Izuku-The Hexblade Hero; Chapter 7
Fucking Swearing
Thou Whom Agony is Time gently drummed the fingers of Izuku's hand against the boy's desk, his other hand holding the teen's syllabus.
"Wonder what the odds are… Welp, time to make a call." The eldritch being shrugged Izuku's shoulders as it stopped drumming its fingers, instead lifting the hand up to the teens head as if he was making a phone call using the thumb and pinky fingers.
"Yeah, Hey Kali It's me." Thou Whom Agony is Time spoke into the hand after a moment of silence.
"What do you mean who this is?" The eldritch being recoiled in shock and offense, "It's me, ya know the better half of Ishtar."
The godling went silent as he listened to the response, groaning after a moment.
"Thou Whom Agony is Time, remember me? We met at Dionysus's polka party a few millennia ago, I'm the reason he no longer hosts those." Thou Whom Agony is Time explained.
"Yes, This is Hierophants sibling." He sighed, "Look, I was wanting to cash a favor."
He went silent as he listened to the goddesses angry rapid-fire talking, face growing more agitated with each word.
"What do you mean 'You don't owe me anything,' do I need to remind you about what happened at the polka party?" Again he listened to the goddesses' rapid response, a face of smug satisfaction on his face, "There ya go, now about that favor."
The goddess interrupted him as she seemed to enter a rant.
"Listen, It's not much." The godling tried to placate the goddess, "I just want to know if the thing my servant is apart of tomorrow has any 'random chance' involved, and if it does I just want to shift a couple of variables."
Thou Whom Agony is Time examined Izuku's well-kept nails as he waited for the goddess to answer his question.
"Oh, so that's who he was supposed to fight." The godling shrugged, "Think we can change a couple of people around?"
Izuku's mouth nearly split with the force of the smile Thou Whom Agony is Time made, "Good, now here's how I want this to go…" it chuckled through the boy's body.
"How do you think your class will react to you showing up?" Izuku's patron asked as the teen entered the heroic academy.
'Hopefully, they won't look into it too much.' Izuku groaned internally.
"We both know Katsuki is going to have a fucking meltdown." The eldritch godling deadpanned.
'Your probably right, but you don't have to say it.' Izuku responded as he approached the massive classroom door again.
"Deku!" A familiar high pitched voice called from the end of the hallway, giving Izuku a strange case of deja vu, "I didn't think I was going to get to see you again!"
Izuku froze up at the positive female attention, rigidly turning to face the approaching girl as his face slowly began to resemble a tomato.
"Y-yeah, Turns out Aizawa-sensei just had a few questions for me." Izuku stuttered as he scratched the back of his head.
"Sounds like you dodged a bullet there Deku." The bubbly girl stopped in front of Izuku, offering a cheerful smile.
"Um…" Izuku awkwardly searched for the right words, "My names not Deku…It's Izuku Midoriya."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Ochako apologized sheepishly. "That blonde boy yesterday called you that, so I thought it was your name."
"It's alright, it's just an insult he's used since we were kids," Izuku explained, realizing after the words left his mouth that he might have just over-explained.
"Oh that's a shame, I thought it sounded cute." She pouted. For a moment Izuku internally debated what he was about to do.
"Do it, don't pussy out!" Izuku's patron encouraged in its own way.
"Y-you can call me Deku if you want…" Izuku barely managed to squeak out, pleasant surprise lighting up Ochako's face.
"I thought you said it was an insult?" She asked as the surprised look shifted to confusion.
"Well, you said it sounded cute…" Izuku floundered for a moment as he searched for the words, "So if you used it, I guess that would change its meaning for me."
Ochako gave the boy a bright smile after a moment of thoughtful posing, "Deku it is."
"So, you any good at English?" Ochako asked as she pushed past Izuku to enter their homeroom.
Luckily for Izuku, class opinion seemed to have ranged from indifference to polite courtesy about his avoiding being expelled. Even Katsuki seemed to have been far calmer than Izuku had originally dreaded, although he did seem to glare at him during each of their classes that they shared.
"Oh, he is rearing for a fight." Izuku's patron enlightened as the boy took notes in English class.
'That doesn't seem out of the ordinary for Kaachan.' Izuku responded, having long since figured out how to hold a conversation with his patron and take notes at the same time.
"Most of the time he's just angry, this feeling that I'm getting from him, this is rage."
'...huh, What do you think he's mad at.'
The eldritch being was silent for a moment, Izuku could feel it blinking at him in confusion. "There is no way your that dense."
Izuku raised a questioning brow at his patron. 'Should I know what he's mad at?'
"The answer is you assbut." The godling bluntly said, "He's mad at you."
'But what did I do?!' Izuku asked, astounded.
"Blondies been using you as a measuring stick for his own self-worth, sighting your quirkless stature and week will as enough flaws to place you as a bottom to his hierarchy." Thou Whom Agony is Time explained, "You getting into this school at all was enough to throw his worldview off, not to mention the fact that you revealed you have a quirk and showed him up in one of the events yesterday.
'Oh…' Was all Izuku could muster, 'Well maybe I won't have to face him in the battle trials today.'
"Oh no, your one-hundred percent going to fight him today." The patron casually said.
'How do you know!' Izuku asked/cried at the prospect of fighting his childhood bully.
"I cashed in a favor with the goddess of fate to specifically arrange for you to fight this guy, might have also changed up the order of things and who will fight who, but hey."
'Why did you do that?'
"Because Izuku, this is something that needs to happen for the both of you to grow," The eldritch godling said seriously, "Plus it seems this is a fate thing because that was one of the matchups I didn't have to change."
'If that was supposed to be reassuring, it wasn't.' Izuku glumly thought.
"Don't sweat it; between me, One for All, and that sack of fat in your head called a brain we'll beat him no problem." Izuku felt the sensation of a pat on the back.
'Still…' Izuku trailed off as his nerves started to get the better of him.
"Alright if you're going to be like that," Izuku felt the full attention of his patron focus on him, the sheer intensity of it making it hard for Izuku to breath and causing his hands to tremble.
"Izuku Midoriya, I command you to beat Katsuki's Bakugo's ass in the upcoming battle trial. I do not care how you go about it, but you must defeat him." The intensity faded, allowing Izuku to take several silent gasps of air. "Now you don't have to question your ability to beat him, you've been ordered to!"
Izuku frowned at how cheerful his patron sounded. 'I'll try my best.'
"Do or do not, there is no try."
'Go fuck yourself.'
"...Ya know, maybe I haven't been the best of influences."
"I am Here!" All Might shouted as he boldly entered the classroom, "Arriving like a hero!"
"I give it a six out of ten." Thou Whom Agony is Time half-heartedly appraised, "He could've been a bit flashier."
'Can you please not do this while my idol is here?' Izuku asked as he watched his teacher soak up the praise given to him by the muttering class.
"I would if he didn't offer me so much to work with, I mean look at how he's walking." The eldritch godling lamented as All Might stiffly high stepped to his podium.
"Welcome to Heroing 101! This class is where you will be learning the basics of being a professional hero!" The boisterous man energetically proclaimed, pulling a card with the word 'battle' labeled on it. "Let's get right into it!"
"Time to watch some minors beat the shit out of other minors." Thou Whom Agony is Time sadistically cried in joy.
'Can you not phrase it like that?' Izuku sighed as the emotional whiplash created by All Might's energetic positivity clashed with his patrons darker humor.
"Would you rather I said, 'Time to watch some minors go at it?' or something like that?"
Izuku had to fight to keep the blush on his face from spreading too far. 'No! It would not!'
"Then don't complain, be glad you didn't have to deal with my sister last night." Thou Whom Agony is Time chuckled, "She would've said things that you'd still be blushing over."
'So you meet with your sister last night, what did you guys talk about?' Izuku asked as he, along with the rest of his class, moved to go to training ground Beta.
"Not much, she just wanted to congratulate me on making a pact with someone after so long, asked me to keep an eye out for any candidates for her to make a pact with, and then to call our parents." The eldritch godling casually explained, "Speaking of, I should call mom."
'Have you seen anyone in class 1-A that could be a good candidate?' Izuku asked.
"...You seem strangely fine with the prospect of having one of your classmates make a deal with an otherworldly being…" Thou Whom Agony is Time pointed out after a moment of silence.
'Well, I've done it.' Izuku shrugged, much to Iida's confusion next to him on the road to training ground Beta, 'Plus if she's anything like you, then whoever makes a pact with her should be fine.'
"...Your naivete is strangely refreshing…" The patron bluntly said as he marveled at the purity of his servant. "She would break you like a kit-kat bar."
'Didn't those get banned in twenty-one eighty-seven due to being severely cancerous?' Izuku shook the stray thought away, 'Should I be worried about the safety of my classmates?'
"Nah, she's intense but only with those who want her to be and she respects limits." The eldritch godling shrugged, "Doesn't make her any less of a whore though."
'That's an awfully rude thing to say about your sister!' Izuku recoiled at the insult.
"Says the boy who's only ever been a single child, this is how I show affection for her!"
'Still seems rather rude…' Izuku pouted.
"Trust me, she takes as much as she gives." The eldritch being sighed wistfully, "Nice costume btw."
'Shut up, My mommy made it!' Izuku mentally shouted as he raced to catch up with the rest of his class, his costume having been more difficult to get on than he thought.
"Nice costume Deku!" A distorted female voice complemented Izuku, causing the boy to look to its source, which then triggered his face to light up crimson and unknowingly causing the protrusions from his hood to flail. "I should've been more specific with my requests, this suit isn't really my style."
Izuku would've responded if his brain hadn't nearly shut down at the sight of Ochako's… form-fitting suit
"I love this school." A voice lisped from a few feet away from Deku.
"What the fuck is that!" Thou Whom Agony is Time screeched like a stereotypical forties housewife that just saw a rat skitter across her floor.
"Now then, since everyone's dressed let's begin!" All Might declared.
"Sir!" Iida's voice cried out from the armored man standing next to Izuku.
"I was joking about him being a Warforged, but he's really not helping me think otherwise."
'Can you go five minutes without insulting those around me?'
"No, it's a medical condition called ass-holery. I've heard it's contagious and incurable."
Iida continued on with his question, unaware of the conversation taking place next to him, "This is the same city from the entrance exam, are we going to be conducting urban battles?"
"Not quite!" All Might threw up a peace sign as he struck his thirteenth dramatic pose of the day, "We're going to be going several steps beyond that!"
"Most battles you see on the news take place outdoors, but the truth is most crime takes place indoors!" All Might lectured, "Backroom deals, home invasions, underground lairs, banks would be targets if most money wasn't digital now a day!" He laughed, "A smart criminal stays out of the light of day and in the shadows!"
"Our exercise today will have your class split into ten groups of two, five of which will be 'good guys' and the other five of which will be 'bad guys,' then each team will face another for an indoor battle!" All Might vigorously explained.
"Isn't this a little extreme?" A female student who was dressed vaguely as a frog asked with a raised finger.
"Oh look, someone finally asked it." Izuku patron snarked, "Wasn't when they asked a bunch of teenagers in the ass end of puberty to fight death bots, wasn't even when they had the discount kaiju, having a bunch of minors fights each other is where we need to draw the line!"
'...Your oddly aggressive today, is something wrong?'
"I'll tell you later, focus on your class. All Might just finished getting interrupted by half the class."
'I was listening!' Izuku claimed as he returned his full attention to his surroundings.
All Might reached into a hidden pocket and pulled out a script smaller than his hand, "Here's the situation! The villains have hidden a nuclear missile in their hide-out, the hero's must foil their plan!"
"To do this, the hero's must either capture the villains or get to the bomb! If they fail to do this, the bad guys win." All Might threw the script into the air, somehow aiming so that it perfectly landed in a nearby trash bing, and pulled up a box "We'll divide the teams based on drawn lots!"
"Isn't there a better way?" Iida asked.
"Well heroes have to team up at random, why should that be any different here?" Izuku asked in turn.
"I see, Life is a random series of events. Pardon my rudeness!" Iida bowed to All Might.
"Kids wrong, y'all are bound to causality and fate. Luckily I got the goddess of such things on speed dial!"
'I'm just going to ignore the existential crisis you could've just forced me into.' Izuku deadpanned as he moved to draw his team letter.
"Alright!" All Might declared as everyone drew their lot, "This is how the first round will go!" All Might shouted as he reached into two boxes, labeled 'Hero's' and 'Villians.'
"Team A, consisting of Bakugo and Mineta will face Team F, consisting of Midoriya and Ochako!"
"Oh, were on the same team Deku!" Ochako managed to physically radiate joy, "What are the odds of that!"
"Actually none, This was set up even before I cashed a favor."
'You're not helping! I need to do well and make a good impression!' A moment passed and Izuku was struck by a thought that tripled his anxiety, 'I'm going to be fighting Kaachan!'
"Did you really not believe me earlier?"
'I was more hoping it was an elaborate joke.' Izuku explained, causing his patron to sigh.
"You remember I can eat your emotions, right?"
'Oh yeah.' Izuku thought as he allowed his patron to eat his anxiety.
"We really need to get you some Zoloft or something." Thou Whom Agony is Time grumbled as he chewed on the emotions, "This is some strong ass anxiety."
"Team A will be the Heros and Team F will be the villain!" All Might declared, "Everyone else can go to the monitoring room to watch!"
Izuku looked over to his childhood friend, meeting his intense glare. He felt fear, but it was easier to manage than both the fear and anxiety he would feel under normal circumstances, so he held the look with a determined one of his own.
Bakugo looked taken aback for a moment, anger filling his eyes as he let out a small growl.
"Bad guys head into the building, you have five minutes before the heroes will enter. Use your time wisely to plan."
Everyone but Bakugo replied with a "Yes Sir!"
"Got any ideas for a plan Deku?" Ochako asked as the two walked to where their bomb was situated on the fourth floor. Izuku thought for a moment before responding.
"Knowing Kaachan, he'll go in guns blazing." Izuku started, rubbing a hand against his chin as he thought, "So if I could lure him away from the bomb for long enough, we could win by letting the clock run out."
"But that would also mean you'd be left to deal with that Mineta guy." Izuku looked to his teammate, "I don't know anything about him, so I can really plan anything against him."
"Leave him to me!" Ochako said resolutely, a confident smile on her face, "He doesn't look that strong, plus I'm sure his quirk has something to do with the weird stuff on his head."
"He's one of the few people in your class that doesn't seem to have something that's a holdover from the previous era." Thou Whom Agony is Time added, "Even this girl has got something if the way she carries herself is anything to go by."
'What does she have?' Izuku asked as he formulated possible strategies to use against Katsuki.
"She carries herself like all of the fighters I've seen, and judging by the state of her hands," Izuku glance at Ochako's hands, which seemed perfectly fine to him, "She's an amateur running off of talent."
'Do you think it will be enough against Mineta?'
"A retarded puppy would be enough against Mineta, now if she went against Bakugo, she'd be fucked."
"I think I have a good enough idea," Izuku spoke up, interrupting Ochakos own plotting, "It's rather simple on your part though."
"I can fill in the rest if the need be!" Ochako declared as she struck a pose to try and prove her point, flexing her right arm as she grabbed the bulging muscle with her left.
'She's got more muscle on her than I thought.' Izuku idly thought.
"Remember Izuku, You can look but don't touch without permission!" Izuku's patron sang, causing the boy to light up like a Christmas tree.
"So should we have a plan or-" Mineta asked after several minutes of sitting in awkward silence with the explosive blonde, only to be cut off with a glare, "Sorry!"
"...Here's the plan." Bakugo said after another tense minute, "You stay out of my way, and I won't turn you into an oversized glass of grape juice."
Mineta's eyes widened in terror at the menacing aura the blonde teen was producing, "Outside of that, do whatever you want."
"Times up! Match Start!" All Might's voice announced throughout the building.
Bakugo let a feral grin split across his face as he kicked the building's door open, blitzing into the building like a mad beast. The hunt was on.
The moment All Mights voice announced the start of the match, Izuku began to move.
"Mage armor," Izuku muttered as he tapped himself on his chest, translucent shadowy magic that held twinkling lights spreading over his limbs, head, and torso
Izuku slammed the side of his closed right fist into the palm of his left hand as he stepped onto the second floor, quickly pulling apart the limbs and forming his obsidian black blade that looked much like his patron, a wound in space allowing a glimpse into the unseen cosmos.
"Deku!" Bakugo shouted as both boys turned into opposite ends of the same hall. For an agonizing moment, the two locked eyes. One set filled with rage and contempt, the other with determination and buried fear.
'Can you make the Hex blade blunt?' Izuku asked as Bakugo began to stalk forward like a beast hunting its prey, eyes glowing with hatred.
"Already did, 'thought you'd hate to cut a classmate." Thou Whom Agony is Time smirked, "Go wild kid."
When Bakugo was at the halfway point in the hallway, both boys moved. Bakugo leaping into the air with his right arm drawn back, Izuku leaping forward into Bakugo's guard as he grasped his Hexblade with both hands, going for a horizontal cut.
'What the-' Bakugo thought as Izuku slammed his blade into the blond boy's side, knocking him into the wall. 'He shouldn't have been able to react that quickly!'
'I can't let up!' Izuku mentally shouted as he threw his off hand into the explosive boys face, ready to snap his fingers, 'Thundercla-'
Izuku's train of thought was interrupted by a gloved hand grasping his arm and pulling him forward, Bakugo's other hand racing towards the young Warlocks face.
The resulting explosion knocked Izuku down the hall, his defensive spell blocking most of the damage he would've taken and his homemade mask taking the rest as the front half of it was torn to shreds.
Bakugo stumbled to his feet as he regained his bearings, glaring at the subject of his rage. "I was planning to knock you out to spare you some pain, but now I'm mad," Bakugo growled through gritted teeth.
"Kid, you're going to have to use your magic if you really want to hurt this guy." Thou Whom Agony is Time advised as Bakugo hunched over, his breath coming out in ragged breaths.
'Why?' Izuku asked as he went through his list of spells.
"He's entering a rage, a true proper rage." The patron emphasized, "Anything physical won't be as effective, luckily your sword is made of magic but you should still keep him at a distance."
'I'll try.' Izuku's brow furrowed as he watched Bakguo's muscles began to bulge almost unnaturally.
Bakugo let out an animalistic roar as he lunged at Izuku again, both arms forward as if he was going to grapple Izuku.
The green haired boy took a step back as he raised his fingers and quickly snapped, 'Thunderclap!'
Outdoors, the sound would've been significantly easier to handle. But indoors where it could endlessly and rapidly reverberate, it would be unbearable.
Bakugo howled as he soared through the air, face scrunching in pain as blood leaked from his ears in a soft trickle. Izuku took the opportunity to wind up his sword, aiming to knock the explosive blonde away like a baseball.
At the last moment, Bakugo made an explosion in just large enough to change his course, causing Izuku's swing to miss and stumble forward.
The moment it took for Izuku to regain his footing and turn around was enough for Bakugo to land and go for an attack.
"Shield!" Izuku cried, a barrier as wide as the hallway erecting itself in between Bakugo and himself. Bakugo growled in frustration as he slammed his fists repeatedly against the barrier.
'How long is he going to be like this?' Izuku asked as he tried to catch his breath.
"I'm sure he's been taught the way of the Barbarians, so I'm sure it can't last any longer than a minute."
'How much longer then?'
"Forty-five seconds."
Izuku sighed as he went over his options, making sure to keep an eye on his opponent, who was now using his explosives against the barrier.
'I'm already halfway through the spells I can use for now, I'm going to have to be careful with how I use the last one.'
"Yeah, I doubt boombox over here will let you rest for half an hour."
'Any ideas on how to take him down?' Before Izuku could receive a response, the barrier failed.
Bakugo's feral grin took a sadistic glint to it as the blond boy lunged forward a fist drawn back.
On instinct, Izuku lifted his sword to deflect the blow as he moved to dodge.
The agonizing screech of metal being cut echoed in the room as Izuku stepped past Bakguo, his blade cutting through the outside of the boys right-hand grenade styled gauntlet and taking the lug and safety clip off it along with a third of the protective shell.
'I thought you said you dulled it!' Izuku cried as he looked at his childhood friend, worried about seriously injuring him.
"I am, but only for you humans soft squishy flesh, everything else is fair game."
'That would've been nice to know!' Izuku mentally shouted as Bakugo looked at the now ruined gauntlet and ripped it off his arm.
"Is that the best you've got Deku," Bakugo growled as he faced Izuku, eyes almost glowing with fury.
"I'm not scared of you Kaachan," Izuku said before his brain could process the thought, "I'll beat you, and prove that I can become a hero!"
The green haired boy took the offensive this time as he lept at Bakugo, aiming to land a blow on the boys head.
"Do you think such a weak move will work against me!" Bakugo shouted as he caught Izuku's blade with his right hand, swinging his left to blast an explosion into the green teen's chest.
Izuku's grip faltered on the blade as he was knocked back several feet, causing it to disperse in Bakugo's hand.
"How long have you been hiding this from me Deku…" Bakugo asked in a voice that was far to calm as Izuku shakily rose to his feet, "How long have you been trying to make a fool of me!"
"Kaachan, I haven't-" Izuku's eyes widened as a familiar pink form caught his eye, Bakugo spinning on the spot a moment later and letting loose an explosion almost loud enough to hide the feminine cry that followed a moment after.
Izuku didn't think as he charged up a spell with a wave of his hand and launched the warbling mass of magic at the back of the distracted blonde, "Chaos Bolt!"
Bakugo raised his arm that still had a gauntlet to defend himself, the armor absorbing most of the force of the blast, shattering it and sending him back to the end of the hallway and crashing out a window.
"Ochako!" Izuku shouted as he sprinted forward to his fallen teammates, who had pulled herself up and was softly coughing into her hand, and worriedly asked, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah," She raised her right arm, the wrist piece barely hanging on to the girl's wrist with the exposed skin around it an ugly shade of red, "My suit took most of the damage."
"Villians Win, both hero's have been incapacitated!" All Might hurriedly said.
"Hey, we won!" Ochako tried to sound upbeat but was clearly in pain.
"Should we get you to the nurse?" Izuku asked as he gingerly tried to help his teammate stand.
"I'd like to see if All Might has anything to tell us first." She chuckled, "Plus we should go get Mineta."
"Oh yeah," Izuku remembered that there had been another person to worry about other than Bakugo, "How did that go for you?"
"The little pervert tried to grope me!" She angrily shouted, "He's lucky I remembered we were on the fourth floor, or I would have punted him out the window!"
"I knew he was a menace." Thou Whom Agony is Time pipped up.
'No one asked you.' Izuku gave his classmate a nervous smile, "I'll go get him, you can get to the monitoring room on your own?"
Ochako gave him a confident nod, even as she cradled her injured arm. "Bakugo didn't get me to bad."
"Well, that's good. See you in a minute." Izuku turned and began the task of climbing the building to retrieve a certain grape themed midget.
"We need to drop him down a set of stairs at least once."
'No, that's not heroic.'
"Fucking lawfull-good broccoli boy."
'That has to be the weirdest insult I've heard from you.'
"I want something for helping you with your sword back there."
'And what would that be?'
"A potato."
'Why am I even surprised.'
"Trust me, there are weirder things I could ask you for, I'm just trying to be nice."
'Thank you?'
"No prob- Oh that is just glorious." Izuku's patron interrupted itself when the pair spotted Mineta crying tears of pain, hogtied.
"Why did she have to kick there?" The boy wept, "Of all places, why there?"
Izuku cringed as he made an educated guess as to where Ochako had apparently kicked the boy. Izuku's patron on the other hand, laughed.
Alright, that seems like a good cut-off point, it's not like this is the largest chapter of this story or anything…
*Checks word counts*
...Damn…
Thankfully the fight was easier to write than I first thought/dreaded. The poll was a decent success, definitely going to start the next one with enough time to let more people vote.
As you can tell by this chapter, the winners ended up being, "Izuku's patron sets up the fights" with both of those options being tied, So I flipped a coin and lady luck told me to write all the fights.
I guess now would also be the point where I can reveal the fact that most everyone in 1-A has a D&D class. I'll try to be less blunt with the rest of the class than I was with Bakugo and Ochako, let y'all try and guess them.
Outside of that, tell me if I wrote the fight well… Even if it did end abruptly…
Have a good what-ever now!
(P.S. The evil part of me wanted to originally end this chapter right before the fight began, but that seemed like too much of a dick move.)
