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As soon as Izuku saw the leaders of the shie Hassaikai step out of the car he froze completely. He just stared at them like a slack jawed idiot. Hojo took this opportunity to throw Izuku away. Izuku immediately sprung to his feet.
'How the hell did they get here this fast? He was supposed to be busy today. We need to get the hell out of here.' thinks Izuku as he takes a step back, "No, if we turn and run he'll skewer us from behind. We have to fight him. We can leave the precepts to some of the weaker members of the team and Dabi for range. Victor, Stain, Knuckle duster and I can take the leaders.'
Izuku rushes towards Overhaul. He fails to notice Mimic enter the van next to Overhaul. Right before he reaches Overhaul Mimic drives the van straight into him. He put his hands up on the hood of the car, dug his feet into the ground. The van pushed him back a couple yards but he managed to stop it. He noticed some weird looking lines growing on the hood of the car. He quickly bent over backwards as a metal spike shot out of the car. He leapt out of the way and saw Chisaki had his hand on the back of the van. Izuku scrambled to his feet in time to side step out of Overhaul's reach.
"Wolf man, Stendahl, Help with the new guys." Shouts Izuku.
The two quickly ran over to help him. Victor started fighting against Mimic and his van, while Stain started fighting Chrono-Stasis. Izuku and Overhaul began to circle each other, Izuku would pull out a gun but he was certain if he did Overhaul would begin to fight with ranged attacks and Izuku can't keep up with him that way. However in close range Izuku could dodge his hands all day so he decided to stay close. To give himself a little extra range he pulled his hunting knife out of the holster on his belt. He held the knife out in front of him in his right hand, he kept circling but he began to slowly move forward as did Overhaul. Overhaul made a swing at Izuku that Izuku dodged and Izuku swung with his knife and Overhaul ducked under it. Despite popular belief Izuku isn't actually that skillful when it comes to fighting. He's more of a brawler than anything else. Never has been good at targeting hits or anything like that. The only thing he was really good at was dodging. Like unnaturally good. Growing up quirkless does that to you. He's got lots of experience. Normally he just takes shots as they come because he can heal and it's just faster to fight that way. He'd fight like that here if he could but too many people were counting on him. Eri needed to get out of here and none of the vigilantes were fast enough to fight Overhaul if he got past Izuku. So he'd have to play carefully. And so he did. He and Overhaul circled and swung but had trouble getting hits in. Izuku heard some rumbling in the distance. He jumped away from Overhaul. Not far enough for Overhaul to fight ranged but not close enough to get caught by his hands. He looked towards the rumbling noise and saw Katsukame not as big as before but still fairly was almost 50 feet tall earlier now he looked around 20 feet. Still big but not unbeatable. Earlier Izuku thought he smelled like quirk enhancers. He still did but they probably wore off during the fight.
"Katsukame fight Ketsuki." shouts Overhaul.
'Shit, I can't fight both… well maybe I can." thinks Izuku
Katsukame ran at him and swung. Izuku flipped over it. He and Katsukame began dancing around. Katsukame cracking the road and the sides of nearby buildings as they fought. Once again he noticed that his little army kept getting forced into the city. If this kept up it would get bad. He looked around for Overhaul while fighting and didn't see him. He tried to smell him. When he did, he noticed he was heading towards other members of the vigilante group. Izuku made a dash in that direction and saw Overhaul but before he could get to him he felt Katsukame's hand wrap around him. He never should have taken his attention off of him. Izuku felt his feet get lifted off of the ground. He then felt the ground full force as Katsukame swung him into the ground twice before Izuku could break his grip and pounce out of the way. He noticed heroes a fair distance away trying to put out the fire in the forest which had gotten a lot bigger than Izuku thought it would. One hero in particular just saved animals that were stuck in the forest. Other heroes worked on evacuating people although the really close people had already ran off. A news helicopter flew overhead to record the heroes putting out the fire. He was glad he got masks for Dabi, Toga and Ruby before this started. For some reason Overhaul wasn't really fighting anybody he was just walking into the forest. Was he looking for Eri? This was bad he was looking for Eri, heroes were everywhere even if they weren't focused on them they were still here. He needed to beat Katsukame and get back to Eri. Izuku needed to fight more aggressively. Katsukame swung at Izuku, he jumped over it and into Katsukame's chest. He began clawing into Katsukame wildly with his six inch claws. He jumped back off of Katsukame to dodge another hand. Katsukame clutched his chest with one hand and swung at Izuku with another. Once again Izuku dodged into Katsukame but this time he drop kicked him in the forehead and sent him back onto the ground. Izuku ran over to the rest of his group.
"Is everyone here? Are we okay?" asks Izuku.
Izuku hears a chorus of responses that let him know the whole group is together and that they still have Eri. It bothers him that none of the Shie Hassaikai are fighting at the moment but he decides he can take advantage of it.
"Okay, then we need to get out of here. Heroes are everywhere, let's go." says Izuku.
The gang is about to get going when Hojo, Tabe, and Setsuno rush them. Izuku looks down the road to see that Overhaul had reconstructed the precepts of death and was ready to fight again. This was bad, they had trouble just fighting the precepts, now they have to fight them and the three leaders. Overhaul left again, probably to bring Katsukame back into the fight. Izuku would have tried to stop him but he had to deal with the precepts trying to take Eri back. Toga passed Eri to the Crawler and let him slide around and keep her safe. Izuku got into another fight with Rappa. He didn't mess around or trade blows this time he simply fought the best he could. Victor ended up fighting Hojo and Mimic. Stain fought Chronostasis. Dabi fought Nemoto who always seemed to get behind something just before he got burnt. Every time Nemoto asked who he was he responded with 'Dabi' . Knuckle duster fought Setsuno. Ruby fought Tengai while throwing rocks at some of the precepts where she could afford to. Pop fought Tabe. Toga kept fighting Sakaki. The fight was wearing all of them down Especially when katsukame came back and Izuku had to fight him and Rappa. Overhaul would send spikes but not as often as he would like for the fear of hitting one of his men. Normally he would hurt them and bring them back but he needed the vigilantes attention to stay off of him if he were to get Eri back. Another thing that made it hard to get Eri back was his constant need to reform his fighters. For the vigilantes it seemed like there was no way out of this fight. If the Crawler left with Eri Overhaul would skewer him. Even when they managed to free themselves from a fight their opponents got reconstructed and kept fighting. The constant threat of heroes had them all on edge. Luckily for them most of the big heroes weren't on this side of town. It was only small time heroes who would probably die in a fight like this. That's when it hit Izuku that everybody here could die. He could lose anybody if they made just one mistake, but he couldn't die. Well he could but it wouldn't be permanent. He just needed to get them out of here, he would do what he could to fight and live when they were gone and safe.
"Rube" he called her rube because he didn't want to use her real name, "Talk to me."
'What?' asks Ruby using telepathy.
'If I got a big enough distraction could you fly all of us out of here?' asks Izuku.
'Yeah, but we'd be sitting ducks for those spikes.' says Ruby.
'That's where the distraction comes in. I'll distract em. When the fight is over you can pull me home. I'll have Dabi use his max fire power. It'll hurt him but he knows the situation we're in.' says Izuku.
'Well, I don't want to leave you here to die.' says Ruby.
'You can revive me. You can't revive anyone else.' says Izuku.
'Yes, I can' says Ruby.
'We aren't gonna turn them into vampires, just pull them out.' says Izuku.
'Are you sure?' asks Ruby.
'Yes, I'll be fine. Just get them out of here.' says Izuku.
'Fine, I'm gonna put Dabi on explain your plan to him.' says Ruby.
'Dabi.' says Izuku.
'Woah, hey Izuku?' thinks Dabi.
'I've got a plan to get you guys out of here.' says Izuku.
'You guys… You aren't coming.' says Dabi.
'I can get revived I'll be fine. Trust me.' says Izuku.
'I do trust you, but are you sure man, these guys have killed you once already.' says Dabi.
'I might not die this time. And besides heroes are everywhere. Once I get you guys safe, I'll have a little help from them.' thinks Izuku.
'... Okay fine. What do you need me to do?' asks Dabi.
The fire in the forest was now put out and the news helicopter began recording them fighting. This was bad, they needed to get out of here. Normally he can feel his anti camera ability. It wasn't coming to him. He was too tired. He couldn't start it up. He was too distracted.
'I need you and Ruby to try and get everyone excluding me behind you. Get the Yakuza in front of you. I need you to fire with all of you're power and Ruby is gonna pull all of you away.' says Izuku.
'Why didn't we do that from the start?' asks Dabi.
'I come up with better plans in the heat of the moment. So can we go through with it.' asks Izuku.
'We'll see what we can do.' replies Ruby.
'We got this.' replies Dabi.
Izuku begins to take Rappa and katsukame further down the street towards Overhaul. Ruby and Dabi began to pull the other vigilantes back for a ranged fight while keeping the Yakuza in front of them. At this point everything was in place. All that Dabi and Ruby needed is the all clear signal from Izuku and they could get out of there.
'We're ready. But I gotta ask one last time, are you sure?' asks Ruby.
'I'm sure. Do it.' says Izuku.
'Are you sure?' this time Ruby sounded concerned.
Izuku stopped, made eye contact with Ruby, '... It's okay. Do it. And as soon as you get Eri home and safe you take that tracker out of her as painlessly as possible.'
Ruby would have questioned him more but as she looked him in the eye she saw the light and the smile in the iris of his eye. He wanted them gone and he wanted to fight.
'Okay. whenever you're ready.' says Ruby.
Dabi was getting ready for one powerful blast on Izuku's mark. Katsukame swung at Izuku again, he kicked off and held onto the side of the building he landed on.
"Fire!" shouts Izuku.
Heat. Unbelievable heat. For a second all that Izuku, the Yakuza, and the vigilantes felt was heat. Izuku managed to catch Toga scream something about leaving Izuku. He couldn't tell all of them the plan. They wouldn't have gone with it. This was the best way to keep them alive. Overhaul and Tengai threw up several barriers but the bolt of fire tore threw all of them. Overhaul opened a whole in the ground and jumped in. The rest of the precepts weren't so lucky. The smell of their burning flesh filled the air. The sound of their corpses hitting the ground was quite but it sounded so damn loud in Izuku's ears. Holy shit, Dabi killed all of them. In about two seconds Dabi killed one of the most Dangerous Yakuza in Japan. Cremated all of them, all that was left was bone and scattered flesh. If Izuku weren't so damn shocked he'd be proud. Izuku's shock and pride was cut short as Overhaul climbed out of the hole he made. He looked around. The vigilantes were gone, Eri was gone, his men were gone. He didn't expect any of them to have that much fire power, nobody did. Izuku and Overhaul made eye contact but neither of them knew what to do. Overhaul noticed that the fire had burnt off Izuku's shoes and part of his pant legs despite not even touching him. All they heard was a helicopter overhead. Izuku took an uncertain step forward and that was all Overhaul needed to lunge onto the nearest pile of bones and reanimate it. Unfortunately for Izuku it was Rappa. Rappa despite his confusion as to what just happened charged towards Izuku, unknowingly buying time for him to reconstruct the rest of the precepts. As soon as the rest of the precepts were alive they were charging at Izuku. Izuku couldn't land a hit. He didn't have time. Whether he was dodging Rappa's fists, Setsuno's katana, Tabe's teeth, or Overhaul's spikes, he was always moving dodging. Nobody there had ever seen anybody move like that. Whenever someone was elusive in a fight they kept their distance, Izuku stayed nice and close and somehow never got hit. It was his only option left. He had to fight all of them his only choice was to outlast all of them. He wasn't sure he could do it. But he sure as hell would try. Despite the odds being completely against him he'd never felt better. He knew realistically he shouldn't be able to win this fight. But he really felt like he could. No… he knew he could. He'd beat everyone here and he'd do it himself.
Authors Note
I really enjoyed writing this chapter. Especially the end. Just the idea of Dabi completely blowing everybody away with this ungodly amount of heat and fire power. Of course it's not like there won't be any down sides to Dabi using his fire like that. He'll be out of commission for a while. The full extent of his injuries will be shown later. So next chapter is gonna be Izuku vs the whole Yakuza and probably the last fight of the Overhaul arc. I'll probably have a chapter to tie things up. After that Izuku is gonna take up all for one on his offer to let him fight villains around the world. Also I said something in the discord about a big fight being televised for the world to see and it's finally time. I'll try to finish this next chapter by the end of next week but there is a lot that I want to put into it. Also we finally hit 100,000 words. We did it. I can finally consider this a small novel, even if it isn't very good for a novel.
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Amadeus Amadeus: The unholy trinity really messed up Izuku's whole plan. They just grabbed his plan and put it in a dumpster. Sorry but we won't be seeing any of Eri's quirk just yet. Izuku is gonna try to teach her not only to use it, but to accept it as a part of herself. A part of herself that is kind, gentle, and capable of helping others. The exact opposite of a monster. I'm sorry that you won't get to see the whole gang post up against Kaiju Overhaul. I tried to do the fight justice with that fireball at the end of the chapter. I know I put a lot of emphasis on it but I still don't feel like I put enough. Like Izuku had high expectations for Dabi's fire blast and that blew them to bits. Much like everything the beam of fire came into contact with. I'm pretty excited for writing the next chapter. I don't know if you watch One punch man but if you do, I imagine a fight like Garou vs. that big group of heroes. It's one of my favorite fights. Also don't worry we will be seeing Kaiju Overhaul and Izuku will fight it. It'll be rough for him but Izuku is smart, resourceful and very fast. One last thing, I know I didn't give you a lot to work with last chapter but thank you for leaving a comment.