When Izuku woke up in the hospital, he was not expecting to be in the situation that they now had before them. When Izuku finally awoke, he found each of his arms in a cast. At first he was confused until memories of what happened at the camp came flooding back to them. Wait, them? Oh right!
"Deku?" Say the devil's name and he will appear, or this case, the alien symbiote. A tendril with the familiar creepy, yet comforting, face of the young hero in training's bestest friend slithered from their once again shared body.
"Hey Izuku," said the symbiote. What started as a few tears at the edges of their eyes became water fountains of the liquid pouring from each of them as they embraced each other happily. Soon the rest of class 1-A came into the room to see this touching scene. After a few happy and heartfelt greetings for a lost and found friend, Kirishima had asked them to meet him outside for an unknown reason.
A doctor then walked into the room to give the green haired hero's diagnosis. "Alright, so we looked at some x-rays and found some gruesome news. The cartilage in your joints are becoming weakened. You eventually won't be able to use your arms anymore if you end up using your power over your limit…" Izuku looked at his hands in slight fear and sadness. "Is what I would be saying if it weren't for your symbiotic friend there." The doctor then finished pointing at the said tendril with a face, who currently had a bashful look upon it. "It apparently has quite the advanced healing factor, but it did seem quite tired after replacing all the worn down cartilage with new and stronger tissue. I wouldn't suggest making work that hard again."
Later outside, Kirishima, Shoto and Momo were all awaiting him outside. "So what's this all about?" Izuku asked, Deku reforming from his shoulder.
"...I want to go and save Bakugo, and I want you two to help me out," Kirishima responds. Izuku and Deku looked on in shock. Before they could give an answer, Iida stood before them all, his face indistinguishable.
"Well?" he asks calmly. "Are you going?" They were silent having no answer at first, but a look of determination began to form on their face, until Iida gave Izuku a nasty right hook. "I know that look on your face Midoriya! Don't be an idiot and make the same mistake I did!"
"We couldn't save our friend once, we won't let it happen again!" Deku exclaims, only to be silenced by a single glare from the four-eyed speedster, but they wouldn't back down and both glared back at Iida with the same determination as before.
"We won't fight anyone. We'll only go to save Kacchan and nothing more," Izuku suggested.
"You're insane to think that a plan like that would work!" Iida exclaims before turning to Momo. "You seriously cannot be fine with doing this!" She simply looked away, eyes glued to the floor.
"Iida," Kirishima said. "Bakugo is my friend. I'm going to go save him whether anyone helps me or not."
The class president looks at them all sceptically. "Fine," he says, "but I'm coming with you."
The gang soon found themselves at a clothes store to get some disguises. Why Momo doesn't make them? The rest of the group think it's her lust for shopping that's the reason. Anyways, Izuku and Deku were the last to pick out their disguise, a simple forest green open zipper hoodie and down black jacket with dark grey shorts was all Izuku planned to wear while Deku coated him beneath the clothes. They gave it to an old man that seemed to be of american descent with balding white hair and a mustache, and was wearing a pair of shades indoors for some reason.
"I would like these please," Izuku said handing the man their purchase.
"You doing anything tonight?" the man asked.
"Just going out," was their quick answer. The man simply grinned.
"Alright, just take care of yourselves. The both of you," he said handing them their new clothes all put on Momo's debit card. It took them a moment until what the man had said registered into their mind. When they looked back at the counter they found it to be empty.
Meanwhile at a certain bar, the league of villains had one Katsuki Bakugo sitting in a chair. Shigaraki was looking at the young man after previously unchaining him awaiting the answer to his recently asked question. "So what will it be?"
"...Hell no," came Bakugo's answer. "I'm gonna be the next number 1 hero damn it! No way will I become a villain! I'll be the strongest there is!"
Shigaraki simply stared at Katsuki for a few seconds before smiling again. "The strongest huh?" A cart with a metallic tube was brought out before him. "What if I said we could provide you that great strength you lust for?" the metal then flipped into the cart revealing a glass tube with an orange symbiote inside. "This is a creature I'm sure you're familiar with, yes?"
Bakugo looked at the creature. He made a look of disgust, but his eyes couldn't help but stare at the familiar substance. "What is it? An overgrown piece of shit?"
The symbiote then launched at Bakugo after making that comment, only to be stopped by the glass. "Oh... it doesn't like it when they're insulted," Shigaraki said with a sneer. "Don't bother trying to play dumb Katsuki, we know that you are familiar with that symbiote your classmate named Deku."
Bakugo only grunted in anger at Shigaraki. "Yeah, I know that damn nerd's weird slimy friend, so what?!"
"That 'slimy friend' is the same species as it," Shigaraki states gesturing to the symbiote in the container. "Join us, and they're all yours. The power, the strength, the might. You'll finally be able to show that 'damn nerd' his place below your feet! So what do you say?"
"...My answer is still the same, HELL NO!"
"What?!"
"You think I'm stupid?! Well I'm not dumbass!" Bakugo yells, standing up and smacking the hand from Shigaraki's face, causing all the other villains to go on edge. "I told you, I'm not joining your damn league! And even if I was interested, I wouldn't accept that shitty sludge anyways! I'll become the strongest without the help of some damn space garbage! I don't need help from anything!"
Shigaraki didn't bother to listen to the blond and just stared at where the hand had landed, muttering to himself. He then walked over, picked up the hand, and placed it back on his face and turned to the explosion boy, who was currently inching back towards the door. "Well, If you won't become a villain by choice, I suppose there is one other way…"
The villain began to bring three of his fingers to a release button on the cart, only for a knock on the door to occur. "Pizza time!"
Everyone just stared at the door with questioning gazes only for the wall behind the bar to explode with air pressure. "SMASH!" yelled a certain number 1 hero flying through the wall.
Soon, more pro heroes showed up coming through the door. Edgeshot using his quirk folded his body in to pierce through Kurogiri's body, incapacitating him. Kamui Woods used his tree arms to capture and restrain the rest of the villains. Everything seemed to be going fine, until grey sludge morphed around all the villains, the symbiote and Bakugo. They immediately disappeared, leaving the bar barren of villains.
Meanwhile near a mysterious warehouse, a bunch of heroes were beaten senseless. The number 4 Pro Hero Best Jeanist had a hole pierced through his stomach. The cause was standing outside a blown wall of the warehouse, holding a beaten Ragdoll in his hands, her quirk stolen by his own, All for One. Coincidently that was also the villains name.
"You heroes always think you're unstoppable, but once you've faced true power, you stand no chance," he says through his metal mask. Blotches of the grey sludge then appeared, warping all the villains and Bakugo to the area. One look at the villain was all Bakugo needed to know that he was not someone to be underestimated. The villain seemed to monologue for a bit, but Bakugo honestly didn't care what he had to say, he just wanted to get out of there.
Meanwhile, hidden nearby, Izuku, Momo, Shoto, Kirishima, and Iida were hiding, and after witnessing the great destruction that All for One made, the were frozen stiff in fear, but no one was more afraid then Deku. They could sense them… the one that they despised most in the entire universe. If they could, they would beat them senseless into the ground, but they weren't fools. Even with their newfound bond to One for All, they still could have no hope of a chance of beating them.
They quivered and everyone took notice. "What's wrong Deku?" Izuku asked.
"They're here," they said in a hushed shaking tone. While no one else had a clue as to what it is they were talking about, Izuku did, and even more fear began to crawl into his mind. "Diablo..."
A large boom sounded, causing everyone to look at the battlefield to see All Might had arrived, but was currently being held back with a single hand from All for One. The two then began to duke it out as the league began to attempt to capture Bakugo, who was trying to run away. After snapping out of their terrified states, Izuku and Deku developed a plan and put it into motion.
A mountain of raised ice arose from the ground as Iida and Deku held onto Kirishima using his Hardening quirk to launch them through the wall as the slope of the ice launched them into the air.
"Come on!" Kirishima called down to Bakugo. Hearing his voice, Bakugo launched into the air using an explosion. Grabbing Kirishima's hand with a firm grip.
"You idiots!" he yelled as they flew. They had cleared the area and were now soaring above the buildings. It looked like there was gonna be smooth sailing from there on, but…
"Grk!" Bakugo then began to twitch unnaturally. He put a hand to his face, looking like he was in some sort of struggle.
"Kacchan?" Deku asked, worried for the blond. The twitching then stopped, but his hand still covered his face. He slowly removed it and quickly faced the bonded duo, only it wasn't his face. His face now was mostly black, almost like wearing a mask with some orange surrounding it, some of it spiked into the black for effect. There were familiar looking sinister white eyes, sharp jagged teeth and a long sleek tongue. He then grabbed Deku and pulled them off of the group.
"No!" Kirishima yelled as Katsuki and Deku fell through the air, more orange covering the blond's body. They crashed into a building, Deku's surrounding mass softened the blow for Izuku, dust rising around them. When it cleared, instead of Bakugo, they found a muscular orange humanoid being with the same face that was on the blond earlier. The only thing that wasn't covered were the hands, but they still seemed to be under the control of the symbiote that had taken over Izuku's childhood friend's mind.
"Now that I am in full control, I will finally destroy you traitor!" yelled the symbiote. Again, they were not expecting to be in the situation they're now in.
"Release our friend!"
"No, I don't think I will. I quite like this power actually, and I won't let it go to waste killing you or your host!" Using an explosion, the forcibly bonded Katsuki launched himself at Deku as they dodged the attack. Seeing no way out of this, and are currently in an abandoned building with broken security cameras, Deku charged up 10% of One for All throughout their body, preparing for a fight. The possessed Katsuki used another explosion to soar at Deku while they jumped at him, fist raised for a punch. Once the fist made contact with the symbiote's chest, it gave a surprising result. "AHHH!"
The bonded Bakugo flew back through a wall. When they got back up, some of the symbiote's mass covering Katsuki's chest had receded, and Deku took great notice of this.
"Are klytarians weak to the power of One for All?" Izuku wondered.
"It would explain how I could barely handle its power when we first got it," Deku concluded. "But as our bond grew, so did my resistance to its power."
"Grrr… You damn bastards! I won't fall to the likes of you!" the orange symbiote yelled, using another explosion to launch themselves at them, Deku using One for All to close the distance once again. A few punches and soon Bakugo's body could be seen from beneath the mass of the symbiote. Using this as a chance, Deku slung a tendril from their arm, latching onto the blond, using One for All to try and pull him out, but the orange symbiote wouldn't let go, even in its currently weakened state. Soon the symbiote reformed around Katsuki and grabbed Deku's tendril and swung them through a wall, which led them to falling outside into a currently abandoned construction site of a new building.
The orange symbiote then followed after them, picked them up and threw them through a pile of metal pipes, causing them to fly up and clang on the ground. The sound produced caused the orange symbiote to cover were its ear would currently be, signifying it's weakness to sound, but surprisingly Deku was unaffected by the sound. At the very least, they seemed annoyed about it. Deku noticing this sprung their body into action, taking hold of two pipes and banged them together creating a much louder sound. The orange symbiote's mass began to frenzy as its reaction to the sound was effective while Deku merely winced in irritation.
Keeping on their toes, Deku jammed the two pipes into the ground resonating more sound, causing the symbiote to frenzy even more. They quickly jumped over, while grabbing two more pipes and jammed them into the ground on the opposite side of the two others, once again resonating more sound. This continued until the bonded Bakugo was surrounded by a circle of pipes, Deku running around it using another pipe to resonate even more sound, Deku's left eye squinted shut to the amount of sound produced now starting to hurt a little. Once the symbiote had receded enough from Bakugo's body, they slung a tendril to the blond again.
They then tried pulling him out one more time, but the resonating sound wasn't making it any easier for them as the orange symbiote still kept a firm grip on the explosion boy. Bakugo finally having enough of the struggle, the weakened boy raised his arm at the orange mass and let loose the biggest explosion he could make. It caused it to lose its firm grip on the boy and he was launched back at Deku.
"See? I didn't need your help… damn… nerds…" Katsuki said fading into unconsciousness. After Deku had a good hold on their classmate, they began to leave the site to remeet with their other friends.
"Wait…" came the voice of the orange symbiote. It was now only the size of a small puddle. "How did you resist the sound? You should've been writhing in as much pain as me…"
"...You can thank Diablo and their twisted experiments to make me more subordinate without his special power to control other klyntarians."
"Why do you do this? Why do you fight against your own race?"
"Because when I offered an idea for a more peaceful way of life, you all chose to satisfy your bloodlust and banished me away."
The orange symbiote paused, If it had formed a face it would have a look of recognition upon it. "It couldn't be… No! There's no way a klyntar with that kind of philosophy could survive that long!"
"But I did," Deku said, now speaking for itself over Izuku. "And you want to know why I survived? Because instead of possessing my host, I became friends with him. He gave me a home, a family, and other friends we could rely on. I gave him power and he used it to become a hero, to help people. Even when we faced hardships, and I made mistakes, we worked through them together, because that is what it should be to have a true bond between us. Between the klyntars and their hosts and not treat them as tools just to live."
The orange symbiote just 'stared' at Deku, slowly taking in its words. The green duo then left with Bakugo in hand. An explosion soon resonated from the battlefield that All Might and All for One were currently fighting on. The orange symbiote looked over the destroyed terrain. "What a true bond should be, huh?"
Author's Note: Whew! Sorry this took so long, but I just don't seem to have it in me to write so often nowadays. Those Yu-Gi-Oh! stories I wrote, I honestly don't think I can do them anymore. I might rewrite Cynet Revolution by having the main character have a new deck, but after the first chapter I don't know who he's gonna duel between the Knight of Hanoi and Playmaker for the first season. But this is one story I don't plan to cancel. A lot of people really seem to like this story and I really don't want to disappoint.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed this chapter and the number of references I bombed into it. Next chapter will be All Might vs. All for One/Diablo. It's probably no secret at this point that those two are bonded. Until next time, PLUS ULTRA!