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Izuku had been fighting for a while now. Dodge, duck, roll, flip, dive, he was doing whatever he could to not get hit. For the most part it was working. He got grazed by setsuno and let himself get hit by Mimic so he could roll over the van mimic was currently puppeteering. Overhaul seemed to be extremely upset that he lost Eri, but was managing to keep his composure so far. Izuku was wondering why no heroes were showing up, not that he wanted them here. He just thought they would have been here by now. It was probably Dabi. Yeah, they definitely had to expand the evacuation area after that. If he were in their shoes, he would have. Izuku didn't quite have a plan but he had something. All quirks have limits. Overhaul can't keep reviving people for ever. No… that wouldn't work. Giran wouldn't have warned him about Overhaul so much if he would let himself get timed out. He'd have to break through them. It was proving difficult as he was fighting against eleven different villains by himself. Not to mention Tengai's shields popping up whenever he almost got a hit. He was doing well all things considered, he hardly got hit. Just grazed. He extended a little too far with one punch and found Hojo's fist in his face. Katsukame took advantage of his stumbling and kicked him roughly twenty yards back. Before he could get up Setsuno was running at him. He dodged her sword fairly well, he only got cut three times. The first two healed, the last one didn't. That wasn't good, the one that wouldn't heal was right under his knee. That would definitely slow him down.
"He stopped healing." calls Overhaul.
He noticed that huh. That isn't good. Well it doesn't really matter. Izuku won the second Eri was away from the fight. What happens now was for his own personal satisfaction. He isn't a nice enough guy to say he doesn't want to see Overhaul dead. Although he isn't a mean enough guy to kill him. Well maybe he 'd have to wait and see. The fight went on and Izuku was noticeably slower. He had more trouble dodging, he got grazed more and grazed deeper. He was starting to lose steam. He didn't really feel anything about that. He didn't feel calm nor did he feel empty. There was some emotion there… he felt aloof. That was the best way he could describe how he felt. Now that everyone was gone he had no one else to worry about. No one but himself but he couldn't bring himself to worry. In a matter of minutes he found his body covered in slashes, gashes, bruises, and a bite mark that came unbelievably close to tearing into him. He was slowing down to much, Rappa could catch up to him now. Rappa sent a punch that he barely blocked. He skidded across the ground as the force of the blow sent him onto his back. He saw Katsukae standing over him. Katsukame slammed his foot down as Izuku threw his hands forwards. He couldn't stop Katsuakme from crushing him for long, but if he knew what was coming he didn't need to. Izuku rolled out of the way as a series of spikes shot out of the ground where he used to be. Katsukame's foot got skewered.
"Gotcha Bitch." says Izuku.
Izuku rose to his feet in time to see Hojo send him back again with another diamond powered fist. Blood ran down Izuku's face, it covered his left eye and seeped into his mask. Out of the corner of his open eye he saw something that confused two buildings, a floating puddle of blood, it smelled like some of Overhaul's nameless goons. It morphed into the shape of an upward thumb… Ruby, she must have been watching the news feed from the helicopter Overhead and decided to help him. That was a lot of blood. If he could get there he was back in the fight. He rushed towards his opponents and juked to the alley between the buildings. As soon as he moved his mask up the blood shot into his mouth and nose and right down his throat. He immediately dashed out of the alley as it filled with spikes. All of the cuts on his body began stitching themselves back together. He was noticeably bigger than before, he was still growing. His shirt and suit jacket tore as he grew and christ did he grow. He was about as big as Rappa now and he was a whole lot stronger.
"I'm not gonna lie, you guys might be screwed." says Izuku.
He'd never drank that much blood before. He had to have drank from at least twenty of Overhaul's downed men. As long as this power lasted the fight was his. Izuku darted forwards with speed that surprised even himself. He hit Hojo, Setsuno, Tabe, Chrono, Mimic, Sakaki, Tangai,Nemoto and Rappa. Although to his surprise Rappa actually blocked. From the perspective of the people watching the fight on the news he looked like a smaller All Might. Probably not as fast but too fast to see. He hit Katsukame once but like with everyone else he made sure to hold back, because he held back Katsukame was conscious but he was still knocked over. With power like this he could kill them. He was gonna hit Overhaul when Overhaul placed his hand on Katsukame. Katsukame deconstructed in Overhaul's hand. Instead of reconstructing normally he reconstructed around Overhaul. They looked like a monster right out of a movie. It looked like the kind of thing that king kong would fight. It was actually startling enough to make Izuku freeze in his tracks and looked on with a mixture of curiosity and horror as this thing pieced itself together. If that wasn't enough it began using the road and the building's around it to form some sort of concrete armor over its body. Almost like scales. The thing kind of looked like the deformed top half of a dragon. With a series of arms jutting out of its back where wings would be. Shit like this is why Izuku didn't want to fight in the city.
"What the fuck are you?" asks Izuku.
Overhaul chooses not to respond. Instead he swing as Izuku several of his stone arms. Izuku leaps back to avoid getting hit.
"You took her from me." shouts Overhaul as he slams his fists down onto Izuku who dives out of the way.
Normally things villains say don't bother Izuku, but this did. He took Eri from him? This bastard took everything from her.
"I took her from you? I TOOK HER FROM YOU?" shouts Izuku as he slams into Overhaul's monstrous form shoulder first, sending him flying, "YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM HER. SHE'S A GODDAMN CHILD."
"You don't understand!" shouts Overhaul, "I though if anybody would understand it would be you. You know about the sickness and yet you fight against me."
"I'M UNDERSTANDING YOU'RE JUST WRONG." While Izuku is talking he keeps pressuring Overhaul by slamming into him. Throwing him into building and into the ground. Back at home the vigilantes were watching on the TV. They were shocked by the power he was throwing world was shocked by the power he was throwing around, not just the power of his punches but the power of his words, "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHY YOU DO WHAT YOU DO. WHAT YOU DO IS DISGUSTING. YOU TOOK A CHILD AND MADE HER A DAMN WEAPON. YOU TOOK A WONDERFUL CHILD WHO JUST WANTS TO LIVE A NORMAL, HAPPY LIFE AND YOU TREATED HER LIKE A DAMN TOOL. SHE HASN'T DONE A THING WRONG, IN HER LIFE."
"Her quirk made her own life harder than I ever have. You know what her quirk is?" asks Overhaul.
"Tell me." says Izuku.
"She can reverse the flow of time on any life form.A quirk like that could be wonderful… if she could control it. She can reverse someone into no one. Do you want to know how I found her? Why she didn't have parents?" asks Overhaul.
"I think I can figure that out on my own." says Izuku.
"So I haven't used her. I've helped her. Given her a purpose. I just needed something in return, it's not so bad." says Overhaul.
"Disgusting." says Izuku.
"Pardon?" asks Overhaul.
Izuku rushes Overhaul again with all his might and speed. "DISGUSTING. YOU TREATED HER LIKE THAT AND TOLD HER YOU WERE HELPING HER. I OUGHTA KILL YA RIGHT NOW." Izuku slammed into Overhaul and sent him flying backwards, " I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL HAVE YOU DEAD OR ARRESTED BY THE TIME THE SUN RISES. YOU RAT BASTARD." Izuku grabbed Overhaul off of the ground and threw him straight up into the air, near the helicopter. Izuku leapt into the air near Overhaul, he balled up his fists and slammed them into Overhaul launching him straight down. One of Overhaul's arms shot up and grabbed Izuku taking them down together.
"Damn you." says Overhaul as he's falling.
"DAMN US BOTH." shouts Izuku as he struggles to break free of Overhaul's grip. His power was leaving him but he could still finish this.
As soon as Izuku freed himself from Overhaul he was smacked by a giant hand and sent into the ground. Izuku rose to his feet, his left leg was lacerated from the earth shattering impact. He was cut from right below his knee down to his ankle. He limped towards Overhaul who was starting to get up. He used his good leg to lunge at Overhaul. He had his clawed hand reaching for Overhaul's neck. Overhaul was rooted in his monstrous form and couldn't get out of they way in time without separating. So he could either lose his powerful form or he dies right now. Overhaul knew this and gave up his gigantic form and jumped out of the way. Katsukame and all of the pieces of concrete he'd amassed fell to the ground. Katsukame was unconscious.
"Well it's just you and me now… and Rappa, hi Rappa." says Izuku.
"Hey kid." says Rappa, "I saw you fighting, that was real passion. I'm not gonna get in your way, you do your thing. Also my arm broke when you hit me earlier."
"Thanks Rappa and sorry about your arm." says Izuku.
"Oh it's no biggie, yall get to fighting." says Rappa as he takes a seat on a piece of concrete.
By now Izuku's blood strength had ran dry but Overhaul didn't need to know that. Overhaul shot several waves of spikes but Izuku smashes or side stepped away from them, heavily favoring his right leg.
"Wherever you pulled that strength from. It's gone now." says Overhaul, "You should be moving much faster."
"Ya caught me but you still can't win." says Izuku.
Instead of responding Overhaul did two things. The first was send another volley of spikes Izuku's way. The other Izuku didn't notice until he saw the shadow of the entire building Overhaul was dropping on him.
"OH SHIT." Shouts Izuku as he sticks his left arm out to hold the building to no avail. The building slams against the ground hard.
Hits like that have killed much stronger people than Izuku.
"Rappa put everyone into the van Mimic was controlling we're leaving." says Overhaul.
"Sure thing boss." says Rappa as he starts carrying the precepts with one arm over to the van.
Rappa and Overhaul heard some rumblings in the dropped building. They both look over to it, to see part of a wall shatter. Izuku strolled out of the building with his head held high. His shirt and jacket were completely destroyed. All he had left was his pants, his tie, and his mask. His torso was littered in gashes and lacerations. His left arm was cut off completely right below the shoulder.
"HEY OVERHAUL, YA MISSED A SPOT." shouts Izuku.
Both Overhaul and Rappa stare at him completely flabbergasted. Rappa starts laughing uncontrollably.
"Holy shit kid. Ya get a building dropped on ya. Ya get yer arm torn clean off, and the first thing you do is shout, 'Ya missed a spot' what a fucking guy. What a fucking guy. Overhole are you seeing this shit. It's got damn unbelievable." shouts Rappa with glee in his voice.
"Look at you… not dead." says Overhaul.
"I'm full of surprises." says Izuku.
Izuku knew he was fucked here. Maybe he should have hid in the building or ran off but that didn't sit right with him. Maybe he wanted to die here… no that's not it. He wanted to keep fighting Overhaul until one of them lost. It was pretty selfish of him in a way. Knowing Toga, Dabi, Ruby, Giran, Victor, Stain, the rest of the vigilantes and Eri were watching him tear himself apart for some sort of satisfaction.
"Kid you can't fight me you can barely stand. You're missing an arm. I'm gonna kill you but I'll do it mercifully. Just stand still." says Overhaul.
Overhaul sent a spike at Izuku who hopped out of the way. Izuku began limping towards Overhaul, but Izuku limping was faster than most people ran so he wasn't doing too bad. Izuku got close to Overhaul and swung at Overhaul who stepped out of the way, moved behind Izuku and kicked him in the back. Izuku stumbled forwards but quickly whipped around to see Overhaul had his hand on the ground. He felt a spike ram itself straight through his stomach and out his back. Izuku gasped in pain and felt the blood flow out under his mask. The spike retracted into the ground and Izuku fell forward onto his stomach. He rolled onto his back to face Overhaul and started chuckling.
"What's so funny?" asks Overhaul.
"Here I am dying. I've got a hole in my stomach and I can't seem to find my arm… and I'm the winner here. I got Eri away from you. I got everyone away from you." Izuku says as he crawls over to a piece of upturned concrete and lay his back against it, leaving a trail of blood, "I think I knew it would end like this… at the very least I felt it."
"I'll get Eri back." says Overhaul.
"No you won't. We know about the tracker. We're gonna have it removed." says Izuku.
Overhaul glares at him. He takes a step forward. He's going to disassemble Izuku. Izuku uses his good leg and arm to throw himself forward. Overhaul didn't see it coming and got Izuku's shoulder slammed into him. Overhaul went flying and the back of his head hit a street sign. He was unconscious. Izuku did it. He beat all of them. He won.
"Wow kid. Ya beat him. That's crazy." says Rappa.
Right he forgot about Rappa.
"You dead?" asks Rappa.
"I'm working on it." says Izuku which gets a chuckle out of Rappa.
"Does your quirk make you harder to kill outside of regeneration?" asks Rappa.
Izuku hums in response.
"Oh mimic you're awake. Load everyone into the car." says Rappa.
"Why don't you do it?" asks Mimic.
"Arms broke." says Rappa.
"Fine… what about him?" asks Mimic.
"I'll deal with it. It's weird that heroes aren't here but we should take advantage of it and leave soon." says Rappa.
"Mhm." says Mimic as he struggles to load people into the van.
"You don't wanna fight the heroes?" asks Izuku.
"For once in my life I don't really feel like fighting." says Rappa as he picks Izuku up and lays him where he can sit upright.
Rappa sits down next to him. He sighs and leans his head back.
"..."
"..."
"You alright with this?" asks Rappa.
"Eri's safe. That's all that matters to me." says Izuku.
"You like fighting don't ya?" asks Rappa.
"Love it." replies Izuku.
"Ya ever wonder if you'll end up like me?" asks Rappa.
"Mhm." replies Izuku.
Rappa nods silently. It was weird he's supposed to be loud and violent.
"Mimic's almost done with the van." says Rappa.
"You should go." says Izuku.
"What… why?" asks rappa.
"I can smell heroes getting closer. I'd love to see these guys get arrested and I should want you arrested to but I've come to think you ain't so bad." says Izuku.
"I'm plenty bad. But I guess you're right. We'll be leaving but are you sure you want to be alone when you… ya know? Being a kid and all you might be scared." says Rappa.
"..."
"Kid?" asks Rappa, "Oh… you were a good k… a good man." Rappa leaves with Mimic.
The sun rises from the east and shines on Izuku's body. It was quite the site to all who were watching the news. Villains cheered. Fans and supporters cried. Those in between felt a heaviness in their chest from the sight. They could only see the top half of his face but he looked so young. He was muscular but they could see how shallow his stomach was. Just minutes before he looked unbeatable, like he could rival All Might… now he just looked broken. His body was lifted into the air. Ruby had is back, she'd get him home.
Authors Note
I don't know exactly what it is about this chapter but it feels like it was written better than anything I've ever wrote before. Maybe it's because it was longer. A normal chapter is around 2000 words and 1000 words for the authors note and responses to comments but this chapter alone was almost three thousand words. This chapter felt a lot more emotional than the others. Like I was really in Izuku's head when I wrote this. I wish I could feel like this when I write more often because I absolutely love this feeling. Also I'm super sorry that Overhaul got away, but we will be getting an Overhaul arc pt2 later with Mirio and Night eye. I hope that means something. The next chapter is gonna be a chapter that ties the arc together and leads into the christmas arc. Over christmas break I'd like to do more than one chapter per week but I promise nothing. Also I might not be able to update next week because of finals. But I might just write the whole chapter during the weekend but once again no promises. So maybe I'll update next week sorry if I don't.
Angry Beaver: It's to let others know there is an original story if the want to see it but I wouldn't recommend my original story. It honestly wasn't that good but I like to think it led to me getting better.
Draconic King: I'm glad that you like the hell sing references and as for more supernatural vampiric powers. I'm amasuming you mean like bat transformations or turning into a cloud of smoke. I've got a story arc about Izuku fighting some vampires planned for the future and I'll introduce more powers then.
Guest: I actually haven't heard of soul reaver until now. I'll look into their powers but I probably won't add them because I've planned out the powers I'm going to give Izuku already and I don't want to make him overpowered.
Guest: Izuku could store blood in a fridge but he doesn't like taking more than he needs.
Guest: I'm glad you like the Izuku and Toga ship. I have fun writing it.
Amadeus Amadeus: We will get Eri to help save Izuku in the future. It will be kind it will be gentle and it will be all herself, but it won't be from Overhaul. Izuku isn't that scared of dying because he can come back. However one thing that terrifies Izuku is getting arrested, because his mom would find out, he wouldn't be able to come back to Toga or Dabi. So Eri will save izuku but it won't be from a villain. Izuku travelling around the world along with his fight against Overhaul being televised is gonna bring about a wave of vigilantism and I'll be introducing some new characters. I've got a couple planned. I've got a cowboy for when Izuku goes to texas. (based off of arthur morgan) I've got a group of brothers on motorcycles for when Izuku goes to new york. (based off of the movie Akira). I've got a luchador for Izuku's trip to Mexico. And others that won't be as shown as these three. Even though the others won't be shown off like these three Izuku will still love them like brothers and sisters. I'm gonna feel kinda stupid writing this but I had to read your description of the scariest monster like three time before I realized you meant Inko. And oh my god I didn't realize I'd been working on this for eight months. I don't keep track of time too well, but that still didn't feel like eight months.