Spider-Deku

Chapter 14: Bane of Izuku's life

"I'm definitely going to be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man." Izuku thinks as he continues blindly climbing down the mountain. His right arm is completely free of Salvation's enzymes, now he is free to feel all of the pain One For All has inflicted to it.

All. Of. It.

This is how Izuku found himself crawling down a mountain without the use of his dominant hand. There's blood dripping out of his middle finger, and the skin on that hand has completely blackened. The collapsed precipice kicked up tons of eye irritating dust, so Izuku isn't able to actually see where he's going. He's relying on his spider sense to tell him if he's about to grab something that can't support his weight. That crack in the mountain stretched further than Izuku thought it would. Now the entire mountainside is unstable; chunks of the mountain are being randomly dislodged from it.

Eventually, Izuku finds his way back to the ground and stops defying gravity. He's outside of the smoke cloud now, so his ability to see should be returning to him any minute now.

Before this can occur, Izuku is grabbed from behind by two hands.

"YOU CAN'T STOP THE JUGGERNAUT!" The villain yells before slamming Izuku's back against his knee. In true Spider-Man fashion, Izuku's spider sense has failed him when he really needed it. With a sickening snap, Izuku folds over The Juggernaut's giant knee.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHH" Izuku screams as he gets tossed into the ground, forming an Izuku-sized dent.

Izuku's scream of pain is music to The Juggernaut's ears.

"I broke the spider!" His laughter is drowned out by Izuku's wailing.

"I can't feel my legs anymore," Izuku thinks as The Juggernaut walks away whistling a jaunty tune.

"It won't end… like this… I…. won't let …it" Izuku uses his arm strength to force himself out of the dent. Every movement sends a new spike of pain through his body. Somehow he managed to force himself into a sitting position.

"I will…win this….fight." Izuku mutters as he grabs a nearby rock with his left hand.

Izuku only has one shot at this. He needs to hit a spot on the human body that disables a threat if struck hard enough. "The head should be a good target. If I end up missing that giant target it means I pissed off Hachiman, Artemis or Apollo." Izuku checks the rock to make sure it is rounded, instead of pointy.

Izuku isn't worried about killing the villain with a blunt object, he survived falling off a mountain and didn't get scratched. This should be fine.

He pulls his arm back, barely holding back another scream, and allows One For All to course through his good arm. He lowers his output to avoid crushing the rock in his grip. Launching the rock like a missile, Izuku's face contorts into an awkward grimace smile as the projectile hits the target and Izuku is blown onto his back

The Unstoppable Juggernaut crumbles to the ground.

Then the pain kicks in again and Izuku lets out a heart wrenching scream as his left arm dislocates from his shoulder. This screaming continues for quite a while, drawing the attention of two students that were heading towards the central plaza.

"Do you hear that?" Shoto asks as he slides on a sheet of ice.

"The screaming or the collapsing mountain?" Toru asks from her position on Shoto's back.

"That scream sounds like Izuku, doesn't it?" Shoto responds. It's starting to give him flashbacks to when Endeavor dislocated his shoulder during one of their 'training' sessions.

"But Izu is strong. Why would he be screaming?" Toru tilts her head to the left.

"A quizzical head tilt doesn't work if you're invisible" Shoto thinks.

He shakes this thought away before replying, "He's strong yes, but strong doesn't mean invincible. We can still be beaten if our opponent knows what they're doing or our guard drops for a single instant."

"Oh" Toru replied before letting out a scream of her own. The duo had just arrived at Izuku's location.

Shoto drops Toru on her feet and rushed over to Izuku.

"Midoriya can you stand, can you fight?" Shoto asks.

Izuku stifles another scream and starts to respond, " I can't feel my legs anymore and my arms are on their last legs."

Toru applies pressure to Izuku's legs just to see if she can make Izuku feel something.

He doesn't.

Shoto grabs Izuku's arm, eliciting a brief cry of pain, and puts it over his shoulder, "If your legs don't work I'll just carry you to Recovery Girl."

"Find Salvation...that's the quicker option. He'll be able to... minimize... the damage. Maybe he'll be able to fix my spine. He's good with shattered bones." Izuku whispers as Shoto gets him in a vertical position.

"Where is he? I thought the two of you were inseparable" Toru asks.

"He's at the gate healing Kyoka. She was losing a lot of blood last time I saw her." Izuku answers as Shoto drags him towards the Plaza.

"You could use a little less blood loss too" Shoto thinks as another drop of Izuku's blood lands on him.

The trio of students is mostly silent as they search for Salvation. The only sounds being created are the sounds of feet hitting dirt, feet hitting concrete and feet being dragged across both. Let's not forget the occasional whimper whenever Shoto does something that makes Izuku's shoulder move.

They arrived at the central plaza and Shoto stops dead in his tracks, a glare fixed at the black and blue flames being tossed into the air. Shoto knows that fire.

"Endeavor" Shoto snarls, gaining Toru's attention in the process. She doesn't say anything. Now isn't the time.

"I'll ask him about this later" Toru thinks as Shoto's murderous expression shifts back into an aloof expression.

Toru spots a green creature standing at the top of the stairs. "I found Salvation!" Toru exclaims while pointing at him.

"Is she trying to point without her gloves on?" Shoto thinks as he drags his passenger to the stairs. "Grab his legs, I'm not dragging him up 30 steps."

They manage to get him up the steps relatively quickly, but Toru is out of breath by the time they finish.

"I should really help her with her cardio." Shoto thinks before Izuku is lifted off his shoulder by Salvation.

[I leave you alone for 6 minutes and you get your ass kicked by a mook. You didn't even make it to the boss battle….. it was the guy I told you to take out first, wasn't it.] Salvation sighs before laying Izuku down then laying down next to him.

Salvation leaps off of Kyoka's unconscious body and returns to the body he has inhabited for 11 years.

[He broke your spine!] Salvation yells. He'll have to deal with that first before it accidentally stabs something vital for Izuku's continued existence. Recovery Girl can heal the arms if he isn't done by the time she arrives.

"Deku what happened to you!" Ochaco rushes over towards her downed friend. Tears are beginning to leak from her eyes.

"I fell down some stairs" Izuku replies, trying to distract her with a joke.

"Must have been a really long staircase" Rikido Sato responds, playing along.

"Yeah, it was a Juggernaut" Izuku retorts while trying to copy The Juggernaut's voice.

Ochaco starts laughing uncontrollably and crying at the same time.

"I don't get it" Shoto thinks.

Meanwhile, Endeavor is in the middle of burning every last Nomu cell to the point of carbonation.

"GO TO HELL!" He shouts from the sky before thrusting his fists towards the ground, unleashing two beach ball sized orbs of black and blue flames. These flames hit the ground and erupt into a pillar of flame that engulfs the Nomu and everything within 25 feet of it.

The only thing that remains is a field of scorched earth, the flames' heat having evaporated away all the water in the fountain and leaving nothing but charred black soil behind

"We're losing?" Tomura thinks as he pulls himself out of the crater All Might kicked him into.

All Might punches Tomura in the face, knocking out a couple teeth, and knocking Tomura out.

By now Kurogiri's tornado has stopped, giving him the ability to see what happened during his absence.

" I believe it's time I make my hasty retreat." Kurogiri vanishes into his warp gate.

He reappears in the crater and wraps himself around Tomura, vanishing just in time to avoid another Tornado-creating Smash attack.

By the time the other Pro Heroes had arrived, almost everything was already dealt with. The only task left was collecting the invaders and for Recovery Girl to treat the wounded.

All Might had left to retrieve all of the missing students. He found them all except for two.

Bakugo's and Kirishima's unconscious bodies fell out of the sky while All Might was away.

Endeavor had stomped up the steps, grabbed Shoto by the collar and dragged him off somewhere to have a private conversation.

While all of this was happening, Salvation and Recovery Girl were busy doing damage control, slowly trying to reattach the two pieces of Izuku's spine and fix his arms.

(Recovery Girl's office)

Izuku wakes up next to an occupied hospital bed. "I'm… in a wheelchair. My legs are completely numb, I can't feel them anymore."

He tries to move them, but his body won't respond. Izuku starts to panic, he can't be a hero without legs!

[Before you start freaking out about your legs, let me explain. It's not as bad as you think] Salvation interrupts.

[You really owe her a thank you, if it was up to me alone, you'd never be able to walk by yourself. But thanks to Me, Recovery Girl and her quirk, you'll regain the full use of your legs eventually. You'll need a lot more healing sessions, more than you could ever afford. But fortunately she's feeling generous enough to work for free.]

"Oh, where's Kyoka?"

"I'm right here" she groans as she pushes the cover off of her face.

"Are you okay?" Izuku asks as he looks at the bandages around her forehead.

Kyoka is taken aback by this, he's the one in a wheelchair yet he's asking if she's okay "Yeah, I'm fine."

"That's good, I'm glad" Izuku smiles. "Since neither one of us are going anywhere for a minute, I might as well tell you a story about how I learned to web swing."

Izuku is attempting to distract her from the fact that he's bound to a chair for the foreseeable future.

"Sounds interesting, let's hear it." She sighs, it's better than silence.

"It happened when I was 8 years old…"

(Flashback)

I had just finished climbing to the top of a tree to grab an apple for my mother. Unfortunately, I didn't understand that the tree branches at the top weren't meant to support more weight than a bird, so I was completely unprepared for what happened next.

The branch snapped!

Leaving me to plummet to my inevitable demise, at least that's how this story would end if I didn't have badass spider powers.

I shot my web at a nearby tree branch, hoping to slow my descent.

It did and at the same time, it didn't.

As soon as my web string touched the branch, I was forced to move in an arc of backwards and forwards movement.

This gave me an Idea.

I pushed off of the tree and shot more webbing at a different tree. My expectation was that I'd catch a branch and swing again. But what actually happened is that I grabbed a bird and pulled both of us to the ground.

(Flashback end)

Kyoka starts laughing, "You and birds just don't get along at all, do you?"

"I'm friends with Fumikage, I think."