Fizzling white noise echoes through the room from where television static overtakes half a giant display of monitors. All of Class 1-A huddle together to stare at the screens in shock, just behind their hero training teacher who's mutually surprised by the lack of visual feed. The CCTV's glow flickers across their range of expressive faces in the dimly lit confined space as they listen to the crackling hiss of a lost signal.
"Bakugo blew out the cameras!", the boy with a lightning streak in his blonde hair breaks the group's awestruck silence first with an obnoxious shout of the obvious. He removes the sunglasses that came with his hero costume to check if his eyes are deceiving him, unable to see in the dark with their blue tinted lens.
"We can't even tell what's happening!", the short boy who quickly became his friend complains alongside him. Purple balls replace his hair, bobbing with the nodding motion he makes to further emphasize the agreed upon problem.
The pink toned girl throws her arm out, pointing towards the array of monitors that do continue functioning properly. "But look, those ones still work so that we can still watch Iida fight Uraraka", she shows them with her finger the cameras that pick up an altercation between those two.
"Who cares about that?!", the invisible girl blows off that portion of the livestreaming battle with a wave of her floating sleeves before using them to mime doing a toss up, "Did you see the way Midoriya flipped Bakugo?!" Beside her, the blonde boy with a tail nods; he's wearing a karate gi that shows he can appreciate the move they all witnessed.
"Yeah, that was pretty manly! Not like Bakugo's sneak attack", Eijiro's grin flashes his pointed teeth as he too nods in agreement that the counter attack was impressive.
The girl resembling a frog shifts her gaze from the redhead back to the dysfunctional television screens. "It looked like they were talking to each other", she croaks as she places a finger to her mouth in contemplative thought.
The boy with an avien head hums as he considers his classmate's comment. The cloak wrapped around his body conceals the movement of his arms crossing over his chest. "Too bad we couldn't hear what they were saying", his eyes shift from monitor to monitor in search of a screen that may still display the battle between Izuku and Katsuki.
The girl with her hair done into a pointed ponytail raises her hand before addressing her teacher. "All Might, shouldn't you stop the fight in order to get the cameras fixed?", she voices her constructive concern as respectfully as possible.
All Might responds with a hefty chuckle, assuring her that everything is under control with a broad grin and a thumbs up. "Nonsense! You lot may not be able to listen in on the action, but I've got a special communications channel just for occasions such as this!", the hero turns his head so that the group can get a look at the small device in his ear. He points towards the small audio pod before lifting that same finger over his head as a declaration, "The match will continue!"
The ponytail girl slowly lowers her hand, struggling with the movement of her mouth to form an argument to respond with. "If you insist..", she surrenders to her teacher's logic and returns to watching the soundless screens that show Tenya chasing Izuku's teammate.
"Ah man, I was really looking forward to seeing who won between Bakugo and Midoriya", Hanta sullenly follows suit and settles for the battle that is made available to his viewing pleasure.
The ponytail girl glances over at her peers and notices one that oddly has yet to say anything. Considering how close this fellow girl is to Izuku and her current skin pigmentation, this particular student's silence is a cause for concern. "Hey Jirou, you okay? You look pale", the ponytail girl voices her worries and waves a hand in front of Kyoka's face to break her eye contact with the grainy monitors.
The pinkette of the class looks over and notices Kyoka's daze too. Though she doesn't take it as seriously, smirking and taking to teasing per usual, "She's probably just worried about her booyyfriend~"
Kyoka is too shaken to get flustered this time. Out of the entire class, she's the one most invested in the brawl between Izuku and Katsuki. "A- All Might..", she finds her voice in order to manage a desperate attempt to gain her teacher's attention. The thing is… the hero had been wrong before about being the only one able to listen in. Thanks to her quirk, Kyoka is capable of hearing the same audio All Might does.
"Hm? Yes?", All Might turns when he hears himself being called. His eyes scan the crowd of students before landing on Kyoka.
The girl timidly, and just as anxiously, taps the tips of her ear jacks together. "Maybe you should tell them to take it easy on one another.. Their quirks, after all..", her voice is just barely a whisper but All Might hears her loud and clear. The abrasive roar of a chainsaw's startup left more up to their imagination than they would have liked to admit.
Hanta overhears Kyoka and begins massaging his chin in ponderment as he realizes something. "Oh yeah.. I guess we never did get the chance to find out what Midoriya's quirk is", his thoughts vocalized resonates with the rest of the class as a chorus of curious agreement.
Eijiro connects a fist with the palm of his other hand, getting amped up just thinking about what his classmate's quirk could potentially be. His shark toothed grin is one of excitement as he says, "If it's able to go toe to toe with Bakugo's, it must be something strong!"
When the monitoring room quakes, a distant resounding boom traveling through the air, the class collectively agrees again. All Might grits his teeth together, straining to maintain his broad grin. The hero heard the pin that had been pulled from the support device that created that boom. He listened to Katsuki explain the nature of the explosion's power being one of accumulated nitroglycerin. Yet, he also hears the continuous shrill shriek of sawblades running to know Izuku survived the detonation. Kyoka is in the same state of petrification, intently listening to every detail of the brawl's audio that accompanies that shockwave.
All Might places a finger over the comm piece in his ear, pressing the device to activate the built in mic. "Bakugo! Do that again and you'll be disqualified!", he prevents the brash blonde from endangering Izuku before doing the same with the chainsaw boy, "And I'm prohibiting Midoriya from using his quirk any longer!"
From within the damaged infrastructure of the battle building, Katsuki sneers upon hearing All Might's orders in his ear. The blonde places a finger to the communicator in order to operate his own mic so that he can shout back, "Fuck that! I can take him! I want a fair fight!" Before Katsuki can get a response refuting him, he plucks the device out of his ear and tosses it down.
Opposite of his childhood friend turned lifelong bully, Izuku shifts to do the same. "If that's what you want..", a distorted growl comes through the boy's elongated fangs as he removes his own earpiece. He tosses the miniature pod aside before goading his enemy with a broad spread of his chainsaw mounted arms, "Kacchan!"
Katsuki's heavy boot crushes his discarded earbud, cutting off All Might's unheard shout, "No! Kid–"
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO FUCKING CALL ME THAT SHIT!", Katsuki propels himself forward with explosive bursts to close the gap between himself and his opponent. The overlapping detonations drown out All Might's yelling from Izuku's still functional earbud that lays on the floor out from the boy's ear.
Izuku swings his arm blades, the sweeping motion just shy of being an arc. Katsuki redirects himself with his explosions midair, performing an aerial maneuver that carries him over Izuku's head. When the blonde shifts his position to be directly behind the chainsaw boy, he lets off another blast from his hand. The detonation burns itself into Izuku's back.
Izuku retaliates with a wild swing as he twists his body to turn around, knicking Katsuki's shoulder. The boys back off from one another before Izuku tries moving in again, going for the legs this time. Katsuki reaches down, snatching the attacking arm as it pushes forward. Katsuki's free hand lets off a round of controlled bursts that help him to pivot and spin Izuku while keeping the hold. "Deku!", the berserker blonde slams his opponent into the ground by using the momentum as his force of strength, "You're nothing compared to me!"
"Don't be so sure", Izuku grinds out through his pointed gritted fangs. The saw blade fixed to his skull makes it easy to keep Katsuki at bay as he turns his body around. Then, Izuku sweeps forwards with a mad rush that really forces the blonde to go on the defensive. A frenzy of swipes pushes Katsuki back until he runs out of room and is forced between a wall or a corner.
Katsuki hisses when the teeth of a chainsaw come close to splitting the hairs on his head. "You're just swinging your chainsaws around, asshole!", Katsuki ignores the assault and meets the attack head on with explosions. The blonde's chest is torn into, a deep gash instantly cauterized by his own burst of flames. Izuku is burned across his own chest, fire scorching his flesh. "Take me seriously and fucking apply yourself already!", Katsuki yells through his pain as he lets off another massive explosion with the combined effort of both hands.
Izuku gets blasted across the corridor, and collides with the only wall that remains intact. He hardly has any time to grunt, let alone get back up, before Katsuki is flying towards him with a punch rearing to go. The whole floor gets caught in the explosion that had been winding up in that fist, a bombing disguised as a right hook. Debris puts out the fire that erupts from the blast as rubble rains down onto the level underneath.
When the dust clears from where Izuku was caught in the explosion, he's on his butt with his arms crossed in a guarded X formation. The chainsaw bars are covered in as much ash and soot as they are blood. "You have to understand your quirk better", Katsuki stomps through the wafting smoke as he lets off a few intimidating pops from his palms. The embers flicker and glow in the dark pit that they've created during their battle.
"Huh?", Izuku lowers his arms to peer up at Katsuki. The boy that had bullied him his entire childhood is now trying to give him advice. The innovative skill meshed with the fighting instinct Katsuki has for his quirk proves there's more uses to the power than just creating explosions and he's saying the same applies for the quirk Pochita granted Izuku. "You're the last person that I wanna hear that from!", Izuku's chainsaws rev back to life with his renewed sense of anger and he rushes forward to meet the boy for another round of combat.
Katsuki grins, having successfully baited Izuku. Attached to the belt looped around his hip are a collection of actual grenades. The bomber had pulled one of the pins a while ago, long enough for the detonation to be any second now. Katsuki tosses the whole slew of grenades rather than just the one to get a bigger explosion as he says, "Boom!"
The blast blows out the windows on the stories above and destroys enough pillars to shake the entire building's foundation. Another massive burst of fire snuffs itself out in a burial of rubble. Debris continues to pepper the pit that consumes where Izuku had been, closing off the space between Katsuki and the boy with darkness. The bombastic blonde keeps his grin on his face as he stares into the void, finding no sign of his opponent. But then… he hears the whir before the belated buzz of a living chainsaw jump started and returned to life.
Katsuki's smile drops just before the malformed frenzy of dizzying spinning metallic teeth comes barreling through the black smoke. A monstrous face of fangs and fury roars with the running of an engine. The chainsaw boy's leap is directly over the blonde, descending in a cutting motion unlike any other. The explosive teen has one shot at stopping the attack with one of his own, directing a detonation from his palms upwards. Izuku is directly upon Katsuki when the explosion goes off.
Izuku is launched through several layers of cement, breaching ceiling after ceiling. A streak of flame trails with him, following the range of fire. The orange path brightens when Katsuki follows it with a string of more explosions to take flight and pursue Izuku. Katsuki gets ahead of his enemy and extends a leg, raising it to be hoisted over his head. The bomber's kick collides with Izuku's stomach and receives a boost from a collection of explosions to send them rocketing back down.
They slam into the ground, a final detonation marking the impact zone. Beneath Katsuki's boots, Izuku squirms as he continues his struggle to keep fighting the explosive force of nature. Blood spews from the chainsaw boy's mouth, oozing between his fangs and dripping down his chin, while his injuries squirt bodily fluids as well. Katsuki watches as the marred flesh slowly stretches to grow back muscle fibers at the very least. "Regeneration?", the blonde huffs in disbelief over the healing factor that proves itself weak but helpful to his enemy, "You were revving your engine before I kicked you, eh?"
Katsuki winds up for another blast to finish the fight, assuming he's got Izuku beat. "No matter..", an orange glow radiates from his palm before expanding to the rest of his hand. Heat simmers on the surface of the blonde's skin. Then, he ignites the spark to take full advantage of the firepower.
The blinding light of the explosion doesn't let him see how, but he feels Izuku move out from beneath him. Katsuki curses when his own attack provides a smokescreen for the chainsaw boy to conceal himself, the only indication of his position the constant whirring of his weaponized body. The dust settles at the right moment for Izuku to reveal himself, "Your aim really sucks!"
"You're like a damn cockroach!", Katsuki barks back as he meets Izuku's attack. Another mashup of explosions and chainsaws leave more burns and scars. The flames lick at both of the boys before they're tossed into tumbling rolls.
Katsuki heaves himself upright, straining his body to stand. He falls down, forcing himself to remain positioned by just one knee. Bitterly, he curses. However, this is more than enough. There's still one final trump card of his. His second gauntlet that stored up another bucket load of nitroglycerin sweat. Katsuki grabs the pin and takes aim where he sees Izuku also struggling to stand up.
"See ya in hell, Deku.. Ya damned chainsaw devil!", Katsuki spits when a drop of sweat slides down onto his lip to rid himself of the salty taste in his mouth. Just as he's about to pull the trigger and end the battle to prove his point to Izuku, something rough grabs his arm to stop him.
"I told you not to use that thing again, young man!", All Might's radiant dark blue eyes look down on Katsuki with what can only be disappointment. The hero's broad smile is no longer warm or inviting, but cold and shrouded by a shield of shadow that also obscures the rest of his deepened facial features. All Might tears the grenade shaped gauntlet off of Katsuki's arm and chucks it, "Bakugo! You're disqualified!"
Hearing his teacher put a stop to the match, Izuku allows himself to wind down. The chainsaws sprouting from his body retract and his face begins to return to normal. Though he isn't let off the hook either. Not just yet. All Might whirls to face Izuku and reprimands him as well, "And you! You took this too far by accepting Bakugo's challenge!"
The hero puts his hands on his hips, shaking his head. "It pains me to do this but I'm going to hold you both accountable for your actions here today and tell Aizawa what happened", though that punishment somehow doesn't feel as bad as their physical pain or shame over having their idol express disappointment in them. Izuku lowers his gaze, not able to meet his hero's eyes.
"I.. lost.. ?", Katsuki has a distant stare that doesn't quite meet All Might's gaze either. The knee that he'd been using to stabilize himself gives out and he topples over at the exact time Class 1-A catches up to their teacher.
"Bakugo!", Tenya shouts from the head of the pack when he sees his classmate go down. All Might turns around when he hears the call, seeing the unconscious blonde and rushes to his aid.
"Bakugo? Can you hear me?", All Might tries shaking the boy awake. When he receives no response, he checks for vitals. When the hero confirms Katsuki is still alive, he breathes a sigh of relief. "I need a set of volunteers to bring Bakugo to Recovery Girl", All Might looks to the class for assistance now that he has his hands full.
"I can take him", Eijiro steps forward with his hand raised. Students move aside so he can get upfront and see the situation better. The redhead isn't expecting to see Katsuki covered in so many lacerations.
"I'll go too!", Tenya is the next to volunteer. He adjusts his glasses as he explains his reasoning, "He was my teammate. As such, Bakugo's health as of now should be my responsibility."
"Well put!", All Might hands over Katsuki along with his approval. The two boys take an end of their injured classmate to carry him off to the school nurse.
Though the class didn't get to see exactly what Izuku's quirk is or what it does, they now have an idea of what it can do. That alone is enough to horrify them if their expressions are anything to go by. As Katsuki's body is taken away, everyone recoils at the sight of so much blood. Izuku's teammate stands beside Kyoka, the two girls sharing pitying looks.
"What the hell is he.. ? Some kinda devil?", a member of the class speaks for most of the others as they stare at Izuku in spooked wonderment.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
One step closer to Class 1-A discovering Izuku's quirk and Katsuki working out his issues! Well.. maybe not that second one.
To Gloomier Studios:
Haha, thanks for bearing with it! It's the mystery that makes for what'll hopefully be a good payoff though, cause I do got what I think are what'll make for some good chapters planned!
To guestyperson:
Oh yeah, don't think I've forgotten about the Nomu being the perfect meat sack for a butcher! You may be onto something there when it comes to Izuku really letting loose! ;)
Welp, time to jump out of this chapter as suddenly and quickly as I jumped into the reviews.
