And finally Izuku returns to the normal live...
The Final exams arc will begin on the next chapter!
At Inko's house…
Midoriya Inko couldn't believe the regretful eyes from the vampire Pro Hero, and also her son's teacher, Eraser Head. And also she didn't expect that Katsuki was here along their family, and some son's colleges, just for them appears straight on the apartment's door, and on earlier morning.
"What's happened ?!", said Inko, when also displays the last e-mail sent from her son to their smartphone, and she holds it to everyone see, "Mission accomplished!... Endeavor rescued!… Some medals award...".
"Well...", either Aizawa or Katsuki tried to speak, but fade quickly.
"He's… safe ?!", Inko was also a little freighted and then perplexed to saw Katsuki, who was normally a very menacing person, look so vulnerable.
"Well… If you watched the news… about Endeavor been kidnapped to North Korea...", Eraser Head was not on his best days.
Inko face all the Heroes and students pretending to be someday, before delivers a mad face, and hisses, revealing her sharp fangs.
She even bite and cut Eraser Head's neck skin, a sign of punishment between vampires. The Pro Hero vampire was not on their usual mood, and couldn't one more than ear the green haired woman vampire spoke, "Not mean… That my son was sent to North Korea ?!", and yells, "What kind of Hero School accept such crap mission from mercenaries, pretending to be Heroes ?!"
Eraser Head bows to Inko, "I'm terrible sorry… Our son's displays of magic powers was quickly seized by the military to be scouted by the SDF, with some genuine interest, but I never expected they use him to such mission!..."
"The last thing I expected a civilian vampire Pro Hero, in training, is to take role of a Black Ops soldier!", said with a greeted face, "Your school should be ashamed by such idiocy...", and delivers a strong slap against Aizawa, who flinches. Once the mad moment ends, she sighs and opens the door, "Either way, my son should arrive at the end of day, once the military brings him to home..."
"That's fine!...", said Aizawa, "Many of my students had a last day to make their rounds, but everyone here will return afternoon..."
However, every student of Aizawa's class had already lost the concentration to focus on their internship.
A few hours earlier…
Pip Bernadotte quickly confirm that an old propelled plane lands, somehow, on a disclosure valley several kilometres from the Chinese border, and the smugglers returns to China using a small helicopter, leaving the plane without guards.
During the darkness of night, the mercenaries drive along the wide and empty North Korean highways almost without real threats, until he turn left to a secondary road with barriers and soldiers planted on front of him.
"Clean that bastards!", Pip orders to everyone with grenades and machine-guns to kill every soldier standing up.
"I expected a more organized chase, or a better mobilization of their Army... After all, or we deliver a strong blow that panics him several time, or simply they ordered to hold down, if we flee quickly...", said Serpico.
"Keep moving!", it was the straightforward sentence of Pip.
Once cleaned, Pip speeds up to continue. Then Gara checks the coordinates and use the on-board computer tools to estimate the distance, "It last more 10 km… On this goat tracks!"
Meanwhile Izuku removes either the DKL-01 armor and the inner suit that protects him from the chaotic rampage on the former enemy military base.
The constant chokes and bumps prompted Izuku to ask, "Why you are driving along such terrible road ?!", and almost hits the head against the ceiling, when the vehicle bumps over a hole on the unpaved road.
Silver Fang answers when adjust their safety belt, "It's because our benefactors laid their plane somewhere on this valley...", where Izuku couldn't reply more than sigh in pure disbelief.
The entire travel along the North Korean roads was lasting less than an hour, but managed to arrive quickly as fast to a move reliable transport, since Pip Bernadotte knew that the enemy will gather the major possible number of divisions in order to encircle them.
"Luckily… The decoy works...", Pip also counts with the smugglers traps to divert the enemy some additional time in order to fool them about the real escape route. And also the fuel quantity on deposit of this armored carrier was quickly failing to nothing.
"North Korean vehicles are no more than junk on the wheels!...", just to Pip don't lose the imaginary mark of crap talking.
Several minutes later, the old airplane was in their sight. Endeavor recover the senses in meantime, just to awake in wide eyes, when notices Izuku with a plain military clothes, without any kind of armor.
Pip Berdanotte's Airlines: Take an Hellish Flight!
"Passengers to the transfer to Welcome to Hell Airlines, please take the gates 666...", Pip Bernadotte pokes a bad joke, when finally stops the vehicle, and orders everyone to abandon it, "Move it… Move it… Move it!… This is not the Police Academy!", referring to a famous 20th century film series comedy, since he pokes the infamous Captain Harris catchphrase.
Silver Fang delivers a mad glare against Pip, "After those years, why you still deliver some stupid childish catchphrases ?!"
Pip Bernadotte reacts badly, "Honestly…", and almost punches Silver Fang, "Don't think that you are the superior here..."
Gara holds the enraged vampire, "Captain… This is not the place to brawl!"
Izuku was annoyed with the demeanour bursts that always occur when his authority are challenged, but he hopes that this flying piece of junk don't ends at the middle of sea, as notice the several metallic plates along the fuselage, and the corrosion won't be fatal during flight.
In less three minutes, Pip managed to turn on the rotors and and divert the plane to an abandoned paddle that appears to be nice fitted as an improvised airfield. Propelled planes don't fly to high, and only require a couple of meters to run and take off.
The plane was surprising manageable and capable to make sharp turns and dives, to compensate the reduced top speed. Using the geography to divert from threats, they managed to fly away the continental land of North Korea, by taking the confused terrain at Pip's favor. In fact, he managed to fly to Sonbong and before make a straight incursion on the Russia sovereign territory, he takes turn sharp right to the ocean before pass the swampy territory shared by China, Russia and North Korea itself.
"One of this barely working gadgets is this interference generator that give us fundamental minutes of cloaking...", explains Pip Bernadotte, "Giving time to the artillerist Silver Fang and bomber engineer Rohellec to test the main weapons without facing the actual enemy!"
Gara sighed when estimate the flight time, "This relic of ancient ages will take ten damn hours until reach the Funabashi HQ Airstrip!"
"If this thing won't fail and land straight on the ocean..."
Endeavor who still delivers a disgusting face on Izuku, dares to ask, "And why we simply don't land on the nearest airport on Japan mainland ?!"
"General from Command & Conquer junkyard crap...", answer Pip while maintains the route, ignoring the reaction of Endeavor, "Can you say, at least, my official Pro Hero Name, genocide buffoon ?!"
Izuku don't intervene, since he knew that the route Pip takes was really the fastest and straightest possible to route to Funabashi, along the Sea of Japan.
But Pip Bernadotte snaps violently, as he locks first the automatic pilot (which is a very basic and outdated one, that simply use a gyroscope to maintain a constant magnetic course), and points a loaded pistol straightly pointed to Endeavor's head:
"Persons who think that are better than real Heroes, keep their mouth shout or will riddled with bullets!"
Izuku then dare to ask, "Mister Pip… Why you are so distraught and hateful against Pro Heroes ?!", just to face the gun that now points to Izuku.
Serpico was the first to answer, "It's a long story… That begins when Pip Bernadotte was younger… At the 19th century, where he was born..."
"Shut up...", order Pip Bernadotte.
"His first hundred years life as a natural born vampire was a constant fight to survival...", Silver Fang intervenes, "And he hates the entire mankind as a source of all evils..."
"It's the final straw! SHUT UP!", Pip glares with reddish eyes.
Izuku life as a young vampire was fairly reasonable, since he could had a proper education on a public school along other humans, even with quirks. Since Japan had an historical relationship with the supernatural, the integration with vampires has fairy adequate.
But for foreigners like Pip Bernadotte, he probably had a miserable life, fleeing from the authorities, or been hunted like a beast.
Even Izuku's life on Elementary School wasn't all pleasant, since once his colleges discovered that was a vampire, much of them becomes frightened, and start to isolate from him. Katsuki, who already like to display her quirk, also becomes annoyed and tried to discover the weakness of his vampire friend. But his teacher helps the class to rebuild the bonds.
"Vampires don't have quirks...", it was an awkward answer when one random college asks if vampires had quirks like humans, "I may have a kind of special power that resemble telekinesis… Like my vampire mother... But it takes several… years...".
Izuku remembers the shenanigans of being a vampire, and the few times when his mother's relatives visits on apartment. Izuku was amused when a relative pokes his mother age, that was 300 years old, but young in vampiric terms. And remembers the tales that his mother spokes in order to calm the eagerness of the child vampire to gain special powers, since his own mother explains that Izuku may take up to 100 years. When Izuku explains all vampiric stuff, many of their classmates displays bewildered faces.
"However my doctor said that I had a strong bond to learn black magic, like my grand-father vampire from the mother side...", when Izuku once goes to the only medical center of Japan, on Sapporo, that diagnosis correctly the special abilities of vampires. But the meaning of black magic from many children was not so pleasant to hear.
And soon, even quirkless, Izuku on the next childhood years gains some regenerative effects that resembles some kind of human quirk. The physical strength also reaches a top during the Junior High years.
The Quirk Apprehension Test that Izuku made on first day on Yuuei resembles the same thing of the third year of Junior High, but without all quirks.
The instructor charged to the examination don't read forehand the warnings relative to vampire students, and becomes very awkward, even when Katsuki watches the whole scene, to explain the sheer differences on physical strength between a vampire and an human.
"What ?! 858 meters ?!", the examiner yells to Izuku, when he throw the ball on the test pretending to measure the horizontal pitch distance of the ball, using only the physical strength, "Are you cheating ?!"
"That's only my pure force!", Izuku answers a little embarrassed, waving the hands.
"For real ?! Even the students with powerful quirks never achieved 100 meters alone, like Katsuki who got 73… Three digits would require a quirk… And without a quirk, you said that you can throw ten times further ?!"
A teacher intervenes, "Mister… He's a vampire...", and before could explains better, the examiner overacts.
"WHAT ?! VAMPIRE ?!", making Izuku drop his sharp fangs, but without leaving a reddish blushing face, like a tomato.
We've got Hostiles!
Silver Fang sudden yelling snaps everyone inside the cabin to reality, "Sir… We've got hostiles!"
Quickly everyone runs to their positions, while Gara asks, "What company ?"
"Two North Korean jets are approaching quickly… Distance… 5 nautical miles", that's about 8 kilometers.
"Midoriya!...", Pip asks, "Unless your magic are really down… You can cast spells capable to bring down a military aircraft ?!"
Izuku thought a little, before answers, "I have some residual magic left… It will take several days until my vitality pool rejuvenate... Witcher Sighs are a big no, due to their short range… But the Magical Arrows can work...", as Izuku remembers that on Sports Festival, he was capable to shoot a swarm of magic bolts several meters away, reaching more than one kilometer…
Endeavor remember the scene, when Izuku casts several magic projectiles against the mines.
"And an additional thing...", Izuku also remembers, "This magic, once I learned from my magic teacher, are one of few spells that had an huge homing precision, and can be guided against a movable target!..."
"Alright!", orders Izuku, "Serpico! Prepare an harness to Izuku, while positions and locks him in the middle of the drop cabin, unless he want to fly, once the gate are opened!"
Silver Fang warns, "One of jets fire a missile!", just to Pip make a sharp dive descent that manage to dodge the missile.
But the vampires knew the luck won't last forever, as he pledge to hurry up, and prepare Izuku to the improvised battle position. Less than a minute later, Pip could open the drop door, just for Izuku face the sudden moist and cold air flowing at his face.
"Oh boy… I never use my magic to target at such greater distance...", pokes Izuku while tries to concentrate and cast a spell.
Some seconds that appears minutes later, Izuku manage to cast a glowing ball with color gradients ranging from red to blue, while meditates, "Ego antiquum pactum datë...", and yells, "Gather and Reunite the Spirits of Nature!", before notice that the two jets launches several missiles against him, making him a little frightened, "Damn it, I face the terrible Zorin Blitz, why...", as the missiles roars at supersonic speeds.
Izuku knew that Pip will try to divert the plane at any fraction of second, and then the green haired vampire casts the spell, "Target Lock on Enemy!", and delivers several dark icicles against the missiles, "Gather 7 Dark Ice Element Arrows!", making a loud explosion, "Elemental Magic Kjeldoran Javelineer... Shoot!"
The plane suffers the explosion impact, shaking violently, where almost Izuku lose their stand with terrible consequences. Pip Bernadotte still yells, "Are you fine ?! Are you ready for a second round ?!"
"Prepare for the second round!", Izuku reply, imitating the catchphrase.
Izuku exhales and prepares a new magic spell cast, "Ancient Darkness Spirits from Heaven and Earth! I Pledge and Gather you!...", creating a magic run disc with roughly the size of the drop cabin, "Gather 20 Darkness Elemental Spirits, 15 Fire Elemental Spirits, 10 Lightning Elemental Spirits...", before release the spell from his right stretched arm and hand, straight to the enemy jets, at a distance of about five kilometers away, "Magical Spirit Crossbow Arrows!… Release!"
The magic elemental arrows delivers several damage on the jets, either by blasting the engines or breaks the fuselage, ending with a fatal malfunction that brings the jets to a fatal and uncontrollable dive against the ocean.
"Hostages eliminated!...", Silver Fang confirms the shoot of all enemy jets.
Once this incident was settled, the airplane follows under the morning sun on the middle of Sea of Japan.
Funabashi HQ, some hour later…
Several hours later, the plane wreck managed to land on Funabashi, with partial brakes failure, fuel tank almost empty, and a terrible landing that almost tears up the airplane itself. The military staff sighed with such spectacle, since the Wild Geese achievements on destroyed military equipment was pristine, along the losses of backup personnel, making such end expected, like business as usual.
Even with such emotive return to home, specially Izuku, it takes almost three hours just to make check-ups and agreements to sign declarations of confidentially of several aspects of this mission.
All Might sighed with huge relief when witness both Izuku and Endeavor safe, even the Pro Hero needs to transfer to an hospital.
"Young Midoriya...", All Might whispers, "Who was your terrible mission ?", while adds the following remark, "Aizawa and your friends are in a total emotive disarray..."
"Terrible!", said Izuku, once scans the surroundings, before take All Might to a disclosure place, "The enemy was just plant an phony base, and even it was some remains of their previous researches... The real thing was everyone else..."
"Who they can be so stupid ?!", All Might was enraged with such misconduct.
"Only Endeavor, me and entire Wild Geese's vampires survived... Otherwise, they all dead... "
"Unforgivable!", said All Might with all eyes widen open, when calculate the number of casualties...
"Even so, I have the right to take to Yuuei a broken prototype of a magic weapon...", since neither the Wild Geese, or the SDF wanted such thing, since they knew the National Magic Association entangles on Yuuei itself.
All Might blinks in total stupefaction, "A Magic… Weapon ?!"
"Essentially the technological evolution of the wands and sticks crafted from bushes… Dragon Knight Lucifer Armor DKL-01, and the Satan's Ring..."
All Might could laugh if the situation isn't serious, "Satan's Ring… The fool who create this should be pathetic...", but asks, "What's this… non-so-good DKL-01 can do ?!"
"Essentially makes the cast of destructive spell like Black Sabbath more powerful...", making All Might eyes widen.
"Those spell was capable to destroy an entire training field, and the enemy created a device to increase the destruction powers of such magic ?!"
Izuku sighs before show to it his notebook with drawings, "But I had a terrible fight with a vampire that was also a sorcerer… One of the commanders of Letzte Bataillon… Zorin Blitz...", just to reveal the scars of the battle.
All Might was terrible serious, since he understands that Izuku found his first real tough adversary, "And he was strong ?"
"Well… She was...", making All Might surprised to his adversary been a woman vampire, "Very strong… Zorin Blitz was also the responsible of the capture of Endeavor and killing of Stain..."
"Stain is dead ?!", All Might was shocked.
Izuku dare to ask, "While I read some Hero Journal articles, I remember about some infamous villains, but why Stain was so special about ?"
All Might coughs, "In terms of quirks, he wasn't special. But his martial arts skills make them too damn strong to handle...", spoofing the quirk superiority myth that make a great hero or a mad villain, "The real problem was the fact that he kill several heroes, making him the holder of Hero Killer..."
Before quirks been prevalent, serial-killers already exists, but Izuku still don't get about why Stain was so special, "Murderers, genociders, assassins... Whatever... Those stuff even exists before quirks..."
"Well... Stain target mainly Pro Heroes who had bad behaviours, or been corrupt on some citizen eyes... Making Stain...", conclude All Might, "A some kind of Hero on some people, since he expose several flaws of our Heroic Society... And the quirk truism that can make several quirkless which could be Heroic relegated to the bottom pit, while the ruffians can be celebrities if their display their quirks as Pro Heroes!..."
"'iitq damu albari' - la shay' mutlaq bal alkulu mmkn - 'iikhtabi wasat alzuham - 'iikhtabi wasat alzaham - nahn min aytamank - wala takhn min aytamanik.", Izuku remember the words from the Assassin's Creed franchise, specially the original text written by Altair.
"WTF ?!", All Might eyes widen when Izuku spoke Arabic.
"Revere the blood of innocent, nothing is an absolute truth, everything is possible... Hid in the midst of the crowds... Hid in the midst of the hustle!... We are from your trust - and do not betray your trust.", Izuku translates.
All Might blink his eyes, "Nothing is true ?!... What ?!..."
"Sorry! It was the Assassin's Creed motto, that plain fits on Stain... It was like an Assassin, in order to kill the corrupts... But since is unlikely that all Pro Heroes are Templars...", Izuku shakes is head, "Sorry of my insanity... But I understand the Stain modus operandi ... As a kind of rebel who wanted to fix the society, even with wrong ways..."
"Leaving such franchise alone... Midoriya, do you have some information about the Endeavor kidnapping ?"
"During the kidnapping, Stain was fighting against Endeavor… then Zorin seals Endeavor's quirk with black magic, which spell is called Einherjer, where later I managed to understand the incantation formula… And break the curse...", making All Might perplexed.
"And Stain… well… It was mercifulness sliced with a scythe..."
"An ironic death by someone who was an expect of blades and knives fighting!"
"However, Zorin knew several cursing magic spells that can be applied on their scythes in order to be terrible lethal."
"What's the most terrible villainy behaviour that I ever face...", and All Might explains, "Later on your classes, I will detail the procedures to handle cruel villains, who only want to make the other suffer... Or even terrorists... While rebellious or grey villains needs other methods to handle..."
Iuzku agrees with the All Might thoughts, "Specially the villains that don't have real evil wills, where instead they are also victims..."
"Correct!", but points to Endeavor, "And speaking of Endeavor..."
"Endeavor itself don't have any chance against her...", making All Might frighten, as he remembers that Izuku itself defeats him easily.
"And how… you manage to defeat this monster ?!"
"It was a terrible fight that occurs along several bunkers on a hit-and-run battle, where the North Korea Army joins the fray, and his vampire subordinates to the battle. It all ended with a stupid... bloodbath...", Izuku exhales before resumes, "The whole battle ends when I pick the magic weapon… where I managed to cast an unknown magic spell for me, where the incantation was engraved on it… Giran Ira… Or was pure beginner luck ?!", and sighs tiredly.
"And your time ?"
"All human backup ends killed after five minutes of battle...", making All Might terrible upset, "leaving all Wild Geese members…"
"And are nice to you ?!"
"Pip Bernadotte are a total arrogant, but had a terrible grudge and hatred against humans… The swordsman Gara was a little nice to me, like the older Silver Fang. The last two waste their time to calm the rage burst of Pip when yells and bring down who dare to question their authority..."
All Might could barely imagine the brotherhood along mercenaries, even their captain was a putative autocrat.
At last Izuku could said, "Serpico was a little inexperienced, but the real surprise was the kindness of Rohellec, who wad good knowledge of Magic Medicine..."
The Pro Hero overacts, "What ?!"
"Well… He was the only one that helps me to apply the first aid against Zorin curse on Endeavor..."
"Whatever...", said All Might, signalling to end the conversation, since the military was making rounds.
A officer delivers to Izuku three medals of honour, plus a certificate of honour and sacrifice to their own accomplishment.
A hour later, All Might and Izuku was sent back to Yuuei with a disclosed buses, leaving him to return to home by own means.
Welcome back…
In reality, when All Might and Izuku could finally exit from the bus, the entire Yuuei staff, and several students was in place to receive the oddly vampire.
"Why everyone was here ?!", Izuku was a little surprised, even knowing the huge anxiety of all classmates forehand. The surprise increases when notices that even his own mother was there!
"Izuku...", Katsuki was along Inko and his mother, "Welcome back...".
Izuku couldn't do more than hug his human friend, "Yeah… I'm fine...", and this time Katsuki don't react back when Izuku bites and drinks Katsuki's blood.
Aizawa barely open his mouth to alert the situation, but Izuku's mother blocks the vampire, as she's signalled, "Don't worry... My son knew about how much blood can be safely drink without harm him."
"And please...", Katsuki finally kick to Izuku release his fangs, "Don't drink to much...", making Izuku freckled cheeks blush.
"Sorry... I need to drink more blood once I return home...".
While the whole commotion unfolds, the Izuku's magic teacher Sakura Ichijouji along the gadget-freak student Hatsume Mei brings the boxes with the DKL-01 remains, in order to study the artefact, as part of the mission spoils.
Aizawa orders to the entire class to enter on the 1-A classroom in order to Izuku spoke the details of such dangerous mission.
Izuku don't discloses some sensitive information, but describe fairly well the spells and techniques of Zorin Blitz, in order to his magic teacher analyse the rituals and incantations to Izuku's own benefit. Even with such remarks, the battle with Zorin Blitz was one of the most emotive speech that Izuku delivers to everyone, since it was the first time when two sorcerers fight seriously.
Even to Todoroki who couldn't do more than bow and appraise Izuku to save his own father from death, don't hide the sheer impotence of a Pro Hero with quirks against a supernatural mage.
Of course everyone was in state of shock, not only about the catastrophic death tool, "Been acknowledge to be the cause of thirty thousand deaths in action is not a medal award I ever expected to be recognized…. Whatever...", but the borderline meaningless mission.
Several of best soldiers from Japan was killed on a mission that on normal conditions ended with a tragedy. Many of Pro Heroes, and students display their rage and shame of such vain sacrifice due to several planning errors
Later Izuku and Aizawa leaks some investigation reports about the Millennium Army, or the leader Anthrax who was a total mystery.
Finally, Aizawa orders everyone to return home, and prepare to the final semester exams, while pats Izuku's green hair hoping that he will forgive him to be so naive and been manipulated by the big brass men. Eraser Head will take sure that in the future Izuku will never be sent to such terrible disaster zone.
To be Continued...