"Now Izuku. Since you seem to care ever so much for this hero, tell me the best way to get All Might over here right now or Eraserhead will get very hurt. Let's start, say, with a crushed arm."
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Izuku's throat constricted painfully. Shigaraki was threatening Shouto's teachers and one of the best heroes out there. And all just to have him figure out how to get All Might to the USJ.
Izuku was at a loss for words and his panic doubled. His eyes jumped from Shigaraki's sneer to Eraserheads pained expression.
For a moment all was silent as Izuku desperately tried to grasp some sense of a plan to free himself. He could run. Ha. And even if he could, what about Eraserhead who was currently immobilized? Izuku could never abandon the teacher. So then he had to come up with a plan to somehow magically teleport All Might to the USJ. But that was nearly impossible-
Wait… teleport.
"H-how does the mist man's quirk work?" Izuku turned to face Shigaraki, making sure to keep the Nomu creature and it's captive in his peripheral vision.
"What? Kurogiri? He teleports things. I don't know," The man said, Izuku's question clearly throwing him off guard and causing him to revert back to his normal child-like demeanor, "You shouldn't be the one asking me about quirks, Player Two. You're supposed to already know that!"
"I just need to know if it's coordinate based or-" Izuku's desperate explanation was interrupted by the very subject of their conversation.
"Master, one of the children has escaped," Kurogiri said in a neutral tone. Shigaraki turned to the mist man in anger.
"Dang it! It can't be game over yet! I haven't even gotten to face the final boss!"
"Master, perhaps it is not quite game over. You still have the children and their teacher."
"...You're right Kurogiri! Before we leave we could at least kill a few kids!" Before Izuku knew what was happening, Shigaraki was leaping towards the edge of center plaza where the teen was just now noticing two other kids his age hiding behind fake bushes. The villain was placing a deadly hand on a frog girl while Izuku could only watch.
But. The suffering and the screaming never came. All was quiet. That's when Izuku noticed the glowing red eyes of Eraserhead. They lasted but a few seconds, and then the teacher was out cold; his injuries he'd sustained while fighting to serve to remain conscious. But it was just enough to rescue the student and bring Shigarakis' attention away from them.
"I AM HERE!" The words echoed across the room. Pausing everyone, including Shigaraki, in their tracks.
"All Might!" Shigraki cried, "What perfect timing! Nomu! Kill All Might!" The villain wasted no time in ordering the creature.
Izuku looked between the hero, who was uncharacteristically not smiling, and the creature who moved lightning fast to aim a punch at the hero's head. The teen could not decide who would win this battle. He knew what this abomination called Nomu's quirks were thanks to Shigarakis bragging. Yes, quirks.
All Might delivered a mighty blow to the creature, blowing its arm clean off.
"Ah ah ah, hero. You'll find it's not that easy to injure my master weapon!" All watched as the Nomu healed it's arm until it looked perfectly new.
"What!?" All Might exclaimed, his arms locked in a stalemate with the creatures', "I thought you said it had super strength,'' Had the villain said that at some point and Izuku had missed it? "But this! It seems like-"
"REGENERATION, All Might! I never said super strength was it's only power!" The blue haired man said theatrically, "Nomu, finish him!"
And the stalemate was ended by an ear bleeding screech from the Nomu as it shoved the number two hero to the ground. And then through the ground as one of Kirogiri's portals opened up beneath him.
The two strength enhanced beings continued to grapple. Suddenly, as blast of freezing ice chilled the air as a stream of the frozen water found it's way to the Nomu, covering its' feet.
"Shouto!"