Kaiju

by Project Legion

Red tinted vision of rage, the smell of smoke in his nose, the taste of flesh in his mouth, the crunching of bones beneath his feet, and the screams of the desperate. This is just a normal dream for Endo, but they begin to seem like more than dreams, more like reality. Design and some names inspired by the novel, Project Nemesis.

14. Monster

Chapter 14: Monster

"Morning."

Momo sat up in bed, her raven hair sticking out in weird directions and angles. She looked for the voice, it was Endo, he was holding two steaming mugs.

"I was up early, figured you want something warm."

"Did you have another nightmare?" Momo had gotten used to Endo twitching or spasming in bed, usually he was relieving the same nightmare over and over. The last one he had told her about involved him in Kaiju form getting shredded by lighting, fire, and tsunamis.

A/N: There have been a couple time skips in case you hadn't noticed, just small ones, but just enough so I can have the feeling that they know more about each other than I've written. For context, Endo has slept at her house multiple times by now.

Endo smiled at her, "no, it was a peaceful dream, I was with you, back on that beach."

Momo took her mug, it was filled with hot chocolate, neither of them really liked coffee and they didn't prefer tea in the morning. "So, do you think you're ready for finals?"

Endo sat besides her on the enormous bed, "the written will be a piece of cake, but I'm slightly worried about the practical. It has to be something we've never seen before, otherwise it wouldn't be difficult. We've fought villains, each other, city destroying robots, they can't just pit us against any of those at us again, it wouldn't make sense."

Momo slowly nodded as she sipped her drink, thinking about just what would be thrown at them.

"So, you were gonna wear the cheerleader uniform as a surprise?"

Momo shied away from his gaze and looked like she wanted to crawl back under the covers, "I was tired, just joking about it."

"Yeah? Well I thought you looked awesome in it back at the sports festival, whether or not it was that pervert who tricked you into it."

Momo tried to change the subject, "can you pull something up for me and project it using your arm hologram thing."

Endo noticed what she was doing, but relented and extended the armor over his left arm. He always wore the silver bracelets to sleep, he never knew when he would need his armor, especially after that one time in the forest. "What did you want to see?"

She grabbed his arm and quickly typed on the pad that was imbedded in the armor. "There, now put it up."

Endo did as she asked, the header read as such, 'Gala Taking Place at Shirushi Mansion on Sunday.'

"I got an invite because my parents can't make it and I'm allowed to bring one other person." She stared at his blue eyes, she could tell he was thinking.

"Uh, I'm not exactly the fancy type or the party type."

"It's more of a social gathering, please, I kinda have to go anyways. I'm sure Todoroki will be there, so we can all chat."

Endo gave her a look, "I'm not sure he's the chaty type."

"Don't try to use that as an excuse Endo."

He sighed, "alright, alright, I'll go with you. Now we should probably get ready for school."

The cafeteria was crowded as always, with class 1-A taking up an entire table. Endo and Momo walked up to their normal spot together, over hearing the last bit of a conversation, "you guys should've seen it. Like something out of a movie." Jiro was talking excitedly about last night.

"Bro! Do you seriously drive a Lambo?" Kirishima got up in Endo's face, "what model is it?"

"Uh, yeah it's a Sesto Elemento."

A shark toothed grin stared back at him, "bro! That's such a manly car!"

The others grinned at Kirishima's enthusiasm, well except for Kaminari and Mina. "You guys good?"

The pair had their head in their hands, "we're worried about the practical and on top of that we've gotta remember everything we did last night for the written, it's just too much."

Endo sighed, "we can only do our best."

"Easy for you to say, no matter what they throw at you, you're practically invulnerable." Mina had raised her head and was staring at Endo, who smiled.

"So is Kirishima."

Just then Kendo walked over, "hey guys, sorry I kinda overheard, you're worried about the practical exam right?"

"No!"

"Ok well not you Bakugo, but others. Look I heard from my friend who's an upperclassman, last year they just used the robots for a big battle, nothing too difficult." Kendo smiled at the others, but it faltered for only a moment when her eyes landed on Endo, who didn't even notice her gaze he was so lost in thought.

Mina and Kaminari perked up and high fived as their smiles became bigger than Kendo's.

Endo glances at Momo, "should we tell them?"

"Probably, better they're ready for anything than something easy."

"Wait, tell us what?"

"Well Momo and I don't think it could possibly be robots. That's too simple and something they've used against us before."

"B-but Kendo said that-"

"Think about it like this, Bakugo, Todoroki, Momo, myself, all of us could take down a dozen or so of those zero point villains and keep going. That wouldn't be a final, that would be practice."

Mina frowned, "well then what is it?"

"I… honestly have no idea."

Days past and still Endo had no idea what the challenges would be, until it was time. Everyone was waiting in front of the control room, the place they had watched the Hero vs Villain training all those months ago. The teachers were gathered in front of the concrete structures and facing the costumed students. They had finished their written finals just thirty minutes ago and were told to get their costumes ready.

"I assume all of you have gathered information on what these finals may be, and have an idea of what you'll be up against."

Kaminari and Mina looked at their homeroom teacher, "robots? Please?"

Principal Nezu popped out of Aizawa's scarf, "actually, this years finals will be completely different for various reasons. This year you will be teaming up in pairs of two… to fight one of us faculty members."

Aizawa looked over the shocked faces, "the teams have already been picked, but two students will be fighting individually today."

Endo tuned out for a second as he thought it over, "I'm likely one of the individual fighters, unless, they decided to exploit our weakness and put me with Momo so they could try and get me to risk my own victory to save her. It would be the obvious choice to put me against Aizawa, he could just take me out of the fight period."

"The first pairing, Yaoyorozu and Todoroki, against me."

"Well there goes both my ideas."

Aizawa continued to list off teams and names, notably Midoriya and Bakugo fighting All Might and Mineta actually getting put by himself against Midnight, of course. Which left no teachers for Endo to face, who know knew he was the other individual fighter. "All Might will be pulling double duty today, and his opponent will be Endo after Midoriya and Bakugo have had their turn."

Endo's eyes glowed red, "seriously? I'm up against the number one hero, by myself?!"

Flashback to two days ago, the teachers are in a meeting discussing how to do the practical exams. Eventually they decide that robots are indeed too easy and opt for having the teachers fight students in pairs, at least for the most part. As they discussed the teams they reached Endo, "he's at the top of the class right now, strength, intelligence, and can react fairly quickly, but unlike Yaoyorozu and Todoroki, he can actually fight without his quirk. His armor is incredibly intuitive, so him fighting me is a no go. Something I have noticed however, is he can get angry, easily, I think we should try to exploit that. The students will fail if they cause too much structural damage, something he would excel at causing."

All Might chimed in, "but what about that other personality in his head, if we push him too far, it could take over and start destroying everything in sight."

"That's why we're pairing him with you, you can take his attacks if it comes down to it. His fight will be the last, so it's a bit more fair, you'll be tired from your fight with Bakugo and Midoriya. I'll be there on standby to cancel his quirk and from what I heard the personality has actually turned itself around, now wanting to help Endo. Not sure how much I trust that, but we can also have Yaoyorozu help calm him down and take back control of his body."

Back in the present Endo's body is practically shaking, whether it's nervousness, fear, or excitement, well he can't tell. Aizawa gave him a look that practically said "calm down." He then actually spoke, "you'll be fighting him after Midoriya and Bakugo, so you will have the advantage of him being slightly worn down by them."

Nezu took over after the pairings and orders were announced, "to pass you must either capture the teacher with this pair of handcuffs, or if you can escape the fighting grounds."

Turns out Mei Hatsume designed a pair of braces for the teachers to win that would add half their body weight and slow them down. "Kirishima and Sato are up first, everyone else, you may strategize or watch the others in the control room, your choice."

Since Endo didn't have a partner, he went with the obvious choice and went to watch the fights, besides, he did have two other voices to help him strategize.

"Winning is unlikely against such an opponent."

"I agree with the robot here, I'll just pump as much muscle as I can into your agility form and you jet."

"Well thanks for the votes of encouragement guys, but there's one problem, I don't have another physical teammate to help distract All Might while I escape, fighting him is almost inevitable. I can't fly either, I've seen All Might jump, I won't be able to avoid him like that."

"Uh Endo? Endo? Endo!"

Endo shook his head as he heard Uraraka and Midoriya calling his name. He looked behind him, they were both looking at him concerned, "are you ok? You seemed kinda out of it."

He sighed, "just trying to think of how I'm going to do this."

"I can't believe you have to fight All Might by yourself!"

Endo decided he needed to calm down so he asked the other two why they were in there and not strategizing with their partners.

Midoriya rubbed the back of his neck, "oh, well Bakugo isn't exactly in the mood to strategize.

"And Aoyama is a bit preoccupied with himself."

Endo chuckled and dedicated his focus to the fight at hand, Kirishima and Sato against Cementoss. It was an easy win for Cementoss who quickly tired the two out with an excellent defense. The next two fights were nothing special they all passed, but it was Momo and Todoroki's fight he was waiting for.

Just like the three fights before them, they started away from the gate and as soon as the robotic voice came over the loudspeaker they began to run for the exit. There were plenty of cameras covering every angle and Endo saw Momo begin to create little Matryoshka Dolls, he had learned that this was the easiest thing for her to make, for whatever reason.

"Why not have Todoroki use his own fire or ice quirk, both are constant and don't really use up any energy, but Momo's wasting her lipids by making all those." He then saw her put six of the dolls in her belt, storing them for later apparently.

It only took a couple minutes before Aizawa reached them, it was a quick fight, without their quirks. Todoroki had sent Momo running, while he was quickly restrained above a floor of spikes.

"Damn, she's not gonna beat him to the gate, he's too fast."

As predicted Aizawa caught up with her and grabbed her one hand with a piece of his scarf. He said something, but there was no audio and by some miracle Momo activated her quirk freeing herself from his grasp, running in the opposite direction of the gate, back to her teammate.

Before she could lower him, Aizawa jumped overhead and that's when Momo threw the dolls in the air. They were flashbang grenades! A perfect tool against Aizawa, who stood there rubbing his eyes, while Momo freed Todoroki. Their goal now seemed to be evasion, they were trying to get out of his range of vision. Eventually it happened and a giant ice wall cut them off from the homeroom teacher.

Momo at that time decided to turn around and expose her chest to create something, but what she didn't know was that it was right at a camera.

Midoriya turned the brightest red Endo had ever seen and turned around. Uraraka began slamming keys on the control panel trying to change the view and all Endo could do was laugh, they were so flustered he barely was able to hit the one key that changed the angle.

Eventually Endo calmed down and wiped his tears away, he hadn't laughed like that in a long time. "Sorry, that was just too good." When everyone had focused back on the screen Aizawa was wrapped in what looked to be his own scarf and the two were declared winners, Momo stifling her tears of happiness. "Wait what?! I missed it!"

When Momo walked into the control room the two embraced and Endo congratulated her. Her smile was infectious and eventually the entire room, except for the ever serious Todoroki, was smiling along with her.

Now the only fights Endo cared for was Midoriya's and his own. It was brutal, All Might slammed them into the ground and crushed his body into theirs. It almost seemed like he was trying to kill them. Thankfully Midoriya managed to land a good hit and got both him and Bakugo through the gate.

A/N: All the finals went the same, even Mineta's, who was fighting alone.

Endo rose from his seated position, it was his turn. He took a deep breath, everyone would be watching him, literally. The entire class minus Midoriya and Bakugo, plus the teachers had gathered to watch the last fights. His armor folded over his fists and he was about to walk out the door, but Momo caught his hand and kissed him good luck. Practically the entire class cheered, whether it was for the kiss or encouragement in the fight, he wasn't sure.

He walked through the entrance into the now somewhat destroyed city, "Hyperion alert me to any rapid pressure changes. Karkinos get ready to adapt." Both of the voices answered in affirmative.

"Akari Endo, practical exam, begin!"

"Pressure wave det-"

A huge blast of wind slammed into Endo faster than he could transform.

"Second pressure wave detected."

"Armored Close Combat!"

Endo landed on his feet, but the second blast never came.

"Heat signature detected behind you."

He spun around throwing his fist as he pivoted. An explosion of pain originated from his head and he crashed through a building. Endo stepped out of the rubble and back into the open street, where he saw All Might standing in the spot he had. "That was so fast I couldn't even see the punch. It was lucky I had the Armored form."

"You think you can be a hero like this? You are slow, you are weak, how did you get someone like Yaoyorozu to love you as you are?"

Endo rushed forwards bringing his right fist to All Might's face, but his entire arm was encased by the number one hero's hand and it was shattered. Endo roared in pain as he threw another punch, but this time an extreme amount of muscle was put into it and it connected with All Might's face, barely fazing him.

"Looks like there is some fight in you after all." The insanely buff hero put even more pressure on Endo's already broken arm, "but you're still weak."

"You'd… be… surprised." Endo said between breaths, he refused to let the pain show anymore than it already had.

"A hundred and fifty feet."

As Endo grew All Might's hand could no longer contain the growing appendage and he had to let go to leap out of the way.

All Might avoiding Endo's growth gave him one opening and he brought his uninjured left fist forwards into All Might's body burying him into the ground, shaking the surrounding area. "Agility Form." Endo collapsed onto his three remaining limbs and began to run for the exit gate.

"Pressure change detected."

Endo looked around, but saw nothing, until he looked upwards, only to see a fist fly straight into his skull. He collapsed to the ground, now shrunk back to human, his armor covering his skin.

"Still weak Endo, where is that power I saw you use against the Nomu at the USJ." All Might scoffed, "well, when you fail, I'm sure Yaoyorozu won't want to be with some reject and maybe young Todoroki will take your place."

Endo's helmet folded off, revealing red that overtook his entire eyeballs, "you're trying to make me angry… big mistake."

Just like at the USJ, Endo and Karkinos formed an almost perfect bond of anger, their personalities merging into one.

All Might literally didn't see Endo move, yet his vision was suddenly overtaken by a black armored fist that pounded into his face and slammed the pro hero into the pavement, but Endo didn't stop there. He grew and grew, continuously pummeling his fists into All Might, he didn't even feel his broken arm getting jolted around as the punches landed.

Back in the control room everyone was watching in, awe, whether it was from fear or surprise they weren't sure, maybe both.

"They're going all out huh?" Kirishima's normally loud voice was just a whisper as it came out.

"What could've All Might said to set Endo off like that, he's so angry he doesn't even seem to noticed he's punching with a broken arm." Mina had a hand over her mouth

Jiro looked over at Momo, she knew what set Endo off, All Might had probably said something about her, or about their relationship. At least that was the most likely thing Jiro could think of.

Endo finally stopped growing, he was practically four hundred and fifty feet tall now. All Might had been flattened into the ground, lying prone, not unconscious, but on the verge of it. The Kaiju formed the giant red membranes on his chest, ready to pierce them and detonate the whole of the arena.

"Akari Endo, practical exam, failed."

This snapped Endo out of his blind rage, "but, why?"

The pro hero coughed as Endo shrunk back down to his size, "look around you, young Endo." Endo did as he asked and realized just what he had done, "your power is impressive, incredible even, but you have leveled this entire city."

It was true the closest buildings were nothing more than rubble, and the damage spread out through the whole of the battlegrounds. Practically a crater of ruined structures. "Your control needs more work, I implore you, otherwise, when you become a hero you will only harm people in an effort to save them."

"Is this it, I am going to die now, are the Saturn Six going to just freeze me in place while they snap my neck, I failed." But nothing happened, he remained standing and alive.

"Go to the nurses office, get that arm checked out, I am sorry I had to do that and say those things. You two make a wonderful couple, it will last I am sure of it."

"Yeah, what do you know?!" Endo snapped before turning around and trudging back to school, he was glad that the audio sensors weren't enabled for the rest of his class.

He passed the control room and saw his classmates look on at him with concern, but he ignored them and shuffled on. "Wait!" Momo caught up to him, "are-are you okay?"

Endo gestured to his broken arm, "besides this, only my pride." He sighed, "I've gotta get this healed, I'll see ya tomorrow."

Momo reached out for him, but stopped, it seemed like he needed to be alone for a bit.

The next day arrived rapidly, Endo didn't fly or drive to school, he just walked and contemplated his failure. The only upside he saw in this situation was that he obviously hadn't failed the Saturn Six's test, since he was still alive.

"I'm sure it'll be fine you guys, who knows maybe they'll let you go to camp after all." Midoriya was trying to cheer up the other four students who failed the test as Endo walked by. "Uh, hey Endo wait, I heard what happened the other day, you actually managed to beat All Might?"

"No, I lost."

"But if it hadn't been for the no destruction rule, he would've been toast." Kirishima was now suddenly trying to cheer up Endo, as Midoriya had just done for him.

"Thanks guys."

"So what happened with that whole thing Endo, one second he's crushing your arm, the next you have him pinned to the floor about to detonate those huge membranes in his face." Tsuyu ribitted as she finished her sentence.

"He just said something and it got me angry, I guess I just had the element of surprise, he wasn't expecting me to be that aggressive." Bakugo got in Endo's face, "what are you gonna say something about me losing, cause when I said throw you into orbit, I wasn't kidding."

The explosive student seemed slightly taken aback, "what, no I just thought it was stupid that they let that little shit pass," he pointed at Mineta, "but the guy who actually beat All Might failed, dumbass rules is what I think."

Endo's frown leveled out, he was significantly surprised by this guys, "uh thanks man, means a lot."

"Wait what do you mean it's stupid that I passed?!" Mineta was standing on his seat demanding answers, but everyone just ignored him.

Endo sat down, "I guess you'll just have to go to camp without me, huh?"

Momo had a sad look on her face, "we can still call each other."

The class door slammed open, "when the bell has rung you should all be in your seats. Good morning, yesterday was tough, some of you passed with flying colors, others failed, quite dramatically. Kirishima, Mina, Kaminari, and Sato all failed, and of course Endo also failed, but he actually put effort into it at least, still a fail though. So due to that, all of you will be going to summer camp." The teacher had a wide grin on his face.

"Wait, what?!" Was the collective response of the five failed students.

"It was just a logical deception to try and encourage you, although as I said, a fail is still a fail, so you five will take extra classes during the camp, you certainly need it."

At the end of class Endo had slightly perked up, he had gotten another perfect score on his written exam and was told he could go with everyone, not too bad. They were handed pamphlets on what they needed to bring to the camp.

"Guys! I've got the best idea, why don't we all go to the mall as a class, we've never hung out with all of us together! That way we can get what we need for the trip." Toru was practically bouncing with excitement, or at least her outfit was.

Everyone except Bakugo and Todoroki agreed on a time and location.

"Momo where is your boyfriend?" Toru was yelling at her, Endo was five minutes late.

"He texted me he's practically here I-" The beat of wings filled the air as they saw the Aerodynamic form of Endo drop from the sky and land on one knee and one knuckle pressed into the ground. She smiled at him, "show-off."

Endo's deep laugh filled the air as he turned back to human, "fashionably late, that's the saying right?"

Mina rolled her eyes at his antics, "ok everyone we'll meet back here when we're done."

"Hey look it's class 1-A from the sports festival, you guys were awesome!" A couple of random people saw them and were gawking at the group. Eventually Endo and Momo managed to sneak away to do their shopping.

Momo looked at Endo, he was wearing his usual get up shorts and a t-shirt, "so what did you need to get Endo?"

"Nothing really, my family used to go camping so I have a bunch of stuff at home." Endo's family had never actually gone camping with him, it was just an implanted memory, but his house was still filled with camping supplies.

"Hey can I tag along with you guys?" Jiro caught up with the two.

Momo smiled, "of course Jiro, we'd love to have your company."

Jiro kept a straight face, but Endo knew deep down she was probably super happy Momo said that. "I wonder if Momo's original personality is bi or something. Then at least Jiro can be happy when I'm out of the picture. Jeez, that's kinda dark that I have to think about that stuff."

They were in the middle of picking out a duffle bag for Jiro, when the alarm sounded and a voice announced they were evacuating the mall. Endo's armor folded over his fists and forearms, forming gauntlets. "Come on let's get out of here." He grabbed the girl's hands and pulled them out of the store, they had been staring at the ceiling in surprise, but Endo wasn't keen on staying there in case it was an immediate threat.

Turns out that one villain from the USJ, Tomura Shigaraki had shown up and held MIdoriya at, Endo supposed it would be quirk point, threatening to disintegrate his entire throat.

The police were at it for days, trying to dig up any clues, but nothing came out of it last Endo had heard. Midoriya seemed unhindered by the attack, however because not two days later he got a text from the guys group chat, 'hey everyone, Kaminari, Mineta, and myself are going to the school pool for endurance training, you're all welcome to join us.'

Endo smiled, this could be fun. He pulled on his swimsuit and activated his quirk covering his body with scales and thick black skin, he also had his wings tucked up behind him. While he did fail the practical, the fact that he still got to go to camp had boosted his spirits. His swimsuit was compressed into his bracelets and he walked outside, spreading his wings and taking to the sky.

"I know what you're thinking Endo, don't be a one trick pony."

"They still won't expect it Karkinos, besides, it's fun to…"

Endo looked down, he was over the school's pool, "CANNONBALL!" He impacted the water at an incredible pace, but thankfully he had strengthened his body just before hitting the surface. As he rose from the bottom of the pool, he saw Iida standing on the edge.

"Endo! That was incredibly dangerous! What if someone had been in the pool when you had done that?"

"Relax Iida. I enhanced my eyesight and didn't see anyone in the pool so I went for it."

"Do you seriously have to show up to everything by falling out of the sky?"

Endo turned around to see the girls soaking wet, his cannonball might have been a bit too big. Mina was complaining about her hair. "Sorry, but if you knew what it was like to fly, you'd do the same thing. Momo kinda knows what it's like."

Momo nodded whilst wringing out her ponytail, "it's pretty amazing."

"Well let's see how you fare while down here in the pool with us." Tsuyu obviously didn't seem upset by the water and had jumped in right besides Endo who smirked.

"Is that a challenge?"

Many of the class looked over, "you may be able to enhance yourself, but no one can beat me in the water."

Endo's Aerodynamic form shifted to a scaleless, gilled, and shark tailed Aquatic form. "What did you really think I couldn't do this."

Kaminari laughed, "oh shit's about to go down!"

Iida chopped his arm through the air, "language! Ok Endo, if you want to race Asui, then we'll can see who can cover fifty meters fastest in the water."

Endo leapt out of the pool and onto the starting blocks that the two would push off when Iida counted them down. Asui took the spot next to him.

"Come on Sue! Don't let him beat you!"

"Let's go Endo, you better represent!"

Iida raised one pole straight arm, "three, two, one, go!" The arm sliced down as the two leapt into the pool.

Endo began to undulate his body like an eel, letting his tail push him along, while Asui had to use her hands. She was faster than anyone else in water, but her using her hands provided more drag against the water, giving Endo an advantage. They were head to head, until Endo poured on the speed and rapidly took the lead, slamming his hand on the pool wall signifying his win.

Endo jumped out of the pool, landing on his human feet and heavily disappointing Mina who began to pout as Asui leapt out just a second after the Kaiju Powered student.

He raised his hand for a high five and Asui obliged.

"Oh please stop that pathetic display! I could beat you both with one hand behind my back!"

"Well look who finally arrived! Also that kinda seems like a trick, if you had one hand behind your back you could propel yourself with your quirk." Bakugo was walking towards Endo who was dripping wet.

"That's exactly what I meant! I only need one hand behind my back to kick your ass in a race!"

That was pretty much how Endo, Midoriya, Todoroki, and Bakugo ended up in the starting blocks, hours later, the very last race.

"GO!" The four jumped and fell right into the pool.

"Uh, why aren't they using their quirks?"

Aizawa was standing at the entrance to the pool, "because, it's four o'clock, your pool time is up."

Momo's eyes widened, "wait four, oh no, Endo!"

He finally surfaced when he realized he couldn't activate his quirk. "What?"

She was already rushing off with a towel in hand, "the gala!"

"Ugh! Forgot about that, I could do without that today." But Momo was already gone and he pulled himself onto solid ground.

"Endo, she wouldn't happen to mean Shirushi Mansion would she?"

Endo turned around as he raced off, Todoroki had similarly climbed out in a rush, "yeah. She's dragging me along to the party, I assume you're going too?" He nodded, "alright, well, see ya there."

Midoriya asked what they were talking about and with Todoroki being the only one left he had to answer, "it's a gathering for the social elite and some of their children."

"Then why is Endo going?"

"Probably as Momo's plus one you dunce." Jiro slapped the back of Kaminari's head.

Endo peeked his head into the locker room, "Momo I'm heading home to shower and change and I'll swing by and pick you up."

Momo answered in affirmative and Endo raced back outside to fly off. He had to get something ready, a little gift for Momo.

Thanks for reading, comments are appreciated. The next chapter will be the gala and then the beginning of the summer camp or I could write a chapter based on the events of the movie that just came out taking place just before the pool thing or I may just not write that chapter at all, comment what you want.