Author's note: Worthless Necessity has a side series called Problem Time... it's somewhere on my profile... somewhere...
Also, since that's a youtube channel based fic, I have a youtube channel called Kira Tiyuji so OWO
"Hey, Izuku." Shinsou gently shook the smaller boy. He was helping the green haired boy as he limped along. blood trickled down his chest and left a bloody trail in their wake as Uraraka and Iida led the way.
Midoriya blinked blearily, trying his best to stifle a small whine as he accidentally put more pressure on his broken leg, slumping against Shinsou as the rest of his strength left him.
Shinsou quickly supported the smaller boy, as Midoriya weakly lurched forwards, spitting out a mouthful of blood. The lavender haired boy gently wiped the blood off Midoriya's chin as the shorter boy tried to suck more oxygen into his lungs, coughing all the while.
"Hang on for a bit longer, okay?" Shinsou muttered, shifting his grip gently, "We're almost back to the others."
Midoriya coughed, barely registering what Shinso had said. His head was spinning, his entire body was numb, and he could barely think straight. He was tired, exhausted, and his muscles felt like they were constantly on fire.
Luckily, it didn't take them too long to reach the rest of the students, and Fukukado, Sasaki and Togata, who was holding Ryuto, had apparently managed to get down from the stands and found the students, and other rescue heroes like Shuzenji were on their way; Aizawa, with Reiko, was busy hacking through the rest of the system, and Sakamata had just woken up from Shinsou's mind control.
It wasn't really anyone's fault; if Shinsou didn't allocate a specific period of time for the person to stay unconscious, most people would usually be knocked out for around half an hour.
"Oh dear, are you alright?" Fukukado gasped as she honed in on the bloody Midoriya, walking over to Shinsou to help him with the injured boy, and Shinsou could feel that Midoriya had immediately tensed up upon sensing that someone was getting too close.
Luckily, Uraraka subtly pulled the female hero away just in time, before Midoriya decided to lash out and attack, and seeing the smaller boy's reaction, Fukukado got the message and just ordered Shinsou to help Midoriya sit down first. Ryuto, who had been perched on Sasaki's shoulder, promptly turned around and squawked, hopping off and flying over to settle on Shinsou's shoulder.
It didn't take too long for Aizawa and the other security guards to regain control over the building, and they promptly opened up all the gates. The Erasure hero promptly made his way back to the center of the arena, where all of his students were located, as Reiko glanced around worriedly, looking for her human.
Midoriya was leaning against some rocks as the lavender haired boy tried his best to stem the bleeding with his capture weapon, and the green haired boy winced slightly and did his best to stiffle a hiss as Shinsou accidentally pressed too hard on his injury.
"Sorry." Shinsou muttered, as Midoriya shakily took another breath, before spitting out more blood. Reiko quickly ran over to him, sniffing his arm, as Ryuto chirped, nuzzling the injured boy.
Midoriya was barely awake by the time Shuzenji and the other rescue heroes arrived, and the youthful heroine immediately turned her attention to the green haired boy, carefully walking over to them. Midoriya warily opened his eyes, eye Shuzenji, and she paused, not wanting to stress the boy out even more.
"Just a gash on the chest?" Shuzenji glanced over Midoriya, and turned to Shinsou, "Are there any more injuries that I'm not aware of?"
"He got stabbed in the gut, I think... and he also has a broken leg." Shinsou replied, as Shuzenji honed in on the blood that was seeping through a few haphazardly applied bandaids on Shinsou's arm.
"What happened to you?" She asked, and Shinsou shrugged, "Nothing too major. Don't worry about it."
The students that had seen Midoriya bite Shinsou were about to speak up, but Uraraka glared at them darkly, clamming them up almost immediately.
After Fukukado took her attention off them, Uraraka pulled them aside and smiled sweetly, "You tell anyone that Izuku bit Hitoshi for absolutely no reason, I will hunt you down and kill you. Understood?"
They all nodded, terrified, and Uraraka grinned. Was it Midoriya's fault that he had panicked and bit Shinsou by accident? Hell no, and she wasn't going to let anyone say otherwise.
Shuzenji carefully maneuvered over to Midoriya's side, purposely making her actions obvious and pronounced so Midoriya knew exactly what she was doing. She knelt down beside Shinsou, and carefully placed her hand gently on Midoriya's chest, as a quiet, pained whimper escaped his lips.
Shuzenji bit her lip gently, as Shinsou brought her attention to the stab wound around his gut. That wasn't too serious, to be honest, and Shinsou had done a pretty good job trying to stem the blood flow, given that none of them had any experience or training, but they needed to heal Midoriya quickly before he lost too much blood. His broken leg was the least of their problems right now.
She carefully healed Midoriya up slightly, and watched as Midoriya relaxed, though it wasn't by much. She didn't want to drain too much of Midoriya's energy before she had a full, complete idea of what injuries he had and how serious they were; based on several reports from Aizawa and the other teachers, Midoriya had been sleeping very little, and his appetite had also gone down. He didn't have much energy to spare for her to utilize her quirk; she just wanted to ensure that he was completely out of the danger zone before they decided on any other courses of action. But compared to Midoriya's injuries from the attack on UA, and from Kamino, he was much better off.
"Shinsou, can you pick him up and bring him to the infirmary?" Shuzenji asked, "One of the other heroes would lead you there. Also, you should also get your arm checked out in case of bacteria; there's a lot of dirt and rusty metal here. Uraraka, can you accompany them as well?"
"Alright." Shinsou nodded, carefully slipping his arms under Midoriya's back and knees and easily picking the smaller boy up. Midoriya was shorter than him, so it did make him easier to carry. Not to mention that Midoriya was insanely light; Shinsou was seriously concerned with how much the smaller boy ate.
"Come on, let's go." Uraraka nodded, as the rest of the rescue heroes tended to the other students.
Yagi settled down in the seat, swamped within his loose, oversized hero costume, a thick glass wall between him and All for One. The villain was hooking up to a few beeping machines, and was being closely monitored by surveillance cameras.
"Ah... All Might..." All for One chuckled, "Come to visit? The second semester is starting soon, right? Or has it already started? I thought you were going to devote yourself to teaching. What do you want from me?"
Yagi merely sighed, and leaned back into his chair, "I just want to make things clear, All for One."
"This place is stifling, All Might." All for One admits, "For example, if my back starts to itch, and I scratch it with the back of the chair, all the gun muzzles immediately point to me. In addition to my vital signs, even my brain waves are constantly being monitored. One thought about activating my quirk and my life is in danger. I'm imprisoned deep underground covered by layers of security with the thorough removal of anything irregular. The world likens this place to Greek Mythology, calling it Tartarus. It's the name of the god that represents the underworld. Even I would have trouble rebelling against a god."
"No. You can't get out." Yagi growled, but All for One merely laughed, "I'll let you think that. So, what do you want? Where's Gran Torino? You're acting alone? What's with that costume that looks like you don't know how to give up? Don't tell me you're still working as a hero?"
"You've got a lot to say." Yagi mumbled.
"Try to understand." All for One grinned with a patronising tone, "This is the first decent conversation that I've had in a while."
"I have a few questions, and I want you to answer them truthfully." Yagi spoke up, and All for One just shrugged.
"Shigaraki. Where is Shigaraki Tomura right now?"
"I don't know. Unlike your successor, who's still learning how to use his wings, mine's already left the nest." All for One replied, "But then again, at this point, that's not interesting."
"What are you trying to achieve? What did you want to do? Preserving that body beyond human reason to live on for a long time, devoting all that time to exploiting, controlling and toying with people, what did you hope to accomplish?" Yagi asked.
"This isn't a very productive topic." All for One admonished, shaking his head, "You wouldn't be satisfied with my answer even if I told you. There will always be people who can't understand each other. I'm the same, you know, the same as you. Just like you longed to be a hero of justice, I longed to be like an evil devil king. Isn't that simple? I had an ideal and the power to give it form. If I could live forever in my ideal, then I wouldn't begrudge the effort to make that happen."
"Then why do you need a successor?" Yagi asked, and if All for One had eyes, he would be rolling them, laughing, "You're the one to ask. That's funny. It's because you took everything from me! Look at my body! I am just barely able to remain alive with the help of this tube. After you appeared, my seemingly infinite ideal became finite. When a person realises that their end is coming, they pass it one to someone else. That's true for everything; the houses and buildings you see everywhere, the food you casually put in your mouth, all if it developed as it passed from person to person. I'm just trying to do what everyone else is doing."
"All Might... you have three minutes left." One of the guards announced, and All for One chuckled, "Hey, don't say that. I want to talk more! I know, the world's probably pretty shaken about your retirement, but how are things looking?"
"He must be isolated from outside news." Another guard spoke up, "Please refrain from saying anything carelessly."
"You heard them." Yagi grumbled, and All for One sighed, "That's too bad, I suppose. I'm sure it's like this! Right now, the media's unease by you being gone, coupled with their worry with Endeavor as the new leader is causing them to complain about the unity of hero society as a whole. Meanwhile, sensing the growing instability, villains think that they might have a chance to change society and have started to move in an organised way. I think Tomura and his group will continue to hide for a while, in order to be sure which organization will rise to the top, but of course, they may do sneak attacks. Everyone will want to increase their influence, so there will likely be quite a bit of fighting amongst villains themselves. Supposing that does happen, then it would have all been because of your fake form and your retirement. From now on, you would not be able to save people as you wish to. All you can do is look on, at the villains you yourself caused to increase and be stricken by your powerlessness as you pass the rest of your days. But, won't you tell me how you feel?"
Yagi tensed up, and stood up, as a guard spoke over the loudspeaker, "All Might, please stand back."
All for One smirked, "When people's feelings are guessed correctly, they often get angry. Too bad, you can't punch me in here, if you can even punch at all. At least, there are some people amongst you that understand that and aren't so easily baited, though I'm fairly sure it isn't healthy."
"What do you mean?" Yagi growled, and All for One smirked, "What was his name again, Midoriya Izuku?"
Yagi tensed up as All for One continued, "I saw everything, you know? Even I know him better than you at this point. For a hero in training, the boy really doesn't seem to have any faith in the society of heroes."
"Don't think that you alone know everything." Yagi hissed, but All for One smirked, "Oh? I didn't say I know everything, though. But you do know nothing about poor little Midoriya, don't you? How much he's suffered in the past; his life has just been a never ending tragedy. But are we here to talk about you, or about him?"
"All Might, it's time."
Yagi growled, and stood up to leave, just as All for One finished off, "A flame may burn brightly on its own, but that doesn't mean that it can't be extinguished. It would either swallow you up, or die out, no matter how much you try to protect it. It doesn't matter what you do; a quirk, corrupted by anger and hatred, can only cause pain and suffering."
All for One let out a laugh as Yagi turned around, glaring at the villain one last time before he exited the room.
Luckily, Midoriya's injuries weren't too serious. Pretty much all of his injuries could be healed with Shuzenji's quirk, and she could heal him up just enough so that his body could finish healing everything up naturally, but he's still going to experience some pain; he just didn't have sufficient energy for her to completely heal him in his current exhausted, completely burned out state.
The poor boy was already doing his best to stay awake, and looked like he was on the verge of collapsing; the students were currently making their way back to Aizawa, who had already come back with Reiko after he went to secure the security room. As much as he was trying to support his weight on his own, he was still limping, with Shinsou and Uraraka were supporting him on both sides; Shuzenji forbade her from using her quirk on Midoriya because not only would it make her nauseous, even though Midoriya was ridiculously light, but there weren't actually any unhealed injuries that they had to be wary of.
Plus, Midoriya was stubborn and probably wouldn't be happy about her using her quirk unnecessarily.
Shinsou, on the other hand, just had a bite on his arm, which both he and Uraraka admitted to be inflicted by Midoriya, who had been in a panic attack. She couldn't really blame the boy, Shinsou had told her that one of the villains had shapeshifted to look like Uraraka, but she was surprised at how strong Midoriya's jaws were, and how sharp his teeth were.
Most of the students who had witnessed the fight had already been interrogated by the police officers, and Tsukauchi was just waiting to get the statements from Shinsou, Uraraka and Midoriya.
Aizawa quickly did a head count of his students; he was pretty sure that if Iida hadn't told him that Shinsou and Uraraka had brought Midoriya to the infirmary, he would be flipping his shit right now. But there were eighteen students, and everyone was accounted for; Shuzenji had sent him a quick text regarding Shinsou and Midoriya's condition, and had informed him that they, as well as Uraraka, were on their way back.
It took them a few minutes, given that all of them were exhausted, but Aizawa was relieved when he finally spotted the trio. Reiko and Ryuto were being taken care of by Koda, and they nearly leapt out of his arms to find Midoriya had Shoji not lent a few hands to catch them.
"Alright, you guys are back." Aizawa muttered, finishing up another headcount in his head. Most other schools only had five or six students, and those who had already failed the first round had already left. All that was left was for all the examinees that had taken part in the second part of the exam to be okay, and for the Hero Commission to announce the results before they could all go back to the safety of UA.
Why the students had to be present was mind boggling. Couldn't they just make a video and mail the licences to the schools directly? Then again, the Hero Commission liked their dramatic reveals and stuff, of course they'd want to include a long list of bullshit before the students could finally be dismissed.
He turned his attention to the other important events while Tsukauchi questioned Uraraka, Shinsou and Midoriya; Tsukauchi had dealt with Midoriya before, and the Erasure hero did trust the human lie detector to not do anything to his students.
Aizawa and Sasaki did have a brief idea of how the League managed to stage the attack. Toga, disguised as another student, had snuck in, giving Kurogiri the coordinates for teleportation. They had specifically been targeting the pros, but had noticed Midoriya and had turned their attention the the boy; the HUC members wore these recording devices that allowed them to analyze the students' actions, and it had recorded whatever the villains were talking about, not to mention Kurogiri only knocked out the security cameras and not the microphones that were built into the security cameras, but stored on another system that remained untouched.
Sasaki and Togata had been called out to deal with some other villains, but it seemed that the villains weren't targeting Midoriya at all, and had been lucky, or unlucky, enough to stumble into the one out of three arenas that the boy could have been in.
It didn't take too long for Tsukauchi to finish questioning the trio, but by the time they were done, Midoriya already looked so drained and exhausted that it seemed like he would pass out on the spot. Apparently, he must have been able to figure out Toga's quirk, since Uraraka and Shinsou were openly gaping at the tired boy as Tsukauchi quickly scribbled haphazardly into his notebook.
Luckily, it didn't take Mera too long after that to grab a microphone and start speaking, "Okay, everyone, thanks for your hard work. Now, I will announce the results. But before that, I will tell you about the scoring system. Between those of us at the Hero Public Safety Commission and the HUC, we had a two-fold demerit system while watching you. In other words, we were marking you based on how few mistakes you made in a crisis situation. The names of those who passed are listed here in syllabary order. Keep that in mind and check the list."
Everyone's hearts were pounding as they scanned the board, trying to find their names on the humongous board in front of them. Even with his blearly eyesight, Midoriya squinted, trying to locate his name on the board even though he could barely make out the white squiggles against the blue background.
Shinsou gave a relieved sigh as he found his name on the board, "Whew, I made it."
He turned to the smaller boy, who was almost leaning on him completely, "Found your name yet?"
He wasn't surprised that Midoriya was still peering at the board, blinking blearily, and the lavender haired boy turned to the board and tried to locate Midoriya's name.
Shinsou found the greenette's name located somewhere in the middle of the board, and his smile softened. Of course they had to let Midoriya's pass; he was the one that had given them orders that managed to bring Sakamata down, had somehow gotten Yoarashi and Todoroki to work together despite their hatred of each other (he would have to ask the dual coloured haired boy about that later), and was the one who fended off four members of the League of Villains simultaneously, after he had been kidnapped and tortured by them.
If they hadn't let him pass, Shinsou was pretty sure there was going to be some sort of uproar, especially from the UA students. Considering that only a hundred students at maximum could pass, and twenty of them, not counting Midoriya himself, were from UA, they definitely had enough influence to be able to catch the attention of the Hero Commission.
The tired boy was still trying to make out the words on the brightly lit board, and Shinsou stretched out his hand and pointed at the middle of the board, helping Midoriya focus his line of vision.
"Somewhere there. A bit to the left." Shinsou pointed out, watching as Midoriya squinted, trying his best to decipher the blurry japanese characters.
It seemed like the rest of their peers had already found their names on thr board, and all of them were cheering and talking loudly amongst themselves. Kirishima was even hugging Bakugou and getting away with it, but Shinsou was pretty sure that the only reason Kirishima was still alive was because Bakugou was happy that he had passed and hadn't yet noticed the red haired boy clinging to him.
"I... passed?" Midoriya murmured, so quiet that Shinsou could barely hear him say anything, but the taller boy nodded, smiling, "Yeah, you did. We all passed."
"Now, we're going to pass out your results, with the breakdown of you scores, so please look over them carefully. The cut off score was fifty points. Your teachers will tell you what you can or can't do with your licenses, either now or later, so you can go any time you like." Mera continued, "Anyways, for those who passed, during emergency situations only, you may exercise authority the same as that of pro heroes. In other words, fighting villains, saving people from criminal acts or accidents, you may act on your own judgement in these cases without the direction of a hero. However, this means that each and every one of you actions carries with it a responsibility towards society. I'm sure that you all know that the great hero, All Might, has used up all of his power. His existence played a large part in suppressing crime."
This is your fault, Deku.
Midoriya lowered his head, and clenched his fists. Shinsou gently pat the smaller boy on the back as Mera continued talking.
"With that deterrent gone, impudent people will appear. The balance will be destroyed and as the world changes greatly, you young people will become the center of society. You must become explementary heroes and become great enough to suppress crimes yourselves. You've received your licenses to perform hero activities, and I would like you to think of yourselves as fledglings, and be even more diligent in your studies."
Useless Deku. All Might had fallen, all because of you. You need to make up for what you've done.
"Eraser! Since we've got this chance, want to have a joint practice sometime?" Fukukado asked.
"Yeah, sure. That might be good." Aizawa dryly replied, as Yoarashi ran up to them, "Hey! Hey!"
"Oh.. even Shiketsu's here..." Asui muttered, as Yoarashi grinned, "I heard joint practise! Can we join?!"
Mora sighed, "Inasa, calm down."
The supervisor of Shiketsu chuckled lightly, "I'll ask the higher ups about it, but I'm sure they won't mind a joint practise with Ketsubutsu and UA."
Midoriya's head suddenly dropped, and his eyelids fluttered shut as his legs gave way. He would have hit the ground if Shinsou hadn't already been supporting the tired boy, and had managed to tighten his grip on Midoriya in time.
"Hey, Izuku?" Shinsou gently shook the boy, shifting the smaller boy easily into a more comfortable position. Midoriya gave a small, tired whine, trying to righten himself, but his muscles just refused to work with him. He shakily tried to stand up, with Shinsou supporting him, but to no avail. The lavender haired boy turned to Aizawa, "Da-... Sensei, what should we do?"
Aizawa eyed the tired boy, and sighed, "Alright, that's it, it's late, everyone back on the bus. You can compare your scores on the bus, or back in UA."
