Hey guys, sorry this chapter is a lot of me talking and not a huge amount of content, this is just a nice calm chapter of two students hanging out before the sports festival arc begins, which is going to be fairly long to make up for the shortness of this chapter, but first I want to say a few things.
Thank you to everyone that didn't rage quit on the story at the end of chapter 13, or the intro of Bridge. From now on any dream sequences will be made much more obvious at their start to hopefully avoid any further backlash when they happen.
A brief summary for everyone that's wondering how things are going on the writing side, I have the outlines of the next 40 chapters done as well as the ending (which takes place after everyone graduates so there's a lot of time until things get to that point), and I have rough drafts in progress for 22 of those 40. For the most part it will rotate between original arc and adapted arcs.
For those of you that don't like Bridge, he will be in several of the upcoming chapters, but he won't be around forever. I know there was mixed reactions to his intro but he's essential to one of the original arcs that I wrote that takes place between some of the events of season 3, but until that arc he will only be in about a page worth of content occasionally, then he'll be even less frequent after that arc.
Now to answer the two most common question I've been asked since the last chapter came out.
1. Is everyone from chapter 13 permanently dead?
No, none of the characters that died in Midoriyas dream are actually dead in real life (so for those of you that were upset about Hawks and Miruko, you don't need to worry.) That wasn't the only dream that will happen in this story, but all the others except one will be less than a full chapter and you'll know within the first couple sentences that it's a dream rather than having really minor hints.
2. Will the other students in 1-A get more time to shine soon?
Yep, the next arc is the sports festival, and Class 1-A as a whole will definitely get to do more. Just so everyone knows, I picked the top 16, and outside of Deku and his opponents I used a random number generator to determine the matchups, and am writing how I think those matchups would go down. Some of the fights are straight from the show, other matchups will be completely different.
As a thank you to those of you that didn't stop after chapter 13 the end of the chapter will have a piece of the rough draft of what is currently planned to be chapter 34. I was going to do chapter 20, but someone asked me about a specific event and how I'm going to handle it. Since I already have most of the rough draft of it done I decided to use that. I'll put in a buffer of stuff so people that want to avoid spoilers will know to stop reading.
Sorry about this chapter being pretty short, I'm working on the sports festival and am trying to fit the entire festival into 3 chapters while continuing to put out at least one chapter a week.
Thank you to the 215 followers of the story! Now, on to the story.
"He hey guys, how long was I out?"
It was the first of many questions that Midoriya had as he looked at his friends and mentor. The first of which to respond was the skinny All Might.
"You've been unconscious for almost three days Young Midoriya. If you didn't wake up by tomorrow we were going to take you to an actual hospital."
"Yeah Midori, how you feeling? You had us worried." Mina was the next to speak up.
"I'm fine, sorry for worrying you guys."
"Dude I watched you and Uraraka take on that big guy before All Might arrived, that's gotta be one of the manliest things I've ever seen!"
"You mean foolish, young man it hasn't even been a week into this year and I've had to treat you more than anyone else. Based on what your classmates told me if you hadn't copied a regeneration quirk you would have died long before anyone would have had a chance to treat you. You're lucky that things worked out as well as they did." Recovery Girl hit Midoriya on the head lightly with her cane. "It also appears that your quirks do have limits, and you need rest and food to be able to recharge, so don't think for a minute that you're invincible!" Midoriya took in her words before looking back at the group around him.
"How's everyone else?" His classmates began trying to respond at the same time before Nezu stopped them.
"The other students are unharmed physically, Thirteen was severely injured but has already made a full recovery. Mr. Aizawa was gravely injured and still needs further treatment, however it is thanks to the actions of yourself and Uraraka that he is still alive. The other students informed me that you tried to distract the villains alone while keeping your classmates away from the fight until you were knocked out and presumed dead. While brave this was incredibly foolish of you, and would have more than likely resulted in your death if your friend had not arrived when she did." Uraraka remained silent and Midoriya looked down realizing just how much he must have worried her fighting the Nomu by himself.
"However, it's thanks to you that we were able to capture that thing you fought. We got lucky this time and captured all of the villains except for the two that seemed to be running the show, and one of the villains that attacked the storm area." All Might put a reassuring hand on Midoriyas shoulder. "You fought real villains, and your class came through mostly unharmed. You made mistakes yes, but you can learn from them so you do better next time. After all, the Sports Festival is coming up." Izuku looked back up, all the first year students seemed excited by the news about the festival, and Uraraka seemed to be closer to her normal self.
"All right the sports festival!" Kirishima exclaimed. Mirio laughed at his underclassmen's reaction.
"Midoriya, I expect you to put on a good show, after all the festival is the best chance you have to get scouted for an internship." Mirio looked at his old training partner. "And based on what I saw back when we used to train together I don't think you'll have any problems getting anyone's attention." Midoriya smiled when the person he's been waiting to talk to finally spoke up.
"Izuku, let's both do our best." Midoriya turned to see Uraraka, all the terror she showed during the USJ incident replaced with determination.
"Hmph, you had to mention the festival. Now we'll never get him to rest." Recovery girl shook her head and turned walked out the door.
After being discharged by Recovery Girl Midoriya said goodbye to most of his classmates, except for Uraraka, who he offered to buy dinner for as an apology for sending her away back in the flood zone. They made their way back to the beach they trained together at before the school year started, planning on meeting Izukus mother when they arrived. They walked in awkward silence for a bit as Midoriya thought about everything he remembered from when he was unconscious, contemplating if he imagined it or if it really was from a quirk. The way All Might acted, his first meeting with Bridge, and his final moments before waking up.
"It's obvious you like her, now grow a pair and ask her out Deku!"
Midoriya blushed as he looked over at his friend.
It's not like that, and even if it was, I doubt she would say yes even if I did ask her out. It would just make things awkward.
"Hey Izuku," Urarakas quiet words brought him out of his thoughts. "After we eat, I was thinking maybe we could train for a bit, l like we did before school started." Uraraka glanced over at him.
She seems really nervous. Is she still upset about the USJ?
"Ye yeah, that sounds like a great idea. I was planning on trying to come up with some more team moves because of how well the Catapult Smash worked." As soon as Midoriya said that he was able to tell he shouldn't have, as soon as he mentioned catapult smash Urarakas face went back to the look of concern and sadness that it had when he first woke up. "Uraraka, are you okay?"
She looked back at Midoriya and opened her mouth to respond before another voice stopped her.
"Izuku!" Midoriya was wrapped in a crushing hug as his mother came at him with tears in her eyes. "Are you hurt, did you get plenty of food while you were recovering? Do you have any idea how worried I've been? Do you need to take Monday off to recover?" Mrs. Midoriya started speaking a mile a minute as her son tried to calm her down.
"I'm all right mom, really, Recovery Girl helped me heal, and I have a regeneration quirk now so you don't have to worry about me too much anymore."
"Izuku Midoriya, I'm your mother, I'm always going to worry about you." Inko looked from her son, to Uraraka, back to Izuku and her eyes widened. "My baby has a girlfriend!" Both Izuku and Uraraka blushed at the comment and started to deny it.
"What? No we're just friends!"
"Nononononono we're just friends!"
But there was no convincing Izukus mother, who dragged them both to the same restaurant they went to their first time training together and proceeded to question them almost the entire meal before going home while they went to train on the beach.
"So what's the plan?" Uraraka looked at Midoriya, trying to hide her embarrassment from the past hour, something they were both failing to do miserably.
"Well I realized that we worked on my mobility using our quirks, but it always left you behind. If we need to retreat or both get somewhere quickly it doesn't do us a lot of good, so I tried to think of ways we could both move as fast as possible." Midoriya said while avoiding eye contact.
"Oh, that makes sense, so what'd you come up with?"
"It'd probably be better to just show you, can you activate your quirk on me really quick? Promise you won't freak out?" Uraraka paused before she reached out and touched Midoriya who started to slowly float away.
"All right, now what?" Uraraka looked at the blushing boy as he used a small explosion like a few firecrackers to float back towards her.
"Hold on."
"Hold on? Eep!" Uraraka looked at Midoriya, who propelled himself straight at her, grabbing her and carrying her bridal style as he propelled himself into the air. "What are you doing?!" Uraraka looked at the quickly shrinking ground before burying her head in Midoriyas chest.
He blushed as he looked down at the girl in his arms. His mothers words came back to him, he quickly looked straight up trying to hide the fact his face was as red as a tomato as he kept making his way up with Jet until they went through the clouds above them. He tried to slow them down, using erasure on Uraraka and activating zero gravity of his own on himself, making them hover over the clouds.
"Uraraka?" Midoriya looked down at the frightened girl in his arms, who slowly looked up at him before he gestured with his head towards the space in front of them, she turned to see the sun setting over the city, the skyline full of lights turning on as day turned to night, and off in the distance their school seemed so far away.
"Whoa." She looked around, not just at the city, but the view all around them.
"I s saw this the first time I flew up here. I thought th that maybe it would help cheer you up." Midoriya grinned as he saw the expression on his friends face.
I never would have been able to come up here if I never met her, Jet can only go so far on it's own.
They sat like that for a few minutes before Izuku started to feel the side effects of zero gravity, and Uraraka spoke up.
"Umm, Izuku, how are we going to land?" She looked up at teenager, realizing that he was probably going to need to deactivate the quirk soon.
"Ohh, umm, I hadn't really planned that yet…" Midoriya looked down and his face grew pale as he realized how badly he messed up.
"You know I can't heal as fast as you right?"
Midoriya looked down trying to figure out a way to safely land.
I really need to work on safe landings before Monday.
And that concludes the chapter.
For those of you that want to avoid spoilers stop now.
Anyways, for those of you that want to see where this is going, here's part of the rough draft for what is currently planned as chapter 34. The full chapter isn't even done yet and it's already over 9,000 words so this is just a very small part, not even 5% of what I have planned for the chapter.
And no, this is not a dream section, it takes place at the same time as the episode of the anime that has the same title as it.
Chapter 34 Preview: One for All
When the smoke finally cleared the world saw the villain standing as if the beating he took had barely affected him, while the green haired teenager was barely conscious. The only obvious damage on his opponent was his previously undamaged mask was broken, barely clinging around his neck and revealing his lack of a face, but Midoriya saw what the camera in the helicopter flying around the battlefield couldn't, All for One was getting slower, he was trembling, his breathing was heavier. He was getting weaker. Deku was vaguely aware of the pros not involved in the initial stages of the battle trying to get through All For One's barrier, but they couldn't break through. He was on his own.
I don't know how much longer I can keep this up, that ring he put up is keeping all the pros away from the fight. They can't get in, and I can't get out, even if I could I wouldn't get far. My regeneration can't keep up anymore, as it is I'm lucky I'm still alive. If I'm not careful I'll end up like… no don't think about that right now, focus. Find a way to beat him.
Midoriya slowly forced himself to his feet, putting his weight on his unbroken leg as he glared at the monster before him, the monster that planned to destroy everything he cared about, the monster that was laughing as the world around them burned. Midoriya slowly activated One for All throughout his body and tried to come up with something, anything that could stop the man before him.
"I must admit, I am disappointed. I thought you would be the first holder of that power to realize we could do so much more together, but you're just as bad as your former mentor. I was hoping my blasts would beat you down so I could destroy your mind before I kill you, but clearly you are simply to stubborn for that. Instead I will simply end you now." All For One's suit tore as his right arm bent and twisted as it grew into a bulging mass of muscle and metal. "Springlike limbs, Kinetic booster times four, strength enhancer times three, multiplier, hypertrophy, rivets, air walk, spearlike bones. I was hoping you would retreat and see the truth behind what I said in our discussion, but even with your precious regeneration failing you your admiration for your mentor is too great, so now I will end you just like him by killing you with the ultimate combination of quirks that I have at my disposal."
Deku raised his already broken arm, preparing for what he knew would be their final clash, one way or another. All For One flew at him and Deku closed his eyes as he threw his fist forward.
I'm sorry Mom….
All Might…..
Uraraka…..
Goodbye.
And that includes the preview. You guys will get the full story of how Deku gets into that situation over the next 20 chapters, as well as the rest of that fight and the aftermath later on.
