My Iron Giant
-Two of a Kind-
Bakugo was trying not to blow some of the extra's heads off. Plenty of weirdos tried talking to him since day one, asking about his life, inviting him to do lame things, but out of all the things that annoyed him the most..
"Excuse me, Bakugo right? I'm Yaoyorozu Momo, I couldn't help but notice the quality of-"
It was all the damn questions about his arm.
"Save your breath, I'm not talking about it." He almost growled on reflex, but was sternly reminded by the metal band on his left arm. Cameras were all over the place, listening to his every word. If he ever uttered something that could be perceived as a legitimate threat he was done. The heroes here aka the ones sucking on Deku'd metal dick, made that clear plenty of times.
Harsh threats, done.
Acts of aggression to others, done.
Any quirk usage outside select training, done.
Even swearing could get him in serious trouble.
All of it was bullshit.
And he definitely noticed those fuckwads that kept staring at him and his arm, whispering shit behind his back. It was the same ones that watched him when he called out Deku for his lies. That little weasel somehow got All Might of all people to stick up for him from that press conference he saw.
"Alright everyone, pay attention." Eraserhead interrupted the class's chatter. "Normally our class would do some battle training to get an idea of using your quirks with and against others. But, due to a deeper background check on our students we decided that this class should learn restraint and patience before pinning you against each other like wild animals in a cage match."
Bakugo got the message, they didn't trust him to not kill somebody the first chance he got. If it was for some other reason Eraserhead wouldn't bother to tell them why.
*stomp, stomp, stomp*
Oooooh boy was he doing his best to not ignite the whole entire school right now. Every single time Deku takes one step he has to let everyone know.
"Hey! Midoirya looks different today."
"You're right ribbit, he's a lot shorter."
"Still really big though, hope I don't ever have to spar with him."
"You kidding me?! I say bring it on big boy! Let's see who's got the manliest spirit!"
And there they are, acting like monkeys at the sight of a banana. It was probably the most accurate, seeing as how one of them was a monkey with that stupid looking tail. Seriously, it looked like a hairy leg was shoved up his asshole.
"Oh, and don't forget these." Aizawa clicked a button, revealing compartments built into the wall that stored silver briefcases with numbers on them. Katsuki actually began to grin, but was reminded of his arm again. If the school got his designs right, then it would already match his arm. The stalker somehow knew the color scheme he was going for and teased him about it.
Ignoring all the excitement he got up from his desk, swiped his case, and walked to the locker room. His boots fit great, his mask fit great, this was the outfit of a hero. Rubbing his fingers over the cloth of his pants he could feel how durable they were. Built in mind to take minimum damage but still be lightweight for him to use his quirk freely.
He got nervous the longer he continued feeling the cloth with his robotic hand. Even if it was made by Deku, he couldn't imagine life with a stub for an arm. So many hero moves he came up with would be useless, he would receive so much pity from the world. VIllains would have laughed at him constantly. Most of all, it would be a sign of weakness. The new arm was intimidating, matching his strength for whatever he did. For the massive mistake the worthless stain on his life did by taking his original arm, this one certainly made everyone know just because he lost an arm doesn't mean he was out.
But, would it hold up when he got to use his quirk?
NO! It didn't matter, two arms, one arm, no arms, he didn't need them. He was Katsuki Bakugo, future number one hero that would easily surpass All Might.
"I AM-"
Class 1-B could not contain their excitement hearing the number one hero right outside their door. Tetsutetsu was banging his desk with his fists madly building up to the hype. Ida tried to tell him to stop but a movement started. Nearly everyone began to drumroll their desks making more and more noise. The only ones who didn't were Ibara, Monoma, and Komori. Ida was practically joining the noise by his yelling.
"-COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!" All Might slid inside.
"All Might, a few teachers and I are going to be overseeing your first hero training exercise." Vlad informed them.
Kendo raised her hand. "Sir, why will there be so many teachers?"
"Do you need to ask?" Vlad then looked between Uraraka and Midoriya who stood outside.
Monoma decided at that moment to laugh condescendingly. "Wow, so someone couldn't handle their quirk and now UA has to constantly pick up after them?"
Vlad was about to cut the boy off, but Komori beat him to it. "Would you rather them scrape your body off the pavement from said someone stepping on you without noticing you were there like the insignificant flee you are?"
Her cold clear words cut right into Monoma. The taller boy scowled at the girl as All Might's booming voiced silenced them. "Now, I'm sure some of you may feel cheated with Midoriya and Uraraka getting so much attention. But keep in mind, this is a school for learning and growing into fine heroes. Midoriya only recently awakened his quirk while the rest of you had your entire lives to figure out how to use it. Uraraka herself is simply someone who got caught up in this and has been a huge help."
The number one hero's perspective helped ease the class, but tension between Monoma and Komori still simmered in the background. Vlad coughed to get their attention. "Ok, if there are no more questions please put on these costumes and head to the locker room. After that head to site Delta where we will jump into battle training."
"BATTLE TRAINING?!" Half of them shouted.
Ida shot up immediately. "Are you sure that is what's best? Midoriya has acted out aggressively plenty of ti-"
"Only in defense of Uraraka." Vlad King stopped him. "Even then he wouldn't hurt you unless you truly seek to harm the girl immensely. We've tested this plenty of times and can assure you that as long as you focus on the training aspect and not act out with hostility to Uraraka everything will be fine. Now get going! You have five minutes to change into your costumes."
Ochaco pulled at her costume. It was a little tighter than expected, but it still looked great to her. Snipe said that when he felt she was ready he'd put in a request for an update to her outfit to accommodate her new skillset. That's if she ever managed to shoot a flying drone half a mile away while dodging Snipe's own fire.
Ugh, not looking forward to being blown onto her butt every time she took a shot unprepared. Well, today was supposed to be basics anyways. Time to see what a week of hardcore training did for her.
Outside of the lockers and into the training sight, Ochaco took a look at her class. A lot of them had great looking costumes, while others looked simple but still good. One that caught her eye was Komori dressed in a cute little red mushroom outfit and playing with her skirt. While she was cooing over how adorable she was Ochaco failed to notice a rapidly approaching modern knight. "Uraraka! You found no issues with your costume I hope."
Setsuna Tokage rolled her eyes. If what she said to Ida didn't get through to him, then she didn't know what would.
"Hey Ida! Yeah, it's pretty good. I'll probably ask for a couple changes the next chance I get. It's a little tight." She said pinching the black cloth of her costume. Ida stiffened all of a sudden, not saying anything as Ochaco kept talking with him.
Komori was standing next to the giant's feet, happily smiling at her costume. Looking up to her armored friend he simply kept his eyes on Uraraka. It was slightly disappointing, seeing how he wasn't focusing on her like previous nights. But it was understandable, he was under the influence of his quirk.
"Is this your hero look? I like it."
He didn't respond, sticking to doing his role of being Ochaco Uraraka's guardian. Komori glanced around, frowning when Monoma made his approach. He was smirking wearing that stupid suit with stupid watches in his stupid pockets, even the way he walked was stupid. She didn't really like him at first, but everytime he opened his mouth it always seemed like it was something targeting Midoirya or Uraraka. Now that dislike has turned into straight despise.
"Ah, trying to make connections to 'The next All Might?' I wouldn't bother, he doesn't have the brain capacity to understand anyone." He then walked a little closer to her, making her incredibly uncomfortable from how unnaturally friendly he was being with her.
Monoma noticed her increasing glare and instead walked to the other side of his feet, letting her have some kind of barrier between the two of them. "I don't mean to offend him, I'm just stating facts. It really is unfortunate that his quirk did this much to him when he first used it. Maybe if he had more experience with his quirk then he would be a wonderful hero student." He then leaned onto Midoriya's foot, patting it gently.
Komori watched the boy carefully, he didn't seem to do anything wrong, but he was still getting on her nerves. For absolutely no reason he kept throwing sticks and stones at her metallic friend.
"Alright everyone, let's get started." Snipe said to them all. With him was Vlad King, Thirteen, and All Might. Monoma just smiled, leaving Midoriya and Komori. The mushroom girl sighed and walked to the class. She spared one last glance to her giant friend, shocked at what she was seeing.
His eyes were slightly narrowed, following the movements of Monoma for a few seconds before looking back to Uraraka.
The teachers informed them that this would be a heroes versus villains exercise. Two students would be assigned to be villains and guard a bomb while two other would be tasked with capturing the bomb. Each side had fifteen minutes to battle to either capture each other, or for the heroes to capture the fake bomb in the time limit. The pairs were randomized, even the famous duo.
Uraraka got paired with Shihai Kuroiro, a boy with silver hair and a pitch black body. They were the heroes, and warned that she was not allowed to in any way command Midoriya. The villains were Monoma and Kojiro Bondo, a boy with a mutation quirk that made the top of his head look similar to a glue bottle with holes on the front of his face. Monoma looked down at his hand, smirking. He was worried that when he obtained Midoriya's quirk over fifteen minutes ago that he would have had to fight without it. Yet he still felt it, it was a stubborn and strong quirk that refused to leave. It would be paired well with Tokage and Shiozaki's quirks that he managed to get right before the training. He'd have to act fast though, five minutes had already passed and that meant he didn't have all the exercise to waste his time.
He'd have to hit hard and fast to win, maybe with a little flare as well.
"So, what's the plan?" Bondo asked eyeing the bomb. "I could cover this whole thing in glue, though I don't know the other guy's quirk."
"That would be good, but once it starts I can quickly overpower them. It would be nice if you provided assistance in making sure they were restrained." Monoma adjusted his cuffs, he wanted to look good for his first impression for his class about his skills.
Bondo just shrugged and started spitting glue at the bomb. "K, sounds good."
Their earpieces turned on, Vlad's voice coming on to them. "Alright, times started, remember, no unnecessary violence unless you want Midoriya to interrupt you."
Bondo finished his work and walked up to Monoma. "Makes sense why they have all the heroes. I wouldn't want to fight the big guy."
Monoma just waved the boy off. "I'm sure it's an over exaggerated safety precaution to make some of the easily intimidated feel at ease."
Now, all he had to do was take down the heroes.
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The nice girl, she was listening to someone. Who was it? Did it matter?
All that matters is she's safe.
Protect the nice girl.
Wasn't there another person that kept talking to him? It sounded kind of like the nice girl. Was there two nice girl's?
That voice, there's a voice that's so familiar to him. It made him feel strong, and safe, and hopeful. He was glad the voice was around the nice girl.
[Alert- Request for copy of systems received]
[Deny or Accept]
Wait, this was different. There could be another him? But what did he do?
Protect the nice girl.
He kept her safe, if there was another him then they could be more efficient.
[Request Accepted]
[Creating duplicate system compatible with new host]
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"We got this!" Uraraka pumped her fist. While her partner wasn't as excited as her he still seemed dependable. They had come up with a decent plan, all that they needed to do was have him scout them out, see what their quirks were, and if he could handle it get the bomb. If not then she would still be floating around the building scouting. Both could meet at an area and corner one of the villains. Overall, they had a great plan and plenty of backups. There was just one concern her partner kept voicing.
"Are you sure we can trust him not to intervene?" Kuroiro pointed his thumb to the looming giant.
Ochaco nodded. "Don't worry, unless one of those guys tries to do anything bad there are plenty of teachers watching. Even All Might's on stand by."
The shadow boy could only nod. If anyone could get anything done, it was All Might.
"Alright, times started, remember, no unnecessary violence unless you want Midoriya to interrupt you."
"Good Luck!" Ochaco tapped her thigh and started to float. As she rose she spotted Monoma and Bondo through a window. It looked like there was a wad of glue in the corner of the room. That must be the bomb. She should let her partner know.
"Kuroiro-
*SHBOOOOM*
A blast of light emerged from the center of the building. Ochaco reflexes kicked in as she shielded her face.
*CLANG*
Metal hit metal, that's what it sounded like at least to her. Opening her eyes there was a large black metal hand reaching out for her, it was only stopped by Midoriya's own grabbing the wrist. In place of the building was a new robot. It had a knight like helmet with bright sharp eyes locked on her. The ears were yellow cones that stuck out from the sides of it. On top of the head was a little aircraft fixed into it. At its height it was just smaller than Midoriya by around seven feet.
The robot had dark blue boots and gloves with white around the thighs and upper arms. Its chest was black with two red wings resting on the breast plate. Around its stomach was the same matt white until it reached the crotch, where it was as black as the upper part of the torso. She tried to recall where she saw the design before, it looked really simple so it must be an older mech...masda x?...no wait! Mazinger Z!
Midoriya's eyes were completely narrowed on whoever just tried to assault Ochaco, filled with the light and power of a sun as they dared the bot to make a move. As the new robot tried to inch closer with its outreached hand it raised its other fist. Ochaco saw something in the other hand moving. Looking a little closer as she floated she gasped. It had Kuroiro!
"Midoriya! Rescue him!" She shouted just in time. The shadow teen was starting to get crushed and screamed out in pain. Midoriya stepped closer in and smacked the hand holding the boy down with his free hand, being careful to maneuver around the still floating Ochaco. When the shadow boy started falling he disappeared from sight. Ochaco got worried and tried to find him but was immensely relieved to see All Might standing on a rooftop with him and Bondo in his arms.
"All Mi-
*CLANG*
Midoriya was smacked by the Mazinger in the face. He replied by tugging the arm still in his grasp and swinging the other robot to crash into empty buildings. As Mazinger was getting up Midoriya cupped his hand around Ochaco protectively.
"Young Uraraka!" All Might landed on Midoriya's shoulder.
"All Might! What's happening?! Is it a villain attack?!"
The man's smile faltered slightly. "Vald King informed me that this could be the result of young Monoma's quirk. He can duplicate quirks and use them for around fifteen minutes. I need you to come with me, we don't know what's going through Monoma's head."
Ochaco peaked between the digits of Midoriya's hand and looked at the Mazinger bot pulling himself up from the bokeh buildings. The eyes started to glow with more and more intensity as they stared at where she was. Midoriya moved before All Might and Ochaco came to a decision.
He charged straight ahead and grabbed the boy's face. Lasers spilled out from around Midoriya's hand striking whatever they touched with intense heat. The metal making up Midoirya's hand started to turn red, making All Might act in a burst of speed. He grabbed Ochaco and took her far from the fight, leaving the titans to duel.
He went straight for where the other students were at witnessing everything over the cameras. The earth and air shook with every hit Midoriya and Monoma delivered to one another. Vlad King had Bondo in a stretcher made from the blood of his quirk. "All Might, we need to get the students away from the fight."
"Wait! What about Midoriya?!" Ochaco cried out.
All Might put a hand on her shoulder. "Young Midoriya's in a large suit of metal, he'll keep young Monoma busy until his quirk times out."
Kendo interjected. "Shouldn't you stop the fight all together?!"
Snipe answered on behalf of the man, letting him dart away with an arm full of students. "Our priority is making sure you kids are safe. If we have a window of opportunity to get you away from the danger we will. Then we'll help the two giants."
Thirteen started to wave them away from the viewing area. "You heard him, let's get going!"
As they ran from the miniature earthquakes generated by the fight, Ochaco spared one last glance to Midoirya on one of the screens. "Please be safe."
Midoriya delivered a powerful uppercut into Monoma's defense, striking him under the chin. As Monoma started to fall back from the blow he grabbed Midoriya's arm and pulled him down with him. He then placed his feet into Midoriya's stomach and kicked him away.
Chunks of cement flew into the air as Midoriya crashed into several buildings in the training sight. Monoma rolled over to the side and easily got back up. Midoriya followed with him, jabbing his elbows against the ground and creating enough force to push himself up. Both met each other's eyes, analyzing one another for a few seconds before they broke out into a run.
Monoma brought one fist to the side, blades emerging from the sides of his forearm. When he was close enough he swung it at Midoriya. The slightly taller mech held one arm up to deflect the blow, sparks flying as the blade skidded across the surface. Midoriya then took his other fist, the barrel on that arm starting to glow, and punch Monoma right in the gut. The barrel blasted a concussive beam of energy and launched Monoma hundreds of feet away.
His feet broke the pavement as he slowed down, never losing his balance. When he finally came to a stop he raised both fists at the coming mech. They shot out from their sockets, flying through the air and corkscrewing straight to Midoriya.
As Midoriya ran to his target he crouched down letting the fists approach. When they got close enough his feet blasted him into the air leaping over the projectiles. His arm based weaponry lit up with an ominous green light, pointing at Monoma as he came back to earth. Several rapid fire bolts of energy came from the guns striking Monoma again and again forcing him to fall on his back.
Midoriya landed straight on him, his feet creating two massive imprints into Monoma's metal chest. As he raised his guns once again to fire his armless opponent two blows struck him from behind and knocked him off. Monoma's flying fists came back and reattached themselves to the sockets of the Mazinger's arms.
All around them was destruction, nearly all previously built buildings reduced to rubble. Scorch marks littered the streets, wisps of smoke mixed with dust. Both robots emerged from their craters in the earth, unfeeling to the dents and scratches on themselves. Monoma, the Mazinger robot, turned his head over to where the school was. Zooming in and targeting the distant heroes and hero students.
*CRUNCH*
It turned to look back at Midoriya, who had stomped harshly into the road, declaring the fight was not over. Izuku's own eyes were sparking with energy, slight flares of purple dancing in them. His posture changed, standing up straighter and putting his fists on the side of his hips.
"Alright big guy, I'm pretty pissed off, so do us both a favor and step down before we step you into the ground." Nana's voice came from the speakers of Midoriya's bot.
Nana sat right in front of Izuku, watching him as he piloted the robot for the day. All she could feel was guilt, he couldn't talk anymore and it was her fault. So, living with her failure, her selfishness, she punished herself by watching him and not what's happening outside. She could still hear Uraraka's voice whenever she talked clear as day, and easily guessed what would happen.
All Might, what a funny hero name. Everytime she heard Uraraka mention it she was reminded of the skinny blond boy she spent so little time with. She failed her successor, she failed his successor to. Wow, could she do anything worse?
Ok, without turning into a full blown villain like All for One. But she still did something pretty villainous by taking away his voice, just like some octopus witch in some old movie.
"Good Luck!" Ochaco's voice interrupted. Their little mock training was starting. How long had it been since she did that? Must have been at least half a century, but time seem to blurred the longer she was alive. Not alive, exist.
[Primary Directive: Protect -Nice Girl- AKA -Ochaco Uraraka-]
She could feel One for All flowing to the heavy limbs. Izuku's face actually had an expression, a mix of focus and rage against whoever triggered him. Nana turned around to see what was on the screen.
"Holy shit!"
The outline was clear as day to her, standing where a building was a new robot that met them near eye level. Nana pulled up her own personal readings and examined them about this new foe. It was eerily similar to their own, but there was enough difference that this wasn't an exact duplicate. It almost looked cheap.
"Alright, who the hell is this?" A couple theories came to mind about how this happened. Some distant relative like a secret twin, a quirk copier, or something straight from All for One. She was hoping for the first.
"Midoriya! Rescue him!"
Their sight narrowed on one of the enemy's metal fists, starting to crush a boy. He had a hostage!
"Make him lose his grip!" Nana's words were heard and they smacked the hand harshly. Midoriya made sure to accidentally hit Ochaco out of the air. They kept their eyes on the boy that started to fall, ready to catch him. A speedy blur that they somehow were able to process grabbed the boy and brought him away. They looked over and saw a tall muscular man with two smaller guys.
"All Mi-"
*CLANG*
"ARGH! I bet that would have hurt if I could feel anything!" They were knocked back. Nana reacted as a normal person would to their view rapidly change from getting smacked. Luckily she was a hologram. She checked Izuku to see if he was injured at all.
His hair moved, but other than that he seemed fine. "Good, we got some way of absorbing the shock."
"All Might! What's happening?! Is it a villain attack?!"
A villain attack?! Ok, so maybe not the first option from earlier but it wasn't out completely. But hearing that All Might was confirmed to be here helping was a relief. It must have been the muscled man they saw with whom they were told to rescue. If All Might got to him, then the boy was safe. Now all they had to do was take out the trash.
"Let's buy Toshi some time kid." Nana said bringing up all their options of weaponry. It was a lot, but Izuku would use them as he saw fit when she activated them. Better not overwhelm the kid with options and have one active at a time.
"These are new, looks pretty good too. Let's give it a whirl." She turned them on, the selected weapons being the new mounted guns on their arms. More power flowed through the quirk and to the barrels giving them plenty to work with.
Nana was actually getting excited. It was so easy to get bored in here and now she could distract herself from her actions. All she had to do, was focus on the one thing she was good at.
Kicking ass.
Midoirya was the main body, controlling the limbs to punch, grab, and jab away. He would use the weapons that Nana prepped for him when he felt it was right. She was the one helping with how to do those things. When she saw an opening she pointed it out. If there was a hit incoming they braced for it; or rolled with it. Together they worked to do as much damage to their enemy and receive as little as possible. It was still difficult seeing as how Midoriya and whoever was the other robot clearly had no experience in real fighting.
"Geez, no offense Izuku but your moves are really telegraphed. Luckily your opponent is dog shit trying to look cool but as of right now we're hardly making progress."
They took another hit to the face, an ice beam this time. How many friggin attacks is this guy gonna do? Oh, he has missiles coming from his elbows now.
Fantastic.
Nana gritted her teeth in annoyance. Whoever this was seemed to just be blasting off attacks after attack with hardly any coordination. It was like a kid playing pretend on a playground, just making up super move after super move to counter whatever the other person came up with. Unfortunately for them she and Izuku were easily good enough to take whatever they threw out.
If only Izuku could use the super moves she developed over her years as a hero. She could have beaten this guy easily by now with an over exaggerated "punch" which was really her shouting and looking like she was going to punch only to kick them, and punch them right after.
Seriously, give her some of the control to the body, they'd finish this faster than-
[Request to synchronize power cores accepted]
[Activating sensory input and output for exterior]
Oh, hell yeah.
"Everyone, stay in the school building! And whatever you do, do not talk about what you just saw until we know what happened." Vlad warned his students, shutting the doors to the room. They didn't have time to change, and two of them were in Recovery Girl's office.
Ida was the first one to say anything. "Everyone! We should heed what the teacher said and-"
"Everyone heard, you think any of us are dumb enough to not follow his advice?" Setsuna said with a slight frown.
Manga, Tetsutetsu, and Komori all raised their hands.
"Besides Monoma?" Kendo asked taking off her mask to put in her pocket. All the raised hands went down.
"How did Monoma even turn into a robot?" Juzo Honenuki took a seat, many others followed, trying to relax.
Manga coughed. "Well, the proper term is mech or-"
Kamakiri, a boy with sharp blades on his face and light green hair rose a blade up from his arm, silencing the geek.
"Do you think that Midoriya's quirk is contagious?" Tsuburaba asked.
Kendo shook her head. "No, that couldn't be it. There have been plenty of others exposed to Midoriya before this for much longer periods of time."
Ochaco took off her helmet and rose it to her face. Not a scratch on it, for being so close to death again she wasn't even in any real danger was she?
Pony clapped getting people's attention. "It was faggot's quirk!"
"Language!"
Kendo ignored the two and looked to where a few of the boys were trying to hold in a laugh. They obviously told her that word meant something else. "Would you mind explaining his quirk Pony?"
She nodded. "He talk to himself lots, I listened when mentioned he that wanted to try certain friends quirks."
A shorter boy with light blue hair, Nirengeki Shoda, widened his eyes in realization. "He has a duplication quirk. He must have tried using Midoriya's somehow."
"THAT ASSHOLE!" Komori slammed her fists on the table, gritting her teeth angrily. Not even Shiozaki or Ida dared to correct her. Out of everyone in class she was the shyest by far, barely able to muster the courage to stand next to a stranger. But seeing her so angry, it felt like someone replaced her entirely.
Tokage stepped towards her unfearful. "What's up, he do something douchey again?"
Komori nodded, folding in on herself realizing what she had just done. Yet her anger for the blond let her focus on something else besides the crowd. "Yeah, he came up to Midroiya and I during the match and got weirdly close with us. He said things about his quirk like he had no control because he never used one before."
Rin hummed. "So he thought he could use Midoriya's quirk right off the bat because he knew how to use his own."
Ochaco continued to stare at her helmet, looking at her own reflection in it. This was supposed to be her first day of training, to put all she learned to good use, and to finally help Midoriya come a little closer to his dream. Or was it their shared dream to be heroes? It felt so weird, he wasn;'t around right now. He was fighting someone, all because his quirk felt she was in danger.
If it had been him in control, would he be just as determined as he is now? Would they stick together for their school year? She just wanted him back, to be next to her and enjoying life.
"Are you alright?" Ida asked sitting next to her.
Ochaco shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know, it feels strange. I got so used to Midoriya being around me that I forgot what it's like to just..I don't know.."
"You have marvelous patience Uraraka. When the constant responsibility of taking care of someone was put on you, you handled it better than I could have."
Ochaco chuckled. "I don't think I was ever taking care of him, he's always been taking care of me."
That got a smile out of the other boy. "You truly think the best of everyone around you don't you?"
She sheepishly rubbed the back of her head. "You think? I just think my luck is pretty good with the people I meet."
Ida nodded. "Of course I do."
Tokage was eyeing the two from the corner of her eye. Somehow, someway, this guy managed to act like he wasn't a total tool to Uraraka. Even if he didn't try to hide his feelings, luck just seemed to swing his way to make himself look better to her. She blew a tuft of hair away from her face and laid down on a desk. She wanted a nap.
"Come on, we don't have all day." Nana's voice taunted Monoma. He braced his footing, arms starting to spin rapidly faster and faster at the shoulder, building up speed.
"Ok, I've seen way too many kids try this. You sure you're not some toy being used by a five year old?"
The rocket fists flew out and right to them. Standing sideways they flew right past and off into the distance. "And now, you've literally disarmed yourself for us."
The distant roaring grew closer and closer, the fists generating speed as they sought to hit the back of Mechadoriya. They pointed one of their barrels at Monoma, blasting him with a heavy shot. Once he was hit the rocket fists fell to the earth, clanging along the streets and landing next to their feet.
"You're probably one of the most lousy villains I have ever seen. Standing around all confident before your attack even lands on the other person. Of course, I may be spitballing, but anytime you use a special attack you hardly seem to move, if at all." Reaching down, they picked up the two fists as Monoma struggled to get up with his stubby arms. Nana felt the rush of One for All inside her as she channeled strength into the arms. It wasn't just her, it was Izuku as well. The power bounced back and forth so quickly that it felt like there were two users at once working in a single body.
It felt like she was alive again.
With a satisfying squeeze the metal gauntlet started to creak, bending to the sheer gripping force of the both of them. With one final crunch, the arms bent under their will like tinfoil. They tossed the useless thing to the side, walking with power to the other mech that just got on its feet.
Monoma's eyes charged up along with the yellow cones, the cracked wings on its chest, and the missile holes in the exposed parts of its arms. Midoriya and Nana took a fighting stance, their eyes lighting up and glowing a bright green with purple lightning around them. "Come on! You wanna hurt that girl?! Well try it!"
"I AM HERE!" All Might cracked the ground under his feet landing between the two bots. Despite his heroic entrance that billions of people around the world recognized, Monoma and Midoriya did not even spare a glance at him.
A torrent of heavy fire launched from Monoma's Mazinger right to the Leopardon piloted by Midoriya and Nana. They cut their way through it with condensed beams from their eyes and charging with an arm raised through the rest.
All Might had to jump out of the way lest he be caught between the two. Midoirya and Nana continued to push forward, raising their other arm up behind them. Monoma was too busy firing to see the fist coming right to his head, snapping it in a one eighty degree turn. All the weapons stopped, leaving Midoriya and Nana to continue to punch at the metal body.
"THIS IS FOR TARGETING A SCHOOL!"
*CRUNCH*
"THIS IS FOR HURTING KIDS!"
*CRACK*
"AND THIS IS FOR TRYING TO STAND BETWEEN US-"
*RIIIP*
"-AND THE PRIMARY DIRECTIVE!"
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As they kept pounding away at the metal, All Might noticed it was starting to vanish piece by piece. Parts of the leg glew with a softer light, highlighting each section before they vanished. At the top of the head, a steaming hiss was heard. From it a small red pod ejected from it. It must be young Monoma! He ran over, looking into the glass dome of it. Sure enough, the teen was there safe and sound.
"Oh no you don't, you're not getting a second chance to do what you did today."
That was the first time he had ever heard Nana in that tone of voice. It was full of guilt, experience, and worst of all to him at the moment, resolve. "Please wait! He's just a child! We don't even think he did this on purpose just like young Midoriya has!"
Nana seemed to ignore him, reaching out for the young lad instead.
"Stop right there! It's over, you beat him!"
Her fingers tightened into a fist, and raised it above the unconscious Monoma.
"NO!" All Might darted forward and ripped the young lad from his pod. As he began to run away he could hear the metallic stomping of what was Midoriya's body. Did he and Nana switch places somehow?
"So you had backup? Should've guessed, but you're not getting far!"
All Might ran at near top speed, careful with the boy in his grasp. What was happening to them? Did they not see that it was him? Snipe, Thirteen, and a line of UA heroes were waiting for him as he approached. Quickly he put the boy in Hound Dog's arms.
"No time to talk! Duty calls!" He charged back to where Nana was running at him from. Rearing back his fist he channeled a good portion of his power into it.
"SMASH!" His knuckles cracked against the hardened steel of the jaw piece. Midoriya's body was launched back a good fifty feet but then their legs quickly got their bearings.
"Nice punch, but you just used up all your luck for the next decade."
"Why are you still fighting us?! Can't you see he was just a student?!" His words fell on deaf ears as one of the arms was brought forth, barrel starting to steam and glow. A blast of energy shot out, but he had reacted in time to dodge it.
He zig zagged across the field, dodging blast after blast until he got close enough to land a hit.
"Rapidly Improvised Kick!" The massive metal leg started to move, but he knew her, and he knew what that meant. Look out for a punch to the face! Sure enough he leapt forward towards the moving leg dodging a fist that would have crushed him. Right after it hit the leg came up to fulfill the name.
He caught the appendage, using nearly seventy five percent of his strength to slow it down. "This is your last chance! Stop this!"
"That's not something you see everyday, a villain that has done good research. Don't know how you know me but you should know what happens when I get serious."
He did know, and that's what made All Might decide he needed to be serious if he wanted to live. Yet why had she called him a villain so casually? Did Midoriya's tunnel vision of Uraraka affect her as well? That had to be the case, she would definitely have stopped by now.
"I'm sorry Nana, but you leave me no choice!" He flexed his fingers, putting as much strength as he could into them. It started to work, indents in the metal now forming under his might. Nana brought up another blaster to try and shoot him off but he let go, letting her shoot her own foot. It barely left a hint of a scorch mark.
"Immune to your own weapons I see. Well then, better remove them before they can hurt anyone else!" With a quick kick behind himself he generated enough force to launch himself right to the forearm.
"CAROLINAAAA SMAAAASH!" He crossed his arms and chopped them at the joint directly. The arm was smashed up, a large dent remained that wrecked the machinery inside of it turning the limb useless.
"AGH!" Nana shouted in pain. She could feel that?! But she didn't have a body! It made All Might feel worse as she tried to sweep him with an open palm mid air. Tightening his fist, he punched the limb straight on boring a hole into it.
They didn't stop, they wouldn't stop. He had to get this robot grounded. He let himself fall back to the feet. Their body twisted as he descended, preparing a devastating side kick that would demolish any skyscraper. "DETROIT SMASH!"
He hit the knee, bending the leg the way it wasn't supposed to go. Gripping onto it he pulled at it, wires, cables, and large pieces of warped metal snapping the more he tugged. A growing light around him was the only warning he got to dodge before a laser hit him, but instead of that, he ripped the leg free and swung it right at their face.
The kick of the flying leg hit them hard at the charged eyes. Lighting coiled around the head as it was sparking out of control. What if that was hurting Midoriya! He had to get the boy out of there!
All Might launched straight to the side of the head and punched his hand at the metal where a girl last night had put an x on it. She must have identified where the most logical weak point would be. Seeing the metal fold under his fist proved it right. With a new grip, he ripped a hole big enough to step inside.
There! In the center of the room was Midoriya, just as young Togata had described beforehand. Those restraints and cables were worrisome, especially the one at the back of his head. He would cut them fast and take him to Recovery Girl before-
"Toshi?! What the hell are you doing?!" Nana appeared in front of him, her frame was transparent with a blue hue over it. If he looked a little closer he could make out individual pixels.
"I need to get young Midoriya out of here before everything goes to hell." He stepped into the room, a surge of electricity trying and failing to halt the mountain of a man.
"Wait! We still need to get the villains after Uraraka! Don't take him out of here!"
"Nana, there are no more threats to the girl, stand down!"
"NO! Don't take him from-"
He didn't listen, it wasn't her. The Nana he knew wouldn't act like this. In some twisted way it was probably an echo of his master that lived in One for All. All memories, but no real spirit. A person constructed from the information from his former master, but not from the heart. He brought his hand to chop at the bindings holding his successor.
"I'm sorry Midoriya, I should have done this sooner."
He gave no reply, just staring at the screen ahead of him like a zombie. Steeling himself he swung to cut the cords.
And that's when Nana screamed in agony, her form flickering as he cut each cable. It was horrifying to see her like this, but that wasn't her, that was a program designed to be like her. More and more arcs of energy coiled around the room as he was finishing. He could see Midoriya flinch and react to each time he chopped, showing he felt something. Luckily it wasn't causing him too much pain, meaning it was supposed to work like this in the first place.
"S̴͙̓̎̏̈́̐̕T̸̢̪͎̫̮̖̻̥͒̆̌͋̚͠Ȏ̸̲̑̈͑̆̈́͑͜͝͝Ṕ̶̛͈̱͖̫̦̝͕̼̓̍̏ ̵̟̰̜̭̞̹͎͍̓̀̔̒̎̄̾̔̓͝T̴̨̘̻̞̫̺͙͉̤̳̓͐͐̊O̶̪͉̪̥͓̖̮̭̐̀͐̍̏̽̕̕S̵̢͕̰̤̩̭̠͕̉͊͒͊̒H̶̨̤͙̏͒͊́͑̆͜I̷͚͖̐̾̔̓̌̌̍͠ ̷͎͎̟͍͇̾̈́̒Y̷͔͈̯͍̫̏͆͐̏́̽́͐͝͠Ǫ̴̬̬̻̗̝͙̤̗̔̒͊̀̚͠Ŭ̶͉̭͑̐̓́͑̕͝'̴̨̡̣̙̪̦͊ͅͅŔ̶̖͗͋̂̕̕Ę̴͙̭̫̜̇̇̉̆̌͆̕͠ ̶̭͚̹͚̠͚͘K̵̡̩̱̰̞̳͔̻̿͒͒̈́͐͂̕I̴̢̨̹̰̯͇̟̭̱̞͐͛Ļ̸̢͙̝̺͉̯̈̈́L̸̰̅̈̾̒͘Ĩ̴̛̪̭̘̱̗̫̊̆̀̓̍̉̿͠N̸̡̨͍̻̞͚̔̏̀̊̈́͗͛͘G̸̭͍̭̠̊̎ ̴͍̦̲͚̲̼̇̕͝U̵̙͙̠̓́̑Ŝ̷̢̩̙̺̺͛̈́̚͝ͅ!"
Not wasting another second he pulled the last cable apart, sparks emitted from each one before everything went dark. Midoriya's eyes closed as his limp body started to fall forward. All Might held an arm out to catch him gently. "Don't worry my boy."
He picked up his successor, careful not to jostle any of the metal still inserted into his body. All Might's large finger felt for a pulse to double check, there it was, strong just like him. Izuku's eyes started to twitch, opening as he turned his head to look at him. All Might just grinned, happy to see him safe and secure.
"There's no need to worry anymore, why?"
Izuku smiled up at his idol.
"Because I am here!"
Midoriya moved his mouth to say something, but only air came from his lungs. He guessed that the boy was too tired to speak. But then his eye twitched, then he grew pale. The signs became clear to All Might very quickly.
Midoriya was having a horrible seizure.
Next Time on My Iron Giant, more drama, as always.
Some may have noticed a new cover art for the story. This was done by CorvidsAreNice. I'm always happy to see fanart and will almost always feature their artwork in the story or a mini plot of their choosing.
Any suggestions, ideas, comments are extremely appreciated. Thanks for the support.
adislt:
It responds to deep strong desires. He may had the logical thought of "I want to turn back" but deep in his heart he might have liked this cause 1. He can't get bullied in his little room. 2. He could feel special with the positive attention. But most of it is because he has hardly any idea how to really work his quirk.
Apex Redeemer:
Ida is someone I seem to write about in a negative light commonly. It's weird, maybe I just got a bad impression that stuck with me when they introduced Ida. I like the name suggestions a bunch! I love the use of acronyms, they hold a place in my heart. I'm trying to think of a good one that uses DEKU that describes Mechadoriya well. If I use one of your ideas I will be sure to give you a shout out.
Hurturnip:
TELL ME WHY!
Zabkiel:
Yeah, everyone's getting their own "Feel" trip. In most fics I'm a Izuchaco fan, but I like a little variety. But I never go for Kachaco, only villains do that. Glad you like the chapters though! Even if everyone is trying to bottle everything up.
Team5dsforever:
Well, I am not a fan of mecha animal transformations. Maybe I'll throw in a little something later on but it wouldn't be anything serious.
ZeroExia:
I'm not sure I got that last part. If you're asking about a truck mode, then no, no truck mode. Maybe he makes a toy truck in his hand or something IDC about little things like that.
Saramus92:
Thanks for wishing me safety and health a bunch. Makes me happy to see random people care.
Animeguy1101:
They're fun for me to write! I'm trying not to reference the movie too heavily through the story but there is going to be a few more scenes inspired by it. That would be something, the tech man of the generation showing up to help. Maybe Melissa can help keep Mei away from Izuku, or manage her so she doesn't do anything without permission.
Saramus92:
I really like the idea for nine forms for each holder. While you definitely know more about mechs than I, I still want to do a couple of things. First off, I did say this would be part Titanfall crossover so there is going to be a form like that. Second, is a lot of people have asked for an Iron Man/Ultron suit. While it's going to be much later for him to get something like that it will happen and the designs will be inspired from them. As for other mechs, I'll wait and see what some others want and if they look cool. You probably noticed Mazinger Z was one of the first requests I got, but I didn't use it for Midoriya. More things like that will happen, not the whole everyone can turn into mechs thing but we will see all kinds of things.
If there are some designs that you really like we can talk about it. I'm always up to making my story more entertaining while being creative in a non perverted way. Seriously, some stories here only a couple hundred words long have thousands of followers just for doing porn. Gross.