Disclaimer: I don't own Anything but Hiroko
This is the longest chapter I've ever written, I just didn't know where to stop it.
—(First Occurrence prt 2)—
One minute I was being attacked by a shadowy portal thingy, the next I'm falling in the air. The greatest part about falling from so high up in the air; I was hurtling toward a landslide of rocks. Oh, and villains seemed to be huddling at the bottom, waiting for my landing.
Wonderful.
Speeding toward the ground I had one thought of how I might survive this. With less than a thought, I bought a pocket-sized Bo staff from its place on my hero costume and twisted it above me.
To do this, I have to time it just right or I'd most definitely die. In seconds the ground was a few feet away and I simultaneously enhanced my arm strength and loosened my legs for the impact.
I slammed my Bo into the rock surface and used the force that I sent through the earth, to send me flying back. The reaction was slower than I anticipated and instead of jumping back, I slid to a stop. The dust around me lifted into the air.
Oh, that probably looked so cool.
The victory was short-lived however when I felt a massive pain run straight through my left foot.
Craap.
Idiot
I hate being self aware.
I hissed in pain and my awesome pose, which I had somehow landed in, broke when I fell back to my butt.
The ground shook from my slam from earlier and it's quaking left the villains in front of me disoriented. When I went to stand up in a fighting stance my leg gave out.
The shaking stopped and now the villains started crowding around me. They all looked easy to beat, but with my leg, I knew I was in trouble.
"Hahaha, looks like Kurogiri sent us an easy one." An ugly man stepped up in front of me as he rolled his neck and cracked his fingers. Definitely trying to intimidate me.
While I admit I was scared that my ankle was clearly sprained, making many of my attacks impossible to pull off without incredible pain, the villain wanna be was not my biggest concern, and the "intimidation" just made me roll my eyes.
"No offense, but your knuckle cracks and neck rolling wasn't really sparking the fear you were trying got invoke." I looked up to him and he growled before I continued. "So let's try again, this time, why don't you all show me your Quirks so I can see what we're working with."
The man smirked and looked at his colleagues. They each began powering up as the self-proclaimed leader stepped forward. He lifted his arms up and storm clouds began forming above me.
"This better?" He asked, thunder rolling through the clouds.
"Yep. That'll do it."
I'm dumb. Like, provoking a group of quirked up villains when you messed up your leg dumb. The man nodded his head, looking toward a random person in the group. I turned my head just in time to notice the one being addressed transformed into a white tiger. Though it was smaller than usual.
That would be super neat if she didn't start charging at me.
The tigress pounced and I instinctively jumped up, my leg still hurt but I ignored it for what was before me. She bared her teeth then started running at me again.
I saw the confusion in her eyes when my eyes changed color and smirked. They don't know my Quirk. I waited for her to reach me before I jumped into a roundhouse kick to her jaw. The tiger went flying into a nearby villain.
I landed on my messed up foot and winced at the pain. As the remaining looked over to me then their tigress, they started snarling but didn't take action.
"Oh, so she's strong huh?" The storm guy looked at me and chuckled menacingly. "Get her."
The rest of the unharmed villains all lounged for me. I jumped high into the air, avoiding a various assortment of attacks, and landed on a nearby rock. Landing, my leg gave out from under me and I swung out another bo staff from its place in my suit, and opened it for the full length. The other one I accidentally left when I did the whole hero pose thing.
A long arm came reaching for me from below, with a fast-climbing villain matching its pace. I swung my staff into the air and grabbed the elastic arm, pulling it like a rope and holding it tight. The girl climbing up to me with long talons, reached the top as my bo came down. I released the stretched arm with one hand, caught my bo, and slammed the end on her claws hard enough to break them. Then in one quick motion, I brought the bo back down again to smash her head, leaving her to fall down the rock and rendered unconscious.
The hand I had been holding stretched again and reached around me, with little power in my stance I was easily pulled down. I tumbled down the rock and slid right into a fat man with a connecting rope coming out of his hands.
My waist was currently trapped in the stretchy arm, which I saw was a quirk from a blonde man with his neck outstretched. Apparently, he was stupid enough to leave my hands free, probably think tubby over here was going to take care of it.
I reached up again, using my extra strength to pull the stretchy man down to me, and kicking him with my right leg like I had planned before he so rudely threw me down a rock.
I used the man's unconscious body like a stack and swung him around my head, then threw him into a group of villains standing around me.
A tubby man started laughing at me and created a rope with both his hands. I pulled out another pocket bo staff and pushed it off. Landing on the laughing fatso and kicking him into another woman.
He looked ticked off when he stood back up, not checking if the woman under him was okay. The once connected rope in his hand now wrapped itself and rubbed against my boot, constricting my now swollen foot.
He swept my leg and dragged my body against the ground as his rope held me upside down by my injury. The scraping against the hard rock left my face stinging and a rip in my costume. I cried in pain and he laughed again.
"Not so tough now huh, kid?"
I growled again but pure adrenaline was pumping through my body and I only cared about getting out of this situation. I swung my fist straight into his groin and he dropped me on my back. I winced when my body hit the solid ground, feeling a bruise coming on, but I got up quickly and smirked.
"Not so tough now huh, tubby?" I taunted back as he was hunched over in pain. I kicked him in the face and turned back around. "Anybody else?"
The many remaining didn't hesitate to send their Quirks toward me. Hatred and malice etched on each of their features. A woman with laser beams from her hands aimed for me but I sprinted toward her and the man beside her shot metal out of his mouth. Ok, that's a weird one. These two seemed to be some of the strongest villains here, as I started my race toward them.
The hurt in my leg wasn't noticeable with the drive to get out alive. However, I was slower than usual but it got the job done as I maneuvered through their attacks. Landing punches and pained kicks into sides and faces, knocking out many of those I hit.
The man's metal mouthpieces weren't very fast, but dodging both was difficult in my state. I used my bo to launch myself into a slide that made it possible for me to get to the two close together without being hit.
When I stopped sliding I swept their legs with my staff and jumped in the air above them. Landing with the pain I used my strength to headbutt the two together before either could react.
Another woman with rocks for hands reached out as clumps of rocks started flying toward me as well. Oh? So she's an earth bender. I searched for Storm-guy from earlier, he looked annoyed now, and I relished in it. However, I couldn't think too long with Rocky over here still throwing stuff.
"You little brat." Venom on his tongue he yelled at me. "I thought you were going to be easy. And if you had just gone down like you were supposed to, it wouldn't have to be this way." He growled out a threat as his thunder clouds rumbled again.
I realized it was coming just seconds before the lightning hit, barely dodging with a jump roll to my side. I felt the heat radiating off the marked spot on the ground and got very, very worried. And here I thought he wasn't fighting because he sucked.
I circled around and noticed their dwindling numbers. I threw another punch at a man with swords, the impact throwing him into another guy.
I dodged another rock and lightning strike when I slammed another villain into the floor.
The same earth bender and stormy guy were left. So the two remaining in front of me were probably the final bosses of these losers. I tightened my jaw at the realization, and coming off the adrenaline high was not helping. The pain in my foot was coming back, so I'd have to make my move quick before I become immobile because of it.
I jumped into action by running toward the woman to his left, I swung my bo around with increased strength to create a wind blast. But when I stepped up to knock her back, she activated her quirk and the mountain began shaking again. Disheveling my stance. The piece of rock she had been standing on rose up like a pillar.
Thunder rolled again and my mind raced for a plan. I enhanced my strength again for my arms and threw punches into the pillar. Rocky noticed and gathered more of her rocks before throwing them down at me.
I dodged the hurdling stones but another lightning strike cornered me into being hit. Even though it was on the smaller side, the rock bruised my left arm, making it feel broken. By then I was almost completely out of energy, but I pushed forward because her rock-throwing actually helped my plan.
The smashing rocks began to rise in clouds of dirt. The dirt that spread stung my eyes and made it difficult to see. I enhanced my hearing and my smell, closing my eyes because they were useless here. I punched the pillar one more time, and dodged a few more rocks, listening to the way they were ripped from the ground and blasted toward me. But with my last hit, her rock sanctuary fell down.
"Gahh, you stupid kid." She called out, I ignored her and didn't say anything back. Keeping it a secret as to where I was.
I heard another rumble above me and concentrated on the two sets of breathing within the dust. I ran again, with no enhancement, trying to be light, but my boots and my limp were not helpful.
The lightning continued and I smirked, ready for the next strike. I located both the villains, just as the dust cleared out. The rock woman picked up her rocks and threw them at me, but I was near the storm guy and I jumped behind him. He realized he'd be hit and created lighting that struck the rocks mid-air, disintegrating them before they could hit him.
I made sure to time my jump correctly and waited for the thunder to shake through the clouds, watching as the man turned to look at me. Using my bo, I launched myself into the air to the now nearing Rock Queen.
I yelled and landed on her shoulders, using them to jump off again. The impact sent her flying into the Storm Creator, leaving her to fall on top of him.
"Get up, get up." He screamed from below her, but it was too late. Because he had already aimed his lighting at me. And the smell of singed flesh filled the air as the lighting struck both villains.
I waited for a reaction but my face fell when nothing happened.
"Oh my God, are you dead?!" I asked them, I hadn't been thinking about how deadly lighting was but now that I wasn't running for my life I just realized they might be, ya know. Dead.
A low moan of pain escaped both of them.
"Well, at least you'll live."
I sighed in relief and fell to my knees. Tired out of my mind and hurting all over. The adrenaline had kept me from feeling too pained, but now that I wasn't being attacked, I was feeling every ache in my body.
Just as I thought it was over, a loud growl had me panicking. I looked to the source of the sound and the same white tiger from earlier was pouncing on me. She landed so that I was on my back with her paws in my shoulders. Her claws dug through my costume and into my arms.
She opened her jaws widely but must have underestimated my desire for living because I brought my legs up from under her stomach and kicked as hard as I could.
Luckily I was able to draw power from my senses and threw her father than a normal human, but It wouldn't be enough to knock her out.
I slowly stood up as her tiger cry echoed through the surrounding rocks. I was by no means ready to fight a tiger with this many injuries, but I was not dying here, especially if everyone else had to deal with something like this.
"Well, come on," I said, sounding completely breathless and all-around weak. She growled again and leaped for me. I got ready to hit her when ice coated the floor and ran up to her flying body. Coating her completely in thick ice.
"Ha." I laughed out, regretting it when my side hurt. My eyes followed where the ice originated from and saw a figure with ice on one side of his body. Ice hero from class.
"So they threw you here too." He said, looking around at the scattered villains. His voice was the same as the boy thinking things allowed earlier. He looked closely at the two burnt from the lightning earlier and brought his eyes to mine.
"They're alive, just a little crispy," I said with a breathy laugh. I fell again on my knees and just sat there. Now that I was truly safe I could feel the way my blood started to run down my body. The way my ribs hurt to breathe, the way my foot throbbed in my boot.
"Are you all right?" He asked, walking up to me. "I heard you scream earlier, but didn't get here till the tiger pounced."
I looked up at him and wiped my cheek, blood staining my fingers as I looked at them.
"No," I said shaking my head. Laughing at my situation. " I am most definitely not okay."
"Oh," he said, "Sorry I'm not sure what I was expecting."
"Yeah, it's fine." I stumbled to stand up but shifted my weight to my right leg, and used my bo to support me. "So what's the plan Icy man?"
"I interrogated the villains and they told me their plans." He said, "What we need to do is get you out, your injuries are our main priority. However, I do wonder why you're so injured, these were low-level thugs and yet you've come out with tons of scrapes and bruises."
He said it so casually, that I knew it wasn't an insult, but an observation. But seriously, that hurt my ego
"Yeah, I agree, but my quirk limits me to close combat, which usually wouldn't be a problem," I said, trying not to sound offended. "But the portal guy teleported me in the air, so I ended up spraining my ankle before I even fought those buttheads."
"Oh, I didn't mean to offend you." He said, noting my irritation.
"No, I understand." I smiled at him before realizing something. "Hey, I don't think we officially met. I'm Hiroko."
"Todoroki."
"Well, it's nice to meet you Todoroki, I actually have a lot of questions about your quirk, but that can wait," I said, looking around at the unconscious villains.
"We should secure them before they wake up." He said, following my line of sight. I nodded my head and started to limp over to the rope that was thrown, but ice spread out through the floor again and stuck around their bodies.
"Cool," I responded, then laughed. "Literally."
Even though I could only see half of his face, I could tell, he was not a fan.
"Wait, do you think you could ice up my injuries? That way we can help out our classmates." I asked him excitedly, but he shot me down quickly.
"My ice would cause nerve damage and later frostbite, it's too risky."
"I think it's riskier to fight off villains without cleaning my wounds."
"It's not wise, your injuries will just become more infected if you fight."
"Look, I know you're super smart and the way you think about things before you do them is awesome. But I am not sitting out of this till everyone else is safe."
"That's an admirable way of thinking," he said, eyes boring into mine "but even though I've thought about what might happen, I know that my plan isn't a smart decision."
"So we agree, let's go fight some wannabes."
"Yes, let's go fight some wannabes." He was completely devoid of emotion. Actually the entire conversation he barely had any reaction at all. Completely different from the Sparky boy that has ONLY emotional reactions.
He looked around again before turning his head back to me. He sized me up and I felt vulnerable. I looked down at myself and realized how banged up I was.
My black suit was now brown and covered in dirt. My suit was ripped at my shoulders with blood dripping, a lone tear was noticeable at my side, and my shoes were cracking and torn at their tips.
"I'll ice your shoulders and face, but anymore might be too much." He said, "I'll have to touch you because of how cautious we need to be."
"Eh, you're cute so I don't mind " I instantly regretted what I said and internally groaned. "Please forget I said that."
"Noted." He brought his right arm up to my shoulders and placed his hand on my shoulder. I winced from the pain but blushed by being this close to a boy. Do me a favor hormones and get out, just. Leave.
I felt my shoulder get cold, and the pain, while still there, lessened. He did the same to my other shoulder and I sighed in relief when he brought his hand to my cheek. Cooling over the scratches.
"Thanks. We should get going now." I said when he backed up. He nodded in response and started jogging, I tried to keep up, but I was not doing well.
"Wait, Todoroki, I can't keep up," I said. My small limps must have looked pretty pathetic as he turned around to see me a few feet behind him.
"I have an idea." He looked down at the ground and ice began covering the rock. "If we slide down it will be faster and will be less demanding on your leg."
"We need to get to those villains as fast as possible, their plan is to kill All Might with that Bird mutation we saw earlier."
I nodded quickly and waited for him to continue.
He got in front of me and used his ice to give himself a small push. Luckily we were going down and it wouldn't take as much force; I pushed off with my bo and quickly started skating down the slope.
My foot started to hurt again with the pressure, so I fell to my butt, and it still worked. It took no time at all to see the middle of the USJ over the rocks. I looked out again and saw a huge bird-like creature sitting on something and I gasped, horrified. The bird mutation was sitting on Mr. Aizawa, and he looked awful.
I saw another villain sitting over Kuku, Tsuyu, and the new transfer student. I realized they must have been sent to the water zone. In seconds Kuku went from being next to the frog girl, to jumping in the air as the villain kept reaching out.
The weird bird man disappeared in an instant and left Mr. Aizawa on the ground, bloody and broken.
I used my bo to jump high enough that I would fly over the rocks below me. I landed near my teacher, pain shot through my entire body but I ignored it as I looked at Mr. Aizawa. There were scrapes and bruises covering his body, cracks in his elbow revealed his veins and muscles. I've never seen this kind of damage and it broke my heart to see someone I knew so… so.. Broken.
"Bushida, get out of here." He said, barely getting the words off his tongue.
"Not until everyone is safe, including you," I said as a huge gust of wind captured my attention, I found the source and realized it was Kuku, who now was facing off against the monstrous bird. Standing feet about him. The strength we had seen from my old friend dealt no damage to the disgusting mutation.
I saw red when the monster started reaching for Izuku. Before I knew it I was sprinting over to him, my power flowing through every vein in my body trying to do anything to stop that bird from hurting my friend. But I knew no amount of strength I'd be able to punch with would damage him, so I tried something different.
I jumped up and ignored the way my ankle throbbed so bad tears formed and used my bo. Shoving it through the bird's open head. Its brain on clear display for everyone, as was the metal pole that was now stuck through it.
The monster stumbled back and stopped its attack on Kuku, stepping on the villain right behind it. The man who got stepped on was covered in hands, the palms cupping the villain's arms like bracelets.
Tsuyu and the new kid both started to swim away from the villain's reach and I realized they must have been in equally as much trouble.
"What a selfless display, and I barely even saw you coming." The Hand-Man's voice was raspy, totally expected of a villain. "Too bad you won't live long enough to be praised for it."
The Monster bird grabbed my bow from its head and pulled it out. He brought the metal around and snapped it in two, barely straining the huge muscles that sculpted his body. I gasped at his sheer strength and instinctively brought my arm before Kuku. I felt my body grow cold in fear but didn't back down.
A resonating slam came from the entrance of the USJ, the doors opening wide to reveal a tall figure. I gasped again as All Might appeared. Walking slowly toward the edge of the stairs.
I turned to Kuku, less worried with the villain's attention on the man edging toward us, and whispered quietly. "Why is he walking so slow?"
"Have no fear students." He said, ripping off his tie before saying "I am here."
"Finally," the hand man said, "after all this waiting The Heroic piece of trash shows up."
"You're the piece of trash you brat," I yelled at him. "Seriously, he's one of the coolest people ever. I mean you can't even judge, you think creepy hands are fashionable."
You shouldn't have said that
Oh, so now you show brain, could have used you BEFORE I insulted a villain with this Monster bird-thing as his bodyguard. Leave along with my hormones I don't need thee.
"Hiroko," Kuku hissed from behind me, clearly thinking the same thing I was.
"Sorry"
The ugly being in front of us didn't concentrate on All Might for too long and turned back to us. His eyes devoid of any emotion as his sharp teeth seemed to glisten from his saliva. He brought his enormous hands up to me and I stepped back with Kuku, but once again clinched in pain.
"Get ready to run," I said to him, but it was unnecessary because strong arms wrapped around us both and grabbed unto my classmates in the water. I panicked for a second and got ready to claw and fight my way out, but looked up to see the Symbol of Piece carrying us.
In no time at all, we were set down with Aizawa, lie we were never in danger at all.
"What the heck?" the boy with grapes on his head asked.
"Everybody back to the entrance." All Might said, turning to us. "And take Aizawa with you, he doesn't have much time."
"Yes sir." the boy said beside me. I nodded but looked at All Might again, he looked tired, and his usual smile didn't feel… real.
"You saved us, All Might," Kuku said, looking at his hero with the same worry I felt.
"But, aren't you…" I stopped realizing that the villains or at least my classmates might not know about his power issue. " are you going to be okay?"
My question went unanswered as the man with the hands began to shake. He started to mumble and since I've been learning so many new things by being intrusive and listing in on other people's conversations, I decided to enhance in on what he was saying.
"No no no, it wasn't supposed to be this way." He said, covering his hand with his face, apparently, the one from before had fallen off. Bending down to pick it up. "He's still fast, father. Somehow he managed to hit me."
He sighed and looked up. "Of course a government hero only relies on violence. I wasn't prepared. I couldn't even see him when he moved. But not as fast as I thought he would be. Not as fast as he used to be. He's I guess it's true after all, All Might really is getting weaker."
I stumbled back at the feeling I got when the villain turned around. I gulped as I looked to All Might, they knew he was weakened, yet he stood tall against them.
" All Might you can't." Kuku said, Mr. Aizawa's body over his shoulder, "That brain villain took One For-" he stopped and looked at me. I squinted my eyes hard at him, knowing that there was something he was hiding, and I think it has something to do with All Might and Kuku's new Quirk. "I-I smashed him and didn't break my arm, this time, but he wasn't affected at all. He's too strong."
"Young Midoriya, I got this." The Symbol of Peace held up a… Peace sign as he turned back around to look at Kuku. His smile was reassuring and gave me hope. But it wasn't enough for me to forget how well informed this villain was.
Izuku nodded and we turned, starting to walk toward the entrance. I took a step and all the pain I'd been suffering through finally snapped, the pain from my foot had me collapse. My shoulders were completely numb and my face was starting to bleed again.
"Hiroko," Kuku called out to me. I waved him off and cursed when I remembered I was out of bo staffs.
"Get Mr. Aizawa out of here. I'll be right behind you, don't worry." He didn't look convinced but decided that Mr. Aizawas's life was in more danger than mine as he carried on. Looking back every couple of steps, shifting his concern from Me to All Might.
Who, by the way, was landing punches on the huge bird without any physical damage.
"Doesn't even matter where I punch you does it." All Might shouted.
"That's because Nomu here has shock absorption, the only way you're going to hurt him is if you gouge out his flesh." The Hand Man said, his voice smug. "Of course I don't think he'll sit back and let you do that. You've finally met your match."
"Thanks for telling me how to beat him. All I have to do is wear him down, then it's on to you." The pro hero grabbed onto the Nomu, I guess, and slammed its head against the ground. A shattering slam vibrated through the floor as I stood awestruck. Remembering why he was the number one hero.
Smoke rose from the impact, but when it cleared the Nomu had taken very little damage. Where in fact All Might was at the disadvantage. I gasped when I saw it's clawing digging into his sides, blood seeping through his white clothes. Nomu's body, which was supposed to be deep in dirt, was being teleported, albeit very awkwardly, through the portal man's teleports.
"What kind of cheap move was that." All might said, pain in his voice.
"Nice, You tried to bury him in the concrete so he couldn't move around as much."
I stood up again, trying to put little to no force on my foot, and got ready to help All Might, even against the serious disadvantage.
"Sorry," The hand man said, continuing his proud speech. ", That won't work, Nomu's as strong as you are. That won't stop him... " He chuckled before turning to the portal man. "Nice work Kurogiri, we've got him right where we want him now."
I watched as the pro struggled against the Nomu's grip, and I clenched my jaw in anger. Why did they think they could kill All Might, especially here at our school. I hobbled over to where the broken pieces of my bow lay, knowing if I could hit the Nomu's brain one more time, the impact might cause him to release All Might enough to fight back.
"If this is your best then you picked the wrong place to attack." All Might called out, struggling to get out of the Nomu's grip. "You should just give up now."
"Kurogiri"
"Normally I wouldn't want blood and viceroy flooding the insides of my warp gates." The purple mist speaking again. "But I'll make an exception for a hero as great as you. Since you're too fast to see with the human eye. Nomu had to restrain you, and once he's pulled your body halfway through, I'm going to close the warp gates."
If I hit the Nomu it might just aid in their attack. If I ran for All Might the Portal man would just take me deeper into the USJ. I'm not even sure what the Hand Man's powers are and wouldn't even begin to know how to work through it in combat.
I don't know what to do.
"Im coming!" A familiar voice said from behind me, I looked up and saw kuku Running after All Might. I smiled until I realized he looked frantic and scared. Oh no. He yelled out and I was on the move again. Praying and hoping that I could make it to him before he got himself killed.
But instead I stayed still. My feet must have gave out? Maybe I couldn't walk anymore? I looked up and imagined my friend disappearing into that warp gate and only half of him coming out. My throat tightened at the idea. Yet that's not what I saw: a familiar boy came hurtling toward the scene.
"Get the heck out of my way, Deku." He yelled, blasts going off from his hands. Never would I have ever imagined missing the Sparky boy in front of me. But I'm just glad he kept Izuku from doing something dumb. Bakugo yelled again as he grabbed the metal plates around the Shadow Mists form, shoving him to the ground.
I looked over toward All Might and the Nomu, and realized the pro heros capturer was covered in ice on his entire right side. I turned my head to see Todoroki looking at me. I avoided his stare with my eyes on the floor. But I was surprised to find ice instead of my legs.
Oh, so my legs didn't give out, but todoroki stopped me. I cast my eyes back at the Icy Man, wondering where he went before.``
"And where have you been?" I asked. I thought he had been behind me but I hadn't realized till now that he hadn't been here. "Weren't you right behind me?"
"I don't have a quirk that allows me to jump halfway down a mountain" He said, then turned his back toward me and faced the Villain holding All Might. "One of your poorly trained thugs told me you're here because you think you can kill All Might."
WIth Todoroki's ice immobilizing the Nomu, All Might was able to free himself from the Monsters grasp, flipping himself to land next to us. But he faltered, gripping his side.
"Are you okay?" Kuku asked, scared for his favorite hero.
Another yell drew my attention to Kirishima, who was now preparing to strike at the Hand Man. But the villain stepped back and Kirishima landed. He jumped back quickly and cured himself.
"That was gonna be cool."
"Guess I found your body that time, you smoky loser." Mr. Boom Boom said, His smirk set in determination.
"The Symbol of Peace will not be defeated by delinquentes like you."
"Look, as much as I am fangirling by how awesome each one of you are. Which, trust me, I am." I said, Bringing their attention to me. "But will you please get me out of this ice so I can be useful."
Todoroki sighed.
"Yeah and I see what you're saying, the Extra ice makes the patches on my shoulders feel even colder." Even with a small boost to the acclimatization process, my body was shaking. Icy Man walked over to me and placed his ice-covered hand on the glaciers at my feet. Feeling the warmth seep through as my body started to get warmer. I sighed and thanked him before realizing the Hand man was ranting.
"Kurogiri. How could you let this brat- ," Oh preach, "get the best of you?" His raspy voice condescending. "You've gotten us into a real jam here."
"Heh, you got careless you dumb villian." The deadly boy crouching over the supposed Kurogiri mocked, "It wasn't hard to figure you out. Only certain parts of you turn into the smoking warp gate. You use that mist to hide your actual body, as a kind of that makes you safe! That's why we missed ,if you didn't have a body, you wouldn't be wearing this neck armor right? You're not immune to physical attacks if they're well aimed."
Wow, I thought he used his anger for compensation for his idiocy, but apparently he was good looking and smart. How is that fair?
Kurogiri tried to get up but Katsuki blasted off warning shots onto the man laying down. "Don't move." He commanded, smiling sinisterly "You try anything funny, and I'll blow you up right now. You got it? They'll be cleaning you up for weeks."
"Oh that doesn't sound very heroic," Kirishima said from beside him.
"Ha," I laughed, "were you expecting something different?" He only shrugged and went back to his fighting position. His skin no longer smooth due to his quirk.
"Nomu" The man before us siad, backing up slightly, waiting for something.
The nomu started to creep back into the portal, his body coming back to one side. The ice around his arm and leg broke off, taking his limbs with him. I gasped at the sight and without shifting my weight i turned to Todoroki.
"My legs could have fallen off like that?" But my question went unanswered when Nomu's limbs started to reform. His eyes rolling to the back of his head, and muscles coming out of the parts.
"How is that thing still moving?" Kuku asked, all of us in shock from the mutation's reactions. "He's all messed up."
"I don't know but I think I'm going to throw up." I said, just looking at the skinless bird made me want to gouge out my eyes.
"Stay back. Everybody." All Might said his arm reached out, warning us to stay away. "What is this? I thought you said his power was shock absorption."
"I didn't say that was his only Quirk." the villain said, "He also has super-regeneration. Nomu has been modified to take you on, even at 100% of your power. He's basically a highly efficient punching bag that hits back."
"First we need to free our method of escape." he said, and my heart beat quickly as I looked at Katsuki. I powered my senses and tried to enhance my strength but I had already used so much. "Get him Nomu"
It felt like I was watching something in slow motion as the Nomu ran toward Bakugo with lightning speed. I once again felt hopeless, my eyes stinging with forming tears. My body felt so tired from the constant use of my Quirk. My shoulders so painfully numb, and my ankle still throbbing in my boot. But I pushed forward anyway. I would not let my friend die. I didn't get two steps in when a huge impact flew me backward. Landing hard on my side, unable to hold my ground against the blast.
I looked up and saw unruly green hair; Izuku sitting beside me, his astonishment and fear written on his features. I probably looked just as distraught. "Such force." Kuku said. I sat down and stared at the cloud of smoke. My lip quivered only seeing Nomu sitting there looking at us, "Kacchan!"
"Blasty-Boy?" oh my god is.. Did he die? Millions of questions and scenarios went through my head, all ended with seeing Katsuki's lifeless body. My breathing stopped with the idea of someone I knew dying when I could do nothing to save them.
"Uh," I heard a small grunt behind me and turned my body around so fast, my shoulders stung from the movement. There sat Blasty Boy, shocked but otherwise perfectly fine. I looked past him and saw both Kirishima and Todoroki standing up.
"Kacchan? Whoa, that's awesome, you dodged him!" Kuku's fear disappeared into awe.
"Shut up, no I didn't, you nerd." He said, sounding the calmest I've ever heard him. He sat on the ground and, seeming uninjured and completely fine.
"Dang Sparky," I said, entirely relieved. My whole body seemed to relax at the sight of him "Don't scare me like that."
"Yeah, you had us all worried for a second. " Kirshima agreed. "But then how did you get over here?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Todoroki asked, his body facing toward the broken wall beside us. Two long indents in the ground told us where the whole had come from, and the clearing mist told us how. All Might stood, feet spread apart, and panting. His powers were all used up just less than an hour ago, if 13 was correct, and the wind in his side looked serious. How he was still standing was beyond me.
"These are kids, and you didn't hold back?" the pro continued to pant as he glared daggers at the Villains in front of him.
"I didn't have much choice." responded the Hand Man. "He was threatening my companion. And beside, these kids are no angels. The plain-looking one?"
Kuku gasped from beside me but kept the fighting stance we all had set ourselves in when we saw All Might. Even though I was kind of leaning on Todoroki, who seemed less annoyed by it than I thought he might be.
"He tried to kill me with a maxed-out punch. And that girl... she shoved a metal pole through Nomu's head, if he didn't have super-regeneration he would have died. What kind of "Hero" does something like that?" He continued on and tried to be smug, thinking our actions weren't worthy of his villainous actions.
"I didn't have much choice" I repeated his words from earlier. "You were threatening my companion" I guestered to Kuku and continued to stare at him. It probably looked increadilby stupid coming from a girl who couldn stand on her own at this point, but the villain rowled in annoyance.
"And her comments are just plain annoying." Oh I'm so offended. "All you "heroes'' think you can get away with being as violent and as cruel as you want if you say it's for the sake of others. And you know what children, that pisses me off.``
I rolled my eyes and grit my teeth as he lifted his arms like he was preaching of peace and serenity. "Why do people get to decide that some violent acts heroic and others are villainous? Casting judgment as to what's "good" and "evil."
"You think you're the symbol of peace, you're just a government instrument of violence." I looked at Kuku, he seemed to be thinking the villain's words through. "And Violence always breeds more violence. I'll make sure the world understands that once you're dead."
"Oh give me a break!" I yelled, fed up with this… this.. Hypocrites phony truths. "You come here, Break and bruise MY teachers. Hurt MY friends. Then have the audacity to act above the hero's trying to save us." My heart pounded as I went off on the man-baby villain in front of me. "You're just a coward too afraid to admit that you have to take responsibility for your actions. And yeah, I shoved that pole through your friend's head, which I will admit was extreme, but that's because you unrightfully entered into our place of learning, to kill and to destroy. So stop being a hypocritical whiny baby; talking about who should or shouldn't be respected as "heroes ". You gave up that right when you started attacking innocent civilians, so shut up and take your loss like a man."
By the end of my rant I was breathing hard, but completely satisfied by the villain's stunned silence.
" Though she is a little too worked up, young Bushida is right." All Might said, I blushed a little when he spoke up, because I probably was too worked up. And I'm just glad he didn't send his Nomu friend after me because of it. "You're nothing but a lunatic, trying to make your actions sound noble. But you're only doing this because you like it. Admit it."
"We've got them outnumbered." Todoroki said, I nodded along with Kuku and stopped leaning on the Icy Man's side. I flinched when I put weight back on my foot, my body shaking from exhaustion. Todoroki seemed to notice and he cupped his hand and ice shot out of it, and a rocky pole the size of my body stood in his hand. I gasped as expected, though it wasn't smooth at all, I could still work with it.
"These dudes may act really tough, but we can take em down now with All Mights help." Kirishima rocked out his arms as he spoke. "Let's do this."
"And Kacchan found the mist guy's weakness." Kuku agreed, putting his firsts in front of his face. I wrapped my hand tighter around the ice staff and prepared myself for one more battle. Though I secretly knew I wouldn't be as helpful as the boy's beside me.
"Don't attack," All Might said, "Get out of here."
"You would've been in trouble earlier if it weren't for me, remember?" Todoroki called to him, not backing off on the issue. "You need our help."
"I thank you for your assistance, all of you. But this is different, It's gonna be alright." All Might tood in front of us, fist closed in determination. "Just sit back and watch a pro at work."
Right, a Pro. I forgot how capable All Might is. All the fights and situations he's overcome.
"But you're too 're bleeding. And you're almost out of ti-'' Kuku started again. My mouth dropped and I looked over to my childhood friend. Did everyone know All Might was now power limited? Did I miss the memo? All Might didn't answer Kuku verbally, but held up his thumb in reassurance. "All Might.'
"Let's clear this level. Kill him, I'll deal with the children."
The hand man raced toward us. I laughed at his overconfidence. One blast from Bokugo, One ice shard from Todoroki, even a punch from Izuku would send him flying.
"Heads up, looks like we're fighting after all.." Kirshima yelled.
But it wasn't necessary, because when All Might went off to fight the Bird monster, their punches met together, and the impact sent a huge blast of winds and force. Having us all fly off, again. I landed this time on my right foot, having my new ice staff take most of the force.
"Weren't you listening, one of his powers is shock absorption." The leading villain yelled again, flipping in the air to land on his feet as well.
"Yeah, what about it." All Might called back, continuing to throw punch after punch at Nomu. Each slam to each other's fists had its own shockwave follow. I slid back even more, pain shooting up my leg as my body kept sliding back next to Kuku on his left. Bakugo to his right.
"He's gonna fight that brain guy head on?" He asked, yelling over the raging winds around us.
"He's got this Kuku," I yelled back to him. "I know you're scared for him and so am I, but there's a reason why he's the number one hero." I was telling myself more than him at this point.
So we stayed there, watching as the Symbol of peace made punch after punch, hit after hit, All purposefully made, all over 100% of what he could do. This is what it would take to become a hero, going beyond our limits, and doing the impossible.
All Might threw another punch, this one sending Nomu back, breaking the trees with sheer force. All Might jumped after him, saying to us, the villain's Nomu, to anyone who would listen.
"A real hero will always find a way for justice to be served."
I stood there in awe as All Might started gaining the upper hand, each punch dealing more damage. Their punches and hits threw them everywhere in the USJ, breaking the floor with their bodies. But neither was affected. With them both in the air now All Might swung Nomu around, then threw him hurtling toward the ground. The USJ's smooth flooring was now broken and shattered. Then the Pro hero landed so fast, The Monster Bird hadn't even gotten up yet.
"Now for a lesson," He called out to us, "You may have heard these words before, but ill show you what the really mean." All Might started to swing his fist toward Nomu, pureraw power and strength in his voice, as his punch landed
"Go beyond, Plus Ultra!"
The last punch sent the villain's body straight into the sky, breaking the glass of the USJ, past the clouds and nowhere to be seen. I just stood there as the entire building shook. I smiled at the hero in front of me and couldn't help but shake my head in astonishment. And this is what they call "weak". Even when he was injured and losing his power, he still managed to face someone who was supposed to be his match. And still found a way to teach us.
" I love that man."
"That was like a finishing move in a video game." Kirishima said, agreeing with me. "He beat the shock absorption right out of him. I've never seen that kind of brute strength."
"Imagine having power like that," Blasty boy's commented, "He must have been punching that monster so fast he couldn't regenerate."
"I know!": I said, getting really excited, "I mean I could barely keep up with just watching it. Did you see how the surrounding area got more damage due to the amount of force being absorbed. Both the Nomu and All Might were taking each others hits like nothing -."
"Shut up, stupid nerd," Katsuki said, "We don't need two fangirls."
"But that was so cool, don't tell me you didn't get awestruck when he threw him at the ground, Didn't you see that, Kuku?" My friend in question didn't look at me, continuing to stare ahead, I followed his line of sight and quieted down.
"I really have gotten weaker, back in my hayday five hits would have been enough to knock that guy out." All Might was coming out of a smoke cloud he had created, smiling proudly. "But today it took 300 hundred might blows."
"Dang," I whispered to Bokugo, who was closest . "He even counted."
"Please, shut up."
"Okayyy~" I playfully sang. "Someone's grouchy." He growled in response. And anger flashed through his eyes, but ultimately decided to save his energy for the possible fight we still might have to face.
"You've been bested villains." The Symbol of Peace said, turning toward the reaming villains. "Surrender, we all want to get this over with quickly."
The Hand Man shook with anger as a response. I rolled my eyes again at the man baby but waited. Hoping these idiots will take the defeat so we could finally leave this place, but of course it would never be that easy.
And there is stilllll more USJ content, okay ya'll thanks fro reading and i hope it was easy to follow the stor