School started, I got yeeted. That's why I didn't update
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Xenvic: Thanks. Bakugou's definately going to figure out some stuff on his own, so that's that. Bakugou's a great character, and it's gonna be hard to perfectly replicate his development. Speaking of which, if he was an esper, I would say high level 4, with a lot of potential to reach level 5.
Sagnik Deb: Thanks. Indeed, Bakugou's goinig to figure some shit out, and piece together the truth.
FinzDragzer: I'm not going to say much, but there is some things in the comment which are relate to what I'm going to do.
Dark-feel: Indeed, All Might is shown to be an incompetent teacher. He has no experience with these types of things, and he doesn't know when to step in.
D. : Yeah, Touma's fighting ability is top notch, his instincts are really good, and that allows him to keep up with others like Bakugou
Engineer4Ever: Thanks, Thor will do anything for that sweet, sweet experience points
Totsalu: Ah, I see you caught that ;)
Lovecrazyhedgehog: Thor's a great character, and if you don't mind spoilers, read the wiki. Maybe his character will make you read the LNs. Accelerator is super fire, his VA's my total favourite.
COGDE: Maybe he will.
Unbreakable Dark Yuri Eberwein: There might be :eyes:
Cloud111: Thanks mate, now here it is.
WildlyLaughing: Ah, thank you kindly for the correction. I apologize for mixing it up :)
Masterx01: Thanks for the review and the feedback. I'll take it gratefully, and try to improve myself.
Proiu: thanks, and here it is :D
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After Kamijou Touma took on Bakugou and Iida by himself, the other battles started.
Each pair fought against another pair and battled to the end.
The ones who were fighting right now were Shouto Todoroki and Mezo Shouji, versus Hagakure Toru, and Ojiro.
Midoriya was watching with the rest of the class in the control room, albeit except Kamijou, who was in the infirmary, and Bakugou, who was quarantined in another room.
Midoirya's battle against Bakugou was delayed until the end, to let Bakugou, who had participated in the first fight against Kamijou, to rest.
Ever since Bakugou had lost to Kamijou, he was in a state of infinite and eternal anger. Heavy breathing could be heard from across the room, and piercing death stares stabbed Midoriya's back. His senses tingled ever since.
He had since calmed down, but that meant he had stopped emanating excessive killing intent. It was still there but reduced to a manageable amount.
MIdoriya tried to distract himself by immersing himself into the match going on right now.
It had just started, but it had already reached its climax.
Todoroki casually placed one arm on the building and activated his quirk.
It was over from then on.
Ice spread through the entire building, freezing both Ojiro and Toru in place.
And without any resistance whatsoever, Todoroki placed his palm on the 'weapon' with everyone looking in awe.
And that was the end of the match.
'Unbelievable' Midoriya muttered. The people around him seemed to agree as well, judging from their sounds of disbelief.
Midoriya looked over at Bakugou to check his expression after seeing yet another rival for him. Bakugou seemed to have witnessed the one-sided battle, but either didn't seem to care or was not letting it show, as his expression was the same as before: he wanted fire and blood.
It was almost time for their match, and Midoriya was feeling the pressure. He had all the symptoms of anxiety and was just one step away from hyperventilating. 'It's fine,' he told himself. He could do this; He had full cowl now, he had a quirk.
No more was he Deku, the quirkless nobody. He had a quirk, and he was going to be a hero.
It was time to erase the thought of 'Deku is weak' from the people around him's vocabulary, and Bakugou was the only one that had that.
He would beat Bakugou, and show to the world that he was indeed not quirkless, he indeed had the potential to become the best, and he indeed has power.
After convincing himself up like that, it was time. Uraraka Ochako walked up to him from behind. 'It's about time, isn't it, Midoriya?"
Midoriya turned back, with a fearless smile, with no trace of fear. "Yeah. Let's do our best!"
Ochaco was taken aback by the sudden transformation but responded accordingly. "Yeah!"
Meanwhile, Iida Tenya was trying to cooperate with Bakugou. After losing the last match against Kamijou, Iida had attributed it to the lack of teamwork, and Bakugou still seemed to disregard teamwork as a valuable asset.
"I'm telling you, we'll lose again if you don't cooperate!" Iida argued.
"No, we won't. Do you remember who I'm up against? Deku." Bakugou snorted. "This'll be a piece of cake. Oh, by the way, I won't finish off Deku that quickly, I'm going to take my time, so be ready to defend for a while."
Taken aback by his selfishness, Iida made one last desperate attempt to work together with his teammate. "Who said you would have Midoriya? As I said, we should make a plan, and eliminate one after the other in a timely fashion. You're going to lose if not for that."
Bakugou sat up straight. "I'm going to lose? Don't be making such stupid jokes, four-eyes. If you say that again, I'll crush you myself. Listen up, you shit. I'll be going ahead and taking on Deku. Deku is Deku, so he'll send his little friend up to you to try to win the game while holding me off. You will do whatever it takes to defend against her, and I'll crush Deku until the time runs out. That's the plan. Are you happy now?"
It was indeed a plan, and it wasn't a bad one, so Iida muttered his consent reluctantly and walked away from him.
All Might walked up to the two of them and explained the exercise once more. "The villain team goes in first, and the timer starts in five minutes. That's when the hero team goes in, so make your preparations at that time. The rest of us will watch over CCTV!"
He turned the villain team, Bakugou and Iida. "You two need to adopt a mindset of a villain. It's a practical experience, so don't hold back! However, don't take things too far, or I'll disqualify you, especially you, Bakugou."
Bakugou merely clicked his tongue at that comment.
Iida and Bakugou chose the room they would put the weapon in and started to get ready for the hero team.
Iida muttered his reluctance. "I admit, playing the role of the villain displeases me… but it's for the sake of the exercise, so I'll get into role as much as I can."
"Oi, four-eyes. Tell me what you know about Deku's quirk." Bakugou ordered.
Iida looked at him disapprovingly but answered anyway. "It makes him stronger and faster. You saw it yourself; it's not a hard quirk to make out."
"As I thought then." Bakugou smiled. Mere speed and strength on that level wouldn't be shit to him.
But still, that useless Deku had been punking him for this whole time?
That was a crime that could not be forgiven.
He would crush this insect.
Iida called out to him. "Are you still fixated on Midoriya? What's your problem with him anyway?"
"None of your business. I'm going after Deku, and you stay here. Buy me time. That's everything you need to do, can you understand that?" Bakugou sneered at him.
Iida didn't argue. What Bakugou just suggested was a viable strategy that could lead the two to victory, but first, he had to disable Uraraka's quirk to deal with her.
Her quirk was to cancel out the effects of gravity for any object she touches, with restrictions.
That just meant that to render her useless, he just had to remove any bits of rubble and rock lying around.
He quickly did that, and just after he finished, the timer for 5 minutes had ended. The exercise had started, and Bakugou didn't wait any longer. He blasted out of the room with his explosions, looking for Midoriya.
The Hero team, Midoriya and Uraraka, had been given blueprints of the building. "Better memorise this…" Midoriya muttered.
Uraraka was still as bubbly as ever. "All Might's so nice, there's no punishment like Aizawa-sensei, so I'm not too worried about this exam!" She looked over to Midoriya, who seemed to be very worried indeed. "Why do you look so worried?" she asked, concerned.
Midoriya sheepishly answered. "Well… we're up against Kacchan, and Iida as well."
By now, Uraraka had already figured out that Bakugou bullied Midoriya. "He's the one that bullied you right…?"
"Yeah. But I still admire him. He's just so amazing like that." Midoriya plastered on a fearless smile to mask his anxiousness. "That's why I'll beat him."
When they finally entered the building, it was eerily quiet.
Shouldn't there be sounds of explosions everywhere?
They walked up a floor, before finally hearing the explosions.
Midoriya turned to Uraraka and whispered to her. "Keep your guard up, and you hear that?"
She nodded.
"He'll be going after me, and leave you alone. If Iida comes with him, we both fight, but if he's not there, find the room with the bomb. I'll come later after I'm done with Bakugou so it'd be a 2v1!"
"Alright!"
A third voice could be heard. "Done with me? What a funny joke! You'll be crushed under my foot like the bug you are!"
A subsequent explosion rocked the wall behind the pair and blasted the wall behind them to bits.
Midoriya saw it coming and tackled Uraraka out of the way.
The explosions singed Midoriya's costume, and burned him a little, but nothing that would slow him down a whole lot.
With a maniacal laugh, Bakugou blasted towards Midoriya, who was still on the ground. "Go, Uraraka! Iida isn't here!"
"Turn your attention to here, Deku!" Bakugou yelled. "There's gonna be a world of pain for you!"
'Let's see… he's going to start with a right hook; I'll counter that with a shoulder throw!'
And sure enough, the right hook came.
Midoriya already knew it was coming through, so he moved towards Bakugou in the middle of the punch, grabbed his arm with both hands, and turned his body.
By now, Bakugou was midair, in the middle of the shoulder throw.
Green lightning could be seen around the two.
Instead of being at the influence of Gravity and his weight, in which he should have impacted a lot less, he accelerated and smashed into the ground with a thud.
One for All: Full Cowl 5%
Bakugou, winded, got up as quick as possible. "So that's your quirk, huh? Did you have fun hiding it from me for all those years?" he spat out.
Midoriya defensively waved his hands in front of him. "Nononono, it's not like that Kacchan, I-"
"Shut up and fight. Words have no place in a fight!" He yelled, before blasting towards him for another attack.
Midoriya, panicking and afraid of the prospect of getting hit by one of those explosions, as he had in all those years, dodged them all, and did not attempt to block, or attack.
It was a cowardly scene to all those watching.
"Wow, that Midori sure can dodge!" Mina commented.
"Yeah, but he's not attacking. That's not manly at all… but Bakugou is pretty scary, so I can see where he's coming from."
Meanwhile, Bakugou was getting angry. Both from Midoirya dodging his every attack, and the fact that he wouldn't use his quirk to attack him. He took this the wrong way. "Are you looking down at me? Stop dodging the attacks! Are you saying that those explosions of mine are too weak to damage you now?" Bakugou laughed incredulously. "And also, attack you fucking coward! Use your full power, cus that's the only way you can have the slightest chance of beating me!"
Finally, Midoriya snapped out of his trance. '…he's right. I'm scared of his attacks, but now I have power. I can take them.'
A more confident Midoriya ran towards Bakugou to go on the offensive.
Bakugou stood there, not attacking yet. He would assess and analyse Deku's abilities from this.
A left jab was coming his way, and Bakugou moved accordingly to block it, but it was a feint.
If it were a normal human fighting Midoriya, the feint would have worked, and the hit would have landed.
But Bakugou wasn't normal. With all his big talk and arrogance, there was justification for those.
With lightning speed reactions, he dodged the right hook by moving backwards, using his right palm to create explosions towards Midoriya, and using the momentum to push himself backwards.
Using the momentum to his advantage, Bakugou grabbed the right arm with his left and pulled him backwards.
Taken by surprise, there was no resistance.
Using his palm boosters, he used their momentum to throw Midoriya over his head, and smash him on the ground, not dissimilarly like the shoulder throw Midoriya used on him, just more brutal and using less technique than just pure power.
Spittle flew out of Midoriya's mouth, and the wind was knocked out of him, but Bakugou wasn't finished yet.
He pulled on Midoriya's right arm with so much power that he smashed into the opposite wall when he let go of it, using his quirk to create the momentum.
Engraved into a wall, Midoriya was beaten.
"Do you now see how weak you all are? Go tell that to your little boyfriend Deku! Educate him about your uselessness, and the rest of your kinds!"
Hearing those words helped him get back onto his feet. "I won't lose. I won't give up, Kacchan!"
"Good for me, I get to continue crushing a bug! How fun!"
While their fight continued, Midoriya's strategy was to counter-attack. Dodge hits, and try to use that to his advantage, and land some blows.
But Bakugou's fighting instinct was top class, and he never landed a solid blow. Only to his arms, which were protected anyway.
While Bakugou was taking little to no damage, Midoriya got blasted every then or so.
But he was used to those blasts, and they didn't bother him much.
Finally, Bakugou got pissed at the fact Midoriya wasn't taking some severe damage.
"Stop dodging, useless prick! Do you think you can win this." He stopped in his tracks.
By now, they were in a narrow corridor, with Bakugou holding the entrance.
"I'll show you what real power is!" Bakugou yelled, holding his left gauntlet out. "I've already explained it to Kamijou, so figure this out yourself."
Suddenly the loudspeaker rang out with All Might's voice. "Stop right at this instant! If you do not, Bakugou, there will be serious consequences!"
"Oh, shut up. It's not like he's going to die with that! At least he won't die if I don't land a direct hit!" Bakugou ignored the warning, and pulled the pin, at an angle, so there was a place to dodge to.
The wave of destruction came, and it was coming fast.
Instead of dodging to the sides, Midoriya stood still in the middle.
He was eerily calm. What was happening to him?
He knew this attack would kill him if it hit.
He knew that.
But he also knew that he couldn't stop hiding and running away from his problems.
He had to be strong.
He had to face them head-on.
And that was what he was going to do right now.
He raised his arm and pointed it towards the big explosion.
A purple glow surrounded his right index finger.
Wind emanated from it from the sheer power.
He would face this head-on, and smash through it with full power!
'100% Delaware Smash!" he yelled within his mind.
And he flicked.
An enormous blast of wind cut the explosion in half, missing Midoriya. The opposing powers cancelled each other out, but the 100% of one for all was more powerful.
The wind smashed into Bakugou at full power, pushing him back into the wall.
Bakugou refused to be at the mercy at the wind and used his explosions to propel himself forward.
But what he didn't see was Midoriya, whose fist was right in front of his face.
'How did he get here so quick?!'
The fist of Midoriya, with 5% of One for All, smashed into Bakugou's face and sent him flying to the wall, creating a small crater.
The pressure of the wind, the direct hit from a 5% punch, as well as the impact from the wall combined for a deadly attack, which damaged Bakugou quite a bit.
However, Midoriya didn't come out unscathed.
Just as Midoriya landed the punch on Bakugou, he reacted fast enough to retaliate, grabbing his face with his palm, and letting loose a barrage of powerful explosions, burning Midoriya's face, and sending him flying backwards into a wall as well.
They both got up at the same time and charged one another once more.
'I wasn't expecting him to react fast enough to counter my attack, but that's Kacchan for you.' Midoriya still thought of Bakugou as someone to look up to. But now he had realised, that he was also someone he could surpass, and in doing so, making him stronger.
Midoriya took a good hard look at the index finger he broke in that 100% smash.
It was purple, bruised, bloody, and flopping around. It was destroyed.
The pain was overwhelming, but the adrenaline made it bearable.
Meanwhile, Bakugou was shocked.
He was shocked at the strength Midoriya displayed.
'So this is how he defeated the 0—pointer? This overwhelming power?'
Bakugou's eyes wandered, and it reached Midoriya's injured hand.
'So it takes this much of a toll on him as well?'
Bakugou remembered. In his childhood.
Whenever he did something wrong, Deku was there to stop him.
He took on all of his attacks and did that, again and again.
But when he was the one getting bullied, he didn't fight back once.
But now, he was willing to break his finger, burn his face, to counter his attack? All when it could be easily dodged? When Bakugou himself made it easy to avoid for him?
Bakugou felt anger, felt being looked down upon, but he also felt something else.
Something that he didn't even know he felt.
He felt just the slightest bit of respect.
Subconsciously, of course.
He was the same on the outside. "Are you trying to defy me? I intentionally made that attack easy to dodge. Do you think you're on the same level as me? Is that why you did that?"
Gritting his teeth in pain, Midoriya replied defiantly. "No, Kacchan. I'm standing up for myself. No more will I dodge, and run away, or take it, as I have done before. I'm fighting, because I have the power now. Because that's what heroes do!"
And on that note, he charged into Bakugou once more.
"Don't kid yourself." Bakugou explosively slapped his punch away, leaving Midoriya unbalanced. "Heroes win. That's what they do." Midoriya's ribs were wide open, and Bakugou placed his knee in it with force. "You're so weak; you'll never win. Even with that power you've got, you're still losing to me!" Bakugou clutched his head, and forced another knee, this time to his chin.
"No. I'll surpass even you, and win!" Midoriya headbutted the knee of Bakugou with so much force that his head split open, and a trickle of blood came out. The attack was blocked, and if it had hit his chin, he would have been knocked out. "But if I don't this time, I'll do the next time. The thing is, I'll never give up!" Midoriya got out of his clutches successfully.
"That's never going to happen!"Bakugou roared. "Even with your full power, I'll still crush it! Go on, then, use your full power! That's the only chance you have against me! But since that power of yours destroys yourself as well, it might be best to give up."Bakugou sneered. "Give up like the Deku you are."
"I've accepted the name Deku, Kacchan." Midoriya smiled at him. "After all, I'm the Deku that will never give up! I'll use my full power, Kacchan, so prepare if you can."
Bakugou smiled sadistically. "Bring it on, Deku!"
And the two of them charged at each other at full speed.
All Might was watching.
And it wasn't good.
The other students knew, as well.
"Hey, shouldn't you stop them? They're going to kill each other now!"
All Might knew he should, but he couldn't bring himself to.
The relationship those two had, it gone beyond mere words and actions.
They had history, and a good fight was an excellent way to resolve that history.
He knew this meant a lot to Midoriya, Bakugou was his bully, and he wanted to stand up for himself, and not run away from him anymore. He tried to deal with this himself, and win.
But still, the bottom line was that they were going to kill themselves, and All Might couldn't have that in his class.
"Both of you stop at once!"
If they didn't, All Might would go over there himself and-
"Uraraka, now!" Midoriya yelled.
'What?'
Midoriya turned his fist upwards, and instead of the right hook he was going to throw at Bakugou, an uppercut was thrown upwards.
The force of the wind coming from the uppercut forced Bakugou away, but that only took very little. The bulk of the wind smashed against the ceiling above Midoriya, which crashed above the ceiling above that, which broke above the ceiling about that until the wind even broke the roof.
All the concrete known as the ceiling in that spot were destroyed, and the torrent of wind went outside of the building, rubble and concrete swirling around it, like a deadly tornado.
One of the floors that were decimated was the very floor of the weapon of the training exam.
Rubble and bits of rocked floated around, making it perfect for Uraraka to use against Iida.
"Alright! Thanks, Deku!" She grabbed hold of a huge pillar, using her quirk to make it weightless. "Improvised special move: Comet home run!" She swung the pillar at the wind torrent, knocking some rubble and sharp bits of rock towards where Iida was, who had to dodge and defend against them. "Sorry about that, Iida!"
She then put her fingers together, and activated her quirk on herself, all the while jumping.
The result was that she was flying forwards and at a relatively high speed, straight towards the weapon.
One touch and it was over. Iida knew that, but he couldn't do anything about it. "Wait, you can do that?"
"Yeah, but it takes a lot of energy out of me." She finally reached the weapon, and deactivated her quirk, causing her to sigh in relief, She hugged the weapon dearly like it was some stuffed animal.
Bakugou was knocked down, but he quickly got back up.
The smoke had receded, and MIdoriya, with his purple, broken arm, was standing as well.
All Might's voice rang out once more. "The exercise has ended. The hero team wins!"
Those words swirled around Bakugou's head.
Had he lost? Again?
Unbelievable.
But wait, they had won not due to their strength, but their dirty tricks. That didn't count in Bakugou's favour, right?
Yes, it did. He had won the battle but lost the war.
But a nagging thought was inside his brain.
If Mdioriya had intended it, he would have gotten hit by one of those super punches he had in him.
And if they hit him, he would die.
So Midoriya was intentionally holding back on him?
'…I totally lost… to Deku.'
Just then, All Might came in and put his arm over Bakugou's shoulder. "Let's head back, Bakugou. It's time for your grading."
When he noticed Bakugou's state of mind, he said something else. "Don't mind your loss. And whether you win or lose, you can come out ahead by learning from the experience."
While the two were talking, Midoriya was being taken to the nurse's office via automated robots. His broken arm would be healed in no time.
Back in the monitor room, the people involved in that round in the fight, minus Midoriya, who was injured and in the nurse's office, were lined up, about to be graded.
"The MVP in this round was Iida!" All Might boomed out. That had a noticeable reaction from the students.
"What? Not Midoriya or Ochako? Even though they won?" the frog girl, Tsuyu Asui said.
"Does anyone know why?" All Might asked the rest of the class.
Eager to make an impression, Yaoyorozu spoke up once more. "I do, sensei. It's because Iida was able to adapt the most in the scenario." She had answered a lot of these questions today, and everyone else was impressed by her intelligence. "Bakugou was driven, again, by a personal grudge. The first time against Kamijou was enough, but he couldn't control his emotions again, showing that he can't control himself. Using that huge explosion again, even after last time where you got reprimanded for that, was also a foolish move. I'd say he performed the worst here."
She continued. "Midoriya was the same, but a little less aggressive, and managed to think up a plan. However, that plan was reckless, and in a real situation, it would be ill-advised to do so. Uraraka lost focus halfway, and the last attack was dangerous. If it were a real nuclear weapon, such an attack would be unthinkable. However, Iida was decent. He formed an actual strategy and predicted what would happen in the actual situation. He was, however, late in reacting at the very end. The hero team only won because this exercise was one with exploitable constraints" She finished.
All Might was once more impressed by her analysis skills.
'As expected of a recommended student…' the whole class thought. All three of the recommended in class 1-A had made considerable impressions for the entire class. Kamijou with his fighting ability, Todoroki with his quirk's pure firepower, and Yaoyorozu with her brains.
Iida and Uraraka soaked up the criticism and praise earnestly, but Bakugou was quiet.
All Might then dismissed the class and ran off. His time limit was almost reached.
He looked back at the class and noticed Bakugou's fallen expression. 'Bakugou, kid… that bundle of conceit. The most inflated egos are often the most fragile, and he'd suffered from two big losses today… I would talk to him a bit, but I'm kind of in a hurry right now…"
All Might reached the nurse's office just in time, and his muscle form wore off.
Inside, Midoriya was on the bed, asleep. An IV Drip hung beside him, his arm on a cast.
Beside him, Kamijou was reading a book. "Oh hey, All Might." He greeted him. "What happened to Midoriya?"
"His fight with Bakugou was more intense than I would have liked." All Might sighed. "He won, though, and I think he'd proved a point."
Kamijou smiled. "That's good then."
"Don't you have something to say, All Might?" Recovery Girl's voice came from behind. There was quite an angry tone in it. "Why didn't you stop him? I was watching the whole thing!"
"My apologies, Recovery Girl…" he apologized sheepishly.
"It's not me you need to apologize to!" She said, less angry now. "A broken arm like that is a pretty big injury. I used my quirk on him, but he still needs rest. Don't rely on my quirk for everything, you know."
All Might apologized once more.
Sighing, Recovery Girl scolded him once more. "I know why he's your favourite, but stop indulging him!"
"Yeah, you're right. I was sympathising with him, with his situation with Bakugou, so I didn't do what I should have."
Recovery Girl checked up on Midoriya, and deemed him healed, and released him. Kamijou was also released, but his arm was in a sling.
"Such misfortune." Kamijou sighed. "Imagine Breaker is the worst in times like these."
"That's a bad side effect." Midoriya agreed. "If you could turn it off and control like that, you would be much more powerful."
"Yeah, but Imagine Breaker doesn't work like that." Kamiijou looked at his right arm. "It's after school now, where are you going?"
"Back to the classroom to change. I also want to talk to Bakugou for a bit." Midoriya admitted.
"Oh. Well good luck on that, I'll be going back to the classroom as well."
When they went inside the classroom, the two of them were in the centre of attention.
Kirishima noticed both of them first. "Oh, Midoriya is back! And also, Kamijou! Welcome back, guys!"
"Your battles were both epic! The first round got us pumped us, and the last round ended it with a bang!"
"Wow, you two really knocked Bakugou down a peg today eh?"
Since Kamijou didn't watch their matches, Midoriya responded. "Thanks, but your matches were just as exciting!"
While the others were talking about the fighting, Uraraka was worrying about Midoriya's arm. "Is your arm OK?"
"Y-yeah. Recovery girl healed me right back up."
Meanwhile, Kirishima noticed Kamijou's arm in a sling. "Didn't recovery girl heal you up?"
"Imagine Breaker negates the effect of all Quirks," Kamijou said. "Without exception, even the good ones."
"Wow, that kind of sucks," Kirishima said. "But your quirk is super cool, so it's not that bad a side effect eh?"
"…Sure."
"Imagine Breaker?" Tsuyu wondered. "What's that?"
Kamijou realised his mistake. "Oh, it's just a name I give my right arm that holds my quirk."
"That's a pretty cool name." Kirishima complimented. "it would strike fear on the villain who goes against you!"
By now, Midoriya had run down the stairs, presumably to talk to Bakugou. Kamijou considered going down, but he decided to leave them alone. That was a personal matter.
Midoriya was thinking of what he should say to Bakugou. 'Alright, I'll tell him the truth, but not the whole truth.'
He then felt guilty. He hasn't even told anyone, not even his mother.
He called out timidly "K-Kacchan!"
He still couldn't be confident in front of Bakugou; that's what it looked like. But at least he wasn't stuttering like crazy like he used to. That was a good start.
Bakugou stopped and barely turned his head so that a single eye was looking at Midoriya. "Eh?" his red pupils looked extra menacing like this.
Midoriya gulped. He was actually going to reveal this… "I can't say much… but you should know this, at least."
Bakugou turned his body now; half his body was facing Midoriya.
"I got my quirk… from someone else. I didn't lie to you, but if you think I did and was hurt by it, I'm sorry." Midroiya started. "I can't say who gave it to me, and I still can't control it that much, but I still tried to beat you with it… and I still lost the battle against you." Midoriya looked up earnestly at him and sincerely said from the bottom of his heart. "That's a testament to how amazing you are! But I will make this power my own, and I will beat you with my own power in the future." He finished.
He had said too much, once again. He was only going to tell Bakugou that he really wasn't tricking him by saying he was quirkless for the past ten years…
Embarrassed, he said all that, Midoriya started to pale. How would Kacchan react to all that?
Surprisingly, he reacted with emotion. All his frustrations came pouring out of him. "I mean, what the hell!" he gritted his teeth and lowered his head in shame. "I lost to the Kamijou guy badly, and I even lost the war against you!" Bakugou's voice started even to break. "I-I can't even measure up to the sheer power of the icy bastard as well!"
This was the first time Midoriya had ever seen him like this. So he really was frustrated of his own weakness, instead of merely blaming other factors.
"The ponytail girl said it all, really… Dammit! Dammit! Dammit! Why? You too, Deku!" Bakugou looked. He had tears in his eyes and a determined expression. "From here on, I…! From here on….I'll beat you all! Do you hear me?! I'll beat you all!"
Turning his back on Midoriya, he walked away, wiping his eyes on his sleeve. "Enjoy your win, cause It'll never happen again!"
Midoriya, who was uber shocked by the emotion shown by Bakugou, was actually kind of touched. 'At least he didn't react badly…' he sighed in relief.
A streak of wind rushed passed Midoriya. It was All Might. "Baku…Go… KID!" he grabbed Bakugou's shoulder. "Let me tell you… that sort of self-respect is important! Without a doubt, you've got the makings of a pro! From now on, you just have to…"
While All Might was trying to give Bakugou some good advice, Bakugou didn't see it that way. "Get off me. I can't walk, All Might."
All Might got a glimpse of his tear-filled, but determined eye. "Needless to say, I'll be a hero which surpasses even you!"
As Kamijou went to school the next day, he was bombarded with questions by the reporters standing outside the gate of U.A. for some reason.
Kamijou tried to sneakily get in without getting noticed, but naturally, his luck wouldn't allow that.
All it took was one of the reporters recognizing him. "Hey, it's the student known as the [Illusion Killer]! The one who worked with All Might to defeat multiple villains!" And so that reporter rushed towards Kamijou to get the first story.
The reporter was probably a rookie, as his loud comments caused all the other reporters to rush towards Kamijou, some even leaving the student they were interviewing.
"What's it like learning from All Might?"
"Do you have a special relationship with the symbol of peace?"
"Tell us what he looks like when teaching the class?"
"Tell us about "All Might: the teacher!"
"Has your involvement with villains affected your studies in any way?"
Kamijou heard these all at once, and there was no way to answer them all. And they were closing in fast. It was getting harder to breathe every second, and Kamijou was panicking internally. "Such misfortuneeeeeeeee!? Is this seriously going to happen to me? Am I going to suffocate and die like thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!?"
Thankfully, he was saved by Aizawa. He somehow got on top of the gate and spoke with a commanding, cold voice. "Leave. You're interrupting the classes."
The reporters didn't listen.
Aizawa tried again, this time activating his quirk to get their attention. "I said, please leave. Stop assaulting one of our students, or I'll call the police."
The hair standing up, the red eyes, as well as the floating scarf, caught their attention. Reluctantly, the reporters let Kamijou go, and he gasped in a big breath of relief.
"Go to class, Kamijou. You're late." Aizawa addressed. "I'll take care of this."
"Yes, sensei." Clutching his minutely fractured arm in which the reporters squeezed somehow, he hurriedly ran into the classroom.
Aizawa's work was done. He jumped off the gate and walked away.
Questions from the reporters were still going full force, and they were all redirected to him now.
"We'd like a direct interview with All Might!"
"Why are you so sloppy looking?"
"Come on, we just want to ask All Might about…" one female reporter approached the gate, which beeped, and with a loud clang, slammed shut. Thick layers of metal now separated the reporters from the school.
"That's the U.A. Barrier." One senior reporter said.
The female reporter was still in shock. "Eh? What do you mean?"
The senior reporter pushed his glasses up. "The whole place locks down if anyone approaches the gate without an ID. There are more sensors throughout the campus."
"The nerve to do that!"
"We've been here for 2 days and not even a byline to show for it!"
Among all that noise, there was a lone person, who didn't fit in with the rest of the reporters.
He had no notebook, no microphone, no camera.
He looked satisfied, unlike most other people outside that gate.
"I've found you, Kamijou-chan~."
"We're going to choose a class president." Aizawa casually mentioned. "Make It quick."
Everyone raised their hands and clamoured for the chance to be chosen as the class president.
Meanwhile, Kamijou was confused at this ridiculous scene. No regular class would have every single member aiming to become the president, and Kamijou sure as hell didn't want to.
'I guess this is the effect of being in an elite school like this.' Kamijou sighed at the noisiness around him. 'Even Midoriya is raising his hand.'
Suddenly, an authoritarian voice drowned out the others. "Leading the many is a task of heavy responsibility…. But ambition does not mean ability!"
A shadow fell over his eye. A gust of wind blew past him. Everyone was listening to what he was going to say next.
"The sacred office demands the trust of its constituents. If this is to be a democracy, I put forward the notion that our true leader must be chosen by election!" Iida declared, raising his hand up for dramatic effect.
Kamijou sweatdropped at his melodrama. 'This is just a classroom… not a congress…'
Asui spoke up. "Won't everyone just vote for themselves? We barely know each other yet."
"Exactly! The one that does amass multiple votes will truly be the one suitable for leading us!" Iida explained.
No one was speaking out in objection, so Iida organized the vote.
Kamijou gave his vote to Iida. That display was probably meant to get people to vote for him, and for Kamijou, it worked.
As expected, everyone did vote for themselves.
Kamijou got one point, like everyone else, but he used his vote for someone else, so somebody else must have voted for him. That was a nice feeling.
Yaoyorozu got 2, and Midoriya got 3. Iida only got 1, the 1 that he gave him.
"How the fuck did Deku get 3?" Bakugou yelled out. "That's bullshittery!"
Iida, not surprisingly, was taking the news not so well. "Zero votes…I thought as much! This is the harsh reality of this sacred office…"
Aizawa finally looked up from his sleeping bag. It was almost the end of the class. "Fine. Your president is Midoriya, and your vice is Yaoyorozu."
Midoriya stood there, mouth open and eyes wide. "S-s-s-s-seriously?"
The election took quite a while, and it was already lunchtime.
Everyone else went down for lunch, but Kamijou needed to pee real bad. "I'll come down later!" he called out to Midoriya, who went down to eat with Uraraka and Iida.
The toilet on his floor was flooded, and it was not fit for use. Kamijou really needed to pee, so he ran up to the bathroom near the principal's office.
When he got to the urinal, he unzipped and did his business. "Ahh….. That's the stuff…" He was holding it in since the start of class, and he didn't get a chance to go during it.
He peed for a good amount of time, thirty seconds before something happened.
Someone walked up to the toilet and used the urinal next to him.
Kamijou frowned. That was not toilet etiquette. That was gay, as he learned from the delta force.
What was even gayer, is that the person next to him started speaking to him.
"Hey, Kamijou-chan! Long-time no see, eh?"
Kamijou whipped his head sideways to take a look at this mysterious person.
She had short brown hair and wore the Tokiwadai Middle School school uniform, sporting white loose socks and brown loafers with a light brown vest sweater over a white blouse and a grey skirt.
She was the spitting image of the Railgun, Misaka Mikoto.
Kamijou sighed, revealing the obviousness of that trick.
Kamijou placed Imagine Breaker on her breast. "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. "
A sound of high pitched glass shattering rang around the large bathroom. "I recognized your speech pattern. Why are you here, Lightning God Thor?"
"As expected of Kamijou." Thor grinned. "You figured me out so fast!"
"She wouldn't call me "Kamijou-chan"" Kamijou muttered. "I'm just 'Idiot' to her."
Thor roared in laughter. "Your relationship still hasn't gone far yet, huh? It's too bad you're here now in this situation. "
That comment made Kamijou aware of his situation. "Wait, that's right! How the hell are you here in this world?"
"Same as you, I guess. World Rejector." Thor explained.
Kamijou realised this was an excellent opportunity to find out if his companions were alive. "Really? Then have you seen Othinus or Index by any chance?"
"Last time I saw them, they were with you. I got sent here before you, so I don't know anything."
"Ah…. Such misfortune." Kamijou groaned, cursing his luck. "I still can't believe I'm not the only one… you have no idea how reassuring it is, Thor."
"You're right, I don't" Thor grinned. "Luckily for me, I have Mjnonir in my head! You remember Mljonir?"
"Vaguely," Kamijou replied. "You're lucky to have her with you here, Thor. I sometimes feel like my life before wasn't real…"
"Yeah well," Thor grinned at him. "I'm here now!"
"Yeah. I guess you are." Kamijou said, still in a bit of shock. He was so surprised that he forgot he had finished peeing.
He zipped up and washed his hands. That was when he realised something. "How did you get in U.A, Thor?"
"You know, the usual way," Thor replied vaguely.
Kamijou frowned. There was something off about this.
Then the alarms rang.
Remembering his orientation information, this was a serious alarm. There was an intruder.
Looking towards Thor, Kamijou cautiously asked him something. "By any chance… are you the cause of… that?" he nodded towards the flashing alarm in the toiler, similar to a fire alarm.
"Ah, looks like my time is up." Thor sighed.
Kamijou was now very cautious against Thor. "What did you do, Thor?"
"My powers have been… augmented since I came here. It's been mostly a drag, I'm pretty weak now, but I have gained some interesting new powers." Thor smiled. "Like manipulating electricity in the same way Mikoto-chan can! I can hack and disable things, albeit with a limit."
"And why did you hack and disable the security system at U.A.?" Kamijou demanded. "Don't tell me it's to see me once again."
"Aww, why can't you accept the reason was that I just wanted to see you, an old friend like this?" Thor pretended to pout.
"Because that's not like you. You have some other purpose here, don't you?" Kamijou interrogated him.
"Hahah, I can't tell you that, unfortunately. But we will see each other very soon, and we'll catch up then. It's been nice seeing you again, Kamijou!" Thor then ran out of the bathroom at top speed.
Kamijou pursued him. "Wait up, you just can't leave like this!"
He chased Thor to the window, where Thor quickly opened it and jumped out.
"Thooooooooooooooooooooooooor!" Kamijou yelled at him, partly worried he might hurry, somewhat angry because he ran away like that.
Without looking back, Thor activated his arc fusion blades, which somehow propelled him forward at top speed.
He was already gone when Kamijou ran down the stairs to ground level.
By now, the alarm had been disabled, and it was back to normal. The class would start soon, so Kamijou made his way back to the classroom.
He would have to tell All Might about Thor being here, he decided.
This was a development that was indeed something to warm All Might about.
When he got back to class, he was already late.
He opened the door, and saw everyone in their seats, except for Iida and Yaoyorozu. "What did I miss?
After school, Kamijou walked towards the principal's office, hoping to find All Might in there.
Apparantly, Iida calmed everyone down after the alarm rang, so Midoriya resigned and gave his role as president to him.
Knocking on the door of the office, the squeaky voice of the principal came from within the closed doors. "Who is it?" he called out.
"It's Kamijou," Kamijou replied. "I have some sensitive information. Basically-"
The large wooden doors opened, revealing the small principal behind them, smiling at him kindly. "Come on in, then. No need to reveal sensitive information in a public area."
"Y-you're right," Kamijou said, feeling stupid. "Is All Might here?"
"Yes, I am!" All Might was suddenly behind Kamijou in muscle form. "Why might you be here, young Kamijou?"
"I have information concerning the identity of the person that caused today's situation," Kamijou revealed.
Nezu pondered this and sat Kamijou and All Might down on the chairs, before ordering him to explain.
"He's from my world, and his name is Thor," Kamijou said. He felt like he was betraying his… friend? But Kamijou was still suspicious.
All Might and Nezu looked at each other with knowing glances, having a silent conversation. All Might spoke up. "Thor? The one that calls himself the lightning god?"
Nezu was on his computer, finding an image of him. He found one, depicting Thor in a fight with All Might. "This one?"
Kamijou was surprised. "You know him?"
All Might sighed. "He fought me once. And Bakugou, actually. He was powerful, and he got away before I could catch him."
Kamijou was confused. "So what you're saying is…"
Nezu interrupted. "He's a villain, yes. As a matter of fact, he appeared on the day before you arrived, his first act of villainy was to challenge Bakugou to a fight."
Kamijou couldn't believe it. Or, well, he could. Thor was a member of Gremlin back in his world, so he wouldn't put criminal activity behind his morals. "He doesn't really have bad intentions, to be honest. His one true desire is to have a good fight with someone." Kamijou said, trying to justify him.
"Yeah. That's what he said to me during our fight." All Might said. "But that's still breaking the law. He's disturbing a hero from doing his work, causing damage to infrastructure, and assault. He's a villain, period." All Might said firmly.
"Yeah, you're right." Kamijou relented.
Nezu changed the subject. "I still find it hard to believe that Thor is from your world. I thought you said you would be the only one here?"
"I thought so, too, so Thor must have been a special case, just like me." Kamijou tried to explain. "I know his attacks and stuff, so if you want that, to either prove that he's from my world or just to have in case, I'll be happy to oblige."
Nezu smiled. "I'll take that offer. Do you have any idea what he seemed to be doing, activating the alarm and infiltrating the school like that?"
"He said it was to visit me, but I find that hard to believe," Kamijou repeated what Thor said to him.
"you should recount your interaction, to maybe narrow down his intentions."
So Kamijou narrated his encounter with the Lightning God Thor.
Nezu, after hearing that, frowned. "You met him at the toilet next to my office? Why did you go there, anyway?"
"The toilet down there was flooded," Kamijou explained. "Maybe he went into the toilet I went to by coincidence."
All Might contributed. "No. I think he was after something. Something in the office we're in right now."
The three were silent, looking at what possible thing Thor might want.
"I have some important documents in here, but I don't know if it would be of any interest," Nezu said.
They thought for a while before All Might had to leave. "I'll leave the thinking to you, Nezu. My brain was never as big as my muscles!"
Nezu agreed. "You should go too, Kamijou. This isn't that urgent, but you'll be sure I'll think of something. Good work and thank you, Kamijou!"
Kamijou waved the principal goodbye and left the school premises.
The League of Villains were making moves behind the scenes.
They had gained the schedule to U.A.'s USJ visit and therefore pinpointed the place All Might was going to be.
They had gained the services of Lightning God Thor, a person strong enough to fight All Might one on one for a short while.
And they had the secret weapon that their sensei gave them.
The Anti-All Might. Nomu.
From all that, Shigaraki Tomura was already swaggering about with confidence and bolstering arrogance.
When the second in command, Dark Mist, tried to relieve Shigaraki of his complacency,
Shigaraki merely snapped at him and told him to chill out.
"More men are always a good thing!" He argued. "That class is dangerous, it has the illusion killer as Kamijou Touma in it!"
Shigaraki dismissed it. "Thor can deal with him."
"And there's the son of Endeavor. Thor can't fight 2 targets at once! Those aren't normal kids, Shigaraki."
"Fine, then. What do you propose to be done with him?"Shigaraki had a brain wave. "Never mind. Don't answer that. I have the perfect solution… "
Dark Mist cautiously asked. "What is it?"
"I'll just fight fire with fire…"
So here it is. Sorry it's shorter than usual, but next few chapters, shit will go down! Hope you enjoyed, please review and follow, and the next chapter will be here in approximately a month or so!
