Author Note: New Chapter is here, here we have the battle between Archangel and the heroes. Much will be kept the same from the OG version, but I did add some new things that I will get into when you reach the end. This is also the final chapter with all the OG author writing, starting next chapter we hit my style and my direction for this story which I think you guys will enjoy. I will do reviews next chapter, but still please leave a comment and peace out.
Chapter 2: Archangel vs The Heroes
Midnight could not believe it, after 11 years she had finally found the boy… no, now a teen. This boy was no longer a child, but a young man…a dangerous young man. What started out as a mission to retrieve a powerful weapon turned into something darker, it turns out the weapon that she was sent out stoop was none other than an innocent child that was turned into some kind machine bent on destruction. Now no longer was she looking at Izuku Midoriya, but the weapon he was turned into. This Archangel and he was ready for battle.
"Izuku?" Midnight called the boy, but it was to no avail; she was not going to get an answer from him for that was not Izuku no longer. Her jaw nearly crashed to the floor when she saw his face, she knew that to be Izuku, but shook her to the core was his wings. She was told by his mother that he had angelic wings not cold metallic wings.
'My god, what did they do to him?' Midnight saw that it wasn't just the wings that were different, his eyes were slitted, and his nails were razor sharp. Those were the physical features, god knows that they did to his mind.
"Izuku…Izuku can you understand me?"
"He won't." Karin spoke for the first time since being kicked…excuse me, thrown out the container that Archangel was freed from. She knew what this was standing in front of them, it was a machine with a simple program and that was to kill.
"That is not the boy you think, that is the weapon I told you all about. Archangel is a powerful Nomu that must be stopped at all costs." Midnight turned her head to glare at the red headed woman, if the situation didn't require so much of her attention she would be peeling this woman's skin back with her whip for what she did to Inko's son.
"Metal wings are not normal, what the hell did you do to this kid?" Present Mic the most obvious question and Karin replied, but not before looking at the ground in shame.
"His wings were not always like that, when he was brought to me my teacher and I turned them into what you see now. The wings are made of techno-organic material that I created, they are breakable, but it wouldn't matter. Archangel is outfitted with a healing quirk that heals his body from damage. So-"
"So even if we remove the wings they will just grow back." Karin nodded her head to Aizawa's words, even he was appalled by what he saw and hoped that maybe removing the wings was an option. Looks like they will need another plan.
"You mentioned he had a healing factor, but what are his other abilities?" Hawks asked, it was a question that was on everyone's mind for the battle won't be held up by their conversation much longer.
"Strength, speed, durability, healing, and practically everything that you can do. Just better." Hawks looked at her like she had two heads, he was not the only one the rest of the team did as well.
"All of your abilities, just brought to higher levels."
"So you cloned me by using this kid." Hawks was pissed, one he didn't like being compared to anyone for he was one of a kind. Two this kid didn't ask to be with him, he was forced to become something akin to him.
Mirko could see that her old friend was angry and he was not one to get to that level. Hawks always remain cool under pressure no matter that situation, but even the most cool surfaces crack under severe circumstances. Karin however took offense to that, as a scientist…a mad one at that, but she would never copy someones' work.
"I didn't clone you. I improved on what you already are. Archangel has all of your strengths, I removed all of your weaknesses." Karin told them and now that made the entire group even more edge. Hawks was forced to reckon with himself, he is the number 3 rank hero, but his only weakness was the loss of his feathers over time. He had a limit of how many he could use and now they are fighting someone who doesn't seem to have a limit.
"Hawks, any advice on how to stop you?" Mic asked the younger hero and Hawks grabbed a feather that turned into a sword.
"I would say force me to keep using my feathers, but that is out of the question."
"So, plan B?" Mirko asked and Hawks had only one answer for her, it was an answer that she liked very much.
"Hit me till I stay down." Mirko blasted off when she heard that, so she hopped off to fight Archangel first. The corrupted Izuku saw the bunny hero coming towards and raised his hand to catch her punch.
Mirko widened her eyes when she realized that her punch had been stopped, Archangel was just stoically looking at her shock expression, but soon his stoic face turned into a smirk. It was a smirk that pissed Mirko off and in her aggression she raised her left kick to deliver one of her famous kicks, but like her punch that was also stopped. Archangel wing acting like a shield blocked the punch and absorbed the damage, allowing the user to go on the offensive.
Mirko felt massive pain on her chin for she was uppercutted into the sky by a solid right hand from Archangel. Archangel didn't even let get into the air because he grabbed her legs and slammed her down. The rabbit hero's back made spider-web-like cracks on the ground, but he was not done yet as he began to spin. Mirko felt her legs still be held by the dark angel and when she felt him let her launch like a ball from cannon.
"Mirko!" Hawks screamed and went to catch her, when he did he saw that she was alright, just had the wing knocked out of her.
"Ok, this is getting out of control." Present Mic stepped up and unleashed his voice. "STOP!" Mic screamed and Archangel saw the waves of sound coming right for him, he smiled and decided to return the favor with his own.
"AAAAHH!" Archangel screamed, unleashing a hypersonic scream much similar to Present's Mic, the only difference is that Archangel's was green versus Mic's yellow. When the powers collided a massive screech noise could be heard that shattered the glass around him. The pros, Karin, and Naomasa had to cover their ears to protect themselves from the damage. When the sound stopped Archangel was still standing with a demented smile on his face.
"I forgot to mention that he has a hypersonic scream for a quirk." Karin told them and they would have liked to know that before this fight started, but there was no time to worry about that now. Archangel looked like he was about to attack once again and they were right because his wings covered his entire body and when they opened about half a dozen silver flechettes shouted out of his wings.
"Get down!" Naomasa warned everyone and grabbed Karin in the process, tackling her to the ground. Everyone else did the same and got to the ground, avoiding the sharp daggers. Eraserhead saw a pierce stone, he knew if that thing hits them that it might be able to cut them apart.
"Hawks!" Eraserhead called to the winged hero and Hawks let Mirko go, she nodded her head. Soon the winged hero took off into the air, making his way to the dark angel. Archangel saw that the battle was going to be in the air, flapped his wings, his feet started to leave the ground and within seconds he was in the air.
"I'm sorry for what they did to you, but once this is over we will make sure you get the help you deserve." Hawks spoke honestly, he felt bad for the kid, but he knew that he would need to put his feelings aside to take him down. Hawks dove forward in a great burst of speed, but Archangel saw him clearly and avoided. When Archangel dodged Hawks he punched him with the intent of sending him to the ground, but Hawks is an aerial master and was not going down that easy.
Hawks brushed the punch off and dashed back to Izuku and the dark angel did the same. Now both winged fighters were starting to battle each in the air. Clash after clash could be seen by those that could not fly.
"Eraserhead, can't you shut his powers off?" Naomasa asked, but Eraserhead shook his head. Just by looking at Izuku, Eraserhead could tell that his quirk was mutation quirk and that was the only quirk that his ability sucked against.
"Izuku," Midnight whispered in shock, fear, and sadness. She still could not believe that this was the boy that was the son of Inko. Inko would always tell her how gentle and nice Izuku was, he could never hurt anyone. That was Inko's boy, but she was seeing something different. A part of Nemuri was glad that Inko was in the afterlife for she didn't deserve to see this.
Hawks was starting to lose some ground, he was bleeding from the mouth and his costume had been cut. In his hands were his red feather blades, but in Izuku's hand were two silver swords that originated from his wings. Hawks didn't want to admit, but this was not looking good for him. The doc was right about what she said, Izuku is just better.
"Fuck that! The only thing like me is me!" Hawks renewed his fighting spirit and dashed to Archangel, the dark angel did the same and both of their blades clashed in the sky. Both feather blades battled against the other creating sparks on the ground, both were fighting with expert swordsmanship.
"RAA!" Hawks kept on swinging and so did Archangel, but were being beaten by the other, but the more the battle went the more Hawks started to get tired. Archangel kept on pressing and kept on cutting, cutting his knee, his arm, above his eye, when their blades clashed again Hawks had his blood dripping down to the ground like it was rain. Archangel had cuts, but the hero could see that they were closing quickly.
Archangel began to press more on Hawks pushing his blades back, he was weak and he saw it. The dark angel separated himself from Hawks and with a strong swipe of the blades he knocked the red blades out of Hawks hand. Hawks quickly made fist and aimed his wings forward, firing a barrage of red feathers.
It would have worked on anyone, but Archangel who raised his wings to do the same exact thing. Firing his own feathers Archangel and Hawks attacks collided, creating a pool of feathers that fell to the ground. The feathers collided with each other and knocked others off their path, but those that got through the storm hit their targets cutting both winged flyers. But like the good doctor mentioned before Archangel has all Hawks strengths and none of the weaknesses. Hawks were starting to lose more feathers, he knew that it was only a matter of time before he ran out of feathers. He had no choice but to stop and cover up for the silver feathers that came swarmed him. Hawks felt his flesh be cut apart and before he knew the attacks stopped.
Hawks broke his guard only to be struck in the face, the punch from Archangel broke his yellow goggles, sending him crashing to the ground in thunderous force. When he landed the winged hero made crater, now he was looking up at the new king of the sky.
"Midnight, I know you have mixed feelings about this, but I need you to bury those feelings. Can you do that right now?" Aizawa asked her frantically and honestly, they were getting their asses kicked. Izuku has beaten two of the top five heroes and hasn't even cracked a sweat yet, they need to get in there now and do what they can.
"Yeah, I can. I'm a hero as well." Midnight reminded Eraserhead as she now stepped forward next to him. Eraserhead grabbed his scarf and Midnight grabbed her whip, with a single look at each other both took off to save Hawks.
"Let's move!" Both heroes took off running just as Archangel was about to kill Hawks. With Hawks down Archangel crashed down and aimed his right wing at him, he permanently put an end to this bird.
Just as he was about to end the pro's life his right arm was wrapped in a whip. Archangel glared at it and looked at the line of the rope to see who dared entrap him. He saw that it was Midnight, but she was not the only one. Eraserhead wrapped the other arm in his scarf and now they believed they had Archangel trapped. They were wrong.
Archangel began to struggle and pull at his binds bringing the pros near him, but they stood their ground. "Izuku, stop making this difficult!" Midnight screamed at the teen, but it was no avail as the wings started to flap, and Izuku was about to take off. He was up in the air and the pros that were holding him at bay looked like they were about to go for a ride, but Hawks was not going to let that happen. He reached to his side and grabbed a grappling hook, one that carried in case of emergencies.
Hawks fired the grapple hook at the feet of Archangel, the hook landed on the waist of Archangel and Hawks anchored him to the ground. With the Archangel being anchored to the ground, taking off just got a little harder, but it still was not enough to keep him down.
"Ragh!" Archangel animalistic scream came out in frustration for he could not get into the air thanks to these binds. Naomasa looked at the scene, the pros were putting up a fight, but it still was not enough. Even Mic came over to help Midnight in this tug of war while Hawks went to the Eraserhead side. With the combined efforts of four heroes Archangel was still able to fight his bonds.
"It won't be enough, they are only making him angrier." Karin saw the attempts that the heroes were making, but it wasn't enough.
"Then how do we stop him?!" Naomasa screamed at her, this was her creation she must know of a way to slow him down or weaken him. Karin looked at the red vial that was in her hand, this was the only hope that the heroes had.
"I need an opening. Give me that and I can stop him." Naomasa saw her look at the vial in her hand, whatever it was he hoped that it would work. The detective nodded his head and put a finger to his ear piece and spoke to the pros on the battlefield.
"You guys got that?"
"Working on it!" Eraserhead told him through gritted teeth as he held onto his scarf for dear life while Midnight did the same for her whip.
"Back up might be needed!" Present Mic screamed and Midnight had the same thought as they felt rope tear at their skin. Naomasa was about to call for backup, he didn't care who it was who came, but they needed someone here and they need them now. Lucky for them, backup came in the form of Mirko.
"I am the goddamn back up!" Naomasa and Karin felt a gush of wind hit them and that was all thanks to Mirko for she was now hopping back into action. Mirko jumped viciously creating hard cracks in the ground with each step.
When she took her final step she launched herself and delivered a powerful kick to the chest of Archangel. This time Archangel did not have his wings to protect him and so he took the full force of that kick. Blood spit up out of his mouth as the kick sent him flying backwards crashing into a tower of stack containers. Archangel went through them and caused all the rest to fall on top of him like a bunch of blocks.
"Payback bitch!" Mirko was still pissed that she was taking out commission for so long, but she came back when it counted. She looked around at the other four, they looked exhausted and Hawks looked like hell, but she told them power on through it.
"Get up, this fight is not over yet." The pros all rallied behind Mirko shaking off their wounds, she was right this battle is not over yet and as long as it goes they will keep going. They all turned their heads to the toppled crates, they heard a sound that sounded like someone was cutting through something. It didn't take them long to figure out who it was and what he was going to do.
Archangel used his wings like scythes to cut through the steel of the containers and make him a hole to get through. He rose from the toppled containers like he was a zombie from the grave, but this time the heroes saw that he was hurt. Blood dripped down the side of his head, but the wound was closing.
"Who's next?" Hawks badly quipped, but the one who decided to answer was Present Mic. Mic knew what he had to and decided to give a warning to them.
"Cover your ears." Present Mic told them and Eraserhead knew exactly what he was going to do, he and everyone else listened as the rock hero got in front of them. Present Mic took off his shades and aimed his eyes at Archangel, the silver winged machine was walking forward as Present Mic spoke.
"So you like to rock out too, huh? Well, let's see which one of us can perform the loudest concert." Present Mic was smiling, it was not everyday that he could unleash the full potential of his voice. Today is one of those rare days. He took a huge deep breath in and Archangel widened his eyes, he knew what the loud hero was going to do as well. Archangel did the same and at the same time both unleashed their concert.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Powerful waves of sound, one in the color of yellow and the other in the color of green started to make their way to each other. Both waves of sound tore up the concrete as they made their way to each other and they made the explosion happen. When the waves of sound hit it caused a massive force explosion to appear, that force shook the water next to them and started to create violent waves. The building by the harbor had their glass shatter into thousands pieces, the area shook like an earthquake was happening.
The others behind Present Mic all felt like the earth was shaking from the sheer power of the sound. Present Mic increased his power as did Archangel, but as strong as the dark angel was he was not stronger than the rock hero when it came to giving a concert. Present Mic began to gain the advantage and his yellow waves began to push back on the green waves.
Archangel's eyes widened in shock as he was losing ground and before he knew it the yellow waves had defeated his own sound waves. Now the waves of Present Mic voice shot over to Archangel and there was nothing that he could do except get blasted backwards. As he was being blasted backwards Archangel used his wings, sticking them into the ground he anchored himself, but it was not going to last. Present Mic's voice was far too powerful, it was earth shattering and that is what happened to his anchor spot. The earth below his wings shattered and he was once again blasted backwards.
The twisted version of Izuku crashed into a stack of large containers, he tried to move, but the pressure from the sound was too strong and prevented him from moving a muscle. Archangel screamed in anger because the pressure was crushing him and it wasn't long before he sunk into the pressure. Archangel ears were bleeding profusely, but he was not the only one. The heroes behind Present Mic ears were starting to affect them as well and Aizawa called out to his best friend.
"Mic, STOP!" When Present Mic called he stopped screaming and collapsed to the ground. It had been a long time since he had gone to that level and boy was he tired.
"You…got…it…from here." Present's mic voice was very hoarse, he could barely get out what he was trying to say. Archangel had crashed to the ground in a heap, he was badly affected by the sound blast. Everything was shaking to him, his equilibrium was off, and there is also the fact that his wounds were still healing yet. When he looked up he saw the heroes still affected by the blast themselves. The dark angel shook his head and refocused himself, he would kill the pros in his way starting with the blonde rock star.
Archangel slowly got up from the ground, but he was shaky. When he steady himself he flapped his wings and shot himself forward to the downed hero, his nails were pointed at Present Mic for he was going to end him. But just as he got close something happened and that something as Karin jumping in front of Archangel attack.
The attack went right through the doctor's chest, shocking everyone. Archangel had stuck his arm through her, but that was her plan. She intended for this to happen and now that she had Archangel in front of her she could now do this.
"Have…freedom." Karin sprayed the vial in Archangel's face. Whatever it was came out in the form of red mist and got in the face of Archangel. The dark angel eyes widened because he felt something happening to him, his mind started to feel different.
Before he knew it he removed his arm from the chest of and Karin collapsed backwards, the injury she received killed her before she hit the ground. But whatever she did to Izuku had some effect on him. The angel was shaking his head frantically and even grabbed it in pain, his wings were stretching themselves out and firing darts everywhere.
"This may be our only chance. Mirko!" Hawks called to his old friend and she nodded her head, she knew what to do. Mirko leapt from her spot and arrived in front of the crazed teen, Archangel's eyes turned into saucers for he didn't even see her appear, the next thing that happens is that Mirko gets some payback by doing somersault. Her foot kicked Archangel in the chin and sent him into the air, but she was not done because she hopped into the air…very high in the air. Mirko was higher than Archangel and when locked her eyes on her target she started to drop.
"Take some of this! LUNA DROP!" Mirko screamed as she dropped down to the ground like a speeding rocket, when got close to Archangel she planted her feet on her chest and sent him crashing to the ground in a thunderous impact. Archangel's eyes turned pure white when his back hit the ground, chest felt like it caved in from the sheer power of Mirko's kick. A crater was created from the crash and in the center stood a victorious Mirko and a downed angel.
Mirko catched her breath, it had been a while since she had a fight like that, but this kid was able to push her to the wall. Even with her back against the wall she showed why she is one of the strongest female heroes on the planet.
"Izuku!" Midnight ran over to the knocked out teen, Mirko looked at her and then looked back down at the kid. She didn't know who he was outside of a name, so why did Midnight care so much about him. When she arrived she slid on her knees and checked on him, he was alive, but unconscious.
"Anybody want to tell me who this kid is?" Mirko asked aloud as the heroes were licking their wounds. Aizawa had Present Mic leaning on his shoulder to keep him up, Hawks was closing the eyes of the dead doctor, and Naomasa was calling the clean up crew.
"He's a boy that I have been looking for 11 years and now I finally found him." Midnight tried to sound relieved, but it was hard when she saw the wings. The metal wings that were forced on him by the dead doctor and god knows who else. Midnight believes that the doctor got off easy, but she did something to Izuku and it showed when Midnight saw the wings change.
"Wait…Something is happening to his wings." Midnight announced, everyone turned their eyes to Izuku's wings and watched the wings change. The metal wings were cracking, breaking apart even. Pieces of the metal started to fall to the ground and the occupants watched as it seemed that Izuku's wings were molten revealing something that they all thought was lost to him. When the metal was gone Izuku's wings were not gone, instead the lost had given him back his white wings. The original white and angelic wings that Izuku was born with were back and that was a good sign for the group. Maybe whatever the doctor did worked, maybe there was hope for Izuku still.
"So, what do we do now?" Hawks asked aloud just as extra officers arrived, the scene was soon flooded with flashing lights as the heroes got medical attention and the villains that were at the scene were arrested. Aizawa watched as Present Mic was getting loaded into the ambulance, the rock hero gave him a thumbs up.
Midnight did the same but was happy from what she was seeing. Izuku was being loaded into a squad van with his hands and wings cuffed, they were treating him like a criminal even when he was hurt. Naomasa didn't even need to turn his head to feel the steel cold glare from the female pro, she was pissed and he could tell. So he decided to put her mind at ease.
"He'll be transported to the hospital where Present Mic is going to go. Come there tomorrow and you will know the full story."
"Why can't we get it now?" Aizawa was much like Midnight in this situation, he was not happy with the way this mission went. Hell, they nearly died because of a lack of information. Naomasa knew more than he let on and decided to send them blind.
"*Sigh* Because I need one more person there to hear this story, it involves him most of all." Naomasa looked at the heroes, they all nodded their heads. If they wanted the full story then they would have to come to the hospital tomorrow and they would indeed be there to get the full details.
As everyone started to depart, Naomasa grabbed the vial that Karin was holding, he looked around and grabbed it, putting it in an evidence bag. Whatever this was, it changed Izuku and he was only one of five. There were still four more out there. Perhaps this will come in handy if he could figure out what was inside of it.
Next Day
The next day had arrived and Naomasa was in the hospital with the rest of the heroes who were on the mission to retrieve Archangel. The mission was a success, but there was casualty, Doctor Karin, the woman who helped create Archangel was killed by her very creation. To some that would be poetic, but Naomasa means that the world may have lost their best expert in what's coming for the heroes. So the bright side is that the good guys won yesterday, they stopped the weapon and at the same time found the lost boy that Midnight has been searching for. Now comes the hard part, the explanation.
"We are all here, now talk." Aizawa sat in the chair next to Present Mic, all the heroes from the mission in the hospital room. Mic was in bed, he was the worst out of all of them. Doc's said that his voice will be out of commission for the next couple days.
Hawks had bandages all over him, the cuts were many, but he would live. Mirko, Midnight, and himself would all live, but they were all wearing hearing aids right including Hawks and Naomasa. Present Mic voice did damage to their hearing, but Recovery Girl told them that it will only take a couple of weeks before their hearing is back at full strength. Now they were all waiting for Naomasa to tell them what was really going on.
"Not yet, we are still waiting on a few more guests…"Naomasa heard the door open and smiled when he saw that the most important guest had finally arrived and as loud as ever.
"I am here in a hospital!" All Might screamed and that made everyone in the room grab their ears from the loud noise that he created. All Might was punished thanks to wack from Recovery Girl's cane and scored by a strange animal thing by the name of Nezu.
"Toshinori, you must remember that we are in hospital and that often calls for a quiet voice." Nezu scolded All Might like he was a child and the taller pro rubbed the back of his head. He greeted his old friend with a handshake and now with the greetings out of the way Naomasa could really begin the explanation.
"Ok, I know you want to know why I still have Izuku locked up, but I needed All Might here for he has history with the details that I am about to tell." Midnight was listening, but she in truth kept her eyes on the monitor that showed the image of Izuku in the integration room. He was still cuffed, but he was up. He was sitting down in the chair nor was he walking, but instead he sat in the corner of the room with his legs enclosed to him.
"Listen up cause his as of right now is top secret. Karin was scientist-"
"Not the word I would use." Midnight mumbled cutting off the detective, no one really blamed her, not even Recovery Girl or Nezu. When they heard the details of what the pros faced in this Archangel and to find out that he was a child when it happened was sickening. Naomasa ignored the comment and got back on track.
"Yes, well she was a scientist that worked for a man known as Sinister. Sinister and his master is the one behind these so-called Nomu and was the one that kidnapped Izuku and dozens of other children."
"Whose this master?" All Might asked his old friend and he was not going to like the answer at all. Naomasa looked at him the longest before telling him the answer, knowing he would react.
"All For One." All Might lost his smile when heard that, he even felt the wound that had shortened his hero career twitch in pain. The room dropped a couple degrees when that name was announced even though Nezu lost his calm exterior. His face was replaced with one of worry and concern.
"Are you positive?" All Might asked through gritted teeth, he feared that when he and his hated enemy fought in theri last battle that that would be it. He prayed to whoever was listening that he would be dead, but it seems that his prayer was not answered and the man that killed his former master still breathes air.
"Karin confirmed it. These Nomu's…there creatures created to battle us in this war that he is planning. I don't know what that truly entails, but we know that whatever it was it was going to be catastrophic. Mirko was the only one that didn't understand what was going on, hell even Hawks knew. It felt like she was being left out, so in true Mirko fashion she asked what was going on.
"Ok, who is All For One?" It was Hawks that answered her surprisingly.
"All For One was a big baddy from back in the day. Years ago the heroes led by All Might attacked home base, a lot of heroes died that day, but higher ups believed that All For One died in the final battle against All Might. Turns out we were not that lucky." Hawks explained to the bunny hero making her nod her head, this All For One character definitely sounded like bad news.
"How does this come back to Izuku?" Midnight asked impatiently and Naomasa figured that it was best that he brought the attention back to the guest lying in the integration room.
"Izuku is one of these Nomu's, Karin did tell us he's different from the rest. As for how I don't know, but she did emphasize that he was not the only one. There were five in total and Izuku here is the only one we got. Meaning that there are four more out there in the world and are still probably under All For One's control." The room remained silent after, All Might had no experience in fighting a Nomu, but from what he heard and could see from the heroes in the room one could put up a great fight.
"How did she give him those metal wings? It was like they were acting as supporting gear, but at the same time weren't." Mirko asked, she had been around for a while, but she had never seen anything like that. Those wings looked like they were truly part of him, they looked organic if there is a word to choose to describe what she saw.
"Techno-organic surgery." Naomasa answered by making Nezu and Recovery girl widen their eyes, both knew what that was and knew how illegal it was to do.
"Dear god," Recovery Girl whispered and Nezu was no better.
"I read about those, one would have to combine technology with organic matter. A near impossible feat." Nezu was truly disgusted by what he heard, to do that to children. It was beyond unethical and immoral.
"Do we have names on these other Nomu's, maybe we can start tracking them." Hawks suggested he could even get the HPSC involved in this. They are going to want to know about All For One's return. Naomasa however shook his head, Karin didn't give him that info, but he did have an idea on how to get that information.
"No, but there may be someone that knows." Naomasa turned his eyes to the screen and everyone could see where this was going. Midnight was the first to voice her opinion on that.
"No! No. Are you serious?!"
"Midnight-"
"No. He just went through a traumatic experience and now you want to interrogate him." It was clearly shown that Midnight was not happy about this, if looks could kill then the detective would already be dead.
"He is right now the only option we have. You don't know All For One like I do, if there is even a chance of us getting ahead we need to take it."
"At what cost?" Midnight asked him aggressively and to be honest not many in the room like this. On one side Namoasa had a point, those that know the stories about All For One and those that have truly seen his terror like Naomasa, Nezu, Recovery Girl, and All Might know how dangerous he could be. On the other side they have a child that was abducted and turned into a weapon for a mad man, god knows what he went through and what his mental state is right now.
Naomasa knew that he was not going to get anywhere arguing with the woman, so he decided to cut her a deal. "Ok, how about this. You come with me. You can watch, listen, and ask questions if you want. Deal?" Midnight narrowed her eyes on him, she did not like this one bit, but she would accept the deal to speak to Izuku.
"Deal." Naomasa nodded his head and moved to the door, he opened it for her and allowed her to pass first. She didn't even bat an eye at him, she just wanted to make sure that Izuku was safe. When the door closed Hawks decided to turn up the monitor, he did not want to miss this. All eyes were glued to the monitor as the detective and pro made their way to the interrogation room.
When they arrived Nomasa opened the door, and Midnight walked into the gray room expecting to see Izuku sitting in the chair, but he was not. The teen was still in the corner, his knees held closely to his chest. They couldn't see his eyes or his face, but Izuku didn't need to look up to know that they were there.
"Izuku?" Midnight spoke softly, the teen finally lifted his head showing his tired green eyes. Izuku looked at Midnight, he knew from his childhood of watching heroes.
"You're Midnight, right?" Midnight her head and Izuku looked to the detective, remembering him from the events of yesterday.
"You're the detective from yesterday. You were there." Naomasa, like Midnight , nodded his head. From what they were seeing it seemed like Izuku had parts of memories still intact. He knows who they are and he knows about yesterday. Izuku surprised them next when he stood up on his bare feet, he didn't walk to them, no he still kept his distance.
"The others that were there, Hawks, Mirko, Eraserhead, and Present Mic. Are they alright?" Izuku asked them, and the others could see that he seemed concerned for them. Both adults nodded their heads and that made Izuku nod his head, there was only one that died and he knew who.
"Karin," Izuku said as he looked down, he had killed her. She jumped in the way of the attack that was meant for Present Mic and died, but his freedom was thanks to her death.
"She died." Naomasa told him bluntly, he wanted to get a look at his psyche and it seemed whatever he was doing was working. Izuku looked sad for a moment, he looked down at his hands.
"I know. I remember last night. I'm sorry." Midnight came closer to him, much to Naomasa's look of disagreement. When she got close to Izuku she touched his hand in a comforting manner, she wanted him to know that it was not his fault.
"It's ok, it wasn't your fault. You weren't in control of your actions." Izuku just simply nodded his head, he knew that to be true. It wasn't him in control, it was something much worse than him.
"Yeah. Why are you here now? I assume it's to get information out of me." Izuku had the feeling that information is what they wanted, Midnight has her reasons, but the detective was here for info. Izuku could see this by the way he kept his distance, he was close to the door, his gun still at his side.
"Yes, we were hoping that you could help us fill in the blanks." Naomasa finally moved, he wasn't as close as Midnight, but he moved past the door. He was now on the opposite side of the table where one would look at the glass mirror.
"What do you want to know?" Izuku asked him, getting right to the point. He saw no point in playing mind games, in fact he had enough of those for a lifetime.
"You seem to remember last night, what else do you remember prior to yesterday?" Izuku thought about the question, he does remember much…too much.
"Everything. Everything that I ever did while I was Archangel. I…I couldn't stop it. I…I wanted to, but he wouldn't let me."
"All For One." Naomasa assumed and Izuku was silent for a moment. Midnight and Naomasa took that as a yes, but what they didn't know was that Izuku was battling his own demons.
"Yeah. If you know about All For One then I suppose Karin told you about the Nomu's." Naomasa nodded his head, now wanting to know more about these creatures.
"Yes, she told us that these Nomu's were creatures built for war. She went on saying that there were six of you made, each different from the rest and that you were one of the six. What are you?"
"Naomasa." Midnight's voice carried a hint of danger when she called his name, she didn't like that question implying that Izuku was some kind of monster. Izuku on the other hand ignored it, he didn't care what the detective thought. All he wanted were the other four Nomu's, his brothers.
"Project X, that is what we are. Myself and the others are an advanced group of Nomu's, compared to the others we are truly different. Faster, stronger, quicker, we heal faster, we process information quicker, we are more like soldiers than anything else. The five were the only ones to survive the experiments, all the other kids died." Naomasa and Midnight were silent when they heard that, so now they learned that there were others in this Project X and those others didn't make it out.
"How many?" Naomasa asked and Izuku looked away.
"Too many. Too many died. When the experiments were over the five remained and then the worst part came."
"Worst part?" Midnight asked, how could it get worse for Izuku. She was about to find out and when she heard was going to vomit.
"The first stage was building our bodies, constant needle injections that made our bones denser, eyes sharper, muscles stronger, hearing better, and so on. The second part was the quirks, this where Karin and All For One himself stepped in. The first part was done by All For One's lead scientists, a man named Sinister. When all the injections were done All For One wanted to improve our quirks, sometimes it was genetically with more quirks and sometimes it was physically." Izuku told them as he took a glance at his own wings and now they were starting to understand how the metal wings came to be.
"Were you the only one to get that?" Izuku shook his head, no he was not the only one. In fact his metal wings were not even the worst of it. The image of a raven haired girl soon entered his mind and Izuku quickly dismissed it with a shake of his head.
"No, well, everyone got multiple quirks, but those that had physical surgeries to improve their quirks were myself and another. Her name is Laura and she is called Wolverine. Her quirk was a physical one much like mine, the ability to summon claws out her knuckles. All For One wanted to make that stronger, so he had Karin infuse her bones with a rare indestructible metal known as adamantium."
"My god," Midnight whispered, hearing that a child was giving metal wings was one thing, but hearing that another had their bones infused with metal. Midnight didn't even want to know how Karin was able to pull that off. She looked at Naomasa, he looked very sick right now, but he swallowed an uncomfortable lump in his throat and continued on with the questions.
"What about the other four? What are their names and the powers they have?"
"Wolverine, like I mentioned, has unbreakable claws, feral senses, and a powerful healing factor. Then there is Nightcrawler, his name is Kurt and his abilities are more catered to stealth. He can teleport, see in the dark, and is very good with katanas. Next is Havok, real name Alex, and powers its energy projection, energy absorption, and plasma emanation. He is very powerful. Then there is James, we call him Warpath. A hunter, in every sense of the word and a master of combat especially when it comes to his knives. All For One outfitted him with quirks that catered to his style, much like Wolverine his he has feral senses and good healing factor, but the differences stop there. Warpath's healing factor is not as strong as Wolverine and Wolverine is not as strong as Warpath. And then there's the last one who might be the strongest of us all. Her name is Rogue, real name Anna and her quirk is power absorption." Naomasa stopped writing when heard that, that power sounded awfully familiar to All For One. Izuku caught the look and decided to explain the story around Rouge.
"Rogue's power is much like All For One's, but different. She could never give anyone powers like he can. She can only stack them inside of her, but that was before. When All For One saw what her powers really could do he decided to tweak them. He took her ability to borrow the powers, she can only now borrow the memories of those that she touched, but he didn't leave her without anything. Rouge was given superhuman strength, flight, and durability. Together the six of us made Project X." Izuku finished telling Naomasa about the others, about his brothers and sisters.
"Ok, thank you. Now I must ask you one last question. What do you want to do?" Naomasa caught the glare from Midnight, but Izuku shrugged his shoulders. He didn't know what he wanted to do, everything was different now. All he really knew is that he wanted to save his siblings.
"I… I honestly wanted to be a hero when I was kid, but things have changed. For the better or worse I don't know yet, but I do know one thing. I need to find the others, my siblings. That is something that I want." Naomasa turned his eyes to Midnight, he had gotten what he wanted. The rest will be her deciding on what to do next, personally if it was up to him he would be moving the kid to a secure location until others figure what to do next. But Midnight has a personal connection to the kid, he figured that she would be the one to decide.
"Izuku," Izuku turned his eyes to the female pro. Midnight didn't know how to tell him this, but she knew that she needed to. It was going to be painful, she removed her mask revealing her blue eyes and after a deep breath Nemuri told Izuku about the death of his mother.
"Izuku, I…I don't know any other way to tell you this, but your mother was killed." Nemuri expected Izuku to look shocked about the information, but instead the teen eyes didn't display shock. Instead it was hurt, a hurt that was seen by Naomasa as the angel looked down at the ground. Naomasa watches closely at the reactions of Izuku, he has given the bad news to the loved one before, but none of them are acting like Izuku. It's almost like he…he knows.
Naomasa theory was proven correct when Izuku confirmed it with his own words. "I know. I did it." Those last three words were something that neither Naomasa nor Midnight expected to hear, even the heroes in the room had dropped jaws.
"What?" Midnight was close to falling over after hearing that. The killer that she was looking for had Inko's very own son. Izuku sighed and began to tell what All For One made the five do when their modifications were complete.
"Karin developed a form of mind control, the control didn't give us free will or control of bodies. We became drones taking orders from the king and the king wanted to test the limits of mind control and that test was to eliminate our loved ones to see if a rush of emotions and stress could break the control. Turns out Karin mind control was strong, but not stronger than that gas. Whatever she hit me with broke it, giving me my free will back." Naomasa now had more insight on the device that was used, if it's possible to make more of them maybe they could use it on the other four still in All For One's hand. Question now: who does he give this to to analyze?
'David Shield might be able to help.' While Namoasa was figuring out a plan Midnight was still down from the news that she just heard. Izuku was not looking anyone in the eyes, so Midnight decided to grab his face.
It was not in a forceful manner, but a gentle one. One that Izuku has not felt in a long time, she raised to her and saw the painful look in his eyes, he was hiding it but she saw it. Nemuri hugged Izuku, wrapping her arms around. Izuku hasn't felt a hug in so very long, he felt warm. If he wasn't cuffed he would hug her back, but the hug that he was receiving was good the way it was.
"It's not your fault." Izuku heard her words and brought his head to her shoulder. He didn't cry, but the emotions were strong. He released a powerful yell, his powers did not activate because the cuffs blocked his powers, but the yell did what it was supposed to do. He had so much bottled up and it was becoming too much. Midnight didn't move away, all she did was comfort him so more by rubbing his head. While some saw a dangerous weapon she saw a boy whose life was ruined by a madman.
Nemuri knew that Izuku had no else to go, he can't be by himself for the Naomasa will allow it. He is going to be watched so there was only one option that she had.
"You want to do what?" Naomasa asked Midnight as they both were back in the room filled with heroes.
"I am going to adopt him." Midnight repeated, Naomasa could not believe it, hell not even the room could. They knew that Nemuri had been very protective of Izuku and that before he called him down, she didn't want to hurt him even when he tried to kill them.
"Izuku needs help and his mother is dead, he has no one. At least this way I can give him a home and help." Help is something that a kid could need, they knew that easily, but leaving him with Midnight was the question. Naomasa had some opinions on this, but it seemed the room was starting to agree with her starting with Aizawa.
"So you're really going to adopt the kid?" Nemuri nodded her head without hesitation and Aizawa just sighed. "Then I guess I better get used to being called Uncle." Nemuri's eyes were shocked, but her eyes soon turned to one of gratefulness. After Aizawa it was Present Mic with a nod, followed by Mirko, Hawks, Recovery Girl, Nezu, and finally All Might.
All of them trusted her with Izuku, Naomasa was not against it, his true feelings laid towards All For One and whether Naomasa likes it or not Izuku was in All For One hands. Though seeing that this was overruled Naomasa nodded his head making Nemuri look at him with a grateful smile. Things were tense between them, but she knew that he had a good heart and it showed now.
"Well, guess I am a mother now." Midnight jokes, but in truth I was nervous. She had never been a mother before, but now she will have to do it. She has a child that needs her now, but she won't be alone, she will have friends that will support. All she hopes for is that Izuku is able to recover from the traumatic experience that he has gone through, but unknown to her Izuku demons were not only All For One.
His demon, his true demon was the darkness inside of him. The heroes believed that they defeated Archangel, but that was far from the truth. Archangel was far from gone. Can Izuku, can Midnight tame the beast that dwells inside of him. Or will Archangel return and bring destruction upon everyone in his wake.
To Be Continued
Author Note: There you have the Fallen Angel arc is completed. Next arc is the Exams arc and then UA arc, and then we cap it off with the USJ arc. We have our Project X survivors, Warpath is a new addition that I added. I like him and I think he fits well with the project and team. Project X may turn into the X-Force, or X-Factor, or even the X-Men. Who knows lol? I have big plans for all of them. In terms of Age Izuku is the youngest. Then it goes Laura (18), Kurt and Rouge are same age (22), Havok (24), and Warpath (25). Rouge is the leader of them for she is one of if not the strongest among them all. I think that will be all for now so I will see all for the next chapter when ever that's get out hopefully before the Black Adam Movie drops.
