Next chapter incoming. Not much to say this time around but I do have some reviews to reply to.

Fallout-Man101: It'd be cool to add Maria into the story, but I don't know when I'd have her arrive.

catastrophiqu: I'm not gonna say too much, but what I will say is that Ozpin is not gone and will play a later on in the story.

ranjira1988: I have plans for her silver eye powers. Remember every power a person has, known or unknown, is augmented in some way and combined into one quirk. How exactly it's been augmented will be revealed later.

Now onto the chapter.


USJ Arc

Chapter 26: Battle at the USJ Part 1

The first thing Izuku saw after being enveloped by the villains black mist, was water heading right towards his face.

"SHIT!" He shouted.

He hit the water with a splash. He slowly sunk into the water below. He spun himself around to get a better idea of his surroundings. I'm in flood zone now. Good to know, but not the main focus. The villains are here to kill All Might. Crazy as it sounds, even with his injury, these villains wouldn't be here if they didn't think they had a chance.

"Found ya kid." He heard someone declared.

Huh? He turned to she a shark like man in scuba gear. NOT GOOD! He thought as he let loose a gurgled shriek.

"Nothin' personal, but time to say goodby…" He began, only for Tsuyu to come in and dive kick him in the face.

She was holding Minoru in her arms.

"I got ya Midoriya." She stated.

She shot out her tongue, wrapping it around Izuku's waist. Springing off of the villain, she shot towards the surface. Upon surfacing she used her tongue to fling him onto the ship in the middle of the zone.

"Her boobs are nice." Minoru muttered.

Tsuyu heard this and in the less nice way possible, she slammed him onto the deck of the ship. She worked to climb onto the boat herself.

"Thanks Asu… I mean Tsu." Izuku expressed.

"Your welcome, but we're still in trouble here." Tsuyu noted.

"Yeah they know our schedule. They must have gotten it during the break-in the other day, using the media rush as a distraction." Izuku noted. "There well prepared for this attack."

"Yeah like that's gonna matter. The minute All Might gets here he'll smash them." Minoru declared.

"Uh… I hate to burst your bubble but…" Izuku began.

"The villains wouldn't be here if they didn't have a way they at least thought would work." Tsuyu pointed out.

"Huh?" Minoru expressed with a blank face.

"Also there's no guarantee that we'll live long enough for him to come. The villain did say he'd kill us as well as All Might." Tsuyu continued. "And even when he does get here he might end up dying too."

Minoru's face became paler and paler by the second.

"Your not helping." Izuku pointed out.

Minoru began to scream in terror.

"You brats!" The shark villain exclaimed as he returned to the surface.

Minoru stopped screaming and looked towards him.

"Come down here so I can kill ya!" The villains shouted.

Soon more villain surfaced, surrounding them on the ship.

"There's a whole school of them!" Minoru shrieked as he gripped his head.

While Minoru was in the middle of a panic attack, Izuku's mind was working to find a way out of their situation. Our situation just went from bad to worse. What do we do now? We're surrounded and even if we do get out of this we have the villains in the plaza. One of them is likely the key to beating All Might. I wish I knew who though and I wish I knew how they plan on utilizing him. For now though, there's only one thing we can do. Unbeknownst to him and the two with him he was muttering the whole time.

"What do we do?!" Minoru shrieked.

"We fight." Izuku stated with confidence in spite of his fear. "And we win. We do everything we can to make sure their plan fails."

Minoru looked at him like he just grew two heads.

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND! THESE GUYS COULD BE STRONG ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT ALL MIGHT AND YOU WANT TO FIGHT THEM!" He shrieked. "OUR BEST CHANCE IS TO HIDE AND WAIT FOR THE UA HEROES TO RESCUE US."

"We probably won't have the time for that the way things stand." Izuku pointed out. "And besides, we have one advantage over them."

"Oh really, and what is that mister smarty pants?" Minoru questioned.

"Don't act like a child, and the advantage we have is our quirks." Izuku stated.

Tsuyu and Minoru looked at him confused.

"Let me explain. The villains clearly divided up their team so that they'd be in zone best suited for them." Izuku explained. "That's why all the villains here have aquatic based quirks. However when they divided us up they didn't put us in areas where we'd be the least effective."

Suddenly realization dawned on Tsuyu.

"That's right. If they knew my quirk they'd put me in a fiery zone." She noted. "They probably know all about the zones, but not about our quirks."

"Exactly they plan on using superior numbers and experience to win. But we can exploit the fact that they don't know anything about our quirks to win." Izuku added. "Speaking of which, what exactly can your quirks do. I didn't get the chance to see your matches so I don't know."

"I can do anything a frog can such as sticking to walls, throwing out my tongue up to 20 meters, and jumping really high." Tsuyu explained. "Not important right now but I can also spit out my stomach to wash it and secrete a light poison. It'll sting a bit but won't do much other than that."

"Okay…" Izuku expressed feeling uncomfortable from her stating the last part with a straight face. "What about you Mineta."

"I can pop off these balls on my head." Minoru stated as he did so.

A new one grew in its place.

"I can stick them to stuff but I'm able to bounce off them." He stated as he stuck a ball to the boat. "Though if I take too many I'll start bleeding."

Tsuyu just looked at him with a blank stare. Izuku's mind was working on how to best utilize their quirk to get out of their predicament. Minoru didn't realize what Izuku was thinking.

"That's why I say we wait to be rescued, my quirk's no good in this situation!" He shriek.

"Hey calm down your quirk's fine. In fact, without it we wouldn't be able to get out of this situation." Izuku explained.

"Huh?" Both Tsuyu and Minoru questioned.

"I have a plan. It's crazy, but it just might work. All we need now is the right moment." Izuku stated.

Suddenly a large blade of water ripped through the boat causing it to start to sink. Looks like they got bored of waiting. Though this could be our moment.

"AAAHHH! Take this you villains!" Minoru defiantly shouted as sent of volley of balls at them.

They splashed in the water and did nothing. Crap! Please don't check them, Please don't check them! Izuku mentally exclaimed. The villains were being cautious and avoided them. Instead they opted to into waiting for the boat to sink and the trio to be in the water. Oh thank god there not checking them.

"AHHH! IT DID NOTHING!" Minoru screamed. "We're dead. Dead men be we. We're gonna sink into the water and die a horrible painful death."

"Geez Mineta did you really come here to be a hero?" Tsuyu questioned.

"SHUT UP! I'm scared, terrified. We just got out of middle school for pete's sake and we're already in a life or death situation. How can you not be scared?!" Minoru cried.

"I am scared, terrified beyond belief in fact." Izuku stated as he looked out on the enemy, trembling.

"Huh?" Minoru questioned, seeing him shaking.

"But now's our best shot. 'The moment the enemy thinks they've won represents your best chance to win.' All Might said that in an interview for a documentary." Izuku explained. "Here's the plan."

While Izuku explained his plan to Tsuyu and Minoru. The villains waited for the hero students to make their moves. In the water, the villains knew they had the advantage. Suddenly Izuku stepped out to face them, hiding his fear with a fierce look of anger. Embracing his inner Katsuki, he leapt into battle.

"AHHHH! TIME TO DIE BASTARDS!" He shouted.

"Ha… looks like the kids got a death wish." One villain noted.

As Izuku fell towards the water, he readied a flick and charged [One for All] into his thumb and middle finger at max power.

"Delaware…" He began.

He mental braced himself for the pain.

"SMAAAASSSSH!" She shouted as he let loose his fingers.

Izuku released his attack right near the water's surface. The force of the blast caused a huge whole to open up in it. It also sent him up away from the water's surface. He grunted in pain, his fingers broken and bracer destroyed.

"Tsu, Mineta, now!" He shouted.

Holding Minoru in her arm, Tsuyu leapt into the air. She sent out her tongue and wrapped it around Izuku to pull him with them. He's scared just like me. Even so, he still acts. If I can't even do this. I'll never be a cool hero. Minoru thought to himself. As they flew through the air, Minoru popped off as many balls as he could till his head started bleeding. As the water rushed back into the epicenter of the attack, it dragged the villains in. As this happened, the balls that Minoru had thrown in began to get stuck to the villains. Eventually the villains were stuck together in a balled up mass, thanks to all of this.

"Nice job guys, looks like we've cleared the first hurdle." Tsuyu noted.

Yeah, but this is just the beginning. We're heading towards the central plaza now and who knows what will await us. We're out of the frying pan and heading right into the fire.


Meanwhile, at the landslide zone…

"Well I have to say Todoroki…" Itsuka began. "You're really something else."

She looked out at the large group of villains who Shoto just froze over in an instance.

"Spare me your compliments these goons are nothing more than lowlife thugs. You probably could have beaten them on your own." He noted.

"Regardless, these guys are bound to know something about whatever their plan to kill All Might is." Itsuka stated as she walked up them.

With her hands on her hips she stood before the crowd.

"So tell us how is it exactly you villains plan on defeating the Symbol of Peace?"

"Ha… you think us getting a little frosty is gonna make us spill the beans? Yeah right girly, we ain't talking." One villain stated.

"Yeah we ain't tellin' ya anything!" Another shouted.

"Oh is that so…" Itsuka began has she held up an enlarged hand. "Then maybe if I break parts of you off bit by bit you'll be more willing to talk."

To fully sell her act, she gazed upon them coldly with a sadistic smile on her face. The villains began to panic at this declaration. Shoto smirked seeing her act for what it was. He stepped forward up next to her.

"That or we wait for frostbite to set in and rot there skin. So why don't you talk and avoid all of this?" Shoto added coldly.

Any semblance of valor left the villains in that moment. They paled as fear gripped their hearts.

"Hey now let's not be too hasty we can talk things out, right boys?" The first villain stated.

"Y-yeah, what he said." The second villain added.

"Then start talking." Itsuka ordered.


Meanwhile, in the collapsed zone…

Katsuki and Eijiro effortlessly dealt with the last of the villains who'd come to fight them.

"That looks like the last of them." Eijiro noted. "We should hurry and find our classmates. If we're still in the USJ their bound to be as well. I'm worried about those who aren't too suited for combat."

"They're probably fine. These mooks aren't all that tough. Though if you still want to do that, count me out. I'm gonna take out that misty bastard." Katsuki declared.

"Hold up wait, didn't we try that and before and just faze right through him. Normal attacks don't work against him. In hindsight, we should have stayed back and let thirteen suck him up." Eijiro pointed out.

"We'll it's too late to talk about hindsight. He's the reason these guys can get around. Which means he's their way out. If we bring him down they'll be trapped here." Katsuki pointed out. "And besides when our attacks wifted he said 'close one', meaning there's a body in all that mist that can be attacked. Which means we have a way of taking him down."

"Yeah… your right… wow you can really think things through all calm and collective it's kind of cool." Eijiro noted.

"I'm always calm shitty hair!" Katsuki shouted.

"Oh… it's back." Eijiro pointed out.

"Tch… anyways I'm heading out. Do whatever you want." Katsuki stated.

"Then I'm coming with ya. Let's take that guy down." Eijiro noted.

Before they made their way out, they heard a shriek of pain. They stopped dead in their tracks. They looked around. Suddenly a body fell behind them. They looked to see a fresh corpse with blood pouring out from it.

"What the hell!" Katsuki shouted.

"Did one of the villains kill one of their own. That's messed up." Eijiro exclaimed.

The two didn't move staying on the ready for any sudden attacks. Their eyes darted around to see anything. Their ears strained to hear any sound. As he looked around, Katsuki noticed that the villain had a knife in hand. Seeing this, he realized something and lowered his guard.

"Come on, let's go." Katsuki stated.

"What, are you crazy a villain could still be around here just waiting to attack us." Eijiro pointed out.

"I don't think this villain, if you could call them that, is looking to attack us." Katsuki pointed out. "The villain they killed had a knife in his hand. It's likely he was waiting for us to turn our back on him when we were leaving. If this person really was our enemy, they wouldn't have killed him and instead opted to attacking with him."

"Ohhhh… I see now. Even still, why would they come along on this attack only to betray them?" Eijiro questioned.

"Who knows. Maybe they're a vigilante acting on their own. Or a rival organization member looking to sabotage the League of Villains' attack on us." Katsuki answered. "Regardless it doesn't look like they mean us any harm so we should be safe to get going. But let's keep our guard up."

"Yeah good idea." Eijiro affirmed.

The two made their way out of the building. Watching them leave from the shadows, was Neo using an illusion to hide herself. Her new bladed umbrella had blood dripping off of it. Not bad for a couple of muscle heads. Blondie their was able to discern my warning just from that. Now all I have to do is make my exit. Wait for the police to arrive and nab a few of them as their transported to prison. Hopefully they'll be able to stop Kurogiri and Tomura from retreating. One less rival to deal with if they do. Now then, time to make my leave. Neo made her way out of the building hidden from sight.


Near the central plaza…

Izuku, Tsuyu, and Minoru stayed in the water by the shoreline. They watch as Glynda and Aizawa dealt with the hoards of villains around them. We just need to wait for an opening, then we can get in and relieve some of the load off of them. He thought to himself. As they watch, they saw Aizawa charge Tomura. Glynda kept the other villains busy as he did.

"You must be the boss." He noted as he sent out his binding cloth.

The villain caught it. However, Aizawa used that to pull into an elbow.

"Not bad Eraserhead. But you should have been more careful. After all…" The villain began as he tightened his grip on Aizawa's elbow which had intercepted the attack. "The duration in which you can use your quirk is shortening."

Aizawa's elbow began to disintegrate as pain ran through his whole system. Pushing passed it he clocked the villain square in the jaw. Now released from his grip, Aizawa hopped away.

"Even with the help you've had, this long drawn out battle is pushing you to your limit. You specialize in quick surprise attacks. More one on one, or one verse a small group, not this kind of situation." Tomura noted. "And yet you jumped right in just to have your students feel safe. How cool… how… heroic. By the way…"

Suddenly the a villain, one of hulking size was on Aizawa. With pure black skin, scars along its body, a beak mouth with sharp teeth, it's brain exposed, and muscles bulging, the villain was a terrifying sight to behold.

"I'm not the boss you should be worried about." Tomura finished.

The beast brought it's hand down to crush Aizawa. However, in the nick of time, Glynda used her [Telekinesis] to pull him out of the way.

"Tch… crush them both." Tomura ordered.

In an instant, the beast was on Glynda. TOO FAST! It sent a punch barreling at her. She raised her arms to defend herself and used [Telekinesis] to strengthen her bones to take the blow. In that instant Aizawa tried to use his quirk on it. The punch connected sending her flying into the fountain. Aizawa's eyes widened in shock. I'm sure I used my quirk on that thing. That means it has that strength naturally. Strength like that could compete with All Might. Glynda grunted in pain as she got up. Her left arm, having been in front and taken the brunt of the impact, hung limp at her side, clearly broken. Her clothes were slightly torn but still decent. Her hair hung messily around her, no longer tied neatly in her bun.

"Not having Aura sucks…" She muttered.

She clenched her left arm in pain.

"Meet our bio-engineered anti-symbol of peace, heroes." Tomura declared. "Meet Nomu."


Ruby: Ooohhhh this is not looking good for Ms. Goodwitch and Mr. Aizawa.

Izuku: Hopefully All Might will get here soon.

Ruby: Wait doesn't he...

Izuku: DON'T SPOIL IT!

Ruby: Yeah yeah whatever. Anyways next time Ren, Momo, Kyoka, and Denki have some villains of their own to deal with.

Izuku: And Ruby implements her plan to get past Kurogiri.

Ruby: Next time, Chapter 27: Battle at the USJ Part 2.

Izuku: Catch you guys then.