Chapter 11: It's Game Over
"Die!"
Bakugo shouted as he took down yet another henchman. The fast rapid battle got his blood going and he was already feeling the high rush from defeating many villains. He disposed of all of the villains who are around his radius along with a certain spiky redhead. Kirishima huffed and finished punching another villain who jumped towards them, staying steady as a rock to battle even more.
"That's all of them? What a bunch of idiots." Bakugo snarled in disgust. These villains were seriously underestimating them. These villains had the numbers, the element of surprise, and terrain advantage, but their combat levels were so weak it was pathetic. His mind wandered thinking about her, wondering how Izuku was dealing with them, he then shook his head. He had to focus.
"Great! Now let's hurry up and go help others. If we're still in USJ that must mean everyone else is too. I'm worried about our classmates, especially the ones who don't have as much combat strength." Kirishima clenched his fist in worry thinking of how they ended up here. "On top of that we got in Thirteen's way and slowed him down. None of this would've happened had we let Thirteen suck him up. As men, we need to take responsibility for our actions."
"If you want to go, then go by yourself." Bakugo argued, "I'm going to kill that stupid warp gate.", he narrowed his ruby eyes in fury.
"Huh?!" Kirishima looked at him confused with outrage toward his classmate. "Don't you want to find Midoriya-chan? Who knows where that warp might have sent her, she could be in serious trouble!"
"Shut up!" Bakugo glared at him. "That warp gate is the villain's only way in or out. I'm going to cut off their escape route at the right time. As for Deku…." He whirled around snagging the chameleon-like henchmen that leaped to sneak attack them by the head and frying it up like crispy chicken. "She may be useless, but she's got a brain, there's no way she'd lose to these weaklings. Besides I'm the only one who's able to defeat her, no one else."
"Amazing reaction time…" Kirishima murmured, noticing the subtleties in Bakugo's tone. He spoke logically when he needed to, and it showed he was more than just an overpowered berserker yet how he acts towards Izuku was confusing to him, it's as if he spoke in a hushed tone when speaking about her.
"Hmmm...I don't get it, you act like an asshole to her yet you have faith in her..." Kirishima closed his eyes and had a thinking pose. Katsuki looked at him with his eyebrow furrowed in confusion. Kirishima then figured out his thoughts and hit his fist upon it, "You like her don't you?"
Upon hearing that, Bakugo's skin quickly turned beet red while his hands started to sweat quickly causing it to crackle small explosions, "Huh!?".
Kirishima questioned him further, "Yeah! You're different ever since your battle stimulation with her, you're acting even more manlier, even speaking differently!", he didn't consider the fact that he was probably pushing on his nerves.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SHIT FOR BRAINS!?", Katsuki yells as he stomps out to leave, "I'm leaving! I'm going after that shitty gate." He stomped out of the building ignoring the red head's question .
"Wait, Bakugo, forget about my question. You gotta believe in our friends, that's really manly. I'll follow your lead!" Kirishima, pumped up from his friend's manly spirit, hardened his arms and punched them together. He felt pumped up and ready to rumble in order to save his friends
CRACK!
Izuku gasped while covering her mouth in fear and disgust for her teacher. She's trying hard not to close her eyes upon seeing Aizawa being tortured by this creature. Nomu relentlessly broke his arm while Shigaraki was mocking his quirk, he reached out his unaffected arm and crushed his bones while he screamed loudly in agony, echoing in Izuku's head.
Nomu then harshly gripped on his jet black locks and grabbed his head to then crush it on the ground creating a crater from the amount of force used on Aizawa.
"Midoriya-chan…" Mineta trembled and whimpered behind his hand. "I can't watch this anymore. We got to run away…", he cried out in fear from witnessing this horrendous scene.
"Ribbit…" Tsuyu croaked quietly, her eyes were shiny from unshedded tears and she sunk lower into the water to feel safer.
"Aizawa-sensei…" Izuku whispered, her eyes widened with fear. She couldn't think, couldn't move, could only just stare in absolute horror. Suddenly, a black warp opened up revealing to be the same person who separated her class, Kurogiri.
"Tomura Shigaraki…" the warp called out in a polite tone of voice.
"Kurogiri. Is Thirteen dead?" Shigaraki asked
"I made him out of commission… but some of the students avoided being scattered, and I'm afraid to say one of them has managed to escape."
Izuku widened her eyes and hitched her breath. Thirteen was out of commission!? These villains easily took out two strong heroes and they were left to fend for themselves. She glanced down at Mineta, the frightened boy cowering back more from the bad news. What were they gonna do now?
Shigaraki began to scratch his neck in irritation, "Kurogiri… I'd turn you into dust if you weren't our ticket to escape..." he threatened, scratching his neck with more pressure as a gesture of stress and panic. The more riled up he became, the more unnerved Izuku and Mineta got.
Shigaraki abruptly stopped scratching, "Tch… we can't stand against a group of pros. It's game over, man. It's game over for now. We're leaving.", he turns to take his exit.
"L-leaving? Did he just say they're leaving?" Mineta asked to see if he was hearing correctly. Even Izuku needed to know if she had heard him correctly in her head. Were they just giving up? After all the effort and planning and damage they'd done to ambush and kill All Might, they were just leaving after a minor setback?
"Yay! We're saved!" Mineta cheered a bit too loudly while pressing his hand on Tsuyu's breast while he hugged her.
She froze up and blushed upon the unwanted contact, "Midoriya-chan, I've got a bad feeling about this." Tsuyu spoke up while she's drowning Mineta for touching her.
"Yeah me too, for them to do all of this and then just abandon it all.." Izuku fell silent as she bit her rosy lips trying to figure out what their next plan was. 'These guys, game over he says...what are they thinking?', her thoughts were cut off as she felt Shigaraki's icy stare link towards their direction.
"But before that...let's kill these children!"
Izuku barely had any time to let out a breath before Shigaraki came forward rushing towards them with his hand stretched out at Tsuyu's face. Everything happened in slow motion to her, her eyes widened as she imagined the outcome of her classmate's face after witnessing Aizawa's elbow from the villain's power. He was able to touch Tsuyu's head with his hand but nothing happened to her.
"...You really are cool aren't you?" Shigaraki drawled out, turning his head towards the man responsible for his plan getting ruined. "Eraserhead."
Aizawa with all his strength lifted up his head to stop him from destroying Tsuyu's face. Nomu then took over his strength and smashed Aizawa's head on the ground creating a large crater below him from the sheer amount of brute force used towards him.
'Oh no, no, no, no, no..!', Izuku screamed in her head while she quickly prepared her attack as her teacher's powers had been cut off. She couldn't think, she just had to act. No matter the injury she would have to sustain from One for All. 'He's different from the guys from the water..! Asui, run! Save yourself!'
"GET OFF FROM HER!" She formed a fist and swiftly concentrated upon One for All into it. "SMASH!" Izuku felt the punch connect, the force of the blast blocked her from seeing her target. She quickly noticed how her arm wasn't broken at all as she was sure that she used her power on it.
'Did I do it? Do I have control over One for All?', her smile quickly faded when the smoke dispersed revealed that she had not punched Shigaraki, but with the Nomu. Her fist was pressed into the belly of the Nomu beast, and he stared down at her with those horrifying dead eyes.
"Smash?" Shigaraki questioned, scratching his neck in irritation at her interruption and from hearing that dreaded phrase. If he hadn't caught sight of her when he did, that little bitch would have sent him flying. "Are you a fangirl of All Might?"
Izuku trembled and her fist started to pull back. Her smash didn't hurt him. He was barely phased at all. Tsuyu's thoughts from before were all starting to make sense now. Nomu… this anti symbol as Shigaraki called him… was supposed to be the one to kill All Might. Shit!
"Run…" she cried out. She turned towards her friends, her emerald green eyes were teary and widened in fear. "RUN!" She screamed as Nomu grabbed her by the hair and pulled her up by it. His other hand came around to crush her head like a juice box. She shut her eyes and screamed, just waiting to be killed.
Everything seemed to be moving so slowly as Izuku waited for the upcoming hurt. The front doors suddenly burst open with a thunderous crash that brings everything to a halt. Nomu's actions halted, and his grip loosening just enough to let her hair slip out and she fell down to her knees trembling and crying. She slowly lifted her head at the sound of footsteps, her long curly waves fell in front framing her pale face.
"Have no fear…", Izuku snapped her head towards the source of the familiar voice. He sounded so different, he doesn't sound cheerful as she's used to hearing from the times she watched all of his hero documentaries. The smoke let off and her eyes widened at the very sight in front of her. There was her mentor standing in the doorway with a livid expression on his face, All Might was not smiling at all.
"For I have come!"
