Bedtime
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All Might and All-for-one are exchanging blow for blow. All Might's definitely holding back though, no way AFO's quirk combo would be able to match One-for-all at 100%. Izuku and his classmates are hidden and out of the way, leaving the only viable factor to be Kacchan's fight.
'Do or die time Deku. Poor little Izuku couldn't save his friend from the Slime Villain, but the Hero Deku, and his heroic classmates, can save their teammate.'
Izuku relays his short analysis to his friends.
"We need to get him out of there before All Might runs out of time" Izuku explains.
Ilda and Eijiro keep suggesting that they just run in and grab the boy, but Eijiro is too slow and Ilda would have a difficult time running through the debris-ridden area. Todoroki's idea of just freezing everyone wouldn't help either – Kacchan would get trapped as well, and any warning given would alert the Villains to the trap as well.
Izuku is mid mutter when Kacchan's voice breaks his focus, "I can hear your creepy ass muttering from here Deku! Shut the fuck up and go to sleep!"
Sleep? There's no time, he has to help save Kacchan! Or… am I just not n-
"I believe in you Deku!", Uraraka cuts off his self-deprecating thought.
"Ever since our first day I've believed in you Deku, no", she blushes, "Izuku".
She's right, his friends believe in him!
"I don't! Fuck off and sleep!" Kacchans' voice calls out once more.
Good old Kacchan.
Izuku shakes his head and claps his cheeks, pumped up and ready to plan.
"Todoroki, you can form a ramp for Ilda to jump from." The boy nods. "Eijiro", Izuku continues, turning around to look at said boy, "you'll-" Izuku gets cutoff by the sudden appearance of a voice behind him.
"I'm afraid you've run out of time, Izuku." Izuku twists around, All-for-one thrumming under his flesh, to find All-for-one, and his hand on Ilda's shoulder. Izuku, Eijiro, and Todoroki all jump back to safe distances.
Ilda turns to Izuku, a gentle smile on his face, "He's right Izuku, it's about time you went to sleep."
'How!? He was fighting All Might!? Doesn't matter!' Izuku, body charged with green lightening, leaps at the Villain with his right fist clocked back.
But AFO isn't next to Ilda.
Izuku lands, shock and fear chilling his veins, and goes to pivot around and attempt another strike.
His right arm, still pulled back and ready to strike, is caught in a steel grip before he can make the leap.
It's Ilda holding him back, that gentle smile still firmly in place. "Izuku, time's up, you have to sleep."
'Ilda no!'
Izuku rips his arm back and jumps away, next to Eijiro – A quick glance reveals the boy's flesh already turned stone and arms raised for a fight. "Eijiro, Todoroki, All-for-one's done something to Ilda! Don't let him touch you!"
A scan reveals no trace of AFO, only a still smiling Ilda and Todoroki with his arm encased in ice.
Two arms, skin made of stone, come up under Izuku's own and entrap him as AFO's distorted voice pierces the air; "Izuku, what did I say? It's past your bedtime, and it's time to go sleepy-by."
Izuku's head snaps back, all-for-one infused skull clacking off of Eijiro's, stunning the boy and granting Izuku his escape – stopping in front of Todoroki with both Ilda and Eijiro within his sights..
There AFO stands, one hand on Eijiro's shoulder and the other raised to where Izuku's was but a moment ago, stance lazy and confid-he's gone again.
'Where's All Might!? He needs to get over here and help me and-'
"Todoroki!" Izuku shouts as he turns, only to be frozen in place by his friend's ice. His head, left unfrozen, strains until he can lay eyes on the boy – and AFO standing behind him, hand on Todoroki's shoulder.
"Izuku", Todoroki starts, his mouth pulled into an awkward smile, "really now, you're acting as if sleep is the end of the world."
"All-for-One! What have you done to my friends!?" Izuku screams, squirming all he can within his icy prison.
"You can see your friends soon, Izuku. But first you have to sleep. All board the express to sleepy time junction." AFO's distorted voice rasps.
The three smiling boys all "choo-choo" in unison, moving to surround him.
'Quick thinking! All-for-one brainwashed my friends, All Might's disappeared, I'm trapped in ice, and AFO is reaching his hand for myface!'
"Howitzer!"
'Kacchan!'
"Impact!"
The explosion blinds Izuku for a moment, but a few blinks later reveal the devastation it reigned. AFO and his friends are gone, and his icy prison is a puddle.
"Kacchan, you saved me!" Izuku cries, running in to hug his friend.
Kacchan raises a hand, holding Izuku back at arms length with a hand to the face.
"Course I did dumbass! I can't be the number 1 without my number 2, now can I!?" He shouts.
Kacchan drops his arm and instead punches Izuku in his shoulder. "We promised, remember?" he says firmly, with his signature smirk on full display.
"Ain't no Villain bitch gonna keep us from achieving our dream, Deku!" Kacchan declares.
"I AM HERE TO CONGRATULATE YOU BOYS ON A JOB WELL DONE" All Might shouts as he steps out from behind some rubble.
"All might! You're alive!" Izuku shouts, body finally relaxing.
"INDEED I AM, MY BOY! AND IT IS INDEED AS YOUNG BAKAGOU SAID, NO VILLAIN SHALL GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR DREAMS!" All Might agrees.
Izuku is seconds away from tackling All Might in a hug, buy freezes as he watches the Hero's smile take a tilt towards the unnatural.
"But of course," AFO's voice, devoid of its' usual distortion, rings out from behind All Might, "in order to dream, one must first sleep." the man finishes as he steps out from behind the hulking Hero – mask replaced by a gentle smile.
'But- Kacchan won though!?'
"UNFORTUNATELY YOUNG MIDORIYA, THE TIME FOR PLAYING HERO IS OVER. IT'S PAST YOUR BEDTIME AFTER ALL." All Might's voice booms as his large hand encloses Izuku's face entirely.
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Izuku's eyes snap open with a start, meeting the warm gaze of his mother.
"Come on Izuku, it's past your bedtime and I'm not letting you sleep at the computer again after last time. You know that bad sleep posture will come back to haunt you when you grow up, and my little boy needs the best sleep he can get."
"B-but All Might, and Kacchan, and-and-"
"Shush now sweetie, you can watch more Hero videos tomorrow. Other 8 year olds would've been snugly tucked in bed hours ago you know."
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Author's notes;
And done. After not writing anything in months I decided that I should bang something out.
I wrote up the idea for this back on the 27th of April, my notes were only 144 words and of one scene, so I'm pretty happy that this eclipsed a thousand. I ended up changing a few elements and adding in a bunch more.
I realise that reading this at first, you might have assumed it was a self-indulgent fantasy thing - seeing as I had Uraraka come out of nowhere and flirt – and that was intentional, seeing as it was a child Izuku dreaming it up.
Feels bit clunky and off, but that's all my writing. So any suggestions for cleaning it up are welcome and appreciated.
