or the weapon, he immobilized the enemy…" All Might explained as he watched the monitors while shaking because of the amount of ice on display.
"He's too strong!" Kirishima exclaimed, shaking as well.
'T-Terrifying…' Izuku thought, staring at the monitor where the responsible student was on, 'Shoto Todoroki. Quirk: Half-cold, Half-hot; with his right hand he freezes and the left he burns. What a strong power.' He gulped down of fear and… Excitement.
"I really think you should go to the nurse's office, Midoriya-kun." Tsuyu who has been beside him the whole time told him.
"I-I know… T-Tsuyu-chan… Just a moment…" He said not leaving his eyes off the screens.
"You'll have plenty of time to see everyone later." Tsuyu insisted. She placed her hand gently on his shoulder, drawing his attention, "Please."
Clearly seeing him worried for him, Izuku was unable to resist. His cheeks flustered and he stuttered, "A-Alright." He then asked Ida to go with him, in case he passes out. And also, because he knew that he would need support in case he has to suffer the wrath of the school's nurse.
And indeed, he got scolded for coming here for the third time even though, it's only his second school day. He ended with his arms healed by Recovery Girl quirk and bandaged to permit the arms to heal completely.
Once the end of the day rung, Izuku went to find Bakugo at the nurse's office, only to learn that he went out earlier. He rushed to the entrance of the school and found Bakugo walking out.
"Kacchan!" Izuku called him, surprisingly, he stopped walking and turned to him. He had blasé eyes and a band aid on his cheek. "I can't say much… But you should at least know this." Izuku told him, then thought, 'Do I really want to tell him…?' What would he say? A guy who said it was a Horseman of Apocalypse gave me powers?
"I got my power from someone." He finally said, "I-I can't say from who! I've not been hiding it all this time! I've received it for a purpose, that I don't know much about…!" He truly said, "So, hear me out! One day, I will make that power mine and I'll overcome you with it!"
He didn't seem convinced. No, instead he seemed really pissed, "So, you're just going to keep making a fool outta me… Right?" He gritted his teeth and shouted, "I lost to you today! As if it weren't enough… That Icy bastard! There's no way I can measure up to him either! Ponytail girl said it all, really…"
"Damnit! Damnit!" He kept shouting until he raised his head to meet Izuku's eyes, "You too Deku!" He was crying, all the while shouting his determination, "From here on! From here on, you hear me!"
"I'm… Gonna beat you all!" He turned and went back on his walk, "Enjoy you win! It'll never happen again!"
"Bakugo!" All Might called as he rushed behind him and put a hand on his shoulder, "Let me tell you… That sort of self-respect is important! Without a doubt you've got the makings of a pro! From now on you just have to-"
"Get of me, All Might!" The boy shouted, "Needless to say, I'll be a hero who surpasses even you!"
A bit surprised, the hero let go, "Ah… I hope so…" He watched the boy walked away before saying to himself with a sigh, "Being a teacher, sure is tough."
He then turned to Izuku and in his turn shouted "You told him…!"
Realizing his mistake and the reaction of his teacher, Izuku excused himself, "I'm sorry! I haven't even told my mom…But I just had to tell him something… I'm so sorry…" Even thought, he wasn't talking about One for All, the two subjects could have looked quite alike when you talked about them.
'He's not the type to brag or boast, so perhaps I wasn't explicit enough…' All Might thought as he looked at his successor, 'Guess this is a consequence of being so sincere…!'
"Luckily, Bakugo seemed to think you were pulling his leg… I will forgive you this time, but… Please don't tell another soul. You must be aware of the responsibility that come with this power!" He said to the boy, "Should the world learn of it, I have no doubt that all manner of scum would come and try to steal it away! This secret is all that prevent our society from falling into chaos." Seeing that he looked very saddened, All Might put a hand on his shoulder, "It's also meant to protect you. Understand?"
The boy nodded.
What did you think? Tell me if you liked or not. And as for the question of the ship... I'm kind of lost because they are many that I like but I have trouble choosing. Maybe I'll make up my mind in the next chapter.