Izuku-The Hexblade Hero; Chapter 14
Placeholder for a bomb-ass joke about how I swear; pretty sure I haven't done this before. Can't confirm if either of those things are true, sorry. -The Editor
"I'm not thanking you." Bakugo stated as he checked his gauntlets for any signs of leakage. Luckily whichever dipshit in charge of making his costume had made them one-way when it came to his explosives and liquid, and the reserves didn't seem to be flooded either.
"You don't have many friends, do you?" The frog bitch smarted off in her deadpan way.
"Fuck off Tiana." Bakugo growled. So, what if he didn't have any friends, he was good enough to stand alone.
"Was that a Disney refer-" Round Face started to say but was cut off by a high-pressure blast of water slicing into the boat the three were standing on.
He hadn't felt like answering the question anyway.
"Extra's, what're your quirks?" Bakugo more demanded than asked.
"You don't know our names, do you?" Round face deadpanned. She needed to get her priorities straight.
"I'll bother to remember your names if you can get out of being surrounded up to the dick in villains." Bakugo snarled, "Quirks. Now."
"I can do anything a frog can do." The frog girl said simply.
"How high can you jump?"
"A couple of Meters." She shrugged.
"You, Round Face." He turned to the brown-haired girl. "What's your gimmick?"
"I can make things weightless." She scratched the back of her head, "Although I don't see how useful that'll be right now."
"How much can you make weightless?" Bakugo asked, the basics of a plan forming in his mind.
"A ton?" She looked up in thought, "I never really measured it before, although I get nauseous if I use it on myself."
"Could you use it on me and gender-bent Naveen?" Bakugo gestured to the crouched frog girl.
"It was a Disney reference!" Round-Face had a triumphant tone in her voice.
"Answer the damn question!" Bakugo shouted. So, what if he liked the classic Disney movies, it's not like they didn't already own half of America by this point.
Even if he had only started watching them a month ago.
"I should be able to." She said with a hint of smugness in her voice.
"Good, I have a plan." Bakugo looked off the boat and studied the sea of hesitant villains. What a bunch of pussies.
"Round face, on my back," Bakugo ordered, "Toadette on the ground."
"Care to explain your plan?" The Tiana knock off asked with an infuriatingly neutral face.
"Round Face is going to make me and you weightless, then we're jumping." Bakugo growled.
"Isn't there a guy who can shoot us out of the sky?" Round face asked worriedly.
"I don't think I'll be able to make it across the lake," Frogalina said simply as she mentally judged the distance to the nearest portion of the shore.
"I'll cover our launch as well as give us the power needed to make it over there," Bakugo flexed his hands, "and if that fucker thinks he can knock me out of the sky he'll have another thing coming!"
The two girls shared an uneasy look.
"Do we really have any other options?" Round face asked.
"Not really, Kero." Frogalina shrugged.
Bakugo crouched and let the round-faced girl climb on his back, feeling his center of gravity shift dramatically as his weight disappeared.
"You fuckers ready?" Bakugo asked as he felt a wolfish grin spread to his face, he could feel both girls on either side of him squirm as the gravity of their choice set in.
"What would you do if we said no?" The frog girl asked from beneath him.
"Leave you fuckers behind." Bakugo said simply, while he didn't know if round faces quirk had a time or range limit, he knew he'd be able to get to the other side of the lake easily on his own.
"On three?" The frog girl asked, evidently not liking the idea of being left behind judging by her tone.
"One." Bakugo started his countdown, flexing his fingers in anticipation.
"Two." He felt his classmate tense under him.
"Three!" He shouted with a feral grin on his face, letting loose one of his larger explosions as the girl beneath him rocketed them into the air, his explosion creating a cloud of smoke to cover their ascent as the boat caught fire beneath them.
"Die!" Bakugo roared with glee as he leaned forward and pointed his hands behind him, another explosion sending the mostly weightless trio soaring through the air, his laughter echoing almost as far as his explosion.
"So now would be a good time to do something." Thou Whom Agony is Times voice echoed in Izuku's head as the teen rapidly plummeted towards the paved earth, the heat of the burning buildings searing his face.
Izuku was thankful that he hadn't been dropped right over a fire, but he was distracted by his imminent death approaching him at near terminal velocity.
"Any suggestions would be great!" Izuku shouted as he mentally braced himself to use One for All, and probably shatter his arm in the process.
"Well, I have another spirit who should be durable enough to get you out of this." The eldritch godling suggested, "But he's a bit of an ass."
"I don't care!" Izuku shouted, grasping onto the hope of getting out of this without broken bones.
"Alright," Izuku seemed to slow as his perception of time shifted, "The quickest way to get his attention is to say, "Mages don't deserve rights, and cats are bad pets," got it?"
Izuku didn't get the chance to respond as he was quickly and forcibly submerged into his patron.
Not wasting a moment, the teen reached a hand deep within the swirling chaotic night and shouted his cry of help.
He felt something, someone turns their attention to him. But they were just beyond his reach.
"Uhm…" The teen fumbled for his words. "Mages don't deserve rights, and cats are bad pe-" Izuku was cut off by a wave of relief as what felt like an armored hand grasped his hand, only for that relief to turn to shock as another grabbed him by the throat.
Izuku closed his eyes as he felt the heat of the conflagration zone wash over him, one hand still presents on his throat, but the other having been removed. Izuku felt his back be forced into the hard breastplate of the spirit he summoned.
Moments later, and a couple of unnecessarily hard jolts, Izuku found himself on the ground with all his bones intact if not a little bruised.
"Hopefully that will help you keep your privilege in check." An unfamiliar man's voice grumbled behind a black barbute helmet, wicked horn-like decoration reaching into the air, giving the figure an intimidating outline in the light of the blazing building and only made more frightening by glowing blue eyes that crackled power.
The figure reached up and pulled the helmet off his head, revealing greying blond hair pulled into a ponytail, as well as a face deeply in need of shaving.
"Oh lovely," He said looking around the raging inferno, "can't I go one lifetime without seeing a burning city?"
"Last time you saw a city burn was centuries ago Anders," Thou Whom Agony is Time chuckled, "one would think you'd remember, having sparked that flame."
The now named Anders scowled, "I stand by what I did."
"As did your Hawke," Izuku felt there was a long story behind that, "but that is for another day, it is time to work."
"Right…" The older man appraised Izuku, "So you're his new toy."
The man shook his head in disappointment, "Tell me where you need to go, and I'll get you there."
"Uhm…" Izuku looked around, having not the slightest clue which direction was the exit, or even North.
"You don't know, do you?" The man asked with a quirked brow.
Izuku nervously scratched the back of his head, "...no…" He finally admitted.
"Great." The man sighed and threw his hands in the air, "Let's just wait for something to blow up, that's usually where fate needs us to be."
It was at that moment a building a few blocks away collapsed, the sound of screaming managing to peak over the roar of the flame and the crash of fragmenting stone.
"I just had to open my mouth…" Izuku heard the man grumble as the teen rushed past, fear of any injured classmates overriding the more logical fear of villains being about.
If Yaoyorozu was a lady of fewer words, she would only be able to summarize her current situation as "fucked."
She glared at the misty villain that stood between what remained of the entrance to the Universal Simulation Joint, and her. A quick headcount told her that five other students where on the landing with her, and she could hear her homeroom teacher engaging with the horde of villain's below.
"I do apologize for my abrupt action." The mist said unapologetically, before continuing into the beginnings of a monologue. "But one must push the element of surprise whenever it is gained."
"Hey, Vice-Pres." A familiar voice stage whispered seemingly from no-where. It took a fair sum of will to suppress her flinch as the voice continued "It's Hagakure."
Yaoyorozu glanced at the source of the voice, finding nothing but seemingly empty air.
"Do you have a plan?" The invisible girl continued. Yaoyorozu felt the barest threads of a plan begin to form in her head as she accounted for the new variable.
"Can you get to Iida without alerting the villain?" Momo muttered under her breath, afraid that any major moves would trigger the villain into an attack. She was grateful this one seemed to be in the "long-winded" category of villains, monologuing about the unfairness of society and its rules.
"He's the guy with blue hair, right?" Hagakure asked Yaoyorozu thought she was looking around judging by how her voice changed.
"Yes." Yaoyorozu repressed the urge to curse, of course, he would be one of the furthest students from her.
Thankfully he was also the closest to the door.
"If you could hide something in the palm of your hand, would it disappear or show through you?" Yaoyorozu asked as she slowly turned her head away from the villain and tried to remember a specific set of blueprints.
"I believe so, yeah…" Hagakure said with less confidence than Yaoyorozu would have liked.
"Good, put your hand on my stomach," Yaoyorozu ordered.
"O-okay." The girl did as she was told, placing a surprisingly cold hand on Yaoyorozu's lower stomach. "Why-"
Yaoyorozu focused on making three small communicators, quickly cutting the invisible girl off as the devices pressed into her hand.
"I need you to put on of those into my ear, take another to Iida, and then keep the third for yourself." Yaoyorozu explained, "Iida is our best chance of getting an emergency message out with both our teachers preoccupied."
"Oh, that is so cool!" The invisible girl squealed softly, "I'll be right back!"
Yaoyorozu could only assume the invisible girl had walked away, not having heard a footstep or even felt the girl brush passed her.
Now to tackle the issue of the villain's quirk, something she didn't have nearly enough information to be able to properly deal with.
She would have to wait and form a plan with Iida, and possibly some of her other classmates if she trusted their ability to keep Hagakure's presence a secret.
But for the moment, she would wait and wrack her brain for items or spells that could inhibit her gaseous foe.
Kirishima would be the first to admit he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Sure, he did well in school, but in terms of strategy, he was always more a fan of the "bulldoze everything in your path" school of thought.
He was grateful that he landed in one of the zones he didn't have to worry about too much collateral damage. Which would explain his current predicament.
He was backed into a corner, a menagerie of villains barricading him, and the only ally he had now was a weeping classmate holding onto his back for dear life.
"This is so unmanly…" The red-headed teen sighed as he tried to look for a weaker clump of villains to smash through, as well as ignoring the groaning of the few villains who had been ballsy enough to try and get the pair.
"Why did I think becoming a hero would be a good idea?" Mineta hiccupped from his spot on Kirishima's back.
"Don't know." He asked, hoping to keep the stunted classmate calm, "Why did you choose to become a hero?"
"I thought it would make me look cool and help me get girls!" The teen sobbed.
"Well, we're in the same boat about being cool…" Kirishima gave a sharp grin, settling on a point to charge forward.
"Now I'm going to need you to hold on tight little buddy," Kirishima said just loud enough for the other teen to hear, "Cause I'm going to get us out of- SHIT!"
Kirishima had enough sense to harden his back as he heard Mineta yelp as his weight disappeared, replaced by the sound of metal shattering.
Kirishima whirled around, smashing a hardened fist into the wall. "What the-"
"Alright brat, surrender and I'll let the grape go." A voice growled from above Kirishima.
"Come down here and fight me like a man!" The redhead shouted, glaring at the chameleon villain as he pressed what remained of his knife into Mineta's throat.
"Do I look like an idiot?" The villain chuckled darkly, "It's your life or this kid!"
Kirishima glared at the lizard for a moment, then he let his hardening fall.
"Good, now just hold still while my buddies-" The villain stopped as he looked up, "The hell is that?"
Kirishima strained his ears, turning around. It sounded like someone screaming… Was it getting louder?
The red-headed teen looked at villains who backed him into a corner, the tallest of which was a bald, red-skinned man with four arms who had one of his many hands lifted to an ear to better hear.
"I think it's getting closer…" He turned to the second tallest villain, an orange tiger man, "You think we should move?"
"Do you think Rath a coward?" The tiger man roared in the third person, "Rath is going to beat the shit out of yo-"
"Die!" A familiar voice roared and collided into the ground just behind villains with a titanic explosion.
"I think I'm going to be sick, Kero." Another familiar voice groaned from the pillar of smoke.
"And you thought I couldn't land." Bakugo said smugly as he strolled out of the smoke.
"I don't think crash landings count…" Uraraka mumbled shakenly, still clutching onto the blond's back.
"Oh, piss off," The teen growled almost good-naturedly, seemingly coming off a high. "and get the fuck off."
"Hey!" The chameleon villain shouted, "I still have a hostage!"
"Your point?" Bakugo sneered, "You're outnumbered idiot!"
"Uh, I don't think it's a wise idea to antagonize the guy Bakugo." Kirishima nervously tried to talk the teen down.
"So what?" Bakugo snapped to the redhead, "He probably doesn't have the balls to do it anyway!"
"The fuck did you say you little shit!" The reptilian villain roared in rage, pushing the blade hard enough into Mineta's neck to draw blood.
"You bastard!" Mineta shouted in fear, "Aren't you supposed to try and save me!"
"Kill the little bastard, see if I care," Bakugo said, unimpressed.
"Dude, that's harsh," Kirishima muttered, appalled at his classmate.
"He's in the hero course, if he didn't want to be put in life-risking situations he shouldn't be a hero!" Bakugo shouted back.
"To be fair," Tsuyu grumbled as she wiped her mouth, "it is the second day, Kero."
"Fine, why don't you save him!" Bakugo turned and started to walk out of the ally.
"Sure, Kirishima be prepared to catch him." Tsuyu said as she took a step forward.
"Wha-" Kirishima was cut off by the amphibian girl firing her tongue at the lizard villain, catching him off guard with a strike to the face and knocking Mineta from his grasp, "Shit!"
Kirishima lunged to catch the falling teen, barely managing to do so as the reptilian villain crashed into the ground a foot away, what remained of his knife sliding across the ground as it was launched from his hand.
"This is a pretty crappy knife." Uraraka muttered as she picked up the blade and examined it, "Where did you get it?"
"A 500-yen pawn shop." The villain groaned, rolling on the ground, "I'm poor, the hell do you expect?"
"That's fair I guess," Uraraka muttered, pocketing the blade. "I'd recommend staying down."
"Fuck you!" The villain shouted, disappearing.
Kirishima kicked where the reptile had been a moment before, earning a grunt of pain.
"Should we tie them up?" Tsuyu asked after a moment of silence.
"Do you have anything to tie them up with dipshit?" Bakugo growled as he turned back into the ally.
"I thought you left?"
"I do what I fucking want!" he shouted as he gestured at the road, "I'd rather not get bitched at later for "abandoning" you extra's."
"And yet," Kirishima sighed, "you were willing to let that guy gut Mineta."
"It's called a bluff Sabastian!" Bakugo shouted.
Kirishima blinked in confusion, "You do know my name isn't-"
Uraraka put a hand on his shoulder, leaning closer to stage-whisper "It's a Disney reference, he seems fond of nicknaming people based on which character they remind him of."
"Round Face, keep talking shit and I will fuck your ass up!" Bakugo threatened.
"Are you coming onto me?" Uraraka gave a coy smile.
Bakugo's face morphed from extreme rage to a neutral calm as the teen spun in place begin to walk out the alley.
"Huh, wasn't the reaction I was expecting." Uraraka mused as the three followed the bombastic teen.
Thirteen was mad, something that was unusual for the almost pacifistic rescue hero. She wasn't a fan of fighting, but even she was able to tell when she had an advantage over her opponent. That was assuming she had been correct about the mist villains quirk.
That wasn't the root of her anger though, instead, it was that she had been taken by surprise. Her, a professional hero with several years of working in the rescue field, had been blindsided by some no-name villain with a quirk that she was positive could've been neutralized by her own!
To make matters worse, her suit had been damaged, both her leg and one of her arm extensions where nonresponsive, her suit's helmet had been cracked, and the insulative material had been all but shredded in several spots.
She gave an exhausted sigh, looking for any sign of villains. Luckily, she only needed one arm to be able to use her quirk and sucking up an entire building was enough to scare off the low-grade villains that had thought to try and fight her.
"For once, I can't say I'm disappointed." An unfamiliar voice snarked, setting her nerves on edge.
"Thirteen!" A younger voice cried. The space hero turned to the source and found a familiar mop of green hair rushing towards her followed by an unfamiliar figure in almost demonic armor.
"Get down!" Thirteen shouted attempting to lift her arm, only to find that the mechanisms in the lower half had given up the ghost, essentially nullifying her quirk, "There's a villain behind you!"
The student (she wanted to say his name was Midoriya, how she wished she paid more attention to the student profiles she skimmed) looked behind himself in fear, his pursuer mimicking him.
"Where?" Midoyira asked in confusion as he gave a bewildered look to the downed teacher.
"The black knight behind you!" She shouted; how could he not see it? She knew the heat was getting to her, but she was positive hallucinations weren't a symptom of heatstroke.
"You talking about me love?" The knight asked, pointing a finger at his shadowed face, glowing blue eyes reflecting an almost offended confusion.
"Yes!" She yelled as she smacked her arm into the ground in an act of percussive maintenance, attempting to force the cap open.
"Oh him?" Midoriya pointed to the knight, who gave a cheery wave that seemed to drip with sarcasm, "He's a part of my quirk."
"He's-?" Thirteen shook her head, she didn't have time to worry about that, "Help me get out of my suit."
"W-what?" The teen sputtered.
"I can't move in this thing, help me take it off." Thirteen repeated, lifting her leg and dropping it back to the ground to show her lack of motor function.
"O-okay." The teen stuttered with a red face, moving to get behind Thirteen's bulky form.
'Poor kid, heat must be getting to him.' Thirteen thought, misreading the puberty riddled boy.
"Now I need you to press the buttons on the bottom of my helmet, I can handle it from there." Thirteen instructed as she shifted in her suit.
"Are they on the- Oh found it!" Midoriya exclaimed as Thirteen heard a solid click, causing her helmet to rise. One quick tug of the zipper later and Thirteen found herself standing in the middle of the burning street.
Izuku felt his brain short circuit.
He was a walking encyclopedia when it came to hero knowledge, mostly for the top hero's but he knew the name and some facts about all but the newest heroes.
It was with that knowledge that he felt a great deal of excitement and shock at getting to see the face of Thirteen, one of the heroine's famous for never showing what they looked like outside of their suit.
And here he was, joining the small list of people who knew what she truly looked like! The green-haired teen almost squealed as he looked at the pro hero.
And then he looked down, finding the space hero only reached his chest, her Silver hair almost glowing a starry orange in the building's fire. Izuku fought the urge to look further down, his peripheral vision telling him that despite her smaller stature, she was mature beneath a suit that resembled a ventilation garment an astronaut would wear.
The teen decided to take the infinitely more polite route and stare at the hero's eyes, her irises a bright orange that almost glowed against her black sclera.
"We need to get moving." She said, breaking the teen of his awe.
"Right!" He shook his head, trying to keep his fanboying at bay, "Do you know the way out?"
The Space hero looked around, her eyes landing on a street sign, "Yeah, follow me."
"Izuku, carry her." Anders said suddenly.
"Why?" The teen spun on his summons in surprise.
"It'll be quicker if you carry her and she gives directions." The man explained, pointing to the small hero, "Besides, look at her little legs."
"He's right." Thirteen said neutrally, as she kicked Anders in the shin, "I'm not very fast, even without my suit weighing me down."
"A-alright," The teen stuttered, crouching, "h-hop on."
Izuku idle noticed that Thirteen's gloves looked remarkably like her outer suits, only smaller in proportion to her frame.
"Ready? Let's go." She said pointing down the street.
"So Izuku," Thou Whom Agony is Time started in a tone that filled Izuku with dread, "how does it feel to have a woman ride you for the first time?"
'Agony, now really isn't the time!' Izuku lamented.
"Oh, come on." The patron teased. "I know you're enjoying the sensation on your back right now."
'Half of a goddess or not, I will figure out a way to smack you one of these days.'
"You could probably ask my sister to let you, she'd enjoy it though~" Izuku felt his patron smirk and made the wise decision not to respond.
Hagakure had just planted Iida's in the teen's ear when shit started to hit the fan... again.
"Don't you ever shut up!" one of Momo's classmates shouted, she was sure his name was Sato and he was apparently fed up with the villain's monologue.
The cloudy villain didn't get the chance to respond as the yellow-clad teen charged forward, swallowing a packet of what Momo guessed was sugar, causing his eyes to unfocus in a blinding rage.
Another of Momo's giant classmates had apparently decided that Sato's choice was a good one, the masked teen (Shoji or something, she was the classes vice for Pete's sake!) charged after him barely a step behind, his arms extending and sprouting clawed hands at their ends.
"Iida move now!" Momo shouted, jolting the blue-haired teen into action.
"So much for a plan!" Hagakure grumbled, her voice barely being picked up by her earpiece.
"Less griping more acting!" Momo grunted as she pulled a book from her back, flipping with practiced ease to a familiar page. "Magic Missile!"
Three glowing darts formed around her as she poured as much power as she could into the simple spell, the triplet rocketing off to slam into her misty opponent.
The blow caused the villain to stagger and lose his focus on the warp gate he was about to use on the charging giants.
Sato slammed into the center of the villain, knocking the villain into the air and a few feet backward.
Before he could stand, Shogi was on him, six clawed hands slashing through the man's form.
"I made it! "Iida shouted through her earpiece; the signal weak as the teen speed away.
Momo released a sigh she hadn't known she had been holding. Help was going to be on the way, and they had captured one of the seemingly more important villains.
'Nothing could go wrong now.'
It was with that thought that she heard her teacher give an agonizing scream.
So, this chapter was a weird beast to write, got to introduce another of the spirits Izuku has access to in his (Slightly) modified Accursed Specter, a slightly modified Anders…
I really should get around to working on that DA fanfic series I started...
It also frustrates me that I couldn't get all USJ into one chapter, but I felt like getting it out this decade.
Also, PSA to all those who don't follow the FictionPress Twitter, the website disabled PM notifications on November 30th, and as of posting this (December XX) they still haven't reactivated them. So, if you try to reach out to me, or any of your friends/favorite authors through this cite, they may not see it for a while if they don't religiously check notifications.
Another thanks to "Union of Soviet Socialist Pubs" for beta'ing this chapter.
Have a good whatever now!