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Izuku took a deep breath as Bakugo swung his arm at him, sparks flying from the explosive boy's palm.
"Kacchan always starts with a right hook swing, so to counteract that I need -" Izuku's mind mentally flipped through three different notebooks about close-quarters fighting, Bakugo, and tips that Enso gave him before, finding a method to counterattack.
"Grab him by the arm!" Izuku dashed forward and used both of his arms to grab Bakugo's moving right arm.
"What the-!?" Bakugo's smile was wiped into a look of shock, not expecting Izuku to rush forward.
Izuku then swerved his body so that his back faced Bakugo, One For All lighting his body.
"Wow, he's like a martial arts master!" Ochako explained in the monitoring room.
Momo's eyes widened and she smiled when she saw Izuku's movements, "It's the same as in the parking lot!"
Bakugo was just as shocked, "What the hell is up with him!? He read my moves!?"
Izuku grit his teeth, "One For All, 5%!"
"SLAAAM!"
Izuku focused more of his power into his arms and yanked Bakugo over his shoulder, slamming the boy to the ground with a powerful impact. The ground shook and Bakugo coughed, all the wind suddenly knocked out of him.
Many of Izuku's classmates put on looks of shock from the demonstration of skill.
"Whoa! Look at Midoriya!" yelled Kaminari.
"Impressive power…" muttered Fumikage Tokoyami, a boy with a bird-shaped head.
Bakugo laid sprawled down on the ground for a moment, far from out and rising back to his feet with his teeth gritting in anger. He shot a menacing look at the boy.
"Deku..." He growled.
Izuku gulped nervously as he back up, "I-I've spent all these years training and analyzing anyone that I saw powerful Kacchan! Don't think that you could easily blow me away!"
Hearing this made Bakugo even more pissed, "I'll fucking kill you... You really think you could just do that to me!?"
"What's Bakugo saying? I can't really tell with the fixed camera position and the lack of sound." Kirishima commented with his eyes fixed to the screen.
"It looks like the two of them are saying something to each other." The invisible girl said.
Momo could already guess what they were saying, a hand over her heart in sadness.
Ochako noticed her gaze and glanced up at her, somehow already getting a feeling of what was going on.
"Is this... A battle between men?" Ochako asked her.
Momo looked down and gave her a sad smile, "Yes... Something like that."
"I see... Well, then let's cheer for Deku to do his best!" Ochako said, putting on a smile.
Momo nodded, "Of course."
All Might and Enso stood beside each other, both looking rather impressed.
"So this is how much young Midoriya has grown." All Might exclaimed in a proud voice.
"Don't get too emotional, it's only just beginning." Enso interjected.
Now completely up, Bakugo pointed his left palm behind him and blasted forward.
At the same time, Izuku dashed towards him with Full Cowling.
Using another explosion from his palm, Bakugo spun mid-air and added momentum to his leg, then swinging it for a heavy kick once close enough.
Seeing the kick coming, Izuku fell to his knees and leaned back rather flexibly, sliding on the ground as Bakugo's leg went just above his head.
Both passed each other dramatically, with one's glare gazing at the other's nervous stare.
"Oi, fabulous!" The caped laser teen, Yuga Aoyama, remarked about their forms.
Bakugo didn't even land on his feet before sending an explosion forward to propel himself back to Izuku once more.
"DEKU!"
Izuku got up and turned back to see him coming again, "He's so aggressive!"
He raised his left arm just in time as Bakugo swung his right arm down over him.
Their arms collided in a powerful impact, Izuku's forearm parrying Bakugo's gauntlet.
"I gotta hit him before he blasts me with his other arm!" Izuku took advantage of his free right arm and thrust his palm up, slamming it under Bakugo's chin and forcing his head to look upward.
Bakugo felt pain in his jaw, "Nngh! His stupid quirk is making his movements faster!"
Despite the pain, he still didn't hesitate to point his other arm down at Izuku.
Izuku already knew what Bakugo was doing even before the explosions came out, pulling his arms back and retreating before narrowly avoiding a blast. "Even though he's getting hurt, he'll still try to be on the offensive!"
A cloud of smoke covered the area in front of Izuku as he landed a few feet away, slightly bending his knees.
"The moment he gets the chance, he'll try to leap at me again!" Izuku brought his arm up and positioned his fingers, having his thumb grip his middle finger.
"Time to try out my new technique! There's no way Kacchan will expect this!"
He aimed his hand to the smoke and used his other arm to support his held up arm.
All Might raised his head as he saw the boy aim his fingers. "Don't tell me he's going to break his finger!? That would heavily damage the building!"
"Relax, he's not that stupid." Enso reassured him.
All Might sweatdropped.
"Wait for it, wait for it..." Izuku's arm shook nervously,
He saw a shadow move in the smoke for a split second before Bakugo emerged from it, blasting forward.
"There!" Izuku charged up his power and aimed directly at Bakugo.
Bakugo's eyes widened as he noticed this, "What the-!?"
"5%..."
"Delaware Smash!" Izuku shouted as he flicked his middle finger. Delivering an unintentional message along with a powerful wind-pressure shockwave directed right at Bakugo.
Bakugo pointed both of his palms forwards at the incoming force and released two explosions together, colliding it with the shockwave and creating an even larger explosion that's force sent the two teens in opposite directions.
Izuku grunted and used his arms to cover his face as he was sent flying down the corridor.
Momo gasped.
"Bakugo is... stronger than I anticipated. His reactions are on point and he really has a good grip on his quirk." Enso shamefully admitted.
Izuku rolled on the ground as he landed but spun back up to a crouching position, looking ahead at the smoke-covered area.
"Kacchan must've been sent back, now is my chance to run and regroup with Mina!" He got up and bolted away from the smoke using Full Cowling's speed, then jumping from wall to walls until he went around the corner.
Bakugo jumped through the smoke, ready to fight once again.
Only to see Izuku no longer around.
His hands clenched into fists, "COME BACK HERE DEKU!" he screamed as he started to run down the path he thought Izuku took.
Izuku took sharp corners and jumped along the wall to make sure he wouldn't waste his head start, putting a lot of distance between himself and his bully. When he was sure that he was no longer following him, he hid behind a corner of the hall, deactivate Full Cowling, and continued to run normally down the different corridors.
"If I use Full Cowling, then no doubt Kacchan will hear me zooming around, his senses are too sharp! He might already know the direction I took. Not only that, but there's no doubt he'll be fighting me more cautiously after seeing what I could do!"
"WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU LIE TO ME!?" He suddenly heard Bakugo shout from the top of his lungs.
Izuku stopped running, head freezing with a staggered look by what he heard.
"YOU GOT A FLASHY QUIRK ALL THIS TIME?! SO WHY DID YOU LIE ABOUT IT!?"
Izuku heard explosions in the distance, prompting him to run again, although looking down with a new feeling of guilt.
"I'm sorry Kacchan..."
"FIGHT ME WITH YOUR DAMN QUIRK! YOU OWE ME THAT MUCH AT LEAST! COME AND GET ME! OR DO YOU KNOW THAT I'LL BEAT YOU!?"
Izuku looked down with a sad expression, "It wasn't that I was lying... I would never lie to you Kacchan. I just never told you when I did get my quirk..."
"Wow, Bakugo looks so angry that it's scary!" Kirishima said with a worried look.
All Might looked rather nervous as well, especially since he had listened to everything Bakugo said from the earpieces.
"I knew that Bakugo was rather full of himself after hearing it from Izuku, but this is ridiculous."
"Hm, he's keeping Bakugo busy. Baiting him to chase after him until his teammate completes the objective. Not a bad plan, since his teammate, Ashido, has a huge advantage over Sero because of her acidic quirk." Enso commented, snapping All Might out of his personal thoughts.
"And by running away, he can minimize the damage from Bakugo's and his own attacks, especially after seeing the scale of destructive power they both have." Momo added as well.
"But why do I feel like something bad is gonna happen?" Ochako asked, rubbing her hands together nervously.
"Go Mina!" The invisible girl cheered.
They glanced at the corner screen and discovered that Mina had found the location of the bomb, acting sneaky-like and striking poses as if she was in some sort of spy movie.
A few people sweatdropped.
"Hopefully she could get to the bomb before anything bad happens." Enso said aloud.
Mina peeked around the corner and saw a rather open room with multiple columns in it. But what made this room very distinctive about any other room, was the amount of tape wrapped around the pillars.
"This must be where they have the bomb." She grinned.
She tiptoed into the room, muttering the mission impossible theme, and hid behind a pillar. She peeked around it and saw some faint signs of a large and black object, surrounded by tons of white tape.
"There it is!"
She attempted to move closer, only to realized that every path she could take was covered with walls of tape.
She pouted, "All of this tape is so annoying!" She then flung a small portion of acid and dissolved the tape in front of her.
But the dissolving clearly made noise.
"There you are!"
"Urk!" Mina realized what she had done and saw Sero come out from behind the bomb, spotting exactly where she was.
"She gave away her hidden position. How foolish." Enso remarked with a disappointed sigh.
"I knew you'd be here sooner or late!" Sero grinned.
Mina looked slightly embarrassed, "I guess I did kind of expose myself..."
Sero shot out some tape from his right elbow towards Mina.
"Don't think so!" Mina swung her arm and released a wave of acid in front of her, dissolving the tape that had attempted to render her immobile.
Sero retracted the remaining undissolved tape back into his elbow with a somewhat worried expression. "This may be a problem."
He put his hand to his earpiece and he stuck out his other elbow, sending tape out of it and wrapping it around a box.
"Bakugo! Ashido is here, I need some help!" he yelled as he pulled his elbow and swung the box at Mina.
Mina simply splashed another wave of acid in front of her and the box dissolved before it even had the chance to hit her. She then struck a dance pose with a grin. "Can't touch this!"
"Bakugo, where are you?! I need help!" Sero shouted in his earpiece, using his tape to throw more objects at Mina.
"Help yourself! I'm busy!" Bakugo shouted over the earpiece, then cutting off to eternal silence.
"This guy!"
Mina jumped to the side to avoid a barrel, then splashing more acid at another one that came at her.
She then heard Izuku's voice over her own earpiece. "Mina, have you located the bomb?"
Mina jumped behind a pillar and placed her back on it. "Yeah, Midori! I'm here three floors below from where we split up! I'm against tape guy now, but it should be easy!"
"Don't underestimate him! You never know what tricks he might have. Be careful!"
"For you Midori, of course." Mina said in a teasing manner.
She heard the boy fumble with his words, "Th-Then u-m, I'll leave it up to you!"
Mina heard the line cut off and grinned. "So easy to tease him. I could enjoy this."
She then saw some tape fly past her, "Eh?"
The tape went across from her and attached to a barrel, then suddenly yanked towards her position at fast speeds.
"Kya!" Mina dove out of the way and the barrel slammed into the pillar, forming a dent in itself.
She immediately got back up with a pout, "No fair! I was hiding!"
"How is that not fair? This matchup shouldn't be fair..." Sero sweatdropped, retracting his tape back.
Izuku jogged down several corridors, avoiding any path that had the sounds of an angry blonde boy coming from it. He managed to get to some stairs and went down them, but it only took him down one level. He continued going through many corridors, frantically searching for any more flights of stairs, but failing to find any and feeling rather frustrated.
"Why was the building layout out this way!? I may understand that we have to learn to adjust to any situation indoors, but this is ridiculous! Why would the stairs not be together!?"
Izuku stopped searching and sat down, catching his breath and rethink his strategy.
"Kacchan must've realized the unique layout of this building, but he somehow managed to find Mina and me so quickly. He must've had Sero use his quirk to pull Bakugo upward the moment he didn't see me at the entrance, avoiding the hassle of searching for the stairs and also avoiding giving away his position if he would've just blasted his way to the lower floors."
Izuku stood back up and took a deep breath, pacing himself through the corridors once more. "I have to meet up with Mina to finish this as soon as possible, I don't think we have much time. With her and I against Sero, it should only be a moment before we get the bomb-"
A sudden explosion blasted a part of the wall away in front of Izuku's path, catching the boy off guard and causing him to stumble back.
"N-Nani!?"
Bakugo stepped out of the large and smoking hole with eyes of murderous intent gazing at Izuku.
"He found me already!?"
"Stop fucking running Deku." Bakugo said, surprisingly not shouting it at this point.
Izuku got back up to his feet and backed up nervously, pulling out the capture tape from his pocket and unraveling some of it.
"I could try to run again, but Kacchan may expect it and catch me this time. Based on the quirk assessment test, Kacchan may just be a bit faster than me if he constantly propelled himself forward with his quirk, I only beat him at that test because I used more than my 5% to jump! I may not be able to outrun him!"
"Oi, where's that flashy light show now?" Bakugo growled, walking towards Izuku with his arms down. His eye dilated with red veins boldly showing his rage.
"You think you could beat me without using your quirk? Is that it!?"
"N-No Kacchan! I-" Izuku didn't get to finish before Bakugo blasted forward at him.
Izuku jumped back rather high to avoid an explosion sent to where he was just standing, the blast breaking apart some of the ground.
Bakugo had waited for this, "There!" He blasted himself upward and propelled himself towards Izuku in the air.
Izuku saw him coming close, "Full Cowling!" He shined in the air and pulled his leg back.
"DIE!" Bakugo stretched his palm out at Izuku, just about to fire.
But Izuku swung his leg forward in the air, the force of his swing giving him enough momentum to basically perform an overhead kick.
His body leaned back and his leg swung upward, kicking directly underneath Bakugo's gauntlet and forcing his hand to release the explosion upward rather than at him.
Bakugo's eyes widened, "He did a backflip while stuck in the air!?"
Instinctively, Bakugo pointed his other arm forward and blasted himself back, landing on his feet as Izuku flipped himself to nail the landing as well.
However, Izuku was sweating buckets with eyes the size of pie plates, "What did I just do!? That was the first time I've ever tried something like that! I even stuck the landing! Oh god, I hope I'm not making Kacchan even angrier! He should've had me there!"
Enso and All Might blinked multiple times.
"Did you teach him that?" All Might whispered.
"Nope." Enso said, sounding rather impressed that Izuku performed such a move.
Bakugo tightened his hands into fists, looking more serious than angry now. "Hey... Where did you learn to do all those moves?"
"H-Huh?" Izuku uttered nervously, getting into another fighting stance.
"I know damn well that your sorry ass could never teach yourself that! You couldn't do anything yourself! There has to be someone teaching you that shit!" Bakugo shouted louder.
Izuku gulped nervously, "Y-You don't need to know. N-Not right now at least."
Bakugo grit his teeth, "So after all these years of lying, you still choose not to tell me what the fuck is going on? Fine, then you can go to hell!"
He lifted up his right arm and pointed his gauntlet at Izuku, palm not even open.
Izuku was confused by this action, "What's he doing?"
Bakugo formed an evil grin, "From your stalking, there's no doubt you already know what my quirk does! But what you don't know, is that if the higherups up there made this thing here exactly as I asked, then it'll store the nitroglycerin sweat, which means..."
Izuku's eyes widened. "A gauntlet that looks like a grenade. And based on what he just said-" He formed a terrified expression, "-NO WAY!"
In the monitoring room, All Might figure out the same thing Izuku did, immediately pressing his microphone and shouting into it, "Young Bakugo stop! Are you trying to kill him!?"
Many eyes in the room opened in shock.
"What!?" Momo abruptly shouted.
Bakugo just continued to grin, "If I don't hit him, he won't die!"
Sure enough, even if not a lot of people noticed it, Bakugo had slightly adjusted the position of his gauntlet so the blast he'd fire wouldn't directly hit Izuku.
However, Izuku didn't notice and panicked, "I gotta move out of the way!"
Bakugo pulled the pin, making a clinking sound.
"NOW!"
Izuku focused his power into his legs, but just as he was about to jump-
*Crack*
-A part of the ground crumbled underneath Izuku's foot from all the force he and Bakugo had caused before.
With the ground more shallow than expected, and because of the fast speed he tried to go, Izuku's foot ended up going deeper into the ground, resulting in him losing his footing and falling forward.
"Eh?"
Everything happened in a split second, but the world felt much slower than that.
Bakugo's gauntlet unleashed its full power, a flash of light occuring with it.
Izuku noticed the entirety of his surroundings around him, his body moving in slow motion as he fell.
He noticed the giant explosion of flames and smoke already come out of Bakugo's gauntlet, he noticed the crumbled parts of the ground around him that caused his fall, and he saw the look Bakugo had on his face, slowly changing from a grin to a look of horror as he realized exactly what was happening.
Izuku was falling, falling right in the direction that Bakugo had already sent his gauntlet's explosion.
The most terrifying part of the moment for Izuku...
Was watching the large area of flames hurtling towards him, almost like a beast heading for the kill on its prey. But what was even worse, was knowing that this 'beast' was going to get him.
"There's no way I can avoid that! No matter how I move while mid-air, it'll be a direct hit! Even if I use my arms to shield myself, I won't be able to survive..."
Izuku could feel water coming to his eyes as the flames got closer.
"No way... Am I really gonna die? After working so hard to get here? After doing all that I could to make All Might proud? After getting taught so much by Enso, it'll all just end because of a fluke!?"
His life flashed before his eyes. Despite being a short story for him, he still remembered so many important moments from it, whether good or bad.
He remembered first seeing All Might saving dozens of people in a fire, he remembered finding out that he was quirkless, the pain he felt from getting bullied, getting saved by All Might and being told to inherit his quirk, meeting Enso and training with him, so many things he remembered.
"Damn it... Damn it! Why!? I don't want to die! I... I just wanted to become a hero! I-I-"
Izuku stared straight at the fire.
"I want to live."
The world moved at normal speeds the moment he finished that last thought, a black color forming around his eyes.
But then he completely disappearing in flames.
"NO!" Ochako screamed at the top of her lungs, hands on her cheeks and eyes wide open with a look of pure horror.
"IZUKU!" Momo screamed with her.
Enso narrowed his eyes, "No way."
The screens were covered in flames and the area violently shook in the monitoring room from the force of the explosion.
Everyone else was in complete disbelief, wondering if what they saw actually happened.
"D-D-Did Bakugo just kill him!?" yelled Mineta, tears in his eyes from fear.
"I thought this was supposed to be a class!? What the hell man!?" Kaminari yelled out in anger.
"Is he crazy!? There's no way he survived that!" Kirishima added in.
In the room where the bomb was, the whole area shook violently, causing Mina losing her balance.
"H-Hey!" She stumbled forward but used her arms to hold onto the pillar next to her.
Sero backed up onto a pillar as well, "What just happened!?"
When the shaking died down, Mina put her hand to her earpiece. "Midori! What happened over there!?"
There was only static.
"Young Midoriya! Are you alright!? Please answer! Young Bakugo, what has happened to young MIdoriya?!" All Might desperately shouted into his microphone. He received no response back from Bakugo nor Izuku, causing his fear to grow by the second.
Enso turned his back to the class and lifted up his watch, projecting a small diagram of Izuku's body on it and scanning all areas of it while the others had their eyes glued to the screen.
A lot of smoke had been created from the explosion, but it was now beginning to clear away. People were shaking as they watched more and more smoke disappear.
The first thing that was revealed was Bakugo.
He was now on his knees with a confused, fearful look on his face. Sweat dripped from him as he shook with widened eyes, staring ahead of him in disbelief.
Momo's eyes frantically shot from screen to screen, desperately searching for any sign of Izuku. "Please be okay! Please be okay! PLEASE!"
Ochako could only keep her eyes on one screen, the one that contained Bakugo with smoke ahead of him, waiting for it to clear up to see any sign of Izuku.
"D-Deku's tough, h-he destroyed that robot in one punch! H-He must've survived this, he must!"
The smoke cleared up.
"He... must..." When Ochako saw the hall ahead of Bakugo, her hopes shattered.
The entire hall in front of Bakugo was now completely black from being burnt and had been destroyed in the entire distance the blast had traveled.
But everyone's eyes were fixed on one thing.
Izuku, lying lifelessly on the floor.
He had no sign of movement whatsoever. Many parts of his hair and clothes were burned, there were visible layers of skin that had been burnt, and he was bleeding in several places. His head faced the ground, covering whatever face he was making at the time and his arms were spawled out. The entire wall behind the boy was completely obliterated, as there was now a giant open hole in it that showed the sky.
He was completely lifeless, some of the breezes from the hole blew some of his hair and there were some tiny flames around him burning patches of clothes laying around. He no longer had the mask or protrusions of his costume, as those had literally been blasted away in the explosion. His body was surrounded by black burn marks and even what appeared to be ashes.
Ochako fell to her knees, tears now forming in her eyes, "N-No... no..." Her voice cracked.
Momo covered her mouth, tears already going down her eyes as she whimpered.
Bakugo was frozen in place, still processing what had just happened. He was trembling, staring at what's left of his rival several yards ahead of him.
"You're… You're shitting me right?" He slowly got up to his feet, "Deku, get up…" he said in a low voice.
Izuku didn't move.
"You can't be fucking dead! I-I can't be a fucking murderer!" Bakugo said louder, taking a step forward. "Get... Get the fuck up Deku!" He yelled desperately.
Enso stared down at the holographic diagram of Izuku, eyes widened and stunned. "No way. Body in critical condition, multiple third-degree burns, but..."
"H-He's dead!" Mineta cried out.
All Might slightly lowered the mic, "Young Bakugo... What have you done?"
"Wait." Enso spoke.
Everyone turned to him, and he turned to everyone.
"He's alive."
Enso presented the holographic diagram to them. "I don't know how, or why he survived that, but despite the third-degree burns, internal injuries, and suffering a blow to the head... he's alive."
The diagram showed an outline of Izuku, his heart still beating.
Momo took the initiative the moment she saw that he was truly alive, taking a step forward. "Then we have to help him right away!" She turned to All Might. "Sensei! We have to get medical assistance right away!"
A sudden yellow exclamation mark notification appeared on the diagram of Izuku, beeping on and off and catching everyone's attention once more.
"Wh-What does that mean!?" Ochako screamed, fearing the worst again.
Enso actually looked surprised by this, "Wait." He starting tapping a few things and checked what was the problem.
He was perplexed.
"He's moving?" he muttered aloud.
Everyone's attention spun back to the screen with a newfound look of confusion.
Despite Izuku's body burned, bruised, and covered in ash, his body started to move. First, it was his finger twitching, then it was his arm slightly shifting, and then he had begun to move his legs.
Bakugo backed up, "What the hell!? He's alive!?"
Izuku had his head down, completely hiding his face from anyone, and slowly raise himself off the ground. He somehow was only using his legs to support himself up, slowly but surely getting back to his feet like some sort of zombie. As he got up, his body shook, his arms limply hung at his sides, and small pieces of rubble fell off of him.
But he didn't straighten his body all the way, suddenly stopping his movements with a hunched back and head hanging down. There was something clearly abnormal about this, especially after just getting hit by such a devastating attack.
Everyone was stunned. Izuku had taken the full impact of that blast, yet he stood back up, not even showing any signs of intense pain.
"Hey, hey, what the hell?" Kaminari remarked, an eye twitching.
"I-Impossible..." muttered Iida.
Bakugo didn't know what to make out of Izuku's recovery, seeing that he wasn't dead. But seeing the boy get right back up after that attack made him feel angry, remembering every instance of his life where no matter how many times he beat the boy to a pulp, he would always get back up later, whether to oppose him or to hang around him.
His hands clenched into fists, "Oi, Deku! You're fucking mocking me, aren't you!? You think you could just get up and look as if that was nothing to you?! Huh!? do you!?"
Izuku didn't say anything, he just remained still.
Bakugo took a step forward, "Answer me!"
"Sensei! Stop Bakugo before he does even more harm to Izuku!" Momo begged All Might.
All Might remembered his teaching position and snapped out of the stunned state he was in. "Oh, right!" He turned on the mic, "Young Bakugo, enough! Midoriya is in critical condition!"
Bakugo gritted his teeth, "He looks fine to me!"
A triangular red danger notification with a black exclamation mark suddenly appeared over Izuku's diagram, beeping in a small alarm for Enso.
Enso immediately proceeded to tap certain areas and noticed the black spots around Izuku on the diagram change.
His eyes widened, "What in the world?" he glanced at the screen and saw the ashes on Izuku's body begin to move. "What's happening?"
The invisible girl, Toru Hagakure, also noticed the sudden movement. "Whoa! Somethings happening to Midori!" she alerted the class.
The rest of the class looked closer.
Despite Izuku standing still, there was clear movement on him, or rather, around him. The black 'ashes' on different parts of his body suddenly started to move into a rather transparent and flame-like aura around the rest of his body.
Enso couldn't believe his eyes, he went down to his watch and immediately had it analyze the aura. He got a result he wasn't expecting, "Those aren't ashes around his body! It's... It's..."
His eyes widened at the realization.
"Energy."
Izuku visibly shook and clenched his hands tightly into fists, the aura around him starting to get so intense that the debris on the floor and the loose concrete on the walls began to violently shake.
Bakugo felt the building shake and glanced around his surroundings, noticing the sudden force.
"What the fuck!? What's happening?" He turned back and looked in Izuku's direction, "Is he trying to intimidate me?"
Bakugo looked rather serious as he raised his hand to his earpiece, "See? I told you he's fine."
He then started taking steps to the boy, small explosions in the palm of his other hand.
"Young Bakugo! Stop! That doesn't mean-"
All Might didn't get to finish before Izuku's energy spiked on Enso's watch.
Izuku suddenly pulled his head up so fast that you think he would've snapped it, finally giving Bakugo and the others a full view of his face, but it wasn't anything they expected to see.
Bakugo felt his entire body shiver and his eyes widened, suddenly freezing up as he saw Izuku change.
A menacing pair of red eyes.
The pure, innocent green color the boy had in his eyes was gone, replaced with a murderous, blood-red gaze that shined similarly to Enso's eyes. But Izuku's gaze looked even more deadly as the scleras of both of his eyes had completely changed to black, resembling Ashido's eyes. The veins of his eyes were coursing in red, contrasting themselves within the pure black color of his scleras and giving off an intense vibe.
He had a dead gaze staring directly at Bakugo, tilting his head to the side rather abnormally as if he was a monster from a horror movie.
Bakugo shivered and instinctively took a step back, "What the fuck?! Did I-Did I just get scared by this nerd!?"
Momo was understandably terrified by Izuku's new look, as it clearly wasn't anything that she had ever seen nor heard about him before. "Izuku, what happened to you?!"
Izuku maintained his abnormally dead look at Bakugo, arms hanging at his sides as he took one step forward to the teen.
Bakugo grit his teeth, "So you're finally ready to stop running away? After you nearly die-"
Izuku squatted his legs and disappeared in a blink of an eye, sending a blast of wind behind him from his blinding speed.
"What the-!?"
*BAM!*
"UMPH!" Bakugo suddenly felt an intense pain in his stomach, coughing up all the air out of it. He only had a moment to realize that there was a fist on his stomach, belonging to the person he thought he had killed a moment ago.
He saw Izuku's fist right on his stomach, looking as if he was vibrating due to the unexplainable speeds he went in, still maintaining a dead gaze staring up at Bakugo's eyes with a black aura around him.
The powerful punch sent Bakugo flying backwards all the way across the hallway, only to stop when his back crashed against the wall at the end, bouncing off of it and landing onto the floor facefirst.
The class went ballistic.
"What the hell just happened!?"
"All I did was blink and Bakugo is now on the floor!?"
"This must be the special power that Izuku has. It must've activated right before he was about to get hit by the explosion, protecting the boy from certain death." Enso immediately theorized. "But... Izuku should be unconscious right now, regardless if he used the power, so why is he up and lashing out?"
Bakugo had his head down and clutched his stomach in pain. Yet, he forced himself back to his feet. "What… *cough* the fuck was that?" He grunted.
He rose his head up to look again, but when he did.
Izuku's death glare was already right in front of him.
Bakugo couldn't understand what had happened, but he didn't hesitate to raise his right arm and blast Izuku right in front of him.
The only problem was, he missed.
Izuku had vanished on the spot so fast that he left an afterimage of himself right before Bakugo had attempted to blast him.
Bakugo heard a woosh over him and his head shot up to see Izuku over him with a foot surrounded in black, coming right down on him in an axe kick.
"What the fuck!?" Reacting quickly, Bakugo raised both of his arms up in a cross-shaped defender's stance, attempting to use his gauntlets to protect himself.
Izuku's kick completely shattered Bakugo's gauntlets with ease, going through them and continuing down until the heel of his foot slammed directly onto Bakugo's forearms.
Loud cracks echoed and Bakugo instantly felt one of his arms break, causing him to yell in pain.
It didn't end there though, as Izuku's leg flared up even more intensely in black, forcing it down even harder on Bakugo and causing cracks to occur in the ground.
The force was so strong that the ground gave way under Bakugo, breaking apart and allowing Izuku to give his leg one more push to sent his tormentor straight down through the ground like a bullet.
Bakugo crashed through floor after floor, his back hitting multiple layers of rooms and heading all the way down to the bottom.
Mina nearly had Sero cornered near the bomb before the roof collapsed down at one part of the room and the two saw the explosive teen go straight down, crashing through the floor and heading all the way to the bottom.
"What the hell!? Was that Bakugo!?" Sero shouted, catching what he thought was the teen from the corner of his eye.
"I didn't see... Oh well! Carrying on!" Mina said as she sprayed more acid.
"Hey!" Sero shouted as he pulled the new piles of rocks with his tape to use as projectiles.
The two didn't even notice as a green and black blur following down after Bakugo.
Bakugo ultimately crashed at the bottom floor with a giant explosion of dirt and rock, the entire area getting obscured by huge amounts of rubble kicking up.
There wasn't even a moment of silence before Izuku came from above with his two red boots pointing straight down.
He landed directly on Bakugo's chest, the impact creating enough force to disperse all the dust at once and causing the cracking of Bakugo's ribs to echo.
Bakugo couldn't even yell in pain, he could only let out a loud grunt and taste some blood in his mouth.
That was when everything seemed to freeze for a moment.
Bakugo laid on the ground, one arm completely broken and the other in intense pain. He had blood in the corner of his mouth and could feel many of his ribs broken from when Izuku landed right on top of him.
Izuku stood off of Bakugo's chest, his eyes mercilessly glaring down at him.
The class was shaking.
"Wh-Wh-What the hell just happened?" Mineta stammered in a scared whimper.
"Holy shit…" Whispered Kyoka Jiro, a teen girl who had short purple hair, onyx eyes, and plug-like earlobes.
"I've never seen speed or power like that… other than from All Might…" muttered Mezo Shoji, a tall boy with multiple arms and a mask.
All Might was shocked. He had never seen something this... destructive from Izuku. He couldn't even comprehend what had just happened. One moment, the boy looked as if he had died, but in the next, he had completely turned the tables against his opponent.
"What... What is going on?" He muttered.
Enso was still perplexed as to how Izuku was performing these feats. But one thing he knew was that those eyes the boy had, they looked far too villainous for it to be Izuku.
He looked down at the diagram of Izuku's state. There was activity in the brain and his heart rate had progressed rather fast.
"Is that... really Izuku?"
Izuku stood over a heavily injured Bakugo. Yet, he reached down and wrapped his palm by his face, grabbing the boy and raising him off the ground.
Bakugo grunted in pain and opened one eye, glaring right at Izuku. He couldn't even lift either of his arms to blast the boy, as they were both completely out of commission.
He did the only thing he could do.
Which was to insult the boy.
"Deku... You fucking bastard..." He grunted out, not even able to yell.
Izuku wasn't fazed at all by his words, he just stared into Bakugo's soul.
Bakugo then felt Izuku's grip tighten on his head, tighten to the point where he felt his skull starting to feel crushed.
"GNNRK!" Bakugo grunted in pain.
All Might pressed his microphone, "Young Midoriya stop! Any more and you'll kill him!"
Hearing his voice, Izuku stopped.
His dead gaze turned into a rather surprised look, standing still for a few moments as if he was processing what to do.
He released Bakugo from his grasp, dropping him onto the floor and taking a few steps back in what almost seemed to be fear. Bakugo was completely unconscious at this point, the pain to his head being to last straw to knocking him out.
Everyone stood quiet, still in awe from the demonstration of power.
Izuku fell to his knees, looking down into his hands which had the firey black aura surrounding them. He looked confused, scared, shaking as his aura started to weaken.
Actually, rather than 'weaken', the aura looked go be retracting back to Izuku, but with obvious effects with it. The veins around his body emerged with black coursing through them, his whole body tensed up and he raised his head up with a loud scream.
"GNAAAAAAAAHH!'
Every part of his eyes had turned completely black now, but there were visible tears of pain going down them.
"Wh-What's happening to him!?" Ochako cried out.
"It must be his body finally taking back whatever it is he used just now." Enso theorized.
Momo saw the pain in the boy's eyes and could feel herself cringing, "This... This isn't like anything he's told me about the backlash of his quirk!"
The black color in Izuku's veins disappeared, the boy closed his eyes as his body finally reached its limit, suddenly falling forward over onto the ground, completely unconscious.
Enso immediately formed a yellow aura and ran out of the room with a blast of speed.
All Might did the same and ran out with him.
"SO FAST!" The class thought.
They both reached the battlefield in no time, rushing into the hole and inspect both teenager's conditions.
All Might put two fingers on Bakugo's neck, "He's alright! Well, a little less than alright..." He immediately corrected himself, noticing the broken limbs of the boy.
Enso did the same, "Izuku is..."
He got silent.
All Might felt himself turn cold.
"...alive."
"Don't pause like that, it scares me!" He yelled at him.
"Yay! I did it!" They then heard from above.
The two looked up and saw Mina a few floors above, barely in enough view for the two to see her hugging the bomb, which had fallen to its side. Sero was lying on the floor a few feet from her with a visible red mark of a punch on his face and completely white eyes, clearly unconscious after taking a punch from the girl.
Enso looked back to All Might, "Well, you know what to say."
All Might glanced down at Izuku and Bakugo, then sighing and rubbing the back of his head.
"Yes..."
He pulled the microphone from his pocket and turned it on.
"Hero team wins."