Legion

by draconis ignitus

"Brothers in Arms are Brothers for Life" - Or, where a boy gains a quirk and a support system of a couple thousand brothers. Slight Star Wars crossover but really just names. ARTWORK WILL BE POSTED IN DISCORD, DA, AO3 and more.

26. Calm Before The Storm

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LEGION: CALM BEFORE THE STORM

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"Adaptation is the key to survival."

Some time ago

"Summer Vacation Hero Special: From Number One Hero to U.A. High School Teacher. This time, we will look back to All Might's work and his great–"

The TV turned off with a click.

"Hehehe, I figured it out. I know why Stain pissed me off so much, and why those brats irritate me, too. All cause of All Might, always smiling without a care in the world, as if there was no one he couldn't save… but Mand'alor…something's different about him…" Shigaraki muttered.

"Tell me…why Hope? Why not Peace? Why not make yourself the next All Might?"

"Because…this world doesn't need another All Might…it needs more. The people have grown too complacent and rely too much on him. When he inevitably has to retire, the world will be thrown into chaos."

Their conversation at the mall still rang in his head to this day, his answer had been most surprising. For the boy to admit that the world didn't need another All Might, even though he'd been publicly seen next to him, and, if the rumors were true, All Might was even close to his family.

…A test.

A test would have to be conducted.

"It's time we change that…Kurogiri, prepare the nomu and get me in contact with the ones that Sensei said he prepared for me. I have a job for them that they will find interesting," The crusty villain grinned before leaving the bar.

Kurogiri nodded and continued cleaning the glasses, he would pass on the message soon enough.

Sighing as he looked at the pictures left on the table, Kurogiri began to recall Midoriya Izuku, aka Mand'alor's exploits.

'Midoriya Izuku. Quirkless until the age of ten where it was revealed that he had a dormant quirk that produced sentient clones of himself. Said quirk evolving to include, extreme strength, weapons and now vehicles, Legion.'

'After enrolling in U.A. in April of this year, he distinguished himself by summoning his army and destroying the USJ Nomu, finishing Second Place at the Sports Festival while simultaneously providing security with his clones and then, single-handedly defeating the Hero Killer: Stain in combat. The latter would then save the former's life from our nomu, declaring him a true hero.'

Kurogiri set down the glass and picked up another, although they were all clean, the habit helped him process his thoughts.

'Then, a mere day after, he was involved in a confrontation that included the rescue of a civilian child, publicly proclaimed his intentions in a press conference to succeed All Might, and got a provisional license in a landslide victory against a multitude of other schools while ridiculously outnumbered.'

His eyes then narrowed as he recalled recent events.

'And most recently, at the I-Expo, fought All Might one-on-one on equal grounds before helping defeat the Wolfram's crew that took over the island.'

"This may prove troublesome for the Master's plans in the future, unless he manages to convert him and his army to our cause," Kurogiri said to no one in particular, before he in an unusual moment of mental exhaustion poured himself a drink and downed it.

He might still be a bit sour about how the boy had dented his collar so brutally.

Just a bit.

But there was one thing that was absolutely true.

Midoriya Izuku and Shigaraki Tomura were polar opposites…yet there was more to them than meets the eye.

And perhaps they were more similar than they cared to admit.

And their battle would be legendary.

Meanwhile as Shigaraki walked down an alley, he muttered to himself.

"I'll make it myself…a world without All Might. And I'll show everyone…just how fragile that so-called justice is."

'Time will tell what you do next, Mand'alor,' He thought as he disappeared into the darkness.

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"Shigaraki Tomura has requested your assistance, as well as that of another associate of ours, Vorarbeiter, he has a special mission in mind."

"What would you have me do, my master?" The cloaked figure rasped.

"Help him with his mission, if you would be so kind, Tyazhkiy, but do be careful, I'd rather not lose an important asset."

"I understand, my lord," Tyazhkiy said as he bowed before turning to leave.

"That isn't to say however, that you can't have some fun. While Tomura's targets aren't to be killed, I'm sure that you'll have plenty of fun against Mand'alor."

Tyazhkiy chuckled.

"A chance against All Might's protege? He will live, that I assure you, but I will ensure that he will be broken before All Might."

All For One chuckled.

"Ah yes, what better way to fulfill a vendetta, than to go for those they most care about?"

"I do have one question, my master."

"What is it, my loyal subject?"

"What of his clones?" He asked, to which he heard his master chuckle.

"Kill them all."

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"I expected nothing less from Sensei, no matter how much I looked into it, I couldn't find a single trace of where they're going," Shigaraki commented as he finished making a tower out of playing cards.

"Indeed, U.A. has been tight-lipped about everything, and their little clone army is on constant patrol," Kurogiri added. "Good thing we had them on standby, no?"

"I guess…" Shigaraki muttered as the tower fell apart.

A knock on the door and a puff of smoke brought their attention to Giran, who was coming in to tell them that the equipment ordered would be ready in time, although the work would be lackluster, the quality was guaranteed.

"You know why they've decided to support you, Shigaraki? It's 'cause everybody has high expectations," Giran began while taking a drag. "If the League of Villains becomes active, then those smoldering in the dark will start to move, and guys like me will profit again!"

"Then it's time for us to really show them the true power of the League of Villains," Shigaraki began. "Don't worry, soon you won't be able to keep up."

"I look forward to that," Giran replied as he left the bar.

Shigaraki grinned as he stared at the pile of cards on the bar.

'All the pieces and prey are reaching the same destination…'

"It's time to start the game," Shigaraki grinned sadistically.

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One week after the Painting

Standing outside the parking lot, both classes 1-A and 1-B along with a company of the Vod'e were waiting for the teachers to arrive, while they in the meantime made time pass with smalltalk.

"Man, I can't wait to get to the camp and get stronger!" Denki exclaimed excitedly, while Blitz sat on the ground and read a book and Kyouka just nodded along with her electric blonde friend.

"It will certainly be ideal for us to learn how to strengthen ourselves. Like Izuku said, we shouldn't end up relying too much on our new gear and armor," Momo added, having three clones stand with her, almost looking like bodyguards.

The three in question were 3636, Sinker and Boost.

All three of them had maroon colored patterns on their armor, similar to Momo's bodysuit, while 3636 had a unique looking helmet with an antenna, along with a kama containing his pistol holsters.

"Truer words have never been spoken, Momo! As heroes, it is important to never put one's strengths into one place!" The bespeckled teen said, while chopping his arm.

"Says the one whose main shtick until recently was just running in a straight line and kicking people's teeth in," Mayhem added from behind him, to which Waxer, Boil and Setsuna guffawed while Tenya just looked at the ground in shame at his moment of hypocrisy.

"Now, now you four. Don't tease him too much in one go. Save some for the rest of the week," Itsuka giggled as she bumped her classmate's shoulder lightly while Thorn took off his helmet and looked to the sun with a smile.

Thorn's new armor had the cyan shoulder pauldron on the left side and a small antenna, while the rest of it was painted in red on top of the standard white. His helmet had small wings painted onto it, courtesy of Itsuka, while also having a black sun visor and antenna along with most of the front being red. His leg armor was white down to the shins, where the rest of it had been painted red, while he also wore a black kama with red outlining, ending at his waist that also was painted in the aggressive color and having two pistol holsters on the kama.

Yui, Fil, Niner and Bel were all reading some superhero comics, ignoring the talk between the two classes.

Fil had mostly painted some red lines on his armor with simple patterns, deciding to wear a completely black pauldron and kama, while his belt on the other hand was painted a maroon red along with his shoulder plates and a sun-esque symbol was on his chest. His holsters were of the same red color, along with his knee armor, while his shins were painted in a way that made it look like there was a harness on them.

Niner had chosen to go with a scheme more akin to his namesake, with the kanji for nine being painted on both his chest, shoulder and knee pauldrons while he the number itself was painted onto each side of his helmet, one of them being inverted to make it look a bit like eyes, while a red stripe ran down the middle of it, along with his arms and legs.

Bel meanwhile, had painted one big bell over his heart, along with also having painted the sides of his helmet with them, while his shins and forearms were painted completely maroon, leaving his pauldrons and upper arms white. His thighs however had a pattern on it that looked like ropes tangling around them.

While the two classes kept on mingling, Kan and Aizawa arrived, with the two instantly separating and standing in rows, awaiting their teacher's orders.

"Why'd you stop mingling all of a sudden?" Aizawa asked, confusing both of the classes and some of the clones.

"To make it easier for us to get into each classes' buses, sensei?" Ojiro asked their tired teacher who just shook his head and stepped back to let Kan do the talking.

"We've decided to mix things up a bit as a bonding exercise. Half of 1-A will join 1-B in their bus and vice versa," He said, making several of the students gasp in both surprise and joy.

"I will now list off the students who will get onto 1-A's bus: Honenuki, Kodai, Kendo, Shishida, Tokage, Tetsutetsu, Yanagi, Rin, Tsuburaba, Komori and Tsunotori," Kan called out, to which the ten students walked over to their sister class.

"As for those who will go to 1-B's bus: Todoroki, Bakugou, Sato, Hagakure, Asui, Koda, Sero, Aoyama, Mineta and Ojiro," Aizawa said tiredly, while said students made their way towards 1-B who greeted each other in a friendly manner, sans Bakugou who didn't want anything to do with the extras, and Monoma who complained about having to mingle with inferior students, while clones made sure Mineta didn't try to peek up the girls' skirts.

At gunpoint.

"Without further ado, get on the buses," Aizawa said, while the now mixed classes nodded and went to said vehicles, while most of the clones who primarily interacted with the students surprisingly got onto speeders, rather than in the buses with their friends.

"Huh? Why are most of the clones separated from us, though?" Kaminari asked.

"So far, the main reason for your interactions have been thanks to the Vod'e. This is an experiment to see if you get along just as well without them," Kan said as he stepped into his bus.

"The clones will be using alternate routes to get to where we're going, to throw off any leads, we'll be leaving an hour after them, so feel free to talk and stuff while we get things underway."

As most of the clones left, only a few stayed behind, mainly ones who hadn't interacted nearly as much with the other students as those who'd left.

Amongst them were Droidbait, Cutup, the clone who had been shot at I-Island, now known as Bullseye, Hevy, Noble along with four other clones none of them, sans Izuku, had met before.

Spartan, a quiet clone with a golden visor and olive green armor, a kama with two pistols and a backpack holding a new type of blaster.

Orion, whom Izuku had explained was known for his compassion beneath his tougher exterior, whose armor was primarily red, with a glowing visor, blue leg armor and helmet, with the front of it being painted silver and having an antenna on each side.

Sentinel, was primarily a mix of red and gray and also wore a kama, along with some type of cloak. The most noticeable about his gear however, was the folded and sheathed staff with double vibroblades. He was unusually cold for one with the Midoriya genes, and seemed to have less qualms about inflicting pain on those he deemed to be less than scum, despite caring for his brothers wholeheartedly.

The last one had no name yet, and was only known as 99. He had compassion that rivaled Orion's but was a lot more open about it, being known for memorizing the names and numbers of all of his brothers and according to Izuku, always helped around in the background and graveyard shift. His armor looked the plainest, with the only colors being a light shade of blue, covering everything except the helmet and hands which were white, and his boots that were black.

All four of these were ARC Troopers, some of the most elite of the Vod'e.

If the rumors about them were true, they were all survivors of the first generation of clones, along with being of the first fifteen naturally born ARC Troopers, whom of the first generation were 13 left meaning even amongst their own brothers, they were legendary.

All in all, the vibes they gave off were somewhat awe inspiring, both because of their professionalism, yet heroic and compassionate hearts.

Ochako recalled some of the words that Izuku had told her.

"The Thirteen are…different from the rest, they absorb information at an unprecedented rate, and they adapt to training at an astronomical level, truly becoming some of the best fighters of the Vod'e…even Aizawa-sensei was impressed by them."

After the hour had passed, the buses started and they went on their way to the training camp.

"Uh…Tetsutetsu, right?" Izuku began as they settled into place.

The boy was sitting next to Yanagi and was giving Izuku a wary look.

"Yeah?"

"I just wanted to apologize for spiking you back then. Y'know, before the sports festival?" He said, to which the steely teen nodded, squinting his eyes, before the greenet bowed, his head almost making contact with the floor. "You didn't deserve that from me."

Tetsutetsu's eyes widened in shock and he was almost frozen before an elbow from Yanagi made him respond.

"Look dude, you don't need to bow like that, I uh, I accept," Tetsutetsu stuttered. "Plus, I was kinda being a jerk too, y'know? It wasn't manly of me at all to accuse any of you like that when you all had just come out of a life or death situation."

Izuku nodded as he got back up, the respect for him rising from those in 1-B.

"Thank you, that's all I needed to say."

For a while, they remained in their own conversations but then Denki had to bring something up.

"Hey, uh, Izuku? Have you seen the news lately?"

"Sigh…yes, Denki…"

Referenced news was apparently a bunch of articles based on the events of the I-Island expo.

The other students' identities had been kept secret, the news stating that I-Expo had been attacked and that All Might and Mand'alor had saved the day together.

While perhaps, the others would be irked (especially Bakugo), considering the headaches that Izuku had been going through ever since his fight with Stain was publicized, they were glad for the continued anonymity (except Bakugo).

However, even if they had been mentioned, their involvement would have been overshadowed by what everybody was really talking about.

Mand'alor being put through a death match arena by Sorc Tormo and then forced to fight All Might.

And holding his own.

Granted, the scales of power between them had been changed, but the news wasn't really big on getting all the details correctly.

The world was in an uproar about the event, with many in Japan wanting the young hero in training to take All Might's place rather than Endeavor by the time the former had to retire in the hopefully not near future.

The rest of the world, however, was in an upheaval for another reason.

The Vod'e and their technology.

America in particular had been interested, having attempted to send diplomats for contracts during the past week to discuss exchange in technology, both military and medical.

They had of course been denied entry into school grounds, because having political figures in such an environment wasn't exactly for the best for both parties.

Especially with Nezu involved.

Izuku had more or less been hounded by mail sent to him, both physical and digital, and being the good boy he was, he had read through all of them. Most of it had ended up as firestarters for the karmine.

"I'll deal with it a day at a time, as it is…I'm glad that I have Nezu in my corner."

As it was, Nezu would only be able to 'officially' protect him as long as he was a student. Which was enough to deter foreign powers for now, many operating under the assumption that Mand'alor would do an international tour like his (now public) mentor, All Might, and they'd be able to speak with him then.

Izuku was still on the fence about that, as cool as it would be, but his real worry was with domestic powers.

The HPSC being the most obvious.

Bah, he shouldn't think of that right now. He should be focusing on the now, and leave this to future Izuku.

Looking around the bus, he noticed the atmosphere was slightly awkward, with the most active thing happening being Kirishima and Tetsutetsu playing rock, paper, scissors.

Looking at the guy in front of him, Honenuki, he decided to try and start a conversation.

"Um… Nice to meet you? Midoriya Izuku, but you probably already knew that," He said sheepishly, while the lipless boy looked at him.

"Honenuki Juzo. I must say, you and your clones are… something. Like, this is probably the first time in the history of U.A that someone have ever risen through the ranks this fast."

"Oh…believe me," Izuku sighed. "If I could have kept my fight with Stain secret, it'd be so much less of a hassle…"

"Hm. Well, at least you're humble about it, and haven't let it go to your head like Monoma says," He replied and leaned back, which made Izuku groan, much to his amusement.

"Don't worry, we don't really listen to Monoma's ramblings, Kendo's been really big on supporting you, though, considering her new boyfriend…" He chuckled.

"Thorn? Well, I do see them being near each other constantly… How has the rest of 1-B, besides the girls, acclimated to my brothers being everywhere though?" Izuku inquired, hoping they didn't find it creepy or annoying seeing his face everywhere.

"I have met a few of them, and they're not bad people, the rest of my class has had varying interactions with them. I think no words need to be spoken about Tokage," He replied.

"Hehe, nope."

"Overall, a few of my class have gotten along better than others…again, no words need be stated about Monoma. He's gotten in trouble with a particular one on a nearly daily basis… 'Slick', I think he called himself? Crazy guy."

"Ah, well… Slick is a bit… eccentric. He's a conspiracy theorist," Izuku sighed, to which Honenuki nodded.

"I see."

"Personally, I feel like your brothers are a welcome addition to the faculty, Sir Midoriya," The voice of one Shishida Jurota rumbled as he sat with crossed arms. "They have all been admirable company, especially the one called Keeli. If one were to look up the word 'polite' in the dictionary, they'd find his portrait."

Said clone had been the very first to approach the beastly teen with absolutely no fear, having his own version of chivalry and a big interest in both zoology and mythology like himself and had both studied it after school ever since.

Smiling, he hoped he would be able to befriend the two on this trip, along with the others also hopefully strengthening the bonds between the two classes.

"Midoriya! It's shrooming to meet you again!" Komori said from her seat and waved at him.

"Likewise, Komori-san, likewise," Izuku waved back at the girl whom he'd befriended during the Sports Festival.

Truth be told, he sadly hadn't had much time to speak with either her or Shiozaki thanks to school and all the crazy events since that day, but now was as great a time to catch up as any other.

"Oh, I wish Shiozaki was here, she's actually been hanging around one of the mediclones! Uh, what was his name…"

"You mean Sir Kix? Lady Komori?" Jurota asked, to which she nodded fervently.

"Yes! Him! A shrooming guy!" She smiled, before noticing Izuku had paled slightly.

"Ah, yes… the apprentice of the White Mage…" He said, looking a bit like his soul had left his body.

"What's wrong, Midoriya?"

"I'm just afraid of how long it'll take before he starts to diagnose me with a new kind of stupid…"

A few snorted at the declaration, especially Izuku's friends.

Kix had become a…dedicated apprentice to Recovery Girl, and in keeping with military traditions; outranked even him as Mand'alor when it came to medical issues..

'Did she really have to give him the cane though?' He griped, feeling like one cane swinging medic was more than enough already.

Looking around the bus again, he saw Kaminari talking with Tsuburaba about… something to do with aerodynamics while Kyouka tried to piece together Pony's broken Japanese, before the latter said something that made the former look appalled, with the foreign exchange student giving the punk rock girl a confused expression.

"...Is there a reason why she just called Kyouka that?" Izuku asked, feeling like the tone Pony had used didn't fit with whatever could have offended his friend that much.

"What's wrong? Did I say something bad?" Tsunotori asked in confusion.

"...uh…yeah…uhm, you just called her a-," Izuku then whispered into Tsunotori's ear what she'd accidentally called Kyouka. The poor girl then paled and started to apologize over and over again.

"I…I don't understand, Monoma said it was fine to…say towards…people of other classes…" Pony trailed off before she became angry.

"[I'm gonna skin his hide! Tellin' me ta call people all them nasty words, why I oughta-]"

Izuku blinked at the curses that spilled out of the normally kind girl's mouth, while anyone who had a decent grasp at English jaws dropped.

Just as the equestrian girl was about to go on another rant, the bus stopped, confusing the passengers, considering the drive should have taken longer if the camp was as remote as they said.

"Everyone out of the bus," Aizawa ordered, to which the students complied and stepped outside, being greeted by a duo of people dressed in what looked like idol outfits with oversized paw gloves and cat ears.

"We're taking a break? Awesome!" Kaminari cheered as he cracked his back.

"I wonder where the other bus is?" Momo wondered while scratching her chin.

"This rest spot is kinda small, so I guess they went to another?" Honenuki reasoned while also wondering who the duo were. They did however seem familiar.

"Hold up… Aren't you…?"

"Lock on with these sparkling gazes!" The brunette began.

"Strikingly cute and catlike!" The blonde followed up.

"Wild, Wild, Pussycats!" The duet, along with Izuku exclaimed, or rather gushed in the latter's case.

Several of the students now gasped and ooh'ed at the namedrop of the hero team the two were members of.

Izuku in a rare moment of his younger and more nervous self, stiffly walked up to the two, pulled a notebook out of nowhere and bowed while holding it out.

"May I have your autographs, please? I'm a huge fan! Mandalay-san! Pixie Bob-san!" He squeaked out.

Chuckling, the two pros agreed and wrote down their signature on their pages in the analysis notebook, which they personally found impressive, if a bit creepy due to how comprehensive and accurate they were.

"What a cute little kitten~ Might just take him for myself~" Pixie Bob purred, before noticing the death glare a certain brunette was giving her.

"Come on… Isn't the age gap a bit too big for this?" Mandalay sighed, to which Pixie Bob shot her friend a glare.

"I am eternally eighteen, and you know it!"

"Still not helping."

"Quit fooling around you two and get serious." Aizawa said, to which the two immediately stopped their friendly banter and looked at the students with an odd glint in their eyes.

"Just so you guys know, we own this whole stretch of land here," Mandalay began as she extended her hand towards the forest. "You'll be staying at the foot of that mountain."

"So far!" Ochako exclaimed before pausing. "Wait, then why are we all the way over here?"

"Guys…I've got a bad feeling about this," Izuku said as he felt a headache approaching.

"Oh no…" Momo groaned as the 1-A students got into different stances, almost as if preparing for something. They all knew about Izuku's supposed early warning system in the form of headaches.

"Head back to the bus!" One of the 1-B students cried out.

"It's 9:30, I'd say, you make it about noon?" Mandalay said with a sadistic grin. "Kitties who don't make it though, don't get to have lunch!"

"Move!"

"EVERYBODY BRACE!" Izuku screamed out.

A few of the students raced towards the bus but were stopped by Pixie Bob.

"Sorry ladies and gentlemen," Aizawa began. "Summer Camp starts now."

The ground then exploded in front of them and the cliff shuddered.

"What? What's going ooooAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Tetsutetsu's question turned into a scream, as the ground they stood on turned into a landslide, sending the students and a few unlucky clones plummeting off of the cliff.

As they tumbled down, Pony fired off her horns and flew around the air, picking up as many as she could while Setsuna split her body into parts and grabbed Yanagi and Tokoyami.

Those who didn't have the ability to fly however, braced for impact with Tsuburaba creating a barrier of air and Honenuki beginning to soften the ground just as the mass of rocks and dirt impacted the ground, burying the majority of them.

"Alright, who's not dead? Sound off!" Izuku asked after digging himself out of the dirt, followed by a chorus of groans and muffled curses.

Some emerged, having been protected by Tsuburaba's barrier and had therefore suffered the least bruises, while those landing in Honenuki's patch of softened ground mostly had to deal with dirt and debris in their hair and clothes.

Shortly after, most of the students and clones were assembled. They were however missing two.

"Good to see you again, Fives!" Ochako said, the latter nodding his head in greeting.

"You too, Ochako. Droidbait? Hevy? Cutup? Echo? Fives? You guys good?"

"Ugh…"

"I'm good!"

"I hate this place already."

"Good here!"

"Hold up, has anyone seen Kirishima and Tetsutetsu?!" Momo asked in a panicked tone, to which they all began to dig through the dirt frantically, only to have the two pop out of the landslide like Digletts.

"WE'RE ALIVE!" The duo shouted in unison.

"Is Aizawa-sensei INSANE?! We could have gotten seriously hurt, or even killed just now!" Yui shouted, much to the surprise of everyone.

"Hey!" They all heard and looked up to see Mandalay shouting down at them. "This place is private land, so you can use your quirks freely! You have three hours! Get to the facility on your own two feet! After getting through…the Beast's Forest!" She shouted out.

"The Beast's Forest? Why that name?" Tsuburaba asked.

"Y-you don't think they keep dangerous or quirked animals here, d-do you?!" Komori squeaked out, beginning to shuffle around slightly.

"Don't be silly, they wouldn't go that far… would they?" Itsuka said, sounding unsure of herself and looked to her sister class for reassurance, only to have that small hope shot and sunk in mere seconds, when she saw how dead they looked inside.

"We're doomed, aren't we?" She groaned, only to be met with silence.

Due to the somber atmosphere, none of them noticed something rising out of the ground, only realizing it once they saw the shadow of it looming over them from behind.

The moment they turned around, they saw a strange, eel-like creature, who immediately dived down and picked up Cutup in its mouth, who immediately began screaming his head off while the clones opened fire.

Said creature then disappeared into the ground before making a beeline straight toward the facility.

"What the hell was that?!" Hevy exclaimed, due to how their blasters were ineffective.

"Poor Cutup, he's definitely not going to like eels from now on…" Echo said.

"YOU JUST WATCHED A BROTHER DIE AND THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY!?" Setsuna shrieked.

"Relax, these things aren't real…look," Fives said as he pointed to the dirt that had been shot off the beast.

"This means that we're dealing with Pixie Bob's quirk," Izuku said before nodding to himself.

"EVERYBODY! FORM UP!" Izuku ordered. His friends quickly closed ranks, though the 1-B students were a bit slower.

Just as they had gotten into a circle formation, earthen creatures bursted out of the greenery and leaped towards them, only to quickly get covered in mushrooms and crumble from an onslaught of attacks.

"They said that if we didn't arrive before noon, we wouldn't get any lunch, correct?" Izuku asked, to which most of them nodded.

"How can you think about food at a time like this!?"

"Don't worry. We can make it there in forty five minutes."

"...How?! None of us, besides Iida-san, can run that fast on foot!"

"Who said we were going on foot?" Izuku grinned before turning to Denki.

"AW YEAH! LET'S DO THIS!"

"Cover me, I need to focus!"

"Right!"

Izuku closed his eyes and extended his hand, a small green portal appearing. With more focus, he was able to expand it and summon what he needed.

A trio of AT-RTs and some speeder bikes.

"Alright! Saddle up…" Izuku gasped, slightly tired but still ready to go.

He looked around and noticed that for the time being, the area was clear of monsters.

"Who's gotten speeder training?"

A few hands raised up, surprisingly enough, Itsuka was one of them.

"...Thorn's been teaching me… Plus, I kinda love motorcycles," She sheepishly said.

"Right, and who's gotten AT-RT training?"

Denki, obviously, was the first to raise his hand, with Momo and Kyoka being the other two.

"Perfect, you three, mount up on the AT-RT's, those of you with speeder training, take a speeder. The rest of you, ride as a passenger and use your quirks to provide cover fire," Izuku said before turning to Tenya. "Tenya, you and I will be covering the flanks with our speed, taking breaks by hanging onto the AT-RT's."

"Uh…what about myself, Sir Midoriya? I am afraid that I do not have ranged capabilities, nor the speed to keep up with you all," Shishida as he slightly raised his hand.

"Well Shishida, I think it best that you ride on one of the AT-RTs, and, in the interest of class cooperation, you use one of these," Izuku grinned as he then summoned what looked like a quad barreled cannon, attached to a backpack that made it look like it could be worn like a harness.

Shishida's eyes widened in awe as he took the weapon in hand and put it on.

"I admit, I very much like your ideas for class cooperation."

A few of the students seemed a bit hesitant about getting onto the vehicles, but after some convincing by Itsuka, everyone was securely on a vehicle.

"Before we go, may I put on some music?" Denki asked, confusing the rest.

Izuku only chuckled in response..

"You know what, Denki? Sure. But how are you going to get any? Technology wasn't allowed to be brought here. Well, these things are probably an exception, but you know what I mean."

Denki grinned as he gently nudged Kyouka, who grinned too and fished a small cassette out of her pocket, before finding an old cassette player and popped it inside, before pressing play.

"Aizawa-sensei let me bring it," She answered the unasked question.

The silent forest was immediately broken by the sound of an electric guitar and drums in a tune that sounded like it was from the pre-quirk 80's, with the students starting up their vehicles and moving out just as the lyrics began to be sung.

"Sometimes when your hope's has all been shattered, there's nowhere to turn."

---

Earlier

"Hmm, they haven't moved yet," Pixie Bob commented as she readied up to send more beasts after them.

"We might as well move out, don't want them to get there before us…" Aizawa commented as he went to the car after dismissing the bus.

"What?" Mandalay asked in confusion. "Eraser, you okay? You do know that the three hour runtime is based on our team, right?"

Aizawa merely raised a brow as he faced her.

"Trust me, they'll be there."

"What the heck!? I'm losing track of them!" Mandalay heard Pixie Bob cry out.

"After all, they have Midoriya with them."

---

To most of them, it didn't sound like any song they'd heard before, but they still felt their heartbeats get slightly faster.

Pony however, knew exactly what song it was, and was hit by a wave of nostalgia.

"You wonder how you keep going, (going)"

"Think about the things that really matter, and the chances you've earned."

"The fire in your heart is growing. (growing)

"You can fly if you try leaving the past behind. Heaven only know what you might fiiii-iiind!"

"DARE!"

Just as the song reached its peak, they busted through a small collection of constructs and continued at high speeds.

"Dare to believe you can survive!"

"You hold the future in your hand!"

"Dare!"

"Dare to keep all your dreams alive!"

"It's time to take a stand!"

"And you can win if you DARE!"

As the song continued playing, smiles began to appear on several of the teenagers faces, before Kinoko erupted into laughter at the adrenaline rush that the high speeds and blasting of constructs gave her, soon followed by others whose feelings were mutual to hers.

"This is the beeeeeeeeest!" Tsuburaba laughed, with Rin letting out a loud cheer as he fired off his scales.

"In America, how we race!" Pony giggled as she surfed along them on her horns, before passing them while Tetsutetsu and Kirishima were howling like wolves on the trip.

What they didn't expect however, was Momo of all people to join the two manly men, much to the shock of everyone, sans the heiress who was too caught in the moment to notice.

Momo quickly caught herself and blushed but it did nothing to help her situation, and the clones nearby could only laugh.

"I'm totally telling 36, Momo!" Hevy snickered.

"No please, don't!" She pleaded, somehow managing to steer the walker while clasping her hands together.

"Too late for that, she-wolf!" Droidbait grinned just as another construct showed up.

This one was blasted by Shishida's cannon who was also howling in excitement.

"LET'S GOOOOO!" He roared, his battlecry turning into something more of an animalistic cry.

"WHRAAAAARRRRRGGGH!"

The sheer speed they were going at made it so they quickly covered ground, with the constructs barely able to keep up with them while Hevy having a blast with shooting any of them getting too close with his favorite weapon; The Z6 Rotary Blaster, having oddly enough named his personal one 'Sasha'.

The group speared through the forest, dodging trees and monsters, speeders in the front while the AT-RT's, slower as they were, kept the rear guard.

---

"This schedule of yours is pretty crazy, Aizawa…" Mandalay commented as they waited at the facility.

"It's become necessary, with the increasing villain activity and Midoriya's success during his license exam, we need to provide the same opportunity for the others so that they can use their quirks in emergency settings and learn how to defend themselves," Shota replied.

"Are you sure they will be here before the other bus though? That forest is pretty big, and my constructs will only make it harder for the kittens," Pixie Bob said in a flat tone, having a hard time believing the hobo looking teacher.

"I'll bet you five hundred yen they'll be here within five minutes," He grumbled, to which she agreed.

Just like he said, about two minutes later, music could be heard in the distance, before the entire group bursted out of the forest on their mounts, music blasting.

"What in the world are those things?!" Mandalay and Pixie Bob shrieked in unison upon seeing the unknown vehicles.

Shota just held out his hand, to which the blonde groaned and flipped the coin to him while the classes dismounted.

"Just a bit over an hour. Impressive," Mandalay whistled while walking over to the machinery so she could inspect it.

'What the hell, they beat our best record…' She internally freaked out.

"Does this mean we get lunch?" Denki asked, earning him a light smack to the head by Kyouka.

"Well, we did promise them… Come on, everyone!" Mandalay said, just as two more people dressed like her and Pixie Bob arrived along with the bus they had initially been transported in.

"Ragdoll and Tiger! May I please have your autographs?" Izuku asked as he walked over to the pros.

The two blinked but then smiled at him and nodded.

"Ah, Vod, it seems like you've arrived before us," A warm voice called out, revealing itself to belong to 99 who walked over and pulled Izuku into a hug who returned it.

"It's good to see you also arrived safe and sound, 99. Quick question though… Where's Cutup?" he asked and looked over at Aizawa and Pixie Bob.

"Eh…he's over there…" 99 said as he pointed over to a table with his thumb.

Cutup had his helmet off and had a thousand yard stare, his armor dirtied and covered in dust, mud and branches.

"Uh…Cutup?" Kyoka asked as she approached him.

"When we get out of here, I'm going to eat so much eel until it's extinct…"He muttered in a small mantra repeatedly.

While everyone could only look at the traumatized clone in pity, Izuku noticed a small boy walking towards them.

"Hey…whose kid is that?" He asked, wondering why someone who looked to be younger than Eri was here.

99 ended up approaching the kid to try and greet him.

"Hey, kid, what's your name-"

SMACK

"OW!"

"Hurh…" Both the kid and 99 groaned, the former due to hurting his hand when hitting the armor, and the latter due to the fact he had been hit in the scrotum, even as protected as it was from the armor.

All in all, 99 soon collapsed, holding his hands over his groin.

"99!" Echo and Fives exclaimed in unison and ran to the aid of their older brother, helping him up from the ground while glaring daggers at the kid who returned it tenfold, before stomping off.

"That's Kota, he's… my nephew," Mandalay explained in a somber tone, the same type of somberness that Izuku recognized all too well.

Thinking about what he knew about feline hero, he suddenly remembered an incident that happened about two years ago, where the hero duo Water Hose was brutally murdered by a villain.

"...You're the cousin of Water Hose, aren't you?" He asked, to which the pro hero could only look down on the ground while fighting back tears. "I'm so sorry…" he said, with every clone within earshot also beginning to look at the ground, even Echo and Fives who'd been mad at Kota mere minutes ago.

"You… Don't have to apologize… You didn't know. It's fine…" She said with a small sniff, to which he shook his head.

"It's not fine… Trust me. We know… All of us," He answered, referring to all of his brothers who began to take their helmets off one after the other.

Mandalay blinked before recalling what Aizawa had told them about the Vod'e.

"They know first hand what it's like to lose members of your family. They lost over a thousand of their brothers in their very first battle."

"We lost so many brothers that day… But losing your parents? That's something that should never happen," Izuku said, as a cold determination filled his eyes.

Before it became too tense, a new bus arrived, opening its doors to have some clones painted in a familiar lime green and some in aprons step out, followed by none other than Eri who looked around curiously.

"C-cyar'ika?!" Izuku sputtered the moment he saw her, with the other clones and his friends reacting with different amounts of shock.

"Hello!"

"What're you doing here?!"

"Ms. Inko told me getting some fresh air would be good for my health, and I already missed you…"

"It's… only been a few hours…"

"I still missed you!" She pouted, with some of the clones face faulting.

Sighing over how stupidly adorable her pouting was, he just knelt down and picked her up before looking at Lock who just raised his hands in defense.

"Don't look at me! Can you say no to that face?!" He retorted before Izuku was even able to say something.

"No…sigh, it'll be good for her. I don't think she's ever been in the wilderness. Plus, it would benefit both her and Kota to have one around each other's age group…"

"...Who?"

"The boy who hurt his hand punching 99 in the balls."

"He WHAT?!"

"I know…but he's probably still grieving, lost his parents to a villain."

"Hm…on that note, where is 99?"

Izuku looked up and blinked, it was a good question.

Where did 99 go?

---

99 actually didn't go too far, after overhearing what was said about Kota, he couldn't help but feel worried for the kid.

He along with his brother 'Barb' who was also part of Horn Company, had decided to follow the kid to see if he was ok.

Hitting the armor with enough force that 99 could feel it probably wasn't good for his hand.

'Still though, where is this kid going?'

They eventually made it to a cliffside with a small cave, the kid overlooking the forest. 99 and Barb could hear the boy sniffling and clutching his hand.

"Hey, kid!" he called out and walked over with his brother.

"Ah!" Kota yelped and turned around, aiming his hand at them, to which the two clones held up their hands.

"Whoa, whoa! Easy there, Kid! We mean ya no harm!" Barb called out to him, with the black-haired kid's shocked expression quickly turning into a scowl.

"What are you two bucketheads doing in my secret hideout?" He demanded of them.

"Would ya please lower yer hand first? It's dangerous to point things at people."

Fuming, Kota nonetheless lowered his hand. As long as these two bozos would go away after explaining their reasons for shadowing him.

The two armored men then sat down and took off their helmets, revealing they were both similar to the other freckled teen with the other idiots who were trying to become heroes.

"Triplets… All of you are idiots for throwing your lives away so recklessly…" He huffed, not understanding why anyone would want to become a hero, when they literally only met an early death on that path of life.

"Triplets? Nonono! You misunderstand. We're a lot more than just three."

"What?"

"We're clones, kid. Every one of us…"

"Oh…I knew that!" Kota exclaimed with a small blush.

"Sure you did, kid."

Kota harrumphed before wincing as his hand made a bad movement..

"Hey kid, let me see that hand."

"Why? I don't need help!"

"I doubt that, you hit my armor with enough force to make me feel that punch, and I doubt that you know how to punch in the first place."

99 then gently grabbed Kota's wrist, the boy not really able to do much except wince in pain.

"Easy there kid, here, let me wrap this around your hand…it's called bacta. It'll fix you up faster than any other conventional medicines," The older clone said and let go of the boy, who immediately pulled back his wrist.

Surprisingly, the clone was right, as he didn't feel nearly as much pain nor swelling any longer as he looked down on the patches on him.

"Better?"

"...Yes…"

"That's good. Now come on. I feel like your aunt is worried about you."

This surprised Kota, as he didn't remember telling any of the newcomers about his relation to Mandalay.

"How did you-?"

"I have good ears, kid. Now come on." 99 said, holding out a hand towards the young boy, who after a few seconds decided to head down, half running and leaving the two behind.

"Kid's got spunk, I tell ya," Barb chuckled, as the duo began heading down.

"Indeed he does, my brother, indeed he does."

Back at the camp, the Wild Wild Pussycats were in the middle of cooking lunch for the two classes, when Pixie Bob heard someone clearing their throat.

"Blondie, I've got a bone to pick with ya," The clone known as Cookie said, having crossed his arms as he looked up at the pro hero.

"What is it, Cookie?"

"You've done stuffed this place full of nonessentials! Lookit all 'uv this! Cinnamon, oregano, cilantro! What in the cookiedoodle is cilantro?! And What. Is. This.?" He said while holding up a salad head.

"That, would be lettuce."

"Lettuce? Lettuce!?"

"It's a vegetable, Cookie. The kittens need the four basic food groups."

"I've got yer four basic food groups! Katsudon, mochi, hamburgers and soba!" the clone said, listing off the four dishes on one hand, making Pixie Bob sweatdrop.

"Don't mind him! He's passionate about his food!" Shredder chuckled, as he cut some vegetables.

"I must say, it is nice to have some help in the kitchen!" Ragdoll chirped while Whisk helped her carry some pots and pans.

"Well, all of us love to cook, and Lunch Rush is a great teacher!"

"Ooh, this smells wonderful!"

"Thank you! That's our personal miso soup! It was actually the first thing Lunch Rush-sensei taught us to cook during the Sports Festival!" Turner grinned, stirring the pot gently.

"Wow…" Pixie Bob said as she gave a taste test.

A dark aura then manifested around her, causing the clones to get a chill to go down their spines.

'I don't know which one it'll be, but one of you will be mine,' She purred and looked at the quartet with glints in her eyes, making them all hug each other and back into a corner.

"Alright, that's enough outta you," Mandalay said as she started to drag her out of the kitchen. "Are you boys going to be alright without us for a bit?"

"Yes, ma'am!"

"Alright then…now what to do with you?" Mandalay muttered as Pixie Bob whined.

"Sheesh, she's thirsty, eh, big fella?" Shredder sighed while looking up at Tiger who only chuckled and gently patted the shorter clone's hair affectionately.

Some time later, they would walk into the mess hall with trays full of food and place them onto the tables holding all of the students.

The clones were currently placed elsewhere to eat, to continue the experiment with how the two classes mingled without the Vod'e.

"Man! This stuff's great!" Tsuburaba smiled as he put a gyoza into his mouth, followed by a mouthful of rice.

"We'll eat till we burst!" Kirishima and Tetsutetsu said in unison, before one of them exclaimed they smelled beef.

"So, what do you think, Monoma? Pretty good for clone cooking, isn't it?" Itsuka asked her blonde classmate who begrudgingly agreed that the cooking corps had talent for their craft.

After lunch had been finished, Aizawa and Kan gave the classes approximately thirty minutes to rest, before their quirk training began.

Once the time had passed, both classes stood at a training ground in their P.E uniforms, before Aizawa asked Bakugou to throw a ball as hard as he could while using his quirk, just like during the start of their first semester.

Complying with the order, the explosive teen threw the ball followed by an explosion, only for their teacher to reveal that the throwing distance had barely changed at all.

"You may have gotten experience, but your quirks are practically still the same since the beginning of the year. Except for you, Midoriya, you're a monster," He deadpanned, to which chuckles were heard.

"Your quirks are a part of you, just like your muscles. When muscles break, they repair themselves and grow back stronger, so there's only one way to strengthen your quirks. You'll have to break yourselves," Kan said, just as the WWPC arrived with several different training devices.

"But don't break yourselves too much, looking at you Problem Child," Aizawa pointed out, with the sound of Monoma snorting being heard due to the nickname.

"Serves him right," The blonde whispered.

"Don't push your luck, Asshat," Noble who'd seemingly appeared out of thin air, sneered at the teen from behind, startling the blonde who glared at the clone for the audacity.

"Noble. Enough," Aizawa scolded, with said clone just nodding in annoyance while the students went towards the devices they were assigned to.

Ochako was put in a giant inflatable ball on top of the hill, before being pushed down the bumpy terrain, making it roll and bounce.

Denki was hooked onto a car battery, gradually sending stronger and stronger electrical currents through him.

Kirishima and Tetsutetsu were instructed to punch each other till they passed out, while Yui had to constantly shrink and grow objects to all sorts of different sizes.

Ojiro was currently facing several clones at the same time, both to teach him more CQC, along with learning how to deal with being surrounded, while Hagakure were sneaking around with an empty bag, to help Shouji strengthen his dupliarms hearing and sight, while also avoiding clones wearing binoculars with infrared scanners who would be able to detect her thanks to her body heat.

Bakugou was constantly dunking his hands into boiling water and letting out explosions to expand his sweat glands and Shoto constantly freezing and melting the water in a barrel he was currently sitting in.

The sounds of the explosions were however deafened by the roars and panicked screaming from one of the caves, where Tokoyami was trying to learn how to control Dark Shadow better, while the latter most likely were chasing after Kuroiro inside who was playing a very dangerous game of hide and seek.

Setsuna was training her body to split into even smaller pieces, along with speeding up her regenerational abilities and building up her pain threshold, as Mina was melting smaller parts of her along with the cliffside, her hands beginning to swell from exposure to acid.

Next to her were Kyoka, Sen and Itsuka, each of them thrusting their earlobes, fingers and hands towards the cliff side to harden them and Pony trying to split off more and more horns, along with Mineta constantly picking the grapes from his head while his scalp bled.

Sero meanwhile kept on creating tape, screaming all the while as Kamakiri cut the endless stream of the adhesive material into smaller and smaller pieces from the ground while simultaneously creating multiple blades.

Tenya zoomed past the groups, all while being harrassed by jetpack troopers firing low power blaster bolts at him, to both increase his speed and help him learn how to dodge better with Shishida hot on his tail who tried to control himself better in his beast mode.

Izuku zoomed from tree to tree, using One For All: Beskar'gam along with constantly pulling out small things such as ration bars out of the mindscape, along with a few bigger objects such as armor pieces and even speeders.

Tsuburaba kept on breathing in and out, both to strengthen his lungs and air constructs, along with Koda who screamed into the air so his vocal chords got stronger.

Komori and Shiozaki were working on their plant creation and manipulation, Komori spawning mushrooms in dryer conditions Shiozaki kept on making vines, despite having not gotten any water ever since they began.

Sato and Momo were currently consuming a ridiculous amount of sugar and calories, all while lifting weights and creating Matryoshka dolls while Bondo was shooting off glue into the distance, despite the fact he'd begun to get facial cramps some time ago, and Shoda sent bigger and bigger objects flying with Twin Impact.

Aoyama fired off his quirk again and again, ignoring the abdominal pain to the best of his ability, Rin being right next to him firing off scales despite the blood dripping off of his arms.

Awase was also fighting against a group of clones, each of them firing stun rounds to make him better at dodging and getting closer to them so he could use his quirk to weld them together.

Reiko sat on top of a rock, meditating while smaller and larger rocks were floating in the air around her, along with one unfortunate clone whose armor had been caught by her quirk.

During all of this intense training, Izuku had stopped in the forest, trying to catch his breath while also focusing on trying to summon something from the mindscape by closing his eyes and imagining it.

A few minutes of doing this later, he finally reached out to it and opened a portal bigger than usual, feeling the strain course through his body as he pulled out what he wanted to.

Something new…unlocked from I-Island.

After opening his eyes and looking at what he had summoned, he grinned to himself as he looked it up and down, letting out a small cheer for himself, before speeding off again.

"That is so cool! I've got to show the Vod'e!"

---

A bit later

The Vod'e were honestly…dumbfounded.

"Well…it's certainly big, but does it work?"

"Who cares if it works! I'm calling dibs!" Oddball said giddily like a kid in a candy store.

"You do realize this may not even work, right?"

"So what? I'll test it out!"

"Just so you know, you're going to Bonecrusher if you get hurt…"

"Do. I. Care?"

"No, Oddball…"

"Can you summon more? Cause I gotta ask, what are we even gonna do with cannons that size? And look at all those guns!"

"If we get it to work though, it can certainly fit a good amount of people too, perfect for carrying troops, or even civilians…"

One of them then knocked their hand against the hard shell.

"Looks like it's got some good armor too…it'll definitely withstand a wallop, this thing's basically a tank!"

"I think we could even put an AT-RT or BARC Speeder in here if we try."

"Ori'vod, I could kiss you! I call dibs on one of the turrets!" Bullseye exclaimed as he hugged the giant thing like it was a birthday present.

---

"Haaaaaaaah… nothing makes a tired and sore body relax more than a warm bath…" Izuku sighed as he let himself sink deeper and deeper into the onsen hot spring after the day of hellish training.

"You said it, bro!" Kirishima and Tetsutesu said in unison, having an arm around each other's neck.

"The best thing about hot springs is spoiled by this stupid wall though…" Mineta complained as he leaned against it.

"Get away from there, Sir Mineta!" Shishida said, followed by Iida who was chopping his arm.

"Feh! Each of you 1-A losers are creeps. I bet all of you are no better than- Blghakgld!"Before Monoma managed to finish his insult, Awase dunked his head into the water.

"Shush, you. It's not like our class is any better when it comes to girls. I've especially seen you eying Big Sis Kendo before, despite how she's taken…"

"You guys are all wimps! If none of you have the balls to get a peek into heaven, then fine by me! I'm going!" The pervert shouted, before beginning to climb the wall with his quirk, getting higher and higher only to be met by the barrel of an all too familiar set blasters.

"Trying to spy on the girls again, are we?" A clone said as he uncloaked along with a few others.

The diminutive pervert had nothing to say.

"Maybe learn how to be a decent human being before trying to become a hero." The clone spat, before pistol whipping Mineta down the wall.

"Ah, good ol' Perv Swatter," He said as he affectionately patted the gun.

"ARGH, you hypocrites!" Mineta cried out while clutching his forehead as he fell down.

"Nah, we ain't hypocrites," The clone said before tapping his helmet. "Visual scramblers that we installed into our helmets just for this occasion, means that we can't see anything besides their heads," he said, just as Mineta hit the ground with an audible thud. "They even tested it themselves before letting us up here."

"Then how'd you know I was coming up!" Mineta cried.

"...you were literally screaming on the way up," The clone deadpanned, with the others nodding.

"Thank you, boys! We owe you one!" Mina grinned along with Setsuna, while the clones up on the wall just gave them a thumbs up.

"Still looking good, Sets!" Waxer and Boil said, just to ire Mineta even more.

"LIARS!"

"Nah, we just messing with you…or are we?"

Mineta was frothing at the mouth before having enough and tossing a nearby wooden tub.

Said tub hit Waxer square in the face, causing him to fall down. Right into the girls' side of the bath with a splash, his legs sticking straight out.

"FBLARGH!" Waxer popped out of the water with another splash before coughing out the water that he'd swallowed.

And yes, it burned.

As good as the helmet's filters were, it wasn't a scuba set.

Finally forced to remove the helmet, he leaned against the edge and coughed out the rest of the water.

"Waxer, you alright, man?" He heard Set ask, he simply raised his hand as he continued coughing and felt a hand tap him on the back.

"I'm fine…I'm fine…" Waxer said, making sure to keep his eyes closed.

"You mind passing me my helmet?" He asked as he palmed the edge.

"Sure thing."

The familiar weight was soon on him, although the inside was wet.

'Great…it's gonna be a pain drying this out.'

"Alright, I'm gonna-uh oh…" Waxer said as he opened his eyes.

"Something wrong, Waxer?" Ochako asked in a worried tone, as she noticed some blood dripping into the water from beneath the helmet.

"Uh, yeah…my scrambler's busted. I have my eyes closed, but just to be safe, I'd like for everybody to go neck deep, alright?"

"Sure thing…thanks for telling us," Kyouka said, patting him on the shoulder before doing so.

Hearing a few splashes, Waxer then received the go ahead and left their side of the onsen to go dry off and stop his current nosebleed, never once turning around.

Was he a hot-blooded young boy in an onsen with beautiful girls? Yes.

But he, like Izuku and every single member of the Vod'e, refused to ever do anything that would betray the trust of their friends.

So he would not turn.

"WAXER, YOU LUCKY BASTARD!" He heard Mineta cry out, most likely crying tears of blood.

"Hey! Whose fault is it that I ended up here in the first place?!"

That shut him up.

Back on the boys' side, they reacted with various degrees of disgust towards Mineta and jealousy towards Waxer.

Monoma was trying to complain again however, much to the surprise of no one.

---

Back inside of the sleeping quarters, the boys were sitting in a circle and listening to Izuku telling the story about his fight with Stain and how he escaped with Eri, before ending it on the exam.

Although it'd been thought of, none of them had brought up him talking about the USJ.

Even Monoma, as much as he wanted to, was…persuaded (read threatened) to not mention it.

"...and once we got back, I found my name on the list and I got my license," Izuku finished.

"Man, Midoriya. You really are something else. And your clones are natural charmers. I must admit, I'm kinda jealous." Tsuburaba said, all in good humor.

Scratching the back of his head sheepishly, he apologized for his brothers snagging most of the girls in their class already.

"You're good with a sword, yes?" Kamakiri asked, to which Izuku nodded.

"Then I would like to fight you tomorrow during training. Blade against blade, green against green., The insectoid teen challenged.

"I…would like that but unfortunately the only blade I have that doesn't break from my strength is the Darksaber…and that thing can cut through metals like swiss cheese."

"No, no, no! I meant just to improve on form and having to fight with a blade in case it's too destructive to use your quirk or that fancy laser sword!" Kamakiri waved his hand.

"Ahhh, then yeah! I'd love to!"

'Ready, Hikage?'

"Always, Izuku."

The two greenies grasped each other's wrists, a new bond being formed, much to the chagrin of Monoma who lamented another one of theirs had fallen, only to be pelted with pillows, which then ensued a pillow fight.

Meanwhile at the girls' side.

"Sooooo, time for some tea! How's the summer romance blooming?" Mina asked, followed by Tooru nodding fervorously, if the movement of her shirt was anything to go by.

"Me and Thorn are going strong, if that wasn't obvious." Itsuka said sheepishly with a small blush. "We haven't exactly kissed yet, but we're getting there," The redhead giggled, hugging a pillow.

"Please, Izuku told me about your keldabe," Ochako deadpanned.

"My what?" Itsuka asked in confusion.

"Oh you don't know? That helmet tap thing they do, it's called a keldabe kiss."

The girls were then treated to the sight of Itsuka Kendo absolutely flushing in surprise and shock.

"That idiot…" She buried her face in her pillow, but they could all tell the fondness in her voice was all there.

"Anyone else who wanna spill something, Kyooooookaaaa~?" Mina asked, before leaning in and whispering the punk rock girl's name in said person's ear, followed by a gentle blow of air, making her jump.

"What do you want, Mina…" She glared while gently massaging her ear from the surprise.

"We all know something is blooming between you and a certain paramedic in training~"

"Bruh… you have no evidence." Kyoka deadpanned, before being hit by a stream of facts by Mina, nearly blowing her away.

"Anything between you and 36, Momo?"

"No. I admit, he's kind and he's handsome, but we see each other more like siblings than anything else. He's quite… like the older brother I never had," She smiled fondly. The girls could tell she was imagining the two as adopted siblings in the Yaoyorozu estate.

"Awww… Is this why the group hanging around you is called 'Mo's Bros'?" Tooru asked, making the heiress flush before grasping the invisible girl by the collar of her shirt.

"Who told you that name?!" She hissed, pulling the other girl close enough to the point where their noses were pressing against each other.

"Everyone knows it!" She chirped much to her horror.

"That's so sweet though! You've basically got an entire company of brothers following you around."

"Sheesh, then imagine Ochako, btw, you have yet to tell me what happened between you and Izuku!" Mina squealed.

"I have no idea what you're talking about!" Ochako obviously lied, but smirked smugly. Seems like she wanted to play a bit.

"Oh you wanna play it like that, girl? Well then… let's play…" she smirked as she cracked her neck.

"We saw you standing on the balcony yesterday, you were handed something and when you returned, you looked like a tomato!"

"Mmmmmm… Tomatoes…" Yui drooled, a small trail of saliva running from the corner of her mouth, before her eyes fell on Ochako.

"Looks like someone's hungry, and you seem like you're on her menu!" Mina giggled, with Ochacko inching away, before being held in place by Kyouka.

"K-kyoka?!"

"Sorry, sister. But you gotta spill the beans on this one."

"Make me!"

"I'll buy you mochi for an entire year," Momo said flatly.

"Deal," She instantly surrendered.

"Now, what happened? If he did something bad, I'll melt his hair off!" Mina said.

"He… he… Well, um… sorta, kinda, maybe, perhaps… asked me on a date?"

At the announcement, everything in the room fell silent enough that you'd be able to hear a feather hit the floor.

Before long, however, it was filled with excited squeals as most of the girls hugged her and congratulated the brunette who in turn nearly got squished.

She managed to escape her fate due to her embarrassment which caused her to use her quirk on herself and start floating around.

"Now… eenie, meenie, miney, you," Mina said and put Kyouka in a headlock. "Don't think you can escape from this!" She told the petite girl struggling to get out of her grip, before the others grabbed her limbs.

"Spill the tea!"

"Never!"

"Come on, Kyoka! One minute you're barely tolerating his presence, the next you're airlifted off the island and suddenly you're latching on to him-"

"I am not latching on to him!"

"-like, please sister, do us all a favor and stop denying it. You even got the same helmet as him!"

"Oh right, I forgot, didn't Denki paint little music notes on your helmet? Along with those small antennas that look like music notes?"

"And if my memory serves me correct, you painted small lighting bolts on his!" Itsuka said, smirking at the girl.

"So I helped him paint a bit! That doesn't mean I like him nor his stupid golden eyes, dumbass haircut or sense of humor!"

"Keep telling yourself that, you tsundere…" Practically all the girls said in unison.

"Well what do you expect me to say after he saved my life and almost-" Kyoka then slapped her hand over her mouth as she almost said what happened at I-Island.

"And that's all we needed to hear!" Mina cackled.

"Oh yeah!? Well you've been even clingier towards Rex!" Kyouka retorted.

"Naaaah! We're just friends!" She tried to wave off.

"You're lying…"

"Am not!"

"Your horns say otherwise… they wriggle every time you lie…"

"Gasp! They do!?" Mina cried out as she flushed and held them in place.

"Nah but you just got caught in 4k, Mina," Kyoka snarked.

"Did…did you just meme, Kyouka?" Toru chuckled. "Kaminari really has rubbed off on you!"

"Kinky." Yui said.

"Not like that, you horndog!" Tooru and Itsuka said, karate chopping the ravenette on top of the head.

"Harder."

"Stop that! I'm surprised you haven't pulled Fil into a corner and made out with him yet!"

"Girl, had this been a university, I'd have done a lot more."

"Stop this debauchery this instant! It's inappropriate for us to have this kind of talk!" Ibara exclaimed, finally not being able to take it any longer. "How scandalous!"

…

"Oh please, Ibara," Itsuka grinned, making the holy girl suddenly pale.

"Don't think that I haven't seen you sneak off, in the middle of class mind you, to go to the infirmary to see that one mediclone."

"WHAT!?" The 1-B girls cried out before unanimously turning toward her.

"You hypocrite! You told us you were having allergy issues due to your quirk and the season!"

"I'd like to meet Mr. Allergies."

"Nono, remember, she told us that she was getting her daily dose of medicine or should I say mediclo-blergh!"

"IT'S NOT LIKE THAT, KODAAAAAAI!" The resident Christian screeched, as she started to wrap her vines around the girl's neck and mouth to shut her up.

"It is always those who seem the most innocent who's the most dirty minded. Kero," Tsuyu said, before feeling a chill as Ibara turned towards her, face concealed by a shadow and eyes glowing white while her hair writhed around, Yui being in the middle of it all, making the holy girl look more like a gorgon than anything else

"...I'll be good."

["It's Kix, btw."] Pony whispered in English.

["Aaaaah, I see!]" Momo smiled.

"W-wait, what about Tokage?! There must be something with her!" Ibara desperately tried to deflect the attention away from herself.

"I… think she's asleep? She hasn't moved for like… five minutes?" Tooru said, waving an arm in front of the reptilian girl.

"Nonsense! Her eyes are wide open!"

"Technically, some reptiles can sleep with their eyes open," Momo informed.

"...Try poking her, Kyouka."

"Why me?!"

"You always poke Denki with them. Or are they only reserved for him-Gyaaaaah!" Mina tried to tease, only to get jabbed in the eye like the punk rock girl often did with Denki.

"Fine! I'll do it! Gosh!" She huffed, before poking the greenette a couple of times, with the other girl not responding.

"...That explains why she's so quiet during class…" Itsuka narrowed her eyes.

"...shall we draw on her?"

"Yeeeeessss."

---

The next morning, both of the glasses were woken up by their teachers and told to dress in their PE uniforms for more training, with most of them being groggy and slightly sore from yesterday.

Most of them were trying to contain their laughter due to all of the different drawings Setsuna had on her face though.

A few of the students noticed how some of the Vod'e seemed particularly excited, with Tenya deciding to ask about it.

"Bullseye, what's got all of you so excited?" He asked the clone with a crosshair painted onto the front of his helmet around the blaster hole from when he had been shot back at I-Island.

"Sorry vod Iida, but it's a secret and you know what people say about secrets." he said before running off again.

"Understandable." Tenya muttered, worried about just what could have made the trigger happy clone this excited.

"Time to go through hell again… Hoh boy," Tsuburaba muttered, before both their teachers rounded them up.

"Today's training will be slightly different. We will train your quirks, but in much more hostile environments than yesterday," Aizawa said, gaining his signature smile which at this point made everyone shudder.

"First, Tsuburaba, please step into this box," He said, referring to a sizable glass box with tiny holes in it.

The brown-haired boy nervously complied, before the door was shut behind him.

"Your training for today will be strengthening your lungs in an environment with a constantly decreasing amount of air. As you can see, the holes are small, meaning that you won't have a lot of air after some time, meaning that your constructs will get weaker. This is a box to train both your lungs to utilize as much oxygen as possible, while also making you able to make strong barriers with minimal air," The tired teacher explained, with the students looking both intrigued and rightfully scared.

"Now. Get to your assigned areas!" Kan barked, with the classes scattering all around the training grounds.

Reiko sighed as she went back to meditating on her rock and began to lift all of the objects she did yesterday, when suddenly she was interrupted by an air horn being blown near her ear, causing her to yelp and turn off her quirk, before looking at who had done it.

"Phantom… What is the meaning of this?" She asked her friend in annoyance.

"Part of your training. Your new regimen requires you to be able to keep your concentration at all times, no matter what. Therefore, Spectre and I have gotten the task of blowing air horns close to you at random intervals."

Looking at him for half a minute, she sighed and went back to meditating and levitating objects around her, only to once more be interrupted by the air horn.

"Don't mind us, just go back to-whoaaaa!" Phantom said, before he was lifted off of the ground by Reiko's quirk and began to spin in a circle.

"Hehehe, the world, around the world around,-" He began to sing while the others chuckled.

This was but one of the many examples of the clones interacting well with the students, each student getting at least one clone near them.

Or in Bakugo's case, somewhat near them.

And in the case of another.

"Look, clone, I will only tolerate this for the duration of this training after that, you and I go our separate ways," Monoma growled before getting back to his training.

"I told you, I have a name, it's-"

"I…do not care, clone, so let's just get this over with and you can go back to your glory hog of a progenitor."

Noble growled and clenched his fist but refused to react.

If Monoma wanted to be like this, fine. He'd extended the olive branch, so he'd done his part.

He wouldn't stick his head out for him anymore.

Even if he begged for it.

"! $!$#%!%! #%^!%!^!$! #$, acting like he's the best thing since sliced bread, flippin' dumbass.." He muttered more curses to himself while following the brat around, fighting the urge to shoot him.

Elsewhere, a few students had taken to forming a circle around Izuku and Kamakiri, the former holding a sword, courtesy of Momo, while the latter had his quirk out.

"Remember, gentlemen! This fight is only for training and improvement! Do not kill nor injure each other too much! Is that clear?" Sentinel called out to the two, who nodded and got into their respective stances.

"Ready. Fight!" The ARC Trooper shouted, bringing his arm down and stepping back as the began.

Kamakiri was the first to charge, his blades grinding against Izuku's, the latter taking a step back to gain some distance before making a tight dodge of another blade.

"Maintain your focus, Izuku."

'Right.'

Izuku took deep and calm breaths to keep himself centered as he allowed himself to delve deeper into One For All.

It was something that he'd been working on recently. Instead of increasing the amount of his quirk available, he wanted to try increasing the 'depth' of it.

It required a lot more concentration but he'd found that by doing so, the energy output at something even at 5% was a lot different. Whereas it did seem to sacrifice speed, and also eliminated the 'lightshow', it did help increase his connection to Hikage and his perception and reaction times.

"Come on, you two! More form! You call this sword play?! This is nothing but amateur hour!" Sentinel guided from the sidelines, sounding more like a drill instructor than a judge.

Izuku was honestly barely paying attention, completely focused on his opponent at hand and the feeling of One For All expanding beneath his skin.

'He's fast, but he's sloppy. Relying on his quick tactics and amazing bursts of speed to win his fights,' Izuku thought as he dodged another blow before quickly deflecting a bladed heel, throwing Kamikiri off balance.'

"You're good, Midoriya! Now this is what I call a fun duel!" Kamakiri complimented, before charging again and swung his blades at him.

Blocking another attack, Izuku felt being pushed backwards but quickly gained his footing again.

Swinging the blade at his opponent, Izuku felt it clash against the protrusions of Kamakiri, with the two even staring into each other's eyes briefly, before pushing away again.

"Come on Kamakiri! Show this bozo why 1-B is infinitely better than 1-A!" Monoma shouted, which broke the insectoid boy out of his zone and made him look at his blonde classmate.

That was all the distraction Izuku needed, as he swept the other boy's legs away from under him with a swift kick, and pointed his blade at his neck the moment he hit the ground.

"Damn it, Monoma!"

"Do you yield?" He asked Kamakiri, who nodded after coming out of the shock, before he smiled and offered his hand to the downed boy who took it.

Monoma of course, booed, with Noble looking like he was just about ready to snap the neck of the other kid, before Kendo beat him to hit by karate chopping Monoma.

---

As the students continued to do their training, one boy looked at them with scorn.

'Stupid teenagers…why would anybody want to be a hero?'

Kota scoffed before heading up the mountain.

A pair of curious red eyes looked after him before following.

And a few clones, seeing that, followed right after.

Kota huffed as he sat by the edge of the cliff face before hearing footsteps approach him.

"I told you clones that I don't want-oh," Kota cut himself off as he saw that it wasn't a clone, but rather the girl that appeared earlier.

Said girl slightly tilted her head, her crimson eyes seemingly peering into his soul.

"W-who are you?"

"...I'm Eri…"

"Kota…why are you in my secret base?"

"I saw you…you were angry…why?"

"Cause I hate heroes! And villains! And quirks! They're so stupid! If it weren't for quirks! There wouldn't be villains! And if there weren't villains, there wouldn't be heroes and my parents…" Kota cut himself off as he tried not to cry in front of the girl who was now looking at him with sad eyes.

"I think…I understand…"

"You…do?"

"Mhmm…I don't know my parents…before I was saved…" Eri shuddered and didn't say more, Kota content with what he'd heard so far.

"Y-you don't have to tell me more…if you don't want to."

Eri stayed silent for a moment before sighing.

"I don't remember much…I don't like to remember…but b-...Izuku saved me from the bad people…and he tries to make me happy and smile…even though it's hard to smile."

Kota blinked in shock at her admission before starting to feel guilty.

"He…saved you?"

"Yeah…I remember how warm his hands were when he held me. We went super fast…there were big booms and flashes of blue light. When I can't sleep he holds me and his Vod'e…they keep me safe, too."

Kota gulped and looked away.

"That's…nice…"

"I'm sorry about your parents…I think they would still want to be here…"

Kota gasped and looked at his feet.

"You think so?"

"Yeah…I think anybody wants to come home…"

"...Everybody says they died heroes," Kota spat out as tears pooled in his eyes.

"Maybe so…but that doesn't change that they wanted to come back to you, I think…"

And Kota broke down…finally feeling vindicated.

The clones nearby, hidden in the forest and outcroppings of the mountain could only mourn for two children forced to grow up far earlier than they had any right to.

"Izuku would be so proud of you, Eri…" 99 whispered from a tree before turning to Barb.

"She's wise…for her age…" Barb noted with some sadness.

"That she is…come on… we should prepare for tonight for the forest scare."

---

#Patrol Charlie, come in, report your status.#

CRUNCH!

The commlink was destroyed by a black boot, the machinery grinded even more into the dirt by the heel.

"These are supposed to be the retainers of the man who defeated Master Stain? Pathetic," A scaly looking kid spat as he dropped the corpse of one of the armored soldiers.

"They're all so cute, completely chopped up and bloody though!" A blonde girl gushed, hugging a clone with a cut throat so his blood spilled all over her, before slowly bringing her mouth down to the wound and began drinking it.

"The flesh… must… eat…" a man completely sealed in a full up straight suit rasped as his blade-like teeth brought up a chopped off hand and started eating it, the sickening sounds of bone crunching being audible with each chomp.

"The darlings weren't much of a threat once they lost their little toys, another villain with a steel beam said, crushing a blaster with one hand.

"You, however, were useless," The patched up villain said to a kid wearing a gas mask.

"Oh, so it's my fault these bucketheads have air filtration systems?!" He hissed, kicking a dead clone hard enough to snap the neck of the corpse.

"Would you please be quiet, gentlemen? You're gonna get us caught," Another villain, this one wearing a mask and a top hat, along with black pants, a west and orange shirt sighed.

"BANG-PFFSSHEEEEWWWW!"

The villains paused in slight horror as they saw the light from a flare streak up into the sky.

"What…?"

"No way… I slit all of their throats!"

"Hehehehe…ah…hahahahahahahaha," They heard and they slowly turned to see the falling arm of a clone. His visor was broken, so they could see the blood trailing over the green eye that was staring at them in amusement and anger.

"You…"

"Nice try, patchwork," The clone coughed out, his words wet with blood that dripped down from his helmet onto his chestplate.

Immediately, multiple flares began to light the night sky from other clone groups.

The surprise had been ruined.

All by a single clone.

Dabi snarled as he unleashed his blue hellfire at the clone, torching him to cinders, not even giving him a chance to scream.

"The plan's been shot! Send them in!" Dabi roared in fury.

Soon enough, blaster fire echoed in the forest.

Dabi turned to see the burning clone, the helmet having been knocked off by the fire but it did nothing for the rictus grin left behind.

"Stop laughing," He growled before turning around and storming off.

They'd lost the element of surprise, but they wouldn't lose their prize.

---

The students had been sent into the forest in groups of five with an additional two clones, each walking a specified route with other clones and students lying in wait to scare them.

"I've got a bad feeling about this." Bondo muttered, hating this part of the camp.

"Man up, big guy. It's only a bit like a haunted house. Plus, it's not like we're walking straight into an ambush," Hevy chuckled, while Thorn most likely rolled his eyes beneath his helmet.

"Hevy, I appreciate you trying to lighten the mood, but we need to be on guard," Itsuka said, just as the sky lit up, making everyone look towards it to see a flare, followed by more and more with the students and clones who had been hiding coming out.

"Flares? But that could only mean…"

"Sir! Biohazard detected heading towards us!" A clone said to Thorn, who checked his wrist and saw on a scanner that something strange was mixing in the air, just as a purple gas began to emerge in the distance.

"Everyone, pressurize your helmets, prepare your weapons and get the students to safety! The camp has been compromised! I repeat! The camp has been-" before Thorn finished his warning, something red flew towards him, causing him to dodge just as it impacted a tree, leaving a very familiar scorch mark.

Looking at it in shock, the group suddenly heard the sound of metallic marching approaching.

"Kodai!" He said to the selectively mute girl, who nodded and reached into her pocket, bringing out some small objects before giving them back their proper size, revealing them to be two Z6 rotary blasters.

Picking them up, Hevy and Thorn prepared for whatever was approaching, while backing away with the students and their brothers.

Meanwhile on top of a large cliff, Sentinel and Orion looked on in worry, the former extending a folded device with a blade he had on his back into a blaster and the latter taking out an ax of all things.

"Sentinel, can you keep watch? With a vantage point such as this, we'll need the support from above."

"I will, Orion. Go!"

Orion nodded before leaping off the cliff, using the ax to slow down his descent.

Sentinel used his long range scope, hoping to get details of what was attacking them.

"Stay strong, my brothers…"

---

"This is all your fault!" Monoma screeched. "You and that worthless 'brother' of yours have done nothing but bring us trouble since the beginning!"

"Oh really!" Noble yelled as he pushed Monoma away from him. "I'd thought you'd want to be here, after all, here's your chance, right?"

"Don't be ridiculous, clone!" Monoma seethed, wanting nothing more than to knock the other boy's helmet clean off his head. "Ever since the USJ, you clones have lorded your supposed superiority over us! And we're left to the sidelines!"

"Oh, I'm being ridiculous?" Noble asked sarcastically. "Since the day you antagonized Mand'alor, you've been nothing but a hateful, jealous, spiteful little shabuir. You've got your head so far up your ass that you would rather split off from the 1-A group you were assigned to, just to satisfy your own pride! But like I said, here's your chance to prove yourself against real villains and see if it's as funny as you think it is! Now if you will excuse me, I have real people I need to rescue," Noble spat, throwing Monoma's most often used insult about clones not being real people right back at him, before storming off towards the sound of battle, leaving behind the blonde boy.

'He'll come back. That little coward won't last a moment without me,' Monoma huffed, bust before he heard a growl a few meters away from him.

Monoma chilled as he realized something very important.

He had nothing on him to provide a quirk to fight with.

And as he turned to face the hulking creature that appeared to be some kind of mass of worms with a cannon of all things attached to it.

He felt very much in danger.

---

Kota grumbled to himself. Despite feeling a bit better thanks to the small talk earlier, he still felt that the concept of heroes and villains were stupid. What did that 99 and Barb guy know?

And why did Eri keep following him?!

"We know what it's like to lose family too…we lost over a thousand of our brothers during our first fight…and they can't come back. Sure, they died heroes, but it does nothing for the fact that we can't see them again."

"Your parents died heroes kid, but I don't doubt that if they could have changed anything, they would have done so to come back home to you. You deserved that and more."

'Stupid clones…'

Then the lights began to soar in the sky and he immediately felt that something was wrong.

"Hey kid…"

Kota felt a chill run down his spine and shakily got to his feet before turning and seeing the mountain of a man next to him and the horned girl who'd also gotten up, looking just as shocked.

"Nice hat, wanna trade for this stupid mask?" The villain asked as he took it off.

Kota froze in fear.

"Mama…Papa…"

The man was wearing blue cowboy pants and a black tank top, while having some of his left face missing along with his eye.

"Hmm, you look familiar, runt. Have we met before?" He grinned.

Kota, despite being too afraid to answer, felt his body move in front of the white haired girl without thinking and holding his arms out to shield her.

"Oh, playing the hero now, are we? Well, let's see how long you last, little man!" He laughed and leaped at them with a manic grin.

PTEW

The villain stopped dead in his tracks as pain shot through his right shoulder, landing face first onto the ground as he looked over his shoulder, enraged over who dared to interrupt his fun, before noticing one of those pesky clones aiming a pistol at him.

"Disgusting… absolutely disgusting…" The clone said, the moonlight revealing him as 99, his words dripping with venom while the villain only began to grin once more.

"Oh? Think you can take me on, little man?"

"Who said I was alone?"

Suddenly, the hissing and clicking of blasters could be heard all around, as the villain noticed he was surrounded from all sides, guns pointed at him.

"Barb. Take the kids and go. Report this to Lock and Mand'alor, we'll take care of this scum."

---

#MULTIPLE REPORTS OF ENEMY ACTION! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK-ARGH!#

#THEY'RE COMING FROM EVERYWHE-AGH!#

#THERE'S TOO MANY! WE CAN'T HOLD THEM OFF-KUGH!#

#I CAN'T GET A SIGNAL OUTSIDE OF THE FOREST! WE'RE UNABLE TO CONTACT THE U.A. BATTALION!#

The chaotic comms did nothing to ease Izuku's nerves but he knew that whatever was attacking them wasn't good.

And they needed to be organized.

#VOD'E! MAND'ALOR SPEAKING! GET THE STUDENTS BACK TO THE LODGE AND FORM A DEFENSIVE PERIMETER, HORN COMPANY! SECURE ERI AND KOTA! EXTERIOR PATROLS FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON AND FALL BACK!#

#This is Barb! I've got Eri and Kota! We're heading back to the lodge! Horn company is engaging an enemy that tried to attack them!#

"I want men heading to Barb's position now!"

"Guardshell! You're with me!" Dreadlock shouted, as they ran off towards the position, or in the latter's case, flew with a jetpack.

#Mand'alor, we've got multiple hostiles, they're some kind of…robots? Droids? And they've got blasters too! We're losing our men-AGH!"

"Smokescreen? Come in! Smokescreen!" Izuku yelled into the wristcomm, which only replied with static.

"Hurhurhurhur…"

Izuku and his group paused as they heard the haunting laughter echo in the forest.

"Midoriya Izuku! Or should I call you Mand'alor? Apprentice to the great All Might?" The voice echoed more, causing all the clones around him to close ranks and point their weapons.

"I've been meaning to achieve my vengeance against All Might, and what better way than to destroy his successor?"

"You'll have to show yourself to find out…you'll find that I'm a lot harder to beat than you might think," Izuku said as he summoned a blaster.

"Of course, I am not without mercy nor honor…I know that you've taken up the sword, malen'kiy geroy (little hero), so how about we see how well you fare!"

A glint of metal caught their attention and they saw a sword flying in the air before landing in the dirt in front of them.

Izuku grimaced, but knew that whoever this opponent was, wouldn't let them fight normally.

He sorely wished to have the Darksaber with him right now, but it was back at the lodge with the rest of his armor.

"Fine then, you want a sword fight. I'll give you a sword fight."

"[One of you head back and get me the Darksaber, I think I'll need it soon.]" Izuku ordered, one of the clones nodding before heading back.

"They can run, but I guarantee that no backup will get here in time to save you!"

The unknown person laughed even more as Izuku picked up the sword.

"Then let's get to it, show yourself!"

"As you wish, malen'kiy geroy."

A cloaked figure then crashed into the ground with an explosion of dust and dirt before he slowly rose to his quite considerable height.

'He's as tall as All Might…'

Burning yellow eyes glowed from behind the hood of the cloak, and even with the flashlights of the clones, there was no change to his features.

The figure then revealed two swords, scimitars as black as the night.

"And might I know the name of my opponent?"

"Hehehe, I am Tyazhkiy, former Verkhovnyy Voyenachal'nik (Supreme Warlord) of the Kaleesh, although perhaps you do know of me as a different name in your native tongue, boy," Tyazhkiy said with a menacing chuckle.

And Izuku was suddenly very afraid.

Because he knew about this monster from his extensive study of All Might's career.

"I do…General Grievous."

---

Insert Russian General Grievous Theme by Samuel Kim

And now we've hit the beginning of what everybody's been waiting for!

Yes…expect for a lot of things to happen in the next chapter.

I honestly don't have much to say, but I do have some omakes!

---

Based off the Medieval MHA and TFP

"Hey, Aizawa?" A twelve-year-old Katsuma asked.

"Yes?" Aizawa replied, the old knight driving the horse and carriage across the field.

"How…how come Izuku can't speak normally? Like…I know he uses that magical binary song to be heard but he covers his mouth with that mask and…what happened to his voice?"

"It was…severely damaged in battle."

"How?"

"How do you think? Tragically, of course," Aizawa replied before going into the story.

A battle wage in a city in the wartorn kingdom of UA

"It happened at Jaku…our brave scout was captured by All For One forces and interrogated. But he refused to provide intel."

Izuku, held up by the demonic looking warlord, the latter glaring as the former's eyes weakly sparked with fading magic.

"And paid a grave price for his courage."

Izuku's limp body splayed on top of a stone slab.

"Izuku was left for dead, but UA troops found him and evacuated him to a triage facility, where a field medic managed to stabilize his condition."

Healing magics being used by a healer looming over Izuku's battered body, his visage grim but stern, desperately trying to save him.

Aizawa's eyes focused again as he was brought back to current events.

"So…we owe Izuku's life to that field medic," Katsuma said with relief.

"That's…one way of looking at it, I suppose. Though the medic…could have done better," Aizawa replied and Katsuma sighed before looking forward.

Final Battle

The war had culminated to this very point. All Might, champion of the Kingdom of UA, fighting against the Dark Warlord, All For One.

Brutal blows were delivered against each other as they ruthlessly fought for control of the Omega Lock, an artifact that could be used to restore the Kingdom of UA by restoring the Magicore, or devastating their current home by unleashing raw magic onto the Kingdom of Mustufasu.

All dependent on how it was used.

"All Might!" Aizawa shouted from a higher outcropping of the volcano, the very lava having been transformed into pure magical energy that glowed like the heavens. "You must use the Saber to destroy the Omega Lock!"

All Might delivered another punch against his nemesis making him crash against a wall.

"It is the only way to save Mustufasu!" All Might heard before hearing the musical chimes of Izuku, the latter carrying a large blade with both hands and running along the outcroppings.

"ONE FOR ALL!" All For One snarled before getting up and slamming All Might away.

Izuku leaped into the air, One For All in his hands as he crossed over the pit.

All For One quickly fired three of his signature magic cannons from his hand, the blasts streaking through the air, a fourth being deflected by All Might pushing the hand away as he crashed into his enemy.

But it was too late.

Time appeared to slow down as the first blast impacted against Izuku's chest, making him lose his grip on the blade. The force breaking and burning him.

Aizawa couldn't move, paralyzed in shock.

Then the second hit him, causing even more damage.

Tenya tried to move forward but was brought down by enemy soldiers, and he could only fall to his knees and watch.

Then the third hit, with One For All already falling away as Izuku's body started to fall.

All Might could only stare in horror as Izuku's body began to fall toward the pool of magic.

Ochako couldn't even believe it, so much so that her magic began to fail against Shigaraki's own.

Izuku's eyes briefly flickered with magic, fire and blood erupting from his chest before his eyes went blank. The fire then extinguished by itself, the corroding magic fading away, leaving behind only smoke and ash.

One For All clattered onto the ground as Izuku's body fell into the pool before disappearing, absorbed by the magic.

Shigaraki smiled as Ochako froze, Tenya barely able to whisper a 'no' while Shota could only stare at the spot that his friend had disappeared into.

All Might stared at the spot as well before turning to All For One, the latter, having lost his face, using a half mask with demonic horns, magical red eyes peering through the black and staring at him with a sadistic grin.

All Might glared in grief and fury.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" He roared as he gave a brutal right cross to All For One's face and then a left uppercut.

Soon after were a series of horrible blows against his worst enemy, now defenseless against the grief-fueled onslaught.

All For One crashed into a wall harshly before falling to the ground with a groan.

Looking up, he saw a familiar hilt.

All Might walked forward, his own magic charging up around his fist as he prepared to deal the final blow.

All For One growled and then roared as he swung his own Antiblade, the purple energy crashing into the wide-eyed All Might's chest and flinging him across to a cliff edge and over.

All For One got up and stomped over to the cliff edge to see a groaning All Might hanging by one hand.

"Prepare to join your scout," All For One snarled and raised his sword, ready to send him falling to his death. "In the Magespark."

"All For One!" He heard before turning to face whoever was the newest interloper.

SHANG!

"Hurrgh!" All For One grunted and then began to gasp as he looked down at the blade piercing his chest.

One For All.

And holding it.

Izuku.

Flesh and bone was being regenerated by magic itself, as the young man stared at the dying Demon Lord in contempt.

"You took my voice," Izuku said, his mask moving with each movement of his jaw. "You will never rob anyone of anything, ever again."

All For One grunted as he raised his sword before losing his grip, the blade falling off into the deep chasm below.

With another grunt, he fell to his knee, all who were watching unable to believe their eyes.

"Haaah…heerrhhh…" He gasped out, the lights of his eyes flickering with each breath as he gripped the blade.

"Lord All For One! NO!" Shigaraki yelled as he fell to his knees. Meanwhile, Tenya broke free from the footsoldiers, they too, shocked by the sight.

Ochako and Kurogiri should be battling, but they were in fact stuck in their respective places.

Shota could only stare, disbelieving.

And All Might could only stare in awe.

The purple light that emitted from All For One's chest where the blade pierced him then completely faded.

And the eyes of All For One, the Great Demon Lord, Destroyer of an entire Realm, went black.

He slowly began to slide back, the sword leaving his chest as he fell off the cliff, his hand being the last thing to touch the blade as he fell off and into the dark chasm below.

All Might could only stare at his enemy, an unknown emotion in his eyes before looking up to see a hand reaching out.

He quickly grabbed the hand, and was helped up by Izuku.

Meanwhile the rest of the enemies could only stare in horror.

"I WILL AVENGE YOU, LORD ALL FOR ONE!" Shigaraki screamed before being pulled back by Kurogiri.

"Shigaraki, don't be a fool!"

"Curse you and your logic!" Shigaraki screams as he's dragged away, the rest of the footsoldiers following them.

All Might and Izuku meet up with the others, who can only look at him in awe.

"Izuku…" Aizawa exclaimed.

"Your voice!" Ochako cheered.

"My voice, what're you gu-my voice!" Izuku exclaimed in shock before shakily removing his mask.

"Aizawa…" Izuku happily cries out as he hugs the older man. "I have my chords back!"

"Yes, yes, we noticed!" Aizawa chuckled out.

"The Mana…" Izuku noted.

"It is the only possible explanation," Shota said with a soft smile.

"It would seem the old field medic made good after all," All Might said with a smile of his own.

"All Might to all forces," He said with a spell. "All For One is no more!"

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I've been meaning to put this omake in for a while, I hope you have fun with it King Kuma!