Midoriya was in for a surprise when he returned to his normal table with his friends to catch the tail end of his lunch period. Iida and Uraraka were there like normal but with them was Jirou, who seemed unhappy. Though she always seemed to have a blank, uninterested look on her face as far as he could tell.
As he sat down all three looked up. Uraraka's face brightened up and Iida seemed relieved when he appeared. Jirou seemed to only grant him a quick glance to acknowledge his arrival before focusing back on her food.
"Hey guys. Hey..Um…Jirou." The boy wasn't as certain of himself, acknowledging the girl. "I-f, you uh, you don't mind em asking, why are you here? I mean don't get me wrong, your company is completely welcome and great I'm sure! I didn't mean to imply otherwise and im sor-"
"Dude, calm down." Jirou said in her admittedly calming voice. She looked up and met the boy's eyes with a sigh. She gestured to a table some distance down the cafeteria, where the boy noticed both Kaminari and Mineta were eating together "Normal I'd sit with the blonde dunce but then HE showed up. Dude's got issues so I got up to find another table but then they started talking about my quirk…"
The girl trailed off at the end, leading Midoriya to suspect whatever had been said wasn't particularly nice. His suspicion was confirmed when Uraraka spoke up. "They started talking about how useless they thought her quirk was right in front of her. Makes me wanna punch 'em."
"Uraraka! Mister Aizawa has already scolded you once for brining physical harm to another student, please do not make me have to repeat his words to you!" Iida started to lecture her. The purple hair girl didn't focus on the two, instead sighing and speaking to no one in particular.
"They're not entirely wrong, it's such a weird power, other than hearing stuff I don't exactly have much use." The girl said with a frown, toying at her food but not eating. If Midoriya was honest with himself, somewhere deep down he was just a tiny bit angry at the thought that someone would complain about their quirk when he had spent most of his years without one. "I have no idea how I tied with you on the test first day, Midoriya. There's so much you're capable of, you should have been way higher."
"That's ridiculous, claiming your quirk is useless OR one-note! I think it's actually really awesome!" The boy exclaimed, fixing her with a smile to try and encourage her. "If you ask me, even if he is our teacher, Mister Aizawa isn't infallible. That quirk test should have had a basic hide-and-seek like test for stealth types for example. Hagakure had next to no chance to show any potential in the tests he came up with despite. And as for your power, it's actually pretty versatile if you ask me. Sure your hearing might get put to the forefront of your useful abilities but from what I was told, you broke solid concrete! How did you pass the exam, out of curiosity?"
Jirou blinked in surprise, lifting her head from her hand that it had been resting on. "They had switches on the back of them. I just kept dodging and using my jacks to deactivate them with those switches."
"…There were switches?" Midoriya asked surprised, garnering looks from the three students.
"Deku? That was on the pamphlet for the exam…" Uraraka informed. The greenette blinked before putting his face into his hands and groaning.
"That would have been so much easier…." He said before looking up, deciding to get back on track. "Anyways, so considering that then you can control them like appendages?"
"Yeah, pretty easily." Jirou nodded, demonstrating as her jacks raised into the air and moved about a bit before going limp.
"So you could use them like whips then! Or to distract your opponent by stabbing them using their small width meaning there's no real risk but the person you're fighting will be distracted by the pain. After all, the quirks only as good as the person using it and you seem pretty smart from what I do know!" Once again as the boy finished listing off possibilities all eyes were on him, causing him to blush lightly. "Sorry if I'm rambling, quirks and their applications are kinda my thing…."
"Thanks dude…It helps" The purple haired teen said, her face pulling up into a smile for the briefest of moments but the boy caught it. She was really pretty when she did smile, a part of him couldn't help musing.
The topic of conversation slowly turned to what they were expecting for their next hero class and how they planned to spend the rest of their day when they left, Jirou joining in and getting involved more than she probably would have otherwise.
As they talked Midoriya couldn't help but stare at his hand considering the conversation and something that still bugged him to this day.
The mark glowed a brilliant blue. His hand seemed to act all of its own accord as he turned back to face the robot. Some small, semi-opaque black and purple tendrils shot out his hand and wrapped around the zero-pointers head, pulling the boy back.
The mark glowed blue as Midoriya's hands made a claw shape, causing the woman to gasp. Midoriya focused on the remote, he almost swore he could see a blue marker around it guiding him. Finally the greenette tried to summon the tendrils, remembering what they felt like before.
Both the greenette's were in for a shock when there was no small black tendrils but instead one big black and purple tentacle wrapped in smaller tendrils like appendage that shot out from the boy's palm.
'I wonder, if I could tone down the intensity….Could I control them like Jirou controls her jacks?' The boy wondered, saving the idea for later when Iida asked him how his mom was doing.
"Hey, Midoriya! What exactly were you called to the principal's office for anyways?" Sero asked as the class rode on a bus their next lesson. Aizawa had announced they'd be starting their first rescue training exercises today. Upon hearing the question everyone stared at him, awaiting the answer.
"Oh yeah, I completely forgot to ask during lunch!" Uraraka exclaimed. "Was it to do with your powers? And who's the Hatsume person?"
"Oh uh…Well she turned out to be a support course student…She's uh….lets go with excitable." The boy said, opening the pouch he had added to his gym outfit and pulling out his mask that had barely fit in. 'Calling her insane would be mean…even if its accurate.' "As for why, apparently she made some things that for some reason were addressed to a 'Deku'"
Everyone then really started to focus at hearing that. Kaminari let out a small chuckle. "So she is your girlfriend then!"
"No, we've never met until today." The boy said, not ending up an embarrassed mess this time as he was too focused on a certain detail of the masks creation.
"She has said some things about a 'black-eyed man' who's been inspiring her in her dreams, giving her ideas and solutions to problems in her design."
"I would not normally get as involved as I have been."
'Why? If he doesn't get involved then…' The boy shook his head, he could worry about it later. For now he should just explain what she made. "Apparently support course students sometimes go into the places we train in afterwards to get ideas on how to deal with collateral damage…she found a part of my mask Kacchan managed to tear off. Using it and some idea she created this."
Everyone stared as he took a breath and put the mask on his face, his eyes adjusting. He fiddled with a small knob near the ear to adjust the lenses so he could see properly and looked around. "Principal Nezu let me take it with me to try it out, seeing as it was made for me. I may not have my costume but I still want to see what it's like so I'll be using it during our rescue training. Even if it doesn't exactly match up outfit wise"
"Oh I get it. You that seems like a smart idea!" Uraraka nodded her understanding and everyone else seemed satisfied with the answer. Some asked about the mask and what made it special compared to his original cloth one. He explained as best he could but even he didn't really know much beyond what Hatsume told him.
'We were supposed to be practicing saving other people's lives today…but now we're the ones in danger…'
Midoriya felt his throat go dry as he stood up after being unceremoniously dropped the metal floor of a cruise ship. A moment later Mineta smashed into the ground beside him hard.
Looking over the side of the ship he saw Asui crawling up the side and climbing in beside them.
"This is a nightmare. Ribbit" The frog girl said as Midoriya took in their surroundings. They'd definitely ended up in the shipwreck area thirteen had mentioned.
"Hey Asui-" the boy started but was cut off
"Tsu."
"Right….Uh, I know it's not the best time but how does your quirk exactly? How could you climb the ship?" Midoriya asked as his brain ran a hundred miles a minute.
It had only been what, 20 minutes since they'd walked into the USJ at most? How quickly things went south….
The boy felt his blood run cold as he watched the lights of the facility start to flicker and the dark purple seams in the air started to manifest. When Aizawa announced they were real villains, the boy felt like he was going to pass out.
Wasn't UA supposed to be one of the most secure schools around? How had they gotten in?! The class all turned tail and tried to run, to escape as Midoriya cursed the fact that All Might couldn't be here right now.
The teachers hadn't told the class why the man hadn't shown up but Midoriya had seen their other teacher Thirteen hold up three fingers to Aizawa.
Three fingers. Three hours. All Might had exceeded his time limit.
"Well we might have to fight now, so I think it's actually a good idea to understand each other's quirks. I can basically anything a frog can do, ribbit. You probably guessed that already, but what that actually entails is being able to stick to most, if not all surfaces because of the stickiness of the tips of my fingers." Asui told the greenette. "I can also jump high, and extend my tongue out to roughly 20 meters, ribbit. It's just about strong enough to lift up a human."
"Woah that's so cool!" The boy exclaimed, his quirk analyzing enthusiasm bubbling to the surface before he shook his head. 'focus!' "Obviously I have my super Strength but anytime I use it my body breaks. It's a double edged sword. There's also my far Reach, I can grab people and items with it similarly to your tongue, I can also use it as a whip as a way to traverse. What about you Mineta? What can you do?"
"Well, my quirk lets me pull these sticky balls out of my scalp, they regrow as fast as I can pull em out and their strength depends on how I'm feeling. Some stick for a whole day and other only an hour. I'm the only thing I know that they can't stick to, instead I just bounce right off. I'll bleed if I use too many, though." The smaller boy said proudly before his face slowly morphed into a frown. "But it's not like we're going to need to use them right? All Might and the other teachers will show up and save us! There's no reason to fight when we could hide right?!"
The greenette looked at the floor. He turned his mind back to what had just occurred again.
Mister Aizawa was fending off the villains, using his capture tape and coming it with his fighting moves. He wrapped the tap around one villain's leg and delivered a swift round house kick, knocking them over before moving onto another.
"This isn't the time to analyze!" Iida's voice reminded Midoriya and he shook his head before rushing to catch up with his class.
They had almost made it to the exit of the facility when the purple seams from before appeared before them, blocking their escape. It turned out to be part of one of the villains who had invaded.
"Greetings. I am Kurogiri, and we are the league of villains." He informed them in that horribly smooth voice of his. It almost felt mocking. "I know it's impolite but we've invited ourselves into this haven of justice to say hello. Besides, would you not consider this a poetic place for All Might, the symbol of peace, to draw his last breathe?"
'That's why they're here?!' Midoriya exclaimed internally. In the corner of his vision he noticed Kirishima's body hardening.
"Yet despite what the schedule we borrowed suggested there seems to be no sign of the symbol of peace. There must have been some change of plan we could not foresee." The wisps raised into the air, almost taking the shape of massive claws. The two yellow lights that seemed to signify the villain's eyes changed to a glare. "Regardless, I still have a role to play."
Kurogiri moved as if to attack but before he could actually do anything, Bakugou and Kirishima rushed forward. A second later an explosion sounded and smoke covered the classes' vision of the wisp villain.
"Did you think we were just gonna stand aside while you destroy this place?!" Kirishima's voice rang out, though Midoriya couldn't see him at all. The smoke started to clear and the greenette took a step back in shock. The villain was completely unharmed, the wisps merely slightly scattered In the air but reforming.
"You certainly live up to your schools reputation but little children should be more careful, they aren't supposed to play with fire, you might get hurt!" Kurogiri mocked. Thirteen rushed forward, one hand outstretched.
"YOU TWO! GET OUT OF THE WAY NOW!" The rescue hero shouted out but before they could do anything the wispy villain spoke up once more.
"I do agree, go back. I have some friends who I'd love for you to meet!" Kurogiri said as hundreds of wispy tendrils, not to dissimilar to intangible versions of Midoriya's initial usage of Far Reach covered them all.
It was just a moment later Midoriya felt himself falling through the air, into a body of water.
'Where am I?!' He asked himself internally looking around under the water. 'Water…Does that villain have some sort of teleporting quirk?! Crap, gotta get back, fast! They came here to kill All Might so it's a good thing he's not in calss right now but…where is he?!'
The boy couldn't finish his thought as he swam to the surface as a blur shot in front of him before rounding around. A villain with a head like hammerhead shark swam towards him and opened their jaw. 'What the heck?! Crap, Active powers won't work underwater! What do I do?!'
The villain was getting closer, only roughly 40 meters between them at an estimate. 'One for All, even if it didn't break me I couldn't build enough pressure to blow this guy away and punching is out the question. Well maybe with a palm strike but…'
20 meters
'Far Reach would be massively slowed down so using it as whip wouldn't work, I couldn't pull him around either. Maybe I could hold him back though back?!'
10 meters
Midoriya raised his left hand and prepared to try to stop him with his Far Reach when all of a sudden another blur shot into his vision, colliding with the hammerhead villain. As they slowed, the second blur turned out to be Asui kicking the villain, with Mineta in her arms.
"Midoriya!" The frog girls tongue shot out her mouth, wrapping around his waist and pulling him to the surface.
"Midoriya…." He was snapped out of it as he felt Asui place a ahnd on his shoulder. He looked up surprised to see the other two students looking at him concerned. "You weren't responding."
"Sorry. I was thinking. They knew our whole schedule and who would be here. I'm willing to bet they got in during the confusion when the press broke in. The teachers would have had their handful dealing with the reporters. That means they've been waiting for the perfect time to attack, just like Todoroki said they were. If their goal is to kill All Might and they've planned this, then they probably found a way to do it." The boy explained. He looked at Mineta, who was starting to quiver and sighed before standing up. "
"This is turning out to be a terrible day of class. Ribbit." Asui groaned and Midoriya had to nod his head in agreement.
"Come on though, it's not like whatever they've got can actually work! Once All Might shows up he'll and these bad guys into oblivion and we'll be safe!" Mineta put in, punching the air as if trying to imitate their missing teacher.
"No, if the villains had this much planning then whatever they have, I think it'll be enough…" Midoriya hated the words coming out of his mouth but he knew it would be naive to think otherwise. Hid gaze wandered to the side of the baot and he tensed up.
"Maybe we should be more worried about not getting tortured to death, you heard what that smoke guy said." The smallest of the trio started to sweat as the girl continued. Midoriya felt the urge to face palm at her lack of observation, both of the smaller boys state and the situation they were in. "Otherwise we might not survive long enough to see All Might again and even if he does show up who knows if he'll make it out in one piece."
"NO! The pro's will come and save us right?! Tell frog butt to shut up!" The purple themed boy started gesturing wildly shouting at the other boy. The greenette decided to ignore Mineta.
"Unfortunately, I don't think we can just sit back and hide, nor do I think we should even if we could." He told the two, his gaze hardening with his resolve. "Look around the boat, look what's happening."
The other two teens followed his request and both tensed as they notced what the greenette already had. They had been surrounded by a large group of villains all swimming around the boat.
"AGH! WHEN DID THEY GET HERE?!" Mineta cried out. Midoriya clenched his fists in frustration.
"So the brats finally noticed!" One of the villains mocked in a coarse voice.
"What do we do?!" Asui worried as she took a step back. "They've got us surrounded."
"Actually… I think we have an advantage as well." Midoriya spoke up, attracting his classmates attention. "They're not attacking and they dumped you here Asui- TSU, I mean tsu!" The bot corrected himself as he started to stutter "...s-somewhere you'd be your most effective."
"That kinda got away from you, didn't it?" The girl asked, though not in a teasing manner, more as if she was just confirming a suspicion.
"Why does it matter she's here?!" Mineta asked, teeth chattering and legs shaking.
"It matters cause it means they probably have no idea what our quirks are. For all their planning…They have no idea what WE'RE capable of."
"Ribbit. You've got a point." Asui admitted. "If they realized I was a frog they surely would of sent me to that fire zone in the distance."
"They probably split us up so they could pick us off one by one. For all they know, the three of us could be super powerful. We can use that to out advantage if they come near us." Midoriya said as his eyes darted between all the villains. "Look, noen of them are trying to climb in, that proves their not completely sure…but that means they won't underestimate us either.
'If they're here for All Might, then they must have a way to defeat him. They wouldn't go through with this if they didn't…but why!? Why All Might, why him out of all the heroes? Is it because his very existence deters crime, discourages villains and evil? Because he's the symbol of peace, of justice? Something else…' The boy shook his head as he walked to the wall of the cabin on the boat. 'Actually, I don't care. It doesn't matter, whatever their reasons, I won't let them. Focus, the pro's won't be here, and if they have a way to beat All Might, then it means even Mister Aizawa and Thirteen aren't safe…I have to face this evil, head on!'
"If they can beat him…then we need to stop whatever it is they have planned. We have to work together and keep All Might safe. Mister Aizawa wasn't their when that villain announced their plan, he has no idea they have something strong enough to take down All Might. Which means he doesn't know they have something powerful enough to take down him." Midoriya said, garnering Asui and Mineta's attention once more. The frog girl put a finger to her chin as if in thought. "This is up to us, we're here to become heroes so lets be heroes!"
"FIGHT?! ARE YOU CRAZY OR JUST SUICIDAL?!" Mineta screamed at them as tears started pour from his eyes. "LET'S JUST WAIT FOR THE PRO'S FROM UA TO COME AND SAVE US"
"But how? Even if they don't know what we can do as soon as we move they'll find out what we can do and our only advantage will be gone. Ribbit."
Before the boy could respond though a girant claw made from water shot into teh sky beside them and crashed through the boat not to far from where they were standing
"HOLY CRAP!" Mineta shouted out as another villain piped up.
"This is getting boring, lets get this show on the road!" The villain goaded. Mineta screamed out as he rushed forward, plucking balls from his head.
"Mineta DON'T!" Midoriya tried to warn him but it was too late, the boy had thrown multiple of his balls into the water. The greenette looked over the side. 'Crap, they'll figure out his quirk!'
However, much to the boys surprise the villains were keeping their distance and pushing the water so the balls would float away. 'They're scared of them?'
"That's a great power that villain had!" Asui admitted as she hopped back slightly. "What do we do now?! The ships sinking!"
"A villain who's sure of their victory is bound to make a mistake. All Might said something along those lines once. I have an idea. It's stupid, risky and we only have one shot at it but if we can pull it off, we might be able to escape from here and get closer to the others for backup. We're probably gonna need it now!" The greenette stole a quick glance at his marked hand, a way of reassuring himself that he had the power to do this.
"Well, a risky idea is better than none, especially now. Ribbit. What do you have in mind, Midoriya?"
"It's going to take some serious co-ordination for us two, Tsu." The boy told her as he fiddles with the knob on the side of his mask. He looked out to where mister Aizawa would be and the lenses of his mask started to magnify his vision.
He just needed to find a landing spot.
Midoriya took a deep breathe, Asui preparing behind him.
'Now or never! Come on, act like Kacchan would!'
The boy smashed his foot onto the railing of the boot and let out a scream, in an attempt to make the villains hesitate. He leapt into the air, his heightened agility pushing him far into the air. He started to plummet back down, towards the villains and he put his fingers together, ready to flick them. "NOW DIE!"
One of the villains, they one who had destroyed the boat already made a claw from the water as if in in preparation 'I can't know how many of them are surrounding the boat, and even if I use a smash I can't get them, all at once when they're in a circle formation like that. Once we escape anyways there will still be other enemies out of the shipwreck zone, and if my mark gets exhausted One for All is all I'll have left. I can't screw this up! Focus, I need my arms, picture the image of the egg not exploding!'
Energy coursed through the boy's body as his gaze hardened and he gritted his teeth. 'No going back now! If the timing on Asu-Tsu's part is off we're screwed but…I just have to trust Tsu will do her part!'
"Take this!" He shouted at the villains. "Delaware….SMMMMMASSSSSHHHH!"
As soon as his fingers flicked, the chaos was almost immediate. A giant hole appeared instantly where the boy aimed and just a second later the water flew out of the lake on all sides, the boat being catapulted high into the air.
"TSU NOW!" Midoriya screamed out, slightly panicking. If Tsu didn't jump they were screwed. However the boy's fears were relieved when he saw the girl flying through the air with Mineta in tow.
The boy aimed his left hand, already feeling the pressure in his right from the attack. Tsu shot her tongue out to catch him and the boy responded by firing his Far Reach at it.
The two appendages met in the air and wrapped around each other. The greenette felt slightly bad for Asui, he couldn't imagine it wasn't pleasant to have on her taste buds. There was no time to worry about that though.
The girl used her momentum lift Midoriya above her in an arc and as he reached the top of the swing he started pulling her. It wouldn't do much but it could certainly get them more distance than just a standard jump.
They were making quick time towards the land, their enemies scattered. The water was serving as a sort of mask of what their powers were to those outside the shipwreck zone, not that it would last long.
The water was starting to fall back, and their enemies were being dragged with it. Much to both the taller teens surprise, purple balls that were unmistakably Mineta's started to fly through the air, hitting the villains and attaching them to each other, incapacitating them. 'Nice! Way to go Mineta!'
The three reached the edge of the lake as the water all came pouring back into the emptied lake, all rushing to the center with the captured villains. The greenette saw where he intended for them to land was getting near when he looked back. "Tsu, let go now!"
The girl complied as the boy was just a couple meters above her, tongue retracting back into her mouth. Far Reach similarly returned to Midoriya's hand as he dived down to grab Asui's arm with his right hand. "Wow, you two are amazing!"
They flew above an empty bit of land not far from where Aizawa was fighting. Midoriya threw his left hand out towards the ground before they overshot and Far Reach shot out, latching onto the empty land and pulling all three down to the ground fast.
As the three reached their destination they all split apart, rolling across the ground. Midoriya groaned as he started to pick himself up, Asui beside him. "Definitely need to work on my vertical landings."
"Midoriya, bigger problems!" The frog girl warned him and he found out what she meant pretty quick as he looked around. They may have evaded their water based enemies and managed to incapacitate them but there were still villains on the land. A small group of 6 had surrounded them. The boy shifted into a fighting pose and he felt Asui at his back.
"Crap, guess this place wasn't as empty as it looked." The greenette groaned. He could see Mineta still laying on the ground, possibly having gotten nauseous, not that Midoriya could blame him. If it hadn't been for his training for One for All he's probably be feeling sick right now as well.
"Hehe, how cute the students have the same hair color and costume scheme! I wonder if they're related?~" One villain sang, a spear in hand. She jabbed at Midoriya who barely moved his feet in time, the limbs she was aiming for. "Look he's sweating!"
"Careful G, you saw what happened where they came from." Another warned and Midoriya cursed his luck. He pressed his back into Asui and hoped she realized what he was trying to do. Unfortunately the girl didn't realize he was trying to converse with her quietly and instead assumed he had been pushed by a villain and walked forward a tiny bit. 'Drat. Can't say anything too loud or we're screwed. What can I do?'
Midoriya took a deep breath as his brain started moving in the fast, observant way that had been his blessing so many times already.
'I can't use One for All again, not right now. I need to save as many shots as I can! Asui can escape from here pretty easy by jumping and take Mineta or me but not both. The villains will still be surrounding whoever is left and if Asui jumps they'll probably attack. Far Reach could open a spot but it would make them attack still and this time Asui would be caught in it. Maybe…swinging around Far Reach could knock the over enough for us to get out of their trap but…It would be too slow to get them all, a few would realize and duck. If Asui could do the same with her tongue….No I don't think she has that kind of strength…'
The boy let out an audible groan, causing the villains to snigger slightly. 'Dammit. I need a way to get them all to go down by hitting one, or we're screwed!'
Suddenly his left hand flared up in pain, causing him to shout out. The villains, startled by the boy's sudden scream moved to attack. Asui instinctevly jumped and Midoriya did the first thing he could think of. "GRAB MINETA!"
Midoriya barely dodged out the way of the spear that came at him. Both Mineta and Asui were out of danger at least. The villains turned again to try to attack him and that's when he noticed it.
The villains had dim yellow smoke around their heads all of a sudden. 'A quirk of theirs?!'
The boy instinctively shot his far reach and used it to pull the closest villain of their feet when to his surprise all the villains shot into the air in a similar fashion. It confused him for only a moment before he realized what it had been. 'A new power? Right now?! That's not good…"
The villains started to pick themselves up and Tsu landed on ground beside him again. The boy wasted no time, whatever the link was he had to use it while he had a chance.
One the villains threw themselves off the ground and started charging at Deku, almost similar to a bull who'd seen red. The pissed off villain pulled their arm back and threw a punch right at the greenette.
With only a second to react he did the first thing he could think of and shot Far Reach out. It wrapped around the villains fist and the boy pulled him to the side to throw him off balance. Midoriya followed his instinct and threw his leg forward in a kick, connecting with the villains head.
The resounding thud made the boy cringe slightly and the villain fell over. Just a moment later all the other villains who had gotten up fell over similarly. Worried Midoriya did a quick check of the villain's vitals and was relieved to find he had merely knocked them out.
"Midoriya!" Mineta's voice got his attention and he noticed the two beckoning him to go with them, where they had gotten closer to Aizawa. He ran to their side as he thought about what just happened. 'I'll have to tell Ectoplasm as soon as possible. I should avoid using that again for now, just in case.'
"Guys, I still think this is insane! The exit's right there, we could escape and warn the school." Mineta reminded them as they hid behind some rubble near where Aizawa was fighting. "We may of got out of that jam back their but we aren't pro's! We don't know how to fight villains and mister Aizawa will probably be super pissed if we try!"
"I'm not saying we should get in the middle or anything but we should try to see if we can help him from the sidelines and when he doesn't have as many villains around him warn him about whatever they have to take All Might!" Midoriya explained as he watched Aizawa deliver a pal strike to one villain, knocking them over. "All three of us are capable of long range attacks if necessary. Me and Tsu can keep tripping up the villains and you can incapacitate them Mineta! Despite all that though we shouldn't need to do much, mister Aizawa is capable by himself."
"Fine. Just remember Midoriya, we're only supposed to warn him about whatever they have then we stay the heck away." Mineta said and Asui ribbited in agreement. "And for the record I don't have many shots left myself, unless you want me to bleed out."
"Ok. Yeah, we'll skedaddle the second things look too dangerous for us." Midroiya nodded, prepared to comply.
Aizawa flew through the air using his capture tape and it wrapped around one of the villains. He shot back towards the ground, both feet connecting with the villain's chest and knocking them out.
"Hey g-guys… that one looks like trouble." Mineta stuttered out, pointing at a villain who had started running at their teacher who had a disembodied hand covering his face. He had blue disheveled and unwashed hair and many more hands all over his body.
"Final boss!" Aizawa said, throwing his capture tape at the villain and started rushing to him as his hair flew into the air but the blue haired man grabbed the tape and reached out his hand as he got closer. The teacher however took advantage of it and ducked out the way of the villain's hand, hitting him in the stomach with an elbow.
Unfortunately, that played right into the villain's hands, literally. The man had Aizawa's elbow in his hand and their teacher's hair had fallen back down.
"It was hard to see when you were jumping around but I found your tell." The villain informed him in a horrible, scratchy voice that made Midoriya's skin crawl. The boy fel like he WOULD be sick when the teachers elbow turned grey and stoney. "It's your hair!"
'His arm…What's he doing?!' Midoriya exclaimed internally as his eyes widened in shock. Cracks started to form along the surface of Aizawa's arms.
"When it drops it means you've stopped using your quirk." The villain taunted, making the greenette feel queasy. "You're having to blink more often! Don't push yourself to hard now, you might fall apart. Wouldn't that be a shame?"
Aizawa barely managed to land a punch on the villain knocking him back and jumped away. As he few backwards through the air Midoriya noticed the elbow no longer had the grey look. His elbow had flesh showing through and the skin was completely gone. The scruffy pro seemed unable to move it at all, the villain had destroyed the man's elbow!
He was surrounded by three of the thugs who he ducked and dodged under but he was clearly starting to get tired. One of the villains, a larger muscular one, threw yet another punch and their teacher noticed too late, scrambling backwards out of the way and almost falling over himself. "That quirk of yours isn't suited for drawn out fights against big groups, is it?"
Midoriya shot his hand forward towards the bigger villain and Far Reach fired forward, wrapping around the villains hand before he could throw another attack. Aizawa immediately took advantage of the sudden aid, kicking the man in the face while he was distracted. He didn't say anything but his gaze briefly wandered towards the trio.
Midoriya expected the man to glare but instead he looked almost scared. He only looked for a moment before looking at the exit and then back to the trio before returning his gaze to his opponents. It wasn't hard to guess his intended message but The greenette knew he couldn't listen, not yet. He shook his head and mouthed 'We need to tell you something!'
Whether or not the pro saw or understood, he didn't indicate as he dodged another attack.
"You're not suited to this kind of thing, Eraserhead! You're used to stealth and sneak attacks and yet even knowing that, you didn't hesitate to jump into this fight to put your students at ease." The blue haired villain laughed as Aizawa dispatched of the villains around him. Midoriya looked around to see if there was any other villains and felt his throat go dry when he saw one had appeared behind their teacher's back, A large muscular bird like mutant. "By the way hero, I am NOT the final boss."
The pro turned around in shock and the massive villain made to throw a punch, causing Midoriya to try to fire of Far Reach again however before he could Aizawa stopped him. "DON'T!"
That was the only word the hero managed to get out before he was smashed into the ground, blood flying into the air, a crater forming. As if that wasn't enough, the villain lifted the mans head off the ground, only to smash back once more and he kept doing it 'NO! Mister Aizawa!'
Blood splatters stained the ground and all Aizawa did was groan. It at least meant he was still alive but the pain he would be in must have been excruciating.
"Mmm, I don't think you can speak, Eraserhead." The blue haired villain taunted before turning his gaze directly towards the trio of students, causing all three to freeze up in fear. "So I'll ask you brats! What do you think of my friend Nomu here? He's bio-genetically engineered to be the anti-symbol of peace!"
'So…That's what they have…We failed…we didn't warn Aizawa in time…'
The greenette stood up, if only to face the villain with a glare. Terror was gripping him but he refused to give the blue-haired bastard the satisfaction of seeing him cower and hide.
"I think you're insane." Midoriya answered honestly. "Plan or no, there's no way that thing is strong enough to beat All Might."
"Oh really?!" The villain cackled manically. "Interesting, I disagree but maybe i'll indulge that notion! I do enjoy the idea of putting my own personal touch on the number one 'hero's' death anyways!"
"Deku…Ru-AGH!H!" Aizawa tried to speak to the students but before could finish Nomu twisted the hero's bad arm in a violent fashion, casuing the greenette to flinch and the unkempt villain to cackle.
"See children, your teacher's quirk for erasing stuff is annoying, but nothing impressive. When faced with real power, he might as well be quirkless runt!" The blue haired man scratched his neck as he continued to mock them.
Mister Aizawa barely managed to turn his head to the massive villain and his hair shot up once more but less than a second later his arm was stomped into the ground, causing cracks in the ground and making the man scream.
'That was Mister Aizawa's power being used! Does that mean that the villain…is super strong even without a quirk?!
"We can't keep watching this!" Mineta whispered in panic and Asui let out a scared sounding ribbit. "We should be getting out of here super-fast when they look away shouldn't we?!"
"Tomura Shigraki!" A new voice appeared before the boy could answer and they smoke-teleport villain from before showed up beside the hand covered villain.
"Kurogiri. Did you manage to kill thirteen?" Shigaraki, as he was apparently called, asked the new arrival. 'Oh no…Please don't tell me…'
"The rescue hero is out of commission but I'm afraid there was a student I was unable to apprehend. He had a quirk that made him fast and he escaped to call for reinforcements." Kurogiri informed his boss. 'Fast? That must be Iida! Hopefully that means help will be here soon.'
Clearly the dishevelled villain had realized the same thing as he started to scratch at himself as if thinking and as each second past the scratching got more violent and erratic. "Kurogiri! You idiot! If you weren't our warp gate I'd tear apart every last atom in your body!"
The scratching stopped and the villain hunched over. "There's no way we can win if dozens of pros arrive to stop us. Its game over, back to the main menu…dammit, and I was looking forward to finishing this today. Dammit! Lets go home, Kurogiri."
'They're just gonna leave, just like that?!' Midoriya found himself surprised. Was it really going to be that easy?!
Of course not, he shouldn't have let his guard down. Shigaraki suddenly turned and rushed straight towards the trio, jumping into the air. "First, I want at least one kill for the road. CRUSH THE HEROES SPIRITS A LITTLE, DESTROY HIS PRIDE! MAKE SURE IT HURTS!"
He was moving fast, too fast to get an aim on.
Right towards Asui.
