The next day, friend groups were made. Katsuki, slightly against his will, got dragged into sitting with Pinky (alien queen pink acid girl), Pikachu Dunce Face (self-zapping idiot), Stupid Hair (stupid hair) and Soy Sauce (the guy with tape elbows) at lunch. Izuku was with Glasses, Round Face, Knife, Runes and Frog.
"Soooo. Izuku calls you Kacchan." Pikachu pointed out.
"He's my friend. He gets to. You aren't my friends. You don't get to." Katsuki said, hoping that would cover the matter. It did not. However, just then the annoying reporters who had been pushing at the gates managed to get in. Everyone was panicking, Glasses was floating (Katsuki wasn't going to ask) and Katuski left the chaos. He hated loud, crashing, continuous noise, because it reminded him of a bridge over a river, a river that though long clean of blood still bore the stain of his first death. Soon enough, the trouble cleared up, and Iida was reinstated over Yaoyorozu as class president. That would have been the last of interesting things to happen, with the exception of Todoroki.
"You remember him yesterday, right?" Dunce Face asked Katsuki, looking over at Todoroki. Katsuki had been about to tell the Pikachu to [bleep] off, but he thought about the other's remark.
"Huh." Katsuki said. Yesterday, HalfnHalf had been aloof, rude, and full of self-importance. Today he was attempting to make friends, although terribly awkwardly. He also seemed to have forgotten half of what he had learned yesterday, in English, as well as dumping masses of spices on his food at lunch--where yesterday he had specifically requested none. However, the most major discrepancy occured in training. Stupid Hair had rushed him, punching through the ice, only to get a faceful of fire.
"Since when did you have fire?" he asked before dodging.
"I don't use it very often. Unfortunately." Todoroki had said, before launching both ice and fire successively in an obviously well-practiced move. Yesterday, his attacks had been straight and brutal, instead of clever and twisting.
"I think I'm the only person who noticed--hey, do you think Sato's costume looks like a pineapple? Without the green stuff on top, thought. Midoriya's hair looks like that, oh, and your grenade gauntlets also look like pinapples, except green." Pikachu said.
"They do not. And we were talking about HalfnHalf--seriously, he's weird." Katsuki mused.
The next day, Todoroki was back to acting strange (normal?), and staying away from people.
"I'm not here to make friends, and I'm not going to use my fire," he'd said, when Kirishima asked him for an actual challenge.
"Today, we're going on a field trip to the Unforseen Situations Joint: the USJ." Aizawa-sensei had said, and Katsuki's hand exploded. He knew about the USJ; in every other reality, something bad happened there. Involving villains. He was going to be ready.
"Welcome to the USJ. We'll be practicing rescue scenarios..." Hero Thirteen led the group through the massive dome, and Katsuki was nothing if not on edge. "Kacchan, you okay?" Izuku asked.
"I'm fine. Go away." Katsuki said. Then, as Thirteen finished their presentation, Aizawa-sensei looked towards the fountain. A great curtain of purple mist was spreading through the area.
"What's that? Is it part of the simulation?" Uraraka asked.
"No. It's villains. Thirteen, get the students to safety." Aizawa-sensei said, and Katsuki remembered their teacher was Eraserhead, an underground hero.
"Don't let them escape, Kurogiri!" shouted a guy with whatthe[bleep] he had HANDS all over him. The mist-faced guy suddenly created a lot of swirling portals, and Iida ran out the door but everyone else was trapped--Katsuki was falling, rushing water roared below him and
he
was
falling.
"Prepare to be scattered and killed!" the mist villain, Kurogiri said, and Izuku landed on a boat in the flood zone with Uraraka and Shinshou. Kacchan was falling, and Uraraka managed to slap him so he didn't hit the deck--but instead of yelling profanities at the surrounding villains, he stood, shellshocked.
"Kacchan?" Izuku asked, but his friend reached up and grabbed his hair.
"You're not on the bridge, get it together." he muttered. Then, the ship rocked, and Shinsou caught Katsuki as he swayed--he seemed to be out of whatever state he had been in.
"I'm okay. Let's destroy these villains." Katsuki said.
"Shinsou, your quirk depends on response, right? If you can get them to attack each other, we can drive this boat out of here. Shinshou yelled insults to the villains gathered at the edge of the shore. A few with aquatic quirks were swimming towards the boat. One villain started to speak, but was cut off by his friend.
"There's one with a mental control if you answer him. The other floats stuff, but there's nothing for her to float here, heh, and the other explodes things, but has trouble doing so while wet. The last guy's got some strength enhancement." the villain said.
"They know our quirks." Izuku realized.
"Hey, Round Face, can you float the boat?" Katsuki asked.
"I guess...but there's no fuel." she replied. The villains were getting closer.
"This is probably a bad idea," Katsuki said, and he ripped the top off the engine, and shoved his hand in.
"Go!" Shinsou yelled, and Uraraka slapped the boat while Izuku clapped his hands together, creating a massive shockwave as nitroglycerin dripped into the fuel tank. "AAAAAAHHH!" the four screamed, barreling through the team of villains as the boat was launched across the USJ.
Eraserhead was having trouble. He had managed to get rid of the two-bit villains, but three stood, waiting.
"Good job, Eraserhead, but you're not who we're looking for. Where is All Might? I'm here to kill him, not some miniboss," the villain covered in hands said. The mist man, Kurogiri, was beside him, as was a massive, bird-headed, exposed-brain, monster. Eraserhead hoped Iida would reach UA quickly, as the hand villain pointed towards him.
"Nomu. Kill." he said. Eraserhead wasn't fast enough, and the Nomu slammed him into the pavement. It lifted him up again--and it was suddenly knocked out of the way, as a boat crashed into it, sending wood shards flying. Uraraka threw up, spinning from the wreckage with Midoriya, Bakugou and Shinsou.
"Maybe All Might will show up if I kill some students." the hand villan said.
"Shigaraki, maybe--" Kurogiri was cut off as Bakugou threw the boat engine at him.
"[bleep] you!" Bakugou shouted, then he said something Eraserhead could not understand. Shigaraki, however, snarled.
"He has illegal mods! Those shouldn't work for this console, you cheater! Nomu, kill him!" he yelled. The creature dropped Eraserhead, dashing towards Bakugou, who leaped into the air with an explosion.
"That thing has multiple quirks." Bakugou said after he landed, astonished.
"You've got two." he then said, looking at Kurogiri.
"How can he--" Bakugou leaped away from the Nomu, but his explosions were weakening. Shigaraki reached for Uraraka, but Izuku swept his legs out from under him.
"Go [bleep] yourself!" Shinsou shouted from behind what was left of the boat.
"Another one--" Shigaraki stood still, caught under Shinsou's quirk.
"Runes, tell him to stop this thing!" Bakugou screamed, blasting away from the Nomu. Shinshou aquiesed, and the monster stood as still as its master, but only for a second; Kurogiri had given Shigaraki a shove. Then, the doors to the USJ blew open. All Might was finally here, and he wasn't smiling.
"Finally! Nomu, forget the cheater, go after the Symbol of Peace!" Shigaraki shouted. All Might punched the thing, but it easily shrugged it off, and tackled the Number One hero. The group watched the Nomu and All Might, go head to head, neither winning nor losing.
"It can withstand his punches...how?" Izuku asked.
"Shock absorption." Shigaraki and Bakugou said at once, then they looked at each other.
"Die, hacker! Go back to the RPG you belong in!" Shigaraki shouted, dashing towards Bakugou, who threw a weak explosion. Shigaraki had almost grabbed his face when a wall of ice erupted in front of him, but he disintegrated it with a touch.
"All Might! Shock absorption means you can beat it, if you punch it enough!" Izuku yelled, his analytic mind coming u with a solution. All Might changed his strategy, as Todoroki and Himiko came over the hill.
"Give." Himiko said, and Todoroki held out his hand. She bit it, turning into him, and twin waves of ice rushed at Shigaraki, who held out his hands, turning them to dust. "Decay this!" Himiko shouted, throwing a lance of fire. Todoroki stared at her, full of mental conflict.
All Might, punching the Nomu, soon found himself outmatched when Kurogiri joined the fight, aiding and abetting with portals. All Might had punched off the Nomu's arm, but it had regrown it. He stared in consternation at this impossible ability.
"Multiple quirks..." he said.
"That's what I said!" Bakugou yelled, chasing after Kurogiri but only landing in a portal. Izuku was going after Shigaraki, playing a sort of keep-away game while trying to hit him without getting hit himself. Shinsou yelled insults, but the villain did not respond as he dodged Uraraka's thrown boat pieces. Todoroki and Himiko attacked Kurogiri, but he expertly manuvered around them while distracting All Might from his battle. Himiko's transform melted away, and she dodged a portal, landing next to the Nomu's discarded arm. Wow, that was a lot of blood...ooh.
Himiko scooped up a handful, drank it, and shifted into a second Nomu.
"RAAAAAHHH!" she shrieked, tearing past Kurogiri's portals and pouncing on the other Nomu. Wrestling the creature, All Might was able to land multiple solid hits, with the last one launching the Nomu through the USJ dome as Himiko rolled away.
"I suggest we leave." Kurogiri said. Shigaraki, busy fighting off the students and Eraserhead (who though he could not move, was aiding the others with Erasure), had missed All Might's battle, and saw only his Nomu standing next to his enemy.
"Nomu! WHY aren't you attacking him!" he shouted, and then the Nomu ran towards Shigaraki, who stumbled backwards as it leaped through the air, claws reaching. Shigaraki, who had tripped over a piece of boat and fallen, held his hand simultaneously towards the Nomu, to disintegrate it.
(no one noticed until later, but at that moment, Todoroki's phone had fallen out of his pocket and taken a picture).
Kurogiri opened a portal under Shigaraki, transporting him away from Himiko, who faceplanted. Then, Iida ran through the door, followed by Snipe and other heroes, so the two villains portaled away. Snipe raised his gun towads Himiko, who transformed into herself just in time. The heroes spread out, going after the villains in all the other zones as All Might brought Eraserhead to the EMT. The USJ Incident was over, for good or for ill, and Katsuki knew it was a miracle everyone had survived, and few were injured.
(Himiko stole as much blood from the Nomu's arm as she could fit in her device when no one was looking.)
Notes:
Shigaraki: *looks at Katuski* aargh he can see and edit the game's code! *looks at Shouto* oh that is so unfair he has access to a playable character from a DIFFERENT franchise!
Shigaraki just casually breaks the fourth wall I love him