Sorry for the wait… I wasn't kidding when I said it's hard to type out fights that involve several people at once, and this is exactly that kind of chapter...
Chapter 52
A and B
Locking eyes at Deathstroke, Shouto Aizawa ran at the villain at a fast speed as the former fired from his gun at him. As if he has superhuman speed, Aizawa was able to dodge the bullets for a few seconds before swinging his scarf at Deathstroke's gun, catching it and disarming him.
Deathstroke was surprised by what happened, as if he was not expecting it. Aizawa got close to him after throwing the gun aside and attacked at close range. Deathstroke fought back, and both sides delivered equally strong and fast blows against each other. Throughout the fight, Aizawa kept his eyes wide open and never letting Deathstroke out of his field of vision.
The villain seemed to have noticed this. In response to this, he clapped his hands in front of Aizawa's face, a move that spooked the teacher into closing his eyes for a second, and in that second, Deathstroke struck him multiple times with a speed and power slightly better than before. Aizawa was blown back from the blows, but he managed to retain his footing.
"So it's true," said the world's deadliest assassin. "Your eyes allow you to shut down metapowers. When I wasn't able to react as fast or fight as good as I remember, I knew you were using your eyes to keep my powers suppressed."
"You got the hang of it already, huh?" said Aizawa, rubbing his eyes. "Honestly, I'm surprised but also relieved that my Erasure Quirk actually works against you, as I was told you got your powers from an experimental serum, so I thought there's a chance my Quirk can't cancel out your powers because of this. Good to know that it does!"
"You're underestimating me if you think canceling my powers is going to make me an easy target!" Deathstroke told him. "Even before I got my powers, I was already called the world's deadliest assassin! I never needed my powers to earn that title. They're just a minor convenience and that's it!"
"Any form of advantage is good enough for me," Aizawa told him before activating his Quirk again. Staring at Deathstroke, he closed in on the assassin again for another round of close range combat.
In response, Deathstroke threw a smoke bomb onto the ground to whip up a smokescreen, thus preventing Aizawa from being able to see him. The smokescreen spread over to Aizawa, who put on his goggles to prevent his eyes from feeling uncomfortable.
Deathstroke then struck him from within the smokescreen, taking advantage of the latter's worsened vision. Aizawa grunted in pain as he took the blows from Deathstroke. Deathstroke with his powers up and running meant the punches were stronger than a normal person's, so it was unsurprisingly more painful to get hit by. Despite this, Aizawa was able to remain standing and endured the blows, at the same time trying to find the villain and figuring out what to do next.
Deciding to end things now, Deathstroke readied his sword and then lunged at Aizawa, hoping to impale him when the latter still couldn't see, but the underground hero was able to react in time and step back to avoid the sword, which went in front of his face by a few inches.
Acting fast, Aizawa wrapped Deathstroke's sword-wielding arm with his scarf and used all his might to hurl the villain out of the smokescreen and onto the ground. Deathstroke got back up fast and turned to Aizawa as the latter rushed at him. The latter dodged his sword strike and got behind him at a fast speed to grab him with a choke hold.
However, Deathstroke was able to slam Aizawa onto the ground in front of himself by bending over, and then he tried to stab him in the face, only for the hero to roll away and get back on his feet.
When Deathstroke tried to slash him, Aizawa was able to catch the blade using his scarf without the latter getting cut in half. "That's one strong scarf," commented Deathstroke in surprise and also interest.
"I get that a lot," Aizawa told him. "But get your own! I'm not giving it to you!"
"Nothing's stopping me from taking it once you're dead!" said Deathstroke as he took out a grenade and removed its pin before throwing at Aizawa, who ran away to avoid it.
The powerful explosion generated by the grenade sent Aizawa flying forward, even if he didn't get caught in the blast. Deathstroke got in front of him fast and readied to swing his sword at him, taking advantage of the fact that the former was unable to act while still being sent flying through the air.
However, the villain never got the chance to strike, because what appeared to be a lengthy strip of tape caught the blade and pulled away the sword. They both looked to the side and saw Hanta along with some other students from Class 1-A standing there. "You're not hurting our teacher!" Hanta said to Deathstroke.
"Yeah! You'll be going through us if you do anything to him!" said Kyoka.
"Class! What are you doing here?!" Aizawa asked them in surprise.
"We were fighting villains that were showing up all over the place when we saw you by chance, so we decided to help," explained Mezo.
"We decided to come over and help, and good thing we did so! You could've died just now, teacher!" said Rikido.
"You kids stay out of this! Leave this to the pros!" Aizawa loudly said to them, also sounding a bit angry.
"You have caring students, yet you reject it? Either you really do care for them that you don't want them to get into harm's way, or you're so full of yourself that you think you don't need help!" Deathstroke said to them.
"I admit I'm a loner, but arrogance has nothing to do with this," said Aizawa as he got into a fighting stance. "Besides, the parents will never let me hear the end of this if students under my wings get hurt."
"Then they shall see you die!" said Deahstroke, taking out his second sword. He was going to make his move when a blast of sound was fired at him by Kyoka, blowing him away.
Aizawa turned to her and angrily snapped, "I thought I told you to stay out of this!"
"Feel free to deduce our grades all you want, but we're not leaving you alone in this!" Kyoka told him.
Deathstroke got back up while growling in anger, and then he ran towards the students at a fast speed. Seeing this, Aizawa rushed towards him to stop him. Deathstroke ran faster and was closing on the students, and that was when Mashirao charged at him and swung his tail at the villain's feet.
Deathstroke leaped over the tail and was going to strike Mashirao from the air, but Mezo leaped at him and punched him in the head hard, knocking him onto the ground and sending him tumbling.
When Deathstroke got back up, Rikido charged at him after swallowing a spoonful of sugar. With his enhanced strength, Rikido let out a war cry as he threw punches at Deahstroke with such a force that even with the latter's enhanced durability, he still felt great pain. Deathstroke brought down his sword on him, but to his surprise, Rikido caught the blade in between his hands and actually shattered it with a twist.
Aizawa was surprised to see this. "That's new…"
"We've been practicing!" Kyoka told him,, sounding proud.
Rikido then gave Deathstroke an uppercut that sent him flying back into the air, but he was able to land on both feet in a crouched position. Tsuyu then leaped into the air and fell towards him with a dive kick using both feet, but Deahtroke jumped back to avoid it. Immediately after landing, Tsuyu lashed out her tongue and was able to catch him by the waist, and then she lifted him into the air and tossed him away.
While Deathstroke was still in the air, Yuga fired a beam from his belly, blasting the villain moments before he touched the ground and sending him tumbling backwards in smokes.
"You brats! No teenagers are going to make fun of me! I have enough of that already back in my own world!" said Deathstroke in rage as he whipped out a pair of uzis and fired away.
As the students ran around to avoid the gunfire, Koji used his Quirk, calling out to whatever animals there were in the area for help. Immediately, a large amount of squirrels came rushing out of the trees located behind Deathstroke. They all jumped onto his back and soon began crawling all over his body, freaking him out. "What the hell?! Get off me!" Sparrows then dived down from the air, pecking him nonstop, making things worse for him.
With Deathstroke distracted by the animals, Mezo approached him. The animals all left Deathstroke, upon which Mezo grew and punched him with several fists nonstop. Deathstroke received powerful blows all over his body and was sent flying from the last hit, right in Mashirao's direction, and the tailed student delivered a powerful swing of his tail to knock him in different direction.
He flew towards Kyoka, who unleashed a continuous blast of sound at him to blast him in the opposite direction. Yuga was on the other side, unleashing his beam at Deathstroke. The assassin was caught in between the two projectile attacks, blasted by them nonstop and unable to escape.
Aizawa watched in awe and said, "When did they get this good?!"
After Kyoka and Yuga were done shooting Deathstroke, Rikido ran to him and punched him away. Deathstroke collapsed in front of Mineta, who stared at him with an expressionless face. "Die!" shouted Deathstroke in anger as he shot back up and readied to swing his sword at him.
Looking terrified, Mineta began pulling and throwing his purples all over the villain's body. Though distracted, Deathstroke was still able to swing down his sword onto Mineta's head, but the blade didn't cut through the student. The sword was now coated in purple balls, thus preventing it from cutting anything.
"Haha! Loser!" mocked Mineta while giving him a middle finger.
As Deathstroke tried and failed to pull off the purple balls off his body, Hanta used this opportunity to wrap the villain up in his tape and then swing him against a building wall. The assassin hit his head against it hard.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
The impact caused Deathstroke to pass out. Seeing their victory, the students jumped with joy. "All right! We did it!" exclaimed Mineta.
"This is the result of our teamwork!" said Kyoka proudly.
Aizawa was impressed by their actions, though he didn't show it on his face. "All right, you did better than I thought," Aizawa told them. "Still, things could've turn bad if you got too careless, so don't get yourself involved in something dangerous like this next time!"
"Maybe you should learn to trust your students more. We are trained by a pro like you after all, so it's naturally we will become as good as you," Tsuyu told him. The others agreed as well, saying that it was because of his teachings that they were able to perform this well.
"Fine, whatever… Looks like I have no choice but to increase your grades after all this..." said Aizawa with a sigh, and this made them even happier.
The students of Class 1-B stood up in offensive and defensive stances when Mr. Nobody appeared in their class. Vlad King approached him and said, "You leave my students alone! I'll be facing you!"
"Don't you want to see how much your students have progressed? You don't get opportunities like this often, you know," Mr. Nobody asked him.
"They can learn by seeing me beat the lights out of you!" replied Vlad King, and then he turned to the students. "Class! Leave this room at once! This is for your safety!"
Some of them protested, as they wanted to help with the fight. Itsuka asked Vlad King, "Are you sure you can handle this alone?"
"I'm a pro, so I know what I'm doing! You head out of here for your safety!" Vlad King told her. "You're the class representative, so you should be able to know what is best for the class!"
Agreeing with Vlad King, Itsuka told everyone to evacuate the room and let their teacher deal with this himself. They all left the room, some of them telling Vlad King to be careful as they left.
Vlad King turned to Mr. Nobody and said, "All right! It's you and me now!"
"This is so boring… No audiences at all…" said Mr. Nobody in disappointment. "You don't know how to have fun, don't you?"
"Fighting villains is nothing to make light of! For you perhaps, and that is why people like you are despicable!" Vlad King told him. "I know what you did at the park that day! You hypnotized the children into trying to eat their parents! That's just messed up!"
"I did promise them candy after all!" insisted Mr. Nobody. "At least nobody actually got eaten, and that's a good thing, right?"
"Enough! I'll take you down!" said Vlad King as streams of blood came out of his right gauntlet and hardened into blood red claws. He lunged at Mr. Nobody and swung the blood claws at him, but the villain warped out of the way.
"Missed me!" he taunted. Vlad King approached him and slashed nonstop at a fast speed, but Mr. Nobody was able to warp away faster than he could swing his claws. "Haha! You suck at this! I can keep this up all day and still find it hilarious that you aren't hitting me at all!"
"If running is all you can do, then you're the one who sucks!" Vlad King told him. "And I can do more than just this!" He released streams of blood from his other gauntlet. They gushed towards Mr. Nobody at a fast speed, and the villain warped to another spot in response. However, with quick reaction, Vlad King directed the blood streams in the villain just as the latter appeared, almost as if he knew where he was going to show up from.
The blood streams hit Mr. Nobody with a force strong enough to push him against a wall, and then the blood hardened, pinning the villain to the wall. Vlad King then rushed at Mr. Nobody and plunged his blood claws into the part of the wall next to his head, trying to intimidate him. "It's over!"
Looking at the claws next to him, Mr. Nobody said with an undaunted expression, "Of course, you heroes don't have what it takes to get the job done! If you really are serious about your job, then you would've stabbed me in the head and be done with it quick and easy!"
"Heroes don't kill, and no matter what you say, I will not fall for your insults and taunts!" Vlad King told him.
"Not so fitting of the bloody power you have, huh?" Mr. Nobody said to him.
"So what if my Quirk is related to blood? Blood doesn't only bring to mind the imagery of horror and death. It also represents the life that flows through all people and a reminder of importance of saving lives!" Vlad King told him. "With my Blood Control, I will save lives to ensure that blood will continue to flow in the veins of people for a better future!"
Just then, the door opened, and some of the students came in. "Did you get him, teacher?" asked Yosetsu.
"Relax, class," Vlad King told him, sounding proud. "I got him! What a pushover he is!" But then he realized that something wasn't right with their expressions. Rather than looking happy that their teacher won, they had looks of shock and anger. The girls, especially, looked horrified and even on the verge of throwing up, as if they saw something disturbing.
"You… You villain! You killed our teacher!" said Jurota in anger.
Vlad King was confused. "What are you talking about? What's the matter with you?!"
"MURDERER!" shouted Tetsutetsu as he charged at Vlad King with his body turned into metal. He rammed into the still surprised Vlad King, knocking him across the room. Not stopping there, Tetsutetsu ran at him and threw punches from his metallic fists, and Vlad King formed a blood shield for protection.
"Tetsutetsu! Snap out of it! What the heck are you doing?!" asked Vlad King desperately.
Most of the other students charged at Vlad King with looks of anger, launching attacks at Vlad King. The teacher desperately got out of harm's way and did his best to defend against the attacks being thrown at him, all the while still confused about why they were behaving like that.
Meanwhile, Mr. Nobody was able to warp out of the blood restraint on the wall. Standing on one side of the room, he watched the students attacking their teacher with a pleased look on his face. "Ah, nothing like a good old student and teacher disagreement!"
Vlad King shifted his eyes to Mr. Nobody after knocking away a chair thrown at him by Reiko. He then remembered something. "His power! If I remember correctly… It's hypnotism, illusions, and mental manipulation! He must be making them think I am him and that I killed their teacher! He must've also manipulated their mental state to make them much angrier than usual so that they can't think clearly!"
As the students continued to attack their teacher, Mr. Nobody turned to look out the window, saying, "The author didn't forget about Sinestro this time! Good for him!"
Suddenly, he noticed his right arm moving by itself and then folding into a fist, much to his confusion. Before he could figure what was going on, he punched himself square in the face against his will, and more than once.
When the punching stopped, Mr. Nobody stared at his fist with a look of shock. "What the fuck?!" He was even more surprised when a completely black figure suddenly emerged from his body, staring at him with a sinister-looking grin. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!"
The black figure punched Mr. Nobody hard in the face, knocking him on his back. The black figure then leaped out of the villain's body, landing before him and revealing himself as Shihai Kuroiro. "Lucky for me that you have the color I'm compatible with!" he said.
At this moment, all the students stopped what they were doing. Shaking their heads slightly, they felt as if they had just woken up from a trance. "What… What happened…?" asked Kosei.
"Somehow, I felt really angry just now…" said Bondo.
"Wait a minute… Wasn't our teacher killed by that villain just now?" said a confused Setsuna when she saw that Vlad King was still alive before them, albeit a bit injured.
Breathing heavily, Vlad King said, "Good thing you're back to normal… I wouldn't know what to do if you kept on attacking… I cannot bring myself to hurt you, knowing that you are hypnotized by that villain…"
The students then turned to Mr. Nobody with looks of anger. "How dare you make us attack our teacher?!" Jurota said to him.
"That's not cool at all! You should be ashamed of yourself!" Tetsutetsu said in anger.
Vlad King looked at Shihai and asked him, "Kyuroiro, you were hiding in him the whole time?"
Shihai nodded. "Yeah, when you were telling us to leave the classroom, I instead hid in his body when I saw that he is pitch black all over, which is perfect for my Quirk. I stayed there and waited for the right moment to take him by surprise. It's a good thing that beating him up canceled out the hypnotism done on everyone!"
"Now that's just playing dirty!" Mr. Nobody angrily said to him while pointing at him. "And it's a violation of personal space hiding in someone's body! Haven't you been taught any manners?!"
"As if a villain like you has any right lecturing about personal space when you trespassed this school in the first place!" Shihai said to him with an annoyed look.
"You better get ready! We're all taking on you at once!" Itsuka said to Mr. Nobody as she got into a fighting stance, and all the students said similar things. Vlad King didn't stop them but instead gave them the go ahead.
"Ganging up on me, will ya? But then, I did ask for you kids to show me your moves, so I guess I was asking for it," said Mr. Nobody with a shrug, and then he narrowed his eyes in anger. "Very well, I'll show you that nobody messes with me and gets out of here alive!"
"Eat this!" shouted Pony as she fired multiple horns in succession at Mr. Nobody.
The villain warped out of the way to avoid getting hit, and again when the horns were aimed at him. "Why so horny?" he said in a mocking manner. Eventually, he stretched out his hands at the incoming horns and made them disappear into thin air, much to Pony's surprise. "How's that for a disappearing act?"
When he tried to move, he realized he couldn't and so looked down to see his right foot stuck to the floor by what appears to be glue. "Ha! I got you!" laughed Bondo. But Mr. Nobody disappeared and reappeared right in front of him. Looking surprised, Bondo said, "That's cheap…"
Suddenly, Tetsutetsu rammed into Mr. Nobody from the side hard, knocking away the villain. Mr. Nobody growled in pain as he stood up, only to be punched across the face by the metallic student. "As long as I keep on beating the crap out of you, you will never get the chance to teleport away!" said Tetsutetsu as he kept on throwing punches at Mr. Nobody nonstop, not giving him the chance to fight back.
Despite receiving blows nonstop, Mr. Nobody was eventually able to find the opportunity to warp out of harm's way. Reappearing on one side of the room, he said in anger, "What brutality! How is that supposed to be like a hero?!"
Suddenly, a teacher's podium seemingly "grew" out of the floor underneath Mr. Nobody, knocking him into the air and making him fall on his back. Seeing this, Vlad King turned to Yui, who had her fingers pressed against each other, and knew at once that it was her doing.
Mr. Nobody stood back while groaning in pain, and then the podium floated into the air and flew into him, crushing against the wall, courtesy of Reiko.
He got back up again while groaning in pain, and looking at the students, who were in fighting stances, he said in frustration, "So you really want a fight? Well, how about you fight each…" Before he could finish speaking, a pair of hands suddenly appeared in front of his face, covering his eyes. "What the heck?! I can't see!"
"Good going, Tokage!" Itsuka said to Setuna, who smirked and winked in response and was also missing her hands. Enlarging her fist, Itsuka charged at Mr. Nobody and punched him hard in the body while his vision was still blocked off by Setsuna's hands. The hands flew away after he was hit, and Itsuka continued to attack Mr. Nobody.
Enlarging her other fist, Itsuka smashed away at the villain rapidly, hitting him against the wall hard and not giving him the chance to do anything.
SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH POW SMASH!
Eventually, the wall shattered from the nonstop punching, and Mr. Nobody flew back, badly wounded all over and not coming to a stop until he hit the wall at a back, and then he fell over unconsciously.
Shrinking her hands, Itsuka breathed heavily and said, "Never mess with our class!"
With this, the rest of the students cheered happily over their victory against Mr. Nobody.
TO BE CONTINUED
Honestly, I'm not too happy with Deathstroke's fight. He felt like a pushover after the Class 1-A students showed up to support Aizawa. I think Mr. Nobody's is handled better, even if I didn't make use of all the Class 1-B students.
Still, I hope it was worth the wait for you all.