Authors note: Spoilers for the manga in this chapter.
Part 9: Graduation and taking down the league of Villains
It's the day many of students at UA have been waiting for. Their graduation day, for those who are part of the hero course it was the day when they would go into the real world to become the heros they trained to be. In the coupes dormitory Izuku and Ochako were currnetly packing their bags because after graduation they would be staying at her place before finding a new place to live. The two of them were in their costumes since they were to wear them for the graduation ceremony.
"Okay I think that's everything, how about you" said Ochako looking at Izuku as he finished packing his last bag.
"Yeah, so are you ready to go" said Izuku smiling at her, she nodded at him and the two of them kissed before walking out of their room.
They reached the first floor of the building where the other student couples were waiting, Eraser and Midnight had gone already to the building where the ceremony was being held.
"Morning, man it's hard to believe today's the day were graduating" said Eijiro smiling.
"Yeah I know but I'm so excited" said Mina.
"Have you guys decided what to do after the ceremony" said Tsuyu.
"I say we all go out to celebrate" said Denki.
"Well I'm sure our parents will want to do something with us afterwards, hey has anyone talked for since they got back from the training camp" asked Kyoka?
""Yeah my mom called me after we got back" said Izuku rubbing the back of his head.
"I called mine when we got back, they seemed happy for me" said Fumikage.
"Yeah same here, ribbit" said Tsuyu.
"Hello everyone, I am here to take you to the ceremony" said All might opening the front door quickly.
"Good morning, has everyone else arrived at the hall" asked Shoto?
"Yes, Aizawa has already lead the rest of your classmates to the hall, some of your parents have already arrived, oh and Todoroki I should let you know that your father has already arrived" said All might making everyone look surprised.
"What, are you sure" asked Shoto surprised that his father showed up.
"Yeah, two others came with him, young Midoriya I would like a word before we leave" said All might.
"Uh year sure thing" said Izuku standing in front of him.
"After you graduate you're hero name will be permanent, if you would like you can use mine since I can no longer be a hero" said All might making everyone look surprised again from what the former number 1 hero said.
"Really" asked Izuku?
"Yes for time and time again you have proved yourself to be a capable hero, plus what I've been hearing on the news you deserve it" said All might giving a thumbs up.
"Uh I appreciate the offer, but I'm going to have to decline" said Izuku making the people around him look surprised while the All might just smiled at him, "When I started here I directed that the name Deku would no longer be used as an insult, that it's now the name of a hero, so I'm going of stick with it" he said looking determined,
"Good choice, now I believe we have a graduation to attend" said All might walking out the door while the others followed him out.
The couples followed him to a building not far from the main building. When they reached it the two doors were open revealing a big hall, there were rows of chairs on both the left and right side. At the front was a stage with a stand in the middle, there was the symbol of UA on the stand and another on the wall behind it.
"Hey good morning, you all ready for the big day" said Kamui woods walking over with Mt lady and the detective who knows All might.
"Uh Kamui woods, Mt lady, students these two are here for security" said All might.
"Yeah and it's important that they are here, we've recently been able to capture former members of the league of villains, apparently they left because of a plan they have in the works" said the detective.
"Did they mention what it was" said Shoto.
"No I guess they didn't want it betray their former teammates" said the detective.
"Makes you think what kind of plan they had to make their members want to leave" said Ochako.
"Or if their plan was to grazy to go along with" said Eijiro.
"Either way we need to keep an eye out and be ready for anything" said Izuku while the others nodded.
Izuku and Ochako were looking around for the people they knew would be here. "Izuku" said a female voice and the two of them looked to see Izukus mother approaching them.
"Oh hey mom I'm glad you could make it" said Izuku.
"I wouldn't miss this day for the world, oh you must be Ochako, I've heard a lot about you" she said looking at Ochako.
"Well it's good to finally meet you in person ms Izuku" said Ochako when there was another female voice and a male voice saying, "Ochako" and she looked to see her parents.
"Mom, dad your here" she said feeling happy to see her parents as she hugged them.
"We'll of course we're here, after what we saw what happenned on the news" said Ochakos mom smiling at her.
"I have to say we were really Impressedd about what you did" said Ochakos dad.
"You two will have to always look out for each other when your working" said Izukus mom.
"Don't worry we will" said Izuku.
Meanwhile with Shoto and Momo the two of them were getting close to the stage when they heard someone speak, "Hey Shoto over here" the two of them looked to see it was Shotos sister who spoke, his brother and the hero Endeavor were sitting with them.
The two of them walked over to where they were sitting, "So you must be Momo, it's nice to meet you" said Shotos sister.
"Yes it's nice to meet you aswell" said Momo smiling.
"Has our brother been nice to you" said Shotos brother.
"Don't worry he's been great, I think you all be impressed of the heros he's gonna be" said Momo.
Throughout their conversation Shoto and Endeavor just stared at each other not saying a word with sirious looks on their faces. "I'm glad you came" said Shoto.
Endeavor had flames over one of his yes since he was injured fighting that nomu when he started out as the current number one hero, "Well of course I did, you are my son, try to surpass me after you graduate" he said.
"Yeah sure, cmon the ceremony will be starting soon" said Shoto grabbing Momos hand as the two of them were about to walk onto the stage when Endeavor spoke again.
"There's a palace for you at my agency, if you want it" he said as he sat back down.
"Thanks for the offer" said Shoto as he walked onto the stage as the graduation ceremony began.
The other courses graduated first and the hero course was left for last. Each student was given their hero license when each of their hero names were called, "Now before we finish this up, I would like the new hero Deku to come up and make a speech, for those of you who don't know he was the one who defeated a nomu recently" said the principal as he got away from the stand.
Izuku look surprised after the principal spoke, "Go on Deku their waiting for you" said Ochako getting him to stand up, so he walked onto the stage and walked over to the stand looking at all the people in front of him. He looked at the treachers who just nodded at him
"Well I don't really know what to say, but before I came to UA I didn't know If I would be able to become a hero, but someone once told me that I can become a hero" said Izuku as he remembered the day All might told him those words, "I wouldn't be standing here today if I hadn't heard those words, but not just that, for all the things I've learned and been through the over these last three years" as he spoke these words his fellow classmates remembered those days.
"I just want to say, I'm going to do what my favourite hero All might once did, saving people with a smile on my face" said Izuku looking determined as most people in the crowd cheered for him, most of his fellow classmates clapped, Ochako had tears of joy in her eyes like Izukus mother who was in the crowd clapping aswell.
Somewhere behind the crowd, the hero Gran Torino was wathcing with a smile on his face, "He truly was the right successor for one for all" he thought.
All of the graduates of the hero course and the teachers that wanted to take a photo with them started walking outside the building, "Hey is the ceremony over" asked Kamui woods?
"Uh what is that" said Mt lady as a dark purple cloud appeared in front of them.
The students, Eraser and All might who was standing with the teachers behind the students instantly recognised what it was.
"It's them" they all thought as four members of the league of villains walked out of the cloud. Shigaraki their leader, Kurogiri the one responsible for getting them all there with his quirk, like the dark cloud his body was covered in a dark purple cloud and two yellows eyes where his head was. There was also Dabi and Himiko.
"Sorry were late, we thought it would be right if we killed you after you were made proper heros" said Shigaraki.
"What do you want" said Izuku.
"You remember what I told you so long ago, that All might must die, but since he no longer can be a hero, killing him won't change anything" said Shigaraki as he clenched his fists, "But then after what you did yesterday, I can let someone like All might exist, so I must kill you before you become the next symbol of peace" he said pointing a finger at Izuku.
"Yeah sorry but you have to die" said Himiko smiling as she held up a knife.
"Enough of this" said Bakugo as he used his explosions to jump into the air, "I knew I would have an opportunity to take you down" he said as he starts heading down towards Shigaraki.
"Bakugo don't" said All might, but it was too late a Kurogiri made a small dark purple cloud appear in front of Shigaraki as Bakugo got close and he went through it appearing somewhere in the city.
"Damnit" said Bakugo looking annoyed.
Back with the others, "My opponent is you Deku" said Shigaraki as a dark purple cloud appeared behind him, "Will settle this somewhere else, you can come with me now, or I can have Kurogiri send me into the hall" he said holding up his hand with an evil look in his eye.
Izuku clenched hi fists as he began to shake, but then he stopped as he began to walk over to the dark purple cloud as Shigaraki went through. "Deku" said Ochako looking concerned.
Izuku looked at her smiling, "Don't worry, just look after the others" he said as he went through the dark purple cloud and it vanished as he went through it.
"Well then I guess we should get started" said Himiko as she rushed towards Ochako, but Ochkao already noticed her, she grabbed Himikos arm that was holding the knife as she through her into the air and into the ground holding her arm behind her back.
"I was right wasn't I, you do have a crush on someone" said Himiko laughing.
"It's more then that now" said Ochako with a determined look on her face as she placed her right hand on Himikos back and she started floating into the air, "Its love and there's no way I would let someone like you near him, get ready Froppu" she said outing her hand together.
Tsuyu sent her tongue at Kimiko wrapping it arm around her and sending her into the ground knocking her out.
"Well looks like I'll have to take care of this now" said Dabi pointing his fingers at the teachers sending blue flames at them, some of them looked ready to fight when a wall of ice appeared between them and blue flame. The flame hit the ice wall stopping it and Dabi looked to see Shoto looking right at him.
"Well, your Endeavors kid right, what makes you think you can stop me" said Dabi smiling.
"Because I'm going to show you what real fire is" said Shoto as ice started to be appear at his left foot and fire was coming out his left arm.
Dabi pointed his right hand at Shoto about to fire more blue flames at him when ice appeared below him making him almost slip, he was about to put his hand back up but before he could Shoto used his left hand to send a blast a fire at him that sent him flying. Dabi landed on the ground knocked uncouncisous from the blast.
Shoto started breathing in and out after using that much energy, "Well I guess finishing you off falls to me" said Kurogiri as he appeared in front of Shoto when a blast of electricity hit the peace of armour he was wearing.
"Little trick we all learned when we saw you in our first year" said Denki walking over as his right hand still had some electricity surrounding it.
"If we can see you we know where to hit you" said Eijrio hardening his skin and punching where he could see the armour and making him fall back.
"I need to retreat, wait I can't use my quirk" said Kurogiri as he tried to stand up when Fumikage stood in front of him with Dark shadow out. Eraser stood next to him with his hair up and his eyes red.
"I wouldn't try teleporting away if I were you" said Eraser with angry look on his face.
"Okay now we just need to find where Deku was sent" said Ochako.
"They must have a reason for doing this here, they could have done it in the city after today" said Mina.
"It's possible he wanted everyone to see what would happen to someone who could be the next symbol of peace, so he would want to have the fight where everyone could see it" said the principal.
All might looked towards the main building of UA, "I think I might have an idea where that might be" he said.
Like All might thought, on the roof of the main building of UA stood Shigaraki facing Izuku. The two of them had sirious looks on their face, "I wonder if any of your friends are still alive" said Shigaraki.
"I wouldn't underestimate them, they're great heros" said Izuku.
Shigaraki then loooked angry, then he rushed at Izuku with his right hand stretched out and Izuku grabbed the sleeve of his right arm, throwing him over his head and into the ground behind him.
Shigaraki then sent his right arm towards Izukus face, luckily he dodged it in time but his right arm ended up being grabbed, his costume on his right arm started falling apart before green lighting surrounded him and he jumped away from Shigaraki.
Izuku looked at the area where his costume fell apart, but then he noticed Shigakri had gotten back up quickly reaching his left hand for his face, he dodged out of the way and punched the hand that was covering his face off. The look he saw on Shigakris face was a mix of annoyance and anger. Izuku jumped away avoiding his right hand.
"You know there's another reason that I'm realising why I want to be a hero" said Izuku as he looked down, but then he looked up at Shigaraki with a determined look on his face, "It's so I can save people from villains like you" he said as green lighting started to surround his body again.
"I was wrong back then, I shouldn't have been so focused on killing All might, I should have focused on killing the one who would someday be just like him" said Shigaraki as he started running towards Izuku again with his right arm brought back.
Izuku rushed at him aswell as he gathered his power in his right arm, he dodged Shigarakis right arm, "Goodbye, Shigaraki" he thought with a determined look on his face as he punched Shigraki in the face, "100 percent, UA hero smash" he thought as he used his fist to punch Shigaraki into the ground, cracking the ground underneath him.
Izuku stood over Shigakri noticing he was completely uncouncious. He looked towards the ground in front of him seeing the crowd from the hall looking up at him. He smiled as he put his right arm up in the air and gave a thumbs up. He could hear the cheers of the crowd from where he was.
The entrance to the roof opened, he looked to see it was the other student couples, All might, Eraser and Midnight. Ochako quickly ran over to him, almost knocking him over as she wrapped her arms around his neck kissing him on the lip and he kissed back feelings happy that she was alright.
The two of them stopped kissing, "I'm so glad your alright" said Izuku.
"I should be telling you that" said Ochako laughing a little.
"Midoirya that was awesome" said Eijiro.
"We saw some of the battle when we were on our way here" said Fumikage.
"That was cool, you took down the leader of the league of villains" said Kyoka.
"After this, a lot of people are going to remember you for did for them" said Shoto smiling.
All might walked over to Izuku, "Well done, Deku" said All might reaching his right hand out.
Izuku smiled as he wiped the tears of joy coming from his eyes, "Thank you All might" he siad shaking his hand.
"What did I tell you about crying" said All might looking away, it was only Eraser and Midnight who noticed him trying to wipe the tears of joy coming out of his eyes.
"You know after this, all of us forming a super hero group together doesn't sound like a bad idea" said Denki.
"Wait really" said Mina surprised.
"I don't see why not" said Kyoka smiling.
"Well we're going to form a group we should think of a name for it" said Momo smiling.
"I was thinking about that, how about the United hero couples" said Mina smiling.
"Hey that's a great name" said Eijiro giving her a kiss on the cheek making her smile and blush.
"We could call it the UHC for short" said Ochako smiling.
"Alright so we're all up for this" asked Izuku smiling?
"Sure" said Shoto nodding as he put an arm around Momo.
"Count us in" said Momo smiling.
"Same here" said the other hero couples.
After the villains were taken away. The students from the hero course and the teachers stood in front of the entrance of UA where they took a photo. Kamui woods and Mt lady were also in the photo aswell, but they were standing behind the students with the teachers and the reason they were in the photo is because they worked security for UA before. The couples were standing together. They all had smiles on their faces. All might on purpose stood behind Izuku and Ochako with a smile on his face. This day would be known as the day the league of villains was finally defeated and when the UHC was formed.