Well here is chapter 13, apologies for the lateness of this update but I was focusing on my other story for a bit. I'll try to finish the USJ Arc with this chapter and finish off season 1 since season 4 is already airing so be warned, this one may be the longest chapter yet.
Abbadon44: Yes the fun has begun but it'll end for this part unfortunately with this extended chapter. As for your request, Izuku will create a specialty version of his suits as time goes on in the same fashion as other comic heroes do. Though the Hulk-buster is pretty limited seeing how it was primarily designed…just for the hulk, we saw there are foes near the hulk's level of strength but fight much smarter, case in point-Thanos.
Omega Armadillo 300: Thank you, I'm trying to give the whole class their time in the sun at some point or another, they deserve it after all. Ojiro is already going to have a larger impact than canon due to his double team with Izuku, and the fact Izuku saw fit to reveal his suspicions on the traitor to him so that'll develop. Izuku already had experience in fighting villains and thugs, granted all of them were low to medium level but that still means he knows how to act in these situations. Bakugo isn't the only new addition who'll shake things up.
Weebo23: Everyone has the right to their own opinions, though I'm more than curious as to why you have this opinion so please, explain more.
Have a Little Faith: I never said that was the paring for the two of them, I was just showing that Bakugo is a teenage boy, he'll have those urges and he'll look at girls, which doesn't mean he is romantically interested. Though I do agree that cannon Bakugo has some issues to deal with, in this take on him, he isn't such a…well…dick, he's an ass sure but he's a likable ass(who curses more than 10 sailors on a good day).
Chapter 12: End of an Era. Beginning of Struggle
(Main Plaza)
"What the hell was that?" Izuku asked after the ringing in his ears faded, that blast was so strong that he hurt even though his helmet. Though there was something else, someone or something pushed him down just before he heard a huge crash.
"Midoriya, man you okay?" A voice said as he heard someone near to him move, maybe get up to their feet? He opened his eyes to see two things he wasn't expecting. The first being who had pushed him and the second….
Was the giant wall of ice keeping them separate from the villains, though he could hear something smashing into, and smashing into it hard.
"Kirishima, that you?" Midoriya asked as the redhead helped him to his feet, he wasn't using his quirk so he wasn't bumpy as he thought it would be.
"Yeah man, Bakugo and I rushed here as soon as we could. We even picked up Todoroki on the way here." The boy said as he pointed towards the two in question, Bakugo was standing at the ready, his gauntlet still smoking from the blast he let loose while Todoroki had his right foot firmly planted to the ground, adding ice to their defense.
"That explains the ice." Midoriya said to himself as he got his bearing again and saw that just about everyone was fine, it appeared that Iida had used the confusion to get their injured teacher and…unavailable fried to safety.
"You look like shit, Deku." Bakugo said as he looked him over.
"Thanks for not blowing me straight to hell." Midoriya replied with equal amounts of attitude, he wasn't in the mood for this shit. All he wanted to do now was go home, watch some cartoons and curl up on the couch with Yu and sleep.
"I missed."
"This isn't the time for such distractions, that thing is still kicking." Todoroki interrupted them before they could start arguing, he was started to struggle was ice flakes started to appear on his custom and exposed skin from him pushing like this.
"How? I hit it with a full blast from my gauntlet." Bakugo asked him, he didn't think anyone short of All Might could survive that without taking some serious damage. During testing, he was able to nearly demolish an entire 4-floor building with that some kind of power.
"Because that thing isn't a real thing." Midoriya said as he looked over the results of his scans, sounding both troubled and…angry.
"What do you mean?" Ojiro asked him, he knew there were cases of animals developing quirks but none of them ever got something even close to this…thing they found themselves fighting.
"I scanned it midway during that little round of ours, it's not giving off normal body heat readings. Brain activity is also low, like as low as a bird with Down syndrome low. That thing wasn't born, no. It was made." Midoriya revealed, scaring everyone at the idea that something like that was made, but by who? Why? They were about to get their answers as the ice barrier was destroyed at that same moment, showering them with frost, mist, and pieces of ice. They come out of it none worse for wear but it did show that the monster they had been fighting was right as rain, not a single scar or burn from the blast Bakugo hit it with.
"Well, aren't you the smart one? You're correct about Nomu though, he was a man that was biologically altered to become a weapon. A Weapon created for the sole purpose of killing All Might." Tomura revealed as he pointed towards Nomu, who still looked at them with blank eyes, clearly showing that he wasn't thinking or looking at them, if Mina had to compare it to something, she'll say it reminded her of what her old neighbor's eyes looked like when he shot up some heroin.
"That's horrible." Momo said, covering her mouth at the notion that someone would do that to another human being.
"I thought such human experimentation was illegal?" Kirishima asked, grinding his eye in anger at the revelation they just received.
"It is but these are villains so why should they care for law?" Jiro counted, also angry at this turn of events but keeping a more level head. If they lost it here, they'll be dead before help could arrive.
"So that's it?" It seemed that not all of them were of agreement on the whole keeping cool thing as the green-haired boy looked none too happy. "You just grabbed some poor soul and shoved as many quirks into them as you could?" Midoriya asked as he removed his helmet to stare down the villains eye to eye, showing that he was livid.
'I've never seen him this mad before.' Bakugo said to himself as he felt the urge to back away from the boy, he had seen him pissed before sure, but this…this was pure hatred, did Izuku think of human experimentation to be such a low science if this was his response?
'He is incensed.' Todoroki thought to himself as he always thought the angriest face he ever saw was his father's but this…
Endeavor got nothing on this.
And he wasn't the only one who thought that.
'This…this presence, how can a child have such a presence in battle?' Kurogiri thought to himself as he had only felt such off seasoned pro heroes and villains who were especially mad, he would have to keep an eye on him before Tomura slipped up. His master would be unpleased if he did.
"So what? He wasn't a main character or anything, just some NPC thug." Tomura started, showing that he didn't see anything wrong with it and would have continued if not for the rubber bullet flying past his face.
"Shut it you hand fetish, video-game obsessed freak." Midoriya insulted him with a mighty scowl on his usually happy face, the collapsible submarine gun still in his hand as the barrel smoked a bit. "I don't know who you are or who you think you are and frankly, I don't give a fuck." He continued as he was really angry, Bakugo knew that for a fact as the boy normally left the swearing to him "No-one has that right, no-one has that authority. You want to kill All Might so bad?" Midoriya taunted as he fixed his helmet back on, the click of it locking in place sounding like a gunshot. "How can you do that if all it takes is some kid to shove that hand so far up your ass that you taste it?!" He finished as he let the second SMG unfold into his other hand before he took aim and fired at Tomura.
In reaction to this, the Nomu dashed into the way and took all the hits without damage, or it just healed too fast to tell as rubber bullets aren't the best for dealing actual damage.
"Tomura, don't, he's just trying to-!" Kurogiri tried to advise his young charge but unfortunately for him, Midoriya knew just what buttons to push to get him so angry he stopped reasoning.
"Nomu, kill him!" Tomura yelled as he scratched at his neck, he scratched so hard he started to bleed, he wanted this little shit dead! At the mention of such an order, the Nomu rushed at Midoriya, gearing up to smash his skull in with a punch to the face, though he was moving faster than before, most likely out of instinctual awareness to do so, Midoriya had already increased the frame rate and speed of his main camera to max to keep up it the moving target, though it was still a bit of a blur.
'Just as I thought, it only moves when ordered to, or when its master is in danger, a puppet in all but name. Cut the string and it's useless.' Midoriya quickly observed as he folded away his SMGs as they were proving to be useless. He opted to dash towards the Nomu to meet it faster, as he did this he activated the talons on his boots and popped out his claws, hoping that his plan worked.
Just as the beast was on top of him, Midoriya struck. For a couple of seconds, all was quiet, the hero students started to fear for their classmate while the villains watched on with a satisfied if not mocking air to them.
"Didn't you hear me? Nomu has shock adsorption." Tomura started to gloat but stood when he noticed Nomu step backward, blood leaking from its front. "What, how is that possible?" Tomura asked, how the hell did this minor NPC deal a critical hit to his Nomu?!
"Designed for All Might, who uses blunt force impact. But not against something like pointed projectiles or…claws." Midoriya answered with a furious air to him as he flexed his bloody claws, even though it was healing there was still a visible large gash on the Nomu's chest, right where its heart should be if it even still had on. "And that's that, I can see that you even through in a regeneration type quirk. A damn good one if he heals this quick." He went on as he went on the offensive, quickly getting right into the Nomu's face before he landed a strike above the eyes, slicing into the exposed brain. Nomu roared as it tried to knock him back but with its vision momentarily disabled, it wasn't able to land a hit before the boy landed three more strikes, two deep slices to the kidneys, and a deep clawed jab to the heart. The Nomu would have reacted if not for the last strike Midoriya landed, which happen to be a tiger claw to its neck with enough force to crush a regular person's windpipe.
'H-he…he was able to land that many blows?' Was the thought on everyone's mind as Midoriya jumped back from the choking and bleeding Nomu as its body worked to regenerate all the damage.
"And another thing, cells can't regenerate properly if the temperature is too low." Midoriya finished as he came to a step into a crane-style stance, ready for another attack. His choice of words was confusing to some of them but instantly found meaning in the minds of Bakugo, Todoroki, and Kurogiri. "Todoroki!"
"Got it!" And with that, Todoroki slammed his foot into the ground and sent out a wave of ice towards the Nomu was eyesight just returned, though he wasn't able to get enough air passed its still recovering windpipe and was caught in the ice-wave, burying into in over 4m worth of ice.
"Not so fast!" Kurogiri yelled as he tried to open a portal to Nomu under the ice but had to stop when a near-deafening sound wave hit him.
"Like we'll like you pull that trick on us again!" Jiro said as he increased the volume to ensure he isn't able to concentrate long enough to make those portals.
"Ashido, get some acid ready. Momo, I need you to do something for me." Midoriya said as he turned to face the two girls.
"What do you need?" Ashido asked, she wasn't much of a fighter and it looked like they had this handled without her, as painful as it was to admit such.
"How good are you at making cannons?" Midoriya asked as he faced his vice rep, her shocked face being her response before she collected herself so she could help in any way she could. "Bakugo, Todoroki, we need a minute, think you can buy us that time?" He asked as he turned around to face the forward guys, Kirishima standing guard next to Todoroki in case something tried to jump him.
"The fuck you think you're talking to?" Bakugo yelled back, grinning as he rolled his shoulders and let out some small explosions. "I'll buy to three."
"That might be the max we can do." Todoroki said as he was starting to feel the effects of overusing his ice.
"Just don't die, I don't want to have to tell Aunt Mitsuki the bad news." Midoriya responded, sounding serious as Bakugo stopped mid-step at his words.
"I won't, you won't have to worry the old hag like that." He replied as he continued walking, his response just as serious as he geared up for a fight.
'Old hag?' Momo thought to herself as that was a rude way to refer to one's mother if she hadn't heard one.
"Half and Half Bastard, how much more Ice can you make?" Bakugo asked as he came up the boy in question, he was clear that the Nomu thing was trying to escape the all the ice wasn't doing it any favors, it no doubt was starting to fall to the first stages of hyperthermia by now
"About a football pitch worth if I force it." Todoroki answered, throwing out that number as if it were a small one.
"Then do that and keep that fuck face monster buried, I got the handsy one." Bakugo told him as he used his quirk to blast himself towards the main villain.
"All these NPCs…What the hell?" Tomura meanwhile was losing his cool as his plans were being derailed right in front of his eyes, Kurogiri was unable to move due to the sonic blasts messing with him and Nomu was still trying to dig its way out of its icy burial. How the Hell did he not see this coming, how could these kids be so damn dangerous? "They're all mini-bosses for crying out loud!" He yelled in anger, only to be interrupted.
"Hate to spoil your already shitty day but I want to mess with you, hand-job!" Bakugo yelled as he came right into his face before he attempted to let loose an explosive blast, only for the villain to duck underneath the assault and land a punch to his stomach, knocking Bakugo back a bit but not winding him as much as he hoped.
"You…" Tomura uttered with grinding teeth as he was in no mood for this. But before he could fight back, Bakugo once more used his quirk to close the distance between them, when Tomura tried to grab his arm, Bakugo dodged to the left and grabbed onto the outreached arm before throwing the villain into the ground hard enough to leave cracks.
"Too slow!" Bakugo yelled as he jumped back while releasing another blast targeted right for the villain's face. The force of which knocked him further from the villain while blowing off the hand he was using as a sort of mask.
BOOM!
"FATHER!" Tomura yelled in what seemed like fear and anger as he realized that the hand was missing, he got to his knees far faster them one should after being blasted in the face but it didn't seem to register to the villain as he searched around for the dismembered appendage.
"Father, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I almost lost you." Tomura said over and over as he searched for it before he found the hand behind him, watching this was Bakugo was bewildered by the sheer levels of this villain's mental instability.
'This guy is fuckin nuts.' He thought to himself as Tomura gently wiped off some dust before placing the hand back onto his face.
(With Todoroki)
"How are things coming along?" Kirishima asked the double-haired coloured boy who had been using his quick without break for the better part of a minute so long. He would have Ojiro with him but the tailed lad had opted to watch their rear and keep back the odd thugs that tried to get the jump on them, it was a good thing that most of them were already down and hesitate to approach them but that could change at any time.
"Rough, whatever they did to that man made him ridiculously tuff. He's been buried under all the ice for almost two full minutes with limited oxygen and he's still kicking." Todoroki responded as he took in harsh humps of air as the frost forming on him was starting to hurt.
"Then I better get ready to rumble." Kirishima said as he activated his quirk and got into a combat stance, he would have assisted Bakugo against the boss but it was clear that he wouldn't be able to keep up with them as the hand dude was pretty fast and nimble.
"If that thing was designed to kill All Might then I don't think that would be a good idea." Todoroki shot down his suggestion as he could imagine that all it would take is a punch to get past the redhead's defense and do some serious damage.
"Still-!" Kirishima tried to argue but Tomura interrupted him, sounding even angrier than before.
"Nomu!" He yelled in fury as he grabbed onto Bakugo's shirt, decaying the fabric before he reached skin but luckily for him, once he felt pain, he used his quick to set off an explosion to Tomura's chest, loosening his hold on hand but he still got a wicked right hook to the face for his troubles, the force of which launched him back on his ass.
"Does he serious think-!" Todoroki started to ask but then they all heard something they didn't think possible.
CRACK!
"What?!" For the first time in a while, pure shock coated Todoroki's face as they all witness more and more cracks forming on the ice, they could feel the pressure of the strikes against it even though he was still adding to it.
"It's breaking through?" Kirishima asked, just as shocked that Nomu was making headway and escaping.
"You mean that thing still has this kind of juice in the tank?!" Midoriya yelled, sure he had a plan but he wasn't expecting the thing to break out so soon, the hell they do to him to give him such power!?
"Move!" Kirishima yelled as he tackled Todoroki to the ground.
CRAC-CRAC-CK BOOM!
And with that, the ice done exploded, shooting off pieces of ice far and wide, some of them striking the hero students but they were something they can worry about later.
"Nomu! Kill them all!" Tomura screamed in anger and fury, he wanted blood and he wanted it now! With that order, the now freed Nomu dashed over to Jiro who was still using her quirk to keep Kurogiri in check, he was slower than before, most likely due to the oxygen deprivation and signs of its muscles starting to freeze up but still pretty fast.
"What?" Jiro said as she turned and saw a mountain and black and blue flesh coming towards her faster than she could react.
"Jiro!" Her friends all screamed as they saw she wouldn't be able to dodge the attack before it was too late.
"Watch out!" Someone said as they pushed her out of the way and took the hit themselves.
"ARG!" Midoriya screamed in pain as he took a direct punch to the chest which launch him into the wrecked fountain, he hit the water hard.
"Deku/Midoriya!" Everyone but the villain yelled in fear for his life, this time they were sure he didn't plan on that. Jiro seeing what had happened rushed over to his side, hoping that he didn't bite the dust because of her.
"That's one down. You still have some HP Kurogiri?" Tomura asked his misty-bodied alley as he started to calm down now that they were finally getting some results.
"Y-yes master Tomura, though I don't know how long I can keep going after that?" Kurogiri responded as he righted himself, that continuous sound blast was still messing with his eyes, and truth be told, he was lucky he heard Tomura's question as he was having trouble hearing just about everything else.
"[Tick] Long-lasting hit points are a pain." Tomura said to himself but once more, he should have known his day wasn't going to be an easy one.
"Do it!" Midoriya yelled from the fountain's edge, he was being supported by Jiro but his orders were clear. Both villains wondered what he meant by that till they turned to see what Yaoyorozu and Ashido had been up to, and they were in for a shock.
"The Hell!?"
(Flashback)
"Momo, I need you to create a medium-sized cannon. We're gonna blast a hole in that Nomu thing, maybe that'll slow it down." Midoriya revealed to him as he gestured over the growing ice mountain Todoroki was creating to bury the thing.
"But wouldn't a regular cannonball just bounce off it if it has shock adsorption?" Momo asked as she had created more than a few cannons during training sessions at home, most of which fired off older cannonballs because it was easier and faster for her to create such simpler ammo.
"Not if we used one with a pointed tip. That force behind it is sure to penetrate." Midoriya told them as he crouched down with them all so that they didn't stick out as much to the villains watching them, the last thing they needed was for them to catch on to their plans.
"And what do I do?" Ashido asked as she didn't think she could add much to a cannon.
"I need you to fill up that same projectile with as much acid as you can, that way once the thing pieces through its thick skin, the acid can work in its internal organs, veins, arteries, bones, and muscle." Midoriya told them, sounding like the very thought made him through up in his mouth a bit, for good reason, the picture he painted wasn't a pretty one by any measure.
"I…I don't think I can do that." Ashido said as she backed up slightly, the thought of her acid doing such…to another living creature. It was repulsive.
"I know that I'm asking a lot of you but whatever or whoever that man was before…is gone. All that's left is a meat puppet. The least we can do is take him down as quickly as possible and no Yaoyorozu," Midoriya assured her as he grabbed onto her hand and gave it a small squeeze as to not hurt her before he turned to face Yaoyorozu. "A takedown isn't a kill, not today anyway. That thing would no doubt regenerate from the hit but before it does, I'll have Todoroki freeze its legs and Bakugo can blast off an arm. I'll take care of the other arm." He finished as he got back up, the two girls following his lead.
"Okay, but how will we get to line up? Making a moveable cannon isn't easy." Momo said, agreeing with the plan but needed more details to work with. For his part, Midoriya didn't answer right away as his attentions had been turned to Bakugo's fight.
"Midoriya?" Ashido asked to try and get his attention but he kept his gaze on how Tomura was getting more and more sloppy, no, he wasn't getting sloppy, he was getting angrier and making mistakes.
Mistakes they could use.
"We wait for that villain to recall it, he doesn't seem capable of keeping a level head or adapting to change, when Bakugo forces him, he'll try to recall it to his side to kill us. Aim for him and that beast will instinctively try to protect him." Midoriya told them, having seen something they could use now.
"…I hope you're right about this." Yaoyorozu said as she started to create the cannon from her costume's opening on her torso.
"Yeah, so do I." Midoriya said as he turned around and opened up his wings to max as to give them some cover so the villains don't notice them.
(End of Flashback)
'Dammit, I didn't think it'll try to go for Jiro like that. That mistake almost costed us." Midoriya thought to himself as he tried to pull himself out of the water.
"Midoriya!" Jiro yelled as she jumped into the water to assist him. "Are you okay?!" She asked as she looked him over for any obvious signs of injury.
"Y-yeah," he moaned out in some pain as he pointed towards his destroyed chest armor. "The armor took most of the blow, still hurts like a mother though." He said as he could feel that he cracked a rib or two and landed on his arm funny.
"Yeah, good thing you were wearing it." Jiro said with a sigh of relief as she helped him out of the water. Revealing that his armor had been cracked and broken in a few other places, his wings weren't too good either as some of the feathers were missing or damaged.
"What about that...thing?" Jiro asked as she didn't hear him discuss the plan and didn't know.
"For that, we have a plan, dammit that hurts." Midoriya asked before he reached for his chest, he needed to get that checked out. "Jiro help me get up and face that thing." He asked as he saw that time for the assault so he screamed out the signal. "Do it!"
"Eat cannon you beaked freak!" Ashido yelled equally as loud as she could as they fired off the cannon.
BOOM!
As the projectile flew through the air towards Tomura, the villain in question could only gap wide-eyed as he saw what could surely be his death coming towards him faster than he could react. Kurogiri was moving to try and save him by opening a portal in the projectile's path but he wasn't sure he could do it fast enough. Luckily for them, Midoriya's plan worked and the Nomu, being fast enough to intercept and also dumb enough to tank the hit, took the hit which proved to have been a success as the projectile easily drilled its way into its side, tearing up its liver, left kidney and causing the nearby ribs and some parts of the spinal column to break or crack before smashing into the ground behind it. Its acid capsule, however, got stuck in its innards and had ruptured, slipping corrosive acid into its organs and doing even more damage to it and crippling the monster, forcing it to its knees as its regeneration was counted by the lingering acid.
'It…it pierced him, how! The master made sure to add shock adsorp-!' Kurogiri thought to himself, shocked that these brats had somehow done so much damage to their Nomu. It was unthinkable but then he recalled the words of the one with the metallic wings.
But not against something like pointed projectiles or…claws
'That little brat found a weakness? He did this?!' Kurogiri furiously thought to himself, not sure if he should be impressed or enraged as he looked over to the injured hero student, his armor had nearly been destroyed, leaving his chest and some parts of his stomach bare of any protection, his wings didn't look too good either as most were bent out of shape, crooked or otherwise missing. There were still some in place but he wasn't focusing on that right now.
"Todoroki, quickly! Freeze its legs!" Yaoyorozu ordered the boy, who looked like he had spent too much time in a freezer but still nodded his head at her voice.
"[Huff] Got it [huff]" Todoroki replied as he brought down his right palm onto the ground, sending out a small wave of ice towards the still down and recovering Nomu, freezing not just its legs but its mid-section as well due to its kneeling position.
"Bakugo, hit it again, use your best!" Yaoyorozu continued as she stood up and created a bō-staff for herself.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Bakugo shot back, being knocked out of his awe at that little trick before he aimed his still full right gauntlet towards the down and injured beast. "Eat shit!"
"I won't let you!" Tomura screamed as he made a move against the blonde teen, he took longer than he'll ever admit to came to his senses after seeing their prize be damaged so badly. He was never told they had a frickin special floor weapon! These kids are cheating! It's the only way.
"Get past me first!" Kirishima and Ojiro both yelled as they intercepted him with a tail smack to the side and a solid punch to the chest, knocking the dark-clothed villain but not downing him. The fact he was still standing, seemingly with no major issue showed that he could take a punch. Though that timely intervention proved to be all they needed to give.
BOOM!
Bakugo let loose another one of his larger blasts, hitting his target dead on but because he wasn't told where to aim, he just aimed for the most vulnerable parts to increase the likelihood of damage, that area he targeted being the frozen lower body and still damaged gut. The explosive blast having more than enough energy to blow the lower frozen regions to bits and add on to the gut damage as the exposed organs and muscle was now burned and ruptured, even more, leaving Nomu to scream and screech as it rolled around on the floor, not even registering that it shouldn't be alive nor moving.
"Nomu!" Tomura yelled as he watched their beat weapon be crippled and beaten before he threw Ojiro back towards Kirishima to give himself some breathing room. "Kurogiri!"
"Yes, maste-shit!" Kurogiri tried to answer but had to dodge a blast form the fountain area, he turned and saw that the injured boy was still in the fight as two of his remarkably undamaged feathers has been reconfigured into cannons, one of which was smoking and still pointing in his direction. The other one was directed towards Nomu.
"And now, for the finale. Falcon…Striker!" Midoriya harshly yelled in pain as he fired off the last of his power in the form of his ranged attack. He aimed to the best of his ability for the monster's right shoulder but was only successful in striking its arm and blasting it off from just above the elbow.
"Nailed…it." Midoriya wheezed out as that drained just about everything he had left besides crucial power for the primary systems. At this point, he wouldn't even be able to take flight let alone fight. Todoroki seeing a chance, use most of his remaining power to freeze the Nomu in its entirety, rendering it a frozen structure before burying it in another 4m worth of ice for good measure.
"We did it!" Ashido cheered as they all saw the Nomu go down, though she was disgusted by the violence needed, she could wait till she got home to cry about it, now wasn't the right time.
"Yeah!" Kirishima joined in, smiling with all his sharpened teeth on show, though their little celebration was cut short.
"Its[huff]not over[huff] yet." Todoroki gasped out, his whole body nearly covered in frost from his pushing his limits to fight, though he could fix the issue he refused to do so for reasons unknown to his classmates. At this point, like Midoriya he was out of the fight.
"He's right," Midoriya said as he and Jiro made their way back to the group. "We still got two opponents right in front of us." He said as he looked over to the two silent villains. Wondering what they were thinking.
'You little snot-nosed NPCs, where the hell did your get so damn strong? Your attack points are too high.' Tomura furiously thought to himself as his plans laid ruined at his feet, his thugs had failed their task, his Nomu was effectively defeated and he still had to deal with these kids. 'I wasn't told about any of this, master never told me that UA has such strong mini-bosses.' His thoughts went on as he started scratching at his neck, getting deeper and harder as his rage boiled. 'Did…did sensei lie to me?' Was his last thought as such a notion seemed impossible, his sensei never lied to him, never ever!
"What's the matter fuck face?" Bakugo yelled at him, breaking him from his thoughts as he turned his pissed-off red eyes to the equally pissed-off glare coming from the blonde. "You're not gonna come at us again? Or are you just some little bitch like the rest of those pussy ass villains you brought with?" Bakugo taunted as he did the 'come get me' gesture with his hands, his left gauntlet once again filled up and ready.
'Only Bakugo could insult someone who may be mentally unstable and with a quirk that allows him to disintegrate you.' Midoriya thought to himself, feeling like he shouldn't even be surprised that the blonde did that.
'Why is he talking smack now? Out of all of us, he took the most damage from that guy as is.' Todoroki asked himself as he saw the cuts, bruises, and patches of decayed flesh on the boy, it must have been painful to move.
'Goddammit! My wounds are starting to hurt, this fucker's no joke but still,' Bakugo thought to himself as he didn't let the pain show in his face or his movements. "I ain't some bitch who can't handle the pain, Half and Half is nearly frozen,' he continued his line of thought as his gaze went over Todoroki and Yaoyorozu.
'Kirishima isn't suited for combat against this guy, same as tails,' He added as he looked over Kirishima and Ojiro, both not physically injured but not suited for this type of combat.
'The 3-D printer and Acid girl are too far back,' Was his thoughts on the two girls as they were too far back, these two villains were fast, faster than those wimps they brought with by a landslide.
'And Deku won't be able to help out if he needs the punk girl to hold his ass up.' Was his opinion on Jiro and Midoriya, as much as he hated to admit, he could use those two for keeping the villains back with their abilities but that wasn't happening.
'Where the fuck is everyone else right now?' He finished his line of thoughts as he would have imagined their little fight would have drawn more attention to the central plaza, that's how he and Kirishima got here, did the rest of those fucking extra's run!?
"These little shits are ruining everything! Nomu was damaged by them, now we don't have our big gun till that damn acid spell wears off! This is bullshit!" Tomura raged, scratching so deep that he hit muscle and started to cause some bleeding, he wasn't dealing with his anger well and would have gone further if not for the warp gate user calming him.
"Tomura Shigaraki! Please, sir, calm down." Kurogiri asked of him as he moved closer to his ear so the children won't hear them. "Look carefully, they may still outnumber us 4 to 1 but only about 3 of them are battle-ready." He explained his observations as he used his eye slits to go over them and all and saw that the winged one and ice user were done, while the tailed once and the whom harden himself would be no match for their quirks and skill.
"We still have some underlings to use and the other weaker or injured children would make good hostages. We don't know how much time we got left before their reinforcements get here but if we double team them, we should come out on top." He explained further as some of the thugs Eraser had defeated earlier were starting to come around, something the children also noticed and must have realized meant their attention would have to be split.
"Yeah." Tomura responded slowly as he stopped his scratching. "Yeah, yeah you're right there. We still got higher points than these mini-bosses, if we work together we can still kill them." He finished his cruel line of thought as he moved his hands away from his neck and looked the teens over, eyeing them like they were nothing more than practice dummies to vent his rage.
"Shit, they getting back up." Jiro said as she turned around with Midoriya to look over the new threats coming for them.
"This isn't good, we are surrounded, approaching exhaustion and low on energy." Midoriya thought aloud as he saw that their odds of survival were decreasing by the second. "Jiro, please take this and help out any way you can." He added as he took out his staff and placed it in Jiro's free hand.
"But…"
"Don't worry about me, we just need to keep them off us long enough for our classmates to get here. No doubt they heard us and most likely rushing to the action." Midoriya assured her as she asked her to put him down in the middle, they were too far from Yaoyorozu and Ashido for him to be placed in the back but at least here, he could provide some support with his SMGs.
"S-sure. You got it." Jiro said as she stood back up and turned to face the two major threats, at that same moment Tomura had burst into a dash towards Bakugo with Kurogiri coming up behind his ally.
"This is revenge for Nomu!" Tomura yelled as he got ready to grab Bakugo and reduce him to a pile of ash and bone.
"Shit, he coming right for us! Get ready." Ojiro yelled as he saw that some of the other villains were beginning to surround them and most likely to wait and pick them off when the opportunity presented itself.
"Shut up and fight!" Bakugo yelled back as he sucked up the pain and ran to meet Tomura mid-way.
'Damn, I got one more before I freeze up…better make…it…count.' Todoroki thought to himself as he prepared to freeze all the villains to their rear to give them a path of retreat.
"Die!" Tomura screamed as his hand reached for Bakugo's face but before it could make contact.
BANG!
"Who fired that?!" Yaoyorozu asked as she saw Tomura being forced back, cradling his hand which had been shot clean through.
"It can't be… It's Snipe-sensei!" Midoriya said as he turned around to face the main entrance, where that shot must have come from.
"They got our message?" Ashido asked, tears of relief in her eyes at that thought.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
And with another two shots, the two closest villains to them had been taken out, one shot in the leg and the other in both arms.
"Apologies children that we're so late but," They all heard a voice call out to them, those in the plaza didn't see who was talking but those still up the stairs did and some like Sero and Uraraka started to cry tears of relief. "I had to gather all who were available first." The voice finished the person in question reached the staircase, revealing themselves to be the principal of UA, Nezu. And it wasn't along.
With him, he had brought Present Mic, Ectoplasm, Snipe, Cementoss, and Midnight. And all of them looked none too pleased to see their students in such danger.
"Get them!" A random villain yelled as he opened fire on the pros, though his injured leg to his aim being terrible.
"[Tick] So these are the villains that gave Shouta so much trouble?" Present Mic asked he wasn't happy by the condition his best friend-(who Iida was carrying on his back)-was in, no if you could see his eyes, you'll see that he was pissed off. He stepped to the edge of the stairs and looked down at the approaching crowd of villains and took a deep breath. "YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH!" he yelled out, letting loose a blast of his quirk enhance voice onto the villain, so loud that most of those caught in it were rendered unconscious after mere seconds while others stopped and held onto their eyes in an attempt to block out the sound.
Nezu seeing that a great deal of the threats was stopped, saw an opening. "Ectoplasm, if you will?" He asked though it was more of an order.
"On it." Ectoplasm said as he came forward to stand next to Present Mic, once he stopped, he created over a dozen different clones of himself who immediately engaged the crowd of remaining villains, taking them down quite easily actually.
"Spread out and assist the students. Find and capture any villain you can." Nezu ordered his staff with his usual smile, though if you knew Nezu, you knew that this wasn't a smile of happiness or contentment, it was one of malicious intent for those who dared to attack his students.
"Sir!"
"Looks like the pros finally showed up and still no All Might." Tomura said as he looked around and saw that the thugs they brought with them were being cut through as if they were butter and the pros the hot knife. "But we don't have Nomu to fight, not like this. What do you say Kurogiri, should be go ho-BANG!" He started to ask but before he could finish, he found that he had been shot in the arm, just below the elbow, surprising him but before he could even hit the ground, he was hit several more times.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Tomura felt red hot pain shot through his body as he was shot in both shoulders, his legs, and one bullet hitting his foot, rendering him completely disabled. He would have been shot some more if not for Kurogiri using his warping ability to shield him from the rest of Snipe's attack.
"We need someone who can capture those two from a range." Snipe said as he kept up the fire, making sure that the warp gate user was pinned.
"That'll be me." Thirteen spoke up from behind, Snipe turned a bit and show that she was being supported up by Sato and Shoji.
"Tomura Shigaraki! We must retreat!" Kurogiri said as he prepared to warp them out of there but found he was being pulled a powerful and familiar force. "What's this!?"
"I still got some in the tank villain." Thirteen said as she tried to suck Kurogiri in. All ten of her gloves's openings being open allowed her to increase their range so much as to still be able to have a pull from this range.
"I may have failed the level this time…" Tomura growled out in both pain and fury as he made eye contact with the hero students who had got in his eye, his glare frightening enough to make feel a cold chill surf down their spines. "But I will be sure to kill you all next time, you hear me?!" Tomura vowed before he was pulled through the warp gate, allowing Kurogiri to close it and with that, they had made their escape.
What the pros must deal with…What they fight against…The world of evil. That was an experience…a great many of us weren't ready for yet. Midoriya thought to himself as he allowed himself to fall on his back and look upwards, the adrenaline starting to lose its effect and the exhaustion from the day was starting to kick in. Todoroki falling to his knees as well as he no longer held himself up.
"So we live to fight another day?" Yaoyorozu tentatively asked as she got up and made her way to Todoroki to see to his wounds.
"Seems like it. Looks like we won…somehow." Midoriya responded before he reached for the latch on his side. "I won't be needing this again." He finished as he pulled on the latch, releasing the locks on his armor, detaching it from his person.
"You sure about that? I heard you put a lot of thought and time into it." Kirishima asked as he saw that some pieces hit hard and broke even more.
"Yeah," Midoriya answered as he slowly but surely got back up, Ojiro coming to his side to assist him. "Besides, I can always build another one, even better than this one. Plus-Ultra after all." Midoriya added with a tired smile, though how wasn't looking forward to how much that will cost.
"That's the spirit man!" Kirishima smiled as he agreed and smacked Midoriya on the back in his excitement.
"OW! Dammit that hurts, you idiot!" Midoriya yelled at him as that little 'pat' didn't do his arching ribs any favors.
"Sorry!"
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(Later that day)
"Damn, I can't believe that got away," Midnight said as she along with Nezu looked over the damaged USJ facilities. It had only been a couple of minutes but she had a feeling this will take some time to clean up. "Especially after such a big show they did by trespassing." She added with a sigh.
"The bottom line is that they caught us completely unprepared. More importantly, we were and are to ensure the safety of our students. Nezu said, not ashamed to admit they had been getting somewhat lax in their security, it had taken much longer than he would have liked to ensure that the main campus was secure, clearly, they need to conduct more practice drills since many of the students just didn't know what to do or panicked.
"If this little pro showed up here, then does that mean the school as hit as well?" Todoroki asked as he was assisted back to his feet by his fellow recommendations student, Yaoyorozu.
"Not in this case." One of their teachers said as he approached them.
"Hmm?" Kirishima let out as he turned to see who was talking.
"Cementoss-sensei!" Yaoyorozu said as she tried to bow but then realized that with Todoroki using her for support, that was impossible.
"We didn't know if the school would be targeted if a good portion of the teaching staff left to defend here so the principal only took those who they could spare and still defend themselves should the main campus come under threat." The pro explained as they would have liked to all head over but that would have been a rash move, something Nezu was firmly against. "Please, those that came stand and move by themselves, help those who can't and head to the main gate." He finished as he gestured towards the exit, his words were taken in, and listened pretty quickly as they all started making their way for the exit.
"Well done Yaoyorozu, Midoriya." Cementoss said out of the blue before he turned to face them with a small but kind smile. "Thirteen told us of your little mission. Thanks to your broadcast, the emergency services are already outside waiting." He finished.
"Thank goodness." Ashido said as they made their way out.
"Kaminari gonna want to hear that." Jiro said as their blonde Pikachu wasn't the most optimistic when they told him they needed him to fry his brain to reset the security servers.
"So what, we're done here?" Bakugo asked, the fighting was over but he still wasn't going to show weakness, his pride after all.
"Yes, please make your way to the main entrance so we can do a headcount and give medical attention to those who need it." Cementoss told them as he turned once more to help the search for the other students.
(Meanwhile, at a bar in an unknown location)
While this was happening, on the other side of town in a very dimly lit bar, a black and purple portal appeared, from it Tomura was slowly placed on the ground. "Ouch," he let out as his body made contact with the ground. "Shot in both my arms and legs. We got beat badly, even Nomu was defeated!" he raged as his torso become clear of the portal. "All those good-for-nothing cannon fodder didn't even soften up those brats, they just warmed them up for Christ's sake!" He fumed in fury as he was deposited on the floor, his wounds leaving a bloody mess on the floor.
"Those kids, they were definite Mini-bosses, so strong that they didn't need those pros till the fuckin end!" His temper was getting the better of him as his accelerated heart rate led to more blood leaving his body. "Worse still, the damn Symbol of Peace didn't even need to show up for all that entire operation to turn into a clusterfuck!" He said as he turned his attention to the small TV screen on the bar top, there was no picture. Only the words 'Sound Only' on display.
"You were wrong, Sensei. Nomu couldn't even beat some snot-nosed brats!" Tomura yelled at the screen through the person on the other end didn't seem like that concerned with his childish temper tantrum.
"Really? Explain how this happened." The voice asked, sounding calm and collected.
"Sir, the operation went down like this…" Kurogiri said as he stepped forward and proceeded to explain everything he knew about the operation and how their opponents responded.
"I see, well I can see where we failed here. We simply weren't prepared enough for all the possible outcomes." The voice said after taking a moment to take in the information Kurogiri had given him. "This…Midoriya child wasn't wrong, Nomu was a weapon designed to match the strengths of All Might yes but that also made it rather predictable and single-purposed, those children merely took advantage of the fact Nomu wasn't made to fight against such varying opponents and quirks to defeat it." He finished as he could both respect this child for seeing such a flaw and exploiting it to the fullest and how he fought without an enhancement quirk of his own.
"Yes, we underestimated them this time and we paid for it. It's a good thing we were going under that cheap 'League of Villains' alias, it'll keep the authorities off the real trail for a while. Give us more time to…modify our nomus to not be so mono-purpose that it's a weakness that mere children can exploit." Another voice said over the line, sounding more nasally than the first's cultured and refined one.
"Speaking of…" The first voice, seemingly this…sensei started again. "Kurogiri, where is the Nomu?"
"My deepest apologies master, doctor but due to all the ice burying Nomu, it would have been impossible for me to know where exactly under it was Nomu, without his precise location, it would have taken too long to try and take the entire thing with us." Kurogiri reported as he bowed his head in shame for such a failure.
"What, you mean you left Nomu behind?!" The second voice demanded, sounding none to please with his response.
"Sir, if I tried to take him with us, it'll have taken too much time and meant that we all would have been captured by the heroes." Kurogiri said as there was no way for them to retrieve it, not without increasing their chances of being captured.
"And after all that time we took to make it as strong as All Might, and the bastard didn't even show up to fight it!" The voice complained, not calming down before sensei did the job for him.
"Calm yourself, doctor, it is an issue that cannot be helped. The fact that children could deal with it so effectively merely shows we need more field experience to make our Nomus much more capable." Sensei being the voice of reason, added to the conversation and he was right, even though their Nomu was a great weapon, it had never been field-tested, this was its first trial by fire and it lost, simple as that.
"Capable? That's right, that little brat was too capable." Tomura said, remembering details more clearly now that he wasn't seeing red.
"Oh?" Sensei probed, he always did tell Tomura to be observant of his enemies, he may have something useful.
"That little brat was able to read Nomu's weaknesses super quick and use them against it. He barked out orders like some high priest and the rest followed. That cannon must have been his idea." Tomura said as it all made sense now, that little winged shit took time to talk with the girls in the back and as soon as he leaves, they have a cannon? Then there was how all of them just…knew what to do, that was too suspicious.
"Yes, this Midoriya fellow is certainly no All Might…but," Sensei stopped as he valued more than quirks in this society, he had certainly lived long enough to see that at the end of the day, it counted much more who and how they were used, just like any other tool a man could have. "He could prove to be quite the dangerous foe with that sort of tactical mind and battle prowess." He finished the thought, wondering if there was a way they could bring this child to their side, he could prove useful to Tomura as a tactical advisor. "Did our intelligence say anything about him?" Sensei asked the warp user.
"Not much master, all we know is that he is the Class-1A representative and scored quite high in the entrance exams, 2nd for the written and 1st for the practical. As with the other students, there was nothing on whatever quirk he may have." Kurogiri reported as they found it annoying that UA didn't keep the information of their student's quirks on hand, or maybe they were kept separately?
"Hmmm, if I were to hazard a guess, I'll say is a subtle mutation type if you say you both never saw any obvious sighs of quirk activation like his classmates." The doctor said as the boy's level of observations and admittedly high intelligence could have meant he was like Nezu, a being with an intelligence booster.
"It makes no difference for the moment, we'll pay closer attention to the hero students of UA but for now, you have another task." Sensei declared before Tomura could feel the man's eyes in him even though there was no picture on the screen. "Shigaraki, take time to have your wounds cared for and to recover. After that, search for and recruit as many elites as you can. We won't be able to move as freely as we like for some time so we need a symbol for our men to rally to, that symbol will be you." He told the young man, capturing his full attention.
"Shigaraki Tomura, next time. Show the world you are to be feared." Was his words to him before the TV turned off.
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(At the USJ Building)
"13, 14, 15, 16, 17. Okay, other than Bakugo Katsuki, Todoroki Shoto, and Midoriya Izuku, everyone here seems to be uninjured, just tired." The trenchcoat-wearing detective with a fedora hat said as he looked over a file he had with him as he did a headcount to ensure they didn't miss anyone. It was some time after the pros had arrived along with the emergency despatch units. Behind the detective, dozens of thugs and small-time villains were being loaded up into prison transport vehicles from which they'll be taken to a holding facility till their trials. There were so much in fact, that they had to call in additional 6 busses to arrive once these were full.
"Ojiro-kun," Someone spoke up as a glove was laid on the boy's shoulder. "I heard that you were pretty strong in there. Like a real pro." The revealed to be Hagakure complimented, causing Ojiro to blush a bit from the girl's praise.
"Haha, well I wasn't the only one, Midoriya survived that conflagration zone using hit and run tactics mostly. Besides, I heard that Todoroki pretty much survived the landslide zone by himself." Ojiro replied as he turned to face the invisible girl fully.
"Oh I know about that but he wasn't alone. I was in the Landslide zone as well. Todoroki didn't know and he almost froze me solid." Hagakure said as she pointed over to the ambulance which Todoroki had just been wheeled into.
"Well then, I'm glad you're safe and sound." Ojiro said with a smile, though for reasons unknown to him, he felt like he should talk to the ice user in being mindful of his surroundings. Speaking of Todoroki.
'Why do I get the feeling I dodged a bullet just now?' Todoroki thought to himself as the ambulance doors were closed and he was taken back to the main campus so Recovery girl could get to treating him. Midoriya and Bakugo's ambulances had already left leaving him as the last one of the trio to leave.
"I apologies for not being able to return in time to help more but I ran into Aoyama and he needed assistance." Iida apologized with a formal bow to his group of Uraraka, Tokoyami, and Ashido.
"Really?" Uraraka asked before they all turned their attention to the blonde sparkly boy in question who didn't look too pleases by their looks.
"You try moving about after firing off naval blast after naval blast for ten straight minutes." Aoyama said as he was still holding his stomach in pain, he had to fight too you know, he was just by himself.
"Ten minutes, I thought you could only hold it for a couple of seconds at a time." Ashido asked as she recalled what he said during Aizawa's test.
"Being in life-threatening danger is a good motivator, madam." Aoyama replied with as much grace and poise as he usually had, though it was ruined when Kirishima patted his back so hard, he nearly tripped over.
"I hear that that was real manly of you, Aoyama, pushing yourself like that." The redhead complimented.
"Oui."
"So it was Bakugo causing all those blasts?" Tokoyami asked as he was being filled in the finer details of the fight.
"Yep, though you have known that." Uraraka said as she was by the entrance and had guessed those blasts were Bakugo's doing.
"Just wanted to be sure, I never imagined that our unclothe classmate could perform such explosions. Koda and I were still in the Squall Zone when we heard them." The local edge lord explained as he looked the other way in thought for a moment before his eyes narrowed a bit. "Still though, it appears that you also had to deal with hooligans, not villains?" he asked as he was smart enough to realize that what they what against, was the scum of the criminal underworld whose only real advantage was their numbers and even that didn't help them all that much in the long run.
"Yeah, those bastards didn't take us seriously because were kids to them, we showed them." Kaminari said, ashamed that even then, they had a hard time at the beginning dealing with them all.
"Indeed but that may be a double-edge sword if they learn from this." Shoji said as this was only the beginning of their troubles if these villains weren't caught soon.
"You were braver than I thought you could be in there, Mineta." Asui said as she looked over her purple-balled classmate.
"Hey, I have my moments you know!" Mineta shot back, offended she would think such a thing.
"When you're not trying to peak at the girls that is." Asui answered with her usual straight face, getting some others to laugh at the boy's expense.
"Ouch, she got you there man." Kaminari laughed as he couldn't resist doing so, this frog girl could roast you. "Speaking of which, where were you guys?" he asked of them as he didn't hear about what they had done during the whole thing.
"The Flood zone, in the beginning, but after we got away we got held back by some villains. Took us a while to fight our way through." Asui answered as she and the pervert had been forced to fight their way through the villains before they took shelter in the landslide zone Todoroki and Hagakure had already left.
"Alright, let's have the students return to their classroom for now." The detective announced to them as he turned to a police officer for any prompts, once he got it, he turned to face them all again. "We won't be questioning them right away anyway, right and it'll give them some time to relax after this really stressful day."
"Detective sir," Uraraka spoke up, sounding a bit shy and nervous but she pressed on anyway. "What about Aizawa-sensei? Will he be alright?" She asked as she had seen the state the man was in. In response to her question, the man pulled out his phone and played an audio file.
"Comminuted fractures in both arms and a facial fracture. Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be any serious brain damage but his orbital floor is broken into small pieces and his eyes may suffer from the after-effects." "That's what the doctor has found so far." The recording revealed, the news dampened the mood though the students were at least happy that Aizawa would live.
"Kero…" Asui let out a sad-sounding croak at the news.
"No…" Iida said, who knows who this will affect the man's career, no pro wanted to retire early because of injury.
"What about Thirteen-sensei?" Ashido asked, wanting to hear if he/she made it.
"Thirteen has already been treated. The laceration from the back to the upper arm was bad but Thirteens life isn't in any danger right now." Fortunately for them, Thirteen's condition was a much better one than Aizawa's which helped them all feel better.
"Is Midoriya alright?" Tokoyami asked, wishing to hear about the condition of his friend.
"Midori-? Oh yes, He should be fine. From what I was told he along with the other two didn't have any extensive injuries so they'll be back in class in about a day or two." The detective answered with a smile as those three were quite lucky in his opinion.
"I'm glad." Uraraka said with a sigh of relief.
"Indeed, it is quite fortunate." Tokoyami agreed with her as she closed in eyes to offer up a silent prayer of thanks for their relative good fortunes this day.
"Now, get back to your classroom." The detective instructed them all once more now that questions were out of the way.
"Yes sir."
"Sansa, please join the escort for these students back to the main building, I would feel much better knowing they had the help." The detective said as he turned to speak to another officer, who was wearing the standard uniform with only one difference to them.
"Yes, sir!" The officer replied with a salute. The thing that made this one different was the fact their quirk gave them a cat's head, which confused some people due to his choice of occupation.
'A cat? Uraraka thought to herself as she looked him over.
'Not a dog?' Ashido had a similar line of thought as she always imagines that animal cops would be…canine.
(With the teachers inside the UJS)
"We need to do some serious upgrades and renovations to your current security measure, don't we?" Nezu said as he looked over the ruin that was the USJ.
"I'm afraid so. I'll start the arrangements for such as soon as we get back to the main campus. Though it'll take some time to fully implement." A person said as they walked up the group. This man being someone in their late 20s with slick-back, black hair, and blue eyes. They wore the uniform of a butler and even had a monocle but that was merely their style choice. The man speaking was UA's high chief of security, Alfred Clare. A British security expect and one of the only 2,300 people in the world with a hero license that allows one to do hero work into any nation on the planet, so long as that nation is a member of the UN.
"Warp gate-type quirks are already very rare…"Midnight said but her tone was what caught Nezu's attention. "But for a villain to have one, of all things, will only make things much harder down the line." She finished, Nezu silently agreed with her as he had a feeling in his bones that this wasn't the last time this so-called "League of Villains' would rear its ugly head.
(Outside the UJS)
"Detective Tsukauchi!" An officer called out as he ran to intercept the detective before he could get into his car. "We have successfully uncovered the villain that the students described." The officer reported as he came to a stop.
"You mean the large muscles one?" Tsukauchi asked him, he was told the students had frozen and buried the thing in over 4m of ice.
"Yes it took our teams some time but they were able to get it out of the ice but…" The officer paused his report, from his tone of voice and his facial expression, this wasn't a topic he was comfortable with. "Sir, I don't know what to think about it, any living thing should have perished after all that, never mind being buried in ice for 20 minutes." He finally shared his opinions as knew that under such conditions, even a pro wouldn't have survived.
"How is it?" Tsukauchi asked, mentally filing away the man's grievous for later.
"It's docile and not resisting arrest sir but I still added another 4 officers to its guard detail in case it pulls anything, all the wounds the students said they gave it have also healed up. It's a…unique case seeing how those same wounds were present only a couple of minutes ago." The officer reported as watching it regenerate all its wounds once they got rid of the ice was…quite something.
"Though another odd thing to report is that it isn't replying or responding to anything we say or do, we think it may be mute." He added as an afterthought as he was used to the more outspoken villains, yes let's call them outspoken.
'That's is odd. Perhaps Yagi may have something about this.' Tsukauchi thought to himself as All Might has much more experience in fighting powerful and resourceful villains, maybe he'll have a theory. He filed the thought when he saw Nezu leaving the UJS building alongside Midnight and Alfred and quickly walked over to them. "Principal Nezu. We would like to investigate the rest of the school grounds just to be on the safe side." Tsukauchi requested.
"Why of course!" Nezu responded with open arms, quite literally. "People may complain but you police have more authority. The investigation is what you're good at." Nezu stated further before he made eye contact with him, unnerving him with that happy-looking smile and cold logical eyes, they just didn't mix well. "I'm counting on you."
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Its official, Tsukauchi was scared of Nezu.
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"Investigative teams 1 through 4, proceed to the main school grounds and begin your investigation of the school! Teams 5, 6, and 7 are to remain and begin investigating the USJ for any clues we may uncover."
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(Later that day, late afternoon)
(Nurse Office)
"Based on the situation you found yourselves in, I can't scold any of you." Recovery girl said after sitting and watching the three boys squirm about for a while under her gaze. She breathed a tired breathe before she pulled out the reports she had drawn up.
"Midoriya," She said to get his attention before she read his. "You suffered three cracked ribs and another two broken, you were lucky the broken ones didn't hit your lungs." She told him as they could all imagine if that happened, he would have been in much more serious trouble. "You also have sprained your left wrist and broke your left arm. You are going to need a cast for the next couple of days which means no training or any other types of tiring activity. Don't try to worm any in as your mother has been informed already, is that understood?" She finished as she eyed him, daring him to defy her call to which he didn't, and chose to nod his head in submission as he looked down at his bandaged limbs.
"Todoroki," She turned her attention to the fire and ice user of the group. "All your wounds were self-inflicted due to your quirk's drawbacks. Your right side had begun to fall to frostbite in some of the worst areas which were your leg. Your core body temperature also fell to dangerously low levels. You are forbidden from using the cold side of your quirk for the next three days and are to stay warm with blankets, warm food, and drinks, etc. I have already informed your father so there's no getting out of it." She told him, catching how he stiffened up at the mention he has to stay warm and couldn't use his quirk, she'll have to note that and pass it along to Hound Dog, she had a feeling he'll be busy shortly. "I'm I understood?" She asked him, waiting for his response.
"Yes, mam." That was the only thing he said as he looked away from her gaze, lost in his thoughts for the moment.
'What's eating his ass?' Bakugo asked himself as this was more aloof than the half and half bastard usually acted.
'His quirk has another side to it, is it maybe his father's flames? Why didn't he use sooner?' Midoriya asked himself, feeling his irritation rising as he wasn't aware the due could heat himself, he could have done much more in the fight if he did so, so why? The idiot had a duel quirk, something that was rare even in quirked society, and yet, he thought he didn't need it?
Some people are just selfish pricks.
"And lastly, you Bakugo." Recovery girl said as she turned to the only blonde present and pulled out her report on him. "From what I've been told, you engaged the villain with a disintegration quirk head on correct?" She asked him, just to be sure.
"Yeah, so?" Bakugo answered with his usual attitude, something that immediately got in the elder's nerves.
"You suffered cellular decay to your upper chest which wasn't too bad but it's was a serious case nonetheless, your arms and hands got the same treatment, which insane cases, decayed down to muscle tissue." She told him, revealing that his damage was much worse than the two other boys originally thought. "I've already treated you for that and have contacted your parents about this and given them a list of the medications you will need to take to help recover from this, also you should moisturize much more often to keep scar tissue from developing but the last one is optional, is that understood?" She ordered him as she put the chart down and approach his desk.
"Yeah, old lad-OW!" That was what he would have said. If not for the syringe-like crane striking his chest.
"Learn some respect for your elders or you can kiss my healing goodbye!" Recovery scolded him as she stuck him again, getting more curses from the boy as his rebellious attitude reared its head.
'Yup, she just like Granny Bakugo alright.' Midoriya thought to himself as she watched the old woman beat the boy down into submission though she most likely didn't hit too hard, he was recovering after all. She reminded him of Bakugo's grandmother who was nothing like her daughter and grand-son and regularly scolded and/or beat the boy whenever his less-than-stellar attitude and lack of respect made an appearance.
After a while, the old medic left the room, and with it, the room fell into a silence as all of them just laid there and thought about the day they just had, the danger they survived, and the future that was sure to have much worse in store for them if they chose to remain on this path.
"So…this is hero work?" Todoroki asked, being the first to speak in over ten full minutes.
"Yeah, didn't think the fuckers would injure me the first damn day." Bakugo answered, his voice tired as he wanted to sleep and not talk about this shit.
"Well, we better get used to it, though I'll like to keep the scars to a minimum if I can help it." Midoriya added as he closed his eyes in thought.
"Of course you wouldn't want to show off battle scars Deku." Bakugo taunted him, it seemed that he was never too tired to be an asshole to Midoriya.
"Oh sure, showing off the fact that my enemies got a hit in the first place," Midoriya shot back with equal measure. "Real manly Bakugo." He finished, knowing his counter was done.
"Fuck you!" Was the 'elegant' response from the blonde.
"Bring your ass here and try it, I dare you." Midoriya challenged, though he was pretty sure they'll get into more trouble if they fought right now but he was just too tired to care about that.
"You-[sigh]-You know what," Bakugo started but laid back down. "Maybe later, I'm too tired for this shit."
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"Do you two argue like a married couple all the time?" Todoroki asked them both after a silent few moments.
"What the Fuck/God, what the hell man!" Both shot up, regardless of the pain it did to do so at such a loaded question, what was up with this dude. "NO!" They both yelled, red at the face not from embarrassment but anger. Like they would be gay….and like each other?! Madness!
'Why are they so offended?' Todoroki thought to himself, he recalled seeing a similar dynamic between a couple he once saw on TV. Did he make a mistake?
KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Sorry for bothering you but I had some questions to ask you all before you returned home." Tsukauchi said after he opened the door and stepped into the med-bay.
"Sure, go ahead." Midoriya said, the sooner they finished this the better.
"Okay, I'll start with the big one, the Nomu creature you described. Midoriya, why did your plan to handle the creature involves such a heavy attack?" Tsukauchi asked as from what the students told them, the plan seemed a bit too far, especially when they didn't know that their opponent could recover from such wounds without issue.
"[Sigh]-Because I came to the conclusion that was the only sure-fire way we were gonna walk out of there?" Midoriya responded, getting ready to explain himself.
"How so?" Tsukauchi probed further as he took out his notepad to write this down.
"From what that villain, Tomura I believe said, that creature was created for the sole purpose of killing All Might. I then realized that it must have serious physical abilities to even keep up with All Might as from any footage I've seen of the man fighting, only the fastest could keep up with him, never alone see him coming." Midoriya began, pausing for a moment to give the man some extra time to make sure he got all that before he continued. "I then concluded that it must have weaknesses as All Might has never made use of support gear besides his costume. Tomura bragged that it had shock adsorption, not nullification nor energy manipulation.
Based on research done throughout the years on quirks of such nature and basic biology, I was able to figure out that this left the beast vulnerable to blades weapons and other unconventional forms of attack." Midoriya went further, surprising the other two boys that he had considered such intel so quickly.
"From that, I was able to speculate that a way to attack it would be to use a high impact sharp, pointed projectile for maximum damage as quirks of this nature only adsorb shock from an external source, once the projectile had entered the body, its shock adsorption would have been rendered mute which did occur as I did see its organs rupture and heard the distinctive sound of bones cracking from the sudden shake. The corrosive nature of the acid was an additional measure to ensure that its high-speed cellular repair was neutralized for an extended period to allow Todoroki to freeze it solid as at below freezing in ice, ice that my scans had revealed to be very cold, around -34 degrees Celsius. At such cold temperatures, along with the corrosive decay caused by the still lingering acid in its body, high-speed cellular growth would have been and was, impossible. Such as cold environment would have caused cells to freeze and die." Midoriya finished his explanation as she turned a bit to all of them listeners and saw that even Todoroki looked shocked that he made such accurate assumptions about their foe and his quirk with such little time to analyze both.
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"[Sigh] Pointy cannonball put a hole in big bad, Ice makes its body go nap-nap." Midoriya said after a couple of seconds as the other three people in the room had yet to reply in any way and just looked confused.
"We got it the first time you smart ass." Bakugo grumbled as he put his pillow over his head.
"It was just…a lot to take in, is all." Tsukauchi said after he looked down at his notes and saw that he had only got half of that down, he'll have to write the rest later before he forgets. Honestly, this kid was too smart for his good own.
"And you say you got all that from a few minutes of combat with it and some info the villains said?" Tsukauchi inquired further, it was extremely rare that hero student, never-mind first years had such observational skills that weren't boasted by their quirks.
"When you got an extra point in your pinkie toe, you got to be observant to make up for the handicap." Midoriya told him, that age-old bitterness entering his tone as he looked to be displeased with the line of questioning.
"Still…" Tsukauchi started but Midoriya cut him off.
"Also, if you would like, I didn't require some of the Nomu's cells you can study. My costume's right claw should still have some under the nails you can extract." He offered in exchange for a change of topic, something that the detective recognized but decided to play ball and let him have his way for now.
"Thank you. That could very well help us." Tsukauchi relented before he put his notepad away and begun to walk towards the door but stopped and walked back to them with a bag he pulled from his coat. "By the way, I have your phones here, you might want to look them over." He said as he handed each one their phones, he knew which was which going by the covers as Bakugo's was green and looked tough and blast resistant, Todoroki's appeared to be frost resistant and white while Midoriya's was fall damage resistance and had kaji for 'Free as a Bird' in the back along with a skateboard picture on it.
"Thanks, hope you made some progress." Todoroki said as they watched the man leave the room, having nothing better to do, they all decided to unlock their devices and see what they missed.
They all froze when they saw the notifications they had to read over.
12 Missed calls from 'Sister'
2 Missed class from 'Endeavour"
25 Messengers from 'Sister'
7 Missed calls from 'Dad'
9 Missed calls from 'Old Hag'
11 Messengers from 'Dad'
17 Messengers from 'Old Hag'
19 Missed calls from 'Mother'
8 Missed calls from 'Yu-chan'
31 Messengers from 'Mother'
22 Messengers from 'Yu-chan'
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"We are so dead when we get home." Bakugo said after a couple of moments to think it over, knowing that he wasn't going to hear the end of this when he got home.
"Agreed." The other two said at the same time as they had their issues to deal with.
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And that is the end of the season 1 stuff. The next chapter will be season 2 and if all goes well, will deviant from canon even more since the Sports tournament and the Stain Arc are going to be different, I'll already drew up plans for both and can't wait to publish them.
AFO isn't a typical villain, I imagine someone that has lived as long as him and controlled so much of the underworld for half as long would know that quirks aren't everything. He understands that a quirk is useless if not used right and the user matters, No he didn't figure out Midoriya is quirkless, that would be impossible for him to do with such little evidence. Though I've already planned out that the League and Tomura specifically will not be Midoriya's arch-enemy, the reason is simple. In cannon, both are the successors and students to AFO and All might respectively and as such, inherit their feud and hatred(server dislike in Midoriya's case) for the other. In this story, Midoriya does not receive OFA, whoever does will have that role. As for who that we be, I have yet to decide as I don't want it to be Mirio as he is already great with just Permeation as is and I plan to build on that as is, I want it to be someone in either Class 1-A or 1-B, if you could voice your opinions on the matter, that will be great as I always like having a second and third in these types of matters.
Now onto the fight with Nomu, that was Midoriya's own experience shining through as he was the only student present with real-world experience with such matters, it was also a point where he demonstrates that he isn't the same as cannon Izuku mentally as I can't imagine sweet Izuku Ok-ing such a plan, never-mind being the creator of such a thing. It's just not in him for such levels of violence. Midoriya himself survived the Nomu blasting him into a fountain because of his armor, we see in the Movie 'The Two Heroes' that Mellissa had developed a support item that could withstand the power of three of All Might's strikes before breaking under the immense power, therefore it would be possible for Izuku to create an armor that was lightweight enough to not slow him down and strong enough to take some serious punishment as no-one can dodge and weave forever.
As to why Todoroki was approaching his limit faster than cannon, he had to deal with more threats on the way to the central plaza which so he had used his power much more than he did in canon. I know that doesn't solve the whole issue but please remember his first hero costume had ice covering half of his body so I can imagine that like Endeavour incorporating fire into his own hero gear(like father, like son they say, though Shoto would sooner freeze be before agreeing with that) This would bring him to his limits faster than if he just used it with regular clothes. Also, I think that he realized that his costume followed a similar thing to his dads and that's why he changed it as he isn't the most…socially aware of the class, certainly not aware enough to see his costume made him look like a background character, a side-kick with an angst issue.
And yes, I added an OC to the UA staff but I had mentioned that UA had its security personal in an earlier chapter and this was a good time to reveal him and the things I added to the hero system in My Hero to further explain how thing work for pros but that will be explained later after the Sports Festival. Lastly, the notifications I mentioned at the end there, should be obvious who's are who's based on how they chose to save their loved one's contact info, if you can't guess that, take a minute to think about it before you PM me for answers.
Lastly, if you spotted any spelling/grammar/tense errors in this chapter, I apologize now as this was not proofread by another person as I rushed to finish it before Sunday and as you can see, failed to do so.