Classes were continuing for 1-A as normally as they could. A couple had decided to talk with Jesse about some issues and found that just talking about things helped them immensely. Today, Shouta had gathered the class in homeroom.
"Alright class, time for a field trip. Go change into your hero costume or gym clothes and meet me at the bus in the parking lot.." he abruptly told his students. The energy in the class didn't die even when they got to the bus. Inside, their teacher was sitting next to Anima.
"Hey guys, All Might Couldn't make it for the trip, so he sent me to cover for him." the martial arts master explained.
"Magnifique costume, Monsieur." Yuga praised. Anima's hero costume was based off the old Italian uniforms complete with red cape covering his left side from collar to mid back. It had few loose points and was obviously made for movement and comfort. On his sides were a miao dao and a black boKken of similar design.
"Je vous remercie." he responded, surprising his students. He smiled slyly.
"I've had this style for years, but the materials suit my fighting style. The main outfit is made from unstable cloth. Pain in the ass to work with, but it takes certain strains phenomenally." Anima saw his studets confusion and explained. "It can realize the wearer's quirk and focus on staying out of the way. It'd turn invisible when someone like Hagakure-san wore it, or phase with someone else." The class blinked at that.
"Why isn't it more available then?" Toru inquired. Having clothes that turned invisible on her would make it a lot more comfortable in cold than being naked.
"Two main reasons: first is like I just said; you need special tools just to work with the material. The second one is cost, as unstable cloth is hard to make even in small batches, let alone in bulk. There's also the reason that most hero costumes are now made to enhance or cover the downsides of the hero's quirk, and all unstable cloth does is stay out of the way. If you want, I know some manufacturers, but it'll have to come out of your pocket." The bus was starting to move, but the class hardly paid it any attention as conversations bounced around. Eventually, Tsuyu addressed the question on her mind.
"Izuku, your quirk reminds me of All Might's. Are you related?" the bushy-haired teen froze, then started to move erratically.
"What!? Nononono, I'm not! Or, at least I don't think I am." he started muttering about quirk genetics until his oldest teacher spoke up.
"He isn't. Although he would think it's awesome, he and All might are about as different as they can be in almost any area, other than Ideals and quirks." those last words sparked even more conversation and talks about the hero and his student's history. It then went to other people's quirks and eventually, Eijiro talked about how lackluster his quirk was.
"Don't sell yourself short, Kirishima-san. Your quirk is awesome, like a shield to protect everyone!" Izuku tried to convince his friend.
"Thanks, man. It's nice knowing someone thinks so." the redhead smiled.
When the bus finally stopped, Shouta called the class outside. 1-A found themselves in a large building. There were many parts that looked like amusement parks that were hit with disasters. There was a place that looked like it was on fire, one that had rocks falling from water slides, an area that was in ruins, and more. Outside greeting them were their teachers and a person in a spacesuit. As Izuku's eyes lit up, Katsuki gave a glare.
"Don't you fucking dare-"
"Oh my god, it's the space hero thirteen!" Ochaco had beaten Izuku to the punch. After the class calmed down a little, the space hero began the lecture they prepared. The class took the entire speech seriously. Then there was a black mist in the air.
"The hell? Is this part of the training exercise?" Kirishima asked.
"No," Shouta told them while putting his goggles on. "Those are actual villains." out of the mist came a severed hand, followed by the white head that it was grabbing. His red eyes unnerved many of the students as his pupils darted around the area.
"We were told that All Might was supposed to be here, but it seems he's elsewhere. That's alright; I'm pretty sure the symbol of peace will come running if we manage to kill a couple of his students. Kurogiri, if you would." his voice was hoarse as if he would start coughing at any moment. The black mist had two glowing areas that signified where his eyes were. Upon the order, he spoke his piece.
"Of course, Shigaraki. We are the league of villains, and our goal is to kill the symbol of peace. Don't take it personally." when he finished monologuing, everyone saw dozens if not hundreds of villains appear. When Shouta and Anima saw this, their decision was almost instantaneous.
"Iida-san, crash course when you're at a disadvantage; call for help. If you can't get a cell signal, then run. We are outnumbered so we need to get help to even the odds." Izuku gave a small smirk at Anima's, no, Fiara's actions; even when the situation is dire, he never misses a chance to teach.
"Aizawa-sensei, you're at an even worse disadvantage; this isn't ambush tactics…" Eraserhead gave a look.
"A hero is more than a one trick pony." the erasing hero ran into the fray, and Katsuki used the moment's distraction to get close and attempt to blow up the teleporter.
"That was a bit precarious. Begone" at those words, Kurogiri teleported almost everyone away, save for the group in the center. Looking at the situation, Fiara looked at the Engine quirk user.
"Iida-san, after me, you're the fastest in the group; we'll make an opening, and you run through and get help." Tenya was about to argue until he felt Fiara's chi flow around him.
"Don't argue. The strong point of heroes is teamwork, but we need a team to use it. Inform the staff of the situation as fast as you can." He only received a nod. Thirteen tried to use her quirk only to have a gate open behind her. Luckily, Fiara saw the mist form and shoved his fellow hero out of their own quirks destruction. He lost a portion of his tricep, but the muscles were already reconnecting and he could still fight.
He threw the wooden sword at the man in the mist. Fiara saw it partially teleport up and launched himself to grab the handle and take a swipe at Kurogiri. There was the sound of wood on metal that told everyone the martial artist's strike had connected on the villain's collar. Tenya took advantage of the warp users shock to run at third gear towards the door while his companions covered him. Now they had to drag the fight out.
Izuku found himself in water. His first action was to put his rebreather in his mouth and take stock of his surroundings. A shark-like villain was getting near but was kicked in the jaw by Tsuyu. The frog girl grabbed her classmate and brought them both to the nearest point above water, which happened to be a large boat.
"Thanks, Asu- Tsuyu-san" he corrected himself for her. Minoru was with them and panicking.
"They said they were planning on killing All Might! What are we gonna do?!" Izuku projected his chi through his next words to calm them down.
"They had a plan on taking on Aizawa-sensei and Thirteen-sensei, but we may have two advantages. Tsuyu-san" she turned to him. "You're quirk gives you an edge in the water, right?" Tsuyu gave a nod at this.
"This means they don't know our quirks, so we have the element of surprise. They also wrote us off as 'just students', so they are underestimating us." the boat started sinking suddenly. Looking over the rails revealed that the villains had punched a hole in the hull.
"Mineta-san, what's your quirk?" Izuku asked in a hurry. Minoru explained about his 'grapeballs' and his limits while Tsuyu did the same. The green haired teen made a simple plan up on the spot for everyone to get out in one piece. Minoru started throwing dozens of grape balls over the railing and nailing a few of the villains. Izuku then jumped over the edge and landed a quirk and chi enhanced kick on the water surface, causing it to divide under the force. Tsuyu grabbed him with her tongue and lifted her classmates over the water. The divide soon filled in with water dragging the villains together, with minoru's grape balls sticking them together in a large pileup. When the students were at a safe distance, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go to the teachers and regroup." Izuku took the lead again. As they were going back to the place they separated at, they came across Eraserhead and Fiara as the werewolf's arm was being disintegrated.
Eraserhead was starting to slow down. A villain with a strength mutation quirk almost grabbed him. There was a 'kai' and he went flying.
"Need a hand?" Fiara asked while taking a stance. Eraserhead didn't give any answer other than a grunt, and the two martial artists engaged. Every time Eraserhead found his quirk failing, Fiara helped him until he could open his eyes again. The scarfed hero thought it was nice working with a professional who knew when and how to help him while staying out of his way. The leader of the villains decided to take a stand, and Fiara knew he was planning on something as he was counting down. He kicked Eraserhead in the back of the knee to drop him painlessly and went in when the ash haired villain said 'one'. His forearm was starting to disintegrate where the villain's hands were, and the werewolf responded by kneeing him in the lower ribs.
"Just as I thought," Shigaraki said as he caught his breath from the strike. "You can only erase one quirk at a time, and the time you closed your eyes are becoming shorter. It must be a strain to keep your eyes open, hero-san." The red eyed villain glanced at Fiara.
"I haven't heard of you before, but you seem only capable of regeneration. Luckily for me, I have a counter. Nomu." a black mist appeared and a monster stepped out. His, its, brain was visible atop its beak-like head. Its black skin was straining under its large muscle and the jagged mouth made groans as if it were in pain. Fiara could tell by the scent that it use to be human but was changed by artificial means. The hormones of fear and pain were almost palatable for the werewolf, and it pissed him off. The monster charged at Eraserhead fast. Before the hero could react, there was a shockwave as Fiara blocked him with his bokken.
"The hell is that made of?" he silently asked himself as the stick might as well have been a twig compared to the nomu's fist. Not only that, but Fiara was able to cross the distance and block before Eraserhead could even react.
"Just wood." the martial artist told him before turning towards the monster.
"I'm sorry of what you had been forced through." his tone was filled with pity for the abomination. He struck at the former human's collarbone, pelvis, and kidney in a single motion.
"Sorry, but it's got shock absorption…" the villain leader trailed off as the nomu had bruises forming.
"The hell!? Shock absorption is supposed to deal with that! Fuck it, he still has super regeneration, strength, and speed." the next few blows that nomu threw showed it wasn't enough as Fiara countered and redirected every punch, kick, and tackle thrown at him. Shigaraki knew he was in trouble, but saw an opening. Three students were hiding by the water. With a silent command, Kurogiri warped him right in front of the frog girl.
"Get the hell away from her!" Izuku saw what those hands did to Fiara and stepped in between them. Cracked hands found his gloves and the material fell apart. Soon, Izuku's hands were being disintegrated as well. Even through the excruciating pain, he realized the quirk had stopped. Eraserhead was giving him a death glare as his student shoved him off. There was a crash as the nomu was thrown halfway across the field by a furious werewolf that gave the same look. The lead villain was warped away by his companion just as the words that signified their plan failed rang through the area.
"It's alright now…" the booming voice of All Might said. "Because I am here!" in a flash, the hero took down multiple villains and stepped in front of Izuku.
"You're late," Fiara stated bluntly. It was apparent to everyone that Shigaraki's deliberate harm to his student pissed him off. The soft flame that usually simmered beneath the surface of his calm exterior was now a burning rage.
"I came as soon as I heard from young Iida. More heroes will arrive shortly." the anger that surrounded the werewolf didn't faze the number one hero, mostly because he knew the fury wasn't aimed at him, but the red-eyed villain that was just ways away. The nomu had managed to trot back to the clearing just as more students had arrived.
"DIE, you fucking teleporting bastard!" Katsuki bellowed as he pinned Kurogiri with his gauntlet over his metal collar. "You use the fucking mist to hide your body, but the metal couldn't be just for decoration. Give me a fucking excuse to blow you up!" Kirishima sighed at his threat, likening it to the line of a villain. Shouto had frozen the nomu to the ground to give the heroes a few more seconds.
"Can you deal with that thing?" Fiara asked the symbol of peace. All Might gave a nod. "If you would. I'll treat Izuku's wounds. Be careful; it has multiple quirks meant to match you." he gave his warning as he walked towards the injured teen. He pulled a bundle of gauze and a small bottle of alcohol from his side pouch. He put his cape at Izuku's mouth.
"Bite." the teacher said and Izuku put the cloth in between his teeth.
"I'm not gonna lie; this will hurt like a bitch. One two three!" on his mark, Izuku screamed through the cloth as his teacher poured the alcohol on his skinless hands. Fiara had Tsuyu and Minoru hold Izuku's wrists to keep his hands steady as the eldest of the group wrapped his student's hands in gauze as best he could. The bandages were already turning red under the blood Izuku's hands had been oozing. Through the burning pain, Izuku focused on the fight between All Might and the nomu. It kept trying to hit the hero at his scar to invoke as much pain as it could. Crimson seeped through his white shirt as he kept striking the abomination.
It then tried to go for Katsuki to distract the hero, forcing the explosive teen off his opponent. The teleporter immediately got as far away as he could from the two powerhouses. All Might grabbed the monster by its torso and pulled it into a suplex, only to have a warp gate open right under the hero. The nomu's hands found purchase in the hero's side causing All Might to cough blood. Shouto froze half of the abomination to allow the top hero to escape the painful grip.
"Many thanks, young Todoroki." he praised as the monster start moving. His arm and leg fell off only to be replaced moments later.
"Fight as long as you want, but nomu here was made to take you on at your full power." Shigaraki found himself in a better situation than he thought he would be in. That illusion was shattered as the werewolf stepped in.
"I've finished treating Izuku; take a breather while I take care of this thing." Fiara turned to the villain leader after addressing his friend. "You barged into a class session, separated my class, tried to harm Thirteen, almost removed Eraserhead's arm, and hurt my disciple. Defeat the top hero? I won't even let you lose to him. Let me show you just who 'Fiara' is." His tone was flat, but the ultimatum was filled with his fury. His chi flooded the area to the point of almost choking everyone. His wooden sword was drawn. The overbearing pressure suddenly disappeared...
And the nomu fell with Fiara behind it. There was no sound or movement from the werewolf. Fiara had attacked in the moment between moments; faster than anyone could see, he struck the towering figure dozens of times in that invisible moment, before the black creature could even register the pain. The silence was deafening as he turned his head towards the entrance.
"Cavalry's arrived." he stated as he calmly walked over to All Might to treat him, who was as shocked as everyone around him. Just as he said, the heroes arrived to help not seconds later. Shigaraki called the retreat as fast as he could and the villains were being teleported out hastily as the heroes caught who they could. The villain's had lost and the heroes won, but for everyone who saw the nomu fall, a question rang out.
'Who was the monster between the two: the nomu, or Anima?'
This was a fun chapter to write. I like writing fight scenes, though I may not be as good as I think; tell me if I'm not. As for Anima taking down nomu in the underclimatic end... yeah. This is a person who was a hero long before the role was even a career option, and he's grown in power and skill for even longer; nomu's got nothing on that. As for the villains themselves, I made them a bit more threatening to counter the balance on the heroes side. Questions, comments, concerns? Give me a reply! I love hearing from you guys. Until next chapter!