A/N: I have recently realized that I left a couple of the questions I asked a few chapters back unanswered, and I am sorry about that. I'll provide the answers for the two I can properly remember off the top of my head right now.
Tokoyami is the leader of Team TAKT (I mean, Tsuyu is awesome, I won't deny that, but to be entirely honest I don't think she's really leader material) and Thoth was minorly based off of both the Egyptian god of the same name with the personality of Littlefinger from Game of Thrones. Well, the style and presentation. He is an info broker. Don't worry, he's much more of a neutral party in this story. Although that could change at any given moment. Now, with that out of the way, enjoy the Chapter!
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Chapter 19: The Breach Part 1
The streets were in chaos. That was the only way Izuku could describe the panic and mayhem that was ensuing in front of his eyes. Grimm of all kinds poured out by the dozens through the now open underground tunnels, blown apart by some unknown third party. It didn't matter who, at least not at the moment. All that mattered was that there were Grimm in the city and they had to be stopped.
When Torino said that it was unlikely that they would be able to stay together, he wasn't kidding. They all chose a direction to head to within the first five seconds they'd stepped outside the hospital. Judging by the architecture of the area, Izuku guessed that he was likely somewhere in the shopping district, which was also where Mei and Maijima had set up shop. Noting this, Izuku slashed through the Grimm littering the street with Gale in its greatsword form; long, heavy slashes and overhead smash strikes his greatest offense and defense.
Izuku cleaved a lunging Beowolf in two, the halves of the sparsely bone plated Grimm dissolving almost as soon as he'd completed the motion. However, he'd accidentally used a bit too much force and found his blade buried partway in the pavement. Another Beowolf took this opportunity to launch itself at the green-haired boy with a howling vengeance in its eyes, and before Izuku could propel himself upwards to use his shotgun boots, it was immediately shredded to pieces by a nearby heavy machine gun.
"Oh! Hey there, Izuku!" Mei said with her usual giddy smile on her face and the aforementioned heavy machine gun in her surprisingly strong arms, the barrel of the gun itself still smoking from the recently fired bullets. "Great morning, isn't it?" She then proceeded to turn to her left and shred a pack of six Beowolfs to mincemeat.
"I don't know how this could possibly qualify as a good morning for you, Mei!" Izuku shouted as he ripped Gale free of the ground and swung through a Beowolf Alpha, which, while it did not split the beast in half, still managed to kill it in the one, singular swoop.
"It's free live fire practice! Now I can see if these guns work properly without wasting any dummies!" was the excuse she used before she popped off an Ursa without looking, the same smile as before still plastered to her face.
Of course she'd be excited for something like this. She's an even bigger weapons nut than Ruby. Izuku thought as he waded through the still dissolving Grimm corpses towards his friend, sheathing the still unbloodied Gale onto his back. However, when he got approached her all she did was had him the heavy machine gun and said, "Hold them off for a minute, would ya?"
"But I don't use guns!"
"You've got shotguns strapped to your feet, it shouldn't be all that hard. Just point and squeeze," was all the advice Mei had to offer before she darted back inside the shop, likely to get yet another firearm of even more destructive design.
These thoughts were shaken from his mind as Izuku soon found himself surrounded by minor Grimm once more. Beowolves and Ursai were the most prevalent and numerous of thhe ones present in the horde, with a few Beowolf Alphas and even an Ursa Major mixed in there.
Izuku, panicking, held the heavy machine gun in his hands in an almost vice like grip before he gathered his bearings and began searching for the proper handholds, eventually finding them and the trigger, squeezing the former just as Mei had told him to. The sudden sharp cracks of two bullets being fired surprised him almost as much as the recoil, nearly causing him to drop the gun entirely in the process. Still, the bullets managed to find their marks in two Beowolves, and Izuku had managed to catch the instrument of death before it fell to the ground. The green-haired boy once more gripped the large death dealing gun and held it a bit more properly, this time preparing for the recoil before he began to once more fire at the slowly increasing Grimm horde.
To say he hit every one of them would be an overstatement. To say he constantly missed would be underselling him. While he didn't manage to kill every single Grimm in the approaching horde, Izuku did manage to thin them out considerably, killing several of the minor Beowolves and Ursai and managing to kill two of the Alphas. Despite this, the Ursa Major and two of the more heavily armored Alphas were still standing, though the latter had some bullet holes littering the various unarmored regions of their bodies. Unfortunately for Izuku, none of them were vital points.
It was at this moment that Mei had decided to gloriously emerge from the workshop with an angular, almost pillar looking rocket launcher almost twice her size, with Maijima yelling, "Every scratch you put on those weapons is coming out of your paycheck, young lady!" as if he were a parent scolding a child. This did not dampen her mood, however, as she proceeded to secure the launcher over her shoulder and begin to fire it, peppering the streets with fire and mortar and killing most of the Grimm. All except the Ursa Major.
"Aw, man. I really didn't want to have to use this form. *Sigh* Oh well." Mei complained as she switched to the weapons second form. Which just so happened to be a club as thick and dense as a stone pillar and nearly twice her size.
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How the hell was she lifting that thing like it weighed nothing at all?!
Mei, despite making it look like the weapon weighed nothing, strained herself slightly under the weight of it and nearly dropped it after a few seconds, though she managed to place it on the ground gently so that she could find the firing mechanism and push it, shooting a rocket out of the far end and launching her into the air at least a story above the shopping districts rooftops. After taking a quick second to admire the view, she raised the far end of the club towards the sky and fired once more, launching a heat seeking rocket at the Ursa Major as she came down and slammed her massive weapon onto the things bone spiked back, the resulting rocket explosion ensuring that it died and stayed dead.
Mei stood and heaved the massive club over her shoulder, commenting, "Dammit. I really wanted to get launched by the rocket, not launch another one. I'll have to modify that..."
That's what she's worried about right now?! Izuku silently yelled at the pink dreadlock haired girl, his jaw practically hitting the floor from the display of raw power he'd just observed.
"Mei, Izuku! Get back!" Maijima yelled from the shop, emerging with a hulking metal exoskeleton lined with guns and ammo clips. In his hands he carried two of the same type of heavy machine gun models that Mei had handed off to Izuku with a gigantic sword and two spare shotguns strapped to his back. Mounted on the shoulders were two miniguns with shells upon shells of ammo lined, primed and ready to fire. Maijima stood at least a foot and a half taller than he otherwise would have normally. There was no doubt they could hold the shopping district now.
Almost as soon as Maijima had emerged with the aforementioned walking weapon strapped to his body, he aimed and fired at an overhead Nevermore, which had begun a nose dive for the shopping district in the few seconds Mei and Izuku hadn't been smashing Grimm. It too hardly stood a chance against the sheer firepower of the guns that Maijima held, dissolving into ash within seconds.
"Don't worry about us, Izuku." Maijima reassured the green-haired boy as he reloaded his machine guns. "You get to the less fortified parts of Vale and help out there. We can hold the shopping district."
"But-"
"No buts! Now get moving!" That was the last thing he said before even more Grimm began to refill the streets, joining Mei in an effort to keep the damage to a minimum.
Izuku, though reluctantly, did as the masked ex-hunter asked, slinging Gale into its holster and dashing towards the exit of the district, the sounds of explosions, gunfire, and Beowolf death howls at his back.
He ran through the still chaotic streets of Vale, helping civilians and hunters as he went and slaying Grimm of varying types and sizes whenever the opportunity presented itself. The trek was long and tedious, and even though it wasn't exhausting for him, as it would be for most normal people, it was still annoying to a degree. The Grimm weren't thinning out in the slightest. Why was that? Was there really that much negativity in the city?
These thoughts were shaken from his mind when he saw another Nomu smash a familiarly dressed direwolf faunus through a nearby building, causing him to slam into a wall, a crater outlining where he landed as evidence of the beast's strength. Bakugo, now temporarily paralyzed due to the force of the landing, began to plummet towards the ground face first before he was unwillingly helped by the person of his undeserved eternal hatred, and the green haired boy dragged him into a nearby alleyway so that he could recover.
"What the fuck did you do that for, Deku?" Bakugo asked with rage in his tone, causing Izuku to flinch at his nearly age-old nickname. "I had it under control."
"N-no, you didn't. Y-you were getting b-beaten to a pulp, and n-now your Aura's nearly gone." Izuku said as he just barely managed to keep his full nervous stutter at bay, shrugging the ashen blonde off of his shoulders and propping him against a nearby wall. "You saw the resemblance too, right? To the thing at the docks?"
"I don't care what the fuck it looks like. When I find that thing I'm gonna kill it and then I'll burn the corpse till there isn't even ash left." Bakugo stubbornly stated as he lifted his battered and tired body from the wall, despite Izuku's unwelcome protests.
"Bakugo-"
"No! I am not gonna run from that thing! I do not run! Not now, not then, not ever!" Bakugo turned to Izuku with hatred in his gaze. "And even if you are stronger than me, I don't want your help!"
Izuku had finally had enough, stepping over to Bakugo in an instant and socked him right across his face, the rage of the ashen blonde suddenly, and sharply, quelling itself.
"I am not stronger than you, or anyone else we know, and I've known for a long time you've never wanted help with anything. But right now, like it or not, you need my help."
"Dammit, Deku, were you not listening to me-"
"No, you listen to me for once in your Oum dammed life, Katsuki!" Izuku yelled finally pushed over the edge by Bakugo's seemingly instinctual nature to reject any and all help from almost everyone. "That Nomu is stronger than anything either of us have ever faced. It could more than likely kill a fully grown Nevermore with little to no effort at all. I know you don't like me, and I... haven't had the highest opinion of you either.
"But damn it, work with me for once so that we can kill this Nomu before it can get to a populated sector of the city. Deal?" Izuku offered his hand to his teammate.
Bakugo was actually shocked. Not only had Izuku used his first name, or that he actually cursed at him, but he'd made several points that he couldn't ignore. If they let the Nomu continue rampaging through the city to a populated area, hundreds could die. If he went out there and charged the thing without a plan, he'd probably get himself killed. As much as he really, really hated to admit it, the best way for everyone to get out alive was for them to work together.
Oum dammit, this better be worth the trouble!
(two minutes later...)
The Nomu Beta, or Nomu B 02, was currently trying to find anything with an Aura signature so that it could snap their spindly little necks and rip their bodies limb from limb. Find. Hunt. Fight. Kill. Repeat. Smash that building. No Aura. Leave.
Luckily this particular district of Vale had been all but abandoned, making every building ample cover for the two huntsmen in training. The Nomu B had seemed as though it was looking for something, like a hunting dog trying to pick up a scent. Twice it had nearly spotted them when they had moved to different cover in order to keep up with the hulking beast.
"Okay, this thing is either killing everything it sees or hunting people with any amount of Aura. I wonder why it hasn't spotted us yet?" Izuku thought aloud.
"It probably can't see very well. I didn't see any eyes when we were fighting, so it might be relying on sound and smell, maybe some type of sixth sense."
"It doesn't matter. The original plan still applies." Izuku brought Gale off of its holster, holding with his lonesome dominant hand with the blade resting on his shoulder.
"Grrr... you'd better be right about this, Deku." Bakugo said as he loaded his bracelet-guns with the new ammo they'd found. They just hoped that it would be enough.
"Okay. One. Two. Three!" Izuku said as he and Bakugo took their planned positions, the former opting to jump wall to wall up to the roof while Bakugo charged the behemoth without a battle cry, surprisingly enough.
The Nomu B then picked up an Aura signature, a familiar one at that. It turned to face Bakugo once more, a guttural roar nearly escaping its nonexistent lips before Bakugo did something he'd only ever done in practice. He used tactics.
When the Nomu swung at him, instead of blasting it back like he normally would, he ducked under its arm and through its currently spread legs, firing off his guns at the beast's feet and lower legs. But they weren't loaded with fire Dust. The Nomu tried its best to turn, but found itself stuck in place, unable to lift its feet or shift its hips. Bakugo had loaded his guns with ice Dust. The ashen blonde direwolf really hoped his guns didn't jam, they weren't designed to shoot anything but fire Dust.
The Nomu tried its damnedest to break out of the ice dust, but to no avail of any kind. It was stuck, unable to even crack the slowly extending cold that crept from its legs to it lower torso. It certainly didn't help its case that the faunus who'd placed the ice on him in the first place hadn't stopped, shooting bullet after bullet of ice dust to immobilize its back and arms, the only thing still exposed being its head.
"NOW, DEKU!" Bakugo called out to his teammate. Izuku, with Gale drawn and extended into scythe mode, jumped off of the nearby building he'd climbed up and plummeted downwards with Full Cowl activated, his arms raised to deliver the killing blow to the frozen Nomu. And, like a meteorite of pure retribution, the blow was delivered. The ice that had encased the Nomu shattered from the force, a large, deep laceration stretching from its right shoulder to its lower left torso letting out a seemingly unending torrent of blood.
Bakugo heaved heavily for a few seconds before managing to stand up and catch his breath, kicking the Nomu's still and stiff corpse with a harsh but satisfied look in his eye for good measure. "It's dead... HA HA! IT'S DEAD!"
"C'mon, Bakugo. We've gotta get to the other parts of the city." Izuku told his teammate as he retracted Gale to its greatsword form, thought he still rested the weapon on his right shoulder.
"Yeah, yeah." Bakugo muttered as he reluctantly shuffled back to the green-haired boy, checking his guns for any jams that the ice Dust ammo may have caused, of which he found none. Satisfied, he turned his gaze back to the road in front of him, ready to take on whatever Grimm might challenge him next.
Unfortunately, the Nomu that they had struck down was not yet dead, and with shaking arms stood itself up and let out a loud, guttural roar. Turning, they saw that while the Nomu's gash had by no means recovered, and it hadn't even stopped bleeding, but that hardly mattered as it slowly but surely began hulking over to them.
"How is that thing still alive?!"
"Don't know, don't care!" Bakugo said as he rushed towards the Nomu once more, yelling back to Izuku, "You get to the other parts of the city! I'll kill this son of a bitch!"
The aforementioned inheritor, however, didn't run away, but for some unknown reason he couldn't move to help his stubborn teammate either. All he could do at that moment in time was watch. Bakugo began channeling the last of his Aura into his arms, craning his hands into claw-like positions as his forearms almost began to pulsate with energy, first glowing orange, then slowly shifting to a lighter shade of yellow and finally settling on a bright, nearly ethereal white. The Nomu hadn't stopped its approach, however, slowly dragging itself over to where Bakugo stood with a particularly bestial look in its eyes.
It was when Izuku recognized this look that he began to move towards Bakugo, sensing that if he didn't move, he would die. Bakugo, however, had a different idea.
"Stay back Deku! Or you'll get caught in the blast! I can take this thing!" He yelled at the green-haired boy, affirming that he was going to put everything into this one final attack. His internal monologue raged throughout his head as the Nomu continued to hulk towards them ominously, the concrete early cracking beneath its feet.
I am not going to keep being outdone. I don't care if my teammates can bring down titans, control two of the most powerful forces in nature, or potentially move faster than light itself. I am not weak. I will not be weak. Not now, not ever. Not like him. Not like dad.
"CLAN TECHNIQUE: MAGNESIEUM PHOSPHROSUS DETONATION!" Bakugo shouted at the top of his lungs, feeling his voice nearly go hoarse before a flash of blinding white light erupted from his hands, causing Izuku to avert his gaze so as to not be blinded.
When the flash had finally passed, Izuku gazed upon the destruction that Bakugo's final attack had wrought. The Nomu was gone, not a trace of it left in the large crater that the blast had made, leaving a few of the nearby building singed to a darker shade. White ash slowly floated downwards from the sky like snow, the only thing to suggest it wasn't being the lack of clouds overhead. Bakugo stood where he was when the attack went off, his breathing so heavy that his shoulders moved up and down every time he inhaled and exhaled.
The ashen blonde could not stay upright, however, as it was only a few seconds after the flash had gone away that he'd begun to fall over headfirst towards the ground. At that point, however, Izuku had rushed over to his teammate and was able to catch him by the hood of his parka, slinging Bakugo's limp body underneath his left arm while his right still held Gale over his shoulder.
"*Pant**Pant**Pant* Is it *Pant**Pant* finally dead?" Bakugo huffed out.
"… Yeah. I think it is." Izuku confirmed his teammates suspicions.
"Hey, Deku?"
"What is it?"
"Why do you keep helping me? I could've handled this myself, dammit."
Izuku had never really been posed this question before by anyone, so for a few seconds he stayed silent as he tried to think of an answer to it. He then took a deep breath and said, "I don't help people because it's something I have to do. I don't do it for the glory or the fame, not the money or the satisfaction. I do it because I want to help every person that I can, however I can. I know that it's childish to believe that I can save everyone. You'd need the power of a god to save even half the people on this planet. But... I'll do everything in my power for the people that I can save, even if they don't want my help. I only started thinking about this a month or two ago, but in that time, I've come to realize that there's a very large difference between wanting help and needing help. And that the two feelings rarely align.
"You've never wanted to be helped by anyone, and I understand that. But that doesn't mean that you don't need help sometimes. I did. It's the only reason I'm standing here right now. You might have the strength to help thousands of people Bakugo, and I respect the fact that we didn't enroll at Beacon for the exact same reasons, even if they may have been similar, maybe even the same at one point in our lives; but... sometimes you need to show some humility and let others help you for a change."
"Haha... I'll give you this Deku, that was a hell of a speech. But I don't... need help... from anyone... dumbass..." were the last words Bakugo uttered before the exhaustion finally caught up to him and the ashen blonde direwolf passed out.
Stubborn till the end. Heh. Well, that's why he's Bakugo after all. Izuku thought to himself before he began to walk towards the hospital, the dull, distant cracks of Tenya's sniper rifle covering his way over.
(10 minutes later, Vale Central Plaza)
Soon after Izuku had carried his teammate to the hospital, he heard rather loud battle cries and explosions coming from the center of the city. When he was sure Bakugo was in good hands and that Tenya hadn't passed out, the green-haired boy sped off to the plaza to help the ones currently combating the Grimm that had likely begun to occupy the area.
When he arrived it seemed as though they had the Grimm situation under control. Team RWBY were holding the main plateau of the plaza, various smoking Grimm corpses littering the concrete around them. Ruby was slicing her way through a few combined packs of Beowolves, slicing through their juvenile bone plates and armor with practiced ease; Weiss similarly made quick work of the Creeps that had begun to surround her; Blake was stabbing them through their vulnerable necks and popping off a few Beowolves whenever she found an opening, and Yang, being the brawler that she was, smashed through any Grimm unlucky enough to oppose her.
JNPR made similar work of the outskirts of the plateau. Jaune and a half-formed Lancelot sliced through Grimm of varying sizes, though they seemed to be particularly focused on killing Ursai and Ursa Majors; Nora happily bounced around the battlefield, the grenades still loaded into her hammer going off and blowing anything on the business end to smithereens; Pyrrha fought like a spartan with the grace of a dancer, killing dozens of Creeps, Beowolves, and Ursai with practiced ease; Ren operated ion a similar fashion to Blake, getting off potshots and offering cover fire form the sidelines until he found an opening to strike.
He actually saw a few members from Cinder's team join in on the action, keeping some of the spare Grimm from funneling through the various alleyways. Emerald actually managed to kill an Ursa Major by herself, though her overconfidence nearly got her killed when she failed to notice another begin to take a swipe at her head. She was saved by the always masked Dabi, who killed the Grimm with even less effort than she had, using only a single, seemingly effortless slash to cut the Ursa Major in half. Emerald only seemed annoyed by this fact, however, despite the fact that Dabi had just saved her life. Did she have a grudge against him or something? Oh well, it didn't matter anyway.
Even Sun and Neptune were helping out in the effort to beat the Grimm back, the former straight up blowing their heads off while the latter gave covering fire. The Atlas forces that got there soon afterwards, while they weren't nearly as good at killing the Grimm as the aforementioned student teams, still managed to mop up most of the stragglers.
In short, they were doing just fine without his intervention. Well, a King Taijitu literally just crushed a bakery, but Yang and Nora had obliterated it soon afterwards.
That was when the Nomu from the docks fell to the now shattered concrete with All Might at its heels, a flurry of blows greeting its ample and vulnerable body as the crater it had formed from the impact began to enlarge itself due to the sheer force of the blows that crashed into its dark, scar littered skin, the tan shorts that once covered its upper legs now littered with holes, the only parts still intact being the bone plating on its knees. How was it still alive and how did it even manage to traverse that much water? No one present knew the answer, and none of them would for a very long time.
Despite the fact that its opponent was All Might, it managed to push the Symbol of Hope away, hitting the massive twin spiked blonde so far that he nearly crashed into a building, the only reason he didn't being that he managed to dig his heels into the concrete and almost stop his momentum entirely. Though most of the other trainees had finished with their own section of Grimm control, they too were forced to watch from the sidelines with only their voices offering support.
This was a fight between powers they could not yet match, and that very few of them ever would.
(A/N: "You Say Run OST" from My Hero Academia)
All Might's gigantic muscular frame began to heat, or at least appeared to. Steam rolled off his skin like sweat; slow, barely noticeable, but there nonetheless. He barely had three, maybe four minutes left in his powered form if he was lucky. What with all the chaos around Vale, even with the help of the other huntsmen within the walls, he couldn't keep himself from old habits. After all...
What kind of huntsman would he be without them?
The Nomu charged at him with a deafening roar and a frothing maw with serrated teeth barred, viciously chomping at All Might with an unquenched rage gleaming in its eyes. He stepped out of the monster's way and delivered a crippling jab to the base of its spine, sending it sprawling like a ragdoll onto the concrete.
It quickly recovered from the blow, rising with an upper cut and a left hook which both found their marks in All Might's jaw and right shoulder, both of which did little more than irritate him at that point as he retaliated with a double right jab and a left hook to the Nomu's massive maw, a deafening crack resounding from the bone plate All Might's last strike had made contact with.
And he would not let up, leaving no time for the humanoid Grimm to recover as he grabbed its arm and threw it up into the air, appearing above it not a second later to deliver a two-handed hammer strike that sent it crashing into the already broken and mostly shattered concrete.
The Nomu barely managed to swerve itself away from the diving kick the hulking huntsman planted in the area its body once occupied, rolling to its feet to meet All Might in an exchange of furious flurries of strikes. The earth and air alike shook from the force of their blows, the ground around them began to crack and split apart. They were juggernauts of power that could hardly be contended with, and this battle was living, progressing proof of that fact.
"Holy crap! This is incredible!" Ruby exclaimed as she and several of the other students watched the battle along with Izuku, in awe of the titanical power display in front of them.
"That's All Might for you. He's the worlds Symbol of Hope for a reason." Shoto yelled over the noise as he shielded his eyes from some of the spare debris the battle managed to kick up, his blue saber drawn and minorly littered with evaporating Grimm blood.
"Yeah, but... he's not just hitting that thing with random punches either." Izuku said, as analytical as ever even in the heat of a fight this fierce.
"Wait, how can you tell that from this distance?" Yang questioned before sending buckshot into a Beowolf that had strayed too close to the group, not once turning her attention from the green haired inheritor.
"I've been calculating and analyzing these kinds of fights since I was little. It became a bit of a hobby; but that's not what's important right now. Every last one of those punches are targeted. And every single one of them has more than enough power to easily punch holes through Atlas warships."
"Holy shit! Are you serious?!" Yang and Sun exclaimed in synch.
"Dead serious. He's not taking pity on that Nomu like last time. He's aiming to obliterate it." Izuku finished his statement as All Might began to best the scared beast in the flurry exchange, ever so slowly pushing further and further forwards until the Nomu's shock absorbent body finally couldn't take any more punishment and was thrown like a weightless ragdoll into an empty building that collapsed from the sudden impact.
It wasn't long before the Nomu emerged from the rubble with several closing wounds that had bled profusely before its healing factor came into play, causing it to stumble from its impact point before All Might gripped it by the neck and hoisted it from the ground, saying to the beast these final words before he delivered the blow that would ensure his victory.
"I believe I've said this to you before, foul Grimm. However, back when we first fought I had no idea if you were sentient or simply a mindless beast as your bone plating suggested. Now I have no doubts to hold me back. Hear from the depths of my own soul the power of these words, and prepare for obliteration." He cocked his right fist back as it began to glow an ethereal golden hue, filling itself with his overwhelmingly powerful Aura.
"GO BEYOND! PLUS!" All Might released his grip from the Nomu as he let the strike loose in an uppercut that found its mark in its chest, the energy bubbling and shining through his back before he yelled the last word of one his most inspiring phrases, "ULTRA!"
The energy that emerged from his strike was bright and blinding, the sound almost like an energy blast from an old cartoon, and the force kicked up a wild gust of wind, causing all of the spectators to shield their eyes from the spectacle. Several seconds passed before the light faded and their vision was unimpaired once more. What they saw both awed and inspired them.
The Nomu was gone, completely obliterated. Nothing remained of the humanoid Grimm. All Might then dropped onto his knee, the opposite fist on the ground to help keep him stable as steam billowed from his frame, obscuring his snail pace detransformation as he continued. "Heh. I really have gotten old. Back in my hayday it would've hardly taken five of those punches to fell that Grimm. Now it's taken over three hundred of those same mighty blows. I'll give it this, that Nomu can certainly take a punch."
Tomura, Kurogiri and one of the League of Criminals elites shrouded in a black cloak had seen the entire ordeal from a safe distance via binoculars. In his frustration, Tomura gripped his binoculars with all five fingers and crushed it into bits and dust. He was beyond infuriated. All of that work for nothing. How dare All Might to have the gumption to stay alive.
"Fine. We'll do it ourselves."
(A/N: End Song)
Kurogiri made a vortex for him, his master and the elite currently with them to a building overlooking the battle that had just taken place. Tomura resisted his urge to scratch at his neck and began his monologue to All Might and the other spectators.
Back with Izuku and co, a sarcastic clap rang throughout the still chaotic streets, reining a supreme noise to all that heard it. Izuku looked up to see Tomura, Kurogiri and a shrouded figure covered in an ominous black cloak on top of a building just next to All Might. Their pale-haired leader stopped then his applause and began his speech. "Well done, All Might. You've certainly lived up to your reputation. We fished that Nomu out of the ocean just for you, you know. They take so long to make too. This one was originally made to specifically counter your abilities; your ultimate antithesis. I don't think that any of us expected this to be the result.
"But you did something that really pissed me off. Not only did you obliterate one of the only Nomus that I was given, you made a show of it and even finished it with a flashy attack. It's so incredibly annoying. I've done everything I could think of to kill you. I guess it really goes to show that when you want something done right..."
Tomura jumped off his perch from the building and lunged at all Might, yelling the last few words of his monologue, "You gotta do it yourself!"
But he never reached the Symbol of Hope that he so desperately wanted to disintegrate. Izuku had launched at almost the exact same moment that he had, and had met his villainous 'rival' in midair before he completed a jumping side kick that knocked Tomura off course, though he managed to recover with a flip and landed near the edge of the plaza, where Team CFVY had just wrapped up the earlier Grimm horde and began to close in on him.
"Kurogiri! Time to put the newbies to work!" He yelled to the misty bartender, who obliged and let out a torrent of new recruits, hot blooded and more than ready for action. Despite their relative inexperience, Himiko with a rather large infinity scarf with a large picture of teeth on the front to conceal her identity, and another of their elites, a man dressed in a black-and-grey full-body suit that hid any distinguishing features about his body save for his physical shape and a plain white T design on the front of the suit, with red and blue armbands that completed the outfit. Tomura didn't know a whole lot about this man who'd given him the alias of Twice, nor did he really care all that much, but he'd proven himself to be reliable. Even if he was insane.
Izuku the drew Gale from his back, the blade almost seeming to glow beneath the early golden sunlight. With determination almost taking its own color in his eyes, he said to Tomura, "If you want to get to All Might, you'll have to go through us first," referring to both himself and the others who stood behind him, helping to beat down the stragglers from the recruits and keep the esspecially hotheaded ones away from the currently fatigued All Might.
Instead of being annoyed by this, as he would've been normally, Tomura felt a laugh bubble up inside of his throat, which he let out as a slight chuckle before he sobered himself and responded to Izuku's proclamation. "You've got some balls kid, saying that to my face. Well, I hope he's taught you a bit more than last time. Otherwise this'll be rather boring. And besides, I still owe you a rematch for what you did at the docks.
"So bring it on! I'll face whatever you through at me and obliterate it with my own two hands!" Tomura held up his arms in a menacing position as he and Izuku prepared to once more face off in a fight that would only be outclassed by All Might and Nomu's.
A/N: Aaaaaaand that's all I have time to finish. Sorry I wasn't able to finish this all the way, guys. I don't like doing two parters all that much (it's why I only did the RWBY Vol. 1 Arcs in about a chapter with the exception of Jaune's). I promise that the next chapter will have a good fight sequence to start and will calm down from there. I would've included that stuff in this chapter, but I couldn't because I had to go out of town for Thanksgiving and ended up without a whole lot of free time. I know it sounds like an excuse, and it is, but it's the truth. Thank you for your patience and support. I really wouldn't be here without it.
Next Chapter: Dec. 14th
See you in the next one!