Disclaimer:(see prologue)
Chapter 13: USJ Attack, part 1
"Thirteen, evacuate the students and send out an alert," Aizawa ordered his peer as he fixed his goggles over his eyes, " I'll keep these villains busy."
"Mr. Aizawa," Izuku called out to his teacher as the hero perched himself on the guard railing, "You don't think you can fight off all those villains directly, do you? Your strength is in ambush tactics against small groups."
"Have more faith in your teachers, Midoriya," Aizawa stated, "None of them have reached where they are by relying on a single strategy." With that, Eraserhead leaped off the railing towards the group below.
"Hey, someone's coming towards us!" One of the villains shouted, alerting the rest.
"It's Eraserhead!" another villain announced, "Just like they told us!"
"Then stop shouting and follow the plan that you were paid to do!" Shigaraki ordered.
As Eraserhead descended to the crowd of criminals, he noticed that many of them changed their positions to meet him where he would land. All of those he assumed to have emitter-type quirks pulled back while many of the mutant-type quirks made their way to the front of the crowd.
He then noticed that those who made their way to the front were all wearing some form of eye and face protection. This wasn't a quick gathering of run of the mill thugs; this group was organized.
When he landed, he expected the villains to charge towards him and attack like they have always done in his experience. However, they didn't move forward an inch; instead, they all pulled out two canisters from their pockets and tossed them. One canister was tossed towards Eraserhead while the other was dropped at their feet.
Not waiting to see what they were, the underground hero launched his capture scarf at two of the oncoming projectiles with the intent of throwing them back at the villains. However, as the cloth tightened around the canisters, they exploded from the pressure, releasing large clouds of translucent, yellow gas that they contained. The rest of the canisters exploded when they hit the ground releasing more clouds of gas around him.
Eraserhead immediately covered his mouth and nose with his scarf, preparing himself in case the gas was meant to knock him out. Not waiting for his enemies to make the next move, the hero immediately moved forward to strike one of the weaker looking villains.
Just as he was about to knock down his target, another villain intercepted his strike and pushed him back. Activating his quirk, Eraserhead looked towards the villain who blocked his strike; the villain had a large build and had thick scales covering most of his body.
"You're gonna have to do better than that hero!" the villain shouted as he charged at him. Two other villains joined his side; the one on the left was a man with a smaller frame with bone spikes erupting from his hands and arms, the one on the right was a woman who had biological traits of a mantis.
"Thanks for the advice." Eraserhead said sarcastically as he leaped towards them, launching his capture weapon.
But as they were about to engage, Eraserhead's eyes started to burn with an intensity that shouldn't happen so quickly after activating his quirks. Caught off guard by the sudden pain, the hero was forced to blink, deactivating his quirk.
The spiked villain then launched two spikes from his hands to intercept the capture weapon, stopping them from reaching their targets. The scaled villain then grabbed Eraserhead from the air and slammed him to the ground with enough force to knock the wind out of the hero. He then tossed the hero up in the air, allowing for the mantis villain to deliver a devastating dropkick at him, launching him back to a mass of gas with cracked ribs.
"Like I said," the scaled man said as they approached the downed hero, "you're gonna have to do better."
Eraserhead lifted himself off the ground and prepared himself for the approaching villains.
"They're not just organized," the hero thought, worried about the current situation, "they're prepared as well, far too prepared."
"Everyone, please make your way to the front exit as quickly as possible." Thirteen ordered class 1-A.
"Sensei, how could villains be able to infiltrate this facility?" Momo asked the space hero, "All buildings of UA should be equipped with an early detection and alarm system in case of situations like this."
"They must've hijacked the system before coming here," Shoto suggested, "Who's to say that the rest of the school isn't also under attack at the moment."
"Worry about it once we're out of the building." Izuku said, asserting his role as class rep; this got everyone to stop talking and move quickly towards the gate.
Before they could reach the exit, a black portal appeared in their way.
"I'm afraid that we can't let you leave just yet, children." Kurogiri said, coming out of the portal. "We, the League of Villains, have a task to accomplish today, and all of you are going to help us do so."
Seeing the villain before them, many of class 1A froze in shock or fear; Thirteen immediately placed herself in front of the students and readied herself for anything the villain might do.
Izuku subtly activated a flame vent behind his back and began forming a bow and arrow, never taking his eyes off the purple-mist man. But before Izuku could do anything, Katsuki and Eijiro charged forward, quirk activated, towards Kurogiri.
"AS IF I'LL HELP SHITTY FUCKBAGS LIKE YOU!" Katsuki roared as he exploded forward.
"YEAH, WE'RE HERE TO BE HEROES!" Eijiro roared as well.
"What are you doing?!" Thirteen yelled towards the two, "Get back here!"
Izuku, not wanting Kurogiri to do anything before his two classmates reached him, immediately drew a flame arrow back on his bow and let it loose. The fiery projectile soared through the air, passing Katsuki and Eijiro as it made its way to its target.
Kurogiri remained calm, as if already anticipating their actions to happen. He opened a small portal in front of him, letting the arrow fly into it, ending up who knows where. Just as Katsuki and Eijiro were about to strike him, he sent forward a larger rift, sending the two students away.
"What did you do with them?!" Thirteen demanded, aiming a finger at the villain, readying her quirk.
"The same thing I'm going to do to most of you." Kurogiri said ominously.
After saying that, rifts opened below many of class 1A. Izuku, without thinking, went to pull the nearest student sinking into a portal out, which happened to be Iida. He was successful in pulling his classmate out, but he then sank into the portal in his place.
Izuku was surrounded by dark, purple mist as he continued to sink down. But just as quickly that he entered the rift, he soon found himself out. The sinking feeling instantly turned into falling; before he could do anything, Izuku splashed down into a large body of water.
Surfacing, he looked around and saw that he was now in the middle of the USJ's shipwreck zone.
He heard another two splashes in the water; turning, he saw that Mina and Minoru were in the water in him. He opened his mouth to call out to them, but he was suddenly pulled underwater.
Izuku looked down to see a smiling man with semi-aquatic features holding on to his leg as he continued to pull Izuku further down into the water. Izuku tried kicking the villain's hand to get him to let go, but the grip only tightened.
Thinking quickly, Izuku curled his body, allowing him to get closer to the villain. He grabbed the aquatic man's arm, making sure he wasn't going anywhere, and delivered two strong kicks to the villain, one going to the jaw and the other going to the solar plexus. The combo resulted in knocking Izuku's assailant unconscious and setting him free from his grasp.
Izuku was about to swim up when he saw that he wasn't the only one dragged under.
Mina was struggling to free herself from a villain that strongly resembled a kappa, who held her tightly by the waist and shoulders; she tried to use her Acid quirk to get the villain to let go of her, but the surrounding water only served to neutralize her effort.
While Minoru was being held by the throat by a shark-based villain, his overall diminutive size did nothing to help against the larger threat.
Not wasting any time, Izuku swam to his nearest classmate, which was Mina. The kappa villain was so focused on holding Mina that he didn't notice the armored teen approaching. It was only when Izuku grabbed his shoulder that the villain looked up to see an armored fist crashing into his face, rendering him unconscious.
Mina gave Izuku a quick nod before swimming towards the water's surface. Izuku then turned to help Minoru, only to be greeted by the shark villain ramming into his chest. Fortunately, Izuku's armor dispersed the impact a great amount, leaving him only momentarily stunned instead of having the wind knocked out of him; also, his mask contained two small canisters of emergency oxygen, so didn't have to worry about air for the moment.
Getting reoriented, Izuku saw that the shark villain no longer had Minoru in his grasp. Worried about his classmate, Izuku turned to where he last saw the grape kid; to his relief, he saw him frantically swimming up at great speed.
Turning his attention back to the shark villain, Izuku prepared himself for his next move. He didn't have to wait long, as the shark villain charged at him again, using his streamline body to his advantage in the water. Just as Izuku was about to be hit, he jerked his entire body to the side, evading the strike by a small amount.
Izuku grabbed the villain by the shoulders and delivered a double kick to the villain's abdomen, causing the villain to crunch up in pain.
Seeing that the three villains were incapacitated for the moment and that there were no other villains in the water, Izuku swam up to join his two classmates.
Breaking through the water's surface, Izuku looked around to find his classmates. He quickly spotted them a few meters away from him.
"Midori!" Mina called out to him as she started to swim to him. Mineta, on the other hand, started swimming towards the nearest dry surface, which happens to be the mock sinking ship in the area.
Izuku and Mina then heard several splashes in the water; turning to the source of the noise, the two heroes-in-training saw more water based villains have entered the zone and are fast approaching.
"Swim for the ship, Ashido," Izuku told his peer, "I'll be behind you, keeping them back."
"But-" Mina started.
"Go, now!" Izuku interrupted, leaving no room for arguments.
Mina then swam to the ship as fast as she could while Izuku stayed behind her, swimming backwards to the same destination, never taking his eyes off the villains.
"Ya got guts, kid!" one of the fast approaching villains yelled out, "but there's no way your speed quirk can keep up with us in the water!"
Izuku's eyes narrowed at that declaration. He then raised his right hand above the water, shaking any excess water out of his vambraces flame ports.
When the villains got within striking distance, Izuku let out a large flame; this made the villains pause for a moment, caught off guard by the fire. Izuku then formed the flame into a war club in his raised hand and struck the nearest villain over the head, rendering him unconscious.
"What the-" was all another villain was able to say before being the next one to be hit with the fire-based weapon, this time on the jaw.
Izuku fought against a few more villains until they all retreated, caught unprepared for the fight they just experienced. Seeing the villains flee, Izuku dispersed his club and turned around to swim faster to the ship.
Approaching the hull, Izuku saw a line of purple balls sticking to the ship's side as well as a line of footholds melted into the metal.
"Ashido and Mineta have made it aboard." Izuku said to himself, pulling his face mask down and helmet up. He then used Mina's melted footholds to climb onto the ship.
"Midori, you're okay!" Mina shouted in relief as she helped the greenhead over the ship's railing.
"What were you thinking, fighting villains by yourself!?" Minoru shouted at him, a few feet away with tears streaming down his face, "You're crazy!"
Izuku looked at Minoru with a tired face, tempted to make a sarcastic remark that Jacob Wess would make, but chose not to.
"It's not like he could do nothing, Mineta!" Mina shouted at the grapehead, "We'd be dead in the water, he did." she reminded him.
"Don't bring that up!" Mineta shouted, his tears flowing faster, "I peed myself when that happened, and just thinking about it now, is making me pee."
"Then don't think about it," Izuku quipped, "saves us the trouble that brings us."
"DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, YOU PSYCHO!" Minoru cried, "THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION WE'RE IN; I'M JUSTIFIED IN PISSING AND SHITTING MYSELF!"
"Mineta, be quiet!" Mina said, "your screaming will give us away."
Minoru then reduced himself to quietly whimpering.
"He's right though, Midori," Mina said to Izuku, "we're under attack by villains right now and we're just hero trainees. What do we do."
"... We have to regroup with the rest of our class, get out of USJ, and alert the school." Izuku outlined after a few moments in thought. "To do that, we need to get off this ship, and there's now way we can do that without going against the villains in the water."
"Then let's just stay put!" Mineta said, "We're not allowed to use our quirks against another person," he pointed an accusing finger at Izuku, "so let's just wait until the pros come and save us."
"We don't have the option to just wait, Mineta."Izuku said with certainty, getting his classmates to look at him with full attention.
"What do you mean?" Mina asked.
"One of the villains thought I had a quirk that centered around speed, and they all showed great surprise when I used Fire Armory in front of them." Izuku informed the two, "Looking back now, the reason why I was dropped here was because I switched places with Iida."
"They were expecting the three of you to be dropped here," Izuku stated, shocking his classmates, "Iida's Engine quirk is effective only on solid ground."
"My Acid becomes neutralized in water." Mina added, dread building in her stomach.
"And my Grape only sticks and bounces on dry, solid surfaces!" Minoru said, his own fear growing ever more.
"If they were prepared for us here," Mina started, "then that means..."
"That they are prepared for everyone in our class." Izuku finished.
- Fire Zone-
Tsuyu Asui and Fumikage Tokoyami stood back to back as they prepared themselves against the surrounding villains. They have only fought against them for a few minutes and are already feeling the effects of their environment.
The intense heat was quickly eating away at Tsuyu's stamina; her Frog quirk quickly working against her. As for Fumikage, the lights from the surrounding fires greatly reduced the strength of his Dark Shadow.
Add to the fact that many of the villains they were facing either had heat or light based quirks means that they are at a disadvantage from every angle.
-Landslide Zone-
Shoto Todoroki, Mashirao Ojiro, and Rikido Sato found themselves at a disadvantage against their opponents. The loose and unstable grounds meant that not one of them could get a proper footing.
For Shoto, every time he tried to unleash his ice, the weight of his constructs would cause another slide, making him and his classmates lose their footing and sometimes get somewhat buried.
For Mashirao, who relies on his foundation in martial arts, found it extremely difficult to move and effectively attack the villains in such soft terrain.
And for Rikido, whose Sugar Rush quirk gives him a strength boost based on the amount of sugar he eats, he risks putting himself open for attack since each strength enhanced step and punch either causes him to sink to the ground or become unbalanced.
"This place is not suited for me in a fight."Shoto thought, "If I was in more solid ground, then these villains would be no issue for me."
He then attempted to launch another barrage of ice, but the ground once again gave way before it could reach his target.
"I have to get out of here." Shoto said to himself.
-Windstorm Zone-
Mezo Shoji was facing off against a multitude of villains with varying quirks at once. With the howling winds and heavy rain in the area, the large teen found it almost impossible to sense each of the oncoming villains with his Dupli-Arms.
Tooru Hagakure was doing her best to defend herself against the villains attacking her. With the heavy rain hitting her, her Invisible quirk was rendered useless, leaving her no choice but to run and fight instead of hide.
-Mountain Zone-
In one of many peaks, Koji Kota, Hanta Sero, and Denki Kaminari were facing their own problems.
Koji's Anivoice had no use here with no animals for him to command, leaving the shy student to face the villains with his own individual ability.
With Sero, his Tape quirk was countered with many of the villains possessing spikes, blades, claws, and many more sharp edges.
As for Denki, he quickly discovered that one of the villains they were facing had a charge based quirk, meaning that all the electricity he would discharge would channel directly to said villain with little effect.
"We really need help." Denki said with a shaky voice.
-Ruins Zone-
Katsuki Bakugo, Kyouka Jiro, and Eijiro Kirishima found themselves stuck in one of the many ruined buildings surrounded by villains.
Normally, Katsuki and Eijiro would just blast and bash their way out, but such an action would cause the building they were in to collapse before they could get out.
"Dammit!"Katsuki growled, angry at the position he found himself in, "I can't believe that smokey bastard had the gall to put me here."
"Well, there's nothing we can do now," Eijiro commented, "we're stuck in here until we find an opportunity to get out."
"I'M NOT STUCK IN HERE!" Katsuki roared at the redhead, "I COULD GET OUT OF HERE ANY TIME I WANT, THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT YOU AND LONGEARS WOULD GET BURIED IN THIS TRASH HEAP!"
"Right, not very manly to leave your friends and partners behind." Eijiro gives him a thumbs up.
"Shut it, extra," Katsuki snapped, "who said I was either your friend or partner."
"Uh, guys," Kyouka got their attention and pointed behind the two.
Turning around, Katsuki saw a familiar mass of green coming through the mass of debris.
"Long time no see, meat suit." the mass said, looking at the blond with one good eye.
-Front Gate-
"Now that you are all properly divided," Kurogiri said to the people remaining at the front gate: Thirteen, Tenya, Ochako, Yuga, and Momo, "it is now time for you to be conquered."