Hey- Normal talking
Hey- Kazuto's inner monologue
'Hey'- People thinking
(Hey)- Inner circles mean places or time skips
~Flashback~
[Disclaimer: I don't own MHA or Sword Art Online]
Diary Entry:
The aspects of oneself are a semblance of novelty. Who are the true heroes? Who are really the villains? In my line of work, that idea had been danced so thoroughly that I couldn't quite follow it. I once killed a man trying to feed his family through drug dealings. Hearing the new widow and his two children crying at his funeral the day after made me feel like a scumbag. Now, going from high ranking assassin to would-be hero in training, I just don't feel that...what's the word? Interested? Focused? Anyway, Eraserhead had told us that we can't kill anyone since that's not what 'heroes do', whatever it means...
If you look at heroes now, they're just a glorified bunch with a few exceptions. What I do know, however, is that there is no black and white like the media had tried to cover. There is only a fine gray like the edge of my sword smeared in blood the day after. I mean, who could still be a hero after spilling that much blood? Kai could be another exception since he had only immobilized them. As for me? Well, there's only gray.
Within a gargantuan home, more like a mansion, a blue-haired teen was sleeping with a small bubble rising and falling on his nose. There was only one hour left for him and his raven-haired roommate to go to school. Why not make the most of it? So, as he turned off yet another alarm set off by said roommate, he turned to the side and started snoring.
On their training ground, a black silhouette was seen twisting and turning as it danced.
Kazuto kept swinging his sword. He started twirling and pivoting without any sense of notion, a white sword gleaming in the rays of the sun. An afterglow of beauty hit its limelight as it made it seem breathtaking.
[{It's a really cool sword you know?}] he heard Eugeo's voice exclaim in elation as he continued to go for an upper thrust.
[{Generating ice...there's nothing it can't do! The best part, for me anyway, is that it shapes to the user's will! It helped me a lot, longer than I can count!}] he didn't have to see his friend to know that a grin was stuck in place. The goof...
[{Why do you ask?}]
His question had left him tongue-tied as he couldn't come out and simply say "I'm a hero now!". So, he did the next best thing.
"Just wanted to know about it, you know? As a designer and all." He truly felt bad for lying. Hell, it was such a minuscule thing too!
His raven locks moved along as he turned a sharp right and twisted the white blade back in a stabbing motion.
[{This may sound cheesy, but if I were to have any superpowers, it'd be to use that sword to its full potential. I could help save many people in this corrupted society. You must think I'm crazy huh?}]
"Not at all!" he had smiled. "I honestly don't know what I would do with it though. I'm not really hero material."
[{Isn't that the truth! You didn't even save the cat when it was falling!}] his friend half-joked.
"Hey! He had it coming!"
[{Yeah yeah. But you know, I honestly think you'd make a great hero! You might only need restraint though...You make really brash decisions from time to time. Although, they think it's one of your "redeeming qualities" and what-not.}] Eugeo scoffed through the phone. [{I have to go now. It was nice talking to you again though!}]
"Heh. Of course! See ya, Eugeo. Oh, and tell the gang I said hi!"
Kazuto had sweat dripping down his chin as he dissolved the sword and started his morning routine. It really took a large toll on his stamina creating new swords. Especially when not using his Izanagi eyes, as he had dubbed them. It really depended on the output and thought within the mechanics of generating a sword though. Since he took notes of Blue Rose's schematics and forging, it was relatively easy to recreate it in the right dimensions.
Doesn't mean it wasn't tiring though...
'A great hero, huh?' Kazuto thought with a slight frown as he kept doing curl-ups.
(An hour later)
"Morning!" a chirpy voice reached their ears as they stepped inside the class.
"Morning!" Kazuto chirped right back with a grin.
"Hey" Kai waved with a yawn.
"Have you seen Izu?" the ravenette questioned as he looked around the class while waving at his classmates casually.
"Deku? No. He split up with me and Ida when All Might called him..." Ochako mumbled with a pout.
"Yes. And in such a crucial moment." Ida exclaimed solemnly as he walked up to them.
"Crucial? Why's that Speedy?" Kai looked at him with a raised brow.
"My name is Tenya Ida." the bespectacled teen said with a twitching smile as the bluenette still had his brow raised.
Leaving out a defeated sigh, Ida only mumbled his response.
"The concept of heroic causes."
"Such as?" Kazuto asked now curious.
"Such as why people, more specifically heroes, choose to combat evil."
"Ah. Nowadays, you can't really tell." Kazuto shrugged as he started walking to his seat.
Kai only chuckled as he put a hand on Ida's shoulder.
"In my most professional and non-biased opinion, Speedy, I feel that one shouldn't really dwell on it. It would stress you out. We wouldn't want that would we?" with that, he went back to his seat in front of the 'firecracker', as he had dubbed Bakugo, and waved lazily. The blond only nodded and looked outside the window.
'Oh, how the turns have tabled...' Kai smirked slightly as he put his head on his desk and closed his eyes.
At that moment, the aforementioned greenette entered the classroom at the same time the bell ranged.
"Okay class" their homeroom teacher stated blandly as he got out of his sleeping bag. "Now that you got a taste of the smaller aspect of the Hero course, I would like to direct your eyes to the board." he finished as he pointed.
The student looked on with interest as the words written showed "USJ Training Facility".
"We're going to Universal Studios Japan!?" the blond with the black lightning bolt exclaimed in excitement.
'What was his name again?' Kazuto questioned with a thoughtful look. 'Daichi...Denchi...Ducky?'
'Well, Pikachu's excited...' Kai smirked with his head still on the table.
"Hell yeah! We'll be able to see gorgeous babes in swimsuits!" the grape-haired teen whooped with a grin. It then morphed into a face full of fear as Shouta let out some KI (Killing Intent) at being interrupted.
"As I was saying," he coughed slightly. "I booked the facility for today in order to help you with varying scenarios. To that end, I want you to go and suit up. You're dismissed."
With that, Shouta walked out with his hands in his pockets. 'Why did I get this job again? Oh yeah, I didn't have a choice...'
(Boy's Changing Room)
"Your costume got scorched huh? And on the first day no less." Kazuto looked at the greenette with pity as he saw him in his PE uniform.
"Yeah. And my mother worked so hard on it too..." he sighed tiredly but then perked up. "But I asked for a replacement with a few adjustments!"
"Must be nice..." Kai mumbled with a faraway look.
"You okay dude?" the same blond from before asked him in worry.
"I'm fine um..."
"The name's Denki. Denki Kaminari." the now known blond smiled as he pointed at himself. "Nice to meet ya!"
"Likewise Sparky." he bluenette smirked as he shook his hand.
"So I was close!" Kazuto snapped his finger with a triumphant grin as they stared at him in confusion.
"Shh!" they then turned to look at a purple-haired figure walking quietly towards a hole on the wall. "You will disturb the silence!"
"W-what are you doing!?" Izuku stuttered out as he saw him getting closer.
"Searching for paradise!"
"That's a little messed up man" Kaminari pointed with a frown. He may be a pervert that appreciates the female body from time to time, but he's not a creep.
"Shh! I'm so close..."
Just as the purplette got next to the hole and was about to close one of his eyes, he let out a yelp as a small rod came from the hole and smacked him on the head, making him tumble. In that same moment, two kunai pinned his clothing to the wall opposite of the hole. Looking closely, one of the kunai was laced with blue lightning.
"Next time..." two voices muttered in sync as he turned his head shakily to the teens. "...I won't miss."
Honestly, if glares could kill, one Minoru Mineta would be six feet under right about now.
"Neither will I." a strict voice rang out from the hole as a blob of black-hair was visible.
"That's a promise" the three teens exclaimed with a glare.
The purple-haired teen could only whimper at the death threats.
"The wheels on the bus go round and round..." Kazuto mumbled as he looked outside the window.
"He just drowned a clown" Kai mumbled in a bored tone.
"Also took his crown"
"All through the town!" they finished with smirks as the class looked mortified.
"Just a joke! Haha," Kazuto eye smiled as they sent him suspicious glances. 'I'll get you next time Bozo...'
"Midoriya *ribbit*"
"Y-yes?" the teen in question turned to look at a short girl with notably big hands. She has a very wide mouth, oval-shaped eyes with large, black irises, and dark sea-green hair reaching her waist with the ends tied together at the bottom in a large bow of hair.
Her costume is a bright green turtleneck bodysuit, with tan-colored gloves and large buckles on each wrist guard, and two matching belts. The add ons to her hair matched perfectly with her costume as it gave her an underwater type of radiance.
"Sorry if this seems blunt, but that power of yours. Doesn't it look a lot like All Might's?" she questioned as she tapped her chin with her finger.
"R-really!? I didn't think so Ms. Asui! Hahahahaha..." he laughed nervously as a bead of sweat ran down his face. Kai only facepalmed.
"I agree." a redhead next to the frog-like teen smiled. "You seem to forget that All Might doesn't hurt himself when using his quirk."
Tsuyu only nodded at his statement before staring at Izuku. "I told you to call me Tsu."
The teen only nodded swiftly.
"Still, I bet it's super cool to have an augmenting quirk similar to him huh?" Kirishima exclaimed with a grin. "I mean, my quirk is cool and all with my hardened skin, but when it comes to flashiness, I'm beat!" he sighed.
"No way! Your quirk is pretty awesome! With a quirk like that, you'll sure to become a great pro for sure!" Izuku denied with a smile of reassurance.
"Thanks man!" the redhead smiled back.
"Speak for yourself." another blond smiled cheekily. "My navel laser is both a combination of éclat and strength mon ami."
"But it's way lame if it gives you a stomach ache after you use it" Mina Ashido grinned.
Aoyama only deflated at her statement. 'Pourquoi?'
"Heh. Right. Mine is way better!" Mineta snickered with a smirk.
"It is?" they looked at him with a disbelieving look.
"Of course!"
"Okay, I'll bite." Kai stopped looking out the window and gave him his full attention. "What is your oh so powerful quirk?"
"Well," Mineta smirked with a gleam in his eyes that made the girls feel uncomfortable." If you must know, my quirk is... making sticky balls"
His classmates looked like a deer caught in the headlight as Kazuto only managed a "huh?" on his friend's behalf.
"Yep" he popped the word for all it was worth.
"Okay, Mina right?" Kazuto asked the horned teen with a twitching smile. "Can you guys go on? Please?"
"Hey! Don't ignore me!"
"S-sure" she tried to sound cheerful but failed. Seeing this, the redhead beside Tsuyu decided to bite the bullet.
"Yeah, but if any of our classmates has a chance of being noticed as pro hero material, it's most definitely Todoroki and Bakugo" Kirishima looked on with his grin still in place.
Kai looked slightly miffed at his declaration.
"I don't know," Tsuyu tapped her chin in thought. "It's true that Bakugo has a flashy quirk, but he's always angry so he'll never be as popular." she finished with a matter of fact tone as Kazuto snickered slightly.
"Oi, Todoroki!" Kai shouted from his seat as the dual-haired teen turned to look at him with a raised brow. "You gotta give him some ice for that burn!"
Izuku turned his head to the side in order to hide his grin.
"Fuck you both!" the explosive teen shouted in rage.
"See what I mean" the frog-like teen pointed at him with a knowing look, infuriating him even more.
"Man, the fact that we already know how you'll react makes this kind of sad" Kaminari grinned teasingly.
"Fuck you too!"
"Such vulgar language..." Momo mumbled with a frown.
"It's still pretty funny to see" Ochako giggled beside her.
'Oh god...we still have twenty minutes to go' Izuku sighed tiredly.
"Ha! Good one Sparky!"
(Twenty Minutes Later)
"Welcome!" a white-suited pro-hero waved cheerfully.
"Oh my god...It's the Space Hero: Thirteen! The chivalrous heroin to saved various people around the world!" Izuku muttered in awe.
"It is!" Ochako exclaimed as she waved her arms around. "One of my favorite heroes is here! This is the best day of my life!"
"I call dibs on the Minion's ride!" Mineta shouted as he darted forward.
He only made it five feet before a scarf wrapped around his leg and lifted him upward.
"Didn't I tell you brat? This isn't Universal Studios Japan." Shouta exclaimed blandly.
"Oh it's okay Eraserhead!" Thirteen waved her arms around as she showed him three fingers. The man only nodded with a grimace. "He's not the only one that had said that in the past!"
'Weird...' Kazuto, Kai, and Izuku thought with a frown as they looked at his three fingers.
"Now then!" she continued. "How about we go with the ins and outs of the stimulation so you could get a better grasp on the varying scenarios?"
Before the students replied, another voice cut them off.
"I think I'll have to pass," they heard as Eraserhead and Thirteen looked around frantically. "Precautionary misplacement is not what most would like to relive."
"There!" Ochako pointed at a growing fog in slight fear. Villains from varying expressions and builds were coming from the hole with murder in their eyes as they stared at the class.
"How peculiar," they heard the same voice from before coming from the fog itself as it transformed into a person. "The only heroes here are that man and Thirteen. Is All Might not here?"
"I really hope he is." they saw a blue-haired teen come out of the shadows with a hand-like mask that covered his face. "It would ruin the perfect day for me to level up my skills."
"Stand back!" Eraserhead shouted to the class as he jumped forward and grabbed his scarf.
The villains held onto their cocky smirks as they were about to fire their quirks and fry the guy, but were left speechless when it wouldn't activate. A look of horror crossed their visage before Eraserhead kneed a man on the face rather roughly. He then used his scarf to wrap it around a running foe and threw her at the person beside her.
"Damn you!" a villain shouted in anger as he ran forward with his finger cocked backward, ready to shoot.
"No, wait! I remember the guy! That's Eraserhead! He can erase your quirk just by looking at him!" another guy shouted in a warning as it dawned on him.
"Smart guy!" Eraserhead shouted as he ran forward with his eyes blazing red. The guy didn't stand a chance as he dived down and wrapped his hands together with his scarf. Using a powerful thrust, he punched him in the face as he sailed across the dirt.
"Not bad Uchiha #2!" Kai raised his arms in a smirk. "Kick some ass!"
"What about a heteromorphic type like me? You can't erase that, can you!?" a man with four arms shot forward in a roar.
Dodging his assault, Eraserhead launched a punch of his own. "You're right. I can't erase that. It doesn't mean I'll let you get close enough to cause damage!" He then threw the scarf as it wrapped around the sailing man and dodged a random villain's punch by twisting to the side. With a kick, the man went flying towards another villain as Eraserhead yanked the still sailing man forward and into the pile of villains.
"Who's next?" he asked blandly as the rest of the villains stepped back.
"So annoying..." the blue-haired person with the hand-mask muttered angrily as he saw him decimate his army left and right without tiring.
"I concur. However, it seems his time is nearing an end. No person can protect two things at once." the black mist pointed at the retreating students.
"Go then, Kurogiri." the man smirked deviously.
"As you wish Master Shigaraki." Kurogiri bowed. With nothing but a whisp, the plasma-like man dissolved and reformed around the retreating students.
(With the Students: Before the event)
"How are there villains here!?" Mineta shouted as he hid behind Ida.
"No way! How could they get into a facility this secure?" Kirishima exclaimed with a frown.
"Thirteen," Momo said with worry marring her face. "Why aren't the alarms going off?"
"I'm not sure," she muttered with a frown hidden by her mask.
"Is the whole campus under attack or is it just this facility?" Todoroki questioned while staring at the fight.
"It seems way too organized to be just a 'simple attack'." Kazuto thought out loud with a frown.
"Either way," the dual haired teen continued. "One of these villains must be masking their presence if the alarms aren't going off."
"This would be a perfect entry point since class is still in session," Kai murmured as it dawned on him.
"Yes. They may be fools for trying it, but it can't be denied that they've thought this out. Question is, what is their objective?" Shoto finished with a small frown.
"Our first priority should be leaving the facility and warning the heroes." Izuku inputted with a hand in his mouth in thought. "Like Todoroki had said, one of the villains could have been jamming the connection."
"Right!" the rest of the class shouted as they started to run.
Just then, a black mist surrounded the area.
"Quick, get behind me!" Thirteen shouted as the class did so.
"I'm terribly sorry, but there is no escape," Kurogiri stated firmly.
'Damn.' Eraserhead thought as he glared. 'I should have kept a closer eye on them!' He wanted to run and catch up to his students, but his path was blocked by the other villains.
"We, are the League of Villains. I know it is impolite for us to show up unannounced, but we just wanted to see this so-called 'Haven of Justice' with our own eyes. A rather fitting place for All Might to take his last breath. Too bad he is still not here. Oh well, we would have to make do with what we've got until he arrives." the mist around the man grew in size as he finished.
"Like hell you will!" Bakugo shouted as he and Kirishima jumped to action. The explosion that ensued kicked up dust as the students covered their eyes.
"Did we get him?" the redhead asked as he looked around.
"Such dangerous quirks." Kurogiri pointed out. "You better be careful. We wouldn't want you to get hurt, now would we?"
"Get out of the way!" Thirteen shouted as she used her quirk to start dispelling the mist.
"That's not so polite," the mist murmured mockingly. "Haven't any of you learned manners? It would seem you would need to be reeducated!" he shouted as his mist spread out as tendrils of mist threw some of the students through a portal.
When the mist cleared, some of the students were nowhere in sight.
(Shipwreck Zone)
He felt his body descending rapidly as he bit out the urgency to scream. Izuku then felt his back sting as he landed rather roughly on the water. Deciding to ignore the pain, he started to look around frantically. So far, he doesn't know what the man had done, but it was more akin to teleportation. If his theory was correct, then-
His eyes grew in size as a shark-like man opened his jaw, ready to tear into his skin. He was saved by a green-clad figure that wrapped her tongue around his frame and pulled him into a ship along with the purple-haired teen from before.
"For a frog, your boobs make perfect floaties Asui..." the grape-haired teen mumbled dreamily. When they were led down into the ship, only he was thrown harshly.
"T-thanks" Izuku gurgled as he spat out the water. Tsuyu only nodded as she looked around.
"W-we're going to die!" Mineta started to sob loudly as he took notice of the approaching figures. "They're certified villains while we are still hero-trainees! I haven't even gotten a girlfriend, or gotten close to any girl! Why must I die a virgin!?"
He would have gone on and on, but a tongue slap to the back of his head stopped him.
"This is turning out to be a really bad day." Tsuyu muttered in a bored tone.
"You can say that again. The fact that the villains seem to have a fixation on beating All Might is just the icing on the cake. Not only that, but they knew our schedules and who would be here. Did it have something to do with the other day where the students started running around in a panic?" Izuku nodded with a frown.
"Perhaps *ribbit* they went to the school archives to set up this plan." Tsuyu let out her own input in the matter.
"Most likely."
"This won't matter!" Mineta cut off their musing with a smirk. "Once All Might shows up, these guys will run back with their tails between their legs!"
"I don't think so." the frog-like teen shook her head in denial. "No villain would go through the trouble of all this if they weren't sure that they could kill All Might. That worries me greatly."
Mineta's smirk turned into a face of fear as he started sweating. "If he doesn't have a chance, then what would we do!? I don't want to die young!"
"Well too bad boy!" a villain shouted from the water with a sneer. "When I'm done with you, there won't be any bones to burry you with!"
"AAAAHHHHH!" the grape-haired teen screeched as he ran around crazily.
"Even so, this is up to us!" the greenette exclaimed loudly as his classmates turned to look at him. "Let's be heroes!"
The gleam in his eyes helped Tsuyu resolve her doubt as she nodded.
(Landslide Zone)
A villain could only look on as his legs started to get encased by ice.
"It was rather presumptuous of you to think that we'd be easy pickings" he turned to look at the dual haired teen in fear. "Honestly, don't you have any qualms with being beaten by a child? And you call yourself a villain."
"Ain't that the truth..." another voice exclaimed as a villain was sent blasting through a rock by tendrils of blue fire and lightning. "Why don't you guys put up a decent fight? I'm sure I'd be fun then." his smirk was nothing but predatory as the captured villain felt like running away.
"Why are you here?" Todoroki looked on in annoyance as the blue-haired, yellow-eyed teen smirked his way.
"I can ask you the same question...Chilly"
(Collapse Zone)
"Die!" the ashy-blond shouted as he let off a small explosion in the villain's midsection.
"Woah Bakugo! That explosion was sick!" Kirishima grinned as he failed to hear what he had said before. Yeah, being surrounded by villains could do that to you.
(Mountain Zone)
Momo Yaoyorozu may seem like a regular scholar, but as the villains took notice, her creation of materials can be quite annoying. With bow staff in hand, she, along with Kyoka Jiro and Denki Kaminari, could be quite a formidable combination.
"I'm still saying Yaoyorozu," Kaminari smiled cheekily. "That sword you made looks pretty cool."
"Just pay attention to the enemy," she muttered with a smirk.
(Fire Zone)
"Nice and easy..." one Mashirao Ojiro muttered as he looked at the firey buildings around him with analytical eyes.
(Squall Zone)
"The droplets of water around us gives me the strength to keep my emotions at bay during this trialing time." Fumikage Tokoyami stated with a frown as he looked on ahead.
Poor Koji Koda felt like crying as he was surrounded by villains.
(Back with the other students)
"Deku!" she had shouted as she saw her friend be consumed by the purple mist. Ochako Uraraka felt scared once taking notice of her divided classmates. Even Ida, the strong-willed student with a no-nonsense tone looked on with fear in his eyes and it had taken all her strength to not let despair eat away at her spirit.
Mina had the same face of fear plastered on her as she turned around shakily. The rest of her classmates remained with her, but it did nothing to alleviate her trepidation. Forming a strong wall to protect each other, she saw her other classmates: Tenya Ida, Mezo Shoji, Rikido Sato, and Hanta Sero shaking in their boots but persisting. True heroes in the face of danger. What has she been doing? Just standing there petrified.
Cutting off from his fear-induced stalemate Ida decided to steel his nerves.
"Shoji," he started off with sweat dripping down his face. "Have you gotten any readings on them? Anything at all?"
"Yes. They've been scattered all over the facility, but they are still here." the teen with a mask nodded as his appendaged ears found erratic breathing and explosions.
This, in turn, helped the other teens let out a breath they didn't know they were holding.
Taking a look at the events, Thirteen could only come up with one possible outcome.
"School rep," she stated firmly as the teen in question stood ramrod. "I have a job for you. Go warn the school about the happenings. Without any alarm or radio to contact the faculty, it would all depend on you. I'll manage to create an opening that you'll then try to exploit, got it?"
"B-but It would be disgraceful to leave you all behind! I can't do that! I-"
"No, the best bet relies on you, Emergency Exit." Sato shook his head in denial as Sero stood by him.
"He's right. You have to be the one to do it. As long as we keep the mist away, you could blow the rest away with those jet engines of yours, right?" Seto looked at him with a smirk.
"Yes but-"
"Then use your quirk and be a real hero." Thirteen beat him to the punch.
"Hai!" Ida nodded seriously.
"We'll help too!" Ochako stood by her friend along with Mina.
"Yeah! We'll help you the best we can school rep!" Mina nodded with a grin.
"I'll use my quirk to the best of my abilities as well." Ida affirmed as he took a running pose with his jet engines ready to start.
"A rather foolish move to strategize in front of your enemy!" Kurogiri shouted as tendrils of mist shot out in different directions.
"It won't make a difference when I'm done with you!" Thirteen shouted as her finger opened while allowing her quirk to flow freely and, true to its name, the black hole started to absorb all the mist.
(Shipwreck Zone)
"Fight!? You want us to fight!? Are you crazy!" Mineta shouted as he backed away and started crying.
Ignoring him completely, Izuku started to analyze their surroundings.
"Assuming their quirks are water-based, there could be a high chance that the villains can't move on land."
"If that's the case, then they must have taken notice of what the USJ has to try and eliminate us without any problem." Tsuyu nodded as she saw where he was coming from.
"Are you guys even listening to me!?"
"There's just one thing that I don't understand," Izuku muttered. "Taking into account that they might know what our quirks can do, why would they still leave you here Asui?"
*ribbit*
"I-I mean Tsu!"
"But why does it matter!?"
"Right. Then it would mean that my first analysis was wrong and they don't know what our quirks are!" the greenette nodded to himself.
Tsuyu looked at him with amazement as she finally understood.
"You're right If they knew that my quirk was frog based, they would have sent me to the fire zone instead of a place full of water."
"Okay if that's true, then their strategy might revolve on numbers rather than strength. Trying to separate us without any key details on our quirks suggests that they'd think we would be easy to take out if there are more of them and less of us. So, for all they know, we could either be super powerful, or super weak."
"Now that that's down, we should talk about quirks." Tsuyu continued on as Izuku nodded. "As you might have guessed, I have all the aspects of a frog. I can jump super high, climb walls, and stick out my tongue as far as twenty meters." She left out the part about her sticky mucus since she doubted it would be helpful.
"Wow, that's amazing. I knew you were strong! With a quirk like that, it only affirmed it!" Izuku whispered in awe as she blushed slightly. "As for my quirk, I'm still on the testing stage as I don't have that much experience with it. The strength I hold comes at a prize through broken bones or fracture tendons. In short, I could only use it for short bursts from time to time. Sorry."
"Well, as for mine-" Mineta started off with a smirk.
"We know." the two teens deadpanned as he burst into tears.
"You guys don't have to cut me off like that!"
"No, but seriously." Minet looked at them with an honest frown. "The strength of my balls vary. They could stick to any surface except me since I could bounce right off them."
He only received two blank stares.
"D-don't look at me like that! I knew it was bad, but not this bad!" he started tearing up again.
"No." Izuku denied. "If any, your quirk will help us get out of this mess."
Their collaboration was cut short as a villain generated a hand from the water and smacked the boat.
"I'm starting to lose my patience brat!"
"AAAHHHH!" in a panic, Mineta started throwing his balls into the water as the villains chuckled.
"Aw, does the little hero want to play catch?" one of them smirked.
"What are these anyway?" another questioned as he tried to swim away from them.
"Mineta? Are you sure the hero course is the right choice for you?" Tsuyu asked blandly as she saw him panic.
"Ouch" Izuku winced in sympathy.
"S-shut up! I didn't think we'd start fighting villains right off the bat! I'm totally starting to consider my life choices! If only I..." he babbled on sadly.
"Listen up, both of you." the emerald-eyed teen exclaimed slightly forcefully. "An enemy bound that's certain of their victory is bound to make mistakes." 'Like All Might had once said'
"What does it have to do with anything!?"
"It means that we should keep our cool and downplay our strength until the very last minute!"
Izuku let a small smile slip into his face as he got closer to the boat's edge. "My friend once told me that 'If you want to survive, adapt to become a better you'. I promise you that we'll survive!"
With that, he jumped as high as he could and looked at a villain straight in the eyes. 'Think like Bakugo'
"DIE!" he shouted as he accumulated his energy to his middle finger as he got ready to flick it.
'Even in the face of danger, how are you still so calm? Where do you get the strength to continue on?' the grape-haired teen thought as he looked at his classmate in a new light. In a short burst, Mineta's eyes opened wide as a gust of wind split open the water and washed the villains with it.
"Now Tsu!" he shouted as he held his thumb and middle finger in pain.
'Not including the pain...how are you so cool Midoriya!?' the purplette let out a small shout as he took out balls from his hed at a rapid pace and threw them at the villains.
The villains could only watch as the water led them to the sticky balls and glued them together.
"Not too bad, the both of you," stated Tsuyu while looking forward.
"Yeah, not too bad." Izuku smiled through the pain.
"Damn that bastard." a black-clad figure coughed loudly. "That hurt!"
Looking around, he took notice of an abandoned building in one of the Training Facilities.
"Where am I?" he muttered while inspecting the area.
"Wouldn't you like to know, Kuro?" he stiffened at hearing that codename. Only a select few knew who he is! So how does the person know!?
As 'Kuro' turned around to meet the person, his breath hitched.
"Why are you here!?" he shouted in anger while meeting his blue eyes.
"Now, that would be telling wouldn't it?" the man smirked as his green hair dulled out in the darkness.
(With Izuku)
"Heh," Mineta smirked. "I had a good poop today so my balls were stickier than usual."
'Gross'
"I can't believe that worked," Izuku muttered in relief. "For a second there, I thought it would have the opposite effect. It was good that we...and...but we could also...or...no, maybe..."
"Hey Izuku?" Tsuyu asked.
"Yes?"
"You're muttering again."
"Sorry!" he scratched his cheek while laughing awkwardly.
"What should be our next move?" she asked him as he took on a thoughtful look that then contorted in pain as he winced. "Are you okay?"
"Y-yeah. Just the backlash of my quirk." he smiled while bearing the pain. "Still, we should try and contact the heroes. Getting to safety should be our top priority."
He then pointed at a building near their area.
"If we continue on, we could avoid the plaza and go for the exit."
"Good idea." she nodded. "We won't run into too many villains like the ones mister Aizawa is fighting."
'I wonder if he could fight them off though. How long can he hold on? With all the villains in the fray...' the greenette thought in worry.
"But what if we run into other villains on the way!? There's no way we could take them!" Mineta denied the idea with a shake of his head.
"Even so, we should try and get rid of as much as we can to help out." his emerald-eyes shown with determination.
(Landslide Zone)
"Your plan was to scatter us and kill us off, wasn't it? Without the slightest idea on how our quirks work, you don't stand a chance." Shoto shook his head as he froze a man and encased him in ice.
"T-this power..."
"I-its insane!"
"He's not a kid, he's a monster!"
"S-so c-cold"
The three frozen villains shouted in fear as they saw him walk forward.
"Oh? I've heard that one before!" a blue-haired teen chirped as his fingers danced with lightning. "It's rather flattering," he smirked as his hands touched the frozen villain and singed his body slightly.
'They're here to kill All Might' Shoto thought as he walked forward without any care in the world. 'I thought that the group they amassed had the strength to do so.'
Sidestepping a guy with a weapon in his hand, he used his right side to freeze him along with his weapon. 'Now, I see that they're nothing but cannon fodder for a bigger plan.'
Kai let out a whistle at the display.
"Damn. And I thought I was ruthless Chilly."
"Don't call me that."
"Hn"
"Listen well." the dual-sided teen shouted at the frozen villains. "If you stay frozen, your cells die as your body slowly succumbs to frostbite and hypothermia."
The villains looked shocked at his statement as Kai sent them a smirk. 'He wouldn't do that though.'
"Lucky for you, my hero honor abides from any unnecessary harm to you. But I could also set that rule aside if you don't tell me what you're trying to do to All Might."
His footsteps sounded heavy as the captives looked on in fear. One of them, being as ridiculous as they could be in the face of danger, decided to mock them.
"You don't have the balls to do it kid."
His response only got a boot to the head as the frozen prison broke away.
"He might not," Kai agreed with a small smile. "But I have no such restrictions." his smile turned predatorily as he stuck his hand out into the man's face.
The onlookers could only express their shock as they saw blue fire gathering around his hand. Not only that, but the lighting surrounding it injured the man to a small degree as it touched his face. "Now then, are you going to talk, or am I going to have to turn you to ash? You decide."
(Mountain Zone)
"Ah!" Kaminari shouted as he ducked under a punch that was close to hitting him. "I think I saw my life flash before my eyes! It totally wasn't a pleasant one though..."
"Okay," Jiro muttered as she parried a villain's punch with the sword. "Can you please calm down? You're not the only one in danger here!"
"We need to find a way to get rid of these enemies." Momo stated as their backs were covered by a rock. Looking straight, a ton of villains surrounded them with matching smirks.
"Uhuh. Then can you pull out a sword for me too?" the blond smiled shakily as he looked at a villain's eyes. Are they...shining!?
"You have electrical powers. Just zap them or something." Jiro exclaimed with a frown.
"Yeah, but don't you remember!? I could cover my body with electricity but I can't direct the voltage to a single shot! It would just spread out everywhere and take you guys down along with them! I'll be counting on you guys for this!"
"Damn it!" Jiro's frown grew slightly. "You're a real damsel in distress here."
"What!?" he shrieked as he stepped back from a punch.
"If you can't control it," she smirked slightly. "Why not give them a hand!" she shouted as she pushed him forward and directly into the villain's arms.
"Um, hi?" Kaminari stammered with a grin. Before the man was able to attack, he felt lighting coursing through his body as he slumped down.
"Can't believe that worked..." Jiro looked on with awe. "I'm a genius!"
"Woah! This works! Okay then, step back ladies! I got this!" the blond smiled confidently.
"Try this then!" a guy stretched his hand while carrying a boulder.
Jiro quickly plugged her earphone-like lobes into her shin as it gave out a sonic frequency that turned it to dust. The man could do nothing but fall forward next to his still electrified comrade.
"HA!" another villain tried to attack her but was caught in a trap by Momo as he fell forward. That made three villains being electrified.
"You're lucky that worked," she stated as she kept her eyes forward.
"I'm sorry," Jiro exclaimed as she too looked forward and increased her sonic frequency. "Next time, I'll ask for your permission before trying to save us. But seriously, couldn't you have asked for an aiming gear to go with your quirk Kaminari? "
"Not really. I had a low budget!"
"The school provides us with the costumes." Momo pointed out.
"Huh. Then I got conned..."
"I'm ready!" Momo shouted as she kicked a villain close to Jiro. Before they could ask her, she generated a blanket out of her back as it fell on her and Jiro.
"A blanket?" one of the villains asked in confusion.
"Ha! The babies are ready to take a nap!"
"Nope! You're looking at a sheet of insulation one-hundred millimeters thick! Let it rip, Kaminari!" Momo smiled as she closed the blanket.
"That's awesome. Let's get wild!" Kaminari shouted as he let out all the electrical charges from his system. It all came out as a display of beautiful yellow lightning dancing around the villains.
"That should take care of them," Momo smirked as Jiro let her mouth hang wide open.
"Why are you exposed!?"
"Don't worry," she brushed off her worries. "I can just make some new clothes."
'She so punk rock' Jir thought in awe. As she looked to the side, she noticed that the blond was walking their way. "Kaminari don't you dare look!"
"Brain go boom!" the blond shouted dumbly as he gave two thumbs up.
"Pfft. HAHAHA!" Jiro laughed loudly as she pointed at him. While she was too busy laughing at him, she failed to notice a hand rise from the dirt.
(With Izuku)
"Remember, we're only here to scout the are!" Mineta mumbled as he peeked from the water.
"Yeah, I know. The moment things get dangerous, we'll get out of here. I promise." the greenette assured him.
When they surfaced into land, they saw a body fly out of the area they were looking at. From there, they saw first hand how Eraserhead fought off the villains by holding them with his scarf and then delivering a blow to their midsection or face.
In a loud thud, Eraserhead jumped into the air and grasped a random villain in the air. As they landed, he switched his form to knee the man in the ribs, breaking a few.
"Awesome..." Mineta muttered in awe.
Just then, the same man with the hand-mask ran forward.
"The final boss huh?" Eraserhead exclaimed as he whipped the scarf forward, trying to tangle him.
"First, it was twenty-six seconds..." they heard him say as he dodged.
"Then, it was twenty..." he then grasped the scarf with his right hand as he ran without stopping.
"Seventeen..." he tried to grab his face with his hand.
The teens could only see Eraserhead hit him in the midsection with smiles on their faces. It then grew somber as they saw the man hold their teacher's arm with ease as they saw his hair fall down back to his face.
"It was really hard trying to grasp your pattern," he smirked through his mask. "Then again, that's how most game bosses are. Once you learn their attack pattern, however, it all goes downhill. Don't you think so Eraserhead, the erasure hero!"
"H-how?"
"It was so annoying trying to figure out your tell. Too bad your hair is a dead giveaway!" he shouted as he started to decay his elbow. "When it drops, it means that you stopped using your quirk. You've been under a lot of stress. My quirk can help alleviate that. All you have to do is decay!"
With a frown, Eraserhead pushed him forward as he tried to distance himself from him.
'Shit, my elbow' he thought with a grimace.
"Where do you think you're going!?" he heard as he dodged a punch aimed at his face. He continued to dodge and dance around them at a consistent pace. It kept going for a few seconds until Eraserhead tired himself out while holding his shoulder in pain.
"Not surprising that you're outmatched. You're known for surprise attacks, not fighting head-on." Shigaraki smirked behind his mask. "But despite that, you decided to do just that and keep on fighting! Such an admirable motive. You really are a cool hero! Too bad for you..."
The ground beside Eraserhead started to rumble as large footsteps kept on getting closer. When he looked up, a bird-like monster with its brain exposed was all he got to glance before getting smacked.
"...I'm not the final boss!" Shigaraki snickered as he saw the man's goggles fall of his face with splatter falling on the ground.
(With the students)
"Black Hole. A substance capable of turning matter to dust. Such a great quirk." Kurogiri analyzed. "Too bad you're a rescue hero. Your fighting experience is laughable!"
A black hole opened in the back of the rescue hero as she felt her back getting caught between a whirlpool of miasma.
"How unfortunate that you turned yourself into dust!"
The whirlpool kept on getting stronger to the point that Thirteen's costume broke from her back, leaving nothing to be seen as the black hole only absorbed greedily.
"I-i sorry for falling you..." she muttered as it took a toll on her to even talk.
Thirteen!" Ochako and Mina shouted in worry.
"Go, Ida. Go now! " Sato shouted at the frozen teen.
Clenching his jaw in repressed anger, the aforementioned teen looked on with determination as his quirk quick started the engines in his legs.
"Oh?" Kurogiri asked in slight amusement. "Trying to escape, are we? I can't allow that."
The tendrils shot forth and Ida tried to stop in order to avoid him but decided not to.
'They're all counting on me. My classmates had entrusted me to do the job and keep them safe. I won't let Thirteen's sacrifice be in vain!'
"I won't let our plans fail! All Might will die!"
Shoji got in front of the plasma and held it in his grasp as he contained it in place.
'I will succeed!'
"Why you! I won't let you set a foot outside those walls!"
Ochako kept on glancing around, trying to help out, until she glanced at the man's neck and decided to give her idea a shot.
"You won't leave!"
'The worst had reared its head as we looked on in abject horror with nothing to help us.' Izuku though.
(Mountain Zone)
"Oh shit, that's a hand!" Kaminari pointed at a figure rising from the dirt.
"I give you the bioengineered anti-symbol of peace: Nomu!" Shigaraki cackled madly as Eraserhead's face was planted on the floor.
(Collapse Zone: East)
Kirishima redirected a man's crowbar by hardening his arms. Twisting to the left, he struck with his right hand and hit him on the face, effectively knocking him out.
"Say goodbye!" Bakugo shouted as he trusted his arm forward and blasted two villains into a wall.
"That should be the last of them." the redhead muttered.
"Tch. Bunch of weaklings" the ashy-blond exclaimed angrily.
"We should head out and look for our classmates. It was our fault the villain caught us by surprise."
"I will blast all of them away and take that guy's head as a trophy. He's the reason why the other villains could sneak in without any notice! I'll be damn if I let him get away with that!"
"You're distracted!" a lizard-like man shouted before being caught by Bakugo's explosion.
"They won't need our help in saving the rest. Now, let's go! We're wasting time!" he shouted as he ran.
"Ah, you're basically saying that you believe in them! I take back on what I thought of you Bakugo! You're really thinking like a man!"
(Fire Zone)
"Where is he!?"
"He was just here a while ago!"
"Scatte-"
Ojiro hit the man while swinging on a pole using his tail.
"Get him!"
'I have to meet up with the class and help the others.' he thought as he jumped and swung in a different direction.
(Squall Zone)
"Ugh" a man wheezed as he was slammed next to a wall by a shadow.
"That makes six of them" Tokoyami muttered as he looked at Koda. "We should get going. Reducing may be helping right now, but in the long run, it should be better to assemble as quickly as possible."
Koda only gave him a thumbs up.
(With the students)
"You won't get away!" Kurogiri shouted as he followed behind Ida. Before he was able to reach him, he felt a gravitational pull pushing him upward.
"I can't tell what this is, but I'm sure he has a physical body somewhere!" Ochako shouted as she threw him high in the air. "Now, Ida!"
"Damn! I got you!" Kurogiri stretched his neck to reach the bespectacled teen.
"Oh no you won't!" He was all but a grasp a few hairs away before being stopped by Sero's tape.
"Take this!" Sato shouted as he held the tape and spun him around.
"Engine..." Ida muttered as he opened the door and got outside. "...Boost!"
'It's no use, it's over' Kurogiri thought in defeat as he saw him slip away.
(With Izuku)
"Isn't this fun, Eraserhead?" Shigaraki laughed. "You are at my Nomu's mercy with nothing to do!"
The bio-monster shoved the man's face in the dirt harder as the teens watching held in their breaths.
"Master Shigarkai," they turned to the side to look at the black hole from before.
"Ah, you're here Kurogiri. Did you manage to get rid of Thirteen?
"I did, but I still failed to stop the hero-trainees from getting help."
"You fool. There's no chance for us to win if there are a dozen pro-heroes trying to stop us." Shigaraki started scratching himself sporadically on the neck in annoyance before stopping. "It's over. We should ready our retreat."
'Retreat? Why?' Izuku frowned slightly.
"I don't like the sound of that..." Tsuyu exclaimed in worry as she felt a pit form in her stomach.
'All might would have arrived in a few minutes. What could be the point in retreating now?' he thought before gasping in realization.
"Before we leave," Shigaraki smirked. "We should make sure the symbol of peace and up broken n beyond repair!" he laughed as he turned to look at the hidden students before disappearing and getting his hands ready to use his quirk."Don't you think?"
It almost felt like slow-motion as Izuku envisioned Tsuyu turning into dust like what happened with Eraserhead's elbow.
'Move' he thought as his hands started shaking.
'Come on, move' he tried to raise his fist as he felt them clench and unclench rapidly.
'I won't let him hurt her' he thought as he tried to move forward.
He was cut off from his thoughts as Shigaraki chuckled.
"You really are a pro-hero..." he turned to look at the downed Shouta being restraint by Nomu. "...Eraserhead." he finished as Nomu planted his face in the dirt.
'Now!'
"SSSMMMMAAASSSHHH!" the teen shouted as he thrust his arm forward with all his might. The wind kicked up and the water rippled as it seemed the villain was blown back.
"N-no way" he muttered when the dust dispersed. There, standing in Shigaraki's place, was Nomu.
"That punch of yours. Are you All Might's apprentice? It doesn't matter. I'm through playing with you." Shigaraki scowled. "Kill him, Nomu!"
Shigaraki went to grasp Mineta and kill him, in the same moment Tsuyu tried to help Izuku before the door to the USJ ended up exploiting.
"I...am here!" a voice exclaimed through the now silent facility.
"Well well well. Let the games continue anew!" Shigarkai cackled as he looked at the frowning face of All Might.
