New mouth once more…..with social distancing still in effect. Man, I didn't think Covid19 would keep us inside for so long as for my country, it's been over a month since the government basically ordered everything to stay at home and not work(a true gamer's dream). Hopefully, this will also be the last month before we finally find a variable vaccine and/or cure but until then, I, like many others, are stuck at home-forced to basically do all the university courses we normally would do in a lecture hall with actual teachers….online with Youtube videos and other guide book I was able to order online.

This chapter was one that, not gonna lie, thought about over and over in my head. Writing summaries, going over notes, rewriting the summaries, adding and removing sub-plot points. This was the case as Stain was a turning point in cannon as without him, Giran would have never been able to introduce the bad-boy Dabi, lovable yandere waifu Toga and fan-boy Spinner. It is also at this point that Iida, Todoroki and Midoriya get a taste of real combat and fear as well as the inner working of the hero system. So to say this any changes done here will ripple throughout the story isn't an exaggeration.

That being said, it should came as no surprise that I took what happened in cannon, removed some things, added other things-put it all in a cooking pot and then shook the thing for a solid ten minutes before serving it back….so yeah, expect some curveballs.

Chapter 32: The Climax of a battle, the founding of a Legacy

(Previously)

"This guy…!" Midoriya tried to say as he went for a sideswipe of Stain's torso but the villain caught on too quick, jumped back, and was able to throw a knife right at his face, the thing striking the eye protector with enough force that it cracked it. 'It's as if his speed and reflexes have no limit!' He thought to himself as Stain just seemed to grow stronger as the fight went on, it was getting harder to even keep up with his movements!

"Midoriya!" Kendo yelled as she came to his aid, punching back Stain before he could capitalize on the fact Midoriya was somewhat dazed.

"I'm good! I'm good. It didn't penetrate. Thank God for that." Midoriya replied quickly as he ripped off the now useless helmet as he couldn't see out of one eye and that knife had somehow damaged his visual feed. Meaning he was without any head protection at one of the worst possible times not to have any.

"Kendo!" Todoroki yelled as to two dived out of the way of he fired off a large volume of fire towards Stain, how lick a frickin ninja, was able to avoid it. Seeing an opportunity, Midoriya tossed the girl a staff, which he pulled from his second compartment before he twirled his, still in spear form before he ignited the blade.

"Thanks, I can use this." Kendo replied before they two charged Stain together, with Kendo using the staff more like a sword than anything else while Midoriya went at him with thrust and swipes with the flaming spearhead. When Stain managed to knee Midoriya in the stomach and roundhouse kick him back, Todoroki fired off another wave of fire to give them some breathing room.

"Guys! Hang in there! We only need to hold him back!" Todoroki yelled to remind him as he observed Midoriya wheezing in pain due to the boot having spikes, which meant that the kick, which hit his side, must have either pierced through his armor or hit a sweet spot between the plates. He hoped that it was either. Todoroki switched from a fiery assault to an icy one, trying to bury the hero killer in a wave of ice. Stain, once more avoided the attack and licked some blood off his blade, blood belonging to Kendo.

"Shit!" Kendo cursed as she crashed down onto the floor, to which Midoriya came to her aid and blocked a strike from Stain, Stain's blade meeting his flaming spear in an epic blade lock as the two tried to outpower the other. After some time, Midoriya knocked off Stain with a mighty looking heave who took it in stride and instead focus on them again, dashing towards him like a man bewitched, slicing through his wave barrier with a single slash. Todoroki, seeing that he and his wounded were in trouble, fired off the largest amount of fire he could muster to keep Stain at bay.

(And now)

'This isn't good!' Todoroki thought to himself as he directed a wave of fire towards their opponent. "Keep him off me!"

"And what do you think we're trying to do?!" Midoriya yelled back as he took to the air and started to fire his SMGs down on Stain, showering him with high-speed rubber bullets but the bastard was like a frickin ninja, avoiding just about every shot, which he kept up till Midoriya was forced back to reload, sliding in his last magazine into both of them.

"We got to keep at it!" Kendo affirmed as she charged the killer now that the bullet storm had ceased and went to engage in close combat, being extremely wary of his blades and tongue to prevent him from cutting her or tasting her blood. But with her own injuries as well as Stain's impressive combat skill, she quickly found herself being pushed back, near always on the defensive.

"Got it, no pain no gain. But one question, we're going through a lot of pain for very gain, is that how it's supposed to work?" Midoriya asked as he took aim and once he saw an opening, he didn't hesitate to take it. The first couple rounds struck home to Stain's side but after that, as if the pain didn't bother him, he backpedaled away and then backflipped over a stream of ice that Todoroki had put them to try and trip him. Clearly, this guy has mad situational awareness.

"Just keep him busy, we have to hold him off." Todoroki barked as he spared a glance towards the two downed people and saw that though Native was moving, it looked like his own injuries were catching up.

"Easier said then-DONE!" Midoriya yelled back at him as he went in for the attack, trying to strike the man with his spear. At least, that was the plan since as soon as he got in close, Stain caught his outstretched him, gave him a wicked strike to his exposed neck, choking him before he then showed off his own strength by tossing the boy so hard he crashed into one of the few cars on the street. The force of which smashed right through the backseat door and carried inside.

CRASH

"ARG!" Midoriya cried out on impact as the car's alarm went off due to the same force.

"Midoriya, Kendo! Look out!" Todoroki called out after seeing his rep take a hit like that before he saw that Stain was moving in on Kendo, his warning came just in the nick of time as the girl was able to jump back while striking him, creating as much distance as she could.

"Thanks." Kendo stated, huffing for air due to the adrenaline pumping and her injuries as Todoroki put up another ice wall to defend their objectives. Once he saw that down, he quickly turned to inspect the two, knowing that Kendo would watch his back.

"Thank me if we survive this. Dammit, Iida's still out of it. Native, you up?" The duel-haired boy asked as he looked them both over and even though Iida was muttering, he wasn't responding which meant he was delusional, in a haze maybe.

"Don't…think so….dammit, my own wounds are catching up to me." Native got out as he felt his own midsection where he got stabbed earlier on in the evening. It wasn't so bad then but all the jostling of when Midoriya carried him away made things worse. The bad news kept on coming as he could still not move his body.

"Kendo! We need to finish this quickly, these two need medical attention and soon!" Todoroki yelled out as he took out some bandages and wet wipes before he ripped up Native shirt so he could try and clean and cover up the bleeding as soon as he could. He had to be mindful of his own arm though as blood was starting to leak through the cloth.

"Understood." Kendo stated as she ran back in to engage, needing to buy time for Todoroki to do what he could.

"Shit, that hurts…."Meanwhile, with the winged boy, Midoriya crawled out of the beat-up backseat of the car before crashing into the road below. He felt like absolute crap seeing the damage that one attack sequence did to him as he tried to work himself back up to his feet but once he got his head above the ground again, he coughed up a small pool of bile and blood. "That's not good." He muttered to himself as you didn't need to be a doctor to know that one shouldn't be coughing up blood, and certainly not that much.

'Change of plans then looks like we're gonna have to be a little more liberal with collateral damage.' He thought to himself as there was no way they could beat this guy with their current attack plan, they switch things up. So with this new plan in mind, he jumped into the air above the fighting and took aim. "Eat missiles!" he yelled out to try and get Kendo to move, which she did as he fired off a salvo of the same type of missiles he had used in his fight against Todoroki.

But Stain proved to be a hard target as he avoided most of them while he threw two knives at two that would have hit him, this gave him the chance to close the gap between him and Kendo and land a heavy blow to her face, breaking her nose on impact and sending her flying. "What-ARG!" She screamed in pain just as Izuku moved in to catch her.

"Kendo!" He started as he managed to grab hold of her and bring her down to earth safely, all while keeping his eye on Stain as he fired off every missile salvo he had. "I got you."

"Thanks, I think he broke his nose." Kendo wheezed as she held on to her own broken nose to try and stem the bleeding. It wasn't the first time she broke it in a fight but it was certainly in the top 5 most painful.

"Think is right. Your face's a mess." Midoriya joked to try and raise the mood, sparing her only a glance before he got back up and charged Stain, having used up just about every missile he had left.

"Like you have any room to talk." Kendo shot back as she got back up to her feet and chased after him, starting another two on one brawl with Stain who fought to keep them away from him. However, even though they had the numbers, both students could feel that they weren't at 100%, they moved slower, reactions seemingly off and their strength weaken compared to before. Midoriya found himself protecting his already injured side as much as possible as Stain would frequently target it, which left his other side open for the attack which once more, was exploited. Kendo found that she couldn't defend as much as she wanted with her hands in fear that he could be able to take blood, which meant she had to dodge a lot more than she was comfortable with.

'This guy…!' Kendo thought to herself as she went for a right cross to the head but Stain bent back in such a way that shouldn't have been remotely comfortable for a human being before he swung back around and nearly took her hand on. 'Does he ever slow down?!' She was forced to jump back, which gave the man enough room to race right on past them towards Todoroki was reflexed into creating a sea of jagged ice in front of him but Stain merely jumped over the first one before he started to run over them. Within mere moments, he had closed the gap and was about to lick some blood off the young Hero's face.

"You're in the way." He whispered just as his tongue would have made contract but Todoroki proved that he wasn't some idiot as since Stain was already on his left side, he merely blasted as much fire as he could muster over his body.

"Dammit!" Stain jumped back, just barely avoiding burning his tongue as Midoriya came right in and landed a powerful shock assisted kick to his Stain, wanting payback for his still bleeding side.

"This is for my side!" Midoriya yelled at him as Kendo increased the size of her hands to their limits and smashed him into a building wall.

"And this is for my hands!" Kendo finished as she jumped back to the rest of them, who were now sporting even more bruises, cuts and welts than they did at the start of this.

"So, what's our new plan since the old one worked out so well?" Todoroki asked as he tried to cover up his fear as Stain walked right on out of the wall that his body had made. It was unnerving to see someone shake off their best with this, they knew they had a lot to learn but was the gap between them and pros that big?

"Keep him at a distance," Midoriya stated as he choked down his fear as he started to kick out shockwave after shockwave towards Stain. "Don't let up!" If this any other time, one of them would have commented on his form as seamlessly switched from high kicks to round-house style kicks.

"Easier said than done." Kendo replied as she sat back and waited for an opening as Stain dodged each and every blast as he got closer to them.

"Have some of this!" Seeing this, Midoriya switched up his game as he planted both feet into the ground and geared up his barrels before firing. Unlike the first time, he set it to lower power but a higher rate of fire, that combined with his SMGs put up an impressive wall of fire, which forced Stain before, right into a jet of fire courtesy of Todoroki who had used the chance to move to a more favorable position.

"Kendo, stay back!" Todoroki ordered as he and Midoriya kept up the pressure, now firing from two different directions to ensure that he couldn't dodge like he used to.

'They're switching up their battle plans? Impressive for a bunch of first years.' Stain observed as she swayed and ducked around the volley of fire. Some shots coming closer than others but overall, proving to be quite the challenge for him no wonder these kids repelled Tomura's foolish attack.

"Nonetheless, it won't be enough." Stain spoke out as he let a small blade slide into his hand from its hidden position under his wrist before he expertly threw it towards Midoriya, forcing him to halt his attack as he blocked the blade with his gauntlet, the steel harmlessly bouncing off the study material.

"Does he ever go down?" Kendo asked as she messaged her hands to get the blood flowing again as she heard the click from Midoriya's SMGs, as well as his curse as he folded them away, having spent all his ammo.

"I'll tell yer when I see it." Midoriya shot back as he increased the power of each laser, though it brought down their rate of fire, something he would have to leave for Todoroki to make up for.

"How's the side?" Kendo asked as she stepped forward, ready to rush if should Todoroki need it, and with the way things are going, that might happen.

"I'll live. Your hands?" Midoriya answered as he felt his beaten side and hissed in pain. He could make out a ton of blood and damage to the tissue due to the rather jagged nature of Stain's boots having dug into his flesh. He really needed to make a better armor, one that protected his stomach region the next time.

"Bloody, but I can still fight." He answered as he sucked up the pain, and just in time too, as they saw Todoroki was being pushed back and immediately rushed in.

"Back me up!" Midoriya yelled as he popped out his gear, having lost his spear when he was tossed into the car.

"You got it!" She answered as she entered the fray along with. And that's how the four would continue for another few minutes, with one using ranged attacks while the other two kept up the pressure at close hand. At one point, Kendo was able to snag up half of the broken staff Midoriya loaned her and used it as a billy-club/knife style while Midoriya showed off his own skills with his hands, using boxing combined with sweeping leg moves and tiger style kung-fu, they just managed to keep up with the seasoned killer. Luck on the young boy's side as he would continually use his gauntlets and his wings to block whenever.

'Now!' Midoriya thought to himself as he used his wing to block and blind Stain to his movements before he let it fall just as he launched an uppercut, which missed as Stain had seen the move coming and swayed to the side to avoid it along with Kendo's straight punch. 'Wha?' Midoriya thought to himself before he found the new sensation of pain as Stain buried the back end of his sword hilt into his other injured side.

"I told you, don't try surprise on someone faster!" Stain stated as he quickly turned the strike into a combo as he grabbed onto Izuku and slammed him back first into the ground before blocking an attack for Kendo.

"Midoriya-crap!" Kendo looked away for a second to inspect her own partner before she felt Stain applying more force into his block, knocking her back and forcing her to defend herself using the baton(the piece of staff she picked up)

"Your efforts are admirable but ultimately pointless, leave now." Stain told her as he pressed into her, bending her back as the taller, stronger villain increased the pressure on her.

"What kind of hero would even dream of leaving them with a mad-man like you?" Kendo spat back as she struggled to hold on, knowing that with her back to Todoroki, he couldn't fire off any support without the risk of hitting her as well. "I'm not going anywhere."

"Pity, then fall." Stain said as he let go of his blade but then used his free hand to nick the side of her head. By the time she realized that he now had some of her blood, he was already licking it.

"Crap, not this again!" Kendo yelled out as she fell over due to being out of balance just before being caught by his quirk. Leaving Todoroki as the sole remaining fighter left standing.

"Kendo! Midoriya!" He yelled as he saw them both go down before he cursed to himself and charged straight ahead. But instead of running at Stain, he ran towards the wall of a building. 'Here goes nothing.'

Todoroki finished the thought as he jumped onto the all, feet first as he powered up his fire quirk in the one foot. Rising to the temperature he hoped would be enough. Which on impact, proved to be right as his foot melted a good little foothold for him. He didn't let the joy of doing this get to him as he brought his other foot down and then his the ice to latch onto the surface. In the moments it took to do this, Todoroki forced himself to run up the side of the building much like he had seen his father do in the past. The new angle gave him a good view of the street but also gave him a new way of attacking as he started to launch attacks like this.

'Crap, that bastard makes this easier than it looks. Still,' Todoroki thought to himself as he found out just how strain this type of move had on him, even though it had been less than a minute, he found himself nearly the limits of his stamina and pushing his control. 'Better than nothing.' He resolved to worry about the kickbacks of this stupid stunt later.

"Shoot. This is getting harder than I thought it'll be." Stain muttered to himself as he jumped back from a fiery assault only to struck right back into it due to a blow to the back.

"And it's only gonna get worse." Midoriya stated as he worked himself back up to his feet from the floor, where he had fired a shockwave right into Stain's back.

"You're still conscious." Stain observed, even as he jumped out the fire covered in minor burns, his scarf having caught fire and now only a third the length it was a second ago.

"It'll take more than a broken rib to keep me down." He coughed out as he got back up to his feet.

"Clearly." Stain muttered as he picked up Todoroki landing on the ground again behind him. Having thought of a plan, Midoriya pulled out two more grenades and threw them as one. Stain seeing this and recalling his stunt from the alley quickly retreated away from the two while closing his eyes. True to his assumption, they both went off with one releasing a smoke cloud while another went off with a bang, blinding those who saw it.

'Another smoke screen?' Stain thought to himself as he opened his eyes to see that the smoke had grown to cover most of the street. But he wouldn't be denied.

"That won't work a second time." Stain yelled, getting angry as he slashed at the smoke cloud, intending to dissipate it as soon as he could, but he didn't see the true meaning of it till he only heard the tell tale signs of a missile, larger than the rest before he slammed into his blade, preventing the thing from hitting his chest.

BOOM

"Arg!" Stain cried as he was forced to abandon his now useless blade as it soon was bubbled over and sealed in some kind of hardening foam, yes, capture foam! He had seen in action before, he could see that he was lucky he wasn't hit with him, he never even knew the kid had some of that stuff.

"I know, but that wasn't the point." Midoriya spoke up as the smoke cleared, showing that he was indeed the source of that little missile as one of two silo pods was open on his backpack. 'Dammit, it got one more capture rocket and the only thing I got was his sword? This guy's reflexes are inhumane!' Midoriya misread the situation as he didn't know that Stain blocked that strike by mere chance, rather he thought the man was able to react fast enough to it so he merely sacrificed his blade to tank the blow.

'Gotta watch for those ones, it'll be tricky if I'm tagged.' Stain thought to himself as he pulled out two knives now that he had lost his blade. Though in his haste to avoid the one attack, he completely forgot about the third student, how took this chance of his proximity to her to grab onto his leg.

"We're not done!" Kendo yelled at him as she held him in place as she then used her other fist to punch him right towards Todoroki who didn't waste time lighting him up once more. As this happened, the new mobile Kendo got back up to her feet.

"Fine then." Stain rasped out as he escaped the fire once more, this time his burns were much more serious while his scarf was completely gone, along with some of the bandage wrapping

"Midoriya!" Todoroki yelled as he threw over the boy's discarded spear which he caught. Once he had it in his arms, he activated the flame thrower mode and like Todoroki, kept up a wall of fire. Though they didn't notice it, Stain was done playing.

"Thanks for the assist. Wait, the hell!?" Midoriya called out as he increased the strength of the flames, though he did him little good as Stain charged the closest person, which unluckily for him, was him. "What is he made of?"

"I will not be stopped by mere children." Stain growled as he flipped over the over before he could react and in that time. Striking down on his shoulder with such technique and force, he dislocated the arm from the socket.

"This is crazy-ARG!." Midoriya yelled in sheer pain as he registered that his arm was not in the Goddamn socket! How did he even do that?! He was wearing protective armor!

"This time," Stain started as he landed on his feet behind the bow before he reversed the grip of his blade and brought it up at the base of where his left-wing connected to the rest of the pack.

SLASH!

In a scene of power, skill, and horror. The world watched as Stain, using nothing but a combat blade, cut right through Midoriya's pride and joy, allowing fuel and oil lines to spray in place of blood.

'What….my wing.' Midoriya found himself in shock as he turned as fast as he could to face the threat, his mind struggling to keep up now that his balance was off due to having a weighed wing on his right but having nothing on his left. 'He cut through my wing.'

"You stay down." He finished as twirled his own body around and delivered an insanely powerful strike to Midoriya's face, breaking his nose on impact as the force of the blow was strong enough for one to mistake Stain's quirk to have to do with super strength.

CRACK

Was the loud and painful sound the ice wall that Todoroki erected to protect Native and Iida has Midoriya's body crashed into it, cratering on impact as spider-web-like cracks formed from it before he lifelessly fell to the floor.

"Rep!" Todoroki yelled as he fired off the largest blast of flames yet in the fight in fury.

"That should keep him down." Stain muttered to himself as he licked the boy's blood off his fist just to be sure he wouldn't get back up anytime soon.

"You'll pay for that!" Kendo cried as he charged him, picking up Midoriya's fallen spear along the way.

(In a dark alley)

"These children…..they are quite skilled." A hooded individual thought aloud as they watched the intense fighting from another city. In the dead of night, there wasn't much one could make out about them.

'To go up against someone as powerful as Stain, hmmm. But are they fakes like the rest of them?' He finished the thought in his own mind as he brushed his scaly hand through his purple hair.

(In some bar)

"Now there's something you don't see every day." One of the customers of the bar started with a bored look in his rick blue eyes.

"No kidding, those brats are getting creamed!" Another yelled, obviously drunk already.

"Served them right, thinking they could play with the big dogs." Another, also drunk laughed as the rest of them started to laugh like a bunch of idiots, not noticing that the quiet one who spoke up was growing irritated as blue flames licked across his palms before he got them back under control.

"Idiots." He started as he moved a hand through his black hair before he placed a scarred hand on the table before leaving, the money he owed behind.

(With All for One)

"Is that right?" AFO asked as he was informed of how the situation in Hosu was developing. Never would he have guessed that Stain would confront students, students that were holding their own…..for the most part.

"Yes sir, they are holding their own." The doctor replied to his master who was looking over the latest reports on their nomu. "Shall I send additional Nomus?" He asked as he knew that AFO didn't tell Tomura the real number of nomu they had, not until the boy was ready for such responsibility.

"….No, Tomura must learn these lessons sooner or later. Besides, that boy." AFO answered him as he gestured towards the TV screen which was playing the live feed of the Stain fight. Though his focus was on the unmoving green-haired boy.

"He reminds of someone." He finished without giving an answer. "We'll leave him be, for now, but the time will come when we will have to end him."

"I don't think I've ever had a naturally quirkless test subject. Who knows what I may find out?" The mad doctor laughed as he could only imagine what kind of results his experiments could yield if he was provided with a young quirkless boy like that.

(In another city)

"They all so pretty. Izu...Kedi….Snowy….you all look so pretty, covered in so much blood." In another part of Japan, a young blonde with a naturally permanent blush gushed as she looked over the ongoing news story on a stolen phone. As she watched this, she lay on top of another blonde close to her age appearance-wise, one covered in bruises and cuts from her encounter with the mental girl.

"Please…please don't-ARG!" The girl underneath her tried to plea for mercy before the blonde stab her right through the heart, killing her within moments. In a clearly practices fashion, she withdrew her knife from the warm corpse without getting a single drop of blood on her school uniform.

"Sorry, I found some new friends, I can't wait to meet them. Maybe Stainny as well." She giggled to herself as her blush grew at the thought of knowing them, being with them, becoming them, seeing them bleed sweet blood.

"And we'll get to know each other so well. And we'll become the best of friends, BBF!" She finished as her giggles grew in volume and insanity as she got up and skipped away, leaving the body of her latest victim for someone to find later, when she was long gone.

(Back in Hosu)

'Crap….I'm not gonna walk away from that one without scars.' Midoriya wheezed out as he found his vision blurry and his hearing screwed with. He wasn't even sure if he couldn't move because of Stain's quirk because of the physical damage. "Neko, status."

"Cooling fluid leaking, at 46% capacity, flight controls damaged. Cannon 2 offline. Fuel lines cracked. Fuel capacity, 67% and failing, emergency shut-up of all non-essential systems ongoing." The onboard AI replied to him, not making his day any better.

'I can't really move,' He tried to move…to do something! But it was all for naught. 'Shit, that last one really did a number of me.' He concluded as he felt a warm, wet liquid move down his brow from somewhere beyond his hairline. He didn't need to be a genius to guess what it was.

"Neko, reconfigure all remaining power to remaining cannon." Even so, even if he couldn't move, he didn't need to. Not when he's got a good shot.

"Caution sir, the cannon is damaged. Using it may destroy it and dip power into the red, all systems will go down." Neko replied, a drip of concern in her synthetic voice.

"Do it, we don't have the luxury not do." Midoriya ordered, willing his blurred vision to line up with Stain as he beat back both standing students. Just like before, his movements and reflexes, strength and speed. They were all different, it was harsh to admit but it seemed that he was holding back against them earlier, even then they barely held their own, no way will they last long enough for aid to get here before they all down.

"At once." Neko replied to his order as the AI worked to target the killer, even though the gears strained under the weight due to damage. Hell, he knew that it was a miracle he still had power as a failsafe was built in to cut it if the fuel lines were compromised.

'I only got one shot left, gotta make this count.' He thought to himself as he directed the AI with whispers to ensure they weren't discovered.

(With Kendo)

'How does he use this bloody thing?' Kendo thought to herself as she caught up at best defense as she was pushed further and further back by Stain. Sure she had some experience using a bō staff from her training in the dojo, but she never put that much time into it, which went double for a spear-like Midoriya's. Now she was regretting that choice as the weapon found itself chipped a piece after another.

"Come on, that back-up should be here by now." Todoroki reminded as he kicked out a jet of flames. He had never used his flames like this…like ever and it was straining him. Even if he can use his ice to cool down, it didn't mean jack if you were tired.

"You holding up alright?" Kendo asked him as she used her quirk to get away from Stain before he could finish her. Like the other two, she wasn't clear of injuries as her costume was torn and cut in several places, some cuts still bleeding as well as the bloody broken nose and bruised black eye.

"Same here never used both my quirks like this for this long. It's wearing me down." Todoroki answered as he was really started to tire out as both his arms were starting to grow numb from either heat or the chill. "Crap, incoming!" he yelled as he erected a hastily built ice wall to keep back Stain who jumped right over it now that he didn't have a sword to cut through.

"Time to end this!" Stain yelled as he was able to pass on back Todoroki can grab his bandage, ripping the thing in the process as he licked some of the blood off it.

"My bandage-Dammit!" Todoroki cursed as he found himself caught by his quirk for the first time in the fight, dropping down to the fall, unable to even summon forth any of power. In the same instance, he was able to slash at kendo, who wasn't able to move out of the way in time, and got a new cut to the cheek, deep enough to draw blood. Before she could stop him or make him drop the blade, he licked that one too. Leaving all three down for the count.

Now a winded but still standing Stain looked over the two downed students as he rubbed his side with a grimace. Sure he had taken worse hits in his time as a vigilante but these kids were no joke. They would make fine heroes one day but first, he needed to weed out the unworthy.

"You three put up a solid fight, but you're too green." Stain started as he turned around to go and deal with his real targets before calling in some medical aid for them before he would disappear. At least, that was the plan as to when he did turn, all he saw was a blinding light of energy heading right towards him, giving him next to no time to react. "What th-ARG!" he let out as he was hit by this powerful beam of power, easily the width of his waist and strong enough not just to hit him but drive him back first right through a wall of a small business. The fact that the two students on the ground didn't even know how to react, they tried to turn their heads and eyes towards where that blast came from.

"Midoriya…?" Kendo whispered loudly in awe as she saw that he, in fact, was the shooter as even though he was laying on the ground stomach first, his one remaining cannon was still smoking from the shot even if the barrel looked like it has seen far better days.

"(Huff, huff) I don't need(huff) to move to fire(huff), What is it that say, third times the charm?" Midoriya joked, filled with joy at the fact that his gamble paid off, he had to bet on the fact that Stain wouldn't move around too much and that he would remain in the same general area but it worked. Sure he had to nearly rapture the cannon but it somehow managed to pull one last rabbit out of hat. "You two alright?" he coughed out as he found it harder and harder to stay awake.

"Idiot, you two took more damage than I did." Todoroki responded as just let his heart rate fall. Now all they had to was wait for the effects of his Stain to wear off from one of them or for the pros to get here and arrest.

"Screw you to." Midoriya shot back as Kendo chuckled at their relationship. Happy that they won….or so they thought.

"I have to admit," A familiar….and unwanted voice spoke up from the hole in the building, filling their veins with ice and terror into their hearts.

"What?" Midoriya whispered out, his eyes wide with disbelief and fear. This…he must have passed out, this can't be real!

"I underestimated you three, no one's got me this good in years." Stain spoke up against as he walked or more accurately, limped out of the wall. Looking like he was hit by a solar flare as the entire of his torso was burned, bloody, and scarred from the shot, his mask gone revealing his unsettling red gaze on them which was made more menacing by the fact that cuts on his head leaked trials of blood over his face. It was clear that he had taken more damage in this one fight than he had in any other reporting one but even then, the fact of the matter was that they were down….and he wasn't.

"There's no way….That should have been enough to take him out!" Todoroki screamed, losing his cool as he had to fight to keep his flight response in check, even though he couldn't bring himself to fight, paralysis or no.

"But at the end," Stain continued as he limped right on past Kendo and Todoroki, still grasping at one blade. "It wasn't enough." As he reached his target, who could nothing as he stared up to this monster of a man.

"Im-Im-impossible! That had enough strength in it to take down 10 men! You shouldn't, couldn't be standing!" Midoriya cried out, this….this was impossible, it couldn't be real! That kind of attack took out a large group at the USJ, how the hell did one man walk away from that?!

"Kid, in this line of work, people tend to be far stronger than the norm. Though it has been years since I got this injured on a job." Stain told him as he gripped his blade and brought it up.

"Neko, fire again!" Midoriya screamed, near shitting himself from the terror, his two teammates not that far behind his league.

"Impossible, cannon barrel is fractured, cannon mode cannot be activated." Neko informed him as all systems shut down

"Missiles then, anything!" Midoriya yelled, he still had the one missile, didn't he?!

"Power lines critical, unable to activate offensive subsystems." Neko in informed but her voice started to slur near the end as the suit lost power.

'Crap, crap! I got nothing! I can barely move!' He thought to himself as he could nothing but focus the one eye on the blade, the one that might just take his life.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you," Stain told him, reading the fear off his face as he posed the blade to strike, swaying a bit himself. "Just ensure that you can ever get in the way again."

"Midoriya, get out of there!" Kendo screamed at him, near tears at the possibility of watching a fellow classmate die.

"Move your idiot, you're toast if you don't!" Todoroki ordered him, trying to create even a tiny bit of ice, of fire, of anything!

SLASH!/CLING!

"What did I tell you about fighting Stain, you little brat?" A near, no a Godsend spoke up as they blocked the attack with their own blade. This one coming out of a certain hero's gauntlet.

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"What?" Midoriya whispered as he looked onwards, and saw the unmistakable armored visage of the bearded aged veteran hero. Glaring down Stain with a look of fury in his gaze.

"Endeavour!" Yoroi Musha yelled as he struck Stain with a heavy punch, sending him back where he was engulfed in a storm of flames. With that call, the rest of the pros who had raced over made themselves known, rushing in to contain the situation and take down this serial killer.

"Kid!" Rahzar called as he came to a stop next to the still downed Midoriya. And he wasn't the only one.

"Homem pequeno!(Little Man!)" Mister X said as he and Kodai came up to him as the heroes under Endeavour went for Todoroki and Kendo. Gran Torino was not far behind them. Aside from a few cuts and scratches or in Rahzar's case, bruises-they looked much better than they did.

"Back up?" Kendo whispered out, sounding both confused and relieved as one of the pros helped her up, making sure to hold on as they could tell she couldn't support her own weight right now.

"They made it…?" Todoroki asked, as in a daze as Kendo was as one of his father's sidekicks, Burning he recalled, helped him up to his feet.

"You know it, the Calvary's here, even if we're late to the party." The hot-haired pro said as she led him away from his spot while another got out his own medical equipment to address his wounds.

"You know, I'm so happy to see you right now, I would kiss you if I could." Midoriya stated with a relieved but very tired smile as Kodai went about taking care of his bloodies face while Rahzar stood over them.

"Please don't, you're covered in blood." The hat-wearing intern replied as she went about cleaning the blood, though he did catch the fact that she had a ghost of a smile on her face. He knew she cared!

'Dammit, I took too much time!' As they were just short of singing praise to their Gods for this miracle(Like Shiozaki probably wound and probable was if she was watching this live), Stain was caught with his back to the wall with next to no gear left on him, his sword gone, most of his blades, gone. Leaving him with only the one he held onto for dear life.

"Alright punk, surrender! We got you surrounded!" Endeavour ordered, barely holding back the urge to just incinerate this bastard for daring to hurt his prized child, but he was able to hold back the desire, he was still a pro and that meant he couldn't just resort to violence when not necessary.

"Be careful of his quirk! If he tastes your blood, you'll be paralyzed!" Kendo called out to them as she was taken away to behind the ice wall Todoroki had created earlier on in the fight, though half-melted and cracked, it was still standing as she saw others tending to Native and Iida, both of who were unconscious.

"Is that right?" Mister X asked as he pulled out his own custom-made butterfly knife. He had a bone to pick with this fool who dared to harm one under the protection of Yoroi Musha.

"A Knife, really?" Stain asked as charged the closest person, his plan being to take one down and use the confusion to try and escape. Though before he even made half of that distance, Mister X intercepted him.

"Oh nonononono, you'll find a little's knife all I need." Mister X finished with a shout as he forced back the killer and went to town, easily keeping up with the injured villain with nothing but a butterfly, mixed in with his dance-like kicks, Stain quickly found himself on the back foot.

"What the hell….he learned that on the streets?" Midoriya asked as Kodai propped him up to better fix him up, letting him see the guy that would have benched him for months if he was lucky to be matched and surpassed so easily. He would have said more if not for the bile and spit he had spit out, along with blood. "[COUGH! COUGH!] Shit that hurts…" He rasped out as he could taste his breakfast now. Somehow it tasted more like crap than the great meal it was going down.

"Easy there kid, we got you." Rahzar told him as he looked down to them, seeing that Kodai had avoided the vomit but still worked on him, something told him she would hold this over his head for a while.

"[Cough] Thanks, we would have been toast if you didn't show, by the way," Midoriya started with a dopey-looking smile. "The hell took you so long?!" he yelled at the giant werewolf before he started to cough even harder as Kodai passed him some water, do doubt his throat wasn't liking him yelling.

"Can it! It wasn't like it was a straight path, there was chaos and criminals all over the damn place." Rahzar yelled back at him, barely holding back the urge to knock up upside the head.

"Opportunists we had to take care of." Kodai added in as she had been dealing with scum who preyed on chaos for most of the entire thing. "The police are on the way." She finished as she helped the boy up, thankful that he wasn't too heavy as they moved away from the action.

"The nomus?" Midoriya asked, recalling that those brain freaks were all over the place.

"Eliminated." Kodai explained as she led him to the others, where she saw her class rep being tended to and breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness you're okay."

"Well I've certainly seen better days, but still happy to be here." Kendo replied with a small, eased smile, thankful the kundere she had grown close to over their time in UA being just fine.

"You'll pay for this, Stain!" Endeavour yelled as he fired off a jet of flames towards the criminal who had been kicked back by Mister X, Stain found himself barely able to dodge them as he was still singed by the scorching hot flames.

"Endeavour!" He called out his eyes now wide as they focused on the flame hero. But before anything else, Yoroi Musha stepped in and got ready to fight.

"Calm down, Endeavour. We all have a bone to pick with him." Gran Torino called from his position near kendo as they took care of their injuries till the paramedics could get here.

"Gran Torino!" Kendo called out as she waved to him, or tired till she winced from the pain shooting up her bandaged hand.

"You little brat! Do you have any idea how worried I was?!" Gran Torino yelled at her as he hit her over the head with his cane.

"Sorry!"

"Is he your grandfather or something?" Todoroki asked, having calmed down from a near nervous breakdown now that the danger had passed. He may hate his father but he knew that he wasn't the number two for nothing.

"Not quite." Kendo answered with a blush, kinda embarrassed that he thought they were related. They looked nothing alike.

"You think they'll get him?" Kodai asked from her new spot between Kendo and Midoriya, they couldn't really see anything but they could definitely make out the sounds of the fight still going.

"Kid, Stain isn't going anywhere but a holding cell." Rahzar answered as there was no way his master would fail, that punk was as good as caught, that being said, it was impressive to find the guy in such a state so he looked down at the three brats who put in that sorry state in the first place. "Good work keeping him busy. Your actions saved two lives"

"Thanks, only God knows why we lasted so long, if he wanted to beat us, he could have down so earlier. What I'm worried about it how the hell is my folks gonna take this." Midoriya answered, already fearing how the hell he was going to explain to his parents why's he was gonna be in a hospital in a city he wasn't even interning in. even kendo visible showed worry as she knew her folks weren't going to be happy about this in the least while Todoroki winced when he wondered how he would placate his sister this time, she was in tears after the USH and he didn't even take damage that time.

Unnoticed by the three students, the heroes, as well as Kodai, shared a look as Burin actually looked like she was gonna laugh at them but held herself back, contend to just smile smugly at her boss's kid. 'They don't know?' Burin thought to herself as she looked up out of the corner of her eye and saw the news chopper they had spotted on the way over was still present and most likely filming if not broadcasting this whole shit storm live.

'Nay, they'll find out about that part soon enough.' She decided against warning them. They should be happy, not everyone gets to be on TV on their first outing outside a school environment.

(Hosu General Hospital)

"You guys manage to get any sleep?" Kendo asked the other two people in the room. At present, all three hero students were located at Hosu General where they were treated overnight for their wounds sustained in their fight against Stain. Currently wearing plain hospital scrubs rather than gowns as they didn't think any of them needed or wanted a dress that left their rears exposed.

"Not a wink." Midoriya answered from his bed, his right arm in a sling as after the pros on seen popped the thing back into place, he passed out from the pain. He also was wrapped up in bandages around his head, face, and torso, the wrappings around his torso were notable thick due to the damage his side took from the boot and his continued physical movement. From what he was told by the nurse that gave them their untouched breakfasts, he tore muscle fibers, which would take time to heal.

"Couldn't sleep even when I tried. Last night was….eye opening." Todoroki spoke up as he shivered, having thought back to when he was down and Stain stood, seemingly unstoppable. Like the other two, he also was medical wrappings but mostly around his arm which had been stabbed. The only other thing worth mention was that he was wearing cooling wraps around his left side and hot wraps around his right due to the fact he pushed himself and his quirk far further than he had ever down before. The nurse told him that it must have been the adrenaline that kept him unaware of how wrecked he was.

"To what? The fact that we got our asses kicked?" Midoriya asked, feeling bitter and at a loss with how the previous night went down. It's one thing to know someone's out of your league, it's quite another for them to beat you so badly without trying as hard as you.

"Still, what we did last night was pretty unbelievable. Holding our own for as long as did but," Kendo spoke up again as she had both arms in casts while her hands were completely wrapped up, like Midoriya, her face was also wrapped up due to the broken nose but also the minor skull fracture above her right eye. It'll heal without issue but she still would need a break from any physical work, and seeing how she wouldn't be able to see her hands for the next two weeks, she was inclined to agree. If she was lucky, she could speak with Recovery Girl and speed things up but that would depend on if Vlad doesn't take mercy on her.

"It feels like a miracle that we're still alive. Even from what I first got there, I knew he was holding back, and yet he still managed to fight us off." Midoriya finished her thought as that was something clear from the get-go.

"And when he stopped playing around, he took us all down and would have finished his so-called 'job' if the pros didn't get there when they did." Todoroki spoke up as he looked at his hands, lost in memory.

"I suppose we should count ourselves lucky he didn't view us as 'fakes'….How's Iida?" Midoriya asked quietly, having been left in the dark about the condition their friend and schoolmate were in. He knew he was alive when he passed out but that was it.

"Don't know, Kendo stayed awake the longest on the way here." Todoroki replied as he gestured to the orange-haired girl, seeing how he passed from exhaustion in the ambulance. Even before them, he wasn't really…there as he could only recall bits and pieces of the moments before he was loaded up for transport.

"I didn't hear much in the ambulance. Just that they would need to rush him to surgery. He lost a lot of blood." Kendo replied sadly, saddened that he wasn't here as he was kept in the ICU, which was never a good sign.

"I just pray he makes it out of this alive." Midoriya stated as wished that he had arrived sooner, maybe then the guy wouldn't have taken that blow.

"Same." Todoroki agreed, even though he wasn't particularly religious. "But what's on my mind was….that feeling, when he released all that murderous intent. I nearly had a heart attack."

"You weren't the only one. Staring him down….it was like staring into some dark abyss….and it looked right back at me with nothing but a desire to see me fall." Midoriya spoke up as he could still feel the chill of death as he looked into those eyes, he didn't care if Stain was honest about not killing him or not. That was legitimately the scariest experience he ever had.

"Jesus and I thought Vlad was scary, he's got nothing on what we felt last night." Kendo laughed as she said that, though it was a laugh of pain and realization, when you realize just how messed up the real world is compared to what you knew. "Pretty sure that'll haunt my dreams for a while."

"Here here, I don't care what people say. After that, I'm digging up my old nightlight." Midoriya added though they weren't too sure if he was joking or not, they were willing to bet he was serious. "No way in hell I won't be visited by my fair share of nightmares." Just as Kendo was about to speak up though, the door for their room slide open but not for a nurse to come to check up on them.

"Oh, so you kids are finally awake?" Gran Torino stated as he led the way for the rest of the group to enter. That group being himself, Endeavor, Yoroi Musha, and Kodai, who was standing behind the hero she was interning under.

"Gran Torino!" Kendo spoke up, surprised that he was here so early in the morning as she was sure it was no later than 8am, though she didn't pay that any mind as she worked to try and sit up in the bed.

"Yoroi Musha, Sir!" Midoriya stated as he sat rigged.

"Old man." And the last of them didn't even bother with his tone, showing that he didn't respect his father one bit, though Endeavour didn't seem to care.

"Brat. Show some respect." He scolded his son as he looked down on the boy, covered in medical wraps in bed.

"Do you have the slightest idea how stupid your plans were? You nearly died!" Gran Torino yelled at his young charge as he approached her bed with his cane at the ready.

"Sorry!" She apologized before he could hit her but taking mercy on her, he didn't.

"It is fortunate that you are all recovering." Kodai spoke up from her place behind the older pro. Though to give her space, he moved aside for her to approach the three.

"Kodai, thanks for visiting." Kendo smiled at her classmate, who nodded her head at them.

"Hmm, I have two friends in the hospital, of course, I would visit." She started as she pulled out her phone and showed then she had over 3 dozen messages from their classmates, some having sent multiple. "Besides, I got messages and calls from everyone in the class to check up on you and report back."

"Oh yeah, they took our phones. They must be worried sick." Midoriya thought back as their phone was still in their damaged gear. The hospital said that they'll get them back(their phones and other personal effects) as soon as the police documented all they needed.

"More than you know, shall I show you some of the things they said?" She asked as she showed them one chain of messages all from Tetsutetsu after he found out she was in Hosu as well. But before that, Yoroi Musha coughed into his hand to draw attention.

"Before we get into that, you three have a visitor." The old pro stated as he pointed towards the doorway where another person walked in. That person being the chief of police.

"T-The chief?!" Midoriya stuttered out as he got out of bed to greet him.

"Shoto, this is the chief of Hosu Police, Kenji Tsuragamae." Endeavor stated as he introduced him to the two who didn't appear to know who he was, leaving both to widen their eyes as they tried to get up as well, as Kendo found getting up to a bit of a challenge with her arms as they were.

"No need to stand, you're recovering right now(woof)" The police chief raised a hand to them, placating their notion of respect. Though they were caught off guard by his….unique vocal tick.

'Did…did he just bark like a dog?' Kendo asked herself, trying to see why that was so.

'Does he have a tick like Asui?' Todoroki asked himself as he immediately didn't look that far into it as his classmate croaked every now and then. Was it so odd that a guy that looked like a dog would do something similar?

"So, you three are the UA students who went toe to toe with the dangerous criminal known as Stain and proved able to injure him to a degree that his capture was made easier, correct?" Tsuragamae as his canine-like eyes went over all three of them.

"That's right, sir." Kendo replied for them. Wondering why he asked when he must have known that fact.

'Something off here. Why would the chief of police himself come here? He could have sent over an officer or detective but instead, he shows up, something's fishy.' Todoroki thought to himself as this seemed too much. And he wasn't wrong.

"Regarding Stain. Upon arrest, he was found to have 2nd to 3rd-degree burns across most of his body which were found to be the worst around his torso region, he also had heavy bruising to said torso, arms, and head, and three cracked ribs, and four broken bones in his right arm alone. He is currently receiving medical care under guard at a villain hospital(woof)." Tsuragamae told them the fact of the criminal, lifting a weight off their chest at the notion that he was somewhere in the same hospital being treated.

"As students of UA hero course, I'm sure the three of you are well aware of the law. One of which states that it is illegal for someone without permission or a license to use their quirk in a public space and can carry a criminal sentence if that quirk usage harms or kills another, whether that was the intent or not." The chief reminded them all, allowing them to recall that they didn't have any sort of license.

"The only reason that heroes are allowed to use their quirks is due to the fact they swear to uphold these laws, undergo intense training and licensing, and are monitored to ensure that they don't abuse their power(woof)." He went on with his impromptu lecture on hero law. "The real goal of the licensing system was not necessarily to endorse heroes but to illegally define what constitutes a villain, to divide those arbitrarily using their quirks into heroes and villains and to place a limitation on the latter." He admitted to that as it was something that many in the higher echelons of law enforcement and politics liked to leave unaddressed.

"This was just part of the plan governments across the globe came up with to regulate quirks on a societal level, to allow humanity to keep moving forward despite this unprecedented randomized evolutional step forward." Gran Torino cut on one that part, having learned that himself when he was much younger. Leaving Tsuragamae to nod his head in agreement before he continued.

"It was when quirks were still a rising part of life that the police worked to ensure that these meta-abilities as they were once known, were not used as weapons. It was thanks to the early heroes who followed the ethics and rules of the profession and encouraged others to follow these laws that an individual's force of power which can easily cause large-scale damage to property and kill people was accepted officially(woof)." He finished as he inspected each of their confused faces as even Kodai was in the dark with the why he brought it up. So he got to the point of it.

"Now I'm not bringing this up to punish you three as even though you don't have your licenses, you all hard verbal permission from the pros you were interning under to carry out hero work. The police have already confirmed this so you're in the clear." He assured them as the three breathed a sigh of relief. Sure they knew that they could potentially face punishment for fighting Stain but it didn't mean that they liked it.

"However, the same cannot be said for your schoolmate, Tenya Iida(woof)." And just like, the temperature of the room dropped as the tension thicken. Kodai, having been informed of this part, didn't voice any complaint though she did look to be upset.

"What do you mean, he's in trouble?" Midoriya asked, why the hell…..oh.

Seeing that one of them had connected that dots, the police chief confirmed it for them. "Correct. Unlike the three of you, he was never given permission to engage or even assist in any sort of hero work. He also ran off without authorization from his hero mentor, Manuel during the crisis." He told them as Iida had really done it, he actually went against the rules. But that wasn't all of it. "When we interviewed Endeavour, Gran Torino, and Yoroi Musha, we also interviewed Manuel, and he admitted that he suspected only took his offer for internship for the possibility that he could take revenge on Stain for what happened to his brother." Tsuragamae finished, letting them come to their own conclusion on the issue. One they couldn't deny.

"He wouldn't. Iida would never do something so stupid." Todoroki immediately denied it. He may not be close to the guy but even he could tell that the odds of Iida doing something so foolish were one in a thousand.

"Granted, Manuel was clear in his statement that this was merely a suspicion as Iida never admitted to such but the facts are written on the wall. As Native is still unable to answer questions, we have yet to build a more concrete image of what went down prior to Midoriya's intervention." The officer of the law admitted but still, it wasn't something you could miss.

"Wait a minute. If Iida didn't show up when he did, Native would be dead right now, no-one even remembered the hero killer during all that, are you saying that Iida should have not broken the rules, even though someone would have died?" Kendo spoke up, sounding appalled by the very gesture.

"And because he stepped in, he himself was nearly killed if not for the timely arrival of Yoroi's intern. If Midoriya hadn't reached there in time or was too busy with everything else, all his reckless actions would have done was add another soul to the list of people Stain has killed(woof)." Tsuragamae shot her down instantly, his eyes boring into hers as she looked away, not having anything to say about that though his actions were noble, they were also foolish.

"But isn't it a hero's job to save people, isn't it?" Todoroki spoke up, looking at the gathered pros.

"Honestly, you are not wrong." Tsuragamae also admitted, surprising them once more as now he was making no sense, wasn't he just saying.

"Wait what?" Midoriya spoke up as he came out of the funk that settled over him when he realized where this was going.

"Even though reckless and impulsive, Tenya is still just a teenager with a great academic record, not a single mark of delinquency or any other criminal behavior to his name. He is also a minor who by law, isn't fully capable of comprehending his actions and their consequences. This case is also different from others as he had a personal stake in it. So it is quite understandable that he wasn't in the right state of mind." Tsuragamae said, having personally seen the boy's file to confirm all of that. The boy was a boy scout, a bit stiff but not much else.

"The point is that under normal circumstances, he would be forgiven for his mistake and let off the hook with the slap on the wrist." Gran Torino told them, as they usually just kept this type of thing under wraps and gave the credit to someone else.

"How are these circumstances irregular?" Midoriya asked them, noting that they all looked at each other as if they knew something they didn't.

"You three haven't seen the news, have you?" Yoroi Musha asked him, already knowing the answer.

"No, we don't have the remote for the TV." Kendo answered as they hadn't received any type of remote for their room's television and seeing how it was mounted in the upper corner of the wall, none of them felt like trying to reach it to use the non-existent buttons.

"What did we miss?" Kendo asked them, hoping that Kodai who tell them but she held her tongue.

"Mister X." Yoroi said as he looked over to the still-open doorway where the South American sidekick stuck his head around for them to see.

"Right away sir." He stated as he presumable walked off to retrieve something.

"Kodai, what's happening?" Midoriya asked, now getting concerned by the secrecy.

"It's…better if you see it for yourself." The girl replied to him, not meeting his gaze as the sidekick returned with what he was sent to get. That object happened to be a TV remote.

"Boss." He stated as he handed over the remote before he stepped out of the room and closed the door behind him,

"Pay close attention." He told them as he pointed the remote towards the TV and turned it on, quickly switching to NHA morning news.

"-right you are. Last night, during the mass villain attack on the city of Hosu, four hero students from UA high located and engaged the hero killer known as Stain." the commentator on-screen was caught in the middle of saying as a freeze frame of the three in their fight was shown in the corner.

"….We made the news?" Kendo whispered as they all watched on, stunned that somehow, someone had caught them on camera.

"Frontpage headline." Endeavour told them as he looked at his silent son as the boy took in the fact that he was on television.

"At the time, one of the news choppers was able to capture the fighting and broadcast it live, we at NHA news encourage that sensitive and younger audience's not watch as the footage is of a violent and graphic nature." The commentator warned them before the footage of their fight was shown, from start to finish when Stain was finally taken down by Gran Torino and Yoroi who knocked the man out and immediately cuffed him.

"Jesus, I'm getting phantom pains." Kendo said softly as she looked towards her hands after seeing just how insane the fight was on screen.

"How the hell did we miss a damn news chopper?!" Midoriya yelled in disbelief. You don't just miss something that big!

"Was Fuyumi watching? This….is not good." Todoroki thought to himself with a grimace as he knew that his elder sister always watched the news, often inviting him to join her. There was no way she wasn't aware of this by now. At that point, the TV was paused as the chief spoke up again.

"As you can see, the situation here is that most of your little fight was captured and broadcast on national television. If this had remained quiet, the police could sweep your whole ordeal under the rag, provided that none of you ever take credit for the take-down(woof)." Tsuragamae told them as he sighed, he wished that he could still do so but with things as they were, he had to do his job.

"But now because of that," Yoroi stated as he gestured to the screen, frozen on Todoroki blasting Stain with fire. "The authorities have no choice but to act."

"What's gonna happen to him?" Midoriya asked as he tore his attention from the screen back to the chief.

"As I said earlier, we have no actual proof to state he was after revenge, no witnesses to how he carried himself once he found Stain and he is still a minor with an otherwise spotless record. His family and the management of UA have been contracted and the situation explained to them, he'll receive the best lawyers his family can provide but as of this morning, his internship has been canceled and he is to report for detention for the next two months." Tsuragamae told them, having taken the necessary steps to ensure the boy had as much a fighting chance as possible.

"That's…that's not so bad, right?" Todoroki spoke up, catching the unspoken but.

"That's not the whole thing. Since he's in some legal trouble, principal Nezu has been forced to suspend him from the Hero course until he's cleared of all charges." Kodai told them, having been present when Nezu had to inform them over the phone.

"What why?!" Midoriya nearly jumped out of bed in rage but found his lingering aches to be limiting as Yoroi pushed him back onto the bed.

"By law, one cannot participate in any aspects of hero training or direct hero work with a criminal record. If he's found guilty, he'll be able to stay at UA but will be kicked from the hero course and have to transfer to another one." Yoroi told them as it was a little-known fact as most who did try for the hero course, had relatively clean records.

"That's why hopeful hero students have to work harder to ensure they don't get negative marks to their names. UA isn't the only school that has high standards. It's a national requirement." Endeavour told them all as such a law was implemented on a national level to ensure that those with compromised past wouldn't gain access to their side of the system. It was the same for cops.

"Add in the fact that last night was a total disaster, and you can see why the general public is…uneasy right now." Gran Torino stated as he looked out the window at a couple of birds flying by.

"There's more bad news, isn't there?" Midoriya asked/stated as he leaned back into his pillow.

"Stain may have been captured but five unknown creatures we have classified as 'Nomu' still ran rampant till they were caught or killed." Tsuragamae reminded them before his brow creased in displeasure. "There was….casualties."

"How many?" Kendo asked quietly, wanting to know how many wouldn't be able to return to their families, found themselves hurt, how many people they failed to protect.

"Kendo. Now isn't the time." Gran Torino denied them as he could catch on their thoughts on the subject, he used to have such too when he was their age. Even now, after years, whenever something happened where he could have intervened, he felt like crap even if he shouldn't hold himself responsible for such.

"Yes, we have other concerns right now." Endeavor stated, wishing to move past that part.

"What concerns?" Todoroki asked, eyeing his father.

"They need to question all three of you. I already gave my statement last night." Kodai told them as they still needed their statements for last night to help with the investigation.

"We need more details. If we get a full picture, it'll be easier to investigate this and catch this so-called League of Villains. We may even be able to provide more evidence to ensure your friend doesn't end up kicked from the hero course." Tsuragamae encouraged them as he looked them over as they all processed that.

"I see….Okay. I'll tell you what I know." Kendo spoke up, meeting his gaze even if her eyes were watering from the feeling of failure.

"I will to. Midoriya joined in, looking down in shame.

"So will I, if what I know can help, I'll talk." Todoroki finished up the trio's response as the police chief nodded to them before stepping back.

"Alright then, we'll question you separately, Kendo, can you stand?" Tsuragamae asked as Gran Torino helped the girl out of bed where she was able to stand just fine.

"Y-yes sir." She replied as she slipped on some slippers which had been placed at her bed's side.

"Then follow us, we have a spare room the hospital said we can use." Tsuragamae stated as he along with Gran Torino, escorted the girl out of the room. While that happened, the nurses came round again to check up on them as their pros talked with them before leaving themselves to manage this shit storm.

'We didn't know it, but by engaging Stain as we did, we had unknowingly shaken the status quo. Iida would have to face the consequences of his actions, no matter how much we all hated it. Even though we had captured most of the villains, none of us felt like this was a win. And despite the fact Stain was set to rot in prison for the rest of his life, not one of us could imagine just how far his ideas would spread….' Midoriya would later contemplate.

'Or how much they would inspire others.'

(On the streets)

"Hey, they say that the hero killer was arrested last night!" Someone said to another as they walked along the busy Tokyo sidewalk, both of them reading the news on a tablet.

"Seriously! By who?" The second person asked as they scrolled down the page trying to get to the end of it.

"Three high school kids. They're apparently hero students." The first answered as they walked on by the jumbo screen which was talking about this very subject. But they had to get to work, so they didn't stick around to watch.

"Three of the criminals captured alive last night have seen been brought into police custody, however at this time, their names and addresses are unknown." The familiar aged face of the newscaster relayed as photos of the captured Nomus were shown on screen.

"Based on their appearances as well as footage captured by our reporters of two unknown individuals, it has been speculated that they are connected to the league of villains who attacked UA high USJ training facilities last month." The other newscaster carried it from there as a picture of the USJ was shown, along with one their reporters got of the students of 1A being escorted away from it.

"The authorities have seen declared that they will put all their available resources into the investigation and arrest and all members of the league of villains and have since requested that citizens report ant suspicious behavior in their home or workplace to the proper authorities." She carried on as they read the reply from the police's public relations office rather than show anything as they had yet to hold any sort of press conference about this but were expected to in the next couple of days.

"The hero killer Stain has been credited with more hero deaths than any other villain since the appearance of All Might. With his arrest, the people of Japan can rest a little easier knowing that he is off the streets and behind bars." The first newscaster took it from there as a person in the crowd paused to look at the screen. Their scarred body not drawing much attention as their blue eyes took in the news story, or more accurately, they took in Stain's final moments on screen before he was arrested.

(Somewhere in the wilderness of Japan)

In the wilderness of rural Japan, far from anybody, a lone radio played the recent events while it sat on a tree stump. "The injured criminal is currently receiving medical treatment as a villain exclusive hospital under police guard and at this time, no visitors are allowed inside." Standing over it, was a truly massive being, easily as tall as the trees if not taller as he was crouching. Not much could be made out about his general appearance other than the fact he was extremely muscular, had long shaggy hair that would a super Saiyan 3 Goku a run for his money, and wore nothing by a pair of shorts.

'Stain…..no servant….of master.' The beast of a man thought to himself as he focused on the memory of the past, and never saw someone by the name of Stain in them, which meant they could be his enemy. His master's enemy.

(With the crazed blonde)

"It's no doubt that Stain's name had been stamped into the history books as one of the most dangerous criminals of recent times. As the investigation is still ongoing, we have yet to receive crucial answers." The crazy blonde girl from the previous night listened to the news via her headphones as she skipped through a warehouse. Humming a song along the way.

"Why did he do the things he did? What was in after? Who is the man under the mask?"

"Stainny is the best, oh I wish I could meet him, meet him and be his friend, hehehe." She said to herself with a rather girly giggle what was somehow unsettling, one wouldn't know it but just by looking at her as she went, one would pick up something….off about this girl. For one, she wore a school uniform but was not only out during school hours but in an area where the closest school was an all-boys and 20 minutes away by car. She didn't belong.

(With the league)

"Goddammit! Stain and those little shits stole the whole damn show!" Tomura yelled in anger as he turned the newspaper he was reading to dust. Sure it had only been less than a full day but they still had enough time to make sure everything that happened last night wound up in the news, and much to his ever-growing ire, the Nomu isn't even the biggest story. No, the biggest thing people are talking about is two things that he hates with a passion. Those UA brats and Stain. "They only report the nomu as secondary objectives, as if they were didn't matter to the overall plot!"

"Not only have they not forgotten about him, but he's been immortalized." He seethed as his plan had backfired in the worst possible way. Rather than destroy Stain and reduce him to a has-been, he helped the guy rise to a level of infamy that he was trying to obtain.

"What would you suggest we do?" Kurogiri, long since used to his ward's outburst, calmly asked as he poured him a drink.

"Shut it." Tomura told him as he drank the shot in a single go before slamming it back down.

"As you wish." He answered as he went back to leaning the bar, they were scheduled to be open tonight so he needed it in tip-top shape.

(Fourth Kind Agency)

"Oh thank god. Kodai says they're fine. They just don't have their phones right now." Tetsutetsu stated as he read his message aloud so that Kirishima could hear it as well.

"That's a relief. That fight was brutal." Kirishima sighed as he put on the last piece of his hero costume.

"Gimme a sec, I just want to reply a quick thanks for the update." Tetsutetsu said as he quickly went to work texting a reply to her before they both heard a voice behind then reminded them they weren't on no break.

"I'm willing to let this slide because they are your friends, but" Fourth Kind started as his ire rose.. "Always be punctual, understand?" he yelled at the two as he punched down on both heads, despite the fact they had activated their quirks just before impact.

"Yes sir, sorry sir!" they both said in one voice as Tetsutetsu quickly put his phone in the locker before he raced to the entrance, Kirishima not far behind.

"Get your butts in gear, we're going out on another patrol, just cause last night was crazy, doesn't mean crime stops." Fourth Kind told them as he power walked behind them, checking his watch and seeing that they still had a few minutes, not that they needed to know that.

"Yes sir!"

(With Yaoyorozu)

"Come on." Uwabani said to Yaoyorozu as she turned off the TV they had been using to review their performance for a hair care product commercial

"Where are we going?" Yaoyorozu asked her, having been in a slight daze.

"Where else, on a patrol. You need to get your mind off things." Uwabani told her as she made her way for the door.

"Oh, r-Right!" Yaoyorozu replied as she quickly got to her feet and quickly moved to catch up with the famed pro.

"Don't worry, a friend of mine in Hosu says that all of them will recover just fine." Uwabani told her, having known the real reason the girl had been out of it. They had both heard the news only that morning and ever since, Yaoyorozu looked scared and worried for them as they didn't have details, at least until one of her old contacts called her to inform her where they knew.

"That's a relief." Yaoyorozu replied with a sigh of relief, feeling that weight just call off her chest.

"Now come on, I won't wait for your adorable face forever." Uwabani told her as he pocked her in the cheek before turning and walking away, leaving the embarrassed and flushed girl behind.

"S-Stop teasing me!" Yaoyorozu yelled at her as she worked to try and contain all the blood rushing to her face as he jogged after the laughing pro. Honestly, it was like interning under Jiro!

(With Midoriya)

"Do you have the slightest clue of how scared we were?" Inko yelled at her son over his recently returned phone.

"S-Sorry for worrying you!" Midoriya apologized over the phone as he stood by himself in one of the hospital's rest areas, this one having a view of the garden outside.

"I nearly had a heart attack when he hit that ice wall and stopped moving, don't you ever worry me like that again!" And clearly, his mother hadn't calmed down from the previous night as he had been on the phone with her for the past 10 minutes trying to explain his actions, assure her he was fine and that he would recover and placate her motherly rage of his really….really stupid actions.

"Yes, mam. Sorry for making you worry." He said as he really did feel bad about making her worry. What son wouldn't?

"Oh, you'll be sorry. We're on our way there now. We'll be there in about an hour." And with that statement, his blood ran cold as he recalled how happens when she takes that type of tone, and it usually involved a belt of some kind.

"L-Let's talk this out, It wasn't like I wanted to fight him." Dammit, he was too old to get his ass whipped, more importantly, he was too old to still fear…you know what, you're never too old to fear your momma whooping your ass, don't matter if you're 2 or 20-a whipping a whipping.

"Too late kid, nothing you say is stopping your punishment." And he now knew his fate was sealed because he just heard his dad, the man who always tried to get him a lesser sentence, was on the line and against him.

"You too?" Midoriya peeped as he said his mental goodbyes to the mortal coil.

"Who do you think is driving? Oh, all the reckless stunts you've pulled, by God, that was the worst of them!" Hisashi yelled at him as he could hear them navigating traffic.

"I'm sorry, but what was I supposed to do?" Midoriya asked, trying to get away out of this.

"How about not taking on the serial killer!" His father yelled at him, so loud that he had to move the phone away from his ear for a sec. "Hold up, traffic's building but make no mistake, this conversation is far from over."

"Yes sir." He said as his parents hanged upon him, leaving him standing there scared for his life. 'And to think, I still need to call back Uraraka, Yu-chan and Tokoyami.' God, he had no idea who those two would react. "Here goes." He said to himself as he went through his contact and chose Uraraka but before he could hit the call button.

"Here goes what?" Tokoyami spoke up from behind him, nearly scaring him to death.

"Jesus Christ, what the hell man!?" Midoriya yelled at the dude as he worked to lower his erratic heartbeat as his friend, who was wearing his school uniform sans blazer stood across from him.

"Is that what you wish to say?" Tokoyami asked, sounding like he was also unpleased with their actions, which to be honest, was expected. At least he wasn't being threatened with physical harm, what was a plus, right?

"Wait a minute, how are you here? Your internship is nowhere near here." He asked as he just realized that there was no way he was here. The distance he would have to cover alone would-

"Hawks permitted me a half-day off to give you a social call while you recuperated in the hospital. He can be quite speedy when he wishes." Tokoyami answered the unspoken question. He had only just arrived there but was fortunate to have been informed where his friend was by the receptionist once he showed her his school ID.

"So he dropped you off…here?" That was a weird picture to imagine, like sure Hawks was strong enough to carry him but they must have been other ways.

"No, I took an express train. He's covering the expenses." Tokoyami could see the confusion in his eyes and told him what really happened.

"Oh….ah….thanks mam, didn't think anyone would have the time." Midoriya said as he looked down at his phone.

"Perish the thought, are we not close comrades?" Tokoyami replied to him, sounding much calmer than he did a minute ago, so he was in the clear after all, even if he was still in bandages.

"Yeah, yeah we are. Thanks, man, I mean that." Midoriya told him with a small smile, thankful he had such a good friend.

"Say no more, however," Tokoyami waved him off. "Have you reached out to Uraraka yet?"

"No, I was about to call you guys, well that's one person off the list." He answered as he now only had one person to call but that didn't mean that one call would be easy.

"Then I shall wait. I would like to see the others while I am in town." Tokoyami stated as was also hoping to drop by and see how Iida, Todoroki, and Kendo were holding up. Especially Iida as he was the only one last night who didn't get back up and was down for the entire newscast.

"I appreciate that." Midoriya thanked him as he hit call on his phone and waited a couple of seconds for it to go through and when it did, he braced. "Uraraka…."

(Later)

"Hey guys, guess who came to…visit. Oh no, what happened while I was gone?" Midoriya asked as he led Tokoyami back to their room where one of the nurses was finishing up checking over Kendo.

"Oh hey Tokoyami, sorry about the mood, we're not in a good one…right now." Kendo spoke up with a forced smile as the nurse made her exit, leaving the high schoolers to themselves.

"Understandable, shall I step out while you air what seems to be the issue?" Tokoyami asked as he gestured towards the door but was met with a no from Todoroki.

"No, it's not like we could hide it but, here's the deal." Todoroki shook his head at his suggestion as he then explained what they had been informed on that morning to Tokoyami, who for his part took the news better than they did.

"….That…that in unthinkable…." The avian-headed boy started as he tried to make sense of that as he fell into a chair. They knew things wouldn't just magically fix themselves but still, criminal charges? Hadn't the guy gone through enough?

"Yeah, we just got word from the doctors, they're gonna keep him a couple of extra days to monitor his vital signs, they say the blade nicked his lung in a bad way so they want to make sure it heals right." Kendo said as they also informed the two that while Midoriya stepped out to make his phone calls, Iida's doctor came by to inform them that Stain had done more damage than they knew at the time and that the boy would remain in hospital so that they can ensure it doesn't hurt him any more than it already had.

"They don't think he'll be an issue but with the way things are, they don't want him exerting himself for the next month." Todoroki said as he felt genuinely bad for the guy, even when, he refused to think if, when he got all of this trouble done, he will still be 2 months behind the rest of them, he knew how the justice system worked and if Iida was lucky, his hearing and trial would begin in the next three weeks, if not, then I'll have to wait 5 weeks. With such a small time frame and his injuries, there would be no way he would be ready for the finals.

(With the pros)

"What do you make of this?" Meanwhile, the teens discussed their own bad news, Gran Torino and Yoroi Musha stood in one of the meeting rooms of the local police station. They had just finished all the legal paperwork for their actions the previous night when they decided that they needed a talk.

"I think we're about to have a huge mess on our hands. Even when he was cornered, he fought like a devil to try and kill Endeavour." Gran Torino replied as he recalled his crazed Stain was, even with only one small blade, he still made them work for that arrest.

"Yes, he views the boy as some kind of fake. If that is true or not isn't important, what's important is his fanatical belief in his ideals." Yoroi stated as he couldn't care why Stain believed that young(relatively) brat to be some kind of fraud, he never knew Enji to try and copy anyone. He was his own man through and through.

"No kidding, just looking into those crazed eyes had been shaking." Gran Torino said as he took a seat at the table and reached for one of the bottles of water.

"You? Shaken? I haven't heard you do that since…him. That isn't a good sign." Yoroi noted as he had known the short old man for almost four decades now and in that time, he could count the number of times that he saw him shake in fear on the job. Now when he came to getting dates….

"It was more due to his frenzied devotion to his screwed-up moral code than anything else. People like him are rare, and regardless of if they are good or evil, those types of people…" Gran Torino started as he took a sip of water, feeling as old as he looked with all this stress.

"They tend to recruit and inspire others to their cause. It's funny, for years now the only person capable of that has been All Might. A bastion of what it means to be a hero and dedication to helping others. Without…him in the picture, villains hadn't had someone like that….till now." Yoroi finished his sentence as he removed his helmet to reveal his scarred face, the old tissue appearing as if burned by oil. Even with all the years that had gone by, he still bore the scars of his past.

"Stain will become their own symbol, I doubt he realized it. He was never much of a preacher from reports, opting to speak with his actions than words." Torino stated as they had nothing to say Stain ever preached his ideals.

"His charisma." Yoroi spoke up, placing his helmet down as he took a seat as well. "And chances are, as this investigation into Stain continues, his name, face, past, ideology, and opinions….they'll all leak to the web, newspapers, magazines, and TV."

"And then it won't be long before people influenced by his ideals will start popping up." Torino finished the thought as they both knew that in a society like theirs where certain aspects and behaviors were suppressed, Stain twisted but simple ideals would surely draw others to his banner. Even regular people may find themselves agreeing, though most wouldn't do more than that.

"Hmm, but I feel like that isn't your main concern, old friend. You're more focused on how the League of Villains will use this." Yoroi correctly guessed as unlike in the past, they now had a location, a group that these new followers could rally to.

"I'll be lying if I said that I wasn't worried about them. If they weren't a factor, then I wouldn't be concerned how Stain and his ideals galvanizing people, but with them in the picture and seemingly growing in boldness," Gran Torino stated as he looked over the official casualty count from the previous night, he didn't wasn't Kendo to see it but as it stands, they already have 32 people dead. Those God-forsaken Nomu had seemingly targeted as many people as they could, the result was many bodies that were left broken and hard to identity and over 100 people in hospital.

"They could just as easily recruit these individuals to their cause." Yoroi finished his thought as he looked at the report, he already knew what was in it, having stumbled into more than one scene of death and panic last night. "My intern did share his theory that Stain is connected to the League somehow, why else would they attack the city that he was rumored to be in at the time?" He aired the question as Midoriya had mentioned that they might be connected. "If that's the case, then the league will gain something they lacked before, an ideology, one that will draw in members like moths to a flame."

"I don't know about them being connected, they wasted five of those meat puppets of these on that attack, for what? To cover Stain as he killed some low-ranking pro? No, there is more to this, we just don't know what yet." Gran Torino wasn't convinced yet but he left himself open to the possibility. "They could very well be associated but Stain doesn't strike me as one that followed orders, not unless he was devoted to whoever was giving them." Now that was unlikely, Stain was a zealot, nothing other than someone he saw as a follower of his belief could sway him and even, there was only so much control one could have on a man like him.

"Before the malice in one person's heart could easily be handled by the system but if hundreds were to gather under the will of a single person or organization, then it becomes extremely difficult to confront, especially as such things never stop growing. Even as we try to fight it, it continues to draw in more." Yoroi summarised as he thought about a hive of bees, alone they were nothing and easy to take care of but a swarm….that was a nightmare.

"Sounds like something 'he' would plan. This whole mess. It sinks of his blood-soaked hands." Torino said with a grimace as he remembered…..darker days and a monster in human skin that was responsible for an untold amount of death and misery.

"Which means that the chance of him not only being alive but active are higher, now more than ever." Yoroi stated as he felt his hands shake, but he couldn't tell you if it was from his anger or terror of the thought of such a man being out there. "Dammit! I knew we should have worked harder to find a body, we were foolish enough to think there were no remains, and look where that got us." He cursed as he was there that fateful day six years ago when All Might defeated a great evil. If he hadn't been so focused on getting the number one to a medical center….

"That was our mistake, one I fear the youth will have to pay for as now his clearing away the opposition, spreading his rally cry, ridding himself of obstacles, and increasing his own chances at success." Gran Torino said as he got up from the table and approached the window, the one that gave them a great view of the city. Soon he was joined by his old friend as he kept on speaking, speaking of a monster they both thought long dead and forgotten.

"The one who killed the woman you loved…mutated your best friend for his own sick ambitions…murdered my dearest friend. Tore a hole in my student's stomach." He listed off this…this….creature's crimes against them personally. "He has returned. All for One is back."

"All Might caved in his God damn face…!" Yoroi growled loudly, shaking his rage as he thought back to the only woman he ever loved, even though she picked another, he could never bring himself to hate her for that, or really move on. And how he had to watch as she breathed her last, all because of that devil in human skin! "For him to have survived defies all laws of reason."

"Don't forget. This is the same man who survived for over 200 years, stealing quirks as he pleased. It was our mistake not finding him when he was down….and putting him down for good." This time, they won't make that mistake. They ensure that when they find him, they'll make sure to take him down….once and for all.

"It seems, that we were wrong to believe we won the war. No," Yoroi stated, sounding like a tired soldier. "That was merely one long campaign." He paused as he looked up to clouds, thinking back to when he was still a young man, running through the park with his dear friend and brother in all but blood….and with the girl he loved would laugh as ran with them, her dark brown hair dancing in the wind. I would never forget her voice

'Come on Saki! Yoshi is already waiting for us, how can we become heroes if you're late?'

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"And that monster is gearing to start another…Lord have mercy on us." He whispered as he found himself back in the present as he said a silent prayer for the soul of his deceased love.

And that was the chapter, the longest one that I've ever written. This was supposed to just be 11k but once more, I found a groove and I couldn't stop. The stain fight came to an end, with all three down for the count….man, that's gonna hurt their pride but they all knew the odds of them winning were slim from the get-go, so I doubt that any of them will have to deal with some major confidence issues, rather they'll use this as a chance to better themselves as we all know that with the trials up ahead and the foes they will have to fight, they will need to get stronger.

I was also able to show cameos for future characters that we all know will enter the picture soon enough. I'm not gonna lie, I love Dabi and Toga the most out of the LoVs as Dabi is the calm, cool, and collected guy that you can't really hate while Toga is a hot Yandere and even though we all know she'll kill us just for the chance to see our blood, that doesn't seem like too high a prize. I also wanted Muscular to make an appearance but unlike the other members of the league, he and Moonfish are just crazy as one is obsessed with flesh while another smiled like a madman before he tried to kill the kid of two people he already killed.

AFO was referring to his brother as at the time, he believed him to be quirkless so he knows that even though Izuku doesn't have a quirk, he knows that people like that are very dangerous. Of course, Tomura doesn't see it like that, not yet anyway but soon he will, once he starts to mature.

The heroes did make it on time, that was a plus. By the way, I forgot to mention but Burin was with Endeavour and Shoto, don't know much about her but she's hot(both literally and figuratively) so I wanted to give her some screen time, even if it was more of a cameo then anything else.

And finally, I was able to reveal the second reason why I gave them clearance. It was so that only Iida will have to pay for his actions. I also added more to the lore of the show as, like police and other law enforcement, it's illegal for one with a convicted criminal record to apply to become a hero. I say criminal as we see there are other ways to become a pro. One doesn't need to go to a hero school but merely pass the licensing exams. Iida could always do what Captain Celebrity did when leaving the country and practice hero work abroad but hopefully, Iida won't have to do that, besides, he's not the type of guy to pack up and run.

The trio are dealing with other issues as things got real, they got their first real taste of hero work. They also now know that their deeds were caught on camera, so you can only imagine how everyone will react when they see them again in class the following Monday.

Lastly, I already said that Yoroi is based on the Shredder so the people referred to who is linked to his past shouldn't be too hard to guess who they are. When it comes to the scars on his face, they aren't as bad as the Shredder as with age, the scars faded a bit.

bauers374: I was more alluding to Randy Orton's Finisher then Ring knock out but it was a term with a double meaning, hence why I chose it. Don't know how you thought it was a sex thing. I might have explained it wrong but no, her parents aren't turned on by plants, they have quirks that are plant based, in that take, the balls that make up her hair are like sticky grapes which change their texture and smell according to her emotional strength and current stamina levels, if she was sad and tired-they're at their weakest and smell like rotten grapes but if she was determined and fresh, then they are sweet smelling and at their strongest. Again I don't know if I'm recalling this write so don't fault me if you find this story and I said some things that are incorrect.

NinjaFang1331: Thank you and yes, the battle is only just beginning.

D3lph0xL0v3r: They all have their roles for this battle so unfortunately, I cannot spoil what they will be, I can only say that more will be revealed in the chapter down below. Mineta's reaction on the other hand, is already planned out and I think you will like it. There is no reason for Stain to know that as they don't exactly broadcast it and if Stain took the time to spy on his potential targets, then he would have never crippled Tensei. As a manga only fan, I know next to nothing about the MLA-only what I've seen mentioned in other stories such as 'Entropy' and 'A Cat with the Heart of a Hero'.

Blaze1992: He already has heavy firepower, like missiles and his laser cannon. It was just because it was a melee he couldn't make good use of them.

Jerrend: Well the two of them do have great chemistry but that was intentional. Good friends need that seeing how onscreen relationship with Uraraka and Iida isn't as prominent as cannon.

GunBlade2020: Well yeah, I know that people were shown to be scared but it's still a valid point. Monsters came out of no-where and start wrecking shit, that's gonna make people run for the hills while the few brave and stupid stick back and take videos of it to either stream for likes or post in Youtube or something.

Zukafew119: Of course his first thought would be as to how it can help people, this is still Izuku-that's a part of him that will never die. Well he needs a good reason to meet the police chief and Yoroi knowing him makes sense considering how long he has been an active pro, don't worry-the police chief will have one last surprise for his character but for now, it'll stay a secret. As stated before, heroes are still law enforcement and at the end of the day, to save people you have to kill somebody-sure shounen jump main characters rarely kill(and when they do,8 out of 10 times, they target isn't considered human) so I don't fault the series for not showing it but it for the fact no-one rises the issue. The drone comes with the flight suit, he just didn't use it in the Sports Festival as it's more for a communication/recon role, something he couldn't make at the time. I game Izuku and Kendo permission to engage as in this situation, their mentors don't want them getting hurt just cause they were following the rules as even the Chief acts like he believes the law to be stupid as one can't legally use their quirk in a self-defensive manner-sure the police would most likely cover it up but still, it's like J-walking at this point-only the strictest of cops still enforce it. But it does serve another purpose. Thank you for the compliment on the fight scenes, I try my best but at times, I have to deal with the voice in the back of my head telling it that their dull or not engaging enough so it's great to get positive feedback about them.

Sunken: No need to apologies there, your info dump was quite useful as I can use keep it in my notes for future incidents(as we all know this won't be the last time these teens fight some villains) and other stories as I do have a story idea cooking in my head with the plot of Izuku being a Crime boss-mobster. Since you have knowledge in law enforcement where I can only rely on crime-drama such as Criminal Minds and S.W.A.T, your info was a welcome review to read so thank you!