"Well well well… seems like Kurogiri has sent me an 'NPC prisoner'. How kind of him."
Izuku couldn't help but shudder a bit at the voice, the raspiness and the sheer lack of morality he could hear in it instilling some sense of fear in him. His mind was sure he couldn't be hurt by the man, but his instincts were still screaming at him to get away.
Instinctively, he took a step back, but in his panic overshot it, and tumbled backwards. The man just laughed, turning as the fog man appeared beside him. "Kurogiri. You brought me a hostage! And he's a cripple by the looks of it!"
The cackle that came from out of the man's mouth sent shivers down Izuku's spine. He sounded… deranged. Crazy. Manic. Other words for villains who had just ever so slightly lost their touch on reality.
"How do you think the public will react if someone like him is killed during school hours?"
Izuku tapped the side of the suit again and it stood back up on its own. The villain turned as he heard the motors whirring. "Ah ah ah. You're not going anywhere, my little hostage! And to make sure of that… Nomu! Break the kid's suit!"
A yell escaped Izuku's throat as something appeared in front of him, taking his attention away from the Villain covered in hands. The villain was as tall as All Might himself, with dark blue skin and red scars covering its body, a bright yellow beak underneath its exposed brain. Izuku tried to take a step away from the villain when suddenly he felt it grab him around the waist.
With an inhuman roar, Nomu grabbed at the Walkinator and started ripping it apart with one hand, holding Izuku in the air with the other. Izuku could feel the tears flowing from his eyes as he saw the suit that Hatsume had put so much work into get destroyed as if it were nothing.
His brain instantly went into analysis mode as the villain held him up in the air. Strong enough to hold both Izuku and the suit up in the air using one arm with ease, fast enough to appear in front of him before Izuku could register. Followed the hand villain's orders without hesitation.
This villain was probably the biggest threat at the moment.
Gravity pulled at him as Nomu then let him go, and he landed on his feet. He thought for a moment then he might be able to stay standing, pushing his muscles as much as he could, but with his momentum working against him, he found himself sprawled on the ground almost immediately.
Izuku groaned as he pushed himself, getting on his hands and knees and looking up at the hand villain. "Who are you?! What do you want with us?!"
There was silence for a moment, and Izuku looked over to the hand villain and saw him scratching away at his neck. "Shut up. NPC's shouldn't talk unless the player interacts with them…"
The man just smiled at that. "But if you really want to know… We're here to kill your Symbol of Peace. We're going to kill All Might, and Nomu here is gonna do it for us!"
B O O M
At the sudden noise, Shigiraki looked away from Izuku as one of the buildings in the Ruins Zone was obliterated in its entirety by an explosion. Izuku started crawling backwards now that the villain was distracted when he felt something wrap around his chest and pull him backwards.
Landing in the ground, he saw Eraserheads scarf retracting from him as the man kicked a villain in the head, sending them to the ground, unconscious. "Midoriya! Are you alright?"
Izuku nodded from his spot on the ground. "Be careful! The big villain has super strength and speed! More than I think you can handle, even without his Quirk!"
Eraserhead nodded in acknowledgement blocking a strike from a villain before retaliating, knocking them out. He was just a second too late with a dodge right afterwards, getting a glancing blow across his forearm.
Eraserhead was slowing down. This was bad. He definitely wouldn't be able to keep up with Nomu if he was starting to struggle. Izuku was about to comment on it when he heard the hand villain shriek. "You fucking BRAT! Get back here!"
Izuku watched as Eraserhead wrapped up one of the villains with his scarf and held them in the air for a moment, before throwing them at a different pair, turning to the hand villain a moment later.
Seeing how easily Eraserhead could throw someone around with his scarf, even someone much bigger and heavier than him, Izuku got an idea for how Eraserhead could protect himself from the Nomu when the hand villain inevitably sent it after him.
It wasn't a good idea, per se.
But it was an idea.
"Eraserhead!"
Katsuki roared as he placed his hand on a villain's chest, detonating them and sending their unconscious body flying backwards.
Turning on a dime and sprinting through the streets of the Ruins Zone, he headed for the main plaza. He had seen D-Izuku get yanked through one of those portals, and if he was a villain, he'd use the kid that looked like a cripple as a hostage to make Eraserhead stop fighting.
Even if he was wrong and Izuku was just in some other Zone, he still wanted to give the villains that attacked UA of all places an explosion powered bitch-slap. He dove forward in a roll as something swiped at his head, jumping to his feet and getting ready to explode whoever decided they wanted to die today.
"Wait wait wait! Bakugo! It's me, Ashido! Don't blast me! Sorry for attacking you, but this is some wild stuff going down!"
Katsuki gave the girl a quick once over, before lowering his hands and nodding. The girl sighed in relief and brushed herself off, coughing a bit when dust hit her face. Katsuki turned and started to walk towards the main plaza again, and Ashido followed him.
"So, are we the only students here?"
Katsuki shook his head. "I doubt it. There were fucking 40 of us at the top there. There's only like 8 Zones. I bet there are at least two or three more extras about."
The girl nodded. "Alright, we should try and find them and head back to the entr- AAAAA"
Katsuki whipped his head around to see Ashido face-first on the ground, a Villain standing over her. A quick look showed him that she was unconscious. The villain smirked at him. "One down, one to go! Eat shit, twerp!"
The haymaker that the villain threw at Katsuki was fast, but Katsuki's reflexes were top tier. He allowed himself to fall backwards, dodging the attack, and rolled backwards, using an explosion to boost himself to his feet instantly, before rocketing forward.
The first explosion he released threw the villain away from Ashido and into the side of a nearby building, but didn't seem to have done much damage to the man. The villain just laughed as he brushed some ash off of his chest. "Nice try! You'll have to do better than that!"
Katsuki just smirked, sharp click echoing as he pulled the pin in one of his gauntlets. "Spoke too soon, bitch."
B O O M
Coughing up a lung, Katsuki looked down at his arm and groaned, before rolling his shoulder, resetting the dislocated limb. He must not have braced himself well enough, cause his Gauntlets weren't supposed to do that to himself.
He did a mental check to himself and smiled at the results. First time using his gauntlet, and all it had done was give him minor pain in his ears and a dislocated arm!
He counted that as a success.
Turning back towards Ashido, he scowled as he saw her still passed out on the floor. He stumbled back over to her (ok, his balance was a bit shot, maybe he had a concussion?) and picked her up, hoisting her over his good shoulder.
Sighing, he changed courses back towards the entrance to the USJ. Izuku would be fine, he knew that. His new priority was getting Ashido back to the entrance so they could get her to the shitty nurse.
He took the first few steps towards the entrance and found them easier than he had expected them to be, so he shook his head to clear it a bit and started moving. He got to the front gate of the Ruins Zone when the plaza came into view, and Katsuki froze his mouth agape.
What the fuck was Eraserhead doing with Izuku?
Izuku let out a huff as the scarf around his shoulders and waist swung him in another direction, watching in amusement as a man as wide as a car landed a punch to his gut, and watching the confusion in the villain's eyes as nothing happened.
A second later, Izuku found himself a few steps to the side, and Eraserhead stepped where Izuku had just been, landing a brutal roundhouse kick to the man's head, sending him to the ground.
Izuku couldn't even imagine the level of strength Eraserhead must have in his body to one-hit KO someone that big. His awe didn't last for much longer when he saw another villain attacking, feeling himself get moved again after his warning. "Eraserhead! 4 o'clock!"
This game continued for a short while, and the combination of the confusion from the villains, seeing a pro hero and respected teacher use a student as a human shield, and Izuku's Quirk, it gave Eraser the time he needed to rest up properly between attacks.
It wasn't a perfect plan, but it was working, for now.
"Kurogiri, tell me I'm fucking hallucinating."
Kurogiri hummed as he watched Eraserhead using a student like a human shield at the end of a rope, dragging the boy around at absurd speeds and catching attacks on him "I'm sorry, but I cannot."
He made sure to take a step back as Shigiraki flailed his arms. "Eraserhead is using a student like a legendary shield and it's messing with his cooldowns! I can't get a read on his timing! Fucking cheater!"
Shigiraki let out a yell as Eraserhead used the boy to catch a large piece of rubble, and when he was pulled back towards the man, the boy seemed no worse for wear.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!"
Aizawa grunted as he ran his hand over his scarf again, bringing Izuku back closer to him, before whipping the boy around and catching a projectile with him.
It had taken him a bit to come to terms with using a student like this, but as his eyes started to burn more and more, and he was hit more often as he slowed down, he saw the sense in the kid's suggestion.
It still felt weird though.
Pulling on one strand of his scarf and letting another flow, he spun on his heel and sent Izuku in an arc in front of him, letting the boy slam into the side of a villain who had been preparing a ranged attack.
He blinked a few more times to let his eyes recover, before briefly erasing a woman's quirk, whose hands were covered in ice, and positioning Izuku to take a hit from a heteromorphic type that came from his right.
He heard a grunt to his side and was about to attack when he heard the tell-tale sign of blood rushing from Vlad's gauntlets. He brought Izuku around and held the boy in between him and the main villains and turned to Vlad.
"Mr. King! Is everyone alright?"
"What took you so long?"
Vlad grunted as he made a whip out of the blood and brought a villain closer, landing a haymaker to their face and knocking them out. He then turned to Aizawa. "The students that were left up top are safe and out of the building, Thirteen destroyed the door. Iida and Shoda are on their way back to the main campus to get the others here ASAP."
He then raised his eyebrow at Izuku. "Are you… no, no. I guess that makes sense. As long as he's alright with it."
Aizawa nodded, dodging under a strike and punching the attacker, using Izuku to cover Vlad's back as a villain shot something at him. Izuku nodded. "Was my idea actually! But be careful! I think he's about to send Nomu in! At the very least he can get through your Crimson Aegis, Vlad."
Vlad King nodded to Izuku. "Noted! Stay out of the big one's way! Shit, Midoriya was right here he comes!"
Aizawa turned to the main villains as a shriek of "NOMU! KILL THEM!" Echoed over the plaza. The second he heard that he was moving. He remembered what Izuku had told him when he had suggested this absurd plan.
"If Nomu gets sent at you, place me in between you two as fast as you can. Your top priority is to not get hit by Nomu. the hand villain said that he was supposed to be the one to fight All Might, so he's probably stronger than I saw."
Before he could really even think, Izuku was in front of him, and a loud crash reverberated throughout the plaza.
Hearing nothing after that, Eraserhead took a step back and saw Izuku hiccup, trying to get air back into his lungs. "Midoriya! Are you alright!"
Getting a shaky thumbs-up, Izuku just smiled at him. "hic Yep, just hic winded me! I'll be fine!"
There was silence for a moment as Nomu just stared at the trio as if his brain was struggling to realise what had just happened. All of a sudden, a shout was heard from the hand villain.
"OK WHAT THE ACTUAL FUC-"
BOOM
"I AM HERE!"
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AN: I have no regrets! Hope you enjoyed this chapter!