Chapter 4: Something is wrong
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Midoriya watched as a couple of the guildmembers took Levy, Jet and Droy to the infirmary, and as Lucy went along with them to keep an eye on them, he looked to the group that was about to storm Phantom Lord.
"I'm surprised that someone with your history is okay with breaking a law?" Grey questioned him.
And Midoriya replied with a shrug, "There's a difference between doing something out of retaliation to stop future events, and just doing it out of the blue" he then said.
"Let's go get them" Natsu then yelled as a majority of the people started to walk after him.
"But I get the feeling something is off" Midoriya whispered as he followed after them.
"The young man is about to intervene with certain events, what do you think will happen because of it" the noble voice echoes throughout the world of One for All, "Past users of this quirk that I am contained within".
And although it appeared like the voice wasn't going to get a response, a young-ish feminine voice spoke up, "I hope it doesn't mean that Deku goes through even more pain" it stated.
"It is good that you care for your friend, because who knows what will happen" the noble voice then stated as the space within One for All started to go quiet again.
"One for All isn't the same as before" All for One's younger brother then quickly said before all that could be heard was silence.
It did not take long to arrive at Oak town in the northern part of Fiore, where Phantom Lord's guild was located, and as the large group of Fairy Tail wizards marched into the city, Midoriya felt a tingling in the back of his head, but he chose to ignore it as he followed after the group.
They all silently walked as the walked into the city, and started to approach the Phantom Lord guildhall, ("I wonder how they are going to start off") he wondered as they continued to march, until they were right up near the door.
Makarov then looked to Natsu, and with a knowing nod given to the fire dragon slayer, Natsu ignited his fists and blasted straight through the door of the guild, and as the door was blasted open, the group of them all came to a stop at the remains of the entrance.
"It's Fairy Tail" a random Phantom Lord member then shouted, and before anything could be said, Natsu burst forward and started to pummel various members of the rival guild.
"Bring it on" Natsu declared as he took on multiple people at once, but he continued to just beat them down.
Then the other members of Phantom Lord started to encroach on Natsu, but that was when everybody started their attacks, and as Gray and Elfman went off in one direction, Midoriya took it upon himself to be a bit less destructive.
"Die Fairy scum" a random wizard said as he tried to bring a sword down on Midoriya, but the young man just quickly flicked one percent of his energy at the man, sending him flying into a wall.
"Something is off" Midoriya then muttered as he watched everybody start to lay a beating on the various wizards that tried to take them on, and then he watched as a large crowd of wizards started to run at Makarov, and Midoriya felt an extreme presence as they approached the guild master.
And within an instant, Makarov had grown to an extreme size and he slapping his gigantic fist on the group that had tried to take him on, and as he gave the people their reason for coming, Midoriya felt the same tingle from before at the back of his mind.
As he followed where the source of the tingling was coming from, he watched as Makarov called out Jose, and Erza search for the element four, "He's above you" he then heard.
He then saw a young man with slicked back spiky black hair jump down from the rafters and start to take out various Fairy Tail members, while at the same time taking out a couple members of Phantom Lord with his attacks.
"Is that the dragon slayer?" Midoriya questioned as he hesitated on whether or not to take the guy on.
"Wait, something is about to happen" the noble voice in his head then instructed.
And so, Midoriya just hesitantly watched as Elfman take on the black haired young man, and after a minute or two of fighting, Natsu declared that the fight was his, and the two of them started to fight.
Midoriya then realised that the other person was the other dragon slayer, and he started to think about how the voice in his head recognised the person.
("It could locate a dragon slayer, maybe…") he thought as he watched Natsu, and the person he now knew was Gajeel, duke it out.
There were explosions of fire and metal as the two dragon slayers continued to fight, and after a couple of minutes had passed, Midoriya then felt the voice in his head again, "Hide, make sure that nobody sees you" it instructed him.
"Why?" he questioned as he suddenly felt a surge of magic power coming from above him.
"The enemy will try to take advantage of a certain situation due to an outside influence, you need stop it" the voice stated.
"Who are you?" Midoriya then questioned, "And what is going to happen?".
"I am Esperanza, but I cannot tell you anymore than that" Esperanza told him, "At least for the moment, maybe in the future I can tell you more, but as for the moment, that is all that you can know".
Midoriya mentally nodded at this statement, "But what is going to happen?".
"An attempt will be made on a man's life" Esperanza exclaimed.
"Okay…" Midoriya replied with hesitance.
He then watched patiently as the guild continued to fight, but then at that moment, the surge of magic power had disappeared, "Get ready" Experanza told him.
And at that moment, a small body came crashing down from the ceiling and impacting into the ground.
Makarov's unconscious body hit the ground, and it caused everybody to stop and stare at their defeated master.
"Makarov" Midoriya muttered as he saw the small man's body lying unmoving, indented in the ground.
The Fairy Tail wizards that were the closest to the old man moved to check on him, but before they could, a hand came out of nowhere, releasing some kind of magic power and sending everybody flying.
"Now, I will take you out" a strange creature said as it fully emerged from the portal and eyed everybody, "I will end you".
The man then formed a large amount of magical energy into his head and he started to bring it down on Makarov's unconscious form.
Midoriya started to move as he saw everybody else was being pushed back by the pure magic power of the strange guy who had just appeared, "Could that be Phantom Lord's master, Jose?" he questioned as he started to run towards them.
"It is not Phantom Lord's master, it is something that doesn't belong here, and it is trying to take a life" Esperanza informed Midoriya, and as the young man saw everybody was being pushed down and restrained from the magical power of the individual standing in front of him, he got closer to the 'person'.
"Midoriya, what are you doing?" he heard someone, probably Erza or Gray calling out, "Get away from that thing, whatever it is, it will kill you".
But Midoriya sighed and glared up at the creature that had Makarov grasped in it's right hand and was staring back down at him, "You're his champion, pathetic" the creature exclaimed as it spat at Midoriya.
And instead of flinching, the former hero in training quickly pulsed one percent of his power and headbutted the creature in an instant, causing it to let go of Makarov and go skidding back a metre.
Midoriya quickly grabbed Makarov's unconscious body and looked to Erza, "This isn't over, but I need you guys to get out of here" he stated as he threw Makarov to her, and she caught him gently as she glared at Midoriya.
"Do know what that thing is?" she questioned.
But all he did was shrug, "It has an air of death around it, just get out of here" he told her as he saw every other member of Fairy Tail was running for it.
"And what about you?" Natsu quickly questioned as he appeared, dragging a random member of Phantom Lord alongside him.
"The morale of this attack has been crippled, but that thing just randomly chose to show up, and now somebody has to deal with it" he explained as he quickly flicked a finger at the creature to send it back another couple of meters.
He gestured to the escaping members of Phantom Lord as he continued, "This thing obviously isn't with them, but it obviously came here for a reason", he then started to pulse one percent full cowling as he gave them a thumbs up, "Go and deal with whatever Phantom Lord has instore for you guys, I've got this".
And although they were hesitant, Natsu and Erza both ran off alongside the rest of Fairy Tail (with Natsu then running in a completely different direction to the one the rest of them were going), and after Midoriya had seen that everybody had gotten away, and that was left was him and the creature in the ruined guildhall of Phantom Lord, he gulped.
"You aren't going to run like the pathetic human scum that you are?" the creature sarcastically quipped as it stood up straight and bared its teeth at him.
"What are you?" Midoriya questioned as he shakily stood his ground in front of the creature.
"I am Death" the creature exclaimed as it threw off it's cloak, to show that it had a skeletal head.
And Midoriya reacted to this with a shudder as he examined the skeletal appearance of the being in front of him.
"And why are you here?" he questioned.
Death glared at him, and then made a scythe appear in it's right hand (which had turned into just bone), "That man's death was imminent, but it seems that I was too early" it replied.
"Too early?" Midoriya replied.
And 'Death' nodded, "Yes, as time is just a construct, it appears that I have arrived much too early, but since I sensed so much of life here, I thought that it was a signal to claim that man's life" it explained.
'Death' then 'eyed' Midoriya, "And it would appear that I am too early for you as well".
Midoriya fearfully gasped at this, "And why should I believe anything that you say?" he hastily spluttered as looked to the being.
"Fine then, don't believe me, but I do not care what mortals think" the being then stated as it started to dissipate, "But be warned Izuku Midoriya, your time will come".
Midoriya just stood in abject horror as his body refused to move, and he couldn't talk as he processed what he had just heard, or to be more exact, felt.
"You felt death incarnate, but you will be fine" Esperanza indicated to him, but he still couldn't move for a small time after.
"So that was death" he exclaimed as his full cowling disappeared and he fell to the ground, his face pale and his breath laboured.
"It would appear that things have gone even more differently than I expected, but you have no time to waste, you need to go and assist you allies" he heard Esperanza echo throughout his mind, and then the voice was gone.
"Hello" Midoriya quietly called out as he whipped his head around, but after a minute or two, he shook his head and held it with his hands.
"That's something I will have to deal with later, but if what that voice is saying is true, I need to go help the others" he stated as he stood up and started to anxiously walk in the direction of the Fairy Tail guildhall (or what remained of it).
"What is going on?" he questioned as he started to run, leaving a a cloud of dust as he bolted back to Fairy Tail.
The young man continued to run, even when his legs started to burn, he continued to run, ("Death has a plan for me it seems") Midoriya thought as he ran through the forest outside of Magnolia.
"Who is Esperanza, they aren't a part of One for All, I can tell that much, but that is all, and what its relationship with death" he mumbled as jumped over a river.
And as he came from out of the other side of the forest, his eyes set on the town, and to his shock, there was a gigantic mobile fortress of some kind, bearing Phantom Lord's mark, and aiming down the Fairy Tail guild hall with a giant cannon coming out of the front of it.
"What the hell is that?" he yelled out as he ran towards it, "That thing looks like it could take out the whole guild".
He was still a bit of a distance away from it, so he activated another pulse of energy to throw himself straight through the air, and to crash into the ground outside the guildhall.
He crashed straight into the ground in front of everybody, and much to their confusion, he then stood up, and shakily glared at the monstrous mecha that was in front of him.
"Midoriya, where were you man?" he heard Gray call out as he came running over to him, and Midoriya gave him a grin in response.
"I'll tell you later" he said, and then he pointed to mecha, "But what is that?".
"Something from Phantom Lord" Elfman stated as walked up to the other side of Midoriya.
"Yeah, and they were after Lucy" Happy exclaimed as he popped up alongside Natsu.
And Lucy just guiltily walked up him as well, "I'm sorry for the trouble" she stated.
But Midoriya just shook his head and grinned, "That doesn't matter" he replied as he turned to face the monstrous construction that was standing in front of them.
"They've got a magic focusing cannon" someone then yelled out, "Are they gonna blow us up?".
And the moment that was said, Erza had appeared, in a bath towel, and ordering everybody to run for it.
She then started to run straight towards the cannon, and although Gray had managed to restrain Natsu from going after her, Midoirya knew that he had to do something.
"Looks heavy, maybe if you get closer to it, something might be able to help you with easily deterring the blast from the cannon" a young-ish feminine voice then stated in his head before going quiet.
But he just took this in his stride as he pushed his body to two percent of One for All, and as he passed Erza he gave her knowing nod, which made her stop in her tracks and then try to stop him, but in that instant he had already made it to the area just under the cannon.
He then tried to throw a two percent Detroit smash at the base of the cannon as it continued to charge, but due to his fatigue his punch ended up missing and instead just straight up to the sky and appeared to split the sky in two.
"Crap" he said as fell to his knees as the adrenaline that had helped him get all the way to Magnolia in such a short amount of time had finally worn off.
"Midoriya!" he heard Erza call out as she had re-quipped a bulky set of armour, and chosen to stay in the direct path of the cannon, "Get down".
But at that very moment, Midoirya felt one last jolt of energy surge into his fingertips, and with a pulse of energy to lift himself into the air to collide with the barrel of the cannon, he slapped his fingers onto the cannon barrel.
And in that very moment, the cannon started to fire, but instead of firing straight at the guild hall, or more specifically Erza, who had taken to preparing herself for the blast, the cannon had started to tilt upwards, and it's blast just went straight into the sky.
After a second or two of stunned silence, a voice then sounded off, "Did you just seriously redirect my cannon" the voice who Midoriya was actually able to discern to be Phantom Lord's guild master sounded extremely aggravated at what had just happened.
And another second after that Midoriya started to feel an overwhelming pain in his stomach, and he felt himself be thrown back from the cannon and to crash back into the ground next to everybody.
"GAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" he screamed as he squeezed his arms around his chest and started to expel vomit, "WHAT'S HAPPENING".
"Push your fingertips together, quickly" he heard, and without hesitation, he did as such and the pain that was in his insides suddenly stopped.
Midoirya was then lying in the ground as he continued to pant, and he was only brought out of his own thoughts by somebody touching him.
"Yo, Midoirya, you okay?" he heard Natsu ask, and he shakily stood up and leaned on the shoulder of the fire dragon slayer.
"Yeah, I think so" he said as he continued to breath heavily.
"You managed to hit the cannon so that it instead fired into the air" he then heard Erza explain as she walked up to him.
But before he could respond, Jose started to speak again, "THERE IS NO WAY THAT KID COULD DO THAT AGAIN, AND EVEN IF YOU HAVE ERZA, YOU HAVE NO HOPE" he exclaimed so loud that it was quite obviously that he was pissed, "SO HAND OVER LUCY HEARTFILLIA, I WANT HER RIGHT NOW!".
And everybody started to voice their aggression at his statement, but Lucy appeared to be crying at their actions, and although it looked like she was about say something, both Erza and Natsu spoke up.
"IF IT'S HAND OVER A FRIEND OR DIE, THEN I CHOOSE TO DIE!" Erza screamed out.
"DO WHAT YOU WANT!, OUR ANSWER WILL ALWAYS BE THE SAME!" Natsu then screamed out, "WE'RE GOING TO SMASH YOU INTO THE DIRT!".
Midoriya then just glared up at the mecha, "Erza" he started to say, getting the s-class wizards attention, "What's the plan?".
And she looked to Lucy, who was crying, and then angrily up at the top of the mecha, "We need to…".
But before she could finish her statement, Jose spoke up again.
"IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT, THEN YOU'RE GOING TO GET A HEAPING SERVING OF JUIPITER!" he yelled, "I WILL ALLOW YOU THE FIFTEEN MINUTES IT TAKES TO REPOWER TO WALLOW IN YOUR FEAR!".
Midoriya chose to ignore Jose's warning as he tried to get Erza's attention, "We need a plan" he said.
And Erza nodded at him, "What do you think we should do?".
But Midoriya looked at her in confusion, "Why me?" he questioned.
"Because" Erza explained, "You're ability might be the only thing that can take out Jose".
And Midoriya awkwardly looked at his hand and then to all of the Fairy Tail wizards that were around him.
He then stood up and started to walk back towards the mecha, "Erza, you're with me" he said, "Natsu, you get Happy to take you up to the cannon and see if you can do anything".
Midoriya then gestured to Gray and Elfman, "You guys are go in and take on whatever member of the element four you come across" he stated.
And as he saw a large amount of soldiers disembarking the mecha and approaching them, he looked to the remaining wizards, "You guys take on them, and whatever happens, make sure that they don't get Lucy".
"What if he manages to recharge the cannon in time?" a random person questioned.
To which Midoriya sighed, "If that happens, I have a plan, but I'm hoping that it won't come to that" he responded.
He then saw Lucy, who was still sniffling and watching as everybody went off to do their designated tasks, "No one should be forsaken just to obtain the easy path" he remarked as he gave her a smile and then ran off with Erza.
"He sounds like a hero" Lucy said as she wiped her face and then interacted with Mirajane.
Midoriya had seen Happy fly Natsu straight up to the cannon, and after seeing Gray and Elfman go in a different entrance to the mecha, he and Erza entered through the front entrance.
"Do you think it was a good idea putting me in charge of a plan?" he asked her as the two of them walked through the entrance.
"You have some experience with dealing with certain situations, and I presumed that you could plan accordingly to whatever could happen" she explained.
"But I do wonder about one part of your plan," she started to ask, "Why is it only Natsu, Happy, Gray, Elfman, You and me actually going in to take on Phantom Lord".
And Midoirya tapped the side of his head as he looked around cautiously, "It's obvious that somehow Natsu will run into Gajeel again, but at the same time, it would be advantageous if the first wizard he ran into would be the fire member of the element four" he explained.
Erza nodded and also looked around cautiously, "That is a good assumption, but what about the other members of the element four, and what about Jose?".
"Gray and Elfman will probably run into one of the other members, and you and I will take on the fourth one, and then that will leave just Jose" Midoriya explained as the two of them approached a set of stairs.
"Why both of us for just one member?" she then questioned him.
"Because at the very least, the two of us should be able to take down one of them, and after that has happened, we can probably either hold off Jose for a while and hope that us with the other three can take him down, or…" he muttered as they cautiously walked up the stairs.
"Or, what…" Erza said.
And Midoriya sighed, "I take him down and hope that I don't lose an arm" he remarked.
Erza then stopped as she glared at him, "You'd better not sacrifice your life just to take out someone as reprehensible as Jose" she uttered.
But Midoriya gave her a look that answered her question, and the two of them continued to go up the stairs.
They both then started to feel a familiar force, "Crap, the cannon is starting to fire again" Erza said.
Midoriya then quickly aimed his hand at where the source of the magic was coming from, "Then I've got no choice" he yelled as his air force glove appeared on his hand.
And although she was hesitant, Erza knew that she had no choice but to let him do his attack, but just before Midoriya executed the attack, the force had disappeared.
But Midoriya was hesitant about deactivating his attack, "Do you think that Natsu took the cannon out?" he asked her.
And Erza's confident nod answered him, so he deactivated his attack, and the two of them continued to run up the stairs.
After a certain amount of time, the two of them had come to the top of the staircase, and they had found themselves in a hall of some kind, but one word indicated to them what they needed to do, "Now I've got a fire in my belly" and the two of them bolted in the direction of where they heard Natsu.
("How can he possible keep going?") Midoriya thought, and then the two of them came upon Aria about to cast some kind of magic on Natsu, but before he could complete the spell, Erza had smacked him in the face and Midoriya had used a black whip to fling Natsu away.
"Midoriya, Erza, where were you guys?" Natsu questioned them, but the two of them ignored him as they glared at Aria.
"It is so sad" the man started to say, "I expected only Salamander's head, but Titania offers me hers as well…".
"One man dared to attack our father" Erza exclaimed with a hint of toxicity on her voice, "This man".
"Erza, do you have this?" Midoriya asked her, and as she gave him a nod, he quickly ran off, "Good luck, I'll see you in a bit".
But as she made a sword appear in her hand, Aria had instead appeared from behind her and started to cast the same spell from before.
Midoriya had managed to find a way to the upper parts of the mecha, but he then suddenly started to feel the building starting to sway and shake, "The others must've dealt with all of the element four and their power must've been feeding this thing" he said as tried to shakily regain his footing.
But before he could continue, he heard the same feminine voice from before, "You're going the wrong way your enemy is in the other direction".
And he knew that he wouldn't make it down in time, so he improvised, "I hope nobody gets injured from this" he exclaimed as he pulled back his fist and collided it with the floor below him, "One percent, Detroit smash".
His fist instantly pulverised the ground below him, and it continued to destroy the ground beneath him as he fell.
Erza had just managed to defeat Aria, and although the was in quite the fine condition, she knew that Natsu was the best person to send after Lucy, who Jose had managed to recapture, and as he ran off she sat down on a bit of rubble as she decided what to do next.
"Midoriya will probably find Jose, I hope he doesn't push himself" she exclaimed as she stood up to run in the direction he had gone off in, but before she could, Gray, Elfman and Mirajane had all arrived in the same hall she was standing in.
"Erza, you took out Aria, where are Natsu and Midoriya?" they asked her and she started to respond.
"They…" she started to say, but at that very moment, all four of them felt an extreme chill in their bodies, and they turned to the sound of clapping from behind them.
"Ahhh" Jose said with an arrogant smirk, "Well done, my lovelies".
"I never thought that you would give me this much fun" he exclaimed as he smirked to the four of them.
Jose then started to approach all of them, and between Mirajane being repulsed at his magic power, and the other three being extreme cautious towards him, none of them were prepared for his next attack.
"And I guess that I should give you all something appropriate for the enjoyment that you haven't given me" he remarked as a swirl of magic started to appear around his hand as he aimed it at them.
And within amount of unleashing the power, he had completely overpowered both Gray and Elfman, sending the two of them down in defeat.
Erza then was about to retaliate, but she then heard a sound that made her falter.
"DETROIT SMASH" Midoriya exclaimed as he came crashing through the roof, to land directly in front of Jose, making the older man deactivate his attack in slight confusion.
"So you're Phantom Lord's master, huh?" Midoriya exclaimed as both his gloves and his shoes appeared.
"And you are that young man who managed to redirect my cannon" Jose replied, "Who the hell are you?!".
Midoriya smirked as he bared his fists, but before the two of them could continue, they both felt a gigantic explosion, which sent the giant guild crashing down, "Those two dragons can sure make a mess" Jose said.
But instead of acknowledging his statement, Midoriya quickly analysed the situation, ("Both Gray and Elfman are out, probably Mirajane too, I can't really tell from here, and Natsu probably pushed himself to take out Gajeel, so that leaves just me and Erza").
"Erza" he yelled, to which the young woman looked to him.
"I've probably got about five minutes, I'll need your help" he yelled out as both Erza and Jose both felt a massive surge of energy coming from Midoriya.
A bright light enveloped him, and a second later it had disappeared, but his hair was standing on it's ends, and his whole body appeared to have a green glow to it, "FULL COWLING, ULTIMATE TWO PERCENT" he yelled as he once again bared his fists at Jose.
But Jose just laughed at him, "You really think that I would believe that is only two percent of your full power, what do you take me for, an idiot or something" the wizard saint exclaimed as he looked at Midoriya.
And Midoriya simply responded by disappearing, and then reappearing a moment later right next to Jose, sending a punch straight into the wizard saint's head, sending him to the ground, "I don't care what you think" he then uttered as he clenched his teeth and almost growled at Jose.
Jose quickly stood up, and after rubbing a bit of blood from the corner of his mouth, he creepily grinned at Midoriya, "Maybe you and Titania could give me a proper fight" he exclaimed as he then threw his hand to his side, with a large amount of his shades forming into his hand, he then threw it straight at Midoriya.
But Midoriya flicked a finger at the attack, making it instantly dissipate, he then disappeared again and reappeared near Erza, "I'll need you help in keeping him distracted, I'm running out of time, and it's really hurting to keep this going" he whispered to her.
She nodded, and after re-quipping her flight armour she pointed her weapons at Jose, "You threatened our guild, we're gonna take you down" she declared as she ran ta Jose and Midoriya disappeared again.
"You children seem to be forgetting something" Jose then said, "You might be able to get a couple of measly hits in, but you seem to be forgetting why I am counted as a wizard saint".
He then compressed a large amount t of his shades into his palms and ran straight towards Erza, "Now die, Titania" he stated as threw his fist at her head, and although Erza was quick enough to dodge that fist, she failed to be able to dodge his second attack, which collided with her head, making a large cracking sound and sending her falling to the ground.
"ERZA" Midoriya screamed as he reappeared again and started throwing an innumerable amount of punches and kicks at Jose, "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?".
And Jose appeared to be able to keep up with some of Midoriya's movements, or at least enough that he wasn't sustaining major damage, "You've got some nerve kid, how the hell haven't I heard of you?" he questioned Midoriya as he tried cover Midoriya with a large bubble of shades, but he quickly disappeared, and reappeared near Erza.
"I'm Izuku Midoriya" he exclaimed as he helped Erza back to her feet.
"Your movements are slowing down" Erza muttered under her breath to Midoriya, and he gave her a hesitant look.
"The pain is starting to get to me" he retorted.
"So we'd better finish this then" she then exclaimed, as she re-quipped into her Heaven's wheel armour.
Midoriya quickly grabbed her and they both disappeared, only to reappear a moment later, just behind Jose.
But it appeared that the Phantom Lord guild master was prepared as he quickly turned around to throw a concentration of his magic in the form of sharp objects at them.
"Blumenblatt, St. Louis Smash" they both screamed as they sent their respective attacks to stop him.
The attacks then met, and as the energy and swords collided, they released a massive amount of power sending all three of them flying back.
While flying back, Midoriya had to deactivate full cowling as he came skidding along the ground and crashing into a wall.
And Erza was sent flying straight down the hallway that was behind them, "Arrghh" she screamed as she disappeared down the corridor.
"Crap, Erza" Midoriya exclaimed as he saw her disappear down the corridor.
But his attention was then brought to a foot colliding with his head, making it smash against the wall behind him.
Jose, whose eyes had turned completely black, and appeared to be wearing extremely tattered clothing, and a body full of scrapes and cuts, was seething as he glared down at Midoriya, "Well Izuku Midoriya, you're going to die now" he stated as a large amount of his shades formed into his hand to make a spear like weapon.
And Midoriya, with blood leaking out of his mouth, and a probable concussion, just glared up at him.
"Do it now, Deku" the feminine voice echoed throughout his mind, and without a second thought, he started to bring his right palm down on the ground, and as he was bring it down, on his fingertips, small green pads could be seen forming on them.
("I know whose power this is") he thought as he slammed his hand on the ground.
And although it looked like nothing had happened, and after a moment Jose had stopped caring about whatever Midoriya had done, he started to bring the spear down on the younger man.
But just as he was starting to bring the spear down, he suddenly lost his balance, and he was sent tumbling back a couple of metres, "What is happening?" he questioned as he glared daggers at Midoriya.
Midoriya smirked as he stood up and held himself onto a piece of the building that was fixed, "Zero Gravity" he yelled, and then he gestured to a part of the remains of the building they were in, where there was a hole, and it was quite evident that they were rising into the sky, and at quite a fast speed at that.
"And now for gravity" he then remarked as he gripped his stomach, and although it looked like he was about to throw up his entire stomach, he brought his fingers together, and for a brief moment it looked like nothing was happening, and then, without warning, the two of them were thrown against the top of the wreckage they were in as it started to fall straight back down.
"Do you really think that this will stop me" Jose retorted as he was able to make himself magically attach to the ground, but Midoriya didn't respond to him, instead he just braced himself for the crashing, which happened moments later.
Midoriya felt himself nearly lose consciousness, but he held onto it, but it was quite evident that he was beyond his limit, and would be unable to move, he then opened his eyes to see he was covered in rubble and debris.
"Surely that wasn't it" he stated, and true enough to his statement, Jose came bursting from underneath a large amount of rubble, and although it looked like he had sustained a bit of damage, it was quite obvious he was far from defeated.
He then looked around for a moment, before his eyes settled on Midoriya, "I'LL KILL YOU" he bellowed as he pooled all of his magic into his hands as he prepared to fire it at Midoriya, but just before he did, a gigantic hand came out of nowhere sending him flying backwards.
"Don't you dare lay another hand on any of my children" a voice said, and Midoriya turned his head slightly to view Makarov and standing next to him was Erza.
"Makarov" Jose said as he gritted his teeth and glared at the guild master of Fairy Tail.
"You're probably doing this because of something like jealously" Makarov then started to state, "Am I right, Jose?"
"Jealously, ha ha, you really think that your garbage pile of a guild could cause ire, all I did was try to get rid of the bugs, and those that others think are better me" Jose retorted as he wiped some of the blood from his mouth.
"You might've had names like Gildarts, Laxus, Mystogan, Erza and even Salamander associated with your pathetic guild, but that is all, you are nothing special" he then exclaimed as gave Makarov a wicked grin.
But Makarov ignored him as he looked down at Midoriya, "You did enough to keep a Wizard Saint on the backfoot, good job" he said as he carefully helped the young man up and leaned him against Erza, "Now the two of you get out of here".
Erza then helped Midoriya quickly stumble away as they both started to feel a massive amount of power emanating from behind them, "I'm surprised that you are still conscious" Erza stated as she helped through the rubble and away from Makarov and Jose.
And Midoriya just gave her a weak laugh as he struggled to walk alongside her, "Well I didn't really break any bones this time, maybe, I don't know, I can't really feel my body properly" he deliriously mumbled, and soon enough, he had properly passed out.
He awoke not a moment later in a now, very familiar place, "What was that?" he screamed out into the empty distance after registering where he was.
And instead of being answered by another voice, a person started to form in front of him, and as that person started to take shape.
"Hello Deku" Uraraka said, and Midoriya fell to the ground in shock.
"U… U… Uraraka" he started to mumble as he looked up at the girl he had thought to be long dead.
"Well not exactly" she responded with a saddened look on her face.
"Then what then?" Midoriya quickly questioned her.
And she slightly shrugged, "Um, well, you see it's kind of complicated, but to simplify things for now, all you need to know is that my quirk, alongside an echo of my consciousness were implanted into One for All when it was edited" she explained.
A moment of thinking later, and Midoriya nodded at her, "I understand" he said as he stood up and looked at her.
"Then good luck with everything Deku" she exclaimed as she soon disappeared.
But this just left Midoriya flabbergasted, "But that doesn't mean I don't have more questions" he depressively yelled into the blank space of One for All.
"And they will be answered in time, Ninth" All for One's brother then stated as he appeared next to Midoriya.
"What's going on, why is there suddenly one of my friends quirks in One for All" he questioned the echo of the first user of the quirk.
And All for One's brother shrugged, "I wouldn't just say one" he responded and he also disappeared instantly.
Midoriya, dejected and annoyed just looked on into the void that was his quirk, "What is going on?" he yelled, but instead of getting an answer he just started to feel as consciousness started to return to him.
"Oh no you don't" he started to exclaim as he started to feel himself waking up, "I just want an answer".
But he was met with nothingness, and soon enough he felt himself properly waking up again.
Midoriya awoke, with his body covered in casts and bandages, and lying in a bed in what looked like a medical tent of some sort, "Well, I guess I pushed it too far" he stated.
"Hello Izuku Midoriya" he then heard and he looked to the side of his bed to see a young woman sitting next to him, with her arm leaning on her bed as if she had been watching him or something.
"I'm Ultear Milkovich, I'm with the magic council, and I've got a couple of questions for you" she stated with a sly smile and a wink, and Midoriya gulped in response.
So, yeah, a couple of other things have happened to One for All, and they will become evident as time goes on, and trust me, I've already planned out that entire part.
As for that sudden inclusion of 'Death', just think of it as a lurking presence that will start to cloud Midoriya's judgment, and it will lead to further branching decisions in the future.
But besides all that, this is definitely probably gonna be the last part of this story uploaded until around probably August, so it's gonna be a little while until the next chapter.
And all questions and feedback are welcomed for this chapter.
Peace Out.
