Hello all of my dear readers! Thank you so much for being patient with me and sticking with my writing for this long. I hope that this chapter itself is good enough for you all, it's an action heavy chapter and I always worry about those so please tell me if you think it flowed well. As always I appriciate any and all critisim you can throw my way to improve my story. On that topic, my old beta currently can not continue this and I need a new one, if anyone of you is up to being the beta for this story don't hestitate to PM me and I will get back to you soon as I can. Anyways lets get into the reviews.
For Khronos and oldtimeydude: As far as I have read, there has never been an official confirmation as to how far in the future MHA Takes place, and I assumed it was at least 500-600 years ahead of us from the talk of how without the quirk wars we would be able to get intergalactic space travel and that is my fault. I have fixed my document and from now on I am functioning as if the MHA Verse takes place 200-300 years from our own due to rough estimates I have seen thorughout the internet.
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Looking to the sky, Izuku smiled seeing Bakugou charging with their mutual friend around his neck and was about to join them before he turned to his fellow two classmates, both with worried looks on their faces still. Clenching his fist a little he sighed and looked Mineta right in the eyes, the other hero to be still looked like he was scared to death of this whole situation despite their successes thus far, thinking back to their conversation on the boat, there was also quite a bit of self-hatred there when it came to his own quirk in a combat situation. Getting down on one knee he placed a hand on the little pervert's shoulder and gave him a smile. Rolling up his mask to really look him in the eye to convey his point.
"Mineta, when on that ship you said your quirk was best suited for situation where you could set up traps and lure foes into them, not made for these explosive combat tasks right? Well then, I know one thing you can do. One thing that only you and Ashido can really do throughout our entire class to help with this situation." Mineta was clearly listening to every word Izuku said, he was just radiating the badass hero image that the young man wanted to emulate, after all, it was those kinds of characters that always got the hot girls chasing after them. So if this was a task that he could perform and look cool while doing it he would perform the task with gusto, nodding a bit his eyes steeled a little bit.
"What? We know my quirk is useless because well, they can only stick to one place and once you know what they are it's as simple as avoiding them to not get stuck if Ashido can do it just as well then why not pass the message onto her?" There was still doubt in Mineta's voice that he could really do anything to help the situation more than carry their teacher off to safety over his shoulder. That was before Izuku smirked and pointed towards the staircase, the only exit any of them knew out of the USJ now, that pretty thin staircase which made Mineta's eyes sparkle a bit as he made the connection this was his way to be a badass!
"I can make traps...But wait, won't that leave you just down here? What about the rest of the class down here?" At that question, Izuku got up with a shrug and looked around at all the areas he could see from here, the large ongoing blaze of that inferno zone to the mountains and let out a soft, resolute sigh reaching up to grab the bottom of his mask and started to pull it down while walking off, knowing he was losing time to support his friends out there when they would really need it from him.
"Mineta, we were able to deal with our villains quite easily when we might have been in the worst position of all. On a sinking ship in the middle of a lake surrounded by aquatic villains. Everyone else at least has solid ground to fight on and...And they are our classmates right, meaning they are also heroes in training." Pulling down the rest of his hood, he went low and started to dash off as he left behind his final sentence to Tsuyu and Mineta with a slight hint of amusement in his words.
"We just to have faith in them!" It wasn't much of a battle cry, but Izuku hoped that it would truly help inspire some sort of confidence as he got close to the crowd of villains, thankfully Aizawa had taken out the ones with gun-like abilities, so the only ones left were a few easily dodged projectiles before he was in range, kicking off the ground and into the air. Izuku twisted his hips to land a solid flying roundhouse on the nearest villain's temple for a TKO, using their body to bounce off of and into his next opponent who had a similar fate with his other foot before Izuku fell back to the ground and he let out a breath to calm himself as the group of villains around him came in all at once, still his whole mind as much as possible in a few seconds for one of the group techniques he was taught before.
"Seikuken..." The imaginary bubble formed around Izuku's body, encompassing many of the villains currently surrounding him while Izuku's muscles twitched a bit, wanting to spring out in instinctive reaction like his training told him to do, but he held back choosing to observe how each person was going to attack him, two people with some sort of bladed limbs, one with an extended arm with spikes at the end of his knuckles and three heteromorphic types giving their best, clumsy but powerful punches towards his head and body to maim and kill. Waiting until the last possible moment, straining to hold in his body's reactions until the perfect instant.
"Release!" At that moment Izuku unleashed himself upon all his would-be attackers, his limbs flying out all around him in a mix of palm strikes, punches and knife hand strikes along with his powerful kicks coming out and slamming into the bodies around him, redirecting force here and there to take out the bladed people and mutants with enhanced strength followed up by a sidestep to avoid the whip-like arm, grabbing it by the wrist pulling the man forward and slamming the villain into the ground with a mean downward hook, making his foe hit the ground with a mean thud resounding through the nearby area, leaving Izuku with a little circle of defeated villains around him, giving the boy a moment to breath and recollect before diving into his next battle with a flying sickle kick into one more hostiles head and a couple of web shots to those around them for disablement.
Bakugou flew through the air, kept up by a desire and determination to get a good fucking fight and maybe help the people that he knew were not gonna just leave their teacher alone in that crowd no matter what he said. As he got closer, the boy's ruby red eyes spied the nerd in the middle of the crowd all by himself, fighting with some sort of back injury and showing off some really cool new special move.
"Ooh, you motherfucker Deku! Hiding a sick ass crowd control move that from me...When the fuck were you able to learn that?" The boy's mind focused on that, lasering in on being flashy as possible and showing the nerd up while being a better hero than him along the way. His rival only deserved the best from him after all, looking back to his best friend he nodded.
"Kirishima! We need to show off our own new combo move now don't we! Let's give em the Fastball Special!" Receiving a hearty chuckle from his resilient friend, Bakugou let his arms down to get into position as Kirishima rolled off his back, curled up and hardened into a ball, the blond caught his friend by his backstrap in his left hand before using his right to start rapidly firing off explosions to send both boys spinning in a spiral headed towards the courtyard full of villains, and at their peak speed, Bakugou released the redhead with a large explosion and his signature battle cry.
"Eat shit and die!" The curse resounded throughout the entire USJ as Kirishima's now more rounded form hurtled towards the crowd of villains, the hardened bones and skin of the redhead letting him take the impact easily and knock down a solid line of villains before he popped up out of his ball form with a large yell of manly rage and excitement before he dropped into his boxing stance, bouncing on the balls of his feet and shifting them as he started to go through opponents with his swift and efficient combat sport, his hard blows landing into kidney shots and chest blows more often than not, taking a few hits here and there along the way but they were like duck off a water's back as Kirishima made his way to Izuku.
When he got there, Bakugou seemed to arrive at the same point and the boys fell into their respective spots in a little trifecta they had going on. Izuku with controlled, precise and calm yet devastating blows melding together with Kirishima's juggernaut style of rushing straight-forward through the blows that his friends couldn't take and leaving the opportunity for follow up attacks and Bakugou's wildfire of a natural battle style. With no formal form or rhythm to it adding just the right amount of chaos and unpredictability that the villains couldn't really catch on and predict what any of the boys were going to do next.
"No...No no this is all going wrong! There wasn't supposed to be another miniboss after we defeated Eraserhead and now we get a whole team of them its bullshit! There needs to be some sort of weakness to them, all bosses have an exploitative strategy its just common game balance!" Scratching his neck over and over to calm himself down and think Shigriaki's mind danced between the three brats that were holding back his plan to beat All Might, to kill a few kids here or there and drag the idiotic "Symbol" out and destroy him utterly! He had the right quirk to do so after all, he would destroy anything and everything he wanted! Right now he wanted to destroy All Might!
"Come on... Come on you have beaten a dozen bosses like this before there needs to be some sort of... Got it! All you ranged quirk guys! Every one start concentrating your power and blows onto the guy in white! Once we get through each of these asshats it will become easier!" Laughing darkly as he saw his loyal pawns get to work, Shigiraki started to shuffle his hands into themselves being careful not to have all five fingers on at once at any time while he watched, a couple energy lances, some people forming a ball or two of electricity and water all while the "heroes" had to go through his few remaining physical mooks to get to them, but he knew they wouldn't do so in time and nearly laughed out loud when the attacks were launched, the projectile in a pretty spread outline along with the little shit being preoccupied with the melee fighters restricting this boy's ability to dodge. Shigiraki leaned forward as he wanted to see those brats go splat all over the USJ. Destroy All Might emotionally before he killed him with the help of Noumu he was then sorely disappointed when the attacks, none of which the boys could counter were all blocked by a giant blue wall of ice accompanied by a calm voice.
"Did I miss anything important? I was busy interrogating some of the lower level guys in my area." That voice, those infections, it was certainly higher bitched but he recognized it, Shigiraki recognized it fully well and the idea made him shake with anger and a need to cry out and fuck the world! That was Endeavor's kid! He just had to attack the class that had En-fucking-devor's kid in it along with the trio of annoyances he had just saved.
"This dungeon is bullshit! Pulling of random encounters and shit in the middle of a miniboss is against the fucking rules!"
Hearing Todoroki's cool voice, Izuku smiled as he turned towards the ice user with a smile on his face, the large ice wall providing a moment to rest and recover, cracking his neck and looking to the rest of his little team that had formed Izuku leaned against the ice wall, sighing as the cool material eased the throbbing pain from his wounds. Taking off his mask as well to let his skin touch the cool air, using the experience to calm himself down and recover as much as he could.
"No, you really didn't miss much Todoroki, just taking out some of the weaker villains while the guy with the hands over his face and that Monster watched over menacingly. Speaking of which, we need a strategy to take them down." Letting his eyes dance around all his friends, well he hoped Todoroki at least considered him a rival or something like that. He started to form a bit of a plan with all of them but...They were missing one critical piece of information.
"Ok, and how do you intend to do that? This black ass fucker was designed to take down All Might. We don't know why they intend to do that much less how he's gotta have some insane level of strength and speed to even match All Might and we can't match up against that.." Bakugou's skepticism made Izuku smile, leave it to him to be a voice of reason in all of this when he usually was the smart and rational one. Holding out three fingers to all of them before he spoke.
"Right, but All Might has dealt with foes strong as him, fast as him and sometimes both before. This guy needs to have some other power, something that can stop him from taking any damage from All Might's attacks while dishing out the same amount of force and currently I can only think of three abilities that would let someone do that on any level. What is All Might's only real method of attack, effective as it is?"
"Why of course it's his manly and upfront fists and kicks! All Might is pretty much all about that Manly spirit and confronting foes head-on with nothing but his body! But, why is that important?" Kirishima's confusion made Izuku chuckle before he watched Todoroki come to the same realization he did, just a little while later than himself. Feeling a little shake of the ice wall behind him, Izuku looked behind him and saw through the blue ice slightly, seeing the villains they were fighting all chipping at Todroki's ice wall and starting to make progress.
"He needs something that can negate or redirect all that blunt force trauma! If the monster can do that then he can take as many blows as he wants and respond with either the same force or more. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head for that is Impact Reversal though." Nodding at Todorki's words, Izuku replaced his cowl, slipping on the thin fabric and taking a few more deep breaths knowing they likely wouldn't have much more time to discuss this with how the villains were attacking their wall.
"Right, and the other two are impact absorption or negation we need to find out which of those three powers this guy has or we are never gonna be able to counter him. Because once we know that, we get possible weaknesses to exploit and use that to win our fight here. I will go and test it out by attacking the beast and seeing how it reacts."
"And why the fuck do you get to be the one who attacks that thing Deku? You and I both know you need to be in close range to even try and make a dent when my explosions can be mid-range."
"Because I know how to hold back. If this thing really has impact reversal do you know how disastrous it would be if it had impact reversal and threw your strong explosions at someone other than you or Kirishima? Besides I am easily the most agile out of our trio outside of your Blast Rush Turbo and boots, both of which I helped you create." Izuku smirked at his rival after that, but Bakugou was right in a sense, he needed a quick way out if possible. As the thuds in the ice became louder and louder, the hero to be attached a web link with a lot of extra length to his back and handed one end to Todoroki.
"If something looks really bad, secure yourself with ice and pull me out of there. We need you to stay here and provide ranged support when you can at all times alright? Bakugou and Kirishima, make sure the way is clear so I can rush forward and get this done with." The other boys nodded with his commands, having no time to dispute as the wall was broken through, the villains met by a twin pair of fists knocking them to the side as Izuku dashed forward running like a bullet as the strange portal man appeared behind the villain's leader again.
"Kurogiri... Did you kill Thirteen?" The pale man's chilling voice sent a shiver down Izuku's spine as he kept on his course, slowing his pace down slightly for the conversation to play out, he needed to know the state of his friends after all!
"She's incapacitated but... One of the children I couldn't warp managed to get away." That was great! Hopefully it was Iida or another speedster in their class, that was all the information he needed as Izuku upped his pace once more being wary of the portal man's appearance as he got close to the monster and gave its body a palm strike, watching as the flesh seemed to ripple as it took the impact, but there was no reversal and it had some effect clearly. Though there was no change in the monster's expression at all despite that.
"Kurogiri...If you weren't our ticket out of here I would kill you right now! But as it stands, I guess settling for this kid isn't too bad Nomu, make him a donut if you would.." The beast, now dubbed Nomu's eyes then shifted to Izuku as it readied a punch and sent it hurtling towards Izuku's stomach
Iida ran through the streets at his second gear, going hard as he could down them, wind whipping at his face and every bit of debris on the road marked a dangerous missile for the boy as he hurtled himself down the roads, pushing himself as hard as he could while keeping a sustainable fuel, though as he dashed Iida felt the weight of each second ticking down, each moment that went by was enough for one of his classmates to be maimed. Each additional step that was needed from this might be the moment Midoriya's skull could be crushed or slain because he couldn't get help quicker. That image, one of his classmates injured, dead or near death because he wasn't fast enough because he was holding back at this crucial moment was unacceptable! Switching up to his third gear, Iida felt everything going by even faster, the wind whipping across his face leaving a few painful scratches and his fuel reserves were being drained like nothing else. All the orange juice in his tanks was being converted to energy in his engines at a rate that would leave him nowhere near the school though... He supposed that was what the bottle on his helmet was for.
Letting more steps land after dashing away from debris, Iida let the fuel in his tanks die out, draining the orange juice down to the very few drops before he bit down and suckled on the bottle tip in his mouth, sucking down the sour lemon juice with a puckered face the young man knew they hadn't tested anything with the alternative fuels at his higher gears, he didn't know if this could damage his engines by making them output so much in such a short amount of time but now isn't the time for caution and switching down to first gear again! Now was the time for risks and actions to save his friends, Iida could feel it now the juice being sent down his throat and right into the fuel tanks in his thighs before it was sent right into the engine and there is where the boy really felt the lemon juice take its effect.
The pistons in his engines started firing at a higher rate than they ever could with the Orange juice, producing more energy than ever and sending Iida rushing forward with a huge burst of speed, the wind whipping around him sounding like a full force gale, that his helmet cut through so he lost minimal speed to drag, soon enough the main school building came into view with its glass doors, Iida knew he had no time to slow down and stop himself at the reception so as he came closer he brought his arms forward and braced for impact.
As the black fist hurtled towards Izuku his naturally trained reactions made both of his arms fly to his stomach in a cross formation, the metal bracers on his arms shining in the sunlight as the impact came at the same time a tug was felt on his back. Making the young man thank whatever god was looking down at him that Todoroki was on the ball, though he started to fly back before the full force of the impact could hit him or his bracers, there was still enough energy sent through the small blow he took that his bracers were dent, Izuku could feel his arms fracture and ribs break inwards with the impact as he flew through the air into Todoroki's arms, who let him down.
The sharp pain in his body from the impact made the boy cough harshly, blood spewing from his mouth at that moment, Izuku's body wanting to collapse from shock but he stood there gathering strength while Todroki called in the other boys and set up a larger, thicker ice wall while they discussed what just happened. Izuku's breathing slow and steady as he mentally worked through the exercises thought by Kasai while he leaned against the ice wall for stability and pain relief.
"Dude, are you alright? That was a...Really nasty blow you just took even with the save by Todoroki you look like you really should lay down and let the rest of us take care of it for now." Kirishima's concerned voice was appreciated, but largely ignored as Izuku shook his head before starting to speak in a raspy, but still authoritative voice.
"Nonsense, my vision is only a little blurry right now Kirishima I can still fight for a bit more and well... The guy's quirk is absorption for sure, there was no impact reversal and it looked like his body took in the impact, no matter how small like...Like Jelly I guess. That means he has a limit to the amount of force he can absorb at once."
"And how do we give that much force? None of us has that kind of firepower just in our back pocket you know?" That comment brought a bout of chuckles from Izuku and Bakugou who locked eyes and nodded.
"Actually we might, Bakugou I think it's time to pull out that little design element we disagreed upon with your costume. Though we need to get ya a c-clean shot at him and I have a plan, a stupid, nearly suicidal plan that will take every one of us to complete and might very well fail even if everything goes right. It will also no doubt leave both me and Kirishima in a state much worse than we are now." Standing up straight against the ice and pushing off it, his vision starting to darken the edges but being fought off by pure willpower, the young man looked to his web shooters to find both of them completely destroyed by the impact as expected. A little hiccup in his plan, but nothing too serious.
"Are you guys still up for hearing it even so?" Once again starting his breathing exercises, the boy tried calming his nerves about the situation, but the large heavy thuds into the ice wall prevented that from happening at all.
"Of course dude, I know any major idea from you will be nice and effective even if a bit crazy and hey, taking large risks is a part of being a true man! Being willing to sacrifice yourself for the greater good and all that."
"In my experience, your most batshit crazy ideas usually end up being the best ones. Its how you ended up in the hero course after all" Bakugou's cocky smirk gave it all away as he readied to hear the plan, cracking a few knuckles along the way.
"If it's our best shot at beating this thing sure though make sure you don't die alright?" Todroki's response was all that Izuku needed as he turned around to face the wall, a crack forming in it telling that the beast they needed to fight wasn't going to wait much longer.