Hero of the Dark Skies

by MosesArk Reborn2000

When Young Midoriya is left with the heart breaking news that he will never develop his own quirk, does he give into despair and chase after heroes? No, he strives to become a hero just like All Might and he knows just what to do to even the odds against those with quirks-he builds it, that's how. Quirkless Izuku, More confident Izuku, DC & Marvel influence

32. Chaos in Hosu – Stain vs UA Students

Once more, I've reached another landmark in my story as with this chapter, I will have broken into the 300K regions of fanfictions, something that I'm quite proud of as we'll still going strong and so far I've planned out everything up till the Summer camp raid which alone would mean another 100K words. Now onto business, we'll still in the internship part but good news is that at the very least, the beginning of the attack on Hosu can begin in this chapter. As it's a long affair that I've already modified to match the story and make things entertaining, so things will very well spill over into the next chapter.

Also, let it be known that I'm a anime only fan so even though I know some things that are still only in the manga, that's only because of people referencing them in conversation or other stories on this sight using characters or elements that have yet to make an appearance in anime.

Chapter 31: Chaos in Hosu – Stain vs UA Students

(Previously)

"Well, I wasn't expecting to be caught in an explosion today, where did it go?" Midoriya commented as he didn't even give himself praise for wisely upgrading the heat and explosive resistance of his gear as he noted that the pale blue Nomu Gran Torino had brought there was missing. The one with the gas was not too far from the, slowly getting up while covered in minor burns from the blasts. 'So the thing has good resistance to explosions then? This will be difficult.'

"Dammit, we lost one." Kendo cursed as she could already that thing running amok somewhere else.

"New plan, why don't Battle Fist and I try to try it down, I can get Green Day to track it from the sky?" Midoriya said as he redirected Green Day from keeping track of Kodai to tracking down their missing Nomu.

"Alright, we'll stay here and try to take these down for the count, remember to meet city center." Rahzar agreed to his suggestion as they needed to split if they wished to handle this mess. It didn't help that they heard an explosion not too far from them and even more screams, didn't the people get out of here? He hated the fact that people would crowd to watch heroes at work, didn't they understand that all that did was make their jobs harder? This is why he preferred to work late-night shifts, fewer idiots to get themselves into trouble and hurt!

"We will, let's go!" Midoriya said as he turned to Kendo who nodded her head in agreement before he activated his wings and grabbed her in his clawed feet, being careful to keep enough force to have a firm hold of her but loose enough as to not hurt her. With that, the two flew off, leaving their betters to handle one mess as they looked to try to help with another one.

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(And now)

"Shit, it's going after the civilians!" One minor hero called out as they struggled to fight against a Nomu, this one may have been smaller than the rest but it was proving to be a challenge for them. All around, fired raged and chaos come to the forefront as all over Hosu, Nomu, villains, and thugs ran rampant. This one in particular going after a couple who had the bad luck of taking the wrong path in their bid to escape the fighting.

"Stop it!" Another screamed, not close enough to be of any help and not having a quirk that could make up for the distance. The two civilians screamed in panic and fear as the Nomu charged them, ready to do how knows what with them.

"Play time's over, punk!" A familiar deep and somewhat arrogant voice said out of the blue, before any of them could react-a streak of red hot fire shot out and engulfed the Nomu, the creature screaming and writhing in pain from it.

"What!" One of the civvies asked aloud as they all turned to the direction the flames came from to see a familiar flame hero and son walking up to the scene.

"I was looking for this Stain character but I haven't had much luck, looks like I'll just take out my anger on you." Endeavor said as he walked right up to the still burning Nomu, standing in front of the civilian couple.

"What the hell are you three doing? You mean to tell me this one villain was too much for you?" He turned as he asked the two present pros quite rudely, disappointed that they had the gall to call themselves pros when this one…thing could evade capture under their watch.

"You got to be kidding me…" One of the civvies asked, finally regaining his voice.

"Why are you in Hosu?" The other asked, holding on to her date as he looked on towards the back of the number 2 hero.

"Isn't that obvious?" Endeavour asked but with a small smirk as he looked at his new punching bag.

"It's because I'm a hero." He finished as the Nomu was finally able to rid itself of the flames burning it, not glaring?(He wasn't sure that brain dead look counted as a glare, but he didn't care) at him.

"Let's deal with you, shall we?" Endeavour proposed as Shoto took that as his call to stand and let his old man handle this.

"Careful, it can-!" One of the pros tried to warn him but before he could finish, the Nomu released a wave of fiery energy back towards him. Even if he was surprised by the actions, he wasn't a novice so just as soon as it reached him, he batted it aside with his own flames to keep the people behind him safe from harm. Once the wave died off, he observed the creature and saw that it had even more burns on itself than it did before firing off that attack, giving him an idea of its quirk.

"It can release pent-up energy from attacks then? Useless considering it still retains the damage from both the initial attack and releasing it." Endeavour thought aloud as he charged the creature, might as well deal with this as soon as he can, he was still on the hunt for Stain after all.

"That's not it, it's like that thing as multiple quirks!" Another told him as the creature suddenly bulked up with what looked to be armor made from some kind of stone, though it wouldn't do the damn thing any good.

'Stone like armor? That's something unexpected but-' Endeavor thought to himself as he dodged a sloppy swipe before punching the creature in the face, dazing it before he grabbed onto its head. 'Nothing I haven't dealt with in the past!' He finished the thought as with the hand still holding into the creature's face, he fired off a stream of fire, ever-increasing in heat till it resembled a stream of red plasma. The Nomu for its efforts tried to struggle out of the burning hold but within seconds, it's struggles ceased as its arms fall lifelessly to its side. After another couple of seconds, Endeavor canceled the stream of fire and dropped the now, headless Nomu to the ground.

"Stone-like anything else has a melting point-one lower than iron. I can create flames hot enough to smelt steel in seconds with ease." He explained as they all saw that the armor around the neck area was smelted, glowing red from the heat, and in a jello-like state. "I was the worst opponent you could ask for." He finished as he looked down at his fallen foe, not feeling a hint of remorse as he already read the report of these things, they were nothing but puppets, not people.

"A-amazing, he took that thing down in seconds." One of the pros said in awe.

"Is this the gap between us and the number 2?" Another masked one asked as he just saw the man take out the creature they had been struggling with for a full 10 minutes in like 30 seconds.

"[Tick] Shoto, are the people safe?" Endeavor didn't pay them any mind as he turned to his son walking up to him.

"Yeah, they made it out just fine." Shoto replied as he had taken a small time to lead the people away from the fighting. "You think the hero killer is responsible for this?"

"Not likely. It seems more like that group that attacked your class." Endeavor disagreed as he had studied the attack patterns of his prey and this whole thing, was far too noisy for him.

"My thoughts exactly." Shoto replied as he didn't think a guy rumored to only use bladed weapons could cause this kind of destruction. Still, this did remind him of the USJ.

'Which means they may be another beast like that black one from the USJ somewhere in Hosu.' He thought to himself as he looked down as the unmoving corpse of the Nomu. He wasn't a fool, he knew that this, couldn't have been the worst of it. There were bound to be stronger ones running around. His moment of thought was interrupted when they heard another explosion coming from near the center of town.

"Hmm, looks like most of the trouble is near the city center. Let's go!" Endeavor ordered as he took off running, Shoto not that far behind him. After a couple of seconds, the two other pros followed suit.

"Right." Shoto replied as he ran after his father. Wondering when all this chaos will be brought to an end.

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(With Kendo and Midoriya)

"Good thing we're not down there. All those people are clogging up the roads and sidewalks." Kendo stated as she looked down at the crowded streets as people ran away from the danger, which at least showed they weren't idiots as more than a few times, did people stick around to watch heroes work, not knowing that they were making themselves liabilities by staying so close to the danger.

"We'll have to leave that to the police, we have our own target." Midoriya said as he kept on tracking their target. All while keeping a firm grip on Kendo.

"That thing's fast, can't you hit it from here?" Kendo asked him as she could make out their running Nomu from their distance from it. The damn thing was jumping from building to building like a frickin parkour frog.

"I could but these things can soak up damage so if really wanted to hurt it, it'll be really bad for the buildings." Midoriya replied, having considered that but that would mean bringing down the roof and top floor of any random building the thing happened to be on.

"Right, keep property damage to a minimal." Kendo remembered Gran Torino's lessons on it and ticked in annoyance, sure she didn't want to damage the building but at the same time, she really wanted to stop this thing. "Still, why is it heading to the center?"

"Most likely following someone's orders or pack instinct, I don't know. From what I've seen of these things, they are almost completely brain dead so there's no way it's thinking, it following some inherent directive." Midoriya explained his theory as he recalled the one from the USJ didn't move unless already engaged in some form of combat or when ordered to by its master. He figured that Hand freak was somewhere in the city, either participating if not watching things burn like some kind of reborn Neo but he didn't have the time to go looking for him.

"And you dealt with one at the USJ?" Kendo asked him, skeptical that only he and a couple of others took down something she heard was created to kill All Might. She shivered when she what torture they put that poor man through to turn him into that….thing.

"Barely, it was a group effort and luck. If hand-job wasn't so childish, chances are we would have been killed." He revealed as he had thought about the fight afterward and concluded that if the hand guy wasn't a childish bitch, he could have killed at least a few of them, that creature would have been trouble if any of them had to take it on in a one and one, even a 2v1. "Still, that was only 1 and so far, we're seen three, just how many more are out there?"

"Can't say, since, on the way here, we saw police and heroes dealing with other thugs and villains using this as a smokescreen for their own crimes." Kendo replied as she had seen smaller crooks and thugs robbing and looting on her way to their first fight location, slowing her down as she had to take them down before moving on. If that's happening all over the city, then…

"Which means that the authorities are stretched thin." Midoriya finished her thought, coming to the same conclusion as he looked to both sides and saw nothing but smoke and flames. He hoped the body count would be as low as possible but with so much going on, that might have just been wishful thinking.

"Meaning we have to finish this quirk or the whole city will pay for it." Kendo concluded as she felt her resolve harden even more. They had a job to do and they weren't going down till it was finished.

"I just hope Iida and Kodai are safe." Midoriya muttered himself, worried for his two friends.

"Have you found either of them?" Kendo asked as they slowly started to catch up with their prey, it seemed to be tiring.

"Kodai yes since she's wearing a tracker like the one I have but Iida is still off the radar." Midoriya replied as he had recalled Yoroi had made them both wear trackers before they left, they weren't too big and fit into their pockets without issue so in all the earlier chaos, it slipped his mind. Still, he was thankful for them as Kodai didn't show any distress from her side.

"Where is she?" Kendo asked, scared for her fellow classmate. In response to her inquest, Midoriya pointed to the side of them.

"South of here. But from the lack of fires and explosions that side, she probably dealing with the low lives using this to commit their own crimes." He replied as he hadn't heard anything from Mister X but that might not be a bad sign, he wouldn't call it in if he thought it could handle it, right? "Don't worry, she has a capable pro with her, she'll be fine."

"I hope you're righ-!" Kendo tried to speak up but found herself choked for air as the talons around her tightened as Midoriya dived to the side to avoid a large incoming object.

"Hold on!" He yelled as he threw her up and caught her in his arms as he came down for a hard landing on a rooftop, the object passing overhead before crashing into the taller building.

BOOM!

"The hell was that!" Kendo asked through the blast as Midoriya opened up his wings to full to shield the two of them from any shrapnel.

"It appears someone threw a bus." Midoriya said sarcastically before he turned to look at the square and found his eyes widening in shock. "And I think I know what did." He finished as Kendo turned as well and saw what he was seeing and….she couldn't believe it.

All over the square, fires raged as vehicles burned. Three different Nomu rampaged as numerous pros tried to stop them. one of which reminded Midoriya of the first one he had ever seen, its skin just as black, nearly as large and muscled but unlike the first one, it didn't have a beak or…any kind of jaw, it's exposed brain taking up most its head-up till the jaw itself. Another with wings carried off another pro as it struggled to try and escape its grasp.

"Manuel! Quick, put out the fires before they spread any further!" They both heard someone call out and they turned their attention to a large bulky man with bull-like horns rip open a fire hydrate for another hero to run up to him.

"Right!" The hero they both recognized as Manuel replied as he used his hydrokinesis type quirk to control the gushing water from the hydrate onto a burning building, in an attempt to put out the flames.

"Wait, Manuel?" Midoriya said the name aloud as he recalled that Iida was interning with him, but where was he? To get those answers, he jumped off the roof and flew towards the hero in question.

"What is it?" Kendo asked just as he jumped, leaving her alone. "Midoriya, wait up!" Kendo yelled at him as she jumped off the building as well to catch. Just as she did so, the Nomu they were tracking tried to tackle the Normal hero who didn't see it coming.

"Manuel, look out!" Manuel heard someone called out to him before he saw a winged hero fire off some kind of attack from his feet towards a Nomu he didn't notice. Luckily for him, the blast proved strong enough to send the creature back from him, into the flames of another building.

"Thanks, kid but what are you doing here?" Manuel asked as he went back to focus on trying to fight these fires, wondering where the hell the fire department was. At the same time, Kendo caught up with Midoriya and got to his side.

"I'm interning under Yoroi Musha, she is interning under Gran Torino. Sir, where is Tenya Iida?" Midoriya asked him, trying to get this done as soon as possible to increase his chances of finding his friend in one piece.

"I don't know, he ran off somewhere before things really went you hell, why?" Manual asked back, recalling the two of them from the festival, even if one of them wore a mask and another a full-blown helmet. At the mention that Iida of all people, ran off-there was only one conclusion that Midoriya could come to.

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"Oh shit, he didn't!" Midoriya cursed aloud as he turned and started to run away from the action, with a confused Kendo left to try and follow. "Kendo, follow me, I think I know where Iida disappeared to!" Midoriya yelled over his shoulder as he blasted off into the air, flying off somewhere.

"What you do-hey some of us can't fly you know!" Kendo yelled at him as she came to a stop, she knew she had no chance of keeping up with him, but the question was why he sounded so scared?

"Just bring help as you go!" Midoriya yelled back as he flew away, out of sight in the dark sky and smoke filling the air. Leaving Kendo to worry that wherever Iida is, he must be in serious trouble.

"W-what's with this power?" She heard the same bull-horned hero from before yell as he struggled to hold back the black-skinned Nomu before the thing merely knocked him away before he picked up a small car got goodness sake and threw towards a pro that looked injured. "Crap! The Fly, look out!" She yelled at him as she ran to try and grab him but she would prove to be too far to be of any help.

BOOM!

The car exploded on impact, clouding the area with even more smoke but rather in fall into despair or shock at seeing a man die, Kendo noticed something in the smoke. "Wait, is that ice?" She asked. Sure enough, the smoke cleared and to the relief of the pros, The Fly was unharmed by the blast, protected by a wall of ice that came from a familiar source.

"Looks like we made it in time to help." Shoto said as he and his father's party ran into the scene.

"Todoroki, what is he-?" Kendo tried to ask as Shoto fired off waves of ice towards the black Nomu before a wave of fire was fired towards it when the thing broke through. "Endeavor, okay that makes sense."

"Shoto, what do you think?" Endeavour asked as he eyes up this new one, just from appearances alone, it was drastically different to the rest of them, which meant trouble.

"That one looks a lot like the one from the USJ, could be the strongest one here." Shoto replied as he sent off his own wave of fire, this one directed at another Nomu trying to sneak upon them.

"Is that right?" Endeavor mused as he turned his full attention towards the big one. "Then we need to take it out as soon as possible. Without their big gun, things will go a lot easier for us."

"Todoroki!" They both heard someone call out to them, the fact that it was their last name made them both turn to see Kendo running up to them.

"Hmm?" Shoto wondered to himself who this person was before he recognized the hair and eyes. "Kendo? What are you doing here?"

"Hm?" Endeavour sounded, irritated that this girl was getting in the way of things.

"That's not important. I need your help?" Kendo basically demanded of him, making him raise an eyebrow in interest at her demand.

"My help? Isn't this," Shoto asked as he waved towards everything happening in front of them. "Something I can help with?"

"Iida is missing and Midoriya went off after him, he has an idea of where he could be but he said I should bring back-up." Kendo explained to him as she tugged on his arm, pointing in the direction Midoriya flew off in.

'Iida? That guy couldn't break a rule if his life depended on…it…wait, his brother…..wasn't he….oh on…' Shoto thought to himself, at first confused as he never thought Iida would go against the rules before he recalled hearing about Ingenium, which combined with the fact the two were brothers and the little tidbit that it was in Hosu that Ingenium was attacked, leading him to the same conclusion that Midoriya must have made.

"Lead the way, I have a bad feeling about this?" Shoto replied to her as she nodded her head before the two of them took off running.

"Shoto, where the hell do you think you're going?" Endeavor yelled at his boy who must have known that this was a really bad time to rebel against him.

"That's not the issue right now, finish up here as soon as you can! Then send people to assist us when you can. You have a tracker on me, don't you?" Shoto yelled back as he gestured towards the patch on his costume where they both knew a tracker was installed. "Follow that!"

"Is that okay?" One of the lesser pros that came with them asked.

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"I'm trusting his judgment but if he screws up, he better hope he doesn't live as I have a punishment in mind that would make death seem like mercy." Endeavour growled as he charged the strong-looking Nomu, his flames flaring even hotter than normal. 'You better survive this brat.' He thought to himself as he engaged the Nomu in a fight.

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(With Iida)

"Face justice!" Iida yelled as he tried to land even a single hit on Stain, but the hero killer dodged around his attack as if he was moving in slow motion.

"You're still a novice. This isn't even a fight." Stain stated as he jumped over a low kick before landing a heavy palm strike to Iida's chest, forcing him back.

"Shut up!" Iida yelled back in rage as he launched himself right back it, mixing in punches along with his engine boosted kicks but it was as if Stain knew what he was going to try before he did. 'Dammit, how is it that he this quirk?'

"You said that you're Ingenium's brother, right?" Stain asked as he closed the distance and punched him right in the face, breaking his glasses and his nose in a single hit. Sending Iida reeling from the pain. Just as he blinked away the tears, he that Stain was right in front of him, seemingly in mid-air.

'How did he…?' Iida tried to ask himself but before he could even react, Stain who had jumped over to him, slammed his spiked boot right into Iida's shoulder, causing the boy to cough out a wheeze of pain as the force of the blow sent him back first into the ground. The hero killer landed right on his chest with a heavy thud, the weight of the body cracking a rib or two.

"Don't think you can match me. The only reason he survived his punishment…was because I allowed him, to spread the word of my teachings in the hopes it would drive the fakes and liars away from the hero profession." Stain revealed the real reason as to why Tensei still lived before he pointed his sword right at Iida's face so that he could see the cold steel that would take his life. "But the fact you still stand here, trying to fight me tells me that didn't work." He finished as he raised the blade high, with Iida being powerless to stop him as he looked on with both rage and fear in his eyes.

"You're just another weakling." Stain finished as he brought down the blade.

SLASH

"Arg-!" Iida coughed out blood as the blade easily cut through his white padding, the cloth, skin, and flesh. Leaving a clean slash from just shy of his lower right lung to his left waist.

"You and your fake brother, are both weak. Because you are not real heroes." Stain stated as he got off the boy and watched as he tried to move through the pain of what was a serious injury as he was sure he nicked organs in that attack.

"S-shut u-up, you vill-lain." Iida cursed at him, even as blood flowed out of his mouth along with spit. "Because of you, he's crippled from the waist d-down." He said with tears in his eyes as he remembered the first time he had ever seen his brother in action, and how proud he was of him. "H….He can't work as a he..ro anymore."

"He is….a wonderful…hero, who lead people and s-sav..ed lives!" That one came out with an angry cough of blood, seems like the injury was catching up to him. "There was no reason for you to crus" Iida now couldn't even finish the sentence, the pain building as he reached out with one hand to apply pressure to his wound, to try and stem the bleeding. "He didn't deserve your twisted judgment."

"He….he was a wonderful hero who gave me a dream to live for!" Iida was now openly crying, though the Hero killer didn't appear to care about his tears. "A-and yo-you cut him down like a weed! I won't, I'll never forgive you…I kill you!" He vowed to him as he tried to move, the adrenaline in his veins numbing the pain as he worked himself back up to a seated position.

"Worry about saving that guy first." Stain, not caring that Iida was managing to climb back up to his feet, pointed towards the downed pro in the corner with his blade. His words catching Iida off guard as he turned his gaze to the man he hadn't even noticed up till now.

'Wait, there was someone else here?' Iida thought to himself, his blood running cold as he just realized that he never noticed him.

"Isn't that the job of a hero, to save people in need? To use your power and skill not for thyself but for the greater good and their fellow man?" Stain asked him, unimpressed with the boy's rage-filled rampage as he lifted his blade once more, this time towards his face.

"From the moment I saw such hate in your eyes, I knew that you're a fake." Stan mocked him, this time thought, Iida, didn't offer up any rebuke, too lost in his failure to reply. "You didn't even notice him, did you? Too clouded was your vision, all you wanted to do was seek petty revenge rather than save him." Stain belittled him with a scoff as Iida lowered his head. "Disgusting, that's the furthest thing from a hero. Period."

"And that's why," Stain finished as he licked the blood off the blade. "You're going to die tonight."

"Wha-"Within an instant, Iida felt himself become paralyzed, his unstable stance making it so that he fell back down face fist, which even though he hurt to fall on his hand while it was still next to his wound, he couldn't even instinctively flinch, which meant even reflexes were down. 'What is this….sensation, I know that I should have problems moving but….I can't move at all….I'm stuck!' Iida thought to himself as a cold sweat formed on his face, the weight of the situation barreling down on him as he strained his eyes to look at his aggressor. 'Just what the hell did he do to me?'

"I hope you have made peace with your God, for you are about to be purged from this earth, in order to make way for a fair and just world. One where those called heroes are worthy of the title." Stain preached as he raised his blade again, this time aiming to take Iida's head off. It would be messy but it should serve as a good warning to other fakes thinking to become heroes.

"Shut up….I won't be…killed in a….place like this…!" Iida raged as he tried to move, to get up, to do….do anything! 'Dammit, move, just a little bit! I just need to call for backup! Dammit, I can't feel my arm….' His thought ran a mile a minute as he lost feeling in his arm, most likely the blood loss which meant even if he got up, he'll be down an arm!

"No matter what you say, you're still and will forever be the criminal who hurt my big brother!" Ida yelled out as Stain was about to bring down the blade but at the last moment, he heard something-soon even Iida heard it. The sound of a mini jet engine.

'Hmm! What's that soun?-shit incoming!' Stain thought to himself as he caught sight of a high-speed moving person flying towards him from above.

"Get away from him!" Midoriya yelled out as he came down a hammer from Thor, folded his wings, and attacked stain with a momentum boosted double kick, which the hero killer blocked with his arm but the shockwave that fired off both of his boots sent the killer way back, forcing him to roll with the attack. Like a dark angel, Midoriya stood protectively in front of Iida, who could only see his winged back as each and every feather glowed from the neon green trimming on each of them. the light green circle on his backlighting up the place.

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"Iida? Iida! You still with me? Do you know where you are?" Midoriya asked as he jumped behind Iida and crouched down to check on him, doing so that he could keep an eye on Stain as he felt around Iida's body, his messed up bloody nose, and the blood he felt on his gloves when he checked over Iida's chest not being a good sigh. "Crap, how bad are your injuries? Can you stand?"

"M-midoriya…?" Iida weakly asked, still in shock that one of his friends had come to save him, he didn't even know why Midoriya was in Hosu, last he checked-he was doing his internship in Kyoto.

"Don't worry about a thing, my speedy friend, I came to save you." Midoriya assured him as he patted his chest, careful not to touch the bloody part before he got back up to his feet and got into a combat stance, his climbing claws extending out. "Though I would prefer if you used my code name, I did chose it for a reason, you know."

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(Flashback)

"Okay, going over what we know. There's no way that this was an accident. The city where Stain to currently believed to be, the same city is then attacked by the League of Villains?" Midoriya thought to himself as he scanned over the alleys and back streets of the city with both Green day's high resolution, night vision camera, and his helmet-mounted thermal imaging scanner. "They must be connected somehow." He finished as he finished checking an alley that only had a hobo and some cat before he flew off to check another.

"That could very well be the case, Steller. But intelligence has found no evidence to back it up." Yoroi said over the line as he slashed at a Nomu that had gotten in his way, the creature wailing as he kept on the attack, despite the many cuts and slashes to its body.

"Both Stain and the League are relatively new. Besides, Stain prefers the stealthy approach, like some ninja assassin. The League did the exact opposite, their debut was loud and large. Impossible to miss." Midoriya explained as he flew over each and every dark place he could see to try and find Iida.

"You're thinking that their opposing method made it that the police never bothered to check if they were connected?" Mister X stated as he and Kodai were helping the police direct the scared and panicking people away from the fighting.

"It's certainly possible, that blue-haired hand freak didn't seem like the type to plan ahead but whoever is supporting the league from the shadows might." Midoriya replied as he had shared his opinion that there was more to the league than meets the eye, something the veteran agreed with, though Midoriya didn't know why.

"But that leaves the fact that Stain must still be in town, and since Iida disappeared without warning…" Kodai spoke up, sounding just a little bit concerned, which for her, would be a version of crying in fear.

"He may have found Stain. Midoriya, find that boy before he winds up another name in the obituaries." Yoroi ordered him as he got tired of this Nomu and just stabbed it right in the throat, clean through the spine before he ripped his blade to the side and out of the neck, severing its spine and other major blood vessels, killing the thing.

"Sir!" Midoriya answered as Green Day picked something up.

"Sir, three heat signatures detected in an alley, one of which matches our record on Tenya Iida." Neko reported as it relayed the footage to him and within a moment, he recognized Iida's prone form and was already flying towards him.

"I see it, oh no…" He said aloud as he saw that there was someone over him, someone with a sword. "Get away from him!" He yelled as he came in with a shockwave assisted, momentum enhanced double kick that sent the hero killer flying back before Midoriya skid to a halt "Jackpot."

"Those wings, the boot….He's one of the winners of the UA sports festival." Stain said as he recalled who this kind was. 'One of the brats that Tomura wants to kill.' He thought to himself as recalled how that brat wanted him dead.

"Midoriya…how?" Iida asked as he tried to process this.

"They talked about in the news. 60% of all Stain victims were found in low-traffic areas such as alleys. Combined with the fact that he operates from the shadows, lead me to search for the two of you away from all the fighting and chaos. Focussing on areas where Stains victims would be most likely to be found." Midoriya explained to him as he smirked behind his helmet, even if he was sweating bullets as he stared down at his opponent.

"It's a good thing I have the heat signature patterns for the whole class on record, that's how I was able to identify you from above." He added in as he had scanned each and every one of them and recorded those scans to Neko's database when he first installed thermal imaging into his helmet.

"Can you move? We need to move to a bigger street, this isn't the best place for a fight." Midoriya asked him as he looked over and saw a gravely injured pro leaving against the wall. "Especially with a wounded man here as well. We need to get him to safety first and foremost." He concluded as he knew there was no way he could take on Stain a head to head, still he needed to get these two to safety, which didn't have to mean he had to fight him if he played his card right.

"Neko. Broadcast my position and location over Yoroi Musha's agency network and to Kendo's number as well. Keep updating it every 40 seconds so it acts like a pinging locator." Midoriya said, not using the mic and whispering the command so that his enemy wouldn't catch on. 'Hopefully, Kendo is still following me, though I did jet off real quick.'

"It shall be done sir." Neko replied as he sent out the first and the string of messages.

'Which means that I'll get some back-up in ten minutes if I'm lucky but with all the commotion, it'll take time for the pros to get here.' Midoriya thought to himself as he gulped down his saliva as he focused on his opponent, claws out.

'All I have to back me up is Iida and he's already wounded, we also got another wounded pro who looks like he's down for the count. According to thermal scans, he's still alive but that doesn't really help us right now.' He analyzed his situation as he lowing approached Stain, who started to approach him with his sword at the ready.

"I…can't…he got….me good." Iida said to him, making the boy pause but not look back in fear of what would happen if he took his eyes off the threat for even a moment. "And there…something else. I feel paralyzed. I think it's his quirk."

"What?" Midoriya asked him, slowly reaching for his staff which had had to pop out for him to grab.

"Ever…since he cut me down….I haven't been…able to move." Iida explained to him from his place on the ground.

'Just like Yoroi predicted. His quirk has something to do with cutting to affect his target, or does his blade have a paralysis agent coating the cutting edge? And if that's true, is it the same case for all those blades he carries? Either way, I have even more reason to avoid those blades, meaning that going in for a close-quarters fight is a worst-case scenario.' Midoriya concluded as he took in the new information and opted for a ranged approach instead with his claws retracting, now that they'll prove useless.

'I could just grab the two of them and fly off but I don't know the extent of their injuries and that would mean leaving myself open for Stain to attack as I'm sure he isn't going to let me grab them and retreat.' He shot down that idea as Stain eyes him but didn't approach, clearly waiting for him to wait the first move, which meant he already had a solid plan to counter.

'Stain's closer to the other guy than I am, I don't know a lot about him so I can't make a bet on being faster than him…maybe if I use a shockwave as a catapult?' He tried to think of a solution that didn't end with him fighting and losing to this guy. 'That's possible but he spoke of the festival so there's the chance he would see that coming, shit things are really bad.'

"Great, that just makes things all the move difficult. Still," Midoriya said aloud as he folded back SMGs into place, something Stain noticed as he pulled out one of his knives along with his swords. "I'm not going anywhere. I have a job to do, make sure you two live to see another day." Midoriya finished as he took aim with both guns, keeping himself loose enough to be ready for anything while stiff enough to keep his aim steady.

"Midoriya….D-don't get in…volved!" Iida coughed out.

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"What?" Midoriya asked with a shadowed look to his eyes, as he turned to look at Iida out of the corner of his eye.

"This has n-" Iida coughed out, his eyes enraged as he felt his vision begin to blur. "Nothing to do with y-you!"

"Iida….If we weren't staring down a serial killer, I would beat the shit outta you for that, injured be damned." Midoriya answered him after he took a moment to process what the hell was going through Iida's head. "This isn't the time for soloing. I ain't leaving here, not without the two of you."

"This isn't your bat-"

"Cut the crap. Look at yourself! Where the guy that follows the rules, the one who told me Thirteen passed along great advice? Do you remember what you said? You said you learned that heroes always act to save others!" Midoriya had just about enough of this, this wasn't the time to give him a heart to heart about ethics and loss, not when a dangerous serial killer was right in front of them. "The fact that you think I would step back from this and leave you to die is a mockery of me, of you and everything our class has been through!" He yelled at him, catching him off guard as he looked at Midoriya's back.

"Because you weren't thinking straight, you, a first-year with less than a full semester of training, not experience in actual hero work-tried to take on a killer who can defeat multiple pros at once!" he yelled at him, hoping he would see the stupidity of his actions.

"But-!"

"What did you possibly think you could have done that your brother couldn't?!" He yelled at him, the fact he brought up his brother silencing the injured boy as he started to see clearly, he saw how he made a grave mistake, one that may cost him and his friend, their lives.

"I have a tone of stuff I want to hammer into your head but, now's really not the time" Midoriya said as he trained one gun on Stain's chest and the other to the blade itself. "So instead, I'm going to stand my ground and make sure you two live long enough for Aizawa-sensei to give you that lecture!"

"Spoken like a true hero but the question remains," Stain complimented him, speaking up for the first time since Midoriya arrived with a demented grin as he held up his sword. "But, can you live up to those words?" He asked as he charged the boy, his blades at the ready. Only to have to fall back when Midoriya let loose a hail of rubber.

"See for yourself!" Midoriya yelled at him as he fired at him as he closed the distance. Stain for his part would bounce around the fire, retreating, advancing, and otherwise avoiding the fire, Midoriya kept up the suppressing fire the best he could as he would reload as the other was firing to ensure one was always spitting out hot rubber.

"Impressive aim, quick reflexes." Stain complimented as he danced around the fire, even using his blades to block them when he could, showcasing that they weren't normal steel as they didn't have a scratch on them, despite his sword having a rugged look to it.

'How the hell is he dodging bullets for crying out loud?' Midoriya thought to himself as he moved around the alley the best he could, even taking to hovering from time to time to jump over the killer to keep up the distance between them. 'Good thing I stuck to a ranged attack, with that speed, he would have creamed me if I charged him, hell Iida probably did, and look where that got him.'

'He's purposely keeping me from my prey' Stain realized as every time he charged for one of the two injured people, Midoriya would fire on him straight out before landing right in front of them. Even if this meant wasting more munitions than he could probably afford. 'I get it, he isn't fighting to take me down but to keep them safe.' Stain smiled to himself, wondering if this kid was a true hero after all. "Admirable effort, but I am curious, why would a quirkless boy think he can stand with heroes?"

"I'll tell you all about when your ass sits in prison!" Midoriya yelled back as he got into position and started to fire o him with low-powered energy blasts from his duel feather cannons, just like the sports festival-he was putting more importance into firing rate than stopping power. But as he fired off his ninth volley, Stain saw his chance to close the distance and finish this.

"Sadly, even if you're are what you say," He stated as he closed the gap between them with his blade at the ready to cut him down. "These two are slanted for death." Stain finished, aiming for a non-lethal takedown, it would mean the kid would have to spend a couple of months on the bench but it's beat a career-ending attack.

'Shit! He's quick!' Midoriya thought to himself as he brought up his forearm to try and defend against the slash.

SLASH!

CLING!

And just like he designed them, the gauntlet took the blow like a champ, the metallic alloy withstanding the blow with only the paint being scratched off to show that it was struck.

"Armour-styled costume that actually acts as armor. How annoying." Stain said to himself as he jumped back when he notices that Midoriya was bringing up the other hand to blast him with the SMG.

"Trust me bub, you're night's gonna get worse." Midoriya told him with a relieved smile as he was happy he still hand the hand as he fired 'Thank God I wear this thing. If I opted for the cloth version of a hero suite, I'll be down for the count.' He thought to himself as he charged the Hero Killer, firing on him all the way, forcing him back even further.

'Still, things aren't going in my favor, gotta even things out.' Midoriya thought to himself as he latched onto a fire escape and pulled out a grenade from one of his pouches. Seeing a chance, he hurled the thing towards Stain who saw it coming, and jumped back to avoid what he believed to be an explosive weapon.

PPPPPSSSS!

But rather explode and shoot out shrapnel. The grenade actually started to let out black smoke, soon filling the alley with a black cloud of gas.

"Using a smoke grenade? It's a rookie mistake to blind your vision against a faster opponent." Stain said through a couple of coughs as he breathed that stuff in, still he charged towards where the two wounded guys were to try and finish them off with the smoke cover as Midoriya saw that coming and had thrown in another grenade, this one striking the floor right in front of the killer who heard the clang. 'What the-'

BANG!

Before Stain could react to the new threat, the grenade went off, releasing a blinding amount of white light and a deafening bang. Showing that the grenade was a flashbang.

"I know, that's why I used it as a diversion for the real grenade." He heard the boy chuckle from somewhere outside the smoke as he swung his blade around himself to try and clear the smoke. "Gotta love those flashbangs." And with that, he heard the sound of the boy's jet pack firing up and him flying off. After a couple of seconds, Stain cleared both the smoke and his vision and to his slight surprise and amazement, all three were gone, only leaving two blood pools where the pro and Iida laid.

'Where they go?' Stain thought to himself as he recalled the boy say they needed to move to an open area, so with a smile-he jumped into a fire escape and run towards the roof-tops. He knew where they were going. 'Looks like this one will be interesting.'

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(With Midoriya)

"Sorry for the rough ride, that was the best chance I had to grab the two of you and get the hell outta there." Midoriya said to his two passengers as he carried Iida in his arms bridal style(which looked as funny as it sounds due to the notable size difference between them) while he carried the pro he learned as called Native, in his talons like a bird of prey would carry it's still breathing meal.

"Hey, it's better than being dead right now so I'll take it." Native replied as he couldn't move, Stain having nicked him near the end of his fight with Iida to keep up whatever paralyze spell he had on them. "Are we really running?"

"Of course we are! I'm not dumb enough to take on that guy. I'll sooner challenge All Might to a battle to the death." Midoriya wasn't ashamed to admit that, he knew his capabilities and he could say with near absolute faith, that Stain was far beyond them. He wasn't stupid, he knew that when Stain had gotten close, he could have easily gone for his neck and took his head off but instead, he went for something else, showing that Stain wasn't trying to kill him….yet, which was a good thing.

"Still, that was a smart move. I still can't move and the kid's too hurt to be of much help. We needed a new plan." Native stated as they flew over the rooftops to an area that was both free of fighting but open.

"I don't think we'll get the time to plan one out." Midoriya replied as he looked back and saw that Stain was chasing them. "We got incoming."

"You gotta be kidding me, how fast is he?" Native asked as the man ran over the rooftops like a motorcycle, crossing distances between jumped and ledges that should by all rights, be out of normal reach capability. Stain for his part spotted them and once he got a little closer, he drew one of his smaller, fold-out knives and threw it towards Native, forcing Midoriya to screw with their flight to shield the pro with his wing.

"Shit!" Midoriya cursed as that unexpected wing movement caused them to lose lift. "Hold on, we're in for a rough landing!" He yelled as he tossed Native into the relative safety of his wing as he held Iida in his arms as he came down to a harsh landing in the middle of a deserted street. Using his shockwave boots, he was able to soften the landing but he still nearly dropped the two of them before he came down to his knees.

'Are they-okay, they're fine which means I can-'he started to inspect but a glint in the corner of his eye forced him to react to an incoming threat. "Fuck!" He cursed as Stain had moved like a speed demon, jumped down from the multi-story building, and tried to take Iida's head off and would have succeeded if not for the fact, Midoriya dropped the boy and used his wing to tank the strike.

"Smart move to run from a superior opponent." Stain congratulated him once more as his feet came down to the ground once more, giving him the leverage he needed to press into Midoriya. "Worthy of praise as it was clear that if we were to battle, the weaker would be culled-such is the nature of things."

"But what will you do now that I've caught up?" Stain asked him, eyeing him as the younger male found himself being pushed back, already on his knees with only his wings to shield both his opponent's targets and himself.

'His eyes,' He thought to himself as he stared into the red pools of blood lust in Stain's eyes. 'They're different from that hand freak's, those are the eyes of a cold-hearted killer.' He concluded, already on the back foot, now he could realize that this guy wouldn't stop unless he stopped him, which meant he had no other choice. "If I have to fight then so be it, be I won't make it easy for you. That's a promise." Midoriya vowed as he quietly switched his wings into the first form, electrocuting Stain as he used it as a chance to push him back and draw his own staff.

'As long as I don't get cut, I should be fine. If I avoid his blades then I should be able to match him!' Midoriya thought to himself as he tried to push his advantage as he aimed one of his SMGs towards the still twitching killer. "Eat rubber!" He yelled as he let loose a spray of bullets towards him, some of them hitting home but Stain didn't even flinch back but rather moved to avoid the rest, showing he had a high pain tolerance.

"That's not all!" Midoriya called out as he charged with his staff, all whole firing on Stain to give himself as big a window of attack as he could.

'Good! Closing the distance against an opponent with a long-bladed weapon, but' Stain thought to himself as he waited for the moment that Midoriya would cease the bullet barrage as to use both hands for his staff and when he saw it he took, going for a slash aimed for his legs.

"Look out, he's!" Native tried to call out when he saw this but Midoriya reacted faster than the pro thought and used his boots to fire off a small shockwave towards the ground. The force of which allowing him to evade the strike and go right over Stain's head.

'He's fast!' Stain noted as he looked up and to his surprise, he saw that the boy had both his energy cannon primed and ready, with a visible change glowing down the barrel.

'I only have one shot at this.' Midoriya thought to himself as he hurried through the charging process and within the same moment he lined himself with Stain, he pulled the proverbial trigger.

"Falcon Striker!" He yelled as he fired off both his cannons as near point black range, straight down into the street.

BOOM!

The blast itself was a large one-shattering windows in the nearby buildings and blasting concrete and dirt all over the place. No doubt it would draw attention to their position which meant that help might come sooner, but it also meant that more problems could be drawn to them. With the attack over, Midoriya landed right in front of Iida and Native again, his staff drawn while both his cannon were still active.

"Was that enough?" Midoriya asked himself as he looked into the smoke kicked up by the blast. "Neko, thermal."

"Target still standing." Neko reported as he saw for himself that against all odds, Stain was still standing.

"Dammit-why does it have to be so hard?" Midoriya cursed, that was his trump card. There was no way he could grab the two of them and run, that would mean leaving his back exposed, and there was the fact Stain knew that he wasn't trying to fight him so he would be on the lookout for even the attempt.

"Impressive boy, you feinted a charge, used your boots to quickly dash to the side and unleash a powerful blast, all with but one flaw." Stain said as the smoke cleared and allowed them all to see that Stain….had dodged the attack, having moved his body in a way that would seem uncomfortable to most with a singed mark on his shoulder, showing that one of the lasers is gotten really close, but not hit. As he said this, he stood straight again and brought up his blade to his mouth.

"Yeah, and what tha-What the hell?!" Midoriya started to ask before he felt himself become paralyzed mere moments after stain licked his blade.

"The fact you used a trick that relies on speed and surprise against a more experienced and faster foe." Stain answered what was supposed to be a question as he walked towards him, confident in the fact that Midoriya wouldn't be able to interfere any longer. As he walked towards him, he noticed that Stain's blade, had a little blade on it, blood that wasn't their before-meaning that….he somehow cut him?

'When did he even cut me, I didn't feel a thing?' He thought to himself as he tried to think back to any point when Stain could have done that.

"Sir, detecting a minor cut to your stomach region." Neko informed him, and if h could look down, he would have seen that the cut in question was a simple nick, barely enough to draw blood but apparently, that was all Stain needed.

"You got to be shitting me, in that little time frame, he landed a hit?" Midoriya asked himself, angry that despite his best efforts, he got tagged.

'How can a tiny cut have enough poison to paralyze me so quickly? How would he even get his hands on such an agent?' He thought to himself as he tried to think of ways a nerve agent could be so fast-acting in such small doses before he remembered how Stain brought the blade to his lips and licked it.

'No…it's the blood, he draws blood using his blades and then….ingest it, that's why he pulled the sword to his face, he was licking the blood of the blade, that's how he activates his quirk, the activation condition is having the target's blood! That's why he uses so many damn blades.' He realized just as Stain paused when he reached him, his own eyes still on his targets as Iida had passed out from the blood loss during the fight. Not that it will save him.t

"It was a noble effort, I assure you. You are worthy of keeping alive but there are not." Stain asked as he walked past the boy, drawing one of his knives and throwing it towards Iida's unmoving form. "They die now." He finished as the blade cut through the air, on its way for Iida if not for a wall of ice that took the blow, the blade bouncing right off much to Stain and Midoriya's surprise.

"Not if I can say anything about it!" Kendo yelled as she came out of nowhere and tried to smash Stain into the ground but he saw her coming and dodged out of the way.

"More distractions?" Stains asked himself, sounding agitated as Kendo came running.

"How observant." He heard someone from the alley speak up before a wave of fire came barrelling down towards him, forcing him to jump back at the last second. He followed the stream of fire and saw the Todoroki boy was the culprit, with a faint trail of ice leading from his right leg towards the ice wall that saved Iida's life.

"Kendo! Todoroki?" Midoriya was both confused and relieved to see the two of them as Kendo ran forward and checked him over for injuries while Todoroki did the same for Native and Iida. "You're in Hosu too?"

"Sorry it took so long to get here, you fly really fast. I grabbed this guy as back-up." She joked as Todoroki took out a disinfectant from his belt and started to apply it to the bleeding areas of the bleeding chest, hmm, he must have taken the armor off when he wasn't looking.

"Smart move sending Kendo a consistent flow of messages with your location. We were able to track you faster because of it." Todoroki said as he applied a self-applying foam-like gaze to Iida's chest wound to stem the bleeding before he cleaned up his face thankful none of the glass had gotten into the stiff boy's eyes.

"I'm just glad that it got through, and if you got it then chances are the ones I sending to Yoroi, Rahzar and Mister X are getting through as well." He noted as that was the first good news he had heard since the fight started. Though he still couldn't move even after Kendo found no other injuries on him.

"Meaning that we'll have pro reinforcement in no time." Kendo said with a cheer in her voice as that meant they weren't stuck here without backup.

"My father may also be on his way, he's just directing traffic with these Nomu." Todoroki said as he joined her, having done what he could for Iida as Native waved him off.

"Speaking of," Midoriya said as Kendo helped him to sit near the two downed fighters. "Finally decided to go all out?" He asked, referring to the fire that he saw Todoroki use.

"Now's a good a time as any to try it out, plus ultra after all." Todoroki replied as fire started to build up and lick off his left side as Kendo enlarged her fist and got ready for some action.

"Less talking, more fighting. We need to buy time for the pros to get here, at least a few minutes!" Kendo yelled as she charges the villain.

"Right!" Todoroki joined in with her as he let loose another blast of fire towards the hero killer, forcing him to go on the defensive as Kendo closed the distance and started her own attack.

"Two more students from the festival, and two of the more skilled ones to boot." Stain noted as he could tell that Kendo was trying her best not to cut by him.

"Be careful, don't let him draw blood, that how his quirk works!" Midoriya yelled at the two of them as they fought back Stain.

"His quirk?" Todoroki repeated before it dawned on him as he put up an ice wall to protect from a wave of throwing knives being thrown at them. How many knives did this guy have? "I get it, that's why you three aren't moving, you're paralyzed, aren't you?"

"Afraid so, I think his quirk activation requirement in ingesting the blood of the target, that's how he caught all of us, he caught me off guard." Midoriya replied as he explained what he knew about how Stain's quirk works.

"Same with me and the kid." Native gave more weight to it as he recalled seeing Stain do the same thing do the one in white-looking armor.

"Great, not the best opponent for me but as Vlad-sensei always says, being a hero means fighting even the current is against you." Kendo stated, having been closely listening as he dodged a swipe from Stain that would have taken a finger.

"So long as we keep out-Look out!" Kendo said as she noticed Stain through another blade towards Todoroki, forcing her to grow her hand to hand the hit. Which meant the blade dug deep into their palm but she fought through the pain and jumped back to regroup.

"You have some good friends, don't you, Ingenium?!" Stain asked, even if Iida was unable to answer.

"Not so fast!" Todoroki started but found himself feeling pain as Stain proved his superior speed by throwing three blades into Todoroki's forearm, snuffing out the flames he was building up as the boy instinctively reached for his injured limb. Using that as a distraction, Stain was able to close the distance and jumped up to retrieve his swords as well.

'A sword? Did he throw it at the same time as the knife?' Todoroki asked himself as Stain was able to reach it but before he could attack, Kendo punched him away from them.

"Good reflexes, girl." Stain said as he flipped mid-flight and landed on his feet. No worse for wear.

"The name's Battle Fist." Kendo said as he pulled the knife out of her hand with a pained grunt before taking out some gaze to wrap up the wound. Seeing this a good opportunity, Stain charged them again, this time Todoroki created a massive spike of ice to try and stop him.

"This guy is tough." He said to himself as he watched as Stain slashed his ice spike to pieces before he countered by firing off a jet of flames, even if it did hurt like hell with the blades still in his flesh.

"No shit, he just cut through your ice like it was nothing!" Kendo yelled at him as he charged at her this time. Forcing her to fight back with just one hand lest she breaks the bandages on the other and let more blood spill. While they fought for everyone's lives, Midoriya was struggling to get back up after being taken out of the fight but just when he felt it being hopeless, he felt his finger twitch.

'Hold on…' Midoriya thought to himself as he slowly regained moving in his whole hand, the feeling of control returning to his entire body.

"You two got sloppy." Stain called them out for when he dodged one of Todoroki's ice attacks with the spinning jump, gearing up to take Todoroki's arm off.

"Well, it's a good thing they aren't alone!" Midoriya yelled in defiance as he fired his eagle striker from just the one barrel, Stain not seeing this coming and still in mid-air, was unable to dodge at all and got a blast straight to the face that knocked him back and saved Todoroki from losing a limb.

"Midoriya!" Kendo called out, surprised that he could move again.

"I don't know why, but I can move normally again!" Midoriya replied to the unasked question as he came up to join them, making a line of defense against Stain.

"A time limit maybe?" Todoroki wondered aloud.

"No way, he got the kid last." Native shot down idea down, at least for Todoroki as Midoriya took that info in and tried to rationalize it, to make sense of Stain's quirk as to better their odds of all walking away from this alive.

'Is that kid a type O?' Stain asked himself as he landed roughly to the hit to the face, showing that he actually took damage that time.

"What do you think about this?" Todoroki asked their resident science whiz.

"I got three possibilities." Midoriya said as he got his staff ready for combat, opting to shift to its three-pronged spear form. "The first one being that if can't use it on multiple people without lowering the time limit for each new person. The second is that the time limit is directly connected to the amount of blood ingested since he got a couple of drops from me." He explained as the second seemed to be the more likely of the two.

"And the third?" Kendo asked him, keeping her eyes on Stain who watched them like a hawk, it was kinda unsettling.

"Is that the time limit is connected to a person's blood type, with the effect lasting longer for certain groups." He finished his list of theories.

"I'm type B." Native said.

"I'm type O." Kendo added in.

"So am I, you?" Midoriya said as he looked over to Todoroki who opted to crudely bandage his arm to stop the bleeding.

"Same." Todoroki said, wondering what the odds of three hero students were with the same blood type fighting a villain as a team.

"What bad luck I've run into." Stain laughed as he read their little talk, making them all wonder if that was a good thing or if they were all screwed. "You're right on the money kid, and for that, a little reward, my quirk is least effective on people with type O blood, a blood type you all have." Stain said as he got ready to charge them again.

"So what's the play?" Midoriya asked Kendo, wanting to hear her opinion of this as a fellow leader(even if that was only so far as being class reps was concerned for the both of them).

"Even if we know that his quirk is weakest against people like this, it won't do us any good seeing how if he takes down one of us, he'll have an easier time taking down the other two." Kendo said as she could tell that they would need their numbers above all of us, if they lost even one person, the chances of them being screwed went up drastically.

"There is also the fact he has a crazy fast reaction speed since he can dodge both my ice and fire, so I doubt you can get them out of here." Todoroki said as he rubbed his injured arm, he didn't do a perfect job but it'll have to hold for now.

"Not without a pretty big distraction." Midoriya answered, though there was no way he was leaving them here to die.

"So I guess our best option is really to hold him off as long as we can then." Kendo summarised with a grimace as that may prove to be deadly.

"That's what it boils down to. You two hang back, I'll engage him in close quarters." Midoriya said as he got into a runner's stance. His declaration catching the other two off guard as that seemed like the worst thing they could do.

"You can't be serious." Kendo asked him, hoping he would change his mind.

"I am. You're both bleeding and Kendo, you can't fight handicapped like that." Midoriya stated, leaving no room for argument as Kendo clenched both her fists, knowing he was right. "Todoroki, you're my support. Kendo, you're my backup if it looks like I'm screwed, move in."

"That's a pretty terrible plan," Todoroki honestly told him as he geared up, flexing both hands as ice and fire started to dance over his fingers. "But's it's the best one we got, I'm in, can't exactly sit back and not help, so I'll lead you my strength." He finished as he crouched, getting ready to fire off as much ice as needs be, since he used his other half, it wasn't like he could grow too cold or too hot.

"We three will protect them, even from you." Kendo said with resolve as she held out both hands, preparing the biggest fight of her young life.

"Three vs one. This won't be a walk in the park." Stain muttered to himself as he could see that he would have to disable all of them if he wished to kill his targets before reinforcements arrived.

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(With Iida)

'W-where am….I…?' Iida thought to himself as he regained consciousness. He was confused as to why he was lying on the ground of some deserted street. Though as the fog cleared, he began to hear voices…talking, yes they were talking about something in front of him.

"There is also the fact he has a crazy fast reaction speed since he can dodge both my ice and fire, so I doubt you can get them out of here."

'Todoroki? What is he doing here?' He thought to himself as he recognized that voice, sure the boy rarely spoke in class but he made sure to memorize everyone's name, voice, and face.

"So I guess our best option is really to hold him off as long as we can then."

'Kendo…?' Okay, that was off, why was she here? Was there another joint training exercise between the two classes?

"-engage him in close quarters."

'What is going on?' No, no that can't be it, he would remember something like that. Besides, he remembered that they were supposed to be doing their intern….ships. All at once, the events of the previous two hours caught up with him. Is patrol with Manuel, the first attack, him spotting Stain, trying to fight him….losing, being saved by Midoriya, he couldn't remember anything else after they landed in….this street, they were still here! Which meant….

"Guys…" Iida spoke up but they didn't hear him due to his speaking in just shy of a whisper, he could feel that he was very weak. Was his wound that bad?

"That's a pretty terrible plan,"….."But's it's the best one we got, I'm in, can't exactly sit back and not help, so I'll lead you my strength."

"We three will protect them, even from you." He looked up after Kendo's declaration just as Midoriya shot off towards Stain, his staff at the ready.

'Why….why are they fighting?' He asked himself as he felt tears start to form in his eyes as Midoriya actually took the air and started to pepper the villain with fire from just one SMG. While Todoroki fired off his own blasts of fire and ice whenever the chance arose. 'This….this is my fault….I was the one who wasn't thinking straight!' He begged himself for an answer as Midoriya flew in with his staff ready and started to attack the hero killer, though after a couple of seconds-it became clear that Stain was the better fighter was Midoriya was reduced to merely blocking and evading.

"Tenya, A little lesson I picked up over the years is that a true hero fights even when he isn't wanted, but when he is needed." Iida remembered a little quote his brother told him once when he picked him up from elementary. He recalled how it was raining and how his brother and he saw a young couple sharing their umbrella with another who did, sure they looked like it was a tight fit but they still did it, which at the time confused his child's mind. Leading to his brother telling him that little piece of wisdom.

As he recalled those wise words, he also recalled everything that happened so far.

"Worry about saving that guy first." Stain berated him.

"Don't worry about a thing, my speedy friend, I came to save you." Midoriya comforted him.

"I can't exactly sit back and not help, so I'll lead you my strength." Todoroki assured them.

"We three will protect them, even from you." Kendo promised.

All of them, having their own way of saying it but in the end, all three acted to protect, not to harm. And what did he do? What was his split-second decision?

"I'll never forgive you…I kill you!"

'Oh God….what am I done?' Iida asked himself as he cried, cried in the knowledge that his tunnel vision, his foolish search for vengeance, could end with three good people who wanted to help him dead on the ground on some deserted street.

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(With the fight)

"This guy…!" Midoriya tried to say as he went for a sideswipe of Stain's torso but the villain caught on too quick, jumped back, and was able to throw a knife right at his face, the thing striking the eye protector with enough force that it cracked it. 'It's as if his speed and reflexes have no limit!' He thought to himself as Stain just seemed to grow stronger as the fight went on, it was getting harder to even keep up with his movements!

"Midoriya!" Kendo yelled as she came to his aid, punching back Stain before he could capitalize on the fact Midoriya was somewhat dazed.

"I'm good! I'm good. It didn't penetrate. Thank God for that." Midoriya replied quickly as he ripped off the now useless helmet as he couldn't see out of one eye and that knife had somehow damaged his visual feed. Meaning he was without any head protection at one of the worst possible times not to have any.

"Kendo!" Todoroki yelled as to two dived out of the way of he fired off a large volume of fire towards Stain, how lick a frickin ninja, was able to avoid it. Seeing an opportunity, Midoriya tossed the girl a staff, which he pulled from his second compartment before he twirled his, still in spear form before he ignited the blade.

"Thanks, I can use this." Kendo replied before they two charged Stain together, with Kendo using the staff more like a sword than anything else while Midoriya went at him with thrust and swipes with the flaming spearhead. When Stain managed to knee Midoriya in the stomach and roundhouse kick him back, Todoroki fired off another wave of fire to give them some breathing room.

"Guys! Hang in there! We only need to hold him back!" Todoroki yelled to remind him as he observed Midoriya wheezing in pain due to the boot having spikes, which meant that the kick, which hit his side, must have either pierced through his armor or hit the sweet spot between the plates. He hoped that it was neither. Todoroki switched from a fiery assault to an icy one, trying to bury the hero killer in a wave of ice. Stain, once more avoided the attack and licked some blood off his blade, blood belonging to Kendo.

"Shit!" Kendo cursed as she crashed down onto the floor, to which Midoriya came to her aid and blocked a strike from Stain, Stain's blade meeting his flaming spear in an epic blade lock as the two tried to outpower the other. After some time, Midoriya knocked off Stain with a mighty looking heave who took it in stride and instead focus on them again, dashing towards him like a man bewitched, slicing through his wave barrier with a single slash. Todoroki, seeing that he and his wounded were in trouble, fired off the largest amount of fire he could muster to keep Stain at bay.

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(Earlier)

"If you are now joining up, this is NHA news chopper 7, reporting from the skies over Hosu." A familiar field reporter stated as she and her cameraman were seated in a helicopter-filming the chaos unfolding below them. "As you can, fires have broken out across the city, seemingly at random and though reports from the ground are vague, we have reason to believe this is the work of villains." she relayed to the public as the camera shifted from her to the view of the night over Hosu which normally was calm, was now filled with flames and smoke billows.

"We at this time, do not have much information but we will keep on this story and deliver news updates as they unfold." She stated over the feed, keeping her face and tone as calm as she had trained herself to be over her years as a reporter.

BOOM!

"What was that, another explosion?" Her cameraman asked as she shifted to lens towards the sight where they believed that explosion happened, and sure enough, they spotted a fresh smoke cloud, rising from an area of town that should have been quiet.

"I don't know, pilot-take us to wherever that blast occurred." She ordered the pilot who nodded his head before the chopper changed course and headed towards the potential goldmine for their station. They would have gotten closer to the other scenes of fire but they had been forbidding due to the risk of something hitting the chopper, they had no restriction this time around and they were going to be the first on scene dammit!

"On it." The pilot said as he flew them towards the scene.

"As you can see, we are heading over to the sight of the latest explosion. As we know little of the cause and the emergency measures are taken by the police and heroes, at this time we can only offer speculation on these events." She reported as they moved to the sight, which proved to be something as from their distance they could make out….flames

"I think….I see ice?" The cameraman pointed as they saw what looked to be large chunks of ice fly?

"Ice? There's no way ice would be around this time of year. Must be a fight." She declared, holding back the squeal at the knowledge that might just pay off!

"But why so far away from all the actions fires?" Her cameramen asked, dampening her mood but she didn't let that show on the air.

"We're here." Before she could reply, the pilot announced their arrival. Both of them looked down at the scene unfolding under them and there were shocked at what they were seeing. On national television, they were capturing video of three hero-looking characters taking one someone that almost everyone had heard about.

"What the hell…?" She asked aloud as the camera-man zoomed in on the man with the red scarf and armed with a sword and knife. "Is…is that Stain!?" She yelled as, like her, the audience watching could only look on in shock, awe, and fear as for the first time ever, Stain was caught on actual camera. That alone would be a big event if not for the fact that this was a fight, which meant.

"Oh my God, that is him! But who is he fighting?" The cameraman asked as they captured footage of three heroes fighting against Stain, and struggling to hold their ground. But one the one slammed his hand into the ground and fired off a wave of ice just after using a fire-based attack, the reporter remembered where she had seen than before.

"Wait a second, ice and fire? Huge fists? Those are 1st year from UA, they were in the festival!" She called out as the audience who didn't notice that fact, nearly fell down in shock as they now watched as three students! Students for crying out loud fought what looked to be a losing battle against a man with a pro body count in the double digits.

"As you can see, there appears to be a battle between a villain who appears to the Hero Killer: Stain, and" The news reporter gulped down her fear and concerns as the camera focused on the three students just as Midoriya got back into the fight and fired off a blast from his cannons, knocking the hero killer back. "And three first-year hero students from UA."

"I'm just gotten word from the studio, the three…no four are students from UA's hero course. Those four being Izuku Midoriya, Shoto Todoroki, and Itsuka Kendo. Tenya Iida is also present but it seems like he's already been taken out of the fight! Oh god, please be alright." She relayed as the camera focused on each one as their name was called out, and each one showed injuries or damage of some kind.

"What about-" The pilot tried to ask but found himself cut off.

"Forget about that, we have three teens fighting the hero killer! We can't just leave them." She yelled at him as the three regroup and faced Stain down, they couldn't pick up audio but from here but it looked like they were planning their next move. "As you can see for yourself folks, it seems to be two people already down, one of which is identified as Tenya Iida. It seems….like the three remaining students are defending them from Stain."

"I hope you survive this." The cameraman begged as all they could do was watch as the three teenagers continued on to fight, even as Stain kept beating them back, adding to their injuries and pains.

"All you can do is pray." She stated with a tear as they all watched as Midoriya took a knife to the face, though luckily he pulled it out and removed his helmet, showing it didn't do anything.

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(With the Midoriya's)

"My baby!" Inko screamed at the TV, having to be held down by her husband as she was so close to running out and door and driving towards Hosu to save her son, despite the fact that she wouldn't get there in time even if she broke every speed limit in existence. As she cried in her husband's arms, he held her close as he cried himself, praying that he wouldn't have to watch as his son is crippled or worse, be forced to bury him next to his grandparents.

"Please, please come home to us, baby." Inko cried into her husband's chest, keeping only a single eye on the screen as she prayed to Kami that her son would pull a victory out of this situation.

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(With Bakugo)

"Are they insane?" Bakugo yelled as he nearly crushed the remote. He, like many of his classmates, was still at the hero agencies and had heard the report just as he returned from the bathroom. When he heard the fact they were UA students, he grabbed the remote, not caring if someone was holding it, and put the volume up.

"Is this live?" Best Jeanist asked one of his sidekicks, standing not too far from where Bakugo was.

"Yes Best Jeanist, straight from Hosu."

"Dammit, we're too far to be of any help." Jeanist let out an unusual curse as he felt his blood boil at the knowledge he couldn't help these kids.

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(With Uraraka)

"Nononononono! What are you guys doing?! Run away!" Uraraka screamed at the TV in tears as she watched as Stain grabbed Midoriya by the arm and threw, threw! him into a car on the other side of the street, the force of it causing the car door to crumple in on itself as Midoriya crashed into the back seat.

"They can't, not if they want to protect those two." Gunhead told her as he placed a comforting hand on the girl's shoulders, the two in his dojo along with other sidekicks when the news feed had changed to what events happening in another city.

"But that's…" Uraraka started but found too mortified to speak as Todoroki created another ice wall, before checking on Iida before he yelled towards Kendo. Why was he yelling like that? Was Iida alright? Why wasn't he moving?!

"I know, trust me," Gunhead said with a grimace and heavy heart, having known some of Stain's victims. It must have been almost impossible to watch the man claim even more. "I know."

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(With Mt. Lady)

CRASH!

Was the sound as Mt. Lady dropped her glass of soda. She had been channel surfing, opting to give Mineta a break by finding something they could watch together when she nearly passed by the news channel in question. She found herself stricken with a chilling fear as she watched how Midoriya, her Izuku! Crawl out of the car and cough up some blood onto the ground, his face and armor showing signs of abuse she had never seen on him before.

"Izu-kun….no…" She called out quietly, silently praying that he wouldn't die. She was so distraught by what she was seeing, she didn't notice her little slip-up, though lucky for her-Mineta was far too absorbed by the camera feed to notice.

"Are they crazy, why the hell are they taking on Stain of all people?! You're supposed to be the smart one!" Mineta yelled at the screen as he felt so angry, he could pull his balls out. The USJ was one thing but this was madness!

'Please Izu-kun….came back to me…please' Yu begged as Midoriya jumped right back into the fray, even though he was clearly injured himself. He wouldn't….couldn't stand by as others were hurt, that was just the way he was….and she prayed he wouldn't have to pay the price for it.

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(With Tokoyami)

"Are you seeing this?" Dark shadow asked as the hero student and mentor sat on top of a skyscraper, watching the newsfeed of the boy's phone. He had gotten a call from his sister, she said that he needed to watch the link so being curious, he opened the thing to see what she was so concerned about. And he had been watching it ever since.

"I am afraid that my eyes see what yours do." Tokoyami said to his sentient quirk as even Dark Shadow popped out to watch.

"Damn, your classmates have some serious balls." Hawks said with a whistle as he watched the thing from over the boy's shoulder. Not everyday hero students perform this good on their first field assignment.

"That isn't how I would describe it. This is sheer madness! Stain has slain pros with years of proficiency on the job. What would drive them to such lunacy to believe they would overcome where others have fallen!?" Tokoyami in a rare show of emotion, yelled as could do nothing but watch as his classmates fought a dangerous serial killer.

"The fact they there are two people who don't look like they can run. They're doing their jobs as heroes in training, saving people." Hawks pointed out as he noticed how they didn't let Stain anywhere near Iida and the other guy he didn't recognise, even if it might taking more damage.

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(With Tetsutetsu)

"Kendo…..Oh god…" Tetsutetsu fell to his knees as he and Kirishima looked towards the store window, where a bunch of TVs was playing the news over in Hosu. Fourth Kind was right behind them, having been in the middle of taking the two boys out for a patrol when Kirishima caught sight of this.

"Is this for real?! They can't be fighting him! He's totally overwhelming them!" Kirishima yelled as Stain cut right on through Kendo's staff before landing a heavy punch to her face, sending her back where Midoriya caught her.

"They can't lose! K-Kendo's the best fighter in 1-B! And Midoriya n-no slouch either! They ain't gonna lose to some sword punk!" Tetsutetsu replied, trying to convince himself he wasn't watching the death of two of his friends before he turned pleading eyes towards the dyed redhead next to him. "Right?"

"Y-yeah! Midoriya is like, one of the manliest guys I know! There're pull a victory out of this, just you wait!" Kirishima said with a clearly fake smile as his eyes watered as they turned back to the screen, to see Kendo came back into the fight and slammed Stain back with a bloody but enlarged hand.

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(With the Fuyumi)

"Oh my God….Shoto….What are you doing?!" Fuyumi yelled at the large plasma screen in their living room. Her and her brother Natsuo, who in a rare showing-had come home despite being in the middle of the semester.

"Run! Run away!" She screamed in tears and fear as she watched as her brother struggled to keep the mad man back. She also noticed, much to her horror, his bloody left forearm due to the messed-up-looking bandage he was wearing over it. "Find dad, he can fight him, not you!" At this point, Natsuo didn't care that she brought up their bastard of a father because he knew she was right, he was better suited for this, not their little bro.

"Please God…..I can't lose another brother. Please come back Shoto, don't leave me too…" Fuyumi lost herself to her tear as Natsuo moved over and pulled the older girl into a hug, to comfort her and distract himself from his own tears. On-screen, Stain through a knife that managed to cut Shoto's cheek.

'Dammit Shoto, you better survive this so you can apologize to your sister, you hear me!' Natsuo thought to himself, making a silent plea that he wouldn't have to lose any more family just as Shoto was able to shake off an assault from Stain by blowing out a tone of fire from his side. Which lead to both Midoriya and Kendo landing a hit, with the one who beat his brother black and blue, firing off a shockwave assisted kick to the man's side, which sent him flying towards Kendo who bashed him into a wall with both her enlarged fist.

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Cliffhanger time people! I know, I know-I hate them too but one, they build up suspense, and two, this chapter is over 15k words as is. That along had made it the second-longest chapter I ever wrote on this site(or any site really). Before you ask, Iida isn't going to be a factor in the fight as unlike cannon, he suffered a pretty nasty wound which Izuku wasn't able to tend to sooner so he has lost a lot of blood. All he can do is lay there and think about what he's done. Is that cruel? Yes, it is but that's life.

I also changed up how Izuku leaked his location by having his AI send out alerts to his allies. And no, he didn't send them out to the whole class like cannon but only to people he knew were in the city. Also, I hope that I was able to show that Stain is a much more dangerous opponent than canon as he is taking on not one but three of UA's best out of the first-years mainly due to the fact, they're first years! Sure all three boys in canon admit that Stain was not trying to defeat them in a cool and rational way like normal but still if the man had stopped and calmed himself, he would have beaten them all.

Also, unlike cannon-Midoriya's plan, this time around was to get the victims out of there, not fight to protect but fight to retreat with Native and Iida. It fits into his story as he knows he isn't the best fighter and logically, he wouldn't be a match for Stain in the first place, even he notices that Stain is going easy on him at first and now that Stain has taken off the kid gloves, he's whooping them even though it's a three on one.

As for Tomura and Kurogiri, fuck them(not Kurogiri, he's cool) as I can only imagine how pissed off he's gonna be when not only do his Nomu get defeated, but the news is filled with not just Stain but two students he wants dead. It's going to be a tough morning when hand boy reads the news and sees his Nomu's aren't the hottest shit on the block.

Kendo would sadly be at disadvantage, much like Yu would be as her bigger hands as nothing more than bigger targets to a man like Stain. Also, before you ask, no I didn't know that all three of them were type O, the best blood type to be if you want to fight stain, I only looked it up when I had kendo reveal it and I was surprised to see even Shoto is type O. Which I admit, was something I should have picked up on from the character cards that show in each episode, they do reveal blood types but I never paid much attention to that.

The media thing at the end was the reason I made it that all three got permission prior so that they could get the recognition for their actions(after they somehow survive this) without having to worry about the legal consequences of it. The second reason will be revealed after the fight in the aftermath.

bauers374: Well I needed to keep things engaging as it was odd that not one first year student could fly as Bakugo literally flew over all the obstacles and would have placed first if he wasn't obsessed with 'beating' Todoroki when he would have done that by passing him and winning the first event.
That wouldn't surprise me at all as I did read a story where (fem)Mineta's parents have plant based quirks that make some changes to their minds which makes it that they have, let's say hyper sex drives due to it.
Maybe he is, maybe by being such a massive dick, so that no-one would suspect he would have bone to pick with hero society because it's too obvious.
If you know WWE, you'll figure it out. That'll be interesting but I have no plans for the Black Panther. And in terms of your shipping tastes, you do you, I won't judge as we all have odd tastes in some way as after-all, I'm the guy writing a story where Mt. Lady has a sexual relationship with a minor(By most standards).
I'm surprised you only realised that now as I came to that conclusion in season 3 due to the fact so much stuff is destroyed by villains and villain hero fights on a regular basic that for one, insurance must be super expensive and two, most villains at the end of the day are thugs with super-powers so in areas with already high crime rates such as New York, it must be a risk to go out to buy bread as that thug with a knife that might have robbed you now has enough strength to crush your skull with one hand, or shred you to pieces with their claws or set you in fire.
It took a while but I finally got the Pokémon reference, as for your question, that remains to be scene.

NinjaFang1331: Thnk U!

NazgulBelserion: Thank you rising that point as it's a valid concern but I don't plan for him to defeat them by himself, that's the reason I've been spending so much time creating scenes where he interacts and his friendly to others like Tetsutetsu and Kodai, it's because I'm planning for him to have reliable allies to help him out with hero work.
No, he won't pull the power of friendship BS plot armour like other shows-(MLP, Fairy tail)-but teammate and knowing your own limits are important elements in such work as police and firefighters do the same.
That High end Nomu did give Endeavour a challenge but at the end of the day, Endeavour only has a fire quirk, it's powerful make no mistake but its' still simple fire-so he would be fucked if he had to fight in a watery environment or against a threat that is highly fire resistant or even fireproof.
Like Ironman or Batman, Izuku can do hero work on his own and will be quite good at it but unlike All Might, he can't just smash through his problems. So it'll similar to the Wild Wild Pussycats but less rescue orientated and better-rounded as a team or agency as I do plan to take this story past their 1st year to their adult years.

D3lph0xL0v3r: Well the plans for Tetsutetsu are already near completion but he will get some good screen-time as you can bet he'll be present in I-island as I can't think of a good reason that Bakugo and Kirishima would still be relevant in that part of the story. Mineta's punishment was a long time coming but it felt so good to write that scene so it was worth the wait.
Kodai and Midoriya will get stronger, don't you worry but with Kodai that's kinda hard to say as we don't really know too much about her combat and hero skills considering that 1-B is only started to be flushed out way ahead in the manga so I'll have to do my best. And yes, Iida will still be stupid but everything has been planned out already so I won't say anything more.
As I said, more will be revealed during the Hosu incident.

ocomhdhain1: Oh that would be savage, if only I thought of it before.

Blaze1992: That's not a bad idea but I did already have a plan for them to head over to the US but that's in the future when Izuku and company start their second year of high school.

Gunblade2020: Well I didn't want to focus on one person alone, he may be the main character but the others exist and are engaging in their own right.

tacktician: That's not a bad idea as when you think about, it fits his thing of taking elements of others that work and incorporating them into his own style. Thanks for the suggestion but it'll take a while for it to be realised as he would either need to modify his gear or add it as a feature in the next one he builds, the Mk X.

Guest: Again, yes he is and yes they do, whenever they find time for it.

Zukafew119: Well even though Kendo didn't get OFA, she will still be an important part of this story so I thought it best to give her some screen time so to speak, it also worked well as I don't recall her having to deal with some roadblock with her quirk which takes from her character development if you ask me so I gave her an issue to work around while she interns with Gran Torino.
Best Jeanist was still a perfect fit as unlike cannon where Bakugo learns practically nothing from him more likely gets back even angrier than before, this take on him wishes to change for the better as say what you what about heroes, if people don't feel safe around you or feel safe enough to approach, it'll be that much harder to do your job.

We don't know all that much about Gunhead but I did want to give him some depth and reveal more about the hero system at the same time. It was the same with Uwanbani as she gets a lot of flak of not really doing anything in cannon so I decided to throw her a bone and also make her seem more hero like. All Might would of course dominate that pole for years, at least until heroes such as Hawks took the stage. That suggestion for the two to be paired isn't impossible and would certainly lead to some interesting elements so I'll think about it.

Mineta needs to control himself as he slobbers like a dog at times at the prospect of seeing boob, even side boob probably gets his motor running far more than it should. Besides unlike Master Roshi or Pervy Sage, he needs to be likeable by the public as he's a public servant. Pervy Sage is a ninja so it doesn't really matter if people like him or not so long as he can fulfil his duties as a Shinobi, same with Roshi as it doesn't matter if women think he's a pig, if he's one of the few beings on earth that can defend it from alien threats and catch bullets from a SMG like it was nothing, then you really can't get rid of him.

The names was also a funny part for me as well as I would imagine Iida doesn't go out that much and not know much about pop culture so this won't be the last time the characters will mess with him for not knowing these things. And he won't be the only one they mess with, there will be others.