A/N : Hi guys! Nice to see you all after . . . 2 months. Please, don't call 911, I'm alive, and please, don't throw your stones! I promise that I was actually busy during this time, because I'm finishing up my Eagle Scout, involved in a few AP classes, and numerous clubs and other organizations.
So, by the way, I actually re-wrote about ½ of this chapter and got rid of the next two chapters, so don't expect me to be updating super quickly, okay? I'm only a little bit into the next chapter.
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At Momo's request, Izuku stepped back and let her take care of the bus situation as he spoke to his father. "So, dad, what's up with the field trip?"
"You're all going to practice rescue drills with All Might and another hero that specializes in such events. And if any of us need the extra help, we'll let you or Yaoyorozu know," Shouta finished as he opened the door of the bus. After a moment, when Izuku didn't move, he asked, "You need something?" Izuku shook his head, and then his father shooed the boy away.
"Yes sir!" Izuku cried as he made a sloppy salute, before turning back and exiting the bus. Shouta smiled lightly and shook his head at his son as he walked away, before sending a text to Nezu that they arrived safely. Waiting for several moments, he saw that it didn't get through, and sighed. Trust Wi-Fi to fail, he moped silently, before getting off the bus as well. After all, it wasn't rational to spend time worrying about something that was mildly annoying when there are greater problems for the world than weak Wi-Fi.
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Izuku caught up to his class, while they listened to the Rescue Hero : Thirteen give a quick speech about the devastating power of quirks, yet their potential for good and service. "Black Hole, my quirk, allows me to suck anything in the path of my fingers and turn it into , this is a very dangerous quirk that can cause a high number of deaths and injuries, but I saw the potential for good in my quirk. Now, I am able to help rescue thousands of people, and to mitigate the disasters that plague the Earth." Thirteen looked at all of them individually, spending nearly 5 seconds analyzing everyone, before saying, "I know that some of you possess quirks that can cause untold destruction to things around you, as well as yourself. To those people, I urge restraint as you begin your path, all the while trying to find the hidden potential of your own quirk as you grow older and wiser."
Thirteen took a bow as the entirety of Class 1-A applauded him politely. "Alright, enough with the pleasantries. Where's All Might?" Shouta asked, walking up quietly to Thirteen.
Thirteen lifted three fingers and said, "All Might got caught up in some hero work as he got to work, so he won't show up for a while, if at all." Huh. Three fingers, is that a signal? Izuku thought as he looked at the two heroes.
His father sighed as he rubbed his temples. "You know, whatever, we'll be enough." Shouta turned to the students, his face morphing into that of Eraserhead once more as he did so. "Alright, you all, get inside!"
All of the students of 1-A did so, and once they were inside the building, Eraserhead gestured to Thirteen. "Alright, so we'll be separating into two groups, the victims, and the heroes. Now, everyone on Aizawa's side, move with-'' Izuku's eyes narrowed. Spidey-Sense? What's going on? Is it a malfunctioning set, possibly the ship, or maybe the lights are faulty? Somehow neither of those seemed right, or risky enough for a spider sense.
"Stay put." Eraserhead's finely tuned danger senses, honed by nearly twenty years of underground crime-fighting, had reared its head pointing itself behind him. Turning, he saw a large purple mist taking over the plaza. "Thirteen, look over the students."
By this time, the entirety of class 1-A had turned to see the mist, which was currently spewing out at least a hundred villains. "Uh, sir? Is this another thing with mock villains, like the entrance exam?" Ejiro Kirishima asked nervously, hardening his body as he spoke.
"No. These people are the real deal. They will not hesitate to take your lives, so stay back." Eraserhead walked to the edge of the grand staircase, before starting to snap his gilded goggles into place. He isn't . . . right? He can't! "Izuku, while I try to subdue the villains, lead the students out of here."
"No! Dad, your quirk is suited towards sneak attacks, and short one-on one fights, not an ambush of this magnitude! Just come with us!" Izuku cried out, rushing up to his father and grabbing his arm tightly.
Eraserhead simply looked at him calmly. "Izuku, there isn't enough time to escape without a diversion. As the only experienced combat-hero on site, I have an obligation, no responsibility to protect you all." With great power comes great responsibility. Shocked, Izuku let go of the arm and stumbled back slightly. Accepting his silence as acceptance, Eraserhead leapt into the crowd of villains, not daring to take a look back at his son.
Sighing slightly, Izuku turned away from the fight that was beginning and towards his class. Don't die. I'll come back for you dad! "Alright, you heard him! We're getting out of here! Denki, send out a signal as we move. Everyone else, move with purpose and we'll -"
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." The purple mist being appeared in front of them suddenly, with no real movement or sign of super-speed. A teleportation quirk? That'd work, but why target a group of students? Izuku pondered as he assessed his foe.
"Who are you? What're you doing?" Harry asked from behind him, and Izuku turned to look. Harry moved with confidence and poise as he spoke to the villain. "What're your motives?"
" . . . Very well. We are the League of Villains! However, despite our name, we have no intention of hurting you. We only want one thing;" The being paused for a moment allowing anticipation to build, before menacingly saying, "All Might!"
Around him, Izuku heard murmurs of worry and disbelief, but he was mentally wearing himself out, with his mid running around in circles. What? All Might? How do they plan to do that? All those villains seem minor, with only maybe two truly threatening people. Maybe they're trying to rely on pure numbers to tire All Might out, but that's been tried before and All Might still persevered. Besides, why would they risk it with another two heroes here if they do truly have a person able to go toe to toe with All Might? Who do they think will be able to fight him anyways, that giant, black skinned man? He looks strong, but so had plenty of others who had tried to topple the Number One. Izuku tried to rationalize their behavior, but they simply didn't add up in his mind.
Izuku was snapped out of his musings by a loud explosion courtesy of Katsuki, as well as a thud courtesy of Ejiro. "Hah!" Katsuki jeered from within a cloud of smoke, "Didn't think we'd get you first before All Might even got here, huh?" As the smoke cleared, Izuku clearly saw Katsuki's large grin. His joy was not to last.
"Congratulations on successfully surprising a villain, you two." As the smoke continues to thin, the mist man was slowly revealed, along with a metal piece of . . . something that was previously hidden by some mist. "Unfortunately, you were close, but you just barely missed me. However, you truly are the golden eggs of U.A. Congratulations." Izuku started quickly. Spidey-Sense! Izuku grabbed the nearest person to him, Ochako, before diving to the side. As soon as he moved, the mist began to sweep over their class, engulfing everyone in its darkness, save for him, Ochako, Tenya, and Hanta Sero, who had been able to escape the assault.
The assault lasted barely half a minute, but when the mist was cleared, only them five were left at the entrance. Even Thirteen, the only experienced Pro-Hero in the crowd, was swept away in the mist. "What'd you do to them?!" Ochako demanded, trying to look as menacing as possible, which was slightly nullified by the permanent blush she had on her cheeks.
"I simply deposited them in certain areas of my choosing. Do not fear, I didn't harm a hair on their heads." Izuku frowned heavily while Hanta seemed to let out a slight sigh of relief. So they have people in multiple areas around here then. That means that they knew that there'd be children here and they prepared something to either distract or incapacitate us.
Walking forward towards Tenya, Izuku demanded, "So, All Might isn't here now! Why don't you just leave now, okay?" Stopping next to Tenya and Hanta, Izuku mumbled out of the corner of his mouth, "We'll attack on three, Hanta. Tenya I need you to retreat and get reinforcements, anyone would work."
"But -" Tenya protested.
"It's an order Tenya from your class president. If you don't do this, people can die!" Izuku mumbled intensely, never letting his eyes wander from the villain, who was speaking about how they would never leave until All Might arrived.
"But . . . very well. On your count," Tenya acquiesced, crouching down in a running position.
"1." Ochako looked on in confusion as they began to prepare their various movements. "2." The villain waited for a response to his statements. "3!" Izuku yelled as they burst into action. Immediately, Tenya took off racing towards the entrance as Izuku and Hanta began sending webbing and tape respectively at the mist being.
"Oh, a surprise attack! That isn't very heroic, is it?" The mist spoke in a teasing tone, before expanding towards Tenya. Suddenly, Izuku got a glancing shot on the piece of metal, and the mist stopped expanding and the mist's glowing yellow eyes widened by a significant margin.
Not just metal! He realized with a start. It's armour! "Aim for the metal, it's the only solid part of him!" Izuku called to Hanta, who nodded, recalibrating his elbows shots. Suddenly forced to protect himself, the mist began to protect the armour, but whenever his gaze turned back to Tenya, the armour would glint and catch the light, forcing him to open a warp gate back to both of the attackers.
Now dodging, twisting and flipping over their shots, the short battle soon became a test of agility, and luckily Hanta and Izuku had plenty of it. But soon Izuku realized that their shots were shooting past them and there was a person that wasn't nearly as agile as them. Ochako! Glancing back for a quick moment as a stream of tape whirled past his head, Izuku saw no one there. Sighing in relief,Izuku placed his attention back onto the villain, before he saw her edging along the walls, moving so slowly that she didn't seem as much of a person as she is. Gasping as soon as he realized what she was planning, he turned his attention fully onto the fight.
Suddenly, Hanta let out a cheer as he landed a perfect hit on the armour, before pulling it directly in front of Ochako. She, as if on cue, leapt out and grabbed onto the metal, making it weightless, before making it spin as she jumped off. Hanta handed Izuku the tape just as Tenya got the door open and sped away. Izuku took the tape, grasping it firmly with both hands, before swinging it over his shoulder into the cement floor. "I've . . . failed?!" The mist asked incredulously as Izuku webbed the armour to the floor, followed by the rest of him.
Sighing slightly as his body relaxed, Izuku patted the covered mist, "Verily, my foe, you have." Letting the tape fall, Izuku turned towards the main plaza. "Imagine what Dad is fi . . ." Izuku trailed off, staring in shock at the events in the plaza.
"Zuku? What's wrong?" Ochako asked, grabbing his shoulder as Izuku stood, his body tensed up, before she saw what was going on. "Oh, oh no."
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Harry was soaked, trapped on a sinking boat, surrounded by a multitude of villains, and he felt perfectly fine. Why? Because he was fully functional, with a Pro-Hero and a capable classmate standing alongside him, and all the tech that he needed was waterproofed due to the combined efforts of MJ and Gwen. Note to self, thank those two girls like there's no tomorrow if we survive this! Harry thought as he inspected the mechanisms of his grenades, spud gun, and other gadgets.
"Listen, we need a plan!" Thirteen insisted forcefully. "If we don't have one by the time this ship sinks, we won't have the ability to do so until we meet up in the afterlife!"
"But we don't have much of a chance to fully engage them and win," Tsuyu stated calmly, putting a finger on her lips as if deep in thought. "At most, I won't be able to take more than three at a time, not assuming that they have a better adapted quirk for direct combat."
"What if we don't fight them then?" Harry asked rhetorically as he got an idea. "What if we could just leave the area?"
"They would catch us at the plaza though," Tsuyu commented almost immediately after Harry placed the idea in the open.
"I might be able to do something about that," Harry replied, before laying his plan out to them.
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Harry paused for a moment as he rigged the last plasma grenade to the ship control panel, before standing up and stretching out his legs, before sprinting to the deck, where Tsuyu and Thirteen stood, waiting for him. "All right, it's all set up now."
"When does the timer go off?" Thirteen asked quietly. Silently Harry lifted 3 fingers followed quickly by a curled fist. "All right then, are you gonna test the glider?"
Quickly, Harry shook his head. "It makes too much noise when it starts up, and it sounds too much like an engine to be mistaken with anything else."
Suddenly, there was a small explosion, and they all jumped off, Thirteen leaping onto Tsuyy's back as Harry clicked his heels together, opening his glider's wings and connecting the shoes. The small explosion was followed quickly by a much larger one that took the entire ship apart. Thankfully, his mental calculations were only a small bit off, and a whirlpool soon formed around the ship, pulling all of the villains into its grip. Note to self, also thank Izuku for all those tutoring sessions! Prior to the Entrance Exam, the two had often studied together with Izuku providing a lot of the teaching, while Harry added his own insights. Funnily enough, he hadn't gotten many questions on physics, but he remembered this, but not many things else that were on the test.
Landing silently in the water just before they reached the plaza, Harry gasped softly at the sight he saw. Mr. Aizawa was lying on the ground, in a small puddle of blood with a hulking black creature standing over him, holding his arms behind his back, while one was bent oddly, undoubtedly broken, with his golden goggles lying down a few feet away. There was a man with light electric blue hair standing there, tall and gangly, looking no more than 22, with hands all over his body, including one that covered his face, speaking to the fallen hero. " . . . All Might. I wonder, how many dead kids will it take to summon the final boss?"
Suddenly, the man turned towards them, and, faster than they could react, placed his fingers on Tsuyu's face. Harry and Thirteen stood there shocked to the bone for a moment before the man started laughing wildly. "You really are cool, ERASERHEAD!" The man exclaimed, emphasising the name. Everyone turned to Mr. Aizawa as he kept his head up, looking intently at the man with red eyes. "Nomu?" The black skinned monster smashed Mr. Aizawa's face into the concrete two times, not holding back at all. Recovering his senses, Harry leapt forward, trying to punch the villain, but before he could react, his legs and chest felt as if they caught on fire, and he blacked out from the sensation of experiencing so much pain at once.
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Izuku looked on in shock as he beheld his limp best friend being crushed to death and his father bleeding out on the ground, not moving an inch. That shock quickly turned into pure, raw anger, something that Izuku wasn't very used to. "Get away from them!" He roared as he leapt off the top of the stairs.
Turning towards the raging teenager, the man smiled gleefully. "Ah, so the mini-boss appears. Ha, he doesn't know that one of our party members has the capture ability! Nomu," the man turned back to the students and monster, "drop the dead weight and grab the boy." Nomu did exactly as he was told, dropping Harry onto the ground carelessly in front of the teacher - student duo as he ran quickly towards the falling boy, becoming a black blur. The man followed him at a slower pace, leaving the two alone besides the injured.
"Alright, Asui, please take Harry to the stairs while I grab Eraserhead," Thirteen ordered as he got out of the water, taking advantage of the distraction Izuku provided.
As he fell towards the monster, this Nomu, Izuku shot a strand of web out at it, and pulled, forcing his body to move faster than he was already going. Cocking his fist back, Nomu continued his run, before letting it loose, but not before Izuku's Spidey-
Sense was able to warn him of the blow, and so he dodged the blow by half an inch, flying over his shoulder as he twisted, spinning in the air. His true target in sight, Izuku shot a string of web at the gangly blue-haired man, trying to pull him towards him for a superpowered punch.
"A power-up move? Typical." The man stated, grabbing the web, ignoring the jolt when Izuku pulled, before flipping it over his shoulder and slamming Izuku into the cement. To his credit, Izuku got up and shook off the blow, although he had a split lip which was bleeding shallowly. Turning slightly, he saw Thirteen and Tsuyu carrying the bodies of the injured, sticking to the edges. Let's give them some help. Turning fully, Izuku ran quickly towards the mountain zone.
Following Izuku, the man caught up quickly, forcing Izuku to dodge a quick kick to the head as he ran forward, retaliating with a kick of his own, which landed and sent the man flying back, but Nomu was quickly gaining on him. Stopping to face them fully, Izuku wiped his bloody lip, watching the monster approach. "You know, I'm usually having to wait on people to hit me, but this is ridiculous!" Izuku taunted, frowning when the monster didn't react to the taunt. Huh, either I've lost my touch, he's a bad audience, or he's not able to listen to me. For the sake of his pride, he decided on the latter. Spidey-Sense! Izuku ducked under Nomu's grab, grabbing the monster's leg and lifting. The beast didn't budge, but also didn't react, so he punched his crotch. Again, no reaction. Well, that's not exactly true. Nomu did grab his arm with a grip as tight as steel.
"Oh, wow! Tell me who you train with, please!" Izuku joked slightly as he punched Nomu's fist again and again, but to no avail. "Geez, you'd think that as a minor I'd get some leniency, but man, the justice system these days."
"Well fought Izuku." Idly, Izuku wondered how the man had known his name, or how he had known that he was him, because the mask still covered his face. "For one of your bloodline, I expected no less fire and resistance." Izuku's blood froze and his eyes automatically snapped to the retreating Tsuyu and Thirteen, now being assisted by Ochako, who looked back to him with a confused expression. "However," the man continued, "your fighting is clumsy and unsure. Tell me, are you afraid of the big bad villains?"
"Wow," he grunted out, trying to hide his mild panic, "Bold of you to say that my fighting style is clumsy, when I managed to hit you the same amount of times as you hit me, but you needed your friend to hold me here for you." Izuku winked as he twisted his arm around in Nomu's grip. What seemed like a desperate attempt to escape to the man was really just an attempt to line up his web shooter with his target. Pressing down on the trigger, Izuku watched as the hand-man's face was covered in the web. Pulling hard on the web with his free hand, Izuku was freed as Nomu opened his hands to cushion his boss. Rushing backwards, Izuku webbed the man's actual hand to the black skin of the Nomu.
Flipping over Nomu's bulk, he tried to catch up to his escaping classmates, but Nomu turned faster than Izuku thought he could, reaching out for him. Fortunately, his Spidey-Sense warned him of an incoming danger, and he escaped harm, but his suit didn't. The hoodie's front was split almost in half, with half lying in the grip of Nomu and the other sticking to his body. Man, I knew that I'd have to be fashionable, but if that had been a tiny bit stronger I'd be caught again! Izuku thought irritatedly.
"Do you know how hard it is to fix this suit?" Izuku demanded, flipping over Nomu's next wild swing. "I mean, I don't either, but I'm assuming very!" Izuku flipped over the next few sets of punches from the massive fists, but then Nomu decided to go for a wide swing, and so Izuku jumped over that, but Nomu then winded another punch before he landed, forcing him to block the punch for the first time in the fight. He was sent flying into the staircase.
Izuku lay there for a moment, trying to process what just happened through the immense pain. After the attempt, Izuku tried to push himself up. Oh yeah, that's definitely broken! He thought, grimacing, before using only his left hand, which certainly hurt, but the right was certainly broken, if not shattered. Standing up, Izuku asked, raising his arm into a defensive stance, "That's all you got? I can do this all day!"
The man, who had managed to get rid of both the web connecting him to Nomu and the bit that snared his face, yelled, "Kurogiri, report!" The misty being whom he, Hanta, and Ochako had trapped, now known as Kurogiri, suddenly appeared in front of the blue haired man.
"Yes, Shigaraki. I was at the plaza and everything was going well, I had warped the teacher and most of the students, but 5 managed to stay away from me, and one of them escaped to get reinforcements."
Shigaraki growled, scratching his neck fiercely, before stating, "If you were not our only way of escaping, I would kill you. We're so close, but then a random mob appeared and it's almost game over!" Shigaraki ranted, "Take us back to base, while we don't need our revive before the final boss shows up."
Yes! Ha ha ha! We did it, they're retreating!
Suddenly, Izuku heard two large doors slam open, as a large, booming voice declared, "HAVE NO FEAR! WHY? BECAUSE I AM HERE!"
No, no, no! Why now? Izuku thought as he saw Shigaraki smile gleefully.
"Kurogiri, cancel that order. We just used a full restore!"
A/N : Alright, so that's the end of Pt. 1 of the USJ! How was it? I hope it was worth the wait! Please don't forget to leave some praises or constructive criticism in your review, and also to favorite/follow this story! See you all next time!