Arc 5 Chapter 5 Warning
Five days before Graduation, Unknown location:
Shigaraki POV:
"You know just because you sit on that big throne of yours doesn't make you an actual king," the dirty blonde schoolgirl would say as the door to my throne room flies open.
"You know I could just get rid of you, with one touch, right?" I respond, staring down at the annoying teenager I put in charge of my reconnaissance unit.
"I know, but you need me," she says, holding my gaze, to which I smile.
"Checkmate Toga, checkmate," I say giving in to that I do need her more than she needs me right now.
"Good well I have some good news for you," she responds, skipping into the centre of my throne room.
"Well spit it out," I say, staring at Toga.
"Well, the Liberation army is fully organized, and have been sent to many of the new Nomu factories to defend them and be used as subjects. Quite a loyal army we have now, the goals of the Liberation Army is now the same as ours as the League of villains," she says, which I can't help but smile at this news. For weeks I have been stressing out, trying to figure out if the new army was loyal.
"Good, you are already on my good side today Toga," I say leaning forward.
I know there is more news than this. There must be for her to be this excited.
"Well, one more bit of news I have for you," she says as she snaps her fingers, which echoes across my entire throne room. As it does the grinding sound of my throne room doors can be heard. As the metal doors screeches open, like fingernails on a chalkboard. I am greeted by the sight of Dabi and spinner. Who has a hooded and chained individual in between them.
She didn't do it? Did she find him?
I ask in utter disbelief as I stand up, as my eyes go wide as they reveal his amethyst purple hair. His body is like that of Eraserheads maybe a little bulkier, but it is hard to tell with the chains on him. "We found him, it took my reconnaissance team a few days, but we found him," She then pauses, looking as if she was in deep thought or daydreaming. "Well he found and beat the shit out of one of my informants," Toga says as the man finally looks up at me, his eyes matching the colour of his hair with big bags underneath his eyes and one long scar running along his left eye. As I look closer, his hair looks long and matted. But those eyes, they draw me back. Like they are trying to control me, trying to draw out an emotion. Trying to draw out my anger!
"Stop that!" I yell, finally angry, in a second Spinner has drawn his sword and placed it on the man's neck, Dabi ignited his hand in a blue flame. But he doesn't stop staring, but I feel my anger recede like a bear returning to its hibernation.
"Not many can resist my charm, I just wanted to see if you were like so many have said," the man slyly says, his voice with every syllable grinds every gear and sounds almost patronizing. He continues staring me down, not intimidated by the two villains who could quickly kill him before he could even try and defend himself.
"You are someone I have been looking for, for a really long time," I say, starting to walk down towards the man. "You are going to be worth a lot to me. I hope you know that."
"You are an interesting man in my circles as well, mercenaries aren't usually used by villains, but for you, I may make an exception, your boss, master or whatever, did a lot for my own instructor, so I am happy you reached out,"
"Glad you know who I am, we can skip introductions then," I say pausing staring at his purple eyes, "I will pay you to run raids on the heroes and the pesky UA students. You will have access to one Nomu factory and twenty members from my new army to help you. Cause problems and kill as many heroes and students you can," I finish, as I use my quirk to decay the chains off his wrist.
"Works for me, I will do it for free, it gives me a chance to see my little brother and maybe even kill him, always the favourite child that one," he responds giving me a smile as he moves his very stiff hands. He quickly bows and walks away, "no need to shake on this deal, see you later boss," he calls cheerily as if he was saying hello to a neighbour.
"Yes, see you later, Tomoshi Shinso," I say, staring at the man as he disappears behind the doors leading to my throne room.
"One more bit of news, I have heard from our little yellow-haired traitor, he has a date for their graduation, it is five days away. Did you still want to send a message?" Toga asks all of which I do is nod.
"One more action this level before we move on to the sequel. What do you say, Toga?"
Uraraka POV present day:
The room had gone cold as if winter had crept back inside and started to strangle the life and enjoyment out of this graduation. I could feel something was going to happen, something that would change everything, something that would change my entire world.
So as the screen erupted with the dried and diabolical face of Shigaraki, I would grab on to Izuku.
Why is he here? Why now?
Shigaraki's face appeared to be colder but also happy. His cracked lips were kept in a crazed smiled we all have seen when fighting the League of villains. But that smile, it feels like it is directed at me, at Izuku. It makes me shake as if was in front of me, his hand right around my neck ready to turn me into dust.
Is this how Izuku felt when we went to the mall?
It was nothing compared to my boyfriend, I could hear the crackling of the lightning given off by his quirk and him tighten his grip around me. This villain had played mind games with Izuku on more than one occasion. Izuku still had nightmares to this day about this villain, worse than anything to do with Overhaul.
"Greetings heroes!" he would call out in an out of character and joyful way. "I am so happy I could get you all together and ruin your graduation evening. Especially you first years," he would say with a wink, sending a cold wave of water rushing down my spine. But in that second, he slipped back into character, his face hardened and his lips, if it were possible, would crack some more. "It is time everyone. All Might has left the game, it is time to move on to the sequel, a next level so to speak. So, inheritor, let us begin. You have had enough time to grind that level of yours up. Izuku Midoryia it is time you enter the same playing field," Shigaraki says pausing, taking a deep breath. As he does, I swear I could hear the sweat drip off my boyfriend's face.
What does he mean by inheritor? I am so confused, why is Izuku shaking like this?
"But first I will be taking everything from you. My little spy gave me such insights to you, your age, weight, quirk, which is a lie we both know it. But It gave me what you held dear, you're so lucky I can't find your father. But I could find your mother she lives alone, some very boring looking apartments in Musutafu. Pretty sure in the second building but you never know, so I will get rid of all of them just to be safe. I will kill her first, then I will break you and finally when you think you have nothing left to lose I will turn you to dust as a broken man and an even more broken hero," with a final cartoonishly evil smile the feed would cut. The crackling of static would cut through the silence like a knife through warm bread. For a second, I was stunned, unable to move or call out.
But it didn't last, a second later, Izuku would rip away from my arms. Thunder would echo through the room, as all I was left holding was the trails of aqua lightening left behind by his quirk. "Izuku," was I could mutter as the trails faded and the door to the hall would slam shut.
I would feel the world would stop. Time itself didn't flow. It was as I was not even apart of my surroundings. Not the class, I was left alone and freezing. The world would start to move again, teachers yelling to us students to move, pros racing to all corners of Japan to investigate the League, but I just stood there.
Then it got colder and colder until my gaze would be torn from the screen to the earth-shattering explosion coming from the door. As it does, I can't see anything except for a cloud of dust and a dark menacing figure standing in the doorway.
The man towered over everyone, similar to All Might in his prime. As the dust settled, I could finally see him, he was clearly a Nomu. His skin was black like the first Nomu, but it seemed to be like an armour similar to Kirishima's hardening quirk. Its face had a massive scar running down its right eye, instead of a beak it had a regular mouth. He excluded power in every sense of the word. His body was built, covered in muscles all over, I would be surprised if anything could hurt it.
"Give me Midoryia! So, I may rip him limb from limb!" it would roar causing the entire room to freeze in silence, I am sure every eye was staring at the beast, and it's massive body. Crickets could be heard or a pin drop in that one second of silence, but then I would hear a boom. Shattering the silence like glass. My eyes would drift to the source of the explosion to see a mop of blonde hair rocket past me overhead and towards the beast.
My classmate and arguably the most powerful from us first years would land in front of the beast, with ease and grace. "Only person going to beat that idiot is me!" he would scream as I would watch him slam his hands together and I swear I could hear the small fireworks start to go off. "DIE!" he would roar, as what follows felt like it could have shaken the entire planet. I would touch my ears just to feel a small trickle of blood in them. But not only that the blinding swirl of dust he kicked up was massive.
As it settled and I could see again, I could see Bakugou literally shaking, his arms covered in cuts running the entire length of his arms. And the blisters that looked like witches' warts covered his hands. "That was pathetic," a voice would rumble, sounding as if hell were speaking directly to me. As my eyes turn to the voice, I would see the beast hadn't flinched. The only thing that had changed was now a scowl was written on his lips.
Then the beast would raise its hand, even if I wanted, I couldn't reach my classmate, not before the muscly arm reached Bakugou. And sent him flying as if he was some kind of ball.
He is after Deku, maybe if you made him float you can remove him from the fight. You are a hero, you must be able to do something, anything.
I screamed at myself as my body moves on its own forward towards what would likely be my death. Until, a hand stops me, as I turn, I see a man that has longer brown spikey hair and covered in small scars all over his face. He vaguely looks like what Deku described to me as Mirio's friend, "Don't go, let me finish him," he would say as he would pass me. I would watch as he would push past the crowd and tear off his suit shirt and jacket to reveal what looks like a metal skeleton covering his entire back.
I would hear someone clap twice, and the metal would start to move like water all over his body. It looked like metallic water, as it began to cover his entire body in it. Taking the form similar to Mirio's suit, with a cape and a full bodysuit. Except his cape had turned from metal to black fabric. His armour itself was the same as the water metal, same silver and he just walked forward as if it weighed nothing.
I would watch him stand in front of the monster, no hesitation, no fear. The monster would finally lose the scowl and smile at him.
"You will also die little boy!" the Nomu would scream, slamming his fist into the caped hero. The air pressure of the fist flying through the air would give me memories of All Might when he fought that first Nomu at the USJ. I would watch the man stumble and swear I could see a small amount of blood drip down from the caped hero face. But he did not fly anywhere he just took the hit.
"You shouldn't have done that, you really shouldn't have done that!" the caped hero would roar, sending shivers down my spine. I didn't need to be an empath to know that he was angry. "CAUSE NOW I AM MAD! I AM REALLY REALLY MAD! GOD CRUSHER! WILL CRUSH YOU!" he would scream as I watch him slam his fist into the Nomu and the Nomu would fall over. Sending shockwaves that would cause everything to shake like Bakugou's blast and make me fall over. But what caught my eye was what happened after.
He would stand before the beast, and I would watch his hair colour drain to pure white. Almost an angelic white, but he gave off an aura of anger and rage. I would stare in awe as he would remind me of All Might giving off pure power wherever he stood. "Mr Aizawa get everyone out now!" the caped hero would call out to my homeroom teacher.
"Everyone out, run now!" A familiar voice would call, a voice I know as Mr Aizawa. So, I would follow his advice and turn just in time to see this Nomu get off the ground and laugh.
Etan Fikshim POV:
"What are you laughing at big guy?" I ask as I spit some blood out as I stare at the hulk of a beast who has found something very hilarious about me putting him on his ass.
I hate being laughed at!
So, I punch him, as hard as I can as my blood boils and my arms pulse with energy. As I reach his rock-hard black armour, it instantly shatters and repels my attack, the shards cutting my hand. As it does it regrows quickly after.
"So, you have regeneration, too bad you can't regenerate into a prettier form!" I yell, as he lunges at me, I react quickly grabbing onto his hands and dig in my feet. Every second we stay interlocked it feels as though another train or truck is pushing against me.
HOLD! I CAN DO THIS!
Then I notice him huffing, and puffing, struggling to keep up with my grip. "Huff and puff all you want, you ugly wolf. I am not letting go!" I scream as I start to bend his hand backwards, shattering all the armour on his hands into thousands of glass-like shards, every one cutting deeper into the skin on my fingers and hands.
Blood would pour out, but the sheer temperature of my body was giving off the blood would evaporate off immediately. My wounds would sear themselves shut.
Hopefully, everyone is out.
I say as I slam my head straight into the beast, knocking him over and him losing his grip on my hands. I would stare him down,
Come on ugly make me angrier I dare you.
Uraraka POV:
As I finally would make it outside, I would see Nejire run back in, with full hero costume on towards the beast and that man. I would turn to follow but would be stopped by another unfamiliar set of hands.
"Don't! You seriously will only get in the way," a serious voice would say, I would turn to see Ms Joke. Her face wasn't filled with the same happiness or laughter I had come to expect but a serious and more scared face.
"Who is he?" I would ask as part of the building would crash down near us, revealing a glowing white-haired caped man in the rubble.
"That man is a third-year, his name Etan Fikshim," she would say pausing as we would both watch him storm back into what remained of the building.
"What is his quirk?" I would ask in astonishment as I could start feeling the punches being exchanged once again.
"I have read his file. Briefly, his quirk officially is called Retribution, his original hero name, but Edgeshot the man he went on an internship with, gave it a different name, a name that everyone uses," she would pause as another set of almost explosive like interactions would go off from the interior of the build, I swear I could hear more of the building fall apart, but I couldn't see it, "God Rage, is what it is called now, he took up the name God Crusher as a thank you for Edgeshot's work with him as an intern,"
"That is insane," I let out as I wonder in astonishment, at the sheer power being given off right now.
"That white hair is him getting angry and gaining extraordinary amounts of power depending on how angry he is," Ms Joke would say as we both would stare in astonishment. "If the rest of the third years were ranked, he would be number 4, he had terrible luck with draws for the sports festival. He would be placed to fight Mirio first every time in every sports festival, nobody really has heard of him, I was surprised he existed until his file came across my desk," Ms. Joke says in awe as well.
Etan Fikshim POV: inside
I would watch as the beast would get up again, he was a very sturdy piece of work, a piece of work I wasn't a hundred percent sure I could beat with my current power. His armour was causing me numerous amounts of new injuries my fiancé would not be excited to see.
Since she agreed to marry me, let's hope she doesn't mind a few extra scars.
I think as I try to block and massive forearm strike from this Nomu which sends me flying like a ball straight into the side of the building. I feel the entire side of the building fall on top of me, which I can't really do much about but wait until I can stand up.
It feels as if someone had dropped a few massive cars on top of me, the building felt as if it was holding me down, trying to keep me from getting back up. Pushing me down with all it's might, desperately almost frantically as a new beam or metal bar would slide off my back as I would stand up.
I would briefly look down to see massive amounts of steam rising from my hands, as well as the tatters of the arms of my suit.
Guess that pink-haired girl was right, I did need more nanites for repairs during battle.
"I am gonna rip you apart, limb from limb if I have to! Hero!" the beast would growl,
"No, you're not!" I scream as I would leap towards the beast, slamming my entire shoulder into his chest. This would cause him to briefly lose balance and for more shards to shatter, piercing my armour.
I would quickly step back and prepare to throw a punch, but unlike what I expected, I would collide with the beast's fist. On impact it was like an explosion, making almost a boom on impact. I slam my hands into the beast's over and over again, again. Every strike, a small bit of armour would shatter off his fist. Every time a bit of armour would fly off another cut would appear on my fist. Stabbing me like millions of tiny needles all being thrust at once into my fist.
"Had enough little boy?" the beast would ask, as he would roar as I would kick one of his legs, sending more of his armour flying into my leg. But even with the new source of heat and pain, I would push on by punching his side with all my might sending much larger armour into the air. My arm would feel like lava, and my muscle feels like elastic being stretched to the absolute limit.
Unfortunately, I would be too late to react to a punch straight to my chest. Again, sending me flying into a new part of the building. But unlike last time most of the building stays standing, so I can watch as yellow energy blasts would strike the beast from my floating blunette classmate.
"Nejire move!" I would yell as I would leap forward, hearing more of the building fall down behind me. As I would reach the beast, I would grab his face and shove him as hard as I could into the ground. "Just stay down!" I would scream, as I held him down. But it did not last, an instant later I would feel a foot place itself onto my chest and be send flying with one bone-shattering crack.
Well, it feels like at least four of my ribs are broken. And I am now flying, I will probably survive the landing, but this is really pissing me off!
Then I would crash into something, something soft and unfortunately familiar, "You need to be more careful Fikshim, what would Ani say?" Nejire would ask reminding me of my beautiful black-haired fiancé.
"Nothing good I know," I whisper knowing she is right and how I will be getting an earful tonight. Which then gives me an idea, "I need you to throw me at him. I can survive the landing, but he needs to go down now!" I plead with a very confused and concerned Nejire.
"Fine, your lucky he can't phase into the ground like Mirio could when we teamed up in our second-year assignment," she says in a very adorable huff. But before I can say anything, I can feel the air beat on my face as I rocket towards the building and the Nomu who hasn't moved luckily.
"Hey Ugly, take this!" I yell as I come in just bellow what small cloud cover was above the hall, "Finishing move! Zeus's wraith!" I scream as I punch him right in the jaw, with a bone-shattering crunch as my fist impacted with his armour and then his soft grey skin. Causing him to fall over, with a loud thud. While I land and roll in a very unheroic and extremely painful landing.
As I finally get rid of the dizziness and the spinning world, I hear something move in the rubble behind me.
HOW ARE YOU STILL MOVING!
I think as I turn to see the Nomu, start to stand up, but no regenerate, and I can see the sickening ooze out of his jaw which looks almost like tar. I stumble to face him, I can heat already starting to cool down, and my rage starts to subside, "Jupiter's Thunderclap!" I scream as I clap my hands together using the last of my strength to create a massive shockwave.
Which blows away all the furniture and tables in front of me into the wall, turning the wall into a window. While blowing all the loose armour off the beast's body in one blow, sending it out the new window and onto the field scattered everywhere.
Only a little to go now.
I stumble over, feeling the last of my white hair fade back to black hair. But what's worse is I think I have overdone it; I feel my heart start thumping a million miles per hour. Then it felt like fire was burning inside of it, a literal hot fire.
"Just need a little bit more quirk, come on come on come!" I would scream as I would feel the heat spread all over my body.
One last shot! If this does not put him down, nothing can. Even without my white hair, I should be able to generate enough power to knock him out hopefully.
I would stumble forward, pushing onwards. Until I would reach the beast, who was breathing more cumbersome than mine was. I somehow dodged his fist before it could collide with me. With that, he gave me an opening, with everything I have left I slam my fist into his face.
Uraraka POV:
I would watch the final bits of dust settle. The building completely decimated. It looked like it had gone through a war zone, or Bakugou during our training sessions with all of 1A.
As I take a close look, I can see the monster laying face first in the ground. While Etan would stand above him, his fist bloody but to the sky in the symbol of victory. His armour looked like it was moving on his own to form a skeleton on his back like before he started the fight.
A second later, I would hear everyone around me erupt into a massive cheer. I would watch everyone dance and smile. "At least Deku won't have to face that monster," I whisper as finally, the teachers get control of the crowd again. They would move us towards the dorms once again.
I would reach the gates of our dorms. "Young Uraraka please come with me," a hollow voice would say, almost sad. I would turn to see All Might looking frail and skeleton-like motion for me to follow to a small out of the way field.
"Of course, All Might," I say following the retired hero. I can feel he is sad, almost lost in away. As we reach the field, he stops and does not look at me.
"I am sorry, but I must know. Has Izuku told you about his quirk?" he would ask as he turns to me with icy and guilty eyes.
"No," I whisper in response not sure if I am in trouble or not.
"Well, I wished he did, it means I wouldn't have to tell you," he says pausing. "Izuku's quirk is not his own, it was mine, before me it was my masters," he would say completely serious, "It was my quirk, so it is also my secret to tell, I gave Izuku my quirk. Like it always had been from generation to generation. From master to student,"
"It can't be?" I ask in disbelief, my hands shot to my face in shock.
"It is true, I was going to get him to tell you about it this summer if you were still dating, but never got to tell him," All Might would pause and look up at a certain set of stars, seven in particular. "I chose him to be the next symbol of peace, I chose him to be the inheritor of One for All,"
"One for All," I whisper trying to remember where I had heard that name before.
"I am sorry again; you are endangered because of me and my choices. My choice to give your boyfriend my power, to make him into the next symbol of peace,"
[Alright guys, here we are the second last chapter of this book. It has been a long haul, but we are so close to the end. So just for those who do not remember Etan Fikshim is an OC I created, he will be important in the sequel. So, we are setting up for a big second year. Also, just for you anime-only watchers know, Tomoshi Shinso, is also an OC. He doesn't exist in My Hero manga or anime.
Just you guys know the liberation army is practically the liberation front, I am more or less using them as an army and a way to pull more characters from. Next book will focus on a new plotline only taking aspects from the manga and from what's soon to be animated. It will be its own canon, however. You won't need to read more or watch more to understand anything else going into the next book, just finish one and then you can move on. So you won't get many if any spoilers for the upcoming seasons.
But Mikhail you talk about this new book but when will it be released?
Well, that is a great question. Next chapter will have all the details about it. I will just let you know I will be taking a break from the story for a few months. But by hell or high water, I will be finishing this dam story. And by the story, I mean the last two books about Izuku and Ochako's second and third years.
So, I am not going anywhere anytime soon. Please comment and review this new chapter, it has been a while since I had to write a fight scene. Hopefully, you enjoyed it. Please tell me if you like my OC's.
So I guess this is the time I tell you, to ALWAYS GO BEYOND PLUS ULTRA! ]