Izuku was the last one through the portal so he could see the other members of the league looking over the cliff at the supposed area of the summer camp.
"Where are all the brats?!" Tomura whisper yelled while stress scratching at his neck.
"Are they not there?" Izuku staled for time, hopefully everything was set up. anytime now…
"No, they aren't!" Tomura gave up on being quiet and screamed in Izuku's face. "We've been set up-" a sudden and loud rumble cut off the rest of Tomura's rant and Izuku lept up as high as he could to take a hold of a nearby branch as a landslide barreled into the league of villains, burying all of them.
"Good job, but that won't hold them long! Set up part 2!" the feral child's words were proven right when a large amount of blue flames and dust broke out of the dirt, revealing Tomura and a new member named Dabi who had a fire quirk.
Quickly, Izuku attacked Eraserhead, who had been waiting nearby. They had already practiced all the moves they would use so the fight could look real while not hurting either of them. Izuku just needed to keep up the charade a little longer…
The underground hero and the newly reformed villain danced their way into the middle of the league, fighting as though their lives depended on it. Another new member, Toga, looked ecstatic to watch the fight, playing with her knives as though she was hoping to use them on the two.
Just as Izuku predicted, Tomura and Dabi both ran out of patience for their fight at the same time, both charging in from opposite sides hellbent of destroying the hero that had seen them.
In a move that took Izuku and Eraserhead almost an hour to perfect, Eraserhead threw a flying kick at Izuku, who rolled under said kick, so they were back to back. Neither wasted a moment as Eraerhead followed the momentum of his kick and, activating his quirk, nailed Dabi in the solar plexus with a flying knee strike. The fiery villain doubled over to gasp for breath, only to be knocked out by an elbow strike to the back of his head, Izuku, on the other hand, kicked Tomura's feet out from underneath him and performed an axe kick to knock him out.
Both of them placed quirk suppressing handcuffs of the two as fast as they could before turning back to the other villains.
"We've been sold out!" Another newcomer called Mr. Compress called out with his usual dramatic flair. "Quickly, we must-" whatever Mr. Compress's plan was became lost as heroes and hero students swarmed the clearing, ready for a fight.
"HAH! You think a few puny heroes are going to beat me?!" Muscular was Izuku's least favorite addition to the league, he was too blood thirsty, even for a villain. Too bad it wasn't just a few 'puny heroes' that would beat him. Instead Izuku had asked-
"YES, FOR I AM HERE!" All Might. He wasn't Izuku's first choice, but Muscular was very strong and no one was stronger that All Might.
"Kirishima!" Izuku called out to the hardening hero student, he had pared him against Toga along with Bakugou. "You're up!" without hesitation, the read head launched himself at the knife wielding Villain, closely followed by Bakugou flying in with explosions. Izuku had to give they credit for bravery.
Turning away from them, Izuku saw Eraserhead taking on Twice, the league member who could create clones. Luckily, the sort time frame of the hero's ambush left the villain no time to clone himself or anyone else and now Eraerhead's quirk was preventing him from even trying.
Without his quirk, Twice didn't last long against Eraserhead, he was quickly subdued by the erasure hero and restrained in handcuffs. Close by the pussy cats were taking on Moonfish, Present Mic was taking on Marne, Midnight was taking on Mustard, and the hero students were tag teaming a fight against spinner.
Satisfied, Izuku looked around for Kurogiri, half expecting him to try to transport Tomura from the scene. It was the reason Izuku asked Nezu to make quirk suppressing handcuffs that had a small radius of quirk canceling radiation to be made for Tomura. It was also the reason Izuku was the one to take him down, so none of the heroes would have to try to fight him quirkless. Izuku could see Tomura, but Kurogiri was nowhere to be seen. It didn't matter, Izuku could just track him later, he must have run away.
One by one, the heroes prevailed, each one defeating their villains and restraining them. Izuku felt practically ready to glow with pride in the hero students and his plan, his smile stretching his face wide as he approached Eraserhead.
"We did it problem child." The erasure hero's voice was still monotone, but his face betrayed just a hint of pride.
"We did!" Izuku jumped around a little bit, his adrenalin still going until he realized something that caused him to stop mid jump and his smile fall from his face. "Umm, now what-" Izuku didn't get a chance to finish his question as one of Kurogiri's portals opened feet from the heroes, All-for-one stepping through.
"So, this is your choice." All for one drawled, walking in front of Izuku and the heroes, causing the feral child to growl defiantly. "Even though I told you I can send you back to prison. You think these heroes can save you? Very well. Back to Stillwater Feral Chld."
All for one's words just continued to confuse Izuku and the heroes more and more. What was he talking about? Izuku knew that his chances of being betrayed by the heroes and sent back to still water was high, but why was All for one making it sound like he was the one who was going to do it. The green haired boy racked his brain trying to figure out All for one's play, when he made a fatal error.
Izuku blinked.
One second the feral child was standing in front of over a dozen hero hopefuls, staring down All for one and the league of villains, the next all he could see were the dull, gray walls and bars Izuku had come to associate with still water prison. Izuku turned to find the hero students only to see tons of guards. Each one of them geared up for a fight and looking pissed. However, the most startling realization was that, when Izuku looked to his left, the warden was standing there, his usual sadistic grin plastered on his face as he donned a new whip.
Izuku started to panic as the guards approached him, he had never fought this many opponents before, let alone this many opponents armed to the teeth. So, the feral child of the undercity did what he did best. He lashed out. Izuku began to attack every guard he could reach, doing anything is his power to take them down as quickly as possible.
The feral child kicked at any weak points he could make out as soon as he could make them out. He kicked out joints, jabbed at pressure points, bit through muscles and tendons, and ripped weapons out of hands, but they just kept coming, harder and faster than before, grabbing at Izuku, trying to subdue him.
Izuku tried to figure out why these guards seemed to be gunning for him so bad. What had he done this time? this was no where near the beatings he received for breaking up fights. What had they been doing earlier? Izuku scanned his memories but the more he tried to grab at them the more they slipped away.
Izuku had been doing something just a little bit ago. What was it? It was a fight, right? a big one. So why where the guards attacking him? Had he tried to escape Stillwater? Wait, why was he in still water? He had just been somewhere else. Izuku figures that he must have tried to break out, but that didn't make any sense. He had never felt the need to break out before, so why now?
Izuku's thoughts continued to spiral as he fought off the guards, none of whom looked any worse for wear. The boy was starting to think this fight would soon become hopeless when all the guards suddenly backed off. anyone would rejoice at this development, but Izuku knew what it meant. The warden wanted his shot.
Crouched in a low stance, Izuku ducked and rolled away from the lashing of the whip the warden was using. He heard the telltale sound of the whip cracking the ground and lack of a stinging pain to know that the strike had missed its mark. Izuku dove forward and grabbed the end of the whip before the warden could pull it back for another strike. Soon the two found themselves in a kind of tug-of-war over the weapon.
Curiously enough, the warden didn't move forward towards Izuku, who had never known the man to hesitate to push any advantage. Using the whip in his grasp for an extra boost, the feral child launched himself forward and leapt high in the air, resulting in his knee crashing into the warden's face with a sickening crunch. The warden grabbed his face and attempted to stop the blood, swearing at Izuku as he did so.
The green haired boy landed in a crouch and quickly got out of range of the warden, assessing the man as he did so. Eventually, the warden let go of his face and got back into a fighting position, readying his whip. Izuku cocked his head as he analyzed the man's stance. The warden had never used a stance like this one. his legs were spread with one bent under himself and the other straightened in a sort of brace to ether push off of or absorbed impact with, staying on the balls of his feet.
The warden had always used a relaxed boxing stance, preferring low kicks and punches and never worrying about dodging. This stance was made for someone who's fighting style revolved around being fast, evading quickly, and using high kicks. Not to mention, the way he was holding his whip. The warden held the whip up around his neck, whipping it out from the side instead of from above him, the way any new whip user wields such a weapon (which he would have been as Izuku had never seen him wield one before and had always been his favorite test subject for new weapons).
It was all wrong. His fighting style, the hesitating, the weapon, and the way he used the weapon. It wasn't his style at all, it was far more reminiscent of someone else. Someone Izuku had fought against recently. Who was it? and why couldn't he remember?
Izuku knew that style, he had to have analyzed it for hours before because he could read the pattern the warden was using to attack him with like a good book. It looked like… a hero?
But what hero? Why had he been analyzing a hero recently? Izuku knew this, he knew this. Another missed strike from the whip. Izuku narrowly avoided being wrapped up in the weapon.
Wait that was it! That style with a capture weapon!
Eraserhead.
Shouta noticed the change in the problem child immediately. All for one's taunting seemed to make no sense, and one glance at the green haired boy showed that he was just as confused by the villain's words. That was until he saw the boy stiffen up and wheel around and eye the class with distrust and panic. All for one laughed as the boy began to attack the hero students in the most brutal fashion Shouta had ever seen. Well, now he knew how the boy had earned his nickname.
The erasure hero turned to All for one. "What did you do to him?" the demanding voice of the hero only made the villain laugh harder.
"I told him I would send him back to that prison if he double crosse me. I simply kept my word." The villain drawled. Shouta went to ask what he meant when a scream from one of his students drew his attention.
The feral child had Uraraka by the arm, teeth sunk deep into the girl's bicep. Shouta could see the muscle and tendon being ripped from the girl's arm when Izuku pulled his head back. "Back off! Now!" Shouta called to his students, who swiftly backed away to make a 20 ft ring round the feral child, who was still snarling at everyone with blood dripping from his teeth.
As the hero approached, he could practically feel the heat from the problem child's eyes as they snapped to him. Even though his eye's had a glazed over haze, Shouta could tell the boy was analyzing him for his every weakness. The hero whipped out his capture weapon, only for Izuku to dodge with amazing speed and grab the scarf before Shouta could even react.
The two quickly lock into a tug-of-war. Shouta desperately tried to think of his next move, only to find a small knee crashing into his face. The kid pulled back, leaving Shouta to take stock of the damage. The hero felt his nose and immediately knew it was broken. He had to subdue this kid before anyone got hurt or All for one got away.
Eraserhead threw out his capture weapon in a quick series of moves that left very little room for escape, unfortunately, little room to escape didn't mean none as that is what the feral child did. In an almost hypnotizing dance, of which the child continued to assess Eraserhead instead of focusing on his own movements, the kid evaded to capture weapon with ease.
Once Shouta stopped attacking, the kid stopped moving. So, with as little tell to how he planned to attack, Shouta set up a straight grab. It almost worked. The capture weapon was wrapped around the kid with only a second left to tighten it when the kid jumped over six feet in the air, over the top of the weapon and landed on top of the weapon, pinning it to the ground away from shouta.
The erasure hero adjusted his stance to play defense when a single word stopped him cold.
"Eraserhead?" the feral child whispered the name so quietly that if Shouta hadn't had years of underground hero training, he wouldn't have heard it. "No, this doesn't make sense. I don't…" the kid cut himself off, grabbing the sides of his head and shaking it back and forth as though trying to physically shake away his thoughts.
Shouta slowly approached the feral child with his hands raised in a placating gesture, preparing to get bit at any time. Izuku watched as Shouta approached, not moving a muscle until the hero was within three feet of him. Once Shouta was three feet away, the problem child dashed as grabbed onto him, feeling the hero's arms, legs, face, and capture weapon. The kid looked at him like he could not see him, as though he saw someone else.
"It's not possible." All for one spoke for the first time since the fight began. The villain had stood there to watch his perfect weapon tear these weak heroes limb from limb, not to break out of his forced flashback quirk.
Upon hearing the villain speak, Shouta knew that Izuku was under the effects of a quirk. A quick shot with erasure did nothing to undo its effects, so Shouta did the only other thing he could do in such a situation. He headbutted the problem child to knock him out for just a few short minutes.
The erasure hero turned back to All for one just in time to hear the same say "He broke free." Everyone could hear the awe in the old villain's voice, but he quickly composed himself. "It's no matter. I will deal with his disobedience once I am through with you."
The words made Shouta's blood boil. "Over my dead body." The underground hero said with dead certainty as he stepped in front of his students and the feral child.
"As you wish." And with those words, All-for-one charged.